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                                  THE
                           BOOK REVIEW DIGEST
                          [ANNUAL CUMULATION]

                               VOLUME III

                  BOOK REVIEWS OF 1907 IN ONE ALPHABET


                      DESCRIPTIVE NOTES WRITTEN BY
                         JUSTINA LEAVITT WILSON


                          DIGEST OF REVIEWS BY
                        CLARA ELIZABETH FANNING


                              MINNEAPOLIS
                        THE H. W. WILSON COMPANY
                                  1907




                           TABLE OF CONTENTS


          PREFACE
          Publications from which Digests of Reviews are Made
          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 third annual cumulation of the Book Review
Digest. It includes principally the books of 1907 that have been
reviewed by the best book critics in England and America. It aims first
to record with unprejudiced exactness the scope, character and subject
content of books as they appear, and further, to supplement this
descriptive information from month to month with excerpts culled from
the best current reviews appearing in forty-seven English and American
magazines which give prominence to book criticism, thus furnishing to
the librarian a basis for the valuation 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 1906 annual. It will be observed that a number
of entries include only the descriptive note. Reviews for these books
have not yet appeared; 1908 will furnish the material for appraisal, and
excerpts will be included in current numbers of the digest as fast as
reviews are published.

    In sending out this annual the publishers wish to emphasize the
coöperative phase of the undertaking. From three to six people have been
engaged during 1907 in the work of preparing descriptive notes to
approximately 2,800 books, and clipping from 1,000 copies of magazines
sentences most helpful for book selection. This card-index information
furnished to libraries for five dollars per year would cost them many
hundred times this sum should they do it themselves. For the time thus
given to a valuable and indispensable part of library work the
publishers look for an equivalent in the support of libraries all over
the country. The justice of the statement “Time is Money” is
commensurate with its economic terseness.




          Publications from which Digests of Reviews are Made


 Acad.—Academy. $4. 20 Tavistock St., Covent Garden, London.
 Am. Hist. R.—American Historical Review. $4. Macmillan Company. 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.
 A. L. A. Bkl.—A. L. A. Booklist. $1. A. L. A. Publishing Board, 34
    Newbury St., Boston.
 Ann. Am. Acad.—Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social
    Science. $6. 36th and Woodland Ave., Philadelphia.
 Arena.—Arena. $2.50. Albert Brandt, Princeton Avenue, 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. $2.50. 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, 203 Michigan Blvd., 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.
 Engin. N.—Engineering News. $5. 220 Broadway, New York.
 Eng. Hist. R.—English Historical Review. $6. Longmans, Green, and Co.,
    39 Paternoster Row London, E. C.
 Forum.—Forum. $2. Forum Publishing Co., 45 East 42d Street. New York.
 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, 110–114 West 32d
    Street, New York.
 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. $3. 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. 66 Fifth Ave., New York.
 N. Y. Times.—New York Times Saturday Review, New York.
 No. Am.—North American Review. $4. North American Review Pub. Co.,
    Franklin Sq., 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.
 Putnam’s—Putnam’s Monthly and the Critic. $3. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 27 &
    29 W. 23rd St., New York.
 R. of Rs.—Review of Reviews. $3. 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.

    Books noticed for the first time this month have an asterisk (*)
      immediately below the author’s name in entry heading.

    A Maltese Cross (✠) indicates that the A. L. A. Booklist suggests
      the books for first purchase. The letter S indicates that the same
      publication recommends the book for small libraries.

                  *       *       *       *       *

        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 1907 magazines




                                   A


=Aanrud, Hans.= Lisbeth Longfrock; trans. from the Norwegian by Laura E.
Poulsson. *65c. Ginn.

                                                                7–21362.

  Norwegian farm life is pictured with quaint detail in this story of
  Lisbeth, the little peasant who came to Hoel farm as its herd girl and
  by faithful service won the proud position of head milk maid.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Gives the best picture we have of Norwegian farm life.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 205. N. ’07. ✠

  “A very neat translation of a very pretty little Norwegian story.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 493. Ag. 10, ’07. 180w.

  “A simple and delightful story.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 833. Ag. 17, ’07. 60w.


=Abailard, Pierre.= Abelard and Heloise: the love letters: a poetical
rendering, by Ella C. Bennett. **$1.50. Elder.

                                                                7–30637.

  True only to the sentiment “upon which thread this rosary of love
  letters has been strung” the author has rendered the letters of
  Abelard and Heloise in rhyme.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A sympathetic setting forth in English verse, of the letters of these
  historic lovers.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 10w.


=Abbot, Francis Ellingwood.= Syllogistic philosophy or prolegomena to
science. 2v. **$5. Little.

                                                                6–29755.

  A posthumous work that represents a life time of study. “The
  determining principle of the whole structure is that ‘whatever is
  evolved as consequent must be involved as antecedent.’ The outcome of
  this ‘principle of absolute logic’ is that personality, in the
  philosophic sense of the word, is ‘both the source and outcome of all
  that is,’ and that philosophy at last becomes ‘theology modernized as
  scientific realism and scientific theism.’” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We confess that we have found in his work little to clarify the
  problems of philosophy and nothing besides the author’s own
  earnestness and enthusiasm which we can call uplifting. In no way does
  the book appear to us to be a prolegomena to science or an important
  contribution to philosophy.”

       − =Nation.= 84: 180. F. 21, ’07. 530w.

  “The novel terminology once mastered, the new method becomes
  interesting.”

     + − =Outlook.= 84: 683. N. 17, ’06. 390w.

  “They are erudite and earnest, but dogmatic and ineffective. We do not
  question the earnestness and sincerity which have produced these two
  volumes, but we do question whether the absolute unit-universal will
  save his philosophical children from their sins through the message of
  the syllogistic philosophy.” R. B. C. Johnson.

     − + =Philos. R.= 16: 447. Jl. ’07. 1300w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “Well equipped with wide and careful reading as Dr. Abbot evidently
  was, he seems to have fallen upon an arid formalism which forces him
  to serve up afresh, and with reiterated emphasis, many of the
  contingent features peculiar to idealistic absolutism in the
  nineteenth century.”

     + − =Science=, n.s. 25: 854. My. 31, ’07 1550w.


=Abbott, David Phelps.= Behind the scenes with the mediums. *$1.50. Open
ct.

                                                                7–27622.

  From the point of view of the worker of magic, Mr. Abbott, who is not
  a medium, reveals all the tricks of the séance. “The ardent believers
  whose faith no number of exposures can disturb, the skeptics whom no
  sort of séance has been able to convince, and the scientific
  investigators toward whom the author is a bit contemptuous, will all
  find in its pages matter in plenty either interesting or irritating.”
  (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “All those who have a kind of shamefaced desire to know just what
  spiritualists do and how they do it will be entertained by his
  exposures. Even those who go full of faith to consult palmists,
  clairvoyants, fortune-tellers, and other modern sorcerers, will find
  him interesting.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 212. S. 5, ’07. 840w.

  “There will be racy reading for a good many different kinds of people
  in Mr. Abbott’s leisurely turning inside out of mediumistic tricks.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 551. S. 14, ’07. 1110w.

         =R. of Rs.= 36: 511. O. ’07. 40w.


=Abbott, Rev. Edwin A.= Apologia: an explanation and defense. *$1.
Macmillan.

                                                                7–25561.

  “In reply to friendly dissentients from his views, especially as
  expressed in his previous book, ‘Silanus the Christian,’ the author
  publishes this ‘explanation and defense’ of them as an introduction to
  two volumes of a technical and critical character to appear presently.
  His view of the Biblical miracles is ‘that some are literally true,
  but in accordance with what are called laws of nature; others are not
  literally true, but are metaphorical or poetical traditions
  erroneously taken as literal; others are visions that have been
  erroneously taken as non-visionary facts.’”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It may be pointed out that Dr. Abbott’s reason for calling Christ
  supernatural has nothing to do with the evidence furnished in the New
  Testament and it is therefore not easy to see why there should be such
  a waste of interpretation as there is in his books.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 363. S. 28. 640w.

         =Outlook.= 87: 312. O. 12, ’07. 130w.


=Abbott, Rev. Edwin A.= Silanus the Christian. *$2.60. Macmillan.

                                                                7–25561.

  Dr. Abbott addresses himself to readers who are not ready to accept
  the miraculous element in the New Testament and who at the same time
  do not reject the doctrine of Christ’s divinity. He shows that the
  belief is not rendered impossible by the disbelief. The book is in the
  form of an autobiography of an educated Roman. “The gist of its
  teaching—and it is solely intended to teach—is summed up in the words
  of Clemens. It has been said, he tells Silanus, that the religion of
  the Christians is a person—and nothing more. ‘I should prefer to say
  the same thing differently. Our religion in a person—and nothing
  less.’” (Spec.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Dr. Abbott’s writing is itself interesting on account of the literary
  skill with which he presents innumerable points of exposition and
  criticism, and on account, too, of the beauty and strength of many of
  its passages.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 766. D. 15. 1040w.

  “While the book aims to be popular, the author’s wide knowledge and
  competent scholarship lift his efforts entirely above the level of the
  usual endeavor to teach Biblical and Christian history by means of
  fiction.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 575. S. 5, ’07. 210w.

  “The book is interesting; it is ably written; it is in parts striking;
  and yet one feels that somehow it misses effect as a whole. And we
  think that the reason is obvious. Dr. Abbott in writing it had two
  diverse ends in view and each interfered with the other.”

     − + =Lond. Times.= 6: 25. Ja. 25, ’07. 740w.

       + =Nation.= 84: 180. F. 21, ’07. 560w.

         =Outlook.= 84: 633. N. 10, ’06. 180w.

  “It would be unfair to lay stress upon the weaknesses of a really
  impressive book, and after all they are only prominent in one part of
  its argument where the writer has been carried away by his own pet
  theories.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 24. Ja. 5, ’07. 530w.

  “As to whether he has succeeded or failed in his religious purpose his
  readers will no doubt form diametrically opposite conclusions. We
  think, however that those who are most convinced of his theologic
  failure will not deny him a literary success. He has written a deeply
  interesting theological book in the form of a story.”

     + − =Spec.= 97: 569. O. 20, ’06. 2110w.


* =Abbott, Katharine M.= Old paths and legends of the New England
border: Connecticut, Deerfield, and Berkshire. **$3.50. Putnam.

  In Miss Abbott’s rambles one may live over again the delights of many
  of New England’s quaint byways. “She has caught the spirit of New
  England, and introduces incidentally curious and charming
  out-of-the-way places, historic spots, Indian legends and New England
  folklore.” (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “She has traced it all with a literary skill which is above the
  average, and has succeeded in charging her text with animation and
  entertainment without the loss or historical accuracy.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 1178. N. 14, ’07. 140w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 763. N. 30, ’07. 150w.


=Abbott, Lyman.= Christ’s secret of happiness. **75c. Crowell.

                                                                7–10562.

  Eleven essays are included here whose keynote is sounded in the first,
  “Three kinds of happiness.” “There are three kinds of happiness,” says
  Dr. Abbott, “pleasure, joy, blessedness. Pleasure is the happiness of
  the animal nature; joy, of the social nature; blessedness, of the
  spiritual nature. Pleasure we share with the animals, joy with one
  another, blessedness with God.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Ind.= 62: 1474. Je. 20, ’07. 60w.


=Abbott, Lyman, ed.= Parables. $2.50. Appleton.

                                                                7–31966.

  A very illuminating introduction shows that Jesus resorted to the
  parable to allay the wrath which his plain truth-teaching had stirred
  up against him. “He veiled the truth which unveiled had been rejected
  with such wrath, and he did so that they might listen to him without
  perceiving the truth to which they would refuse to listen if they did
  perceive it.” The scriptural version of the parables follows, with a
  well-executed illustration here and there suggesting the modern
  prodigal, the modern foolish virgin and the present-day house builded
  upon the sand, etc.


=Abendschein, Albert.= Secret of the old masters. **$1. Appleton.

                                                                6–40200.

  How did the old masters produce their results? How have these results
  defied time and atmospheric changes? Twenty-five years of study have
  been devoted to these questions by the author and “he has proved to
  his own, and we may say, to our satisfaction, that the great Venetians
  and Flemings used no mysterious varnishes whatever, their vehicle
  being plain linseed oil, and their reliance for permanence and
  brilliancy being plenty of time for drying between successive
  paintings and upon prolonged exposure to direct sunlight to burn out
  the excess of oil.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Few serious workers in oils, though they omit the book, will fail in
  the next year or so of coming upon the track of his researches.”

       + =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 56. D. ’06. 400w.

     + − =Nation.= 84: 43. Ja. 10, ’07. 660w.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 837. D. 1, ’06. 210w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 115. Ja. ’07. 110w.


=Abhedananda, Swami.= India and her people. $1.25. Vedanta.

                                                                6–24887.

  A book which aims to “give an impartial account of the facts from the
  stand point of an unbiased historian, and to remove all
  misunderstandings which prevail among the Americans concerning India
  and her people.” It sets forth for popular reading phases of Vedanta
  philosophy. “In this system the people of India, according to the
  author, find the ultimate truths of all sciences, philosophies, and
  religions. There are instructive chapters upon the religion of
  present-day India, the social status and the system of caste,
  political institutions, education, the influence of Western
  civilization, and woman’s place in Hindu religion.” (Lit. D.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This compact little volume, written in an attractive style, and
  dealing with the life, philosophy and religion of India should prove a
  useful addition to the literature of a fascinating and as yet largely
  unknown subject.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 263. F. 16, ’07. 140w.

  “From the historical point of view, which is assumed by the Swami, it
  is to be regretted that the author has not made himself better
  acquainted with chronology.”

       − =Nation.= 84: 40. Ja. 10, ’07. 920w.


=Acton, Sir John.= Lectures on modern history; ed. with an introd. by J:
N. Figgis, and Reginald Vere Laurence. *$3.25. Macmillan.

                                                                 7–2153.

  “In the present volume we find Acton’s inaugural lecture as Professor,
  his scheme for ‘The Cambridge modern history,’ and nineteen of his
  lectures, covering in giant strides the ages of the Renaissance, the
  Reformation, the Counter-Reformation. the wars of religion, the rise
  of political parties, the creation of the Prussian and the Russian
  powers, and the American revolution.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Finest and best of all is the noble and ennobling fairness in his
  treatment of all men and all ages.” G. S. F.

     + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 621. Ap. ’07. 980w.

  “Great lectures as they are, they still are lectures only—knowledge
  cut up into sections to last forty-five minutes.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 359. S. 29. 1990w.

  “The highest form of art in historical writing is that which narrates
  events without specifying directly the ideals it is sought to convey,
  and yet does emphatically convey such ideals to the reader. Of this
  form, Lord Acton’s lectures are excellent illustrations; while that on
  Luther may well stand as an almost perfect example.” E. D. Adams.

     + + =Dial.= 42: 222. Ap. 1, ’07. 580w.

  Reviewed by P. F. Willert.

   + + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 164. Ja. ’07. 1200w.

  “Are at once satisfactory and disappointing.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 325. S. 28, ’06. 1130w.

  “The result is, on the whole, disappointing. To begin with, notes for
  lectures generally make poor books, and it is so in this case. Again,
  the subject is too large for the space in which it is treated, and
  suffers from overcompression.”

     − + =Nation.= 83: 397. N. 8, ’06. 990w.

  “It is, in fact, a primer of history. Every sentence carries with it
  the conviction of truth, and every page creates an impulse to delve
  deeper into the subject-matter.” Henry James Forman.

     + + =No. Am.= 184: 306. F. 1, ’07. 790w.

  “In the main there can be little question of the soundness of his
  views, the correctness of his attitude. And, what is not unimportant,
  the lectures show that, ‘scientific’ historian though he was, he was
  keenly alive to the human element in history.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 85: 45. Ja. 5, ’07. 640w.

  “Those who love the beauty of line, and the mysterious effect of
  chiaroscuro will enjoy these works to the utmost, and recognize them
  as masterpieces of the graphic arts.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 36: 760. D. ’07. 170w.

  “His judgment is always rational and his conclusions invariably just.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 103: 205. F. 16, ’07. 1480w.


=Acton, Sir John.= Lord Acton and his circle; ed. by Abbot [Francis
Aidan] Gasquet. *$4.50. Longmans.

                                                                6–42915.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  Reviewed by E. D. Adams.

     + + =Dial.= 42: 221. Ap. 1, ’07. 1080w.

  “The book is not very accurately printed; some sentences are made
  unintelligible by errors of punctuation, and a large number of proper
  names are misspelt.”

     + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 410. Ap. ’07. 650w.

       + =Ind.= 62: 272. Ja. 31, ’07. 620w.

  “Rather unfortunate introduction.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 325. S. 28, ’06. 1140w.


=Adams, Andy.= Reed Anthony, cowman. †$1.50. Houghton.

                                                                7–16751.

  Autobiographical in form, this book follows in a matter-of-fact way
  “the career of a young man, who, after serving his four years in the
  Confederate army, made his way from his native Virginia to Texas,
  there to become foreman of the ‘cattle drives,’ and so by degrees
  ranchman and owner of many acres and many herds.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The account of the cowman’s worldly success is, let us admit, by no
  means free from exaggeration, but the book gives the best picture of
  the life of the times of any we know, and we heartily recommend it.”

     + − =Acad.= 73: 732. Jl. 27, ’07. 270w.

  “This ingenuous bit of biography, like the author’s earlier books,
  will be read not because it is so well done but because it pictures a
  passing phase of American life.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 175. O. ’07.

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 790. Je. 29. 240w.

  “In reading these pages, which bear the stamp of downright honesty,
  the reader feels that he is in contact with the actual history of an
  important formative period of national industry—a period which, tho
  outside of the beaten track of history, is not without significance.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 25. Jl. 6, ’07. 230w.

  “The pleasant thing about the narrative is its ingenuousness.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 16. Jl. 4, ’07. 400w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 291. My. 4, ’07. 250w.

  “In spite of the sameness due to the likeness of one year of the
  cattle business to any other year, the book is interesting with the
  interest which belongs somehow and anyhow to all that is genuine.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 315. My. 18, ’07. 820w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 375. Je. 15, ’07. 60w.


=Adams, Charles Francis, jr.= Three Phi beta kappa addresses. **$1.
Houghton.

                                                                7–17400.

  Including A college fetich, 1883; Shall Cromwell have a statue? 1902;
  Some modern college tendencies, 1906. In these addresses Mr. Adams
  arraigns many of the weaknesses of the present-day college régime. The
  license of electives leads to the “way of least resistance:” college
  athletics are but the “overgrowth of the superficiality which rules
  the curricula,” etc. He offers helpful reform suggestions on the
  limitation of the number of subjects pursued, on the moral training of
  the student, and on the breaking down of our large colleges into
  smaller units.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “While they can hardly be said to make a book of history at the
  present time, they will certainly be regarded by the future historian
  of education in the nineteenth century as an important part of his
  source-material.”

       + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 192. O. ’07. 170w.

         =Dial.= 42: 319. My. 16, ’07. 100w.

  Reviewed by Wm. E. Dodd.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 362. Je. 8, ’07. 1060w.

  Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.

       + =Putnam’s.= 3: 229. N. ’07. 470w.


=Adams, Henry.= Cassell’s engineers’ handbook; comprising facts and
formulae, principles and practice in all branches of engineering. $2.50.
McKay.

  “Not a mere formula book nor an ordinary student’s text-book, but
  rather an _aide memoire_ for those who have passed through their
  elementary training, and are now in practice.”


=Adams, I. William.= Shibusawa; or, The passing of old Japan; il. by E.
Dalton Stevens. †$1.50. Putnam.

                                                                6–41721.

  “The period selected is the early part of the last century, and the
  plot revolves about the struggle between the Shogun and the Mikado,
  ending with the victory and restoration of the latter. Shibusawa, a
  true Japanese warrior, son of a daimio, fought well both in war and
  love, and in the end won honors and the maiden of his
  choice.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The story, while for the most part descriptive, with little dialog
  and only ordinary fancy, lacks snap and fire, while perhaps a good
  general picture of old Japan.”

     + − =Ind.= 61: 1493. D. 20, ’06. 70w.

  “For the most part the people and their actions seem to belong quite
  in their Japanese frame.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 144. Mr. 9, ’07. 380w.

  “The style of the book is somewhat too serious and prolix for a
  successful artistic effect.”

     − + =Outlook.= 84: 680. N. 17, ’06. 90w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 122. Ja. ’07. 20w.


=Adams, Rev. John.= Sermons in accents: studies in the Hebrew text: a
book for preachers and students. *$1.80. Scribner.

  “An attempt to make Hebrew accentuation interesting and helpful to the
  average preacher and Bible student, for whom Wickes’ treatises are too
  elaborate and wearisome.”—Bib. World.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “As an introductory manual preparatory to the use of a more thorough
  and complete treatment the work may be recommended to the student
  beginning his studies.”

       + =Bib. World.= 29: 159. F. ’07. 50w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 65. F. 2, ’07. 110w.


=Adams, John Coleman.= Honorable youth. *75c. Universalist pub.

                                                                6–45015.

  A manual of instruction on life success, how to conceive it, and how
  to attain it.


* =Adams, Joseph Henry.= Harper’s electricity book for boys. $1.75.
Harper.

                                                                7–37737.

  A practical, thorogoing, working knowledge of electricity can be
  obtained from this handbook for boys. “It tells how to make cells and
  batteries, switches and insulators, armatures, motors and coils. It
  shows how easily experiments may be made with home-made appliances at
  small cost. Every-day uses of electricity are explained so that boys
  will understand and at the same time be stimulated to put forth their
  own skill and ingenuity.” Numerous cuts of apparatus are given.


=Adams, Joseph Henry.= Harper’s outdoor book for boys; with
contributions by Kirk Munroe, Tappan Adney, Capt. Howard Patterson,
Leroy Milton Yale and others. $1.75. Harper.

                                                                7–21249.

  Instructive, above all things practical, this book is based upon
  experience, whose aim is to show boys how to do accurately all manner
  of out-of-door things within their powers. Beginning with the
  backyard, detailed information is given for such contrivances as pet
  shelters, windmills, aërial toys; going farther afield the interest
  centers in coasters, skees, kites, fishing tackle, etc.; then come
  boat building and boat management; while the fourth part of the book
  is devoted to camps and camping, tree-huts, brush-houses, etc.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 205. N. ’07. ✠

  “We have seen no book of the kind so thoroughly practical and so well
  adapted to its aims as this.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 100. Ag. 1, ’07. 280w.

  “No book better suited to develop ingenuity and mechanical ability.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 305. My. 11, ’07. 120w.

  “It is a reference book that is worth while to have on hand.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 120w.


=Adams, Oscar Fay.= Sicut patribus, and other verse. $1.60. Oscar F.
Adams, The Hermitage, Willow st., Bost.

                                                                 6–7734.

  “The title selection is an ode read at the annual meeting of the Tufts
  chapter of Phi beta kappa in 1902. It is an arraignment of American
  ‘imperialism,’ touched with that saeva indignatio which has stirred
  William Vaughn Moody, the late John W. Chadwick, and others of our
  poets in approaching the same theme. The cathedral poems, filled with
  the atmosphere of English closes, and reinforced by Mr. Adams’s
  architectural studies, seem of the entire sheaf to be most truly
  characteristic.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Book of sincere and thoughtful verso.” Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 42: 253. Ap. 16, ’07. 460w.

  “A collection of correct, derivative pieces in many modes.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 130w.

  “Throughout the book, indeed, technical variety and facility are to be
  noted, and if there be few striking lines, there are a certain
  reflective grace and fine traditions of men and literature.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 335. My. 26, ’06. 280w.


=Adams, Samuel.= Writings of Samuel Adams, ed. by H. A. Cushing. 4v.
*$5. Putnam.

                                                                4–18620.

  =v. 2.= “The second volume ... covers the years 1770 to 1773.... The
  volume contains ninety-two pieces in all; of these forty-one are
  newspaper articles, twenty are reports or memorials prepared in
  committee, and thirty-one are private letters.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Ind.= 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “His private letters, of which Mr. Cushing has made a goodly
  collection are more illuminative of his character than his public
  papers. Mr. Cushing shows great industry in locating his material, but
  is much too sparing in his notes, leaving too many references
  unexplained. There are errors of dates and names, and a wrong
  committee of Congress is given in the note to p. 336.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 349. O. 17, ’07. 440w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “Like its predecessors, is a valuable addition to the documentary
  study of the revolutionary period.”

     + + =Outlook.= 87: 498. N. 2, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “By thus carefully collecting and editing these writings, Dr. Cushing
  has rendered a distinct and meritorious service to American history.”
  Herbert L. Osgood.

     + + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 143. Mr. ’07. 1110w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)


=Addams, Jane.= Newer ideals of peace. (Citizens’ lib.) *$1.25.
Macmillan.

                                                                 7–4377.

  For the dogmatic, even sentimental peace-notions bruited about the
  world by ardent advocates, Miss Addams substitutes the newer dynamic
  peace embodying the later humanism, whose meaning is implied in such
  words as “overcoming” “substituting,” “re-creating,” “readjusting
  moral values” and “forming new centers of spiritual energy.” She
  offers the moral substitutes for war that are an outgrowth of a
  definite national background.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “I think in logical organization this book suffers more than her
  earlier writing. On the other hand, perhaps, nowhere can one find the
  social point of view, which we must assume, presented with so much
  inherent necessity as here.” George Herbert Mead.

     + − =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 121. Jl. ’07. 3300w.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 65. Mr. ’07. S.

  “The present book shows the same fresh virile thought, and the happy
  expression which has characterized her work.”

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 409. Mr. ’07. 310w.

  “This is a very suggestive book. Its one weakness is that, though it
  does not quite neglect the ethical and spiritual standards of life, it
  allows them to be overshadowed by the economic and the merely
  utilitarian.”

   + + − =Cath. World.= 85: 677. Ag. ’07. 960w.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 417. Ap. ’07. 1080w.

  “As an immediate and effective solution of the main problem indicated
  by its title, this treatise may well prove less successful than as a
  manual of instruction in methods of mutual service and a plea for
  mutual sympathy and good-will.” Percy F. Bicknell.

     + + =Dial.= 42: 246. Ap. 16, ’07. 1530w.

       + =Ind.= 62: 855. Ap. 11, ’07. 280w.

         =Lit. D.= 84: 433. Mr. 16, ’07. 370w.

  “Miss Addams’s observations are so acute, and her criticisms often so
  well aimed, that her book is worth reading. We cannot but wish,
  however, that she had ploughed a little deeper, and shown us more
  clearly how the evils on which she dwells are to be removed.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 247. Mr. 14, ’07. 720w.

  “It is the expression of an exceptional citizen on subjects that
  concern everybody. Whatever may prove to be its concern for the
  student of literature, it should be tolerantly read by the student of
  affairs, for whom it was written.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.

     + + =No. Am.= 184: 763. Ap. 5, ’07. 1490w.

  “‘Newer ideals of peace’ is not a felicitous title for Jane Addams’s
  interesting and suggestive volume. It is imperfect because she has
  studied only one phase of our national life, and, in American
  fashion ... she draws too large generalizations from her too
  specialized observations.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 85: 720. Mr. 23, ’07. 300w.

  “On the whole, Miss Addams has given us a presentation of the peace
  argument from a wholly new point of view.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 381. Mr. ’07. 220w.


=Addis, Rev. William E.= Hebrew religion to the establishment of Judaism
under Ezra. *$1.50. Putnam.

                                                                 7–2577.

  A non-technical study of Israel’s religion from the earliest times to
  the middle of the fifth century B. C. “The sections which treat of the
  primitive forms of Semitic religion and the early Jahveh worship are
  of special excellence.” (Nation.) The volume includes a chronological
  table of Jewish history.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Well suited to the needs of the nonspecialist reader for whom it is
  intended.”

     + + =Bib. World.= 28: 351. N. ’06. 30w.

  “His discussion is marked by the precision that his volumes on the
  Hexateuch would lead us to expect. While exception may be taken to a
  few points, they leave the essential value of Mr. Addis’s volume
  unimpaired.” Crawford H. Toy.

   + + − =Hibbert J.= 5: 702. Ap. ’07. 1400w.

  “On the whole, Professor Addis keeps well within the safe ground of
  established fact, with caution to the reader when opinion is
  uncertain. His graphic style and ability to render a situation clear
  in a few words make his essay suitable for popular or general use.”

   + + − =Nation.= 83: 289. O. 4, ’06. 400w.

  “We fear we cannot follow him ... in some of his critical assumptions;
  but yet we can recommend his book.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 102: 650. N. 24, ’06. 260w.


=Addison, Julia De Wolf.= Art of the Dresden gallery. (Art galleries of
Europe ser.) *$2. Page.

                                                                6–42448.

  This sixth volume in “The art galleries of Europe” is Miss Addison’s
  third contribution to the series. “In the plan it is similar to its
  predecessors; it consists of notes and observations upon a large
  number of the finest paintings, both ancient and modern, in the royal
  collection at Dresden, arranged in schools or grouping together the
  works of one or two great masters.” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “From beginning to end there is no evidence of any personal knowledge
  or understanding of the art of painting, there is no lucid explanation
  of its virtues, no independent analysis of the peculiar charms and
  merits of a master.”

       − =Acad.= 72: 396. Ap. 20, ’07. 730w.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 37. F. ’07.

  “The text furnishes as much detail as the ordinary traveller will care
  for, and he will find it of a more manageable and useful sort than
  that offered by most guides and catalogues.”

       + =Dial.= 41: 459. D. 16, ’06. 260w.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 812. D. 1, ’06. 190w.

  “One might spend half a life-time with catalogues and yet gather less
  real knowledge than may be pleasantly acquired by a perusal of this
  book, every essential fact of which is dressed out with episode,
  anecdote, and pertinent criticism.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 69. F. 2, ’07. 590w.

  “In the present handy volume the American authoress exhibits the
  instincts, knowledge and merits of style that characterised her former
  works.”

     + + =Spec.= 99: sup. 460. O. 5, ’07. 870w.


=Ade, George.= In pastures new. †$1.25. McClure.

                                                                6–38894.

  Mr. Ade’s “pastures new” are chiefly in London and Egypt. He
  characterizes humorously without his usual slang. “The foibles and
  follies of tourists, the humbug and charlatanry of those who live off
  them, the fact that foreign travel has its tiresome side as well as
  its joys—all these and other phases of ‘being abroad’ are dealt with
  in an amusing way.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 77. Mr. ’07.

  “The harmless fun Mr. Ade is capable of producing has been put into it
  in good measure—wholesome, human, natural fun.”

       + =Lit. D.= 33: 727. N. 17, 06. 50w.

  “Shorn of its glamour of slang, Mr. Ade’s humor turns out to be of
  thinner substance than we had supposed.”

     + − =Nation.= 83: 481. D. 6, ’06. 150w.

  “We get here fun of the real Ade flavor.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 894. D. 22, ’06. 250w.

       + =Outlook.= 84: 793. N. 24, ’06. 110w.

  “The secret of American humour is perhaps to exaggerate and travesty
  realities with a serious countenance. When this is well done it is
  amusing: and Mr. Peasley does it well.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 624. My. 18, ’07. 190w.


=Ade, George.= Slim princess. †$1.25. Bobbs.

                                                                7–17384.

  The slim Princess Kalora of Morovenia is the despair of her father and
  fat younger sister because there is a Turkish law which reads that the
  elder must marry first and there is a Turkish preference for fat
  wives. Kolora is not only slim but spirited and she merrily takes her
  destiny into her own hands and, assisted by a kindly Fate, succeeds in
  marrying a venturesome young Pittsburgh millionaire. The story is
  breezy, clever and full of cheerful irony.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is one of the brightest phantasies of the season.”

       + =Arena.= 38: 216. Ag. ’07. 250w.

  “Was in his best comic opera mood when he wrote ‘The slim princess.’”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 320. My. 18, ’07. 220w.

  “A highly amusing bit of grotesquery.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 768. Je. ’07. 80w.


Adventures of Uncle Sam’s sailors by R. E. Peary, A. V. Wadhams, Molly
Elliot Seawell, Franklin Matthews, Kirk Munroe and others. (Harper’s
adventure ser.) †60c. Harper.

                                                                7–24286.

  A group of spirited sea stories that shift scene from the Arctic
  circle to the tropics and from China to Hatteras and the West Indies.
  The stories mingle wholesome excitement, fascinating fact and
  entertaining fiction and lend an undertone of courage and endurance.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 205. N. ’07.


Adventures of Uncle Sam’s soldiers, by General C: King, J: Habberton,
Capt. C: A. Curtis, Lieut. C: D. Rhodes, and others. (Harper’s adventure
ser.) †60c. Harper.

                                                                7–26959.

  How the soldiers of the west cleared the way for civilization, how
  women and children as well bore their full share of frontier burdens
  may be seen reflected in these tales of “picturesque incident and
  thrilling experiences” which while they are usually fiction are based
  upon some incident or actual occurrence. While the volume aims only to
  be a side-light upon history, it is thoroly suggestive for students
  who wish to look into records of the regular soldiers.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 205. N. ’07.


* =Ady, Cecilia M.= Milan, the house of Sforza. (Historic states of
Italy.) **$3.50. Putnam.

  “Not only is the political life of the time of Francesco I. of Milan
  and the five other dukes of his house who ruled over Milan dealt with,
  but also the social and commercial impulses of the people, as well as
  the art and literature of the state. This volume will be followed
  shortly by ‘Milan: the house of Visconti,’ ‘Naples: the house of
  Anjou,’ and others on the different Italian states.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 70w.

  “She is to be congratulated on giving agreeable proof of hereditary
  talent by her accomplishment of a sufficiently difficult piece of
  work.”

       + =Spec.= 99: sup. 752. N. 16, ’07. 580w.


=Ady, Julia Cartwright (Mrs. Henry Ady).= Early work of Raphael. 75c.
Dutton.

  “It gives in readable form the facts of Raphael’s life and career, up
  to the year 1508, as they are received by the Moreilian school of
  criticism. Much more than that it hardly pretends to give, and for any
  detailed appreciation of the artistic qualities of Raphael one must
  look elsewhere.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Nation.= 84: 115. Ja. 31, ’07. 110w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 35. Ja. 19, ’07. 440w.


=Ady, Julia Cartwright.= Madame: a life of Henrietta, daughter of
Charles I. and Duchess of Orleans. *$2.50. Dutton.

  The twenty-six years of the Duchess of Orleans are here sketched with
  sympathy and insight. The courts of Charles II and Louis XIV,
  respectively brother and brother-in-law of the unhappy duchess “are
  here brought before the reader with vivid reality as no romance could
  reveal them. The characters of the two monarchs, of Madame, and of
  most of the notables of their time, have fresh light thrown on them by
  letters preserved in the French ‘Archives du ministères des affaires
  étrangères’ and documents from state papers on French affairs in the
  British record office, many of them here published for the first
  time.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Her work may be recommended to the seeker after diversion and to the
  historical student alike. Mrs. Ady’s mania for idealizing, while
  attractive no doubt to many lovers of the beautiful, has the fault of
  obscurantism.”

   + + − =Nation.= 85: 144. Ag. 15, ’07. 1440w.

  “It would be difficult to find a biography less illuminating than this
  life of the spouse of Monsieur, brother of Louis XIV.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 476. Ag. 3, ’07. 240w.

  “When the presentation of fact can be made so absorbingly interesting
  as Mrs. Ady convincingly proves possible in this volume of memoirs,
  one is tempted to wonder that the demand for fiction exists.”

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 744. Ag. 3, ’07. 190w.


=Aegidius, Assisiensis.= Golden sayings of the Blessed Brother Giles of
Assisi; newly tr. and ed., together with a sketch of his life by the
Rev. Fr. Paschal Robinson. *$1. Dolphin press. Phil.

                                                                6–46746.

  “One of the earliest and closest companions of St. Francis of
  Assisi ... was Brother Aegidius, better known to English readers by
  his Anglicized name, Giles.... The present volume treasures his
  ‘Golden sayings’ held in high esteem by the Roman Catholic church, and
  introduces them by a brief sketch of his life.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 449. Ja. ’07. 50w.

  “The ‘Golden sayings’ themselves are of historical value as
  illustrating the spiritual side of early Franciscan teaching, an
  aspect hitherto inadequately recognized; and historians will
  appreciate especially the editor’s scholarly introduction.”

       + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 920. Jl. ’07. 270w.

  “In the editing and translating of the ‘Sayings,’ Father Paschal
  displays the erudition and the grasp of historical method which have
  won him a place in the front rank of the large band of scholars who
  today have devoted themselves to the study of ‘Franciscana.’”

       + =Cath. World.= 86: 255. N. ’07. 360w.

  “Well worthy the careful and pleasing translation ... as well for
  their sincere and earnest piety as for the singular beauty and
  picturesqueness of their expression.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 1094. My. 9, ’07. 80w.

  “It is the interest of his quaint personality that imparts interest to
  his ‘Aurea dicta’ which, to speak frankly, are not of great intrinsic
  value. But the English enthusiast must not fail to possess himself of
  Father Robinson’s translation.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 358. N. 22, ’07. 700w.

  “The little volume is quaint and original and will appeal to many
  readers.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 49. Ja. 26, ’07. 50w.

  “It is well worth reading and reflection by Protestant Christians,
  often too content with discarding the ascetic form of mediaeval
  saintliness, and too neglectful to replace it by a form of piety as
  impressive on the present age as that was on the past.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 377. F. 16, ’07. 160w.


=Aero club of America.= Navigating the air. **$1.50. Doubleday.

                                                                7–20981.

  Here are given the personal experience of men best known in the field
  of aerial navigation. The book “contains, in over twenty chapters ...
  practical and clear accounts of what has been accomplished by many
  experimenters with kite-sustained aeroplanes, motor-driven balloons,
  and other dirigible air-ships.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Both text and illustrations will interest the average reader as well
  as the specialist.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 191. N. ’07. S.

  “There is much in the book to interest the reader, but whether he will
  glean much knowledge from it is questionable. However, as the purpose
  of the compilers, apparently, was just that of arousing interest, the
  book may be considered reasonably successful.”

     + − =Engin. N.= 58: 181. Ag. 15, ’07. 240w.

  “Altogether the book, to which but scant justice can be done here, is
  full of interest and instruction, and the Aero club of America
  deserves high praise for getting together so much that is fairly
  authoritative on a subject of such importance.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 441. Jl. 13, ’07. 1320w.

         =Outlook.= 86: 524. Jl. 6. ’07. 250w.

         =R. of Rs.= 34: 128. Jl. ’07. 80w.


=Aflalo, Frederick George=, ed. Half a century of sport in Hampshire;
extracts from the shooting journals of James Edward, second Earl of
Malmesbury with a prefatory memoir by his great-grandson, the fifth
earl. *$3.75. Scribner.

  “The volume is made up of extracts from the ‘Sporting journals’ of
  James Edward, second earl of Malmesbury.... A memoir of the Earl has
  been written for the book by the present owner of the title. The
  Journals cover the period from 1798–1840. Besides describing hunts in
  the Hampshires and the hunting seat of the Earl of Malmesbury, there
  are also records of trips in Hungary and Austria. The volume is fully
  illustrated.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 28. Ja. 13, ’06. 100w.

  “We cannot say that the editor’s notes and comments on the journals
  are instructive or much to the point. Even the journals themselves
  will disappoint the reader who expects anything that can compare with
  Colonel Hawker’s diaries.”

       − =Spec.= 96: sup. 644. Ap. 28, ’06. 500w.


=Aflalo, Frederick George.= Sunshine and sport in Florida and the West
Indies. **$4. Jacobs.

  “This volume is divided into three parts, treating, respectively, of
  ‘The way there,’ ‘Tarpon-fishing and other sport,’ and, finally, ‘Home
  by the Spanish main.’ Although fishing was the pole star which held
  steady through the trip of eleven thousand miles, this Briton had eyes
  for many other things.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Aflalo’s account of the natural history of the tarpon, in so far
  as it is known, is very thorough and fascinating, and were any further
  inducements required to persuade fishermen to go west for tarpon it
  would be found in the pages of this interesting book.”

       + =Acad.= 73: 651. Jl. 6, ’07. 290w.

  “Had Mr. Aflalo gathered his impressions at greater leisure, and
  generalized less from trivial instances, he would have informed his
  volume with the more genial spirit which we associate with the men who
  go a-fishing. For we can find no fault with Mr. Aflalo’s story of his
  tarpon fishing.” H. E. Coblentz.

     + − =Dial.= 43: 373. D. 1, ’07. 560w.

  “His frank and generous comments reveal a fair-mindedness only too
  rare in travelers. The volume should appeal to a far wider circle of
  readers than the ‘English anglers’ for whom the author chiefly intends
  it.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 401. O. 31, ’07. 530w.

  “Mr. Aflalo’s chapters on tarpon fishing and alligator hunting are
  sportsmanlike, and, there being fewer opportunities, show less of a
  disposition to carp at American customs and institutions that differ
  from those of the British.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 682. O. 26, ’07. 180w.

  “There is much shrewd observation in these pages, especially of
  American life and ways.”

       + =Sat. R.= 104: 211. Ag. 17, ’07. 220w.

  “It is the best thing that we have read from Mr. Aflalo’s pen, and
  written in his vivid, if flowery style. Mr. Aflalo contributes
  something to our knowledge of the natural history of the Florida
  fishes.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 366. S. 14, ’07. 360w.


=Aimes, Hubert Hillary S.= History of slavery in Cuba, 1511–1868. **$2.
Putnam.

                                                                7–23727.

  From a economic, political and social standpoint, this work is an
  exposition of the Spanish policy governing the slave trade in Cuba;
  and it throws much light on the historical relations between Spain and
  her Antillean dependency. A later work is promised dealing with the
  domestic régime on the island. A bibliography adds to the value of the
  book.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In a sense, this is a scholarly work. It is the result of much labor,
  and is based upon the best authorities, Spanish, French, and English,
  both documentary and printed. But the narrative in which the author
  presents the result of his work is something fearful and wonderful in
  its raw and careless crudeness.”

     + − =Dial.= 43: 319. N. 16, ’07. 450w.

  “On the whole, it can be heartily said that Dr. Aimes has gathered,
  compiled and addressed into acceptable form an exhaustive chapter of
  institutional history. He has also done it under a system that makes
  reference easy and verification available.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 1316. N. 28, ’07. 390w.

       + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 503. O. ’07. 70w.

  “A work of real value though rather heavy reading.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 488. Ag. 10, ’07. 310w.

         =Outlook.= 86: 974. Ag. 31, ’07. 180w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 34: 381. S. ’07. 110w.

  “The book is a useful one and the reader will hope with the author
  that it may aid in solving some of the problems connected with the
  island.”

       + =Yale. R.= 16: 333. N. ’07. 260w.


=Aked, Charles Frederic.= Courage of the coward, and other sermons.
**$1.25. Revell.

                                                                7–23636.

  Fourteen sermons, “vitally evangelical in their adaptedness to the
  spiritually deaf or blind or lame in this year of grace.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “They impress us as devout, evangelical, constructive, and
  sufficiently forceful in thought and earnest in feeling to be called
  good preaching.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 700. S. 19, ’07. 60w.

  “The sermons are good. Perhaps he overindulges in poetical quotations,
  and perhaps an occasional personal note sounds a bit egotistic. But
  these are small blemishes.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 663. O. 19, ’07. 90w.

  “Utterly free from conventionalism, fresh in thought and phrase,
  dynamic with earnest conviction of reality, they speak from the
  experience of one who knows the world, sees things whole, understands
  men, and, having thought through their deepest problems, would lend a
  hand to any who are doubting, erring, falling.”

     + + =Outlook.= 87: 134. S. 21, ’07. 140w.


=Albright, Evelyn May.= Short-story: its principles and structure. *90c.
Macmillan.

                                                                7–16475.

  The aim of the book is not that of tracing the origin or the
  development of the short-story, but of setting forth “some standards
  of appreciation of what is good in story-writing, illustrating by the
  practice of the master as contrasted with amateurish failures.”
  Material, the technique of the short story, the plot, movement,
  emotional element and spirit of the author are all discussed. There is
  an undertone of sound advice to the would-be writer, and by way of a
  standard for self-criticism there has been appended a reading list of
  model short stories.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is to the reader rather than the writer that such a book is really
  useful.”

       + =Nation.= 80: 232. S. 12, ’07. 270w.

  “Seems to us a very useful book.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 272. Ap. 27, ’07. 300w.

  “Miss Albright’s treatment of the subject is more than creditable; it
  is masterly.”

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 570. Je. 13, ’07. 120w.


=Alden, Hazel Gillmore.= Kingdom of heaven: an instruction in the
Catholic faith for children. *$1.20. Church pub. co., N. Y.

                                                                7–31385.

  A simple, direct and devout story of the Christian year for Catholic
  children. Its aim is to foster reverence.


=Alden, Isabella Macdonald (Pansy, pseud.).= Ruth Erskine’s son. il.
†$1.50. Lothrop.

  Readers who have followed Ruth Erskine thru other Pansy books will be
  glad to meet her again. She is now the widow of Judge Burnham, and
  devotes her entire energies to the welfare of her son. The story tells
  of his marriage and the crosses it brings to her, her fortitude and
  good sense, and the son’s unfailing devotion.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This is hardly a wholesome book for young people.”

       − =R. of Rs.= 36: 765. D. ’07. 50w.


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

                                                                6–21392.

  “The author’s style is clear and vigorous. His narrative is
  interesting and reveals his firm grasp upon the subject matter,
  especially as it approaches the later period. Although the work adds
  little to the actual knowledge of the specialist, it is a distinct
  advance over the old style of state histories, and will serve the
  general reader as a reliable and interesting guide through the almost
  bewildering maze of the politics of New York state.” Herman V. Ames.

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 228. Ja. ’07. 1090w.

       + =Dial.= 42: 18. Ja. 1, ’07. 410w.

  “The personal side of New York politics has been over-emphasized. This
  defect deprives the reader of a feeling of continuity in the narrative
  of New York’s political history, but while it is a defect, it does not
  detract seriously from the value of the work.”

   + + − =Ind.= 62: 214. Ja. 24, ’07. 510w.

  “When all possible points of criticism have been raised, his work
  merits recognition, not merely because it is practically the only
  occupant of its field, but because it is in several important respects
  a soundly informing contribution to American historical literature,
  useful alike to the general reader and to the special student.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 87: 131. S. 21, ’07. 1020w.

  “In spite of a certain monotony which pervades the author’s numerous
  character sketches, his style has decided merits; in vigor and fluency
  it far outrivals the older but in many respects more substantial work
  of Jabez Hammond. The characterizations of men are clearly designed to
  be eminently fair, although the reader finds little difficulty in
  discovering the author’s sympathies. The statements of facts are
  usually careful, but occasional expressions are open to question.”
  Charles A. Beard.

   + + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 141. Mr. ’07. 850w.


=Alexander, Edward Porter.= Military memoirs of a Confederate. **$4.
Scribner.

                                                                7–16778.

  “A critical narrative for soldiers and students of campaigns, rather
  than a glorification of or an apology for the success or failure in
  the war.” (R. of Rs.) It is a criticism of the war on both the Federal
  and Confederate side.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The narrative is clear and concise, praise is worthily bestowed and
  criticism generally well taken and temperate. To some of the extremely
  critical it will be disappointing, in that the maps are not as good
  and as full as they should be and foot-notes are wanting to show the
  authority upon which some novel statements are made.” E. A. Carman.

   + + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 163. O. ’07. 1810w.

  “Aside from its value as a contribution to the records of the civil
  war the book will be found delightful reading because of its graphic
  portrayal, its personal reminiscence, its admirable temper.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 155. O. ’07.

  “To a layman this book appeals as little short of epoch making in the
  history of military criticism.” David Y. Thomas.

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 605. N. ’07. 400w.

  “Is remarkable for three reasons. First, it is a critical account of
  which the object ‘is the criticism of each campaign as one would
  criticise a game of chess only to point out the good and bad plays on
  each side, and the moves which have influenced the result.’ Second,
  the work is noteworthy as a contribution from the lower South.
  Finally, it is the work of one who was a good soldier and is now a
  sound philosopher as to the political results of the war.” Walter L.
  Fleming.

     + + =Dial.= 42: 332. Je. 1, ’07. 2940w.

  “It is unfortunate that so excellent a book should be marred by so
  inept a conclusion.”

   + + − =Ind.= 63: 513. Ag. 29, ’07. 1530w.

  “It is an exceedingly clear and impartial narrative, and is perfectly
  intelligible to the lay reader. A large amount of entirely new matter
  is introduced, and many important events are set forth in a new light.
  The book is likely to take a prominent place among authoritative
  records of the civil war.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 35: 25. Jl. 6, ’07. 480w.

  “No preceding book by a southern soldier surpasses this in good
  temper, wise discrimination, and graphic portrayal.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 542. Je. 13, ’07. 2380w.

  “There have been several works of this kind published by confederate
  generals and others who knew something of military affairs, but none
  that the reviewer recalls equals this in fairness, in apparent
  keenness of observation, in appreciation of the difficulties of the
  situation on both sides.” Wm. E. Dodd.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 569. S. 21, ’07. 1820w.

  “A very valuable and interesting and personal book on the civil war.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 10w.

  “General Alexander consistently develops from battle to battle the
  lessons emphasized by the experiences of both sides. His work, indeed,
  is intended primarily for military students. But it is so constructed
  as to be of great general interest.”

     + + =Outlook.= 87: 494. N. 2, ’07. 2200w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 756. Je. ’07. 80w.


=Alexander, John H:= Mosby’s men. $2. Neale.

                                                                 7–2744.

  Mr. Alexander tells how Mosby’s men “played and how they worked and
  how they fought.” Not a history of Mosby’s command, only a narrative
  of what an alert young soldier saw of the men and their doings
  following the spring of 1864.

                  *       *       *       *       *

     + − =Ind.= 62: 618. Mr. 14, ’07. 240w.

  “The book is interesting for its story-telling qualities alone, and it
  is not without value as a contribution to the records of the civil
  war.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 469. Mr. 23, ’07. 200w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 63. F. 2, ’07. 470w.

  “This book has less of real dramatic quality and less of humor than
  that by Mr. Munson of which we recently spoke, but is still a readable
  true story. It is illustrated by many portraits.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 482. F. 23, ’07. 90w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 380. Mr. ’07. 100w.


=Alger, Horatio, jr.= Backwoods boy; or, The boyhood and manhood of
Abraham Lincoln. 75c. McKay.

  A reissue of an 1883 publication. It is a picture of Lincoln for boys
  especially, and follows his career from the log cabin to the White
  house.


=Allen, Alexander V. G.= Freedom in the church. **$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                 7–7180.

  The aim of the author is to show that heresy trials such as the one to
  which Mr. Crapsey was recently subjected are contrary to the
  principles of the English reformation and the whole spirit of the
  Anglican church. He considers historically the ordination vows and the
  various articles of the creed, and shows that their original
  significance has been lost sight of in the interpretation given them
  by heresyhunting churchmen of to-day, and that the doctrine of the
  virgin birth in particular has been emphasized out of all proportion
  to its importance.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Interesting and timely volume.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 161. Jl. 18, ’07. 460w.

  “As a tract for its times, however, this volume presents important
  considerations on a vital question, and the effort of the author to
  secure and establish freedom in the church as well as his endeavor to
  impart correct information as to the history of symbols now in
  controversy, should secure him wide sympathy.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 391. Ap. 25, ’07. 480w.

       + =Outlook.= 86: 299. Je. 8, ’07. 500w.

  “There is of necessity something of what opponents will call special
  pleading about Dr. Allen’s arguments. But he never falls for a moment
  into the pitfall of most theological pleaders. He never vilifies his
  opponents.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: 665. Ap. 27, ’07. 1900w.


=Allen, Grant, and Williamson, George Charles.= Cities of northern
Italy. $3. Page.

                                                                6–26502.

  A two volume work, the first of which being devoted to Milan, and the
  second to Verona, Padua, Bologna, and Ravenna. “The author’s aim is to
  supply the tourist with such historical and antiquarian information as
  will add to his understanding and appreciation of the architecture,
  sculpture, and painting.” (Lit. D.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Preferable for library use especially if there are not many good
  photographs or prints in the library.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 24. Ja. ’07.

  Reviewed by Wallace Rice.

         =Dial.= 41: 392. D. 1, ’06. 150w.

         =Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 50w.

  “The scheme is most happy, its execution most charmingly carried out.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 654. O. 6, ’06. 550w.


=Allen, Horace.= Gas and oil engines: a treatise on the design,
construction and working of internal-combustion engines. $5. Scientific
pub. co., Manchester, Eng.

  “A very large part of the book contains more or less elaborate
  descriptions of a large number of gas and gasoline engines; these
  descriptions, in general accompanied with good illustrations, are
  preceded by a consideration of details of the engines, which
  arrangement seems just opposite to what it ought to be.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In a great many respects it is decidedly inferior to the last
  editions of Clark and Robinson’s books. In the arrangement of the
  subject Mr. Allen’s book is very faulty.” Storm Bull.

     − + =Engin. N.= 57: 441. Ap. 18, ’07. 510w.


=Allen, John Kermott=, ed. Sanitation in the modern home. $2. Domestic
engineering.

                                                                7–12989.

  “Broadly speaking, this book deals with the planning and equipment of
  houses for health, comfort, and convenience, and for economy of
  domestic operations. It is designed to be ‘a suggestive guide to the
  architect and house owner in designing-homes.’”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book contains few technicalities, no illustrations and, sad to
  relate, no index. It covers a broader field than would be expected
  from its title, but omits any discussion of sewage disposal for
  country residences.”

     + − =Engin. N.= 57: 668. Je. 13, ’07. 200w.


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

                                                                6–38914.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 5. Ja. ’07. S.

  “The book, written in a popular style, gives the average reader, at
  practically one sitting, a comprehensive idea of the condition of
  reform politics at the present day and of what we may expect of
  permanent good as the result of the movement.”

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 204. Ja. ’07. 200w.

       + =Dial.= 42: 116. F. 16, ’07. 340w.

  “Is a good book and especially refreshing because it sails close to
  the facts and avoids the sins of declamation.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 1092. My. 9, ’07. 240w.

  “A little book which contains in excellent shape a deal of really
  important information which busy people may have got but hazily from
  the daily press.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 12. Ja. 5, ’07. 410w.


=Allen, William Harvey.= Efficient democracy. **$2. Dodd.

                                                                7–18590.

  A book in which the author “maintains the thesis that to be efficient
  is more difficult than to be good.... In his book he shows how in
  various departments of philanthropic educational work such
  substitution has actually been made.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A very fresh and invigorating volume to be read with profit by every
  social worker.” Carl Kelsey.

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 171. Jl. ’07. 480w.

  “It covers a large and important field, but it does not cover it very
  well or present it to the best advantage. The idea underlying the book
  is excellent.”

     + − =Educ. R.= 34: 324. O. ’07. 50w.

  “His work is vigorous and suggestive, worth the attention of the
  officers, paid and unpaid, of charitable agencies of all kinds and of
  our governments. Undirected and misdirected benevolent impulses are
  common nowadays, and the wide circulation of Mr. Allen’s book would do
  much to check waste of money and energy and to prevent the
  discouragement which comes from the failure of good intentions.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 39. Jl. 4, ’07. 760w.

  “Undoubtedly the most impressive characteristic of the volume in an
  intellectual sense is its significance in favor of the validity of the
  democratic principle of government, which in certain quarters is
  thought to have been impaired by recent economic developments.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 961. Je. 15, ’07. 400w.

  “The most serious defect ... is found in the first chapter on ‘The
  goodness fallacy,’ which, briefly stated, argues that it is a false
  supposition to think a good man will make a capable officer. A very
  unworthy meaning of goodness is placed in opposition to a somewhat
  dangerous conception of efficiency.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 547. Je. 13, ’07. 750w.

  “It is a good book, and ought to do good.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 283. My. 4, ’07. 1160w.

  “He writes in a clear, lucid, epigrammatic style, perhaps with too
  great fondness for epigram. But the volume will be valuable to all men
  who are doing things if they will select from it what they
  specifically need, and will be especially valuable to students of the
  various social activities of our modern life.”

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 479. Je. 29, ’07. 300w.

  “The common man fails to understand the mental attitude of Mr. Allen
  who seems to gloat over a statistical table or a graphical curve as a
  joy in itself, without too much reference to what it is that it proves
  or indicates.” Montgomery Schuyler.

     + − =Putnam’s.= 3: 232. N. ’07. 120w.

  “An exceedingly well-written little book. The book is full of
  suggestions to officers and directors of charitable institutions,
  pastors of churches, and all others who have to do with philanthropic
  administration.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 35: 758. Je. ’07. 170w.

  “Straightforward, forcible, clear, and scintillating with wit, it must
  be understood; it is educative in the highest sense. A copy of this
  book ought to find its way into the hands of every school board in the
  land.” J. Paul Goode.

     + + =School R.= 15: 620. O. ’07. 990w.


=Allen, Willoughby C.= Critical and exegetical commentary on the Gospel
according to St. Matthew. (International critical commentary.) *$3.
Scribner.

                                                                7–25562.

  For the student who desires to have some understanding of the growth
  and development of the gospel literature in the first century, A.D.,
  and of the meaning which this particular gospel had for the evangelist
  and his first readers. “While the author has striven to preserve the
  distinction between the sphere of the commentator and that of the
  historian, questions of credibility and theological implication are
  not entirely avoided, his attitude being for the most part
  conservative.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Partly owing to its formal defect, the book is lacking in breadth of
  outlook and religious penetration. Hence he has obliged even his most
  grateful readers to admit that this edition, while marking a distinct
  advance upon any English work cannot be described by any means as a
  final commentary upon our first gospel. It is, however, a good book
  for the advanced student to work with. Sound labor has gone to the
  making of it, and the very sense of problems in the gospel which it
  leaves on the mind of the reader will be stimulating, if not
  satisfying.” James Moffat.

     + − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 677. O. ’07. 1470w.

  “This important work exhibits the well-known critical qualities of the
  ‘International series,’ and should claim a leading place among
  commentaries on the first gospel.”

     + + =Bib. World.= 29: 399. My. ’07. 50w.

  “A thoro and sane ‘Commentary on Matthew’ which is notable especially
  for its painstaking interpretation of the Greek text and scholarly
  observations on the sources and structure of the gospel.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 1235. N. 21, ’07. 40w.

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 235. Jl. 26, ’07. 1180w.

  “The chief merit of the commentary is its painstaking and sympathetic
  interpretation of the Greek text, without improving observations or
  wearisome cataloguing of discarded opinions. Especially praiseworthy
  is his scholarly analysis of the sources of the gospel.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 120. Ag. 8, ’07. 260w.

  “The best type of Oxford scholarship is exhibited in this work,
  conservative, but strongly modified by modern learning.”

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 973. Ag. 31, ’07. 240w.

  “Such examination as we have been able to make of this very complete
  commentary has gone to show the genuinely critical spirit in which it
  has been put together.”

     + + =Spec.= 99: sup. 465. O. 5, ’07. 330w.


=Alston, Leonard.= Stoic and Christian in the second century: a
comparison of the ethical teaching of Marcus Aurelius with that of
contemporary and antecedent Christianity. *$1. Longmans.

                                                                7–11201.

  A scientific, judicial and scholarly treatment. The following are the
  ethical questions concerning which the two doctrines are compared: Man
  as a rational and social being. The intellectual virtues. The lower
  and the higher life of man. Free-will and responsibility. The ultimate
  aim of virtue, and The relation in Christianity of ethics to religion.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Alston is to be thanked for a valuable piece of apologetic work.”

     + + =Cath. World.= 84: 552. Ja. ’07. 640w.

  Reviewed by Nathaniel Schmidt.

     + − =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 380. Ap. ’07. 530w.

  “Admirable monograph.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 26. Ja. 25, ’07. 180w.

  “His treatment of the subject is incomplete in two points: he does not
  sufficiently distinguish between ethics and religion, and he does not
  describe the actual moral life of the time in the Christian and
  non-Christian circles. The little volume is, however, fair and
  suggestive.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 243. Mr. 14, ’07. 90w.

  “His book is especially valuable in the clearness with which he
  presents the difference in spirit, and in views between the Stoic and
  Christian systems.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 26. Ja. 5, ’07. 160w.


* =Altsheler, Joseph Alexander.= Young trailers: a story of early
Kentucky. †$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                7–29578.

  A story of out-of-door life in Kentucky during the early days “when
  the Indian was a factor to be reckoned with. Henry Ware, son of a
  pioneer, left the settlement for the wild life of the forest. He
  became as skilful as an Indian in wood-lore, and was able to defend
  his own people by beating the Indian in his native forest.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

  “The style of the story is rather heavy, but the matter of it will
  appeal strongly to boys.”

     + − =Outlook.= 87: 311. O. 12, ’07. 80w.


=Ames, Herman Vandenburg=, ed. State documents on federal relations: the
states and the United States. *$1.75. The Department of history of the
University of Pennsylvania; for sale by Longmans.

                                                                 7–2017.

  This volume “includes 155 documents bearing on the relations of the
  states to the federal government, 1789–1861, and ‘comprises typical
  papers covering the official action of various states in different
  sections of the country, relative to the chief political and
  constitutional issues in our history.’”

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 719. Ap. ’07. 90w.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 117. My. ’07. S.

  “Dr. Ames has done a splendid work in bringing before the student
  these documents in such a convenient shape.”

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 630. My. ’07. 300w.


=Ames, Joseph B.= Treasure of the canyon. †$1.50. Holt.

                                                                7–32317.

  A spirited tale of adventure attending a search for treasure hidden
  away in Arizona along the grand canyon of the Colorado. A new York
  collector of antiques sends a party out to hunt for relics of the
  cliff dwellers, and by accident one of the members comes into
  possession of papers that locate a vast store of imperial treasures
  carried off by the Spaniards when they captured the City of Mexico.
  The balking of their plans by desperadoes but makes the landing of the
  treasure in New York safety vaults more of a triumph.


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

                                                                 6–3091.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “A good edition of these poems, therfore—and we know of no better
  edition of any Anglo-Saxon poem than the present—fills a long
  recognized want. As a matter of detail, it seems to us a mistake to
  speak of the occasional parallels of the ‘Beowulf’ in the ‘Andreas’ as
  imitations of the older poem.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 64. Ja. 17, ’07. 620w.


* =Andresen, N. P.= The republic. (Nat. lib. social science.) Kerr.

  An analysis of the social changes that have come and the greater
  social changes that are coming. A four part treatment: part one
  defines the word justice, and exposes unjust conditions; part two
  discusses the causes of value; part three outlines the nature and
  functions of the just state; part four reveals the methods whereby
  people may acquire possession of their rightful inheritance.


=Andrews, Mary R. S. (Mrs. William S. Andrews.)= The militants; stories
of some parsons, soldiers, and other fighters in the world. †$1.50.
Scribner.

                                                                7–18098.

  Nine stories “of a mystic sentimental inspiration” with charming
  Kentucky settings and Kentucky heroines.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A collection of short stories of unequal merit, but all more than
  ordinarily well done.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 176. O. ’07. ✠

  “The volume before us is one of the best collections we have recently
  seen.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 35: 97. Jl. 20, ’07. 200w.

  “Mrs. Andrews is an accomplished storyteller, writing at times with a
  rhythm and dignity which place her quite above the average. The
  material of her stories, however, is of most unequal merit, and a
  slightly defective sense of structure often makes for a too obvious
  ending.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 58. Jl. 18, ’07. 560w.

  “It is all very lightweight of course, and distressingly false from
  the point of view of moderns cursed with the quality of moral
  earnestness. But it is quite pretty and entertaining, its saccharine
  and mystic tendencies relieved by a certain mild and harmless humor.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 343. My. 25, ’07. 660w.

  “One [story] ... certainly holds a picture almost worthy of comparison
  with that ideal of a priest, Monseigneur Bienvenu, whose candlesticks
  and saintliness saved the soul of Hugo’s Jean Valjean. The other
  tales, morally and otherwise rather less strenuous, are variously
  stimulating and as admirably written, every one.”

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 476. Je. 29, ’07. 110w.


=Andrews, Mary R. S.= Perfect tribute. **50c. Scribner.

                                                                6–32361.

  An incident connected with Lincoln’s Gettysburg speech furnishes the
  motif of this little fictional sketch. “‘The perfect tribute’ on the
  Gettysburg speech is rendered directly to Lincoln, in a Washington
  hospital, by a wounded soldier who had read the address in a morning
  newspaper,—the President having been accidentally called in to draw up
  a will for the dying man.” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 16. Ja. ’07. ✠

  “Leaving veracity out of consideration, it must be confessed that the
  little story is written with a tenderness of touch and a delicacy of
  diction which make it delightful reading.” Edwin Erle Sparks.

     + − =Dial.= 41: 320. N. 16, ’06. 240w.

         =Ind.= 61: 883. O. 11, ’06. 30w.

  “The treatment is singularly felicitous.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 255. Je. 1, ’07. 110w.

  “A strong, dramatic, yet very simply told story.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 34: 759. D. ’06. 60w.


=Angell, Bryan Mary (H. Ripley Cromarsh, pseud.).= Secret of the Moor
cottage. †$1.25. Small.

                                                                6–40587.

  A story written by the sister of A. Conan Doyle. The plot holds a
  mystery which involves a beautiful young woman who had wedded and
  later killed a villainous Russian count. An unprofessional sleuth is
  on the track of the tangle, and works out the puzzle only to satisfy a
  very justifiable curiosity.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is certainly not as good as ‘The house on the marsh,’ but it
  compares very favourably with many modern ‘successes.’”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 320. Mr. 30, ’07. 550w.

  “A good mystery story with a motive by no means commonplace. The
  telling of even the darkest doings is in a subdued but not spiritless
  key, and this serves to bring the book into the desirable category of
  the comfortable-dreadful.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 538. D. 20, ’06. 190w.

  “It seems a pity that its author should have chosen the one form of
  plot that would make her readers immediately note her shortcomings in
  one direction by instituting invidious comparisons with the work of
  her famous relative, while she really tells a very good story in a
  charmingly simple way, and has the desirable knack of peopling her
  pages with interesting and comprehensible characters.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 881. D. 15, ’06. 440w.


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

                                                                4–36948.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

  “It would seem, therefore, that the unique value of this book, as well
  for the teacher as for the layman, would lie mainly in this catholic
  account that it gives of the attitude and achievement of the science
  at the present time. On the whole, and largely in detail, one may say
  that the book is excellent. It would, however, be much improved as an
  instrument for teaching psychology if the substance of the topics was
  more frequently summed in terse formulae.” H. C. Stevens.

   + + − =Psychol. Bull.= 4: 14. Ja. 15, ’07. 1010w.


=Angier, Belle Sumner.= Garden book of California; decorations by
Spencer Wright. *$2. Elder.

                                                                 7–1485.

  Believing that the garden of the world is California, the author shows
  its limitless possibilities for genuine and heart-satisfying
  home-building. The garden as a factor in home-making, garden methods,
  the planting-time, the culture of all varieties of plants,
  tree-planting and protection, insecticides and plant diseases,
  backyard problems, and out-of-door living rooms, all come in for
  generous attention.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Tells many things that the new-comer to California, if interested in
  gardening, will wish to know.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 68. Ag. 1, ’07. 290w.

  “The author knows her subject well, is perfectly familiar with the
  flowers, shrubs and trees that can be well grown under the conditions
  of irrigation, and her instructions are pertinent, practical and
  clearly told as the result of much experience and observation. It
  should be mentioned that the twenty attractive full-page illustrations
  of California gardening bear no particular relation to the text.”

   + + − =Ind.= 62: 1359. Je. 6, ’07. 140w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 120w.

         =R. of Rs.= 34: 127. Jl. ’07. 60w.


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

                                                                6–23296.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “It would seem that certain statements in the study of the sources are
  entirely too dogmatic. The dissertation is a work that will prove of
  great value to students of Augustine, and there is thus the more
  reason for regretting the large number of typographical errors.”

     + − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 180. Ja. ’07. 510w.


* =Annunzio, Gabriele d’.= Daughter of Jorio: a pastoral tragedy; tr. by
Charlotte Porter, Pietro Isola, and Alice Henry; with an introd. by Miss
Porter. *$1.50. Little.

  An authorized edition of D’Annunzio’s drama which presents with
  intense human touches a picture of patriarchal peasant life.


=Appleton, Rev. Floyd.= Church philanthropy in New York; introd. by Rt.
Rev. D. H. Greer. *75c. Whittaker.

  The author “has sketched briefly the history of the many Episcopal
  philanthropic institutions, and on the basis of extensive
  compilation of statistics he offers suggestions as to promising
  lines of future activity. The pamphlet is a convenient manual of
  information concerning a large class of remedial institutions, which
  have been supported with self-sacrifice and administered with
  efficiency.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A valuable book of facts.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 520. Je. 6, ’07. 90w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 638. My. ’07. 40w.


Arabian nights entertainments: the thousand-and-one nights; tr. by
Edward William Lane. 4v. ea. *$1. Macmillan.

  The Bohn edition of the Lane translation. Professor Stanley Lane-Poole
  has edited the reprint, and has included about two-thirds of the whole
  number of tales belonging to the thousand and one nights, as well as
  Aladdin and Ali Baba which are not a part of the series in Arabic.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Edited perfectly by Dr. Stanley Lane-Poole, with due care for the
  convenience of the general reader.”

     + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 801. D. 22. 130w.

  “It is a scholarly translation and as complete as one can be that is
  intended for general circulation.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 159. Ja. 17, ’07. 110w.

     + + =Nation.= 83: 555. D. 27, ’06. 350w. (Review of v. 1–3.)

  “The translation of ‘Aladdin’ is sound and vigorous, and in every way
  more readable style than Lane had at his command. But there is one
  slip very strange in the past master in Arabic numismatics. Professor
  Lane-Poole does not seem to have recognized that the ‘Africa’ in this
  story means Tunis.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 106. Ja. 31, ’07. 290w. (Review of v. 4.)

       + =Outlook.= 85: 94. Ja. 12, ’07. 100w.


=Aria, Mrs. David B.= Costume: fanciful, historical and theatrical; il.
by Percy Anderson. *$2.50. Macmillan.

                                                                 7–8553.

  “This book is divided into twenty chapters, beginning with some
  description of costumes and the rudimentary expression of fashion in
  the classic times and coming down well into the days of the nineteenth
  century. Each century, from the thirteenth to the nineteenth, is
  discussed in a separate section. There are also chapters on the garb
  of peasants in different countries, on Oriental dress, on fancy dress,
  on the origin and development of the corset, on bridal dress and
  ceremonial costumes, on dancing dress in all countries, and on
  theatrical costumes.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mrs. Aria has fairly carried out the promise of her introductory
  note.”

       + =Acad.= 72: 246. Mr. 9, ’07. 220w.

  “The text is often witty and always interesting. Mr. Anderson, the
  illustrator, can scarcely be overpraised for the excellence of his
  work.” May Estelle Cook.

     + + =Dial.= 43: 57. Ag. 1, ’07. 530w.

  “It is a pity that there is no index to what is primarily a book of
  reference.”

     + − =Int. Studio.= 31: 165. Ap. ’07. 190w.

  “Mrs. Aria is commonplace and somewhat inconsequent.”

     − + =Lond. Times.= 6: 18. Ja. 18, ’07. 30w.

  “In short, the book is not a treatise on costume, nor is it of any
  historical authority; but it may be found suggestive.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 185. Ag. 29, ’07. 220w.

  “A vast amount of information on sartorial affairs most charmingly
  expressed.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 59. F. 2, ’07. 230w.

       + =Outlook.= 85: 237. Ja. 26, ’07. 100w.

  “A considerable amount of painstaking research has been employed in
  making this book on dress, and Mrs. Aria presents the result in her
  animated style, lightened by little touches of humor and adorned with
  numerous flourishes of verbal ingenuity.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 6. S. 28, ’07. 650w.


=Armitage, F. P.= History of chemistry. *$1.60. Longmans.

  “The story of some thousand years of almost fruitless labor, followed
  by two centuries of richest accomplishment.” “It is neither so
  comprehensive nor so interesting as Meyer’s ‘History of chemistry,’
  but will serve its purpose in giving the student a background for his
  knowledge, and a realization of the difficulties experienced by
  generations of chemists in formulating the conceptions which now seem
  so simple and natural.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is well written and the details judiciously pruned.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 834. D. 29. 350w.

  “Like most other histories of the science, this fails to connect with
  the science of the present day. The book might have been written ten
  or twenty years ago.”

     − + =Nation.= 84: 388. Ap. 25, ’07. 200w.

  “We are oppressed with the unscientific slapdash manner in which the
  author has approached the whole subject of the history of chemistry.”

       − =Nature.= 75: 170. D. 20, ’06. 540w.


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

                                                                6–20351.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Though professedly an advocate’s presentations on these important
  questions, it gives the reader the impression of being more
  straightforward and reliable than much of the ‘unbiased and
  public-spirited’ criticism does.” William Hill.

       + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 118. F. ’07. 1050w.

  “The book as a whole is not convincing.” Frank Haigh Dixon.

     − + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 156. Mr. ’07. 320w.


=Arnim, Mary Annette (Beauchamp), grafin von.= Fraulein. Schmidt and Mr.
Anstruther. †$1.50. Scribner.

                                                                7–21365.

  By the author of “Elizabeth and her German garden.” “A German girl
  writes from Jena to the young Englishman who is at first her lover,
  and subsequently, after he has broken off the engagement, her friend,
  and who finally puts an end to the friendship also by insisting on the
  impossible attempt at renewing their former relations.... Little
  detached incidents, reminiscences, reflections on life and literature,
  and so on, form the subject of the letters, which depend for their
  charm wholly on the personality of the writer.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Acad.= 72: 561. Je. 8, ’07. 540w.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 175. O. ’07. ✠

  “It has all the old grace and vivacity, and is free from the suspicion
  of coldness and heartlessness that occasionally dashed our enjoyment
  of her earlier books. Her letters are invariably piquant and
  entertaining, and we may add that they contain much excellent advice
  and criticism.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 630. My. 25. 300w.

  “It is not very much of a story, but that doesn’t greatly matter,
  because it is Rose-Marie who really interests us all the while, and
  because her letters are the most delightful compound of bourgeois
  realism, sentimental fancy, and delicate humor.” Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 43: 65. Ag. 1, ’07. 240w.

  “Fraulein Schmidt is a distinct acquisition.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 220. Jl. 25, ’07. 330w.

  “It is written with the author’s usual charm.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 70w.

  “As a work of fiction, the book deserves particular notice for
  distinction of manner, acuteness of view, and, above all, for the
  refreshing spirit that animates each letter from the first to the
  last.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 35: 417. S. 21, ’07. 530w.

  “Why should we read—with various degrees of pleasure it is true—a
  whole volume of her meditations which are without form, often shallow,
  sometimes slipshod, and never inspired? But she writes so freshly and
  sensibly and happily that to ask for a closer attention to these
  matters would be like asking a thrush, for example, to whistle a Bach
  fugue.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 149. My. 10, ’07. 750w.

  “These letters while slight, make a thoroughly acceptable bit of
  summer diversion.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 591. Je. 27, ’07. 400w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 180w.

  “There are many exquisite passages and there is never anything that is
  commonplace, never a platitude.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 419. Je. 29, ’07. 360w.

  “Apart from the fun of the book, which may seem somewhat less than
  usual in the work of this writer, there is really a heart story dealt
  with in an unusual and unexpected way, while the comments of the quiet
  but proud Anglo-German Rose-Marie on literature and life are in
  themselves pungent and discerning.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 609. Jl. 20, ’07. 200w.

  “Rose-Marie is the only correspondent worth mentioning who has
  appeared in fiction since [Glory Quayle], and she is of much finer
  spiritual fibre, of as much charm and of a better brain-capacity.”

     + + =Putnam’s.= 2: 746. S. ’07. 520w.

  “The dénoûment will not conciliate sentimentalists, and we are by no
  means sure that it is in strict accordance with experience, but it has
  both logic and justice to commend it.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 703. My. 11, ’07. 1430w.


=Arnold, Charles London.= Cosmos, the soul and God: a monistic
interpretation of the facts and findings of science. **$1.20. McClurg.

                                                                7–12983.

  The author’s all-inclusive philosophy is developed along the following
  line: “Starting with the established facts of science, seeking the
  causes of manifested phenomena, tracing the causal series to the very
  limits of scientific investigation, inevitably finding at the limits
  of the physical process an effect for which the physical cause can be
  discovered, and driven to attribute such effect to some agency outside
  the world of sense, I reach at length the inevitable conclusion that
  there is a world of which this physical process came, upon which it
  rests, by which it is energetically sustained; in a word, that the
  present world is but the phenomenal representation of the forms of
  cosmic energy.”


=Arnold, William Thomas.= Roman system of provincial administration to
the accession of Constantine the Great; new ed. rev. from the author’s
notes by E. S. Shuckburgh. *$2. Macmillan.

                                                                 7–7171.

  A revised edition of a work that is strong in its treatment of the
  functions of the general and local governments in the provinces, the
  strong and weak points of Roman rule, the development of imperial
  policy and the influence of expansion upon domestic politics. An
  index, a map, and a bibliography are included in the revised edition.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It was a great loss to scholars that Arnold did not live to revise
  his work in the way in which he probably would have wished to revise
  it. More to be regretted still is the editor’s failure to study the
  great system of Roman military roads, and to make such a résumé of the
  work of the Limes commissions in Germany and Austria as Koremann has
  lately drawn up.” Frank Frost Abbott.

     + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 915. Jl. ’07. 520w.

  “It would be easy to suggest further improvement. With the substantial
  merits of the first edition, students of Roman history are well
  acquainted; and they will find the present volume even more
  serviceable. In its field it has no rival in English.”

   + + − =Nation.= 85: 33. Jl. 11, ’07. 230w.


=“Artifex” and “Opifex,” pseud.= Causes of decay in a British industry.
*$2.50. Longmans.

                                                                7–28991.

  A discussion of the English fire-arms industry by two manufacturers
  who know their subject in all the aspects of its rise and decline.
  “They see the manufacturer who has brought his craft to the highest
  pitch of perfection struggling in vain to maintain his position, borne
  down by the burdens and obstacles which have been placed upon him and
  are not counterbalanced by any assistance such as his competitors
  receive.” (Lond. Times.) “The authors claim that the two big causes
  for the falling off in this trade are: (1) The policy of the English
  government in not protecting in any way the industry; and (2) the
  reluctance of the British manufacturer to enter into competition with
  the so-called ‘modern business methods’ of foreign manufacturers.”
  (Engin. N.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This remarkably well-written book, though without doubt prejudiced
  and partial in many of its statements, will repay the time and trouble
  of reading.”

     + − =Engin. N.= 57: 555. My. ’16, ’07. 1000w.

  “It may be that in some matters they are not quite at the center of
  the subject, and incline to make more of their difficulties than of
  their own defects ... but their analysis of the condition of the trade
  and the causes which have brought it about cannot be ignored by anyone
  who has any respect for facts.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 122. Ap. 19, ’07. 1100w.

         =Nation.= 85: 129. Ag. 8, ’07. 1100w.

  “It should be read and read again by the workmen of England.”

       + =Sat. R.= 104: 22. Jl. 6, ’07. 380w.

  “The authors’ knowledge of the history of their own trade enables them
  to set out facts that must be new to most of us, but we are not
  convinced by the economic reasoning which they very modestly and
  temperately seek to base thereon.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: 1009. Je. 29, ’07. 780w.


As the Hague ordains: journal of a Russian prisoner’s wife in Japan. il.
**$1.50. Holt.

                                                                7–16757.

  The diary of the half English wife of a Russian officer. When word
  comes that her husband has been wounded and taken prisoner by the
  Japanese she goes to him from St. Petersburg, and from the viewpoint
  of a nurse in a military hospital learns how, “human, Christian and
  civilized” is the Japanese treatment of the Russian prisoners. The
  contrast between the courage and cleanliness of the Japanese and the
  filth and boorishness of the Russians breaks down the barriers of her
  prejudices.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 157. O. ’07. S.

  “Perhaps gratitude has somewhat overdrawn the picture, but even so,
  one prefers this theory to the only possible alternative one, which
  would suggest that this wholly delightful book is altogether a work of
  the imagination.” A. Schade van Westrum.

       + =Bookm.= 25: 614. Ag. ’07. 990w.

  “The ‘diary,’ which was demonstrably written after the facts which it
  forsees with remarkable clearness, makes vivacious reading, and there
  are bits in it of the traditional Japan of fine pottery and miniature
  gardening which are distinctly charming.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 416. My. 2, ’07. 230w.

  “Perhaps no book has as yet described the Russian prisoner’s life in
  Japan so graphically and so entertainingly as this book. The thought
  it sets forth is distinctly masculine, thinly guised in feminine
  expression. Is it too hasty to suspect that it was really written by
  some war correspondent, perhaps an American?” K. K. Kawakami.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 266. Ap. 27, ’07. 1560w.

  “The picture is one full of human interest of a varied range.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 200w.

  “It holds a tremendous human interest.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 300. Je. 8, ’07. 280w.


=Ashley, Percy W. L.= Local and central government: a comparative study
of England, France, Prussia, and the United States. *$3. Dutton.

                                                                  7–466.

  This book “is written from the professorial point of view—that is to
  say, it is not a study at first hand of the working of institutions in
  the countries named, but in the main a statement of facts compiled
  from authorities. As such it forms a text-book for political students
  and a hand-book of reference for teachers, administrators, publicists
  and politicians.” The three divisions of the work are “the
  organization of local government in each country ... the historical
  development of local administration in England, France and Prussia ...
  the juridical aspects of local government and the relations between
  local institutions and the central authority in the same country.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 117. My. ’07. 20w.

  “The literary effect of the work is successful; the elementary
  exposition is not unduly encumbered, and the chapters dealing with
  history and with legal relations are given a perfectly definite
  purpose. There is, even for a work of this kind, too large a number of
  technical inaccuracies.” Willard E. Hotchkiss.

     + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 172. Jl. ’07. 580w.

  “The author is accurate and impartial: his work seems to have been
  slow, and some parts of the book are out of date. Few other faults
  could be found in Mr. Ashley’s studies. The volume is of high merit,
  and should be bought and kept for reference. The index is good.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 615. N. 17. 310w.

  “It speaks highly for Mr. Ashley as a lecturer that he has produced so
  readable a volume out of material which in less able hands would have
  sufficed only for a dry compendium or a useful text-book.”

   + + − =Ind.= 63: 401. Ag. 15, ’07. 500w.

  “It is no easy task to deal clearly, yet in sufficient detail, with
  all these matters in the moderate compass of the present volume, and
  it cannot be said that Mr. Ashley has been entirely successful. A
  certain political bias is discernible here and in other ‘obiter
  dicta.’”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 27. Ja. 25, ’07. 900w.

  “Mr. Ashley provides us with an accurate account of the
  administration, local and central, of England,—a subject which is
  often little understood even by those who take official part in it. In
  conclusion, we would specially recommend the chapter on ‘The control
  of local finance,’ a matter of very vital importance today.”

     + + =Spec.= 98: 423. Mr. 16, ’07. 480w.


=Askew, Alice, and Askew, Claude Arthur C.= Shulamite. †$1.50.
Brentano’s.

  The Boer country furnishes the scene of a story which forces to the
  front of its little stage a hard-hearted, narrow-minded old Boer
  nearing seventy years, Deborah, his child wife, and a young English
  overseer. The latter’s courtesy and respect, unknown to the girl
  heretofore, awaken her to sense the sordidness of her lot, and arouse
  in her a love for the Englishman. To save the girl’s life, he kills
  the husband, actuated only by the chivalrous motives. When Deborah
  understands that he will wed the girl awaiting him in England, she
  resolves to say the word that shall put him into the hands of the
  authorities and result in his death.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “While it has its obvious shortcomings, it is not a book to be lightly
  laid aside or quickly forgotten.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

     + − =Bookm.= 25: 390. Je. ’07. 520w.

  “A story which with all its power, lacks grip, because it does not
  bring conviction with it. It is nevertheless, a striking piece of
  work, intensely dramatic, sure of a widening circle of interested
  readers.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 465. Jl. 27, ’07. 250w.


=Atherton, Gertrude Franklin.= Ancestors. †$1.75. Harper.

                                                                7–30866.

  A rising English politician suddenly finds himself put out of the race
  in the House of commons by coming into a peerage with its accompanying
  seat among the lords. A young American girl, a distant cousin, with
  ambitions and temperament akin to his own urges him to start life all
  over in her own California. “Once safe in California, the story
  proceeds breathlessly. Notwithstanding all the descriptions, all the
  lenses which have been turned on that exotic city, [San Francisco] she
  still is able to give a picture of untarnished freshness. The story
  reaches its climax in the dramatic scenes of the San Francisco
  earthquake.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is long, but contains a good deal—sometimes vividly
  said—concerning institutions and people that should interest not
  merely novelreaders but also thoughtful persons in both countries.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 650. N. 23. 440w.

  “The story is made fairly tedious by endless passages of analysis and
  discussion, and its inordinate length is not justified by a
  corresponding richness of invention and imagination. Of its style
  there is not much to say. It exhibits rawness rather than refinement,
  and is almost wholly devoid of charm.” Wm. M. Payne.

       − =Dial.= 43: 317. N. 16, ’07. 320w.

  “The contrast between the English and their American cousins is
  shrewdly drawn, sophisticated and as lacking in kindness as one may
  expect from an author who places wit before humor, and who is
  incapable of understanding the pathos of being human either in this
  country or in England.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 1375. D. 5, ’07. 260w.

  “We can only touch upon the comparatively minor characters. Lady
  Victoria Gwynne, half great lady, half libertine, is perhaps the only
  failure. The whole execution is carried as far as anything that Mrs.
  Atherton has yet attempted.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 341. N. 8, ’07. 1090w.

  “That Mrs. Atherton’s manner at times is somewhat rough cannot be
  denied. Thoughtful she is, and in a way penetrating, though quite
  without subtlety and grasping things more violently than is always to
  the taste of the over sensitive.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 377. O. 24, ’07. 480w.

  “Clever dialogue, sharp analysis, and unexpected turns of plot place
  it in Mrs. Atherton’s best vein.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 40w.

  “Most of the characters ... have one phase in common. They are
  self-conscious and analytical. They see themselves, as it were, in a
  mirror, and it is with their eyes fixed on the reflection that they
  move. It is, then, the thinker in her reader that Mrs. Atherton
  arouses. Her descriptive powers are strong and individual. She gives
  us pictures of London, of San Francisco, and of the death throes of
  that city vivid as paintings, startling as a vitascope. She is not so
  happy in conveying an effect of the cataclysm on the people. They
  remain too self-conscious, they converse too much, they see themselves
  experiencing the experience.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 676. O. 26, ’07. 1120w.

  “If only her technique of construction equalled her frank and
  clear-eyed understanding of human nature she might be unhesitatingly
  placed very high among the exponents of the best realism.” Frederic
  Taber Cooper.

     + − =No. Am.= 186: 607. D. ’07. 1320w.

         =Outlook.= 87: 451. O. 26, ’07. 110w.

  “Admirable and distinctly entertaining story.”

     + − =Putnam’s.= 3: 369. D. ’07. 590w.


=Atherton, Gertrude Franklin (Frank Lin, pseud.).= Rezánov; il. in
water-colors. 50c. Authors and newspapers assn.

                                                                6–42373.

  A historical romance of the early days of California, which chiefly
  concerns Rezánov, a Russian diplomat, and Concha Arguello, daughter of
  the Commandante of the Presidio. “Amid the splendidly picturesque
  environment of the same California landscape which Belasco recently
  has turned to such excellent use in his play a ‘Rose of the Rancho,’
  the story marches vigorously to its predestined close and the proud
  Russian succumbs to fever and privation on his return from an
  adventurous expedition.” (Cur. Lit.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is not the most interesting of Mrs. Atherton’s books: it is, however,
  in our opinion, the best written and the most carefully studied work
  of hers which we have had the pleasure of seeing.”

     + − =Acad.= 71: 502. N. 17, ’06. 150w.

  “If Mrs. Atherton has not succeeded in making [the lovers] absolutely
  alive to us, she has invested their love story with unusual charm and
  interest.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 687. D. 1. 170w.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 229. F. ’07. 660w.

  “A story which is, in many respects, conventional and—for all its
  heroics—rather lifeless.”

     − + =Lond. Times.= 5: 394. N. 23, ’06. 500w.

         =Putnam’s.= 2: 187. My. ’07. 140w.

  “There are qualities in ‘Rezánov’ that we are accustomed to admire in
  Mrs. Atherton’s work, the vivid characterisation, the colour and
  beauty of the setting, the especial charm of the Californian
  atmosphere, but it is very far from being a great book, or even a
  first-rate book of its kind, clever as it undeniably is.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 102: 712. D. 8, ’06. 680w.

  “With these deductions, there is much to admire in her spirited
  reconstitution of life on the Pacific coast a hundred years ago.”

     − + =Spec.= 97: 828. N. 24, ’06. 770w.


* =Atkey, Bertram.= Folk of the wild. il. †$1.50. Lippincott.

  “A book of the forests, the moors and the mountains, of the beasts of
  the silent places, their lives, their doings and their deaths.”


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

                                                                 6–6244.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “We are somewhat surprised that a geographic expert like its editor,
  Professor Frank H. Hodder, should have allowed the path of the party
  in 1849 to be recorded upon a base map that could not possibly have
  been accurate at a period earlier than 1853.”

   + + − =Ind.= 62: 154. Ja. 17, ’07. 200w.


=Auerbach, Berthold.= On the heights; translated from the German by
Simon A. Stern. $1.50. Holt.

  A new edition of this ever interesting tale of German life in court
  and cottage.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “No feature of Auerbach’s literary mastership is more admirable than
  the delicacy and ingenuity with which he has woven the fortunes of the
  royal house of Bavaria into the fabric of his great novel ‘Auf der
  hohe.’ The untangling of this complicated web adds zest to both
  history and fiction.” W. H. Carruth.

     + + =Bookm.= 26: 376. D. ’07. 3470w.


=Aurelius Antoninus, Marcus.= Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius
Antoninus; tr. by George Long. 35c. Crowell.

  Uniform with the “Handy volume classics.”


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

                                                                6–35583.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “There is hardly a page without its incident, information, or
  picturesque descriptions; to turn a leaf too hastily is to miss some
  interesting fact or vivid picture.”

       + =Acad.= 71: 638. D. 22, ’06. 140w.

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 202. F. 16. 60w.

  “The narrative is picturesque and full of color, and the pictures and
  sketches really illustrate the text.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 105. Ja. 19, ’07. 130w.

  “‘The flock’ is a book which the driven scientific man may read for
  recreation and information at once. There is much keen observation,
  much shrewd suggestion, and no end of delight in ‘The flock.’ And
  trained in the scientific method or not, Mrs. Austin is honest and
  truthful as one may be. That is, she tells only what to her eye and
  ear and mind comes with the seeming of truth.” Vernon L. Kellogg.

     + + =Science=, n.s. 25: 179. F. 1, ’07. 2030w.

  “There is a smack of R. L. Stevenson about the book, though rather in
  the subject than in the style, which leans towards the pretentious.
  But as a literary work it is vivid.”

   + + − =Spec.= 97: 216. F. 9, ’07. 190w.


=Avebury, John Lubbock, 1st baron.= On municipal and national trading.
$1. Macmillan.

                                                                7–23725.

  An argument against municipal trading. The author shows that municipal
  trade increases local expenditure and local indebtedness, gives rise
  to awkward labor problems, seriously interferes with private
  enterprise and our foreign commerce, and that by reducing the demand
  for labor it has not only injured the ratepayers generally, but
  especially the working classes.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 149. Jl. ’07. 390w.

  “His book, it hardly need be said, is an able presentation of his
  subject. While less partisan and more dignified than Mr. Porter, Lord
  Avebury is seldom thoroughly judicial in his treatment of his
  subject.”

     + − =Engin. N.= 57: 553. My. 16, ’07. 250w.

  “All thru the book Lord Avebury shows an amazing fondness for
  irresponsible writers and a curious shyness of official figures.”

       − =Ind.= 62: 1412. Je. 13, ’07. 1180w.

  “The materials appear to have been gathered hastily, and are thrown
  together in slap-dash fashion.”

     − + =Nation.= 85: 163. Ag. 22, ’07. 260w.

  “One commendable feature of the book is its definiteness. The reader
  who seeks a clear, brief statement of the arguments against municipal
  trading cannot find the case more satisfactorily stated than in Lord
  Avebury’s book.” Wm. Hill.

       + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 436. Jl. ’07. 950w.

  “A useful handbook for those who may have to debate the subject on
  public platforms.”

       + =Spec.= 97: 213. F. 9, ’07. 1740w.


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

  =v. 3.= “Volume three is devoted to what has been happily termed a
  neglected period of American history,—a period extending through the
  latter part of the seventeenth to well toward the meridian of the
  eighteenth century. Behind it lay the stirring, strenuous and
  oftentimes intensely exciting period that marked the colonization of
  the new world and the struggle for a firm foothold,—a struggle that
  sometimes meant war with Indians, sometimes conflict with rival
  nations, and ever the fierce battle to subjugate the soil and wring
  from it more than was needed to supply food, raiment and shelter for
  the isolated bands on the wilderness frontiers of the new
  world.”—Arena.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Avery has aimed at and achieved ‘readability,’ and at the same
  time there is little doubt that this will be the standard record of
  United States history.”

   + + + =Acad.= 71: 655. D. 29, ’06. 1490w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “We have detected but one actual inaccuracy—an understatement of
  Oglethorpe’s age. The American writer’s handling of some portions
  strikes us as hardly adequate.”

   + + − =Acad.= 73: 862. S. 7, ’07. 1800w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “On the whole the volume is superior to its predecessor. The sense of
  proportion is better developed.” Wm. R. Shepherd.

   + + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 657. Ap. ’07. 940w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “The strong feature of this volume, as of its predecessor, is—aside
  from the work of the publishers—the accuracy and detail of the
  author’s narrative. Certain of its limitations are also among those of
  the earlier volumes and seem, therefore, likely to characterize the
  entire work. They are: First, the author’s lack of assured perspective
  and his consequent inability to impart emphasis, selection and
  organization to his work; secondly, his attempts to vary the monotony
  inevitable in a narrative devoid of the above mentioned qualities by
  constant recourse to the phraseology of others or to awkward
  trivialities; and thirdly, his disposition to abdicate to others the
  historian’s essential function of passing judgment, without at the
  same time distinguishing at all between the purely personal opinions
  of those whom he quotes and their documental verdicts.”

     + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 471. N. ’06. 1250w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “We are fully gratified to find that it fully maintains the high
  standard set in the preceding volumes. Dealing as it does with this
  largely neglected period, is of special interest to students of
  history.”

   + + + =Arena.= 38: 221. Ag. ’07. 1110w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “The colonial history of the Jerseys is usually regarded as prosaic in
  the extreme; but Mr. Avery has discovered in it points of dramatic
  interest, and has spared no pains to reveal them to us.” Anna Heloise
  Abel.

   + + − =Dial.= 43: 165. S. 16, ’07. 860w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “At times there is revealed, often in opening and closing paragraphs,
  a knack of rapid and effective description. But the body of the
  chapter is liable to be disjointed and unimportant. The work lacks
  conscious certainty of judgment and too often seems to be impartial
  from caution rather than conviction.”

   + + − =Ind.= 63: 943. O. 17, ’07. 330w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “Dr. Avery’s narrative grows more praiseworthy as it proceeds, while
  his style is less stilted and freer from mannerisms and fine writing
  than was the case with the first volume.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 470. N. 21, ’07. 430w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “It is pleasant to find, also, that Mr. Avery has profited by earlier
  criticisms—developing, for example, far more clearly than before the
  relationship between the early upbuilding of America and the stirring
  events transpiring in Europe.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 87: 45. S. 7, ’07. 490w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “Its methods are more like those of the old, with a little less
  insistence on style. In respect of its material make-up Avery’s work
  is one of the most notable books ever printed in America, and no doubt
  the most notable in American history.” John Spencer Bassett.

   + + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 253. My. ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “Dr. Avery’s style illumines the annals of those primitive times,
  sustaining the reader’s interest.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 36: 510. O. ’07. 200w. (Review of v. 3.)


=Axon, William E. A.= Cobden as a citizen: a chapter in Manchester
history. *$6. Wessels.

                                                                7–31407.

  Including a facsimile of Cobden’s pamphlet “Incorporate your borough,”
  with an introduction recording his career as a municipal reformer, and
  a Cobden bibliography.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 538. My. 4. 330w.

  “A little volume which all admirers and students of Cobden will desire
  to possess.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 77. Jl. 25, ’07. 160w.

         =Spec.= 99: 268. Ag. 24, ’07. 300w.


=Ayer, Mary Allette=, ed. Heart melodies. **$1. Lothrop.

                                                                7–16925.

  The compiler has culled from works of prose and poetry both well-known
  and obscure these brief quotations chosen because they are helpful and
  cheering.




                                   B


=Bacheller, Irving A.= Eben Holden’s last day a-fishing. †50c. Harper.

                                                                7–29429.

  Two pictures of an old favorite are presented in this slight volume;
  one of fishing on a June day and the other of Christmas-time in Eben
  Holden’s old-fashioned country home. He is still the kind, wise,
  humorous companion of earlier days.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 702. N. 2, ’07 200w.


=Bacon, Edwin Munroe.= Connecticut river, and the valley of the
Connecticut. **$3.50. Putnam.

                                                                6–27342.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The familiar story is well told and gives the lie afresh to the
  complaint that picturesque America is lacking in historical
  associations. A few minor slips occur.” Kate M. Cone.

   + + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 693. Ap. ’07. 460w.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 38. F. ’07.

       + =Spec.= 98: 1039. Je. 29, ’07. 340w.


=Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam.= Domestic adventures. †$1. Scribner.

                                                                7–29425.

  “The present story sets forth both the erotic and culinary experiences
  of three bachelor girls from New York, who decide that their combined
  resources justify the setting up of a modest establishment in the
  suburbs somewhere ‘out Greenwich way.’”—Bookm.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Here is something to be strongly recommended as a panacea for the
  peculiarly debilitating effects of the servant problem. Somewhat in
  the form of a diary presumably jotted down from day to day, but
  occasional lapses into a reminiscent mood, as of one writing it up
  several years later, considerably disturb the continuity and befog the
  chatty atmosphere.” G. W. Adams.

     + − =Bookm.= 26: 278. N. ’07. 480w.

  “Mrs. Bacon has scored so often by virtue of sheer hard cleverness
  that it is not to be wondered at if the note grows yet harder and
  thinner as time goes on.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 307. O. 3, ’07. 220w.

  “The plot is of soap-bubble texture ... and the whole is told with
  abundant humor in a style of exceptional simplicity and good taste.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 120w.

  “The book is full of fun.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 60w.

  “A mild plot is cleverly managed by the author.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 309. O. 12, ’07. 60w.


=Bacon, Mrs. Mary Schell (Dolores Bacon, pseud.)= In high places.
†$1.50. Doubleday.

                                                                7–31212.

  The “high places” are the risky elevations from which scrupulous and
  unscrupulous actors in high finance manipulate the money market. A
  business woman of to-day occupies the center of the stage.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “‘In high places,’ in fact, inspires a hope that Mrs. Bacon may go on
  rather than back, that she may succeed in ridding herself of the
  shopworn, obvious side of her talent and by clearing her mind of a
  residue of stock phrases and characters, leave it free to receive her
  own unhackneyed and genuine impressions.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 497. N. 28, ’07. 390w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

  “In many respects the novel is disagreeable—in some unnecessarily
  so—but the plea that it is true to life can be supported, without
  doubt.”

     − + =Outlook.= 87: 496. N. 2, ’07. 150w.


=Bacon, Mrs. Mary Schell (Dolores Bacon, pseud.)=, ed. Songs every child
should know. **90c. Doubleday.

                                                                6–35301.

  More than a hundred songs with music are grouped here. They include
  songs of sentiment, folk song, cradle songs, songs of war, national
  hymns, nonsense songs, patriotic songs, Shakesperian songs and
  miscellaneous songs. Introductory notes to each song add enlightenment
  for the child.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 189. O. ’06.

  “The judgment used in the selection of these songs is as good as the
  taste displayed is broad and catholic.”

     + + =Bookm.= 24: 295. N. ’06. 780w.

     + − =Ind.= 61: 1410. D. 22, ’06. 50w.

       + =Lit. D.= 33: 393. S. 22, ’06. 50w.

  “Such a book should be graded rather than arranged artificially into
  groups. Mrs. Bacon is too generous, though her idea is excellent.”

     + − =Nation.= 83: 485. D. 6, ’06. 120w.

  “One of the best books in the ‘Every child should know’ series.”

       + =Putnam’s.= 1: 377. D. ’06. 30w.

         =R. of Rs.= 34: 765. D. ’06. 40w.


=Badger, George Henry.= Water-star. *80c. Am. Unitar.

                                                                7–29693.

  Four essays, The water-star, Landscape of the soul, The haunts of the
  hind, and Do we see nature? In the first one the water lily is used
  for a lesson. The author shows that in sending forth above the surface
  of the water so wonderful a flower the roots do quiet work in the
  murky depths; so in life, if crowning success be attained, there lies
  back of it the commonplace pegging away at stale duties.


=Bagley, William Chandler.= Classroom management: its principles and
technique. *$1.25. Macmillan.

                                                                7–15629.

  “Useful to any teacher who has not solved all his practical problems,
  and particularly valuable to the young teacher. The great virtue of
  the book is its actuality; its material has been gathered mainly from
  experience and observation. The writer constantly sums up the best
  expert opinion upon the question in hand.... The contents of the book
  may be suggested by a few of the chapter titles: ‘The daily program,’
  ‘Hygienic conditions in the school-room,’ ‘Order and discipline,’
  ‘Penalties,’ ‘The problem of attention.’”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The thought is sane and illuminating throughout, and the form is
  always clear and strong. We know of no other book that will bring more
  varied and abundant help to the teacher in actual hand-grips with his
  task.”

     + + =Dial.= 43: 124. S. 1, ’07. 160w.

  “While the book is written primarily for students of education in
  schools and colleges, it will be helpful to all teachers and will
  appeal to the most thoughtful and ambitious.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 255. S. 19, ’07. 210w.

  “The high standpoint of the author is strikingly evident in his noble
  chapter on ‘The ethics of schoolcraft,’ whose seven pages, separately
  printed, are well worth wide distribution among teachers at public
  expense.”

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 834. Ag. 17, ’07. 160w.


=Bagot, Richard.= Temptation. †$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                7–37716.

  Italy furnishes the stage, and her people the actors for this study in
  psychology. A very unhappy Italian woman moved by the sinister
  fascination of an ancestor’s homicidal act of killing her lover by
  poison resorts to the same means to rid herself of a husband whom she
  loathes. “Ugo, the hapless count, his wife Cristina, the Duchess of
  San Felice, and Fabrizio, the guilty cousin, are all human figures.”
  (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Bagot observes keenly, but a little hastily; he is rather sharp
  than wise in his judgments, and his people are drawn without the
  subtle shades which would make them interesting in themselves.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 216. Mr. 2, ’07. 330w.

  “It is a powerful drama, and discloses Mr. Bagot at his best.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907. 1: 286. Mr. 9. 210w.

  “Like Mr. Crawford, also Mr. Bagot never lets you forget that he is
  writing of an alien race, with habits and temperaments and language
  quite foreign to that of the Anglo-Saxon; and yet, at the same time,
  he interprets them so skilfully that the sum total of your impressions
  is rather that of the brotherhood of the two races than of the gulf
  between them.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

       + =Bookm.= 26: 162. O. ’07. 590w.

  “Mr. Bagot spends so much care on the few characters whom he
  introduces, and offers so close an explanation of their motives, that
  we are prepared both for greater vigour of action and greater subtlety
  of speech. But he seldom drops his attitude of the grave observer
  pondering wide issues. In any case, however, it is an interesting
  book; you lay it down not infrequently, but you open it with respect.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 62. F. 22, ’07. 390w.

  “The facts are bald enough, but they are interpreted with much skill.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 260. S. 19, ’07. 420w.

  “There are few gleams of fascination in ‘Temptation’.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 120w.

  “That which may be most cordially praised in this novel is the
  author’s evidently exact and always interesting depiction of Italian
  country life and social customs and manners.”

     + − =Outlook.= 87: 269. O. 5, ’07. 100w.

  “Although the main theme of the story is gloomy, there are many
  pleasant passages. The book is always interesting.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 401. Mr. 30, ’07. 380w.

  “Though ‘Temptation’ cannot be pronounced a pleasant book, the author
  must be acquitted of any desire to palter with the principles of right
  and wrong.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: 422. Mr. 16, ’07. 840w.


=Bailey, Edgar H. S.= Text-book of sanitary and applied chemistry; or,
The chemistry of water, air, and food. *$1.40. Macmillan.

                                                                6–32422.

  In which the author emphasizes the fact that a knowledge of the
  relations of health to pure air, unpolluted water, and wholesome food
  will greatly improve sanitary conditions of students as well as people
  at large. Part 1 discusses air and fuel in their relation to heating
  and ventilation, lighting by the various agents now in use, water
  supply and purification, and disposal of household waste. Part 2 deals
  with food, food-materials, food accessories, preservatives, beverages
  and dietaries.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Professor Bailey has brought together much of the material which he
  has used for his lectures on domestic economy in the University of
  Kansas, and made of it a practical class textbook.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 204. S. 6, ’06. 150w.

  Reviewed by Ellen H. Richards.

         =Science=, n.s. 24: 338. S. 14, ’06. 900w.

  “The field covered by the work is so very great that it is hardly to
  be expected that thoroughness can be attained in a book of 345 small
  pages. There are many things in the book which will interest the
  student reader, but he must remember that it is essentially
  elementary.”

     + − =Science=, n.s. 25: 419. Mr. 15, ’07. 290w.


* =Bailey, Elmer James.= Novels of George Meredith: a study. **$1.25.
Scribner.

                                                                7–34148.

  In five chapters Mr. Bailey deals with the development of Meredith’s
  genius, the best known characters in his stories, and the analogies
  between his work and that of his predecessors.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Neither the style nor the matter is of a kind to inspire confidence.
  The new and interesting part of the book is a sketch of Meredith’s
  influence upon other novelists.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 492. N. 28, ’07. 200w.

  “The volume can be used as a companion to Trevelyan’s work on
  Meredith’s poetry and philosophy.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07 40w.


=Bailey, Liberty Hyde=, ed. Cyclopedia of American agriculture: a
popular survey of agricultural conditions, practices and ideals in the
United States and Canada. 4v. $5. Macmillan.

                                                                 7–8529.

  A work whose purpose is to sift the literature in which scientific
  farming finds expression and to “embody its most important and
  permanent results.” (N. Y. Times.)

  =v. 1.= Deals with “Farms.” Discusses agricultural regions, their
  soils, temperature; the selection, laying out and culture of farms;
  farm machinery irrigation, sanitation, etc.

  =v. 2.= Considers the subject of crops under three divisions: “the
  first deals with the plant in general, its life processes, its
  response to such stimuli as artificial light, weak poisons, and
  electricity, insects and diseases which harm it, plant breeding and
  introduction, the management of weeds, crop rotation and crop yields.
  Part second describes the manufacture of various crop products from
  pickles to denatured alcohol. The third section, which is a general
  discussion, alphabetically arranged, of American farm crops, fills the
  main portion of the volume.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A monumental work of interest to a much larger class than farmers
  only.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 117. My. ’07. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Is indispensable to public and reference libraries, and it should be
  extensively purchased for circulating and school libraries in the
  rural districts.”

   + + − =Nation.= 85: 380. O. 24, ’07. 1000w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

     + − =Nature.= 76: 315. Ag. 7, ’07. 310w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “A truly magnificent, coherent and exhaustive work.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 307. My. 11, ’07. 460w. (Review of v. 1.)

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 720. N. 9, ’07. 200w. (Review of v. 2.)


=Bailey, Temple. Judy.= †$1.50. Little.

                                                                7–30439.

  Two motherless girls of contrasting types are joint heroines in this
  story. One happy hearted girl who had been brought up on fresh air,
  simple food, sunshine and flowers teaches the other child, cloyed with
  things of life to the point of youthful ennui, a wholesome life
  lesson.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 30w.


=Bailey, William Bacon.= Modern social conditions. $3. Century.

                                                                6–34864.

  “The field covered by this volume is part of that treated in
  Mayo-Smith’s ‘Statistics and sociology.’ The first chapter is an
  elementary treatise on the history of statistics. The other chapters
  give statistical information in relation to sex, age, conjugal
  conditions, births, marriage, death and the growth of population.”—Am.
  J. Soc.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author has rendered a service to students by bringing up the
  figures as nearly as possible to date.” C. R. H.

       + =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 571. Ja. ’07. 90w.

  “Judged intrinsically the book not only justifies its appearance, but
  strongly commends itself to the use of every student of demography.
  The author’s style is simple, and the volume is crowded with
  information. In fact the data are often compelled to speak too largely
  for themselves. A stronger emphasis upon their interpretation and
  practical bearing would have heightened the interest of the book. On
  the other hand, the theoretical discussion avoids all irritating
  mathematical complexities.” George B. Mangold.

   + + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 473. N. ’06. 390w.

  “It is undoubtedly the most excellent compilation of more or less
  familiar population statistics that has been done by an American. Yet
  the question may be seriously raised as to the essential value of such
  treatises for the student of social conditions. Several sections are
  included in the treatise under consideration, which are abstruse and
  difficult, and ... the reader is not led up carefully to a full
  comprehension of those sections.” J. C.

     + − =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 641. D. ’06. 790w.

  “I am compelled to conclude that the book is not based upon the best
  authorities, that the authorities followed have not been used
  critically, and that it is not an adequate presentation of the present
  condition of American vital statistics.” Walter F. Wilcox.

     − − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 169. Mr. ’07. 2690w.

  “As a text for students, its most serious fault is the constant resort
  to an off-hand, ready-made explanation of every conceivable situation.
  Comments are too facile and correlations too readily assumed. The
  style of the book is loose in the extreme.” D. C. Wells.

     − + =Yale R.= 16: 95. My. ’07. 1050w.


=Baillie, James Black.= Outline of the idealistic construction of
experience. *$2.75. Macmillan.

                                                                7–11048.

  The general purpose of this volume “is to expound the essential
  principles of British Neo-Hegelianism in fairly systematic fashion and
  with reference to the present problems of philosophy.” (Philos. R.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book will not be found easy even by the trained student of
  philosophy, but we know no English work in which there has been a more
  successful effort to give clear and convincing meaning to those
  abstract phrases in which alone idealist doctrines can be expounded.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 406. Ap. 6. 400w.

  “Its debt to the ‘Phanomenologie des Geistes’ is so avowedly
  extensive, and yet its hold upon modern problems—psychological and
  epistemological, social and religious—is so vital, that the reader is
  hardly able to say whether the work is strongest as a fresh treatment
  of these problems or as an exposition of Hegel; the fact being that it
  is both things—the one because it is the other.” J. W. Scott.

   + + − =Hibbert J.= 5: 933. Jl. ’07. 2280w.

  “If his object is to make an effective appeal to common sense and the
  scientific mind, we are inclined to think that his method is not well
  chosen for the purpose. To render Hegel is one thing, to do the work
  of the great idealists ‘all over again’ is another. Each is
  sufficiently difficult by itself, and they would be best attempted
  independently; to combine the two in a single volume is almost to
  court disaster.”

     − + =Lond. Times.= 6: 67. Mr. 1, ’07. 1480w.

  “The book is as accurate, in nearly all essential respects, as it is
  dry and colorless; and it is really helpful in assisting one to think
  out again the idealistic problem and its solution. But it fails
  exactly where Mr. Haldane’s Gifford lectures (1902–4) were so
  preëminently successful,—in impressing the reader with the very
  important bearing of modern idealism upon the most recent problems of
  science and philosophy, as well as upon the more practical but not
  less perplexing, problems of modern life.” Ernest Albee.

     + − =Philos. R.= 16: 538. S. ’07. 2480w.

  “In this lucid volume the profound difficulties that underlie an
  idealistic theory of experience are analyzed with great elaboration,
  and the idealistic position placed in a new and more helpful
  environment.”

       + =Spec.= 98: sup. 649. Ap. 27, ’07. 700w.


=Baily, J. T. Herbert.= Emma, Lady Hamilton; a biographical essay with a
catalogue of her published portraits. *$3.50. Stokes.

  A record of Lady Hamilton, the prominence of whose pictorial phase but
  emphasizes the avenue thru which she made so many conquests, namely,
  her beauty. The text serves only as a setting for the pictures.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Baily’s narrative, short and readable, is apologetic and even
  warmly eulogistic in tone, and may well be supplemented and corrected
  by some less favorable presentation of the famous courtesan.” Percy F.
  Bicknell.

     + − =Dial.= 41: 386. D. 1, ’06. 300w.

  “Although the book is not an authoritative life or a critical essay on
  her portraiture, it is quite the best pictorial record.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 463. N. 29, ’06. 180w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 113. Ja. ’07. 40w.


=Baker, Cornelia.= Court jester; with il. by Margaret E. Webb and
Margaret H. Deveneau. †$1.25. Bobbs.

                                                                6–28221.

  The story of the journey of the Princess Marguerite to Spain to become
  the wife of the son of Ferdinand and Isabella.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Well-told and interesting but too drawn out to hold the average
  child’s attention throughout.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 206. N. ’07.

  “A book well worth while. The publishers are to be congratulated on
  this successful collaboration.”

     + + =Bookm.= 24: 529. Ja. ’07. 70w.

  “A well-written historical novel for children. The illustrations ...
  are excellent in portrayal of character and costume.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 851. D. 8, ’06. 130w.


=Baker, Ernest A.= History in fiction. 2v. *$1.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–29857.

  An enlargement of an earlier work, “Guide to the best fiction.” It is
  classified, arranged and indexed for the convenience of the student.
  “Its two small volumes deal, the first with English historical
  fiction, the second with American and foreign subjects.... The general
  arrangement is chronological under the various countries, but a novel
  and acceptable feature is that, wherever possible, there is added, in
  the fashion of a foot-note, information about fiction actually written
  in the time treated by the books in the regular text.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 157. O. ’07. S.

  “These two volumes are the result of an enormous amount of labor well
  expended. The brief notes appended by Mr. Baker to the titles of the
  books he enumerates are generally informing, and occasionally not
  without a touch of humour.” A. Schade van Westrum.

     + + =Bookm.= 26: 82. S. ’07. 790w.

  “So far as we have tested the accuracy and inclusiveness of the work,
  it seems capital, and a special word of praise should be given for the
  index.”

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 792. Ag. 10, ’07. 310w.

  “Very carefully compiled catalogue.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 27. Jl. 6, ’07. 50w.


=Baker, Etta Anthony.= Youngsters of Centerville. il. †$1.50. Holt.

                                                                7–30441.

  Stories for children which deal with real boys and girls, their games,
  their pranks, their school and their faith in each other. There is
  wholesome patriotic sentiment in the doings of these youngsters, the
  sort that any school boy may profit by.


=Baker, George Pierce.= Development of Shakespeare as a dramatist.
*$1.75. Macmillan.

                                                                7–22387.

  A comprehensive modern analysis of Shakespeare’s growth as a
  playwright. Comprehensive, inasmuch as it omits no step of the great
  dramatist’s development, and modern “in the generous citations from
  the most recent critics of the drama in England, France, and America;
  in the omission of the well-known facts of Shakespeare’s life, and the
  disregard of the familiar quibbles over the text.” (N. Y. Times.) “The
  illustrations constitute a valuable feature of the book. They embrace
  the most authentic maps of Elizabethan London, all illustrations that
  throw light on the construction of the Elizabethan stage, and many
  other things that help us to an understanding of the drama of the
  period.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 158. O. ’07. S.

  “The book may well be read in conjunction with Professor Raleigh’s, as
  supplying precisely the information which is lacking in that.” Edward
  Fuller.

     + + =Bookm.= 26: 156. O. ’07. 970w.

  “The book throws more light on Shakespeare’s intellectual and artistic
  development than many others written with less regard for external
  conditions and for the part other playwrights played in preparing the
  way for Shakespeare.”

     + + =Dial.= 43: 213. O. 1, ’07. 390w.

  “There are certain points in Professor Baker’s study that one is
  tempted to disagree with; but on the whole his book is extremely
  valuable because of the sound common sense of his attitude toward the
  playwright and his work.” Walter Clayton.

   + + − =Forum.= 39: 259. O. ’07. 1060w.

  “We wish to recommend the general sanity of Professor Baker’s work and
  his thorough sympathy with his author.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 149. Ag. 15, ’07. 980w.

  “The enthusiastic analyst gets the better of that poetic sense so
  desirable in the Shakespearean critic. Excepting this limitation,
  however, the viewpoint of the book is wholly admirable, and a lover of
  the poet’s plays cannot fail to extract from it both profit and
  inspiration.”

   + + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 513. Ag. 24, ’07. 1180w.

  “His conclusions may seem radical to readers who are not familiar with
  the more recent discussions; but they are in accord substantially with
  those held by nearly all later investigators.” Brander Matthews.

     + + =No. Am.= 186: 281. O. ’07. 1140w.

  “This study ... is full of light and leading in the confusion of
  uneducated opinion.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 331. O. 19, ’07. 320w.

  “It is to be regarded as an exceptionally interesting and valuable
  addition to recent Shakespeare literature.” Wm. J. Rolfe.

     + + =Putnam’s.= 2: 728. S. ’07. 220w.


=Baker, James Hutchins.= American problems; essays and addresses.
**$1.20. Longmans.

                                                                 7–7477.

  In which American ideals are depicted and problems of sociology and
  education discussed. “The main emphasis is laid on moral ideals, and
  on moral culture as ‘the corner-stone of all culture.’” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Professor Baker’s style is clear and pleasing, his large range of
  illustrations are aptly applied while the general tone of the work is
  vigorous and even inspiring.”

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 630. My. ’07. 270w.

         =Cath. World.= 85: 257. My. ’07. 90w.

  “The author firmly believes that the world is growing better on the
  whole, and sets forth his belief in an interesting if not strikingly
  original manner.” Max West.

       + =Dial.= 43: 122. S. 1, ’07. 170w.

         =Ind.= 62: 1092. My. 9, ’07. 90w.

  “The only distinction of the book is its style, which has a crispness
  and vigor that many readers, especially such as are neither thoughtful
  nor well read, will doubtless find attractive.”

     − + =Nation.= 84: 453. My. 16, ’07. 160w.

         =Outlook.= 85: 480. F. 23, ’07. 160w.

  Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.

     + − =Putnam’s.= 3: 229. N. ’07. 230w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 30w.

  “If it lacks style, it is also without pedantry—a virtue not to be
  despised in this day of the making of many books.” Edward C. Elliott.

     + − =School R.= 15: 473. Je. ’07. 950w.


=Baker, John Cordis=, ed. American country homes and their gardens;
introd. by Donn Barber. $5. Winston.

                                                                6–38345.

  “A folio of over two hundred pages, whose plates exhibit the best
  features of nearly fifty American country-places, scattered from Maine
  to California and from Massachusetts to North Carolina. The owners’
  and architects’ names are generally given, and a plan of the estate
  often supplements the pictures of its most attractive aspects. All of
  the houses are of the more pretentious kind of country-seat, such as
  ‘Blair Eyrie’ at Bar Harbor and ‘Biltmore’ at Asheville; but they are
  artistic rather than showy, and prospective builders may get many
  hints from the book, even though they may be working on a much smaller
  and less ambitious scale.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Donn Barber packs into three pages a tremendous amount of
  information about the status and development of American architecture
  and landscape gardening, and puts the reader in the way of
  appreciating and profiting by the pictures.”

       + =Dial.= 41: 396. D. 1, ’06. 200w.

       + =Ind.= 61: 1405. D. 22, ’06. 130w.


=Baker, Louise R.= Bettie Porter, boardwalk committee. †$1.50. Jacobs.

                                                                7–27611.

  A wholesome story for girls which tells of the enterprise of a group
  of girls in a country town who undertake the building of a board walk.
  It contains a lesson for the easily discouraged.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is a little out of the ordinary run of stories.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 80w.


=Baldwin, James Mark.= Mental development in the child and the race:
methods and processes, with figs. and diagrams. 3d ed. *$2.25.
Macmillan.

                                                                6–44351.

  Third edition with improvements and enlargements.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Professor Baldwin’s book deserves high commendation even though one
  cannot agree in all details with the particular theory of mental
  development which he sets forth. The book gathers together a wealth of
  data regarding mental development, and is so well grounded upon
  biological facts and principles that one who is not a specialist in
  genetic psychology hesitates to criticise it. Nevertheless, the
  particular theory of mental development which Professor Baldwin
  champions—the imitation theory—seems to the writer decidedly weak at
  certain points.” Charles A. Ellwood.

     + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 651. My. ’07. 1000w.

       + =Dial.= 42: 83. F. 1, ’07. 260w.

         =Ind.= 62: 741. Mr. 28, ’07. 40w.

  “One thing that impresses the reader most favorably, apart from the
  obviously astute observation of the author, is his personal attitude
  of interest and appreciation. Analytic though his study of children
  must be, it contains a notable trait of appreciative humanity.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 38. Ja. 19, ’07. 260w.

  “As a book of genesis, biological and psychological, the present work
  is of distinctive and permanent value.”

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 320w.


=Baldwin, James Mark.= Social and ethical interpretations in mental
development: a study on social psychology. *$2.60. Macmillan.

  “The whole argument of Professor Baldwin’s book is that society is a
  product of self-consciousness; that it depends in all phases of its
  evolution upon the development of the self-thought. Accordingly, he
  finds the matter of social organization to be thoughts; and he denies
  that animal associations constitute true societies, since animals do
  not possess self-consciousness.”—Am. J. Soc.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In spite of all criticisms, however, Professor Baldwin’s book is an
  invaluable one to every student of sociology, and it remains, up to
  the present, the only systematic attempt in the English language to
  apply modern genetic and functional psychology to the interpretation
  of social organization and evolution.” Charles A. Ellwood.

     + − =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 281. S. ’07. 530w.

  “It is a book for students, and should be approached in a purely
  studious spirit, as the matter will require gradual assimilation and
  cannot well be hastily scanned.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 306. My. 11, ’07. 580w.


=Baldwin, James Mark.= Thought and things: a study of the development
and meaning of thought or genetic logic. 3v. v. I. *$2.75. Macmillan.

                                                                6–44293.

  The first volume treats of “Functional logic” or “Genetic theory of
  knowledge.” The author looks upon it as “an inductive, psychological,
  genetic research into the actual movement of the function of thought.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We opened this volume in the expectation of an intellectual treat; we
  close it with a feeling of disappointment.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 275. S. 7. 1790w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “It is a work of much learning and research, and of very considerable
  interest.” J. S. Mackenzie.

     + + =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 265. Ja. ’07. 150w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “I cannot see that anything is gained by [his] methodology; on the
  contrary, I think this method is largely responsible for an excessive
  complexity of details, a lack of simplicity, directness, clearness and
  thorough system in the handling of the subject-matter. The other
  embarrassment I have suffered in reading this book is due to the
  author’s terminology. I do not make these criticisms without having at
  the same time a very great willingness to record my fullest
  appreciation of a notable book, one that cannot fail to add to its
  author’s already splendid reputation, and one which will enlarge not a
  little our knowledge in a great field of science.” John E. Russell.

     + − =J. Philos.= 3: 712. D. 20, ’06. 1840w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “We will say at once that this is a most earnest, profound, laborious,
  systematic analysis of cognition, such as cannot fail to be of
  continual utility to students of psychology. But this does not mean
  that the work is fundamentally sound; for the imperfection that
  belongs to all human works necessarily appears in a philosophical
  doctrine in the form of error.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 203. F. 28, ’07. 1680w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The terminology of the book is not of the simplest but behind it one
  finds that the writer, has something true and important to say.”

   + + − =Nature.= 75: 2. N. 1, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Doubtless some of these perplexities represent, as usual, the
  reviewer’s ‘personal equation’ and some may disappear in the other
  volumes. At all events ... the significance of the aim, the standpoint
  and general method of the treatment, together with the suggestive
  special features mentioned and others unmentioned, make the work a
  notable one.” A. W. Moore.

   + + − =Psychol. Bull.= 4: 81. Mr. 16, ’07. 3750w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Seriously, we protest against the German and American tendency to
  turn divine philosophy into a jargon comprehensible only to an inner
  ring.”

       − =Sat. R.= 103: 658. My. 25, ’07. 370w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The methodological difficulties of the subject are unusually great
  and have been handled with a remarkable degree or success.” G. A.
  Tawney.

   + + − =Science=, n.s. 25: 177. F. 1, ’07. 1700w. (Review of v. 1.)


=Baldwin, May.= Peg’s adventures in Paris: a school tale. †$1.50.
Dutton.

  The adventures of a “high spirited, good-hearted, but much spoilt
  young lady” who “rides roughshod over the few rules and regulations of
  the particularly undisciplinary _pensionnat_ in which she is placed,
  and eventually finds herself in a French court of law.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Points of difference in matters social and educational are well
  brought out, but ‘Madame’ is considerably overdrawn, and careless
  revision has permitted numerous errors in French to pass.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 652. N. 24. 80w.

  “It is told in a sprightly manner, and the incidents follow so rapidly
  upon one another’s heels that a very lively interest is maintained
  through all its 400 pages.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 90w.

  “Tells of an almost fatiguingly sprightly young woman whose
  ‘adventures’ are stimulating but rather improbably thick upon the
  ground.”

     − + =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 130w.


=Balzac, Honore de.= Père Goriot; ed. with introd. and notes by R. L.
Sanderson. *80c. Heath.

                                                                7–15141.

  A student’s edition of Père Goriot uniform with Heath’s “Modern
  language series” and supplied with generous editorial material.


=Banks, Louis Albert.= Sinner and his friends. **$1.30. Funk.

                                                                7–23975.

  This volume of thirty evangelistic sermons represents Dr. Banks’
  mature thought characterized by force and unerring judgment.


=Barber, Edwin Atlee.= Salt glazed stoneware. (Primers of industrial
art, v. 2.) **90c. Doubleday.

                                                                7–19048.

  An authoritative treatment which “attempts to clear certain disputed
  points and correct some long-accepted traditions of ceramic writers
  which have been found to be erroneous. The characteristics of real
  salt glazed stoneware are briefly outlined and the origin of its
  manufacture related. The three divisions in the volume take up the
  stonewares of Germany and the low countries and other continental
  centres, the salt glazed wares of England—Fulham, Nottingham,
  Staffordshire, and Lambeth—and the stoneware of the United States.”—N.
  Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 191. N. ’07.

       + =Nation.= 85: 216. S. 5, ’07. 350w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 446. Jl. 13, ’07. 170w.


=Barber, Edwin Atlee.= Tin enamelled pottery: maiolica, delft, and other
stanniferous faience. (Art primer. Pennsylvania museum and school of
industrial art, Phila.) **90c. Doubleday.

                                                                7–18108.

  The first of a series designed to furnish in condensed form reliable
  information based on the latest discoveries relating to various
  industrial arts. In this first volume “descriptions are given of the
  maiolica of Italy, Spain, and Mexico; the delft wares of Holland and
  England, and the stanniferous faience of France, Germany, Hungary,
  Belgium, Denmark, and Sweden. The pottery of the United States also
  comes in for brief consideration. A list is added of marks on pottery
  that are most familiar. Preceding the index is a table giving the
  principal features of tin enameled pottery in the different countries
  named in the volume.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 192. N. ’07.

  “The latest handbook of pottery usually reflects in epitome the taste
  of collectors of thirty years ago—a defect, if it is such, from which
  Dr. Barber’s monographs are not free.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 215. S. 5, ’07. 760w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 446. Jl. 13, ’07. 210w.

  “An authoritative work; indeed, so far as we know, it is the first
  complete work on the subject.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 833. Ag. 17, ’07. 350w.


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

                                                                6–34684.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “While not so satisfactory as some of the earlier stories of school
  life by the same author, it is wholesome, fairly well written, and
  will certainly be liked by boys.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 19. Ja. ’07.

  “The best he has done.”

       + =Bookm.= 24: 528. Ja. ’07. 60w.


* =Barbour, Ralph Henry.= Holly: the romance of a southern girl. †$2.
Lippincott.

                                                                7–33207.

  A very pretty southern romance in which Holly Wayne, eighteen and a
  true daughter of the confederacy, is wooed by Robert Winthrop,
  thirty-eight and a northerner. The book is a holiday offering from its
  very name to its full-page colored illustrations and the blue and gold
  binding.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Being longer and more ambitious than his previous efforts, it is
  natural that it should not be quite so well finished. Nevertheless
  ‘Holly’ is a pretty story.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 380. D. 1, ’07. 160w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w.


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

                                                                6–34813.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

       + =Ind.= 62: 157. Ja. 17, ’07. 180w.

  “This is a commonplace little volume which strives to be idyllic. The
  story and the marginal photographs are equally inartistic and lacking
  in suggestive quality.”

       − =Outlook.= 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 20w.


* =Barbour, Ralph Henry.= Tom, Dick and Harriet. †$1.50. Century.

                                                                7–32158.

  The final syllable of the last name in this trio is responsible for
  the element of dignity which added to the rollicking abandon implied
  in “Tom, Dick and Harry” makes as wholesome a tale as any young reader
  could wish. Ferry Hill is once more the scene of schoolwork and play,
  and especially true to life is the account of a track meet between
  Ferry Hill and Hammond with a victory for the former which means the
  winning of a much needed endowment fund.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 70w.

  “The book is worth reading.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 110w.


=Barclay, Armiger.= King makers. †$1.50. Small.

  The kingmakers are certain financiers who, for business reasons,
  undertake to put a new king on the throne of Sergia, one of those
  misty European kingdoms at which Russia glowers and England looks
  askance. While this is being accomplished two pretty love stories are
  worked out and, the revolution safely over, an English girl is
  persuaded to ascend the throne with the young king, and his princess
  cousin is left free to marry the Irish officer she loves. But there is
  much fighting and intrigue and much chagrin for the kingmakers before
  all this is safely brought about.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “As long as invention can produce stories as good as this, we shall
  not greatly object to them on the score of being mere variants upon a
  well-worn theme.” Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 42: 379. Je. 16, ’07. 120w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.

  “The author of ‘The kingmakers’ has really written a battle which is
  worth while.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 70w.


=Barine, Arvede, pseud. (Mrs. Charles Vincens).= Life of Alfred de
Musset; done into English by Charles C. Hayden. Il. subs. Hill, E. C.

                                                                6–26201.

  “Arvède Barine’s little book shows a curious grasp of essentials in
  both biography and criticism. In the former she presents only that
  which influenced or found expression in the poet’s verse and prose; in
  the latter she preserves sufficient contemporary criticism which is
  essential in defining de Musset’s place today in French letters,
  rightly conjecturing that the future will still further qualify and
  reduce the essential fragments of to-day.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Creditable English version. Mr. Barine had access to intimate
  sources, and his work is marked by literary finish and sympathetic
  insight into the extraordinary epoch of French romanticism.”

       + =Lit. D.= 33: 473. O. 6, ’06. 450w.

  “The account of the liaison with George Sand, on which his life turns
  and which might prove an attraction for the desultory reader, is
  anything but satisfactory from any point of view. Nor is the
  translation itself, though well enough in general, such a masterpiece
  of English as to merit a setting quite so luxurious.”

     − + =Nation.= 83: 330. O. 18, ’06. 300w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 85. F. 9, ’07. 580w.


=Barine, Arvede, pseud. (Mrs. Charles Vincens).= Princesses and court
ladies; authorized Eng. version. **$3. Putnam.

                                                                6–45155.

  The third of the author’s series on the lives of royalties translated
  from the French. The five women who are sketched here and who played
  parts in the history of Europe are Marie Mancini, niece of Cardinal
  Mazarin; Christina of Sweden; the Duchess of Maine, granddaughter of
  Le Grand Condé; the Margravine of Bayreuth, Frederick the Great’s
  sister; and “An Arab princess.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is unfortunately only one more instance of the poor standard of
  translation now prevalent.”

     − + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 288. Mr. 9. 420w.

  “Writes in a popular style that does not obtrude its background of
  scholarship, but nevertheless depends upon it to avoid any suspicion
  of cheapness or superficiality.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 116. F. 16, ’07. 210w.

       + =Ind.= 63: 341. Ag. 8, ’07. 120w.

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 25. Ja. 5, ’07. 220w.

       + =Nation.= 84: 314. Ap. 4, ’07. 560w.

  “The text is vivacious and sprightly, and is heightened by many
  interesting pictures.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 480. F. 23, ’07. 60w.

  “It is as vivid as a gypsy dance, as entertaining as a fairy tale.”
  Hildegarde Hawthorne.

       + =Putnam’s.= 2: 472. Jl. ’07. 670w.

  “The chapter on ‘An Arab princess’ ... is as interesting a piece of
  biography as we have seen for some time.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 254. F. ’07. 70w.

  “A very attractive style which, we are glad to say, is adequately
  represented in the translation.”

       + =Spec.= 97: 221. F. 9, ’07. 220w.


=Barker, Ernest.= Political thought of Plato and Aristotle. $3.50.
Putnam.

                                                                7–15512.

  “Two most desirable qualities appear in Mr. Barker’s exposition—a just
  perception of parts as related to the whole, and insight into the
  spirit within the letter.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Barker is to be congratulated on having taken so broad a view of
  his subject.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 37. Jl. 13. 780w.

  “Mr. Barker’s book is not only particularly competent, but in every
  respect a masterly presentation of its subject. Mr. Barker’s book is
  much more than a contribution to an understanding of Greek political
  thought; it is an admirable text-book on political science, as well as
  an admirable popularization (in the best sense) of the best theory,
  both of ancient and modern.” Sydney Ball.

   + + + =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 517. Jl. ’07. 2220w.

  “A lucid, sane, and rightly proportioned presentation of the entire
  subject, scholarly but free from excess of erudition and extravagance
  of hypothesis, philosophical but not expressed in equivocal Hegelian
  verbosity or pseudo-scientific sociological terminology, apt and
  suggestive in the use of modern illustrations without strained and
  fantastic analogies.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 290. Mr. 28, ’07. 1810w.

  “Mr. Barker’s work is no mere translation, it is a masterly exposition
  of the two chief constructive thinkers of ancient civilization. The
  universities to which we look for future statesmen may be
  congratulated on the addition of this volume to their apparatus for
  political studies.”

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 139. Ja. 19, ’07. 860w.

  “As a whole is a satisfactory, truthful and interesting treatment of
  its subject, and should find readers wherever political science in its
  historical aspects receives attention.” Wm. A. Dunning.

   + + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 545. S. ’07. 1050w.

  “Mr. Barker has many of the qualifications for an excellent critic,
  but he does not possess the art of presenting a luminous running
  analysis. He has given generously of his deep study, and written a
  book that will be necessary to future students of Greek philosophy.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 591. My. 11, ’07. 1570w.

  “Illuminating volume.”

     + + =Spec.= 99: sup. 460. O. 5, ’07. 860w.


=Barker, J. Ellis.= Rise and decline of the Netherlands: a political and
economic history and a study in practical statesmanship. *$3.50. Dutton.

                                                                 7–6776.

  “It is a political pamphlet, in which the author makes use of material
  professedly furnished by the history of the Dutch republic for the
  purpose of a long invective against the evils of democratic and party
  government, and especially against the particular form of government
  which exists in Great Britain. Mr. Ellis Barker also writes
  undisguisedly as an advocate holding a brief on behalf of the
  necessity of Great Britain’s adoption of a strong imperialist and
  federal policy based on the maintenance of a powerful navy and
  army.”—Lond. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Barker’s book will itself divide men into two parties: tariff
  reformers will applaud its conclusions, whilst free traders will say
  that the colours are laid on thickly for the very party purpose which
  Mr. Barker denounces.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 57. Ja. 19, ’07. 920w.

  “The over-abundance of quotations, apt and inapt alike, are wearisome
  and weaken the argument which contains some wheat to a large
  proportion of chaff.”

     − + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 922. Jl. ’07. 420w.

  “By the historian it can be safely passed over. Even for the general
  reader of moderate historical training it will be of little value.”

       − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 150. Jl. ’07. 410w.

  “In style he certainly does not approach Motley, nor does he impress
  the reader with the feeling of a first-hand contact with the fresh
  sources of information opened up of recent years. But our chief
  objection is to having our history bent to the shape of a political
  tract. Considered as a history, the book is too evidently biassed not
  to inspire suspicion; as a political tract it is twenty times too
  long.”

       − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 757. Je. 22. 230w.

  “Mr. Barker’s style is bright and vivid. His references to authorities
  are numerous, and there is an excellent analytical index of thirty-six
  pages. The book is well worth reading by Americans interested in the
  study of national federation and state-rights.” William Elliot
  Griffis.

     + − =Dial.= 42: 250. Ap. 16, ’07. 1340w.

  “Despite his claim to originality and freshness many pages have an
  antiquated air. On the whole, a vigorous, suggestive book. Despite the
  author’s limitations, it provokes thought.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 913. Ap. 18, ’07. 320w.

  “With the aim that Mr. Ellis Barker sets before him it is possible to
  be in entire sympathy and at the same time to hold that his arguments
  are unsound and untrustworthy, because they are based on false
  premises and bad history. It is, in short, evident throughout this
  book that the author has failed to make himself acquainted with the
  intricate machinery of the Netherland system of government on which he
  dogmatizes.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 41. F. 8, ’07. 1970w.

  “From an artistic as well as from an historic point of view there are
  very grave defects in Mr. Barker’s volume. Petty inconsistencies in
  reasoning, repetitions of statement, and above all the over-abundance
  of citation, all combine to make it tiresome reading.”

       − =Nation.= 84: 437. My. 9, ’07. 700w.

  “Mr. Barker writes with the firmness and steady conviction of a man
  who is perfectly sure, in his own mind, of the ground he stands on,
  and his style is remarkably lucid, forceful, and incisive.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 319. My. 18, ’07. 1220w.

  “Although intended as a stirring appeal to the people of England, it
  is written throughout from the view-point of an uncompromising critic
  of popular government and all its ways.”

     − + =Outlook.= 86: 342. Je. 15, ’07. 530w.

  “One of the most fascinating bits of historical interpretation we have
  read for some time.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 507. My. ’07. 180w.

  “We are not concerned here to argue the merits or defects of Mr.
  Barker’s political and economic creed with reference to current
  controversies, but the wearisome reiteration of it in season and out
  of season in what professes to be a sober historical narrative is
  fatal to the very object that he himself desires.”

       − =Sat. R.= 103: 525. Ap. 27, ’07. 1480w.

  “The warmest devotee of Clio in her traditional garments must admit
  the writer’s thorough familiarity with the best literature of his
  subject, the high intellectual tone of his ideas and generalizations,
  and the polish of his epigrammatic style, reflections, and warnings
  that give many of his pages a verve and colour of which his great
  American predecessor [Motley] would not have been ashamed.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: 1010. Je. 29, ’07. 530w.


=Barksdale, Emily Woodson.= Stella Hope. $1.50. Neale.

                                                                7–20866.

  Stella Hope is early left an orphan and lives, like Cinderella, in the
  home of an austere aunt and her three daughters. To this house comes a
  wealthy invalid cousin and his companion, who after being snubbed as a
  paid assistant by the socially ambitious family, is discovered to be a
  cousin and joint-heir. A number of love stories combine to create the
  plot and bring to each character deserved reward or punishment.


=Barnes, Howard Turner.= Ice formation, with special reference to
anchor-ice and frazil. $3. Wiley.

                                                                6–37871.

  The book deals with the problems of physics which the ice-packs of the
  St. Lawrence give rise to. The ice-formations known as
  sheet-or-surface-ice, frazil-ice, and anchor-ice are discussed in
  relation to their mode of formation, general appearance, position they
  occupy in the river, and the effects they produce.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The subject-matter of Professor Barnes’ book is of unusual interest,
  and as a pioneer work of the author’s effort deserves the more
  consideration. That the arrangement of the matter and the progression
  of the argument are sometimes lacking in directness, and that at a few
  points the language is a bit awkward, is therefore of minor import. To
  our view a serious fault of the book is its total silence on the
  subject of trouble with ice at water-works intakes.”

   + + − =Engin. N.= 57: 90. Ja. 17, ’07. 1430w.

   + + − =Nature.= 75: 267. F. 17, ’07. 880w.


=Barnett, T. Ratcliffe.= Blessed ministry of childhood. *50c. West.
Meth. bk.

  The lessons that a little child can teach to “scholars of the heart
  rather than to the scholar of the head—to wayfaring men and women ...
  who look out upon life with wistful eyes, desiring to know God, to win
  goodness, and to learn patience amid the shadows.”


=Barr, Martin W.= King of Thomond. †$1.25. Turner, H. B.

                                                                7–14249.

  The pitiful tale of an insane patient’s life written by herself during
  her perfectly lucid moments. A joyless childhood, a lonely girlhood,
  and the speedy wrecking of the happiness that finally dawned for her,
  produce a wail on every page. It forms an intense human document.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A weird tale, apparently half in and half out of the region of
  reality. It is quite as fantastic and as full of creepy horrors as
  such a tale might be expected to be.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 502. Ag. 17, ’07. 140w.


=Barr, Robert (Luke Sharp, pseud.).= Rock in the Baltic. 50c. Authors
and newspapers assn.

                                                                6–16737.

  “The ‘rock’ is used as a prison by those supposed monsters of iniquity
  the Russian Grand Dukes, and there, in process of time, two
  enthusiastic seekers for trouble, one a young Englishman and the other
  a titled Russian, are incarcerated. Finally they are taken away on a
  yacht, on which two American girls are conveniently placed.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This is a commonplace book written in a commonplace way about
  commonplace people.”

       − =Acad.= 72: 274. Mr. 16, ’07. 110w.

  “It is not often that the elusive grace and humor of modern girlhood
  are so well reproduced as they are in these pages.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 436. Ap. 13. 230w.

  “Reads as if it had been written against time.”

       − =Ind.= 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 70w.


=Barrett, Howard.= Management of children. *$2. Dutton.

                                                                7–29143.

  “Treats of the physical care of infants and children, in both disease
  and health, from the time of birth into and past the early teens. All
  of the usual problems of food, drink, clothing, and sleep, the
  ordinary diseases, contagious and other, to which children are liable;
  accidents, malformations, and many possibilities of unusual disease
  are discussed in a plain, common sense, untechnical way for the
  enlightenment and guidance of those who have the immediate care of the
  young.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 904. D. 29, ’06. 260w.

  “We offer our hearty congratulations to Mr. Barrett, and we may add,
  to those for whom he writes.”

     + + =Spec.= 96: 912. Je. 9, ’06. 200w.


=Barrie, J. M.= Little minister. $1.25. Crowell.

  A thin paper edition with limp leather binding which contains a
  reproduced photograph of Maude Adams.


=Barrington, Emilie Isabel (Mrs. Russell Barrington).= Life, letters and
work of Frederic Leighton. 2v. *$10.50. Macmillan.

                                                                7–13427.

  “This work is said to have the approval of the family of the late
  President of the Royal Academy, and may be considered authoritative,
  if not official. A friendship existed between Frederick Leighton and
  the author for more than thirty years, and so the pages which deal
  with personal characteristics will be found peculiarly intimate....
  The book includes Leighton’s diary, covering a period of fifty years,
  and among the mass of interesting correspondence incorporated is to be
  found a number of letters from George Eliot, Ruskin, Browning, Henry
  Greville, and Charles Dickens. Besides many of Leighton’s finest works
  reproduced especially for this publication are several fac-simile
  drawings and paintings never before published.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Unsatisfactory as biography, these volumes are entirely valueless as
  criticism. Instead of disentangling the real merits of Leighton’s work
  from less admirable characteristics, Mrs. Barrington vaguely couples
  him with Phidias and the old masters, and urges claims so absurd as to
  tax severely the patience and perseverance of all educated readers.”

     − − =Acad.= 72: 91. Ja. 26, ’07. 1120w.

  “It is disfigured by one or two hasty figures of speech ... and the
  printer’s reader has been unusually neglectful of his duties. It is a
  pity to leave such blemishes on a book of sterling value,
  indispensable to all students of modern English life and art.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 140. F. 2. 860w.

  “Unfortunately Mrs. Barrington is not as skilful in arranging and
  adapting her material as she has been industrious in collecting it.”
  Edith Kellogg Dunton.

     − + =Dial.= 42: 309. My. 16, ’07. 1980w.

     + + =Int. Studio.= 30: 363. F. ’07. 500w.

  “Interesting as are many of Leighton’s letters, and multifarious as
  are the details with which the book is filled, the reader would have
  been able to gather a truer impression of Leighton, his development,
  his artistic character, and his work as an administrator if the
  biographer had been more rigorous in selecting and had been a better
  critic.”

     − + =Lond. Times.= 6: 61. F. 22, ’07. 1500w.

  “It cannot be called a worthy monument to its subject. Its author has
  little critical acumen or severity of taste; it is rambling and
  repetitious; padded with much matter of little interest as presented;
  marred by mistranslations of foreign tongues, misunderstanding of
  technical terms, faulty transcription of proper names, and careless
  proofreading.”

   − − + =Nation.= 84: 275. Mr. 21, ’07. 1510w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 812. D. 1, ’06. 190w.

  “On the whole the book disappoints one in the lack of letters from the
  interesting people Leighton knew. A more serious matter is the failure
  of the biographer to offer a plausible pen-portrait of Leighton, or
  even to allow him to describe himself.” Charles de Kay.

     − + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 57. F. 2, ’07. 2490w.

  “Small points and insignificant matters are grossly inflated, but the
  real issue is never faced. The flawless impeccable Leighton remains so
  to the last, though we are not told why he was, or, what is rather
  more important, why he was really not so.” Christian Brinton.

       − =Putnam’s.= 2: 125. Ap. ’07. 340w.


=Barron, Elwyn Alfred.= Marcel Levignet. †$1.50. Duffield.

                                                                6–36038.

  “A detective story laid in Paris and including all the elements needed
  for profound sensation. The author is skilled in keeping apparently
  tangled threads in his hands, and unties several hard knots with all
  the ease of a practiced novel writer.” (Outlook.) “The hero is a sort
  of modern Cyrano de Bergerac.... He is bon vivant, editor, amateur
  detective, student of life as it is lived. His kinship with Cyrano is
  sentimental.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A refreshing variant on the old detective story. To readers of a
  certain vein, in fact, ‘Marcel Levignet’ will furnish a particularly
  agreeable light evening’s pastime.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 764. N. 17, ’06. 500w.

  “The tone of the story is essentially French—sentiment, situation, and
  characters, and most especially the climax.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 679. N. 17, ’06. 60w.

  “As fantastic as the generality of detective stories, ‘Marcel
  Levignet’ differs from said generality in being readable by grown-up
  persons.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 126. Ja. ’07. 50w.


=Barry, Richard Hayes.= Events man; being an account of the adventures
of Stanley Washburn, American war correspondent. **$1.25. Moffat.

                                                                7–15132.

  In which Mr. Barry records some of Mr. Washburn’s adventures on a
  newspaper dispatch-boat between Corea and Port Arthur during the first
  part of the war between Russia and Japan.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The story is rich or tiresome in detail, according to taste, but is
  an exciting picture of conditions in war time on the water around Port
  Arthur.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 943. O. 17, ’07. 130w.

  “The book has evidently been written in a great hurry, not even time
  enough having been given to have the chapter headings all spelt
  correctly.”

     − + =Lit. D.= 35: 131. Jl. 27, ’07. 260w.

  “The author indulges himself in a diction so plentifully sprinkled
  with slang that it often becomes unintelligible to the reader
  accustomed to ordinary English. It is a story full of dogged
  perseverance and unbounded pluck, and it was well worth telling.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 299. My. 11, ’07. 500w.

  “On the whole the good ‘stuff’ ... far outweighs the bad. The story is
  a bit of real life; vivid, strong and picturesque. It remains to be
  recorded that the proof reading of the volume is unbelievably bad.”

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 257. Je. 1, ’07. 1830w.

  “Mr. Barry may always be counted upon for graphic power.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 765. Je. ’07. 60w.


=Bartholomew, John George=, ed. Atlas of the world’s commerce. *$8.
Scribner.

  A new series of maps, with descriptive text and diagrams showing
  products, imports, exports, commercial conditions, and economic
  statistics of the countries of the world, compiled from the latest
  official returns at the Edinburgh geographical institute.

                  *       *       *       *       *

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 42. F. 8, ’07. 170w.

  “So excellent is the idea, and so good the execution by devices of
  colorings and diagrams, that whoever wants information of this
  description can hardly be directed to a better source for
  satisfaction. This cordial recognition of the volume’s merits must be
  accompanied with regrets that the figures are some years old, and that
  all figures of this sort are incomplete and contradictory.”

   + + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 310w.


=Barton, Clara.= Story of my childhood. 50c. Baker.

                                                                7–35389.

  A simply told story of the childhood of Clara Barton, which is really
  written for the school children of the country after repeated appeals
  from them for bits of her early life.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 192. N. ’07. S.

  “Is as wonderful as its writer: it is extremely interesting, and yet
  it hardly touches on those aptitudes and activities that all the world
  associates with her remarkable personality.”

     + + =Dial.= 43: 171. S. 16, ’07. 250w.

  “Will be found interesting to all persons who have followed her
  beneficent career.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 533. O. 12, ’07. 60w.


=Barton, George.= Mystery of Cleverly. 85c. Benziger.

                                                                7–19594.

  A story in which the example of the hero finally wins to a manly life
  a good-for-nothing son of an indulgent father.


=Barton, James Levi.= Missionary and his critics. **$1. Revell.

                                                                6–43768.

  In which the author has brought together a “large number of
  testimonies favorable to missions and missionaries from witnesses of
  competence and character.” (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Ind.= 62: 390. F. 14, ’07. 50w.

  “It deserves a place among the books of reference found in every
  well-furnished editorial library. It is not only an enlightening but a
  thoroughly interesting book, and greatly needed also.”

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 144. Ja. 19, ’07. 190w.

  “Rev. James L. Barton has admirably infused into readable form the
  opinion of different nationalities, particularly in the Orient, as to
  the worth of Christian missions.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 118. Ja. ’07. 70w.


=Barton, Mrs. Marion T.= Experiment in perfection. †$1.50. Doubleday.

                                                                7–11589.

  The story of a young woman “of great beauty, much intensity of
  character, and an unfortunate penchant for logic on all occasions, who
  starts out with the idea that all she needs to round out her life to
  perfection is one woman friend and one man friend, both, of course
  absolutely without the flaws to which human flesh is commonly heir.”
  Her perfection system has its vulnerable points, and is mutilated in
  part by an estrangement, an unfortunate love affair, and a second
  marriage.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “About the best that can be said for it is that its author possesses
  the story-telling instinct without the still more important possession
  of a story worth telling.”

     − + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 457. Jl. 20, ’07. 520w.

  “The working out of the story shows skill and insight, and the reader
  is always interested. But there is a repellant hardness in Persis, and
  certainly an improbability in the episode upon which the friendship
  between the girls hangs.”

     − + =Outlook.= 86: 339. Je. 15, ’07. 180w.


=Bashford, James Whitford.= China and Methodism. *35c. West. Meth. bk.

                                                                  7–524.

  A brief outline which will enable American Methodists to understand
  the problem which confronts them and to make preparation for a
  suitable participation in the centennial celebration of the founding
  of Protestant missions in China which will occur in Shanghai, April 25
  to May 6, 1907.


=Bashore, Harvey Brown.= Outlines of practical sanitation, for students,
physicians, and sanitarians. *$1.25. Wiley.

                                                                6–33610.

  Improved sanitation with regard to habitations; water, milk and food
  supplies; the collection and disposal of waste; schools and cars.
  There are chapters on vital statistics, municipal, rural and suburban
  sanitation, and personal hygiene.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Clear, convincing, and simple; but, covering as it does so wide a
  range of subjects in 198 pages, is of course, only suggestive.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 5. Ja. ’07.

  “Within the limits indicated by its sub-title, this is one of the best
  and most practical books on sanitation that has ever come to our
  attention. Perhaps it is surprising that in attempting to cover so
  wide a range of subjects in a popular manner, more slips and
  questionable statements were not made.”

   + + − =Engin. N.= 56: 417. O. 18, ’06. 260w.

  “The book should be found useful as a means of imparting sound ideas
  of the laws of healthy living to teachers and citizens.”

       + =Nature.= 76: 125. Je. 6, ’07. 100w.


=Baskerville, Beatrice C.= Polish Jew: his social and economic value.
*$2.50. Macmillan.

                                                                7–15500.

  Eight years’ residence and study in Poland lie back of Miss
  Baskerville’s presentation of the Jew of that country. She throws
  light upon the Polish Jew immigrant by revealing the conditions of his
  native economic and social environment.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author is very frankly unfavorably impressed by the Jews, and,
  although it is to be hoped she has exaggerated the dark side of the
  situation, her volume is of great importance. The style is good and
  the thought clear.”

   + + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 204. Ja. ’07. 500w.

  “Such a book as this deserves a hearty welcome, and for valuable
  matter contributed on Poland—a country very little known—it may be
  classed with that of Dr. George Brandes, which appeared a short time
  ago.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 95. Jl. 27. 870w.

  “Would have enhanced value if the author ... would have shown more
  sympathy with the population she describes.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 212. Ja. 24, ’07. 290w.

  “It is so obvious that she knows a great deal that we cannot help
  regretting a certain lack of clearness in the impression which her
  book produces. It would almost seem as though Miss Baskerville had
  unconsciously written rather for a Polish than for an English public.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 359. O. 26, ’06. 880w.

  “The substantial truth is there, but it is truth without sympathy, and
  with much distortion. By itself the volume would be open to severe
  censure on the point; but as a study of the restless Hebrew energy
  that is so active in stirring Slav indifference and hesitation towards
  fruitful action, it serves its purpose.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 501. My. 30, ’07. 680w.

  “What she has to say is, in the first place, interesting in itself. In
  the second place it can hardly fail to throw light upon some of the
  problems which immigration (too rapid for easy digestion by our own
  not too settled civilization) is fastening upon the United States.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 40. Ja. 19, ’07. 1190w.

  “Her immediate contact with the representatives of parties, as well as
  with actual facts and events in Poland, enables the writer to speak
  with authority.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 893. D. 8, ’06. 330w.

  “An elaborate, dispassionate study.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 111. Ja. ’07. 90w.

  “It has the very rare merit among its contemporaries of being
  impartial both from a Russian and a Jewish standpoint. From a
  political point of view, in connexion with the present struggle of
  revolutionary parties for power, the chapters on the strikes and the
  Bund contain facts little known outside Russia; facts particularly
  instructive for the serious and unprejudiced reader.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 103: 368. Mr. 23, ’07. 1000w.


=Bastian, Henry C.= Evolution of life. *$2.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–33603.

  “A detailed and somewhat belated statement of his side of the
  controversy over the spontaneous generation of life, which followed
  the publication, in 1872, of his book on ‘The Beginnings of
  life.’”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Ingenious and striking some of the new experiments cited certainly
  are; but it will be very difficult to find any biologist who will be
  convinced that they _demonstrate_ the truth of the conclusion drawn
  from them by Dr. Bastian.” Raymond Pearl.

       − =Dial.= 43: 210. O. 1, ’07. 210w.

         =Ind.= 63: 510. Ag. 29, ’07. 60w.

         =Lond. Times.= 6: 115. Ap. 12, ’07. 1140w.

  “With practically all the eminent bacteriologists of the world flatly
  denying such a postulate of spontaneous generation, we can only add,
  in deference to Dr. Bastian’s evident sincerity, that his experiments
  must be at fault in some way; there is some loop-hole unguarded.”

       − =Nation.= 85: 192. Ag. 29, ’07. 170w.

  “It is impossible not to admire the author’s strong desire to get at
  the truth, the courage of his convictions, and his incomparable good
  humour.” J. A. T.

     − + =Nature.= 76: 1. My. 2, ’07. 1070w.


=Batcheller, Mrs. Tryphosa Bates.= Glimpses of Italian court life: happy
days in Italia adorata. **$4.80. Doubleday.

                                                                6–41530.

  “Dedicated by permission to Queen Helena, this sumptuous book is a
  worthy record of an American woman’s visit to Italy, of her
  experiences in aristocratic social circles of Rome, and of her
  impressions of the natural and artistic wonders of the Peninsula. Her
  story is told in letters written to friends at home, a literary form
  well adapted to books of this kind, and giving opportunities for naïve
  description and impressions caught on the wing.”—Lit. D.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Current Literature.= 42: 162. F. ’07. 1500w.

  “The personal note is therefore strong, and the narrative is rambling,
  informal, and thoroughly readable.”

       + =Dial.= 41: 459. D. 16, ’06. 340w.

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 63. Ja. 12, ’07. 190w.

  “The book would have been improved by more careful editing.”

     + − =Nation.= 83: 512. D. 13, ’06. 650w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 190w.

  “Of special interest and value are her comments on and appraisement of
  the various vocal teachers in the eternal city.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 24. Ja. 12, ’07. 690w.

  “The personal tone is so strenuously evident throughout that it
  becomes wearisome. The book is ingenuously written.”

       − =Outlook.= 85: 95. Ja. 12, ’07. 290w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 112. Ja. ’07. 80w.


=Bates, Arlo.= Talks on teaching literature **$1.30. Houghton.

                                                                6–37886.

  “Talks founded on lectures delivered before the Summer school of the
  University of Illinois in 1905. Concerns the problems, conditions, and
  some difficulties of the subject, the inspirational use of literature,
  the study of prose and of the novel, criticism, literary workmanship,
  literary biography, and voluntary reading.”—A. L. A. Bkl.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 6. Ja. ’07.

  “It is a very interesting and suggestive book, and we particularly
  recommend to the teachers into whose hands it falls the chapter which
  tells how Blake’s ‘Tiger’ was brought by the author within the
  comprehension of a boy of eight. We have rarely seen as sensible a
  book upon the subject with which it deals.”

     + + =Dial.= 42: 149. Mr. 1, ’07. 90w.

  “The suggestions and criticisms contained in this volume will be found
  extremely helpful to school and college teachers of English subjects.”

     + + =Educ. R.= 34: 105. Je. ’07. 60w.

  “The virtue of Professor Bates is that his remarks and experiences are
  always copious and illuminating. As such, the book should be read by
  every teacher, if for no other reason than the fresh and invigorating
  common-sense with which Prof. Bates approaches his subject. It is not
  an easy book, however. Occasionally Prof. Bates’s earnestness leads
  him to fall into a mild fremescence of style not good for clearness.
  But mainly the book is excellent.” William T. Brewster.

   + + − =Forum.= 38: 389. Ja. ’07. 860w.

  “The points about which those in the main agreeing with Professor
  Bates are most likely to feel a little dissatisfied with the book are
  his suggestion that vocabulary be studied independent of context, and
  his failure to recognize in his discussion, though he doubtless
  recognizes in his own mind, the difference between the psychology of
  the adolescent and that of the child.” William Morse Cole.

   + + − =School R.= 15: 236. Mr. ’07. 950w.


=Bates, Carroll Lund.= The Master; a rosary of Christian verse, il. $1.
Badger, R. G.

                                                                 7–7479.

  Sixteen poems whose themes are drawn from incidents in the life of
  Christ.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Some fairly good and illustrated by well-chosen half-tones.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 147. Mr. 9, ’07. 20w.


=Bates, David Homer.= Lincoln in the telegraph office. **$2. Century.

                                                                7–32385.

  Mr. Bates was manager of the War department telegraph office from 1861
  to 1866. This book is one of reminiscences in which Lincoln plays an
  important part, being an almost daily visitor to the office where
  cipher despatches were sent and received during the war.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His account of happenings in the telegraph-office during the
  strenuous days of the war is Well ordered in arrangement and simply
  and naturally written.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 795. N. 23, ’07. 320w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 50w.

  “It cannot be said that Mr. Bates’s book of reminiscence is very
  important, but it is certainly fresh and original, and contains not a
  few incidents of Washington life and some stories about Lincoln
  himself which are decidedly worth preservation.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 499. N. 2, ’07. 170w.

  “Aside from the revelations that he makes of Lincoln’s relations with
  the military telegraph corps during war time, Mr. Bates imparts in his
  books a great deal of information concerning important military
  movements.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 754. D. ’07. 140w.


=Bates, Katharine Lee.= From Gretna Green to Land’s End: a literary
journey in England. **$2. Crowell.

                                                                7–32870.

  In which the author visits the Border, the Lake country and the heart
  of England and reviews, with many a fresh allusion, the connection
  which historic places have with tradition, story and song. The work is
  based upon wide reading and careful observation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A book that readers who look forward to a trip abroad will enjoy and
  that returned travellers will thoroughly appreciate.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 377. D. 1, ’07. 130w.

  “As she hurls herself through the length and breadth of England,
  easily making two moves to any other pilgrim’s one, she pours out a
  lively stream of fact and comment that keeps the reader amused and
  only too well instructed. The information, literary and historical, is
  thoroughly got up.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 420. N. 7, ’07. 180w.

  “She has a keen sense of the picturesque and the worth-while, and she
  knows well how to find color in what might appear but gray to others.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 617. N. 23, ’07. 130w.


=Battersby, Harry F. P.= Avenging hour. †$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                6–37929.

  A novel which involves an unusual treatment of a man’s seduction of
  the wife of another. “We follow the progress of this rapid lovemaking
  not only without disgust but with entire sympathy. The man and woman
  we feel are not mad or bad but only intensely human—winning
  personalities of great charm. The author has managed to convey a sense
  of that intuitive power which in a flash makes people recognise their
  true affinities.” (Sat. R.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The teller of this story disguises its essential repulsiveness by a
  skillful use of the casuistry of sentiment and the grace of literary
  composition.” Wm. M. Payne.

     − + =Dial.= 42: 143. Mr. 1, ’07. 410w.

  “The book has many good points, but unfortunately they do not
  counteract its unpleasant features.”

     − + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 787. N. 24, ’06. 250w.

  “Mr. Battersby has done a daring and remarkable thing and his book
  should place him high among contemporary novelists.”

       + =Sat. R.= 102: 553. N. 3, ’06. 440w.


=Baxter, William, jr.= Switchboards for power, light and railway
service, direct and alternating current, high and low tension. $1.50.
Derry-Collard co.

                                                                6–45714.

  “In the first third of the book the way in which switchboards are
  connected for single generator and multiple generator plants, and also
  for the three-wire system, is shown.... Somewhat over a third of the
  book following the matter just mentioned is devoted to switchboards in
  actual practice.... The remaining portion of the volume is devoted to
  switches, circuit breakers, and lightning arresters.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “With the exception of [three] omissions ... the book is an ideal one
  from a didactic standpoint.”

   + + − =Engin. N.= 57: 305. Mr. 14, ’07. 470w.


=Bayley, R. Child.= Complete photographer. $3.50. McClure.

                                                                7–35187.

  A guide to photography which deals thoroly with the science of
  photography from its earliest beginnings to its most recent
  developments and adaptations.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The completeness of his book, however, lies more in the fact that
  scarcely a single point is left untouched, than that any particular
  point is exhaustively treated; and in this respect the work,
  admittedly, does not challenge comparison with cheaper specialised
  brochures already on the market. Of many good pictures it would be
  invidious to mention a few; but it may safely be said that their
  praiseworthy selection and adequate printing will give the book a
  great value.”

   + + − =Acad.= 71: 634. D. 22, ’06. 520w.

  “The book is much in advance of most works in completeness and
  attractiveness.”

     + + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 94. Ap. ’07.

  “As an historical review of photography it seems to merit its title,
  the whole subject being treated with a great deal of method. For the
  beginner ‘Complete photographer’ should serve as a textbook, and he
  will do well to follow the author’s advice.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 699. D. 1. 350w.

  “There is hardly a difficulty which besets the practice of
  photography, on which valuable advice is not given in it.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 43. F. 8, ’07. 850w.

  “There are some opinions with which we do not agree. To those who know
  enough about photography to appreciate it, and there must be a very
  large number of persons so qualified, the volume will prove both
  entertaining and instructive.”

   + + − =Nature.= 75: 75. N. 22, ’06. 590w.

  “The book treats of the subject thoroughly and is of value to the
  beginner as well as the expert.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 811. D. 1, ’06. 180w.

  “The book is clearly written and the descriptions are easily followed,
  and not too technical, each particular subject being dealt with in a
  separate chapter in a most thorough and practical manner.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 102: 714. D. 8, ’06. 70w.

  “It is as an art that Mr. Bayley prefers to deal with his fascinating
  hobby, and his book should meet a widely felt want in this respect.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 1013. Je. 29, ’07. 270w.


=Beale, Harriet S. B.= Stories from the Old Testament for children. il.
$2. Duffield.

                                                                7–30462.

  A sure help to mothers and Sunday school teachers who wish to present
  Old Testament characters in an attractive light with nothing lacking
  of the historical and religious significance. The book is
  interestingly illustrated.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The Old Testament is practically retold in a way to interest
  children.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 40w.

  “For a book which might be kept in a household and referred to every
  other Sunday, the volume seems well compiled, though we think the
  author has unnecessarily preserved the phraseology of the Bible. We
  would suggest that since her narrative is in the language of today,
  the conversation should be also; it would then seem truer to the child
  reader.”

     + − =R. of Rs.= 36: 764. D. ’07. 90w.


=Beale, Joseph Henry, jr., and Wyman, Bruce.= Law of railroad rate
regulation, with special reference to American legislation. *$6. Nagel.

                                                                6–36405.

  “This is a legal treatise of twelve hundred pages. It contains the
  full text of the Interstate commerce act and decisions of both of the
  courts and of the commission under this act, as well as a discussion
  of the general principles of public service law and the primary
  obligations of these in public employments, particularly of carriers.
  In brief, it covers comprehensively the whole law, both common and
  statutory, with respect to railway rate regulation.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book appears to us a valuable addition to the editor’s library,
  and with its companion book of ‘Selected cases’ on the same general
  subject, to be well nigh indispensable to the lawyer who has to deal
  with this subject.”

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 719. Mr. 23, ’07. 150w.

  “The authors intrude some assertions not supported—and in some cases
  not supportable—by citations of authorities. But Professors Beale and
  Wyman have been wofully betrayed by him who compiled the index.
  Lawyers will be dismayed to find the text rendered so inaccessible.
  The impression left by the book is of hasty compilation and absence of
  just proportion.” Roberts Walker.

     − + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 333. Je. ’07. 1080w.


=Beard, Charles Austin.= Introduction to the English historians. *$1.60.
Macmillan.

                                                                6–37646.

  “In this book Mr. Beard tries to solve a problem very real to teachers
  of large history classes—the twofold problem of introducing each
  member of the class to a number of great authorities on special
  periods and topics at the same time, and of securing a critical
  examination of the materials in the class-room. His work differs from
  the well-known source-books in that it consists of excerpts from the
  secondary sources only: e. g., Maitland, Freeman, and Stubbs.
  Thirty-six authors are represented and a larger number of works. The
  difficulty of making a wise selection from abundant materials is
  recognized and fairly met. Each chapter is prefaced by a brief,
  explanatory statement concerning the citation, which is divided into
  sections with topical headings. These form a brief, clear analysis....
  A short bibliographical note concludes each chapter, and an index at
  the end of the volume gives easy access to the material.” (Am. Hist.
  R.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A collection of this kind is open to two serious objections: (1) the
  subject matter is in a sense ‘pre-digested’ ... (2) the personality of
  the author becomes blurred.” C. T. Wyckoff.

     + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 416. Ja. ’07. 460w.

  “An excellent reference book. Nothing else like it available at
  present.”

     + + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 94. Ap. ’07.

  “The usefulness of the volume should be considerable. The extracts are
  all well within the grasp of college students, and the larger number
  can be profitably used in secondary schools. To teachers the book will
  be of service as a guide in the selection of suitable matter for
  collateral reading, while for the many schools which lack access to
  good libraries the volume will be a real boon.” William MacDonald.

     + + =Educ. R.= 34: 101. Je. ’07. 680w.

  “Both from the pedagogical and the research points of view the volume
  deserves unqualified commendation. It is intelligently discriminating
  in its selections, liberal and mature in its comment, and in its
  arrangement it shows the results of thoro scholarship and fruitful
  classroom experience. It should save both teachers and students of
  English history a vast amount of labor and time.”

     + + =Ind.= 61: 1291. N. 29, ’06. 370w.

  “Even outside Mr. Beard’s own classroom it is an open question how far
  such a collection will find a following. We are inclined to think his
  selections somewhat severe for college freshmen.”

     + − =Nation.= 83: 438. N. 22, ’06. 120w.

  “The good effect of its use would probably overbalance any counter
  tendencies.”

   + + − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 897. D. 22, ’06. 420w.

  “Time alone can demonstrate the success of his experiment from the
  pedagogical point of view, but there can be no doubt as to the value.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 84: 1081. D. 29, ’06. 360w.


=Beard, Daniel Carter.= Field and forest handy book: new ideas for out
of doors. $2. Scribner.

                                                                6–40572.

  In furnishing to boys a year-around guide for equipping themselves for
  out-of-door pursuits Mr. Beard has drawn only upon his own outing
  experiences. “The book is not a ‘re-hash’ of old ‘stunts,’ but is full
  of brand-new things, cleverly arranged according to the seasons to
  which they are appropriate.” Some of the problems solved are: How to
  cross a stream on a log, How to make a bridge for swift waters, How to
  make a real hunter’s clothes and moccasins, and How to build a real
  log house.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The material is almost wholly new.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 19. Ja. ’07. ✠

  “It is simply indispensable to any wide-awake, _real_ boy.”

     + + =Bookm.= 24: 526. Ja. ’07. 80w.

  “There is nothing, from airships to flying birds, from boating to
  camping, from loghouse to snowhouse, that has escaped this born
  sportsman of our time.”

     + + =Ind.= 61: 1406. D. 22, ’06. 60w.

         =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 50w.

  “A treasure for all boys and not without its use for men.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 851. D. 8, ’06. 120w.

  “The boy or man who has heard the ‘call of the wild’ will do well to
  entrust himself to Mr. Beard’s guidance.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 762. D. ’06. 220w.


=Beard, Lina, and Beard, Adelia Belle.= Things worth doing and how to do
them. $2. Scribner.

                                                                6–40580.

  Clear directions accompanied by pen drawings are given for all manner
  of clever things at home. The book is designed for girls, and one part
  is devoted to things for parties, shows and entertainments, and the
  other to things for home, gift days and fairs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 19. Ja. ’07.

  “The ideas are novel and easy to make, for the authors are thoroughly
  practical and actually make the things they describe.”

       + =Bookm.= 24: 526. Ja. ’07. 80w.

       + =Ind.= 61: 1406. D. 22, ’06. 50w.

       + =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 70w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 772. N. 24, ’06. 110w.


=Beardsley, Rufus C.= Design and construction of hydroelectric plants;
including a special treatment of the design of dams. *$5. McGraw pub.

                                                                7–18823.

  “This work presents in a very thorough and practical manner the method
  of the design and construction of hydro-electric power plants, taking
  up in detail, in the order in which they are met by the practical
  engineer, most of those points which must be considered in designing
  or constructing a complete waterpower development. The purpose of the
  work seems to be to give to the designing engineer, in as short and as
  concise manner as possible the method in which the various problems
  are attacked, including under each topic most of the data and tables
  which he is required to use in connection therewith.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Altogether the book will be found to contain much of value to the
  student and to teachers and will be a valuable addition to the
  engineer’s reference library.” A. W. M.

     + + =Engin. N.= 58: 75. Jl. 18, ’07. 780w.


=Beare, John Isaac.= Greek theories of elementary cognition, from
Alcmæon to Aristotle. *$4.15. Oxford.

                                                                7–29076.

  “This volume deals with the various theories entertained in regard to
  the five senses, sensation in general, and lastly the Sensus Communis,
  and its method is under each head to give as consistent a view as
  possible of what was severally taught by Alcmaeon, Empedocles,
  Democritus, Anaxagoras, Diogenes of Appollonia, Plato, and
  Aristotle.”—Nature.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Beare’s scholarship is sound.”

   + + − =Nation.= 83: 121. Ag. 9, ’06. 660w.

  “The statement is very clear, the discussion of disputed points
  scholarly, the facts are well arranged, and the literature—to judge
  from the foot-notes and the list of books consulted—seems to have been
  thoroughly studied; although one misses a reference to one recent work
  on the ‘De anima’—that of Rodier, whose commentary, if not his
  translation, has been regarded by competent judges as indispensable.
  On every account this volume is to be commended to those interested in
  the development of theories of sense-perception.”

   + + − =Nature.= 75: 122. D. 6, ’06. 630w.

  “The present volume should be of the greatest service not only to
  Greek scholars, but to all psychologists who take an interest in the
  history of their science.” A. E. Taylor.

   + + − =Philos. R.= 16: 205. Mr. ’07. 1360w.

  “A learned and elaborate disquisition which will be welcome not only
  to students of ancient Greek psychology, but also to readers who
  desire to know what the Greek philosophers accomplished in this
  particular line of psychological investigation.”

     + + =Putnam’s.= 1: 252. N. ’06. 130w.


=Bearne, Mrs. Catherine.= Heroines of French society in the court,
revolution, empire and restoration. *$3. Dutton.

                                                                7–25682.

  “Contains sketches of the lives of four women: Madame Vigée Le Brun,
  La Marquise de Montagu, Madame Tallien, and Madame de Genlis. Scraps
  of contemporary history are interwoven; a number of photogravure
  portraits are scattered here and there; and the whole makes a fairly
  readable volume.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is one which deserves more attention than we can give it.”

       + =Acad.= 72: 495. My. 18, ’07. 210w.

         =Ind.= 63: 341. Ag. 8, ’07. 260w.

  “As an historical study the work has little value; as a group of
  biographical sketches it adds nothing to what has already been
  published in a much more useful and entertaining fashion.”

       − =Nation.= 84: 310. Ap. 4, ’07. 180w.

  “A chatty book, filled with anecdotes and incidents that illustrate
  the manners, morals, and ideas of the upper classes of France previous
  to and following the years of the revolution.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 165. Mr. 16, ’07. 460w.

  “Mrs. Bearne writes fluently, and opens here and there a door through
  which the lover of personal anecdote and gossip can get a glimpse of
  characteristic French court society.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 903. Ap. 20, ’07. 310w.

  “The volume is full of stirring pictures of the terror and moves with
  spirit.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.

       + =Putnam’s.= 2: 475. Jl. ’07. 140w.


* =Bearne, Rev. David.= Guild-boys’ play at Ridingdale. *85c. Benziger.

  More glimpses of Ridingdale boys and this time they try their skill as
  actors in Shakesperian rôles.


* =Bearne, Rev. David.= New boys at Ridingdale. *85c. Benziger.

  Another Ridingdale book whose events take place at a Catholic school
  for boys. Wholesome lessons are taught between the lines of fun and
  frolic.


=Bearne, David.= Ridingdale flower show; il. by T. Baines. 85c.
Benziger.

                                                                6–46345.

  A story of real live boys who “talk as boys and act as boys.”


=Bearne, David.= Witch of Ridingdale; il. by T. Baines. 85c. Benziger.

                                                                6–46344.

  A spiritual story for boys whose hero, Lance Ridingdale, has become a
  favorite among young readers.


=Beaumont, Francis, and Fletcher, John.= Works. Cambridge English
classics; text ed. by A. R. Waller, 10v. ea. *$1.50. Putnam.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =Nation.= 84: 242. Mr. 14, ’07. 90w. (Review of v. 4.)

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 111. F. 23, ’07. 1560w. (Review of v. 4.)


=Beazley, Charles Raymond.= Dawn of modern geography. 3v. ea. *$6.75.
Oxford.

  =v. 3.= A history of exploration and geographical science from the
  middle of the 13th to the early years of the 15th century (c. A. D.
  1260–1420). In it the author tells of the great inland-trade pioneers
  and of the daring challenge that they made for the “open door” in Hind
  and Cathay.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Beazley’s work is most timely. It is without doubt the best that
  has yet appeared on the subject. It is not only a work belonging to
  geographical literature, it has an important place in historical
  literature. Such a work serves well to impress the importance of
  historical geography, an importance which receives commendable
  recognition in the European countries, but which we in America are
  slow to appreciate.” E. L. Stevenson.

   + + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 869. Jl. ’07. 1300w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “The most interesting and easiest to master of the series.” G. Le
  Strange.

     + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 573. Jl. ’07. 1050w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “The form and arrangement of the book undoubtedly leaves something to
  be desired. After surmounting a long list of abbreviations and
  corrections, a very ill-knit preface, and an introduction which reads
  like an after-thought, the reader flounders heavily amid footnotes,
  supplementary notes, appendix notes, and bibliographical notes. The
  references are often rather bewildering, and one misses a capable
  summary at the close. One is easily reconciled to the lumbering of the
  wheels by the novelty of the outlook and the strange vision of these
  outlandish regions, so seldom penetrated by modern book.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 98. Mr. 29, ’07. 2860w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “In the completion of his great work Mr. Beazley has done and more
  than done for the middle ages what Bunbury did for ancient times in
  his ‘Ancient geography.’”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 330. O. 10, ’07. 750w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “A credit both to him and to his university.”

     + + =Nature.= 75: 343. F. 7, ’07. 2410w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “A work which will be the standard authority in English on a very
  important subject.” Cyrus C. Adams.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 281. My. 4, ’07. 2030w. (Review of v. 1–3.)


=Beck, Otto W.= Art principles in portrait photography, composition,
treatment of background, and the processes involved in manipulating the
plate. **$3. Baker.

                                                                7–19429.

  The “good straight photography” descended from Daguerre is elevated
  into the realm of art away out of the “lifeless groove” into which
  “commercialism has enslaved it.” “In the treatise before us. Mr. Beck
  has shown, by description and pictorial illustration, that if creative
  work is to enter into photography it must be possible to make on the
  negative a line of any character and to control the light and shade
  with the facility of one who paints. In fact, his illustrations show
  that those powerful resources of the graphic arts, light lines and
  dark lines, can be made on the negative as readily as on paper and
  canvas.” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 159. O. ’07.

  “The book is worthy of perusal by amateur as well as professional
  photographers.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 68. Ag. 1, ’07. 270w.

  “Mr. Beck’s ‘principles’ are generally very good, but we cannot say as
  much for his practice.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 241. S. 12, ’07. 380w.

  “Mr. Beck’s book is the work of a man who knows pictures for their
  full value.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 446. Jl. 13, ’07. 310w.


=Becke, Louis.= Adventures of a supercargo. †$1.50. Lippincott.

                                                                W 6–235.

  “Reminiscences of a happy-go-lucky wandering along quiet French
  byways.... The dog furnishes most entertaining diversion all along the
  way, but so does Jimmy Potter, with his sophomoric proclivities; Mrs.
  Basker, with her mania for ‘doing things cheaply’ at somebody else’s
  expense ... and a dozen other quaint and interesting personalities
  that stand out with remarkable distinctness, considering the highly
  unconventional mode of their introduction.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Delightfully humorous sketches. Fortunately Mr. Becke’s love of fun
  is tempered by discretion.”

       + =Int. Studio.= 31: 334. Je. ’07. 90w.

  “Doubtless there is little to be said for these casual and garrulous
  sketches, except that they are unusually readable.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 567. Je. 20, ’07. 250w.

  “Not the kind of book of which it is possible to give outlines or
  digests, since its very beauty and charm consist in its utter
  disregard of sequence or logic or of any substantial subject matter,
  but every chapter is a fresh delight to an appreciative mind, and the
  whole quite reconciles even Mr. Becke’s old acquaintances to his
  taking a ‘day off,’ as it were, from his bounden duty in regard to the
  South Seas.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 283. My. 4, ’07. 560w.


=Becke, Louis.= Settlers of Karossa Creek and other stories of
Australian bush life. il. †$1.50. Lippincott.

  Three stories of Australian bush life which reveal the evil in man, as
  old as Adam, pitted against refining integrity. Here are shown the
  crude beginnings of selectors, their trials and small victories as
  they battle with the avarice of men mightier than they.


=Beckwith, Clarence A.= Realities of Christian theology; an
interpretation of Christian experience. **$2. Houghton.

                                                                6–37867.

  An interpretation of Christian experience in the light of modern
  intelligence. “His object is to construct doctrines that are certainly
  vital and real from the facts of life to which the saints of the
  Christian ages bear testimony.” (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It will carry a ministry of mental peace and satisfaction to many
  earnest thinkers in this field. It is an interpretation of the
  Christian religion in terminology and thought-units that will be
  comprehensible to the student of the present generation. It is a book
  for the transition period in Christian theology.” Herbert Alden Youtz.

       + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 694. O. ’07. 1210w.

  Reviewed by George Hodges.

         =Atlan.= 99: 563. Ap. ’07. 300w.

  “The statement of the author in his preface, that there is universal
  agreement that, ‘whatever the differences of the past or present
  explanations of Christian belief; the Christian experience of to-day
  is essentially the same that it has been from the beginning,’ will
  hardly find so universal an assent as he supposes. Leaving this
  fundamental criticism of the method of the book, we may express our
  admiration of the vital way in which Professor Beckwith, with genuine
  historical sympathy, has penetrated beneath the formal elements of
  doctrine and has discovered the essential reality of the great
  spiritual issues with which theology deals.” Gerald Birney Smith.

     + − =Bib. World.= 30: 300. O. ’07. 630w.

     + − =Ind.= 62: 98. Ja. 10, ’07. 110w.

  “The principal themes of the usual doctrinal systems appear in the
  discussion, but it can hardly be said that new light is thrown upon
  them.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 154. F. 14, ’07. 180w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 255. F. ’07. 70w.


=Beddoes, Thomas Lovell.= Poems; ed. with an introd., by Ramsay Colles.
(Muses’ lib.) *40c. Dutton.

  “This single and handy volume of Beddoes’ poems contains all his
  published poems, with the exception of ten, which may be found in the
  standard two-volume edition of Edmund Gosse. It is not conceivable
  that Beddoes will ever be popular, yet there will always be a few who
  will savor the peculiar mingling of the gruesome and the beautiful
  that runs thru his dramas, and who will not be deterred by his
  incoherence. His most famous play, ‘Death’s jest book,’ is best
  described as a mixture of Webster and John Ford, mitigated by ‘Festus’
  Bailey.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Since Dr. Gosse’s edition is not to be had by all, we offer a hearty
  welcome to the little reprint before us. May it sell far and wide, and
  bring Beddoes many new admirers.”

       + =Acad.= 72: 360. Ap. 13, ’07. 1780w.

  “Mr. Colles’s introduction, though rather carelessly written, gives a
  good many interesting facts about his obscure life, and he has been at
  considerable pains to produce a correct text.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 209. Jl. 5, ’07. 2160w.

         =Nation.= 84: 360. Ap. 18, ’07. 120w.

       + =Sat. R.= 104: 334. S. 14, ’07. 680w.


=Beebe, C. William.= Bird: its form and function. **$3.50. Holt.

                                                                6–37592.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “But not only is this volume crowded with new and interesting facts:
  it is also profusely illustrated, and most of these illustrations are
  extremely good.” W. P. Pycraft.

     + + =Acad.= 72: 431. My. 4, ’07. 1050w.

  “Written in so interesting a style as to be enjoyed by the general
  reader as well as by the specialist.”

     + + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 6. Ja. ’07.

  “Each chapter is the work of the born lecturer, holding the attention
  of his audience from beginning to end, suggesting here, illustrating
  there, and always stimulating the appetite for further investigation.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 293. Mr. 9. 1700w.

  “Of substantial merit and permanent value for every lover and student
  of denizens of the air.”

     + + =Dial.= 42: 19. Ja. 1, ’07. 370w.

  “Mr. Beebe’s style is in itself pictorial: but in clothing his facts
  with ‘living interest,’ as he says in his preface, he occasionally
  passes the boundary line between warrantable deduction and pure fancy.
  Considering the wide field covered, actual errors are infrequent.”

   + + − =Nation.= 83: 566. D. 27, ’06. 850w.

  “The book will take and hold a distinct place in the literature of the
  subject for it is quite original and stands alone. His book is of
  worldwide interest.”

     + + =Nature.= 76: 489. S. 12, ’07. 820w.

  “Side by side with a perfection of scientific detail, Mr. Beebe fans
  to a vital flame an exquisite appreciation of the ethical value of
  bird life.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 236. Ap. 13, ’07. 730w.

  “It thus covers ground that has been but little worked. Here and there
  slips occur. The book abounds in information and represents a large
  amount of original work.” F. A. L.

   + + − =Science=, n.s. 25: 142. Ja. 25, ’07. 920w.

  “It is with real satisfaction that we recommend a book which is
  thoroughly popular, very suitable for youthful naturalists, and at the
  same time scientific.”

     + + =Spec.= 98: 1035. Je. 29, ’07. 530w.


=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.

                                                                6–41017.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “This is one of the best nature-books we have had from America.”

     + + =Acad.= 72: 118. F. 2, ’07. 210w.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 38. F. ’07.

  “He has imagination and a keen sense of extracting the artistic from
  matters of fact, but he never allows these accomplishments to distort
  the truth.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 19. Ja. 12, ’07. 880w.

     + + =R. of Rs.= 35: 116. Ja. ’07. 170w.

  “This is a beautiful book, and good to read.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 96. Ja. 19, ’07. 200w.


=Beeching, Rev. Henry Charles, and Nairne, Alexander.= Bible doctrine of
atonement. *$1. Dutton.

  These six lectures, five of them by Dr. Beeching, were given in
  Westminster abbey. Three of them trace the idea of atonement as it
  appears in the Old Testament, and three treat the New Testament
  aspects of the subject.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “All [lectures] are interesting and easily read. Prof. Nairne’s
  lecture is a valuable piece of exposition, but is not such easy
  reading as the rest of the volume.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 382. My. 30. 160w.

  “The treatment is popular, but in touch with the results of modern
  investigation.”

       + =Bib. World.= 30: 239. S. ’07. 40w.

  “When we get to what he rightly calls ‘the very centre of the
  subject’ ... we have a feeling of disappointment, a feeling that after
  all Dr. Beeching has failed to take us to the centre. We believe Dr.
  Beeching to be true and correct so far as he goes, but we believe that
  he has not gone far enough or deep enough; he has given us but part of
  the doctrine of the atonement.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 104: 460. O. 12, ’07. 360w.

  “A short book upon the atonement which shall be at the same time
  learned and popular, will, we are sure, be eagerly read by many
  persons whose views in regard to this difficult doctrine have become
  unsettled as a result of recent criticism. Such a book lies before us
  at the present moment.”

       + =Spec.= 99: sup. 645. N. 2, ’07. 210w.


=Beer, George Louis.= British colonial policy, 1854–1865. **$2.
Macmillan.

                                                                7–30451.

  A work which in presenting the British colonial policy from 1754 to
  1765 covers the fundamental cause of the revolution. It is a work
  which “has not for its purpose the glorification of revolutionary
  patriots or motives, but which is content to view the facts of the
  period as facts.” (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We commend this book to persons who desire a fairer view of the
  ultimate causes of American independence.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 1061. O. 31, ’07. 310w.

       + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 570. N. ’07. 220w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 678. O. 26, ’07. 720w.

  “This is a book that Fourth of July orators will have to reckon with,
  sooner or later.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 748. N. 30, ’07. 100w.


=Beet, Joseph Agar.= Manual of theology. *$2.75. Armstrong.

  “Professor Beet’s ‘Manual of Christian theology’ expounds the views on
  the intermediate state which brought him into difficulty with the
  English Methodists some years ago, but otherwise it follows well-worn
  paths to conclusions which are now familiar and trite.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Dr. Agar Beet’s is, no doubt, a good specimen of its class, but its
  main result is only to afford one more proof, if such were needed, of
  the futility of this kind of literature.”

     − + =Acad.= 73: 278. Mr. 16, ’07. 290w.

  “The value of Dr. Beet’s work—and it has considerable value—lies in
  its minute knowledge and skilful use of the words of the Biblical
  writers, and in the systematizing of the thoughts he finds in those
  words.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 438. Ap. 13. 500w.

  “The religious tone of the treatise prevents it from being a dry
  compendium of proof-texts. But one who has accepted the historical
  method of studying the Bible will be unable to use the book for
  anything more than an expression of Dr. Beet’s own convictions.”
  Gerald Birney Smith.

     + − =Bib. World.= 30: 77. Jl. ’07. 430w.

         =Ind.= 62: 98. Ja. 10, ’07. 40w.

     + − =Nation.= 84: 176. F. 21, ’07. 200w.

         =Outlook.= 84: 892. D. 8, ’06. 320w.

  “We cannot follow his expositions, but we may say that they are
  characterised by lucidity and moderation.”

       + =Spec.= 97: 686. N. 3, ’06. 70w.


=Begbie, Harold.= Penalty. †$1.50. Dodd.

                                                                7–14251.

  A story whose plot rests upon a woman’s determination to have a
  certain bishop reinstate her in English society. By means of the theft
  and later the loss of a certain book, she planned to show to the world
  that this bishop now aspiring to the archbishopric of Canterbury
  formerly belonged to a secret order that was proselyting for the Roman
  Catholic church. “There results a comedy of errors which in the end
  very narrowly escapes becoming a tragedy.” (Bookm.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A novel of unquestionable cleverness.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 613. N. 17. 220w.

  “The welcome feature ... is a distinct originality of theme. Taken
  altogether, a very readable volume, full of veiled irony, and plainly
  written with a certain underlying seriousness of purpose.” Frederic
  Taber Cooper.

       + =Bookm.= 25: 286. My. ’07. 300w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 336. My. 25, ’07. 190w.

  “The dignity and serious tone of the book make it quite worth while.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 117. My. 18, ’07. 160w.


=Belcher, John.= Essentials in architecture: an analysis of the
principles and qualities to be looked for in buildings. *$2. Scribner.

  “Everybody who wishes to be able to distinguish between a good
  building and a bad, to recognize at a glance the best and worst points
  of the houses he passes in the street, is under a debt of deep
  gratitude to Mr. Belcher.” (Acad.) “Dividing the work into four main
  parts, entitled respectively principles, qualities, factors, and
  materials, Mr. Belcher discourses pleasantly on each, illustrating the
  points he makes by reference to well-known buildings.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Uncompromising in his denunciation of vital defects, Mr. Belcher is
  as broad-minded as he is sound in his judgments, and his book is
  remarkably free from whims, fads, and that irrelevant mass of fuss and
  metaphysics which Ruskin in later years detected in his ‘Seven
  lamps.’”

     + + =Acad.= 73: 769. Ag. 10, ’07. 1030w.

  “The interest of the book lies less in the correctness or otherwise of
  the principles formulated than in the intimate view of architecture
  presented, which is not that of the historian or the art critic, but
  one of the practising architect.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 277. S. 7. 370w.

  “Every line is pregnant with interest alike to the cultured general
  reader and to the professional student, whose attention is called to
  those first principles and ultimate ideals which he is apt to overlook
  in the maze of practical details.”

     + + =Int. Studio.= 32: 335. O. ’07. 190w.

  “One has only to regret the too obvious and every-day tone of the
  criticism. It is an odd fault to find with a book devoted to
  analysis—but one does really long for a little more subtlety, a little
  finer splitting of hairs, and here and there something unexpected.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 216. S. 5, ’07. 500w.

  “It is as to contents only a fair average specimen of a class of
  historical ‘rewrite’ (to use a newspaper term) of which there has been
  an oversupply of late.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 280w.


=Bell, Gertrude Lowthian.= Desert and the sown; a record of travel from
Jericho through the unfrequented parts of Syria to Antioch. *$5. Dutton.

                                                                7–35188.

  “The book describes the converse with all sorts of Syrians enjoyed by
  Miss Bell on a journey through the country east of Jordan to the
  Jebel-ed-Drûz, and thence, by Damascus, Homs, Hama, Aleppo, and
  Antioch, to the coast of Iskenderun.” (Ath.) “We get stories of
  shepherds and men-at-arms as they ‘passed from lip to lip round the
  camp fire, in the black tent of the Arab and the guest chamber of the
  Druze, as well as the more cautious utterance of Turkish and Syrian
  officials.’ She eschews politics, and points out that the wise
  traveller in Syria will avoid being drawn into the meshes of the
  Armenian question.... Much of her time was given to archaeological
  matters, but they are not her chief consideration in this book.” (Sat.
  R.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is not too high praise to say that the book before us is the most
  charming addition to the literature of travel that has been published
  for many years—we had almost said, and we think we should be justified
  in saying, for many decades.”

     + + =Acad.= 72: 210. Mr. 2, ’07. 2460w.

  “A most delightful account of travel in Syria in which the author
  shows a wide knowledge of desert lore and desert peoples, of
  archaeology and Asiatic politics, an unusual power of description,
  which, together with a keen sense of humor and fine dramatic touch,
  conveys the whole scene in a quite remarkable way.”

     + + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 95. Ap. ’07.

  “But after a searching criticism this book remains one of the best of
  its kind that we have ever read. A valuable map is appended, but,
  alas! there is no index.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 159. F. 9, 1540w.

  “The author has made a distinct contribution to the literature of
  travel, and has put her name far up on the list of women who have
  written good travel-books.” H. E. Coblentz.

     + + =Dial.= 42: 391. Je. 16, ’07. 670w.

  “One thing is wanting: Miss Bell has not sufficiently absorbed the
  medieval associations of Syria.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 28. Ja. 25, ’07. 2510w.

  “I cannot quote it all and unless all is quoted you have lost the
  better part.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 437. My. 9, ’07. 1020w.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 156. Mr. 16, ’07. 240w.

  “A book of unusual atmosphere and charm.”

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 75. My. 11, ’07. 530w.

  “A charmingly written, fully illustrated account.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 276. Mr. 2, ’07. 270w.

  “An enchanting example of travel literature. To her power of
  describing scenery and people, and of recording the living talk of men
  who, though they belong to the wilderness, have shrewd and capable
  brains, Miss Bell adds a wide knowledge of archaeology and a sound
  instinct for the politics of Asia.”

     + + =Spec.= 97: 253. F. 16, ’07. 3000w.


=Bell, John Keble (Keble Howard, pseud.).= The Smiths: a comedy without
a plot. †$1.50. McClure.

                                                                7–16483.

  “It is a simple, agreeable story of the lives of two affectionate and
  well-behaved people from the day when they come back from their
  wedding journey and begin housekeeping in a snug suburban cottage, to
  the time when they become grandparents.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Keble Howard has shown us again his keen insight into ordinary
  human nature and with his sympathetic touch has brought to the surface
  valuable jewels from unsuspected sources.”

       + =Acad.= 70: 140. F. 10, ’06. 320w.

       + =Ind.= 63: 343. Ag. 8, ’07. 190w.

  “The record of two honest young people who marry on a small income and
  lead the uninspired life of the solid British middle class, may be
  quite as tiresome in print as it appears in its suburban villa.”

       − =Nation.= 85: 188. Ag. 29, ’07. 170w.

  “Mr. Howard is not only in earnest, but he has also an old-fashioned,
  tender reverence which is refreshing at a time when that high quality
  has become somewhat rare. His people are fairly representative of the
  best members of that great, sterling middle class which at all periods
  has been the safeguard of English social life.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 337. My. 25, ’07. 450w.

  “We are warned that the Smiths are neither superior nor fashionable,
  but it would have been more kind to warn us that they are absolutely
  uninteresting. We object to the inference that superiority and fashion
  are required in order to be interesting.”

       − =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 60w.

  “Many a person who is genuinely depressed by the mere sight of a
  suburb from a train-window, and who would be utterly bored by half an
  hour’s companionship with the Smiths in real life, will find himself
  oddly interested in Mr. Howard’s little story, until he comes to the
  love affairs of Phyllis, when the conversations become tedious.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 101: 210. F. 17, ’06. 200w.

  “The story of ‘The Smiths of Surbiton’ is not told with any
  distinction of literary style or any subtlety in the analysis of the
  human heart. The want of literary artifice in the treatment makes it
  therefore obvious that the approval with which the book has been
  greeted is due solely to its subject.”

     − + =Spec.= 96: 226. F. 10, ’06. 460w.


=Bell, Lilian.= Why men remain bachelors, and other luxuries. **$1.25.
Lane.

                                                                6–38991.

  A group of half humorous half philosophical essays which deal with
  such subjects as The management of wives, The management of husbands,
  The luxury of being stupid, How men propose, The broken engagement,
  Modern mothers, etc.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 220w.

  “These very personal little essays are amusingly frank, and clever in
  a journalistic way, but they have none of that delicacy of form—and
  spirit—which pleases the artistic sense.”

     + − =Outlook.= 84: 1084. D. 29, ’06. 60w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 116. Ja. ’07. 30w.


=Bell, Malcolm.= Old pewter. (Newnes’ lib. of the applied arts.) *$2.50.
Scribner.

                                                                W 6–139.

  Contains little if any new information but deserves recognition on
  account of the numerous carefully chosen illustrations.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His various brief chapters show a considerable mastery of, and love
  for, his subject. One of the weak points of the letterpress is the
  ‘Useful books of reference,’ a list which occupies only a single page
  immediately before the index. The only works named in this
  insignificant list that deal with church pewter are wrongly cited.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 803. Je. 30. 550w.

       + =Int. Studio.= 30: 186. D. ’06. 60w.

  “Treats its subject very successfully.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 179. Mr. 24, ’06. 420w.


=Bell, Nancy R. E.= Historical outskirts of London. **$2. McClure.

  “Mrs. Bell conducts her readers on a tour of the places situated on
  the fringe of London, recalling the historic associations in which
  they abound and noting the changes they have undergone down to the
  present time when these once isolated hamlets and townships have
  become practically merged in the great metropolis.” (Int. Studio.)
  Highgate, Hampstead, Woolwich, Epping Forest, Epsom, Fulham,
  Hammersmith, Greenwich and other places are described with interesting
  anecdotes of people whose history is associated with them.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The general reader should be glad to have so much put before him in a
  compact and readable form. The ‘proofs’ have occasionally been badly
  read.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 478. O. 19. 240w.

  “The book should not fail to stimulate interest in these time-honoured
  spots.”

       + =Int. Studio.= 32: 336. O. ’07. 160w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 30w.


=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.

                                                                6–35603.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

       + =Ind.= 61: 1398. D. 22, ’06. 70w.

  “The charm of her writing entirely dispels from her pages, full of
  carefully-acquired information as they are, that suggestion of the
  guide-book which is not always inseparable from works of this kind.”

       + =Int. Studio.= 30: 278. Ja. ’07. 170w.

  “The truth is that writers like Mrs. Bell do not possess a tithe of
  the information necessary to draw a real picture of Brittany.”

     − + =Sat. R.= 103: 686. Je. 1, ’07. 720w.


=Bellamy, Charles Joseph.= Wonder children, their quests and curious
adventures. †$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                6–38395.

  Here are quests that frequently terminate where the rainbow touches
  the earth, and which permit the wanderer children to open the bags of
  gold and live in peace forever after.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Ind.= 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 17w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 822. D. 1, ’06. 70w.

  “The material is not new and the use of it is not marked by any
  especial charm.”

     − + =Outlook.= 84: 793. N. 24, ’06. 40w.

         =R. of Rs.= 34: 765. D. ’06. 20w.


=Belloc, Hilaire.= Hills and the sea. *$1.50. Scribner.

                                                                7–13406.

  “Mr. Belloc’s book opens with one marvelous sea voyage and ends with
  another, while the intervening pages are occupied with observations of
  places and persons encountered along untraveled paths of England,
  France, Spain, and countries which are not named and whose identity
  only the initiated can recognize. There is information, too, strewn
  through these pages—information that some day may serve as footnotes
  to more serious and less personal books of travel.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is in tense narration, touched with fantasy, that his strength
  lies.”

       + =Acad.= 71: 659. D. 29, ’06. 390w.

  “None the less, if not wholly a satisfactory book, this is a book that
  is filled with a fine spirit and has no slovenly writing in it, and
  has many passages of pellucid and admirable prose often direct and
  simple as Bunyan’s. At its best ... it has radiance and gusto, both
  very rare qualities, and a pleasant wayside Borrovian flavour.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 352. O. 19, ’06. 1310w.

       + =Nation.= 83: 554. D. 27, ’06. 320w.

  “The book abounds in sweetness and light, and one must be something
  more than human or something less not to find therein some congenial
  and sympathetic message—possibly many.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 850. D. 8, ’06. 260w.

  “It is because these sketches contain so much good matter that their
  failings are worthy of note. The faults are mainly faults of manner,
  and it must be admitted that as the excellencies seem for the most
  part due to French influences, the badnesses are solidly Britannic.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 102: 550. N. 3, ’06. 840w.

  “He has none of the serious and brooding passion of Mr. Conrad. He
  sneers at all that he does not understand, whereas the other writer is
  reverently silent. He postures and swaggers, and, for all his hatred
  of imperialism, betrays much of the boastful ‘mafficking’ spirit which
  he repudiates. He falls into mannerisms and catch-words which weary us
  from their repetition. And yet he has the charm against which all
  criticism is powerless.”

     + − =Spec.= 97: 889. D. 1, ’06. 370w.


=Belloc, Hilaire.= Historic Thames. *$6. Dutton.

  “Mr. Belloc ... severely avoids the Thames of the pleasure seeker, and
  deals almost exclusively with the place of the river in the
  topographical and commercial system of early England, as well as
  incidentally, but at great length, with the dissolution of the
  Thames-side monasteries. From this branch of his subject he is lead,
  by digressions worthy of Victor Hugo, to the family history of the
  Cromwells. Mr. Belloc writes as an anti-Protestant, and even gives
  some slight colour to the popular belief that a curse follows the
  possessors of abbey lands.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “With all its faults of omission ‘The historic Thames’ is a thoughtful
  and stimulating essay—in the strict usage of the word. The publishers
  have made a bad mistake in sending out this volume without maps or
  plans. No good word can be said of the illustrations; many of them are
  very badly drawn.” W. T. S.

     − + =Acad.= 72: 599. Je. 22, ’07. 1240w.

  “Mr. Belloc’s letter-press may disturb the ordinary Thames public, and
  is perhaps too good for its place. The drawings have little or nothing
  to do with it, and are chiefly of scenes attractive to the artist,
  without special connexion in his mind with history.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 634. My. 25. 390w.

  “In spite of the evident efforts to the contrary he becomes involved
  in the tangle of the Thames’s history with that of England and ends in
  a tedious recital of the destruction of the monasteries, which has
  little to do with his subject.” May Estelle Cook.

     − + =Dial.= 43: 119. S. 1, ’07. 180w.

  “Naturally his book will call down reprobation from certain high
  quarters, but it can not by any one be denied the qualities of
  interest and vivacity.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 39. Jl. 11, ’07. 810w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 376. Je. 8, ’07. 70w.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 745. N. 23, ’07. 530w.

  “While he has performed his task with thoroughness and
  conscientiousness he has missed, whether purposely or not, it is
  impossible to say, the tone of romance and æsthetic delight which one
  naturally expects with this subject.”

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 790. Ag. 10, ’07. 170w.

  “Mr. Belloc’s book is a serious contribution to history. The
  illustrations are very attractive, but they do not illustrate the
  book, and they are arranged, or scattered about, with a more than
  usually provoking irrelevance.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: 26. Jl. 6, ’07. 340w.


=Bement, Alburto.= Peabody atlas: shipping mines and coal railroads, in
the central commercial district of the United States, accompanied by
chemical, geological and engineering data. $5. Peabody coal co., 125
Monroe st., Chicago.

                                                              Maps 7–25.

  In which are set forth conditions in the coal-carrying railways and
  their relations to the coal mines. “The atlas contains some valuable
  information and illustrations on smokeless furnaces and smoke
  prevention, analysis of combustion gases and improvements in boiler
  designs.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “To the investigator in this field, the statistics of the various
  bituminous mines and contributing railways throughout the central
  states, which is given in this atlas, should be of as great value as
  they also are to the various dealers for whom the book will serve the
  purpose of a trade directory.”

     + + =Engin. N.= 57: 308. Mr. 14, ’07. 120w.


=Benham, W. Gurney.= Book of quotations: proverbs and household words.
$3. Lippincott.

  A collection of quotations from British and American authors, ancient
  and modern, with many thousands of proverbs, familiar phrases and
  sayings, from all sources, including Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Latin,
  French, German, Spanish, Italian, and other languages.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The collection shows an advance on those available, including
  material from more recent authors, and from some now adorning or
  amazing the world with their pens. A fairly thorough search has
  convinced us of the general suitability and accuracy of the English
  section. The section of miscellaneous quotations and other odds and
  ends is good, but we are unable to praise the various lists of foreign
  quotations.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 222. F. 23. 1230w.

  “We know of no other book of the kind that contains so much matter,
  and we can heartily recommend it as an addition to the reference
  shelf.”

     + + =Dial.= 43: 322. N. 16, ’07. 130w.

     + + =Nation.= 85: 397. O. 31, ’07. 180w.

  “Upon the whole, while it is not to be expected or desired that the
  new book will supersede the old [Bartlett], it may very conveniently
  supplement it, and is very well worth having, if one may say so
  without applying to it the only real test, that of habitual use.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 745. N. 23, ’07. 530w.

  “A slight examination will show that a good deal of original research
  has been employed in the work. The arrangement, classification, and
  indexings of the book are all commendable.”

     + + =Outlook.= 87: 497. N. 2, ’07. 170w.

     + + =Spec.= 98: 297. F. 23, ’07. 190w.


=Benjamin, Charles Henry.= Machine design. *$2. Holt.

                                                                6–45053.

  “A text-book for the use of students, and while very useful for that
  purpose is not complete enough for the requirements of the practical
  designer.... The principal things in the book which are valuable are
  the results of experiments performed on various springs, journals,
  fly-wheels, etc.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It has the fault that is common to most books bearing its title; that
  is, it covers only a small part of the subject.” Amasa Trowbridge.

     + − =Engin. N.= 57: 86. Ja. 17, ’07. 250w.

  “The faults of the book are faults of omission rather than of
  commission; to a large extent the matter given is original and cannot
  fail to be of great value to designers of machinery. The analytical
  treatment of some of the problems dealt with is both new and
  ingenious. We have noticed a few slips, but they are mostly
  unimportant.”

   + + − =Nature.= 76: 564. O. 3, ’07. 500w.


=Benjamin, Charles Henry.= Modern American machine tools. *$5. Dutton.

                                                                7–33555.

  A book written from the purchaser’s point of view which gives “a good
  outline of the principal characteristics of modern machine tools, as
  manufactured in the United States, the various points in which they
  differ, the advantages and disadvantages of different styles, and some
  data in regard to their capacity and performance.” (Engin. N.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is a valuable one and well worth consulting. There is,
  however, one important fact to be remembered which lessens the value
  of the book to the buyer of machine tools and that is the
  impossibility of getting the latest and best information from a book.
  In this case, it would be safe to say that this book is now two years
  behind the times.” W: W. Bird.

   + + − =Engin. N.= 58: 77. Jl. 18, ’07. 390w.


=Bennett, Enoch Arnold.= The ghost: a novel. †$1.50. Small.

                                                                7–24288.

  “The Ghost” by the author of the fantastic “Hugo” “is an exciting
  story of opera singers and railway accidents and channel-boat
  disasters and trapdoors and revenge and jealousy that is strong enough
  to be carried beyond death, and of love that triumphs even over such
  fatal jealousy.”—Acad.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Whether his mood be fantastic or serious, his work is always
  first-class, and though his output is enormous, signs of haste are
  never apparent in the writing or construction.”

       + =Acad.= 72: 143. F. 9, ’07. 160w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.

         =Sat. R.= 103: 274. Mr. 2, ’07. 220w.


=Bennett, Enoch Arnold.= Hugo; a fantasia on modern themes. $1.50.
Buckles.

                                                                6–41708.

  One feels that Mr. Bennett fairly slaps his canvas with a Kipling
  brush of comet’s hair. The result is a fantastic, panoramic
  “improvisation.” “Hugo is proprietor of an immense shop in London. He
  falls in love with a milliner in one of his innumerable ‘departments.’
  She weds another, is pursued by a third, officially dies, is bereft
  timely of her spouse, and returns in due season to life and Hugo.”
  (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He never makes an attempt to modify or explain: he piles
  improbability upon improbability with calm assurance, and mortars it
  all together with clever little facts and truths in a style which is
  always restrained and neat, and by its very lack of ornaments
  convincing.”

       + =Acad.= 70: 92. Ja. 27, ’06. 360w.

  “The plot has been deliberately and cunningly designed to sustain the
  reader’s excitement from chapter to chapter, and, this being admitted
  as the author’s aim, the book may fairly be pronounced a success.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 131. F. 3. 210w.

  “It is all very absurd and pleasant; all the more so that the writer
  appears to be regarding his own fable with merely good-humored
  toleration.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 61. Ja. 17, ’07. 160w.

  “An Italian novel with the plot laid in the sixteenth century is tame
  in comparison, and though Mr. Bennett has used all kinds of
  incongruously modern stage machinery along with his melodramatic
  characters, he does it with a seriousness that seems to bridge the
  difficulty.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 11. Ja. 5, ’07. 440w.

  “The book, in fine, is an amusing skit on the vastness of modern
  commercial enterprises; but in it Mr. Arnold Bennett has by no means
  touched the level of his delightful comedy, ‘A great man.’”

     + − =Spec.= 96: 152. Ja. 27, ’06. 360w.


* =Benson, Arthur C.= Alfred Tennyson. **$1.50. Dutton.

  “Mr. Benson thus formulates his object in the present volume: “(1) I
  have given a simple narrative of the life of Tennyson, with a sketch
  of his temperament, character, ideals, and beliefs; (2) I have tried
  from his own words and writings to indicate what I believe to have
  been his view of the poetical life and character; (3) I have attempted
  to touch the chief characteristics of his art from the technical point
  of view, here again as far as possible using his own recorded words.””

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A quiet sympathy, a genial appreciation, pervades the book and makes
  it most enjoyable, even inspiring, reading.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 320. N. 16, ’07. 380w.

  “Few readers, indeed, one would say, can read the volume without
  deriving from it both a clearer and a higher estimate of its subject
  than they had before.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 726. N. 16, ’07. 650w.


* =Benson, Arthur C.= Altar fire. **$1.50. Putnam.

                                                                7–32854.

  Wholly reflective “this volume contains, in the form of a friend’s
  diary, Mr. Benson’s conclusions upon many things, from the doctrine of
  the atonement to the Browning letters, but chiefly on the processes of
  personal religious life.” (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “One feels there is a message, but hardly formed and loosely
  articulated and lacking the virile note. One cannot but wish the book
  a larger reading than its somber monotony will invite.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 1117. N. 7, ’07. 340w.

  “To his usual characteristics, with which the public is well
  acquainted by this time, his new volumes add a rather unexpected
  extension of scope.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 1229. N. 21, ’07. 310w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

  “This generation can hardly have too many books of this temper put
  into its hands.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 767. D. 7, ’07. 560w.

     + + =R. of Rs.= 36: 759. D. ’07. 120w.

  “As an artistic whole ‘The altar fire’ suffers from the use of too
  ambitious a scene. The book is sure of a large and respectful public;
  but the remnant of reactionaries, the classical people whose eyes have
  been dazzled by gazing upon the sun, will still see patent blots in
  Mr. Benson’s work—if indeed it is Mr. Benson and not the mask which
  comes between.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 5. N. 16, ’07. 980w.


=Benson, Arthur C.= Beside still waters. **$1.25. Putnam.

                                                                7–15922.

  “Meditations and recollections of a man who, after a busy life,
  settles down into a kind of epicurean seclusion from the world. ‘He
  found a small, picturesque, irregularly-built house crushed in between
  the road and the river, which, in fact, dipped its very feet in the
  stream.’... Could a better lodge be found for a recluse who likes to
  season his days of solitude with an occasional dinner in Hall with his
  old college friends! And presently the college takes him back into its
  fold, while the house by the waters is kept as a place of retreat and
  quiet work.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 159. O. ’07.

  “It is difficult to write so completely introspective a book as this.
  We wonder at the end of it how we have interested ourselves with it
  for so long, till we reflect on Mr. Benson’s easy flow of
  undistracting thoughts, raised just a little above commonplace by a
  certain sanity or breadth of view which no doubt is a gospel in
  itself.”

       + =Ath.= 1907. 1: 539. My. 4. 330w.

  “Those who have enjoyed the charm of ‘From a college window,’ with
  sweet spirit, lofty thought, and exquisite tenderness expressed in
  limpid delightful English, will find a similar treat in Mr. Benson’s
  present work.”

       + =Cath. World.= 86: 117. O. ’07. 470w.

  “Notwithstanding a tendency to repetition and undue elaboration—a
  conspicuous lack of epigrammatic terseness,—this book is the ripest,
  thoughtfullest, best piece of work its author has yet produced.”

   + + − =Dial.= 42: 344. Je. 1, ’07. 350w.

  “Gives us a scholar’s philosophy of life.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 1117. N. 7, ’07. 700w.

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 61. Jl. 13, ’07. 160w.

  “Mr. Benson’s polished prose and his mastery of style and language
  serve only to throw into bolder relief the thinness of the substance.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 84. Mr. 15, ’07. 1060w.

  “Remind one of ‘The private papers of Henry Ryecroft,’ graceful and
  wise and sober, a delightful refreshment in the bustle of modern
  literature, but lacking in the last incalculable touch of style and
  insight that make Gissing’s book so memorable.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 411. My. 2, ’07. 330w.

  Reviewed by A. I. du P. Coleman.

       + =Putnam’s.= 2: 615. Ag. ’07. 360w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 760. Je. ’07. 120w.


=Benson, Arthur C.= From a college window. **$1.25. Putnam.

                                                                6–17648.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  Reviewed by Horatio S. Krans.

     + + =Putnam’s.= 1: 560. F. ’07. 1060w.


=Benson, Arthur C.= Gate of death; a diary. **$1.25. Putnam.

                                                                6–43770.

  The author says that the book is not a treatment of death “the
  saddest, darkest, most solemn, most inevitable, most tremendous fact
  in the world.” It is merely “the record of the sincere and faltering
  thoughts of one who was suddenly and unexpectedly confronted with
  death, and who, in the midst of a very ordinary and commonplace life,
  with no deep reserves of wisdom, faith, or tenderness, had just to
  interpret it as he best could.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Naturally a great deal in the book will not be agreed with by
  Catholics; but, making allowances for this, we must say we have here a
  book of more than ordinary interest and power.”

   + + − =Cath. World.= 85: 111. Ap. ’07. 260w.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 196. F. ’07. 2460w.

  “He has great power of attention and analysis, a great interest in
  ideas, and considerable culture, and in addition he is master of an
  easy and picturesque style; so that he has no difficulty in putting
  upon paper what he feels and thinks and sees. What he seems to lack as
  an artist is power of selection.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 346. O. 12, ’06. 1290w.

  “A work not of didactic effect, but of singularly pure and elevated
  sentiment; of melancholy in the old sweet sense.”

     + + =Nation.= 83: 560. D. 27, ’06. 560w.

         =Putnam’s.= 1: 768. Mr. ’07. 190w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 760. Je. ’07. 120w.

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 531. Ap. 7, ’07. 300w.


=Benson, Arthur C.= Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. of Trinity
College, Cambridge, extracted from his letters and diaries, with
reminiscences of his conversation by his friend Christopher Carr of the
same college. $1.25. Holt.

  The quiet story of the life of a “thoroughgoing determinist who was
  still faithful to the voice of duty, still striving upwards,” who
  trusted “in an invisible all-ruling Father who really was ordering the
  world in the smallest details when He seemed to be ordering it least
  and who wished the best for His children.” It is a character study
  with a moral, for Arthur Hamilton “in spite of every trial and every
  rebuff, preserved at heart a serenity that was not thoughtlessness, a
  cheerfulness that was not hilarity, a humor that was not cynicism.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a curious piece of intellectual dissection and has many of the
  graces of style that characterized the author’s recent volumes.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 469. Mr. 29, ’07. 460w.

  Reviewed by A. I. du P. Coleman.

       + =Putnam’s.= 2: 615. Ag. ’07. 160w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 760. Je. ’07. 120w.


=Benson, Arthur C.= Upton letters. *$1.25. Putnam.

                                                                5–34654.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

  Reviewed by Horatio S. Krans.

     + + =Putnam’s.= 1: 560. F. ’06. 1060w.

  “We honestly thank him for painting his portrait so well. It is good
  work no less than a good likeness. The touch is firm and easy; the
  treatment broad and yet very delicate. There are a few patches of
  prettiness which should be painted out; but they do not much mar the
  effect of the whole.”

   + + − =Sat. R.= 103: 144. F. 2, ’07. 1670w.


=Benson, Edward Frederic.= Paul. †$1.50. Lippincott.

                                                                6–37196.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “It is a purposeless book and an unpleasant one. Its interest suddenly
  drops at the halfway point, like an underdone loaf of cake, and what
  is meant to be its most solemn chapter is more apt to provoke a desire
  to laugh.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

       − =Bookm.= 24: 487. Ja. ’07. 540w.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 345. Mr. ’07. 660w.

  “He deliberately constructs the first half of his plot in such a way
  as to produce the maximum of irritation, not to say resentment.”
  Herbert W. Horwill.

     + − =Forum.= 38: 542. Ap. ’07. 1260w.

  “Escaped by a hair breadth writing a novel of the first rank.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 46. Ja. 3, ’07. 340w.

  “The individuality and distinction of phrase are maintained, but the
  obtrusive ‘smartness’ which marred the first novel [‘Dodo’] has been
  carefully eliminated.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 105. Ja. 19, ’07. 210w.


=Benson, Rev. Robert Hugh.= History of Richard Raynal: solitary. $1.25.
Herder.

  “The story purports to be the translation of an ancient Latin MS.,
  discovered by Father Benson in a library of Rome, and containing an
  old English priest’s account of a young solitary, who lived somewhere
  near London in the earlier part of the fifteenth century.”—Cath.
  World.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The rare qualities of Father Benson’s mind find here their perfect
  expression.”

       + =Acad.= 70: 229. Mr. 10, ’06. 400w.

  “The quaint beauty of the archaic style adopted by Father Benson in
  his recital is beyond praise.”

     + + =Cath. World.= 84: 412. D. ’06. 340w.


=Benson, Rev. Robert Hugh.= Mirror of Shalott, being a collection of
tales told at an unprofessional symposium. *$1.25. Benziger.

                                                                7–21227.

  Fourteen stories which a group of Reverend Fathers told, one tale each
  evening. They are largely gathered from their professional experiences
  and concern incidents which cannot be explained without recourse to
  the supernatural. The evil spirit which was exorcised, the man who
  offered himself for his brother’s unbelief, the artist whose art
  founded on corruption was lost when he regained his faith, these and
  the others have the charm of the unusual.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is one that suggests a better capacity on Mr. Benson’s part as
  a writer than anything else we have read from his pen.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 789. Je. 29. 310w.

         =Cath. World.= 86: 257. N. ’07. 210w.

  “In truth, qualities that are admirable elsewhere rather prevent Mr.
  Benson from telling his tales so as to excite the feelings which
  people, whatever their faith, cherish for the supernatural. He is too
  surefooted, too painstaking. His method is too robust to deal with
  such intricate and at the same time poignant emotions; he sets
  everything in order, tells you how the basket chair clicked, and what
  happened next, and works out the situation methodically with the
  desire clearly to get at the truth. But it is a great matter that
  every story makes an impression of sincerity and intelligence.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 189. Je. 14, ’07. 500w.

  “Father Benson, like the other brilliant sons of the late archbishop,
  is a fluent and spirited writer.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 167. Ag. 22, ’07. 730w.

  “The author displays in the narration a skill as subtle and as
  charming as his imagination has been subtle and weird in the conjuring
  up of incidents. Each narrator is distinctly individualized by the
  character of his experience and his manner of telling it.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 457. Jl. 20, ’07. 460w.

  “Father Benson’s language comes as near as language can to making his
  readers realize by analogy spiritual experiences which are incapable
  of being translated into the words and phrases of a material world.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 1038. Je. 29, ’07. 380w.


=Benson, Rev. Robert Hugh.= Papers of a pariah. **$1.25. Longmans.

                                                                7–14565.

  “The ‘Pariah’ is an actor, who has been educated however at Rugby and
  Oxford, and the ‘papers’ reveal the mental process by which he finally
  arrived at the Catholic faith.” (Acad.) “Their point of view is of one
  who regards the Catholic church from without not from within, though
  with a favourable eye.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “If only he could bestow his style, and humaneness, and clearness of
  exposition on converts we would wish him many of them as the result of
  this brilliant little book.”

       + =Acad.= 72: 314. Mr. 30, ’07. 140w.

  “The tenor of the reflections witnesses to a deeply religious nature
  and the aesthetic temperament, reminding one of the books of Huysmans,
  though displaying more of the religious and less of the aesthetic than
  did that strange Frenchman.”

       + =Cath. World.= 85: 542. Jl. ’07. 780w.

  “‘The papers of a pariah,’ while they will appeal to religious zealots
  of the Roman Catholic faith, and, to a certain extent, to all who are
  deeply interested in discussion of abstract creeds, loses in literary
  value by virtue of these very tendencies. The discussion, moreover, is
  one of sentiment rather than of reason, an argument of dreams rather
  than of realities.” Florence Wilkinson.

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 350. Je. 1, ’07. 490w.

  “The reader will note that in the early part of the book emphasis is
  laid on the unchangeableness of the teaching in the Roman church,
  while later this argument is dropped in favour of development.”

       − =Sat. R.= 104: 276. Ag. 31, ’07. 210w.

       + =Spec.= 98: 804. My. 18, ’07. 330w.


=Benziger, Marie Agnes.= Off to Jerusalem. *$1. Benziger.

                                                                6–36010.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Though she modestly refuses to enter into competition with other
  pens, which have described the scenes through which she has passed,
  she evinces good capacity for observation and for describing whatever
  came under her notice.”

       + =Cath. World.= 84: 837. Mr. ’07. 230w.


=Bergen, Joseph Y., jr., and Davis, Bradley, M.= Principles of botany.
$1.50. Ginn.

                                                                6–35475.

  Following an introduction devoted to a definition of botany and its
  subdivisions, the subject is treated in three parts, viz., 1, the
  structure and physiology of plants, 2, The morphology, evolution and
  classification of plants, and 3, Ecology and economic botany. Part 2
  is Dr. Davis’ portion of the work.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “While the book as a whole is too heavy for the average high-school
  work, it will be almost indispensable as a reference work because of
  its large amount of information, its abundant illustrations, and its
  helpful suggestions as to the significance of structures and their
  relationship to one another.”

     + + =Bot. Gaz.= 43: 64. Ja. ’07. 720w.

       + =Nation.= 83: 380. N. 1, ’06. 440w.

  “The book can be confidently recommended to students and teachers, and
  the latter will find the arrangement well worthy of consideration.”

       + =Nature.= 76: 124. Je. 6, ’07. 200w.

  “The whole revision has been toward greater precision and succinctness
  of statement, and has resulted in a more scholarly work.” I. N.
  Mitchell.

     + + =School R.= 15: 305. Ap. ’07. 850w.

  “To ‘touch the high points’ and yet to keep up the connection between
  them is the difficult task of the writer of an elementary text-book.
  In some portions of the book before us this has been accomplished,
  while in others a good deal of matter has been admitted which might
  well have been left out.” Charles E. Bessey.

   + + − =Science=, n.s. 25: 144. Ja. 25, ’07. 780w.


=Bernhardi, Frederick von.= Cavalry in future wars. *$3. Dutton.

                                                               War 7–19.

  “This book was written at the outbreak of the late war in South
  Africa.... In the course of the first few chapters, Gen. Bernhardi
  analyzes the functions of the cavalry as modified by the changes that
  have occurred since the war, and later explains the difficulties which
  in the future will confront all cavalry operations unless the cavalry
  leader and his men have been ‘perfected down to the minutest
  detail.’”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His views are entitled to more than ordinary consideration, even
  though in all his conclusions we may not concur. Perhaps there is no
  other German soldier so well equipped for handling this subject.”
  Peter C. Hains.

   + + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 606. N. ’07. 440w.

  “This book will be read by soldiers, but is needed by a wider public.”

     + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 573. N. 10. 1360w.

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 26. Ja. 25, ’07. 560w.

  “Gen. von Bernhardi’s ... rank and experience entitle his views to
  great respect, the more from the earnestness with which he pleads his
  cause. Barring a few slightly obscure passages, and a faint trace here
  and there of Teutonic roughness, Mr. Goldman’s translation is smooth
  and flowing.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 479. My. 23, ’07. 110w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 875. D. 15, ’06. 290w.

  “An exhaustive summary.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 257. Ap. 20, ’07. 70w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 383. Mr. ’07. 50w.

  “It may fairly be called the last word on the subject.” Grey Scout.

     + + =Sat. R.= 103: 197. F. 16, ’07. 1310w.


=Bernhardt, Sarah.= Memories of my life: being my personal,
professional, and social recollections as woman and artist. **$4.
Appleton.

                                                                7–34323.

  The whimsical, rhapsodical, patriotic woman of temperament is revealed
  in almost every line of these memories. The autobiography “exhibits
  the true woman in clearer relief than it does the largely mythical
  superwoman whom it labors to depict. Rich as it is in minor details
  and vivacious descriptions it adds but little to the common knowledge
  of the career of the best advertised actress in the world.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In her very characteristic and brightly entertaining memoirs we have
  on every page the Sarah Bernhardt of the stage, the eccentric and
  versatile woman of genius, very much as she is already known to the
  world.” Percy F. Bicknell.

       + =Dial.= 43: 279. N. 1, ’07. 2150w.

  “Self-revelations such as these give, as we think, a real documentary
  value to this first volume of Sarah Bernhardt’s memoirs, though no
  doubt the general reader will prefer the narratives of travel and
  adventure wherein everything appears to be turning around in a mad
  farandole.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 324. O. 25, ’07. 1600w.

  “One of the most successful books ever written. To tell the plain
  truth, the monstrous egotism of the book greatly weakens the
  pleasurable impression created by its vivacity, its cleverness, and
  its abundance of interesting material.”

   + + − =Nation.= 85: 403. O. 31, ’07. 1140w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

  “An invaluable addition to the library, dramatic and otherwise.” Anna
  Marble.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 733. N. 16, ’07. 2230w.

     + + =Outlook.= 77: 611. N. 23, ’07. 210w.


=Besant, Walter.= Mediaeval London, v. 2: Ecclesiastical. *$7.50.
Macmillan.

  This second volume of the posthumous work of Walter Besant on “The
  survey of London” treats of the ecclesiastical life, institutions and
  influence of the Norman and Plantagenet centuries. The first eight
  chapters deal with the rise of London’s municipal government.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “When the nature of the material permits the story is unfolded with
  agreeable literary effect. We notice here and there a lack of
  references, usually associated with a passage of minor historical
  importance. These pages form a good example to tesselated history.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 113. F. 2, ’07. 1610w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “There are various heedless and more or less incorrect statements in
  the general description of ecclesiastical London, apart from the
  religious houses. The accounts of hermits and anchorites, as well as
  of pilgrimage and sanctuary, are insufficient. But enough of adverse
  criticism has been offered. We cannot help thinking that if Besant had
  lived a little longer, this portion of his work would have been
  revised by him or by friends who were competent to aid him.”

     − + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 157. F. 9. 1710w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “Sir Walter Besant’s ‘Mediaeval London’ has unfortunately, found no
  more capable editor than his ‘London under the Stuarts’ and his
  ‘London in the time of the Tudors.’ The illustrations are for the most
  part of real value.” G.

     − + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 206. Ja. ’07. 310w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “It is largely a work of paste and scissors, and they have not been
  applied with intelligence.” M.

     − + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 832. O. ’07. 410w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “It is impossible to regard this volume as a work which Sir Walter
  Besant would have presented to the public in anything like its present
  form.”

     − + =Nation.= 84: 548. Je. 13, ’07. 1000w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “We select a single passage for quotation, not only because it is
  significant in itself, but because it gives, we think, a fair idea of
  the broad and readable way in which this work treats what many might
  expect to prove a dry-as-dust, antiquarian record—words which
  precisely describe the exact contrary of the present volume.”

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 374. F. 16, ’07. 580w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “Is sure to take its place among popular works on the subject.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: sup. 4. F. 23, ’07. 190w. (Review of v. 2.)

       + =Spec.= 98: sup. 115. Ja. 26, ’07. 920w. (Review of v. 2.)


=Bevier, Isabel.= The house; its plan, decoration and care. (Library of
home economics.) *$1.25. Am. school of home economics.

                                                                6–41738.

  “In the early chapters on the development of the house, domestic
  architecture is shown to be closely allied to the larger problems of
  state and nation.... Chapters on house planning, construction,
  decoration and furnishing, and the care of the house follow, and from
  them may be obtained much useful information. Throughout the book
  emphasis is laid upon appropriateness, beauty and simplicity of form
  and color. The book is suggestive to the home builder; plans,
  materials and cost and the various subdivisions of these are taken up
  concisely. The home-operator will find here definite suggestions
  concerning fabrics and furnishings, their cost and durability.”—Ann.
  Am. Acad.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Valuable because of its consideration of basic principles, and of
  conditions attainable by the average householder.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 160. O. ’07. S.

  “For its size this little book contains a great deal of that which
  tends to raise the standards of the householder and to make the home
  the real center of national life which the author claims should be its
  real purpose.”

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 632. My. ’07. 280w.


=Bevier, Isabel, and Usher, Susannah.= Home economics movement, pt. 1.
*75c. Whitcomb & B.

                                                                 7–5679.

  A three-part discussion including Home economics in agricultural
  colleges and state universities, Cooking schools, and Home economics
  in the public schools.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 95. Ap. ’07.


Bible. Gospel of Barnabas; ed. and tr. by Lonsdale and Laura Ragg, with
a facsimile. *$5.25. Oxford.

  This manuscript was probably written in the middle of the sixteenth
  century. It is a “rather careless sixteenth century copy, made by a
  Venetian scribe, of an earlier and apparently Tuscan document.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The editors deserve the greatest praise for the thoroughness and
  skill with which they have performed their task. They have been
  extremely careful in editing the text, and they have supplied an
  excellent translation, for it is accurate and reads as if it were an
  original work. They have also written a good introduction, which
  contains all the information that the reader requires.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 230. Ag. 31. 840w.

  “It is to be said that the gospel is interesting reading not only
  because of its doctrines, as, for example, the view that Paul
  wrongfully teaches that Jesus is the Son of God, that Jesus disclaimed
  Messiahship, that Mohammed is Messiah, not only because of the
  restraint manifested in the story of the virgin birth, but also
  because of the positive beauty of some of its sayings and parables.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 261. S. 19, ’07. 940w.


=Bielschowsky, Albert.= Life of Goethe; tr. by W. A. Cooper. 3v ea.
**$3.50. Putnam.

  =v. 2.= This volume covers the period from the Italian journey to the
  War of liberation, 1788–1815, comprising the last two chapters of the
  first volume and the first twelve of the second of the German edition.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Cooper is an American, and he writes ‘American,’ or, at any rate,
  a dialect of the Anglo-Saxon tongue, which is often forcible and
  picturesque, but is quite as often not pure English.” Rowland Strong.

     + − =Acad.= 73: 93. N. 2, ’07. 1800w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “Though Bielschowsky displays remarkable skill in interweaving
  critical analysis with personal details concerning the poet, yet one
  who is unfamiliar with the actual works will probably find the
  chapters devoted to them a trifle dull. After all, these defects are
  really exaggerations of a good quality—the desire to enter into full
  sympathy with and understanding of Goethe’s point of view.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 297. S. 14. 600w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “In general it seems that here there is a marked improvement [in the
  translation]; it is very faithful and at the same time the English is
  usually free from the influence of the foreign idiom. Occasionally the
  rendering does not allow for the difference in the connotation of the
  same word in the two languages.”

   + + − =Dial.= 43: 214. O. 1, ’07. 470w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “It is to begin with, erudite; one feels confident that the author has
  sifted the enormous mass of material accumulated about every step of
  Goethe’s career. In the metaphysical parts it is excellent, almost
  impeccable. We commend heartily the translation of this work and
  recognize its undoubted value; but we must add frankly that it is in
  no sense of the word in the tradition of great literature.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 514. Ag. 29, ’07. 500w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  Reviewed by J. Perry Warden.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 464. Jl. 27, ’07. 2210w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “The work lacks the supreme test of the biographer as interpreter. In
  this respect this ‘Life of Goethe’ remains incomplete, but in all else
  it is a masterly production. Crowning merit of a notable achievement,
  the biography, with all its scholarly thoroughness, is yet even better
  adapted to the needs of the general public for which it has been
  primarily written than to those of the special student.” A. Schade van
  Westrum.

   + + − =No. Am.= 186: 442. N. ’07. 1640w. (Review of v. 2.)


=Bierer, Everard.= Evolution of religions. **$2. Putnam.

                                                                6–42349.

  “The particular animus of the author is against the doctrine of the
  trinity, which assumes altogether too large a place in his survey of
  the development of religious doctrines.”—Putnam’s.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is amateurish in character, unreliable in statement of fact,
  incomplete in outlook, and disproportionate in consideration of the
  phenomena under discussion.”

       − =Ind.= 62: 742. Mr. 28, ’07. 70w.

  “Shows an excellent spirit, and the greater part of its material is
  taken from good sources. The title, however, is too large for the
  contents, and the book suffers somewhat from the author’s insufficient
  acquaintance with the general history of religions.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 222. Mr. 7, ’07. 50w.

  “Although its author, under his limitations as a layman in the
  subjects of his criticism, takes himself rather too seriously, the
  book is written with a sincere interest for a devoutly spiritual
  religion, and for this is commendable.”

     − + =Outlook.= 84: 939. D. 15, ’06. 250w.


=Bigelow, Edward Fuller.= Spirit of nature study: a book of social
suggestion and sympathy for all who love or teach nature. **$1. Barnes.

                                                                7–14642.

  “A book of social suggestion and sympathy for all those who love or
  teach nature.” It is intended to strengthen faith in outdoor
  education.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In which the author has many effective and deserved flings at the
  stupidity and inanity of much that passes for the study of nature in
  schools and elsewhere.” George Gladden.

       + =Bookm.= 25: 625. Ag. 5, ’07. 90w.

  “[Suggestions that are] sensible enough, and their light personal
  style would make them effective as informal talks at a teachers’
  institute but they cannot be regarded as permanent contributions to
  the over abundant literature of the subject.”

     − + =Ind.= 62: 1354. Je. 6, ’07. 70w.

  “The ear-marks of the pedagogue are rather too prominent for the most
  enjoyable reading.”

       − =Nation.= 84: 14. Jl. 4, ’07. 220w.


=Bigelow, John.= Peace given as the world giveth. **75c. Baker.

  The author writes out of the fulness of a long experience in state
  craft and diplomacy. He views the Portsmouth peace conference in the
  light of an “international calamity,” and makes a plea for the
  “righteousness and wisdom” of war.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A remarkable historical document.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 352. Je. 1, ’07. 450w.


=Bindloss, Harold.= Cattle-baron’s daughter. †$1.50. Stokes.

                                                                6–34082.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “There is some good character drawing but the book cannot lay claim to
  artistic merit.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 51. F. ’07.


=Bindloss, Harold.= Dust of conflict; with il. in color by W. Herbert
Dunton. †$1.50. Stokes.

                                                                 7–7189.

  The stormy period just preceding the Spanish-American war furnishes
  the setting for this story. The hero, “hurried out of England under a
  cloud,” is wrecked on the coast of Cuba, and in that country becomes a
  leader of some insurrectionists. “Peril, disaster, and rescue chase
  each other in such quick and picturesque succession as to give the
  impression of a grown-up boy’s book.... The military conflicts carry
  more conviction than the moral one which sets the story in motion....
  Yet the moral dilemma is well enough as a means of sending the hero to
  Cuba and the Cuban part is admirably successful.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Acad.= 72: 168. F. 16, ’07. 310w.

  “Not particularly well written but rather lively in interest.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 107. Ap. ’07.

  “It is a rattling good story, told briskly and with zest. It lacks
  subtlety, and is not notable for refinement of diction; but it also
  lacks dull pages.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 130. F. 2. 160w.

  “It would be hard to find a book which is so complete a satire on all
  the faults of the so-called ‘novel of adventure.’ For the sort of book
  this present volume typifies there is no legitimate use in literature.
  Probably it will sell very well, however.” J. Marchand.

       − =Bookm.= 25: 429. Je. ’07. 1020w.

  “A story which is rich in dramatic interest, and which exhibits
  remarkable powers of characterization and description.” Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 43: 62. Ag. 1, ’07. 350w.

  “Though of little artistic merit, is exhilarating reading.” Herbert W.
  Horwill.

     + − =Forum.= 38: 549. Ap. ’07. 220w.

  “The many-sided struggle in Cuba constitutes the strongest part of the
  novel. In the main, the characters stand well apart from one another,
  and firmly on their own feet as well.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 247. Mr. 14, ’07. 360w.

  “It is a rattling good story exceedingly well told.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.

  “The book is well written and brisk.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 275. Mr. 2, ’07. 170w.


=Bindloss, Harold.= Mistress of Bonaventure. *$1. Fenno.

  Cattle raising in the Northwest, its difficulties and the dangers from
  man and nature that beset it, is the burden of this tale. The Canadian
  mounted police figure in the story which combines love, adventure and
  practical business. In the end the railroad penetrates that wild
  country and it finds the rancher hero successful both in love and
  labor and the frank little mistress of Bonaventure happy in her hero
  and her prairies.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w.


=Bindloss, Harold.= Winston of the prairie. †$1.50. Stokes.

                                                                7–29150.

  The hero of Mr. Bindloss’ story of the Canadian northwest is a young
  man under unjust suspicion of murder who has traded names with a man
  of low caliber and who when he wishes to return to his own name finds
  it stained with crime. This “impersonation of another man leads to
  exciting complications, and it is difficult to see how he is going to
  extricate himself from the false position in which he is placed. But
  his services to the little farming community, which he teaches to win
  prosperity out of seeming disaster, are so substantial that when the
  hour of disentanglement comes, he both clears his name and finds
  condonation for his deception.” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In the wheat-raising region of western Canada, Mr. Bindloss has found
  a field almost as virgin to the novelist as to the agriculturist, and
  so subdued it to his purposes that his work will not easily be
  matched.” Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 43: 252. O. 16, ’07. 290w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 60w.

  “His doings are sufficiently thrilling to while away some dull hours,
  but the book is not well enough written to commend itself to a reader
  of particular taste.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 678. O. 26, ’07. 150w.


=Binns, W. Moore.= First century of English porcelain. *$12.50.
Lippincott.

                                                                6–33521.

  After outlining clearly the leading principles of connoisseurship “Mr.
  Binns relates with great minuteness the story of the evolution of
  English porcelain, beginning with the foundation of the first factory
  at Stratford-le-Bow, and passing thence to consider in chronological
  order the various establishments which in course of time brought the
  art to a perfection that aroused the admiration even of the most
  exacting foreign critics, and also of those later manufactories in
  which was inaugurated the inevitable decadence.” (Int. Studio.) The
  work is made complete by a chronological schedule of English ceramics
  and an index.

                  *       *       *       *       *

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 488. Ap. 21. 330w.

  “The book will be prized as a real art treasure by its fortunate
  possessors, quite as much as for its store of information.”

     + + =Dial.= 41: 455. D. 16, ’06. 500w.

  “A work that will be of great value to collectors and connoisseurs, as
  well as to all who are interested in what may be called the human side
  of every successful national industry.”

     + + =Int. Studio.= 29: 89. Jl. ’06. 350w.

  “While essentially for the collector, the book is written in general,
  popular phrasing, and the techniques of the art, and some of its
  secrets are revealed in a pleasantly instructive manner.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 836. D. 1, ’06. 490w.

  “The historical side of Mr. Binns’ book is sound as far as it goes;
  the author has digested a certain number of text-books, and reproduces
  facts with a commendable air of spontaneity. There are some serious
  omissions in Mr. Binns’ history.”

   + + − =Sat. R.= 101: 590. My. 12, ’06. 1480w.

         =Spec.= 96: 467. Mr. 24, ’06. 300w.


=Birch, Mrs. Lionel.= Stanhope A. Forbes, A. R. A., and Elizabeth
Stanhope Forbes, A. R. W. S.; with 8 reproductions in color and 32 other
il. *$1.50. Cassell.

                                                                6–45369.

  A monograph from the standpoint of personal friendship on two living
  artists. It reflects the characteristics of two personalities and the
  environment in which their work has been done.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Contains a concise and interesting record, pleasantly tempered by
  anecdote, of the lives and various works of the two painters of whom
  it treats.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 707. Je. 9. 440w.

  “There is, indeed, not one dull page in the book, and the numerous
  illustrations are thoroughly representative.”

       + =Int. Studio.= 29: 272. S. ’06. 290w.

  “She deserves her readers’ thanks for having filled the record
  carefully, while avoiding the reproach of overexcitement and an
  exaggerated sense of the import of her task.”

       + =Int. Studio.= 30: sup 25. N. ’06. 710w.


=Birdseye, Clarence Frank.= Individual training in our colleges.
**$1.75. Macmillan.

                                                                7–18833.

  A study of a college student’s problems from the standpoint of the
  graduate. In his discussion the author deplores the loss of the direct
  personal influence exerted by professors and instructors over the
  students of fifty years ago. He deals with the fraternity question and
  its related problems.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His book shows more knowledge, clearer vision, deeper devotion, and
  more rational hope regarding the American college, than any other book
  we know of.” Edward O. Sisson.

     + + =Dial.= 43: 285. N. 1, ’07. 940w.

  “Upon his own ground the place in our educational machinery which the
  Greek letter fraternities have already taken and the higher place
  which, thru the influence of their alumni, they may be made to take,
  on this ground, Mr. Birdseye speaks with the authority of the
  constructive reformer and for this reason, if for no other, his book
  deserves and should receive the careful study of every man who has at
  heart the welfare of the American college.” F. P. Keppel.

   + + − =Educ. R.= 34: 325. N. ’07. 4300w.

  “The book is too long-drawn out, and in parts is repetitious; but it
  contains much important material in the form of documents and reports,
  as well as of the author’s own observations.”

   + + − =Nation.= 85: 281. S. 26, ’07. 190w.

  “To make his study effective, the author undertakes to enter the
  student’s college home life. He searches diligently for facts and
  deals frankly and candidly with the facts as he finds them.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 34: 126. Jl. ’07. 170w.


=Birukoff, Paul.= Leo Tolstoy, his life and work. v. 1. **$1.50.
Scribner.

                                                                6–22384.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “If we are to take ... [the translation] seriously as an attempt to
  give English readers as intelligible a narrative as that enjoyed by
  readers of the original, we have to point out that the work has been
  carelessly done, and that the English reader often finds himself
  mystified where the Russian finds himself enlightened. When in his old
  age Tolstoy tells us what he thinks we ought to know of his
  reminiscences, no one has any right to interpose between him and the
  English reader. Least of all, has anyone a right to do this
  anonymously and secretly.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 51. Ja. 12, ’07. 1690w. (Review of v. 1.)


=Bishop, Emily M.= Seventy years young, or The unhabitual way. *$1.20.
Huebsch.

                                                                7–20745.

  A sensible outlook on life whose purpose is “‘to put it into the
  heads’ of its readers that they can add (1) life to their years and
  (2) years to their life.” The keynote is the admonition to “keep out
  of ruts.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A very suggestive, thought-provoking volume.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 756. D. ’07. 40w.


=Bisland, Elizabeth.= Life and letters of Lafcadio Hearn. 2v. **$6.
Houghton.

                                                                6–44374.

  “Less than one-fifth of this work contains the record of Hearn’s life.
  The rest is pure Hearn—even more intimate than the books he has
  written, dealing with the themes which always moved his imagination.
  His strange origin, his troubled boyhood and years of apprenticeship,
  his pursuit of the weird, the exotic among tropical peoples, and
  finally his departure for Japan in 1890 resulting in permanent
  expatriation, are recorded in more or less brief compass.” Lit. D.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The facts of his later life Miss Bisland tells with exactly the
  brevity and precision with which such facts should be told. Indeed, it
  is a pleasure to feel that too much praise cannot be given for the
  ability and reverence with which she has done her work.”

     + + =Acad.= 72: 88. Ja. 26, ’07. 1810w.

  “It is certain that no letters reveal more vividly or subtly the inner
  feeling—the essence, one might say—of the writer, than do these.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 9. Ja. ’07.

  Reviewed by Paul S. Reinsch.

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 607. N. ’07. 1230w.

  “Perhaps the worthiest thing to say of these two volumes of some nine
  hundred pages is that there is not a page too much. Indeed, one page
  more would have been welcome—containing a bibliography and a glossary
  of Japanese words.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 126. F. 2. 2170w.

  “It is certain, at any rate, that this vivid, affectionate, one might
  almost say motherly, record of Hearn’s fugitive and feverish life
  affords a view of him in more illuminating consonance with the quality
  of his work than any that has been offered by his friends of his own
  sex.” Ferris Greenslet.

     + + =Atlan.= 99: 261. F. ’07. 7490w.

  Reviewed by Harrison Rhodes.

       + =Bookm.= 25: 73. Mr. ’07. 1990w.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 49. Ja. ’07. 1890w.

  “It would be impossible to give in a few words any adequate impression
  of the rare quality of the letters that make up the larger part of
  this book. It is impossible to read them and not feel acquainted with
  the writer—with the real man behind the mask.” Frederick W. Gookin.

     + + =Dial.= 41: 448. D. 16, ’06. 2370w.

     + + =Ind.= 62: 560. Mr. 7, ’07. 800w.

       + =Ind.= 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 130w.

  “No reader of Hearn’s books can do without this work.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 100w.

  “In these days when our shelves are crowded with trivial biographies,
  it is rare to come across a book so full of human interest, so
  suggestive, so valuable as a contribution to history as the ‘Life and
  letters of Lafcadio Hearn.’”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 52. F. 15, ’07. 1440w.

  “Of the biographical chapters, it is possible to speak with praise,
  while admitting considerable reservations. Unquestionably these
  letters of Hearn’s are among the most interesting that have appeared
  for a number of years—probably the most valuable since the publication
  of FitzGerald’s.”

   + + − =Nation.= 83: 464. N. 29, ’06. 1350w.

  “The most entertaining, self-revealing, even fascinating literary
  correspondence published since the death of Robert Louis Stevenson.”
  James Huneker.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 803. D. 1, ’06. 2380w.

  Reviewed by Olivia Howard Dunbar.

       + =No. Am.= 184: 417. F. 15, ’07. 1860w.

  “His letters are good to read because they are hearty, spontaneous,
  lacking in all those reticences and poses with which we are familiar
  in the correspondence of literary persons of minor note.” H. W.
  Boynton.

     + + =Putnam.= 1: 636. F. ’07. 500w.

     + + =R. of Rs.= 35: 254. F. ’07. 110w.

     + + =Sat. R.= 103: 174. F. 9, ’07. 2050w.

     + + =Spec.= 98: 501. Mr. 30, ’07. 1530w.


=Bittinger, Lucy Forney.= German religious life in colonial times. **$1.
Lippincott.

                                                                7–12674.

  An interesting account of the general course of ecclesiastical life
  among the Germans in America during the Colonial era. The subject is
  treated under the headings, The Separatists, The church people, The
  Moravians, The Methodists, The German churches during the Revolution,
  and it is dealt with in a purely historical manner.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Her work shows much care and pains, and full sympathy with its
  subject.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 498. My. 30, ’07. 100w.

       + =Outlook.= 85: 525. Mr. 2, ’07. 200w.


=Bjorling, Philip R., and Gissing, Frederick T.= Peat: its use and
manufacture. **$2. Lippincott.

  A practical account of the different methods of preparing peat for
  commercial purposes and the uses to which peat can be applied. A
  subject which is claiming more attention as the American coal supply
  diminishes.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is doubtful if there is possible a more comprehensive view of the
  field in a small volume than is given in this one. The material is of
  course largely compiled, but with more detail than one would think
  possible.”

     + + =Engin. N.= 58: 425. O. 17, ’07. 460w.

       + =Nature.= 76: 562. O. 3, ’07. 1020w.


=Black, Rev. Hugh.= Listening to God: Edinburgh sermons. **$1.25.
Revell.

                                                                6–42404.

  Brief sermons by the professor of practical theology in Union
  seminary.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The sermons are not brilliant, but they are manifestly the expression
  of the personality and experience of the preacher. And that after all
  is the only preaching that counts.” Theodore G. Soares.

       + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 711. O. ’07. 140w.

  “The sermons are full of ideas, without being in the least
  sensational, and cannot fail to stimulate thought.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 438. Ap. 13. 110w.

         =Ind.= 61: 1572. D. 27, ’06. 40w.

  “Some of them put fresh points to their texts, and all of them are
  characterized by simplicity, earnestness, and moral vigor.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 794. N. 24, ’06. 110w.


=Blackmar, Frank Wilson.= Economics; new ed. *$1.40. Macmillan.

                                                                7–12998.

  A new edition which extends bibliographies and brings its tables down
  to date.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In preparing his book on economics, the author has obviated both of
  these general criticisms by stating his problems in a clear and
  interesting manner, and by placing on the market a text book which is
  both elementary enough and cheap enough to be accessible to average
  beginners.”

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 150. Jl. ’07. 180w.

  “Beyond being simply and well written, the book is without any very
  marked distinguishing characteristic. Its presentation of the doctrine
  of socialism in chapter 8 is excellent.”

       + =Educ. R.= 33: 535. My. ’07. 70w.

         =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 376. Je. ’07. 50w.

  “The whole is a moderate and common-sense exposition of the subject,
  not always set out in the happiest terms.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: sup. 646. N. 2, ’07. 110w.


=Blair, Emma Helen, and Robertson, James Alexander=, eds., and trs.
Philippine islands, 1493–1898. 55 v. ea. *$4. Clark, A. H.

                                                                 3–6936.

  Descriptive note for series in December, 1905.

  “There is no other comprehensive treatment of this subject to compare
  with it. It is a most praiseworthy piece of editorial work.” James A.
  LeRoy.

   + + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 912. Jl. ’07. 1100w. (Review of v. 39–46.)

     + + =Ind.= 63: 878. O. 10, ’07. 740w. (Review of v. 39–50.)


=Blaisdell, E. Warde.= Animal serials. **$1. Crowell.

                                                                6–34712.

  In which animals are drawn to express the “foibles, fancies,
  weaknesses, and conceits that are noticeable in human beings.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A unique and mirth-provoking collection of droll drawing.”

       + =Arena.= 37: 333. Mr. ’07. 50w.

       + =Dial.= 41: 397. D. 1, ’06. 140w.


=Blake, Mary Elizabeth.= In the harbour of hope. **$1.25. Little.

                                                                7–37236.

  A volume of verse by one to whom Dr. Holmes once said, “You are one of
  the birds that must sing.” Her poems touch upon religion, nature,
  humanity and ideals, and voice the sturdy yet peaceful notes of the
  simple life.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 30w.


=Blake, William.= Letters: together with a life by Frederick Tatham; ed.
from the original manuscripts by Archibald G. B. Russell. *$2. Scribner.

                                                                7–15910.

  From all the material furnished in this “life and letters” one gathers
  a story of Blake’s life “quite apart from his poetry, his painting and
  his mysticism, and full of human interest.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A collection of letters as complete as it can be made at present.” A.
  Clutton-Brock.

     + + =Acad.= 71: 524. N. 24, ’06. 900w.

  “No more simple and straightforward letters were ever written, nor any
  in which an intimate ecstasy has found such immediate expression. The
  other part of Mr. Russell’s book, the life of Frederick Tatham, is of
  no literary value, but is invaluable as a document.”

     + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 611. N. 17. 910w.

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 12. Ja. 11, ’07. 120w.

  “Mr. Russell’s introduction is written from large knowledge, and is a
  really valuable essay on Blake as an artist.”

     + + =Nation.= 83: 533. D. 20, ’06. 350w.

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 527. Mr. 2, ’07. 150w.

  “These letters give us a better idea of the man than any biography.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 102: 708. D. 8, ’06. 500w.

  “Mr. Russell has made amends for some want of editorial judgment by
  restoring the true reading in one line of poetry, misprinted in
  Gilchrist, and consequently in every edition of the poems.”

     + − =Spec.= 97: 826. N. 24, ’06. 680w.


=Blanchard, Amy E.= Four Corners in California. †$1.50. Jacobs.

                                                                7–30993.

  In which the four Corners go on a trip to California where new scenes
  and experiences call forth all their young enthusiasm. There are bits
  of instruction which the young reader may cull from the story.


=Blanchard, Amy E.= Three little cousins. (Little maid ser.) †$1.
Jacobs.

                                                                7–28974.

  One from England, one from the east and one from the west, three
  little cousins meet for the first time at their aunt’s cottage by the
  sea. This story tells of the good times they had during a summer
  together.


=Bland, Edith (Nesbit) (Mrs. Hubert Bland).= Railway children; with
drawings by C. E. Brock. †$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                6–34371.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Told with something of the humor and originality of the
  ‘Would-be-goods’ but overdrawn, inclined, to sensationalism, and not
  nearly so good.”

       − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 80. Mr. ’07.

  “It must be confessed, however, that the incidents in ‘The railway
  children’ are quite as conventionally melodramatic as in many of the
  American stories.”

     + − =R. of Rs.= 34: 763. D. ’06. 270w.


=Bland, Edith (Nesbit) (Mrs. Hubert Bland).= Story of the amulet; with
48 il. by H. R. Millar. $1.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–32330.

  “Here we have what we may call ‘Alice in Wonderland in excelsis.’ A
  family of children, whose father has gone as a war correspondent,
  while their mother is on a health voyage, discover a wonderful
  creature called a Psammead. By his help, together with the amulet
  which figures in the title, they are transported to various scenes in
  the past, after the fashion of the king who lived a life while he was
  dipping his head in a pail of water. They go to pre-dynastic Egypt,
  when palaeolithic man was in the Nile valley; they see Babylon, whose
  queen has an opportunity of expressing her views about social
  conditions in London; they see the vanished Atlantis, and Julius
  Caesar when he was in Britain, and then, by a backward leap, a
  Pharaoh, one of the special devotees of the Amen-Ra.”—Spec.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A delightful book, destined to be read and re-read by (or to) her
  small admirers.”

       + =Acad.= 71: 608. D. 15, ’06. 70w.

  “Children who like fairy tales will enjoy the book and unconsciously
  acquire a certain amount of knowledge.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 206. N. ’07.

  “Characteristic of E. Nesbit are skillful delineation of childish
  individuality and facility in charging the most impossible situation
  with a current of sweet reasonableness, and these features distinguish
  ‘The story of the amulet.’”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 653. N. 24. 70w.

  “Very delightful book which is interesting for old as well as young.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 130w.

  “A fascinating narrative, and one which has beneath the surface a
  gentle satire and also a kindly human sympathy.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 256. Je. 1, ’07. 180w.

       + =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 70w.

  “The general result is a very clever extravaganza, which an
  intelligent young person will hardly be able to read without
  acquiring, unconsciously, or even against his or her will, a certain
  amount of knowledge.”

       + =Spec.= 97: sup. 658. N. 3, ’06. 200w.


=Bland, Hubert.= Letters to a daughter. *$1.25. Kennerley.

  “A staid book of imaginary letters” in which the writer “instructs a
  young woman in that mysterious art, in which all that is subtle, all
  that is beautiful, all that is morbid, all that is delicate, all the
  all of all, can be expressed—the art of being a woman.” (Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Acad.= 71: 406. O. 20, ’06. 220w.

  “He drags Epicuranism over the ultimate precipice of cynicism, and it
  is only because he does it with humor and an eyeglass that we forgive
  him. Our admiration in any case must follow him.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 654. N. 24. 350w.

  “One thing Alexa’s father did not have, and that was keen sense of
  humor, a thing hardly to be forgiven in a letter writer.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 253. Ap. 20, ’07. 400w.

  “They are eminently readable. How far the instruction they contain is
  suited to the age of their supposed recipient—a girl of nineteen—is
  another matter.”

     + − =Spec.= 97: 529. O. 13, ’06. 1940w.


=Blunt, Reginald.= Paradise row; or, A broken piece of old Chelsea.
*$3.50. Macmillan.

                                                                7–25145.

  Being the curious and diverting annals of a famous village street
  newly destroyed, together with particulars of sundry notable persons
  who in former times dwelt there, to which are added likenesses of the
  principal of them and their several houses; the whole collected and
  presented by Reginald Blunt.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Our author’s style does not always please us, and is sometimes
  complicated.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 616. N. 17. 480w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 857. D. 8, ’06. 300w.

  “He tells his story very agreeably.”

       + =Sat. R.= 102: 780. D. 22, 06. 220w.


=Boardman, Rosina Cox.= Lilies and orchids. *$2.50. Cooke.

                                                                7–24620.

  “A guide to those interested in this particular branch of floral and
  botanical study, and is of use also to all lovers of wild flowers. The
  flower families are illustrated by specimens chosen mainly in the
  United States east of the Rockies, but with a few also from Canada and
  California.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A timely and attractive publication.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 380. Je. 16, ’07. 60w.

       + =Nation.= 84: 595. Je. 27, ’07. 190w.

  “A really unusual book.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 60w.

  “The color-studies are notable for their exquisite tints and faithful
  reproduction of the originals.”

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 526. Jl. 6, ’07. 90w.


=Boigne, Comtesse de.= Memoirs of the Comtesse de Boigne; ed. from the
original ms. by M. Charles Nicoullaud. **$2.50. Scribner.

                                                                7–21749.

  =v. 1.= “This new collection covers the period extending from the last
  days of the old monarchy, through the revolution and the first empire,
  to the restoration of the Bourbons by the allied sovereigns of
  Europe.... The pages are filled with lively reminiscences and amusing
  anecdotes in which figure all the famous folk of this wonderful time,
  men and women distinguished in society, politics, and literature, from
  Mme. Récamier and Lady Hamilton to Guizot and Lamartine, from
  Lafayette to Mme. de Staël.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  =v. 2.= “The reminiscences of the Comtesse are continued during the
  Hundred days, Napoleon’s return from Elba, the events of Waterloo, and
  the restoration down to the year 1819. During this period the Comtesse
  returned to England with her father, who was French ambassador.
  Anecdotes of the English court and aristocratic society abound, and
  much criticism of English manners and customs, pointed by comparisons
  with French social and political life, makes highly entertaining
  reading.”—Sat. R.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “These memoirs are exactly what memoirs should be—to be of value and
  interest. No attempt is made to write history; there is nothing
  pretentious about them, nothing dull.”

     + + =Acad.= 72: 532. Je. 1, ’07. 1340w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “A volume which, while here and there open to doubts as to accuracy,
  is everywhere attractive.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 64. Jl. 20. 1160w. (Review of v. 1.)

  Reviewed by S. M. Francis.

       + =Atlan.= 100: 492. O. ’07. 610w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The translator, modestly anonymous, has succeeded in giving to his
  version the agreeable effect of an original work.” Percy F. Bicknell.

     + + =Dial.= 43: 84. Ag. 16, ’07. 1630w. (Review v. 1.)

  “This second volume is inferior in interest to the first, owing to the
  lesser importance of its subject-matter.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 1376. D. 5, ’07. 700w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “This volume is one of exceptional readableness.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 35: 271. Ag. 24, ’07. 2480w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The Comtesse de Boigne is a good talker, and we cannot have too much
  of her. She is not as piercingly clever as Madame du Deffand, or as
  steely in her philosophical content as Madame Geoffrin, or as
  sensitive as Madame de Beaumont, or as sensible as Madame d’Epinay.
  But she is what the frontispiece tells us—a shrewd, sagacious, witty,
  unexaggerative Frenchwoman, with enough heart to serve our turn and
  enough experience to make her wise—not enough, perhaps, to make her
  lovable. She may have been more trenchant than profound, but to
  quarrel with her is impossible.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 188. Je. 14, ’07. 2250w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The work contains much distinguished trifling, and is interesting for
  desultory reading or as a mine for quotation.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 237. S. 12, ’07. 460w. (Review of v. 1.)

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 150w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The appendix is stored with some interesting correspondence, which
  the judicious editor has carefully sifted from the text in order to
  make the latter coherent. Everywhere his literary skill and historical
  knowledge are in evidence but never intrusive.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 509. Ag. 24, ’07. 1330w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Decidedly, these memoirs are among the best and most valuable
  published this autumn. No lover of biography and personalia can afford
  to forego the pleasure of their perusal. No historian of the period
  can ignore them. Incidentally, both will be under deep obligation to
  M. Charles Nicoullaud, the editor, whose literary adjustments have
  undoubtedly added to the coherence of the book and whose running
  commentary and appendices make its authority complete and secure.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 713. N. 9, ’07. 1180w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “Delightful reading of their kind.”

     + + =Putnam’s.= 3: 370. D. ’07. 310w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “What makes these memoirs so interesting is that Madame de Boigne
  describes, with pitiless fidelity, the intimate life of three
  successive régimes, that of Louis XVI., that of Buonaparte, and that
  of Louis XVIII.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 784. Je. 22, ’07. 1620w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “She was a shrewd observer, wrote cleverly, and her little cynicisms,
  mingled with aristocratic complacency, are extremely amusing.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 104: 460. O. 12, ’07. 140w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “A readable translation, though it appears to miss the point of one of
  Madame de Boigne’s best stories.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: 57. Jl. 13, ’07. 210w. (Review of v. 1.)


=Bolce, Harold.= New internationalism. **$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                 7–6637.

  The financial and commercial amalgamation of the nations is the
  central theme of Mr. Bolce’s discussion. The following comparison
  between this book and Miss Jane Addams’ “Newer ideals of peace” is
  enlightening: “Mr. Bolce is material; Miss Addams spiritual. He puts
  his trust in the development of international trade; she detects the
  development of cosmopolitan friendship. One sees, in the financiers
  and merchants, the architects of the new internationalism; the other
  finds among the feeblest immigrants the harbingers of the new ideals.
  But the books are complementary, not contradictory.” (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is scrappy and somewhat superficial, but clever, interesting
  and emphasizes a note that needs emphasis at the present time, that of
  reciprocity and the economic interdependence of modern nations.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 118. My. ’07.

       + =Ind.= 62: 855. Ap. 11, ’07. 680w.

  “Though written primarily for English readers, it has interest for
  American students of the subject, but it does not pretend to be a book
  for experts. If it can lay claim to no striking merits, the volume is
  also free from striking defects.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 553. Je. 13, ’07. 320w.

  “There is nothing visionary or academic about Mr. Bolce’s economics.
  His sympathies are all with the men who do things, and he thinks them
  competent to teach the closet theorists.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 58. F. 2, ’07. 320w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 50w.


=Bölsche, Wilhelm.= Haeckel; his life and work; tr., with an introd., by
Joseph McCabe. *$4. Jacobs.

                                                                6–24940.

  A “plain study” of Haeckel’s personality and the growth of his ideas
  which is intended in its approximately true appreciation to replace “a
  hundred Haeckels grotesque in their unlikeness to each other” which
  “circulate in our midst today.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Current Literature.= 42: 96. Ja. ’07. 1780w.

  “The distinguished German biographer brings to his task not merely
  literary style and imaginative qualities, but a technical and intimate
  knowledge of science in its latest development.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 34: 177. F. 2, ’07. 160w.

  “This is an unusually successful work in a difficult field. While we
  must give credit to the author for teaching us a great deal of zoology
  in a pleasant manner, the most difficult part of his task, he has
  hardly done justice to an exceptionally interesting individuality.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 392. Ap. 25, ’07. 790w.

  “Prof. W. Bölsche’s study of Ernst Haeckel is, like the frontispiece
  of the book, a picture in warm colours. The author is nothing if not
  enthusiastic, and indeed no one can think over the achievements of
  Haeckel’s life without sharing the author’s admiration for his hero.”

       + =Nature.= 74: 26. My. 10, ’06. 680w.

  “In the nature of things—and the German professional point of view and
  literary manner—the total is rather hard reading. Yet there is much of
  real interest.”

   + + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 43. Ja. 26, ’07. 1120w.

  “Is a model biography for the unprofessional, but cultured reader.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 102: 585. N. 10, ’06. 110w.

  “Very lucid and interesting account of this veteran biologist’s life
  and work.”

     + + =Spec.= 97: sup. 467. O. 6, ’06. 260w.


=Bond, Beverly Waugh, jr.= Monroe mission to France 1794–1796. 50c.
Johns Hopkins.

                                                                7–22912.

  A detailed account of this important diplomatic incident, which is
  based upon the Monroe papers and gives the inner history of the
  mission, definitely establishing the circumstances and the motives of
  the actors.


=Bonner, Geraldine.= Rich men’s children; il. by C. M. Relyea. †$1.50.
Bobbs.

                                                                6–37925.

  A western story in which a multimillionaire’s son marries an
  adventuress, takes to the mountains to win back his peace of mind,
  falls in love with a bonanza king’s daughter and hopes for
  developments that will permit an honorable marriage. The way appears
  when the former husband of the unfit wife appears, and is a welcome
  factor in straightening the tangle.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is one of the strongest romances of the year.”

     + + =Arena.= 36: 687. D. ’06. 280w.

  “All things considered, it is rather the best piece of fiction that
  has yet come from Geraldine Bonner’s pen, the clearest character
  drawing, the strongest situations, the most thoroughly human appeal
  from first to last.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

   + + − =Bookm.= 26: 78. S. ’07. 710w.

  “Miss Bonner’s book is primarily about the children of two of these
  bonanza families, but its best and most interesting, parts are those
  that treat of the parents.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 871. D. 15, ’06. 460w.


=Booth, Mrs. Maud Ballington.= Twilight fairy tales. **$1.25. Putnam.

                                                                6–38892.

  Mrs. Booth’s tales follow the fortunes of a little boy “who found the
  magic land of ‘Maybe’ the more readily for faithfulness in the land of
  ‘Is,’ and so lived cheek by jowl with fairies when he had behaved
  himself properly.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The stories are new and ‘different.’”

       + =Bookm.= 24: 528. Ja. ’07. 70w.

         =Ind.= 61: 1408. D. 22, ’06. 20w.

         =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 40w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 60w.

  “Mrs. Booth writes fluently and gracefully. The pictures are somewhat
  strained in effect and badly drawn.”

     + − =Outlook.= 84: 795. N. 24, ’06. 70w.


=Booth, William H.= Water softening and treatment, condensing plant,
feed pumps, and heaters for steam users and manufacturers; with figs.,
diags. and tables. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.

                                                                 7–4532.

  The work is divided into five sections as follows: 1, Treatment of
  water by softening, together with the separation of oil and
  filtration; 2, Air pumps, condensers, and circulating pumps; 3, Feed
  heating and stage heating; 4, Water cooling; and 5, Feed pumps and
  injectors.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “From those portions of the book more closely related to its title the
  American engineer will learn but little. The methods of analysis given
  are inadequate and the forms of softening apparatus described are
  evidently less efficient than those in common use in this country.”
  George C. Whipple.

       − =Engin. N.= 56: 187. Ag. 16, ’06. 190w.

  “Altogether, the book contains complete information with respect to
  the purification and supply of water to steam boilers, which will be
  valuable to users of steam; whilst the first portion on water
  softening, will be very useful in indicating the methods by which hard
  water may be rendered available for various manufactures requiring
  pure water.”

     + + =Nature.= 74: 464. S. 6, ’06. 570w.


=Booth, William Stone.= Practical guide for authors in their relations
with publishers and printers. *50c. Houghton.

                                                                7–14814.

  “A clear and terse exposition of ‘those questions and difficulties
  which may arise during negotiations for the sale of a manuscript to a
  publisher, or in the relations which exist between a publisher and an
  author after a work has been accepted.’”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Booth writes with authority, having full and very helpful
  knowledge of his subject.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 1474. Je. 20, ’07. 80w.

       + =Ind.= 63: 763. S. 26, ’07. 70w.

  “He writes of the practical side of things with sanity and clearness.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 723. My. 4, ’07. 50w.

  “The best book of its kind we have seen, both for its simplicity and
  its comprehensiveness. It is in reality an excellent ‘style-card’ for
  printers and proof-readers, as well as a book of directions for
  writers.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 359. Ap. 18, ’07. 40w.

  “Should prove of great service in making the creators and publishers
  of books more often walk the primrose path.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 291. My. 4, ’07. 160w.

  “Aside from the scholarly work everywhere evident in the book, there
  is an interest not usually associated with books of a similar kind—in
  fact Mr. Booth’s book makes entertaining instruction of a very dry
  subject.” H. E. Coblentz.

     + + =School R.= 15: 556. S. ’07. 270w.


=Borden, Spencer.= Arab horse; with preface by Prof. Henry Osborne; il.
**$1.20. Doubleday.

                                                                6–36199.

  “An interesting history of the animal, both on his native heath and in
  the countries to which he has been exported. Considerable space is
  given to the Arabs in America; and their pedigrees and history are
  interesting to the lovers of the breed.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Nation.= 83: 393. N. 8, ’06. 50w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 904. D. 29, ’06. 110w.


=Borden, Stephen Whiley.= How to check electricity bills: containing
methods of charging for electricity with directions for reading and
testing electric meters. *50c. McGraw pub.

                                                                7–31191.

  “The first part of this little volume is given over to a non-technical
  definition of a watt, by considering how many watts the common forms
  of apparatus use. Chapters are included on general principles of
  meters, troubles and systems of charges and discounts.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Engin. N.= 57: 555. My. 16, ’07. 160w.


=Bosanquet, Helen (Mrs. Bernard Bosanquet).= Family. *$2.75. Macmillan.

                                                                7–11569.

  “This book is a sociological study in which the ethical interest is
  clearly recognized throughout as the dominant interest. It is the
  history of an institution considered as embodying certain moral ideas.
  In tracing the development of the family, in examining its various
  forms, and in tracing its relation with other institutions, Mrs.
  Bosanquet keeps unfalteringly the human point of view. The book is
  quite uncontroversial in tone.... The first part is historical.... The
  second part treats of the modern family—its bases, economic function,
  its constituent parts, its outlook.”—Int. J. Ethics.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mrs. Bosanquet gives us a rich collection of truths; but they are not
  the whole truth; and without the whole truth the whole picture of the
  family becomes distorted,” C. S. Devas.

     + − =Acad.= 71: 573. D. 8, ’06. 1400w.

  “Preserving throughout the ethical interest, the optimistic view.
  Written in a luminous, easy style.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 192. N. ’07.

  “The author has done a valuable work in bringing together the results
  of the most careful investigators into the early history of the
  institution as well as a study of the modern family.” Emily Fogg
  Meade.

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 173. Jl. ’07. 450w.

  “With an easy, luminous style, ready but unobtrusive humor, and a
  warmth that grows into eloquence, almost into passion towards its
  close, the book is in its fundamental attitude an admirable
  contribution on a most important subject.” Mary Gilliland Husband.

     + + =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 399. Ap. ’07. 740w.

  Reviewed by Mary L. Bush.

         =J. Philos.= 4: 468. Ag. 15, ’07. 1010w.

  “Some chapters compare favorably with anything to be found elsewhere
  on the same subjects. Many of the reflections are perhaps not very
  profound. There are rather too many formless generalities; the
  conclusions lack precision; they do not always escape being
  platitudes. Mrs. Bosanquet raises many problems, physical and moral,
  only to leave some of them much as she found them. These drawbacks
  notwithstanding, there is a rare vein of reflection, there are
  delicate observations, perception of circumstances which escape the
  eye of the ordinary observer; and we are constantly in the company, if
  not of an acute economist, of a moralist who has an eye for much to
  which the latter is apt to be blind.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 383. D. 16, ’06. 1400w.

  “It should be said that this volume contains occasional passages of
  rare eloquence, such as those on p. 160 and onwards, on the very real
  and spiritual entity of the family.”

     + + =Nature.= 75: 78. N. 22, ’06. 340w.

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 898. Ap. 20. ’07. 2330w.

  “It would be possible to deal rather roughly with various aspects of
  family life, but her general tone is one of gentle optimism, and we
  are afraid it is the glorified ideal of the family rather than its
  materialised form that she traces for us.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 102: 808. D. 29, ’06. 1200w.

  “Mrs. Bosanquet’s book is remarkably restrained and uncontroversial in
  tone.”

     + + =Spec.= 97: 825. N. 24, ’06. 1590w.

  “An interesting volume.”

       + =Yale R.= 15: 468. F. ’07. 120w.


=Bose, Jagadis Chunder.= Plant response as a means of physiological
investigation. *$7. Longmans.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “A biologically equipped reader with no special knowledge of plant
  physiology will experience dazzled admiration for the logical,
  progressive way in which the author builds up, not in words, but
  actually experiment on experiment, a complete functioning plant from
  three simple conceptions. A student of plant physiology, who has some
  acquaintance with the main classical ideas of his subject, will feel
  at first extreme bewilderment as he peruses this book. It proceeds so
  smoothly and logically, and yet it does not start from any place in
  the existing ‘corpus’ of knowledge, and never attaches itself with any
  firm adherence. This effect of detachment is heightened by the
  complete absence of precise references to the work of other
  investigators.” F. F. Blackman.

     + − =Nature.= 75: 313. Ja. 31, ’07. 2170w.


=Bottome, Phyllis.= Imperfect gift [a novel]. †$1.50. Dutton.

  “The author has taken for her central characters two sisters, one of
  whom is obviously and remarkably beautiful; the other is beautiful in
  her heart and mind, whilst far from impeccable, and lovably human. The
  lives of these two girls are traced from their early childhood, with a
  widowed mother in Italy, to their establishment in life in London; and
  their characters are developed before our eyes with subtlety and
  skill.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The whole book is very unequal and unfinished; the people do not live
  or gain the reader’s sympathy, and difficulties are avoided at the
  expense of truth.”

     − + =Acad.= 72: 393. Ap. 20, ’07. 480w.

  “There are 340 pages in it, and not one of them is a page wasted or
  spoilt. It is a fine sober piece of literary workmanship, as well as
  an entertaining novel.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 468. Ap. 20. 220w.

  “The story is smoothly and competently told, and while its basis lies
  in the realm of mediocre, respectable fiction, the observation of
  detail, if a shade shopworn, is always sufficiently correct and
  agreeably expressed to make the whole fairly readable—if no better
  novel be at hand.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 143. Ag. 15, ’07, 260w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 500. Ag. 17, ’07. 110w.

  “The reader will find the story completely satisfactory until the
  moment comes when he is told what is the particular talent to which
  the heroine is going to devote herself.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: 625. Ap. 20, ’07. 200w.


=Boulting, William.= Tasso and his times. *$2.75. Putnam.

  A biography full of side-lights on the history of Italy during the
  latter part of the sixteenth century. Tasso’s personal history is a
  succession of failures and troubles; it is a record of one too weak to
  buffet his way among despots and courtiers identified with Italy’s
  decline and corruption.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We may have appeared to have criticised Mr. Boulting severely, but we
  have done so because his book seems to deserve careful consideration,
  and we desire to recommend it to many readers whom its more
  conspicuous merits will instruct and entertain.”

   + + − =Acad.= 73: 965. O. 5, ’07. 2080w.

  “From every point of view, historical, biographical, literary, and
  critical, ‘Tasso and his times’ will be found most satisfactory.”
  Walter Littlefield.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 598. O. 5, ’07. 1320w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

  “It is rather because this volume gives us a clear picture of Italy in
  the latter part of the sixteenth century than because it is a
  biography of Tasso that it will be welcome to a large circle of
  readers.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 270. O. 5, ’07. 220w.

  “This book, heralded so loudly, is a popular and superficial account,
  not so much of Tasso as a poet as of Tasso at court, without a single
  note or an allusion in the text to any authority save a reference in
  the last chapter to Professor Solerti. Mr. Boulting mistakes the whole
  dream and purpose of the Italian renaissance.”

     − − =Sat. R.= 104: 397. S. 28, ’07. 1320w.

  “Mr. Boulting does a biographer’s duty without partiality, and makes
  an effective picture of the man. On Tasso’s poetry Mr. Boulting gives
  us some excellent criticism; this is, we think, the best part of his
  book. Of the ‘times’ he has much to say. He has gathered materials
  with unsparing industry, sometimes, it may be going too far afield,
  and bringing back what it might have been better to leave behind.
  Still, he has written a very readable book.”

   + + − =Spec.= 99: 402. S. 21, ’07. 230w.


=Boulton, William B.= Thomas Gainsborough, his life, work, friends, and
sitters. *$2.75. McClurg.

  This is as complete and comprehensive as a study of every bit of
  available material can make it. The interesting stages of
  Gainsborough’s development are followed, facts concerning his friends
  and the subjects of his portraits are recorded, and a good summary of
  the achievements of the artist and the characteristics of the man
  fills the last two chapters. The evolution of his genius is also
  traced in the forty reproductions of his paintings.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In spite of unavoidable gaps and deficiencies, even the early
  chapters of the book are not dull. He has utilized the accepted
  sources of biographical material, marshalling his facts in simple
  orderly fashion, and dealing with them in a dignified and yet
  thoroughly genial and appreciative way.” Edith Kellogg Dunton.

       + =Dial.= 43: 247. O. 16, ’07. 1140w.

  “Mr. Boulton has a very uneven style, and the proofreader is guilty of
  several slips, but these little blemishes do not prevent a reader from
  enjoying the absence of dryness, one of the common failings of ‘art
  books’ in all ages. He feels that he has come perceptibly nearer to an
  understanding of the impetuous yet shrewd, Thomas Gainsborough.”
  Charles de Kay.

   + + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 585. S. 28, ’07. 1430w.


=Bourchier, Dr. Helen.= Darry’s awakening. †$1.50. Warne.

  A book for girls which tells the story of a child’s loveless training
  among grandparents and aunts who were “doing their duty” by the
  daughter of the departed member of their family who had married a man
  unfit, so they believed, to be responsible for the child. The father
  returns, carries his daughter off to India with him, and there, thrown
  upon her own resources, she tries and succeeds in righting a life
  whose warped beginnings furnish but poor encouragement.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This might have been an innocuous book for girls just turning up
  their pigtails, had not the author apparently believed Darry’s
  truthfulness justifiably wrecked for life by the tinned salmon.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 187. Ag. 29, ’07. 380w.


=Bourke, S. Ten Eyck.= Fables in feathers. il. †$1. Crowell.

                                                                7–24036.

  Children will be delighted with these fables, which tell them why the
  swallow wears a forked tail, why the robin wears a red breast, why the
  woodpecker goes a-tapping, why the owl can’t see in the sun, why the
  peacock wears eyes on his tail, why the crow’s feathers are black, how
  the mocking bird got his name, and how the parrot came to wear a
  hooked beak, and why the jackdaw hides everything bright.


=Bousset, Wilhelm.= Jesus; tr. by Janet Penrose Trevelyan; ed. by W. D.
Morrison. *$1.25. Putnam.

                                                                6–21195.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “On the whole the work is not extremely radical: it seeks to be
  constructive, is written in good spirit.”

       + =Ind.= 61: 1571. D. 27, ’06. 390w.


=Bowen, Marjorie.= Master of Stair. †$1.50. McClure.

                                                                7–15924.

  “A story of Scotland at the close of the seventeenth century, dealing
  in the main with a plot to overthrow William of Orange, but more
  specifically with the hereditary feud between the clans of Campbell
  and Glencoe, and the treachery by which the latter clan was finally
  exterminated.”—Bookm.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author has a sense of style and a fertile imagination. Against
  [several] slips may be set the vivid portraiture of many characters
  (those of William of Orange and Lady Dalrymple would redeem a far
  worse book) and the general truth of the local colour.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 601. My. 18. 260w.

  “While quite distinctly not in the same class with Maurice Hewlett,
  she nevertheless shares with him the rather uncommon gift of infusing
  the thrill of life into vanished centuries, and making men and women,
  long since a handful of dust, seem to us, for the time being living
  breathing realities.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

       + =Bookm.= 25: 393. Je. ’07. 520w.

  “Her second novel is so much more creditable a work that its merits
  are in no need of puffery.” Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 43: 64. Ag. 1, ’07. 170w.

  “While we admire her spirit, it is difficult to feel that all this
  ‘slightly grandiloquent magnificence’ is satisfactory; it is a rich
  cloak, but it does not take the place of bones and flesh.”

     − + =Lond. Times.= 6: 166. My. 24, ’07. 380w.

  “The author has decided descriptive ability. Has also dramatic power.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 362. Je. 8, ’07. 320w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 280w.

       + =Outlook.= 86: 339. Je. 15, ’07. 190w.

  “Exhibiting a total ignorance of technique, of the rudiments of her
  art, she contrives to emerge safely and successfully from all kinds of
  difficult situations.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 657. My. 25, ’07. 400w.


=Bowen, Marjorie.= Viper of Milan. $1.50. McClure.

                                                                6–41272.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “It is not so much the clever blending of history and fiction which
  makes Miss Bowen’s book remarkable; it is the rare atmosphere of
  reality which permeates it.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

       + =Bookm.= 24: 487. Ja. ’07. 390w.

  “The story makes up in action for the shortcomings of its style.”

     + − =Dial.= 42: 15. Ja. 1, ’07. 140w.

  “There is not a philosophical sentence in the book, not a single
  appeal to religion, it is simply a gorgeous fairy tale of human life
  with a diabolical hero, worked out thru every imaginable irony of
  circumstance, and considered within these limitations, it is almost
  beyond criticism in style, construction and fascination.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 97. Ja. 10, ’07. 640w.

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 25. Ja. 5, ’07. 220w.


=Bower, B. M. (B. M. Sinclair).= Her prairie knight, and Rowdy of the
“Cross L.” il. †$1.25. Dillingham.

                                                                7–23641.

  A reissue of two good western stories. In the former a New York
  society girl is influenced by the sky, the air and the plains, to be
  true to herself and marry for love rather than for a title. The second
  tells of the devotion of a little school teacher of the plains to her
  cowboy brother, whose trickery and dishonesty are run to cover by the
  man she loves.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He has a sense of humor, especially in the situations he contrives
  and he has written an entertaining story.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 515. Ag. 24, ’07. 130w.


=Bower, B. M. (B. M. Sinclair).= Range dwellers. †$1.25. Dillingham.

                                                                 7–6407.

  The breezy, dare-devil, son of a San Francisco millionaire tells in
  his own amusing way of how he was rusticated on his father’s Montana
  cattle ranch, in the hope that it would make a man of him, how he fell
  in love with the daughter of a neighboring rancher, who had enjoyed
  thirty years of feud and enmity with his father, and how he carried
  her off in a motor-car. Altogether he demonstrates that he is a wholly
  “good sort” capable of winning the good comradeship of his fellow
  cowboys altho handicapped by being “the son and heir.”


* =Boxall, George E.= Awakening of a race. *$2.75. Wessels.

                                                                7–32830.

  “In this work the author has traced out briefly the tendencies of
  thought in civilized countries at the present time with a view to
  estimating the probable trend of events in the near future. He notes
  the decay of ideals in this and in other civilised lands, and
  prophesies a new development of the religious idea. Man, he says,
  always has had and always must have a religion as a guide to conduct,
  and the lesson we learn from the past is that a new religion grows
  gradually out of an older one as man’s knowledge increases. According
  to him Christianity has about reached its ultimate capacity for
  division, and, as ‘a house divided against itself cannot stand,’ a new
  development in religion, based on a scientific view of the world, is
  absolutely necessary.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A person who dares to jeer at a faith of whose history he has not a
  textbook knowledge, who sets his conclusions in matters of
  ethnological research against those of the acknowledged leaders of the
  science, without so much as a schoolboy’s equipment, calls rather for
  contempt than criticism, laughter than logic. When he enters the
  domain of sociology and religion he becomes merely ridiculous, and his
  essays in the reconstruction of human origins are too silly to be
  entirely dull.”

     − − =Acad.= 73: 789. Ag. 17, ’07. 2350w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 20w.


=Boyles, Kate, and Boyles, Virgil D.= Langford of the Three Bars.
†$1.50. McClurg.

                                                                7–15542.

  This tale of South Dakota follows the trials of a young ranchman, Paul
  Langford, who undertakes to put an end to cattle-rustling in his
  section. The county attorney takes up the fight for Langford against
  the thieves, and the terrifying happenings that result provide a wild
  west thrill for every page. Langford’s energy, determination and sense
  of justice win the day finally, tho not without tragedies.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 200w.

  “Their collaborative work is remarkably smooth and even and shows
  little trace of its double authorship.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 502. Ag. 17, ’07. 190w.


=Brace, Benjamin.= Seventh person. †$1.50. Dodd.

                                                                6–34686.

  Jerry Chambers is a young collegian who as a member of a fraternity is
  obliged at the end of his course to perform whatever task might be
  outlined in the envelope that he draws from a mysterious black bag.
  “Obeying its imperative mandate, against which parental wishes count
  for naught, he departs for South America, where in a marvelously short
  time he wins great renown, a love affair with a beautiful señorita,
  developing meanwhile. The scenes of his subsequent adventures are in
  Mexico and the South and West of the country.” (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The conclusion is carefully manipulated.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 100w.

  “Mr. Brace has the gift of imagination in a most frantic form.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 831. D. 1, ’06. 390w.


=Bradby, Godfrey Fox.= Great days of Versailles; studies from court life
in the later years of Louis XIV. il. $1.75. Scribner.

                                                                 7–6786.

  Based chiefly upon the memoirs of Saint-Simon, the letters of Mme. de
  Maintenon and of Madame the Princess Palatine, Mr. Bradby’s picture
  serves as “an introduction to the period for those who wish to pursue
  a more extensive study of eighteenth century memoirs, and will also be
  sufficiently complete and vivid to be of interest and value to those
  who have not the time and opportunity for more detailed reading.” (N.
  Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Bradby presents a sombre picture of this distinguished formal
  period, without any brilliance but with too much care to be at all
  disappointing, though at times we wish for the lightness and gaiety of
  style which were the feature of his charming story ‘Dick’ and his
  flippant farce ‘The Marquis’s eye.’”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 35. Ja. 12, ’07. 770w.

  “Mr. Bradby’s book gives a fair account of phases of life and thought
  which are now as extinct, and seem almost as remote, as the ways and
  usages of the Pharaohs, and in the study of them one can find much
  interest and some profit.” James Breck Perkins.

     + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 883. Jl. ’07. 760w.

  “On the whole, however, Mr. Bradby’s book is a scholarly and agreeable
  piece of light historical reading.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 827. D. 29. 250w.

  “Mr. Bradby has overcome the vast difficulties of the subject, and
  written a book that makes for learning as well as for amusement—a fine
  thing to be able to say, when we consider how very amusing it is! He
  has—or he has acquired—the priceless gift of proportion.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 5. Ja. 4, ’07. 850w.

  “The value of his work would have been enhanced, perhaps, especially
  for those who wish to carry their studies further, if he had more
  frequently footnoted his authorities.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 67. F. 2, ’07. 580w.

  “The last few years have seen a great outpouring of books about
  history, but it is not often easy to find among them one that is
  written in decent English and is evidently a well-arranged epitome of
  wide reading as this is.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 104: 178. Ag. 10, ’07. 290w.


=Bradley, Ernest.= Seven steps to the cross, being seven meditations
suitable for Lent, and more particularly for Good Friday. **60c.
Whittaker.

                                                                 7–4780.

  It is the object of these meditations to “carry a deep spiritual
  message on the sufferings of our Lord to those who may hear or read
  them.” The seven steps are; The last supper and the new commandment,
  Gethsemane, Caiaphas, Herod, Pilate, Out by the Jaffa gate, and
  Golgotha.


=Bradley, Shelland.= American girl in India. $1.75. Macmillan.

  The experiences of a lively American girl who goes to India
  principally to attend the “great Durbar” at Delhi. “She reckons and
  guesses with equal aplomb, and has certain idioms of her own
  invention, such as ‘I don’t catch right on to the people straight
  away,’ and ‘Say, though, I’m shying off the main point,’ not to speak
  of a touch here and there of untimely cockney.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is of course fiction and fiction—the kind which aspires to be a
  fine art (and so seldom, alas! attains its aspirations) and that which
  aspires among other small things mainly to amuse (so often failing
  too). To the latter class belongs ‘An American girl in India;’ but far
  from being a failure, this novel contains so much knowledge of
  character, and such a light and sure touch in the sketching of passing
  personalities, that we regret the trivialities which condemn it to a
  place in the second category.”

     − + =Acad.= 72: 345. Ap. 6, ’07. 410w.

  “When one has mastered the jargon one finds her an amusing person in a
  mild way.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 501. My. 30, ’07. 240w.

  “The book is written with a good deal of vivacity, much of it of a
  cheap sort, and with facility in the use of the English language.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 500. Ag. 17, ’07. 130w.


=Brady, Cyrus Townsend.= Blue ocean’s daughter. †$1.50. Moffat.

                                                                7–29001.

  “It is about an Amazonian sort of young woman who was born on board
  her father’s ship, grew up on it in his company, was as good a sailor
  as the skipper, and if need was could fight with swords and pistols as
  well as if she had been a man. The time of the story is laid in the
  latter part of the revolutionary war and the ship is pursued by an
  English frigate. Out of the pursuit and the fight there grow all
  manner of exciting incidents.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Has a plethora of strange and exciting incident and is written in his
  most rattling style.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 584. S. 28, ’07. 170w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 20w.


=Brady, Cyrus Townsend.= Patriots. †$1.50. Dodd.

                                                                 6–9278.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Strong alike in incident and character-drawing.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 767. D. 15. 110w.


=Brady, Cyrus Townsend, and Peple, Edward Henry.= Richard the brazen.
†$1.50. Moffat.

                                                                6–28452.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “We have a suspicion that the tale, like the Adelphi melodrama, was
  written for the gallery, and an American gallery into the bargain.”

       − =Acad.= 73: 778. Ag. 10, ’07. 190w.


=Brainerd, Eleanor Hoyt.= Bettina. †$1.25. Doubleday.

                                                                 7–3184.

  Of the following ingredients the story is composed: “a genial brother,
  a doctor with the orthodox Abernathy manners, a providentially effaced
  friend, whose non-appearance causes the case of mistaken identity upon
  which the story hinges, and a child of revealing prattle. A railway
  wreck, the wise scheme of a self-abnegating nurse, a thunderstorm, an
  overdose of medicine—all serve to bring about a happy ending foreseen
  from the first.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Not recommended for small library with limited means.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 77. Mr. ’07.

  “As we read the bright little sketch of American social life, we
  forget to cavil at its elaborate setting.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 513. O. 26. 160w.

  “Slight but cleverly handled story.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 385. Mr. 9, ’07. 100w.

  “‘Tis foolish,’ as our friend, Mr. Hennessy, says, but it is told in a
  pleasant, sprightly fashion, and it will furnish beguilement for many
  readers.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 67. Mr. 2, ’07. 130w.

  “The story [is] too slight to make into a book.”

       − =Outlook.= 85: 479. F. 23, ’07. 40w.


=Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen.= On reading: an essay. **75c. Duffield.

                                                                6–32694.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  Reviewed by William T. Brewster.

         =Forum.= 38: 384. Ja. ’07. 1160w.


=Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen.= Reminiscences of my childhood and youth.
**$2.50. Duffield.

                                                                6–34030.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Unhappily, however, the translation is not first rate, particularly
  in the Englishing of original turns and phrases, nor is the volume
  lacking in typographical errors.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 389. F. 14, ’07. 500w.

  “It is interesting partly though its naïve and refreshing
  candour—partly through its revelation of the narrow parochialism of
  Scandinavian life.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 431. D. 28, ’06. 980w.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 676. O. 13, ’06. 1040w. (Published by
         arrangement with Lond. Times.)

  “There is not a dull paragraph, not a single dry-as-dust element in
  this highly instructive autobiography, for which I earnestly wish many
  readers in this country.” Paul Harboe.

     + + =No. Am.= 183: 917. N. 2, ’06. 1300w.

  “The reader of the ‘Reminiscences’ finds Brandes not dry, certainly
  not unproductive, but assuredly ‘a creature with thoughts ground
  keen.’”

     + + =Putnam’s.= 1: 508. Ja. ’07. 700w.


=Brastow, Lewis O.= Modern pulpit: a study of homiletic sources and
characteristics. **$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                6–35521.

  An interpretation of the teaching of our day. The influences that are
  at work upon the ministry, the problems that are before it, and the
  demands that are urged upon it are all viewed in the light of the
  present day unification of the denominations.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Dr. Brastow, always calm, rational, deep-sighted and analytical, is
  especially so in this volume.” Robert E. Bisbee.

     + + =Arena.= 36: 685. D. ’06. 170w.

  Reviewed by George Hodges.

         =Atlan.= 99: 562. Ap. ’07. 240w.

  “A book about preaching of decided merit.”

     + + =Ind.= 61: 1118. N. 8, ’06. 50w.

  “The notable feature of this volume, however, is not its descriptions
  of personalities, but its examination of the more general agencies
  that have wrought upon modern preaching, together with its
  discrimination of the distinctive qualities in homiletical practice in
  the various Protestant nationalities and communions.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 560. D. 27, ’06. 480w.

  “Men of all churches will recognize his work as one of remarkable
  attractiveness and ability.”

     + + =Outlook.= 84: 631. N. 10, ’06. 600w.

  “Among new works on preaching and the modern pulpit, perhaps the most
  noteworthy volume of the past few months is ‘The modern pulpit.’”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 35: 118. Ja. ’07. 110w.


=Breasted, James Henry.= Ancient records of Egypt: historical documents
from the earliest times to the Persian conquest; collected, edited and
translated with commentary, v. 1–4 ea. *$4; v. 5. Index number. *$2.
Univ. of Chicago press.

                                                                 6–5480.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “In a work of such extent and difficulty there is inevitably much to
  criticize: and one cannot in reading it avoid the reflection that six
  months of steady revision of the whole of it are required in order to
  bring the work up to the high standard at which the author aims and
  which is to be looked for from one endowed with his comprehensive
  insight. The English throughout is crude, there are many mistakes in
  renderings and descriptions, and many hasty judgments.”

   + + − =Acad.= 72: 116. F. 2, ’07. 1770w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

  “The translation exhibits the same careful attention to matters of
  detail that is everywhere apparent. In wideness of scope, thoroughness
  of treatment extending to the minutest details, systematic arrangement
  and conscientious scholarship Professor Breasted’s ‘Ancient records’
  takes high rank, and it cannot be doubted that it will have a most
  important influence upon Egyptological studies in the domains both of
  history and philology.” Christopher Johnston.

     + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 858. Jl. ’07. 1720w.

  “One half of the corrigenda which Dr. Breasted announces in his fifth
  volume are caused by the uncouth and barbarous system of
  transliteration which forms the trade-mark of Berlin Egyptology, and
  which Dr. Breasted admits must be ignored by the general reader, it
  will be seen that he has suffered in no slight degree by his devotion
  to his innovating teachers. This is, however, the only fault we have
  to find.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 599. My. 18. 1320w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

  Reviewed by Christopher Johnston.

   + + + =Bib. World.= 29: 233. Mr. ’07. 230w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

  “A great saver of time and energy to the student.”

       + =Bib. World.= 29: 400. My. ’07. 40w. (Review of v. 5.)

  “A great work ready at hand with one of the best indexes ever
  constructed, making every fact available by its comprehensive system
  for quick, and easy reference.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 291. My. 1, ’07. 200w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

         =Ind.= 62: 741. Mr. 28, ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 5.)

  “These volumes form a monument of the author-translator, which will
  give his name a permanent place in the literature of the subject.”

   + + + =Nation.= 83: 558. D. 27, ’06. 370w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

         =Nation.= 84: 288. Mr. 28, ’07. 30w. (Review of v. 5.)

  “It is a monumental work, of which any country might be proud, and the
  University of Chicago is to be congratulated upon finding the scholar
  to achieve it and providing the means to give it to the world.”

   + + + =Sat. R.= 104: 270. Ag. 31, ’07. 1270w. (Review of v. 5.)


=Breasted, James Henry.= History of Egypt from the earliest times to the
Persian conquest. **$5. Scribner.

                                                                5–34978.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

  “Throughout Dr. Breasted writes clearly and lucidly. He tells his
  story in a straightforward and spirited manner and, while no detail of
  importance is omitted, he is never prolix. This happy combination of
  judicious conciseness with ample fulness of treatment is a
  distinguishing feature of the book.” Christopher Johnston.

   + + + =Bib. World.= 29: 234. Mr. ’07. 560w.

  “The best and most readable English history of Egypt.”

   + + + =Nation.= 83: 558. D. 27, ’06. 260w.


=Brebner, Percy.= Knight of the silver star. *$1. Fenno.

                                                                7–34776.

  An English traveler slides inadvertently down a mountain side on the
  borderland of Russia and finds himself in a strange kingdom where
  mediæval customs prevail. Here, welcomed as a heaven sent knight, he
  wields a sword in behalf of the beautiful princess, passes safely thru
  many wondrous adventures, and at last in a miraculous fashion escapes
  from his enemies. He returns to our modern London carrying with him
  the princess who, as his wife, remains the one proof of the time when
  he tilted for her in the lists wearing the armour of the knights of
  the silver star.


=Brebner, Percy James (Christian Lys, pseud.).= Princess Maritza; il. by
Harrison Fisher. $1.50. McBride, T. J.

                                                                6–32119.

  “It is the old story of the little kingdom and the succession and the
  ‘peace of Europe’ on the verge of collapse. As in all such stories,
  there are tricky ministers, intriguing women, swash-buckler soldiers
  and the lovers—a princess and a soldier of fortune.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The incidents are numerous though unconvincing. The personages do not
  live, we are indifferent to their fates.”

       − =Nation.= 83: 396. N. 8, ’06. 230w.

  “Usually, in such stories, there are lay figures, but Mr. Brebner has
  injected hot blood into them, and the result is a story, the stirring
  action and situations of which may cause Anthony Hope to tremble for
  his ‘Zenda’ laurels.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 719. N. 3, ’06. 200w.


=Breed, Charles Blaney, and Hosmer, George Leonard.= Principles and
practice of surveying. $3. Wiley.

                                                                6–39471.

  “Not a treatise, but a text-book, and an elementary rather than a
  comprehensive text-book. They [the authors] deal with the simpler
  branches of the surveyor’s work in a clear and simple explanatory
  style. The subject is covered in four main divisions, headed,
  respectively: Instruments (use, adjustment and care); Surveying
  methods: Computations: Plotting: followed by a rather good collection
  of tables.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Good manual of the simpler branches of surveying. Especially careful
  in pointing out possible sources of error.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 160. O. ’07. S.

     + + =Engin. N.= 56: 528. N. 15, ’06. 400w.

  “The usual tables complete the volume, which is probably as
  satisfactory a text-book under present methods of technical school
  instruction in surveying as can be written.” H. N. Ogden.

       + =Science=, n. s. 26: 17. Jl. 5, ’07. 600w.

  “The book as a whole is worthy of a place on any beginner’s desk, and
  merits success.” Arthur D. Butterfield.

   + + − =Technical Literature.= 1: 222. My. ’07. 1490w.


=Brent, Rt. Rev. Charles Henry.= With God in prayer. **50c. Jacobs.

                                                                7–11202.

  Bishop Brent’s purpose in writing this little book is to suggest
  prayerful thoughts and to promote the prayerful spirit.


=Bridge, Norman.= House health, and other papers. **$1.25. Duffield.

                                                                7–29539.

  The titles of the papers included in this volume are suggestive: House
  health, Human talk, The blind side of the average parent, Some
  commencement ideals, A domestic clearing house, The true gospel of
  sleep, Some unconceded rights of parents and children, and The trained
  nurse and the larger life.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Contains much good advice, and some that is perhaps not so good
  because the counsel of an extremist.”

     + − =Dial.= 43: 256. O. 16, ’07. 250w.

  “He says so much that is sensible and practical that almost any parent
  might find himself chastened and enlightened by a perusal of the
  volume.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 636. O. 19, ’07. 310w.


=Brierley, J. (“J. B.,” pseud.)= Eternal religion. *$1.40. Whittaker.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “His outlook is broad, his sympathies are wide.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 98. Ja. 10, ’07. 180w.


=Brierley, Jonathan.= Religion and experience. *$1.40. Whittaker.

                                                                7–37539.

  “The brevity of his essays, rarely exceeding eight pages, commends
  them to a world that prefers short sermons, and to preachers who
  would learn to say in fifteen or twenty minutes much that will both
  hold the attention and stick in the mind afterwards. The standpoint
  is that of a devoutly Christian thinker fully responsive to the
  intellectual demands of the modern world. The introduction
  compresses into a short statement, clear and simple, the modern
  argument for experience as the test of reality, whether in science,
  philosophy, or religion.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The chief value of the book consists in the facts that the writer
  combines a truly liberal with a deeply religious spirit: that he is
  steeped in the thoughts of the world’s highest thinkers, ancient and
  modern, and that he is able to place their ideas before his readers in
  such telling fashion that they may be ‘understanded of the people.’”

     + + =Acad.= 72: 150. F. 9, ’07. 260w.

  “The various subjects are well exploited, and the conclusions, while
  marked by an optimism that is too easy-going to bear a searching
  criticism, are unquestionably honest, kindly, and wholesome.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 125. Ag. 8, ’07. 500w.

  “The gifted British essayist ... evidently, as the present volume like
  its predecessors shows, reaps a rich-soiled field.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 160w.


=Briggs, Charles Augustus.= Critical and exegetical commentary on the
book of Psalms. 2v. ea. **$3. Scribner.

  =v. 2.= This volume contains the commentary on the Psalms from the
  fifty-first to the one hundred and fiftieth. “The special student and
  the ordinarily intelligent reader are both provided for: the former in
  full measure. The latter will find some strikingly new translations
  superseding the old.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is one of the most notable books of the year in the field of
  Scripture study.”

     + + =Cath. World.= 85: 406. Je. ’07. 380w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “This work is encyclopaedic in character. The introduction, covering
  110 pages, is the fullest treatment we have seen on all the questions
  that concern a critical study of the Psalter.”

     + + =Dial.= 42: 115. F. 16, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “The possibility of accidental or deliberate changes of reading must
  constantly be remembered in dealing with such a book as the Psalter.
  It is in this respect that Dr. Briggs is perhaps deficient, and this
  deficiency, for me, throws much doubt on his metrical arrangements of
  the psalms. I consider his work of great educational use, and that
  even for very advanced students it will save much trouble to have the
  book near at hand.” T. K. Cheyne.

     + − =Hibbert J.= 5: 453. Ja. ’07. 3040w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Dr. Briggs is hardly critical enough, nor has he sufficient
  experience in the use of all the newest and best methods.” T. K.
  Cheyne.

     + − =Hibbert J.= 5: 944. Jl. ’07. 1530w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “Dr. Briggs’s ‘Commentary on the Psalms’ is dominated by the author’s
  interest in their metrical structure. There is no harm in arranging a
  Psalm in strophes and lines, if one so desire, but when enthusiasm for
  metre dictates important textual emendations, as is frequently the
  case with Dr. Briggs, the matter is more serious.”

     − + =Ind.= 62: 330. F. 7, ’07. 290w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Quite up to the highest German standard. No other writer has paid
  more attention to poetic structure, and he has used its laws in his
  correction of the text.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 974. Ap. 25, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “Much in his volume demands most careful consideration; but we cannot
  but think that a verdict of ‘not proven’ will have to be returned on
  many of his most confident and dogmatic conclusions as regards both
  the text and the development of the Psalter.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 81. Mr. 15, ’07. 2200w. (Review of v. 1 and
         2.)

  “These volumes command respect as a work of immense industry. No
  existing commentary on the Psalms can be compared with them for
  exhaustive thoroughness.”

   + + − =Nation.= 85: 61. Jl. 18, ’07. 1150w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 763. Mr. 30, ’07. 150w. (Review of v. 2.)


=Briggs, Charles Augustus, and Hugel, Friedrich H. von.= Papal
commission and the Pentateuch. *75c. Longmans.

  In which the author and his friend Friedrich von Hugel exchange
  letters on the decision of the Pontifical commission concerning the
  Pentateuch. Professor Briggs expresses his “surprise and grief that
  the Commission should have put such a burden on the church, and
  restates the critical conclusions as to the composite authorship of
  the Pentateuch, as against the Commission’s conclusion that Moses
  wrote it, with the use of pre-existing documents and some later
  scribal additions. Von Hugel replies, defining the liberty of Catholic
  scholarship in the church, agreeing with Professor Briggs as to the
  folly of the Commission’s action, even altho approved by the Pope, and
  both agree that the decision should not forbid critical research and
  freedom.” (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Cath. World.= 84: 707. F. ’07. 1260w.

         =Ind.= 62: 974. Ap. 25, ’07. 200w.

         =Lond. Times.= 5: 410. D. 7, ’06. 770w.

         =Nation.= 84: 432. My. 9, ’07. 150w.

         =Outlook.= 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 150w.


=Brinton, Selwyn.= Correggio. Forty-eight plates with biography.
(Newnes’ art lib.) *$1.25. Warne.

                                                                 W 7–47.

  A biographical sketch, a list of the most celebrated works with
  descriptive, critical and historical matter, and forty-eight
  half-tones of paintings.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 65. Mr. ’07. S.

  Reviewed by Charles de Kay.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 881. D. 22, ’06. 200w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 273. Ap. 27, ’07. 160w.


=Brode, Heinrich.= Tippoo Tib, the story of his career in Central
Africa. *$3. Longmans.

  Tippo Tib is an Arab trader well known to all who took an interest in
  East Africa or the Congo fifteen or twenty years ago. This sketch is a
  transcription made from Tippo Tib’s own story of his life. “He was a
  species of African Cortez, brave as a lion, utterly unscrupulous, avid
  of wealth, shrewd and masterful. Like the Spanish adventurers, he
  accomplished prodigies with a handful of men.” (Lit. D.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a fascinating chronicle.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 885. Je. 1, ’07. 350w.

  “A valuable addition to the scanty records of East African history.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 58. Jl. 18, ’07. 940w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 250. Ap. 20, ’07. 170w.

         =Spec.= 98: 904. Je. 8, ’07. 490w.


=Bronson, Walter C.=, comp. English poems. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago
press.

                                                                7–29839.

  The last volume in a projected series of four, devoted to English
  poems. The first volume will include Old English poems in translation,
  Middle English poems, specimens of the pre-Elizabethan drama and old
  ballads; the second will cover the Elizabethan and Caroline periods;
  and the third will include poems of the restoration and the eighteenth
  century. The present volume is devoted to poetry of the nineteenth
  century. The series is designed for use in survey courses covering the
  entire field of English literature.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 192. N. ’07.

  “Should be warmly welcomed as [an] adjunct to the work of teaching
  English literature in both colleges and secondary schools.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 214. O. 1, ’07. 100w.

  “The excellence of the selection of individual poems is beyond
  dispute.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 451. O. 26, ’07. 200w.


=Brooke, Emma Frances.= Sir Elyot of the woods. †$1.50. Duffield.

                                                                7–15923.

  Sir Elyot Ingall of Ingalton, young, handsome, and on the eve of a
  literary career, finds his estates hopelessly encumbered and is
  obliged to let his manor house and strive by personal effort to keep a
  mortgage off his Dower woods, the woods he loves, the trees of which
  offer the only source of revenue for him. He struggles against the
  woodman’s axe and finds inspiration for his writings in his forest.
  When thru a legal tangle it is all but lost to him he recovers it, and
  in recovering learns that the girl he loved and trusted had played the
  trees false and planned to sacrifice them for the gold she craved. In
  his agony his heart returns to his first love thru whom he and his
  estate come once more to their own.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “If the whole book did but carry out the promise to be seen in the
  opening pages it would be a remarkable and interesting production.”

     + − =Acad.= 73: 682. Jl. 13, ’07. 150w.

  “As the faults of the novel are popular, they will not interfere with
  its circulation.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 693. Je. 8. 230w.

  “It lacks but little of achieving distinction of style; it just misses
  success in portraying one of those rare women characters that really
  count.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

     + − =Bookm.= 25: 391. Je. ’07. 460w.

  “On its merely human side, this is a singularly impressive and
  well-managed story; to the lover of trees, who can share in Elyot’s
  passion, it is an inexpressibly poignant tragedy.” Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 42: 377. Je. 16, ’07. 800w.

  “The book escapes being what it might have been, a notable piece of
  work; as written it is nothing but a fairly readable ‘minor novel.’”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 97. Jl. 11, ’07. 180w.

  “With a subtler art than that of the descriptive writer, Miss Brooke
  contrives to pervade her story with the beauty and sanctity of the
  woods, showing them to us through the eyes of her characters, and
  keeping them always before us.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 197. Je. 21, ’07. 280w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 120w.


=Brooke, George H.= Story of a football season. **$1. Lippincott.

                                                                7–29718.

  Steeped in the atmosphere of the athletic field, this story of a
  foot-ball season, written with all the life-likeness and authority
  which inside knowledge can afford, makes its appeal to every champion
  of a college eleven. All the stages of team development are
  interestingly set down and gridiron encounters, including the great
  end-of-the-season victory are realistically described.


=Brooke, Stopford A.= Life superlative. *$1.50. Am. Unitar.

                                                                W 6–183.

  A collection of Mr. Brooke’s sermons and addresses which are
  characterized by their moral outlook, their grasp of things unseen and
  eternal, their practical appeal to the highest and best in human
  nature, and a high note of optimism. They are grouped under the
  following headings: Religion and conduct, Lessons by the way, Social
  problems, The outlook—here and hereafter, The foundations of life and
  The city of the soul.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This is a book good to have on the table for leisure moments and
  their opportunities of refreshment for the higher self.”

     + + =Outlook.= 87: 748. N. 30, ’07. 160w.

       + =Spec.= 96: 545. Ap. 7, ’06. 300w.


=Brookfield, Frances (Mrs. Charles H. E. Brookfield).= Cambridge
“Apostles.” *$5. Scribner.

                                                                7–13938.

  “A record of the talk and a study of the character of a large group of
  gifted people who enlivened their intercourse with one another with
  unfailing gaiety of mood and unflagging humor. High spirits and
  abounding wit are generally found in the company of men of genius; and
  the madness theory of Nordau is set at naught by the sanity and love
  of fun of the apostles’ who gave the University of Cambridge
  distinction between 1830–1840.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book, indeed, is full of blunders—some due probably to slack
  reading of proofs, some to want of familiarity with the details of the
  life of the time.”

     − + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 39. Ja. 12. 1320w.

  “An index, whose five pages, however, do not contain all the entries
  one might have occasion to look for—not even all the names of persons
  mentioned in the work. If the book has still another fault, it may by
  the more serious be thought to be an unduly generous inclusion of
  pleasant trivialities. However, they entertain—or, if not, they may be
  skipped.” Percy F. Bicknell.

   + + − =Dial.= 12: 134. Mr. 1, ’07. 1500w.

  “To one behind the scenes this is not a good book.”

       − =Nation.= 84: 205. F. 28, ’07. 890w.

  “A few typographical errors disfigure a volume unusually excellent in
  its format, a joy to both eye and hand. It is of the nature of an
  accolade to be admitted to this elect circle. Mrs. Brookfield’s
  readers cannot but have a sense of distinction conferred upon them.”

   + + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 25. Ja. 19, ’07. 930w.

  “It is loosely put together and not always carefully written, but it
  is starred with great names and full of delightful glimpses of that
  rare kind and quality of society which charms, refreshes, and
  liberates.” Hamilton W. Mabie.

   + + − =No. Am.= 181: 528. Mr. 1, ’07. 1470w.

  “A more interesting and witty book has not come from the press for a
  long time.”

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 164. Ja. 26, ’07. 1900w.

  Reviewed by A. I. du P. Coleman.

       + =Putnam’s.= 2: 613. Ag. ’07. 1270w.

  “We may complain that her proofs have not been read, and that her
  pages bristle with inexcusable misprints. We may object that many of
  her statements are inaccurate. But, when all deductions are made, we
  cannot deny the merit of Mrs. Brookfield’s book, and we have read it
  from beginning to end with a pleasure which its faults have done no
  more than temper.”

   + + − =Spec.= 97: 988. D. 15, ’06. 1270w.


* =Brooks, Mary Wallace.= A prodigal. $1.25. Badger, R: G.

                                                                7–22410.

  This story tells how the goodness of a sweet maid reformed the
  prodigal son of a brokenhearted minister. It contains reproof for the
  unthinking people of the world who lift their voices in popular
  condemnation of every son among them who feeds on husks, people who
  not only do not offer a more Christian diet but who scoff at those who
  have the courage to offer it.


=Broughton, Rhoda.= Waif’s progress. $1.50. Macmillan.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

  “Is no more than a sketch, verging here and there on caricature. It is
  light, unpretending, avowedly skimming over the surface of things. It
  is amusing to an unusual degree.” Mary Moss.

       + =Atlan.= 99: 117. Ja. ’07. 510w.


=Brown, Alice.= County road. †$1.50. Houghton.

                                                                6–33588.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “None of the tales touch upon the darker aspects of life, all are
  optimistic in tone, and delicately humorous in treatment.”

       + =Acad.= 71: 612. D. 15, ’06. 160w.

  “The title of the book is well chosen, carrying with it a leisurely
  pace, happy endings, unforced homely dialect, Yankee talk as it really
  is.” Alice Durant Smith.

       + =Bookm.= 24: 598. F. ’07. 920w.

  “The people in the book are mainly earth creatures, dimly aware of,
  but in no wise intimate with their own mental processes, and they are
  handled with insight and unfailing charm.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 443. F. 21, ’07. 220w.

  “All lovers of New England studies are cordially advised to read this
  collection.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 94. Ja. 19, ’07. 130w.


=Brown, Arthur J.= Foreign missionary: an incarnation of a world
movement. **$1.50. Revell.

                                                                7–23292.

  A text-book for the student contemplating going into the field.
  “Beginning with a statement of the missionary motive and aim, he
  describes simply and clearly the essential qualifications for the
  work, then passes on to a detailed account of the missionary’s
  relations to the society which sends him out, his duties to it, and
  its obligations to him. The principal arguments against foreign
  missions are briefly stated and answered, and the book closes with a
  striking portrayal of the modern missionary, not as a saint on a
  pedestal with a halo about his head, but as ‘preëminently a man of
  affairs.’” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We only regret, and it is our single criticism, that he has not given
  some information as to the way in which young English, German, and
  Swiss candidates are prepared for missionary work in Asia and Africa.”

   + + − =Nation.= 85: 303. O. 3, ’07. 380w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 663. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

  “A thoroughly sane book is a thing of beauty and a joy. Such is Dr.
  Brown’s book on missions. This book is especially adapted for two
  classes of persons—those who believe in foreign missions and those who
  don’t.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 746. N. 23, ’07. 110w.


=Brown, Charles Reynolds.= Main points: a study in Christian belief.
*$1.25. Pilgrim press.

                                                                7–19461.

  “The present work puts before thoughtful laymen the main points of
  evangelical doctrine as now held by what twenty years ago began to be
  known as ‘progressive orthodoxy.’ It is for these who desire a
  statement of fundamental Christian truths more accordant with modern
  thought and experience than what they find in the historic
  creeds.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Ind.= 62: 504. F. 28. ’07. 150w.

  “It is a luminous help to the clear thinking that grasps essential
  reality. It is also sane in stopping at the line where it is more
  reasonable to wait for more light before exploring further. This
  quality, however, is not so manifest in its discussion of the divinity
  of Christ.”

     + − =Outlook.= 85: 352. F. 9, ’07. 170w.


=Brown, Charles Reynolds.= Social message of the modern pulpit. **$1.25.
Scribner.

                                                                6–32406.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  Reviewed by George Hodges.

         =Atlan.= 99: 562. Ap. ’07. 110w.

  “The main interest in the volume lies in the method by which the
  Biblical story of Exodus is made to suggest moral factors in the labor
  problems of our own time and land.” Charles Richmond Henderson.

       + =Dial.= 42: 12. Ja. 1, ’07. 400w.


=Brown, Francis.= Hebrew and English lexicon of the Old Testament. *$8.
Houghton.

  Professor Brown has brought an enormous undertaking to its completion,
  aided by Professors Driver and Briggs. It is “the most important
  contribution to Hebrew lexicography since the ‘Thesaurus.’ When it is
  added that the gains of three-quarters of a century in Semitic
  philology, in textual criticism, geographical exploration, and
  archaeological research, as well as in Biblical exegesis, have been
  brought to bear on the lexical problems of the Old Testament, it will
  be understood that the lexicon has no need to commend itself by even
  the greatest names of former generations.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is, indeed, a veritable thesaurus, and will not fall far short of
  meeting the most exacting requirements. It is safe to predict that it
  will be a long time before it is superseded; and in the meantime it
  will remain what it is now, an indispensable helper.” Charles C.
  Torrey.

     + + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 510. Jl. ’07. 2990w.

  “We regret that the price of this essential dictionary will conduce to
  the further neglect of the Hebrew language in our theological
  seminaries.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 46. Ja. 3, ’07. 310w.

  “Let the place of honor among the religious books of the year be given
  to a monument of patient toil and exact and searching scholarship.
  Professor Francis Brown’s ‘Hebrew and English lexicon of the old
  Testament.’”

   + + + =Ind.= 63: 1235. N. 21, ’07. 130w.

  “Scholars of the English tongue have now in their hands an instrument
  not only unsurpassed, but unrivalled in any other language.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 595. Je. 27, ’07. 200w.


=Brown, Sir Hanbury.= Irrigation: its principles and practice as a
branch of engineering. *$5. Van Nostrand.

  A work of some three hundred pages which sets forth the guiding
  principles that should govern the practice of irrigation, and
  furnishes illustrations of their application in existing canal
  systems. Many of the illustrations have been taken from material
  supplied by the irrigation experience of India and Egypt.


=Brown, Helen Dawes.= Mr. Tuckerman’s nieces. †$1.50. Houghton.

                                                                7–32838.

  Mr. Tuckerman, a professor and bachelor, learns one day that three
  nieces have been bequeathed to him. His sense of duty demands that he
  open the doors of his colonial home, sacred to study and repose, to
  these doubtful western girls. The story tells how they slip into his
  home life and soften the callous spots of his nature and by their
  freshness and ingenuousness teach him to love youth, and, further, how
  this training turns him into the channels of neglected love making.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.


=Brown, Hiram Chellis.= Historical bases of religions, primitive,
Babylonian and Jewish. **$1.50. Turner, H. B.

                                                                6–33632.

  A chapter on the origin and development of the religious sense,
  introduces a study of the Babylonian and Jewish religions. Babylonian
  civilization receives friendly, almost enthusiastic treatment. The
  chapters on Jewish religion, which occupy over half the volume, give a
  résumé of the results of the higher criticism and recent research, and
  attempt to prove that Judaism retarded rather than advanced religious
  progress.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is a well-written but misleading book. It is the product of wide
  reading rather than of close study or original investigation.” Kemper
  Fullerton.

     − + =Am. J. Theol.= 16: 666. O. ’07. 250w.

  “We have no opportunity to verify at this time the author’s statement
  of historic facts concerning the teachings of the monuments, but
  assuming them to be correct we feel that the conclusions drawn
  therefrom are not entirely warranted. In our opinion the author lacks
  power of historic perspective.” Robert E. Bisbee.

     + − =Arena.= 37: 107. Ja. ’07. 870w.

  “Throughout the volume the wrong is so mingled with the right, and
  there is such a distortion (doubtless unintentional) of the history,
  that the general reader may often get an impression not in accordance
  with the facts. A proper estimate of Hebraism and Judaism calls for
  wider knowledge and a calmer and more Judicial attitude than are to be
  found in this volume.”

       − =Nation.= 84: 87. Ja. 24, ’07. 540w.

         =Outlook.= 84: 677. N. 17, ’06. 160w.


=Brown, John Mason.= Lecture on the law of contracts. $1. John M. Brown,
Washington, D. C.

                                                                7–23481.

  “The subject-matter of the book was prepared by Mr. Brown for delivery
  before the Association of American Government Accountants, the aim and
  desire of the author being to correct some of the misconceptions of
  law and some of the errors of practice which have so largely
  characterized the government contract and those who have had to deal
  therewith.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The presentation of the matter—especially those features and branches
  with which contractors are so frequently harassed and annoyed—is
  exceptionally clear. The language is entirely untechnical and the book
  is so arranged as to give the layman a thorough grasp of the main
  principles of the law.”

       + =Engin. N.= 57: 668. Je. 13, ’07. 320w.

       + =Technical Literature.= 2: 97. Ag. ’07. 230w.


=Brown, John Pinkney.= Practical arboriculture: how forests influence
climate, control the winds, prevent floods, sustain national prosperity:
a text book for railway engineers, manufacturers, lumbermen and farmers;
how, where and what to plant for the rapid production of lumber,
cross-ties, telegraph poles and other timbers, with original photographs
by the author. $2.50. J. P. Brown, Connersville, Ind.

                                                                6–23171.

  A thorogoing handbook sufficiently well outlined in the sub-title.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The work can in no proper sense be called a text-book, since it is
  utterly lacking in systematic arrangement, but it will doubtless prove
  of no little educational value. It is a pity that the book has no
  index, what is called such being merely a table of contents.”

   + + − =Engin. N.= 56: 525. N. 15, ’06. 310w.

         =R. of Rs.= 34: 761. D. ’06. 80w.


=Brown, Katharine Holland.= Dawn. †50c. Crowell.

                                                                7–21225.

  An overworked surgeon goes to the northern wilds to rest and to avert
  a nervous breakdown. While there the miracle of restoration is wrought
  thru a night of service to a woman whose life he fought for and won.


=Brown, Kenneth.= Sirocco: a novel. $1.50. Kennerley.

                                                                6–19771.

  “This tale is described as ‘a thrilling story of the Arabian desert;’
  and as dealing with the ‘most uncivilized of North African
  despotisms.’ It deals with a country existing only in the author’s
  rather unbridled imagination. His ‘Sirocco’ is clearly meant to be
  Morocco; but, while it may resemble a tourist’s dream of that country,
  it is far from resembling the real Moghreb.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “‘Thrilling’ the story may possibly prove to the unfastidious reader
  who likes his fiction hot and strong; but its glaring impossibilities,
  not to mention improbabilities, will militate against appreciation of
  such merits as it possesses. It owes something to the ‘Naulahka,’ but
  lacks the artistry of that ingenious extravaganza.”

     − + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 658. Je. 1. 2860w.

  “It is written in a crisp, virile style, and the contrasts between the
  Americanisms of the American and the very Oriental situations in which
  he finds himself are brought out in a racy and picturesque fashion.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 376. Je. 9, ’06. 300w.


=Brown, William Adams.= Christian theology in outline. **$2.50.
Scribner.

                                                                6–44353.

  A textbook of doctrinal theology for those who feel themselves
  attached to the historic forms of faith. “He has succeeded in stating
  several of the doctrines of historic Christianity, notably that of the
  Trinity, in a manner to relieve dogma of some of its difficulties,
  while retaining largely the classic form of expression.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It may be questioned, however, whether Professor Brown is altogether
  justified in retaining the orthodox terminology for his modern
  doctrine.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 884. O. 10, ’07. 330w.

  “Professor Brown is a careful scholar, who has trained himself to
  avoid exaggeration, and whose chapters never offer rhetoric in the
  place of thought.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 264. Mr. 21, ’07. 280w.

  “This conception of the relation of the Bible to theology, of which
  Dr. Brown observes it is not the only source, underlies his entire
  work, and gives it distinctive character. It is undeniably the true
  conception. In the fidelity, the fullness, and the freedom with which
  he has applied it he is not surpassed by any contemporary theologian.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 565. Je. 13, ’07. 1650w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 637. My. ’07. 80w.


=Browne, Edward G.= Literary history of Persia from Firdawsi to Sa’di.
(Lib. of literary history.) $4. Scribner.

                                                                 7–2590.

  The second volume of Professor Browne’s “Literary history of Persia,”
  the first volume of which appeared four years ago. The period covered
  is from the beginning of the eleventh century to the middle of the
  thirteenth, the Golden age of Persian poetry.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The virtue or the defect of his book is that it is an encyclopaedia
  of the results of firsthand research. It is designed for the benefit
  of the man of learning rather than for the delectation of the lover of
  letters.”

     + + =Acad.= 72: 9. Ja. 5, ’07. 1530w.

  “Prof. Browne’s translations in verse are generally excellent, but it
  is a pity that they are now and then marred by the use of false
  rhymes. Altogether this book is a monument of ripe learning and
  bounteous exposition.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 822. D. 29. 2520w.

  “More generally interesting than its predecessor, although it is not
  so weighted by the enormous erudition of the author as to be anything
  but light reading.”

     + + =Dial.= 41: 400. D. 1, ’06. 110w.

  “Is the most important work on Persian literature that has appeared in
  years.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 33: 813. D. 1, ’06. 280w.

  “In point of workmanship, the book is ill-composed. To the student and
  scholar it will be a fund of prolonged delight, and to such the faults
  which detract from its literary workmanship will seem almost merits.
  The Persian scholar will find it a stout staff to lean on in all
  matters of biography, bibliography, and textual apparatus. The ‘mere
  reader’ may perhaps wish for a more balanced and consecutive treatment
  of the literature, and will probably be alarmed by the sternly
  scholarly spelling of the names.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 341. O. 12, ’06. 2190w.

  “The author has conscientiously omitted nothing. If ever [the reader]
  comes across the name of some obscure ‘littèratur’ of Persia, he will
  find all that can be said about him in the Cambridge Professor’s
  book.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 103: 114. Ja. 26, ’07. 1090w.

  “He deserves hearty thanks for the delightful anecdotes with which his
  book is garnished. He has penetrated into the soul of Oriental
  story-telling, and he realises, with the East that a fact flies the
  further when winged with an epigram. Admirable, too, are his short
  biographical notices of his authors, compiled from materials that his
  critical sense knows well how to use, and just as admirable are his
  appreciations of their works from a Western point of view, and even
  from an Eastern.”

     + + =Spec.= 98: 19. Ja. 5, ’07. 1570w.


=Browne, George Waldo.= Comrades under Castro; or, Young engineers in
Venezuela. 75c. McKay.

  A new edition of the second volume in “The round world series.” It is
  an interesting account of the part which two American lads played in
  the revolution in Venezuela, being comrades under Castro thruout his
  fight to maintain his own against the enemies of his government.


=Browne, J. H. Balfour.= Essays, critical and political. 2v. *$5.
Longmans.

  The greater part of these essays appeared in the Westminster review
  between the years 1876 and 1886. Among subjects discussed in the
  “Political” volume are: Russia, 1877; Afghanistan, 1881; African slave
  trade; English supremacy, and England in Egypt. They are principally
  valuable for the historical interest of opinions expressed. The
  “Critical” volume includes among its subjects Michael Angelo,
  Machiavelli, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Landor, Dickens and
  Macready.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A writer of substantial merit, though hardly of the first rank. He is
  too fond of putting his subjects into the box as it were, and
  submitting them to a severe cross-examination.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 380. Mr. 30. 590w.

  “The ‘Political’ volume is too far outdated to have any particular
  value in this twentieth century.”

     + − =Dial.= 42: 232. Ap. 1, ’07. 90w.

  “The essays on Landor, Dickens, Michael Angelo, and Machiavelli all
  show an insight and are written with a force quite out of the common.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 104. Ag. 1, ’07. 330w.

  “Harmless in their original form they may have served well enough to
  occupy the leisure hours of an aspirant to legal fame, but it is hard
  on the reader that they should be forced again upon his notice under
  the cover of a name now well known in a sphere not that of
  literature.”

       − =Sat. R.= 103: 528. Ap. 27, ’07. 1200w.

     − + =Spec.= 98: 1014. Je. 20, ’07. 210w.


=Browne, Sir Thomas.= Religio medici: Letter to a friend; and Christian
morals; with introd. by C. H. Herford. 35c. Crowell.

  Uniform with the “Handy volume classics.”


=Browning, Elizabeth Barrett.= Complete poetical works; with a prefatory
note by Robert Browning. ea. $1.25. Crowell.

  The complete poetical works of Mrs. Browning uniform with the limp
  leather “Thin paper poets.”


=Browning, Oscar.= Fall of Napoleon. *$5. Lane.

                                                                7–32141.

  “Mr. Browning’s new book is a personal history of Napoleon between the
  years 1813 and 1815, and the author does not claim therein to bring to
  light new facts, but to summarize the results of other people’s
  researches. His book, is, however, more valuable than might be
  expected, because he gives for the first time in English a view of
  Napoleon’s character and conduct, largely founded upon the work of M.
  Albert Sorel, rather different from that generally accepted in this
  country.”—Acad.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “As a whole the book is useful. The tale is clearly told but without
  the help of maps, and it is told moreover with rare, self-restraint.
  The opinions of the author seldom intrude. Is decidedly an advance on
  the same author’s work on the youth of his hero.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 482. My. 18, ’07. 610w.

  “Taken as a study of the politics of these stirring months, and as a
  sketch of by far the strongest actor in the momentous drama, the work
  can be highly commended. It is one that the worshippers of Napoleon
  will welcome.” Theodore Ayrault Dodge.

   + + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 138. O. ’07. 820w.

  “Mr. Browning begins his story rather abruptly. In another matter of
  high significance Mr. Browning’s narrative is unsatisfactory. We refer
  to his account of the relations between Napoleon and Pius VII. early
  in 1813.”

     − + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 658. Je. 1. 2860w.

  “One noticeable feature of Mr. Browning’s work is the sense of
  proportion which he has maintained throughout his treatment of these
  singularly troubled years.” Henry E. Bourne.

     + − =Dial.= 43: 89. Ag. 16, ’07. 660w.

  “Mr. Browning’s narrative is often vivid and interesting, but it is a
  pity that inaccuracies and misprints which a little care in revision
  would have removed should give an impression of hasty, or, shall we
  say, over-facile composition.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 163. My. 24, ’07. 750w.

  “Shows no very distinctive merit, save that it is not marred by the
  extreme carelessness of his last book on the same subject.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 57. Jl. 18, ’07. 1190w.

  “It is in this matter of the physical and mental changes which for
  some years had been taking place in Napoleon that Mr. Browning’s book
  shows a serious lack, mine of information though it is upon other
  matters.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 371. Je. 8, ’07. 580w.

  “Our chief criticism of Mr. Browning’s book is that there is too much
  mere narrative and too little comment and explanation.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 818. Je. 29, ’07. 500w.

  “Without doubt he has produced a book which should have its place in
  any library of Napoleonic literature.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 910. Je. 8, ’07. 380w.


=Bruce, Audasia Kimbrough.= Uncle Tom’s cabin of to-day. $1.50. Neale.

                                                                6–46250.

  The new order of things as it exists today in time of freedom for the
  negro is pictured in this sketch of the Berney family, “in the heart
  of the black belt of Alabama.”


=Bruce, George A.= Twentieth regiment of Massachusetts volunteer
infantry, 1861–1865. **$2.50. Houghton.

                                                                6–18330.

  Popularly known as the Harvard regiment because officered by young men
  just out of the university, the Twentieth Massachusetts was a part of
  the Second corps of the Army of the Potomac. Among the engagements
  especially dealt upon are Ball’s Bluff, Fair Oaks, the Seven days’
  battles, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wilderness and
  Spottsylvania.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “One of the best of recent regimental histories. The narrative is full
  of valuable sidelights.”

     + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 210. O. ’06. 70w.

  “This volume deserves large folded maps to replace the meagre ones it
  offers, and it is too valuable to remain, like a novel or a fairy
  tale, without an index.”

   + + − =Nation.= 83: 78. Jl. 26, ’06. 630w.

         =R. of Rs.= 34: 124. Jl. ’06. 70w.


=Bruce, Jerome.= Studies in black and white. $1.50. Neale.

                                                                6–43783.

  The subtitle states that this is a novel in which are exemplified the
  lights and shades in the friendship and trust between black and
  white—slave and master—in their intercourse with each other in
  antebellum days.


=Bruce, Philip Alexander.= Robert E. Lee. (American crisis biographies.)
**$1.25. Jacobs.

                                                                7–29102.

  More side-lights are here furnished on the great American sectional
  struggle. Following the early life and education, the sketch presents
  Lee, the patriot and soldier, fighting gallantly for his convictions,
  and, at the war’s close, Lee, the reconciler, whose watchwords were
  conciliation, forbearance, and oblivion of the surviving hatreds of
  the past.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 193. N. ’07. S.

  “We know of no better or fairer statement of the Virginian theory of
  constitutional law and secession than that which here prepares the
  readers’ mind for Colonel Lee’s resignation of his command in the
  United States army, and his refusal of the proffered command of the
  northern army of invasion.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 1001. O. 24, ’07. 290w.

  “It is well worth the few hours required for its perusal. It presents
  in brief outline one of the great and tragic figures of world
  history.” W: E. Dodd.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 729. N. 16, ’07. 1250w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 635. N. ’07. 100w.


=Brunetiere, Ferdinand.= Honore de Balzac. **$1.50. Lippincott.

                                                                6–43793.

  The second volume of a series which aims to do for French literature
  what has been achieved for the English and American men of letters.
  The sketch deals not so much with the biographical facts of Balzac’s
  life, as with the elemental points that define, explain and
  characterize his work. The life is subordinated to the creative energy
  that appeals to the critic and historian of literature.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In this volume we have an excellent example of M. Brunetière’s work.”

     + + =Acad.= 72: 30. Ja. 12, ’07. 1240w.

  “Scholarly, of course, in treatment, compact, finished, and readable.
  Not equally well translated throughout.”

   + + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 6. Ja. ’07.

  “He has gone over fields trodden by many predecessors, without
  discovering either new flowers or new weeds. When we come to specific
  judgment on particular novels, M. Brunetière is inclined to be too
  arbitrary. It is surprising to find such a critic as M. Brunetière
  confusing real persons with the creatures of fiction.”

     − + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 95. Ja. 26. 1390w.

  “Can hardly be disregarded in any study of Balzac’s literary art.”

     + + =Dial.= 42: 346. Je. 1, ’07. 230w.

  “Whoever cares for literary morphology, whoever delights in following
  the organic evolution of literary form, will find in Brunetière’s
  ‘Balzac’ a work of genuine fascination. The book appeals to one with
  all the delightful freshness of a work of creative art.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 674. Mr. 21, ’07. 1030w.

         =Ind.= 63: 1229. N. 21, ’07. 140w.

  “Less brilliant than the celebrated study by Taine, to which it
  frequently refers, this work is marked by the more exhaustive and
  comparative criticism made possible by a wider perspective and greater
  distance of time.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 34: 177. F. 2, ’07. 280w.

       + =Nation.= 84: 16. Ja. 3, ’07. 850w.

  “It is a sober, solid, piece of workmanship, not especially
  illuminating, though surprisingly liberal in its attitude toward and
  in its judgments of Balzac’s moral influence for a man of Brunetière’s
  narrow, hard, and dogmatic temperament. The translation is idiomatic.”
  James Huneker.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 902. D. 29, ’06. 280w.

  “The book will certainly rouse much controversy. There are whole
  chapters that ring like a challenge, and many who will accept the
  author’s conclusions will refuse to follow him through the steps of
  his demonstrations. Interesting and important as his book is, we feel
  that it would have carried farther had its author never become
  involved in literary Darwinism.” Christian Gauss.

   + + − =No. Am.= 184: 532. Mr. 1, ’07. 1580w.

  “As a piece of writing it lacks grace and ease: but as a piece of
  literary analysis nothing so exhaustive, so penetrating, and so
  decisive has been written about the author of ‘Père Goriot.’”

   + + − =Outlook.= 85: 280. F. 2, ’07. 230w.

  “Solid and brilliant this monograph is, yet dry, dogmatic, and
  partial.” Horatio S. Krans.

     + − =Putnam’s.= 1: 751. Mr. ’07. 1180w.

         =Sat. R.= 104: 83. Jl. 20, ’07. 2180w.


* =Bryant, W. W.= History of astronomy. **$3. Dutton.

  “The work contains 345 pages, and after a few words on the early and
  primitive notions of antiquity, the first 95 carry the purely
  historical (or almost biographical) portion, through Copernicus, Tycho
  Brahé, Kepler, Galileo, Newton and his successors in gravitational
  astronomy, and Flamsteed and his successors in observational
  astronomy, to Herschel, Bessel, and Struve. The different departments
  of the science, solar, planetary, cometary, and stellar, are then
  successively treated. A chapter is also devoted to observatories and
  instruments, and a concluding one to stellar systems and celestial
  evolution.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Altogether this highly interesting book is remarkably free from
  inaccuracies; care has evidently been taken all around.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 623. N. 16. 360w.

  “Is neither so long as to repel a reader whose time is limited, nor so
  short as to be unsatisfactory.”

     + + =Dial.= 43: 321. N. 16, ’07. 230w.


=Bryce, James.= Studies in history and jurisprudence. 2v. *$3.50.
Oxford.

  A reissue made timely by Mr. Bryce’s recent appointment to the British
  embassy at Washington. Thruout his treatment of varied topics there
  runs “a common thread, that of comparison between the history and law
  of Rome and the history and law of England.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The essays ... are weighty studies of fundamental principles.”

     + + =Dial.= 42: 260. Ap. 16, ’07. 50w.

  “The distinguishing feature of Mr. Bryce’s temper in the discussion of
  the subjects in history and jurisprudence which he has chosen is the
  sense he preserves of the actuality of these subjects. He approaches
  them as he would matters of current practical interest, say, in the
  house of commons, or even in conversation. He is as cautious of
  extreme or dogmatic statements as if he expected to be brought to book
  by a gentleman on the other side of the table as well informed as
  himself.” Edward Cary.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 321. My. 18, ’07. 1150w.


=Buchanan, Alfred.= Real Australia. **$1.50. Jacobs.

  Australia’s political, social and intellectual standards are set forth
  with some good portrayals of men and women most closely identified
  with them. The author knows his Australia, and understands well the
  relation between that continent and Great Britain. “The bond is not
  one that has grown strong by reason of political adjustments or of
  commercial necessities. Its virtue consists in the fact that it has
  not been manufactured in the mills of diplomacy. The more it is
  tampered with, the weaker it becomes. It is made of impalpable
  materials—of such materials as memory, sentiment, self-abnegation,
  heredity, pride. To attempt to trim it in one place and to buttress it
  in another is to attempt to alter its character and thus bring about
  its decay.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Rather cynical, inclined to be pessimistic, somewhat too wordy, Mr.
  Alfred Buchanan has nevertheless a decided gift of vigorous
  expression, and is capable of writing terse and racy English.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 150w.

  “Mr. Buchanan’s style is dignified and his narrative informing.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 638. N. ’07. 70w.

  “He is not by any means foolishly partial to the land of his adoption.
  On the contrary, he is even severely faithful.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 26. Jl. 6, ’07. 300w.


=Buckell, G. T. Teasdale.= Complete English wing shot. *$3.50. McClure.

  A complete manual of bird shooting. It covers the subject of weapons
  old and new with recommendations of those suited for different kinds
  of game; it treats of the breeding and breaking of dogs; and it gives
  valuable hints regarding the preparations for the pursuit of game
  birds.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is much more within the covers of ‘The complete shot’ than its
  title would lead one to expect.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 360. S. 28. 1070w.

  “The first 200 pages or so of this book, the part on guns and dogs,
  seem to us good and useful. They are evidently written out of a long
  and practiced experience, and will, no doubt, win the attention they
  deserve. But, frankly, the rest of the book does not go very far to
  justify so ambitious a title. It is written in a pleasant and natural
  style and is admirable journalism; but those, we think, are its
  limits.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 275. S. 13, ’07. 1430w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

  “The fact is that what is wanted in a new book about shooting, or any
  sport about which much has already been written, is the direct
  personal note. This is why Mr. Buckell is so successful in writing
  about dogs. He is not less instructive on the various methods of
  bringing up pheasants and partridges.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: 711. N. 9, ’07. 1500w.


=Buckham, James.= Afield with the seasons. **$1.25. Crowell.

                                                                7–23873.

  The author reads nature like an open book and imparts the messages
  learned with the bloom of truth and poetry still fresh upon them.
  Flowers and birds and tiny animals are his friends, and as he wanders
  among their haunts he betrays the intimate enthusiasm of the true
  nature-lover. The book suggests leisure, the “hurry never” manner of
  forming an acquaintance with nature.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Sympathy without undue philosophy or moralizing characterizes these
  meditations.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 359. O. 19, ’07. 50w.


* =Budge, E. A. T. Wallis.= Egyptian Sudan: its history and monuments.
2v. *$10. Lippincott.

                                                                7–24130.

  A cyclopædic work which on the one hand includes the history of Sudan
  from its earliest mention in Egyptian history down to the close of
  independent Egyptian rule; and on the other, contains an account of
  the temples and other antiquities written after four archaeological
  expeditions, during which the author studied these monuments in their
  natural surroundings and became acquainted with the people whose
  ancestors built them and worshipped in them.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Few scholars can compete with Dr. Budge in the learning and
  opportunities necessary for relating the monumental history of the
  Sudan. Dr. Budge is too indifferent to the graces of style, and,
  whether from contempt or natural defect, he never allows imagination
  or humour to shine in his clear but awkward paragraphs. The
  arrangement of the book also might have been better.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 625. My. 25. 2780w.

  “What we complain of is that the ideas might have been expressed in a
  quarter the space and with twice as much point. A work which is
  essential to everyone who wants to know nearly all that is to be known
  about a great province which England has rescued from outer barbarism
  and is steadily, surely, indomitably leading into the path of
  prosperity.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 146. My. 10, ’07. 2230w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

  “Combining, as they do, pertinent and luminous observations on travel
  with information concerning archaeological research and history, these
  books are not less interesting to the general reader than to the
  student.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 761. N. 30, ’07. 1490w.

  “One of the most valuable books ever written on an African subject.”

     + + =Spec.= 99: sup. 744. N. 16, ’07. 1690w.


=Buel, Albert Wells, and Hill, Charles Shattuck.= Reinforced concrete.
2d. ed., rev. and enl. *$5. Eng. news.

                                                                6–41296.

  This revision includes sixty-five pages of additional matter entirely
  accounted for by the two years of progress in methods and their
  application.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book retains the excellent features of the first edition. The
  index is good. In the field it attempts to cover this book should rank
  among the standard books and should continue to be of service to
  designer, constructor, and general reader.” Arthur N. Talbot.

     + + =Engin. N.= 56: 521. N. 15, ’06. 960w.

     + + =Nature.= 73: 458. Mr. 15, ’06. 530w.


=Bullen, Frank T.= Frank Brown, sea apprentice. †$1.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–25665.

  “It is a good tale, full of action and incident, with a steady
  progress of the main theme and the constant growth in character of the
  lad of 14, who first steps aboard the Skylark, into the young man of
  force and intelligence and dignity, second mate of a fine ship. The
  privations, suffering, and hardships of boys who go to sea get no
  glossing over from Mr. Bullen’s pen, but he does show not a little
  literary skill in making them all help in the evolution of his young
  hero’s character and in doing this without making him anything more
  than a natural, healthy, right-minded, ambitious boy.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is the real thing put on paper with authoritative skill.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 970. Ap. 25, ’07. 150w.

  “The present book is pretty frankly a tract written for boys who have
  the sea-craving. It is a random patchwork of selected adventures,
  lessons in seamanship, criticism of the methods of captains, owners,
  and marine boards, and pious moralizing.”

       − =Nation.= 84: 342. Ap. 11, ’07. 200w.

  “Young boys without exception, and all old boys who care about sea
  yarns, will find the book entertaining.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 193. Mr. 30, ’07. 340w.

  “As a story strictly speaking the book lacks proportion and
  construction; but as a picture of the sailor’s life in port and on
  board ship, and a narrative of adventure and incident that might
  easily befall a boy apprentice, the book is capital, and will be
  relished by young readers.”

     + − =Outlook.= 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 120w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 766. Je. ’07. 110w.

  “A tale of unflagging interest, admirably told from beginning to end.”

       + =Spec.= 97: sup. 656. N. 3, ’06. 700w.


=Bullen, Frank T.= Our heritage—the sea. *$1.50. Dutton.

                                                                W 7–129.

  Lying back of these essays is “a mass of information and of personal
  observation upon the nature, the features, the characteristics, and
  the movements of the sea.” “It is intended specifically for the
  British public, and the author’s constant aim is to hammer well into
  the minds of that public the conviction that the very existence of the
  British empire depends upon her sea supremacy, and that this can be
  maintained only by a general national interest in the ocean heritage
  and a widespread knowledge of all it means to the country.” (N. Y.
  Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Bullen has reached that point in the literary career at which the
  author begins to think it is necessary to take himself very seriously.
  Accordingly whenever he thinks about it he puts on an air of great
  profundity. But ordinarily Mr. Bullen forgets his pose as soon as he
  gets well warmed to his subject, and writes with almost the simplicity
  and clarity which made it possible for even a child to understand and
  enjoy his early works.”

   + + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 512. Ag. 24, ’07. 460w.

  “A peculiarly novel and fascinating volume in a book which is at once
  scientific without the burden of scientific nomenclature, and romantic
  without being at all a romance.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 86: 744. Ag. 3, ’07. 270w.

  “Is solid, competent, and most useful work, and forms an admirable
  companion to Mr. Conrad’s more esoteric studies.”

       + =Spec.= 97: 889. D. 1, ’06. 220w.


=Bullock, Charles Jesse.= Selected readings in economics. *$2.25. Ginn.

                                                                7–31981.

  A volume which supplies collateral reading needed for a general course
  of study in economics. “It makes no effort to present selections upon
  all the topics treated in such a course, but endeavors merely to
  provide supplementary material, historical, descriptive and
  theoretical which will enrich the instruction offered.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The work is carefully, thoroughly, and serviceably done, and should
  respond to a real need, especially in institutions lacking adequate
  library facilities.”

     + + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 570. N. ’07. 100w.


=Bullock, Charles Jesse=, ed. Selected readings in public finance.
*$2.25. Ginn.

                                                                 6–6286.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The studies are very carefully selected. The book is of great value
  alike to teachers and students of public finance.”

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 463. N. ’06. 230w.


=Bulpett, C. W. L.= Picnic party in wildest Africa: being a sketch of a
winter’s trip to some of the unknown waters of the upper Nile. *$3.50.
Longmans.

                                                                7–19053.

  “The chief object of the expedition was to explore and survey the
  Musha and Roma plateaux, which lay to the South of the Akobo, between
  that river and Lake Rudolph in Central Africa. That object seems to
  have been accomplished with some thoroughness, and in describing the
  journey the authors afford their readers a good deal of useful
  information.... Starting from Khartoum in January in a flotilla of
  launches and boats, they found it possible to navigate the Sobat and
  Baro rivers as far as Gambela, on the Abyssinian frontier, and then,
  bearing south towards Lake Rudolph, traversed a well-watered and
  interesting region of which little is known.”—Spec.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In the latest account of the marvels of this fascinating country a
  great deal of new and suggestive information is offered. Perhaps the
  most interesting feature of the volume is the chapter which deals with
  Abyssinia.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 207. Ag. 10, ’07. 360w.

  “The story of this unusual picnic is told in a very simple and
  straightforward way.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 373. Je. 8, ’07. 460w.

  “They are ... observant of their surroundings, and discourse agreeably
  upon their progress and adventures.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 903. Je. 8, ’07. 340w.


=Bumpus, T. Francis.= Cathedrals and churches of northern Italy. *$5.
Pott.

  Mr. Bumpus introduces his subject with an instructive essay on Italian
  church architecture, after which he proceeds to his field—northern
  Italy. “The region Mr. Bumpus covered in his tour is roughly bounded
  by Trent on the north, Venice on the east, Ravenna on the south, and
  Turin on the west, and includes, besides those cities, Milan, Verona,
  Vincenza, Padua, Bologna, and others—some twenty or twenty-five in
  all. Each chapter is illustrated with photographs and colored
  reproductions of the cathedrals, churches, and basilicas described
  therein.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Full of information that he has evidently been at some trouble to
  collect, yet his work is unsatisfactory—an almost futile attempt to
  explain, to make allowances for, something he has failed altogether to
  understand.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 450. O. 12. 1140w.

  “Whatever one’s interest in churches, be it devotional, historical, or
  artistic, it will be quickened by a perusal of this entertaining and
  instructive book.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 280w.

  “He is sympathetic, taking, it is evident, a keen delight in gorgeous
  ritual and ornamentation; and he is sufficiently well read, in
  ecclesiastical history. His detailed descriptions ... are always full
  of spirit and vigour.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 438. S. 28, ’07. 300w.


=Burbank, Luther.= Training of the human plant. **60c. Century.

                                                                7–15628.

  Mr. Burbank’s investigation into plant life—“creating new forms,
  modifying old ones, adapting others to new conditions, and blending
  still others”—has impressed him with the points of similarity between
  the development of plant and human life. He shows that the human plant
  needs the environment of love, sunshine, air, and nourishing food; he
  discusses heredity, predestination, training, growth and character. It
  is a sane and earnest treatise on life and its possibilities.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Speculations in regard to the training of the child sensible as to
  recommendations of fresh air, nourishing food, proper environment,
  differentiation in training, but illogical at times in the application
  of the principles of plant growing, and not important.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 161. O. ’07.

  “The volume is to be commended to those in charge of old-fashioned
  Sunday school libraries.”

       − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 151. Jl. ’07. 90w.

  “It opens new vistas of thought to parents and teachers. Its every
  page is pregnant with suggestions of the gravest importance. It would
  be difficult to overestimate its value, and we heartily recommend it
  to our readers.”

     + + =Arena.= 38: 110. Jl. ’07. 690w.

  “The book appeals to parents just as strongly as to teachers and it
  should be very widely read, for it exposes clearly the dangers and
  fallacies both of false education and of over-education.”

       + =Educ. R.= 34: 210. S. ’07. 100w.

       + =Ind.= 63: 693. S. 19, ’07. 400w.

  “Originally issued in magazine form, the matter in this volume well
  deserved separate publication.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 34: 885. Je. 1, ’07. 100w.


=Burgess, Gelett.= Heart line. †$1.50. Bobbs.

                                                                7–32840.

  If it were not for the prologue the reader might be mystified over
  certain psychic revelations which the hero as palmist and clairvoyant
  makes to the heroine concerning her past life and her future. As it
  is, the trick of the clear seeing is bared, and one is prepared to
  enjoy the human side of this tale of the Golden Gate which deals as
  much with the froth of a San Francisco smart set as with the longings
  of a so-called charlatan bent upon learning his origin and winning the
  girl he loves.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is a good love story and something more—a really clever exposition of
  the methods of charlatanry among clairvoyants, spiritualistic mediums,
  ‘healers,’ and other deceivers of the credulous.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 744. N. 30, ’07. 100w.


=Burgess, Gelett.= White cat. †$1.50. Bobbs.

                                                                7–10048.

  A tale which suggests “Double trouble.” The possessor of the dual
  personality is a young girl, charming and womanly one day, and
  hoidenish and cruel the next. She is under the spell of a hypnotist
  who makes use of his power over her to the end of extorting money from
  her. A prince in the form of a broad-shouldered young architect is
  thrust upon the mercies of the “white cat” as the result of a motor
  car accident. His mission, as in the fairy tale of old, is that of
  destroying the fatal work of the fairies and annihilating the lower
  personality.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “An exciting and rather well written story.” Amy C. Rich.

       + =Arena.= 37: 559. My. ’07. 250w.

  “The story is a fascinating one, tho not so interesting as Dr.
  Prince’s ‘Dissociation of a personality.’”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 736. Mr. 28, ’07. 270w.

  “His imagination runs wild at the last. The book is certainly
  entertaining, nevertheless.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 172. Mr. 23, ’07. 490w.

         =Outlook.= 86: 118. My. 18, ’07. 90w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 762. Je. ’07. 80w.


=Burkett, Charles William, and Poe, Clarence Hamilton.= Cotton; its
cultivation, marketing, manufacture, and the problems of the cotton
world. (Farm lib.) **$2. Doubleday.

                                                                6–26066.

  The complete story of cotton culture. “The value of the book lies in
  section II, which contains a description of how the cotton-plant grows
  and is grown. To cotton farmers this section alone is worth the price
  of the book. It treats of the botanical structure of the plant, seed
  selection, environment, climatic conditions, fertilizers, farm tools
  required, injurious insects, planting, cultivating, picking, and the
  cost of making cotton.” (Nature.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Much valuable information is conveyed in an interesting way.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 242. S. 20, ’06. 80w.

  “The book would be more correctly described by the title of ‘American
  cotton,’ for India, Egypt and other cotton fields, and the efforts of
  England to widen the source of supply by producing cotton within the
  British empire, are little more than subjects for the authors’
  derision.”

     + − =Nature.= 75: 27. N. 8, ’06. 1160w.

  “The volume is recommended to the attention of those who raise the
  staple, or trade in it, or manufacture it.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 603. S. 29, ’06. 150w.

  “Although the style is of the cheap-magazine variety, the book
  contains so much exact and interesting information on every phase of
  the cultivation and marketing of cotton that it will be found useful
  by the special student. The chapters on cotton manufacture are less
  full and satisfactory.”

     + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 560. S. ’07. 140w.

  “It is intended mainly for the expert, but is written in a
  popular—occasionally too popular—style, and may be skimmed with
  interest by the reader who desires to know the history of cotton.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: 909. Je. 8, ’07. 270w.


=Burkitt, Francis Crawford.= Gospel history and its transmission.
*$2.25. Scribner.

                                                                7–31392.

  “Ten lectures on the origin, mutual relations, and historical value of
  the four gospels and the history of their adoption into the canon,
  delivered in the spring of 1906.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a book to put into the hands of the nonspecialist who desires
  to know something of what scholars are thinking about the gospels; yet
  it is not without its measure of service to one who already has done
  much reading and reflection on the subject.” Henry Burton Sharman.

     + + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 683. O. ’07. 1030w.

  “Not one of Mr. Burkitt’s arguments is frivolous, though his
  conclusions may sometimes be startling: and his book deserves high
  praise as the work of a fearless, competent and reverent critic.”

     + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 795. D. 22. 720w.

         =Bib. World.= 29: 240. Mr. ’07. 80w.

  “The volume is one of the best in English on the sources of
  information concerning the life of Christ.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 742. Mr. 28, ’07. 70w.

         =Ind.= 63: 1235. N. 21, ’07. 70w.

  “The volume evinces ripe scholarship and good critical judgment.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 83. Ja. 24, ’07. 150w.

  “He is always interesting, original, and so ingenious that slower
  minds grow alarmed as to what he may not undertake to prove next; but
  in this book he is on the whole conservative.”

   + + − =Sat. R.= 103: 210. F. 16, ’07. 500w.


=Burland, J. B. Harris.= Gold worshippers. †$1.50. Dillingham.

                                                                6–42432.

  “What profit hath a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own
  soul?” fittingly furnishes the text for a sermon, preached, be it
  said, in no orthodox way. A band of Chinamen lose thru theft, a little
  metal ball, which when touching gold reveals a formula for converting
  cheap metals into gold. It comes into the possession of a young
  Englishman who is seized with a mania for gold, which, he learns to
  his later sorrow, is the curse of the god, Kiao Lung upon the
  possessor of the metal globe. His thrilling experiences make a full
  chapter of horrors. The book is a travesty on the greed for money and
  material power.


=Burne, Sir Owen Tudor.= Memories. *$4.20. Longmans.

                                                                7–28493.

  Recollections of an old soldier who was in Crimea and was present at
  the capture of Lucknow of which he gives a spirited description. “The
  reader of Sir Owen Hume’s ‘Memories’ will find ample evidence as to
  the large part he took in shaping the external policy of India during
  a long period of years.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He has written a delightful volume of reminiscences which every one
  who has the good sense to skip the tedious parts will feel the better
  for reading.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 185. F. 23, ’07. 1760w.

  “From first to last there is not a disparaging remark or unkind word
  about anyone. The author in looking back on his eventful life has
  managed to remember only the pleasant incidents, and the consequence
  of this general good feeling is that his ‘Memories’ will be read with
  unqualified pleasure by those who do not share his political views, as
  well as by those who do. The book is certain to secure a wide public.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 247. Mr. 2. 1690w.

  “In some respects it is difficult to avoid the feeling that the writer
  has missed a great opportunity of producing a really valuable book,
  the great authority of which could not have been denied.”

     − + =Lond. Times.= 6: 182. Je. 1, ’07. 620w.

  “A welcome addition to the numerous works of the same nature which
  form so important a part of our modern literature.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 236. Ap. 13, ’07. 510w.

  “We wish that he had been content to avoid a fashion too common in
  published diaries, and had not scattered so many ancient jokes and so
  much indifferent poetry about his pages. The whole tone and spirit of
  the book, in its optimism and kindliness, is instinct with charm, and
  there can be no lack of interest in the details of a life so full and
  distinguished.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: sup. 463. O. 5, ’07. 450w.


=Burnett, Frances Hodgson.= Cozy lion. †60c. Century.

                                                                7–29094.

  A continuation of the magic of Queen Silverbell which in this instance
  reforms a lion and makes him a fit companion for the village
  youngsters.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “By far the most delightfully spirited story for young folks.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 40w.

  “A nice little children’s story.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 120w.

  “A jolly invention.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 50w.


=Burnett, Frances Hodgson.= The shuttle. †$1.50. Stokes.

                                                                7–29574.

  There is much that is food for thought in this tale of the socially
  elect of the England and America of today. Reuben Vanderpoel of New
  York has added greatly to the millions his father wrested from the new
  world, and his two daughters carry that wealth to the old world to
  re-build two fine old English estates. The elder daughter, Rosie, is
  the victim of a dissipated fortune-hunter who abuses her and neglects
  his property. It is left for her sister, Bettina, the best product of
  American birth and European schools, to come to her rescue twelve
  years later with a clear head and a large bank account. While at work
  upon this task she finds that all poor noblemen are not mercenary and
  that one is both a man and noble.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The present author has quite frankly adopted the method of the
  chromo-lithograph, with its violent contrasts and over-colored
  brightness. But, in spite of the method used, Mrs. Hodgson Burnett has
  succeeded in at least endowing her work with some semblance to life.”

     + − =Acad.= 73: 145. N. 16, ’07. 600w.

  “The last chapters fall off deplorably, being both sentimental and
  sensational.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 200. N. ’07. ✠

  “Here and there we notice discrepancies chronological and otherwise.
  The story, though rather long drawn out, maintains its interest well.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 513. O. 26. 140w.

  “Fundamentally ‘The shuttle’ is ‘Little Lord Fauntleroy’ over again.
  And be it understood that this is said in a spirit, not of
  disparagement, but of candid admiration. For as ‘Little Lord
  Fauntleroy’ was good, this book is good, and added to the ‘Fauntleroy’
  idea there is a great deal more.” Beverly Stark.

     + + =Bookm.= 26: 272. N. ’07. 1150w.

  “The story is a long one, and might be shortened to its advantage.”
  Wm. M. Payne.

     + − =Dial.= 43: 318. N. 16, ’07. 400w.

  “The force of Mrs. Burnett’s book lies in its detail. There is
  detailed pathos, detailed joy and grief, detailed melodrama even; but
  it is all frankly discussed and accounted for, and the writer’s
  knowledge of various kinds of life serves her in good stead.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 325. O. 25, ’07. 550w.

  “It is a story which would have a mild interest for most people and
  about which nobody could conceivably have much to say. Exception might
  be taken to the villain as a shade more diabolical then even the code
  of melodrama permits. He is an extravagant caricature of the
  sufficiently absurd wicked baronet of legend.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 474. N. 21, ’07. 430w.

  “Mrs. Burnett’s plot is stark nonsense, her American father a wierd
  exaggeration, her villain a Jack-in-the-box goggling on a coil of
  wire—but what of that? She is so kind, so honest, so free and splendid
  with her fairy gold, she loves her heroine, she admires her hero with
  such thoroughgoing ardor, that we want with all our hearts to make
  believe with her.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 625. O. 19, ’07. 1330w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 50w.

  “Mrs. Burnett is a born story-teller, and her best is very good
  indeed; it is a pity that her judgment as to what is true art in
  fiction is sometimes seriously at fault.”

     + − =Outlook.= 87: 623. N. 23, ’07. 220w.

  “The book indeed is over-loaded with the sociology of two countries,
  and we hear far too much about the power of the everlasting dollar.”

       − =Sat. R.= 104: 642. N. 23, ’07. 190w.


=Burnham, Clara Louise.= Opened shutters. †$1.50. Houghton.

  Mrs. Burnham has chosen her favorite summer haunts, the islands of
  Casco Bay, for the setting of this story. Silvia Lacey, orphaned and
  bitter against her relatives, finally accepts the hospitality of her
  mother’s cousin “Thinkright” Johnson, so called because of his faith
  in a happy solution of all life’s problems if only one’s thoughts are
  right and harmonious. Under the influence of Thinkright’s fine example
  of brotherhood love, Silvia scripturally finds herself, thru losing
  her rebellious vanity and self-love. An old disused tide-mill with its
  closed shutters is symbolic of Silvia’s discordant outlook on life,
  but with her transformation even the shutters open and let the
  sunlight in.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It can no more be called a novel than a plate of bread and butter can
  be called a meal—even though the bread and butter be good of its
  kind.”

     − + =Acad.= 72: 168. F. 16, ’07. 120w.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 245. D. ’06.

  “The heroine of the novel, Sylvia, is one of Mrs. Burnham’s best-drawn
  figures. There are some amusing situations in the book, and the humor
  is plentiful and genuine.”

       + =Lit. D.= 33: 813. D. 1, ’06. 240w.

  “Is surpassed by none which she has produced in her twenty-five years
  of work.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 691. O. 20, ’06. 220w.

  “It Is written in her own pleasant style, with a strain of symbolism
  which reminds one of Mrs. Whitney.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 853. D. 8, ’06. 140w.


=Burr, Anna Robeson.= Jessop bequest. †$1.50. Houghton.

  This story intense as it is from the human interest standpoint has a
  more vital significance in the warfare between a clergyman who permits
  the cloth to shield dishonesty and a frank youth who knows no religion
  other than that of high thinking and right living. Bennet Sherrington
  conniving with the intimidated Reverend Wynchell tampers with death
  records to throw a fortune into the hands of Wynchell’s granddaughter,
  Diana Jessop. Anthony Brayne, Sherrington’s secretary, unable to
  endure his employer’s trickery leaves him and becomes the champion of
  justice through whom the girl’s dignity and honor are spared, the
  grandfather’s weakness revealed and Sherrington’s villainy punished.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.


=Burrage, Champlin.= True story of Robert Browne, father of
Congregationalism, including various points hitherto unknown or
misunderstood, with some account of the development of his religious
views. *85c. Oxford.

                                                                 7–6783.

  Some lately discovered manuscripts throw new light upon the history
  and views of the founder of Congregationalism which the author offers
  as corrective and supplementary to the work of older biographers,
  especially Dr. Henry M. Dexter.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The whole monograph is painstaking and workmanlike.” Williston
  Walker.

     + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 419. Ja. ’07. 360w.

  Reviewed by Eri B. Hulbert.

         =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 346. Ap. ’07. 110w.

  “Has the merit of modesty in tone and of brevity and clearness in
  method.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 242. S. 20, ’06. 210w.

         =Outlook.= 84: 533. O. 27, ’06. 120w.


=Burrage, Henry Sweetser.= Gettysburg and Lincoln: the battle, the
cemetery, and the National park. **$1.50. Putnam.

                                                                6–34848.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The book is clearly written, and should be of much interest to those
  who have taken part in the preservation of our most famous
  battlefield.”

       + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 700. Ap. ’07. 140w.

       + =Ind.= 62: 620. Mr. 14, ’07. 200w.


=Burrill, Katharine.= Loose heads. *$1.25. Dutton.

  In these chatty essays “every-day matters, and some others, are
  treated with good sense, cheerful philosophy, and literary skill.”
  (Dial.) “Rusty needles, Chloe in the kitchen, Joys forever, People who
  have nothing to do, are among the titles.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Fresh and bright and eminently readable are most of the little
  essays.”

     + − =Dial.= 42: 188. Mr. 16, ’07. 190w.

  “The style is agreeable, but it might be wished that there were fewer
  split infinitives.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 103. F. 16, ’07. 230w.


=Burroughs, Dwight.= Jack, the giant killer, jr.; being the thrilling
adventures, authentically told, of a worthy son of the celebrated Jack,
the giant killer. il. †$1. Jacobs.

                                                                7–31422.

  The mantle of the traditional Jack falls to a worthy successor whose
  adventures are no whit less thrilling, only more wholesome. The
  adventure entitled “The automobile race” suggests the modern note in
  Jack, junior’s experiences.


=Burroughs, John.= Bird and bough. **$1. Houghton.

                                                                6–10676.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 7. Ja. ’07.


=Burroughs, John.= Camping and tramping with Roosevelt. **$1. Houghton.

                                                                7–31186.

  A two-part sketch, the first of which being an account of the camping
  trip in the Yellowstone which the President and Mr. Burroughs made
  together in the spring of 1903, the second being an account of a visit
  to Oyster Bay in which the author gives his impressions of the
  President as a nature-lover and observer. He shows how Mr. Roosevelt
  can stand calm and unflinching in the path of a charging grizzly, with
  the same quality of coolness and determination with which he confronts
  predaceous corporations and money powers of the country; he claims for
  the President the power of observation “to see minutely and to see
  whole;” above all, shows how his interest in wild life is at once
  scientific and thoroughly human—making of him the rarest kind of
  sportsman.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is as sincere as it is frankly the work of an admirer, but
  it is such a tribute as any man might be proud of.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 424. N. 7, ’07. 340w.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 712. N. 9, ’07. 1170w.

         =R. of Rs.= 36: 755. D. ’07. 110w.


=Burrows, Ronald M.= Discoveries in Crete, and their bearing on the
history of ancient civilisation. *$2. Dutton.

                                                                7–37534.

  Professor Burrows’ book becomes an “Ariadne’s thread in a bewildering
  labyrinth.” He “has rendered signal service not only to the public at
  large, but also to the cause of archæological research by his little
  book. He has read, as it would seem, everything which has been
  published concerning the Cretan discoveries, and has had access to a
  great deal of information at first hand which has not yet found its
  way into print at all. And from this enormous mass of material, which
  has been the bewilderment even of many of the elect, he has drawn out
  the main threads of argument and has woven them into a work which has
  more than the mere colour of cohesion and continuity.” (Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is ungracious to cavil at Homeric criticism in a book whose main
  object is so well and so modestly achieved. We can say without
  hesitation that this little work is almost a necessary introduction to
  the unwieldy mass of material with which the author has had to deal.
  And if the illustrations are few and far between, they are admirably
  chosen.”

   + + − =Acad.= 73: 674. Jl. 13, ’07. 2140w.

  “Prof. Burrows, like Ariadne, offers to the adventurous a clue through
  the labyrinth. But, to avail ourselves of it we need the labyrinth
  itself—the archæological library.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 46. Jl. 13. 1380w.

  “Will be welcomed to a limited circle for its painstaking summary of
  the present situation, its impartial balancing of probabilities, and
  its valuable bibliography.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 123. S. 1, ’07. 320w.

  “It is presumed that his main function is to set forth the results
  achieved by the workers; but no man with such a theme can bridle his
  tongue, and we may be glad that Burrows has not done so.” Rufus B.
  Richardson.

     + + =Ind.= 63: 755. S. 26, ’07. 1170w.

       + =Int. Studio.= 32: 252. S. ’07. 130w.

  “It must be also said that those readers who are not able to procure
  access to the dozen or more volumes referred to will find this book of
  very little use, while those who open it in hope of gaining a
  preliminary idea of the subject at small cost of time and money will
  almost certainly be disappointed.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 230. Jl. 19, ’07. 1650w.

  “Two criticisms may fairly be made upon the book. The English
  expression is often careless, and the tone in which the author refers
  to views with which he disagrees is unpleasant; what might pass in a
  familiar lecture is out of place here.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 329. O. 10, ’07. 2000w.

  “He is like editors who write for one another instead of the public.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 518. Ag. 24, ’07, 1300w.

  “The book contains much valuable and carefully thought out
  ethnological speculation, and, by dint of what he modestly terms
  ‘balancing probabilities and opening up lines of inquiry,’ Mr. Burrows
  gives in practicable volume that adequate guidance which is so
  necessary to a study of the complicated racial problems with which the
  history of Aegean civilization is bound up.”

       + =Spec.= 99: sup. 751. N. 16, ’07. 330w.


=Burton, Theodore E.= John Sherman. (American statesmen, 2nd ser.)
**$1.25. Houghton.

                                                                6–43551.

  A close acquaintance with Sherman, also a full understanding of the
  public measures with which Sherman was identified lie back of Mr.
  Burton’s sketch.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “As a history of national politics in the last quarter-century, the
  volume is highly creditable. Criticism is directed against the
  editorial plan of the publishers rather than to individual
  shortcomings of Mr. Burton.” Davis R. Dewey.

     + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 905. Jl. ’07. 540w.

  “A brief, scholarly, readable and wholly admirable work. Ranks as one
  of the best accounts of reconstruction finance.”

     + + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 65. Mr. ’07. S.

  “The book is rather hard reading for the ordinary person who has no
  great liking for figures and financial history. But it gives a good
  account of a real statesman, and a history of several important phases
  of our national development during the last half century.”

   + + − =Dial.= 42: 189. Mr. 16, ’07. 210w.

  “It is creditable biography, written by one in full sympathy with the
  political ideas of Mr. Sherman, but free, on the whole, from undue
  bias.” Eugene B. Patton.

     + + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 311. My. ’07. 680w.

  “Candor is perhaps the most noteworthy quality displayed by Mr.
  Burton—a candor which personal friendship was powerless to eliminate.
  And yet the book is sympathetic and its attitude that of one who
  sincerely admired Sherman.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 63. Ja. 12, ’07. 130w.

  “Mr. Burton’s plain and unimpassioned style does little to make
  Sherman interesting, and his book will not, we fancy, be much read
  except for reference.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 288. Mr. 28, ’07. 360w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 906. D. 29, ’06. 660w.

  Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.

       + =Putnam’s.= 3: 102. O. ’07. 560w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 380. Mr. ’07. 150w.


=Buskett, Evans Walker.= Fire assaying. *$1.25. Van Nostrand.

                                                                 7–7504.

  A practical treatise on the fire assaying of gold, silver and lead,
  including description of the appliances used.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This little book has nothing against it except its brevity. It is
  clearly and concisely written and well illustrated.” Bradley
  Stoughton.

       + =Engin. N.= 57: 668. Je. 13, ’07. 170w.


=Busquet, Raymond.= Manual of hydraulics; tr. by A. H. Peake. *$2.10.
Longmans.

                                                                7–28954.

  Rather ancient theories and discussions are included upon such
  subjects as Fundamental laws, Flow of liquids in delivery pipes, Flow
  of liquids in open canals, Hydraulic engines, and Construction of a
  waterfall.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In the opinion of the reviewer, however, it is an unsafe guide for
  both students and engineers.”

       − =Engin. N.= 56: 639. D. 13, ’06. 280w.

  “The translator appears to have done his work well, and to have given
  the meaning of the author in English terms and phrases. The writer
  does not know of any book that deals with this subject in so practical
  a way as the one under notice.”

     + + =Nature.= 75: 29. N. 8, ’06. 390w.


=Bussell, Frederick William.= Christian theology and social progress;
the Bampton lectures for 1905. *$3.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–12985.

  “The general aim, expressed in the eight statutory lectures, and more
  fully developed in the supplement, is to show the identity of interest
  which unites the various ideals of Christianity and democracy. The
  writer sets himself to prove that society in its advance towards the
  goal of social reform is dependent for its sanction and its vital
  force alike upon the teaching, the beliefs, the influence of Christian
  faith.... Man’s duty in the world—the nature of his being—the motive
  power behind its actions—his consequent relations with the state—such
  are some of the riddles that demand attention.”—Sat. R.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This fascinating, though difficult book is, in the reviewer’s
  opinion, the most important contribution to apologetics which has been
  published in recent years. It is more interesting, and in some ways
  more valuable, than the writings of Abbé Loisy and Father Tyrrell, and
  more suggestive even than the work of Dr. Schiller and other
  ‘humanists,’ of whose school Dr. Bussell is a convinced though
  independent member. It is brilliant, paradoxical, amazing, and
  ill-arranged.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 434. Ap. 13. 1740w.

  “Is the ripe fruit of prolonged reflection and often learned
  investigation.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 249. O. 16, ’07. 220w.

  “Throughout the book—the original and supplementary lectures—Mr.
  Bussell speaks as a scholar, albeit a true churchman, and in discourse
  of great charm.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 159. Mr. 16, ’07. 370w.

  Reviewed by Joseph O’Connor.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 346. Je. 1, ’07. 1410w.

  “The whole is a finely wrought piece of literature rather than of
  dialectics. One important point deserves criticism: the priority
  ascribed, to rights rather than to duties must be contested as a clear
  inversion of the ethical relation between the two.”

     − + =Outlook.= 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 330w.

  “With much that is included in this volume we are already familiar;
  but there is originality of treatment which marks it as a valuable
  contribution on this side of thought.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 429. Ap. 6, ’07. 1590w.


=Butler, Ellis Parker.= Confessions of a daddy; illustrated by Fanny Y.
Cory. 75c. Century.

                                                                7–18096.

  The “daddy,” “a rank amateur in the baby business” confesses the
  heart-breaking blow of the first glance at the wrinkled, red little
  thing that the nurse brings for his proud expressions of joy. He
  further records the agony of the first “spank” administered after the
  “98 per cent of sweetness” grown to twenty-two months, cries all day
  for “laim,” and the grief that follows when the discovery is made that
  the baby only wanted to say “Now I lay me.” It is the common
  experience of all parents told simply and to the point with Mr.
  Butler’s inimitable humor that makes the book worth reading.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is a certain suspicion of obvious humour here and there; and
  some notes, which seem taken from child-life, may please. But the book
  is a disappointment.”

     − + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 403. O. 5. 100w.

  “If, as a whole, the volume is not as overwhelmingly funny as his
  ‘Pigs is pigs,’ it is still a delightful bit of humor.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 122. Ag. 8, ’07. 70w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.

       + =Outlook.= 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 60w.


=Butler, John Wesley.= Mexico coming into light. *35c. West. Meth. bk.

                                                                7–14569.

  A brief sketch of the physical conditions, inhabitants, pre-colonial
  dynasties, sixteenth century tragedy, reform movements, etc., leading
  to the Macedonian cry and the planting of the mission.


=Butler, Nicholas Murray.= True and false democracy. **$1. Macmillan.

                                                                7–20888.

  Dr. Butler’s aim has been to hasten the day when “every member of a
  self-governing community has a clear understanding of what democracy
  really means and implies, as well as a character strong enough to fix
  his own relations to his fellows in accordance with moral principle.”
  The three papers discuss respectively True and false democracy,
  Education of public opinion, and Democracy and education.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Three sane and simple addresses.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 161. O. ’07.

         =Dial.= 43: 43. Jl. 16, ’07. 290w.

       + =Ind.= 63: 1309. N. 28, ’07. 570w.

  “The papers are admirably phrased and merit thoughtful reading.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 229. S. 12, ’07, 150w.

  “The addresses are worthy of their audiences, being considered and
  cultured deliverances upon the general topic of the value of knowledge
  in politics and the duty of educated men to assume their share in
  cultivating a public sentiment which shall distinguish the mob from
  the people.” Edward A. Bradford.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 417. Je. 29, ’07. 470w.

  “The conversance with affairs which we have just noted as an
  indispensable part of the equipment of the modern university president
  gives particular point to these thoughtful and suggestive addresses.”
  Montgomery Schuyler.

       + =Putnam’s.= 3: 227. N. ’07. 360w.

         =R. of Rs.= 36: 384. S. ’07. 100w.

  “This is a book full of sound sense from beginning to end.”

     + + =Spec.= 99: 204. Ag. 10, ’07. 430w.


=Butler, Pierce.= Judah P. Benjamin. (American crisis biographies.)
**$1.25. Jacobs.

                                                                7–21376.

  A sketch of the life of Judah B. Benjamin, the Jewish lawyer and
  statesman who, “after conspicuous success at the bar in this country,
  after continuous service in the leadership of the Confederacy, again
  achieved the most honorable triumphs at the bar of England.” The
  biographer’s main difficulty in approaching his work has been
  insufficiency of material upon this great advocate’s private life. A
  few letters with such details as members of Mr. Benjamin’s family
  could furnish, constitute the information for the personal side of the
  sketch. For his public and professional activities ample records make
  possible accuracy even to the smallest details.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The only great contribution of the volume is in its orderly
  assembling of materials which are familiar, in detail, to the average
  historian.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 1000. O. 24, ’07. 200w.

  “Mr. Butler has succeeded pretty well in collecting his material, and
  nothing of value known to be extant seems to have escaped him. No
  attempt is made to portray Mr. Benjamin as a faultless character. But
  the true greatness of the man is appreciated and will be felt by all
  who read these pages.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 487. Ag. 10, ’07. 260w.

  “His is not a book of any marked literary merit (suffering especially
  from an undue tendency to quotation), but it is careful, conscientious
  and convincing. With few exceptions, too, it is free from rancor and
  partisanship.”

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 838. Ag. 17, ’07, 420w.

  Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.

       + =Putnam’s.= 3: 103. O. ’07. 290w.


=Butler, William.= Golfer’s guide; with an introd. by Dr. Macnamara.
*$1. Lippincott.

  A thorogoing hand-book of golf for beginners. Uniform with “The
  complete bridge player,” and “The complete fisherman.”


=Butler, William Francis.= Lombard communes. *$3.75. Scribner.

                                                                 7–9819.

  “In no very picturesque phrase, but at the same time in easily
  understood language, Mr. Butler recounts the history of the
  city-states of Lombardy, the rule of the early bishops, the rights of
  the communes, the history of Milan, Lombardy’s natural capital, the
  first and second Lombard leagues, and the final struggles of the
  communes.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is not a work of research, based upon the original
  resources; but it is scholarly and well written. There is, indeed, no
  other book in English which covers the ground so satisfactorily.”

     + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 917. Jl. ’07. 240w.

  “While heartily commending his industry, accuracy, and general level
  of attainment, we may fairly warn the reader that his treatment is
  such as is ordinarily characterized by the term ‘popular.’ We have
  rarely seen a better book written by an Englishman about Italy.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 391. Ap. 25, ’07. 370w.

  “The work would be improved by topical side notes giving dates. The
  author’s style is clearly intelligible and soberly dignified; it will
  win respectful attention, although it may not compel enthusiasm.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 24. Ja. 12, ’07. 520w.

  “A book to be read in connection with Symond’s ‘Age of the despots’
  has long been a desideratum—a clear and comprehensive account of North
  Italy from the Roman times down at least to the middle of the
  fourteenth century. Such a book is now at hand in Mr. Butler’s
  ‘Lombard communes.’”

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 858. Ap. 13, ’07. 190w.


=Butterworth, Hezekiah.= Story of the hymns and tunes, by Theron Brown
and Hezekiah Butterworth. *$1.50. Am. tract.

                                                                 7–6630.

  In this volume have been combined Mr. Butterworth’s “The story of the
  hymns” and “The story of the tunes.” There have also been added modern
  hymns and tunes that “have won recognition since the books were first
  published.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Dial.= 42: 260. Ap. 16, ’07. 70w.

  “Mr. Butterworth himself passed over his manuscript to Mr. Brown, who
  has executed his difficult task not only with sympathy for his
  subject, but with no little original research. This work is more
  valuable than most popular books on hymns and also more readable.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 1209. My. 23, ’07. 180w.

  “Many helpful historic and biographic facts are given; nor do the
  authors disdain anecdote.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 252. Mr. 14, ’07. 210w.


=Buxton, E. M. Wilmot-.= Stories of early England. (Children’s favorite
classics.) 60c. Crowell.

                                                                7–22918.

  Tales retold for children which reflect the English and Celtic social
  life and manners up to the fifteenth century. Such old favorites are
  included as the story of Beowulf, of Cynewulf and Cyneherd, of Alfred
  and Guthrum, and of Caedmon; stories of “Old English charms,” of
  Richard Lion-Heart, of Olger the Dane and many another. The author has
  preserved the glamour of knighthood and chivalry sure to delight the
  young reader.


* =Bynner, Witter.= Ode to Harvard. **$1. Small.

                                                                7–22080.

  This ode limns the impression of a graduate revisiting his Alma mater
  in after years. “The poem rises by thoughtful and natural stages from
  the discursive and anecdotal early passages to the heightened
  concentration of the close, where, with a fine idealism, he evolves
  the precise nature of the debt which every man owes to his Alma
  mater.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a lengthy composition of jocose patter, lacking in both dignity
  and restraint. The miscellaneous poems ... make a somewhat better
  impression, although their artistic quality remains inconsiderable.”
  Wm. M. Payne.

     − + =Dial.= 43: 93. Ag. 16, ’07. 230w.

  “A poem that succeeds in spite of his deficiencies, by virtue of the
  genuineness of its emotional content, and, too, by a certain air of
  elegance which comes fresh upon us at every turn and creates a very
  distinct impression of the personality of the poet.” William Aspenwall
  Bradley.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 539. S. 7, ’07. 500w.

  “Clever and sprightly reminiscence is this, yet not altogether born of
  a gay insouciance, for the inscrutable light peers out of the jester’s
  eyes. His lyrics show the same duality, the light note pierced through
  with the poignant.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

     + − =Putnam’s.= 3: 367. D. ’07. 130w.


=Byrne, Austin Thomas.= Treatise on highway construction; designed as a
textbook and work of reference for all who may be engaged in the
location, construction, or maintenance of roads, streets, and pavements.
5th ed. $5. Wiley.

                                                                7–20713.

  The author has set himself to the task of collating the varied mass of
  scattered information on highway construction and working it over into
  an accessible work of reference. It is the fifth edition revised and
  enlarged.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is full of anachronisms and antiquated statements, and the
  reader may be unable to separate the ancient from the modern. Parts,
  at least, of the book give one the impression that they have been
  written hastily and with too little regard for the precision of
  statement one naturally expects in engineering books; and the
  qualifications necessary to make statements of fact accurate and
  reliable are often wanting. It seems a great pity that a book designed
  to be a vade-mecum, and otherwise so admirable, should be marred by
  such faults. Nevertheless it is a book that should be in the library
  of every municipal engineer.” S. Whinery.

     + − =Engin. N.= 58: 177. Ag. 15, ’07. 2390w.




                                   C


=Cabell, James Branch.= Gallantry. $2. Harper.

                                                                7–32561.

  “An eighteenth century dizain in ten comedies with an afterpiece.”
  There is romance true to the times of the second George and there is
  also much strange love-making in these tales of a day when gallantry
  ranked with the arts, when wit was broad and the sword was ready. The
  illustrations in color by Howard Pyle add much to the volume.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His descriptions of the gallant is a bit of very pretty writing in
  prose, pleasantly suggestive, as is the versified prologue, of Mr.
  Andrew Lang.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 380. D. 1, ’07. 120w.

  “We may safely say that while not for an instant comparing with such a
  masterpiece as Mr. Hewlett’s ‘Stooping lady,’ it has infinitely more
  merit than many such popular successes as, to take one example,
  ‘Monsieur Beaucaire.’”

       + =Nation.= 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 450w.

  “A vigorous romance ... with the swift spirit of love and swords.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w.


=Cabot, Mrs. Mary Lyman.= Everyday ethics. $1.25. Holt.

                                                                6–33635.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Teachers will find the book a practical and valuable aid.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 118. My. ’07. S.

  “Good sound principles, illustrated with a fund of illustrated matter,
  mark Mrs. Cabot’s chapters on ethics.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 93. Jl. 27. 110w.

  “I suspect this book would not altogether win boys. But let not the
  book be altogether condemned, for it is after all one of the best that
  are to be met with, so full of the sense of real problems in the real
  life of the young of today.” Herbert G. Lord.

     + − =Educ. R.= 34: 103. Je. ’07. 870w.

  “This volume is both interesting and suited to actual moral needs.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 760. S. 26, ’07. 300w.

  “Throughout, the spirit of the work is wholesome, and the discussions
  helpfully suggestive. Particularly noteworthy is the avowed and
  fulfilled purpose of avoiding ‘sentimentalism’ and the usual
  ‘sugar-coated’ moral stories.” A. R. Gifford.

       + =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 507. Jl. ’07. 1720w.

  “The success of the author in finding examples from real life is a
  chief merit of the book.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 186. Ag. 29, ’07. 160w.

  “This book is a distinct contribution to both the science and the art
  of ethical instruction.” Anna Garlin Spencer.

     + + =School. R.= 15: 231. Mr. ’07. 1080w.


=Cadbury, Edward; Matheson, M. Cecile, and Shann, George.= Women’s work
and wages: a phase of life in an industrial city. *$1.50. Univ. of
Chicago press.

                                                                7–11022.

  “A record of investigation and philanthropic effort, principally in
  the city of Birmingham. The refrain of the whole is a complaint from
  the humanitarian point of view against existing conditions. It is a
  tale of honest effort to raise the standard of life.” (Spec.) “The
  book deals with conditions of work, life, recreation, and ameliorative
  agencies, wages, legislation, home life, recreation, clubs, trade
  union, legal minimum wage, and wages boards.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Three of the four aims which the writers of this book set before
  themselves have been successfully accomplished.”

   + + − =Acad.= 71: 157. Ag. 18, ’07. 1210w.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 161. O. ’07.

  “The plan of the present study has been well worked out.” S. P.
  Breckinridge.

     + + =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 411. N. ’07. 1230w.

  “Contains a goodly array of facts interesting to the economist and
  social reformer. The value of these facts would have been considerably
  enhanced by a more scientific method of arrangement, and a clearer
  view on the part of the writers of the volume touching the kind of
  book they were setting themselves to produce.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 140. S. 1. 810w.

  “The book is interesting and suggestive, and if it has not furnished
  any new or valuable statistical evidence on the subject of the
  employment of women, it has succeeded where some of the more detailed
  studies have failed—in giving the public a thoroughly readable account
  of an important social problem. The book undoubtedly loses in unity
  from the fact of its having had three authors, but it must also gain
  from the very special knowledge that each of the three possessed.”
  Edith Abbott.

   + + − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 563. N. ’07. 870w.

         =Nation.= 83: 75. Jl. 26, ’06. 40w.

  “The volume we are considering contains a vast amount of suggestive
  and instructive material.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 450. Jl. 20, ’07. 1310w.

  “The concluding chapter, is for American readers probably the most
  valuable portion of the book.” Florence Kelley.

     + + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 175. Mr. ’07. 530w.

         =Spec.= 97: 540. O. 13, ’06. 100w.


* =Caffin, Charles Henry.= Story of American painting. **$2. Stokes.

                                                                7–36959.

  A fully illustrated work which “goes back to the earliest painters
  working in this country and traces the various influences that have
  played upon American art up to the present time. In accordance with
  his plan of showing the connection between our art and our national
  life and history, he concentrates his attention upon those artists who
  best illustrate the effect of these influences.” (Putnam’s.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 40w.

  “The text ... shows much detailed observation, an impartial temper,
  and an orderly method of procedure that gives it value as a book of
  reference.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.

     + + =Putnam’s.= 3: 359. D. ’07. 600w.

  “He praises rather indiscriminately; but considering the difficulty of
  the subject ... he has put forth a volume that has surprisingly few
  mistakes in it, and in which the laymen will find a great deal of
  valuable information.”

     + − =R. of Rs.= 36: 760. D. ’07. 90w.


* =Cain, Georges.= Nooks and corners of old Paris; tr. by Frederick
Lawton. *$3.50. Lippincott.

                                                                7–37532.

  Under the headings, The old city, The isle of Saint-Louis, The left
  bank of the Seine, and The right bank of the river, M. Cain has set
  forth both the historic and artistic points of the city of by-gone
  days. “Though it is in no sense a guidebook, the prospective sojourner
  in Paris would do well to read the work, especially if he is at all
  interested in noteworthy sights outside the ken of the ordinary
  tourist.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The present translation cannot be praised, but the illustrations and
  the printing of the volume are admirable, and it thus forms an
  excellent gift-book.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 548. N. 2. 600w.

  “There is nothing aloof or academic in M. Cain’s account of the
  landmarks of the Paris of by-gone days; he takes his readers on four
  delightful rambles through four divisions of the region that held the
  germs of the great city of to-day.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 378. D. 1, ’07. 320w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 350w.


* =Caird, Edward.= Lay sermons and addresses: delivered in the hall of
Balliol college, Oxford. *$2. Macmillan.

  “Of the twelve addresses which are here published, the first deals
  more especially with the opportunities and duties of college life;
  three discuss in a large-hearted way the great themes of national
  patriotism and civic service, while the last two, on ‘Immortality’ and
  ‘The faith of Job,’ touch impressively on the ultimate questions of
  Divine justice and human destiny, which lie behind all the creeds. A
  sermon on ‘Salvation here and hereafter’ gives the author’s general
  view of the nature of the religious ideal and the place of religion in
  human life; while the remaining discourses are devoted to the
  perennial themes of moral and spiritual experience—‘Freedom and
  truth,’ ‘Spiritual development,’ ‘The great decision,’ ‘True purity,’
  and ‘Courage.’”—Lond. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “With the sermon-form there goes in Dr. Caird’s discourse the
  Christian outlook at its broadest and best.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 609. N. 16. 1520w.

  “These discourses ... convey with a grave simplicity the counsels of a
  great teacher on the conduct of life, as well as his mature outlook on
  the problems of human destiny.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 300. O. 4, ’07. 2260w.

  “Addresses himself, with a rare combination of philosophic thought
  plainly and practically expressed, ethical keenness and vigor, and a
  finished literary style, to thoughtful young men confronted with the
  intellectual problems and moral temptations of university life. This
  volume should find place in all college libraries.”

     + + =Outlook.= 87: 543. N. 9, ’07. 170w.


=Caird, Mrs. Mona.= Romantic cities of Provence: il. by Joseph Pennell
and Edward Synge. *$3.75. Scribner.

                                                                6–45159.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The excellence of the book lies chiefly in the illustrations.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 441. O. 13. 1290w.

  “The reader is brought face to face with the very spirit of the silent
  wilderness of stones known as La Cran, and with that of its even more
  melancholy neighbour, the deserted Camargue, whilst the idiosyncrasies
  of the travellers who are met by the way are humorously touched off.
  There is not one dull page in the book.”

       + =Int. Studio.= 32: 85. Jl. ’07. 240w.

  “She is mortally afraid of being dull ... and in her panic lest she
  should commit this enormity she becomes chronically playful, almost
  depriving herself of the power to say anything simply. It is worse
  when Miss Caird is playful about dates. She shares the feminine
  tendency to include them in dulness, and only mentions them
  apologetically. Let us hasten to add, she takes us to fascinating
  places.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 432. D. 29, ’06. 740w.

  “It is to the credit of the writer that she has managed to transfer to
  her pages something of the charm which lingers about these districts
  so unattractive at first sight and so enthralling when closely
  studied.”

       + =Sat. R.= 102: 746. D. 15, ’06. 240w.

  “She has an easy style, though rather too abundant in long words and
  adjectives. Some of her pages, indeed, remind us of the plain of the
  Crau scattered over with stones, which she describes so
  picturesquely.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: sup. 653. Ap. 27, ’07. 220w.


=Cairns, D. S.= Christianity in the modern world. *$1.25. Armstrong.

                                                                7–15937.

  Mr. Cairns discusses the mighty principle of Christianity as it has
  come thru the centuries, with such settings, mainly dogmatic, as
  people’s understandings have afforded, until today it stands for
  greater impersonal might with “the line of its hope lying in its power
  to moralize the selfishness of the individual by transforming private
  interest into the ideal of a common good.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There can be no doubt that Mr. Cairns’s warning is needed; but his
  book is by no means free from an a-priori-coloring.” Gerald Birney
  Smith.

     + − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 706. O. ’07. 540w.

  “These essays exhibit a thoroly modern spirit and both logical and
  literary ability of a high order.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 456. Ag. 22, ’07. 400w.

  “As a piece of Christian apologetic, the effort of Mr. Cairns is on a
  higher plane than that of much recent work.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 270. Mr. 21, ’07. 720w.

  “Rarely, if ever, has the subject of the book been better treated.”

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 42. Ja. 5, ’07. 410w.


=Caldecott, W. Shaw.= Solomon’s temple: its history and its structure.
*$2.50. Union press.

  A fresh treatment, the outgrowth of diligent research, which makes the
  Biblical narrative its own interpreter, and which dwells at length
  upon the architectural details of the Hebrew temple.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Although we cannot accept all Mr. Caldecott’s conclusions we welcome
  his volume as a solid and thoughtful contribution to the subject; he
  has boldly departed from the hard, beaten track and struck out an
  original line, and his reward will doubtless be an increased interest
  in the investigation of the problem he has so vigorously attacked.”

   + + − =Acad.= 73: 796. Ag. 17, ’07. 850w.

  “Though sometimes vivid and even dramatic, it is written in a confused
  and repetitive style, and occasionally we find contradictions ... and
  some uncertainty in treating of contemporary Egyptian history.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 556. N. 2. 460w.

  “On his proper subject, the construction of the temple and the
  adjoining palaces, our author has much that is interesting to tell
  us.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: 235. Ag. 17, ’07. 250w.


=Calhoun, Mary E.= Dorothy’s rabbit stories. †$1. Crowell.

                                                                7–24584.

  A group of children’s stories which a little southern girl tells to
  her kitten Kim. “Neighbor rabbit” figures as a thoroly enjoyable hero,
  and seems to bear kinship to Uncle Remus’s “br’er rabbit.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “For the child of this decade who has not read ‘Uncle Remus,’
  ‘Dorothy’s rabbit stories’ will prove fascinating.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 766. D. ’07. 60w.


=Calkins, Franklin Wells.= Wooing of Tokala: an intimate tale of the
wild life of the American Indian drawn from camp and trail. †$1.50.
Revell.

                                                                7–16943.

  “With only a thread of a story in the conventional sense, this is a
  thoroughly competent study of a group of Dakotah and Sioux Indians.
  Their habits, traditions, and point of view are given with a detail
  which though painstaking is never tiresome.” (Nation.) His Tokala is a
  creature of her native environment. “He tells you here picturesquely
  how this maid was loved and won in the face of at least the usual
  allowance of difficulties.” (N. Y. Times.)

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 176. O. ’07. ✠

  “He makes his Indians quite plain, as creatures in the toils of
  tradition and beliefs which they must obey. His style is clear and
  simple, attaining excellent effects by dint of completely avoiding
  self-conscious and labored efforts. In fact, the whole book contains
  matter of real interest, which is conveyed without parade of knowledge
  and with a total absence of trick or mannerism.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 591. Je. 27, ’07. 180w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 160w.

  “The story is well told, with not a little ingenuity and cleverness in
  the construction of the plot and throughout with a simplicity that
  adds to its charm.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 476. Ag. 3, ’07. 300w.


=Calkins, Mary Whiton.= Persistent problems of philosophy: an
introduction to metaphysics through the study of modern systems. *$2.50.
Macmillan.

                                                                7–11605.

  “The professor of philosophy in Wellesley college has made a most
  useful résumé and exposition of the tendencies and doctrines of modern
  philosophy since Descartes. The bibliographies are especially good.
  Readers who desire to become familiar with the presentation of the
  movement called Pragmatism will find here succinct definitions and
  helpful references to recent literature on the subject.” (Educ. R.)
  “It differs from most introductions of the kind in that it is
  historical, and from most histories of philosophy in that it is
  critical.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Educ. R.= 33: 534. My. ’07. 80w.

  “The historical and critical portions of the volume are written with a
  facile pen. Few recent treatises on philosophy have combined so
  constant reference to the sources with so readable an expository
  style. The writer exhibits, moreover, a comprehensive acquaintance
  with the history of modern thinking, at the same time that she
  exercises independent historical judgment.” A. C. Armstrong.

     + + =J. Philos.= 4: 440. Ag. 1, ’07. 1540w.

  “Professor Calkins not only criticises, but constructs, and sets forth
  her own doctrine with such ability that she should have a
  distinguished place among contemporary Hegelians.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 525. Je. 6, ’07. 910w.

  “Insight, poise, and a fine blending of clarity with brevity make this
  an eminently serviceable book for [serious students]. Such a work, in
  addition to her well-wrought ‘Introduction to psychology,’ gives
  Professor Calkins a distinction among American women as meritorious as
  it is unique.”

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 437. Je. 22, ’07. 420w.


=Call, Annie Payson.= Everyday living. **$1.25. Stokes.

                                                                6–37967.

  That the knowledge of God’s law of liberty is power to the person who
  will gain it, nay, use it, is the theme running thru Mrs. Call’s dozen
  and more essays. There is the note of impersonal freedom which
  everybody can catch if he but work. She sets forth working principles,
  approved by experiment, which clear away the mists of material
  existence.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 7. Ja. ’07. S.

  “The statements are so bare as to read like platitudes in many
  instances, and the manner is unnecessarily didactic.”

     − + =Outlook.= 84: 840. D. 1, ’06. 50w.

         =Putnam’s.= 2: 621. Ag. ’07. 200w.


=Call, Annie Payson.= Heart of good health. **30c. Crowell.

                                                                7–21545.

  A monologue urging the training for the human body that corresponds to
  the progress of the soul in its regeneration. The little volume
  belongs to the “What is worth while series.”


=Calthrop, Dion Clayton.= Dance of love. †$1.50. Holt.

                                                                7–31413.

  A romance of the days of the “dawn of intellect” with scenes shifting
  from France to England. It is a tale of a love quest upon which Pipin,
  the hero, meets a dozen women. Each one affords the author an
  opportunity to draw an individual type of the dame of yesterday. The
  dominant qualities of the “eternal feminine” are strikingly portrayed.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Calthrop has sacrificed too much to high morality. It will
  certainly be much liked by those who value originality of idea and
  vivid, poetical expression, and we think that the insatiable readers
  of novels, who rather resent these merits, will forgive them in a
  short book full of attractive incidents related in an unusual form
  with considerable dramatic effect.”

     + − =Acad.= 73: sup. 114. N. 9, ’07. 900w.

  “Picturesque charm and a real feeling for romance mark the story.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 580. N. 9. 950w.

  “This is a romance to be enjoyed if one happens to be in the right
  mood, but one that does not command the reader’s satisfaction.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 104: 642. N. 23, ’07. 180w.


=Calthrop, Dion Clayton.= English costume; painted and described by Dion
Clayton Calthrop. 4v. ea. $2.75. Macmillan.

                                                                6–32380.

  A history of English costume in four volumes which divide the subject
  into as many periods: 1, Early English; 2, Middle ages; 3, Tudor and
  Stuart; 4, Georgian. “The colored illustrations will appeal to
  everybody, but the little sketches in the letterpress will be
  invaluable to the costumier and the stage manager if not to many
  tailors and milliners as well. Scattered throughout the four volumes
  are also a series of word-pictures, of which mention must be made.”
  (Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We confess to a preference for his pictures, which, it seems to us,
  are a valuable addition to English history, whereas his notes, for all
  his system, are at times irritatingly scrappy, and at others
  provokingly trivial.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 245. Mr. 9, ’07. 530w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

  “He still exhibits a flippant style which is out of place in such a
  treatise, and he has obviously made careful studies of dress from old
  manuscripts and missals.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 699. D. 1. 370w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “We cannot but feel that the author had somewhat tired of his task,
  particularly as he devotes a good deal of his space to quotations. The
  book is scrappy, and for fuller information we must still go to other
  authorities.”

     − + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 672. Je. 1. 340w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “After the enormous amount of research, it is remarkable that he can
  handle his subject as lightly as he does. Interesting and readable he
  certainly is, in spite of an occasional slip in idiom or construction.
  He has a happy faculty for making his costumes live, as it were, in
  the times to which they belong.” May Estelle Cook.

     + + =Dial.= 43: 57. Ag. 1, ’07. 620w.

  “Unfortunately, however, it is impossible entirely to endorse this
  very high estimate of a book which, though brightly and humorously
  written, does not contain much that is new.”

     + − =Int. Studio.= 29: 364. O. ’06. 230w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “The full-page illustrations in colour are by no means satisfactory,
  the artist’s sartorial lore being far superior to his technical skill
  and knowledge of the anatomy of the human form. The best drawings in
  the book are the small reproductions after the Dightons.”

     + − =Int. Studio.= 31: 251. My. ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 4.)

     + − =Liv. Age.= 252: 571. Mr. 2, ’07. 660w. (Reprinted from Lond.
         Times.) (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “If he had gone a little further and a little deeper, if he had kept
  clear of a certain annoying jauntiness of style, his book, valuable
  already, might have been of still greater worth.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 18. Ja. 18. ’07. 660w. (Review of v. 1 and
         2.)

  “As a book of reference it loses half its value from the absence of an
  index; as a serious history of clothes it suffers from the author’s
  attempt to be sprightly; as a book of entertainment, it is too
  learned. Taken as a whole, as a work at once moderately entertaining
  to read and moderately useful for study, it may serve a purpose.”

     + − =Nation.= 84. 454. My. 16, ’07. 400w.

  “This book will be invaluable to costumers and playwrights and of
  delight to the casual reader.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 300w.

  “His facts are in the main accurate, and his research thorough, though
  he has a tendency to antedate changes of costume, and his method of
  division into reigns involves constant repetition and a too decided
  ascription of certain fashions to certain years. He is irritatingly
  chary of reference, but this omission is due to the popular design of
  the book, which is written throughout in a would-be entertaining way.
  If not a really valuable book of reference, still less is it an
  amusing book to read, merely as a piece of writing.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 102: 335. S. 15, ’06. 1030w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

         =Sat. R.= 103: 88. Ja. 19, ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 3.)

     + + =Spec.= 97: sup. 766. N. 17, ’06. 160w. (Review of v. 3.)


* =Calthrop, H. C. Hollway-.= Petrarch: his life, work and times.
(Memoir ser.) **$2.75. Putnam.

  A popular life of Petrarch which keeps close to his mission as herald
  and prophet of the renaissance.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is a work of a ripe scholar, and is evidently the fruit of
  years of patient study. Its chief defect is the complete absence of
  all references, even to Fracassetti’s standard edition of the letters,
  to which, nevertheless, the author acknowledges his supreme
  obligation. If we now mention a few points in which our author is
  hardly abreast of recent research, it is in no captious spirit, but
  with the hope that in the next edition, which must soon be called for,
  these slight blemishes may be removed.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 573. N. 9. 1740w.

  “An interesting sketch.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 30w.


=Calvert, Albert Frederick.= Alhambra of Granada. *$15. Lane.

  The history which forms the background of this volume covers the
  Moslem rule from the reign of Mohammed to the expulsion of the Moors.
  “The Alhambra or the Red castle, will ever, in spite of its lamentable
  state of decay, take first rank, on account of the combined beauty and
  variety of its ornamentation, and the thrilling memories with which it
  is associated.... The author lays great stress in the preface to his
  first edition on the fact that he has given pride of place to the
  pictorial side of his volume, making his chief appeal to the public by
  the beauty and variety of the illustrations he has collected, which
  include nearly 500 reproductions in black-and-white of details of
  architecture, and over 100 in colour of typical decoration.” (Int.
  Studio.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Calvert has a profound knowledge of the Alhambra as it is now and
  as it was at every stage of its chequered life-story, and he has the
  gift of imparting that knowledge in an impressive and satisfying
  manner.”

     + + =Int. Studio.= 31: 164. Ap. ’07. 310w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 30w.


=Calvert, Albert Frederick.= Escorial: a historical and descriptive
account of the Spanish royal palace, monastery and mausoleum. (Spanish
ser.) *$1.25. Lane.

                                                                7–32150.

  In picture and text this proves the first exhaustive English treatment
  of the Escorial—the Spanish royal palace, monastery and mausoleum in
  one.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The views of the garden of the Casita de Abajo and of the interior of
  the Escorial itself are satisfactory and characteristic; the
  photographs of pictures and tapestries are much less effective; while
  the reproductions of Alfonso’s ‘Cantigas de Sancta Maria’ and other
  literary rarities are on so reduced a scale as to be virtually
  useless. Mr. Calvert’s text is compiled from Rotondo’s work, but he
  has introduced a considerable number of errors which imply, we fear,
  insufficient knowledge of Spanish history and literature.”

   − − + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 583. My. 11. 260w.

  “The text ... is the merest hack work ... though readable enough. One
  may gather from the whole some notion at least of what the Escorial is
  like and what it signifies in history.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 480. Ag. 3, ’07. 390w.

         =Outlook.= 86: 526. Jl. 6, ’07. 80w.

       + =Spec.= 98: 1008. Je. 29, ’07. 150w.


=Calvert, Albert Frederick.= Seville: an historical and descriptive
account of The pearl of Andalusia. (Spanish ser.) *$1.25. Lane.

                                                                7–32150.

  One of Mr. Calvert’s series on Spain. Seville, “great because of her
  past, and actual because of her vivid present,” (Outlook) is treated
  historically with emphasis placed upon the preservation by the
  Christians of the memorials of Moslem occupation. There is an account
  of the artists of Seville, including, prominently, Murillo. The
  illustrations include a view of the city from various points of view,
  its buildings, and fully sixty reproductions of famous works of art.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Nation.= 85: 443. N. 14, ’07. 80w.

  “This book should appeal alike to the tourist, artist, archaeologist,
  and historical student.”

     + + =Outlook.= 87: 272. O. 5, ’07. 270w.

  “This is a volume of the ‘Spanish series,’ and, as might be expected,
  not surpassed—perhaps, one might say equalled—in interest by any
  other.”

     + + =Spec.= 99: 133. Jl. 27, ’07. 250w.


=Calvert, Albert F., and Hartley, Catherine G.= Prado: a guide and
handbook to the Royal picture gallery at Madrid. (Spanish ser.) *$1.25.
Lane.

  One of the first volumes in a series dealing with Spain in its various
  aspects, its history its cities and monuments. This one is devoted to
  Madrid’s famous “congress of masterpieces”—the Prado. “The text does
  no more than tell in a general way something about the painters
  represented, name the more famous masterpieces, indicate the division
  into schools, and show how these schools, Spanish, Italian, and Dutch,
  are represented.” (N. Y. Times.) There are two hundred and twenty-one
  illustrations.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Equally pleasing as the style is the general construction of the
  book. I must break a lance, several lances, with authors and producers
  with regard to the _excellence_ of the illustrations in this
  particular issue.”

   + + − =Acad.= 72: 622. Je. 29, ’07. 2240w.

  “It contains much sound and sympathetic criticism of the principal
  pictures in the gallery of the Prado, set forth in a pleasant, sober
  style.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 487. O. 19. 590w.

  “The chief value of this volume lies in the pictures.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 463. Jl. 27, ’07. 320w.


=Calvert, Thomas Henry.= Regulation of commerce under the federal
constitution. (Studies in constitutional law, v. 3.) $3. Thompson.

                                                                7–12250.

  This book is based mainly upon an examination of decisions of the
  Supreme court of the United States, arranged in such order that
  together they make a critical commentary upon a constitutional power.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The arrangement is logical, the cases well chosen, and the
  significant points in decisions clearly formulated. The book lacks
  attractiveness for the general reader in the fact that it contains
  little else than cases—almost no comment, explanation, or summary.
  Neither does it possess sufficient originality to enable it to usurp
  the places occupied by its predecessors.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 43. Je. 11, ’07. 290w.

  “The law student, the practicing lawyer, the legislator, the man of
  affairs, will all find here an orderly presentation of the subject,
  with ample references to original decisions.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 267. Ap. 27, ’07. 960w.

  “A work of this character should be a digest having the merits which
  go to make an index valuable. It should be complete, brief, logically
  arranged and clearly stated. These merits the author cannot claim.” E.
  Parmalee Prentice.

       − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 336. Je. ’07. 510w.


Cambridge modern history; planned by Lord Acton; ed. by A. W. Ward, G.
W. Prothero, and Stanley Leathes. 12v. ea. **$4. Macmillan.

                                                                2–26356.

  =v. 10.= The restoration.

  This volume deals with the principles and problems that occupied
  statesmen during “the period of reaction and ebullition which followed
  the close of the Napoleonic wars.” (Outlook)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Many of these essays are excellent and some of them deal with the
  subject indicated by the title: others are not up to the standard, and
  some have no apparent connection with the theme.”

     + − =Acad.= 71: 654. D. 29, ’06. 1330w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “The chief section of the book is constituted by Professor Ward’s able
  treatment of the war as a whole, in its narrower sense; thorough as is
  the writer’s grasp of the field, he has little gift of narration,
  leaves no vivid impressions of either men or events, and casts no new
  light on problems.” Victor Coffin.

   + + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 627. Ap. ’07. 1800w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “On the whole we may conclude that the volume is, in some respects, a
  distinct contribution to the literature of the subject in English, and
  in spite of the defects natural to such a work, is likely to prove
  very useful for many purposes.” Wilbur C. Abbott.

   + + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 143. O. ’07. 1440w. (Review of v. 10.)

  “There is altogether too little of the economic and social side of
  history in this work.” Wm. E. Lingelbach.

   + + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 653. My. ’07. 1010w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “This volume has not always triumphed over the tendency to make a
  history of these periods of recovery a résumé of names and dates.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 173. Ag. 17. 1880w. (Review of v. 10.)

  “It cannot but be acknowledged that no single author in this volume
  has succeeded in conveying ideas as Lord Acton, himself has conveyed
  them in his lectures.” E. D. Adams.

   + + − =Dial.= 42: 223. Ap. 1, ’07. 900w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “If there appears less unity in this volume, because there is no great
  central figure or theme, it nevertheless possesses sound utility.”

     + + =Dial.= 43: 288. N. 1, ’07. 370w. (Review of v. 10.)

  “This is incontestably one of the most important, best-written, and
  most homogeneous of the volumes of the ‘Cambridge modern history’ that
  have appeared so far.” W. E. Rhodes.

   + + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 807. O. ’07. 730w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “A notable feature of the volume—it will remain an exceptional feature
  of this particular volume, the editors inform us—are its
  bibliographies, especially that of the extant original manuscripts and
  contemporary narrative and controversial literature of the Thirty
  years’ war, based on the collections in Lord Acton’s library, without
  which, indeed, it could not have been compiled.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 1152. My. 16, ’07. 530w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “Every library should have it, and the busy scholar who wants facts,
  not eloquent fiction, will secure it for reference, but no one will
  read it over his evening pipe. In this regard it cannot be esteemed an
  equal to the French cooperative work, the ‘Histoire generale,’ which
  is always lucid and sometimes interesting.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 1313. N. 28, ’07. 310w. (Review of v. 10.)

  “The chapters are often of great merit, and there are fewer dull
  parts, omissions, repetitions, and inconsistencies than in some of the
  previous volumes.”

   + + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 226. Jl. 19, ’07. 2610w. (Review of v. 10.)

  “Everywhere one finds care, accuracy and a businesslike spirit, which
  presents the facts in a clear and coherent way.”

   + + + =Nation.= 85: 166. Ag. 22, ’07. 2590w. (Review of v. 4.)

     + + =Nation.= 85: 327. O. 10, ’07. 1200w. (Review of v. 10.)

  “Altogether, it will be seen that I regard the plan of the ‘Cambridge
  modern history’ as unsatisfactory. It is a compromise between the
  needs of the general reader and the special student.” Joseph Jacobs.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 13. Ja. 12, ’07. 890w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “If the present volume happens to be more than usually dull, it is
  because it deals with a period of the world’s history in which the
  world was for the most part marking time and preparing the way for
  startling developments.” Joseph Jacobs.

   + + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 493. Ag. 10, ’07. 1830w. (Review of v. 10.)

         =Outlook.= 84: 1080. D. 29, ’06. 260w. (Review of v. 4.)

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 747. Ag. 3, ’07. 360w. (Review of v. 10.)

  “The development during the first half of the period has been
  conscientiously if not entertainingly, described in the ponderous
  volume.” G. Louis Beer.

     + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 743. S. ’07. 140w. (Review of v. 10.)

         =R. of Rs.= 36: 381. S. ’07. 150w. (Review of v. 10.)

         =Sat. R.= 103: 49. Ja. 12, ’07. 1610w. (Review of v. 4.)

     + + =Spec.= 99: sup. 749. N. 16, ’07. 580w. (Review of v. 10.)


Cambridge natural history, v. 1. *$4.25. Macmillan.

  Ten large volumes will be included in this work which will cover the
  natural history of the animal kingdom.

  =v. 1.= “The present volume includes four of the lowest groups. The
  protozoa are treated by Prof. M. M. Hartog of Queen’s college,
  Cork.... The sponges are described by Miss Igerna Sollars, lecturer at
  Newnham college.... The extensive and important group of jelly-fishes,
  sea-anemones, and hydroids is dealt with by Prof. S. J. Hickson of the
  Victoria university of Manchester.... The last group, including
  star-fishes, sea-urchins, and their allies, is described by Prof. E.
  W. McBride of McGill university, Montreal.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “As a guide to the scientific study of those animals with which it
  deals, the whole book can be safely recommended.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 138. My. 3, ’07. 1660w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “In attempting to bring together within short compass many scattered
  facts the authors of this and of some of the other volumes have failed
  both in giving a readable account of the subjects and in
  distinguishing between what is important and what is trivial.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 294. Mr. 28, ’07. 540w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Taken in conjunction with the earlier published volumes, the work
  seems to fulfil the purpose of providing an intelligible and adequate
  survey of the entire animal kingdom without giving undue prominence to
  particular groups.”

     + + =Nature.= 75: 31. N. 8, ’06. 1330w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The zealous student of animal morphology, or the professional
  zoologist anxious to bring his knowledge up to date, will find here a
  compendium upon which he can rely.”

   + + − =Sat. R.= 103: sup. 3. My. 4, ’07. 1470w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The different divisions are unevenly balanced as to both matter and
  substance, and in two of the divisions at least, the impression is
  gained that the author had mainly a book knowledge of the group he was
  monographing.” G. N. C.

     + − =Science=, n. s. 26: 44. Jl. 12, ’07. 620w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The work in all cases is extremely well done.”

     + + =Spec.= 98: 909. Je. 8, ’07. 190w. (Review of v. 1.)


=Campbell, Harry Huse.= Manufacture and properties of iron and steel.
4th ed. $5. Hill pub. co.

                                                                7–13501.

  A thoroly revised edition brought down to date by the inclusion of
  valuable new matter. It is of importance to engineers and students of
  metallurgy, and also to “those interested in the economics of one of
  the world’s leading industries.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Review by Henry H. Norris.

       + =Engin. N.= 57: 664. Je. 13, ’07. 500w.

  “The treatment throughout is that of a thorough master of
  metallurgical science, embodying not only sound theoretical
  exposition, but including as well specific citations of the best
  modern practice. The work ... will be found of exceeding value, not
  only to engineers and students of metallurgy, but to those interested
  in the economics of one of the world’s leading industries.”

       + =Technical Literature.= 1: 177. Ap. ’07. 550w.


=Campbell, Reginald John.= New theology. **$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                7–11604.

  A restatement of the essential truth of the Christian religion in
  terms of the modern mind. The author gives an outline of his own
  personal views, and some of the chapter headings are as follows: God
  and the universe, Man in relation to God, The nature of evil, Jesus
  the divine man, The eternal Christ, The incarnation of the Son of God,
  The atonement, The authority of Scripture, and The church and the
  kingdom of God.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Campbell displays a vigorous hostility to traditional theological
  opinions which will hardly serve to help matters. In many instances,
  he cannot escape the charge of having caricatured those doctrines in
  order to cast odium upon them.” Gerald Birney Smith.

       − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 705, O. ’07. 490w.

  “The weak side of Mr. Campbell’s thinking is his imperfect grasp of
  finite personality. He is apt to lose his way in reveries of the
  infinite. Mr. Campbell will probably come to see that his new theology
  is only a halfway house which cannot be his permanent home.” David
  Balsillie.

     + − =Fortnightly R.= 88: 48. Jl. ’07. 7900w.

  “One cannot but honour Mr. Campbell for the courage and candour with
  which he has addressed himself to what he believes to be one of the
  crying needs of the church of to-day. Still I cannot but think that
  the root of the evil, which he, as prophet and preacher combats, lies
  deeper than he realises.” G. Tyrrell.

       + =Hibbert J.= 5: 917. Jl. ’07. 2270w.

         =Ind.= 62: 911. Ap. 18, ’07. 550w.

  “He is an earnest preacher, but possesses a heterogeneous mind and is
  a bit daft on the doctrine of immanence and on ‘psychic
  investigations.’”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 1236. N. 21, ’07. 70w.

         =Outlook.= 85: 879. Ap. 20, ’07. 300w.

  “His volume is interesting, it is intellectually suggestive, but it is
  not self-evidently consistent. In short, it confirms the judgment
  which we have heretofore expressed, that he is a preacher, not a
  theologian.”

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 257. Je. 1, ’07. 460w.

  “A work of unusual clearness.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 637. My. ’07. 110w.

  “A really beautiful and fervently Christian book.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 982. Je. 22, ’07. 130w.


=Campbell, Reginald John.= New theology sermons. **$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                7–33946.

  A group of sermons preached from the City Temple pulpit, London, which
  teach that cooperation must replace competition, brotherhood must
  replace individualism; that the kingdom of love must be realized on
  earth.


=Campbell, W. Wilfred.= Canada; described by Wilfred Campbell; painted
by T. Mower Martin. *$6. Macmillan.

                                                                W 7–130.

  Here are reproduced in picture and text wonders of Canadian scenery
  “from Cape Breton to Vancouver island. The same brush has caught the
  peculiar charm of the old Acadian country around the Basin of Minas,
  with its quaint suggestions of a transplanted Holland: the rugged
  beauty of the Gut of Canso; the ancient capital on the St. Lawrence,
  with its crowding memories of other days and other ways; the wild
  scenery of the Muskoka lakes; the rich coloring of the autumn
  prairies; the grandeur of the Canadian Rockies, and the almost
  tropical luxuriance of British Columbian valleys.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Campbell lacks the faculty of condensation, and the subjects have
  proved too large for him: while Mr. Mower Martin’s part of the book is
  almost always happy and suggestive. He indeed, reveals throughout an
  amazing lack of perception or discrimination.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 554. Je. 8, ’07. 640w.

  “The pictures both in the coloured plates and in letterpress, are to
  be commended to those who want a Canadian view of Canada. The
  doctrines of the author upon the future of Canada are a little
  difficult to understand.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 603. My. 18. 570w.

  “The value of this book to the ordinary reader is that it brings
  together various kinds of information which without it would have to
  be gathered from many sources. Mr. Campbell’s original work is mostly
  in the descriptions, many of which are very good.” May Estelle Cook.

     + + =Dial.= 43: 118. S. 1, ’07. 670w.

  “He has much to say, but somehow has not succeeded in saying it
  effectively. The watercolour drawings of Mr. Martin show in a
  noticeable degree the defects of his literary collaborator.”

     + − =Int. Studio.= 32: 335. O. ’07. 280w.

  “In selecting Dr. Wilfred Campbell, the well-known Canadian poet, to
  write the descriptive matter for this book, the publishers made on the
  whole a commendable choice.”

   + + − =Nation.= 85: 148. Ag. 15, 510w.

  “The ‘description’ let it be said at once, is rather dull reading, in
  a style which suggests not so much the guide book as the promoter’s
  prospectus, with a dash of that sort of sentiment which is the stock
  in trade of the patriotic campaign orator. These pictures are, on the
  whole, rather good than bad though, like most pictures of the sort,
  they make the colors too bright.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 482. Ag. 3, ’07. 470w.

  “Author and painter have combined happily and successfully in
  presenting Canadian life and scenery agreeably and with abundant and
  dependable information.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 525. Jl. 6, ’07. 130w.

  “On the whole his commentary makes pleasant if not often impressive
  reading.”

       + =Sat. R.= 104: 372. S. 21, ’07. 150w.

  “In Mr. Martin Canada has an artist who is well fitted to do her
  justice. He has the true sense for both colour and space, and while he
  is not afraid of rich and startling contrasts, he always contrives to
  give his pictures something of the clearness and delicacy of the
  Canadian atmosphere.”

   + + − =Spec.= 99: 197. Ag. 10, ’07. 690w.


=Campbell, Wilfred J.= Ian of the Orcades. †$1.50. Revell.

  A tale of the North Sea coast of Scotland in the days of King Robert
  Third. “It is full of dark deeds and violence, and the lusts of the
  flesh, and we suppose that the author desires to put the picture
  forward as a genuine study of the past.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Campbell’s effort cannot compare with the best of the sort. It is
  more conventional, more titanic, and somewhat sentimental.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 768. D. 15. 100w.

  “The book is to be valued, not merely as a thrilling tale of bygone
  times, but as a curious work of art by which an author has produced
  the impression of a chant with words that are common and are musical
  simply by imparting into them the meaning of old fancies.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 699. S. 19, ’07. 170w.

  “It is a good story, full of adventures and excitements, although
  somewhat wordy in the telling.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 517. Ag. 24, ’07. 160w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

  “There seems to be something like a mist over the whole story.”

       − =Spec.= 97: 181. F. 2, ’07. 120w.


=Candee, Helen Churchill.= Decorative styles and periods in the home;
with 177 il. **$2. Stokes.

                                                                6–43919.

  Furniture makers no less than the collector and general reader will
  find instruction in this well-printed and fully illustrated study of
  furniture from antiquity thru the Renaissance to the present time.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A readable and careful study.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 39. F. ’07. S.

  “Mrs. Candee is somewhat flamboyant and rhapsodic in her style, and
  her taste is more generous than chaste. Mrs. Candee does not seem to
  understand the importance and influence of the English
  eighteenth-century schools of design.”

       − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 450. O. 12. 240w.

  “In spite of such fine writing, this book is a valuable one and full
  of information.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 698. S. 19, ’07. 220w.

  “The text is oddly composed, with unusual turns of language, but it is
  intelligible, and the distinction between styles has evidently been
  clear to the writer. There is a little too free a treatment of the
  periods.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 43. Ja. 10, ’07. 250w.

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 238. Ja. 26, ’07. 150w.


=Canfield, Chauncey L.=, ed. Diary of a forty-niner. *$1.25. Shepard,
Morgan.

                                                                6–43550.

  Questionable as to its authenticity, this volume is a record of life
  in a mining-camp on one of the forks of the Yuba river from May 18,
  1850, to June 17, 1852.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 731. Ap. ’07. 70w.

  “Presents certain phases of a life forever passed, simply,
  picturesquely, and vividly, and hence, whether diary or reminiscence,
  has interest and historical value.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 293. Mr. 28, ’07. 360w.


=Canfield, Dorothea Frances.= Gunhild: a Norwegian-American episode.
†$1.50. Holt.

                                                                7–33199.

  There is great strength in this story, and it is so planned that a
  beautiful self centered American girl traveling through Norway in
  company with a sister, an admirer and an aged aunt, is contrasted
  strongly with Gunhild, a Norwegian peasant. This girl, born in
  America, a child of the people, shows among her northern snows a depth
  of soul that belittles the conventional thought of the society girl;
  and the man stirred by something deeper and more profound than his
  life has yet known, turns from the girl he might have married to
  Gunhild and finds that she too is not for him.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “‘Gunhild’ is her first novel, and a promising one.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 1377. D. 5, ’07. 260w.


=Canfield, William Walker.= The spotter: a romance of the oil region.
$1.50. Fenno.

                                                                7–27157.

  A dramatic tale of the Pennsylvania oil region in which a sturdy
  Scotchman who refused to sell his farm to the oil syndicate is the
  victim of intrigue. In it are pictured the newly rich in the complete
  reaction from financial restraint, smooth-tongued conspirators,
  spotters and moonshiners.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Melodramatic fiction.”

       − =Nation.= 85: 401. O. 31, ’07. 280w.


* =Canning, Albert S. G.= Shakespeare studied in six plays. **$4.
Jacobs.

  The six plays studied are Othello, Macbeth, King John, Richard II.,
  Henry IV., and The merry wives of Windsor. The method is one of
  exposition rather than analysis, consisting of a succession of
  quotations interspersed with explanatory remarks.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Its author is a master of the prosaic, nor have we encountered any
  other commentator equally skilled in the art of reducing noble poetry
  to small beer.”

       − =Acad.= 72: 85. Ja. 26, ’07. 1100w.

  “We have seldom occasion to examine a more unnecessary book. It
  contains no learning and, except in the quotations, no wit; the style
  is that of a schoolboy; the general intelligence is barely mediocre.
  The few explanatory notes are borrowed from an out-of-date commentary,
  and are often inaccurate.”

     − − =Nation.= 85: 427. N. 7, ’07. 240w.

  “On points of history his adequate comments are fitly introduced. The
  unsatisfactoriness of the book results from faults of omissions,
  leaving a volume of no little usefulness on its positive side.” George
  S. Hellman.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 745. N. 23, ’07. 780w.

  “These essays ... are conscientious, but they are nothing more. The
  themes upon which Coleridge and Lamb have lavished their genius ...
  cry aloud for a more inspired and a more original treatment than that
  which Mr. Canning has given them. Nor are the passages selected for
  quotation always those which particularly deserve attention and
  comment.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: sup. 462. O. 5, ’07. 480w.


=Capek, Thomas.= Slovaks of Hungary, Slavs and Panslavism. priv. ptd. T.
Capek, 225 E. 71st St., N. Y.

                                                                 6–6749.

  Including statistical information concerning the American Slovaks;
  something of their ambitions and efforts. “Much of the book is taken
  up with matters of discontent over the Magyar domination and others of
  peculiar concern to the home country.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “While we have no desire to question the aim and purpose of the
  writer, we believe that a greater service would have been performed if
  he had aimed to interpret to the American people more of the virtues
  and qualities which make the Slovak immigrant a desirable addition to
  our population.”

     + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 207. Ja. ’07. 460w.

  “The book is interesting as containing much information about a
  country and people little known, and especially as throwing light upon
  the complexities of that wonderful polyglot empire of Francis Joseph.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 506. Ag. 18, ’06. 440w.

         =R. of Rs.= 33: 508. Ap. ’06. 50w.


=Card, Fred Wallace.= Farm management. (Farm lib.) **$2. Doubleday.

                                                                7–12691.

  A thoro-going treatment of the subject from the standpoint of business
  methods. The discussion includes business accounts, suggestions for
  watching markets, time for marketing various products, and adaptation
  to local conditions.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Practical, suggestive, probably the best of the ‘Farm library’ series
  yet published.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 118. My. ’07. S.

  “A practical book, an intensely practical book, it is, nevertheless,
  to a man with the farm bee buzzing in his bonnet, as fascinating as a
  Persian tale. The book is unique in agricultural literature.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 260w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 640. My. ’07. 80w.


=Carey, Rosa Nouchette.= Angel of forgiveness. †$1.50. Lippincott.

                                                                7–31281.

  A young girl’s story of her own life from the ago of eight to
  eighteen. They are full years, for in them she learns much thru
  sickness and suffering, she finds the mother she had always thought
  dead in the person of her dearest cousin and brings her back to the
  home she had left in her young wife-hood and to the husband who loves
  her. Then, when the angel of forgiveness has brought joy to her home
  she leaves it, a bride of eighteen, to mother the children of a
  husband much her senior and with him to find true happiness.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

  “The way out of the dilemma has been happily contrived by Miss Carey,
  and the whole book is pleasant to read.”

       + =Spec.= 99: sup. 672. N. 2, ’07. 140w.


=Carling, George.= Richard Elliott, financier. $1.50. Page.

                                                                6–34796.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The atmosphere of greed and treachery is unpleasant from first to
  last but for all that the account of these latter-day land-pirates is
  absorbing.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 610. Je. 22, ’07. 280w.


=Carling, John R.= By Neva’s waters; being an episode in the secret
history of Alexander the first, czar of all the Russias. †$1.50. Little.

                                                                7–21539.

  An episode in the secret history of Alexander the first, czar of all
  the Russias. There are love and court intrigue in plenty, which center
  chiefly about a young English lord whose love affair with the czarina
  is in the end forgiven because he did not know she was a wife, and
  she, owing to a strange lapse of memory, had forgotten her estate. It
  is a book which holds the interest until the last strand of the plot
  is untangled.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 50w.


=Carlson, John S.= Swedish grammar and reader. *$1.50. Wilson, H. W.

                                                                7–23330.

  A practical text-book for the school-room and home, which lays no
  claim to a purely scientific exposition of the principles of language.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This is a book that has been much needed, and does for the student of
  Swedish what Professor Julius Olson’s similar work does for the
  student of Norwegian. The selections which fill the ‘reader’ section
  of the volume are judiciously made and of much interest.”

     + + =Dial.= 43: 291. N. 1, ’07. 60w.

  “A new and thoroughly practical text-book for the elementary study of
  Swedish.”

     + + =Educ. R.= 34: 535. D. ’07. 40w.


=Carpenter, Edward Childs.= Code of Victor Jallot: a romance of old New
Orleans. il. †$1.50. Jacobs.

                                                                7–31421.

  A story of the early nineteenth century whose scenes are laid in
  Louisiana. A French refugee, a Beau Brummel type of hero with plenty
  of sturdier qualities of manhood, fights for the love of “mademoiselle
  of the magnolias” and wins.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w.


=Carpenter, Frank G.= Foods; or, How the world is fed. *60c. Am. bk.

                                                                7–20683.

  The first book of a series upon the great industries of the world. It
  aims to provide a knowledge of the production and preparation of
  foods, and to show how civilization and commerce grew from man’s need
  of foods and the exchange of foods between the different nations of
  the earth.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 207. N. ’07. ✠

  “The boy who has read it will be much better prepared for economic
  studies later on than the boy who has never become interested in any
  of these things.”

       + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 572. S. ’07. 220w.


=Carpenter, Margaret Boyd.= Child in art. $2. Ginn.

  A sympathetic treatment of the child in art, with some thirty
  reproductions of famous paintings and works of sculpture. The volume
  sketches the history of the use of the child in art and shows that the
  development of Christianity first brought childhood into prominence.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The present volume is summary and superficial: the writer has an
  unfortunate instinct for the obvious and the trite.”

       − =Sat. R.= 103: 628. My. 18, ’07. 160w.

  “Even if there are omissions, there is also plenty of interest in the
  book.”

     + − =Spec.= 97: 939. D. 8, ’06. 140w.


=Carpenter, Rolla Clinton.= Experimental engineering and manual for
testing; for engineers and for students in engineering laboratories. 6th
rev. and enl. ed. $6. Wiley.

                                                                6–16782.

  “The present book is the sixth edition, and is the result of many
  revisions and additions by which, as the author states, with the aid
  of colleagues and assistants, he has brought the subject down to
  present-day requirements.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Despite these rather damaging criticisms, it must be said in
  conclusion that the book has many features which make it a valuable
  addition to engineering literature. It is to be hoped that, in the
  next edition, the author will re-edit the book throughout, correct the
  errors, omit such descriptive matter and verbiage as is unnecessary,
  add to subjects which are incomplete, and thus produce a model, not
  only as regards superficial pretensions, but also as regards real
  worth.”

     + − =Engin. N.= 56: 519. N. 15, ’06. 2930w.


=Carr, Sarah Pratt.= Iron way; a tale of the builders of the West.
†$1.50. McClurg.

                                                                7–12274.

  “A romance of the gold-fever days in California which shifts scene to
  follow the course of construction of the Central Pacific railway. The
  traditions, heroic deeds and thrilling adventures associated with the
  building of this highway across the continent are recorded from the
  author’s memory. The book has a buoyant pioneer atmosphere.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Reviewed by William Morton Payne.

         =Dial.= 42: 316. My. 16, ’07. 140w.

  “One feels that one is reading authentic history, but such is the art
  of the writer that the deftly inwoven romance—a captivating love
  story—remains the predominant interest. It would appear that the book
  is Mrs. Carr’s debut in literature, yet it is written with an ease, a
  freshness and a power which many a practised hand would be glad to
  have acquired.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 1526. Je. 27, ’07. 260w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 240. Ap. 13, ’07. 210w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.


=Carr, W. M.= Open hearth steel castings. $1.50. Penton pub.

                                                                7–33981.

  “This little book is a reprint of a series of articles which were
  published in the ‘Iron trade review’ and ‘The foundry,’ in 1905 and
  1906. It comprises chapters on: Raw materials for acid and basic
  practice and moldings; open hearth furnace construction; fuels and
  accessories; manipulation of acid and of basic heats; chemical and
  physical tests; relation between chemical composition and physical
  properties; blowholes and checks in steel castings; heat treatment and
  annealing; repairing with thermit, and cost of equipment.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Each subject is treated briefly and the information given is
  well-chosen, useful and accurate, reflecting the author’s own
  experience in practice, and utilizing advantageously the small amount
  of printed space occupied. It is written in a clear manner and the
  greater part of it will be comprehensible even to men who have no
  technical education.” Bradley Stoughton.

   + + − =Engin. N.= 58: 79. Jl. 18, ’07. 350w.


=Carrington, Hereward.= Physical phenomena of spiritualism, fraudulent
and genuine. **$2. Turner, H. B.

                                                                7–17909.

  A brief account of the most important historical phenomena, a
  criticism of their evidential value, and a complete exposition of the
  methods employed in fraudulently reproducing the same. The book is
  mainly devoted to exposing the frauds of professional mediums.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 307. My. 11, ’07. 130w.

  “This book is interesting, it is amusing, it is even, in its
  revelation of the frauds practised by nearly every professional
  medium, revolting. The paramount impression this writer conveys is
  that of being a fair and openminded gentleman of excellent balance and
  keen intelligence.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 425. Jl. 6, ’07. 550w.

  “It is, indeed, a storehouse of raw material from which one may learn
  to generalize safely about the psychology of deception.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 790. Ag. 10, ’07. 140w.

         =R. of Rs.= 36: 511. O. ’07. 110w.


=Carroll, Benajah Harvey.= Political history of Europe from 1815 to
1848, based on continental authorities. $2. Baylor univ. press, Waco,
Texas.

                                                                6–13425.

  A volume which “is intended to give American students, an accurate if
  somewhat succinct account of the course of Post-Napoleonic European
  political history,” and “does not pretend to be more than a
  compilation from the best and most accessible and usually untranslated
  continental authorities.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author was apparently in too great haste to attend much to the
  medium of his thoughts. Present and past tenses and conditions are
  mixed up indiscriminately, and extraordinary language is indulged in.
  Most of it is fairly good, and the characterizations of public men are
  at times excellent. But the arrangement is poor and detail is usually
  put in where uncalled for; the disjointed sections give little
  impression of continuity and do not make clear the general
  development; nothing stands out in bold relief.” Victor Coffin.

     + − =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 947. Jl ’06. 530w.

  “The work may have its place as a survey of the history of the period
  for an elementary class, but should not have been introduced to the
  general public in its present form.”

       − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 464. N. ’06. 170w.

  “It does not pretend to be based on sources, and apparently the only
  authority mentioned is Lord’s ‘Beacon lights of history.’ The book,
  however, displays considerable historical reading, and contains a few
  useful suggestions and apt quotations. In some respects it is a
  literary curiosity; it is written in an English more vigorous than
  elegant, and was evidently prepared in great haste.... All things
  considered, the book seems to have no justification for its
  existence.”

       − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 191. Mr. ’07. 170w.


=Carson, William Henry.= Evelyn Van Courtland. $1.50. Fenno.

                                                                7–29570.

  Jealousy incites Howard Van Courtland to murder his business partner.
  Malcolm, a young clerk in their employ, is accused and the story is
  mainly concerned with the trial in which Van Courtland’s daughter,
  learning of her father’s guilt, is bent upon clearing Malcolm. She
  draws information from the prosecuting attorney and passes it on to
  the defendant’s counsel, all of which finally proves of no avail until
  in a dramatic court-room scene the father confesses his guilt and dies
  suddenly. In the end misunderstandings are adjusted and love wins a
  hard fought battle.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Here is another novel hinging on the unwritten law. It is not as
  unsavory as some of its kind, and, as its lack of distinction
  precludes the probability of a wide circulation, it is not likely to
  do any harm.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 230w.


=Cartrie, Count de.= See =La Villeniere, T.-A. T. de la C.=


=Carus, Paul.= Our children; hints from practical experience for parents
and teachers. *$1. Open ct.

                                                                 7–2052.

  Written by “one of the most distinguished exponents of the new
  philosophical conception known as monism.” It supplements Froebelism
  with the results of recent scientific investigation and advanced
  psychological methods. “In the chapter which treats upon the subject
  of punishment, we get the key-note to the author’s ethical principles.
  Like Tolstoy, and like a greater Teacher, he advocates non-resistance
  of evil with evil. Retaliation is condemned, a lie must be overcome by
  truth, wrong by right and violence by patience.... Punishment, Dr.
  Carus declares, ought to be the ‘consequence of a wrong act which is
  brought home to the knowledge and sentiments of the child.’”—Lit. D.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Like Huxley he knows the secret of clothing abstruse subjects in an
  attractive garb and his works have a popular appeal. It will prove of
  especial interest and value to those engaged in kindergarten work.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 24: 385. Mr. 9, ’07. 300w.

  “Written in thought-provoking style. The book contains many hints from
  practical experience.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 509. Ap. ’07. 40w.


=Carver, Thomas Nixon=, comp. Sociology and social progress. *$2.75.
Ginn.

                                                                 6–5680.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  Reviewed by R. C. Chapin.

       + =Charities.= 17: 472. D. 15, ’06. 430w.

  “A timely and valuable book. The selections from large works, which is
  no easy task, are judiciously made. He has supplied an introduction to
  it of his own, in which he sets forth as clearly as has ever been done
  the true scope and method of sociology. His treatment is thoroughly
  sane.” Lester F. Ward.

   + + − =Science=, n.s. 25: 27. Ja. 4, ’07. 1110w.


=Cary, Elisabeth Luther.= Works of James McNeill Whistler; a study.
**$4. Moffat.

                                                                 7–3697.

  Not so much a work of ultimate authority and exhaustive knowledge, as
  an intelligent and reasoned view of Whistler’s work for the benefit of
  the reader of somewhat limited opportunities.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 119. My. ’07.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 289. Mr. ’07. 810w.

  “As a piece of critical writing, it is eminently sound and true to
  right principles. The aptness of Miss Cary’s phraseology is deserving
  of more than casual comment. Exception must, however, be taken to one
  expression.” Frederick W. Gookin.

   + + − =Dial.= 42: 218. Ap. 1, ’07. 1540w.

  “A book which comprehensively covers the field of Whistler’s
  accomplishments and embodies a perspicuous account of his methods.”

     + + =Ind.= 61: 1404. D. 22, ’06. 130w.

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 469. Mr. 23, ’07. 360w.

       + =Nation.= 84: 322. Ap. 4, ’07. 90w.

  “In a word, it is a survey of Whistler’s artistic accomplishments,
  presented in an elaborate, beautiful, pictorial setting by an author
  whose experience has given her rare insight into the mysteries and
  functions of artistic expression.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 15, ’06. 190w.

  “Miss Cary’s book is admirably adjusted in its aim. It seems ...
  equally admirable in its manner and the selection of its matter.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 76. F. 9, ’07. 640w.

  “She is admirable alike in the selection of material and in the
  non-technical treatment of his inspiration.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 903. Ap. 20, ’07. 210w.

  “It is indeed a patient, accurate literalness which chiefly
  distinguishes this book. We get the facts, it is true, but in the end
  feel somewhat deprived of that spirit which animates and transcends
  mere fact—a spirit which Whistler himself possesses in so abounding a
  degree and which he would seem to demand of others.” Christian
  Brinton.

     + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 125. Ap. ’07. 370w.


=Casson, Herbert Newton.= Romance of steel: the story of a thousand
millionaires. **$2.50. Barnes.

                                                                7–25647.

  “Not so much a history of the steel industry itself as of the
  successive efforts to capitalize that industry and of the personal
  careers of the men whose fortunes have been made in steel-making,
  although they themselves were in most instances as ignorant of the
  industrial processes by which their wealth was gained as the average
  man in the street.”—R. of Rs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Casson’s story has the merit of being remarkably inclusive, on
  the historic and physical sides, as well as in its personal aspects.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 820. O. 3, ’07. 800w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 428. Jl. 6, ’07. 150w.

  “One of the most readable books of the year.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 34: 381. S. ’07. 140w.


=Castle, Mrs. Agnes Sweetman, and Castle, Edgerton.= My merry Rockhurst.
†$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                7–34310.

  “Some episodes in the life of Viscount Rockhurst, a friend of King
  Charles II. and at one time constable of his majesty’s tower of
  London.” These episodes, although they do not form a consecutive
  story, all deal with the same reckless, daring cynic, loyal friend and
  devoted father. They tell of his fortunes, his misfortunes, his varied
  adventures, his struggles with the world and with himself, and all
  have as a background the strangely romantic court at which he played
  such a conspicuous part.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

  “The tales are so ingeniously and thoroughly welded together that the
  book as a whole forms a complete and satisfactory romance.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 624. N. 23, ’07. 130w.


* Cathedrals of England and Wales: their history, architecture and
associations. 2v. $10. Churchman co.

  An opportunity is here afforded of becoming acquainted with the
  character, the history, the traditions and associations connected with
  the cathedrals of southern Britain.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A sumptuous gift-book and the enterprise of the publishers is to be
  commended. They have introduced to the American public a volume which
  is a treasury of art, literature, and history.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 35: 795. N. 23, ’07. 310w.

  “The present volumes give an entertaining and, for the general reader,
  an adequate account and portrayal.” Cameron Mann.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 629. O. 19, ’07. 860w.


Catholic encyclopedia: an international work of reference on the
constitution, doctrine, discipline, and history of the Catholic church;
ed. by Chas. G. Herbermann, Edward A. Pace, Conde B. Pallen, Thomas J.
Shahan, John J. Wynne, assisted by numerous collaborators. 15v. ea. $6.
Appleton, Robert.

                                                                7–11606.

  An encyclopedia which as it is produced by American Catholic scholars
  who have brought to their task the freshness of view and freedom of
  inspiration that stamps Catholicism in America may be said to
  represent the “ripest and most developed product of Catholic thought.”
  (Lit. D.)

  =v. 1.= In this first volume are to be found the contributions of over
  1,000 men and women of recognized scholarship, representing 27
  nationalities.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Unfortunately, several of the articles are egregiously one-sided;
  some others are conspicuously incompetent, and a few display such
  violations of a sane and critical spirit that we could hardly believe
  our eyes when we read them.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 1150. My. 16, ’07. 1030w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Considered as an achievement of scholarship alone, it will command
  attention.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 765. My. 11, ’07. 1410w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “In spite of all criticism ... [it] remains a very notable
  contribution to science and a remarkable example of American
  enterprise.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 267. S. 6, ’07. 2420w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Though this important work has chief value and significance for
  Catholics, it contains a great deal of interest to every intelligent
  man, and, so far as it is used by non-Catholics, must contribute to
  the correcting of erroneous opinions and the breaking down of existing
  prejudices.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 566. Je. 20, ’07. 1830w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “It will be generally admitted that the work is the best for
  themselves that English-speaking Catholics have yet published, and the
  most popular and the most interesting one they have ever presented to
  the non-Catholic world.” Henry A. Brann.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 233. Ap. 13, ’07. 2340w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “On the whole, in spite of the mediævalism of certain portions, and in
  spite of occasional lapses from the general level of excellence—lapses
  inevitable in any work of the kind—the first volume must be pronounced
  fair and sane, and if succeeding volumes maintain the same standard
  the work cannot fail to prove exceedingly useful.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 86: 787. Ag. 10, ’07. 2040w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The contributors represent Catholic scholarship in its broadest sense
  throughout the world.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 35: 757. Je. ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 1.)


* =Cattelle, Wallis Richard.= The pearl: its story, its charm and its
value. il. **$2. Lippincott.

                                                                7–30808.

  The story of the pearl is told “from its birth and growth under tropic
  seas, through the search for it by dark skinned divers of the Orient
  and its journeyings by the hands of men who traffic in precious
  things, until it becomes finally the cherished familiar of the great.
  Historical and traditional allusions, the sentiment and superstitions,
  the romance of ancient and noble associations drawn to it through the
  ages, are garnered here and to them added the more prosaic facts which
  a merchant’s experience suggests, to enable lovers of the dainty
  sea-gem to discriminate.”


=Cautley, C. Holmes.= Millmaster. $1.50. Longmans.

  With a setting furnished by a Yorkshire manufacturing village the
  reader’s interest is centered in “the upright and self-contained
  millmaster and his son, Mark, a character gentler than his father but
  as estimable.” (Lond. Times.) A book in which the human element is
  strong, the description informing, and which is “stamped with the
  hallmark of sincerity.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is something to the credit of the author that he has done what he
  evidently set out to do, and those who can master the dialect may like
  those parts of the book which fail to attract us.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 768. D. 15. 130w.

  “The author has looked with clear and kindly eyes upon life, and is
  concerned only to portray it as it is. The result is a novel of very
  real value.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 72. F. 2, ’07. 500w.

  “Mr. Cautley’s novel is too long, but there is good stuff in it.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 148. F. 2, ’07. 150w.


=Cellini, Benvenuto.= Life of Benvenuto Cellini; tr. and ed. by John
Addington Symonds, with an introd. to this ed. by Royal Cortissoz. 2v.
**$6. Brentano’s.

                                                                6–40203.

  This edition is complete enough for the student and artistic enough in
  book workmanship for the collector. Besides Mr. Symonds’ introductory
  material, Royal Cortissoz presents a “sympathetic though critical”
  interpretation of the “discrepancy between Cellini’s personal
  forcefulness and artistic achievement.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It may be said at once that no more distinguished piece of
  book-making has come from an American press for a long while past. The
  typography while usually excellent, is not impeccable.”

   + + − =Dial.= 41: 455. D. 16, ’06. 330w.

  “A more satisfying edition of this classic autobiography does not
  exist in English.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 34: 64. Ja. 12, ’07. 90w.

  “This reprint is likely to remain for years the preferable library
  edition of these fascinating memoirs.”

     + + =Nation.= 83: 463. N. 29, ’06. 150w.

  “Altogether the edition presents this classic in a form of such good
  taste and solid excellence of workmanship that it will be welcomed by
  all lovers of literature.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 866. D. 15, ’06. 160w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 114. Ja. ’07. 60w.


=Chadwick, Hector Munro.= Origin of the English nation. (Cambridge
archæological and ethnological ser.) *$2.25. Putnam.

                                                                7–29044.

  By making use of all branches of ethnological study—history,
  tradition, language, custom, religion and antiquities—the author
  “deals with the history, social and otherwise of the tribes whose
  coming, to put the matter briefly, changed Britain to England.”
  (Spec.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 709. Ap. ’07. 40w.

  “Mr. Chadwick has written a book which no special student of Saxon
  England can neglect. But this critical method is open to cavil. In the
  first place, the criticism is too linguistic. In the second place,
  being linguistic, the criticism lacks principle.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 468. Ap. 20. 480w.

  “It is a work for students, and they are not likely to neglect it: but
  many years will pass before its results can be incorporated in
  textbook and handbook.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 91. Mr. 22, ’07. 820w.

  “There was certainly room for such a work, in which all the available
  evidence should be carefully considered, and Mr. Chadwick has done
  this with the greatest minuteness. In fact, his book suffers to some
  extent from over-minute discussion of questions which have at best a
  very faint bearing upon the main subject of his inquiry. Another
  general criticism which might be made is that Mr. Chadwick is rather
  too much given to the common, but very unsatisfactory, process of
  drawing a strong conclusion from a series of very weak premises.”

     + − =Nature.= 75: 555. Ap. 11, ’07. 780w.

  “The value of the book lies in the healthy spirit of scepticism which
  pervades it, and which is the outgrowth of an unusually wide knowledge
  of Teutonic philology, literature and archaeology.”

     + + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 550. S. ’07. 180w.

  “A very learned and careful work.”

     + + =Spec.= 98: 337. Mr. 2, ’07. 220w.


=Chadwick, Rev. John White.= Cap’n Chadwick, Marblehead skipper and
shoemaker. *60c. Am. Unitar.

                                                                6–35723.

  A portrait, sketched by his son, of a rugged yet unvaryingly tender
  hearted New Englander who plied his shoemaker trade in winter and
  followed a skipper’s life in summer.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In spite of some looseness of style the book is spell binding from
  start to finish.” Robert E. Bisbee.

     + − =Arena.= 37: 111. Ja. ’07. 120w.

  “This little biography will be treasured not alone by those who revere
  its author’s memory, but by the wider public who will find in it a
  sympathetic yet discriminating characterization of a life well worth
  telling about, but of a kind not often described outside of fiction.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 93. Ja. 12, ’07. 750w.


=Chamberlin, Georgia Louise, and Kern, Mary Root.= Child religion in
song and story: a manual for use in the Sunday schools or in the home.
$1. Univ. of Chicago press.

                                                                7–26993.

  Believing in unity in lesson, songs, prayers and memorized texts the
  authors of this book have arranged a series of thirty-nine lessons for
  children from six to nine in the Sunday school. The development of a
  general religious theme is aimed at in each group, and the groups
  follow each other in logical arrangement. The book is suggestive
  thruout and may be used in the home as well as in the Bible school.


=Chambers, Robert William.= Fighting chance. †$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                6–29527.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Deeply interesting as it is, ‘The fighting chance’ is not without
  flaws and imperfections.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 121. F. 2, ’07. 370w.

  “Mr. Chambers has achieved another success.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 193. F. 16. 180w.

  “How far Mr. Chambers is correct in his representation of the ways and
  manners of wealthy and ‘exclusive’ New Yorkers, especially of those
  who contrive to combine business with pleasure, must be left to the
  judgment of critics equipped with expert knowledge; but at any rate it
  is brisk and credible.” Herbert W. Horwill.

       + =Forum.= 38: 544. Ap. ’07. 760w.

       − =R. of Rs.= 35: 120. Ja. ’07. 60w.

  “Mr. Chambers has handled a problem, unpleasant in itself, with
  exceptional skill and delicacy in this story.”

       + =Spec.= 97: 220. F. 9, ’07. 220w.


=Chambers, Robert William.= Tracer of lost persons. †$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                6–20360.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “All the light side of his nature, the fun and the cleverness, go into
  such a collection of stories as this, and the world is the better for
  getting so much wholesome laughter and tender sentiment.”

       + =Acad.= 72: 345. Ap. 6, ’07. 350w.

  “Though cast in the guise of a continuous narrative, this volume
  consists in reality of short stories and should be read as such.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 574. My. 11. 140w.

  “The humor is quite delicious, and the whole thing is carried through
  with great spirit.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 120. Ja. ’07. 80w.


=Chambers, Robert William.= Tree of heaven. †$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                7–17386.

  “The occult in everyday affairs is the theme of this new book.... Each
  one of the stories of which the volume is composed tells the tale of
  some mysterious happening, some supernatural experience, beyond the
  power of material reasoning to explain, which comes into the life of
  some ordinary everyday man.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.

       + =Bookm.= 25: 603. Ag. ’07. 360w.

       + =Ind.= 63: 458. Ag. 22, ’07. 140w.

  “Trim, carefully upholstered, and perfectly imaginable tales. Very
  good of their extravagant kind.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 544. Je. 13, ’07. 110w.

  “Some of the separate stories are excellent in their mechanism and in
  the way of their telling. Nearly all of them suffer from opulent
  adjectivitis. Mr. Chambers too often marches along with his head in
  rainbowlike clouds, which he scatters like fragments all over his
  pages until the reader fairly longs for a nice gloomy page or two in
  which nothing will sparkle or flash or flame or dazzle or
  scintillate.”

     − + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 332. My. 25, ’07. 630w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 90w.


=Chambers, Robert W.= Younger set. †$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                7–26022.

  “In the ‘younger set’ from which he gets his title Mr. Chambers finds
  much that is buoyant, much that augurs well for the future of the
  social development of New York. His hero is a gentleman and a soldier;
  his heroine a clear-eyed pure-minded young girl, the embodiment of
  faithfulness, good breeding, and true-heartedness; while there is a
  really charming family picture of father, mother, children, and
  dogs—Mr. Chambers’s dogs are always capital, by the way. The more
  serious purpose of the book is to discuss certain aspects of the
  divorce problem.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is this vicious, sordid element which, we think, spoils the
  genuine love story that runs through the book. But Mr. Chambers is a
  clever writer and a close student of character.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 580. N. 9. 250w.

  “Under a veil of pseudo-realism can no more disguise its fundamental
  melodrama than cottonseed oil can escape notice in a salad dressing.”
  Frederic Taber Cooper.

       − =Bookm.= 26: 163. O. ’07. 630w.

  “The treatment is marred by the note of insincerity, and the virtuous
  types that the author contrasts with the vicious ones are too unreal
  to be taken seriously. It has certain elements of positive excellence,
  such as constructive art, poetical elegance of diction, and a
  sympathetic touch.” Wm. M. Payne.

     + − =Dial.= 43: 252. O. 16, ’07. 350w.

  “A sort of perverted Sabbath school story about the younger set in New
  York society.”

       − =Ind.= 63: 756. S. 26, ’07. 950w.

  “This argument is the weakness in his story, because it is out of
  place, and it is not sustained by the lives of the characters
  portrayed.”

       − =Ind.= 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 120w.

  “The purpose of the novel—the inculcation of the idea that divorce
  does not terminate all the obligations of marriage—is clearly and
  interestingly evolved, in spite of the exaggerations and
  artificialities of expression with which it is at times obscured.”

     + − =Lit. D.= 35: 577. O. 19, ’07. 620w.

  “The author has taken plenty of space and filled his stage with more
  men and women, girls and boys, than we can enumerate. But they are all
  drawn with such skill and knowledge that one closes the book with a
  pleasant sense of its abundant vitality, breadth, and charm.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 309. O. 11, ’07. 450w.

         =Nation.= 85: 187. Ag. 29, ’07. 320w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 535. S. 7, ’07. 670w.

  “An absorbing story.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

  “The present volume is a genuine piece of work, alive and tingling
  with nervous energy, although it is inferior in some respects to Mr.
  Chambers’s best work.”

     + − =Outlook.= 87: 44. S. 7, ’07. 260w.

  “It is in more than one respect far more pleasant than the average
  novel of American society.”

       + =Sat. R.= 104: 549. N. 2, ’07. 220w.


=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.

                                                                6–32458.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The translation is readable, the introduction excellent, and the
  notes, though not numerous, frequently offer original and valuable
  suggestions.”

       + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 424. Ja. ’07. 290w.

  “A very detailed account, which should be found in any considerable
  collection on the early period of American and Canadian history.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 7. Ja. ’07.

  “The editing and translation show painstaking care and appreciation of
  the work of the author. Disputed points, obscure references and
  seeming contradictions are satisfactorily explained in succinct
  foot-notes. An index, also, would have been of value.”

   + + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 205. Ja. ’07. 360w.

       + =Ind.= 62: 153. Ja. 17, ’07. 80w.

  “The present translation by Mrs. Bourne is a boon to the reading
  public as well as a tribute to the great explorer and the acute
  observer whose fame grows as the knowledge of his service becomes more
  generally known.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 133. Mr. 2, ’07. 960w.


=Champney, Elizabeth W.= Romance of the Italian villas. **$3. Putnam.

                                                                  7–431.

  “From the vast storehouse of Italian legendary lore the author has
  collected a dozen or so stories identified with as many villas and has
  retold them, mostly in archaic form, so as to present an illusion of
  the past.” (N. Y. Times.) “She writes not so much of buildings as of
  the romantic and dramatic events which have taken place within their
  walls, not to mention other interesting incidents in the lives of
  famous people who dwelt there.” (Lit. D.) Numerous fine illustrations
  which are reproductions of paintings emphasize the value of the work.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Carefully selected and delightfully told.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 65. Mr. ’07.

  “Will not take high rank either as a collection of tales or a literary
  guide-book. The style is undistinguished, and the author’s version of
  the histories attaching to the villas of which she writes is tame and
  undramatic.”

     − + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 788. Je. 29. 200w.

  “She writes with verve, communicating to her reader the charm she
  feels herself.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 1152. My. 16, ’07. 130w.

  “It is a book such as only careful research could have produced well,
  but Mrs. Champney can be trusted to be sure of her ground. Having done
  this, she proceeds to write in a manner that is always felicitous.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 90w.

  “The reader, for whom many personages of history are perhaps but
  names, is brought, as it were, into close intimacy with them in their
  very palaces.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 547. Ap. 6, ’07. 250w.

  “It is a question whether anyone has the right to change facts even
  though they have no securer foundation than legend. These things Mrs.
  Champney has done. There is not the slightest doubt that she has
  improved the dramatic qualities of several of the stories she has
  handled.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 770. N. 24, ’06. 630w.

  “Mrs. Elizabeth W. Champney has made some very careful selections from
  the treasures of Italian legends, and has presented them in a manner
  most attractive to foreign readers.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. ’06. 210w.

       + =Outlook.= 84: 704. N. 24, ’06. 40w.

  “With the subjects she has chosen it would be hard not to make a
  readable book, and this one is eminently so.” Charlotte Harwood.

       + =Putnam’s.= 2: 445. Jl. ’07. 350w.


=Chancellor, Edwin Beresford.= History of the squares of London:
topographical and historical. *$5. Lippincott.

  A history of London squares thru time and change with anecdotes of
  their famous occupants, omitting present or recent owners. In
  interesting succession are presented Berkeley square with its statue
  which Herbert Spencer maintained is better than the Venus de Milo;
  Grosvenor square with anecdotes of Alvanley and Nelson, Thrale and
  Wilkes; Cavendish square, with its reminiscences of the Marquis of
  Steyne and Princess Amelia, and Selwyn and Lord Bessborough.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This book, which Mr. Chancellor has compiled with remarkable skill
  and industry, appears at a fitting time.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 12. Jl. 6. 1000w.

  “Mr. Chancellor’s account of his style is too modest. There is very
  little indeed in his book that can accurately be called ‘dull
  enumeration,’ and there are plenty of anecdotes, bits of forgotten
  history, and curious reminiscence.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 376. D. 1, ’07. 450w.

  “There may be nothing new in it—and indeed it is the kind of book that
  can be written only by grace of the books that have preceded it; but
  it is never dull, and that is saying much of a work which contains 400
  large pages and weighs 3 lb.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 230. Jl. 19, ’07. 320w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

  “A work of considerable research and replete with curious and often
  valuable historical information.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 769. N. 30, ’07. 160w.

  “Very entertaining is a good deal of the information the author has
  piled together about all the principal squares in London.”

       + =Sat. R.= 104: 21. Jl. 6, ’07. 390w.


=Chandler, Frank Wadleigh.= Literature of roguery. (Types of English
literature ser.) 2v. **$3. Houghton.

                                                                7–31996.

  The second work of a series whose plan is to deal with all the
  important literary forms in English by a division according to types
  rather than a division into chronological periods. A concise
  description is given of the earlier appearances of the rogue as a
  typical figure in the literatures of Spain, France, Germany and
  Holland; then follows the rogue of the mediaeval time as he appears in
  drama, legend, and jest book, and the rogue of the picaresque novel of
  Elizabethan time. Criminal biographies, prison chronicles, drama,
  opera, sociological studies, and lyric verse are shown to yield their
  rascals, and the authors who have portrayed them are discussed.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Its greatest charm lies in its peculiar combination of authority with
  human interest, of scholarly methods and an imposing bibliography with
  a fine sense of proportion,—a large grasp of the matter as a whole and
  in its relation to other lines of literary research.” Edith Kellogg
  Dunton.

     + + =Dial.= 43: 315. N. 16, ’07. 1920w.

  “His work is unique in its scope.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 195. Mr. 30, ’07. 130w.

  “Whoever has the courage to plow through or the inspired wisdom to
  skip that dismal first volume will find that in the second, beginning
  with Defoe and coming down to Thackeray, there is a really interesting
  account of the English literature of roguery, punctuated with
  pertinent critical remarks, and delivered like a man of this world.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 744. N. 23, ’07. 1400w.


=Channing, Elizabeth Parsons.= Autobiography and diary: gleanings of a
thoughtful life. *$1. Am. Unitar.

                                                                7–25238.

  A diary kept by the author during more than thirty years. The aim of
  Miss Channing’s friends in offering the volume is to lead to a “closer
  realization of the value of clear thinking and sincere feeling in
  things religious ... to promote reverence for things deep and true,
  love for things high and holy, patience in trial, and above all, faith
  in God.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Her diary is the simple record of a thoughtful mind, essentially
  womanly, carrying on homely tasks with patience, yet capable of
  sharing in the world’s movements.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 747. N. 30, ’07. 350w.


=Chapin, Anna Alice.= Heart of music: the story of the violin. **$1.60.
Dodd.

                                                                6–43758.

  “Beginning far back in the region of legend, the story of this most
  ancient of all stringed instruments grows from the turtle shell to the
  marvel of Stradivarius, and is enthroned as the one perfect thing—‘the
  heart of music incarnate and triumphant.’”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 39. F. ’07.

  “Her book is good of its kind, replete with curious information, and
  well written.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 542. D. 20, ’06. 150w.

  “This vivid style and her faculty for choosing and setting forth
  lucidly and logically the salient characteristics of an epoch, a
  nation, or an individual makes her pages very readable.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 51. Ja. 26, ’07. 570w.

  “An attractive book for all passionate lovers of the violin, and yet
  one that, by reason of the great mass of facts collected will hold the
  attention of students.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 1082. D. 29, ’06. 110w.


=Chapman, Frank Michler.= Warblers of North America, by Frank M.
Chapman, with the cooperation of other ornithologists; with 24 full-page
colored pls., il. every species, from drawings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes
and Bruce Horsfall, and half-tones of nests and eggs. **$3. Appleton.

                                                                7–14643.

  “The first untechnical monograph on a single group of American birds,”
  including Gerald Thayer’s notes on songs and habits of birds. The
  special treatment of the warbler family, each species and subspecies
  being taken up in turn, is followed by a list of biographical
  references which “rounds out the treatment in a way that leaves
  nothing to be desired.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 119. My. ’07.

  “To the technical ornithologist, as well as to the amateur with only
  the myrtle and yellow warblers on his ‘list,’ this volume will be of
  constant use.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 438. My. 9, ’07. 570w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 74. F. 9, ’07. 150w.

  “Its plan is easy of grasp and tends to make the book not only a
  pleasant reference volume, but gives it a place as a work of permanent
  and authoritative value.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 110w.

  “Its title would much better have been ‘The wood warblers of North
  America,’ for the true warblers, family Sylviidae, also represented in
  North America, are not treated at all.” Harry C. Oberholser.

   + + − =Science=, n.s. 26: 305. S. 6, ’07. 480w.


=Chapman, J. Wilbur.= S. H. Hadley of Water street: a miracle of grace.
**$1.25. Revell.

                                                                6–29045.

  The narrative of the thoro evangelization of a man who spent a wild
  youth, became a drunkard, thief and gambler, but who after the
  transformation devoted twenty years to a useful life.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Dr. Chapman has yielded somewhat disproportionate space to the
  eulogies pronounced over Mr. Hadley at the time of his death.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 59. Ja. 17, ’07. 130w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 850. D. 8, ’06. 190w.

       + =Outlook.= 84: 894. D. 8, ’06. 180w.


=Charles, R. H.=, ed. Ethiopic version of the book of Enoch; ed. from 23
Mss., together with the fragmentary Greek and Latin versions. (Anecdota
oxoniensia, Semitis ser., pt. XI.) *$4. Oxford.

  The author “holds that parts of the book were originally composed in
  Hebrew, parts in Aramaic, and that some at least of the original was
  in poetic form. The text is clearly printed and there is an ample
  apparatus of variant readings.”—Bib. World.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Professor Charles’s long-expected critical text of Enoch constitutes
  a marked advance upon previous editions of that important work.”

     + + =Bib. World.= 29: 320. Ap. ’07. 60w.

  “In the present careful text and very full apparatus the task seems
  done with tolerable finality.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 106. Ja. 31, ’07. 300w.


=Chart, D. A.= Story of Dublin; il. by Henry J. Howard. (Mediaeval towns
ser.) $2. Macmillan.

                                                                7–25495.

  This is a story of Dublin from the year 150 A.D., in which the author
  does his surest work when he reaches mediaeval Dublin with its wealth
  of reliable material. He writes of the city, its topography, its
  buildings, of the variety and picturesqueness of the outlying country,
  of people and incidents; and lends to the whole a historical
  background. The illustrations are principally from pen-and-ink
  sketches and give value to the work.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is unfortunate that in his desire to write a popular tourists’
  book Mr. Chart should have spoilt the history which, so far as it
  goes, has evidence of a real interest, research, and, we venture to
  say, promise of better work.”

     − + =Acad.= 73: 942. S. 28, ’07. 820w.

  “There are plenty of truths in this book—plenty of learning also; but
  there are grave gaps and often annoying inaccuracies.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 34. Jl. 13. 1320w.

  “A narrative at once agreeable to read and of historic value.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 791. Ag. 10, ’07. 230w.


=Chaucer, Geoffrey.= Stories from Chaucer, (Children’s favorite
classics.) 60c. Crowell.

                                                                7–25660.

  A faithful prose rendering of the best of the “Canterbury tales”
  written for young readers with the hope of stimulating a later study
  of Chaucer in the original text.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “When one re-tells the Canterbury stories, adding to them material
  which is not part of them, the result is of doubtful value. Mr.
  McSpadden’s introduction is in many ways worthy, and he shows a
  sincere effort to retain the spirit of the master genius.”

     + − =Nation.= 86: 496. N. 28, ’07. 100w.

  “The best that can be said about ... ‘Stories from Chaucer’ ... is
  that [it is] a literary impertinence. They are written, it is true ...
  with skill and cleverness, and with a limpid style that brings them
  quite within the limits of ten-year-old understanding. But why should
  mayhem be committed upon the literary body of a subtle, suggestive,
  and intellectual poet in order to make a holiday for babes?”

     − + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 568. S. 21, ’07. 320w.


=Cheney, John Vance=, ed. Inaugural addresses of the presidents of the
United States from Washington to Polk, from Taylor to Roosevelt. 2v.
*$3. Reilly & B.

                                                       6–34849; 6–35584.

  Two handsome volumes which print collectively for the first time the
  inaugural addresses of our presidents.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The bindings are simple and chaste, and the presswork
  unexceptionable. The addresses themselves form a subject well suited
  to be clothed in the form in which they here appear.”

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 633. My. ’07. 100w.

         =Dial.= 40: 133. F. 16, ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 2.)

  Reviewed by Edward Cary.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 682. O. 20, ’06. 1130w.


=Cheney, Warren.= His wife. †$1.50. Bobbs.

                                                                7–31211.

  A group of Russian peasants among Alaskan snows enact here a drama
  impossible in its primitive passions to a more conventional setting.
  The wife of Luka dies in the first chapter, and he, crazed by her
  loss, wanders away to search for her. He fancies he has found her in
  his brother’s promised bride, wins her love, is wounded in the quarrel
  with his brother for her possession, and awakes after an illness to a
  realization that she is not the much loved wife he has lost. How these
  two souls so oddly met, so strangely bound together, work out their
  own happiness is the story of the book.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 10w.


=Chesson, Nora.= Father Felix’s chronicles; with introd. by W. H.
Chesson. *$1.50. Wessels.

  “If ‘Father Felix’s chronicles’ suggest Maurice Hewlett, it is by no
  means in the ways of imitation, conscious or involuntary.” (Nation.)
  “Father Felix is a priest of the order of St. Benedict in the early
  part of the fifteenth century, and he has knowledge, in one way or
  another, of the loves and hates and desires and revenges of the men
  and women who surround the throne of King Henry IV. The author makes
  him tell the story of these vanished people so vividly that the dust
  of their passions seems touched with the fire of actual life.” (N. Y.
  Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “She had in fact, assimilated the period as few novelists of to-day
  have done. Her tale is somewhat disjointed and episodic, but its
  vitality keeps interest for it. It is very learned in the times, but
  its learning is never an obsession.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 796. D. 22. 210w.

  “It may well be said that the introduction to this remarkable story
  will create antagonism. Nevertheless, in spite of this serious
  handicap, the book itself shows ability of so rare an order as to
  point an instructive difference between a real creation and the flimsy
  stuff passing current as historical fiction.”

   + + − =Nation.= 85: 102. Ag. 1, ’07. 640w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 503. Ag. 17, ’07. 100w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

  “The volume is well worth reading for the vivid picture which it
  leaves upon the mind, of life at the beginning of the fifteenth
  century.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 60. Ja. 12, ’07. 140w.


=Chesterton, Gilbert Keith.= Charles Dickens. **$1.50. Dodd.

                                                                6–34069.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Not a systematic, exhaustive biography, but a suggestive,
  appreciative, and at times brilliant tribute to the great author; not
  free from paradox or exaggeration, but illuminating and always
  entertaining.”

   + + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 95. Ap. ’07.

  “It is more characteristically frolicsome, less restrained and direct,
  than the same author’s study of Browning.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.

   + + − =No. Am.= 183: 1047. N. 16, ’06. 1530w.

  “It has the real Dickens’ merit of leaving the reader exhilarated and
  on better terms with all the world.”

       + =Putnam’s.= 1: 509. Ja. ’07. 620w.

  “Mr. Chesterton’s ‘Dickens’ is the best thing he has done in
  criticism.” H. W. Boynton.

     + + =Putnam’s.= 1: 634. F. ’07. 620w.


=Childe, Charles P.= Control of a scourge; or, How cancer is curable.
(New lib. of medicine.) *$2.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–29144.

  “The purpose of the book is to teach that the dread disease of cancer
  is curable by operation if taken in time. According to the diagnosis
  of Dr. Childe, cancer is, in its earliest stages, entirely a local
  disease, at least in many cases the result of local irritation.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The most optimistic book on cancer that has perhaps ever come from a
  physician of experience without any ulterior motive.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 857. Ap. 11, ’07. 230w.

  “Mr. Childe deserves the thanks of the public for his very lucid
  explanation of the practical importance of the latest conclusions of
  surgery.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 67. Mr. 1, ’07. 680w.

       + =Nation.= 85: 83. Jl. 25, ’07. 350w.

  “Whether the subject could not have been dealt with in a quarter of
  the space with equally satisfactory results as regards the general
  public is a question, many of the details introduced being quite
  unnecessary for the average man or woman to know.” R. T. H.

     − + =Nature.= 76: 171. Je. 20, ’07. 220w.

  “These two hundred pages are the more interesting in that they are
  devoid of quackery and are composed in the most simple language, for
  the encouragement and enlightenment of the general public.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 149. Mr. 9, ’07. 460w.

  “His book is clearly written and neither technical nor sensational.”

       + =Sat. R.= 104: 22. Jl. 6, ’07. 250w.

  “His book is extremely valuable.”

     + + =Spec.= 98: 1012. Je. 29, ’07. 410w.


=Chisholm, Louey.= Enchanted land. Pictures by Katharine Cameron. †$3.
Putnam.

  Sixteen fairy tales retold and pictured in color.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Many of the colour pictures are insipid and leave a great deal to be
  desired.”

       − =Acad.= 71: 608. D. 15, ’06. 30w.

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 653. N. 24. 140w.

  “Many of the stories will not be familiar, so that the ‘retelling’ is
  welcome.”

       + =Bookm.= 24: 527. Ja. ’07. 70w.

       + =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 13, ’06. 20w.

  “Special praise is due Miss Katharine Cameron for the coloured
  illustrations which reach a high standard of excellence.”

     + + =Int. Studio.= 30: 280. Ja. ’07. 40w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 70w.

  “Miss Katharine Cameron delights in colour and indulges recklessly in
  paint, her drawing is feeble, but she occasionally gets some very
  pretty and Conderesque effects of colour and decoration.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 70w.

  “Among the books of old fairy-tales retold, we wish particularly to
  call attention to Miss Chisholm’s ‘Enchanted land.’”

       + =Spec.= 97: 939. D. 8, ’06. 70w.


=Chisholm, Louey=, comp. Golden staircase: poems for children. il.
**$2.50. Putnam.

  An anthology of child verse whose aim is wholly educative. The best
  writers, English and American, who have written poems for children are
  included.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Should have a word of especially appreciative praise, because it
  assumes on the part of the child a natural taste for that which is
  beautiful, and a natural love for the imaginative.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 358. O. 19, ’07. 250w.

  “Admirable anthology.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 627. Ap. 20, ’07. 140w.


=Chittenden, Russell Henry.= Nutrition of man: a course of lectures
delivered before the Lowell institute of Boston. **$3. Stokes.

                                                                7–21556.

  Professional men, volunteers from the hospital corps of the United
  States army, recruits from the ranks of university athletic students
  form what has been termed “Professor Chittenden’s starvation squad.”
  These lectures give the result of his experiments in putting willing
  subjects on half rations and less.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 193. N. ’07.

  “This book is one of first-rate importance, not only to the
  physiologist and physician as a guide to scientific truth, but also to
  the individual, and even to the state.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 45. Jl. 13. 1220w.

  “It seems safe to say that this thoroughly revolutionary work will
  attract more general popular attention than any other scientific book
  has attracted in many years.” Michael Williams.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 329. My. 25, ’07. 2370w.

  “It is interesting also to the economist, because for the first time
  it bridges in part the gap between human energy and social wealth.”

       + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 568. S. ’07. 200w.


=Cholmondeley, Mary.= Prisoners. †$1.50. Dodd.

                                                                6–34683.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Concocts a melodrama rivaling Ouida at her most inventive, but
  proceeds to recount it in a manner not unworthy the chronicler of
  ‘Cranford,’ or ‘The perpetual curate.’” Mary Moss.

     + − =Atlan.= 99: 118. Ja. ’07. 360w.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 110. Ja. ’07. 760w.

  “We can only characterize the new book as a disappointment.” Wm. M.
  Payne.

       − =Dial.= 42: 15. Ja. 1, ’07. 250w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 123. Ja. ’07. 120w.


Christ that is to be, by the author of Pro Christo et ecclesia. **$1.50.
Macmillan.

                                                                7–30464.

  “A series of successive efforts to think what the gospel of Jesus
  really is.” Some of the suggestive channels in which effort is
  directed are the following: Our need of reformation, The actions of
  Jesus, The doctrine of prayer, Salvation of joy, The use of sin, The
  use of pain, Fatalism and asceticism, The devil and his angels, The
  scorn of superstition; Mind and disease, Fasting and temptation, and
  The sword and the muck-rake.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This book is full of interest and ideas; it is well, if not too
  copiously written; and with many of its main arguments we are in
  agreement.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 646. N. 23. 1320w.

  “What has been said affords but a very partial glimpse of a laborious
  and fascinating discussion of many things—prayers, the ascetic life,
  inspiration, demonology, war and the like. Its effect is not only to
  stimulate thought but to excite obedience and to spread sincerity.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 306. O. 11, ’07. 1000w.

  “Fulfils in a great measure the promise of the earlier work; or
  perhaps it would be more accurate to say that some chapters more than
  fulfil that promise, while in the others the shadow of modern
  superstition darkens the lucidity of the thought.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: sup. 751. N. 16, ’07. 500w.


=Christie, Grace (Mrs. Archibald H. Christie).= Embroidery and tapestry
weaving: a practical text-book of design and workmanship; with drawings
by the author and other. il. $2. Macmillan.

                                                                7–35144.

  A practical rather than historical handbook. “Of stitches alone, some
  forty kinds are here explained and illustrated by clearly drawn
  diagrams; methods of work, also amply illustrated, occupy several
  chapters; while others are devoted to tools, appliances, materials,
  garniture, etc.” (Int. Studio.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Practical, clearly written, and well illustrated.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 66. Mr. ’07.

       + =Int. Studio.= 30: 279. Ja. ’07. 130w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 840. D. 1, ’06. 60w.


=Christie, William Wallace.= Boiler-waters, scale, corrosion, foaming.
*$3. Van Nostrand.

                                                                6–45054.

  This work has for its object to furnish steam-users with information
  regarding water, its use, and troubles arising from the use of water,
  and remedies that may be used or applied; the gain being more
  efficient generation of steam. Numerous illustrations accompany the
  text.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Emphasis is given to the injurious properties of hard waters, and the
  illustrations of corrosion, boiler scale, etc., are particularly well
  set forth. This is by far the most interesting and valuable portion of
  the book. The discussion of the chemistry of boiler-waters is
  elementary and superficial. The attempt to furnish simple tests for
  the use of engineers is far from satisfactory. Some of the best
  methods of analysis are not given, while other descriptions are
  incomplete. Furthermore, confusion is introduced by the use of many
  different methods of stating results. The theory of water softening is
  passed over in a few words, but the descriptions of water softening
  plants as related to steam making are clear and concise.” G. C.
  Whipple.

     + − =Engin. N.= 57: 86. Ja. 17, ’07. 220w.

  “The book is well written and printed; and the material is of great
  value, but it would be of greater value if the author, instead of
  quoting the opinions of engineers and chemists on disputed points, had
  made a more determined attempt to solve the difficult questions.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 388. Ap. 25, ’07. 180w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 60w.


Christmas anthology: carols and poems old and new. **50c. Crowell.

                                                                7–20856.

  A holiday book which brings together carols and poems which sing of
  the true spirit of Christmas, of love, of charity, of peace and good
  will to all men.


=Churchill, Winston.= Coniston. †$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                6–19776.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  Reviewed by Mary Moss.

     + + =Atlan.= 99: 123. Ja. ’07. 440w.

  “Reading ‘Coniston’ is very like spending a week in a remote New
  England village, stopping one’s newspaper and keeping away from the
  post-office.” Hamilton W. Mabie.

     + + =No. Am.= 183: 415. S. 7, ’06. 840w.


=Cipriani, Lisi de.= Cry of defeat. $1.25. Badger.

                                                                6–38992.

  Under the sub-divisions, The cry of defeat, Words of love and sorrow,
  Songs of others, A curious world, and Crumbs, appear a collection of
  short poems varying in subject and merit.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The only obvious technical defects do not prevent the successful
  appeal to our sympathies of a sore and wounded spirit, even where the
  tone is not only sorrowful but exceedingly morbid.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 431. Jl. 6, ’07. 280w.


=Cipriani, Lisi.= A Tuscan childhood. **$1.25. Century.

                                                                7–31991.

  With the buoyancy and naïveté of childhood the fourth of seven
  children in an Italian patrician family sets down the incidents of
  work and play that fixed the bond of allegiance among them. There is
  race temperament in abundance, and yet it is the universal nature of
  childhood that makes the strongest appeal.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “All in all, a not half bad hour may be spent over the volume, which
  can also well be placed on the shelf for consultation during minor
  domestic crises.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 795. N. 23, ’07. 210w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 50w.

  “It is pleasant reading for an indifferent mood.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 698. N. 2, ’07. 210w.

  “Every detail in the book is so perfectly set in its place and so well
  told that one feels a new and pleasant sensation in its perusal.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 454. O. 26, ’07. 180w.


=Cirkel, August.= Looking forward. $1.25. Forward pub. co.

                                                                6–42899.

  “This is a conspicuous contribution to what may be called the
  literature of impractical reform. Not for one but for many vital
  problems in the contemporary life of the United States does Mr. Cirkel
  proffer a solution. In turn he takes up and with remarkable ease
  disposes of the issues raised by the growing power of corporations, by
  the railway companies, by the insurance revelations, by the relations
  between capital and labor, by the spread of the socialistic movement,
  and by the necessity of securing an ‘elastic currency.’”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is quite true that there is a good deal in his pages to stimulate
  thought. But this is far overbalanced by the visionary character of
  the author’s principal proposals and by the extremism of many of his
  views.”

     − + =Outlook.= 85: 94. Ja. 12, ’07. 160w.


=Claassen, H.= Beet-sugar manufacture; authorized tr. from the 2d German
ed., by W. T. Hall, and G. W. Rolfe. *$3. Wiley.

                                                                6–38550.

  “The scope and plan of the book embraces the entire process of
  beet-sugar manufacture from the time of the receiving of the beets to
  the finished product.”—Science.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A book which ranks with the very best in the sugar literature of the
  day. It is a pleasure to state that [the translators’] work, too, is
  everything that could be desired. A few typographical errors and slips
  have crept in, but these will unquestionably be noted and corrected in
  a future edition, which, no doubt, will soon be warranted.” F. G.
  Wiechmann.

   + + − =Science=, n.s. 25: 104. Ja. 18, ’07. 590w.


=Claremont, Leopold.= Gem-cutter’s craft. *$5. Macmillan.

                                                                7–18824.

  “Describes the appearance of the different varieties of gem-stones,
  gives an outline of the industry and craft of gem-cutting, tells how
  to identify the real and precious article and note the difference
  between it and the imitation, and provides an account of how the gems
  are mined and made ready for the market either in their first rough
  state, after having been freed from the minerals surrounding them, or
  when cut and shaped.” (N. Y. Times.) Fully illustrated.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The history of the gem from its rough state to its cut and polished
  final appearance is given with remarkable clearness in this work by a
  cutter of jewels, who writes in the first place for cutters.”

     + + =Acad.= 71: 660. D. 29, ’06. 360w.

  “The work before us constitutes almost a new departure in the
  literature of precious stones.” J. W. J.

     + − =Nature.= 75: 321. Ja. 31, ’07. 1270w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 840. D. 1, ’06. 180w.


=Clark, Andrew=, ed. Shirburn ballads, 1585–1616; ed. from the Ms.
*$3.40. Oxford.

  They are all from a manuscript in the library of the Earl of
  Macclesfield, at Shirburn castle. “This collection helps to bridge
  over the gap between the earlier ballads and those of the
  post-Restoration period. The variety offered is considerable; there
  are ballads of religion and of politics, festive ballads and ballads
  of earthquakes and monsters.” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The notes of Mr. Shirburn are so learned and interesting that we must
  admire them in spite of the poetry which they illustrate.” Andrew
  Lang.

       + =Acad.= 72: 232. Mr. 9, ’07. 1140w.

  “The editor deserves much praise for the pains he has taken to make
  this book serviceable to the student of Elizabethan social conditions.
  Many pieces both grave and gay, although throwing no light on
  institutions or social conditions, yet have an interest to the
  historian as indicating the temper of the times.”

       + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 923. Jl. ’07. 300w.

  “The editor ... has done his work with great care. If we were to find
  fault with anything, it would be that he does not always stick to his
  antiquarian last.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 727. Je. 15. 370w.

         =Dial.= 42: 319. My. 16, ’07. 140w.

         =Lond. Times.= 6: 89. Mr. 22, ’07. 1590w.

  “Perhaps the greatest importance of the collection is that it bridges
  over the gap in ballad-literature between the early ballads as
  represented by Prof. F. J. Child’s monumental work and those of the
  post-restoration period.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 384. Ap. 25, ’07. 470w.


=Clark, Henry Martyn.= Robert Clark of the Panjab. **$1.75. Revell.

  “This volume commemorates the life and work of a pioneer missionary
  amidst a fierce and fanatical people, in northwestern India.... The
  courage and gentleness, the energy and patience, the self-devotion and
  tactfulness of the ideal missionary were all illustrated in him, and
  he did not lack ‘the saving grace’ of a sense of humor. The narrative
  is blended with sketches of the land and the people, their ways, and
  the lights and shadows thence resulting. Especially noticeable are the
  indications of an active interest of both officers and privates of the
  British army in Christian missions, outrunning a timid policy of the
  civil government.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 217. Jl. 12, ’07. 430w.

       + =Outlook.= 86: 745. Ag. 3, ’07. 140w.

       + =Spec.= 98: 723. My. 4, ’07. 450w.


=Clark, Henry W.= Philosophy of Christian experience. *$1.25. Revell.

                                                                W 6–328.

  Mr. Clark “approaches the problem of religion and the object of
  religious belief from the ethical standpoint. He proposes to treat
  religion, not as a science of God and his relation to man, but as an
  art, the ‘art of character-production.’ His book is itself evidence
  that the Christian religion is primarily a mode of life and conduct,
  rather than a system of science or philosophy.”—Am. J. Theol.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Clark writes eloquently and persuasively. His argument would be
  stronger and more complete if he had pointed out in his chapter on
  ‘Christian self-culture’ how identification with Christ involves for
  man the realization of a definite ideal of service and self-sacrifice.
  But, on the whole, the book possesses rare merit, having a freshness
  of inspiration and a cogency of thought quite unusual among works of
  its class.” Henry W. Wright.

   + + − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 358. Ap. ’07. 550w.

  “Not often does one find an account of Christian experience which is
  ethically and philosophically so sound and luminous.”

     + + =Outlook.= 84: 287. S. 29, ’06. 200w.


=Clark, Imogen.= Santa Claus’ sweetheart. †$1.25. Dutton.

                                                                6–29778.

  “Tells how a little maid hailed a passing sleigh, believing it to
  contain Santa Claus, heard many wonderful things from the
  merry-hearted Irishman who was driving it, and was left by him at a
  lumberman’s hut in the forest, where she found her long-lost
  father.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A tender little tale of Christmas time, with big type for
  encouragement.”

       + =Bookm.= 24: 529. Ja. ’07. 30w.

  “Something very charming in the way of a tale has been woven.”

       + =Ind.= 61: 1309. D. 22, ’06. 100w.

  “The incidents are the homely ones of every day life, but they are
  told with such a merry tenderness as to bring out all their humor and
  all their pathos, and make them glow with that spirit of the Christmas
  time.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 70w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 70w.


=Clark, Mrs. Mary Mead.= Corner in India. **$1. Am. Bapt.

                                                                7–20732.

  “It is a simple story of life-long devotion to the missionary cause,
  ending with a hopeful, if somewhat meagre, outlook.” (Nation.)
  Thirty-three years of residence in her corner of the world have
  brought Mrs. Clark “into contact with many interesting stories of the
  home-life of the savages in Burma, of their life at work and at play,
  their worship and strange legends, their relationships with
  neighboring villages, and, above all, their slow acceptance of the
  Christian faith offered to them by the zealous missionaries.” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Her book is consequently of interest both to the casual reader who
  likes to know about strange people in remote nooks of the world, and
  to those readers who are vitally concerned about the spread of the
  Christian religion.” H. E. Coblentz.

       + =Dial.= 43: 213. O. 1, ’07. 200w.

  “Mrs. Clark’s account gains much by its lack of pretence to literary
  style.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 120. Ag. 8, ’07. 250w.


* =Clark, Mrs. S. R. Graham.= Gail Weston. †$1.25. Am. Bapt.

                                                                7–31978.

  A story for young readers which follows the struggle of a mother and
  her seven children with poverty. The faultfinding mother, a patient,
  brave-hearted elder daughter and a loyal son who left his
  grandfather’s comfortable home to shoulder his share of family burdens
  are the principal actors in the little drama of toil and final
  success.


=Clark, Victor S.= Labour movement in Australasia; a study in social
democracy. **$1.50. Holt.

                                                                6–43934.

  Aims to describe the “history of the political labour party of
  Australasia, to analyse its policy and the results of that policy so
  far as applied, and at the same time to make clear the difference as
  well as the similarities characterising those countries and America,
  which must affect the application to our own problem of their
  experience.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Not quite so interesting as Reeve’s ‘State experiments in Australia
  and New Zealand’ or Lloyd’s ‘Newest England’ perhaps, but more
  judicial than either, and more carefully prepared than the latter.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 95. Ap. ’07.

  “The book is moderate in tone and is the work of an observer anxious
  to give correct impressions, hence students of labor and social
  questions will find it a very useful volume, enabling them to
  understand the causes and nature of the social evolution of
  Australasia.” George B. Mangold.

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 230. Ja. ’07. 610w.

  “We highly commend the impartial statements of fact to be found in it,
  combined as they are with a form and style of exposition rarely to be
  met with among writers upon such topics.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 320. Mr. 16. 540w.

  “Dr. Clark has given students of this problem a most admirable
  statement of the situation in Australasia,—free from bias, well
  arranged and comprehensive enough to include the essential facts.” W.
  B. Guthrie.

     + + =Charities.= 17: 468. D. 15, ’07. 480w.

  “It is refreshing to find an author who is willing to let the facts
  speak for themselves without playing tricks on credulous partisans and
  furnishing food for prejudice; and in this interesting volume the
  author seems to be honestly trying to place the reader in position to
  form his own judgment in the presence of the actual situation without
  too much prompting as to the conclusions he ought to derive from the
  survey.” Charles Richmond Henderson.

       + =Dial.= 42: 288. My. 1, ’07. 370w.

  “Written in scientific spirit, with unprejudiced presentation of both
  light and shade, composed in orderly manner with the use of clear
  unstrained English.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 455. Ag. 22, ’07. 600w.

  “Dr. Clark’s discussion of the working of social democracy in
  Australasia impresses one as being eminently fair.” John Cummings.

       + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 242. Ap. ’07. 830w.

  “Mr. Clark ... is at his best in the chapter dealing with the economic
  and social effects of industrial regulation, particularly compulsory
  arbitration. Has covered a large field, and has done his work well; to
  our knowledge no other writer—in America at least—has brought back
  from that economic wonderland so reliable a report of the alleged
  marvels wrought in the name of ‘progress.’ His publisher should have
  seen to it that the book was provided with a better index.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 364. Ap. 18, ’07. 1670w.

  “While much that he says is entirely just and true the general value
  of his book seems to me to be much vitiated by important defects and
  omissions. There are also in the volume a number of misstatements of
  fact, due, doubtless, to misinformation or to insufficient
  observation. All in all, Dr. Clark’s account of the labor movement in
  Australasia is of more interest and value to the student of theories
  than to the practical man of affairs.” Florence Finch Kelly.

     − + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 84. F. 9, ’07. 1730w.

  “The chief value of the present book, moreover, lies not so much in
  its description as in its interpretation of the facts.” Leonard W.
  Hatch.

   + + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 353. Je. ’07. 850w.


=Clarke, Henry Butler.= Modern Spain, 1815–1898; with a memoir by the
Rev. W. H. Hutton. (Cambridge historical series.) *$2. Putnam.

                                                                 7–6416.

  The posthumous work of a man “of acknowledged competence in matters,
  especially literary, pertaining to Spain, whose book is almost the
  only, and certainly the best, account in English of the unfortunate
  history of that country during the nineteenth century.... Its attitude
  is historical and, a special point for readers on this side of the
  Atlantic, its presentation of the Cuban question is temperate and
  convincing.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 158. F. 9. 760w.

  “A few important points are somewhat slurred, as, for instance, the
  matter of the Hohenzollern candidacy; the index is poor, and there are
  more slips and misprints than is usual in this series, but on the
  whole the book may be warmly recommended.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 254. S. 19, ’07. 140w.

  “The weakest part of the book appears to be the last pages, in which
  the author deals with the loss of the colonies in the war with the
  United States.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 81. Ja. 19, ’07. 1200w.

  “The present volume is a work of undoubted authority, and exhibits a
  complete mastery of the subject in all its details. It is a book
  written as it were from within, from a personal knowledge of the
  country and the people.”

   + + − =Spec.= 98: 91. Ja. 19, ’07. 410w.


=Clarke, Maud W.= Nature’s own garden. Il. **$6. Dutton.

  “The author tells pleasantly, but with somewhat prolix sentiment, the
  story of her researches in English fields and woods for the flowers
  she has painted.” (Ind.) The volume is handsomely illustrated with
  numerous engravings and fifty colored plates of plants in their native
  haunts.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Unfortunately for her book making, she has studied Richard Jefferies
  too much. We are grateful to her and to Messrs. Dent for providing us
  with another pretty gift book for our gentle, less critical friends.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 506. My. 25, ’07. 1350w.

  “Intelligence and thought and knowledge have worked hand in hand; and
  we appreciate these so much that we lament the more the lack of
  restraint with which the book is written.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 18. Jl. 6. 390w.

  “Eyes hungering for beauty are again, as in Jefferies’s enchanting
  pages, persuaded to look at things that are near and common, and to
  find it there; and herein lies the value of this book.” Sara Andrew
  Shafer.

       + =Dial.= 42: 1364. Je. 16, ’07. 1900w.

  “It is interesting to a lover of American flowers to see how English
  flowers look, for there are very few of the flowers here figured which
  grow here, altho many of them are familiar enough in literature.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 1359. Je. 6, ’07. 180w.

  “The manner of the book is personal in tone, colloquial, not always
  quite exact in the use of language, but fairly entertaining in the
  mass.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 572. Je. 20, ’07. 560w.

  “Essentially a book of the gift class, it is a worthy recruit to the
  ranks of the nature books, both in concept and execution.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 280w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 110w.

  “Written by a nature-lover of unusual skill in description as well as
  in observing.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 438. Je. 22, ’07. 90w.

  “The evident pleasure in the subject and in the task of production is
  more than usually infectious, and the sermons in aestheticism tend to
  disappear as the book progresses.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 104: 178. Ag. 10, ’07. 340w.

  “The text is written in an involved and high-flown style, which may
  occasionally puzzle the understanding of many readers.”

       − =Spec.= 99: 329. S. 7, ’07. 230w.


=Clausen, George.= Aims and ideals in art. *$1.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–15912.

  Eight lectures which treat of such subjects as quality in color,
  direct brush work, drawing, imagination and the ideal.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We have much that is obvious and elementary, and see Mr. Clausen
  frequently retiring behind the sheltering authority of Reynolds or
  Millet or Leonardo.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 699. D. 1. 650w.

     + + =Int. Studio.= 30: 279. Ja. ’07. 60w.

  “Mr. Clausen is in fact an avowed disciple of Reynolds’s teaching. He
  finds in the famous ‘Discourses’ matter of pregnant interest and help
  for the student of to-day; and it is no small compliment to his own
  lectures that they recall, in their sanity and stimulating power, no
  less than in their clear and temperate style, their great example.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 368. N. 2, ’06. 1230w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 158. Mr. 16, ’07. 220w.

  “He has hardly mastered Reynolds’ critical position. His method is
  simply to juxtapose the old and new in happy oblivion of their mutual
  exclusions. He has the artist’s lucky knack of seeing only what he
  wants to see, and the practical man’s gift of holding contradictory
  opinions. If Mr. Clausen brings us but a little way towards the
  solution of the problems which he raises, he has at least produced a
  modest and charming little book.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 84. Ja. 19, ’07. 1100w.

  “The views expressed here are sound and the thought is clear. There
  seems to be little wanting that is possessed by the literary critic,
  while there is much that only the painter can know.”

     + + =Spec.= 97: 257. F. 16, ’07. 1370w.


=Clausen, George.= Six lectures on painting, delivered to the students
of the Royal academy of arts in London. (London lib.) *$1.50. Dutton.

  The six lectures include the following: Some early painters; On
  lighting and arrangement; On colour; Titian, Velasquez, and Rembrandt;
  On landscape and open-air painting; On realism and impressionism.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Should be put into the hands of every young student.”

     + + =Int. Studio.= 30: 279. Ja. ’07. 60w.

  “We applaud Prof. Clausen for appealing straight to the
  unself-conscious common sense of his audience, and for not wasting
  time in pedantry.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 158. Mr. 16, ’07. 220w.


=Clay, Albert Tobias.= Light on the Old Testament from Babel. $2. S. S.
times co.

                                                                 7–4784.

  “A résumé of the material in the Assyro-Babylonian inscriptions which
  bears upon the interpretation and understanding of the Hebrew
  Scriptures. There is much material included on Babylonian life and
  civilization not to be found in other works of this kind.”—Bib. World.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This is a valuable addition from a conservative standpoint to the
  abundant literature on this subject.”

     + + =Bib. World.= 29: 319. Ap. ’07. 50w.

  “The work is so treated that it scarcely at all duplicates the works
  previously published.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 444. F. 21, ’07. 200w.

  “The text displays a vicious tendency to minimize the changes of
  opinion in the field of Hebrew history and religion made necessary by
  recent discoveries, and to gloss over the similarities and magnify the
  differences between Babylonian conceptions and those of the Biblical
  narrative.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 185. Ag. 29, ’07. 190w.

       + =Outlook.= 86: 569. Je. 13, ’07. 160w.


=Clegg, Thomas Bailey.= Wilderness. †$1.50. Lane.

  “This is a story of a great wrong, a bitter hatred, and retribution
  complete and merciless enough to satisfy the most remorseless seeker
  after justice.... The scene is laid in Australia, a country which Mr.
  Clegg has evidently studied to some purpose; the characters are
  primitive men with primitive passions.”—Acad.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Clegg writes well.”

       + =Acad.= 71: 374. O. 13, ’06. 130w.

  “Its fault is that it is too rich in themes, with the result that no
  one of them is adequately worked out.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 578. N. 10. 270w.

  “A thoroughly interesting and unconventional piece of work, vigorous
  with the spirit of a land still in its youth, so far as the over
  refinements of civilization go; and depicting persons and scenes far
  enough out of the ordinary to prove uncommonly attractive to the jaded
  reader of stories.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 896. D. 22, ’06. 1510w.


=Cleghorn, Sarah N.= Turnpike lady: a tale of Beartown, Vermont,
1768–1796. †$1.25. Holt.

                                                                7–30831.

  A story literally steeped in the atmosphere of “little nothingnesses”
  that make up the life of a family in a Vermont hamlet at the beginning
  of the revolution. It’s “an old-time American idyl with the spirit of
  locality strong upon it.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “One recognizes an uncommonly successful writing-down of many of its
  present-day idiosyncrasies. For the rest, the story is quite
  inoffensive, told in a rambling, artless, unpracticed fashion, that
  almost makes one question whether it were not intended as a juvenile.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 240w.

  “A pretty story.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 681. O. 26, ’07. 110w.

  “One feels that the author has real sympathy with her subject and
  characters, and that, despite her abrupt and disjointed manner of
  telling the tale, it is really worth having.”

     + − =Outlook.= 87: 497. N. 2, ’07. 70w.


=Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.).= Christian science.
$1.75. Harper.

                                                                 7–6631.

  Mark Twain’s viewpoint is an objective one, humorously critical and
  one which characterizes the Christian science faith in the light of a
  reversal of the very things which to its followers are possible. He
  counts Christian science among the religions of the insane, and
  considers Mrs. Eddy in the light of a self-deified mental despot,
  which picture is drawn from the author’s interpretation of her acts
  and words.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He does his work coolly and impartially. ‘Christian science’ in the
  United States and elsewhere will find the present work offensive, and
  regard some portions of the humor which pervades it as little short of
  blasphemy.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 466. Ap. 20. 2140w.

     + − =Cath. World.= 86: 244. N. ’07. 760w.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 321. Mr. ’07. 2620w.

  “Adds nothing to the fame of the author.”

       − =Dial.= 42: 190. Mr. 16, ’07. 140w.

  “It certainly is extremely funny—in spots.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 1238. N. 21, ’07. 40w.

         =Lit. D.= 34: 255. F. 16, ’07. 1250w.

  “Mark Twain does not attempt a serious examination of the doctrines of
  Christian science; probably he thinks it would be useless.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 108. Ap. 5, ’07. 1450w.

  “The book is without beginning, middle, or end; it is extremely
  repetitious. It cannot be regarded as either a serious or a humorous
  contribution to the discussion.”

       − =Nation.= 84: 154. F. 14, ’07. 200w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.

  “From beginning to end Mr. Twain misunderstands where he does not
  misstate the beliefs of Christian scientists.” Charles Klein.

     − − =No. Am.= 184: 637. Mr. 15, ’07. 2190w.

  “His book is much more than a garland of humor. In reality it is much
  more. It is a sober, compassionate and very earnest study of a
  remarkable system, the achievement of a very gifted woman.” Charles
  Johnston.

       + =No. Am.= 184: 641. Mr. 15, ’07. 1580w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 180w.

  “Altogether, this book is unfortunate. Uproarious passages in it which
  have all Mark Twain’s old drollery and delightful extravagance tell us
  that his great comic powers are unimpaired. They wait to be reapplied
  successfully.”

       − =Spec.= 98: 536. Ap. 6, ’07. 1570w.


=Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.).= Horse’s tale. †$1.
Harper.

                                                                7–34780.

  Our much loved humorist has done another kindly service to his dumb
  brothers in this story of the cavalry horse, Soldier Boy, and the
  sunny little girl who loved him and all the world. There is much
  amusing satire in the story, but beneath it there throbs a great
  hearted kin-feeling for the animals who serve us, and there is a plea
  for true recognition of this service in the tragic death of little
  Cathy who lays down her life for the horse who has once saved it.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We feel the throb of the kindest heart in the world beating for the
  helpless, whether brute or human, in this book, as in its long line of
  predecessors.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 1377. D. 5, ’07. 170w.

  “The tale will interest both children and grown-ups.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 90w.

  “A short story in a rare vein of the author. Tenderness and swift,
  unexpected pathos make it notable.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 40w.

  “Combining some of the best flavor of Mark Twain’s peculiar humor with
  sentiment borrowed partly from standard nursery literature and partly
  from the tracts of the Society for the prevention of cruelty to
  animals.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 742. N. 23, ’07. 230w.


=Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.).= King Leopold’s
soliloquy: a defense of his Congo rule. 25c. P. R. Warren co., Boston.

                                                                5–32801.

  With the intention of aiding Congo reform, Mark Twain arraigns
  humorously, but none the less scathingly, the shortcomings of King
  Leopold in his dominion over the Congo State.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The great humorist never wielded his pen more pointedly in behalf of
  honesty and humanity.”

       + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 198. Ja. ’06. 60w.

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 664. Je. 1. 50w.

  “While we are wholly in sympathy with Mark Twain’s purpose, we cannot
  approve of his method. The man so soliloquising would not say the
  things which the king is made to say, would not quote long passages
  which are, in fact, evidence against himself of the most damnatory
  kind. It is not a case, we think, in which fiction can be legitimately
  used, and as a matter of fact, it is not used with any great subtlety
  or art.”

     − + =Spec.= 98: 947. Je. 15, ’07. 270w.


=Clements, Frederic Edward.= Plant physiology and ecology. *$2. Holt.

                                                                7–25525.

  A book intended for use with classes in second-year botany in college
  and university. In fifteen chapters the author treats of stimulus and
  response, the water of the habitat, adjustment to water, to light, to
  temperature, and to gravity, adaptation to water and to light, the
  origin of new forms, methods of studying vegetation; the plant
  formation, aggregation and migration, competition and ecesis, invasion
  and succession, alteration and zanation. The illustrations, consisting
  of photographs and line cuts, are many and good.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Dr. Clements set himself a very difficult task, perhaps an impossible
  one, if we do not mistake the trend of recent study. That must be
  allowed for. Our main criticism, however, is not upon the choice of
  material for a brief treatise; it is against the attitude of mind that
  can tolerate vague explanations and invalid reasoning, and against a
  treatment of fundamental topics which is ineffective and not in accord
  with present knowledge.” C. R. B.

       − =Bot. Gaz.= 44: 307. O. ’07. 970w.

  “The author writes in a peculiarly lucid and interesting way.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 257. S. 19, ’07. 150w.

  “Constitutes a notable addition to the literature of botany in
  America.” Charles E. Bessey.

     + + =Science=, n.s. 26: 440. O. 4, ’07. 620w.


=Clerici, Graziano Paolo.= Queen of indiscretions: tragedy of Caroline
of Brunswick, queen of England; tr. by Frederic Chapman. *$7. Lane.

                                                                7–19766.

  The unpleasant story of Queen Caroline, the much disliked wife of
  George IV. is given in detail in this volume. “To speak of her in the
  words of the romantic and attractive title of this book as ‘a queen of
  indiscretions’ is to put her case very leniently indeed. Knowing that
  scandalmongers were constantly busy with her name, she deliberately
  did whatever a mind remarkably fertile in expedients could devise to
  make herself talked about the more. Finally she left England and spent
  six years trailing her little court ... all over Europe and even into
  Asia. Much of this time she spent in Italy. And it is to the records
  of her stay in that country that Signor Clerici has especially devoted
  himself in the preparation of this book.... The illustrations are
  numerous and interesting.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Caroline’s life was an astounding romance, and though it is a little
  clouded in the sumptuous volume before us by sentiment and pathos
  which are not needed, the account is ably given. The numerous
  illustrations, which are admirably reproduced from contemporary
  portraits and prints, would alone make the book of interest and
  value.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 55. Ja. 19, ’07. 850w.

  “It cannot be said that any addition of importance has been made to
  history. The book will doubtless have its public, and is laudably free
  from errors, unless we count as such the statement that Brougham was
  ever the ‘leader’ of the Whig party.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 728. D. 8. 1950w.

  “The index, by the way, is evidently not the work of an expert. There
  is a lack, too, throughout the narrative, of definite acknowledgment
  of sources.”

     − + =Dial.= 42: 147. Mr. 1, ’07. 300w.

  “It has two great merits—really new material and a seriously
  historical mind. He himself has brought to his task immense pains,
  lucidity, and an impartiality of mind which does not prevent a
  definite view from emerging.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 10. Ja. 11, ’07. 870w.

  “The book has for its chief attractions a series of illustrations, of
  which several are of interest, and some new, if not very important
  evidence as to Caroline’s doings in Italy.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 105. Ja. 31, ’07. 140w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 76. F. 3, ’07. 560w.

  “Mr. Chapman has produced a very readable version of the original, but
  he ought not to have allowed ‘Huskisson’ to have been spelt
  ‘Hutchinson.’ Nor can we speak in warm terms of his introduction,
  which is largely made up of copious extracts from the Malmesbury
  diaries and Lady Charlotte Bury, together with much gossip that had
  better have been omitted. Some of the illustrations are exceedingly
  curious, and the book altogether is worthy of a better subject.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: sup. 118. Ja. 26, ’07. 340w.


=Cleveland, (Stephen) Grover.= Fishing and shooting sketches; il. by H:
S. Watson. *$1.25. Outing pub.

                                                                6–35962.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The sentences are sometimes long and involved and do not make what is
  called ‘easy reading.’”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 40. F. ’07.

  “Short and unpretentious chapters, written as they are in a humane and
  enlightened spirit, with an occasional touch of humor in its specific
  sense, and a delightful prevalence of good humor throughout.”

     + + =Dial.= 42: 189. Mr. 16, ’07. 190w.

         =Ind.= 62: 739. Mr. 28, ’07. 90w.

  “This is perhaps the nearest approach the public will ever make toward
  seeing an autobiography by Mr. Cleveland.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 34: 263. F. 16, ’07. 80w.

  “His little book is full of sound, homely philosophy and quaint
  humor.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 64. F. 2, ’07. 220w.


=Clouston, Thomas Smith.= Hygiene of mind. *$2.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–29074.

  “A convenient and sensible handbook, setting forth the doctrines of
  sound health of mind.... The nature of brain action, its dependence
  upon the muscular, nutritive, and supporting systems, the changes of
  state in the several ages of man, the momentous doctrines of heredity,
  the special liabilities of the periods of life, the questions of diet
  and exercise, the reflex influences of good cheer and
  healthy-mindedness—all these are plainly handled.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is a readable and practical contribution to its topic. It
  reflects a clinical interest in the workings of the mind, but lacks
  the insight into the underlying psychological relations that might
  well sharpen the contours and add interest to the details of the
  _ensemble_.”

     + − =Dial.= 42: 291. My. 1, ’07. 180w.

  “His treatment of the management of instincts is particularly good,
  and is supremely sane.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 858. Ap. 11, ’07. 180w.

  “The greater portion of the volume escapes from the difficulties
  incidental to conflict between physics and metaphysics, and is devoted
  to giving good advice concerning the physical, moral, and intellectual
  training of the young. In this part of his task Dr. Clouston, although
  seldom original, is always sensible and instructive.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 383. D. 16, ’06. 910w.

  “A book that parents and others will find helpful in its
  suggestiveness rather than in definite directions or explicit advice.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 105. Ag. 1, ’07. 270w.

  “It is sensibly written and backed by a wide experience of the matters
  in hand. A good deal of the author’s advice is stated somewhat too
  generally to be easily convertible into terms of practice, but the
  burden of his theme is clear enough.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 102: 778. D. 22, ’06. 340w.

  “His materials are ample, betray wide experience, and on the whole are
  thoughtfully and wisely utilised.”

       + =Spec.= 97: sup. 763. N. 17, ’06. 390w.


=Cody, Sherwin.= Success in letter-writing, business and social. **75c.
McClurg.

                                                                6–24040.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 66. Mr. ’07. S.


=Colby, June Rose.= Literature and life in school. *$1.25. Houghton.

                                                                6–41522.

  Concerned with the needs of elementary schools this book “aims to show
  that literature should be made a vital part of school life—not merely
  in the formal instruction, but in many incidental ways and in a
  spontaneous rather than a conventional fashion.... An appendix gives
  in condensed form suggestions for class and outside reading.”
  (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Dial.= 42: 233. Ap. 1, ’07. 50w.

  “The book is well worth reading, not merely by teachers, but by all
  who have an interest in the development of the child mind and in the
  advance of good taste and right standards in literary study.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 94. Ja. 12, ’07. 100w.

  “The style confuses one as to the usefulness of the book. It is a
  literary style, whereas it ought to be a scientific style. This gives
  it a vague and indirect air, where one has a right to expect
  directness and authority.” Porter Lander MacClintock.

       − =School R.= 15: 400. My. ’07. 460w.


* =Cole, Timothy.= Old Spanish masters engraved by Timothy Cole, with
historical notes by Charles H. Caffin and comments by the engraver.
**$6. Century.

                                                                7–32152.

  This work continues the series of reproductions of paintings by old
  masters including Old Italian masters, Old Dutch and Flemish masters,
  and Old English masters. The enduring value of Mr. Cole’s engravings
  has been faithfully imparted to these reproductions while the text
  furnishes an interesting story of Spanish art. “Starting at the moment
  when Italian art was entering upon the superb achievements of the high
  renaissance, it survived the latter’s decay, reached its own
  independent climax in the seventeenth century, and received a
  supplementary chapter at the end of the eighteenth. As a connected
  narrative it may be said to have begun with the birth of a United
  States in 1492.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The thirty-one examples of his work contained add fresh lustre to his
  fame. Though not all of equal excellence, they are as beautiful
  artistically as anything he has previously done, and some of them are
  quite unsurpassed. Mr. Cole’s skill with the graver shows no sign of
  diminution. His line is still as marvellously varied, as virile and
  sympathetically expressive, as ever.” Frederick W. Gookin.

     + + =Dial.= 43: 370. D. 1, ’07. 1050w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 80w.

  “Mr. Cole’s illustrations of [Velasquez, Ribera, and Zurburan] ... are
  too suave, but he has certainly done the world of art a service in his
  other reproductions.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 87: 614. N. 23, ’07. 340w.


=Coleridge, Mary E.= Lady on the drawingroom floor. $1.50. Longmans.

                                                                7–35195.

  “A dreamy prose idyl; the scene, that most unromantic spot, a London
  lodginghouse; the persons, a middle-aged spinster and an elderly
  bachelor. Yet with these unpromising materials the author succeeds in
  awakening sympathetic attention. The pleasant mystification running
  through these pages will not bear too close analysis; nor do we feel
  inclined to put it to such a test. Lucilla is the name of the heroine.
  She is as agreeable as her name, and lives in an atmosphere of
  flowers, music, and firelight, with pets as ill-assorted as a
  tortoise, a cat, and a parrot.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Interesting, not for its plot, but for the character sketches and
  conversation and the originality of the two main characters. Unusually
  well written.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 107. Ap. ’07.

  “The dreamy and half-mystical charm characteristic of the author is
  stamped on every detail of the story, imparting to it an individuality
  and persuasiveness of its own.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 730. D. 8. 120w.

  “Hers is the method, rare, indeed, among English writers of fiction,
  which constructs without letting the reader see the processes of
  construction. There is such comedy or tragedy or fantasy on every page
  that the reader soon feels that to skip even a single sentence is to
  run the risk of missing something essential to the general effect, and
  at once to defraud himself and to do injustice to the writer and there
  is something of the fineness of thought which is rarely absent from
  good work.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 352. O. 19, ’06. 590w.

  “This is a frankly sentimental book, without being at all mawkish.
  There are no laughs to be gained from it, but many comfortable smiles.
  The author’s style has grace and distinction.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 904. D. 29, ’06. 130w.

  “It is very well done but was it worth doing?”

     + − =Sat. R.= 102: 553. N. 3, ’06. 170w.

  “A volume in which the delicate simplicity of the style is happily
  attuned to the gracious distinction of the author’s thought.”

       + =Spec.= 97: 684. N. 3, ’06. 1070w.


=Colestock, Henry Thomas.= Ministry of David Baldwin. †$1.50. Crowell.

                                                                7–10047.

  David Baldwin, a young minister, just out of the divinity school,
  receives a call to a conservative pulpit in a Minnesota town, one
  condition being stipulated, viz., that he shall take with him a wife.
  He fulfills the letter of the call, and enters upon a mission full of
  stress and opposition. The pillars of his church denounce his ideas on
  the inspiration of the Bible, evolution and the higher criticism as
  unsound. How he holds to his principles and wins out in the conflict
  furnishes an interesting solution to a present day problem.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Acad.= 72: 368. Ap. 13, ’07. 180w.

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 509. Mr. 30, ’07. 240w.

  “The author designates his book a novel, but he would be better
  justified in calling it a novel once or twice removed.”

       − =Nation.= 84: 341. Ap. 11, ’07. 290w.

  “The author, having arranged his pieces and set his problems, having
  made sundry moves as if he were going to play the game according to
  the rules, finally falls back on an act of God for his solution, which
  leaves the whole business where it began.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 139. Mr. 9, ’07. 570w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 180w.

  “While there are many homely scenes sufficiently true to life in this
  tale ... it lacks grace, and fails to awaken complete sympathy for the
  somewhat ordinary young preacher.”

   − − + =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 110w.


=Collings, Jesse.= Land reform, occupying ownership, peasant
proprietary, and rural education. *$4.20. Longmans.

                                                                 7–2568.

  This volume by “the well-known supporter of Mr. Chamberlain and
  president of the Rural laborers’ league ... opens with a discussion of
  the principles of the purchase of land bills, introduced into the
  house of commons by the author two years ago. Next follow seven
  excellent chapters containing a fairly full history of the origin and
  growth of the present English land system, and particularly of the
  gradual disappearance of peasant proprietorship. Lastly, a third
  division of nine chapters sets forth the arguments for and against the
  various proposals which have been made for the revival of British
  agriculture and the encouragement of small holdings.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Jesse Collings will carry a larger public with him in his attempt
  to supply material for a history of the land question, from the point
  of view of the occupying owner, than he will in his definite
  proposals.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 128. Ag. 4. 660w.

  “Valuable and instructive work.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 5: 270. Ag. 3, ’06. 1420w.

  “A book of which certain parts are extremely interesting, though they
  appear in somewhat confused array.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 176. F. 21, ’07. 240w.

  “Those who are interested in the problem of English land tenure,
  whether they agree with Mr. Collings in his main contention or not,
  will find his book instructive; those who are interested in rural
  education will find it suggestive, and all who are interested in
  social and economic problems should find it worth reading.” Henry C.
  Taylor.

       + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 351. Je. ’07. 860w.

         =Sat. R.= 102: 808. D. 29, ’06. 1050w.

  “Ought to have been wholly authoritative, and yet throughout must be
  read with caution.”

     + − =Spec.= 97: 682. N. 3, ’06. 730w.


=Collins, Thomas Byard.= New agriculture. $2. Munn.

                                                                6–40570.

  “A popular outline of the changes which are revolutionizing the
  methods of farming and the habits of farm life. The writer maintains
  that farm life was never so attractive as it is today, although he
  admits that present methods of production and distribution outside the
  farm leave much to be desired.”—R. of Rs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is a treatise rather than an experience and savors
  considerably of poetry as well as of business, and he makes some
  mistakes. It will be of use, however, to anyone who wishes to easily
  inform himself of recent progress in agriculture or cheer that
  ever-increasing hope that lies in urban hearts and makes men think of
  a farm home.” J. Russell Smith.

     + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 424. Mr. ’07. 360w.

  “An interesting volume.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 510. Ap. ’07. 120w.


=Collyer, Robert.= Father Taylor. *80c. Am. Unitar.

                                                                6–42972.

  Father Taylor lived and preached the principles of universal
  brotherhood. “An untutored son of nature, rugged of build, endowed
  with keen power of wit and repartee, scathing in his rebuke of
  everything low or mean, a father to his homeless sailor ‘boys,’ frank,
  generous, outspoken, fearless, owning no man his master in thought or
  action, lovable always, with an emotional nature generous in all its
  impulses, set aflame in the cause of those to whom he devoted his
  life, who made use of his Seamen’s Bethel in the port of Boston.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In his ‘Father Taylor’ Robert Collyer is at his best.” Robert E.
  Bisbee.

     + + =Arena.= 37: 111. Ja. ’07. 300w.


=Colquhoun, Archibald Ross, and Colquhoun, Ethel Maud.= Whirlpool of
Europe, Austria-Hungary and the Habsburgs; with maps, diag. and il.
**$3.50. Dodd.

                                                                7–10613.

  “Not merely a travel book, nor yet one purely geographical or
  political, but a combination of the two.” (R. of Rs.) “In this
  ‘Whirlpool of Europe’ may be studied the eddying currents of five or
  six different races, religions, and national ambitions. Every phase of
  European civilization, every question, racial political, or social,
  that has agitated Europe in the last two centuries may be here
  studied.” (Lit. D.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is the more important because of the scarcity of material on
  Austria available at the present time.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 161. O. ’07. S.

  “The value of the book—and it is great—does not consist in reply to
  the questions which the reader will put, but in the fact that a vast
  mass of material helping him to construct answers for himself is to be
  found in the pages of Mr. and Mrs. Colquhoun.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 320. Mr. 16. 350w.

  “The book is highly interesting to all who wish information about the
  problems of the dual monarchy. The shortcomings of the book are in the
  conclusions and the observations of the near past and the present-day
  life. The intimate knowledge which cannot be taken from books, but
  which can be obtained only by an extended sojourn in the country, is
  often lacking, and in its place there are categoric statements not
  always reliable.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 40. Jl. 4, ’07. 720w.

  “As regards political personages and living issues, such as
  Pan-Germanism, Pan-Slavism, etc. the volume is instructive and
  interesting. Very interesting also is the authoritative account of the
  emperor’s personality.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 723. My. 4, ’07. 280w.

  “Mr. Colquhoun’s book appears to us to suffer to some extent from the
  attempt to cover too much ground; and we believe that it would have
  been more useful if he had devoted rather more space to the history of
  the last forty years and rather less to that of the Middle Ages.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 89. Mr. 22, ’07. 1430w.

  “It is pleasant to lay hands on a serious study of an interesting
  problem by writers who can bring to the task the essential historical
  perspective and a capacity for making the event of the day relate to
  what came before it.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 146. Ag. 15, ’07. 940w.

  “As they have immeasurably accomplished their object, they are fairly
  entitled to a vote of thanks, even if they have failed to make their
  narrative quite as interesting as the picturesqueness of the material
  might persuade one to hope it might be.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 293. My. 4, ’07. 970w.

  “A distinct contribution of value to political literature.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 613. Jl. 20, ’07. 190w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 636. My. ’07. 120w.

  “The chief weakness in the book lies in the want of arrangement, and
  an unfortunate tendency to go off at a tangent at any moment. Contains
  the makings of an excellent book on Austria-Hungary, but a great deal
  of revision and further study is necessary.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: 832. My. 25, ’07. 2000w.


* =Colton, Arthur Willis.= Harps hung up in Babylon. **$1.25. Holt.

                                                                7–30424.

  A lyrical offering whose verse rings on, sings on as do the loosened
  strings of his “harp of Babylon.” “Brief, happily-fashioned records of
  a mood, such as ‘Let me no more a mendicant’ or ‘To-morrow,’ show his
  characteristic touch, but the ‘Canticle of the road’ is perhaps more
  delightful, with its marching measure and breath of ozone. Mr.
  Colton’s work does not interpret a wide range of experience nor
  formulate a philosophy, though the Eastern morality poems are
  thoughtful and true in ethics, but it has a touch of its own and a
  charm of personality.” (Putnam’s.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He did well, however, to associate his collection with the name and
  the charm of its opening lyric, for here is as lovely a bit of melody
  as one will find in recent poetry.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

       + =Putnam’s.= 3: 366. D. ’07. 240w.


=Colvin, Sir Auckland.= Making of modern Egypt. 3d ed. *$4. Dutton.

                                                                6–24922.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “A well-written digest of official reports, skillfully edited by a
  ‘Financial adviser’ who had a fair share in the ‘making.’”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 98. Ja. 10, ’07. 810w.


=Commander, Lydia Kingsmill.= American idea. $1.50. Barnes.

                                                                 7–7168.

  “In which the following question is considered: “Does the
  determination of the American people to establish a small family point
  to race suicide or race development?” The author discusses the
  question from first hand observation, search and interview and
  concludes that unless there is a social adjustment of industrial and
  social conditions, race suicide is inevitable.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A volume in which one of the gravest questions of the hour is treated
  in a most entertaining yet deeply thoughtful and wisely suggestive
  manner.”

     + + =Arena.= 38: 212. Ag. ’07. 800w.

         =Ind.= 62: 562. Mr. 7, ’07. 200w.

  “The discussion bears none of the dogmatic traits which usually
  characterize subjects of this nature; it is conducted in a fair and
  dispassionate manner.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 677. Ap. 27, ’07. 390w.

  “Is valuable chiefly for the large amount of first-hand testimony it
  contains touching the causes of our falling birthrate.” Edward
  Alsworth Ross.

       + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 544. S. ’07. 310w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 638. My. ’07. 90w.


=Commons, John Rogers.= Proportional representation. 2d ed.; with
chapters on the initiative, the referendum, and primary elections.
**$1.25. Macmillan.

                                                                7–21300.

  The main portion of the work remains unchanged; in addition to it are
  several appendices, embracing articles written by the author since
  1896, and dealing with the system of direct primary election, the
  initiative and referendum—“measures designed to make popular
  government in very reality government by the people, through enabling
  the people on the one hand to propose and on the other to veto
  legislation.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 442. Jl. ’07. 130w.

       + =Nation.= 85: 254. S. 19, ’07. 180w.

  “Certain statistical information might advantageously have been
  brought closer to date. We observe, also, a few tabular errors that
  should have been corrected.”

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 835. Ag. 17, ’07. 370w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 511. O. ’07. 110w.


=Commons, John Rogers.= Races and immigrants in America. **$1.50.
Macmillan.

                                                                7–17894.

  “Prof. Commons believes that the dominant factor in American life,
  underlying all our political, legal, economic, ecclesiastical, and
  moral problems, is the conflict and assimilation of races. He has
  shown how the heterogenous elements that go to make up the American
  people have influenced our institutions, pointing out the
  characteristics of the various races and nationalities, their part in
  self-government, their effect on wealth and its distribution, the
  forces of Americanization, and the barriers against inundation.”—N. Y.
  Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A popular study with scientific basis.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 162. O. ’07. S.

  “The work is scientific as to method and popular in style, and forms a
  very useful handbook about the American population.”

     + + =Dial.= 43: 122. S. 1, ’07. 340w.

  “Well fortified throughout by statistics, and evidencing a wide range
  of observation, the great merit of the volume is its sensibleness.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 229. S. 12, ’07. 340w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 300. My. 11, ’07. 100w.

  “Prof. Commons has managed to set forth an immense amount of condensed
  information about these many-colored threads that have gone into the
  weaving of our Joseph’s coat and has found room also to discuss, with
  a remarkable breadth of view and an unusual amount of common sense,
  the causes of immigration, the instruments of assimilation, and the
  effect of the new conditions upon the immigrants.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 427. Jl. 6, ’07. 240w.

  “Professor Commons has used the last census to good advantage, and
  gives much interesting information as to the constituent elements of
  this heterogeneous population, and also regarding the continuous
  displacing of one group by another with a lower standard of life.” G.
  Louis Beer.

       + =Putnam’s.= 2: 742. S. ’07. 410w.

  “We do not recall another book of its size that presents so much
  important and essential information on this vital topic.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 35: 758. Je. ’07. 170w.


=Commons, John Rogers=, ed. Trade unionism and labor problems. *$2.50.
Ginn.

                                                                5–34201.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  Reviewed by W. B. Guthrie.

       + =Charities.= 17: 470. D. 15, ’06. 370w.


=Compayre, (Jules) Gabriel.= Pioneers in education; tr. by M. E.
Findlay, J. E. Mansion, R. P. Jago and Mary D. Frost. 6v. ea. **90c.
Crowell.

                                                          7–32037–32041.

  A series of six studies on the rise and growth of popular education as
  shown in the efforts of the following pioneer educators: J. J.
  Rousseau and education by nature; Herbert Spencer and scientific
  education; Pestalozzi and elementary education; Herbart and education
  by instruction; Montaigne and education of the judgment, and Horace
  Mann and the public-school system of the United States.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “M. Compayré possesses keen insight into the significance of the
  educational leaders and their contributions to educational thought,
  and both his critical and expository writing about them are most
  excellent.”

       + =Educ. R.= 34: 536. D. ’07. 70w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 737. N. 16, ’07. 420w.

         =R. of Rs.= 36: 636. N. ’07. 140w.


=Comstock, Anna Botsford (Mrs. J: H: Comstock) (Marian Lee, pseud.).=
Confessions to a heathen idol; il. from photographs, by Fred Robinson.
†$1.50. Doubleday.

                                                                6–36878.

  An irresponsive confidant in the form of an ugly little teak-wood idol
  hears the nightly heart-confessions of a woman of forty. Even thru her
  puzzled wonderings there is the wholesome sanity of a well-poised
  woman who says, “life with all its blisses and sorrows, its ecstasies
  and commonplaces, is mightily worth while to us mortals, because, good
  or bad, it is ever and always so surprisingly interesting.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A refreshingly unusual and whimsical book.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

       + =Bookm.= 24: 589. F. ’07. 550w.

  “The book has in it much to please and interest besides its rather
  thin little story. It is written with a refinement of taste and a
  distinction of manner that are to be found all too rarely in American
  fiction. But it lacks vital connection with life. It is pleasing,
  interesting, refined, but purely academic.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 703. O. 27, ’06. 350w.

  “It is, in fact, a very good mechanism for telling a love story.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 811. D. 1, ’06. 160w.


=Comstock, Harriet T.= Meg and the others. †75c. Crowell.

                                                                6–25997.

  “Seldom have we read a sweeter or more natural and wholesome tale for
  little folks of from six to ten years of age than this charming
  story.”

     + + =Arena.= 37: 222. F. ’07. 160w.


=Conant, Charles Arthur.= Principles of money and banking. 2v. *$4.
Harper.

                                                                5–36153.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “It is a work that marks an epoch and it is a work to influence that
  epoch—would that it might have that careful reading and study that it
  deserves, for the result would be a better America, because a more
  intelligent one!” E. S. Crandon.

     + + =New England M.= 35: 591. Ja. ’07. 2350w.


=Connolly, James Bennet.= Crested seas. †$1.50. Scribner.

                                                                7–30867.

  A new volume of sea stories is added to Mr. Connolly’s other three.
  “Many of the old characters of his previous books appear in new rôles
  and scenes; Martin Carr, the good-natured veteran; Tommie Clancy, the
  reckless sail carrier; Dan Coleman, the soft-hearted skipper, and such
  familiar hands as Peter Kane, Sam Leary and Eddie Foy. To a farmer who
  has never seen the ocean these stories would be full of interest, but
  to one who knows a seine-heaver from a bite-passer, who realizes what
  it is to carry full sail when the water stands to the helmsman’s
  waist, and has himself heard the rattle of reef points on a tauted
  sail and the groaning of riggings under a press of canvas, these tales
  of the sea weave a spell that is difficult to throw off for some
  time.” (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 200. N. ’07. ✠

  “The romance of a sailor’s life is not a new theme, but Connolly has
  lived and talked with these rough men of the banks, and has discovered
  the softer, sweeter side of their lives.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 944. O. 17, ’07. 310w.

  “That the author possesses a real, if not too versatile, narrative
  gift is undeniable.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 353. O. 17, ’07. 420w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

  “Mr. Connolly appears to understand the psychological make-up of
  sea-faring men, and he is hypercritical who would ask too many
  questions of a tale teller who always spins a good yarn and frequently
  one that has in it the elements of permanent value.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 683. O. 26, ’07. 470w.

  “Has the spirited style that befits the sea tale of danger, romance
  and adventure.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 624. N. 23, ’07. 100w.


=Connor, Ralph, pseud.= The Doctor; a tale of the Rockies. †$1.50.
Revell.

                                                                6–41274.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “A rather conventional tale, but will be very popular with readers of
  earlier stories by the same author. Like them, it has a strong
  religious bias.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 16. Ja. ’07. ✠

  “A worthy successor of the ‘Sky-pilot.’”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 10. Ja. 5. 360w.

  “But out of the total impression left on me by this story two facts
  emerge which seem to have significance of the right sort. One of these
  is the religious tone that pervades the book. The other significant
  fact is what I am compelled to call the immorality of portions of the
  book.” Ward Clark.

     + − =Bookm.= 24: 597. F. ’07. 890w.

  “Is written in his usual stringent style and abounds in thrilling
  situations.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 737. Mr. 28, ’07. 100w.

  “A narrative that throbs with human interest.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 34: 25. Ja. 5, ’07. 270w.

  “Yet there is an artistic weakness, and it lies in the reiterated
  appeal to the reader’s finest sentiment.”

     + − =Outlook.= 84: 1081. D. 29, ’06. 150w.

  “The plot is a little involved and intricate, and therefore not easy
  to follow, and the character drawing is not very strongly marked.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: 94. Ja. 19, ’07. 170w.


=Conrad, Joseph (Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski).= Mirror of the sea.
†$1.50. Harper.

                                                                6–37221.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “In a manner Mr. Conrad’s book marks an epoch, since it is written in
  praise of ships, by a man who has sailed them, whose style and shapes
  shall be sailed no more.”

       + =Sat. R.= 102: 777. D. 22, ’06. 760w.


=Conrad, Joseph.= Secret agent. †$1.50. Harper.

                                                                7–29428.

  A skilfully written story which looks into the lives of anarchists and
  the machinery of their organization. It tells of a secret agent in the
  employ of the Russian embassy in London, and of his relations with his
  employers, with anarchists, with an inspector of police, and with the
  sluggish members of his own family.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a masterly study, the raw material of which would have been
  turned into crude melodrama by some writers. Mr. Conrad has made it
  the vehicle for some of the most telling characterization he has
  accomplished.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 361. S. 28. 630w.

  “We approach Mr. Conrad’s ‘The secret agent’ with anticipations that
  are not fulfilled.” Wm. M. Payne.

     − + =Dial.= 43: 252. O. 16, ’07. 200w.

  “We do not consider ‘The secret agent’ Mr. Conrad’s masterpiece; it
  lacks the free movement of ‘Youth’ and the terrible minuteness of
  ‘Lord Jim,’ while it offers no scope for the employment of the tender
  and warm fancy that made ‘Karain’ so memorable; but it is, we think,
  an advance upon ‘Nostromo,’ its immediate predecessor.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 285. S. 20, ’07. 440w.

  “The characters stand forth clearly enough, but you cannot get
  interested in them till you have gone through the first half of the
  volume. This is too heavy a draft on the faith of the reader.”

     − + =Nation.= 85: 285. S. 26, ’07. 250w.

  “There is, nevertheless, a vast gulf fixed between Mr. Conrad and the
  melodramatist, between the human tragedy of ‘The secret agent’ and the
  detective story of commerce.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 562. S. 21, ’07. 1230w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

  “The book will not compare favorably in narrative and descriptive
  ability with some of Mr. Conrad’s early work, but it has, in its
  strange way, notable tragic intensity.”

     + − =Outlook.= 87: 309. O. 12, ’07. 130w.

  “In an Idle Reader’s opinion he is the best man at present telling
  stories.”

     + + =Putnam’s.= 3: 370. D. ’07. 90w.

  “There are certain obvious blemishes in this book.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: 400. S. 21, ’07. 1690w.


* =Conway, Katherine Eleanor.= In the footprints of the Good Shepherd,
New York, 1857–1907; from the Convent annals and from personal study of
the work. $1.25. Convent of the Good Shepherd. N. Y.

                                                                7–21320.

  A memorial of the fiftieth anniversary jubilee of the Convent of the
  Good Shepherd of New York city. “Besides telling the story of the
  convent’s growth, Miss Conway gives an interesting account of the rule
  of life practiced by the Sisters, and their methods of treating their
  charges, with many touching illustrations of the divine efficacy of
  the Good Shepherd’s power.” (Cath. World.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Cath. World.= 86: 115. O. ’07. 390w.


=Conway, Moncure Daniel.= My pilgrimage to the wise men of the East.
**$3. Houghton.

                                                                6–38349.

  “This volume which forms a supplement to Mr. Conway’s autobiography,
  published last year, contains an account of his travels in India and
  recounts conversations with leading Buddhists, Brahmins, Parsees, and
  Mohammedans. The religious side of the author is thus brought into
  unusual prominence, with the result of considerably enhancing the
  interest of the volume.” (Lit. D.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 7. Ja. ’07.

  “His peculiar views upon Christianity may repel or offend some
  readers, but the kindly spirit in which he writes of all men and
  almost all creeds is attractive, and he deals in loving reverence with
  the secrets of the underlying religious life of India.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 690. D. 1. 820w.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 202. F. ’07. 2030w.

  “The work shows him in the ripeness of his powers, and in the
  enjoyment of his fearless independence as a free-thinker, but never
  playing the part of a scoffer. His perceptions have lost nothing of
  their keenness, his hand has not forgot its cunning and literary
  craftsmanship.” Percy F. Bicknell.

     + + =Dial.= 42: 8. Ja. 1, ’07. 2100w.

  “Mr. Conway ... is a seer with a vivid poetic imagination, with an
  irreverent reverence of his own, and goes through the religions of the
  Far East with little concern for anything but what appeals to his own
  sense of truth and beauty.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 43. Jl. 4, ’07. 380w.

       + =Lit. D.= 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 100w.

  “Mr. Conway’s acquaintance with Hindu literature is so very vague that
  the reader must be warned of the valuelessness of such literary
  criticism as his fertile mind offers, for in this respect ignorance is
  no bar to his daring. The one note that jars in these recollections of
  a venerable teacher is that teacher’s too evident pride in his own
  mental superiority.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 110. Ja. 31, ’07. 730w.

  “This résumé of his religious beliefs and unbeliefs will appear as
  shocking to some of his readers as it will appear illuminating to
  others. The seasoned reader and thinker will like it for its evident
  sincerity and its suggestiveness, but will not be sufficiently
  affected by it one way or another to lose any sleep on account of it.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 871. D. 15, ’06. 1340w.

  “What value his book has lies in his ability to tell a story,
  certainly not in his estimate of conditions.”

     + − =Outlook.= 85: 761. Mr. 30, ’07. 1200w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 34: 754. D. ’06. 100w.

  “Any one interested in questions of morality and religion may
  profitably read this volume, if he does not mind having his toes
  trodden, even trampled on.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: 298. F. 23, ’07. 270w.


=Conway, Sir William Martin.= No Man’s land. *$3. Putnam.

                                                                W 6–184.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “A model of painstaking research.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 316. Ap. 4, ’07. 580w.


=Conybeare, Frederick Cornwallis, and Stock, St. George.= Selections
from the Septuagint according to the text of Swete. *$1.65. Ginn.

                                                                5–36804.

  “Brief introductions and copious notes fit these easy historical
  selections from the Septuagint for use by college students. The book
  should be useful in extending the knowledge of the Old Testament in
  Greek.”—Bib. World.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is not only scholarly and clever, but also bright and attractive.”

     + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 239. S. 1. 230w.

         =Bib. World.= 27: 400. My. ’06. 30w.

  “The book is welcome as filling a gap in our list of text-books, but
  it is in some respects ... disappointing, and it may well be doubted
  whether, as the publishers claim, it is a valuable contribution to a
  better understanding of the language of the New Testament.” Clarence
  H. Young.

     − + =Educ. R.= 33: 534. My. ’07. 300w.


=Cook, Albert E.= Bright side and the other side: what India can teach
us; with introd. by J. G. Haller and W. F. Oldham. *75c. West Meth. bk.

                                                                7–13927.

  In which the fruits of Mohammedanism are discussed. The study is based
  upon a knowledge of the religion’s influence on the life and manners
  of its devotees.


=Cook, Albert S.= Higher study of English. *$1. Houghton.

                                                                6–38399.

  “The aims of the higher study of English rather than the methods is
  the purport of Prof. Cook’s recent treatise, and it addresses itself
  rather to the advanced and eager student than to the established
  teacher.” (Forum.) The book consists of four addresses, The province
  of English philology, The teaching of English, The relations of words
  to literature, and The aims of graduate study of English. “Yet the
  obvious note in all four is a general elevation of standards, both
  ethical and aesthetic, throughout the entire curriculum of English—a
  broadening and deepening of our national culture through an intensive
  appreciation of the best that has been handed down to us in
  literature.” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Does not solve any problems or reveal any startlingly new point of
  view, but it is thoughtful and readable and therefore to be
  commended.”

       + =Acad.= 72: 292. Mr. 23, ’07. 260w.

     + + =Dial.= 42: 17. Ja. 1, ’07. 460w.

  “As a presentation of an ideal the book could scarcely be surpassed.”
  William T. Brewster.

   + + − =Forum.= 38: 391. Ja. ’07. 730w.

  “His work appeals to the general reader as well as the teacher.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 10. Ja. 3, ’07. 110w.

  “The book is not only richly suggestive to teachers of English, but to
  us of the present generation it is especially interesting for its
  historical placing of our subject.” Franklin T. Baker.

       + =School R.= 15: 308. Ap. ’07. 380w.


=Cook, E. Wake.= Betterment, individual, social and industrial. **$1.20.
Stokes.

                                                                6–40953.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  Reviewed by W. B. Guthrie.

         =Charities.= 17: 499. D. 15, ’06. 220w.


=Cook, Theodore A.= Eclipse and O’Kelly. *$7. Dutton.

                                                             Agr 7–2179.

  Eclipse is a horse that has won repeated race-course honors, and
  O’Kelly is his owner. Everything is set down “that could possibly be
  found out concerning Eclipse, his ancestors, his birth and education,
  his achievements, his appearance and measurements, the fate of his
  skin and his hoofs and his skeleton, his descendants and what they in
  turn have accomplished.” (Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is a monument of thoroughness—also of energy.” G. S. Street.

       + =Acad.= 72: 601. Je. 22, ’07. 1040w.

  “We must not hunt for small inaccuracies in a big book. Let us rather
  acknowledge frankly that the compiler has put together a standard work
  of reference concerning the subject.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 122. Ag. 3. 1070w.

  “A volume, with a good deal of information that is quite new and some
  stimulating suggestions. Even the smaller sporting library can hardly
  dispense with it.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 283. S. 20, ’07. 1090w.

  “Mr. Cook has discharged his task entertainingly well, and there is
  plenty of enjoyment waiting in his pages.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 457. Jl. 20, ’07. 510w.

  “The task of attempting the visualisation of the manners and the men
  of the latter half of the eighteenth century has occupied Mr. Cook
  with enthusiasm, and the result is some admirable work. He has pursued
  figures and statistics with immense energy and thoroughness. His
  figures will doubtless prove of great value to the biologist and
  breeder; but the best part of the book has to do with the heroic horse
  and the men who saw him race.”

     + + =Spec.= 99: 130. Jl. 27, ’07. 1590w.


=Cooper, Francis, pseud.= Financing an enterprise: a manual of
information and suggestion for promoters, investors and business men
generally. 2v. $4. Ronald press, New York.

                                                                  7–485.

  “The work treats of financing an enterprise that is either merely a
  development, proposition, or that is a growing concern, or that
  demands liquidation. The importance of proper preparation and
  presentation of such an enterprise is pointed out and attention called
  to the fact that without proper presentation, it is often extremely
  difficult to finance an enterprise, while with proper presentation,
  enterprises utterly devoid of merit have frequently been financed. The
  conditions and methods of financing are lucidly stated and illustrated
  with succinct examples.”—Technical Literature.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This is a book on a subject concerning which few, if any, books have
  been written and very little published anywhere. Engineers who have to
  do with patented inventions and their commercial exploitation will
  also find much instructive and helpful matter in this treatise.”

       + =Engin. N.= 58: 534. N. 14, ’07. 680w.

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 263. F. 16, ’07. 60w.

  “The writer of this work displays an intimate knowledge of his
  subject, evidently, at least considerably, acquired through
  experience. His attitude is well balanced, and his discussions take
  both sides of the question. He appears to pay equal attention to
  advantages and disadvantages, and not to be carried to unjustifiable
  extremes in any of his discussion.”

     + + =Technical Literature.= 1: 223. My. ’07. 900w.


=Cooper, Lane=, ed. Theories of style with especial reference to prose
composition: essays, excerpts and translations. *$1.10. Macmillan.

                                                                7–27343.

  Written from a conviction that the link between substance and form,
  between knowledge and expression ought never to be broken, this volume
  includes a body of literary models, for the most part by masters of
  expression, illustrating and reiterating the salient principles of
  most good handbooks on English prose composition. The work is
  suggestive and of wide scope.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “An interesting contribution to the apparatus for the teaching of
  rhetoric.”

       + =Educ. R.= 34: 535. D. ’07. 50w.


=Corbin, John.= Cave man. il. †$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                7–14254.

  “Specifically, Mr. Corbin’s story concerns a great motor trust and a
  rivalry in love, with a pretty opening scene on class day in the yard
  at Harvard. The desired and desirable lady names one of the men (who
  is old-fashioned enough to be honest) the ‘cave-man.’ The story, which
  has many really dramatic moments, shows how love modernized this
  ‘cave-man’—how he ceased, in the old-fashioned sense, to be honest and
  acquired the new higher or financial morality. Mr. Corbin suggests
  sardonically that it’s all right—and perhaps it is.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A love-story that has depth and strength, that means more than the
  usual pretty, unconvincing obligatory romance in most of the current
  novels of this genre.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 339. Ag. 8, ’07. 220w.

  “It is a cleverly handled novel portraying a phase of genuine American
  life. Ultramodern novels of this type are apt to be disfigured by
  smartness, that sin of up-to-date fiction; and it must be said that
  ‘The cave man’ is not wholly immune from the fault. The habit of
  adopting the raw slang in vogue into the pages of a novel ought not to
  be encouraged.”

     + − =Lit. D.= 34: 723. My. 4, ’07. 180w.

     + − =Nation.= 84: 457. My. 16, ’07. 180w.

  “Piquánt, interesting and readable from first to last. The book is a
  rarely perfect example of what may be achieved when an able critic
  turns novelist at second hand.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 234. Ap. 13, ’07. 610w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 110w.

       + =Outlook.= 86: 256. Je. 1, ’07. 80w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 761. Je. ’07. 60w.


=Cornford, Francis Macdonald.= Thucydides Mythistoricus. *$3. Longmans.

  This volume contains not only “a study of the Greek historian who was
  a contemporary of Pericles ... but also a theory of history, a study
  of the historian’s art from the modern and sophisticated point of
  view.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Able and brilliant.” R. Y. Tyrrell.

     + + =Acad.= 72: 311. Mr. 30, ’07. 1280w.

  “A book that is easy, even fascinating reading. It did not need his
  words of acknowledgment to let us into the secret of Dr. Verrall’s
  influence upon his ideas and methods. There is the same evidence of
  careful work and profound meditation; there is an approach to Dr.
  Verrall’s characteristic brilliancy of presentation; but there is left
  in the end the same impression of special pleading.”

     + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 152. Jl. ’07. 490w.

  “A very delightful book.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 497. Ap. 27. 1900w.

  “The challenge implied in Mr. Cornford’s title is maintained in his
  book in a fashion which will be stimulating and suggestive even to
  those who cannot accept its conclusions.” Paul Shorey.

     + − =Dial.= 43: 202. O. 1, ’07. 2160w.

  “Mr. Cornford’s brilliant and suggestive study provides material
  help ... towards revising the traditional estimate of Thucydides. Mr.
  Cornford does not always carry conviction. In particular, a cautious
  student will hesitate to trust himself to the insecure Icarus-flights
  of a higher-criticism which treats the sequels to the careers of
  Pausanias and Themistocles as ‘rationalized Saga-history influenced by
  drama.’”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 195. Je. 21, ’07. 1640w.

  “An inspiriting and commendable book.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 272. Ap. 27, ’07. 250w.

  “The strong side of Mr. Cornford’s book is as an analysis of
  Thucydides’ mind.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 104: 579. N. 9, ’07. 950w.

  “With this objection to his title, criticism of Mr. Cornford ends and
  admiration begins. We can only indicate Mr. Cornford’s view, and
  recommend all students to examine his arguments for themselves. They
  will find everywhere much that is instructive, and, however his
  apparent paradoxes may at first startle, the substantial truth of his
  position will in the end, we think, appear not less remarkable than
  its novelty.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: 862. Je. 1, ’07. 1430w.


=Cornill, Carl H.= Introduction to the canonical books of the Old
Testament; tr. by G. H. Box. (Theological translation lib.) *$3. Putnam.

  A translation of Professor Cornill’s fifth revised edition. The volume
  renders to the reader “knowledge which will enable him to understand
  the problems of the Old Testament and value the solutions which
  scholars have offered.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is in our language no single volume on the subject which
  contains so much material, and especially which gives such full lists
  of relevant writings, as does this book by Prof. Cornill. There is
  always danger, however, that the limitations of a short work on a long
  subject may make an author dogmatic, and in this respect Prof. Cornill
  is not above suspicion.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 439. Ap. 13. 580w.

  “The clearness and conciseness of the original are preserved in the
  translation, but it is to be regretted that the translator has made
  references to previous passages by sections only, which are not noted
  at the top of the page and are therefore difficult to find in the
  text.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 565. Je. 20, ’07. 270w.

  “While primarily designed as a handbook for critical students, it is
  serviceable in the main points and general lines for intelligent
  readers, though unacquainted with Hebrew, in its presentation of Old
  Testament critical science at this date, both as to its closed
  questions and remaining problems.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 614. Jl. 20, ’07. 180w.


=Cornish, Charles John.= Animal artisans and other studies of birds and
beasts; with a prefatory memoir by his widow; 2 pors. from photographs
and 12 drawings by Patten Wilson. $2.50. Longmans.

                                                                7–28981.

  “These papers, now for the first time gathered in book form ...
  present many interesting phases of animal life, particularly from what
  might be called the industrial side, the underlying current being the
  existence among other animals than man of distinct arts and crafts by
  which they either gain a mere living or provide themselves with
  shelter.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The single defect of the book is the absence of an index.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 580. My. 11. 450w.

  “One receives the impression that the natural history here recorded is
  the outcome of an avocation. It lacks the tension, and the critical
  point of view, of the trained scientist.” Charles Atwood Kofoid.

     + − =Dial.= 42: 366. Je. 16, ’07. 390w.

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 204. Je. 28, ’07. 500w.

  “Several of these articles display a lamentable want of knowledge of
  scientific zoology on the part of the author. After all, the volume is
  perhaps sufficiently accurate to suit the requirements of the readers
  to whom it is likely to appeal.”

     + − =Nature.= 75: 437. Mr. 7, ’07. 380w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 236. Ap. 13, ’07. 170w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 80w.

  “If the papers in the volume before us are distinguished in any way
  from others that went before, we should say that the observation of
  the author is more ingenious than ever.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 292. F. 23, ’07. 1600w.


=Corthell, Elmer L.= Allowable pressure on deep foundations. *$1.25.
Wiley.

                                                                7–28847.

  This work is an amplified form of a paper to the Institution of civil
  engineers brought about by Dr. Corthell’s investigation of the subject
  relating to the construction of a port at the city of Rozario on the
  Panama river.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The admirable form of the compilation, and the thoroughness with
  which the abstracts of published articles have been made, make the
  book one of great value.”

     + + =Engin. N.= 58: 80. Jl. 18, ’07. 310w.


=Cory, Vivian (Victoria Cross, pseud.).= Life’s shop window. $1.50.
Kennerley.

                                                                 7–4158.

  With the frankness of Zola, Victoria Cross presents in this novel “the
  passions and the emotions and the part they play in the life of a
  young girl.” (N. Y. Times.) Imagination substitutes experience in the
  delineation of character.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is not even what is known as ‘a picture of life,’ since its
  personages are all drawn straight from sensational melodrama and their
  humanity is only a semblance, far from convincing.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 80. F. 9, ’07. 490w.

  “‘Victoria Cross’ writes in the feverish manner of Miss Corelli, and
  much in ‘Life’s shop window’ will remind the reader of that novelist.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 110w.


=Cotes, Everard.= Signs and portents in the Far East. **$2.50. Putnam.

                                                                7–29141.

  “After a cursory glance at the Japan of today, the author tells of the
  Chinese question in British territory, of the situation at Canton, of
  missionaries and anti-foreign riots, of Hankow and Peking and other
  Chinese cities. Then he takes the reader north to the scene of the
  Russo-Japanese war. He describes Port Arthur as it is to-day, and
  Mukden, and other places, the names of which were so conspicuous in
  newspapers not long ago. Glancing at that country of problems, Korea,
  Mr. Cotes devotes several more chapters to Japan and the Japanese.”—N.
  Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is both brightly written and politically interesting, though
  we cannot go with the author in some of his beliefs and the
  recommendations based upon them.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 252. Mr. 2. 920w.

  “The author has a gift of accurate narration which brings places and
  persons clearly before the mental vision of the reader. There is no
  attempt at effect; yet, none the less effectiveness is attained.” H.
  T. P.

     + + =Bookm.= 25: 422. Je. ’07. 1300w.

  “On missionary matters he is more sane and truthful than Mr. Weale.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 757. S. 26, ’07. 550w.

         =Lond. Times.= 6: 114. Ap. 12, ’07. 410w.

     + − =Nation.= 85: 60. Jl. 15, ’07. 350w.

  “Full of interesting information.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 436. Je. 22, ’07. 230w.

  “He enunciates certain theories and offers some suggestions with
  regard to the significance of the new activity in China that opens up
  an interesting field for speculation.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 654. My. 25, ’07. 1440w.


=Couch, A. T: Quiller-.= From a Cornish window. *$1.50. Dutton.

                                                                6–35302.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Is apparently a re-hash in book form of various magazine articles,
  literary criticisms and reviews.”

       − =Sat. R.= 102: 746. D. 15, ’06. 370w.


=Couch, A. T. Quiller- (“Q,” pseud.)= Major Vigoureux. †$1.50. Scribner.

                                                                7–30166.

  “The major is commandant of a dismantled and half-forgotten naval post
  on certain inconsequent islands off the English coast. The garrison
  has dwindled to two, and their duties are simply to wait upon the
  commandant. He has lost his authority in the islands, and what with
  shame and apathy is in a fair way to lose all interest in life.”
  (Nation.) A famous singer returns to her island home and becomes the
  ‘dea ex machina’ of the plot. She “restores to Major Vigoureux his
  self-respect and teaches the Lord Proprietor his proper place” besides
  performing many another telling service.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A well written amusing tale.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 200. N. ’07. ✠

  “It is seldom that one can criticize ‘Q.’ in details; but there is
  once, if we mistake not, a discrepancy about a tide.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 579. N. 9. 420w.

  “His last story is like a chalice of old wine reddened within by all
  the fine fires of life and beaded high with immortal love and
  courage.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 1228. N. 21, ’07. 30w.

  “In ‘Major Vigoureux’ ‘Q’ marks time. It is full of good things, we
  wish we could think that half the novels of the season would hold so
  many; but in itself it lacks the flowing beauty, the unity, what might
  almost be called the lyrical, singing quality with which this author,
  at his best, lends distinction to his novels.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 285. S. 20, ’07. 410w.

  “The tale is a most agreeable literary confection.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 328. O. 10, ’07. 240w.

  “On the whole, there is much to enjoy in this tale, although some
  readers will object to its lack of definite ending.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 309. O. 12, ’07. 160w.

  “The story verges on melodrama and barely escapes tragedy: the ending
  lacks definiteness: but ‘Q’ is never commonplace.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 622. N. 23, ’07. 100w.

  “He limits his scene, but he brings to bear upon it a mind enriched
  with wide reading, a pen that is scholarly yet never pedantic, and a
  keen eye for the rich possibilities of adventure and romance that
  underlie the daily round and common task of modern life.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 488. O. 5, ’07. 750w.


=Couch, A. T. Quiller-.= Pilgrims’ way. *$1.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–35145.

  “‘The pilgrims’ way’ has a more serious purpose than is usually
  associated with anthologies, the selections of prose and verse which
  Mr. Quiller-Couch has chosen being definitely arranged with a view to
  their suitability to the different stages of life’s journey, beginning
  with childhood and ending with death. These selections are charming in
  themselves, and they cover a wide range of literature, extending from
  the Bible to the work of such very modern authors as Mr. Laurence
  Binyon and Maeterlinck.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A delightful collection.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 66. Mr. ’07.

  “The whole makes a most attractive little volume.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 826. D. 29. 180w.

  “Unerring good taste is evident throughout the collection. Not the
  least of the volume’s charms is the compiler’s fine little prefatory
  essay.”

     + + =Dial.= 41: 457. D. 16, ’06. 100w.

       + =Nation.= 83: 508. D. 13, ’06. 60w.

  “An agreeable little collection made with taste and a certain
  daintiness.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 57. Ja. 12, ’07. 150w.

  “A very delightful book this.”

       + =Spec.= 97: 733. N. 10, ’06. 80w.


=Couch, A. T. Quiller-.= Poison Island. †$1.50. Scribner.

                                                                 7–8212.

  Some sixteen chapters of this adventure story lead up thru school-boy
  escapades, crime, and mystery to the secret of Mortallone island in
  the bay of Honduras. The chart containing the plan of the island and
  affording the key to the spot of buried treasure after causing a deal
  of trouble falls into the hands of a little party who set sail from
  Falmouth in quest of the island and its hoard. Mr. Quiller-Couch has
  drawn with clever touches the spirit of unanimity which, with
  noticeable lack of greed, characterizes the treasure seekers.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Written with unusual spirit and charm.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 107. Ap. ’07. ✠

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 405. Ap. 6. 340w.

  “The author’s happy faculty for sketching eccentric types of character
  is exhibited at his best, and we thoroughly enjoy the quaint company
  that he provides for us.” Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 42: 377. Je. 16, ’07. 260w.

  “After you have laid down the book, no character, no dramatic
  situation remains in the memory—nothing but a general impression of
  misapplied and wasted cleverness.”

     − + =Ind.= 62: 970. Ap. 25, ’07. 200w.

  “A curious and wholly impossible piece of fiction. Has many points of
  interest, but is very uneven on the whole.”

     − + =Lit. D.= 34: 639. Ap. 20, ’07. 240w.

  “Is a brave, amusing, exciting story, but it is not right ‘Q.’ Seldom
  does a story by ‘Q’ lose interest when you know the plot. We regret
  that ‘Poison island’ does.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 85. Mr. 15, ’07. 530w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 177. Mr. 23, ’07. 550w.

  “In the end Mr. Quiller-Couch springs some remarkable surprises on his
  reader, and the closing incidents are even so bizarre and unnatural
  that the reader suspects that the author is laughing in his sleeve at
  the credulity of romance-lovers.”

       − =Outlook.= 85: 812. Ap. 6, ’07. 120w.

  “There is a lack of spontaneity about it that renders it at times
  almost tedious.”

       − =Sat. R.= 103: 370. Mr. 23, ’07. 200w.

  “If he has not the highest creative faculty, he has at least the power
  of lending freshness and vitality to time-worn and even hackneyed
  themes by the agility of his invention and the picturesqueness of his
  _mise-en-scene_.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: 624. Ap. 20, ’07. 1250w.


=Couch, A. T: Quiller-.= Sir John Constantine. †$1.50. Scribner.

                                                                6–31381.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 42: 144. Mr. 1, ’07. 540w.

  “It lacks the breath of the romantic life, and inspires a feeling that
  the writer himself has lived chiefly in books and rarely a life of his
  own.”

     − + =Sat. R.= 103: 54. Ja. 12, ’07. 230w.


=Coulton, George Gordon.= From St. Francis to Dante: a translation of
all that is of primary interest in the chronicle of the Franciscan
Salimbene: (1221–1288) together with notes and il. from other medieval
sources. *$4.20. Scribner.

                                                                6–32412.

  For this second edition fresh matter from Salimbene’s chronicle has
  been added and the notes and appendices have been extended. “For those
  who wish to see the seamy side of the middle ages, this is the best
  book in English.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Coulton is a far-seeing man and a good writer. What is more
  remarkable he contrives to unite a judicial mind with strong
  convictions, which lend warmth and interest to his style.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 65. Mr. 1, ’07. 1380w.

  “He has read widely in the sources of his period, and is able at every
  turn to illustrate Salimbene’s statements.”

     + + =Nation.= 83: 244. S. 20, ’06. 1380w.

       + =Nation.= 85: 303. O. 3, ’07. 70w.

  “Contains more of the famous chronicle of Fra Salimbene, a Franciscan
  friar of the thirteenth century, than has hitherto appeared in print
  in English, and for that reason it is a valuable book.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 602. S. 20, ’06. 250w.

  “He has a great knowledge of his period, considerable attainments, and
  a very workmanlike gift of exposition. But unfortunately he is before
  all things else a controversialist.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 102: 645. N. 24, ’06. 1350w.

  “We would recommend the book, as full of curious information, to every
  one who cares to illustrate his Dante studies by a real contemporary
  picture of the thirteenth century on its darker side, with all the
  peculiarities of its social and religious life.”

     + + =Spec.= 97: 725. N. 10, ’06. 1320w.


=Coutts, Francis Burdett.= Heresy of Job; with the inventions of William
Blake. *$2. Lane.

  The volume contains “first, introductory matter explaining the
  editor’s conception of the poem’s purpose and meaning; second, the
  poem itself divided into three parts, Prologue, Debate, and Epilogue;
  third, some pages of notes elucidating certain obscurities in the
  text; fourth, an appendix containing the speech of Elihu the Buzite;
  fifth, a list of commentaries consulted; and, finally, the
  ‘Illustrations of the Book of Job, invented and engraved by William
  Blake,’ and first published in 1825, by Blake himself. Job’s ‘heresy’
  consisted not in a denial of God or a rejection of religion, but
  rather in a refusal to subscribe to the smug orthodoxy of his three
  friends, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar.” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Coutts has succeeded in properly emphasizing one important side
  of the argument of Job, but his error consists in mistaking a part for
  the whole.”

     − + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 363. S. 28. 250w.

  “An attractive and useful volume.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 255. O. 16, ’07. 320w.

  “Scholarly introduction.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 542. S. 7, ’07. 120w.

       + =Outlook.= 87: 133. S. 21, ’07. 220w.


=Coutts, Francis Burdett.= Romance of King Arthur. *$1.50. Lane.

  “The romance of King Arthur is here told in four parts—the poem of
  ‘Uther Pendragon,’ the plays of ‘Merlin’ and ‘Lancelot du Lake,’ and
  the poem of ‘The death of Lancelot.’ In his preface the author states
  that his ‘sole important variation from the accepted legend’ is to
  represent Mordred as the legitimate son of Morgan le Fay, and thus
  supply the enchantress with a purely human, and therefore, we may add,
  somewhat superfluous, motive for her malevolence towards Arthur.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The whole work is undistinguished and dull. It is all padded out.”

     − + =Acad.= 72: 603. Je. 22, ’07. 280w.

  “There are some fairly effective ‘curtains,’ but the blank verse is
  generally monotonous and rich in commonplaces.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 724. Je. 15. 360w.

  “In this volume Mr. Coutts has surprised us. A poet he was known to
  be; a lyric poet of some intensity and much art; a philosophic poet
  whose work was unified by a coherent, if undogmatic, faith, and
  expressed in language as simple as it was profound. The discovery that
  he is also a dramatic poet comes unexpected.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 180. Je. 7, ’07. 870w.

  “The medium of the whole—idylls and playlets—is blank verse, whereof
  the quality at times is excellent. The inspiration, in spite of the
  form, is perhaps rather Kipling than Tennyson, and the playlets are
  better than the idylls.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 640w.

  “Mr. Coutts’s poems, while they are smooth and flowing and show now
  and then passages of much beauty or of poetic fervor, are weak and
  pale when tested beside the Tennysonian idylls.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 390w.

  “Mr. Coutts is a grave writer whose verse moves always with dignity,
  and now and then by dint of simplicity and sincerity rises to a
  considerable measure of poetry.”

       + =Spec.= 99: sup. 635. N. 2, ’07. 160w.


=Cowan, Samuel.= Last days of Mary Stuart and the journal of Bourgoyne,
her physician. *$3. Lippincott.

  Letters of Queen Mary and the journal of her physician are used to
  prove her innocence of any complicity in the plotting against
  Elizabeth.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

  “The journal was the work of a man of gossipy intellect of something
  the same type as that of Boswell and Pepys, and consequently it is
  often entertaining, and constantly gives close at hand views of the
  domestic life of Mary’s court.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 454. O. 26, ’07. 180w.

  “He is a little too partisan and dead-sure to make much of an
  historian, but he puts his case with enthusiasm and some skill.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 372. Mr. 23, ’07. 90w.

  “A contribution of importance to the literature of its subject.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 424. Mr. 16, ’07. 140w.


=Cowley, Abraham.= Essays, plays and sundry verses, v. 2. *$1.50.
Putnam.

                                                                7–23868.

  “The first volume of Cowley’s Works in the Cambridge English classics
  contained all the poems published in the folio which appeared the year
  after his death. The second volume, now issued, contains the earlier
  writings from the edition of 1637, together with the plays and essays.
  The editor, A. R. Waller, is preparing a Supplement of notes,
  biographical, bibliographical, and critical.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A very workmanlike edition.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 29. Ja. 25, ’07. 1100w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “It cannot be said that this edition, with its reproduction of the old
  spelling and its inclusion of so much that is dull, is the best for
  the reader who merely desires his comfort, but for the scholar it is
  altogether admirable.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 132. F. 7, ’07. 130w. (Review of v. 2.)

  Reviewed by William A. Bradley.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 222. Ap. 6, ’07. 1990w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “Admirable and scholarly edition.”

     + + =Spec.= 96: 95. Ja. 20, ’06. 2300w. (Review of v. 1.)


=Cox, Kenyon.= Painters and sculptors: a second series of old masters
and new. **$2.50. Duffield.

                                                                7–31410.

  In an introductory essay on “The education of an artist,” Mr. Cox
  compares the education afforded by the apprenticeship custom of the
  renaissance with that obtainable in the modern art schools and
  studios. Following this chapter are six, as follows: The Pollaiuoli,
  Painters of the mode, Holbein, The Rembrandt tercentenary, Rodin and
  Lord Leighton.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The appreciations, written in a charming easy style, show the
  author’s technical knowledge, his catholicity of taste and judgment.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 193. N. ’07.

  “It is a careful and detailed work, which will of course appeal
  especially to students of art, the numerous illustrations being
  valuable adjuncts to an appreciation of the great masters’ work.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 379. D. 1, ’07. 230w.

  “Disclaiming connoisseurship, his scholarship is adequate, while his
  insight as a painter, as in the essay on Holbein, at times affords
  discoveries that the connoisseurs have missed. Above all, he is
  judicious, weighing gingerly his personal admirations. As a whole, the
  book lacks the consistency and dignity of the first series.”

   + + − =Nation.= 85: 525. D. 5, ’07. 820w.

  “Mr. Cox has a great faculty of seeing the point, and of making his
  readers see it. There is nothing in the volume which an intelligent
  lover of art, will not find both intelligible and interesting.”
  Montgomery Schuyler.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 630. O. 19, ’07. 950w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

         =Outlook.= 87: 615. N. 23, ’07. 90w.

  “From among the many dry details of craftsmanship, all of them of
  importance to the practical worker, he selects what will go farthest
  toward interpreting for the uninitiated the secrets of a masterpiece
  of painting or modelling.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.

       + =Putnam’s.= 3: 357. D. ’07. 860w.

  “If one wants common sense in criticism, backed by expert knowledge,
  he may turn to this beautifully illustrated volume.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 760. D. ’07. 230w.


=Crabbe, George.= Poems. 3v. v. 3. *$1.50. Putnam.

                                                                7–23869.

  “This, the concluding volume of Dr. Ward’s masterly edition of
  Crabbe’s poems, contains the last eleven books of the ‘Tales of the
  hall,’ the ‘Posthumous tales,’ and ‘Miscellaneous verses’ (1780–1829),
  which have all been previously printed, but are now for the first time
  arranged chronologically; and in addition a quantity of matter
  hitherto unpublished. Of the poems thus newly given to the world, four
  are of some length—‘Tracy,’ ‘Susan and her lovers,’ ‘The deserted
  family’ (which alone is printed in its completeness), and ‘The funeral
  of the Squire.’”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This is the way to edit a man’s works, with scholarship and
  exhaustive thoroughness.”

     + + =Acad.= 72: 118. F. 2, ’07. 350w.

  “The ‘completeness’ of the edition must be held the principal
  justification for much which is present. The editing of the present
  volume—no light task—is as careful and scholarly as ever.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 318. Mr. 16. 430w.

  “Dr. Ward does not wear his heart upon his sleeve, and the scheme of
  his book, which is purely textual, gives him no opportunity of
  confessing his affections.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 193. Je. 21, ’07. 910w.

  “For those, if any such there be, who wish to study Crabbe minutely,
  Dr. Ward’s carefully collated text, bibliography, and fresh material
  will be indispensable. And to the general reader, also, who does not
  own the eight-volume edition of 1834, or one of the other early
  editions issued by John Murray, the present publication offers Crabbe
  in the most comfortable form.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 175. F. 21, ’07. 180w.


=Craddock, Charles Egbert, pseud. (Mary Noailles Murfree).= Amulet.
†$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                6–37962.

  The Great Smoky mountains during the days when the Cherokees roved
  over them furnish a background for Miss Murfree’s historical tale. “It
  is an interesting record of the lives of some very human men and women
  who have been transplanted from England to the savage wilds of the new
  world.” (Lit. D.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 51. F. ’07.

  “Touches of poetic description are frequent in adornment of the
  narrative, for in this respect Miss Murfree’s hand has not lost its
  cunning, but otherwise the book falls far below the high standard set
  in her earlier writings.” Wm. M. Payne.

     − + =Dial.= 42: 227. Ap. 1, ’07. 180w.

  “That which gives the volume a permanent value is the amount of
  historical information it contains about Indian customs, religion and
  points of view.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 501. F. 28, ’07. 200w.

  “There are some fine descriptive passages, and the character-drawing
  reveals the firm touch of the practiced artist. It is to the credit of
  the writer that she has withstood the temptation to indulge in those
  orgies of slaughter which are usually met with in this type of
  fiction.”

       + =Lit. D.= 33: 913. D. 15, ’06. 260w.

  “Her present historical romance is a sad affair, perfectly artificial
  and unreal from start to finish. It may be historically sound, but
  this, other things being equal, is an altogether trivial
  consideration.”

       − =Nation.= 83: 463. N. 29, ’06. 120w.

  “Is every whit as good as those stories with which Miss Murfree long
  ago established her enviable reputation.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 795. D. 1, ’06. 760w.

  “The action of the story is somewhat slow, and the characters move
  stiffly, while both narrative and descriptive passages are heavily
  weighted with words. A knowledge of Indian rites and customs gives
  evidence of the author’s careful preparation for her work.”

     + − =Outlook.= 84: 792. N. 24, ’06. 110w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 120. Ja. ’07. 20w.

  “The interest of the story lies entirely in the author’s realisation
  and vivid picture of eighteenth century personages and their
  surroundings.”

       + =Spec.= 97: 181. F. 2, ’07. 160w.


=Craddock, Charles Egbert, pseud. (Mary Noailles Murfree).= Windfall: a
novel. †$1.50. Duffield.

                                                                7–15119.

  The youthful and breezy manager of a street fair is lured by excursion
  rates to take his show to a small town in the Great Smoky mountains,
  and upon arrival realizes that he has been duped and that there are
  but a handful of people in the county. He sticks it out, however,
  becomes involved in the discovery of an illicit still, and
  incidentally, wins a bride, and a windfall.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a good, stirring piece of melodrama, with here and there some
  characterization of a sort superior to that of many more pretentious
  works of fiction—pleasant and entertaining, but marred by
  undisciplined verbosity.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 614. N. 16. 150w.

  “The writer shows herself still capable of using the old material to
  excellent effect, although it would be foolish to deny that she has
  worked the vein until it shows signs of exhaustion.” Wm. M. Payne.

     + − =Dial.= 42: 315. My. 16, ’07. 290w.

  “She has written a very clever story with as much of the old fashion
  charm as can be preserved now. The story is extraordinary however,
  only in the fact that it contains a threehanded heroine. Fortunately
  she has not meddled with the Great Smokies, and the book is worth
  reading for the descriptions of them which it contains.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 100. Jl. 11, ’07. 420w.

  “Gives herself free rein in page upon page of the very dullest
  description that ever escaped editorial scissors.”

       − =Nation.= 84: 476. My. 23, ’07. 390w.

  “The writer’s style, ordinarily direct and flexible, is occasionally
  marred by serious lapses.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 332. My. 25, ’07. 370w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 80w.

  “The plot is simple and somewhat obvious; the situations are not
  always logical, and the effect of the story is rather commonplace.”

       − =Outlook.= 86: 118. My. 18, ’07. 100w.


=Crafts, Wilbur Fisk.= Practical Christian sociology. **$1.50. Funk.

                                                                7–23083.

  A revised fourth edition of a series of lectures on moral reforms and
  social problems. The subject is treated from the standpoint of the
  church, the family and education, capital and labor, and citizenship.
  The statistics are brought down to the present time, and the volume is
  illustrated with charts and portraits.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is a repository of sociological facts.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 208. S. 5, ’07. 110w.


=Craig, Neville B.= Recollections of an ill-fated expedition to the head
waters of the Madeira river in Brazil; by Neville B. Craig in
co-operation with members of the Madeira and Mamoré association of
Philadelphia. **$4. Lippincott.

                                                                7–29709.

  “The book before us concerns itself much more with the human interest
  of the story, than with the larger issues involved. It is a plain tale
  of the adventures, trials and exploits—of the sufferings and
  privations—undergone by a party of resolute pioneers—American
  engineers, contractors and railway builders in a year of heroic
  endeavor in the deadly climate of the Amazon valley.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This book is as entertaining as a novel. The book is a very welcome
  contribution to the history of American engineering enterprise.
  Certainly every American engineering school should have a copy of the
  book. The young engineer will learn things from it that are found in
  none of the standard text-books, but which are even more necessary for
  his highest success than anything in his mechanics or chemistry.”

     + + =Engin. N.= 58: 426. O. 17, ’07. 1590w.

  “He disclaims any literary qualifications for his task, but his
  descriptions of life in the torrid zone are graphic at times and in
  reporting observations in natural history he avoids the methods of the
  nature faker.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 577. O. 19, ’07. 400w.

  “While the completeness and continuity of the story is somewhat
  sacrificed to the authenticated veracity of the historical account, it
  will, nevertheless, appeal to most lovers of works on travels and
  adventure. The greatest value of the book is as a contribution to
  engineering literature. It may almost serve as a treatise on
  organizing and equipping engineering expeditions for tropical work,
  until an authoritative text-book on the subject is available. It
  should be read by every engineer and contractor engaged in operations
  in tropical countries, and will be of value to many others engaged on
  works in distant lands or far from a base of supplies.” Albert Wells
  Buel.

   + + − =Technical Literature.= 2: 454. N. ’07. 1000w.


=Craig, W. H.= Life of Lord Chesterfield: an account of the ancestry,
personal character and public services. *$5. Lane.

                                                                7–25141.

  A sketch which “has materially broadened our knowledge not alone of
  Lord Chesterfield, but also of the political and social history of
  England during the long period of his life.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The style is on the whole clear and pleasant, and the work well
  deserves careful perusal.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 499. Ap. 27. 3080w.

  “It is to be hoped that this biography may help its readers to take a
  reasonably comprehensive view of a by no means simple personality.” S.
  M. Francis.

       + =Atlan.= 100: 490. O. ’07. 410w.

  “His apologist, if one may so designate his latest biographer, is
  temperate and judicious in tone, and has presented what appears to be
  a not too flattering picture of the man.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 56. Ag. 1, ’07. 1270w.

  “It is the chief merit of Mr. Craig’s book to show sterling qualities
  which Chesterfield was at too much pains in concealing, to reject the
  perishable trivialities of his character, and to exhibit him as a
  philosophic statesman, not inferior to any of his contemporaries,
  except Walpole at one end of his life, and Chatham at the other.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 81. Mr. 15, ’07. 2300w.

  “In this elaborate biography Mr. Craig has done an important piece of
  work in a competent way. The index is admirably analytical and leaves
  nothing to be desired.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 303. My. 11, ’07. 630w.

  “The author means to be disinterested, but his animus is occasionally
  too much for him. What he has to say is excellent in substance, but
  there is a great deal of repetition and digression in the book.” H. W.
  Boynton.

     + − =Putnam’s.= 3: 234. N. ’07. 720w.

  “Those who wish to satisfy themselves of Mr. Craig’s judicial acumen,
  based on knowledge of facts and sympathy with human nature, must read
  his story of Lord Chesterfield.”

   + + − =Sat. R.= 103: 428. Ap. 6, ’07. 1720w.


=Craigie, Mrs. Pearl Mary Teresa Richards (John Oliver Hobbes, pseud.).=
Dream and the business. †$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                6–36053.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 108. Ap. ’07.

  Reviewed by Mary Moss.

         =Atlan.= 99: 117. Ja. ’07. 50w.

  “To this the last of her novels a place must be accorded not far below
  that occupied by ‘Robert Orange’ and ‘A school for saints,’ her
  unquestioned masterpieces, and it is possibly a more remarkable
  production than either of those two in certain respects, as of its
  finished style, its economy of material, and its nice dramatic
  adjustment.” Wm. M. Payne.

     + + =Dial.= 42: 15. Ja. 1, ’07. 310w.

  “The book comes nearer to actual life than Mrs. Craigie ever came
  before, and it has, moreover, the exquisite effervescing brilliancy
  that so distinguished her earliest work and made it command the
  instant attention of every reader with an ear for epigram.” Cornelia
  Atwood Pratt.

       + =Putnam’s.= 2: 185. My. ’07. 200w.


=Cram, Ralph Adams.= Gothic quest. **$1.50. Baker.

                                                                7–21371.

  “Contains a number of lectures and essays that have appeared singly in
  various publications, which are here brought together.... They are
  mainly a discussion of ecclesiastical architecture from the Gothic
  standpoint, or, rather, from the standpoint of the English high
  church. Formalism and ritualism seem to hold as high a place in
  Christian art, to Mr. Cram’s mind, as do form and abstract beauty in
  art generally.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “After all criticism of form and matter, one must feel that what
  underlies the volume should be known and appreciated by every
  individual or committee or congregation interested in the building of
  a Christian shrine, or house of worship, or temple.”

     + − =Dial.= 43: 96. Ag. 16, ’07. 310w.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 553. S. 14, ’07. 680w.

  “Quite rich with plums of wisdom and are filled with a contagious
  enthusiasm for the expressiveness of mediaeval art.” Elisabeth Luther
  Cary.

       + =Putnam’s.= 3: 360. D. ’07. 430w.


=Crandall, Charles Lee.= Text-book on geodesy and least squares,
prepared for the use of civil engineering students. $3. Wiley.

                                                                6–42921.

  “Prof. Crandall is addressing himself primarily to students of Cornell
  university and presumably to those who are beginning the study of the
  subject and not to professional men engaged in actual work.... The
  first few chapters of the book are mainly occupied with the
  description of the use and adjustment of instruments in the field. The
  next three are devoted to consideration of problems connected with the
  figure of the earth.... In the second part, which consists of three
  chapters, the author serves up the standing dish of least squares....
  The book is well illustrated, and there are some useful tables and
  information given in the appendix.”—Nature.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is an excellent and well-balanced statement of past and
  current practice, prepared with rare good judgment as to the relative
  importance of things. It is especially to be commended as being
  thoroughly up-to-date. The student, unassisted, will have difficulty
  at many points in seeing the relation between the facts presented, for
  the reason that the principles involved are not fully and clearly
  stated. If the book is supplemented in the class-room by lectures and
  references to other books, designed to remedy the defects indicated,
  it will be found to be the best book on geodesy now available in
  English. The engineer in practice will find it a most excellent and
  suggestive reference book.” John F. Hayford.

   + + − =Engin. N.= 57: 85. Ja. 17, ’07. 800w.

  “For a text-book to be used by beginners it might be objected that the
  author has a little overlaid his treatise with a superfluity of
  detail. A greater fault appears to be one of omission. There is too
  little, almost nothing, concerning the methods of deriving the
  latitude and longitude of a station. The information throughout is
  conveyed in a clear and lucid manner, but a little unevenness is
  sometimes noticeable, as though the author were uncertain of the
  degree of thoroughness with which the several topics should be
  treated.”

       + =Nature.= 75: 339. F. 7, ’07. 680w.


=Crane, Robert Treat.= State in constitutional and international law.
(Johns Hopkins university studies in historical and political science.)
pa. 50c. Johns Hopkins.

                                                                7–31399.

  A monograph based upon the thesis that the concept of the state in
  constitutional law must be discriminated from the concept of the state
  in international law.


=Crane, Walter.= An artist’s reminiscences. il. *$5. Macmillan.

                                                                7–37525.

  Notable literary men and women of the Victorian era people Mr. Crane’s
  book, among them Tennyson, Irving, William Morris, Rossetti,
  Burne-Jones, Holman Hunt, Stevenson, Henley, Whistler and Leighton. “A
  feature of the book is the prominence given to the author’s
  socialistic opinions, in which he followed with the devotion of a
  pupil and the accuracy of a copyist those of William Morris.” (Lond.
  Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The proof-reader has been careless and many small inaccuracies in
  names &c., are to be found. As a document for the student of the
  domestic history of our times, an agreeable, chatty volume of
  reminiscences for the casual reader and above all as the monument of a
  delicate personality, this book has an assured place.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 486. O. 19. 1940w.

  “We have a long autobiography, crowded with trivial detail,
  interesting, no doubt, to the circle of those immediately concerned,
  but not especially enlivening to the world at large. Where detail
  would be of interest it is often lacking.”

     + − =Dial.= 43: 374. D. 1, ’07. 2000w.

  “The story of his own success is modestly revealed. The book shows
  that among the many crafts in which Mr. Crane has been interested that
  of the writer is not excepted.”

     + − =Int. Studio.= 33: 167. D. ’07. 300w.

  “If it had been cut down to one third the length, the volume might
  have been readable, and in a certain sense valuable. Certain
  theatrical autobiographies are the only books that can be compared
  with it for self-consciousness.”

       − =Lond. Times.= 6: 291. S. 27, ’07. 710w.

  “In ‘An artist’s reminiscences’ we have the work and the man
  associated for the first time. The result is attractive even
  picturesque. If Mr. Crane were a great man the result could hardly be
  more satisfactory.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 614. O. 12, ’07. 1850w.

  “The work will be of interest to people in many walks of life.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 40w.

  “No overweening egotism parades through its pages. But they are
  encumbered by recollections of too many unimportant personages. He
  makes the further mistake of narrating his own long and eminently
  successful career in over-great detail.”

     + − =Outlook.= 87: 611. N. 23, ’07. 170w.

  “It is tantalising to feel how little the writer has told us all in
  these pages of the subject about which he knows so much and could
  write so well.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: 671. N. 2, ’07. 570w.


=Crane, William Edward.= American stationary engineering. $2.
Derry-Collard.

                                                                6–35993.

  “The author discusses in a very clear manner the defects usually found
  in boilers, engines, steam pipes, pumps, and accessories, and notes
  the remedies that have been devised to overcome them. The book is, in
  fact, a recount of his experience with such machinery, and should
  prove useful to stationary engineers, machinists and others who wish
  to know how to make engines, boilers, etc., operate correctly, and how
  to remedy defects in them when they appear.... The book is concluded
  with notes, rules and tables of useful information.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Engin. N.= 56: 522. N. 15, ’06. 200w.


=Cravath, James Raley, and Lansingh, Van Rensselaer.= Practical
illumination. *$3. McGraw pub.

                                                                7–17392.

  “The authors, in the preface to their book, point out that their
  object is ‘to present exact practical information of every-day use on
  many points that come up in arranging artificial lighting.’ They make
  no attempt to treat of the apparatus for the production of light, but
  rather to confine the work to the much neglected subject of how best
  to use the light after it is produced. A great many tests are shown
  giving information on the light distribution of various illuminants
  with different globes, reflectors and shades. Much of this information
  has not before been available to the general reader.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Taken all in all the book may be truly said to constitute a real
  contribution to the literature of the art of practical illumination.
  It goes without saying that it should find a place in the library of
  every illuminating engineer. But the illuminating engineer is not the
  only one to whom the book will appeal. The authors happily have
  presented the subject in such a way that the architect, the contractor
  and the central station man will derive much benefit from reading it.”
  L. B. Marks.

   + + − =Engin. N.= 57: 549. My. 16, ’07. 1710w.


=Crawford, Francis Marion.= Arethusa. †$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                7–33911.

  A story of Constantinople in the fourteenth century whose plot is
  built up about the expulsion of the usurper Andronicus from the throne
  and the restoration of Johannes. Arethusa, who with her foster parents
  were objects of Andronicus’ cruelty, sells herself into slavery to
  save her foster mother from poverty, is bought by Carlo Zeno the
  principal actor in the Johannine faction, and becomes involved in the
  plot to re-establish the deposed ruler.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 200. N. ’07. ✠

  “The breathless adventures and the hairbreadth escapes, the scenes of
  torture and luxury are all good reading as isolated episodes; but they
  hardly go to make a novel worthy of the author.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 613. N. 16. 150w.

  Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.

       + =Bookm.= 26: 268. N. ’07. 460w.

  “More than once the narrative causes one’s breath to come unevenly—a
  sure test of a story of adventure. It would have gone all the better
  for the absence of certain over-frequent and rather sententious little
  asides, chiefly on the feminine character.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 309. O. 11, ’07. 480w.

  “He is merely, as the author of some thirty-five novels should be,
  extraordinarily adept, a master of his craft, as a craft.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 450w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 40w.

  “The tale is told with Mr. Crawford’s usual skill and more than his
  usual vivacity.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 622. N. 23, ’07. 110w.

  “His admitted acquaintance with his subject exempts him from the
  imputation of having studied it for a purpose, yet thereby making more
  flagrant his transposition of twentieth-century manners and morals
  into the corrupt decrepitude of Constantinople in 1376.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 7. O. 19, ’07. 750w.


=Crawford, Francis Marion.= Lady of Rome. †$1.50. Macmillan.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 228. F. ’07. 850w.

  “It has perhaps rather less of plot and rather more of psychology than
  the author is wont to give us, but the story has both texture and
  strength, besides being thoroughly praiseworthy in its ethical
  implications.” Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 42: 15. Ja. 1, ’07. 440w.

     + + =Ind.= 62: 501. F. 28, ’07. 220w.


* =Crawford, Francis Marion.= Little city of hope: a Christmas story.
†$1.25. Macmillan.

  A touching Christmas story which tells of an inventor’s intense
  struggle for a certain scientific triumph, how poverty blocked his way
  and how his little son constructed a model city—a miniature of the
  college town where the father had been a professor of mathematics—and
  wooed and held Hope within its tiny gates. The wife who had sought a
  position as governess is the good Christmas angel who makes final
  success a possibility.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Outlook.= 87: 623. N. 23, ’07. 70w.


=Crawford, J. H.= From fox’s earth to mountain tarn: days among the wild
animals of Scotland. **$3.50. Lane.

  The wild life of Scotland inhabiting the country from Ailsa Crag and
  the Tweed to the Shetlands is dealt with in true nature-lover fashion.
  Mr. Crawford makes a plea for the preservation of eagles, hawks,
  foxes, and various other birds of artificial sport.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Twenty-one short essays, all interesting and well written, in spite
  of a somewhat affected style.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 688. D. 1. 410w.

  “Mr. Crawford has a way of saying things that makes one think.” May
  Estelle Cook.

       + =Dial.= 41: 388. D. 1, ’06. 250w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 263. Ap. 20, ’07. 320w.

  “We find him an instructive and delightful companion, and the range
  and minuteness of his knowledge is indisputable.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 102: 489. O. 20, ’06. 850w.

  “His style is vigorous. His sentences are short. It contains some
  excellent accounts of wild life.”

       + =Spec.= 97: 216. F. 9, ’07. 90w.


=Crawford, William Henry.= Girolamo Savonarola, a prophet of
righteousness. *$1. West. Meth. bk.

                                                                7–18143.

  This volume in “The men of the kingdom” series aims “to show what
  Savonarola was as a man, and what he did as a true prophet of
  righteousness.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “President Crawford ... writes with contagious enthusiasm, though his
  style seems far from being as finished and full of color as the
  subject demands. It is certainly a far cry from Villari to Mr.
  Crawford.”

     − + =Outlook.= 86: 526. Jl. 6, ’07. 140w.


=Crawfurd, Oswald J. F.= Revelations of Inspector Morgan. †$1.50. Dodd.

                                                                7–25506.

  Four stories founded on revelations made by a Scotland Yard officer,
  “presumably the fruits of his imagination stimulated and impelled by
  Scotland Yard narratives to the defence of the professional detective
  so long over-shadowed in fiction by the popular and famous amateur.”
  (Sat. R.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Good detective stories.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 201. N. ’07.

  “Readers will find two of the four stories well up to recent standards
  of the kind; while one, ‘The kidnapped children,’ works out a motive
  which is as adequate and convincing as it is ingenious and
  unexpected.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 360w.

  “He gets himself read. Many better story tellers are less lucky.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 584. S. 28, ’07. 640w.

  “The not too exacting lover of mystery will find plenty to amuse him
  in these studies of crime, though they are somewhat naïve and crude in
  their development, and occasionally weak in detail.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 102: 53. Jl. 14, ’06. 90w.

  “We cannot say that these stories are better or worse than the flood
  of detective fiction which is just now poured so liberally on the
  reading public.”

     + − =Spec.= 96: 1044. Je. 30, ’06. 130w.


=Crawshaw, William Henry.= Making of English literature. *$1.25. Heath.

                                                                7–16385.

  “A compact yet broadly suggestive historical introduction to English
  literature for use by students and by general readers.” The subject is
  taken up in six successive periods: Paganism and Christianity
  449–1066, which treats of Anglo-Saxon poetry; Religion and romance,
  1066–1500, which includes the Anglo-Norman period and the age of
  Chaucer; Renaissance and reformation, 1500–1660, covering Shakespeare
  and Milton; Classicism, 1660–1780, including the times of Dryden, Pope
  and Johnson; Individualism 1780–1832, Burns and Wordsworth and
  Democracy and science 1832–1892, the age of Tennyson.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In individual cases ... we may take exception to Mr. Crawshaw’s
  critical estimate, but in the main he is to be commended as a sound
  guide.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 300. S. 14. 260w.

  “The present work is one of the most satisfactory of compendiums. It
  is conceived on new lines and in many respects is better adapted for
  the student and general reader than any treatise of the kind that we
  can recall. The book bears strong evidence of the influence which
  Taine has exercised upon contemporaneous literary history and
  criticism.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 35: 25. Jl. 6, ’07. 150w.

  “The critical pages are to be commended for their sanity, good
  judgment, breadth of spirit, and sympathetic comprehension.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 433. Jl. 6, ’07. 260w.

  “For the general reader, as well as for the student this is an
  illuminating book.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 568. Je. 13, ’07. 280w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 34: 383. S. ’07. 80w.

  “Our space does not permit us to go into a detailed analysis of this
  splendid book, splendid in its critical acumen, sane judgments,
  breadth of spirit, and in catholic sympathy, but we must note a point
  or two where we think the author might have improved his book. His
  treatment of the drama before Shakespeare, especially the mystery and
  morality plays, is inadequate and not compactly grouped. We are of the
  opinion, too, that many readers of the book will be inclined to
  disagree with Professor Crawshaw in his assigning Pope a place as a
  forerunner of the romantic movement. With these manifold excellences
  we doubt very much if the volume has the staying qualities necessary
  for classroom work. For the general reader it is undoubtedly an
  excellent book.” H. E. Coblentz.

     + − =School R.= 15: 624. O. ’07. 700w.


=Creighton, William Henry. P.= Steam-engine and other heat-motors. $5.
Wiley.

                                                                 7–8522.

  A text for students rather than a reference book for the practicing
  engineer. Principles are clearly stated with ample numerical examples
  and problems.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is clearly written. Among the illustrations there are rather
  too many picked up from the trade catalogues or from other books of
  similar nature. These do not always fit in well with the text. But
  otherwise, the book is excellent as to the dress given to it by the
  publishers.” Storm Bull.

     + − =Engin. N.= 57: 665. Je. 13, ’07. 1140w.

  “An examination of the book shows that it is not a vade mecum of the
  steam engine. The author has had in mind the needs of the engineering
  student, and the matter is presented in a manner which is intended to
  train the student to think.” John J. Flather.

   + + − =Technical Literature.= 2: 457. N. ’07. 930w.


=Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.= White plume. †$1.50. Dodd.

                                                                6–34687.

  Once more the horrors of the massacre of St. Bartholomew lie fresh
  upon the pages of a historial romance in which figure Henry of
  Navarre, the easy going Marguerite of Valois, the odious Queen-mother,
  the Duke of Guise, Philip of Spain, etc. “The story proper begins with
  the day of the barricades, where Francis Agnew, an agent entrusted
  with high matters by the kings of Scotland and Navarre, is also left
  dead. His daughter is aided in her extremity by a certain professor of
  the Sorbonne and a gallant young student, John d’Albret, who became
  the main actors in a love story, which runs parallel—if such a term
  may be used of a tortuous history—with the events of the wars of
  religion and the political activities and cruelties of Spanish
  inquisitors and statesmen.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “With certain deductions which seem inevitable in respect of style ...
  Mr. Crockett has handled a theme of much complexity with vivacity and
  skill; and the characterization is in his best form.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 509. O. 27. 260w.

  “Mr. Crockett has put his historical facts (duly supplemented by
  sentimental inventions) to skilful use, and made the old story quite
  readable again.” Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 42: 144. Mr. 1, ’07. 160w.

  “The book reminds us of the elder Dumas, partly because the author has
  chosen similar situations in French history upon which to found his
  story and partly because he has the old charm for spinning a tale full
  of intrigue and wild adventures.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 216. Ja. 24, ’07. 260w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 721. N. 3, ’06. 100w.

       + =Sat. R.= 102: 811. D. 29, ’06. 150w.


=Croly, Herbert David.= Houses for town or country. **$2. Duffield.

                                                                7–28610.

  In text and illustration are revealed the tendencies of architecture
  in America toward nationalization, and the causes for emancipation
  from imitation of foreign models. The typical town house, the typical
  country house and the house for all the year are discussed, attractive
  ideas are set down concerning the hall and the stairs, the
  living-room, the dining-room, the bedroom and the kitchen, and the
  house in relation to out-of-doors.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Anyone wishing to build, remodel, or decorate a house, or to plan a
  suitable garden for it, can find something suggestive and to his
  purpose ... in ‘Houses for town or country.’”

       + =Dial.= 43: 257. O. 16, ’07. 170w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 579. S. 28, ’07. 130w.

  “The inquiring layman can learn much from this exposition of
  architectural ideals, however, and if he is thinking of building a
  house either in town or country, he will do well to consult these
  pages.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 271. O. 5, ’07. 190w.

  Reviewed by Elisabeth Luther Cary.

         =Putnam’s.= 3: 360. D. ’07. 350w.


=Cromarsh, H. Ripley.= See =Angell, Bryan Mary=.


=Crook, Rev. Isaac.= John Knox: the reformer. *$1. West. Meth. bk.

                                                                7–14594.

  In this biography of Knox in the “Men of the kingdom” series, the
  author has “drawn the reformer out of a cloudy past into a clear
  modern vision.”


=Cross, Alfred W. S.= Public baths and wash houses; a treatise on their
planning, design, arrangement, and fitting. *$7.50. Scribner.

                                                                7–12686.

  A book that is conceived and executed from the view point of the
  architect rather than from that of the municipal official or the
  sanitarian.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The volume before us is a commendable one.”

     + + =Engin. N.= 57: 307. Mr. 14, ’07. 440w.

  “Unfortunately, the title is misleading in omitting to prefix the
  qualifying adjective British. In spite of its limitations, the volume
  should be on the shelves of every technical library and of every
  architect who is likely to design bath houses.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 383. O. 24, ’07. 940w.


* =Cross, Richard James=, ed. Hundred great poems. **$1.25. Holt.

  A hundred poems of the sort of merit that has stood the test of time.
  Shakespeare, Herbert, Herrick, Milton, Burns, Wordsworth, Lamb, Moore,
  Byron, Shelley, Keats, Hood, Longfellow, the Brownings, and many
  others are represented.


* =Crothers, Samuel McChord.= Making of religion. *40c. Am. Unitar.

  Mr. Crothers argues less for antiquarian research, for looking back at
  our saints and heroes than for looking forward to the unchangeable
  vision that has cheered the ages on.


=Crouse, Mary Elizabeth.= Algiers. **$2. Pott.

                                                                6–38897.

  “A book of impressions is ‘Algiers.’... The author narrates the story
  of this morning land where the East and the West have met; goes down
  into its life to discover the traces of what has been ... tells the
  romance of the palaces, describes the passing of the days, sees
  Lazarus in his rags at the gates, the orange peddlers rolled in their
  cloaks, asleep on the ground, and gives many glimpses of the native
  women whose lives are veiled like their faces.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 96. Ap. ’07.

  “Charming as this book often is, it does not bring assurance with its
  interpretations.”

     − + =Nation.= 83: 533. D. 20, ’06. 260w.

  “The book was worth writing, the task has been admirably performed and
  the pictures have much artistic merit.” Cyrus C. Adams.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 846. D. 3, ’06. 540w.


=Crowell, Norman H.= Sportsman’s primer. $1.25. Outing pub. co.

                                                                7–22732.

  Both sportsmen and scoffers will enjoy the humor of these satirical
  chapters upon football, hunting ducks, automobiling, frog catching,
  base ball, tennis, wrestling, angling, golf, dog training, moose
  hunting, bear hunting, snipe shooting, whaling and other sports.


=Crozier, John B.= Wheel of wealth, being a reconstruction of the
science and art of political economy on the lines of modern evolution.
$4.50. Longmans.

                                                                6–46262.

  A three-part work on economics illuminated by the thought “that the
  symbol of a revolving wheel is the natural symbol of the reproduction
  of wealth, and that the laws of the increase and decrease of wealth,
  as well as the immediate deduction therefrom, must be identical with,
  and so be transferable from the mathematics of a mechanical wheel of
  wealth and the science of political economy.” Part 1, treats of
  “Reconstruction;” Part 2, “Free trade and protection;” Part 3, surveys
  the “Critical and historical” aspects of the subjects, passing under
  review the English and foreign schools.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “So thoroughly is political economy ‘reconstructed’ in this modest
  volume, that we fail to recognize the battered, though regenerated,
  science. The book is as disproportioned as a monster. Vital economic
  problems are completely disregarded, other questions are treated at
  excessive length.”

       − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 633. My. ’07. 160w.

  “Dr. Crozier possesses a bright and generally intelligible, though
  perhaps occasionally rather roystering style, great learning and great
  industry. It is not a book to be hastily passed by, and should be
  studied carefully by those who disagree with it.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 191. F. 16. 1700w.

  “Eliminate the wheel; moderate the oratorical rush of the writer;
  reduce the book to a half of its length by omitting many explanations
  which really obscure, and metaphors which are none the less
  superfluous because ingenious; substitute occasionally a short
  mathematical formula for an eloquent paragraph and this book would
  take a high place in modern economical literature.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 434. D. 28, ’06. 1390w.

  “In a work which reconstructs an entire science in a single stroke, it
  is an ungrateful task to call attention to such minor defects as
  errors of fact and inference; and in a single number of the ‘Nation’
  it would be impossible to chronicle more than a small part of Mr.
  Crozier’s mistakes. It is only fair to say that the ‘Wheel of wealth,’
  like the author’s preceding works, is entertainingly written, and is
  an interesting, if not successful, addition to the books that have
  undertaken to reform the unregenerate science of political economy.”

     − + =Nation.= 84: 155. F. 14, ’07. 1810w.

  “Dr. Crozier’s own reconstruction, we confess, we have some difficulty
  in appreciating.”

       − =Spec.= 97: 176. F. 2, ’07. 1680w.


=Cruickshank, J. W., and Cruickshank, A. M.= Christian Rome. (Grant
Allen’s historical guides.) **$1.25. Wessels.

                                                                7–30815.

  A small guide to Rome which follows “the lines laid down by Mr. Grant
  Allen for his series of historical guide-books, of which the present
  volume forms a part. His idea was to concentrate the reader’s
  attention only on what is essential, important, and typical. Hence the
  compilers have made no attempt to catalogue every church and work of
  art connected with Christian Rome.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In plan than which there are none better.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 162. O. ’07.

  “Especially valuable for the Vatican galleries.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 1358. Je. 6, ’07. 60w.

  “An admirably practical guide.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 525. Jl. 6, ’07. 100w.


=Cruickshank, J. W., and Cruickshank, A. M.= Umbrian cities of Italy.
2v. il. $3. Page.

                                                                7–30814.

  A guide-book, yet it withholds information about the details of
  travel. “The authors’ method is to give a brief history of the region,
  and also of each city, from which the traveler may form an idea of the
  states of civilization under which the various art treasures of each
  locality were produced and of the people who made them. Then follow
  descriptions and studies of monuments, churches, museums, and their
  contents. The books are not intended to take the place of an ordinary
  guide book nor to furnish catalogues of collections. The aim of the
  authors has been to supplement these by giving such a background of
  history and tradition and of biographical coloring as will make the
  objects studied stand out before the traveler full of meaning and
  suggestion.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The plans for the identification of particular pictures in lavishly
  decorated churches or other buildings should prove very useful.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 383. O. 24, ’07. 130w.

  “Through the descriptions are scattered many bits of criticism which
  give to them just the personal, companionable note that most travelers
  will enjoy.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 638. O. 19, ’07. 190w.


=Cruttwell, Maud.= Antonio Pollaiuolo. *$2. Scribner.

                                                                7–28946.

  A comprehensive review of the work of this famous Italian draughtsman
  meets a definite need. “One of Miss Cruttwell’s main objects has been
  to draw a clear distinction between the two brothers Antonio and
  Piero, whose works are commonly classed together and whom ordinarily
  well-informed persons find it difficult to separate in their minds....
  The book contains as an appendix all the known ‘documents’ bearing on
  the brothers Pollaiuolo, and there is a complete catalogue of their
  admitted works.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The illustrations are excellent, and the appendix, consisting of
  documents relating to the life, list of works and bibliography, makes
  the book of extreme value to students. The latter, however, is not so
  free from printer’s errors as is the text.”

   + + − =Acad.= 72: 208. Mr. 2, ’07. 1170w.

  “One of the most scholarly as well as most readable art books issued
  in many a day; and no doubt it will long remain the authoritative
  treatise on the Pollaiuoli.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 1175. N. 14, ’07. 340w.

  “A book of permanent value to students.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 38. F. 1, ’07. 1210w.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 85. F. 9, ’07. 1270w. (Reprinted from Lond.
         Times.)

  “Has permanent value.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 859. Ap. 13, ’07. 260w.


=Cruttwell, Maud.= Guide to the paintings in the Florentine galleries,
the Uffizi, the Pitti, the Accademia. $1.25. Dutton.

                                                                7–33970.

  Miss Cruttwell has subtracted many of the commonplace guide book
  features, among them descriptions, but yet supplies the necessary
  facts of information in clear time-saving form. She says that her book
  is not a catalog for use in galleries but a reference volume for the
  student. It is timely in view of the recent changes made in the three
  galleries of Florence.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Of the miniature ‘reproductions’ with which this neat and handy
  volume is illustrated, we cannot speak with unqualified praise.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 672. Je. 1. 410w.

         =N. Y. Times=. 12: 551. S. 14, ’07. 90w.

  “All the defects of her latest book, however, can be easily removed in
  another edition.”

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 613. Jl. 20, ’07. 380w.


=Cundall, H. M.= Birket Foster, R. W. S. il. *$6. Macmillan.

                                                                7–28516.

  An artistic and descriptive volume of the life of one of the foremost
  representatives of the English school of water color painting. His
  landscapes, his studies of peasant and farm life, and his
  architectural reproductions all bespeak a genius that has tested its
  work by the artist’s standards and found it good. To Americans he is
  best known for his illustrations to “Evangeline.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Ath.= 1907, 1: 52. Ja. 12. 1200w.

  “Its author has had exceptional facilities for dealing successfully
  with his subject and has turned them to account with no little tact
  and skill.”

     + + =Int. Studio.= 31: 81. Mr. ’07. 340w.

  “It is a beautifully illustrated, gossipy book, which carries the
  reader back to the early days of pictorial journalism in England.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 34: 341. Mr. 2, ’07. 390w.

     + + =Nation.= 84: 322. Ap. 4, ’07. 130w.

  “In all this series there is not a more attractive volume.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 76. F. 9, ’07. 450w.

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 857. Ap. 13, ’07. 140w.

  “Somehow we cannot reconcile ourselves to Birket Foster in the form in
  which he is here reproduced. Mr. Cundall brings to bear on his work
  plenty of enthusiasm of the right kind, and is thoroughly appreciative
  of the exquisite art of his man, but the book as a whole leaves us
  uncontent.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 102: 780. D. 22, ’06. 110w.


=Cunningham, William.= Wisdom of the wise, three lectures on free trade
imperialism. *60c. Putnam.

                                                                6–33507.

  “The three ‘wise’ men whose views upon imperialism and trade policy
  are discussed in these lectures are Right Hon. R. B. Haldane, Mr. St.
  Loe Stachey, and Lord Rosebery.... The first of these essays discusses
  English classical free-trade economics.... The second essay is devoted
  to a discussion of free-trade imperialism, with reference especially
  to Mr. Stachey’s views.... The last essay is a commentary upon Lord
  Rosebery’s utterances upon the problem of the unemployed.”—J. Pol.
  Econ.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The analysis is dispassionate, and the author shows a desire to take
  his opponents at their best.”

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 634. My. ’07. 100w.

  “There is much interesting economic speculation in these essays. The
  argument would, however, be more convincing if less apologetic.”

     + − =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 523. O. ’06. 350w.

  Reviewed by Alvin S. Johnson.

       + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 718. D. ’06. 450w.

  “Innuendoes against colleagues and political opponents are not atoned
  for by pulpit platitudes on religion and political life. Irrelevance
  and confusion are worsened, and bettered, when advanced under the
  cloak of a distinguished reputation. The role of political pamphleteer
  is not, in short, adapted to Dr. Cunningham’s genius.”

       − =Spec.= 96: 1042. Je. 30, ’06. 1700w.


=Cunynghame, Henry H. S.= European enamels. (Connoisseur’s lib., no. 9.)
*$6.75. Macmillan.

                                                                6–41011.

  The third edition of Mr. Cunynghame’s work on enamels, in which he has
  included a chapter on a new kind of furnace invented by himself.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Cunynghame has absorbed the whole history of his subject and sets
  it before us in so convenient and graceful a way as to make his volume
  one of the most charming of an excellent series.”

       + =Acad.= 72: 22. Ja. 5, ’07. 300w.

  “On questions relating to the history of enamel the author helps us
  hardly at all. He supplies only scraps of comment drawn from various
  sources. His style is discursive, and at times it is impossible to
  take seriously his ideas on art matters generally.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 520. O. 27. 980w.

  “A book that will not stand the test of criticism.”

       − =Dial.= 42: 230. Ap. 1, ’07. 340w.

  “Beautiful and instructive volume.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 225. Jl. 25, ’07. 240w.

  “A very interesting, and on the whole, reliable work on the subject.”

       + =Int. Studio.= 30: 184. D. ’06. 450w.

  “The worst fault, however, from the connoisseur’s point of view, is
  the absence of a bibliography. Credit must be given him for a real
  knowledge of materials and processes, and what he has to say on
  these ... is extremely valuable.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 370. N. 2, ’06. 460w.

  “We close the volume with the feeling that enthusiasm for the art and
  knowledge of its character are to be gained by a faithful study of
  these pages. The not very attractive photographic plates are at least
  useful. It is altogether a good book for the beginner.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 418. My. 2, ’07. 620w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 113. F. 23, ’07. 560w.

  “A valuable volume.”

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 858. Ap. 13, ’07. 130w.


=Cunynghame, Henry H. S.= Time and clocks: a description of ancient and
modern methods of measuring time. *$1.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–11023.

  “Mr. Cunynghame, after discussing the subject of time generally,
  proceeds to describe the sun-dial, the water-clock (with a notice of
  the complication caused by the division of the day into twelve hours),
  and sand-glasses. In due course he comes to clocks in their various
  forms.”—Spec.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “If Mr. Cunynghame had stuck to his subject, a valuable book might
  have resulted, and it need not have been any shorter than the one
  actually in hand.”

     − + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 20. Ja. 5. 500w.

  “We rather fear that the reader who has not gone through a course of
  dynamics will find it hard to grasp the significance of the various
  discussions, despite the clear reasoning and simple examples, whilst
  to the science student a greater part of the matter is unnecessary.”
  W. E. R.

     + − =Nature.= 75: 269. F. 17, ’07. 160w.

  “A very interesting book it is, though in spots disconcertingly
  mathematical.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 476. Ag. 3, ’07. 1090w.

  “He is always scientific, and discusses the principle of the technical
  contrivances which he describes.”

       + =Spec.= 97: 1051. D. 22, ’06. 60w.


=Curtis, Carleton Clarence.= Nature and development of plants. *$2.50.
Holt.

                                                                7–34596.

  A work which has less of the text-book aim than that of creating for
  the student a viewpoint. It is put forth with the hope that the
  discussion “will give the student such comprehension of the subject
  that he will come to the lecture room in a proper attitude and that he
  will approach his laboratory work with the desire for investigation.”


=Curtis, Natalie=, ed. Indians’ book: an offering by the American
Indians of Indian lore, musical and narrative, to form a record of the
songs and legends of their race. il. **$7.50. Harper.

                                                                7–31183.

  A most handsomely made book, “undertaken primarily for the Indians, in
  the hope that this, their own volume, when placed in the hands of
  their children, might help to revive for the younger generation that
  sense of the dignity and worth of their race which is the Indian’s
  birth-right.” “The book reflects the soul of one of the types of
  primitive man.... It is the direct utterance of the Indians
  themselves. The red man dictated and the white friend recorded.” The
  songs, stories and drawings have been contributed by Indians
  themselves.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “To most of its white readers the book will be a revelation of the
  vaguely stirring genius and the art, mystic in its intent, spontaneous
  in its symbolism, of a child race.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 382. D. 1, ’07. 640w.

  “It must be said in general that the poems, stories, and tunes
  collected by Miss Curtis have the true aboriginal flavor.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 428. N. 7, ’07. 750w.

  “For herself makes claim only to the work of the recorder. But even
  the cursory reader will see that she deserves, in addition, much
  credit for the noble purpose by which she has been animated, the tact
  and patience with which she has carried the work through successfully,
  and the painstaking labor which has been involved.” F. F. Kelly.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 646. O. 19, ’07. 1170w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 10w.

  “The appeal of the book is to the lover of folk-lore, to the musician,
  to the student of primitive art, and to all who would know about the
  Indian character and the Indian traditions.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 558. O. 19, ’07. 160w.

  “A noteworthy contribution to the descriptive literature of vanishing
  peoples.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 637. N. ’07. 280w.


=Curtis, Newton Martin.= From Bull Run to Chancellorsville: the story of
the Sixteenth New York infantry with personal reminiscences. **$2.
Putnam.

                                                                6–27984.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The historian’s research into archives has been faithful and
  laborious; but it is more than rivalled by this loving quest of
  tear-bedewed letters from the front, and recollections of actual
  survivors.”

     + + =Cath. World.= 85: 685. Ag. ’07. 430w.

  “In its human interest, a volume like this finds its value and its
  justification.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 620. Mr. 14, ’07. 300w.


=Cust, Lionel.= Van Dyck. (Great masters in painting and sculpture.)
$1.75. Macmillan.

                                                                W 7–162.

  “An abridged and revised version of the exhaustive volume on the life
  and work of Van Dyck published six years ago by Mr. Lionel Cust, whose
  erudition is now placed within the reach of a wider public.... The
  illustrations are well-chosen and adequately reproduced, and though we
  could wish the list of paintings included those in private as well as
  those in public collections, the book must be pronounced in every way
  a worthy addition to a series remarkable for its convenience and
  authority.”—Acad.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “As an authoritative account of a painter whose work is richly
  represented in this country, Mr. Cust’s condensed volume should find a
  place in the library of every connoisseur.”

       + =Acad.= 72: 162. F. 16, ’07. 130w.

  “The addition of new facts which have recently come to light bring the
  book up to the level of present-day knowledge.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 140w.


* =Cutting, Mrs. Mary Stewart.= Suburban whirl. †$1.25. McClure.

                                                                7–33206.

  Includes “The suburban whirl” and several shorter sketches which
  contain tangible precipitates from every-day happenings in home
  routine. The titular story shows how in attempting to solve the
  question of providing for three on a slender income two charming young
  people try suburban life. “They find themselves speedily caught in the
  small local maelstrom of clubs and dinners and subscription dances,
  obliged to buy tickets to church festivals and charitable
  entertainments, and double their expenditures on personal effects, in
  order to live up to their new standards.” (Bookm.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “One of the many well-deserved forms of praise that may be offered be
  Mrs. Cutting ... is that her instinct for economy of structure is
  almost flawless. A larger number [of characters] would have spoiled
  the illusion of a small suburban town; a smaller number would not have
  conveyed a sense of a social whirl in the suburbs of anywhere else. In
  short, she has struck the golden mean, which makes this little story
  as admirable for its symmetry as it is for the simple philosophy of
  its culmination.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

     + + =Bookm.= 26: 407. D. ’07. 430w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.




                                   D


=Dale, Robert W.= History of English Congregationalism. **$4. Armstrong.

  A book by one of England’s most commanding nonconformists which is
  written for Congregationalists but which will interest “Episcopalians
  and Presbyterians especially, as well as all Americans to whom the
  development of religious freedom and the delimitation of the spheres
  of church and state form an attractive subject.” (Outlook.) “He tells
  the life-history of a cause which suffered contempt and cruel
  oppression, and of which he was the latest—and the most
  eloquent—exponent.... So much only of political history is given as is
  absolutely necessary for his purpose.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “By this book the author has erected a worthy monument to his own
  memory; but it must not be forgotten that without another’s labour it
  would never have seen the light. The manner in which the work of
  arrangement, of revision, of completion, and of illustration has been
  performed by his son demands separate, if brief recognition. In
  discretion, taste, and literary ability it is altogether admirable.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 567. My. 11. 2030w.

  “Let us say at once that for thoroughness of treatment and for
  exactness of detail there is no work known to us on this subject which
  approaches the volume now produced by Principal Dale out of the
  materials which his father left.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 92. Mr. 22, ’07. 1300w.

  “For a historical understanding of the peculiarities of religious life
  in England this history is eminently instructive.”

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 748. Ag. 3, ’07. 320w.

  “In taking leave of a very able book we cannot but express our
  thankfulness that Professor Dale has been able to preserve unimpaired
  for the students of church history a valuable work which might have
  lost much by the too early death of its author.”

     + + =Spec.= 99: 22. Jl. 6, ’07. 1310w.


=D’Alton, Rev. John A.= History of Ireland from the earliest times to
the present day. 3v. v. 2, from 1547 to 1782. *$3. Benziger.

  Covers the ground from the earliest period down to the present day,
  and “aims not to contribute anything original in the way of research
  or criticism, but to produce a popular history by judicious selection
  of the best materials that his predecessors have furnished.” (Cath.
  World.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Being both a learned and an honest man, he seldom misstates facts,
  and is ready to face them as he understands them; but one cannot read
  twenty pages of the book without feeling that he is a Roman Catholic,
  and takes the standpoint of that church as his own. These flaws do not
  prevent the book before us from contrasting very favorably with
  various Irish histories which have come under our notice.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 628. My. 25. 1560w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “He is simple, clear, and at times, picturesque. The temper of the
  work is fairly critical, though not unfrequently our author does not
  acquaint his readers with the existence of an opinion at variance with
  the one he favors.”

     + − =Cath. World.= 85: 248. My. ’07. 480w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “Father D’Alton has few graces of style, but he is workmanlike, and is
  wise to avoid rhetoric. On the whole, what impresses us most is his
  impartiality; he desires to get at the truth and tell it plainly. His
  view would be broader if he had entered more closely into English
  history.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 620. My. 18, ’07. 1570w. (Review of v. 2.)


=Dalton, William.= Dalton’s complete bridge. **$1.25. Stokes.

                                                                6–30000.

  The most recent and authoritative work on bridge, written by the great
  British expert.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We are still waiting for the Cavendish of bridge, but books like this
  help to pave the way for his arrival.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 99. Jl. 28. 550w.

  “A treatise which leaves nothing to be desired on the score of
  thoroughness.”

       + =Dial.= 41: 463. D. 16, ’06. 50w.

     + − =Nation.= 83: 393. N. 8, ’06. 100w.

  Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 866. D. 15, ’06. 90w.


=Daly, Thomas Augustine.= Canzoni. *$1. Catholic standard and times pub.
co.

                                                                6–38398.

  “Mr. T. A. Daly’s dagoes, his darkies, and his Irishmen all satisfy
  one’s sense of verity. Of the dialect verses in this volume, those
  dealing with the humor and sentiment of the humble Italian life in our
  large cities make up the larger portion.... In his Irish verses there
  is something of the quality of Samuel Lover, an Old World flavor in
  the wit and lilt as well.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Daly is happy, likewise, in his poems of love and home, which are
  always true and sound. What is most admirable throughout the volume is
  the union of wit, humor, or sprightliness, as the case may be, with a
  genuine respect for all that is pure, sweet, tender, manly, and
  noble.”

     + + =Cath. World.= 85: 547. Jl. ’07. 860w.

  “Contains some unusually good light verse, mostly dialect, part of it
  Irish, part Italian. Both are handled skillfully.”

       + =Ind.= 61: 1497. D. 20, ’06. 250w.

  “The pervading wholesome spirit particularly commends this book.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 692. O. 20, ’06. 270w.


=Dampier, William.= Voyages, ed. by John Masefield. 2v. *$7.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–26474.

  “A new and attractive edition in two volumes, with portrait, maps, and
  a brief sketch of Dampier’s life of the editor.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Acad.= 72: 187. F. 23, ’07. 1860w.

  “The ‘Voyages’ here presented in two handy volumes, at a comparatively
  low price, are full of popular interest and romance. They are far more
  stirring reading than many a belauded work of modern fiction.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 472. Ap. 20. 300w.

  “In Mr. Masefield’s reprint the type is clear and the editing
  generally excellent. The introductory memoir might indeed have been
  fuller for Admiral Smyth’s standard biographical sketch in the United
  service journal is now seventy years old, and no longer easy to find.
  From Mr. Masefield’s index we miss several entries, among them the
  name of Selkirk.” Lane Cooper.

   + + − =Dial.= 43: 205. O. 1, ’07. 2420w.

       + =Outlook.= 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 160w.

  “A carefully annotated edition.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 148. F. 2, ’07. 240w.


=Dana, John Cotton, and Kent, Henry W.= Literature of libraries in the
17th and 18th centuries. 6v. *$12. McClurg.

  =v. 3 and 4.= These volumes of this series deal respectively with “The
  life of Sir Thomas Bodley, written by himself, together with the first
  draft of the statutes of the public library at Oxon,” and “Two tracts
  on the founding and maintaining of parochial libraries in Scotland,”
  by James Kirkwood.

  =v. 5.= This is “A brief outline of the history of libraries” by
  Justus Lipsius, translated from the second edition, the last from the
  hand of the author, by John Cotton Dana. The library of Osymandyas of
  Egypt is the first to be mentioned, then follows the brief history of
  other Egyptian libraries, of Grecian and of Roman collections. Two
  chapters in closing are devoted to historic library decoration, book
  cases, shelves, tables and seats.

  =v. 6.= The concluding volume of this series is entitled “News from
  France,” or “A description of the library of Cardinal Mazarin,”
  preceded by “The surrender of the library,” two tracts written by
  Gabriel Naudé.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 616. N. 16. 290w. (Review of v. 5 and 6.)

  Reviewed by Laurence Burnham.

       + =Bookm.= 24: 639. F. ’07. 390w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “The contents of the last volumes easily sustain the high standard of
  the previous books in the series and indeed are of even greater
  interest to the layman as well as the librarian.” Laurence Burnham.

     + + =Bookm.= 26: 101. S. ’07. 470w. (Review of v. 3–6.)

  “As a whole, this series promises to be a delight to the bibliophile
  as well as to the librarian.” Percy F. Bicknell.

     + + =Dial.= 42: 73. F. 1, ’07. 1350w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

       + =Dial.= 43: 41. Jl. 16, ’07. 450w. (Review of v. 5 and 6.)

  “Both volumes will have antiquarian value for those engaged in library
  pursuits to-day. And the dignified sketch of Bodley’s life has also a
  general human interest.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 243. Mr. 14, ’07. 110w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)

       + =Nation.= 84: 564. Je. 20, ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 5 and 6.)

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 548. S. 14, ’07. 150w. (Review of v. 5 and
         6.)


=Dane, John Colin.= Champion: the story of a motor-car; il. by W. E.
Webster. †$1.50. Dillingham.

                                                                7–15596.

  The autobiography of a motor-car, which is full of the love,
  adventure, and treachery of its several possessors. “The difference
  between this and the well-known autobiography of a horse, ‘Black
  Beauty,’ is in some respects typical of the changes in our own time
  since the mid-Victorian era.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is crude and sensational, but the story moves forward with spirit,
  and certain exciting scenes in it are well realized; for instance,
  that in the great motor-car race in France.”

     − + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 536. My. 4. 130w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 100w.


=Daniels, Frank T.= A text-book of topographical drawing. (Technical
drawing ser.) *$1.50. Heath.

                                                                 7–8517.

  “The first chapter deals briefly and concisely with the instruments
  and materials required in topographic drafting. The next two chapters
  take up the subject of paper and of plotting. The remaining chapters
  take up the subjects of drafting and the symbols used in drafting
  topographic maps, in ink and in colors, and the methods of
  representing surface form. This is followed by a brief treatise on
  earthwork and earthwork computation.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Here is a book that makes a field of its own, and for which there is
  a place on shelves of all engineers and surveyors who have to do with
  topographic drafting. The book is concisely and clearly written. In
  reviewing so well written a text-book it seems ungracious to be
  critical over trifles.”

   + + − =Engin. N.= 58: 78. Jl. 18, ’07. 750w.


=Danneel, Heinrich.= Electrochemistry; v. 1, Theoretical
electrochemistry and its physico-chemical foundations; tr. from the
Sammlung Göschen by Edmund S. Merriam. *$1.25. Wiley.

                                                                 7–7516.

  =v 1.= Treats of the modern theories of electrochemistry, as well as
  their physicochemical foundations. Explains the terms work, current,
  and voltage, and discusses gas laws, osmotic pressure, theory of
  electrolytic dissociation and conductivity, ionic theory,
  electromotive force, the galvanic current, polarization, electrolysis
  and the electron theory.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The average student who is called upon to study the ionic theory will
  obtain, we venture to think, a better grip of the subject by a study
  of Danneel’s book than from that of Abegg. The latter book treats the
  subject more fully but Danneel’s style is more interesting, and he
  leaves none of the salient facts out.”

     + + =Nature.= 76: 380. Ag. 15, ’07. 200w. (Review of pt. 1.)

  “This volume ... contains a surprising amount of fact and information
  within a very small compass. The translation is vigorous and clear.”
  Arthur B. Lamb.

   + + − =Science=, n. s. 26: 170. Ag. 9, ’07. 260w. (Review of pt. 1.)


=Dante Alighieri.= Divine comedy and The new life; ed. with introd. and
notes by Oscar Kuhns, lea. $1.25. Crowell.

  An edition uniform with the “Thin paper poets,” which with its
  introduction, bibliography and notes will serve to give a new impulse
  to the study of Dante.


=Dargan, Olive Tilford.= Lords and lovers and other dramas. **$1.50.
Scribner.

  “‘Lords and lovers’ is a romantic play in two parts of the time of
  Henry III. of England. It is as readable ... as a good novel, while it
  has the added charm of workmanlike and impressive blank verse and of
  dramatic situations, possibly not actable, yet conceived with a fine
  theatrical unction.... The second play, ‘The Shepherd,’ is in prose.
  It is a powerful presentation of contemporary Russian life, conceived
  with real force and imagination, though weakened as a work of art—as
  is also the concluding play, ‘The Siege,’—by an obvious concession to
  the desire of the sentimental reader for a measurably happy
  consummation.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Such verse as this leaves no room for criticism. It bears the visible
  mark of the divine gift, and there is no poet of our time who might
  not be proud to claim it for his own.” Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 42: 253. Ap. 16, ’07. 540w.

     + − =Nation.= 83: 439. N. 22, ’06. 570w.

  Reviewed by Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 30. Ja. 19, ’07. 880w.

  “Mrs. Dargan is a poet, not a great one, because not original, though
  she is decidedly individual.” James Huneker.

       + =No. Am.= 184: 190. Ja. 18, ’07. 1410w.

  “If one were asked to say wherein the chief weakness lay, one would
  feel that one had acquired no new or individual point of view from the
  reading, and that there was no serious comment upon life.” Louise
  Collier Willcox.

     + − =No. Am.= 186: 95. S. ’07. 280w.

  “There are abundant signs of immaturity in the first book of plays,
  and only a very young writer would have attempted the dramatization of
  such a character and experience as Poe’s; but there are also
  indisputable marks of original force of mind and imagination; the
  quality of promise which comes from strength and vitality rather than
  from facility and sensibility.”

     + − =Outlook.= 85: 328. F. 9, ’07. 1320w.

  “[The reader] cannot be unconscious of certain defects of plot. Mrs.
  Dargan’s great strength lies in the personality with which she invests
  her characters and in her remarkable command of blank verse.” Jessie
  B. Rittenhouse.

   + + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 349. Je. ’07. 300w.


=Davenport, Charles Benedict.= Inheritance in poultry. pa. $1. Carnegie
inst.

                                                                6–27702.

  Mr. Davenport has made an application of Mendelian principles to
  inheritance similar to that carried out by Saunders, Hurst and Bateson
  in England. “In part, however, he has studied different characters and
  races, and has been able to add many new and important facts to those
  already known. The present work is, however, to be looked upon rather
  as a preliminary—a first installment of the extensive experiments
  under way at Cold Spring Harbor.” (Science.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This is a valuable addition to the rapidly-increasing literature
  dealing with the subject of inheritance. There are a few marks of
  carelessness in the text.” F. A. D.

   + + − =Nature.= 74: 583. O. 11, ’06. 330w.

  “The facts are presented with admirable clearness and conciseness, and
  despite the large number of details that the subject demands the
  matter is handled in a very attractive way.” T. H. Morgan.

   + + + =Science=, n. s. 25: 464. Mr. 22, ’07. 1220w.


=Davenport, Frances Gardiner.= Economic development of a Norfolk manor,
1086–1565. *$3. Putnam.

                                                                6–37953.

  The subject of Miss Davenport’s study has been the court rolls of the
  manor of Forncett, near Norwich, which formed a part of the estate of
  the Earls of Norfolk. She carries it thru five centuries, and affords
  her readers an opportunity to follow in Forncett’s complex history the
  agricultural history of a great part of England.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “With no theory to establish and no prejudice to maintain, she
  gathered all the information that could be procured relating to a
  single Norfolk manor, arranged it logically, and thus furnished a
  contribution to our knowledge of medieval economic conditions that is
  thoroughly trustworthy.” Thomas Walker Page.

     + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 609. Ap. ’07. 720w.

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 153. Jl. ’07. 330w.

  “This is an extremely unpretentious, but none the less very remarkable
  piece of work. We commend specially to the attention of students the
  map of Forncett which accompanies this book.”

     + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 125. Ag. 4. 810w.

  “The care with which the author has done her work is worthy of all
  praise. Her calculations and tables are correct to a fraction. This
  accuracy of inquiry bears fruit in a series of results with which
  every student of economic history will have to reckon. The writer is
  not so safe a guide in regard to the social and legal side of the
  inquiry, and this is due partly to her insufficient use of the help to
  be obtained from comparison with kindred cases.” P. Vinogradoff.

   + + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 154. Ja. ’07. 1370w.

     + + =Ind.= 63: 692. S. 19, ’07. 260w.

  “This essay publishes the results of painstaking and scholarly
  original research.”

       + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 59. Ja. ’07. 80w.

  “In the certainty and precision of statement that comes from an
  unusual knowledge of the minute detail of her subject lies the value
  of Miss Davenport’s study of Forncett.”

     + + =Nation.= 83: 267. S. 27, ’06. 480w.

  “Valuable as an analysis of a typical community.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 101. F. 16, ’07. 60w.

  “Though it leaves many questions unanswered, and though in some
  respects the picture is not as clear as we might wish—the sokeman
  still remaining something of a puzzle—we can but feel content with a
  work that is in the highest degree painstaking and scholarly.” Charles
  M. Andrews.

   + + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 726. D. ’07. 1060w.

  “The full value of it will appear only as other studies of a similar
  kind are published with which comparisons may be made. Meanwhile it
  remains a model of the way in which such work should be done. The
  material has been collected and examined with painstaking
  thoroughness, and has been written up with admirable discrimination.”
  C. D.

     + + =Yale R.= 16: 211. Ag. ’07. 720w.


=Davey, Richard Patrick Boyle.= Pageant of London; with 40 il. in color
by John Fulleylove. 2v. *$5. Pott.

                                                                W 6–228.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The whole book is inaccurate and slipshod. Mr. Fulleylove’s charming
  illustrations deserved a better surrounding.” C. L. K.

     − + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 206. Ja. ’07. 370w.


=Davidson, Gladys.= Stories from the operas. 2d ser. *$1.25. Lippincott.

  Here “Wagner is represented by only two of his operas—‘Parsifal’ and
  ‘Die Meistersinger.’ Of the other operas whose stories are told by
  her, four—Gounod’s ‘Philemon and Baucis,’ Meyerbeer’s ‘Star of the
  north,’ Halévy’s ‘The Jewess,’ and Bellini’s ‘La sonnambula’—have
  practically disappeared from the stage, while a fifth, Tchaikovsky’s
  ‘Eugene Onegin,’ has never become acclimated outside of Russia. The
  others in the list are popular favorites of today and likely to remain
  so for some time. Their plots are told by the author in the form of
  short stories without reference to the stage or the music.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Nation.= 85: 404. O. 31, ’07. 100w.

  “The value of the book might have been materially increased had the
  author boiled down each plot-story and given us all the standard
  operas instead of merely a selected number.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 677. O. 26, ’07. 180w.


=Davidson, John.= Holiday and other poems. *$1. Dutton.

  The technical experiments which the form of Mr. Davidson’s poetry
  abounds in, are fully in keeping with the venturesomeness of his
  themes and ideas. “He has nothing to do with civilization, except to
  denounce and defy it; his self-chosen part is that of the upsetter of
  all equanimities, the denier of all commonly accepted creeds,
  conventions, and traditions.” (Lond. Times.) “The very title of the
  book is manifold in its meaning. Life is a holiday, and the holiday of
  holidays is the final liberty torn by the spirit out of its material
  servitudes.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is evident that what he lacks mostly is discipline and that
  austerity and economy of language which go with it. The fault looks
  straight out of the verse, and it is equally noticeable in his essay,
  which rambles over the whole universe of thought, touching on many
  things of which Mr. Davidson speaks with no authority and yet
  containing many interesting and suggestive things. Here we have
  extravagance both of thought and expression. It is the outpouring of
  an uncurbed, undisciplined, and vain mind.”

     − + =Acad.= 71: 77. Jl. 28, ’06. 2000w.

  “This volume ought to win for Mr. Davidson the wider audience that he
  deserves. But his anarchic violence and metaphysical eccentricity are
  still rocks of offence, and he is not the sort of man who is easily
  taught or tamed.”

     + − =Ath.= 1966, 2: 151. Ag. 11. 1990w.

  “In the closing passage of this ‘Note,’ Mr. Davidson, after a tribute
  to Poe, enlarges upon America in general, and makes it evident that he
  has been ‘seeing things.’” Wm. M. Payne.

       − =Dial.= 42: 254. Ap. 16, ’07. 240w.

  “His essay is a most stimulating and interesting piece of work. With
  all its eccentricities, it does the most useful thing criticism can
  do: it increases our sense of the greatness of poetry.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 281. Ag. 17, ’06. 1550w.

     + − =Nation.= 84: 200. F. 28, ’07. 180w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 172. Mr. 23, ’07. 640w.

  “In his prose, however, as in his verse, Mr. Davidson betrays a touch
  of rodomontade, a want of balance, and the vice of self-consciousness.
  He disappoints by a certain want of grip. His hands seem ever to be
  sliding over a hard surface. This criticism, none the less, must not
  be taken as disparagement. If not the poet of the future, he is a
  forerunner—one of the minor prophets.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 102: 304. S. 8, ’06. 1460w.

  “Mr. Davidson’s fault is that he is inclined at times to torture his
  fancy into conceits. He can draw wonderful little vignettes of
  landscape; but he can also describe nature in a way so painfully
  ‘literary’ that our teeth are set on edge. Colour, imagination, and
  fire are rarely absent from his lines, and above all he has the
  singer’s supreme gift of the infallible ear.”

     + − =Spec.= 97: 296. S. 1, ’06. 340w.


=Davidson, Thomas.= Philosophy of Goethe’s Faust; ed. by Charles M.
Bakewell. *60c. Ginn.

                                                                6–45070.

  Mr. Davidson tells in these six lectures what the poem has come to
  mean to him, and has sought to lay bare its “philosophical or ethical
  skeleton.” Speaking of the poem, he says: “Its content, I believe, is
  the entire spiritual movement toward individual emancipation, composed
  of the Teutonic reformation and the Italian Renaissance in all their
  history, scope, and consequences.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The merit of the book is that it presents an individual point of
  view, and is not merely a gathering from the opinions of previous
  critics and commentators; while its defects arise, to some extent at
  least, from this very quality of independence. However, many of Mr.
  Davidson’s ideas are interesting, and some of his remarks on single
  passages are really thoughtful and illuminating, although his work,
  taken in its entirety, is, we think more acceptable as an exposition
  of his own philosophy than of Goethe’s.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 153. Ag. 10. 390w.

  “The book is too slight to deal thoroughly with ‘Faust’ or its
  philosophy, and many a reader will be more interested in what Mr.
  Davidson betrays of his own opinions than in what he says about
  Goethe’s.” G. Santayana.

     + − =J. Philos.= 14: 106. F. 14, ’07. 880w.

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 74. Mr. 8, ’07. 1660w.

  “It would almost seem that Mr. Davidson has done his work as guide too
  thoroughly. He overloads his interpretations with meanings, he scents
  symbolism everywhere, and constructs a philosophy of ‘Faust’ which,
  though interesting and instructive in itself, can hardly be proved to
  have been in the poet’s mind. It holds the reader’s interest from
  beginning to end, and arouses in him a keen desire to take up his
  ‘Faust’ again, which is, after all, the most important function of a
  book of this kind.” Frank Thilly.

   + + − =Philos. R.= 16: 552. S. ’07. 360w.


=Davidson, William L.= Stoic creed. *$1.75. Scribner.

  “The book is divided into three main ‘sections,’ followed by an
  appendix on ‘Pragmatism and humanism.’ The first section deals with
  ‘Moulding influences and leaders of the school,’ and shows how
  stoicism is mainly derived, on its ethical side, from the impulse of
  Socrates and the sophists. The second section, on ‘Stoic science and
  speculation,’ contains chapters dealing with the conception of
  philosophy, the logic and epistemology, the physics and cosmology, of
  the school, concluding with a chapter on the atomic theory of Epicurus
  in its relation to stoicism. The third section has for its title
  ‘Morality and religion,’ and occupies about half the book. It
  contains, in addition to a detailed exposition of the ethical system
  and its relation to cynicism, some useful pages of criticism, in which
  the defects of the system are indicated; and an interesting chapter
  entitled ‘Present-day value of stoicism,’ in which the dicta of
  eminent moderns, such as M. Arnold and Renan, concerning the stoic
  moralists are examined and appreciated.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “On the present-day value of stoicism and on its aspects as the
  precursor of much modern theory, Professor Davidson writes admirably
  in his excellent volume. It is no dry-as-dust treatise compact of
  dates and uncompromising facts. It is a sympathetic study of the
  history and development of the stoic philosophy which no student can
  afford to neglect.”

     + + =Acad.= 73: 918. S. 21, ’07. 770w.

  “The book shows a competent knowledge of the subject and a gift of
  clear exposition. Occasionally, however, the writing is rather loose.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 37. Jl. 13. 400w.

  “A most important chapter in the history of thought on the great
  problems of the world is embodied in this discriminating and
  interesting volume.”

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 836. Ag. 17, ’07. 320w.


=Davies, A. C. Fox-.= Dangerville, inheritance. †$1.50. Lane.

                                                                6–40211.

  “This differs from most other detective tales in being the story of a
  mystery rather than the glorification of a detective. It also differs
  from them in keeping the solution from even the reader until the last
  page. Lord and Lady Dangerville seem to have been magnetised to
  attract mysteries, and mysteries of no mean radius.”—Acad.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “For the lovers of Sherlock Holmes ‘The Dangerville inheritance’ will
  be a fine detective story; but as an unusual drama of human life, and
  as an excellently told history it will have a more discriminating
  audience.”

       + =Acad.= 71: 553. D. 1, ’06. 180w.

  “The whole story is too preposterous to be taken seriously.” Frederic
  Taber Cooper.

       − =Bookm.= 25: 393. Je. ’07. 280w.

  “The final outcome is slightly irritating from its shock to one’s
  sense of probability.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 237. Ap. 13, ’07. 90w.


=Davies, A. C. Fox-.= Mauleverer murders. †$1.50. Lane.

                                                                7–27614.

  Mystery and plot abound in this story. “The heroine leads a double
  life, and is suspected of leading a triple or quadruple one. Sums like
  £150,000 are juggled with airily as feathers; the properties include
  bicycles, revolvers, knotted cords, strychnine, (wholesale,) perfumed
  handkerchiefs, half-destroyed letters, watches stopped at dreadfully
  significant hours, and the southern European kingdom of
  Moritania—royal line extinct. There is a detective who is not likely
  to displace Sergeant Cuff or Mr. Sherlock Holmes in our affections.”
  (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Beginning with the title, the author furnishes us with a thrill if
  not in every line, certainly on every page. The plot does not unfold;
  it rolls up and accumulates like a snowball.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 320w.

     + − =Sat. R.= 104: 210. Ag. 17, ’07. 170w.

  “As a detective story the book suffers a little from the same thread
  of interest not being sustained all through. The end of the story is
  brutally horrible, and we are not convinced by the author’s production
  of the real criminal.”

       − =Spec.= 99: 298. Ag. 31, ’07. 160w.


=Davis, Grace T.= Hero tales of congregational history. *$1. Pilgrim
press.

                                                                 7–3702.

  “The characters sketched in this volume are all illustrious in the
  history of the Congregational churches for nearly three centuries. As
  pioneers of religion and civilization, and as builders of
  institutions, their names have gone into our national history, and
  their lives deserve the commemoration here bestowed. It is intended
  especially for adolescent readers, and is effectively
  illustrated.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Ind.= 62: 505. F. 28, ’07. 90w.

       + =Outlook.= 85: 238. Ja. 26, ’07. 60w.


=Davis, Hayne=, ed. Among the world’s peace-makers: an epitome of the
Interparliamentary union. $1.50. Progressive pub. co.

  An epitome of the Interparliamentary union, with sketches of eminent
  members of this international house of representatives and of
  progressive people who are promoting the plan for permanent peace
  which this union of lawmakers has espoused.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Will be to the future historian a trustworthy and most fruitful
  source of information.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 238. Ap. 13, ’07. 720w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 639. My. ’07. 110w.


=Davis, Henry William Charles.= England under the Normans and the
Angevins. *$3. Putnam.

                                                                 6–1101.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  Reviewed by Ch.-V. Langlois.

   + + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 150. Ja. ’07. 1210w.


=Davis, Latham.= Shakespeare, England’s Ulysses: the masque of Love’s
labor’s won, or The enacted will; dramatized from the sonnets of 1609.
*$3. Stechert.

  The masque, whose text is the sonnets of 1609, is really a legal
  document whose sole purpose is to convey and re-establish by a will
  the authorship of our Shakespearian literature. “The name of the new
  heir to the Shakespearian mantle, as revealed by the ‘star-like’
  acrostic that ‘stands fix’d’ at the termination of the dramatis
  personæ is that of ... Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a queer book, an unreadable one, and to the ordinary mind quite
  unintelligible, but it is a book and it is printed, and it will
  comfortably amaze a few of the credulous. There’s not a bit of harm in
  it.”

   − − + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 220. My. 18, ’07. 200w.


=Davis, Mrs. Mary Evelyn M.= Price of silence; with il. by Griswold
Tyng. †$1.50. Houghton.

                                                                7–11208.

  New Orleans furnishes the setting for this romance whose prologue
  deals with civil war times. “Then the tale passes over the intervening
  years to the present time and concerns itself with the love and
  complications of a grandniece of the mansions’s chatelaine, a son of
  the Union officer who commanded the looting provost guard, and young
  relatives and friends of the heroine.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 134. My. ’07. ✠

  “Its interest is cleverly maintained, and its colouring is vivid and
  pleasing.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 786. Je. 29. 140w.

  “The story is told with unfailing animation, and pictures with great
  fidelity the traits of the old French society now rapidly passing from
  view as a distinctive element in the life of the ancient city of
  Bienville.” Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 42: 380. Je. 16, ’07. 280w.

  “We suspect that the story is of a sort to be widely read, and to be
  generally taken, at least in the North, for a true and pleasing
  picture of southern types and southern life. We protest against such
  acceptance of it, and decline to believe that this colonel-myth is
  anything but a travesty of the truth.”

       − =Nation.= 84: 544. Je. 13, ’07. 370w.

  “It is very curious that an author who can write as well and with as
  much taste as Mrs. Davis should be so entirely lacking in artistic
  instinct. There is much in her book that is very charming. And along
  with it is much that is deplorably clumsy and grotesque.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 242. Ap. 13, ’07. 310w.

  “The book is unsatisfactory, both as a picture of the times with which
  it deals and as a story.”

       − =Sat. R.= 104: 369. S. 21, ’07. 90w.


=Davis, Michael M.= Gabriel Tarde: an essay in sociological theory. $1.
Michael M. Davis, 791 West End av., N. Y.

                                                                6–46265.

  An analysis of M. Tarde’s system. “After reviewing and summarizing
  Tarde’s positions the author introduces some evidence to show that
  Tarde only partly understood the role of imitation and has
  consequently over-estimated it. The criticism is well taken. So, too,
  is the criticism based upon Tarde’s neglect or ignorance of the work
  of others which might have saved some missteps. The author gives him
  great credit for original and suggestive discussions.” (Ann. Am.
  Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A piece of clean critical workmanship. Mr. Davis is to be
  congratulated upon the catholicity of his discussion.” Albion W.
  Small.

     + + =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 125. Jl. ’06. 450w.

  “Students of social theory will find this monograph of interest and
  value.”

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 154. Jl. ’07. 140w.


=Davis, Norah.= World’s warrant; with a frontispiece by F. C. Yohn.
†$1.50. Houghton.

                                                                7–13951.

  “Briefly, it is the endeavor to get a wife by advertisement, and the
  resulting tangle in the lives of a number of persons whose characters,
  cultivation, and position in the world would ordinarily remove them
  far from any such complications.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Miss Davis merits notice chiefly from her treating the South as a
  live country, inhabited by contemporary human beings, and not by a set
  of conventional lay figures left over from the tragedy of the last
  generation.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 501. My 30, ’07. 250w.

  “Miss Davis has evolved a plot of unusual ingenuity and dotted it with
  situations that are striking and unexpected. A good many of them must
  be taken at a gulp if they are taken at all. The author has developed
  the plot very cleverly.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 299. My. 11, ’07. 310w.

  “Miss Davis not only makes very real both the atmosphere of somnolent
  Dixieland and the rattle and bustle and determined energy that are
  waking it up, but she also has the knack of weaving a plot and the
  ability to invent incidents and situations and to depict character.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 349. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.


=Davis, Richard Harding.= Real soldiers of fortune. **$1.50. Scribner.

                                                                6–42911.

  Mr. Davis sketches “the kind of man who in any walk of life makes his
  own fortune, who, when he sees it come, leaps to meet it and turns it
  to his advantage.” The group includes Gen. William Walker, Baron
  Harden-Hickey, General MacIver, Winston Spencer Churchill, Capt. Philo
  Norton McGiffen, and Major Burnham.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Written with the author’s usual spirit and dash.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 8. Ja. ’07. S.

  “A collection of biographical sketches of unequal merit.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 380. Mr. 30. 680w.

  “The remarkable deeds of six remarkable men, told by a writer also
  accounted remarkable, furnish reading that should be and is remarkably
  interesting.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 83. F. 1, ’07. 230w.

  “The exploits and adventures of these real soldiers of fortune are not
  a whit less interesting or astonishing than those of Mr. Davis’s ideal
  soldier of fortune.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 25. Ja. 5, ’07. 190w.

  “Adventurous spirits are presented in the narrative, with anecdote,
  episode, and adventure, which reads like the wildest romance, and yet
  through the care of the author is not dissociated from the historical
  events in which these men played important, but, for the most part,
  thankless rôles.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 801. D. 1, ’06. 150w.

  “The spirit and dash with which these biographical sketches are
  written will certainly attract young readers.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 1084. D. 29, ’06. 90w.

  “Mr. Davis’ study of Walker, the filibuster king, has resulted in a
  real contribution to our knowledge of that strange character, and many
  Americans, young and old, will read this new estimate of Walker with a
  fresh interest.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 111. Ja. ’07. 230w.

  “The best sketch in the book is that of ‘Major Burnham, chief of
  scouts.’”

     + − =Spec.= 99: sup. 465. O. 5, ’07. 410w.


=Davis, Richard Harding.= Scarlet car. †$1.25. Scribner.

                                                                7–22818.

  These sprightly stories, three in number, are brimful of adventure. A
  large red motor car furnishes the possibilities of romance which
  involves the affections of a charming Beatrice, young Peabody whom she
  drops unceremoniously, and Billy Winthrop, “the right man” of the
  scarlet car. “Knowing Mr. Davis’s taking ways where proper figured men
  and pretty women are concerned, and his ingenuity in finding
  interesting situations for them—noble, manly attributes for the men,
  graceful, girlish tricks for the women, sentiment for both—you do not
  need to be told any more details of the story of the scarlet car. You
  will find out for yourself.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A light, bright, little story for an idle hour or two.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 176. O. ’07. ✠

  “Why should Mr. Davis, a man who knows Gallegher, make himself the
  literary chauffeur of such merely sleek, well-fed supernumeraries?”

       + =Ind.= 63: 761. S. 26, ’07. 180w.

  “The amusing incidents which happen by the way are appropriate to the
  undisguisedly farcical nature of the whole affair.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 102. Ag. 1, ’07. 260w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 200w.

  “Mr. Davis is not at his best in ‘The scarlet car.’ It is very
  distinctly destined for the most careless of summer readers. Frederick
  Dow Steele’s pictures are excellent.”

     − + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 419. Je. 29, ’07. 610w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

  “An extravaganza-like tale, in which love, motoring, and adventure are
  carelessly mingled with a quite modern infusion of humor.”

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 40w.


=Davis, William Stearns.= Victor of Salamis: a tale of the days of
Xerxes, Leonidas, and Themistocles. †$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                7–15591.

  This piece of historical fiction deals with the invasion of Greece by
  the Persians under Xerxes. Altho many of the characters are fictitious
  and the love story is purely imaginary, the scenes are apparently true
  to the times, and Athens and Sparta are made to tremble before the
  invader as history tells us they trembled, while her heroes of the
  hour play the glorious parts which history says they played. Perhaps
  the best chapters are those descriptive of Thermopylae and Salamis.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Interest is well sustained by the incidents of war and fortunes of
  love.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 176. O. ’07. ✠

  “We think that Mr. Davis might have been a little more careful in his
  proper names.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 724. Je. 15. 250w.

  “Knowledge and deep sympathy combine to make the book something more
  than readable, which is perhaps all that was to be expected of it.”
  Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 43: 63. Ag. 1, ’07. 260w.

  “It is a particularly grim story of war, with amply abundant details
  to satisfy, even to satiate, the most bloodthirsty reader who ever
  frequented a circulating library.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 327. My. 18, ’07. 240w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 170w.

  “The leading historical personages are made to appear real men.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 254. Je. 1, ’07. 90w.

  “The weakness of the book is in some details, which count, it may be,
  for more than they are worth.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: 234. Ag. 17, ’07. 170w.


=Dawson, Alec J.= The message. †$1.50. Estes.

  A novel with a purpose which presumes to command a 1940 view point.
  “His standpoint is frankly imperial, and even partisan. He assumes
  that the trend of the present government is towards weakness and
  sentimentalism and the neglect of national interests; and from that
  postulate he has developed a pretty pickle for the country it governs.
  The Germans land in force on the coasts of East Anglia, and in an
  almost incredibly short time Great Britain is at their mercy.
  Thereafter comes the rebuilding—the re-edification which is implied in
  the title. This tack is initially undertaken by Canadian preachers,
  and indeed the entire regeneration comes from the colonies.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “What remains of highest value in the story is the human current of
  interest, which is maintained from the first.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 501. Ap. 27. 420w.

  “Is for the most part rather frankly boresome, with here and there a
  welcome oasis of something distinctly better, something that seems
  almost worthy of the author of ‘Hidden manna.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.

       − =Bookm.= 26: 81. S. ’07. 310w.

  “Mr. Dawson is afire with patriotic purpose, but he is so didactic as
  to be at times dull.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 658. Je. 25, ’07. 260w.

  “The whole book moves briskly, and is exciting reading, although in
  the earlier part anything but exhilarating.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 802. My. 18, ’07. 220w.


=Dawson, Coningsby William.= Worker, and other poems. **$1.25.
Macmillan.

                                                                6–41523.

  The distinctive notes of Mr. Dawson’s verse are “passionate sympathy
  with contemporaneous experiences and conditions, ardent feeling, and a
  forcible though sometimes unmusical expression.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author of these poems possesses genuine lyrical feeling, and his
  thought, where abstract themes are dispensed with, is graceful and not
  too reminiscent. A more serious flaw is the tendency, constantly
  noticeable, to manufacture refrains, as it were, in season and out. By
  multiplying instances of this device, the author has gone far to
  defeat his own object, and incidentally, to disfigure a book of
  considerable promise.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 725. Je. 15. 310w.

  Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 42: 255. Ap. 16, ’07. 280w.

  “Shows something of James Thomson’s poignant view of the world,
  something also of a pre-Raphaelite savor of phrase, but it is only
  intermittently visited by any real spell of verbal magic and
  compelling mood.”

     − + =Nation.= 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 70w.

  “One reads this excellently cadenced verse, where never a note jars,
  but cannot recover it when lost to the ear. A certain tenuous,
  immaterial atmosphere pervades it all, leaving one uncertain as to
  what Mr. Dawson has said, or what has been won from his personal
  relation to life. Mr. Dawson is a poet of white light, but life is
  multi-colored.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 30. Ja. 19, ’07. 350w.

  “His poetry is, so to speak, too close to the age in which it is
  written. For that reason it is likely to be heard, for it is the voice
  of the moment; for the same reason it is not likely to endure. It
  would be unjust to Mr. Dawson, however, to give the impression that he
  is simply a journalist in verse. Interesting and significant volume of
  verse.”

     + − =Outlook.= 85: 373. F. 16, ’07. 360w.


=Dawson, Nelson.= Goldsmiths’ and silversmiths’ work. (Connoisseur’s
lib.) *$7.50. Putnam.

                                                                7–37522.

  “As befits the subject, this volume is beautifully printed and richly
  illustrated. It is intended not so much for the craftsman and worker
  in gold or silver as for the collector and art lover. Beginning with
  the gold and silver ore in the ground, the author follows the history
  of the manufacture of ornaments and articles of use in the precious
  metals from the very earliest dates, far back of the Greek and Roman
  period, down to our own times, with a specially full description of
  such little-known periods as that of the Irish metal-workers and of
  the early English renaissance.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is really not one dull page in a publication that will no doubt
  appeal alike to the antiquarian, the student of ecclesiastical
  history, the artist and the craftsman.”

     + + =Int. Studio.= 33: 167. D. ’07. 340w.

  “On the historical side it is a little elementary; on the practical
  and artistic side it has the interesting personal touch that is only
  to be found in the notes of a man who knows from experience what the
  artist aims at, what means he employs, and what difficulties he has to
  face and overcome.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 282. S. 20, ’07. 490w.

         =Outlook.= 87: 359. O. 19, ’07. 100w.

         =Spec.= 99: 336. S. 7, ’07. 60w.


=Dawson, William Harbutt.= German workman: a study in national
efficiency. *$1.50. Scribner.

                                                                6–23711.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “A very readable account of that splendid system of ‘social policy’ by
  means of which the health and efficiency of the workman have been
  promoted as by no other people in the history of the race.” Charles
  Richmond Henderson.

       + =Dial.= 43: 249. O. 16, ’07. 190w.

         =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 643. D. ’06. 610w.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 31. Ja. 19, ’07. 1000w.


=Day, Emily Foster (Mrs. Frank R. Day).= Princess of Manoa. **$1.50.
Elder.

                                                                6–45043.

  Nine sketches from the folk-lore of Hawaii. Brown paper, black type,
  and full page illustrations in sepia, make a unique book daring in its
  oddity.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Dial.= 41: 456. D. 16, ’06. 60w.

       + =Ind.= 61: 1500. D. 20, ’06. 70w.

  “The legends of old Hawaii are rich in romance and piquant charm, and
  Emily Foster Day puts into graceful English a few of the most
  interesting.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 40w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 867. D. 15, ’06. 90w.

  “Very simply and sympathetically told, and in excellent taste.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 70w.


=Day, Holman Francis.= Rainy day railroad war. †$1. Barnes.

                                                                6–27347.

  A story for boys which “relates the history of a fight over the
  building of a railway through the timber lands of Maine. The young
  hero is an assistant engineer, and develops in this contest
  resourcefulness and courage.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Only fairly well done, but will be interesting to boys.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 20. Ja. ’07.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 868. D. 15, ’06. 60w.

  “A spirited and vigorous story for boys.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 239. S. 22, ’06. 80w.


=Day, James Roscoe.= Raid on prosperity. **$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                7–36714.

  Chancellor Day, the champion of corporate business, shows how trusts
  are logical, natural and consistent with the developing interests of
  the “new age.” He discusses corporations, the distribution of wealth,
  organized charity, tainted money and labor unions. Several interesting
  chapters are devoted to a defence of the Standard oil company.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w.


=Decharme, Paul.= Euripides and the spirit of his dramas; tr. by James
Loeb. **$3. Macmillan.

                                                                 6–5711.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “As a book of reference for the contents of Euripides’s plays, or a
  collection of passages bearing upon certain topics, Professor
  Decharme’s work will unquestionably be found useful; but for an
  introduction to the spirit of Euripides we should rather refer the
  student to Croiset, Dr. Murray, or Dr. Verrall.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 143. F. 2. 360w.


=Deeping, Warwick.= Woman’s war. †$1.50. Harper.

                                                                7–20869.

  The story of the contentions of two women whose husbands are rival
  doctors in a little English town. And in this game of chess, so
  maliciously carried on by the blacks, it is the queen that centers her
  energies, in the king’s behalf, on check-mating the king of the
  whites. The darkest moment for the white men is when the queen of the
  blacks attacks the castle of the white king’s reputation and sweeps it
  from the board, and it is only by steadily pushing a white pawn step
  by step to the king-row that the king and queen of the whites redeem
  the castle and check-mate the black king.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In the effort to give greater life to the central figures the minor
  ones appear to have been neglected. Nevertheless we do not hesitate to
  commend the book.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 11. Jl. 6. 100w.

  Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.

       + =Bookm.= 26: 77. S. ’07. 1370w.

  “Having chosen a painful but live contemporary theme, he proceeds to
  treat it with a childish superficiality.”

       − =Nation.= 85: 37. Jl. 11, ’07. 270w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 457. Jl. 20, ’07. 260w.

  “A clever and forceful book this, but not entertaining, and hard as
  nails.”

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 50w.

  “As a whole, both in seriousness of conception and in success of
  execution, the novel must be pronounced to have attained a high level
  of merit.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 202. Ag. 10, ’07. 340w.


=De Garmo, Charles.= Principles of secondary education: the studies.
*$1.25. Macmillan.

                                                                 7–6800.

  The fundamental principles of American secondary education are here
  set forth in the form of a text book for college and university
  classes. The object being “to reveal thru an analysis of the content
  of the studies themselves their inherent and comparative educational
  value, and upon a basis of the values thus established to determine
  the best possible combination of the studies into the various
  curricula now demanded by democratic society.” A second object is to
  show how secondary education can most effectively perform its proper
  functions.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is evident that such a systematic treatment by an authority so
  competent and respected as Professor De Garmo will be welcomed by
  students of education in America, and particularly by teachers of the
  principles of secondary education, who will find the book invaluable
  as text-book and reference.” Edward O. Sisson.

     + + =Dial.= 43: 287. N. 1, ’07. 900w.

  “The greatest value of the volume before us lies in the stimulus that
  it affords for classroom-work. An urgent need of this work, if it is
  to be truly serviceable, is a more extensive bibliography than the
  present meager references furnish.” Julius Sachs.

   + + − =Educ. R.= 34: 421. N. ’07. 1160w.

       + =Nation.= 85: 234. S. 12, ’07. 290w.

  “So far as regards the distinctive study of secondary education, it
  must be said that Dr. De Garmo’s book is the first in the field. The
  name of the author and the title will arouse general interest in the
  volume, and this interest will be sustained by the contents.”
  Nathaniel Butler.

     + + =School. R.= 15: 472. Je. ’07. 1000w.


=De Lancey, Magdalene (Hall), lady.= A week at Waterloo in 1815. *$1.50.
Dutton.

                                                                 7–8229.

  “Lady de Lancey gives an account of the wound received by her husband
  at the great battle, of the agony of suspense caused to her as the
  varying news came filtering through to her at Antwerp, and of the way
  in which she tended him in a cottage in Mont St. Jean. The story is
  one of genuine pathos, which is, if that could be possible, enhanced
  by the fact that they had been married less than three months....
  Letters by Walter Scott and Dickens add interest to the volume.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Acad.= 71: 11. Jl. 7, ’06. 610w.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 66. Mr. ’07. S.

  “The narrative is touching in its simplicity, and occasionally gives
  new and startling glimpses into the horrors of war.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 70. Jl. 21. 430w.

         =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 830. O. ’06. 160w.

  “Lady De Lancey’s book is, however, literature, worthy to stand beside
  Lucy Hutchinson’s life of her colonel and Margaret of Newcastle’s life
  of her lord.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 263. Je. 2, ’07. 310w.

       + =Sat. R.= 102: 86. Jl. 21, ’06. 110w.

       + =Spec.= 97: 64. Jl. 14, ’06. 270w.


=Deland, Ellen Douglas.= Friendship of Anne. †$1.50. Wilde.

                                                                7–26962.

  A boarding school story for girls which pictures the weaknesses, hopes
  and aims of some very true-to-life girls.


=Deland, Mrs. Margaret Wade (Campbell).= Awakening of Helena Richie.
†$1.50. Harper.

                                                                6–24158.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Our nearest equivalent to the old-fashioned English novel.” Mary
  Moss.

     + + =Atlan.= 99: 124. Ja. ’07. 580w.

  “Helena Richie herself is faintly, thinly conceived. Her consciousness
  is too elementary to feel seriously about, and one only wonders that
  such grave events can hang themselves upon so slight a character.”
  Louise Collier Willcox.

     + − =No. Am.= 183: 547. S. 21, ’06. 1180w.

     + − =R. of Rs.= 35: 125. Ja. ’07. 280w.


=Deland, Margaret W. C.= Encore. †$1.50. Harper.

                                                                7–32562.

  A slight story of Margaret Deland’s favorite spot, Old Chester. When
  Letty Morris and Alfred Price tried in early youth to elope, the good
  Dr. Lavendar, whom they sought to unite them, withdrew for a moment
  and sent a message to the parents of the runaways. Their day of bliss
  was over. The encore is the repetition of the love-making after fifty
  years, and this time it is dissenting children who make the way hard;
  but Dr. Lavendar comes to the rescue and this time lends his clerical
  aid.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This prettily bound and illustrated edition of one of the most
  charming of the Old Chester chronicles is, we suppose, aimed at the
  holiday public. We hope it will hit the mark.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 120w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

  “The tale is told with delightful ease and humor.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 622. N. 23, ’07. 60w.


=De La Pasture, Elizabeth (Bonham).= Catherine of Calais; new ed. $1.50.
Dutton.

                                                                7–28454.

  “Catherine is a girl of quiet charm and of lifelong devotion to an
  ideal of romance. She quite takes hold of the readers heart, and he is
  glad that she loves to the end the stately, handsome, conscientious
  husband she has awesomely admired as a girl, and that she never
  penetrates the secret that he is essentially a dull and commonplace
  gentleman. In contrast to Catherine there are two capitally drawn
  elderly women, one of infernal temper and overbearing self-approval,
  the other of indolent and self-indulgent temperament, but exceedingly
  clever in character-reading and in social comment.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Readers who like little star-trimmed heroines who give the impression
  of having moonbeam toes and of being incapable but good will enjoy
  this story. The interest of the story depends upon what the characters
  say, not what they do.”

       − =Ind.= 63: 573. S. 5, ’07. 190w.

  “Catherine is, in fact, a silly and meek and dutiful and loving little
  creature, one of the Amelia Sedleys who do not become extinct in life,
  whether they are to be found in fiction or not.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 544. Je. 13, ’07. 240w.

  “It is pleasant to be able to acknowledge so clean and sweet a book.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 476. Ag. 3, ’07. 500w.

  “To those who love a simple story, simply told, but with true
  sentiment and gentle grace, we highly commend this new novel. The
  story entertains but does not excite; it affords a refreshing contrast
  both to the problem novel and to the cloak-and-sword romance.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 476. Je. 29, ’07. 160w.


=De La Pasture, Elizabeth.= Lonely lady of Grosvenor square. †$1.50.
Dutton.

                                                                6–41709.

  The lonely lady is a pretty country bred girl of twenty-five who comes
  to Grosvenor square as the guest of a great-aunt and stays there after
  her aunt’s death to watch over the estate which is an inheritance of
  her twin brother who is in active service in Africa. The account of
  how she tries to do honor to her name and position by following the
  social code of her country rector’s wife, and how from the dull
  loneliness of London state and formality she is rescued by her distant
  cousin the Duke, forms a pretty old fashioned love story.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author writes as gracefully and as easily as ever—almost too
  easily—and her touch both in humor and pathos is light and sure.”

       + =Acad.= 72: 144. F. 9, ’07. 270w.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 77. Mr. ’07. ✠

  “The characters are well drawn and natural, and the narrative has
  sufficient vitality to sustain the reader’s interest.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 192. F. 16. 280w.

  “The very genuine charm of this quiet and refreshing story of
  present-day London is its simple unassuming naturalness.” Frederic
  Taber Cooper.

       + =Bookm.= 25: 181. Ap. ’07. 600w.

  “A book of manners and sentiments; it touches only the surface of
  life, but it is agreeably written and proves mildly entertaining.” Wm.
  M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 42: 226. Ap. 1, ’07. 220w.

  “‘Charming’ is the word that attaches itself instinctively to her
  work; it may not be the highest praise, but in this case it implies
  popularity as well.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 37. F. 1, ’07. 390w.

         =Nation.= 84: 291. Mr. 28, ’07. 120w.

  “A story that in its sweetness and wholesomeness and simple unaffected
  pathos forms a refreshing contrast to the morbid and unpleasant
  matters with which fictionmakers frequently feel themselves obliged to
  deal.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 99. F. 16, ’07. 990w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 280w.

  “The book would be nothing if it were not for its genuine humor, which
  is none the less welcome because it is not boisterous.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 479. F. 23, ’07. 160w.

  “Mrs. de la Pasture’s powers as a narrator are considerable: and this
  story is a thoroughly pleasant though not a very robust example of her
  manner.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 244. F. 23, ’07. 90w.

  “The book is not quite on the level of ‘Peter’s mother’ but it is
  sufficiently amusing to rank among the most pleasing novels of the
  season.”

     + − =Spec.= 97: 258. F. 16, ’07. 160w.


=Delehaye, H.= Legends of the saints: an introduction to hagiography;
from the French, tr. by Mrs. V. M. Crawford. (Westminster lib.) *$1.20.
Longmans.

  A two-part work whose purpose is to show the application of the
  ordinary rules and methods of historical criticism to hagiographical
  criticism. The first treats of hagiography; the second, of the
  relation of paganism to Christianity.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “For the elucidation of the first part the author has peculiar and
  rare qualifications. The other part of his book is not so good. M.
  Delehaye also makes it evident in his book that he is but imperfectly
  acquainted with some subjects on which he pronounces an opinion.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 326. S. 21. 1570w.

  “Historical students will find the work to be a fine example of sound,
  conservative, scientific method.”

       + =Cath. World.= 86: 259. N. ’07. 760w.


=Deming, Philander.= Story of a pathfinder. **$1.25. Houghton.

                                                                7–17047.

  In this volume Mr. Deming “gathers up some loose threads of
  autobiography and romance.... The six chapters or sections are chiefly
  reprints from ... periodicals. Opening with an account of his rise to
  the dignity and emoluments of a court stenographer, Mr. Deming goes on
  to relate how he wrote his first successful story, then gives a few
  tastes of his quality as a narrator of fiction, and concludes with
  another bit of autobiographic reminiscence.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His style, easy and conversational, is attractive; and the plots of
  his tales, which have the touch of real life, are ingenious without
  being involved, and all end with a fine-conceived and unexpected
  stroke that pleasingly caps the already well-developed climax.”

     + + =Dial.= 43: 19. Jl. 1, ’07. 330w.

  “After reading his little volume, full of unobtrusive sincerity and
  penetrated with that sort of poetry which marks the evening of certain
  lives, one feels in contact with one of those rare personalities which
  give biography its chief charm.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 35: 97. Jl. 20, ’07. 400w.

  “Although written at a much later date, both his stories and preface
  bear rather the impress of the fifties than of the postbellum
  newspaper world. It is the atmosphere of Greeley’s Memoirs, with all
  the mildness and restraint of what might be called the middle
  Victorian period in American fiction.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 568. Je. 20, ’07. 170w.


=De Montmorency, J. E. G.= Thomas a Kempis. *$2.25. Putnam.

                                                                7–11046.

  “The mooted question of its authorship is here critically discussed,
  and its authenticity fairly demonstrated; its structure is analyzed,
  and the various sources shown from which its author drew; lists and
  accounts of its manuscripts and printed editions are given; many fine
  illustrations, including some facsimile pages, are added; full
  recognition is shown to the work of Thomas’s fellow-mystics.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. de Montmorency has an axe to grind—and sharpens it on á Kempis.
  He sets up a distinction between the visible or official church, and
  the invisible church, existing within the official church of which it
  is truly the vital and Catholic part. With the needful caution, the
  reader will find Mr. de Montmorency’s handling of the book full of
  suggestion and matter for reflection. In treating purely evidential
  questions, such as the authorship, he is sane and dispassionate
  enough.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 67. Ja. 19. 1300w.

       + =Ind.= 62: 1415. Je. 13, ’07. 100w.

  “Mr. de Montmorency is full of enthusiasm for Thomas á Kempis and his
  book and his zeal is according to knowledge; but his knowledge is not
  always displayed with discretion. He could find it in his heart to
  spend it all upon us.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 429. D. 28, ’06. 860w.

         =Nation.= 84: 222. Mr. 7, ’07. 110w.

  “Mr. Montmorency might have been with advantage at greater pains to
  organize his book, which is obviously a labor of love.”

     − + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 887. D. 22, ’06. 1230w.

  “It is a timely and helpful commentary upon a great recreative and
  reconstructive movement.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 44. Ja. 5, ’07. 300w.

  “Mr. de Montmorency has given us the results of the most recent
  investigations, lucidly stated and with an absence of ‘parti pris’
  which is worthy of high praise.” A. I. du Pont Coleman.

     + + =Putnam’s.= 1: 630. F. ’07. 240w.

  “Mr. de Montmorency’s general observations about this wonderful book
  are pregnant and excellent.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 431. Ap. 6, ’07. 750w.

  “Interesting and learned book.”

     + + =Spec.= 97: 178. F. 2, ’07. 1510w.


=De Morgan, John.= In lighter vein. **$1.50. Elder.

                                                                7–24148.

  An anthology of witty sayings and anecdotes of prominent people from
  Elizabeth to our own Mark Twain and Roosevelt. It is designed for
  relaxation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It contains some good jokes and some dull ones, some that we never
  heard and some that we are glad to have recalled to memory.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 576. S. 5, ’07. 60w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 150w.


=De Morgan, William.= Alice-for-short: a dichronism. †$1.75. Holt.

                                                                7–20515.

  Alice-for-short, six years old and timid, bravely plods thru a London
  fog with a jug of beer. She breaks the jug, which accident brings to
  her side a protector, who, a little later, when the drunk-sodden
  parents die, rescues her from the basement of an old house in Soho and
  places her in the care of his sister. The chief interest of the tale
  lies in the development of the child in intimate portrayal, the simple
  life-likeness of characters, and the sure tho delayed consummation of
  the romance. There are ghosts and mysteries in the plot which seems to
  be a sensitive conscience’s concession to the veteran novel-reader
  rather than a scheme vitally necessary to the character-drawing.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We applaud Mr. De Morgan in that whatever he writes is instinct with
  an infinite knowledge of humanity, with a subtle and tender humor, and
  an exquisite skill in characterisation.”

     + + =Acad.= 73: 658. Jl. 6, ’07. 1080w.

  “The story is disconnected, and slow in movement, full of humor, and
  shows exquisite skill in characterization.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 177. O. ’07. ✠

  “Before the two hundredth [page] is reached a falling off in the
  quality of the work must be noted, and a serious shrinkage in the warp
  and woof of the fabric. The author has been perhaps just a little too
  sure of his readers, just a little too palpably in love with his
  creatures.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 10. Jl. 6. 310w.

  “You have come in contact with a rarely engaging personality which, by
  some alchemy defying analysis, is capable of being seized and passed
  on through the medium of cold print.” Mary Moss.

     + + =Bookm.= 25: 519. Jl. ’07. 1230w.

  “Only a crabbed partisan of the formal could place his hand upon his
  heart and sincerely aver that he would willingly spare any of these
  irrelevancies. They add salt and savour to a novel which even without
  them would be reckoned a remarkable example of the art of fiction at
  its noblest.” Wm. M. Payne.

   + + − =Dial.= 42: 375. Je. 16, ’07. 1000w.

     + + =Ind.= 63: 397. Ag. 15, ’07. 890w.

  “Is disappointing after ‘Joseph Vance.’”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 1228. N. 21, ’07. 30w.

  “This ripeness of vision constitutes Mr. De Morgan’s charm. He has
  lived to see, to see tolerantly, tho not without feeling.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 272. Ag. 24, ’07. 600w.

  “When the 563 very closely printed pages are finished, it seems
  incredible that the story should have been made to fill them. The odd
  thing is that we have not been bored.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 181. Je. 7, ’07. 740w.

  “There is no denying that Mr. De Morgan’s humor now and then
  degenerates into mere facetiousness, or that his familiar prolixity
  becomes at times mere garrulousness. Yet one cannot help liking M. De
  Morgan, even when he is most trying. The writer has, we should say, a
  sensitive conscience in the matter of plot—a desire to give the reader
  his money’s worth of that staple—but an instinctive contempt for it
  for its own sake. What really interests him is his persons and his
  talk about them.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 522. Je. 6, ’07. 870w.

  “To the present reviewer at any rate it seems that Mr. De Morgan has
  somehow been able to see us, not as we see ourselves, but in a certain
  perspective belonging properly to a next generation. Of the literary
  quality of Mr. De Morgan’s work it is impossible to speak without a
  degree of enthusiasm which might invite suspicion of incoherence.
  These stories differ from those of the old masters not in manner but
  in matter.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 363. Je. 8, ’07. 1620w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 80w.

  “After all the truth about such a book as ‘Alice-for-short’ may be
  said in a sentence. It is in great qualities that it is deficient—and
  how often may great qualities be found? And it is in the lesser, but
  not negligible ones—in wise comment, deft workmanship, in humor,
  fancifulness and charm—that it is satisfyingly replete.” Olivia Howard
  Dunbar.

     + − =No. Am.= 186: 449. N. ’07. 1350w.

  “Mr. De Morgan is not an imitator of Dickens, but he has certain
  things in common with Dickens, and one is that we, not grudgingly but
  cordially forgive him traits that would damn utterly a lesser genius.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 86: 475. Je. 29, ’07. 540w.

  “Is interminably long and too nebulous to talk about.”

     + − =Putnam’s.= 3: 112. O. ’07. 210w.

  “The book is indeed an excellent example of the manner without the
  matter of Mr. Thackeray. Here are all the faults in method in spite of
  which he was great.”

     − + =Sat. R.= 104: 54. Jl. 13, ’07. 460w.

  “This new story will establish his right, we think, to be accepted
  without further hesitation as a very considerable novelist.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 96. Jl. 20, ’07. 1310w.


=De Morgan, William Frend.= Joseph Vance: an ill-written autobiography.
†$1.50. Holt.

                                                                6–25695.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 344. Mr. ’07. 1050w.

  “Singularly rich, mellow, and human narrative, which is garrulous in
  the genial sense, and as effective as it is unpretending.” Wm. M.
  Payne.

     + + =Dial.= 42: 13. Ja. ’07. 440w.

  “A book that must take its place, by virtue of its tenderness and
  pathos, its wit and humor, its love of human kind, and its virile
  characterization, as the first great English novel that has appeared
  in the twentieth century.” Lewis Melville.

   + + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 395. Je. 15, ’07. 1080w.

  “Is probably the only book of its kind that the present generation
  will offer; therefore the most may as well be made of the temperate,
  mellow, elderly enjoyment it affords.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.

       + =No. Am.= 183: 1187. D. 7, ’06. 1460w.

         =Putnam’s.= 3: 112. O. ’07. 390w.


=Denk, Victor Martin Otto (Otto von Schaching, pseud.).= Bell foundry.
45c. Benziger.

                                                                7–21531.

  Gerold, a young bell founder on his way from Italy to his home in
  Bavaria encounters Gatterer, a noted bell founder of the Tyrol and
  stops to work in his foundry. Thru a series of rough and bloody
  incidents it is discovered that Gatterer and his workmen are a gang of
  villains who plunder and murder all who travel thru their forest. As a
  result of this discovery Elizabeth, who has passed as his daughter, is
  restored to the name and position of which the highwaymen robbed her
  and becomes the bride of Gerold.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 511. Ag. 24, ’07. 110w.


=Dennett, R. E.= At the back of the black man’s mind; or, Notes on the
kingly office in West Africa. *$3.25. Macmillan.

                                                                7–13004.

  Mr. Dennett writes out of the fulness of a wide experience among the
  Bavili both as a private resident and as an official. About
  three-quarters of the book under review deals with the hierarchy of
  kings and chiefs, the laws, social organization, marriage, birth, and
  death customs, psychology and philosophy of the Bavili; the remainder
  of the book treats with much the same subjects as they have been
  observed by the author in Benin. Finally, there is a valuable appendix
  by Bishop James Johnson on the religious beliefs and social laws of
  the Yoruba people.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The evident sincerity of the writer and his sympathetic appeal on
  behalf of a better understanding of the black man must commend him
  both to those whose interest in the backward races of mankind is
  purely scientific and to those who desire to understand the negro for
  his own sake.”

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 634. My. ’07. 380w.

  “With a little more sense of method, the value of [his] contribution
  to science might have been doubled.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 832. D. 29. 1260w.

  “Not the least interesting part of this curious book is the appendix,
  which contains extracts from the writings of two educated negroes ...
  and it must be confessed that they are easier to follow than Mr.
  Dennett when he sets himself to explain native symbolism.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 43. F. 8, ’07. 280w.

  “The reviewer cannot accept Mr. Dennett’s etymology of the Bantu
  phrases he attempts to explain. It is such a valuable contribution to
  ethnology that one could almost wish a second edition might be brought
  out with revised and reasonable orthography.”

     + − =Nature.= 75: 248. F. 10, ’07. 840w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 907. D. 29, ’06. 230w.

  “All students will be grateful to Mr. Dennett for the care and labour
  which he has expended in collecting and recording [the beliefs and
  customs] although some may wish that he could have carried out his
  task in a simpler and less perplexing fashion.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 622. My. 18, ’07. 1460w.


=Dennis, James Shepard.= Christian missions and social progress. v. 3.
**$2.50. Revell.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “It is impracticable here to give any conception of the wealth of this
  material or of the skill with which it is arranged and presented.” C.
  R. Henderson.

     + + =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 569. Ja. ’07. 330w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “Dr. Dennis has furnished an arsenal, well stored with weapons of many
  kinds, but all effective for both offensive and defensive warfare.” A.
  K. Parker.

     + − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 362. Ap. ’07. 510w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “Whether as a description of Christian missions or as a source book
  for students of social progress, this work is invaluable.”

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 465. N. ’06. 360w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “Crowded with information concerning the beneficent results of
  missions.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 505. F. 28, ’07. 50w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “All that was said in the previous notice as to the author’s breadth
  of view and catholicity of interest, as well as of the superlative
  worth of the work as a missionary apologetic, is even more true of
  this volume. Notwithstanding defects, these volumes will stand for
  years to come as a witness to the manifoldness and beneficent
  character of one of the most helpful social factors of the less
  enlightened lands.” Harlan P. Beach.

     + − =Yale R.= 15: 457. F. ’07. 1150w. (Review of v. 3.)


=Denslow, William Wallace, and Bragdon, Dudley A.= Billy Bounce:
pictures by Denslow. *$1.50. Dillingham.

                                                                6–34681.

  The adventures of a messenger boy whose inflated rubber suit sends him
  bouncing through the air with astonishing ease and rapidity. He visits
  the land of bogie men, bugbears and ghosts, and exposes them to
  youthful readers as entirely harmless.

                  *       *       *       *       *

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

  “A whimsical and comical tale.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 530. O. 27, ’06. 60w.

  “The wit of this book is vaudeville wit and not meant for analysis. Of
  Mr. Denslow’s illustrations, however, it may be said that the coloring
  is less crude than in his previous books.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 34: 765. D. ’06. 70w.


=Densmore, Emmet.= Sex equality. **$1.50. Funk.

                                                                7–32183.

  Dr. Densmore’s theories are based upon the teachings of Darwin,
  Spencer, and modern exponents of the doctrine of evolution. The book
  teaches that women are more intuitive, refined, unselfish and
  spiritual than men, but are inferior to them in initiative, resource,
  power and breadth of view; that these mental differences are not
  fundamental nor the result of sex but are caused by environment and
  heredity. The book makes a strong plea for extending democracy into
  all phases of human life.


=Derby, George=, comp. Conspectus of American biography; being an
analytical summary of American history and biography, containing also
the complete indexes of The national cyclopaedia of American biography.
$10. White.

                                                                6–38537.

  “This substantial volume of nearly eight hundred pages contains, in
  indexed or tabular form, an enormous number of facts so arranged as to
  make it a helpful book of reference.” (Dial.) It includes lists of men
  prominent in public or private office; it tabulates poems, plays and
  novels in which historical characters figure; there is a catalogue of
  public statutes in the United States, a collection of “notable
  sayings,” an “anniversary calendar,” and a list of “founders of
  American families and their descendants.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There are sins of omission as well as of commission. Yet the volume
  will be found useful for reference.”

     + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 926. Jl. ’07. 180w.

         =Dial.= 42: 259. Ap. 16, ’07. 240w.

  “Mr. Derby’s work is as important as that of an explorer who opens up
  a new country for industrial and commercial activity. The treasures
  were there. Mr. Derby has made them available for all.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 257. Ap. 20, ’07. 430w.


=Derr, Louis.= Photography for students of physics and chemistry.
*$1.40. Macmillan.

                                                                  7–471.

  “This book is eminently not for the perusal of the ‘snap-shot camera
  man,’ unless he be an ardent amateur and profoundly interested in the
  scientific possibilities and details of his subject.... The book is
  divided into eighteen chapters dealing with the camera and all its
  accessories. It includes articles on lenses, photo-chemical action,
  development and developers, fixing, washing, and drying,
  intensification and reduction, halation and reversal, printing
  processes, lantern slides and shutter exposures.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He may have suited his book to the needs of his students, but the
  result to a stranger presents itself as a very uneven treatment of the
  subject.” C. J.

     + − =Nature.= 75: sup. 6. Mr. 14, ’07. 670w.

  “The language is simple and the diagrams assist materially in the
  exposition. The book should have unquestionable value for the class of
  readers designated in the title—and for others bent individually on
  experimental investigation.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 37. Ja. 19, ’07. 250w.


=De Selincourt, Beryl, and Henderson, May Sturge.= Venice. il. **$3.50;
ed. de luxe, **$7.50. Dodd.

                                                                7–31989.

  A generous amount of fresh material has been discovered for this much
  pictured city. “The illustrations, after the water-colours of Mr.
  Barratt, who has lived for many years in the city of the lagoons and
  is familiar with her in all her moods, are real triumphs of
  reproduction, interpreting with rare fidelity the delicate atmospheric
  effects that are the chief charm of the originals.” (Int. Studio.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “They have treated it both from the art and literary point of view
  with a certain amount of freshness.”

       + =Int. Studio.= 32: 167. Ag. ’07. 310w.

  “There are many admirable descriptive touches; and if nothing is set
  in a new light, that is probably because a city which has been studied
  and re-studied by so many lovers is familiar now to all the world. Mr.
  Barratt’s illustrations are exceedingly successful, and add materially
  to the attractiveness of the book.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 820. Je. 29, ’07. 260w.


=De Selincourt, Hugh.= Boy’s marriage. †$1.50. Lane.

  “Beverley Teruel, nicknamed Girlie because of his lack of
  sophistication, shortly after leaving Oxford marries the girl of his
  father’s choice.” (N. Y. Times.) “Beverley flies into a morbid
  suspicion of the purity of his perfectly healthy passion. He seeks
  solace in a platonic affection for a literary woman, finds it
  difficult to exist without her, disobeys her by rushing to London to
  see her, and, when severely snubbed, falls an easy victim to the wiles
  of a woman of the town. During his absence Eva has been making
  discoveries which impel her towards a whole-hearted bid for her
  husband’s vanished affection. But it is too late. Innocence has given
  place to morbidity, and everything ends as, granting the premisses, it
  must end, miserably.” (Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The workmanship of the book, though sensitive, is sometimes feeble.
  There is a good deal of superfluous detail, and the lines are not
  always clear. But the choice and development of the theme show
  courage, humour, and a severe logic which promise well.”

     + − =Acad.= 71: 611. D. 15, ’06. 440w.

  “It is mainly for the promise in the book that we commend it.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 767. D. 15. 190w.

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 120. F. 23, ’07. 160w.


=De Selincourt, Hugh.= Strongest plume. †$1.50. Lane.

  “In ‘The strongest plume’ Mr. de Selincourt tackles in characteristic
  fashion the problem of the girl who in conventional phrase ‘goes
  wrong’ before her marriage.... The man to whom she is engaged is a
  very ordinary, common-place prig, quite incapable of understanding the
  real nature of the girl who has given herself to him. He is perfectly
  ready, indeed anxious, to do ‘the right thing’ and marry her as soon
  as possible, but he is at no pains to disguise his personal feeling
  that Joan is really a ‘fallen’ woman. She resents his attitude ...
  comes gradually to the realisation that it has all been a terrible
  mistake. She comes to see that she has no love for him at all, and
  that marriage, so far from setting everything right, will only be an
  added wrong.”—Acad.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In his study of the girl’s mental development, in the fidelity of his
  psychological analysis, Mr. de Selincourt almost touches greatness.
  His delineation bears the unmistakable stamp of truth. It carries
  conviction.”

     + − =Acad.= 73: 696. Jl. 20, ’07. 780w.

  “The portraiture is much superior to the knowledge of life displayed.
  Mr. De Sélincourt’s cynicism is still that of youth, without an
  adequate basis; but though we find the work immature, we remain
  confident that he will yet write a fine story.”

       − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 36. Jl. 13. 150w.

  “He writes well, and he has a notable gift for the analysis of
  character. But at present he does not escape dulness; he gives the
  impression of distinction, and leaves us cold.”

     − + =Lond. Times.= 6: 258. Ag. 23, ’07. 270w.

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 636. O. 19, ’07. 150w.

  “Its chief characters have been pressed into the service and
  illustration of a theory, as the reader is constantly made to feel.
  This compulsion makes them shadowy and ineffectual, and it cannot even
  be said that they are pleasant shades.”

       − =Sat. R.= 104: 177. Ag. 10, ’07. 160w.


=Deussen, Paul.= Outline of the Vedanta system of philosophy according
to Shankara; tr. by J. H. Woods and C. B. Runkle. **$1. Grafton press.

                                                                6–35998.

  The Vedanta philosophy which grew out of the teachings of the
  Upanishads represents the common belief of nearly all thoughtful
  Hindus. Following a brief introduction which gives the fundamental
  idea of the system, Mr. Deussen discusses the Vedanta’s teaching
  regarding theology, cosmology, psychology, migration of the soul and
  emancipation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The name of Dr. Woods, who has studied the Hindu systems with Deussen
  at Kiel as well as with native pundits in India, is a sufficient
  guaranty of the accuracy of the rendering both of German and of
  Sanskrit technical terms. It will be a convenience, especially to
  those who give university courses in Hindu philosophy, to have this
  compendium accessible in English.” Arthur O. Lovejoy.

     + + =J. Philos.= 4: 23. Ja. 3, ’07. 700w.

  “It is the best exposition of the chief school of Hindu metaphysics
  obtainable in brief compass.”

     + + =Nation.= 83: 370. N. 1, ’06. 240w.

       + =Outlook.= 84: 842. D. 1. ’06. 180w.


=Devine, E. J.= Training of Silas. $1.25. Benziger.

                                                                 7–2759.

  A Roman Catholic story which brings a “purse-proud plebeian
  millionaire to a realization that there is a greater end to be
  considered than the possession of wealth.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It has a strongly didactic purpose, which is gracefully draped in a
  thin suit of fiction.”

       + =Cath. World.= 84: 835. Mr. ’07. 160w.


=Dewar, Douglas.= Bombay ducks: an account of some of the every-day
birds and beasts found in a naturalist’s Eldorado. *$5. Lane.

                                                             Agr 6–1634.

  With less of a scientific smack than the title suggests, Mr. Dewar
  writes of the birds and small animals of India. Excellent
  illustrations which are Captain Fayrer’s photographs reproduced on
  “unglazed and tonal paper give a Japanese effect which is quite
  unusual and well worthy of imitation.” (Spec.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The little essays or articles are pleasantly written, and the
  descriptions are in essentials correct.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 98. Jl. 28. 480w.

  “The style is piquant and refreshing.” May Estelle Cook.

     + + =Dial.= 41: 388. D. 1, ’06. 210w.

  “Without in any way questioning the ornithological value of Mr.
  Dewar’s work, it is in the literary side of the volume, the facility
  of expression, easy narrative style, and genial satire, that the worth
  of the book lies.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 236. Ap. 13, ’07. 640w.

  “Mr. Dewar is a naturalist and a good observer.”

       + =Spec.= 97: 19. Jl. 7, ’06. 220w.


=Dewhurst, Frederic Eli.= Investment of truth. *$1.25. Univ. of Chicago
press.

                                                                7–23074.

  A posthumous volume of sermons “for unemotional and meditative people,
  especially those who are a little troubled by religious uncertainty.”
  (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Dr. Dewhurst was a man of unusual gifts, among which were religious
  insight and the faculty of clear speech. He was not a noisy prophet,
  but he could make a chosen text ring with truth from which one could
  not escape.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 885. O. 10, ’07. 90w.

  “Mr. Dewhurst’s appeal is to the few, but to these he appeals
  strongly.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 208. S. 5, ’07. 140w.


=De Windt, Harry.= Through savage Europe; being a narrative of a journey
throughout the Balkan states and European Russia. **$3. Lippincott.

                                                                7–29080.

  This is a vivid account of a journey taken as correspondent to the
  Westminster gazette through Montenegro, Herzegovina, Bosnia, Servia,
  Bulgaria, Roumania, Southern Russia and the Caucasus. “He found the
  remoter districts hotbeds of outlawry and brigandage, where the
  traveler must needs take his life in his hand. Yet these same Balkans,
  he avers, can boast of cities which ‘are miniature replicas of London
  and Paris,’ civilized centers having very little in common with the
  country as a whole.” (Lit. D.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is to be commended, but rather to those who have not read
  recent works dealing with the same subjects than to those who may have
  had enough of them already.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 224. F. 23. 190w.

  “The distinctive merit of this book lies in the fact that the author
  visited these same countries a generation ago, and consequently is
  competent to gauge the various lines of progress made in these
  everchanging hot-beds of European discord.” H. E. Coblentz.

       + =Dial.= 42: 374. Je. 16, ’07. 220w.

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 61. Jl. 13, ’07. 630w.

  “A pleasant chatty account.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 478. Ag. 3, ’07. 220w.

  “A vivacious account of travel and observation.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 567. Je. 13, 07. 280w.

  “Mr. Harry De Windt has written several very interesting and informing
  books of travel, but none more attractive than this.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 340. Mr. 16, ’07. 280w.

  “A most entertaining volume.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 765. My. 11, ’07. 380w.


=Dewsnup, Ernest Ritson, ed.= Railway organization and working: a series
of lectures delivered before the railway classes of the University of
Chicago. *$2. Univ. of Chicago press.

                                                                6–41297.

  A series of twenty-five papers or lectures that were delivered by
  prominent railway officials bearing upon the traffic, auditing, and
  operating of the American railway.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “An admirable book in spite of its being a collection.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 8. Ja. ’07.

  “The papers are of high average excellence and the volume constitutes
  a most welcome addition to the scanty literature dealing with the
  management of railway traffic.”

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 209. Ja. ’07. 200w.

  “The book should be placed in every reference library used by railway
  employees; and any young engineer in railway service will find it
  worth while to read the book, since it will aid him to gain a broader
  outlook upon the industry in which he is playing a part.”

     + + =Engin. N.= 57: 664. Je. 13, ’07. 260w.

  “The volume contains remarkably few repetitions, considering the
  manner of its construction, and few of the contributors have failed to
  observe the limits of their special subjects. I believe everyone
  interested in railways will enjoy it. And everyone who reads it will
  profit by it.” Balhasar H. Meyer.

     + + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 244. Ap. ’07. 470w.

  “It will be found of great practical service to students. The
  treatment of the subject is plain and untechnical.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 547. Ap. 6, ’07. 260w.


=Dickins, Frederick Victor.= Primitive and mediaeval Japanese texts,
Romanized and translated into English. 2 v. *$6.75. Oxford.

                                                          7–29200–29201.

  The two hundred and sixty-four lays of which the anthology consists
  are “Japanese proper, not Chino-Japanese.” “They have a character of
  their own, giving the impression of lovely and delicate workmanship.
  Mr. Dickins has translated in vol. i, some short mediaeval lays; the
  Preface to ‘The garner of Japanese verse old and new;’ the Mime of
  Takasago; and ‘The story of the old bamboo wicker-worker,’ the
  earliest work of fiction in Japanese or any Ural-Altaic tongue. Volume
  ii, is not for the general reader but for students of the Japanese
  language, containing the text of the Lays romanised, and a short
  grammar, with glossary and index.” (Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He has done with splendid success the task which he has set himself.”
  R. Y. Tyrrell.

     + + =Acad.= 72: 54. Ja. 19, ’07. 1500w.

  “These two volumes, apart from their interest to the general reader,
  comprise in themselves all that is necessary for very considerable
  progress in the direct knowledge of the older Japanese literature.
  They take high rank among scholarly works on Japan, and will be the
  indispensable companion of the serious student.”

     + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 576. N. 10. 1340w.

  “Altogether, one has in these two volumes a sufficient apparatus for
  the study of the mind of pre-Mongolian Japan.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 292. Mr. 28, ’07. 730w.

         =Spec.= 97: 686. N. 3, ’06. 50w.


=Dickinson, F. A.= Big game shooting on the equator; with introd. by Sir
C: Norton Eliot. **$4. Lane.

  “In brief, the volume is largely a note-book of observations on the
  various species of game, their habitat, appearance, size, color,
  habits, and head measurements, jotted down in the curtest and most
  uninteresting terms imaginable. Should any hunter of big game
  anticipate a sporting pilgrimage to Africa, however, Captain
  Dickinson’s book will offer him some additional information on the
  rarer kinds of game in the East African country.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is all written in a straightforward, sensible way, without any
  attempt at word-painting or fine phrasing. All who are going to East
  Africa on a hunting trip should read it for the value of its advice,
  and all who have already enjoyed the experience for the memories it
  may evoke.”

       + =Acad.= 73: 107. N. 9, ’07. 700w.

  “Were it not for the excellent illustrations, and for the summaries of
  the game regulations of the British East African Protectorate and the
  German East African Protectorate, the book would have but little
  intrinsic value.” H. E. Coblentz.

     + − =Dial.= 43: 213. O. 1, ’07. 150w.

  “As regards his claim ... of accuracy, a little more care might have
  laid a better foundation for it. We have mentioned these few blemishes
  because this book is likely to be largely consulted by intending big
  game shooters, and because otherwise it is so trustworthy an authority
  on the subject. To the general public the volume is likely to commend
  itself highly by its excellent photographs and its breezy, amusing,
  and interesting style.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 308. O. 11, ’07. 960w.

  “Capt. Dickinson writes in tabloid style. He wastes no words, and his
  crisp, short sentences do their duty, and have done, with the
  clearness and precision of a military command.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 535. S. 7, ’07. 540w.

  “Nothing could be more useful than some of his recommendations. The
  style is one of the oddest that we have met with for many days. It is
  slangy to a degree far beyond what is usual even in smoking-room
  gossip. The curious thing is that he can write exceedingly well when
  he tries.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: sup. 750. N. 16, ’07. 400w.


=Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes.= From king to king. **$1. McClure.

                                                                7–12876.

  For this American edition the work appearing in England in 1891 has
  been rewritten and revised. “Aims at presenting ‘The tragedy of the
  Puritan revolution’ in a series of dramatic scenes or dialogues. ‘The
  pages that follow,’ writes Mr. Dickinson in his reprinted preface to
  the first edition, ‘contain an attempt to state, in a concrete form,
  certain universal aspects of a particular period of history. The
  tragedy lies in a conflict of reforming energy with actual men and
  institutions; and it has been the object of the author to delineate
  vividly the characters of leading actors in the struggle, their ideals
  and the distortion of these, as reflected in the current of events.’”
  (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “All criticism of the work must return to the question of the success
  of the dramatic dialogue as an essay form. On the whole, one finds
  himself inclined to decide that the experiment is successful; for the
  dialogue has enabled our author to realize his hope of effectively
  setting forth the clash of the individual with a movement. And yet
  there is a little reserve about one’s commendation of the book as a
  whole. In the first place, it can appeal only to a much narrower
  circle than most of Mr. Dickinson’s other productions. In the second
  place, there are occasional suggestions of the cold literary
  exercise.” F. B. R. Hellems.

     + − =Dial.= 43: 115. S. 1, ’07. 1500w.

  “One of the most satisfactory books of closet drama of the extreme
  type that we have lately seen.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 35. Jl. 11, ’07. 440w.

  Reviewed by Cleveland Palmer.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 153. Mr. 16, ’07. 3280w.

  “There is a wealth of poetic feeling and command of noble diction
  doubtless hitherto unsuspected in Mr. Dickinson.” Christian Gauss.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 240w.


=Dietzgen, Joseph.= Positive outcome of philosophy, tr. by Ernest
Untermann. $1. Kerr.

                                                                6–38881.

  The three principal works of Dietzgen, “The nature of human brain
  work,” “Letters in logic,” and “The positive outcome of philosophy,”
  are included in this volume, which brings within the reach of American
  students the work of one of the greatest writers on socialist
  philosophy.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 564. Ja. ’07. 390w.

  Reviewed by Franklin H. Giddings.

         =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 262. Ja. ’07. 450w.


=Dillon, Edward.= Glass. (Connoisseur’s lib.) *$7.50. Putnam.

                                                                7–15911.

  “The first half a dozen chapters are devoted to primitive and early
  glass down to the middle ages.... There are also Assyrian cylinders of
  glass and an Assyrian cone of the beautiful emerald glass. Other
  chapters tell of medieval treatises on glass, of Saracenic enameled
  glass, of Venetian glass, whether enameled or otherwise, and that of
  the renaissance, French, Spanish and Netherlandish. Two chapters are
  devoted to German, two to English and one to Dutch glass; Persia,
  India and China together supply material for another chapter; while
  the final pages are devoted to contemporary glass.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Dillon’s book should aid in the improvement of taste. His work is
  ably written.”

     + + =Acad.= 73: 5. O. 12, ’07. 1940w.

  “The book is technical enough to be useful to the student, and full
  enough of history, romantic suggestion and beautiful illustrations to
  hold the attention of the untrained person with artistic impulses who
  is beginning to take an interest in glass.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 226. Jl. 25, ’07. 280w.

  “It is a compilation, of course; but it will for a long time hold its
  place as the best and most authoritative general account of the
  subject to be found in English, or perhaps in any language.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 142. My. 3, ’07. 490w.

  “We cannot blame a book or work of art for not being what it does not
  pretend to be, but a large volume with the general title ‘Glass’ may
  be called to account if it gives no hint of the interesting things
  which are being done in our time.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 193. Ag. 29, ’07. 1450w.

  “The text is written in an interesting style, as by a man intensely
  interested in his task, and shows exhaustive study and thorough
  mastery of the subject.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 150w.


=Dinsmore, Rev. Charles Allen.= Atonement in literature and life.
**$1.50. Houghton.

                                                                6–45133.

  “This is a philosophical rather than a literary dissertation on ...
  the idea of sin, retribution, and reconciliation. Assuming that
  literature is life in its highest expression, Mr. Dinsmore undertakes
  to show that it is this idea of offence and subsequent reconciliation
  which gives their value to some of the great masterpieces of
  literature—Homer’s Iliad; the plays of Aeschylus and Sophocles; the
  Divina Comedia; Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Richard III., The winter’s
  tale, Henry VIII., and The tempest; Paradise lost; Adam Bede; The
  scarlet letter; and some other classics.”—Cath. World.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is written in a style worthy of the subject, and is
  singularly interesting from its dealing with masters in literature.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 437. Ap. 13. 810w.

  “This study is in fine contrast with the manner in which the people
  who belong to the ‘art for art’s sake’ school treat the great
  masterpieces of literature.”

       + =Cath. World.= 85: 258. My. ’07. 190w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 63. F. 2, ’07. 300w.

         =Outlook.= 85: 375. F. 16, ’07. 340w.


=Ditchfield, Rev. Peter H.= Parish clerk; with 31 il. *$2.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–27625.

  A methodical record of the duties, the quaint ways, and the peculiar
  manners of the race of English parish clerks. This functionary “is
  studied in his substance and in his accidents, and every trait of
  character is illustrated and anecdotes drawn from the literature and
  experience and folklore of centuries. These stories by themselves
  would make the fortune of an ‘encyclopædia of wit,’ and by bringing
  them together Mr. Ditchfield has certainly added to the gaiety of the
  nation.” (Lond. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The chapters themselves are badly arranged, repetitions are frequent;
  the style is jerky and colorless; and anecdotes have been dragged in
  with little regard to probability. It is little more than a
  scrap-book.”

       − =Acad.= 72: 362. Ap. 13, ’07. 1310w.

  “In the chapter that deals with the antiquity of the office and its
  duties in mediaeval days, Mr. Ditchfield might, with advantage, have
  exercised just a little more care.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 534. My. 4. 1030w.

       + =Dial.= 43: 95. Ag. 16, ’07. 350w.

  “The book is a useful addition to the history of English
  ecclesiastical institutions.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 700. S. 19, ’07. 100w.

  “A book about parish clerks which, we should think, must be
  exhaustive.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 124. Ap. 19, ’07. 1330w.

  “May be commended as a work of curious erudition and as a storehouse
  of capital anecdotes.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 420. N. 7, ’07. 150w.

  “It makes a fascinating record, brimful of human nature, not by any
  means destitute of human failings, nor yet of lovely and gentle
  traits.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 477. Ag. 3, ’07. 1910w.

  “Mr. Ditchfield has much that is entertaining to say about the
  subject, one which is entirely to his liking. He tells many curious
  things about the office and many more, still more curious, about the
  holder of it.”

       + =Spec.= 99: sup. 752. N. 16, ’07. 330w.


=Ditmars, Raymond Lee.= Reptile book. **$4. Doubleday.

                                                                7–10051.

  “A comprehensive, popularized work on the structure and habits of the
  turtles, tortoises, crocodilians, lizards, and snakes which inhabit
  the United States and Northern Mexico.” “But it is more than a popular
  book, for it is a gold mine of information for the zoologist.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 119. My. ’07.

  “It is a great book, well planned, clearly written, popular and yet
  scientific.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 799. Ap. 4, ’07. 950w.

  “The text is a notable addition to popular herpetological literature,
  but we cannot agree with the author that this field is a gap which
  ‘has steadily remained unchanged.’”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 504. My. 30, ’07. 680w.

  “Mr. Ditmars has done his task excellently. He writes out of a large
  and intimate knowledge, and in a clear, intelligible style.” Cameron
  Mann.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 281. My. 4, ’07. 920w.


=Dix, Beulah Marie.= Merrylips; il. by Frank T. Merrill. $1.50.
Macmillan.

                                                                6–34081.

  A story dedicated “to every little girl who has wished for an hour to
  be a little boy.” The child heroine figures in exciting adventures
  among Roundheads and Cavaliers during Cromwell’s time, masquerading
  for a time as a boy among the King’s soldiers.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The story is excellent in atmosphere and has more incident and plot
  than the author’s previous works.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 250. D. ’06. ✠

       + =Ind.= 62: 275. Ja. 31, ’07. 130w.

  “A most attractive tale for young people. Should it fall into the
  hands of the elders it will surely be read at a sitting.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 668. O. 13, ’06. 180w.

  “This story has decidedly finer literary flavor than most books for
  children or about children.”

     + + =Outlook.= 84: 531. O. 27, ’06. 110w.


=Dix, Edwin Asa.= Prophet’s Landing: a novel. †$1.50. Scribner.

                                                                7–12634.

  The rigor of monopoly in the early seventies in its iconoclastic
  treatment of the cherished idols of sentiment furnishes the motif of
  this story. A department store proprietor becomes a magnate thru the
  exercise of mighty business genius minus heart. His octopus methods
  work havoc in hearts and homes in Prophet’s Landing, and the events
  which follow one another in rapid succession show the ultimate
  futility of greed, tho it shelter itself under the moral law.

                  *       *       *       *       *

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 134. My. ’07. ✠

  “The story is entitled to a place in the honorable line of our New
  England fiction.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 339. Ag. 8, ’07. 240w.

  “The characters in this wholesome novel are strongly drawn. A simple
  tho powerful love-story traverses it, and there are interesting
  descriptions of New England life.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 841. My. 25, ’07. 280w.

  “A good, obvious tract, which might be more serviceable than
  literature of a higher order, if it could conceivably be held before
  the eyes of the wicked shopkeeper and the wickeder railroad man.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 523. Je. 6, ’07. 320w.

  “It may be doubtful whether a strong and able man would ever repent in
  quite the spectacular manner in which Mr. Dix, accomplishes his hero’s
  reform ... but the book does present a salutary lesson on modern
  business methods.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 420. Je. 29, ’07. 230w.

  “The story is unpretentious, but distinctively effective; and its
  humor and sentiment give it variety and dramatic vitality.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 116. My. 19, ’07. 370w.


=Dix, Morgan=, ed. History of Trinity church in the city of New York.
4v. **$5. Putnam.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Dr. Dix has been thorough in his search for documents and careful in
  their use, and his work will be invaluable to students of the matters
  with which it deals.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 230w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)


=Dix, William Frederick.= Face in the girandole: a romance of old
furniture. **$2. Moffat.

                                                                6–39023.

  Mr. Dix makes an asset of his hobby for old furniture in this charming
  book. “‘The face in the girandole’ sets forth something of the joys,
  something of the sorrows of an old furniture collector. Into it he has
  incidentally but skilfully woven just a dash of romance as a foil, and
  this added touch will make it appeal to others besides those who
  collect furniture.” (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a novelette that almost anybody might like to spend an idle
  hour upon.”

       + =Dial.= 41: 458. D. 16, ’06. 180w.

       + =Ind.= 61: 1400. D. 22, ’06. 130w.

       + =Nation.= 83: 539. D. 20, ’06. 150w.

  “For the most part it is pleasantly and faithfully done.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 3. Ja. 5, ’07. 360w.

       + =Outlook.= 84: 840. D. 1, ’06. 70w.


=Dix, William Frederick.= Lost princess. †$1.50. Moffat.

                                                                7–26021.

  “A direct descendant of the novel of imaginary principalities and
  imaginable adventures rendered popular by Mr. Anthony Hope.... The
  recipe for this kind of story calls for several manufactured
  geographical names, a group of appropriate gentlemen and ladies, all
  superlatively beautiful, brave, good or wicked, and then a rush and
  tumble of extraordinary events, ending in poetic justice for all
  concerned.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The first chapter really makes one look for something new, but things
  soon settle down into the old familiar lines.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 579. S. 28, ’07. 230w.

         =Outlook.= 87: 270. O. 5, ’07. 110w.


=Dixon, Thomas, jr.= Traitor. †$1.50. Doubleday.

                                                                7–24587.

  The third novel in Mr. Dixon’s trilogy of reconstruction of which “The
  leopard’s spots” and “The clansman” were the first two. It deals with
  “the dissolution of the Ku Klux Klan and the attempt of unscrupulous
  men after its dissolution to use its garb and methods for personal
  ends.” (Outlook.) “It provides a secret panel and a secret passage,
  ghosts, a murder in the midst of the revelry of a masked ball of Ku
  Kluxes; a young man robbed of his heritage, and a young woman with
  coquettish curls and a Dolly Varden, who is a daughter of the thief.
  It makes this willful young woman suspect the young man of the
  murder—’twas the thief, her father, who perished by the assassin’s
  hand—and shows her fiercely set upon bringing him to the gallows by
  making him fall in love with herself, and, therefore, confidential
  enough to confess all.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book cries out for the stage—the Third avenue stage. It is as
  full of situations, thrills, climaxes, ‘curtains,’ as a home of
  melodrama is of gallery gods.” Ward Clark.

       − =Bookm.= 26: 83. S. ’07. 1020w.

  “The book is at least remarkable as a psychological phenomenon, for it
  is probably the first time a man has so successfully interpreted
  himself into the character of an historical, palpitating female.”

       − =Ind.= 63: 762. S. 26, ’07. 110w.

  “There are not lacking some dramatic scenes in the course of the
  story, but as a defense of government by means of the Invisible Empire
  the author manifestly defeats his own purpose.”

     − + =Lit. D.= 35: 451. S. 28, ’07. 480w.

  “From a literary point of view there is much in common between Mr.
  Lawson and Mr. Dixon. In fact, both are yellow journalists.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 475. Ag. 3, ’07. 1350w.

  “This tale, like its predecessors, seems to us ill written and almost
  hysterically high-keyed in expression.”

       − =Outlook.= 86: 832. Ag. 17, ’07. 140w.


=Dodd, Helen C.= Healthful farmhouse, by a farmer’s wife; with an
introd. by Ellen H. Richards. *60c. Whitcomb & B.

                                                                6–45718.

  A book written for the average farmer’s wife from the point of view of
  one who does all her own cooking, dishwashing, sweeping, and laundry
  work, yet runs a lawn mower and cares for the flower beds about the
  house, and does much work in the vegetable garden. It proves that art
  may be combined with the ideas of utility and sanitation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “An admirable little book full of practical ideas.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 41. F. ’07. S.

       + =Ind.= 62: 678. Mr. 21, ’07. 80w.


=Dodge, Walter P.= Real Sir Richard Burton. *$1.80. Wessels.

  Mr. Dodge’s biography was inspired by a desire “to overthrow the
  destructive criticism of Burton contained in the ‘Life’ by Thomas
  Wright.” “By confining himself not without a sense of proportion, to
  Burton’s main exploits, Mr. Dodge is able to skim over several
  pitfalls in which a fuller biography is likely to be enmeshed, and his
  reticence over certain threadbare controversies is welcome.” (Lond.
  Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His ‘Real Sir Richard Burton’ is no Sir Richard Burton at all, but an
  abstraction who made certain journeys and wrote certain books. He
  settles no vexed questions and produces no new information.”

       − =Acad.= 72: 627. Je. 29, ’07. 420w.

  “Is actually a panegyric rather than a biography. To original research
  or critical acumen it can make little claim, nor does the author
  appear to have had any personal acquaintance with the subject of his
  sketch.” Percy F. Bicknell.

       − =Dial.= 43: 114. S. 1, ’07. 1530w.

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 204. Je. 28, ’07. 330w.

  “Mr. Dodge is too passionate an admirer to be a good biographer. He
  sacrifices personality to achievement lest by chance he admit
  something to his hero’s discredit. In the case of Burton such caution
  is superfluous.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 489. Ag. 10, ’07. 380w.


=Dole, Charles Fletcher.= Hope of immortality; our reasons for it. *75c.
Crowell.

                                                                6–34260.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “This is as far as any thinker of any age has ever reached, the final
  word for the present.” Robert E. Bisbee.

     + + =Arena.= 37: 110. Ja. ’07. 620w.

  “Dr. Dole has handled a hard subject in a thoughtful, sympathetic
  fashion.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 10. Ja. 3, ’07. 260w.


=Dole, Charles Fletcher.= Spirit of democracy. **$1.25. Crowell.

                                                                6–26499.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 119. My. ’07.

  “A most readable book.”

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 209. Ja. ’07. 270w.

  “It is specially to be commended to young men and women who have not
  yet learned the value, the possibilities, and the triumphs of a true
  democracy.” I. C. Barrows.

     + + =Charities.= 17: 461. D. 15, ’06. 2790w.

  “Of course the treatment of so many subjects in one small volume must
  necessarily be superficial and unsatisfactory.” Max West.

       − =Dial.= 43: 122. S. 1, ’07. 320w.

  “It is a reasonable and thoughtful presentation of some of the most
  pressing problems in our contemporary political life.”

       + =Educ. R.= 33: 207. F. ’07. 70w.

         =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 124. F. ’07. 220w.


=Dole, Nathan Haskell=, comp. and tr. Russian fairy book. †$2. Crowell.

                                                                7–24600.

  Seven stories on which a child’s imagination may feed, full of
  adventure, humor, mystery and magic. They are Vasilisa the beauty, The
  Bright-Hawk’s feather, Ivan and the gray wolf, The little sister and
  little brother, The white duckling, Marya Morevna, and The frog-queen.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The stories are in the nature of folk-lore, and are all good.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 40w.

  “Opens a new and fascinating vista to lovers of stories that are full
  of original beauty and the naïve appeal of ancient folk-lore.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 70w.

  “The illustrations allure on account of their novelty. However, in the
  tales there is little or no freshness of subject-matter or style.”

     + − =R. of Rs.= 36: 764. D. ’07. 40w.


=Donaldson, James.= Woman, her position and influence in ancient Greece
and Rome, and among the early Christians. *$1.60. Longmans.

                                                                 W 7–73.

  “The book gives one a clear picture of the various ideals in regard to
  woman which prevailed through the Greek, Roman and early Christian
  times, and of how the women measured up to them.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Dr. Donaldson’s readable little book is perhaps quite as useful as a
  work of more solid erudition would be.” Paul Shorey.

     + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 121. O. ’07. 620w.

  “For the most part, a lucid and excellently written summary of the
  salient facts which may be gathered from the scattered and often
  conflicting testimonies available to us. He has a wide knowledge of
  the German writers who have done the ‘spade-work’ of the subject, but
  he has also an advantage they generally lack—a clear and attractive
  style.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 248. Mr. 2. 4360w.

  “We conclude by recording the impression of sanity and clarity
  produced alike by the first and second reading of this modest work.
  Occasionally we might quarrel about a nuance of interpretation or of
  presentation. The essential parts are readable and instructive; the
  whole is valuable.” F. B. R. Hellems.

   + + − =Dial.= 43: 86. Ag. 16, ’07. 1200w.

  “His statements were based on sound scholarship, and were made with
  unusual caution, so that he could publish them in book form with the
  addition here and there of footnotes embodying certain modern
  discussions.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 521. Je. 6, ’07. 1510w.

  “It has the buoyancy and freshness of a spring day, a frank love of
  beauty, an invincible conviction that the generous and fine is the
  real and important side of human nature.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 201. Ap. 6, ’07. 1550w.

  “For the most part, his work is rather a series of suggestive essays
  on comparatively well-known facts than a fresh contribution to
  knowledge. As such, however, it has great value, and the author
  exhibits exactly the learning, insight, and judgment which we need for
  the full investigation of a difficult but fascinating subject.”

     + + =Spec.= 98: 500. Mr. 30, ’07. 1750w.


=Dos Passos, John R.= American lawyer as he was—as he is—as he can be.
*$1.75. Banks.

                                                                 7–2440.

  “In this work Mr. Dos Passos discusses in broad outline what he
  conceives to be the real mission of the lawyer in society, his
  relation to the government of which he is a citizen, and his clearly
  defined duties in that relation.”—R. of Rs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 61. F. 2, ’07. 420w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 509. Ap. ’07. 120w.


=Doubleday, Nellie Blanchan (Neltje Blanchan, pseud.).= Birds that every
child should know: the East; 63 pages of photographs from life. (Every
child should know series.) **$1.20. Doubleday.

                                                                 7–7517.

  While primarily for children this book interests other bird-lovers as
  well. “Nearly a hundred species are described and talked about in an
  informal, interesting way, technicalities being avoided as much as
  possible, perhaps too much for convenience of identification.” (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A very good book for children, or to use with children, for
  supplementary work. Does not supplant Chapman’s ‘Birdlife’ as an
  identification book, and one might hesitate to choose it in preference
  to Olive Thorne Miller’s two books for teaching purposes, but is
  superior for reading.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 111. Ap. ’07.

  “A book charmingly written and copiously illustrated.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 260. Ap. 16, ’07. 20w.

  “Mrs. Doubleday occasionally ‘talks down’ to her readers in a way that
  a child who has got beyond the Mother Goose stage and is proud of it
  would be apt to resent.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 564. Mr. 7, ’07. 140w.

  “One of the most attractive bird-books that we have seen.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 34: 547. Ap. 6, ’07. 180w.

  “The chief criticism is the number of these facts which is crowded
  into each short essay. Slips are few, and the book, as a whole, is
  well up to the standard set by the numerous pictures, which is very
  high.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 295. Mr. 28, ’07. 280w.

  “One feels that it would be fine to make the personal acquaintance of
  the author—and that is saying much. Here is an author who knows the
  calls of the woodland as a man might know his multiplication table.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 227. Ap. 6, ’07. 440w.

  “A pleasant, chatty little book.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 37. My. 4, ’07. 140w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 639. My. ’07. 70w.


* =Downes, Alfred M.= Fire-fighters and their pets. il. †$1.50. Harper.

  Here one finds described the bravery of the guardians of modern life,
  their allegiance to the great machine called the Fire department, the
  training, the discipline of the men and horses, and for the gentler
  part, the devotion of the men to their pets.


=Dowson, Joseph Emerson.= Producer gas. *$3. Longmans.

                                                                7–25693.

  A discussion of the theory of producer gas, the practical results
  obtained, best means of securing them, and the use and application of
  producer gas.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is evident all through the book that the authors are thoroughly
  conversant with the actual working of apparatus for both the
  production and use of producer gas, and their book meets the needs of
  persons handling such plants better than any of the other books on the
  subject with which the reviewer is acquainted.” Alfred E. Forstall.

     + + =Engin. N.= 57: 306. Mr. 14, ’07. 700w.


=Doyle, (Arthur) Conan.= Sir Nigel; il. by the Kinneys. †$1.50. McClure.

                                                                6–34805.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 228. F. ’07. 700w.

  Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.

         =Dial.= 42: 14. Ja. 1, ’07. 130w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 126. Ja. ’07. 120w.


=Doyle, J. A.= Colonies under the House of Hanover. $3.50. Holt.

                                                                2–11920.

  The fifth volume in Mr. Doyle’s “English colonies in America.” It
  deals collectively with the whole body of colonies from the accession
  of the House of Hanover to the beginning of those disputes which ended
  in separation from the mother country.

                  *       *       *       *       *

     + + =Acad.= 72: 184. F. 23, ’07. 760w.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 96. Ap. ’07.

  “Mr. Doyle’s work compares favourably with the new French volume of
  Prof. Schefer in which are discussed many of the same ‘Colonial
  problems.’”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 99. Ja. 26. 730w.

  “A work as unique as it is valuable, for a one-volume history of the
  colonies under the House of Hanover has, we believe, no mate.”

   + + − =Ind.= 63: 98. Jl. 11, ’07. 520w.

       + =Ind.= 63: 1232. N. 21, ’07. 20w.

   + + − =Lit. D.= 34: 841. My. 25, ’07. 480w.

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 59. F. 22, ’07. 1060w.

  “It is evident that Mr. Doyle’s last volumes are no better than those
  that preceded them, and will do nothing to re-establish the reputation
  of his earlier work.”

     − + =Nation.= 85: 399. O. 31, ’07. 1050w.

  Reviewed by Robert Livingston Schuyler.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 444. Jl. 13, ’07. 1150w.

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 969. Ag. 31, ’07. 390w.

  “His final volume is far more fragmentary and inadequate than any of
  its predecessors.”

       − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 506. S. ’07. 900w.

  “Mr. Doyle seems quite content to accept, without further
  investigation on his own part, what he finds ready to his hand in the
  books of American writers on colonial history, and has neglected much
  first-hand authority (or its equivalent) of which he should most
  certainly have known.”

       − =Sat. R.= 103: 813. Je. 29, ’07. 2430w.

  “Far more important than Mr. Doyle’s misapprehensions as to the social
  condition of Virginia is his bland acceptance of the ‘Yankee
  convention’ regarding education in the colony.”

       − =Sat. R.= 104: 18. Jl. 6, ’07. 2370w.

  “The book swarms with misprints and errors in citation. Mr. Doyle’s
  style is pleasing in the main and often spirited and graphic—far more
  so than that of the usual chronicler of colonial annals.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 104: 50. Jl. 13, ’07. 2620w.


=Doyle, J. A.= Middle colonies. $3.50. Holt.

                                                                2–11920.

  The fourth volume in Mr. Doyle’s “English colonies in America” deals
  with the history of the Middle colonies down to the accession of the
  House of Hanover, coincident with the disappearance of Penn from the
  field of colonial politics.

                  *       *       *       *       *

     + + =Acad.= 72: 184. F. 23, ’07. 760w.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 96. Ap. ’07.

   + + − =Ind.= 63: 98. Jl. 11, ’07. 520w.

  “There is no fairer view of American colonial development than that
  contained in the five bulky volumes of Mr. Doyle.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 1232. N. 21, ’07. 20w.

   + + − =Lit. D.= 34: 841. My. 25, ’07. 480w.

  “It is safe to say that no one can hereafter write about or study the
  colonial period of American history without reckoning with, and
  constantly referring to, Mr. Doyle’s work.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 59. F. 22, ’07. 1060w.

  “In organizing and distributing his data Mr. Doyle followed very
  conventional models, and in the work before us has neglected some of
  the most essential portions of our history.”

     − + =Nation.= 85: 399. O. 31, ’07. 1050w.

  “But although specialists will find fault with him for inaccuracies,
  the great value of the work is unquestionable. It is regrettable that
  the indexes have not been better made.” Robert Livingston Schuyler.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 444. Jl. 13, ’07. 1150w.

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 969. Ag. 31, ’07. 390w.

  “In the volume upon the middle colonies the treatment is to a degree
  systematic and in some parts quite detailed. Much the same method is
  followed as was apparent in the earlier instalments of the work. But
  the writer’s chief fault lies in his failure to grasp, or at least to
  set forth, the significance of our colonial history as a whole.”
  Herbert L. Osgood.

     + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 506. S. ’07. 900w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 60w.

  “Mr. Doyle has made the most of his material. He never lets us forget
  that if his picture is crowded with a mass of insignificant detail,
  its outlines are large.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 494. Ap. 20, ’07. 1690w.


Draught of the blue, together with An essence of the dusk; tr. from the
original manuscript by Francis William Bain. †$1.50. Putnam.

                                                                 7–6406.

  A volume of love stories translated from the original Hindoo
  manuscripts by the author of “A digit of the moon.” “The title, as he
  tells us in his charming introduction, signifies in some occult way
  the new moon, the lotus, and the blue eyes of a girl.... The book is
  pure sublimated fancy, where Western ideals appear in the delicate
  garb of Eastern mysticism.” (Spec.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is a very genuine pleasure in reading the two curious tales
  that make up this new volume, because they are not only fascinating in
  themselves, as specimens of delicate and involved mysticism, but
  because they are so abundantly and unmistakably saturated with the
  spirit of the Orient.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

     + + =Bookm.= 25: 90. Mr. ’07. 260w.

  “The English of the version is singularly fluent, simple, and
  graceful.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 247. Mr. 14, ’07. 140w.

  “They breathe a delicacy and fragrance of sentiment that are as
  entrancing as they are foreign to the literature to which the author
  modestly claims to be indebted, and they are rendered in English that
  charms with its pure music.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 202. Ap. 6, ’07. 480w.

  “It is superfluous to praise the charm of Mr. Bain’s style. He writes
  the English of a scholar and an artist.”

     + + =Spec.= 96: 465. Mr. 24, ’06. 380w.


=Dreiser, Theodore.= Sister Carrie. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.

  A reissue of a realistic novel which first appeared in 1900. “It is
  the direct, unflinching, pitiless history of the physical and moral
  ruin of one more fool, for the sake of a woman who did not care—a
  pretty, self-centred, passionless thing, who indifferently suffers his
  presence while he is useful to her—and then climbs over the wreck of
  his life in her hasty escape from the mire into which she has helped
  to sink him.” (Bookm.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Dreiser is no stylist. He merely writes with great simplicity and
  quiet force of life as he sees and understands it. The only adverse
  criticism which it seems worth while to make ... is in regard to its
  rather colourless and misleading title.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

     + − =Bookm.= 25: 287. My. ’07. 430w.

  “It is a book very much worth reading. But as about a lady one might
  be excused for noticing that a costume dating seven years back was a
  trifle out of fashion, so in the case of Mr. Theodore Dreiser’s story,
  one may perhaps be pardoned for feeling strongly, as one begins to
  read, that the stock tricks of the realistic method, even in 1900
  somewhat discredited, now almost fatally fail to impress or to move.
  He moves both the intellect and the heart—a considerable achievement.”
  Harrison Rhodes.

     + − =Bookm.= 25: 298. My. ’07. 1260w.

  “There are two reasons why ‘Sister Carrie’ is a book to be recommended
  in spite of its boldness of theme. First of all for the sake of its
  truthfulness, the frankness of its portrayal of a widespread type.
  Secondly it is a pitiless, unsparing portrayal of a man’s ruin.”
  Frederic Taber Cooper.

       + =Forum.= 39: 117. Jl. ’07. 550w.

  “We do not recommend the book to the fastidious reader, or the one who
  clings to ‘old-fashioned ideas.’”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 332. My. 25, ’07. 350w.

  “‘Sister Carrie’ is a book to be reckoned with, just as the social
  conditions—or defects—on which it rests must be reckoned with.” Joseph
  Hornor Coates.

       + =No. Am.= 186: 288. O. ’07. 1500w.


=Dresslar, Fletcher B.= Superstition and education. pa. $2.50. Univ. of
Cal.

                                                                7–29553.

  An interesting tabulation of superstitions gathered from students in
  two California normal schools. With each superstition furnished, the
  student was asked to express belief, partial belief, or disbelief. The
  results are classified and presented statistically.

         =Dial.= 43: 172. S. 16, ’07. 150w.


=Dressler, Friedrich August.= Moltke in his home. *$2. Dutton.

                                                                7–29134.

  A sketch of Moltke written, by a musician. “The book has little to do
  with the creator of the modern German army. Instead it emphasizes the
  domestic side of the Field-Marshall’s character, his charming home
  life, his simplicity and refinement.... We learn to know, not only
  Moltke more familiarly, but also other Germans—the emperors, Bismarck,
  Richard Wagner, for instance.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Herr Dressler tells us nothing very new, and a good deal of what he
  has to say is very small beer, yet his book is interesting because he
  has excellent opportunities, as a musician in great favour, of
  observing Moltke in every respect of private life.”

       + =Acad.= 72: 139. F. 9, ’07. 320w.

  “The book will interest musicians, and also admirers of quiet family
  life.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 98. Ja. 26. 60w.

  “Herr Dressler’s story, charming in its simplicity and the
  whole-hearted devotion, is adequately translated by Mrs. Charles
  Edward Barrett-Lennard.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 46. F. 8, ’07. 480w.

  “The picture of life in the Moltke home is full of the homeliest
  German flavor, the quaint figure of the marshall himself as fresh and
  vivid and human as possible. A monument to the musician-author’s
  harmless vanity and his deep affection for the great man in whose
  glory he sunned himself.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 268. Ap. 27, ’07. 670w.

         =Outlook.= 86: 76. My. 11, ’07. 240w.

       + =Spec.= 97: 259. F. 16, ’07. 320w.


=Drew, Gilman A.= Laboratory manual of invertebrate zoölogy. *$1.25.
Saunders.

                                                                7–21555.

  A manual prepared in conjunction with the members of the zoölogical
  staff of the Marine biological laboratory in Wood’s Hole. “The
  invertebrates are here considered under twelve headings, and detailed
  directions are given for the study of each division. Following this,
  come suggestions and questions in regard to allied form.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This book possesses the unusual qualification of originality and
  great practical value. From a pedagogical point of view, the manual
  answers all requirements.”

   + + + =Nation.= 85: 258. S. 19, ’07. 240w.

  “A rather careful reading of several sections reveals no serious
  faults, while typographical errors are few.” J. S. Kingsley.

   + + − =Science=, n. s. 26: 250. Ag. 23, ’07. 410w.


=Driver, Rev. Samuel Rolles.= Book of the prophet Jeremiah: a revised
translation, with introd. and short explanations. *$1.50. Scribner.

                                                                7–15938.

  “The aim of Dr. Driver’s book as he tells us is ‘to assist an ordinary
  educated reader to read the Book of Jeremiah intelligently and to
  understand the gist and scope of its different parts.’ To this end a
  new translation is given which aims to be ‘idiomatic, dignified,
  accurate, and clear.’ This aim is attained. An introductory sketch of
  the life of Jeremiah and a characterization of his style is given and
  brief notes at the foot of the page and in an appendix supply the most
  needed elucidations of the text.”—Am. J. Theol.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is a good illustration of the author’s well-known caution in
  the matter of literary and textual criticism.” Kemper Fullerton.

       + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 668. O. ’07. 180w.

  “A very useful handbook.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 678. Mr. 21, ’07. 50w.

  “The reader with an ordinary education may read the book
  intelligently.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 61. F. 2, ’07. 30w.

  “It all looks so simple and easy that we cannot help asking why no one
  ever did it before; but the very simplicity is the sign of the master
  mind.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 103: 531. Ap. 27, ’07. 110w.


=Druce, George C.= Dillenian herbaria: an account of the Dillenius
collections in the Herbarium of the University of Oxford, together with
a biographical sketch of Dillenius, selections from his correspondence,
notes, etc.; ed., with introd. by S. H. Vines. *$4.15. Oxford.

  “Mr. Druce has drawn up this account of the collections left by
  Dillenius, and has critically examined the specimens preserved as
  vouchers, illuminating many doubtful passages in the third edition of
  Ray’s ‘Synopsis,’ and practically disposing of the dubious entries
  which have troubled many subsequent botanists. For studies of this
  character the facilities offered at the Botanic garden, Oxford, are
  extremely good, and only to be excelled by the Sloane volumes in the
  department of botany, Cromwell road.... The introduction by Prof.
  Vines is an appreciative essay on the position of Dillenius as regards
  his contemporaries; then, with a single page of preface, Mr. Druce
  gives a life of Dillenius and bibliography.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The technical account of these three herbaria would not in itself be
  interesting to the general reader, were it not for the sundry
  introductory notes and fragments of letters. But these fragments have
  the charm which clings to a great part of eighteenth-century science,
  and carry one back to the days when naturalists did not confine
  themselves to single and restricted fields.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 148. Ag. 15, ’07. 700w.

  “This volume is a valuable contribution to the history of the botanic
  preeminence of Oxford in the first half of the eighteenth century.” B.
  D. J.

       + =Nature.= 76: 289. Jl. 25, ’07. 690w.


=Drummond, Henry.= Natural law in the spiritual world. 35c. Crowell.

  A reprint uniform with the “Handy volume classics.”


=Dry, Wakeling.= Giacomo Puccini. (Living masters of music.) *$1. Lane.

                                                                7–14600.

  The man and his history are sketched as fully as is possible in the
  case of a “living master.” The author offers an analysis of Puccini’s
  operas down to and including “Madame Butterfly.” There are portraits
  of the composer, views of his various dwelling places and facsimiles
  of his musical autographs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Personal intercourse with the composer has enabled the writer to give
  point and life to his narration of certain events in the life of
  Puccini.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 841. D. 29. 130w.

  “A biographer should, of course, be sympathetic to his subject, but
  critical insight would make the book more helpful to those who have
  not arrived at his standpoint. This attitude and the fact that it is
  evidently very hastily written—a haste which too often shows itself in
  the use of slipshod English and badly corrected proof-sheets—make the
  first chapters, which are biographical and include some personal
  reminiscences, the most interesting reading.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 378. N. 9, ’06. 580w.

       + =Nation.= 83: 541. D. 20, ’06. 670w.

  “Mr. Wakeling Dry possesses little distinction as a writer, and his
  book is a purely journalistic compilation.” Richard Aldrich.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 148. Mr. 9, ’07. 290w.


=DuBois, Elizabeth Hichman.= Stress accent in Latin poetry. **$1.25.
Macmillan.

                                                                6–30472.

  Dr. Du Bois’ aim has been “to establish an explanation of the purely
  quantitative Latin poetry which shall reconcile the opposing views as
  to an apparent clash between word accent and verse accent.” Her work
  “consists of ninety-six pages only, but every paragraph is closely
  reasoned, and the writer supports her argument in each case with
  copious quotations.” (Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We are inclined, indeed, to say that Miss du Bois attributes too much
  importance to accent as an element in language. We find it difficult
  to believe that any one will be nearer to scholarship for studying
  Miss du Bois’s book, though we do not deny that she may render service
  incidentally.”

     + − =Acad.= 71: 667. D. 29, ’06. 560w.

  “We have said nothing of the thoroughness and breadth of the author’s
  scholarship, to which, however, each page of this monograph bears
  abundant witness.” Harry Thurston Peck.

   + + + =Bookm.= 24: 265. N. ’06. 1530w.

         =Dial.= 41: 287. N. 1, ’06. 50w.

  “The little book of ninety-six pages fairly justifies Professor Peck’s
  imprimatur, notwithstanding a too frequent looseness of statement,
  careless proof reading, and the small ratio of original discussion to
  mere summarizing of the views of others.”

     + − =Nation.= 83: 534. D. 20, ’06. 110w.

  “All the authorities on the subject have been carefully scrutinized
  and are duly cited, and the book is full of evidence of the most
  elaborate and careful research on the part of the author into a region
  of classical scholarship which is practically unexplored by the
  average Latinist.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 103: sup. 4. F. 23, ’07. 260w.


=DuBois, Patterson.= Culture of justice: a mode of moral education and
social reform. **75c. Dodd.

                                                                7–16993.

  “Justice is here presented as the root-principle of the moral
  life—_the_, rather than, as the Greek and Roman philosophy esteemed
  it, _a_ cardinal virtue.... Wisdom and justice, as Plato taught, are
  mutually involved and inseparable. This is finely exemplified in Mr.
  Du Bois’s treatment of ‘the culture of justice.’ His ‘basal rule of
  practice is to _think justice_—to do this as an acquired _habit of
  mind_.’... Mr. Du Bois draws largely upon facts both of adult and
  childish experience to illustrate by discriminating criticism what
  justice is and is not, both in large matters and in small, down to
  keeping dirty shoes off of car-seats.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “If there is any better book on this subject in our language than this
  small volume, we would like to know it. To magistrates and lawyers, to
  teachers and parents, to all who care for progressive morality, social
  and personal, this admirable treatise cannot be too strongly
  commended.”

   + + + =Outlook.= 86: 611. Jl. 20, ’07. 280w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 759. Je. ’07. 30w.


=Du Bose, Horace M.= Symbol of Methodism; being an inquiry into the
history, authority, inclusions, and uses of the twenty-five articles;
with introduction by Bishop E. E. Hoss. $1. Pub. house M. E. ch. So.

                                                                7–22109.

  A frank treatment which refutes the charge of inadequacy brought to
  bear upon the Confessional articles of Methodism, and contributes to a
  correct understanding of the present doctrinal situation.


=DuBose, William P.= Gospel according to St. Paul. **$1.50. Longmans.

                                                                7–11043.

  “Humanity, he says, ‘was predestined for the gospel in the sense that
  the gospel, which is Jesus Christ himself, is the natural, more than
  natural, supernatural or ultimate highest natural end or completion,
  and so predestination, of humanity.’ His work is designed to emphasise
  the divinity of Christ. ‘I bow,’ he says, ‘not only before the work of
  Jesus Christ as truly God’s, but the worker in Jesus Christ as truly
  God.’ This was, he thinks, Paul’s gospel.”—Spec.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We agree heartily with Dr. Du Bose’s interpretation of Paul as far as
  we understand it. But we find it hard reading, and the interpretator
  of Paul should make his interpretation easy reading to the thoughtful
  reader.”

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 76. My. 11, ’07. 390w.

         =Spec.= 98: 982. Je. 22, ’07. 130w.


* =Duckworth, Lawrence.= Encyclopaedia of marine law. $2. Pitman.

  An encyclopaedia including the main principles of marine law. The
  latest authorities have been consulted, and the latest statutes and
  decisions are incorporated in the text. The volume makes an appeal to
  all who deal with shipping in any shape or form.


=Duer, Elizabeth.= Prince goes fishing. †$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                6–35453.

  “The story, one of ‘yesterday,’ has a familiar background in the
  mythical European kingdom. There is the prince who has the not
  unnatural wish to study the princess selected as his bride; as to the
  Princess Hélène, she fills well the part of an adorable heroine. What
  befalls this royal pair is sufficiently diverting, and the life at the
  toy court of Palatina is also amusingly described.”—Ind.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 108. Ap. ’07.

  “The novel will while away a leisure hour or so very pleasantly.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 100w.

  “Really it is a very entertaining little story, very cleverly put
  together, and not without a pretty wit.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 750. N. 17, ’06. 530w.

  “The dialogue is vivacious, and many of the situations are cleverly
  managed.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 430. O. 20, ’06. 110w.


=Duff, Edward G.= Printers, stationers, and bookbinders of Westminster
and London from 1476 to 1535. *$1.50. Putnam.

                                                                 7–7493.

  “In these lectures the first half-century of book-making in England is
  covered. The Westminster printers, Caxton, Wynken de Worde, and
  Notary; the London printers, Pynson, Lettou, and William de Machlinia;
  foreign printers and the books they made for the English market; the
  early English bookbinders—these are some of the subjects touched upon.
  The lectures are narrative in form, not technical, and are filled with
  interesting allusions and notes on old printers and their ways, old
  books, and old bindings.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The Act of 1534 was passed, we may imagine, not (as was professed)
  for the protection of printing, but in the interest of the royal
  censorship of the press. The one may be defended and the other
  condemned with excellent reason, but to defend and condemn them on the
  grounds put forward by Mr. Duff seems to us a curious aberration in an
  otherwise very sane and scholarly book.”

   + + − =Acad.= 72: 37. Ja. 12, ’07. 690w.

  “His knowledge of early English printing and bookbinding is probably
  unequalled, and his power of putting his material into an attractive
  and interesting form is very great. We congratulate booklovers on this
  important addition to their library.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 225. F. 23. 610w.

  “They are in the nature of outlines of that larger work on the history
  and development of printing in England which is yet to be written.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 461. N. 29, ’06. 330w.

  “Without questioning the author’s knowledge or the value of his
  contributions to the history of English printing, on this point alone
  it is not unjust to ascribe his reasons for the deterioration of
  protected bookmaking to his zeal as a free trader. This is a matter of
  history, and Mr. Duff should not have caused its misinterpretation to
  form the one blemish on an otherwise important and valuable work.”

   + + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 44. Ja. 26, ’07. 470w.


=Duff, Mildred.= Novelties and how to make them. 50c. Jacobs.

                                                                7–29717.

  Hints and helps in providing pleasant occupation for young and old.
  Directions are included for making every thing from an ark full of
  animals to furniture.


=Duke, Basil W.= Morgan’s cavalry. $2. Neale.

                                                                6–18975.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =Ath.= 1907, 1: 470. Ap. 20. 310w.

         =Ind.= 62: 1166. My. 30, ’07. 90w.

         =Spec.= 99: 397. S. 21, ’07. 430w.


=Duley, G. Wilson.= Dream of hell. $1. Badger.

                                                                6–46743.

  “The poem is not geographical but psychological, having for its object
  the teaching of retributive justice, and how utterly nugatory is self
  justification.”


=Dumas, Alexandre.= Novels, 10v. ea. $1.25. Crowell.

  The ten volumes of Dumas’s novels included in this set are Monte
  Cristo, two volumes, Marguerite de Valois, Dame de Monsoreau,
  Forty-five guardsmen, Three musketeers, Twenty years after, Vicomte de
  Bragelonne, Louise de la Valliere and Man in the iron mask. They are
  uniform with the thin paper sets and each volume contains an
  introduction and frontispiece.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 533. O. 12, ’07. 110w.


=Dumas, Alexandre.= My memoirs; tr. by E. M. Waller, with an introd by
Andrew Lang. 6v. ea. $1.75. Macmillan.

  The first appearance of this work in English. This initial volume
  deals with the first nineteen years of Dumas’ life chiefly spent at
  Villers-Cotterets. “He was beyond doubt a lazy boy, hugely fond of
  bird-snaring and of hunting, and it is with accounts of these
  pastimes, related with the charm of a poet, the skill of a dramatist
  and the knowledge of a woodsman, that some of the best chapters of
  these memoirs are occupied.” (N. Y. Times.) The central historical
  figure of this volume is Napoleon under whom Dumas’ father served in
  various campaigns.

  =v. 2.= The second volume continues the biography thru the days of the
  drudgery of a clerkship to Dumas’ emancipation when on “the threshhold
  of success, he is surrounded by his new-found friends of literature
  and the drama.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A most entertaining book. The translation is easy and fluent, but the
  last sentence of the book reads oddly.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 518. O. 26. 260w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “No element of completeness and accuracy should be wanting in the
  present English form.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 655. N. 2, ’07. 270w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “A series of chapters of unending and ever varying interest.” George
  S. Hellman.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 613. O. 12, ’07. 760w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Everything is preserved, even the nauseating passages that may be
  characteristic of their writer but can only disgust readers of any
  delicacy. Aside from this the ‘Memoirs’ form an admirable addition to
  our biographical literature.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 87: 610. N. 23, ’07. 430w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “No book that we know of beats these memoirs for a vivid, thrilling
  account of the state of France from 1812 to 1815. Scientific history
  may have its corrections to make, but the general impression is not to
  be effaced.”

     + + =Spec.= 99: sup. 637. N. 2, ’07. 1280w. (Review of v. 1.)


=Dunbar, Paul Laurence.= Joggin’ erlong. **$1.50. Dodd.

                                                                6–37888.

  “‘Joggin’ erlong’ and other dialect poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar are
  here bound in attractive form and illustrated with good photographs of
  negro life.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Will add nothing to the laurels won by the young negro poet.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 732. Mr. 28, ’07. 240w.

       + =Outlook.= 84: 841. D. 1, ’06. 50w.


* =Dunbar, William.= Poems of William Dunbar; with introd., notes and
glossary by H. Bellyse Baildon. *$2. Putnam.

  A book intended for the ordinary reader or student which throws much
  light upon the life and poetry of this fifteenth century Scottish
  poet.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Bellyse Baildon has given us an excellent edition with an
  admirable preface, most suggestive notes, and a useful vocabulary.
  Lovers of poetry are greatly indebted to him.”

       + =Acad.= 73: 717. Jl. 27, ’07. 1700w.

  “We are not so ready to allow that it will be useful to ‘the ordinary
  reader or student.’”

       − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 332. S. 21. 540w.

  “Mr. Baildon acknowledges his obligations to the Scottish and German
  savants who have edited Dunbar. His own work contains quite as much
  erudition as the ardent reader of poetry requires in a light and handy
  volume.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 253. Ag. 23, ’07. 1360w.

  “Prof. Schipper’s complaint that the text and glossary are taken
  bodily from his work appears substantially justified; and one may add
  that whatever value the notes possess is in the main due to the same
  authority. As it is, we have, of course, a good text and glossary,
  and, in the main, adequate notes, but discredited by the circumstances
  which we have just recited. Various passages in both introduction and
  notes cast doubt on the editor’s philological knowledge.”

     − + =Nation.= 85: 469. N. 21, ’07. 350w.

  “All the assistance that can be given has been supplied by Mr.
  Baildon, a glossary being the chief of the reader’s help.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 260w.


=Duncan, Norman.= Cruise of the “Shining Light.” †$1.50. Harper.

                                                                7–15117.

  The skipper of the Will-o’-the-Wisp steers his craft upon a reef in a
  furious gale, drowning seven men and surrendering his own life in
  order that the “pot o’ money” in the undertaking may “make a
  gentleman” of his little Dannie. He hastily bequeaths Dannie to Nick
  Top, a ship-mate, charging him to “fetch un up as his mother would
  have un grow.” True to his oath, Nick, the seamed and scarred survivor
  of many wrecks, assumes the education of Dannie, comes to love him and
  to abhor the rascality and the crime involved in securing the “pot o’
  money.” “I’ll not be sorry—not even in hell—for I’ll think o’ the
  years when you was a wee little lad, an’ I’ll be content t’ remember.”
  “A story of mystery, of love, of quaint humor and vigorous action.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The characters are real, the action vigorous, the mystery really
  illusive, the love theme well handled, and all is touched with a
  quaint and delightful humor.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 134. My. ’07. ✠

  “This is distinctly the most ambitious, and, we think the best, book
  that Mr. Duncan has written. The matter is original, and the whole is
  entertaining, despite the fact that the author overdoes such locutions
  as ‘the boy that was I’ to an extent which sometimes becomes
  irritating.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 547. N. 2. 170w.

  “An achievement that marks a long forward stride in Mr. Duncan’s
  career.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

     + + =Forum.= 39: 118. Jl. ’07. 440w.

  “To the accentuated reappearance in this book of the unmodern style
  which characterized Dr. Luke we are less reconciled. A romance
  beautiful and strong. If inwoven with the quaintness of an older
  literature, its style is none the less an unfailing delight, so lucid,
  so vivid, so picturesque, so infused with the quality of charm that
  among contemporary writers of fiction in English few outrank Mr.
  Duncan in literary technique. Mr. Duncan’s fool almost persuades us
  that his creator belongs in the glorious company of geniuses.”

   + + − =Ind.= 63: 101. Jl. 11, ’07. 610w.

  “A novel that may truly be said to make waste paper of much modern
  fiction.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 34: 961. Je. 15, ’07. 230w.

  “May lay definite claim to be considered as a real book, that
  indefinable result of original personal impulse and conservative
  literary tradition.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 478. My. 25, ’07. 360w.

  “If old Nicholas Top does not become a permanent member of the honor
  roll in fiction it will be a marvelous case of non-appreciation.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 302. My. 11, ’07. 930w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.

  “The cruise with Norman Duncan as skipper is invigorating, and it ends
  in a sunny haven.” Philip Loring Allen.

       + =No. Am.= 185: 328. Je. 7, ’07. 1440w.


=Duncan, Robert Kennedy.= Chemistry of commerce: a simple interpretation
of some new chemistry in its relation to modern industry. **$2. Harper.

                                                                7–31986.

  A work which directs the attention of educated lay-folk to science in
  its subservience to the practical needs of the human race. The author
  develops the theory that modern science is applicable to the economy
  and progress of manufacturing and agricultural operations. He shows,
  among other illustrations of his theory, how the fixation of nitrogen
  and how industrial alcohol may operate to increase the success of a
  series of operations to which they are applied.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a book for the open shelves of the public reading-room and one
  that the manufacturer and business man will profit by perusing, for it
  contains information on a great variety of topics impossible to get
  elsewhere in such convenient form.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 823. O. 3, ’07. 290w.

  “Has explained in a clear and interesting way many of the chemical
  processes used in the manufacture of common and uncommon things.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 1238. N. 21, ’07. 30w.

  “This book has the rare qualification of being needed, for nowhere
  else can the average reader find recent discoveries and manufacturing
  processes so clearly and accurately explained.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 522. D. 5, ’07. 430w.

  “To a reader who is not over-fastidious as regards literary style, or
  whose sensitiveness has been dulled by daily perusal of the journalism
  of Kansas there is much in this book to interest and amuse.”

       − =Nature.= 77: 49. N. 21, ’07. 2250w.

  “A book full of appeal to the lay reader.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

  “Mr. Duncan’s book sets out some of the triumphs of science in this
  direction in a manner to fire the imaginations of students and men of
  affairs alike.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 718. N. 9, ’07. 470w.


=Dunham, Edith.= Fifty flower friends with familiar faces: a field book
for boys and girls. $1.50. Lothrop.

                                                                7–17393.

  Fifty wild flowers are described and pictured in this volume which not
  only gives an accurate description of each plant, tells where to find
  it, but adds little sketches and quotations from flower poems, which
  will awaken interest in each flower’s distinct personality.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The boy or girl into whose hands this book is placed can hardly fail
  to acquire a real and lasting interest in our every-day wild flowers.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 381. Je. 16, ’07. 100w.

  “The grown-ups of the family will find many things that possibly had
  escaped their attention.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 130w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 34: 127. Jl. ’07. 90w.


* =Dunmore, Walter T.= Ship subsidies: an economic study of the policy
of subsidizing merchant marines. **$1. Houghton.

  The subject of ship subsidies is considered by Mr. Dunmore from an
  unprejudiced, non-partisan standpoint, and he endeavors to decide what
  is the best policy from the point of view of the commercial and
  economic interests of the United States; and also what is best,
  considering the question in its bearing on the national defense. The
  study is well tabulated and is provided with a bibliography of books
  and articles consulted.


=Dunn, Robert.= Shameless diary of an explorer; with il. from
photographs by the author. *$1.50. Outing pub.

                                                                7–21274.

  Mr. Dunn “was one of a party that strove to reach the summit of Mount
  McKinley, crowned with everlasting snow and ice in the sub-arctic
  solitudes of Alaska. Day by day he kept a diary of the movements and
  adventures of the party, noting the smallest details. After the
  unsuccessful attempt had ended, and those concerned in it had returned
  to civilization, the idea of publishing the diary occurred to its
  author, and he determined to lay before the public an unvarnished
  tale.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author might advantageously have omitted some of the profanity
  and coarseness which he has retained, but apart from this blemish the
  book is a vivid account of exploring the strange wilds of the remote
  northwest.”

     + − =Dial.= 43: 20. Jl. 1, ’07. 200w.

  “As with many a predecessor, the result of his self-conscious
  determination to avoid the posing of which he imagines all others
  guilty has been his perhaps unconscious transformation into the worst
  sort of poseur himself. None the less, the volume contains here and
  there a bit of effective description.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 82. Jl. 25, ’07. 590w.


=Dunne, Finley Peter (Martin Dooley).= Dissertations by Mr. Dooley.
†$1.50. Harper.

                                                                6–38400.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 8. Ja. ’07.

  “As a whole the Dooley philosophy is a work of excellent innuendo, of
  polished and admirably concealed artistry.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 13. Ja. 5. 380w.

       + =Ind.= 62: 741. Mr. 28, ’07. 390w.

  “Beneath his joyous gift of extravagant ridicule, he is perhaps the
  wisest man now writing, and America should be very proud of him.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 14. Ja. 11, ’07. 340w.

  “The quality of the entertainment furnished by the new volume is quite
  on a level with that of its predecessors; indeed, in some respects it
  is better, in that it is less parochial in outlook and terminology,
  and consequently appeals to a wider audience.”

     + + =Spec.= 98: 93. Ja. 19, ’07. 990w.


=Dunraven and Mount-Earl, Windham Thomas, 4th earl of.= Outlook in
Ireland: case for devolution and conciliation. *$3. Dutton.

  “Lord Dunraven makes, in measured and fit language, a strong case for
  the moderate fashion in which Irish affairs have been approached by
  the committee known by his name.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 224. F. 23. 110w.

  “Lord Dunraven’s book has an inevitable air of being born out of due
  time.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 142. Ag. 15, ’07. 230w.

  “The book is a statesmanlike consideration of the present status of
  affairs in Ireland and of the most pressing needs of the unhappy isle,
  and a masterly plea for fair play, friendliness, tolerance, and
  justice on both sides of the Irish channel.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 414. Je. 29, ’07. 1410w.

       + =Outlook.= 86: 742. Ag. 3, ’07. 1680w.

  “From the beginning to the end of his book there is hardly a chapter
  in which he does not either shut his eyes to palpable facts, or at
  least regard them through some distorting medium of national
  prejudice, with the result that, however well intended his advice, it
  will scarcely commend itself to those who have given calm
  consideration to the Irish problem.”

   − − + =Spec.= 98: 290. F. 23, ’07. 2020w.


=During, Stella M.= Disinherited; with a frontispiece by Paula B. M.
Himmelsbach. †$1.50. Lippincott.

                                                                7–20512.

  Set in England this story with its tangled threads and continuous
  action shows how an inheritance proved a pitfall. A naive,
  unconscionable girl marries the gouty old Sir Peter—of a less
  irascible temperament, tho in many points not unlike Sheridan’s Sir
  Peter—and does it to save herself from the battle for bread. After the
  sudden death of Sir Peter a daughter is born, and the mother, finding
  that the bulk of the estate had been willed to a nephew, begins a long
  series of sham proceedings which, to hold the property for herself,
  require that the child be brought up as a boy. At sixteen the child
  takes things into her own hands, apparently drowns, reappears as a
  twin sister who, so the fiction ran, had for family reasons been sent
  to California in infancy, restores to the cousin his property, falls
  in love with this cousin, and, heart-broken because it is not returned
  and because she has all thru life served only as her mother’s tool,
  drowns herself. Plot and counter-plot abound.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The ultra crudities of the opening, where Avice makes her entrance
  into society, so little prepare the reader for any display of
  ingenuity that the latter absurdities prove a rather welcome relief.”

     − + =Nation.= 85: 79. Jl. 25, ’07. 220w.


* =Durland, Kellogg.= Red reign: the true story of an adventurous year
in Russia. il. **$2. Century.

                                                                7–32827.

  Russia of today as an American sees it. Mr. Durland spent a
  twelve-month traveling thru European Russia, Poland, the Caucasus, and
  a part of western Siberia. Mr. Durland’s presentations are not only
  picturesque descriptions of a traveler, nor yet merely thrilling
  stories of an active journalist, but contain accurate and
  authoritative observations on the social, economic and political
  conditions of the country. The volume is fully illustrated.


=Dutton, Maude Barrows.= Little stories of Germany. *40c. Am. bk. co.

                                                                 7–6771.

  “Separate stories arranged so as to form a connected account of the
  history of Germany, beginning with the mythological heroes and
  extending to Kaiser Wilhelm. There are stories of the great masters of
  music and painting, as well as of kings and warriors, of the invention
  of printing as well as of the conquest of land.”—A. L. A. Bkl.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 139. My. ’07. ✠


=Dye, Eva Emery.= McDonald of Oregon; a tale of two shores. †$1.50.
McClurg.

                                                                6–33578.

  A story which “deals first with the occupation of Oregon by American
  settlers, and later with McDonald’s expedition to Japan, undertaken in
  a spirit of adventure, and resulting in the Perry expedition, of such
  international consequence.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Although the narrative is based ... upon an exhaustive examination of
  historical material, the volume can hardly be ranked as a historical
  publication.”

     + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 479. Ja. ’07. 70w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 703. O. 27, ’06. 230w.

  “There is so much vitality in the material upon which this book is
  based, and the writer expresses herself with such enthusiasm, that the
  volume holds the interest in spite of the fact that it is too loosely
  knit for a historical novel, and lacks the unity of a good biography.”

     + − =Outlook.= 84: 941. D. 15, ’06. 80w.

  “This is history where the substantial facts are so woven with romance
  and restored to vitality by vivid imagination as to give atmosphere,
  color and life.”

       + =World To-Day.= 11: 1221. N. ’06. 90w.




                                   E


=Earle, Mrs. C. W.= Letters to young and old. *$2.50. Dutton.

  Letters such as Mrs. Earle has been accustomed to write to her friends
  and family are here collected into a volume which covers a wide field
  of interest. The seven sections include letters from Germany, letters
  upon gardening, health, diet, children, art, and life in general.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Acad.= 72: 39. Ja. 12, ’07. 320w.

  “Altogether, it is a delightful, gossiping olla podrida.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 13. Ja. 5. 260w.

  “Here is a novel and clever idea in bookmaking.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 197. Mr. 30, ’07. 220w.

  “Those who liked her three books of potpourri will find it
  interesting, but no one to whom the three former volumes did not
  appeal should even try to read this one.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: 18. Ja. 5, ’07. 780w.


=East, Alfred.= Art of landscape painting in oil color. *$3. Lippincott.

  “Mr. East has not attempted in this book to write of landscape
  painting in its elementary stages. His aim has been rather to give the
  already qualified student an insight into certain truths which have
  been revealed to him in his own practice of the art. To correct a
  false attitude towards nature, and to help the reader to understand
  the importance of technique, has been the aim of this book. It is
  illustrated by eight landscapes and a page of studies of effects in
  colour, and many halftone pictures, chiefly from the painter’s works;
  also an admirable selection from those pencil sketches in which he
  excels.”—Int. Studio.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The letterpress is somewhat elementary. The book is redeemed,
  however, by a genuine love for the subject.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 779. D. 15. 390w.

  “We cannot think of any painter who could be a better guide than Mr.
  East. He is not contemptuous of the beginner, and he has a literary
  faculty which enables him to explain his meaning very clearly.”

     + + =Int. Studio.= 30: 363. F. ’07. 360w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 446. Jl. 13, ’07. 520w.

  “This work should be of great use to many a student, amateur and
  artist. Mr. East writes with distinctness, and has the power of making
  his reader understand clearly the various processes, mental and
  technical, which he uses for the construction of a landscape.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 542. Ap. 6, ’07. 290w.


* =Eastman, Charles Alexander.= Old Indian days. †$1.50. McClure.

                                                                7–33219.

  The chivalry of the Indian warrior and the womanliness of the Indian
  woman are subjects which Mr. Eastman sets forth with authority and
  sentiment. In an idealized sense his tales become more “than mere
  narrations of savage exploits and records of the legends and
  traditions, beliefs and practices, of a primitive people.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

  “We feel personally grateful for the refreshment afforded by more than
  one exquisitely idyllic tale among the dozen, or so in his volume.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 744. N. 30, ’07. 120w.


* =Eckstorm, Mrs. Fannie (Hardy).= David Libbey, Penobscot woodsman and
river-driver. *60c. Am. Unitar.

                                                                7–23501.

  Another figure for the galaxy of “true American types.” David Libbey
  is a Maine woodsman who “met all the demands of son, husband, father,
  brother, friend, citizen and soldier, and yet had time for
  self-education, for æsthetic culture, and for the exercise of a talent
  by no means meagre.”


=Eddy, Arthur Jerome.= Tales of a small town by one who lived there.
†$1.50. Lippincott.

                                                                7–30989.

  The small town element is here in the fact that every one knows the
  business of everyone else be it the lawyer who connives to secure the
  drunkard’s farm through his wife before she has actually determined on
  a divorce suit, or the adventurous young minx with the peroxide hair
  who flirts with her uncle and her staid next door neighbor to the
  distress of their wives. The stories are interesting although not
  wholly pleasing for the admirable traits of the villagers are
  subordinated to their unlovely ones.


=Edwardes, Marian=, comp. Summary of the literatures of modern Europe
(England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain); from the origins to 1400.
*$2.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–20970.

  “The work is essentially an annotated and classified bibliography,
  with references to the most authoritative scholarly discussions of the
  writings included. It presents an immense mass of historical and
  critical information in a form that is both compact and convenient for
  use.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In spite of these ... defects ... the compilation is distinctly
  serviceable. With careful revision it might be made indispensable.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 789. Je. 29. 870w.

       + =Dial.= 42: 381. Je. 16, ’07. 120w.

  “Enough has been said, we believe, to show how defective this work is,
  notwithstanding its occasionally useful citations of recent
  literature.”

     − + =Nation.= 85: 469. O. 21, ’07. 460w.

  “A very careful and painstaking work, and should be found useful by
  students.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 424. Mr. 16, ’07. 80w.


=Edwards, A. Herbage.= Kakemono: Japanese sketches. *$1.75. McClurg.

                                                                7–29123.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “A complete view of Japan, the book does not give; the unpleasant
  features are left for others to portray. But that omission makes it
  the more agreeable to read.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 19. Ja. 1, ’07. 330w.

  “A series of slight sketches, more ambitious than successful.”

       − =Nation.= 85: 80. Jl. 25, ’07. 30w.


=Edwards, Matilda Betham-.= Literary rambles in France. il. *$2.50
McClurg.

                                                                7–36931.

  Miss Betham-Edwards, who gave us a few years ago “Home-life in
  France,” now gives equally intimate glimpses of the personality of
  some of the French men and women of letters. Some of the suggestive
  chapter headings are: Flaubert’s literary workshop, On the track of
  Balzac—Limoges. The genesis of Eugènie Grandet, In the footsteps of
  George Sand, Brantôme and The story of the Marseillaise.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “She gives with perfect success the atmosphere of the places and
  people that she writes about. That is, we imagine, all that she set
  out to do, and in any case all that was needed.”

     + − =Acad.= 73: 698. Jl. 20, ’07. 510w.

  “Is in our opinion one of the best of her long series of monographs on
  French life and scenery. Her tendency to facile literary allusion
  takes her readers far from the scene she is describing. This is
  destructive of the French atmosphere which ought to characterize her
  books of travel.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 757. Je. 22. 780w.

  “It is a pleasure to discover that [it] belongs, not to the appalling
  multitude of ‘popular guides,’ but to the small and delightful company
  of artistic and illuminating travellers’ sketches. They have, in the
  first place, the note of spontaneity.”

     + + =Dial.= 43: 290. N. 1, ’07. 370w.

  “There never was a more staunch champion of Protestantism than Miss
  Betham-Edwards; and we take leave to think that a writer who hardly
  acknowledges any other religion in France cannot be said to know
  France thoroughly.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: 266. Ag. 24, ’07. 1200w.


=Edwards, Owen.= Short history of Wales. *75c. Univ. of Chicago press.

  A brief history of only a little over a hundred pages for those who
  have never read any Welsh history.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The pages on Wales at the present time are unquestionably the most
  interesting. The style is simple, lucid, and picturesque. Those for
  whom the book is primarily intended—readers ignorant of Welsh and
  Latin—will be led to knowledge of pleasant paths.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 264. Mr. 21, ’07. 180w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 150w.

  “His attitude is still that of the North Walian. Despite such trifling
  blemishes the book is excellent.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 658. My. 25, ’07. 500w.


=Edwards, William Seymour.= Through Scandinavia to Moscow. **$1.50.
Clarke.

                                                                6–37647.

  Entertaining observations made by Mr. Edwards as he and his bride
  traveled in five weeks thru Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, to St.
  Petersburg and back to London by way of Berlin, Hamburg, and
  Amsterdam. The account is given in the form of letters written by the
  author to his father and is illustrated with snap shots taken en
  route.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The personal touches and impressions—interesting incidents well
  told—make an unusually attractive account of a traveler’s experiences.
  Here and there an occasional careless statement threatens to shatter
  the reader’s faith in the accuracy of the book as a whole. On the
  whole the book is worth reading. Its story is pleasantly told, with
  many interesting items well worth remembering.”

     + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 412. Mr. ’07. 230w.

  “Commonplace in many respects.”

     + − =Dial.= 42: 82. F. 1, ’07. 390w.

  “A simple, straightforward account.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 576. Mr. 9, ’07. 810w.


=Eeden, Frederik van.= Quest. $1.50. Luce, J. W.

                                                                7–15321.

  The symbolism which abounds in this book reminds one of Ibsen. A
  little boy seeks diligently from fairy guides a solution to the riddle
  of the universe and its manifold manifestations. As he grows older his
  desire for understanding is no less keen but for the fairy thoughts of
  imagination are substituted the troll-ideas of grotesque human
  realities. Finally among the sordid commonplaces he falls in with a
  companion who is a “modern reincarnation of the Christ.” There is a
  very human love tale, the romance of the imaginative Johannes and
  Marjon, a little circus girl.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A remarkable work of sustained fancy, the book presents no new
  ‘Weltanschauung,’ it brings no new message. Dr. van Eeden has dreamt a
  dream, he has not seen a vision. The translation is on the whole,
  admirable.” A. Schade van Westrum.

     + − =Bookm.= 25: 296. My. ’07. 1540w.

  “‘The quest’ as a romance is, by reason of its loose construction and
  its generally feeble character drawing, a negligible quantity. As a
  work of philosophy it is suggestive, but tautological and obscure. As
  a social study on the other hand, it possesses exceptional value; is,
  in fact, one of the most comprehensive arraignments of the hypocrisy
  and corruption of the age that has yet been written.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 99. Jl. 11, ’07. 480w.

  “There is much jog-trot indeterminate narrative as well as much
  didacticism, in the third part.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 415. My. 2, ’07. 610w.

  “The things that hold and charm are the glimpses of the quaint mind of
  ‘de kleine Johannes’—little John—the scenes from Dutch life, the
  pictures of the mountebanks’ way, the hints of things good and bad
  that stirred our little John; the flights of fancy, now gracious and
  now horribly gruesome; the homely simplicity of the narrative of the
  hero’s love affairs. Almost equally pleasing is much of the homelier
  satire. But there is other satire that falls dully on the mind like
  the rhapsodies of Markus the prophet.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 154. Mr. 16, ’07. 720w.

  “Weary wastes of long-drawn-out commonplace separate the brilliant and
  beautiful passages. Pages of puerile, pottering pedantic dialogue that
  might have stepped out of a Rollo book discourage the interest. The
  result is a work diffuse and discursive—not to say sprawling—and
  obscure.” Alvan F. Sanborn.

       − =No. Am.= 185: 79. My. 3, 07. 1510w.

  “The writer’s intentions are obviously excellent and his philosophy
  sound. To Dutch readers his performance is doubtless excellent as
  well, but to us it is so involved, prolix and tiresome as to be
  absolutely impossible. The barriers between our minds and his book are
  quite impassable.”

     − + =Putnam’s.= 3: 111. O. ’07. 240w.

  “Delicately fanciful, and deeply spiritual besides, ‘The quest’ merits
  wide attention.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 768. Je. ’07. 30w.


=Eggleston, George Cary.= Jack Shelby; a story of the Indiana
back-woods. †$1.50. Lothrop.

                                                                6–20455.

  An exciting tale of the adventurous pioneer days of 1836.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Not well written, but gives an interesting, and probably accurate
  picture of pioneer life.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 80. Mr. ’07.

  “Is of a good kind and well done.”

       + =Bookm.= 24: 526. Ja. ’07. 30w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 34: 768. D. ’06. 50w.


=Eggleston, George Cary.= Love is the sum of it all: a plantation
romance. il. †$1.50. Lothrop.

                                                                7–32710.

  A plantation romance whose scene is laid in Virginia following the
  reconstruction period. “Warren Rhett, the hero, is a young Virginian,
  enlightened, enfranchised, energized by education in the north and a
  cosmopolitan experience as a bridge builder, not solely as the lover
  of the good and beautiful heroine.” (N. Y. Times.) The heroine is the
  daughter of a sculptor; the love-making is uninterrupted in Warren’s
  step-mother’s home where he is recuperating and incidentally rescuing
  the plantation from decay and bankruptcy.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “On the whole, the book is wholesome as well as pretty. If there is
  not a deal of excitement in it, there is plenty of suggestive
  observation.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 533. O. 12, ’07. 480w.

  “As a social critic, Mr. Eggleston has nothing new or important to
  say. He does not even say what he has to say well. As a novel it is
  impossible to praise it.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 548. S. 14, ’07. 540w.


=Elbe, Louis.= Future life in the light of ancient wisdom and modern
science. **$1.20. McClurg.

                                                                 6–9285.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 41. F. ’07.


=Eldridge, William Tillinghast.= Hilma; il. by Harrison Fisher and
Martin Justice. †$1.50. Dodd.

                                                                 7–9545.

  “This book belongs in that class of which Anthony Hope’s ‘Prisoner of
  Zenda’ is the prototype. A brave and resourceful American is thrown
  into the dynastic plots of a petty imaginary nation in eastern Europe,
  and plots and counterplots develop in rapid and thrilling succession.
  One does not need to guess that the American foils the political
  villains who try to keep Princess Hilma from her throne, nor that he
  loves the beautiful young queen, and that both sacrifice love to
  duty.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author has studied the ‘Prisoner of Zenda’ carefully, and has
  tried to produce another one; even the ‘Dolly dialogue’ form of
  conversation is attempted. The result written in American language is
  terrible.”

       − =Acad.= 73: 996. O. 5, ’07. 120w.

  “Perhaps above the average of its kind.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 134. My. ’07.

  “Nobody needs quarrel with the story merely because it is an
  imitation. The important thing is that it is a good one.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 476. O. 19. 150w.

  “The story is told in nervous and sometimes ungrammatical English, and
  its nomenclature rivals that of ‘Graustark’ for weirdness.” Wm. M.
  Payne.

       − =Dial.= 42: 314. My. 16, ’07. 160w.

  “A particular trouble is that the dialogue ... is tremendously labored
  and disconcertingly pointless. The author, with all the industry and
  good will in the world, lacks both the necessary invention and the
  highly desirable knowledge of the hearts of men and women.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 159. Mr. 16, ’07. 460w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 190w.

  “The tale is built up in a workmanlike way, and has a reasonable
  number of thrills and sudden turns.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 812. Ap. 6, ’07. 120w.


=Eliot, Sir Charles Norton E.= Letters from the Far East. *$2.40.
Longmans.

                                                                7–30811.

  “This volume consists of letters originally published in the
  Westminster gazette during a recent visit to China and Japan,
  undertaken with the special object of studying the languages and
  creeds of those countries and the development which Buddhism has
  undergone.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The volume is one of singular interest, but displays a fanciful and
  slightly paradoxical intellect. The author’s reflections upon
  Mohammedanism and his panegyric on Hinduism will startle readers, but
  provoke reflection to a higher degree than do most works of travel.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 408. Ap. 6. 1010w.

  “Among the chapters on China those descriptive of Canton, Peking, and
  Chinese literature will be found particularly entertaining. The value
  of the book would have much increased by an index. There are sixteen
  illustrations, very good reproductions of photographs.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 371. Je. 8, ’07. 540w.

  “A studious and thoughtful examination of many sides of Far Eastern
  thought and life, written by a thoroughly competent observer. The book
  has not yet been written about Far Eastern matters that does not
  challenge criticism or controversy on points; but it is rare to find
  one so little provocative in that respect and so greatly instructive
  as this collection of letters.”

   + + − =Sat. R.= 103: 561. My. 4, ’07. 1050w.

  “Among the numerous works that have been devoted of recent years to
  the problems of the Far East, his unpretentious little book takes a
  very high place.”

     + + =Spec.= 99: 21. Jl. 6, ’07. 1400w.


=Eliot, Charles W.= Four American leaders. *80c. Am. Unitar.

                                                                6–42960.

  Commemorative addresses on Franklin, Washington, Channing and Emerson,
  which present the four Americans from the point of view of their
  intellectual contributions in shaping the political, moral, and
  intellectual trend of the Republic.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Inspiring addresses.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 120. My. ’07.

  “While the book contains suggestions apt to stir up antagonism in
  certain minds, and while we are made to feel that the author’s
  sympathies are at times misplaced and that he lacks something of the
  spirit of the true prophet, we must confess to the beauty of his
  style, his true sense of proportion and his fine analytical powers
  within certain limitations.” Robert E. Bisbee.

     + − =Arena.= 37: 110. Ja. ’07. 120w.

  “We have rarely read a book which could inspire a more profound
  respect for what is lastingly noble in humanity than this.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 1092. My. 9, ’07. 330w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 801. O. 1, ’06. 80w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 42. Ja. 26, ’07. 370w.

  “These papers are written—all of them—in the lucid, direct and
  vigorous style which we have come to associate with their author, and
  will be sure of the careful and respectful attention to which
  everything that comes from his strong, well-disciplined, well-stored
  and independent mind is entitled.” Horatio S. Krans.

     + + =Putnam’s.= 2: 111. Ap. ’07. 1010w.


=Eliot, Charles W.= Great riches. **75c. Crowell.

                                                                6–34713.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 210. Ja. ’07. 90w.

  “President Eliot may be a great executive officer, but we cannot count
  him among great and true thinkers.”

       − =Arena.= 37: 333. Mr. ’07. 180w.

         =Cath. World.= 85: 401. Je. ’07. 420w.

  “It treats a topic of unmistakable importance and large public
  interest in a spirit of sane and hopeful Americanism.”

     + + =Educ. R.= 33: 99. Ja. ’07. 430w.

  “The economic analysis seems to be faulty. The writer assumes that the
  riches of to-day are of a new kind, which carry with them no visible
  responsibility.”

     − + =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 637. D. ’06. 320w.


=Eliot, George.= Romola; historically il. and ed., with introd. and
notes, by Guido Biagi. 2v. *$3. McClurg.

                                                                6–42367.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The illustrations, 160 in all, are well reproduced. Furthermore, they
  are for the most part adequately described, and in every case are, for
  their own sakes, worth possessing; but many of them are wholly
  irrelevant, or are made so by being recklessly misplaced.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 57. Ja. 17, ’07. 390w.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 88. F. 9, ’07. 660w.

         =Outlook.= 85: 47. Ja. 5, ’07. 120w.

  “The letter-press is excellent, and the whole work has a scholarly
  character.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 35: 254. F. ’07. 100w.


=Elkington, Ernest Way.= Savage South seas; painted by N. H. Hardy,
described by E. Way Elkington. *$6. Macmillan.

  A volume whose text and illustrations are devoted to the native
  peoples of British New Guinea, the Solomon islands and the New
  Hebrides. The text “describes the appearance, customs, habits,
  characteristics and prospects of the savage natives, with some account
  of their past history, shows how little real impression the
  missionaries have made upon them, tells what the islands offer to the
  white man who is willing to work, and succeeds fairly well in giving
  an idea of the subtle charm which the South Sea islands can exercise
  over the Anglo-Saxon.” (N. Y. Times.) The illustrations “representing
  every phase of native life, industries, amusements, and religious
  ceremonies, as well as the pile houses and the scenery, enable one
  very vividly to realize it.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is the most beautiful of the ‘colour books’ that we have seen, and
  excels the majority of them by far in the excellence of its letter
  press.”

       + =Acad.= 73: 861. S. 7, ’07. 1230w.

  “It is a good book of a bad kind—the usual kind; there are hundreds of
  the sort, but few, we may add, so well executed, for the author has
  avoided many faults into which he might have fallen—the enthusiasms,
  the prolixities, and the vulgarities which are common to the kind.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 202. Ag. 24. 720w.

  “The authoritative tone and the evidently intimate knowledge of native
  customs are proof positive of something beyond a cursory observation
  of life among the islanders.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 377. D. 1, ’07. 220w.

       + =Nation.= 85: 349. O. 17, ’07. 390w.

  “In this book the illustrations so far exceed the text in importance
  and quality that little need to be said concerning the latter, which
  contains many inaccuracies and misprints, is written in poor English,
  and generally falls far below the level of other volumes contained in
  this series.” C. G. S.

     + − =Nature.= 76: 541. S. 26, ’07. 470w.

  “It is written entertainingly, with plenty of anecdote interspersed.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 140w.

  “The artist has given us many accurate drawings of the genuine native
  in his appropriate setting. Nor does he sacrifice accuracy of detail
  for mere pictorial effect; thus the student may feel confident in
  trusting his details of ornament, dress, house-structure and the like,
  indeed in some instances new facts are incidentally given to the
  student in the plates. The letterpress is a chatty compilation of no
  value to the serious student, as it is full of mistakes of various
  kinds and there is no evidence that Mr. Elkington has visited the
  places of which he writes.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 104: 210. Ag. 17, ’07. 360w.


* =Elliot, George F. S.= Chile: its history and development, natural
features, products, commerce, and present condition; with an introd. by
Martin Hume. *$3. Scribner.

  A history of Chile with full description of existing conditions. “Mr.
  Scott Elliot deals principally with the romantic history of his
  favourite republic. The adventures of President O’Higgins and of
  Cochrane have formed the theme of many well-told tales. O’Higgins was
  the natural son of Ambrose Higgins, Marquis de Osorno, Viceroy of
  Peru.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 549. N. 2. 230w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

  “The illustrations are selected with but slight regard for the text,
  and in several cases are put where they mar the author’s work. Those
  who wish to know the natural features and economic conditions of the
  country will be able to learn more than they can carry away in their
  minds, for Mr. Elliot is a naturalist as well as an observer of
  industrial and political phenomena. Of the historical portion of the
  work we must be content with saying that the author does not seem to
  us to do justice to the work of the church in Chile.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 104: 639. N. 23, ’07. 720w.


=Elliott, Delia Buford.= Adele Hamilton. $1.25. Neale.

                                                                7–14586.

  A story of a little more than a hundred pages which tells of the
  bravery of a southern woman who at her husband’s death finds herself
  penniless, and takes her five children to California hoping that in a
  new country away from surroundings that would remind her of her former
  abundance she may fight her financial battle and win.


=Elliott, Emilia.= Joan of Juniper inn. †$1.50. Jacobs.

                                                                7–27610.

  A cheerful, wholesome story peopled with true-to-life boys and girls
  who have real experiences and who are bubbling over with innocent fun.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 90w.


=Ellis, Edward Sylvester.= Deerfoot in the forest. †$1. Winston.

                                                                5–28020.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

  “This series of adventures ... will convince his admirers that his
  vitality is undiminished.”

       + =Acad.= 71: 607. D. 15, ’06. 50w.


=Ellis, Edward Sylvester.= Hunt of the white elephant. †$1. Winston.

                                                                6–26188.

  A sequel to “River and jungle,” in which the hero of the latter sets
  out with a native guide to capture a white elephant. Before the quest
  is successfully terminated thrilling adventure is furnished by an
  exciting tiger hunt, an encounter with a wild buffalo, and
  interference from thieving natives. From the first page to the last it
  is full of exciting situations.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is one of Ellis’ very best tales, being written in a spirited manner
  and replete with exciting adventures so dear to the vivid and hungry
  imagination of the child.”

     + + =Arena.= 37: 222. F. ’07. 270w.


=Ellis, Edward Sylvester.= Lost in the forbidden land. †$1. Winston.

                                                                6–26192.

  One of three volumes in the “Foreign adventure series.” It is a
  thrilling account of the dangers that two Americans encountered while
  attempting to trace the Pilcomayo river in South America to the
  Paraguay. Even Yankee ingenuity fails at times when set to baffle so
  formidable an enemy as the Tobas Indians.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Reviewed by Robert E. Bisbee.

       − =Arena.= 38: 320. Ag. ’07. 200w.

         =Nation.= 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 70w.


* =Ellis, Edward Sylvester.= Queen of the clouds. †$1. Winston.

                                                                7–23712.

  The last in the three-volume “Paddle your own canoe” series. There is
  in this story plenty to whet the appetite of an adventure-loving
  lad—mystery, a brave sailor boy as hero, a shipwreck, the discovery of
  pirates’ gold, treachery, a search extending to India, wild beasts of
  the jungle, the Sepoy rebellion, the escape and return.


=Ellis, Edward Sylvester.= River and jungle. †$1. Winston.

                                                                6–26479.

  Indo-China is the scene of Dudley Mason’s experiences which befall him
  on his way thru the jungle to his father, a missionary in the interior
  of Siam. Tigers, crocodiles, snakes, wild Indians and elephants make
  the way one of perils and hair-breadth escapes.


=Ellis, Edward Sylvester (Seward D. Lisle, pseud.).= Seth Jones of New
Hampshire. †$1.25. Dillingham.

                                                                 7–6405.

  A reprint of a dime-novel published nearly 50 years ago, which
  supports the claim made by the author in his introduction that dime
  novel literature not only was not immoral but was good reading for the
  young. Seth Jones is a border hero and his story is one of scalpings
  and bloodshed, of rescued maidens and daring escapades.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is such a story as the most fastidious of telegraph boys would not
  hesitate to put his _imprimatur_ upon.”

     + − =Lit. D.= 34: 639. Ap. 20. ’07. 340w.

  “We cheerfully testify that it is innocuous, simple, free from moral
  taint, as little sensational as is humanly possible for a book with
  Indians, a kidnapped maiden, and a hunter with a coonskin cap to be.
  Is a very mild case of Fenimore Cooper and water.”

     − + =Outlook.= 85: 718. Mr. 23. ’07. 240w.


=Ellis, Edward Sylvester, and Chipman, William Pendleton.= Cruise of the
Firefly, †75c. Winston.

                                                                6–21383.

  An adventurous tale in which a boat race between the clubs of two
  rival institutions secures for the winners a two months’ camping trip
  north from the Maine coast. The exciting experiences of the race in
  which plots are foiled, and the later cruise fairly bristling with
  thrilling experiences, furnish rare entertainment for a wide-awake
  boy.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 772. N. 24, ’06. 80w.


=Ellis, Edwin J.= Real Blake. **$3.50. McClure.

  “Mr. Ellis gives us an immense amount of information, heaped in
  bewildering fashion, and ticketed with labels and comments which can
  hardly fail to increase that bewilderment.” (Ath.) “Readers will
  naturally want to know what new material Mr. Ellis presents them with,
  not already in Gilchrist. He prints in full for the first time ‘The
  island in the moon,’ Blake’s squib upon the literary folk he met at
  the Mathews’s house.... All Blake’s comments on Lavater are given,
  instead of the selection printed by Gilchrist. But of course the main
  difference between the two lives is Mr. Ellis’s insistence on the
  mystical side of Blake.”—Acad.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is a great deal that is interesting and valuable in Mr. Ellis’s
  book: but it is not well composed, the writing is slovenly, and it has
  other serious faults which will assuredly prevent it from superseding
  Gilchrist, in spite of a much completer understanding of Blake’s mind
  and ideas.”

     − + =Acad.= 72: 232. Mr. 9, ’07. 1360w.

  “It is written to do honour to Blake and to explain him, but it
  requires both correction and explanation before it can do either.”

       − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 598. My. 18. 2130w.

  “If Mr. Symons writes from the point of view of ultra-romanticism, Mr.
  Ellis speaks from the region of spirit-rapping and table-turning. He
  has produced a book that is almost a model of what a biography ought
  not to be.”

     − − =Nation.= 85: 401. O. 31, ’07. 750w.

  “Mr. Ellis worships Blake, and he seems to have attracted to himself
  several of his idol’s less amiable qualities, his arrogance, his
  carelessness in writing and his intolerance; these characteristics are
  obvious, not only in the preface, but more or less throughout the
  book.”

     − + =Sat. R.= 103: sup. 8. F. 23, ’07. 320w.


=Ellis, George.= Modern practical carpentry for the use of workmen,
builders, architects, and engineers. *$5. Industrial.

  “A practical discussion of the methods and practices connected with
  the heavier kinds of carpentry work. It treats of the subject as seen
  in England, where wood work is used to a much greater extent than in
  this country. However, the discussions on shoring, scaffolding, tunnel
  and bridge centering and coffer dams are of universal
  interest.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Engin. N.= 57: 306. Mr. 14, ’07. 330w.


=Ellis, George William, and Morris, John Emery.= King Philip’s war;
based on the archives and records of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Rhode
Island and Connecticut, and contemporary letters and accounts with
biographical and topographical notes. **$2. Grafton press.

                                                                6–43914.

  To this account of King Philip’s war “Mr. Ellis has contributed the
  narrative with the references, and Mr. Morris has supplied the
  biographical foot-notes, the local descriptions, and the
  illustrations.” (Am. Hist. R.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A history of King Philip’s war, which should be both readable and
  trustworthy, has long been desired by students of early New England.
  The volume under review meets these requirements, being based upon
  careful research and written in clear narrative style. The volume is
  singularly free from errors or misquotations from authorities.”
  Clarence S. Brigham.

     + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 696. Ap. ’07. 400w.

  “A scholarly history of the last struggle of an expiring race, rather
  than a successful study of an important episode in the conquest of the
  continent.” Carl Russell Fish.

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 655. My. ’07. 250w.

  “The genealogical interest of Mr. Morris has resulted in a collection
  of biographical details that must make the book valuable to all
  tracers of New England ancestry. Indeed, one criticism of the book as
  a book lies in its multiplicity of names and explanatory notes.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 502. F. 28, ’07. 390w.


=Elton, Oliver.= Frederick York Powell: a life and selection from his
letters and occasional writings. 2v. *$6.75. Oxford.

                                                                7–18309.

  Two interesting volumes upon a man of large personality and profound
  knowledge, who for years, as tutor and professor, exercised great
  influence over the young men of Oxford and London. The first volume is
  devoted to memoirs and letters, and the second to writings.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Elton has failed partly because failure was inevitable, partly
  because of a certain lack of sympathy with his subject; but he has one
  quality which is also his main defect—a fine impartiality.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 32. Ja. 12, ’07. 1280w.

  “The many-sidedness of the man has been well brought out; the
  attractive nature of his personality is excellently displayed; the
  facts of his career are correctly noted; his fugitive work has been
  tastefully brought together; and all the friends of York Powell—and he
  had a genius for friendship—will be grateful to Mr. Elton for placing
  this memorial of their departed friend in their hands.” H. Morse
  Stephens.

     + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 648. Ap. ’07. 2100w.

  “An appreciation which is rich on every page with a just and
  sympathetic understanding of the man’s nature.”

     + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 821. D. 29. 2400w.

  “The book brings out with fine judgment and skill Powell’s love for
  literature, folklore and art, but is less successful in showing that
  history was his special province.”

       + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 204. Ja. ’07. 230w.

  “Mr. Elton’s book would have been much improved by the compression
  necessary to bring it into a narrower compass.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 424. D. 21, ’06. 2440w.

  “The present memoir is clever and interesting, but somewhat too
  diffuse. A valuable, vivid record of a life which deserves to be held
  in memory and honor.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 311. Ap. 4, ’07. 2440w.

  “The book is a master tonic.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 102: 775. D. 22, ’06. 1340w.

  “The life of York Powell was bound to be written, and it could
  scarcely have fallen into better hands.”

     + + =Spec.= 98: 55. Ja. 12, ’07. 1720w.


=Emanuel, Walter.= Dogs of war. †$1.25. Scribner.

                                                                7–15118.

  One thoroughbred and a number of mongrels constitute a group pledged
  to “attack at sight all thoroughbreds who give themselves airs or
  offer insult to plebeian canines.” “Ears,” the aristocratic spaniel
  tells the story, which is accompanied by Mr. Cecil Aldin’s humorous
  drawings.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The episodes enshrined in these pages bear and repay intimate study.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 731. D. 8. 70w.

  “His greatest failing as a raconteur is his lack of humor.”

     + − =Dial.= 41: 460. D. 16, ’06. 230w.

  “The collaboration is quite perfect, and it is always impossible to
  consider the story apart from the pictures. Possibly the drawings are
  a bit cleverer than the text, although there is much amusing matter in
  the dog biography.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 43. Ja. 5, ’07. 70w.


Emerald and Ermine: a tale of the Argoät by the author of “The martyrdom
of an empress.” *$1.50 Harper.

                                                                7–33591.

  About the slim figure of a young widowed duchess of an old estate in
  Brittany, the author has woven a strong and dramatic plot using as a
  background the sturdy peasant life of the Argoät. The estate, in the
  event of the remarriage of the duchess, reverts to her husband’s
  degenerate cousin, and he to gain it, conspires to trap her into
  matrimony. His villainy succeeds, but she finds true love and
  happiness and he receives the coveted revenues only to find them poor
  comfort and devoid of joy.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A tale steeped in the color and fragrance of woodland Brittany,
  characterized by a mysterious plot and rare charm of atmosphere.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 20w.


=Emerson, Edward Waldo.= Life and letters of Charles Russell Lowell,
captain Sixth United States cavalry, colonel Second Massachusetts
cavalry, brigadier-general, United States volunteers. **$2. Houghton.

                                                                7–15315.

  “This volume consists of a brief but adequate biography of the young
  soldier; of judicious selections from his correspondence, and of very
  full, discriminating notes upon both the life and the letters.”—N. Y.
  Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “While Mr. Emerson’s intense admiration for his hero is very plain he
  writes always with restraint, good taste, and the best judgment.” J.
  K. Hosmer.

     + + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 161. O. ’07. 580w.

  “Doubly excellent in its admiration and its restraint.” Henry Dwight
  Sedgwick.

     + + =Atlan.= 100: 278. Ag. ’07. 2470w.

  “Abundant notes supplement both the lifestudy and the letters; to
  these notes are confided many of the most intimate revelations of the
  young soldier’s personality. The student of American history and
  literature may well be grateful for this record, so directly and fully
  told, of a life which is as inspiring in memory as it was in
  companionship.” Annie Russell Marble.

     + + =Dial.= 43: 10. Jl. 1, ’07. 1800w.

         =Ind.= 63: 883. O. 10, ’07. 420w.

  “There can be no doubt that Mr. Emerson has created a distinct
  impression of General Lowell’s superb endowment of character,
  justifying that attitude of reverend adoration he inspired in his own
  immediate circle.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 35: 534. O. 12, ’07. 220w.

       + =Nation.= 84: 526. Je. 6, ’07. 630w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 291. My. 4, ’07. 70w.

  “The letters are especially valuable for their portrayal of a
  beautiful and dignified character, and they also give many suggestive
  sketches of prominent statesmen and soldiers.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 327. My. 18, ’07. 400w.

  “An admirably typical American life, worthily told in the narrative,
  not less worthily when the letters of its subject are left to tell the
  story.” Montgomery Schuyler.

       + =Putnam’s.= 3: 101. O. ’07. 450w.


Engineering index annual for 1906; comp. by J. B. Johnson. *$2. Eng.
Mag.

  An inclusive guide to engineering literature which does away with the
  alphabetical arrangement of its former volumes. “In the present annual
  volume all items have been grouped according to eight grand divisions:
  Civil engineering; Electrical engineering; Industrial economy; Marine
  and naval engineering; Mechanical engineering; Mining and metallurgy;
  Railway engineering; and Street and electric railways. Each of these
  is subdivided into a number of heads.” (Engin. N.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

     + − =Engin. N.= 57: 556. My. 16, ’07. 710w.


English music. *$1.25. Scribner.

                                                                6–38907.

  These seventeen lectures were delivered by well-known artists and
  musical writers at the time of the tercentenary of the existence of
  the “Worshipful company of musicians” during June, 1904. They
  illustrate the historical significance of the ancient instruments and
  books then on exhibition. “The lectures are brief and attractive
  essays; several are more than a résumé of what the historians have
  written, and offer some interesting points more or less novel.” (N. Y.
  Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We close the book with but one regret; that it possessed so kindly
  and lenient an editor as Mr. Crowest seems to have been. A little more
  severity might have turned out a work better fitted to bear the
  hardships of an unsympathetic world.”

     + − =Acad.= 71: 281. S. 22, ’06. 1760w.

  Reviewed by Josiah Renick Smith.

       + =Dial.= 42: 11. Ja. 1, ’07. 200w.

  “An exceptionally valuable contribution to musical literature.”

     + + =Nation.= 83: 564. D. 27, ’06. 500w.

  “They are necessarily rather disjointed as musical history, but are
  likely to fulfill a good purpose in clearing up ideas, generally
  vague, which many people hold concerning ancient instruments and some
  of the ancient music and its composers.” Richard Aldrich.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 762. N. 17, ’06. 700w.


=Erskine, John.= Actæon, and other poems. **$1.25. Lane.

                                                                6–46756.

  A book of verses, songs and sonnets which show a lyric gift and true
  poetic feeling.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A series of poetical exercises, wholly derivative in merit, and of
  slight significance.” Wm. M. Payne.

     − + =Dial.= 43: 93. Ag. 16, ’07. 110w.

  “His work is more notable for form than for substance; the most vital
  note in it is its fine sense of the apostolic tradition in poetry, its
  sentiment of poetic scholarship.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 199. F. 28, ’07. 350w.

  “Mr. Erskine has written much that is good since ‘Actaeon,’ but he
  seems for the most part to have fallen upon a more personal and minor
  strain.” William Aspenwall Bradley.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 132. Mr. 2, ’07. 500w.


=Escott, Thomas H. S.= Society in the country house, *$4. Jacobs.

  “In sixteen lengthy chapters Mr. Escott conducts his readers to as
  many groups of country houses, tracing the rise of each great family,
  characterizing its most interesting representatives and most famous
  visitors, drawing upon a store of racy anecdote and curious legend,
  and fully substantiating his claim that the country house has
  associations with the spiritual, literary, and social movements of the
  nation, which are even stronger than those more picturesque and
  popularly recognized bonds which unite it with the chase, the turf,
  and the stage.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We prefer to take the book as a cheerful jumble of interesting
  side-lights on people and events, the value of which consists in its
  mirroring the passing phases of thought in the fashion and speech of
  the time. It is left to the reader to supply his own perspective, and
  to select the grain from the inevitable chaff of anecdote and
  genealogy.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 34. Ja. 12, ’07. 720w.

  “We hope that Mr. Escott’s future volumes of pleasant reminiscences
  may have the advantage of a ‘checker’ who will do the drudgery and the
  index, and leave the writer free to please us without calling down the
  cantankerous critic.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 98. Ja. 26. 960w.

  “Mr. Escott pursues his subject with a leisurely thoroughness that is
  characteristically British, but his style is crisp and nervous enough
  to hold the reader’s interest.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 254. O. 16, ’07. 410w.

  “It is so cumbersome as to make us long once again for the old days of
  two and three volumes. A book of gossip that cannot be held in the
  hands as one leans back in a chair is a publisher’s mistake. Wherever
  the book is opened some eminent name meets the eye, with an anecdote
  attached to it; and what more can be said?”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 15. Ja. 11, ’07. 280w.


=Espy, Ella Gray.= What will the answer be? $1.50. Neale.

                                                                7–20705.

  The question concerns the future of Jo, the child of the orphanage who
  has felt the influence of Miss Jane, who gave her life to charity and
  who has also lived in an adopted home and seen something of love and
  its possibilities. The reader is left to draw his own conclusions as
  to Jo’s decision for public service or matrimony.


=Evans, Edward Payson.= Criminal prosecution and capital punishment of
animals. *$2.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–28640.

  A study of the curious methods of mediaeval and modern penology
  relating to the prosecution and punishment of animals.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Nation.= 85: 208. S. 5, ’07. 330w.

  “The author has succeeded in making an extremely readable and in a
  sense a learned volume, one which is a welcome addition to the
  curiosities of literature.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 719. Mr. 23, ’07. 310w.


=Evans, Edwin.= Tchaikovsky. (Master musicians.) $1.25. Dutton.

                                                                7–10577.

  The part of this work is devoted to the composer as a man is based
  upon the biography of the Tchaikovsky published with his letters by
  his brother Modest. The greater portion of the study is devoted to a
  critical survey of the musician and his works including an estimate of
  the relative values of his operas. “A valuable feature of Mr. Evans’s
  book is a chronological table of Tchaikovsky’s compositions.”
  (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 840. D. 29. 240w.

     + − =Nation.= 83: 564. D. 27, ’06. 250w.

  “Of the man and his work the book presents a useful summary treatment,
  though it rarely rises to a very high order of criticism.” Richard
  Aldrich.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 148. Mr. 9, ’07. 600w.


=Evelyn, John.= Diary of John Evelyn; ed. with notes by Austin Dobson.
3v. *$8. Macmillan.

  The bicentenary of John Evelyn’s death has served to produce some good
  reprints of his diary. This one edited by Mr. Dobson contains an
  informing biographical introduction and helpful notes. “Its long
  chronicle extends over an unbroken period of more than sixty years,
  dating from the stormy days which preceded the Commonwealth to the
  early time of Queen Anne. During all this age—‘an age,’ as his epitaph
  puts it, ‘of extraordinary events and revolutions’—Evelyn was quietly,
  briefly, methodically noting what seemed to him worthy of remembrance.
  His desire for knowledge was insatiable, his sympathies wide, and his
  tastes catholic.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Such a book as his ‘Diary,’ then, cannot be too often reprinted, nor
  do we know a better edition than this, skilfully edited by Mr. Austin
  Dobson.”

     + + =Acad.= 71: 567. D. 8, ’06. 1730w.

  “The reader of the ‘Diary’ is supplied with an ample commentary as he
  goes along, which will be of infinite service in elucidation of
  biographical and historical points. Indeed, we cannot imagine the work
  better done.”

     + + =Ath.= 1906. 2: 765. D. 15. 980w.

  “But what gives Mr. Dobson’s edition its importance is less its text
  than its ‘editorial equipment.’” H. W. Boynton.

       + =Dial.= 41: 451. D. 16, ’06. 500w.

       + =Lond. Times.= 5: 389. N. 23, ’06. 2200w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 852. D. 8, ’06. 1780w. (Reprinted from Lond.
         Times.)

  “Among various editions of Evelyn none surpasses in convenience,
  editorial thoroughness, and beauty of form this edition, in three
  volumes, presented with a combination of simplicity and elegance that
  mark only the best book-making.”

   + + + =Outlook.= 85: 480. F. 23, ’07. 430w.

  “A fine edition ... for which we cannot thank Mr. Dobson too much.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 526. Ap. 27, ’07. 1790w.

  “The introduction which he has prefixed to this edition of the Diary,
  is an admirable summary of Evelyn’s life, and supplies as careful an
  appreciation of the diarist’s character and work as could be desired.”

     + + =Spec.= 98: 60 Ja. 12, ’07. 300w.


=Ewald, Carl.= Spider and other tales; tr. from the Danish by Alexander
Teixeira de Mattos. †$1. Scribner.

                                                                7–15116.

  “Pleasant, readable little stories about animals and plants, in which
  insects and flowers and birds, and even clouds and dewdrops are made
  to talk as if they were human beings.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This little book of fables deserves to be added to the permanent
  library of childhood.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 523. Je. 6, ’07. 240w.

  “He has a simple, naive style, which makes his work very suitable for
  supplementary reading on nature subjects for young children, while
  older people can read his stories with pleasure because of the purity
  and perfection of his literary method.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 433. Jl. 6, ’07. 250w.


=Ewell, Alice Maude.= Long time ago; in Virginia and Maryland with a
glimpse of old England. il. $1.50. Neale.

                                                                7–26957.

  Nine good stories of revolutionary and colonial times told by a lady
  and dame of long ago.




                                   F


=Fairbanks, Arthur.= Mythology of Greece and Rome, presented with
special reference to its influence on literature. *$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                 7–6167.

  The purpose of this book is “to illustrate the wide-reaching influence
  of Greek myths first on the Latin poets, and, mainly through the Latin
  poets, on later writers.” There are numerous illustrations taken from
  ancient works of art.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author is progressive, yet conservative and judicious, and has
  produced a useful book.”

       + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 716. O. ’07. 170w.

         =Dial.= 42: 117. F. 16, ’07. 80w.

  “A scholarly and complete presentation for school and college use.”

       + =Educ. R.= 34: 105. Je. ’07. 20w.

  “The distinct merit of the book is not that which is emphasized on the
  title-page; it is, rather, the fact that the ancient stories are told
  by a professional student of mythology who is familiar with the
  results of recent investigation.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 387. Ap. 25, ’07. 230w.


=Fairlie, John Archibald.= Local government in counties, towns and
villages. *$1.25. Century.

                                                                6–23708.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “A handy and valuable compendium. The volume is, however, subject to
  serious criticism because of the mode or style of presentation.” F. I.
  Herriott.

     + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 424. Mr. ’07. 650w.

  “He has compacted into comparatively few pages a wealth of information
  on his subject. Teachers and students of civil government in all parts
  of the country should find considerable use for the volume.” James A.
  Woodburn.

     + + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 153. Mr. ’07. 610w.


=Fallow, Lance.= Silverleaf and oak. $1.25. Macmillan.

  The poems inspired by South Africa, the poems of the imperialistic
  voyager, are perhaps the best in this volume, which includes among
  others; The Southern cross; Spirit of hidden places, Day and night
  up-country, A Cape homestead, and a poem on the churchyard at Durban.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 43: 167. S. 16, ’07. 250w.

       + =Nation.= 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 250w.

  “He is apt to fall into banal cadences, and he is much under the
  influence of Mr. Kipling. The last verse of the poem on the churchyard
  at Durban seems to us to be the highest point reached by Mr. Fallow’s
  muse, and is no mean elevation.”

     + − =Spec.= 97: 931. D. 8, ’06. 110w.


=Fanning, Clara E.=, comp. Selected articles on the enlargement of the
United States navy. *$1. Wilson, H. W.

                                                                7–29552.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 412. Mr. ’07. 80w.


* =Fanshawe, Anne, lady.= Memoirs of Ann Lady Fanshawe, wife of the
Right Hon. Sir Richard Fanshawe, Bart., 1600–’72; reprinted from the
original manuscript in the possession of Mr. Evelyn J. Fanshawe of
Parsloes. il. *$5. Lane.

  Of special interest as a family history rather than of value as a side
  light on social or political history of the time. “The most noteworthy
  part of the present edition is the elaborate notes, occupying far the
  larger part of the volume and giving full information about every
  thing and every person in any way alluded to by Lady Fanshawe.”
  (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The editing of memoirs is a difficult task at best, but we have no
  hesitation in saying that these ‘Memoirs’ have been edited as they
  deserve. and they deserve well.”

     + + =Acad.= 73: 943. S. 28, ’07. 1680w.

  “These small blemishes count for nothing in comparison with the
  sterling merits of the book, which we feel confident will long
  maintain its place as the standard edition of the ‘Memoirs.’”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 437. O. 12. 1230w.

  “The book remains curious, delightful as far as Lady Fanshawe is
  concerned, elaborate and admirable so far as we can absorb her
  editor.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 234. Jl. 26, ’07. 1260w.

  “The book must remain a standard work of reference for students of the
  period.”

   + + − =Nation.= 85: 425. N. 7, ’07. 610w.

  “We are bound to say that most of Lady Fanshawe’s matter is dry stuff.
  But to all connected with the family this book, admirably printed, and
  illustrated ought to appeal.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 104: 22. Jl. 6, ’07. 150w.

  “The ‘Memoirs’ can make no claim to be a work of great literary merit,
  but though Lady Fanshawe was not a stylist, there is a directness
  about her writing that saves it from being wearisome.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 402. S. 21, ’07. 260w.


=Farnol, Jeffery.= My lady Caprice. il. †$1.50. Dodd.

                                                                7–31282.

  “A love idyl of the summertime. A healthy and active young boy plays a
  very important part in bringing together a couple of lovers in spite
  of a very worldly peeress.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The Imp is decidedly the most ingenious and interesting person in the
  book.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 381. D. 1, ’07. 140w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

  “Should anyone read the book they will find it like rock candy—a
  thread to which sugar adheres.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 676. O. 26, ’07. 320w.

  “Gay romance.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 496. N. 2, ’07. 100w.


=Farnsworth, Charles Hubert=, comp. Songs for schools; with
accompaniments written by Harvey Worthington Loomis and B. D. Allen.
*60c. Macmillan.

  “Mr. Farnsworth has performed a much-needed service to public school
  music by collecting in one volume, well printed and bound and sold at
  a moderate price, the best of the traditional songs suitable for
  children’s voices. One finds here the more important national tunes,
  beautiful melodies of Stephen C. Foster ... fine old English,
  Scottish, Irish, and Welsh folk songs, a few college songs, and a good
  selection of hymn tunes.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “One of the best books of school music ever issued, and occupies a
  place of its own.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 161. F. 14, ’07. 210w.

  “Mr. Loomis’s accompaniments show imagination and much technical
  skill, though in some instances one might question whether he has not
  elaborated his treatment more than is in keeping with the ruggedly
  simple nature of the melodies. On the whole, this book is a long step
  in advance in the literature of school music.”

     + − =Outlook.= 85: 766. Mr. 30, ’07. 330w.


=Farrer, James Anson.= Literary forgeries; with an introd. by Andrew
Lang. $2.25. Longmans.

                                                                7–26421.

  With the avowed purpose of giving some idea of the large space which
  literary forgery occupies in the history and development of the race
  the author discusses forgeries of ancient books like the “Letters of
  Phalaris” and the “Consolatio” of Cicero, the works of C. J. Bertram,
  Psalmanazar, the Eikon Basiliké, Chatterton’s Rowley poems, Launder’s
  attempts to discredit the originality of Milton, the Shakespeareana of
  Ireland, and other forgeries.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Farrer has written an excellent book on a most interesting
  subject. It is Mr. Farrer’s worst fault that he has included some
  ingenious persons in his book, who are grievously out of place.
  Forgery is far too strong a word, for instance, to apply to
  Chatterton.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 234. Mr. 9, ’07. 1540w.

  “Mr. J. A. Farrer has given us a curious and entertaining book,
  distinguished generally for the lucidity of its reasoning. It clearly
  is not intended to be a contribution to learning, since it lacks an
  index.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 289. Mr. 9. 630w.

  “If we are to judge the book by this grandiose purpose, it cannot be
  called a complete success. The reader who will decline to gauge the
  book by its author’s professed purpose will find it a very enjoyable
  ramble through an attractive by-way of literature.”

     + − =Cath. World.= 85: 256. My. ’07. 470w.

  “A quaint, lively, discursive book, a sort of Newgate calendar in the
  sphere of letters. Mr. Lang’s artistic introduction is full of
  himself, and therefore delightful.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 60. F. 22, ’07. 1850w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 389. Je. 15, ’07. 1380w.

  “Mr. Farrer, whom Mr. Lang introduces to the public in his best style,
  has written a very readable book.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 505. Mr. 30, ’07. 340w.


=Faversham, Mrs. Julie (Opp).= Squaw man; a novel adapted from the play
by Edward Milton Royle. †$1.50. Harper.

                                                                6–45695.

  The characters in this story, adapted from the play, are a degenerate
  head of the house of Kerhill, the mother whose whole aim in life is to
  preserve intact the honor and dignity of her house, Jim Wynnegate,
  cousin to the Earl of Kerhill, and Diana, the latter’s wife. The
  scenes shift from London to the plains of western America, whither Jim
  goes to serve out a term of self-imposed exile, having assumed his
  cousin’s guilt of theft to save the Kerhill honor. The dramatic
  element predominates in love scenes, wild-west quarrels, and in the
  tragedy of devotion.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A pretty story, rapid in action, with some bright dialogue, but
  crudely written.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 77. Mr. ’07.

  “The story is here told with spirit, and the narrative is full of
  variety and interest.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 217. F. 9, ’07. 120w.

  “People who have been unable to see the play may find the book not
  devoid of the appeal which kept the drama on Broadway for almost an
  entire season.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 8. Ja. 5, ’07. 400w.


Favorite fairy tales; the childhood choice of representative men and
women, illustrated by Peter Newell. **$3. Harper.

                                                                7–34176.

  An especially attractive volume of such old favorites as Cinderella,
  Beauty and the beast, The sleeping beauty, Jack and the bean stalk,
  Jack the giant killer, etc. Marginal decorations, sixteen full-page
  illustrations and a white fiber binding lettered in gold make the book
  a beautiful holiday gift.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Nation.= 86: 496. N. 28, ’07. 110w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 626. O. 19, ’07. 1340w.

  “The sixteen included are certainly among the best. Mr. Newell’s
  illustrations are, of course, delightful.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 618. N. 23, ’07. 150w.


=Fea, Allan.= Some beauties of the seventeenth century; with 82 il.
**$4. Brentano’s.

  Seventeen chapters, each of which is devoted to the personal history
  of some famous beauty or group of beauties most of whom belong to
  Whitehall in the days of the Restoration. “The facts about the various
  women—and the author has evidently been at some pains to obtain real
  facts to the best of his ability—are set forth in a simple narrative
  vein, making no injudicious pleas in defense of their actions and no
  superfluous attacks on the evident immorality of many characters.” (N.
  Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

     + − =Nation.= 84: 314. Ap. 4, ’07. 210w.

  “Though not to be classed among strictly literary works, has the
  interest of a clever compilation.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 3. Ja. 5, ’07. 290w.


=Fenollosa, Mary McNeil (Mrs. Ernest F. Fenollosa) (Sidney McCall,
pseud.).= Dragon painter. †$1.50. Little.

                                                                6–37204.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 16. Ja. ’07. ✠

  Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.

       + =Bookm.= 24: 489. Ja. ’07. 760w.

  “The characters of the romance belong to screens or fans; it is the
  Japan of the popular imagination, and the scenes are effective in a
  sense, but there is nothing fine or interpretative about the writer’s
  touch.”

     + − =Outlook.= 84: 1081. D. 29, ’06. 50w.


=Fernald, Chester B.= John Kendry’s idea. $1.50. Outing.

                                                                7–24157.

  John Kendry’s idea embodied in such sentiments as “one’s aim should be
  to live as a conscious part of the whole continuous performance,” and
  “the one thing true of all life in motion, and the prime instinct of a
  live man is to go somewhere and do something” is best fostered in the
  wild free mountain-side surroundings which form much of this story’s
  setting. At times his idea is submerged in the deadly atmosphere of
  Chinatown. The pendulum swings between these two environments. On the
  heights he knows the companionship of a finely-wrought woman, at the
  foot of the mountain he confronts conventionality, inanities, nay
  more, plot and villainy.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a story of many startling surprises; in fact, there is an
  ambush upon nearly every page; that anything like it ever happened, or
  could happen, we greatly doubt, but that does not prevent its being a
  highly readable melodrama with a style that comes near to exhibiting
  distinction.” Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 43: 252. O. 16, ’07. 310w.

  “This is a lively novel of adventure without any of the sacrifices
  usually considered necessary in stories of this type. Also his
  characters, if a trifle heavily emphasized at times, still talk and
  behave as real human beings might conceivably comport themselves under
  such startling circumstances.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 143. Ag. 15, ’07. 380w.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 510w.

  “His new book has some new interesting glimpses of Chinatown in San
  Francisco but it is too involved in plot and too improbable in
  incident to be altogether satisfying.”

     − + =Outlook.= 86: 833. Ag. 17, ’07. 50w.


=Ferrero, Guglielmo.= Greatness and decline of Rome; tr. by Alfred E.
Zimmern. 2v. *$5.25. Putnam.

                                                                7–25134.

  Two volumes which contain “a history of the age of Caesar, from the
  death of Sulla to the Ides of March.” “To the author of these volumes
  history is drama, with its characters, its passions, its plot and its
  setting—above all with its exquisite irony, the analytical
  foreknowledge of a Greek tragedy-chorus of which he is the leader.
  Roman history is no longer a weary catalogue of wars and laws, of
  risings and assassinations, sprinkled with names which by their very
  schoolday familiarity have become meaningless. Still less is it the
  blind hero-worship of a single personality to whom is ascribed a
  purpose and ambition beyond all human likelihood.” (Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Signor Ferrero is a looker-on at this game of cross-purposes, who can
  use the eyes of his mind. He overlooks all the hands at once, and his
  book is the result of his observation, not of the platitudes of
  result, but of the human elements of process. In reading this book of
  his, we must feel that it is not the game that matters, but the
  players. If he completes his scheme as worthily as he has begun it, he
  will have written a more living, a more actual, history of Rome than
  any we have encountered up to now, and we can only hope for him and
  for ourselves that the task of translation may remain in Mr. Zimmern’s
  hands.”

     + + =Acad.= 72: 479. My. 18, ’07. 1350w.

  “A fresh and vigorous treatment of a great subject, with a new
  handling of the evidence, which is not indeed increased, but estimated
  afresh. The whole book, though on a trite subject, is very stimulating
  even in its vagaries.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 720. Je. 15. 1240w.

  “Signor Ferrero is no safe guide in matters where sober historical
  criticism is needed. It must be added that in its English dress his
  work has many blemishes for which we must hold the translator
  responsible.” H. Stuart Jones.

     − + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 763. O. ’07. 1220w.

  “The chief defect of the book is the inclination to disparage the
  deeds of Cæsar.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 998. O. 24, ’07. 830w.

  “The reader ... cannot help being struck by the force with which
  Signor Ferrero puts his argument, and the admirable way in which he
  supports it from authorities. Other merits in the work can only be
  named, the insight into the social life and psychology of the Roman
  people, the full justice done to Lucullus and Cicero, and the
  excellent appendices. Mr. Zimmern has done his work most admirably,
  and has succeeded in reproducing, in a great measure, the vivacity of
  the original.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 210. Jl. 5, ’07. 1940w.

  “His work is generously planned; it rests upon a familiarity with the
  ancient sources of information. It has literary quality and at times
  brilliancy.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 305. O. 3, ’07. 6000w.

  “Dr. Ferrero argues his points with learning, ability, and entire
  familiarity with his facts. His thoughtful work is an important
  contribution to the literature of Roman history, and not less so
  because it is by an old Italian and based extensively upon the results
  of Italian scholarship.” Robert Livingston Schuyler.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 415. Je. 29, ’07. 940w.

  “However familiar with Roman history one may be, he will find an
  attractive freshness throughout these volumes.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 746. Ag. 3, ’07. 470w.

  “One of the most noteworthy works of classical analytical history of
  recent years.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 36: 636. N. ’07. 110w.

  “The work of Signor Ferrero, to-day the foremost of Italian
  historians, is in a large measure justified. For he has something to
  say, though it is often hard to dig it out. He belongs to the newer
  school of historians, who trace not the conscious purpose of the hero,
  but the inevitable march of circumstances and tendencies.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 718. Je. 8, ’07. 1590w.


=Fiala, Anthony.= Fighting the polar ice. **$3.80. Doubleday.

                                                                6–44309.

  In recording a two years’ fight with polar opposition north of the
  81st parallel there are bound to be sensationally dramatic adventures.
  “It is a record of disaster and defeat. The expedition which was sent
  out by William H. Ziegler in 1903 to reach the pole from a land base
  in Franz Josef Land, lost its ship, made three attempts to cross the
  polar pack by sledge, none of which lasted more than two or three
  days, and returned home. The main achievements of the expedition were
  a reconnoissance by Mr. Porter in Zichy Land, and a series of
  meteorological observations conducted by Sergeant Long.” (Bookm.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Although it does not contribute materially to the fund of Arctic
  knowledge, nor offer much in the way of adventure, it will be found
  popular with readers of exploration.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 41. F. ’07.

  “Defects notwithstanding, the volume is a valuable record of a
  singularly luckless expedition.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 445. Ap. 13. 1050w.

  Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.

       + =Atlan.= 100: 261. Ag. ’07. 60w.

  “The passages in the narrative which are likely to inspire popular
  interest are the leader’s description of a fall into a crevasse and
  Mr. Porter’s lively account of a tough sledge-journey.” Albert White
  Vorse.

       + =Bookm.= 24: 480. Ja. ’07. 1190w.

  “Is doubtless the most interesting story of polar exploration yet
  written in this country.” H. E. Coblentz.

     + + =Dial.= 42: 185. Mr. 16, ’07. 1500w.

         =Ind.= 61: 1403. D. 22, ’06. 90w.

       + =Ind.= 62: 1149. My. 16, ’07. 420w.

  “This is the most elaborate and richly illustrated record of polar
  explorations since Nansen’s books.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 25. Ja. 5, ’07. 310w.

  “Mr. Fiala’s volume is admirably illustrated and his maps are clear
  and fairly accurate; but he is too much oppressed with his troubles
  and with a strong sense of his responsibilities to be an entertaining
  writer.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 115. Ap. 12, ’07. 490w.

  “Mr. Fiala’s book, while not contributing materially to the fund of
  Arctic knowledge, and while not supplying much in the way of
  adventure, may yet be found enjoyable by those who find in Arctic
  literature perennial charm. The proof revision is not perfect.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 44. Ja. 10, ’07. 780w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 806. D. 1, ’06. 160w.

  “The volume is well-written. The glow of imagination is diffused
  through the narrative and the facts worth telling are well told. Few
  descriptions of arctic work, conditions, and experience have been more
  permeated with readable quality. Some of these experiences are of the
  first order of interest.” Cyrus C. Adams.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 25. Ja. 19, ’07. 1890w.

  “Although unsuccessful in his quest of the Pole, the brilliant young
  leader of this expedition is to be congratulated on his distinct
  addition to the general fund of knowledge concerning the Arctic
  regions.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 108. Ja. ’07. 120w.

  “We cannot approve of some of the word pictures. They are obviously
  not scientific.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 372. Mr. 23, ’07. 150w.


=Ficke, Arthur Davison.= Happy princess and other poems. †$1. Small.

                                                                7–14629.

  The title poem which is a poetical romance occupies the first part of
  this volume, it is followed by seven poems upon Fancy in the later
  days, The return to Avon, To sleep and other subjects. Fifteen poems
  grouped under the head of Pilgrim verses, and evidently inspired by
  Oriental wanderings complete the contents.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Ficke has to learn what to leave out, and to recognize that even
  in poetic style the happy phrase is that which flies like an arrow to
  the goal, not that which plays about the mark like a garden-hose,
  however charming the rainbow tints that sparkle in its spray.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 36. Jl. 11, ’07. 280w.

  “The title poem, written from a mind saturated with Tennyson,
  Browning, and Keats, contains many good lines and some fine images and
  premises better things to some in spite of such rhymes as ‘dawn’ and
  ‘on,’ and ‘love’ and ‘of.’”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 255. Ap. 20, ’07. 190w.

  “There is an engaging wistfulness about it and often a rare sense of
  beauty. The verse does not in all cases show fulfillment, but promise
  always.” Christian Gauss.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 200w.


=Fidler, Henry.= Notes on construction in mild steel; arr. for the use
of junior draughtsmen in the architectural and engineering professions;
with il. from working drawings, diagrams, and tables. (Longmans’ civil
engineering ser.) *$5. Longmans.

                                                                7–26472.

  A book for the junior draughtsman which is intended to aid him in
  “bridging the gap between the stress sheet and a working drawing that
  shall successfully pass the ordeal of criticism in the shops during
  construction and in the field during the erection of the structure.
  His plan definitely excludes any computations arising out of the
  application of mechanics to design, although hints are occasionally
  given as to theoretic considerations.” (Engin. N.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “While many useful hints are given to the designer regarding various
  details as influenced by practical conditions, some are very general
  and indefinite in character. The range of illustrative examples seems
  to be too narrow to accomplish the author’s purpose. A comparative
  discussion of different details used for similar structures would
  materially enhance its value to the young designer or draftsman. In
  this respect the latter part of the chapter on columns is decidedly
  the most valuable.” Henry S. Jacoby.

     + − =Engin. N.= 57: 305. Mr. 14, ’07. 730w.


=Field, Walter Taylor.= Fingerposts to children’s reading. **$1.
McClurg.

                                                                7–11993.

  These essays aim to interest parents, teachers, librarians,
  Sunday-school workers and all who are concerned with the education of
  children. The problem met is that of introducing a child to eminent
  writers through their simpler works.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 120. My. ’07. S.

  “One criticism of a general nature: the child in the author’s mind’s
  eye would seem to be rather precocious or priggish or both.”

     + − =Dial.= 42: 228. Ap. 1, ’07. 280w.

  “Is admirably planned to awaken parents to the crying need of the best
  books in the home, and to give practical guidance in their selection.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 140. My. 25, ’07. 150w.

  “An unusually useful book for parents who have children just beginning
  their education.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 128. Jl. ’07. 60w.


=Findlater, Jane Helen.= Ladder to the stars. †$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                6–32359.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 42: 15. Ja. 1, ’07. 150w.

  “She knows her story well, and she knows her people, and draws the
  vulgar, convention-ridden, lower middle class with their dull and
  sordid lives, made up so exclusively of raiment and food, with a
  certain truthful if incisive cruelty.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 442. F. 21, ’07. 200w.


=Finn, Frank.= Ornithological and other oddities. **$5. Lane.

  “A collection of thirty-eight short articles, which have appeared in
  various English publications. All but six deal with birds, and some of
  the subjects are of unusual interest.” (Nation.) “The author’s aim has
  been to bring together all the out-of-the-way facts about the
  creatures he writes about, and his choice of instances has been a very
  happy one. The chapter on the ‘Toilet of birds’ may serve as a sample.
  Herein he discusses the uses of the birds’ oil-gland, or as he calls
  it, ‘pomatum-pot,’ and the still more curious ‘powder-puff’ and
  ‘comb.’” (Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is not a dull line in the whole volume, while the illustrations
  are remarkably good.”

       + =Acad.= 72: 508. My. 25, ’07. 410w.

  “Few of the separate sketches, touching as they do merely the fringe
  of the subject under discussion, run any risk of exhausting either it
  or the reader. Being drawn mainly from the aviculturist’s point of
  view rather than from that of the field naturalist, they should appeal
  specially to frequenters of zoological gardens and museums.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 580. My. 11. 900w.

  “The width of his knowledge gives some of his essays unusual
  distinction.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 204. Je. 28, ’07. 380w.

  “The most valuable portion is that dealing with the birds of India, a
  country where Mr. Finn has spent many years.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 356. O. 17, ’07. 310w.

  “Despite its title, which we cannot regard as other than cheap, Mr.
  Finn’s book is not to be passed over by anyone interested in
  observation and fond of birds. Distinguished by a note of
  individuality in the observations that are recorded and the
  speculations they give rise to.”

       + =Sat. R.= 104: 20. Jl. 6, ’07. 580w.

  “It is to be wished that Mr. Finn would embody in fuller and more
  connected form the observations and experience which this book
  communicates in a series of more or less closely related
  reminiscences.”

       + =Spec.= 99: sup. 457. O. 5, ’07. 1560w.


=Finnemore, John.= Jack Haydon’s quest. †$1.50. Lippincott.

  A blood curdling tale “about a mining engineer, an expert on rubies,
  who, with a magnificent ruby in his pocket, was on his way home from
  India when he suddenly dropped out of sight in Brindisi. Thereupon his
  son and two adventurous friends, believing him to have been kidnapped
  and carried back ... to a remote part of India by a wicked native ...
  started out to rescue him. And if there is any sort of danger, by
  wind, or waves, or wild beasts, or wicked men, through which they did
  not wade up to their chins, it is merely because there was not room in
  the book’s 300 pages for another incident.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Experiences in Burma, which Mr. Finnemore recounts with skill.”

       + =Acad.= 71: 607. D. 15, ’06. 20w.

  “Barring a marked tendency to verbosity, it is a well-told tale.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 894. D. 22, ’06. 210w.

       + =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 7. D. 8, ’06. 120w.


=Finot, Jean.= Race prejudice, tr. by Florence Wade-Evans. $3. Dutton.

                                                                7–13005.

  “M. Finot argues for national peace and fraternity and endeavors to
  find argument and reason for universal brotherhood in the underlying
  principles and traits of our common humanity.”—R. of Rs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “For larger libraries only.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 163. O. ’07.

  “The general thesis of the writer is sound. Some of the individual
  illustrations and bits of evidence are probably overdrawn or not
  understood. His discussion of the situation of the negro in the United
  States is scarcely fair.”

     + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 155. Jl. ’07. 320w.

  “On the whole M. Finot’s work reads smoothly in its English version.
  His employment of the destructive method to wreck the conclusions of
  anthropologists must be pronounced more entertaining than convincing.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 770. D. 15. 220w.

  “The net impression of the volume is that of an able but somewhat too
  zealous special pleading for a cause that certainly makes a
  philanthropic appeal.”

     + − =Dial.= 42: 230. Ap. 1, ’07. 310w.

  “The book is from first to last uncritical; there is no careful
  weighing or discrimination of authorities.”

       − =Lond. Times.= 6: 75. Mr. 8, ’07. 910w.

  “M. Finot’s volume, while it does not escape the exaggeration natural
  to an enthusiastic advocate, contains much matter that is of interest
  to students of international relations and racial history.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 592. Je. 27, ’07. 910w.

  “We observe a few instances of the entire misapprehension of things in
  this country. The only ground for adverse criticism [of the
  translation] is in the fact that in some cases French words are
  retained for which there are fairly adequate equivalents in English.
  The work is one which urgently demands an index, the absence of which
  is much to be regretted.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 145. Mr. 9, ’07. 750w.

  “Upon some questions of fact, with which the writer of this paragraph
  is familiar, the author has certainly failed to tell the whole truth
  with impartiality. While recognizing these drawbacks, we commend this
  book to the thoughtful consideration of all students of the race
  problem. It is far from furnishing a solution of that problem, but it
  throws no inconsiderable amount of light upon it.”

     + − =Outlook.= 87: 452. O. 26, ’07. 840w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 140w.


=Fischer, George Alexander.= This labyrinthine life: a tale of the
Arizona desert. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.

                                                                7–11590.

  The aim of this book which portrays the struggles of a tuberculosis
  colony in Arizona is to present camp-life as it is, so that the
  invalid can judge as to whether he is in a position to undertake it;
  to show to the humanitarian and the sociologist that really great
  results in saving life and in relieving suffering can be achieved by a
  very moderate outlay; to indicate that it is the duty of the United
  States government to take the subject in hand following private
  initiative.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Lit. D.= 34: 469. Mr. 23, ’07. 230w.

  “Although any effort to arouse interest in the care of consumption is
  entitled to respect, when a treatise of this kind masquerades as
  fiction, it is as fiction that it must be judged. From this point of
  view ‘This labyrinthine life’ lacks the vitality of the dime novel
  without greatly surpassing it in probability or workmanship.”

       − =Nation.= 84: 246. Mr. 14, ’07. 450w.

  “Mr. Fischer has managed to make out of his material a readable tale
  that is half novel, half a series of sketches, and wholly a
  disquisition upon consumption and its treatment in the desert region.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 462. Jl. 27, ’07. 140w.


=Fisher, Clarence Stanley.= Excavations at Nippur. (Babylonian
expedition of the Univ. of Penn.) 6 pts. ea. pt. $2. C. S. Fisher,
Rutledge, Delaware co., Pa.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 446. Ja. ’07. 60w.


=Fisher, George Park.= The reformation. Rev. ed. *$2.50. Scribner.

                                                                6–11660.

  “The book has been reset in clearer type; the notes and the excellent
  bibliography show keen interest in the publications of the past ten
  years; tho it must be confessed that the literature of the previous
  twenty find a scantier recognition. The text shows many minor changes,
  but as the title-page states, it is simply a revision.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “[The opinion of the reader of it] will necessarily be favorable, for
  it has long held a high place, in spite of a certain timidity in
  dealing with controverted points, an apologetic tone, which might
  suggest, though erroneously, that the convictions of the author are
  wavering and weak.” Franklin Johnson.

     + − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 341. Ap. ’07. 160w.

       + =Ind.= 62: 1470. Je. 20. ’07. 100w.


=Fisher, Gertrude Adams.= Woman alone in the heart of Japan. $2.50.
Page.

                                                                6–39433.

  The author with only her camera for company ventured into the remotest
  corners of Japan and tells in an entertaining fashion of her
  experiences in the smaller villages and towns where western
  civilization has not yet penetrated.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We can only conclude that the authoress was employed by a yellow
  editor to paint the boldest of yellow races in her lividest colours.
  Her pages are lively, graphic, good-tempered—but never beautiful.”

       − =Acad.= 73: 745. Ag. 3, ’07. 300w.

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 180. Ag. 17. 340w.

  “Her book is more frank and outspoken than the books of most men
  regarding this much visited land, and impressions may be obtained from
  it that are hardly to be gained from any other recent work.” Wallace
  Rice.

       + =Dial.= 41: 393. D. 1, ’06. 120w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 806. D. 1, ’06. 170w.

         =Spec.= 99: 262. Ag. 24, ’07. 50w.


=Fisher, Irving.= Nature of capital and income. *$3. Macmillan.

                                                                6–32431.

  “In five divisions Prof. Fisher treats of the fundamental concepts of
  capital and income, capital and income separately, then together, and,
  finally, there are summaries of the different divisions in the last
  two chapters. Like other books on the subject, such topics as wealth,
  property, utility, earnings, etc., are dealt with.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It must be said that while Professor Fisher presents his arguments in
  defense of his conceptions of capital and income with force as well as
  with confidence, it is doubtful whether they will carry conviction to
  any mind not already prejudiced in their favor.” Henry R. Seager.

     + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 175. Jl. ’07. 2350w.

  “Of little interest to the average citizen. We believe this work of
  Professor Fisher’s will tend only to add to the general confusion in
  political science.” Robert E. Bisbee.

     − − =Arena.= 36: 685. D. ’06. 260w.

       + =Ind.= 62: 737. Mr. 28, ’07. 390w.

  “In point of thorough workmanship and nice finish, the volume stands
  in refreshing contrast to much—we had almost said most—of the economic
  writing in these days of unlimited license to produce undigested and
  undigestible literature. So workmanlike is his performance that it is
  with regret that we are unable to rate the work more highly as a
  contribution to economic theory. Highest praise should be given to the
  author’s discussion of capital and income accounts and of capital and
  income summation.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 346. Ap. 11, ’07. 950w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 653. O. 6, ’06. 280w.

  “The ‘dreary science’ has seldom received a breezier contribution, or
  one of more original treatment.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 235. Ap. 13, ’07. 1370w.

  “Has not only a scientific interest for the theoretical student of
  economics, but also a human and vital interest for the accountant and
  the business man.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 632. N. 10, ’06. 390w.


* =Fisk, George Mygatt.= International commercial policies, with special
reference to the United States: a text book. (Citizen’s lib.) *$1.25.
Macmillan.

  A thorogoing hand-book which provides in a form available for students
  of economics and general readers a systematic treatment of the
  politics of international commerce. The author discusses the
  development of modern commercial politics, including free trade,
  protection, customs in all their phases, commercial treaties, public
  trade promoting institutions and navigation politics.


=Fisk, May Isabel.= Talking woman. Il. †$1.25. Harper.

                                                                7–20962.

  Quite as tho he had in reality met this procession of chatterers and
  been “talked to death” does the reader lay down Mrs. Fisk’s book of
  monologues. It isn’t the woman with the forgivable little foible, but
  the voluble one who parades her own selfish interests to the exclusion
  of all others. The invalid, At the theatre, The new baby, A woman
  inquiring about trains, An afternoon call, The boardinghouse keeper
  and Her first trip abroad are suggestive of humorous as well as
  true-to-life possibilities for hits.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Amusing but trivial.”

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 20w.


=Fitch, Michael Hendrick.= Physical basis of mind and morals. $1. Kerr.

                                                                6–38885.

  “A primer of socialism ... which makes an effective appeal to
  untrained thinkers, and for that reason deserves consideration by
  every one interested in exerting counter influence.”—Am. J. Soc.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “On the whole, it must be said that, though the book abounds with
  sensible remarks and just criticisms of present social conditions, it
  is an example of that pseudo-science which has brought disrepute upon
  the social sciences among men of scientific training; and that the
  less of such books with scientific pretensions we have published, the
  better it will be for the social sciences.” A. W. S.

     − + =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 565. Ja. ’07. 200w.

  Reviewed by Franklin H. Giddings.

         =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 264. Ja. ’07. 90w.


=Fitch, William Clyde.= Her own way: a play in four acts. **75c.
Macmillan.

                                                                7–17031.

  The clever four act comedy which Maxine Elliott made famous is now
  brought out in book form, dedicated to the actress who created
  Georgiana Carley and endeared her wilful personality to all who
  watched her romping with her brother’s children, or successfully
  directing her own love affairs despite the intervention of fate and
  family.


=Fitch, (William) Clyde.= The truth; a play in four acts. **75c.
Macmillan.

                                                                7–21331.

  Becky Warder, in whom has been born and bred the habit of petty
  falsehood, learns in the course of these four acts to speak the truth.
  She fibs to her husband, whom she adores, about hats, about her
  gambler father’s needs, and finally about her meetings with Jack
  Lindon, the man from whom her best friend has separated. The net of
  white lies closes about her, her much enduring husband ceases to
  believe in her, and in her trouble she comes to realize the truth is
  essential to happiness.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A good play to ‘read ’round’ in a literary club.”

       + =Ind.= 63. 700. S. 19, ’07. 60w.


* =Fitzpatrick, Sir James Percy.= Jock of the Bushveld. **$1.60.
Longmans.

  The story of a brindled bull-terrier’s life and death, in which the
  development of dog-intelligence goes hand in hand with realistic
  dogfights and terrifying brutality. Many passages show the distinction
  between a real love of nature and a mere sportman’s interest in game.
  “Among the more exciting episodes are the killing of the ‘old
  crocodile’, the adventure with the leopard and the baboons, and that
  of the koodoo cow, in which Jock received the kick that nearly killed
  him, and left him stone-deaf for the rest of his days.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The narrative has all the freshness and charm of a transcript of real
  life. Though it is strong meat for the little ones, boys of a larger
  growth and adults will find it difficult to lay the book aside till
  the last page has been reached.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 515. O. 26. 460w.

  “To children it can be whole-heartedly recommended. By that select
  audience of older people who have been long waiting for a South
  African classic it will be welcomed with surprise and delight.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 322. O. 25, ’07. 1080w.

  “Here is one of the really worth while books, one of the books which
  have the truth of life and nature in them.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 190w.


=Fleming, Walter Lynwood.= Documentary history of reconstruction,
political, military, social, educational, and industrial, 1865 to the
present time. 2v. $10. Clark, A. H.

                                                                6–39739.

  =v. 1.= The first of two volumes whose purpose is to make some of the
  sources relating to the political, military, social, religious,
  educational, and industrial history of the reconstruction period more
  easily accessible to the student and the general reader. “The six
  chapters of this first volume deal with the South after the war,
  theories of reconstruction, reconstruction by the president, race and
  labor problems, the Freedman’s bureau and bank, and Congressional
  reconstruction. It covers the years 1865–1868. Every chapter has a
  brief historical introduction, a topical bibliography and a collection
  of extracts grouped in analytical array.” (Ind.)

  =v. 2.= The second volume of this documentary history “gives ample
  material to illuminate actual conditions under the Reconstruction
  governments, with special reference to race relations, political
  morality, and economic, educational, and religious matters during the
  carpet-bag régime, and the final undoing of Reconstruction.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The work has the limitations which are inseparable from all
  source-books of limited size, but it also has what many source books
  have not, namely, interest.” J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton.

   + + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 700. Ap. ’07. 530w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The material throughout is interesting and valuable.” J. G. de
  Roulhac Hamilton.

   + + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 166. O. ’07. 470w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “Little can be said in the way of criticism upon the text of the
  book.”

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 412. Mr. ’07. 390w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The verdict is that Dr. Fleming has produced a very fair and candid
  work which will be of great help to all who wish to get a first hand
  idea of the great and enduring problems arising out of the civil war
  and subsequent conditions.”

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 156. Jl. ’07. 390w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “On the whole, the work is very creditable to both publisher and
  editor. However, one can regret that there were not a few more
  editor’s notes. In several cases, these were really necessary to throw
  light on the documents used.” David Y. Thomas.

   + + − =Dial.= 42: 10. Ja. 1, ’07. 1000w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “To any one who wishes to make a thorough study of reconstruction,
  these volumes will be invaluable.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 290. My. 1, ’07. 270w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “Professor Fleming’s collection will be invaluable to him when he
  comes to write his own great history of reconstruction. It can never
  be of fundamental value to another scholar.”

   + + − =Ind.= 62: 96. Ja. 10, ’07. 690w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “As a massing together of illustrative material for future historical
  work it is of extreme value.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 1267. My. 30, ’07. 80w. (Review of v. 2.)

         =Ind.= 63: 1233. N. 21, ’07. 210w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “Like so many others, he succeeds better as a delver for historical
  material than as a writer of history. Not unlikely, his true vocation
  is to such work as went to the making of these volumes.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 435. My. 9, ’07. 1340w. (Review of v. 1. and 2.)

     + + =Outlook.= 84: 938. D. 15, ’06. 240w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The most serious defect, as it seems to me, appears in the author’s
  readiness to accept current popular account of certain important facts
  without that thorough investigation of them, which he might have
  given.” Guy Stevens Callendar.

   + + − =Yale R.= 16: 205. Ag. ’07. 1030w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)


=Fletcher, Charles R. L.= Introductory history of England, v. 2, From
Henry VII. to the restoration. *$2. Dutton.

  A history for boys. “With remarkable skill Mr. Fletcher contrives to
  illustrate with the minimum of dry material those clear and balanced
  generalizations which form the main value of history as a school
  study. Problems and situations are summed up with the necessary
  concentration which the older text-books lacked, yet for the most part
  with scholarly precision.” (Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In spite of these unconventional views, on the whole Mr. Fletcher’s
  book is a valuable addition to our school literature, it is the
  outcome of the new historical school and puts the different personages
  before us in a way not to be found in any other school history.”

   + + − =Acad.= 72: 73. Je. 15, ’07. 940w.

  “The only blot on his book is the colloquialism, not to say the
  ‘slang,’ which mars many passages.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 66. Jl. 20. 490w.

  “To Mr. Goldwin Smith alone, in his history of England, can we compare
  Mr. Fletcher for his gift of luminous succinctness. He has also the
  invaluable power of keeping the thread—the artist’s eye for what is
  salient. He gives us the bones that we ask for, but he does not forget
  to clothe them with life.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 256. Ag. 23, ’07. 1990w.

  “Mr. Fletcher’s work has but two defects. He hates therefore to waste
  words, but he must sedulously avoid the temptation to make use of
  allusive compression. In the next place, there exists a possibility
  that our author may fail, as most of us do, to see exactly where his
  own strength lies.”

   + + − =Nation.= 85: 210. S. 5, ’07. 1680w.

  “The book is full of independent yet well-reasoned and generally
  reasonable opinion, and is illuminated by many excellent phrases.”

   + + − =Spec.= 98: 902. Je. 8, ’07. 1850w.


=Fletcher, Stevenson W.= Soils, how to handle and improve them. (Farm
lib.) **$2. Doubleday.

                                                                 7–6647.

  The author says, “This book is an attempt to set forth the important
  facts about the soil in a plain and untechnical manner. It is not a
  contribution to agricultural science, but an interpretation of it.” A
  popular treatment dealing with the nature and management of soils,
  soil water, soil builders, benefits of tillage, objects and methods of
  plowing, harrowing and cultivating, rolling, planking, hoeing,
  drainage, irrigation, fertilizers, etc.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 96. Ap. ’07.

  “It is to be regretted, however, that the author has in many cases
  sacrificed accuracy to happiness of statement; that in the avoidance
  of technical terms and the use of everyday ones, he has not always
  succeeded in choosing such as were truly synonymous. Had his
  manuscripts been overhauled at certain points by a chemist, and at
  others by a biologist, it would have been the better.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 19. Jl. 4, ’07. 220w.

  “A simple, direct, and comprehensive statement, serviceable for class
  use, but offered mainly for the better instruction of the vast
  American multitude of men, engaged in different branches of farming.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 50w.

  “It is not altogether with equanimity that we view the recent habit of
  publishers to push American text-books of agriculture in this country.
  This preliminary grumble over, we can honestly recommend Professor
  Fletcher’s book as containing a well-reasoned practical account of the
  nature and benefit of such operations as ploughing, subsoiling, and
  cultivating.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 104: 85. Jl. 20, ’07. 500w.

  “A book which, by reason of its excellent illustrations as well as its
  facts is a useful addition to current agricultural literature.”

     + + =Spec.= 99: 294. Ag. 31, ’07. 1860w.


=Fling, Fred Morrow.= Source book of Greek history. *$1. Heath.

                                                                7–15133.

  The author has aimed “to make a collection of sources that would
  reflect the life and thought of the Greek people, and, to some degree
  the evolution of that life and thought.” The extracts from Greek
  literature and the full page photographs of objects of Greek art
  chosen will be of use to the teacher as a means of introducing the
  pupil to Greek literature and art, and will also prove valuable as
  illustrative material when supplemented by narrative history.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Altogether, it is a work of a helpful and needed sort, particularly
  well edited.”

     + + =Dial.= 43: 380. Je. 16, ’07. 60w.

       + =Nation.= 85: 232. S. 12, ’07. 450w.


=Flint, Robert.= Socialism. **$2. Lippincott.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “It is a keen, scholarly, comprehensive work, and presents arguments
  which no socialist can afford to pass by unchallenged. It contains
  however, one rather serious fault as a present-day document: more than
  half of it was written fifteen years ago, when the conservative
  socialists were less important in their class than they now are.”
  Eunice Follansbee.

   + + − =Dial.= 42: 111. F. 16, ’07. 370w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 151. Mr. 9, ’07. 150w.


=Fogazzaro, Antonio.= Patriot; tr. from the Italian with an introd. by
M. Prichard-Agnetti. †$1.50. Putnam.

                                                                  7–444.

  “The patriot” is a “vivid portrayal of social life in Italy in 1848,
  the year of the tidal wave of revolution. This was the period when
  Italian patriotism burned fiercest, the period when the idea of a
  united Italy was born in the national consciousness. It is the epoch
  of his country’s martyrdom which the novelist describes in these
  throbbing pages—the ten years of ‘deadly, cold, and awful silence
  stretching from the disastrous field of Novara to the glorious days of
  Magenta, Solferino, and San Martino (1849–59).’”—Lit. D.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The translation is excellent.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 78. Mr. ’07.

       + =Ind.= 62: 673. Mr. 21. ’07. 120w.

  “It is the epoch of storm and stress when the iron hand of Austria
  prest most heavily upon Italian aspirations. It is no figure of speech
  to say that Fogazzaro’s characters are real. They are reality itself,
  palpitating with life, and are perfect types of that Italian
  patriotism which in our time founded a great nation.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 34: 177. F. 2, ’07. 220w.

  “The translation is admirably vigorous and idiomatic, a true
  conveyance, one surmises, of a forthright and undecorated original.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 60. Ja. 17, ’07. 380w.

  “The movement of the story is uneven, but the foreigner will hardly
  perceive that this unevenness is due to reality, but will deem it an
  artistic blemish.”

   + + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 43. Ja. 26, ’07. 670w.

  “As to the English edition of the ‘Antico,’ though the vigorous
  translation may tally with the dictionary, it does not always preserve
  the novelist’s originality of expression and atmosphere.”

     + − =Outlook.= 85: 764. Mr. 30, ’07. 460w.

  “The story [is] rather diffuse and ill-balanced, however affecting.”

     + − =R. of Rs.= 35: 764. Je. ’07. 120w.


=Fogazzaro, Antonio.= The saint (Il santo): authorized tr.; with introd.
by W. R. Thayer. †$1.50. Putnam.

                                                                6–30924.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Is of course the most important religious novel of the year, though,
  to be frank, it is less a novel than a protest. Purely as fiction it
  lags far behind his earlier work.” Mary Moss.

   + + − =Atlan.= 99: 116. Ja. ’07. 310w.

  “‘The saint’ stirs up in the heart so much that is worthy and generous
  that one is apt to look leniently upon its technical shortcomings.”

     + − =R. of Rs.= 35: 121. Ja. ’07. 230w.


=Fogazzaro, Antonio.= The sinner, tr. from the Italian by M.
Prichard-Agnetti. †$1.50. Putnam.

                                                                7–18183.

  The soul of Piero Maironi, the sinner, is rent thruout these pages by
  the conflict within him of sensuality and asceticism. His young wife
  is living, but in an asylum hopelessly insane. He strives to be true
  to her memory but is beset by temptations of the flesh until in his
  spiritual struggle he develops a religious mania which leads him to
  give his wealth to the poor and devote his life to God. His sufferings
  are thrown upon a background of the Italian, political, social and
  religious life of today.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It must be acknowledged that Miss Prichard-Agnetti’s task has been a
  hard one, and she has acquitted herself, if not as well as possible,
  at least very fairly. The author’s masterly faculty of delineating
  character is displayed in the studies, not only of the important
  personages of his story, but of household dependants and all the many
  minor characters of the book.”

       + =Acad.= 72: 394. Ap. 20, ’07. 890w.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 177. O. ’07.

  “Allowing for the inevitable loss that must result thru even a good
  translation from the delicate, impassioned Italian into the sterner,
  less flexible English, Fogazzaro’s novel is still a masterpiece.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 60w.

         =Lit. D.= 34: 961. Je. 15, ’07. 300w.

  “The title is rather misleading, since the author has apparently
  intended to represent not so much the moral life of an individual as
  the working forces distinctive of a period.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 121. Ag. 8, ’07. 470w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 351. Je. 1, ’07. 970w.

  “As far as general interest as opposed to Italian interest in
  concerned, ‘The sinner’ far surpasses its predecessor, ‘The
  patriot’—‘Piccolo Mondo Antico.’”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 230w.

  “A work of art both high and clean. It is the first half of a
  two-volume novel, a work of power, which needs to be read entire.”

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 609. Jl. 20, ’07. 360w.

  “The work is veritably great.” Vernon Atwood.

   + + + =Putnam’s.= 2: 620. Ag. ’07. 490w.


=Fogazzaro, Antonio.= Woman; translated from the Italian by F. Thorold
Dickson. †$1.50. Lippincott.

                                                                7–32327.

  The action of this novel, filled with a strange mixture of spiritual
  discernment, theories of reincarnation, and the idea of the vendetta,
  takes place at a castle hermitage owned by the count Caesar d’Ormengo.
  There falls to the count the care of a beautiful niece Mariana, morbid
  in fancies and self-analysis. She learns from a secret compartment in
  her escritoire that she is the reincarnation of an ancestor who went
  mad in those very walls because of inhuman treatment, and who commands
  that the one whose eyes shall fall upon the memorandum of her agony
  find the way for revenge. Involved in the scheme of vendetta are the
  count, Corrodo Silla, a young secretary whose life is linked to
  Mariana’s as the reincarnated lover, a German secretary and his
  daughter. The story waxes horrible as Mariana executes her mission of
  vengeance: she causes the death of the count, kills Silla and drowns
  herself. But through all is inexorable fate, to which, not conscious
  of her own power to baffle it, she yields.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In bare outline the story would appear merely a morbid tragedy. It is
  the treatment of Fogoazzaro that redeems and gives to it distinction.”

     + + =Acad.= 72: 338. Ap. 6, ’07. 1400w.

  “An experiment in mystic melodrama which is only saved at times from
  sinking to the level of pure sensationalism by the author’s fine
  delineation of certain personages.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 502. Ap. 27. 370w.

  “The translation is in excellent, idiomatic English.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 545. Je. 13, ’07. 90w.

  “The translation by Mr. F. Thorold Dickson is unusually good; but ‘The
  woman’ will hardly have the popularity of ‘The saint,’ even at this
  second attempt.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: 504. Mr. 30, ’07. 280w.


=Follows, George Herbert.= Universal dictionary of mechanical drawing.
*$1. Eng. news.

                                                                6–42948.

  “Mr. Follows bases his dictionary on the fundamental proposition that
  ‘Mechanical drawing is a language,’ with analogies to the English
  language, ‘for the positive conveying of exact information,’ and he
  defines its alphabet or lines, its words or views, and its books, or
  complete drawings. Numerous good examples are given of the uses and
  customs of the language (to continue the analogy) which are shown in
  22 full page reproductions of standard drawings.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Taken as a whole the book is a distinct step towards standardizing
  the usages and practice of mechanical drawing.” George O. Oriok.

       + =Engin. N.= 57: 88. Ja. 17, ’07. 450w.


Foolish almanak for anuther year. 75c. Luce, J: W.

                                                                6–43522.

  This almanac is “the furst cinc the introdukshun ov the muk-rake in
  magazeen gardning, and the speling reform ov our languig by Theodor
  Rosyfelt.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Shows no falling off from the excellent standard of foolishness set
  by its predecessor last year.”

       + =Dial.= 41: 458. D. 16, ’06. 50w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 811. D. 1, ’06. 130w.

     + − =Outlook.= 85: 238. Ja. 26, ’07. 40w.


=Foord, J.= Decorative plant and flower studies for the use of artists,
designers, students, and others, containing 40 col. plates; with
prefatory note by Lewis F. Day. *$12. Scribner.

  Miss Foord’s “second series of full plates and analytical details,
  showing the pictorial elements in forty plants. The whole plant, the
  striking features of the branches, the details of inflorescence, the
  structure of the bud and flowers, and so on, are presented
  faithfully.” (Nation.) “Each subject is illustrated by a full-page
  coloured plate and numerous drawings of details in black and white,
  the former reproduced by a French stencil process as was the case with
  the first series.” (Int. Studio.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 704. Je. 8. 350w.

  “Though intended primarily for artists and designers, the beauty of
  the plates makes the volume one to be enjoyed for its aesthetic
  quality alone.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 229. Ap. 1, ’07. 320w.

  “We may say at once that excellent as were her first series of
  drawings, those now published show a distinct improvement.”

       + =Int. Studio.= 30: 277. Ja. ’07. 380w.

  “The volume can be heartily commended to designers as a safe
  reference-book, and probably students, likewise, can get good out of
  it; but just how flower-artists themselves are to be helped by it is
  another matter. No book ought to stand between an artist and the
  plants he sees.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 252. Mr. 14, ’07. 490w.


=Forbush, William Byron.= Boy’s life of Christ. Teachers’ ed. $1.25.
Funk.

  To the original edition of this life of Christ have been added notes,
  an index, and a section devoted to a series of suggestions and
  questions bearing on the text. It makes a complete text book for the
  teacher’s use.


=Forbush, William Byron.= Ecclesiastes in the metre of Omar, with an
introductory essay on Ecclesiastes and the Rubaiyat. **$1.25. Houghton.

                                                                6–28480.

  “It is not so much a consecutive rendering of the words of Koheleth as
  an imaginative construction of the Rubáiyat he might have written,
  made by a very eclectic assembling of words, phrases, and images from
  the Scripture, woven to a single texture and skillfully colored and
  cadenced to resemble the manner of FitzGerald.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The metrical version of Ecclesiastes is a piece of clever work, and
  furnishes many touches of genuine poetic insight.”

       + =Bib. World.= 28: 432. D. ’06. 60w.

  “It is adapted rather to those of sufficient literary training to read
  a book by its feeling and atmosphere, as one listens to music.” George
  F. Genung.

       + =Bib. World.= 29: 477. Je. ’07. 650w.

  “But forbearance ceases to be a virtue when called upon to applaud the
  forcing of any other piece of literature into the justly famed form of
  Omar’s quatrain.”

     − + =Ind.= 63: 101. Jl. 11, ’07. 200w.

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 68. Mr. 1. ’07. 210w.

  “Despite some roughness, a successful bit of work—in its sympathetic
  insight as well as in its technical ability.”

     + − =Nation.= 83: 395. N. 8, ’06. 290w.

  “Our one complaint is that many of the phrases in the original are in
  themselves poetry of so pure a quality that any other version seems
  odd and irreverent.”

     + − =Spec.= 97: 179. F. 2, ’07. 120w.


=Ford, James L.= Wooing of Folly. †$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                6–34804.

  “Folly is the daughter of a miner, who, having ‘struck it rich,’ comes
  to New York with the money and the ambition to ‘move’ among the Four
  Hundred. It is not a pleasant story, altho the heroine escapes into
  the arms of the right man. The purpose of the book is to expose the
  methods by which social sharks of New York live at the expense of
  their victims.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He writes well and venomously.”

     + − =Ind.= 61: 1352. D. 6, ’06. 180w.

  “The book is neatly named, and the slight plot is well handled, but
  the whole would have gained in general interest as well as humor had
  it been based on a more sympathetic observation.”

     + − =Outlook.= 84: 584. N. 3, ’06. 180w.


=Ford, Jeremiah D. M., and Ford, Mary A.=, eds. Romances of chivalry in
Italian verse: selections with introduction and notes. *$2. Holt.

                                                                6–23070.

  “From these specimens one can trace (1) the development of the
  romantic epic as a literary genre; (2) the growth of the Orlando
  story; (3) the characteristic qualities of Pulci, Boiardo, Berni,
  Ariosto and Tasso. There are also fragments of the early ‘Orlando’ and
  of the ‘Libro volgar.’”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The selections have been made with excellent judgment.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 186. Ag. 30, ’06. 220w.

  “Have well realized their aim to furnish appropriate reading material
  relating to this period.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 76. My. 11, ’07. 140w.


=Ford, Sewell.= Truegate of Mogador, and other Cedarton folks. †$1.50.
Scribner.

                                                                7–35042.

  Twelve amusing tales including besides the title-story; Of such as
  spin not, The king gander of sea-dog shoal, Captain’s folly, Across a
  picket fence, “Shiner” Liddel’s revel, The impressing of Looney Fipps,
  Seed to the sower, Julius, The romance of Windy Bill, The ride for his
  life, and Through the Needle’s eye. There are eight illustrations.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Vary greatly as to subject and value, but all are written with humor
  and occasional pathos.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 16. Ja. ’07.

  “Mr. Ford produces his artistic effects and wins the reader’s interest
  more by his portrayal of character, which is all done in sharp,
  vigorous outlines, and by his swift, vivid touch in setting forth
  backgrounds and surroundings than by the stories he has to tell.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 744. N. 10, ’06. 180w.


=Foreman, John.= Philippine islands. 3d ed. *$6. Scribner.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Like the rest of the book, the new part has scarcely a page free from
  important errors (not to mention vital omissions). The bad arrangement
  and lack of revision involves much duplication, which the index but
  poorly remedies. The orthography is sometimes freakish, and Spanish
  terms are sometimes mistranslated. The statistical tables are very
  inaccurate in places; the chronological table also, as well is
  incomplete.” James A. LeRoy.

   − − − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 388. Ja. ’07. 1660w.

  “The volume is both lucid and impartial. It is, indeed, written in a
  spirit too purely academic to be altogether interesting.”

     + − =Outlook.= 84: 842. D. 1, ’06. 560w.


=Forman, Justus Miles.= Stumbling block. †$1.50. Harper.

                                                                7–24156.

  David Rivers is wrested from his young love-making by old Robert
  Henley, a self-constituted guardian, and is sent away to develop a
  promising literary talent. The success and failure of an impersonally
  detached ambition become the keynote of the story. Rosemary Crewe whom
  David left behind is the embodiment of the strong love motif of the
  tale while Violet Winter, the fascinating New York woman whom he
  marries, is the stumbling block. Violet contemplates full reparation
  to David in allowing a threatening disease to go unoperated upon. How
  complete may have been her sacrifice is left entirely to the reader’s
  imagination.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The style is distinguished, and the undercurrent of passion
  delicately handled. The hero, perhaps, is hardly worthy of the
  devotion he inspires; but the work should be successful as a study
  character.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 362. S. 28. 280w.

     + − =Ind.= 63: 761. S. 26, ’07. 150w.

  “Mr. Forman’s practise in writing novels is shown in his easy
  management of technical construction. His ideas have become mature;
  and his way of expressing them remains quite the most curious that is
  seen in any fictionist addressing the American reader. Rosemary is a
  dream heroine, faultless in all points. If only Mr. Forman applied the
  taste that chose her to his manner of writing, he would have written
  naturally, not corruptly, in a London patois, which is neither the
  King’s English nor that of William Dean Howells.”

     + − =Lit. D.= 35: 451. S. 28, ’07. 520w.

  “This novel belongs to that class turned out in quantity every year,
  to which no possible objection should be made, if—merely this—if any
  one can discover the smallest reason for reading them.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 102. Ag. 1, ’07. 270w.

  “The story has some idyllic and romantic passages which are pleasant
  enough reading in their way—though it is all very artificial—but
  two-thirds of the book is distressingly dreary and futile.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 487. Ag. 10, ’07. 200w.

  “Original, but not really jolly.”

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 833. Ag. 17, ’07. 90w.


=Forrest, Rev. David William.= Authority of Christ. *$2. Scribner.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “An exceedingly able treatment of an all-important theme.” H. A. A.
  Kennedy.

     + + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 157. Ja. ’07. 180w.

  “This book is reverent and conservative. It concedes considerable to
  modern criticism, and will probably be read with profit by a section
  of the church whose orthodoxy would preclude a more thorough
  discussion. But it has no new message, it makes no real addition to
  biblical or dogmatic theology, and I doubt if it proves of great value
  to the scholarly world.” W. C. Keirstead.

     + − =Bib. World.= 29: 154. F. ’07. 1080w.


=Forrest, J. Dorsey.= Development of western civilization: a study in
ethical, economic, and political evolution. *$2. Univ. of Chicago press.

                                                                7–20984.

  A history in which the course of social evolution is traced. The
  analysis of the conditioning facts of European social history is made
  on the basis of their ethical, economic and political values. The work
  is the outgrowth of a demand for a fit setting of present-day
  development and conditions, and has entailed a vast amount of careful
  selection of materials.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author’s method and treatment offer little ground for objection.
  What there is of it must be a matter of difference of emphasis rather
  than attack upon fundamentals. The thing of real moment is that he has
  given a new and important elucidation of the continuity of history.”
  John H. Coney.

     + + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 117. O. ’07. 990w.

  “If he had not stated its purpose in the preface no one would have
  ever discovered it.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 1122. N. 7, ’07. 290w.

  “He fails to develop clearly the origins of modern states, the
  specific contributions of the renaissance and the reformation and the
  continuing activity of the religious and ethical impulse after the
  breakdown in the authority of the church. This last, indeed, is the
  most serious blemish in his scholarly work.”

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 473. Je. 29, ’07. 510w.

  “It is unfortunate that the author’s style falls below the dignity of
  his conception, the careful marshalling of his authorities and the
  breadth of his learning.”

   + + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 548. S. ’07. 250w.

  “The book is of value, not because it makes any substantial
  contributions to our knowledge of the past, but because it does
  reiterate the reasonable demand that our knowledge of the past should
  be put in such form that it can be used to explain the processes of
  social development, and to illuminate the problems of the present.” C.
  D.

   + + − =Yale. R.= 16: 323. N. ’07. 660w.


=Forster, H. O. Arnold.= Army in 1906: a policy and a vindication. *$4.
Dutton.

                                                               War 7–45.

  A two-part survey dealing first with the problems and measures brought
  before Parliament by the author from October 1903, to December, 1906,
  as representation of the War department in the House of Commons;
  second with the impressions which the writer has been led to form of
  some of the more important of the British military problems.

                  *       *       *       *       *

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 683. D. 1. 3350w.

  “Will no doubt be serviceable to American students of military economy
  who are desirous of knowing just how the British army stood before Mr.
  Haldane brought out his latest scheme of reform.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 636. S. 12, ’07. 180w.

  “It is much to be regretted that a clever man who has enjoyed such
  exceptional opportunities for studying the administration of the army
  as a Minister of the Crown should not have been able to clear his mind
  of the dust and heat of contemporary politics and past controversies,
  and should not have treated his whole subject in the same spirit as
  that in which he has approached the question of the artillery.”

     − + =Lond. Times.= 5: 406. D. 7, ’06. 1870w.

  “Those civilians and military men who are endeavoring to study the
  various schemes should not fail to add Mr. Arnold-Forster’s book to
  their libraries—special pleading though it be for a régime and policy
  of the past.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 154. F. 14, ’07. 270w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 12. Ja. 5, ’07. 350w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 257. Ap. 20, ’07. 80w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 383. Mr. ’07. 110w.

  “Whatever the views we may hold on the desirability of Mr.
  Arnold-Forster’s venture, there can be no question that an exceedingly
  interesting volume is the outcome. The book is unfortunately marred by
  the expression of some of the unduly arrogant sentiments to which Mr.
  Arnold-Forster is prone.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 102: 740. D. 15, ’06. 1970w.

  “Whether we agree with his view or no, his attack on the
  linked-battalion system is extremely well argued, while his impartial
  examination of arguments for and against an experiment with a Second
  line field artillery is of first rate importance.”

     − + =Spec.= 98: 254. F. 16, ’07. 2260w.


=Foss, Sam Walter.= Songs of the average man. **$1.20. Lothrop.

                                                                7–28179.

  Plain poems for plain people. They strike the popular note, need no
  interpretation, and are written for the people who do the world’s
  work. Librarians who assembled at Narragansett Pier will remember “The
  song of the library staff” included in the group.


=Foster, Agness Greene.= You, and some others. **60c. Elder.

                                                                7–29536.

  A little booklet of verse which sings of truth triumphant, of love the
  way and God the light.


=Foster, Frank Hugh.= Genetic history of the New England theology. *$2.
Univ. of Chicago press.

                                                                 7–8502.

  A genetic history and not a mere record of opinion, in which are
  traced the rise, course and culmination of New England theology as a
  distinct school of thought. The concluding chapter discloses the
  secret of its collapse which began in 1880.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He has achieved a notable success. His analysis of the contributions
  of the several leaders of the movement is keen, his judgments are
  fair, and his grasp of the stream of thought as a whole and in its
  relation to the life of the nation is clearly evident.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 97. Jl. 11, ’07. 520w.

  “Prof. Foster has appreciated his subject, and bestowed upon it the
  labor and pains which its importance deserves. His criticism of the
  work and writings of the successive theologians is clear and
  penetrating.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 459. My. 16, ’07. 670w.

  “We miss, perhaps, the eager insight into certain meritorious aspects
  of the abandoned theology which characterized, for instance, Phillips
  Brooks’s book on Jonathan Edwards, but we are impressed by the
  conscientiousness of the trained historian.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 348. Je. 1, ’07. 240w.

  “Some unguarded expressions ... raise doubt whether he has yet fully
  freed himself from the pull of the system whose collapse he records.”

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 120. My. 18, ’07. 440w.


=Foster, George Burman.= Finality of the Christian religion. *$4. Univ.
of Chicago press.

                                                                 6–5947.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Every serious thinker ... may not accept all the solutions offered
  here, but at least he can form no judgment which is worthy of the
  respect of intelligent men unless he has weighed these in relation to
  his other beliefs.” C. A. Beckwith.

     + + =Bib. World.= 29: 315. Ap. ’07. 1010w.

  “In the volume under consideration one finds a combination of a
  genuinely philosophical and scientific temper with a warmth of
  religious feeling that makes the problems discussed living issues, and
  that gives a reasonable ground for the hope that in his constructive
  treatment the author will find a satisfactory solution of the problem
  which he has set himself.” Amy E. Tanner.

     + + =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 253. Ja. ’07. 1670w.


=Foster, John Watson.= Practice of diplomacy. **$3. Houghton.

                                                                6–39718.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “As a whole, it must be said that the book is a very successful
  presentation of the field the author sets out to discuss.”

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 210. Ja. ’07. 610w.

     + + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 186. Mr. ’07. 170w.

  “This is a pleasing, sensible, and useful book. If one were to pick
  flaws at all, it would be in regard to some of the references to
  European practices and personalities.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 87. Ja. 24, ’07. 390w.

  “A commendable feature of the work under review is that it clearly
  states not only general diplomatic questions but indicates some that
  are liable to become acute or perilous and that its author suggests
  solutions that seem eminently reasonable.” George R. Bishop.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 318. My. 18, ’07. 3210w.

  “Historically valuable, as well as interesting to the general reader.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 43. Ja. 5, ’07. 280w.

  “There is little to criticise in the book either as regards the point
  of view or the content.” J. W. Garner.

   + + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 137. Mr. ’07. 790w.

  “It cannot fail to be of much interest to every American who takes an
  active interest in the affairs of the world.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 111. Ja. ’07. 110w.


=Foster, William.= English factories in India, 1618–1621: a calendar of
documents in the India office, British museum and Public record office;
published under the patronage of His Majesty’s secretary of state for
India in council. *$4.15. Oxford.

  A sequel to the documents appearing in the six volumes of “Letters
  received by the East India company from its servants in the East.”
  “International rivalry, oriental politics, the economics of Asia, and
  the conduct of Europeans under alien conditions, can all be studied to
  advantage in Mr. Foster’s book. The student of American exploration
  and history will find much to interest him.... Here he can find
  further light on the character of Sir Thomas Dale, trace the later
  voyages of Martin Pring, his successor in command of the East Indian
  fleet, or learn of the work of William Boffin in the tropics.... Here
  are made clear both the varied interests and the unity of British
  expansion in the early seventeenth century.” (Am. Hist. R.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “These are rich additions to the earlier Calendar of state papers,
  East Indies, for which the student has long been indebted to Mr.
  Sainsbury.” Alfred L. P. Dennis.

       + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 879. Jl. ’07. 750w.

         =Nation.= 84: 384. Ap. 25, ’07. 420w.


=Fournier, d’Albe, Edmund Edward.= Electron theory: a popular
introduction to the new theory of electricity and magnetism; with a
preface by G. Johnstone Stoney. *$1.50. Longmans.

                                                                7–11034.

  A book which attempts in an elementary manner the consistent
  application of the all-embracing electron theory to the whole range of
  electro-magnetic phenomena. “A plea for the recognition of electricity
  as a fundamental natural quantity, and the addition of its unit, the
  electron, to the three fundamental units of length, mass, and time, of
  which all dimensional formulas are composed.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “On the whole the book may be heartily commended as a well-executed
  attempt to grapple with a new and difficult subject.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 585. N. 10. 1590w.

  “Fournier d’Albe writes perfect English, agreeably and lucidly: and
  his book could be mastered by an intelligent boy. It would be easier
  to read, however, if the author would not interrupt his train of
  thought with paragraphs and even pages whose substance, however
  essential to the whole theory, forms no part of the matter he is
  endeavoring to communicate in the particular context.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 205. F. 28, ’07. 680w.

  “A glance at the table of contents of this book is sufficient to show
  that it fills an acute want at the present time. In making this
  attempt, the author is to be congratulated both on the choice of his
  subject and the skill and originality he has displayed in
  accomplishing it. It is a relief to find that the treatment, though
  popular, is to the point, and little or nothing is said of these vague
  and vast speculations as to the ultimate constitution of matter which
  have unfortunately become identified with the words ‘the electronic
  theory.’” F. S.

   + + − =Nature.= 75: 292. Ja. 24, ’07. 660w.

  “A lucid popular account of the main outlines of the electron theory
  as it exists at the present day.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 20. Ja. 5, ’07. 120w.


=Fowler, Nathaniel Clark, jr.= Starting in life: what each calling
offers ambitious boys and young men; il. by Charles Copeland. **$1.50.
Little.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “In view of the excellent purpose of the book, and of the general
  success with which that purpose is carried out, it may be unimportant
  to point out the slight defects of arrangement which we find in it.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 85: 767. Mr. 30, ’07. 250w.


=Fowler, William H.= Steam boilers and supplementary appliances: a
practical treatise on their construction, equipment and working. $5.
Scientific pub.

  “The book does not differ materially from others of its class, but it
  is largely devoted to English types of boilers which are but little
  known in this country.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “On the whole, the book may be considered a useful work of reference
  for those interested in the subject, but it will not take the place of
  any of the standard American works.”—William Kent.

       + =Engin. N.= 58: 420. O. 17, ’07. 910w.


=Fowles, George Milton.= Down in Porto Rico. *75c. Meth. bk.

                                                                6–13696.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Too scanty to be of much value to a student, but accurate so far as
  it goes, and interesting to the ordinary reader of travel.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 42. F. ’07. S.


=Fox, John, jr.= Knight of the Cumberland, il. by F. C. Yohn. †$1.
Scribner.

                                                                6–37963.

  Mr. Fox has created “the very model of a story” (Nation) out of
  ingredients a little old and a little new. His knight is a “quaint,
  picturesque conception, a moonshiner’s son who seems to have been born
  out of his class or out of his century.” (N. Y. Times.) His heroine is
  known as “The Blight” because “nor man nor woman nor sixteen-hand-high
  mule could resist her.” (Nation.) There is an unusual commingling of
  tournament, duel, and very American stump-speaking. “And it is this
  very incongruity which renders the tale fascinating.” (Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Attractive and original tale.”

       + =Acad.= 71: 612. D. 15, ’06. 170w.

  “Light, delightful little story.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 246. D. ’06. ✠

  “The whole story makes glad the sense of symmetry, compact as it is of
  fun, manners, and motives, as they flourish in the land that we almost
  think of as created by Mr. Fox.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 441. N. 22, ’06. 180w.

  “The story is a delight both in conception and literary execution.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 771. N. 24, ’06. 480w.

  “It bears the mark of Mr. Fox’s charming talent, the fresh feeling,
  the naïve directness, the sympathy with everything that it touches.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 710. N. 24, ’06. 80w.

  “Is but a pretty sketch that takes an hour in reading and leaves the
  fiction-hunger quite unappeased.” Vernon Atwood.

     + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 616. Ag. ’07. 170w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 126. Ja. ’07. 30w.

  “The work is of the slightest possible texture.”

       − =Sat. R.= 103: 244. F. 23, ’07. 140w.


=Francis of Assisi, St. (Giovanni Francisco Bernadone Assisi).= Little
flowers of the glorious Messer St. Francis and of his friars; tr. by W.
Heywood; with an introd. by A. G. F. Howell. 35c. Crowell.

  This translation of a succession of incidents in the great work of St.
  Francis and his friars is uniform with the “Handy volume classics.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Heywood’s rendering is far and away the best and most complete of
  those before the public, and he omits nothing that can make it useful
  or easy of reference.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 14. Ja. 5. 210w.

  “Mr. Heywood’s translation strikes us as admirably done upon the
  whole, and it takes strength from the fact that he is, so far as we
  are aware, the first translator to keep before him and to use the
  Latin original of the ‘Fioretti.’”

       + =Sat. R.= 104: 340. S. 14, ’07. 500w.


=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.

                                                                  6–717.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “A very useful and trustworthy version. Occasionally wanting in
  perspective.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 472. Ap. 20. 180w.

  “Father Paschal’s work is a finished piece of historical criticism. He
  has gone to the sources, and brought to bear on their elucidation an
  intimate knowledge of all the later literature of the subject.”

     + + =Cath. World.= 83: 257. My. ’06. 480w.

  “The English translation is almost as good as a critical edition. Both
  translators have a thorough knowledge of the recent literature of the
  subject, and where they touch on controversial points they both show
  modesty, good temper, and sound judgment.” A. G. L.

     + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 195. Ja. ’07. 180w.

  “Excellent translation of the writings of S. Francis, with its
  scholarly preface and valuable critical apparatus.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 103: sup. 4. F. 23, ’07. 60w.

  “That St. Francis was a man of genius no one who thinks about this
  history of Christianity can possibly doubt; but the common estimate of
  his genius will not be enhanced by reading Father Paschal Robinson’s
  edition of his writings.”

       − =Spec.= 98: sup. 652. Ap. 27, ’07. 310w.


=Francke, Kuno.= German ideals of today, and other essays on German
Culture. **$1.50. Houghton.

                                                                7–15142.

  This volume is made up of a series of essays and sketches on German
  culture and the higher life of the German people, which have appeared
  from time to time from Professor Francke’s pen, in a number of
  American magazines and one or two German periodicals. He admits that
  ‘the temper of the papers is frankly propagandist.’ They aim ‘to
  arouse sympathy with German views of public life, education,
  literature and art, and they try to set forth some German achievements
  in various fields of higher activity.’—R. of Rs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The style is easy, the spirit broad, the treatment interesting.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 164. O. ’07.

  “In the thought which they contain, rather than in the style of Prof.
  Kuno Francke, lies the chief value of these essays and lectures.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 632. S. 12, ’07. 1180w.

  Reviewed by G: Louis Beer.

         =Putnam’s.= 2: 741. S. ’07. 250w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 759. Je. ’07. 120w.


=Frank, Henry.= Kingdom of love. *$1. Fenno.

                                                                7–24829.

  Part 1 of this group of essays treats of love as a cosmic principle,
  the mother principle, the social principle, and deific principle and
  as the healing grace. Part 2 embraces some thirty and more essays on
  “Contemplations of life’s ideals.” “The human being is as
  comprehensive as humanity, potent as Deity, vast as the infinite, in
  prophecy and promise” is the note sounded thruout.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 140w.


=Frank, Ulrich, pseud. (Frau Ulla [Hirschfeld] Wolff).= Simon
Eickelkatz: The patriarch; two stories of Jewish life; tr. from the
German. $1.50. Jewish pub.

                                                                7–12639.

  The first of these stories is a pathetic tale of an aged Jew who had
  spent his life with a wife who despised him, and had seen his only son
  forsake his faith. The fact that this son had become a great
  philosopher and teacher did not dull his disappointment and he tells
  the story of his life as he has seen it sadly from time to time to the
  doctor who attends him during his last days and who gains much from
  him both in thought and inspiration. The second story. The patriarch,
  is a Jewish romance but it is also a picture of Jewish family life
  with its strong religious feeling and prejudices.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The tales are well translated into clear, idiomatic English. Although
  lacking in incident, being rather chronicles of thought than stories
  of action, they will repay in more ways than one a careful reading.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 432. Jl. 6, ’07. 210w.


=Franklin, Benjamin.= Writings of Benjamin Franklin; collected and ed.,
with a life and introd. by Albert H: Smyth, 10v. ea. **$3. Macmillan.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Is the leading contribution of the year to American biography. Mr.
  Smyth’s work as editor was dignified and suitable, while the new
  papers which he unearthed were of considerable number and importance.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 1233. N. 21, ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 1–10)

         =Lit. D.= 34: 594. Ap. 13, ’07. 520w. (Review of v. 10.)

  “The editing is exact and the text is clearly an improvement on
  previous editions, though the novelties are few in number.”

   + + + =Nation.= 83: 555. D. 27, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 8.)

  “Mr. Smyth has given only the outlines of a biography, making his
  chapters convenient pegs on which to hang material discovered since
  his earlier volumes were published. Some of this material is very
  interesting.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 309. Ap. 4, ’07. 520w. (Review of v. 10.)


=Franklin, Benjamin.= Franklin year book; maxims and morals from the
great philosopher; comp, by Wallace Rice. **$1. McClurg.

                                                                7–33926.

  A bit of Franklin wisdom for every day in the year.


=Franklin, Frank George.= Legislative history of naturalization in the
United States from the Revolutionary war to 1861. *$1.50. Univ. of
Chicago press.

                                                                6–20847.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “We regret that it does not cover completely a subject which it covers
  so well partially. There is no other book, however, which covers the
  subject at all.” Gaillard Hunt.

     + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 402. Ja. ’07. 720w.

  “Altogether the book is a very unsatisfactory treatment of the
  subject.” David Y. Thomas.

       − =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 556. Ja. ’07. 790w.

  “The book has been written especially for the jurist and the
  legislator, but its clear style will also make it of interest to the
  ‘general’ reader.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 331. My. 19, ’06. 70w.


=Fraprie, Frank Roy.= Among Bavarian inns. $2. Page.

                                                                6–41527.

  An account of little journeys to Bavarian highlands and to various
  quaint inns and hostelries in and out of the ancient towns, together
  with reminiscences of student and artist life in Munich. The volume is
  illustrated by a series of photographs of much merit well produced.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The descriptive and historical matter will interest both past and
  prospective travellers.”

       + =Dial.= 41: 453. D. 16, ’06. 180w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 784. N. 24, ’06. 190w.


=Fraser, Edward.= Enemy at Trafalgar. *$3.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–28489.

  “In the ‘Enemy at Trafalgar’, Edward Fraser has collected picturesque
  details of the great battle obtained from French and Spanish sources.
  The treatment is anecdotic, and is reinforced by a number of
  illustrations and portraits. One or two of the plans reproduced are of
  some interest for the controversy as to Nelson’s tactics, though the
  question is not dealt with in the text.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “An important contribution to the literature of the Trafalgar
  campaign.”

       + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 196. O. ’06. 40w.

  “The translations are for the most part satisfactory. We should
  without reserve thank Mr. Fraser for his interesting and important
  contribution to Trafalgar literature, were it not that he and his
  publishers are guilty of the sin of issuing this book—full as it is of
  matter bearing on recent controversy and living problems—with a most
  insufficient index, one scarcely deserving the name.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 121. Ag. 4. 2480w.

       + =Ind.= 63: 1314. N. 28, ’07. 280w.

  “An excellent study of the battle and its circumstances from the point
  of view of Nelson’s gallant adversaries. It is written throughout with
  all the vigour of the author of ‘Famous fighters of the fleet.’”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 234. Je. 29, ’06. 630w.

         =Nation.= 84: 105. Ja. 31, ’07. 60w.

  “A book which no student of the naval history of Great Britain can
  afford to ignore. The portraits are not creditable, the sacrifice to
  economy having been too great. There is an adequate index.”

   + + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 150. Mr. 9, ’07. 660w.

  “A novel idea, and its manner of execution throws light on the last
  great naval combat between France and England.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 237. Ja. 26, ’07. 90w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 383. Mr. ’07. 80w.

  “Mr. Fraser’s account of the battle compiled from French and Spanish
  records will be very useful to check the numerous versions, good, bad,
  and indifferent, now in existence which have had to rely more or less
  on British sources for their information. The plates add considerably
  to the attraction of this fascinating and useful book.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 102: 176. Ag. 11, ’06. 1060w.


=Fraser, John Foster.= Red Russia. **$1.75. Lane.

                                                                7–29041.

  Mr. Fraser has given an impressionistic picture of various phases of
  modern Russia. “It is the terrible story of the revolutionary terror
  from below in its struggle with the reactionary terror from above.
  There are some very striking illustrations.” (R. of Rs.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A convincing, vigorous description of Russia as it is today.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 164. O. ’07. S.

  “May be commended despite a slight tendency towards sensationalism.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 539. My. 4. 200w.

  “It is a journalistic piece of work, and that not of the highest
  kind.”

     − + =Nation.= 85: 332. O. 10, ’07. 130w.

  “The scene is incontrovertibly, convincingly described in these
  hurried, disorderly memoranda. Mr. Fraser has ... travelled all over
  the country, and he tells what he saw, without much evident feeling,
  without much sympathy with anybody, but with great vigor of narration.
  The value of the book is not in its conclusions. Its value is in the
  self-certified accuracy of its picture of life and conditions in the
  Czar’s realm to-day.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 401. Je. 22, ’07. 2110w.

  Reviewed by G: Louis Beer.

       + =Putnam’s.= 2: 743. S. ’07. 300w.

         =R. of Rs.= 36: 128. Jl. ’07. 40w.

  “Is more than a mere chronicle of bloodshed, and chapters like that
  descriptive of the great fair at Nijni-Novgorod are as valuable an aid
  to a clear understanding of the complexities of the Russian problem as
  those which deal with riot and massacre.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 203. Ag. 10, ’07. 280w.


=Fraser, Mary (Crawford) (Mrs. Hugh Fraser).= In the shadow of the Lord:
a romance of the Washingtons. †$1.50. Holt.

                                                                6–32360.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 16. Ja. ’07.

  “Mrs. Fraser has not succeeded so well with her novel of the life and
  times of Mary Washington as she did with her Japanese stories.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 674. Mr. 21, ’07. 50w.

  “Is told with spirit and vivacity by a woman who has something to
  communicate and knows how.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 119. Ja. ’07. 290w.


=Fraser, Robert.= Three men and a maid. $1.50. Clode, E. J.

                                                                7–16753.

  “A country squire and his most villainous cousin, a vicar and his
  nephew, an innkeeper’s two handsome daughters, a scoundrelly lawyer or
  two, and a most excellently drawn detective furnish the personnel of
  the narrative, the special recommendation of which is that it is not
  put in the first person, and has not a visible trace of the tiresomely
  wise deductions and logical puzzle-reading that are the ordinary
  accompaniments of the detective story.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Another of those ‘first books’ that turn up at pleasant intervals on
  the reviewer’s table and fairly amaze him with their all-around
  excellence of plot construction, and style, and their utter lack of
  any sign that would indicate a novice as their author.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 250. Ap. 20, ’07. 680w.

  “An ingenious and absorbing and tantalizing mystery story.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 180w.


=Fraser, William Alexander.= Lone furrow. †$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                 7–6653.

  The thread of gold running through Mr. Fraser’s self-styled “homespun
  web” is a broken-hearted wife whose husband, a young Scotch clergyman,
  deserted her. “With its leisureliness, its element of mystery (in the
  vulgar sense), and its prevailing atmosphere of religious inquiry, it
  recalls some of the later stories of George Macdonald.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “To put it kindly, not one of his happy efforts.” Frederick Taber
  Cooper.

       − =Bookm.= 25: 89. Mr. ’07. 420w.

  “It is hardly more than a vigorous statement of an interesting
  situation followed by a prolonged and rambling commentary upon that
  situation.”

       − =Nation.= 84: 157. F. 14, ’07. 300w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 92. F. 16, ’07. 210w.

         =Putnam’s.= 2: 620. Ag. ’07. 90w.


=Frazar, M. D.= Practical European guide: preparation, costs, routes and
sightseeing. **$1. Turner, H. B.

                                                                7–16759.

  Mr. Frazar has brought eighteen years of experience to his task of
  offering condensed information to the European traveler. He offers
  enlightenment on the following points; How to travel, Steamship lines
  and the voyage, The arrival in Europe, Some attractive routes,
  European railway fares, What to see, Guidebooks, Hotel-rates, Final
  suggestions.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Dial.= 42: 381. Je. 16, ’07. 50w.

       + =Ind.= 62: 1359. Je. 6, ’07. 60w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 34: 126. Jl. ’07. 50w.


=Frazer, James George.= Adonis, Attis, Osiris: studies in the history of
Oriental religion. *$3.25. Macmillan.

                                                                7–15462.

  “Mr. Frazer’s thesis is that the oriental religions here studied are
  based upon harvest rites which were intended to insure the fertility
  of the soil by methods of imitative magic.... Such a book as this
  ought to be of very great value to the student of the history of
  philosophy, for it was the blending of these eastern faiths with
  neo-platonism which formed the soil out of which Christianity
  arose.”—J. Philos.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Dr. Frazer is read no less for his learning than for his style, and
  his latest book will not be found wanting in any of the qualities
  which lent charm to his former work.”

     + + =Acad.= 71: 569. D. 8, ’06. 1280w.

         =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 446. Ja. ’07. 30w.

  “These fascinating studies ... require ... no further recommendation
  from the reviewer. But there are also perpetual phases like ‘may
  probably be,’ ‘seem to indicate’; etc., which produce in the reader a
  feeling of vagueness and uncertainty.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 540. N. 3. 1500w.

  “The exposition displays the erudition, both literary and
  archaeological, that we are familiar with in Dr. Frazer’s writings;
  also, in spite of certain irrelevant chapters a more orderly method
  and relevance than he usually observes. His exposition of the great
  religious idea of the death and resurrection of the God is clear and
  sound and rests on solid evidence. Of much less value are the
  sociological hypotheses that he associates with the religious facts.
  Here the weakness of his work and method is most manifest. In spite of
  certain defects and hasty assumptions this book well deserves success
  and a grateful recognition.” Lewis R. Farnell.

     + − =Hibbert J.= 5: 687. Ap. ’07. 1590w.

  “As compared with the first series of studies destined to be
  incorporated in the new edition of the ‘Golden bough,’ the ‘Lectures
  on the early history of the kingship,’ published last winter, the
  argument in the present volume is conducted with more reserve, and the
  conclusions are advanced with more caution. Mr. Frazer writes with
  rare literary skill.” Wendell T. Bush.

       + =J. Philos.= 4: 21. Ja. 3, ’07. 1150w.

  “We would suggest that, when the matter of this book comes to be
  incorporated in ‘The golden bough’, Dr. Frazer should make somewhat
  clearer what he conceives to be the relations of ‘the god of Ibreez’,
  Sandan, and the Baal of Tarsus respectively.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 342. O. 12, ’07. 1200w.

  “Whether we agree with his conclusions or not, the work is an
  important contribution to the study of ancient oriental religions and
  will have to be reckoned with in all future researches into the
  subject. The French lucidity of treatment, the full and excellent
  index, and the attractive style, make it singularly easy to read and
  understand. And the mass of material collected and co-ordinated in it
  will be a mine for other investigators to quarry. In some passages,
  more especially in the descriptions of scenery, the language rises to
  an oratorical height rarely met with in scientific books.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 104: 53. Jl. 13, ’07. 1900w.


=Free, Richard.= On the wall. †$1.50. Lane.

  Stories of London’s East End told by a young vicar. “The reader who
  makes acquaintance with the life-tragedy of Granley, artisan, atheist,
  poet, bravely enduring domestic martyrdom and saving his wife’s good
  name, will not go away disappointed.” (Sat. R.) “Occasional hits at
  superficial and arm’s-length charity will be appreciated by people who
  have been annoyed by such efforts.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Americans will find ‘On the wall’ most amusing. The stories offer
  entertainment of a very whole-hearted admirable sort.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 636. O. 19, ’07. 60w.

  “There is no affectation about these short stories, and there is much
  strength and also insight into the humanity common to us all.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 309. O. 12, ’07. 100w.

  “These sketches ... are oddly unequal.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 104: 242. Ag. 24, ’07. 120w.


=Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins.= By the light of the soul. †$1.50. Harper.

                                                                 7–5069.

  In some strange byways of life is the fragile heroine of Mrs.
  Freeman’s story led. Motherless at an early age, she is soon to become
  a temperamental prey to a cold, dispassionate self-loving step-mother.
  A most illogical occurrence in the form of an untimely marriage upsets
  whatever of repose her young years were fostering. The only leavening
  influences in her bare life are the pathetic devotion of a loyal, tho
  weak, father and the child love of the little half-sister, Evelyn.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A study in self-sacrifice, containing unusually strong and delicate
  delineation of New England character, and next-to-impossible
  situations.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 51. F. ’07.

  “Viewed from an artistic as well as human point of view, Maria’s story
  is sadder than it should be, and leaves the reader with a sense of
  dissatisfaction which detracts not a little from his pleasure.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 160. F. 9. 360w.

  “It seems to me to exemplify all that the temperamental novel should
  not be.” Harry James Smith.

       − =Atlan.= 100: 132. Jl. ’07. 280w.

  “In some years of novel-reading I cannot recall a more complete
  disappointment than this book has given me.” Edward Clark Marsh.

       − =Bookm.= 25: 81. Mr. ’07. 1110w.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 460. Ap. ’07. 990w.

  “The story has no real ending. As to the people involved in this
  drama, it is plain that Mrs. Freeman herself has not reached a clear
  conception of either their personal appearance or their character. The
  representation of Maria’s character is of a piece with the other
  vaguenesses and self-contradictions.” Herbert W. Horwill.

     − + =Forum.= 38: 538. Ap. ’07. 1410w.

  “The theme required a bigger philosophy of life than Mrs. Freeman
  could bring to bear upon the subject, and the end is lamentably
  unconvincing and unsatisfactory.”

     − + =Ind.= 62: 443. F. 21, ’07. 260w.

  “She has perhaps sounded deeper levels of the human heart than
  hitherto.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 34: 385. Mr. 9, ’07. 250w.

  “We recommend the novel very cordially as a piece of delicate and
  understanding work and also as an interesting story; but the reader
  must expect a monochrome and rather a hard one.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 30. Ja. 25, ’07. 300w.

  “If the present work lacks the unity and beauty of a ‘New England
  nun,’ at least in it she is seeking an enlarged horizon and rather
  receiving fresh impressions than remaining satisfied to repeat those
  already used.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 110. Ja. 31, ’07. 530w.

  “The story is told with its author’s accustomed skill. Mrs. Freeman
  brings some of her characters vividly before the reader with the skill
  in detail for which she is noted.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 300w.

  “There is an effect of carefully wrought, delicate embroidery about
  the new novel.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 479. F. 23, ’07. 200w.

  “The amount of spirituality under which the characters in English
  novels will fairly reel is borne lightheartedly by Mrs. Freeman’s
  latest heroine.” Cornelia Atwood Pratt.

     + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 186. My. ’07. 310w.


=Freeman, Mrs. Mary Eleanor (Wilkins) (Mrs. Charles M. Freeman).= Doc
Gordon. 50c. Authors and newspapers assn.

                                                                6–25689.

  “The interest ... lies in the fresh illustration of the old question,
  should a moral and spiritual monster, abnormal in subtlety and
  wickedness be allowed to exist to the menace of the common good?
  Again, is it a crime, or at least justifiable to cut short the
  intolerable agony of a dying human creature, if the conscience upholds
  the deed? These problems play an important part in the story of Dr.
  Gordon, a man naturally charitable and broadminded, but warped by an
  evil influence out of his original happy attitude towards life.”—Acad.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Although she has the magic touch that adorns every subject she writes
  about, it must be admitted she has no peculiar gift for melodramatic
  fiction. ‘Doctor Gordon’ is a capital story, with scenes and
  characters out of the common run.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 296. Mr. 23, ’07. 310w.

  “A stocking is not a stocking when it has been raveled, but merely a
  skein of crumpled thread; just so, this book holds attention while one
  reads it, but having finished, it seems a rather poor affair as
  compared with some of Mrs. Freeman’s other stories.”

     − + =Ind.= 62: 158. Ja. 17, ’07. 500w.

         =Lit. D.= 33: 728. N. 17, ’06. 120w.

         =Lond. Times.= 6: 119. Ap. 12, ’07. 320w.

  “Miss Wilkins’ delicate talent is incongruous with the wildness of her
  plot. Altogether, we look back regretfully to the middle-aged lovers
  and the engaging pet cats of the author’s earlier stories.”

     − + =Sat. R.= 103: 498. Ap. 20, ’07. 130w.


=Freeman, Mrs. Mary Eleanor.= Fair Lavinia and others. †$1.25. Harper.

                                                                7–34778.

  Under the titles: The fair Lavinia, Amarina’s roses, Eglantina, The
  pink shawls, The willow ware, The secret, The gold, and The underling,
  Mrs. Freeman presents the village life she knows so well how to
  picture and shows us the very hearts of the village folks who take
  part in those homely little comedies and tragedies.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Delicate and amusing sketches of village life with charm of sentiment
  and grace of narrative.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 711. N. 9, ’07. 450w.

  “The stories are like old-fashioned shell cameos; the flush of life
  and beauty shows through the carefully fashioned faces.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 745. N. 30, ’07. 120w.


=French, Allen.= Book of vegetables and garden herbs: a practical
handbook and planting table for the vegetable gardener. **$1.75.
Macmillan.

                                                                7–16935.

  A book intended for seedsmen and their customers, that both may get
  full benefit from the seeds, the latter in good crops, the former in
  continued custom. Mr. French gives a summary of the uses, culture and
  virtues of each plant included; sowing-directions regarding distance
  of rows from each other, of seeds in the row, depth of planting, etc.;
  thinning, fertilizing, transplanting and picking.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Does not replace Bailey’s ‘Principles of vegetable growing’ but is an
  excellent companion to it, and more attractive in form.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 164. O. ’07.

       + =Nation.= 84: 18. Jl. 4, ’07. 500w.

  “The directions are simple, with no chance to go wrong.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 140w.

  “An excellent guide.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 208. Je 1, ’07. 80w.

  “A new garden handbook of great value to the amateur.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 127. Jl. ’07. 80w.


=French, Allen.= Pelham and his friend Tim. †$1.50. Little.

                                                                6–32675.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 80. Mr. ’07.

       + =Bookm.= 24: 526. Ja. ’07. 30w.


=French, Anne Warner.= Seeing France with Uncle John. †$1.50. Century.

                                                                6–34808.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 108. Ap. ’07.

  “It can confidently be recommended to admirers of Mr. Jerome K.
  Jerome.”

       + =Ath.= 1906. 2: 830. D. 29. 60w.

       − =R. of Rs.= 35: 127. Ja. ’07. 50w.


=French, Anne Warner.= Susan Clegg and a man in the house, il. †$1.50.
Little.

                                                                7–31418.

  Susan Clegg tries her hand at boarding an editor. Of him she says:
  “Seems Elijah is so smart that he’ll be offered a place on one of the
  biggest city papers in a little while, but in the mean time he’s just
  lost the place that he did have on one of the smallest ones.” As ever,
  Susan in no weak fashion expresses her opinions to Mrs. Lathrop. She
  gives her impressions of the young editor, his flute playing, of the
  women who ran the club women’s biennial and of the democratic and
  republican parties.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In the present volume Susan Clegg is undeniably tiresome. She talks
  so unremittingly, and always in the same strain.”

       − =Lit. D.= 35: 796. N. 23, ’07. 190w.

  “To be recommended heartily to people who may have found refreshment
  in ‘Three men in a boat,’ ‘Chimmie Fadden,’ or the sea worthies of W.
  W. Jacobs.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 140w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

  “It is a rare pleasure to find a book so wholesome, so amusingly
  philosophical and so full of the real quality of things that last.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 690. O. 26, ’07. 140w.


* =French, Arthur Willard, and Ives, Howard Chapin.= Stereotomy. 2d ed.
$2.50. Wiley.

  A second edition, with few changes, of a work appearing in 1903.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book remains a well-written compilation of method and example in
  stone-cutting and is serviceable alike for self-study and for use in
  the class-room. The work of revision in preparing this edition has not
  been very extensive. Some minor lapses were overlooked.”

     + − =Engin. N.= 58: 420. O. 17, ’07. 200w.

  “The subject-matter covers a wide range and includes everything that
  the student is likely to have need for in his future work.”

       + =Technical Literature.= 2: 460. N. ’07. 490w.


=French, Lester G.= Steam turbines, practice and theory. $3. Technical
press, Brattleboro, Vt.

                                                                 7–9802.

  “A book for the student and practicing engineer which contains a
  discussion of steam turbines and principles, and early steam turbine
  patents. “A number of chapters give detailed descriptions of all the
  important turbines now in use in this country and in Europe.” Then
  follow chapters upon Steam and its properties, Notes on efficiency and
  design. The commercial aspect of the turbine, Care and management,
  Condensing apparatus for high vacuum.... The last chapter of the book
  treats of the Marine turbine.” (Engin. N.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is nothing very original in it; but quite a little useful
  information ... has been given place in the book. The weakest part of
  the book is ... the theoretical part. The book is, on the whole, a
  very satisfactory one.” Storm Bull.

     + − =Engin. N.= 57: 442. Ap. 18, ’07. 500w.

  “This is an unusually satisfactory book in which theory and
  well-chosen practice are judiciously balanced, and unnecessary
  amplification avoided.”

     + + =Technical Literature.= 2: 457. N. ’07. 300w.


=Frenssen, Gustav.= Holy land; exclusive authorized tr. of
“Hilligenlei;” tr. from the German by Mary Agnes Hamilton. †$1.50.
Estes.

                                                                6–32857.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The book will never be popular in America, it is safe to say, for
  several reasons. It is, like a German sentence, long-winded, involved,
  and cumbrous. ‘Holyland’ contains several passages which make it unfit
  for the youthful, and even many older readers will find them
  offensive. And because we are in a very different stage of theological
  thought from Germany, the religious purpose of the novel will fail to
  arouse either the enthusiasm or the antagonism that it has in
  Germany.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 154. Ja. 17, ’07. 740w.

     + − =R. of Rs.= 35: 128. Ja. ’07. 70w.


=Frenssen, Gustav.= Three comrades; tr. from the German by L.
Winstanley. †$1.50. Estes.

                                                                7–20513.

  “An every-day sort of story of ordinary life in Germany. At the
  opening of the book the three comrades are three 10–year-old boys in
  the days of the Franco-German war. Later they are carried on into
  manhood, they separate, and each goes his own way. After a time each
  is so hampered by his faults of character that he is on the brink of
  failure. Then, at the crisis of their misfortune, they are reunited
  and together they are able to avert the threatened disaster.” (N. Y.
  Times.) “Its value consists in the beauty of one or two of its
  episodes, in some admirable pictures of land and sea by the Holstein
  coast, and perhaps above all in the personality of the author.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “As a story it is confused and incoherent, and its presentation of
  character though wonderfully vivid at times, can never be called a
  complete success. With all its shortcomings, it was worthy of being
  presented to an English public, and we must add a word of cordial
  praise concerning the manner in which this has been done. The
  anonymous translation is of unusual excellence.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 787. Je. 29. 170w.

  “The story is powerful and sympathetic, and its characters interesting
  and human.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 160w.

  “There is much charm in the simplicity of the story, both in plot and
  style and the vividness with which the author portrays scenes and
  characters makes it very life-like.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 512. Ag. 24, ’07. 180w.


* =Friedrichs, Hulda.= Romance of the Salvation army; with introd. by
General Booth. il. *$1.25. Cassell.

  “These sketches exhibit the Army at work in Great Britain, and ‘on the
  march’ through the world. Its rescue work, training of officers,
  ‘self-denial week’, and farm colony are described with affecting
  illustrative experiences. The future of the Army seems secure, though
  its great General must pass away. Religious enthusiasm for a divine
  end, coupled with a sagacious, practical use of means, is the lesson
  of its career to the churches.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Outlook.= 87: 580. N. 16, ’07. 160w.

  “Miss Friedrichs writes well and with restraint, and illustrates her
  narrative, as the history of the Salvation army is best illustrated,
  by anecdotes of its individual triumphs. In short, it is a history
  that almost any reader may peruse with pleasure, for the human
  interest of the movement, to say nothing of that attaching to so many
  of its workers, is undeniable.”

       + =Spec.= 99: sup. 639. N. 2, ’07. 250w.


=Friedman, Isaac Kahn.= The radical. †$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                7–30992.

  “The ‘radical’ is a Chicagoan who, beginning life as a butcher’s
  driver, later becomes a political leader and tries to reform the
  senate.” (N. Y. Times.) “He is a man of the people, homely, a dreamer,
  yet powerful, in some of his traits seems to be modeled upon Lincoln.
  His aim is democratic, and so far as this book goes he seems to fail
  of attaining it.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He is well-equipped with the facts of political life, and with the
  social sympathies needed for their effective interpretation. The
  present book, in the detail of its workmanship, is not as finished a
  production as the author’s previous writings would lead us to expect.”
  Wm. M. Payne.

     + − =Dial.= 43: 318. N. 16, ’07. 260w.

  “Were it not that an unmistakable earnestness of conviction pervades
  this novel, one’s inclination would be to let it pass unmentioned, for
  a more ineffective attempt at bending language to the uses of art
  rarely falls under the reviewer’s eye.”

       − =Nation.= 85: 474. N. 21, ’07. 280w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

  “The subject is intricate and may account for the somewhat
  over-involved style of writing, which leaves anything but a clear
  impression in the reader’s mind.”

       − =Outlook.= 87: 496. N. 2, ’07. 100w.


=Fry, Henry Davidson.= Maternity. $1.50. Neale.

                                                                7–34609.

  A book for the lay reader, the medical student and the trained nurse
  which attacks ignorance and superstition and leaves healthful
  enlightenment in their place.


=Fuller, Caroline M.= Brunhilde’s paying guest. †$1.50. Century.

                                                                7–26461.

  The modern Brunhilde of the story is the daughter and only surviving
  member of an impoverished southern household. Two charming cousins
  share her duties of hostess when she admits a few “paying guests” to
  her home. Among them is a young northerner who wars with the spirited
  valkyr, falls in love with her, and continues to quarrel. It is a
  pathetic picture of southern aristocracy doing battle with poverty, it
  is a romance of young strength, of maids and their lovers, set in a
  delightful southern garden.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “While her conversations are occasionally ‘bright,’ they invariably
  sound rather like the badinage overheard in trolley cars.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 260. S. 19, ’07. 500w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 60w.

  “A bright, entertaining story for an idle hour, and one that leaves no
  unpleasant impression.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 270. O. 5, ’07. 90w.


=Fuller, Hubert Bruce.= Purchase of Florida; its history and diplomacy.
*$2.50. Burrows.

                                                                6–32122.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Mr. Fuller has failed to give us a clear account of the unusually
  intricate transactions with which his book must deal, and this failure
  is chiefly owing to his sins of omission.”

       − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 404. Ja. ’07. 1240w.

  “The chief defect of the book lies in its paucity of references. The
  author has brought out a good deal of new and interesting matter for
  which he has given no authority whatever.”

   + + − =Dial.= 42: 19. Ja. 1, ’07. 320w.

  “In his earnest desire to deal fairly with all, he occasionally falls
  into the opposite error of doing something less than justice to his
  own country.” H. Addington Bruce.

     + − =No. Am.= 183: 920. N. 2, ’06. 1230w.

  “The book shows evidence of pretty thorough research; but it ought not
  to be necessary at this late day, to remind the investigator that the
  historian—and this volume will appeal to the historian rather than to
  the general reader—demands foot-note references to sources and
  authorities. Such references are too sparingly given. In some cases
  they are lacking where they are particularly desirable.” David Y.
  Thomas.

   + + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 140. Mr. ’07. 470w.


=Fullerton, George Stuart.= An introduction to philosophy. *$1.60.
Macmillan.

                                                                6–37866.

  The following embodies the purpose of the book: “To point out what the
  world philosophy is made to cover in the higher branches of learning;
  to explain the nature of reflective or philosophical thinking and to
  show how it differs from common thought and from science; to give a
  general view of the main problems with which philosophers have dealt;
  to give an account of some of the more important types of
  philosophical doctrine which have arisen out of the consideration of
  such problems; to indicate the relation of philosophy to ‘science and
  to the other sciences;’ and to show that the study of philosophy, is
  of value to us all, and to give some practical admonitions on spirit
  and method.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Fullerton has an expository style which is admirably simple and
  clear, and his preliminary definition of philosophy is as free as
  possible from the objection that he has assumed a controversial
  philosophical standpoint.”

       + =Ath.= 1907. 1: 407. Ap. 6. 230w.

  “We know of no other book in English that can compare with this one as
  a manual to help the beginner over the difficulties which beset him in
  his first adventure into the unfamiliar world of metaphysical
  abstractions.”

     + + =Cath. World.= 84: 827. Mr. ’07. 670w.

  “The book might be called ‘a condensed encyclopedia of the moral and
  mental sciences.’”

       + =Ind.= 62: 857. Ap. 11, ’07. 140w.

  “Like his larger ‘System’ it is likely not only to inform, instruct
  and practice the student in philosophical reflection, but also to
  interest and entertain him. Moreover, it contains many practical
  suggestions to both the teacher and the student well calculated to
  clear the ground and the air, giving to the undertaking of the young
  philosopher a wide sweep of open territory and a wholesome
  atmosphere.” G. A. Tawney.

       + =J. Philos.= 4: 356. Je. 20, ’07. 1400w.

  “It has many of the defects which were noticeable in the larger
  treatise. The logical divisions are imperfect, and the several parts
  of the work are not well articulated. Professor Fullerton writes,
  however, very intelligibly, and uses few technical terms. The volume
  would be more useful, if there were fuller references in it to the
  philosophical theories of the later French and German authors.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 109. Ja. 31. ’07. 350w.

  “The first half of the book is the best prolegomena to metaphysics
  that we know for students who come entirely fresh to the subject.”

   + + − =Spec.= 99: sup. 463. O. 5, ’07. 370w.


=Funk, Rev. Isaac Kaufman.= Psychic riddle. **$1. Funk.

                                                                 7–8500.

  “A remarkably clear and conservative study of the subject of psychic
  phenomena, with citations of a number of noteworthy experiences.”—R.
  of Rs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Dr. Funk lightens the book by many jokes and by some humor which is
  of Scotch character. For one thing, his sincerity shines out, and he
  refuses to allow an apology by a zealous defender which would
  compromise his intellectual honesty.” George W. Gilmore.

       + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 555. Jl. ’07. 280w.

  “The general reader will find the entire volume as fascinating and
  compelling as romance, and to any person interested in psychical
  research it will be far more interesting than a well written novel.”

       + =Arena.= 36: 668. Je. ’07. 1330w.

  “Anybody familiar with the volumes of Myers, or even with the little
  book of Lapponi, will find that Dr. Funk has paid little attention to
  systematic arrangement of his data and analysis of the various factors
  of the problems with which he deals.”

       − =Cath. World.= 86: 253. N. ’07. 340w.

  “His purpose has been well executed.”

       + =Dial.= 35: 131. Jl. 27, ’07. 290w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 112. F. 23, ’07. 280w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 180w.


=Futrelle, Jacques.= Thinking machine. †$1.50. Dodd.

                                                                 7–9843.

  A book of reprinted stories whose theme in each instance is a
  marvelous exploit of Prof. Van Dusen. “You may now read—or re-read—how
  Prof. Van Dusen accomplished an experimental jail delivery for himself
  under circumstances the most ingeniously prearranged for that
  purpose ... how Prof. Van Dusen ascertained the identity of a man who
  had mislaid all consciousness of his personality, name, and nativity;
  how he solved the riddle of a bank burglary, and by sniffing the
  perfume on a handkerchief traced the crime to a particularly pretty
  and attractive young woman.” (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “They are quite ingenious in their way, and those who like this sort
  of thing will find them fair examples of their kind. They are not
  altogether devoid of literary merit.”

       + =Acad.= 73: 147. N. 16, ’07. 80w.

  “If, after the reading is over, one still ranks them below the
  adventures of Sherlock Holmes, it is because the latter have greater
  realism and accord more closely with the conditions of actual life.”
  Rafford Pyke.

       + =Bookm.= 25: 433. Je. ’07. 500w.

     + − =Nation.= 84: 457. My. 16, ’07. 280w.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 202. Ap. 6, ’07. 340w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 100w.

  “The author’s ingenuity is great, but the element of probability is
  not always maintained.”

     + − =Outlook.= 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 30w.


=Fyfe, W. T.= Edinburgh under Sir Walter Scott; with an introd. by R. S.
Rait. *$3. Dutton.

                                                                7–19482.

  The well known incidents of Scott’s life here afford “some guiding
  lines for grouping of varied details.” These details relate much that
  is entertaining concerning “the simple, happy social life of
  Edinburgh’s best society, with its curious mixture of formal manners
  and informal customs.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The personal element is made much of, and many pleasing character
  sketches, with some good anecdotes, are given. Of all books, this one
  should have had an index.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 44. Jl. 16, ’07. 170w.

  “We find nothing, or nothing of interest in Mr. Fyfe’s book, with
  which we have not always been familiar. Mr. Fyfe has not written the
  history of Scott nor has he contributed original matter from documents
  to his superfluous restatement of Lockhart’s biography of Sir Walter.”

     − − =Lond. Times.= 6: 6. Ja. 4, ’07. 1000w.

  “A useful supplement to Lockhart and the ‘Letters’ and ‘Journals’.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 141. Ag. 15, ’07. 250w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 36. Ja. 19, ’07. 340w.

  “Mr. Fyfe has a gift of presenting vividly what he writes by virtue of
  being simple and direct. To read his book is like going back a hundred
  years and spending a day in old-time Edinburgh.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 372. Je. 8, ’07. 480w.

       + =Outlook.= 86: 526. Jl. 6, ’07. 130w.

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 57. Ja. 12, ’07. 100w.

  “No fuller or better picture of that brilliant half-century of life in
  Edinburgh which approximately lasted from the death of Samuel Johnson
  in 1784 to that of Walter Scott in 1832 has ever been given to the
  public than that presented in this volume. Singularly, if not even
  paradoxically too, the value of the picture is due quite as much to
  the faults as to the excellences of the artist.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: 483. O. 5, ’07. 1550w.


=Fynn, Arthur John.= American Indian as a product of environment; with
special reference to the Pueblos. **$1.50. Little.

                                                                7–34805.

  A volume for the general reader rather than for the student of
  anthropology, in which no attempt at “profundity of exhaustiveness”
  has been made. It is a first-hand study and contains chapters on:
  Plants, animals and man; Concerning the aborigines of the western
  continent in general; Pueblo lands and homes; Food and clothing;
  Government and social life; Education; Industries, arts and sciences;
  Religion; Games and festivals.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 671. O. 19, ’07. 30w.


=Fyvie, John.= Comedy queens of the Georgian era. *$4. Dutton.

                                                                7–18122.

  “A light, gossipy account of some of the leading actresses of the
  eighteenth and the early years of the nineteenth centuries. It is well
  illustrated by photogravure process. Among Mr. Fyvie’s queens are
  Lavinia Fenton and Elizabeth Farren. That the habit of peers marrying
  actresses is not modern is shown by these lively chapters.”—Sat. R.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Fyvie is a little too reticent to be a good scandalmonger, and a
  little too technical to be a good historian of the stage; and his
  sketches, though written from an independent point of view and clearly
  the result of much original study of his subjects, offer little that
  is new on the details of their private lives, and nothing on the
  subject of their professional careers.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 8. Ja. 5, ’07. 1460w.

  “There is wit, and genial humor and philosophy, with occasional
  cynicism, in these jottings.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 188. Mr. 16, ’07. 270w.

  “It is disappointing to read through this volume and to feel that the
  only result has been to learn a deal of scandal.”

       − =Ind.= 63: 947. O. 17, ’07. 220w.

  “It is only fair to say that his book, as a rule, shows a praiseworthy
  desire for accuracy, a careful sifting of a great mass of contemporary
  evidence, and a quick eye for significant facts. Of course, he has
  nothing, or very little, that is new to tell, but he creates a certain
  impression of freshness by drawing liberally from sources of
  information not in common use.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 112. Ja. 31, ’07. 900w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 19. Ja. 12, ’07. 280w.

  “It is readable, but Mr. Fyvie is not to be commended for bringing to
  light in the twentieth century the old scandalous theatrical
  chronicles of the eighteenth.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 57. F. 2, ’07. 250w.

  “We might perhaps have been spared a little of the scandal, and one
  would prefer as a matter of proportion and taste, that there should
  have been less about these actresses’ private lives and more about
  their public careers and their manner of acting. The book will not
  rank with the recent memoirs of David Garrick by Mrs. Parsons.”

     − + =Outlook.= 85: 237. Ja. 26, ’07. 130w.

  Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.

         =Putnam’s.= 2: 476. Jl. ’07. 210w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 507. Ap. ’07. 60w.

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 56. Ja. 12, ’07. 140w.




                                   G


=G., A. E.= Whistler: notes and footnotes and other memoranda. $2.50.
Collector and art critic.

  “In the Whistler part of the book the author discusses the painter as
  a man of letters, as a realist, as a master of the lithograph, as a
  draughtsman, and the Whistler memorial exhibition held in Boston in
  1904.... Following the Whistler Notes and footnotes’ come discussions
  of grotesques by Leonardo, Puvis de Chavannes as a caricaturist,
  Arthur Symons on Aubrey Beardsley, a bookplate by Otho Cushing, the
  colored etchings of Bernard Boutet de Monvel, the art of Everett
  Shinn, the English caricaturists, a ‘note’ on Childe Hassam, and some
  notable criticism.” (N. Y. Times.) Nine tinted plates share the honors
  with the text.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Gallatin’s notes are thoughtful and suggestive, and have the
  merit of brevity.”

   + + − =Dial.= 42: 346. Je. 1, ’07. 270w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 177. Mr. 23, ’07. 340w.

  Reviewed by Christian Brinton.

       + =Putnam’s.= 2: 126. Ap. ’07. 60w.


=Gainsborough, Thomas.= Drawings. *$2.50. Scribner.

  Uniform with the other volumes of the “Drawings of the great masters”
  series, this volume contains 44 drawings by Gainsborough printed in
  various tints, with a number mounted on dark colored backgrounds.
  These are prefaced with a brief introduction by Lord Ronald Sutherland
  Gower.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Dial.= 42: 231. Ap. 1, ’07. 40w.

       + =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 53. D. ’06. 130w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 837. D. 1, ’06. 240w.

         =Outlook.= 84: 705. N. 24, ’06. 70w.


=Gairns, J. F.= Locomotive compounding and superheating: a practical
text-book for the use of railway and locomotive engineers, students and
draughtsmen. *$3. Lippincott.

                                                                7–32868.

  A help to the understanding of both compounding and superheating, and
  an aid in preparing the way to a choice or design of those types of
  locomotives best suited for the region and traffic to be handled.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is to be regretted that the author seems not to have fully
  appreciated the rapidly-growing economic and operating importance of
  superheating for locomotives, and hence did not go thoroughly into the
  theory and practice on the subject. Mr. Gairns gives us probably the
  best book on compound locomotives which has appeared since
  Barnes-Woods in 1892. As a whole, the book is worthy of a place upon
  the railway engineer’s and locomotive designer’s shelves.” H. Wade
  Hibbard.

   + + − =Engin. N.= 58: 291. S. 12, ’07. 2400w.


=Gale, Zona.= Loves of Pelleas and Etarre. †$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                7–30832.

  Every year of Pelleas and Etarre’s fifty together has heaped new
  graces upon them thru the ministry of love. They are two who never
  have known that youth had gone because love staid. They are never
  happier than when making the conditions of young love-making brighter.
  For, hand in hand they wander in fancy thru lanes and gardens of long
  ago of which the lanes and gardens of to-day are but a continuation. A
  most delightful story which attributes to love the alchemy power of
  effacing time and change.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The story is told with quaint humor and much delicacy.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 201. N. ’07.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

  “She sees the little things in life that make what is called
  atmosphere, and she is able to paint her mind’s pictures clearly for
  the restricted vision of the rest of us.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 728. N. 16, ’07. 570w.

  “To all who know the hidden sources of human joy and have neither
  grown old in cynicism nor gray in utilitarianism. Miss Gale’s charming
  love stories, full of fresh feeling and grace of style, will be a
  draught from the fountain of youth.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 622. N. 23, ’07. 150w.


=Gallon, Tom.= Cruise of the make-believes. †$1.50. Little.

                                                                7–32034.

  A romantic idyl of a modern prince and a beggar maid. The girl drudges
  in a poor quarter of London to support a shiftless father and brother,
  but she dreams and keeps her soul alive by a make-believe Eden. A
  young millionaire becomes interested in her and in trying to help her
  tangles things sadly. The father and brother drain him financially,
  the girl he would help is made unhappy; but in the end he is fortunate
  enough to lose his money and in love and poverty he and Bessie find a
  real land of make-believe.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 40w.


=Gallon, Tom.= Tinman. †$1.50. Small.

  A young artist deliberately murders the slanderer of Barbara Patton,
  the woman he loves, gives himself up, covers the real motive of his
  crime and is imprisoned for life. After twenty years he is freed only
  to be drawn into a reenactment of the crime for the sake of Barbara’s
  daughter. Thruout the entire dramatic course of the tale the love
  motif is strongest, it sounds out above the grim note of crime,
  suffering and domineering will.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The first portion of the book, though somewhat lurid in method, would
  have made a strong and unusual short story; but the further
  development of events ... conveys an unmistakable flavour of nothing
  higher or nobler than the typical dime novel.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

       − =Bookm.= 26: 165. O. ’07. 220w.

  “Notwithstanding an important manner, ‘Tinman’ has only been strung
  out to store size by the ingenious device of repeating the heroine’s
  adventures in the person of her daughter, merely giving a happier
  outcome to the fortunes of Barbara number two.”

       − =Nation.= 85: 143. Ag. 15, ’07. 310w.

  “Is about as dolefully sensational as anything that has hitherto come
  from his feverish pen.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 481. Je. 15, ’07. 210w.

  “The plot of the story is complicated and well managed, and
  notwithstanding the dark and lurid coloring, the tale holds the
  reader’s interest from the start.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 512. Ag. 24, ’07. 190w.

  “A gleam or two of brightness would have vastly improved the story.
  But that the reader is held by the situations and that those
  situations are ingeniously thought out cannot be denied.”

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 833. Ag. 17, ’07. 60w.


=Galloway, Thomas Walton.= First course in zoology: a text-book for
secondary schools, normal schools and colleges. *$2.50. Blakiston.

                                                                6–35707.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “In point of careful balance and commonsense use of questions, few
  recent text-books bear comparison with this volume.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 389. Ap. 25, ’07. 210w.

  “For the average school course the book includes too much, and too
  difficult work; while for the college course it seems to fall as far
  short. For the normal school, and this is probably the grade of work
  more directly aimed at by the author, the book would seem to be well
  suited. Of actual errors in statement of facts or principles there
  seem to be relatively few.” C. W. H.

     + − =Science=, n. s. 24: 719. D. 7, ’06. 1120w.

  “It is evident that a good deal of thought and effort have gone into
  its making, and it has consequently a degree of character and
  individuality which is rare among the members of its genus.” S. J. H.

     + + =Science=, n. s. 26: 715. N. 22, ’07. 600w.


=Galsworthy, John.= Country house. †$1.50. Putnam.

                                                                7–15919.

  “Two graphic pictures of the racecourse are all that [the author]
  gives of definite action; the remainder of the book is concerned with
  the entry into the self-deluding community of Worsted Skeynes of a
  natural, lawless passion which, attacking one of its members,
  exercises a paralyzing effect upon the whole.... The portraiture in
  the author’s gallery will reward the attention of all who love the
  mirror of truth.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His work has many qualities of greatness: but it is not yet great. A
  slight tendency to bitterness and to sentimentality is the one blemish
  in an extraordinarily well-written, well-observed piece of work.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 251. Mr. 9, ’07. 560w.

  “Occasionally, in an effort to extract the last drain of satire from a
  situation, Mr. Galsworthy is biting and mordant to an almost painful
  degree. His insight is keen, and he seems to enjoy the irony
  underlying the affairs of men.”

       + =Ath.= 1907. 1: 348. Mr. 23. 340w.

  “It is a wonderful, vivid and detailed picture of stolid and
  complacent British conservatism, a consistent worship of the God of
  things as they are.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

     + + =Bookm.= 25: 497. Jl. ’07. 760w.

  “Mr. Galsworthy’s forte lies in depicting traditional prejudices, and
  the types which represent them, rather than in the creation of
  individual characters.”

       + =Cath. World.= 85: 680. Ag. ’07. 270w.

  “Few novelists are as successful as Mr. Galsworthy in adapting their
  means to their purposes, with the result, as in the present instance,
  of giving vivid reality to a group of commonplace people and of
  reproducing the very atmosphere of the scenes in which they move.” Wm.
  M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 43: 62. Ag. 1, ’07. 230w.

  “The pervading tone of indulgent irony justifies the classification of
  this volume with the fiction which in a true sense is a criticism of
  life.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

     + + =Forum.= 39: 114. Jl. ’07. 740w.

  “Is a better novel, better constructed and better written, than either
  ‘The island Pharisees’ or ‘The man of property,’ its plot especially,
  while still apparently slight, being in reality of much firmer and
  closer texture.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 96. Jl. 11, ’07. 460w.

       + =Ind.= 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 60w.

  “Mr. Galsworthy has not produced a real hero. He has given us his
  Troilus. Let us hope that in his next novel he will give us his
  Hamlet.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 77. Mr. 8, ’07. 1150w.

  “The development of the story is workmanlike and plausible, and the
  whole is unfolded in a brisk, competent narrative, with savor and
  discretion, through the medium of a perfectly satisfactory style.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 414. My. 2, ’07. 390w.

  Reviewed by Lewis Melville.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 394. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.

  “The faults of this unusual and interesting novel lie upon its
  surface. For the sake of Mr. Pendyce alone ‘The country house’ is well
  worth more than one reading.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 451. Jl. 20, ’07. 430w.

  “When his characters come to develop some consciousness, one of
  another, when they come to be more closely and significantly linked
  together, this brilliant portrayer of manners may easily come to
  produce something of permanent value.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.

       + =No. Am.= 185: 777. Ag. 2, ’07. 1430w.

  “Clever beyond anything we have seen lately is this most artistic
  story. We could wish it were happier.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 86: 254. Je. 1, ’07. 180w.

  “He is far from being detached and indifferent toward human nature in
  its finer manifestations, even if he does choose to make us feel its
  beauty chiefly by delineating the sordid, pathetic opposite.” Cornelia
  Atwood Pratt.

       + =Putnam’s.= 2: 186. My. ’07. 110w.

  “Here is not a mere slice of life, a personal affair, a particular
  instance; it is a slice from a nation, a base of interests, an
  enduring condition. It is, of course, the central problem in a book of
  the kind to prevent undue domination either of the situation or of the
  story, and the author, conscious perhaps that in a previous work he
  permitted the situation to dictate terms to him, has in this been too
  much inclined to restrict its scope.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 433. Ap. 6, ’07. 500w.

  “He has devoted a great deal of skill and energy to the presentation
  of three or four characters who are especially designed to win, not
  only the sympathy, but even the affection of the reader. It is true
  that perhaps the most admirable and delightful of all is a spaniel....
  John, an adorable personage; indeed, many readers would rather share a
  dog-biscuit with him than eat six courses in the company of the
  squire’s guests.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 503. Mr. 30, ’07. 800w.


=Galsworthy, John.= Man of property. †$1.50. Putnam.

                                                                6–42370.

  “A rather unusually thoughtful novel of English social life, which
  deals in a large, intelligent way with the development of character,
  the sordidness of wealth without graciousness, and the narrowness of
  upper middle class London society a generation or so ago.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is remarkable: it has strength without the least taint of
  sensation; and is written with a finish that is both rare and
  delightful. Two points only are there to which we take exception: that
  Mr. Galsworthy at times lingers unnecessarily over the Forsytes; and
  that he has, in one passage at least, mistaken brutality for
  strength.”

   + + − =Acad.= 70: 309. Mr. 31, ’06. 440w.

  “There is a story of a kind, connecting the long series of carefully
  finished pictures. But the pictures, the characterization, are the
  main thing. They are minute, vivid, and steadily interesting. The
  whole is a sound and equable piece of work, deserving high praise.”

     + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 446. Ap. 14. 340w.

  “A novel of this character is new; it shows thought and determination
  and an unflagging alertness with its companion, ease, that make Mr.
  Galsworthy’s career a matter of some importance to English fiction.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 116. Mr. 30, ’06. 430w.

  “His style is admirable, his humor incisive, and his description of
  the less pleasant characters in his books splendid; but he lacks
  tenderness. He sees all weeds in the garden, and in his vision the
  rose is scarcely visible for the thorns.” Lewis Melville.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 394. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.

  “Altogether a novel well worth the reading.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 941. D. 15, ’06. 100w.

  “Mr. Galsworthy’s grip on the point of view of Forsyte and his way of
  action, is something quite terrible. To read a chapter about Soames
  Forsyte, the typical ‘man of property,’ is to feel oneself literally
  gasping for oxygen at the end of it. It is not an especially pleasant
  experience, but it occasions a profound respect for the writer who
  brings it about.” Cornelia Atwood Pratt.

       + =Putnam’s.= 2: 185. My. ’07. 520w.

  “A novel at once so able that it cannot be overlooked, and so ugly in
  places that it cannot be recommended without a serious caution.”

     + − =Spec.= 96: 587. Ap. 14, ’06. 1270w.


=Galton, Arthur.= Church and state in France, 1300–1907. *$3.50.
Longmans.

                                                                W 7–107.

  “Mr. Galton ... begins his exposition with the struggle between Philip
  the Fair and Boniface VIII., where he finds the seeds of Gallicanism.
  He traces their development through the sixteenth century, till the
  growth reached its full expansion in the eighteenth. When he enters on
  the revolutionary period he devotes a great deal of attention to the
  Constitution Civile, ... He treats, with amplitude, the genesis,
  character, and scope of the Concordat, and, very properly, with more
  brevity, the course of events through the restoration, the second
  republic and the second empire. The last chapter, about eight-five
  pages, relates the campaign during the third republic down to the law
  of separation.”—Cath. World.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a lack of the historic sense which is the fault of the Rev. Mr.
  Galton’s work on the relations between church and state in France. He
  has written an elaborate pamphlet rather than an historical study.”

     − + =Acad.= 72: 337. Ap. 6, ’07. 1780w.

  “The book is one which on literary grounds we cannot commend.”

       − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 472. Ap. 20. 840w.

  “Mr. Galton’s book is of considerable value, as far as it is an
  exposition of historic fact. Nor is it valueless, as far as it is an
  interpretation of these facts, for it provides a good subject for any
  one who would study the influence of prejudice in the writing of
  history.”

     + − =Cath. World.= 85: 396. Je. ’07. 1350w.

  “The subject is treated of with splendid knowledge, with a fine sense
  of coherence and proportion, and with a style that is altogether
  captivating.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 317. My. 18, ’07. 740w.

  “He has an exceptional amount of historical learning ... as well as a
  pithy and lucid style. His toleration is noticeable.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 716. My. 4, ’07. 1650w.


=Gambier, J. W.= Links in my life on land and sea. **$3.50. Dutton.

  A career which began its adventures in the Baltic fleet during the
  Crimean war, subsequently continued in Norfolk Island, Rio de Janeiro,
  Egypt, Cyprus, New Zealand, the Andaman Islands, New Caledonia, China
  and Japan. After his retirement Captain Gambier acted as correspondent
  for the London “Times” during the Russo-Turkish war.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “To read his book is to imagine oneself in the privacy of Captain
  Gambier’s smokingroom, listening to very pleasant after-dinner
  gossip.”

       + =Acad.= 71: 634. D. 22, ’06. 560w.

  “A lively volume written in a sprightly style.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 404. O. 6. 320w.

  “Commander J. W. Gambier is an unconventional writer; and the rules of
  grammar are included among the conventions which he overrides. That
  matters little, however, for he is a breezy writer, with plenty of
  stories to tell. The book is one to be read by all who enjoy
  rollicking relations of adventure.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 322. S. 21, ’06. 470w.

  “He writes in a free off-hand manner, and is frequently unrefined,
  even to coarseness. If the book has literary merit, we have failed to
  discover it; or any mark of distinction. The author’s comments are, as
  a rule, commonplace.”

       − =Nation.= 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 360w.


=Gamble, William.= Straight talks on business. **$1. Jacobs.

                                                                7–27365.

  Talks for the young man contemplating a business career, for one who
  is unafraid to think, to work, to sacrifice, who looks upon business
  not as a pastime, nor as an unpleasant necessity, but as a human duty.
  The advice has grown out of the experiences of a man who has followed
  a strenuous business life. He claims no new business philosophy, but
  puts principles which time has tested into new form better suited to
  present day needs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Though unquestionably ‘straight,’ the advice is rather platitudinous
  than subtle, and is too informal and discursive to have any
  considerable technological value.”

     − + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 501. O. ’07. 80w.


Games book for boys and girls; a volume of old and new pastimes. $2.50.
Dutton.

                                                                7–35045.

  A volume “full of directions for playing scores of indoor games and
  pastimes for the playground. There are also directions for the
  collection and preservation of plants, ferns, and seaside objects, for
  the care of home pets, for indoor gardening, for the making of toys,
  the tying of knots of many sorts, and for the doing of many other
  interesting things.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 21. Ja. ’07.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 868. D. 15, ’06. 80w.


=Gant, L. W.= Elements of electric traction for motormen and others.
*$2.50. Van Nostrand.

  A practical handbook intended to serve as an introduction to the more
  advanced works on electric traction and to supplement various existing
  handbooks for motormen and others.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The style is readable and as clear as could be expected in view of
  the limited space, the large range of topics, and the presumably
  meager preparation of the reader. The book lacks attractive
  illustrations.” Henry H. Norris.

     + − =Engin. N.= 58: 422. O. 17, ’07. 460w.


=Gardiner, John Hays.= Bible as English literature. **$1.50. Scribner.

                                                                6–33638.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Perhaps the most interesting and theologically suggestive section of
  Professor Gardiner’s work is that devoted to the wisdom literature of
  the New Testament epistles.” Kemper Fullerton.

     + − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 667. O. ’07. 590w.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 96. Ap. ’07.

  “An admirable manual for the use of students.”

       + =Bib. World.= 29: 159. F. ’07. 80w.

  “Professor Gardiner brings to his task an acquaintance with the
  accepted results of historical criticism and instead of rhapsodizing
  upon a few selected passages of rhythmical scripture, he investigates
  the complex sources of that literary charm which it is easier to
  praise than understand.” John R. Slater.

   + + − =Bib. World.= 30: 234. S. ’07. 650w.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 81. Ja. ’07. 1760w.

  “From the beginning to the end of the author’s discussion of his great
  subject, the treatment of it is not only intelligent and reverent; it
  is singularly vital and inspiring.” M. H. Turk.

     + + =Educ. R.= 33: 316. Mr. ’07. 810w.

  “Prof. Gardiner is occasionally led to press his conclusions further
  than his facts will warrant.” William T. Brewster.

   + + − =Forum.= 38: 386. Ja. ’07. 1480w.

       + =Outlook.= 85: 789. Ap. 6, ’07. 1390w.


=Gardner, Edmund G.= King of court poets; a study of the work, life and
times of Lodovico Ariosto. *$4. Dutton.

                                                                 7–6794.

  In which Mr. Gardner has combined a sequel to his “Dukes and poets in
  Ferrara” with a somewhat full study of the life and works of Lodovico
  Ariosto.

                  *       *       *       *       *

     + + =Acad.= 71: 569. D. 8, ’06. 1030w.

  “Mr. Gardner takes a good deal of pains with his authorities, and puts
  his information together as well as can be expected of any one except
  a highly trained historian in dealing with that complicated time. The
  main fault of the book is a certain tendency to verbosity.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 69. Ja. 19. 1510w.

  “The chapters dealing with the poetry of Ariosto are pleasing, but on
  the whole rather inconclusive. The style of the book is without
  distinction, and it occasionally lapses into elegance.”

     − + =Dial.= 42: 84. F. 1, ’07. 150w.

  “The work of Mr. Gardner is not only a biography of Ariosto, and the
  finest biography of the author of the ‘Orlando furioso’ that has yet
  appeared in English, but it contains a complete and luminous picture
  of the political and literary condition of Ferrara from 1500 to 1530.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 803. Ap. 4, ’07. 430w.

  “The work is admirably done, most useful for reference; but it is
  laboured, and there are barren spaces in which the dry bones of
  history do not live.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 350. O. 19, ’06. 2270w.

  “Different portions of the book, as they deal with political or
  literary history, read as if they belonged to different studies, and
  were bound together by mistake.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 593. Je. 27. ’07. 1010w.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 701. O. 27. ’06. 1830w. (Reprinted from
         Lond. Times.)

  “Is a book in which the scholar may find more to his purpose than the
  reader who, without any very keen appetite for detailed history and
  unimportant biographical detail, reads for pleasure and for general
  information.” Horatio S. Krans.

     + − =Outlook.= 84: 1078. D. 29, ’06. 420w.

  “It is with a very sure hand, with all the sobriety of a scholar,
  albeit not untinged with the agreeable glow of an admirer, that Mr.
  Gardner writes of Alfonso I. ... and Ludovico Ariosto.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 102: 679. D. 1, ’06. 880w.


=Gardner, Percy.= Growth of Christianity. $1.75. Macmillan.

  “The theme of the present volume, which is in the form of ten popular
  lectures, is the relations of Christianity with the various forms of
  culture and thought with which it has come into contact. The germ of
  Christianity is found in the Lord’s prayer, and specifically in the
  petition, ‘Thy will be done,’ and its essential spirit is defined
  accordingly as a passionate devotion to the will of God as operative
  in the world.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “No one can read Professor Gardner’s book without respect. It is
  earnest and lucid, and bears witness of the profound scholarship of
  its author.”

       + =Acad.= 73: 31. O. 19, ’07. 780w.

  “His new book is an able and striking interpretation of the history of
  the church, from a somewhat unusual point of view.”

       + =Bib. World.= 30: 80. Jl. ’07. 60w.

  “The scope and purpose of the book, cast originally for popular
  lectures, do not allow space for anything more than drawing the broad
  obvious outlines. When, however, this is done by anyone as deep-versed
  in antiquity as Dr. Gardner, there is something in the summary
  presentation by which even professed students may have their vision
  cleared.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 250. Ag. 16, ’07. 800w.

  “Dr. Gardner has surveyed the growth and progress of the Christian
  faith from a very interesting point of view.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 331. O. 10, ’07. 700w.

  “The reader will see therefore, that the author’s view of Christian
  doctrine is not quite that of the ordinary orthodox Churchman. The
  strongest part of the book is ... where he is displaying his splendid
  knowledge of Greek and Roman antiquities and their bearing on church
  life and belief.”

       + =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. S. 28, ’07. 380w.


=Garland, Hamlin.= Long trail. †$1.25. Harper.

                                                                7–15590.

  A narrative of the hardships of Jack Henderson, a Minnesota boy, in
  company with two master-trailers, who together brave the dangers of
  the old Telegraph trail to the Yukon gold fields. “Cold and heat,
  hunger and thirst, the love of gold, and the rivalry of fierce men go
  to make up the vivid and varied life.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Interesting to men and boys especially.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 201. N. ’07.

  “This is an excellent book for a boy’s holiday reading, thoroughly
  wholesome and stimulating, and in no part dull.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 634. My. 25. 100w.

  “Has the healthful, breezy traits that mark Mr. Garland’s other
  western tales.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 961. Je. 15, ’07. 160w.

  “It is perfectly safe, however, to say that if ‘The long trail’ does
  prove to contain the quality which tickles youthful palates, it may be
  given to the young without a shade of misgiving as to their finding it
  entirely wholesome provender.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 435. My. 9, ’07. 160w.

  “The striking quality of this new book ... is the startling and
  realistic effect of its utter simplicity.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 321. My. 18, ’07. 350w.


=Garland, Hamlin.= Money magic: a novel. †$1.50. Harper.

                                                                7–32322.

  By the magic of money, Bertha, a true type of the girl of the new
  West, is lifted from the hot office of her mother’s wayside hotel to
  the giddy heights of mistress of a millionaire’s establishment. This
  change of fortune however, brings with it a helpless old cripple of a
  husband, an ex-gambler whom she had pluckily married out of loyalty
  when she thought him dying. Her story is one of development and
  character expansion under these strange conditions until she is at
  last free to call her own that happiness which she has so long and
  nobly denied herself.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “By some the story may be thought a trifle too long; but it is good
  stirring narrative thruout, and the development of character through
  incident and emotional crises is highly interesting.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 546. N. 2. 200w.

  “Is far and away the best and most significant novel that Mr. Garland
  has written in many years. It has perspective, it is firm of plot,
  rich in colour, full of movement, unflaggingly interesting, its
  characters are deftly and understandingly individualised—it has the
  semblance of life.” A. Schade van Westrum.

     + + =Bookm.= 26: 417. D. ’07. 690w.

  “There is a certain amount of truth in this narrative, and fairly
  effective characterizations, although the latter must be described as
  crude rather than subtle. Mr. Garland, has done much better work than
  this, and will, we trust, do it again.” Wm. M. Payne.

     + − =Dial.= 43: 318. N. 16, ’07. 240w.

  “His people, however, will disappoint the expectations raised in their
  favor, and will, somehow, show coarse streaks in their composition of
  which the author is hopelessly unconscious.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 1177. N. 14, ’07. 350w.

         =Nation.= 85: 446. N. 14, ’07. 230w.

  “An interesting study of the mixed life in a western city.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

     + − =Outlook.= 87: 744. N. 30, ’07. 160w.


=Garland, James Smith.= New England town law: a digest of statutes and
decisions concerning towns and town officers. *$6.50. Boston bk.

                                                                6–31416.

  “This valuable volume consists of two very distinct parts. The first
  eighty-three pages are taken up with in an interesting review of the
  origin, development and present status of the New England town. The
  second part of the book presents the first systematic compilation of
  the laws of the New England states in relation to towns and town
  government.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Intended mainly to serve a practical purpose.”

       + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 723. Ap. ’07. 40w.

  “The volume is an excellent beginning in a sort of work in which as
  yet but little has been accomplished in the United States.”

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 213. Ja. ’07. 380w.

  “The introduction ... is of interest to many persons other than the
  officers and lawyers who will use the body of the work.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 509. D. 13, ’06. 140w.

  “A complete, although succinctly written and compactly arranged,
  compendium of the law of the different states of New England relating
  to towns and town government.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 384. O. 13, ’06. 90w.


=Garratt, Herbert A.= Principles of mechanism: being a short treatise on
the kinematics and dynamics of machines. $1.10. Longmans.

  “A book for students who are under the guidance of an instructor,
  rather than a complete treatise for general use. It is divided into
  two general parts, Kinematics of machines and Dynamics of machines. In
  the former the principles of the forms of mechanisms are considered,
  no attention being given to the efficiencies of such mechanisms, to
  the masses moved or to the forces exerted. In the latter part, the
  dynamics of certain simple mechanical motions are considered.”—Engin.
  N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “For the class-room work, as a text to be supplemented by extensive
  lectures, the book has a use, but it is not complete enough for the
  general student. Too much has been left out for the purpose of
  affording ‘a clear perception of the anatomy of the skeleton.’” Amasa
  Trowbridge.

     + − =Engin. N.= 57: 308. Mr. 14, ’07. 260w.


=Garrick, David.= Some unpublished correspondence of David Garrick; ed.
by G: Pierce Baker. *$7.50. Houghton.

                                                                7–26122.

  Some forty letters and manuscripts are included with an interesting
  reproduction of portions of the marriage agreement between Garrick and
  Mlle. Violette. “If of somewhat less moment than the author deems it
  as a contribution to Garrick lore, it will nevertheless be sought
  eagerly by theatrical connoisseurs for the excellence of its
  typography and the beauty of its illustrations, which show the great
  actor at different periods of his life and in various characters, and
  afford material for an interesting study in physiognomy. Several of
  the portraits will be new to most readers.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In lack of an index, page-headings to show who is being addressed by
  the writer would have been very welcome; sometimes it is impossible to
  determine this without some search, or to ascertain at once the
  probable date of a letter.” Percy F. Bicknell.

     + − =Dial.= 43: 201. O. 1, ’07. 1610w.

  “With Mr. Baker the work of editing evidently has been a labor of
  love, as is proved by his ample explanatory notes, but it is unlikely
  that the ordinary reader will find in the letters the significance
  which the editor seems to attach to them.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 380. O. 24, ’07. 540w.

  “This volume of hitherto unpublished letters contains a sufficiently
  interesting collection to make it worth owning, although not a few of
  the epistles, as one invariably finds in the books of
  ‘correspondence,’ suggest no particular reason for publication beyond
  their signature and quaint style.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 611. O. 12, ’07. 790w.


=Garrod, H. W.= Religion of all good men, and other studies in Christian
ethics. **$1.20. McClure.

                                                                6–42406.

  In the main a paradoxical contention that Jesus never claimed to be
  the Messiah.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 697. Je. 9. 820w.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 208. F. ’07. 1930w.

  “I think that the worth of the book very far outweighs such faults as
  it may possess—these latter being, indeed, such necessary
  accompaniments of perfect straightforwardness that we could not wish
  them absent. It will do any man good to read such virile words,—and if
  they harm him, he is not worthy to withstand the gods.” T. D. A.
  Cockerell.

     + − =Dial.= 42: 79. F. 1, ’07. 1280w.

  Reviewed by St. George Stock.

       − =Hibbert J.= 4: 945. Jl. ’06. 1300w.

  “The spectacle of a sincere man disavowing Christianity because it is
  not good enough is sufficiently novel to pique one’s interest, and
  whoso is drawn by curiosity to Mr. Garrod’s pages will find his
  attention kept alert.”

     − + =Ind.= 63: 221. Jl. 25, ’07. 340w.

  “The title of the book is distinctly attractive, and the book itself
  is decidedly interesting. There is learning in it, and undoubted
  ability behind it. Written from a frankly naturalistic standpoint, it
  is singularly free from bitterness and narrowness.” James Lindsay.

     + − =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 108. O. ’07. 1770w.

  “This thesis Mrs. Garrod defends with much skill and it can scarcely
  be denied that important truth at least lies close beside his
  propositions.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 270. Mr. 21, ’07. 380w.

  “These ‘studies in Christian ethics’ one chapter of which gives this
  volume its attractive but quickly disappointing title, are not such as
  to call for serious consideration.”

       − =Outlook.= 84: 942. D. 15, ’06. 140w.

  “A volume of five attractively written essays on religious subjects.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 35: 118. Ja. ’07. 50w.

  “He has written a smart book, in which the flippant theology is not
  meant perhaps to be taken very seriously. But was it worth while
  printing these essays merely to make elderly dons’ flesh creep? What
  he takes for audacity and courage may be regarded by his readers as
  only impudence.”

     − + =Sat. R.= 101: 759. Je. 16, ’06. 950w.


=Garst, Rev. Henry.= Otterbein university. *75c. Un. breth.

  The story of the founding of a Christian college, the evolution of the
  thoughts, opinions, convictions that are back of its material growth
  and progress.


=Garvie, Alfred Ernest.= Guide to preachers. *$1.50. Armstrong.

  “Laymen who would qualify themselves to preach acceptably and
  effectively—and there is need of many such—will find this an eminently
  helpful book. It covers the whole subject—the Biblical, doctrinal,
  homiletical, rhetorical conditions of preaching and reasoning suitable
  to the needs of the modern world. Such subsidiary matters as language,
  literary style, elocution, and delivery receive proportionate
  treatment.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Its counsels are in harmony with sound scholarship and conform to
  good taste.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 133. F. 7, ’07. 100w.

  “There is no other book that so well meets the present want.”

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 44. Ja. 5, ’07. 120w.


=Gaskell, Mrs. Elizabeth Cleghorn (Stevenson).= Works of Mrs. Gaskell.
8v. ea. $1.50. Putnam.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

     + + =Acad.= 71: 519. N. 24, ’06. 1500w. (Review of v. 1–8.)

  “The edition, with its informing introductions, will take its place in
  all well-constituted libraries.”

     + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 801. D. 22. 110w. (Review of v. 7 and 8.)

     + + =Nation.= 84: 221. Mr. 7.  130w. (Review of v. 4–8.)

  “Excellent new dress.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 331. Ap. 11. ’07. 3370w. (Review of v. 1–8.)

  “Dr. Ward ... has performed his task with exquisite taste, grace, and
  zeal.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 878. D. 15, ’06. 450w. (Review of v. 1–8.)


=Gates, Eleanor.= Good-night; il. by Arthur Rackham. †50c. Crowell.

                                                                7–20865.

  The quaint story of a very human parrot that scattered the padre’s
  fuchsias but fought desperately with the cat to save a little canary’s
  life.


=Gates, Eleanor.= Plow-woman. †$1.50. McClure.

                                                                6–34690.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “This is decidedly a book to read.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 317. Mr. 16. 210w.

  “Is a capital story, in spite of an indulgence in contrast amounting
  almost to an abuse.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

     + − =Bookm.= 24: 490. Ja. ’07. 360w.

  “There is distinction, refreshment and reality about her descriptions
  of the Dakota prairie, an original charm also about Dallas, the
  plow-woman, so long as she follows the lean mule in the brown furrow,
  but that is the best that can be said.”

     + − =Ind.= 61: 1570. D. 27, ’06. 300w.


=Gates, Herbert Wright.= Life of Jesus: a manual for teachers. 75c.
Univ. of Chicago press.

                                                                7–36267.

  A manual designed to accompany the outline course on the life of Jesus
  which has been prepared for intermediate grades of the Bible school.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The ‘Manual’ and ‘Note book’ taken together promise to be a valuable
  aid in teaching the life of Christ to children.”

       + =Bib. World.= 28: 352. N. ’07. 110w.

  “Deserves commendation.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 516. D. 5, ’07. 130w.


=Gayley, Charles Mills.= Plays of our forefathers. **$3.50. Duffield.

                                                                7–30422.

  An account of the origin and development of the early miracle and
  morality plays of which “Everyman” has become so famous an example,
  illustrated with reproductions of old wood-cuts. The author’s
  scholarship is everywhere in evidence as well as his keen delight in
  histrionism, for, he says, “to laugh and weep, to worship and to revel
  for a season, in the manner and spirit of our ancestors, were
  infinitely more pleasing than the pride of controversy or the pursuit
  of scientific ends.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His book is not only one to be commended to the scholar but to be
  enjoyed by the general reader.” Lewis A. Rhoades.

     + + =Dial.= 43: 282. N. 1, ’07. 970w.

  “As a reference work, it is hard to exceed this for completeness, but
  its interest is for the specialist alone.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 1311. N. 28, ’07. 710w.

  “A charming book, which may be recommended to the general reader as
  the best introduction to the subject at the same time that it
  possesses a value for the specialist.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 523. D. 5, ’07. 800w.

  “He has made a good book which every one interested in the theatre
  will be glad to own, and the borrowing fiend loathe to return.” Anna
  Marble.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 616. O. 12, ’07. 220w.


=Genung, John Franklin.= Hebrew literature of wisdom in the light of
to-day: a synthesis. **$2. Houghton.

                                                                6–39461.

  An interpretation of the inner and spiritual menacing of Proverbs, Job
  and Ecclesiastes which can be applied to the life of to-day.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 42. F. ’07.

  “The style sometimes offends a severe taste, and we had rather not
  believe that monstrosities like ‘factual’ belong to the literary idiom
  of to-day—or to-morrow.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 589. Je. 27, ’07. 190w.

  “Presented in a thoroughly readable and interesting form.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 298. Je. 8, ’07. 330w.


=Genung, John Franklin.= The idylls and the ages. **75c. Crowell.

                                                                7–26418.

  A companion study to “Stevenson’s attitude to life.” It is an inquiry
  into the permanent value of Tennyson’s epic “The idylls of the king.”
  The primary aim of this volume “is neither eulogy nor criticism, but
  what Walter Pater has taught us to call appreciation.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Our quarrel with it is chiefly for its literary cant and esoteric
  eloquence, its lack of the prose point of view.”

     − + =Nation.= 85: 498. N. 28, ’07. 180w.


=George, 2d duke of Cambridge.= George duke of Cambridge: a memoir of
his private life based on the journals and correspondence of His Royal
Highness, ed. by Edgar Sheppard. 2v. *$7. Longmans.

                                                                7–28494.

  “Born a few years after Waterloo, in 1819, the Duke of Cambridge lived
  in four reigns, and was actually present at two coronations. At the
  time of his birth he was the first direct descendant of George III.,
  and but for the birth of the Princess Victoria, a few months later
  than his own he might have reigned as George V., and there is good
  reason to suppose that he would have proved an excellent sovereign.
  This memoir not only tells the story of a long life of usefulness and
  honor, but it also reveals with much clearness an interesting and
  lovable personality, and gives us, incidentally, many suggestive
  portraits of military and political leaders.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Dr. Edgar Sheppard might have done well to condense the ‘memoirs of
  his private life’ into one volume instead of filling two.”

     + − =Acad.= 71: 591. D. 1, ’06. 1840w.

       + =Lond. Times.= 5: 400. N. 30, ’06. 1610w.

  “The editor has done his work with taste and discretion. The portraits
  are interesting, and there is a satisfactory index.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 40. Ja. 19, ’07. 1100w.

  “The book has some interest and even value, but these scarcely
  correspond to its size and what we may even describe as its
  pretensions.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: 58. Ja. 12, ’07. 530w.


=George, Henry, jr.= Romance of John Bainbridge. †$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                6–37965.

  Part of the incidents in Mr. George’s story are taken from the life of
  his late father. “Being the son of his father and also himself, it was
  doubtless inevitable that Mr. George should attempt to make out of his
  novel a lesson in economics. His theme is the iniquity of giving
  public service franchises to private individuals or corporations, and
  the resultant political corruption.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Dealing as this novel does with the questions which are pressing for
  immediate solution, makes it one of the really important romances for
  all reformers and patriots to read.”

     + + =Arena.= 37: 100. Ja. ’07. 3990w.

  “This is a wholesome novel of the life of to-day. It is we believe,
  the author’s first long work of fiction, altho there is nothing in the
  style to indicate this fact.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 217. F. 9, ’07. 170w.

         =Nation.= 83: 391. D. 8, ’06. 40w.

  “He might have cut and slashed and blue penciled a fourth of his copy
  with advantage to the rest. Wrapped up in the plot of Mr. George’s
  novel there is a good story, an exceedingly good story.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 903. D. 29, ’06. 380w.

  “While there are parts of the story that too thinly for artistic
  effect disguise the especial message that Mr. George feels himself
  commissioned to utter, the tale is well told and worth telling.”

     + − =Outlook.= 85: 46. Ja. 5, ’07. 170w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 120. Ja. ’07. 30w.


=Geronimo (Apache chief).= Geronimo’s story of his life; taken down and
edited by S. M. Barrett. **$1.50. Duffield.

                                                                6–35725.

  Descriptive note in Annual. 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 67. Mr. ’07. S.


=Gibbs, Josiah W.= Scientific papers of J. Willard Gibbs. 2v. v. 1. *$5;
v. 2. *$4. Longmans.

                                                             Agr 7–1540.

  Professor Gibbs’s scattered papers on scientific subjects have been
  collected and published in two imposing volumes. The first includes
  his papers on the equilibrium of heterogeneous substances and on
  thermodynamics; the second contains twenty-one papers, chief among
  which are those occupied with the author’s calculus called “vector
  analysis.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “For profound thought and power of generalization and abstract
  formulation no American scientist has equaled Willard Gibbs.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 1238. N. 21, ’07. 50w.

  “The work of Gibbs may be said to round off the constructive stage of
  one of the most far-reaching scientific advances of the nineteenth
  century—the unravelling of the formal scheme of relations which guides
  the transformation of dead matter, as it is now set forth in the
  doctrine of thermodynamics.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 90. Mr. 22, ’07. 1960w.

  “In every way (except by an index) recommends itself to the liking of
  friends of American science.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 92. Ja. 24, ’07. 710w.

  “The papers have been edited with great care by Henry Andrews Bumstead
  and Ralph Gibbs van Name, and the former, in the biographical notice
  prefixed, discusses with knowledge the scientific work done by Willard
  Gibbs and gives a clear-cut picture of the man himself.” C. G. K.

     + + =Nature.= 75: 361. F. 14, ’07. 1340w.


=Gibbs, Philip.= Men and women of the French revolution. *$7.
Lippincott.

                                                                 7–8230.

  Not a history but a psychological study of some of the actors in the
  great drama, so arranged that the thread of the narrative is not
  confused or lost.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A readable, but rather sketchy account of a number of the leading
  personages of that period.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 513. O. 27. 330w.

  “In thus deviating from the beaten path of history and giving rather
  free play to his own fancy in this ‘psychological study,’ the author
  has produced a work more attractive in some respects than the formal
  chronicles of the period.” Percy F. Bicknell.

       + =Dial.= 41: 385. D. 1, ’06. 210w.

  “Mr. Gibbs has succeeded in producing a book that is more readable
  (especially to those who dote on adjectives) than our old friend
  Dryasdust’s, but there is a certain persistent striving for dramatic
  effect and high phrases that gives the narrative a false note very
  often.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 971. Ap. 25, ’07. 540w.

       + =Lit. D.= 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 80w.

  “Although the value of Mr. Gibbs’s work is seriously impaired by an
  extremely florid and somewhat popular style, it is to some extent
  redeemed by his dramatic power, while in spite of some inaccuracies it
  is manifestly clear that he has obtained his information from no
  second hand sources.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 38. F. 1, ’07. 780w.

  “The book, though somewhat grandiose in style, is just the sort to
  spur on an indolent reader to make the acquaintance of other, and
  possibly more accurate, works on the French revolution. But the
  inaccuracies are manifold and distressing, and not the less so that,
  in some cases, they seem to be the result of pure carelessness.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 135. F. 7, ’07. 870w.

  “Its style is popular, vivid and realistic. Mr. Gibbs has a command of
  strong epithets, and knows how to describe what his imagination
  presents to him.”

       + =Spec.= 97: sup. 766. N. 17, ’06. 180w.


* =Gibson, Charles R.= Romance of modern photography. **$1.50.
Lippincott.

  No attempt is made in this volume “to offer suggestions to the
  picture-taker, but again step by step the growth of the art is
  discussed through the changes, from daguerrotypes to the latest
  improved methods; and from the toy known as the zoetrope—with which
  children used to amuse themselves—to the latest moving picture.”
  (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 70w.

  “We have found some of the most interesting pages in Mr. Gibson’s book
  to be those describing the processes of reproduction for
  illustrations. A great deal of space and pains have been devoted to
  colour-photography and its difficulties, and some of this description
  has not attracted us much. Once or twice, in the earlier pages, Mr.
  Gibson might have been a little clearer if he had been a little more
  categorical.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: sup. 639. N. 2, ’07. 750w.


=Gibson, Thomas.= Pitfalls of speculation. *$1. Moody pub.

                                                                6–33639.

  “The author of this little treatise undertakes to demonstrate that
  business methods are applicable to speculation, and that, when so
  applied, speculation itself becomes a ‘safe business.’... Chapters are
  devoted to Ignorance and over-speculation, Manipulation, Accidents,
  Business methods in speculation, Market technicalities, Tips,
  Mechanical speculation, Short selling, What 500 speculative accounts
  showed, Grain speculation, and Suggestions as to intelligent methods.
  The book treats mainly of speculative deals on margins, which are
  regarded as entirely legitimate forms of speculative trading.”—J. Pol.
  Econ.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 59. Ja. ’07. 100w.

  “Mr. Gibson’s reasons against speculating are unanswerable, but we
  part company with him in the idea that he can teach successful
  speculation to any considerable number of scholars.” Edward A.
  Bradford.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 754. N. 17, ’06. 1640w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 80w.


* =Gibson, W. R. Boyce.= Rudolph Eucken’s philosophy of life. 2d ed.
*$1.40. Macmillan.

  This second edition includes an appendix dealing with Professor
  Eucken’s doctrine of “activism” whose difference from pragmatism is
  explained in the following: “The pragmatism which has lately made so
  much headway, especially among English-speaking peoples, is more
  inclined to shape the world and life in accordance with human
  conditions and human needs, than to invest spiritual activity with an
  independence in relation to these, and apply its standards to the
  testing and sifting of the whole content of our human life.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In point of form the book suffers manifestly from the circumstances
  of its origin. In spirit and tone, however, it is attractive, and the
  reader can hardly fail to be favourably impressed by the competence of
  the author for his task, both in the matter of zeal and of knowledge.”
  Alexander Mair.

     + − =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 124. O. ’07. 790w. (Review of 1st ed.)

  “An excellent statement of Eucken’s practical philosophy.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 326. O. 10, ’07. 200w. (Review of 2d ed.)

  “But whether or not we assent to the author’s conclusions concerning
  the future influence of Eucken’s philosophy, this statement of it
  should find many readers, as a very compact and useful résumé of the
  interesting and stimulating point of view.” Edmund H. Hollands.

     + − =Philos. R.= 16: 548. S. ’07. 950w. (Review of 1st ed.)


=Giddings, Franklin Henry=, ed. Readings in descriptive and historical
sociology. *$1.60. Macmillan.

                                                                6–39002.

  “Mainly illustrative of sociological theory as given in his preceding
  works, and also in part an expansion of that theory. Its framework is
  an elaborate outline of theory given in definitions and propositions.
  Its filling is composed of select readings illustrative of this,
  gathered from all times and from peoples in every stage of social
  development, as found in literature and laws, official records,
  legends, and newspapers.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The reviewer wishes to add that while these remarks are mainly
  critical in character, they express rather the deep interest which he
  has in the fundamental issues which Professor Giddings’ book raises
  than any desire to ignore the many positive merits which the book has,
  and which will certainly secure it a wide reading among those who are
  interested in the sources of sociological theory and in the author’s
  own theory of their value and interpretation for a science of
  society.” H. Heath Bawden.

     + − =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 845. My. ’07. 3900w.

  “It is much more than its title indicates, for it contains, besides a
  careful selection of readings, an outline of sociological theory
  which, in many particulars, is new and interesting.” Charles A.
  Ellwood.

   + + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 232. Ja. ’07. 630w.

  Reviewed by R. C. Chapin.

       + =Charities.= 17: 472. D. 15, ’06. 430w.

  “The selections cover a wide field and show extensive and patient
  research. The greater part of these would probably be unavailable for
  the general student were he obliged to go to the sources himself.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 26. Ja. 5, ’07. 250w.

  “The puzzle seems to be: Fit these extracts, if you can, into the
  author’s general scheme of sociological classification and
  terminology. The value of it all we shall leave to those who have the
  courage to try it.”

       − =Nation.= 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 450w.

         =Outlook.= 84: 894. D. 8, ’06. 260w.

  “The book will be of great value to the isolated student and teacher.”

     + + =Yale R.= 15: 467. F. ’07. 220w.


=Gilbert, Charles Benajah.= School and its life. $1.25. Silver.

                                                                6–21911.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The fact that the book lacks continuity diminishes its value, but the
  treatment of some subjects ... shows a grasp of the real situation and
  a breadth of vision born only of real contact with a great system of
  schools. The benefits of co-operation applied to parent, teacher, and
  pupil are clearly shown.” J. Stanley Brown.

     + − =El. School T.= 7: 368. F. ’07. 220w.

  “This book, it seems to me, is one of the significant educational
  contributions of the year. What makes it significant is in large part
  the rare combination of philosophic insight with a wealth of practical
  experience.” Irving E. Miller.

     + + =School R.= 15: 228. Mr. ’07. 780w.


=Gilbert, George Holley.= Short history of Christianity in the apostolic
age. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.

                                                                6–41055.

  “This is a proper sequel to ‘Constructive studies on the life of
  Christ’ by Professors Burton and Mathews.... That work was based on
  the gospels; this is concerned with the remainder of the New
  Testament. Its successive portions first narrate events and comment
  upon them, then propose questions and suggestions for study, with
  supplementary topics and references to literature.... The volume is
  finely illustrated.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The material is conveniently divided, and interestingly and ably
  treated.”

     + + =Bib. World.= 28: 432. D. ’06. 40w.

         =Ind.= 61: 1572. D. 27, ’06. 50w.

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 141. Ja. 19, ’07. 180w.


=Gilbert, Nelson Rust.= Affair at Pine Court: a tale of the Adirondacks.
†$1.50. Lippincott.

                                                                7–30455.

  A fashionable house party at a New Yorker’s country home in the
  Adirondacks is made the scene of this tale of love, mystery and
  adventure. A Pomeranian count arouses the greed of the humble natives
  by exhibiting the wonderful “Lens of the Grau” in the presence of his
  host’s butler. These envious enemies of the rich pleasure seekers at
  the court put the house in a state of siege during which each guest
  displays his or her real character and all ends in safety and
  happiness.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 30w.


=Gilchrist, Alexander.= Life of William Blake; ed. with introd. by W.
Graham Robertson, il. *$3.50. Lane.

                                                                W 6–375.

  A reprint of a standard source for facts and personal interpretation
  of Blake’s life. To the illustrations appearing in the original
  edition, Mr. Robertson has added a number of colour prints, drawings,
  etc. from his own notable Blake collection, thus emphasizing
  particularly the fame of Blake the painter.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Reviewed by A. Clutton-Brock.

     + + =Acad.= 71: 524. N. 24, ’06. 900w.

     + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 828. D. 29. 240w.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 169. F. ’07. 1100w.

     + + =Int. Studio.= 30: 282. Ja. ’07. 690w.

       + =Int. Studio.= 32: 84. Jl. ’07. 210w.

         =Lond. Times.= 6: 12. Ja. 11, ’07. 1370w.

  “This reprint is admirable from the point of view of the general
  reader, and, by reason of its illustrations, necessary also to the
  special student.”

     + + =Nation.= 83: 463. N. 29, ’06. 160w.

     + + =Sat. R.= 102: 708. D. 8, ’06. 340w.

     + + =Spec.= 97: 826. N. 24, ’06. 230w.


=Gilchrist, Edward.= Tiles from a porcelain tower. *$1.25. Riverside
press, Cambridge, Mass.

                                                                6–45067.

  A volume of verse chief among whose poems are “those more expressly
  from the Porcelain tower, ‘the pride and symbol of Cathay,’ wherein
  the decaying splendors of the East are expressed with both imagination
  and humor.” (Nation.) There are also included some translations from
  the Greek, Danish, Russian and the Chinese.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The lyrics of a reflective mind, but their flow is far from musical—a
  defect due in part to the frequent collocation of ill-matched
  vocables, and in part to the fact that the movement is too much
  clogged with ideas.” Wm. M. Payne.

     − + =Dial.= 43: 93. Ag. 16, ’07. 210w.

  “Mr. Gilchrist has plainly done a good deal of rather virile thinking,
  and as he has made his ingeniously plotted verse the vehicle rather
  for his notion than for his moods, his work has much of the peculiar
  pithiness that marked the work of the concettists in their less
  fantastic vein.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 200. F. 28, ’07. 340w.


* =Gilder, Richard Watson.= Fire divine. **$1. Century.

                                                                7–32109.

  This volume adds sixty new pieces to the poetry of the author,
  including memorial verses on Carl Schurz, George Macdonald, Josephine
  Shaw Lowell, Emma Lazarus, and Thomas Bailey Aldrich; poems to music
  and musicians; and a requiem for Augustus Saint-Gaudens, entitled
  “Under the stars.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 60w.


=Gillespie, G. Curtis.= Rumford fireplaces, and how they are made. $2.
Comstock, W: T.

                                                                7–11989.

  “A reprint of Count Rumford’s essay on Fireplaces is here accompanied
  by a discussion of the same subject by Mr. Gillespie. In the course of
  his discussion ... Mr. Gillespie introduced a number or drawings and
  sketches of his own, illustrating fireplaces designed by him, of the
  so-called Rumford type ... also mantels of his own design, and
  reproductions of views of a large number of fireplaces, andirons, and
  the like, both mediaeval and modern.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Engin. N.= 57: 436. Ap. 18, ’07. 90w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 154. Mr. 16, ’07. 110w.

         =Technical Literature.= 1: 224. My. ’07. 60w.


=Gilman, Bradley.= Open secret of Nazareth. **$1. Crowell.

                                                                6–26086.

  “Ten letters written by Bartimaeus, whose eyes were opened, to Thomas,
  a seeker after truth.” A traveler in the Holy Land writes his
  impressions and conviction to a friend at home. “‘The open secret’
  which Jesus strove to impart—the truth which, however evident, eludes
  so many—is that of the Consecrated will—the active endeavor on all the
  small or serious occasions presenting themselves at the cross-roads of
  daily life to identify one’s self with the divine will of pure
  goodness to all our fellows.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is suffused with devotional feeling and animated with poetic
  imagination, but clear in moral insight.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 532. O. 27, ’06. 180w.


=Gilman, Lawrence.= Music of to-morrow, and other studies. *$1.25. Lane.

                                                                7–10576.

  Mr. Gilman “attempts to prophesy what will be the general character of
  the music of the next half-century. He admits the temerity of the
  attempt, but argues boldly and convincingly. His broad general dictum
  is that the permanent elements of the music of the future will have to
  do with ‘that region of experience which lies over the borderland of
  our spiritual consciousness.’ It will forsake the ‘incessant
  exploitation of the dynamic element in life’ and urge us to listen for
  ‘the vibrations of the spirit beneath.’”—R. of Rs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The general impression left by this book is that on the whole the
  title has been well chosen. Mr. Lawrence Gilman gives expression to
  some interesting ideas about music held by himself in common with
  enthusiastic modern thinkers.”

       + =Acad.= 72: 126. F. 2, ’07. 440w.

  “The best written and conceived essay in Mr. Gilman’s interesting
  little volume is that devoted to Claude Debussy, the poet and dreamer.
  I do not care much for his Liszt essay. It does not dig enough into
  the subject. Mr. Gilman’s book is interesting, at times gracefully
  written, and strives to understand the music of to-day. This latter
  quality is in itself a critical feat, for in critic-land we usually
  face the setting sun.” James Huneker.

     + − =Bookm.= 25: 32. Mr. ’07. 1120w.

  Reviewed by Josiah Renick Smith.

       + =Dial.= 42: 224. Ap. 1, ’07. 180w.

       + =Nation.= 83: 518. D. 13, ’06. 340w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 869. D. 15, ’06. 490w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 115. Ja. ’07. 100w.

         =Spec.= 98: 139. Ja. 26, ’07. 930w.


=Gilman, Lawrence.= Strauss’ “Salome;” a guide to the opera; with
musical il. *$1. Lane.

                                                                7–18584.

  A guide containing a description of the drama, a full analysis of
  Strauss’s score, also musical illustration and examples.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Current Literature.= 42: 294. Mr. ’07. 2410w.

         =Dial.= 42: 118. F. 16, ’07. 40w.

  “It will be a useful guide for those who desire to reach below the
  surface of Strauss’s remarkable book.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 31. Ja. 19, ’07. 180w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 384. Mr. ’07. 50w.


* =Giry, Arthur, and Reville, Andre.= Emancipation of the mediaeval
towns; tr. and ed. by Frank Greene Bates and Paul Emerson Titsworth.
(Historical miscellany.) pa. 50c. Holt.

                                                                7–20319.

  A translation of chapter 8 of the second volume of Lavisse and
  Rambaud’s ‘Histoire générale.’ It covers in four chapters the rise of
  towns in France: The origins, The communal revolution, The communes
  and Towns of burgessy and new towns.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In this terse, closely compact monograph no space has been devoted to
  fine writing. We have here a concise and clearly intelligible account
  of those communities in the middle ages which were the precursors of
  our modern commonwealths.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 626. O. 19, ’07. 230w.

  “In its field it is unsurpassed; and the general student will learn
  more by studying the vivid picture which it presents than he could
  hope to learn by attacking at the start the whole question of
  municipal organization, in all its uncertainties and complexities. The
  translators have done their work well; especially do they deserve
  commendation for accepting frankly the terms for which there is really
  no English equivalent.”

     + + =Yale R.= 16: 334. N. ’07. 140w.


=Given, John La Porte.= Making a newspaper. **$1.50. Holt.

                                                                7–16382.

  “A detailed account of the business, editorial, reportorial, and
  manufacturing organization of the daily newspaper in a large city.”
  The author’s deductions are made from his own large newspaper
  experience. He shows how editors gain their information and how all
  classes of civilization contribute consciously or unconsciously, to
  the daily record of happenings. In addition to chapters covering the
  general workings of the newspaper, he discusses such subjects as
  preparing for journalism, getting a situation, prizes in journalism,
  with the printers, and the money-making department.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Interesting, apparently trustworthy, journalistic in style.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 165. O. ’07. S.

  “Clearly and forcibly written for the most part, but somewhat
  painfully devoid of idealism.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 261. S. 7. 1880w.

  “Interesting and seemingly trustworthy account of all branches of his
  profession.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 18. Jl. 1. ’07. 310w.

  “The book will occupy a place on the literary journalist’s shelf
  beside Mr. E. L. Shuman’s ‘Practical journalism,’ and, while it will
  not wholly supersede the Chicagoan’s brisk lively compendium, it
  possesses the peculiar merit of giving the most comprehensive and
  thorogoing account of New York newspaper making that has so far found
  its way into print.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 399. Ag. 15. ’07. 380w.

  “Within its lines it is excellent.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 97. Jl. 20, ’07. 70w.

  “Mr. Given’s style is clear and trenchant, his phrases well chosen,
  and the entire book is good reading for any one.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 190. Ag. 29, ’07. 320w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 139. Mr. 9, ’07. 180w.

  “He understands his subject, or as much of it as he has cared to write
  about, as well as any one man could be expected to understand it, and
  his writing is lucid.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 287. My. 4, ’07. 200w.


=Glazier, Richard.= Manual of historic ornament. *$2. Scribner.

  A second edition revised and enlarged. It is surprising how many
  examples of the ornament of past ages in many countries “have been
  collected together in this book, with its clear pen drawings. These
  include not only architecture, but glass, silver, ivory, carpets,
  furniture, china, and sculpture. There is a running commentary which
  clearly indicates the main outlines of the subject.” (Spec.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Useful handbook.”

       + =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 58. D. ’06. 250w.

  “For a book devoted avowedly to ‘ornament’ there is an unexpected
  amount of care and thoughtful analysis given to architecture in the
  larger sense of construction, disposition, and ordonnance. There is no
  index of consequence. On this account one doubts the practical utility
  of the book. The general tendency of the book is to be praised.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 345. Ap. 11, ’07. 390w.

       + =Spec.= 98: 542. Ap. 6, ’07. 80w.


=Gloag, M. R.= Book of English gardens; il. by Katharine Montagu Wyatt.
$2. Macmillan.

                                                                 7–2583.

  An introductory sketch of gardening “from Eden onwards” precedes a
  description of thirteen famous English “out-of-door drawingrooms.”
  Among them are Abbotsbury, Beckett, Sutton Place, Brownsea Island and
  Wrest Park. “The author has interwoven with her various descriptions
  and appreciations historical and genealogical facts agreeable to a
  gossiping palate.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The writing is easy and unpretentious; and the illustrations are
  effective.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 621. N. 17. 210w.

  “The book is full of laboriously collected information connected with
  the family history of the owners of the famous houses and gardens in
  England. They are the homes and gardens of the titled rich. The book
  has the interest of an old curio.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 501. F. 28, ’07. 210w.

       + =Int. Studio.= 30: 277. Ja. ’07. 250w.

  “It is more than possible that the text of this attractive volume was
  written to fit the pictures, and hence it is not surprising that there
  is a misfit here and there. But despite the imperfect coördination,
  the treatment is admirable in its way.”

     + − =Nation.= 84:208. F. 28, ’07. 300w.

  “Such a volume needs no recommendation.”

       + =Spec.= 97: 407. S. 22, ’06. 100w.


=Glyn, Elinor.= Three weeks. †$1.50. Duffield.

                                                                7–21536.

  A brief story which is an exaltation of sensuous fascination into an
  affair of the soul and which casts the moral law to the four winds of
  heaven. A titled young Englishman is sent away from home to be cured
  of his love for a rural English girl with red hands. In Paris he meets
  and falls in love with the queen of a Russian dependency, “infinitely
  sinuous and attractive” who is residing at his hotel incognito. They
  yield entirely to the sway of their love which the author’s art aims
  to transform into the poetry of sentiment. They suffer the agony of it
  in separation followed by tragedy.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “She is too desperately anxious to shock her middle-class readers and
  impress them with upholstery of her high-born heroine. The result is
  that you laugh a little and yawn a little and are not shocked at all,
  but only rather bored by a vulgar and extremely silly story.”

       − =Acad.= 72: 635. Je. 29, ’07. 320w.

  “It is not in the least amusing, and the sentiments it evokes in
  others are both cynical and disagreeable.”

       − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 755. Je. 22. 200w.

  “‘Misrepresentation and misunderstanding’ are bound to be her portion,
  because she has slapped down a host of immaturities on the most
  perilous of subjects, making the venture bravely with a limited
  capital of expression and insight.”

       − =Lit. D.= 35: 613. O. 26, ’07. 310w.

  “The whole leaves a bewildering doubt—has Elinor Glyn become perfectly
  indifferent to her reputation or, by any mischance, is she beginning
  to take herself seriously?”

       − =Nation.= 85: 328. O. 10, ’07. 170w.

  “Ethics may require that a tale be lewd; but it’s a crime for it to be
  stupid.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 580. S. 28, ’07. 640w.

  “She sets out to write a story of mere animal passion, but she
  succumbed to the atmosphere of the moral idea, which is still
  characteristic of literature in these islands, and she ended in a
  melodrama.”

       − =Sat. R.= 103: 754. Je. 15, ’07. 570w.


=Godkin, Edwin Lawrence.= Life and letters of Edwin Lawrence Godkin; ed.
by Rollo Ogden. 2v. **$4. Macmillan.

                                                                7–12877.

  An interesting biography written by one who knew Mr. Godkin personally
  and who writes appreciatively of the many phases of the man who left
  Ireland in his youth, was for 35 years a conspicuous figure in New
  York journalism, and exercised a great influence in American political
  and social life. The story of his life naturally throws many side
  lights upon the men and politics of his day.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is unfortunate that the arrangement of the display is so
  defective. There is no table of contents and no outline of topics. The
  division into chapters might as well have been omitted, or else made
  to mean something. The index seems imperfect, and worst of all, the
  chronology of the story is ofttimes in a hopeless jumble.” Charles H.
  Levermore.

   + + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 168. O. ’07. 950w.

  “It has rarely been our pleasure to read a work at once so interesting
  and valuable as this.” Charles Lee Raper.

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 612. N. ’07. 1080w.

  “The reader is now and then admitted with fair discretion into the
  privacies of Godkin’s life. But the book hardly, perhaps, does justice
  to its subject, and a slipshod index in no way atones for the absence
  of a table of the contents of its ill-arranged chapters.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 752. Je. 22. 1750w.

  Reviewed by M. A. de Wolfe Howe.

     + + =Atlan.= 100: 421. S. ’07. 2160w.

  “It is marvellously clever editing, but it lacks something which
  enters into really great biographies. We miss that full and intimate
  characterisation which Mr. Ogden is so admirably qualified to give.
  His method suggests either indolence or a wrong perception of what a
  book should be. Here we have pearls, not strung, perhaps, at random,
  but still suggestive of a too great self-suppression on the part of
  him who strung them. The book is immensely interesting.” Richard W.
  Kemp.

     + − =Bookm.= 25: 184. Ap. ’07. 2700w.

  “The work of Mr. Ogden on these volumes has been admirably done. With
  an editorial self-suppression which finds its best parallel in the
  work of Professor Norton, he has given us Mr. Godkin’s story from Mr.
  Godkin’s own pen, supplying only the connecting links without which
  that story could not be fully understood.” W. H. Johnson.

       + =Dial.= 42: 216. Ap. 1, ’07. 2120w.

  “Mr. Godkin knew every one who was worth knowing both in public and
  private life, and his comments are singularly keen, even when they are
  hasty and unfair. Moreover, these memoranda cover a long and
  interesting period of history.” Harry Thurston Peck.

       + =Forum.= 39: 100. Jl. ’07. 1270w.

  “Taken collectively the correspondence forms an unusually instructive
  study of a man whose being was almost exclusively political.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 568. S. 5, ’07. 1000w.

       + =Ind.= 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 140w.

  “[The volumes] have distinct value and interest.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 678. Ap. 27, ’07. 720w.

  “There is far too much padding in his two volumes, consisting of
  copious extracts from Godkin’s early journalistic correspondence.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 180. Je. 7, ’07. 1300w.

  “Both in the selection and in the arrangement of all this material,
  Mr. Ogden has performed his task with admirable taste and skill.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 360. Ap. 18, ’07. 2440w.

  “Mr. Ogden has done the work of editing with great modesty and with
  good judgment.” Edward Cary.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 252. Ap. 20, ’07. 2000w.

  “Nothing within our knowledge compares with them in the vivid
  portrayal of current affairs during the last half of the last century.
  They will be for a long time to come a repertory from which the
  historian and the essayist will draw their facts.”

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 294. Je. 8, ’07. 1900w.

  “This book of Mr. Odgen’s is less the biography of an individual than
  it is the revelation of just how the silent but irresistible forces of
  political and social change are fostered and directed until they have
  done their perfect work.” Harry Thurston Peck.

     + + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 520. S. ’07. 670w.

  “Is a biography of the best, containing in its two plump volumes a
  minimum of excellent commentary, and a maximum of invaluable
  documentary material.” H. W. Boynton.

     + + =Putnam’s.= 3: 110. O. ’07. 390w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 635. My. ’07. 240w.

  “We earnestly recommend every thinking man, who values the principles
  of honesty, decency and rationality in the public life of his country,
  to read every word of these two volumes, and ponder well upon their
  significance.”

       + =Sat. R.= 104: 82. Jl. 20, ’07. 1670w.

  “As a biography, indeed, it is open to some criticism. It does not
  follow the rules on which most memoirs are composed.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: 797. My. 18, ’07. 1430w.


=Goe, David E.=, ed. Transaction of business, by Sir Arthur Helps
[with], How to win a fortune, by Andrew Carnegie; [and other essays].
$1. Forbes.

  These practical papers on business are offered to the merchant and
  manufacturers who will relish their wit, wisdom, and advice. Such
  subjects as; Choice and management of agents, Interviews, Secrecy, Our
  judgment of other men, Analyzing of a business proposition, Delays,
  and expense, are discussed by men who have succeeded.


=Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.= Goethe’s Faust, erster teil; ed. with
introd. and commentary by Julius Goebel. *$1.12. Holt.

                                                                7–11976.

  The text of this edition of the first part of Faust is that of Erich
  Schmidt, in the Jubiläumsausgabe of Goethe’s works, to which the
  editor has added an illuminating introduction and excellent notes.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Altogether, this edition of Faust is a credit to American scholarship
  and an important step in the development of sound methods in the
  academic study of German literature.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 344. Ap. 11, ’07. 330w.

  “He has been able to vitalize rather than stifle the imagination in
  reading the poet’s pages, and to enrich the reader philosophically
  rather than tantalize him with evasive verbiage of metaphysical
  dissertation.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 295. My. 4, ’07. 250w.


=Gomperz, Theodor.= Greek thinkers: a history of ancient philosophy, v.
3. *$4. Scribner.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “In less than one hundred pages, and in a style eminently luminous and
  readable, the author has condensed a wealth of interpretation and
  criticism which can only be described as masterly.” Lewis Campbell.

     + + =Hibbert J.= 5: 439. Ja. ’07. 5320w. (Review of v. 3, pt. 1.)


=Gonner, E. C. K.= Interest and saving. *$1.25. Macmillan.

  The two essays of which this volume is composed “attempt an analysis
  of the connection which exists between interest and the process of
  saving whereby wealth is accumulated and capital supplied.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book offers, besides its theoretic interest, many common-sense
  remarks as to the standard of living and the natural objection felt to
  a drop in that standard.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 184. Ag. 18. 840w.

  “Despite the scholarship of the author and the acuteness of some minor
  arguments, the book contains little new and that fallacious.” Frank A.
  Fetter.

     − + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 160. Mr. ’07. 690w.

  “We confess that the issues involved seem often to be too much
  overshadowed by the number and magnitude of the hypotheses under which
  each case is considered. It is, for the student, an admirable exercise
  in dialectics.”

     + − =Spec.= 97: 306. S. 1, 06. 180w.


=Goodchild, G. F., and Tweney, C. F.=, eds. Technological and scientific
dictionary. *$6. Lippincott.

                                                               GS 7–673.

  “The various arts and sciences ... are treated in this dictionary.
  Much space is devoted to chemistry, a fair amount to mechanical and
  electrical engineering, and relatively little to civil engineering.
  Music and heraldry are among the main topics.... Among the other
  leading subjects included are architecture, assaying, astronomy,
  economic botany and zoology, building trades, geology, glass and
  leather manufacture, hygiene, metallurgy, mineralogy, motor cars, oil
  and paint manufacture, photography, textiles and watch making”—Engin.
  N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A thoroughly British point of view. The physical make-up of the book
  is generally satisfactory, its poorest feature being a portion of the
  illustrations, some of the line diagrams and woodcuts being badly
  blurred.”

     + − =Engin. N.= 56: 638. D. 13, ’06. 220w.


=Goodell, Charles L.= Old Darnman; il. by Charles Grunwald. (Hour-glass
ser.) **40c. Funk.

                                                                6–46349.

  The “Darnman” is a pathetic figure whose mental disorder resulted from
  the death of his affianced bride upon their wedding day. Clad in his
  wedding garments, for two generations he went the rounds of the
  farmers’ homes, accepted one-meal hospitality, and invariably asked
  for needle and yarn to mend his threadbare clothes. This little story
  has grown out of the traditional bits gathered from different sources.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A charming but very sad little story, which is of value, however, as
  recording in permanent form the history of one who was a familiar
  figure to many New Englanders of an earlier generation.” Amy C. Rich.

       + =Arena.= 37: 332. Mr. ’07. 270w.

  “The story is told with pathos and delicacy.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 593. Ap. 13, ’07. 170w.

  “It is one of those little stories which, for the few minutes
  necessary to read it, take one out of the humdrum of everyday
  existence, and so is worth while.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 77. F. 9, ’07. 80w.


=Goodell, Charles Lee.= Pastoral and personal evangelism. **$1. Revell.

                                                                7–25069.

  Really a dissertation upon the sort of evangelism that in two years
  raised the membership of the Calvary Methodist church in New York from
  fourteen hundred to twenty-four hundred, “a record of fact and
  conviction wrought out in the thick of the fight.” Dr. Goodell says
  that “evangelism is the aggressive propaganda of the Christian life.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 663. O. 19, ’07. 80w.

  “Inspirational, practical, methodical, this is a helpful book for the
  development of latent Christian power.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 133. S. 21, ’07. 150w.


=Goodrich, Arthur Frederick.= Balance of power. $1.50. Outing pub.

                                                                6–31388.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 25. Ja. ’07.

  “The banality of the closing chapter is an unfortunate sequel to an
  otherwise excellent love story.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 601. My. 18. 110w.

  “All that was required to make it a strong story, instead of a story
  of a strong man, was the service of an editor capable of eliminating
  superfluous verbiage, dovetailing incidents and interlacing the
  threads in such a manner that the narrative might have run along, if
  not altogether smoothly, at least without a surfeit of interruption.”
  George Harvey.

     − + =No. Am.= 184: 188. Ja. 18, ’07. 1100w.


=Gordon, Armistead C.= Ivory gate. $1.25. Neale.

                                                                7–31168.

  Twenty-five slender poems written long ago and still singing sweetly
  of love as a young man dreams of it, but to several is added a final
  verse dispelling the illusion by the light of an old bachelor’s
  experience.


=Gordon, Mrs. Elizabeth Oke.= Saint George, champion of Christendom and
patron saint of England. *$5. Dutton.

                                                                7–29061.

  The book consists of four parts. Besides a biographical sketch of the
  martyr, there are chapters on the Commemoration of St. George in
  church liturgies and national institutions, on Celebrated knights of
  St. George, and on St. George in art.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “As a whole the book has little historical worth. The author does not
  appear to discriminate in the least between legend, poetry, chronicle,
  and sealed documents for their value as sources. This quality or
  indifference to modern historical criticism seems to us a far more
  serious fault in the book than the occasional actual misstatements of
  the author.” D. S. Muzzey.

   − − + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 173. O. ’07 450w.

  “Her book, on the whole, is a disappointment, owing to its omissions
  and its general lack of thoroughness.”

       − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 178. Ag. 17. 1860w.

  “Those who wish to read a sober and discreet attempt to unravel the
  actual history of the three heroes that bore the name of George—the
  Arian archbishop, the tribune, and the martyr—will prefer to consult
  Miss F. Arnold-Forster’s ‘Studies in church dedications;’ or,
  ‘England’s patron saints,’ ii. 464–74.” G.

       − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 824. O. ’07. 590w.

  “When one considers how much good literature can be bought nowadays
  for five dollars it would be impossible to praise this book with any
  heartiness even if it reached a higher level of style and scholarship
  than it does.”

       − =Nation.= 85: 348. O. 17, ’07. 350w.


=Gordon, George Angier.= Through man to God. **$1.50. Houghton.

                                                                6–35977.

  Dr. Gordon’s doctrine preached in these sermons is that the heart and
  soul of Christianity should be interpreted, not thru nature, but thru
  nature’s highest concept, man, to the Creator of man.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “One of the discourses ‘Belief and fear,’ though true and strong in
  its main thought, is greatly marred by an extraordinary misuse of the
  text, ‘The devils also believe and tremble.’” Theodore G. Soares.

     + − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 712. O. ’07. 230w.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 238. D. ’06.

  Reviewed by George Hodges.

         =Atlan.= 99: 563. Ap. ’07. 290w.

         =Ind.= 62: 97. Ja. 10, ’07. 150w.

  “In seriousness of purpose, in professional self-respect, in dignity
  of undertaking, Dr. Gordon has not violated the canons of the worthy
  order to which he belongs.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 227. Mr. 7, ’07. 790w.

  “For all these reasons—for their philosophic grasp, their modern view,
  their poetic vision, their vigorous faith, and their sane and tender
  feeling—we commend this volume of sermons both to the thoughtful
  reader and to the homiletical student.”

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 141. Ja. 19, ’07. 320w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 118. Ja. ’07. 50w.


=Gordon, Samuel.= Ferry of fate: a tale of Russian Jewry. †$1.50.
Duffield.

                                                                7–12695.

  Two young Jews, after struggling for two years against poverty and
  opposition in the Odessa University, come under the ban of expulsion.
  One is reinstated because he finds favor with the prefect, who lures
  him into an assistant secretaryship, demanding that origin and
  religion be forgotten. The other goes back to his little town and with
  his people takes up the cudgel against the government. The story
  follows the mental agony of the traitor Jew and the retribution which
  human justice fixes for his portion.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “If there is a failure in the book, it is in the portrait of Nyman the
  ferryman, who alone among Mr. Gordon’s personages suggests the
  melodramatic Russian Nihilist of the detective novel. ‘The ferry of
  fate’ deserves to be read carefully. The author has aimed high, and
  most of his readers will agree that he has hit the mark.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 661. Je. 2. 180w.

  “Shows the hand of the promising apprentice.”

     − + =Ind.= 63: 219. Jl. 25, ’07. 300w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 499. Ag. 17, ’07. 60w.

         =Spec.= 97: 63. Jl. 14, ’06. 110w.


=Gordon, William Clark.= Social ideals of Alfred Tennyson as related to
his time. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.

                                                                6–25171.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “To a refined appreciation of beautiful literature the author unites
  considerable knowledge of modern sociology.”

       + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 715. O. ’07. 150w.

  “The book, which we would gladly examine in more detail, is well worth
  study. One criticism we must make. Why does Mr. Gordon put the
  ‘Wesleyan revival’ as one of the five causes which wrought a great
  social change in Tennyson’s time?”

     + − =Spec.= 97: 686. N. 3, ’06. 170w.


=Gorky, Maxim.= Mother; il. by Sigmund de Ivanowski. †$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                7–16750.

  After the death of a brutal husband a mother turns to her son and in
  winning him back to virtue frees herself from the “dazed, cowed” state
  into which she had been beaten. “Led into dangerous, forbidden ways,
  coming into a knowledge of the risks they run who think for themselves
  in Russia, she goes on with a courage and love absolutely sublime.”
  (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Depicts present-day life in Russia without exaggeration or
  morbidness.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 179. O. ’07.

  “As a document, it will have value for all students of socialism.”

       + =Cath. World.= 85: 667. Ag. ’07. 280w.

  “Like all Gorky’s work it is sternly realistic, free from the tricks
  of the romanticists, without elaborated plot, just a piece of the web
  of life, as plain and patternless as when it left the loom of the
  fates.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 159. Jl. 18, ’07. 340w.

  “His book is a sort of rude epic of Russian poverty and oppression,
  from which nothing is omitted.”

     + − =Lit. D.= 34: 961. Je. 15, ’07. 430w.

  “Hardly elsewhere has socialism spoken with a voice at once so deep
  and so gentle.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 544. Je. 13, ’07. 560w.

  “A powerful story, which may be too sentimental and overwrought, but
  deserves serious attention.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 272. Ap. 27, ’07. 60w.

  “This book peculiarly merits its sacred title.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 333. My. 25, ’07. 840w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 381. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.

  “This is a great and serious book; it has exquisite description and
  idealization of nature, and yet it has the flaw which Maxim Gorki has
  himself pointed out in all his works; it does not give us joy.” Louise
  Collier Willcox.

   + + − =No. Am.= 85: 661. Jl. 19, ’07. 1300w.

  “Gorky has lost none of his grim power.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 254. Je. 1, ’07. 160w.

  “The book is not pleasant reading but it is as much better than his
  previous work as growth is better than decay.”

     + − =Putnam’s.= 3: 111. O. ’07. 180w.

  “Since, however, Russia, and, for that matter, Slav letters generally,
  are so little known,—even if frequently talked about,—in the United
  States, we would particularly commend this excellent translation of
  Gorky’s latest book.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 763. Je. ’07. 360w.


=Goron, Marie Francois.= Truth about the case: the experiences of M. F.
Goron, ex-chief of the Paris detective police; ed. by Albert Keyzer; il.
by A. G. Dove. †$1.50. Lippincott.

                                                                7–17362.

  Thirteen detective stories based upon the personal experiences of the
  ex-chief of the Paris detective police. Among them are stories of
  crimes of murder, of blackmail, and robbery. Many interesting
  characters ranging from the indiscreet society woman to the habitual
  criminal are introduced as in tale after tale, mystifying and
  complicated plots are untangled by the master mind of the old
  detective.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Acad.= 72: 126. F. 2, ’07. 640w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 335. My. 25, ’07. 260w.

  “If in these stories the clue is not so obscure nor the crime so
  intricate as in the best detective romances, there is mystery enough
  to make the account of its solution thoroughly entertaining, and what
  they may lose in melodramatic excitement they gain in apparent
  reality.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 256. Je. 1, ’07. 160w.


=Gorst, Sir John E.= Children of the nation. *$2.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–25650.

  A book whose object is to bring home to the people of Great Britain a
  sense of the danger of neglecting the physical condition of the
  nation’s children. Some of the chapters deal with infant mortality,
  children under school age, underfed children, overworked children,
  children’s ailments, physical training, hereditary disease, and the
  home.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book under review is serviceable because of its analysis of the
  conditions involved in child health rather than for the remedies
  proposed for physical defects.” W: H. Allen.

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 609. N. ’07. 460w.

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 39. Ja. 12. 1640w.

       + =Ind.= 62: 858. Ap. 11, ’07. 290w.

  “The book is written with a glow of enthusiasm and conviction which
  makes it very delightful reading and even those who would not agree
  with many of his conclusions and recommendations, could hardly fail to
  peruse it with interest and appreciation.” Millicent Mackenzie.

   + + − =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 128. O. ’07. 670w.

  “Sir John Gorst’s book is a great deal better than most of its class.
  It is less sentimental and is written with some restraint, though with
  point and vigour, and it lays out the subject in a fairly
  comprehensive and orderly way; but it belongs to the class and
  exhibits, in some degree, the usual defects. Nothing is adequately
  discussed; the facts given are scrappy, selected, and not always
  accurate; over-statement is common; too much weight is attached to
  mere opinions; some important questions are omitted, and in regard to
  others the writer’s knowledge is seriously defective.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 12: 58. F. 22, ’07. 1230w.

       + =Nation.= 84: 317. Ap. 4, ’07. 770w.

  “A wholesome common sense characterizes the author’s counsels and
  suggestions.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 132. Mr. 2, ’07. 300w.

       + =Sat. R.= 102: 743. D. 15, ’06. 1620w.

         =Spec.= 97: 987. D. 15, ’06. 520w.


* =Gorst, Nina Kennedy.= Light. $1.50. Dodge. B. W.

  Misery and temptation are depicted in this story, the central figure
  of which is a servant girl who has a child out of wedlock. She is
  buffeted about from place to place in the underworld, and, finally,
  after repeated struggle, the light comes thru the lispings of her
  child.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mrs. Gorst is not successful in her treatment of such menfolk as
  appear in her pages, but her landladies, laundry-girls, and cottagers
  deserve praise as individual and truly excellent portraits.”

     + − =Acad.= 70: 430. My. 5, ’06. 490w.

  “Mrs. Gorst’s new story is not an advance on ‘This our sister!’ The
  sense of form and proportion is even less conspicuous, and a certain
  crude and rather brutal outlook, suggestive of force, is absent.
  Instead we find more diffuseness, and a fainter show of purpose and
  individual vision.”

       − =Ath.= 1906. 1: 542. My. 5. 190w.

  “We could have well spared some incidents; and the most sordid, which
  is also the most superfluous, is nearest to melodrama of the lower
  order.”

     − + =Lond. Times.= 5: 142. Ap. 20, ’06. 520w.

         =Spec.= 96: 758. My. 12, ’06. 150w.


=Goss, William F. M.= locomotive performance. $5. Wiley.

                                                                6–46367.

  “This valuable work by Dr. Goss covers the very important field of
  locomotive steam engineering from a standpoint that prior to the
  development of the engineering laboratory at Purdue university was
  never possible. Dr. Goss has combined in this volume the most
  important results obtained from the Purdue tests, records of which
  have from time to time been separately published, together with other
  material never before published, thereby making a ‘permanent and
  accessible record of the work of the laboratory.’”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This work of Dr. Goss will rank at the head of the scientific and
  technical standards of reference in locomotive engineering. It
  presents information on important points obtained with great care and
  accuracy and under conditions never before made possible until the
  establishing of the Purdue testing plant and engineering
  laboratories.” Arthur M. Waitt.

   + + + =Engin. N.= 57: 192. F. 14, ’07. 2050w.


* =Gosse, Edmund William.= Father and son: biographical recollections.
**$1.50. Scribner.

                                                                7–36407.

  The “struggle between two temperaments” forms the subject-matter of
  this volume relating to Edmund Gosse and his father. The offspring of
  parents married late in life, the boy grows up in an atmosphere
  heavily charged with extreme English Puritanism. “When the child’s
  ‘temperament’ began to develop, it displayed itself as a passionate
  attachment to the romantic in art and poetry; and there were infinite
  possibilities of discord between a father who, though he enjoyed
  declaiming the sonorous lines of Virgil and Milton, prided himself on
  never having read a page of Shakespeare, and a son who saved up his
  pocket money to buy the poems of Coleridge and Keats, and, on one
  occasion, Christopher Marlowe.” (Lond. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Beyond doubt, the charm of the book lies in the opening chapters,
  which describe the child’s sombre life in London, without playmates or
  companions, the sights he saw through the window; and the experiments
  he conducted alike in true religion and in idolatry, not, perhaps,
  much unlike those of other children, but told with all the skill of an
  accomplished man of letters.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 347. N. 15, ’07. 1060w.

  “The whole book is as human in spirit as it is scientific in method.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 759. N. 30, ’07. 1640w.

  “Offers to the curious an absorbing study of temperament.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 746. N. 30, ’07. 520w.


=Gosse, Edmund William.= Modern English literature: a short history.
**$2.50. Stokes.

                                                                W 6–144.

  In revising and enlarging this volume for the fifth edition, eight
  photogravures and sixty-four half tone portraits have been included.
  “Goethe said ... that the portrait of a man of letters was his best
  monument. If that be true, or even partly true, we cannot but hope
  that this illustrated edition ... may be found to possess some of the
  qualities of a literary Valhalla.” (Author in preface.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 84. Mr. ’07.

         =Dial.= 41: 463. D. 16, ’06. 50w.

         =Ind.= 61: 1061. N. 1, ’06. 40w.

  “Has real value both for the student and general reader. The literary
  style, criticism, and method of treatment are satisfying.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 83: 813. D. 1, ’06. 270w.

       + =Outlook.= 85: 94. Ja. 12, ’07. 90w.


=Gould, Francis Carruthers.= Political caricatures. $2. Longmans.

  A fourth annual collection of the political caricatures of Sir Francis
  Gould “which are fully up to the former series of F. C. G.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He has a knack of doing disagreeable things, when he thinks fit to do
  them, in a manner which excludes resentment.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 800. D. 22. 280w.

  “We may not catch all the fun of Gould’s pictures on this side of the
  Atlantic, but they would certainly serve admirably as an introduction
  to the study of contemporary British politics.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 48. Ja. 26, ’07. 310w.

  “Keen, vigorous, good-humored, with the rarest possible exceptions, he
  is all that a political caricaturist should be.”

     + − =Spec.= 97: 1051. D. 22, ’06. 90w.


=Gould, George Milbry.= Biographic clinics: essays concerning the
influence of visual function, pathologic and physiologic upon the health
of patients. 4v. ea. *$1. Blakiston.

  =v. 1.= The origin of the ill-health of De Quincey, Carlyle, Darwin,
  Huxley and Browning.

  =v. 2.= The origin of the ill-health of Wagner, Parkman, Mrs. Carlyle,
  Spencer, Whittier, Ossoli, Nietzsche and George Eliot.

  =v. 3.= Essays concerning the influence of visual function, pathologic
  and physiologic, upon the health of patients.

  =v. 4.= Morbid symptoms due to eye strain as illustrated by Balzac,
  Tchaikovsky, Flaubert, Lafcadio Hearn and Berlioz.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The temper of the man commends itself.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 258. Ap. 16, ’07. 300w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)

  “The author’s attitude toward his critics, his resentment of the very
  general doubt of the conclusions of his earlier volumes on these
  subjects, and a certain harshness in presenting his material will much
  delay the conversion of those professional brethren, and there are
  very many of them, who find his theories rather too finely drawn to be
  acceptable.”

       − =Nation.= 83: 242. S. 20, ’06. 140w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “It would do much to gain acceptance for the general doctrine of the
  writer were it but presented with more discretion and less
  acrimoniousness, and, we may add, much more briefly.”

     − + =Nation.= 84: 295. Mr. 28, ’07. 160w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)

  “Dr. Gould is a good writer, a man of large learning, and his
  sincerity is not to be questioned.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 138. Mr. 9, ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 4 and
         5.)

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 124. Jl. ’07. 170w. (Review of v. 1–5.)


=Gould, Rev. Sabine Baring-.= Book of the Pyrenees. **$1.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–35350.

  A timely book in which Mr. Gould not only reviews the history of the
  past but with “personal knowledge takes us through ports and cirques
  to the bare plateaus, the broken forest land and the Alpine pastures,
  patrolled by the shepherds with their powerful dogs, the haunts of the
  bear, the wolf and the izard.” (Sat. R.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 165. O. ’07. S.

  “Like its predecessors, the new work contains a great deal of
  information, and is easily—almost too easily—written.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 788. Je. 29. 400w.

  “Essentially a guide-book, but one that is readable as well as
  practically helpful.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 380. Je. 16, ’07. 40w.

  “The illustrations, all in black and white, are very numerous, and are
  noteworthy for the softness and mellowness of the tones.”

       − =Ind.= 62: 1357. Je. 6. ’07. 140w.

  “If one must find a fault at all hazards, it will certainly be with
  the map, which is a mere sketch, noting not the tenth of the places
  touched upon, and therefore wholly inadequate for reference.”

   + + − =Nation.= 85: 236. S. 12, ’07. 440w.

  “It will not be Mr. Baring-Gould’s fault if an exquisite mountain
  region is not better known and appreciated.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 525. Jl. 6, ’07. 70w.

         =Sat. R.= 103: 434. Ap. 6, ’07. 220w.


=Gouley, John W. S.= Dining and its amenities, by a lover of good cheer.
*$2.50. Rebman co.

                                                                7–10595.

  “Here are tales of how men have eaten in all ages. The savages
  reveling in long pig, Lucullus and his Roman friends dallying over
  nightingales’ tongues. Here are the moving histories of the beginnings
  and glorious consummations of the wines and liquors which to-day make
  glad our hearts and light our steps. Here are anecdotes, here are the
  maxims of that prince of the table, Brillat-Savarin, in their original
  French, with the translations appended. We are given the evolution of
  the table utensils as well as the food because of which they exist,
  and the glass and porcelain come in for a share of encomiums as well
  as the soup or the entrée.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Can therefore scarcely fail of attracting us to open its covers, and
  once open we find a lot to keep us turning the pages. The book is
  somewhat overloaded with words of Latin derivation.” Hildegarde
  Hawthorne.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 265. Ap. 27, ’07. 800w.


=Graham, Harry.= Familiar faces. il. $1. Duffield.

                                                                7–25157.

  Some of the familiar faces which Captain Graham describes in rime are
  those of the baritone, the dentist, the man who knows, the waiter, the
  policeman, the music hall comedian, the faddist, and the gilded youth.
  Mr. Hall has assisted in the impressionism by introducing a series of
  very suggestive pen and ink sketches.


=Graham, Henry Grey.= Social life of Scotland in the eighteenth century.
$2.50. Macmillan.

  A new edition, which gives in a cheaper and more compact form than
  ever before, Mr. Graham’s exhaustive treatise upon the evolution which
  took place in the religion, education, agriculture, science, and art
  of eighteenth century Scotland.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Graham knows the minutiae of Scottish social life, and with
  anecdotes full of the peculiar national humor and notes that should
  not be skipped, shows us the people of thrift, faith, struggle and
  romance more fully than we have ever yet seen them.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 1211. My. 23, ’07. 330w.

  “One of the historical books for which there is a steady demand.”

     + + =Nation.= 83: 437. N. 22, ’06. 330w.

  “Always Mr. Graham is informing and always he is entertaining, his
  pages being lightened with a wealth of gossipy but illuminating
  allusion and anecdote, and his style faithfully mirroring the changing
  aspects of his theme.”

     + + =Outlook.= 84: 681. N. 17, ’06. 340w.


=Grant, Mrs. Colquhoun.= Queen and cardinal: a memoir of Anne of
Austria, and of her relation with Cardinal Mazarin. *$3.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–25499.

  “This is the story of the life of Anne of Austria, chiefly dealing
  with the events of that life during the period when she was Queen
  Regent. Naturally, it is largely concerned with the relations
  between the Queen Mother and Cardinal Mazarin. The question as to
  whether a private ceremony of marriage ever took place has never
  been authoritatively settled, although the opinion of most students
  of that period is that there actually was such a marriage. No real
  light is thrown on the question by this book, which is in its nature
  rather a popular narrative than a historical search into new
  material.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mrs. Colquhoun Grant should have revised her writing more carefully,
  as well as her history. Miss Pardoe and Miss Freer did not claim to be
  historians, but they wrote so well in the vein Mrs. Grant has chosen
  that they fairly occupy the field.”

       − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 381. Mr. 20. 840w.

       + =Ind.= 63: 341. Ag. 8, ’07. 310w.

  “We do not feel that the book grows out of her knowledge, but rather
  that her knowledge has grown out of the book, and we turn for reality
  to the pages of her chief authority, Ann of Austria’s friend, Mme. de
  Motteville.”

       − =Lond. Times.= 6: 53. F. 15, ’07. 1210w.

  “Her volume should be attractive to those who, while interested in the
  bypaths of history, wish their study made easy.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 100. Ag. 1, ’07. 200w.

  “Is not unworthy of the attention of those readers who lack knowledge
  or inclination to consult the French originals. It may be commended
  also to the persons who object to the freedom of those originals, for
  Mrs. Grant’s narrative avoids the more spicy and scandalous details in
  so far as the theme she treats permits such avoidance.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 95. F. 16, ’07. 1110w.

  “Altogether, the book is readable, although it is not important, and
  might well have been published in less pretentious guise.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 482. F. 23, ’07. 200w.

  Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.

         =Putnam’s.= 2: 472. Jl. ’07. 380w.

  “This volume is not without merit, and Mrs. Colquhoun Grant knows a
  good deal about her subject and tells her story in a not unpleasing
  style.”

       + =Sat. R.= 104: 178. Ag. 10, ’07. 360w.

     + − =Spec.= 99: 235. Ag. 17, ’07. 360w.


=Grant, Robert F. S., tr.= Before Port Arthur in a destroyer: the
personal diary of a Japanese officer; tr. from the Spanish ed. *$3.
Dutton.

  A version made from a Spanish translation of a Japanese original. “The
  narrative takes in a period of something less than a year: January
  26th, 1904–January 4th, 1905. The most animated part of it is the
  story of the boarding of a Russian ship early in March.” (Spec.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book does not read like a naval officer’s diary of operations in
  which he took the part described, so that we cannot extend to naval
  students our recommendation of the value, readable as is the spirited
  narrative of war.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 99. Ja. 26. 140w.

         =Nation.= 85: 142. Ag. 15, ’07. 170w.

         =Spec.= 99: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 220w.


=Graves, Algernon=, comp. Royal academy of arts, per v. *$11. Macmillan.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

   + + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 808. D. 22. 1570w. (Review of v. 7.)

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 611. My. 18. 1900w. (Review of v. 8.)

  “A serious demerit is that Mr. Graves makes no distinction between
  pictures and drawings.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 86. Mr. 15, ’07. 730w. (Review of v. 5–8.)


Gray mist, a novel; by the author of “The martyrdom of an empress.”
**$1.50. Harper.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “A tragic story with a wealth of poetic and picturesque vision.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 443. F. 21, ’07. 110w.

  “A remarkable feature of this weird and powerful story, which, unlike
  most of the novels of the present day, leaves an indelible impression
  upon the mind, is a degree of restraint, rare in a woman, observed by
  the author.” Ex-Attache.

       + =No. Am.= 184: 413. F. 15, ’07. 1750w.

  “The anonymous author’s ideas of Breton, or any life, entirely
  preclude meritorious novelistic composition.”

       − =R. of Rs.= 35: 128. Ja. ’07. 50w.


=Greely, Adolphus Washington.= Handbook of Polar discoveries. 3d ed.
$1.50. Little.

                                                                6–37224.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 54. F. ’07. ✠

  “It is strictly a ‘handbook,’ a somewhat encyclopedic account based
  upon original sources, not meant for continuous reading. It is,
  nevertheless, a fascinating narrative.” E. T. Brewster.

     + + =Atlan.= 100: 261. Ag. ’07. 130w.

     + + =Dial.= 42: 83. F. 1, ’07. 210w.


=Green, Alice Sophia Amelia (Stopford) (Mrs. John Richard Green).= Town
life in the fifteenth century. 2v. in 1. **$4. Macmillan.

  A reissue which merely brings the two volumes together under one
  cover. “The republication in a single volume will draw attention anew
  to this very interesting study of English borough life in a century
  which the author thinks to be, in many ways, ‘extraordinarily like our
  own.’” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mrs. Green is certainly to be congratulated on the new edition in its
  present compact and convenient form.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 945. O. 17, ’07. 250w.

  “A thorough study.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 180w.


=Green, Anna Katharine (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs).= Mayor’s wife. †$1.50.
Bobbs.

                                                                7–17385.

  A mystery lies back of the very strange behavior of a public man’s
  wife. In it are involved a young secretary, two witch-like old women,
  who constantly peer into the operations of the mayor’s household from
  the vantage point of their near-by window, and a loyal servant. The
  author weaves a ghost spell over the tale, in which former marriages,
  theft, and other villainy make hearts miserable.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a mystery story of more than ordinary ingenuity in its
  inventive resources. It lacks in human interest. There is none of the
  compelling imaginative genius displayed that makes the characters of a
  romance appeal to the reader as real flesh and blood men and women.”

     + − =Arena.= 38: 216. Ag. ’07. 270w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 381. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.

  “It has a great deal more plot than most books by its author, and
  possesses some psychological interest.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 70w.


=Green, Helen.= At the actors’ boarding house, and other stories. pa.
50c. Helen Green, 826 8th Av., N. Y.

                                                                6–45045.

  “The book takes its name from a boarding house kept by one Maggie de
  Shine, a professional herself in her younger days, and patronized by
  such ‘top-liners’ of vaudeville as the Property Man, the Buck Dancer,
  the Ingenue, the Three Mangles, Bertine Feathers and her six Pantella
  Girls, the Texarkana Comedy Four, Mildred Molar, the Queen of
  Burlesque, and a score of others whose dinner-table talks, punctuated
  by an occasional ‘scrap,’ are described in speech racy enough to make
  George Ade’s slang conventional English in comparison.”—Bookm.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mrs. Green has not yet completely mastered the art of story telling.
  It is as a writer of newspaper sketches that she excells ... real
  pictures of real life, written from the inside, and although often
  running cheek by jowl with crime and vice, never repulsive.” James L.
  Ford.

     − + =Bookm.= 25: 431. Je. ’07. 1220w.


=Greenstone, Julius H.= Messiah idea in Jewish history. $1.25. Jewish
pub.

                                                                 7–4165.

  A refutation of the assertion that Judaism has no dogmas. From the
  stories of Jewish lore, the author proves “that dogma played as
  important a part in the development of Jewish institutions as did the
  law, that Judaism ‘regulates not only our actions but also our
  thoughts.’”

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Nation.= 84: 289. Mr. 28, ’07. 70w.

  “For Christian as well as Jewish readers this is an instructive book.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 622. Mr. 16, ’07. 150w.


=Gribble, Francis Henry.= Madame de Staël and her lovers. *$3.50. Pott.

  The marriage which was a “mere bargain, and ensuing liaisons numerous
  and frank” occupy the writer who essays to portray this strong
  personality “brought up in the salons of the eighteenth century, in
  the midst of all that was most brilliant in the Paris of that day, and
  carried on a wave of European fame through the revolution, the empire,
  and the restoration.” (Spec.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The worst things about Mr. Gribble’s book are the title and the
  preface. A clear and vivacious piece of biography which excels in
  interest many recent novels.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 376. Mr. 30. 1260w.

  Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.

         =Putnam’s.= 3: 237. N. ’07. 420w.

  “This is a very interesting and, indeed, a brilliant book.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: sup. 4. My. 4, ’07. 870w.

  “Mr. Gribble’s study of Benjamin Constant is curious, and a good deal
  of it will be new to English readers.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 94. Jl. 20, ’07. 1620w.


=Grierson, Elizabeth W.= Children’s book of Edinburgh; il. by Allan
Stewart. *$2. Macmillan.

                                                                7–35148.

  Following an introduction the author treats entertainingly Modern
  interests of Edinburgh, The sights of Edinburgh, Tales of long ago,
  and Mary, queen of Scots.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Contains too much detailed information regarding the institutions of
  the city, and not enough about customs, to interest American children,
  but the history and legend in it will be useful to librarians and
  teachers.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 81. Mr. ’07.

  “Is in parts entertaining and picturesque, but the general effect is
  rather scrappy, and some portions are dull.”

     − + =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 30w.

  “Apart from this question of probability, there is too much savagery
  in some of these ballads to make them suitable material.”

     − + =Spec.= 97: sup. 658. N. 3, ’06. 270w.


=Griffis, William Elliot.= Japanese nation in evolution: steps in the
progress of a great people. **$1.25. Crowell.

                                                                7–29750.

  “It is the young Japanese nation tingling with righteous latter-day
  enthusiasm of which this book treats, and all “figureheads and
  impersonalities” are entirely eliminated. The rise of the Japanese is
  traced from prehistoric times, with special emphasis laid upon the
  author’s notion that the original stock of this people is Aryan, or
  Ainu, and not Mongolian. To this latter fact he attributes the secret
  of the nation’s superiority.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A distinct contribution to the literature on Japan.”

     + + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 194. N. ’07. S.

  “The author is conceded to be the best informed American on the
  subject concerning which he writes.”

     + + =Dial.= 43: 321. N. 16, ’07. 330w.

  “It is a scholarly book, presenting a thorough discussion of Japanese
  ethnology,—not, however, in a technical manner.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 36: 638. N. ’07. 80w.


=Griffiths, Arthur.= Rome express. $1.25. Page.

                                                                 7–9550.

  A sleeping-car tragedy occurring between Laroche and Paris furnishes
  the mystery which is unravelled in the course of this story. The
  French detective service is out in full force, and frequently goes off
  on the wrong trail. Among the implicated are an Italian countess, her
  maid and an Italian banker, the latter of whom is proven guilty and
  barely escapes the guillotine.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This is an excellent detective story.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 183. Mr. 23, ’07. 220w.


* =Griggs, Edward Howard.= Use of the margin. (Art of life series.)
*50c. Huebsch.

  The aim of this series of books is “to illuminate the
  never-to-be-finished art of living,” with no attempt at solving the
  problems or giving dogmatic theories of conduct. The present monograph
  shows what possibilities for development there are in the margin—the
  time falling to the lot of each individual to spend as he may
  please—and points out ways of using it to increase the capital, the
  character, intelligence and appreciation of one’s life.


=Griswold, Stephen M.= Sixty years with Plymouth church. **$1. Revell.

                                                                7–21719.

  “The author’s connection with Plymouth church began four years after
  Mr. Beecher came as its first pastor. The present volume is not a
  history of the church, such as was lately published of the Broadway
  tabernacle in New York, but is rather a series of notes and
  impressions attached to a thread of facts. Naturally to the author the
  great predominating figure is the first pastor, altho full credit and
  honor are given to the two very able men who succeeded him, Dr. Abbott
  and Dr. Hillis. A fair account is given of the origin of the church,
  and, naturally, a very slight account of the trial of Mr. Beecher,
  with a view of involving the name of no one.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book has an excellent spirit, and gives a correct impression of
  the immense influence the church had in favor of freedom all over the
  country.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 100. Jl. 11, ’07. 170w.

         =Outlook.= 86: 525. Jl. 4, ’07. 100w.


=Groben, countess Gunther.= Ralph Heathcote: letters of a young
diplomatist and soldier during the time of Napoleon; giving an account
of the dispute between the Emperor and the Elector of Hesse. *$5. Lane.

  “These letters are of exceptional interest. They are intimate letters
  written by an only son to his mother at the time when Napoleon was
  putting Europe in confusion. Ralph Heathcote was a young man of
  intelligence, and owing to the fact that he was an Englishman who had
  been born and bred in Germany, his point of view is fresh and
  enlightening.”—Acad.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His letters written during the strenuous time of his life must
  interest all who care in any way for that most enthralling of
  subjects—the conduct of life.”

       + =Acad.= 73: 671. Jl. 13, ’07. 1090w.

  “The chief, indeed the only, value of these letters is the insight
  they give into the society, in Cassel, and incidentally, in London,
  Edinburgh, and Lisbon.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 334. S. 21. 620w.

  “As a testimonial of filial affection, and as a record of the
  every-day life of a somewhat gifted young man in several lands and in
  various capacities, one hundred years ago, the correspondence has
  interest; but its literary value is as slight as its historical
  importance.”

     + − =Dial.= 43: 169. S. 16, ’07. 300w.

  “A reader of the volume should find himself drawn on almost
  irresistibly until he completes it. It is an interesting and
  instructive addition to the year’s literature.” George R. Bishop.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 685. O. 26, ’07. 1760w.

  “Heathcote’s letters describing his services in the Peninsula are
  readable though of no particular value to the student of military
  history.”

       + =Sat. R.= 104: 150. Ag. 3, ’07. 150w.


=Grose, Howard Benjamin.= Incoming millions. *50c. Revell.

                                                                6–38888.

  This new volume dealing with the immigrant population “is one of the
  home study mission course, and is dedicated to ‘the Christian women of
  America, whose mission it is to help save our country by evangelizing
  the alien women and teaching them the ideals of the American home.’ It
  contains valuable information culled from various sources, intending
  to shew the intent of the immigration to America.” (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Plenty of good information about the immigrant in this volume.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 212. Ja. 24, ’07. 140w.

  “The tone of the volume is moderate and reasonable.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 912. D. 29, ’06. 140w.


=Grove, Sir George=, ed. Dictionary of music and musicians; new and
thoroughly rev. ed.; ed. by J. A. Fuller Maitland. **$5. Macmillan.

  =v. 3.= “The new volume 3, which begins with Maas and ends with Pyne,
  includes for the first time, the names of MacDowell, Mahler,
  Mancinelli, Mascagni, Milloeker, Napravnik, Paderewski, Paine, Parker,
  Pierne, and Puccini among the composers; while to the list of singers
  and conductors have been added the names of Mallinger, Malten, Maurel,
  Mottl, Nevada, Nikisch, Nordica.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

     + − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 419. Ap. 6. 1290w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “Fully sustains the reputation of its two predecessors for accuracy of
  historical statement, comprehensiveness of scope, and conservatism of
  criticism.”

   + + + =Dial.= 42: 256. Ap. 17, ’07. 600w. (Review of v. 3.)

     + + =Ind.= 63: 342. Ag. 8, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “It proves, like the previous two volumes, that the revision is an
  earnest one, seeking out the omissions and deficiencies of the
  original, and placing the new tasks in hands almost always the most
  capable to be found.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 133. Ap. 26, ’07. 2550w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “Altogether, the space has been expanded by over one-fifth, and the
  editor and his associates have almost invariably done their work well,
  thus making ‘Grove,’ more than ever, a necessity to every amateur and
  student.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 345. Ap. 11, ’07. 770w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “The revision has been thorough, perhaps not all points so thorough as
  might have been wished; but it has ... completeness in covering the
  vast field of musical history and literature, fullness of information,
  and interest of presentation.”

   + + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 239. Ap. 13, ’07. 790w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “A most excellent standard and really unique work.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 638. My. ’07. 110w. (Review of v. 3.)

   + + − =Spec.= 98: 760. My. 11, ’07. 1120w. (Review of v. 3.)


=Grundy, Mrs. Mabel Sarah Barnes.= Dimbie and I—and Amelia. †$1.50.
Baker.

                                                                 7–9552.

  Dimbie, the devoted and manly young husband, I, his wife, the
  chronicler of this one year of married life, Amelia the racy maid of
  all work, and other delightful characters are revealed in the course
  of this tender little story with its pathetic undercurrent of brave
  cheeriness and undying affection.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 135. My. ’07. ✠

  “A brave, bright story is ‘Dimbie and I,’ and one that is well worth
  the reading.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 181. Mr. 23, ’07. 470w.


=Gruyer, Paul.= Napoleon, king of Elba; tr. from the French. *$3.50.
Lippincott.

                                                                7–19481.

  “In the present work the search-light of history is turned full upon
  the little island and its great occupant. The smallest details of the
  Emperor’s life in his little kingdom are narrated and much new light
  is thrown upon his character. Interesting portraits are also given of
  the sharers of his exile: Madame Mère, Pauline his sister, the devoted
  Bertrand, Drouot and the old watch-dog Cambronne.”—Lit. D.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A pleasing volume, which will introduce British readers to an island
  with which few persons are acquainted, and to one of the less known
  episodes of the Emperor’s career. The rendering is at times faulty.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 616. N. 17. 160w.

  “Paul Gruyer is not the only writer who has chosen this theme. But
  nowhere before the appearance of the book under review had a complete
  picture of the surroundings and the central figure been presented with
  the necessary completeness. Now nothing remains to be known. As to the
  translator’s task, it has been fairly done, as far as turning the
  French into readable English. But in other respects the performance is
  one of which it is impossible to write with too great severity. The
  translator is totally ignorant of everything French, except to a
  certain extent the French language, and of the history of the period.”
  Adolphe Cohn.

   + + − =Bookm.= 24: 592. F. ’07. 1210w.

  “There is nothing maudlin about the volume (its author surely was
  among the millions who recently voted Pasteur the greatest Frenchman)
  and it deserves to be bought and read by every Napoleonic student.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 972. Ap. 25, ’07. 150w.

  “The narrative is of a vivid and striking character.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 105. Ja. 19, ’07. 150w.

  “The author sets out a good part, though not by any means all, that is
  shown in adequate fashion.”

     + − =Nation.= 83: 534. D. 20, ’06. 90w.

  “Brings together the wealth of information contained in scattered and
  forgotten sources, and presents it in an eminently readable form.”

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 95. Ja. 12, ’07. 300w.

  “Presents a comparatively unknown chapter of Napoleonic epic, and
  throws some important light on the character and ability of the most
  colossal individual of modern history.” George Louis Beer.

     + + =Putnam’s.= 1: 759. Mr. ’07. 710w.

  “The work of Paul Gruyer will live when the ‘Last voyages’ is
  forgotten.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 84. Ja. 19, ’07. 950w.


=Guenther, Conrad.= Darwinism and the problems of life: a study of
familiar animal life. *$3.50. Dutton.

                                                                6–17681.

  “A study of the theory of evolution, defending the doctrine of
  ‘natural selection,’ to the exclusion of all other explanations of
  individual and collective development in men and animals.... The bulk
  of the book treats in detail of the manner of development of the many
  species of living creatures, from the original protoplasm or
  unicellular being to the complex and mysterious physiology of man.”—N.
  Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Taken as a whole, that portion of Dr. Guenther’s book which deals
  strictly with biology can best be characterized as sadly behind the
  times.” Raymond Pearl.

       − =Dial.= 43: 208. O. 1, ’07. 850w.

  “Not only in the lucidity of its presentation and discussion, but in
  its arrangement of the materials also, it is adapted above all others
  as a book that may be taken up by those who possess very little idea
  of science, and whose ignorance leads them to hold very erroneous
  ideas of the present state and value of evolutionary doctrine. The
  point that merits much criticism, in the opinion of the reviewer, is
  the author’s attitude toward the work of De Vries and others, on
  mutation or saltation as the method of evolution.” Henry Edward
  Crampton.

     + − =J. Philos.= 4: 297. My. 23, ’07. 2260w.

  “It is in making a fetich of natural selection, and by its action
  alone explaining the whole problem of evolution, that the volume falls
  far short of being a well-balanced thesis.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 549. Je. 13, ’07. 450w.

  “This is a disappointing book. Many of the author’s conclusions on the
  main subject are sound enough. It is more to be regretted that his
  statements of fact are so often open to adverse criticism, and that he
  has been, on the whole, so badly served by his translator.” F. A. D.

     − + =Nature.= 74: 268. Jl. 19, ’06. 590w.

  “It is not written in too technical a manner. The presentation of the
  ideas is simple.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 269. Ap. 27, ’07. 850w.


=Gulick, Luther Halsey.= Efficient life. **$1.20. Doubleday.

                                                                7–11182.

  The avowed object of this little volume is to offer suggestions of a
  hygienic nature which will enable the reader to perform more
  efficiently the duties of life. It discusses among other things:
  States of mind and states of body, Exercise, Food, Waste, Fatigue,
  Sleep, The bath—for body and soul, Pain—the danger signal, and Growth
  in rest.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 122. My. ’07. S.

  “The experience of a practical man of affairs as well as physician
  recorded in the ‘Efficient life’ recommends the book to business men
  and women as a health hand-book which will relieve rather than add
  burdens to the pressure of life and which will make efficiency in work
  easier and work itself more efficient.”

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 158. Jl. ’07. 250w.

  “It is a notably sensible, frankly practical, and popularly attractive
  statement of some well-established principles of healthy mindedness.”

     + + =Dial.= 42: 258. Ap. 16, ’07. 320w.

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 547. Ap. 6, ’07. 260w.

  “Dr. Gulick has no hobbies and sees clearly that the things to be
  commended are those which the hearer may reasonably be expected to do
  and not over-refinements of bodily care and personal conduct
  impossible of general attainment.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 416. My. 2, ’07. 330w.

  “Dr. Gulick applies himself to telling us how to counteract the
  deteriorating effects of (town) life, and he has executed his task
  well.”

       + =Nature.= 76: 315. Ag. 1, ’07. 310w.

  “Reading and following Dr. Gulick’s suggestions in this book ought to
  help many people to raise the standard of their individual efficiency,
  for the advice given concerning the conduct and regulation of life is
  both sound and essential.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 125. Jl. ’07. 260w.


=Gull, Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger (Guy Thorne, pseud.).= The serf. *$1.
Fenno.

  The author has chosen the rough and wicked England of the twelfth
  century as the setting for his story of Hyla, the serf, whom he has
  made typical of serfdom, and within whose misshapen body burned the
  first spark of freedom which was to enkindle the world. The coarse
  times are well depicted from the lewd life of the barons in their
  castles to the hopeless routine of the serfs in their shacks. The
  personality of Hyla who rises from the herd about him and becomes a
  man and a murderer to avenge his daughters and his wrongs, is strongly
  brought out and the reader follows breathless until he has paid the
  awful price exacted from such as he.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “If the reader can bear the smell of the sewerage of the twelfth
  century, and the feel of the big eels slipping thru his toes as he
  reads, he will find in this book the most gorgeous descriptions of
  water scenes that have appeared in years. The whole meaning of the
  marches and fens of the twelfth century, their menace and their
  beauty, as distinct from the civilized waterways of modern times in
  England is well portrayed.”

     − + =Ind.= 63: 453. Ag. 22, ’07. 730w.

  “He frequently leaves the straight path of this narrative in order to
  preach a modern doctrine of brotherhood. Apart from its didactic
  quality the story has a good deal of force; Hyla the serf and his
  fortunes are worth following for their own sake.”

     − + =Nation.= 85: 235. S. 12, ’07. 380w.

  “It is an exciting and interesting tale and it presents a fairly
  truthful picture of English life in the early middle ages.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 500. Ag. 17, ’07. 140w.


=Gummere, Francis B.= Popular ballad. (Types of English literature ser.,
v. 1.) **$1.50. Houghton.

                                                                7–18086.

  “Prof. Gummere starts out with a severely critical consideration of
  just what must be meant by ‘popular’ as applied to ballads and rules
  out all but about 300 specimens of the genre. While he treats the
  ballad as a closed account, an outcome of conditions which no longer
  exist, he admits that there is nothing to prevent the daily production
  of ballads which in time may become as popular as any in this
  collection. But he restricts the present study to these remnants of
  oral tradition, divides them into half a dozen classes, studies their
  sources, and gives a critical estimate of their worth.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The last chapter on the worth of the ballad as poetry, is written
  ‘con amore,’ but with all that admirable scholarly restraint that
  marks all of Professor Gummere’s work.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 170. S. 16, ’07. 320w.

  “Notwithstanding the differences of opinion which we entertain
  regarding these matters of controversy, we gladly acknowledge the
  interest of Prof. Gummere’s work, and believe that it will be accepted
  as beginning auspiciously a series which promises great usefulness.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 122. Ag. 8. ’07. 1350w.

  “Prof. Gummere writes in an interesting style. He has a cleverness of
  statement and an ability to use aptly and vividly a very great fund of
  erudition that will make his book entertaining as well as instructive
  for the general reader, while the special student will find it a mine
  of information.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 433. Jl. 6, ’07. 280w.


=Gunsaulus, Frank W.= Higher ministries of recent English poetry.
**$1.25. Revell.

                                                                7–23730.

  “The four lectures deal with the distinctively Christian element in
  the writings of Arnold, Tennyson and Browning, the introductory essay
  treating of the preparatory influence of Shelley, Wordsworth and
  Coleridge.” (Ind.) Gunsaulus emphasizes the classical stoicism of
  Matthew Arnold, Tennyson’s portrayal of conscience and the inevitable
  results of sin, and the religious element in Browning.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Dr. Gunsaulus’s essays are scholarly and seriously suggestive, and
  give a broad view of the thought and of the influence of these three
  masters of the last century.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 1002. O. 24, ’07. 330w.

  “Yet while there is an appreciation of the genius of the poets about
  whom the author writes, there is also in every lecture a certain
  amount of bathos and sloppy extravagance.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 421. N. 7, ’07. 210w.

  “Dr. Gunsaulus does not add anything very new to a well-worn subject.
  And his own view of poetry seems a somewhat prosaic one.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 663. O. 19, ’07. 120w.

  “Perhaps the best specimen of Dr. Gunsaulus’s work is his analysis of
  Tennyson’s greatest poem. ‘The idylls of the king.’”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 133. S. 21, ’07.  260w.


=Gunsaulus, Frank Wakeley.= Paths to power; Central church sermons.
*$1.25. Revell.

                                                                5–33035.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

  “The strength of the book is its weakness. It is too wordy,
  imaginative, and passionate. Thought is not sufficiently clear and
  comprehensive to serve as a basis for enduring emotional power. The
  book is inspirational rather than informing, and its power might have
  been vastly increased by gripping the intellect more vigorously even
  at some sacrifice of rhetoric.” E. A. Hamley.

     + − =Bib. World.= 29: 471. Je. ’07. 190w.

  “In the present volume the Chicago pastor impresses one with a sense
  of asymmetry. He seems to give disproportionate attention to the
  ‘fall’ of Adam with its alleged consequences, and the fall of Chicago,
  with its palpable consequences, from the moral ideals of all good
  citizens.”

     − + =Outlook.= 85: 46. Ja. 5, ’07. 190w.


=Gunter, Archibald.= Mr. Barnes, American: a sequel to Mr. Barnes of New
York. †$1.50. Dodd.

                                                                 7–9841.

  “Highly dramatic scenes and characters are provided in this volume....
  The very ample _dramatis personae_ include Corsican bandits,
  supra-beautiful maidens, members of the aristocracy, ill-favored
  ruffians both imported and domestic, and ghosts. Very exciting events
  transpire and ... slaughter is plethoric.”—Lit. D.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Lit. D.= 34: 723. My. 4, 07. 200w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 243. Ap. 13, ’07. 340w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 381. Je. 15, ’07. 220w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 767. Je. ’07. 160w.


* =Gunter, Archibald C.= Prince Karl. †$1.25. ’07. Dillingham.

                                                                7–33913.

  An unsatisfactory novelization of a satisfactory play whose principal
  characters are “a despotic mother-in-law, an Anglomaniac dude, and a
  Bostonian girl fresh from Vassar. The hero, Prince Karl, is a sort of
  Jekyll and Hyde character, only in the novelization the character is
  accompanied by considerable buffoonery.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The plot is commonplace, and the dialogue has little wit. An unusual
  but characterless feature is the use of the historical present in the
  telling of the story.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 728. N. 16, ’07. 90w.

  “The novelization of the play ‘Prince Karl’ is distinctly
  unsatisfactory; it is crude, sketchy, and unreal; the faults that
  effective stage setting and clever acting would render oblivious in an
  acted drama become very salient in a narrative read in cold blood.
  There is no originality in either the plot or character portrayal.”

       − =Outlook.= 87: 744. N. 30, ’07. 110w.


=Guthrie, William B.= Socialism before the French revolution; a history.
**$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                7–22934.

  The first comprehensive attempt to meet the need of a record of the
  history of social reform from the time of More to the French
  revolution. The author emphasizes especially the fact that social
  theory is the outgrowth of social conditions and that social strivings
  and social ideals are by no means confined to the nineteenth or
  twentieth centuries. His captions are as follows: The beginning of
  social unrest of England, The social theories of Sir Thomas More, Life
  and times of Campanella, The socialism of Campanella, Eighteenth
  century radicalism in France; The social teachings of Morelly, and
  revolutionary radicals.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His references to modern socialism are not always happy. There are
  frequent statements that need the saving grace of qualification; while
  the tone of some of them is jaunty rather than judicial.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 1004. O. 24, ’07. 320w.

  “If Dr. Guthrie’s work is open to severe criticism it is perhaps
  because of its conception of the nature of socialism and his
  assumption that the utopias of the period under discussion are to be
  taken as socialism.” R. F. Hoxie.

     + − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 497. O. ’07. 540w.

  “He makes no effort to write an exhaustive history of early socialism,
  and the title of his book is therefore not accurately descriptive of
  its contents. All that he attempts to do, and we are grateful to him
  for doing this, is to recall to our minds those writings of the past
  which best illustrate the evolution of socialistic thinking.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 441. Jl. 13, ’07. 340w.

  “There are here no hasty generalizations, unwarranted inferences, and
  strainings of interpretation.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 539. N. 9, ’07. 290w.

       + =Spec.= 99: 369. S. 14, ’07. 390w.


=Guyer, Michael Frederic.= Animal micrology; practical exercises in
microscopical methods. *$1.75. Univ. of Chicago press.

                                                                 7–4839.

  “The topics discussed in this book are as follows: necessary
  apparatus; preparation of reagents; general statement of methods;
  killing, fixing, imbedding, sectioning, staining, and mounting; minute
  dissections; tooth, bone, and other hard objects; injection of blood
  and lymph vessels; in toto preparations; blood; bacteria;
  embryological methods with chick, etc.; and reconstruction from
  sections.”—School R.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Dial.= 42: 48. Ja. 16, ’07. 30w.

  “The crucial test of the value of the work must necessarily consist in
  the actual experiment of using it in class. We venture to think,
  however, that the volume will react to this test in a most successful
  manner.”

     + + =Nature.= 75: 582. Ap. 18, ’07. 440w.

  “As a textbook it could hardly be improved. The advanced student
  cannot help but wish that it might have been available when he began
  his work.”

       + =School R.= 15: 306. Ap. ’07. 420w.

  “Concise, eminently practical and well classified treatment. It will
  be found useful to a larger number of people than any other book of
  its kind at present in existence in English.” Irving Hardesty.

       + =Science=, n.s. 25: 339. Mr. 1, ’07. 1450w.


=Gwatkin, Henry Melville.= Knowledge of God and its historical
development. 2v. *$3.75. Scribner.

                                                                 7–2069.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

       − =Acad.= 72: 22. Ja. 5, ’07. 180w.

  “In both its apologetic and its historical task this work is
  conservative and follows in the beaten paths of the traditional
  methods. On the historical side Professor Gwatkin is more at home,
  though one cannot escape here the feeling of special pleading which
  does injustice to many facts and persons of history. Looseness of
  expression and of thought characterizes his apologetic work.” W. C.
  Keirstead.

     + − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 546. Jl. ’07. 1150w.

  “Is uncommonly readable and convincing, not only by reason of its
  abundant learning but by reason of its unfailing fairness and its
  habitual restraint. The argument is never overstated, and the
  difficulties are never undervalued.” George Hodges.

     + + =Atlan.= 99: 565. Ap. ’07. 60w.

  “The ordinary reader will often be somewhat bewildered by the mass of
  historical material brought into brief compass. Moreover, throughout
  the work, the author stops to answer so fully the supposed objections
  of those who differ from him that one is frequently more impressed by
  the wealth of possible opinion than by the author’s own position. His
  work will be full of suggestion to historical students; but because of
  its objective point of view, it is primarily a book of description,
  rather than one of interpretation.” Gerald Birney Smith.

     + − =Bib. World.= 30: 381. N. ’07. 510w.

  “The freshness and charm with which the lecturer has dealt with his
  subject should procure for them an abundant welcome in a much wider
  circle. Perhaps the most attractive feature of the book is the earnest
  and sustained effort which Professor Gwatkin makes to combine the best
  modern thought upon religion and the philosophy of religion with the
  substance of the old historical faith.” Robert A. Duff.

     + − =Hibbert J.= 5: 675. Ap. ’07. 2670w.


=Gwynn, Stephen Lucius.= Fair hills of Ireland; il. by Hugh Thomson. $2.
Macmillan.

                                                                7–35041.

  Mr. Gwynn states that his book is written in praise of Ireland. And it
  is such praise as one can give who has a full understanding of “its
  soil and its people, its mountains and plains, seas and rivers, cities
  and solitudes, its ways of life and thought, its history and its
  aspirations, its failures and possibilities, its joy and grief.” Of
  these he writes: “It is, in fact, obviously intended to play a part in
  promoting the ‘Irish revival.’” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He sings his song of love and war so charmingly, and with such
  sympathy and intuitive understanding, that it seems ungenerous to
  complain that his book is not what its title implies. Let us confess
  that we speedily forgot our sense of disappointment in the glamour of
  his pages.”

     + − =Acad.= 71: 630. D. 22, ’06. 850w.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 9. Ja. ’07. S.

  “Is intended to be suggestive and picturesque, and succeeds thoroughly
  in this aim. We commend it strongly to those who visit Ireland with
  leisure and in earnest, and are not satisfied with following beaten
  tracks and hearing stale jokes.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 685. D. 1. 1110w.

  “It is a book that will appeal to Irishmen in particular and to
  travellers and lovers of antiquity in general.”

       + =Canadian M.= 28: 399. F. ’07. 260w.

         =Dial.= 43: 20. Jl. 1, ’07. 310w.

  “How he has managed to pack, in a volume of a little over 400 pages,
  so many delightfully told legends and historic incidents, which give
  to every landscape a sort of moral personality, is Mr. Gwynn’s
  secret.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 1355. Je. 6, ’07. 320w.

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 105. Ja. 19, ’07. 230w.

  “There is, however, one drawback to the legends told by Mr. Gwynn. The
  orthography of the names of the heroes, and even of the heroines, is
  repulsive, and will always be an obstacle to the wide, acceptance of
  these historical, semi-historical, and mythical romances.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 159. F. 14, ’07. 570w.

  “The method of presentation is logical and interesting.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 72. F. 2, ’07. 630w.

  “Its author wanders too rapidly and disconnectedly from theme to
  theme, indulges overfreely in allusion, and demands too great a
  previous knowledge of Irish history, legendary as well as authentic.
  Nevertheless, the book will be found well worth the pains necessary to
  read it, and should meet an especial welcome from prospective
  travelers in Ireland.”

     + − =Outlook.= 85: 43. Ja. 5, ’07. 250w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 112. Ja. ’07. 60w.

  “We do not always accept Mr. Gwynn’s opinions, and we sometimes find
  ourselves wondering why he has said this or seems not to know that.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 102: 583. N. 10, ’06. 1240w.

  “We can imagine no more instructive and attractive guide to the holy
  places of Irish history. His style, while singularly free from
  mannerisms, is always full of light and colour and vivacity. He has
  humour too, and a high sense of dramatic contrast.”

     + + =Spec.= 97: 1082. D. 29, ’06. 1410w.




                                   H


=Hadley, Arthur Twining.= Baccalaureate addresses and other talks on
kindred themes. **$1. Scribner.

                                                                7–11555.

  Sixteen brief addresses in which President Hadley of Yale dwells “on
  the grand fundamentals of character and citizenship, of individual and
  social virtue, and, in the large wholesome sense, of piety and
  religion.” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The simple, straightforward style of these addresses is engaging.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 290. My. 1, ’07. 330w.

  “The tone of the book is wholesome and optimistic, but one must
  confess that it deals largely in platitudes.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 410. My. 2, ’07. 70w.

  “They disclose in a manner at once incidental and intimate, the spirit
  in which Dr. Hadley meets thousands of young men. It is because of
  their disclosure of this spirit and because of the extreme elevation
  and devotion of the spirit disclosed that the volume will receive a
  considerable and a cordial welcome.” Edward Cary.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 216. Ap. 6. ’07. 1280w.

  “Simplicity of style, singleness of aim, earnestness of purpose, an
  entire absence not only of cant but of professionalism in all its
  forms, but above all a certain virility of spirit, characterize these
  addresses.”

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 77. My. 11, ’07. 270w.

  Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.

       + =Putnam’s.= 3: 228. N. ’07. 470w.

       + =Yale R.= 16: 108. My. ’07. 140w.


=Hadley, Arthur Twining.= Standards of public morality; the Kennedy
lectures for 1906, in the school of philanthropy conducted by the
Charity organization society of the City of New York. **$1. Macmillan.

                                                                7–21398.

  Five essays entitled, The formation of public opinion, The ethics of
  trade, The methods of corporate management, The workings of our
  political machinery, The political duties of a citizen. In these
  chapters the author discusses present evils from the standpoint of the
  historian, the economist and the good citizen.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 165. O. ’07. S.

  “Excellent though the book is, a little more of the ‘scorn of scorn,’
  the ‘hate of hate,’ the love of all ideals of even impossible
  perfection, might have been expected—and twenty years ago would have
  been expected—in a New England college president’s treatment of the
  subjects discussed.”

     + − =Dial.= 43: 123. S. 1, ’07. 320w.

  “The book will bear reading and rereading both by officers and by
  private citizens.”

       + =Educ. R.= 34: 210. S. ’07. 60w.

       + =Ind.= 63: 1309. N. 28, ’07. 570w.

         =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 569. N. ’07. 100w.

  “The book is worth reading not once, but twice. This is a rich bill of
  fare spread exactly in the ripeness of appetite for the meal. May good
  digestion wait on appetite, and the community will be the better for
  it.” Edward A. Bradford.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 417. Je. 29, ’07. 1460w.

  Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.

       + =Putnam’s.= 3: 227. N. ’07. 270w.

         =R. of Rs.= 36: 384. S. ’07. 100w.

         =Yale R.= 16: 225. Ag. ’07. 160w.


=Hadow, Gerald Elliot, and Hadow, William Henry.= Oxford treasury of
English literature. 3v. ea. *90c. Oxford.

                                                                 7–6793.

  =v. 1.= Old English to Jacobean. This volume indicates the chief
  landmarks in prose and poetry (not dramatic) from Beowulf to the
  writers of the Jacobean age, with good introductions.

  =v. 2.= Growth of the drama. Under Tragedy, Comedy, and History, are
  given selections which range from the miracle plays to Ford’s Perkin
  Warbeck. General introductions and brief bibliographies are provided.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The introductions, despite the care and knowledge with which they are
  written, are inevitably insufficient and a little dictatorial: the
  selections, though chosen with fine judgment, are brief and not wholly
  representative.”

       − =Acad.= 71: 174. Ag. 25, ’06. 2040w. (Reviews of v. 1.)

  “The introductions to the various parts of the book are most valuable
  and scholarly, and contain a really noble and stimulating appreciation
  of Marlowe and of Webster.”

       + =Acad.= 72: 339. Ap. 6, ’07. 490w. (Review of v. 2.)

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 97. Ap. ’07. S. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Perhaps this section of drama was a difficult one to fill; but we the
  more regret the arrangement which made it necessary for the editors to
  fill it. Yet such criticisms do not prevent this being a good and, on
  the whole, representative manual.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 35. Jl. 13. 1410w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “The work is admirably done, and wholly worthy of the distinction of
  its Oxford imprint.”

       + =Dial.= 41: 286. N. 1, ’06. 120w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The book is characterized by the nicest scholarship.”

       + =Educ. R.= 33: 535. My. ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “The dominant feeling with which one puts down this book is one of
  pleasure and gratitude. There is everything to learn in it and
  everything to enjoy, and all the learning is only another kind of
  enjoying. Nothing could be better than the editorial introductions to
  the different sections. They are models of what such things should be;
  as true as if they were written by dulness itself; as striking as if
  they were made up of wilfulness.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 5: 301. S. 7, ’06. 5330w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The introduction to each extract gives just the information that will
  be needed by the ordinary reader, and the general introduction errs,
  if at all, only in its brevity.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 339. N. 8, ’07. 1370w. (Review of v. 2.)

         =Nation.= 84: 411. My. 2, ’07. 120w. (Review of v. 2.)

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 433. Jl. 6, ’07. 270w. (Review of v. 2.)


=Haeckel, Ernest Heinrich Philipp August.= Last words on evolution: tr.
from 2d ed. by Joseph McCabe. *$1. Eckler.

                                                                6–14562.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 214. Ja. ’07. 270w.

  “The presentation of the subject is marred by a controversial
  treatment of the work of Wasmann and by an unnecessarily harsh
  arraignment of Virchow on account his attitude toward evolutionary
  questions.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 228. Mr. 7, ’07. 150w.

  “That part of his work which deals with science shows him an
  investigator who will stand with the foremost of his century. He has
  the rare distinction of having contributed materially to the sum of
  human knowledge. But all his science has here become only the stair to
  his philosopher’s tower of ivory. To us this tower is a mere castle in
  Spain, and the last words on evolution are still unuttered.” Christian
  Gauss.

     + − =No. Am.= 186: 130. S. ’07. 1890w.


* =Haeselbarth, Adam C.= Patty of the palms: a story of Porto Rico.
$1.25. Kenny pub.

  A romance thru which are portrayed some of the conditions in Porto
  Rico since American occupation showing what degree of success has
  resulted from attempts at “benevolent assimilation.”


=Haggard, Andrew C. P.= Real Louis the fifteenth; with 34 full-page
portraits, including 2 photogravure plates. 2v. *$5. Appleton.

                                                                7–18151.

  “Colonel Haggard tells at considerable length the whole story of the
  reign.... He gives the whole history of the Seven years’ war, the life
  and adventures of Frederick the Great and of Prince Charles Edward,
  the history of Stanislas of Poland and of his court at Lunéville, with
  many other personal narratives not always quite correct in detail....
  He attempts to describe all the varying opinions, all the crimes of
  the Jesuits, the vagaries of the philosophers, the intrigues of
  unprincipled politicians, and to make us intimately familiar with
  Fleury, Choiseul, Voltaire, and the Encyclopedists, as well as with
  the succession of women who influenced ‘this hoggish king’ and through
  him, to a certain extent, ruled France and poisoned the air of
  Europe.”—Spec.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Will hardly rank as a serious contribution to the history of the
  eighteenth century in France.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 301. S. 15. 260w.

  “If the present volumes on the life of Louis XV. wore what one might
  call good gossip—‘good’ in the artistic sense, lively, pointed,
  significant, they would be thoroughly acceptable in spite of their
  slight historic value. Frankly they are little more than a dictionary
  of scandal, an encyclopedia of eighteenth century depravity, the
  results of a research offensive in its thoroughness.” M. B. M.

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 109. F. 23. ’07. 1500w.

  “The author has probably told his kind of story fairly well.”

     − + =Outlook.= 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 70w.

  “With all its faults in art and more serious faults in taste, the book
  makes a sufficiently striking impression.”

     − + =Spec.= 97: sup. 758. N. 17, ’06. 1290w.


* =Haggard, Henry Rider.= Margaret: a novel of the England of Henry VII.
†$1.50. Longmans.

                                                                7–32845.

  Set in the times of the Tudors, this tale is one of daring adventure
  by land and sea. “It involves the slaughter of a retainer of the
  Spanish ambassador in the opening scene, and the escape of an
  Anglo-Jewish merchant from the Spanish inquisition in the last. The
  fortunes of the Jew’s daughter—who has been abducted, by a nobleman in
  the train of De Ayala, the ambassador, and is pursued across the sea
  by her lover, brave Peter Brome, and his comrades—form the main thread
  of the story. Incidentally we meet with many well-fancied types of
  militant and ecclesiastical humanity, with effective portraits of
  monarchs and great men.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is a reminiscence of Kingsley in much of the story, but Mr.
  Haggard has no master in this brightly conceived and deftly executed
  drama of action.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 362. S. 28. 170w.

  “In incompetent hands, a plot for a dime novel and nothing more; but
  Mr. Haggard has the craft of a born stage manager ... and sends us
  away with the feeling that we have witnessed a big, spectacular show
  that was eminently worth while.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

       + =Bookm.= 26: 408. D. ’07. 360w.

  “It is all as vigorous, circumstantial, and imaginative as Mr. Haggard
  can make it; but the effect is often marred by the effort to combine
  simplicity of diction with a flavour of Tudor English.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 301. O. 4, ’07. 450w.

  “But notwithstanding all its many excellencies, Mr. Haggard’s work
  does not belong on the high levels of fictional art. There is none of
  that rich and satisfying quality which invests the pages of novelists
  who deal with the inner forces of character and temperament.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 743. N. 23, ’07. 1140w.

  “The merchant who is the principal figure in his drama does not
  convince us. When we come to the story itself all is excellent.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: 534. O. 12, ’07. 110w.


=Haggard, (Henry) Rider.= Spirit of Bambatse; a romance. †$1.50.
Longmans.

                                                                6–27709.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “We feel that Mr. Haggard’s formula is less satisfying than formerly,
  and yet a cool analysis tells us that this story has as many good
  points as the others.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: 504. Mr. 30, ’07. 260w.


=Haines, Alice Calhoun.= Luck of the Dudley Grahams: as related in
extracts from Elizabeth Graham’s diary. †$1.50. Holt.

                                                                7–32036.

  The story of a family of boys and girls who tried to share their
  mother’s burdens. On the day of selling a dump-cart patent the father
  had died suddenly without revealing the hiding place of the contract.
  The family struggles continue until one day the contract is found and
  the Graham luck turns.


=Haines, Henry Stevens.= Railway corporations as public servants.
**$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                7–30619.

  A work which to some extent is supplementary to the author’s previous
  discussion of “Restrictive railway legislation.” “The treatment of the
  subject is, however, more particularly directed to an amelioration of
  the existing relations between railway corporations and the public
  whom they serve.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Some of the statements in the book are more striking than true. This
  volume deals with a large number of topics in connection with railway
  management and the facilities afforded. While these are not handled in
  detail, they are presented in an attractive way that ought to
  stimulate the interest of the general reading public in the question
  of the efficiency of the American railway service under its present
  organization.” Ernest R. Dewsnup.

     + − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 555. N. ’07. 1470w.

  “One of the most timely of the fall books.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 640. N. ’07. 110w.


=Haines, Jennie Day=, comp. Christmasse tyde. **$2. Elder.

  A collection of seasonable quotations beautifully set to the best
  things in book accompaniment.


=Haines, Jennie Day=, comp. Ye gardeyne boke. **$3. Elder.

                                                                6–43790.

  “The text has been gathered and arranged ... from hundreds of sources,
  poetical and prosaic.... The various quotations are arranged under
  about forty heads, and Cardinal Newman offers the first answer to the
  question, ‘What is a garden?’... Then come such topics as ‘Mediaeval
  gardens,’ ‘Monastic gardens,’ ‘Old-fashioned gardens,’ and gardens
  identified with various nationalities—Dutch, German, Italian,
  Spanish—and so on, and even ‘The poet’s garden,’ and ‘Gardens of the
  sea’ are not neglected.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Garden-lovers need look no further for an appropriate gift.”

       + =Dial.= 41: 455. D. 16, ’06. 60w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 867. D. 15, ’06. 190w.

  “Tastefully decorated and beautifully printed.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 48. Ja. 5, ’07. 70w.


=Haldane, Elizabeth S.= Descartes: his life and times. *$4.50. Dutton.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Miss Haldane’s book seems to me well-proportioned and well-written.
  The most recent sources of information have been utilized, and the
  material arranged in clear and orderly fashion. The accounts of the
  philosophical standpoint and contents of the important works are
  clear, coherent, and well-suited to the general plan and purpose of
  the volume, which is intended quite as much for the general reader as
  for the special student of philosophy. The book is to be welcomed as a
  real and valuable addition to the literature of philosophy.” J. E. C.

   + + + =Philos. R.= 16: 94. Ja. ’07. 220w.


* =Hale, Albert Barlow.= South Americans. **$2.50. Bobbs.

                                                                7–36231.

  An illustrated story of the South American republics, their
  characteristics, progress and tendencies; with special reference to
  their commercial relations with the United States. Special attention
  has been given to the East Andean republics because within their
  boundaries must take place the great industrial advances of the
  century.


=Hale, Edward Everett.= Tarry at home travels. il. **$2.50. Macmillan.

                                                                6–35582.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Dr. Hale is rather too fond of applying the epithet ‘dear’ to every
  person of whom he speaks. We wish also that he had not adopted the
  slang term ‘Dago’ when speaking of an Italian.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 194. F. 16. 230w.

  “His reminiscences are poured out of a full heart, freely, familiarly,
  picturesquely.” Harriet Waters Preston.

       + =Atlan.= 99: 417. Mr. ’07. 860w.

  “Half mischievous, half militant, he goes wherever his mood takes him,
  finding only what is good in men, and gently prodding this good to
  make it better.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 159. Jl. 18, ’07. 520w.

  “The purpose and execution of the work are infused throughout with
  high ideals and generous patriotism.”

     + + =Outlook.= 84: 534. O. 27, ’06. 110w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 108. Ja. ’07. 70w.


=Hale, Will T.= True stories of Jamestown and its environs. $1. Pub.
house M. E. ch., So.

                                                                7–19587.

  “A little volume whose spirit perpetuates the “human” interest in the
  past life of this deserted village.”


=Hall, Bolton.= Three acres and liberty; assisted by Robert F. Powell;
with an introd. by George T. Powell. $1.75. Macmillan.

                                                                7–10568.

  A handbook of tested theory regarding land and its possibilities. And
  Mr. Hall is not satisfied with the mediocre results of a three-acre
  plot but shows what can be accomplished at the high tide of productive
  capacity. He shows where the right three-acres may be found, what kind
  of land must be had, what it will cost, and what must be done with it.
  The author “has not attempted so much to deal with the technique of
  agriculture or to give instruction in its requirements, as to awaken
  active and earnest thought upon the social betterment of our rapidly
  increasing population.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This is, we think, one of the most important volumes of the year.”

     + + =Arena.= 38: 211. Ag. ’07. 1260w.

  “The author is not always sufficiently specific in regard to regions
  adapted to special products, probably assuming that those who are
  interested in the subject will investigate further.”

     + − =Dial.= 43: 67. Ag. 1, ’07. 430w.

  “The book should be highly interesting to amateur farmers and to
  social workers.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 593. Ap. 13, ’07. 340w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 360w.

         =Outlook.= 85: 904. Ap. 20, ’07. 120w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 639. Mr. ’07. 140w.


=Hall, Rev. Charles Cuthbert.= Christ and the human race; or, The
attitude of Jesus Christ toward foreign races and religions; being the
William Belden Noble lectures for 1906. **$1.25. Houghton.

                                                                6–42357.

  “In these lectures ... Dr. Hall ... is concerned with the proper
  attitude of a Christian man toward the non-Christian religions....
  To-day, he affirms, ‘the East denounces Western Christendom, yet in
  spirit approaches nearer and nearer to the worship of Christ.’ ... In
  conclusion, Dr. Hall gives the standpoints now to be taken by the
  Christian educator, physician, and minister in the East.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Reviewed by A. K. Parker.

     + − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 363. Ap. ’07. 810w.

  “He approaches the East with a courtesy equal to that for which the
  East is eminent. He is a student as well as a teacher, and expects to
  receive as well as give.” George Hodges.

       + =Atlan.= 99: 562. Ap. ’07. 380w.

         =Ind.= 62: 390. F. 14, ’07. 40w.

         =Nation.= 84: 105. Ja. 31, ’07. 70w.

         =Outlook.= 85: 237. Ja. 26, ’07. 370w.


=Hall, Charles Cuthbert.= Christian belief interpreted by Christian
experience. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.

                                                                5–25392.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

  “His irenic tone, and tactful, almost adroit, presentation of the
  points of difference between Christianity and Hinduism, are certainly
  admirable.” Andrew C. Zenos.

       + =Bib. World.= 29: 397. My. ’07. 790w.


=Hall, Edward Henry.= Paul, the apostle, as viewed by a layman. **$1.50.
Little.

                                                                6–19782.

  A sympathetic estimate done in the historical spirit of “a great,
  though very human actor in an important crisis in the world’s
  spiritual life. Critical scholarship since Baur has been laid under
  tribute, and me opinions of such students as Pfleiderer, Hausrath,
  Wernle, and Weizsacher have been diligently compared and carefully
  estimated.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Gives his view of the apostle’s religious character and theological
  doctrines, in an interesting and instructive way.”

       + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 530. Jl. ’07. 170w.

  “A rapid and suggestive survey.”

       + =Bib. World.= 29: 79. Ja. ’07. 20w.

  “A just and sympathetic appreciation. The author’s limitation would
  appear to be lack of grasp of the importance of the service which Paul
  rendered to early Christianity.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 33. Ja. 10, ’07. 250w.


=Hall, Eliza Calvert.= Aunt Jane of Kentucky; il. by Beulah Strong.
†$1.50. Little.

                                                                7–12978.

  As Aunt Jane cuts squares for patchwork out of “caliker that won’t
  fade in the first washin’ and wear out in the second,” and fashions
  them into her wild-goose pattern quilt she grows reminiscent and with
  pristine verve and histrionism recounts delicious tales of long ago:
  how Sally Ann delivered her message of denunciation to the men of
  Goshen church for demanding that their wives be the submittin’ kind,
  and how the women of the Mite society bought a new organ for the
  church in spite of the husbands who thought it a frivolous proceeding.
  Unruly human nature, bits of scandal and gossip are all softened by
  time, and as Aunt Jane recalls them she touches them up with her
  quaint philosophy and delightful sentiment.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 177. O. ’07. ✠

  “The musings of Aunt Jane’s anonymous listener are somewhat
  startlingly in contrast to the prevailing rusticity and simplicity of
  the anecdotes. Even a note of great beauty may produce discord; and
  discord, as the portrayers of New England life have so well realized,
  is even less desirable than monotony. With this possible exception,
  the book is one of the most creditable of its kind, and Aunt Jane’s
  sympathetic optimism should win her many friends.”

   + + − =Cath. World.= 85: 688. Ag. ’07. 290w.

  “The author who listens to Aunt Jane, and who records the stories, has
  added much to their beauty by her sympathy of expression.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 1212. My. 23, ’07. 180w.

  “The flavor of the book lies in the point of view of the old woman, in
  the wise things she says, and the homely way she says them.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 188. Mr. 30, ’07. 860w.

  “In this little volume Eliza Calvert Hall has achieved the
  unusual—except in the matter of the title.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 381. Je. 15, ’07. 250w.

  “Her stories of Aunt Jane’s experiences are full of real human
  feeling, and awaken thoroughly wholesome emotion.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 117. My. 18, ’07. 150w.

  “A little more humour as pungent and appealing as that in the opening
  sketch, ‘Sally Ann’s experiences,’ and ‘Mrs. Wiggs,’ would have had a
  rustic rival.”

       + =Putnam’s.= 2: 749. S. ’07. 110w.


=Hall, Florence Howe.= Social usages at Washington. **$1. Harper.

                                                                6–41786.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 42. F. ’07.

  Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 866. D. 15, ’06. 310w.

       + =Outlook.= 85: 144. Ja. 19, ’07. 60w.


=Hall, Gertrude.= Wagnerian romances. **$1.50. Lane.

  A volume of essays in which the author takes the poems too often
  submerged in the Wagner music and reveals the intrinsic value of the
  myth, poetry and romance in them. Beginning with “Parsifal” and ending
  with “The flying Dutchman,” she includes ten of the Wagnerian
  romances.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There can be no doubt that her conscientious transcript will be
  welcomed by many opera-goers.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 404. O. 31, ’07. 240w.

  “While the author’s method in this book is excellent, and she is able
  to preserve the intense spirit and mystic atmosphere of the great
  romances, her English occasionally suffers from too literal a
  rendering of the German. With that unimportant reservation, one can
  thoroughly enjoy her conscientious and sympathetic work.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 87: 499. N. 2, ’07. 190w.


=Hall, Granville Stanley.= Youth: its education, regimen and hygiene.
**$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                7–30473.

  An abridgment of “Adolescence” which offers in briefer form and at
  less cost the far-reaching pedagogical principles and conclusions of
  the original volume. There have been added a chapter on moral and
  religious training and a glossary of seven pages, the latter being
  useful as well to the larger work.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book has been more carefully proofed and the bibliographic
  references made more complete than in ‘Adolescence.’ Good judgment has
  characterized the selection and condensation, and normal schools and
  teacher’s classes, outside of the preferred geographic zone, are
  certain to find it a useful book, if they can get hold of it.” Will S.
  Monroe.

     + + =J. Philos.= 4: 218. Ap. 11. ’07. 130w.

  “There will be great advantage in the existence of this handbook to
  ‘Adolescence,’ tho it might be regretted that the terminology and
  philosophical allusions have not been adapted to the understanding of
  the layman.”

   + + − =Lit. D.= 35: 695. N. 9, ’07. 120w.

  “The anxious parent or teacher, seeking for the light upon his
  problems of how best to deal with either child or youth, no matter
  what his troubles are, will be able to find help of some sort in these
  pages, crammed full as they are, with the wisdom of the scientist, the
  observer, the lover of his kind.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 581. S. 28, ’07. 960w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 30w.


=Hall, H. R.= Days before history. 50c. Crowell.

                                                                7–21361.

  A book for children which in story form tells of uncouth men who lived
  in caves and on floating islands in the days before history.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Ath.= 1906, 2: 732. D. 8. 100w.

  “We congratulate the author on a singularly attractive little book,
  the very thing for imaginative boys.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 537. My. 4. 60w.

  “The writer has a good subject, although his handling of it is not of
  the best.”

     + − =R. of Rs.= 36: 764. D. ’07. 90w.


=Hall, Prescott F.= Immigration and its effects upon the United States.
**$1.50. Holt.

                                                                 6–6769.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “I cannot find that Mr. Hall has inaccurately or carelessly stated or
  omitted any of the essential facts, though he has not failed to
  indicate the conclusions he draws from them. Only a few minor errors
  can be noted, and they proceed from the mistakes of others upon
  nonessential points, or from the imperfections of government
  statistics, whose weaknesses Mr. Hall points out. Altogether the book
  stands out as the most important contribution that has been made to
  the study of this most important American problem.” John R. Commons.

   + + − =Charities.= 17: 504. D. 15, ’08. 400w.

  “The treatise is detailed and exhaustive in summing up the experience
  of the United States in solving its hydra-headed immigration problem.”

     + + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 125. F. ’07. 130w.

  “A book quite indispensable to serious students of the problem of
  immigration.” Montgomery Schuyler.

     + + =Putnam’s.= 3: 231. N. ’07. 400w.

     + − =Spec.= 97: 540. O. 13, ’06. 250w.


=Hallock, William, and Wade, Herbert T.= Outlines of the evolution of
weights and measures, and the metric system. *$2.25. Macmillan.

                                                                6–36443.

  “The book contains a clear and well-written account (largely taken
  from M. Bigourdan’s ‘Le système metrique’) of the foundations of the
  metric system by the French, who were its real inventors, and of its
  gradual spread since 1872 over nearly the whole of Europe and America
  with the single exception of these islands.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The archaeological part, touching, among other things, on the
  Babylonian cubit and the Egyptian measures, we cannot commend, for
  there is no evidence that the authors have any first hand knowledge of
  the subject, and neither Professor Hommel nor the Rev. W.
  Shaw-Caldecott, whom they quote, is so great an authority upon it as
  the authors evidently imagine.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 775. D. 15. 210w.

  “The work is an argument for the metric system, but it is not
  partisan. It is excellently handled and should have general attention;
  it should certainly be read by every senator and representative at
  Washington.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 504. F. 28, ’07. 360w.

  “This is an admirable piece of work, in which the result of much
  tedious research is presented in a bright and lucid narrative.”

     + + =Nature.= 75: 290. Ja. 24, ’07. 1740w.

  “A noteworthy piece of special pleading.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 83: 768. Jl. 28, ’06. 190w.

  “A complete and exhaustive discussion—for the general reader, at
  least—of the whole subject.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 100w.

  “This book can well be declared the most complete and most authentic
  work extant on this important subject.” J. H. Gore.

   + + + =Science=, n.s. 24: 652. N. 23, ’06. 390w.


=Halsham, John.= Lonewood Corner: a countryman’s horizon. *$1.50.
Dutton.

  Leisure, an unknown luxury to commercial America, fills this volume.
  “The author has ample time in which to read Theocritus—not in
  translation—in the beech tree shade on summer mornings, to sit on a
  log for long June afternoons and look at the landscape ... to perch on
  the meadow gate by the hour and watch the mowers and the mowing
  machine ... to wander far and aimlessly across fields and through
  woods—and afterward to write exquisite water-colors in words
  describing all he has seen and thought and felt, and delicate little
  bas-reliefs of the people with whom he has met and talked.” (N. Y.
  Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We heartily commend it to all lovers of the contemplative life. The
  style is admirable—rich without being ornate.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 784. Je. 29. 970w.

  “There is much good browsing in the unpretentious pages of this
  modestly learned and pleasantly chatty writer.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 170. S. 16, ’07. 370w.

  “It is on the whole better reading than ‘Idlehurst,’ written with more
  gusto and less pedantry. His pessimism does not dismay us, but rather
  amuses us as a mood which we like to share in holiday hours.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 180. Je. 7, ’07. 1460w.

  “Arrives at a certain charm from its impregnation with the quality—so
  grateful to some palates—of being unutterably, deeply English.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 211. S. 5, ’07. 420w.

  “It is the sort of book that demands of the reader a sympathetic
  mental temperament and given that, the sort of book in which such a
  reader can find a companion and intimate and an unfailing source of
  pleasure and content. But to those who have not that temperament its
  pages will be even as the Greek sentence which forms its motto.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 534. S. 7, ’07. 410w.

  “We have read his book twice from end to end and we do not feel we
  have wasted time. Could critic say more?”

     + + =Sat. R.= 104: 515. O. 26, ’07. 1500w.

  “‘Idlehurst’ quickly became a classic; ‘Lonewood Corner,’ its sequel,
  or second volume, will stand beside it, we fancy, on most shelves
  where the earlier book has established its footing. If not on all, it
  is because of a slight suggestion of what is not exactly bitterness,
  but is rather like it—an added hint of aloofness—that may not be
  agreeable to the palate of all.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: 164. Ag. 3, ’07. 1890w.


=Hamilton, Angus.= Afghanistan. *$5. Scribner.

                                                                6–41815.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 43. F. ’07.

  “The work required two years to be spent in its preparation and the
  result is most satisfactory, as the book contains much information
  under historical, geographical, ethnographical, commercial and
  political groupings.” Laura Bell.

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 610. N. ’07. 220w.

  “It should take a high place as a book of reference. It should be
  prized not only as that, but for its clear presentation of an
  inadequately understood subject.” George R. Bishop.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 108. F. 23, ’07. 3590w.


=Hamilton, Anthony Count.= Memoirs of Count de Gramont; ed. by Allan
Fea. *$5. Scribner.

  A handsomely illustrated edition of the memoirs of Count de Gramont,
  “a soldier of fortune, and a boldly unscrupulous gamester and wit in
  the reign of Louis XIII, and Louis XIV.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Fea also supplies copious footnotes—almost too copious. The
  half-tones are not always distinct, partly because many of the
  originals are dimmed with age.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 32. Ja. 10, ’07. 330w.

  “The volume would be desirable if only for the sake of these
  illustrations, but these represent only a small part of the editor’s
  work.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 58. F. 2, ’07. 750w.

       + =Sat. R.= 102: 682. D. 1, ’06. 90w.


* =Hamilton, Cosmo.= Adam’s clay. †$1.50. Brentano’s.

  A diatribe against the thoughtless, heartless, irreverent “woman of
  the world.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In spite of clever delineation of character, plenty of humour, and
  considerable skill in skating over thin ice, we cannot say that this
  novel has left a pleasant impression on us.”

     − + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 193. F. 16. 100w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 10w.


=Hamilton, Sir Ian Standish Monteith.= Staff officer’s scrapbook during
the Russo-Japanese war. 2v. ea. *$4.50. Longmans.

                                                                 6–1100.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Powers of Keen observation and the facile pen of a cultured citizen
  of the world are noticeable on every page, and perhaps the greatest
  charm of the writer lies in the fact that, while the professional
  reader cannot fail to profit by his expert criticisms, the layman
  finds himself led on from episode to episode with ever-increasing
  interest, it is hardly an exaggeration to say that, full though it be
  of brilliant and expert professional knowledge and criticism, no work
  of more enthralling interest could well be placed before a reader.”

     + + =Acad.= 72: 212. Mr. 2, 07. 1240w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “It is even better than its forerunner.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 224. F. 23. 530w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “A vivid and trustworthy account. General Hamilton’s pictures of the
  atrocious sides of war are among the most striking features of his
  admirable book.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 723. My. 4, ’07. 490w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “The peculiar charm of this second instalment ... lies in the extreme
  humility and taking simplicity of language in which he narrates the
  stirring scenes of which he was a witness. Most fascinating military
  work.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 60. F. 22, ’07. 1110w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “This really brilliant book deserves a wide public.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 290. Ap. 25, ’07. 380w. (Review of v. 2.)

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 124. Mr. 2, ’07. 120w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “Gen. Hamilton has a style that draws the reader irresistibly along
  with him. His comments from the standpoint of a highly competent
  military authority, greatly enhance the value of his volumes.” George
  R. Bishop.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 487. Ag. 10, ’07. 1120w.

  “This volume is more reticent, is fuller of really useful information,
  and is altogether more valuable.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 103: 271. Mr. 2, ’07. 1220w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “Undoubtedly a work of first-rate importance.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 499. Mr. 30, ’07. 2180w. (Review of v. 2.)


=Hamilton, Joseph.= Spirit world. **$1.50. Revell.

                                                                6–36932.

  The author “thinks that we have not only proof of the existence of a
  supernatural world, but also knowledge of its inhabitants and
  governing laws. He bases his views almost entirely upon the accounts
  given in the Bible of angelic visitations, miraculous events, etc. It
  is astonishing what an elaborate structure he rears on their
  foundations. The supernatural world he conceives on the analogy of the
  natural.... The angelic beings ... have bodies like the human, only
  more ethereal; senses like the human, only more refined; and are
  nourished, not by food taken in the mouth, but by elements absorbed
  from the atmosphere. Fancies like these are multiplied, and curious
  speculations abound.”—Am. J. Theol.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “One is bound to respect the reverence with which he approaches his
  subject, and the frank and earnest manner in which he avows his
  beliefs.” Henry W. Wright.

     − + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 361. Ap. ’07. 340w.

  “Only the need of protesting against it entitles such books to serious
  notice.”

       − =Outlook.= 84: 633. N. 10, ’06. 160w.


=Hamilton, M.= First claim. †$1.50. Doubleday.

                                                                 7–5067.

  “This is the story of a woman who, having made in extreme youth an
  uncongenial marriage, is tempted beyond withstanding to skip blithely
  away with a young subaltern, Charley Osborne, less from love of him
  than from aversion to her husband.” (Nation.) “It may be a very just
  punishment for a woman who elopes with another man, leaving a little
  child behind her, to find that this child is treated with a strictness
  amounting to cruelty by the woman whom her husband marries after the
  inevitable divorce. There is, however, no reason why the innocent
  reader’s feelings should be wrung by such a recital.” (Spec.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is not great creative work, but it is remarkably good of its kind;
  it is the work of a novelist with an eye for character, a spontaneous
  sense of humour, and a standard of truth to which every line of the
  story is adjusted.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 5: 360. O. 26, ’06. 450w.

  “The ending in a ghastly triumph of falsehood makes an unsatisfying
  conclusion to a story of struggle not without genuine power.”

     − + =Nation.= 84: 292. Mr. 28, ’07. 230w.

  “There is no denying that ‘The first claim’ is interesting; but it is
  an unpleasant tale.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 242. Ap. 13, ’07. 190w.

  “The plot which Miss Hamilton has chosen for her book is carried out
  with great cleverness and detail; but we feel bound to say that the
  story is one which very few people will be able to take any pleasure
  in reading.”

     − + =Spec.= 97: 990. D. 15, ’06. 140w.


=Hamilton, Samuel.= Recitation. **$1.25. Lippincott.

                                                                6–15713.

  “The first part of the book treats of the purpose and essentials of
  the recitation and the art of study; the second part, of the five
  formal steps of general method; and the third and last part, of the
  more specific problems of individual method, the use of text-books,
  oral and written work, English, etc., in the recitation.”—J. Philos.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A sensible and practical book.”

       + =Ind.= 61: 262. Ag. 2, ’06. 90w.

  “Made accessible by marginal topics and synoptical summaries and
  outlines.” W. F. Dearborn.

       + =J. Philos.= 4: 217. Ap. 11, ’07. 420w.

  “The presentation is clear and orderly; the subdivision of topics is
  minute.” J. H. T.

       + =School R.= 15: 239. Mr. ’07. 200w.


=Hammond, Harold.= Further fortunes of Pinkey Perkins. †$1.50. Century.

                                                                6–30932.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Boy readers can scarcely help being absorbed in his doings.”

       + =Bookm.= 24: 529. Ja. ’07. 60w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 34: 767. D. ’06. 40w.


=Hamp, Sidford F.= Boys of Crawford’s Basin: the story of a mountain
ranch in the early days of Colorado. †$1.50. Wilde.

                                                                7–26966.

  Experiences in ranching, prospecting, and working as a miner in the
  early seventies has afforded the author a first-hand intimacy with
  facts and scenes which he records here. He shows how two sturdy young
  men, prone to honesty and not afraid to work, do their share in
  advancing the prosperity of the state in its infancy.


=Hamp, Sidford Frederick.= Dale and Fraser, sheepmen. †$1.50. Wilde.

                                                                6–30460.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 82. Mr. ’07.


=Hampson, W.= Paradoxes of nature and science. $1.50. Dutton.

                                                                W 7–163.

  “In this, which may be perhaps regarded as the true type of ‘popular’
  science book, Mr. Hampson explains, in language clear to the ordinary
  man the principle of the boomerang, of the gyroscope, of bird flight,
  of double vision, and of much else.... ‘Curiosities of freezing and
  melting,’ and his discourse on ‘Liquid air,’ on which, as a subject he
  has made his own, he is particularly lucid and informing.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “On one page we find him laying down that electricity is ‘a form of
  energy.’ This idea, which was popular in the seventies, may be said to
  have received its quietus at the hands of Prof. Silvanus Thompson.
  Except for this we have nothing but praise for Mr. Hampson’s book,
  which is excellent reading, and written with a sense of humour as
  unexpected as it is pleasant.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 776. D. 15. 320w.

  “His explanations are appeals to prejudices as unscientific as those
  which gave rise to the appearance of the paradox. Even when his
  arguments are sound they must convey to a reader a wholly untrue idea
  of scientific method. But they are not always sound.”

       − =Nature.= 75: 341. F. 7, ’07. 160w.

  “His book is an extremely readable one, and in the article on the
  navigation of the air it supplies many useful and timely hints.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 462. Jl. 27, ’07. 1040w.


Handasyde. For the week-end. †$1.50. Lane.

  “The week-end here is the country house gathering of an exalted social
  circle, animated, it would appear, by the purpose of philandering with
  each other’s wives and husbands, while prudently keeping on the safe
  side of the divorce court—a half-hearted method of procedure which has
  perhaps suggested the author’s curious pseudonym.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This book is slight, but what there is of it is true, direct, and
  simple.”

       + =Acad.= 72: 539. Je. 1, ’07. 290w.

  “The style, though marred by grammatical lapses, shows considerable
  facility both in dialogue and description.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 660. Je. 1. 110w.

  “The character drawing is excellent, the atmosphere is well preserved,
  and the details in excellent taste.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 636. O. 19, ’07. 70w.

  “The writer seems to be a rather inefficient disciple of Mr. E. F.
  Benson.”

       − =Sat. R.= 103: 787. Je. 22, ’07. 110w.


=Haney, William H.= Mountain people of Kentucky. $1.50. W: H: Haney, P.
O. box 431, Lexington, Ky.

                                                                6–26563.

  A book whose purpose is to show the existing conditions in the
  mountains of Kentucky and the attitude of the people of this region
  toward the improvement of the conditions affecting life and character.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The style is not always clear and one at times is not quite sure just
  how much of a given statement is one of fact and how much is what a
  young and optimistic teacher hopes to see realized. On the whole,
  however, the author has shown up the modern, progressive side of the
  mountain people in a very creditable manner.” Samuel MacClintock.

     + − =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 273. S. ’07. 920w.

  “The work is rather crudely arranged and written.”

     + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 637. My. ’07. 130w.

  “Most interesting sketch.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 638. N. ’07. 100w.


=Hankin, St. John.= Three plays with happy endings. French, S:

  The three plays are “The prodigal’s return,” “The charity that began
  at home” and “The Cassilis engagement.” “They have no plots, present
  no conflicts of character, and are practically destitute of dramatic
  action.... Familiar as most of the personages are in the world of the
  footlights—the rich and vulgar parvenu, the complacent parson, the
  self-excusing wastrel, the East Indian military bore, the quack, the
  music hall siren, her mother, and their rich young dupe—they are
  sketched with such happy dexterity and vivacity that they assume a
  certain semblance of freshness and reality.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Since realism has come to mean something violent, something even
  indecent, let us call Mr. Hankin a naturalist who is doing for the
  English stage what Constable did for European landscape. He contrives
  beauty and interest, decoration even, by keeping the tones and values
  of drama in their true relation to life. He is a fairy godmother who
  has saved the rather vulgar coach from being run over by the motor-car
  of realism.”

       + =Acad.= 73: 941. S. 28, ’07. 1280w.

  “He has a fine, fastidious, deft talent, as any one who reads the
  three plays in his present volume (and skips the preface) will agree.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 278. S. 13, ’07. 1070w.

  “As a dramatist Mr. Hankin has a good deal to learn, but there ought
  to be a future for a man who can see the humorous side of things so
  clearly.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 288. S. 26, ’07. 400w.


=Hannis, Margaret.= Emancipation of Miss Susana. **40c. Funk.

                                                                7–24766.

  The story of Susana Adams who relieves the monotony of her spinster
  life by going to New York and entering upon a fictitious matrimonial
  venture which finally leads to a real one.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 683. O. 26, ’07. 100w.


=Hanotaux, Gabriel.= Contemporary France; tr. by John C. Tarver. 4v. ea.
*$3.75. Putnam.

  =v. 3.= France from 1874–1877 occupies this volume. It includes the
  latter days of the National assembly with its work on the
  constitution, the first year’s sittings of the Chamber and the Senate,
  and closes with Marshal MacMahon’s opposition to Gambetta and the Left
  majority, announced in his letter to M. Jules Simon of May 15th, 1877.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The translation appears to be fairly executed, but we regret to find
  that the serious blunders in the French original pointed out in our
  review are not corrected, even in cases where they concern English
  facts and names.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 758. Je. 22. 590w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “M. Hanotaux’s third volume is in no way inferior in interest to the
  first and second. The English translator, who has to attempt no easy
  task in rendering M. Hanotaux’s picturesque periods and somewhat
  violent metaphors, improves by practice. But he might do better still
  if he took more pains.” P. F. Willert.

   + + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 817. O. ’07. 1100w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “It is indeed a historian’s history of the Third French republic.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 35: 489.  O. 5, ’07. 710w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “While M. Hanotaux leaves the impress of a painstaking scholar, while
  he records a statesmanlike judgment on wellnigh every page, he also
  leaves a deeper impress—that of a psychologist and of a philosopher.”

     + + =Outlook.= 87: 355. O. 19, ’07. 450w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “When he philosophises, as he does in chapter v. at length, he is far
  from convincing, and the tale of later years has not unfortunately
  revealed to us those qualities of ‘abnegation, conciliation, and
  persevering optimism’ for which he hopes.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 104: 276. Ag. 31, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “It will not be surprising if the general public find the present
  volume rather less readable than its forerunners.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 484. O. 5, ’07. 1700w. (Review of v. 3.)


=Hapgood, Hutchins.= Spirit of labor. **$1.50. Duffield.

                                                                 7–8549.

  The author of “The autobiography of a thief” offers in this volume a
  first hand study of the life of a Chicago labor leader and trade
  unionist. After a long search Mr. Hapgood found a German who, both as
  a type and a person, combined the desired temperament, character and
  experience for his impressionistic study. Born in Germany, Anton came
  to America as a child, shifted much of the time for himself, lived
  thru the various stages of tramp life, rural, sordid conditions,
  worked off and on at odd jobs, finally married and settled down in
  Chicago as a wood-worker. His quick intelligence discovered the
  injustice of organised society on every hand and led him to the basic
  principles of radicalism with which the book deals.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 165. O. ’07. S.

  “It is extremely well done, and particularly admirable is the
  adroitness with which Mr. Hapgood has extracted from the ‘inexpressive
  ego’ of semi-illiterate labour such salient facts as are here
  assembled. The trouble with ‘The spirit of labour’ regarded
  thoughtfully is, that it has in it very little of the spirit and less
  of labour.” Florence Wilkinson.

     + − =Bookm.= 25: 294. My. ’07. 530w.

  “A faithful and photographic picture of aspects of the urban
  activity.” Charles Richmond Henderson.

       + =Dial.= 42: 287. My. 1, ’07. 480w.

  “Tho the book deserves the severest censure for its false coloring,
  its fatuous confusion of the anomalous with the typical, and its
  obliviousness of many of the distinctive characteristics of the
  movement, there are other respects in which it deserves cordial
  praise.”

     − + =Ind.= 63: 340. Ag. 8, ’07. 600w.

  “For those who would see the industrial world as the workingman sees
  it, the book is invaluable.”

     + + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 572. N. ’07. 170w.

  “Throws much fresh light upon that radical political movement loosely
  denominated socialism.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 509. Mr. 30, ’07. 330w.

  “It is all extremely interesting, valuable as a human document, and
  still more valuable as a contribution to the study of laboring men and
  their conditions. But it will not do to call the man a type.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 173. Mr. 23, ’07. 680w.

  Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.

       + =Putnam’s.= 3: 232. N. ’07. 530w.

  “A highly informative volume, containing, no doubt, large quantities
  of substantial, solid truth.”

     + − =R. of Rs.= 35: 761. Je. ’07. 200w.


=Hapgood, Isabel Florence.= Service book of the Holy orthodox-Catholic
apostolic (Greco-Russian) church; comp., tr., and arranged from the old
church-Slavonic service books of the Russian church and collated with
the service books of the Greek church. $4. Houghton.

                                                                  7–526.

  “This volume contains the order of services as prescribed for vespers,
  compline, matins, the communion, the great feasts, ordination,
  marriage, unction, ‘the office at the parting of the soul from the
  body,’ the burial of the dead, requiem offices, services for the
  founding and consecration of churches, thanksgivings and various
  special prayers. For the Scripture lessons, as translated into
  English, the King James’s version is used, and for the ‘Psalms and
  verses’ the prayer-book version of the Psalter.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Reverence can call forth such labors of devotion as this
  compilation.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 141. Mr. 9, ’07. 310w.

  “This laudable volume should be of value, not only to American
  ecclesiastics and their congregations, but also to students of
  liturgies and to sojourners in the various lands where the Eastern
  church exists, and to all who would become better acquainted with its
  undeniable majesty, impressiveness, and exquisite symbolism of
  ritual.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 524. Mr. 2, ’07. 720w.


=Harben, William Nathaniel.= Ann Boyd. †$1.50. Harper.

                                                                6–32356.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Marked by genuine power and real emotion.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 767. D. 15. 210w.

  “Easily the strongest piece of work that Mr. Harben has thus far
  produced.” Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 42: 16. Ja. 1, ’07. 150w.

  “For the first time the author has met the demands of literary art in
  the construction of his book.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 211. Ja. 24, ’07. 590w.


=Harben, William Nathaniel.= Mam’ Linda. †$1.50. Harper.

                                                                7–29431.

  A story with a Georgia setting which involves the negro question,
  politics and romance. The champion of Mam’ Linda, a faithful negro
  mammy, and her “no count” boy who, however, is unjustly accused of
  murder, is a young southern attorney. He takes up the cudgels of
  defense, and in so doing overcomes time-honored prejudice, fights
  lawlessness, and outwits lynching bands. The story is permeated with
  southern atmosphere.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “At last the South has produced an author who writes with strength and
  beauty and absolute veracity about living issues. Here is Harben with
  his message told with such simplicity that few will recognize its
  great value.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 1058. O. 31, ’07. 890w.

  “Mr. Harben’s novel is the most significant book that has appeared
  relating to the negro since Bishop Haygood wrote ‘Our brother in
  black.’”

       + =Ind.= 63: 1228. N. 21, ’07. 80w.

  “This is a simple, straightforward, and readable book.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 795. N. 23, ’07. 310w.

  “The hero and heroine behave themselves in the usual situations with
  about as much ease as an English peasant in his Sunday clothes. But
  this is insignificant beside the impression which he gives us of a
  vigorous young population striking out with arms and legs, careless as
  yet of the proprieties.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 301. O. 4, ’07. 520w.

  “A modern story of the south with a pretty love story and a plot
  involving a significant new attitude on the negro question.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

  “Mr. Harben, who may have sketched a Georgia cracker or two with some
  faithfulness, is not on that account a novelist.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 764. N. 30, ’07. 230w.

  “The romance inevitable in Southern novels is as wholesome and sweet
  as possible.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 309. O. 12, ’07. 100w.

  “Illustrates afresh his direct and effective style and his ability to
  tell a love story full of purity and sweetness in a natural and
  delightful way.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 623. N. 23, ’07. 30w.


=Harboe, Paul, pseud. (Paul Christensen).= Child’s story of Hans
Christian Andersen. †$1.50. Duffield.

                                                                7–29563.

  The life of deprivation and penury which falls to the lot of the man
  renowned for fairy tales was at variance with the results of his fine
  imagination. The sketch follows the cobbler’s son thru the sore trials
  of his early life to his day of fame, which proved a sad realization
  inasmuch as it was bereft of the fulfilment of his one romance.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “An interesting, trustworthy account, simple and straightforward in
  telling. Will, perhaps, be enjoyed best by the children of an age most
  interested in the fairy tales if read aloud to them, for the style is
  adapted, rather to older children.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 207. N. ’07.

  “There is not much attempt at coherent construction in the little
  book. Anecdotes are given sometimes without much point or much
  connection. And the style reminds us frequently that the author is
  writing in a language other than the one to which he was born.” Grace
  Isabel Colbron.

     + − =Bookm.= 26: 418. D. ’07. 570w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 130w.

  “There is a touch of quaint stiffness in the style of the book that
  harmonizes with the childlike temper of the Danish romancer.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 120w.

         =R. of Rs.= 36: 767. D. ’07. 50w.


=Harcourt, Mrs. Charles.= Good form for women: a guide to conduct and
dress on all occasions. $1. Winston.

                                                                7–12681.

  Believing that all commendable conventionalities are more or less
  directly traceable to some altruistic or utilitarian principle, the
  author presents the fundamental features of good form by combining
  ethics with etiquette. She aims particularly to help girls who have
  not had the benefit of proper home training.


=Harcourt, L. W. Vernon.= His grace the steward, and the trial of peers:
a novel inquiry into a special branch of constitutional government. *$5.
Longmans.

  A two part work. “The first describes the evolution of the Lord High
  Steward of England up to the reign of Henry VIII., and the second
  treats of the gradual working out of the principle that peers shall be
  judged only by their peers. In both sections it is Mr. Harcourt’s
  delight to show the fraudulent basis of what have been honored as
  historic English institutions.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The interest of Mr. Vernon Harcourt’s book lies less in the main
  theme than in his often original and always acute interpretations of
  men and motives, and the side-lights he throws on many disputed points
  of constitutional history.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 66. Jl. 20. 790w.

  “We have here, in short, a notable contribution to our institutional
  history not merely for the results attained, but also for its rigid
  investigation, reminding us how often close inquiry may modify
  accepted views. One rises however from its perusal with the feeling
  that, however impartially the appendices may set the evidences before
  us, the author has throughout a case to prove, is a counsel speaking
  to his brief. And that case is prejudiced rather than assisted by the
  use of forensic methods.” J. H. Round.

   + + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 778. O. ’07. 2420w.

  “This lengthy and erudite work ... is scarcely intended for general
  reading.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 332. O. 10, ’07. 680w.

  “We suspect that Mr. Harcourt is not really very interested in the
  stewardship; he uses it only as convenient padding to his pet theory
  that procedure in the trial of peers is founded on a forged document;
  and herein he has expended a great deal of useless energy.”

       − =Sat. R.= 104: 337. S. 14, ’07. 640w.

  “He is steeped in the political and personal history of his period, he
  possesses a sense of humor, and that gift of imagination without which
  the past is a sealed book alike to those who write and those who read.
  We are paying a high, but not an excessive, compliment when we say
  that no better piece of work of its class has been accomplished since
  Bishop Stubbs penned the last of his prefaces in the ‘Rolls series.’”

   + + + =Spec.= 99: 198. Ag. 10, ’07. 2300w.

  “If the reader grants the right of the author to choose what subject
  he pleases he can feel only admiration for the manner in which the
  study is executed.”

       + =Yale. R.= 16: 334. N. ’07. 100w.


=Harcourt, Leveson Francis.= Sanitary engineering with respect to water
supply and sewage disposal. *$4.50. Longmans.

                                                                7–35189.

  A valuable general text-book. “In addition to a very complete
  discussion of the subject of water supplies in all its aspects,
  including sources, collection and storage, purification, distribution
  and statistics of water consumption, and a rather brief summary of the
  methods of sewage disposal, the writer takes up very fully the whole
  subject of sewerage, and more briefly that of garbage disposal.”
  (Technical Lit.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Important book.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 97. Ap. ’07.

  “We think we do the author no injustice in saying that throughout his
  book he writes like a person experienced in general civil engineering
  construction rather than like a sanitary engineer, at least as we in
  America now understand that term. Nevertheless he has epitomized a
  considerable part of water-works and sewage practice, including
  purification in each field, and seems to have produced a book
  remarkably free from errors and vagaries.”

   + + − =Engin. N.= 57: 551. My. 16, ’07. 670w.

  “An addition of undoubted value to an engineer’s library. Its pleasing
  style, moreover, makes it a very readable work, while the abundant
  references to historical and current engineering work, its general
  breadth of view and full citations of original sources of information,
  commend it, in particular, to the student and to the engineer in
  general practice or specializing in other branches. The book lacks
  proper balance as a book on sanitary engineering.” Earle B. Phelps.

   + + − =Technical Literature.= 1: 176. Ap. ’07. 1870w.


=Hare, Christopher.= High and puissant Marguerite of Austria, princess
dowager of Spain, duchess dowager of Savoy, regent of the Netherlands.
*$2.50. Scribner.

                                                                7–25681.

  A full biography which incidentally makes use of the interesting
  events of Marguerite’s life and leadership for reflecting the royal
  customs of her century.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “That writer has given evidence in previous works of various excellent
  qualities, such as sincerity and literary charm; but she lacks grip,
  and shows the defect much more in this than in her last book. Although
  the author is usually accurate in her facts, a few slips will be found
  in her text.”

     − + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 90. Jl. 27. 940w.

  “Character-study is not Mr. Hare’s strong point. He is more skilled in
  the art of setting forth his story and weaving his fairly copious
  material. It is a book worth reading, concerning persons not too well
  known. And the story is clear and well outlined.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 132. Ap. 26, ’07. 2260w.

  “Mr. Hare has written a book which at the lowest appreciation is
  creditable. Our worst censure is directed against a style of
  composition.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 497. N. 28, ’07. 870w.

  “Mr. Hare has drawn with minute and loving detail—for his sympathy
  with his subject is evident on every page—a complete picture of a very
  interesting character. The reader wishes heartily for more of the
  historical background.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 373. Je. 8, ’07. 740w.

  “The subject and the period of this book could not be more
  interesting, the treatment perhaps is a little too ambitious.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: sup. 465. O. 5, ’07. 460w.


=Harnack, Adolf.= Luke the physician. (Crown theological lib., no. 21.)
*$1.50. Putnam.

  “In Dr. Harnack’s view, Luke as a historian is inferior to Luke as a
  stylist; he is uncritical, and blunders for want of exact information.
  But the author contends that the present trend of criticism is toward
  the belief that between A. D. 30 and 70 the primitive Christian
  tradition as a whole took the essential form it has since
  attained.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Bib. World.= 30: 240. S. ’07. 30w.

  “The assertion that the language of both Gospel and Acts betrays the
  hand of one familiar with Greek medicine is not new, but never before
  has the argument received such skilful treatment.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 940. O. 17, ’07. 630w.

         =Ind.= 63: 1379. D. 5, ’07. 240w.

  “Whatever be one’s opinion of the proposition on which Harnack lays
  chiefest stress, the value of the book as a contribution to the
  history of the fixing of the evangelic tradition cannot be
  questioned.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 163. Ag. 22, ’07. 340w.

         =Outlook.= 86: 792. Ag. 10, ’07. 170w.

     + + =Spec.= 99: 252. Ag. 24, ’07. 1950w.


=Harnack, Adolf, and Herrmann, Wilhelm.= Essays on the social gospel;
tr. by G. M. Craik. *$1.25. Putnam.

  Containing “The evangelical history of the church,” and “The moral and
  social significance of modern education,” by Dr. Harnack, and “The
  moral teachings of Jesus,” by Dr. Herrmann. “Dr. Harnack insists that
  the chief task of the church is still the preaching of the message of
  redemption and of eternal life, and insists, too, that the church has
  a social mission.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The essay by Herrmann will be the most welcome part of the book.”
  Gerald Birney Smith.

       + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 708. O. ’07. 340w.

         =Ath.= 1907. 1: 695. Je. 8. 470w.

  “The essay is not light reading, but the reader who takes the pains to
  work his way into its spirit will be rewarded.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 457. Ag. 22, ’07. 350w.

  “These essays by distinguished German theologians throw instructive
  side-lights upon the social problem of the modern church.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 569. Je. 13, ’07. 280w.

         =R. of Rs.= 36: 126. Jl. ’07. 50w.

         =Spec.= 98: 566. Ap. 13, ’07. 1480w.


=Harris, J. Henry.= Cornish saints and sinners. †$1.50. Lane.

                                                                7–35146.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 67. Mr. ’07.

  “Assuredly Mr. Harris is not witty, but his animal spirits are
  inexhaustible.” Harriet Waters Preston.

     + − =Atlan.= 99: 418. Mr. ’07. 500w.


=Harris, Miriam Coles.= Tents of wickedness. †$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                7–31979.

  “Types of the New York smart set are vividly portrayed in this story.
  The chief female figure, is a young, motherless American girl, who has
  been brought up in a French convent. She is a Roman Catholic, and is
  shocked at many of the things she sees, and has only one congenial
  friend among her father’s many acquaintances. This friend is the hero,
  from whom she is separated through misunderstandings.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book treats in an able way a theme of the utmost practical
  importance to-day, and we bespeak for it an encouraging and hearty
  welcome.”

       + =Cath. World.= 86: 403. D. ’07. 430w.

  “If this book were not marred by one or two unnecessary bits of
  artificial coarseness, one would be tempted to say that after skimming
  through a dozen linotype historical romances here at last is a novel
  to sit down and read.”

     + − =Lit. D.= 35: 759. N. 16, ’07. 200w.

         =Nation.= 85: 378. O. 24, ’07. 220w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 70w.

  “This is a novel of more than ordinary length, but it is by no means
  wearisome, and will better repay attention than most of the stories
  offered in such profusion to a long-suffering public.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 230w.


=Harrison, Frederic.= Creed of a layman: apologia pro fide mea. **$1.75.
Macmillan.

                                                                7–16987.

  The author calls his book “my simple story of conversion and
  conviction,” an account of a “regular and calm development of
  thought.” He expresses a hope that the story of how spiritual rest
  might be achieved may “prove useful to some ‘perturbed spirit’ in our
  troubled times.” The exposition of his creed includes chapters upon:
  Day of all the dead, Septem contra fidem, A Socratic dialogue,
  Pantheism and cosmic emotion, Aims and ideals, A positivist prayer,
  The presentation of infants, Marriage, Burial, Day of humanity, and a
  Valedictory, Twenty one years at Newton Hall.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Harrison begins with a somewhat narrow egotism, and his first
  pages are irritating, meagre, and disappointing; but the latter half
  of the book becomes universal in its interest, and cogent in its
  claims, so that these essays well repay the reflective reading which
  they acquire.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 751. Je. 22. 1460w.

     + − =Dial.= 43: 94. Ag. 16, ’07. 370w.

  “May not attract new proselytes to the gospel of humanity as expounded
  by Auguste Comte; but, in spite of its rather uncompromising polemic,
  it compels respect by its manifest sincerity and genuine fervour of
  conviction.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 157. My. 17, ’07. 1830w.

         =Nation.= 85: 124. Ag. 8, ’07. 1320w.

  “A sense of humour is a sense of proportion. And if Mr. Harrison had
  had a deeper sense of proportion he would not have taken himself quite
  so seriously, and he would have been saved from some of the solemn
  absurdities of the positivist religion.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 550. S. 14, ’07. 460w.

  “We do not ... know of any book which will give to the curious and
  interested reader so good an interpretation of the religion of
  humanity as this volume of Mr. Frederic Harrison’s.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 523. Jl. 6, ’07. 540w.

         =R. of Rs.= 36: 383. S. ’07. 80w.

  “This indifference to facts is characteristic of the whole book; it
  marks both Mr. Harrison’s criticism of Christianity and defence of his
  own creed. When we turn from Mr. Harrison’s criticism to this
  construction, we are still in the same abstract region. Facts are
  still held of no account.”

       − =Spec.= 98: 945. Je. 15, ’07. 1100w.

  “It may be safely predicted that this book will take a permanent and
  conspicuous place among the too few similar works of distinguished men
  and women.” Arthur Ransom.

     + + =Westminster R.= 168: 49. Jl. ’07. 3440w.


=Harrison, Frederic.= Memories and thoughts: men—books—cities—art. **$2.
Macmillan.

                                                                6–35547.

  “This volume is a collection of articles which appeared during the
  past twenty-four years in various American and English periodicals of
  the better class. By the author the book is described as ‘a chapter
  from certain Memoirs that [he] intends to retain in manuscript penes
  se.’ The articles are occasional in origin, and in character they are
  miscellaneous, varying in topic from discussions of card-playing and
  tobacco to appreciations of Tennyson and Renan on the occasion of
  their deaths.”—Am. Hist. R.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 422. Ja. ’07. 260w.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 67. Mr. ’07.

  “At one time Mr. Harrison goes to the bottom of his subject, at
  another he merely touches its surface. Still these ‘Memories and
  thoughts,’ if approached with an open mind, will be found to reflect
  seriousness of purpose and insight into life. They frequently provoke
  dissent, they never forfeit respect.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1906. 2: 476. O. 20. 940w.

  “It is the fine tone, the genial atmosphere, the rich suggestiveness,
  of Mr. Harrison’s writings that attract the reader and win him over to
  the cause of good literature.”

       + =Dial.= 41: 212. O. 1, ’06. 140w.

  “But the papers are not all of equal value and interest. He presents
  them ‘as permanent impressions left on his mind by a somewhat wide
  experience.’ Some of these permanent impressions will appear to many
  readers to be not much more than rather violent and persistent
  prejudices.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 342. O. 12, ’06. 1080w.

  “The personal note is dominant throughout Mr. Harrison’s book, which
  leaves us with a sense of friendly and close acquaintance with a
  writer in whom seriousness of purpose, firm convictions, broad
  culture, and generous sympathies combine with the thinker’s love of
  truth, the artist’s love of beauty, and a keen zest for the joys of
  living.” Horatio S. Krans.

     + + =Outlook.= 84: 1076. D. 29, ’06. 930w.

  “If they are not marked by the quality which we call ‘artistic’ or
  ‘literary’ they at least express a freshness and alertness by no means
  common in men of letters who have passed their prime of years.” H. W.
  Boynton.

       + =Putnam’s.= 1: 632. F. ’07. 780w.

  “About the bulk of [these papers] the most we can say is that unless
  one has an exaggerated opinion of the significance of Mr. Harrison’s
  personality, their interest expired with their occasion.”

     − + =Sat. R.= 103: sup. 2. F. 23, ’07. 750w.

  “The American paper is particularly well worth studying. So much,
  doubtless, may be said of the whole of the volume, one or two minor
  articles possibly excepted.”

     + + =Spec.= 97: 1080. D. 29, ’06. 1710w.


* =Harrison, Frederic.= Philosophy of common sense. **$1.75. Macmillan.

                                                                7–36260.

  A companion to “The creed of a layman.” “It is designed to form a
  summary of the philosophical grounds on which the preceding work was
  based; and it carries on the autobiographical account of the stages by
  which the author reached those conclusions.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He has been well advised to gather these trophies of his skill for a
  newer generation, which ought to find them of interest.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 748. N. 23, ’07. 850w.


=Harrison, Mary S. K. (Lucas Malet, pseud.).= Far horizon. †$1.50. Dodd.

                                                                  7–983.

  “Mrs. Harrison’s first work in five years. It deals with the acts and
  opinions of a foreign-born man, who, after many years of hard work,
  becomes suddenly possessed of a moderate fortune and leisure. The time
  covered is from 1899 to 1901. Matters of modern finance, manners, and
  morals, theatrical and religious, are touched upon.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 78. Mr. ’07.

  “The merits of the book are more obvious than its defects.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 729. D. 8. 690w.

  “There is little humour in the book, no lovemaking, and the hero is a
  man of between fifty and sixty, and yet from what might be called
  unpromising material the author has given us a story of never-flagging
  interest, rich in thought and feeling.” Mary K. Ford.

       + =Bookm.= 24: 595. F. ’07. 1560w.

  “The book is a vivid, masterful, human document, fulfilling the
  strictest demands of great art. We need but add that any one who does
  not read it, and read it thoughtfully, will suffer a distinct loss.
  ‘The far horizon’ is worthy to take its place among the great English
  novels.”

     + + =Cath. World.= 85: 538. Jl. ’07. 1770w.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 343. Mr. ’07. 1360w.

  “May be reckoned among the more considerable fictional productions of
  the season.” Wm. M. Payne.

     + + =Dial.= 42: 225. Ap. 1, ’07. 420w.

  “A story so well told; so finely finished, with such real people of
  the British middle-class sort moving thru its pages, that the critical
  faculty is disarmed from the first, and one yields to the charm of
  unique art.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 739. Mr. 28, ’07. 420w.

  “Of Charles Kingsley’s purely literary talents and graces of style his
  daughter, the author, evinces hardly a trace.”

     + − =Lit. D.= 34: 264. F. 16, ’07. 200w.

  “A clever and an interesting book. But it would be more than that if
  the main story were only as good as its setting.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 394. N. 23, ’06. 500w.

  “It does not strike one as a book which had to be written, or will
  have to be read. But it possesses the treasure of a really original
  and affecting central motive.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 39. Ja. 10, ’07. 460w.

  “It is readable in no ordinary way. One does not hurry through its
  pages intent only on the story, but it both invites and repays
  leisurely attention. One reads, also, with no very distinct sense of
  the author’s style, which is unobtrusive and free from vagaries.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 18. Ja. 12, ’07. 750w.

  “‘The far horizon’—with its very obvious faults—has one great virtue:
  creative spontaneity; and that is so precious, in the mass of
  perfunctory work, that criticism must be delicate.” M. B. M.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 77. F. 9, ’07. 1110w.

  “A certain subjectiveness of style distinguishes it, a sort of
  reminiscent touch, which by some conjuror’s trick becomes the most
  objective thing in the world, and as a result the characters actually
  live and move and have a very real existence.” Madison Cawein.

   + + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 202. Ap. 6, ’07. 1440w.

  “It is more than a little puzzling that a writer of Lucas Malet’s
  experience and skill should have produced a novel bearing so many
  dreary resemblances to a ‘first book.’” Olivia Howard Dunbar.

       − =No. Am.= 184: 645. Mr. 15, ’07. 1380w.

  “One notes first that it has the negative merit of being entirely
  devoid of any passages of questionable taste. Affirmatively speaking,
  its highest merit is in the distinction and quiet nobility of its
  chief figure, Dominic Iglesias.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 479. F. 23, ’07. 310w.

  “It seems incongruous, almost unseemly, as coming from the pen of one
  born a Kingsley.” Cornelia Atwood Pratt.

     − + =Putnam’s.= 2: 183. My. ’07. 740w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 760. Je. ’07. 450w.

  “Is the dreariest and dismallest novel we have ever read. Its tragedy
  does not make us weep; its comedy does not make us laugh: it bores us
  acutely.”

       − =Sat. R.= 102: 744. D. 15, ’06. 630w.

  “‘The far horizon,’ while fully as clever as ‘Sir Richard Calmady,’ is
  free from the ugly blemishes which disfigured that brilliant but
  conspicuously uncomfortable novel. The theme and its treatment are
  higher and finer, there is less reliance on violence or
  sensationalism, and the narrative has ‘shining moments’ which
  transcend the capacities of ordinary talent. On the other hand it
  cannot honestly be contended that this is a pleasing or a satisfying
  book.”

     + − =Spec.= 97: 937. D. 8, ’06. 1020w.


=Harrison, Newton.= Practical alternating currents and power
transmission. $2.50. Hedenberg.

                                                                6–39743.

  “Of the fifteen chapters comprising the volume, the first two are
  devoted to conditions governing the different forms of electric
  lighting, the third and fourth to the factors entering into the
  various methods of alternating-current distribution; fifth, sixth, and
  seventh, to the principles and performance of transformers; the eighth
  to thirteenth inclusive, to alternators and a practical consideration
  of the current generated; the fourteenth to transformer testing and
  operation, and the fifteenth to definitions and formulas associated
  with alternating-current practice.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “One of the few successful attempts thus far made to discuss
  alternating currents without the use of mathematics. In clearness and
  originality of expression, neat press work, and general appearance,
  the book is a credit to both the author and publisher.”

       + =Engin. N.= 56: 527. N. 15, ’06. 250w.


=Harrison, Peleg D.= Stars and stripes and other American flags. il.
**$3. Little.

                                                                6–42447.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 719. Ap. ’07. 50w.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 43. F. ’07.

  “Something of this inclusiveness might profitably have been sacrificed
  for a more methodical arrangement and a more critical spirit of
  inquiry.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 1095. My. 9, ’07. 340w.

  “Mr. Harrison has interwoven many interesting incidents of history
  with his history of the national flag.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 177. F. 2, ’07. 230w.


=Hart, Albert Bushnell=, ed. American nation: a history from original
sources by associated scholars. 28v. per v. *$2. Harper.

  =v. 20. Hosmer, James Kendall.= Appeal to arms.

                                                                 7–4798.

  A work with which its successor, “Outcome of the civil war,” is
  intended to afford a brief, compact and impartial view of the military
  and civil side of the civil war. Not so much a study of contestants’
  motives as their behavior on the field. Dr. Hosmer says “I have tried
  to criticize men in the light of their opportunities at the time.”

  =v. 21. Hosmer, James Kendall.= Outcome of the civil war.

                                                                 7–7446.

  Although independent in field and in arrangement, this volume is a
  continuation of Dr. Hosmer’s “Appeal to arms,” the foregoing volume of
  this series. It takes up the story from midsummer, 1863 and carries it
  forward to the surrender of Lee, the collapse of the confederacy and
  the assassination of Lincoln.

  =v. 22. Dunning, William Archibald.= Reconstruction, political and
  economic.

  This volume is the first in the last group of the series devoted to
  “National expansion.” The purpose of the study is “to show that
  reconstruction, with all its hardships and inequities, was not
  deliberately planned as punishment and humiliation for those formerly
  in rebellion.” It deals with “the stormy administration of Johnson,
  the year of trouble and unrest in the south, the gradual recovery from
  the strain of war, the great industrial developments, and railroad
  building to the Pacific, the stormy Hayes-Tilden contest.”

  =v. 23. Sparks, Edwin Erie.= National development (1877–1885).

                                                                7–33222.

  Professor Sparks’ volume begins with the year 1877 that marks the
  break between old issues and the intermediate, vital question of the
  adaptation of American government to the industrial and social needs
  of the country. The first five chapters are devoted to a summary of
  the social and economic conditions of the time; six to eight, to the
  party struggles due to President Hayes’ withdrawal of the federal
  troops from the south; nine to twelve discuss silver coinage and the
  national civil service; thirteen and fourteen discuss the Isthmian
  canal and the exclusion of the Chinese; fifteen and sixteen follow the
  effect on the nation of the rapid settling up of the west; seventeen
  to nineteen deal with conditions which Cleveland found in 1884.

  =v. 24. Dewey, Davis R.= National problems.

                                                                7–33614.

  Beginning with the new economic conditions that the Cleveland
  administration of 1884 found, Professor Dewey traces the course of the
  national problems to 1897. He deals with organized labor, civil
  service, the tariff, silver, railroads, foreign relations, the
  reorganization of the Republican party, foreign policy, commercial
  organization, currency, and the free coinage campaign of 1896.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The merit of this volume is the thoughtful and judicial treatment of
  a period of complicated political conditions and of problems new to
  the national life. If any fault is to be found with the book, it is in
  its lack of proportion. This, however, appears to be due rather to the
  plan of the work than to the author’s execution of it.” Jesse S.
  Reeves.

   + + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 673. Ap. ’07. 980w. (Review of v. 17.)

  “Our author is eminently fair in his treatment of the South, though
  the parts of the book dealing with that section exhibit less complete
  information than do other portions.”

   + + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 675. Ap. ’07. 790w. (Review of v. 18.)

  “The military and naval situation is presented with unusual clearness,
  and this whole portion of the book has the ring of a definitive
  account. Errors are few.” Carl Russell Fish.

   + + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 677. Ap. ’07. (Review of v. 19.)

  “Aside from a sometimes too literal following of authorities where
  opinion rather than fact is stated, Professor Hart has given us the
  best general description and study of the social and moral aspects of
  the American slavery controversy that has yet appeared.” J. C.
  Ballagh.

   + + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 902. Jl. ’07. 1230w. (Review of v. 16.)

  “The work under examination, therefore, while an excellent record as
  far as it goes and on the whole the best civil war history yet
  written, is too little objective to serve as the final history of that
  war.” E. Benj. Andrews.

   + + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 907. Jl. ’07. 1270w. (Review of v. 20 and
         21.)

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 39. F. ’07. (Review of v. 19.)

  “The best survey of its field.”

     + + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 42. F. ’07. S. (Review of v. 17.)

  “Best brief survey of the subject.”

   + + + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 74. Mr. ’07. S. (Review of v. 18.)

  “Perhaps the best general account of the size, and for the price.”

     + + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 97. Ap. ’07. (Review of v. 20 and 21.)

  “It is the most readable account of the period with which the reviewer
  is acquainted; there is no better treatment of that tangled business
  of Buchanan, Seward and Lincoln from November, 1860 to April, 1861.”
  Walter L. Fleming.

   + + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 174. Jl. ’07. 560w. (Review of v. 19.)

  “Some points deserve slight criticism. The author does not seem to
  have a clear understanding of internal conditions in the south. Some
  objection might reasonably be made to the comparison between Stonewall
  Jackson and John Brown, and the ‘craziness’ of Jackson is entirely too
  much insisted upon.” W. L. Fleming.

   + + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 182. Jl. ’07. 650w. (Review of v. 20.)

  “This undertone of scholarly geniality makes the book not merely easy
  reading, but gives to it an interest for every intelligent American.”
  Harry Thurston Peck.

   + + − =Bookm.= 26: 166. O. ’07. 1090w. (Review of v. 22.)

  “It is indeed questionable whether the series as a whole is not too
  large for the general reader, to whose interests it is professedly
  devoted.” St. George L. Sioussat.

   + + − =Dial.= 43: 15. Jl. 1, ’07. 4100w. (Review of v. 14–21.)

  “It is a matter of gratification that all [these books] are good and
  that there are no very horrible examples.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 1411. Je. 13, ’07. 780w. (Review of v. 16–21.)

  “He has brought to his task that somewhat rare quality, historic
  imagination.”

   + + + =Lit. D.= 34: 433. Mr. 16, ’07. 380w. (Review of v. 20.)

  “A thoughtful and scholarly study of a period which has long needed
  impartial examination.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 84. Ja. 24, ’07. 730w. (Review of v. 17.)

  “The readableness of Professor Smith’s pages merits particular
  commendation.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 156. F. 14, ’07. 730w. (Review of v. 18.)

  “The most distinctive contribution of Admiral Chadwick’s book,
  however, is its thorough-going examination of the military and naval
  situation on the eve of hostilities.”

   + + + =Nation.= 84: 202. F. 28, ’07. 670w. (Review of v. 19.)

  “Outside of military affairs, in short, Mr. Hosmer’s narrative is, as
  a whole, conventional.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 502. My. 30, ’07. 670w. (Review of v. 20 and 21.)

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 24. Ja. 12, ’07. 780w. (Review of v. 19.)

  “Mr. Hosmer succeeds in making [military matters] not only
  intelligible but interesting to the layman.”

   + + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 133. Mr. 2, ’07. 850w. (Review of v. 20.)

  “He has prepared a splendid bibliography in the final chapter on the
  authorities, the best in his period which exists.”

   + + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 482. Ag. 3, ’07. 220w. (Review of v. 21.)

  “The work is marked throughout by scholarship, sound judgment, and
  critical insight, and is the best short history of the subject with
  which we are acquainted.”

   + + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 549. S. 14, ’07. 770w. (Review of v. 22.)

   + + + =Outlook.= 85: 93. Ja. 12, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 18.)

  “As a narrative it is easy, compact, and lucid. The Admiral, it seems
  to us, is inclined to take an over-roseate view of Southern slavery,
  and a rather narrow one of the motives and conduct of those who lent
  comfort and aid to John Brown.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 85: 332. F. 9, ’07. 220w. (Review of v. 19.)

   + + + =Outlook.= 85: 764. Mr. 30, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 20.)

  “His treatment of the assassination of Lincoln is distinctly
  inadequate.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 86: 302. Je. 8, ’07. 330w. (Review of v. 21.)

  “Possibly he over-emphasizes the accentuation of the speculative
  instinct as one of the results of the war, but there can be but little
  disposition to question the accuracy and essential fairness of the
  pictures he draws of the conditions which prevailed, north and south,
  from the assassination of Lincoln to the election of Hayes.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 87: 312. O. 12, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 22.)

  “As to quality the general average is good, and some of the volumes,
  marked by more originality than could be expected in others, contain
  distinct contributions to historical knowledge. Out of this comes,
  however, a certain unevenness of treatment ... and the inequality
  which comes from having succeeding volumes from men who have different
  points of view.” John Spencer Bassett.

     + + =Putnam’s.= 2: 253. My. ’07. 1090w. (Review of v. 16–21.)


=Harting, James Edmund.= Recreations of a naturalist. $4.50. Wessels.

  “The writer of the ‘Recreations’ gets much that is stimulating to
  himself and to his readers out of a marsh walk in May. With notebook
  in hand he sees and records things that might otherwise easily be
  overlooked or forgotten. When the enthusiast thus writes down the
  things that appeal to him because he writes under the spell of
  enthusiasm he makes the story read with all the greater zest.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Harting’s flowing and easy style renders these chapters very
  agreeable reading, and a considerable amount of information is therein
  afforded on sport and natural history, often in association with
  antiquarian research.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 106. Jl. 28. 1290w.

       + =Ind.= 61: 1405. D. 22, ’06. 90w.

  “These ‘Recreations’ may be cordially recommended to the lover of
  nature as a companion on his summer holidays.” F.

       + =Nature.= 74: 82. My. 24, ’06. 610w.

  “There is a certain dryness about Mr. Harting’s style of writing, and
  for this reason he is at his best when he has learning to impart.”

     + − =Spec.= 96: 583. Ap. 14, ’06. 920w.


Harvard studies in classical philology; ed. by a committee of the
instructors in classics. Harvard univ., Cambridge, Mass.

  Among these informing studies are the following: An unrecognized actor
  in Greek comedy, The battle of Salamis, The origin of Plato’s cave,
  Notes on Vitruvius, The dramatic art of Aeschylus, The use of the
  high-soled shoe or buskin, and Five new manuscripts of Donatus on
  Terence.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A good specimen of the general character of those preceding it,
  perhaps more than usually interesting, because it deals more with
  questions of history and literature, and less with speculations.” R.
  Y. Tyrrell.

     + + =Acad.= 72: 432. My. 4, ’07. 1440w.

  “An especially interesting series of papers in literature as well as
  in technical scholarship.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 63. Ja. 17, ’07. 840w.


* =Harvey society, New York.= Harvey lectures delivered under the
auspices of the Harvey society of New York. *$2. Lippincott.

                                                                 7–2726.

  Thirteen lectures given before the Harvey society, an association of
  physicians organized for the purpose of making the work of
  investigation better known to the practitioner. “The range of subjects
  is wide, from the implantation of the ovum to old age.... Even the
  general reader, not altogether unversed in science, will find it worth
  while to examine the lectures on trypanosomes, fatigue, tuberculosis,
  the cause of the heart-beat, and possibly one or two more.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Nation.= 84: 250. Mr. 14, ’07. 120w.

  “The volume constitutes a most valuable collection of first-hand
  information given by some of the most prominent investigators in this
  country and Europe.” Victor C. Vaughan.

     + + =Science=, n.s. 26: 630. N. 8, ’07. 3860w.


* =Harwood, Edith.= Notable pictures in Rome. *$1.50. Dutton.

                                                                W 7–135.

  Numerous illustrations and an alphabetical list of artists represented
  in Rome increase the reference value of the book. It “aims to furnish
  the visitor to that city with a guide by which he can find, and which
  will help him to understand and appreciate, the important pictures in
  the galleries, churches, and palaces. The author’s method is to
  indicate the causes which led to the production of the painting and to
  tell something of the personality of the artist. Then she describes
  the work itself and its meaning, with occasional extracts from famous
  critics.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 194. N. ’07. S.

         =Ind.= 62: 1358. Je. 6, ’07. 60w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 528. Ag. 31, ’07. 120w.

  “As a guide this book might be of great use in Rome. But the unwary
  must be warned against some of the writer’s fanciful ideas.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: 1007. Je. 29, ’07. 70w.


* =Harwood, William Sumner.= New creations in plant life: an
authoritative account of the life and work of Luther Burbank. 2d ed.
**$1.75. Macmillan.

                                                                7–33936.

  An intimate account of the life, scientific achievements and methods
  of the foremost plant-breeder in the world. The appearance of this
  second edition is justified by the facts that Mr. Burbank vouches for
  the statements both scientific and practical made in the volume, that
  the interest in the man and his work has steadily increased since the
  first edition appeared, and that a “closer study of the work during
  the period since the book was first issued demonstrates that this is
  one of the greatest constructive enterprises ever established among
  men.”


=Haskell, Helen Eggleston.= Billy’s princess. $1.25. Page.

                                                                7–29688.

  Billy was a boy of ten who ran away from the boarding house after his
  mother had been carried off to the sanitarium, and his princess was
  the little French girl whom he found on the streets and befriended to
  the extent of buying her new clothes with his savings and entertaining
  her lavishly in his drygoods box home. Then after he had prospered at
  his trade of news boy he found kind aunts who took him to England to
  be educated, and who promised the princess that they would some day
  bring him back to her.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 100w.


=Hasluck, Paul Nooncree=, ed. Cassell’s carpentry and joinery:
comprising notes on materials, processes, principles, and practice,
including about 1800 engravings and 12 plates. $3. McKay.

  A practical, exhaustive treatment of the subject with full description
  of tools and processes commonly found in daily use in the workshop.


=Hasluck, Paul Nooncree=, ed. Metal working: a book of tools, materials,
and processes for the handyman; 2206 il. and working drawings. $2.50.
McKay.

  Very nearly eight hundred pages are devoted to the practical phases of
  metal-working, the theory being discussed only where it is an
  essential preliminary to principle underlying a method, a process or
  the action of a tool. The scope of the book embraces the whole art of
  working metals with hand tools and with such simple machine tools as
  the small engineering shop usually contains.


=Hasluck, Paul Nooncree=, ed. Woodworking: a book of tools, materials,
and processes for the handyman; with 2545 il. and working drawings.
$2.50. McKay.

  An exhaustive presentation of woodworking. “The book is intended for
  all those who would handle tools and who, by the use of them, wish to
  furnish the home and to profit their pockets. The treatment adopted
  throughout is simple and practical, and there has been a consistent
  endeavor to combine accurate information, with clear and definite
  instruction.”


=Hastings, James=, ed. Dictionary of Christ and the gospels. $6.
Scribner.

                                                                6–44352.

  =v. 1.= “This volume extends from ‘Aaron’ to ‘Knowledge,’ and the work
  when completed will ‘include everything that the gospels contain,
  whether directly related to Christ or not.’”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Apart from varieties of opinion, which are inevitable where many
  contributors are concerned, the dictionary is a scholarly work, which
  ought to foster learning among the preachers for whom it is written.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 131. F. 2. 370w.

  “To sum up our judgment on this work, we would say that, from the
  standpoint of a rather strict conservative scholarship, it is a highly
  creditable accomplishment; and that it will be of great service to
  students and preachers whose opinions are free from a tendency to
  radicalism.”

     + − =Cath. World.= 85: 117. Ap. ’07. 1080w.

  “Is learned and decidedly conservative, and is adapted for both the
  exegetic and homiletic use of the preacher.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 566. Mr. 7, ’07. 340w.

  “It will, no doubt, be objected against the ‘Dictionary of Christ and
  the gospels’ that it contains some otiose matter, such as the somewhat
  inferior discussion of ‘Art,’ which takes us little if at all further
  than Westcott’s familiar essay. But equally it will be admitted that
  the preacher’s purpose is better served than it has ever been before.
  The articles have a tendency to make him think, and, in so far, they
  earn the gratitude of his congregation.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 107. Ap. 5, ’07. 1290w.

  “The work contains, in the first place, an intolerable amount of
  extraneous and irrelevant matter. A far more serious defect is the
  choice of writers of a decidedly reactionary point of view for
  articles on important subjects.”

     − + =Nation.= 84: 315. Ap. 4, ’07. 780w.

  “Undoubtedly the work contains a great deal that is of value. But it
  is not to be compared in value with the ‘Dictionary of the Bible.’ And
  the minister who already possesses that dictionary, and who has not
  very much money to spend on books, will not find this later work
  indispensable.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 597. O. 5, ’07. 1180w.

  “The principal criticism indeed that we have to make on this volume is
  that both editor and contributors have tried too much to be complete;
  there are too many articles and they are too long.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 498. Ap. 20, ’07. 1050w.

  “Criticism, history, geography, and other matters have not been
  neglected, but as a whole the book is of a distinctly practical
  character.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 1005. Je. 29, ’07. 220w.


=Hatch, F. H., and Corstorphine, George Steuart.= Geology of South
Africa. *$7. Macmillan.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

  “The book contains some details that were hardly intended for the
  student so far away as America, and on the other hand, many general
  points of vital interest are passed over all too briefly. This is
  especially true of the physical history and dynamical problems of the
  region. Nevertheless, the volume is a valuable and welcome summary of
  the geology of this distant land.” J. E. C.

   + + − =J. Geol.= 15: 81. Ja. ’07. 800w.

  Reviewed by W. M. D.

       + =Science=, n.s. 24: 684. N. 30, ’06. 600w.


=Hattersley, C. W.= Uganda by pen and camera; with preface by T. F.
Victor Buxton. $1. Union press.

  In which is reflected the progress made by this African province
  during the years since Stanley’s visit. The author shows how the
  journey is made from London, describes the natives, their government,
  religion, schools, the work of missionaries and the results of
  Christianity.


=Haultmont, Marie.= By the royal road. *$1.60. Herder.

  “The church of Rome is here presented as ‘the living church.’ ... The
  heroine is a high church member of the English establishment by
  education, but passes through scepticism to the Catholic fold, while
  two or three of the most attractive characters remain Protestants. The
  lively narrative is mainly concerned with provincial society and
  family life as affected by mixed attachments and marriages between
  French and English Catholics and Protestants.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Considerable taste and skill are displayed in structure and
  characterization and the style occasionally recalls Charlotte Yonge’s
  work.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 10. Ja. 5. 150w.

  “A good English novel of the old Miss Austen family sitting-room type,
  written by a woman who understands women, and does not strive to carry
  her analysis of the masculine soul much below the surface.”

       + =Cath. World.= 84: 839. Mr. ’07. 250w.


=Havell, Herbert Lorde.= Tales from Herodotus. 60c. Crowell.

                                                                6–33586.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 111. Ap. ’07.


=Haw, George=, ed. Christianity and the working classes. $1.50.
Macmillan.

                                                                6–33643.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 578. N. ’06. 370w.


=Hawk, Philip B.= Practical physiological chemistry. il. *$4. Blakiston.

  “Written for students of medicine and general science, who have
  already secured a good groundwork in the more fundamental branches of
  chemistry, and presents a very good outline of those facts of
  physiological chemistry which may be clearly demonstrated in a
  laboratory course. While the title might be taken to indicate that the
  work is a laboratory manual only, this is by no means the case, as
  many of the discussions are full enough to constitute a general
  treatise on the subject.”—Science.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Although there is nothing strikingly original in his presentation of
  the subject, the book he has produced is free from error, is clearly
  written, is practical, and sufficiently full for most purposes.” W. D.
  H.

     + + =Nature.= 76: 268. Jl. 18, ’07. 100w.

  “Most of [the tests] are clearly described, and are full enough for
  working conditions, but in a few cases the value to the student would
  be greatly increased by the addition of fuller explanations.” J. H.
  Long.

     + − =Science=, n.s. 26: 588. N. 1, ’07. 300w.


=Hawker, Mary Elizabeth (Lanoe Falconer, pseud.).= Old Hampshire
vignettes. $1. Macmillan.

  “Twenty-three very short chapters present ‘The valley’ and a score or
  more of its odd and interesting inhabitants. These portraits are the
  slightest of thumb-nail sketches.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “She has wit and insight and that quality gratefully and instantly
  recognized, yet difficult to label, the quality of saying just the
  thing that should be said in just the words that should express it.”

     + + =Acad.= 72: 296. Mr. 23, ’07. 220w.

  “They are newspaper articles of a superior sort, and very pleasantly
  written, and full of the pathos and humours of the village.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 410. Ap. 6. 60w.

  “Daintily executed, and touched with life and reality.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 259. Ap. 16, ’07. 230w.

  “The writer has attempted, for the most part, to catch her pose or
  quality on the wing as it were; and it says much for her skill that
  she has almost always succeeded. If she fails it is because her sketch
  is sometimes so slight as to be almost evanescent; but in most cases
  she has swiftly touched off the humour or the oddity and bathed the
  people meanwhile in an atmosphere of tenderest banter.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 94. Mr. 22, ’07. 700w.

  “Miss Hawker has taste, feeling, exquisite nicety. Beyond all doubt
  she writes of village character better than anyone has written since
  George Eliot. No one comes near her in her combination of crystal
  clearness, fine point, discrimination and simplicity. Where she is
  wanting, of course, is in dramatic power.”

   + + − =Sat. R.= 103: 401. Mr. 30, ’07. 420w.


=Hawkes, Clarence.= Little water-folks: stories of lake and river. †75c.
Crowell.

                                                                7–24035.

  Dedicated to the boy who sees, these stories sketch intimately the
  habits of water-dwellers, among them muskrats, otters, frogs,
  water-weasels, and turtles.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is like living in the open to read the stories.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 50w.

         =R. of Rs.= 36: 768. D. ’07. 50w.


=Hawkes, Clarence.= Shaggycoat; the biography of a beaver. $1.25.
Jacobs.

                                                                6–36434.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 21. Ja. ’07.


=Hawkes, Clarence.= Tenants of the trees. il. $1.50. Page.

                                                                7–20722.

  How the author cultivated his acquaintance with his friends of fur and
  feather makes a most instructive and entertaining chronicle for the
  youthful lover of tree-folks.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The coloured illustrations ... are mainly pretty bad. The text, too,
  contains some curious blunders.” George Gladden.

       − =Bookm.= 25: 622. Ag. ’07. 380w.


=Hawkesworth, John.= Graphical handbook for reinforced concrete design.
*$2.50. Van Nostrand.

                                                                  7–469.

  “This book contains 15 plates of diagrams for use in determining the
  size and the amount of reinforcement for floors, beards and columns of
  reinforced concrete construction.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Graphical representations have advantages over tabular statements,
  and these diagrams are to be commended for their simplicity, clearness
  and convenient form. Such criticisms as are given here show a limit to
  their usefulness, but it must be remembered that these limitations are
  partly inherent in the building regulations followed.” Arthur N.
  Talbot.

     + − =Engin. N.= 57: 550. My. 16, ’07. 1200w.


=Hawkins, Anthony Hope.= Helena’s path. †$1.25. McClure.

                                                                7–29569.

  An entertaining little comedy over a right of way which involves the
  dignified but firm refusal of a young woman land holder to allow a
  young nobleman to continue to pursue his way, adopted by generations
  before him, across her recently acquired estate to a strip of beach,
  lying beyond, for his daily swim. The quarrel leads straight to a
  romance.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is several years since Mr. Hope has produced anything so
  thoroughly artistic.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

     + + =Bookm.= 26: 269. N. ’07. 410w.

  “The first chapter of this story is so good that the reader is almost
  outraged at the inane character of the rest of it.”

     − + =Ind.= 63: 1378. D. 5, ’07. 480w.

  “Neither the characters nor their actions are of this earth, earthy;
  but the tale is not on that account the less vivacious and amusing.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 306. O. 3, ’07. 200w.

  “There is much comedy in this little story.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 40w.

  “The trouble is that Mr. Hope’s extraordinary versatility has made him
  in the past nearly all things to all men, and ‘Helena’s path’ comes
  dangerously near being nothing to anybody.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 678. O. 26, ’07. 350w.

  “Is light-hearted farce, unexpected in incident, witty in dialogue,
  and wholly entertaining, except the extracts from the hero’s diary,
  which may be skipped to advantage.”

     + − =Outlook.= 87: 622. N. 23, ’07. 30w.


=Hawkins, Anthony Hope (Anthony Hope, pseud.).= Sophy of Kravonia.
†$1.50. Harper.

                                                                6–36178.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 230. F. ’07. 1140w.

  “Mr. Hope’s hand has lost little of its cunning since the days when he
  invented Zenda, and his ‘Sophy of Kravonia’ is a capital story, albeit
  the type is now somewhat worn.” Wm. M. Payne.

     + + =Dial.= 42: 142. Mr. 1, ’07. 140w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 126. Ja. ’07. 30w.


=Hawkins, Anthony Hope.= Sport royal. †$1.50. Harper.

                                                                7–34772.

  These chapters record the adventures of an Englishman who, while
  idling at Heidelberg, becomes unexpectedly drawn into a court quarrel
  issuing from domestic misunderstandings. He is champion-in-general and
  possesses the quiet wit and unfailing courage of all of Anthony Hope’s
  heroes.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is a very light and airy trifle, hardly important enough to deserve
  the special honor of decoration and ornamental binding here given to
  it. It has, in a minor way, some of the dash of ‘The prisoner of
  Zenda.’”

     + − =Outlook.= 87: 745. N. 30, ’07. 40w.


=Haworth, Paul Leland.= Hayes-Tilden disputed presidential election of
1876. *$1.50. Burrows.

                                                                6–22324.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The monograph is thoroughly scientific in method and sound in its
  criticism of fact, but is equally unscientific in spirit and temper.
  The style occasionally descends perilously near flippancy and
  vulgarity at the expense of southern democrats.”

     + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 410. Ja. ’07. 950w.

  “Worthy of notice, although not of first-rate pretensions.” John
  Spencer Bassett.

     + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 255. My. ’07. 160w.


=Hawthorne, Nathaniel.= In colonial days. $2.50. Page.

                                                                6–29091.

  “Four of Hawthorne’s delightful stories of the Old Province house in
  Boston have been grouped under the general title ‘In colonial days,’
  copiously illustrated by Mr. Frank C. Merrill.... Anybody would enjoy
  the tales in their new setting, which ought, however to prove
  particularly acceptable to younger readers.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Merrill’s pictures, redolent of old times and customs, and yet
  full of life and spirit, are evidently the fruits of congenial and
  sympathetic effort.”

       + =Dial.= 41: 461. D. 16, ’06. 100w.

  “In costumes and other appurtenances he is historically correct, while
  his figures are animated and lifelike.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 879. D. 15, ’06. 170w.


=Hawtrey, Valentina.= Romance of old wars. †$1.50. Holt.

                                                                 7–8220.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “To those who have admired the author’s previous work it is sufficient
  to say that [‘Romance of old wars’] reaches her usual high standard in
  interest and execution.”

       + =Acad.= 71: 16. Jl. 7, ’06. 320w.

  “Miss Hawtrey has a real gift for instilling an atmosphere of
  freshness and vitality into the historical background of her stories.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 182. Ag. 18. 280w.

  “In spite of the sorrows and poverty and the pathetic ending, the
  author has caught that glamour which is the sunset radiance of the
  past ever shining behind us.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 673. Mr. 21, ’07. 40w.

  “The vividness with which it makes alive and thrilling the life of
  noble and peasant five centuries and more ago is the book’s special
  claim to consideration.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 101. F. 16, ’07. 260w.

  “The writer ... sees the past pictorially, romantically, showing the
  superficial pageant and leaving unexpressed that absolute humanity
  which makes it as real and living as the present.”

     + − =Outlook.= 85: 47. Ja. 5, ’07. 100w.


=Hay, John.= Addresses. **$2. Century.

                                                                6–30898.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “What he said is valuable first of all because of the content, but it
  is equally interesting and instructive to one who is in search of
  standards of graceful English.”

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 214. Ja. ’07. 200w.

  “Few are the books that possess the charm, apart from their contents,
  of the recently published ‘Addresses of John Hay.’”

     + + =Dial.= 42: 189. Mr. 16, ’07. 160w.


=Hayden, Arthur.= Chats on old prints. *$2. Stokes.

                                                                 7–6391.

  “This book is meant for novices and collectors of moderate
  ambition.... The ‘chats’ give good advice to those who have pounds as
  well as shillings to lavish on their hobby.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Written for English readers but interesting and will excite
  enthusiasm for the subject. Profusely illustrated with half-tones,
  good as to subject but poor as to execution.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 43. F. ’07.

  “As regards quality, indeed, Mr. Hayden sets the standard all too low.
  The information given concerning them [early German or Italian
  masters] is the least satisfactory part of the book. The bibliography
  and glossary of technical terms are generally good.”

     − + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 742. D. 8. 440w.

  “An admirable book, full of information, sound advice and pleasant
  reading. The sentiment of the sincere collector pervades the volume
  and the gold value is not, as is usual in collectors’ guide, made the
  first and last point of consideration.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 150. F. 2, ’07. 100w.


=Haydon, A. L.=, comp. Book of the V. C.: a record of the deeds of
heroism for which the Victoria cross has been bestowed, from its
institution in 1857 to the present time. $1.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–20536.

  “Certainly a good idea for a boy’s book is this narrating the stories
  of exploits by which the Victoria cross has been won by soldier
  heroes. Some thirty of these narratives are included in this
  volume.... Altogether 522 men have been decorated by this cross, and
  some two hundred of these are alive at the present time.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Dial.= 42: 118. F. 16, ’07. 50w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 257. Ap. 20, ’07. 90w.

  “Mr. Haydon relates the stories of the many deeds of heroism with
  spirit and in a way to interest all boy readers.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 337. O. 6, ’06. 150w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 383. Mr. ’07. 40w.


=Haynes, George Henry.= Election of senators. **$1.50. Holt.

                                                                6–18603.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “This work may be recommended as a scholarly, impartial, and rational
  discussion of a great national problem.” Herman V. Ames.

     + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 400. Ja. ’07. 910w.

  “Arguments for and against popular election of senators ... are fairly
  and clearly stated, though the author does not hesitate to reveal his
  sympathies for the affirmative. For his work in bringing before the
  public the results thus far accomplished Dr. Haynes is deserving of
  hearty thanks.” David Y. Thomas.

   + + − =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 553. Ja. ’07. 1380w.

  “On the whole. Professor Haynes’ work deserves a hearty welcome, for
  he has succeeded in the difficult task of writing a book which the
  layman can understand and which is at the same time worthy the
  attention of the specialist.”

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 638. My. ’07. 360w.

  “Timely, thorough and invaluable as a reference work. Those who wish
  to prepare themselves to fight the battles of democracy with
  intelligence should possess this book.” Robert E. Bisbee.

     + + =Arena.= 37: 216. F. ’07. 500w.

  “Professor Haynes has ... very thoroly presented the whole matter from
  the historical standpoint.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 972. Ap. 25, ’07. 210w.

  “A full and fair discussion of an important question.” James Breck
  Perkins.

     + + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 151. Mr. ’07. 920w.


=Hays, Joseph Weller.= Combustion and smokeless furnaces. *$1.50. Hill
pub. co.

                                                                6–45712.

  The matter contained in this volume may not be new to the engineer.
  “But it may be of service to the layman, and, especially, to members
  of city councils and others who are wrestling with the smoke
  problem.... The theoretical part of the book, treating of the
  chemistry of combustion, contains practically the same matter as is
  found in other treatises on the subject.... The latter half of the
  book is devoted to the discussion of smokeless furnaces.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A concise and clearly written treatise.” Wm. Kent.

     + − =Engin. N.= 57: 303. Mr. 14, ’07. 1920w.


=Hazen, Allen.= Clean water and how to get it. $1.50. Wiley.

                                                                7–30139.

  A book primarily for mayors and aldermen, and of interest to
  water-works superintendents and members of water-boards into which the
  author has put “some of the principles—common sense, technical and
  financial—to be followed in obtaining and paying for a plentiful
  supply of clear water.” (Engin. N.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book abounds with facts and suggestions that will be new and
  valuable to even the veterans of the water-works fraternity.”

     + + =Engin. N.= 58: 427. O. 17, ’07. 660w.

  “In a new edition, which is sure to be called for soon, the path to
  the solid knowledge the book contains might be made easier by a more
  logical arrangement of its contents and by the addition of two
  elementary chapters, one outlining, at the beginning of the book, the
  general characteristics of a good water supply and one, in the middle
  of the book, on the general plan and principles of water filtration.”
  C.-E. A. Winslow.

   + + − =Science=, n.s. 26: 662. N. 15, ’07. 1100w.


=Headley, Frederick Webb.= Life and evolution. *$2.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–34602.

  “A series of ‘the fairy-tales of science,’ in which we are shown the
  slow steps by which life crept into higher forms from moneron to man,
  the text being largely supplemented by excellent illustrations from
  drawings and photographs. The value of the book lies in the strong
  impulse it is sure to raise in many readers to verify the statements
  for themselves, and thereby enlarge the circle of students of
  science.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author has ranged his facts admirably and the book, being written
  in very simple and almost non-scientific language, should be very
  widely read.”

   + + − =Acad.= 72: 150. F. 9, ’07. 220w.

  “It may be said at once that Mr. Headley has done very well indeed
  what he set out to do in this book. In the reviewer’s opinion, there
  exists no other book which in the field covered can compare in general
  excellence with this.” Raymond Pearl.

     + + =Dial.= 43: 209. O. 1, ’07. 550w.

  “It is a book for browsing in and should interest scientific students
  as well as lay readers.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 511. Ag. 29, ’07. 40w.

  “Although the author has written carefully, and has made but few slips
  of statement, this volume is, in a number of ways, unsatisfactory, and
  not least so in regard to the mechanical make-up.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 459. My. 16, ’07. 360w.

  “The author has succeeded in producing a very readable and thoughtful
  book, which deserves a large clientele of readers.” R. L.

     + + =Nature.= 75: 434. Mr. 7, ’07. 1140w.

  “While a serious and erudite discussion of many points of a difficult
  philosophy, is well calculated to be a wonder book for the information
  and delight of a novice in natural history, or even of a child.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 348. Je. 1, ’07. 140w.

       + =Spec.= 98: 909. Je. 8, ’07. 140w.


=Headley, John William.= Confederate operations in Canada and New York.
$2. Neale.

                                                                6–16287.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 211. O. ’06. 60w.

         =Ind.= 62: 1267. My. 30, ’07. 160w.


=Heilprin, Angelo, and Heilprin, Louis=, eds. Lippincott’s new
gazetteer. *$10. Lippincott.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  Reviewed by Harriet Waters Preston.

   + + + =Atlan.= 99: 426. Mr. ’07. 650w.


=Heine, Heinrich.= Works. 12v. $25. Dutton.

  The first eight volumes of this edition give Heine’s prose writings
  translated by Charles G. Leland. After Leland’s death the work was
  completed by Thomas Brooksbank who translated the ninth volume, “The
  book of songs” and Margaret Armour who translated the last three
  volumes of poetry.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We have noted a number of passages in which the German seems to have
  been misapprehended, and many others in which it has not been rendered
  with sufficient fidelity; but otherwise the translation is for the
  most part distinctly meritorious, for Miss Armour is a skilful and
  fluent versifier, and often catches the spirit of her author very
  successfully. Some slips in classical matters ought to have been
  avoided.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 197. F. 17. 280w. (Review of v. 12.)

  “The best of Heine evaporates in translation, no doubt, but readers
  who possess no German may be congratulated upon having offered to them
  so close an approach to the original as is found in the present
  version.”

     + + =Dial.= 42: 48. Ja. 16, ’07. 140w. (Review of v. 1–12.)

         =Ind.= 62: 102. Ja. 10, ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 1–12.)

  “Yet granting all defects, this edition stands as the best
  presentation in English of the bulk of Heine’s writings.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 33. Ja. 10, ’07. 440w. (Review of v. 1–12.)

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 149. Mr. 9, ’07. 760w. (Review of v. 1–12.)

  “With the prose the translators of the present edition have succeeded
  fairly well. With the lyric poems they have failed, but have come
  perhaps as near to succeeding as has ever been done.”

   + + − =R. of Rs.= 35: 384. Mr. ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 1–12.)


=Heller, Albert Henry.= Stresses in structures and the accompanying
deformations. 2d ed. *$4. A. G. Geren, 1602 N. High st., Columbus, O.

                                                                7–15561.

  Only a portion of Professor Heller’s contemplated treatise was
  completed before his death. This part includes probably half of what
  the work was to comprise. “It covers the principles of statical
  analysis, stresses in beams and in columns, and stresses in simple
  trusses.” (Engin. N.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The work is extremely well done. Simplification and conciseness are
  secured by the most desirable method. A good knowledge of his subject
  and a sound view of the underlying facts and conditions are exhibited
  generally in the work. A full statement of how the phenomena of
  flexure vary from those expressed in the commonly-used formulas, and
  remarks on fatigue action and on the elastic properties of iron and
  steel merit special commendation.”

     + + =Engin. N.= 57: 669. Je. 13, ’07. 370w.


=Heming, Arthur.= Spirit Lake. †$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                7–21229.

  In this novel the white man plays but a small part. It is a story of
  the Indian of to-day, of the hunters of the Hudson bay country, and it
  tells of their life, their adventures, their superstitions, and their
  customs; closing like the conventional romance with the marriage of a
  young brave and an Indian maiden according to the rites of their
  tribe.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 177. O. ’07.

  “The author would seem to have made instruction his aim rather than
  artistic excellence.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 210. Ag. 24. 180w.

  “The book is not properly a novel, but it has an abundance of dramatic
  force and there is a simple directness in its style that makes you
  feel that you are getting pretty close to the truth about the red man
  of the Canadian fur-lands.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

       + =Bookm.= 25: 602. Ag. ’07. 160w.

  “This is an excellent book for boys just emerging from the stage where
  they ‘play Indian’ and not yet old enough to relish their Parkman.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 58. Jl. 18, ’07. 130w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 381. Je. 15, ’07, 110w.

  “The book is readable in parts, as it would appear, because those
  parts really are drawn from the personal observation of the author.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 494. Ag. 10, ’07. 170w.

  “The book is a pleasant change after the usual run of common novels,
  and its readers will enjoy the glimpses which it affords of a romantic
  and still primitive world.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 202. Ag. 10, ’07. 300w.


=Henderson, George R.= Cost of locomotive operation. $2.50. Railway
gazette.

                                                                6–34658.

  “In discussing this subject the various expenses are classified under
  three general headings—Supplies, Maintenance and Service—and each
  heading is subdivided into its elementary items, each of which is
  examined in regard to all phases of quality and quantity which affect
  the cost of operation, and also as affected by grade, speed, curves,
  loading, weather, etc.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Valuable contribution to railway technical literature. A book that
  should be in the hands of every railroad officer who has in any way to
  do with the supervision or criticism of locomotive operation and its
  cost.” Arthur M. Waitt.

     + + =Engin. N.= 57: 84. Ja. 17, ’07. 1570w.


=Henderson, John.= Jamaica; painted by A. S. Forrest; with 24 full-page
il. in col. *$2. Macmillan.

                                                                7–20521.

  Rather a traveler’s impressions of the country and its people than a
  “profound or long continued” study. “The author brings out vividly the
  character and human side of the natives, the commercial needs and
  difficulties of the Jamaican situation, and makes for the reader
  scores of little pen-pictures of queer and out-of-the-way features of
  the life in the island.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Told in a satisfactory style. Many of the illustrations are very
  good, but some are reproduced in too crude colors even for tropical
  scenes.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 214. Ta. 24, ’07. 200w.

  “The book, and especially the bright colored pictures, will satisfy
  the average reader’s wish for a popular account of life as it was
  lived in the community now suffering under such a calamity.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 88. Ja. 24, ’07. 350w.

  “It is written in a notably sprightly style of description and is very
  far removed either from dull historical writing or from guide-book
  minuteness.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 331. F. 9, ’07. 180w.


=Henderson, Reuben Stewart.= Railroad curve tables. *$1. Eng. news.

                                                                6–41298.

  A volume which contains a comprehensive table of functions on a
  one-degree curve, with correction quantities giving exact values for
  any degree of curve, together with various other tables and formulas,
  including radii, natural sines, cosines, tangents, cotangents, etc. To
  which is added a method of finding any function of a curve of any
  degree or radius without a field book.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It will find a place with the railroad engineer on account of the
  excellent table of functions for a one-degree curve.” Charles L.
  Crandall.

       + =Engin. N.= 57: 89. Ja. 17, ’07. 450w.


=Henderson, Thomas F., and Watt, Francis.= Scotland of to-day. il. **$2.
Pott.

  “The authors take up the religion, the art, the literature, the games,
  the institutions, the food and drink, the education, the wit and
  humor, of the Scotland of to-day, and treat them all briefly but
  entertainingly. There is description also of towns and scenery, but
  preference is constantly given to the human element. But modern
  Scotland is shown against the background of its history and its
  achievements of former ages.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Small things these, perhaps, to comment upon, but an irritating air
  of superiority in the writers which is forever cropping up suggests
  retort.”

     + − =Acad.= 73: 920. S. 21, ’07. 760w.

  “There are many indications in this work both of craftsmanship and
  thought; but bad punctuation and spoiling in many instances mar the
  enjoyment of the reader.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 325. S. 21. 1590w.

  “Whoever wishes to enjoy a picture of the Scotland of to-day, somewhat
  sketchy in effect, but still strong and interesting in its outlines,
  will find it in ‘Scotland of to-day.’”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 563. S. 21, ’07. 170w.


=Henderson, William James.= Art of the singer. **$1.25. Scribner.

                                                                6–33621.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The book is eminently practical; and with a minimum of technical
  phraseology it explains to the student the principal physiological
  problems in voice training and the best methods of solving them.”
  Josiah Renick Smith.

     + + =Dial.= 42: 11. Ja. 1, ’07. 430w.

  “There are few singers in the world who could not profit at some point
  from a careful study of Mr. Henderson’s recent book.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 498. F. 28, ’07. 310w.

  “This material is well arranged, and Mr. Henderson’s own views are
  clearly expressed.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 22. Ja. 18, ’07. 310w.


=Henderson, William James.= Sea yarns for boys, spun by an old Salt.
†60c. Harper.

  The old sailor who sat at the end of the pier and looked out over the
  waves, amused himself and two small sea-eager boys by a series of most
  remarkable tales. They are all of the couldn’t-possibly-have-happened
  kind, about a shark that towed a blockade runner, a monkey that was
  captain of a ship, a merman who dined with the old salt upon a coral
  reef, a whale, a cannibal king and other strange and equally
  entrancing things.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The tales are genuine flights of an imagination that stops at
  nothing. Moreover, they are adorned with many bits of laughable
  reflection and wiseacre philosophy of the weatherbeaten brand.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 237. Ap. 13, ’07. 500w.


=Hendrick, Burton Jesse.= Story of life insurance. **$1.20. McClure.

                                                                7–17891.

  “Mr. Hendrick begins with the scandals growing out of the ‘surplus,’
  traces the notorious career of Henry B. Hyde and the others who
  contributed to the demoralization of American life insurance, gives a
  sympathetic account of the reforms secured through the good offices of
  Elizur Wright, presents a concise history of the ‘tontine,’ and
  describes the race for business, the speculative management, and the
  actual corruption disclosed a couple of years ago.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A clean concise, accurate history of life insurance.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 166. O. ’07. S.

  “Such a work ought to perform a useful service in helping to thwart
  future schemes for evil on the part of unprincipled insurance
  managers.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 842. My. 25, ’07. 80w.

  “In writing a trustworthy popular account of the evils that have
  attended the insurance business Mr. Hendrick has performed a distinct
  public service; his volume should reach a wide circle of readers.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 486. My. 23, ’07. 230w.

  “These articles not only give a good exposition of the somewhat
  intricate subject of modern life insurance, but contain much
  historical material not otherwise accessible.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 35: 758. Je. ’07. 130w.

         =Spec.= 98: 986. Je. 22, ’07. 390w.


=Hendrick, Frank.= Power to regulate corporations and commerce. **$4.
Putnam.

                                                                6–38328.

  The following paragraph from Mr. Hendrick’s preface states the scope
  of the volume: “This book is an attempt to define the limits within
  which the governments of the several States and of the United States
  may secure freedom of trade by control of the persons and things
  engaged therein, and to indicate the respective powers of the three
  departments of the Government in the exercise of such control. The
  relation of the three departments of the Government of the United
  States to one another and to those of the State governments in the
  control of inter-State commerce and of corporations is set forth with
  references to over two thousand cases involving questions of
  constitutional law.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Ind.= 61: 1569. D. 27, ’06. 710w.

         =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 60. Ja. ’07. 230w.

  “The author’s discussions are, it must be said, not always
  intelligible.”

     − + =Nation.= 83: 534. D. 20, ’06. 200w.

  “More will be heard of Mr. Hendrick’s proposal of law, for such it
  must be called rather than an exposition of existing law, despite the
  trend of recent rulings.” Edward A. Bradford.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 896. D. 22, ’06. 1900w.

  “The book will be of value to the lawyer engaged in railway or other
  forms of corporate law; to the legislator who is asked to deal with
  this general subject; to the journalist who is called upon to instruct
  his readers respecting pending legislation; and to officials of great
  corporations whose sins against the law are sometimes sins of
  ignorance not of willfulness. But the lay reader will find it not only
  heavy but intricate reading, and will legitimately desire some one to
  interpret it to him.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 84: 894. D. 8, ’06. 370w.


=Henry VIII., King of England.= Love letters of Henry VIII. to Anne
Boleyn. lea. $1.50. Luce, J: W.

                                                                  7–430.

  “Each letter is dated as exactly as the evidence warrants, and there
  are a few textual notes. A perusal of the letters shows Henry in the
  character of a fairly ardent though not passionate lover, with a
  strong tendency to moralize and to lay emphasis upon the practical
  rather than the sentimental aspects of his affection.” (Dial.) “The
  format of the book expresses the period in a most satisfactory way,
  with its woodcut headbands and initials, and titles and running head
  in Old-English black letter, and folios in black lettered numerals at
  the foot of each page.” (Bookm.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A very satisfactory trade edition.”

       + =Bookm.= 26: 103. S. ’07. 110w.

  “A curious little book, fraught with interest both as a historical
  study and a human document.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 81. F. 1, ’07. 350w.


=Henry, Alfred Judson.= Climatology of the United States. $10. Chief of
the weather bureau, Washington, D. C.

  “After an interesting review of climatic records for the United
  States, 85 pages are devoted to a general discussion of climatology,
  taking up temperature, precipitation, sunshine, winds and seasonal
  variations.... Numerous maps and charts are employed by way of
  illustration.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Contains a vast amount of compact, well-arranged information needed
  almost daily by engineers, so much, in fact, as to make certain
  omissions very noticeable and regrettable.”

     + − =Engin. N.= 57: 90. Ja. 17, ’07. 510w.


=Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter).= Four million. †$1. McClure.

                                                                6–12856.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “In a general way the stories suggest the thumbnail studies of Frapié,
  Provins, and the other flashlight Frenchmen, but without their
  pessimism and despair.” Mary Moss.

       + =Atlan.= 99: 126. Ja. ’07. 510w.


* =Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter).= Heart of the West. †$1.50.
McClure.

                                                                7–33208.

  A group of humorous stories of frontier life.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The whole collection might be taken as an example of how conventional
  and tiresome the raciest slang may grow, when used in excess, as a
  means of enlivening flimsy and carelessly conceived commonplaces.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 350w.

  “The funniest stories by this well-known writer have been collected in
  the volume.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

  “If he has a fault it is that he sets forth too opulent a spread; like
  a rich parvenu’s banquet.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 747. N. 23, ’07. 430w.

       + =Outlook.= 87: 497. N. 2, ’07. 70w.


=Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter).= Trimmed lamp, and other stories of
the four million. †$1. McClure.

                                                                7–16486.

  “Free from the too common trick of embellishing actuality with
  traditional cant, this author wins the intelligent reader through a
  sympathetic cynicism denoting experience and honesty, the whole
  expressing itself in most humorous form. Shopgirls and bartenders and
  pseudo-Bohemians and ‘that sad company of mariners known as Jersey
  commuters’—such types are hit off with immense cleverness.”—R. of Rs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is something irresistible about the stories, with all their
  crimes upon them; they are so buoyant and careless, so genial in their
  commentary, and so pleasantly colored by a sentiment which, if as
  sophisticated as Broadway itself, is still perfectly spontaneous and
  sincere.” Harry James Smith.

       + =Atlan.= 100: 134. Jl. ’07. 290w.

  “The reader who skips a single story in the collection runs the risk
  of losing something that he would have liked quite as well as those he
  read, if not rather better.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

       + =Bookm.= 26: 79. S. ’07. 530w.

  “It is with the same humor that he still graces his stories; but there
  has crept into his work some other qualities which give it a worth and
  charm that it did not have before.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 880. O. 10, ’07. 370w.

  “For stories of their kind, are fine.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 766. My. 11, ’07. 80w.

  “‘O. Henry’ is actually that rare bird, of which we so often hear
  false reports—a born story-teller.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 16. Jl. 4, ’07. 300w.

  “It is not to much to say that O. Henry achieves the Carlylian miracle
  of taking the roofs off—lifting the lid—and shows what lies beneath.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 430. Jl. 6, ’07. 839w.

       + =Outlook.= 86: 833. Ag. 17, ’07. 220w.

  “‘The trimmed lamp’ must appeal to all discriminating devotees of
  local character study, and each one of them will wish to stay
  acquainted with ‘O. Henry.’”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 766. Je. ’07. 130w.


=Henschel, George.= Personal recollections of Johannes Brahms: some of
his letters to and pages from a journal kept by George Henschel. $1.50.
Badger, R. G.

                                                                7–10574.

  Excerpts from a journal kept while traveling with Brahms in the
  seventies form the nucleus of Mr. Henschel’s reminiscent study, to
  which have been added some recollections and letters. Several
  reproduced photographs of the great composer are included.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is an interesting contribution to the sidelights that have been
  thrown upon the personality of the great master by a number of his
  friends and contemporaries since his death.” Richard Aldrich.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 148. Mr. 9, ’07. 430w.


=Henshaw, Julia W.= Mountain wild flowers of America. *$2. Ginn.

                                                                6–25647.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The incompleteness of the book, however inevitable, is a more serious
  drawback than its unscientific plan, and a drawback that must affect
  all kinds of readers. However, she has, on the whole, made a good
  selection, and her descriptions are as clear as they can be without
  the use of botanical terms.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 53. F. 15, ’07. 560w.


=Hensley, Mrs. Sophie M.= Heart of a woman. **$1.50. Putnam.

                                                                 7–3092.

  “A book of verses of unobtrusive quality written by Mrs. Hensley, who
  adds to her poetic gifts the largeheartedness of a woman interested in
  philanthropic reforms.... The verses are carefully grouped under the
  different heads, Love lyrics, A woman’s love-letters, Nature poems,
  Narrative poems, Child poems and songs, Sonnets, and Rondeaus.”—N. Y.
  Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Though the verses are not tinged with any oppressive ethos, we feel
  throughout a grace and simplicity of goodness. The meter and rhythm
  are smooth, the meaning is not too deep-hidden, and the moods vary
  from grave to gay.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 373. Je. 8, ’07. 170w.

  “While there is nothing in the least objectionable in the Heart
  disclosing itself in these verses, there is also nothing of special
  value. The lines are of easy, rippling quality, and the sentiment is
  perhaps as perfectly exemplified in the poem called Prayer as in any
  of the collection. Real passion never babbles.”

     − + =Outlook.= 85: 526. Mr. 2, ’07. 90w.


* =Herbert, Agnes.= Two Dianas in Somaliland: the record of a shooting
trip. il. $4. Lane.

  Two young huntresses face lions and leopards in the African wilds as
  unflinchingly as any toughened game-bagger of the sterner sex. They go
  for game and adventure, and find it. Their caravan consisted of
  forty-nine camels, seven horses, about a half hundred camel drivers,
  men of all work and guides. There is a thrill on almost every page to
  keep the adventure-lover’s blood tingling.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is exceptionally interesting and well turned out.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 476. O. 19. 870w.

  “This record of adventures and achievements, although realistic and at
  times heartless, is nevertheless a fascinating one.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 720. N. 9, ’07. 310w.

  “Miss Herbert, judging by her trophies, is readier with the gun than
  the pen.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 104: 582. N. 9, ’07. 250w.

  “The tone of bravado and devil-may-careness is irksome at first, when
  it is only a few simple conventions which the Dianas are defying. When
  it comes to be lions and rhinos and every known discomfort, we are
  captivated in spite of ourselves.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: sup. 749. N. 16, ’07. 630w.


=Herford, Oliver.= Little book of bores. **$1. Scribner.

                                                                6–36032.

  “Mr. Herford has discovered twenty-four species of Bores, one for each
  letter of the alphabet.... One may be assured of finding all his
  enemies and most of his friends among the bores—and possibly he may
  discover himself there.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His rhymes and pictures ... are inimitable.”

       + =Dial.= 41: 398. D. 1. ’06. 90w.

         =Nation.= 83: 463. N. 29, ’06. 50w.


=Herrick, Albert Bledsoe, and Boynton, Edward Carlisle.= American
electric railway practice. *$3. McGraw pub.

                                                                7–17388.

  The first two chapters of the work “cover the general engineering
  preliminaries, such as estimates and field engineering. Location and
  construction of track, power stations and overhead circuits are next
  described and illustrated from the best current practice. The
  remainder of the volume deals with the many details of operation
  beginning with the essential features of time-tables, schedules,
  dispatching and signals.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “As a whole, the book is well printed, bound and indexed.... It will
  be convenient for reference, especially to those engineers who are not
  regular readers of the electric railway periodicals and to those who
  do not have access to the bound volumes of the Street railway
  journal.” Henry H. Norris.

       + =Engin. N.= 57: 663. Je. 13, ’07. 610w.

         =Technical Literature.= 2: 97. Ag. ’07. 270w.


=Herrick, Rufus Frost.= Denatured or industrial alcohol. *$4. Wiley.

                                                                7–19427.

  A treatise on the history, manufacture, composition, uses, and
  possibilities of industrial alcohol in the various countries
  permitting its use, and the laws and regulations governing the same,
  including the United States. It appeals to the chemical manufacturer
  on the one hand, and the engineer who would use it as fuel on the
  other.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Probably the best treatise available in English.”

     + + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 166. O. ’07.

  “A careful reading of the book by any one even partly well informed on
  the subject matter must lead to the conclusion that the author was
  very unfamiliar with his subject: that he depended almost entirely on
  other than first hand information: that he was unable or unwilling to
  criticise this information when obtained.” Charles Edward Lucke.

     − − =Engin. N.= 58: 76. Jl. 18, ’07. 1790w.

  “A needed and timely book.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 287. S. 26, ’07. 380w.


=Herridge, William Thomas.= Orbit of life; studies in human experience.
**$1. Revell.

                                                                6–33546.

  A volume of religious and social essays in which Dr. Herridge “sees
  life whole, both in extent and content, and aims both to show it as he
  sees it, and to redeem it from monotony and triviality by putting its
  emphasis in the right place.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Dr. Herridge has something to say that is worth hearing both for the
  matter and the manner of it.”

     + + =Outlook.= 84: 893. D. 8, ’06. 200w.

  “The book abounds in common-sense, and is full at the same time of
  religious and ethical suggestion. Dr. Herridge speaks profoundly, and
  cannot but set his readers thinking.”

     + + =Spec.= 97: 204. F. 9, ’07. 1360w.


=Hershey, Amos Shartle.= International law and diplomacy of the
Russo-Japanese war. **$3. Macmillan.

                                                                 7–3157.

  “A fairly complete history, from the viewpoint of international law
  and diplomacy, of the war between Japan and Russia. The material is
  cast in a general narrative form, although each chapter is more or
  less complete by itself. The rights and duties of belligerents and
  neutrals are, of course, the main theme, although the questions of war
  correspondents, wireless telegraphy, and submarine mines come in for
  treatment. Copious notes and explanatory references, and last but not
  least, an excellent index, make the contents of the volume very
  accessible.”—R. of Rs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He is judicial, he is temperate, he is sound, he is wonderfully fair
  and liberal in his citations of authorities. In minor matters here and
  there one might take issue, but on the other hand there is original
  well-digested comment on almost every page upon a variety of hotly
  disputed questions, which will make the book of permanent value.”
  Theodore S. Woolsey.

   + + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 652. Ap. ’07. 1130w.

  “Professor Hershey writes in an easy style and the subject is treated
  in a way that attracts not only the student of international law but
  also the general reader. The manner of presentation is semi-historical
  giving the reader thus a view of the progress of the conflict as well
  as the diplomatic incidents, and legal questions that arose during its
  course.” Chester Lloyd Jones.

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 656. My. ’07. 750w.

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 195. F. 16. 2070w.

  “The most scholarly, exhaustive, and illuminating study of the
  Russo-Japanese conflict from the standpoint of international law and
  diplomacy.” J. W. Garner.

     + + =Dial.= 42: 285. My. 1, ’07. 1350w.

  “This is a scholarly and authoritative volume, altogether unlike the
  popular books on this over-written war.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 1473. Je. 20, ’07. 370w.

  “An interesting and suggestive volume.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 860. Ap. 13, ’07. 290w.

  “A valuable book.” G: Louis Beer.

       + =Putnam’s.= 2: 745. S. ’07. 140w.

  “A particularly useful volume.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 35: 381. Mr. ’07. 140w.

  “Mr. Hershey’s work is a success. He has labored hard to ascertain
  facts, the existence of which are of great concern to civilization.
  His judgment thereon has been that of one possessing both a close
  knowledge of international law and an instinctive sense of justice.”
  Charles Cheney Hyde.

     + + =Yale R.= 16: 98. My. ’07. 1150w.


=Herter, Christian Archibald.= Common bacterial infections of the
digestive tract and the intoxications arising from them. **$1.50.
Macmillan.

  A medical work on typhoid fever written essentially for physicians but
  which, however, contains much that will interest the sanitarian.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Dr. Herter’s book is bound to have the effect of broadening our
  conception of the subject of infectious diseases of the digestive
  tract, and deserves a wide reading.” George C. Whipple.

       + =Engin. N.= 57: 661. Je. 13, ’07. 730w.

  “Those to whom the terminology of the bacteriologist is not unfamiliar
  will find here not only a well written but also an interesting and
  suggestive study of a rich fauna and a discussion of questions of much
  import, for they are fundamental in relation to a great human woe,
  indigestion.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 522. D. 5, ’07. 140w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 465. Jl. 27, ’07. 140w.


=Hervey, Arthur.= Alfred Bruneau. (Living masters of music ser.) *$1.
Lane.

                                                                7–29175.

  An impartial study of the artist and his work which includes his
  conservatory days, his work for the musical drama, and his relations
  with Zola who was a faithful companion and whose stout ally Bruneau
  became during the Zola trial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Those who are interested in French musical developments will be glad
  to have it.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 357. O. 17, ’07. 1840w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 502. Ag. 17, ’07. 360w.


=Herzfeld, Elsa Goldina.= Family monographs. For sale by Brentano’s and
Charity organization soc., N. Y.

                                                                 6–1551.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The generalizations in the first fifty pages are, to the extent that
  they are generalizations, open to criticism. But taken as an
  assemblage of related incidents, instead of statements of general
  truths, they are interesting and valuable. Apparently no effort was
  made to discriminate between characteristics and beliefs peculiar to
  tenement-house families and those that are to be found in all economic
  grades, between conditions which merely impress an observer
  unaccustomed to life among the poor as exceptional to the neighborhood
  and those which really are exceptional.”

     + − =Charities.= 17: 501. D. 15, ’06. 670w.


=Hewitt, Emma Churchman.= Ease in conversation; or, Hints to the
ungrammatical. 5th ed. 50c. Jacobs.

                                                                7–29161.

  A practical little volume for the ungrammatical and for the timid
  talker devoted to a study of the correct forms of English used in
  conversation. The errors are of the “genteel” rather than the “vulgar”
  sort and are discussed in a series of letters written to a group of
  girls bent upon improving their conversation.


=Hewlett, Maurice H.= Stooping lady; front. by Harrison Fisher. †$1.50.
Dodd.

                                                                7–30839.

  “‘The stooping lady’ carries us back something less than a hundred
  years, to the days just preceding the regency in England.... Here the
  historical background is largely a matter of externals of dress and
  manner; the spirit is modern enough to require no great backward leap
  of the imagination.” (Forum.) The story has a London setting and deals
  with a proud Irish girl who “stoops” to one beneath her in station,
  but to one whose, “clean fine manhood has taught her to respect and
  honor him.” (Bookm.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We know of no book of Mr. Hewlett’s that is more vivid, more graphic
  or more engrossing. We delight in his style, his similes, his
  brilliant flashes of humour, and occasionally in the glimpse we have
  of the Satyric horns, with which we have become so intimate in, say,
  ‘The forest lovers,’ or ‘Pan and the young shepherd.’”

       + =Acad.= 73: sup. 115. N. 9, ’07. 800w.

  “Carries you swiftly along with an absorbing love story, and charms
  you with the exceeding grace and skill of its telling.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 201. N. ’07. ✠

  “This tale is characteristic of his genius. Judged as a mere novel of
  politics the book is brilliant, outshining the attractive but thin
  work of Disraeli, and much truer to human nature and history.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 475. O. 19. 310w.

  “Yet, fine as the story is in conception and in workmanship, it
  somehow lacks the bigness, the finality, the enduring interest of ‘The
  queen’s quair’ or ‘The fool errant.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.

   + + − =Bookm.= 26: 160. O. ’07. 1100w.

  “If ‘The stooping lady’ be not positively a great book, it at least
  has great qualities. Leaving aside a few careless moments, its style
  is such as cannot be surpassed, if indeed it can be matched, by more
  than one or two men of our day. It paints the manner of a period with
  altogether unusual truth and delicacy. Greatest virtue of all, it
  gives us knowledge of great men and women, displaying them under the
  stress of emotions that raise them out of the common and make them
  typical of humanity.” Edward Clark Marsh.

   + + − =Forum.= 39: 266. O. ’07. 2040w.

  “All told, it is an admirable story, but as unfaithful in spirit to
  the times it is supposed to portray as it is loyal to that of the
  present.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 1173. N. 14, ’07. 740w.

  “Altogether Mr. Hewlett, we are inclined to think, has somewhat lost
  his way in writing his latest book, though it must not be supposed
  that it is not readable, and at times even charming.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 309. O. 11, ’07. 670w.

  “The whole book might be taken as conclusive illustration of the
  disputed truth that a high degree of skill need in no way hamper an
  author’s individuality or warmth of expression, that a classic
  restraint of manner by no means reduces the emotional quality to the
  academic level of an eighteenth century essayist.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 377. O. 24, ’07. 560w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 50w.

  “We have Mr. Hewlett writing sheer Meredith, naked and unashamed—one
  might almost say rewriting ‘Diana of the Crossways.’ And yet the book
  is his own, one of the most brilliant pieces of work done in our time,
  with a heroine I, personally, would not exchange for Diana.” Richard
  De Gallienne.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 709. N. 9, ’07. 1470w.

  “A story which belongs at the head of the autumnal list, but does not
  quite reach the solid ground on which ‘Little novels of Italy’ rest.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 87: 621. N. 23, ’07. 270w.

  “It is because he has given so much that one’s disappointment, when he
  falls beneath his promise, must plead his very generosity to excuse
  its air of ingratitude in declining to be content with even the
  dexterous accomplishment of ‘The stooping lady.’”

     + − =Sat. R.= 104: 454. O. 12, ’07. 1440w.

  “One obvious criticism may be made in conclusion,—that the author has
  fallen deeply beneath the sway of Meredithian formula, without,
  however, lapsing into the obscurity of his great exemplar.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: 574. O. 19, ’07. 690w.


=Hichens, Robert Smythe.= Barbary sheep: a novel. †$1.25. Harper.

                                                                7–24588.

  A slight story steeped in the atmosphere, the mystery, the fascination
  of the Algerian desert. An English nobleman falls in with the whims of
  his wife who must be amused and takes her to the edge of the Algerian
  desert. While he hunts Barbary sheep, she succumbs to the wiles of an
  Arab army officer who practices his hypnotic arts upon her. It is a
  daring bit of romantic color that Mr. Hichens flings upon his canvas.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is merely a small thing supremely well done.” Edward Clark Marsh.

     + + =Bookm.= 26: 167. O. ’07. 1240w.

         =Ind.= 63: 939. O. 17, ’07. 500w.

  “As for the style and proportions of the narrative. they suggest ... a
  distinct advance in the art of the novelist. The purple passages of
  description are few and not over-long; and there is a general
  abstention from ‘piling on the agony.’”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 211. S. 5, ’07. 300w.

  “Hardly reaches the dignity of a novel either in length or substance.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 535. S. 7, ’07. 510w.

  “On the whole, not a pleasant tale.”

       − =Outlook.= 87: 45. S. 7, ’07. 80w.


=Hichens, Robert Smythe.= Call of the blood. †$1.50. Harper.

                                                                6–34641.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “When the emotional impulse is lacking, his ideas become singularly
  dull and his manner quite without distinction. But at the first sting
  of sensation, the style leaps into vitality; and if always deficient
  in a certain finality of touch, it continually delights with its
  resiliency and exuberance.” Harry James Smith.

     + − =Atlan.= 100: 129. Jl. ’07. 800w.

  “In respect of scene-painting, dramatic construction, and emotional
  force alike, the book deserves unusual praise.” Wm. M. Payne.

     + + =Dial.= 42: 143. Mr. 1. ’07. 230w.

  “On the whole we think that in ‘The call of the blood’ Mr. Hichens’s
  aim as a romancer and his aim as a novelist were at odds.” Edith Baker
  Brown.

     + − =No. Am.= 183: 923. N. 2, ’06. 1630w.

     + − =R. of Rs.= 35: 120. Ja. ’07. 220w.


* =Higginson, Thomas Wentworth.= Life and times of Stephen Higginson.
**$2. Houghton.

                                                                7–30144.

  Here is offered a clear insight into the character of Stephen
  Higginson and also into post-revolutionary times at Boston. His
  prominence in New England councils both before and after the
  revolution, the importance of the “Laco” letters, his career as
  shipmaster, merchant, patriot and politician are all emphasized in the
  sketch.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The attractive touch of the amateur, so noticeable in all of Colonel
  Higginson’s writings, is peculiarly well adapted to these memorials of
  his Federalist grandfather.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 613. O. 26, ’07. 540w.

  “A book which though largely a compilation from correspondence and
  official records, is alive with human interest from the first to the
  last of its gracefully written pages.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 613. N. 23, ’07. 180w.

  “There is much material in the letters published in this volume which
  has an important bearing on the manners and politics of that day.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 636. N. ’07. 140w.


=Higinbotham, Harlow Niles.= Making of a merchant. $1.50. Forbes.

                                                                6–37948.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The book before us is unlikely to prove of the slightest value to
  anybody.”

       − =Acad.= 72: 339. Ap. 6, ’07. 220w.

  “The book is full of good business advice, and is especially to be
  recommended to young business men.” George M. Fisk.

     + + =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 645. D. ’06. 190w.

         =Spec.= 98: 764. My. 11, ’07. 280w.


=Hildreth, Richard.= Japan as it was and is. 2v. *$3. McClurg.

                                                                6–40974.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 84. Mr. ’07.

  “To this day Richard Hildreth’s book (published in 1855) gives the
  best pictures of Japan as seen by the various early travelers.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 329. F. 7, ’07. 100w.

  “Had our diplomatists and merchants and missionaries studied Hildreth
  many costly errors would have been avoided.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 80. Jl. 25, ’07. 500w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 384. Mr. ’07. 50w.


=Hildrup, Jessie S.= Missions of California and the old Southwest; with
35 il. from photographs. **$1. McClurg.

                                                                7–13929.

  An interesting account of the old missions and settlements of the days
  of Spanish rule. “This is the sort of a book that one loves to pick up
  and linger over. The profuse and well-executed illustrations catch the
  eye, the narrative is full of interest, and the historical chapters
  are brief and accurate, and evidence considerable study.” (Cath.
  World.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a bright, popular treatment of the theme, very thoroughly and
  sympathetically done.”

       + =Cath. World.= 85: 684. Ag. ’07. 410w.

         =Dial.= 42: 232. Ap. 1, ’07. 40w.


=Hilgard, Eugene Woldemar.= Soils, their formation, properties,
composition and relations to climate and plant growth in the humid, and
arid regions. *$4. Macmillan.

                                                                6–26528.

  “Professor Hilgard’s book, in broad outline, deals with the origin and
  formation, the physics and the chemistry, of soils, and with native
  vegetation as an aid to the study of the agricultural value of
  soils.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The section of the most value to engineers as a class is the one on
  the ‘Physics of soils.’”

       + =Engin. N.= 57: 309. Mr. 14, ’07. 300w.

  “The book is a little heavy for classroom use. It contains a larger
  number of printers’ errors than ought to exist. Yet, when all is said,
  there is so much valuable matter packed into its six hundred pages ...
  that it remains indispensable.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 19. Jl. 4, ’07. 140w.

  “This volume should be introduced to a much wider circle of students
  than those of the agricultural colleges generally. It will be found
  well suited to serve as the foundation of important seminars in
  chemistry, in geology and especially in plant physiology and ecology.”
  F. H. King.

     + + =Science=, n.s. 24: 681. N. 30, ’06. 1620w.


=Hill, Constance.= House in St. Martin’s street. **$7. Lane.

  “The subject of Miss Hill’s book is the Burney family in the last of
  their London homes; that is, from the autumn of 1774 to the spring of
  1783. The author has been fortunate enough to obtain new material in
  the shape of unpublished letters from the Burney Mss.; and she has
  also had the use of a copy of Madame D’Arblay’s ‘Diary and letters’
  annotated by a granddaughter of its first editor. By interweaving with
  the new matter passages from the ‘Early diary,’ the ‘Memoirs of Dr.
  Burney’ and other printed sources dealing with the Burney and Thrale
  circle, she has produced a most agreeable volume of handsome
  appearance.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 647. N. 24. 1760w.

  “If its pages sometimes repeat what should be a familiar tale, they
  also illustrate and supplement it.” S. M. Francis.

       + =Atlan.= 100: 489. O. ’07. 480w.

  “Granted the limitations of her method and of her present opportunity,
  she deserves nothing but praise for her conscientious and capable
  investigation of the resources at her command and for her judicious
  selection and arrangement of her well-chosen material.” Edith Kellogg
  Dunton.

       + =Dial.= 42: 177. Mr. 16, ’07. 1480w.

  “Miss Constance Hill writes of the happy little household with all her
  wonted grace, and the book abounds in quotations from diaries and
  other documents, hitherto unpublished, and is further enriched with
  charming illustrations.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 5: 376. N. 9, ’06. 770w.

  “Of the tribe of gentlewomen who are exploiting the eighteenth century
  at their ease, Miss Hill is the least amateurish and most
  entertaining.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 486. D. 6, ’06. 980w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 800. D. 1, ’06. 200w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 72. F. 2, ’07. 560w.

  “Miss Constance Hill has made the happy discovery of a new lode in the
  Burney mine.”

       + =Sat. R.= 102: 742. D. 15, ’06. 960w.

  “She has little to tell us that we do not already know. Her stories
  have been told a hundred times.”

       − =Spec.= 97: 828. N. 24, ’06. 1270w.


=Hill, David Jayne.= History of diplomacy in the international
development of Europe. 6v. ea. **$5. Longmans.

  =v. 2.= The establishment of the territorial sovereignty.

  “Having shown how the struggle between the Empire and the Papacy gave
  room and occasion for the rise of national monarchies, Dr. Hill now
  proceeds to trace the evolution of the modern state through the
  warring efforts of these monarchies to attain, if not supremacy as
  conceived in the earlier ideal of universal dominion, at least
  primacy; and their subsequent adjustment to a system of balanced and
  co-ordinate power based upon the principle of territorial
  sovereignty.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Should take rank among the best of our books of reference.” George L.
  Burr.

   + + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 617. Ap. ’07. 1130w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “In effect, then, Mr. Hill seems to the reviewer to have just arrived
  at the true beginning of his task—to have expanded in one volume, and
  in all but one chapter of the second, matter that might have been
  described and analysed in an introduction of reasonable length.” E. D.
  Adams.

     + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 426. Mr. ’07. 1200w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “The book is little more than a résumé of general history from a
  particular standpoint. We do not say that the thing was not worth
  doing, for the book is both readable and accurate, and the author
  keeps fairly close to international interests.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 13. Jl. 6. 380w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “It is perhaps, the most meritorious characteristic of Mr. Hill’s work
  that he shows a good sense of proportion.”

       + =Cath. World.= 85: 258. My. ’07. 370w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “As a history of Europe mainly from the point of view of international
  relations, Mr. Hill’s work possesses conspicuous merits; but it has
  only a very limited value for the student of diplomacy.”

     + − =Dial.= 42: 189. Mr. 16, ’07. 280w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “It is ... a history of diplomacy without the dry and technical
  features that usually characterize works indicated by this title.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 178. F. 2, ’07. 330w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “By any other name than diplomacy, it would have smelled as much of
  the lamp.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 520. Je. 6, ’07. 210w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “The book covers an interesting period of the world’s history; it is
  an honest, able, and well-told story.” Wm. E. Dodd.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 73. F. 9, ’07. 2100w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “As before, Dr. Hill’s tone is admirably impartial and his treatment
  scholarly. But the promise of that volume is hardly so well fulfilled
  in the matter of narrative, which is somewhat lacking in the ease and
  freshness exhibited in the account of the crude diplomacy of the
  earlier centuries, and is, it seems to us, overburdened with detail.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 85: 331. F. 9, ’07. 200w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “Misstatements of detail here and there, bear witness of shortcoming.
  It represents extraordinarily wide reading in both primary and derived
  sources; its matter is set forth always conscientiously and often
  effectively. It may be read with profit.” Earle W. Dow.

   + + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 711. D. ’07. 1100w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “The second volume maintains the high scholarly standard set by the
  first.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 35: 111. Ja. ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “The reader receives the impression that Dr. Hill selected his
  subject, set himself to work up the necessary background of history,
  and found this so novel and engrossing that he felt it must be
  presented, and as a result, lost sight of his central theme.” Guy
  Stanton Ford.

       − =Yale R.= 16: 105. My. ’07. 380w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)


=Hill, Frederick Trevor.= Decisive battles of the law. **$2.25. Harper.

                                                                7–33964.

  In this volume are described the great legal contests which have
  proven to be of the deepest significance in the history of our
  country. That the full historic value may be appreciated the scene is
  vitalized and peopled with the human beings who dominated it—the
  judges, the jury, the witnesses, the lawyers and the laymen. Among the
  eight “decisive battles” thus presented are the following: the United
  States vs. Callender: a fight for the freedom of the press; The
  commonwealth vs. Brown: the prelude to the civil war; and The
  impeachment of Andrew Johnson: a historic moot case.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 727. N. 16, ’07. 150w.

  “Mr. Hill is not only a well-read lawyer, but also a writer who knows
  how to make his narrative clear, direct, and often in a high degree
  dramatic.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 589. N. 16, ’07. 220w.

  “So well does he succeed in humanizing dry records of legal procedure
  that the readers become, as it were, listening spectators. Few writers
  upon legal topics have acquired so masterly a skill in narration.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 36: 758. D. ’07. 120w.


=Hill, Frederick Trevor.= Lincoln the lawyer. **$2. Century.

                                                                6–34845.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Mr. Hill has undoubtedly rendered a conspicuous and important
  service.” Floyd R. Mechem.

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 12: 673. Ap. ’07. 560w.

  “This is an extremely interesting and well-written work, a
  contribution of real value to the already voluminous literature
  dealing with the life of the great Emancipator. There is one criticism
  that we think can be justly made. The author lays far too much stress
  and importance, in our judgment, on Lincoln’s legal training, and
  attributes a value to it out of all proportion to the proper relation
  it bears to the action of the great and single-hearted statesman.”

     + − =Arena.= 37: 215. F. ’07. 330w.

       + =Dial.= 42: 20. Ja. 1, ’07. 300w.

  “Mr. Hill has done the public and the profession a favor in showing
  how it came about that Mr. Lincoln was one of the great lawyers of
  this country.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 275. Ja. 31, ’07. 440w.

  “No one familiar with the qualities which the legal profession demands
  and generates in its best representatives needs to be told how much of
  Lincoln’s strength in the presidency resulted from that daily exercise
  which the practice of law had provided. It is the special virtue of
  Mr. Hill’s book that it will bring home to many readers this important
  fact, and will help them to realize what a great man and a great
  profession may owe to each other.” M. A. DeWolfe Howe.

       + =No. Am.= 183: 1303. D. 21, ’06. 1440w.


=Hill, George Birkbeck.= Letters of George Birkbeck Hill, arranged by
his daughter, Lucy Crump. *$3.50. Longmans.

                                                                7–29013.

  A subjective view is afforded in these letters of a man whose chief
  literary service was rendered thru his edition of Boswell’s Johnson.
  Unassuming candor and sincerity create an atmosphere in which can be
  made a sympathetic study of the leader and scholar.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow.

     + + =Dial.= 42: 78. F. 1, ’07. 1560w.

  “His letters, here collected by his daughter, will interest all
  readers who care to know something of the man, his life, and his work
  from day to day.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 63. Ja. 12, ’07. 100w.

         =Lond. Times.= 5: 375. N. 9, ’06. 860w.

       + =Nation.= 84: 133. F. 7, ’07. 250w.

  “This is one of the best examples that have been given to the public
  of that now popular form of biography which allows its subject to
  speak for himself by means of letters.”

     + + =Spec.= 99: 265. Ag. 24, ’07. 2150w.


=Hill, George Francis.= Historical Greek coins. *$2.50. Macmillan.

                                                                6–45173.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “We can speak with great satisfaction of the interest of the book,
  which is written with caution and sanity.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 173. F. 9. 320w.

         =Ind.= 62: 503. F. 28, ’07. 320w.

  “As an elementary treatise it presents the subject in a clear,
  straightforward style, unhampered by details, yet with some attention
  to the historical problems involved. In some cases the reader may be
  unwilling to accept the author’s view.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 58. Ja. 17, ’07. 460w.


=Hill, George W.= Collected mathematical works. (Carnegie inst. of
Washington publications.) 4v. ea. $2.50. Carnegie inst.

  Dr. Hill’s valuable contributions to practical astronomy are collected
  here, covering seventeen hundred pages. Among his best known papers
  are those which set forth his theory of the moon’s motion and the
  theory of Jupiter and Saturn.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Nation.= 85: 355. O. 17, ’07. 1010w. (Review of v. 4.)

  Reviewed by R. A. S.

     + + =Nature.= 73: 409. Mr. 1, ’06. 990w. (Review of v. 1.)

     + + =Nature.= 75: 123. D. 6, ’06. 600w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)

  “It is, indeed, difficult to overstate the interest of the whole
  volume—at least, to those occupied in the subjects treated of.” R. A.
  S.

     + + =Nature.= 76: 635. O. 24, ’07. 550w. (Review of v. 4.)

  Reviewed by E. W. B.

     + + =Science=, n.s. 25: 933. Je. 14, ’07. 1840w. (Review of v.
         1–4.)


=Hill, Headon, pseud. (Francis Edward Grainger).= The avengers. $1.50.
Dodge, B. W.

  To free her lover from an insane asylum, a young heiress searches out
  his double, offers him ample remuneration to assume insanity, become
  an inmate of the asylum, exchange places with the lover and help the
  latter to escape. The one feigning insanity finds the other too
  hopelessly mad to execute the commission; so after a few weeks goes
  forth himself, weds the girl, who supposes him to be her rescued
  lover, and then the complications begin which involve a vendetta meant
  for the man shut away in the “refractory cell” but which in reality
  menaces the life and happiness of the innocent double. The tangle is
  straightened by the death of the real maniac.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Immaturity marks the treatment of an idea which promises well.”

     − + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 695. Je. 1. 140w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 332. My. 25, ’07. 280w.


=Hill, Marion.= Pettison twins. †$1.50. McClure.

                                                                6–35942.

  A mother, who with the best of intentions strives to bring up her
  children according to the rigid ideas put forth in child-study books,
  meets with unexpected set backs due to the vigorous personalities of
  Rex and Regina, confronting her with problems not dealt by the editor.
  A series of amusing stories full of gentle sarcasm is the result.

                  *       *       *       *       *

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 51. F. ’07.

  “We defy any one whose sense of humor is not submerged to resist a
  laugh at Marion Hills fun over the Pettison twins and Fanny Y. Cory’s
  pictures of them.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 790. D. 1, ’06. 210w.


=Hilliers, Ashton.= Fanshawe of the Fifth; being memoirs of a person of
quality. †$1.50. McClure.

                                                                 7–4159.

  “Those who relish Besant’s novels, with their quiet movement, gentle
  sentiment, and abundance of detail, will be apt to like ‘Fanshawe of
  the fifth.’ The hero, who tells the story of his own life, is the
  younger son of a noble family. Not succeeding in the army, for which
  he was intended, he works his way to success through many hardships
  and perils. There is plenty of adventure.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 177. O. ’07.

  “The episodes Mr. Hilliers handles with great skill, but he is
  somewhat at fault in the process of co-ordination. The author’s study
  of the period must have been profound, and he has absorbed the spirit
  of the times with remarkable ability. His narrative is thus
  convincing, except in the London part, which reads almost like a piece
  of Dickensian caricature.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 161. F. 9. 210w.

  “A book to be cordially commended to the consideration of the
  discriminating few.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

       + =Bookm.= 25: 498. Jl. ’07. 560w.

  “It offers us the real thing, as distinguished from the artificial
  fabrication of the novelist who ‘gets up’ his subject.” Wm. M. Payne.

     + + =Dial.= 43: 61. Ag. 1, ’07. 260w.

  “But to be enjoyed, it is a book that must be read at leisure, and
  when you are in a congenial mood.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

       + =Forum.= 39: 119. Jl. ’07. 390w.

  “Without affectation, it has a pleasant flavour of sedate Georgian
  prose, and its polish and lucidity reflect the best qualities of that
  period.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 45. F. 8, ’07. 450w.

  “The plot is interesting and well sustained, and there are several
  characters drawn with dramatic insight. It has much quiet charm and is
  written in a style of marked distinction.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 235. Ap. 13, ’07. 180w.

  “The eighteenth-century manner is well sustained without affectation
  or strained elegance, the style being indeed throughout of conspicuous
  and consistent treatment. The series of adventures and experiences ...
  are admirably conceived and described and the characters, if not
  brilliant pieces of portraiture, are effective and real.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 103: 244. F. 23, ’07. 130w.

  “The long scenario of Mr. Hilliers’ romance given on his title-page
  prepares the reader for something unconventional and unusual, and
  these expectations are richly fulfilled in the contents of this
  admirably written and engrossing romance.”

     + + =Spec.= 98: 335. Mr. 2, ’07. 700w.


=Hillis, Newell Dwight.= Fortune of the republic. **$1.20. Revell.

                                                                6–41943.

  Sturdy optimism is shown thruout these essays and addresses. In the
  course of his travels thru every state and territory of the Union, Dr.
  Hillis has found that “‘any darkness there is on the horizon is
  morning twilight and not evening twilight.’ This evidence is summed up
  in the growth of the religious spirit, the increasing popularization
  of education and culture, and the passing of sectionalism. Dr. Hillis
  believes that everything points to a still greater America.”
  (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Such thinking and such writing furnish the soil that will forever
  produce corruption in business and in politics. Fortunately, it may be
  said that the optimism, which the author says has been forced upon him
  by much travel and by the pressure of events, is not the kind that the
  leading pulpiteers of the country are meeting in their travels and are
  being forced by the pressure of events to preach to their
  congregations.” William H. Allen.

     − − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 428. Mr. ’07. 600w.

       + =Ind.= 62: 1092. My. 9, ’07. 180w.

  “In a word, his book makes for religious and intellectual betterment
  and for a whole-hearted, robust patriotism that must be up and doing.”

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 44. Ja. 5, ’07. 290w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 115. Ja. ’07. 50w.


=Hilprecht, Hermann Vollrat=, ed. Babylonian expedition of the
University of Pennsylvania. Series A. Cuneiform texts. $6. Dept. of
Archaeology of Univ. of Pennsylvania, Phil.

  =v. 6. pt. 1.= Legal and business documents from the time of the first
  dynasty of Babylon, chiefly from Shippar; by Hermann Ranke. An
  interesting collection of tablets preceded by a scholarly
  introduction.

  =v. 20. pt. 1.= Mathematical, metrological, and chronological tablets
  from the temple library of Nippur. This volume contains “an unusually
  large number of tablets which may be called the school exercises of a
  temple school.... There are over thirty including multiplication
  tables, division tables and square roots.... The metrological
  texts ... have value. More important is a single tablet containing a
  dynastic list of some of the kings of Ur and Isin.”—(Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 330. S. 21. 820w. (Review of v. 20, pt. 1.)

  “[The] work has been done in an exceptionally satisfactory manner.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 44. Ja. 3, ’07. 1540w. (Review of v. 6, pt. 1.)

  “The work is done in a thoro and scholarly way with abundant credit to
  other scholars as shown by the multitude of citations.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 444. F. 21, ’07. 820w. (Review of v. 20, pt. 1.)

  “The value of the entire material is impaired because of the lack of
  frank and honest statements with regard to the place of discovery and
  the environments of that material. So far as the actual publication of
  texts is concerned, Professor Hilprecht’s work seems to be admirably
  done.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 413. My. 2, ’07. 2600w. (Review of v. 20, pt. 1.)


=Hilty, Carl.= Steps of life, further essays on happiness; tr. by Melvin
Brandow. *$1.25. Macmillan.

                                                                 7–6159.

  Eight helpful essays which “lead toward the things that are unseen and
  eternal.” They are entitled, Sin and sorrow, Comfort ye my people, On
  the knowledge of men, What is culture? Noble souls, Transcendental
  hope, The prolegomena of Christianity, The steps of life.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In chapters on the knowledge of men, there is a fund of practical
  psychology and shrewd observation of a Baconian Quality, but animated
  with a tenderness and glow of human sympathy to which Bacon was a
  stranger.”

       + =Cath. World.= 85: 549. Jl. ’07. 560w.

  “Many striking passages in his book evoke cordial assent, and some,
  equally striking, call forth the opposite. The translation is smooth,
  but has a few unidiomatic or awkward expressions, and at least one
  slip in grammar.”

     + − =Dial.= 42: 188. Mr. 16, ’07. 300w.

         =Nation.= 84: 176. F. 21, ’07. 100w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 159. Mr. 16. ’07. 250w.

  “The essay upon Transcendental hope is lofty and most stimulating,
  reflecting the noblest sentiments, and interpreting life here and
  hereafter from the disciplined standpoint of a man acquainted with
  sorrow, sin, and victory.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 78. My. 11, ’07. 260w.


=Hinckley, Frank Erastus.= American consular jurisdiction in the Orient.
*$3.50. Lowdermilk.

                                                                6–29752.

  “An exposition of the system of consular extra-territorial
  jurisdiction under which Americans have been permitted to reside and
  trade in Oriental countries. In seven chapters—‘Historic forms of
  extra-territoriality;’ ‘The United States Oriental treaties;’ ‘Acts of
  Congress establishing the system of consular courts;’ ‘Legal rights
  under the jurisdiction;’ ‘International tribunals of Egypt;’ ‘The
  foreign municipality of Shanghai’, and ‘Grounds for relinquishing
  jurisdiction.’”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The style in which the book is written is clear, the statement exact.
  The exhaustive footnotes place the source material easily at the
  service of one who wishes to consult the original authorities.”

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 160. Jl. ’07. 270w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 59. F. 2, ’07. 60w.

         =Outlook.= 85: 857. Ap. 13, ’07. 370w.


=Hind, Charles Lewis.= Education of an artist. $2.50. Macmillan.

                                                                7–19742.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 145. F. 2, ’07. 650w.


=Hinkson, Henry A.= Golden morn. $1.50. Cassell.

  The story of a young man fighting ill-health quite as much that a
  hated uncle may not inherit his property as for the love of life.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The story is brightly told and full of incident.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 263. S. 7. 160w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 20w.


=Hinkson, Katharine Tynan.= For Maisie. †$1.25. McClurg.

  The title sounds the keynote of this story in which an uncouth foster
  father turns all of his courage and indomitable will to the task of
  amassing wealth for Maisie. While under his determined hand ruthless
  industry obliterates the landmarks that tradition and sentiment hold
  dear, yet right is right and integrity rules him. Maisie, obedient,
  ambitious, proud-spirited, learns in time that she is kin to the lords
  and ladies of the adjoining estates.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Not one solitary event bears the faintest likeness to anything in
  real life. As a mere narrator, however, she is smooth, practised, and
  totally unobjectionable.”

     − + =Nation.= 85: 400. O. 31, ’07. 230w.

  “There is enough action to keep up the reader’s interest.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 732. N. 16, ’07. 120w.


=Hinkson, Katharine Tynan.= Story of Bawn. †$1.25. McClurg.

                                                                7–35216.

  Bawn is a young Irish girl whose love affairs form the sum total of
  her life affairs. For a time it looks as tho she might be forced into
  an undesirable marriage to keep the family skeleton well closeted, but
  the sacrifice is not exacted. A trusty red setter and faithful Irish
  servants deserve some share of credit in bringing the tale to a happy
  close.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Acad.= 71: 374. O. 13, ’06. 150w.

  “Not remarkable in any way, but diverting.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 135. My. ’07. ✠

  “Is in Mrs. Hinkson’s familiar Irish vein, pleasant, easy, flowing
  over the surface of life. We notice that the use of ‘shall’ and ‘will’
  is still a difficulty, if not with the author, at least with her
  characters.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 578. N. 10. 160w.

  “A good book for those readers who like their novels to be chronicles
  of the heart rather than of soul problems, finance, machinery, or
  economics.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 342. Ap. 11, ’07. 100w.

  “It is told with taste and with some skill in the handling of incident
  and with much evident affection for the quiet life, the beautiful
  fields, and the contented people of secluded corners of Ireland.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 243. Ap. 13, ’07. 230w.

  “Miss Tynan will not increase her reputation by this book.”

       − =Spec.= 97: 790. N. 17, ’06. 120w.


=Hirst, Francis Wrigley.= Monopolies, trusts and kartells. *$1. Dutton.

                                                                6–14026.

  Mr. Hirst contends that competition is still the life of trade and
  that the greater trusts restrict output and increase price. As to the
  origin of the trust “Mr. Hirst seems to think that in England it is
  the child of English law, and that in America it is the child of our
  ultra tariff. While the German kartell may have this double
  parentage.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Nation.= 82: 37. Ja. 11, ’06. 300w.

  “Persons who believe that the ‘trust movement’ flourishes in a
  free-trade country like England will learn much to their advantage by
  perusing the volume in either its English or its American dress.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 70w.

  “While in the general discussion of the trust problem Mr. Hirst’s book
  will be a helpful factor, it would have been still more helpful had it
  included some later information, especially concerning the results of
  governmental investigation of monopolies in this country.”

     + − =Outlook.= 85: 767. Mr. 30, ’07. 550w.


=Hiscox, Gardner Dexter=, ed. Henley’s twentieth century book of
recipes, formulas and processes, containing nearly ten thousand selected
scientific, chemical, technical and household recipes, formulas and
processes for use in the laboratory, the office, the workshop and in the
home. $3 Henley.

                                                                 7–8246.

  A handbook for various processes and recipes needed by every one.
  “Such information, for instance, as the formula for photographic
  developer, the composition of the various paint-pigments, the
  manufacture of glue or of solder, or the thousand and one detailed
  bits of information which come up, as the title reads ‘in the
  laboratory, the office, the workshop and in the home’—such a book as
  this is very useful.” (Engin. N.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It seems rather out of its province to endeavor to give in so short a
  space as can be allowed to any one article any account of the larger
  materials of engineering.”

     + − =Engin. N.= 57: 308. Mr. 14, ’07. 190w.


=Hiscox, Gardner Dexter.= Modern steam engineering, in theory and
practice. $3. Henley.

                                                                6–43049.

  A complete and practical work for steam-users, electricians, firemen,
  and engineers.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Useful information is contained in this volume, but this information
  is accompanied by so many inaccurate statements that the book becomes
  of doubtful value.” Storm Bull.

     − + =Engin. N.= 57: 665. Je. 13, ’07. 300w.


=Hishida, Seiji G.= International position of Japan as a great power.
*$2.50. Macmillan.

                                                                6–23069.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “His book, which is based on wide study, is a most useful guide to
  British and American readers through a region still imperfectly
  explored, and its value is enhanced by his dispassionate treatment of
  controversial questions.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 18. Ja. 18, ’07. 1080w.


=Hitchcock, Frederick H.=, ed. Building of a book: a series of practical
articles by experts in the various departments of book making and
distributing with an introd. by Theodore L. De Vinne. **$2. Grafton
press.

                                                                6–46354.

  Each of the thirty seven chapters constituting this volume is
  contributed by a person of authority. The articles together furnish
  all the steps thru which books must pass in their making and
  distribution.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Ind.= 60: 744. Mr. 24, ’06. 70w.

  “A very handy book to have on the open shelves in the public library.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 218. Ja. 24, ’07. 120w.

         =Lit. D.= 34: 63. Ja. 12, ’07. 110w.

  “The book may satisfy the curiosity of a good many and prove directly
  useful to a few.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 222. Mr. 7, ’07. 70w.

  “For the layman with a natural curiosity as to methods of handling
  manuscript and making books this volume should be fascinating in its
  very concise and incisive statements.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 8. Ja. 5, ’07. 290w.

     + + =R. of Rs.= 35: 384. Mr. ’07. 200w.

         =Spec.= 99: 828. N. 23, ’07. 290w.


=Hoare, J. Douglas.= Arctic exploration. *$3. Dutton.

                                                                7–35190.

  Thirty-three brief but interesting chapters which tell of the
  sufferings and achievements of those heroic men who braved the dangers
  of the far North. The work of Hudson, Phipps and Nelson is given, the
  successive expeditions of Sir John Franklin and of the searching
  parties, the voyages of Hall, Nares, Greeley, Nordenskiold, De Long,
  Nansen, Peary, Andree, Wellman, and all the others are described with
  well chosen detail. The book is illustrated with some 20 full page
  plates.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 95. Ap. ’07.

  “This work is not in any sense complete, nor is it based upon a
  scientific study of the constantly increasing collection of Arctic
  literature.”

     − + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 579. N. 10. 400w.

  “Thoroughly good reading.” E. T. Brewster.

       + =Atlan.= 100: 261. Ag. ’07. 20w.

  “On the whole the author has given a very satisfactory bird’s-eye view
  of his subject.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 231. Ap. 1, ’07. 280w.

  “The accounts of the expeditions, however, are given in somewhat more
  detail than those in Greely’s book, and the work certainly has a place
  among those readers who have not the original narratives at hand.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 1149. My. 16, ’07. 160w.

  “Neither in its estimate of researches nor in the analyses of the
  different journeys do the pages betray special fitness on the part of
  the author. Indeed, a casual glance at the concluding chapters reveals
  a carelessness which detracts from the usefulness of the book.”

       − =Nation.= 84: 318. Ap. 4, ’07. 280w.

  “The book is well adapted either for entertainment or for edification,
  as far as it goes.” Cyrus C. Adams.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 298. My. 11, ’07. 210w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 384. Mr. ’07. 40w.

  “The story of all this adventurous travel, with its attendant
  hardships and gallantry, is admirably narrated by Mr. Hoare, who
  condenses into a single volume the essence of a whole library of polar
  literature.”

       + =Spec.= 98: sup. 117. Ja. 26, ’07. 480w.


=Hobart, George Vere.= Cinders (diary of a drummer); by Wright Bauer.
*75c. Dillingham.

                                                                 7–9507.

  To win a bet a drummer records in diary form all the stories of a
  printable kind which he hears in the course of one trip, and they are
  exactly what might be expected.


=Hobart, Henry Metcalfe.= Elementary principles of continuous-current
dynamo design. $3. Macmillan.

                                                                 7–2318.

  “The book consists of a series of statements explaining the way in
  which a dynamo should be considered as a successful machine or the
  reverse, and of a short account of several methods whereby the
  designer may himself estimate the first cost. After preliminary
  chapters on what may be called the practical theory of the continuous
  current dynamo, Mr. Hobart deals at length with those considerations
  which form the limits in the design, namely, heating, sparking, and
  efficiency.... The book contains a large number of tables in which the
  various calculations are set out.”—Nature.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The present book is a model of its class and it is especially adapted
  to the use of students or others who desire a working knowledge of
  design practice. The mechanical features of the book are excellent.”
  Henry H. Norris.

     + + =Engin. N.= 56: 523. N. 15, ’06. 640w.

  “The value of the book lies in the essential soundness of this
  framework, more particularly of the fundamental ideas on which it is
  itself based than on the framework itself.”

       + =Nature.= 75: 221. Ja. 3, ’07. 610w.


=Hobhouse, Leonard Trelawney.= Morals in evolution: a study in
comparative ethics. 2v. *$5. Holt.

                                                                7–11047.

  “An encyclopaedic work which is “the outcome of a hundred
  specialisms.” The first volume deals with the standard of morality and
  the second with its basis. This means that in the first volume the
  author considers the lines of conduct that have been approved at
  different times among different peoples; in the second, the reasons
  that have been, or may be, assigned for this approval. In accordance
  with the evolution hypothesis, no line is drawn between human and
  animal, or even vegetable intelligence.” (Sat. R.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He has gone over an immense literature; his quotations are apt and
  accurate; his interpretations in the main sound. Careless statements
  are not common. Naturally some slips are inevitable.” Carl Kelsey.

   + + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 180. Jl. ’07. 710w.

  “He has dealt with the different phases and stages of human conduct in
  a manner that never fails to be lucid and careful; and although he has
  occasionally allowed his own particular prejudices to be in evidence,
  he has not only described the different moral forces of which he
  writes with vigour and learning, but has also criticised them, in the
  light of their past and future, in a scientific spirit.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 784. Je. 29. 650w.

  “I do not think it is any particular novelty of opinion that
  constitutes the importance of this book, but the strength of
  conviction, the absolute frankness and directness, the fervour and
  power of popular exposition which have brought liberal theology down
  from the schools into the market-place.” H. Rashdall.

   + + − =Hibbert J.= 5: 921. Jl. ’07. 4140w.

  “Every page of Mr. Hobhouse’s book furnishes food for reflection. It
  is brimful of facts from beginning to end; but his facts are not the
  ‘disjecta membra’ of a mutilated corpse, but the coherent parts of a
  living organism.” G. E. Underhill.

   + + − =Hibbert J.= 5: 928. Jl. ’07. 2410w.

  “Measuring the work by its own standard, which is not that of
  originality of theory, one must ascribe to it a unique value as a
  collection of the facts upon which any interpretation of morality must
  be based. But there is the interpretation and it does rest upon the
  facts, and in this consists the essential value of the work.” Norman
  Wilde.

     + + =J. Philos.= 4: 183. Mr. 28, ’07. 1930w.

  “Mr. Hobhouse spends no time in tilting against what is commonly known
  as ‘metaphysics;’ he has culture enough to know that history and
  philosophy are not exclusive but complementary, and moreover, that in
  the reading of history it is impossible to exclude the philosophical
  ideas of the inquirer. In the historical survey Mr. Hobhouse is lucid
  and judicious, without any distinctly novel suggestions or original
  points of view.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 5: 414. D. 14, ’06. 1750w.

  “The criticism of customs and of systems of religion and of ethics is
  generally sound; the part played by the higher religions in supporting
  moral rules is recognized. The whole discussion is marked by good
  sense and the careful collection of data will be very useful to the
  student of ethics.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 568. Je. 20, ’07. 940w.

  “The wonder of these immense volumes to the lay reader who opens the
  covers with trepidation is that they should be so intensely readable.
  One cannot but enjoy the curious side lights thrown on our own beliefs
  and superstitions. The various references to ghosts for example,
  would, if collected, be in themselves most entertaining.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 93. F. 16, ’07. 1590w.

         =Outlook.= 85: 523. Mr. 2, ’07. 330w.

  “Mr. Hobhouse has produced a very able work, one of the best of its
  kind that has appeared in many years. It is a careful, interesting,
  and instructive presentation of the subject, giving evidence of wide
  reading and characterized by intelligent judgment. It not only gives
  us facts, but attempts to see a meaning in them; it not only theorizes
  about the course of ethical progress but bases its conclusions upon
  human experiences. To be sure, in a discussion covering so broad and
  rich a field, there will be many points here and there to which the
  student may take exception.” Frank Thilly.

   + + − =Philos. R.= 16: 527. S. ’07. 6000w.

  “It would be applying a false measure to estimate [these volumes] by
  the amount of information they contain. There is something better than
  that, a philosophic grasp of principles. We feel that we are in the
  hands of a genuine thinker, whose conclusions we may accept or reject,
  but may not neglect.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 400. Mr. 30, ’07. 1150w.


=Hobson, H. Overton.= Helouan; an Egyptian health resort and how to
reach it. $1. Longmans.

  A well illustrated guide book to one of the most prominent health
  resorts in Egypt. Information about routes, climate, baths, charges,
  the golf-links, and other amusements, as well as the many places of
  interest is alluringly given.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It belongs to the class of books that are not books, so we need only
  say that it contains all the information which the intending visitor
  should require.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 805. D. 22. 230w.

  “The information given is extremely practical and reliable, the author
  having spent six winters at Helouan.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 21. Ja. 12, ’07. 100w.


* =Hobson, John Atkinson.= Canada to-day. *$1. Wessels.

                                                                7–32187.

  Mr. Hobson “handles such questions as the so-called Americanization of
  Canada, British Columbian problems, the immigration policy of the
  country, the French in Canada, the colonial preference, etc., with
  fairness and more than a measure of intelligence. A large portion of
  the book is devoted to a discussion of Canada’s fiscal policy, past,
  present, and prospective.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “An excellent book.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 476. O. 20. 260w.

  “His analysis of the Canadian tariffs and their influence upon the
  growth of Canada’s trade with Great Britain and the United States,
  respectively, is a valuable addition to the literature of the
  subject.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 256. O. 16, ’07. 320w.


* =Hobson, Richmond Pearson.= Buck Jones at Annapolis. †$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                7–29590.

  Captain Hobson’s own experiences during the days spent at the naval
  academy at Annapolis furnish material for a story of “solid
  adventure.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 30w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

  “It certainly carries a serious impression of absolute truth, which
  occasionally deadens into commonplace reality. Yet it is an attractive
  story of life at the naval school, and abounds in thrilling events
  happening to the hero, a really fine fellow, after he entered the
  service.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 311. O. 12, ’07. 90w.


=Hocker, Gustav.= Joseph Haydn; a study of his life and time for youth;
tr. from the German, by George P. Upton. (Life stories for young
people.) **60c. McClurg.

                                                                7–30875.

  A sketch which reveals all the lovable qualities of a good man and the
  scholarly attributes of the master. Haydn’s personality is full of
  charm and furnishes an atmosphere which in itself is an invitation to
  study the career of the man who created the artistic patterns of the
  sonata, the quartette, and the symphony, who also enlarged the scope
  of the orchestra and who became the father of instrumental music.


=Hodge, Frederick Webb=, ed. Handbook of American Indians north of
Mexico. 2 pts. pt. 1. $1.25. Supt. of doc.

                                                                7–35198.

  Treats of all the tribes north of Mexico, including the Eskimo, and
  those tribes south of the boundary more or less affiliated with those
  in the United States. It has been the aim to give a brief description
  of every linguistic stock, confederacy, tribe, subtribe or tribal
  division, and settlement known to history or even to tradition, as
  well as the origin and derivation of every name treated, whenever such
  is known, and to record under each every form of the name, and every
  other appellation that could be learned.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Though confessedly incomplete, the handbook represents a vast amount
  of research by an army of observers, and students of ethnography will
  look forward to the publication of the second part with keen
  anticipation.”

     + − =Nature.= 76: 149. Je. 13, ’07. 160w.

  “It is fair to say that in the future, students of the American Indian
  must have this manual always at hand. The Bureau and the editor are to
  be congratulated upon this publication which is, in a certain sense,
  among many contributions to scholarship, the greatest which the Bureau
  has yet made.”

       + =Yale R.= 16: 108. My. ’07. 230w.


=Hodges, Rev. George.= Holderness: an account of the beginnings of a New
Hampshire town. *$1.25. Houghton.

                                                                7–19786.

  A little hundred-page volume in which Dr. Hodges tells the story of “a
  typical little New England hill town, named from the Yorkshire
  Holderness, and pleasantly situated on Squam lake, not far from
  Plymouth, in Grafton county.” He makes interesting personalities of
  the men who built up the town. “There is some modern matter relating
  to walks and drives and mountain tops, but the main value of the book
  is historic, and it is a worthy pendant for Mr. Sanborn’s ‘New
  Hampshire.’” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Dial.= 43: 43. Jl. 16, ’07. 280w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 60w.


=Hodges, Rev. George.= Year of grace. **$1. Whittaker.

                                                                6–46334.

  A book of sermons whose burden is liberty, enfranchisement of
  religious scholarship, the end of fear and the beginning of faith.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author has a sense for what is vital in piety, shows himself a
  keen observer of the tendencies of modern life, exhibits tact in the
  encouragement of spiritual living, and plies the lash on current
  foibles pleasantly, wisely and to good effect.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 499. My. 30, ’07. 120w.

  “Their clearness and freshness of presentation, and closeness to the
  needs of modern thought and life, are such as belong to the best type
  of university sermons.”

       + =Outlook.= 6: 480. Je. 29, ’07. 50w.


=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. **$3. Harper.

                                                                6–42355.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 43. F. ’07.

         =Ind.= 61: 1572. D. 27, ’06. 70w.

  “Everything connected with the work of the church ... is carefully
  described and well illustrated.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 176. F. 21, ’07. 90w.

         =Outlook.= 84: 940. D. 15, ’06. 150w.


=Hodgson, Geraldine.= Primitive Christian education. *$1.50. Scribner.

                                                                6–41016.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “A series of useful essays.”

       + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 448. Ja. ’07. 30w.

  “The interest and value of this educational work of the primitive
  Christians is brought vividly before us; but while admitting its
  value, we are inclined to differ from Miss Hodgson as to its
  efficacy.” Millicent Mackenzie.

     + − =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 259. Ja. ’07. 460w.

  “The materials which the author’s diligence has accumulated are, in
  themselves, interesting, but scrappy and ill-digested. Everywhere the
  absence of the large furniture of knowledge, which an investigation of
  such a subject demands, makes itself felt.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 64. Ja. 17, ’07. 450w.


=Hodgson, Mrs. Willoughby.= How to identify old Chinese porcelain; with
40 il. 2d ed. *$2. McClurg.

                                                                 7–2048.

  A book for the amateur. It aims “to assist the tyro or the ordinary
  collector who may be the fortunate possessor of some fine work upon
  Chinese porcelain.” It discusses the glazes and enamels, figures and
  symbols, periods and date-marks.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A careful study of her brief and accurately worded chapters should
  enable the beginner to view collections, classify his own specimens,
  and buy others, with a fair amount of intelligence; and this is more
  than he could do after perusing many more ambitious but less
  systematic treatises.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 290. N. 1, ’07. 210w.


=Hoffding, Harald.= Philosophy of religion. *$3. Macmillan.

                                                                6–18580.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Apart from the main argument of the book there are many criticisms
  and suggestions of real insight and power.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 564. Mr. 7, ’07. 430w.

  “And no one who is aware of the perplexities of the religious mood can
  read his sympathetic interpretation of its meaning without being
  grateful for this balanced and well-ordered statement of his
  conclusions.” J. B. Baillie.

     + − =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 371. Ap. ’07. 3870w.

  “A work of rare philosophical perspicacity and broad religious
  sympathy.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 909. Ap. 21, ’06. 540w.

  “We do not think that Professor Hoffding possesses the necessary
  qualifications to write a philosophy of religion. He is a
  psychologist. He is distinguished in philosophy. But it needs more
  than this and other gifts than this to write on Christianity. And
  neither the sympathy nor the theological learning requisite is found
  in Dr. Hoffding’s book.”

       − =Sat. R.= 103: 687. Je. 1, ’07. 1890w.


=Hofmann, Ottokar.= Hydrometallurgy of silver, with special reference to
chloridizing roasting of silver ores and the extraction of silver by
hyposulphite and cyanide solutions. $4. Hill pub. co.

                                                                7–15483.

  “The book is divided into two parts, of which the first deals with
  chloridizing roasting of silver ores (154 pages), the second with the
  extraction of the silver (174 pages). The author points out in the
  preface that in the hydrometallurgical process for the extraction of
  silver from complex sulphide ores, the final result depends entirely
  on the quality of the roasting.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “On the whole, the book is well written, in an easy and interesting
  style, and even if the hypo-sulphite method has seen its day, this
  volume will be read with interest.” Bradley Stoughton.

       + =Engin. N.= 57: 554. My. 16, ’07. 400w.


=Hogg, Ethel M.= Quintin Hogg: a biography; with a preface by the Duke
of Argyll. *$1.50. Dutton.

  A popular edition of the biography of Quintin Hogg which sketches his
  life and work in the London slums. See volume one of the BOOK REVIEW
  DIGEST.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is too long and contains much that is trivial and unworthy
  of publication, but as a whole it is a stimulating account of a noble,
  self-sacrificing life.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 222. Mr. 7, ’07. 360w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 156. Mr. 16, ’07. 250w.


=Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chlodwig Karl Victor, prince von.= Memoirs
of Prince Chlodwig of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst; tr. by G: W. Chrystal.
**$6. Macmillan.

                                                                6–44316.

  On the stage which is created by these memoirs, Prince Bismarck is
  well to the fore. “Prince Hohenlohe says very characteristically that
  while Bismarck was in power he dominated all, but after his retirement
  other and smaller personalities swelled like sponges. The light shed
  on the negotiations preceding the Franco-Prussian war are of
  historical value. The account of the plenipotentiaries who met to
  discuss what afterward became the Treaty of Berlin is described with
  acuteness of vision, and there are many other portions of the book
  that cannot fail to command attention.” (Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Students of politics will no doubt toil conscientiously through the
  nine hundred odd pages, but we question whether any one will make this
  exploration for pleasure.”

   + + − =Acad.= 71: 604. D. 15, ’06. 390w.

  “The index is as imperfect as is unfortunately usual, but in several
  cases shows that slips in the text are not to be attributed to the
  translator—except, indeed, that proofs should have been more carefully
  corrected.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 734. D. 8. 9970w.

  “If the Hohenlohe memoirs do nothing more than arouse men in power to
  the sacredness of their trust, they will serve an excellent purpose.”

     + + =Canadian M.= 28: 398. F. ’07. 380w.

  “The chief source of regret is that Prince von Hohenlohe did not live
  to supervise the preparation of the work; in that case those elements
  that have provoked censure would doubtless have been omitted, and the
  whole work rounded out into a biography in the ordinary sense of the
  term.” Lewis A. Rhoades.

   + + − =Dial.= 42: 71. F. 1, ’07. 2400w.

  “The experienced old diplomat would unquestionably have excised many
  an indiscretion which the editor has allowed to remain—not diplomatic
  indiscretions, be it understood, but amusing personalities.”

   + + − =Ind.= 61: 1492. D. 20, ’06. 630w.

  “Written in a crisp, epigrammatical style, they present some
  interesting flash-lights on the history of Europe during the most
  important part of the nineteenth century. There is lack of continuity
  in the book, however.”

   + + − =Lit. D.= 34: 63. Ja. 12, ’07. 200w.

  “The instant success of scandal which these memoirs attained has
  resulted in obscuring even their true personal interest. The English
  translation, so far as we have been able to test it, appears to be
  fairly satisfactory. It betrays signs of haste, and the printing,
  especially of French is carelessly done.”

   + + − =Nation.= 83: 511. D. 13, ’06. 1470w.

  “Though in the main hard to read, they repay the trouble. It cannot be
  honestly said that Chlodwig Prince Hohenlohe shines in its pages
  either as man or politician.” Wolf von Schierbrand.

   + + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 60. F. 2, ’07. 3500w.

  “It shares the faults of the German edition—long-windedness and futile
  digression—and has a full sufficiency of faults of its own,
  particularly in the spelling of German words.” Grace Isabel Colbron.

       − =No. Am.= 184: 866. Ap. 19. ’07. 1990w.

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 616. Mr. 16, ’07. 4130w.

  “The greater bulk is of interest only to the special student.” George
  Louis Beer.

     + − =Putnam’s.= 1: 764. Mr. ’07. 1440w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 254. F. ’07. 120w.

  “Is to be recommended without reserve to all students of European
  history not by reason of any startling revelations it contains, for it
  contains none, but because it throws much light on a complicated and
  important series of events and is the record of an upright, courageous
  and far-seeing statesman.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 102: 709. D. 8, ’06. 2590w.

       + =Spec.= 97: 1049. D. 22, ’06. 550w.


* =Hohler, Venetia. (Mrs. Edwin Hohler).= Peter: a Christmas story.
†$1.25. Dutton.

                                                                7–31482.

  “Little Sir Peter Moberley is as charming as little Lord Fauntleroy,
  and Bill, his ugly pet, the huge and gentle bulldog, is one of the
  most fascinating of dream-hounds.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The child-lover will delight in ‘Peter;’ we do not feel sure that the
  child himself will be greatly attracted.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 732. D. 8. 60w.

  “Is worth while.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 100w.


* =Holbach, Maude M.= Dalmatia: the land where the East meets the West.
*$1.50. Lane.

  A first-hand series of sketches, descriptive and historical of the
  principal places along the Dalmatian coast. “The architectural glutton
  has an almost unending feast prepared for him.... The same may be said
  of all the Mediterranean littoral; but the unique position of this
  rich coast peopled by a brave race and the home of successive
  civilisations but little changed by modern conquests must of necessity
  spell the survival of much that is picturesque and local to the
  artist.” (Spec.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is so easy to be accurate, careful—and tedious. Mrs. Holbach is
  certainly the two former, and narrowly escapes being the last.”

       + =Acad.= 73: 163. N. 23, ’07. 240w.

  “One can hardly glance over these fifty or more plates without at once
  being seized with a wild desire to start upon an Adriatic trip.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 385. D. 1, ’07. 80w.

  “In one or two respects it offers hostages to criticism; the style is
  a little unskilful ... the scholarship is sometimes imperfect. But
  apart from these blemishes, which can be easily removed, the volume is
  attractive and entertaining.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 326. O. 25, ’07. 300w.

  “Mrs. Holbach’s account of ‘the land where East meets West’ is
  picturesque, her description of its people and places of interest
  being admirably supplemented by the numerous illustrations.”

       + =Sat. R.= 104: 486. O. 19, ’07. 220w.

         =Spec.= 99: 673. N. 2, ’07. 210w.


=Holdich, Sir Thomas Hungerford.= Tibet, the mysterious. **$3. Stokes.

                                                                6–40557.

  “The immediate interest in the Tibetan situation is sufficiently acute
  to demand a handbook which will serve both as an introduction to and a
  summary of the various expeditions and travels, and of the
  geographical and political features of that well-nigh impregnable
  land. Such a book is ‘Tibet the mysterious.’ Colonel Holdich, although
  not an explorer or traveller in Tibet, has made an exhaustive
  investigation of all the literature relating to that country, and has
  summarized his studies in an accurate and systematic manner. For those
  who wish to plunge ‘in medias res’ concerning Tibet, his book will be
  most acceptable.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A volume in every way worthy of the series.”

       + =Acad.= 72: 14. Ja. 5, ’07. 130w.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 68. Mr. ’07.

  “While the casual reader may wish that the names of the places were
  less difficult and the different routes less confusing, yet after the
  first few chapters the book holds the interest.” Lurena Wilson Tower.

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 657. My. ’07. 670w.

  “We fear that in the preparation of this volume he did not
  sufficiently realize that his acquaintance with the details had become
  a little rusty. We mention these circumstances as the only explanation
  we can think of for so experienced a geographer lapsing into
  inaccuracies.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 50. Ja. 12. 970w.

  “These minor errors, however, detract but little from the otherwise
  scholarly work of the author, which will be held in high esteem as a
  general reference-book for the history of exploration and travel in
  Tibet.” H. E. Coblentz.

   + + − =Dial.= 42: 44. Ja. 16, ’07. 440w.

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 105. Ja. 19, ’07. 190w.

  “The book is marred by repetitions, and in a second edition the author
  should avoid as poison the iteration, if not the subjects, of tea,
  dogs, and ants.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 15. Jl. 4, 07. 610w.

  “The present account is disappointing in that its information is
  neither very trustworthy nor up-to-date. It would be pleasant to be
  able to congratulate the author on the illustrations, but nearly all
  of these we have seen elsewhere before. They are not very closely
  connected with the letterpress nor are the landscapes very
  characteristic whilst some of them are not what they profess to be.”
  L. A. W.

     − + =Nature.= 76: 346. Ag. 8, ’07. 880w.

  “It is a serious, well-written treatise, worked out from the point of
  view of the scientist who would contribute something of practical and
  general value and interest. As a reference book of all expeditions
  into the ‘forbidden land’ it will be found most comprehensive and
  convenient.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 801. D. 1, ’06. 250w.

       + =Outlook.= 85: 527. Mr. 2, ’07. 110w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 384. Mr. ’07. 50w.


* =Holland, Clive.= Old and new Japan; 50 col. pictures by Montagu
Smith. **$5 Dutton.

  “The text leads open the way for some specially good illustration; for
  Mr. Holland has much to say about the superstitions, legends, and
  stories of Japan concerning the national spirit of Japan and her
  legendary genesis, concerning Japan’s religions, her Buddhist and
  Shinto temples and ancient shrines, concerning the quaint, pathetic,
  and beautiful Japanese festivals, concerning Japanese gardens, old and
  new, and the life of the country folk.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “An authoritative book.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 10w.

  “This is just the book and these just the illustrations to make one
  who has not seen Japan long to see it, and to make the one who has
  sojourned in Japan long to return.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 617. N. 23, ’97. 130w.


* =Holland, Clive.= Things seen in Egypt. *75c. Dutton.

                                                                W 7–184.

  An “expanded Baedeker” containing interesting chapters on Egyptian
  life, monuments and scenery.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A little more study on certain points would have improved the
  treatment and given it a greater value.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 470. N. 21, ’07. 410w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 80w.

  “Contains much of general interest, and is well written.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 80w.

  “It is a handy, convenient size, a small quarto, and altogether a most
  attractive little book.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 719. N. 9, ’07. 40w.


=Holland, Clive.= Things seen in Japan. *75c. Dutton.

                                                                7–29128.

  “A little book about as big as a man’s hand, richly illustrated with
  Underwood’s photographs, which is full of chat about things and folk
  seen in Dai Nippon.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A pleasant hour may be spent with this author, who touches only the
  surface of things, but that very pleasantly.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 329. F. 7, ’07. 50w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 888. D. 22, ’06. 210w.

  “This is a small volume, but it contains admirably arranged and
  well-written accounts of much that is essential and characteristic.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 895. D. 8, ’06. 80w.


=Holland, Clive.= Wessex; painted by Walter Tyndale; described by Clive
Holland. *$6. Macmillan.

                                                                6–24919.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “For a guide-book it is too heavy in bulk and too full of irrelevant
  matter; for a serious history it is too ill-arranged and indefinite.”

       − =Nation.= 83: 224. S. 13, ’06. 300w.

         =Spec.= 96: sup. 1011. Je. 30, ’06. 50w.


=Holliday, Carl.= History of southern literature. $2.50. Neale.

                                                                6–41030.

  The purpose of Mr. Holliday’s volume is “to make a study of the
  various literary movements and their results, and to show that the
  writings of this section are not merely disconnected efforts of
  isolated thinkers, but, rather, the natural, logical, and continuous
  productions of a people differing so materially in views and
  sentiments from their neighbors on the north that even civil war was
  necessary to prevent their becoming separate nations.” The subject is
  treated under the following headings: The beginnings, The period of
  national consciousness, The revolutionary period, The period of
  expansion, The civil war period, and The new South.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Not to mince words, it contains 400 pages of elegantly printed
  platitudes, and little else except an occasional quotation.
  Apparently, however, the author has been industrious in the collection
  and careful in the verification of his data, and his work, with its
  good index and bibliography, should make an excellent reference book
  for mere facts.”

     − + =Ind.= 62: 275. Ja. 31, ’07. 170w.

  “As a critic he is quite without authority and almost equally lacking
  in insight. He makes some astonishing misstatements.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 2. Ja. 5, ’07. 750w.

  “Seems to be a carefully prepared work.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 256. F. ’07. 30w.


* =Holman, Frederick Van Voorhies.= Dr. John McLoughlin: the father of
Oregon. *$2.50. Clark, A. H.

                                                                7–31427.

  A great deal of Oregon’s pioneer history is included in this sketch.
  After the coalition of the Northwest company, which McLoughlin had
  joined, and the Hudson bay company, he was engaged to manage the
  company’s interests in Oregon. His work which finally led up to
  American occupation makes an interesting personal account as well as
  an informing historical document.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Lit. D.= 35: 759. N. 16, ’07. 390w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

         =R. of Rs.= 36: 635. N. ’07. 150w.


=Holme, Charles=, ed. Old English country cottages. *$2.50. Lane.

                                                                6–45169.

  “An attempt to preserve some record of these antique buildings that
  form one of the chief charms of rural England. They are dealt with in
  the text by counties.... Some 135 pen-and-ink drawings by Mr. Sidney
  R. Jones, depicting general views and architectural detail with charm
  and marked artistic skill, are scattered through the text; and in
  addition there are fifteen beautiful full-page plates in color, after
  paintings by Mrs. Allingham and others.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “While no attempt has been made to cover the subject thoroughly, a
  most interesting general outline has been achieved.”

       + =Dial.= 41: 396. D. 1, ’06. 250w.

  “The two hundred drawings of old English cottages form a record at
  once useful and interesting.”

       + =Spec.= 98: sup. 119. Ja. 26, ’07. 440w.


=Holmes, Daniel Henry.= Pedlar’s pack. $5. E. D. North, 4 E. 39th st.,
N. Y.

                                                                6–26458.

  Ninety clever short poems which the author declares are intended to
  help a “tired man to kill a Sunday,” but they are really better than
  their mission implies.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Lit. D.= 33: 727. N. 17, ’06. 40w.

  “It is, indeed, the temperament of the painter blessed with humor, the
  temperament of the ‘limb of the spectrum,’ that gives effectiveness to
  Mr. Holmes’s work.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 440. N. 22, ’06. 300w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 254. F. ’07. 20w.


=Holmes, Gordon.= Late tenant. $1.50. Clode, E. J.

                                                                6–34806.

  “A bronze young man who has spent his youth on a Wyoming ranch and has
  gone to London to grow rich and famous ‘in the city,’ rents a
  furnished apartment in Eddystone Mansions, and there you are. You
  smell violets, you hear the swish of trailing garments, you get
  tangled up in the most extraordinary ‘affair.’... There are missing
  papers to be plotted for, there are serving women to be bribed, there
  are mad drives in hansom cabs, with the hero on the driver’s perch and
  the speed regulations of the greatest city in the world set at naught.
  There are love scenes, hand-to-hand struggles in the dark, dramatic
  tableau of marriage settlements interrupted, and a dropping of the
  curtain on the tragic finish of a misguided life.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a story in the ‘genre’ which Miss Brandon popularized and
  which, whatever may be said by the realists, has never entirely lost
  favor.”

     + − =Lit. D.= 34: 217. F. 9, ’07. 220w.

  “It is, in short, too much like the ordinary mystery story by, say,
  Fergus Hume. Yet if you open the book you will read it through unless
  something or somebody very important interrupts.”

     − + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 635. O. 6, ’06. 420w.

  “In the present tale he has grown less clever than he was in ‘The
  Arncliffe puzzle,’ but he has not ceased to be clever.”

     − + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 796. D. 1, ’06. 160w.


=Holt, Byron W.=, comp. Gold supply and prosperity. *$1. Moody
corporation.

                                                                7–26334.

  “An able introduction and conclusion by the author, with a symposium
  of twenty-two papers by leading authorities on various phases of the
  gold supply question, make up an interesting and attractive book. In
  summing up the statements in the various papers of this symposium the
  following points are brought out: First, that for many years the
  output of gold will increase rapidly; second, that, therefore, a
  depreciation in the value of gold will inevitably result.... Like
  several books, which have appeared during the past few years, the
  author takes one item, in this case the gold supply, and attempts to
  show that ‘all the ills that flesh is heir to’ arise from this one
  cause.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is not the part of wisdom to state that all of our problems can be
  traced to such an artificial thing as the gold supply. On the whole,
  however, the book is well written, and represents a valuable
  compilation of knowledge in this field.”

     + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 160. Jl. ’07. 290w.

       + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 560. S. ’07. 240w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 638. My. ’07. 80w.


=Holt, Henry.= On the civic relations. *$1.75. Houghton.

                                                                7–18299.

  Mr. Holt’s “Talks on civics” has been “much amplified, modernized and
  actualized” (Putnam’s) to produce the present revised edition. The
  book has been written in the hope of “doing a little something to
  develop in young people a character of mind which is proof against
  political quackery—especially the quackery which proposes immediate
  cures by legislation for the abiding ills resulting from human
  weakness and ignorance.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Those who do not ‘desire to be deceived’ will find much ‘dry light’
  in Mr. Holt’s pages on current and burning questions, concerning which
  there is much more of heat than of light in most current discussion.”
  Montgomery Schuyler.

       + =Putnam.= 3: 231. N. ’67. 330w.

         =R. of Rs.= 36: 511. O. ’07. 110w.

  “The author takes no pains to conceal his real opinion of the
  abilities of a very large part of ‘so-called civilized’ mankind,
  especially that part that labors with its hands for a living. This
  contempt steams up from every page until it nearly suffocates the
  appetite of the expectant reader. Yet there is an abundance of food in
  Mr. Holt’s book for readers with a suitable digestion.” Edward E.
  Hill.

     − + =School. R.= 15: 695. N. ’07. 1440w.


=Homans, James Edward.= Self-propelled vehicles: a practical treatise on
the theory, construction, operation, care and management of all forms of
automobiles; with upwards of 500 il. and diagrams. 5th ed., rev. and
enl. $2. Audel.

                                                                6–35990.

  “The book is thoroughly revised and brought up to date, describing the
  latest innovations of the present day practice, while all obsolete
  material has been discarded.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The volume is a useful handbook for the owner of an automobile, and
  it is also calculated for use as a manual for class instruction.”

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 161. Jl. ’07. 100w.

  “It is a very satisfactory production for the man who wants to know
  the ‘why and wherefore’ of the automobile, as designed to-day, and its
  proper care and manipulation.”

       + =Engin. N.= 57: 198. F. 14, ’07. 120w.


Homer. Iliad for boys and girls told from Homer in simple language, by
Rev. Alfred J. Church. *$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                7–30639.

  To reset classical literature in the language of the child has become
  a worthy task of the present day. This juvenile renders the thrilling
  incidents of the Trojan war life-like and true to the Iliad’s text.
  The illustrations in color are suggestively good.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 208. N. ’07. ✠

  “Shows that he understands how to rehearse the classics for childish
  minds.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 764. D. ’07. 30w.

  “The narrative is suited in every possible way to a child’s
  understanding; it is childlike without a trace of childishness; and it
  is a rare pleasure for old readers of Professor Church to see that his
  zest is as keen as ever, his fact as unfailing, and his instinct for
  seizing essentials as swift and true.”

     + + =Spec.= 99: 712. N. 9, ’07. 290w.


Homer. Odyssey for boys and girls, told from Homer by the Rev. Alfred J.
Church. †$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                6–34824.

  A simplified version of the Odyssey, attractive in its illustrations,
  which is intended for young readers.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The style is much more attractive than that of the author’s ‘Story of
  the Odyssey.’”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 21. Ja. ’07. ✠

  “Is a model of what such adaptations should be.”

     + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 653. N. 24. 90w.

  “The story is intact, and the characters are there, but there is not
  much of that bigness for which Homer was noted.”

     + − =Ind.= 61: 1409. D. 22, ’06. 130w.

       + =Nation.= 83: 485. D. 6, ’06. 60w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 822. D. 1, ’06. 70w.

  “Mr. Church has no superior in the art of retelling classical stories
  so as to interest girls and boys.”

     + + =Outlook.= 84: 632. N. 10, ’06. 70w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 34: 764. D. ’06. 50w.

  “We have taken the precaution of having the book submitted to the true
  arbiter of this form of literature,—a boy under five. He has listened
  to it with breathless attention and sparkling eyes.”

     + + =Spec.= 97: 580. O. 20, ’06. 730w.


=Hone, Nathaniel J.= Manor and manorial records. *$3. Dutton.

                                                                6–10492.

  “Half Mr. Hone’s book is devoted to a reasonably short account of the
  history of the manor, no undue space being given to the dispute
  concerning its evolution. With this we have the story of the lord and
  his tenants and officers and of their daily life and work as a
  community, the illustrations being for the most part already
  familiar.... The second half of the book shortly explains the
  procedure of the manorial courts, and then gives a very well chosen
  series of examples of court rolls, accounts and extents.”—Acad.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Hone’s treatise on the manor offers itself rather as a popular
  introduction to its history and customs than as an original study of a
  subject on which much good ink has been spent. The result is a book
  which may be commended especially to those who are entering upon the
  study of English topography.”

       + =Acad.= 70: 226. Mr. 10, ’06. 1750w.

  “Forms a very suitable introduction for the beginner in the study of
  manorial court rolls, of which many are in private hands. The
  translations are not in all respects accurate.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 761. Je. 23. 500w.

  “Is more general and popular than Dr. Davenport’s volume. The first
  half of Mr. Hone’s work is but slight, and seems scarcely worthy of
  the large amount of research which he appears to have undertaken.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 693. S. 19, ’07. 410w.

  “We can think of no book which presents in a lucid manner a picture of
  the mode in which, or the extent to which, our fathers living remote
  from London were governed; none at all events which gives abundance of
  extracts from original records.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 5: 243. Jl. 6, ’06. 480w.

  “The uninitiated reader, should be grateful to Mr. Hone for giving him
  an opportunity to obtain a good general idea of old country life
  without too severe a mental effort.”

       + =Sat. R.= 101: 497. Ap. 21, ’06. 860w.


=Hood, Thomas.= Poetical works, ed. by Walter Jerrold. *$1.10 Oxford.

  “‘The complete poetical works of Thomas Hood’ ... is added to the
  excellent Oxford edition of the poets.... Mr. Jerrold has provided a
  more comprehensive edition of Hood than has hitherto been available,
  searching out from the magazines whatever could be certainly
  attributed to him, and adding half a dozen new poems from
  manuscript.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We confess ourselves in general hostile to this mania for making up
  insignificant matter and adding to it the works of writers who already
  suffer from the preservation of too much that is mediocre. The notes
  are capital, and the make-up of the volume attractive.”

     − + =Nation.= 84: 81. Ja. 24, ’07. 220w.

       − =Spec.= 98: 90. Ja. 19, ’07. 1790w.


=Hornaday, William Temple.= Camp fires in the Canadian Rockies. **$3.
Scribner.

                                                                6–35980.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Perhaps the chief charm of the book is that he manages so faithfully
  to convey a sense of the recrudescence of boyish energy and spirits in
  staid middle-life, aroused under the stimulus of unusual and
  invigorating surroundings.” G. W. L.

     + + =Nature.= 75: 410. Mr. 14, ’07. 1190w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 109. Ja. ’07. 110w.

  “It is the best of advocates for true sport and game preservation.”

     + + =Spec.= 98: 60. Ja. 12, ’07. 310w.


=Hornblow, Arthur.= End of the game; il. by A. E. Jameson. †$1.50.
Dillingham.

                                                                7–14587.

  Instead of marrying a shallow-minded girl with a two-hundred-thousand
  dollar dowery, Roy Marshall chooses to wed his sister’s governess, a
  girl whose literary career had been checked by her father’s loss of
  money and subsequent death. From an unsuccessful beginning in life on
  a New York paper his course is turned into the channel of Pittsburg
  steel interests and he rises to a multi-millionaire’s position of
  prominence and power. The loose morals that result in his abandoning
  and divorcing his wife are astonishingly at variance with his early
  integrity; he pays a heavy penalty, and the book has a moral.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The characters, if somewhat tamely drawn, are good human creatures
  and not the flat paper dolls found in the pages of so much current
  fiction. It is a thoroughly wholesome story, better for general
  purposes perhaps than many novels better written.”

     + − =Lit. D.= 34: 885. Je. 1, ’07. 190w.

  “The work is creditable—somewhat ‘slow’ and unformed in many of the
  earlier portions, but gaining constantly in assurance as it
  progresses.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 316. My. 18, ’07. 690w.


=Horne, Herman Harrell.= Psychological principles of education. *$1.75.
Macmillan.

                                                                6–26518.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The real strength of Dr. Horne’s book is found in its treatment of
  emotional, moral, and religious education; these vital subjects are
  handled with breadth, warmth, and frankness, and with an unusually
  full comprehension of their supreme importance.”

     + − =Dial.= 42: 45. Ja. 16, ’07. 630w.

  “Horne’s theoretical assumptions, both in this discussion and thruout
  the book seem to me to show evidence of a certain confusion of thought
  of so fundamental a nature as to justify notice here. The author has
  given to teachers many suggestions of practical value and very likely
  an inspiration toward better teaching, but he has not based these
  suggestions upon a consistent and accurate system, of psychology.” Guy
  Montrose Whipple.

     − + =Educ. R.= 34: 317. O. ’07. 1950w.

  Reviewed by Charles Hughes Johnston.

     + + =Educ. R.= 34: 478. D. ’07. 5000w.

  “One can but regret casting a disparaging word at so admirably written
  a book as Horne’s ‘Psychological principles of education;’ but, in
  spite of its containing much excellent material and many good
  suggestions for practical teaching, it does not present any
  particularly original point of view, nor does it mark any advance in
  the general field of education psychology.” Irving King.

     + − =School R.= 15: 227. Mr. ’07. 790w.


=Horner, Joseph G.= Modern milling machines: their design, construction
and operation: a handbook for practical men and engineering students.
$4. Henley.

  “The author has endeavored to treat the subject, both in the text and
  by the illustrations, in such a manner, as will make clear the
  essentials of the art, and to provide a book which will be useful to
  both the designer and the operator.” (Engin. N.) He “describes very
  fully many different types of machines, and probably one of the best
  chapters is that dealing with the design and manufacture of
  cutters.”—Nature.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The skilled workman as well as the amateur will find much that is
  valuable and worth while and little of the usual padding. Any one
  collecting a library of shop books should include this volume.” Wm. W.
  Bird.

     + + =Engin. N.= 57: 194. F. 14, ’07. 160w.

  “Chapter 11 is too short, though very interesting; it deals with the
  subject of feeds and speeds. We can recommend this volume to all
  interested in machine-shop practice. The machines dealt with are of
  the latest type, and much useful information will be found scattered
  through its pages.” N. J. L.

   + + − =Nature.= 74: 149. Je. 14, ’06. 460w.


=Horner, Joseph G.= Practical metal turning: a handbook for engineers,
technical students and amateurs. il. $3.50. Henley.

                                                                7–19433.

  “The work in all its varied forms is discussed, its many tools and
  appliances are shown and described and the question of speeds and
  feeds for various tools and metals is well treated. A good deal of
  valuable information is given regarding the use of high-speed steel
  for lathe work.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “While nothing new or especially novel is found, the book as a whole
  is well arranged, the illustrations are good, and a copy is worth
  owning for those interested in this line of work.” Wm. W. Bird.

       + =Engin. N.= 57: 194. F. 14, ’07. 100w.


=Horniman, Roy.= Lord Cammarleigh’s secret; a fairy story of to-day.
†$1.50. Little.

                                                                7–34173.

  Anthony Brooke, unwilling to battle for bread, hits upon a bold plan.
  During his aimless wandering through Grosvenor square he espies Lord
  Cammarleigh, whom he knows by reputation, in conversation with a
  woman. Brooke observes the restlessness of his eyes and concludes that
  he is a man who has a secret, one who is afraid. With none of the
  malice of blackmail but spurred on by a fortune-hunter’s necessity of
  the things of life, Brooke looked the peer squarely in the eye and
  said, “I know your secret.” A private secretaryship, the management of
  the household affairs and, in truth of the obdurate Cammarleigh
  himself follow for the imposter in a most surprising manner.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book abounds with unfeeling fun, culminating in a rhetorical
  flourish of impudence. Fortunately for the nerves of the ordinary
  reader, the victim of blackmail is a puppet; but the other important
  characters are vigorously drawn.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 546. N. 2. 150w.

  “Granted, however, a single initial impossibility, the story goes on
  smoothly and naturally enough; and this, we take it, represents a more
  artistic method of dealing with the impossible than that which demands
  our acceptance of new miracles in every chapter.” Wm. M. Payne.

     + − =Dial.= 43: 319. N. 16, ’07. 230w.

         =Nation.= 85: 417. N. 28, ’07. 210w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

  “Mr. Horniman is to be congratulated on a capital idea fully but not
  tediously exploited.”

       + =Sat. R.= 104: 519. O. 26, ’07. 180w.


* =Horsley, Sir Victor A. H., and Sturge, Mary M.= Alcohol and the human
body: an introduction to the study of the subject; with a chapter by
Arthur Newsholme. *$1.50. Macmillan.

  An indictment against the use of alcohol in which “its ill effects on
  body and mind, on health and strength, on moral action and
  intellectual activity, are set forth by argument, by facts, by
  figures, by representations, gruesome in outline and hue, of the
  morbid conditions which it induces in the chief organs of the human
  frame.” (Spec.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This book is sound literary performance and an earnest tract for the
  times but we do not see that it can achieve much.”

       + =Acad.= 72: 600. Je. 22, ’07. 1080w.

         =Ind.= 63: 1119. N. 7, ’07. 320w.

  “Though on the main issue we do not feel competent to give
  judgment—the conflict of evidence is too great—we are bound to record
  the opinion that a book like that under notice is sure to do a great
  deal of good, and can hardly do any harm even if it is mistaken in
  fact.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 946. Je. 15, ’07. 190w.


=Horstmann, Henry Charles, and Tousley, Victor Hugo.= Electrical wiring
and construction tables. *$1.50. Drake, F: J.

                                                                  7–472.

  A pocket hand-book for the wire man, contractor, engineer and
  architect. “The book contains tables for direct-current calculations,
  for alternating-current calculations, for the smallest size of wire
  permissible, and for the most economical loss in different
  installations. Tables and diagrams are given showing the proper size
  of conduits to accommodate different combinations or numbers of wires;
  also tables and data for estimating the quantity of material required
  for different lines of work.” (Engin. N.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Contains much useful information.”

       + =Engin. N.= 57: 89. Ja. 17, ’07. 120w.


=Hoskins, Leander Miller.= Text-book on hydraulics, including an outline
of the theory of turbines. *$2.50. Holt.

                                                                6–38547.

  A text for the use of instructors of experience and thorough training
  in the subject, a work giving the fundamental principles in a clear
  and concise form without elaboration.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “As a whole it may be said that the book presents the laws and
  theories of hydraulics as they were recognized 20 to 25 years ago.
  There is authority for most of its statements in the treatises of that
  time, but it can hardly be said to cover the field as we regard it
  today.” Gardner S. Williams.

       − =Engin. N.= 57: 304. Mr. 14, ’07. 940w.

  “The book is distinctly elementary, and as such is well written and
  supplied with good examples.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 388. Ap. 25, ’07. 210w.

  “This book will be valuable in training engineering students
  possessing a fair knowledge of mathematics to solve any problems in
  hydraulics they are likely to meet with in practice, and it will also
  furnish them with an insight into the principles on which the working
  and efficiency of turbines are based.”

       + =Nature.= 76: 542. S. 26, ’07. 510w.

       + =Technical Literature.= 1: 177. Ap. ’07. 320w.


=Hough, Emerson.= Story of the outlaw: a study of the western desperado.
il. *$1.50. Outing.

                                                                 7–5705.

  Historical narratives of famous outlaws, the stories of noted border
  wars, vigilant movements and armed conflicts on the frontier. It is a
  contemplative study of the American desperado as he is, and in spite
  of the author’s intention to do away as far as possible with
  melodramatic thrills, the character of the subject precludes their
  complete elimination.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Not particularly interesting, but contains material not easily
  available elsewhere.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 122. My. ’07.

  “It is a concise, clearly-reasoned, well-balanced and admirably
  written piece of work—a real contribution to our economic literature,
  and interesting to the average reader.”

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 638. My. ’07. 420w.

  “The pages exhale the smell of blood and hemp. The realism is almost
  too raw for literature.”

     − + =Lit. D.= 34: 766. My. 11, ’07. 280w.

  “His book certainly shows no trace of a tendency to exaggeration, but
  on the contrary is distinguished by a scrupulously careful moderation
  of statement.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 202. Ap. 6, ’07. 210w.

  “It is all interesting and suggestive, as material lifted bodily from
  life always is, but a little of it goes a long way.”

       + =Putnam’s.= 2: 748. S. ’07. 270w.

  “Mr. Hough’s philosophising is the weak part of his book.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: 761. My. 11, ’07. 1950w.


=Hough, Emerson.= Way of a man. $1.50. Outing pub.

                                                                7–27615.

  The scene of Mr. Hough’s story is once again laid in the west, chiefly
  during the time of the westward movement previous to the civil war. It
  concerns a young Virginian who, tho bound to an eastern girl, finds
  that he loves his companion of many adventures on the great plains.
  Their love-making, interrupted for a time by a villainous emissary
  from the cotton interests in England, and by the war itself, finally
  terminates happily. It has been the wish of the author to show the
  effect of a broad strong environment on human beings.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The style of the hero’s narrative in the opening pages, is too
  archaic for the period treated, but becomes more appropriate as the
  story goes forward.”

     + − =Lit. D.= 35: 695. N. 9, ’07. 340w.

  “Is chiefly of interest in the illustration it affords of several
  tendencies in contemporary fiction, as deplorable as they are
  conspicuous: the glorification of the violent, the primitive, and the
  crude; a sophomorical searching after effects of style; and a habit of
  cheap philosophizing.”

       − =Nation.= 85: 377. O. 24, ’07. 610w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 60w.

  “Mr. Hough writes a dignified and forthright sort of tale, which,
  although it has a good plot and plenty of incident, yet moves along
  quietly and without the clatter-and-bang effect which characterizes so
  many novels of action. But this mood seems all the time a little
  overstrained, as if he wrote at high pitch and found it rather
  painful.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 769. N. 30, ’07. 590w.

  “There is plenty of thrill and suspense—possibly a trifle too much.”

     − + =Outlook.= 87: 497. N. 2, ’07. 100w.


=Hough, Romeyn Beck.= Handbook of the trees of the northern states and
Canada, east of the Rocky mountains; photo-descriptive, buck. $8. Hough.

                                                                7–31197.

  “A new guide-book to the trees of the northern states and Canada
  devotes two pages to each species. One page bears a photographic
  reproduction showing a group of leaves (both sides) and fruit. The
  other page has a photograph of the trunk of the tree, showing the
  distinguishing peculiarities of the bark, a small map showing by
  shading the range of the tree’s growth, and a short, clear description
  of its characteristics.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We cannot think of an item which would contribute to greater
  completeness. Everything that has been attempted seems to have been
  well planned and well executed. The book may be commended as
  indispensable for public and school libraries, for all students of
  trees, and botanical laboratories.” C. R. B.

   + + + =Bot. Gaz.= 44: 384. N. ’07. 460w.

       + =Educ. R.= 34: 535. D. ’07. 30w.

  “There is nothing but praise for the work as a whole. This handbook
  should be widely useful in nature libraries, schools and colleges.”

   + + + =Nation.= 85: 355. O. 17, ’07. 460w.

  “The book is admirably adapted for the average person who wants to be
  able to tell the trees apart with the least possible study.”

     + + =Outlook.= 87: 358. O. 19, ’07. 100w.

  “These photographs are of unusual excellence and give to this handbook
  its distinctive value as a work of reference.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 36: 640. N. ’07. 140w.


=Hough, Theodore, and Sedgwick, William Thompson.= Human mechanism; its
physiology, and hygiene, and the sanitation of its surroundings. *$2.
Ginn.

                                                                6–37595.

  “This is a textbook of hygiene on new lines. Anatomy, both gross and
  microscopic, is reduced to the lowest terms, and the emphasis of the
  book, as stated in the preface, is placed on physiology, hygiene, and
  sanitation—on function and conduct.”—School R.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “First half of the book ... avoids unnecessary details, but omits
  nothing essential. It is so lucidly written that the wayfaring man
  will have to be a terrible fool if he does not understand it. We can
  award to [the second] part no higher praise than to say that it is as
  excellent as the preliminary physiological portion. It teems with
  sound practical common-sense; it points out convincingly, avoiding too
  great technicality, the scientific reason for their [the authors’]
  faith.”

       + =Nature.= 75: 318. Ja. 31, ’07. 320w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 256. F. ’07. 50w.

  “It seems to be altogether the best work upon the subject for use
  either as a textbook or for private reading.” Joseph E. Raycroft.

     + + =School R.= 15: 308. Ap. ’07. 310w.


=Houghton, Louise (Seymour).= Hebrew life and thought; being
interpretative studies in the literature of Israel. *$1.50. Univ. of
Chicago press.

                                                                6–22298.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “One is disappointed that he finds no attempt at the unity of purpose,
  except to entertain the reader, indicated in the title of the book. We
  are glad to find that each lecture has a definite purpose, and some of
  them are admirably treated.” Ira M. Price and John M. P. Smith.

     + − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 150. Ja. ’07. 260w.

  “The aim of the book is good. It breathes a profound faith. Its author
  loves the Bible all the more because it is not only a book of
  religious instruction, but appeals to her as literature in the way the
  ‘Iliad’ or ‘Odyssey’ does. The defects of the book are occasional
  extravagances of statement, too great an effort to make out biblical
  laws and family life superior to anything else in antiquity, and an
  artificial interpretation of such books as Canticles and Ruth.”

     + − =Bib. World.= 29: 72. Ja. ’07. 720w.

  “Mrs. Houghton writes with enthusiasm and _con amore_, and if we were
  able to name a defect it would be a certain light passing over the
  limitations and defects of Old Testament morals and belief.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 803. Ap. 4, ’07. 160w.


=Houghton, Louise (Seymour).= Russian grandmother’s wonder tales.
†$1.50. Scribner.

                                                                6–32363.

  “Louise Seymour Houghton openly confesses to having been prompted by
  ‘Uncle Remus’ in her mode of treating ‘The Russian grandmother’s
  wonder tales,’ a collection revealing the simple life of the
  Slavonians; at the same time in a short preface the author indicates
  analogies which reveal how close in contact legends of different lands
  often are. The book is excellently printed and effectively illustrated
  by W. T. Benda.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “An excellent collection from authentic sources.”

     + + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 219. N. ’06.

  “Since Slavonic-tales do not seem yet to be ‘vieux jeu,’ we recommend
  this charming little work as a gift-book.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 14. Ja. 5. 210w.

       + =Bookm.= 24: 528. Ja. ’07. 40w.

       + =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 22, ’06. 70w.

       + =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 40w.

  “The tales are exceedingly well written.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 100w.

  “A fascinating little volume.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 512. O. ’06. 30w.


* =Houston, Edwin James.= Discovery of the North Pole. [*]$1. Winston.

                                                                7–23532.

  The second of three volumes in the “North Pole series.” Andree and
  Eric, two American boys, are the heroes who pass thru thrilling
  adventures and exciting situations while they are learning many facts
  of modern scientific discoveries.


* =Hovey, Richard.= Holy graal, and other fragments by Richard Hovey;
being the uncompleted parts of the Arthurian dramas; ed. with introd.
and notes by Mrs. Richard Hovey, and a preface by Bliss Carman. $1.25.
Duffield.

  Fragments of the Arthurian legends which are presented for the sake of
  the psychological problem involved rather than for their historic and
  picturesque value as poetic material or for the sake of their glamour
  and romance. From notes, jottings, and outlines set down in note books
  or upon scraps of paper, Mrs. Hovey has completed the work of her
  husband who left it unfinished.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’67. 30w.

  “An inestimable service has been rendered to the memory of Richard
  Hovey by the publication of ‘The holy graal and other fragments’ of
  the uncompleted Arthurian dramas; not so much by virtue of the new
  material which they contain for this is slight, as for the
  illumination thrown upon the whole scheme of the projected cycle by
  the introduction and notes of Mrs. Hovey.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

       + =Putnam’s.= 3: 365. D. ’07. 430w.


=Howard, Burt Estes.= German empire. **$2. Macmillan.

                                                                6–34863.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 68. Mr. ’07.

  “The work makes up in solidity for whatever it lacks in interest. As a
  whole the book is a serious and concise summary of value in itself and
  a basis for wider study.”

     + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 216. Ja. ’07. 380w.

  “We have examined no better book for the American student of German
  institutions.” Robert E. Bisbee.

     + + =Arena.= 37: 216. F. ’07. 150w.

  “Will probably rank among the standard briefer treatises of the
  Germans. The only criticism worth mentioning relates to the title of
  this book, which is misleading, since the work relates almost entirely
  to a single aspect of the German Empire, its constitution.” J. W.
  Garner.

   + + − =Dial.= 42: 105. F. 16, ’07. 1290w.

  “It is, indeed, a defect of the book that it does not present us with
  a living picture of how the various organs of the constitution perform
  their functions. Dr. Howard has obviously based his book upon
  extensive research, and possesses the great merit of writing clearly
  on legal subjects.” W. M.

     + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 412. Ap. ’07. 360w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 37. Ja. 19, ’07. 310w.

  “The text, though specifically juristical, and not, except in place,
  historical, never falls under the influence of Dr. Dryasdust; it is
  laboriously accurate, and supported by excellent explanatory notes,
  which our daily lecturers on foreign affairs should study.”

     + + =Spec.= 98: 141. Ja. 26, ’07. 2430w.


=Howard, Earl Dean.= Cause and extent of the recent industrial progress
of Germany. (Hart, Schaffner and Marx prize essays in economics.) **$1.
Houghton.

                                                                7–13001.

  The book “is divided into two parts, the first of which treats of the
  extent of Germany’s recent industrial progress; and the second, the
  causes. Industrial progress in general is defined in an introductory
  chapter, as the ‘increase in the amount of goods produced and
  transported, and the improvement of methods by which this increased
  production is accomplished.’ The course of this development since the
  industrial revolution is briefly reviewed.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 166. O. ’07. S.

  “It is a concise, clearly reasoned, well balanced and admirably
  written piece of work—a real contribution to our economic literature,
  and interesting to the average reader.”

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 638. My. ’07. 420w.

         =Dial.= 43: 69. Ag. 1, ’07. 150w.

  “It is a careful and discriminating study, and undoubtedly offers the
  best concise discussion of its subject that has yet appeared.” O. D.
  Skelton.

     + + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 562. N. ’07. 300w.

  “It cannot be said that Mr. Howard has made any substantial
  contribution to our knowledge of the subject.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 163. Ag. 22, ’07. 270w.

  “There is no questioning the intrinsic value of his work, which
  assuredly makes for a clearer understanding of modern Germany and her
  people.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 438. Je. 22, ’07. 500w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 759. Je. ’07. 50w.

  “The book is well worth perusal, and it does not detract from its
  value if we add that it is for the most part, and properly so, a
  careful and moderate exposition of the obvious.”

       + =Spec.= 99: sup. 643. N. 2, ’07. 540w.


=Howard, George Bronson.= Norroy, diplomatic agent; il. by Gordon Ross.
$1.50. Saalfield.

                                                                 7–5683.

  Seven diplomatic detective adventures in which Yorke Norroy figures as
  secret agent of the United States. He always has in his possession the
  means to foil his opponent in the big international games being
  played, and the analysis of his method of securing the trump card
  reveals shrewd practical imagination at work and the adroit handling
  of resulting situations.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The seven stories are good reading at any time, and particularly when
  the mind longs for diversion.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 181. Mr. 23, ’07. 260w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 381. Je. 15, ’07. 200w.


=Howard, John Raymond=, ed. Prose you ought to know. **$1.50. Revell.

  The editor’s “aim in the present volume is to gather, from a wide
  range of authorship and subject-matter, a series of brief excerpts,
  each of which shall be typical of its author’s best style, and,
  besides exciting a momentary interest, shall ‘at least hint at the
  richness of an essay, a tale, a history, an oration.’”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Has been edited ... with an intelligence and originality that will
  make it acceptable even to the avowed enemy of the ordinary book of
  extracts.”

       + =Dial.= 41: 460. D: 16, ’06. 220w.

  “The selections he makes are brief and numerous rather than few and
  choice.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 31. Ja. 19, ’07. 280w.


=Howard, Newman.= Christian trilogy. 3v. ea. *$1.25. Dutton.

  “Religions may come and go; the forms of morality may change, and what
  is right in one age and clime be wrong in another; but the essential
  virtue remains the same—nothing else than faithfulness to what a man
  holds to be right. That is the idea running through the three plays
  which Mr. Newman Howard calls his ‘Christian trilogy.’... Kiartan was,
  externally, true to his false friend; Savonarola to his false city;
  Minervina and Crispus, Constantine’s discarded wife and son, to their
  false husband, wife, and emperor. In each case there lies behind the
  occasion, the sense of honor, the conviction of the necessity for
  truth to an ideal of right.”—Lond. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Newman Howard’s ‘Christian trilogy’ is real poetry and it is real
  drama. Mr. Howard’s work is so fine that it seems captious to point
  out what we feel to be a defect in it. Though in each of his dramas,
  tragedy is implied in the character of the chief personage, too much
  of the action is controlled by the persistent malignity of another
  individual. Free from most of the tricks of the playwright, Mr. Howard
  still relies too much on his villain.”

   + + − =Acad.= 71: 469. N. 10, ’06. 1560w. (Review of v. 1–3.)

  “Starting with the essential idea, he develops it broadly, simply,
  even severely, preserving always the distinction between what is
  theatrical and what is dramatic.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 5: 345. O. 12, ’06. 1580w. (Review of v. 1–3.)

  “The work of Newman Howard which has but lately made its way to us,
  though published first some years ago in England, evinces a dramatic
  talent of a high order, but a talent not yet wholly disciplined.”
  Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

     + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 350. Je. ’07. 360w. (Review of v. 1–3.)

  =v. 1.= Kiartan the Icelander: a tragedy.

  The motif of the first part of the trilogy is the introduction of
  Christianity into Iceland.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In ‘Kiartan the Icelander’ his very care for local colour and
  characteristic expression makes his meaning sometimes not easy to
  follow. Possibly in the theatre this difficulty would disappear,
  though we cannot help feeling that he has been so intent on making his
  people tenth century Icelanders that they lose something of their
  probability as men and women.”

   + + − =Acad.= 71: 469. N. 10, ’06. 390w.

  =v. 2.= Savonarola: a city’s tragedy.

  A drama filled with the “forlorn anti-pagan hope of Savonarola.” Its
  interest is centered in “the public career of the Frate, the dramatic
  incident of the Trial by fire and the tragic spectacle of the
  Execution.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Without any sacrifice of dramatic propriety he has so arranged that
  you see not only people but their surroundings. As a result, the play
  is full of the stir and colour of mediaeval Italy. Indeed, though he
  has handled the central theme in a masterly manner, what will delight
  most readers is the extraordinary sense of atmosphere created by the
  minor characters.”

   + + − =Acad.= 71: 469. N. 10, ’06. 390w.

  “In ‘Savonarola,’ Mr. Howard’s more recent drama, the lack of sharp
  definition in the plot and dialogue is much more apparent than in
  ‘Kiartan,’ since all the rival factions and orders, civil and
  religious, of that turbulent period are represented in the play and by
  their machinations so involve the plot that it is difficult to keep
  the various characters and their allegiance distinct.” Jessie B.
  Rittenhouse.

     + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 350. Je. ’07. 360w.

  =v. 3.= Constantine the great: a tragedy.

                                                                7–18134.

  The establishment of Christianity as the state religion of the Roman
  empire furnishes the key-note of the third part of the trilogy. “In
  this play Mr. Howard gets his background, his atmosphere, mainly by a
  single figure; that of the little degenerate Fabius. By an almost
  savage piece of irony, Fabius is made the victim of the plot to murder
  Constantine. The state of paganism at the period of the play is
  admirably indicated by the priests of Demeter with their pitiful
  machinery for working an apparition of the goddess Proserpine. Bombo
  is one of the best clowns out of Shakespeare.” (Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Howard reaches his highest level of workmanship in ‘Constantine
  the great.’ The chief characters stand out with something of the
  objective reality of sculpture but with all the life and movement of
  human beings. The dialog is reduced to its bare essentials, and
  because no word is allowed for its own sake, every word is not only
  significant but decorative, so that the texture of the verse is as if
  woven of some precious metal.”

   + + − =Acad.= 71: 469. N. 10, ’06. 390w.

  “When we have put together all the poetical achievements of this
  tragedy, when we have set them beside its mastery of dramatic speech
  and structure and when we have dispassionately weighed against these
  excellencies its defects, we cannot hesitate to place it among all but
  the highest English dramatic poetry.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 398. O. 6. 2160w.

  “The conception—a rare failing—is superior to the art or technique.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 207. F. 16, ’07. 280w.

  “We cannot praise Mr. Howard more highly than by saying that he is one
  of the very few living poets who stand in the great tradition. It is a
  book which every lover of good poetry must read and cherish.”

     + + =Spec.= 97: 930. D. 8, ’06. 230w.


* =Howard, Oliver Otis.= Autobiography. 2v. **$5. Baker.

                                                                7–35640.

  The volume “takes us once more to the familiar battlefields, shows how
  campaigns were fought and won and lost, and describes in detail the
  efforts of the government, after peace had been restored, to relieve
  the emancipated but helpless slaves whom the war had set at
  liberty.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He takes the reader delightfully into his confidence, and writes with
  an astonishing recollection of detail. An autobiography at once so
  full of incident and so free from matters of small importance has
  rarely been produced.” Percy F. Bicknell.

     + + =Dial.= 43: 244. O. 16, ’07. 1800w.

  “Bulks large on the shelf, but so interesting that the reader will not
  regret the magnitude.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 609. N. 23, ’07. 410w.


* =Howden, J. R.= Boys’ book of locomotives. $2. McClure.

  An informing book for young readers which traces with many
  accompanying illustrations the evolution of the steam engine from its
  beginning to its replacement by the electric locomotive.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book will tempt old as well as young.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 40w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 50w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 767. D. ’07. 90w.


=Howe, Frederic Clemson.= British city: the beginnings of democracy.
**$1.50. Scribner.

                                                                7–21305.

  A companion to Mr. Howe’s study of the American city. It is not only
  an exposition full of historical and statistical detail but is a
  critical discussion of the workings of the British city and of the
  lessons contained “for the solution of parallel, but by no means
  identical, American problems.” The author’s strictly economic point of
  view accounts for all the motives of a commonwealth’s interests, he
  has become “convinced that it is the economic environment that creates
  and controls man’s activities as well as his attitude of mind.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 166. O. ’07.

  “No social reformer can afford to be without this volume.” B. O.
  Flower.

   + + + =Arena.= 38: 200. Ag. ’07. 3260w.

  “The book contains a good deal of information, not all of it full or
  pertinent, but it is not presented with especial attractiveness or
  force.”

     − + =Educ. R.= 34: 430. N. ’07. 70w.

  “In spite of these numerous mistakes and misconceptions, Mr. Howe has
  formed some very sound and well-grounded opinions as to the working of
  British institutions.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 880. O. 10, ’07. 420w.

         =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 441. Jl. ’07. 210w.

  “Mr. Howe never lets himself forget that he is writing for American
  readers and the contrast which he draws between municipal conditions
  in the two countries is really the book’s most valuable and
  illuminating feature.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 81. Jl. 25, ’07. 1220w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 376. Je. 8, ’07. 100w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 547. S. 14, ’07. 530w.


=Howe, Frederic Clemson.= City: the hope of democracy. **$1.50.
Scribner.

                                                                5–33225.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

  Reviewed by Lewis E. Palmer.

         =Charities.= 17: 511. D. 15, ’06. 630w.

  “For our part, we believe that in his main principles the author is
  right, as also in many of his applications of those principles to
  judge the success or failure of the British city. We also believe that
  he carries some of his theories too far.”

   + + − =Engin. N.= 58: 533. N. 14, ’07. 1240w.

  “Writes as a propagandist rather than as a student. The work is
  interesting in style, stimulating in thought and treatment, hopeful in
  tone, and is well worth a careful reading by the student of municipal
  affairs.” Clinton Rogers Woodruff.

     + − =Yale R.= 15: 463. F. ’07. 710w.


=Howe, Frederic Clemson.= Confessions of a monopolist. *$1. Public pub.

                                                                6–32427.

  An autobiography “showing how easily a man of medium capacity and no
  scruples can accumulate a fortune by exploiting public franchises and
  ‘playing Wall street.’” (N. Y. Times.) “Never before has a work
  appeared in which the methods of the high financiers and political
  bosses have been more clearly exposed. Here the reader is made to see
  how certain feats that appear from before the footlights as little
  short of miraculous are performed. Here he sees how by learning the
  rules of the game a modern high financier is able to divert the wealth
  of thousands into the till of the crafty monopolists; how, in short,
  the thousands are made to labor for the few just as actually as in the
  days of the feudal lords the serfs slaved for the barons. And here he
  sees how politics are made the handmaid of the modern plutocracy in
  its attempt to enslave labor while destroying the soul of democracy.”
  (Arena.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is far and away the finest political satire on present-day
  American politics,—a book that every thinking patriotic citizen should
  read.”

     + + =Arena.= 36: 680. D. ’06. 950w.

  “It is not pleasant reading—it is too true to life, though possibly
  somewhat exaggerated or unnaturally concentrated either for artistic
  effect or for the sake of argument.” Max West.

     + − =Dial.= 43: 121. S. 1, ’07. 310w.

         =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 125. F. ’07. 120w.

  “The little volume is both interesting and instructive, whether
  regarded as a vade mecum for those desirous of practising the new high
  finance, or as an addition to the horrors which our professional
  purifiers have revealed in order to reform them.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 595. S. 29, ’06. 240w.


=Howe, Malverd Abijah.= Symmetrical masonry arches, including natural
stone, plain concrete and reinforced concrete arches; for the use of
technical schools, engineers and computers in designing arches according
to the elastic theory. $2.50. Wiley.

                                                                6–33609.

  “In the first chapter, fundamental formulas for the elastic arch are
  derived; in the second chapter, symmetrical arches without hinges and
  of constant or variable section, are considered.... In chapter 3 the
  author applies the theory in detail to a segmental circular arch of
  constant section and also to a reinforced-concrete arch.... The last
  chapter of the book is devoted to drawings of typical arches. An
  appendix is given on the physical properties of stone and concrete and
  data for about five hundred masonry arch bridges.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is a strong, sound handling of a difficult subject. The one
  criticism that can be made of the theory developments in the book is
  that they are a little too condensed.” Wm. Cain.

   + + − =Engin. N.= 56: 522. N. 15, ’06. 980w.


=Howe, Samuel Gridley.= Letters and journals of Samuel Gridley Howe; ed.
by his daughter, Laura E. Richards; with notes and a preface by F. B.
Sanborn. 3v. ea. **$3. Estes.

                                                                6–38340.

  =v. 1.= Following a brief story of his early years, Mrs. Richards has
  sketched her father’s life from his letters and journals written in
  Greece during his espousal of that country’s fight for independence.
  “The book gives a convincing picture of the conditions of Greece at
  the time of the war of independence, and introduces us to an American
  working among these conditions who was a credit to his country for
  firmness of character, coolness of judgment, disinterestedness, and
  humanity.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Full of facts and judgments of high historical value. There was
  hardly a keener eye on Greek affairs than Howe’s; hardly a man of any
  age who saw so much and interpreted it so well. His incisive judgments
  of men have, in the main, stood the test of time. Apart from the
  historical value of this volume, it takes rank with the very best
  Greek travels of that day.” J. Irving Manatt.

     + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 640. Ap. ’07. 1040w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “If they are to be regarded as historical materials, they require much
  more annotation to make them generally comprehensible. Their omissions
  are too serious to give them much weight as a contemporary record of
  events.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 189. F. 16. 2090w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Mrs. Richards’s prefatory and interspersed notes add no little to the
  value and completeness of the book as a detailed account of her
  father’s eventful young manhood.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 187. Mr. 16, ’07. 350w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The letters and journals are written in a spirited fashion, but are
  lacking in notable incident, and deal with few personalities who are
  of interest to any except special students of this period of European
  history.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 26. Ja. 5, ’07. 240w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The book is readable throughout.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 51. F. 15, ’07. 550w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Mrs. Richards would probably be well advised were she to use the
  pruning knife more freely in succeeding volumes. There is no index,
  and the printing and production of the book leave much to be desired.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 248. Mr. 14, ’07. 680w. (Review of v. 1.)

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 113. Ja. ’07. 110w. (Review of v. 1.)

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 276. Mr. 2, ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “This is an interesting volume, but the reader need not consider
  himself bound to go thru it from cover to cover.”

       + =Spec.= 98: sup. 652. Ap. 27, ’07. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)


=Howell, George.= Labour legislation, labour movements, and labour
leaders. 2d ed. 2v. *$2.50. Dutton.

  A new edition of a work which serves to throw light on the nature,
  aims and methods of trade-unionism.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Ind.= 60: 1287. My. 31, ’06. 50w.

  “He chronicles a great deal not to be found in other histories, and
  his book fills a gap for England which needs filling for ourselves.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 176. Mr. 24, ’06. 500w.

  “It is marred by fragmentariness, by repetitions, and by unpolished
  style, but its merits are so conspicuous that it deserves the
  thoughtful consideration of every student of economic and social
  questions.”

     + − =Outlook.= 84: 675. N. 17, ’06. 580w.

         =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 181. Mr. ’07. 70w.


=Howell, James.= Familiar letters of James Howell; with an introd. by
Agnes Repplier. 2v. $6; Special ltd. ed. 4v. *$15. Houghton.

                                                                7–15871.

  An attractive new edition of letters which “speak for themselves, and
  surely no reader will pine for erudite guidance through the maze of
  curious anecdote, lively narrative, and characteristically intimate
  comment and reflection which Howell has constructed, writing always
  crisply and lucidly, in accordance with his belief that a letter
  should be ‘short-coated and closely couch’d’ and should ‘not preach
  but epistolize.’” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The letters themselves ... possess all the charm and gossipy interest
  of their time that the letters of Horace Walpole contained a century
  later.” Laurence Burnham.

     + + =Bookm.= 26: 101. S. ’07. 360w. (Review of 4 v. ed.)

     + + =Dial.= 43: 214. O. 1, ’07. 430w. (Review of 2 v. ed.)

  “In her pleasant way Miss Repplier brings out, by incident and
  characterization, the qualities which have made his letters the
  constant reading of lovers of literature since they first appeared.”

     + + =Outlook.= 87: 357. O. 19, ’07. 280w. (Review of 2 v. ed.)

  “It is a book that seems as fresh to-day as when it was written nearly
  three centuries ago, and, though it may never be popular, it will
  always be valued by the discriminating few.” Charlotte Harwood.

     + + =Putnam’s.= 2: 446. Jl. ’07. 700w. (Review of 4 v. ed.)

  “The wide careless world will pay little attention to these volumes,
  but they will have their own sure welcome.” H. W. Boynton.

     + + =Putnam’s.= 3: 233. N. ’97. 830w. (Review of 2 v. ed.)


=Howells, William Dean.= Between the dark and the daylight. †$1.50.
Harper.

                                                                7–34775.

  Of the seven tales told by old friends at the club four are
  psychological romances, stories of that mental borderland suggested by
  the book’s title. “A sleep and a forgetting” tells of a strange lapse
  of memory in a young girl; “The eidolons of Brooks Alford” concerns
  the visions of a broken down professor and the pretty widow who
  disperses them; “A memory that worked over time” is a confusion of
  memory and imagination; and “A case of metaphantasmia” enters into the
  question of dream-transference. The three stories which conclude the
  book, “Editha,” “Braybridge’s offer,” and “The chick of the Easter
  egg” are plain day-light stories, a protest against war, a speculation
  as to the average proposal, and an amusing Easter comedy.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Reviewed by A. Schade van Westrum.

       + =Bookm.= 26: 275. N. ’07. 1000w.

  “They are queer and creepy without being exactly supernatural.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 1377. D. 5, ’07. 150w.

  “The stories are graceful social pictures written with charm and
  humor.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

  “We can only congratulate ourselves that he does not sit before his
  fire enjoying it all to himself, as he might be tempted to do.”

     + + =Outlook.= 87: 624. N. 23, ’07. 190w.

  “All the stories are full of delightful reading. They would not be Mr.
  Howells’s if they were not.”

     + + =Spec.= 99: 717. N. 9, ’07. 210w.


=Howells, William Dean.= Certain delightful English towns, with glimpses
of the pleasant country between. **$3. Harper.

                                                                6–38895.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “It is only a Stevenson or a Howells who could achieve fascination for
  [this task]. But Mr. Howells is triumphantly successful. The American
  humor, which has always been attuned, in Mr. Howells, to a delicate
  strain, becomes tender whimsicality. We know no one who writes more
  beautifully in modern English.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907. 1: 435. Ap. 13. 1040w.

  “How dare we use anything so rough and rude as the downright word
  praise of anything so delicate?”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 100. Mr. 29, ’07. 1590w.

       + =Spec.= 98: 450. Mr. 23, ’07. 1560w.


=Howells, William Dean.= Through the eye of the needle. †$1.50. Harper.

                                                                7–15545.

  Part 1 of this sociological story contains a view of modern New York
  as seen by a traveler from Altruria. The tall, bleak apartment houses,
  the social distinctions, and the greed for gain impress him so
  strongly that he says at the very outset,—“If I spoke with Altrurian
  breath of the way New Yorkers live, I should begin by saying that the
  New Yorkers do not live at all.” Part 2 contains an account of
  Altruria as seen by the American wife whom he takes home with him, and
  who has a difficult time adjusting her American ideas to a country
  which has neither money nor social gradations, and, where lord and
  farmer work happily for their living, side by side.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Done in the author’s usual delightful manner.”

     + + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 135. My. ’07.

  “Unhappily, these sociological criticisms are not conveyed in an
  interesting form of fiction. We cannot be absorbed in Mr. Homos’s love
  affair with an attractive American widow, and we are thrown back for
  diversion on his strictures on American conditions.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 786. Je. 29. 250w.

  “He is writing, not a thesis on the future economics of the world at
  large, but a kindly satire, a sort of twentieth century parable.”
  Frederic Taber Cooper.

       + =Bookm.= 25: 394. Je. ’07. 270w.

  Reviewed by A. Schade van Westrum.

         =Bookm.= 25: 434. Je. ’07. 1230w.

       + =Ind.= 62: 1207. My. 23, ’07. 670w.

  “In this novel, dealing with a theme peculiarly congenial to him, we
  have an example of Mr. Howells’s style arrived at its perihelion.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 34: 885. Je. 1, ’07. 330w.

  “We should rather be thankful for a piece of very grateful fancy, and
  not the least for a deft and witty introduction which is an almost
  faultless little piece of irony.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 165. My. 24, ’07. 530w.

  “The account of these plutocrats endeavoring to maintain the forms of
  an obsolete social order verges perilously upon comic opera. This,
  however, is of small consequence, the point of interest being that
  with Mr. Howells’s deep love of humanity as he finds it, the apostle
  of realism in American fiction should care to spend (almost waste) his
  precious gifts upon such a toy of the imagination as the island of
  Altruria.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 134. My. 9, ’07. 690w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 255. Ap. 20, ’07. 170w.

  “Certain it is that whatever be our attitude toward socialism, or our
  opinion of what we may presume to be Mr. Howells’s own theories, we
  must needs enjoy the exquisite literary flavor of these letters to and
  from Altruria, and can hardly fail to be lifted to a higher plane by
  the author’s own sincere enthusiasm of humanity and widely inclusive
  sympathies.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 297. My. 11, ’07. 3370w.

  “Mr. Howells has written in his characteristic whimsical vein.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 581. Je. 15. ’07. 210w.

  “Mr. Howells writes, not as a reformer with a grievance, but simply as
  a lover of his kind, perturbed over current errors but too wise to let
  them warp his judgment.” Royal Cortissoz.

     + + =No. Am.= 186: 127. S. ’07. 650w.

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 339. Je. 15, ’07. 400w.

  “Somehow, it leaves the reader not half so kindly disposed toward his
  fellow-men, not half so eager to make this a better world, as he was
  after reading ‘Lemuel Barker’ or ‘Silas Lapham.’” Vernon Atwood.

   + + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 619. Ag. ’07. 290w.

  “It embodies much cogent criticism of every important phase of
  American life.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 761. Je. ’07. 80w.

  “Mr. Howells is always welcome in whatever guise his message comes,
  and a special interest attaches to his new romance, since it exhibits
  his distinguished talent in an unfamiliar light.”

     + + =Spec.= 98: 836. My. 25, ’07. 840w.


=Hoy, Mary Lavinia Thompson (Mrs. Frank L. Hoy).= Adrienne. $1.50.
Neale.

                                                                6–46252.

  A southern story of Civil war days in which the fair play-day world is
  transformed for a group of irresponsible Southern girls into a dreary
  world of waiting and anxiety.


=Hoyt, William Henry.= Mecklenburg declaration of independence. **$2.50.
Putnam.

                                                                7–15929.

  A study of evidence that the alleged early declaration of independence
  of Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, on May 20, 1775, is spurious.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The last page leaves the reader as helpless as the first, in ability
  to separate hearsay from evidence. But the book is valuable as a
  history of a controversy.”

     + − =Dial.= 43: 123. S. 1, ’07. 400w.

  “The book offers a very good example of an historical investigation,
  conducted in a judicial spirit, and carries conviction with its
  conclusions. The illustrations are excellent, but nothing can excuse
  the absence of an index.”

   + + − =Nation.= 85: 187. Ag. 29. ’07. 540w.

         =R. of Rs.= 36: 128. Jl. ’07. 120w.


* =Hubbard, Elbert (Fra Elbertus, pseud.).= Little journeys to the homes
of eminent orators. (Little journeys, new ser.) $2.50. Putnam.

                                                                7–36125.

  An unusual aggregation of orators is presented here. The group
  includes Pericles, Mark Antony, Savonarola, Marat, Ingersoll, Patrick
  Henry, Starr King, Henry Ward Beecher and Wendell Phillips.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is an incongruous array in time, character, and purpose, but the
  author brings out strongly their common characteristics.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 711. N. 9, ’07. 100w.

  “The book has real interest, especially to that curious boy, or man,
  who ‘wants to know.’”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 618. N. 23, ’07. 60w.


=Hubbard, Frank McKinney.= Abe Martin, of Brown county, Indiana. il.
**$1. Bobbs.

                                                                7–15475.

  Mr. Meredith Nicholson characterizes Abe Martin as a “Plato on a
  cracker barrel; or radiant Socrates after Xantippe’s departure to
  visit her own folks in Tecumseh township.” Cartoons of Abe’s neighbors
  who are characterized in epigram appear, accompanied by brief
  bibliographical bits. Then follow the “mirth-provoking epigrams”
  themselves, which do justice to an Artemus Ward.


=Hubbard, George H.= Teachings of Jesus in parables. *$1.50. Pilgrim
press.

                                                                7–16710.

  “Mr. Hubbard recognizes the fact that the parables of Jesus were
  addressed to plain people.... He abstains from dogmatizing and from
  critical exegesis, and gives a free homiletical exposition of what he
  sees as the central truth of the short story.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “These popular and interesting expositions of the parables reveal
  clear religious insight, practical common-sense, and no small degree
  of literary skill.”

       + =Bib. World.= 30: 79. Jl. ’07. 20w.

  “Fresh thoughts in new points of view make this volume a helpful
  addition to the abundant literature of its subject. Those who have
  read any number of works upon the gospel parables find need to
  supplement or correct one author by another, and this volume, though
  excellent, occasions no exception to that experience.”

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 835. Ag. 17, ’07. 140w.


=Hubbard, Winfred D., and Kiersted, Wynkoof.= Water-works management and
maintenance. $4. Wiley.

                                                                7–21739.

  “Part 1., which fills 217 out of a total of 419 pages, deals with the
  securing of water supplies from various sources, and the selection and
  installation of pumps; Part 2, 167 pages, discusses more particularly
  the various features of management and maintenance, but also
  necessarily contains much that relates to construction work; and Part
  3, 35 pages, treats from various points of view the subjects of
  franchise, water rates and depreciation.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 167. O. ’07.

  “The title of this important book is somewhat misleading, as less than
  half the volume is devoted to the management and maintenance of
  water-works. Along with a reproduction of many facts already well
  known to every competent water-works man, and many citations from
  papers which have already been frequently published, there are a great
  many useful and practical suggestions nearly all of which are in the
  line of good modern practice. All of these make the work a valuable
  addition to water-works literature.” Dabney H. Maury.

   + + − =Engin. N.= 58: 294. S. 12, ’07. 1720w.

       + =Nature.= 76: 517. S. 19, ’07. 340w.


=Huber, John Bessnes.= Consumption. **$3. Lippincott.

                                                                6–17682.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “This work, though burdened by a too ambitious title, is really a very
  valuable compilation of the facts of the present day anti-tuberculosis
  campaign in this and other countries.” Christopher Easton.

   + + − =Charities.= 17: 493. D. 15, ’06. 980w.


=Huchon, Rene.= George Crabbe and his times, 1754–1832: a critical and
biographical study; tr. from the French by Frederick Clarke. *$5.
Dutton.

                                                                W 7–149.

  With less of narrative and more of criticism, M. Huchon aims to write
  “a psychological biography of the poet, with a view to the
  interpretation of his works.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The picture he presents of the young Crabbe is clear and convincing.
  When in the later portion of his book he is dealing with the actual
  poems he develops these tendencies at which he has previously hinted,
  with great skill, so that he brings the reader very close to the
  intimate side of the poet’s character.”

     + + =Acad.= 72: 286. Mr. 23, ’07. 1360w.

  “As a biographer M. Huchon is full, clear, and precise, rivalling the
  late James Dykes Campbell in his zest for research and verification.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 407. Ap. 6. 2090w.

  “At times the narrative is too discursive ... but on the whole it is a
  just and clear biography, with sympathetic interpretation.” Annie
  Russell Marble.

   + + − =Dial.= 43: 39. Jl. 16, ’07. 1290w.

  “To speak frankly, a book that proposes to introduce an English poet
  to the French, and yet in some 700 pages scarcely quotes a line of his
  verse as he wrote it, seems to us an absurdity. The truth is that it
  has gone a long way to spoil an admirable book. It is an injustice to
  the French reader; to the English reader it is a constant annoyance.
  And yet the book, even as it is, deserves to have plenty of English
  readers.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 193. Je. 21. ’07. 1370w.

  “Its abundance of literary judgment is presented rather in dispersion
  than compactness, for the purpose of elucidating the biographical
  theses; and the complete proportion and harmony preserved throughout
  may well be considered the crowning achievement of the work.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 476. My. 23, ’07. 1170w.

  “Though the French scholar may have prepared a better biography than
  the younger Crabbe’s, time will have to judge whether he has written a
  better book.” H. W. Boynton.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 491. Ag. 10, ’07. 1790w.

  “Is distinctly original and unconventional.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 41. S. 7, ’07. 1720w.

  “Of M. Huchon’s volume (not at all badly translated by Mr. Clarke) we
  may say, in one word, that it is the work of an expert. If only as a
  piece of social history the work is full of value. Our main praise,
  however, we reserve for the judgment and taste with which M. Huchon
  has made his quotations.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 103: 462. Ap. 13, ’07. 1020w.


* =Huck, A.= Synopsis of the first three Gospels arranged for English
readers; ed. by Ross L. Finney. *$1. Meth. bk.

  An English version of Huck’s “Synopse,” a Greek harmony used widely in
  Germany as an aid to Holtzmann’s “Hand-commentar.” “The present volume
  exhibits Mark as the basal work of the evangelic records, the use of
  Mark by both Matthew and Luke, the collection of Logia, and the
  material peculiar to each evangelist. The use of this harmony does not
  blind the student to the special characteristics of the several
  evangelists and their relations of mutual dependence, as is often the
  case with the older manuals.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The work is faithfully done, but it is based on Huck’s second edition
  in 1898. This is most unfortunate, as in his recent third edition,
  1906, Huck has fundamentally remodeled his work, greatly improving and
  enriching it.”

     + − =Bib. World.= 30: 480. D. ’07. 80w.

  “This is decidedly the best harmony for historical study, and its wide
  use would promote greatly the knowledge of the New Testament.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 1314. N. 28, ’07. 190w.

  “This harmony, which follows the order of Mark, is the most useful in
  existence for historical students.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 398. O. 31, ’07. 140w.


=Huckel, Oliver.= Modern study of conscience. (Boardman lectureship in
Christian ethics.) 50c. Univ. of Pa.

                                                                7–13922.

  The study looks into the origin and nature of conscience, its means of
  education and enlightenment, and finally considers the grounds for the
  present and perpetual authority of conscience.


=Hudson, Charles Bradford.= Crimson conquest: a romance of Pizarro and
Peru. il. †$1.50. McClurg.

                                                                7–32156.

  A story of aboriginal America. The events fall in the period of
  Pizarro’s conquest of the Peruvian chief and his determined hosts. The
  hero, Viracocha Christoval, is one of the bravest of the Castilian
  knights and the heroine is an Inca princess for love of whom
  Christoval fights against his own army. Barbaric splendor and Spanish
  chivalry combine in producing splendid dramatic coloring.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

  “There is not a bit of harm in the book, except that it is very long
  and strikes us as being very dull.”

     − + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 678. O. 26, ’07. 90w.


=Hudson, William Henry.= Crystal age. **$1.50. Dutton.

  “This is a second edition of a book published in the eighties.... One
  Smith of Great Britain loses consciousness through a fall and wakes to
  find himself in a crystal age of organized human beings with senses of
  exquisite keenness and souls of crystal purity.... The cloud on
  Smith’s horizon is the strange fact that warmer than fraternal love is
  unknown. The passion that he conceives for a daughter of ‘The house’
  brings him against a blank wall of incomprehension. For the perfecting
  of the race it has come about that its renewal is vouchsafed only to
  elect morals who must be fitted for their high office by a sacred
  training. A cryptic catastrophe ends the story, leaving the reader
  free to suppose anything.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Lond. Times.= 5: 368. N. 2, ’06. 1060w.

  “Like most stories of the impossible future it contains its touches of
  the credible among the prevailing absurdities and the occasional touch
  of the tiresome amid many fascinations. Unlike most, it has the ring
  of genuine poetry, the zeal of the open air, kinship with beauty of
  all sorts, and a relieving glint of humor.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 341. Ap. 11, ’07. 400w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 178. Mr. 23, ’07. 230w.


=Hueffer, Ford Madox.= England and the English: an interpretation. **$2.
McClure.

                                                                7–19051.

  The three divisions of Mr. Hueffer’s book, “The soul of London,” “The
  heart of the country,” and “The spirit of the people,” constitute a
  view of modern life. “Mr. Hueffer here dedicates himself to essays in
  descriptive impressionism” (Ath.) offering to the traveler in and
  about London almost every type to be met with and revealing an
  intimate understanding of prevailing conditions.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The volume may be profitably read by anyone proposing a trip to
  England for the introductory impressions it affords of the people and
  their environment. The reader of serious purpose will feel no little
  disappointment that the ‘interpretation’ is not more interpretative.
  The author’s over-fondness for dissertation is a blemish that grows
  more trying to the reader as he advances.”

     + − =Dial.= 43: 255. O. 16, ’07. 370w.

  “Here is an antidote to the tour of the sights which leaves an
  American visitor far better informed about historical monuments and
  the homes of distinguished Englishmen than any English resident, but
  without any real insight into the lives and ideals of the English of
  to-day. It is a pity that a volume otherwise admirably got up should
  be marred by so many errors in proofreading. Their number is
  inexcusable.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 148. Ag. 15, ’07. 400w.

  “As for the success of the book in its desire to interpret for us the
  spirit of England and her people, that is as it may be. But it does
  give a wonderful series of pictures—a vitascope, as it were, of life
  on the island, yet not a photographic one; for each picture is tinged
  with the personality of the author, if it be no other than the desire
  he feels that his personality shall not intrude.” Hildegarde
  Hawthorne.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 650. O. 19, ’07. 2900w.

  “A voluminous ‘author’s note’ is prefixed, supplemented by one of
  similar length, in which egotism and over-sophistication of view-point
  and utterance contend, as, indeed, they do throughout.”

       − =Outlook.= 86: 746. Ag. 3, ’07. 140w.

  “A rather ambitious volume which, on the whole, fairly reaches its
  aim.”

     + − =R. of Rs.= 36: 128. Jl. ’07. 100w.


=Hueffer, Ford Madox.= Hans Holbein the younger: a critical monograph.
*75c. Dutton.

                                                                 6–1911.

  Uniform with the “Popular library of art.” “A striking feature of Mr.
  Hueffer’s text is his comparison of Holbein with Dürer. Both stand
  between the Old World and the modern, between the old faith and the
  new learning. With Dürer the old age ends; with Holbein a new age
  begins.... Dürer stands for the great imaginers who went before—the
  Minnesingers, the Tristan poets, the great feudal upholders. As
  defining his country’s great place in art, Holbein represented what
  Bach did in music—namely, completeness and thoroughness in getting out
  of a preceding epoch and in getting into our own.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is a model of what such a study should be.”

     + + =Dial.= 41: 285. N. 1, ’06. 240w.

  “Authoritatively informing, sufficiently critical and admirably well
  written.”

     + + =Ind.= 61: 818. O. 4, ’06. 50w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 329. My. 19, ’06. 240w.

  “A worthy addition to that attractive series.”

     + + =Outlook.= 83: 670. Jl. 21, ’06. 180w.


=Hugo, Victor.= Novels. 8v. ea. $1.25. Crowell.

  Uniform with the thin paper sets. The eight volumes included are Les
  Miserables, two volumes, Notre Dame, Ninety-three, Toilers of the sea,
  Man who laughs, Hans of Iceland, and Bug Jargal.


=Hugo, Victor.= Poems; ed. by Arthur Graves Canfield. $1. Holt.

                                                                6–43525.

  A student’s edition of Hugo’s poems in handy form, containing an
  introduction, biographical summary and notes.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Nation.= 84: 387. Ap. 25, ’07. 130w.


=Hugo, Victor Marie, viscomte.= Victor Hugo’s intellectual
autobiography; tr. with an introd. by Lorenzo O’Rourke. **$1.20. Funk.

                                                                7–21356.

  A translation of “what will hereafter be regarded as Victor Hugo’s
  ultimate Confession of faith. The volume dates from the period of the
  great romanticist’s exile in the English island of Guernsey, to which
  he fled when Napoleon III. usurped the throne of France. It is
  composed of a group of rhapsodies on such themes as ‘Genius’, ‘Life
  and death’, ‘Reveries on God’, in which the most versatile of
  nineteenth century men-of-letters sets down his final convictions on
  art, on religion, and on life.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Of the sons of the nineteenth century, Victor Hugo, it seems to us,
  was preëminent as a transmitter of the light.” B. O. Flower.

     + + =Arena.= 38: 263. S. ’07. 9000w.

  “An interesting and, on the whole, a well-written volume.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 238. Ag. 31. 600w.

  “A graceful and scholarly translation.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 1469. Je. 20, ’07. 610w.

  “A well-written and illuminating piece of work, being not only
  critical but to some extent biographical.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 131. Jl. 27, ’07. 170w.

  “The effect of the volume in its English form is of a wild medley of
  jerky phrases.”

       − =Nation.= 85: 124. Ag. 8, ’07. 540w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 100w.

  “Lorenzo O’Rourke, has contrived to throw into his rendering some of
  the eloquence of the Titan—more than a suggestion of his volcanic
  force and white hot rush of his burning words.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 414. Je. 29, ’07. 1050w.

  “The whole book is but a last illustration of Hugo’s incomparable gift
  of phrase-making, of his self-consciousness, his egotism, his reliance
  upon a superb, but purely external, literary gift, upon a craftmanship
  that apparently never was in close communion with its possessor’s
  essential inner self, which, instead, always looked abroad for
  stimulation to the intellectual, social or political preoccupations of
  the hour.” A. Schade Van Westrum.

     + − =No. Am.= 185: 783. Ag. 2, ’07. 1470w.

         =R. of Rs.= 36: 636. N. ’07. 90w.

  “We cannot but feel however, that Mr. O’Rourke is not always qualified
  for his task.”

       − =Spec.= 99: 170. Ag. 3, ’07. 250w.


=Hulbert, Archer Butler.= Ohio river; a course of empire. **$3.50.
Putnam.

                                                                6–35979.

  The sixth river to be treated in the series known as “Great waterways
  of America.” “The illustrations which are numerous, are from
  photographs, old prints, maps, and paintings, and are a distinct
  contribution to the value of the book.... The age of the canoe, the
  flatboat, and the steamer, as he names the divisions of the Ohio’s
  history, are each treated fully and entertainingly, in a fashion to
  vivify the heroes of each period, from La Salle, Boone, and the
  Clarks, to St. Clair, ‘Mad Anthony’ Wayne, and the rest of the Indian
  fighters who in their turn were supplanted by the heterogeneous
  multitude of pioneers.” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “By far the most valuable portions of the book are those which deal
  with the distinctly human side of the subject—the conditions of
  pioneer existence with which the emigrant had to wrestle, the life of
  flatboatman and trader, the reign of outlaw and rowdy, the
  intermingling of racial elements, and particularly the jealous contact
  of Yankee and Virginian on the north and south banks of the river. So
  far as political history is concerned, the student will find nothing
  new. The book is unfortunately subject to the limitations and defects
  of a hasty and somewhat scrappy narrative.” Frederic Austin Ogg.

   + + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 662. Ap. ’07. 790w.

  “A useful survey, not scientific, but helpful in illustrating the
  successive phases of social life on the river.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 68. Mr. ’07.

  “Mr. Hulbert brings to his work unusual qualifications, for he unites
  a local interest and pride in the region of which he writes, with a
  large perspective, and accuracy and perseverance in research with
  picturesque and pungent style.”

     + + =Dial.= 41: 395. D. 1, ’06. 320w.

  “Fewer extracts and more concise treatment would make for vividness,
  but the book, with its excellent illustrations, shows careful research
  and gives a thoro knowledge of the region with which it deals.”

   + + − =Ind.= 62: 100. Ja. 10, ’07. 220w.

  “Comes near to being a model of what such a book ought to be.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 1233. N. 21, ’07. 140w.

  “Mr. Hulbert has made what we are inclined to think is a most
  intrinsically important addition yet made to the Messrs. Putnam’s
  series.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 33: 727. N. 17, ’06. 140w.

  “There is no chapter in this book which is not of historical interest
  and value. But without depreciating its genuine worth, it must be said
  that the treatment should have been more systematic and complete.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 60. Ja. 17, ’07. 910w.

  “On the whole the author has produced a volume of great historic value
  and interest.”

   + + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 12. Ja. 5, ’07. 2300w.


=Hulbert, Archer Butler.= Pilots of the republic. *$1.50. McClurg.

                                                                6–41537.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 721. Ap. ’07. 50w.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 69. Mr. ’07. S.

  “Narrated in a pleasant popular manner.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 147. Mr. 1, ’07. 260w.

       + =Ind.= 63: 457. Ag. 22, ’07. 270w.

  “The book is a direct and forceful contribution to American history,
  and is well printed, as its text merits.”

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 526. Mr. 7, ’07. 200w.

  “Mr. Hulbert’s style is attractive and in general, his presentation of
  historical facts is good. One of the best chapters of the book is that
  on Marcus Whitman, the hero of Oregon.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 112. Ja. ’07. 250w.


=Hulbert, Homer Beza.= Passing of Korea. **$3.80. Doubleday.

                                                                6–32372.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Exhaustive, authoritative, and readable.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 10. Ja. ’07.

  “The author has long resided in the country, and is conversant with
  its language and literature. He is, we believe, the first writer on
  Korea who possesses the latter indispensable qualification.”

     + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 765. D. 15. 1720w.

  “Certain fundamental changes which are coming about as results of the
  late war in the far east are described with insight and vigor.”
  Frederic Austin Ogg.

       + =Dial.= 43: 85. Ag. 16, ’07. 900w.

  “One of the best books on Korea that has yet been written.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 103: 114. Ja. 26. ’07. 1440w.

  “In so far as it is a picture of the social life of a backward people,
  it is intensely interesting; but Mr. Hulbert is bitter when he
  ventures on politics, so much so that one feels that he should have
  named his book ‘The betrayal of Korea.’ He has nothing good to say of
  the Japanese. Mr. Hulbert knows Korea and Koreans thoroughly, and
  writes of both authoritatively and attractively.”

       + =Spec.= 98: sup. 646. Ap. 27, ’07. 620w.


=Huling, Caroline A.= Letters of a business woman to her niece. *$1.
Fenno.

                                                                  7–508.

  In a series of personal letters to a young woman there is a vast deal
  of sound sense which forms a general and impersonal contribution to
  conduct. The writer is a woman of keen observation and ready
  sympathies who has solved her problems of business life in a great
  city thru experience, and from her fund of acquired wisdom, talks
  freely to her niece. Matters of conduct, morals and dress are taught
  with matter-of-fact allegiance to independence and dignity.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The advice is sensible, if trite.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 742. Mr. 28, ’07. 80w.

  Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 41. Ja. 26, ’07. 1220w.


=Hull, Walter Henry=, ed. Practical problems in banking and currency;
being a number of selected addresses delivered in recent years by
prominent bankers, financiers, and economists. **$3.50. Macmillan.

                                                                7–17036.

  The sixty addresses included in this volume cover the period since
  1900 and deal authoritatively with practical problems as they affect
  actual conditions. The papers are grouped in three sections; General
  banking, Banking reform and currency, and The trust company, and they
  discuss these subjects in three various subdivisions and from various
  points of view. The volume is intended as a reference book in
  connection with studies in banking and currency.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The collection will be found useful to students of our monetary
  situation even though few of these papers have any such value as would
  make them worthy of a permanent place in the literature of money.” L.

       + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 494. O. ’07. 390w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 296. My. 11, ’07. 60w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 300. My. 11, ’07. 560w.

  “It brings together a mass of valuable information not usually dealt
  with—or, at any rate, not dealt with in detail—in the standard
  textbook.”

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 972. Ag. 31, ’07. 480w.

       + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 560. S. ’07. 150w.

  “The present volume is a valuable addition to our knowledge and
  understanding of the theory of credit, and when this is said no fuller
  acknowledgment of is importance can be made.”

       + =Spec.= 99: sup. 642. N. 2, ’07. 310w.


=Hume, Martin Andrew Sharp.= Through Portugal. **$2. McClure.

                                                                7–25498.

  The author says that this volume is a self-prescribed penance for his
  former injustice toward the most beautiful country and the most
  unspoiled and courteous peasantry in Southern Europe. So he makes
  amends for hitherto rating the Portuguese as a Spaniard without any
  good qualities. His greatest interest centers in such places as
  “Bussaco, Thomar and Leiria, of which he gives a vivid series of
  impressions, picturesque, alert, and eminently good-humoured.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His vivid description of the scenery and the people, and his
  observations on art, history and archaeology make up a book of more
  than usual interest and charm.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 167. O. ’07. S.

  “The easy, flowing style of the book takes one from one scene to
  another without effort, and the vivid descriptions enable the reader
  to ‘see without traveling.’”

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 594. N. ’07. 140w.

  “The book is charmingly illustrated, and abounds in engaging, sincere
  enthusiasm.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 350. Mr. 23. 190w.

  “Whatever Mr. Hume describes in and about Oporto, Bussaco, Coimbra,
  Alcoboca, Cintra, Lisbon, or places of lesser note, is done with a
  well-considered and creditable enthusiasm, and in an unusually
  graceful style.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 373. Je. 16, ’07. 200w.

  “It ought to be a revelation to those who know Portugal only from a
  guide book, or who think of it only as an unimportant strip of
  seashore to be neglected for royal Spain.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 236. S. 12, ’07. 490w.

  “The fault we have to find with the clever sketches in colour is that
  they are somewhat faint in tint and rather too much en vignette.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 434. Ap. 6, ’07. 190w.


=Hunt, Thomas Forsyth.= How to choose a farm. **$1.75. Macmillan.

                                                                6–26525.

  “The chief elements considered are: First, character and topography of
  the soil; second, climatic conditions, including healthfulness and
  water supply; third, location; fourth, improvements. A complete and
  somewhat technical classification of the soils of the United States is
  given, along with the crops best adapted to them.... The subject is
  treated from an economic point of view, abundant statistical data
  being given in support of statements.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book suffers through an attempt to cover too wide a field. The
  style is ordinary. Though at times involved, it is generally lucid.
  The subject is treated practically and dispassionately. The book is
  valuable to persons considering the possibility of owning or living on
  a farm.”

     + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 216. Ja. ’67. 310w.

  “A remarkable volume for the amount of information that has been
  compressed without loss of enthusiasm and dryness of style.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 467. N. 29, ’06. 270w.


=Hunt, Rev. William=, ed. Irish parliament, 1775; from an official and
contemporary manuscript. *$1.20. Longmans.

                                                                7–26445.

  An interesting addition to the literature of Parliament. It is a
  reprint of a manuscript, supposedly a confidential document, prepared
  probably with the object of guiding the Irish government in its course
  of bribing the Parliament. Dr. Hunt has prefixed an introduction
  describing the regime of the time.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The volume adds less than might be expected from a document
  introduced by Dr. Hunt.” C. Litton Falkiner.

       + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 811. O. ’07. 770w.

  “As a collection of character-portraits by a keen, if prejudiced
  critic, the black list of Sir John Blaquiere presents a very curious
  study.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 116. Ap. 12, ’07. 1950w.

  “Had the manuscripts been put forward quite alone it would have told
  its own sordid story, and more graphically than any monograph on the
  Irish parliament that now exists it would have exemplified the
  character of the institution that disappeared at the Union of 1800.”

       + =Nation.= 35: 78. Jl. 25. ’07. 1600w.

  “The book adds nothing of the substance to what is already known of
  the state of politics or of political morality in the period
  immediately preceding Grattan’s. Though Mr. Hunt’s essay exhibits the
  acumen and judgment which are characteristic of all his work, it
  supplies nothing of importance which cannot be as readily found in
  familiar authorities.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 104: 368. S. 21, ’07. 660w.

         =Spec.= 98: 544. Ap. 6, ’07. 100w.


=Hunt, Rev. William, and Poole, Reginald Lane=, eds. Political history
of England. 12v. ea. *$2.60. Longmans.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

  “We must confess that Mr. Fisher’s portrait of Henry VII. is not
  satisfactory.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 159. F. 16, ’07. 1310w. (Review of v. 5.)

  “We leave his book convinced of its very great historical, and we
  might add literary value.”

     + + =Acad.= 72: 247. Mr. 9, ’07. 2270w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “He writes, not as an advocate pleads, but as a judge sums up. And the
  outcome is real history.”

     + + =Acad.= 73: 722. Jl. 27, ’07. 1340w. (Review of v. 7.)

  “In some respects, in a freshness and newness of viewpoint, the volume
  has an advantage over its predecessors. For this, however, the author
  must share the credit with the peculiar opportunity offered by the
  field assigned him. This part of English history has been somewhat
  neglected by English historians of the last generation.” Benjamin
  Terry.

   + + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 613. Ap. ’07. 1520w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “One error of real importance is the ascription of arbitrary power to
  the ‘Warden’ of London, who was appointed by the king when the
  citizens were deprived of the right to elect a mayor.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 165. F. 10.  920w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “Marked both by great merits and considerable defects. Professor
  Oman’s faults do not much matter; but the accumulated weight of scores
  of small errors becomes serious. To these limitations must also be
  added a too rigid adherence to mere chronological order, some want of
  perspective, a judgment that is not always mature, or even consistent,
  and occasional weakness of insight into constitutional and economic
  problems. The result is to diminish the value of an interesting work.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 65. Ja. 19. 3020w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “It is beyond question an admirable example of history treated from
  the ethical point of view. Probably it is the ablest instance which
  has been produced in modern days, and some of its descriptions—such as
  that of Bamburgh and its neighborhood—rival in their own fashion those
  of Froude or of Macaulay. Here, if any where, history is human and
  attractive. The emotional interpretation of events has excluded much
  that is proper matter for the historian.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 468. Ap. 20. 420w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “One most important aspect of the times is too scantily, or at least
  too allusively, treated. We get no adequate impression of the economic
  problems which loomed large at this period.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 655. Je. 1. 2460w. (Review of v. 5.)

  “There is a something wanting.... It is pulsation, life.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 471. O. 19. 2080w. (Review of v. 7.)

  Reviewed by Ch.-V. Langlois.

   + + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 150. Ja. ’07. 1210w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “If, however, we are hardly prepared to endorse all the opinions which
  are scattered through Mr. Brodrick’s pages we gladly acknowledge the
  clearness and accuracy of his narrative. We do not know where it is
  possible to find a better summary of English history during the first
  third of the nineteenth century.” Spencer Walpole.

   + + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 183. Ja. ’07. 1330w. (Review of v. 11.)

  “The book is written from a large and almost exhaustive study of all
  available sources.” James Gairdner.

       + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 364. Ap. ’07. 1980w. (Review of v. 5.)

  “Mr. Oman’s clear and forcible narrative presents a review of the
  period which is in all its main aspects substantially sound.” C. L.
  Kingsford.

   + + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 576. Jl. ’07. 1620w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “The [fifth] volume ... contains what is probably the best account of
  Henry VIII yet written.”

   + + − =Ind.= 62: 1527. Je. 27, ’07. 780w. (Review of v. 4. and 5.)

  “Able and exhaustive book. It will be an unfailing resource of the
  student, while it proves the despair of the captious critic; for its
  author can never be found nodding, and he puts forward no plausible
  theories to serve as a target for the enemy’s bullets.”

   + + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 50. F. 16, ’06. 850w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “The best history that has yet been written of the reigns of the first
  two Tudor princes. Whether he looks for instruction or for amusement,
  the reader who takes up Mr. Fisher’s book will not be disappointed.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 21. Ja. 18, ’07. 2010w. (Review of v. 5.)

  “Within the limits thus prescribed for him, Mr. Montague has produced
  a model book, and if sometimes these limits seem irksome to the
  reader, they must have been more so to the writer.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 194. Je. 21, ’07. 1360w. (Review of v. 7.)

     + + =Nation.= 84: 132. F. 7, ’07. 410w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)

  “Although the high praise bestowed on this series in earlier notices
  must be continued yet as the volumes accumulate certain deep seated
  weaknesses begin to show more conspicuously.”

   + + − =Nation.= 85: 146. Ag. 15, ’07. 720w. (Review of v. 7.)

  “His present work is authoritative, and based upon the results of the
  most recent scholarship. It is a valuable contribution to the
  literature of one of the most significant periods of English history.”

   + + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 37. Ja. 19, ’07. 630w. (Review of v. 4.)

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 181. Mr. 23, ’07. 880w. (Review of v. 5.)

  “A little of Macaulay’s art would make his reliable history more
  entertaining.”

   + + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 487. Ag. 10, ’07. 160w. (Review of v. 7.)

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 96. Ja. 12, ’07. 280w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “Perhaps an over-zealousness for detail is manifest, here and there,
  as, for example, in the discussion of foreign relations, but even
  where detail is most abundant the sense of continuity and unity and
  interest is preserved. And, on occasion, Mr. Fisher shows himself
  capable of rising to heights of superb eloquence.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 85: 763. Mr. 30, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 5.)

  “It is regrettable to find economic conditions practically unnoticed.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 86: 836. Ag. 17, ’07. 480w. (Review of v. 7.)

  “Professor Tout has done his work well; his volume is essentially
  military and narrative history, accurate enough and full enough, it
  may be hoped, to satisfy students and general readers for many a
  decade.” Charles A. Beard.

       + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 700. D. ’06. 620w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “A clear, scholarly and adequate account which will find a serviceable
  place in the literature of the period.”

     + + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 188. Mr. ’07. 210w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “Unhappily the volume is marred in many places by vehement expressions
  and loose characterizations which seem unworthy of so dignified a
  work.” Charles A. Beard.

     + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 522. S. ’07. 740w. (Review of v. 11.)

  “As a narrator ... he is admirable; his style is clear and, without
  striving after epigram, epigrammatic.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 559. My. 4, ’07. 1430w. (Review of v. 5.)

  “We must say, however, that Professor Montague’s flag is hoisted at
  once, and that there is scarcely an attempt to be fair to the side he
  does not like. We are not imputing to Mr. Montague any deliberate
  ‘suppressio veri.’ But his history has a particular focus. It proceeds
  on the assumption that one man may steal a horse while another may not
  look over the hedge.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 104: 483. O. 19, ’07. 920w. (Review of v. 7.)

  “In style, judgment, and exhaustive knowledge of sources it leaves
  little to be desired.”

   + + + =Spec.= 98: 1011. Je. 29, ’07. 490w. (Review of v. 5.)

  “A broad, accurate, restrained and scholarly book. Admirable in its
  reliance on this authority and objectivity of the records, it is,
  however, a book which will appeal to the scholar rather than to the
  general reader.” Chalfant Robinson.

     + + =Yale R.= 10: 324. N. ’07. 900w. (Review of v. 3.)


=Huntington, Arria Sargent.= Memoir and letters of Frederic Dan
Huntington, first bishop of Central New York. **$2. Houghton.

                                                                6–39740.

  “In a career so varied as that of Dr. Huntington’s there is much of
  general interest. Nourished in what might be termed evangelized
  Unitarianism, and educated by orthodox Congregationalists, he became
  pastor of a Unitarian church, and subsequently preacher to Harvard
  University and Plummer professor of Christian morals. On change of
  view he was made rector of an Episcopal church in Boston, and later,
  for thirty-five years bishop of central New York.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The biographer has produced a pleasing picture of one of the most
  conscientious and useful men of the American church.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 243. Mr. 14, ’07. 210w.

  “This book is for the few—for those who find a delight in simplicity
  and clarity and stability.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 3. Ja. 5, ’07. 860w.


* =Huntington, Ellsworth.= Pulse of Asia. il. **$3.50. Houghton.

                                                                7–36725.

  A journey in central Asia illustrating the geographic relation between
  physical environment and man, and between changes of climate and
  history. Mr. Huntington gathers up the various hypotheses relating to
  geography, meteorology. archeology, folk-lore and history and combines
  them into a consistent geographic theory of history. The book is the
  outcome of personal adventure from which an analytical mind has
  deduced material which is a worthy contribution to science.


=Huntington, Helen.= Days that pass. **$1.25. Lane.

                                                                 7–9785.

  Some fifty little verses, slight and pleasing.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “All thoughtfully fashioned and delicate in expression.” Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 42: 254. Ap. 16, ’07. 110w.

  “A volume of slight but graceful verse.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 70w.


=Hurll, Estelle May.= Portraits and portrait painting, being a brief
survey of portrait painting from the middle ages to the present day. il.
$2.50. Page.

                                                                7–30411.

  In this survey the aim has been to show what has been contributed to
  the art of each age and by each nationality as well as by the several
  most notable portrait painters. The work sketches history, temperament
  and types, throwing sidelights on subjects as well as painters. Some
  famous portraits are included among the illustrations.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The ability ... to hold the reader’s interest by a crisp style, and
  by a skilful presentation of salient points and large issues, is
  evident throughout the book, which is an unusually satisfactory
  example of its class.”

     + + =Dial.= 43: 379. D. 1, ’07. 330w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

       + =Outlook.= 87: 615. N. 23, ’07. 100w.

  “She has the valuable gift of awakening promptly the desire to examine
  at first hand the subject of her description.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.

     + + =Putnam’s.= 3: 357. D. ’07. 280w.


=Huston, Paul Griswold.= Around an old homestead; a book of memories.
*$1.50. Meth. bk.

                                                                6–39445.

  “This ‘book of memories,’ though it celebrates a particular house,
  will serve to stir home memories in the heart of anyone who has lived
  in the country. It has much to say of the house itself, the open fire,
  the orchards, the woods, the squirrels, the dogs, and the activities
  of farm life.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A finely-made book, whose open print and abundant pictures will
  especially delight old people.” May Estelle Cook.

       + =Dial.= 41: 389. D. 1, ’06. 120w.

  “It is a sympathetic book to handle as well as to read.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 812. D. 1, ’06. 110w.


=Hutchinson, Alfred L.= Limit of wealth. **$1.25. Macmillan.

                                                                7–22404.

  A narrative based upon a report made in 1944 by a committee appointed
  by the Eurasian conference, which represented the allied powers of
  Europe and Asia to investigate the system of government in the United
  States, by which that nation had so quickly outclassed the old nations
  of the world. The narrative presents the findings of this committee
  and shows us a United States based upon Utopian laws, the most
  significant being that which allows the accumulation of wealth by any
  individual but which limits his ultimate sale of it.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Engin. N.= 58: 296. S. 12, ’07. 350w.

         =Ind.= 63: 1061. O. 31, ’07. 160w.

         =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 501. O. ’07. 170w.

  “Mr. Hutchinson’s book is at least written by one who understands
  present conditions. From these conditions he draws logical
  conclusions.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 451. Jl. 20, ’07. 190w.

  “On the whole, we think these publications are more useful in giving
  the student of the present economic conditions a historical background
  than in giving to the reformer any clear light on methods for their
  improvement.”

     + − =Outlook.= 87: 539. N. 9, ’07. 360w.


* =Hutchinson, Frances Kinsley.= Our country home. **$2. McClurg.

                                                                7–36734.

  A delightful account of how two people—a man who had always wanted a
  farm, and a woman who had never wanted a country house—were captivated
  by a bit of Wisconsin woodland bordering upon a lake. They immediately
  become the owners of seventy-two acres of this wilderness and in a few
  year bring about a wonderful transformation, each step of which
  combining the artistic with the practical, is recorded in this fully
  illustrated volume.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mrs. Hutchinson tells her story most entertainingly, giving many
  suggestions to readers who are interested in having country homes of
  their own.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 383. D. 1, ’07. 300w.


=Hutchinson, Jonathan, jr.= Leprosy and fish eating: a statement of
facts and explanations. *$3.25. Keener.

  The object of this work is stated in the preface to be “to carry
  conviction to the reader that the fundamental cause of the malady
  known as true leprosy is the eating of fish in a state of commencing
  decomposition.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 703. Je. 9. 580w.

  “In criticising Mr. Hutchinson’s theory we do not in the least desire
  to belittle his work, which is of the greatest interest, and his book
  is a valuable contribution to the epidemiology of leprosy.”

     + − =Nature.= 75: 412. Mr. 14, ’07. 740w.

  “We can lay down Mr. Hutchinson’s book with a feeling of greater
  respect for his perseverance than for his judicial capacity.”

       − =Sat. R.= 102: 244. Ag. 25, ’06. 380w.

       + =Spec.= 96: 504. Mr. 31, ’06. 180w.


=Hutchinson, Rollin William, jr.= Long distance electric power
transmission; being a treatise on the hydro-electric generation of
energy; its transformation, transmission and distribution. *$3. Van
Nostrand.

                                                                7–10589.

  “One-third of the book is devoted to the principles and practice of
  hydraulics.... The electrical section of the book opens with a brief
  study of the electric generator and its accessories.... Following this
  is a long chapter on the transmission line.... Transformers, motors
  and rotary converters have each a separate chapter.... The book closes
  with a few illustrations from actual practice of transmission-plant
  construction.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “As an epitome of the subject indicated in the title, the book is
  excellent. It is well-balanced in several parts and leaves the reader
  with an impression that the problem of power transmission is a large
  one.” Henry W. Norris.

       + =Engin. N.= 57: 439. Ap. 18, ’07. 450w.

  “The treatment is concise, the language clear, and the mathematics
  elementary. A work in which theory and reliable every-day experience
  are well and judiciously combined.”

     + + =Technical Literature.= 1: 270. Je. ’07. 230w.


* =Hutten, Baroness Bettina von.= The halo. il. †$1.50. Dodd.

                                                                7–36982.

  An unusual situation is handled by the author here. To free herself
  from drudgery and poverty as well as the retinue of ineligibles which
  her mother has forced upon her, an impulsive girl engages herself to a
  mere boy and later finds out that it is his father, the wizard of the
  violin, whom she loves, notwithstanding the fact that there is a wife.
  “The book is really a study of the artistic temperament.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is about some of the people an air of verisimilitude and
  actuality; but one looks in vain for that fineness of perception,
  nicety of phrase, and sense of true contrast which would have added
  greatly to the whole.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 650. N. 23. 220w.

  “Gives us in ‘The halo’ much the same wide range of life and variety
  of type that contributed to the popularity of ‘Pam’ and its sequel.”
  Frederic Taber Cooper.

       + =Bookm.= 26: 407. D. ’07. 690w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 50w.

  “Is disappointing, owing to the improbability of the main situation.
  The situation is intense enough, and novel enough; but it lacks,
  somehow, that touch of reality, of sympathetic interest, which is ever
  needed to bring the reader completely en rapport with the joys or
  tribulations of the dwellers in romance.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 742. N. 23, ’07. 850w.

  “The portrait of the violinist is an admirable sketch in the florid
  style, and it is a pity that the extreme depravity of mind which
  taints the atmosphere of the story like an unpleasant odour should
  prevent readers from enjoying the pictures of Anglo-French life in
  London, which are both amusingly and picturesquely drawn.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: 672. N. 2, ’07. 190w.


=Hutten, Baroness Bettina von.= One way out. **$2.50. Dodd.

                                                                6–38553.

  The hero, who is something of a cad, proposes to three girls in one
  evening and is refused by each in turn. A fourth proposal, one which
  promises an acceptance, he does not make. The explanation of all this
  forms the story.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is a slight rollicking comedy of English life, told with
  much vivacity and considerable skill in the invention of incident.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 888. D. 22, ’06. 290w.

  “Apart from its holiday make-up, the novelette has little to commend
  it.”

       − =Outlook.= 84: 893. D. 8, ’06. 30w.


=Hutton, Edward.= Cities of Spain. *$2. Macmillan.

                                                                 W 7–52.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “An enthusiastic and well sustained treatment of Spanish life and
  scenes. At times sentimental and pseudo-philosophic.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 69. Mr. ’07. S.

  “After reading the book, the reviewer suggests, as a more fitting
  title, ‘Spanish phantasies’ or, ‘Sobs of the desert.’ George G.
  Brownell.”

       − =Dial.= 42: 135. Mr. 1, ’07. 1240w.

  “A piece of the true literature, in which the very spirit of the
  scenes described has been caught and reproduced.”

       + =Int. Studio.= 32: 84. Jl. ’07. 240w.


=Hutton, Edward.= Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini: a study
of a fifteenth century Italian despot. *$4. Dutton.

                                                                7–11548.

  A record of fact retold as fiction. “The volume, which is a study of
  the ‘Quattrocento’ in Italy, with the principal figure an Italian
  despot, is supposed to be a translation of ‘the memoirs of the most
  material transactions’ in the life of Malatesta, ‘written in Tuscan by
  Pietro Sanseverino, with a sketch of his own life and account of his
  meeting with Leon Battista Albert.’... The book is fully illustrated
  with photogravures of portraits, documents, etc.” (N. Y. Times)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “As a means of arriving at this result he has invented a contemporary
  of his hero who shall tell the tale for him. The idea is ingenious and
  gives rise to some pages of interesting reflection and comment by the
  old humanist in the course of his narrative. Yet in this very scheme
  lies also the initial weakness of the book.”

     + − =Acad.= 71: 655. D. 29, ’06. 920w.

  “Although the memoir is a fiction the author has held loyally to
  historic fact and shows remarkable familiarity with the authorities as
  is evidenced by notes and references.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 122. My. ’07. 110w.

  “Alternately we are tantalized by our author’s refusal, as historian,
  to go one step beyond his documents, and annoyed by his airy
  readiness, as novelist, to brush aside a difficulty, without making
  the slightest effort to clear it up.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 97. Ja. 26. 1420w.

  “A product that is neither history nor romance something that
  historians will not read because they must regard it as fiction, while
  novel readers will avoid it because it advertises itself as history.
  In his attempt to be too clever Mr. Hutton has overreached himself.”

     − + =Ind.= 62: 1151. My. 16, ’07. 390w.

  “This is an excellent book, worthy to be read by every lover of good
  English, and unquestionably the finest piece of work Mr. Hutton has as
  yet done.”

   + + − =Nation.= 83: 559. D. 27, ’06. 850w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 828. D. 1, ’06. 350w.

  “Might perhaps have been as well expressed with slightly less evident
  straining after effect.”

     + − =Outlook.= 85: 41. Ja. 5, ’07. 210w.

  “There is but one real blot in Mr. Hutton’s fine work of art, and that
  should be instantly painted out or painted over; Sanseverino describes
  as an eye-witness a supposed brutal murder by Sigismund of an
  Ultramontane lady.”

   + + − =Sat. R.= 102: 270. Mr. 2, ’07. 1640w.

  “It is an artistic piece of work, with a few flaws indeed, for only a
  consummate artist could have kept it quite on the same level
  throughout.”

   + + − =Spec.= 97: 214. F. 9, ’07. 1500w.


=Hyde, A. G.= George Herbert and his times. **$2.75. Putnam.

                                                                 7–2429.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Such virtues as the merely careful and temperate writer, whose gifts
  do not include art or style, may command, his book has.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 313. Mr. 16. 1820w.

  Reviewed by A. I. du Pont Coleman.

         =Putnam’s.= 1: 631. F. ’07. 530w.


=Hyde, Henry M.= Upstart. †$1.50. Century.

                                                                6–34689.

  “Pat, ‘the upstart,’ son of a drunken Irish soldier who yet dies a
  heroic death, and of a bighearted washerwoman, fights his way up
  bravely, is not ashamed of his mother or of his finespirited and jolly
  Aunt Bridget, makes his mark as a lawyer and politician, and finally
  ‘gets the girl’—the daughter of a raging Berserker of a Swede (we
  suppose it is a Swede, the book says ‘Dootchman’), who is ‘King’ of
  the country all about, and with his six stalwart boys has terrorized
  the people.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a realistic narrative, simple and straightforward, with touches
  of humor, and unpretentiously successful in its execution.” Wm. M.
  Payne.

       + =Dial.= 42: 314. My. 16, ’07. 100w.

  “Mr. Hyde has written a novel that is interesting as a story and not
  without value as a document of that phase of American life that is
  seen in the Middle West.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 64. Ja. 12, ’07. 130w.

  “The book has some strikingly good qualities which, since it is a
  first novel, give promise of good work in the future. It has also some
  strikingly bad qualities. This atmosphere of unconscious democracy is
  the best thing in the book.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 719. N. 3, ’06. 390w.

  “Altogether, this is a vigorous tale, homely but dramatic.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 584. N. 3, ’06. 130w.


=Hyde, Rev. James.= Old faith re-stated. *60c. Warne.

  The subjects treated are the cardinal articles of the Christian faith,
  the titles for the chapters being taken from Scriptures; as “What
  think ye of Christ?” “The Word was God,” “If thou wilt enter into
  life, keep the commandments,” “When the Son of Man shall come in His
  glory.” The aim of the restatement of faith is to aid the church in
  getting back to its original foundation.


=Hyrst, H. W. G.= Adventures in the great deserts, romantic incidents
and perils of travel, sport, and exploration throughout the world.
*$1.50. Lippincott.

                                                                6–45335.

  “Desert stories of twenty-four travellers and explorers.... The
  majority of these explorations belong to the first half of the last
  century, and the arms and equipment of the men, often single-handed,
  who undertook them must appear miserably inadequate to any
  schoolboy.”—Spec.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This volume is, in stirring details, in no way inferior to its
  companions.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 511. O. 27. 120w.

  “On the whole, the author has produced a good and entertaining volume.
  He is content to write simply and let the actual facts supply all the
  thrills required to stimulate juvenile interests.” Cyrus C. Adams.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 846. D. 8, ’06. 100w.

  “There is material enough to keep a boy’s interest up to the highest
  pitch, and the book is well put together.”

       + =Spec.= 97: sup. 659. N. 3, ’06. 260w.


* =Hyrst, H. W. G.= Adventures in great forests. **$1.50. Lippincott.

  “The author observes that the period 1760–1860, which is roughly
  covered by his book, was the golden age of forest wanderings, and not
  unreasonably deplores the wasteful destruction of one of the finest
  features of nature. In this volume we are introduced to sportsmen and
  explorers in all parts of the world, from Stedman on his march through
  the forests of Guiana to De Saulcy botanizing in the forest region of
  the Jordan.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Will revive recollections in adults; and inspire the young reader
  with something of the spirit of the past.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 515. O. 26. 110w.

       + =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5. ’07. 90w.

  “Recorded in a style which should attract all juvenile readers.”

       + =Nature.= 76: 635. O. 24, ’07. 160w.


=Hyslop, James Hervey.= Borderland of psychical research. **$1.50.
Turner, H. B.

                                                                6–33631.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Many of his sentences are so obscure and confused as to be almost
  unintelligible.” Henry W. Wright.

       − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 361. Ap. ’07. 80w.

       + =Arena.= 86: 670. Je. ’07. 600w.

  “Its aim is cautious, its method conservative and its theme of
  absorbing interest.” I. Woodbridge Riley.

       + =Bookm.= 25: 79. Mr. ’07. 1380w.

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 217. F. 9, ’07. 160w.


=Hyslop, James Hervey.= Science and a future life. **$1.50. Turner, H.
B.

                                                                5–17300.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

  Reviewed by Henry W. Wright.

         =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 361. Ap. ’07. 150w.




                                   I


=Ibsen, Henrik.= Collected works of Henrik Ibsen; rev. and ed. by
William Archer. 11v. ea. $1. Scribner.

                                                                6–39770.

  An edition of Ibsen to be complete in eleven volumes, translated by
  Mr. Archer whose version was approved by the late poet. All the
  volumes have new introductions by Mr. Archer. The volumes are as
  follows: Feast at Solhang, Lady Inger, Love’s comedy; Vikings,
  Pretenders; Brand; Peer Gynt; Emperor and Galilean (2 parts); League
  of youth; Pillars of society; Doll’s house; Ghosts; Enemy of the
  people; Wild duck; Rosmersholm, Lady from the Sea; Hedda Gabler,
  Master builder; Little Eyolf, John Gabriel Borkman, and When we dead
  awaken.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It will be long before these handsome and cheap red volumes are
  likely to be superseded as the standard edition of Ibsen.”

     + + =Acad.= 72: 288. Mr. 23, ’07. 1390w. (Review of v. 2–4, 6 and
         7.)

     + + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 84. Mr. ’07. (Review of v. 1–11.)

         =Ath.= 1907, 2: 163. Ag. 10, 760w. (Review of v. 9.)

     + + =Dial.= 42: 117. F. 16, ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 4.)

         =Dial.= 42: 190. Mr. 16, ’07. 80w. (Review of v. 2, 3, 6 and
         7.)

         =Dial.= 42: 260. Ap. 16, ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 8.)

       + =Dial.= 43: 385. D. 1, ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 11.)

  “Mr. Archer makes good use of the material that has appeared since the
  first editions.”

     + + =Ind.= 61: 1495. D. 20, ’06. 150w. (Review of v. 2, 6 and 7.)

         =Ind.= 62: 622. Mr. 14, ’07. 80w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)

  “This new copyright edition is indispensable to the student or reader
  of Ibsen for two reasons, it is the only complete and authoritative
  translation in English, and the series of introductions which William
  Archer has contributed forms the best exposition and analysis of the
  dramas that we have in the language.”

   + + + =Ind.= 63: 824. O. 3, ’07. 250w. (Review of v. 5, 9 and 10.)

  “Is particularly timely, not only for the comprehensive view of that
  playwright which it presents thru the introductions as well as in the
  rounded mass of his writing, but also for the example offered by one
  who, with all his faults, is nevertheless one of the great modern
  dramatic technicians.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 1–11.)

  “Mr. Archer’s work gives notable distinction to this edition of
  Ibsen’s writings. Exceptional care has been taken to secure accuracy
  of text.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 34: 263. F. 16, ’07. 50w. (Review of v. 1–7.)

  “Ibsen’s language is much more direct—much more English, one might
  almost say—than that of his translator. The diction of Mr. Archer is
  too often circuitous and stilted. The introduction to each play throws
  valuable light both on the plays and their author. Together, these
  introductions will form a pretty complete review of Ibsen’s life, as
  well as of his art. His introductions form the first systematic survey
  of Ibsen in English.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 17. Ja. 3, ’07. 670w. (Review of v. 2, 3, 6 and
         7.)

  “Of the translations, that by Mrs. Marx-Aveling ... is by far the most
  successful. Mrs. Archer’s [translations] show unmistakable kinship to
  those undertaken by William Archer himself. There is in them the same
  stiff and stilted language, the same conventional artificiality, the
  same failure to make the tone of the original audible.”

     − + =Nation.= 84: 417. My. 2, ’07. 570w. (Review of v. 7 and 9.)

         =Nation.= 85: 170. Ag. 22, ’07. 940w. (Review of v. 10.)

   + + − =Nation.= 85: 477. N. 21, ’07. 1620w. (Review of v. 5.)

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 631. O. 19, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 5.)

  “Where [revision] appears it has been done with good judgment.”

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 281. F. 2, ’07. 280w. (Review of v. 3.)


=Ibsen, Henrik.= Letters of Henrik Ibsen; tr. by John Nilsen Laurvik and
Mary Morrison. *$2.50. Duffield.

                                                                5–42524.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “It is impossible within the limits of a review to suggest a tithe of
  the interesting things in this valuable human document. Suffice it to
  say ... that the translators have done their work in a most
  praiseworthy fashion.” Grace Isabel Colbron.

   + + + =Bookm.= 24: 477. Ja. ’07. 1690w.


=Iles, George.= Inventors at work; with chapters on discovery. **$2.50.
Doubleday.

                                                                6–36472.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 94. Ja. ’07. 460w.

  “The book is a very superficial but also very inclusive collection of
  references.”

     − + =Engin. N.= 57: 197. F. 14, ’07. 230w.

  “It is a contribution to popular rather than technical literature, but
  in the main fails to fulfil the promise of its title in that it does
  not show us the inventor at work, but aims rather to catalog the
  results of invention in certain departments of the world’s work.”

     − + =Ind.= 62: 676. Mr. 21, ’07. 790w.


* =Inchbold, A. Cunnick.= Under the Syrian sun; the Lebanon, Baalbek,
Galilee, and Judæa. il. *$6. Lippincott.

                                                                7–29089.

  Pictures and descriptions of Syrian countries with a great deal of
  sunshine and warmth in both.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The chief merit of this book lies in the coloured plates, most of
  which are interesting, while a few are of great beauty. The
  letterpress, oddly unconcerned with the pictures, is a lady’s account
  of her travels—pleasant, but much too wordy—interspersed with a lot of
  trite and often worthless information which simply embodies the
  commonplaces of social intercourse in a land where every one sets up
  for an authority.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 809. D. 22. 500w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, *07. 20w.

  “[Has] a compelling charm.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 617. N. 23, ’07. 180w.


=Indiana state teachers’ association.= In honor of James Whitcomb Riley.
50c. Bobbs.

                                                                6–16282.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =Ind.= 62: 733. Mr. 28, ’07. 140w.


=Ingalls, Walter Renton=, ed. Lead smelting and refining, with some
notes on lead mining. $3. Eng. and mining journal.

                                                                6–46366.

  A reprint of various articles pertaining to the mining, smelting and
  refining of lead.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Notwithstanding the number of different authors who have discussed
  the various questions, the whole book is very concise in its
  treatment, and there is an astonishingly small amount of duplication.
  The book is not a complete textbook of the subject of which it treats,
  but presupposes a knowledge on the part of the reader of the
  fundamental principles involved. For the use of practitioners and as a
  supplement to textbooks of the subject it is of great value.” Bradley
  Stoughton.

     + + =Engin. N.= 57: 195. F. 14, ’07. 540w.


=Inge, William Ralph.= Truth and falsehood in religion. *$1.50. Dutton.

                                                                 7–8274.

  In six lectures delivered to undergraduates of the University of
  Cambridge, Mr. Inge’s object “is to commend Christianity as a
  religious system to the attention of thoughtful young men.... He
  candidly admits the difficulties of the subject, and recognizes the
  defects of much of the current Christianity and the value of modern
  scientific and philosophical thought. Religion, he holds, is not
  chiefly an affair of the intellect; the necessary postulate, or act of
  faith, is the belief that our higher reason is in vital ontological
  communion with the power which lives and moves in all things, and most
  chiefly in the spirit of man.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Ind.= 62: 390. F. 14, ’07. 40w.

  “Though we cannot regard his treatment of the Logos idea as
  convincing, we can heartily commend the spirit of his lectures.”

     + − =Nation.= 83: 359. D. 27, ’06. 570w.

  “Thoroughly judicious and constructive.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 843. D. 1, ’06. 190w.


=Ingersoll, Ernest.= Eight secrets. †$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                6–42426.

  “This is the life story of an ingenious American boy who works out his
  destiny despite all sorts of difficulties and dangers and who is
  helped in his struggle by a wideawake girl. Both live in a simple
  Pennsylvania village and both are endowed with unusual inventive
  talent, which enables them to do things of a rather extraordinary
  nature.”—Lit. D.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Acad.= 72: 295. Mr. 23, ’07. 300w.

  “The story is full of varied incidents. It will instruct as well as
  amuse young readers, for whom it is intended.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 217. F. 9, ’07. 150w.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 904. D. 29, ’06. 100w.

  “We unhesitatingly pronounce this one of the best boys’ books of the
  season. Mr. Ingersoll is always to be depended upon for faithfulness
  to nature, and whether he deals with animals or with boys he gives us
  the genuine thing.”

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 43. Ja. 5, ’07. 140w.


=Ingersoll, Ernest.= Life of animals: the mammals. *$2. Macmillan.

                                                                6–18321.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “We do not expect that this book will be successful in this country:
  we have already many publications of a similar sort which are as good,
  and which avoid, of course, the spelling and diction of our
  neighbors.”

       − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 201. F. 16. 90w.

   + + − =Nature.= 75: 176. D. 20, ’06. 670w.

  “The book has great merits, and we do not know of anything by an
  English zoologist which exactly covers the same ground.”

   + + − =Spec.= 97: 216. F. 9, ’07. 310w.


=Ingersoll, Robert Green.= Philosophy of Ingersoll, ed. and arranged by
Vera Goldthwaite. **$1.50. Elder.

                                                                6–42943.

  “The pungent quotations are arranged under various headings, so that
  it is possible in a few moments to get the gist of Ingersoll’s views
  on any main subject of human interest.” (Dial.) “The subjects are
  arranged under such titles as Life, Cause and effect, Nature, Man and
  woman, Marriage, Love, Home, Children, etc.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Dial.= 41: 455. D. 16, ’06. 50w.

  “In brilliant epigram, in exquisite imagery, and flashes of wit and
  humor, it shows the hater of superstition and cant in a manner
  impossible to be revealed by a prejudiced perusal of his entire works,
  where the finest thoughts are very often turned to unworthy abuse and
  ostentatious irony.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 867. D. 15, ’06. 140w.


=Inman, Herbert Escott.= Did of Didn’t-think: a fairy story for boys and
girls; il. by W. Tayler. †$1. Warne.

  The “didn’t-thinks” of the young hero of this tale result in such
  things as his wiping the fluff from a butterfly’s wings, locking the
  kitten in the coal bin, and melting the nose of his sister’s doll. He
  is visited by the fairy queen who punishes him by taking him to the
  land of Didn’t-think to find the Did.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 90w.


=Innes, Charles Herbert.= Air compressors and blowing engines, specially
adapted for engineers. *$2. Van Nostrand.

                                                                 W 7–82.

  “The book begins with the application of thermodynamics to the
  compression of air under various circumstances.... The second chapter
  is concerned with experiments on compressors.” (Nation.) The remainder
  of the book is concerned with descriptions of various valves, blowers,
  and compressors.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “While the book contains no distinctly new matter, it is distinctly
  valuable because of the scarcity of literature dealing with this
  subject.” Amasa Trowbridge.

     + − =Engin. N.= 56: 634. D. 13, ’06. 570w.

         =Nation.= 84: 117. My. 2, ’07. 160w.


=Innis, George S.= Wycliffe: the morning star. *$1. West. Meth. bk.

                                                                7–18306.

  This volume in the “Men of the kingdom” series is an adequate answer
  to the question “What would a busy, earnest man want to know about
  John Wycliffe and his work?”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is the story of a great man, told in a spirited style for plain,
  busy, and earnest people by one who has imbibed all that history
  relates of that ‘morning star of the reformation,’ and has reproduced
  it in a well-digested and graphic abridgment, from which nothing
  essential seems omitted.”

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 576. Je. 15, ’07. 80w.


=Ireland, William W.= Life of Sir Henry Vane. *$3. Dutton.

                                                                 6–2311.

  “The story of this remarkable Puritan is told with vigor and effect by
  Mr. Ireland, who, tho not a ‘professed’ historian and decidedly in
  sympathy with his hero, writes with good judgment under his frank
  recognition of the many sides to the Puritan-Royalist
  controversy.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “While finding Mr. Ireland’s book lacking in some ways, its good
  purpose, scholarship, and sound republican spirit lead the reviewer to
  commend it as throwing much light upon its hero and the age in which
  he moved.”

     + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 369. Ja. ’07. 1040w.

  “There are many minor inaccuracies in the book, but its main defect is
  the want of a firm, definite outline, which is due to imperfect
  comprehension of the man and the period.” C. H. F.

       − =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 414. Ap. ’06. 170w.

  “His volume bears evidences of careful and independent research, and
  tho the style is sometimes pedestrian, interest is readily sustained
  to the end.”

       + =Ind.= 61: 1234. N. 22, ’06. 130w.

  “Dr. Ireland’s limits require a severe process of selection, yet he
  includes much that is almost offensively superfluous. It would be
  impossible in this review to point out all the faults of type, faults
  of phraseology, faults of grammar that disfigure these pages. A single
  rapid reading has shown no less than sixty in four hundred and forty
  pages. The history is by no means immaculate.”

     + − =Nation.= 82: 248. Mr. 22, ’06. 1140w.

  “The book, we grant, is a scholarly and interesting presentment of a
  noted man and a glorious period. We believe it would have been better
  had the author considered if, only to confute them as unsound and
  extravagant, the conclusions of his co-laborers.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 59. Ja. 17, ’07. 950w.

  “Mr. Ireland has said the final word, and incorporates in his volume a
  vast amount of original literature which, although familiar to
  students of English history, has not hitherto been employed in
  elucidating the character of the fourth Governor of Massachusetts.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 368. Je. 9, ’06. 1740w.

  “Dr. Ireland succeeds in making his portrait singularly attractive
  without the use of flattering or adulatory phrases.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 87. F. ’07. 670w.

  “If his conclusions must largely be rejected, his book is nevertheless
  substantially helpful in some respects. It has certain corrective
  value, and—albeit in a rambling way—brings together from many
  scattered sources a quantity of interesting data shedding new light on
  the period.”

     + − =Outlook.= 82: 140. Ja. 20, ’06. 250w.

  “It abounds in all the stale old schoolboy rants and third-hand
  formulas about liberty and tyranny, about priestcraft, Protestantism.”

       − =Sat. R.= 101: 304. Mr. 10, ’06. 1060w.


* =Irving, Henry Brodribb.= Occasional papers, dramatic and historical.
**$1.50. Small.

  Eight essays on subjects as follows: The English stage in the
  eighteenth century, Colley Cibber’s apology, The art and status of the
  actor, The calling of the actor, The true story of Eugene Aram, The
  fall of the house of Goodere, The Firalder case, and The early life of
  Chief Justice Scroggs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Irving’s [defense of the profession and art] is one of the best
  yet written.”

       + =Acad.= 71: 415. O. 27, ’06. 1090w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 40w.

  “‘The English stage in the eighteenth century,’ being decidedly the
  most able and interesting paper in a volume which deserves these
  epithets in no common degree.”

       + =Spec.= 97: 892. D. 1, ’06. 310w.


=Irwin, Wallace Admah.= Random rhymes and odd numbers. il. **$1.50.
Macmillan.

                                                                6–41958.

  “Humorous verse on timely subjects.... In the best we find not only
  remarkable deftness in the use of rhyme and meter, but much
  good-humored and shrewd comment in verse on questions and incidents of
  recent news interest.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Shows the range of his humor and metrical skill, and is always good
  reading. But it fails to show quite the poetic energy of the volume of
  ‘Chinatown ballads,’ of which we lately had to speak.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 40w.

  “It is after all the vein of seriousness running through the volume of
  gay verse that makes Mr. Irwin’s ‘Random rhymes and odd numbers’ more
  than the light amusement of a passing hour.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 30. Ja. 19, ’07. 560w.

  “Mr. Irwin is really a sort of poetic Dooley.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 941. D. 15, ’06. 100w.


=Irwin, Wallace Admah.= Shame of the colleges. $1.25. Outing pub. co.

                                                                7–22412.

  In these days of the muck rake almost everything has figured in the
  literature of exposure and now the dread instrument is run “over the
  field of waving rah-rahs.” Dedicated to Leland Stanford Junior, this
  little volume with its amusing illustrations makes its witty
  accusations in a series of papers entitled Harvard, the crimes of the
  amalgamated-gentleman trust; Vassar, delicious but dyspeptic;
  Princeton, frenzied but unashamed; The University of Chicago, a
  self-made antique; Yale, the democratic machine at Yale; and West
  Point, a reign of drill-terriers.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Might almost be described as a small body of liquid verse entirely
  surrounded by dull prose.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 442. Jl. 13, ’07. 300w.


=Irwin, William Henry.= City that was: a requiem of old San Francisco.
*50c. Huebsch.

                                                                6–23693.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “It deals with facts as well as feelings, but he wrote from the heart,
  and every word shows it. He caught and expressed something of the
  spirit of a light-hearted city whose charm even the most casual
  visitor never failed to feel.”

     + + =Putnam’s.= 2: 119. Ap. ’07. 60w.


Island stories, retold from St. Nicholas. (Geographical stories.) *65c.
Century.

                                                                7–29584.

  A good deal of geography is entertainingly taught here. Robinson
  Crusoe’s island as it is to-day is sure to interest boys to whom it
  has been bequeathed as a “playground for the imagination.” Then there
  are the Philippines, the Hawaiian islands, the Cannibal islands,
  Madeira and Samoa, and interesting experiences that fall to the lot of
  the story-teller while sojourning in them.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This book contains ... stories that every normal boy will read with
  avidity.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 768. D. ’07. 110w.


=Ives, George Burnham.= Bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes. *$5.
Houghton.

                                                                7–10313.

  “By means of a series of classifications, the bulk and detail of Dr.
  Holmes’s work have been made accessible from several points of
  approach. There are six lists concerned with Holmes’s own work and
  four relating to matter written about him.... There is subjoined
  information as to the circumstances under which the poem or book was
  written and first published, with other relative items. Such a work is
  of course essentially a guide book.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Ives’s work has been done well.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 363. Ap. 18, ’07. 1260w.

  “This is a very careful piece of work, and while absolute completeness
  is not claimed for its data, one may be confident that nothing of
  great importance is likely to have been omitted. The present task has
  not been performed in the spirit of meticulous yet critically
  undiscriminating diligence of which the bibliographer is sometimes
  guilty.” H. W. Boynton.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 218. Ap. 6, ’07. 2150w.




                                   J


* =Jacberns, Raymond.= Discontented schoolgirl. †$1.50. Lippincott.

  The story of the English school days of an impish little girl of
  French and English parentage. “In the Juvenile fiction of a bygone
  generation Marcella would have been held up as an awful warning to
  young readers, and would probably have incurred some terrible fate as
  a punishment. Now her disobedience, insolence, ingratitude to a kind
  guardian, and general insubordination, are gleefully related as being
  rather amusing than otherwise, and the happy ending to the story is
  indirectly due to her bad behaviour.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Ath.= 1907, 2: 652. N. 23. 200w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 60w.


=Jackson, Abraham Valentine Williams.= Persia past and present. **$4.
Macmillan.

                                                                6–33596.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “For the general reader the work possesses all the elements that go to
  make books of travel in strange lands interesting reading. For the
  scholar the book is valuable both for the richness of its
  bibliographical references and for its own contributions to the
  subject.” George Melville Bolling.

     + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 602. Ap. ’07. 1740w.

  “An exhaustive and scholarly work, well illustrated, fully indexed.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 44. F. ’07.

  “It is a book of travel and of research, and is of interest and value
  alike to the scholar and the traveler,—an unusual combination, for few
  travelers are scholars, and few scholars are travelers.” Dora Keen.

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 659. My. ’07. 1090w.

  “It is hardly possible to overpraise the vivid representation by Prof.
  Jackson of what he actually saw.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 191. F. 16. 1160w.

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 66. Mr. 1, ’07. 1390w.

  Reviewed by George R. Bishop.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 443. Jl. 13, ’07. 2500w.

  “It has enduring value. It has scientific power. It has historical
  interest and, what is rarer, the feeling for what is genuinely
  interesting in history. It has a sense of the humanity of life, the
  poetry, the mysticism.” Charles Johnston.

     + + =No. Am.= 186: 446. N. ’07. 1320w.

  “A volume which has a permanent value, and will take its place by the
  side of those of Sir Robert Ker Porter and Lord Curzon.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 432. Ap. 6, ’07. 790w.

  “The information which he gives is to a certain extent limited by his
  absorption in his own studies.... He is however fully conversant with
  the work of his predecessors, and he does not fail to provide an
  excellent general survey of the ground they have covered. The
  excellent photographs of the Sassanid rock-cut monuments reproduced in
  this book will be of great value to archaeologists.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: 623. Ap. 20, ’07. 910w.


=Jackson, Charles Ross.= Sheriff of Wasco. †$1.50. Dillingham.

                                                                7–16754.

  Wasco County, Oregon, terrorized by an outlaw of numberless crimes and
  unheard of cruelty elects a young railroad man its sheriff. The story
  follows the trail of the outlaw with the determined young officer
  until he brings down his inhuman prey and wins the love of a
  millionaire’s daughter whom he has rescued from the bandit’s clutches.
  It is a wild tale in which brute passions are described with a
  strength and vividness that does not admit of delicacy.

                  *       *       *       *       *

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 120w.


=Jackson, Frederick Hamilton.= Shores of the Adriatic: the Italian side.
*$6. Dutton.

                                                                7–13428.

  “The twenty-two chapters treat of the seaboard provinces ... and
  small, well-known places. Mr. Jackson describes the churches,
  dwellings, and other places and things of archaeological and artistic
  interest, telling something, too, about the people and their
  characteristics in the various towns. There are also extracts from the
  histories of churches, pictures or persons, the towns themselves, as
  well as the political and national history of the places visited. The
  illustrations ... are photographic reproductions, drawings, plans,
  etc. of buildings, natives, scenes, interiors, etc.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His descriptions of architecture are exceedingly close and careful,
  though at times rather too technical for the layman to follow quite
  clearly: and the historical matter which he gives suffers from a
  compression which perhaps was unavoidable. He has spared neither time
  nor labour in his work, and has produced a valuable and delightful
  book.”

   + + − =Acad.= 72: 186. F. 23, ’07. 1400w.

  “If this volume has a few weak points—one of which is a very imperfect
  index—these are more than counterbalanced by many and solid merits.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 582. My. 11. 900w.

  “A good book; in fact, the only fault one is inclined to find with it
  is that it is too monotonously good. A little more liveliness would
  atone even for a lapse in grammar.”

   + + − =Ind.= 62: 1358. Je. 6, ’07. 120w.

  “Lovers of fine architectural construction and decorative detail will
  delight in the many fine drawings that enrich Mr. Jackson’s delightful
  volume.”

       + =Int. Studio.= 30: 276. Ja. ’07. 320w.

  “His work from the mere fact of its bulk could never serve as a
  guide-book. The want of maps, too, is a serious drawback in a
  practical hand-book. On the other hand, for those who ask for charming
  impressions, the volume is too practical, too conscientious. Very
  different and full of detail are his architectural descriptions, and
  here we feel him thoroughly at home.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 400. N. 30, ’06. 1360w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 876. D. 15, ’06. 310w.

  “Mr. Jackson has discovered and described three or four times as many
  things as the ordinary traveler would find out for himself, unless he
  were, indeed, a many-sided man.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 456. Jl. 20, ’07. 330w.

  “It contains much information clearly and compactly put. Nevertheless,
  we wish that the author’s manner were more vivacious, and that the
  color of the history described were as equally evident as its
  outline.”

     + − =Outlook.= 85: 904. Ap. 20, ’07. 140w.

  “Mr. Jackson has described and drawn with a care worthy of all praise.
  One regrets a little this somewhat stolid tone as one turns over the
  only work of value which an Englishman has ever written on this
  region.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 207. F. 16, ’07. 860w.


=Jackson, Mrs. Gabrielle E. S.= Wee Winkles and her friends. †$1.25.
Harper.

                                                                7–30868.

  Another chapter in Wee Winkles’ life telling of her dolls, the little
  baby kittens, and of Jerry, the fire-engine horse, that rescued
  Wideawake from an old tumble down house where an accident had befallen
  him. Any child might profit by the lesson of love for animals that is
  taught thruout the story.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 30w.

  “The author has mastered this art, and her story deals with simple
  incidents, in simple language, well suited to hold the interest of the
  little readers.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 766. D. ’07. 70w.


=Jackson, Henry Latimer.= Fourth gospel and some recent German
criticism. *$1.10. Putnam.

  “The present volume takes up in detail the authorship, historicity,
  criticism of the gospel according to St. John, the identification of
  John the beloved apostle and John of Ephesus, and the Fourth gospel
  and the Synoptics. The footnotes are numerous and full.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A very useful compendium. The frequent summaries are helpful to the
  reader and make amends for some needless repetition.”

     + − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 368. Ap. ’07. 80w.

  “A careful, judicial, and up-to-date examination of the Johannine
  problem.”

       + =Bib. World.= 28: 432. D. ’06. 40w.

  “The book may be strongly commended, especially for its accuracy of
  information and impartiality in presentation of both sides of a
  controversy, and it is hoped that it will receive attention from any
  who may suppose that Professor Sanday and Principal Drummond have
  spoken the last word on this important subject.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 453. Ag. 22, ’07. 270w.

  “The book is a valuable supplement to Ernest F. Scott’s essay on the
  theology of the fourth gospel.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 185. Ag. 29, ’07. 230w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 750. N. 17, ’06. 130w.


=Jackson, Holbrook.= Bernard Shaw. *$1.50. Jacobs.

                                                                W 7–187.

  “Mr. Jackson discusses Shaw in the fourfold aspect of man, Fabian,
  playwright and philosopher and proves to his own satisfaction that Mr.
  Shaw is the incarnation of all that is best in modern thought.”
  (Nation.) “Mr. Jackson shows that the real Shaw is a serious man with
  a serious purpose, ‘that all his art has been an evolution toward a
  means of expression for the sake of propaganda,’ and quotes his
  admirable Fabian tracts to prove that if Shaw has undertaken to
  transform sociology from a ‘dismal into a joyous science,’ it is from
  no lack of earnestness but from a fine sense of the adaptation of
  means to ends.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Truth to tell, Mr. Jackson has so soaked himself in the Shaw drama,
  the Shaw economics, ethics, and politics, and the Shaw philosophy,
  that he is not able to stand sufficiently away from his subject to see
  him objectively. His whole book is oppressed with the weight of Mr.
  Shaw’s personality.”

       − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 376. S. 28. 580w.

  “The book is well written, and, in its biographical pages especially,
  highly entertaining.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 321. N. 16, ’07. 370w.

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 578. O. 19, ’07. 250w.

  “Still, since ‘it is obvious that’ Mr. Shaw, like Alice, is incapable
  of explaining himself and needed some one to write him down to the
  level of the hyper-self-conscious middle class, Mr. Jackson has
  performed the kind office very fairly well.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 261. Ag. 30, ’07. 1450w.

  “The book is also likely to prove interesting to connoisseurs in human
  intellectual vagaries, not only because it is cleverly written, in a
  way that often reflects what the faithful call the Shavian attitude
  and manner but because it gives an apparently authoritative summary of
  Mr. Shaw’s various theories, social, political and the like, and
  furnishes some significant facts which may help to account for a good
  many of them.”

       + =Nation.= 85:334. O. 10, ’07. 490w.


=Jackson. Lucie E.= Feadora’s failure; il. by J. Macfarlane. $1. McKay.

                                                                7–22917.

  A book for young people which records the rebellion of six spirited
  children against the rule of their wilful, inexperienced,
  eighteen-year old sister who insists upon managing the household and
  servants when the mother dies.


* =Jacob, Robert Urie.= Trip to the Orient: the story of a Mediterranean
cruise. **$1.50. Winston.

                                                                 7–9812.

  In the main a revised and elaborated personal journal of the
  happenings incident to a seventy-day tour of the Mediterranean
  districts.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book itself is likely to interest few, if any, outside of the
  restricted circle of those who happened to take the same tour or are
  planning to take a similar one in the future. The book has lost much
  through the inferior quality of the illustrations.”

     − + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 594. N. ’07. 180w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w.


=Jacobs, William Wymark.= Short cruises; il. by Will Owen. †$1.50.
Scribner.

                                                                7–16484.

  “These cruises, largely by sailors, but of the land or at the most, of
  the port, are in the author’s familiarly amusing vein.... The
  practical joke, the admonition by craft, the object lesson through
  wile have their perfect work in these pages. If the fun possibly makes
  especial appeal to masculine readers, feminine ones should observe
  that it is always the woman who gets the best of it.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This volume is fit to stand on the shelf beside ‘Many cargoes’ and
  ‘Sea urchins.’”

     + + =Acad.= 73: 873. S. 7, ’07. 210w.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 178. O. ’07.

  “To be frank, the sailormen we meet with in these pages—at all events,
  where they are deepwater sailormen—are not in the least the real
  thing; but they are much more amusing than the real thing is wont to
  be, and so we welcome their appearance.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 789. Je. 29. 1170w.

  “There are, we regret to say, signs in his latest book that Mr. Jacobs
  is tiring. He is still funny, but he has receded further from life.”

       − =Lond. Times.= 6: 149. My. 10, ’07. 300w.

  “His invention is varied, his humour on his chosen lines of cartoon
  and caricature, boundless, and his mastery supreme of what in
  respectful homage we venture to term slanguage.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 501. My. 30, ’07. 90w.

       + =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 60w.


=James, George Wharton.= Wonders of the Colorado desert (southern
California). **$5. Little.

                                                                6–43916.

  Two volumes, each containing over two hundred and fifty pages, tell of
  “strange, wonderful and beautiful things ... unknown to cities and to
  the unobservant eye.” Mr. James locates the desert with a good deal of
  exactness because the world at large is misled by the word “Colorado.”
  He has gathered together in the volume twenty-four years of
  observations and experiences all characterized by the vague sense of
  mystery surrounding an untamed, unused and unnourished stretch of
  country. There is a wealth of pictures attending his sketch of rivers
  and mountains, cañons and springs, life and history.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 69. Mr. ’07.

  “It is a book that it is a genuine pleasure to recommend to
  discriminating readers.”

     + + =Arena.= 37: 327. Mr. ’07. 940w.

  “A remarkable and valuable work.”

     + + =Dial.= 41: 454. D. 16, ’06. 350w.

  “To many people who are quite ignorant of the Colorado desert, and
  this includes nearly every one outside the desert and vicinity, the
  book will be full of pleasant surprises. Perhaps the chapters on the
  wild animals, birds, reptiles, insects and plant life of the desert
  contain as many surprises as any in the book.”

   + + − =Engin. N.= 57: 550. My. 16, ’07. 510w.

  “A very comprehensive and interesting work.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 42. Ja. 3, ’07. 410w.

  “Written ‘con amore’ and under the immediate inspiration of the
  unwonted scenes which they describe, the volumes will have an intimate
  appeal for those interested in the wonders of their own land.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 34: 263. F. 16, ’07. 300w.

  “Actual perusal inspires a wish that the author had limited his field
  and compressed his material into one volume. He should remember that a
  plethora of superlatives only weakens a eulogy.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 294. Mr. 28, ’07. 520w.

  “He has gifts of observation far above the common and the literary art
  of vivid and picturesque description.” Cyrus C. Adams.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 121. Mr. 2, ’07. 1640w.

  “Occasionally the reader feels that the author is giving a little too
  much detail, and, is even inclined to question whether the material
  might not to advantage have been presented in a single volume.”

     + − =Outlook.= 85: 42. Ja. 5, ’07. 300w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 383. Mr. ’07. 90w.


=James, Henry.= American scene. **$3–Harper.

                                                                 7–5704.

  After an absence of nearly a quarter of a century Mr. James viewed
  once more his native land, and wrote in the style which he has made
  his own, of what his eyes, fresh after long absence, saw in her. New
  England, in the autumn, New York in the spring, The Bowery, Newport,
  Washington, Richmond, Charleston, and sunny Florida, the beauty of
  them, the very atmosphere and air of them are to be found between
  these covers.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is undeniably difficult to read; full of psychological
  subtleties, involved expression, baffling to the average reader.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 98. Ap. ’07.

  “Throughout four hundred and sixty-five broad pages there is no oasis
  in the level, unbroken expanse of Jacobean style. Nor has his style
  improved with years. In this latest example it has an irritation once
  absent; for to the defects of his own qualities he has added
  carelessness.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 282. Mr. 9. 2640w.

  “Despite his consummate analytic power, perhaps not the one after all
  to whom we should willingly allow the last word on what America stands
  for.” James F. Muirhead.

     + − =Atlan.= 100: 566. O. ’07. 1330w.

  “Mr. James is, if at his worst, also at his best in this book.” Edward
  Clark Marsh.

     − + =Bookm.= 25: 188. Ap. ’07. 1270w.

  “The book is one to read in at length, if not to read through. Its
  pages are strewn with the happiest phrases and turns of expression.
  They teem with passages of exquisite artistry, which, without
  reference to the scenes and objects so delicately depicted, are a joy
  to the lover of the gracefully elaborate, the subtilely expressive and
  still more subtilely suggestive, in English prose.” Percy F. Bicknell.

     + + =Dial.= 42: 176. Mr. 16, ’07. 1570w.

  “No book which Mr. Henry James has written makes so severe a tax on
  the loyalty of even his most enthusiastic readers as his ‘American
  scenes.’”

       − =Ind.= 63: 95. Jl. 11, ’07. 1090w.

  “Crowded, sensitive, intricate book, probably the most remarkable book
  of impressions of travel which we possess. It cannot be pretended that
  it can be read without considerable concentration of attention; once
  drop the finespun thread, and you are lost. But to follow it out to
  the end is to have a positive revelation of the amount of insight and
  exactness of expression which can be packed between the covers of a
  single book.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 44. F. 8, ’07. 1970w.

  “A work of marvellously keen and subtle analysis; it transfixes the
  defects and shortcomings of American civilization with unerring
  thrusts; but it is less successful on the positive and synthetic side.
  Its vision is, if anything, too personal, too microscopic.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 266. Mr. 21, ’07. 1260w.

  “It would be impossible within reasonable limits to give much idea of
  the rich and fantastic humor that plays about the revisited towns of
  America, leaves behind it suggestions to awaken our serious thought.”
  Elisabeth Luther Cary.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 221. Ap. 6, ’07. 1760w.

  “There is but one way in which to read ‘The American scene:’ refuse to
  let it antagonize you, remember constantly that it is the utterance of
  a ‘restored absentee;’ and with every page you will come more and more
  under the charm of his descriptions and the subtlety of his
  judgments.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

     + − =No. Am.= 185: 214. My. 17, ’07. 1830w.

         =Outlook.= 85: 622. Mr. 16, ’07. 450w.

  “He has written not a guide-book, but a drama, the drama of a
  continent: and he has contrived with illuminating subtlety that the
  ‘persons’ of it shall be not the varieties of humanity upon its
  surface, but the evidences, the more or less enduring records of their
  aspiration and their content.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 395. Mr. 30, ’07. 2400w.

  “The faults we have to find with it are only the faults which cling to
  all Mr. James’s work. He is exceedingly difficult to read. Mr. James
  writes with such urbanity and so genuine a love for the land that the
  most nervous patriot could not take offence at his pages, while to a
  certain limited class of readers they will be a source of acute
  intellectual pleasure.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: 334. Mr. 2, ’07. 1750w.


=James, William.= Pragmatism: a new name for some old ways of thinking.
**$1.25. Longmans.

                                                                7–20643.

  “A popular presentation of pragmatism. Professor James claims
  Socrates, Aristotle, Locke, Berkeley and Hume as pragmatists. But
  these “forerunners of pragmatism used it in fragments; they were a
  prelude only. Not until in our time has it generalised itself.” The
  volumes teach that truth comprises all principles, ideas, and beliefs
  that lead in the long run to the best practical results. Pragmatism is
  the same method in philosophy that utilitarianism is in ethics, which
  pronounces monogamy right and gambling wrong, not by previous
  intuition, but by the test of experience. What wears best is good;
  and, because proved good, is true.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We should not be doing justice to Professor James’s style did we not
  refer to the colloquialisms and American slang which abound in the
  book.”

     + − =Acad.= 73: 772. Ag. 10, ’07. 1180w.

  Reviewed by I. Woodbridge Riley.

         =Bookm.= 26: 215. O. ’07. 2070w.

  “His presentation of the pragmatic method is of course unique by
  reason of the author’s own charming literary style, comprehensive
  knowledge of philosophy, literature and philosophy, literature and
  philosophical principles, and great skill as an expositor.”

       + =Educ. R.= 34: 430. N. ’07. 80w.

       + =Ind.= 63: 630. S. 12, ’07. 930w.

  “The lectures contain nothing new, and, on the whole, nothing that was
  not more concisely put in some of these previous pronouncements; but
  it is always a pleasure to hear Professor James talking.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 210. Jl. 5, ’07. 730w.

  “Professor James has an unconventional way of dealing with
  philosophical questions, so that by graphic illustrations and by
  simple language he attracts attraction and wins assent.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 57. Jl. 18, ’07. 970w.

  “It is scarcely possible to exaggerate one’s appreciation of the
  lucidity and skill with which so abstract a topic has been treated.”
  Joseph Jacobs.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 527. Ag. 31, ’07. 2610w.

  Reviewed by Carolyn Shipman.

         =No. Am.= 185: 884. Ag. 16, ’07. 1950w.

  “His well-known, vivacious and breezy style of address, garnished here
  and there with racy colloquialisms, working, as it does, to enliven
  attention to his arguments, is itself felicitously pragmatic.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 748. Ag. 3, ’07. 330w.

  “Professor James’s volume is interesting and stimulating throughout,
  and it is needless to add that it contains a deal of practical wisdom
  and much useful advice which all philosophers would do well to heed.
  And it seems to me to be much stronger in what it affirms than in what
  it denies.” Charles M. Bakewell.

   + + − =Philos. R.= 16: 624. N. ’07. 4780w.

  “I am therefore bound to record the opinion that the present volume
  fails to rise to the level of its author’s reputation. There is
  something too much of ‘the large loose way’ about it.” R. M. Wenley.

     + − =Science=, n.s. 26: 464. O. 11, ’07. 2480w.


=James, Winifred.= Bachelor Betty. **$1.25. Dutton.

                                                                7–23302.

  “Bachelor Betty is a vivacious young Australian girl who comes over to
  England to seek her fortune as a journalist. She is an independent
  young person who means to make the best of things, and for this
  purpose she adopts an aggressively cheerful attitude, extracting fun
  out of all sorts of unpromising material.... ‘There is not,’ she
  writes, ‘one woman in a hundred who chooses an independent life
  because she prefers it’.... We know full well that whimsical Betty
  with her continual babble and chatter, her delicate philanderings with
  the ‘youngest man,’ the ‘oldest man’ and other admirers will come at
  last into the safe haven of matrimony.”—Sat. R.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “All her characters are made living by some touch or phrase which
  renders the least important of them a personality.”

       + =Acad.= 73: 706. Jl. 20, ’07. 230w.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 202. N. ’07.

  “Here is an author who takes herself not too seriously, and knows how
  to entertain us. We find sanity and humanity also in the development
  of the story.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 11. Jl. 6. 120w.

  “What redeems it entirely from the commonplace is the author’s lively
  turn of phrase and fresh, untrammelled observation.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 188. Ag. 29, ’07. 320w.

  “Her talk is quite pleasant, too, and every now and then she says
  quite womanly-characteristic things in a quite womanly-characteristic
  way. There is nothing very remarkable about it, but there have been
  worse love stories—many of them.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 457. Jl. 20, ’07. 400w.

  “We should have found ‘Bachelor Betty’ much more amusing but for the
  author’s obvious determination to be humorous at all costs. Is full of
  promise and we feel sure is only an earnest of better work to come.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 104: 148. Ag. 3, ’07. 310w.


=Jameson, E. M.= Peggy Pendleton. $1.25. West. Meth. Bk.

  A first rate story for young readers. The heroine, Peggy Pendleton,
  found favor with those who enjoyed “The Pendletons,” and here she
  continues the fulfillment of numerous budding promises, among them
  good cheer, generosity, and quick thoughtfulness for others.


=Jameson, John Franklin=, ed. Original narratives of early American
history. per. v. **$3. Scribner.

                                                                 7–6643.

  A series of twenty volumes entitled “Original narratives of early
  American history,” undertaken under the auspices of the American
  historical society and edited by J. F. Jameson. “The series is to
  consist of such volumes as will illustrate the early history of all
  the chief parts of the country, with an additional volume of general
  index. The plan contemplates, not a body of extracts, but in general
  the publication or the republication of whole works or of distinct
  parts of works.” (N. Y. Times.)

  =v. 1. Olson. Julius E., and Bourne, Edward G.=, eds. Northmen,
  Columbus, and Cabot.

                                                                6–36882.

  This first volume of the series is divided into three parts: “The
  voyages of the Northmen,” edited by Professor J. E. Olson, which
  presents the saga in Hauksbok and that in Flatey-jarbok, together with
  some minor Northern and papal pieces; “The voyages of Columbus” and
  “The voyages of John Cabot,” edited by Professor E. G. Bourne.

  =v. 2. Burrage, Henry S.=, ed. Early English and French voyages,
  1534–1608.

                                                                6–44365.

  The account of these voyages is largely taken from Hakluyt and covers
  the voyages of Cartier, Hore, Hawkins, Drake, Gilbert, Barlowe, Lane,
  White, Grenville, Brereton, Pring, Waymouth, and Popham.

  =v. 3. Hodge, Frederick W., and Lewis, Theodore H.=, eds. Spanish
  explorers in the southern United States, 1528–1543.

                                                                7–10607.

  “This volume includes the contemporary accounts of the three most
  important Spanish explorations in the region now comprised in the
  southern part of the United States. These are Cabeza de Vaca’s
  narrative of his remarkable wanderings, the account of the expedition
  of Hernando de Soto by the gentleman of Elvas, and Pedro de
  Castaneda’s narrative of the expedition of Coronado. Apart from the
  requirements of the series there was not the same necessity for the
  issuing of this particular volume as for the other two as two of these
  narratives already have been published in handy and inexpensive form
  under the competent editorship of Messers. Bourne and Winship
  respectively.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

  =v. 4. Grant, William Lawson=, ed. Voyages of Samuel de Champlain,
  1604–1618.

                                                                7–22899.

  This volume includes extracts from the writings of Champlain from
  which the student may construct a theory of the value of Champlain’s
  work as explorer and colonizer.

  =v. 5. Tyler, Lyon Gardiner=, ed. Narratives of early Virginia.

                                                                7–33220.

  “Selections from the doughty John Smith fill about two-thirds of the
  volume; the remaining contents include narratives and letters by
  George Percy, Lord De-la-Ware, Dion Diego de Molina, Father Biard,
  John Ræfe, and John Pory. The period covered is that from the first
  settlement to the dissolution of the Company in 1624 by the aggrieved
  monarch.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Most serviceable and in all ways to be welcomed is this volume. But
  it might have been made still more serviceable.” C. Raymond Beazley.

   + + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 654. Ap. ’07. 940w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “This publication edited by Dr. Burrage is one which meets a long-felt
  want. The reader has sufficient information about the narrators, both
  historical and bibliographical to whet his appetite and increase his
  interest.” P. Lee Phillips.

     + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 692. Ap. ’07. 460w. (Review of v. 2.)

  Reviewed by G. P. W.

     + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 926. Jl. ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 3.)

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 125. My. ’07. (Review of v. 1.)

  “If the remaining volumes are edited with a similar degree of skill
  and intelligence as these under review, the series will prove to be a
  most admirable one and will be recognized as a standard collection of
  source publications.” Herman V. Ames.

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 183. Jl. ’07. 700w. (Review of v. 1–3.)

     + + =Dial.= 42: 84. F. 1, ’07. 30w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

         =Dial.= 42: 266. Ap. 16, ’07. 70w. (Review of v. 3.)

         =Dial.= 43: 322. N. 16, ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 5)

  “There is a sanity and freedom from controversial bitterness in the
  editorial portions which commends the volume warmly to us.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 41. Ja. 3, ’07. 730w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Each narrative has been carefully edited as to an introduction and
  foot-notes, an excellent index being added.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 33: 727. N. 17, ’06. 140w. (Review of v. 1.)

         =Nation.= 84: 245. Mr. 14, ’07. 750w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “Furnishes the best possible introduction to a further study of the
  large and intricate problem of Spanish explorations in America.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 77. Jl. 25, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 3.)

         =Nation.= 85: 493. N. 28, ’07. 610w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)

  “To a careful student it is simply invaluable, the many footnotes
  giving the various authorities on any possible disputed point.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 71. F. 2, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “The notes, without being burdensome, are adequate for purposes of
  explanation.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 481. Ag. 3, ’07. 140w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “Mr. Grant, the editor, succeeds well in elucidating difficult points
  and illuminating obscure passages.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 488. Ag. 10, ’07. 190w. (Review of v. 4.)

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 50w. (Review of v. 5.)

  “The selection and editing could not, in fact have been better done
  for the purpose which the editors had in view.” H. Cabot Lodge.

     + + =No. Am.= 183: 1289. D. 21, ’06. 2100w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “It seems a pity, however, that room was not found for the Ribaut,
  Laudonnière, and Le Moyne narratives, having to do with the early and
  ill-fated French settlements in Florida and South Carolina.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 85: 376. F. 16, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 2.)

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 570. Je. 13, ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “The reprint is well adapted to the use of both the special student
  and the general reader of history. From the standpoint of the latter,
  however, it is to be regretted that Mr. Grant has not seen fit to
  write a more detailed biographical introduction.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 86: 974. Ag. 31, ’07. 280w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “One could wish that President Tyler had expanded his introductory
  comment on certain of the documents.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 87: 788. D. 7, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 5.)

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 507. Ap. ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 2.)

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 637. My. ’07. 160w. (Review of v. 3.)

         =R. of Rs.= 36: 756. D. ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 5.)


=Janet, Pierre.= Major symptoms of hysteria: fifteen lectures given in
the medical school of Harvard university. *$1.75. Macmillan.

                                                                7–23068.

  A summary of the psychological research work of the French in the
  subject of hysteria is given in this series of lectures. They treat of
  Monoideic somnambulisms, Double personalities, Convulsive attacks,
  Motor agitations, Paralysis, The troubles of vision, of speech, and
  other phases of the disease.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “On the whole, one may say that this is the most readable and
  interesting book on clinical psychology since the days of John
  Abercrombie and his ‘Intellectual philosophy.’” Irving Wilson
  Voorhees.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 463. Jl. 27, ’07. 1230w.


=Janssen, Johannes.= History of the German people at the close of the
middle ages. v. 9–10, *$6.25. Herder.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Dr. Janssen has done a service for Catholic scholarship which it
  would be hardly possible to overestimate.”

     + + =Cath. World.= 84: 566. Ja. ’07. 370w. (Review of v. 9 and 10.)


=Janvier, Thomas Allibone.= Santa Fé’s partner. †$1.50. Harper.

                                                                7–29432.

  Palomitas, bearing a striking resemblance to Wolfville, is the scene
  of the pranks played by Santa Fé Charley, a professional gambler who
  frequently assumes the garb and speech of a minister, and his partner,
  the Sage-Brush Hen, who together entertain tenderfoot easterners with
  mock hangings, stage holdups and shootings. “More folks in Palomitas
  has names that had tumbled to ’em than the kind that had come regular.
  And when they sounded regular they likely wasn’t.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Humorous yarns of life in a mining town forming a continuous
  narrative, told in the first person in the racy vernacular of the
  place.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 202. N. ’07.

  “The book has charming freshness and a southwestern flavor that is
  delightfully amusing, and suggestive of conditions that have been
  rapidly passing away.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 533. O. 12, ’07. 180w.

  “It is all good magazine copy, though hardly more.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 306. O. 3, ’07. 350w.

  “Mr. Janvier has latterly been playing not unskillfully with the
  picturesque material invented and bequeathed to literature by the late
  Bret Harte.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 612. O. 12, ’07. 310w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 20w.


=Jastrow, Joseph.= Subconscious. *$2.50. Houghton.

                                                                6–16729.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “As a result of incontinent use of rhetorical figures, the size of the
  book has been made unduly large. For this fact alone the book becomes
  tedious to the man whose time is limited. The lack of a critical and
  scientific form of presentation, of specific historical references,
  and of close articulation with the results of advanced researches in
  experimental and analytical psychology, prevents the book from having
  any wide sphere of usefulness in the psychological research world.”
  John B. Watson.

     − − =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 558. Ja. ’07. 1380w.

  “The rich material of the much better told observation is too often
  hidden in the elaborate context. It is indeed difficult to say to
  which kind of public the book would adapt itself.” Adolf Meyer.

     + − =J. Philos.= 4: 79. Ja. 31, ’07. 1840w.

  “In spite of a few criticisms ... the book is a strong and interesting
  one, displaying the extent and intent of Dr. Jastrow’s grasp on the
  field which it covers.” Knight Dunlap.

   + + − =Science=, n.s. 24: 848. D. 28, ’06. 2090w.

  “A useful, well-reasoned and careful investigation. The book is,
  unfortunately, much too long and diffuse.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: 537. Ap. 6, ’07. 2400w.


=Jaures, Jean Leon.= Studies in socialism; tr. with an introd. by
Mildred Minturn. **$1. Putnam.

                                                                6–14021.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The presentation of the subject is able and its spirit tolerant.”

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 217. Ja.  180w.

  Reviewed by John Graham Brooks.

     + + =Atlan.= 99: 280. F. ’07. 1230w.

  “The merit of the whole volume is not in any new matter, so much as in
  the calm, direct way that things are stated. It is one of the most
  satisfying presentations of the fiery subject that one can find.”

     + + =Cath. World.= 84: 834. Mr. ’07. 280w.

  “Optimistic yet sane, of strong convictions yet conservative, M.
  Jaurès has not laid himself open to the familiar accusation that
  socialists beg the question, for he has gone to its very roots. The
  beauty of his diction has been well preserved by his translator.”
  Eunice Follansbee.

       + =Dial.= 42: 111. F. 16, ’07. 280w.


=Jebb, Sir Richard Claverhouse.= Essays and addresses. *$3.50. Putnam.

  A collection of seventeen essays made by the author’s wife from a mass
  of literary material left by Sir Richard Jebb. “Nearly all deal with
  one or another phase of Greek literature or life, or with its
  influence upon the intellectual life of our own time.” (N. Y. Times.)
  Some of the subjects are The genius of Sophocles, Pindar, Lucian,
  Sophocles and the trilogy, The influence of the Greek mind on modern
  life, The position of classical studies, and Humanism in education.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Lady Jebb should receive the thanks of all lovers of scholarship and
  humane letters for collecting these papers by her distinguished
  husband.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 9. Jl. 6. 1570w.

  “Prof. Richard Jebb ... united in a remarkable degree profound
  scholarship with the capacity for graceful and luminous exposition.
  And these qualities are so manifest in every page of this present
  volume that the reader is moved quite as much by admiration for the
  man’s mental gifts as by interest in what he says.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 270w.

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 172. My. 31, ’07. 1650w.

  “These extracts ... are typical of the salient characteristics of the
  writer, that rare combination of profound and ripe scholarship with
  worldy wisdom and insight, that grasp of first principles, which
  showed him that scholarship is one and indivisible and can convey the
  same message in a different guise to the first classic and the budding
  extensionist.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 103: 816. Je. 29, ’07. 1150w.

  “The occasional and less formal work of a great scholar or writer can
  hardly fail to contain much that is both of personal interest and
  permanent value nor is the present volume wanting in either merit.”

     + + =Spec.= 99: 203. Ag. 10, ’07. 970w.


=Jefferies, Richard.= Essays. 3v. ea. 75c. Crowell.

                                                             7–26039–41.

  The three volumes reprinted in this set are Nature near London, The
  open air, and The life of the fields. Each is furnished with an
  introduction by Thomas Coke Watkins which reflects the author’s
  passionate love for nature in all its aspects. The lover of woodland
  and stream will find in Jefferies a companion for all his moods.


=Jefferson, Charles Edward.= New crusade: occasional sermons and
addresses. **$1.50. Crowell.

                                                                7–25555.

  “A group of sermons whose aim is to aid in reclaiming our Holy
  Land—America—from the Saracen of the twentieth century—the rum-seller,
  the gambler, the unprincipled politician, the unscrupulous capitalist
  and the anarchistic wage-earner. Consecrated personality and Christian
  unity are the watchwords in bringing about international peace.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Their tone is militant and virile; they lift up the standard and
  eloquently call to arms against the forces at work in the community
  for moral decay.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 271. O. 5, ’07. 90w.


=Jefferson, Charles Edward.= Old year and the new: the art of
forgetting. **75c. Crowell.

                                                                7–28171.

  A holiday sermon based upon Paul’s words “Forgetting the things which
  are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, I
  press toward the mark.”


* =Jenkins, Stephen.= A princess and another. $1.25. Huebsch.

                                                                7–38268.

  A story which has grown out of a study of the records of French
  soldiers who took part in our revolution. The interest centers about
  the events that lead to the identification of a French child that had
  been kidnapped by a jealous uncle and sent to America in charge of a
  girl who became a colonist’s bondservant. Not until he had grown to
  manhood and had been courtmartialed as a British spy does he come face
  to face with the treachery that had kept him from his father and his
  birthright privileges.


=Jenks, Jeremiah Whipple.= Citizenship and the schools. *$1.25. Holt.

                                                                6–18602.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “It is a collection of essays that deserves the attention of
  public-school workers for its vital contact with the real present, its
  courageous but temperate idealism, and its sane counsels. It is
  characterized rather by a semi-proverbial style than by sustained
  argument, and contains numerous fresh and terse presentations of wise
  and weighty principles and practical conclusions.” Edward C. Hayes.

     + + =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 569. Ja. ’07. 230w.

  “The presentation is always interesting and illuminated by a wealth of
  happy illustrations.”

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 217. Ja. ’07. 160w.

       + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 442. Jl. ’07. 170w.

       + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 573. S. ’07. 80w.


=Jenks, Jeremiah Whipple.= Political and social significance of the life
and teachings of Jesus. 50c. Y. M. C. A.

                                                                6–46236.

  “This is not a book to read, but a manual for study. About a series of
  twelve topics Professor Jenks groups references for reading,
  suggestive quotations, and stimulating comment.”—Bib. World.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Bib. World.= 29: 160. F. ’07. 70w.

  “Among many recent works on the social teachings of Jesus this is of
  unsurpassed value. For all pastors and other teachers in this field,
  too often neglected in the churches, it is an eminently desirable
  help.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 281. F. 2, ’07. 190w.


* =Jenks, Tudor.= Electricity for young people. **$1.50. Stokes.

                                                                7–33979.

  Mr. Jenks “tells in concise and simple language the progress of
  electricity, showing its discovery and its practical uses. A
  commendable feature is the combination of biography with scientific
  accomplishment.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book will please any young electrician from ten years up.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 80w.

  “He has made the present volume interesting as well as valuable
  reading not only for children but for older people interested in the
  subject.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 40w.


=Jenks, Tudor.= In the days of Goldsmith. **$1. Barnes.

                                                                7–10578.

  “Mr. Jenks does not attempt to go into over-much detail in recounting
  his subject’s life. His effort is rather to give a rapid moving
  picture of the man’s development from childhood and of his years of
  struggle and final success. And this he projects against a background
  of the chief events of the time in England, upon the continent, and in
  America.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Capital reading for young people.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 232. Ap. 1, ’07. 60w.

         =Educ. R.= 34: 209. S. ’07. 40w.

  “The volume is a good sample of hasty bookmaking.”

       − =Nation.= 85: 77. Jl. 25. ’07. 160w.

  “Approaches his subject in a spirit so intensely sympathetic that it
  becomes controversial. For the general reader the scheme upon which
  the book is laid out is excellent.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 245. Ap. 13, ’07. 340w.


=Jenks, Tudor.= When America was new. †$1.25. Crowell.

                                                                7–30468.

  The homes of the colonists during the seventeenth century furnish the
  material for Mr. Jenks’s sketch. He tells of the home making, indoor
  life, manners and customs, what the colonists knew and thought, their
  books, reading and education, the women and children, the growth of a
  new people to the point of independence and union.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Nation.= 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 40w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 150w.

  “While the language used is simple enough for a child to grasp its
  meaning easily, the book is one which older people can read with
  pleasure and profit.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 359. O. 19, ’07. 120w.

  “Mr. Jenks has tried to do for young people what we are sure will be
  appreciated by many older heads.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 757. D. ’07. 110w.


=Jennings, Edward W.= Under the Pompadour. †$1.50. Brentano’s.

  A romance which begins with an eighteenth century smuggling adventure.
  “There are plots and counterplots, political and personal, and
  although the hero, to judge by his own narration, was the most
  innocent idiot that ever acted cat’s paw to a lovely woman, and played
  cup-and-ball with kingdoms without an inkling of it, the reader
  finishes the book with a distinct liking for him. The heroine is quite
  out of the common, and very charming.” (Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A story told in the first person is hampered by the restricted point
  of view involved, the impossibility of relating all things as they
  happen, and the modesty which prevents the hero from eulogising
  himself. Apart from these drawbacks Mr. Jennings has written a
  readable story of life, the simplest forms of life, the meaning both
  in England and France.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 273. Mr. 16, ’07. 130w.

  “When all is said, if at times quite preposterously opulent in
  material it is still a very entertaining, even plausible and suitably
  told story.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 211. S. 5, ’07. 450w.

  “Mr. Edward W. Jenning’s story is no worse, certainly, and perhaps a
  little better, than the average of its numerous predecessors in the
  same class.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 190w.

  “If the reader does not like it we shall think him a real realist, and
  we shall be sorry for him accordingly.”

       + =Putnam’s.= 3: 240. N. ’07. 340w.


=Jennings, Herbert Spencer.= Behavior of the lower organisms. **$3.
Macmillan.

                                                                6–24590.

  “This book is eminently worthy of the excellent series [‘Columbia
  university biological series’] to which it belongs, for it is the most
  detailed, accurate and complete description, analysis and
  interpretation of the behavior of lower organisms in existence. More
  than this, the work stands alone, the first representative of a class
  of books in which animal behavior is to receive thoroughly scientific
  treatment.”—J. Philos.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Current Literature.= 42: 217. F. ’07. 2090w.

  “By his researches Professor Jennings has made himself the authority
  on the behavior of unicellular organisms. His book is admirable with
  respect to material, method of presentation and form. Its future
  influence will certainly be tremendous, for it is a work which will
  determine the direction of research as well as mould popular and
  scientific opinion. It is the most important book on animal behavior
  that has ever been written.” Robert M. Yerkes.

   + + + =J. Philos.= 3: 658. N. 22, ’06. 4800w.

  “Professor Jennings’s admirable presentation of the results of his
  observations in this most attractive field of study will appeal to the
  professionals and laymen. The style of the book is clear,
  straightforward, and convincing.”

     + + =Nation.= 83: 424. N. 15, ’06. 840w.

  “From the standpoint of the contribution of facts, the book is
  exceedingly valuable. That portion of the book dealing with the
  analysis of behavior has a somewhat doubtful value because of its
  vagueness and complexity, and its constant allusions to pleasure and
  pain and to other physical processes in man. The final chapter dealing
  overtly with the relation of the behavior of lower organisms to
  psychic behavior should be undoubtedly greatly modified when the book
  comes to a second edition.” J. B. W.

   + + − =Psychol. Bull.= 4: 228. S. 15, ’07. 1070w.

  “It would seem that Jennings in his enthusiasm for his own views had
  become blinded to the real strength of the tropism theory and not only
  was unable to accord it fair treatment, but also lacked appreciation
  of its real value. It is to be regretted that a book excellent in so
  many particulars should be marred by so considerable a defect.” G. H.
  P.

   + + − =Science=, n.s. 26: 548. O. 25, ’07. 610w.


=Jensen, Carl O.= Essentials of milk hygiene; tr. and amplified by
Leonard Pearson. **$2. Lippincott.

                                                                7–23316.

  A practical treatise on dairy and milk inspection and on the hygienic
  production and handling of milk, for students of dairying and
  sanitarians.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A valuable contribution to the inspection of milk, and his treatise
  is well translated.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 243. Ag. 31. 640w.


=Jephson, Henry.= Sanitary evolution of London. *$1.80. Wessels.

  A narrative of the sanitary history and conditions of life of the
  people of London based upon the experiences, inferences and
  conclusions of men in a position to observe how London people live,
  including the principal measures passed from time to time by the
  legislature and the administration of those measures by local
  authorities charged with their administration.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is valuable as an outline of the sanitary legislation
  affecting Greater London, and as an abstract of reports of health
  officers and others during a number of decades past. The book would
  have gained, both in interest and in force, if the author had put more
  of his information in his own language and had used smaller type for
  such quotations as he employed, and had grouped or classified his
  discussion more thoroughly.”

   + + − =Engin. N.= 58: 541. N. 14, ’07. 510w.

  “It is regrettable that Jephson has overburdened his book with too
  many quotations, which are too tiresome for the ordinary busy layman
  who should read it, and which obscure the generalizations.” Charles E.
  Woodruff.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 612. O. 12, ’07. 1700w.

         =Sat. R.= 103: 719. Je. 8, ’07. 1000w.

  “A very interesting and instructive history of London sanitation.”

     + + =Spec.= 98: 865. Je. 1, ’07. 1350w.


=Jepson, Edgar.= Tinker two: further adventures of the admirable Tinker.
†$1.50. McClure.

                                                                6–34688.

  A sequel to the “Admirable Tinker.” The multiform activity of the
  invincible young hero, is suggested in the following: “Tinker adopts
  people. He adopts a sister, a pretty child near his own age, and a
  daughter, a beautiful young woman who is quite grown, and a Russian
  revolutionist to boot. Tinker is a matchmaker, though as a real boy he
  cannot endure to be kissed. Tinker is a detective and a fugitive from
  justice. He drives a big motor car ... and he goes tiger hunting in
  the leafy coverts of Beauleigh park. Tinker is an amateur actor as
  well. He plays female roles to admiration in a blond wig and a
  pinafore.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “For interesting as this story is—and it must be confessed that it
  goes with a good swing—it will not bear reading a second time, and the
  author has a command of workmanship that we feel sure is wasted on
  such unlikely happenings.”

     + − =Acad.= 71: 400. O. 20, ’06. 140w.

  “If one can get over the irritation caused by a small boy who is
  allowed to go anywhere and do anything—indeed, encouraged by adults to
  act as a man—the series of adventures here presented will be found
  entertaining.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 543. N. 3. 80w.

  “It is astonishing how ingenious Mr. Jepson has been in giving both
  adventures and conversation a turn so refreshingly original and
  whimsical, and, in a way, so human, that it is impossible not to feel
  at the end (unless you are one of the serious) that this playfulness
  is of the identical sort which prevents Jack—in knickerbockers or a
  full beard—from becoming a hopelessly dull boy.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 673. O. 13, ’06. 560w.

  “Mr. Jepson’s playful vein is refreshing. The novelist’s
  responsibility rests very lightly on his shoulders; he simply shares
  with the reader his own enjoyment of his original and impossible
  little hero.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 796. N. 24, ’06. 50w.


=Jermain, Mrs. Frances D.= In the path of the alphabet: an historical
account of the ancient beginnings and evolution of the modern alphabet.
$1.25. W. D. Page, Fort Wayne, Ind.

                                                                6–46295.

  A painstaking history of our alphabet which gives in popular form the
  results of much research, and follows the “path” from a time before
  the earliest hieroglyphics and cuneiform inscriptions down to modern
  times with accounts of modern explorers in this field of inquiry.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “An excellent treatise clearly epitomizing a large amount of laborious
  research.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 195. Mr. 30, ’07. 450w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 507. Ap. ’07. 50w.


=Jerrold, Maud F.= Vittoria Colonna; with some account of her friends
and her times. *$4. Dutton.

                                                                7–32139.

  A new biography of this gifted woman whose friendship not only with
  Michael Angelo, but with bishops, cardinals, popes, artists and poets
  made her a conspicuous figure of her time. Many of her sonnets are
  included in this volume which also contains a complete bibliography,
  genealogical tables, and an index.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mrs. Jerrold has not given us a final ‘life’ ... but she has produced
  a pleasant book treating of movements and personalities which must
  always be full of interest for students of the renaissance and human
  nature.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 126. Ag. 3. 390w.

  “A book to be recommended, and to be enjoyed.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 1152. My. 16, ’07. 190w.

  “Though Mrs. Jerrold’s prose is often marred by anacoluthia, her
  verses are almost invariably equal in charm and style to the originals
  which they so faithfully translate.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 342. Ap. 11, ’07. 670w.

  “[Mrs. Jerrold] has gleaned from all the sources of information with a
  truth-seeking hand, and in all matters of fact has produced an
  authoritative biography.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 77. F. 9, ’07. 690w.

  “While this latest biography of Vittoria Colonna lacks some of the
  grace of Mrs. Ady’s studies, it is a book full of charm and
  inspiration.”

     + − =Outlook.= 85: 814. Ap. 6, ’07. 700w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 635. My. ’07. 140w.

  “Mrs. Jerrold has marshalled her facts with industry and judgment and
  has produced a work which can be read with pleasure.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 430. Ap. 6, ’07. 530w.

  “She has collected all the available information on her subject, but
  has hardly made the best use of it. Arranged with more skill, the
  picture would have been far more telling.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: 676. Ap. 27, ’07. 1590w.


=Jevons, Herbert Stanley.= Essays on economics. *$1.60. Macmillan.

                                                                5–42515.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  Reviewed by H. J. Davenport.

         =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 640. D. ’06. 510w.


=Jevons, William Stanley.= Principles of economics: a fragment of a
treatise on the industrial mechanism of society and other papers.
*$3.25. Macmillan.

                                                                5–33567.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

  “The only novel thing about the work is its arrangement, which
  suggests in many respects an improvement over the traditional
  arrangement of the time.”

       + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 185. Mr. ’07. 150w.


=Joachim, Harold Henry.= Nature of truth: an essay. *$2. Oxford.

                                                                 7–2578.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The author’s argument is genuine and sincere throughout, his analysis
  of current theories patient and thorough-going, his criticism of them
  acute and searching. Moreover, the book is written in a style that
  befits a philosophical treatise. Philosophic reflection cannot fail to
  be furthered by the stimulating and helpful criticism contained in Mr.
  Joachim’s book. That criticism will certainly assist in clearing away
  much sham knowledge and in preparing the ground for the ‘construction’
  that is to come.” G. Dawes Hicks.

     + + =Hibbert J.= 6: 197. O. ’07. 5220w.

  “Mr. Joachim does not discuss the view of truth commonly described by
  the term Pragmatism, and it is doubtful whether the reasons given for
  this omission are adequate. There can be no doubt that Mr. Joachim’s
  book is a very valuable contribution to philosophy, though it
  confessedly leaves some fundamental difficulties unsolved.” J. S.
  Mackenzie.

   + + − =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 264. Ja. ’07. 250w.

  “It seems to the reviewer that his main contribution to the subject
  lies in the various criticisms he takes up apart from the rather
  unsatisfactory negative result.” M. Phillips Mason.

     + − =Psychol. Bull.= 4: 264. Ag. 15, ’07. 800w.


=Johnson, Clifton=, ed. Birch-tree fairy book. †$1.75. Little.

                                                                6–40590.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The stories have been softened by dropping ‘savagery, distressing
  details, excessive pathos’ from the old versions.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 52. F. ’07.

       + =Bookm.= 24: 528. Ja. ’07. 80w.


=Johnson, Clifton.= Country school, il. **$1.50. Crowell.

                                                                7–30474.

  In which the author preserves the salient features of the schools of
  the last century in their picturesque and poetic aspects. He writes
  from personal experiences of friends and acquaintances, and goes back
  to the year 1830.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Readers who have had similar experiences will find Mr. Johnson a very
  competent conductor back to the happy land of childhood.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 383. D. 1, ’07. 160w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 50w.

  “All is told in an animated and entertaining manner.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 358. O. 19, ’07. 90w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 758. D. ’07. 40w.


=Johnson, Clifton.= Farmer’s boy. **$1.50. Crowell.

                                                                7–29711.

  A companion volume to “The country school.” It is a faithful portrait
  of the farmer boy of fifty years ago who was a sturdy product of
  sunshine and fresh air ready in all seasons to undertake the primitive
  tasks allotted to him.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Dial.= 43: 383. D. 1, ’07. 160w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 50w.

       + =Outlook.= 87: 358. O. 19, ’07. 60w.

  “Mr. Johnson has exercised unusual diligence and skill in the
  selection of material, and text and pictures alike contribute to an
  intensely realistic view of scenes and incidents that are fast fading
  into oblivion.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 758. D. ’07. 40w.

  “We question whether the child himself will be interested in Clifton
  Johnson’s one hundred photographs of child-life in New England, which
  strung together with voluminous text, is published as the ‘Farmer’s
  boy.’ But grown-up readers will find these photographs, even if just a
  bit posed faithful pictures of ‘Childhood’s simple life.’”

     − + =R. of Rs.= 36: 767. D. ’07. 60w.


=Johnson, Clifton.= Highways and byways of the Mississippi valley. **$2.
Macmillan.

                                                                6–40988.

  An addition to the “Highways and byways” series. The journey from the
  mouth of the Mississippi to its headwaters carefully avoids the usual
  highways of travel. The author-traveler “haunts the country roads,
  lodges with the farmers, studies life in the negro cabins, wins the
  confidence of the common people, and gets them to talk of their lives
  and toil and their aspirations, if they have any, and out of the
  humdrum he garners what is quaint, characteristic, and little known.”
  (N. Y. Times.) His illustrations are made from snap shots taken along
  the way.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The treatment is popular, does not furnish a great deal of
  information, but presents a vivid and faithful picture.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 10. Ja. ’07. S.

  “Is a book of social studies rather than a technical work.”

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 218. Ja. ’07. 140w.

       + =Dial.= 41: 452. D. 16, ’06. 290w.

       + =Ind.= 61: 1496. D. 20, ’06. 190w.

       + =Lit. D.= 33: 914. D. 15, ’06. 140w.

  “Especially valuable is his knack for penetrating without offence into
  the more intimate life of the farmers, lumbermen, and villagers, so
  that we get much that is practically first-hand material for the study
  of the average social life of the great valley.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 509. D. 13, ’06. 360w.

  “Mr. Johnson is a voluminous writer, but he has written no book of
  more interest to Americans than this one.” Cyrus C. Adams.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 841. D. 8, ’06. 340w.

  “The book is eminently readable.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 892. D. 8, ’06. 200w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 108. Ja. ’07. 80w.


=Johnson, Eleanor H.= Boys’ life of Capt. John Smith. (Young people’s
ser.). †75c. Crowell.

                                                                7–26621.

  Dedicated to all American boys who are interested in the beginnings of
  their country, this sketch follows as nearly as possible the
  explorer’s own words. And to give more of the man’s personality to the
  volume, some of his letters are appended.


=Johnson, Emory Richard.= Ocean and inland water transportation.
**$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                6–20201.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 467. N. ’06. 500w.

  “We believe the book is a useful one for the commercial courses of
  study now becoming popular in our institutions of learning and that it
  should be included in the reference libraries of engineering schools
  and engineering societies. The practicing engineer who meets problems
  in connection with the economics of water transportation will find in
  it up-to-date information obtainable only with great difficulty from
  other sources.”

     + + =Engin. N.= 57: 195. F. 14, ’07. 300w.

  “For the general reader the book has comparatively little interest,
  since it is necessarily elementary in matters most likely to attract
  him.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 1094. My. 9, ’07. 440w.

  “The entire lack of general treatises upon the subject of water
  transportation will incline teachers and students of the subject to
  extend a warm welcome. The most valuable portions of the volume are
  the chapters devoted to ocean transportation. Far less satisfactory is
  his discussion of shipping subsidies.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 21. Ja. 3, ’07. 600w.

  “The book is of importance, making, with its predecessor, almost the
  sole complete succinct presentation of the problems which confront the
  transportation managers and the lawmakers of the United States.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 414. Je. 23. ’06. 160w.


=Johnson, George Ellsworth.= Education by plays and games. *90c. Ginn.

                                                                7–26152.

  “Its first part is a study of the meaning of play, its relation to
  work, and its application to education. The second part is a series of
  games chosen from a thousand or more, and judiciously graded for
  progressive use. The author has wisely chosen the older forms in all
  the games, thus giving the pupil the key to many references in
  literature and folklore quite unintelligible if he knew only the
  modern variations of the original game.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 372. Je. 8, ’07. 100w.


=Johnson, Thomas Cary.= Virginia Presbyterianism and religious liberty
in colonial and revolutionary times. 50c. Presbyterian com.

  A sketch of the services of Presbyterians during colonial and
  revolutionary days to the cause of religious liberty.


=Johnson, Trench H.= Phrases and names, their origins, and meanings.
**$1.50. Lippincott.

  “In alphabetical order the author has gone through a great number of
  names and phrases heard in everyday speech, colloquialisms and
  expressions and references of less usual occurrence, explaining in
  brief statement their origin and meaning. In the preface the author
  says that his sole design has been to account for the origin of
  popular phrases and names.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This is a very curious book that teems with every possible kind of
  error. Had it been much elaborated and compiled by a man of learning
  it might have been useful; the hotch-potch before us is almost too bad
  to serve as a groundwork for a book of reference.”

       − =Acad.= 72: 136. F. 9, ’07. 890w.

  “The book is uncritical in its popular derivations, many of which have
  been long exploded; and extremely careless in quoting foreign
  languages. It is difficult to believe that the author knows Latin or
  Greek. If he does, he ought to have seen that some care was taken with
  his ‘proofs.’”

       − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 223. F. 23. 140w.

  “Compact and handy volume.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 280w.

  “It is one of those books which, once you start to read, lure you on
  from page to page and you rise longing to trip up your friends on all
  sorts and kinds of catchy little points.”

       − =Sat. R.= 103: 340. Mr. 16, ’07. 270w.

  “Many errors and defects may be found, but the book gives much
  out-of-the-way information.”

     − + =Spec.= 97: 260. F. 16, ’07. 150w.


=Johnson, Willis Fletcher.= Four centuries of the Panama canal; with
maps and illustrations. **$3. Holt.

                                                                6–42401.

  “The design of Spanish adventures in the fifteenth century is being
  fulfilled by American engineers in the twentieth.” So says Mr.
  Johnson, and he deals with the incidents and circumstances leading
  from Columbus to Roosevelt. His aim is to give the “salient and
  essential features of the ‘story,’ with as little as possible of
  detailed description of the Isthmian country, of its conditions of
  resources, soil, climate, people, of the technical features of the
  canal and its auxiliary work.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book shows its newspaper origin by such glaring inaccuracies as
  those referred to above, by the fact that it comes quite down to the
  date of publication, by its newspaper English, and by its readability.
  It is interesting reading, and we need for easy consultation such an
  account of the origin and progress of the Panama republic and its
  relations with the United States.” J. Russell Smith.

     + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 684. Ap. ’07. 880w.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 148. My. ’07.

  “In dealing with the technical features the author has been led into
  several errors. Some result from his bias in favour of a sea-level
  canal, which he makes no effort to conceal. These errors, however, are
  not of great importance, and do not detract in great degree from the
  merits of the book. It is but just to say that on the whole the work
  is very creditable and will form a useful addition to the library of
  any student of Isthmian canal affairs.” Peter C. Hains.

   + + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 429. Mr. ’07. 700w.

  “Exhaustive historical study.”

     + + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 126. F. ’07. 190w.

  “The views and information which he imparts may be regarded as
  authoritative.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 64. Ja. 12, ’07. 340w.

  “This is the most thorough and comprehensive work that has yet
  appeared on the Panama canal. The discussion of the engineering side
  of the question is very inadequate. For a work of such detail,
  covering a new field, it is—except when the author gets enthusiastic
  and eloquent—remarkably free from errors.”

   + + − =Nation.= 83: 561. D. 27, ’06. 920w.

  “We should have had the assistance of a large map in detail; the
  clearly printed small maps in color inserted with the text are useful,
  but inadequate. As a whole. Dr. Johnson’s volume seems the most
  exhaustive contribution yet made to the popular understanding of a
  great subject.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 84: 1083. D. 29, ’06. 300w.

  “In matters having a legal or semi-legal character, the author is not
  at his best.” J. B. Moore.

     + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 139. Mr. ’07. 430w.

  “Described in a satisfactory manner.” G: Louis Beer.

       + =Putnam’s.= 2: 745. S. ’07. 200w.

  “Is a praiseworthy contribution to our knowledge of the project.”

     + + =Spec.= 98: 1012. Je. 29. ’07. 430w.


=Johnston, Alexander.= American political history, 1763–1876. 2v. ea.
*$2. Putnam.

                                                                5–36483.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The exigencies governing the author in their preparation account
  largely no doubt for the remarkable compression that characterizes the
  several studies; the style is concise, the narrative compact, and the
  discussion penetrating and rigorous. The solid worth of the author’s
  contributions is shown by the infrequency of editorial corrections.
  The editor’s method of indicating his additions to the text leaves the
  reader in perplexity at times.” F. I. Herriott.

   + + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 480. N. ’06. 920w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The editor’s method of citation and cross reference cannot be
  commended either for lucidity or seviceableness. Professor Johnston’s
  acuteness in discerning the vital and fundamental facts in the
  currents of our political life, his remarkable industry, accuracy and
  thorough-going research constantly impress one.”

   + + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 162. Jl. ’07. 280w. (Review of v. 2.)


=Johnston, Mrs. Annie Fellows.= Little colonel’s knight comes riding.
$1.50. Page.

                                                                7–33204.

  The little colonel, in this ninth volume of her series, finds her own
  true knight and leaving her girlhood behind her, fares forth in veil
  and orange blossoms to begin her new life near her old home.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “No boy or girl will be harmed, but only mildly entertained, by the
  chronicle.”

     + − =Outlook.= 87: 828. D. 14, ’07. 80w.


=Johnston, Sir Harry Hamilton.= Liberia. 2v. *$12.50. Dodd.

                                                                6–44331.

  Cyclopedic in treatment and, accordingly extensive in scope, the
  author covers a vast amount of ground in his two large volumes. The
  first is devoted to the history of the Liberian republic from 1847 to
  the present time, incidentally revealing Great Britain’s and America’s
  colonization policy. The second is devoted to the fauna, flora and
  anthropology of the country, the latter being treated in its
  historical, physical and social aspects.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Less objective than Lindsay’s book ... well written, interesting and
  the most comprehensive book on the subject which has yet appeared.”

     + + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 10. Ja. ’07.

  “Our complaint against Sir Harry Johnston is that, with all his
  cleverness and brilliance as a draughtsman ... he is somewhat wrong in
  his perspective, if not also in his facts.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 63. Jl. 21. 1970w.

  “The interest with which the welfare of the negro race is followed in
  this country should secure for the book the attention to which it is
  entitled by virtue of the industry and learning that have been
  bestowed upon it.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 5: 234. Je. 29, ’06. 610w.

  “A vast amount of intelligent and widely diversified labor has been
  expended upon these volumes, which give a comprehensive view of the
  Republic of Liberia.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 14. Ja. 12, ’07. 470w.

  “It is a book not only of great utility to the traveller, but of
  genuine interest to the untravelled; and the wonderful illustrations
  from the author’s brush and pencil are sufficient of themselves to
  fire the imagination.”

     + + =Spec.= 97: 201. Ag. 11, ’06. 1330w.


=Johnston, John Black.= Nervous system of vertebrates; il. *$3.
Blakiston.

                                                                6–35709.

  “A text-book of functional neurology. The unit of description is the
  functional system of neurones, that is, the aggregate of related
  neurones which co-operate in the performance of any given type of
  reflex movement.... While this work is primarily a text-book of the
  morphology of the nervous system, its great merit lies in the fact
  that its facts so far as they go also express the functions of the
  parts, so that comparative physiology and comparative psychology will
  both find in it an immediate point of departure, for their special
  researches.”—Science.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A volume of this kind has been needed in English.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 1178. N. 14, ’07. 110w.

  “The book will be of great use to all engaged in instruction or
  research. It would be easy to point out omissions in the text and
  topics which deserve more adequate treatment. Satisfaction with
  certain features of the author’s terminology is alloyed by his
  indifference to the labors of his predecessors in that regard.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 20. Ja. 3, ’07. 730w.

  “The book gives the impression of having been written by an able
  zoologist interested in neurology, rather than by a pure neurologist,
  and therein lies a good deal of its value. In the present work the
  author presents a very readable and succinct account of his subject,
  which forms a valuable and welcome addition to the literature relating
  to it.” W. Page May.

   + + − =Nature.= 77: 73. N. 28, ’07. 1040w.

  “The basis of the work is sound and the leading conclusions abundantly
  supported by the singularly concordant results of the studies of the
  new school of comparative neurologists.” C. Judson Herrick.

       + =Science=, n.s. 24: 845. D. 28, ’06. 1100w.


=Johnston, Mary.= Goddess of reason [a drama]. **$2. Houghton.

                                                                7–16726.

  Miss Johnston’s first drama “opens in Brittany on a summer morning in
  1791, and the curtain falls at the end on the banks of the Loire at
  Nantes. The plot is as skillfully devised to awaken and sustain
  interest from the beginning to the end as any of Miss Johnston’s
  stories, and not until the last scene does the reader face the
  solution to the problem. The play has a beautiful setting of terraces
  and ancient homes, and the refinement, dignity, and wit of the old
  order, set in striking contrast to the turbulence, the passion, the
  intense conviction, of the revolutionary movement.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The piece is conceived in terms of romantic situation, and for that
  reason it is the most readable poetic drama in the popular sense of
  the word, that has lately been seen.” Ferris Greenslet.

       + =Atlan.= 100: 849. D. ’07. 530w.

  “Deserves no permanent place in the library, and on the stage would,
  in its present shape, be soporific.”

       − =Ind.= 63: 570. S. 5, ’07. 200w.

  “A rather extraordinary literary performance, very uneven in
  character. Altho there is a certain richness of historic background
  and a vividness of characterization, the defects of the piece are
  glaring.”

     + − =Lit. D.= 35: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 140w.

  “If much of the verse is simply fluent prose cut into lengths, if
  there are many crude and not a few broken, halt, or utterly
  commonplace lines, there are occasional passages of uncommon
  descriptive power, full of pretty imagery and verbal eloquence, and
  some that thrill with ardor, scorn, or vigorous passion.”

     − + =Nation.= 84: 460. My. 10, ’07. 850w.

  “Readers of her other work will not be disappointed, for in the
  ‘Goddess of reason’ she gives full play to her power over romantic
  situations, poetical backgrounds, and sentiment.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 100w.

  “As romantic as her stories and as interesting. As a drama ‘The
  goddess of reason’ is probably too complex for successful
  presentation. It is lyrical rather than dramatic; but as a piece of
  writing, both in construction and diction, it will advance Miss
  Johnston’s reputation.”

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 453. Je. 29, ’07. 230w.

  “The verse is very dainty and musical, though Miss Johnston takes
  strange liberties with metre, and the final tragedy is finely
  conceived and executed. Our one criticism would be that her talent is
  a little too delicate to reproduce the rude horrors of the
  revolution.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: sup. 635. N. 2, ’07. 180w.


=Johnston, Robert M.= Leading American soldiers. (Biographies of leading
Americans.) **$1.75. Holt.

                                                                7–24610.

  The initial volume in a series to be devoted to leading Americans.
  Thirteen soldiers from George Washington to Joseph E. Johnston are
  sketched here in the light of their military fitness and attainment.
  “Their principal battles are treated in considerable detail, which
  makes the book, as a whole, a composite military history from the
  interesting view-point of dominant personalities.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Neither his sanity nor his splendid lack of bias enables him to weed
  out the sheep and the goats; he makes no allowance for
  contemporary—and therefore untrustworthy—records.”

     + − =Acad.= 73: 140. N. 16, ’07. 870w.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 167. O. ’07. S.

  “From fifteen to sixty-five pages are given to each subject, including
  the main facts of his life and an outline of his campaigns, with
  intelligent criticism of them. This criticism, tho briefly expressed,
  is the valuable feature of the book and makes it worth a careful
  reading, especially by those who have accepted the traditional
  opinions found in the popular histories.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 124. S. 1, ’07. 220w.

  “Though many things in the story of American soldiers strike us
  differently we do not fail to recognize in this narrator knowledge,
  fairmindedness, and good sense.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 378. O. 24, ’07. 900w.

  “In spite of the number of contradictions and many inaccuracies in
  this book, the arrangement is scholarly, brief, precise, and contains
  in a very few pages the most important events which have made the men
  whose lives are described from the point of view of the American
  reader, historical characters. I am placing this book in my library as
  a useful index to other books in which the lives of the same men are
  described more in detail. I would recommend it to every military
  student as a material addition to his military library.” W. G. Haan.

   + + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 711. N. 9, ’07. 240w.

  “This also is a valuable compendium for those who wish to know our
  wars in outline but have not the time or inclination to read of them
  in detail.” Montgomery Schuyler.

       + =Putnam’s.= 3: 101. O. ’07. 240w.

  “For the reader who is puzzled to know how to choose between the
  numerous and voluminous biographies of the great captains of our Civil
  war period this compact volume performs a real service in preserving
  the essentials.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 381. S. ’07. 150w.

  “This is an excellent book.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 673. N. 2, ’07. 340w.


=Jones, Chester Lloyd.= Consular service of the United States, its
history and activities. $1.25. Pub. for the Univ. of Pa. by Winston.

                                                                6–25758.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “This is a timely and scholarly monograph based on a careful study of
  documentary sources, interviews with officials of the consular service
  and on personal observation of American consulates in Europe.” J. W.
  Garner.

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 482. N. ’06. 750w.

     + − =Ind.= 62: 1095. My. 9, ’07. 240w.


=Jones, Harry Clary.= Electrical nature of matter and radioactivity. $2.
Van Nostrand.

                                                                6–16984.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 44. F. ’07. S.

  “A book which on the whole justifies its existence by the treatment,
  found in the last seventy-five pages, of the results of investigations
  and discussions so recent that they have not yet found place in other
  books on radioactivity. The book as a whole lacks somewhat in unity of
  treatment, the different sections differing considerably in value and
  in method of presentation.” R. A. Millikan.

     + − =Science=, n.s. 25: 300. F. 22, ’07. 820w.


* =Jones, Jenkin Lloyd.= Love and loyalty. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago
press.

                                                                7–37980.

  A book of sermons preached to boys and girls which “represent a
  cross-section of twenty-five years of a busy city ministry.”


=Jones, John William.= Life and letters of Robert E. Lee, soldier and
man. $2. Neale.

                                                                6–30495.

  An intimate sketch of Lee which has been the result of a personal
  study of the man and a careful handling of the mass of facts contained
  in letters and various papers and documents.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The few pages of personal reminiscences of Lee are perhaps the most
  interesting part of the book.”

       + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 470. Ja. ’07. 50w.

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 469. Ap. 20. 320w.

  “Dr. Jones’s volume gives a fairly readable collection of letters and
  other data regarding General Lee. But it is marred by a narrow
  partisanship and a good deal of inaccuracy of statement.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 1166. My. 30, ’07. 290w.

  “Dr. Jones writes with excellent spirit as to the bitterness of the
  past.”

       + =Lit. D.= 33: 514. O. 13, ’06. 100w.

  “His title is imposing, his fulfilment scant. He does not in the least
  accomplish the purpose announced in his preface of giving his subject
  fresh treatment. Unfortunately, he fails all along the line. He has a
  few unpublished letters to set out, but these are all of slight
  importance; they are buried under a mass of other letters reprinted
  from previous books on the subject, and there is no system to indicate
  to the reader which letters are hitherto unpublished and which not.”

     − + =Nation.= 83: 466. N. 29, ’06. 390w.


=Jordan, David Starr.= College and the man: an address to American
youth. 80c. Am. Unitar.

                                                                7–13491.

  A book addressed to students who look forward to making the most they
  can of themselves. It is a plea for higher education, for better
  preparation for the duties of life.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 255. Ap. 20, ’07. 110w.


* =Jordan, David Starr.= Human harvest. *$1. Am. Unitar.

                                                                7–28174.

  A revision and an enlargement of Dr. Jordan’s “Blood of the nation,”
  which gives a more extended exposition of “the decay of races thru the
  survival of the unfit.”


=Jordan, David Starr.= Philosophy of hope; originally published under
the title of The philosophy of despair. *75c. Elder.

                                                                7–16384.

  A robust optimism is preached in this brief monograph, which searches
  the sources of pessimism, discovers their weakness, and finds a surer
  foundation for “that philosophy of joy and hope which must be the
  mainspring of successful life.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 428. O. 19, ’07. 80w.


=Jordan, David Starr, and Kellogg, Vernon L.= Evolution and animal life.
**$2.50. Appleton.

                                                                7–29033.

  An elementary discussion of facts, processes, laws and theories
  relating to the life and evolution of animals. “The first three
  chapters are occupied with preliminary definitions of evolution and
  discussions of the physical basis of life, the simplest form of life,
  the meaning of species, and similar fundamental points. The next eight
  chapters deal with the various theories as to the methods of evolution
  which have been proposed, and the facts and supposed facts of nature
  on which they have been based. The remaining ten chapters are devoted
  to special topics related to the subject of evolution.” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It would be difficult, if not impossible, to find a better work to
  put into the hands of serious students of evolution, to be used either
  as a text-book or for so-called ‘collateral reading.’” Raymond Pearl.

   + + − =Dial.= 43: 210. O. 1, ’07. 340w.

  “Lack of care in the legends is characteristic of the illustrations.
  This apparently petty criticism of the English has as its excuse the
  well-known fact that both the authors are, when they try, masters of
  literary style. One cannot escape the convictions that this book was
  hurriedly, even somewhat carelessly, ‘reeled off,’ out of the abundant
  knowledge of the busy authors. Mistakes of fact are rather few.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 818. O. 3, ’07. 1240w.

  “Notwithstanding the extreme condensation, the text is clear and
  pleasant reading, brightened by original similes.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 426. N. 7, ’07. 570w.

  “The book is perfectly capable of being understood by the reader who
  is not trained technically in science, provided that he will give it
  his fair and careful attention.”

     + + =Outlook.= 87: 271. O. 5, ’07. 250w.


=Joseph, Horace William B.= Introduction to logic. *$3.15. Oxford.

                                                                7–29050.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Mr. Joseph’s work as a whole shows much learning, industry and
  acuteness; and we can only express our regret that a logician of such
  evident ability has restricted his researches within the narrow
  traditional limits and neglected to avail himself of the powerful
  instrument which modern symbolic logic has placed at his disposal.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 638. My. 25. 930w.

  “The author has attempted to escape the reproach of dryness, which is
  proverbial in books of this character, by introducing controversial
  matter. The book as a whole is well knit together and certainly not
  without value, but it cannot be recommended as a text-book for
  beginners.” Adam Leroy Jones.

     + − =J. Philos.= 4: 215. Ap. 11, ’07. 980w.

  “The strength of the book lies in the sound judgment which the author
  has displayed in knowing whom to follow than in any new ideas of his
  own. A good book and worth reading, though we think it would have been
  better if the author could have brought himself to compress it.”

   + + − =Sat. R.= 102: 680. D. 1, ’06. 1760w.


=Joutel, Henri.= Joutel’s journal of La Salle’s last voyage, 1684–7.
*$5. McDonough.

                                                                6–14763.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “A fine historical volume.”

       + =Cath. World.= 85: 250. My. ’07. 320w.

  “This edition of Joutel’s Journal is so admirable in many respects
  that it seems ungrateful to offer any criticism. At the same time it
  does appear somewhat regrettable that in selecting the text for it the
  most complete one available was not taken.” Lawrence J. Burpee.

     + − =Dial.= 12: 283. My. 1, ’07. 1870w.

     + + =Ind.= 62: 154. Ja. 17, ’07. 40w.


=Jowett, Benjamin.= Interpretation of Scripture, and other essays. *$1.
Dutton.

                                                                 W 7–97.

  “The present essays are nearly all on Biblical and theological
  topics.... They reveal the keenness and force as well as the
  limitations of the great Master of Balliol, a character sketch of whom
  by Sir Leslie Stephen appropriately introduces them.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Dial.= 42: 232. Ap. 1, ’07. 40w.

  “It would be difficult to find a volume containing more valuable
  material on Biblical subjects in cheaper form than is here offered.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 678. Mr. 21, ’07. 90w.

  “An endeavor altogether deserving of commendation.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 310. Ap. 4, ’07. 90w.

         =Nation.= 84: 454. My. 16, ’07. 80w.

  “This collection is of historical importance as well as of intrinsic
  value.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 481. F. 23, ’07. 170w.


=Joyce, Patrick Weston.= Smaller social history of ancient Ireland.
*$1.25. Longmans.

  “An abridgment of the author’s large and important work on the same
  subject.... He has treated very fully and in an interesting way the
  government, military system and law, the religion, learning, and art,
  the trades, industries, and commerce, the manners, customs, and life
  of the ancient Irish people as they were before the Anglo-Norman
  invasion.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Certain criticisms which were made with reference to the larger work
  hold true in equal measure of the abridgment, though they are perhaps
  less fairly urged against a popular production.”

     + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 917. Jl. ’07. 450w.

  “The main traits of this early society are clearly and convincingly
  portrayed, and, in spite of certain minor defects of treatment, such
  as the too frequent introduction—for the non-Celtic reader—of the old
  Irish terms, and of the unnecessary comparisons with Greek and Roman
  customs, it is the most instructive sketch of ancient Irish society
  that has yet appeared.” A. C. Howland.

     + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 430. Mr. ’07. 2040w.

  “Dr. Joyce’s work has been done with due regard for the methods and
  responsibilities of scholarship.”

       + =Cath. World.= 85: 247. My. ’07. 440w.

  “It is a valuable composition, accurate and full of sound learning.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 197. F. 28, ’07. 200w.

  “The author ... has not made his book a mere array of dry facts. It is
  all told interestingly, and with comment and allusion, and occasional
  entertaining reference to tradition or literature.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 350w.

         =Sat. R.= 102: 714. D. 8, ’06. 220w.


* =Judd, Charles Hubbard.= Psychology; general introduction: volume one
of a series of text books designed to introduce the student to the
methods and principles of scientific psychology. *$1.50. Scribner.

                                                                7–23072.

  “Professor Judd indicates in his preface the four basic principles
  which characterize the treatment of mental phenomena in this work. 1.
  The functional view is adhered to thruout. 2. The genetic method of
  treatment is followed.... 3. The physiological conditions of mental
  life have been emphasized.... 4. The dominant importance of ideation
  as a unique and final stage of evolution is strongly insisted on. ‘The
  work is intended to develop a point of view which shall include all
  that is given in the biological doctrine of adaptation, while at the
  same time it passes beyond the biological doctrine to a more elaborate
  principle of indirect ideational adaptation.’”—Educ. R.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “While the language of the discussion may be a trifle difficult for
  the teacher, yet if he perseveres and masters the thought he will be
  amply repaid in the new and stimulating outlook on mental life here
  presented.” J. Carleton Bell.

   + + − =Educ. R.= 34: 416. N. ’07. 2080w.

  “On the whole, the book is an excellent treatment of the general
  principles of psychology, and may be confidently recommended to all
  earnest students of the science.” W. B.

   + + − =Nature.= 76: 540. S. 26, ’07. 510w.


=Jude, Alexander.= Theory of the steam turbine. *$5. Lippincott.

                                                                 7–7508.

  “The theory of the steam turbine forms altogether the least essential
  part of the book, whereas the principles that should govern the design
  form its most important portion. There cannot be any question but that
  the book has been written for the use of the designers of turbines....
  The most important chapter titles are: Historical notes on turbines;
  Velocity of steam; Types of steam turbines; Practical turbines;
  Efficiency of turbines; Turbine vanes; Disk and vane friction in
  turbines; Strength of rotating disks; Governing steam turbines; Steam
  consumption of turbines; The whirling of shafts; Speed of
  turbines.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is, on the whole, very satisfactory. It is well gotten up
  and the large number of numerical examples worked out add materially
  to its value.” Storm Bull.

     + − =Engin. N.= 56: 636. D. 13, ’06. 630w.


=Jusserand, Jean Adrien Antoine Jules.= Literary history of the English
people, from the renaissance to the civil war. v. 2. *$3.50. Putnam.

                                                                7–35185.

  “M. Jusserand continues his English version of the ‘Histoire
  littéraire du peuple Anglais;’ the present instalment is half the
  original second volume, which appeared in 1904, and went from the
  Renaissance to the Civil war. This stops just before the drama; it
  takes in Spenser, Sidney, and ‘Euphues,’ but the predecessors of
  Shakespeare are kept for the second part.”—Lond. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 98. Ap. ’07. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.)

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 440. O. 13. 590w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.)

  “He may be heartily welcomed by every lover of English literature as a
  well-formed sympathetic and brilliant critic.” Edward Fuller.

     + + =Bookm.= 25: 77. Mr. ’07. 1180w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.)

  “A work of solid merit and a valuable contribution to the history of
  English literature.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 34: 264. F. 16, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.)

  “Brilliant in every chapter and every page, it puts forward an
  original view, drawn from life—from the life that M. Jusserand brings
  into all his writings. There is never any suspicion here of
  ‘index-learning’ or merely law-abiding criticism. M. Jusserand does
  not go out of his way to traverse ordinary accepted judgments, but his
  opinions, even when they agree with the majority, are uttered with
  such a zest as commonly goes with paradoxes and extravagances.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 376. N. 9, ’06. 900w. (Review of v. 2, pt.
         1.)

  “Owing partly to the liberty of selection which the design of the book
  permits, and still more to an unfailing charm of style, there is not a
  dull page in the volume. As regards the style of the book in its
  English dress, we may remark that the natural order of subject and
  verb is inverted with a frequency which is irritating and opposed to
  English idiom. On the whole, however, the work is satisfactorily
  executed.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 247. Mr. 14, ’07. 760w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.)

  “The translation is so nearly perfect that, but for a few phrases here
  and there, in which the French idiom overcomes the English, the book
  gives the impression of being written in English, and in a sort of
  English as unusual as the French from which it is set over. It may be
  said, indeed, that this is a literary history in the very obvious
  sense that its form is touched with the indefinable, unmistakable
  charm of literature, and thus contributes to and continues the noble
  development which it traces.” Edward Cary.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 74. F. 9, ’07. 1580w. (Review of v. 2, pt.
         1.)

  “It is not too much to say that if the third volume is equal to its
  two predecessors, M. Jusserand will have given us what is on the whole
  the best history of the literature of our language which has yet been
  written.” Brander Matthews.

   + + + =No. Am.= 184: 759. Ap. 5, ’07. 1380w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.)

  “The volume is never dull and never superficial; but it is very long
  and very diffuse; it deals with an enormous variety of subjects; and
  at last, after five hundred and fifty pages, it stops short without
  having reached the confines of mature Elizabethan literature, and
  without having touched upon Elizabethan drama at all.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: 457. Mr. 23, ’07. 1850w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.)




                                   K


=Kaler, James Otis (James Otis, pseud.).= Aboard the Hylow on Sable
Island bank. †$1.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–28976.

  The Hylow was a fishing schooner and two boys came aboard her as
  stowaways; the one, a messenger boy, carried off by mistake while
  helping the other, an English lad, to escape the officials who would
  have deported him. The account of their voyage will interest other
  boys and teach them much of the ways of the sea and the sea-men and of
  the life on the Newfoundland banks.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “[Adventures are described] with sufficient frequency to sustain the
  interest without exceeding the bounds of probability.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 140w.

  “A vivid picture is given of the fisherman’s life on the Newfoundland
  banks.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

  “No very definite idea of sea life is gained from this story; there is
  a great deal of nautical dialogue in it and very little action.”

     − + =Outlook.= 87: 451. O. 26, ’07. 70w.


=Kaler, James Otis (James Otis, pseud.).= Joey at the fair. 75c.
Crowell.

                                                                6–27349.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The tale is well told and cannot fail to be the source of much
  pleasure to young readers.”

       + =Arena.= 37: 222. F. ’07. 170w.

  “A fresh, vigorous little story.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 851. D. 8, ’06. 110w.


=Kaufman, Herbert, and Fisk, May Isabel.= Stolen throne; illustrated by
Howard Chandler Christy and Hermann Rountree. †$1.50. Moffat.

                                                                7–14250.

  “The story of the Duchy of Stromburg, of which the Russians are
  planning to gain possession, and the plotting Slav is shown in his
  deepest dye. As seems to be almost invariably the case in such
  contributions to current literature, the hero of the story is an
  Englishman of ancient race and no particular occupation—a man who is
  finally awakened to real life by the fascination of a woman.”—N. Y.
  Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Extravagant as the story is, it is not without interest. If it is an
  imitation of Anthony Hope, it is a very good article of its kind.”

     + − =Lit. D.= 34: 886. Je. 1, ’07. 200w.

  “The adventures are of the purest romance untroubled by any hint of
  realism—but interesting and entertaining withal.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 317. My. 18, ’07. 560w.

  “A high degree of literary workmanship in which are blended Mrs.
  Fisk’s well known qualities of subtlety and humor, and Mr. Kaufman’s
  long-recognized gift as a natural story teller of much vitality.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.


* =Keays, Hersilia A. M.= Road to Damascus: a novel. †$1.50. Small.

                                                                7–31480.

  A young wife, unbeknown to her husband, adopts his child born out of
  wedlock. The story abounds in struggles which result from her
  fastkeeping of the secret such as “the desire of the child to know who
  he is, the antagonism between the boy and his unguessed father, the
  irritation of the husband at her insistence upon keeping this alien
  element in their life, and the determination of the woman that neither
  of them shall know the truth. Toward the end Richarda seems to sum up
  the whole book when she says: ‘It is the sweat of one soul for another
  that counts.’” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 60w.

  “It is as bare of incident as an Ibsen drama. And like an Ibsen drama
  it grips the attention as the years of its movement roll by. The book
  has a certain distinction of difference from the flood of novels, not
  only because of the artistry of its handling, but also because it is
  not concerned with material things and the outside facts of life.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 728. N. 16, ’07. 450w.


=Kebbel, Thomas Edward.= Lord Beaconsfield and other Tory memories. *$4.
Kennerley.

                                                                7–37964.

  A sketch which is written entirely from the biographer’s own personal
  experiences and which is not indebted either to “books or hearsay.”
  With a freedom that departs at times from anecdote, narrative and
  description, the author turns to “such reminiscences as are in any way
  connected with the name and fame of the Tory leader, showing how his
  influence permeated all ranks of society, and how wide and how deep
  was the impression created, apart from all political considerations,
  by his unique personality.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There are a good many slight inaccuracies in the volume.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 470. Ap. 20. 450w.

  “Few American journalists, one imagines, would have the material,
  drawn from their own experiences, upon which to base so charming and
  informing a volume of reminiscences as this.” Edward Fuller.

       + =Bookm.= 26: 185. O. ’07. 1200w.

  “It is as a Boswell to Beaconsfield that Mr. T. E. Kebbel will make
  his strongest appeal to American readers of English political
  biography.” Edward Porritt.

       + =Forum.= 39: 102. Jl. ’07. 1990w.

  “Some [chapters] are distinctly trivial, and scarcely worth
  publication, even in an English Tory magazine.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 695. S. 19, ’07. 420w.

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 350w.

  “His Disraelian reminiscences are as much personal as political, and
  throw pleasant sidelights upon the strange personality of the chief.
  We do not, however, find him always accurate in his retrospect.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 139. My. 3, ’07. 520w.

  “Is rather thin spun ‘copy.’ Still the book has a good deal of lightly
  entertaining political and personal gossip, which might while away an
  idle hour.”

     − + =Nation.= 85: 77. Jl. 25, ’07. 190w.

  “They are memories of one who only saw from afar, but judged shrewdly
  of what was happening. Within these bounds the book is a good one,
  interestingly written, and well put together, and altogether worthy of
  a few hours of a busy man’s time.” Wm. E. Dodd.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 503. Ag. 17, ’07. 1860w.

  “The best features of Mr. Kebbel’s volume are those that have the
  Boswellian flavor.” Julius Chambers.

       + =No. Am.= 186: 134. S. ’07. 1650w.

  “A book of rare and manysided interest.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 746. Ag. 3, ’07. 180w.

  “The ‘Memories’ which refer to Lord Beaconsfield ... will remain, it
  may be said, the most important part of the book. The historian who
  would rightly appreciate the ‘Educator of the Tories’ must certainly
  take them into account. ‘Tory journalism and literature’ is, at least
  to the journalist, one of the most interesting of Mr. Kebbel’s
  chapters.”

     + + =Spec.= 98: 905. Je. 8, ’07. 1300w.


=Keeler, Charles Augustus.= Bird notes afield: essays on the birds of
the Pacific coast with a field check list; il. with reproductions of
photographs. 2d ed. *$2. Elder.

                                                                7–19063.

  A revised edition of a bird book for the ornithological tourist to
  California. “A certain skeleton of scientific classification”
  underlies the work “in order to convey to the uninitiated some inkling
  of the systematic grouping of the various species.” The first part of
  the volume describes the life and habits of the birds, the second,
  furnishes a descriptive list with a key for classification.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Keeler’s text shows ... much accurate and discerning
  observation.” George Gladden.

       + =Bookm.= 25: 624. Ag. ’07. 710w.

     + + =Ind.= 62: 1353. Je. 6, ’07. 110w.

  “Taken all in all this is the best popular work which has appeared on
  the birds of the Pacific coast region—interesting both to the
  Californians and to the bird-lover of other, less favored lands.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 83. Jl. 25, ’07. 370w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 140w.

  “All Californians, and especially visitors to the state from the east
  may profit greatly by the information contained in Mr. Keeler’s
  interesting book.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 126. Jl. ’07. 150w.


=Keith, Marion.= Silver maple, a story of upper Canada. †$1.50. Revell.

                                                                6–34644.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 17. Ja. ’07. ✠


=Kelley, Florence.= Some ethical gains through legislation. *$1.25.
Macmillan.

                                                                5–33677.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  Reviewed by A. G. Spencer.

     + + =Charities.= 17: 459. D. 15, ’06. 1790w.


=Kellogg, Vernon L.= Darwinism to-day. **$2. Holt.

                                                                7–29032.

  A discussion presenting simply and concisely to students of biology
  and to general readers the present-day standing of Darwinism in
  biological science, and outlining for them the various auxiliary and
  alternative theories of species-forming which have been proposed to
  aid or replace the selection theories.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The value of Professor Kellogg’s book to the working student of
  organic evolution cannot be overestimated. It is a book that the
  student must have at hand at all times, and it takes the place of a
  whole library. No other writer has attempted to gather together the
  scatted literature of this vast subject and none has subjected this
  literature to such uniformly trenchant and uniformly kindly
  criticism.” David Starr Jordan.

   + + + =Dial.= 43: 161. S. 16, ’07. 1500w.

  “Although the volume contains comparatively little new work, it is
  none the less valuable as a summary to date of investigations.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 475. N. 21, ’07. 1120w.


=Kellor, Frances A.= Out of work. **$1.25. Putnam.

                                                                4–32737.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

  Reviewed by W. B. Guthrie.

         =Charities.= 17: 469. D. 15, ’07. 230w.


=Kelly, Edmund.= Practical programme for working-men. $1. Scribner.

                                                                7–22709.

  “After discussing the influence of environment upon man, and pointing
  out the evils of private property and competition on the one hand and
  the present impracticability of ‘orthodox’ Socialism on the other, he
  makes an amazing suggestion, viz., that the ‘unwealthy’ classes
  organize in order to secure a candidate for the next Presidential
  election, possibly absorbing the Democratic party! The ‘practical
  programme’ itself is then discussed, and a nationalization and
  municipalization of industries is considered expedient in opening the
  road to coöperation.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “As a theoretical discussion the book has some merit. It is pretty
  weak as a practical program.”

     + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 338. S. ’06. 50w.

  Reviewed by John Graham Brooks.

         =Atlan.= 99: 279. F. ’07. 130w.

  “Many of the questions raised, though not always clearly answered, are
  very thoughtful and timely and the book closes very much stronger than
  it opens.” W. B. Guthrie.

     + − =Charities.= 17: 469. D. 15, ’06. 620w.

  “Of the book as a whole it may be said that a superabundance of
  rhetoric has somewhat usurped the place of scientific reasoning, and
  it can hardly be regarded as a serious contribution to sociology.”
  Eunice Follansbee.

       − =Dial.= 42: 110. F. 16, ’07. 180w.

  “It is an admirable example of keen analysis and strong constructive
  reasoning.”

     + + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 177. Mr. ’07. 320w.

         =R. of Rs.= 34: 383. S. ’06. 70w.


=Kelly, Myra.= Isle of dreams. †$1.25. Appleton.

                                                                7–14256.

  “The heroine of the story is a young woman artist who ... is believed
  by herself and her friends to be on the high road to ... success. At a
  country house, whither she had gone as a week-end guest, she finds
  that it is her host who has been buying all her paintings. Deeply
  wounded and humiliated by the discovery that her public is represented
  by only one man ... she rushes home and off to Europe without giving
  him a chance to make his explanations. She stays away for a year ...
  and wins some real fame in the shape of a salon medal, and while she
  is gone her admirer makes chivalric amends. And, of course, she comes
  back.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is not, by any means, equal to her short stories of slum children.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 135. My. ’07.

  “Her novel would appear to indicate that she lacks the novelist’s
  greater gift of imagination; the power of visualizing to herself the
  web of her invention.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 1268. My. 30, ’07. 160w.

  “While ‘Katherine Merrill’ and ‘Robert Ford’ are on the whole
  well-drawn characters, they are marred by that fatal gift of young
  novelists—smartness, which has a blasting effect upon style. Another
  fault which looms large in the book is affectation. In spite of these
  very palpable defects, however, the book has good points.”

     − + =Lit. D.= 34: 724. My. 4, ’07. 170w.

  “Imagining a really strong, if painful situation, instead of bravely
  and patiently unravelling it, she positively submerges it in sugary
  optimism. It should, however, be confessed that her method will
  undoubtedly give perfect satisfaction to those readers who look upon a
  novel as a mental form of sweetened pepsin.”

       − =Nation.= 84: 389. Ap. 25, ’07. 860w.

  “Her admirers will be disappointed to find that she does not handle
  this new medium with the skill that she showed in her use of the short
  story.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 245. Ap. 13, ’07. 640w.

  “The same qualities which brought her success in the depiction of the
  east side children will charm the readers of her first novel.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.

  “The novel has touches of humor and good characterizations, but it is
  not extraordinary—only one more entertaining, pleasantly written,
  unimportant story.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 40w.


* =Kelynack, Theophilus Nicholas=, ed. Drink problem in its
medico-sociological aspects, by fourteen medical authorities. (New lib.
of medicine.) *$2.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–29117.

  “Contains fifteen chapters, written by fourteen medical men, many of
  whom are known as advocates of the temperance movement. The articles
  range from such highly speculative subjects as the evolution of the
  alcoholic to the practical means which should be taken to arrest the
  spread of alcoholism.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Upon the purely social aspects of the liquor problem the book is not
  as complete as one could desire. One or two absurd statistical errors
  have crept into the text. On the whole, then, the work will be found
  exceedingly valuable for the scientific student of the liquor problem,
  and will furnish a mass of useful and reliable facts for the practical
  temperance reformer.” Charles A. Ellwood.

     + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 611. N. ’07. 510w.

  “For those who are interested in the subject Dr. Kelynack’s book
  furnishes interesting reading.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 414. Ap. 6. 280w.

  “The volume may be unreservedly recommended as a careful study of the
  various problems which have to be handled.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 336. Mr. 2, ’07. 250w.


=Kempster, James Aquila.= Salvage. †$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                6–39730.

  The hero of this novel is, at the opening of the story, a penniless
  outcast. He quarrels with a stranger, fancies he has killed him, puts
  on his clothes, takes his money, and comes to New York where he begins
  a new life and wins wealth and friends. Of course the stranger is not
  dead, but crosses the hero’s path again and there are complications
  galore and a much entangled love story.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The characters are alive and the atmosphere is fresh.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 102. Jl. 11, ’07. 280w.

  “There has not been much attempt by the author—or if there was an
  attempt it was without success—to make either the story or its
  separate incidents seem credible or its characters lifelike.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 867. D. 15, ’06. 380w.

  “A successful story of its kind, with no underlying philosophy or
  special motive, but good in plot and style.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 47. Ja. 5, ’07. 80w.


=Kennedy, Charles William, and Wilson, James Southall.= Pausanias: a
dramatic poem. $1.25. Neale.

                                                                7–22893.

  Pausanias, beloved of Sparta, is tempted by his thirst for power and
  his sudden passion for the Byzantine maid, Cleonice, to ally himself
  with Xerxes and turn traitor to his faithful wife and to Greece. How
  he yields but is held to his honor by the death of the maid he cannot
  win is told in the three acts of this well wrought poem, which closes
  with his own tragic death.


=Kennelly, Arthur Edwin.= Wireless telegraphy: an elementary treatise.
**$1. Moffat.

                                                                  7–482.

  As stated in its preface this is “a presentation of the elementary
  facts concerning the nature and operation of wireless telegraphy in
  language as free from technicality as possible, and without the use of
  algebra, so as to permit of the book being submitted to the
  consideration of persons not technically versed in electricity or its
  applications.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 98. Ap. ’07.

  “The author ... explains in language comprehensible to any one who has
  studied elementary physics as much about the principles and the
  apparatus as any but an expert needs to know.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 1006. O. 24, ’07. 280w.

       + =Nation.= 85: 257. S. 19, ’07. 90w.

  “A careful study.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 50w.


=Kenney, Courtney Stanhope.= Outlines of criminal law; rev. and adapted
for American scholars by James H. Webb. *$3. Macmillan.

                                                                 7–8557.

  “This volume is a revision, adapted for American scholars, of the
  second edition of the well-known work of Courtney Stanhope Kenny, of
  the University of Cambridge. The changes chiefly consist in the
  insertion of citations of American cases and paragraphs bearing on our
  own laws and the omission of some irrelevant matter.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The volume is chiefly designed as a textbook for law students. It is
  admirably adapted for this purpose. Its usefulness will, however, be
  greater for a large number of persons who wish to know more definitely
  about criminal law will find this manual very valuable.”

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 649. My. ’97. 200w.

  “A particularly well written text-book.”

       + =Educ. R.= 34: 209. S. ’07. 40w.

  “Broadly, the book covers the subject as completely as a general
  treatise of its compass (400 8vo pages) may. It is a very handy volume
  to have around the house in a day so full of casuistical questions,
  and judicial activities so many, various, and novel as at present.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 171. Mr. 23, ’07. 990w.

       + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 574. S. ’07. 250w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 510. Ap. ’07. 170w.


* =Kent, Charles Foster.= Israel’s laws and legal precedents, from the
days of Moses to the closing of the legal canon; with plans and
diagrams. (Students’ Old Testament, v. 4.) **$2.75. Scribner.

                                                                7–20667.

  The legal portion of the Old Testament is arranged in five general
  divisions: (1) personal and family laws; (2) criminal laws, comprising
  injuries to persons, property, and society; (3) human laws,
  emphasizing the duty of kindness to animals and men; (4) religious
  laws, defining obligations to God; and (5) ceremonial laws, containing
  minute directions regarding worship and the ritual.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The volume does not profess to be a commentary, yet in the footnotes
  to the translation there is scattered a large amount of valuable
  information relative to ancient Hebrew society and every opportunity
  is taken to illustrate or contrast the Hebrew codes of law with that
  of Hammurabi. By the aid of this volume, the study of the legal books
  of the Old Testament is made lucid and interesting.” John E. McFadyen.

     + + =Bib. World.= 30: 378. N. ’07. 980w.

  “A thoro, accurate, and scholarly treatment of this exceedingly
  interesting subject.”

     + + =Educ. R.= 34: 430. N. ’07. 50w.

  “Prof. Kent reaches a field where a classification and rearrangement
  of the Scripture text is of great value to the student of the
  development of Hebrew religion and social usages.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 229. S. 12, ’06. 230w.


=Kent, Charles Foster.= Origin and permanent value of the Old Testament.
**$1. Scribner.

                                                                6–14527.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “This book perhaps lacks the charm of style and the closely
  articulated structure necessary to secure for it the widest reading
  and to enable it to hold the reader’s interest, but it is packed full
  of information and will do good wherever it goes.” Ira M. Price and
  John M. P. Smith.

   + + − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 140. Ja. ’07. 270w.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 123. My. ’07. ✠

  “On the whole, however, Professor Kent has presented a large and
  difficult subject in small compass and popular form, with admirable
  clearness, fairness, and success. A copy of his book should be in the
  home of every church member in the country.” George A. Barton.

   + + − =Bib. World.= 29: 73. Ja. ’07. 540w.

  “Old Testament students of all shades of opinion must be grateful to
  him for an orderly and painstaking presentation of the complicated
  legal system of the ancient Jews. Moreover, his work is highly
  valuable as giving an insight into the methods of higher criticism,
  and as such should be welcomed by such students as desire to be
  acquainted with an intellectual position before they either support or
  condemn it.”

       + =Cath. World.= 85: 688. Ag. ’07. 240w.


=Kenton, Edna.= Clem. †$1. Century.

                                                                7–26020.

  A clear-cut western girl with crudities of heredity, training and
  environment comes into sudden wealth and innocently unashamed, skirts
  upon the edge of conventional society. She is twenty-six and possesses
  the integrity of a man. She falls in love with a youth of twenty who
  is loyal in spite of the determination of his little fashionable set
  to end his infatuation. The story dwells upon the mother’s cruel
  scheme of flicking the girl upon the raw by inviting her to an
  exclusive house party, counting her son’s disillusionment as a result
  of the gulf which she will spare no pains to make apparent. Clem rises
  phoenix-like from the fire of her persecution and shames the
  persecutor’s snobbishness by means of her heroic sense of honor quite
  beyond their comprehension.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 202. N. ’07.

  “Considered either as a love story a psychological story or a social
  satire, ‘Clem’ is eminently worth while.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

     + + =Bookm.= 26: 162. O. ’07. 730w.

  “The author has accomplished a difficult thing in an excellent
  manner—a manner that is more than literary.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 691. S. 19, ’07. 580w.

  “If you want a book ... in which every sentence stands up and kicks
  with its boots on for the ideas it represents, read what Clem has to
  say.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 120w.

       + =Nation.= 85: 234. S. 12, ’07. 490w.

  “Clever in its conception and sometimes approaching the brilliant in
  its execution. The other characters in the book, although less
  prominent than Clem are sketched very cleverly and have, to an unusual
  degree, the touch of life and actuality.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 522. Ag. 31, ’07. 330w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 70w.

  “Too much piazza talk and too little probability mar the general
  effect.”

     + − =Outlook.= 87: 45. S. 7, ’07. 60w.


=Keon, Grace.= “When love is strong.” $1.25. Benziger.

                                                                7–17046.

  A bank robbery and the search for and discovery of the robber form the
  plot of this novel which, contrary to the usual detective story,
  hinges upon the love of the heroine for the guilty man who has become
  her husband, and whom she raises to her own level by the help of her
  Catholic faith. It is really a tale of regeneration through love,
  altho much of the book is concerned with the unravelling of a mystery
  in which hypnotism plays a part.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Miss Keon’s very good story is artistic enough to deserve the
  attention of mature readers who are not too sophisticated by
  indulgence in contemporary problems-plays or the bold realism which
  caters to the prevalent taste.”

       + =Cath. World.= 85: 690. Ag. ’07. 70w.


=Kephart, Horace.= Book of camping and wood craft, a guidebook for those
who travel in the wilderness. *$1.50. Outing.

                                                                6–45323.

  Everything the camper could wish for in the line of practical
  suggestions on outfitting, making camps, dressing and keeping game and
  fish, camp cooking, forest travel, how to avoid getting lost and what
  to do if one does get lost, living off the country, what the different
  species of trees are good for from the camper’s viewpoint, backwoods
  handicrafts in wood, bark, skins and other raw materials, the
  treatment of wounds and other injuries, etc., can be found in this
  little volume. There are many illustrations from photographs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 11. Ja. ’07.

  “Mr. Kephart buttonholes you gently, fixes you with his woodman’s eye,
  and if you can escape the longing to start for the wilderness at the
  first vacation moment you must be an unusual man.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 566. Mr. 7, ’07. 160w.

       + =Nation.= 84: 222. Mr. 7, ’07. 40w.

  “Should be the friend of every intending sojourner in the wilderness.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 140w.

  “The volume is small enough to go in the duffel-bag, but packed full
  of the facts and suggestions, and redolent of the atmosphere of the
  woods.”

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 38. My. 4, ’07. 210w.


=Ker, William Paton.= Sturla, the historian. *35c. Oxford.

                                                                7–29019.

  “This is the ‘Romanes lecture’ of the year.... Sturla was one of the
  products of that very strange growth, Icelandic culture.... Vacant, or
  nearly vacant, as far as we know, from the beginning of time, Iceland
  was settled in the tenth century by some Norwegian gentry, who desired
  to be free from an intrusive royal government.... Late in the life of
  this strange community came the literary development. In Snorri
  Sturlason it found its greatest expression, and Sturla was the son of
  Snorri’s brother, Thord.”—Spec.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 716. Ap. ’07. 50w.

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 52. F. 15, ’07. 1080w.

  “Professor Ker has a light touch and a playful humor not often to be
  found in the expert. Gives us glimpses which will certainly do what is
  the true object of a lecture,—make the hearer or reader study the
  subject for himself.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 24. Ja. 5, ’07. 390w.


=Kern, John A.= Idea of the church; aspects, forms and activities.
$1.25. Pub. house M. E. church So.

                                                                7–25171.

  A study of the church, actual and ideal, in its most significant
  features.


* =Kernahan, Coulson.= The Dumpling. il. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.

  This story “deals with a reincarnation of Napoleon, nicknamed ‘The
  Dumpling,’ who is filled with a noble love of his fellow men, if only
  they be poor enough, and sees no other way of bettering their
  condition than by indulging in robbery and murder, plotting in an
  opium den, and evolving the picturesque combination: ‘God, Napoleon
  and the Dumpling strike with a granite arm.’” (Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Coincidences rage throughout the book, but impossibilities are more
  rampant still. There is no characterization, but there is a speech
  eleven pages long about labour, delivered by a murderous madman. The
  grammar is uncertain, and the style is frequently facetious. It is
  possible that there is a public which demands such books; it is a
  thousand pities that Mr. Kernahan should condescend to cater for it.”

       − =Acad.= 71: 399. O. 20, ’06. 220w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 567. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

  “The whole novel is quite impossible, the most insatiable lover of
  sensation could hardly find satisfaction in it, and it is difficult to
  understand how a writer of Mr. Kernahan’s standing could submit such a
  work to public criticism.”

       − =Sat. R.= 102: 618. N. 17, ’06. 80w.

  “Is an excellent melodrama. The reader of the story is hurled from
  adventure to adventure in a breathless manner, but it must be
  confessed that the interest is well kept up and does not flag.”

     + − =Spec.= 97: 626. O. 27, ’06. 160w.


=Kerr, Alvah Milton.= Diamond key and how the railway heroes won it. il.
†$1.50. Lothrop.

                                                                 7–8218.

  With their scenes laid in the mountain regions of Colorado and
  Arizona, these stories show how courage and devotion to purpose
  dominate the laying of tracks, the building of bridges, and the
  tunneling of mountains for the western railroad. “Each of the twelve
  is represented by a deed of rare heroism or one which shows
  conspicuously a quick and ready hand and a cool, resourceful head.”
  (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Some gems of the story-teller’s art, very pure in ray. Strictly
  speaking, it is not a novel, yet the ten stories are so welded
  together by the rails of the ‘Western central,’ the brotherhood of the
  characters, and the common atmosphere of the events, that the book
  possesses a oneness unattained by many a professed unity. They are
  thrilling healthful tales, told in crisp, lucid, scintillating
  English.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 1526. Je. 27, ’07. 170w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.


=Kerr, Walter S.= Arcadian proscript: a historical drama in five acts.
pa. $1. Walter S. Kerr & co., P. O. box 377 Oakland, Cal.

                                                                7–17379.

  The Grand Pré which Longfellow’s poem immortalizes furnishes the
  setting of Mr. Kerr’s drama. His hero is a “proscript,” a legal
  outlaw. The British governor of Nova Scotia “is one of the villains of
  the play which is tragic, of course, and romantic, and was obviously
  designed for theatrical representation.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Has evidently worked with great zeal and unmistakable faith in the
  historical value of his subject. It is graphically written and full of
  movement.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 301. My. 11, ’07. 260w.


* =Kester, Vaughan.= John o’ Jamestown. †$1.50. McClure.

                                                                7–36098.

  History and love are mingled in this tale of an English vicar’s son.
  His love-making is interrupted when he embarks for America and becomes
  closely identified with the fortunes of Captain John Smith. “The story
  chronicles the career of the latter, his rescue at the hands of
  Pocahontas, his brave services on behalf of the Jamestown colony, in
  the face of jealous opposition and treachery, the injuries which
  forced him to return to England, and the ghastly winter of bloodshed
  and famine which followed.” (Bookm.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “That is really the only serious defect of the book,—a weakness of
  structure. And since the great majority of the reading public care
  little for structure so long as a book is readable, there is no
  question that the vivid portraiture, the stirring incident, the
  manifest sincerity of purpose of ‘John o’ Jamestown’ will give
  abundant pleasure to a large number of readers.” Frederic Taber
  Cooper.

     + − =Bookm.= 26: 409. D. ’07. 450w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 657. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

  “An exciting story.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 762. N. 30, ’07. 110w.

  “While there is nothing very unusual in the telling, the author,
  Vaughan Kester, uses the abundant material well.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 745. N. 30, ’07. 110w.


=Ketchum, Milo Smith.= Design of steel mill buildings and the
calculation of stresses in framed structures. 2d ed. *$4. Engin. news.

                                                                6–37208.

  The first edition of this book was issued in 1903. This new edition
  contains much additional matter the major part of which is confined to
  the part of the work on stresses.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The problems give evidence of thorough preparation, and the data are
  so arranged that the graphic solution will be confined within the
  limits of the standard sheet adopted, thereby economizing the
  student’s time.” Henry S. Jacoby.

       + =Engin. N.= 56: 633. D. 13, ’06. 760w.


=Ketchum, Milo Smith.= Design of walls, bins and grain elevators. *$4.
Eng. news.

                                                                7–23625.

  “Professor Ketchum’s latest work is divided into three parts, treating
  of the three branches indicated by the title. The first part is a
  presentation of the theory, or the theories, of retaining walls....
  The second part takes up the subject of coal bins, ore bins, etc.,
  giving theory, principles of design, cost and actual examples.... Part
  three is on the design of grain bins and elevators.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Anyone desiring to make a specialty of this line of work cannot
  afford to be without this book, and it will no doubt be a valuable
  assistant to any specialist, as showing the different ways of meeting
  different conditions. The most disappointing feature of the book is
  the treatment of theory, of which there is too much.”

     + − =Engin. N.= 58: 73. Jl. 18, ’07. 2650w.


=Keys, Alice Maplesden.= Cadwallader Colden: a representative eighteenth
century official. **$2.25. Macmillan.

                                                                6–40257.

  “A very entertaining account of New York politics before the
  Revolution. By taste, Colden was a speculator in science....
  Circumstances drew him into the political and factional differences of
  the day.... Miss Keys bases her narrative largely upon manuscript
  material.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The style is a bit loose, the manner a bit casual: one is perhaps
  somewhat at sea in the mass of facts, unrelieved for the most part by
  any very suggestive generalization. Whatever the ‘general reader’ may
  think, the specialist will nevertheless be grateful for much new light
  on the web of intrigue which enmeshed the colonial governors from
  Burnet to Clinton.” Carl Becker.

     − + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 12: 696. Ap. ’07. 350w.

  “Writes in a full mastery of her subject. As a result, her work is a
  valuable study in political biography.”

       + =Nation.= 81: 242. Mr. 14, ’07. 300w.


=Kidd, Dudley.= Savage childhood: a study of Kafir children. $3.50.
Macmillan.

                                                                 7–7554.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “In the work before us he has to a certain extent broken new ground,
  and performed his task excellently.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 168. F. 9. 2020w.

  “His book may be relied on as accurate in its statements of fact.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 33. Ja. 10, ’07. 170w.

  Reviewed by H. Rider Haggard.

     + + =Sat. R.= 103: 265. Mr. 2, ’07. 2230w.


=Kidd, Walter.= Sense of touch in mammals and birds. *$1.90. Macmillan.

  “A great number of facts are here brought together concerning the skin
  structure of the hands and feet of mammals. The chief forms of
  epidermic modification are shown to assume eleven leading types in
  eighty-six mammals that are dealt with. Eleven birds examined show
  only one type of epidermic modification, though the degree of this
  varies much. After describing the papillary ridges in a variety of
  animals, Dr. Kidd discusses the physiology of the sense of
  touch.”—Spec.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is not at all concise, it is not very clear, and it has no index.
  It seems to us that a great deal of labor has been misspent.”

     − + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 764. Je. 22. 90w.

         =Nation.= 85: 334. O. 10, ’07. 240w.

  “Although the subject is by no means new, the author has studied it in
  a fuller manner than at least most of his predecessors.” R. L.

       + =Nature.= 76: 101. My. 30, ’07. 240w.

  “Dr. Kidd’s book is the most important contribution to the matter
  since Miss Whipple’s paper was published.”

     + + =Spec.= 99: 367. S. 14, ’07. 170w.


=Kildare, Owen Frawley.= My old Bailiwick. †$1.50. Revell.

                                                                6–38913.

  “The author of ‘My Mamie Rose,’ Mr. Owen Kildare, has given us a
  picture of the Bowery ‘bum’ in this volume of stories and sketches.”
  (Ind.) He says “Beds, bunks, cots ... can be had on the Bowery for as
  little as 5 cents a night, and because there are men who have lost the
  faculty of earning, begging or even borrowing that sum, a nocturnal
  procession of over 10,000 parade in our streets, winter and summer,
  from midnight until dawn.” He speaks well of the work of the Young
  men’s Christian association but finds little that is acceptable in the
  “spectacular methods of the Salvation army” and the “mission workers.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He has intertwined comment and description, so that one not only gets
  a vivid idea of the ‘bum’ and the reason for his continuing a
  ‘has-been,’ but also an understanding of the difficulties encountered
  in endeavoring to raise him out of the mire and the futility of the
  efforts some agencies are making toward that end.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 1360. Je. 6, ’07. 240w.

  “The most impressive idea one gets from his book is, perhaps, that of
  a vast amount of wasted time, effort, money and good intentions on the
  part of those who wish to do something for the region of which he
  writes.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 847. D. 8, ’06. 360w.


* =Kimball, George Selwyn.= Lackawannas at Moosehead; or, The young
leather stockings. il. *$1.25. Ball pub.

                                                                7–37270.

  A nature book in the form of an account of the adventure of a party of
  college boys with two guides who hunt, fish, camp and study the
  secrets of woodcraft.


=King, Cardenio Flournoy, jr.= Boy’s vacation abroad: an American boy’s
diary of his first trip to Europe. $1.50. Clark.

                                                                  7–978.

  The author “writes as a boy at school would be expected to write—from
  the boy’s point of view and with a boy’s interesting enthusiasms....
  He assures his readers that he ‘lost a lot of fun writing the book.’
  The pictures are many and usually good.”—Lit. D.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is very well illustrated and is as interesting as could be
  expected under the circumstances.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 567. Mr. 7, ’07. 90w.

         =Lit. D.= 34: 264. F. 16, ’07. 160w.

  “The main Interest of the book is the simple and boyish manner in
  which the record has been kept.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 237. Ap. 13, ’07. 590w.


=King, Charles.= Captured: the story of Sandy Ray. $1.50. Fenno.

                                                                7–15592.

  “An ‘out of the way cantonment’ known as Camp Boutelle, a traitor
  caught in his own toils but possessed of a daughter as fair as she is
  misunderstood, a young lieutenant newly come from the States.” these
  are the chief factors in General King’s new story of an army post in
  the Philippines. (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The story will be of most interest to military men. To the general
  reader it seems prolix at times. The characters are fairly well drawn
  and there are some interesting descriptions of characteristic Filipino
  warfare.”

     + − =Lit. D.= 34: 385. Mr. 9, ’07. 160w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 101. F. 16, ’07. 210w.


=King, Gen. Charles.= Rock of Chickamauga. †$1.50. Dillingham.

                                                                7–22113.

  A civil war story whose events center about General George H. Thomas.
  Its historical details, presented from intimate observation, are
  accurate and show something of the relation of Sherman, Grant and
  Stanton with Gen. Thomas. There is romance mingled with the alarms of
  war and a charming heroine to make it worth while.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “As a humble monument to the memory of the commander whom he entitles
  ‘the noblest Roman of them all’ the book should have special interest
  for all lovers of civil-war history.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 489. O. 5, ’07. 300w.

  “Gen. King ... is much more at home in the thick of battle than in the
  turgid and mystifying love vicissitudes of his hero.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 490. Ag. 10, ’07. 120w.


=King, Henry Churchill.= Rational living: some practical inferences from
modern psychology. **$1.25. Macmillan.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Practical, helpful, enlightening and well grounded.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 44. F. ’07.


=King, Leonard William, and Hall, H. R. H.= History of Egypt, Chaldea,
Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria in the light of recent discovery. Grolier
society, N. Y.

                                                                7–10615.

  “A supplement to the longer work which Messrs. Hall and King were
  commissioned to write with the purpose of supplying a full account of
  all the important discoveries not already included therein. Of the
  nine chapters five are devoted to Egypt and the remaining four to
  western Asia.... The photogravures ... are of a high order, and the
  other illustrations, many of which are from unpublished photographs by
  the authors, are exceedingly interesting and numerous.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We have noticed some slips in the book. But these are trifles which
  do not reduce the merit of a most excellent book.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 588. N. 9. 1980w.

  “The authors have traversed the field of recent discovery and
  research, have extracted the vital facts, and have set them down with
  care and criticism.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 225. Mr. 7, ’07. 570w.

  “Taken as a whole, it is admirably done. The geographical arrangement
  is somewhat confusing, but perhaps a strictly chronological account
  would have been less easy to understand. Certainly nowhere else are
  the results of modern scholarship so well summed up, nor can one find
  the credit for labors and success so punctiliously given.” Holland
  Thompson.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 638. O. 6, ’06. 1300w.


=King, Most Rev. William.= Great archbishop of Dublin, William King; his
autobiography, family, and a selection from his correspondence; ed. by
Chas. S. King. *$3. Longmans.

  “William King played a most important part in church and state.... He
  was well described as ‘a state Whig, a church Tory, a good bishop.’...
  His kinsman Sir Charles King here prints for the first time a
  translation of the archbishop’s Latin autobiography and many letters
  adding extracts from correspondents already published, with notes on
  family history and cognate matters.... King corresponded with Swift,
  Addison, Berkeley, and many churchmen and politicians.”—Sat. R.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 452. Ja. ’07. 30w.

  “The occasional theological notes [of the editor] are blots upon his
  pages, and lead us to put little trust in his discretion. The ‘Oxford
  movement’ and the very appearance of a crucifix are bugbears to him.
  We will not quote any of these outbreaks, lest we should prejudice the
  reader against an interesting and useful book.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 469. O. 20. 2100w.

  “The most that can be said for the book is that it furnishes
  illustrations not only of the character and activities of Archbishop
  King, but also of some of his contemporaries and of Irish life and
  politics.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 1212. My. 23, ’07. 330w.

  “He has done his work with care. The notes are generally accurate and
  sufficient.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 335. O. 5, ’06. 1270w.

  “The autobiography is interesting, and throws valuable light on
  contemporary social conditions, as do the letters.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 402. Mr. 30, ’07. 250w.


=King, William Benjamin.= Giant’s strength. †$1.50. Harper.

                                                                7–11209.

  Paul Trafford, the giant of the tale, is a rich coal king. The forcing
  process that has made him a monopolist has been sheltered behind the
  law, and when the necessary laws did not exist he bought legislatures
  to pass them. The machinery of his system crushes one Roger Winship
  whose family is a living judgment upon Trafford’s methods and success.
  The dramatic element and the strong ethical lesson are to be found in
  the romance which springs up between the daughter of Trafford and
  Roger Winship’s son, both of whom are ready to renounce their life
  happiness for the principle which renders it impossible for young
  Winship to accept one penny of Trafford’s wealth.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 178. O. ’07.

  “The book is, on the whole, a sincere and careful piece of work, the
  author’s tendency to preach—excusable, perhaps, in a book dealing with
  such a theme—being kept steadily in hand.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 601. My. 18. 150w.

  Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.

         =Dial.= 43: 64. Ag. 1, ’07. 270w.

  “Mr. King has appreciated the epic possibilities of this theme and has
  given us an interesting picture of a modern financial Titan.... In the
  hands of a master craftsman it would indeed be a fascinating theme,
  and is perhaps the one reserved for the long-awaited American master.”

     + − =Lit. D.= 34: 724. My. 4, ’07. 230w.

  “Neither the father nor the lover is convincingly drawn, but the slow
  development of the daughter Paula’s character under the stress of
  trial and trouble is admirable.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 363. Ap. 18, ’07. 230w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 284. My. 4, ’07. 710w.

  “There is much to admire in the character-drawing, but occasional
  false notes indicate that the author had not fully mastered his
  material.”

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 117. My. 18, ’07. 180w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 761. Je. ’07. 300w.

  “Mr. King has not bestowed on the persons in his story, those
  continuous small industrious touches which amount in the mass to real
  significance. But he has written a direct story, all of one piece,
  which is interesting throughout, and frequently dramatic.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: 168. Ag. ’07. 1070w.


=Kingsbury, Susan Myra=, ed. Records of the Virginia company of London,
1619–1624. 2v. $4. Supt. of doc.

                                                                6–38015.

  A work whose value is suggested in the fact that it makes accessible
  to students for the first time history that has been shut up in
  carefully guarded manuscript for two centuries. The volumes contain a
  careful transcript of the court records of the Virginia company, with
  introduction, notes, bibliography, and index.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Many efforts have been made through a period of nearly fifty years,
  to secure the publications of these priceless records of our first
  colonizing company. But all those who have taken part in former
  efforts to publish ought to rejoice that they have failed, since the
  delay has resulted in bringing out, in the fulness of time, a much
  better edition than would have been produced earlier.”

   + + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 424. Ja. ’07. 500w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “A work of fundamental importance to the student of American history.”

     + + =Dial.= 42: 46. Ja. 16, ’07. 330w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

       + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 406. Ap. ’07. 350w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

     + + =Ind.= 62: 567. Mr. 7, ’07. 130w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “As material of history its value cannot be too highly estimated.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 84. Ja. 24, ’07. 1000w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The text now appears in full for the first time, and all the
  excellencies noted in the first volume are continued in the second.
  The index is, unfortunately, entirely inadequate, and it is difficult
  to see on what plan it was prepared.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 175. F. 21, ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “These papers are all of great value to the student of the beginnings
  of American history.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 778. N. 24, ’06. 250w. (Review of v. 1 and
         2.)

  “From the student’s standpoint, too, the value of the present
  publication is increased by Miss Kingsbury’s elaborate expository and
  critical introduction.”

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 93. Ja. 12, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “Exhaustive and scholarly introductory essays.”

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 967. Ag. 31, ’07. 240w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)


=Kingsley, Florence Morse.= Princess and the ploughman. †$1.25. Harper.

                                                                7–18593.

  A pretty pastoral this, altho it is set in the present time. Mary, the
  princess in distress, is to inherit a large fortune from a spinster
  aunt if she marries before her twenty-third birthday. The ploughman, a
  recluse and a farmer, offers her his name in order that she may secure
  her fortune and promises to ask nothing in return. Of course they are
  madly in love with each other, else he would not have made the offer,
  nor she accepted it, but each is proud so they marry but to part and
  it is long before they come to know each other’s hearts.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “An idyllic little novel, infused with grace and sly humor. Men and
  women both ought to like it; and for the suspiring college girl, it
  can not but prove a tonic.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 613. O. 26, ’07. 570w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 438. Jl. 13, ’07. 190w.

  “Their story is a bit of romantic absurdity, or a sweet and refreshing
  love idyl, as the individual reader’s view-point will determine.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 476. Je. 29, ’07. 180w.


=Kingsley, Florence Morse.= Those queer Browns. †$1.50. Dodd.

                                                                7–25050.

  A sequel to “The singular Miss Smith.” Miss Smith who left her Back
  Bay luxury to become a servant in order to study sociological
  conditions marries Mr. Brown, a Harvard professor, who plays
  foundryman and boards with Miss Smith’s employer. They spend a year in
  the New York slums, and this story records their experiences.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is plenty of fun in ‘Those queer Browns,’ but plenty of sound
  sense, too, and amateur philanthropists would undoubtedly profit by
  reading it.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 683. O. 26, ’07. 300w.

  “Is entertaining, often bright, and sometimes keen.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 309. O. 12, ’07. 90w.


=Kingsley, Florence Morse.= Truthful Jane. †$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                 7–5685.

  “The familiar drama of the poor relation.... Jane Blythe, a beautiful,
  high-spirited girl, is flung by fate on the charity of her London
  relatives.... Baited by her cousin, who is envious of her beauty and
  insufferably patronized by her aunt and uncle, she ... resolves to put
  the sea between herself and her blood relatives. The story of Jane’s
  battle for her rights in her hard environment is told with the real
  touch of humor.... In the crisis of Jane’s trials the inevitable
  knight of romance turns up in the person of John Everett, who marries
  her and takes her back to England.”—Lit. D.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 135. My. ’07.

  “There is a thoroughly human touch in the handling of the whole
  story.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 385. Mr. 9, ’07. 220w.

  “Not a remarkably good story, but it has a certain modest integrity
  which places it above the ruck of petty inventions.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 136. F. 7, ’07. 70w.

  Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 105. F. 23, ’07. 250w.


=Kinross, Albert.= Davenant. †$1.50. Dodd.

                                                                7–13436.

  “An American publisher of brains and heart tells an Irish mother and
  her son in London his experience with a crippled, original, and
  brilliant hack writer in that city, whose work, rejected at home,
  finds acceptance here, and to whom America becomes a symbol of free,
  generous, brotherly life.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Kinross has humour, and he has irony. This work is the work of a
  man who can rise to a considerable achievement. He has pathos also.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 13. Jl. 6. 330w.

  “Full of a quality that comes near being charm, but fails just short
  of it. The style is too self-conscious, and the whole scheme lacks
  simplicity, so that the mind is taxed by its suggestiveness.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 355. Je. 1, ’07, 220w.

  “The story is wholly off the well-defined lines of fiction, is told in
  an unhackneyed way, with a vein of deep feeling and of unforced humor.
  There is a deeper strain in the book for those who read it with
  imagination; for it is safer to venture the assertion that Mr. Kinross
  had before him not only the America of gross materialism, but America
  as a symbol of great and beautiful ideas.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 116. My. 18, ’07. 270w.

       + =Spec.= 98: 947. Je. 15, ’07. 250w.


=Kipling, Rudyard.= Puck, of Pook’s hill. †$1.50. Doubleday.

                                                                6–35734.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “So hidden and delicate is the intention, that the book has been
  reviewed merely as a series of fairy tales; so spontaneous that one
  even wonders if Mr. Kipling himself knows the full extent of his
  accomplishment.” Mary Moss.

     + + =Atlan.= 99: 113. Ja. ’07. 1080w.

  “Mr. Kipling has apparently passed through that political fever which
  for so long a time made him almost unreadable. His genius is restored
  to itself, and he writes as one would always have him write. For this
  reason alone I would rejoice in the new book. It is a brilliant
  performance, and it is a golden promise.” Royal Cortissoz.

     + + =No. Am.= 183: 926. N. 2, ’06. 2700w.

       + =Putnam’s.= 1: 510. Ja. ’07. 580w.

  “Not only shows him grand master of the English language, but marks
  his ability to fit with perfect verbal clothing any subject he may
  pick out.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 35: 126. Ja. ’07. 90w.


=Kirk, Mrs. Ellen Warner (Olney) (Henry Hayes, pseud.).= Marcia: a
novel. †$1.50. Houghton.

                                                                 7–9553.

  An autobiographical society novel in which the heroine at twenty-one
  “refusing to gain riches as the price of her ancestral acres and home
  accepts a position as secretary to a woman of wealth, and the story
  begins.... Mrs. Kirk introduces us to high-minded men and women, who
  eschew gambling and abhor divorce, who recognize the existence of
  duty, and are loyal to obligation.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 135. My. ’07. ✠

  “‘Marcia’ is remarkable for nothing but the facility with which a
  practiced hand can make a fairly readable tale out of indifferent
  material.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 1268. My. 30, ’07. 200w.

  “Its merit rests almost wholly upon its truth to nature and its
  interesting psychological analysis.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 677. Ap. 27, ’07. 180w.

  “Unfortunately, the workmanship of the novel is not equal to its
  excellence of intention. Its characters are characters rather than
  people. The book is, however, sincere and wholesome, and will not
  disappoint the public which Mrs. Kirk has already won.”

     − + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 159. Mr. 16, ’07. 510w.


=Kirkham, Stanton Davis.= Ministry of beauty. **$1.50. Elder.

                                                                7–18089.

  An ontological discussion of beauty, life, religion, philosophy, work,
  health and happiness, with chapters on The world message, The heart of
  it, The tendency of good, The preacher, The teacher, and The poet. The
  author treats of good in its abstract sense and emphasizes strongly
  the development of ethical perception to the point of consciousness of
  truth’s expression.


=Kirkham, Stanton Davis.= Where dwells the soul serene. **$1.50. Elder.

                                                                7–19460.

  A group of essays similar in teaching to those included in Mr.
  Kirkham’s “Ministry of beauty.” They make their plea for the
  impersonal idea of truth to which the Christian scientists have
  wakened. Among the essays are Elements of freedom, The ideal of
  culture, The idea of religion, The nature of prayer, The beauty of
  poise, Ethical relations, Wealth, Free aims, Higher laws, and The soul
  of nature.


=Kirkup, Thomas.= History of socialism. *$2.25. Macmillan.

  “This third edition ... has been revised at a few points and enlarged
  by some forty pages. The first twelve chapters are substantially
  unchanged, but the thirteenth, treating of the growth of socialism,
  has been completely rewritten to bring it up to date. The concluding
  chapters deal with the alleged forces now making for the coming of
  socialism, and review in a dispassionate, if sympathetic way the
  philosophy of the movement.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “But none have surpassed Mr. Kirkup in philosophical grasp of the
  essentials of socialism, or have presented the doctrine in more
  intelligible form.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 190w.

  “No man who reads this generous and impartial volume, the work of a
  socialist sufficiently broadminded to appreciate the weak points of
  the propaganda and optimistic enough to analyze modern progress from a
  healthy point of view, can but feel that such a contribution to the
  literature of the subject must help to ameliorate old
  misunderstandings and enmities.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 66. F. 2, ’07. 580w.

  “We question whether the spirit of cheerful optimism and an amiable
  love of compromise, which are the characteristics of this volume, are
  an adequate mental equipment for a treatment of the subject.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: sup. 646. Ap. 27, ’07. 1030w.


=Kiser, Samuel Ellsworth.= Thrills of a bell boy. 60c. Forbes.

                                                                6–16496.

  “S. E. Kiser, under this title, writes in his well known style. His
  bell boy is a close observer and sees many things in the hotel where
  he works in an humble capacity, hiding a philosopher under his
  careless exterior. John T. McCutcheon has happily illustrated the
  text.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Ind.= 61: 1400. D. 22, ’06. 50w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 411. Je. 23, ’06. 230w.


=Kitson, Arthur.= Captain James Cook, “the circumnavigator.” *$4.50.
Dutton.

                                                                7–28952.

  Mr. Kitson departs from the material from which narratives of Cook are
  usually produced, and has gone to the Admirality papers for data. This
  story of the discoverer of the Sandwich islands tells of one who made
  the best use of every opportunity as fast as it presented itself. “It
  tells the remarkable experiences of the man who, after rising from
  cabin-boy in a collier to captain in the royal navy, discovered
  Australia, sailed three times around the world, and was killed, as we
  all know, by the natives of the Sandwich islands.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Cook’s latest biographer, while a most faithful and painstaking
  chronicler is either devoid of the capacity of awe, wonder, and
  romance which the voyages of Cook excite, or he has put these
  qualities under severe restraint.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 626. Je. 29, ’07. 1400w.

  “There has been until now no complete or satisfactory biography.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 229. Ag. 31. 3200w.

  “To say that Mr. Kitson never stumbles would be fulsome; it is enough
  to say that his errors are few and unimportant and will not prevent
  his book from being accepted as a standard.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 187. Je. 14, ’07. 1470w.

  “Mr. Kitson’s work shows great painstaking labor; he corrects several
  misstatements of previous biographers, and adds some new and
  interesting facts.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 123. Ag. 8, ’07. 1370w.

  “His book is entitled to take rank as the most careful, trustworthy,
  and complete record of Capt. Cook’s life that has yet been published.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 475. Ag. 3, ’07. 760w.

  “It may be cordially praised as a capital piece of narrative writing.”

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 791. Ag. 10, ’07. 260w.

  “Mr. Kitson has made some discoveries about the life of the great
  explorer, Captain Cook, which are well worth the trouble he has
  expended on them, and they leave the voyages neither less nor more
  fascinating than they were before.”

     + + =Spec.= 98: 944. Je. 15. ’07. 1420w.


=Kitson, Charles Herbert.= Art of counterpoint and its application as a
decorative principle. *$2.50. Oxford.

                                                                7–38043.

  “The work of a man of wide views, yet of one who values the work of
  antiquity, and is careful to show how rationally the new has been
  developed from the old. There is a large class of contrapuntists, both
  in England and in Germany, at the present day, who are accustomed to
  sneer at the ancient writers, and to whom the researches of Rockstro
  and others are anathema. It is satisfactory to see that Dr. Kitson is
  not of this number; he has evidently studied Morley and the ancients
  thoroughly, and his very concise résumé of ancient practice is so
  little superficial that we see at once that he is deeply read.”—Lond.
  Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He writes well and clearly, and his treatise is excellent alike on
  the modern and ancient counterpoint. Such a book should do much to
  dispel the popular delusion that counterpoint is dry.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 222. Jl. 12, ’07. 150w.

  “Dr. Kitson’s ‘The art of counterpoint,’ we are pleased to say is not
  one of the many treatises on that subject which are based on previous
  treatises.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 193. Ag. 29, ’07. 280w.


=Kittrell, Norman G.= Ned, nigger an’ gent’man: a story of war and
reconstruction days. $1.50. Neale.

                                                                7–25078.

  Desiring to learn details of the fate of two members of his family who
  fell in the civil war, a northerner makes his first journey into the
  south. He becomes a guest of true southern aristocrats, faithful
  representatives of the very highest class of southern society. The aim
  of the story seems to be that of modifying a northerner’s abhorrent
  attitude toward the system of slavery by dropping him into
  surroundings where master and negro alike are bred to the chivalry of
  the “quality.”


=Kleiser, Grenville.= How to speak in public. *$1.25. Funk.

                                                                6–42418.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “This work as a whole is so excellent we feel it would be difficult to
  overstate its value to serious students.”

   + + + =Arena.= 37: 220. F. ’07. 420w.

  “A good deal is taken for granted. The author’s system is nowhere
  treated clearly as a whole. There is no very plain intimation as to
  the time is desirable to be given to each chapter. There are exercises
  and selections, and there are brief passages of exposition and
  comment, but there is hardly sufficient organization of the material
  to make the method easy to follow.” W. B. Parker.

     + − =Educ. R.= 34: 322. O. ’07. 480w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 2. Ja. 5, ’07. 220w.


=Klenze, Camillo von.= Interpretation of Italy during the last two
centuries: a contribution to the study of Goethe’s “Italienische reise.”
*$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.

                                                                7–18308.

  One of the decennial publications of the Chicago university. In this
  study Goethe’s “Italienische reise” is compared with the travels of
  his predecessors of the eighteenth century to show how far Goethe was
  original and to what degree he has been supplemented.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is a work of research representing a vast amount of reading
  and labor, and will be of service to any one who desires to follow the
  story of modern culture and intellectual life.”

     + + =Dial.= 43: 42. Jl. 16, ’07. 460w.

  “Dr. von Klenze’s style and treatment do not, we regret to say, rise
  above the level of the doctor’s dissertation; while there is too much
  cataloguing of details and too little original reasoning and writing,
  some important facts are left out.”

       − =Nation.= 85: 142. Ag. 15, ’07. 380w.


=Knauss, William H.= Story of Camp Chase; a history of the prison and
its cemetery. $2.20. Pub. house M. E. ch. so.

                                                                6–22869.

  “An interesting volume, compiled by a Southerner, but written
  impartially.... Made up of letters, extracts from documents, and
  personal recollections of the civil war, dealing especially with the
  Confederate prisoners at Camp Chase, Johnston’s island in Lake Erie,
  and Camp Dennison near Cincinnati, as well as other places. Records
  are given of the disposal of the prisoners.... The numerous
  illustrations include several maps and diagrams of cemeteries, with
  graves marked, so that friends can locate them.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author has given his later years devotedly to this noble work,
  and has contributed in no small degree to the restoration of good
  feeling between the once hostile sections.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 619. Mr. 14, ’07. 190w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 56. Ja. 26, ’07. 160w.


* =Knight, William Angus=, ed. Memorials of Thomas Davidson, the
wandering scholar. *$1.25. Ginn.

                                                                7–26349.

  The author has collected from various sources estimates, or
  characterizations, by friends from opposite points of view—a series of
  mental photographs or appraisals of the man—and has allowed these in
  their separateness to tell the story of Thomas Davidson’s life and
  work.


=Knollys, George.= Ledgers and literature. *$1.25. Lane.

  A collection of essays upon such subjects as; A professor of
  sentiment, Lunching in the city, On the adventures of living in a
  lunatic asylum, An officer of the boys’ brigade, On the cultivation of
  the spirit of Greek archaeology, and A week on the Thames.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “[At times] Mr. Knollys, possibly under the influence of a lunch-cake
  which he despises, allows the prose-poet in him to diminish into the
  poeticule of prose.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 547. N. 3. 180w.

  “Some of these humorously fanciful sketches might also have come from
  the pen of Charles Lamb at his desk in the East India house.”

       + =Dial.= 41: 328. N. 16, ’06. 360w.

  “These essays, on the whole, are kept up to a very respectable
  standard, a standard certainly far higher than that which the ordinary
  novelist reaches. But the standard rarely reaches really brilliant and
  original work.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 340. Mr. 16, ’07. 210w.

  “There is often common-sense, quite good common-sense in it, but not
  wisdom.”

     + − =Spec.= 97: 830. N. 24, ’06. 140w.


=Knowles, Robert Edward.= Undertow. †$1.50. Revell.

                                                                6–38396.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Is a good novel, and a pleasant one, and in every respect worthy of
  the author of ‘St. Cuthbert of the West.’”

       + =Acad.= 72: 274. Mr. 16, ’07. 200w.


=Knox, Charles Edwin.= Electric light wiring. *$2. McGraw pub.

                                                                7–18292.

  The author has considered the wiring of buildings by the two and
  three-wire systems only. “The different generating systems, such as
  double-generator, single-generator with a balancer set or with
  compensating transformers are then very simply outlined by the aid of
  diagrams. Methods of wiring buildings approved by the National board
  of fire underwriters, and the proper use of conduit, cables, tubes,
  porcelain fittings, etc., are described. The author has included
  considerable information on the manufacture of interior conductors
  with the National code requirements.” (Engin. N.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The volume presents the subject of building wiring in actual
  practice. For this reason the book should be of especial use to young
  engineers who have not had time or opportunity to acquire a system of
  practice for themselves. To those who have had little opportunity to
  approach electrical engineering mathematically, this book should be
  equally useful.”

       + =Engin. N.= 57: 669. Je. 13, ’07. 750w.


=Knox, George William.= Development of religion in Japan. **$1.50.
Putnam.

                                                                 7–6732.

  “In three religions ‘the religion of Japan’ finds various expression.
  Shintoism is religious patriotism; Buddhism is the faith of the
  unlettered and poor; Confucianism is ‘the religion of gentlemen.’
  These three have been variously modified during the comparatively
  brief period of fourteen centuries covered by historical dates. The
  account of these changes constitutes a history of the development of
  that innate religious feeling in which all religions root.... The
  religion of Japan already finds a fourth expression in Christianity,
  as a part of the nation’s new enlightenment.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “With the ease and poise of a trained scholar, he shows us the
  development of religion in Japan.” William Elliot Griffis.

     + + =Dial.= 42: 335. Je. 1, ’07. 1220w.

  “Less interesting as a human story than ‘The religions of Japan,’ by
  another American author, this work is far superior as the philosophic
  presentation of a most fascinating chapter in the grand story of the
  human mind.”

   + + − =Ind.= 63: 224. Jl. 25, ’07. 470w.

  “In the possible elements of human interest this book may be lacking
  but as a philosophical treatment of a great theme in a spirit at once
  catholic, critical, and sympathetic, it is a masterpiece.”

   + + − =Nation.= 85: 37. Jl. 11, ’07. 1270w.

  “Shows in an admirable manner how the religious feelings of the nation
  have been excited, and how in the course of the ages they have changed
  and progressed.” K. K. Kawakami.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 217. Ap. 6, ’07. 890w.

  “This volume has interest for the general reader. Its author is
  peculiarly qualified for appreciative treatment of his subject by his
  long residence in Japan.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 765. Mr. 30, ’07. 260w.


=Knox, George William.= Spirit of the Orient. *$1.50. Crowell.

                                                                6–34855.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 45. F. ’07. S.

  “He is able to express himself in an easy and graceful style.”

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 218. Ja. ’07. 350w.

  “This work is, in our judgment, the best volume on the subject that
  has appeared. No one who wishes an intelligent grasp of the great
  Eastern problem should fail to read ‘The spirit of the Orient.’”

     + + =Arena.= 37: 219. F. ’07. 910w.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 314. Mr. ’07. 2110w.

  “It is one of the keenest in analysis, perhaps, of any book written on
  the Far East.”

     + + =Nation.= 83: 561. D. 27, ’06. 810w.

  “The still too ignorant Occidental will find not only a sympathetic
  study of the peoples and customs of India, China and Japan, but also
  an appreciation of the peculiar spirit and problems of each country.”

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 296. Je. 8, ’07. 1390w.


=Knyvett, Sir Henry.= Defence of the realme. *$1.75. Oxford.

  “A hitherto unpublished manuscript now edited by Charles Hughes.
  Knyvett was a country gentleman, a soldier and a magistrate who, when
  England was, as it appeared, threatened with a Spanish invasion in
  1596, composed this little treatise for presentation to Queen
  Elizabeth. In it he set forth with the authority of his long
  experience his views as to the best way to master, train, equip, and
  handle an army to beat off the invasion.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The tract was written in haste. On the technical side the treatise is
  at its weakest. It advocates the use of the antiquated longbow.”

       − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 688. Ap. ’07. 140w.

  “The volume is very pleasant to read and handle.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 828. D. 29. 280w.

  “His style is direct with an occasional quaintness of turn, but not in
  itself noteworthy.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 132. F. 7, ’07. 130w.

         =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 550. S. ’07. 100w.

  “Is well edited and commented on by Mr. Charles Hughes.”

       + =Sat. R.= 104: 149. Ag. 3, ’07. 290w.

  “The book as a whole is exceedingly interesting as well as curious,
  and Mr. Hughes deserves the gratitude of students, not only of history
  but of military science, for his discovery of Sir Henry Knyvett’s
  pamphlet.”

       + =Spec.= 98: sup. 653. Ap. 27, ’07. 240w.


=Kobbe, Gustav.= Famous American songs, il. **$1.50. Crowell.

                                                                6–35736.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 11. Ja. ’07. S.

  “The work is admirably adapted for a presentation volume, appropriate
  for all tastes.”

       + =Arena.= 37: 109. Ja. ’07. 130w.

  “Tells about everything one can in reason wish to know about some
  dozen native airs.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 498. F. 28, ’07. 110w.


=Kobbe, Gustav.= How to appreciate music. **$1.50. Moffat.

                                                                6–38904.

  An attempt in wholly untechnical language, to satisfy the desires of
  those who enjoy music and wish to know more about it. The volume is
  divided into three sections: How to appreciate a pianoforte recital,
  How to appreciate an orchestral concert, and How to appreciate vocal
  music.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Enthusiastic, sometimes gushing, but as a whole, interesting,
  readable and instructive. Does not replace Krehbiel’s ‘How to listen
  to music;’ it is not so well written nor so systematically arranged,
  but it is more suggestive and contains material on later composers,
  such as Richard Strauss, not to be found in Krehbiel.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 11. Ja. ’07. S.

  “Avowedly ‘popular’ in intent, and even at times a bit careless in
  style, the book contains a deal of gossipy chat about musicians.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 916. Ap. 18, ’07. 560w.

  “Here are elucidation, history, criticism, gossip, anecdote, cleverly
  commingled, making the book one that can be read for entertainment as
  well as instruction.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 445. N. 22, ’06. 390w.

  “The seeker after musical knowledge will find much that is
  entertaining and instructive in these pages and much that is
  suggestive; but we are constrained to say that he is also likely to
  find much that is misleading and unbalanced.” Richard Aldrich.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 149. Mr. 9, ’07. 380w.


=Kobbe, Gustav.= Signora. †$1. Crowell.

                                                                7–21369.

  The incidents of this sketch take place behind the scenes in the
  Metropolitan opera house, New York. They are associated with a little
  waif that was left at the stage entrance one stormy night when Calvé
  and other famous singers were rendering Carmen. The child is adopted
  by the company and grows up to be the central figure in a romance
  whose side-light touches reveal characteristics of well known singers
  who are seen under thin disguises.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is as interesting to the older people as to the children.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 110w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 40w.

  “It is a pleasant story of kindness, and is interesting from its
  original setting.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 110w.


=Koenigsberger, Leo.= Hermann von Helmholtz; tr. by Frances A. Welby.
*$5.25. Oxford.

                                                                7–11038.

  A translation, slightly abridged, of a well known German work. “This
  volume, of absorbing interest, outlines a life which was intimately
  bound up in the life of the scientific world during the last century.”
  (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Care has been taken to retain what is essential, and the work has
  therefore suffered but little. The translation has been carried out
  with skill, and the writing is on the whole good.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 260. Mr. 2. 410w.

       + =Nation.= 84: 416. My. 2, ’07. 730w.


=Kraus, Edward Henry.= Essentials of crystallography. *$1.60. Wahr.

                                                                6–38911.

  A book intended for beginners. “A bibliography of forty-one titles of
  important reference books and articles is at the beginning of the
  book. This is followed by a sixteen-page general discussion of the
  properties of crystals their arrangement into systems, the symbols
  used, the symmetry, and tractional forms. The systems are then taken
  up in order, beginning with the cubic and following through to the
  triclinic. The relations of axes, symmetry, and possible classes are
  taken up with considerable care in each system.” (J. Geol.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book seems well suited to its purpose, and puts in a concise and
  compact form that part of its subject which is absolutely essential
  for an understanding of crystallography.” J. C. J.

     + + =J. Geol.= 15: 507. Jl. ’07. 300w.

  “The six pages devoted to compound crystals will seem to many
  inadequate. Not the least valuable part of the work is an appendix.”
  Wm. Herbert Hobbs.

     + + =Science=, n. s. 24: 807. D. 21, ’06. 770w.


=Kropotkin, Petr Alexeivich.= Conquest of bread. *$1. Putnam.

                                                                7–11010.

  The undertone of Prince Kropotkin’s discussion is that “every society
  which has abolished private property will be forced to reorganize
  itself on the lines of communistic anarchy.” “He attempts to
  demonstrate that communistic and socialistic ideals, despite setbacks
  and reactions have ever been approaching nearer to practical
  realization.” (R. of Rs.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The translator has done his work well, but has been unable to conceal
  the extent to which the plausibility of the book rests upon a large
  use of vague words and of the fallacy of composition and division when
  talking about ‘the people’ and ‘the workers.’”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 380. Mr. 30. 640w.

  “He is a close reasoner, a learned traveller, a keen observer, and he
  brings into brilliant light uninterpreted truths.” Charles Richmond
  Henderson.

     + − =Dial.= 43: 230. O. 16, ’07. 250w.

  “Kropotkin’s chapters lack the charm and the scientific serenity of
  his ‘Autobiography’ and his ‘Fields, factories and workshops.’”

       − =Ind.= 62: 1207. My. 23, ’07. 680w.

         =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 441. Jl. ’07. 150w.

  “An extremely interesting exposition of the gospel of anarchy.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 71. Mr. 1, ’07. 960w.

  “The present volume adds nothing to what he has said elsewhere and it
  is hard to understand why it has been brought out in American dress.”

       − =Nation.= 84: 20. Jl. 4, ’07. 130w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 759. Je. ’07. 80w.

  “Prince Peter Kropotkin lives in another world and talks another
  language.”

       − =Spec.= 97: 923. D. 8, ’06. 250w.


=Krusi, Hermann.= Recollections of my life; ed. by Elizabeth S. Alling.
**$2.50. Grafton press.

                                                                7–26153.

  An autobiographical sketch supplemented by extracts from the
  educator’s personal records and a review of his literary productions
  together with selected essays. The record of the author’s educational
  career chiefly identified with the Oswego normal school, is enlivened
  “record book” material which afford glimpses into his intellectual
  life and his character.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’97. 40w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 718. N. 9, ’07. 140w.


=Kuhn, Franz.= Barbarossa, tr. from the German, by George P. Upton.
*60c. McClurg.

                                                                6–35590.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 21. Ja. ’07. ✠


=Kuhns, (Levi) Oscar.= John Huss: The witness. *$1. West. Meth. bk.

                                                                7–23894.

  In this volume in the “Men of the kingdom” series it has been the
  author’s aim “to give a plain, straightforward, and concise account of
  the life, death, and influence of one of the world’s most inspiring
  witnesses of the truth.”


=Kyle, George A.= Morning glory club. $1.25. Page.

                                                                7–12001.

  The women of a northern New England town are seized with the spirit of
  club organization and the “Morning glory club” is the result. General
  improvement, a definite force for good in the town seem to be their
  theoretical watchwords yet they go far afield for bits of gossip to
  retail indiscriminately at their meetings. An equally gossipy group of
  husbands in the background, a village parson who believes that the
  club is the devil’s own disguise, a charming young school teacher,
  misunderstood and much maligned, and the parson’s son, dismissed from
  college for his pranks, furnish some of the personalities with which
  the story deals. Comic as well as tragic happenings abound, but all
  ends well amid wholesome reform and reconciliation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He has displayed no startling originality, but the story is
  readable.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 292. My. 4, ’07. 170w.




                                   L


=Labriola, Antonio.= Socialism and philosophy; tr. by Ernest Untermann.
$1. Kerr.

                                                                 7–3090.

  This volume in the “International library of social science” has been
  translated from the third Italian edition, which has been revised and
  amplified by the author. In the form of a series of letters, “a
  conversation in writing” with Mr. G. Sorei, Labriola has shown “that
  we must study the social conditions which were the cradle of
  historical materialism, if we would understand its full meaning. He
  has demonstrated to us that we must familiarize ourselves also with
  the individual growth of the founders of scientific socialism, of its
  prominent interpreters, its present day elaborators.”


=Ladd, Horatio Oliver.= Chunda: a story of the Navajos. $1.25. Meth. bk.

                                                                6–37926.

  “The career of an Indian girl and her lover, who broke away from their
  barbaric tribe to learn for its redemption the principles and arts of
  civilization. Years afterward they emerge from their training ... and
  go back to their native mountain ... to labor together for the
  civilization and Christianization of their people.... Dramatic and
  tragic interest is added to the narrative, which breathes a deeply
  religious spirit throughout with an evident purpose of stimulating a
  missionary interest.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 110w.

  “It is an excellent book for Sunday-school libraries. All that it
  seems to lack is a prefatory note to indicate how far it is fiction
  and how far it is fact.”

     + − =Outlook.= 84: 938. D. 15, ’06. 130w.


=Lafargue, Paul.= The right to be lazy and other studies. 50c. Kerr.

                                                                7–23081.

  Papers whose purpose is to incite the socialist to march up to the
  assault of the ethics and the social theories of capitalism and
  establish a future communist society “peaceably if we may, forcibly if
  we must.”


=Lamb, C. G.= Alternating currents: a textbook for students of
engineering. *$3 Longmans.

                                                                W 7–137.

  “The first seven chapters cover the preliminary statements of the
  usual methods of treating alternate-current problems in general, also
  of measuring instruments, and discuss the theory of the single-phase
  transformer.... A very brief mention of single-phase commutator motors
  occupies the eighth chapter.... The rest of the book is devoted to the
  consideration of alternators both as generators and motors, and of
  induction motors.”—Nature.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He has succeeded in producing an excellent reference book for
  engineers, but from the reviewer’s experience it is too heavy a text
  for undergraduates.” Henry H. Norris.

     + − =Engin. N.= 56: 635. D. 13, ’06. 530w.

     + − =Nature.= 75: 97. N. 29, ’06. 1510w.


=Lamb, Charles.= Essays of Elia; with an introduction and notes by
Alfred Ainger, and a biographical sketch by Henry Morley. $1.25.
Crowell.

  Uniform with the “Thin paper classics,” this volume is furnished with
  such additional helps as a biographical sketch of Lamb, an
  introduction and notes.


=Lambert, Preston A.= Computation and mensuration. *80c. Macmillan.

                                                                7–30461.

  A short course whose chapters are as follows: Approximate computation,
  Graphic computation, Method of co-ordinates, Volumes of solids bounded
  by planes, Use of trigonometric functions, Use of logarithms, Limits,
  Graphic algebra, Areas bounded by curves, Volumes of solids. “These
  headings give in a general way the subject matter of the book.
  Greatest attention is given to concrete applications of principles.
  The solution of characteristic problems is illustrated and several
  additional are given for solution at numerous points throughout.”
  (Engin. N.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Engin. N.= 58: 427. O. 17, ’07. 330w.


=Lampson, G. Locker-.= Consideration of the state of Ireland in the
nineteenth century. *$5. Dutton.

  “A dictionary of English misgovernment of Ireland.” (Spec.) It is
  “expressly, intended to gibbet the incompetence of Ireland’s governors
  for five centuries and in suffusing British cheeks with shame to evoke
  better intentions for the future.” The author “does not believe
  Ireland’s ills will be cured by home rule. He proposes closer union,
  rather than separation. Only he suggests that that union be commercial
  and social, not political.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Relates, though not in well-arranged order, the chief political
  events connected with recent Irish history.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 757. Je. 22. 130w.

  “It is a combination of history, characterdrawing, political
  discussion, and the evisceration of blue books which Mr. Lampson’s
  volume offers. He is a shrewd observer of men.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 142. Ag. 15, ’07. 470w.

  “Mr. Locker-Lampson makes an exhaustive examination of Irish
  conditions—and finds what others have found. The chief interest of
  this book is in the remedy he proposes.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 545. S. 14, ’07. 1400w.

         =Outlook.= 87: 589. N. 16, ’07. 270w.

  “It is a pity that so much labor should have been marred by such want
  of judgment.”

     − + =Sat. R.= 104: 422. O. 5, ’07. 1630w.

  “Regarded, however, as a thesaurus of Irish history, this volume, well
  arranged, well indexed, almost too lavishly appendixed, is of the
  highest value as a reference book; it is ‘the case’ against Irish
  misgovernment.”

   + + − =Spec.= 99: 93. Jl. 20, ’07. 800w.


=Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo.= Golden days of the renaissance in Rome from
the pontificate of Julius II. to that of Paul III. **$5. Houghton.

                                                                6–39434.

  Against the glowing background of Rome’s renaissance, Signor
  Lanciani’s five distinct figures are traced: “Paul III., who during
  the fifteen years that he occupied the chair of St. Peter’s
  accomplished such wonders in rescuing Rome from the degradation into
  which it had fallen; Michelangelo and Raphael, supreme in art;
  Vittoria Colonna, the most cultured of sixteenth century women; and
  Agostino Chigi, the banker whose splendid financial abilities and
  great wealth gave him the surname of ‘Il Magnifico.’” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A few slips in dates which we have observed may be due to oversight
  on the part of the proof-reader, but inconsistency in giving the
  modern equivalent for sums of money can hardly be due to that cause.
  In general there is good reason to speak well of the book.”

     + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 623. Ap. ’07. 840w.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 241. D. ’06.

  “The work is one of permanent value and interest, and a special word
  of praise must be given to the illustrations. There is an excellent
  index.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 545. My. 4. 1230w.

  “Fills a gap in the important series of topographical and antiquarian
  studies whereby the most readable of archæologists has done so much to
  render the chaotic Rome of to-day an intelligible spectacle to the
  passing pilgrim.” Harriet Waters Preston.

       + =Atlan.= 99: 424. Mr. ’07. 1350w.

  “The many matters which Signor Lanciani has taken out of their
  semi-obscurity in the Italian archives of learned societies and made
  available to the English reader, the many stories which he has himself
  aided in unfolding, entitle him to not a little gratitude.” Anna B.
  McMahan.

     + + =Dial.= 41: 446. D. 16, ’06. 1390w.

  “It is really in this elaborate introduction to his main topic that
  the professor best proves his originality of thought and literary
  skill.”

     + − =Int. Studio.= 31: 165. Ap. ’07. 320w.

  “The volume contains much hitherto-unpublished information gained from
  study of the old monuments.”

       + =Lit. D.= 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 70w.

  “The general attractiveness of Lanciani’s writing is indubitable. His
  sentences run fluently. He is singularly effective in the manner of
  telling a story as it were to a single listener. The writer can hardly
  hold himself down for two consecutive minutes to the topic he has in
  hand. Another fault is the tendency to inaccuracy, which appears so
  frequently in matters that can be checked, that it arouses distrust of
  the author’s accuracy in matters of perhaps greater moment that lie
  within the scope of his peculiar knowledge.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 268. Mr. 21, ’07. 1340w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 170w.

  “Rodolfo Lanciani seems now to have reached the age when his
  accumulation of knowledge vaguely obscures his point of view as to the
  essentials required for popular interpretation.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 309. My. 11, ’07. 760w.

  “A notable and impressive looking volume.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 765. Mr. 30, ’07. 270w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 115. Ja. ’07. 30w.

  “Professor Lanciani, indeed, who, in the course of a gossiping and
  diverting book, devotes a chapter to the subject, writes of these
  poems with somewhat less than his customary insight.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 430. Ap. 6, ’07. 880w.

  “Signor Lanciani knows his subject thoroughly and at first hand, and
  he is able to bring to bear a vast amount of curious and interesting
  detail.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 1007. Je. 29, ’07. 250w.


=Landon, Perceval.= Under the sun. *$4.80. Doubleday.

                                                                7–35221.

  “Twenty-five chapters written in the course of annual wanderings over
  India during the last five years.... Every province in India,
  including Burma, is represented.... The final chapter purports to
  describe the later days of Nana Sahib.... The book is well
  illustrated.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 124. My. ’07.

  “The chapters are mainly impressions of many Indian cities, and they
  are generally correct and just; the writer is faithful as to local
  colour, and not less trustworthy as to local smells, which are often
  more insistent, if less insisted on by descriptive writers.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 828. D. 29. 500w.

  “Many of his narratives of famous persons and events ... are of
  thrilling interest.” H. E. Coblentz.

       + =Dial.= 42: 372. Je. 16, ’07. 250w.

  “Has most of the attractive literary features of the author’s recent
  volume on Tibet. The illustrations, an important feature of the book,
  include many unusual aspects of India.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 35: 207. Ag. 10, ’07. 560w.

  “Even the reader who has never seen India may enjoy these impressions;
  but it is the visitor reading on the spot, or, still more, the old
  resident refreshing his memory with them for whom they will have the
  greatest charm. As far as it is possible to do so in words, they
  certainly convey the impression of the colouring and the atmosphere of
  the scenes which they describe.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 5: 391. N. 23, ’06. 780w.

  “He certainly has produced a readable book, though many of his
  sketches convey less clear-cut impressions of the places than those of
  some other writers who have gone over the ground before, Steevens, for
  instance; and they lack proportion. Some point is seized on and
  overstrained with a discursiveness that causes the reader at times to
  lose the thread of the narrative, whilst other more characteristic
  features of the picture are omitted.”

     − + =Nature.= 75: 268. F. 17, ’07. 880w.

  “The author has had a quick eye for the distinctive features of the
  Eastern wonderland.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 285. My. 4, ’07. 400w.

  “Mr. Landon’s book is valuable because it comprises suggestive
  impressions of an acute observer as to the actual present.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 512. O. ’07. 60w.

  “He writes well and picturesquely. Bookmaking of this sort is
  overdone, and the chief novelty in it is the account given at the end,
  of the last days of Nana Sahib. It is a somewhat incongruous chapter
  in such a book, and at best is not a very valuable or entertaining
  contribution to history.”

     − + =Sat. R.= 102: 747. D. 15, ’06. 150w.


=Landor, Walter Savage.= Charles James Fox: a commentary on his life and
character; ed. by Stephen Wheeler. *$2.75. Putnam.

                                                                7–29125.

  A hitherto unpublished work of Walter Savage Landor’s—a study of the
  life and character of the statesman Charles James Fox. The book was
  printed in 1812, but suppressed, and the manuscript and all but one
  copy of the book were destroyed. “The memoirs were, of course, highly
  eulogistic of Fox, and hence a bête noire to Landor, who was in the
  habit of hurling abuse with impartial hand at most of the political
  leaders of his day.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is handsomely set forth and the editorial notes are good and
  sufficient.” G. S. Street.

       + =Acad.= 72: 73. Je. 15, ’07. 880w.

  “No reader of discrimination can lay the volume aside without feeling
  that, despite its extravagance and occasional perversity it is the
  product of a noble and magnificently endowed intellect.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 656. Je. 1. 1270w.

  “Its present day claim is upon students of literature rather than of
  politics. It is the vigorous unconventional prose in which Landor’s
  political and literary convictions are expressed that gives the volume
  any permanent value that attaches to it.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 881. O. 10, ’07. 490w.

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 138. My. 3, ’07. 1320w.

  “As an historical estimate of Fox the book is too polemical to have
  much value, but the style has a rare energy and color.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 126. Ag. 8, ’07. 270w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 400w.

  “Well worth the painstaking labor that Mr. Stephen Wheeler has
  bestowed upon it, for in its present form the ‘Commentary’ has both a
  literary and a political value.” Edward Porritt.

       + =No. Am.= 185: 664. Jl. 19, ’07. 1810w.

  “A work which, for all its defects, bears in certain particulars the
  stamp of true genius.”

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 562. Je. 13, ’07. 1910w.

  “It was certainly well worth publishing, and the editor has done his
  work with care and precision.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 625. My. 18, ’07. 130w.

  “It is as a glimpse into Landor’s mind, as an additional chapter in
  the life of one of the strangest and most original among English men
  of letters, that his ‘commentary’ possesses its real and permanent
  value.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 292. Ag. 31, ’07. 2430w.


=Lang, Andrew.= Homer and his age. *$3.50. Longmans.

                                                                 7–2323.

  “The present volume, while it contains much that is to be found in its
  predecessor [‘Homer and the epic’] is less general, and deals rather
  with problems of archaeology, the writer seeking to show that
  throughout the Iliad there is a consistency in regard to such details
  as the peculiar feudal relations of the chiefs to their over-lord, the
  burial of the dead, the use of bronze for weapons, or the descriptions
  of armour, which affords convincing proof that all parts of the poem
  are approximately of the same date.” (Spec.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We welcome another powerful counterblast from the graceful and
  vigorous pen of Mr. Andrew Lang against the disintegrators of the
  poems of Homer.” R. Y. Tyrrell.

       + =Acad.= 71: 543. D. 1, ’06. 1600w.

  “It is a fascinating book, and a noteworthy. Mr. Lang was born too
  late to keep the wolf from the door of the Homeric house, but this
  championship of Homer will go far to bring the poet’s scattered goods
  together again under one roof, to be the heirlooms of Achaean glory.”

     + + =Acad.= 72: 624. Je. 29, ’07. 2200w.

  “Altogether, from frontispiece ... to finis, the book is one for which
  every Homeric student may well be grateful.” J. Irving Manatt.

     + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 605. Ap. ’07. 700w.

  “We are sorry that Mr. Lang has not treated his subject more
  thoroughly, because we are at one with him in most that he says, and
  would fain go the whole way if we could.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 38. Ja. 12. 1260w.

  “Mr. Lang’s polemic, despite much repetition and some wearisome
  details, holds the attention by a wealth of pertinent illustration
  from Norse and Old French literature, and by the force and cunning of
  his dialectical swordplay.” Paul Shorey.

     + − =Dial.= 42: 248. Ap. 16, ’07. 1450w.

  “Excellent book.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 75. Mr. 8, ’07. 1790w.

  “He has evidently written up his notes _currente calamo_, with little
  concern for system and unity of presentation, consistency in argument,
  or the elimination of wearisome repitition.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 458. My. 16, ’07. 580w.

  “Mr. Lang has written such a sound, humane and scholarly book that we
  can say directly: This is of the absolute truth.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 26. Ja. 19, ’07. 1630w.

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 304. Mr. 9, ’07. 1740w.

  “Those who love Homer or admire Mr. Lang will take up this volume with
  eagerness, only to close it with a sigh, while the critic who dreamed
  of finding matter for a pleasant essay discovers that he has to deal
  with a dispute the pleadings in which would perplex and weary even the
  Court of Chancery.”

     + − =Spec.= 97: 1046. D. 22, ’06. 1850w.


=Lang, Andrew=, ed. Olive fairy book. **$1.60. Longmans.

                                                                7–31208.

  Colored plates and numerous other illustrations give additional life
  to these tales derived from various sources, from India, France,
  Turkey, Armenia, and Denmark.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “As fascinating as those that have gone before. The book is sure to
  enthral any child who may possess it, and many persons of more
  discreet years.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 478. O. 19. 90w.

         =Nation.= 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 70w.

  “At times are gruesome and without moral, to an extent that prohibits
  their being wholesome reading for very young children.”

       − =R. of Rs.= 36: 764. D. ’07. 100w.

  “The collection is an excellent one—Mr. Lang’s editorship vouches for
  that—and one and all are entertaining.”

       + =Spec.= 99: sup. 748. N. 16, ’07. 150w.


* =Lang, Andrew=, ed. Orange fairy book; il. by H. J. Ford. **$1.60.
Longmans.

                                                                6–34647.

  Mr. Lang says that his stories “‘are taken from those told by grannies
  to grandchildren in many countries and many languages—French, Italian,
  Spanish, Catalan, Gaelic, Icelandic, Cherokee, African, Indian,
  Australian, Slavonic, and what not.’ As he says, the old puzzle
  remains—‘why do the stories of the remotest people so closely resemble
  each other?’” (Sat. R.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Acad.= 71: 584. D. 8, ’06. 110w.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 52. F. ’07. ✠

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 511. O. 27. 70w.

       + =Cath. World.= 84: 408. D. ’06. 60w.

  “Mr. Lang’s ‘Orange fairy book’ will not have to look far for eager
  hands.”

       + =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 22, ’06. 40w.

  “High among fairy books must be placed Andrew Lang’s annual offering.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 70w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 140w.

       + =Outlook.= 84: 632. N. 10, ’06. 60w.

  “Some of them again, as in past years, too gruesome for child
  reading.”

     + − =R. of Rs.= 34: 765. D. ’06. 50w.

         =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 170w.

  “There is less of the gruesome than we seem to remember in one or
  other of the earlier volumes, and there are, as usual, some
  illustrations of excellent quality.”

       + =Spec.= 97: sup. 659. N. 3, ’06. 230w.


=Lang, Andrew=, ed. Poets’ country, il. **$5. Lippincott.

  In text and picture the purpose of this book is to trace the relations
  of poets with the aspects of “their ain countrie.” Among the poets are
  Scott, Shelley, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Chaucer, Goldsmith,
  Keats, Spencer, Moore and Burns. A number of men have participated in
  producing the volume.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The fact is that the ‘spirit of place’ dominates a few poets only,
  and a more careful selection would have made this book more
  representative.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 787. Je. 29. 520w.

  “The book is one to delight lovers of poetry and lovers of the English
  country.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 377. D. 1, ’07. 280w.

       + =Nation.= 85: 397. O. 31, ’07. 480w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

  “It is chock-block full of telling quotations, and it really has
  plenty of pleasant and informed matter.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 788. Je. 22, ’07. 160w.

  “All the essays included in the volume may be read with great
  pleasure.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 133. Jl. 27, ’07. 300w.


=Lang, Andrew.= Portraits and jewels of Mary Stuart. *$2.75. Macmillan.

                                                                 7–2430.

  A pictorial history of Mary Queen of Scots from her tenth year to that
  preceding her death. Mr. Lang has selected, in all, thirteen portraits
  which he proves to be contemporary and authentic. He is aided in
  accepting or rejecting a portrait by jewels represented to be worn at
  different sittings.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Andrew Lang has now gone over the ground again with an historical
  acumen greater than that of any of his predecessors in the field.” J.
  H. Pollen, S. J.

     + + =Acad.= 70: 543. Je. 9, ’06. 1160w.

  “The text is noteworthy for its criticism, its freshness, and its
  suggestiveness.”

     + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 193. Ag. 18. 1020w.

  “An inquiry from this point of view has added considerably to our
  knowledge of the subject, both with regard to portraits and
  miniatures. Mr. Lang’s most important result is a rehabilitation of a
  fascinating portrait in the possession of the earl of Leven and
  Melville.” Robert S. Rait.

     + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 803. O. ’06. 570w.

  “With infinite care and rare critical acumen he has summed up the
  arguments.”

     + + =Int. Studio.= 30: 90. N. ’06. 340w.

  “The object of Mr. Lang, supplementing as he does the researches of
  Sir George Scharf, Mr. Lionel Cust, Mr. Foster, and others, is rather
  to correct over-scepticism and to indicate if possible the claims to
  consideration of certain portraits on which doubts are thrown.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 298. Ag. 31, ’06. 2590w.

  “Especially in its account of the Queen’s jewels this study is a
  valuable addition to the knowledge of all who have not the advantage
  of being Scottish antiquarians.”

     + + =Nation.= 83: 418. N. 15, ’06. 950w.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 557. S. 8, ’06. 2220w. (Reprinted from Lond.
         Times.)

  “Mr. Lang has had several predecessors in this field of research about
  Mary Stuart’s personal appearance and ornaments, but he has drawn
  information from original sources, and added some fresh facts.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 10. O. 13, ’06. 150w.

  “It is a subject after his own heart, and he has done it ample
  justice.”

     + + =Spec.= 97: 173. Ag. 4, ’06. 450w.


=Lang, Elsie M.= Literary London; with introd. by G. K. Chesterton.
*$1.50. Scribner.

                                                                7–13410.

  Cyclopedic in its manner of treatment and alphabetic in its
  arrangement Miss Lang’s book becomes one of handy reference.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Will prove useful to the tourist who is in search of the spots
  associated with the great English writers.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 48. Ja. 16, ’07. 50w.

  “As a book of reference, it has merits, though they do not include
  completeness.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 57. Ja. 17, ’07. 380w.

  “To one who knows London well enough to have its broad map and the
  relative position of its neighborhoods in his mind, the book is a
  delight. It is a collection of prosaic but agreeable memories.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 885. D. 22, ’06. 1180w.


=Langdon, Amelie=, comp. Just for two: a collection of recipes designed
for two persons. 3d ed., rev. and enl. *90c. Wilson, H. W.

  A new edition of a popular cook book which deals in amounts small
  enough to serve two people without waste.


=Langfeld, Millard.= Introduction to infectious and parasitic diseases,
including their cause and manner of transmission; with an introduction
by Lewellys F. Barker. *$1.25. Blakiston.

                                                                7–17014.

  A book for nurses, physicians and students which gives a clear
  description of the fundamental principles of the causation and manner
  of transmission of infectious diseases, and includes chapters on
  bacteriology, animal parasites and disinfectants and disinfection.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “For the general reader, it would be hard to find a better concise
  statement of the more modern view of micro-organisms in their relation
  to disease. But the classification of the non-specific bacteria (p.
  51) is somewhat obscure, and the terminology, although justified by
  numerous precedents, is inconsistent.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 238. S. 12, ’07. 220w.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 465. Jl. 27, ’07. 200w.


=Lankester, Edwin Ray.= Kingdom of man. **$1.40. Holt.

                                                                7–29194.

  This is not “as its title might indicate, an anthropological treatise,
  but rather a group of three very interesting and striking essays on
  scientific subjects, especially as related to the needs and interests
  of humanity. The first is the Romanes lecture at Oxford in 1905, and
  is a ... plea that the English universities abandon the compulsory
  study of Greek and Latin and make the study of nature an integral and
  predominant part of every man’s education.... The second essay is an
  outline of the advance in science made in the last quarter of a
  century, being the presidential address at the recent meeting of the
  British association for the advancement of science.... The closing
  essay is on the ‘Sleeping sickness’ which is now devastating tropical
  Africa and bids fair to become the third great plague of the
  race.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He has conjured up for us, in the three chapters of this book, a
  lurid picture of our position to-day; while, at the same time, he
  gives us a masterly exposition of what the new learning will do for
  us, both as regards our private and our public affairs. The latest
  discoveries in astronomy, physics, chemistry, and biology are here
  lucidly set forth; and in such a way that even the most skeptical must
  feel that we have too long neglected our duty in this matter.” W. P.
  Pycraft.

       + =Acad.= 72: 206. Mr. 2, ’07. 1350w.

  Review by Charles Atwood Kofoid.

       + =Dial.= 43: 14. Jl. 1, ’07. 740w.

  “The volume is a valuable addition to popular scientific literature.
  Its skeptical, almost contemptuous attitude toward certain conclusions
  of psychologists, quite as well established as the human nature of the
  ‘pithecanthropus,’ e. g. telepathy, freshly illustrates the streak of
  provincialism observable in men of the highest special learning.”

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 479. Je. 29, ’70. 320w.

  “A work of interest and scientific insight.”

       + =Spec.= 98: sup. 644. Ap. 27, ’07. 1220w.


=Lansdale, Maria Horner.= Chateaux of Touraine. **$6. Century.

                                                                6–34856.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Authoritative, accurate, and charming in style.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 45. F. ’07.

  “The only chapter in which the author breaks new ground is that on
  Luynes, which relates at some length the history of the descendants of
  Charles d’Albert.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 583. My. 11. 180w.

  Reviewed by Harriet Waters Preston.

       + =Atlan.= 99: 422. Mr. ’07. 110w.


=Lapponi, Giuseppe.= Hypnotism and spiritism: a critical and medical
study; tr. from the 2d rev. ed. by Mrs. Philip Gibbs. *$1.50. Longmans.

                                                                7–11197.

  “The doctor carefully distinguishes hypnotism from spiritism; and he
  points out the two considerations that have led some writers to
  confound them. The first is that hypnotic subjects, as well as
  spiritistic media, belong to the neurotic class; the second is that
  from hypnotic to spiritistic phenomena the distance is not great, and
  very frequently they are found side by side, alternately, or even
  together.”—Cath. World.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author treats his subject in a simple, popular fashion, and does
  not profess to have any personal experience of spiritistic
  manifestations, and no expert acquaintance with hypnotism.”

       + =Cath. World.= 85: 403. Je. ’07. 400w.

         =Nature.= 76: 348. Ag. 8, ’07. 390w.

  “Unquestionably it is highly interesting, but its interest is for
  [one] who wants to study the mind of a pope’s physician rather than
  occultism, or for an ardent disbeliever in metaphysics who may be
  pleased by an agreement with his thoughts.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 173. Mr. 23, ’07. 280w.

  Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 425. Jl. 6, ’07. 710w.


=Larned, Josephus Nelson.= Books, culture and character. **$1. Houghton.

                                                                6–36012.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 687, Ap. ’07. 140w.

  “Mr. Larned’s book to some degree shows the limitation under which
  many good treatises suffer. They deal with what ought to be, to the
  exclusion of what is.” Wm. T. Brewster.

   + + − =Forum.= 28: 382. Ja. ’07. 1210w.

  “The addresses are neither erudite nor ‘literary.’ But they are
  commendable for the plain common-sense and simple clear-sightedness
  with which they resolve some of the confusions and sophistries of the
  day.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 10. Ja. 3, ’07. 170w.

  “The appeal for a more humanistic teaching of history and the
  straightforward attack upon many sophistical subtilities of the
  present day commend the book to those who are not bored by the plain
  good intention and right-minded common-sense.” George H. Browne.

   + + − =School R.= 15: 401. My. ’07. 850w.


* =Lasance, F. X.= Thoughts on the religious life. *$1.50. Benziger.

  On the general principles of religious life, on perfect charity the
  end of the religious life, on vocation, the vows, the rules, the
  cloister virtues and the main devotions of the church.


* =Lathers, Richard.= Reminiscences of Richard Lathers. **$2.50. Grafton
press.

                                                                7–21270.

  Reminiscences of sixty years of active life spent in South Carolina,
  Massachusetts, and New York. Tho a Southerner, the author’s attitude
  was against secession and he stood for the preservation of the Union.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

  “The many friendships that he formed during and after the civil war
  with men of prominence give a peculiar interest to his letters, which
  chiefly make up the present volume.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 755. D. ’07. 90w.


=Lathrop, Elise.= Where Shakespeare set his stage. **$2. Pott.

                                                                6–33547.

  “Lovers of Shakespeare will be particularly interested in the Lathrop
  volume.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Ind.= 61: 1403. D. 22, ’06. 150w.

  “The book is a welcome, if not a weighty, addition to the
  Shakespearian literature, and will form a profitable companion volume
  to an edition of his works.”

       + =Spec.= 99: sup. 466. O. 5, ’07. 180w.


=Latta, Marion Nisbet-.= Handbook of American gas-engineering practice.
*$4.50. Van Nostrand.

                                                                7–30142.

  A three-part work as follows: 1, Water-gas manufacture, from the
  consideration of the fuels and materials to the gas-holder; 2, Gas
  distribution, including also a discussion of the various gas-burning
  appliances and their attendant data; 3, General technical data,
  containing theoretical, mathematical, and technical information on the
  properties of gases and steam caloric values, temperature data, etc.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The sweeping condemnation of any work should ever be unpleasant and
  not lightly done. Nothing else seems possible, however, in the case of
  this book and gas engineers, should be prompt to disavow it as
  representing to any appreciable extent ‘American gas engineering
  practice.’” Walton Forstall and Charles J. Ramsburg.

     − − =Engin. N.= 58: 531. N. 14, ’07. 1940w.


=Lau, Robert Julius.= Old Babylonian temple records. **$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                6–46312.

  “In the winter of 1894–95 DeSarzec, the explorer of Tello,
  unearthed ... large collections of inscribed clay tablets, estimated
  to number about 30,000.... Columbia university acquired 258 of them,
  which Dr. Lau has published in this small and handy volume. A little
  more than one-third of the tablets he has transcribed. These appear in
  facsimile reproduction with a sign list and glossary. Prefixed to this
  is a catalogue of the entire collection, containing a description of
  each tablet and its contents.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a fine piece of work, accurately done, and a credit to the
  university’s scholarship; while it illustrates the importance to a
  university of having access to such original material for study.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 445. F. 21, ’07. 330w.

  “Intended primarily for Assyriologists, they contain material of the
  first value for the student of the history of mankind.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 414. My. 2, ’07. 600w.


=Laughlin, Clara E.= Felicity: the making of a comedienne. †$1.50.
Scribner.

                                                                7–10619.

  The story of a stage career. Felicity Fergus, orphaned in babyhood, is
  brought up by an austere grandmother who fought the child’s
  irrepressible sense of humor, vivid imagination and general spirit of
  hero worship. Felicity comes under the spell of an old comedian, who
  discovers the spark of histrionism in her, but who discourages an
  ambitious aunt in starting the child upon the long road to stage fame.
  Nevertheless the start is made, and the reader is given an intimate
  view of hardships that pave the way to success, of heartaches and
  struggles that lie just back of the footlights. The great charm of the
  story lies in the unsullied freshness with which Felicity emerges from
  her developing process against odds to grace the high places in her
  profession.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 136. My. ’07.

  “It leaves you with the pleasant feeling that the world is full of
  gentle and brave people; that suffering is accounted for by the
  sweetening of character under its ministry; and that love will not
  pass by on the other side if one’s heart is ready to receive it.”
  Harry James Smith.

       + =Atlan.= 100: 133. Jl. ’07. 380w.

  “Studies of theatrical life, that bear the imprint of accurate
  knowledge are so few and far between that ‘Felicity’ would still be a
  noteworthy book even without the blending of tender humour and pathos
  which it in no small degree possesses.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

     + + =Bookm.= 25: 284. Ap. ’07. 390w.

  “It is, on the whole, a novel of such interest and charm that we are
  content to accept it, with whatever defects may accompany its
  qualities, as one of the most pleasing contributions to the season’s
  output of fiction.” Wm. M. Payne.

     + − =Dial.= 42: 315. My. 16, ’07. 500w.

  “It is the first American story of stage life that promises to achieve
  a popular success, perhaps because it does not go too far below the
  surface.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 1268. My. 30, ’07. 120w.

  “The story gives a very fair idea of the wholesome side of the stage.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 593. Ap. 13, ’07. 280w.

  “The merits of this book lie largely in its freedom from the usual
  features of the theatrical novel.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 291. Mr. 28, ’07. 310w.

  “There are some awkward constructions. The story upon the whole,
  however, is an admirable one, quite out of the common, and full of
  varied interest.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 189. Mr. 30, ’07. 880w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.

  “It is full of unusual qualities, but there are too many monologues
  and duets in it; everybody except Phineas Morton talks too much.”

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 115. My. 18, ’07. 180w.


=Laughlin, James Laurence.= Industrial America; the Berlin lectures of
1906. **$1.25. Scribner.

                                                                6–37187.

  These lectures given at Berlin by Prof. Laughlin of Chicago university
  were delivered in the German language and include the following
  industrial subjects: American competition with Europe, Protection and
  reciprocity, The labor problem, The trust problem, The railway
  question, The banking problem, The present status of economic thinking
  in the United States.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 99. Ap. ’07. S.

  “The volume is to be commended to all who are seeking to understand
  these questions.”

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 468. N. ’06. 120w.

  “But while we believe Professor Laughlin has not over-stated the facts
  concerning the Senate we wonder at his inability to reason
  consistently when he attempts to discuss some other important
  problems.” Robert E. Bisbee.

     + − =Arena.= 36: 675. D. ’06. 1950w.

  “Interesting and well-written volume.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 314. Mr. 16. 1260w.

  “It must be admitted that he has not duly considered in his argument
  some very important aspects of the subject.” Charles Richmond
  Henderson.

     + − =Dial.= 43: 248. O. 16, ’07. 140w.

  “Tho much contained therein may appear to us trite and commonplace,
  the volume, nevertheless, forms a noteworthy addition to our economic
  literature.”

       + =Ind.= 61: 1230. N. 22, ’06. 860w.

  “There is nothing now in print better worth the attention of American
  readers of average intelligence, who are looking for explanations of
  those problems at once clear, calm, and of moderate compass.” Horace
  White.

     + + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 48. Ja. ’07. 2280w.

  “Professor Laughlin has acquitted himself creditably, and we trust
  that his successors may be equally fortunate in their diplomatic
  missions.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 538. D. 20, ’06. 880w.

  “The topics touched are pregnant with present and future interest, and
  even those who dissent from the author’s views upon highly contentious
  matters will find much said in little compass.” Edward A. Bradford.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 2. Ja. 5, ’07. 1600w.

  “Not all readers will agree with all of Dr. Laughlin’s conclusions.
  There can be but few readers, however, to whom the book will not be
  suggestive, and that is the highest merit of any work of utility or
  art.”

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 252. Je. 1, ’07. 930w.

  “It must be said, however, that the lectures are so elementary and the
  lecturer’s conclusions so trite that it is doubtful whether they will
  be of much use to those who have time for even a brief course of
  reading.”

       − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 572. S. ’07. 240w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 115. Ja. ’07. 230w.


=Laurie, Simon Somerville.= Synthetica: being meditations
epistemological and ontological; comprising the Edinburgh university
Gifford lectures of 1905–6. 2v. *$7. Longmans.

                                                                7–19465.

  The first of these volumes contains nineteen meditations on knowledge,
  the second, eighteen meditations on God and man.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “As we read Dr. Laurie we cannot escape a sense of strangeness,
  amounting almost to despair. It all seems aloof and unfamiliar. He has
  a language and a terminology of his own, which we can only regard as
  gratuitously scholastic and unhomely. There can be no question but
  that his thought would have come to us more easily if he could have
  written more simply.”

     + − =Acad.= 71: 224. S. 8, ’06. 3540w. (Review of v. 1.)

         =Acad.= 71: 657. D. 29, ’06. 2110w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “Again, the first volume is by no means free from the confusions
  between psychology and epistemology, against which Sidgwick uttered an
  emphatic warning. However, whether we agree or disagree with the
  conclusions drawn—and they are many and controversial—the book well
  repays the not inconsiderable trouble of reading it.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 267. S. 8. 820w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “The interest of these volumes as a whole, apart from the feeling, and
  in many parts real inspiration and ‘élan,’ with which they are
  written, will probably be found in the comprehensiveness with which
  the problem of philosophy is grasped, and the sustained effort that is
  made to escape from the Scylla of the static or ‘stagnant’ Absolute
  without falling into the Charybdis of subjectivism and pluralism. In
  their own peculiar way they contain much that is helpful towards the
  restatement of idealism which is the chief philosophical requirement
  of the present time. Why this irritating form? It is not only that the
  second volume is merely a somewhat less technical restatement of the
  first, but in the argument of each there is endless repetition. For
  whom, again, is the book written? The uninitiated will find far too
  little; the initiated would be satisfied with much less; the
  positivist who could understand it if he would is not likely to
  persevere long in the attempt. But all this might be passed over if
  the writer had not made clear the point on which, as he rightly
  perceives, the whole must rest.” J. H. Muirhead.

     + − =Hibbert. J.= 6: 207. O. ’07. 2700w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “Difficult in expression and intellectually confused as the work is,
  its general aim and method as well as its philosophical affiliations
  may yet be detected.”

       − =Nation.= 84: 390. Ap. 25, ’07. 780w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “Regard for a rigorously clear form of exposition would have resulted
  in the simplification of many passages as well as the elimination of
  numerous repetitions. The author also has a tendency to construct for
  himself an elaborate terminology quite his own, and to employ unusual
  words when those of more general acceptance among philosophical
  writers would often have served his purpose equally well. These
  defects are the more to be regretted, as Dr. Laurie, at his best, is
  the master of a style which is clear, forceful, and not wanting in a
  note of distinction.” Walter G. Everett.

     − + =Philos. R.= 16: 639. N. ’07. 2370w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “It is by no means easy reading, but it will reward a careful study.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 83. Ja. 19, ’07. 1230w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)


=La Villeniere, Toussaint-Ambrose Talour de la Cartrie, comte de.=
Memoirs of the Count de Cartrie; with introd. by F: Masson, and
appendices and notes by Pierre Amedee Pichot. *$5 Lane.

                                                                W 6–336.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Cartrie’s narrative is thrilling; M. Pichot’s editing almost perfect;
  and Mr. Lane’s bookmaking very attractive.” G: M. Dutcher.

     + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 376. Ja. ’07. 600w.

  “Certainly M. Pichot’s distinguished success in discovering the
  identity of the Count de Cartrie, and in tracing his family history,
  is a very pretty piece of highly skilled detective work.” S. M.
  Francis.

       + =Atlan.= 100: 492. O. ’07. 370w.

  “Though of no particular historical value, sheds a good deal of light
  on the condition of provincial France during the months of the
  Terror.”

       + =Spec.= 97: 1081. D. 29, ’06. 3330w.


=Lavis, Fred.= Railroad location, surveys and estimates. *$3. Clark, M.
C.

                                                                6–34656.

  A work that combines detailed instruction on modern American methods
  of location with data on the estimating of quantities and unit prices.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Despite the reviewer’s criticism of some of the author’s methods, yet
  he quite agrees with the author that the method of location advocated
  by him is most thorough and up-to-date, and the best practice. The
  book is comprehensive, is an excellent epitome of good modern
  practice, and well adapted to the purposes for which it was designed.”
  M. P. Paret.

   + + − =Engin. N.= 57: 81. Ja. 17, ’07. 2560w.

  “After the teacher has given us what he can out of his study-room,
  then the young engineer will turn to such books as this one, gaining
  much information and getting by proxy valuable experience which,
  without such a book, would cost him much time and pains to acquire.
  The railroad engineers will appreciate this book and feel thankful to
  its author.” Willard Beahan.

     + + =Technical Literature.= 1: 174. Ap. ’07. 1950w.


=Lawrence, C. E.= Pilgrimage. †$1.50. Dutton.

  “Peruel, an angel of the army of the lost, seeks reentrance into
  heaven. Being given a chance, through the influence of Azrael, he
  becomes incarnate as a foundling baby in a country called Argovie.
  There he grows up as Luke, swineherd to the monastery of St. Donstan,
  where the situation between some of the friars vividly recalls
  Browning’s ‘Soliloquy of the Spanish cloister.’ The entire book is
  devoted to Luke’s spiritual struggles, his persecution by bigoted
  monks, by outlaws, and men at arms.... He ends, triumphant, a leper in
  a lazar house.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Lawrence has no quaint humour, no impassioned sincerity, no
  superb poetry, that can do justice to such an idea. His book is little
  more than pleasantly sentimental; there is no backbone of earnest or
  new thought.”

       − =Acad.= 72: 73. Je. 15, ’07. 280w.

  “His present work, we fear, is too shadowy; too remote from
  experience, and too ethereal.”

       − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 786. Je. 29. 170w.

         =Ind.= 63: 762. S. 26, ’07. 120w.

         =Nation.= 85: 188. Ag. 29, ’07. 190w.

  “The story is written with unusual delicacy of touch and with a
  knowledge of human nature that considering the spiritual quality of
  the tale, is somewhat surprising.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 230w.

         =Sat. R.= 104: 117. Jl. 27, ’07. 180w.


=Lawrence, Sir Thomas.= Sir Thomas Lawrence’s letter-bag; ed. by G. S.
Layard. *$4. Longmans.

                                                                7–28948.

  Letters collected from Sir Thomas Lawrence’s voluminous correspondence
  which “correct and proper” epistles that they are and having little to
  do with his love affairs, tend to banish from the reader’s mind the
  story of the artist’s unhappy relations with Mrs. Siddons’ two
  daughters.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In these letters there is a good deal that is valuable as well as
  interesting.”

       + =Acad.= 71: 656. D. 29, ’06. 1090w.

  “This volume does not make material additions to the known
  circumstance of Lawrence’s life as set forth in Williams’s ponderous
  biography, but it is undeniably interesting.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 649. N. 24. 1510w.

       + =Dial.= 42: 82. F. 1, ’07. 280w.

  “This volume contains much new and interesting personal information
  about the great English painter.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 341. Mr. 2, ’07. 240w.

  “It should be added that the illustrations are excellent and well
  chosen, and that the ‘Recollections’ by Miss Croft, who was an
  intimate friend of the painter for many years, are a very interesting
  addition to the book.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 407. D. 7, ’06. 1150w.

  “A more delightful volume than Mr. Layard’s it would be hard to find.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 56. Ja. 26, ’07. 560w.

  “We do not relish Mr. Layard’s literary style. It is vehement and
  familiar. Nor are the letters of Sir Thomas Lawrence pleasing, as
  letters. They are dry and formal and generally ungrammatical and
  obscure. The facts of the great artist’s life as exhibited in the
  letters are however interesting enough.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 177. F. 9. ’07. 1510w.

  “With the material at his command, Mr. Layard might have produced a
  satisfactory biography. He has been content to give us this material
  (or a part of it) instead of the finished work.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 458. Mr. 23, ’07. 1360w.


=Lawson, Thomas W.= Friday the 13th. †$1.50. Doubleday.

                                                                 7–8213.

  The spirit of frenzied finance hovers over this tale in which figure a
  proud ex-governor of Virginia, who loses in a speculation game carried
  on with trust funds, a loyal daughter, and a hero who plays the stock
  market to retrieve the Virginian’s fortune. “It may be characterized
  as a nightmare of love and stock gambling, wherein the ‘System’ shakes
  its gory locks and brandishes a handful of bloodstained razors,
  stalking the while prodigious over the necks of its prostrate
  victims.” (N. Y. Times.) “What Mr. Lawson attempts to do is to show
  the degrading effect of speculation upon character.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author fails to convince us that his theory is without flaw, or
  that it could be depended upon in practice, to produce the results
  which he desires.”

     − + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 436. Ap. 13. 140w.

  “A crude, shrieking dime novel is this story, and therefore not likely
  to be without its host of readers. It is an incendiary book as well.”

       − =Ind.= 62: 798. Ap. 4, ’07. 370w.

  “The reader has an uncomfortable impression of a stuffed dragon and a
  stage St. George. But there are stirring incidents in the book, many
  pieces of lurid description, and not a little moralizing.”

     − + =Lit. D.= 34: 509. Mr. 30, ’07. 210w.

  “The delineation of character requires more literary art than Mr.
  Lawson, with all his red-hot, hyphenated adjectives, can show, and as
  for his plot, it steadily thins instead of thickens. Of course
  everyone that has been within a mile of Trinity church knows that the
  book, as a picture of Wall Street life and methods, is absurd.”

       − =Nation.= 84: 201. F. 28, ’07. 410w.

  “The moral was Mr. Lawson’s first thought, perhaps, but the book shows
  him as a sentimentalist of the deepest dye. He quite loses in the
  depth of that sentiment sight of the fashion in which his moral turns
  and rends his own chosen personages and protagonists of the tragedy of
  greed.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 124. Mr. 2, ’07. 880w.

         =Outlook.= 85: 718. Mr. 23, ’07. 120w.

  “Mr. Lawson is another offensive partisan in literature—or perhaps I
  had better say fiction. It’s a poor novel.” Vernon Atwood.

       − =Putnam’s.= 2: 619. Ag. ’07. 180w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 761. Je. ’07. 90w.

  “We are certain that such a novel as ‘Friday the 13th’ will do little
  or nothing to cure the evil of stock-gambling. None of Mr. Lawson’s
  characters—if indeed they deserve the name, for they are merely
  puppets—are lovely or lovable.”

       − =Sat. R.= 103: 497. Ap. 20, ’07. 750w.


=Lawton, Frederick.= Life and work of Auguste Rodin. *$3.75. Scribner.

                                                                7–13425.

  A “life” made authoritative and significant through M. Rodin’s
  personal assistance. “From first-hand sources and with infinite pains,
  Mr. Lawton has compiled a connected account of Rodin’s career which is
  vastly more valuable as a document than as an interpretation.”
  (Putnam’s.) “Stress, strain, and struggle have been from first to last
  the dominant characteristics of the life of a man who stands almost
  alone amongst his contemporaries as a realistic exponent of plastic
  art, and who in spite of the great value of everything from his
  hand ... is not even now in what can be called easy circumstances.”
  (Int. Studio.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Viewed in the most favourable light it is a useful compilation and
  gathering together of scattered fragments of criticism and biography
  emanating from more competent pens. It has, consequently, some value
  as a work of reference, more especially to the student who is
  conversant with Mr. Lawton’s sources of information. A more favourable
  opinion of the author would have been created were these sources more
  clearly acknowledged. As criticism, his book cannot have, even for the
  general reader, more than a slight, and generally borrowed value.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 38. Ja. 12, ’07. 900w.

  “The biographer is too near his subject to see him in true relation
  with the rest of the world, and the book, pitched on a note of
  monotonous laudation, makes small attempt at a balanced judgment.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 172. F. 9. 2630w.

  “Mr. Lawton’s well-illustrated volume is a work of close and cogent
  reasoning, eminently fair and candid, and must promote a better
  understanding of the relative positions of representatives of the
  plastic art on questions which seem to involve serious but not
  necessarily irreconcilable antagonism.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 290. My. 1, ’07. 420w.

       + =Int. Studio.= 31: 164. Ap. ’07. 210w.

  “His biographer ... after a sufficiently entertaining yet exhaustive
  description of the man and his work, leaves us in considerable doubt
  whether Pheidias or Praxiteles or Michael Angelo all together could
  bulk as large and satisfy the soul of the esthete as well as the
  author of ‘Le Penseur.’” Charles de Kay.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 169. Mr. 23, ’07. 2360w.

  “Though possessing neither psychological penetration nor literary
  distinction, the book, because of its size and general sincerity of
  purpose, ranks as one of the most important studies yet published on
  the solitary plastic Titan of the day.” Christian Brinton.

     + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 126. Ap. ’07. 220w.


* =Layard, George Somes.= Shirley Brooks of ‘Punch;’ his life, letters
and diaries. **$3.50. Holt.

  A rather voluminous biography of a London journalist written over
  thirty years after his death. It is written from the memorials that he
  left of himself in his own letters, diaries and journals.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The biographer is unnecessarily outspoken at the expense of his
  subject.”

       − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 680. N. 30. 880w.

  “It is so painstaking, its intentions are so honourable, and yet it is
  impossible conscientiously to say that more than one-tenth of its
  pages are necessary or, indeed, ordinarily readable. Technically the
  book is good, for Mr. Layard has a pleasant easy style; but a
  biographer’s style is nothing if his judgment is not sound, and in the
  disproportion of this work we find the gravest reason to doubt the
  soundness of Mr. Layard’s.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 355. N. 22, ’07. 1350w.

  “Mr. Layard’s volume was very well worth making.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 758. N. 30, ’07. 1520w.


=Lea, Henry Charles.= History of sacerdotal celibacy in the Christian
church. 3d ed. 2v. *$5. Macmillan.

                                                                7–37256.

  Originally published in 1867 this work has come to its third edition
  which includes additions and changes. “The futility of a fifteen
  centuries’ struggle against the nature of things appears throughout
  the narrative, and is emphasized by the scandalous conditions reported
  in Italy and in Latin America during the latter part of the nineteenth
  century. Throughout all these centuries the church has been more
  tolerant of concubinage than of marriage among her clergy.... The
  republication of this monumental work is timely for the new crisis
  which the apparent irreformability of the Vatican seems to be bringing
  on.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The revision for the new edition has not been so thorough as the
  subject deserves. The proof-reading is not quite up to Mr. Lea’s high
  standard. It is a pity that references are still given to antiquated
  collections ... in cases where the texts cited are to be found in more
  correct and more accessible modern editions.”

   + + − =Nation.= 85: 492. N. 28, ’07. 380w.

  “Scholars are already acquainted with the earlier editions, and will
  welcome their enlargement.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 677. O. 26, ’07. 290w.

  “It is non-controversial history, content with a record of facts.”

     + + =Outlook.= 87: 453. O. 26, ’07. 360w.

  “It is an accurate and exhaustive account of a clearly defined object,
  and well merits the place which is commonly assigned to it among
  standard authorities.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 104: 366. S. 21, ’07. 1260w.

  “Dr. Lea’s reputation for impartiality and a judicial temper, needed
  in this as much as in any subject, stands high, and the reader will
  find that it is not undeserved.”

     + + =Spec.= 99: 27. Jl. 6, ’07. 60w.


=Lea, Henry Charles.= History of the Inquisition of Spain. 4v. ea.
**$2.50. Macmillan.

                                                                 6–2996.

  =v. 3.= The first two chapters of Mr. Lea’s third volume are upon
  “‘Torture’ and ‘The trial’ and complete his study of the practice of
  the Inquisition; five others, beginning with ‘The sentence’ and ending
  with ‘The auto de fé,’ cover what he has to tell us of its
  punishments; and the closing four, on ‘Jews,’ ‘Moriscos,’
  ‘Protestantism,’ and ‘Censorship,’ open that survey of its spheres of
  action which is to fill also most of his final volume.”—Am. Hist. R.

  =v. 4.= The author’s study of the Inquisition, brought to a close in
  this volume, results in the conclusion “that its work was almost
  wholly evil, and that, through reflex action, the persecutor suffered
  along with the persecuted.” The volume deals with curious phases of
  doctrine and superstition prevalent at that time, such as sorcery and
  the occult arts, witchcraft, Jansenism and the varied political and
  social conditions which fostered not only the Inquisition itself but
  the tendencies that it was intended to combat.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Reviewed by George L. Burr.

         =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 359. Ja. ’07. 800w. (Review of v. 2.)

  Reviewed by George L. Burr.

         =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 625. Ap. ’07. 1050w. (Review of v. 3.)

  Reviewed by Franklin Johnson.

         =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 342. Ap. ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “The ripe work of a great scholar, acknowledged to be the greatest
  living authority in his field—the history of the inquisition.”

     + + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 45. F. ’07. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “To say that he has written the best book on the subject is scarcely
  to convey an adequate idea of its merit, for there is really no book
  that deserves to be compared with it.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 127. F. 2. 1280w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “Written in the impartial spirit characteristic of the author’s
  earlier publications, this is the crowning achievement in the career
  of the octogenarian who is generally recognized on the continent as
  second to no other American historian.”

   + + + =Ind.= 62: 496. F. 28, ’07. 1130w. (Review of v. 1–3.)

  “No other work of the year approaches this in significance, altho in
  the general field of European history there have been some notable
  contributions.”

   + + + =Ind.= 63: 1231. N. 21, ’97. 110w. (Review of v. 4.)

         =Lit. D.= 35: 534. O. 12, ’07. 520w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “The author keeps the larger aspects of the subject well in mind, and
  is not afraid to generalize at the proper time, but he is in accord
  with the recent tendencies in institutional study in striving to be as
  concrete as possible.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 455. My. 11, ’07. 2350w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)

  “In substance, as we have seen, it is almost immaculate. It is
  complete, accurate, impartial. But its form leaves much to be desired,
  Mr. Lea seems to have almost gone out of his way to avoid making his
  history ‘interesting’ by vivid presentation or captivating style.”
  Joseph Jacobs.

   + + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 693. N. 2, ’07. 2390w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

         =Outlook.= 86: 119. My. 18, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 3.)

     + + =R. of Rs.= 36: 636. N. ’07. 90w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)

  “There can be no doubt as to Mr. Lea’s views, but he does not write as
  a partisan.”

     + + =Spec.= 98: 425. Mr. 16, ’07. 280w. (Review of v. 3.)


* =Leach, Henry=, ed. Great golfers in the making, by thirty-four famous
players. **$2.50. Jacobs.

  A group of autobiographical sketches. “The stories are nearly all on
  one plan: Where I was born; when I got my first club; how I learned
  the game; where I won my first championship. Almost no direct
  instruction is given but the theory of the book appears to be that
  golf fulfills the Arabian proverb that the fig-tree, looking on the
  fig-tree, becometh fruitful.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Nation.= 85: 325. O. 10, ’07. 90w.

  “Well edited book.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 380w.

  “The egoism is frank and ingenuous, that is what the editor no doubt
  wanted, but it is in almost every case quite free from any silly
  affectation or any outrageous claims on behalf of the game.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: sup. 5. My. 4, ’07. 330w.

  “A golfer, whether good or bad, will find this volume interesting, and
  it is at least possible that he may learn something from it”

       + =Spec.= 98: 259. F. 16, ’07. 250w.


=Leage, Richard W.= Roman private law, founded on the “Institutes” of
Gaius and Justinian. *$3.25. Macmillan.

                                                                6–35562.

  The book aims “to give as simply as possible the subject matter of the
  Institutes of Gaius and Justinian.” This the author does “not by
  translating or commenting on the original texts, but by describing
  clearly and concisely the substance of the law revealed to us by those
  texts. The historical point of view is omitted, except so far as it is
  necessarily involved in recording the fact (e. g.) that the forms of
  execution under the Antonines were different from those employed under
  Justinian.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book falls between two stools. It is not a simple digest of the
  Institutes, nor is it a proper critical treatment of the subject. Many
  of the sections show considerable power of lucid exposition, notably
  that on servitudes, and again that on legacies and that on dos. There
  is a good summary of the slave’s position in the matter of contract.
  But it is a pity that an elementary work should contain so many
  mistakes, and it is not altogether desirable that a work, professedly
  of that particular character, should now and again, on no apparent
  principle, give a cursory account of what requires deeper treatment.”

     + − =Acad.= 71: 131. Ag. 11, ’06. 1190w.

  “The chief objection which can be taken to the author’s treatment of
  the subject is that it is not sufficiently Roman. The author has, we
  think, followed Maine a little too blindly in several instances.
  Despite these blemishes however, the book is, in our view, a great
  advance on any previous work of the same character written for the
  student, and should prove of considerable utility to him.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 162. F. 9. 410w.

  “Mr. Leage’s attempt may be said to be a thoroughly successful one. He
  has stated clearly and simply the law of the Institutes, avoiding
  controversy and showing good judgment where the evidence is
  conflicting. A few passages will need revision in a second edition,
  which will no doubt soon be called for.” H. Bd.

   + + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 192. Ja. ’07. 520w.

  “The work is admirably done, and should prove useful, not only to
  elementary students, but to anyone who wishes to be saved the trouble
  of referring to the original Institutes.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 154. F. 14, ’07. 150w.

  “It will serve admirably for reading with the various titles of the
  Institutes either as introduction or review; and we do not suppose
  that without such aid even Roman law students found themselves equal
  to the bare texts, much less English students.”

       + =Sat. R.= 101: 764. Je. 16, ’06. 170w.

  “A non-legal reader, if he is interested in historical and social
  questions, will find it full of noteworthy matter.”

       + =Spec.= 96: 589. Ap. 14, ’06. 270w.


=Leblanc, Maurice.= Exploits of Arsène Lupin; tr. by A. Teixeira De
Mattos. †$1.28. Harper.

                                                                7–31976.

  Arsène Lupin is a gentleman burglar whose mind, cunning, gracious
  manners and clever histrionic powers are all employed in paving an
  artistic way for the trickery of his profession. Followed out into
  mid-ocean by a wireless message, his disguise wards off suspicion, and
  even while crossing he steals money and jewels and tucks them away in
  the very kodak that aids him in his love making with the girl whose
  aunt he robs; Lupin is his own narrator, and occasionally in whisking
  about to an objective point of view he tracks himself to cover with
  the reader eager in pursuit.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The stories, aside from the unaccountable manner of their unfolding,
  are of uneven merit, but some are capital.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 545. D. 12, ’07. 280w.

  “His adventures are thrillingly and gracefully told.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

  “The book is lively and witty in the French manner, and the courteous
  trial of wits between Arsène and Sherlock Holmes at the end is most
  impressive.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 497. N. 2, ’07. 60w.


=Le Bon, Gustave.= Evolution of matter; tr. from the 3d French ed. with
introd. and notes by F. Legge. *$1.50. Scribner.

                                                                7–38563.

  A translation of the third French edition by Mr. Legge who stands “as
  sponsor for the recognition by scientific experts in Europe, England
  and America of the value of Dr. Le Bon’s experiments and their
  reception in various degrees of the soundness of his theories.” (Sat.
  R.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We may say, then, that readers who, without being scientific experts,
  wish to inform themselves of the latest developments of physical
  science may safely trust themselves to the guidance of this book. It
  has the prestige on which the general reader must rely; and it is as
  fascinating for its literary qualities as for its combination of
  marvellous facts and bold speculation and suggestion.”

       + =Acad.= 72: 495. My. 18, ’07. 580w.

  “In spite of the faults upon which we have commented, the present book
  is one of widespread interest. The translation here given is adequate,
  inasmuch as it renders, for the most part into readable English, the
  meaning, and—in some cases only too faithfully—the style of the
  author. But it has been very badly prepared for the press, and the
  misprints are a great deal more frequent in it than they should be.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 200. F. 16. 1620w.

         =Nation.= 85: 257. S. 19, ’07. 340w.

  “A translation of this work ... was very much to be desired, for it
  would be hard to conceive any reading more fascinating.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 209. F. 16, ’07. 310w.


=Le Braz, Anatole.= Land of pardons; tr. by Francis M. Gostling. *$2.
Macmillan.

                                                                6–46329.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 45. F. ’07.


=Le Dantec, Felix Alexandre.= Nature and origin of life, in the light of
new knowledge. *$2. Barnes.

                                                                 W 7–76.

  “The plan of Professor Le Dantec’s book is admirably adapted for the
  amateur student of science, all technical terms being explained in
  simple language. The subjects are divided as follows: The objective
  study of natural bodies; analysis of natural and vital phenomena;
  decomposition into functions; agreement of Darwin’s and Lamarck’s
  systems; phenomena, evolution, and bipolarity of living and not living
  matter; formation of species and appearance of life. Illustrations in
  diagram accompany the volume.”—Lit. D.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “M. Le Dantec’s book is for the most part a superficial survey of the
  present situation as he himself appears to see it.”

     + − =Acad.= 73: 944. S. 28, ’07. 1460w.

  Reviewed by Raymond Pearl.

       − =Dial.= 43: 210. O. 1, ’07. 180w.

  “Life is chemism, says he. And he says it in the book before us
  lucidly, sparklingly, positively—but not convincingly.”

     − + =Ind.= 63: 510. Ag. 29, ’07. 480w.

  “Written in a clear simple style, it makes plain to the understanding
  of the general reader one of the most fascinating theories of recent
  science.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 677. Ap. 27, ’07. 560w.

       − =Lond. Times.= 6: 115. Ap. 12, ’07. 490w.

  “The volume is worthy of philosophical consideration as advocating an
  unproved possibility, but the ‘light of new knowledge’ will have to
  become much brighter than at present before one can pencil q. e. d. on
  the margins of many of the pages.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 169. Ag. 22, ’07. 290w.

  “With a humour which we appreciate he has entirely shirked the
  question of _origin_, only referring to it in a casual, half-hearted
  sort of way on the last page.” J. A. T.

       − =Nature.= 76: 2. My. 2, ’07. 720w.

  “The mechanical processes that build up and sustain living bodies are
  exhibited in the present volume with remarkable clearness and
  completeness. On this side of the subject given in its title it is all
  that could be desired.”

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 437. Je. 22, ’07. 310w.


=Ledoux, Louis Vernon.= Soul’s progress, and other poems. **$1.25. Lane.

                                                                6–46753.

  “The titular piece in his volume is a lyric sequence of some forty
  pages—the old poetic wayfaring of the ‘soul’ through the dubious
  experiences of life to the ‘higher optimism.’” (Dial.) The remaining
  poems reflect equally plainly “the elevated spirit in which he accepts
  the call to poetry.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Technically there is little fault to find except in the case of the
  blank verse, which is not successful.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 319. Mr. 16. 280w.

  Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.

         =Dial.= 43: 93. Ag. 16, ’07. 140w.

  “There is an engaging fervor in the spirit of his work. Embodied as it
  is in clear and fluent verse, with an unusual melody of vowelsound, it
  makes a gently insistent appeal, not unlike that to be felt in certain
  pieces of Longfellow’s.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 199. F. 28, ’07. 270w.

  “Singularly engaging.... ‘The soul’s progress,’ with its fine, high
  seriousness of tone and intention, its evidences of an ardent
  enthusiasm for the traditional ideals of English verse, and its frank,
  youthful assumption of an interest on the part of the world in the
  motions of a soul newly awakened to the universality of its own
  individual life.” William Aspenwall Bradley.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 132. Mr. 2, ’07. 650w.

  “In a pleasing variety of metrical forms, and with sincere poetical
  feeling, this vision of advancing spiritual growth through beauty and
  truth is presented simply and clearly.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 258. Je. 1, ’07. 110w.


=Lee, Gerald Stanley.= Voice of the machines; an introduction to the
twentieth century. $1.25. Mount Tom press, Northampton, Mass.

                                                                6–46754.

  Since this is an age of machines, the author feels that we must learn
  to see in this machinery, poetry, religion, love, liberty and
  immortality. He puts forth this necessity in chapters entitled The men
  behind the machines, The language of machines, The machines as poets,
  The ideas behind the machines.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Some passages go a step beyond the sublime and some of the epigrams
  miss fire, but it is so encouraging to find a man who can recognize
  contemporaneous poetry that we are not inclined to be critical.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 390. F. 14, ’07. 130w.

  “At least he is as eloquent about machinery as the author of Job about
  Leviathan, and it is impossible not to approve his eloquence, whatever
  reservations one may have about his philosophy.”

     + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 120. Ap. ’07. 490w.

         =Yale R.= 16: 109. My. ’07, 110w.


* =Lee, Jennette Barbour.= Ibsen secret: a key to the prose dramas of
Henrik Ibsen. **$1.25. Putnam.

                                                                7–32577.

  A reprint in book form of a series of papers on Ibsen published a year
  ago in Putnam’s monthly. Her discussion is devoted principally to the
  symbolism in the Ibsen drama. “Many essayists before her have probed,
  to their own satisfaction, and proclaimed the meaning of many of his
  alleged mysteries, and her contention is that each of the social plays
  is constructed around one central symbol, a knowledge of which is
  essential to a proper understanding of the work. Thus the Tarantelle
  is the key to ‘A doll’s house,’ the pistol to ‘Hedda Gabler,’ and
  Eyolf and his crutch to ‘Little Eyolf.’” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It might be dismissed with brief mention—for it has nothing new or
  significant to say in the way of either criticism or interpretation—if
  it were not so entirely representative of the attitude of a large
  class of professed Ibsen worshippers, who have more enthusiasm than
  discrimination.”

       − =Nation.= 85: 500. N. 28, ’07. 550w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 20w.


=Lee, John.= Religious liberty in South America, with special reference
to recent legislation in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia; with an introd. by
Bishop John H. Vincent. *$1.25. West. Meth. bk.

                                                                7–11041.

  In the spirit of broad religious tolerance, the author traces the
  movement for religious liberty in the South American republics of
  Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The volume points out flagrant conditions and aims to create a
  sentiment against existing religious intolerance. It is of special
  interest to students of religious social and political conditions, and
  from either of these standpoints is scientific.”

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 164. Jl. ’07. 290w.

  “Dr. Lee, we repeat, has done a good service in publishing this book;
  and if it were read by American Catholics as well as by Protestants,
  the world would be the better for it. It is to be regretted that the
  author has once or twice slipped into an expression which is
  unnecessarily bitter, and, perhaps, even unjust. Neither would the
  volume have suffered, if an occasional bit of padding had been left
  out.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 882. O. 10, ’07. 330w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 638. My. ’07. 50w.


=Lee, Marian, pseud.= See =Comstock, Anna Botsford=.


=Lee, Sidney.= Shakespeare and the modern stage, with other essays.
**$2. Scribner.

                                                                6–38524.

  “Although it is composed of papers written at different times and for
  various occasions, and although it breaks into three divisions, the
  group already cited, contributions to historical and biographical
  Shakespeareana, and Shakespearean essays properly so called, the
  volume possesses more unity than such collections of occasional
  addresses and articles are wont to have.”—Forum.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 241. D. ’06.

  “Mr. Lee writes here rather as a ‘popularizer’ than an expert, but his
  work has none of the slipshod rhetoric of the increasing crowd who
  demand the public favour.”

     + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 648. N. 24. 1060w.

  “It was a happy thought of Mr. Lee’s to write a paper on ‘Pepys and
  Shakespeare,’ and this, no doubt, many readers will find the most
  amusing thing in the volume.” Charles H. A. Wager.

     + + =Dial.= 42: 220. Ap. 1, ’07. 1090w.

  “Mr. Lee’s latest contribution to Shakespearean literature is based,
  as all his other books are, upon a scholarship that is remarkably
  solid and sane. Hence it is sure to appeal to the limited audience
  interested in English and, particularly, in Shakespearean studies.” W.
  P. Trent.

     + + =Forum.= 38: 376. Ja. ’07. 1720w.

  “These are good, sound papers, worth preserving; and if we sometimes
  wish that the ‘intention’ were kept a little more ‘private’ ... it is
  an intention in which all may join.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 385. D. 14, ’06. 1160w.

  “Among the most interesting papers in Mr. Lee’s volumes are those on
  Shakespere’s philosophy, oral traditions, and the perils of
  unscientific research. There is not a dull page in the book.”

     + + =Nation.= 83: 444. N. 22, ’06. 1160w.

  “Though another student of the stage may be moved to dispute an
  occasional opinion of Mr. Lee’s, no student of the stage can fail to
  feel respect for the solid scholarship which sustains these collected
  essays and for the sobriety and sanity which is visible in whatever
  Mr. Lee writes.” Brander Matthews.

   + + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 42. Ja. 26, ’07. 900w.

  “One of his strongest claims to attention is the fact that he has
  rigorously held the speculative impulse in check, and has brought to
  the study of the dramatist, not only as much knowledge as any man of
  his time, but robust common sense.”

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 482. F. 23, ’07. 250w.

  “In his new volume of essays on Shakespearean subjects he is always
  interesting, and instructive, but he is very rarely sympathetic. Mr.
  Lee’s essays, however, have a great deal more in them than an
  occasional unpleasant hardness of tone. They are full of matter,
  lucidly arranged and carefully substantiated. They are serious and
  scholarly contributions to the literature of Shakespearean criticism.”

   + + − =Spec.= 97: 887. D. 1, ’06. 2190w.


=Lee, Sidney.= Stratford-on-Avon: from the earliest times to the death
of Shakespeare; il. by Herbert Railton. *$1.50. Lippincott.

  “Among the mass of modern Shakespeariana which grows vaster with every
  publishing season, it is a relief to find one book on Stratford that
  deals with the town for its own rather than for the great poet’s sake.
  This picturesque account of Stratford’s early history,—its old markets
  and fairs, its nobility, its guild, its village sports and
  industries,—serves not only to make a setting for the life of
  Shakespeare, but also to bring out much that, having nothing to do
  with him, is nevertheless quaint and characteristic.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 54. F. ’07.

  “Mr. Lee has revised his text to bring it strictly up to date, and has
  added considerable information which historical researches since 1890
  have brought to light.”

       + =Dial.= 41: 461. D. 16, ’06. 200w.

       + =Int. Studio.= 30: 185. D. ’06. 190w.

  “The book deserves to be read not only as being supplementary of Mr.
  Lee’s biography of the poet, but also in connection with George
  Brandes’s ‘Life of Shakespeare,’ whose bold theories become more
  interesting in the comparison.”

       + =Lit. D.= 33: 94. D. 15, ’06. 350w.

  “The book is written with the seriousness and caution that are
  characteristic of all Mr. Lee’s work, and is in all cases based on
  documents.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 437. N. 22, ’06. 160w.

  “It is accurate, entertaining and handsomely illustrated.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 778. N. 24, ’06. 150w.


=Lees, Dorothy Neville.= Scenes and shrines in Tuscany. *$1.25. Dutton.

  Twenty-three sketches of Tuscan scenes and customs, written while the
  author was connected with an Italian family of the upper class. “To
  this family belongs her little six-year-old friend, Mafalda, who, with
  her big sister, Francesca, and the contadini on the villa estate, form
  a group as interesting as if they were characters in a story.”
  (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We advise every lover of Italy to read ‘Scenes and shrines in
  Tuscany.’ It is a careful and delightful piece of work, marred by few
  errors of taste or fact.”

   + + − =Acad.= 72: 533. Je. 1, ’07. 930w.

  “Episodes in the daily life of the people, like the Harvest, the
  Vintage, and All Souls’ day in Florence, are described with knowledge
  and insight. We advise even those to whom a sojourn in Tuscany is a
  future experience to read this book.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 14. Jl. 4, ’07. 260w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 482. Ag. 3, ’07. 480w.

       + =Spec.= 98: 947. Je. 15, ’07. 360w.


=Lefevre, Edwin.= Sampson Rock of Wall street. †$1.50. Harper.

                                                                 7–8216.

  The vast centripetal action of all the issues that make toward the
  center of a big New York stock-brokerage office shows the author’s
  complete understanding of the “technique of speculation.” The son of a
  magnate of finance deplores the methods by which his father aims to
  get possession of the Virginia central railroad, and plans to outwit
  him. In so doing he plays a Wall street game that lacks neither
  characters nor situation to make it realistic.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Spirited and full of incident. Will probably be popular with men.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 110. Ap. ’07.

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 349. Mr. 23. 230w.

  “It makes a fairly interesting story upon a subject that is
  essentially devoid of any vital human interest.” Wm. M. Payne.

     + − =Dial.= 42: 378. Je. 16, ’07. 320w.

  “Mr. Lefevre’s growth in his art is constant.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 799. Ap. 4, ’07. 160w.

  “It is a strong and interesting characterization of a modern money
  king that Mr. Lefevre has given us.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 509. Mr. 30, ’07. 240w.

  “Is entirely readable. To the diligent reader the story may almost be
  recommended as a hand-book and ready reference guide to speculation.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 210. F. 28, ’07. 190w.

  “Here is undoubtedly a novel with a purpose—a didactic purpose—a
  purpose, too, which will not meet with everybody’s approval.
  Fortunately the author as the thing progressed and his scent grew
  warm, almost lost sight of his own purpose in his own interest in the
  story.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 115. F. 23, ’07. 660w.

  “It was a bold thing to base a novel so exclusively on financial
  battling—for the love story is extremely slight. One feels that the
  author has succeeded by sheer weight of ability, but the experiment is
  one not to be easily repeated.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 718. Mr. 23, ’07. 220w.

  “Is convincingly realistic.” Vernon Atwood.

       + =Putnam’s.= 2: 619. Ag. ’07. 120w.

  “A dreary epic of barter in railway shares, comparing unfavorably with
  his brisk short stories.”

       − =R. of Rs.= 35: 761. Je. ’07. 80w.


=Leffler, Burton R.= Elastic arch, with special reference to the
reinforced concrete arch. $1. Holt.

                                                                6–45715.

  A work which contains among new features a deduction of the subject
  from one simple equation, graphic application of the easy method of
  drawing the closing line of the equilibrium polygon, a correct and
  simple method of designing a reenforced concrete section for combined
  thrust and movement, and a graphical analysis of an arch for oblique
  forces.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We can commend the book only to the careful and intelligent reader.”

     + − =Engin. N.= 57: 85. Ja. 17, ’07. 320w.


* =Leger, Jacques Nicholas.= Haiti: her history and her detractors. *$3.
Neale.

                                                                7–25045.

  The author who is Envoy extraordinary and Minister plenipotentiary of
  Haiti in the United States addresses himself especially to students of
  international affairs and political history and to the reader of
  sociological literature. The first part deals with the history of the
  island from before its discovery by Columbus to the election of
  General Nord Alexis to the presidency; the second, with the natural
  conditions of the country, the general organization, the customs and
  manners of the people, and their continued efforts to better their
  condition.


=Legge, Ronald.= Admirable Davis. $1.50. Cassell.

  “‘The admirable Davis’ is the valet of a member of the British foreign
  office who is sent to an Eastern potentate with an important treaty.
  The valet is intimately connected with his master’s adventures, for
  which the latter is mostly to blame. The valet, in the end, sets
  things to rights.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A crude product on the popular model of ‘The prisoner of Zenda.’”

       − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 438. O. 12. 140w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 50w.


* =Legler, Henry Edward.= Poe’s Raven: its origin and genesis: a
compilation and a survey. pa. bds. $3. Philosopher press.

  A good deal of interesting material concerning “The raven” has been
  collected for this volume. Mr. Legler discusses its genesis and the
  circumstances attending the writing and publishing of the poem; gives
  the alleged sources of “The raven” including “To Allegra Florence in
  heaven,” a chapter from “Barnaby Rudge,” “Lady Geraldine’s courtship,”
  “Clare,” “The rime of the ancient mariner,” “The funiao,” and “The
  parrot;” discusses the manuscript of “The raven” and adds
  bibliographical notes.


=Leigh, Oliver.= Edgar Allan Poe: the man, the master, the martyr.
*$1.25. Morris.

                                                                6–32457.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

       − =Acad.= 71: 617. D. 15, ’06. 250w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 29. Ja. 19, ’07. 140w.


=Leighton, Joseph Alexander.= Jesus Christ and the civilization of
to-day: the ethical teaching of Jesus considered in its bearings on the
moral foundations of modern culture. **$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                7–18115.

  A practical rather than technical consideration of the ethical
  teachings of Jesus Christ in their bearings on the spiritual life of
  civilization, in which no account is taken of the external events of
  Christ’s life or of his deeds further than necessary for an
  interpretation of the meaning and application of his teaching. It
  addresses all “intelligent persons who are honestly and open-mindedly
  seeking to determine the relation of the words of the Great Master of
  Life and Religion to their own lives and to the complex and confused
  life of contemporary civilization.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A careful study”

       + =Bib. World.= 30: 80. Jl. ’07. 20w.

         =Ind.= 63: 571. S. 5, ’07. 440w.

  “Professor Leighton would seem to be more at home in the field of
  ethics than in matters of New Testament criticism. One can but wish
  him well in his doctrine of the freedom of the individual and victory
  over the forces of time, but it must be said that a more critical
  attitude toward early Christian traditions would have added not a
  little to the soundness of his results.”

     − + =Nation.= 85: 119. Ag. 8, ’07. 220w.

       + =Outlook.= 86: 766. Ag. 10, ’07. 500w.

         =R. of Rs.= 36: 127. Jl. ’07. 80w.


* =Lemaitre, Jules.= Jean Jacques Rousseau; tr. by Mme. Ch. Bigot. **$2.
McClure.

  In which M. Lemaitre, “the most clear-sighted and independent of
  critics” deals with Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s influence on the history
  of humanity. He shows what propaganda there are in the “Contrat
  social,” “La nouvelle Heloïse,” and “Emile,” that helped to
  precipitate the revolution.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

  “Is a brilliant picture, painted with the sympathy and the justice of
  a true artist.”

     + + =Spec.= 99: 57. Jl. 13, ’07. 290w.


=Lenotre, Gosselin.= Flight of Marie Antoinette; tr. from the French by
Mrs. Rodolph Stawell. *$3.50. Lippincott.

                                                                7–28490.

  The incidents of the flight of Marie Antoinette to Varennes, where she
  is overtaken and compelled to return a prisoner flash before us with
  panoramic swiftness and dramatic intensity. She is the one strong
  figure amid the deplorable weakness of husband, children and
  dependents, and “wherever she passes” strikes “the note of something
  great, of something gracious, whimsical, and sweet.” (Lond. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “M. Lenôtre’s work is one of minute research, in which no detail is
  neglected, and conjecture is never allowed to masquerade as fact.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 379. Mr. 30. 520w.

  Reviewed by S. M. Francis.

       + =Atlan.= 100: 491. O. ’07. 300w.

  “He has used the historical method as severely in determining each
  detail of the story as if he were engaged on a far duller task. The
  fulness and exactness of the author’s information has not impaired his
  sense of the requirements of the story.” Henry E. Bourne.

       + =Dial.= 42: 141. Mr. 1, ’07. 1230w.

  “It is a scholarly and documented account of a striking episode, told
  in an entertaining fashion.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 971. Ap. 25, ’07. 100w.

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 106. Ja. 19, ’07. 310w.

  “We have no words in which to criticize this book. If any one who
  takes it up can lay it down ere the last page is turned he may be calm
  enough to criticize. The whole volume is not only alive, it is on
  fire.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 408. D. 7, ’06. 1970w.

  “The skillful use he makes of this material, balancing probabilities
  against probabilities, checking one document by another, and always
  picking out with unerring finger the convincing, essential fact, is as
  striking as the intensity of life which he manages to give to his
  revival of the past.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 58. Ja. 17, ’07. 490w.

  “The volume may have a useful place among historical documents, but it
  will be found tedious and almost trivial in its exhaustiveness.”

     + − =Outlook.= 85: 44. Ja. 5, ’07. 270w.

  “There was never another story like this, and told as it is here it
  wrings the heart.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.

       + =Putnam’s.= 2: 474. Jl. ’07. 540w.

  “He has acquired the requisite knowledge; he is endowed with a
  delicate and vivid imagination; he has learned how to construct a
  story, and, more difficult still, he can tell the story he has
  constructed. The book is both easy and pleasant to read in its English
  dress, and nothing better can be said of a translation.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 103: 241. F. 23, ’07. 1630w.

  “One forgets that the English book is a translation, and there can be
  no higher praise. No one who cares to study the French revolution at
  all, and no one who loves a true story uncommonly well told, including
  many interesting characters impossible to be mentioned here, should
  neglect to read this book.”

     + + =Spec.= 97: sup. 756. N. 17, ’06. 1800w.


=Lenotre, Gosselin.= Last days of Marie Antoinette; tr. from the French
by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell. *$3.50. Lippincott.

  Not a life of Marie Antoinette but a collection of narratives, written
  by eyewitnesses, of the life of the royal family from their
  imprisonment in the Temple to the execution of the unfortunate queen.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is of poignant interest, and its interest is heightened by
  the illustrations.”

       + =Acad.= 73: 87. N. 2, ’07. 890w.

  “He has performed a task needing not only research, but restraint, so
  that every reader can know the truth and be his own interpreter.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 339. N. 8, ’07. 720w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

  “Certainly no one can deny that the pathos of these narratives is
  deep, and exceeds that of any novel, since they deal with real
  characters and events.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 5. O. 19, ’07. 1520w.

  “Intensely interesting, if very painful, book.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 870. N. 30, ’07. 1270w.


=Leonard, Arthur Glyn.= Lower Niger and its tribes. *$4. Macmillan.

                                                                7–11550.

  “The book opens with a description of the physical features of the
  country, the tribes inhabiting the various divisions, and of the local
  traditions, ... Then come chapters on the philosophy of the people as
  expressed in certain words in their vocabulary, names, proverbs, and
  fables. The third division of the volume is devoted to a discussion of
  the ‘natural’ religion of the various tribes dealt with.... Other
  chapters take up emblemism, ceremonials, and practices of Naturalism,
  etc.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The defect of his book is its verbal exuberance, and its overflow of
  theories about the origin of religion.” Andrew Lang.

     + − =Acad.= 71: 623. D. 22, ’06. 1730w.

  “Whilst Mr. Dennett’s book suffers from too little synthesis, Major
  Leonard’s suffers from too much. His facts, not his theories, will be
  valued most by the expert. A rich quarry, but the stone that is to
  serve for building purposes must be selected with some care.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 832. D. 29. 240w.

  “Behind his self-complacency and occasional arrogance there is
  evidence of real sympathy and insight.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 43. F. 8, ’07. 470w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 905. D. 29, ’06. 290w.


=Le Rossignol, James Edward.= Orthodox socialism. (Lib. of economics.)
**$1. Crowell.

                                                                7–12999.

  A brief exposition and criticism of the Marxian or scientific
  socialism. It is a thoroly practical treatment which defines the creed
  of socialism and traces the historic rise: discusses the labor-cost
  theory of value; the iron law of wages; surplus value; the use of
  machinery and its effects upon skilled labor; panics, strikes, and
  industrial crises; the struggle of the man with the class; and the
  social revolution which has been threatened.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 596. N. ’07. 140w.

  “Mr. Le Rossignol makes his points skillfully.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 69. Ag. 1, ’07. 190w.

  “Attractively and helpfully presented.”

       + =Educ. R.= 34: 209. S. ’07. 50w.

  “His style is didactic, and his diction clear, but a confusion of
  thought is often apparent.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 1370. D. 5, ’07. 120w.


=Lethaby, William Richard.= Westminster abbey and the kings’ craftsmen:
a study of mediaeval building. *$3.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–19737.

  Less a description of the edifice than an account of the craftsmen who
  built and decorated it. “The author seeks to rebuild in our
  imaginations this ‘supreme work of art’ in all its perfection of form,
  its beauty of adornment, its suavity of environment, its church and
  chapterhouse, its monastery and mill, its garden and farm, seated by
  the side of the king’s palace on the bank of the clear-running
  Thames.” (Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “For genuine love of the past; for unwearied study of its records and
  minute observation of its example; for accurate marshalling of facts
  and for incontrovertible conclusions, in support of admirable
  principles, Professor Lethaby’s book deserves high commendation.”

     + + =Acad.= 72: 34. Ja. 12, ’07. 1720w.

  “Altogether the work is of first-rate importance—by far the most
  authoritative that has yet appeared, and likely to remain so for many
  years to come.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 388. Mr. 30. 1530w.

  “The book is so thorough a piece of work from beginning to end that
  slips are very rare. Mr. Lethaby’s fascinating book is so emphatically
  a new departure that no one could have a better or more trustworthy
  guide to the glorious abbey church of Westminster.” W. H. St. John
  Hope.

   + + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 355. Ap. ’07. 1230w.

  “The characteristic feature of this new work, the outcome of twelve
  years of close research, is its recognition of the importance of
  individual craftsmen in the evolution of the great abbey.”

       + =Int. Studio.= 31: 250. My. ’07. 270w.

  “Mr. Lethaby has rummaged his ‘documents’ to very good effect and has
  secured some valuable rays of illumination on the practical
  organization of building operations.”

   + + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 636. O. 19, ’07. 700w.

  “Written in a style which must win readers among all who love
  Westminster abbey or care to read at all, it contains a body of
  research at first hand which we do not hesitate to declare unequalled
  in importance by any similar publication on either side of the
  channel, for the double reason that there are no such complete records
  elsewhere, and no archaeologists possessing Mr. Lethaby’s combination
  of qualities.”

   + + + =Sat. R.= 103: 303. Mr. 9, ’07. 1670w.

  “It is quite safe to say that not since Dean Stanley’s ‘Memorials’ has
  a book been written on the abbey which has succeeded in conveying so
  much of the fascination of its subject, and not since Sir Gilbert
  Scott put together his ‘Gleanings’ has so much fresh light been thrown
  on the history of the fabric and its ornaments.”

     + + =Spec.= 97: 1079. D. 29, ’06. 1500w.


=Levasseur, Pierre Emile.= Elements of political economy; tr. by
Theodore Marburg. *$1.75. Macmillan.

                                                                5–17608.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

  “The present work is a rather small volume, following the conventional
  lines, clear and logical in style, but treating the subject in a very
  elementary way.”

       + =Yale. R.= 15: 468. F. ’07. 50w.


=Levussove, Moses Samuel.= New art of an ancient people, the work of
Ephraim Mose Lilien. *75c. Huebsch.

                                                                6–45172.

  Ephraim Mose Lilien is among the younger intellectual Galician Jews
  who are reflecting the race’s awakening to newer activity and larger
  creative effort. Here are reproduced a dozen or so of his studies in
  black and white, and Mr. Levussove points out the excellencies of
  style and content as they reveal Lilien’s mastery of the technic of
  composition and his understanding of Hebrew nature.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The work will appeal alike to those who have an interest in the
  rejuvenation of an ancient race, and to those who will be attracted by
  a technique suggestive of the skill of Japanese decorators and of the
  European masters of line-work.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 149. Mr. 1, ’07. 130w.

  “Mr. Levussove leaves the reader not only with an understanding of the
  highly poetic value of the artist’s work, but with a vivid sympathy
  for the racial quality of serious aspiration, which he exemplifies.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 804. Ap. 4, ’07. 190w.

         =Lit. D.= 34: 103. Ja. 19, ’07. 670w.

         =Nation.= 84: 140. F. 7, ’07. 150w.

  “Mr. Levussove entertainingly covers his subject, keeping always in
  mind the fact that the awakening art spirit among the Jews is
  exemplified by Lilien’s works.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 44. Ja. 26, ’07. 250w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 256. F. ’07. 40w.


* =Lewis, Alfred Henry.= When men grew tall; or, The story of Andrew
Jackson. **$2. Appleton.

                                                                7–36233.

  “Tells the story of Andrew Jackson’s career in, we conceive, precisely
  the way Andrew Jackson himself would have delighted to tell it.... It
  has the true Jacksonian flavor of unquenchable ardor to twist the tail
  of the British lion, supreme contempt for the Spanish Dons, burning
  antipathy to the ‘corrupt bargainers’ Adams and Clay—poor
  ‘Machiavelli’ Clay, as Mr. Lewis persists in calling him—and
  unrestrained enmity for ‘serpentine’ Banker Biddle and the rest of the
  money crew.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

  “It is written in a virile, intense, vehement strain that keeps the
  reader wide awake. As a ‘story’ it certainly has much to commend it,
  bringing out in vivid relief some of the most dramatic episodes of
  Jackson’s life, and being distinctly human from beginning to end.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 788. D. 7, ’07. 240w.


=Lewis, Charlton Miner.= Principles of English verse. **$1.25. Holt.

                                                                6–27939.

  “In the main a plea for common sense as opposed to metaphysics in the
  treatment of the subject.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Many a bewildered reader of larger works will be grateful for the
  breath of fresh air that comes to them from these pages.”

       + =Dial.= 41: 246. O. 16, ’06. 60w.

  “Mr. Lewis shies at the notion of the foot in English. If [he] could
  take this one logical step, he might give us a book which would reveal
  to all who care to penetrate it, the whole heart of the mystery of
  English verse-rhythms.”

   + + − =Nation.= 83: 420. N. 15, ’06. 950w.

  “Compact and easily read volume.”

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 526. Mr. 2, ’07. 100w.


=Lewis, Elizabeth.= Lorenzo of Sarzana. $1.50. Badger, R: G.

                                                                7–20618.

  In Genoa, just before the plague descends upon her, is set this story
  of a group of artists, studying under the old Italian Maestro in his
  attic studio. A three stranded love motive tangles the plot into which
  is woven a double thread of mystery in the persons of a white swathed
  figure which haunts a young American art student and a demented
  painter who destroys her canvases as soon as she finishes them. All
  this throws a glamour over an otherwise modern romance in which a
  match-making mother and a dowry hunting Italian figure conspicuously.


=Lewis, Emily Westwood.= Next door Morelands. †$1.50. Little.

                                                                7–30990.

  A story for girls from twelve to sixteen which tells of the coming of
  Corinne, an orphan, from France to the home of an American uncle. The
  Morelands are five rollicking children, who initiate Corinne into the
  mysteries of their mirth-loving circle.


=Lewis. Rev. Howell Elvet.= With Christ among the miners; incidents and
impressions of the Welsh revival. *$1. West. Meth. bk.

  Devotional in its aim and compass this volume contains a series of
  personal impressions and incidents of the great Welsh revival of 1904.
  It reveals the hearts of the people, shows how they opened to the
  coming of the Spirit, rejoices in the good results of the movement
  and, to be wholly fairminded, does not overlook its shortcomings.


=Lewis, Mary Elizabeth.= Ethics of Wagner’s The ring of the Nibelung.
**$1.50. Putnam.

                                                                   7–30.

  In which the author recounts “every detail of the legend from which
  the Trilogy is compiled and assigns to each one a definite place in an
  ethical system which she conceives to have been in Wagner’s mind.” The
  cycle she discovers to be “a logical and coherent ethical doctrine,”
  which she regards “as presenting a panoramic picture of the evolution
  of the human consciousness struggling to free itself from the
  hampering conditions of self, until at last, selfless, it is lost in
  the Divine Will.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author of this book has done her work carefully, so carefully
  indeed that every detail is weighed and appraised at a certain value,
  while in order to facilitate the analytical process the story of the
  drama is told in short, bald sentences, often resembling a newspaper
  report of a parliamentary debate or proceedings in the law courts.” H.
  C. C.

     + − =Acad.= 72: 194. F. 23, ’07. 960w.

  “She retells in prose, and it must be admitted prosaically, the
  complete story of this drama of gods and men, and gives her
  interpretation of its complex symbolism. She does not profess that it
  is Wagner’s interpretation, and the reader will not be apt to find it
  his own, but he will at least be drawn to think about it, and so, by
  getting more meaning from it, he will give to the music more power.”

     − + =Ind.= 62: 498. F. 28, ’07. 140w.

     − + =Nation.= 84: 42. Ja. 16, ’07. 250w.


=Leyds, Willem Johannes.= First annexation of the Transvaal. *$6.30.
Wessels.

                                                                7–18148.

  A work on the relations of the English and Dutch in South Africa in
  which the author has prepared an indictment against Britain’s South
  African policy during the past century. “He is not bitter about
  England, though he is very bitter about English colonists, and cannot
  mention the name of Sir Percy FitzPatrick without losing his temper.”
  (Spec.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In this book the author displays the same combination of smart
  intelligence and rash blundering which was conspicuous during his
  European mission.”

       − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 332. S. 22. 1090w.

  “The tone of the book is, however, so bitter that he damages rather
  than strengthens his cause.”

     − + =Nation.= 84: 178. F. 21, ’07. 580w.

  “The book is well-written, orderly in arrangement, adroit in argument,
  and extremely readable. His narrative is too much a design in snow and
  ink to convince even the ill-informed reader.”

     − + =Spec.= 97: 492. O. 6, ’06. 1920w.


=Lidgett, Rev. John Scott.= Spiritual principle of the atonement: as a
satisfaction made to God for the sins of the world. 4th ed. *$1.50.
West. Meth. bk.

  The twenty-seventh Fernley lecture. The editor in these ten chapters
  covers all phases of the atonement, its historical causes, the
  Biblical doctrine concerning it, the theology of the atonement, the
  satisfaction of God, the ethical perfection of our Lord, the
  relationship of our Lord to the human race, the atonement in relation
  to the spiritual life of individuals and the atonement and social
  progress.


* =Lighton, William Rheem.= Shadow of a great rock. †$1.50. Putnam.

                                                                7–18100.

  Frontier life and the types of men whom it calls are portrayed here
  true to the reckless abandon of “the formless western wilderness.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A short story—and a very ordinary, conventional short story that
  might almost have appeared in any monthly magazine—and nothing more.”

       − =Acad.= 73: 755. Ag. 3, ’07. 250w.

  “Written in a grandiose style, this story of American pioneering in
  the fifties is interesting rather than remarkable.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 150. Ag. 10. 120w.

  “Occasionally marred just a little by ‘fine writing,’ [it] is
  nevertheless, a good story of the winning of Nebraska in the early
  fifties.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 410. Je. 28, ’07. 100w.


=Lillibridge, William Otis.= Where the trail divides; with il. in colors
by the Kinneys. †$1.50. Dodd.

                                                                 7–9842.

  “As a result of an Indian raid, with its trail of smoking ruins and
  scalped and tortured victims, only two human beings were found alive
  by the rescue party in the whole devastated settlement—a white girl
  baby and an Indian boy, scarcely older or larger. These two waifs are
  taken in charge by Colonel Bill Lander, the cattle king, and brought
  up together with the same impartial care that he would have bestowed
  upon children of his own.” (Bookm.) The story mainly concerns these
  two, their ill-assorted union, and an inevitable tragedy.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A book that needs no borrowed glory to bolster it into notice, a book
  which may well stand on its own merits, both for novelty of situation
  and keen picturing of character.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

     + + =Bookm.= 25: 285. My. ’07. 540w.


=Lincoln, Abraham.= Complete works of Abraham Lincoln. 12v. ea. $3.75.
Tandy.

                                                                 6–3554.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

   + + + =Dial.= 42: 190. Mr. 16, ’07. 160w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)

  “This is the edition which should be selected for purchase by any
  public or private library of importance on account of its completeness
  and reliability.”

   + + + =Ind.= 62: 678. Mr. 21, ’07. 110w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)

  “Altogether, this Gettysburg edition takes its place worthily among
  the great editions of our statesmen.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 384. Ap. 25, ’07. 200w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 130w. (Review of v. 11 and
         12.)

  “These two volumes bring to an end a publication of permanent value,
  not only in American political history, but to American literature.”

   + + + =Outlook.= 85: 524. Mr. 2, ’07. 110w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)


=Lincoln, Charles Henry.= Naval records of the American revolution,
1775–1788; prepared from the originals in the Library of Congress. $1.
Supt. of doc.

                                                                6–35020.

  “More than half of this volume is occupied by a list of the bonds
  filed under the letters of marque, in which are indicated all who are
  concerned in the vessels, as master, bonder, owner, or witness. This
  is a valuable contribution to history, as the bonds also give the
  nature of the ship, and the size of crew and armament, as well as the
  state to which she belonged. It will now be possible for investigators
  to identify the ship, and from local records trace her
  performances.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 930. Jl. ’07. 310w.

  “We note some obvious misprints of names.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 288. Mr. 28, ’07. 330w.


=Lincoln, Charles Z.= Constitutional history of New York from the
beginning of the colonial period to the year 1905. 5v. $15. Lawyers’
co-op.

                                                                 6–7387.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Expressions of his own opinion on questions of law and conduct are
  rare and usually sound. There are few accessible authorities which
  have not been examined and digested. The absence of cross-references
  to earlier and later pages imposes much needless labor. Except in the
  ease of law reports and session laws, there are hardly any citations
  of the original authorities, not even of the pages of the convention
  reports, from which quotations are made. The book is indispensable to
  all constitutional lawyers, legislators, and statesmen in New York. It
  will be the standard authority upon the subject for at least a
  generation.” Roger Foster.

   + + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 392. Ja. ’07. 2370w.

       + =Ind.= 63: 1233. N. 21, ’07. 180w.


=Lincoln, Joseph C.= “Old home house.” †$1.25. Barnes.

                                                                7–21534.

  Eleven stories told by a longshore skipper who watched the goings-on
  at “Aunt Sophrony’s wind plantation” and plied his trade of
  “amputating the bank accounts of the city folks.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In these entertaining yarns Mr. Lincoln succeeds in expressing the
  true salt humor of the Cape-Codder.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 235. S. 12, ’07. 160w.

  “Presenting eleven of the best tales recently written by the
  well-known Joseph C. Lincoln.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 16, ’07. 120w.

  “Joseph C. Lincoln has not yet come to the end of the fresh strain of
  humor.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 510. Ag. 24, ’07. 100w.


=Lindsay, Anna R. B.= Spiritual care of a child. **30c. Crowell.

                                                                7–31179.

  Some suggestive thoughts for the guidance of a child’s spiritual
  growth which are based upon definite and continuous teaching. Uniform
  with the “What is worth while” series.


=Lindsay, Mrs. Anna Robertson.= Warrior spirit in the republic of God.
**$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                6–42942.

  “A plea for the virile element in Christianity, which has too often
  been denied an equal emphasis with the feminine.... The outlook is
  comprehensive, optimistic, and martial. The conquest to be won is the
  molding of the modern environment to spiritual uses. This is the point
  in view throughout. Practical suggestions for all social groups show
  insight, sympathy, and good sense.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Nation.= 84: 133. F. 7, ’07. 50w.

  “Altogether it is a thoroughly wholesome and tonic book.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 1084. D. 29, ’06. 140w.


=Lindsay, Charles Harcourt Ainslee Forbes-.= America’s insular
possessions. 2v. $5. Winston.

                                                                 7–1324.

  A two-volume photogravure edition of a work devoted to America’s
  island possessions. The first volume includes the Great Antilles,
  Porto Rico, Guam, and Hawaii, while the second is devoted entirely to
  the Philippines. The history, growth, political development,
  industries, and resources of the islands are treated with little
  attention to controversial questions. For which omission in the second
  volume the author inserts a chapter of extracts from public addresses
  of the former governor, William H. Taft.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “With all its possible weaknesses and omissions, from the point of
  view of historical, economic and sociological science, the work is
  nevertheless the most comprehensive general treatise on some of our
  outlying possessions in relatively small space and for the ‘general
  reader’ that exists in the English language.” Carl C. Plehn.

   + + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 179. Jl. ’07. 670w.

  “In short, as to the past and present, this book is interesting and
  valuable. As to the problem of the near future it is almost
  voiceless.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 263. S. 19, ’07. 620w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 404. Je. 22, ’07. 160w.

  “The author’s views are frankly stated, but we see no indication that
  they have led him either to misreport any facts, to omit in his report
  any facts of significance, or to present the facts in false
  proportions on false relations.”

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 479. Je. 29, ’07. 790w.


=Lindsay, Charles Harcourt Ainslee Forbes-.= John Smith, gentleman
adventurer. †$1.50. Lippincott.

                                                                7–29850.

  Over the story of John Smith the author has thrown the glamour of
  romance. He has written a historical novel in which all that is
  history and all that is novel is alike familiar to our ears. It is a
  tribute to this early hero which will help to keep him before a coming
  generation as a man, a gentleman and an adventurer.


=Lindsay, Charles Harcourt Ainslee Forbes-.= Panama: the isthmus and the
canal. **$1. Winston.

                                                                6–26562.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 11. Ja. ’07. S.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 148. My. 07.

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 157. Jl. ’07. 120w.

  “Every feature of this vast undertaking is pictured in detail with
  simplicity and intelligibility, and without undue argumentative
  discussion. Although the book is written in topical style, an index
  would enhance its usefulness.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 84. F. 1, ’07. 180w.


=Lindsay, Charles Harcourt Ainslee Forbes-.= Philippines under Spanish
and American rules. $3. Winston.

                                                                6–44314.

  In this volume “The Philippine islands are treated, descriptively,
  historically, industrially, commercially, and politically, ...
  Twenty-six photogravure illustrations from photographs are
  given.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Dial.= 41: 454. D. 16, ’06. 220w.

         =Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 60w.


=Lindsay, Thomas Martin.= History of the Reformation. 2v. ea. *$2.50.
Scribner.

                                                                6–23686.

  =v. 2.= Tracts of the Reformation outside of Germany, of the
  ante-pedo-baptist denominations of the period, and of the
  counter-Reformation in Roman Catholicism that reached its limit in the
  Council of Trent.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We have dwelt too long on the defects of an excellent book; many of
  them are superficial and can be easily remedied. The total impression
  left by the two volumes of Principal Lindsay is very favorable; they
  are the best thing we have in English on the subject. They combine
  scientific worth with literary charm, and will appeal strongly not
  merely to students but also to the thoughtful layman.” William Walker
  Rockwell.

   + + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 874. Jl. ’07. 1180w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “When the author works from the sources, he is able, vigorous and
  stimulating, but when he trusts his general impressions, he is
  sometimes liable to error. On the whole, his volume is a valuable
  contribution to our knowledge of the subject.” Franklin Johnson.

     + − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 341. Ap. ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The bias against everything Catholic both in form and spirit, and the
  belief that Luther made ‘a new heaven and a new earth,’ as superior to
  the mediæval conception as light to darkness, is unfortunate. No
  reader will be misled if he bears in mind that the writer is Principal
  of the Free church college in Glasgow.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 176. Ag. 17. 860w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “The heroic elements in the life of the great leader are magnified in
  a way to satisfy the most devout Lutheran; while the extravagances,
  inconsistencies, intolerance, and cruelties of the hero are passed
  over as lightly and dealt with as apologetically as anyone could
  desire. It is probable that no modern, scientific, Lutheran writer has
  presented on the whole so sympathetic an account of Luther.” Albert
  Henry Newman.

       + =Bib. World.= 29: 394. My. ’07. 830w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The book is good reading; in parts, absorbing. Dr. Lindsay’s history
  deserves to be widely read by ministers and theological students, who
  will find it full of ethical and religious suggestions; and the swing
  of its style and its subordination of the technical to the vital will
  make it for the general reader the standard English work on the
  subject.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 1470. Je. 20, ’07. 520w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “Is taking its place as the standard English work on its important
  theme.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 1236. N. 21, ’07. 40w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “There are but few and slight blemishes in these masterly volumes.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 281. S. 20, ’07. 3100w. (Review of v. 1 and
         2.)

  “It brings forth new information for many who regard themselves as
  sufficiently familiar with the subject.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 299. Je. 8, ’07. 280w. (Review of v. 2.)


=Linville, Henry R., and Kelly, Henry A.= Text-book in general zoology.
*$1.50. Ginn.

                                                                6–23318.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Besides being comprehensive and accurate, is readable. In place of
  the old stock cuts, it has been freshly illustrated with a large
  number of original drawings direct from nature.”

     + + =Nation.= 83: 204. S. 6, ’06. 120w.

  “The introduction to the science which they have presented seems to
  us, not only interesting, but educationally wholesome.”

     + + =Nature.= 74: 633. O. 25, ’06. 160w.

  “This is a distinct addition to the many textbooks of general zoology
  for secondary schools. The plan adopted by the authors seems not only
  interesting, but educationally wholesome.” Robert W. Hegner.

     + + =School R.= 15: 233. Mr. ’07. 440w.


=Lippmann, Friedrich.= Engraving and etching. 3d ed. rev. by Dr. Max
Lehrs; tr. by Martin Hardie. *$3. Scribner.

                                                                6–33516.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Altogether the book cannot be commended too highly for its educating
  value on the subject of which it treats.” Laurence Burnham.

   + + + =Bookm.= 24: 640. F. ’07. 170w.

  “The translation ... is all that could be desired.”

     + + =Dial.= 42: 346. Je. 1, ’07. 240w.


=Lithgow, William.= Totall discourse of the rare adventures and
painefull peregrinations of long nineteene yeares travayles from
Scotland to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia and Africa.
*$3.25. Macmillan.

                                                                7–28951.

  Lithgow’s work “contains many picturesque descriptions of cities and
  customs as they seemed in the early seventeenth century to the eyes of
  a roving Englishman. He was tortured in Spain as a spy, and thereafter
  ceased his wanderings, which covered, he tells us, over 36,000 miles,
  chiefly traversed on foot.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a record of the most varied and often diverting character,
  written with a spirit and in a style which should ensure a large sale
  for the reprint before us.”

       + =Acad.= 71: 633. D. 22, ’06. 430w.

  “The publishers have treated a book of great interest in their usual
  sumptuous fashion.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 224. F. 23. 760w.

       + =Nation.= 84: 310. Ap. 4, ’07. 280w.

  “The narrative is well worth reprinting in the ‘Library of travels.’”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 842. D. 1, ’06. 160w.

         =Sat. R.= 102: 554. N. 3, ’06. 190w.

  “His rare adventures are well worth reading.”

       + =Spec.= 97: 931. D. 8, ’06. 1540w.


=Littlehales, George W.= Altitude, azimuth, and geographical position;
comprising graphical tables for finding the altitude and azimuth, the
position-line, and the variations of the compass; and for identifying
observed celestial bodies, and finding the course and distance in great
circle sailing. *$25. Lippincott.

                                                                6–24890.

  “An attempt to bring within the grasp of the ordinary navigating
  officer those more recondite methods of his art, which, for their
  complete understanding, involve a considerable knowledge of
  mathematics and nautical astronomy. Great circle sailing, astronomical
  determinations of the compass error, Sumner’s method for finding the
  position of a ship, all involve the solution of spherical triangles,
  and it is the function of the present work to substitute for the
  conventional logarithmic solution of these triangles the use of
  certain diagrams here published in great detail.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The labour undergone in the preparation can only be appreciated by
  those used to such matters; and the result in the saving of labour and
  time to practical navigators, by a graphical process easy to
  understand and follow must lay them under a deep debt of gratitude to
  the author. We feel sure that his method will be extensively adopted.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 74. Jl. 20. 250w.

  “As respects accuracy, the charts appear adequate to all demands of
  nautical practice.” George C. Comstock.

     + + =Engin. N.= 57: 194. F. 14, ’07. 1200w.

   + + + =Nation.= 85: 310. O. 3, ’07. 1000w.

         =Spec.= 99: 170. Ag. 3, ’07. 50w.


=Livingstone, Alice.= Sealed book. $1.50. Fenno.

                                                                 7–5060.

  Much mystery and some adventure complicate the already tangled plot of
  this story which is built upon the old melodramatic plan. The hero,
  who is supposed to have attempted the murder of his father, disappears
  and is thought to be dead, the beautiful heroine lives on, a society
  queen accepting the attentions of the villain. Eighteen years later
  the villain’s true character is exposed and it is found that the hero
  and heroine have all this time been secretly married and their grown
  daughter appears in time to have a love affair of her own before the
  book reaches its happy ending.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Usually in modern sensational literature, books are not sealed unless
  they contain something of a particularly startling nature, and we
  approach this one, prepared to revel in hairbreadth escapes, dark
  plots, and thwarted villainy. We are not disappointed.”

       − =Acad.= 71: 111. Ag. 4, ’06. 410w.

  “A long story of mystery and extraordinary coincidences which is
  tolerably exciting.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 182. Ag. 18. 120w.

  “Four [stories] are skillfully tangled together into a whole mystery
  as gloomy as the old English castle of Wrendlebury Towers. And in the
  end every thread is as satisfactorily untangled again as heart could
  desire.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 99. F. 16, ’07. 170w.

  “The interest grows more intense to the end.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 190w.


=Lloyd, Albert B.= In dwarfland and cannibal country: a record of travel
and discovery in central Africa. *$3. Dutton.

  The author is a missionary-explorer with more than ordinary zest for
  thrilling adventure. This record follows his course far into the
  wilderness of Central Africa to the “forest of pygmies in whom Stanley
  was so much interested, and he had the best of opportunities for
  studying and describing this strange nation of dwarfs, who have kept
  their identity as a race from time immemorial.” (Outlook.) “With
  boatmen of the cannibal Bangwa tribe he sped down the Aruwimi, and at
  night in the villages saw their savage dances and the orgies of their
  warriors over the kola-nut pot.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The reader who gets beyond the common place narrative and reflections
  of the opening chapters will be likely to continue to the end.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 263. S. 19, ’07. 460w.

  “It is rather a pity that he did not find some literary friend to edit
  his book and correct his weird ideas as to the form and function of
  the sentence. Otherwise his naive and straightforward style adds to
  the charm of his work and makes it all the more vivid.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 522. Ag. 31, ’07. 1470w.

  “The book is, as a personal narrative of experience, decidedly
  readable, but it has the usual fault of books of this kind in that it
  relates too minutely and without careful discrimination the
  unimportant as well as important matters.”

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 971. Ag. 31, ’07. 200w.


=Lloyd, Albert B.= Uganda to Khartoum: life and adventure on the upper
Nile with pref. by Victor Buxton. *$3. Dutton.

                                                                7–35191.

  An English missionary’s account of five years’ experience in the
  northern provinces of the British Uganda Protectorate.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 99. Ap. ’07.

  “One of the most fascinating books we have come across for a long
  time. He has the art of selection. He knows how to convey a vivid
  impression, and refrains from burdening the reader’s memory with
  unnecessary details.”

     + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 404. O. 6. 650w.

  “Alike for readers interested in missionary work in Africa, and for
  those interested in it as a land of adventure, Mr. Lloyd’s book will
  be satisfactory. H. E. Coblentz.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 372. Je. 16, ’07. 300w.

  “It is written without system or plan, and is artless and inconsequent
  in its style—sometimes almost ludicrously so.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 946. O. 17, ’07. 190w.

       + =Nation.= 84: 866. Ap. 18, ’07. 500w.

  “As a record of travel, sport and adventure the book has considerable
  interest, and the author gives a clear idea of the customs and
  superstitions of the natives.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 238. Ja. 26, ’07. 60w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 384. Mr. ’07. 50w.

  “Mr. Lloyd is a missionary and something more; he seems to blend the
  qualities of a Livingstone with those of a Selous.”

       + =Sat. R.= 102: 402. S. 29, ’06. 250w.


=Lloyd, Henry Demarest.= Man, the social creator. **$2. Doubleday.

                                                                6–16757.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Whenever they were written, at intervals during the last ten years of
  his life, it was when he was at his best. The loftiness of spirit and
  sententiousness of style indicate moments of exceptional clarity of
  vision and elevation of soul.” Graham Taylor.

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 483. N. ’06. 1090w.

  “As a whole the book is a germinal, thought-provoking book. It is
  deeply religious and ethically lofty. It is written in Mr. Lloyd’s
  luminous, eloquent style, with many flashing epigrams and keen strokes
  of wit. Occasionally the thread of the thought is not quite as smooth
  as if Mr. Lloyd had lived to finish it, but the work of the editors is
  exceedingly well done. Probably no two people in more complete
  sympathy with Mr. Lloyd’s thought and work could be found than his
  sister and Miss Addams.” Eltweed Pomeroy.

     + + =Arena.= 36: 569. N. ’06. 780w.

  “The painful labor of compiling a posthumous volume has been performed
  with tact and skill, and the book is a precious contribution to the
  thought of the new century.” Florence Kelly.

     + + =Charities.= 17: 466. D. 15, ’06. 1610w.

  “Naturally the treatment is somewhat fragmentary and at times vague;
  as a whole, however, the editors have succeeded in giving to the
  exposition both symmetry and connectedness. The book, as a whole,
  contains deeply suggestive writing in a style which curiously recalls
  both Emerson and Carlyle. It is a pity that the proofreading should
  have been so wretchedly done.”

   + + − =Nation.= 83: 99. Ag. 2, ’06. 370w.


=Loane, M.= Next street but one. $2. Longmans.

                                                                 W 7–77.

  “This book, mainly about the poor who are always with us and may be
  supposed to live in the next street but one, is the work of a trained
  nurse.... The book is a collection of studies of family and economic
  conditions; each chapter contains a wonderful variety of personal
  illustrations and is entertainingly written.... The conclusions and
  deductions are convincing, as they are drawn from specific
  incidents.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “She has a great gift for telling stories.... There is no attempt at
  formal or systematic treatment; the author puts down her experiences
  and reflections, just as they occur to her, in an easy, natural way. A
  little overstatement does not appreciably detract from the value of
  her charming and enlightening book.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 99. Mr. 29, ’07. 1330w.

  “The mere data contained in this work is wonderful. The method of
  chatty and sympathetic treatment is even more to be admired.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 245. Ap. 13, ’07. 470w.

  “[One] will find Miss Loane’s womanly common-sense and robust humour
  an admirable corrective to the pleas for sapping the strength of the
  nation which are the evil fashion of the hour.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 281. F. 23, ’07. 1730w.


=Lock, Robert Heath.= Recent progress in the study of variation,
heredity, and evolution. *$2. Dutton.

                                                                7–12650.

  “The book begins with an introduction in which are briefly discussed:
  Linnaean species, Jordan’s species, variation, mutation, discontinuity
  of species, the work of Mendel and evolution theories. Later chapters
  are largely given to a fuller discussion of the topics here
  introduced. The first half of the book is rather elementary....
  Natural selection, evidences of evolution and ‘biometry’ are treated
  in detail.”—Science.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The style is clear, but in many sections so many highly technical
  terms are used that the lay reader will be in trouble. The concluding
  chapter at least, however, should be carefully read by all who are
  dealing with problems of human progress.”

     + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 640. My. ’07. 110w.

  “On the whole, this is probably the best available book from which the
  layman may get a reasonably complete and nontechnical account of
  recent investigations in the last two of the three fields covered.
  Unfortunately, the treatment of the subjects is not strictly even and
  impartial.” Raymond Pearl.

   + + − =Dial.= 43: 209. O. 1, ’07. 280w.

       + =Ind.= 63: 511. Ag. 29, ’07. 150w.

         =Lond. Times.= 6: 259. Ag. 23, ’07. 810w.

  “The subjects and their facts are well arranged, but are set forth
  with a heaviness of diction which makes it difficult for any one
  except a biologist already familiar with the subject properly to
  correlate the facts as he reads. The sphere of usefulness of this
  volume will be among senior biological students rather than among
  either advanced scientists or general readers.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 344. Ap. 11, ’07. 230w.

  “An elementary but generally clear and skilful exposition of the
  present aspects of the evolutionary problem.” F. A. D.

     + − =Nature.= 75: 573. Ap. 18, ’07. 1490w.

  “Even in the driest parts of the work there are sharp and valuable
  criticisms of the theories of the day.” Francis Ramaley.

     + − =Science=, n.s. 25: 840. Mr. 1, ’07. 830w.

  “The author is no Miss Agnes Clerke; but he is at his best in his
  somewhat discontinuous sketches of the history of the idea of
  ‘mutation.’”

       + =Spec.= 99: 204. Ag. 10, ’07. 820w.


=Locke, William John.= Beloved vagabond. †$1.50. Lane.

                                                                6–37606.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The story is told with delightful humor, but also with realism not
  altogether pleasing.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 78. Mr. ’07.

  “Pleasant is the word! Fantastic, improbable, impossible! Granted
  freely, that and more!” Mary Moss.

       + =Atlan.= 99: 119. Ja. ’07. 420w.

  “It is delightful because it is full of the breath of springtide and
  Bohemianism.”

       + =Current Literature.= 42: 461. Ap. ’07. 880w.

  “The hero is one of the most genial and human figures ever encountered
  within the pages of a book. It would take a very stern moralist indeed
  to find him, despite his obvious faults, anything but sympathetic and
  lovable in all the phases—even in most sordid—of his picturesque end
  eccentric career.”

     + + =Dial.= 42: 142. Mr. 1, ’07. 690w.

  “There is many a novelist much better known who might well envy Mr.
  Locke the privilege of having written ‘The beloved vagabond.’”
  Frederic Taber Cooper.

     + + =No. Am.= 184: 525. Mr. 1, ’07. 1530w.

       + =Putnam’s.= 1: 766. Mr. ’07. 570w.

       + =Sat. R.= 102: 810. D. 29, ’06. 730w.

  “On the whole [Mr. Locke] must be congratulated on the skill, the
  spirit and the tact with which he has composed these exotic variations
  on a Rabelaisian theme.”

       + =Spec.= 97: 989. D. 15, ’06. 750w.


* =Lockwood, Laura Emma.= Lexicon to the English poetical works of John
Milton. *$3. Macmillan.

                                                                7–37515.

  “Miss Lockwood has used the text of the Globe edition, and retained
  the modern spelling; in the arrangement and classification of the
  meanings of words she has followed the ‘New English dictionary.’
  Except in the case of the very commonest words, she has aimed at
  making her record of occurrences complete, and she has laid particular
  stress on definitions.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We have attempted to test the work by a single short poem, the
  ‘Lycidas,’ and we have only [a few] points of criticism on that
  difficult poem. Nevertheless, this is a very valuable work.”

   + + − =Ind.= 63: 1003. O. 24, ’07. 330w.

  “This is a welcome work and will henceforth be indispensable to any
  serious student of the poet. Of course, only systematic use can prove
  the accuracy of such a book in detail, but the impression which one
  gains from a cursory examination of its pages is that the task has
  been accomplished in a reliable and painstaking manner.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 515. D. 5, ’07. 210w.


=Lodge, Henry Cabot.= Frontier town and other essays. **$1.50. Scribner.

                                                                6–34821.

  The frontier town is Greenfield, Mass., the 150th anniversary of whose
  incorporation was celebrated in 1903. The other essays are on the
  Senate, Samuel Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Senator Hoar, The United
  States at Algeciras, etc.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “All of the essays are written in Senator Lodge’s agreeable manner;
  he, at least, has preserved a literary finish in these essays upon
  historical and allied subjects. It is often refreshing to find such a
  book, which does not pretend to add to the store of human knowledge,
  but presents old views and known facts in a pleasing and attractive
  form.”

       + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 701. Ap. ’07. 440w.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 12. Ja. ’07.

         =Lit. D.= 33: 595. O. 27, ’06. 70w.

  “As a whole, the contents of the volume have less distinction than the
  same author’s ‘Fighting frigate and other essays,’ but that any man in
  public life should be able to write so much and so well is itself
  gratifying.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 482. D. 6, ’06. 180w.

  “To our surprise we find Mr. Lodge at his clumsiest in speaking of the
  matters which concern him, or our interest in him, most.” H. W.
  Boynton.

     + − =No. Am.= 183: 1185. D. 7, ’06. 750w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 110. Ja. ’07. 50w.


=Lodge, Sir Oliver.= Substance of faith allied with science; a catechism
for parents and teachers. **$1. Harper.

                                                                 7–9613.

  Thru questions and answers the author formulates a way to achieve a
  harmonious condition in which the Divine Will is perfectly obeyed. His
  task has been that “of formulating the fundamentals. or substance of
  religious faith in terms of Divine Immanence, in such a way as to
  assimilate sufficiently all the results of existing knowledge and
  still be in harmony with the teachings of the poets and inspired
  writers of all ages.” The book is addressed to the many who experience
  some difficulty in recognizing the old landmarks amid the rising flood
  of criticism.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 168. O. ’07.

  “We can hardly doubt that even his catechism, when preached by
  himself, is interesting and profitable; but we venture to suggest that
  if he seems to find it practically a source of inspiration, that is
  because any man so combining learning and good-will is worth listening
  to, whatever his topic.” T. D. A. Cockerell.

     − + =Dial.= 42: 341. Je. 1, ’07. 900w.

         =Ind.= 62: 911. Ap. 18, ’07. 470w.

         =Ind.= 63: 1236. N. 21, ’07. 40w.

         =Outlook.= 85: 879. Ap. 20, ’07. 280w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 638. My. ’07. 60w.

  “We have rarely seen a simpler or clearer account of what science can
  teach us now on such fundamental problems as the formation of the
  earth and the development of life; it will be a real boon to the
  religious teacher; though, simple as it is, we doubt whether he could
  make it intelligible to children.”

       + =Sat. R.= 104: 276. Ag. 31, ’07. 280w.

  “His book we are sure, will be a source of happiness and consolation
  to many who, confused by the new discoveries of history and of
  science, have become shaken in their religious faith.”

     + + =Spec.= 98: 946. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.


* =Loftie, Rev. William J.= Colour of London, historic, personal and
local; with an introd. by M. H. Spielmann; il. by the Japanese artist,
Yoshio Markino. *$6. Jacobs.

  “Mr. Loftie has interpreted the term ‘colour’ in its broadest sense
  and has drawn extensively upon the wonderful traditions of the great
  metropolis; indeed, the most interesting chapter in the volume is
  devoted to the history and description of the Tower. To many, however,
  the most attractive feature of the book will be the series of
  delightful illustrations by Mr. Yoshio Markino, reproduced in colour
  and monotone, the originals of which were recently exhibited at the
  Clifford gallery in the Haymarket.”—Int. Studio.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “As for the letterpress by Mr. W. J. Loftie, its chief defect is that
  it has nothing to do with the pictures. From the antiquarian and
  topographical points of view it seems to us of very high interest,
  marked by strong common sense and enmity to popular fables.”

       + =Acad.= 72: 501. My. 25, ’07. 1060w.

  “The artist ... has given us a London which is new. Mr. W. J. Loftie
  as an antiquary, has naturally and properly given us in the text
  anecdotes which are old, though pleasantly treated.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 612. My. 18. 420w.

  “Mr. Loftie writes of a few of the myriad aspects of London ...
  treating them all in a delightfully suggestive fashion, with a true
  feeling for the oddities and ramifications of his subject. The
  enterprising young Japanese seems to know all parts of his beloved
  London, and to have observed it with the stranger’s open-mindedness
  and the artist’s sensitiveness to effect.”

     + + =Dial.= 43: 376. D. 1, ’07. 310w.

  “Possessing a delicate sense of colour and tone harmony, the artist
  has been inspired by some typical scenes of London street life to
  produce a number of drawings which are extremely fascinating, and bear
  the stamp of exceptional ability.”

     + + =Int. Studio.= 32: 83. Jl. ’07. 270w.

  “Mr. Loftie has done his share of the work in a competent manner.
  These drawings, the larger part of them in color, ought to make the
  fortune of any book.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 230w.

  “His drawings are equally admirable for simplicity, spontaneity, and
  sincerity—so much so, indeed, as quite to take all of one’s attention
  in opening the well-printed book, even though its text be by such an
  erudite authority as is Mr. W. J. Loftie.”

     + + =Outlook.= 87: 616. N. 23, ’07. 340w.

  “Well above the colour-book average.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 626. My. 18, ’07. 290w.


=Loliee, Frederic.= Short history of comparative literature from the
earliest times to the present day. *$1.75. Putnam.

                                                                7–18136.

  “M. Loliée’s aim is to present a picture of the literary output of all
  the centuries: to mark the periods of growth, florescence and decay,
  and to indicate the relations of one product to another.”—Spec.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We have read this work with dismay and disappointment. And as for M.
  Loliée’s comparisons, they are fit only to be made at a penny-reading.
  It remains to add that the book is very ill-translated, and that it
  bristles with misprints.”

     − − =Acad.= 70: 423. My. 5, ’06. 1520w.

  “As a result of such a gigantic undertaking, confined within the
  narrow limits of 350 pages, his book is conspicuous for broad surveys
  and vague generalities. By its lack of close individual
  characterization and accurate detailed description it lies at the very
  antipodes of Sainte-Beuve’s critical method. The translation is not so
  good as it might be.”

     − + =Nation.= 85: 143. Ag. 15, ’07. 970w.

  “Each step in his work is so carefully taken and the proportions so
  well maintained that one can have no possible doubt of the underlying
  truth of his whole theme.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 338. My. 25, ’07. 800w.

  “It is certainly safe to say that the wider a reader’s acquaintance
  with the literature of the world, the more benefit he will get from M.
  Loliée’s work. It has been well translated by Mr. Power.”

     + + =Spec.= 97: 65. Jl. 14, ’06. 190w.


=Loliee, Frederic.= Women of the second empire: chronicles of the court
of Napoleon III; comp. from unpublished documents; tr. by Alice M.
Ivimy. *$7. Lane.

  In this volume “pageant ... defiles before you in all its
  magnificence. The empress Eugenie, who set the fashion to the women of
  Europe, the Countess de Castiglione, Madame de Rutz, Laure de
  Rothschild, the Princess Mathilde, Countess le Hon and many others—all
  pass on their way, and the place of each in the procession is defined.
  As each passes too you learn something of her character and
  attainments; and in a discreet whisper stories are told of her
  doings.... Moreover it is illustrated with fifty-one photographs of
  the celebrities, superbly reproduced.”—Acad.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Exceedingly well written and interesting as gossip may be. But M.
  Loliée’s preface and work are more reasonable and without that
  desperate brightness—of a salesman exhibiting wares. He has been
  untiring in his search for information and successful. The translation
  is well done.”

     + + =Acad.= 72: 265. Mr. 16, ’07. 600w.

  “The volume appears ... like ‘the book of the opera,’ and a very light
  opera at that.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 17. Jl. 4, ’07. 460w.

  “Amusing, shocking, interesting, disgusting, trivial, important,
  sometimes by turns and sometimes all on the same page is M. Frederic
  Loliée’s book of biographical sketches.”

     − + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 289. My. 4, ’07. 920w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.

  Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.

       + =Putnam’s.= 2: 475. Jl. ’07. 90w.

  “It all smacks too much of a society’s journal’s small talk about
  pretty faces and dresses.”

       − =Sat. R.= 103: 372. Mr. 23, ’07. 130w.

  “Brilliant and amusing as M. Loliée’s book undoubtedly is, such a tone
  of cynicism rather repels any one who has ever had even a passing
  acquaintance with members of that long-dead society whose actual charm
  he does not, we think, quite succeed in perpetuating here.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: 129. Jl. 27, ’07. 1490w.


=London, Jack.= Before Adam. †$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                 7–7191.

  Mr. London sets about the novel task of deducing from the dream
  glimpses of the present day sleeper, evidences of his evolution from
  the ape. For instance, the falling-through-space dream is a racial
  memory which dates back to our remote ancestors who lived in trees and
  who experienced terrible falls. “It is decidedly ingenious, this story
  of tree dwellers, cave dwellers and fire makers, who are masters also
  of the bow and arrow—of three stages of human evolution going on side
  by side in a remote geological age.” (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In the subject of his latest story, ‘Before Adam,’ Mr. Jack London
  shows no diminution of his characteristic audacity. This is a brave
  endeavor to enlist our interest in these dim denizens; but it falls
  short of complete success. The story occasionally stirs our curiosity,
  but never our sympathy.” Harry James Smith.

       − =Atlan.= 100: 125. Jl. ’07. 1640w.

  “It may be the result of a good deal of scientific research into the
  latest accepted theories of evolution and atavism, but the popularity
  of a work of fiction is seldom in direct ratio to its scientific
  accuracy.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

     − + =Bookm.= 25: 183. Ap. ’07. 310w.

  “The story fails to make a distinct impression upon the reader, who
  finds in it, in the last analysis, but another animal story of the
  type that has been so popular during the last decade or so.”

     − + =Ind.= 62: 620. Mr. 14, ’07. 210w.

  “Jack London’s unbridled imagination is here exhibited in full
  career.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 639. Ap. 20, ’07. 420w.

  “Jack London has performed a wonderful feat in so describing the lives
  and passions of these rudimentary beings. He has builded a romance of
  the unknown ages, of the creatures that may have been, and endowed it
  all with poignant reality.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 145. Mr. 9, ’07. 690w.

  “In one respect ‘Before Adam’ is weak; it is too truth-loving as
  regards scientific records to leave much room for the emotional
  aspects of life. The story is a sort of literary ‘tour de force,’ ably
  done and curiously fascinating.”

     + − =Outlook.= 85: 718. Mr. 23, ’07. 120w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 762. Je. ’07. 260w.


=London, Jack.= Love of life, and other stories. †$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                7–29686.

  A group of characteristic Jack London stories set in “the rim of the
  polar sea.” Cold and hunger battle with the love of life, even
  humanity itself is often chilled into insensibility, and the animal
  instinct of self preservation at all hazards remains. The stories are
  Love of life, A day’s lodging, The white man’s way, The story of
  Keesh, The unexpected, Brown Wolf, The sun-dog trail and Negore, the
  coward.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “All good, some of them of distinctive merit. Not so brutal as some of
  his earlier stories of this author.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 202. N. ’07.

  “Taken altogether these stories have all the good points of their
  author’s work—strength, aliveness, vividness of colouring.” J.
  Marchand.

       + =Bookm.= 26: 419. D. ’07. 470w.

  “They are quite equal to his previous accomplishments in this
  direction, and are not approached by the efforts of any other writers,
  save Elizabeth Robins’s ‘The magnetic north,’ which remains the chief
  achievement in arctic romance.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 655. N. 2, ’07. 450w.

  “This is much the usual Jack London thing: wolf-dogs and miners and
  Indians; starving and freezing and killing.”

       − =Nation.= 85: 353. O. 17, ’07. 130w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 594. O. 5, ’07. 680w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 40w.

  “Jack London certainly has the story-teller’s gift, and he uses it to
  the greatest effect when he tells us of the north.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 450. O. 26, ’07. 80w.


=London, Jack.= Moon-face; and other stories. †$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                6–32351.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Of varying interest and merit they seem, by the natural limitations
  of the short story, to hinder the powers of the author from coming
  into full play.”

     − + =Cath. World.= 84: 833. Mr. ’07. 190w.

  “These short stories of Mr. London’s are rather poor stuff, as lacking
  in quality as in imagination; and there is little to be said for them
  on the score of originality.”

       − =Sat. R.= 103: 178. F. 9, ’07. 180w.


* =London, Jack.= The road. †$2. Macmillan.

  Jack London is the invincible tramp in these pages. Often enough the
  vulnerable heel is exposed to the arrows flying thick in “hobo” land,
  but by means of quick wits, his alertness and master strength he wards
  them off. “The road” records his round of underworld experiences which
  began at eighteen, and it abounds in tramp tricks, tramp scrapes, and
  tramp vernacular, interesting both to the curious reader and the
  student of sociology.


=London, Jack.= Scorn of women; in three acts. **$1.25. Macmillan.

                                                                6–43530.

  A three act comedy, with Dawson City in 1897 as its setting. “The
  heroine is a dazzlingly beautiful and very rich dancer, who is
  worshipped by all the men and suspected by all the women.... The
  incidents of Arctic life are portrayed with unmistakable veracity, and
  the humors and mystifications of a masked ball, under frontier
  conditions, are set forth with freshness and vivacity.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Canadian M.= 28: 399. F. ’07. 80w.

  “In the last act there is a touch of the wild which is, perhaps, a
  trifle too realistic, but the piece as a whole, is decidedly
  entertaining, and contains some well-drawn sketches of character.”

     + − =Nation.= 83: 495. D. 6, ’06. 220w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 778. N. 24, ’06. 80w.

  “The length of the second act and the numerous irrelevant episodes
  might weaken the play on the stage, but there can be no question about
  the dramatic effect of the conclusion.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: sup. 461. O. 5, ’07. 180w.


=London, Jack.= White Fang. †$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                6–35449.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “It is a capital story, marred a little by the brutality of detail
  given in the fight with the bull-dog.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 274. Mr. 16, ’07. 220w.

  “His tale is packed full of absurdly precious idioms, literary
  ‘clichés’, and pompous little mannerisms.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 161. F. 9. 270w.

  “The illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull are not the least good
  thing about the book. The virility of this artist is as strong and as
  alive as that of the author he companions, but there is a greater
  sense of self-control in it, a power of restraint and reserve which
  makes his work a lasting delight.” Grace Isabel Colbron.

     + + =Bookm.= 24: 599. F. ’07. 950w.

  “The manner in which the author manages to interest one in the history
  of the wolf is an achievement.”

     + + =Current Literature.= 82: 111. Ja. ’07. 500w.

  “It would be an exaggeration to call this novel a socialistic tract in
  disguise, but it is certainly not the least clever stroke of its
  author’s that he has succeeded in interweaving into a dog-and-wolf
  story so subtle a reminder of the pressure of feral conditions in the
  midst of civilized human society.” Herbert W. Horwill.

   + + − =Forum.= 38: 547. Ap. ’07. 1020w.

  “The Canadian wolf needs the rehabilitation which the Indian wolf owes
  to Kipling, and Mr. London is entirely successful in expressing his
  litheness, which is worthy of rikki-tikki at his best, his hardihood,
  and the germ of the fidelity which remains the master attribute in the
  dog. Some scenes are admirably vivid bits of natural history.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 46. F. 8, ’07. 550w.

  “Done in this author’s best style.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 35: 128. Ja. ’07. 40w.

     + − =Spec.= 97: 219. F. 9, ’07. 360w.


* =Lonergan, W. F.= Forty years of Paris, il. **$3.50. Brentano’s.

  Contemporary Paris as seen thru the eyes of a newspaper correspondent.
  Mr. Lonergan “has attended sittings of the Chamber and the courts, met
  many politicians and men of letters, unhitched Boulanger’s carriage,
  talked with Clémenceau, interviewed Zola, corresponded with Halèvy,
  and had a squabble with Sardou. In the midst of his feverish
  existence, however, he found the time to read something else than
  newspapers, namely, some books on Taine, Renan, and Abbé Loisy,
  especially the latter; and he gives us the benefit of his readings.”
  (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The genial and observant spirit which is visible in Mr. Lonergan’s
  new volume on Paris inclines us to praise it, and to recommend its
  purchase to our readers.”

     + − =Acad.= 73: 110. N. 9, ’07. 320w.

  “There are a good many small mistakes, and some unnecessary passages.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 548. N. 2. 400w.

  “While this narrative, covering the main events of recent history,
  does not take the place of Seignobos or Hanotaux, it supplements,
  thanks to its generous supply of gossip from the editorial rooms and
  the ‘brasseries,’ those more dignified and reserved chronicles.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 470. N. 21, ’07. 340w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

  “It contains a good deal of more or less entertaining gossip, more or
  less valuable criticism, literary and dramatic, and some pages well
  worth reading on the conflict with the Vatican.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: sup. 753. N. 16, ’07. 170w.


=Long, William Joseph.= Brier-patch philosophy. *$1.50. Ginn.

                                                                6–34265.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “A book somewhat different from his previous animal studies, but
  equally well worth reading.”

       + =Ath.= 1906. 2: 805. D. 22. 150w.

     + + =Nature.= 75: 177. D. 20, ’06. 170w.

  “When Mr. Long is describing the habits of animals, and telling us
  stories about them, he is interesting and readable; but when he puts
  his own ideas into the mouth of a wild rabbit, the result is apt to be
  a little tedious.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: sup. 653. Ap. 27, ’07. 160w.


* =Long, William Joseph.= Whose home is the wilderness: some studies of
wild animal life. il. *$1.25. Ginn.

                                                                7–37000.

  A book of intimate observations recorded at the end of a season of
  “Watching the wild things.” It aims first, to show some of the
  unrecorded facts of animal life exactly as the author has seen them;
  second, to reproduce as far as possible the spirit of the place and
  the hour, and to let one also feel something of that gladness and
  peace which the author has always found in the silent places.


Long day; the story of a New York working girl as told by herself.
*$1.20. Century.

                                                                5–29965.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 26. Ja. ’07.

  Reviewed by Margaret Dreir Robins.

     + − =Charities.= 17: 484. D. 15, ’06. 1180w.


=Loomis, Charles Battell.= Araminta and the automobile. †50c. Crowell.

                                                                7–21370.

  Araminta and the automobile, The deception of Martha Tucker, and While
  the automobile ran down are three stories which reveal “cheerful
  Americans” in the act of testing the joys and sorrows of the motor
  car.


=Loomis, Charles Battell.= Bath in an English tub; il. by Robert A.
Graef. †75c. Barnes.

                                                                7–11578.

  A series of letters written to the New York sun which give the
  author’s experiences in England.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is not a guide book, but is franker and funnier than most guide
  books and will be appreciated by all who have been there.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 1359. Je. 6, ’07. 40w.

  “Mr. Loomis sees the absurdities of life and relates them with
  cheerful vivacity.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 432. My. 9, ’07. 50w.


=Lorimer, Norma Octavia.= By the waters of Carthage. **$2.50. Pott.

                                                                 7–4809.

  “There is something fresh and original about this book of travel. The
  writer ... expresses herself in letters to her husband, and her
  observations are full of personal bits and scrappy digression.... The
  Oriental life of Tunis is presented in all its color and variety, and
  the ruins of Carthage are suggested with quite an imaginative
  touch.... The photographs, by Garrigues, a Tunis photographer, are
  unusually fine.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is open to many criticisms, with its bits of improbable
  romance and its free and easy style; but it is really interesting.”

     + − =Outlook.= 84: 839. D. 1, ’06. 130w.

       − =Spec.= 96: 719. My. 5, ’06. 360w.


=Loti, Pierre, pseud.= Disenchanted. †$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                6–32677.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The work is written in Loti’s beautiful style, but is less
  superficial in character than many of his stories.” Amy C. Rich.

       + =Arena.= 37: 108. Ja. ’07. 410w.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 109. Ja. ’07. 730w.

  “As a matter of fact, M. Loti conspicuously fails to present the case
  of the contemporary harem in its most telling light. It strikes the
  present reviewer that the author’s taste runs somewhat excessively,
  for once, to the sentimental.” H. G. Dwight.

     + − =Putnam’s.= 1: 718. Mr. ’07. 1790w.

  “Superbly translated by Clara Bell, the new book by Pierre Loti is no
  less than irresistible.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 35: 122. Ja. ’07. 240w.


=Lottridge, Silas A.= Familiar wild animals. *60c. Holt.

                                                                6–13335.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 82. Mr. ’07. ✠

       + =Ind.= 61: 261. Ag. 2, ’06. 30w.


=Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford.= Text of Shakespeare; its history from
the publication of the quartos and folios down to and including the
publication of the editions of Pope and Theobald. **$2. Scribner.

                                                                6–36417.

  The third instalment of Prof. Lounsbury’s work on “Shakespearean
  wars.” “An elaborate account of an eighteenth-century literary
  controversy, of which the protagonists were Alexander Pope, author of
  ‘Dunciad,’ and the Shakesperean scholar, Lewis Theobald, the original
  hero of that famous and infamous poem.” (Forum.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Dr. Lounsbury, with a learning, a penetration and a scholarly
  thoroughness beyond all praise, has added to his already invaluable
  Shakespearean labours by attacking the thorny subject of Pope,
  Theobald, and the text of Shakespeare; has cleared the tangled brake
  and disclosed matters which had been long forgotten.”

     + + =Acad.= 71: 605. D. 15, ’06. 880w.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 241. D. ’06.

  “His style is heavy, and he writes at unnecessary length, labouring
  points that have long been pretty clear to those who know anything
  about the subject.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 253. Mr. 2. 540w.

  “In style, this volume is delightfully clear and entertaining, despite
  some rather painful ‘longueurs.’ Professor Lounsbury wears his
  learning lightly, and the reader, therefore, feels no burden.” Charles
  H. A. Wager.

     + + =Dial.= 42: 39. Ja. 16, ’07. 1510w.

  “He has rendered a new critical edition of the ‘Dunciad’ and a
  revising of Pope’s biography necessary, and a fuller life of Theobald
  desirable—despite the fulness and excellence of his own treatment of
  the great commentator’s career; and, all the while, he has been
  steadily nearing the goal he originally set himself of tracing the
  history of the works and fame of William Shakespeare.” W. P. Trent.

     + + =Forum.= 38: 373. Ja. ’07. 1150w.

       + =Ind.= 62: 99. Ja. 10, ’07. 370w.

  “Much of this investigation of necessity wanders far from Shakespere;
  but it is difficult to see how it could have been avoided, and the
  substantial results of the author’s researches ought to silence the
  critic who is inclined to quibble over the appropriateness of the
  title of the volume.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 416. N. 15, ’06. 1360w.

  “It is for these additions to exact knowledge and for the tedious
  labor spent in exhaustive investigation of dusty sources that students
  will be grateful to a volume condensing for them the results of ardent
  toil. But the general reader will find it almost equally rewarding for
  its extraordinarily vivid representation in the surroundings and
  atmosphere of their age of two notable figures.” Elisabeth Luther
  Cary.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 834. D. 1, ’06. 2140w.

  “While scholars and students will gratefully acknowledge Professor
  Lounsbury’s notable contribution to Shakespearean literature, the
  lasting importance of his work in this field lies in the clear light
  it throws on the conditions in which the dramatist lived, and the
  method or order of his growth.”

     + + =Outlook.= 87: 330. O. 19, ’07. 310w.

  “Another book that must take an eminent place among recent
  contributions to Shakespeare literature—if, indeed, it be not by far
  the most important and the most interesting in its special field of
  criticism—is ‘The text of Shakespeare.’” Wm. J. Rolfe.

     + + =Putnam’s.= 2: 724. S. ’07. 1250w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 253. F. ’07. 70w.

  Reviewed by George H. Browne.

     + + =School R.= 15: 304. Ap. ’07. 520w.

  “A book which deserves the attention of every one interested in the
  history of English literature.”

     + + =Spec.= 98: 979. Je. 22, ’07. 1690w.


=Louthan, Hattie Horner.= “This was a man:” a romance. $1.50. Clark.

                                                                6–45355.

  The author emphasizes the sentiment that “the only safe principle in
  our American life lies in ignoring social distinctions and in paying
  homage to what each man really is.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The vulgarity of it consists in the author’s effort to interpret the
  scandalous lives of two Don Juans by the free use of their own
  vocabularies.”

       − =Ind.= 62: 603. F. 28, ’07. 130w.

  “It is a very tangled skein of events that this novel presents to the
  reader to unravel, and there is little unity of plan or plot, but
  these faults are partially atoned for by a certain freshness and
  exuberance of feeling and expression that give the book the stamp of
  human interest.”

     + − =Lit. D.= 34: 341. Mr. 2, ’07. 130w.

  “The principal incidents of the story border on melodrama. There are
  some parts of genuine dramatic interest and the character of the
  rector is well drawn.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 91. F. 16, ’07. 130w.


=Lovett, Robert M.= Winged victory. †$1.50. Duffield.

                                                                7–12977.

  The whole story is animated by the spirit of the heroine who champions
  thru early life the cause of a feeble-minded brother, and later that
  of an unsuccessful man whom she marries because he needs her. She was
  “winged in her hope; armed in her faith. In the presence of the great
  fulfillment of life all individual complications of mere living seemed
  contemptible and petty. She walked firmly, exulting in her strength.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book ... is rich in interest.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 400. O. 5. 230w.

  “The story is interesting and cleverly wrought, but is marred by a
  vein of the sort of sentimentalism that affects the modern amateur
  sociologist, and by a false sense of values in the social life of the
  college community.” Wm. M. Payne.

     + − =Dial.= 42: 378. Je. 16, ’07. 310w.

  “The climax is long in coming, and when it does arrive one fails to
  see clearly its relation to most of what has gone before.”

       − =Ind.= 63: 340. Ag. 8, ’07. 190w.

  “While the book is seriously lacking in unity and coordination, it has
  features of genuine merit.”

     + − =Lit. D.= 34: 962. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.

  “All the virtue of this story lies in the first of its three parts.
  Here is an affectionate and reverent study of child-nature, grateful
  enough in the midst of our sentimental or facetious or condescending
  manipulations of the child as literary ‘copy.’”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 36. Jl. 11, ’07. 460w.

  “The book as it stands is excellently written, in a style free from
  literary self-consciousness; American in its ideals, and full of
  firsthand interest in human character. Because of this very freshness
  the title is not quite fortunate; used here it gives an academic touch
  in spite of its real beauty.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 315. My. 18, ’07. 690w.


=Low, Sidney James Mark.= Vision of India as seen during the tour of the
Prince and Princess of Wales. *$3.50. Dutton.

                                                                  W 7–6.

  A general picture of the life and social conditions in India today.
  Beginning with Bombay, the author takes us thru the cities of
  Rajputana, to Punjab and the borders, past the cities of the Moghuls
  on to Bengal, Madras and the Southland. There is an account of the
  Mohammedan college at Aligarh, a discussion of the Indian army, and a
  concluding chapter which raises the question of the endurance of the
  present strange form of Indian government.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Sidney Low, in ‘A vision of India,’ ... is admirable: thoroughly
  detached and non-official, but conservative in the best sense, in
  spite of a good deal of criticism of British faults.”

     + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 606. My. 19. 1160w.

  “A book so profitably full and accurate, so acute in observation, and
  so enlivening, that it may be called a remarkably illuminating book
  about India.” H. E. Coblentz.

     + + =Dial.= 42: 372. Je. 16, ’07. 270w.

  “Mr. Low’s book is full of facts; it is brightly and ably written; and
  we hope that many members of our ‘not too attentive democracy’ will
  turn over these pages to see what our Indian empire is like.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 180. My. 18, ’06. 1780w.

  “Our only quarrel is with the title Mr. Low has chosen, for there is
  more careful study than ‘vision’ in his book; but it is better for
  that.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 15. Jl. 4, ’07. 410w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 177. Mr. 23, ’07. 190w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 292. My. 4, ’07. 770w.

  “Mr. Low’s [book is valuable] because England’s course for the future
  is clearly and impressively disclosed.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.

  Reviewed by F. A. Steel.

         =Sat. R.= 102: 199. Ag. 18, ’06. 370w.

  “The book might with advantage have been considerably shortened. But,
  on the whole, it is an excellent piece of work, showing India as it
  appears to a keen observer, whose mind has been trained in the study
  of peoples and politics.”

     + − =Spec.= 97: 131. Jl. 28, ’06. 2040w.


=Lowell, Percival.= Mars and its canals. **$2.50. Macmillan.

                                                                6–45164.

  On the hills of northern Arizona, Mr. Lowell built an observatory and
  equipped it with apparatus for a life study of Mars. He offers in this
  volume the deductions from his observations to date. Not only does he
  convince the reader that Mars is inhabited but “that the inhabitants
  of Mars are carrying on a system of irrigation for agricultural
  purposes on an immeasurably larger scale than has ever been dreamed on
  our planet, that they possess a high degree of agricultural and
  mechanical intelligence, and a degree of moral development so far in
  advance of any we have yet reached that in all probability war is
  among them unknown.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A longer and rather more serious book than that of Morse on Mars.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 69. Mr. ’07.

         =Ath.= 1907. 1: 478. Ap. 20. 480w.

  Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.

         =Atlan.= 100: 262. Ag. ’07. 670w.

  “With all respect, then, to Professor Lowell, and with all trust in
  the accuracy of his observations, they seem explicable enough without
  any idea of Mars being inhabited. It seems pretty clear that he has
  let his imagination run away with him.” George M. Searle.

     + − =Cath. World.= 84: 577. F. ’07. 5900w.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 211. F. ’07. 1790w.

  “Whether the reader can accept the author’s conclusions or not, he
  will at least be forced to admit, after reading ‘Mars and its canals,’
  that the book is an exceedingly able and interesting exposition of the
  subject.” Herbert A. Howe.

       + =Dial.= 42: 76. F. 1, ’07. 1170w.

  “In every way the work is a worthy presentation from a recognized
  Martian leader. Mr. Lowell’s observations have every claim to
  acceptance. The theories propounded are by no means so clear.”

     + − =Ind.= 61: 1567. D. 27, ’06. 290w.

         =Lond. Times.= 6: 108. Ap. 5, ’07. 1510w.

  “The most adverse critic cannot but admire the tireless industry with
  which the planet has been scanned night after night, every noteworthy
  appearance regarded, and the mass of facts thus acquired moulded into
  a consistent whole.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 317. Ap. 4, ’07. 710w.

  “Written in a very clear style, free from scientific technicalities,
  and illustrated by maps and diagrams, so that the non-expert layman
  can understand it.”

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 142. Ja. 19, ’07. 320w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 120w.

  “While this book is published as a popular exposition of the most
  recent investigations, it presents practically all that is known, or
  thus far suspected, presumably, concerning this planet and its
  inhabitants.” Herman S. Davis.

     + + =Science=, n.s. 25: 499. Mr. 29, ’07. 520w.


=Lowery, Woodbury.= Spanish settlements within the present limits of the
United States: Florida. 1562–1574. *$2.50. Putnam.

                                                                5–32489.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

     + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 423. Ja. ’07. 370w.


=Lucas, Charles Prestwood.= Canadian war of 1812. *$4.15. Oxford.

                                                                6–30901.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

       + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 429. Ja. ’07. 500w.

  “That the results do not present much that is novel is due rather to
  the diligence of Mr. Lucas’s predecessors than to his own lack of
  zeal. The few errors ... do not bear directly upon the narrative.”
  Carl Russel Fish.

     + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 433. Mr. ’07. 430w.


=Lucas, Charles Prestwood.= Historical geography of British colonies, v.
1. *$1.25; v. 2. *$1.90. Oxford.

  =v. 1.= The Mediterranean and Eastern colonies revised and brought up
  to date by R. E. Stubbs.

  “This volume begins with Gibraltar, and travels through the
  Mediterranean by way of Malta and Cyprus to the Asiatic islands of the
  Far East. Except for the three European possessions and Somaliland in
  Africa, the book deals exclusively with the islands in the Indian
  ocean and the minor Asiatic possessions.”—Nation.

  =v. 2.= West indies rev. and brought up to date by Chewton Atchley.

  “This volume deals not only with the West Indian islands proper, from
  Jamaica round to Trinidad, but also with the Bermudas, the Bahamas,
  the mainland colonies of Guiana and Honduras, and even the far distant
  possessions in the Cape Horn region—the Falkland islands and South
  Georgia.”—Nature.

  =v. 6.= Australasia, by J. D. Rogers.

  A history of the southern continent and the islands of the Pacific.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Its revision has been most carefully carried out, and the politician
  will be as grateful for the precise statement of recent changes as the
  historical student will be for the more ample scale on which the
  earlier stages of exploration and settlement are treated.” W.

       + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 414. Ap. ’07. 200w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The work of revision has been satisfactorily accomplished.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 242. S. 20, ’06. 780w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “Mr. Rogers himself has apparently taken great delight in the writing
  of the book. Every page seems to be a labor of love, with its clever
  descriptions, witty allusions, apt quotations, Biblical and classical,
  and swift judgments of men, of policies, and of events.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 190. Ag. 29, ’07. 770w. (Review of v. 6.)

  “Mr. Lucas has accomplished his task most successfully.”

       + =Nature.= 73: 245. Ja. 11, ’06. 630w. (Review of v. 2.)


=Lucas, Edward Verrall=, ed. Another book of verses for children, il.
†$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                7–32337.

  An anthology of “Poetry-for-children” which is capable of a many-sided
  appeal to the imagination, and which, the author hopes, will serve as
  a preparation for the real poetry of the grown-up. A poem’s fitness
  for being read aloud has been a principal consideration for including
  it.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is a delightful compilation, and noticeably excellent in the method
  of its arrangement.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 515. O. 26. 190w.

       + =Nation.= 85: 495. N. 28, ’07. 130w.

  “Mr. Lucas has a sound taste in humor and in literature at large, and
  he seems equally to have good judgment in his choice of what will
  please children.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 544. N. 9, ’07. 110w.

  “It would be difficult to get a more valuable edition for household
  use.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 36: 765. D. ’07. 30w.

  “Altogether a most suitable and acceptable nursery, schoolroom, and
  playroom anthology.”

     + + =Spec.= 99: sup. 640. N. 2, ’07. 160w.


* =Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Character and comedy. *$1.25. Macmillan.

  The first part of this book “consists of pleasant little essays of a
  Lamblike gentleness and humor, but the best of the book is the second
  part, ‘Life’s little difficulties,’ in which by means of life-like
  letters the tiny social tragedies of small places are told with
  exquisite dexterity and good nature.” (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Lucas is a pretty humorist, and in this dainty volume he shows,
  very prettily, the variety of his range.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 334. S. 21. 290w.

  “A most delightful book.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 1317. N. 28, ’07. 60w.

  “Mr. Lucas knows how to write trifles with something much better than
  dignity; with a cheerful communicativeness and transparent candour
  that make every reader his warm friend.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 300. O. 4, ’07. 820w.

  “The informality, intimacy, unaffected humor, of these unpretentious
  papers make them delightful reading.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 767. D. 7, ’07. 240w.

  “Mr. Lucas’s last, but not least charming, book of essays.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 521. O. 12, ’07. 1580w.


=Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Fireside and sunshine. **$1.25. Dutton.

                                                                7–29018.

  Nineteen “Lamb like” essays upon such subjects as; breakfast,
  squirrels, clothing old and new, the days of the week, and letter
  writing.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His pages not only have the expected Elian air, but also something of
  a sybaritic savor, a more than suggestion of the gourmet, a
  Dickens-Lamb-Scott enjoyment of the things of sense as embodied in
  certain favorite eatables and drinkables.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 288. My. 1, ’07. 500w.

  “This writing is in Mr. Lucas’s well-known vein—agreeable, vivacious,
  with bits of interesting observation of men, women, and beasts, and
  with touches of gentle humor. The matter, however, is rather thin,
  good enough for a casual contribution to the London ‘Outlook’ or
  ‘Country gentleman,’ but much of it hardly worth preservation in
  permanent form.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 338. Ap. 11, ’07. 200w.

  “Among the best collections of essays of this day of their popular
  revival.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 302. My. 11, ’07. 520w.

  “Whether old or new or half new, the essays may be commended to the
  public as excellent reading.”

       + =Spec.= 97: 791. N. 17, ’06. 420w.


=Lucas, Edward Verrall=, comp. Forgotten tales of long ago. $1.50.
Stokes.

                                                                7–35046.

  Twenty stories, from early writers for children, of a period ranging
  from 1790 to 1830, with three later contributions. “In the discovery
  of an anonymous production entitled ‘Lady Anne’ the editor finds his
  reward for much fruitless rummaging. We share his gratification, for
  it is a gem well worth preserving.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Interesting to the occasional child who fancies quaint tales, and to
  all students of children’s literature. Well printed and illustrated,
  and attractively bound.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 22. Ja. ’07. 50w.

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 652. N. 24. 80w.

       + =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 22, ’06. 60w.

       + =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 60w.


=Lucas, Edward Verrall=, comp. Friendly town: a little book for the
urbane. $1.50. Holt.

                                                                6–10500.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

       + =Ind.= 62: 733. Mr. 28, ’07. 140w.

  “Among anthologies the book deserves an exceptional place.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 33: 857. D. 8, ’06. 140w.

  “It would be difficult to find a collection of more appealing verse
  and prose than this.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 904. D. 29, ’06. 250w.

       + =Outlook.= 85: 94. Ja. 12, ’07. 100w.


=Lucas, Edward Verrall=, ed. Gentlest art: a choice of letters by
entertaining hands. **$1.25. Macmillan.

                                                                7–32334.

  The gentlest art, according to Mr. Lucas’ interpretation, is that of
  letter-writing. This anthology of letters is varied in content and
  includes a wide range of letter-writers, many of them well-known
  eighteenth and nineteenth century English people. There are eighteen
  headings under which letters are grouped, some of them being Children
  and grandfathers, News bearers, The grand style, The little friends,
  Urbanity and nonsense, Literature and art, Humorists and oddities, The
  pen reflective, Rural recluses, and Shadows.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A more charming volume it would not be easy to find.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 874. N. 30, ’07. 140w.


=Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Listener’s lure: a Kensington comedy. †$1.50.
Macmillan.

                                                                6–32676.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “It is the best of England, old and new, told at random in letters
  which also serve to piece out one of the prettiest love stories of the
  year.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 502. F. 28, ’07. 180w.


=Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Wanderer in London. **$1.75. Macmillan.

                                                                6–32702.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 12. Ja. ’07.

  “He here shows himself to be an uncommonly shrewd observer of the many
  and varied aspects of the great metropolis, and the no less
  heterogeneous ways and moods of its teeming population.”

       + =Int. Studio.= 30: 279. Ja. ’07. 200w.

  “Mr. Lucas takes his London lightly, skims the cream, revives the
  reader with the most modern frivolous bits of information, and never
  oppresses him under a load of facts. A good modern map is needed.”

     + − =Nation.= 83: 560. D. 27, ’06. 610w.


=Luce, Robert.= Writing for the press: a manual. 5th ed. pa. 50c.
Clipping bureau press.

                                                                7–18088.

  The fifth edition revised. It is a guide for beginners, furnishing
  information and instruction on all matters relating to the preparation
  of copy for the press.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is worth its room, were it only for the copious lists of
  words and phrases—correct and incorrect—common mistakes, and trite
  expressions, which it contains.”

     + + =Cath. World.= 85: 682. Ag. ’07. 170w.

       + =Ind.= 63: 763. S. 26, ’07. 70w.

       + =Nation.= 85: 191. Ag. 29, ’07. 70w.

  “The handiest and most useful work of reference in its line we have
  ever seen.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 368. Je. 8, ’07. 170w.


=Lupton, Arnold, Parr, G. D. A., and Perkin, Herbert.= Electricity as
applied to mining. *$4.50. Van Nostrand.

  “Electrical theories and principles are dealt with at considerable
  length.... Less than one third of the book is given over to the
  applications of electricity to mining.... For the mining engineer,
  colliery manager, or others who are contemplating the adoption of
  electricity for power or lighting and who know little or nothing of
  electricity, the book presents many valuable features.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

     + − =Engin. N.= 56: 527. N. 15, ’06. 290w.


=Lusk, Graham.= Elements of the science of nutrition. *$2.50. Saunders.

                                                                6–41748.

  “Scientific analysis of the processes of nutrition, and the chemical
  constituents of various foods, together with numerous explanatory
  tables. Contains separate chapters on ‘The food requirements during
  the period of growth’ and on metabolism under abnormal and diseased
  conditions, including anaemia, diabetes, fever, and gout.”—N. Y.
  Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The discussion is usually illuminating, but here and there a more
  liberal summary of generalization would be most helpful to students at
  least to beginners, who need broad statements rather than an
  enumeration of facts whose bearing they do not easily apprehend.”

   + + − =Nation.= 85: 266. S. 19, ’07. 110w.

  “Prof. Graham Lusk is to be congratulated on having produced a very
  interesting and important book.” W. B. H.

     + + =Nature.= 75: 413. Mr. 14, ’07. 470w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 138. Mr. 9, ’07. 40w.


=Luther, Mark Lee.= Crucible. †$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                7–33211.

  Jean Fanshaw is right as a trivet, though wilful and a born fighter.
  Her ungovernable temper sends her to the reform school, she escapes,
  but is persuaded by a clean, strong young artist rusticating in
  near-by woods to return and serve out her time. She does it, goes
  forth with a clear record, and enters the maelstrom of shopgirl life
  in New York. Her fight against the temptation on every hand is finally
  rewarded when her artist hero of long ago finds her and makes her
  castles in Spain a reality.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 40w.


=Lyford, James Otis.= Life of Edward H. Rollins: a political biography.
$1.50. Estes.

                                                                6–41541.

  “The political activities of New Hampshire, which state Rollins
  represented in both Congressional houses, are here set forth in
  sufficient detail to make the book of interest as a study in that
  field. But it chiefly aims to set Senator Rollins, an able,
  conscientious, useful man rightly in history.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His style is clear and graceful, and skill is shown in the selection
  and arrangement of salient facts, as well as due sense of proportion.
  It is the only book which has thus far appeared which gives a clear,
  orderly and accurate narrative of the political life of New Hampshire
  during this important epoch, and by his painstaking labor Mr. Lyford
  has made a distinct contribution to the history of the state.” James
  F. Colby.

     + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 906. Jl. ’07. 710w.

  “This is a good example of the political biography.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 916. Ap. 18, ’07. 140w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 823. D. 1, ’06. 220w.

         =Outlook.= 85: 526. Mr. 2, 07. 180w.


=Lyle, Eugene P., jr.= Lone star. †$1.50. Doubleday.

                                                                7–25502.

  A tale of the winning of Texas which begins with the Mexican exclusion
  of Americans and ends with the battle of San Jacinto. The book is
  autobiographical in nature, the narrator figuring “as blunderer and
  sometimes as dupe, but always retrieves himself by candor and a high
  courage.” (Nature.) Such personages as Crockett, Houston, Bowie and
  Austin figure in the narrative.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 178. O. ’07. ✠

  “Mr. Lyle has chosen to open his novel with a few pages of rather
  aggressive smartness; but once in motion, he flings aside spangles and
  rides gallantly to the close. His tale is a captivating one.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 211. S. 5, ’07. 350w.

  “He has marked individuality of style, he understands the mechanics of
  plot construction, he has considerable skill in the portrayal of
  character, and he can write English without making a blunder on every
  other page.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 548. S. 14, ’07. 500w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

     + − =Outlook.= 87: 45. S. 7, ’07. 100w.


=Lynde, Francis.= Empire builders. †$1.50 Bobbs.

                                                                7–26019.

  A story for would-be captains of industry which follows the enterprise
  of putting thru a difficult section of railroad, with no obstacle
  wanting that “nature, rivals, inside treachery and high finance” could
  present. The young engineer with the determination of a Titan
  surmounts them all. He “outgeneraled and outfought the unscrupulous
  old grafters and finally brought some of the more decent among their
  enemies over to his own way of thinking.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Fairly good reading for its class.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

       + =Bookm.= 26: 164. O. ’07. 270w.

  “This story is not so powerful as the title intimates.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 1006. O. 24, ’07. 130w.

  “Capital reading, even if it may seem wildly exaggerated at points.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 350w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

  “The book is crisply written, has action and life, and holds the
  interest throughout.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 45. S. 7, ’07. 100w.


=Lysaght, Sidney Royse.= Her Majesty’s rebels. †$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                7–35217.

  “Back in the days of tumult and shouting, of bitter strife and
  fostered crime, of no-rent manifestos and coercion bills, Her
  Majesty’s rebels, led by one of the greatest political leaders of the
  century, had Ireland in a ferment.” (Ath.) In this time of unrest the
  story has its setting, and the hero is Parnell in the disguise of
  Michael Desmond, “a notable hero, compounded of giant strength and
  strange weakness—a man, in fact, and a man full of magnetic force to
  draw men and women to him, now the victim of a passion he would not
  stop to control, now cold, reserved, and unscrupulous.... It is seldom
  we are given a picture of the Ireland of the early eighties half so
  finished, or so just as Mr. Lysaght’s.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Few Irish books of such good parts have come into our hands since
  Carleton’s days, for few authors hold the balance so accurately or
  write so restrainedly and so simply as Mr. Lysaght, content to fill
  their pages with the moving figures of men, animated by the spirit of
  life itself.”

     + + =Acad.= 72: 188. F. 23, ’07. 590w.

  “Compelling story.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 136. My. ’07.

  “The worst fault, indeed, of the story is a certain want of what
  journalists style actuality.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 250. Mr. 2. 270w.

  “Mr. Lysaght often shows a keen perception of character without the
  art of sustained development. Many of his people are quite shadowy. He
  is likewise guilty of self-indulgence in the matter of length.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 267. Mr. 21, ’07. 440w.

  “Apart from its general fairmindedness, the book is notable for many
  passages affording welcome relief to its prevalently serious
  character.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 295. F. 22, ’07. 1540w.




                                   M


=Maartens, Maarten.= New religion: a modern novel. †$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                7–29090.

  A novel which embodies a satire on the medical profession whose aim is
  to disgust people with doctors and medicine. “Mr. Maartens gives us no
  inkling of what we are to do without doctors, but one of his
  characters whose legs have been mutilated in an accident is restored
  by faith. Several surgeons pronounce his case hopeless unless he will
  have both legs amputated. He refuses and is healed by prayer. Perhaps
  Mr. Maartens is an apostle of Faith healing or Christian science in
  disguise.” (Sat. R.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is not a human character in the book, and not a wise idea. It
  is pretentious, badly constructed and badly written.”

     − − =Acad.= 73: 928. S. 21, ’07. 700w.

  “Such a book will not please those who seek for sensation; but as a
  criticism of modern western civilization, especially of its excessive
  care of the body, and neglect of the spirit, ‘The new religion’ has
  its charm and claim.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 362. S. 28. 240w.

  “Will not bear comparison with ‘Dorothea,’ still less ‘God’s fool,’
  but it contains interesting characters, witty comments and pathetic
  scenes, and its satire, unfair and exaggerated, like all satire,
  nevertheless has point and significance.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 1121. N. 7, ’07. 440w.

  “The personages in the novel are masterly portrayals, but they do not
  excite the reader’s sympathy, while the story, as a whole, in spite of
  its many brilliant passages, is not entirely convincing, and leaves
  the impression that in the treatment of his main theme the author has
  not been free from a tendency to exaggeration, which rather weakens
  his arraignment of the medical profession.”

     + − =Lit. D.= 35: 759. N. 16, ’07. 380w.

  “We have not believed in the loves or the diseases; nor have we
  profited by the satire; but we have been very much entertained, and
  wit and fantasy are good, call them what you will.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 269. S. 6, ’07. 870w.

  “Somehow the author has failed to hit the key; the story is neither
  fantastic enough nor sober enough to be more or less than a gentle
  irritant.”

       − =Nation.= 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 310w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 80w.

  “The characters and happenings of the story are mere pegs on which to
  hang the author’s theories, but none the less the pages of the book
  are illumined with numerous flashes of wit and startling examples of
  acute observation.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 7. S. 28, ’07. 1300w.


=Maartens, Maarten.= Woman’s victory and other stories. †$1.50.
Appleton.

                                                                7–35218.

  “The book takes its title from the caption of the first story, but it
  is suitable for the collection as a whole. For most of the stories
  recount a contest of some sort, of wit or will, or feeling, or
  intention, between people of opposite sex, in which the woman is
  usually the victor.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a pity that work so admirable as the stories mentioned and some
  others should be jostled by work so feeble and inferior as ‘The
  diamonds’ and several stories better unnamed.”

     + − =Acad.= 71: 161. Ag. 18, ’06. 390w.

  “Will appeal to students of human nature, and lovers of analytical and
  psychological stories, but not the casual fiction reader.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 136. My. ’07.

  “The book exhibits to advantage the author’s creative power and
  artistry.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 545. N. 3. 200w.

  “One can only wonder that a novelist of Mr. Maartens’ standing has
  cared to gather in permanent form these unimportant contributions to
  various periodicals.” A. Schade van Westrum.

     + − =Bookm.= 25: 190. Ap. ’07. 820w.

  “The skill in representing women joined with one or other of the
  hatreds makes up more than a few vivid stories of action and the
  number of apparently swiftly sketched moments, impressions of persons
  and moods, which have the artistic quality of a fine etching and must
  have taken quite as much work.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 284. Ag. 17, ’06. 390w.

  “The tales in the present collection display in form a factitious
  versatility; in substance they are rather monotonous.”

     − + =Nation.= 84: 201. F. 28, ’07. 420w.

  “This present sheaf of short stories gives evidence, for the most
  part, of little more than the habit of writing, although there is, now
  and then, a bit of clever craftsmanship or a stroke of subtle
  character-drawing.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 95. F. 16, ’07. 190w.

  “There is a fineness and acuteness in these sketches, for they are
  little more, that few fiction writers of our day could equal.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 717. Mr. 23, ’07. 60w.

     + − =R. of Rs.= 35: 762. Je. ’07. 40w.


=Mabie, Hamilton Wright.= Famous stories every child should know; ed. by
Hamilton W. Mabie, assisted by Kate Stephens. **90c. Doubleday.

                                                                7–29005.

  “Dickens, Ruskin, Hawthorne, Ouida are among the authors represented,
  and the Biblical story of Ruth is also included. There is an
  introduction by Mr. Mabie in which he emphasizes the value of really
  good literature for children and the unfortunate amount of cheap
  literature written especially for them, and the uselessness of the
  goody-good and unreal stories.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Will be found more useful for reference than general reading.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 208. N. ’07.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 80w.

       + =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 70w.


=Mabie, Hamilton Wright, ed.= Heroes every child should know. **90c
Doubleday.

                                                                6–36046.

  “Heroic figures of many races, ages, and types are here presented for
  young people to admire—some legendary, some semi-legendary, but for
  the most part men of actual and recorded deed, like David, Roland,
  King Alfred, Robert Bruce, Washington, Lee, Lincoln, and Father
  Damien. The stories are told by recognized writers of ability and
  fame, and the narratives have been selected not only because of the
  subjects but because of dramatic and vivid story-telling
  power.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 40w.

  “To read it strengthens one’s pride in humanity.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 677. N. 17, ’06. 150w.

  “Most happy in its title as in its contents.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 34: 764. D. ’06. 40w.


=Mabie, Hamilton Wright.= Legends that every child should know; a
selection of the great legends of all times for young people; il. and
decorated by Blanche Ostertag. **90c. Doubleday.

                                                                6–32353.

  Legends as told by famous authors in verse and prose, with some
  adaptation from other collections. Among them are Hiawatha, Beowulf,
  Childe Horn, Sir Galahad, Rustem and Sohrab, The seven sleepers of
  Ephesus, Guy of Warwick, Chevy Chase, The fate of the children of Lir,
  The beleaguered city, Prester John, The wandering Jew, King Robert of
  Sicily, The life of Beato Torello da Poppi, The Lorelei, The passing
  of Arthur, Rip Van Winkle, The gray champion, The legend of Sleepy
  Hollow.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 22. Ja. ’07. ✠

  “A book judiciously supervised by Mr. Mabie.”

       + =Ind.= 61: 1410. D. 22, ’06. 30w.

  “Many an older person would profit by conning the legends. Mr. Mabie’s
  introduction is interesting, even though not illuminating.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 485. D. 6, ’06. 90w.


=McAdoo, William.= Guarding a great city. **$2. Harper.

                                                                6–18052.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The volume would have been much stronger had the author dropped the
  controversial tone and found a more logical arrangement for his
  material.”

   + + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 219. Ja. ’07. 320w.


=McAllister, Addams Stratton.= Alternating current motors. *$3. McGraw
pub.

                                                                6–42400.

  “This is a general treatise on single-phase and polyphase induction
  motors, synchronous motors and convertors, and single-phase commutator
  motors.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is good, plain physics from beginning to end.”

       + =Engin. N.= 57: 83. Ja. 17, ’07. 230w.


=McArthur, Peter.= Prodigal and other poems. *$1. Kennerley.

                                                                7–19470.

  Two score verses which range in subject from a mother’s lullaby to an
  Indian wind song, from Bob Fitzsimmons to Sarah Bernhardt, from
  sentiment to slang.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is a thoughtful poet, although his inspiration is apt to be a little
  tame.” Wm. M. Payne.

     − + =Dial.= 43: 92. Ag. 16, ’07. 260w.

  “Shakespeare himself stands like a ghost behind the word-play and
  clever artistry of Peter McArthur.” Christian Gauss.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 400w.


=McCabe, Joseph.= Talleyrand: a biographical study; with 25 portraits
including a photogravure frontispiece. *$3. Appleton.

                                                                7–35192.

  The author aims to present Talleyrand as a “consistent and
  intelligible personality.” The study is a defense of the man “who had
  faith in no principle, gratitude to no master, loyalty to no cause;
  who loved money, power and pleasure and sought each without scruple.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “From the historical point of view the book cannot be compared with
  Lady Blennerhasset’s detailed biography.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 99. Ap. ’07.

  “He has written a readable book, giving an artistic sketch of the life
  of one of the most remarkable men, and certainly the most skilful
  diplomatist of the period; but the work is at several points sketchy
  and inadequate, and lacking here and there in knowledge and soundness
  of judgment.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 190. F. 16. 1200w.

  “His biography is interesting if not convincing.” Joseph O’Connor.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 137. Mr. 9, ’07. 3840w.

  “Mr. McCabe, accordingly, must be said to have failed completely in
  his efforts to make out a case for the gentleman of many
  governments—albeit he has done some service in brushing away sundry
  myths that in the course of the years have clustered about the figure
  of this man of mystery.”

     − + =Outlook.= 86: 336. Je. 15, ’07. 610w.

  “Has set out to solve the enigma, and in the solution to redeem his
  subject’s reputation. That his task was difficult Mr. McCabe,
  doubtless, would not deny; that he has been to some extent successful
  in this task is high praise, nothing but the highest praise is due to
  his masterly and fascinating defence.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: sup. 111. Ja. 26, ’07. 2400w.


=McCarthy, Justin Huntley.= Illustrious O’Hagen. †$1.50. Harper.

                                                                6–39729.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “A clever, but scarcely edifying story.”

     + − =Cath. World.= 85: 104. Ap. ’07. 100w.

  “Here ends our entertainment, a romantic one withal, and a merry.” Wm.
  M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 12: 145. Mr. 1, ’07. 290w.

  “It is a stirring tale written with the author’s accustomed grace and
  with a certain wanton sprightliness, which, for all its fascination,
  is a distinct lowering of his literary standards after the grave
  beauty and fine exaltation with which he wrote ‘The flower of
  France.’”

       + =Ind.= 62: 677. Mr. 21, ’07. 220w.


=McCarthy, Justin Huntley.= Needles and pins. †$1.50. Harper.

                                                                7–18594.

  The old adage of “When a man marries his trouble begins,” is here
  applied to François Villon, the “beggar rhymer” whom Louis of France
  ennobled when Lady Katherine of Vaucelles loved and married him. When
  the story opens they have begun their married life on Katherine’s
  estate in Poitou, where her new lord is ill received. There is much
  fighting and bloodshed and also much marital skirmishing before Villon
  wins his wife’s respect and learns how to keep her love.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Notable in the novel are its gaiety and brightness, and its deft
  literary workmanship. We must not seek dull realism here; it is a
  field of sheer entertainment.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 693. Je. 8. 180w.

  “The tale is told with quiet humour, sympathy, and an underlying vein
  of poetry that lends a definite charm to many of the pages.” Frederic
  Taber Cooper.

       + =Bookm.= 25: 500. Jl. ’07. 370w.

  “Mr. McCarthy presents Villon in the light of a perfectly monogamous
  Shelley. Apart from this somewhat trying piece of originality, the
  book has merit.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 567. Je. 20, ’07. 260w.

  “It is a more thoughtful book than ‘If I were king,’ a harder book to
  write, a book with much subtle analysis, and quite probably McCarthy
  himself likes it better. It’s a question whether the public, fain to
  stay unjarred in their rose-colored dream of romantic passion, will
  agree with his possible estimate.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 387. Je. 15, ’07. 450w.

         =Sat. R.= 103: 690. Je. 1, ’07. 280w.


=McClellan, Elisabeth.= Historic dress in America, 1607–1800. **$10; hf.
lev. or mor. **$20. Jacobs.

                                                                4–33115.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

  “The chapter on uniforms in America, 1775–1800, is more complete than
  anything of the kind we have seen before, and the glossary of the
  nomenclature of dress, while it is hardly so full as that to be found
  in the ‘Cyclopaedia of costume,’ is curious and useful.”

     + + =Acad.= 72: 245. Mr. 9, ’07. 450w.

  “Elisabeth McClellan and Sophie Steel have written and illustrated a
  work invaluable for reference on the subject of dress in America. The
  pictures, often copied from originals yet extant, are beautiful; the
  portraits of governors most interesting; and the glossary of the odd
  language of dress—it rivals that of heralds in eccentricity—is
  extremely useful.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 18. Ja. 18, ’07. 1550w.


* =MacClintock, Porter Lander.= Literature in the elementary school.
*$1. Univ. of Chicago press.

                                                                7–37019.

  Such topics are discussed as the service rendered by literature in the
  education of children, the kind of literature and the elements of
  literature serviceable in the elementary school, the story, folk-tale
  and fairy-story, hero-tales, nature and animal stories, symbolistic
  stories, fables, poetry and drama. The presentation of the literature,
  the correlations of literature and outside reading are also treated.


=McClure, Alexander Kelly.= Old time notes of Pennsylvania. 2v. *$8.
Winston.

                                                                 6–9611.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 140w.


=MacColl, Hugh.= Symbolic logic and its applications. *$1.50. Longmans.

                                                                7–29053.

  “Points on which he lays considerable stress, and in which he does not
  command the uniform assent of the other symbolic logicians, are
  these:—(a) that he takes statements and not terms to be in all cases
  and necessarily the ultimate constituents of symbolic reasoning; (b)
  that he goes quite beyond the ordinary notation of the symbolists in
  classifying propositions according to such attributes as true, false,
  certain, impossible, variable; (c) that in regard to the existential
  import of propositions, while other symbolists define the null class O
  as containing no members, and understand it as contained in every
  class, real or unreal, he, on the other hand, defines it as consisting
  of the null or unreal members, O_{1}, O_{2}, O_{3}, &c., and considers
  it to be excluded from every real class. A chapter is devoted to the
  solution of Prof. Jevon’s so-called inverse problem.”—Nature.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There are some respects in which Mr. MacColl appears too much
  dominated by ordinary language. The present volume is interesting and
  instructive, and the points in which it is incontrovertible are much
  more numerous than those in which it is open to doubt.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 396. Mr. 31. 1480w.

     + − =Nature.= 75: 1. N. 1, ’06. 190w.

  Reviewed by John Grier Hibben.

         =Philos. R.= 16: 190. Mr. ’07. 2020w.


=McCook, Henry C.= Nature’s craftsmen: popular studies of ants and other
insects; il. from nature. **$2. Harper.

                                                                7–12257.

  A book which has grown out of a series of nature articles printed in
  Harper’s magazine during the past four years. The papers deal
  principally with popular phases of insect and aranead life, with
  themes drawn chiefly from the author’s own specialties, ants and
  spiders. In addition, the products of some original studies have been
  included, as, for instance, wild bees, water-striders, caddis-flies,
  wasps and ant-lions.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Well written, printed, illustrated and bound.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 168. O. ’07. S.

  “One of the most interesting and instructive entomological
  publications of recent date. Its method is popular in the best sense
  of the term.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 764. Je. 22. 950w.

  Reviewed by George Gladden.

     + + =Bookm.= 25: 624. Ag. ’07. 230w.

  “The character of the contents, the interesting nature of the
  observation related, and the clearness and grace of the author’s
  style, all combine to place the book in the first rank of popular
  natural histories.” Charles Atwood Kofoid.

     + + =Dial.= 42: 366. Je. 16, ’07. 460w.

  “An admirable volume for the open shelves of the public or school
  library.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 1353. Je. 6, ’07. 190w.

  “There is throughout a strict adherence to truth and a spirit of
  careful research. Close to the ideal type of nature book, well
  written, well printed, and well illustrated.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 416. My. 2, ’07. 290w.

  “The book is written in a very pleasing style throughout, with the
  exception of the last few pages, which bear signs of haste.”

   + + − =Nature.= 76: 516. S. 19, ’07. 410w.

  “In his years of close study of insects he has seen many a weird
  spectacle of which he writes here most entertainingly.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.

  “The stories contain so little that is technical, and that little so
  easily explained, that teachers and others who wish to interest
  children in insect study will find the book one of the most valuable
  of all the flood of nature books which recent years have brought
  forth.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 431. Jl. 6, ’07. 360w.

  “Although free from technical terms, Dr. McCook’s work is thoroughly
  scientific in its treatment.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 640. My. ’07. 80w.

  “Well suited for the general reader who is interested in entomology.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 367. S. 14, ’07. 120w.


=McCrackan, William Denison.= Italian lakes. (Little pilgrimages ser.)
Il. $2. Page.

                                                                7–15494.

  “Mr. McCrackan first gives a brief general description of the ‘lakes
  of azure, lakes of leisure,’ and then takes up, one by one, the lakes
  themselves, the points of greatest interest upon or near their shores,
  and the journeys to be made from each.” (N. Y. Times.) “The
  picturesque towns and villa gardens on the shores are vividly
  described, and not only those which are famous the world over, but
  many which have succeeded in shyly hiding their loveliness from all
  eyes but those of the author, who has done his work with conscientious
  thoroness. The last chapters deal with people who had more or less
  connection with the towns on the lakes.” (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Enthusiastic, trustworthy, but not remarkable in style.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 169. O. ’07.

  “A very readable and not unprofitable book.” H. E. Coblentz.

       + =Dial.= 42: 373. Je. 16, ’07. 220w.

  “He is enthusiastic and sympathetic, and every lake and island has for
  him its own special charm, its own distinctive beauties and its own
  historical or artistic associations.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 1357. Je. 6, ’07. 230w.

  “It is a pleasure to commend ‘The Italian lakes.’ We have noted a few
  errors.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 565. Je. 20, ’07. 330w.

  “He has always a keenly appreciative eye for whatever is striking or
  picturesque or beautiful, and lets none of it escape the traveler’s
  attention, from the snowclad peaks in the background to the flowers by
  the wayside.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 309. My. 11, ’07. 290w.

  “Certainly it offers to tourists and sojourners a feast contrasted
  with the scant fare with which, perforce, they have had to be content
  in reading their necessarily condensed Baedeker, Meyer, Murray, or
  Boniforti.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 567. Je. 13, ’07. 400w.


=McCullough, Ernest.= Engineering work in towns and small cities. $3.
Technical bk. agency.

                                                                7–19430.

  “After discussing the city engineer and his duties the author takes
  up, in turn, roads and streets, sidewalks, curbs and gutters,
  pavements, sanitation in general, drainage, sewerage, water supply,
  concrete, building departments, miscellaneous data (in the course of
  which a few paragraphs on lighting are given), contracts and
  specifications, office systems, records, field work and engineering
  data. Appendixes are devoted to concrete mixing machines, trenching
  machines, bibliography, trade literature and specification
  index.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is unique, for one of its class, in the amount of
  information it contains on how to do things. Much of this is based on
  the practical experience of the author, and the balance, for the most
  part, has been selected with good judgment.”

     + − =Engin. N.= 56: 638. D. 13, ’06. 490w.


* =MacCurdy, Hansford, and Castle, William Ernest.= Selection and
cross-breeding in relation to inheritance of coat-pigments and
coat-patterns in rats and guinea-pigs. (Carnegie institution of
Washington. Publication no. 70.) pa. 50c. Carnegie inst.

                                                                7–21347.

  The results of the authors’ recent researches which have included the
  study of a thousand animals throughout several generations.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Nation.= 85: 266. S. 19, ’07. 170w.

  Reviewed by T. H. Morgan.

       + =Science=, n.s. 26: 751. N. 29, ’07. 480w.


=McCutcheon, George Barr.= Daughter of Anderson Crow. †$1.50. Dodd.

                                                                7–25508.

  It is not the real but the adopted daughter of Anderson Crow, town
  marshal, about whom this story centers. After many adventures
  including a kidnapping and a hold up, in which the inhabitants of the
  small western village in which the tale is set, play a part, the
  parentage of Rosalie is discovered and her real wealth and position
  made known.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The humour and spirit of the book are well sustained by the
  illustrations.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 613. N. 16. 170w.

  “Since the pursuit of literature, on the part of both authors and
  publishers—has transmuted itself from the desire to do something worth
  while into the endeavor to hit the bull’s eye of popular taste, that
  fact is perhaps justification for Mr. McCutcheon’s numerous books.
  Otherwise it is impossible to understand why they should be either
  written or published.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 670w.

  “In addition to the various good qualities of the author shown in the
  book there is a good bit of character drawing in Crow.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 70w.

  “Mr. McCutcheon, who told a good story in ‘Jane Cable,’ tells a better
  one in ‘The daughter of Anderson Crow.’”

       + =Sat. R.= 104: 582. N. 9, ’07. 270w.


=McCutcheon, George Barr.= Jane Cable. †$1.50. Dodd.

                                                                6–27704.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The plot does not strike one as being particularly probable, and the
  action is a little jerky and uncertain.”

     − + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 11. Jl. 6. 80w.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 459. Ap. ’07. 850w.

  “It is admirably done up to a point, but somehow it fails to carry
  conviction. It is at least a hundred pages too long. It is discursive
  where it should be reticent, verbose where it should be merely
  suggestive.”

     − + =Sat. R.= 104: 369. S. 21, ’07. 540w.


=McDavid, Mittie Owen.= Princess Pocahontas. $1.25. Neale.

                                                                7–32383.

  A simple story of Pocahontas, her brief career and her relation to the
  English colonists.


* =Macdonald, Alexander.= In search of El Dorado: a wanderer’s
experiences. $2. Jacobs.

  “True romances, no fiction with the ‘Deus ex machina,’ at the
  psychological moment, but unadorned risks, escapes, and adventures ...
  and little epics of comradeship—impressions of men to whom gold and
  jewels are much, but to whom loyalty is the one thing better.” They
  are adventures of the Klondike, the Never-Never Land of Australia, and
  British New Guinea.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The chief merit of the work lies in its graphic pictures of life in
  the mining camps, and of the quaint humours of their inmates, whom the
  author portrays in the most kindly spirit. As Mr. Macdonald in his
  preface lays claim to entire accuracy in geographical detail, we may
  mention one or two points on which his memory seems to be at fault.”

     + − =Ath.= 1905, 2: 759. D. 2. 520w.

  “At times his adventures are a little too marvelous, the coincidences
  a bit too striking, and the luck or ill-luck slightly too much
  colored; but we can appreciate the stories for they are capitally
  told.” H. E. Coblentz.

     + − =Dial.= 43: 374. D. 1, ’07. 170w.

  “Their adventures are worth the telling, and Mr. Macdonald has told
  them well. These are right good stories.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 699. N. 2, ’07. 140w.

  “He has experiences to recount which we do not expect to find outside
  the boy’s adventure book. He writes admirably and picturesquely,
  notwithstanding his reminder that he knows more of the rifle than the
  pen.”

       + =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 10. O. 14, ’05. 320w.

  “No book of the kind we have come across for long so decidedly merits
  reading.”

     + + =Spec.= 97: sup. 473. O. 6, ’06. 180w.


=MacDonald, Frederick W.= In a nook with a book. *$1. Scribner.

                                                                7–24202.

  “Mr. Macdonald’s eighteen short chapters touch on all sorts of themes
  dear to bibliophiles.... While he writes understandingly of the church
  fathers and historians, and of the Anglican divines, from Latimer and
  Jewell to Mozley and Liddon, this ministerial book-lover can also
  gossip about Pepys and Mrs. Piozzi and Charles Lamb, and is even
  caught quoting, with admirable effect, from Eugene Field’s
  ‘Bibliomaniac’s prayer.’”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is clear that, like some divines of an older period, he belongs
  both to literature and religion.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 45. Ja. 12. 340w.

  “A little volume of unusual charm. This is the most brightly
  entertaining book about books that has fallen into our hands for a
  long time.”

     + + =Dial.= 43: 169. S. 16, ’07. 400w.

  “Of actual criticism in Mr. Macdonald’s book there is little, but that
  good.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 20. Ja. 18, ’07. 790w.


=Macdonald, Frederika.= Jean Jacques Rousseau: a new criticism. *$6.50.
Putnam.

                                                                7–11002.

  An “attempt to rehabilitate” the character of Rousseau by showing that
  he has ever been viewed in the light of the false reputation which
  attached itself to him as the result of a conspiracy between two
  contemporaries.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mrs. Macdonald has presented a very good case in a very bad manner.
  Her book is narrow in scope, and written in an uncritical frame of
  mind.”

     − + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 470. O. 20. 1960w.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 175. F. ’07. 1500w.

  “So far as the impression made by the book on the present reviewer is
  concerned, the future of the reputation of ‘the virtuous Jean Jacques
  Rousseau’ lies still on the knees of the gods.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 327. F. 7, ’07. 1230w.

  “She writes rather like the advocate who sought to secure the
  acquittal of his client by abusing the plaintiff’s attorney. That is
  the weak side of her work. But she has nevertheless made a literary
  discovery for which credit must be ungrudgingly accorded.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 337. O. 5, ’06. 1850w.

  “Her work is an honor to her head and heart, and as a repository is
  indispensable to every Rousseau library.”

     + + =Nation.= 83: 556. D. 27, ’06. 3490w.

  “Mrs. Macdonald has only brushed away some calumniating gossip; the
  main questions at issue are as they were a century ago.” James
  Huneker.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 902. D. 29, ’06. 1330w.

  “However significant the results of Mrs. MacDonald’s investigations
  may prove, she herself has not worked them out in a manner above
  criticism.”

     − + =Outlook.= 86: 337. Je. 15, ’07. 900w.

  “The new evidence which she has unearthed is so striking that it
  cannot be lightly put aside.”

       + =Sat. R.= 102: 487. O. 20, ’06. 2630w.


* =Macdonald, George.= Princess and the goblin. il. †$1.50. Lippincott.

                                                                7–12642.

  A charming new edition of George Macdonald’s most popular children’s
  story. The original wood engravings after the drawings of Arthur
  Hughes have been retained, and Miss Maria L. Kirk has contributed some
  attractive colored illustrations embodying the atmosphere and spirit
  of the story.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Nation.= 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 70w.


=Macdonell, Anne.= Touraine and its story; il. by A. B. Atkinson. *$6.
Dutton.

                                                                 W 7–36.

  Leisurely does Miss Macdonell conduct her follower thru the land of
  chateaux, and takes him into the byways of the “thousand valleys.”
  “Indeed, she finds more of the flavor of by-gone days in the lesser
  castles, where there are no guides to hurry the visitors, and where
  the shabbiness and quiet decay give the imagination free rein. It is
  to these that she takes her readers; to the grim fortresses, also,
  that guarded the lands: to the humble dwellings that nestled in the
  shadow of the lordly manors; and to the rivers—shy and silent or swift
  and rapacious—that water this ‘Garden of France.’” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 99. Ap. ’07.

  “The book is especially strong on its historical side.”

       + =Ath.= 1907. 1: 575. My. 11. 450w.

  “Her history systematizes and rounds out the story of the twelve
  individual chateaux, as told by Miss Lansdale, and her itineraries
  sometimes duplicate but often supplement the other writers.”

       + =Dial.= 41: 394. D. 1, ’06. 380w.

       + =Ind.= 61: 1397. D. 22, ’06. 180w.

  “One that, in spite of all the competitors already in the field, will
  undoubtedly hold its own, so beautiful are many of the illustrations
  it contains, so freshly is the apparently inexhaustible theme
  treated.”

     + + =Int. Studio.= 30: 364. F. ’07. 330w.

  “Perhaps the difference between her writing and that of Mr. Cook is
  chiefly the difference between the man and woman author. His is more
  complete. Hers is more picturesque, more literary, more diffuse, above
  all, more personal. It is inseparable from herself as a traveller; and
  if we sometimes feel a little too much colour, a faint desire for dry
  bones and for form, we also feel that her style has more charm than
  that of her predecessor.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 432. D. 28, ’06. 950w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 811. D. 1, ’06. 160w.

  “A sympathetic chronicler has been found in Miss Macdonell who
  possesses the historical knowledge which is essential in treating of
  this district of France where every site has its story and
  association; she also has no little capacity for describing scenery
  and introducing the incidents appropriate to the locality.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 103: 56. Ja. 12, ’07. 220w.

  “The blemishes are so really insignificant that we feel safe in
  recommending the book, with its pretty illustrations, to all who care
  for a fascinating subject.”

   + + − =Spec.= 98: 121. Ja. 26, ’07. 200w.


=McFadyen, John Edgar.= Prayers of the Bible. $1.75. Armstrong.

                                                                 7–7187.

  “Contains valuable devotional and liturgical material, together with
  discussions of the character and content of both Old and New Testament
  petitions.” (Ind.) It is divided into four parts; The prayers of the
  Bible, Modern prayer, The prayers of the Bible collected and
  classified, and Biblical prayers for modern use.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a timely contribution to the understanding of the devotional
  elements in the Bible by an interpreter thoroughly in sympathy with
  the modern scientific and historical spirit.”

       + =Bib. World.= 28: 159. F. ’07. 60w.

  “The method of the author is scientific, the spirit devout. The study
  of biblical prayer is of interest alike to the student of the Bible
  and to the man of religious life and temper whether he be a student or
  not. To both, this volume will prove of interest and value.” Frederick
  Carl Eislen.

       + =Bib. World.= 30: 297. O. ’07. 600w.

       + =Ind.= 62: 742. Mr. 28, ’07. 60w.

       + =Outlook.= 84: 941. D. 15, ’06. 60w.


=MacFall, Haldane.= Ibsen, the man, his art and his significance; il. by
Joseph Simpson. *$1.50. Shepard, Morgan.

                                                                 7–3098.

  A running narrative composed of the plots of the plays and the
  incidents of the biography. The material is drawn chiefly from Jaeger,
  Brandes, Gosse, Archer and Boyesen.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Boiled down, his enthusiastic chapters amount to a fair exposition of
  some portions of Ibsen’s genius.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 283. Mr. 23, ’07. 30w.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 124. My. ’07.

  “His individual contribution is a jerky emotional commentary, which
  makes a brave pretense of being impressive, but exhibits no particular
  insight or sense of perspective.”

       − =Dial.= 42: 116. F. 16, ’07. 270w.

  “This book ... is a curious compound of indiscriminating eulogy and
  sound criticism.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 137. F. 7, ’07. 680w.

  “We fear MacFall has read too much Shaw.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 242. Ap. 13, ’07. 610w.

  “On the whole, though doubtless Mr. MacFall would resent it, his book
  is a good one for beginners.”

     + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 120. Ap. ’07. 110w.


=McGaffey, Ernest.= Outdoors: a book of the woods, fields and
marshlands. **$1.25. Scribner.

                                                                7–14649.

  “Mr. McGaffey’s book tells of the pleasures of out-door life in the
  fields and prairies and marshlands of the northern part of the
  Mississippi valley, and it is written from the point of view of the
  hunterman and fisherman who take the chase of fur, scales, and
  feathers more as an excuse for getting into the open than as an object
  in itself.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Reviewed by George Gladden.

       − =Bookm.= 25: 623. Ag. ’07. 410w.

  “The advice to sportsmen which the book contains is not full enough or
  new enough to compensate for the disappointment this point of view
  causes the nature lover. Nevertheless, Mr. McGaffey’s appreciation of
  the background of these naturalistic plays in one act is so delicate
  and often so poetically worded as to gain him grateful
  acknowledgment.” May Estelle Cook.

     + − =Dial.= 42: 370. Je. 16, ’07. 550w.

  “The style of the book vouches for itself.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 1354. Je. 6, ’07. 70w.

         =Nation.= 85: 56. Jl. 18, ’07. 100w.

  “Will give a pleasant hour to any one who loves and knows the
  out-of-doors.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 284. My. 4, ’07. 330w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 127. Jl. ’07. 60w.


=McGehee, Lucius Polk.= Due process of law under the federal
Constitution. $3. Thompson.

                                                                6–32130.

  A volume which “deals accurately and clearly with a subject of which
  some phase or other is under daily discussion. The regulation of
  railway rates, the protection against impure food, the suppression of
  child labor and of monopolies, the validity of a decree for divorce
  based on constructive service, are but a few of the problems in which
  ‘due process’ is involved.... The rules expounded are as far as
  possible based on decisions of the Supreme Court of the United
  States.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author ... succeeds in being concise as well as readable; and he
  criticises modestly, but firmly.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 133. F. 7, ’07. 190w.

  “The text of the book is admirably unobstructed by confusing detail.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 624. O. 6, ’06. 1160w.

  “He displays a sense of proportion and a faculty for generalization,
  arrangement and concise and exact statement which render his work
  lucid and readable and remarkably free from the clumsiness of much
  legal writing.” Thomas Reed Powell.

       + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 541. S. ’07. 1180w.


=McGinley, Anna M. A.= Profit of love: studies in altruism; with preface
by Rev. George Tyrrell. **$1.50. Longmans.

                                                                 7–4504.

  “Is the world growing in love as well as in knowledge? This is the
  fundamental question dealt with in the present volume of essays on
  human love and its relation to our common daily experiences.... The
  dedication of the series ‘to my neighbor’ is significant, and the aim
  of the author thruout is to show from a study of the elementary laws
  of natural growth that the trend of all human progress is toward
  universal brotherhood, enlightened and sustained by a supremely
  dominant altruism rather than by man-made laws.... It deals with
  principles rather than with their practical application, tho many
  useful hints in this direction can be easily gathered by way of
  influence.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The main point is: Has this book power and vitality enough to arouse
  views, thoughts, ambitions of any kind in the mind of its readers?
  This book has that power and vitality, and we wish a wide circulation
  for it.”

     + + =Cath. World.= 84: 705. F. ’07. 840w.

  “The book is deeply spiritual, but it does not belong to the
  conventional and still less the conventual type of such writings.
  Certain accepted educational and religious notions are called in
  question with a frankness which, while it may alarm the timid, cannot
  fail to prove stimulating to the thoughtful, and for these alone the
  book is intended.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 162. Jl. 18, ’07. 390w.


=McGrath, Harold.= Best man. †$1.50. Bobbs.

                                                                7–30162.

  Three stories: “The best man,” “Two candidates,” and “The adventures
  of Mr. ‘Shifty’ Sullivan,” make up this volume. The first is the story
  of a young lawyer who finds that the millionaire father of the girl he
  loves has made more millions by a dishonest transaction and he is torn
  between love and duty of disclosure. He chooses duty, but the girl’s
  grandfather comes to the rescue and the honest lawyer is able to keep
  her love and to see the wrong righted. The second is a tale of love
  and politics, and the last tells of how a young minister fought a good
  fight.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 687. O. 26, ’07. 170w.

       + =Outlook.= 87: 451. O. 26, ’07. 140w.


=MacGrath, Harold.= Half a rogue. †$1.50. Bobbs.

                                                                6–43779.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “There is nothing new and striking about the story as a study of
  American life; while as a romance pure and simple it is far inferior
  to the ‘Man on the box.’” Amy C. Rich.

     − + =Arena.= 37: 221. F. ’07. 190w.

  “There is very little plot in the story, tho much diversity of
  incident marks the rather lively narrative. Upon the whole, it is a
  good machine-made novel.”

     + − =Lit. D.= 34: 217. F. 9, ’07. 160w.

  “We cannot give unstinted praise to Mr. McGrath’s last novel. His
  tendency to be epigrammatic is occasionally a trifle wearisome.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 3. Ja. 5, ’07. 880w.

  “A bright, entertaining story.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 1082. D. 29, ’06. 100w.


=Macgregor, David Hutchison.= Industrial combination. *$2.50. Macmillan.

                                                                7–12496.

  “Everything that can be said either in favor of or against trusts,
  cartels, and unions is stated fairly and minutely.... [The author]
  analyzes with much skill the various phases of modern
  organizations—their productive efficiency, the greater or less risk as
  compared with competitive methods, their bargaining strength, their
  resources—and discusses at length their relation to labor, especially
  in connection with trade unions. He sums up his general views in the
  two final chapters—the attitude of public opinion and legislation.”—J.
  Pol. Econ.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “No student of combinations can afford to dispense with this book and
  no reader will fail to learn from it. Copious material has been used,
  but it has been so adequately digested that the reader will nowhere
  find himself overburdened with detail, though the touch of reality is
  preserved throughout by the illustrations selected. The arrangement
  suits well the method of treatment.” S. J. Chapman.

     + − =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 393. Ap. ’07. 990w.

  “Mr. Macgregor’s style and mode of presentation are disappointing. His
  method, while detailed, is essentially abstract. There is no guiding
  purpose visible in the work. It is altogether a fair and impartial
  study of the subject, and in this respect is wholly admirable. But
  there seems to be no point to which the author is aiming. It is as if
  he did not see the wood for the trees, and yet the trees are all
  abstractions, not concrete things. This quality will prove a serious
  handicap to the success of the work.” Garrett Droppers.

     + − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 120. F. ’07. 710w.

  “The most careful scientific study which has yet been made in this
  field of investigation. Mr. Macgregor’s conclusions are generally as
  sane as his methods of procedure are correct. The chief, if not the
  only ground for criticism is his disposition to take too seriously
  ‘official’ material dealing with the trust movement in the United
  States.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 153. F. 14, ’07. 230w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 768. N. 17, ’06. 310w.

  “Mr. Macgregor does not share the view of his compatriot, Mr.
  Macrosty, that cartels and trusts are stages in a movement toward
  socialism. The reasons for his dissent from that view are given in the
  third division of his book and must be considered the least
  satisfactory part of his work.” Henry L. Moore.

     + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 337. Je. ’07. 660w.

         =Spec.= 97: 177. F. 2, ’07. 300w.

  “Perhaps the most instructive feature of the work is its discussion of
  the effects of the protective tariff upon the operation of the trusts.
  On the whole the work is a valuable addition to the literature of the
  general trust movement. It is, however, likely to find its chief
  usefulness among the scholarly students of the subject since it is
  marred by the constant use of technical terms many of which seem to
  have been coined by the author and which he does not usually explain.”
  Maurice H. Robinson.

     + + =Yale R.= 16: 330. N. ’07. 1050w.


=Mach, Edmund Robert Otto von.= Outlines of the history of painting,
from 1200–1900 A. D. *$1.50. Ginn.

                                                                6–30483.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “In small compass is given all the information that has so far been
  scattered through encyclopedias.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 65. F. 2, ’07. 310w.


=Mach, Ernst.= Space and geometry in the light of physiological,
psychological, and physical inquiry. *$1. Open ct.

                                                                6–34085.

  “The first essay deals with the relation of the spatial concept to the
  senses. In the second we have an attempt to trace the natural
  development of geometry from psychological causes, while the last
  essay discusses the subject from the point of view of physical
  inquiry. Incidentally, a number of illustrations are introduced, some
  of which are admirably adapted for teaching purposes.”—Nature.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The translation is well-nigh perfect.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 519. D. 13, ’06. 580w.

  “There could be no more suitable book for giving the elementary or
  secondary teacher some intelligent ideas about geometry than Dr.
  Mach’s series of essays.”

       + =Nature.= 75: 603. Ap. 25, ’07. 210w.

  “We certainly have to thank the Open court publishing company for
  adding this little book to the other works of Professor Mach that they
  have published in English.” W. T. Marvin.

       + =Psychol. Bull.= 4: 259. Ag. 15, ’07. 670w.


=Machen, Arthur.= Hill of dreams; il. by S. H. Sime. †$1.50. Estes.

  “The ‘Hill of dreams’ is a study of the perverted mental and moral
  development of a boy with an absorbing love of the beautiful. ‘Beauty
  for beauty’s sake’ and ‘art for art’s sake’ his cult are accustomed to
  call it when they drench a poisonous swamp with perfumes and cover it
  with rose leaves.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is something sinister in the beauty of Mr. Machen’s book. It is
  like some strangely shaped orchid, the colour of which is fierce and
  terrible, and its perfume is haunting to suffocation by reason of its
  intolerable sweetness.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 273. Mr. 16, ’07. 330w.

  “His Muse is a kind of Lilith—not a drop of her blood is human—and
  thus, except from the decorative point of view, he leaves us cold.”

     − + =Ath.= 1907, 1. 317. Mr. 16. 410w.

  “Although written with noticeable ability, the book in itself has not
  sufficient strength to deserve attention here, did it not mark a
  curious morbid phase of English fiction in which sound, color, and
  scent are put to superfine uses by neurotic young gentlemen who should
  be shut up, or set at manual labor.”

     − + =Nation.= 85: 37. Jl. 11, ’07. 420w.

  “This ‘Hill of dreams’ is like nothing so much as a long-drawn-out bad
  dream from which one awakens with a feeling of thankfulness that it
  isn’t true, after all.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 457. Jl. 20, ’07. 190w.


=Mackail, John William=, ed. Select epigrams from the Greek anthology.
*75c. Longmans.

  “A new edition of ... a book which has long been out of print.... The
  word ‘epigram’ is the equivalent of ‘inscriptions,’ and the greater
  number of the pieces have this character,—lines inscribed on tombs and
  altars and votive offerings and family memorials. In the anthology as
  we know it to-day other verses have been added, fragments of idylls,
  lyrics, quotations, from forgotten gnomic and dramatic poets.”—Spec.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Mackail’s introduction is an entirely delightful piece of work.
  The subtle and beautifully expressed analysis of the Oxford professor
  of poetry makes it quite a different thing from the ordinary
  introduction to a classical edition.” R. Y. Tyrrell.

       + =Acad.= 72: 85. Ja. 26, ’07. 1560w.

  “This little volume alone suggests that Greek is ‘worth while.’”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 441. Ap. 13. 140w.

  “Would that the number of Americans who could make use of so
  delightful a book were many times greater.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 432. My. 9, ’07. 40w.

  “Its charm is its homeliness, its intimate appeal, and its amazing
  range.”

       + =Spec.= 97: 779. N. 17, ’06. 1580w.

  “It is not easy to choose where there is so much beauty and pathos.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 581. Ap. 13, ’07. 220w.


=MacKaye, James.= Economy of happiness. **$2.50. Little.

                                                                6–28423.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The volume seems to be the work of a man who has not stopped
  learning, and who is likely to use the clues in the present argument
  to good purpose in further study of social problems. He is well
  entitled to a hearing. The absence of an index is unfortunate.” A. W.
  S.

     + − =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 566. Ja. ’07. 920w.

  “Is an elevated and closely knit moral system with an outcome frankly
  socialistic.” John Graham Brooks.

       + =Atlan.= 99: 279. F. ’07. 580w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 119. F. 24, ’06. 110w.


=MacKaye, James.= Politics of utility: the technology of
happiness—applied: being book 3 of “The economy of happiness.” **50c.
Little.

                                                                6–37899.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The book is well written and contains some very incisive criticisms
  of modern society, and several interesting economic distinctions and
  theories, but on the whole, it can be fairly said that the average
  thinker would find difficulty in seeing just where the proposed scheme
  differs from modern socialism.”

     + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 641. My. ’07. 250w.

         =Ind.= 62: 102. Ja. 10, ’07. 80w.

         =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 313. My. ’07. 140w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 45. Ja. 26, ’07. 120w.

         =Spec.= 98: 1007. Je. 29, ’07. 230w.


=Mackaye, Percy Wallace.= Jeanne d’Arc. *$1.25. Macmillan.

                                                                6–35545.

  “In constructing his drama Mr. Mackaye has focused the interest upon
  the child nature of the present heroine—the simplicity that the
  records abundantly show was hers—and the mystery of power and
  inspiration behind that simplicity. The contrasting character is the
  Duc d’Alençon, a skeptic with a rationalism which differs in no
  essential from that now in vogue.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A dignified and poetic treatment of one of the noblest of all
  possible themes. Such publications are among the most welcome signs of
  the times.”

       + =Dial.= 41: 463. D. 16, ’06. 60w.

  “There are passages that quite thrill you in the first act of Jeanne
  d’Arc. But at the same time there is a kind of inconsequence about the
  piece as a whole which destroys, at least to some extent, the effect.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 222. Jl. 25, ’07. 400w.

  “It is a succession of moods and pictures with no real dramatic knot,
  and with but one or two dramatic situations; and the traditions of
  Jeanne d’Arc are sentimentalized to such a degree that they cease to
  be quite convincing, either as history or as material for tragedy
  embodying a criticism of life.”

       − =Nation.= 83: 440. N. 23, ’06. 220w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 806. D. 1, ’06. 240w.

  “An excellent poetical drama eminently fitted for the stage.” Louise
  Collier Willcox.

       + =No. Am.= 186: 96. S. ’07. 110w.

  “While Mr. Mackaye has not succeeded in fusing this mass of material
  into a wholly organic drama, he has succeeded much more nearly in
  doing so than would have seemed probable at the outset.” Jessie B.
  Rittenhouse.

     + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 348. Je. ’07. 240w.


=Mackaye, Percy Wallace.= Sappho and Phaon: a tragedy, set forth with a
prologue, induction, prelude, interludes, and epilogue. **$1.25.
Macmillan.

                                                                7–17376.

  In the prologue of this drama the dramatist has imagined the players’
  quarter of a theatre of Herculaneum to be unearthed. An archaeologist
  present finds a papyrus scroll containing the players’ copy of “Sappho
  and Phaon.” The play presents Sappho created entirely from the bits of
  her verse that have been preserved. Among Sappho’s lovers are
  Pittacus, the Mitylene tyrant, and Alcaeus, while Sappho herself loves
  Phaon, a slave, who is bound to his slave mate Thalassa. Pittacus
  relinquishes his suit while Alcaeus persecutes Phaon. The tragedy
  grows out of these conditions, and into it are woven the traditional
  vengeance of the gods, with the modern note of symbolism and
  mysticism.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The trait that lingers in the mind as the finest promise is the way
  in which he has invested the old passionate story with intimations of
  tender and wistful humanity.” Ferris Greenlet.

       + =Atlan.= 100: 848. D. ’07. 700w.

  “The least convincing episodes in Mr. MacKaye’s very unusual and
  interesting work are those in which, to suit his own fancy rather than
  fact, he has endeavored to restore to us the life, customs and habits
  of the ancient Roman stage.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 569. S. 5, ’07. 650w.

       + =Ind.= 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 80w.

  “Dr. Mackaye’s work is the most notable addition that has been made
  for many years to American dramatic literature. It is a true poetic
  tragedy, classic in form and spirit, not always glowing with the fire
  of genius, but nevertheless charged with happy inspiration; dignified,
  eloquent, passionate, imaginative; and thoroughly human in its
  emotions.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 504. My. 30, ’07. 1060w.

  “A work of unusual merit, in which the author’s high aspirations are
  measurably justified by his powers of expression, and his feeling for
  the spirit of Greek life and art is shown to be allied with
  knowledge.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 332. My. 25, ’07. 1540w.

  “Considered as a poem to be read ... ‘Sappho and Phaon’ surpasses all
  his earlier productions. Considered as a play to be acted, it does not
  pass beyond their ineffectiveness.” Clayton Hamilton.

     + − =No. Am.= 185: 880. Ag. 16, ’07. 1490w.

  “Here once more Mr. Mackaye’s fantasticality runs riot.” Louise
  Collier Willcox.

       − =No. Am.= 186: 96. S. ’07. 140w.

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 452. Je. 29, ’07. 460w.


* =McKenzie, F. A.= Unveiled East. *$3.50. Dutton.

  A serious dissertation upon the growing imperialism of Japan as
  attested by her territorial expansion, increased fighting power, and
  aggressive commercial campaign. The author offers his deductions as a
  warning to Great Britain and the United States whose trade and
  prestige are being threatened.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We are inclined to fear some little prejudice on the author’s part.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 575. My. 11. 520w.

  “His book is well-balanced and reserved in opinion and in fact, and
  makes interesting and profitable reading for anyone concerned in Far
  Eastern affairs.” H. E. Coblentz.

       + =Dial.= 43: 372. D. 1, ’07. 370w.

  “Altho Mr. McKenzie’s book is avowedly written for a purpose ... it is
  not lacking in entertaining descriptions of the countries he has
  visited, and furnishes, on the whole, a valuable contribution to the
  literature dealing with the problems of the Far East.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 796. N. 23, ’07. 390w.

  “Although we are quite unable to accept all Mr. McKenzie’s conclusions
  with regard either to Japan, China, or Russia, his book certainly
  constitutes a skilful presentation of the case of Korea.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 238. Ag. 2, ’07. 1200w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 474. Ag. 3, ’07. 1100w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 40w.

  “We call it ‘remarkable’ for, though the book is full of faults of
  manner, including an undue sentimentality, and of arrangement,
  including constant repetitions, yet it has the great merit of stating
  adequately a point of view which has hitherto been confined to the
  conversation of certain Far East residents.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: 262. Ag. 24, ’07. 1150w.


=Mackenzie, John Steuart.= Lectures on humanism. (Ethical lib.) **$1.25.
Macmillan.

                                                                7–33950.

  “Prof. Mackenzie’s own humanism is described as ‘a point of view
  from which human life is regarded as an independent centre of
  interest’—as contrasted with a naturalism and supernaturalism which
  seek the explanation of human life either in the forces around man
  or in some powers distinct from man and those forces. In the light
  of that description the influence of humanism in philosophy,
  politics, economics, education, and religion is studied, and the two
  closing chapters examine the limitations and implications of
  humanism.”—Nature.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Prof. Mackenzie’s lectures provide excellent reading. The
  metaphysical expert is offered, in a final lecture, a few choice nuts
  to crack; whilst for the sociological expert—if, indeed, there is such
  a person, it matters less if the argument comes scarcely within bowing
  distance of him.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 437. O. 12. 730w.

         =Ind.= 63: 1369. D. 5, ’07. 820w.

  “While in the earlier part of the book discussions are somewhat
  abstract and sometimes obscure, even those not metaphysically trained
  can read with perfect understanding, lectures iv-ix., which deal with
  the applications of these teleological principles to politics,
  economics, education, and religion.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 448. N. 14, ’07. 600w.

  “Prof. Mackenzie fears that the style of treatment may be regarded as
  sketchy; sketchy it is, and the title of the volume perhaps induces
  expectations that are not realised; but undeniably the work has
  substantial merits.”

     + − =Nature.= 76: 220. Jl. 4, ’07. 250w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 512. Ag. 24, ’07. 300w.


* =MacKinlay, Malcolm Sterling.= Antoinette Sterling and other
celebrities. **$3.50 Appleton.

  These stories and impressions of artistic circles have for their
  central figure Madame Sterling. In her youth she studied under the
  most famous teachers of Europe and later became an interesting factor
  in American music tho “no singer is likely in the future to achieve
  such a position as she undoubtedly held with so limited a repertory or
  such disregard for the higher technical developments of the art.”
  (Spec.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 60w.

  “Mr. MacKinlay’s memoir of his mother, written in a spirit of true
  filial piety, yet with refreshing candour, is well worth reading by
  amateurs as well as professionals.” C. L. G.

       + =Spec.= 96: 617. Ap. 21, ’06. 2100w.


=McKinney, Mrs. Kate Slaughter.= Silent witness. $1.50. Neale.

                                                                6–46772.

  A story of hurried action built up about a crime and the accusation of
  the wrong man.


* =Mackinnon, Albert G.= Tangible tests for a young man’s faith. *75c.
West. Meth. bk.

  This book offers a remedy for the belief that one must look to
  scholars for an answer in all matters pertaining to religious belief.
  It is intended to aid self help in arriving at conclusions regarding
  the truth of the gospel.


=MacKinnon, James.= History of modern liberty. set, *$10. Longmans.

                                                                6–15083.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Dr. Mackinnon has produced a superlatively good book, marred only by
  an occasional looseness of style that detracts from the dignity of an
  important work.”

   + + − =Spec.= 98: 421. Mr. 16, ’07. 1690w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)


=Macklin, Herbert W.= The brasses of England. (The antiquary’s books.)
*$2.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–38576.

  “In this volume, the chronological as opposed to the class division
  has been adopted, with the advantage of bringing its subject into a
  closer relation with history. The earliest brass is that of Sir John
  Daubernon at Stoke D’Abernon. This is dated 1277. Nineteen other
  examples belong to the next half-century, the latest but one being
  another Daubernon at the same place (1327). These are treated at
  length. The regular series begins with chap. 3. The Plantagenet,
  Lancastrian, Wars of the roses, and Tudor periods are successively
  dealt with. A chapter is given to the spoliation of the
  monasteries, ... and another to the Elizabethan revival. The
  illustrations are plentiful and excellent.”—Spec.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The indexes are thorough, and the whole arrangement will be found
  convenient to the hasty searcher as well as pleasant to the more
  leisurely reader.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907. 2: 104. Jl. 27. 580w.

  “The numerous and interesting brasses of Lancashire and Yorkshire and
  of the other northern counties are not included, and his book thus
  falls short of being a complete account of the brasses of England.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 825. O. 3, ’07. 300w.

  “Though it contains little that is new, and some of the illustrations
  have been copied or reduced from those in other books, the author has
  managed to give a certain freshness to a somewhat hackneyed theme by
  connecting it more closely than has hitherto been done with the
  history of the country in which the quaint memorials of the dead he so
  eloquently describes were produced. The various appendices dealing
  with minor groups of brasses, which might perhaps have been with
  advantage incorporated in the text, display a really remarkable grasp
  of a subject that would appear to be practically inexhaustible.”

       + =Int. Studio.= 32: 168. Ag. ’07. 220w.

  “The entire book is certain to interest students of the literature and
  art of the centuries in which monumental brasses were produced.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 312. O. 3, ’07. 800w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 356. Je. 1, ’07. 110w.

  Reviewed by Charles De Kay.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 452. Jl. 20, ’07. 2000w.

  “He has already earned a right to champion the cause of brasses, and
  his thorough and comprehensive survey of them gives him a further
  claim to plead for their better perservation.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 686. Je. 1, ’07. 900w.

         =Spec.= 98: 425. Mr. 16, ’07. 140w.


=Maclaren, Alexander.= Expositions of Holy Scripture. 30v. ea. *$1.25.
Armstrong.

  “A commentary on the entire Bible, in 30 volumes. Sold in series of
  six volumes. The treatment proceeds on the plan of an ‘anthology of
  the passages best suited for homiletic treatment in the expository
  method.’”

  =ser. 1.= Genesis, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Matthew.

  =ser. 2.= Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers; Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges,
  Ruth and the First book of Samuel; Second book of Samuel and the First
  book of Kings; St. Mark, 2 v.; and Acts of the Apostles, 1st. v.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Full of insight and suggestiveness.”

       + =Bib. World.= 29: 400. My. ’07. 20w. (Review of first ser.)

  “The work is rather voluminous and diffusive, making it cumbersome and
  expensive for practical use.”

     − + =Ind.= 62: 804. Ap. 4, ’07. 90w. (Review of first ser.)

  “Dr. Maclaren is always intent on spiritual truths, felicitous in
  drawing instructive modern parallels to ancient experiences, ingenious
  in making unpromising sentences yield fruitful lessons, and putting
  fresh point into trite texts.”

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 301. Je. 8, ’07. 200w. (Review of second ser.)


=Macleane, Douglas.= Reason, thought and language; or, The many and the
one: a revised system of logical doctrine in relation to the forms of
idiomatic discourse. *$6. Oxford.

                                                                7–29051.

  A book whose object is “to strengthen and revivify formal logic by
  bringing into close connection with the living facts of thought and
  speech.” “His work is rather a restatement and a defence of
  traditional doctrines.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This is a pleasantly written, discursive, fairly comprehensive book
  on logic, and a notable feature of it is the unusual number, variety,
  and freshness of the examples given. The chief objection which Mr.
  Macleane has failed to meet is that the more intentionally formal our
  logic the less can the actual risk of ‘ambiguous middle’ be taken into
  account.”

     + − =Acad.= 71: 606. D. 15, ’06. 620w.

  “Apart from the defects of the traditional standpoint, Mr. Macleane’s
  book has much to recommend it. Though in some places needlessly
  prolix, the author generally expresses his views with much sense,
  point, and an abundant supply of appropriate and often humorous
  examples.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 185. Ag. 17. 1880w.

  “In so far as it deals with logic as an art, Mr. Macleane’s book will
  be useful for reference even if it is too long and discursive for the
  classroom. In his discussion of extra-logical subjects, he is not
  always convincing.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 291. Mr. 28, ’07. 530w.

  “There can be no question of its learning and ability. Formal logic is
  apt to be heavy reading to the average mind, and the lavish
  introduction of this relieving element of bright and amusing
  illustration is a real gain in the lengthy and solid volume before
  us.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 104: 518. O. 26, ’07. 1370w.


=Macleod, Mary.= A book of ballad stories. $1.50. Stokes.

                                                                7–35074.

  Many old friends will be found in new prose dress. Patient Griselda,
  The beggar’s daughter of Bethnal Green, Thomas the rhymer, The Robin
  Hood cycle, King Cophetua and the beggar maid, The friar of orders
  gray, and two score more.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Much of the charm of the originals is unavoidably sacrificed in the
  change of form.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 53. F. ’07.

  “Prof. Edward Dowden has written an excellent historical introduction.
  [She turns] the swinging rhythm into something else without weighing
  carefully the taste for poetry which young people largely possess.”

     − + =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 22, ’06. 60w.


=McMahan, Mrs. Anna B.= Shakespeare’s Christmas gift to Queen Bess.
**$1. McClurg.

                                                                7–33927.

  A story woven around the first presentation of “A midsummer night’s
  dream” at the court of Queen Elizabeth.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A whimsical bibelot, which may be counted upon to please fastidious
  readers both in substance and mechanical features.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 384. D. 1, ’07. 160w.


=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.

                                                                6–34853.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “In one sense the compiler is certainly a follower of Byron—in the
  carelessness of her style. The information which she imparts could be
  read just as easily in almost any literary history. The selections
  from the letters and poems are aggravatingly cut about by lacunæ and
  curtailments.”

       − =Acad.= 72: 92. Ja. 26, ’07. 650w.

  “Is a pleasant, if not quite equal companion to the admirable ‘With
  Shelley in Italy,’ which appeared last year. The new book has a little
  the air of having been made as an afterthought, or to order, because
  of the merited success of the earlier.” Harriet Waters Preston.

     + − =Atlan.= 99: 422. Mr. ’07. 500w.

  “It does not throw any new light on Byron or help us to more
  understanding or enjoyment of his poems.”

       − =Sat. R.= 103: 150. F. 2, ’07. 120w.


=McMahan, Anna Benneson=, ed. With Wordsworth in England. **$1.40.
McClurg.

                                                                7–31456.

  A selection of the poems and letters of William Wordsworth which have
  to do with English scenery and English life. An author’s viewpoint and
  the world he looks upon are no where better commanded than from the
  subjective realm of his own poetry, for that reason this volume of
  Wordsworth’s verse is offered as “a guide to some of his well-beloved
  haunts.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mrs. McMahan has already proved herself ... a singularly inspiring
  guide to intimate acquaintance with recondite poetic treasure.”

     + + =Dial.= 43: 255. O. 16, ’07. 370w.

         =Lit. D.= 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 80w.

  “The volume is thus an excellent supplement to Mr. Rannie’s (which is
  illustrated less freely), although her own introductions and comments
  are of no special value.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 521. D. 5, ’07. 80w.

  Reviewed by Bliss Carman.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 701. N. 2, ’07. 1280w.


=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.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The volume before us presents a coherent, comprehensive, and
  illuminating narrative. It is not a series of monographs, but gives
  the impression of the progressive development of national powers in
  relation to one another. A few typographical errors have been noted.”
  C. H. Levermore.

   + + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 899. Jl. ’07. 1230w. (Review of v. 6.)

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 124. My. ’07. S. (Review of v. 6.)

  Reviewed by David Y. Thomas.

   + + − =Dial.= 42: 179. Mr. 16, ’07. 890w. (Review of v. 6.)

  “This big book, which may well be called a life-work, is a mine of
  information. All the severest demands of the new school as to
  scholarship and industry are fully met, and there is in it a wholesome
  human sympathy.” John Spencer Bassett.

       + =Putnam’s.= 2: 251. My. ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 6.)


=McNaugher, John=, ed. Psalms in worship; a series of convention papers
bearing upon the place of the Psalms in the worship of the church. *$1.
Un. Presb.

                                                                7–18116.

  These papers were presented at two Presbyterian conventions called to
  promote the claims of the Psalms in the field of worship and they are
  now published in the hope that they may influence the Christian church
  at large to “restore the Psalms to their true place in the hearts and
  on the lips of Christian believers.” The volume contains “a
  comprehensive statement of the reasons for the exclusive use in
  worship of the Bible Psalms. Definitely argumentative discussions of a
  doctrinal and critical kind are in the forefront. Others of broader
  type succeed.”


=Macnaughtan, S.= Lame dog’s diary. †$1.50 Dodd.

                                                                 6–6931.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The whole is like a bit of ‘Cranford’ with a few more masculine
  complications.” Mary Moss.

       + =Atlan.= 99: 118. Ja. ’07. 190w.


=McPherson, Logan Grant.= Working of the railroads. **$1.50. Holt.

                                                                6–43941.

  “The author does not so much analyze the technical work of the
  individual railroad departments as the general principles which they
  pursue in their work.... The separate chapters deal with construction
  and operation, traffic, accounting and statistics, financial and
  executive administration, correlation and integration of the railroads
  and with their relations to the public and the state.” (Ann. Am.
  Acad.) “It would pay the railroads to buy a million copies of this
  book and place it in the hands of the public for educational
  purposes.” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 125. My. ’07. S.

  “The general and elementary principles of railroad transportation are
  explained in an interesting way.”

     + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 416. Mr. ’07. 210w.

  “In a most scientific and careful manner it presents the various
  functions of railroading.” John J. Halsey.

       + =Dial.= 42: 282. My. 1. ’07. 1170w.

  “The value of the book lies in the fact that it is a clear and concise
  exposition of its subject, written by one who is both a practical
  railroad man and a trained economist.”

     − + =Ind.= 62: 1211. My. 23, ’07. 390w.

  “While the attitude of Mr. McPherson is naturally favorable to the
  railroad, he is very fair in his treatment of mooted questions.”

       + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 570. N. ’07. 130w.

  “To the subject of actual government control and regulation, and to
  the arguments that support this agitation, Mr. McPherson has given a
  careful and impartial study.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 593. Ap. 13, ’07. 290w.

  “A modest attempt, distinctly successful within its limits, to explain
  the operation of an American railway.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 20. Jl. 4, ’07. 260w.

         =Outlook.= 86: 38. My. 4, ’07. 470w.

  “This little volume provides material for instruction in railroad
  economics, much needed, but difficult of attainment by most teachers.”

     + + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 559. S. ’07. 120w.

  “For those who wish to get a good general outline of the railroad
  situation in this country without going much into details, Mr.
  McPherson’s book can be heartily recommended, and not the least
  important part of it is the list of references with which the book
  concludes.” Ray Morris.

   + + − =Yale R.= 16: 326. N. ’07. 1280w.


=Macray, Rev. William Dunn.= Register of the members of St. Mary
Magdalen college. Oxford, from the foundation of the college, v. 5.
*$2.50. Oxford.

  =v. 5.= “The present volume consists of two portions. In the first we
  have extracts from the registers and accounts, in the second
  biographical notices of fellows and demies,—every one may not know
  that ‘Demy’ is the Magdalen name for a scholar.... There is a quite
  indescribable medley of facts in the extracts. All of them will have
  an interest for members of the college, and many have a general
  significance.”—Spec.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Ath.= 1907. 1: 44. Ja. 12. 490w. (Review of v. 5.)

         =Nation.= 84: 264. Mr. 21, ’07. 170w. (Review of v. 5.)

  “The extracts in the volume have been carefully compiled.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 88. Ja. 19, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 5.)

       + =Spec.= 97: 685. N. 3, ’06. 370w. (Review of v. 5.)


=McSpadden, Joseph Walker.= Famous painters of America. **$2.50.
Crowell.

                                                                7–30413.

  This book does not discuss art, altho it deals with artists. The
  personal and picturesque side of men known to the casual reader is
  presented here with much amusing anecdote and comment. The lives of
  Benjamin West, Copley, Stuart, Inness, Vedder, Homer, La Farge,
  Whistler, Sargent, Abbey and Chase are given and there are three dozen
  handsome full page illustrations from photographs of the artists and
  their works.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is not well written, is florid in style, but contains
  material on some of the later artists of which little is to be found
  elsewhere except in magazine files or expensive works.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 195. N. ’07.

  “It ought to appeal to the holiday buyer who is interested in art from
  the outside.”

       + =Cath. World.= 86: 404. D. ’07. 190w.

  “While its point of view is popular there is nothing superficial about
  its method.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 379. D. 1, ’07. 200w.

  “The author has done what he has tried to do, which is more than can
  be said about every writer.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 1121. N. 7, ’07. 240w.

  “The general reader might find some mild entertainment in it—it makes
  no pretense to give any information about art.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 383. O. 24, ’07. 50w.

       + =Outlook.= 87: 615. N. 23, ’07. 80w.

  Reviewed by Elisabeth Luther Cary.

         =Putnam’s.= 3: 361. D. ’07. 30w.

  “It is anecdotal in the extreme.”

     + − =R. of Rs.= 36: 760. D. ’07. 50w.


=McTaggart, John Ellis.= Some dogmas of religion. *$3. Longmans.

                                                                 7–7484.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Dr. McTaggart is a master of clear definition and concise
  ratiocination. Indeed, his clearness and conciseness are of such
  exquisite quality that almost of themselves they afford the impression
  of wit.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 320. Mr. 17. 1240w.

         =Cath. World.= 84: 563. Ja. ’07. 200w.

  “This arbitrary method of criticism seems to us to vitiate a good deal
  of the book. It is undeniably clever, and very many good things are
  said; and it fully sustains Dr. McTaggart’s reputation as a clear
  thinker and a lucid writer; but much of it is likely to produce
  irritation rather than reflection.” David Phillips.

     + − =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 383. Ap. ’07. 2260w.

  “This very curious volume has interest as disclosing a personality and
  as illustrating a phase of thought. It is written in a simple almost
  childlike style, without the slightest pretence. The author does not
  seem to be aware of the conflict and incompatibility of the various
  elements in his mind.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 101: 591. My. 12, ’06. 1240w.


=MacWhirter, John.= MacWhirter sketch book; being reproductions of a
selection of sketches in color and pencil from the sketch book of John
MacWhirter, designed to assist the student of landscape painting in
water color. $1.50. Cassell.

  “Wonderfully exact reproductions of sketches in color and pencil by a
  famous Scotch water colorist, designed to assist the student. There
  are no fewer than twenty-four full-page reproductions of water color
  studies, the landscape being generally either Scotch or Swiss or
  Italian.... There is an introduction by Edwin Bale, and some
  interesting notes by the artist are also included.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The pencil sketches, even the slightest of them, will be found of
  value by the student.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 304. My. 11. ’07. 130w.

  “In spite of this flavour of a bygone time, there are one or two
  sketches which have in them that freshness and charm which are so
  often worried out of finished exhibition pictures.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 542. Ap. 6, ’07. 130w.


=Macy, Arthur.= Poems. *$2.25. Clarke, W. B.

                                                                5–36098.

  “A memorial volume of an unusually pleasant quality.... Mr. Macy was
  essentially the poet of good-fellowship. If such an impulse does not
  produce, in his own phrase, ‘Poetry with a big P,’ yet ... it does
  possess a very comfortable and lasting appeal.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is informed with a genuine warmth of sentiment, a Thackerayan
  humor, and a mellow morality, and is expressed with a clean music of
  phrase.”

       + =Nation.= 81: 507. D. 21, ’05. 300w.

  “Mr. Macy showed a felicity in the choice of words and an almost
  unerring ear for perfection of rhyme, combined with an unusual
  exactness in the use of difficult meter.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 523. Ag. 25, ’06. 230w.


=Madden, John.= Forest friends: the woodland adventures of a boy
pioneer. †$1.25. McClurg.

                                                                7–12644.

  It is of a little lad of seven with a passionate, enduring love of the
  forest and its wild inhabitants that Mr. Madden writes. The
  experiences that result from a child’s quick fascination of things of
  the woods are told reflectively out of the fulness of the man’s
  memory.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A good example of the static drama. It fills a real need in supplying
  a record of the animal life of regions near at hand in the early days
  of man’s occupation.” May Estelle Cook.

       + =Dial.= 42: 369. Je. 16, ’07. 630w.

  “Will be read with profit by many other men’s sons.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 1355. Je. 6, ’07. 60w.

  “Although no new facts are added to our store of knowledge, it is a
  relief to read a book treating of just ordinary creatures with
  ordinary habits.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 83. Jl. 25, ’07. 190w.

  “Not necessarily for the boy, but quite as attractive to the boy’s
  father.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 140w.


=Madison, James.= Writings; comprising his public papers and private
correspondence, including numerous letters and documents now for the
first time printed: ed. by Gaillard Hunt. *$5. Putnam.

  =v. 6.= “This volume covers the years 1790 to 1802. There is little
  that is new.... About half of it consists of Madison’s speeches in the
  First Congress, ... his various contributions to Freneau’s ‘National
  gazette,’ ‘Helvidius,’ his speech on the Jay treaty, and his Virginian
  report of 1799–1800. The rest is correspondence, embracing a dozen or
  so of family letters.... There are also a few new letters, and from
  Madison’s assumption of the secretaryship of state in May, 1801, an
  important series of instructions to the American representatives in
  England, France, and Spain. The footnotes, though not numerous, are
  almost uniformly good.” (Am. Hist. R.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

     + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 697. Ap. ’07. 440w. (Review of v. 6.)

  “The printing of so many speeches is of doubtful utility, as the
  reporting of that day was notoriously defective, and these summaries
  can only be comprehended from their context in the ‘Annals.’ The space
  thus occupied could have been better employed by including more of the
  correspondence, and especially the letters to Jefferson. The notes of
  the editor are judicious and accurate.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 175. F. 21, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 6.)


=Madison, Lucy (Foster) (Mrs. Winfield Scott Madison).= Maid of Salem
towne. †$1.25. Penn.

                                                                6–11309.

  Into this story of the charming little maid who came so near being
  hanged for a witch, and who was rescued in dramatic fashion by her
  friends at a critical moment, are woven sketches of the good old
  colony folk including Cotton Mather himself. The whole forms a vivid
  picture of life in a time more picturesque than comfortable.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Most happily told.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 880. D. 15, ’06. 150w.


Madonna of the poets; an anthology of only the best poems written about
the Blessed Virgin. *85c. Benziger.

  “An anthology covering a long period of literature. Many of the
  verses ... are far from being widely known to-day. Robert Grosseteste,
  William Forest, Richard Rowlands, Ben Jonson, Sir John Beaumont,
  George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Henry Vaughan, represent the
  inspiration of the Madonna in English life, from the middle ages till
  long after England had ceased to be Catholic. Among the modern
  contributors are Wordsworth, Newman, Hawker, Aubrey de Vere, Coventry
  Patmore, George Macdonald, Father Tabb, Alice Meynell, Louise Imogen
  Guiney, Francis Thompson, Lionel Johnson, and Rudyard Kipling.” (Cath.
  World.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A very curious mingling of pieces.”

     + − =Acad.= 70: 374. Ap. 21, ’06. 1340w.

         =Cath. World.= 84: 558. Ja. ’07. 230w.


=Maeterlinck, Maurice.= Measure of the hours; tr. by Alexander Teixeira
de Mattos. **$1.40. Dodd.

                                                                7–15583.

  Some new essays and others lately appearing in magazines are included
  among the twelve of this group. The collection “is somewhat
  heterogeneous, and ranges over questions of morality, social duty,
  literary appreciation, scenery and popular science.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A book of fragments, not all of equal value.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 466. Ap. 20. 1150w.

  “All of them are admirably translated, so far as one may judge without
  comparing the French, by Mr. Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, and many of
  them offer something novel and worthy of more than a moment’s
  pondering.”

     + − =Dial.= 42: 346. Je. 1, ’07. 250w.

  “The main interest of nearly all these essays is essentially that of
  the earlier volumes; the aim is still to combat insensibility to the
  possibilities of unguessed mysteries in what lies around us.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 546. Je. 13, ’07. 870w.

       + =Nature.= 76: 198. Je. 27, ’07. 120w.

  “Maeterlinck can weave mysticism, educe a moral, out of whatever comes
  to his hand. The merit of his style, of its pellucid originality, is
  the metaphor and that metaphor generally a single type,
  personification. It is no willful trick of style, no imposed
  elaborateness of location. It is the simple expression of his vision.”
  Florence Wilkinson.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 662. O. 19, ’07. 1570w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 512. O. ’07. 100w.


=Maffitt, Emma Martin.= Life and services of John Newland Maffitt; il.
$3. Neale.

                                                                  7–429.

  A sympathetic sketch of Captain John Newland Maffitt, seaman,
  surveyor, commander, author and patriot.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 722. Ap. ’07. 90w.

         =Ind.= 62: 619. Mr. 14. 130w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 386. Mr. ’07. 80w.


* Magda, queen of Sheba; tr. into French from the original Ghese, by
Hugues Le Roux, and from the French into English by Mrs. John Van Vorst;
with an introd. by Hugues Le Roux. **$1.20. Funk.

  The alleged romance of the historic Queen of Sheba translated from
  “The glory of the kings,” an ancient royal Abyssinian manuscript.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Lit. D.= 35: 920. D. 14, ’07. 80w.

  “Textually it is a remarkable book—curiously compounded of stately
  phrases imitated from the authorized version and other phrases
  singularly bald, modern, and pedestrian.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 695. N. 2, ’07. 1680w.

  “The volume, which is half story, half study, has an undoubted
  literary charm as well as historic value.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 756. D. ’07. 80w.


=Magill, Edward Hicks.= Sixty-five years in the life of a teacher.
**$1.50. Houghton.

                                                                 7–9847.

  “Dr. Magill’s career as a teacher began when he was sixteen. He is now
  over eighty, so that his career as an educator literally spans the
  whole history of the development of American education.”—Lit. D.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The work is very unpretentious in style and naïve in its
  simple-hearted revelations of the writer’s feelings, filial, paternal,
  and professional.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 258. Ap. 16, ’07. 240w.

         =Educ. R.= 34: 208. S. ’07. 80w.

  “Given with much detail, and forms one of the most interesting
  chapters of American educational history.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 678. Ap. 27, ’07. 240w.

  “Taken as a human document, this autobiography has something of the
  charm and flavor of the old-time Quaker journals, their unconscious
  wholesomeness and delightful naïveté.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 524. Je. 6, ’07. 810w.

  “To those interested in educational matters his book would have been
  of more value if it had had more of the pedagogical and less of the
  personal note.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 195. Mr. 30, ’07. 390w.

  “It is ... an exemplification of the rule that autobiographies are
  never dull.” Montgomery Schuyler.

       + =Putnam’s.= 3: 104. O. ’07. 480w.


=Magnay, Sir William, 2d baronet.= Master spirit. †$1.50. Little.

                                                                6–35732.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “If it had been handled with considerably more restraint, and if the
  characters concerned had been a little more like ordinary human beings
  and not quite such impossible combinations of superlative virtue and
  cleverness, vindictiveness and villainy, it might easily have made a
  better book.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

     − + =Bookm.= 24: 591. F. ’07. 340w.

  “Is the strongest novel yet written by Sir William Magnay.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 1529. Je. 27, ’07. 180w.


=Mahaffy, John Pentland.= Silver age of the Greek world. *$3. Univ. of
Chicago press.

                                                                6–20870.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “After all, it is the only book of its kind. Nowhere else can one get
  a connected survey of what the Greeks were doing and thinking and
  saying under the dominance of that empire whose social life has been
  depicted in such a scholarly and yet fascinating manner by Professor
  Dill.” B. Perrin.

     + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 414. Ja. ’07. 580w.

  “It is much to be regretted that a scholar of distinction should have
  published a work which everywhere exhibits the wide range of his
  learning, but which seems to bear clear signs of hasty compilation and
  an imperfect appreciation of what readers may justly look for in a
  costly and, it might have been presumed, authoritative work.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: sup. 116. Ja. 26, ’07. 750w.


=Mahan, Alfred Thayer.= From sail to steam: recollections of naval life.
**$2.25. Harper.

                                                                7–32861.

  This narrative of naval affairs, much of it in the form of personal
  reminiscences, tells of the change from sail to steam power, and so
  becomes a history of the old navy and the new. It is an authoritative
  account and although intimate, none the less permits of impersonal
  conclusions and generalizations.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A very attractive book, which albeit devoid of much striking incident
  or much stirring adventure, is full of Captain Mahan himself.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 356. N. 22, ’07. 1870w.

  “A capital book, this, to take up of a winter’s evening, when the day
  has been long and trying.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 610. N. 23, ’07. 210w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 754. D. ’07. 100w.

  “The author has, indeed, ‘let himself go,’ which must have been a very
  pleasant change from his usual austerity of construction and argument,
  and the reader shares the delights of the escapade. The mixture of
  autobiography, anecdote and essay is only less casual than the
  autobiography Mark Twain is publishing.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 614. O. 26, ’07. 7800w.


* =Mahan, Alfred Thayer.= Some neglected aspects of war; together with
The power that makes for peace, by Henry S. Pritchett, and The capture
of private property at sea, by Julian S. Corbett. **$1.50. Little.

  “A group of articles demonstrating the necessary and righteous part
  played in modern civilization by war, broadly considered, and the
  impossibility of replacing it shortly by any other agency, the
  conditions of the world remaining as they now are.”


=Maine, Sir Henry James.= Ancient law with introduction and notes by Sir
Frederick Pollock. **$1.75. Holt.

                                                                7–26409.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 221. Ja. ’07. 360w.

     + + =Nation.= 84: 159. F. 14, ’07. 480w.


=Maitland, Frederic William.= Life and letters of Leslie Stephen.
*$4.50. Putnam.

                                                                7–15902.

  The biographer holds the reader’s attention close to the moral and
  intellectual qualities “which gradually made Leslie Stephen the first
  among English critics and thinkers and one of the most influential
  among English moralists.” (Nation.) “Quite apart from the admirable
  literary form of the record, Professor Maitland has presented us with
  the portrait of an intensely human character, who took life, sunshine
  and thunder alike, with a free forehead and a free heart.” (Sat. R.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Will amply repay reading.”

     + + =Acad.= 71: 463. N. 10, ’06. 1620w.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 70. Mr. ’07.

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 684. D. 1. 1830w.

  “The biography now published should be the most welcome of books to
  all whose interests are engaged in the highest ideals of thought and
  conduct.” Wm. M. Payne.

     + + =Dial.= 42: 102. F. 16, ’07. 3000w.

  “It may be doubted if the present year will bring us from England a
  biographical work surpassing this in real literary distinction and
  literary value.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 34: 178. F. 2, ’07. 440w.

  “Mr. Maitland has done as well for Leslie Stephen as Leslie Stephen
  did for Fitzjames, and the only possible ground of complaint is that
  he has not given us quite enough of himself.” Sir Frederick Pollock.

   + + + =Living Age.= 252: 153. Ja. 19, ’07. 2990w. (Reprinted from
         Independent Review.)

     + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 384. D. 16, ’06. 2290w.

  “He has composed a biography which thrills in every line with
  affection and admiration for his hero, but never lies.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 12. Ja. 3, ’07. 2410w.

  “Part of its charm is the unconscious subsidiary portrait that the
  biographer has done of himself.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 14. Ja. 12, ’07. 1520w.

  Reviewed by Ferris Greenslet.

     + + =No. Am.= 184: 195. Ja. 18, ’07. 1680w.

  “For American readers the book would have been better had the author,
  or editor—for he is more editor than author—given a little more
  historical background. Historically the letters need some
  interpretation.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 85: 759. Mr. 30, ’07. 1720w.

  “It has not a trace of the cant of conventional biography. He has the
  double advantage of having known Stephen intimately and of having
  deserved to know him.” H. W. Boynton.

     + + =Putnam’s.= 1: 633. F. ’07. 1000w.

  “Professor Maitland’s book is neither a criticism, nor an
  appreciation, nor a panegyric; it is a living and breathing portrait
  of a modest, strong, active-minded, melancholy, tenderhearted man. The
  lights are not heightened, the shadows not deepened.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 102: 580. N. 10, ’06. 1920w.

  “It would be difficult to overpraise the merits of Mr. Maitland’s
  work. Written in a style which rivals Stephen’s own in nervous
  strength, and excels it, perhaps, in colour and certain whimsical
  humour, it presents a most living portrait of a most vital being.”

   + + + =Spec.= 97: 1047. D. 22, ’06. 1850w.


=Malet, Lucas, pseud.= See =Harrison, M. S. K.=


=Malim, Margaret F.= Old English woodcarving patterns; from oak
furniture of the Jacobean period. *$4.50. Lane.

                                                                7–29184.

  “A large portfolio containing reproductions of facsimile drawings from
  rubbings, designed especially for teachers, students and classes.
  Thirty examples are shown on twenty plates.... All the patterns given
  in this portfolio have been collected from genuine pieces of old oak
  furniture from various parts of the country.”—Int. Studio.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Int. Studio.= 31: sup. 85. My. ’07. 510w.

  “A really useful portfolio.”

       + =Spec.= 97: 939. D. 8, ’06. 130w.


* =Mallock, William Hurrell.= Critical examination of socialism. **$2.
Harper.

  A controversial treatment of the entire subject of socialism which may
  serve as a first introduction to the subject and which points out with
  equal fairness the strong and weak points of the system as it exists
  at the present time. The author discusses the historical beginning of
  socialism, Marxian socialism, the proximate and ultimate difficulties,
  individual motive and democracy, Christian socialism, the just reward
  of labor, interest and abstract justice, equality of opportunity and
  the social policy of the future.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book contains some crudities of plan and detail and an
  inexcusable number of grammatical or typographical errors.”

       − =Engin. N.= 58: 296. S. 12, ’07. 230w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 10w.


* =Malvery, Olive Christian.= Soul market. †$1.50. McClure.

  The experiences and observation of Miss Malvery who impersonated
  various types of slum folk for the sake of studying their lives at
  close range.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The cleverly delineated views from an inner standpoint are more fresh
  and impressive than methodical statistics.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 133. F. 2. 210w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 20w.


=Manly, John Matthews=, comp. English poetry, 1170–1892. *$1.50. Ginn.

                                                                7–11577.

  A high school and college text which includes between fifty and sixty
  thousand lines of poetry from the beginning of the Middle-English
  period down to the death of Tennyson. Intrinsic worth and beauty, and
  special significance in the history of English literature have
  determined the choice of the poems.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Dial.= 43: 213. O. 1, ’07. 400w.


=Mann, Charles Riborg, and Twiss, George Ransom.= Physics. *$1.25.
Scott.

                                                                5–33989.

  In Professor Mann’s thoroly modern textbook, “intended for third or
  fourth year high school or freshman collegiate students ... he has
  abolished such problems as ‘let the forces a, b and c meet at the
  point q’ and substituted real concrete examples of the applications of
  physical formulae. He has substituted photographs of modern machinery,
  such as turbine engines, motors and loop-the-loop, for the antiquated
  and diagrammatic illustrations of the old text-books.” (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Professor Mann has made a special effort to make the student realize
  that physics is a practical subject and necessary to the understanding
  of the operations of daily life. Some of his pictures seem unnecessary
  and somewhat kindergartenish.”

     + − =Ind.= 61: 259. Ag. 2, ’06. 170w.

         =Nation.= 83: 203. S. 6, ’06. 60w.


=Mann, Horace K.= Lives of the popes in the early middle ages. v. 2 and
3: The popes during the Carolingian empire, Leo III. to Formosus,
795–891. ea. *$3. Herder.

  These volumes “include a period of thirty-three years and six
  pontificates,—Popes in those days very seldom even approached the
  ‘annos Petri.’ This was the time of the ‘false decretals,’ and Mr.
  Mann is at great pains to show that the Popes with whom he is
  concerned did not use the evidence which these forgeries offered to
  support their claims.”—Spec.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He has gone over his sources with painstaking care, and has thrown an
  extensive mass of historical erudition into an easy and well-ordered
  narrative. If there is anything in this volume against which one might
  feel inclined to utter an adverse criticism, it is the polemical note
  which strikes us as over-assertive in Father Mann’s pages.”

   + + − =Cath. World.= 84: 413. D. ’06. 410w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “As Mr. Mann has given us the facts, we need not be in any way
  prejudiced by his deductions. But here we think the value of the work
  before us ceases. It will be known as a handy and compendious book of
  reference (it would be still more handy if the index were not so
  inadequate), and though we cannot deny that the author has, to some
  extent, read himself into the atmosphere of the early middle ages, he
  gives us little that is new or original in the encyclopaedic knowledge
  which he has so diligently culled from well-known sources. To literary
  style he disclaims all pretension, but by the want of it his volumes
  miss the charm which might otherwise surround his subject.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 2. Ja. 4, ’07. 1300w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)

         =Spec.= 96: sup. 1017. Je. 30, ’06. 250w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “Though we differ from Mr. Mann on various points, we may sincerely
  congratulate him on bringing this learned work to a successful
  conclusion.”

   + + − =Spec.= 97: 238. Ag. 18, ’06. 180w. (Review of v. 3.)


Manners and social usages: revised and corrected. $1.25. Harper.

  A complete revision of a standard work which offers suggestions for
  proper conduct in all the ordinary walks and emergencies of life. It
  is based on broad principles of good taste and consideration for
  others, and on the social conditions of our country.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We know of no other book that so amply meets the need.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 226. Jl. 25, ’07. 170w.

  “The present volume is excellent of its sort, well-written, clear,
  tactful. It tells the social aspirant all he needs to know.”
  Hildegarde Hawthorne.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 266. Ap. 27, ’07. 640w.


=Mannix, Mary Ella.= Patron saints for Catholic youth. 60c. Benziger.

  =v. 3.= Includes St. Francis Xavier, St. Patrick, St. Louis, St.
  Charles, St. Catharine, St. Elizabeth, St. Margaret and St. Claire.


=Mansfield, Blanche McManus (Mrs. M. F. Mansfield).= Our little Dutch
cousin. †60c. Page.

                                                                6–18353.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The visit of a little New York boy to his cousin in Holland is the
  pretext for much interesting information that an American child would
  most enjoy.”

       + =Bookm.= 24: 530. Ja. ’07. 40w.


=Mansfield, Milburg Francisco (Francis Miltoun, pseud.).= Automobilist
abroad; with il. and decorations by Blanche McManus. *$3. Page.

                                                                7–21289.

  “Mr. Miltoun ... might have called his book ‘The automobilist’s hotel
  abroad,’ for in his running commentary on the roads and routes of
  Europe he lays special emphasis upon the methods of catering to
  motorists, and he has no hesitancy in mentioning by name the good and
  inferior inns one may meet in different towns.... The European
  motorist will find considerable practical information in the closing
  chapters of the book. One gives a short account of the leading
  European races and winners; another tells how to join the touring club
  of France, and another gives a comprehensive digest of the automobile
  regulations, custom duties, and methods of securing drivers’ licenses
  and registrations in different countries.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Miltoun’s enthusiasm for the motor-car, however, does not
  overbalance the practical and practicable problems of touring abroad.
  Every point of such a tour ... is adequately and interestingly
  recounted by the author of this book.” H. E. Coblentz.

     + + =Dial.= 43: 211. O. 1, ’07. 730w.

  “His book has the distinction of being one of the first satisfactory
  volumes of travel written by an automobilist.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 308. O. 3, ’07. 770w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 397. Je. 15, ’07. 340w.

  “While not exactly an automobilist’s vade mecum, it contains all the
  essential elements of a motor guide through Europe, presented through
  the medium of a personal and very practical experience.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 432. Jl. 6, ’07. 1020w.


=Mansfield, Milburg F. (Francis Miltoun, pseud.).= Castles and chateaux
of old Touraine and the Loire country; il. by Blanche McManus. $3. Page.

                                                                6–29521.

  Leisurely wanderings thru the Loire country have made possible in this
  sketch more of atmosphere and historic setting than conventional
  rambles usually permit. It is Touraine’s feudal and Renaissance
  châteaux that chiefly occupy the author. Blois, with its counts who
  rivalled in power and wealth the churchmen of Tours and the dukes of
  Brittany, Cambord with its master-builders’ massive art, Amboise, the
  rival of the capital in cradling the thought and action of fifteenth
  and sixteenth century monarchs, are described, with many another
  château, in the light of their monumental glory. The volume is
  handsomely illustrated.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a pity that Mr. Miltoun should continue to present his material
  in so disorderly a form. His arrangement lacks both method and
  sequence, and his style has a qualified and uncertain ring that is
  very annoying.”

     + − =Dial.= 41: 394. D. 1, ’06. 210w.

  “Old Touraine ... is here vividly portrayed with brush and pen.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 33: 914. D. 15. ’06. 120w.

  “Thus we have in this book, a series of personal impressions unrolled
  like a panorama, the course of which is stayed from time to time,
  while author and artist bring up something from the past which may
  pleasurably instruct without a too heavy laying on of archæology,
  history or architectural technique.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 769. N. 24, ’06. 450w.

  “Both in pictures and text much of interest and value is furnished.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1. ’06. 160w.

  “This is a pretty and attractive but rather confusing book. Though
  very pleasant reading, the book as a whole, rather lacks proportion,
  repetition is not absent, and the wanderings become a little
  bewildering.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: sup. 641. N. 2, ’07. 380w.


=Mansfield, Milburg F. (Francis Miltoun, pseud.).= Rambles on the
Riviera: being some account of journeys made en automobile and things
seen in the fair land of Provence; il. by Blanche McManus. $2.50. Page.

                                                                6–29989.

  Not a book of historical or archaeological importance, not a
  conventional book of travel or a “glorified guide book,” but a record
  of personal observations on the picturesque, romantic and
  topographical aspects of the French Riviera proper.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Reviewed by William Rice.

         =Dial.= 41: 393. D. 1, ’06. 140w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 572. S. 15, ’06. 580w.


=Mantle, Beatrice.= Gret: the story of a pagan. †$1.50. Century.

                                                                7–29091.

  An Oregon lumber camp furnishes the setting of this story whose young
  heroine is more the daughter of the camp than of her selfish father
  who spends his wealth in the cities and returns home now and then to
  nag and to criticise the unrestrained manner in which his wife is
  bringing Gret up. The wild free life of the camp, Gret’s unthinking
  joy in its content suffer never an interruption until love comes when
  she is changed into a thoughtful woman.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A sterling book unmarred by convention.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

       + =Bookm.= 26: 270. N. ’07. 580w.

  “With so much of the smart and the tailormade in our fiction, it is a
  pleasure to come now and then upon a novel which holds one such human
  breathing creature as Gret.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 400. O. 31, ’07. 590w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

  “But vivid as Gret’s personality is made and absorbing as is the story
  of her triumphs, there is never a moment when either gets out of the
  realm of romance into commonplace reality.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 764. N. 30, ’07. 300w.

  “Altogether the story has a refreshing novelty, and is well worth
  reading.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 450. O. 26, ’07. 180w.


* =Marble, Annie Russell.= Heralds of American literature: a group of
patriot writers of the revolutionary and national periods. *$1.50. Univ.
of Chicago press.

  The aim of this book is to recount in detailed study, and largely from
  original sources, the lives and services of a group of typical writers
  during the pioneer days of national growth, who revealed the standards
  and aspirations of their time, and who announced the dawn of a
  national literature, although their own products were often immature
  and crude. The group includes Franklin, Francis Hopkinson, Philip
  Freneau, John Trumbull, a group of Hartford wits, Joseph Dennie,
  William Dunlap and Charles Brockden Brown.


=Marchmont, Arthur Williams.= By wit of woman. †$1.50. Stokes.

                                                                6–16736.

  “Given the ingredients of the girl, the prince, the
  kingdom-in-the-mountains, garnished with palaces, gold-laced
  officials, and highly spiced with an unprincipled lady spy, one can
  stir together a romantic pudding that is sure to appeal to the average
  appetite.... The author ... has sought to do nothing more than to turn
  out precisely such a readable yarn.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A novel devoid of evidence of artistic ambition.”

       − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 662. Je. 2. 150w.

  “Obviously one need claim nothing strikingly new for the book.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 419. Je. 30, ’06. 250w.


=Marchmont, Arthur Williams.= In the cause of freedom; with a front. in
colors by Archie Gunn. †$1.50. Stokes.

                                                                7–16375.

  “A travelling Englishman comes upon a Polish maiden, in the company of
  a notorious conspirator, both pursued by the police, in a village of
  Russian Poland. The conspirator is dispatched early in the game, and
  the maiden is left on the Englishman’s hands. Being highspirited and
  impressionable, the Englishman is nothing loth to accept the charge,
  and the pair lead the police a merry chase all the way to Warsaw,
  where the action culminates in street riots and other forms of
  excitement.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.

         =Dial.= 42: 379. Je. 16, ’07. 110w.

  “The pages fairly sizzle with excitement from beginning to end.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 500. Ag. 17, ’07. 130w.

  “If our credulity had not been strengthened by much similar strong
  food, it would be overtaxed to learn of the succession of hairbreadth
  escapes and gallant rescues credited to Robert Anstruther, the hero.
  But, if we must read these romances, it is less fatiguing to believe
  than to question.”

       − =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 90w.


=Marden, Orison Swett.= Optimistic life; or, In the cheering-up
business. **$1.25. Crowell.

                                                                7–27001.

  Thirty-eight chapters of optimistic wisdom which constitute what might
  be termed the “scriptures of the toilers.” The keynote is the higher
  success, and Mr. Marden points out how and when it may be discovered
  in all phases of business. He discusses such subjects as business
  integrity, the need of proper vocations, leaving one’s troubles at the
  office, the difference between work and drudgery, the cost of an
  explosive temper, and the habit of not feeling well.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 564. S. 21, ’07. 180w.


* =Marden, Philip Sanford.= Greece and the Aegean islands. **$3.
Houghton.

                                                                7–36985.

  A book of travel and description which will serve as a guide to many
  who have the Grecian archipelago in view and as a book of reminiscence
  to all who have taken the journey. Entering Greece by “the front door
  of the kingdom”—by way of the Piræus—the tour includes Athens, Delphi,
  Mycenæ, Nauplia, Epidaurus, Olympia, and among the islands, Delos,
  Samos, Cos, Cnidos, Rhodes, and others. The book is handsomely
  illustrated.


=Markham, Sir Clements Robert.= Richard III, his life and character
reviewed in the light of recent research; with a portrait and a map.
*$3.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–10996.

  In which the character of Richard III is rehabilitated, and this last
  of the Plantagenets is made to appear as “a good son, a devoted
  husband, and a loving father;” in which it is affirmed “that he
  cherished his relatives, was a kind and trusty friend, and an
  honorable and magnanimous foe.” (N. Y. Times.) The defense goes to
  prove that the two sons of Edward IV. did not die in the reign of
  Richard III. but survived until after the accession of Henry VII.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He seems to imagine that to repeat a statement over and over again
  makes it true, and that citations from earlier writers take the place
  of original documents.”

       − =Acad.= 72: 10. Ja. 5, ’07. 1220w.

  “The reasoning that Sir Clements Markham uses is very ingenious but
  hardly convincing, and he does not improve his case by attempting in
  his closing chapter to show that Mr. Gairdner is inconsistent in his
  portrayal of Richard.” N. M. Trenholme.

     + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 134. O. ’07. 870w.

  “His book is ingenious, bright and readable; he marshals his arguments
  cunningly, and he scores some good points. But it is not too much to
  say that he approaches the whole subject in the spirit of an advocate,
  and consequently his essay can hardly be considered a serious addition
  to historical literature.”

     − + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 220. F. 23. 750w.

  “Had Sir Clements been content to show that the allegations of Tudor
  historians were in some matters unfounded, we might have been more
  ready to accept a verdict of not proven on the serious charges; more
  than this he has not after all been able at the best to establish.” C.
  L. Kingsford.

     − + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 579. Jl. ’07. 1190w.

  “Shakespeare students as well as those interested in English history
  cannot afford to neglect the volume. It is based upon critical
  research, and makes out a strong case against Henry.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 1122. N. 7, ’07. 380w.

  “He has shown us how very uncertain any verdict must be, and he has
  done good service in sweeping away many of the myths with which Tudor
  prejudice and falsehood have obscured the reign of Richard III.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 11. Ja. 11, ’07. 1570w.

  “If he could have imposed upon himself something of the cynical temper
  and cool judgment with which Horace Walpole, first of Richard’s
  defenders, wrote his ‘Historic doubts,’ his book would have been
  doubled in value to the general reader.” Florence Finch Kelley.

     − + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 226. Ap. 6, ’07. 1390w.

         =Outlook.= 87: 350. O. 19, ’07. 3900w.

  “Sometimes the chain of argument is really pitiable. That most
  fallacious method of writing history is adopted, that of treating
  official versions and transparent pretexts as actual facts.”

     − − =Sat. R.= 103: 657. My. 25, ’07. 840w.

  “Though we judge him to have failed in his main contention, the author
  has painted a vivid picture of the epoch between the battles of
  Northampton and Bosworth; he has bestowed the skill of a trained
  geographer in elucidating the topography of Towton, and Wakefield, and
  Barnet; and he was swept into limbo a mass of crude absurdity.”

     − + =Spec.= 97: 175. F. 2, ’07. 1720w.


=Marks, Edward C. R.= Mechanical engineering materials: their properties
and treatment in construction. 60c. Van Nostrand.

  “A very useful little volume of information on methods of manufacture,
  properties and tests of steel, iron, copper and the various copper,
  manganese, tin and aluminum alloys used, for the most part, in
  machinery.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The one criticism of this book is that the author has selected a too
  pretentious title.”

   + + − =Engin. N.= 57: 197. F. 14, ’07. 60w.


* =Marks, Mrs. Mary A. M.= England and America. 1763–1783. 2v. *$6.
Appleton.

                                                                7–34222.

  Something of the spirited attitude which Mrs. Marks assumes toward her
  work is summed up in the statement that her book is the Tory reaction
  against the monopoly of office by the Whigs and the consequences of
  that reaction, the loss of American colonies and an addition of
  £129,000,000 to the national debt. “The years covered by this history
  are those in which the final effect of the causes of the American
  movement toward independence are studied, as well as the conduct of
  England brought to face the new situation. A characteristic of the
  book, its determining characteristic, is that it keeps to the point of
  view of the time and the point of view of the English.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “To students of history this book should be invaluable; it puts things
  in a clear, simple light, and is the work of one who has made careful
  research into the records of the period.”

       + =Acad.= 73: 675. Jl. 13, ’07. 420w.

  “A spirited piece of work, to which much conscientious search has been
  devoted and which displays sobriety of judgment in dealing with the
  motives of individuals placed in desperate circumstances. Though Miss
  Marks as a rule writes clearly, if rather colloquially, she is guilty
  of an obscure allusion or two.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 209. Ag. 24. 680w.

  “She has produced a book which is very readable and interesting in
  spite of obvious faults. The style, which is equally free from the
  dignity which was formerly and the dullness which is now thought
  appropriate to history, is too often careless and even slipshod. The
  arrangement is not happy. There is a disregard of proportion and not
  seldom a superfluity of unimportant detail. It is the most serious
  defect of the book that the author writes throughout as a partisan.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 265. S. 6, ’07. 1800w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 333. My. ’07. 240w.

  “It is apparent that this work violates the most fundamental
  requirements of modern scholarship. Nor is it in minor points more
  satisfactory. Gross blunders, glaring inconsistencies and
  ill-considered conclusions abound. While the narrative is lively, its
  style is more undignified than that usually countenanced by the Muse
  of history.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 742. N. 23, ’07. 1000w.

  “Thoroughness, fullness, and fairness are the distinctive
  characteristics [of the book] which into the bargain is written with a
  keen sense of the dramatic value of the great events of twenty years
  whose history she narrates.”

     + + =Outlook.= 87: 543. N. 9, ’07. 350w.

  “Miss Marks has studied the period thoroughly, and her work can hardly
  fail to take a permanent place among the authorities on the subject.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: 133. Jl. 27, ’07. 330w.


=Marriott, John A. R.= Life and times of Lucius Cary, Viscount Falkland.
*$2.25. Putnam.

                                                                7–25683.

  “Mr. Marriott has not only written a life of the young statesman whose
  career and character inspired one of Matthew Arnold’s most brilliant
  essays, but he has also given us a masterly treatise upon one of the
  most absorbingly interesting periods of English history,” (N. Y.
  Times) viz., “the times of Laud and of Strafford, of vexed issues in
  church and state, of the petition of rights and the grand
  remonstrance.... Among the most charming of his chapters are those
  describing Falkland’s existence before the revolution, in his
  well-loved home at Great Tew.” (Lond. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Marriott has done a real service in conveying to us in a volume
  of absorbing human interest so much of the vital charm and personality
  of the man. He has managed in masterly fashion to disentangle the real
  points at issue. He has given us an estimate of Falkland’s character
  that bears the impress of truth.”

     + + =Acad.= 72: 383. Ap. 20, ’07. 1470w.

  “In the industrious and sympathetic analysis of Falkland himself, of
  his character and the part he played, Mr. Marriott’s work appears to
  us to suffer from the fact that he sets out with a strong
  preconception, a preconception founded, no doubt, upon close and
  loving study before he began his book.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 61. Jl. 20. 2060w.

  “This is a delightful book, on a delightful subject. Mr. Marriott is a
  historian of the new school in so far as he is a student and scholar;
  but, unlike many of his contemporaries, not so far as to be a
  scientific pedant. He never forgets the importance of the personal
  element, and is a painter no less than a critic.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 153. My. 17, 07. 2300w.

  “The facts are well presented, the characters clearly drawn, but the
  transmuting skill is not present that would make literature of one of
  the richest themes in English history.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 103. Ag. 1, ’07. 1100w.

  “May well be deemed a representative type of the highest literary
  scholarship of our time.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 373. Je. 8, ’07. 500w.

  “There is thus ample reason for the biography now written by Mr. J. A.
  R. Marriott. It is not a book of inspiring interest.” H. Addington
  Bruce.

       + =Outlook.= 87: 783. D. 7, ’07. 3250w.

  “We have no fault to find with Mr. Marriott’s graceful biography of
  one of the most interesting figures in a fascinating age except the
  air of confessorship and greatness eclipsed by a conspiracy of
  detraction which he throws around the ‘apostle of moderation and
  martyr of the via media.’”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 751. Je. 15, ’07. 1290w.

  “In pleading the claims of Falkland to consistency and foresight he
  has produced a sober and well-balanced study of those times, so sorely
  out of joint, against which his hero was doomed to struggle in vain.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 54. Jl. 13, ’07. 2550w.


=Marsh, Harriet B.= Point of view in modern education. 60c. Public
school.

  “Consists of a collection of lectures delivered before Mothers clubs.
  It is an attempt to state in simple concrete terms the changes in
  ideas in education brought about by fundamental, philosophical,
  scientific, social and religious thought.”—Bookm.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Despite the naïve manner in which most complex problems of science,
  of ethics, or of social, practical or economic relationships are
  settled, the lectures are at least suggestive and give a point of view
  of education differing from the formal and mechanical one.”

     + − =Bookm.= 23: 219. Ap. ’06. 110w.

  “There is much sound advice and instruction in these pages, which will
  repay the study of a teacher.”

     + − =Cath. World.= 84: 823. Mr. ’07. 360w.


=Marsh, Richard.= Who killed Lady Poynder? †$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                7–26342.

  “‘Who killed Lady Poynder?’ is a story of nearly 130,000 words,
  constructed on the principle which has produced so many rattling
  stories in the past, that of supplying really damning evidence against
  every person, male or female, who has any connection with the plot at
  all. Lady Poynder was shot in her own house in London. The author’s
  ingenuity is expended in showing how many persons had or might have
  had the opportunity and motive for the murder.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Granting one tremendous coincidence—a coincidence of coincidences, in
  fact—the reasoning is plausible and the tale entertaining enough. But
  in respect to method it is a horrible example of the effect of trying
  to put a novel of mystery and a novel of manners between the same
  covers.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 285. S. 26, ’07. 280w.

  “A promising situation, surely, for a vigorous minded novelist, and
  Mr. Richard Marsh is quite equal to it in the remainder of the book.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 633. O. 19, ’07. 140w.


=Marshall, H. E.= Island story: a child’s history of England; with col.
pictures by A. S. Forrest. *$2.50. Stokes.

                                                                7–35150.

  A child’s history of England to be placed not at the lesson-book end
  of the shelf, but with “Robinson Crusoe” and the like,—so the preface
  suggests.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The especial value of this book is that the stories include legendary
  as well as historical events. Well written, though with no particular
  quality of style; beautifully made as to paper and print, but
  illustrated by poor colored pictures.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 82. Mr. ’07.

  “It is not a history, if by that we mean facts and dates alone, but if
  we want motives as well, and the personality of the chief actors, then
  this thick ornamental book accomplishes its aim admirably.”

       + =Ind.= 61: 1409. D. 13, ’06. 70w.

         =R. of Rs.= 34: 764. D. ’06. 60w.

  “It is eminently readable, a success, we would say, in what looks much
  easier than it is, telling a story in simple words.”

       + =Spec.= 95: 1091. D. 23, ’05. 80w.


* =Marshall, Herbert Menzies, and Marshall, Hester.= Cathedral cities of
France. *$3.50. Dodd.

                                                                7–32829.

  A finely illustrated book of French cathedral cities which serves to
  enlighten the stay-at-home tourist and to refresh the memory of one
  who has covered the ground.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is one of the best of its class. [The authors’] very lack of
  familiarity with the country might make their original notes of travel
  the more valuable, as they are evidently intelligent as well as
  artistic observers.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 556. N. 2. 580w.

  “The author seems oppressed by the weight of her authorities.”

     + − =Dial.= 43: 426. D. 1, ’07. 140w.

  “Her knowledge of architecture is singularly accurate and
  discriminating.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 110w.

  “The writing is simple and dignified; the pictures are in some cases
  clear and attractive, but in others show that blotchy, messy surface
  which is still the bane of most color printing.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 543. D. 12, ’07. 80w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

  “The pictures have a charm of their own, even to those who are
  familiar with the most famous of the buildings with which they deal in
  so original and unconventional a way.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 828. D. 14, ’07. 330w.

  “The authors of this book have been more successful than many of their
  predecessors. They have lingered in the localities and have fortified
  their observation, by some study of what others have written.
  Unfortunately, though they always indicate quotations, they by no
  means always mention whence they came. We regret that Mr. Marshall’s
  great skill as a draughtsman is often neutralized by the failure of
  the medium he has chosen to convey what he was clever enough to
  perceive.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 104: 642. N. 23, ’07. 230w.


=Marshall, John.= Constitutional decisions; ed. by Joseph P. Cotton, jr.
2 v. ea. *$5. Putnam.

                                                                5–39509.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “A compilation of the constitutional decisions of Marshall is well
  worth the making. It seems captious to mention two typographical
  errors—in volume one, page 255, where, ‘1858’ is printed for ‘1758,’
  and in volume two, page 1, where ‘1875’ appears instead of ‘1775.’”
  Frederick C. Hicks.

   + + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 475. N. ’06. 990w.


=Marston, Edward.= Fishing for pleasure and catching it, and two
chapters on angling in North Wales, by R. B. Marston. *$1.25. Scribner.

                                                                6–34385.

  “The book is quite varied in its contents, turning aside from the
  author’s own angling experiences to extracts from the nature books of
  William J. Long, paraphrases of portions of ‘The song of Hiawatha,’
  and other not very intimately related subjects.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Dial.= 40: 396. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.

       + =Nation.= 82: 407. My. 17, ’06. 120w.

  “Readers who know how pleasantly Mr. E. Marston can write need not
  have his new volume any further recommended.”

       + =Spec.= 96: 546. Ap. 7, ’06. 300w.


=Marti, Karl.= Religion of the Old Testament: its place among the
religions of the nearer East. (Crown theological lib., no. 18.) *$1.25.
Putnam.

                                                                7–37540.

  “A sketch giving a bird’s-eye view of the development of Israel’s
  religion in its relation to other religions of western Asia. The point
  of view is that of the historical school of which Marti is a leading
  representative.”—Bib. World.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “An interesting and suggestive sketch.”

       + =Bib. World.= 30: 239. S. ’07. 40w.

  “The novice will scarcely appreciate the skill with which Professor
  Marti has selected salient facts and the features which need to be
  kept prominent, and avoided confusing the learner by a mass of
  details.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 760. S. 26, ’07. 330w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 372. Je. 8, ’07. 100w.

  “It is a pity that so good a book should be published without an
  index.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 548. S. 14, ’07. 140w.

  “It is a valuable contribution to a great theme by one who has devoted
  his life to its study. Not only the general reader, for whom it is
  especially intended, but the theologian will learn not a little from
  its pages.”

     + + =Spec.= 99: 127. Jl. 27, ’07. 1390w.


=Martin, Benjamin E., and Martin, Charlotte M.= Stones of Paris in
history and letters. $2. Scribner.

                                                                6–35587.

  A new edition of a book which traces the history and letters of Paris
  thru its structures. There are numerous illustrations from
  photographs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 251. Mr. 2. 530w.

  “An entirely admirable book.” Harriet Waters Preston.

       + =Atlan.= 99: 420. Mr. ’07. 710w.

  “The streets of Paris have also been carefully scanned and a most
  entertaining story has been created out of the assembled material and
  has been skillfully synthesized.”

       + =Ind.= 61: 1397. D. 22, ’06. 110w.

  “In all essential respects the work holds its own.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 392. N. 8, ’06. 90w.

       + =Outlook.= 84: 682. N. 17, ’06. 20w.

  “We have a good deal more of the real social and political history of
  the French capital than is found in many a more pretentious historical
  work.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 111. Ja. ’07. 100w.

  “The charm of these records is unquestionable, and for this reason, as
  we have said before, the faults in their construction may be
  overlooked.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: 201. Ag. 10, ’07. 1390w.


=Martin, George Madden.= Abbie Ann. †$1.50. Century.

                                                                7–29096.

  Abby Ann, Emmy Lou’s successor, is a little Coal City inhabitant, who
  with only a father’s care has not made much headway towards the
  graces. She is a spirited little miss who is finally sent away to
  school, to the school that had once claimed her mother as a pupil.
  Children will take keen delight in the part Abbie Ann plays in
  bringing about a reconciliation between her father and two very
  austere aunts.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The story is told with much of the sympathy and humor that
  characterizes ‘Emmy Lou’ by the same author, but the incidents of this
  book will appeal more to a child than those of its charming
  predecessor.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 209. N. ’07. ✠

  “‘Abbie Ann’ skips into our affections as gaily as she skipt along the
  railroad station at the opening of another bright story by the author
  of ‘Emmy Lou.’”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 796. N. 23, ’07. 260w.

  “The little girl is sure to be warmly welcomed by other little girls
  outside the story books.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 60w.

       + =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 60w.

  “Not only shows that she understands her art thoroughly, but, like
  Mrs. Burnett, she lets the facts move the reader, and abjures
  adjectives.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 763. D. ’07. 150w.


=Martin, Mrs. Helen Reimensnyder.= Betrothal of Elypholate, and other
tales of the Pennsylvania Dutch. †$1.50 Century.

                                                                7–30437.

  The sturdy qualities of Mennonite men and maidens are revealed in
  their life and lovemaking with which these stories deal.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Decidedly more interesting than the longer stories by the same
  author.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 202. N. ’07. ✠

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

  “The contrasts that she depicts by bringing in now and then an
  outsider from the city, or a son who has gone into the outside world
  and won success and culture, are almost too vivid to be artistic.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 676. O. 26, ’07. 130w.

  “The tales are charmingly written and disclose a phase of unusually
  interesting life.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 450. O. 26, ’07. 120w.


=Martin, Helen R. (Mrs. Frederic C. Martin).= His courtship; il. by
Alice Barber Stephens. †$1.50. McClure.

                                                                7–15920.

  A professor of psychology rusticating among the Pennsylvania Dutch
  during his vacation, becomes interested in a much persecuted slave of
  the kitchen. That the girl proves to be the daughter of cultured
  parents and had been kidnapped in infancy, that during her bondage she
  had found solace and books in a haunted room suggest the lines along
  which the professor may make some impersonal observations for the
  cause of psychology but more especially for his own personal cause of
  happiness.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author is certainly more successful when she confines herself to
  Dutch characters, and has in this case spoiled an excellent short
  story by expanding it into the more ambitious novel.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 203. N. ’07.

  “The book is a curious mingling of keen-eyed observation, great
  naturalness in narrative and dialogue, and exasperating artificiality
  of construction.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

     + − =Bookm.= 26: 80. S. ’07. 440w.

  “A story marked by unusual powers of penetrating observation.” Wm. M.
  Payne.

       + =Dial.= 43: 65. Ag. 1, ’07. 220w.

  “This is a short story which made up of its mind to grow into a novel,
  and got spoiled in the process.”

       − =Nation.= 85: 37. Jl. 11, ’07. 300w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 180w.

  “The author’s management of the dialect is commendable, for she does
  not overdo the matter and put in dialect for its own sake.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 360w.

  “As long as she portrays the Mennonites, or the ordinary Dutch, she
  has a field unique and worthy of her talents, but in introducing
  outsiders from the gay world she strikes as ordinary a note as did the
  fascinating Jubilee singers of long ago when they tried to sing our
  concert pieces.”

       − =Outlook.= 86: 256. Je. 1, ’07. 100w.


=Martin, Louis Adolphe.= Text-book of mechanics. *$1.25. Wiley.

                                                                6–17261.

  =v. 1.= Statics. “This is the first part of a text-book designed for
  an introductory course to applied mechanics, for use in colleges and
  technical schools. The author has arranged the book so that statics
  only is covered in this volume.”—Engin. N.

  =v. 2.= Kinematics and kinetics. “Chapters are included on the
  following subjects: Kinematics—Rectilinear motion of a particle;
  curvilinear motion of a particle; motion of a rigid body;
  Kinetics—Kinetics of a particle and of the mass-center of a rigid
  body; application of the equations of motion for translation and for
  rotation; work and energy; impact.” (Technical Literature.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is a very good one for class work in technical schools.”
  Amasa Trowbridge.

     + − =Engin. N.= 56: 50. Jl. 12, ’06. 390w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The fundamental principles of elementary mechanics are presented in
  simple manner and in logical order in this volume.”

       + =Engin. N.= 58: 659. D. 12, ’07, 60w. (Review of v. 2.)

         =Technical Literature.= 2: 334. O. ’07. 140w. (Review of v. 2.)


=Martin, Martha Evans.= Friendly stars. **$1.25. Harper.

                                                                7–14831.

  A personal friendship with the stars which the author shares with her
  readers. It is an untechnical study and points out to the naked eye
  the most interesting facts about the stars. Their rising and setting,
  their number, colors, distances, movements and distinguishing
  characteristics are made clear to the observer who has had no
  preparatory instruction.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 125. My. ’07. S.

  “The delicate, yet sure and accurate touch of the author, and her
  genuine love for the sky, combine to charm the reader, and to make him
  wish to have the book within reach, in case he too is a lover of the
  heavens.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 317. My. 16, ’07. 360w.

  “The graceful introductory note of commendation from Doctor Jacoby
  leaves nothing more to be said as to the scientific accuracy of the
  author’s work.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 766. My. 11, ’07. 160w.

  “This volume will appeal to the beginner in astronomy and to the
  general reader quite as much as to the astronomer.” W. E. R.

       + =Nature.= 76: 412. Ag. 22, ’07. 180w.

  “[Told] in a plain simple way, quite free from the technical language
  which baffles the unscientific mind.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 254. Ap. 20. ’07. 620w.

  “A useful and even interesting study.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 512. O. ’07. 60w.


=Martin, Percy Falcke.= Mexico’s treasure-house (Guanajuato): an
illustrated and descriptive account of the mines and their operations in
1906. $3. Cheltenham press.

                                                                6–40260.

  “A full account, with many illustrations, of the mines of a region
  which has been pronounced more ‘thoroughly mineralized’ than any equal
  portion of the globe.... Perhaps the most suggestive parts of the
  volume are those which tell of the new methods, mostly devised by
  Americans, to draw fresh wealth from the old workings.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The story of what has been done, and the discussions of present
  conditions in the Mexican labor market and in industry are the
  features that render the book valuable. These subjects are treated in
  an interesting manner, and so far as the reader can judge, with
  impartiality and accuracy.”

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 641. My. ’07. 500w.

         =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 187. Mr. ’07. 250w.

  “The description is technical and highly detailed.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 384. Ap. 25, ’07. 80w.


=Martin, Percy Falcke.= Through five republics (of South America); a
critical description of Argentine, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Venezuela
in 1905; il. *$5. Dodd.

                                                                6–18334.

  The subtitle furnishes the scope of this book of which the author
  says: “First, I believe it is timely, in view of the enormous advances
  made by the South American republics of late years, and the amount of
  British capital invested therein. Secondly, I have in my journalistic
  capacity been enabled to gather much information of value, which I
  have found no opportunity for utilising in the newspapers I have
  represented, but which, accompanied by illustrations and somewhat
  fuller descriptions, should be acceptable as a critical account of the
  countries visited.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book contains a great deal of information—though it lacks
  arrangement.”

     + − =Acad.= 69: 1366. D. 30. ’05. 270w.

  “A book which will be found of some value by commercial men and
  possibly by politicians. In matters apart from trade and figures Mr.
  Martin is hardly a safe guide. There are minor inaccuracies scattered
  throughout the volume.”

     + − =Ath.= 1905, 2: 760. D. 2. 1300w.

  “The industry with which Mr. Martin has collected his figures and
  endless minutiae is commendable in spite of the rather deadening
  effect when they are all massed and offered you in lieu of
  entertainment.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 63. Ja. 17, ’07. 450w.

  “Perhaps no book ever was written the illustrations to which more
  completely supplemented the shortcomings of the letter-press.” George
  R. Bishop.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 44. Ja. 26, ’07. 2580w.

  “If only Mr. Martin had ‘boiled down’ these four hundred and
  sixty-five closely printed pages, and set forth plainly his
  conclusions, it would have been better. As it is, we do not quite know
  what he means.”

     + − =Spec.= 95: 1130. D. 30, ’05. 240w.


=Martin, Sir Theodore.= Monographs: Garrick, Macready, Rachel and Baron
Stockmar. *$3.50. Dutton.

                                                                6–41036.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 46. F. ’07.

  “In less than a hundred pages this accomplished man of letters and
  wise commentator on things dramatic has produced a model brief
  biography [of Garrick].” S. M. Francis.

     + + =Atlan.= 100: 490. O. 19, ’07. 110w.

  “Each is interesting, the paper on Stockmar having many touches of
  intimacy.”

       + =Sat. R.= 102: 86. Jl. 21, ’06. 80w.


=Martin, William A. P.= Awakening of China, il. from photographs.
(Geographical lib.) **$3.80. Doubleday.

                                                                7–19477.

  Written as a result of close-range study this work represents China as
  “the theater of the most important events now taking place in the
  world.” It is an optimistic study, and the author “aims to explain
  those subterranean forces which seem to be raising the China of to-day
  from the bosom of the deep. Political agitation, whether periodic like
  the tides or unforeseen like the hurricane, is in general superficial
  and temporary, and the present reform movement in China, the author
  believes, has its root in forces more deep seated than such sporadic
  phenomena.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Optimistic in tone, philosophic in temper.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 196. N. ’07.

         =Ath.= 1907, 2: 439. O. 12. 700w.

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 98. Jl. 20, ’07. 690w.

  “‘Awakening of China’ maintains Dr. Martin’s reputation as a leading
  authority on Chinese affairs, and though some allowance must be made
  for the optimism of a writer whose deep sympathy and interest have
  induced him to spend the evening of his days among the people where
  his life work has been done, it is a valuable and interesting
  contribution to our knowledge.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 290. S. 27, ’07. 1200w.

         =Nation.= 85: 60. Jl. ’07. 580w.

  “Not many authors are so well qualified as Dr. Martin to write a great
  book on the movement now taking place in China.” K. K. Kawakami.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 440. Jl. 13. ’07. 1960w.

  “It is safe to say that no volume yet issued in this valuable series
  is of such immediate importance as Dr. Martin’s work. But it is
  rounded out by an index so hopelessly inadequate as to be a burden
  rather than a help to the student who would use the work for reference
  purposes.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 87: 266. O. 5, ’07. 1900w.

  “A well informed work, and describes, in a readable, though somewhat
  succinct manner, the process of transformation now going on in China.”
  G: Louis Beer.

       + =Putnam’s.= 2: 746. S. ’07. 30w.

  “Dr. Martin’s book is scarcely equal to the expectations which the
  reader naturally forms from its title and its general appearance.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: 743. N. 16, ’07. 1290w.


=Marx, Karl.= Capital: a critique of political economy. $2. Kerr.

                                                                6–43940.

  =v. 2.= This second volume devoted to the circulation of capital is
  edited by Frederick Engels and is translated from the second German
  edition by Ernest Untermann. Pt. 1, deals with The metamorphoses of
  capital and their cycles, pt. 2, with The turn-over of capital, and
  pt. 3, The reproduction and circulation of the aggregate social
  capital.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Reviewed by Ernest Untermann.

       + =Arena.= 38: 457. O. ’07. 3480w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “This edition is well made, and easy reading.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 151. Mr. 9, ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 1.)

         =Outlook.= 87: 537. N. 9, ’07. 230w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)


=Marx, Karl.= Revolution and counter-revolution; or, Germany in 1848.
50c. Kerr.

  Articles collected and brought forward from the years 1851–1852. They
  form an “invaluable pendant to Marx’s work on the coup d’état of
  Napoleon III.,” and give readers some idea of the conditions under
  which Marx was working and under which he prepared the papers as well
  as his “Achtzehnte brumaire” and “Zur kritik der politischen und
  oeconomie.”


=Marx, W. J.= For the admiral. †$1.50. Jacobs.

                                                                7–28959.

  A story for young people which turns back to France in the 16th
  century when Catholics and Huguenots were engaged in hostilities. The
  hero is a youth who enters upon the perilous undertaking of carrying
  an important packet to the Huguenot leader, Admiral de Coligny, and
  later joins him in a campaign filled with daring adventure.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is by much the best book of its kind sent us for review this
  season, and stands head and shoulders above its rivals.”

     + + =Acad.= 71: 607. D. 15, ’06. 140w.


=Marzials, Sir Frank Thomas.= Moliere. $1. Macmillan.

  Illustrated with reproductions of portraits and title-pages this
  little volume contains “a bibliographical criticism of the man of
  letters.” (N. Y. Times.) “The literary criticism is particularly good.
  The great dramatist’s genius has never been better appreciated.”
  (Spec.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a seemly little book.” Brander Matthews.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 792. D. 1, ’06. 990w.

  “Sir F. T. Marzials writes with unflagging spirit, and shows a sane
  and sober judgment.”

       + =Spec.= 97: 733. N. 10, ’06. 250w.


=Masefield, John=, ed. Sailor’s garland. $1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                7–12996.

  An anthology of sea poems. Miscellaneous poems, poems based upon
  historical fact, poems of mermaids and sea spirits, of pirates and
  smugglers and love poems are found here. The last thirty pages are
  devoted to a collection of sea chanties with a goodly bit of
  interesting folk-lore.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The exercise of a little judgment might have made it so much better.”

     + − =Acad.= 71: 642. D. 22, ’06. 490w.

  “The selection is good and wise, one we should like to see in the
  forecastle, as well as in the saloon of every British ship afloat.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 827. D. 29. 660w.

         =Ind.= 61: 883. O. 11, ’06. 30w.

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 44. F. 8, ’07. 1170w.

  “Containing a surprising amount of good seaverse.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 508. D. 13, ’06. 40w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 100. F. 16, ’07. 1170w. (Reprinted from
         Lond. Times.)

     + − =Spec.= 97: sup. 760. N. 17, ’06. 210w.


* =Mason, Alfred E. W.= Broken road. †$1.50. Scribner.

                                                                7–37552.

  An Indian prince educated at Eton and Oxford and a young Englishman
  continuing the work of opening the great road thru Chiltistan begun by
  his father, are the principal figures in this story which deals with
  the English rule over India.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a vigorous story, and a strong story—an earnest story also. The
  lights and shades are cleverly put in, and the narrative in Mr.
  Mason’s hands becomes a veritable fragment of Doom.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 682. N. 30. 270w.

  “The style suffers from a touch of the overemphatic, a slight
  suggestion of parade in its implication of significances, which the
  story does not go deep enough to warrant. But in spite of these
  shortcomings, the author succeeds in conveying to us his own regretful
  sense of life’s contrasts, ironies, and frustrations.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 357. N. 22, ’07. 450w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 50w.

  “His new book will rank with his ‘The four feathers’ as a capital
  piece of clear, direct, romantic narrative—intensely exciting, yet not
  unduly sensational.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 827. D. 14, ’07. 260w.


=Mason, Alfred E. W.= Running water. †$1.50. Century.

                                                                 7–7196.

  Whatever of deep sentiment, of resolution and also of villainy there
  is in the tale is magnetically associated with the ice fields of the
  Alps above Chamonix. There is an unrelated company of people upon the
  stage of the little drama, chief among whom is a brave-hearted girl
  who took her lesson of life from the Alpine guides—“If you have
  knowledge that can save a life—well you have got to use it, that’s the
  law.” Tired of her mother’s vain life, she hunts up her father, whom
  she has never seen, and tries to operate the law she had learned by
  saving a soul from the net which her dissolute father had drawn about
  it. The tale is one of her failures and successes.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Here it would seem that all the elements that go to make a novelist
  of the highest rank were present, and yet the novel itself belongs to
  the hopeless second grade of literature.”

     − + =Acad.= 72: 205. Mr. 2, ’07. 1640w.

  “The characters are more than ordinarily well-drawn, but the
  situations are painful, and, on the whole, the book leaves an
  unpleasant impression.”

     − + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 110. Ap. ’07.

  “It is a sheer melodrama on one side, but so treated as to appear a
  human document.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 349. Mr. 23. 270w.

  “A thoroughly readable story.” Grace Isabel Colbron.

       + =Bookm.= 25: 300. My. ’07. 750w.

  “Elements of human and natural interest combine to make a tale of
  singular fascination, over which the mountain glamour is cast with
  such compelling effect that it acts as a shaping influence upon the
  lives of all the persons chiefly concerned.” Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 42: 376. Je. 16, ’07. 460w.

         =Lit. D.= 34: 509. Mr. 30, ’07. 350w.

  “The book ends tamely, and leaves an impression of casual
  workmanship.”

       − =Lond. Times.= 6: 70. Mr. 1, ’07. 270w.

  “The story is told with great fluency—too much, in fact. Throughout it
  resembles the last act of those congenitally three-act plays to which
  a fourth is added, to lengthen the entertainment till supper-time.”

       − =Nation.= 84: 246. Mr. 14, ’07. 390w.

  “It is a pretty and pleasing tale notwithstanding the numerous
  extremely repulsive people who move through its pages.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 157. Mr. 16, ’07. 500w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 160w.

  “While he always interests his reader’s mind, does not always convince
  him as to the plausibility of the incidents.”

     + − =Outlook.= 85: 717. Mr. 23, ’07. 230w.

  “The author is really more concerned with telling his story than with
  portraying character and interpreting experience, but the very story
  he selects to tell proves how wide-spread, for the moment, is the grip
  of the ideal upon the mind of the novelist.” Cornelia Atwood Pratt.

     + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 185. My. ’07. 180w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 764. Je. ’07. 40w.

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 369. Mr. 23, ’07. 810w.

  “Happily named, but unequal, romance.”

     − + =Spec.= 98: 377. Mr. 9, ’07. 1320w.


=Mason, Daniel Gregory.= Romantic composers. **$1.75. Macmillan.

                                                                6–43759.

  Following an introductory chapter on Romanticism in music, there are
  studies of Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Berlioz and Liszt.
  “In his two previous volumes Mr. Mason has already dealt with
  Beethoven and his forerunners, and with the development of composition
  from Grieg to Brahms; in his present volume he fills the gap, and
  traces the wandering paths which led from one to the other of these
  frontier lines.” (Lond. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 70. Mr. ’07. S.

  “That Mr. Mason so singularly misapprehends the essential significance
  of modern music seems little short of lamentable, for it vitiates what
  would otherwise be an influential and important body of critical
  writing.” Lawrence Gilman.

     − + =Bookm.= 25: 77. Mr. ’07. 1460w.

  “To the study of the widely varying natures. Mr. Mason brings acute
  musical perception, a sure grasp of his thesis, and an intelligent
  sympathy which never weakens into partisanship.” Josiah Renick Smith.

       + =Dial.= 42: 224. Ap. ’07. 270w.

  “This series of essays, tho they would be both servicable and
  satisfactory to the professional musician, are quite intelligible to
  the average reader, and will find their best public among
  concert-goers who wish to get the most out of their concerts.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 497. F. 28, ’07. 330w.

  “His book is an excellent piece of work throughout; delicate and
  sensitive in criticism, clear and often felicitous in style, marked by
  wide knowledge and carefully considered judgment. Now and again his
  taste appears to us a little fastidious.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 14. Ja. 11, ’07. 650w.

     − + =Nation.= 83: 518. D. 13, ’06. 280w.

  “This book is written with more flexibility and interest of style than
  his earlier one on ‘Beethoven and his forerunners.’” Richard Aldrich.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 148. Mr. 9, ’07. 1030w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 114. Ja. ’07. 70w.


* =Mason, Edith Huntington.= Real Agatha. **$1. McClurg.

  The will which leaves a man’s millions to his step-daughter contains a
  clause intended to thwart fortune-hunting husbands. The Honorable
  Agatha must surround herself by “not less than five nor more than six”
  young women of her own age each of whom is to be known as the
  Honorable Agatha. The caprice of the real Agatha moves her to assume
  the rôle of private secretary to her chaperon, leaving the field to
  the six Agathas and the puzzled suitors. Of course the real romance
  concerns the secretary and a young lord who in the face of convention
  woos her.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Dial.= 43: 428. D. 16, ’07. 100w.


=Masse, Henri Jean L. J.= Oxford. (Langham series of art monographs.)
*$1. Scribner.

                                                                6–46316.

  A handy pocket volume of information which will interest the traveler.
  The picture accompaniment does full justice to the historic university
  town.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is as unreadable as a guide-book, and more like one than anything
  else, yet we imagine it would be an inefficient guide. For those who
  love dessicated information it may have its place, but its place is
  not in a series of art monographs.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 185. F. 21, ’07. 70w.

  “That peculiar rhetoric which guide books almost infallibly possess
  does not taint the language here. Considering the shortness of the
  book ... its amount of information is amazing. It does not seem
  possible that one single art treasure can have been omitted.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 91. F. 16, ’07. 390w.

  “In many ways it would be vastly superior to the ordinary guide-book.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 46. Ja. 6, ’07. 90w.


* =Masson, Thomas Lansing.= Bachelor’s baby, and some grown-ups.
**$1.60. Moffat.

                                                                7–29740.

  “Here are to be found short stories, dialogues, whimsical-serious
  essays, strings of modern apothegms, bits of verse, and what
  not.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Ind.= 63: 1007. O. 24, ’07. 40w.

  “To speak of the volume comprehensively is not easy, considering its
  hodge-podge make-up, nor are any of the component elements important
  enough in themselves to need particularization. Mr. Masson’s wit is
  facile, occasionally smart, often pungent, never very penetrating.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 240w.

  “There is always a touch of whimsicality in the treatment, whether the
  author is writing a treatise on the decadence of husbands or a
  pathetic short story. There is always also vivacity of style, a sense
  of humor, and much good-natured irony intertwined with warm human
  feeling.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 715. N. 9, ’07. 160w.


=Masson, Thomas L.=, comp. Humor of love: an anthology. **$2.50. Moffat.

                                                                6–45700.

  A two-volume anthology; one, a selection of humorous writings on love
  in verse, the other, a similar treatment in prose.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Two more delightful volumes could scarcely be conceived.”

     + + =Canadian M.= 28: 399. F. ’07. 220w.

  “Is done from a full knowledge of the lighter erotic literature in
  English with an excellent ‘flair’ for the things that are at once
  graceful and amusing.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 201. F. 28, ’07. 50w.

  Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 1. Ja. 5, ’07. 1110w.


=Masson, Thomas Lansing.= Von Blumers; il. by Bayard Jones. **$1.50.
Moffat.

                                                                6–41275.

  The Von Blumers are a young suburban couple whose efforts to
  accommodate “their prejudices and their tempers to one another” result
  in numerous capitulations of serio-comic aspect. “Mr. Masson’s novel
  fairly bubbles with humor of the quiet kind, but none the less
  effective because of its homeliness and truth to nature.” (Lit. D.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The characters are well drawn and there is much innocent
  entertainment in this thoroughly wholesome book.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 26. Ja. 6, ’07. 230w.

  “Tom Masson is in his best vein of humor in this story.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 873. D. 15, ’06. 130w.

  “A quietly humorous semi-story.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 895. D. 8, ’06. 40w.


Master-man. †$1.50. Lane.

                                                                6–28224.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Is a book that will win its way quietly. There is about it a
  persuasive and unmistakably feminine touch.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

       + =Bookm.= 24: 588. F. ’07. 440w.

  “This is a story that will interest some people and disgust others.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 100. Ja. 10, ’07. 320w.


=Masterman, Charles Frederick Gurney.= In peril of change: essays
written in time of tranquility. *$1.50. Huebsch.

                                                                 6–6975.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  Reviewed by Edward T. Devine.

         =Charities.= 17: 463. D. 15, ’06. 770w.


=Masterman, Charles F. G., Hodgson, W. B. and others.= To colonise
England: a plea for a policy. *$1. Wessels.

  The first portion of this volume consists of a series of sketches by
  Mr. Hodgson “graphically describing the loneliness of rural England;
  the waste of its fertile lands given up to rough pasture, wide hedges,
  and coppices carefully preserved for the sake of the game, while
  cottages fall in ruins, and small farms are swept out of existence....
  The second section by Mr. Masterman ... is occupied with details of
  schemes which offer a remedy for the creeping paralysis of English
  rural life.” (Nation.) The third part of the volume consists of
  contributions on the land question from thirteen Liberal members of
  Parliament, and part four gives a summary of official testimony issued
  by the Board of agriculture.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The second section by C. F. G. Masterman has a literary value that
  should give its author high rank among modern essayists. The third
  part ... is the least valuable and least interesting part of the
  book.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 262. S. 19, ’07. 1080w.

  “Worth reading but [it seems] to leave out of account not a few
  considerations which have to be reckoned with in attempting a solution
  of the question of the labourer and the land.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: sup: 463. O. 5, ’07. 340w.


=Matheson, George.= Representative men of the New Testament. **$1.50.
Armstrong.

                                                                5–26910.

  The author has taken the representative men just as they are presented
  and has attempted “without inquiring whence or how they come, to find
  the special thought which each reveals.” He discusses John, Nathaniel,
  Peter, Nicodemus, Thomas, Philip, Matthew, Zaccheus, James, Barnabas,
  Mark, Cornelius, Timothy and Paul.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Bib. World.= 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 40w.

  “Well adapted for private reading.”

       + =Ind.= 60: 223. Ja. 25, ’06. 60w.


* =Matheson, George.= Representative women of the Bible. *$1.50. West.
Meth. bk.

                                                                7–33919.

  A volume supplementary to the author’s three books on “Representative
  men of the Bible.” After completing ten of the studies the author died
  suddenly. The ten with the outline of the eleventh are: Eve the
  unfolded, Sarah the steadfast, Rebekah the far-seeing, Rachel the
  placid. Miriam the gifted, Deborah the drastic, Ruth the decided,
  Hannah the pious, Mary the guiding, Mary the thought-reading, and, in
  the appendix, Notes to the study of Mary Magdalene.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The religious spirit, the poetic genius, and the literary skill of
  Dr. Matheson are indisputable. The excessive idealizing into which
  such qualities are prone to run appears in his portrait of Rebekah.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 87: 790. D. 7, ’07. 130w.


=Mathew, Frank.= Ireland; painted by Francis Walker; described by Frank
Mathew. *$6. Macmillan.

                                                                5–35680.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

  “Mr. Mathew exhibits a very strong feeling for the picturesque and a
  very ardent desire to be exact, complete and impartial.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 1355. Je. 6, ’07. 140w.

  “Mr. Walker’s pictures are admirably reproduced. but their coloring
  gives no true impression of Ireland’s tender greens and browns and
  grays.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 411. My. 2, ’07. 130w.

       + =Outlook.= 86: 258. Je. 1, ’07. 40w.


=Mathews, Frances Aymar.= “Allee same.” †50c. Crowell.

                                                                7–22821.

  A slum worker in New York takes a Chinese child away from its parents
  and the latter to retaliate steal the American’s baby. Seventeen years
  of separation lead to a dramatic reunion of parents and children.


=Mathews, Frances Aymar.= Undefiled. †$1.50. Harper.

                                                                6–29094.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Judith’s story is abundantly supplied with exciting incident: this is
  about all that may possibly be said in its favor, for it is both
  unreal in characterization and preposterous in invention.” Wm. M.
  Payne.

       − =Dial.= 43: 65. Ag. 1, ’07. 380w.

  “Seems to aim at the popular suffrage by means of what we might call
  the megaphonic method.”

       − =R. of Rs.= 35: 124. Ja. ’07. 140w.


=Mathews, Shailer.= Church and the changing order. **$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                7–18117.

  Mr. Matthews believes that the church in its broad significance of
  institutional Christianity is facing a crisis, namely, the need that
  it define its attitude toward formative forces now at work. He looks
  to the church to correct these forces, to inspire them with its own
  ideals, to insure that the results shall bring about a better
  to-morrow. He discusses the church in its relation to scholarship, to
  the gospel of the risen Christ, to the gospel of brotherhood, to
  social discontent, to the social movement and to materialism.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Broad minded, yet conservative, and highly readable.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 169. O. ’07. S.

  “He has diagnosed the disorders of the modern world with a skill and
  range rare indeed.”

     + + =Bib. World.= 30: 80. Jl. ’07. 50w.

       + =Nation.= 85: 145. Ag. 15, ’07. 680w.

       + =Outlook.= 86: 765. Ag. 10, ’07. 470w.

  “Perhaps the most important chapters in the book are those which deal
  with the church and social discontent and the church and the social
  movement. These chapters are deserving of serious consideration by
  clergy and laity alike.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 127. Jl. ’07. 110w.


=Matthews, (James) Brander.= American character. **75c. Crowell.

                                                                6–17850.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “A beautifully written and beautifully printed essay.”

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 219. Ja. ’07. 30w.

       + =Putnam’s.= 1: 639. F. ’07. 130w.


* =Matthews, (James) Brander.= Inquiries and opinions. **$1.25.
Scribner.

                                                                7–29534.

  “The inquiries, which range from ‘Invention and imagination’ to ‘The
  art of the stage manager,’ and the opinions, which are expressed upon
  such various subjects as Mark Twain and Maupassant, are the inquiries
  and opinions of a writer who is shrewd, clear-headed, well-informed,
  ‘au courant,’ a craftsman.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “They are comparatively devoid of temperament, of the discursive
  touch, of charm; they afford us no unexpected lights or sudden vistas,
  but they furnish us many interesting facts and just observations set
  forth with singular lucidity and coherence.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 498. N. 28, ’07. 100w.

  “His essays are models of that interior logic which follows the line
  of vital unfolding of a subject, and his style is lucid to a degree.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 767. D. 7, ’07. 520w.


=Matthews, Irma B.= Under a circus tent. †75c. Jacobs.

                                                                7–29099.

  Instruction and entertainment are furnished in the stories or life
  before captivity which the animals of the circus menagerie tell to a
  little boy brought up among them.


=Mauclair, Camille.= Antoine Watteau. *75c. Dutton.

                                                                 W 7–64.

  “M. Mauclair sets out with a double aim; to show that Watteau by his
  discovery of the decomposition of tones was ‘the inventor of
  impressionism and the link that connects Ruysdael and Claude Lorrain
  with Turner, Monticelli and Claude Monet;’ and ‘that in reality
  Watteau was     no painter of gay and laughing scenes,’ but that
  underneath this decorative exterior lay a great soul that had ... been
  stricken by what has been called the “malady of the infinite.””—Acad.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Brief but stimulating monograph. The illustrations to the volume are
  well chosen, but the printing leaves much to be desired, subtleties of
  modelling and daintiness of brushwork alike being lost in vague
  blurs.”

       + =Acad.= 71: 667. D. 29, ’06. 330w.

  “Excellent little book for the price.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 100. Ap. ’07.

  “This biographer, like many another admirer, seems to have fallen a
  little under the spell of a painter peculiarly liable to hypnotize
  those who approach him.”

       − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 671. Je. 1. 480w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 36. Ja. 19. ’07. 400w.


=Maud, Constance Elizabeth.= Felicity in France. *$1.50. Scribner.

                                                                W 6–392.

  “This book is really a guide-book in disguise, being concerned with
  the travels of two ladies through Brittany and Touraine, and the
  shorter voyage of one of them in Provence.” (Spec.) “Felicity, the
  younger of the natives of England, undertakes to ‘chaperon’ an
  admirable lady, Aunt Anne, who, in spite of her threescore years and
  the fact that she has a granddaughter of 8 years of age, has neither
  white hair, nor a lace cap, nor spectacles. Being slight and active,
  yet she is athletic. She is ‘a curious compound of an abnormally
  intelligent and active boy of 16, and an exceedingly dignified,
  stately, and somewhat sarcastic little lady of 60.’” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The reader must turn for himself to these enchanting pages. If he
  does not feel the charm of Felicity’s progress through Mistral’s
  Provence, he is to be pitied.”

     + + =Acad.= 71: 10. Jl. 7, ’06. 710w.

  “Not remarkable as to style but lively and sympathetic, and gives
  enchanting glimpses of French life.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 100. Ap. ’07.

  “It is a pity that in spite of all the literary gifts this volume
  indicates, the author should write in such a slovenly style as she
  does. We feel sure that these bright sympathetic, clearly seen
  glimpses of French life deserve a little more care from their author
  in this presentment.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 71. Jl. 21. 170w.

       + =Nation.= 83: 414. N. 15, ’06. 280w.

  “The book represents a personally conducted tour of much charm—rich in
  the revelation of pleasing characteristics.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 770. N. 24, ’06. 360w.

  “The narrative style is constantly pleasing, and there are many choice
  bits in the way of ancient legends and modern peasant studies.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 581. N. 3, ’06. 90w.

  “Miss Maud writes with a light touch eminently suited to her subject.”

       + =Spec.= 97: 171. Ag. 4, ’06. 120w.


=Maugham, Reginald Charles Fulke.= Portuguese East Africa; history,
scenery, and great game of Manica and Sofala. *$4.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–10990.

  “Mr. Maugham has collected into book form the knowledge and
  experiences gained during an official connexion with the country which
  has lasted for some twelve years.... The earlier chapters dealing with
  the history, scenery, flora and fauna are followed by others on the
  great game and on personal adventures in pursuit. These in turn are
  succeeded by what will be to many the most interesting portion of all,
  some sixty pages devoted to native customs, characteristics, and
  dialects.”—Lond. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Should be interesting to naturalists at home as well as to travellers
  in search of game.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 579. N. 10. 410w.

  “As Mr. Maugham has more than ordinary skill in narration and
  description, his book will interest the casual as well as the
  confirmed reader of records of travel.” H. E. Coblentz.

       + =Dial.= 42: 373. Je. 16, ’07. 320w.

  “In the earlier part he seems to be rather too general, and not always
  quite accurate, in his descriptions; he leaves us with the sort of
  feeling that we might be reading of many other portions of tropical
  Africa just as well as of the strip which lies along the east coast
  immediately south of Zambesi.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 385. D. 16, ’06. 550w.

  “Mr. Maugham makes a valuable contribution in this book to the not
  very easily obtainable existing stock of knowledge about Portuguese
  East Africa.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 860. Ap. 13, ’07. 80w.


=Maurin, M. J.= Pauline Marie Jaricot, foundress of the order for the
propagation of the faith and the living rosary; tr. from the French by
E. Sheppard. *$1.35. Benziger.

  “A biography based on that of Mlle. Maurin, a friend of Mlle. Jaricot
  in her later years.... The life of one of those women who recall, in a
  less conspicuous way, St. Catherine of Siena.... The daughter of a
  wealthy bourgeois of Lyons, she was just one of those ladies who,
  devoting themselves at an early age to religion, spend their lives in
  the quiet practice of good works.... She died in obscurity, and to
  most people this biography will be the first revelation that she ever
  existed.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The style of the book, we may add, is for the most part plain and
  simple, without dryness, as religious biography should be, and the
  English rendering is idiomatic and good.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 180. Ag. 13. 1600w.

  “[The author’s] devoted zeal for the honor of his pious heroine
  manifests itself in the frankness and enthusiasm which enhance the
  intrinsic interest possessed by the story of this remarkable life.”

       + =Cath. World.= 84: 419. D. ’06. 450w.


=Maxey, Edwin.= International law; with illustrative cases. *$6. Thomas
law bk.

                                                                6–11647.

  A volume which “embodies the results of Professor Maxey’s many years’
  experience as a teacher.... In treatment the emphasis is thrown upon
  peace and neutrality rather than upon war. The questions arising out
  of the recent Russo-Japanese war are discussed freely and impartially.
  There is also a very complete chapter on contraband.”—R. of Rs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “On the whole, the work is inaccurate and ill-digested.”

       − =Nation.= 84: 154. F. 14, ’07. 210w.

  “The analysis and the style are clear and concise.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 34: 126. Jl. ’06. 160w.


=Maxse, Frederick I.= Seymour Vandeleur. *$4. Longmans.

                                                               War 7–22.

  Brevet-Lt.-Col. Vandeleur, soldierly and daring as he was, is engulfed
  in the events which surrounded him and the problems which he faced.
  “The record of his life is therefore the record of our Imperial
  development during the past decade.” (Spec.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “If in his admirable chapters on Uganda and Nigeria he leads us a long
  way from his hero, we are contented by the excellence of his
  narrative, and his easy presentation of facts which, in a less skilful
  hand, might easily be tedious; he becomes on more general subjects,
  such as education, so discursive as to call attention to the
  disadvantages of the method he has adopted. This, however, is a slight
  defect in a delightful book.”

   + + − =Acad.= 69: 12. Ja. 6, ’06. 610w.

  “A book which combines literary merit with all the special historical
  value arising from the important share which the author himself took
  in many of the campaigns which he passes in review.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 448. D. 15, ’05. 620w.

  “Col. Maxse presents with animus, vigor, and ability, the whole case
  against the people called ‘Little Englanders,’ and in particular shows
  what dry rot has done for the British army between Waterloo and the
  beginning of the Boer war.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 889. D. 22, ’06. 1420w.

  “We do not know any other book which sets out so succinctly and
  clearly Imperial achievements which are wholly creditable, and which
  are too apt to be forgotten in the present windy war of theories. And
  in addition there is the portrait of the brilliant soldier, done with
  all the sympathy and knowledge of long friendship.”

     + + =Spec.= 96: 59. Ja. 13, ’06. 1390w.


=Maxwell, Donald.= Cruise across Europe: notes on a freshwater voyage
from Holland to the Black sea. *$3. Lane.

                                                                7–19483.

  “A light, humorous chronicle of a freshwater voyage in a small boat,
  from Holland to the Black sea, by way of Ludwig’s canal, a waterway
  begun by Charlemagne which unites the basins of the Rhine and Danube,
  but is seldom used and little known.”—Acad.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author writes entertainingly of the people he met, the country he
  passed through, and the incidents of his voyage; and Mr. Collington
  Taylor’s illustrations are delightful.”

       + =Acad.= 71: 642. D. 22, ’06. 120w.

  “He writes brightly and naturally, and makes little attempt to be
  laboriously funny—no small merit nowadays.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 546. N. 3. 170w.

  “The entire voyage ... is well narrated, and still better illustrated
  by the author himself and another artist.”

     + − =Dial.= 41: 453. D. 16, ’06. 220w.

  “The book is a notable one, proving, for the first time, the
  possibility of sailing from the west to the east of Europe by a fresh
  water route.”

       + =Int. Studio.= 31: 334. Je. ’07. 240w.

       + =Spec.= 93: 146. Ja. 26, ’07. 390w.


=Maxwell, Gerald.= Miracle worker. $1.50. Luce.

                                                                7–15322.

  The scene of this story is laid in and about Leipzig. A young Afghan
  doctor combines the hypnotic power which is his oriental heritage with
  wizard skill in surgery to produce a most remarkable change of
  identity. By drugs he keeps alive a German countess, dying of burns,
  until the day of the execution of a girl who is the exact counterpart
  of the countess. By skilful manoeuvering he effects a substitution,
  having prepared the countess’ body by means of drugs so that the
  tissues would not pass into the death rigour for a prolonged time. He
  transfers the memory section of the brain from the dead countess to
  the girl whose life he has saved, restores her to health and to the
  count who believes only that a restoration was effected by a
  skin-grafting operation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The story exhibits considerable constructive ingenuity, but is spun
  out too much, while the motive of several reprehensible transactions
  seems inadequate.”

     − + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 509. O. 27. 120w.

  “It is ingenious and up to a certain point interesting, but credulity
  and sensibility finally rebel.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 362. Ap. 18, ’07. 260w.

  “In the articles of novelty, audacity, and ingenuity of plot this
  story ... so far surpasses the average of the fiction which strains
  after these things, that it needs only certain refinements of the
  story teller’s art and condensation, by a half—or even a third—to be
  more than a mere thriller and time-killer. There are skilful minor
  touches once in a while, and suggestions of humor even. And the
  elements of the gruesome and horrible are played for all they are
  worth.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 219. Ap. 6, ’07. 500w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 657. O. 19, ’07. 30w.


=Maxwell, Sir Herbert Eustace.= Memories of the months. $2.50. Longmans.

  In which the year’s happenings are recorded month by month. “Readers
  will be able to share with the author of the memories his ‘delight in
  the open field, the woodland, and the riverside,’ and if they prove
  willing disciples they may in time experience the joy of original
  observation for themselves—at least they will learn to study and
  appreciate the boundless beauties of nature.” (Nature.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The overriding of a harmless hobby is apt to become wearisome. The
  illustrations are charming, and are uncommonly well reproduced: whilst
  errors of print are few and not of great consequence.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 46. Jl. 13. 160w.

  “In such a volume one desires perpetually to pencil notes on the
  margin, an inclination that generally implies three qualities in the
  work; it is pleasant, suggestive and incomplete.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 204. Je. 28, ’07. 540w.

  “The ability to combine literary grace with scientific accuracy, and
  the power to interest, and at the same time to impart useful
  information, is unfortunately rare, and we are grateful to Sir Herbert
  Maxwell for placing his gifts at the disposal of a large audience by
  means of these pages.”

       + =Nature.= 76: 7. My. 2, ’07. 120w.

  “Another volume, of delightful rambling along nature lanes, here,
  there, everywhere.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 70w.

  “Literary excellence and scientific accuracy, two qualities which
  often do not accompany each other, combine to increase the value of
  these notes.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 1011. Je. 29, ’07. 460w.


=Maxwell, William Babington.= Guarded flame. †$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                6–27707.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The impressiveness with which its ethical teaching is enforced is the
  justification for much that seems at the time intolerable in the
  presentation.” Wm. M. Payne.

     + − =Dial.= 42: 14. Ja. 1 ’07. 560w.

  “There is far too much scientific terminology and a rather incredible
  amount of human perfection, but there is also intellectual breadth and
  maturity, finely expressed intensity, high moral sensibility.”

     + − =R. of Rs.= 35: 123. Ja. ’07. 230w.


=Maynadier, Gustavus Howard.= Arthur of the English poets. *$1.50.
Houghton.

                                                                7–15547.

  “The purpose of Mr. Maynadier’s book is to trace Arthurian legends to
  their sources, to tell more fully of their origin and growth, and to
  keep more closely to English countries than MacCallum had done. The
  new book has grown from a course of lectures delivered at Harvard
  university and Radcliffe college in 1900.... The author examines the
  sources of Arthur’s immense literary fame and sets forth the divergent
  views of various contemporary scholars. Separate chapters deal with
  Lancelot, Tristram, and Iseub and the Holy Grail.”—Lit. D.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “For literary students—as distinct from specialists—who wish to gain a
  good general view of the rise and flourishing of the legend the book
  will be most useful. The writer is evidently ignorant of the valuable
  assistance rendered by the Welsh hagiology in estimating the various
  elements which went to the formation of the wonderful story of the
  Graal.”

     + − =Acad.= 73: 182. N. 30, ’07. 3200w.

  “Dr. Maynadier’s treatment of his subject is most scholarly and
  sympathetic, and nowhere is it more so than in his discussion of
  Tennyson’s presentation in modern form of this old world legend.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 20. Jl. 1, ’07. 270w.

  “Despite some few errors, is the best popular account in the language
  of the growth and vicissitudes of the Arthurian legend, particularly
  with reference to its earlier development.”

   + + − =Ind.= 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 40w.

  “It is in general a work of original research, and is a contribution
  of value to one of the most interesting departments of English
  literature.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 26. Jl. 6, ’07. 220w.

  “The book, taken as a whole, is one of decided value. It is very
  agreeably written, and has a basis of accurate scholarship.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 584. Je. 27, ’07. 1080w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 2: 426. Jl. 6, ’07. 200w.

  “Is the most complete treatment of the origin, development, and
  history of the Arthurian legends in English poetry that we have.”

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 834. Ag. 17, ’07. 280w.

  “It is not a work of original scholarship, nor of genius living in its
  princely fashion upon other men’s scholarship, but something between,
  and in its kind admirable. Once or twice we have been surprised by the
  gaps in Mr. Maynadier’s knowledge ... and by his excessive respect for
  Tennyson and his misunderstanding of Morris.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 104: 364. S. 21, ’07. 1630w.

  “The work was well worth doing and the author has done it well. No
  teacher of English can afford to miss reading this delightful book. It
  is most scholarly in tone and treatment, and sympathetic in a just
  appreciation.” H. E. Coblentz.

     + + =School R.= 15: 768. D. ’07. 450w.


=Mayor, Rev. Joseph Bickersteth.= Epistle of St. Jude and the Second
epistle of St. Peter; Greek text, with introd., notes and comments.
*$4.50. Macmillan.

  “Professor Mayor’s commentary presents the Greek text of these
  epistles, abundantly annotated, together with an extended
  introduction. The propriety of treating these two epistles together is
  obvious in view of their close literary relationship. Professor Mayor
  discusses fully the relationship of II Peter to I Peter, concluding,
  with most scholars, that they are from different hands.”—Bib. World.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Bib. World.= 29: 480 Je. ’07. 50w.

  “His notes here are marked by sound learning and accurate
  scholarship.”

     + + =Nation.= 34: 525. Je. 6, ’07. 450w.


=Mazzotto, Domenico.= Wireless telegraphy and telephony; tr. from the
original Italian, by S. R. Bottone. *$2. Macmillan.

                                                                6–16742.

  “Prof. Mazzotto, a countryman of the inventor Marconi takes up the
  subject of what is now called radiotelegraphy, and discusses it
  historically and technically ... and places at the service of both
  scientific and ordinary readers in clear language all that is known on
  the subject up to the present.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Some of the descriptions remain obscured by somewhat longwinded—and
  therefore involved—sentences. This defect possibly results from
  translation.”

       − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 50. Ja. 12. 630w.

  “Mr. Bottone’s translation is clear and well done.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 403. Je. 16, ’06. 180w.


=Meade, Richard Kidder.= Portland cement; its composition, raw
materials, manufacture, testing and analysis. *$3.50. Chemical.

                                                                6–32139.

  “A book ... which fairly represents to date the American Portland
  cement industry, as seen from the standpoint of the technical
  staff.... While the chapters on ‘Proportioning raw material’ and on
  ‘Analytical methods’ are naturally the strongest in the book ... yet
  Mr. Meade deals with machinery and processes of manufacture extremely
  well.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Meade is to be congratulated on a really notable effort.
  Undoubtedly the book will be well received by the many people
  interested in cements, and will occupy a place in cement literature
  which every body has known was vacant and which should be filled by
  some one competent for the task.” Frederick H. Lewis.

     + + =Engin. N.= 57: 87. Ja. 17, ’07. 720w.

     + + =Nature.= 76: 123. Je. 6, ’07. 610w.


=Meakin, Annette M. B.= Russia, travels and studies. *$4. Lippincott.

                                                                W 6–316.

  “Starting with Rousseau’s view that Naples should be visited in summer
  and St. Petersburg in winter, Mrs. Meakin makes the Russian capital
  the starting-point for a literary, if not literal, journey all over
  the European dominions of the Czar, closing with Kieff and the
  Caucasus. She gives a great deal of information—historical,
  topographical, sociological—which is of considerable interest and
  value.”—Spec.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Contains much more definite information on a wider range of subjects,
  than the usual personal narratives of travel.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 212. N. ’06.

  “This book is a valuable contribution to the too small list of good
  books on Russia, because it contains so many first hand observations,
  put in such a clear and attractive form.” Samuel N. Harper.

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 661. My. ’07. 630w.

  “The slips and little errors in the earlier pages are, though
  unimportant so numerous that we began to suspect the qualifications of
  the writer for the task undertaken. But we gladly admit that in
  reading on we found reason to change our view.”

     + − =Ath.= 1905, 2: 891. D. 30. 980w.

  “They are somewhat desultory and discursive, but they contain nothing
  uninteresting, and they cover fields ordinarily left untouched even in
  a country so voluminously written of as Russia.” Wallace Rice.

       + =Dial.= 41: 393. D. 1, ’06. 150w.

  “This volume is an interesting and enlightening narrative of Russia’s
  many-sided life, by a woman whose investigations have been thorough
  and discerning.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 33: 914. D. 15, ’06. 110w.

  “The thing that strikes the reader of Miss Meakin’s ‘Russia’ is a
  certain inconsequence of matter and style. We know of no popular book
  in English that deals so fully with the treasures of the Russian
  monasteries and museums, both public and private. There is a
  regrettable weakness in the matter of the names of the Russian
  governments.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 151. F. 14, ’07. 450w.

  “Every chapter is solid without sacrifice of entertainment. The author
  rather skillfully avoids the hackneyed.” Cyrus C. Adams.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 846. D. 8, ’06. 410w.

  “We look in vain for a glossary to explain the interesting text in
  this well printed, illustrated, and mapped book, brimful of
  little-known facts about Russian towns.”

     + − =Outlook.= 85: 522. Mr. 2, ’07. 280w.

       + =Sat. R.= 101: 525. Ap. 28, ’06. 1500w.

  “The chief charm of this book is that one can take it up at any time
  and find something, if not positively new, at once informing and
  non-controversial.”

       + =Spec.= 97: sup. 470. O. 6, ’06. 390w.


=Meakin, (James Edward) Budgett.= Life in Morocco and glimpses beyond.
*$3. Dutton.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

       + =Outlook.= 84: 679. N. 17, ’06. 300w.


=Meakin, Walter.= Life of an empire. *$1.80. Wessels.

                                                                7–38582.

  A work whose aim is “to give clear and definite expression to some of
  the problems which confront the British Empire.... [The author] first
  traces the growth briefly, with compact and vivid narrative, of the
  empire from the time of the Romans to the present, presents the
  salient features of its different parts, discusses the problems and
  the tendencies of each locality, and in the final chapter considers
  the necessity of the unity of the empire and how it can be attained.”
  (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Meakin ... displays sound principle and good feeling generally
  expressed in commonplaces. On many of the grave questions of which he
  writes at length Mr. Meakin has failed to clear his mind. We find also
  a good many trifling errors which seem to show some deficiency in the
  equipment of our author.”

   + − − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 164. F. 9. 630w.

  “His discussion of the color problem in the different localities of
  the empire has interest and some practical value for Americans. But
  when he finds the cause of race hatred in the southern United States
  to be in the struggle for existence the American reader will begin to
  feel some doubt as to the keenness of his observation.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 551. S. 14, ’07. 420w.

  “His book is as flimsy as it is pretentious. His ideas are
  cosmopolitan, his economics are childish, and his ways of expressing
  himself would not redound to the credit of a schoolboy essayist.”

       − =Sat. R.= 103: 210. F. 16, ’07. 190w.


=Meany, Edmond Stephen.= Vancouver’s discovery of Puget Sound: portraits
and biographies of the men honored in the naming of geographic features
of northwestern America. **$2.50. Macmillan.

                                                                7–14804.

  The volume deals with the broad general subject of western Canadian
  discovery, and is based principally upon the second edition of the
  journal of Captain Vancouver, published in London in 1801. Many
  interesting portraits supplement the text, and there are biographies
  of a number of men whose names now appear conspicuously upon the map
  of the North American continent.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In the main the work is trustworthy. If the portion of Vancouver’s
  ‘voyage’ had been faithfully reproduced it would require no comment in
  this review. But there are numerous errors in copying (changes,
  omissions, and insertions) which should have been corrected in
  proof-reading.” William R. Manning.

     + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 160. O. ’07. 520w.

  “It is disappointing to find so much genuine scholarship expended to,
  comparatively speaking, so little purpose.” Lawrence J. Burpee.

     + − =Dial.= 43: 60. Ag. 1, ’07. 800w.

  “It would be difficult to exaggerate the interest and charm of these
  vivid pages, written, as they were, under the spell and inspiration of
  a new world.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 34: 886. Je. 1, ’07. 390w.

  “This is a valuable contribution to the early history of Puget sound
  region of the State of Washington.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 147. Ag. 15, ’07. 960w.

  “A volume which adds materially to the early history of this
  continent.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 180w.

  “A distinctly original and helpful historical monograph, valuable not
  only for the information it affords concerning Vancouver’s voyage
  itself and the significance of the names applied to prominent
  geographical features of the Oregon country, but for the light it
  throws on the operations of Spain in that region and negotiations
  which ended in the relinquishment to England of the Spanish
  territorial claims.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 250w.

  “A noteworthy addition to the subject of Americana in its largest
  sense.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 35: 637. My. ’07. 110w.

  “This volume is of definite historical importance in the literature of
  geographical biography, and a handsome tribute to the memory of a
  great Englishman.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 205. Ag. 10, ’07. 440w.


=Mears, Mary M.= Breath of the runners; a novel. †$1.50. Stokes.

                                                                6–37599.

  One of the runners is a large-souled, unselfish girl, the other a
  jealous, narrow-minded, self-constituted rival. Beulah Marcel’s art
  career from the lowly rounds of a cameo-cutter’s apprentice to the
  point of distinction as a sculptor is unselfishly subordinated to that
  of Enid Rahfield spares no effort, good or evil, to win much-coveted
  fame. The scene shifts from New York to Paris, and at every pause of
  the runners, the love interest creeps in, and with it,
  misunderstandings which are fully accounted for at the mention of
  “artistic temperament.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 17. Ja. ’07.

  “There is much knowledge of the art world, much keen insight into the
  hearts of men and women, and no small amount of healthful philosophy
  of life in this unpretentious story.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

       + =Bookm.= 24: 488. Ja. ’07. 310w.

         =Ind.= 62: 621. Mr. 14, ’07. 460w.

     + − =Nation.= 83: 417. N. 15, ’06. 560w.

  “There is something in the youth and freshness, the first poetic
  outlook upon dawning life, never to be seized a second time, but which
  permeates ‘The breath of the runners.’” Louise Collier Willcox.

       + =No. Am.= 183: 1058, N. 16, ’06. 1460w.

  “The characters are unusual and significant, and they are alive. The
  writer has much to learn in the matter of construction.”

     + − =Outlook.= 84: 708. N. 24, ’06. 200w.


=Meline, Jules.= Return to the land. *$1.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–19755.

  Senator Jules Méline, sometime minister of agriculture, President of
  the representative chamber of France, and Prime Minister, has here
  given minute and careful instruction on manufacturing and industrial
  questions in a most interesting manner. “The great object of the
  book,” says Justin McCarthy in his preface “is to convince the world
  that the return to the land, and the work that the land still offers
  in all or most countries, is now the nearest and the surest means for
  the mitigation or the removal of the troubles which have come on the
  working populations everywhere, and that the present is the
  appropriate time for the beginning of such a movement.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “M. Méline ... is a statesman of the highest rank, who approaches the
  question in a manner that is at once widely philosophic and highly
  practical.”

       + =Acad.= 71: 326. O. 6, ’06. 690w.

  “He is a clear thinker, and presents his arguments in an attractive as
  well as convincing form. He has graced his pages with artistic, at
  times almost poetic language, and from cover to cover the book is sure
  to interest the reader. To many of his conclusions few would give
  assent. The remedies he proposes are foreign to all our habits of
  thought. This does not render the argument any the less interesting
  and thought-provoking.”

     + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 642. My. ’07. 250w.

  “It is not likely that we shall learn much that can bear on the land
  problems of Great Britain from the leading French Protectionist.”

       − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 405. O. 6. 280w.

  “Its thorough, though general, and suggestive treatment, promises
  interesting reading for Americans.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 238: Ap. 13. ’07. 200w.

  “Senator Meline discusses most interestingly an interesting thesis,
  with blemishes in detail which are apart from the merits of the idea.”
  Edward A. Bradford.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 331. My. 25, ’07. 1270w.

  “It is, in fact, in his recommendations, and in his review of the
  present state of French agriculture, that his work is most valuable,
  for here, by reason of long experience and thorough study, he is
  master of his subject.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 474. Je. 29, ’07. 380w.

  “We have much to learn from France, and M. Méline by constantly
  drawing examples from England makes his book as instructive reading
  for Englishmen as for his own countrymen.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 102: 809. D. 29, ’06. 310w.

       − =Spec.= 37: 933. D. S, ’06. 250w.


* =Melville, Lewis, pseud.= Farmer George: a study of the life and
character of George III. 2v. **$7.50. Brentano’s.

  “George III.’s home and court life, his relations with his ministers
  and other prominent persons of his reign are presented. Fully
  described, too, is the king’s trouble with Wilkes, as well as the
  attitude of his court and subjects toward the American colonies, from
  the Stamp act down to the acknowledgment of the United States of
  America.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In their unambitious style Mr. Melville’s pages are readable enough.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 653. N. 23. 290w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 60w.

  “The book may be popular, and, as it is better that people should know
  something about George III. than nothing, it will serve a purpose in
  the libraries.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 104: 612, N. 16, ’07. 570w.


=Mendelssohn, Felix.= Thirty piano compositions; ed. by Percy
Goetschius, with a preface by Daniel Gregory Mason. $2.50; pa. $1.50.
Ditson.

                                                                 7–5083.

  Uniform with the “Musician’s library.” The volume includes eight
  “Songs without words,” the Sonata in E major, the Rondo capriccioso,
  besides various preludes, fugues, studies, etc.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 100. Ap. ’07.

       + =Dial.= 42: 190. Mr. 16, ’07. 90w.

       + =Nation.= 84: 207. F. 28, ’07. 430w.


=Menpes, Mortimer.= Paris; painted by Mortimer Menpes; text by Dorothy
Menpes. 24 full-page il. in color and line drawings. *$2. Macmillan.

                                                                W 7–110.

  Here the reader finds less of the art galleries, churches, and museums
  than of the “life of Paris, and above all, the joy of the life of
  Paris.... The streets and boulevards, the cafés and restaurants, the
  various forms of amusement, the poverty and the picturesqueness of the
  shiftless and generous students of the Latin Quartier, and many other
  phases of Parisian existence, are rendered in all their lights and
  shades with astonishing accuracy.” (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a great accomplishment to have caught as much of it all within
  the pages of one book as the Menpes have done.” May Estelle Cook.

       + =Dial.= 43: 120. S. 1, ’07. 390w.

  “The ‘Paris’ of Mortimer and Dorothy Menpes may not have much of that
  practical quality of serviceableness which we look for in a guide, but
  it has a brilliant impersonal style and will supplement in a very
  pleasant fashion a work more purely utilitarian. The illustrations in
  color, as well as those in line, are smooth and harmonious. The former
  are not glaring, but faithful and delicate, with subtle gradations of
  tone that are very striking.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 1356. Je. 6, ’07. 230w.

  “She writes in a somewhat abrupt style; her series of pictures of
  Paris life have been jotted down in short, terse sentences, which
  somehow fail to match the grace and humour that float everywhere in
  the golden, hazy atmosphere of that city. But her book, with its vivid
  descriptions, is a pleasant contribution.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 541. Je. 13, ’07. 350w.

  “Miss Menpes takes up various manifestations of Parisian ways of
  thinking, acting, and living, and manages to invest her subject,
  hackneyed though it is, with a great deal of freshness and charm. The
  two dozen full-page illustrations in color, devoted to street scenes
  and famous buildings, are not equal to the former publications of Mr.
  Menpes’s work.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 451. Jl. 20, ’07. 160w.


=Meredith, Ellis.= Under the harrow. †$1.50. Little.

                                                                7–12976.

  All about three brave hearted girls’ struggles for success on Grub
  street in the city of New York. There is a touch of pathos in the
  penury that fills the life of these “attic geniuses;” their little
  successes, more often reverses, their simple romances, above all their
  naturalness and love of life are well worth following thru the pages
  of the story.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Amusing here and there, but unimportant as a whole.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 1269. My. 30, ’07. 60w.

  “The older generations of readers, who remember Murger’s ‘Scènes de la
  vie de Bohème’ and Du Maurier’s ‘Trilby,’ will find Mr. Meredith’s
  little story of Bohemian life in New York insipid and futile but it
  will not be without interest and encouragement for the younger
  generation.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 363. Ap. 18, ’07. 230w.

  “The story has its good points, but produces an uncomfortable
  impression at times from the effort of the author to incorporate in it
  like patchwork all the smart things possible to collect. Many of the
  patches are incongruous.”

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 118. My. 18, ’07. 90w.


=Meredith, Owen, pseud. (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton).= Personal and
literary letters of Robert, first earl of Lytton, (Owen Meredith); ed.
by Lady Betty Balfour. 2v. *$6. Longmans.

                                                                7–26424.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The present winter season has produced at least an average crop of
  biographical works, but none of them, so far as we have seen, can
  surpass this one for attractiveness and interest.”

   + + + =Blackwood’s M.= 181: 36. Ja. ’07. 5910w.

  “It is a far more touching and interesting record than the biography
  of many a greater man.” Charles H. A. Wager.

     + + =Dial.= 12: 182. Mr. 16, ’07. 2320w.

         =Ind.= 63: 697. S. 19, ’07. 290w.

  “Considering her object—a picture of the man rather than of his
  times—Lady Betty Balfour must be congratulated on a model
  achievement.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 88. Ja. 10, 07. 1060w.

  “A very interesting book this, and a very interesting man Lord Lytton,
  and one who, notwithstanding his distinction as a diplomat, earns our
  sympathy because of his ungratified ambition in other directions.”
  Jeannette B. Gilder.

     + + =Putnam’s.= 1: 504. Ja. ’07. 1300w.


=Merejkowski, Dmitri.= Peter and Alexis; tr. by Mr. Herbert Trench.
$1.50. Putnam.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “In this last volume of the trilogy the faults of the author’s style
  become intolerably exaggerated. A lack of symmetry, subordination and
  clarity seems to be a general fault with Russian literature and
  doubtless also of their life, for a like confusion and aimlessness
  appear to characterize their politics.” Edwin E. Slosson.

       − =Ind.= 61: 1148. N. 15, ’06. 910w.


=Merrill, George Perkins.= Treatise on rocks, rock-weathering and soils;
new ed. rev. throughout. *$4. Macmillan.

                                                                6–46275.

  “There has been very little attempt to harmonize conflicting views,
  and almost none at independent interpretation. The pages devoted to
  rocks and to soils reflect current views rather than suggest new ones.
  The chapters devoted to rock-weathering are the best in the book, and
  constitute in the aggregate our most authoritative treatise on this
  subject.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is especially useful to readers who desire a knowledge of
  the general facts and principles involved in the study of rocks and
  their change into soils.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 149. Mr. 1, ’07. 180w.

  “Combines a large amount of matter of a purely categorical and
  descriptive scientific character with an almost equally large amount
  of matter of interest and value to any wide-awake person wishing to
  know about the earth on which he lives.”

     + + =Engin. N.= 57: 309. Mr. 14, ’07. 470w.

  “Having used it for years, the present reviewer has yet to find it
  fail him in his classroom needs.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 19. Jl. 4, ’07. 440w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 5. Ja. 5, ’07. 250w.


=Merriman, Mansfield.= Elements of sanitary engineering. 3d ed. *$2.
Wiley.

                                                                 7–6418.

  A new edition of a book published in 1898. “Few changes of importance
  have been made in the first 180 pages of the present edition.... The
  two chapters on ‘Disposal of sewage’ and ‘Refuse and garbage’ have
  been rewritten and extended to cover some of the advances of the past
  eight years, and an appendix has been added which contains matter on
  water supply and purification supplementary to that in the first
  edition.” (Engin. N.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Not only a creditable production but practically the only one
  covering just its field.”

     + − =Engin. N.= 56: 640. D. 13. ’06. 530w.


=Merriman, Mansfield, and Jacoby, Henry Sylvester.= Text-book on roofs
and bridges, pt. 4, Higher structures. 3d ed., rev. and enl. $2.50.
Wiley.

                                                                 7–6418.

  “Not a treatise, but only a text-book, and only an elementary
  text-book. The authors nowhere pretend to thoroughness in treatment.
  They discuss only the principal types of ‘higher structures:’ the
  continuous girder, the drawbridge, the suspension bridge, and the
  metal arch (the inclusion of the cantilever bridge and three-hinged
  arch, which are statically determinate, seems somewhat
  inappropriate.)”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book has many excellences, both in plan and detail. A few minor
  faults also remain.”

   + + − =Engin. N.= 57: 442. Ap. 18. ’07. 490w.

  “Despite its brevity and limitations, the work on higher structures by
  Merriman and Jacoby is the best general work in America to-day.
  Indeed, there is no other one book of the same size that gives so
  general a treatment. The volume is worthy of the attention of every
  student and designing engineer. It indicates the trend of modern
  analysis.” C. Derleth, jr.

   + + − =Technical Literature.= 1: 268. Je. ’07. 1660w.


* =Merritt, Albert Newton.= Federal regulation of railway rates. **$1.
Houghton.

                                                                7–37945.

  This discussion was awarded first prize in the 1906 Hart, Schaffner
  and Marx prize essays in economics. The phases of the subject
  presented are the following: Are American railway rates excessive?
  Federal control of rates is necessary. Objections to rate-fixing by a
  commission, The interstate commerce act and its interpretation by the
  commission and by the courts, and A rational plan for public control
  of rates.


=Merwin, Samuel and Webster, Henry K.= Comrade John. †$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                7–33593.

  The subtle satire upon our modern tendency to embrace newly coined
  religions which underlies this story will not mar the tale for mere
  lovers of romance but will make it for those who see the humor in
  today’s sects and religious colonies. One Herman Stein has invented a
  religion of “toil and triumph” and associates with him in the creation
  of a fitting setting for his community a young architect with a
  showman’s instinct. To this combined Mecca and Luna Park comes the one
  woman. The two men contend for her favor and the one by sacrificing
  all to save her gains her love.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 40w.

  “Altogether the book, while it cannot be very strongly praised as a
  novel of character and motive, has the story-interest strongly
  developed and well maintained.”

     + − =Outlook.= 87: 624. N. 23, ’07. 270w.


=Metchnikoff, Elie.= Immunity in infective diseases; tr. from the French
by Francis G. Binnie. *$5.25. Macmillan.

                                                                5–41797.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 332. Mr. ’07. 990w.


=Meyer, Balthasar H.= History of the Northern securities case. pa. 60c.
Univ. of Wis.

                                                                6–37905.

  “The ten chapters in eighty-two pages give a clear, concise, and
  readable history of the litigation [in the Northern securities case],
  including the genesis of the idea of a holding company and the causes
  of organization, the action of the state authorities and the federal
  government, with an analysis of the decisions in the main case, and in
  the ancillary litigation over the liquidation of the company. The
  appendix gives a number of the briefs or documents of the litigation
  in a form convenient for reference.”—Yale R.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is fortunate that the greatest attempt to effect railroad
  consolidation should have had so able a historian as Professor B. H.
  Meyer.” Emory R. Johnson.

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 618. N. ’07. 520w.

  “A careful and scholarly treatment from the economic view-point.” Wm.
  Hill.

       + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 182. Mr. ’07. 370w.

  “The style is clear and forcible. In some places, particularly in the
  introductory chapters it would seem that the author had studied
  conciseness at the expense of the clearness which would have been
  gained by fuller amplification of the narrative. The author is
  manifestly familiar with the material and thorough and accurate
  research is shown throughout. Full justice is done to the dissenting
  as well as the prevailing opinions.” Frederick N. Judson.

   + + − =Yale. R.= 16: 208. Ag. ’07. 1040w.


=Meyer, Ernst von.= History of chemistry from the earliest times to the
present day; being also an introduction to the study of the science; tr.
with the author’s sanction by George McGowan. 3d Eng. ed., tr. from the
3d Germ. ed. *$4.25. Macmillan.

  This third edition includes additions and alterations which bring the
  work down to date.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The work is convenient, because there is no better one (except
  Ladenburg’s, which is too small), and in spite of its numerous
  inconveniences. Among these is the avoidance of dates.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 181. F. 21, ’07. 1090w.

  “The work is a perfect treasure-house in its wealth of bibliographical
  and biographical detail. Its literary charm lies in the simplicity and
  directness of its style, characteristics which Dr. McGowan has well
  preserved in his admirable rendering into English.”

     + + =Nature.= 75: 169. D. 20, ’06. 1100w.

  “An unbiased historical research study.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 50w.


=Meyer, Hugo R.= British state telegraphs. **$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                7–33625.

  Prof. Meyer here resumes his study of the history of public ownership
  in Great Britain. It is a two-part story which the author tells of the
  British state telegraphs: the purchase of the telegraphs, in 1870,
  from the companies that had established the industry of telegraphy;
  and the subsequent conduct of the business of telegraphy by the
  government. “Both parts contain a record of fact and experience of
  importance to the American public at the present moment, when there is
  before them the proposal to embark upon the policy of the municipal
  ownership and operation of the so-called municipal public service
  industries.”


=Meyer, Hugo Richard.= Municipal ownership in Great Britain. *$1.50.
Macmillan.

                                                                6–10877.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “So far as it goes, the book is a model in its way. No one need feel
  any doubt as to where the author stands. It shows an excellent grasp
  of the subject and is a scholarly, though somewhat uninteresting,
  presentation of the evidence from his own point of view. He no longer
  assumes the attitude of the judge, but rather that of the special
  pleader.” Garrett Droppers.

     + − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 370. Je. ’07. 1850w.

  “The best that can be said of Professor Meyer’s book is that it is an
  able ‘ex parte’ statement of the case against municipal ownership in
  Great Britain.” Delos F. Wilcox.

       + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 528. S. ’07. 1950w.

  “A noteworthy contribution, to a vexed question. It is a careful and
  minute study, showing vast research and erudition. The work
  notwithstanding its appearance of great learning, will, in the opinion
  of the reviewers, fail to carry conviction to the reader. The
  prejudice of the author crops out too plainly at every turn. The book
  smacks more of the library than of the world of affairs.” John H.
  Gray.

     + − =Yale R.= 16: 102. My. ’07. 650w.


=Meyer, Hugo R.= Public ownership and the telephone in Great Britain.
**$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                7–31983.

  Still a further continuation of Professor Meyer’s history of public
  ownership in Great Britain. It gives the history, written from
  original documents, of the efforts of the British government to
  administer the telephone service in England.


=Michael, Mrs. Helen C.= Studies in plant and organic chemistry, and
literary papers; with biographical sketch. *$2.50. Riverside press.

                                                                7–17319.

  “The volume contains an extended biographical sketch; an introduction
  to Mrs. Michael’s work in chemistry, by Dr. Wiley; sixteen papers on
  organic chemistry, four of them in German; and four literary papers
  which discuss such themes as ‘Science and philosophy in art,’ ‘The
  drama in relation to truth,’ Whitman Browning, etc. A photogravure
  portrait forms the frontispiece and shows the face of a most
  attractive woman.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Dial.= 43: 44. Jl. 16, ’07. 290w.

  “The sketch itself is well proportioned and discriminating, and is
  thoroughly appreciative of Mrs. Michael’s remarkable powers. Every
  student of plant-physiology will be glad to have in this compact form
  the scattered papers which, under her maiden name of Abbott, Mrs.
  Michael contributed to many scientific publications.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 127. Ag. 8, ’07. 320w.


=Michel, Emile.= Rembrandt: a memorial; il. with seventy plates in color
and photogravure. *$5. Lane.

                                                                7–28517.

  This volume has grown out of the renewed interest in Rembrandt which
  was awakened by Holland’s tercentenary celebration of the birth of the
  great master.

                  *       *       *       *       *

     + + =Acad.= 70: 294. Mr. 24, ’06. 300w.

  “Altogether this ‘Rembrandt’ will be a book that all lovers of art
  will want to have on their shelves and in their hands; and when it is
  complete with the special plate that is to be presented to
  subscribers, it will be one of the most artistic productions of the
  time.”

     + + =Acad.= 70: 461. My. 12, ’06. 490w.

  “The omission of an index is the great blemish on the work; and this
  is intensified by the not over-careful way in which the list of plates
  in colour and in photogravure has been drawn up.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 163. Ag. 11. 2550w.

  “The book as a whole is one of the best of the art books of the
  present season.”

     + + =Ind.= 61: 1403. D. 22, ’06. 90w.

     + + =Int. Studio.= 29: 274. S. ’06. 210w.

         =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 58. D. ’06. 240w.

     + + =Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8. ’06. 80w.


=Mighels, Philip Verrill.= Sunnyside Tad. †$1.25. Harper.

                                                                7–30440.

  Sunnyside Tad and Diogenes, the tawny little pup that he rescued from
  drowning, are outcast chums who suffer and rejoice together. The two
  in their David and Jonathan relations teach a lesson brimful of love
  and fearlessness.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A first-class boy’s story.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 50w.


* =Mijatovich, Chedomille.= Royal tragedy; being the story of the
assassination of King Alexander and Queen Draga, of Servia. *$2.50.
Dodd.

  A full story of the Servian tragedy with all the elements that entered
  into the plot and its execution.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He writes of matters which almost involve passion, but he writes (as
  might be expected of him) dispassionately. The story that he has to
  tell is full of interest, and he tells it admirably.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 690. D. 1. 760w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 70w.

  “The writer is frankly a partisan of King Milan. Its chief defect lies
  in the excessive intrusion of the author’s personality.”

       − =Sat. R.= 103: 660. My. 25, ’07. 160w.

  “M. Chedomille Mijatovich tells the tragic story in a remarkably
  interesting book.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 293. F. 23, ’07. 2340w.


=Miles, George H.= Said the rose, and other lyrics; with an introd. by
John C. Collins. **$1. Longmans.

                                                                7–18559.

  “Poems of a writer who died forty years ago. They have been rescued
  from the past, and have met with appreciative comment. “The titular
  lyric is the plaint of a rose, plucked by a lady to wear upon her
  bosom for an hour, and then cast ruthlessly away.... A number of the
  poems in this volume are impressions of Italy, particularly of Italian
  art, and the influence of Browning is very evident.” (Dial.) A
  graceful biographical and critical introduction by Mr. Churton Collins
  will serve to acquaint the present generation with the amiable and
  gifted man who, in the preceding one, adorned the chair of English in
  Mount St. Mary’s college, Emmetsburg.” (Cath. World.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Cath. World.= 85: 827. S. ’07. 410w.

  “Reading the fifty pages of Mr. Collins’s appreciative essay, we learn
  anew the lesson of fame’s caprice, for we become acquainted with a
  writer of admirable qualities, whose performance certainly deserved
  something less than the entire forgetfulness that seems to have become
  its portion.” Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 43: 90. Ag. 16, ’07. 580w.

  Reviewed by Christian Gauss.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 360w.

  “All of the work is accomplished, but none save perhaps ‘Beatrice,’
  shows any trace of original talent.”

       + =Spec.= 99: sup. 635. N. 2, ’07. 120w.


=Mill, John Stuart.= Subjection of women; new ed.; ed. with introductory
analysis by Stanton Coit. *40c. Longmans.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =Dial.= 40: 239. Ap. 1, ’06. 50w.


=Millard, Thomas Franklin Fairfax.= New Far East. **$1.50. Scribner.

                                                                6–10925.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Is written a little too much in the spirit of a man who feels that he
  is tilting against generally accepted opinions, but his volume is none
  the less an excellent one, indeed one of the most enlightening we have
  on the present Far Eastern situation.” Archibald Cary Coolidge.

   + + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 136. Mr. ’07. 560w.


=Miller, Elizabeth Jane.= Saul of Tarsus; a tale of the early
Christians; with il. by Andre Castaigne. †$1.50. Bobbs.

                                                                6–36043.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Vivid and absorbing narrative.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 17. Ja. ’07.

  “One of the most interesting and well-written novels of the year.” Amy
  C. Rich.

       + =Arena.= 37: 218. F. ’07. 610w.

  “As far as historic truth is concerned, there is little fault to be
  found with the novel. It is a pity that as much can not be said of the
  style. It is lacking in life, and the interest of the reader often
  flags.”

     − + =Lit. D.= 34: 26. Ja. 5, ’07. 220w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 833. D. 1, ’06. 140w.


=Miller, Rev. James Russell.= Christmas-making. **30c. Crowell.

                                                                7–22861.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “A good, optimistic little book, but with nothing very striking about
  it, either in contents or style.” Robert E. Bisbee.

     + − =Arena.= 37: 334. Mr. ’07. 40w.


=Miller, Rev. James Russell.= For the best things, pa. bds. **65c.
Crowell.

                                                               7– 26992.

  “A trumpet call for striving ‘for the best things,’ an appeal to the
  best impulse in the human heart.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 80w.


=Miller, Rev. James Russell.= Glimpses of the heavenly life. **30c.
Crowell.

                                                                7–20953.

  Belonging to the “What is worth while” series, this little book aims
  to give some of the glimpses of the heavenly life which the Bible
  reveals.


=Miller, Rev. James Russell.= Morning thoughts. **65c. Crowell.

                                                                7–21332.

  Page sermons for every day in the year, whose aim is to start the
  reader out upon his new day with some actively helpful thought.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 60w.


=Miller, John Henderson.= Where the rainbow touches the ground. †$1.
Funk.

                                                                6–44370.

  A Kansas cyclone is responsible in a freakish way for the restoration
  of property to a man who had surely known the hardships of the
  “submerged tenth.” The book is full of local color in which herbs and
  simples, and homely philosophy abound.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We do not share the high opinion of this story which the publishers
  seem to entertain nor can we agree with them that the author is a
  writer of exceptional power. The ethical tone of the work is good and
  the lessons of practical value.”

     − + =Arena.= 37: 221. F. ’07. 120w.

  “The story is told with a quaint sort of art which will appeal to the
  jaded novel-reader.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 510. Mr. 30. ’07. 160w.


=Miller, Mrs. Harriet (Mann) (Olive Thorne Miller, pseud.).= Harry’s
runaway. †$1.25. Houghton.

                                                                7–32035.

  A sure cure for the runaway malady. The good work of parents in
  restraining dissatisfied boys is helpfully supplemented in Mrs.
  Miller’s story. Harry Barnes persuades a playmate to run away with
  him. Their experiences lead to a half starved condition in which their
  parents find them. To make Harry’s lesson more impressive each night
  some one drops in and tells a runaway story which shatters some
  youthful ideal of heroism and reduces the would-be hero to the
  suppliant state.


=Miller, Mrs. Harriet (Mann) (Olive Thorne Miller, pseud.).= What
happened to Barbara. †$1.25. Houghton.

                                                                7–15599.

  A little girl of thirty years ago is the heroine of Mrs. Miller’s
  story. “The story has the air of being autobiographical, and is
  interesting for two reasons, and two only: It furnishes a kind of
  proof that there is a type of healthy child life in which the thing we
  know as sentiment is non-existent: and it demonstrates the possibility
  of converting into quasi-literary form the amazing gift of being able
  to discourse ‘ad libitum’ about absolutely nothing.” (Lit. D.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

     − + =Lit. D.= 35: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 170w.

  “It might be, and doubtless is, in the main, a carefully expurgated
  account of the part of the author’s own life which lies in the
  schoolgirl stage.”

     − + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 302. My. 11, ’07. 430w.


=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.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The disappointment is in the selection. Now and then there is an
  obvious blunder in the title given. If a competent technical study of
  the merits of Millet’s drawing, as drawing, was unattainable, why not
  omit the text altogether and publish a portfolio? Well worth more than
  the price asked, if one has the money to spend.”

     − − =Nation.= 84: 90. Ja. 24, ’07. 110w.

  “The volume before us is a really desirable possession, and not merely
  another so-called ‘art book.’”

     + + =Spec.= 97: 620. O. 27, ’06. 1200w.


=Millikan, Robert Andrews, and Gale, Henry Gordon.= Laboratory course in
physics for secondary schools. *40c. Ginn.

                                                                6–31644.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “A possible objection to the proposed course lies in the introduction
  of the vernier and the micrometer calimeter. The use of these
  instruments seems contrary to the authors’ attempt to avoid the
  ‘creeping-over’ of the methods and the instruments of research and
  specialization from the university into the high school, where they
  have absolutely no place. The same objection might be urged against
  the use of per cent. errors and discussion of accuracy of
  measurements. The book is to be commended, not only for its
  improvements over older manuals, but also as part of a _completed_ and
  _tried_ course.” F. R. Watson.

   + + − =School R.= 15: 168. F. ’07. 280w.


=Mills, Lawrence Heyworth.= Zarathushtra, Philo, the Achaemenides and
Israel. *$4. Open ct.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “From the first words of the preface ... to the end of the book, there
  is so much involved construction and verbiage, combined with misprints
  that the author’s ‘reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two
  bushels of chaff.’”

       − =Ind.= 62: 217. Ja. 24, ’07. 390w.


=Mills, (Thomas) Wesley.= Voice production in singing and speaking,
based on scientific principles. **$2. Lippincott.

                                                                6–38905.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 46. F. ’07. S.

     + + =Nation.= 84: 18. Ja. 3, ’07. 450w.

  “It is scientific in the best sense.” Richard Aldrich.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 149. Mr. 9, ’07. 580w.


=Milton, John.= Complete poetical works; with a biographical sketch by
Nathan Haskell Dole. $1.25. Crowell.

  Milton’s poetical works uniform with the “Thin paper poets.” The
  introduction by Mr. Dole aims to elucidate the circumstances, motives
  and intention of each of the poems individually.


=Minchin, George M., and Dale, J. B.= Mathematical drawing. *$2.10.
Longmans.

  An exposition of the subject which presupposes a knowledge of analytic
  geometry and the calculus so far as methods are concerned, but which
  makes no use of theorems proved by them. Nearly half of the book is
  devoted to a discussion of conical and parallel projection.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This book is of rather more interest to the mathematician than the
  engineer; it has several features that are of value to both, but is
  too brief to be of greatest service to either.”

     + − =Engin. N.= 57: 193. F. 14, ’07. 480w.


=Mitchell, John Ames.= Silent war. $1.50. Life pub.

                                                                6–38893.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Is no more impressive as a warning than it is interesting as a
  romance. The interest of the reader is aroused at the very beginning
  and held in leash throughout until the final denouement.” Ellis O.
  Jones.

     + + =Arena.= 37: 446. Ap. ’07. 350w.

  “The book is in many ways strong. It is original, improbable, and not
  so well written as ‘Amos Judd’ and others of Mr. Mitchell’s books.”
  Madeleine Z. Doty.

     − − =Charities.= 17: 487. D. 15. ’06. 250w.


=Mitchell, William.= Structure and growth of the mind. *$2.60.
Macmillan.

                                                                W 7–111.

  “A treatise on descriptive and genetic psychology in four main parts:
  The direct explanation of the mind, Sympathetic and aesthetic
  intelligence, The growth of intelligence, and Extension of direct
  explanation and the direct explanation.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is, however, frankly technical: it is a book to be studied, not to
  be read. It has the discursive form of lectures, yet, after all, of
  written lectures that reflect the slow and careful growth of his
  phrasing and presentation, and assume a like attentive and painstaking
  attitude on the part of the student in the class-room or the study. To
  the circle of those specifically minded to follow the pursuit the work
  is enthusiastically recommended as a notable addition to the modern
  literature of psychology.”

     + + =Dial.= 43: 19. Jl. 1, ’07. 350w.

  “The fact that the views which are supported are throughout reasoned
  views gives it an unusually stimulating quality. And this quality
  would be still more in evidence were it not for a certain occasional
  elusiveness in the presentation of the argument, which is not
  altogether removed by the detail analysis that is provided.” W. G.
  Smith.

   + + − =Hibbert J.= 6: 218. O. ’07. 1300w.

  “It is an abstruse, laborious book, the work of one who is not
  fanatically attached to either school, who studies both the direct and
  indirect explanations of the structure and growth of mind.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 283. S. 20, ’07. 680w.

  “The discursive style and the absence of prominent landmarks would
  often give the reader a rather vague idea of the plan of exposition,
  were it not for the table of contents, which is a model of scientific
  analysis, and almost makes up for the absence of an alphabetical
  index.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 591. Je. 27, ’07. 1050w.

  “Mr. Mitchell’s work will compare very favourably with the best
  philosophical books of recent years.”

     + + =Nature.= 76: 196. Je. 27, ’07. 350w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 138. Mr. 9, ’07. 50w.

  “A stimulating and serviceable guide-book in psychology, devoted to
  elaborate and searching criticism for the benefit of readers who are
  not in a hurry to run while reading.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 974. Ag. 31, ’07. 170w.

  “One of the most interesting chapters in this book is on the power of
  suggestion, or the power of a thought to determine a course of
  thought.”

       + =Sat. R.= 104: 365. S. 21, ’07. 1080w.


=Mitton, G. E.= Jane Austen and her times. *$2.75. Putnam.

                                                                 6–2322.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

     + − =Sat. R.= 102: 743. D. 15, ’06. 230w.


=Miyakawa, Masuji.= Life of Japan. **$3. Baker.

                                                                7–28500.

  Dr. Miyakawa was educated in America and returning to Japan became
  interpreter for the imperial army. He reveals intimately “to millions
  of American homes” a knowledge of Japan and Japanese conditions. The
  book is dedicated to Commodore Perry whom the author calls the
  “national redeemer of Japan.” “The bulk of the book is devoted to
  tracing the rapid growth of Japan since the making of the treaty with
  the United States, in the reform of its financial system, in the
  development of its domestic industry and its foreign commerce, the
  expansion of its army and navy, the establishment of a constitutional
  form of government, and the adoption of American methods in education
  and journalism.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “For the most part, however, the book is accurate and well suited to
  the needs of readers who do not care to go deeply into the subjects
  treated.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 290. N. 1, ’07. 250w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 536. S. 7, ’07. 1000w.


=Miyakawa, Masuji.= Powers of the American people. Congress, president,
and courts. *$3. N. Hayes, cor. N. Y. ave. & 15th st., Washington, D. C.

  A manual of instruction which points out the various powers and duties
  which are imposed by the constitution, written by a Japanese
  attorney—the first to be admitted to the American bar.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “To the average American student, the book is a primer of the simplest
  type. To the foreign lawyer who wishes to become familiar with the
  theoretical side of our government the book will be of considerable
  assistance, but to a foreign business man or a foreigner studying
  modern institutions, the book is of little value, for it lives in the
  dim, forgetful past, not in the pulsing present.”

     + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 643. My. ’07. 320w.

  “While there are some imperfections in the style, and while for the
  general reader the book would be more valuable if it had undergone
  revision by an English scholar, it is a remarkably clear and
  comprehensive statement of the fundamental principles of our American
  constitution and might well be commended to the lay reader who desires
  to obtain a nonpartisan impression and scholarly view of the nature of
  our government and the functions of its various departments.”

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 302. Je. 8, ’07. 140w.

         =R. of Rs.= 36: 638. N. ’07. 50w.


Modern pilgrim’s progress; with introd. by the Very Rev. H. S. Bowden.
*$1.60. Benziger.

  A description of the “phases of thought through which an educated and
  thoughtful woman passed on her spiritual journey from the Anglican to
  the Roman faith. The arguments in favor of the Roman faith are as old
  as its attractions, and the author does not lay claim to any polemical
  originality.” (Spec.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Cath. World.= 84: 264. N. ’06. 840w.

  “The book is a striking one.”

       + =Sat. R.= 102: 462. O. 13, ’06. 630w.

  “The interest of the book lies in the transparent sincerity of the
  writer, and in the manner in which she emphasises the strange fact
  that a mind constitutionally restless and hungry for new ideas may be
  completely transformed and forever pacified by drugs of sacredotal
  anaesthetics.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 24. Ja. 5, ’07. 100w.


* =Moedebeck, Hermann W. L.= Pocket-book of aeronautics, by H. W. L.
Moedebeck in collaboration with O. Chanute and others; authorized Eng.
ed.; tr. by W. Mansergh Varley. *$3.25. Macmillan.

                                                                7–29118.

  The present work aims to review the history of aerial navigation and
  its present development and to give scientific information on the
  physics of the atmosphere.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In this handy little volume we have an excellent comprehensive
  summary of the whole subject of aeronautics, and the English reading
  public have to thank Major Moedebeck for producing such a work which
  has been so capably translated by Mr. Varley.”

     + + =Nature.= 76: 100. My. 30, ’07. 370w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 274. Ap. 27, ’07. 210w.

  “Useful and timely hand-book. No reference is made to the large amount
  of data collected with kites in the United States by our Weather
  bureau and at the Blue Hill observatory, nor to the more recent
  observations with balloons at great heights, which were instituted by
  this observatory.” A. Lawrence Rotch.

   + + − =Science=, n. s. 25: 936. Je. 14, ’07. 700w.


=Moffat, Mary Maxwell.= Queen Louisa of Prussia: *$3. Dutton.

                                                                6–43228.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “A sympathetic and admiring portrayal of Queen Louisa, and a clear and
  interesting picture of her times. While it throws no new light on
  Prussian history, it never degenerates into a court calendar, but is
  dignified and worthy of its subject throughout.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 100. Ap. ’07.

  “Well-written, well arranged, and always interesting memoir.” S. M.
  Francis.

       + =Atlan.= 100: 493. O. ’07. 400w.

  “If not taken as a balanced history of the period it will do no harm,
  and may serve to interest casual readers to a period of German history
  of crucial importance.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 43. Jl. 4, ’07. 180w.

  “A good deal of new matter not found in Horn or even Lonke. There is,
  too, a good index and a fair bibliography, though it lacks any mention
  of Martin’s German biography (1887), and is wholly deficient in
  American references.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 227. Mr. 7, ’07. 940w.

  Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.

       + =Putnam’s.= 2: 476. Jl. ’07. 220w.


=Moffat, Rev. James=, ed. Literary illustrations of the Bible, ea. *40c.
Armstrong.

  Six volumes of commentaries entitled; The book of Ecclesiastes, The
  book of Daniel, The gospel according to Saint Mark, The epistle to the
  Romans, The gospel according to Saint Luke, and The book of
  Revelation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The treatment is novel and interesting, and we think might be
  followed with educational effect by every reader of the Scriptures.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 289. My. 5, ’06. 210w.

  “A small but choice assortment of gleanings from a fruitful field.”

       + =Outlook.= 81: 1084. D. 30, ’05. 80w.


=Moller, Muriel.= Wood-carving designs. *$2.50. Lane.

  “Six sheets of excellent working drawings of panels, frames, etc.,
  with examples of furniture suitable for them, as to which Mr. Walter
  Crane writes an appreciative foreword.”—Int. Studio.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Should prove of great utility to the carver in wood.”

       + =Int. Studio.= 31: 251. My. ’07. 100w.

         =Int. Studio.= 31: sup. 86. My. ’07. 350w.

       + =Spec.= 98: 722. My. 4, ’07. 70w.


=Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald.= Sir Joshua and his circle. *$6.50. Dodd.

                                                                7–13429.

  Less of a sketch of Sir Joshua Reynolds’ life and character than a
  portrayal of his relations to the group of men and women prominent in
  the literature and art of his day.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Molloy has re-told the old stories fairly well, and produced the
  sort of book that very many people like to read.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 115. F. 16, ’07. 280w.

  “The book certainly cannot be said to have been necessary; but it is
  written with such infectious good humour and apparent zest, the touch
  is so spirited and flowing, the local colour thrown on with so light
  and lavish a hand, that it may be skimmed with amusement and
  pleasure.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 5: 354. O. 19, ’06. 390w.

  “It cannot be said that Mr. Molloy’s attempts to be vivacious are
  always highly successful, nor does it inspire confidence to describe
  scenes as if the writer were present and spoke from memory of ‘wistful
  eyes’ and the like.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 31. Ja. 10, ’07. 110w.

  “Worth reading, and even by those who are already more or less
  saturated with Reynolds biographical material.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 1082. D. 29, ’06. 290w.


=Molmenti, Pompeo Gherardo.= 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.

  This is the second installment of Molmenti’s “Venice.” It contains two
  volumes as did the first section, and deals with “the golden age” from
  the viewpoints of conditioning factors, constitution, climate and
  public health, festivals, the arts, industry, scientific movements,
  schools, private life, the stage, palaces and houses, fashions,
  entertainments, the family and the corruption of manners.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Molmenti is certainly a learned man in the limited sense of the
  word, that is, he is a collector pure and simple, whose primitive
  notion of a book is a succession of scrap-heaps, labelled chapters,
  which his readers are set to pick over for bright and valuable matter
  appearing here and there like raisins in a cake.” Ferdinand Schwill.

     − + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 866. Jl. ’07. 1220w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “The ideal volume from the standpoint of the reputable publisher is
  one which combines literary interest with an appropriate and
  attractive type setting and a new edition that goes far toward the
  accomplishment of this are two volumes recently published with the
  title ‘Venice.’” Laurence Burnham.

     + + =Bookm.= 24: 639. F. ’07. 210w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “Among those who have made a serious study of the Venetian past,
  perhaps none is more eminent than the Italian historian Pompeo
  Molmenti.” Laurence M. Larson.

   + + − =Dial.= 43: 38. Jl. 16, ’07. 1610w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “In the main, we find Molmenti’s verdicts sound, and his attitude
  judicial. We must praise the very readable translation of Mr. Horatio
  Brown, himself a recognized authority on matters Venetian.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 1435. D 12, ’07. 820w.

  “Admirably translated by a scholar whose erudition is equal to that of
  their author.”

     + + =Int. Studio.= 31: 331. Je. ’07. 400w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “He has what many who attempt works of this kind lack—charm, the gift
  of presenting a great body of material so that it not only conveys
  information, but gives pleasure.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 499. My. 30, ’07. 1170w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “The material which enables the author to describe these subjects in
  the most minute detail has been collected with the greatest care,
  patience and industry from original sources. So complete, indeed, are
  the descriptions that in many cases we have pages of sheer
  enumeration—of estimable value to specialists, but of doubtful
  attractiveness to the lovers of the romantic phases of Venetian
  history.”

   + + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 88. F. 9, ’07. 1000w. (Review of v. 1 and
         2.)

  “That the translation itself is excellent goes without saying. The
  reader’s pleasure is interfered with by no heaviness of style, no
  awkward turn of a sentence. The straightforward tale of the old
  Venetians, the most interesting community in Europe, is told with a
  frank simplicity, and yet with every detail that can be desired by a
  careful student.”

     + + =Spec.= 98: 535. Ap. 6, ’07. 1470w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “The book is not a history of events, but of thought and character,—a
  far more intricate subject, and one involving a far profounder
  knowledge. The erudition is as amazing as ever. Our one complaint is
  that Mr. Brown does not underrate the scholarship of his readers.
  About one-tenth of the text of the first volume consists of
  untranslated quotations from some foreign tongue.”

   + + − =Spec.= 99: 868. N. 30, ’07. 1350w.


=Moncrieff, A. R. Hope.= Surrey; painted by Sutton Palmer, with 75 il.
in col. *$6. Macmillan.

                                                                W 7–171.

  Brush and pen have worked in pleasing consonance to reproduce the
  “enchanting by-ways” of Surrey. Mr. Palmer’s full-page colored
  illustrations are accompanied by description that are “chatty and
  spring from point to point very much as William Combe in verse rattled
  amiably along as an accompanist and reciter for Rowlandson’s pictures
  of the schoolmaster on his trips.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Nation.= 83: 349. O. 25, ’06. 280w.

  “As a rule the neat and simple method of the artist suits the process
  fairly well.” Charles de Kay.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 885. D. 22, ’06. 120w.

  “Altogether, the book is one of the most agreeable of this series.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 386. O. 13, ’06. 180w.


=Monroe, Will Seymour.= Turkey and the Turks: an account of the lands,
the peoples, and the institutions of the Ottoman empire. $3. Page.

                                                                7–26348.

  A brief but unified picture, gained thru study and travel, of the
  incoherent Ottoman empire and its complex civilization. A chapter is
  devoted to the rise, another to the decline of the empire one is given
  to the significant events in Turkish history during the past thirty
  years, but the most of the book is devoted to matters of purely human
  interest, including eight chapters upon Constantinople, its monuments,
  characteristic quarters, street scenes, bazaars, baths, kahns,
  fountains, mosques and dervishes.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Dial.= 43: 426. D. 16, ’07. 130w.

  “As a whole, the book is to be commended for the useful information
  which it gives, but in some points it merits criticism.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 349. O. 17, ’07. 310w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 616. O. 12, ’07. 160w.


=Montague, Margaret Prescott.= Sowing of Alderson Cree; with a front. by
W. T. Benda. †$1.50. Baker.

                                                                7–12272.

  Alderson Cree is shot by an enemy and upon his death-bed exacts from
  his young son the promise to avenge the deed. “His ‘sowing’ is the
  spirit of revenge and hatred which is thus implanted in the child’s
  heart, and the reaping comes ten years later, when the boy must choose
  between revenge and love. The story has in it all the rough strength
  of the mountain valley where the scene is laid and of the rough
  mountain people who figure in its pages.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A book of extraordinary sweetness and strength, for in reading one is
  led along by the sure touch of the writer, who, born and living all
  her days among the mountain people, knows their lives and touches them
  with truth and tenderness.” Harriet Prescott Spofford.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 345. Je. 1, ’07. 1770w.


=Montgomery, Edmund.= Philosophical problems in the light of vital
organization. **$2.50. Putnam.

                                                                 7–5071.

  “This work is divided into two parts: 1, Philosophical survey; 2,
  Biological solutions. Some of the problems discussed in the first part
  are substance, identity, causation, the problem of the external world,
  universals and particulars, innate faculties, subject and object,
  etc.... The problems of substantiality, causation, mechanical
  necessity, living substance as sensorimotor agent, sentiency and
  purpose in movements, teleology in nature, etc., are discussed in the
  second part, in conjunction, with the author’s own views.”—Psychol.
  Bull.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Futile as is all such philosophizing, there are valuable practical
  applications of biology, in ethics, education, and sociology, and
  these Mr. Montgomery has instructively presented, though disadvantaged
  by a heavy and otherwise somewhat defective literary style.”

     + − =Outlook.= 85: 621. Mr. 16, ’07. 390w.

  “A somewhat peculiar setting forth of a familiar view, relating to
  what is here termed the psychophysical puzzle. What is peculiar is the
  mystical, or mystifying phraseology in which these views are
  presented.” E. A. Norris.

       − =Psychol. Bull.= 4: 243. Ap. 25, ’07. 670w.


=Montgomery, Hugh, and Cambray, Philip G.= Dictionary of political
phrases and allusions with a short bibliography. *$2. Dutton.

                                                                 W 7–84.

  A novel book of reference in which “foreign political phrases, terms,
  and catch-words of international significance, but with particular
  reference to Great Britain, are defined in simple language.” (N. Y.
  Times.) “This book will help a hasty journalist to write in such a
  fashion as to pass muster with a hasty sub-editor.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Numerous catch phrases of recent political campaigns are discussed
  which surely do not deserve a place in a one-volume work of this
  character, and even the allusions to strictly English politics are not
  treated with comprehension of their relative importance. The worst
  fault of the book is the lack of judicial attitude. Almost every page
  is tinged with a national prejudice which warps the discussion so as
  largely to destroy its value.”

       − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 598. N. ’07. 150w.

  “Most of the entries fall a little short of the exactness to be
  desired in such a dictionary.”

     − + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 769. D. 15. 1090w.

     − + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 285. My. 4, ’07. 250w.

  “To any one having occasion to refer to British acts of legislation or
  to catchwords of British politics the usefulness of this volume is
  obvious.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 904. Ap. 20, ’07. 100w.

         =Spec.= 97: 991. D. 15, ’06. 110w.


=Montgomery, James Alan.= Samaritans, the earliest Jewish sect. **$2.
Winston.

                                                                7–15492.

  An exhaustive study of the Samaritans which treats of their history,
  theology, and philology, with a closing chapter devoted to the
  literary history of the sect.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a mine of information. The author has apparently overlooked
  nothing. The method and style are clear and simple, and the book
  deserves a place in any library.”

     + + =Bib. World.= 29: 479. Je. ’07. 40w.

  “A large amount of diligent research is evident.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 141. Ag. 15, ’07. 130w.

  “Its account of the romantic story of this curious sect will be an
  authoritative work upon the subject, for it presents an amount and
  variety of material which can be found nowhere else.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 140w.

  “The book is a contribution to the literature of an obscure subject.
  It makes no pretense to popularity. But it will interest scholars who
  will be especially thankful for the careful ‘Samaritan bibliography.’”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 548. S. 14, ’07. 90w.

  “We commend to our readers his volume.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 133. Jl. 27, ’07. 260w.


=Montgomery, Thomas Harrison, jr.= Analysis of racial descent in
animals. *$2.50. Holt.

                                                                6–16987.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Our author undertakes the herculean task, we venture to think
  successfully, of setting the study of phylogeny on a surer
  foundation.” A. D. D.

     + + =Nature.= 75: 530. Ap. 4, ’07. 990w.

  “Every teacher and advanced student of biology should become
  acquainted with the views of an author who has studied so many and
  widely separated biological phenomena.” Robert W. Hegner.

     + + =School R.= 15: 167. F. ’07. 320w.


=Montresor, Frances Frederica.= Burning torch. †$1.50. Dutton.

  The story of an orphan child endowed with second sight which has
  descended to her from a Highland ancestor. “The heroine not only does
  not marry, she is killed in a railway collision. This, being a kind of
  domestic Cassandra, she has foreseen, as, helpless to prevent or to
  convince, she has foreseen all the other catastrophes which have
  befallen her circle—the suicide of her father, the almost patricide of
  her favorite cousin, the violent death in the desert of the man she
  loves.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is only just to state that in spite of a considerable lack of
  sympathy with its philosophy we read ‘The burning torch’ with an
  interest that surprised us.”

     + − =Acad.= 73: 731. Jl. 27, ’07. 400w.

  “One does not realize it (there are so many diverse interests touched
  by a sympathetic and exceedingly observant perception) till nearly the
  end; but the tale is compounded of elements which do not coalesce
  quite happily.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 212. Jl. 5, ’07. 330w.

         =Nation.= 85: 268. S. 26. ’07. 200w.

  “Parts of the story are pretty dull, and the style tends to be
  tedious, but for all that there is really good stuff in the rather
  nondescript and futile whole called ‘The burning torch.’”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 548. S. 14, ’07. 380w.

  “While there are many grim and not altogether pleasant traits
  distributed among the actors, there is also a decided hopefulness for
  humanity and faith in God pervading the story.”

     + − =Outlook.= 87: 269. O. 5, ’07. 270w.

  “A book heavier with fate and fatalities we have never seen. It is not
  an easy book to read.”

       − =Putnam’s.= 3: 239. N. ’07. 760w.

  “Miss Montresor can always be relied upon for a straightforward story
  without ellipse or obscurity; she tells it fluently and at some
  length, as though she could not help telling it. She has delicacy and
  enough observation to make every one of her numerous characters
  distinct.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 59. Jl. 13, ’07. 1150w.


=Moody, Winfield Scott.= Pickwick ladle and other collector’s stories.
†$1.50. Scribner.

                                                                7–35226.

  Sketches of “two hardened bric-a-brac hunters.... Each story breathes
  an agreeable leisure, and the thread of the Wyckoffs’ adventures among
  the antique dealers is enriched by a shrewd characterization of the
  dealers themselves, from Dirck Amstell, the honest Dutchman, to a
  proud representative of Du Val upon Fifth avenue.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Unusually well told stories.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 136. My. ’07. ✠

       + =Ind.= 63: 1377. D. 5, ’07. 130w.

  “Dainty in touch, with humor that is real and pervaded by an
  atmosphere of good society.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 886. Je. 1, ’07. 40w.

  “The pleasant surprise of the stories as a whole is that treating of
  the infinitely small, they constantly broaden into a larger
  perspective.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 523. Je. 6, ’07. 220w.

  “Altogether delightful little stories.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 494. Ag. 10, ’07. 340w.

  “After reading much of the fiction of the day, one feels as if in this
  modest volume he is really once more in good society.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 118. My. 18, ’07. 100w.


=Moore, Edward A.= Story of a cannoneer under Stonewall Jackson, in
which is told the part taken by the Rockbridge artillery in the army of
northern Virginia; with introds. by Robert E. Lee, jr., and Hon. Henry
St. George Tucker: il. $2. Neale.

                                                                7–21269.

  “In which is told the part taken during the civil war by the
  Rockbridge artillery in the operations of the army of northern
  Virginia.... It is history and romance in one, and at the same time a
  chronicle and a picture gallery. To read it is to know intimately the
  brave and noble young fellows who formed the company, a command that
  proved its mettle in twenty-three engagements.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We heartily commend the volume as a truthful picture of real war.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 151. Ag. 10. 110w.

  “The book possesses genuine value despite occasional eccentricities of
  style which careful editing would have avoided.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 229. S. 12, ’07. 340w.

  “He tells the story of the four years’ struggle in a clear, direct,
  soldier like way, always with a sense of the humorous, and always
  sympathetically, like a man to whom life is larger than any one man’s
  experience.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 190w.

  “The story is well told, and gives a real insight into the every-day
  life and typical privations of the confederate soldier-boy. Mr.
  Moore’s sympathetic narrative is full of ‘human interest’ of a very
  genuine kind.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 511. O. ’07. 140w.


=Moore, Frederick.= Balkan trail. $3.50. Macmillan.

                                                                6–41820.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The story throughout is as straightforward and as thoroughly to the
  point as could be desired. There is no pretension, the facts are told
  in simple style, readable and interesting from beginning to end. The
  book as a whole gives a better idea of the life in the Balkan region
  than any other similar volume yet published.”

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 598. N. ’07. 190w.

  “He has the capacity to see the really interesting things and record
  his impressions so as to convey them to the reader. And this he does
  without the tall writing which as a rule disfigures the work of a
  newspaper correspondent. He possesses also the gift of humor.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 54. Ja. 12, ’07. 730w.


=Moore, George.= Lake. †$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                5–37156.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “It is Irish to the core, but with a quiet and contemplative
  melancholy. Of the few events none is cheap or trite.” Mary Moss.

       + =Atlan.= 99: 116. Ja. ’07. 190w.


=Moore, George.= Memoirs of my dead life. **$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                6–42372.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The collection is a rather sickening blend of Henry Harland at his
  fluffiest and of Goncourt at his feeblest.” H. T. P.

     − + =Bookm.= 24: 479. Ja. ’07. 1080w.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 398. Ap. ’07. 1270w.

  “It probably contains more of himself than is to be found in the sum
  of his other works, which would be equivalent to saying that it
  surpasses them in interest.”

       + =Lit. D.= 54: 218. F. 9. ’07. 260w.

         =Nation.= 84: 62. Ja. 17, ’07. 730w.

  “‘The memoirs of my dead life’ is even more dead than Mr. Moore is
  wont to be. It is worse than dead—it is defunct.”

       − =Putnam’s.= 1: 767. Mr. ’07. 540w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 113. Ja. ’07. 130w.


=Moore, John Bassett.= Digest of international law. 8v. per set, $10.
Supt. of doc.

                                                                6–35196.

  Eight large volumes in the preparation of which Prof. Moore,
  “analyzed, digested and epitomized diplomatic discussions, treaties,
  and other international agreements, international awards, the
  decisions of municipal courts, the writings of jurists, the
  documents—published and unpublished—of presidents and secretaries of
  state of the United States, the opinions of attorneys-general, and the
  decisions of state and federal courts.” (R. of Rs.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 466. Ja. ’07. 160w.

         =R. of Rs.= 34: 384. S. ’06. 120w.

  “By far the best feature of these volumes is their admirable analysis
  of the subject-matter with which they deal.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 783. Je. 22, ’07. 1550w.


=Moore, John Trotwood.= Bishop of Cottontown. †$1.50. Winston.

                                                                6–17871.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The story has so much that is excellent in it, and the author’s
  spirit is so fine and fair, and his humanity so broad, that it is a
  source of sincere regret that the book is so diffuse.”

     + − =Arena.= 37: 108. Ja. ’07. 390w.


=Moore, Joseph Augustus.= School house; its heating and ventilation. $2.
Joseph A. Moore, 28 Conway st., Roslendale, Bost.

                                                                5–39873.

  “The author has here embodied in convenient form a large amount of
  useful information based on his experience during the past eighteen
  years in inspecting public buildings in Massachusetts and ‘in
  supervising the construction of and testing the various methods of
  heating and ventilation, especially in school houses.’ He has also
  included further useful matter in the way of quotations from state
  laws and regulations on the construction and state supervision of
  public buildings.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is written in an easily understood, direct manner. It would
  constitute a good beginning of a library for a school janitor’s
  library.”

       + =Engin. N.= 56: 182. Ag. 16, ’06. 170w.


=Moore, Mrs. N. Hudson.= Collector’s manual; with 336 page engravings
and with borders by Amy Richards. **$5. Stokes.

                                                                6–43921.

  A guide for the collector of antiques in which the author gives
  helpful information about old furniture, old glass, brass and copper
  articles, English pottery and porcelain, old clocks, pewter, etc.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Pleasant reading but not particularly valuable.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 46. F. ’07.

  “Mrs. Moore writes definitely and concisely.”

     + + =Dial.= 42: 81. F. 1, ’07. 380w.

  “These chapters are all full of information, given in a popular,
  chatty way from the collector’s standpoint, giving account of shrewd
  bargains and the money value of things, rather than of their artistic
  merit.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 697. S. 19, ’07. 310w.

     + + =Lit. D.= 34: 470. Mr. 23, ’07. 270w.

  “The book is evidently the work of a practised and ardent pursuer of
  this peculiar game, one, moreover, who can point to what exists in old
  books about this favorite sport. And yet the space occupied by rather
  useless borders might well be filled with careful footnotes.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 208. F. 28, ’07. 480w.

  “Not only the collector, but the home builder, will find much in the
  book that is of value to him. The illustrations are very good and
  clearly show the different articles presented.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 118. F. 23, ’07. 490w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 115. Ja. ’07. 50w.


=Moore, Mrs. N. Hudson.= Deeds of daring done by girls. †$1.50. Stokes.

                                                                6–40212.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “It is to be regretted that these stories, which are based on acts of
  heroism and are inspiring to girls, should be so poor in workmanship.”

       − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 83. Mr. ’07.


=Moore, T. Sturge.= Correggio. *$2. Scribner.

                                                                7–35193.

  “The originality of the book lies largely in the asides, though the
  author does good service in challenging previous vague attempts to
  define the peculiar sort of ecstacy wherein Correggio’s Corregiosity
  must surely consist. Mr. Moore’s own view is that the master fully
  realized himself only a handful of the classical pictures, notably the
  Io, the Ganymede, and perhaps the Antiope. As the favored decorator of
  the provincial and by no means highly cultured court of Parma.
  Correggio lacked the sustaining forces behind a Titian or a
  Michaelangelo, frequently availing himself too readily of his own
  formulas, seldom realizing the full dignity of his position as
  artist.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Not so readable as Brinton’s book in the ‘Great masters’ series, nor
  does it contain so much about the life of Correggio, but is much more
  exhaustive as to technique.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 101. Ap. ’07.

  “Rarely have we read a book more bewildering in general plan, and this
  in spite of not a little classification into divisions and
  subdivisions. It is moreover, written in a style of liquid and
  wandering reverie.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2:624. N. 17. 1150w.

  “He again devotes rather too much space to the exploitation of his own
  critical creed; and he is unnecessarily hard on Mr. Berenson and
  Signor Conrado Ricci.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 1126. N. 14, ’07. 290w.

  “When Mr. Sturge Moore shakes himself free of the other critics and
  deals with his professed subject, Correggio, he reveals himself as
  admirably qualified for the task. He brings to his work that rare
  combination, a practical training in art and a wide knowledge of
  literature, with a power of philosophical analysis to which very few
  writers on the history of art can pretend. The catalogue ‘raisonné,’
  in which Mr. Moore has been helped by his friend. Mr. C. S. Ricketts,
  is fairly complete.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 399. N. 30, ’06. 1030w.

  “The style is occasionally crabbed, its discursiveness extreme, but as
  the sincere effort of a poet’s mind to interpret a most poetical
  painter it abounds in wisdom even in the byways of the theme.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 230. Mr. 7, ’07. 620w.

  “The result [of defining the temper, address, inspiration and quality
  of works], though somewhat spun out in generalizations, is
  interesting, suggestive, and important, especially as coming from one
  who questions the value of the aims and methods of modern historical
  art criticism.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 903. Ap. 20, ’07. 200w.

  “There is much in this volume with which it is possible to disagree;
  there is, I think, too much controversy in it, and Mr. Moore is not at
  his happiest in controversy. Nor is the design of the book quite
  satisfactory. But, whatever the faults, I believe that it is on the
  main lines of such work as this that aesthetic criticism, if it is to
  have any vital hold on the intelligent interests of the world, must
  proceed.” Laurence Binyon.

     + − =Sat. R.= 102: 799. D. 29, ’06. 1900w.


=Moore, Thomas.= Complete poetical works; with biographical sketch by
Nathan H. Dole. $1.25. Crowell.

  Uniform with the “Thin paper poets.”


=Moore, William Harrison.= Act of state in English law. *$3. Dutton.

                                                                7–18175.

  “A systematic treatment of ‘Matters of state.’ with numerous citations
  of important cases. ‘The type of “matter of state” is the matter
  between states, which, whether it be regulated by international law or
  not, and whether the acts in question are or are not in accord with
  international law, is not a subject of municipal jurisdiction.’”—N. Y.
  Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 59. F. 2. ’07. 60w.

  “Mr. Moore has taken a generous view of what his subject includes, and
  his book is not only interesting to read but it will facilitate the
  work of those high legal personages whose dignified labours lie on
  this borderland of international and municipal law.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 102: 812. D. 29, ’06. 280w.


=More, Mrs. Louise Bolard.= Wage-earners’ budgets: a study of standards
and cost of living in New York city; with a preface by Franklin H.
Geddings. (Greenwich house series of social studies, no. 1.) **$2.50.
Holt.

                                                                7–30623.

  A study of the social, economic and industrial life of the
  wage-earners of a city neighborhood, based upon an inquiry into the
  economic status of two hundred families whose struggle for existence
  is most intense. The investigator’s final list was made up of families
  who proved able and willing to coöperate with her intelligently and
  patiently in keeping simple accounts, and in making careful,
  verifiable statements. The statistics are presented in tabulated form
  and throw light upon incomes, expenditures and standards of living.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “As a contribution to our concrete knowledge of social conditions the
  present work bears the only test to which it need be subjected—it is
  accurate, specific, and detailed.” John Cummings.

       + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 560. N. ’07. 560w.

  “The value of the book consists, then, in its detailed study of how a
  certain class of working people live.” Charles S. Bernheimer.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 642. O. 19, ’07. 1050w.


=More, Paul Elmer.= Shelburne essays. 4 ser. ea. **$1.25. Putnam.

                                                                6–45344.

  =ser. 4.= This closing series of Mr. More’s essays contains,
  “informing and delightful criticisms” of such celebrities as Robert
  Stephens Hawker, Fanny Burney, George Herbert, John Keats, Benjamin
  Franklin, Charles Lamb and Walt Whitman. There are also three other
  essays in the group. A note on ‘Daddy’ Crisp, The theme of ‘Paradise
  lost’ and The letters of Horace Walpole.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Scholarly, thoughtful essays on literature. Style clever, sometimes
  charming. For the student rather than the average reader.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 46. F. ’07. (Review of v. 4)

  “Is the most interesting which he has published since his first.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 759. S. 26, ’07. 530w. (Review of v 4.)

  “By this time Mr. More has got his philosophy of life sufficiently
  well in hand to use it rather as a means of orientating himself with
  reference to his subject than as an end in itself.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 1229. N. 21, ’07. 110w. (Review of v. 4.)

         =Nation.= 83: 481. D. 6, ’06. 60w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “Never here shall we find anything more than comfort and instruction.
  The one thing more that we should desire to find is inspiration.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 42. Ja. 26, ’07. 380w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “He makes no cheap bid for favor. He dispenses altogether with
  smartness, and almost altogether with humor. He is never audacious,
  like Mr. Lang, nor ironical, like Mr. Saintsbury. He possesses no gift
  of style, but writes in clear, unembarrassed sentences, making a
  legitimate demand upon the intelligence of his readers.” Agnes
  Repplier.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 88. F. 9, ’07. 840w. (Review of v. 4.)
         (Reprinted from Philadelphia public register.)

  “By the soundness of his critical method, and by virtue of the range,
  depth, and precision of knowledge, combined with literary charm and
  human interest, which these essays evince, Mr. More, takes a secure
  place in the forefront of American criticism.” Horatio S. Krans.

     + + =Putnam’s.= 1: 752. Mr. ’07. 1060w. (Review of v. 4.)

  “The essays are appreciative, and it is saying little for them to
  assert that no one, however familiar he may be with the men into whose
  characters and works they probe so tenderly and searchingly, can fail
  to receive instruction from the book. Moreover, the style is limpid
  and easy; the author is never ‘clever’ or paradoxical, according to
  the new fashion; he is never startlingly witty, but always sane and
  apt; and a spirit of sweet reasonableness prevades all.”

     + + =Spec.= 99: 91. Jl. 20, ’07. 1460w. (Review of v. 4.)


=Morgan, Conway Lloyd.= Interpretation of nature. **$1.25. Putnam.

                                                                6–42351.

  “This little book is an extension of an article which appeared in the
  ‘Contemporary review’ of May, 1905. It deals with the scientific and
  teleological aspects of the interpretation of nature, the aim of the
  book being, in the author’s words, to show that a belief in purpose as
  the casual reality of which nature is an expression is not
  inconsistent with a full and whole-hearted acceptance of the
  explanations of naturalism within their appropriate sphere.” (Int. J.
  Ethics.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is enriched with extremely well selected examples, which
  serve to make clear and precise the author’s meaning and to make the
  book intelligible and interesting to the general reader.” C. T.
  Preece.

       + =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 517. Jl. ’06. 670w.

  “This little book deals with big questions, and many who have pondered
  over them will be grateful to the author for the lucidity of his
  argument, which is an expression of his own clear vision.”

       + =Nature.= 73: 265. Ja. 18, ’06. 1410w.

         =Outlook.= 84: 940. D. 15, ’06. 200w.


=Morgan, George.= True Patrick Henry. **$2. Lippincott.

                                                                7–27032.

  An intimately analytical biography of Patrick Henry thruout which the
  white light is turned upon him. He lives again in the atmosphere of
  the revolution, becomes the center of situations and scenes which he
  dominated, is lawyer, orator, soldier, statesman and executive, and is
  seen surrounded by his contemporaries and friends. The historical
  value of the study is apparent, while it is as fascinating as any
  romance.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The rapid narrative style, plentifully seasoned with personal details
  quite upholds the claim of the publishers that the book is ‘as
  readable as a spirited romance.’”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 280w.


=Morgan, James.= Theodore Roosevelt: the boy and the man. $1.50.
Macmillan.

                                                                7–31182.

  A simple, straightforward, withal complete sketch of our president,
  showing the rounds by which he did ascend to the present heights from
  which he defends and promulgates America’s sturdiest democratic
  principles. “Its aim is to present a life of action by portraying the
  varied dramatic scenes in the career of a Man who still has the
  enthusiasm of a Boy, and whose energy and faith have illustrated
  before the world the spirit of Young America.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Written in a mechanical style and without originality but will be
  useful until replaced by a better work.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 196. N. ’07.

  “The book is one that will appeal to the ‘plain people.’”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 614. O. 26, ’07. 350w.

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 917. D. 14, ’07. 70w.

  “He has accomplished a difficult task accurately and impartially.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 424. N. 7, ’07. 240w.

  “Rarely is a living man so adequately celebrated. Mr. Morgan’s
  appreciation of his subject is hearty; his selection of material out
  of the enormous mass of Rooseveltiana available is so admirably
  calculated to his purpose that the reviewer can do no better than
  quote from the text. An almost ideal biography.”

   + + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 610. O. 12, ’07. 1250w.

  “Altogether, this new biography is one of the indispensable books of
  its class so far as contemporary literature is concerned.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 36: 635. N. ’07. 300w.


=Morgan, Lewis H.= Ancient society; or, Researches in the lines of human
progress from savagery through barbarism to civilization. $1.50. Holt.

  Mr. Morgan classifies his study under four general heads as follows:
  Growth of intelligence through inventions and discoveries, Growth of
  the idea of government, Growth of the idea of the family and Growth of
  the idea of property. His presentation is logical and suggestive.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Ind.= 63: 1313. N. 28, ’07. 280w.

  “It is gratifying to see a reprint of a work which may be called one
  of the minor classics among American archeological monographs.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 842. My. 25, ’07. 120w.

  “We are glad to see so valuable, scholarly, and interesting a work
  again made accessible.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 546. S. 14, ’07. 350w.

  “Really epoch-marking work in the history of thought.”

     + + =Outlook.= 87: 537. N. 9, ’07. 180w.


=Morgan, Thomas Hunt.= Experimental zoology. *$2.75. Macmillan.

                                                                 7–3114.

  “A work of 450 pages, based on thirty-five lectures; a treatment that
  does not pretend to be entirely exhaustive, but for which ‘the plan
  has been to select the most typical and instructive cases.’ Divided
  into main sections on the Experimental study of evolution; Growth;
  Grafting; Influence of environment on the life cycle; Determination of
  sex, and Secondary sexual characters.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The novelty of the field covered in this work and the very
  fundamental bearings of the data and hypotheses here gathered in a
  critical summary combine to make Professor Morgan’s work indispensable
  to anyone who wishes critical information of recent movements in the
  biological world.”

     + + =Dial.= 42: 228. Ap. 1, ’07. 400w.

  “Professor Morgan’s book is the best, indeed the only up-to-the-moment
  abstract of the results and the various phases of this experimental
  investigation of the life and make-up of animals. It is not primarily
  a book for the general reader, but there is no other for him on the
  same subject. And he can better afford not to understand a few of
  Professor Morgan’s references and yet be able to rely on what he does
  understand as being true, than to look for a more popular and less
  reliable account.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 218. Jl. 25, ’07. 820w.

  “There is much original matter, in spite of the space necessarily
  given to compilation. The most serious defect is in the index, which
  is all too scant for such a mass of diverse subject matter.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 343. Ap. 11, ’07. 490w.

  “We may be allowed to compliment the author on his highly successful
  execution of an arduous task; his workmanship is marked by
  carelessness, lucidity and impartiality, by the salt of good-tempered
  criticism.” J. A. T.

     + + =Nature.= 76: 313. Ag. 1, ’07. 1160w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 60w.

  “The book treats primarily of those subjects and problems of
  experimental zoology which have not been considered in other books.
  The material which is presented is not always fully digested. Style
  and method of presentation present certain features which can be due
  only to haste or lack of care.” C. M. Child.

     + − =Science=, n.s. 26: 824. D. 13, ’07. 3920w.


=Morgan, William Conger.= Qualitative analysis as a laboratory basis for
the study of general inorganic chemistry. *$1.90. Macmillan.

                                                                6–42922.

  “Less a work for the beginner than for the student who has already
  acquired a certain familiarity with experimental chemistry. It is in
  fact, a comprehensive study of analysis from the theoretical side....
  The book is divided into sections, the first of which deals with
  general principles, such as mass action, equilibrium, reversible
  changes, and dissociation; the second section is devoted to reactions
  of the common elements, arranged according to the periodic system, and
  the third deals with systematic analysis.”—Nature.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “To those who want a textbook with ionic notation, and do not mind
  having the names of certain elements and compounds written in the
  American spelling, this book is to be highly commended.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 543. My. 4. 300w.

  “A course of general educational value.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 388. Ap. 25, ’07. 360w.

  “It is simply and clearly written, although the American spelling and
  the alternate use of names and symbols in the text are a little
  confusing to the English reader. Nevertheless, the book has a distinct
  character of its own; it is interesting and suggestive, and will fill
  a gap in chemical philosophic literature.” J. B. C.

     + − =Nature.= 75: 582. Ap. 18, ’07. 170w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 50w.

  “The press work of the book is excellent and typographical errors are
  very few. There is a complete index.” Jas. Lewis Howe.

       + =Science=, n.s. 25: 535. Ap. 5, ’07. 1120w.


=Morley, Margaret Warner.= Grasshopper land. †$1.25. McClurg.

                                                                7–17914.

  The foreword to this careful inquiry into the affairs of the denizens
  of grasshopperland explains that the book is not for children but for
  their “grandfathers and grandmothers who were once boys and girls in
  the country and who may be in danger after all these years, of
  forgetting about grasshoppers.” But the little volume will not only
  refresh the memories of those who have forgotten, but will also tell
  those, who never knew, much that is interesting about the ways of the
  grasshopper folk. There are many illustrations from drawings.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “She evidently knows a great deal about such insects, and what she
  knows she has set forth in very entertaining and lucid form.” George
  Gladden.

       + =Bookm.= 25: 625. Ag. ’07. 130w.

  “The book is a well executed piece of sugar-coated science, intended
  for children or amateur naturalists, and is couched in literary rather
  than scientific form.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 380. Je. 16, ’07. 90w.

  “This information will be convenient for teachers by giving them
  something more to talk about.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 1354. Je. 6, ’07. 80w.


=Morris, Charles.= Heroes of discovery in America. **$1.25. Lippincott.

                                                                6–15411.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Useful in the children’s room as well as in the general library.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 12. Ja. ’07. S.


=Morris, Charles.= Heroes of progress in America. **$1.25. Lippincott.

                                                                6–43546.

  Short chapters deal with forty-five men who have taken the initiative
  along the highroads of statesmanship, invention, scientific research,
  benevolent activity and moral earnestness from the days of Roger
  Williams to the present.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 12. Ja. 07. S.

  “The language is simple and easily understood by the younger readers.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 902. D. 29, ’06. 70w.


=Morris, Charles.= Heroes of the army in America. **$1.25. Lippincott.

                                                                6–43547.

  America’s fighters by land and sea, “striking for liberty and union
  and sowing the land with memories of valiant deeds” furnish many a
  narrative for the youthful patriot of to-day. There are thirty-six men
  in Mr. Morris’ group including men from George Washington to Nelson A.
  Miles.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 13. Ja. ’07. S.

  “Should be a valuable form of supplementary reading.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 902. D. 22, ’06. 100w.


=Morris, Charles.= Heroes of the navy in America. *$1.25. Lippincott.

                                                                7–15488.

  Accounts of conflicts on the high seas which do honor to both our navy
  and the heroes who fought in it. There are chapters upon: John Paul
  Jones, William Bainbridge, Stephen Decatur, James Lawrence, David
  Porter, Oliver Perry, Farragut, Dewey, Hobson, and a score of others
  as brave if not as well known.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is exceedingly well adapted to the needs of young readers. Treating
  chiefly, although not entirely, of our naval successes, it presents a
  rather one-sided and flattering picture of our naval history as a
  whole.” Charles Oscar Paullin.

       + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 185. O. ’07. 410w.

         =Dial.= 43: 21. Jl. 1, ’07. 180w.

  “Mr. Morris knows how to tell a story, and his compendium ought to
  attract many who do not see their way to attacking the minute Mahan,
  the much-questioned Maclay, the entirely discredited Buell, or the
  laborious Spears.” Montgomery Schuyler.

       + =Putnam’s.= 3: 100. O. ’07. 150w.


=Morris, Charles.= Home life in all lands. **$1. Lippincott.

                                                                7–28638.

  A book that might be used as a supplementary reader for geography
  classes. It tells of the people of far-away quarters of the world,
  their queer food, strange clothing, curious habits, customs and
  methods of securing a living.


=Morris, Charles.= Old South and the new. **$2.25. Winston.

                                                                7–36220.

  A complete illustrated history of the southern states, their
  resources, their people and their cities, and the inspiring story of
  their wonderful growth in industry and riches from the earliest times
  to the Jamestown exposition.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 20w.


=Morris, George Van Derveer.= Polly. $1.50. Neale.

                                                                6–46773.

  A fairy tale of love in which it is shown that men love not so much
  the reality, the substance, as they do the ideal.


=Morris, J.= Makers of Japan. *$3. McClurg.

                                                                W 6–266.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Mr. Morris, has given us in his volume a most entertaining and
  valuable review of the work of the great statesmen of our rising Far
  Eastern neighbor.” Laura Bell.

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 233. Ja. ’07. 420w.

  “Convenient for newspaper reference, and for all those who do not seek
  more than the current notions about distinguished men.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 80. Jl. 25, ’07. 30w.


=Morris, William.= Stories from Morris, by Madalen Edgar. (Children’s
favorite classics.) 60c. Crowell.

                                                                7–22916.

  Stories from “The earthly paradise.” The author has held close to
  Morris’ rehabilitation of the spirit of the middle ages with its
  superstitious belief in magic, and its love of mystery and romance.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “To strip his work of all its poetic beauty, its meaning, and its
  intellectual distinction is unfair both to him and his childish
  readers.”

     − + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 568. S. 21, ’07. 320w.


=Morrison, Arthur.= Chronicles of Martin Hewett, detective. $1.50. Page.

                                                                7–12979.

  A new illustrated edition of the earlier adventures of Hewett whose
  “‘well known powers’ are nothing but common sense assiduously applied
  and made quick by habit.”


=Morrison, Arthur.= Martin Hewitt investigator. †$1.25. Harper.

  A new edition of Mr. Morrison’s detective stories. Martin Hewitt,
  master of both the science and art of detective study, is an
  interesting personality. In addition to the usual keen perception,
  shrewd observation, and deft logic required of sleuths, he operates
  the law of human kindness.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Nation.= 84: 457. My. 16, ’07. 280w.

  “The stories present many varied phases of crime, and they are very
  well told.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 239. Ap. 13, ’07. 130w.

       + =Outlook.= 85: 812. Ap. 6, ’07. 50w.


=Morse, Edward Sylvester.= Mars and its mystery. **$2. Little.

                                                                6–31643.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Charmingly written, well worth reading, but deals with perhaps too
  much assurance about matters concerning which there are wide
  differences of opinion among astronomers.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 47. F. ’07.

  “His book is carelessly put together, repetitious, decidedly
  partisan—and always lively.” E. T. Brewster.

     − + =Atlan.= 100: 262. Ag. ’07. 40w.

  “The present author takes the viewpoint, rather, of the special
  pleader, marshals the evidence that bolsters up the theory he is
  advancing, ridicules opinions divergent from his own, and leaves the
  reader in a state of wonder as to what arguments might be advanced on
  the other side of the question.” Herbert A. Howe.

     − + =Dial.= 42: 75. F. 1, ’07. 950w.

     + − =Ind.= 61: 1567. D. 27, ’06. 160w.

  “One cannot but admire the ingenuity of his argument, even if unable
  to accept his conclusion.”

     + − =Nation.= 34: 317. Ap. 4, ’07. 490w.

  “The book is a useful guide to further study of the subject, as it
  gives full references to the original sources of information.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 846. D. 8, ’07. 190w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 117. Ja. ’07. 60w.


* =Moryson, Fynes.= Itinerary of Fynes Moryson. 4v. ea. *$3.25.
Macmillan.

  “Containing his ten yeeres travell through the twelve dominions of
  Germany, Bohmerland, Sweitzerland, Netherland, Denmarke, Poland,
  Italy, Turky, France, England Scotland and Ireland.” This reprint is
  the first in full since the original was published in 1617.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Nation.= 85: 470. N. 21, ’07. 90w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “Is worthy of a place on the shelf which contains that delightful work
  of ancient travel and whimsical humor, ‘Coryat’s crudities.’”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 748. N. 30, ’07. 240w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

       + =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. N. 16, ’07. 240w. (Review of v. 1 and
         2.)

  “Full of interesting matter.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 871. N. 30, ’07. 550w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)


=Mosenthal, Philip J.=, and =Horne, Charles F.=, eds. City college;
memories of sixty years; ed. for the Associate alumni of the college of
the city of New York. *$5. Putnam.

  A memorial volume recording the life and history of the college of the
  city of New York, prior to its removal to its new home on St. Nicholas
  Heights.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The work has been done and notably well done.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 972. Ag. 31, ’07. 160w.

  “It is a mosaic of admirable arrangement whose separate stones have
  been polished for the setting by a number of distinguished alumni.”

       + =Putnam’s.= 2: 721. S. ’07. 250w.


=Moses, Bernard.= Government of the United States. *$1.05. Appleton.

                                                                6–12152.

  “This is a sketch of the organization and general methods of working
  of the United States government. The subject matter rather outruns the
  title, as all grades of government, and not the national alone, are
  covered.” (Ann. Am. Acad.) “Especially noteworthy is an inclusion
  among the topics of that new phase of American government—the
  dependencies. Roosevelt’s letter instructions to the Philippine board
  and an act of Congress bearing upon it are appended.” (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The style of the work is pleasing and there is no unnecessary
  padding.”

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 165. Jl. ’07. 90w.

  “The discussion of the various topics are very lucid and followed by
  the fullest topical references, perhaps a little too advanced for the
  average student.”

       + =Ind.= 61: 256. Ag. 2, ’06. 80w.


=Moses, Josiah.= Pathological aspects of religions. *$1.50. Stechert.

                                                                6–32848.

  “A dissertation for the doctorate at Clark university, made by a
  diligent collection of more or less important instances of the
  perversion of the religious instinct, such as mysticism, fetichism,
  ritualism, emotionalism, etc.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is very little originality perceptible either in his methods or
  conclusions.”

     − + =Ind.= 61: 759. S. 27, ’06. 50w.

  “Its value is impaired by a number of misstatements of fact, and by
  the author’s lack of training in historical research. The
  proofreading, also, is very bad. As Dr. Moses’s general points of view
  are good, we feel confident that he will be able to revise his book in
  such a way as to bring out more clearly its fundamental idea.”

     − + =Nation.= 84: 158. F. 14, ’07. 1000w.


* =Moses, Montrose Jonas.= Children’s books and reading. *$1.50.
Kennerley.

                                                                7–38221.

  A practical, workable guide to children’s books and reading prepared
  after consultation with leading librarians. There are chapters
  covering the history of children’s books from early times to the
  present day and others dealing with the general purpose of the books
  besides a sixty-seven page appendix of book-lists carefully arranged
  and classified.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 759. D. ’07. 50w.


=Moses, Montrose Jonas.= Famous actor families in America. **$2.
Crowell.

                                                                6–34709.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Contains much useful material, but little that is new; some of it is
  trivial. In spite of it, it will be referred to often in reference
  work and will interest readers who care for the drama.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 47. F. ’07.

  “Not many of the books which have been published about actors have had
  the interest or the literary merit of ... ‘Famous actor families in
  America.’”

       + =Ind.= 62: 331. F. 7, ’07. 440w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 90w.


=Moss, Mary.= Poet and the parish. †$1.50. Holt.

                                                                6–34369.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 42: 16. Ja. 1, ’07. 380w.


=Mother Goose.= Mother Goose in silhouettes cut by Katharine G. Buffum.
†75c. Houghton.

                                                                7–30443.

  Mother Goose uniquely illustrated in silhouettes that have a taking
  way of speaking for themselves.


=Mott, Lawrence.= To the credit of the sea. †$1.50. Harper.

                                                                7–17361.

  Eight dramatic stories of the sea and the fishermen of the Labrador
  coast: To the credit of the sea, The white squall, The world of
  waters, The leaving of a dory, The best man out of Labrador, Uncle Sam
  Simmons, To’mie’s luck, and Adrift.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Will interest the lover of sea yarns.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 178. O. ’07.

  “We are glad to recommend this book as the best its author has
  produced.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 789. Je. 29. 200w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 359. Je. 1, ’07. 120w.

  “The stories ... are quite brutal, yet lightened by attempts at
  current popular sentiment.”

     − + =Outlook.= 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 60w.


=Mott, Lawrence.= White darkness and other stories of the great
Northwest. $1.50. Outing.

                                                                 7–4162.

  Sixteen “tales of the blood-and-iron men of the Northland.” Stories of
  the trappers and the brave hearts that beat beneath their rough
  exteriors, stories of the Indians and the work of the Canadian mounted
  police; all are intensely dramatic and are told with much feeling and
  few words as befits the lonely snow-curtained land where passions are
  elemental and death is a matter of daily encounter. The tales include
  beside the title story; Jaquette, The silver fox, The current of fear,
  Wa-gush, Follette, The talking of Almighty voice, and others.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 78. Mr. ’07.

  “The stories are all picturesque, and some contain really vivid
  descriptive writing. There is a photographic quality about them.
  Clean-cut and clever, they have craft, but not art, except, perhaps,
  in two cases.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 686. N. 30. 110w.

  “What differentiates the stories of Lawrence Mott from those of Mr.
  London is the occasional unforseen flash of generosity and
  self-sacrifice, the revelation of tenderness in unexpected quarters,
  that shines out like a beacon light across the gloom of the pictures
  he draws.”

       + =Bookm.= 25: 183. Ap. ’07. 440w.

  “These stories are all of the type known as ‘magazinable;’ which means
  that the chances are against their proving (to invent a similar verbal
  horror) really ‘bookable.’”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 201. F. 28, ’07. 120w.

  “They have less of that strength, boldness, and incisiveness which
  make London’s life pictures stand out like silhouettes against a full
  white moon, but they have more appreciation of the lights and shadows
  in the picture, more gentleness of mood, and a more poetic
  appreciation of nature.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 114. F. 23, ’07. 300w.

  “Mr. Mott writes incisively with no waste of words, and he has the
  dramatic sense in a high degree, but tragic bloodshed is much more
  frequent in his pages than in Parker’s tales of the same sort.” Vernon
  Atwood.

       + =Putnam’s.= 2: 619. Ag. ’07. 160w.


=Mottram, William.= True story of George Eliot in relation to “Adam
Bede.” *$1.75. McClurg.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The reader who picks up the volume in search of a sensation will be
  sorely disappointed. It is a jumble of family traditions, diffusely
  written, and displaying a marvellous lack of transition: but it is a
  genuine production nevertheless.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 293. Mr. 28. ’07. 860w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 113. Ja. ’07. 100w.


=Moulton, Forest Ray.= Introduction to astronomy. *$1.60. Macmillan.

                                                                6–14049.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “A good text book. Its chief distinctive feature is the exposition of
  the ‘planetesimal theory’ propounded as a substitute for the nebular
  hypothesis of Laplace.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 47. F. ’07.

  “Prof. Moulton’s point of view is his own, in many ways unlike that of
  the textbooks in general use. Although the order and emphasis of
  presentation may be sometimes criticized, there can be no question
  that the book is throughout suggestive and stimulating.” Mary W.
  Whitney.

   + + − =Astrophys. J.= 25: 151. Mr. ’07. 920w.

  Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.

       + =Atlan.= 100: 263. Ag. ’07. 160w.


=Moulton, Richard Green.= Modern reader’s Bible: the books of the Bible
with three books of the Apocrypha presented in modern literary form; ed.
with introds. and notes. **$2. Macmillan.

                                                                7–34574.

  A one-volume edition of the reader’s Bible. The text used is that of
  the Revised version and the chapters and verses of the King James
  version are noted in figures on the margin. The general divisions
  follow the topical arrangement used in the volumes of the smaller
  separate editions.


=Moulton, Richard Green.= Shakespeare as a dramatic thinker: a popular
illustration of fiction as the experimental side of philosophy. *$1.50.
Macmillan.

                                                                7–29024.

  The introduction of Dr. Moulton’s study considers “What is implied in
  ‘The moral system of Shakespeare.’” Following his preliminary
  observations he conducts his inquiry along three lines of thought: the
  first presents particular dramas to illustrate what may be recognized
  as root ideas in the philosophy of Shakespeare; the second surveys the
  world of Shakespeare’s creation in its moral complexity; the third
  considers the forces of life in Shakespeare’s moral world, so far as
  these express themselves in dramatic forms from personal will at one
  end of the scale to overruling providence at the other end.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The weakness of the book lies chiefly in just this neglect of the
  oft-despised sources. The reputation of the work as suggestive and
  stimulating is of course deserved, and it will doubtless long continue
  to serve as a useful guide in a fruitful kind of study.”

     + − =Dial.= 43: 291. N. 1, ’07. 130w.


=Mozart, Johann.= Twenty piano compositions; ed. by Carl Reinecke.
(Musician’s lib., v. 26.) $2.50; pa. $1.50. Ditson.

                                                                 7–1326.

  The twenty selections from Mozart composition are prefaced by a
  sympathetic biographical sketch by Dr. Reinecke.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is probably no one volume better fitted to arouse the piano
  student’s interest in Mozart.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 101. Ap. ’07.

       + =Dial.= 42: 260. Ap. 16, ’07. 190w.

       + =Nation.= 84: 319. Ap. 4, ’07. 420w.


=Mudd, Samuel A.= Life of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd; ed. by his daughter,
Nettie Mudd; with preface by D. Eldridge Monroe. $3. Neale.

                                                                    7–3.

  Containing his letters from Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas island, where
  he was imprisoned four years for alleged complicity in the
  assassination of Abraham Lincoln, with statements of Mrs. Samuel A.
  Mudd, Dr. S. A. Mudd, and Edward Spangler regarding the assassination
  and the argument of General Ewing on the question of the jurisdiction
  of the Military commission and on the law and facts of the case, also
  “diary” of John Wilkes Booth.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 722. Ap. ’07. 80w.

         =Ind.= 62: 619. Mr. 14, ’07. 50w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 63. F. 2, ’07. 330w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 386. Mr. ’07. 120w.


=Mudge, James.= Fenelon: the mystic. *$1. West. Meth. bk.

                                                                7–14595.

  An appreciative treatment of Fénelon, his life, character, and
  influence is contained in this volume of the “Men of the kingdom”
  series.


=Mulford, Clarence E.= Bar—20. $1.50. Outing.

                                                                7–23640.

  “Twenty-five chapters of gunpowder smoke, of shanty towns in New
  Mexico or Texas, thick with dust, pierced with bullets, strewn with
  prostrate forms of cowboys. Terse descriptions of alkali plains, of
  Gila monsters cayuses and the playful manners of the Bar–20
  outfit.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Delightful one dollar and a half ‘dime novel.’”

       + =Ind.= 63: 942. O. 17, ’07. 180w.

  “The narrative is full of swing, so full as to swing past at top speed
  without making any particular impression beyond the fact that Bar–20
  invariably worsts its enemies.”

       − =Nation.= 85: 168. Ag. 22, ’07. 310w.

  “A rattling good story.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 502. Ag. 17, ’07. 380w.


* =Mumby, Frank Arthur=, ed. Letters of literary men. 2v. ea. *$1.
Dutton.

                                                                7–18132.

  Two volumes of letters which begin with Frances Burney and end with
  Robert Buchanan. The collection is divided into four groups as
  follows: The age of Wordsworth and Scott, The age of Byron, The early
  Victorian age and The age of Tennyson.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Mumby might have left his work to responsible critics, without
  suggesting that it was thorough and painstaking. It is both, and the
  volumes afford some of the most interesting reading which we have come
  across of late. The editor’s short notes by way of introduction are
  capable, and his taste in selection, on the whole, admirable.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 99. Ja. 26. 280w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “A very attractive and companionable book. In these two volumes you
  have not only an index museum to most of the best letter writers of
  the last two centuries, but also a quantity of invaluable material for
  testing and revivifying many of the salient or amusing passages in
  literary annals.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 426. D. 21, ’06. 1300w. (Review of v. 1 and
         2.)

  “There is a wealth of good reading which is of exactly the right kind
  to take up and dip into at any place for a half-hour’s rational
  enjoyment.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 356. O. 19, ’07. 170w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “Mr. Mumby has done his work well. One or two letters could have been
  spared.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: 25. Ja. 5, ’07. 180w.

  “It is the autobiographical interest of these letters that appeals
  most to the reader.”

       + =Spec.= 98: sup. 643. Ap. 27, ’07. 1800w.


* =Munn, Charles Clark.= Boyhood days on the farm: a story for young and
old boys. il. †$1.50. Lothrop.

                                                                7–38603.

  In which the old gambrel-roofed farmhouse with open fireplace, big
  woodshed and tall well-sweep, the meadow and stream, and the isolated
  school at the cross roads are rescued from oblivion and made the
  environment of a farmer lad of the old New England type. The winter
  and summer humdrum is pictured with all a youngster’s resentment of
  the irksomeness of so tame a life yet it is made the all-important
  factor in the sturdy development of a type that has ever been
  prominent in the nation’s development.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 769. N. 30, ’07. 150w.


=Munro, Neil.= Bud. †$1.50. Harper.

                                                                7–20870.

  Bud is a little Chicago girl who steps serenely into the home of her
  staid aunts in a Scottish village. She is a contradictory mixture of
  owlish wisdom and baby ignorance, and whenever she expresses her
  thoughts it is with a goodly bit of slang that shocks her newly found
  relatives. It is a charming book with a freshness entirely its own.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We cannot readily forgive Mr. Munro for permitting the child to have
  the inevitable attack of pneumonia in chapter thirteen, and his
  descriptive style when elated is like that of Dickens at his worst.
  But, after all, Bud is the thing, and Bud, if we may use an expression
  that might have come from her lips, is a peach with a stone in it.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 562. Je. 8, ’07. 230w.

  “Although the child is overdrawn and speaks a language too
  picturesque, and the story has no particular merit, there is a
  freshness about it that many will find charming.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 179. O. ’07. ✠

  “Not perhaps a book of solid merit, or dazzling wit, but neither is it
  in the least dull or in the least pretentious.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 16. Jl. 4, ’07. 270w.

  “A pretty story this, but badly constructed.”

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 40w.

  “She is a fascinating child, and though the book is spun out
  unnecessarily, and Mr. Munro’s humour is at times strained, her
  dealings with her neighbors make a very pleasant story.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 787. Je. 22, ’07. 160w.

  “Though the little American play-actress is the central figure of this
  high-spirited and wholesome entertainment, its abiding charm resides
  in the portraiture of the ‘people of the placid, old, half-rustic
  world, that lives forever with realities, and seldom sees the passions
  counterfeited.’”

       + =Spec.= 98: 908. Je. 8, ’07. 700w.


=Munro, William Bennett.= Seigniorial system in Canada: a study in
French colonial policy. *$2. Longmans.

                                                                7–11561.

  “Beginning with an introductory chapter on the European background of
  French colonization. Dr. Munro traces the history of the seigniorial
  grants from 1598 to 1760. After this, with the elaborate critical
  apparatus and bibliography of the ‘scientific historian,’ he describes
  the relations of the seignior to his superiors and his dependents, and
  the fiscal and religious systems of New France. He concludes with
  chapters on British Canada which strengthen our growing conviction
  that the American revolutionists were uninformed when they made the
  famous Quebec act a chief grievance against Great Britain.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Within the limits he imposes on himself he has done his task
  extremely well. He is always accurate. The bibliographical apparatus
  is excellent and altogether the book attains to a very high standard
  both of historical insight and of scholarship.”

     + + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 171. O. ’07. 1040w.

  “For the student of colonial history this book offers a valuable
  sidelight; for the Canadian student its direct value must be great. It
  will be long before the work has to be done again.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 944. O. 17, ’07. 240w.

  “It has been reserved for Professor Munro not only to coördinate
  materials which were brought together fifty years ago with those which
  have been accumulated by his own efforts, but to supply the proper
  perspective, enliven obscure details by critical insight, and set
  forth the seigniorial system, as an organic whole.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 283. S. 26, ’07. 1530w.

  “The foregoing criticisms, it will be noted, deal with minor matters,
  Professor Munro’s book is to be heartily recommended to all students
  of Canadian institutions.” F. P. Walton.

   + + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 729. D. ’07. 960w.

  “It is indeed a mine of information, all the more valuable that it is
  written throughout with absolute dispassionateness.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 104: 517. O. 26, ’07. 1000w.

  “We congratulate the author on the success with which he has
  accomplished his task. The only portion of his work that seems to fall
  below the high level reached in the earlier chapters is that which
  deals with the period of British control, a phase of the subject which
  might well receive separate and fuller treatment.” Charles M. Andrews.

   + + − =Yale R.= 16: 321. N. ’07. 600w.


=Munson, John William.= Reminiscences of a Mosby guerrilla. **$2.
Moffat.

                                                                6–40255.

  Mr. Munson became one of the Partisan rangers at the beginning of
  their career and remained until the final surrender. “The spirit of
  the author is fair and his admiration of courage impartial. Every one
  who rode with Mosby has exciting experiences, hot fighting, fast
  riding, and narrow escapes.” (Outlook.) “It is hardly history that he
  gives, but rather adventure with a historic setting. Or if it be
  called history, it must be classified as of that specialized type
  produced south of Mason and Dixon’s line among a people imaginative
  and emotional, but not analytical or introspective.” (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Contains much repetition, but is otherwise interesting in the manner
  of telling as well as matter, and is characterized by considerable
  humor.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 47. F. ’07.

       + =Dial.= 42: 145. Mr. 1. ’07. 590w.

  “Tells in a spirited and captivating way the story of Mosby’s
  guerrillas.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 618. Mr. 14, ’07. 330w.

         =Nation.= 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 160w.

  “This is a plain, clear narrative, told with no pretense of literary
  grace or historical accuracy, but with abundance of stirring
  incident.”

       + =Outlook.= 84. 842. D. 1. ’06. 80w.


=Munsterberg, Hugo.= Eternal life. **85c. Houghton.

                                                                5–11083.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

  “It is conceived in a somewhat sentimental fashion. The argument,
  though expounded in an attractive and popular manner, is, however,
  essentially metaphysical.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 377. Mr. 30. 110w.


=Munsterberg, Hugo.= Science and idealism. **85c. Houghton.

                                                                6–15720.

  “This little book gives the text of a lecture delivered last winter
  before the students of Yale university. In it Professor Munsterberg
  indicates in brief compass his position in regard to certain
  fundamental philosophical problems, restating in somewhat popular form
  the theories of the relations of science to experience, and of the
  classification of the sciences, which are already familiar to readers
  of the books and articles which he has published during the last few
  years.”—Philos. R.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This little book is remarkable in that it presents in clear and
  simple outline a system of transcendental philosophy that is
  admittedly both abstruse and elaborate.” W. P. Montague.

     + + =J. Philos.= 4: 161. Mr. 14, ’07. 1370w.

  “The form of this presentation is admirably clear and direct.
  Moreover, it is throughout dignified and earnest, as becomes an
  address on serious topics, and does not seek to gain popularity and
  effectiveness by the adoption of slang or phrases caught up from the
  man on the street.” J. E. C.

     + + =Philos. R.= 16: 95. Ja. ’07. 520w.


=Murray, A. M.= Imperial outposts, from a strategical and commercial
aspect; with special reference to the Japanese alliance; with a preface
by Earl Roberts. *$3.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–38236.

  “Colonel Murray makes a strategical and commercial survey of imperial
  outposts with a special eye to the obligations of the Japanese
  alliance. His book is the result of a journey to the Mediterranean,
  Aden, Hong Kong and other British fortified stations, as well as to
  Japan and Canada. It is based on first hand-information which should
  be useful to all who wish to make a study of the conditions in which
  the Empire would find itself on the outbreak of a great war. When
  Colonel Murray wants to express an opinion, as a rule he gives that of
  an expert whose views he has had the advantage of obtaining
  direct.”—Sat. R.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “If we note those opinions from which we differ, it must be with the
  preliminary remarks that there is still more in the book with which we
  thoroughly agree, and that the whole of it is suggestive and worthy of
  the most careful consideration.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 533. My. 4. 1140w.

  “He knows how to put things shortly, and he does not hesitate to state
  the conclusions which his information has led him to form, whether
  they are or are not favourable to the existing state of things.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 275. S. 13, ’07. 1300w.

  “The number of material points touched on is great; the work is one of
  much value.” George R. Bishop.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 501. Ag. 17, 07. 1250w.

  “Colonel Murray’s is a volume of peculiar interest to the military
  strategist of whatever country.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 611. Jl. 20, ’07. 720w.

  “It is in no sense of the word authoritative and is but a slight
  contribution to our knowledge.” G: Louis Beer.

       + =Putnam’s.= 2: 745. S. ’07. 70w.

  “This book will materially assist the study and closer knowledge of
  the Empire from Malta round the world to Halifax.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 103: 660. My. 25, ’07. 230w.

  “The book has made us feel two things: first, that we should like to
  see every officer in the British army with the wide vision and
  interest in the strategical and commercial organization of the empire
  which Colonel Murray displays; and secondly, that we should desire
  more evidence before accepting all the very definite conclusions of
  the author.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: 831. My. 25, ’07. 1650w.


=Murray, David.= Japan; rev. ed. (Story of the nations.) **$1.35.
Putnam.

                                                                6–37650.

  Continuing the history to the close of 1905, with the provisions of
  the Treaty of Portsmouth between Russia and Japan, and supplementary
  chapters by Baron Kentaro Kaneko.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Yet deserves a place in a popular library, however, for its
  comparative freedom from sentimental and moral judgment of the things
  narrated, as well as for its wealth of descriptive, though
  uncritically presented data. Mr. Vorse’s two supplementary chapters on
  the constitution and the Chinese and Russian wars seem to possess
  singularly strong and weak points. Baron Kaneko’s two lectures cannot
  be said to deserve a place in a book of history. They are pleas of an
  advocate, as well as amenities of an envoy.” K. Asakawa.

     + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 152. O. ’07. 1230w.

  “The real claim of the book depends not on the revised features so
  much as on the whole view it gives of Japanese history from the
  beginning of the empire down to the present time.”

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 417. Mr. ’07. 220w.

         =Nation.= 85: 80. Jl. 25, ’07. 30w.

       + =Outlook.= 85: 95. Ja. 12. ’07. 230w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 34: 753. D. ’06. 80w.


=Murray, James Erskine-.= Handbook of wireless telegraphy; its theory
and practice: for the use of electrical engineers. students, and
operators. *$3.50. Van Nostrand.

                                                                7–37604.

  A handbook which is not encyclopedic yet is more than a simple
  exposition of the subject. It is intended for those who understand
  something of the theory and practice of wireless telegraphy and who
  are familiar with the technical terms.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author has arranged what may be fairly considered a most thorough
  general treatise of wireless telegraphy, and one bringing together the
  latest knowledge and theories.”

     + + =Engin. N.= 58: 540. N. 14, ’07. 490w.

  “With all due respect to Dr. Erskine-Murray, we submit that this
  handbook is a striking example of how not to write on wireless
  telegraphy or any other subject. [Contains] much of intrinsic value
  and interest, particularly, for example the seventeenth chapter, on
  theories of transmission.” Maurice Solomon.

     + − =Nature.= 76: 563. O. 3, ’07. 660w.


=Murrell, Cornelia Randolph (Mrs. David Gamble Murrell).= What Marjorie
saw abroad. $1.50. Neale.

                                                                6–43797.

  A bright, wide-awake account of a trip abroad in which are given
  helpful bits of information for the prospective traveler. “It is not
  intended for a guide-book—only a forerunner.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The descriptions are accurate and good, and not so long drawn out as
  to be tiresome.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 19. Ja. 12, ’07. 120w.


=Muther, Richard.= History of modern painting; rev. ed. continued by the
author to the end of the 19th century. 4v. *$25. Dutton.

  A revision of the first German edition, appearing in 1894, which has
  been continued to the end of the nineteenth century. “Besides all the
  old illustrations from woodcuts and photographs, each of the new
  volumes contains about a dozen full-page plates in color—a fine
  gallery in themselves.” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “For a survey of so wide a field this is just what is wanted; a bold
  rather than a subtle vision and a valuable style that carries the
  reader along to the next chapter before he thinks of criticising the
  last.”

       + =Acad.= 73: 693. Jl. 20. ’07. 790w.

  “Suffers precisely from a certain determinism which prevents him from
  realizing the artistic life of this period in relation not only to the
  past, but also to the future.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 160. Ag. 10. 1480w.

  “The whole latter portion of the second volume is inferior to the rest
  of the work, and gives the effect of having been written in a much
  more hurried and perfunctory manner.” Elizabeth Kendall.

   + + − =Bookm.= 25: 619. Ag. ’07. 1430w.

  Reviewed by Anna B. McMahan.

       + =Dial.= 43: 11. Jl. 1. ’07. 130w.

  “It is not often that one is permitted to write with unqualified
  enthusiasm of a history of art that is encyclopedic in its range, for
  the reason that few men who have written upon the subject combine
  Professor Muther’s profound erudition, sureness of judgment,
  excellence of taste and grace and fluency of expression.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 220. Jl. 25, ’07. 550w.

  “At the end of the English survey only does he fail us.”

     + − =Int. Studio.= 32: 167. Ag. ’07. 310w.

  “The author, though there is a certain originality in his method
  (which is rather psychological than chronological) does not take the
  very high rank amongst art critics of the day claimed for him. In
  spite, however, of certain peculiarities of style, he has brought
  together in a convenient form a vast amount of information, and now
  and then hits on a very apt comparison.”

     + − =Int. Studio.= 32: 334. O. ’07. 230w.

  “Nowhere else can the student turn for an exhaustive critical study of
  the nineteenth century, a statement which, in itself, declares the
  unique value of this work.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 417. S. 21, ’07. 700w.

  “Every one—artist, connoisseur, and critic—who desires to learn the
  real mission of modern art and comprehend its present status as
  individually and still more or less nationally expressed should read
  Prof. Muther’s work.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 349. Je. 1, ’07. 1620w.

  “Americans ... will feel some sense of disappointment, therefore, in
  not finding more pages devoted to American art in Dr. Muther’s books.
  Dr. Muther writes with an incisive phrase, far removed from the
  ponderous, involved style of some of his compatriots.”

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 478. Je. 29, ’07. 550w.


=Muther, Richard.= History of painting; tr. from the Germ. and ed. with
critical notes by George Kriehn. **$5. Putnam.

                                                                7–11026.

  An “attempt to explain from the psychology of each period its dominant
  style and to interpret the works of art as ‘human documents.’” “The
  work is in two volumes and contains eighty illustrations. It deals
  with the entire development of European paintings from the ‘downfall
  of the antique world,’ the fourth century, to the early years of the
  nineteenth.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A valuable book.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 125. My. ’07.

  “The excellent bibliography and the index of artists are additional
  merits of these exhaustive, original, sumptuous volumes.” Anna B.
  McMahan.

     + + =Dial.= 43: 12. Jl. 1, ’07. 1920w.

  “It is only by comparison with the larger work that this two-volume
  ‘history of painting’ elicits criticism. There is hardly another work
  of similar scope that is at once so compact with information and so
  pleasant to read.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 220. Jl. 25, ’07. 110w.

  “He seeks the explanation of the painter’s work as a product of the
  times. Though Dr. Muther has not been the only writer to employ this
  method in the study of art, it is not the general fashion, and his
  development of it is conspicuous particularly for the breadth of the
  field to which he has applied it. The style is, for a book of the
  kind, unexpectedly spontaneous and free from the pedantic touch.”

     + + =Int. Studio.= 31: sup. 51. Ap. ’07. 880w.

  “His book reveals considerable familiarity with a very wide range of
  art, and may be read with as much advantage as entertainment, if the
  reader will constantly remain on his guard and take frequent
  opportunities of testing the author’s statements, especially when they
  strike him as particularly clever.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 182. Je. 7, ’07. 680w.

  “Dr. Muther’s faults are what seem to us the faults of broad
  philosophical generalizations based on erroneous or insufficient
  premises—the faults of a man who would take a large view of things
  without allowing himself to be hampered by inconvenient or tedious
  facts, who would, in a word, evolve his camel from his inner
  consciousness.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 85. Jl. 25, ’07. 2110w.

  “It is more elaborate and less encyclopaedic than ‘The story of art
  throughout the ages,’ by S. Reinach, and is hardly a ‘history’ in the
  general acceptation of the term. Its principal features are
  exposition, criticism and connoisseurship.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 811. D. 1, ’06. 80w.

  “His criticism is entirely modern—his appraisements justified by the
  effect produced on the modern mind. Vain endeavor, idiosyncrasy,
  custom—all are gauged according to the modern standard of satisfying
  results.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 300. My. 11, ’07. 580w.

  “His books are distinguished from others because, as far as possible,
  their author approaches every great movement and every great man from
  a purely psychological point of view. The result is gratifying.”

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 568. Je. 13, ’07. 480w.

  “From a strictly scientific standpoint the work as a whole is somewhat
  lacking in a due appreciation of the racial element in art, for the
  author is manifestly more of a psychologist than an ethnologist. And
  yet so grateful is one for these fresh, vital and inspirational
  volumes that criticism is almost disarmed.” Christian Brinton.

   + + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 124. Ap. ’07. 590w.

  “Scholarly work.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 639. My. ’07. 50w.


=Myers, Frederic William H.= Human personality and its survival of
bodily death; ed. and abridged by his son, Leopold H. Myers. **$3.
Longmans.

                                                                 7–1302.

  An abridged editions of a work whose aim “is principally, to collect
  evidence of the phenomena discussed. Nevertheless, the author enters
  to some extent, on the more difficult and dangerous path of
  interpretation and theory.” (Cath. World.) Following an introduction
  the chapter headings are as follows: Disintegration of personality,
  Genius, Sleep, Hypnotism, Sensory automatism, Phantasms of the dead,
  Motor automatism and Trance, possession and ecstasy.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 144. My. ’07.

  “One of the most valuable contributions that has been made to the
  literature of psychic science.”

     + + =Arena.= 36: 671. Je. ’07. 520w.

  “Without eliminating anything characteristic or typical, the editor
  has compressed the original into this one volume.”

       + =Cath. World.= 85: 254. My. ’07. 280w.




                                   N


=Naish, Ethel M.= Browning and dogma; seven lectures on Browning’s
attitude towards dogmatic religion. *$1.40. Macmillan.

                                                                 7–6792.

  In this volume the author “takes half a dozen poems—‘Caliban upon
  Setebos,’ ‘Cleon,’ ‘Bishop Blougram’s apology,’ ‘Christmas eve and
  Easter day,’ and ‘La Saisaz’—and subjects them to minute running
  analysis.”—Acad.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In all her two hundred pages there is no note of freshness or
  originality, and she has nothing of importance to contribute to our
  knowledge either of the special works selected or of Browning’s poetry
  in general.”

   − − + =Acad.= 70: 328. Ap. 7, ’06. 990w.

  “The style is clear and workmanlike, the matter often thoughtful, and
  the plan most patiently elaborated. The reader whose concern is with
  poetry, the reader, that is to say, who can hop with catholic delight
  from Milton to Shakespeare and from Keats to Wordsworth, will not get
  through this book. It is too conscientious.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 101: 398. Mr. 31, ’06. 1090w.


=Naylor, James Ball.= Scalawags. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.

                                                                7–11210.

  This story opens upon a wintry afternoon in a district school house
  when a class reciting in “Green’s grammar” is interrupted by a tramp
  and his dog who beg shelter and warmth for an hour. The tramp finds
  among the pupils a kindred soul who one day joins the wanderer and
  casts in his lot with him. Their experiences end in the boy’s
  reforming the “bad man,” who in turn plans for the education of the
  lad whose mother had been his sweetheart and had found him unworthy.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Some of the descriptions are fairly well done, but the incidents are
  often extravagant, and the characterization cannot be highly praised.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 365. Je. 8, ’07. 200w.


=Neame, L. E.= Asiatic danger in the colonies. *$1.25. Dutton.

                                                                7–32192.

  Six years of study in Asia and South Africa lie back of Mr. Neame’s
  portrayal of the subject. He shows “how insidiously the patient and
  stable races of the Orient are at work undermining the white man’s
  boasted power, and how concrete is the peril.” (N. Y. Times.)

  “Undoubtedly the facts presented by the author lead to the conclusion
  that the only effective method of securing that a land equally adapted
  for Europeans and Asiatics should be made a home for European settlers
  is that of almost total exclusion, adopted by Australia, joined to a
  fixed determination on the part of Europeans to engage in all forms of
  manual work themselves.” (Lond. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Ind.= 63: 691. S. 19, ’07. 580w.

         =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 642. D. ’07. 260w.

  “Mr. Neame’s book is one of very great value to anybody desirous of
  understanding this question, not only in South Africa, but also in
  Australia and Canada.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 122. Ap. 19, ’07. 450w.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 413. Je. 29, ’07. 1480w.


* Near East: the present situation in Montenegro, Bosnia, Servia,
Bulgaria, Roumania, Turkey and Macedonia. il. *$3. Doubleday.

                                                                W 7–173.

  An anonymous publication which reveals the author in close touch with
  European rulers and prime ministers. “He sipped coffee, smoked
  cigarettes, and talked with the ‘various kings and princes of the
  Balkan states,’ the Sultan of Turkey, and nearly all the members of
  the various cabinets, as well as with people of the middle class and
  with peasants, in order to form some conclusion as to the real
  situation—political, economical, social, and financial—in this
  European hotbed of discord.” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author is animated by strong, though obviously unconscious, bias
  against the Hellenic element in the Balkans, as well as against
  Germany and Austria.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 661. Je. 1. 550w.

  “Every page reveals the author as one who investigates his subject
  thoroughly, discriminates his information carefully, and writes
  convincingly.” H. E. Coblentz.

       + =Dial.= 43: 372. D. 1, ’07. 690w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 50w.

  “The book is specially valuable in the light it throws upon Servia.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 589. N. 16, ’07. 200w.

  “A trenchantly written volume.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 639. N. ’07. 110w.

  “That he has been told the whole truth and nothing but the truth on
  all occasions he does not himself contend. But by separating the grain
  from the chaff of official information and relating it to his own
  private investigations he claims to have obtained a uniquely accurate
  insight into Balkan affairs.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: sup. 462. O. 5, ’07. 320w.


=Neely, Thomas Benjamin.= South America, a mission field. *35c. West.
Meth. bk.

                                                                6–42354.

  A compact presentation of South American missions intended to awaken
  interest in the field and its evangelical possibilities.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 118. Ja. ’07. 20w.


=Neihardt, John Gneisenau.= Lonesome trail. †$1.50. Lane.

                                                                7–19597.

  Twenty short stories which are concerned with the Indians of the Omaha
  and Ponca tribes, with French and Indian half-breeds, with gamblers
  and trappers and ranchmen and [various] types of the frontier.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “One or two of the stories, regarded from the point of view of art,
  pure and simple, are excellent specimens of their class. We should be
  reluctant to pass judgment on Mr. Neihardt on the strength of this
  collection of stories, and we are inclined to think that he will do
  better work when he has learnt restraint.”

     − + =Acad.= 72: 610. Je. 22, ’07. 270w.

  “Despite their undeniable charm and the vivid manner in which they
  picture the life of the Indian and the half-breed trapper of the west,
  they leave a distinctly depressing effect on the mind.” Amy C. Rich.

     + − =Arena.= 38: 222. Ag. ’07. 130w.

  “[The stories] have good workmanship in them; strength of incident and
  feeling, and no padding. The author has more feeling for style than
  usually falls to the man who knows the extreme limits of
  civilization.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 789. Je. 29, 60w.

  “Mr. Neihardt overdoes his effects very frequently, and he is much
  given to allowing his people to talk in grandiloquent style.... It
  will be a pity if he continues to allow his excellent endowment of
  strength and vividness of imagination to be marred by such obvious
  faults of taste and style.”

     − + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 350. Je. 1, ’07. 250w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.

  “He gives us an over-accumulation of vivid detail which defeats its
  own ends. He is original, he is frequently haunting and inspiring, but
  somehow he just ‘misses.’”

     − + =Sat. R.= 104: 369. S. 21, ’07. 80w.


Nelson’s encyclopaedia; ed. by Frank Moore Colby and George Sandeman.
12v. $48. Nelson.

                                                                 7–7496.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “On the whole, we think highly of this encyclopedia, which fairly
  realizes the German ideal of a konversation-lexicon, and which is
  published at a price moderate enough to place it within the means of a
  large number of readers.”

     + + =Dial.= 42: 259. Ap. 17, ’07. 220w. (Review of v. 1–12.)

   + + − =Ind.= 63: 338. Ag. 8, ’07. 760w. (Review of v. 1–12.)

  “The blurred and badly printed illustrations, the poor maps, and the
  comparatively large proportion of space given up to subjects of
  ‘current interest’ are still the points that most seriously detract
  from the permanent value of the books.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 56. Ja. 17, ’07. 380w. (Review of v. 5–10.)

  “In general, the most obvious faults appear to be (1) too great a
  condensation resulting sometimes in vagueness, but oftener in a
  failure to bring out properly the comparative importance of real
  significance of facts and events, (2) a lack of proportion from which
  no encyclopedia is ever free, but which is here possibly more marked
  as a result of its bi-national origin, and (3) too great emphasis on
  matters of current or contemporary interest, both as to text and
  illustration. No great reliance should be placed on the atlas feature
  of the work.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 524. Je. 6, ’07. 730w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)

  “Searching through this book at random we are pleased with the
  articles, however on the whole.”

   + + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 42. Ja. 26, ’07. 1320w. (Review of v. 1–10.)

  “Some of the longer articles are comprehensive and as nearly
  exhaustive as encyclopedia articles can well be made. The minor
  subjects are treated in a terse and condensed manner.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 35: 255. F. ’07. 90w. (Review of v. 1–12.)


=Nernst, Walter.= Experimental and theoretical applications of
thermodynamics to chemistry; with diagrams. **$1.25. Scribner.

  Ten lectures delivered on the Silliman foundation at Yale university
  in 1906.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The chief value of the work is its suggestiveness and stimulus to
  thought and research. It will be of that value to every one who will
  ‘read, mark, learn and inwardly digest’ its contents.” J. W. Richards.

     + + =Engin. N.= 58: 180. Ag. 15, ’07. 790w.

         =Nation.= 85: 256. S. 19, ’07. 480w.

  “Whether the reader is interested in the fundamental theoretical
  speculations or the practical application of the derived formulae,
  Prof. Nernst’s series of lectures cannot be too warmly recommended.”

     + + =Nature.= 77: 52. N. 21, ’07. 230w.

  “Nernst has here produced a thoroughly interesting and readable book
  on a very abstruse and difficult subject. As a résumé of the question
  of chemical equilibria at high temperatures it will have a distinct
  value.”

     + + =Technical Literature.= 2: 579. D. ’07. 540w.


=Nesbit, Wilbur Dick.= Land of make-believe, and other Christmas poems.
**$1.40. Harper.

                                                                7–36127.

  Mr. Nesbit weaves in rime the fancies of make-believe land that every
  child loves to cherish. His poems are all about Christmas and the
  unrealities and impossibilities that make a veritable stalk to meet
  the sky

  “And Jack goes up and down it—we have seen him, you and I.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Children will like them, but grown people will like them even
  better.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 431. D. 16, ’07. 90w.

  “Taking it as a whole the book is a trifle tiresome.”

       − =R. of Rs.= 36: 765. D. ’07. 50w.


=Nettleship, Richard Lewis.= Memoir of Thomas Hill Green, late fellow of
Balliol college, Oxford, and Whyte’s professor of moral philosophy in
the university of Oxford; with a short preface specially written for
this edition by Mrs. T. H. Green. *$1.50. Longmans.

                                                                7–15903.

  “The writings of Thomas Hill Green lie in the three fields of
  philosophy, religion and politics. Mr. Nettleship in this memoir ...
  brings out the development of the author’s thought in each of these
  three fields.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The estimate of the thought and personality of the
  statesman-philosopher is sympathetic. and appreciative.”

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 220. Ja. ’07. 90w.

       + =Dial.= 42: 47. Ja. 16, ’07. 250w.

  “I do not know where one could look for a worthier portrayal of the
  philosopher’s life and mind nor for a simpler statement of the central
  position of idealism, than in this short biography.” B. Bosanquet.

     + + =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 117. O. ’07. 1600w.

  “So admirable an account of a great man well deserves the wider
  circulation which one hopes it may obtain in this independent form.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 32. Ja. 10, ’07. 110w.

  “It is indeed a singularly frank and faithful, and yet loving
  account.”

       + =Spec.= 97: 986. D. 15, ’06. 1420w.


* =Nevill, Lady Dorothy.= Leaves from the note-books of Lady Dorothy
Nevill; ed. by Ralph Nevill. *$3 75. Macmillan.

  Mr. Ralph Nevill, aided by the note books and the good memory of Lady
  Nevill, has produced a book of reminiscences which reflects the
  current thought of the period and pictures its prominent men. It is a
  supplement to the “History of the Victorian era.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There are only slight blemishes on some very bright recollections.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 610. N. 16. 1150w.

  “Full of sidelights on many great characters affording with its
  cheerful gossip a picture of the times such as the more formal
  historian seldom attempts.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 762. N. 30, ’07. 140w.

  “Mr. Ralph Nevill would have discovered a more tactful care of his
  mother’s literary reputation if he had resisted the temptation to
  publish these notes.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 104: 580. N. 9, ’07. 680w.

  “Lady Dorothy Nevill’s memory yields a valuable picture of her times.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 777. N. 16. 1800w.


=Nevill, Dorothy, lady.= Reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill; ed. by
Ralph Nevill. *$4.20. Longmans.

                                                                 7–9818.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 101. Ap. ’07.

       + =Dial.= 42: 148. Mr. 1, ’07. 280w.

  “She chats pleasantly through the pages of this book—always in good
  humor and always bright and entertaining.” Jeannette L. Gilder.

       + =Putnam’s.= 1: 506. Ja. ’07. 360w.


=Nevinson, Henry Woodd.= Dawn in Russia; or, Scenes in the Russian
revolution. *$2.25. Harper.

                                                                6–35593.

  The author has included in this volume “a diary of the revolutionary
  acts which have followed in all parts of Russia the disasters of the
  war with Japan.... A catalogue of well-known horrors ... and much
  personal evidence of his own, drawn from visits, necessarily short, to
  widely separated parts of European Russia.” (Ath.) The volume is
  illustrated with cartoons and photographs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 102. Ap. ’07.

  “We should prefer a treatment of the subject in which the record of
  the writer’s own observations was distinct from his chronological
  account of events which passed during his journeys, but of which he
  was not a witness.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 730. Je. 16. 280w.

     + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 208. Je. 8, ’06. 1290w.

  “The all-pervading melancholy of Russian life as it manifests itself
  in the music and the literature of the nation—all this is treated with
  the sympathetic insight and the charming sincerity of true art, yet
  with a conversational informality, liberally interspersed with humor,
  which gives the reader a pleasing sense of intimacy with the writer,
  as well as with an irresistible subject.” Abraham Cahan.

     + + =No. Am.= 183: 668. O. 5, ’06. 1520w.


=Nevinson, Henry Woodd.= Modern slavery. **$2. Harper.

                                                                6–18826.

  Descriptive note in Annual. 1906.

  “Mr. Nevinson’s account is very interesting, the illustrations are
  good and the total impression is that it is an account of a truthful
  eye-witness.”

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 220. Ja. ’07. 250w.


=Newberry, Percy Edward, and Garstang, John.= Short history of ancient
Egypt. **$1.20. Estes.

                                                                4–21092.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

  “Opinions may differ as to some of the author’s conclusions, but they
  give in concise form material which is practically unobtainable
  elsewhere in so small a compass, and the book will be found useful. A
  defect which might be remedied in future editions is the absence of a
  bibliography.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 65. Ja. 19, ’07. 70w.


=Newbolt, Henry John.= The old country: a romance. †$1.50. Dutton.

  “The story begins at the present time, and suddenly shifts to the year
  in which the battle of Poictiers was fought, The characters for the
  most part remain the same, nor does the scene change. Stephen Bulmer,
  in the early chapters, is a young Englishman, of Colonial upbringing,
  who ‘speaks of things to come as if he saw them.’ In the later
  chapters, he is the same Englishman, modified by an Italian education.
  But the sense of time has vanished from his brain.” (Acad.) “He is
  taken into ‘the backwoods of time,’ where ‘the real work of men was
  going forward, with sweat of the brow and blistering of hands, with
  action and agony and endurance in place of talk and speculation.’ He
  sees that all his doubts are long descended, that Ralph Tremur, the
  eternal dissident, is an image of himself, and that the future must
  lie with the constructive minds, who serve under discipline and keep
  close to the earth in their toil.” (Spec.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Ingenious as is Mr. Newbolt’s thesis, it is not for that that we
  would most highly praise his book. The story is told with a tact and
  delicacy rarely found in the modern novel.”

     + + =Acad.= 71: 465. N. 10, ’06. 810w.

  “In his dedicatory epistle he frankly acknowledges that he has a
  purpose and we as frankly state our conviction that that purpose is
  wrong. Nor can we commend the machinery of the novel.”

       − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 730. D. 8. 240w.

  “Beautiful romance.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 5: 358. O. 26, ’06. 1770w.

  “The end far more than atones for the stiffness of the beginning.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 79. Jl. 25, ’07. 340w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12. 548. S. 14, ’07. 110w.

  “Very clear indeed is the picture of rural mediaeval England set
  before us in the unfolding of the tale.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 832. Ag. 17, ’07. 200w.

  “An uncommonly thoughtful and interesting novel. The style is
  distinguished, and there is no lack of good images. It is an admirable
  expression of the genuine Tory spirit.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 102: 682. D. 1, ’06. 340w.

  “Mr. Newbolt reads his countrymen an eloquent lesson, none the less
  profound because it is decked with all the graces of romance.”

     + + =Spec.= 97: 789. N. 17, ’06. 1210w.


=Newcomb, Simon.= Side-lights on astronomy; and kindred fields of
popular science. **$2. Harper.

                                                                6–34834.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 834. D. 29. 500w.

  “Dr. Newcomb’s clear generalization of the progress of astronomy has
  great interest and reveals some romance in the work of the
  ‘far-seekers’ which is lost in the tracing of the details.”

       + =Ind.= 61: 1568. D. 27, ’06. 190w.

  “A volume which is at once interesting and instructive.”

     + + =Nature.= 75: 294. Ja. 24, ’07. 110w.

  “He is certainly a star of the first magnitude in the astronomical
  world.”

     + + =Spec.= 98: 1011. Je. 29, ’07. 440w.


=Newman, Ernest.= Wagner. (Music of the masters ser.) $1. Brentano’s.

                                                                5–40985.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

  “Done in a clear terse style, avoiding technical jargon.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 840. D. 29. 130w.


=Newman, George.= Infant mortality: a social problem. (New lib. of
medicine.) *$2.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–32191.

  Dr. Newman studies the distribution and extent as well as the causes
  of infant mortality, and directs attention to the best means of
  prevention.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His familiarity with his theme is unquestionable, and the volume of
  the facts and statistics that he has arranged and co-ordinated is a
  proof of painstaking effort.”

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 165. Jl. ’07. 450w.

  “It is written well and clearly, and should be read by every one who
  is interested in preventing the waste of child life which is occurring
  not only in England, but also throughout every civilized country.”

     + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 17. Jl. 7. 360w.

       + =Ind.= 62: 858. Ap. 11, ’07. 240w.

  “Dr. Newman has gotten together an immense amount of statistical data
  bearing upon infant mortality-rates, of which data he makes most
  effective use.”

     + + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 247. Ap. ’07. 150w.

         =Lond. Times.= 5: 218. Je. 15, ’06. 230w.

   + + − =Nation.= 85: 104. Ag. 1, ’07. 1280w.

  “These thoughtful and intelligent studies cannot fail to interest all
  who apply themselves to sociology, political economy and
  philanthropy.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 132. Mr. 2, ’07. 310w.

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 402. Mr. 30, ’07. 300w.

     + + =Spec.= 96: 951. Je. 16, ’06. 500w.


=Newmarch, Rosa.= Poetry and progress in Russia. *$3.50. Lane.

                                                                W 7–152.

  “In five chapters Miss Newmarch considers the literary development of
  Russia from Pushkin to the present. In the empire of the Czar,—as,
  indeed, throughout the rest of the civilized world, the poets have
  been the pioneers of liberty and enlightenment. This phase of Russian
  culture is represented by the poets Pushkin, Koltsov, Nikitin,
  Nekrassov, Khomiakasov, and Nadson. Translations of a number of the
  representative poems from these masters supplement the essays.”—R. of
  Rs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Her book is practically a re-writing of what is generally known about
  Pouschkin, his life and works. Of the translations ... by Mrs.
  Newmarch and others perhaps the less said the better.”

     − + =Acad.= 73: 698. Jl. 20, ’07. 320w.

  “We wish all success to this book: we know of none which will give the
  reader more just ideas of what is good in Russian poetry.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 205. Ag. 24. 850w.

  “The translations by the author and Prof. Morfill are, for the most
  part, without much distinction; those of Miss Helena Frank are
  somewhat better. The value of the book lies in its clairvoyant and
  interpretive criticisms, which should do much toward creating a
  deserved interest in Russian poetry.” Anne Peacock.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 566. S. 21, ’07. 2400w.

         =R. of Rs.= 36:. 512. O. ’07. 110w.

  “Candidly speaking, the reviewer must allow that the fault is more
  with the title than with the actual scope of the book. But when all is
  said and done, Mrs. Newmarch deserves to win readers for the poets to
  whose humour she has devoted so much scholarly pains and ingenuity.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 104: 454. O. 12, ’07. 1300w.


=Newmarch, Rosa.= Songs to a singer and other verses. *$1.25. Lane.

  “A small collection of verse, mainly concerned, as its title
  indicates, with the emotions evolved by another’s singing, and suffers
  somewhat from the consequent lack of variety.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “These songs might pass muster, as being well up to the average, if
  read between staves of music. Considered as poetry, or even verse,
  they are weak.”

     − + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 183. Ag. 18. 430w.

         =Nation.= 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 100w.

  “Miss Rosa Newmarch’s lyrics are very slight and quite unambitious;
  they flow pleasantly and are free from solecisms and self-conscious
  oddities. Just why any one of them was written would perhaps be
  difficult to say, for none show much individuality or depth of
  feeling.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 102: 389. S. 29, ’06. 120w.


=Newton, Samuel Donald.= Dolorous blade: being a brief account of the
adventures of that good knight of the Round Table, Sir Balin, called “Le
Savage,” done into rhyme by Samuel Donald Newton. $1. Badger, R. G.

                                                                7–10041.

  A new poetic version of the tragic story of Sir Balin, Le Savage, and
  his fateful dolorous blade.


Nibelungenlied; translated by John Storer Cobb. *$2. Small.

                                                                6–37588.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The form is a rhymed four-line stanza in iambic octometer, the rhymes
  being in couplets. It is a jog-trot movement, and grows very
  monotonous after a few pages. But a great poem in the higher sense,
  this epic is not, and a fair sense of its historical importance is
  obtainable from the present version.”

       − =Dial.= 42: 20. Ja. 1, ’07. 70w.

  “All in all, this effort seems praiseworthy; but a comparison of the
  average of the verse with the Lachmann text shows more than one
  radical departure from the sense of the original, departures that
  other versions seem not to have required.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 158. F. 14, ’07. 720w.

  “A fine swinging translation.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 254. F. ’07. 40w.


=Nicholson, Frank C.= Old German love songs; translated from the
Minnesingers of the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries. *$1.50. Univ.
of Chicago press.

  A selection from Minnesong sufficiently varied and extensive to
  illustrate roughly the nature and range of the art, indicating the
  main lines of its development.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “On the whole, we have real admiration for the manner in which Mr.
  Nicholson has carried out his difficult task, and are confident that
  his book will prove a stimulus to the study of the subject.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 158. F. 9. 1170w.

         =Dial.= 43: 314. N. 16, ’07. 60w.

  “Mr. Nicholson’s book is the first attempt to deal with the Minnesang
  as a whole, and to give to English readers specimens of the poetry of
  all its more conspicuous masters. For this task he is in many ways
  exceedingly well equipped; his work is evidently a labour of love, and
  he has prepared for it by a very close and intelligent study of his
  subject.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 237. Ag. 2, ’07. 2100w.


=Nicholson, Meredith.= Port of missing men. †$1.50. Bobbs.

                                                                 7–5062.

  A stirring drama which involves the throne of Austria is here enacted
  among the Virginia hills just outside of Washington. The love story of
  the truly American heroine who, in spite of herself, follows her heart
  against her reason, and of the hero, heir to much Austrian greatness,
  who does his country service and then renounces all for the democratic
  life of an American, in itself holds the reader enthralled. But there
  are added to it many other interesting characters and some scenes of
  war and strategy, which will endear the book to lovers of adventure.
  The plot is well devised, the romance pretty, the encounters of both
  sword and word are clever; in all the story is a worthy successor to
  “House of a thousand candles.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 110. Ap. ’07.

  “This tale not only lacks the element of probability ... but it is
  wanting in the cleverness of ‘House of a thousand candles.’”

       − =Arena.= 37: 447. Ap. ’07. 370w.

  “Is frankly only a story of adventure builded on a shop-worn model,
  but very well done of its kind.” Grace Isabel Colbron.

       + =Bookm.= 25: 85. Mr. ’07. 450w.

  “The story is fashioned after the conventional romantic pattern, and
  displays no little skill in both plot and characterization.” Wm. M.
  Payne.

       + =Dial.= 42: 227. Ap. 1, ’07. 220w.

  “Something more than a mere catalog of horrors is needed to produce
  the thriller aimed at by this type of novelist.”

       − =Lit. D.= 34: 510. Mr. 30, ’07. 240w.

     + − =Nation.= 84: 246. Mr. 14, ’07. 360w.

  “Except for an occasional pleasing passage of scenic description,
  written with a poetic touch and an artistic restraint not evident in
  other parts of the book, and now and then a bit of clever
  conversational fencing, the novel offers nothing of intellectual
  entertainment except its exciting story.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 131. Mr. 2, ’07. 360w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 768. Je. ’07. 110w.


=Nicholson, Watson.= Struggle for a free stage in London. **$2.50.
Houghton.

                                                                6–38899.

  “Dr. Nicholson, who is instructor in English at Yale, traces the
  history of nearly two centuries in which London tried to free herself
  from the theatrical monopoly. The triumph was reached when the passage
  (on August 22, 1843) of the parliamentary act known as the Theater
  regulation bill deprived the two patent theaters, Drury Lane and
  Covent Garden, of their monopoly of playing Shakespeare and the
  national drama.”—R. of Rs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Acad.= 72: 503. My. 25, ’07. 1650w.

  “A record so satisfactory is a welcome addition to the libraries of
  all who are interested in the drama and its varying fortunes.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 586. My. 11. 380w.

       + =Dial.= 42: 114. F. 16, ’07. 310w.

  “Evidence is scrupulously weighed, original documents are carefully
  collated and minutely examined, the whole thing is done with
  scientific precision: the artistic aspects of the matter are severely
  let alone.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 36. F. 1, ’07. 1080w.

  “This book although not likely to prove very attractive to the
  ordinary reader of theatrical biography or gossip, will be valuable to
  the genuine student of dramatic history.”

   + + − =Nation.= 83: 467. N. 29, ’06. 830w.

  “Mr. Nicholson, who has approached his subject in a thorough and
  scholarly manner, has drawn his material from a multitude of sources
  including many old documents.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 904. D. 29. ’06. 600w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 253. F. ’07. 90w.

  “Mr. Nicholson has given a carefully constructed narrative.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 541. Ap. 6, ’07. 150w.


=Nicoll, William Robertson (Claudius Clear, pseud.).= Key of the blue
closet. *$1.40. Dodd.

                                                                 W 7–54.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “So wholesome and enjoyable a book as this little volume of essays
  should find many readers.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 47. Ja. 16. ’07. 280w.

  “It ought to be a compliment to say that this book is thoroughly
  sound, genial and interesting, without being in the least clever, and
  without any of the little tricks of paradox and epigram that appeal to
  our decade.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 32. Ja. 10, ’07. 190w.


=Nicoll, William Robertson (Claudius Clear, pseud.).= Lamp of sacrifice;
sermons preached on special occasions. *$1.50. Armstrong.

  “The keynote of Dr. Nicoll’s sermons is religious optimism.... The
  preacher does not reckon without the sorrows of life ... but the book,
  as a whole, and each chapter in particular, impresses upon the reader
  the conviction of the writer that they are none of them incurable, and
  are in some sense discounted by religious faith.”—Spec.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The pen of a ready and vigorous writer is easily recognizable in his
  pages. Equally so is an intensely evangelical spirit.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 377. F. 16, ’07. 150w.

         =Spec.= 97: 1049. D. 22, ’06. 120w.


=Nielsen, Fredrik Kristian.= History of the papacy in the XIXth century.
*$7.50. Dutton.

                                                                 7–2580.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The weakness of the book is to be found ... in its narrowness of
  treatment and in its lack of precision of detail. The book sins most
  of all by its lack of breadth and of historical proportion.” R. M.
  Johnston.

     + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 377. Ja. ’07. 1080w.

  “The reader is never pulled up by the difficulty of understanding some
  obviously foreign construction, and is not often repelled by ugly
  English. The work of a learned Lutheran bishop of broad sympathies and
  massive erudition.”

   + + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 439. Ap. 13. 460w.

  “In all this Dr. Nielson gives evidence of wide reading and a sane
  historical judgment. The book is a mine of interesting matter
  collected from innumerable scattered memoirs, collections of
  documents, and other works. But though these are presented with a
  sufficient impartiality, little attempt is made to interpret their
  deeper significance. His narrative is overloaded with detail and
  obscured by digressions, which, however interesting in themselves,
  would have been better relegated to notes or appendices. Certain
  criticisms in detail remain to be made which may prove useful in the
  event of a new edition of the book.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 9. Ja. 11, ’07. 2230w.

  “Timely in the best sense of the word.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 316. Ap. 4, ’07. 470w.

  “His two volumes make not only an interesting and careful narrative,
  they are also a significant and important contribution to the history
  of the past hundred years.” Christian Gauss.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 390. Je. 15, ’07. 2870w.

  “We have to thank the Master of Pembroke college, Cambridge for his
  excellent editorship of the English translation.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 103: 176. F. 9, ’07. 1410w.

  “Readers who are acquainted with the language of Holberg, Hans
  Christian Andersen, and the Brandes of to-day, with its delightful
  post-articles, passive verbs, and amusing numerals, will be well
  satisfied with the present version of the Danish text.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: sup. 113. Ja. 26, ’07. 2100w.


=Noble, Edward.= The issue: a story of the river Thames (or Fisherman’s
Gat). †$1.50. Doubleday.

                                                                 7–5686.

  (2d ed. with title. Fisherman’s Gat.

                                                               7–13441.)

  “A story of the Thames estuary, a drama of London’s great river, a
  romance of lives of those who come and go in the lesser crafts in
  which deep-sea certificates are not required of a man.... Love,
  treachery, passion, crime, the stress and strain of dangers afloat and
  labour complications ashore; owners, sailors, good simple folk and
  smug hypocrites, evil livers and honest dealers—all figure in this
  story.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Horror is piled upon horror a little clumsily, so that strength gives
  way at times to brute force, and brute force is never convincing. But
  the book is essentially one to read. It grips, and its grip is rough
  as a sailor’s grip may be.”

     + − =Acad.= 71: 286. S. 22, ’06. 170w.

  “A drama of real interest, strong in atmosphere, characterization, and
  first-hand observation.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 362. S. 29. 350w.

  “A strong and unusual story.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

       + =Bookm.= 25: 182. Ap. ’07. 430w.

  “He has the rare gift of verbal dry-point which fixes a picture
  indelibly upon both memory and imagination.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 470. Mr. 23, ’07. 270w.

  “His drawings, which illustrate the book, give their messages better
  than his words. But the whole is rich, vivid, comprehensive, and like
  his picture of the lives and characters of his sailors, it has the
  sharp realization that comes of knowledge.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 5: 322. S. 21, ’06. 390w.

  “His chief character, ‘Windbag’ Saunderson, just misses being a
  remarkable achievement. But only a few telling artistic touches, a
  little more here, and a little less there, would have made it a much
  more striking figure and the book much more significant.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 135. Mr. 2. ’07. 510w.

  “It needs compression and it lacks brightness, but it is ambitious in
  its dissection of motives and character.”

     − + =Outlook.= 85: 719. Mr. 23, ’07. 80w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 767. Je. ’07. 50w.


=Noble, W. Arthur.= Ewa; a tale of Korea.

$1.25. Meth. bk.

                                                                6–36433.

  “Mr. Noble shows two Korean heroes with their Asiatic prejudices and
  beliefs crumbling away under the influence of western ideas. Both
  Sung-Yo, a son of rank, whose chief duty had hitherto been idleness
  and incapacity, and his friend, Tong-Siki, of a lower class but.
  greater ability, devote their lives to their country and their hopes
  of seeing it free.... This little story, with its love interest woven
  about a slave girl who becomes a convert to Christianity and suffers
  for her faith, may be relied on to find many eager readers.”—N. Y.
  Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is fairly readable.”

     + − =Ind.= 61: 1493. D. 20, ’06. 120w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 721. N. S, ’06. 160w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 122. Ja. ’07. 50w.


=Nolhac, Pierre de.= Versailles and the Trianons; with 60 full-page il.
in col. by Rene Binet. *$3.50. Dodd.

                                                                6–40558.

  M. de Nolhac is the keeper of the Versailles museum and writes out of
  the fulness of his historical information. “He has recorded in
  connexion with various portions of the palace the remarkable events
  they have witnessed, and in the course of this volume manages to tell
  the whole story of the locality.” (Sat. R.) “M. de Nolhac indicates,
  in a large and poetic description, how much artistic stimulus the
  place contains and will increasingly disengage as ‘the art of
  Versailles’ recedes into a softened perspective.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is ample guaranty of the historical correctness of the
  information he imparts. He writes also with sympathy and enthusiasm.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 70w.

  “It is a pity that no credit is given to the painstaking and able
  translator.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 565. D. 27, ’06. 310w.

  “An extremely interesting monograph, which might well be a model for
  this kind of book.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 102: 713. D. 8, ’06. 150w.


* =Nordau, Max Simon.= On art and artists; tr. by W. F. Harvey. **$2.
Jacobs.

                                                                7–28523.

  A series of detached essays thru which may be traced the development
  of modern art as represented by the following painters and sculptors:
  Whistler, Frank Brangwyn, Rodin, Puvis de Chavannes, Mounier,
  Bartholomé, Carriès, Gustave Moreau, Carrière, Zorn, Zuloaga,
  Bouguereau. Problems of art are illustrated thruout the treatment of
  the classic school of David, the romantic school, the Barbizon clan,
  and the realists, to the recent school of symbolism and impressionism.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is much that is instructive, much that irritates by its
  bumptiousness, and not a little that seems tedious, in his book.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 695. S. 19, ’07. 410w.

  “Despite its faults as a purely critical work, the book throughout has
  one quality which ranks it with the most valuable art criticism, and
  that is its author’s skill in stripping from his subjects those
  pretensions to literary motive, which in so many cases obscure the
  minds of thinking people as to the real issues in discussion of the
  plastic arts and the nature of the motives which alone are responsible
  for artistic success,”

     + − =Int. Studio.= 32: 83. Jl. ’07. 390w.

  “Mr. Nordau has not made up his mind, which seems to vary with the
  state of the weather, and he contradicts himself again and again. Yet
  there is in the book a great deal of wisdom and not a little acute
  criticism.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 69. Mr. 1, ’07. 900w.

  “We may note also that Dr. Nordau has a keen nose for indecency, and
  finds it both where it is and where no one else perceives it. There
  are many bits of shrewd criticism and many remarks the soundness of
  which leads one, temporarily, to think of the author as of a person
  really equipped with some judgment and knowledge of his subject, until
  the next incredible caprice upsets the notion and leaves one wondering
  what Nordau would be at and what is the real basis of his confidently
  pronounced opinions. The translator is to be congratulated on his
  success in avoiding foreign idiom and in making his translation read
  like a piece of original and only too vigorous English.”

     − + =Nation.= 85: 502. N. 28, ’07. 2730w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

       − =R. of Rs.= 36: 759. D. ’07. 210w.


=Nordau, Max Simon.= Question of honor; authorized translation by Mary
J. Safford. *$1. Luce, J: W.

                                                                7–18817.

  A tragedy of present-day Germany in four acts, which deals with the
  strong anti-Semite feeling of the Germans by presenting the case of a
  young Jewish mathematician, and by showing the odds against which he
  fights in his efforts to win a professorship, and finally the insults
  to which he is subjected when he asks for the hand of the German
  fräulein who loves him. It is a dramatic plea for the man who is
  denied position, love, and even life itself because he is a Jew.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Though the translator has done well, in a few places she might have
  done better. The play is excellent reading, and offers food for
  thought.”

     + − =Dial.= 43: 95. Ag. 16, ’07. 360w.

  “It is not at all likely that any manager here would dream of
  producing anything at once so undramatic and contentious. But as a
  study of one of the problems in European politics it is both
  illuminating and interesting.”

     − + =Nation.= 85: 42. Jl. 11. ’07. 300w.


=Norris, Mary Harriott.= Story of Christina. $1.50. Neale.

                                                                7–21537.

  A western girl as unconscious of her beauty as of her great wealth
  practices rigid economy during her four years at an Illinois college.
  The serenity of her wholly satisfactory life is interrupted by the
  co-executors of her estate, one a Chicago lawyer who wishes to marry
  her, the other a New York cousin who plans to take her east to be
  properly trained by wealthy relatives. She accepts the latter
  proposition, becomes plastic to the touch of a skilled social artist,
  is led into an engagement with an English duke, breaks it and weds the
  man of her old college days who had devoted his life to becoming
  worthy of her.


=Norton, Charles Eliot.= Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: a sketch of his
life, together with Longfellow’s chief autobiographical poems. **75c.
Houghton.

                                                                 7–1293.

  Written for the Longfellow centenary. The book “can be read through in
  less than two hours, and can be bought for less than a dollar; but
  neither of these facts should be of use in measuring the amount and
  duration of the impression it ought to make upon a receptive reader.
  The poems chosen number thirty, and include ‘A psalm of life,’ ‘The
  wreck of the Hesperus,’ ‘The bridge,’ ‘The cross of snow,’ and other
  favorites, concluding with ‘Morituri salutamus.’... Perhaps the most
  valuable point made by Mr. Norton is to be found in the paragraphs in
  which he shows how completely Longfellow was the product of a simple
  and refined New England, which had gently broken with the Puritan
  régime and was filled with an optimistic belief in the orderly
  evolution of men to individual and national felicity in a new and
  favored world. Purity, naturalness and kindness were the fundamental
  characteristics of Longfellow, and these were in the main, the
  fundamental characteristics of the people who first welcomed his
  self-revealing poems.” (Forum.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Current Literature.= 42: 285. Mr. ’07. 1900w.

  “He has honored other friends in a more elaborate and impressive
  fashion, but none, I think, with more true sympathy and reverent
  poise ... than he has displayed in this brief memoir of Longfellow.
  The essential facts are given, the right note of praise is struck,
  there is no meaningless and confusing parade of literary references
  and allusions.” W. P. Trent.

     + + =Forum.= 38: 555. Ap. ’07. 770w.

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 57. F. 22, ’07. 870w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 144. Mr. 9, ’07. 200w.

  “Mr. Norton’s centenary memorial of Longfellow is perfect in its
  kind.” H. W. Boynton.

     + + =Putnam’s.= 3: 106. O. ’07. 700w.

  “This is a most pleading little book, and worthy of its author,—an
  author whom we may fitly describe as one of the most cultivated men
  who speak and write the English language, whether on his or our own
  side of the Atlantic.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 268. Ag. 24, ’07. 240w.


=Noyes, Alfred.= Flower of old Japan, and other poems. **$1.25.
Macmillan.

                                                                7–21391.

  Poems in which “the feet of children are set dancing.” They deal with
  the Kingdom of dreams in which a journey is made to old Japan. Back of
  the fantasy are serious lessons and vivid pictures of Japan with
  kaleidoscopic glimpses of pirates, mandarins, bonzes, priests,
  jugglers, merchants, ghastroi, etc.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is a proficiency in the workmanship that, coupled with Mr.
  Noyes’s humorous tenderness in approaching his theme, all but disarms
  criticism. Yet if we look at the matter in a cool objective light, it
  must be said that the attempt is only partially successful.” Ferris
  Greenslet.

     + − =Atlan.= 100: 843. D. ’07. 620w.

  “In ‘The flower of old Japan’ ... it is possible to see little but
  futile ingenuity in the misdirection of poetic energy.” Wm. Aspenwall
  Bradley.

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 539. S. 7, ’07. 1420w.

  “Mr. Noyes has the instrument, the lute, in tune, but has not met the
  revealing hour which shall give him a message for its strings.” Jessie
  B. Rittenhouse.

     + − =Putnam’s.= 3: 364. D. ’07. 260w.


=Noyes, Alfred.= Poems: with an introd. by Hamilton Wright Mabie.
**$1.25. Macmillan.

                                                                6–38994.

  The poems of an Oxford man, only twenty-six years of age, who is
  looked upon in England as destined to “be of the greatest service in
  the re-establishment of the great traditions of English song.” “Mr.
  Noyes has ‘drawn inspiration from a rather exceptional range of
  literature—classic poets, Celtic legends, travellers’ tales, English
  ballads, Holy Writ, tales of the road, and Lord Rosebery on Napoleon;
  but he has digested this heterogeneous beebread with the eupepsy of
  vigorous poetic youth.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Acquaints us with a singer whose note is both fresh and vital.” Wm.
  M. Payne.

     + + =Dial.= 42: 255. Ap. 16, ’07. 390w.

  “There is a gusto in his work, a savor of opulence, variety and ease
  that is full of hope. As yet Mr. Noyes is a little too adventurous in
  his quest of the striking subject, too proud of the mere muscles of
  his verse.”

     + − =Nation.= 83: 439. N. 22, ’06. 270w.

  “Mr. Noyes does not show the faults usual in a young poet. You will
  never be in any doubt about his meaning, but neither will you be
  carried out of yourself by any exaltation of words, any intensity of
  passion, any abandon of beauty.” Bliss Carman.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 68. F. 2, ’07. 230w.

  “I am sure that [the reader] will not need me to point out their
  spontaneous power and freshness, their imaginative vision, their
  lyrical magic.” Richard Le Gallienne.

     + + =No. Am.= 183: 1179. D. 7, ’06. 1050w.

  “He is ... a singer and not a thinly disguised philosopher or a
  reformer who has possessed himself of a musical instrument. He has a
  voice of compass and sweetness, and his tones flow clear and sweet,
  with the courage of a real talent and the richness of a full nature.”

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 372. F. 16, ’07. 1120w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 254. F. ’07. 60w.


=Noyes, Carleton Eldredge.= Gate of appreciation: studies in the
relation of art to life. **$2. Houghton.

                                                                7–15336.

  A personal record of the author’s “adventures with the problem of
  art.” He wishes “to suggest the possible meaning of art to the
  ordinary man, to indicate methods of approach to art, and to trace the
  way of appreciation.” He believes that the final meaning of art to the
  appreciator lies in his sense of its relation to his own experience.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is not a mere summary of art history and criticism, but the
  outcome of original study and possesses real value.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 35: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 180w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 300. My. 11, ’07. 240w.


=Nugent, Maria, lady. (Mrs. George Nugent).= Lady Nugent’s journal:
Jamaica one hundred years ago; ed. by Frank Cundall. *$2. Macmillan.

                                                                W 7–122.

  Lady Nugent was the wife of the Governor of Jamaica a hundred years
  ago and this journal was intended only for her children and friends.
  “A great part of the journal is devoted to things personal and
  domestic; hence the propriety of its private circulation when, five
  years after the writer’s death, it first saw the light in a modest
  way.... Historical, biographical, and bibliographical matter is
  furnished in abundance.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “All that editorial skill could do to render attractive her sometimes
  monotonous chronicling of unimportant details—for she had few others
  to record—has been done.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 316. My. 16, ’07. 390w.

  “The intrinsic interest of what she has to tell us is not a little
  enhanced by the skilful and scholarly editing of Mr. Cundall.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 102. Mr. 29, ’07. 520w.

  “This journal [contains] ... pictures of social life drawn by a close
  and delicate observer; shrewd comments upon the usages of a
  civilization quite alien to everything in the writer’s former
  experience; an elaborate account of the process of making sugar;
  amusing stories of the ups and downs of diplomatic life; suggestive
  sketches of character.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 239. My. 25, ’07. 500w.

  “We think [Mr. Cundall] might have omitted far more than he has done.
  But there are a good many passages ... which are informing and of
  value.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 500. Ap. 20. ’07. 240w.


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

                                                                5–18321.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

         =Ind.= 62: 153. Ja. 17, ’07. 140w.




                                   O


=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Amerigo Vespucci (Heroes of American history.)
*$1. Harper.

                                                                 7–7447.

  His early life amid Florentine surroundings, the avidity with which he
  absorbed accounts of Marco Polo’s wonderful journeys, his study of
  charts, globes, nautical instruments for the sake of acquiring skill
  in cosmography lead up to a very informing narrative of his four
  voyages. His relations with Columbus, and the diverging
  characteristics of the two explorers are interestingly sketched.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Scholars will object to his interesting but irrelevant digressions.
  It is a real contribution to popular history.”

   + + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 599. N. ’07. 180w.

       + =Dial.= 43: 44. Jl. 16, ’07. 140w.

       + =Nation.= 84: 264. Mr. 21, ’07. 60w.

  “Within very moderate limits, and in a clear, attractive way, Mr. Ober
  succeeds in presenting an interesting portrait of the man.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 149. Mr. 9, ’07. 230w.

  “For several reasons it is less satisfactory than its predecessors.
  Far too much prominence is given to secondary figures. There is also
  too liberal a piecing-out of the narrative by quotations. Mr. Ober has
  paid scanty attention to the results of recent investigations.”

     − + =Outlook.= 80: 301. Je. 8, ’07. 240w.

  “The story is told in an entertaining way from original, authentic
  documents, and is illustrated with portraits and maps.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 30w.


=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Ferdinand De Soto, and the invasion of
Florida. **$1. Harper.

                                                                6–32459.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “This little volume is neither dry nor dull, and in its pages is
  recreated a good story of the adventures, dangers and thirst for gold
  of De Soto and his sturdy band.”

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 417. Mr. ’07. 550w.


=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Ferdinand Magellan. *$1. Harper.

                                                                7–15946.

  Magellan is the subject of this volume in the “Heroes of American
  history” series. The story of the life and voyages and tragic death of
  the great Portuguese explorer, his discovery of the Straits of
  Magellan, Guam, and the Philippines in the first transpacific voyage,
  is told in compact detail.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Worth buying for the small library because of the brevity of material
  found in the general works that most small libraries can afford.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 196. N. ’07. S.

  “The book is an instructive and interesting one to add to a boy’s
  library.”

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 599. N. ’07. 100w.

  “In clear and convincing style, and with candor as well as sympathy,
  Mr. Ober traces the short and stormy career of Magellan.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 42. Jl. 16, ’07. 420w.

  “Is even more interesting than the excellent life of Vespuccius.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 299. My. 11, ’07. 440w.

  “Mr. Ober’s volume is not the least interesting of an interesting
  series.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 524. Jl. 6, ’07. 110w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 757. Je. ’07. 60w.


=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Vasco Nunez de Balboa. **$1. Harper.

                                                                6–37625.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “It is a book for young readers and will undoubtedly hold their
  attention. Its chief value is that it presents in rapid story form
  facts affording a correct general idea of early Spanish exploration
  and settlement.”

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 643. My. ’07. 110w.

  “Young and old readers alike should be interested in the present
  volume, especially in its chief dramatic episode, the discovery of the
  Pacific.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 523. Mr. 2, ’07. 120w.


=Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxson.= Jay Cooke, financier of the civil war. 2v.
**$7.50. Jacobs.

                                                                7–33957.

  A complete biography of this great patriot and marvelous financier in
  the preparing of which the author has had the interested aid of the
  family and free access to the chests full of letters and documents
  preserved by Mr. Cooke during his life. Dr. Oberholtzer presents an
  open, good and honest career, and shows how impossible it would have
  been for the Federal government to have carried on the civil war
  without the help of so great and loyal a financier.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The historian, who estimates accomplishments by their ultimate effect
  rather than by the brilliancy of their execution, is certain to take
  larger account of him as time goes on. To such students Dr.
  Oberholtzer’s volumes offer themselves as a standard work of
  reference.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 546. D. 12, ’07. 960w.

  “Dr. Oberholtzer’s voluminous work will be found interesting, not only
  to the financier, but to the ordinary reader in search of
  entertainment. It should be many years before another life of this
  honest man and patriot is called for.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 710. N. 9. ’07. 1940w.

       + =Outlook.= 87: 609. N. 23, ’07. 70w.

  “Always the view-point is that of an ardent, even an undiscriminating
  admirer of Jay Cooke. This, indeed, constitutes the chief defect of a
  work that is otherwise of real value.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 87: 790. D. 7, ’07. 450w.

  “Dr. Oberholtzer has made a valuable contribution to the history of
  the civil war period.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 36: 753. D. ’07. 350w.


=O’Higgins, Harvey Jerrold.= Don-a-dreams. †$1.50. Century.

                                                                6–29530.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  Reviewed by Mary Moss.

       + =Atlan.= 99: 125. Ja. ’07. 210w.


=Oldmeadow, Ernest J.= Susan. $1.50. Luce, J: W.

                                                                7–22115.

  “Susan, a beautiful and impossible maid, receives a letter proposing
  marriage to her from a young and imaginative peer, who has presumably
  fallen in love with her pretty face without ever having spoken to her.
  Susan, greatly embarrassed ... consults her mistress, who ends by
  conducting her correspondence for her, eventually falling in love with
  her correspondent. The climax comes when the young lord—his love
  fanned by the beauty of his lady’s letters—discovers that there has
  been a mistake, and that the girl whom he saw and loved is the
  mistress and not the maid.”—Sat. R.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Oldmeadow knows how to write, and should entertain a wide circle
  of readers this spring. His book has a sense of character, too, which
  is the more effective for not being lost in a cloud of verbiage.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 437. Ap. 13. 90w.

     + − =Nation.= 84: 16. Jl. 4, ’07. 240w.

  “The sprightly tale of ‘Susan’ is delicately, and at times humorously
  feminine, in its grasp of that only constant theme, love, to which it
  is a delightfully clever variant.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 330. My. 25, ’07. 470w.

  “It has a unique and daring plot, and is written with an airiness and
  humor that make its pages most entertaining and attractive.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 100w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 657. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

  “It is a dainty trifle, pleasantly written, but it has, in spite of
  its modern setting, no relation to the life and action of to-day. The
  story is developed with considerable skill and humour, and although it
  is written in the literary diary form, it is never tedious.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 370. Mr. 23, ’07. 310w.

  “[Though] it strains the reader’s credulous powers to breaking-point,
  is at any rate lightly and freshly written.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: 625. Ap. 20, ’07. 30w.


=Oliver, Frederick Scott.= Alexander Hamilton: an essay on American
union. *$3.75. Putnam.

                                                                6–16717.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “He ought to have enough discrimination to see the point of view of
  the other side and to recognize that his own favorite had some
  shortcomings. Neither of these things has Mr. Oliver done.” John
  Spencer Bassett.

     − + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 398. Ja. ’07. 1090w.

  “It is so broad, so generous, so just to both sides in its analysis of
  the great struggle for liberty, its estimates of all the actors in
  that picturesque drama, it is so evidently a labor of love in an
  infinite leisure, above all so classic in style, and so interesting in
  mere reading, that, in an era when the American public was more
  addicted to serious books than now, it would have become a handbook at
  once and exerted a powerful influence.” Gertrude Atherton.

     + + =No. Am.= 183: 407. S. 7, ’06. 1500w.


=Ollivant, Alfred.= Redcoat captain: a story of that country, il.
†$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                7–29092.

  A story fraught with tender symbolism which “contains the key to the
  right of entry into ‘that country’—the country of those who have
  learned to remain young in heart and to look out upon life with the
  frank serenity of little children.” (Bookm.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The form of nonsense that finds expression in ‘Redcoat captain’ does
  not please us at all.”

       − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 515. O. 26. 110w.

  “Curious, alluring and altogether unique volume.” Frederic Taber
  Cooper.

       + =Bookm.= 26: 271. N. ’07. 280w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 70w.

  “Those who bring the heart and mind of a boy will discover that it is
  a striking piece of work, and also that it is a very beautiful
  parable.”

     + + =Outlook.= 87: 473. N. 2, ’07. 690w.


* =Olmsted, Frederick Law.= Journey in the back country in the year
1854. 2v. *$5. Putnam.

  “This book, originally published in 1860 on the eve of the war of
  secession, is one of the most remarkable indictments of negro slavery
  to be found in the arsenal of abolitionist literature. It records a
  personal study of the conditions and habits of the people of the
  south ... [in order] to obtain and report the facts of ordinary life,
  not to supply arguments. Mr. Olmstead[Olmsted] was no
  abolitionist, ... he aimed at emancipation through the gradual
  cultivation and education of the capacities of the slaves, and the
  awakening of the masters to the economic waste of the existing system.
  His most interesting pages are not those devoted to the sordid
  realities of the cotton-fields and the varied conditions of life in
  the cabins of the ‘darkies;’ but those which contain a searching and
  pitiless analysis of the southern planter and the ‘mean’
  whites.”—Spec.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 578. O. 19, ’07. 310w.

  “Negro slavery has gone forever, but the negro problem is still acute,
  and those who would understand both the real nature of the ‘peculiar
  institution’ and the causes of the great war should study this very
  opportune reprint of Mr. Olmstead’s work.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 826. N. 23, ’07. 640w.


=Olney, Oliver, pseud.= Novelty circus company. †$1.50. Jacobs.

                                                                7–29151.

  How some school boys organized a company and gave a series of circus
  performances for the benefit of their town library provides material
  for a capital story.


=Oman, Charles William Chadwick.= Great revolt of 1381. *$2.90. Oxford.

                                                                6–42914.

  “The late André Reville had projected a work on this movement, and had
  got together a vast collection of records of trials, inquests,
  petitions, and escheators’ rolls for this purpose. Professor Oman has
  enjoyed the use of all of these documents, and also includes some new
  and unpublished material regarding the poll-tax. He thinks he has
  discovered why that impost met with such universal detestation, how
  the poorer classes in England conspired to defeat its operation, and
  how the counterstroke made by this government provoked the rebellion.”
  (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Oman has written his account without prejudice, and its value, we
  imagine, lies less in any thesis it may be thought to establish, than
  in the picture it gives of England in 1831.”

     + + =Acad.= 71: 57. Jl. 21, ’06. 1460w.

  “It is because Prof. Oman’s book, as we have said, supplies a want for
  teachers and students, that we have drawn attention to certain points
  which will require revision if he should undertake a fresh edition.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 124. Ag. 4. 1810w.

  “We have dwelt at what may appear disproportionate length upon his
  treatment of the poll tax returns because it is here that he specially
  lays claim to originality. What is valuable in his suggestions is not
  materially affected by the inaccuracies pointed out above, but we rise
  from the examination with a somewhat shaken confidence in the
  scientific exactitude of his methods of research. The narrative of the
  rebellion itself can be more unreservedly commended. It is full, well
  digested, and spirited. But even here we must not look for pedantic
  accuracy in details.” James Tait.

     + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 161. Ja. ’07. 2300w.

  “Alike from its summing up of recent results, and from the new
  material it contains and the freshness and suggestiveness of its
  style, this book will be indispensable to the student of the
  fourteenth century. It will also find readers beyond the ranks of
  professional historians, for it narrates a dramatic story, and
  Professor Oman has told it well.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 277. Ag. 10, ’06. 930w.

  “The most interesting, if not the most valuable feature of Prof.
  Oman’s book, is the diversity of material which it contains. The whole
  episode assumes new meaning under his skilful analysis of the causes
  which prompted such a widespread and spontaneous uprising.”

     + + =Nation.= 83: 557. D. 27, ’06. 940w.

  “Brilliant narrative.”

       + =Sat. R.= 102: 429. O. 6, ’06. 1240w.

  “A valuable historical study, picturesque and compact.”

     + + =Spec.= 97: sup. 464. O. 6, ’06. 2190w.


=Oman, John Campbell.= Problem of faith and freedom in the last two
centuries. *$2.75. Armstrong.

                                                                7–29073.

  “A critical review of two centuries of debate upon the problem of
  faith and freedom, which arose in the Protestant reformation....
  Jesuitism and Pascal’s ‘Pensées,’ English deism and Butler’s Analogy,
  Rationalism and Kant on Pure reason, Romanticism and Schleiermacher’s
  Discourses on religion, The French revolution, and Newman’s
  ‘Apologia,’ the Development theory, and Baur’s Church history, the
  Theory of experience and Ritschlianism ... make up a conspectus of a
  highly diversified field.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He has ... the defects of individualist Protestantism; but he has
  also its good qualities, and that makes his book suggestive and
  interesting.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 122. F. 2. 470w.

  “His book is full of courage and hope, accepting joyously and eagerly
  the results which the best scholarship has attained, and yet cheered
  with the outlook for true religion and for the higher interests of
  humanity.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 636. S. 12, ’07. 460w.

  “It will be seen at once that the lecturer had fixed upon a subject of
  great interest and importance, both to the speculative thinker and to
  the common man. His selection of material for study and discussion
  indicates no less discernment. As an analyst and critic, Professor
  Oman exhibits marked ability.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 82. Jl. 25, ’07. 800w.

         =Outlook.= 85: 376. F. 16, ’07. 350w.


=Omar Khayyam.= Rubaiyat: a new metrical version; rendered into English
from various Persian sources, by George Roe, with introd. and notes.
**$1.50. McClurg.

                                                                6–41520.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “He has caught the spirit of Omar—though not, we think, so completely
  as FitzGerald—and his translation, though it is not likely to bring
  many new worshippers to the shrine of the old tentmaker of Naishapur,
  should be welcomed by scholars. Much learning and research have gone
  to its making, and the marginal and other notes are valuable; but
  judged as literature, it is—inevitably—vastly inferior to
  FitzGerald’s.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 13. Ja. 5, ’07. 360w.

  “Workmanlike little book.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 175. F. 21, ’07. 240w.


=Omond, Thomas Stewart.= English metrists in the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries; being a sketch of English prosodical criticism
during the last two hundred years. *$2.40. Oxford.

                                                                7–37517.

  A book for students which not merely enumerates and summarizes but
  traces “the gradual development of sound views of verse-structure.”
  Mr. Omond divides the two hundred years of his survey into four equal
  periods, to each of which he devotes a chapter, as follows: The old
  orthodoxy, Resistance and rebellion, The new verse, and The new
  prosody.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In recommending the present pamphlet to our readers, we do not intend
  to indorse Mr. Omond’s conclusions, nor to subscribe to his criticism.
  We have not yet examined the pamphlet with all the care and thought
  which it deserves, and there are points on which we distinctly
  disagree with Mr. Omond.”

     + − =Acad.= 73: 945. S. 28, ’07. 650w.

  “The finest part of Mr. Omond’s book consists in the exposition of his
  own ideas.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 465. Ap. 20. 1790w.

  “Is one of the most important books on versification that have
  appeared since Sidney Lanier’s ‘Science of English verse.’” Edward
  Payson Morton.

     + + =Dial.= 43: 33. Jl. 16, ’07. 2210w.

  “But neither these strictures nor some omissions and slips and even
  misjudgments, which are inevitable in such a work, can change the fact
  that the work is carefully done, and is to be received with
  gratitude.”

   + + − =Nation.= 85: 144. Ag. 15, ’07. 1020w.

  “Has no competitor in this history of prosody save Prof. Saintsbury.
  It is eminently scholarly and conscientious, and a noteworthy and
  valuable contribution to this much-debated and still debatable
  subject.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 463. Jl. 27, ’07. 660w.


=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Enoch Strone. †$1.50. Little.

  A new illustrated edition. Enoch Strone, mechanic and inventor, in a
  moment of humiliation caused by a rejected suit, marries an impossible
  factory girl. His struggle between relinquishing his career as member
  of parliament and saving his wife from herself ends in his facing his
  duty and in finding definite reward.


=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Lost leader. †$1.50. Little.

                                                                6–18998.

  “The prolific Mr. Oppenheim has again brought forth a mouse.”
  (Nation.) It is a story of English politics in which one Mannering
  retired from the political arena, is dragged back to the scene of his
  former successes by the villain of the plot, there to suffer intrigues
  of both love and politics.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Ath.= 1906, 2: 473. O. 20. 150w.

  “Mr. Oppenheim is one of the few writers who can make a political
  novel as interesting as a good detective story where the reader is
  expecting some one to be shot on every page.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 1375. D. 5, ’07. 210w.

  “This is a story that grips one from the start, notwithstanding its
  opening, which contains a dialog of platitudes.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 534. O. 12, ’07. 480w.

  “The truth is, Mr. Oppenheim’s manner is a bit too candidly
  professional. He has done the trick many times, and is confident of
  doing it many times more; one may imagine him blandly aware of the
  fact that it is not much of a trick after all.”

     − + =Nation.= 85: 285. S. 26, ’07. 440w.

  “There is at least one person in the book—Mrs. Phillimore—which is a
  well conceived and convincing character. This is the best thing in the
  way of character study that Mr. Oppenheim has done. His hero is a weak
  man, and most of the other characters are far from taking the flesh
  and bone of reality.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 510. Ag. 24, ’07. 460w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

  “The story is readable enough, but not of great importance.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 44. S. 7, ’07. 160w.


=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Malefactor. †$1.50. Little.

                                                                  7–984.

  One finds In the malefactor of Mr. Oppenheim’s story a companion study
  to the hero of his “Prince of sinners.” Grown ascetic and bitter
  during a period of unjust imprisonment, Sir Wingrave Seaton, at the
  end of his confinement, slips into the world incognito for purposes of
  revenge. His nature is too generous to permit him to carry out his
  scheme of injury. Under the mask of indifference, even cruelty, he is
  a philanthropist. After numerous logical digressions the love interest
  shapes itself into a typical bachelor’s romance.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 79. Mr. ’07.

  “Had Mr. Oppenheim been content to make the outcome of the story a
  little less obvious from the beginning, the novel would have gained in
  strength.” Amy C. Rich.

     + − =Arena.= 37: 559. My. ’07. 250w.

  “Mr. Oppenheim’s latest venture will bring no discredit upon his
  reputation as a storyteller.”

       + =Cath. World.= 86: 404. Je. ’07. 440w.

       + =Ind.= 62: 1269. My. 30, ’07. 240w.

  “This is a typical example of the modern realistic novel which,
  without any pretence to literary art, contrives to hold the interest
  of the reader.”

     + − =Lit. D.= 34: 342. Mr. 2, ’07. 230w.

  “An amusing yarn, and not without a moral.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 61. Ja. 17, ’07. 100w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 902. D. 29, ’06. 340w.

  “It is the most enticing excuse for suspended mental activity that has
  yet come from Mr. Oppenheim’s gifted pen.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 47. Ja. 26, ’07. 370w.

  “Is a frankly sensational story with little pretence to literary art
  but constructed with all that skill in development of power and
  exciting interest of which the author is an acknowledged master.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 377. F. 16, ’07. 140w.


=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Sleeping memory. †$1.50. Little.

  A new edition with frontispiece. The story records a physician’s
  experiment of performing an operation upon a willing patient which
  results in a loss of memory. With the memory disappears also the soul
  of the girl leaving only a superficial, pleasure-loving, heartless
  coquette. A second operation restores her to her former self, and
  eliminates any memory of her seven months of changed identity.


=Oppenheim, Lassa.= International law. *$6.50. Longmans.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

  “The part of the book dealing with the development and present state
  of the law of neutrality is perhaps the most valuable.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 162. F. 9. 250w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “The general arrangement is admirable; the style is careful, though
  sometimes a little cumbrous. Solid merit is the distinguishing
  characteristic of these volumes.” T. Raleigh.

     + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 388. Ap. ’07. 200w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)


=Orczy, baroness.= Beau Brocade. †$1.50. Lippincott.

                                                                7–28961.

  The daring incidents which give life to this tale take the reader back
  to the days of the Pretender, Charles Edward Stuart. Beau Brocade, a
  cashiered army officer of high birth, is dropped from the army for
  justly chastising a superior officer. He becomes a chivalrous
  highwayman, robbing rich men and extortioners and dropping many of the
  guineas so secured into Wirkworth’s poor box. His heroism, his
  chivalry, all his qualities of knighthood are called into play in
  aiding one Lady Patience Gascoyne to free her brother from the charge
  of traitorship to the king. As a reward he is restored to the army and
  wins the hand of the heroine in spite of the machinations of a titled
  rival.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

  “Baroness Orczy writes in a breezy, galloping style, which does not
  scorn any amount of meretricious adornment.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 320w.


=Orczy, Baroness.= Gates of Kamt; il. by the Kinneys. †$1.50. Dodd.

                                                                7–21538.

  “In ‘The gates of Kamt,’ two young Englishmen discover ancient Egypt
  hidden away beyond the desert, with language, customs, Pharaohs,
  embalming and all just as it used to be. The author out-Haggards
  Haggard in riotous and luxuriant description.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is no question that ‘The gates of Kamt’ ranks high in its own
  class as a piece of pure imaginative audacity.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

     + − =Bookm.= 25: 601. Ag. ’07. 520w.

  “Granted her situation, the author has made the human heart terribly
  convincingly true to it.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 515. Ag. 29, ’07. 270w.

  “Baroness Orczy has a vivid imagination and a fertile fancy, and she
  has woven a gorgeous web of splendid pageants and beautiful scenes and
  no end of exciting adventures.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 150w.

         =Outlook.= 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 40w.


=Ormond, Alexander T.= Concepts of philosophy. 3 pts. *$4. Macmillan.

                                                                6–35520.

  The three parts to Professor Ormond’s book are, “(1) an analysis which
  sets forth the two methods by which man seeks to realize his world:
  the method of external observation ... and the method of inner
  reflection ... (2) a synthesis which, while it justifies the two
  methods revealed by the analysis, sets forth the necessity of a
  synthesis of them and an attempt to realize it; (3) a series of
  deductions, which might more properly be called corollaries, dealing
  with a number of themes of general philosophical interest.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 69. Jl. 20. 300w.

  “It is remarkably free from blemishes of the polemical spirit, a
  thoroughly notable and helpful addition to our standard works on the
  philosophy of religion. It is to be hoped that the next edition of the
  work will give us a good index.” J. Macbride Sterrett.

   + + − =J. Philos.= 4: 46. Ja. 17, ’07. 2160w.

  “We confess that Professor Ormond’s book has aroused in us the
  suspicion that he has—without malice, we may admit—developed his
  philosophy in support of certain beliefs, but has not exhibited it as
  a source from which those beliefs spontaneously sprung.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 108. Ja. 31, ’07. 1900w.

  “Clear and straight thinking characterizes Dr. Ormond’s work
  throughout.”

     + + =Outlook.= 84: 676. N. 17, ’06. 340w.

  “Professor Ormond’s last book takes, in the opinion of the reviewer, a
  very high place among recent systematic works of philosophy. A large
  measure of agreement with his conclusions may emphasize this judgment;
  but the powers of analysis and the philosophical insight which the
  book reveals, any unprejudiced critic must recognize. Compared with
  the remarkable clear cut treatment of the scientific concepts, the
  religious concept is largely taken on trust, and this seems to me the
  point in which the book is weakest.” A. K. Rogers.

   + + − =Philos. R.= 16: 425. Jl. ’07. 3980w.

  “To many, and especially to non-professional readers, is likely to
  seem much fresher and more interesting than [‘Foundations of
  knowledge’].” Arthur O. Lovejoy.

     + − =Psychol. Bull.= 4: 339. N. 15, ’07. 1200w.

  “The book may well be read by those who are not philosophical
  specialists, for, unlike much American philosophical work, it is
  written in lucid English, and is largely free from the preposterous
  terminology affected by certain modern metaphysicians.”

       + =Spec.= 99: sup. 461. O. 5, ’07. 630w.


* =Orr, Rev. James.= Virgin birth of Christ. (Bible teachers’ training
school lectures, 1907.) **$1.50. Scribner.

                                                                7–31231.

  “The aim of these lectures is ‘to establish faith in the miracle of
  the Lord’s incarnation by birth from the Virgin, to meet objections,
  and to show the intimate connection of fact and doctrine in this
  transcendant mystery.’ The purpose is not to discover truth but to
  defend it.” (Bib. World.) There is an appendix giving the opinions of
  living scholars.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Bib. World.= 30: 480. D. ’07. 60w.

  “He never quotes an opponent’s position unfairly, nor intentionally
  presses his own argument beyond his honest conviction of its worth.
  His book is probably the clearest and strongest defense of the
  traditional view that can be made at the present time.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 1174. N. 14, ’07. 590w.

  “Dr. Orr is a past master in argument. He keeps the main point at all
  times clearly in mind, marshals his facts in effective order, is
  shrewd in the discernment of an opponent’s weak points, understands
  how to make his adversaries appear to refute each other, and, above
  all, lends to the weight of his reasoning the force of sincere and
  positive religious conviction. His attitude however, is that of a
  doughty defender of the faith, a polemic theologian. not of an
  historical critic or a seeker after light.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 449. N. 14, ’07. 750w.


=Osborne, Duffield.= Angels of Messer Ercole: a tale of Perugia. (Little
novels of famous cities.) il. †$1.25. Stokes.

                                                                7–28457.

  The scenes of this series of novels are all laid in some city of the
  Old world vitally interesting from the standpoint of history. “Mr.
  Osborne has selected Perugia and the period of Vannucci Perugino as
  the place and time of his romance. The artist and his pupil,
  Raffaello. appear as characters, but mostly the tale is devoted to the
  love of the Lady Ottavia, daughter of the noble house of Baglioni, for
  Messer Ercole, another pupil of Perugino.” (Lit. D.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Dial.= 43: 381. D. 1, ’07. 110w.

  “Both author and publisher have begun promisingly and expressively
  their intended Series of ‘Little novels of famous cities.’”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 614. O. 26, ’07. 160w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 657. O. 19, ’07. 20w.


=Osbourne, Lloyd.= Adventurer. †$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                7–31207.

  Somewhat similar to “The wrecker” written by the author and his
  step-father, Robert Louis Stevenson. Answering an advertisement for
  men willing to take risks for great gain, “the adventurer” enlists in
  a mysterious project of seeking treasures hidden beyond the South
  American pampas.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In spite of this defect of taste, and the too liberal amplification
  of a plot which, is at best, only a conceit, ‘The adventurer’ bids
  fair to take its place among a not too numerous company of Stocktonian
  and Stevensonian kindred.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 518. D. 5, ’07. 330w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 40w.

  “If the culmination has in it a hint of flatness, if the ending is
  more or less smothered in detail, it must be conceded that no solution
  possible to put into words would have quite the quality expected by
  the irresponsible and exacting reader.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 220w.

  “The opening chapters are capitally managed so as to excite curiosity
  and foreshadow a mystery. [Later] the tale becomes ordinary and hardly
  worth while even as a plot-story.”

     + − =Outlook.= 87: 497. N. 2, ’07. 90w.


=Osbourne, Lloyd.= Schmidt; il. by Allen True. †50c. Crowell.

                                                                7–21226.

  Schmidt is a stolid East-Side German shopkeeper. “The inner Schmidt
  was as much a butter-slicer and ham-shaver as the outer article. He
  was consistently Schmidt all the way through.” Yet when he loved Ella,
  his colorless life changed, he became a man of feeling, capable of joy
  and grief. It is the human note in the story that holds the reader.


=Osbourne, Lloyd.= Three speeds forward: an automobile love story with
one reverse. †$1. Appleton.

                                                                6–31657.

  The motor mad hero and heroine of this story meet unconventionally by
  the roadside when the heroine’s car breaks down opportunely and all
  goes well save for the sorry fact that her parents cannot bring
  themselves to approve of a young man who made his fortune thru the
  invention of a popular puzzle. The hero, undaunted, sets about winning
  them to his cause, despite the puzzle, and finally succeeds by
  cleverly mending a break in their car, a break which he had with equal
  cleverness previously arranged for.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “While it has its amusing moments, its humour is for the most part
  distinctly thin and rather forced.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 617. N. 16. 160w.

  “It is a bright and sprightly little story, very strongly flavored
  with gasoline, but quite readable.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 563. S. 15, ’06. 440w.


=Osbourne, Lloyd.= Tin diskers; the story of an invasion that all but
failed. †50c. Altemus.

                                                                6–25690.

  “An amusing although entirely trivial short story about an American
  girl who has curious adventures in England, growing out of the recent
  newspaper sensation known as ‘treasure-hunting.’”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This is a bright, breezy love story written with no other object than
  to entertain. One of Mr. Osbourne’s best short stories”

       + =Arena.= 36: 574. N. ’06. 260w.

     + − =Outlook.= 84: 45. S. 1, ’06. 30w.


=Osgood, Herbert Levi.= American colonies in the 17th century. *$3.
Macmillan.

  =v. 3.= “The present volume contains a history of British colonial
  administration during the period under review, together with treatment
  in some detail of the external development of Virginia and of domestic
  relations in the other royal provinces. The author attempts in this
  volume, to trace the history of the British systems of control as a
  distinct and separate feature of colonization.”—R. of Rs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Osgood combines in a remarkable degree the quality of patient
  research and a mastery of numerous details with the power of
  philosophic generalization.” Hugh E. Egerton.

     + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 804. O. ’07. 1490w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “This work marks an epoch in the writing of colonial history.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 444. N. 14, ’07. 2250w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “Admirable work.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 494. Ag. 10, ’07. 780w. (Review of v. 3.)

  “It is distinctly a product of real scholarship, distinguished by a
  constant and conscientious weighing of authorities and a keen
  discrimination between the trustworthy and the unreliable.”

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 968. Ag. 3, ’07. 990w. (Review of v. 3.)

         =R. of Rs.= 36: 128. Jl. ’07. 130w. (Review of v. 3.)


=Ostwald, Wilhelm.= Individuality and immortality. 1906. **75c.
Houghton.

                                                                 6–4176.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  Reviewed by W. A. Hammond.

         =Philos. R.= 16: 211. Mr. ’07. 510w.


=Ostwald, Wilhelm.= Letters to a painter on the theory and practice of
painting; authorized tr. by H. W. Morse. *90c. Ginn.

                                                                 7–3698.

  The technique of painting is dealt with in these letters which
  advocate the “empirical experimental” method. The artist’s explanation
  of the rise of his “tools,” of pastel painting, pigments, fresco oils
  and tempera is given, also a discussion of academies, etc.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The art student will find in these letters much food for reflection,
  particularly in the treatment of media, their optical characteristics
  and results.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 44. Jl. 16, ’07. 160w.

  “The placing of the book in the hands of every art student would do
  more for the cause of sound education than any number of lectures on
  aesthetics.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 241. S. 12, ’07. 440w.

  “Will be found attractive to the lay reader interested in painting.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 482. Ag. 3, ’07. 290w.

       + =Outlook.= 86: 614. Jl. 20, ’07. 110w.

  “Professor Ostwald’s scientific explanations ... may at least stir up
  a more vital interest among professional artists and lead them toward
  independent investigations useful to themselves and others.” Elisabeth
  Luther Cary.

       + =Putnam’s.= 3: 358. D. ’07. 290w.


=Otto, Rudolf.= Naturalism and religion; tr. by J. Arthur Thomson and
Margaret R. Thomson. *$1.50. Putnam.

                                                                7–18190.

  “The present volume by a Göttingen professor gives in a compact form
  to the general reader the main points in the great controversy that
  now seems to have been fought almost through.... He points out that it
  is not in the proper domain of science, but ‘in the teacup of logic
  and epistemology that the storm in regard to the theories of the
  universe has arisen.’ And he acutely concludes that the theory of
  naturalism, that there is no such thing as free creative mind, is
  refuted by its own existence as the actual progeny of such a
  mind.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He pursues [his argument] with enthusiasm as well as with logical
  force.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 391. Ap. 25, 07. 330w.

  “Presented here in eleven chapters by a discriminating thinker, as
  hostile to exaggerated assertions in a religious as in a scientific
  interest.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 482. F. 22, ’07. 230w.


=Oudin, Maurice A.= Standard polyphase apparatus and systems. *$3. Van
Nostrand.

                                                                7–27156.

  The fifth edition revised and enlarged to keep pace with the notable
  increase in the size of apparatus units and in the development of
  appliances for their control and protection.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “As a whole the book is readable, interesting and stimulating. Will be
  intelligible to any one who is reasonably familiar with electrical
  machines.” Henry H. Norris.

       + =Engin. N.= 58: 536. N. 14, ’07. 670w.


=Outcault, Richard Felton.= My resolutions: Buster Brown. †750. Stokes.

                                                                6–35950.

  Buster Brown becomes a sage, a philosopher, and a humorist by turns in
  Mr. Outcault’s “Resolutions.” Of course it is Mr. Outcault with his
  little favorite as a mouthpiece, yet Buster and Tige suddenly grow
  virtuous beyond their years.


=Oxenham, John.= Long road. †$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                7–10620.

  The long road is the way that marks the exile’s journey from Russia to
  Siberia. Traveled by a Russian and his wife and child in punishment
  for the offence of snuff-taking, it terminates in a little Siberian
  village where the grim cruelty of a despot governer works havoc in
  hearts and homes.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “But when all is said, it remains a straight-forward narrative,
  capable of giving pleasure to a not too exacting or critical public.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 345. Ap. 6, ’07. 120w.

  “Notwithstanding the painful incidents of their travels, the effect of
  the story is inspiring, not depressing.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 179. O. ’07. ✠

  “It verges more than once upon melodrama, but at least it pictures the
  desolation of unbroken stretches of snow with a haunting force not
  easily to be duplicated in modern fiction.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

       + =Bookm.= 25: 500. Jl. ’07. 360w.

  “The story is deeply moving and is related with knowledge of the life
  depicted and a rare degree of artistic strength.” Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 42: 376. Je. 16, ’07. 370w.

  “A charming story, charmingly told.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 219. Jl. 25, ’07. 280w.

       + =Nation.= 84: 314. Ap. 4, ’07. 370w.

  “We cannot but be grateful to Mr. Oxenham for remembering mercy and
  for permitting his readers to close a novel of unusual sincerity and
  strength with minds less penetrated by the wrongs and the anguish of
  its hero than by his moral victory and ultimate peace.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 181. Mr. 23, ’07. 860w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 210w.

  “He has exceeded his former work in human sympathy, quiet charm, and
  dramatic force. For freshness of sentiment and vividness of narrative
  it seems to us unexcelled by any recent romance.”

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 812. Ap. 6, ’07. 360w.

  “Mr. Oxenham’s vein of pathos is melodramatic—and therefore false.”

     − + =R. of Rs.= 35: 763. Je. ’07. 240w.


=Oxenham, John.= Man of Sark. il. †$1.50. Baker.

                                                                7–29685.

  A story which tells “in the first person, of the adventures of a
  sturdy youth who seeks his fortune as a privateer during the
  Napoleonic wars. Although loyal to England, he is mistaken for a
  Frenchman after an exciting engagement, and his English captors take
  him to a prison stockade by the North sea. When he escapes and finds
  his way back to Sark, he is welcomed as one from the dead. He is also
  just in time to rescue the maiden whom he has loved all his life from
  the hands of certain villainous persons who have abducted her.”
  (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The vivid account of island life and customs, of landscapes and
  sea-scapes relieves the obsession produced by this competent villain.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 546. N. 2. 180w.

  “The author has evidently steeped himself in the history, the
  folk-lore, and the customs of the island folk whom he describes, and
  tells a tale that is deeply appealing and full of varied interest.”
  Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 43: 252. O. 16, ’07. 150w.

  “To sum up, ‘A man of Sark’ shows a brisk imagination and capable
  workmanlike treatment of wholesome, legitimate material.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 400. O. 31, ’07. 240w.

  “The novel is very well written, with much poetic feeling and with a
  certain distinction of style, which, with its vigorous manner and its
  hardy and manly characters, makes it a very pleasing romance.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 612. O. 12, ’07. 170w.

  “It is a stirring story, but one likely to please the young rather
  than the experienced reader.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 104: 642. N. 23, ’07. 180w.


=Oxley, James Macdonald.= North overland with Franklin. †75c. Crowell.

                                                                7–22915.

  This volume in the “Crowell’s young people series” tells the story of
  the boy Denis who went with Franklin and his party from York factory
  overland to the farther north and whose flute cheered the men in time
  of despair and danger. It is a tale of hunting and adventure, of
  hardship and of peril.




                                   P


=Page, Thomas Nelson.= Coast of Bohemia. **$1. Scribner.

  Collected for the first time, Mr. Page’s poems could be launched with
  no better l’envoi than the author’s “fine confession of the faith of a
  minor poet:” “There is for a minor poet also a music that the outer
  world does not catch—an inner day which the outer world does not see.
  It is this music, this light, which, for the most part, is for the
  lesser poet his only reward.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “So trained a hand as his could hardily fail to produce a creditable
  work, even in the unwonted medium of rhyme and rhythm.” Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 42: 252. Ap. 16, ’07. 290w.

  “Poetic sensibility ... is very evident in Mr. Page’s verse, and he
  has an admirable command of traditional poetic tone.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 280w.

  “It is well modulated song, mellow as a Southern voice. While not
  varied in form nor experimental in meter, it is refined, smoothly
  textured, always melodious verse.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 30. Ja. 19, ’07. 480w.

  “The poems ring true; they have the quality of sanity throughout; they
  are conspicuously free from self-consciousness; and they are often
  happy in the ease and freedom of their phrasing.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 743. N. 30, ’07. 350w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 254. F. ’07. 50w.


=Page, Thomas Nelson.= Novels, stories, sketches and poems. “Plantation
ed.” 12v. $18. Scribner.

  Twelve illustrated volumes make up this “plantation edition,” so
  called because all the stories, novels, verses and essays present
  phases of plantation life.

                  *       *       *       *       *

     + + =Dial.= 42: 190. Mr. 16, ’07. 190w.

  “What one might almost call definitive edition.”

     + + =Ind.= 61: 1351. D. 6, ’06. 480w.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 27. Ja. 19, ’07. 780w.


=Page, Thomas Nelson.= On Newfound river. †$1.50. Scribner.

                                                                6–35938.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 18. Ja. ’07. ✠

         =Ind.= 62: 677. Mr. 21, ’07. 100w.


* =Page, Thomas Nelson.= Under the crust. †$1.50. Scribner.

                                                                7–37269.

  “In the seven stories which make up the volume of short tales, ‘Under
  the crust,’ the discerning reader will find the characteristic
  idealism of Mr. Page expressing itself in delicate and sympathetic
  studies of men and women to whom commercialism exists only to be
  resisted, and who live in the world as if life were still a matter of
  the spirit and not a matter of physical luxury.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 50w.

  “The lack of distinction is made up for by a healthy, cheerful tone,
  and there is reality to the men and women the author depicts.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 826. D. 14, ’07. 120w.

  “The stories in this volume are not of equal excellence, but it
  contains work which Mr. Page has never surpassed.”

     + + =Outlook.= 87: 742. N. 30, ’07. 1100w.


=Paine, Albert Bigelow.= From van dweller to commuter. †$1.50. Harper.

  A breezy account of the trials that overtook a man, his wife and the
  “Precious Ones” while moving from flat to flat in New York in quest of
  a really comfortable and livable place that they might call home.
  Comparative peace falls to their lot only when they enter upon the
  commuter’s life in a near-by suburb. The entire story is a “sort of
  general unburdening” of the troubles that haunt one during an
  attempted solution of the problem of living, with a view to “relief of
  spirit which is said to follow confession.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Though the narrative for the most part runs too familiarly along
  well-worn grooves, its facile humor and abundant sentiment may well
  afford some innocent diversion—especially to readers whose memory
  turns backward to adventures of kindred nature.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 353. O. 17, ’07. 270w.

  “It will find its clientele among those who enjoy Warner’s ‘My summer
  in a garden.’”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 631. O. 19, ’07. 220w.

  “There is much humor of a popular kind, and many clever character
  sketches.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 544. N. 9, ’07. 70w.


* =Paine, John K.= History of music to the death of Schubert. $2.75.
Ginn.

  The posthumous work of Professor Paine which includes his lectures on
  the history of music to the death of Schubert. The lectures are
  arranged under the headings Ancient and mediaeval music and Origin of
  dramatic music, opera and oratorio.


=Paine, Ralph Delahaye.= Greater America. *$1.50. Outing.

                                                                7–14803.

  A series of glimpses of the splendid activities of the American west
  of to-day. The author introduces the reader to numerous activities
  along the line of extension movement which show great creative and
  pioneering forces at work. Some of his chapters are as follows: Past
  and present of the “Soo,” The story of a copper mine, The magnet of
  the wheat, The cow puncher versus irrigation, The heart of the big
  timber country, A breath from Alaska, and Gold camps of the desert.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “To read the book is to get a new appreciation of the greatness of
  America, the greatness of her present and the possibilities of her
  future.”

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 599. N. ’07. 200w.

  “Belongs to a class of books which may be called rare even in this age
  of print. It bears the same relation to the ordinary volume of travel
  and description that the realistic novel of actual events bears to the
  novel of romantic cast.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 35: 132. Jl. 27, ’07. 430w.

  “Mr. Paine has felt and has put into his book the very spirit of
  energy and enthusiasm and confidence and ambition and kindliness which
  fills the vast miles to the west of New York.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 303. My. 11, ’07. 520w.


=Paine, Ralph Delahaye.= Praying skipper and other stories. $1.50.
Outing pub.

                                                                6–11303.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Uncommonly good tales of the straight-ahead sort.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 110. Ap. ’07.


* =Paine, Ralph Delahaye=, ed. Romance of an old time shipmaster.
*$1.25. Outing pub.

  A collection of letters and Journals written by an American sea
  captain during the early part of the nineteenth century. “It reveals a
  most charming and lovable personality, a sort of Lord Chesterfield of
  the quarter-deck, and throws a curious light on life at sea at that
  time.”


=Pais, Ettore.= Ancient legends of Roman history; tr. by Mario E.
Cosenza. *$4. Dodd.

                                                                5–33942.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Indeed every page of the book is full of illuminating and original
  ideas. For the most part the translation reads well, and a certain
  number of un-English expressions do not detract from its value, nor
  can we say that much is added by the greater part of the
  illustrations.” G. McN. Rushforth.

     + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 556. Jl. ’07. 610w.

  “Professor Pais is a difficult writer. There is much to be learned
  from his book. His notes cite the sources with considerable fulness,
  occasionally ... possessing an interest for students outside the
  narrower limits of the subject.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 366. Mr. 23, ’07. 1510w.


=Palgrave, Francis Turner.= Treasury of sacred songs; selected from the
English lyrical poetry of four centuries: with explanatory and
biographical notes. *$1.15. Oxford.

                                                                3–25607.

  A well chosen collection of sacred songs which includes many of our
  best sacred poems and such of our hymns as can be termed poetry.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “On the whole it is a good selection and gives a just idea of the
  quality of our sacred poetry.”

     + − =Acad.= 71:325. O. 6, ’06. 2290w.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 102. Ap. ’07. S.


=Palmer, Frederick William=, ed. With the sorrowing: a handbook of
suggestions for the use of pastors, missionaries, and other visitors in
the homes of sorrow. **75c. Revell.

                                                                5–41616.

  “Appropriate prayers, hymns, and passages of Scripture for use at
  funerals.”—Bib. World.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Bib. World.= 27: 480. Je. ’06. 10w.

  “Most profitable for the avoidance of monotony and formalism in the
  effort to discharge a sacred duty.”

       + =Outlook.= 82: 278. F. 3, ’06. 110w.


=Pardo Bazan, Emilia.= Midsummer madness; tr. from the Spanish by Amparo
Loring. $1.50. Clark.

                                                                7–11214.

  “The story tells of a gentle flirtation, occasionally verging on the
  dangerous, and always inclining to the superficial. The book is
  readable, however, while not elevating. The best feature is the minute
  detail with which the story describes the everyday life of the
  characters, both nobility and peasantry.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The English translation ... is well rendered, and follows the Spanish
  form of conversation with great conscientiousness. Of plot and
  counterplot there is very little.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 915. Ap. 18, ’07. 150w.

  “The little tale is conceived in a spirit of tender gayety which marks
  it for that rare thing, a work of true humor.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 363. Ap. 18, ’07. 140w.

  “The pages ... are full of the deplorable effects of rapid production,
  clever, vivid, and interesting picture of Spanish life though it is.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 178. Mr. 23, ’07. 500w.

  “Besides, the translation, by Amparo Loring, fulfills the difficult
  task of conveying the original writer’s sprightly, animated style in a
  manner quite spontaneous and natural.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 764. Je. ’07. 250w.


=Pares, Bernard.= Russia and reform. *$3. Dutton.

  “Beginning with a rather impressionistic but distinctly readable
  sketch of the rise and advance of Russia from the earliest times, Mr.
  Pares, with the emancipation of the serfs, enters into a detailed
  study which is really worthy of comparison with Mackenzie Wallace’s
  great book. Like Wallace, Mr. Pares evidently knows his Russia
  thoroughly, and his Russian in every walk of life. The geographical
  and economic aspects of the country, the governmental system, the
  educational facilities, the home life of the noble and the peasant,
  the literature that has been produced and the men who have produced
  it—all this and much more is expounded by him in a way that is equally
  interesting and authoritative.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We have many faults to find, but they do not affect the value of the
  work.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 439. Ap. 13. 500w.

  “In our opinion, Mr. Pares would have added to the value of his work
  by more concentration and by resolutely leaving on one side those
  matters which have already been adequately dealt with by other
  authorities.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 131. Ap. 26, ’07. 1360w.

  “On the whole, it may be said that he has succeeded in gaining a place
  close to Wallace and to Leroy-Beaulieu’s ‘Empire des Tsars.’ In its
  range, method, and adequacy of knowledge and insight, it is certainly
  the best account that the Russian liberation movement which began in
  1904, has brought forth.”

   + + − =Nation.= 85: 332. O. 10, ’07. 680w.

  “For all who wish to broaden their knowledge of a highly complex
  question Mr. Pares’s volume may be recommended as a safe guide.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 615. O. 12, ’07. 480w.

  “The work is in reality encyclopedic. We feel that in some matters,
  particularly with respect to prison methods, Mr. Pares takes an
  over-roseate view.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 86: 971. Ag. 31, ’07. 390w.

  “If Mr. Pares tells us nothing sensational in this stout volume, we
  are all the more ready to believe his word ... and if he tells us
  nothing exactly new, he at all events presents his points with a
  lucidity of the first order. Altogether, this book is valuable because
  it contains the comments and judgments of a competent and wise
  observer.”

     + + =Spec.= 98: 674. Ap. 27, ’07. 1960w.


=Paret, William, bp.= Place and function of the Sunday school in the
church. *50c. Whittaker.

                                                                6–34266.

  A discussion of the place and function of the Sunday school in
  relation to the greater subject on which it rests, namely, the duty
  and relation of the Church to children.


=Park, James.= Text book of mining geology, for the use of mining
students and miners. *$2. Lippincott.

                                                              GS 7–1129.

  “The author deals with the subject in nine chapters. The first
  contains a brief summary of geological principles, and the following
  chapters are devoted respectively to the classification of mineral
  deposits, ore veins, the dynamics of lodes and beds, ore deposits
  considered genetically, the theories of vein formation, ores and
  minerals considered economically, mine sampling, and the examination
  and valuation of mines.”—Nature.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The chapter dealing with the genesis of ore deposits is of special
  interest. The perplexing problems by which the subject is surrounded
  are judicially dealt with.”

       + =Nature.= 74: 520. S. 20, ’06. 540w.


=Parker, Gilbert.= Weavers. †$1.50. Harper.

                                                                7–30167.

  A finely wrought tapestry reproducing the house builded upon a rock.
  David Claridge, a sturdy English Quaker carries the new civilization
  of the West to the Egyptian East. He becomes counsellor and confident
  of Prince Kaïd and fights his battles for him. The story is a
  reënactment of the terrors of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the
  fiery furnace, and of Daniel in the lions’ den; for David, invincible
  in the might of truth, is unharmed by the fire which is the consuming
  traditional and superstitional heathenism and the lions which are
  treacherous oriental trickery and love of revenge.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is an excellent book and splendid reading. Alike in the manner and
  matter of the story, there are the ease and fulness that come of both
  the writer’s and the reader’s assured interest in the career of David
  Claridge.”

     + + =Acad.= 73: sup. 116. N. 9, ’07. 640w.

  “Not so artistic as the author’s earlier work, and rather long drawn
  out, but holding the interest, without question, to the end.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 179. O. ’07.

  “He spoils his material by wilfully romanticizing it; nevertheless he
  produces an interesting tale, set forth with such a serious air that
  we are bound to take it seriously.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 399. O. 5. 190w.

  “The truth is that Sir Gilbert has tried to write a story without
  first thinking it out clearly to the end; he has tried to make his
  readers realise characters which he has never successfully projected
  in his own imagination; and the result, with all allowance made for
  good intention and a certain amount of good workmanship, cannot be
  called a success.” Ward Clark.

     − + =Bookm.= 26: 169. O. ’07. 1000w.

  “A work that, despite certain quite obvious faults, is nevertheless
  endowed with unity of design and fine idealism.” Wm. M. Payne.

   + + − =Dial.= 43: 319. N. 16, ’07. 400w.

  “The whole conception is as dead as any mummy in Egypt, the chief
  difference being that it is embalmed in an excellent literary style.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 1309. N. 28, ’07. 550w.

  “Sir Gilbert Parker’s book is not lacking in well-drawn, dramatic
  scenes growing out of the conflict between Oriental subtlety and the
  straightforward Quakerism of David; and the picture of Egypt, although
  possibly not an altogether accurate one, emerging from its centuries
  of political darkness, is an interesting contribution to the romance
  of history.”

   + + − =Lit. D.= 35: 695. N. 9, ’07. 650w.

  “Deserves and has achieved a place among the leading novels of the
  year.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 920. D. 14, ’07. 100w.

  “Ungrateful though it may seem it is not easy to follow this long
  drama with any keen interest or to feel that the people in it are any
  more sensitive than the props that sustain old-fashioned cumbersome
  draperies. It is ungrateful because the purpose of the book is
  earnest, and Sir Gilbert evidently writes with knowledge and from his
  own observation.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 309. O. 11, ’07. 450w.

  “Although Sir Gilbert Parker uses a civilized if somewhat heavy
  English, and puts his book together in practised fashion, his
  treatment of Egyptian troubles ... on the whole lacks the brilliancy
  given to the same event by the late Archibald Clavering Gunter. It is
  hard to believe that ‘The weavers’ comes from the same hand which once
  gave so thoughtful and sincere a study of character as Charley in ‘The
  right of way.’”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 806. O. 3, ’07. 140w.

  “The idea has obtained very generally of late that the good old
  three-volume novel of the mid-Victorian age was forever extinct, like
  the dodo or the drama in blank verse. There were to be no more wronged
  or missing heirs, no more ‘papers’ turning up in old cabinets, no more
  ‘heavy’ old men telling their stories in quavering voices with the
  lights burning low and the violins going soft, no more benevolent
  low-comedy gents coming in slapdash at the critical moments, no more
  singularly fatuous villains getting caught in their own toils. It is a
  mistake; read ‘The weavers’ and be convinced. All, all are here, the
  old familiar faces. The book is written with the author’s usual
  facility and command of English.”

     − + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 579. S. 28, ’07. 1000w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 40w.

  “Is full of brilliant and striking passages, but the parts of the
  story do not perfectly cohere, and the tale is a series of dramatic
  episodes rather than a well-knit narrative of action.”

     + − =Outlook.= 87: 622. N. 23, ’07. 150w.

         =Putnam’s.= 3: 368. D. ’07. 1460w.

  “Much practice has made Sir Gilbert Parker a skilful weaver of a kind
  of plot which has no relation to reality, or even to probability, but
  which always fascinates a large novel-reading public. Sir Gilbert
  Parker writes about society and politics as if he were an outsider.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. O. 19, ’07. 450w.

  “Whatever fault may be found with the novel, it certainly shows no
  sign of scamped work or perfunctory handling. In every sense in which
  the phrase is applicable to a novel, the author has given us full
  measure,—length, wealth of colour and exciting incident, careful
  portraiture, minute character analysis. It may not be unfairly urged
  that Sir Gilbert Parker has been too lavish of his materials, and that
  his book loses in directness of appeal from the complexity of his
  theme, the kaleidoscopic nature of the narrative, and the widely
  divergent phases of life which he essays to depict. Yet of its
  picturesqueness, its eloquence, and its exciting quality there can be
  no doubt.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: 533. O. 12, ’07. 1140w.


=Parr, G. D. Aspinall.= Electrical engineering in theory and practice.
*$3.25. Macmillan.

                                                                6–36474.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Although the book is generally quite readable, the English is by no
  means perfect throughout. The reasoning is here and there
  unsatisfactory, loose language creeps in, or the style becomes
  diffuse. The descriptive portion of the work is throughout very
  carefully written and illustrated.” D. K. M.

     + − =Nation.= 74: 581. O. 11, ’06. 1200w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 332. My. 19, ’06. 280w.


=Parrish, Randall.= Beth Norvell. †$1.50. McClurg.

                                                                7–30865.

  Again the West furnishes the setting of Mr. Parrish’s story. An
  ambitious young actress, with a past that has linked her with an
  adventurer and gambler, and a young mining engineer meet in a small
  town of Colorado. Their romance is brought well into the foreground of
  the story while western color is provided by the sturdy miners of the
  Little Yankee whose claims the young engineer defends against the
  aforementioned gambler. Tragedy, misunderstanding and years of waiting
  precede the wholly satisfactory dénouement.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is occasionally amateurish as to the manner of telling but
  absorbing as to incident and plot.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3. 203. N. ’07.

  “Here is the good old style of western melodrama, which, we suppose
  and hope, will never die out.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 580. N. 9. 130w.

  “The story itself fairly revels in the old familiar conventions.”
  Frederic Taber Cooper.

     − + =Bookm.= 26: 270. N. ’07. 320w.

  “It is all melodrama of a rather preposterous sort, and the hero’s
  conversation is a little more preposterous than anything else in the
  book.” Wm. M. Payne.

       − =Dial.= 43: 318. N. 16, ’07. 130w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 570. S. 21, ’07. 170w.

  “He wallows in adjectives, his conversations are stilted, and the
  actions and motives of his characters are unconvincing.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 560w.

  “Some striking situations are evolved, but the high-flown language of
  the hero and heroine when in peril of their lives on various occasions
  seems unnatural and detracts from the effect of several strong
  scenes.”

     + − =Outlook.= 87: 451. O. 26, ’07. 90w.


=Parrish, Randall.= Bob Hampton of Placer. †$1.50. McClurg.

                                                                6–34646.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “One would like to see the same quality of narration expended upon a
  simpler and more natural plot.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

     + − =Bookm.= 25: 90. Mr. ’07. 330w.

  “Mr. Randall Parrish has mastered the trick of popular narrative after
  a comparatively brief apprenticeship to the trade, and is to-day one
  of the most effective of our story-tellers.” Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 42: 16. Ja. 1, ’07. 330w.


=Parrish, Randall.= Great plains. **$1.75. McClurg.

                                                                7–29851.

  To write accurate history so clothed as to appeal to the imagination
  has been Mr. Parrish’s aim. He tells how the stretch of country
  between the valley of the Missouri and the foothills of the Rockies
  was discovered and settled, emphasizes its possibilities and
  picturesque wonders, and dwells upon the characteristics of men and
  customs of the frontier towns.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The choice of material is commendable, the weaving skilful, and the
  interest well sustained.” Edwin Erle Sparks.

     + + =Dial.= 43: 283. N. 1, ’07. 780w.

  “He shows care and judgment in the balancing of contradictory
  accounts. And he has told the story well and in interesting style. But
  he has missed not a little of the high spirit, the valiant courage,
  the dauntless expectations of the men who conquered the plains.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 530w.

  “Much of the narrative is avowedly based on the work of others, but he
  has combined and arranged the material in such a way as to produce a
  well-proportioned historical sketch. The book is alive with incident,
  adventure, and odd happenings in the days of Indian trappers, army
  camps, and frontier scouts.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 356. O. 19, ’07. 120w.

  “A book of far more than ordinary interest. Whatever else is
  attempted, Mr. Parrish has at least set forth the romantic aspects of
  the story in a most vivid and fascinating way.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 637. N. ’07. 90w.


=Parshall, Horace Field, and Hobart, Henry Metcalfe.= Electric railway
engineering. *$10. Van Nostrand.

                                                                W 7–100.

  “This book concerns itself mainly with the application of electricity
  to heavy traction as distinguished from tramway work, and gives an
  exceedingly comprehensive view of the progress which the new motive
  power has made up to the present time, besides containing a great
  store of collected data regarding the results obtained in
  representative examples of its application.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A high standard of excellence has been maintained in the preparation
  of the volume.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 385. Mr. 30. 1130w.

  “The most comprehensive book on electric railway practice which has
  yet appeared.” Henry H. Norris.

     + + =Engin. N.= 57: 663. Je. 13, ’07. 1130w.

  “The present volume endeavors, not unsuccessfully, to combine [the
  practical and technical phases] and to give the reader a clear
  knowledge of the fundamental principles that underlie the application
  of electricity to haulage.”

     + − =Nature.= 75: 531. Ap. 4. ’07. 1080w.


=Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews.= Family. **$3. Putnam.

                                                                6–42901.

  An ethnographical and historical outline, with descriptive notes,
  planned as a text-book for the use of college lectures and directors
  of home-reading clubs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The best book yet prepared for the student, whether in school or at
  home.” Carl Kelsey.

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 185. Jl. ’07. 820w.

  “Mrs. Parsons has written a most valuable contribution to sociological
  study. She has pursued the scientific and not the theologic method,
  and therein lies her sole offense. This world will be a better one to
  live in because of this thought-stimulating and exhaustive guide to
  the scientific study of the family.” Theodore Schroeder.

     + + =Arena.= 37: 105. Ja. ’07. 1690w.

         =Ath.= 1907, 1: 445. Ap. 13. 720w.

  Reviewed by Edward T. Devine.

         =Charities.= 17: 475. D. 15. ’06. 1200w.

  “A better book to put into the hands of the mature person looking for
  trustworthy information and judicious guidance of his thinking upon
  the family problem, it would be hard to find.” Franklin H. Giddings.

     + + =Educ. R.= 34: 202. S. ’07. 670w.

  “Outline notes constitute the greater portion and the chief value of
  the work. The fact that the author is not obsessed by a novel theory
  of her own, like some of her more original predecessors, makes the
  book more useful to the elementary student.”

     + + =Ind.= 61: 1348. D. 6, ’06. 780w.

     + + =J. Philos.= 4: 467. Ag. 15, ’07. 440w.

  “It is scholarly, abounds with references to authorities and to
  text-books for the student’s reading, but deals almost wholly with the
  family in its primitive forms. In our judgment it is wholly inadequate
  as a text-book for the study of the family, because it practically
  ignores the nature, origin, function, and laws of the modern Christian
  family, which is what the student most needs to comprehend.”

     + − =Outlook.= 85: 899. Ap. 20, ’07. 120w.

  “The attempt of the author to subject the family to careful scientific
  examination is exceedingly praiseworthy and altogether helpful. And
  there will be no question in the mind of the reader that the work has
  been courageously and honestly done. As a broad-minded piece of
  inductive research it is worthy of imitation in other fields. The book
  will probably stand as one of the many single and helpful pieces of
  inductive sociological study.” Frederick Morgan Davenport.

     + + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 744. D. ’07. 1750w.

  “Is essentially a work for students of sociology, teachers, and men of
  temperate and studious minds, and takes its place, for instance, with
  such books as Stanley Hall’s ‘Adolescence,’ which, by the way, it
  surpasses in original research.” Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton.

     + + =Putnam’s.= 1: 557. F. ’07. 1850w.

  “Judging from the scope of the book and the method of instruction
  recommended, the author imposes no bounds to the subject to be studied
  by these young people, and it is on this point that she is most open
  to adverse criticism. Whatever may be the criticism to which her
  conclusions are subjected, no one can object to the tone of the book
  or doubt the courage and transparent honesty of the writer.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 689. Je. 1, ’07. 1310w.


=Parsons, Florence Mary (Mrs. Clement Parsons).= Garrick and his circle;
il. **$2.75. Putnam.

                                                                6–45350.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 85. Mr. ’07.

  “Not only does she appear to have read—and to have mastered—everything
  the most exacting could require; but she has shown excellent judgment
  as to fact and fable, essentials and non-essentials.” S. M. Francis.

     + + =Atlan.= 100: 489. O. ’07. 290w.

  “Her portraits have that fulness and unity which impart a conclusive
  notion of personality, set with a due sense of perspective against a
  well-balanced background.”

     + + =Dial.= 42: 18. Ja. 1, ’07. 390w.


=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.

                                                                6–13090.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Vivid, concrete, interesting; covers with great detail one problem
  only, that of discrimination and its remedy.”

   + + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 102. Ap. ’07.

  Reviewed by Emory R. Johnson.

         =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 617. N. ’07. 560w.

  “While he occasionally disturbs the reader’s confidence by basing his
  charges upon rumors and hearsay evidence, after the manner of the
  newspaper reporter, he relies principally upon official
  investigations, hearings and reports, and in his handling of this
  material he shows a thorough familiarity with his subject.” Frank
  Haigh Dixon.

   + + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 156. Mr. ’07. 270w.


=Parsons, Frank.= Railways, the trusts, and the people. 25c. Taylor, C.
F.

                                                                6–46268.

  “A comprehensive work on the political, industrial, and social effects
  of different systems of railway control.... The work is divided into
  two parts, the first dealing with the relations of the railways to the
  public, ... and the second analyzing the railway problems.”—R. of Rs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “As a source of information Professor Parsons’s volume is a rich mine.
  It is unfortunate that so valuable a work should suffer so from the
  author’s lack of literary discretion.” Emory R. Johnson.

     + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 617. N. ’07. 360w.

  “As far as bulk and comprehensiveness are concerned, all previous
  contributions are outdone. Despite the many facts and figures
  presented by Professor Parsons, there is still wanting a comprehensive
  and scientific study of the railroad problem.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 387. F. 14, ’07. 720w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 34: 760. D. ’06. 210w.


* =Pasteur, Violet M.= Gods and heroes of old Japan; decorated by Ada
Galton. *$3.50 Lippincott.

                                                                7–18124.

  Faint gray drawings of Japanese plants and flowers furnish marginal
  decoration while the text consists of “short stories taken from the
  sacred writings and ancient histories of Japan. Some are legendary and
  miraculous; others correspond to the tales of our own age of
  chivalry.” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Interesting, to those especially who have a real sympathy with old
  Japan.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 838. D. 29. 170w.

  “Simply and gracefully told, with a quaintness that suits the
  primitive type of the stories.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 384. D. 1, ’07. 190w.

  “The work should appeal to young and old readers alike.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 618. N. 23, ’07. 90w.

  “There is much that is beautiful and poetic in these heroic legends,
  but the story gets frequently very involved, and the names are most
  confusing.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 100w.

  “The stories ... are well told, and Miss Pasteur cleverly brings
  before us the strange far Eastern outlook on life.”

       + =Spec.= 97: 939. D. 8, ’06. 50w.


=Paston, George, pseud. (Miss E. M. Symonds).= Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
and her times. *$4.50. Putnam.

  “This is, for three reasons, a very interesting book. In the first
  place Lady Mary is herself a woman who claims attention.... She became
  a national benefactress, and her character deserves to be studied.
  Secondly, the times in which Lady Mary lived, though different from
  our own in many respects, were in some ways alarmingly like them....
  In the third place, Lady Mary knew well enough that she was an
  excellent letter-writer.” (Lond. Times.) The sketch is keenly alive to
  her learning, her fascination, her eccentricities and her wit.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There are but slight deductions to be made from our praise of this
  excellent piece of biography. The notes are numerous and informing,
  and the few errata are chiefly to be found in the text.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 568. My. 11. 1710w.

  “It is because of her letters almost exclusively that we now feel much
  interest in Lady Mary, and in her letters from Constantinople we have
  the best of her.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 96. Ag. 16, ’07. 250w.

  “By some lack Mr. Paston fails to show the charm that Lady Mary’s
  contemporaries for the most part cordially owned, and that the reader
  of her letters feel, today.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 343. Ag. 8, ’07. 390w.

  “The book is written with great discretion, with a certain reticence,
  for which in these days we cannot be too grateful.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 140. My. 3, ’07. 2550w.

  “We feel we have been ‘personally conducted’ over an interesting tract
  of time.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 589. Je. 27, ’07. 1970w.

  “When the author speaks herself, she does so with delightful
  appreciation of the whole business, and links the mass of manuscripts
  into a coherent and agreeable book.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 313. My. 18, ’07. 2380w.

  “The true significance of Lady Mary’s life story, that which gives it
  value to readers of to-day, is the light it throws on the period in
  which it was lived, and the fact that ... Lady Mary herself was par
  excellence a product of her times.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 80. S. 14, ’07. 3700w.

  Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.

       + =Putnam’s.= 3: 235. N. ’07. 1030w.

       + =Spec.= 98: 901. Je. 8, ’07. 2140w.


=Paternoster, George Sidney.= Lady of the blue motor. $1.50. Page.

                                                                7–16942.

  An automobile story which does not content itself with the gentle
  excitements incident to motoring, but which involves a young
  Englishman, who undertakes to champion a mysterious lady who drives a
  blue car, in a series of strange complications which do not stop short
  of murder. The villain, also equipped with a car, is as diabolical as
  any of his class and the whole story moves at third speed along a
  highway bristling with dangers to a conventionally happy ending.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The misprints are sometimes serious. Apart from this, the story is a
  well-constructed melodrama, interesting in its own way, and with less
  hysteria and more character-study than one usually finds in books of
  this type.”

     + − =Acad.= 73: 43. O. 19, ’07. 220w.

  “The character of this delectable volume is that of the ‘shilling
  shocker.’ It is an ordinary sensational story of the stereotyped
  sort.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 297. S. 14. 70w.

  “While audacious and seemingly rather bold in the beginning of Sydney
  Pasternoster’s new motor car story, is proved in the end to be
  courageous and loving.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 110w.


=Paterson, Arthur Henry.= John Glynn; a novel of social work. †$1.50.
Holt.

                                                                7–14252.

  John Glynn is an Englishman who has made a fortune in America on her
  rough frontier and goes back to London to do settlement work in that
  unlovely quarter known as The Nile. Here he works side by side with a
  young woman who is secretary of his district and this, of course,
  furnishes the romance of the book, but its vital interest lies in the
  life of the criminal quarter in which they labor and in the strong
  characters, both good and evil, which they encounter.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The more serious will welcome a book which contains more than a mere
  love-story, while those who do not care for too thoughtful fiction
  will find an exciting and convincing novel, in which the characters
  are alive, and the interest is sustained to the end.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 414. Ap. 27, ’07. 400w.

  “The characters are well drawn and, on the whole, convincing. What is
  lacking in literary merit is overlooked in the swift succession of
  incidents.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 156. My. ’07.

  “The characterization is stereotyped, each figure being plainly
  labelled, good or evil, and painted in bold colours. Plot and general
  treatment are in keeping with this class of work; but the book is not
  without its instructive side, and despite occasional tendencies to
  claptrap, and frequent exaggeration, has here and there touches of
  genuine human wisdom, and indications of sincere thought regarding
  some of the problems which face the worker among the poor.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 502. Ap. 27. 130w.

  “The book holds more entertainment—if only you can forget that first
  chapter—than many a better one.” Edward Clark Marsh.

     + − =Bookm.= 25: 520. Jl. ’07. 930w.

     + − =Ind.= 63: 97. Jl. 11, ’07. 130w.

  “The pictures of the seamy side of London life are said to be true
  without being unwholesomely realistic.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 190w.

  “The author evidently knows thoroughly the region he describes. He is
  less happy, however, in his allusions to the western United States,
  whence his hero has just come with a fortune made in the cattle
  business.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 457. Jl. 20. ’07. 340w.

  “The tone throughout is frankly and conventionally sentimental and
  emotional, and though ‘John Glynn’ is a well-intentioned and even
  entertaining story, it can hardly be considered as a serious attempt
  to add to our knowledge of criminology or of the best methods of
  social reform.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 722. Je. 8, ’07. 290w.

  “Like many stories with a purpose. ‘John Glynn’ would be very much
  better without the love interest which Mr. Paterson has thought it
  necessary to introduce, and perhaps it would be truer to life but for
  a certain melodramatic tendency which he has not been able to keep out
  of its pages.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: 722. My. 4, 07. 270w.


=Paterson, William Romaine.= Nemesis of nations: studies in history: the
ancient world, Hindustan, Babylon, Greece, Rome. *$3. Dutton.

                                                                W 7–123.

  “The first of a series of studies analyzing the causes why
  civilizations—ancient, mediaeval, modern—have broken down, and the
  manner in which national sins ... have avenged themselves by bringing
  retribution on the sinners.” (Ath.) “In each of these studies the
  method pursued is substantially the same: There is an examination of
  the origin of the race in question: an effort to trace its
  affiliations with other races; a sketch of the salient features of the
  land. The religion, laws, politics, and social customs of the people
  are then considered; and, finally, we are given a comprehensive
  account of that slavery which was at the base of all these
  civilizations.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Throughout this learned book, covering an immense range, and parading
  a large bibliography, there are hardly any citations to verify the
  assertions of the text; yet these are often, to our knowledge, loose
  or inaccurate.”

     − + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 346. Mr. 23. 1440w.

  “It is no common piece of work dreamed out without labor—but betrays
  on every page an intimate acquaintance with the best modern literature
  on antiquity and also with the original sources themselves.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 1315. N. 28, ’07. 350w.

  “Mr. Paterson’s book is on the whole too audacious. He admits the
  complexity of the subject, and yet practically he writes as though the
  fall of his four great empires could be explained by the same simple
  causes acting in the same simple way.” F. Melian Stawell.

     + − =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 121. O. ’07. 600w.

  “Thoughtful and scholarly essays.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 305. My. 11, ’07. 490w.

  “Viewed not as a philosophical interpretation of the downfall of
  ancient civilizations, but as a history of their slavery systems, it
  is clearly a product of thoughtful and painstaking research, and
  contains much that is informing to a high degree. The reader, however,
  cannot be too strongly warned against unreserved acceptance of the
  sweeping conclusions Mr. Paterson would draw from his investigations.”

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 472. Je. 29, ’07. 580w.

  “Remarkable book.”

     + + =Spec.= 98: 834. My. 25, ’07. 2000w.


=Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton.= Poems; with an introd. by Basil
Champneys. $1.75. Macmillan.

                                                                 7–2591.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

       + =Cath. World.= 85: 407. Je. ’07. 350w.

  “It is fitting that there should be a definitive edition of his
  poetical work, and nothing could be in better taste than the volume
  ‘Poems.’”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 567. Mr. 7, ’07. 180w.

         =Spec.= 98: 17. Ja. 5, ’07. 1420w.


=Patten, Gilbert (Burt L. Standish, pseud.).= Frank Merriwell at Yale.
75c. McKay.

  Little that fills the life of a college youth of to-day is missing
  from this spirited tale. Frank Merriwell is made of true stuff, and
  with manly courage dominates every situation unexpected and
  prearranged that confronts him during his four years.


=Patten, Helen Philbrook=, comp. Intimations of immortality: significant
thoughts on the future life. **$1.50. Small.

                                                                 7–2422.

  An anthology which aims not so much to present an orderly, rhetorical
  argument for any theory of immortality as to bring before the reader a
  composite picture of the spiritual intentions of mankind thru the
  ages.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This is the best work of the kind that has appeared in anything like
  the same compass. The compiler has displayed rare judgment and
  discrimination in her selections. Should be found in every
  well-ordered library.”

     + + =Arena.= 38: 213. Ag. ’07. 680w.


=Patten, Simon Nelson.= New basis of civilization. (American social
progress series.) **$1. Macmillan.

                                                                7–18589.

  A book designed for collateral reading and class discussion which
  “interprets in a specially suggestive and stimulating way the meaning
  and significance of recent social changes with which the practical
  social worker is so actively engaged and to which he is so close in
  point of time and contact that he may well fail to secure for himself
  the stimulus of the larger outlook upon the events in which he is a
  participant.” It discusses the basis in resources, heredity, family
  life, social classes, social consciousness, amusement, character and
  social control.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Prof. Patten ... too often obscures his meaning to the common mind by
  expressing perfectly sensible observations and conclusions in the
  formulae they frequently employ to conceal lack of thought, but he has
  nevertheless an astonishing number of really vital and suggestive
  things to say. In short, in many points, at least, he has hold of the
  truth.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 347. Je. 1, ’07. 2000w.

         =Outlook.= 86: 765. Ag. 10, ’07. 360w.

  “Even if some of these things seem utopian, no fair-minded thinker can
  deny that Professor Patten has vividly brought out important
  differences between our civilization and any past régime, has called
  attention to the inevitableness of readjustment, has offered
  illuminating interpretations of our standards and ideals, and has made
  many wise and stimulating suggestions for practical effort.” George E.
  Vincent.

     + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 741. D. ’07. 1330w.


=Patterson, Annie W.= Chats with music lovers. **$1.25. Lippincott.

  Miss Patterson talks illuminatingly on such subjects as the following:
  How to enjoy music; How to practice; How to sing; How to compose; How
  to read text-books; How to be an organist; How to conduct; Preparing
  for examinations; How to get engagements; How to appear in public; How
  to organize musical entertainments; and How to publish music.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a compendium of really practical hints in almost every branch
  of music, expressed with great shrewdness, and in a way that carries
  weight.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 222. Jl. 12, ’07. 240w.

  “Covering so much ground, she has necessarily covered it very thinly.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 270w.


=Pattison, James William.= World’s painters since Leonardo. *$4.
Duffield.

  “The author has taken up the long succession of artists of whom he
  treats in chronological order, without regard to nationality, schools
  or character of work. In this he has sought to present the influence
  exerted by contemporaries upon one another, even at great
  distances.... It is as though he had produced an abridged Bryan’s
  Dictionary of painters, arranging by date instead of alphabet, and
  giving the whole affair the lively inspiration of alert thought and
  ready sympathy.”—Int. Studio.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The student who uses it merely as a court of last resort on minutiae
  will have missed its import, which consists rather in its spirit of
  sincere conviction and its direct delight in men rather than
  theories.”

     + − =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 24. N. ’06. 720w.


=Patton, John Shelton, and Doswell, Sallie J.= University of Virginia:
glimpses of its past and present. 25c. Bell.

                                                                5–39859.

  “An account, based on the correspondence of Jefferson and Joseph C.
  Cabell, of the founding of the university, a sketch of the
  institution’s early history, a description of the Jeffersonian
  buildings, and accounts of the various phases of the university’s
  development, together with lists of honor and prize students, orators,
  participants in the civil war, etc.”—Am. Hist. R.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 473. Ja. ’07. 80w.

  “Notwithstanding oversights, the volume contains much information that
  an alumnus may be glad to have in convenient compass.”

     + − =Nation.= 83: 466. N. 29, ’06. 370w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.


=Paul, Herbert Woodfield.= History of modern England. 5v. ea. **$2.50.
Macmillan.

                                                                 4–2649.

  Descriptive note of v. 1–3 in Annual, 1906.

  =v. 4 and 5.= Volume 4 opens with the Turkish troubles of 1876 and
  closes with the defeat of the Gladstone government in 1885. The
  closing volume begins with June 8, 1885, “a memorable day in English
  history ... from [which] all subsequent events in this history take in
  some degree their colour,” and closes with the events that led up to
  the defeat of the Liberal party in 1895.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The weakest part of the whole work is the conclusion. We have to
  thank Mr. Paul for a book which, if not profound, has at least the
  merit of putting great matters clearly, attractively and simply, of
  being at once instructive and entertaining.” Wilbur C. Abbott.

   + + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 385. Ja. ’07. 1420w. (Review of v. 5.)

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 48. F. ’07. (Review of v. 1–5.)

  “Mr. Paul’s comments on public men and parties are keen and incisive:
  his narrative vivid, terse and clear. The general style is midway
  between the severe classic stateliness of Morley’s ‘Life of
  Gladstone’, and the easy gossipy style of Justin McCarthy’s ‘History
  of our own times.’ With very little dissertation, no rhetoric, a good
  sprinkling of wit, recorded and first hand, this history may be read
  for enjoyment as well as for information.”

   + + + =Cath. World.= 84: 829. Mr. ’07. 980w. (Review of v. 1–5.)

  “Mr. Paul’s work, is, in brief, a readable journalistic enterprise,
  sufficiently accurate in details, but lacking in study, in erudition,
  and in thought, and largely deficient in all save avowed political
  information.”

     + − =Dial.= 42: 114. F. 16, ’07. 290w. (Review of v. 5.)

  “Surely Mr. Paul’s wisdom and foresight must have fallen short when he
  accords such a high place to the man [Mr. Balfour] whom both
  Conservatives and Liberals now realize to be a failure as the leader
  of a modern political party and whose successor is being discussed in
  his own political camp. ‘The history of modern England’ will certainly
  not hold its own either as history or as literature.”

     − + =Ind.= 63: 454. Ag. 22, ’07. 570w. (Review of v. 1–5.)

  “Giving always a picturesque and interesting narrative of contemporary
  events, not always, it is true, without prejudice and bias, but
  possessing all the virtues of an honest account by an intelligent
  participant.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 1232. N. 21, ’07. 70w. (Review of v. 1–5.)

     + + =Nation.= 84: 177. F. 21, ’07. 2240w. (Review of v. 5.)

  “No one can question the breeziness and vigor of his style or the
  cleverness of his epigrams; but however successful the work may be as
  literature, as history it leaves much to be desired.” W. Roy Smith.

     + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 129. Mr. ’07. 610w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)

  “The present volume is distinctly inferior to its predecessors, both
  in arrangement and form, and in the objectivity of its criticisms.”
  George Louis Beer.

     + − =Putnam’s.= 1: 760. Mr. ’07. 1240w. (Review of v. 5.)


=Paullin, Charles O.= Navy of the American revolution. *$1.25. Burrows.

                                                                6–42974.

  “A small well-printed duodecimo, into whose narrow compass the author
  has packed an astonishingly succinct and trustworthy account of the
  administration of the maritime forces of the revolted colonies.
  Dealing with the creation, organization, and control of the
  Continental navy and the various state navies in turn, he has
  emphasized that neglected page of our history rather than the
  well-known brilliant exploits of a few popular heroes.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is in fact a masterly little book, well conceived, thoroughly
  studied, and judiciously written. It is a real contribution to the
  study of the American revolution.” C. H. Van Tyne.

     + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 666. Ap. ’07. 720w.

  “This book is in all respects admirable, and the author may be
  congratulated upon the possession of the painstaking industry and
  ripeness of judgment which disarm the most captious of critics.”
  Herbert C. Bell.

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 614. N. ’07. 530w.

         =Ind.= 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 20w.

  “Dr. Paullin’s references to authorities are so frequent and
  scrupulous that his book becomes an indispensable guide to the student
  of this epoch.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 81. Ja. 24, ’07. 170w.

  “Details of a number of actions unknown to the general reader are
  given, and all together it is a valuable work of reference.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 903. D. 29. ’06. 70w.


=Paulsen, Friedrich.= German universities and university study;
authorized tr. by Frank Thilly and W: W. Elwang. **$3. Scribner.

                                                                6–12846.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “In many respects it is an extraordinarily good translation—spirited,
  idiomatic, and even racy—but it contains some queer words and some
  awkward constructions. The weakest things are the references to the
  English universities, which Professor Paulsen evidently knows only at
  second hand and comprehends very imperfectly.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 34. F. 1, ’07. 2450w.

   + + + =Nature.= 75: 338. F. 7, ’07. 1340w.

  “I know of no book discussing university problems and their solving
  which I can more heartily commend to others who are working at these
  same problems.” J. H. Finley.

     + + =No. Am.= 183: 410. S. 7, ’06. 1450w.


* =Paulus Diaconus.= History of the Langobards, by Paul, the Deacon; tr.
by William D. Foulke, with explanatory and critical notes, a biography
of the author, and an account of the sources of the history.
(Translations and reprints. N. S. v. 3.) $1.50. Dept, of history, Univ.
of Pa., Phil. (Sold by Longmans.)

                                                                7–20902.

  The first English version of Paul’s history. The introduction, notes
  and appendices are a compilation from modern writers.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The translation is on the whole well done, but the constant
  introduction of ‘indeed’ is not English, it is comical to find Plinius
  Secundus appearing as ‘Pliny the Second,’ and ‘quite distinguished’
  does not translate ‘eminentiores’ (p. 142). Commas are strewn about in
  profusion, with the odd result that on p. 380 Paul is quoted as the
  authority for the fact that Kiepert made a map for Mommsen.” E. W. B.

     + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 826. O. ’07. 230w.

  “This account of his own people by one of the most learned of medieval
  historians will be a pleasant surprise to the English reader who has
  hitherto had no opportunity to put this vivacious chronicle of the
  seventh century on the shelf with his Herodotus and Froissart.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 1007. O. 24, ’07. 90w.


=Payne, Will.= When love speaks. †$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                6–40589.

  A novel with a Middle West town for the setting portrays the conflict
  between two civic standards, the one absolute, invincible against
  bribery and graft, the other, avowedly stamped by a leaning toward
  “big game” methods. The strife between the two men who have adopted
  these standards respectively is further complicated by their close
  domestic relations, the wife of one being the sister of the other.
  “The problem of the book, as implied in the title, of course, is
  whether, whenever the inevitable clash comes, the voice of love will
  speak strongly enough to outweigh the voice of the wife’s inherited
  convictions.” (Bookm.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 18. Ja. ’07. ✠

  “It worked out with Mr. Payne’s usually strong grasp of the affairs of
  men and the emotions of women.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

     + + =Bookm.= 24: 490. Ja. ’07. 390w.

  “Truthfulness rather than idealism is the note of the book, although
  it has latent idealism a-plenty.” Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 42: 228. Ap. 1, ’07. 260w.

  “The whole tone of the book is wise, tolerant, and unimpeachably
  sincere. [Grammatical] blemishes are few and trifling, only noticeable
  because they are growing so rife in Western fiction as to create a
  menace.”

   + + − =Nation.= 83: 441. N. 22, ’06. 450w.

  “The tale is told with directness and strength. The incidents are
  dramatically handled, and throughout Mr. Payne writes with vigor and
  is in close touch with human nature.”

     + + =Outlook.= 84: 942. D. 16, ’06. 250w.


=Payne, William Morton.= Greater English poets of the nineteenth
century. **$2. Holt.

                                                                7–32172.

  A study of a group of English writers including Keats, Shelley, Byron,
  Coleridge, Wordsworth, Landor, Browning, Tennyson, Arnold, Rossetti,
  Morris and Swinburne. The aim of the work is not to consider these men
  in their characters as poetic artists so much as to view them in their
  relations to the world of thought and action, to examine their poetry
  with respect to intellectual content, to set forth their ideas upon
  religious and philosophic subjects, and to discuss their attitude
  toward the political and social conditions of their time.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “They deserve wide reading.”

       + =Educ. R.= 34: 536. D. ’07. 30w.

  “His best chapters are on Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold; the
  treatment of Coleridge and Morris cannot be regarded as adequate.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 491. N. 28, ’07. 310w.


* =Peabody, Francis Greenwood.= Mornings in the college chapel: short
addresses to young men on personal religion. Second ser. **$1.25.
Houghton.

                                                                7–37984.

  Short chapel talks to students which are intended to point out the way
  of life and to stimulate a desire to have a living faith.


=Peake, Elmore Elliott.= Little king of Angel’s Landing. †$1.25.
Appleton.

                                                                6–34050.

  “A pathetic story with a happy ending about a little cripple who had
  been blown up when a baby in a steamboat explosion, and had grown into
  such a quaint, elflike, lovable child that he fairly dominated the
  little town on the Ohio river where he lived.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

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

  “The study is keen as well as tender, and there is something
  peculiarly American in the traits revealed—a material shrewdness
  coupled with an idealism unusually pure.”

     + + =Outlook.= 84: 531. O. 27. ’06. 160w.


=Pearson, Elizabeth Ware=, ed. Letters from Port Royal, written at the
time of the civil war. *$2. Clarke.

                                                                6–46220.

  These letters set forth the experiences of the colony of Northerners
  who were delegated to take charge of the negroes and the cotton crop
  of 1862 when, after the capture of the forts at Hilton Head and Bay
  Point, South Carolina, the Sea Island region fell into the hands of
  the federals. “How they blundered and struggled on to very
  considerable success, and how their military superiors seemed in
  league to ruin their whole undertaking, because of poor judgment, or
  jealousy, or intrigue, is set forth in the volume before us in their
  own simple, unaffected words.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 932. Jl. ’07. 280w.

         =Atlan.= 99: 868. Je. ’07. 970w.

  “The ‘Letters from Port Royal’ have been painstakingly edited and
  elucidated by Mrs. Pearson.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 203. F. 28. ’07. 860w.


=Pearson, Norman.= Some problems of existence. *$2.10. Longmans.

                                                                7–32165.

  “This little book sketches a philosophy of religion from the
  standpoint of theistic evolution. The questions discussed are such as
  ‘inevitably present themselves to anyone who seriously considers the
  problem of human existence.’ The postulates—or conclusions?—of the
  author’s theory are: ‘(1) The existence of a Deity; (2) the
  immortality of man; (3) a Divine scheme of evolution of which we form
  a part, and which, as expressing the purpose of the Deity, proceeds
  under the sway of an inflexible order’ (p. 2). With these principles
  in hand, Mr. Pearson finds singularly facile answers to the question
  of the mind.”—Philos. R.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “If one overlooks its crudities of method and its scientific and
  philosophical dilettanteism, the book as a whole impresses one as
  rather a happy blend of naturalism and theism, reflecting both an
  attractive personality and a broad tendency characteristic of the
  age.”

     + − =Nation.= 85; 125. Ag. 8. ’07. 600w.

  “More instructive than the author’s conclusions are the spirit in
  which he has approached his subject and the intellectual weapons with
  which he attacks his task.” A. C. Armstrong.

       + =Philos. R.= 16: 550. S. ’07. 360w.


=Peary, Robert Edwin.= Nearest the pole. **$4.80. Doubleday.

                                                                7–35225.

  A narrative of the Polar expedition of the Peary Arctic club in the S.
  S. Roosevelt 1905–6, being Peary’s own account of his achievement, the
  dangers encountered, and the problems solved. The volume is well
  illustrated.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 126. My. ’07.

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 118. Ag. 3. 1900w.

  Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.

         =Atlan.= 100: 260. Jl. 11. ’07. 190w.

  “Is an energising book. It is a story of achievement, the kind of
  story that appeals to what is called the American appreciation of
  success. It is distinctly a personal work.” Albert White Vorse.

     + + =Bookm.= 25: 424. Je. ’07. 1800w.

  “A very readable record of a heroic achievement.” Percy F. Bicknell.

     + + =Dial.= 42: 304. My. 16, ’07. 1890w.

  “For American readers it is the most important book on Arctic
  exploration that we have had for many years.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 1147. My. 16, ’07. 890w.

  “Peary’s volume will be accepted as the best and most authoritative
  account of polar exploration that has in many years appeared.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 34: 962. Je. 15. ’07. 380w.

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 227. Jl. 19, ’07. 760w.

     + + =Nation.= 85: 41. Jl. 11, ’07. 900w.

  “He knows his field as no other man knows it, and his methods of work
  are the outcome of his own originality and experience. There is charm,
  too, in his way of telling things; nervous energy in his written
  records. The dramatic element is strong in many a situation that
  confronts him, and it does not evaporate when he tries to put it on
  paper.” Cyrus C. Adams.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 297. My. 11, ’07. 1790w.

  “He writes rather as a scientist than as an adventurer. His journal of
  necessity deals with adventure, and yet the spirit of the analyst is
  the scientific spirit.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 757. Je. ’07. 130w.

  “The story of the journey must be read at length to be appreciated.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 435. S. 28, ’07. 750w.


* =Peck, Harry Thurston.= Hilda and the wishes, il. †$1. Dodd.

                                                                7–36100.

  The story of a little girl and her five wishes which a fairy godmother
  gave her the power to make.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

  “No children can resist it, and grown people will add to their
  enjoyment of the pretty tale the amusement they find in noting the
  especial characteristics of the author, which they are accustomed to
  find in writing of a very different style.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 829. D. 14, ’07. 80w.


=Peck, Harry Thurston.= Twenty years of the republic. **$2.50. Dodd.

                                                                6–39787.

  A summary of the most significant events occurring in our country’s
  history from President Cleveland’s inauguration in 1885, to the end of
  the McKinley-Roosevelt administration, in 1905.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 70. Mr. ’07. S.

         =Ath.= 1907, 1: 253. Mr. 2. 250w.

  “To tell the story of such a period so that its significance shall be
  plain to the uncritical reader requires evidently two gifts, of both
  of which Dr. Peck is possessed, the gift of analysing and picturing a
  personality, and the gift of tracing and describing the slow working
  of those social forces whose evolution may be recognized only after
  its results are accomplished—in short, to trace and describe ‘history
  in the making.’ Dr. Peck has also the gift of a lively narrative
  style, and he is not deterred by a false sense of the dignity of
  history from making use of any lively anecdotes which have come his
  way.” Arthur Reed Kimball.

     + + =Bookm.= 24: 473. Ja. ’07. 3080w.

  “Sensational episodes, up-to-date pictures, and journalistic
  spellbinding are absent. No perversion of historiography is attempted;
  instead appears a series of short stories, delightfully told, with now
  and then a thoughtful word of comment, about men, women, and things as
  they are depicted on the shifting panorama of two decades of a
  nation’s life.” William R. Shepherd.

   + + − =Educ. R.= 33: 313. Mr. ’07. 1020w.

  “Professor Peck’s annals are as good as we can hope for today. We find
  no intentional bias in them and some excellent portrayals. We cannot
  hope for the present, to have our immediate needs better met.”

   + + − =Ind.= 62: 1469. Je. 20, ’07. 630w.

  “We are inclined to believe the book will be accepted as the best
  contribution its author has made to contemporary literature.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 120w.

  “Professor Peck writes entertainingly. He has woven the events of five
  presidential terms into a racy and eminently readable
  narrative—qualities not impaired by a tendency to snap judgment, a
  habit of rather sweeping generalization, and a love for unusual words.
  Mistakes which crept into this history as published serially have been
  corrected. There remain slips which seem to show lack of familiarity
  with the minutiæ of government machinery rather than downright
  blundering.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 15. Ja. 3, ’07. 440w.

  “Such a history is of particular value to put on record in a country
  which is passing through a transitory stage of eager endeavor and
  unattained ideals.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 190w.

  “Professor Peck speaks his mind more freely than does Mr. Paul, and
  occasionally with undue warmth. Sometimes, too, he writes with an air
  of finality that is unwarranted in view of the fact that all the
  evidence is not yet at hand. And now and again his pen portraits are
  hardly fair to their historic subjects. For all of this, we have read
  his work with satisfaction, recognizing that in more than one
  important way it is soundly informative.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 85: 47. Ja. 5, ’07. 290w.

  “Although on ... [some] matters—mostly trivial—the reader will feel an
  occasional impulse to rise up and disagree, there can be no question
  that the author has succeeded in what he has undertaken. His
  characters appear as living and breathing human beings; his story is
  told with genuine literary skill.” Paul Leland Haworth.

   + + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 331. Je. ’07. 1050w.

  “For Americans who like hearty distribution of praise and condemnation
  he will be a pleasant and satisfactory authority. In the mere matter
  of narration his book contains many points which the more stately
  writers would do well to study.” John Spencer Bassett.

       + =Putnam’s.= 2: 255. My. ’07. 140w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 111. Ja. ’07. 60w.

         =Spec.= 98: 379. Mr. 9, ’07. 260w.


=Peck, Theodora.= Hester of the Grants: a romance of old Bennington.
**$2.50. Duffield.

                                                                7–23717.

  A special Vermont edition of a novel first issued two years ago,
  illustrated with pictures of Green mountain localities and characters.
  The new dress enhances the historical flavor of this tale of
  revolutionary times in Vermont when it was still a part of the
  Hampshire grants, and adds interest to the romantic story of the
  patriotic heroine, her lovers, and her turncoat father.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There are many evidences of youth in the composition of the
  narrative, but on the whole it is a surprising piece of work for a
  young author, and furnishes very pleasing and satisfactory reading to
  all interested in the events and spirit of our country’s most romantic
  days.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 80w.


=Peixotto, Ernest Clifford.= By Italian seas. **$2.50. Scribner.

                                                                6–37648.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Mr. Peixotto is a very excellent artist, but as a writer he leaves
  much to be desired.”

     + − =Acad.= 73: 969. O. 5, ’07. 170w.

  “The text is clear and only less charming than the exquisite pictures
  by the author.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 70. Mr. ’07.

  “The text is to be read rather as a commentary upon the many excellent
  drawings than for its own sake. Even so it seems rather shallow and
  superficial.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 478. O. 19. 290w.

  “The word-painting is exactly as good, in its way, as the penciling,
  and so curiously like it in style that the two seem to make upon the
  reader’s mind a single harmonious impression.” Harriet Waters Preston.

     + + =Atlan.= 99: 423. Mr. ’07. 560w.

         =Lit. D.= 34: 64. Ja. 12, ’07. 220w.


=Peloubet, Francis N.= Studies in the Book of Job: a Biblical drama
illuminating the problem of the ages. **$1. Scribner.

                                                                6–32405.

  For advanced classes in Sunday-school, for Biblical literature courses
  in high schools and colleges, for evening service and for individual
  use.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The critical standpoint of the author is uncertain, and his estimate
  of the literature on Job is in many points at fault, but the
  interpretation of Job is affected by errors of this kind perhaps less
  than that of any other Old Testament writing.”

     + − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 184. Ja. ’07. 90w.

  “There was need of just such a book as this, which is not inferior to
  Moulton or Genung in its powers to bring to the ordinary Bible-reader
  a new and vivid realization of the treasure hidden in this Arabian
  ash-field, while for teachers it is of unique value.” Camden M.
  Cobern.

     + + =Bib. World.= 29: 235. Mr. 07. 910w.

  “A real vade mecum on this most troublesome but fascinating book of
  the Old Testament.”

     + + =Dial.= 42: 318. My. 16, ’07. 250w.


=Pemberton, Max.= Diamond ship. †$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                6–28763.

  “Another machine-made yarn of crime and alleged mystery. The diamond
  ship is a huge floating repository of the booty collected by an
  organized band of jewel-thieves. The leader employs the method of a
  captain of industry, and his operations are conducted upon a vast
  scale.... The usually helpless maiden is involved.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is all very interesting, if somewhat ingenuous, and those in
  search of a well-written book of adventure are recommended to buy it.”

     + − =Acad.= 73: 42. O. 19, ’07. 320w.

  “Max Pemberton is usually a fairly safe choice, if your ideal of
  hammock fiction requires abundance of sensation and not too much
  literary quality.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

     + − =Bookm.= 25: 602. Ag. ’07. 210w.

  “Rather above the average of his later work. It escapes his besetting
  tendency to be over-fantastic, and tells a reasonably straightforward
  tale of villainy unearthed and virtue rewarded. It is, of course,
  cheaply melodramatic throughout, but the excitement is
  well-contrived.” Wm. M. Payne.

     + − =Dial.= 42: 377. Je. 16, ’07. 180w.

  “A veritable pot-boiler of the poorest quality.”

       − =Ind.= 62: 970. Ap. 25, ’07. 100w.

         =Nation.= 84: 136. F. 7, ’07. 240w.

  “The most that can be said in the book’s favor is that the author has
  shown a good deal of ingenuity in the invention of incident. For the
  rest it is an illy-done piece of novel writing, clumsy in the
  construction, and in the telling splotched all over with the
  discredited tinsel and gew-gaws of melodrama.”

     − + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 119. F. 23, ’07. 370w.


=Pendexter, Hugh.= Tiberius Smith: as chronicled by his right-hand man
Billy Campbell. †$1.50. Harper.

                                                                7–11207.

  A new edition of the adventures of Tiberius Smith, the clever showman,
  who never faces a situation so perilous that his quick wit and keen
  sense of humor cannot effect a way of escape. Even lunatics and lions
  do not daunt him.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “For the lover of the circus in literature here are thoughts that
  breathe; for the collector of the ultra modern and vaudevillainous in
  slang, words that burn; remain, for the lover of a book in the
  accepted sense of that word, feelings not fit for publication.”

       − =Nation.= 84: 314. Ap. 4, ’07. 250w.

  “The rough and ready conversational style of the narrative and the
  grotesque humor of its similes and comparisons ... make a fitting garb
  for the breezy, absurd, amusing tale.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 239. Ap. 13, ’07. 360w.


* =Penfield, Edward.= Holland sketches, il. **$2.50. Scribner.

                                                                7–36404.

  Entire sympathy exists between the illustrations and text as both are
  the work of Mr. Penfield. “Nothing could be better suited to his style
  than the quaint Dutch peasants in their baggy trousers or voluminous
  skirts, picturesque caps, and clumsy wooden sabots. Queer little
  by-streets, flapping windmills on the banks of quiet canals, fishing
  smacks with patched brown sails, ‘interiors’ hung with Delft and old
  brasses,—these are the things that Mr. Penfield paints and writes
  about.... He never has a beaten-track experience.” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is seldom, even in these days of unique and beautiful travel
  books, that anything so thoroughly delightful as ‘Holland sketches’ is
  published.”

     + + =Dial.= 43: 376. D. 1, ’07. 310w.

         =Outlook.= 87: 617. N. 23, ’07. 130w.


=Penfield, Frederic Courtland.= East of Suez, Ceylon, India, China and
Japan; il. from drawings and photographs. **$2. Century.

                                                                 7–8551.

  “The world’s turnstile at Suez” is the heading of the opening chapter
  of a book of “journeyings loaded with gentle preachment.” After a
  brief survey of the history and of the utilitarian phases of the great
  marine highway, the author becomes a very informing guide thru
  Colombo, the Ceylon hill country and Bombay, on to sluggish China and
  to Japan where the “old is being supplanted by the new with amazing
  rapidity.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He has assimilated much useful information, many statistics, and not
  a few superficial impressions. These he has clothed in picturesque
  language, decorated here and there with such gems as ‘truthlet’ for a
  little truth.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 507. My. 25, ’07. 350w.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 103. Ap. ’07. S.

         =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29. 644. My. ’07. 450w.

  “It is one of the best books of travel of the year.”

     + + =Arena.= 86: 672. Je. ’07. 280w.

  “The clear manner in which Mr. Penfield presents his ideas and the
  fact that he has had such excellent opportunities to know whereof he
  speaks should entitle his opinions to serious consideration.”
  Elizabeth Kendall.

       + =Bookm.= 25: 301. My. ’07. 890w.

  “Few books of travel lately written in this country excel it, and we
  predict it will be more than a book of an hour.” H. E. Coblentz.

       + =Dial.= 42: 371. Je. 16, ’07. 480w.

  “Throughout the whole of this portion of the East there is an almost
  total lack of American products. This state of things is regarded by
  the author as wholly inexcusable. His views upon the subject are
  timely and deserving of general attention.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 510. Mr. 30, ’07. 550w.

  “Most of these spots are familiar, but described from his point of
  view in an attractive, often humorous way, they acquire a fresh
  interest.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 289. Mr. 28, ’07. 370w.

  “It is well worth while to travel in Mr. Penfield’s company, and look
  at unfamiliar scenes with his fresh yet experienced eyes.” Edward A.
  Bradford.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 158. Mr. 16, ’07. 1390w.

       + =Outlook.= 86: 38. My. 4, ’07. 110w.

  “The book is mere journalism and, though interesting, is by no means
  trustworthy.” G: Louis Beer.

     − + =Putnam’s.= 2: 745. S. ’07. 130w.

  “An excellent book of travels unusually well told.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 639. N. ’07. 40w.

  “This is an eminently readable book.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 948. Je. 15, ’07. 250w.


=Pennell, Elizabeth Robins (Mrs. Joseph Pennell).= Charles Godfrey
Leland: a biography. 2v. **$5. Houghton.

                                                                6–31406.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Only for the larger library.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 14. Ja. ’07.

         =Atlan.= 99: 429. Mr. ’07. 980w.

  “In spite of much that is delightful, the book is longer than
  discretion would have dictated.” Elizabeth Kendall.

   + + − =Bookm.= 24: 593. F. ’07. 1080w.

  “A graceful writer of unerring taste.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 914. Ap. 18, ’07. 730w.

  “Her ready pen runs away with her, and she employs in expansion the
  time which would have been more profitably devoted to condensation.”

     − + =Lond. Times.= 5: 416. D. 14, ’06. 1460w.

  “It must be conceded at the outset that these absorbing volumes do not
  offer a uniformly analytical or judicial estimate of the picturesque
  and magnetic ‘Hans Breitmann.’” Christian Brinton.

     + − =No. Am.= 183: 1299. D. 21, ’06. 1780w.


=Peple, Edward Henry.= Semiramis: a tale of battle and of love. †$1.50.
Moffat.

                                                                7–26347.

  A romance of ancient Assyria. “The figure of the warrior queen, half
  goddess, half mortal, stands out brilliantly wherever she is placed.
  Her love for the Assyrian prince, their adventures, her clever
  manipulation of the jealous King Ninus, and her final grim triumph,
  are vividly described.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Like the vast majority of novels that would feign reincarnate a
  buried antiquity, the sense of actuality is ineffectual.” Frederic
  Taber Cooper.

       − =Bookm.= 26: 269. N. ’07. 330w.

  “Whether he entertains or exasperates depends upon the character of
  the reader. To one acquainted with accepted profane and religious
  history the book is, to say the least of it, disconcerting. The story
  is written in a kind of delirious prose, that is to say it has the
  rigidity of poetry without its grace or high meaning, and the form of
  prose without its flexibility.”

       − =Ind.= 63: 946. O. 17, ’07. 130w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 470w.

  “Imagination almost routs history, and the result is a highly
  entertaining story.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 270. O. 5, ’07. 80w.


=Pepper, Charles Melville.= Panama to Patagonia: the Isthmian canal and
the west coast countries of South America. **$2.50. McClurg.

                                                                6–10671.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 148. My. ’07.

  “Our ignorance of the sister republics is so great that a work such as
  Mr. Pepper’s is to be welcomed as a contribution toward the
  enlightening of American public opinion.”

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 468. N. ’06. 160w.


=Pepys, Samuel.= Pepys’ memoirs of the Royal navy; ed. by Jos. Robson
Tanner. (Tudor and Stuart lib.) *$1.75. Oxford.

                                                                7–29045.

  Memoirs that were published originally by Pepys in June, 1690. They
  are a defense of his own naval administration prior to 1688, and a
  criticism of that of his opponents. Interesting details concerning the
  navy of this period are included.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 689. Ap. ’07. 160w.

       + =Nation.= 84: 132. F. 7, ’07. 130w.


=Periam, Annina.= Hebbel’s Nibelungen, its sources, method and style.
*$1. Macmillan.

                                                                6–24558.

  “In her five chapters the author of these studies treats of the
  genesis of Hebbel’s ‘Nibelungen.’ Hebbel’s conception of his dramatic
  problem, the sources of the work and his use of them, his relation to
  predecessor’s and critics, particularly Raupach, Fouqué, Geibel,
  Wagner, and Vischer, and some special aspects of Hebbel’s
  work—inventions, treatment of women, of religion, and the mythical and
  mystical.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Nation.= 83: 186. Ag. 30, ’06. 90w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 456. Jl. 14, ’06. 310w.


* =Perkins, Lucy Fitch.= Book of joys: the story of a New England
summer. il. **$1.75. McClurg.

                                                                7–34806.

  A Chicagoan tells how she takes a new lease of life during a spring
  and summer spent in two New England villages. From the confusion of
  the city she turns to the joys of rural loneliness, and revels in
  turf-paved walks “spangled with buttercups and broidered with violets,
  with the shadow of apple boughs dancing over it, and living silence
  all about, the stillness of singing birds and humming bees.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mrs. Perkins is keenly alive to both the delights and the limitations
  of the old-school New England life, seeing it with the clear eye of an
  alien who is sympathetic to its charm but fully conscious of its
  whimsicalities and oddities.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 383. D. 1, ’07. 320w.

  “A book of special interest to feminine readers.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 10w.


=Perkins, Mrs. Lucy (Fitch)=, comp. Robin Hood; his deeds and adventures
as recounted in the old English ballads. †$1.50. Stokes.

                                                                6–32850.

  The compiler has prettily illustrated in color these ten Robin Hood
  ballads, which are based upon authoritative versions and retain their
  original form.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 111. Ap. ’07.

  “The author-artist ... has not only shown judgment in her selections,
  but accuracy of costume in her attractive drawings.”

       + =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 13, ’06. 70w.

  “The book shows good taste, and the illustrations—most of them done in
  color—are simple in outline and excellent In spirit.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 110w.


=Perrigo, Charles Oscar E.= Modern American lathe practice. $2.50.
Henley.

                                                                 7–4843.

  “This is a lathe book from beginning to end.... A few chapters are
  given up to the history and development of the lathe and also to lathe
  design.... A number of chapters are devoted to the description of the
  latest production of our prominent manufacturers.... There are also
  chapters on variable speed devices, lathe tools and attachments,
  turret lathes, special lathes and electrically-driven lathes. The book
  is well illustrated.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Just the kind of a book which one delights to consult, a masterly
  treatment of the subject in hand.” Wm. W. Bird.

       + =Engin. N.= 57: 443. Ap. 16, ’07. 210w.


=Perry, Bliss.= Walt Whitman: his life and work. **$1.50. Houghton.

                                                                6–35721.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “By all odds the most judicial and satisfactory account of that
  disconcerting genius yet published. A kind of indecision or hesitancy
  to pronounce a definitive Judgment makes his book a little
  disappointing to a reader who looks to his biographer for his opinions
  as well as for his information.”

   + + − =Ind.= 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 110w.

  “On the whole, Mr. Perry’s book is an exceedingly uncomfortable one to
  read. The virtues of an editor and a college professor are too widely
  different from those of a great original genius to admit of mutual
  comprehension.” Louise Collier Willcox.

       − =No. Am.= 185: 221. My. 17, ’07. 990w.

  “Mr. Perry brought the methods of a scholar to his task, and for the
  first time the world has an adequate and candid account of Whitman’s
  antecedents and conditions, and of the outward happenings of his life.
  This record is not only more complete but it is more intelligent than
  any that has come from the Whitman cult.”

   + + + =Outlook.= 85: 278. F. 2, ’07. 1920w.

  “In writing a perfectly sensible life of Whitman, Mr. Perry has
  performed a feat of which we may almost have despaired.” H. W.
  Boynton.

     + + =Putnam’s.= 1: 635. F. ’07. 510w.


=Perry, John G.= Letters from a surgeon of the civil war. **$1.75.
Little.

                                                                6–24566.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 103. Ap. ’07.


=Perry, Thomas Sergeant.= John Fiske. **75c. Small.

                                                                5–40797.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “It describes a literary career to the neglect of character and
  personality. We miss a sympathetic portraiture of the man himself.”

     + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 190. Mr. ’07. 120w.


=Peters, Edward Dyer.= Principles of copper smelting. $5. Hill pub. co.

                                                                7–12991.

  “This work is divided into fifteen chapters, which deal with Methods
  and collectors, First principles of smelting, Principles of roasting,
  Chemistry of smelting, Practice of roasting, Blast furnace smelting,
  Reverbatory smelting, Pyritic smelting, Practical study of slags,
  Matte, Production of metallic copper from matte, Refining of copper,
  Principles of furnace building, Applications of thermochemistry,
  Miscellaneous and commercial.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The index is good, with plenty of cross-references, making it an easy
  matter to look up any section or subject. This book is a pioneer along
  the text-book line. The teaching of the principles, after all, is the
  most important, and Dr. Peters deserves hearty congratulations and
  thanks for producing such a clear, concise, and readable book.”
  Bradley Stoughton.

       + =Engin. N.= 57: 662. Je. 13, ’07. 1370w.


=Peterson, Henry.= Dulcibel: a tale of old Salem; il. by Howard Pyle.
†$1.50. Winston.

                                                                7–12980.

  A story of the cruel persecution of the days of the Salem witchcraft,
  with much stress placed upon the spell of hypnotism and imposture. It
  mainly concerns a very charming girl who comes under the witchcraft
  ban and her stout-hearted lover whose efforts to have her released
  from prison prove effectual only when the spirited Lady Mary Phips
  lends her assistance.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The tale is not without its credulities, but it is animated and full
  of zeal. With every allowance for partisanship it is a stirring
  recital, and pulls at the nerves of indignation as if the dreadful
  thing had not all happened two hundred years ago.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 591. Je. 27, ’07. 100w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.

  “A really charming little story, which keeps the reader’s interest
  well sustained until the very end.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 80w.


=Petre, F. Loraine.= Napoleon’s campaign in Poland, 1806–1807. *$3.50.
Lane.

  “The book begins with a chapter on the state of Europe in 1805 and
  1806, with a crisp sketch of the armies, the leaders and the
  lieutenants on both sides, and gives a careful description of the
  topographical features of the difficult theatre of war—its marshes and
  forests, its mud and snow, its summer heat and winter tempests. Then
  follow the several operations, from that beginning in November and
  culminating in the battles of Pultusk and Golymin at Christmastide,
  1806, through the butchery of Eylau in February and its succeeding
  winter quarters, the siege of Danzig, and the ‘final triumph’ at
  Heilsburg and Friedland in June, 1807, followed by the treaty of
  Tilsit. At the end are three maps of the theatre of war, on two
  sheets, and seven battle-plans on a third sheet.”—Am. Hist. R.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The style is simple and direct, with abundant foot-notes, the matter
  in some of which might be incorporated in the text, to save
  interruption of the narration by the reader. The detail is
  considerable, but not too great for a work dealing with a single
  campaign. We close Mr. Petre’s book with the feeling that he has done
  a good piece of work, filling a needed gap; and we welcome his
  forthcoming volume on ‘1806.’” Theodore Ayrault Dodge.

   + + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 888. Jl. ’07. 820w.

  “This volume supplies a real want for the student of Napoleonic
  history.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 494. Ag. 10, ’07. 160w.


=Petre, F. Loraine.= Napoleon’s conquest of Prussia. *$5. Lane.

                                                                7–25140.

  A full account of Napoleon’s campaign of 1806 based upon all the
  information available. “Mr. Petre confines himself, after two
  interesting chapters on the origin of the war and the contending
  armies, to the purely military aspect of his period.” (Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “If a treatise on military history is to be placed in the first class,
  the style must be clear and the narrative not overloaded with details
  of secondary importance, the authorities should be quoted, and the
  maps must be clear and large: Mr. Petre’s book fails in all these
  respects.”

       − =Acad.= 72: 385. Ap. 20, ’07. 760w.

  “The volume is easy to read. To a student already familiar with 1806,
  there are fewer causes of dissent than are usual.” Theodore Ayrault
  Dodge.

       + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 140. O. ’07. 770w.

  “The appearance of Mr. Petre’s book fills a gap which needed filling.
  In little matters Mr. Petre is sometimes irritating.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 597. My. 18. 1660w.

  “The most instructive passage of the book is the description of
  Napoleon’s army administration in the field and of the loose and
  ineffective organization of the Prussian staff.” Henry E. Bourne.

       + =Dial.= 43: 90. Ag. 16, ’07. 340w.

  “If he has nothing very novel to offer he is generally safe to
  follow.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 476. My. 23, ’07. 110w.

  “This is an exhaustive first hand account from a military point of
  view, and the result of careful study of the subject.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 253. Ap. 20, ’07. 270w.

  “The work has been so thoroughly done that this book is likely to
  become the definitive authority upon the subject.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 375. Je. 8, ’07. 440w.

  “Mr. F. L. Petre has described, with a technical completeness hitherto
  not available in the English language, Napoleon’s brilliantly
  successful campaign of 1806, in which Prussia was so completely
  humiliated.” G: Louis Beer.

     + + =Putnam’s.= 2: 743. S. ’07. 180w.

  “We must dissent from Mr. Petre’s discovery that incorporation of
  footnotes in the text saves the reader ‘annoyance,’ for his habit in
  this respect often distorts his narrative. Then the chief actors of
  the ‘débâcle’ are not individualized.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: sup. 455. O. 5, ’07. 2270w.


=Petrie, William Matthew Flinders.= History of Egypt from the XIXth to
the XXXth dynasties. (History of Egypt, v. 3.) *$2.25. Scribner.

                                                                5–26752.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

  “Solidly packed with facts.”

       + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 706. Ap. ’07. 30w.


=Petrie, William Matthew Flinders.= Janus in modern life. (Questions of
the day, no. 106.) *$1. Putnam.

                                                                7–37957.

  A development in some measure from Professor Petrie’s recent Huxley
  lecture. The study looks before and behind and deals with such present
  day problems as race and immigration, communism, philanthropy, and
  individualism in relation to historical philosophy. The burden of what
  the author has to say is “that all our modern efforts for the
  bettering of the race by saving the weaker individual rigors of
  competition tend to degrade the race.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Janus, indeed, is a clever double-headed professor, who treats rather
  amateurishly—that is to say, confidently and assertively—many subjects
  as to which we suspect that his knowledge is not very profound.”

       − =Acad.= 73: 185. N. 30, ’07. 1440w.

  “Dr. Petrie commands respectful attention when he writes upon
  archeology but when he turns to sociology, the subject of this little
  book, he writes as an amateur and must be weighed dispassionately.”

       − =Ind.= 63: 1315. N. 28, ’07. 460w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 501. S. 21, ’07. 1180w.

  “His chapters are well worth reading. They are always suggestive; we
  may differ from their conclusions, but we cannot help thinking about
  them, and are sure to get some profit from them. Sometimes, we think,
  Dr. Flinders Petrie exaggerates.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: 299. Ag. 31, ’07. 280w.


=Petrie, William Matthew Flinders.= Researches in Sinai. *$6. Dutton.

                                                                6–40918.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =Ind.= 62: 216. Ja. 24, ’07. 410w.


=Pfleiderer, Otto.= Christian origins. *$1.50. Huebsch.

                                                                 6–9289.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 132. F. 2. 590w.

  “The value of the work is especially in the references to facts and
  tendencies in other religions than Christianity as illustrating
  features in the growth of the Christian faith and partly contributing
  to this growth.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 388. F. 14, ’07. 240w.


=Pfleiderer, Otto.= Primitive Christianity; its writings and teachings
in their historical connections; tr. by W. Montgomery; ed. by Rev. W. D.
Morrison. 4v. *$3. Putnam.

                                                                7–16364.

  =v. 1.= “In this revised and enlarged edition a veteran theologian has
  availed himself of the latest fruits of learned research. The present
  volume, after a chapter on the first Christian community, is occupied
  with the Apostle Paul, his writings, and his theology.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A good translation. The lectures present, in a clear and interesting
  way, the author’s well-known views.”

     + + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 531. Jl. ’07. 470w.

  “While Prof. Pfleiderer is a mere theorist when dealing with records
  and traditions of supernatural events, he is a skilled and learned
  critic when he discusses the ordinary experience of a man like St.
  Paul.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 631. My. 25. 540w. (Review of v. 1.)

         =Ind.= 62: 389. F. 14, ’07. 50w. (Review of v. 1.)

       + =Nation.= 84: 154. F. 14, ’07. 140w. (Review of v. 1.)

         =Outlook.= 85: 96. Ja. 12, ’07. 310w. (Review of v. 1.)


=Pfleiderer, Otto.= Religion and historic faiths; tr. from the German by
Daniel A. Huebsch. *$1.50. Huebsch.

                                                                7–29077.

  A series of lectures delivered at the University of Berlin. The author
  defines the essence of religion, the ethics and science of it and the
  beginnings of religion; he discusses the Chinese, Egyptian, Babylonian
  systems, Brahmanism, Buddhism, the religion of the Greeks, and of
  Israel down to Christianity.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The brief accounts of the various religions are clear and good. The
  translation is only fair, clear, but often awkward.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 586. S. 28, ’07. 360w.

  “His just emphasis on the ethical element in the New Testament does
  not make full amends for an over-emphasis on the legendary.”

     + − =Outlook.= 87: 454. O. 26, ’07. 220w.


=Phelps, Mrs. Elizabeth Steward.= (Leigh North, pseud.). Predecessors of
Cleopatra. $1.50. Broadway pub.

                                                                6–45018.

  A compilation of what is known of the queens of Egypt who reigned
  during the four thousand years preceding the reign of Cleopatra. The
  volume is illustrated by five drawings.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “She does not indicate what ... are [her sources], nor does she handle
  her material critically.”

       − =Ind.= 62: 276. Ja. 31, ’07. 50w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 293. My. 4, ’07. 140w.


=Phelps, William Lyon.= Pure gold of nineteenth century literature.
**75c. Crowell.

                                                                7–25233.

  A summary of the vital forces in nineteenth century literature as
  embodied in the following authors destined to live: Keats, Wordsworth.
  Browning, Byron, Shelley, Tennyson, Stevenson, Thackeray, Austin,
  Eliot and Hardy.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is no alloy in his criticism.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 626. O. 19, ’07. 160w.


=Philipson, David.= Reform movement in Judaism. **$2. Macmillan.

                                                                7–15617.

  A series of studies which “aim to present a connected story of the
  progressive movement in Judaism ... setting forth the purposes and
  accomplishments of the reform movement.” The beginnings of the reform
  are discussed and chapters are devoted to: The Geiger-Tiktin affair,
  The Hamburg Temple prayer-book controversy, Reform in England,
  Rabbinical conferences, 1844–6, Reform Congregation or Berlin, The
  Breslau “Friends of reform,” Reform in Hungary, The Leipzig and
  Augsburg synods, Reform in the United States and Recent developments
  in Europe.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author is to be commended for his careful and scholarly work, and
  his book is eminently readable.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 503. My. 30, ’07. 390w.

  “The present volume, relating the struggle and advance of the
  reformers during the last century, is of peculiar interest and
  importance to Christians as well as to the Jews.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 43. Jl. 20, ’07. 250w.

  “A scholarly study.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 757. Je. ’07. 100w.


=Phillipps, L. March.= In the desert. $4.20. Longmans.

                                                                  W 5–5.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Mr. Phillipps is no mere impressionist, and behind his charming
  pictures there is a wealth of sound and acute political thought, all
  the more valuable since it is rarely expressed in the conventional
  language of politics. His mind has brilliance and swiftness, but
  neither profundity nor coherence. Sometimes in his parallels Mr.
  Phillipps is far-fetched and fantastic, but in the main his brilliant
  analysis carries conviction.”

   + + − =Spec.= 95: 1037. D. 16, ’05. 700w.


=Phillips, David Graham.= Light-fingered gentry, il. †$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                7–30833.

  A novel based upon recent insurance exposures. The light-fingered
  gentry are captains of industry and big men in the financial world.
  The hero is an officer of an insurance company, and the interest of
  the book is maintained thru his moral regeneration, both the phase of
  it that affects his fight with corruption in business, and the side
  that deals with his domestic happiness—the reawakening of love for his
  divorced wife.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Crude in style, but interesting in plot and character delineation.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 203. N. ’07. ✠

  “Considering the possibilities of sensationalism inherent in the
  theme, he has avoided the extremer forms of overstatement. The private
  interest of the story is inconsiderable.” Wm. M. Payne.

     + − =Dial.= 43: 253. O. 16, ’07. 280w.

  “Has many clever features, and now and then passages of real power.
  But as a whole it is the sort of novel which is own cousin to the
  special article of the monthly magazine and the work of the star
  reporter on the daily newspaper.”

     − + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 615. O. 12, ’07. 430w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 70w.

  “The colors—the lurid yellow of the sensational journalist and the
  dismal black of the chronic pessimist—are laid on with a prodigal
  brush.”

       − =Outlook.= 87: 309. O. 12, ’07. 90w.


=Phillips, David Graham.= Second generation. †$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                 7–4160.

  Hiram Ranger is a wealthy western manufacturer who deplores the
  idleness into which his two children lapse after a lavish eastern
  education. His conscience forbids bequeathing them any of his money,
  and their struggles to work out their own salvation form the burden of
  Mr. Phillips’ preachment.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Written in a hasty, crude style, but the story is forceful,
  absorbing, and timely.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 51. F. ’07. ✠

  “‘The second generation’ is not only Mr. Phillips’ strongest and best
  novel; it is the most virile and vital romance of the present year.”

     + + =Arena.= 37: 438. Ap. ’07. 3710w.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 459. Ap. ’07. 690w.

  “Unfortunately, Mr. Phillips has no style, and thus his management of
  a strongly-conceived situation becomes bald and unconvincing. The
  moral of the story is so fine and true despite a slight tincture of
  unwholesome socialism, that we could wish the author’s literary gift
  were in proportion to his ethical insight.” Wm. M. Payne.

     + − =Dial.= 42: 314. My. 16, ’07. 250w.

  “On the whole the book teaches us to be thankful that the social and
  industrial salvation of the country is not in the hands of these
  ingenious fiction makers, particularly those who have a socialistic
  heaven in view which none of us are fit by nature or grace to enter.”

     − + =Ind.= 62: 1415. Je. 13, ’07. 340w.

  “So long as he wrote to prove the evil effects of wealth upon the
  children of rich parents, he expressed his ideas with power and a
  certain fierce distinction. But when he attempts to show how wealth
  may be disposed of for the good of society, he offers a Munchausen
  system of finance wearisome to read about.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 80w.

  “Mr. Phillips has written a strong wholesome story of contemporaneous
  American life.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 342. Mr. 2, ’07. 230w.

  “There is quite enough importance in the tendency which Mr. Phillips
  has in mind to make one wish that he might have painted it as tendency
  rather than as inevitable fact. He has written a forcible tract,
  however, and this is what we suppose he intended.”

     − + =Nation.= 84: 85. Ja. 24, ’07. 450w.

  “The story exhibits all of Mr. Phillips’s strong qualities, it is
  interesting, and the characters are for the most part forcefully
  drawn. Its weakness lies in his treating a tendency as if it were an
  accomplished and universal fact of life.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 157. Mr. 16, ’07. 720w.

  “The many entanglements in the plot are skillfully straightened out in
  the end.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 250w.

  “The whole book, although sober-minded and excellent in many ways, is
  too long-drawn-out and somewhat stolid.”

     + − =Outlook.= 85: 479. F. 23, ’07. 100w.

  “I cannot imagine anybody but a walking delegate of the most
  exclamatory type taking pleasure in the ‘Second generation,’ and yet I
  am sure the author is guilty of most excellent intentions.” Vernon
  Atwood.

       − =Putnam’s.= 2: 218. Ag. ’07. 190w.


=Phillips, Le Roy.= Bibliography of the writings of Henry James. **$3.
Houghton.

                                                                6–43541.

  “Part 1, ‘Original works,’ is a chronological bibliography of books,
  giving the first edition.... Following this account of the first
  edition is a record of later editions and of translations.... In Part
  2 are described books by other authors to which James contributed....
  Part 3 is a very extended list of contributions to periodicals.... An
  appendix contains an account of two plays by James which have been
  staged in London.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “So far as we have been able to test it, Mr. Phillips’s work is
  admirably done, and the amount of research must have been very
  considerable.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 37. Ja. 10, ’07. 560w.

  “Mr. Phillips ... seems to have done his work with satisfactory
  patience and care:” Edward Cary.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 904. D. 29, ’06. 1210w.


=Phillips, Stephen.= Nero. **$1.25. Macmillan.

                                                                 6–7415.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The utmost that can be said of this play as a whole is that it will
  not detract from Mr. Phillips’s reputation.”

     + − =Outlook.= 85: 572. Mr. 9. ’07. 400w.


* =Phillpotts, Eden.= Folk afield. †$1.50. Putnam.

                                                                7–32559.

  Fourteen stories of love and adventure on sea and land which draw
  color from the sun, sea, and mountains of the South of France, of
  Italy and of North Africa. One of the best is “Souvenir de Maupassant”
  in which the heroine is the beautiful Kabyle girl pictured with all
  the fascination of her oriental heritage.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We are glad to have this collection, as it exhibits the author in an
  unusual rôle, and gives us a larger impression of him.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 686. N. 30. 210w.

  “In ‘Souvenir de Maupassant,’ Mr. Phillpotts offers most of that
  imaginative suggestion which is the short story’s highest merit; and
  here he shows himself not merely the patient and eclectic recorder of
  the scene and the hour, but the artist in description, whose words
  make nature live again.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 251. Ag. 16, ’07. 370w.

  “Here is a miscellany of short stories, in various moods and keys, but
  of no marked power.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 446. N. 14, ’07. 360w.

  “The backgrounds are vivid in color and very realistic.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 20w.


=Phillpotts, Eden.= My garden. (Country life lib.) *$3.75. Scribner.

                                                                 7–8530.

  Enthusiasm abounds in Mr. Phillpotts’ garden book with prejudices born
  of individuality and experience. It demands that a real gardener shall
  love nurserymen’s catalogues and shall abhor butterflies. In his
  garden of only an acre he has a thousand genera from all parts of the
  world, and his Devonshire sunshine seems to foster their growth almost
  magically.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He knows how to make a garden, and he knows how to write about it.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 621. N. 17. 380w.

  “The whole book will signify nothing except to gardeners; but they
  will enjoy it.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 5: 288. D. 24, ’06. 630w.

  “Is certainly a pleasure to the eye, and we find its leaves
  besprinkled with a pleasant humor here and there. The general reader,
  however, will shy at the constant stream of technical botanical names.
  The book contains many valuable bits of information for the amateur,
  but it has no Index.”

     + − =Nation.= 83: 448. N. 22, ’06. 140w.


=Phillpotts, Eden.= Whirlwind. †$1.50. McClure.

                                                                 7–4812.

  Mr. Phillpotts’ “standard is a high one. His method is conceived on a
  large scale. It is no other than to bring all the aspects of
  nature—the changing sky, with its range of colours, the wind that
  blows across his Devon moors, the trees, the flowers, the animals, all
  the denizens of earth—into league with him in telling one great story
  of passion or love or disaster.” (Acad.) “In his theme Mr. Phillpotts
  has enlarged the ‘eternal triangle’ of one woman and two men into a
  case of one woman loved by three men and herself honestly loving two
  of the men and married to one of them. This must be admitted to be a
  new complication, warranted to tax even the ingenuities of as keen a
  student of human nature as Mr. Phillpotts, and requiring no little
  delicacy of perception and feeling for its acceptable solution.” (N.
  Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is a lack of inevitability about the final tragedy, and that
  lack lends to the tragedy an element of sordidness which is
  belittling.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 95. Ja. 26, ’07. 460w.

  “It will be seen that while Mr. Phillpotts runs the risk, as often, of
  falling into melodrama, he keeps himself out of that pit by the
  artistry of his handling and the dignity of his characterization.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 129. F. 2. 450w.

  “Mr. Phillpotts has never given us anything so effectively composed as
  the present novel. In its culminating situation the action moves
  serenely upon the heights of real tragedy, and leaves one with the
  same richly complex yet elevated sense of peace.” Harry James Smith.

     + + =Atlan.= 100: 127. Jl. ’07. 1350w.

  “Is not to be numbered among his strongest books. There is less
  spontaneity of character drawing; his men and his women lack the vital
  individuality of the earlier volumes; they suggest something
  stereotyped and worked over from earlier impressions. The central plot
  is not merely repellent, but difficult of acceptance.” Frederic Taber
  Cooper.

       − =Bookm.= 25: 500. Jl. ’07. 380w.

  “It is a story that more than ever makes us feel that Mr. Hardy has
  found a worthy successor.” Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 42: 396. Je. 16, ’07. 300w.

  “Attempts to put a halo of self-sacrifice around a woman’s frailty,
  and the result is one of the most unconvincing stories he ever wrote.”
  Frederic Taber Cooper.

       − =Forum.= 39: 118. Jl. ’07. 370w.

  “Eden Phillpotts’s new novel is his masterpiece.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 1090. My. 9, ’07. 780w.

  “Eden Phillpotts’ last epic of the Dartmoor is beyond question the
  greatest of his angry masterpieces of that region.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 1228. N. 21, ’07. 20w.

  “So long as their lives proceed quietly the book is delightful, and
  the true tragedy of its end is the tragedy of a fine novel spoilt.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 29. Ja. 25, ’07. 1090w.

  “It is to be regretted that the writer did not more nearly confine
  himself to the main theme. The supernumerary persons ... are too many
  and too much in the way.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 415. My. 2, ’07. 400w.

  “Here is the ‘Whirlwind’ ... thrashing out the same familiar subjects
  with still enough of freshness and originality to make the reading of
  it an unexpectedly pleasing task.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 191. Mr. 30, ’07. 570w.

  “At his best and at his worst—at his best in true and faithful
  presentation of the Dartmoor country and the Dartmoor rustics, at his
  worst because there are breaks in the psychology, inconsistencies
  between character and action, abrupt tragedy more startling than
  real.”

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 254. Je. 1, ’07. 140w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 765. Je. ’07. 90w.


=Phillpotts, Eden, and Bennett, Enoch Arnold.= Doubloons. †$1.50.
McClure.

                                                                6–39024.

  A joint “light-hearted, mile-a-minute detective story” (Nation) which
  abounds in the local color of the West Indies.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is much clever invention and some charming descriptions of
  nature, which are quite out of place, but the novel, as a whole, is a
  failure, and does not arrest the attention.”

     + − =Acad.= 71: 503. N. 17, ’06. 130w.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 18. Ja. ’07.

  “Despite Mr. Phillpotts’ spurt, we cannot follow the narrative so
  zealously as we should like, and the story drags out to a lame
  conclusion.”

       − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 687. D. 1. 210w.

  “Some latent humor may be observed in the intense seriousness with
  which the wild piece of sensationalism is worked out.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 148. F. 2. 160w.

  “The London part of the story is better than its sequel, and provides
  a thrill for every chapter. After a while the complication becomes so
  great that there is nothing for it but to cut loose and to take refuge
  in foreign parts. Meanwhile all sorts of loose ends are left hanging,
  and some of them are not gathered up at all.” Wm. M. Payne.

     − + =Dial.= 42: 144. Mr. 1, ’07. 150w.

  “The effect of such a skilful and enthralling plot is heightened by
  the other features of the story, especially by its delightful vein of
  satire.” Herbert W. Horwill.

     + + =Forum.= 38: 549. Ap. ’07. 430w.

     − + =Ind.= 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 130w.

  “The story differs from the average detective mystery only in being
  quicker, more amusing, and in covering a wider geographical field.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 441. N. 22, ’06. 320w.

  “It has achieved the difficult task of a thoroughly original plot with
  a unique criminal.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 813. D. 1, ’06. 530w.

  “The authors seem to have fallen between two stools by combining an
  exciting tale of crime and treasure-seeking with a strain of
  burlesque.”

       − =Outlook.= 84: 711. N. 24, ’06. 150w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 128. Ja. ’07. 50w.

  “The book is certainly a first-class detective story; but we miss from
  the mixture the peculiar qualities of Mr. Eden Phillpotts.”

     + − =Spec.= 97: 938. D. 8, ’06. 250w.


=Phyfe, William Henry P.= Napoleon: the return from Saint Helena. 8 il.
**$1. Putnam.

                                                                7–20318.

  An informing account of the removal of the Emperor’s remains from
  Saint Helena to France in 1840; together with a description of his
  tomb in the Hôtel des invalides in Paris.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 600. N. ’07. 70w.

  Reviewed by Henry E. Bourne.

         =Dial.= 43: 89. Ag. 16, ’07. 310w.

         =Nation.= 85: 57. Jl. 18, ’07. 60w.

  “The book is written in excellent taste, very simply and contains many
  facts which students of the Emperor’s career will find interesting.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 416. Je. 29, ’07. 190w.


=Pickering, Sidney.= Basket of fate. †$1.50. Longmans.

  “Mr. Pickering delineates no wonderful hero or heroine, but just
  ‘nice’ people, and people who are ‘not nice’ as we meet them in life.
  The middle-aged man who loves, almost against his will, the fresh
  English girl who can live near pitch, yet not allow the hem of her
  skirt to be soiled, supplies the interest, being backed by a scheming
  half-sister and her former lover.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This is a book to be enjoyed at the fireside rather than criticised
  in serious style.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 767. D. 15. 130w.

  “For the tale ... is constructed and told with much skill. The
  characters, even the minor ones, are cleverly drawn and made to reveal
  themselves by their speech and actions.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 891. D. 22, ’06. 590w.

       + =Sat. R.= 102: 647. N. 24, ’06. 150w.

  “Not particularly remarkable for originality, but brisk and pleasant
  reading,”

     + − =Spec.= 97: 731. N. 10, ’06. 200w.


=Pickworth, Charles N.= Slide rule. $1. Van Nostrand.

  A tenth edition of a well known book in which “the text appears to be
  simplified and improved, there is a large number of illustrative
  examples from various phases of engineering calculation, and some few
  of the numerous modified and special slide rules are described.”
  (Engin. N.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

     + − =Engin. N.= 57: 85. Ja. 17, ’07. 240w.


=Pier, Arthur Stanwood.= Harding of St. Timothy’s. †$1.50. Houghton.

                                                                6–33574.

  “A very good story of school life about boys in their middle and later
  teens.... The scene is laid in a big boys’ school ... in New England.
  The story is largely concerned with the athletic side of school life,
  and shows the influence which can be exerted unconsciously among a lot
  of boys by one who is always frank and manly and honorable.”—N. Y.
  Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A novel ... with a wholesome flavor and a genuine appeal to boys.”

       + =Lit. D.= 33: 686. N. 10, ’06. 200w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 607. S. 29, ’06. 150w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 822. D. 1. ’06. 100w.


=Pier, Arthur Stanwood.= Young in heart. **$1.25. Houghton.

                                                                7–16383.

  “Comprises eight essays in observation of the writer’s fellow mortals,
  their excellences and defects, their successes and failures, their
  work and their play. Particularly strong has the author shown himself
  in what may be called the psychology of self-conceit.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Enjoyment of these agreeable and often illuminating studies in human
  nature ... would be more nearly perfect did they reveal a finer sense
  of the niceties of language.”

     + − =Dial.= 42: 317. My. 16, ’07. 380w.

  “A delightful little book which justifies its title. The author is
  certainly young in heart, and his outlook on the world is hospitable
  and comprehensive.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 320. My. 18, ’07. 300w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 90w.


=Pier, Garrett Chatfield.= Egyptian antiquities in the Pier collection.
*$4. Univ. of Chicago press.

                                                                6–41525.

  =pt. 1.= “The first volume ... consists of specimens represented in
  twenty-two plates, and includes objects in glazed pottery, flint and
  other stones, ivory and other materials. There are pendants,
  ornaments, inlays, and amulets, but the chief place is given to more
  than two hundred scarabs, seals, and cylinders. The catalogue
  describes the articles which the plates picture.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 915. Jl. ’07. 150w. (Review of pt. 1.)

         =Ind.= 61: 1352. D. 6, ’06. 230w. (Review of pt. 1.)

  “The whole is a conscientious and useful piece of work, free from
  ostentation and creditably performed. The value of the book is
  increased by the excellence of the reproduction of the legends and
  devices on the scarabs.”

   + + − =Nation.= 83: 447. N. 22, ’06. 240w. (Review of pt. 1.)

  “The disadvantages of the book are such as the author can easily
  remedy in the succeeding parts, and we hope that he will continue his
  plan to its end.” H. H.

   + + − =Nature.= 76: 148. Je. 13, ’07. 920w. (Review of pt. 1.)


=Pierce, Ernest Frederic.= Traveller’s Joy. †$1.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–37555.

  “The Traveller’s Joy” is an inn of the South Downs where a young
  writer, Anthony Penrose spends a summer and falls in love with Madge
  Weston, the sister of a college chum and the niece of his publisher.
  It is full of the wealth of summer and invincible youth.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 268. Ap. 27, ’07. 330w.

  “The book is as fresh and as wholesome as a spring morning; its worst
  faults are those of inexperience.”

     + − =Spec.= 96: 949. Je. 16, ’06. 820w.


=Pierce, Franklin.= Tariff and the trusts. **$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                 7–4381.

  In this treatise the author “attempts to show ... how the Dingley
  tariff has been the direct cause of the rise and growth of hundreds of
  oppressive capitalistic combinations. In the course of his argument he
  institutes comparisons with foreign governments and deduces many
  illustrations from the tariff history of those countries, particularly
  England and Germany.”—R. of Rs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author finds the tariff the chief cause for the oppression of
  corporate monopoly. It is here that the logic is weak; the analysis of
  the inconsistencies of the tariff is keen, and for the most part
  justified, but little evidence is given of the causal relation between
  the tariff and the great trusts which defy competition.” D. R. D.

     − + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 933. Jl. ’07. 380w.

  “Clear, forceful, controversial.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 126. My. ’07.

  “The book contains the most startling array of facts.”

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 645. My. ’07. 670w.

  “The argument is very one-sided, but is so well put together that the
  stand-patters cannot well afford to neglect it.” Max West.

     + − =Dial.= 43: 121. S. 1, ’07. 250w.

  “The author’s arguments based upon the comparison of the volume of
  exports and imports at different periods and of different countries
  should accordingly not be accepted as conclusive of the economic evils
  of the protective system.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 1473. Je. 20, ’07. 330w.

  “The book is frankly based on secondary sources, apparently not on
  very many, and is written for the general public, not for the student.
  We conclude that even among the staunchest of free-traders a book of
  this character could be welcomed only by the most shortsighted.”
  Chester W. Wright.

       − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 308. My. ’07. 1230w.

  “It cannot be said that Mr. Pierce’s book is of great value to the
  student, but for the general reader it should serve a useful purpose.
  The author is at his best in the chapter which discusses the relation
  of protective tariffs to public morals.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 411. My. 2, ’07. 200w.

  “Mr. Pierce has not written a book to class with Prof. Taussig’s, but
  it will serve a purpose for which the academic treatises are
  unsuited.” Edward A. Bradford.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 104. F. 16, ’07. 1120w.

         =Outlook.= 86: 341. Je. 15. ’07. 440w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 60w.


=Pierce, James Oscar.= Studies in constitutional history. *$1.50.
Wilson, H. W.

                                                                6–24023.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Discusses in a clear and interesting way, and with a deep conviction
  that the hand of an ‘Overruling Providence’ can be detected in the
  development of our country.”

     + + =Yale. R.= 16: 224. Ag. ’07. 50w.


* =Pierson, Clara Dillingham.= Millers at Pencroft. †$1. Dutton.

                                                                6–35325.

  A bright wholesome story of “a nice family with three children, who do
  the interesting things most children do. They send valentines, go out
  to tea and have cream puffs for desert, and once the boys sailed the
  kittens until they fell into the water. Buttercup had only to be
  dried, but Blackie was restored by means of artificial respiration.
  The children fed a party in a snow-stalled train, and that was great
  fun. too.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 80w.

  “We would strongly recommend ‘The Millers at Pencroft.’”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 763. D. ’07. 150w.


=Pierson, Delevan Leonard=, ed. Pacific Islanders; from savages to
saints. **$1. Funk.

                                                                6–39748.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 126. My. ’07.

  “We could wish that there might have been somewhat less
  insistence upon the differences between Catholic and Protestant
  missionaries—differences which do not make very edifying
  reading.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 904. D. 25, ’06. 160w.


=Pirscher, Johanna.= Growth without end: a popular exposition of some
current ethical and religious views. **30c. Crowell.

                                                                7–21388.

  One of the year’s additions to the “What is worth while series.” An
  optimistic discussion of the good resulting from the active principle
  of evolution and the work of modern sociology—good that shows itself
  in courtesy and generosity in daily intercourse, strength of purpose,
  devotion to duty and in a simple practical faith in God.


=Pitman, Isaac.= Pitman’s dictionary of commercial correspondence in
English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian. $2.25. Pitman.

  A valuable aid to the foreign correspondent. It gives the most common
  commercial terms and phrases. It does not attempt to displace, but
  rather to supplement other dictionaries, and it presupposes some
  knowledge of the grammar and construction of the different languages.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Spec.= 98: 464. Mr. 23, ’07. 100w.


=Pitt, William, 1st earl of Chatham.= Correspondence of William Pitt
when secretary of state, with colonial governors and military and naval
commissioners in America; ed. under the auspices of the National society
of colonial dames of America, by Gertrude S. Kimball. 2v. **$6.
Macmillan.

  “This publication in two volumes contains the official correspondence
  of William Pitt, when secretary of state, 1756–1761, with the colonial
  governors and the naval and, military commanders in America. These
  were the years of Great Britain’s glory, when, under the inspiring
  genius of Pitt, her arms were successful in all corners of the globe,
  and when the British navy attained an unquestioned command of the
  Atlantic and Pacific oceans.”—Putnam’s.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Valuable documentary publication.”

     + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 469. Ja. ’07. 70w.

  “The letters may be read with special advantage by those who are
  taking up the study of the campaigns of 1756–1760, and they are full
  of interest to the average reader, since they contain much of the
  thought of the greatest statesman England can claim for three hundred
  years. The books are well printed and are unusually free from
  typographical errors, although there are one or two slight
  topographical slips in the volumes, such as placing Bic off the
  Saguenay river.”

   + + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 663. Ap. ’07. 1560w.

     + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 799. D. 22. 1730w.

  “Teachers and students of early American history owe to the patriotic
  society women, and to Miss Kimball, their thanks for making available
  these interesting records.” Edwin Erle Sparks.

     + + =Dial.= 43: 117. S. 1, ’07. 790w.

  “The introduction is lucid and the notes admirably brief and painted;
  while the material collected gives a picture of Pitt’s powers of
  practical administration which is an absolute revelation.” Basil
  Williams.

     + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 377. Ap. ’07. 1980w.

     + + =Ind.= 62: 1413. Je. 13, ’07. 790w.

  “Miss Kimball was fortunate in finding nearly all her material ready
  arranged in the series of American and West Indian state papers
  preserved in the Record office, but a debt of gratitude is none the
  less due to her for bringing it to the notice of the English-speaking
  public in this clear and readable form.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 3. Ja. 4, ’07. 2160w.

  “The documents in these volumes have been well edited, but Miss
  Kimball’s preface hardly meets the demands of the occasion.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 244. Mr. 14, ’07. 1780w.

       + =Outlook.= 86: 970. Ag. 31, ’07. 550w.

  “Carefully edited.” Herbert L. Osgood.

     + + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 326. Je. ’07. 990w.

  “It seems ungracious to find fault when so much that is valuable is
  presented in these volumes, yet the collection would have been far
  completer, though much bulkier, if the enclosures in the dispatches
  had also been printed. The availability of such material cannot,
  however, compensate for an adequate biography.” George Louis Beer.

     + − =Putnam’s.= 1: 757. Mr. ’07. 460w.

  “It is a great boon to the student of history to have valuable
  documentary material of this character printed in this convenient and
  accessible form.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 756. D. ’06. 170w.

  “The Society of the colonial dames of America has performed a pious
  task in collecting a correspondence which covers the origins of their
  nation, and in Miss Kimball they have found a competent editor. The
  book is interesting mainly as the raw material of history.”

     + + =Spec.= 98: 143. Ja. 26. ’07. 1330w.


=Plantz, Samuel.= Church and the social problem: a study in applied
Christianity. *$1.25. Meth. bk.

                                                                6–30015.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “There are a few minor features in the work which seem to fall short
  of a sympathetic understanding of Catholicism. Looking for the good in
  the work, however, we find it full of Christian sympathy, and of an
  honest desire to make Christianity true to its social mission.”

     + − =Cath. World.= 84: 698. F. ’07. 870w.

  Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.

     + − =Dial.= 42: 13. Ja. 1. ’07. 170w.

  “A wholesome book and a tonic book.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 237. S. 22, ’06. 330w.


=Plumb, Charles Sumner.= Types and breeds of farm animals. *$2. Ginn.

                                                                 7–1488.

  Commonly accepted types and breeds of horses, asses, mules, cattle,
  sheep, goats and swine are treated in this volume, as for instance,
  the draft or speed type of horse, dairy type of cattle, and bacon type
  of swine. It includes a discussion on original habitat, breed
  development, history, work of pioneer breeders, characteristics, etc.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 103. Ap. ’07. S.

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 600. N. ’07. 130w.


=Plummer, Mary Wright.= Roy and Ray in Mexico. Il. **$1.75. Holt.

                                                                7–19788.

  A story told from the standpoint of Roy and Ray Stevens, lively twins,
  who spend a summer in Mexico. They visit Mexican cities, meet
  President Diaz, take part in an American colony’s celebration of the
  fourth of July, visit ruins and landmarks, and incidentally learn
  interesting bits of Mexican history. It is a travel book that will
  interest old as well as young.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Will be helpful to teachers.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 209. N. ’07.

  “The pictures are particularly good.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 100w.

  “A sensible book of travel.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 768. D. ’07. 60w.


=Plunkett, Charles Hare.= Letters of one: a study in limitations.
**$1.25. Putnam.

                                                                7–12641.

  “The book consists of more than forty letters, all purporting to be
  from a writer who is cursed with the artistic temperament, and
  addressed to a lady with whom he has fallen in love.... Every one of
  these letters explains, from one aspect or another, the writer’s
  conviction that courtship and marriage would involve infidelity to his
  true mistress—his art.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The writing of these letters, from the literary standpoint, is
  excellent. The sameness of the matter in them, tends to spoil the
  book, which would have been more interesting if it had included some
  of the replies to these highly wrought outpourings.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 471. Ap. 20. 550w.

  “Bears the unmistakable Benson stamp in conception and execution. As a
  tour de force in the portrayal of love-madness at the summit of its
  absurdity, the little book is a sort of curiosity.”

     + − =Dial.= 42: 343. Je. 1, ’07. 610w.

  “An interesting study of the morbid and irritating type. As a reductio
  ad absurdum of the artistic temperament theory, the book has merit.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 590. Je. 27, ’07. 490w.

  “Not a manly enough character to arouse much admiration in the
  reader’s mind. But it painted, with all its curious limitations and
  contradictions, very clearly and convincingly.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 257. Ap. 20, ’07. 380w.

  “Take it all in all, is pretty thin gruel, fit for an invalid, maybe,
  but not very tasty at that. They do these things better on the
  continent, you know.” Florence Wilkinson.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 350. Je. 1, ’07. 1900w.

  “A very clever book this.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 804. My. 18, ’07. 180w.


=Plympton, Almira George.= Dorcaster days. †$1.25. Little.

                                                                7–31228.

  A story for young people in which the simple, pure, near-to-nature
  life of one family reforms the false, snobbish standards of another.


=Podmore, Frank.= Robert Owen, a biography. *$6. Appleton.

                                                                7–11019.

  Mr. Podmore has gathered together and presented the details of the
  life of this Welshman whose plans for a co-operative village marks the
  beginning of modern socialism. The sketch follows his efforts and his
  failure. “There is hardly an item in the whole modern programme of
  social endeavour to-day, apart from religion, which he did not
  initiate, promote, or suggest; and the gospel of salvation by
  material-means, which is his gospel, gains ground everywhere at the
  expense of all other gospels.” (Lond. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “An excellent and well-balanced biography. Mr. Podmore’s work will be
  found of value to students of present social conditions, as well as to
  those interested in early history in the middle west of America.”

     + + =Dial.= 43: 289. N. 1, ’07. 390w.

  “It is not the final biography of the prophet of socialism—a more
  illuminating one remains yet to be written; but it is opportune,
  meritorious and acceptable.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 5: 250. Jl. 13, ’06. 2100w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 549. S. 14, ’07. 1300w.

  “The life of Robert Owen, which Mr. Podmore has written with much
  insight and considerable literary skill, is full of interest.”

       + =Spec.= 96: 1040. Je. 30, ’06. 1400w.


=Poe, Edgar Allan.= Poems; collected and edited, with a critical
introduction and notes, by Edmund Clarence Stedman and George Edward
Woodberry. $1. Duffield.

                                                                7–21324.

  The text adopted here is that of the Lorimer Graham copy of the
  edition of 1845, revised by marginal corrections in Poe’s hand. There
  is a critical introduction to the poems and notes including variant
  readings.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 578. O. 19, ’07. 150w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 616. O. 12, ’07. 130w.


=Politovsky, Eugene S.= From Libau to Tsushima: a narrative of the
voyage of Admiral Rojdestvensky’s fleet to eastern seas, including a
detailed account of the Dogger Bank incident; tr. by Major F. R.
Godfrey. *$1.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–10987.

  A diary in the form of letters to his wife written by the chief
  engineer of the fleet from Aug. 28, 1904 to May 10, 1905. “It presents
  with greater vividness than any formal history can the life on the
  Russian vessels during the seven months’ cruise from the Baltic around
  Africa, the long, tedious stay at Madagascar and Kamranh Bay and the
  preparations for the last fatal fight.” (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “If the author had been a closer observer and a more trained writer,
  the letters might have been very valuable, since little is known of
  that remarkable journey after the fleet left Tangier until it met its
  doom.”

     − + =Acad.= 71: 382. O. 13, ’06. 230w.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 126. My. ’07.

         =Ind.= 61: 1571. D. 27. ’06. 190w.

  “He is merely an intelligent outside observer, ready enough to make
  allowances for the difficulties with which Rojdestvensky was beset;
  but on that account his casual and incidental remarks are all the more
  illuminative.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 5: 310. S. 14, ’06. 1170w.

  “His diary ... has deservedly been called a valuable contribution to
  the history of the great struggle in the Far East. It holds material,
  however, which should be subjected to careful interpretation.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 415. My. 2, ’07. 610w.

  “The translator is to be congratulated upon his terse English and his
  successful avoidance of foreign idioms. An index would have been most
  acceptable.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 861. D. 8, ’06. 170w.

  “This book may be considered a trustworthy record of events and of
  life on board the ships under Rojdestvensky’s command, whilst in it
  can be clearly traced the causes which led up to the crowning disaster
  of Tsushima.”

       + =Sat. R.= 102: 370. S. 22, ’06. 350w.

  “A more faithful picture of what the Russians thought and said and did
  during these nine months there could not be.”

       + =Spec.= 97: 338. S. 8, ’06. 450w.


=Pollard, Albert Frederick.= Factors in modern history and their
application to the problems around us. **$2.25. Putnam.

  “Prof. Pollard’s book is made up of a number of lectures dealing
  chiefly with various aspects and developments of English history in
  the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In his own words, his object
  is ‘primarily to stimulate imagination,’ and he avowedly neglects
  ‘facts’ as such. What he offers is a series of conclusions (based as
  they must be, on an intimate knowledge of facts) on the character and
  inner meaning of certain phases of sixteenth and seventeenth century
  history, embodying illuminating reflections and generalizations from
  which the reader will turn with added zest to the ‘facts’ of the
  period.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Professor Pollard is, we think, at his best in the earlier lectures.
  His tracing of the growth of the national idea, of the advent of the
  middle class, and his picture of the new monarchy are most interesting
  and stimulating in the Aristotelian sense of the word. His style is
  happy and light and his lectures, should be most interesting to listen
  to, for even in cold print they read delightfully.”

       + =Acad.= 73: 725. Jl. 27, ’07. 550w.

  “It is ungrateful to carp at incidental peculiarity and ambiguity of
  detail amidst so much valuable generalization.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 91. Jl. 27. 850w.

  “A word should be added in appreciation of the author’s literary
  style: the reviewer recalls no other discussion that brings out the
  humor of history so freely and so delightfully. Professor Pollard’s
  latest work is one that lovers of history will read with enjoyment as
  well as with profit.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 320. N. 16, ’07. 480w.

  “It is long since we have approached a book of historical philosophy
  so intelligent or so incisive.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 1174. N. 14, ’07. 640w.

  “Some of the chapters are worthy of their author at his best; but
  others are not likely to add to his reputation and, though they may
  have been useful for their original purpose, ought not to have been
  given to the world in this form.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 251. Ag. 16, ’07. 1170w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 548. S. 14, ’07. 500w.

         =R. of Rs.= 36: 636. N. ’07. 70w.

     + − =Sat. R.= 104: 272. Ag. 31. ’07. 940w.

  “It unquestionably merits the adjective ‘readable,’ which is more
  often bestowed than deserved.”

       + =Spec.= 99: sup. 751. N. 16, ’07. 390w.


=Pollock, Frank Lillie.= Treasure trail. $1.25. Page.

                                                                6–18588.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 370. Je. 9, ’06. 150w.

         =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 7. D. 8, ’06. 140w.

  “It has occasional touches of verisimilitude, but its dramatic climax
  belongs to the region of the impossible.”

     − + =World To-Day.= 11: 1222. N. ’06. 70w.


=Pollok, Allan.= Studies in practical theology. $1.50. T. C. Allen &
co., Halifax, Canada.

  “While the subject of preaching and pulpit preparation is not
  neglected, much more space is devoted to such topics as the
  clergyman’s life as a student, the conduct of public worship, the
  adminstration of the church and the visitation of the sick, than is
  usual in homiletical treatises. The best traditions of the Scottish
  ministry, among which are scholarly industry, personal dignity,
  unfailing courtesy, and above all things, fidelity and
  conscientiousness, find a kindly and gentle exponent in Principal
  Pollok.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Nation.= 85: 56. Jl. 18, ’07. 190w.

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 569. Je. 13, ’07. 110w.


=Pond, Oscar Lewis.= Municipal control of public utilities. **$1.50; pa.
**$1. Macmillan.

                                                                 7–4379.

  “He begins with the definition of the purely governmental and the
  private or business functions of municipal corporations, discusses the
  legal construction of municipal charters and the implied powers of
  municipal corporations. He then sets forth ‘municipal purposes within
  the meaning of the constitution,’ shows the grounds on which municipal
  property is exempted from taxation, and treats of the sale of
  municipal property, power to grant exclusive franchises, and the
  regulation of charges for services rendered by private
  corporations.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Legal rather than economic in its discussion, it is rather more
  interesting to the student and general reader than most purely legal
  treatises.”

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 166. Jl. ’07. 240w.

         =Engin. N.= 57: 555. My. 16, ’07. 130w.


=Poole, Ernest.= Voice of the street. †$1.50. Barnes.

                                                                6–19774.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Is strong in its story element, but is not likely to have a large
  influence in changing conditions.” Madeline Z. Doty.

     + − =Charities.= 17: 487. D. 15, ’06. 420w.


=Porter, Eleanor H.= Cross currents: the story of Margaret. †$1. Wilde.

                                                                7–27618.

  The story of a little girl of wealth who was lost and found by a
  little waif of the slums, taken to his meager attic, and forced to
  grow up among the sordid conditions of sweat-shops and dirty streets.
  The book is a revealing child-labor document.


=Porter, Gene Stratton (Mrs. Charles Darwin Porter).= What I have done
with birds. **$3. Bobbs.

                                                                7–17394.

  The sub-title of this book is wholly suggestive of its scope:
  “character studies of native American birds which through friendly
  advance I induced to pose for me, or succeeded in photographing by
  good fortune, with the story of my experiences in obtaining their
  pictures.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Self-appreciation or self-consciousness constantly reappears
  throughout the book.” George Gladden.

     + − =Bookm.= 25: 622. Ag. ’07. 330w.

  “A thread of sustained interest runs through the whole book and makes
  it possible for the reader to overlook a perhaps justifiable pride of
  the author in her achievements and to ignore at times an abrupt style
  and a tendency to employ unusual words and phrases.”

     + − =Dial.= 43: 216. O. 1. ’07. 220w.

  “Besides the numerous half-tones, the volume contains seventeen
  full-page colored plates of unusual accuracy and beauty.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 1353. Je. 6, ’07. 150w.

  “Few books entail such actual labor as this, such marvelous patience,
  and few books are produced with a spirit of enthusiastic at-one-ness
  with the subjects.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 170w.


=Porter, General Horace.= Campaigning with Grant. *$1.80. Century.

                                                                 2–8573.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 54. F. ’07. ✠


=Porter, Robert Percival.= Dangers of municipal ownership. **$1.80.
Century.

                                                                 7–3905.

  A study of conditions in many of the most famous industrial centers of
  the world lies back of Mr. Porter’s exposition. By way of a warning to
  the United States, he gives a brief history of Municipal ownership in
  Great Britain, pointing out the serious consequences of the
  indiscriminate pursuit of the system there. He says “Trading with the
  public credit, whether state or municipal, must, of necessity, lead to
  stupendous financial liabilities, add to the burden of the rates,
  weaken municipal credit, bring about inequality of taxation, interfere
  with the natural laws of trade, check industrial and scientific
  progress, stop invention, discourage individual effort, destroy
  foreign trade, establish an army of officials, breed corruption,
  create an aristocracy of labor, demoralize the voter, and ultimately
  make socialistic communities of towns and cities.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

     + − =Acad.= 73: 108. N. 9, ’07. 1000w.

  “Partisan in spirit but useful because it is practically the first
  presentation of this side of the question.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 103. Ap. ’07.

  “As a wholly partisan writer on his chosen subject, Mr. Porter is an
  unqualified success except as his zeal defeats his own ends.”

     + − =Engin. N.= 57: 553. My. 16, ’07. 400w.

  “Mr. Porter has given us one of the most vigorous and readable books
  on this much-discussed subject. It is the work of an advocate but of
  an advocate perfectly sure of the correctness of his position and
  thoroughly alarmed at the tendencies he describes.” Wm. Hill.

   + + − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 495. O. ’07. 600w.

  “The book is well worth the study of those interested in present
  economic conditions and is likely to attract considerable notice.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 386. Mr. 9, ’07. 530w.

  “It is a real service to put the facts, which are accumulating clearly
  before the public and to explain them, so that people may know what
  they are doing. Mr. Porter’s book does that, and therein lies its
  value.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 250. Ag. 16, ’07. 1270w.

  “He Is a confessed and violent partisan, and too many of the figures
  which he gives are untested and unfairly collated for inferences
  dubiously drawn. This we the more regret because we agree in the main
  with his point of view. Nor is his sense of order good.”

     − + =Nation.= 84: 243. Mr. 14, ’07. 170w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 49. Ja. 26, ’07. 230w.

  “He goes on to declare that the object of his book is to set forth
  ‘the inherent defects of the whole principle of public trading.’ We do
  not think that a book founded on this lack of discrimination and
  taking for itself this sole object, will be of any great help to the
  student of this problem.”

       − =Outlook.= 86: 78. My. 11, ’07. 370w.

  “This volume by Mr. Porter will attract attention, since it is
  practically the first popular presentation of that side of the
  discussion. Mr. Porter is a trained investigator and statistician, and
  presents his case in an attractive and entertaining way.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 38. Mr. ’07. 110w.

  “Valuable as the work of a practical official and citizen of a
  practical nation.”

       + =Spec.= 99: sup. 645. N. 2, ’07. 130w.


=Porter, Thomas F.= City songs and country carols. $1.50. Badger, R: G.

                                                                6–41028.

  Nearly two hundred and fifty poems including fireside reveries,
  reminiscences, and sentiments of the philosopher, patriot and citizen.


=Post, Louis Freeland.= Ethical principles of marriage and divorce. *$1.
Public pub. co., Chicago.

                                                                6–13427.

  A serious treatment in which “Mr. Post ... argues that without
  unifying love marriage is essentially no better than concubinage.
  Genuine marriage is not created by the formal ceremony that is
  requisite to declare it; it exists before such declaration; it dies,
  if the love that constitutes it dies; it is reasonable and also
  conducive to moral interests that there should be a conventional
  release from the remaining conventional bond.” (Outlook.) “The natural
  inference from this is that when marriage ceases in reality, it should
  cease also in form. Divorce should be granted and remarriage
  permitted.” (Arena.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We do not hesitate to call this book a classic on the subject of
  marriage and divorce. It is the ultimate analysis, the final answer to
  a problem engaging now, more than ever, human attention. We commend
  its consideration to all Bible-bound ecclesiastics as well as to
  free-lovers and sex-radicals wherever found.” Robert E. Bisbee.

     + + =Arena.= 37: 322. Mr. ’07. 2120w.

       + =Outlook.= 82: 808. Ap. 7, ’06. 280w.


=Potter, Beatrix.= Tale of Tom Kitten. †50c. Warne.

                                                                7–28973.

  A prettily illustrated children’s story by the author of “The tale of
  Peter rabbit” and companion to it.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Other folk, as well as Pickles, will find pleasure in the dry and
  simple humor of the narrator, and the dainty pictures she has
  provided.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 516. O. 26. 140w.


=Potter, Rt. Rev. Henry Codman.= Reminiscences of bishops and
archbishops. **$2. Putnam.

                                                                6–33595.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 104. Ap. ’07.

  “The whole collection has so finely human a quality that it should
  have interest to those in no way connected with either of the offices
  that make so impressive an appearance in the title.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 973. Ap. 25, ’07. 260w.

  “He is able to indicate character by a stroke here and there, and the
  man stands before us, recalled by a good memory.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 39. Ja. 5, ’07. 1170w.


=Potter, Margaret.= The princess. †$1.50. Harper.

                                                                 7–9844.

  A sad story of love and intrigue with scenes drawn from Russian court
  life. The central figure is Princess Catherine, who lived in aloofness
  and isolation amid the social corruption about her which affected her
  in its most humiliating sense thru the inconstancy of her husband. The
  Czar and Czarina, diplomats and courtiers appear upon the stage where
  there is enacted a drama lacking neither romantic nor tragic interest.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Ath.= 1907, 1: 469. Ap. 20. 120w.

  “It is a pity that Miss Potter should have resorted to this trick of
  supernaturalism, which seriously weakens her book.” Wm. M. Payne.

     + − =Dial.= 42: 315. My. 16, ’07. 240w.

  “An interesting novel of sufficient verisimilitude to give life and
  character to her narrative.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 548. Ap. 6, ’07. 170w.

  “It would be hard to imagine an uglier situation than that upon which
  the action turns. Nevertheless the tale is in its way absorbing, and
  not likely to be at once forgotten.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 389. Ap. 25, ’07. 480w.

  “Considering the general unpleasantness of Miss Potter’s theme, she
  has managed its development with a good deal of skill, though some
  doubts insist on obtruding as to her solution of the story’s final
  problem.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 350. Je. 1, ’07. 570w.

  “Represents the highest achievement of its author yet given to the
  public.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

   + + − =No. Am.= 185. 549. Jl. 5, ’07. 1220w.

  “An occult strain runs through the novel, managed with frankness and
  some skill.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 150w.


* =Poulsson, Emilie.= Father and baby plays. †$1.25. Century.

                                                                7–38013.

  A book of pictures, verses, music and notes for the teacher, father,
  mother and baby. It is designed as a means of strengthening the tie
  between father and child who are separated the whole day thru.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A new and very attractive book.”

       + =Educ. R.= 34: 537. D. ’07. 40w.

         =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5. ’07. 20w.

  “The verses which Miss Poulsson has written are most uneven. The
  illustrations, however, are spirited and above the average.”

     + − =R. of Rs.= 36: 766. D. ’07. 80w.


=Powell, Elmer Ellsworth.= Spinoza and religion: a study of Spinoza’s
metaphysics and of his particular utterances in regard to religion, with
a view to determining the significance of his thought for religion and
incidentally his personal attitude toward it. *$1.50. Open ct.

                                                                6–21921.

  “The aim of this book is to prove that Spinoza was irreligious and his
  philosophy antireligious.”—Philos. R.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Ind.= 62: 856. Ap. 11, ’07. 250w.

  “The book is clear in style, thorough in execution, and exhibits much
  logical acumen.” Eugene W. Lyman.

       + =J. Philos.= 4: 668. N. 21, ’07. 440w.

  “The author demonstrates his familiarity with the field and his
  liveliness of interest. The style, furthermore, is excellent, and does
  much to redeem a book which is otherwise too doggedly iconoclastic to
  be either stimulating or pleasing.”

     + − =Nation.= 83: 487. D. 6, ’06. 1520w.

  “Lacks that spirit of impartiality which is the prime requisite in all
  critical investigations. Nor does Dr. Powell appear to have studied
  the philosopher’s writings with enough thoroughness to enable him to
  grasp the true significance of his teaching.” E. Ritchie.

       − =Philos. R.= 16: 339. My. ’07. 300w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 118. Ja. ’07. 50w.


=Power, John O’Connor.= Making of an orator. **$1.35. Putnam.

                                                                6–19419.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The book is popular in style and suggestive as to matter.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 70. Mr. ’07.


=Pratt, Ambrose.= Counterstroke. *$1. Fenno.

  A melodramatic story filled with lurid pictures. The characters are
  “either Nihilists of the most rabid breed or members of a society
  pledged to exterminate Nihilists by the use of tactics exactly modeled
  on their own bloody methods—whence the title, ‘The counterstroke.’”
  (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “As lurid as the wildest dream of villainy and injured innocence that
  ever found its way into the pages of the cheap story papers.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 549. S. 14, ’07. 180w.


=Pratt, Antwerp Edgar.= Two years among New Guinea cannibals: a
naturalist’s sojourn among the aborigines of unexplored New Guinea. *$4.
Lippincott.

                                                                6–24917.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Mr. Pratt devotes little space in this book to natural history, its
  bulk being given to a gossipy description of the author’s journeyings,
  with remarks, too often inaccurate, on the natives he came in contact
  with.” C. G. Seligmann.

     − + =Nature.= 74: 58. My. 17, ’06. 890w.


=Pratt, Edwin A.= Railways and their rates. *$1.50. Dutton.

                                                                 6–7780.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3:104. Ap. ’07.

  “The pamphlet is well worth studying.”

       + =Spec.= 99: sup. 643. N. 2, ’07. 340w.


=Pratt, Henry Sherring.= Course in vertebrate zoology: a guide to the
dissection and comparative study of vertebrate animals. *$1.50. Ginn.

                                                                 6–1432.

  “The work includes practical directions for the dissection and study
  of seven types of vertebrates; the dogfish for the elasmobranchs; the
  perch for the teleost; the Necturus and frog for the amphibians; the
  turtle; pigeon; and cat.... Each type is treated independently of the
  rest, and may be studied separately.... It is strictly a laboratory
  guide, not a treatise on comparative anatomy.”—School R.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Notwithstanding drawbacks, the work remains as a useful guide to
  those teachers who wish to arrange a course in comparative anatomy.”

     + − =Nature.= 74: sup. 8. O. 11, ’06. 750w.

  “One might have wished that the author had omitted entirely the very
  incomplete, incorrect, antiquated, and obsolete outline of the
  classification of the vertebrates, for which, however, the author is
  responsible only in accepting Wiedersheim as an authority. The work
  itself, for which the author is responsible, is remarkably free from
  errors.” S. W. Williston.

     + − =School R.= 15: 235. Mr. ’07. 280w.


=Pratt, James Bissett.= Psychology of religious belief. **$1.50.
Macmillan.

                                                                 7–4164.

  A discussion which is more concerned with the modest and concrete
  problem of the nature of belief in a God or gods and the basis or
  bases on which this belief really rests than with the nature or the
  definition of religion. The author aims to break ground in a rich but
  neglected field.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book will repay study. We must, however. submit that Professor
  Pratt’s definition of intellectual belief stands in need of
  modification.”

     + − =Cath. World.= 25: 255. My. ’07. 430w.

  “Valuable work.”

       + =Current Literature.= 42: 418. Ap. ’07. 1820w.

  “As a simple direct presentation of religious-mindedness, the essay is
  to be commended.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 148. Mr. 1, 07. 280w.

  “The argument is well reasoned, and is expressed in clear and popular
  style.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 1378. D. 5, ’07. 140w.

  “This volume is a happy addition to the rapidly growing literature of
  religious psychology. It deals with the side of the subject that as
  yet has received scant attention from the scientific students of the
  religious consciousness. The clear and simple style of the book,
  together with the note of earnestness and sincerity that pervades it,
  makes it a pleasure to read. It is a scholarly study of a
  psychological problem. It will be read with profit by many who have
  neither a psychological training nor scholarly interests. A carefully
  selected bibliography of the psychology of religion and an index add
  to the usefulness of the book for the purposes of the student.” F. C.
  French.

     + + =J. Philos.= 4: 383. Jl. 4, ’07. 1680w.

     + − =Nation.= 85: 237. S. 12, ’07. 440w.

  “One can hardly ask for a clearer vindication than this volume
  presents of the absolute validity of the religious consciousness.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 831. Ag. 17, ’07. 1030w.


* =Pratt, Waldo Selden.= History of music. Schirmer.

  Distinctly a book of reference for students rather than a literary or
  critical survey of a few salient aspects, or a specialist’s report of
  original research. It is encyclopedic in its fulness and from
  primitive or savage music down to later nineteenth century music the
  leading tendencies or movements of musical advance are discussed.


=Preissig, Edward.= Notes on the history and political institutions of
the old world. **$2.50. Putnam.

                                                                6–22387.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Threshing as it does over fields already covered by many excellent
  works, such a book as this should find its justification in clearness
  of presentation, yet in this respect it can hardly be called a
  success. The language is often so confused as to be almost
  unintelligible, and many errors appear which should have been detected
  in a careful reading of the manuscript or of the proof.”

     − + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 414. Ja. ’07. 650w.


=Prendergast, William A.= Credit and its uses. **$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                6–40205.

  “This book treats briefly of the theory of credit, urging that,
  besides the tangible element of property, the intangible element of
  good faith, or confidence, is fundamental. Thus he holds strongly that
  credit is chiefly dependent on these intangible elements.”—J. Pol.
  Econ.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is sufficiently popular to be understood by the layman, is
  strong on the practical side. Its weakness on the theoretical side
  will not hurt it as an introduction to practical problems of credit.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 170. O. ’07.

  “The weakest part of the book is that dealing with the theory of
  credit.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 157. Ja. 17, ’07. 480w.

  “Whatever the value to be assigned to his treatment of the academic
  side of credit, the book must really be estimated by the useful
  compilation he has made of material bearing on the practical side of
  the question.” L.

     + − =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 638. D. ’06. 320w.

  “A work serviceable at some points and altogether unsatisfactory at
  others.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 142. F. 7. ’07. 1030w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 383. Mr. ’07. 40w.


=Prentice, Ezra Parmalee.= Federal power over carriers and corporations.
**$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                 7–4172.

  A book which deals with the nature and extent of powers belonging to
  the general government and not with Congressional legislation. In Mr.
  Prentice’s study, constitutional construction is interpreted by the
  aid of constitutional history.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 104. Ap. ’07.

  “Mr. Prentice’s excellent work has serious limitations which are
  doubtless the result of his close identity with certain large
  corporations whose activities may be more or less affected by the
  enforcement of the anti-trust act.” Emory R. Johnson.

   + + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 186. Jl. ’07. 800w.

  “Apart from its interest to the lawyer and the lawmaker, the book is
  of value to all who are concerned with or are interested in the
  problems of government and economics.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 273. Ja. 31, ’07. 950w.

  “On the whole, however, it must be said that the book’s place is as a
  readable partisan account of the development of a constitutional
  doctrine, and not as a serious contribution to the legal literature of
  the subject.” James Parker Hall.

     + − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 238. Ap. ’07. 1680w.

  “For some students of constitutional theories they may have their
  interest; but to the elucidation of the practical questions now before
  the country they contribute substantially nothing.”

     − + =Nation.= 84: 411. My. 2, ’07. 350w.

  “He writes like a lawyer, with close study of the precedents, and with
  no wandering from his text. The book is not large, but it is weighty,
  and calls for an answer. The subject cannot be allowed to drop until
  it is settled, and those wishing the latest word cannot afford to
  neglect Mr. Prentice’s discussion.” Edward A. Bradford.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 84. F. ’07. 1670w.

  “This is the book of a lawyer, but one written less for lawyers than
  for those, whatever may be their lines of life, who are now studying
  from the historical standpoint the Rooseveltian theory of
  constitutional government.” Simeon E. Baldwin.

       + =No. Am.= 184: 311. F. 1, ’07. 1530w.

  “The rarity of lapses emphasizes the scrupulous care with which the
  work has been prepared, while the industry, skill and conviction of
  the author make criticism difficult.” H. A. Cushing.

   + + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 716. D. ’07. 1120w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 40w.


=Prentis, John Harcourt.= Case of Dr. Horace: a study of the importance
of conscience in the detection of crime. †$1.25. Baker.

                                                                7–12637.

  In the interests of psychology, to prove how great a part the
  conscience of a criminal plays in the detection of his crime, two
  friends devise a daring test. They substitute the body of a man who
  died at a hospital for Dr. Horace, who promptly disappears on a two
  weeks’ vacation. They arrange the body so that murder is evident, they
  furnish a motive and every clue points to Wallace, the other man in
  the plot, as the murderer. Then follows the work of the detectives on
  the trail of the murderer without a conscience. The story is
  interesting, and the end is clever, altho it evades the psychological
  point.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The story, however, though readable thruout, weakens deplorably in
  the latter chapters.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 457. My. 16, ’07. 370w.


=Price, George Bacon.= Gaining health in the West, (Colorado, New
Mexico, Arizona); being impressions of a layman. *$1. Huebsch.

                                                                7–19791.

  Based upon seven years’ personal experience with “climate” this little
  volume offers sane and valuable advice to all who are obliged to seek
  the West in search of health. It discusses climatic conditions,
  marital obligations, social and ethical aspects, tells where and how
  to live, how to avoid loneliness, how to get employment and many other
  things which only one who has learned the detailed lessons taught by
  experience can know.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Anyone contemplating a Colorado residence, especially if in search of
  health, will find this little volume an admirable substitute for such
  advice as he might expect from an experienced sensible, and
  sympathetic friend.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 20. Jl. 1, ’07. 200w.

  “Is a sensible little book of good advice for the consumptives:”

       + =Ind.= 63: 344. Ag. 8, ’07. 90w.

       + =Nation.= 84: 14. Jl. 4, ’07. 70w.


* =Price, John Ambrose.= The negro: past, present, and future. $1.50.
Neale.

  A three part treatment. The Past is a vindication of the old south as
  regards the black man, the Present reveals the negro as he exists in
  the south to-day under peculiar conditions and circumstances, the
  Future relates the possibilities of what may come to the American
  negro.


=Price, William Hyde.= English patents of monopoly. (Harvard economic
studies, v. 1.) **$1.50. Houghton.

                                                                6–36187.

  In this volume “the application of the common law to cases of monopoly
  down to the enactment of the common-law principle in the statute of
  monopolies in 1624, is followed in detail.... Having treated of the
  political and economic aspects of the monopoly system as a whole, the
  author devotes succeeding chapters to several selected important
  industries wherein monopolies were established.... In appendices,
  occupying something over one hundred pages, original documents,
  statutes, letters, and proclamations concerning patents, monopolies,
  and commissions, and touching grievances, are reprinted.”—J. Pol.
  Econ.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This somewhat perfunctory treatment of the larger question involved
  is our principal, in fact almost our only criticism of this serious
  study by a well-trained investigator of an interesting and important
  subject. We regret that a more restricted subject was not taken, or
  else that the first chapter, the ‘political history’ of the
  monopolies, was not made much longer and more serious, more
  discriminating and more scientifically historical. We have no doubt
  that the author is entirely capable of having so treated it, but was
  led astray by a predominatingly economic interest.”

     + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 878. Jl. ’07. 710w.

  “To that literature [English economic history] the present monograph
  is a scholarly contribution.” John Cummings.

       + =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 575. N. ’06. 600w.

  “Mr. Price ... deals with the matter as a historian rather than as a
  legislator or statesman, but publicists cannot read his excellent
  contribution to the subject of monopolies without finding it highly
  suggestive.” Edward A. Bradford.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 122. Mr. 2, ’07. 1650w.


=Prichard, Kate O’Brien Hesketh, and Prichard, Hesketh Vernon Hesketh
(E. and H. Heron, pseud.).= Don Q. in the Sierra. †$1.50. Lippincott.

                                                                6–42429.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “His various adventures are well told, and we shall be delighted to
  meet him again next time he comes to life.”

       + =Acad.= 71: 590. D. 8, ’06. 170w.

  “Here are twelve new sketches of the career of this redoubtable
  brigand; and if they are inferior to their predecessors, the
  difference is not noticeable.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 768. D. 15. 100w.

  “The narratives making up the volume ... are crowded with exciting
  incident and are capitally told.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 110w.

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 86. Ja. 19, ’07. 160w.

         =Spec.= 97: 990. D. 15, ’06. 100w.


=Prideaux, Sarah Treverbian.= Modern bookbindings; their design and
decoration. *$3. Dutton.

                                                                6–33798.

  “An account of the best English and French bookbinders of the day,
  written by an artist of their work.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The only objection to it that can be raised is that, none of the
  artist’s own work being included, it is incomplete as a representation
  of what is being done.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 81. Jl. 21. 550w.

  “Miss Prideaux has admirably supplemented her former volume,
  ‘Book-binders and their craft.’”

       + =Ind.= 63: 160. Jl. 18, ’07. 280w.

       + =Int. Studio.= 30: 89. N. ’06. 190w.

  “There is scarcely any attempt at technical exposition, so that these
  who take up the book with the object of gaining information on these
  points must be warned to look elsewhere.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 298. Ag. 31, ’06. 670w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 238. Ap. 13, ’07. 470w.

         =Spec.= 96: 760. My. 12, ’06. 100w.


=Prince, Leon Cushing.= Bird’s-eye view of American history. **$1.25.
Scribner.

                                                                7–12868.

  A brief survey of American history from the discovery by Columbus down
  to the Roosevelt administration.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In view of the space-limits of the book, some topics receive
  surprisingly comprehensive treatment. To the mature reader this
  outline will prove serviceable in connection with more extended
  histories. The book’s usefulness, however, is greatly impaired by the
  inexcusable omission of an index.” George H. Haynes.

     + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 183. O. ’07. 610w.

  “There are too many errors of fact. Nor is Mr. Prince always happy in
  his generalizations.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 271. Ap. 27, ’07. 560w.

  “Is generally speaking, in accord with the findings of modern
  scholarship. It is not free from questionable statements. But against
  these defects must be set some really striking features.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 86: 569. Je. 13, ’07. 350w.

  “Any student of American history who finds himself confused or
  overwhelmed by the mass of material that is presented in more
  elaborate works should make it a point to read Professor Prince’s book
  for the sake of its clarifying effect.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 637. My. ’07. 90w.


=Prince, Morton.= Dissociation of a personality: a biographical study in
abnormal psychology. *$2.80. Longmans.

                                                                5–42041.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  Reviewed by Francis Harold Dike.

     + + =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 265. Ja. ’07. 2340w.


=Prudden, Theophil M.= On the great American plateau: wanderings among
canyons and buttes in the land of the cliff-dweller, and the Indian of
to-day; il. by E. Leaming. **$2. Putnam.

                                                                 7–1482.

  The reader is here afforded “glimpses of the rugged southwest country,
  with its quaint aborigines and the ruins of an older folk.” “Of
  prehistoric remains, of the life and work of primitive house-builders,
  and of the present conditions of Indian life on the great plateau Dr.
  Prudden tells us much, while the natural wonders of the locality are
  graphically described.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The interpretation of the far southwest requires a command of
  language and a power of appreciation possessed by few writers. Mr.
  Prudden has both. Perhaps the best recommendation that can be given
  this picturesque description is that it makes the reader anxious to
  see what is spoken of with his own eyes.”

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 646. My. ’07. 240w.

  “Dr. Prudden’s style is notably vigorous and enthusiastic.” H. E.
  Coblentz.

       + =Dial.= 42: 374. Je. 16, ’07. 200w.

  “A very readable book.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 735. Mr. 28, ’07. 210w.

  “The book on the whole has the charm of freshness and reality.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 360. Ap. 18, ’07. 190w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 748. N. 10, ’06. 330w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 15. Ja. 12, ’07. 290w.

  “A popular travel book, but it is not of the superficial variety. It
  is the work of a keen observer who reflects upon what he sees.” Cyrus
  C. Adams.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 122. Mr. 2, ’07. 630w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.

       + =Outlook.= 85: 331. F. 9, ’07. 100w.


=Pryce, Richard.= The successor: a novel. †$1.50. Duffield.

                                                                7–25083.

  Here is a story with a mystery surrounding the birth of an heir to a
  vast English estate. The moral law is sacrificed to the interests of
  ambition, and like many a modern story, no retribution follows for the
  offenders. The art of the story teller protects the mystery almost too
  well. The best character of the story is that of a faithful servant
  who served the house rather than individuals.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “However venturesome the foundation of its plot, this book cannot be
  charged with grossness. The seasoned reader will get from if no great
  harm, but much delightful entertainment. The immature reader will do
  just as well not to make its acquaintance.” Wm. M. Payne.

     + − =Dial.= 43: 251. O. 16, ’07. 310w.

  “The style is evidently an earnest attempt to follow in the crooked
  footsteps of Henry James, and the matter, too, is not so very
  different from the sort of exposition upon which that master expends
  his genius. One might even say at the risk of great contumely, that,
  being at least lucid, it is really a little better worth while.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 534. S. 7, ’07. 230w.


=Pryor, Sara Agnes Rice (Mrs. Roger Atkinson Pryor).= Birth of the
nation, Jamestown, 1607. **$1.75. Macmillan.

                                                                7–14669.

  In view of the Jamestown celebration special emphasis is here laid
  upon the part which it played in the birth of our nation. Beginning
  with the legends of early discoverers, the story of the colonization
  of Virginia is given briefly but with good detail, the men both white
  and red, who took active part in the struggle with the wilderness are
  vividly pictured in connection with the work they did. It is not a
  history of Jamestown, it is a history of the great movement which
  created Jamestown and preserved it, and it is a timely tribute to the
  town’s significance.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is based upon all the available sources, and these have been
  fairly well used. There is no offensive display of the critical
  spirit; neither is the author credulous. In the way of criticism, it
  may be said that the author seems to think that Powhatan is a name,
  not a title; that too much space is devoted to descriptions of the
  Indians and their life, and not enough attention to conditions among
  the colonists; that there is no index, and some of the illustrations
  would be better suited to a work of fiction.”

     + − =Dial.= 43: 66. Ag. 1, ’07. 440w.

  “It is the careful, finished work of one who loves the task for its
  own sake, and who has lived long with her materials.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 698. S. 19, ’07. 230w.

  “This book is in all respects a worthy and interesting memorial of the
  Jamestown celebration.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 842. My. 25, ’07. 280w.

       + =Nation.= 84: 453. My. 16, ’07. 160w.

  “She has weighed the reputations of men in the balance, and one feels
  that her judgment is equally just and sympathetic.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 282. My. 4, ’07. 1320w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.

  “No better book could be found to give a lively impression of the
  early days of the seventeenth century, and to refresh our knowledge of
  the events we are now celebrating in old Jamestown.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 77. My. 11, ’07. 290w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 128. Jl. ’07. 70w.

         =Spec.= 99: 170. Ag. 3, ’07. 250w.


=Puffer, Ethel D.= Psychology of beauty. *$1.25. Houghton.

                                                                5–16135.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

  “Is composed of a series of delightful essays whose charm can escape
  neither the casual nor the critical reader. Its difficulties are
  exactly the crucial difficulties of the subject.” I. Madison Bentley.

     + − =Philos. R.= 16: 86. Ja. ’07. 1700w.


=Pulitzer, Walter.= Cozy corner confidences. 75c. Dodge.

  A collection of epigrams gathered from comic periodicals.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The collection makes a readable booklet after the style of the
  ‘Cynic’s calendar.’”

       + =Ind.= 61: 1399. D. 22, ’06. 60w.


=Pullan, Richard Butterfield.= Currency and coin. *$1. Occasional
publisher.

                                                                7–23269.

  “This excursion of a business man into monetary reform is based upon a
  desire to adjust bimetallism and the use of silver to the gold
  standard. Instead of ‘asset currency’ he suggests more silver.
  Thinking our currency insufficient, he advises that the government,
  ‘under a safe and conservative system of bimetallism,’ should greatly
  increase our circulating medium.... Next, the author proposes an
  indefinite increase of government bonds, to be called upon request of
  any national bank which will pay in gold or silver to an amount equal
  to the par value of the bonds.”—J. Pol. Econ.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The whole scheme is whimsical, and not worthy of serious attention.”

       − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 493. O. ’07. 230w.

  “We have suffered too much from bad finance to allow tenderness for an
  author to encourage his errors by condoning them.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 647. O. 19, ’07. 520w.

  “The whole treatment shows lack of familiarity with the principles of
  monetary science and the literature of the subject.”

       − =Yale R.= 16: 335. N. ’07. 90w.


=Putnam, George Haven.= Censorship of the church of Rome, and its
influence upon the production and distribution of literature. **$2.50.
Putnam.

                                                                 7–1301.

  To be complete in two volumes. The work is a study of the history of
  the prohibitory and expurgatory indexes, together with some
  consideration of the effects of Protestant censorship and of
  censorship by the state. It includes a list of the more important
  decrees, prohibitions, briefs, and edicts relating to the prohibition
  of specific books from the time of Gelasius I., 567 A. D., to the
  issue in 1900 of the latest of the church under Leo XIII.

  =v. 2.= “The theological controversies in France, Germany, England,
  and the Netherlands, from 1600 to 1750, are first discussed. These are
  followed by a study of the treatment of the Scriptures under
  censorship in these countries and Spain, and then the author considers
  the relations of the censorship to the various monastic
  orders—Jesuits, Dominicans, Casuits Seculars, and Regulars.” (N. Y.
  Times.) Further he describes the Roman Indexes, gives brief
  descriptions of examples of condemned literature, and discusses the
  subject of censorship.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Who can commend in any way, especially to a general reader, looking
  for the information on a specific point, a book which contains
  numerous errors on almost every page?” George L. Hamilton.

       − =Am. Hist. R.= 12. 871. Jl. ’07. 1160w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Can he cite any instances of a misunderstanding of the subject of the
  books, and of the language in which they are written, as remarkable as
  those of which he himself is guilty?” George L. Hamilton.

       − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 135. O. ’07. 650w. (Review of v. 2.)

       − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 403. Ap. 6. 2100w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “As we turn over these pages we have often felt ourselves, like the
  cave dwellers in Plato, trying to reconstruct the facts from the
  shadows of them before us. The author’s general conclusion as to the
  effect of censorship is correct and obvious.”

     − + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 210. Ag. 24. 520w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “Mr. Putnam’s book ... is honorably free from bias. He is simply and
  solely a historian, and he tries, and successfully tries, to put
  before us the main facts, in the history with which he deals.”

     + + =Cath. World.= 85: 552. Jl. ’07. 750w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “We do not mean to say that the book is free from hints and phrases to
  which the majority of Catholics would object. But, looking at the
  matter impartially, we are bound to credit Dr. Putnam with the desire
  to be a just and equitable historian.”

   + + − =Cath. World.= 85: 839. S. ’07. 350w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “It may be remarked in passing, however, that the value of the work as
  a book of reference might have been enhanced by the provision of a
  more complete general index.” Arthur Howard Noll.

   + + − =Dial.= 42: 338. Je. 1, ’07. 2420w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “Dr. Putnam has accomplished his difficult task with conscientious
  thoroness and complete scientific impartiality. If we may suggest a
  possible improvement in the work, we would observe that the medieval
  prohibitions of Bible-reading in the vernacular are too summarily
  dismissed.”

   + + − =Ind.= 62: 969. Ap. 25, ’07. 660w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The work, as now completed, ranks second only to Reusch as a history
  of prohibitive book legislation, and is easily the best authority on
  the subject in the English language.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 401. Ag. 15, ’07. 220w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “Fairness and justice, and that essential historical perspective which
  is attained by transporting oneself into the epoch described are the
  prevailing traits of the work.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 34: 342. Mr. 2, ’07. 440w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “In dealing with this large and difficult subject, Dr. Putnam appears
  to have fallen between two stools. Although the book shows evidence of
  considerable labor and contains much matter not to be found elsewhere
  in convenient form, it is frankly selective, and therefore not of
  essential value for scholars. On the philosophical side, again, Dr.
  Putnam has but little to offer. The book is somewhat loose in style
  and inaccurate in minor details.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 478. My. 23, ’07. 550w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “The temper in which the work is done and the purposes manifested by
  the writer are open to the appreciation of all. It would be ungracious
  to close this slight notice of Mr. Putnam’s work without an expression
  of appreciation for the unusual lucidity of his style.” Edward Cary.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 1. Ja. 5, ’07. 1280w. (Review of v. 1.)

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 372. Je. 8, ’07. 500w. (Review of v. 2.)

  “It is prepared by a scholar for scholars. It takes rank with such
  works as Henry Charles Lea’s volumes on ‘The Inquisition of the middle
  ages,’ ‘The inquisition of Spain’ and ‘Sacradotal celibacy.’ We
  predict that it will be an authority on this subject for American and
  English readers.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 86: 520. Jl. 6, ’07. 820w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 757. Je. ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

  “Dr. Putnam presents the facts with all impartiality, and has given
  scholars a serviceable book of reference. The profusion of misprinted
  Latin words in volume 1 is unfortunate.”

   + + − =Sat. R.= 104: 209. Ag. 17, ’07. 990w. (Review of v. 1. and 2.)

  “Mr. Putnam’s book is a triumph of industry and, what is not less
  important in such a matter, impartiality.”

     + + =Spec.= 99: 296. Ag. 31, ’07. 1500w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)


=Pyle, Howard.= Stolen treasure. †$1.25. Harper.

                                                                7–18095.

  Four as stirring tales of romance and adventure of pirates and buried
  treasure as ever delighted boys old or young. They are entitled: With
  the buccaneers, Tom Chist and the treasure box, The ghost of Captain
  Brand, and The devil of New Hope. The volume is illustrated by the
  author.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Should prove entertaining to both young and old.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 203. N. ’07. ✠

  “Although Mr. Pyle’s delightful tales appeal primarily to youthful
  readers they may be recommended as a sort of tonic for adults grown
  weary of the fiction of the day. The pictures, which are by the
  author, are of course in perfect tune with the lively narrative.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 26. Jl. 6.’07. 210w.

  “These stories are his best of the type. There are four of them and
  they are each distinctive.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 300w.


* =Pyle, Howard.= Story of Sir Launcelot and his companions, il.
**$2.50. Scribner.

                                                                7–34314.

  The story is told in text and pictures. The book is “a companion to
  the former volumes dealing with the Round table, and it follows the
  original closely in spirit. In the re-telling of Malory, there is
  always a loss of spirit and of ruggedness, however sincere the effort
  may be: and it takes a genius equal to Malory’s own to rewrite him.”
  (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is far superior to the average attempt.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 110w.

       + =Outlook.= 87: 619. N. 23, ’07. 120w.


=Pyle, Katharine, and Portor, Laura S.= Theodora. †$1.25. Little.

                                                                7–32563.

  A book for little girls which tells of the experiences of Theodora
  Winthrop in an Episcopal sisters’ school in New York city during her
  father’s absence abroad. It contains a lesson of hatred turned to love
  through careful guidance.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

         =R. of Rs.= 36: 765. D. ’07. 40w.




                                   Q


=Quayle, William Alfred.= God’s calendar, il. *$1.50. West. Meth. bk.

                                                                7–34142.

  The significance of each month is imaginatively revealed and its
  secrets uncovered in the thirteen chapters of Mr. Quayle’s offering.
  The illustrations are beautiful and suggestive of dream life in
  nature.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The tone of the book is distinctly rapturous, but it will find many
  appreciators. One would surmise that it will be especially popular
  with the older generation of readers, who have not been sated with
  nature books, and who will like it for expressing feelings which they
  have never quite dared to voice for themselves.” May Estelle Cook.

       + =Dial.= 43: 419. D. 16, ’07. 210w.


Queen’s festivals: an explanation of the feasts of the blessed Virgin
Mary for her little ones. 60c. Benziger.

                                                                7–16988.

  An introduction is followed by three parts devoted respectively to The
  Queen’s anniversaries, Festivals of the Queen’s titles, and The
  Queen’s Sundays.


* =Quick, John Herbert.= Broken lance. il. †$1.50. Bobbs.

                                                                7–32560.

  The hero of this story is a young minister at the head of a
  fashionable Chicago church who recoils from the luxury of his
  congregation’s worship, and espouses the real and vital cause of the
  dwellers in the underworld. With him are associated a sturdy,
  strong-willed propagandist of the Henry George principles and a
  dark-skinned girl who fearlessly lives her faith. It is a study which
  involves various religious and economic questions of to-day.




                                   R


=Rae, John.= Sociological theory of capital. **$4. Macmillan.

                                                                 6–7791.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “His rearrangement of the text represents a great improvement over the
  original form. While he has employed his privilege of annotating very
  sparingly, such notes as he has attached are uniformly helpful.” Alvin
  S. Johnson.

       + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 162. Mr. ’07. 1310w.

  “Dr. Mixter has done work of a valuable type in producing this volume,
  for, whether Rae’s economic conclusions are accepted or not, they are
  certainly a most stimulating contribution to the history of
  economics.”

       + =Spec.= 98: sup. 648. Ap. 27, ’07. 720w.


=Ragg, Rev. Lonsdale.= Dante and his Italy. *$3.50. Putnam.

                                                                7–29016.

  “To look at Italy through the eyes of Dante himself, and having looked
  to realise her for others, as she appeared to the poet during his
  sojourn upon earth, has been the chief aim of the author of this new
  study.... He begins with a rapid sketch of the state of Europe as a
  whole at what he calls the ‘critical moment of Dante’s life, the ideal
  state of his vision,’ passing on to concentrate his attention first on
  Italy, then on Florence, and finally on Dante himself, tracing his
  literary antecedents, calling up one after another the possibilities
  of his contemporary authors and of his hosts during the weary
  wanderings of his exile, the narrative terminating with an eloquent
  account of the last days at Ravenna, and of the impression caused by
  the news that the great genius had passed away.”—Int. Studio.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Our chief quarrel with Mr. Ragg is on account of his trick of
  introducing trivialities, hardly suited to the dignity of his theme.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 662. Je. 1. 1120w.

  “Canon Ragg is steeped to the finger tips in Dantesque lore, is
  thoroughly familiar with everything written by the man to whom his
  book is one long tribute of homage, and is gifted with an imagination
  so vivid that he has been able to piece together a very realistic
  picture of the period at which his hero lived.”

       + =Int. Studio.= 32: 169. Ag. ’07. 200w.

  “His task is suited to his powers, which are, it must be said, not
  inconsiderable. He gives the delightful impression, so rarely received
  in these days, that he knows a great deal more than he has set down.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 164. My. 24, ’07. 1340w.

  “With a little more system, a greater tenacity in developing each of
  his themes, Mr. Ragg would have written a book to be often opened for
  reference after being once read for pleasure. It is a pity, that this
  book should be marred by many misprints in foreign words. A more
  serious defect is an excessive fondness for the dramatic and
  picturesque, which leads Mr. Ragg into baseless conjectures and
  striking inconsistencies.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 80. Jl. 25, ’07. 1070w.

  “Everywhere Canon Ragg writes as a man, scholarly and imaginatively
  dominated by his subject, and yet with a painstaking discretion which
  at once enables the reader to separate facts from hearsay. On one or
  two points, however, he shows that he has not followed the researches
  of Dante’s scholars as carefully as he has the half-forgotten
  chronicles of the poet’s contemporaries.” Walter Littlefield.

   + + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 550. S. 14, ’07. 2220w.

  “Dr. Ragg’s narrative style, clear, compact, smooth, well fits his
  subject-matter.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 614. Jl. 20, ’07. 410w.

  “Many of Mr. Ragg’s statements have that air of generalization which
  belongs to ideas absorbed at second-hand. He needs a course of
  reading, and above all a study of statutes and documents.”

     − + =Sat. R.= 103: 688. Je. 1, ’07. 750w.

  “If the writer allows himself here and there a touch of fancy not
  altogether authorised by known facts, he never in any case sins
  against probability.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: 233. Ag. 17, ’07. 1140w.


=Raine, Allen, pseud. (Mrs. Beynon Puddicombe).= Queen of the rushes, a
tale of the Welsh country. †$1.50. Jacobs.

                                                                6–35940.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Considered as a series of pictures representing Welsh landscape and
  Welsh people, this book has much charm and a certain quiet interest.
  As a story it fails by an excessive and inartistic introduction of the
  marvellous.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 758. Je. 23. 110w.

  “Allan Raine is very sensitive to the beauty and the picturesqueness
  of the rugged Welsh character and Welsh scenery, and has a skillful
  pen in the weaving of these things into a structure of the tale. The
  result is to mask very pleasingly an inherent feebleness of conception
  and treatment.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 28. Ja. 19, ’07. 280w.


=Raleigh, Walter Alexander.= Shakespeare. *75c. Macmillan.

                                                                7–15578.

  A monograph in the English men of letters series, which interprets
  Shakespeare to us largely from his dramas. It is in five chapters:
  Shakespeare, Stratford and London, Books and poetry, The theatre,
  Story and character, and The last phase.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A distinct contribution to Shakesperean literature.”

     + + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 170. O. ’07. S.

  “It is one of the most suggestive books on Shakespeare that this
  country has yet produced.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 689. Je. 8. 2870w.

  “Even some of the most appreciative among [the critics] have
  considered his work too much as literature and not enough as drama.
  This is the chief fault in Professor Raleigh’s contribution.” Edward
  Fuller.

     + − =Bookm.= 26: 155. O. ’07. 1320w.

  “He has produced a thoroughly safe volume on the subject of what
  everyone should know about Shakespeare. And when we add that he writes
  not as a fetich-worshipper but as a reverent and honest student, we
  have said enough.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 215. O. 1, ’07. 390w.

  “To a layman the contrast between Professor Raleigh’s volume and the
  writings of Shakespeare scholars generally is very astonishing. The
  point that, as a layman, we wish to emphasize, is that he can be read
  with pleasure by those who have tried to read the other books and
  failed.” Frank Moore Colby.

     + + =Forum.= 39: 255. O. ’07. 1760w.

  “For this little volume it is safe to predict a large degree of public
  favor. It reveals, it is true, many instances of bad logic and an
  abundant lack of system. But it is in many respects brilliant, the
  style is almost epigrammatic in its sententiousness, and the
  felicitous aptness with which the text is quoted amounts almost to a
  display of genius.”

   + + − =Ind.= 63: 153. Jl. 18, ’07. 1000w.

  “Mr. Raleigh has given us an essay, overflowing with life, crammed
  with suggestion, full of stimulating ideas and happy turns of phrase,
  and with no dull page from beginning to end. It is table-talk _in
  excelsis_, stamped with all the freshness and brightness of an
  original mind. This impromptu nature of Mr. Raleigh’s criticism brings
  with it, of course, the defect of its quantity.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 130. Ap. 26, ’07. 2870w.

  “We are delighted to find him penetrating to the root of the matter,
  which is that Shakespeare’s stage was a platform and not, like ours, a
  picture-frame, and that drama written to be played on a platform took
  a peculiar shape from that very fact. Alive to the fact, he seems to
  be dead, or only half alive, to its consequences. He has the key,
  nourishes it, and then, instead of using it, puts it in his pocket.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 141. My. 8, ’07. 1700w.

  “The book is not well constructed; and throughout, the author’s
  strength lies rather in stimulating comment than in logical
  inference.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 454. My. 11, ’07. 1400w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 256. Ap. 20, ’07. 330w.

  “Prof. Raleigh’s comprehension of this theatre and its demands lends
  much value to his book.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 288. My. 4, ’07. 1230w.

  “It is in his consideration of Shakespeare as a poet and as a creator
  of character that Professor Raleigh is seen at his best.” Brander
  Matthews.

     + + =No. Am.= 185: 780. Ag. 2, ’07. 1090w.

  “Professor Raleigh is not so happily untechnical as Professor Baker,
  and is more concerned with critical estimates, from the easy
  assumptions of which many of his readers will heartily dissent.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 87: 331. O. 19, ’07. 380w.

  “Though not so good a book as we might expect from him, is much better
  than some of the critics reckon it.” Wm. J. Rolfe.

     + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 276. S. ’07. 890w.

  “Dr. Raleigh manages to get within the compass of one brief volume a
  vast amount of information and interpretation of the immortal bard
  without becoming either prosy or dogmatic.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 756. Je. ’07. 40w.

  “Professor Raleigh has really achieved some sort of balance within a
  scope which he recognizes from the outset to be very limited.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 104: 145. Ag. 3, ’07. 1850w.

  “The writer of this happy volume has the art of forgetting that he is
  a professor.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 942. Je. 15, ’07. 1330w.


=Ramsay, William Mitchell.= Pauline, and other studies in early
Christian history. *$3. Armstrong.

                                                                7–29067.

  A group of fifteen essays touching upon the character of Paul, the
  authorship of the Acts and early Christianity in Asia Minor. They have
  been collected from various British magazines and are accompanied by a
  great number of illustrations.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book exhibits all those qualities which we are accustomed to look
  for in Professor Ramsay’s writings; freshness of standpoint, flashes
  of insight only possible to a scholar of rich and varied learning,
  unflagging zest in the handling of his subject—a zest which
  communicates itself to the reader—and that lucid and forcible style
  which has done so much to popularize the results of his
  investigations.” H. A. A. Kennedy.

     + + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 527. Jl. ’07. 1330w.

         =Ath.= 1907, 1: 130. F. 2. 820w.

  “Many possess permanent value.”

       + =Bib. World.= 29: 160. F. ’07. 60w.

  “Since the author confessedly speaks as ‘a historian and geographer,’
  one cannot fail to notice the dogmatic tone that marks some of his
  purely theological utterances.” George H. Gilbert.

     + − =Bib. World.= 30: 294. O. ’07. 1030w.

         =Ind.= 62: 505. D. 28, ’07. 50w.

  “The title is inexact and the unity of character in the studies
  slight.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 70w.

  “Not only does Professor Ramsay bring fresh and valuable instruction
  from the field of his special study, but he renders good service as a
  judicious moderator of the schools of critics.”

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 46. Ja. 5, ’07. 270w.

  “The pages dealing with the life of St. Paul are perhaps the most
  interesting in the book, not only intrinsically, but because Professor
  Ramsay is so great an authority on the subject.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 1013. Je. 29, ’07. 170w.


=Randal, John.= Sweetest solace. $1.50. Dutton.

                                                                 7–7197.

  Gascoigne square, Whitborough, is made the scene of a pretty love
  story in which two young girls from Australia come into the square as
  mistresses of a board school. Here they meet a number of interesting
  people, differing widely in character and social position, and here
  the mystery of their father, who had lived his young life in this very
  square, is unravelled, leaving them free to marry the two young men of
  wealth and family who have come to love them. It is not the mystery,
  however, which is uppermost for interest centers around the quaint
  characters and their old prejudices: the social climbers, dear old
  Miss Blackiston, wholehearted Ben Cox, Lord Streybridge, narrow-minded
  Mrs. Petch, spiteful Miss Marston, and all the others.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Nation.= 84: 291. Mr. 28, ’07. 120w.

  “This is a pleasant story reproducing something of the Trollope
  atmosphere. But Mr. Randal lays the colours on too thickly when
  depicting a cad.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 102: 148. Ag. 4, ’06. 160w.


* =Rannie, David Watson.= Wordsworth and his circle. (Memoir ser.)
**$3.50. Putnam.

  “Criticism, quotation, narrative, and anecdote are so woven together
  as to form a single piece.... Coleridge moves through the scenes, with
  the divine light ever waning in his eyes; Lamb banters and praises;
  Southey, Christopher North, Dr. Arnold, De Quincey, Scott, Rogers,
  Keats, come and go, speak and listen, and range themselves in proper
  perspective about the central, still lonely figure.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Though well-read and in the main judicious, he occasionally makes odd
  slips in his critical remarks. The style is always graceful and
  dignified, and we do not hesitate to affirm that this is the best book
  yet written for any one who wishes to breathe, so to speak, the very
  atmosphere in which these men moved.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 1130w.

  “This is a desultory but an entertaining, and often suggestive, book
  on a subject which has grown somewhat worn.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 104: 550. N. 2, ’07. 190w.


=Ransom, Olive.= Woman’s heart: manuscripts found in the papers of
Katherine Peshconet and ed. by her executor, Olive Ransom. †$1.50.
Doubleday.

                                                                6–11548.

  The diary of a woman who loved a priest. “It is difficult to imagine a
  twentieth-century Abelard receiving letters from an American Héloïse;
  letters so quivering with intensity of emotion and with also a touch
  of classicism that would have suited well the Renaissance spirit.”
  (Ind.) “As for Katherine, if hers was a woman’s heart, then, indeed,
  is a woman a daughter of Eve. She argued through years, got what she
  wanted, and died for it.” (N. Y. Times.) The book “tells an
  interesting story, altho its hold is purely psychical.” (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The old arguments against the theories and practices of the Roman
  Catholic church, even here in America, are reiterated with amazing
  vivacity and freshness.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 445. F. 21, ’07. 220w.

  “The book leaves a bad taste in one’s mouth.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 238. Ap. 14, ’06. 500w.


* =Ransome, Arthur.= Bohemia in London. **$1.50. Dodd.

  Here is presented London’s historical and present-day Bohemia with the
  Parisian “tinsel and sham” wanting. “The ‘Bohemia in London’ is
  distinctly British and not Gallic; it is founded on the same code of
  laws as that which prevailed in the more famous Bohemia of Paris;
  there is no exaggeration in its pictures and there is no suppression
  of realities.” (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His book, if not exciting, is readable enough.” G. S. S.

       + =Acad.= 73: 158. N. 23, ’07. 520w.

         =Dial.= 43: 427. D. 16, ’07. 160w.

  “I feel very confident that ‘Bohemia in London’ will prove a distinct
  literary success. I can say with conviction that the book gives the
  most life-like picture of that London quarter which the author sets
  himself to describe. The book is rich in humorous descriptions and
  portraitures, has many pathetic scenes, and gleams here and there with
  genuine poetic feeling.” Justin McCarthy.

       + =Ind.= 63: 1420. D. 12, ’07. 200w.

  “The book is entertainingly and thoughtfully written.”

       + =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 10. S. 28, ’07. 360w.


=Raper, Charles Lee.= Principles of wealth and welfare; economics for
high schools. *$1.10. Macmillan.

                                                                6–24099.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The book contains little or nothing that is original either in
  material or treatment. Moreover. it does not seem at all adapted to
  the use for which its author intends it.”

       − =Yale R.= 15: 468. F. ’07. 120w.


=Rappaport, Philip.= Looking forward: a treatise on the status of woman
and the origin and growth of the family and the state. $1. Kerr.

                                                                6–23736.

  “As the preface states, ‘this book is written from the standpoint of
  historic materialism.’ Its aim is to show how past forms of the family
  and of the state have been determined by economic conditions,
  especially by methods of production, and to demonstrate incidentally
  that Marxian socialism is the only means of social salvation and the
  natural goal of development. The author shows considerable
  acquaintance with the socialist school of social and economic writers,
  but beyond that his acquaintance with the scientific literature of the
  subjects upon which he writes is very limited.”—Am. J. Soc.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Like all socialist writers, he makes large use of Buckle and Morgan,
  but he seems utterly unaware of the works of later investigators which
  long since have made Buckle and Morgan out of date.” Charles A.
  Ellwood.

       − =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 563. Ja. ’07. 250w.

  “It is an extremely valuable book, because it is fundamental in
  character and rationalistic in method of treatment. There is,
  therefore, no appeal to emotionalism, sentimentality or prejudice that
  would tend to cloud the reason or obscure the unbiased judgment.”

     + + =Arena.= 37: 443. Ap. ’07. 3280w.


=Rashdall, Hastings.= Theory of good and evil: a treatise on moral
philosophy. 2v. *$4.75. Oxford.

                                                                7–18191.

  “In the first instance it is intended for ‘undergraduate students in
  philosophy,’ and is not supposed to assume any previous acquaintance
  either with ethics or with general philosophy. In the second place, it
  aims at working out an ethical theory which shall be in some sense a
  higher synthesis of Green and Sidgwick, to whose memory the book is
  dedicated.” (Lond. Times.) “In the first volume, Mr. Rashdall deals
  with the fundamental conceptions of ethics.... In the second volume
  the author examines what he regards as the metaphysical implications
  of ethics, but he hardly proves the propriety of introducing such a
  discussion Into a treatise on moral philosophy.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This treatise, though concerned with the investigation of profound
  questions, is singularly successful in its avoidance of all
  ponderosity and pedantry. Written in a pleasing style, it is readable
  throughout. The problems discussed are clearly presented, the line of
  argument is always developed with logical care and dialetical skill,
  the discussions of even the most abstract questions are uniformly
  lucid and illuminating. Much of the suggestive power of the work is
  derived from the wealth of pertinent illustration, upon his abundant
  store of which the author draws freely.” A. R. Gifford.

     + + =J. Philos.= 4: 548. S. 26, ’07. 1900w.

  “In spite of the disadvantages incident to his plan, Dr. Rashdall has
  produced a very readable and useful book. Without being strikingly
  original his criticisms and contentions touch fundamental issues and
  rest upon a full knowledge of ethical thought in the past as well as
  of recent discussions. One of the features of the book is its
  fairmindedness and moderation.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 290. S. 27, ’07. 1690w.

  “The discussion is generally sympathetic—often entertaining, and in
  attention to details the author has been industrious and thorough. Yet
  the final impression left upon the reader is that of logical looseness
  and structural weakness.”

     − + =Nation.= 85: 331. O. 10, ’07. 870w.

  “The chief merits of his book [are] clearness and force with which the
  problem of morality is stated and the fearlessness with which the
  author follows out his own solution.”

     + + =Spec.= 98: 1004. Je. 29, ’07. 1800w.


=Rauschenbusch, Walter.= Christianity and the social crisis. **$1.50.
Macmillan.

                                                                7–13925.

  The author begins his study of tracing the relations of Christianity
  to the social crisis as far back as the days of the greater Hebrew
  prophets. He finds reasons for the “halting and groping,” conscience
  of Christendom, “perplexed by contradicting voices” and finds reasons
  for “freeing an honest man’s heart” on the maxims of the past and the
  imperious call of the future.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Of less value is the later and constructive part of the work where an
  attempt is made to outline the immediate measures which should be
  taken to mitigate the evils of our time. Such questions cannot be
  successfully treated in the form of rhetorical appeals to somewhat
  vague and elementary feelings and without a mastery of technical
  economic reasoning which is not revealed in the work itself.” Charles
  Richmond Henderson.

     + − =Dial.= 43: 249. O. 16, ’07. 170w.

  “There is not room here to show the successive stages by which
  Professor Rauschenbusch builds up his structure of thought to its
  culmination: we can only say that nothing in it is set down in
  carelessness or in ignorance, and that it cannot be ignored by any one
  who would understand the social thought of today.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 572. S. 5, ’07. 410w.

  “Professor Rauschenbusch writes in the heat of religious zeal and with
  reforming passion.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 39. Jl. 11, ’07. 530w.

  “It is a book to like, to learn from, and, though the theme be sad and
  serious, to be charmed with.” Joseph O’Connor.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 345. Je. 1, ’07. 1900w.

  “While its argument is strongly based on economic, historical,
  ethical, and religious grounds, its temper and tone, admirably
  dispassionate and judicial, commend it to fairminded men.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 264. O. 5, ’07. 1100w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 637. My. ’07. 80w.


=Raven, John Howard.= Old Testament introduction. general and special.
**$2. Revell.

                                                                 6–3543.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The section on the ‘Text’ is rather uneven. ‘The Pentateuch in
  general’ is handled somewhat in detail, and always to the detriment of
  the modern view. We are still more amazed that a modern textbook
  should be published without an index of any kind. This is
  inexcusable.” Ira M. Price and John M. P. Smith.

       − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 140. Ja. ’07. 310w.


=Raven, John James.= Bells of England; with 60 il. (Antiquary’s books.)
*$3. Dutton.

                                                                 7–2433.

  The result of a sixty years’ study of campanology. “It is a work that
  can scarcely fail to give satisfaction to any who are interested in
  the story of bells, whether experts or novices. The Celtic, Saxon,
  Norman, Plantagenet, and Tudor use of bells, and the history of the
  later foundries are fully discussed; whilst other chapters tell of
  particular dedications, of change-ringing, of chime barrels and
  carillons, of handbells or tintinnabula, of bell usages and laws, and
  of the legends and poetry to which they have given birth.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The critic looks in vain for sins of commission.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 307. S. 15. 350w.

  “Dr. Raven’s book puts a new and deeper meaning into a thousand
  familiar quotations and allusions, and makes understandable numerous
  rites and customs that may previously have been past over without a
  thought of their significance.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 825. O. 3, ’07. 170w.

  “A volume highly creditable to his patient industry.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 202. Ap. 6, ’07. 420w.

  “Mr. Raven’s book is well worth the notice of students, serious and
  slight, of the subject.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 102: 713. D. 8, ’06. 150w.

  “A book which should take a high place in the literature of the
  subject.”

     + + =Spec.= 97: 339. S. 8, ’06. 280w.


=Ravenel, Harriott Horry.= Charleston; the place and the people.
**$2.50. Macmillan.

                                                                6–42434.

  A story that “has more to do with the antebellum Charleston than with
  the city of to-day. A great store of local history and tradition has
  been freely drawn upon in the preparation of this work, while the
  artist, Vernon Howe Bailey, has co-operated ably with the author in
  picturing the distinctive architectural features of South Carolina’s
  stately and dignified capital.” (R. of Rs.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is in a fine spirit of reverence for the traditions of her
  home-land that Mrs. St. Julien Ravenel has written this volume.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 291. My. 1, ’07. 260w.

  “The book is of peculiar interest, not only for the information it
  contains, but for the manner in which all is presented.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 738. Mr. 28, ’07. 530w.

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 106. Ja. 19, ’07. 150w.

  “It has much of the haunting fascination peculiar to the old town.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 886. D. 22, ’06. 510w.

  “Mrs. Ravenel writes with loyalty, deep interest, and great care for
  important detail. She infuses into otherwise dry history the elusive
  charm of a vivacious and discriminating mind.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 41. Ja. 5, ’07. 420w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 110. Ja. ’07. 70w.


=Ray, Anna Chapin.= Ackroyd of the faculty. †$1.50. Little.

                                                                7–12975.

  Ackroyd, the young professor of much intellect and worse than no
  family, comes in contact with a wholly new social scheme of things
  thru his position on the faculty of a great university. The daughter
  of the head of his department stands for the world of culture he has
  never known and the influence of these two characters upon each other
  forms the story of the book. In the end, of course, each finds in the
  other all that an early environment had failed to give.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This is the best of the three faculty stories recently published. It
  is better worked out and stronger than Miss Ray’s previous work.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 180. O. ’07. ✠

  “The book is charmingly written.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 299. My. 11, ’07. 280w.

  “The story offers some unusual attractions to the discriminating
  reader.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 117. My. 18, ’07. 140w.


=Ray, Anna Chapin.= Day: her year in New York. il. †$1.50. Little.

                                                                7–30834.

  The third volume in Miss Ray’s “Sydney books.” It deals largely with
  the development of Phyllis, Sydney’s younger sister, an untamed,
  withal sensitive girl, who needs people and kindness to bring out the
  best in her.


=Raymond, George Lansing.= Essentials of aesthetics in music, poetry,
painting, sculpture, and architecture. **$2.50. Putnam.

                                                                 7–3936.

  A handbook in which the author “traces the phenomena of the arts to
  their sources in material nature and the human mind; he shows that the
  different arts have been developed by similar methods and that these
  methods characterize the entire work of artistic imagination.... There
  are chapters on nature, art, beauty, artistic mental action, form, and
  significance, the personality of the authors, art composition, rhythm
  and proportion.... There are a large number of half-tone illustrations
  and pen-and-ink sketches.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Some of his essays, notably that on Rhythm, are full of interesting
  suggestion, and prove that their author, whatever else he may lack, is
  a master of literary style.”

     + − =Int. Studio.= 31: 249. My. ’07. 290w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 273. Ap. 27, ’07. 550w.

  “It can be said that its superior in an effective, all-around
  discussion of its subject is not in sight.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 621. Mr. 16, ’07. 270w.

  “As a whole, the work lacks those psychological foundations which many
  of us consider desirable in a treatise on aesthetics. As a result, the
  subject matter is more that of art theory than of aesthetics in any
  broad sense. Yet the pervading tone is one of sanity and tolerance
  which will commend the book to many. We cannot, perhaps, agree
  entirely with the author’s own estimate of his work.” Robert Morris
  Ogden.

     − + =Psychol. Bull.= 4: 225. Jl. 15, ’07. 1310w.


=Rea, Hope.= Peter Paul Rubens. $1.75. Macmillan.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

       + =Acad.= 70: 617. Je. 20, ’06. 200w.


=Reade, Charles.= Cloister and the hearth. $1.25. Crowell.

  Uniform with the thin paper, limp leather reprints. It is prefaced by
  an “Appreciation” of Charles Reade by Algernon C. Swinburne, reprinted
  from “Miscellanies.”


=Reade, Willoughby.= When hearts were true. $1. Neale.

                                                                7–25510.

  The title expresses the thought uppermost in four good short stories,
  as follows: His last song, Forgive us our trespasses, For the child’s
  sake, and The ghost of Oak Ridge.


Readers’ guide to periodical literature, 1900–1904, cumulated; ed. by
Anna Lorraine Guthrie. $16. Wilson, H. W.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Some of the periodicals seem too trivial for such a record, whereas
  neither of the English quarterlies is represented. But on the whole
  the work bears all the marks of being well planned and carefully
  edited.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 34. Ja. 10, ’07. 90w.


=Reagan, Harry Clifton.= Locomotives, simple, compound, and electric.
$3.50. Wiley.

                                                                7–11983.

  In the fifth edition of this practical treatise on the locomotive
  engine and its handling in service, the work has been revised in order
  to include the latest developments of steam and electric locomotives.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is no doubt but what a great deal of information for the
  practical engineer can be obtained from this book, but it is a pity
  that the arrangement has not been more systematic and that so many
  prominent and important parts of the locomotive have been omitted from
  discussion.” G. R. Henderson.

     − + =Engin. N.= 57: 666. Je. 13, ’67. 1260w.


=Reagan, John Henninger.= Memoirs, with special reference to secession
and the civil war; ed. by Walter Flavius McCaleb; with introd. by George
P. Garrison. $3. Neale.

                                                                6–34012.

  “The book itself is short, embracing but three hundred and fifty pages
  of not very compact print. The main topics treated are the author’s
  early life in Texas, his part in Congress during three or four years
  prior to 1861, the organization of the Confederacy at Montgomery, the
  civil war, as viewed by an active and efficient cabinet officer in
  Richmond, and the problems of reconstruction. The most interesting
  portion of the book is the plain, unvarnished story of Reagan’s
  hardships and early struggles.”—Am. Hist. R.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The editing of the work has been very well done.” William E. Dodd.

       + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 679. Ap. ’07. 700w.

         =Ind.= 62: 1166. My. 3, ’07. 100w.

  “Are partly dull and partly interesting. Perhaps it would be more
  accurate to say that Mr. Reagan’s recollections of the early days of
  Texan independence is not particularly lively. As postmaster general
  of the Confederacy, however, Mr. Reagan stands on firmer ground, and
  has written pages that are not without future historical value.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 81. Ja. 24, ’07. 140w.

         =Spec.= 99: 397. S. 21, ’07. 430w.


=Reed, Helen Leah.= Napoleon’s young neighbor. †$1.50. Little.

                                                                7–34325.

  A side-light story based upon the “Recollections of Napoleon at St.
  Helena” by Mrs. Abell. It tells of Napoleon’s friendship for a little
  girl, Betsy Balcombe, at whose house, “The Briars,” he spent the first
  ten weeks of his banishment.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is a bit of history interestingly written.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 50w.


=Reed, Myrtle.= Love affairs of literary men. **$1.50. Putnam.

                                                                7–31403.

  The author brings out of their lavender the love-memories of Swift,
  Pope, Samuel Johnson, Laurence Sterne, Cowper, Carlyle, Poe, Shelley
  and Keats.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Dial.= 43: 425. D. 16, ’07. 80w.

         =Lit. D.= 35: 696. N. 9, ’07. 350w.

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 917. D. 14, ’07. 70w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 150w.

  “A collection of more or less well-known facts, retold in pleasant
  fashion. A book that will find favor among the many whose appetite
  prefers entrées to joints.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 453. O. 26, ’07. 170w.


=Reed, Myrtle.= Spinner in the sun. **$1.50. Putnam.

                                                                6–33577.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “This story—especially the earlier part of it—has both charm and
  originality, its diction being excellent, and the characters, if not
  altogether life-like, well imagined.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 797. D. 22. 90w.

  “The only trouble is that the author has resorted to narcotics in
  order to produce effects sufficiently weird in the minds of her
  characters, and, as is too often the case with women writers, she
  cannot quite achieve the dramatic without falling into the
  melodramatic.”

       − =Ind.= 62: 215. Ja. 24, ’07. 290w.


=Rees, Arthur Dougherty.= Double love; a tragedy in five acts. †$1.
Winston.

                                                                7–17377.

  In this poem-drama of American life a modern capitalist in blank
  verse, insists that his daughter’s love must choose between her and
  his other love, a literary career. He demands that he “walk the Rialto
  of true trade, the mart of traffic.” Naturally tragedy is the artistic
  result.


=Reich, Emil.= Success in life. **$1.50. Duffield.

                                                                7–11564.

  The philosophy of success is the outgrowth of definite basic
  principles. Mr. Reich denounces the “fluke” idea of success and plants
  success on the principle of energetics. The hope of the author is to
  establish an ideal so universal that it may be used by anyone in any
  walk of life for the attaining of honest, successful results.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In spite of this ill-advised plan of constructing a mathematical
  framework on which to fashion a body of doctrine dealing with the most
  unmathematical of subjects, the book is so fresh, so unconventional,
  so ingenious, and so suggestive, that its weaknesses and imperfections
  do not need to plead very hard for forgiveness. He has the readiness,
  not to say looseness, of the fluent talker and lecturer, but little of
  the exactness, the terseness, the fine reserve of the scholarly and
  painstaking writer.”

     + − =Dial.= 42: 230. Ap. 1, ’07. 420w.

       + =Ind.= 62: 742. Mr. 28, ’07. 60w.

  “He is the possessor of a lucid and attractive style which enables him
  to clothe abstract and even trite themes with a new and timely
  interest.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 640. Ap. 20, ’07. 370w.

  “The book, however, has an interest and value not promised in its
  title. The whole book is written with reference to British conditions.
  As a criticism of these it is interesting. Dr. Reich is a Teutonic Max
  O’Rell, who has read Schopenhauer and Herbert Spencer.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 479. My. 23, ’07. 440w.

  “Dr. Reich’s misfortune is that he presents real and false
  explanations with equal confidence and equal felicity. His merit is
  that he is always readable and always suggestive, even when he is as
  wrong as sheer ignorance or rash haste to conclusions can make any
  man.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 155. Mr. 16, ’07. 1620w.

  “A sagacious writer he is, though at times amusingly otherwise.”

     + − =Outlook.= 85: 767. Mr. 30, ’07. 210w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 759. Je. ’07. 80w.


=Reichel, Rev. George Valentine.= Bible truths through eye and ear.
**$1. Whittaker.

                                                                6–45727.

  A volume of “object teachings,” written for children, based upon such
  subjects as Harbors, Fog-signals, Life-saving, Lessons of the snow,
  Knots, Having salt, Fort builders, Like unto clear glass, and a great
  many more.


=Reid, George Archdall.= Principles of heredity, with some applications.
*$3.50. Dutton.

                                                                5–40286.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

  “The book not only lacks evidences of seasoned thought, but of
  familiarity with the more recent literature bearing on the discussion
  of heredity, and, on the whole, is a disappointing analysis of the
  subject. Nevertheless, we believe it will be of service on account of
  the new point of view adopted and the citing of evidences hearing on
  heredity furnished by disease.” William A. Locy.

     − + =Science=, n.s. 25: 60. Ja. 11, ’07. 1400w.


=Reid, Homer A.= Concrete and reinforced concrete construction. *$5.
Clark, M. C.

                                                                 7–6665.

  “The book is divided into 34 chapters. The subject matter may be
  grouped as follows: Cement and its manufacture and tests, the
  aggregate, proportioning, mixing and placing concrete, cost of work,
  and finishing concrete surfaces, 132 pages; physical and elastic
  properties of concrete and steel, 85 pages; principles and style of
  reinforcement, mechanical bond, curved pieces subject to flexure, and
  columns, walls, and pipes, 53 pages; theory of flexure of beams and
  strength of columns with formula and calculations, 136 pages;
  foundations, 58 pages; general building and construction and matters
  connected with practical construction, 142 pages; retaining walls,
  dams, conduits and sewers, tank and reservoir construction, chimneys,
  tunnels, etc., 144 pages; bridges, arches, piers and abutments, 104
  pages; concrete building blocks, 20 pages.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The analytical or theoretical portion of the book is its weakest
  feature. On the whole, with a few important items to be excepted, the
  analytical treatment is more complete than that in other books which
  have appeared. The general plan of the book is excellent, the
  proportioning of parts good, and the manner of presentation
  commendable. In some minor particulars objection may be made to the
  exact order of presentation, and some headings and forms of statement
  need editing.”

   + + − =Engin. N.= 57: 301. Mr. ’07. 3180w.


=Reid, Rev. John.= Jesus and Nicodemus: a study in spiritual life.
*$1.75. Scribner.

  A series of studies given in the form of lectures or sermons to
  different congregations in Scotland. “The conversation with Nicodemus
  peculiarly invites exposition, not only because of the far-reaching
  truth contained in it, but also because from our knowledge of the
  historical situation we are enabled to fill out the scene which the
  gospel gives in bare outline. Mr. Reid has become himself master of
  the historical situation, and has thus made luminous the mental
  attitude of Nicodemus. He has also given the right place to the
  reflective illumination of the mind of the evangelist as it came to a
  larger, fuller understanding of Jesus.” (Am. J. Theol.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is perhaps only one interpretation which will not meet with
  general acceptance. Would that we had more of such penetrating,
  illuminating, vital interpretations of the scenes of the fourth
  gospel.”

   + + − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 534. Jl. ’07. 460w.

  “Characterized by literary skill and religious insight.”

       + =Bib. World.= 29: 239. Mr. ’07. 20w.


=Reid, Stuart J.= Life and letters of the first Earl of Durham
(1792–1840). 2v. *$10. Longmans.

                                                                7–10998.

  An authoritative and detailed biography of John George Lambton, first
  Earl of Durham; “The Durham book has been written with full access to
  the letters and papers of Lord Durham, and will throw a new light on
  the reform struggle of 1830, the secret history of the reform bill of
  1832, on the creation of the kingdom of Belgium, on the affairs of
  Russia, when Durham pleaded for the Poles, and subsequently when he
  was Ambassador at St. Petersburg; on the strange vicissitudes of the
  Whigs under Grey and Melbourne, and much else that will be much worth
  reading.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Of the misrepresentations to which he was exposed and all else
  pertaining to this interesting chapter of his life Mr. Reid writes
  fully and well.”

       + =Acad.= 71: 465. N. 10, ’06. 970w.

  “If one essays the task of criticizing Mr. Reid one must add that his
  work is only moderately well done. He lacks conciseness and sometimes
  lucidity; his matter is not always well arranged, not always
  pertinent, not always quite accurate. He makes too great a hero of
  Durham and resents too obviously any unfavorable criticism by his
  contemporaries.” George M. Wrong.

     + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 637. Ap. ’07. 780w.

  “Mr. Stuart Reid has acquitted himself with credit as the recorder of
  a brief and brilliant career. He has studied his authorities
  carefully. and though a good deal of an enthusiast, he is fairly alive
  to his hero’s shortcomings. Wordiness and prolixity unfortunately
  disfigure his otherwise acceptable volumes.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 539. N. 3. 2100w.

  “There appears only one statement with regard to Canadian history
  which need be questioned.” H. E. Egerton.

     + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 187. Ja. ’07. 620w.

  “An obvious and long existing gap in English political biography is
  now filled.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 1209. My. 23. ’07. 780w.

  “He furnishes us for the first time with copious and well nigh
  exhaustive materials for forming our own judgment. But he is rather
  long-winded, and he is a little too blind to the real defects of
  Durham’s personal character and political temper.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 357. O. 26, ’06. 3320w.

  “These volumes are an extreme illustration of that obsession of
  bigness which now seems to afflict most writers of English biography.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 111. Ja. 31, ’07. 530w.

  “The book is a painstaking—even laborious—survey of the life of a very
  interesting man. The author has a strong bias in favor of his subject,
  which is not always an advantage to the reader.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 106. F. 23, ’07. 1330w.

  “Must at once be ranked among the great biographies of English
  statesmen of the nineteenth century. It is one of the class to which
  Parker’s ‘Peel,’ and Morley’s ‘Gladstone’ belong. As a literary
  achievement its place is alongside the ‘Life of Peel’ rather than
  alongside Morley’s ‘Life of Gladstone.’” Edward Porritt.

   + + − =No. Am.= 184: 755. Ap. 5, ’07. 1790w.

  “Like most biographers, Mr. Reid paints the character of his hero in
  too bright colors, and he claims entirely too much for him as a
  statesman.” W. Roy Smith.

     + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 363. Je. ’07. 1060w.

  “Durham has found in Mr. Reid a capable and warmly sympathetic
  biographer.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 103: 50. Ja. 12, ’07. 2430w.

  “As a biographer Mr. Reid is painstaking, industrious, and
  inordinately appreciative, but we cannot think that the style he has
  adopted was the best in which to write the ‘Life’ of so curious a
  personality. His is the old-fashioned type of biography, filled with
  moralisings and platitudes, very wordy and very lengthy.”

     + − =Spec.= 97: 727. N. 10, ’06. 1830w.


=Reid, Whitelaw.= Greatest fact in modern history. **75c. Crowell.

                                                                 7–6398.

  The greatest fact in modern history which Mr. Reid presents is the
  rise and development of the United States from a group of struggling
  colonies to its position of commanding power among the nations. He
  says two factors operating in American success have been character and
  circumstance.


=Reid, William Maxwell.= Story of old Fort Johnson; il. by John Arthur
Maney. **$3. Putnam.

                                                                6–34695.

  A sketch occasioned by the recent purchase and presentation to the
  Montgomery county historical society of old Fort Johnson, the most
  historic house in the Mohawk valley to-day. The story closely connects
  people and events associated with the famous “first baronial mansion
  in New York” with the history of the Mohawk valley.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “An interesting, rambling tale; it is a mixture of history, fiction,
  ethnology and gossip.” C. H. Rammelkamp.

       + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 397. Ja. ’07. 500w.

  “To the lover of the old, the wild, the picturesque in early American
  life, the book will possess charm; to the general reader, it will
  supply abundant detail with which to reconstruct a most romantic
  period. To the historian, it will offer a reason for doing the work
  over again.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 42. Jl. 4, ’07. 400w.

  “His facts will be accepted as accurate, and some of them are here
  brought together for the first time.”

     + − =Lit. D.= 33: 686. N. 10, ’06. 160w.

  “He is well versed in early history, but he should have had the
  guidance of hands more accomplished than his own in the art of putting
  a book together properly.”

     + − =Nation.= 83: 559. D. 27, ’06. 630w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 893. D. 22, ’06. 330w.

  “Its chief blemishes are discursiveness, fragmentariness, and
  unnecessary repetition; its virtues are enthusiasm, informativeness,
  and entertainment.”

     + − =Outlook.= 84: 680. N. 17, ’06. 140w.


=Reinach, Salomon.= Apollo; tr. from the French by Florence Simmonds.
**$1.50. Scribner.

                                                                7–15337.

  A new edition, expanded and furnished with editorial matter to date,
  of a work which long ago appeared under the title, “The story of art
  throughout the ages.” The book comprises twenty-five lectures
  delivered by Dr. Reinach during 1902–1903 at the Ècole du Louvre upon
  the historic schools of art. There are abundant illustrations and an
  ample bibliography. “The original title is restored, and the
  additions, concerning British art, are now inclosed in square
  brackets, so that one may know when one is reading M. Reinach and when
  one is reading Miss Simmonds.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Acad.= 72: 137. F. 9, ’07. 1250w.

  “A second edition ... which is an improvement noon the first.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 418. My. 2, ’07. 210w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 502. Ag. 17, ’07. 160w.

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 526. Jl. 6, ’07. 70w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 383. S. ’07. 60w.

  “It is a really uncommon achievement.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: 464. Mr. 23, ’07. 160w.


=Reinsch, Paul Samuel.= American legislatures and legislative methods.
*$1.25. Century.

                                                                 7–8279.

  A critical exposition of the manner in which the law making
  bodies—state and federal—in the United States are organized and
  operated.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “All things considered, Professor Reinsch’s volume is an important
  addition to the literature of American politics. It is a contribution
  both to the understanding of the present situation and to the
  establishment of a better method for future studies of a similar
  character.” Charles Edward Merriam.

   + + − =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 118. Jl. ’07. 700w.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 127. My. ’07. S.

  “As a whole the book is the best presentation of this subject in
  limited space which has yet appeared.” Luther F. Witmer.

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 615. N. ’07. 460w.

  Reviewed by Max West.

       + =Dial.= 43: 120. S. 1, ’07. 700w.

  “A most admirable volume of a practical sort.”

       + =Educ. R.= 34: 209. S. ’07. 90w.

  “Without a doubt there is room in the citizen’s library for such a
  useful and suggestive study of national and state politics.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 998. O. 24, ’07. 630w.

  “He finds so many and such serious defects in our system of government
  and sees so plainly the forces of selfishness on one hand and of
  indifference and ignorance on the other hand, with which reform has to
  contend, and he describes both with such clearness that the reader
  will be likely to rise from the study of the volume in a discouraged
  mood.” Edward Cary.

   + + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 156. Mr. 16, ’07. 1150w.

  “In every way the volume is not only informative but suggestive, and
  is eminently thorough in treatment.”

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 719. Mr. 23, ’07. 130w.

  “A work of great value, that marks a distinct advance in scientific
  treatment of legislative procedure. He has grasped a principle of
  cardinal importance, oversight of which is a common defect in academic
  study of political institutions, namely, that the character of
  institutions is to be found in their working.” Henry Jones Ford.

     + + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 713. D. ’07. 1270w.

  “Professor Reinsch’s method of treatment is frankly critical.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 509. Ap. ’07. 140w.


* =Reissig, Carl.= Standard family physician: a practical international
encyclopedia of medicine and hygiene especially prepared for the
household. 2v. $13. Funk.

                                                                7–15943.

  In this undertaking Professor Reissig has been assisted by Smith Ely
  Jelliffe and nearly fifty associate editors. “Taken as a whole, the
  work is a commendable effort to lead the layman to take a rational
  view of diseases and of ‘the results which may be reasonably expected
  from therapeutic measures.’ The opposition to quackery in its various
  forms, to all the ‘pathies,’ and to ‘natural’ methods is praiseworthy
  and ought to do good.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “While ordinarily such works are likely to do at least as much harm as
  good, there seems to be no reason why this one should not prove a
  source of benefit in every way to its readers.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 1005. O. 24. ’07. 340w.

  “In general, it may be said that too little attention is paid to the
  emergencies of domestic life, the very conditions where such a book is
  most needed in families at a distance from medical aid.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 522. D. 5, ’07. 300w.


Religion of Christ in the twentieth century. **$1.50. Putnam.

                                                                 6–2998.

  “The unnamed author’s theme is the radical question of our time, ‘What
  is Christianity?’ and his text is Lessing’s remark, ‘The Christian
  religion has been tried for eighteen centuries; the religion of Christ
  remains to be tried.’ By the Christian religion is meant a body of
  religious doctrine supported by an ecclesiastical organization. The
  religion of Christ is the attitude of the spirit toward God and man
  that Jesus manifested as controlling his life.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Reviewed by Gerald Birney Smith.

         =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 704. O. ’07. 370w.

  “The book is a shrewd, discerning critique of regnant forms of piety,
  and a discriminating projection of the faith and theology that ought
  to come.”

     + + =Ind.= 61: 1038. N. 1, ’06. 280w.

  “These thoughts have been uttered before, but never more clearly or
  attractively, and they well express the spirit in which the movement
  for the improvement of theology should proceed.”

     + + =Outlook.= 82: 326. F. 10, ’06. 370w.


* Remco’s. Manual of apartment house service. **$1. McClure.

  Under “General instructions” there are rules applicable to every
  contingency apt to arise in an apartment building. Such subjects as
  the conduct of heating apparatus, the eradication of vermin, the
  technicalities of elevators, steam and hot-water boilers and
  engineering and sanitary details about the apartment house.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “What a paradise apartment life would be if this book were widely
  circulated and its contents enforced.”

       + =Engin. N.= 58: 536. N. 14, ’07. 200w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 20w.


=Rexford, Eben Eugene.= Four seasons in the garden: with 27 il. and with
decorations by Edward S. Holloway. **$1.50. Lippincott.

                                                                7–16936.

  Gardening for the home-maker is treated in all its phases by the
  “foremost amateur gardener of the United States.” The book treats of
  the making and care of the lawn, flowerbeds. back-yard gardens and
  window boxes, of the more ambitious garden of the suburbanite and the
  country dweller, and concludes with two chapters on village and rural
  improvement societies.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 171. O. ’07. S.

  “The book is not what its title might indicate—a guide to the seasons
  in their order. It is likely to be most serviceable to beginners in
  garden making. The author’s language is simple, his style is popular,
  and he gives facts and instruction in an easily understood form.”

       + =Dial.= 40: 367. Je. 16, ’07. 410w.

       + =Nation.= 85: 547. D. 12, ’07. 50w.

  “A gathering into one unusually attractive volume, from the standpoint
  of the maker of books, of all the knowledge which has been coming
  piecemeal from this prolific writer on the gentle subject through many
  years.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 240w.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.

  “It contains clear and definite instruction.”

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 119. My. 18, ’07. 70w.


=Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie-.= Dull girl’s destiny. †$1.50. Brentano’s.

  The “dull girl” is twenty-six, and inexperienced, yet able to produce
  “novels esteemed worthy to rank as a ‘counterblast’ to the plays of
  Bernard Shaw.” (Ath.) “However, the interest of the story centres, not
  in the question whether the heroine could have written the novels of
  Jane Smith, but in the description of contemporary manners and the
  amusing sketches which the author gives us of her dramatis personae.”
  (Spec.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In liveliness and brightness the novel is much above the average.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 723. Je. 15. 190w.

  “The heavy artillery of analysis, should not be trained upon an
  amiable, unpretentious story of this kind, since its obvious qualities
  are neither subtlety nor penetration but a wholesome right-mindedness,
  a mild humor, and unfailing good taste.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 168. Ag. 22, ’07. 140w.

  “All but two characters are so odious as to arouse the reader’s
  personal resentment.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 488. Ag. 10, ’07. 290w.

  “Although the plot ... invites criticism, still the book is pleasant
  and entertaining reading.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: 984. Je. 22, ’07. 220w.


=Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie-.= Thalassa. †$1.50. Brentano’s.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The author’s innate strain of romanticism would not permit her to
  write the evenly sustained story of a simple life which she appears to
  have been qualified to do.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

     + − =Bookm.= 25: 182. Ap. ’07. 400w.

  “Its characters and its mystery are alike improbable; but the writer
  knows how to tell her story.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 69. F. 2, ’07. 350w.


=Rhead, George Woolliscroft.= Chats on costume; with 117 il. *$2.
Stokes.

                                                                 W 7–41.

  A book which begins with a general survey of the subject and follows
  with “brief accounts of the development and history of the tunic,
  mantle, doublet and hose, kirtle or petticoat, crinoline, collars and
  cuffs, hats, caps and bonnets, dressing of the hair, mustachios and
  beard, and boots, shoes, and coverings of the feet.” (A. L. A. Bkl.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Felicitously conceived and successfully accomplished. Mr. Rhead is a
  pleasant writer, and his facts, quotations, and verses are judiciously
  selected.”

   + + − =Acad.= 72: 246. Mr. 9, ’07. 220w.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 127. My. ’07.


=Rhead, George Woolliscraft, and Rhead, Frederick Alfred.= Staffordshire
pots and potters. *$6.50. Dodd.

                                                                7–38577.

  “To the amateur as well as to the expert collector, the book, with its
  clear definitions of the peculiarities differentiating the work of one
  potter from another, and its wealth of illustrations. some of them in
  colour, of the treasures in museums and private collections, will be a
  mine of wealth; but it will also appeal forcibly to the antiquarian
  and historian, for the authors have made a point of tracing the
  condition between the progress of their art and the advance of
  civilization.... Especially fascinating is the chapter on the passing
  of the Elerses—the predecessors of Wedgwood.”—Int. Studio.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Might well be called the romance of English ceramic art. so forcibly
  realized are the personalities of the craftsmen presented to the
  reader, so skillfully are the accounts of their technical triumphs
  interwoven with their life stories, and so vividly is the local
  colouring of their environment reproduced.”

       + =Int. Studio.= 31: 82. Mr. ’07. 330w.

  “The book stands apart from most of the ceramic works published during
  recent years by reason of its independence and personal point of
  view.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 90. Mr. 22, ’07. 1540w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 60w.

  “The authors are peculiarly fitted for the task they have set
  themselves.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 834. D. 14, ’07. 380w.


=Rhead, Louis John.= Bait angling for common fishes. *$1.25. Outing pub.

                                                                7–22908.

  A handy volume of practical information on how to angle for common and
  familiar bottom fishes. A score or more varieties are discussed, carp,
  eel, perch, bass, etc., descriptions of their habits are given for the
  benefit of amateurs, and the whole is illustrated with drawings by the
  author.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Nation.= 85: 120. Ag. 8, ’07. 380w.


=Rhodes, Harrison.= Flight to Eden: a Florida romance. †$1.50. Holt.

                                                                7–30836.

  Basil Forrester, London born and bred, finds that there is no place
  for him in England after his infidelity to his wife results in her
  suicide. He goes to Florida, begins life over, fostering only the
  impulses of primitive man. His love for a maiden of the wild impels
  him to relinquish every hold upon England. After years have passed he
  remembers that the house of Kingstowne must be perpetuated through him
  and sends his ten year old son back to be educated to the traditions
  of his title.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is no question that Mr. Rhodes knows how to portray people and
  incidents in a way that forces you to see them. But he has something
  still to learn about the unities of construction.” Frederic Taber
  Cooper.

     + − =Bookm.= 26: 409. D. ’07. 420w.

  “A singular mingling of the crude and the romantic is here.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 545. D. 12, ’07. 140w.

         =Outlook.= 87: 828. D. 14, ’07. 120w.


=Rhodes, James Ford.= History of the United States from the compromise
of 1850 to the final restoration of Home rule in the South in 1877. 7v.
v. 6–7. per set, **$17.50. Macmillan.

                                                                5–12579.

  These concluding volumes of Mr. Rhodes’ history cover the period
  1866–1877. “A peculiar claim can be made on behalf of a historian who
  writes candidly and yet firmly of the burning of Columbia under
  General Sherman, the disputed Hayes-Tilden election, and the whole
  melancholy reconstruction period.” (Lit. D.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Dr. Rhodes possesses some of the most important qualities of the true
  historian. He has the judicial temper and he spares no pains in
  accumulating and sifting material. To an English reader he
  occasionally seems somewhat prolix though seldom actually tedious.”

   + + − =Acad.= 73: 793. Ag. 17, ’07. 2120w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

  “As in volume 5 he finished what is on the whole our best history of
  the civil war, so in volume 7 he has finished the best history yet
  written of reconstruction. Unfortunately, however, the superlative
  does not in this second instance convey nearly so high praise as in
  the first. There exist several reasonably good histories of the war,
  but until these two volumes appeared there was no work covering the
  period of reconstruction which could be commended.” William Garrott
  Brown.

   + + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 680. Ap. ’07. 2030w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 48. F. ’07. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)

  “It may be stated without fear of successful impeachment, that no
  other period of American history has been so well and interestingly
  written as the one covered by Mr. Rhodes. Although seven volumes have
  been devoted to the history of about thirty years, there is no useless
  detail to weary the reader, but a concise, well-balanced story, that
  can be followed with unflagging interest by the general student as
  well as the specialist.” J. W. Garner.

   + + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 435. Mr. ’07. 1060w. (Review of v. 6 and
         7.)

  “His sense of proportion is artistic, as well as his perspective.
  Aside from the almost unexampled impartiality of judgment which the
  work displays throughout, its most striking characteristics to the lay
  leader will be found in its subordination of the literary to the
  judicial element.” Bernadotte Perrin.

   + + + =Atlan.= 99: 859. Je. ’07. 5850w. (Review of v. 8 and 7.)

  “Dr. Rhodes’s works ... certainly carry the stamp of verisimilitude
  and have the force necessary to lure the reader on and invite him to
  return.” David Y. Thomas.

   + + + =Dial.= 42: 180. Mr. 16, ’07. 1640w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)

  “The evidence from quantity is abundantly supported by other evidence
  that Dr. Rhodes lost interest in his task after he had brought the
  story of actual warfare to a close, or perhaps, more exactly, after he
  had described the struggle between President Johnson and congress.”
  Wm. A. Dunning.

   + + − =Educ. R.= 34: 109. S. ’07. 2160w. (Review of v. 1–7.)

  “The greatest historical work that has been written in America—great
  not in length alone, but in excellence of scholarship, and the
  magnitude and interest of his theme.”

   + + + =Ind.= 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 60w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)

  “Within the limits I have tried to indicate it is not easily
  overpraised. That, however, breeds regret—regret that once more a work
  so excellent as history should not be also excellent as literary art.”
  William Garrott Brown.

   + + − =Ind.= 62: 552. Mr. 7, ’07. 2700w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)

  “The work has the rare quality of being dispassionate and yet
  interesting.”

   + + + =Lit. D.= 34: 64. Ja. 12, ’07. 130w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)

  “Mr. Rhodes is to be congratulated on having accomplished a difficult
  and laborious task with something like conspicuous success.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 242. Ag. 9, ’07. 1920w. (Review of v. 6 and
         7.)

     + + =Nation.= 84: 14. Ja. 3, ’07. 1470w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)

  “It need hardly be said that these volumes have fully met the
  expectations of readers of their predecessors. He has set new
  standards in the study of and interpretation of events, in the use of
  materials, and in the generosity and kindliness of his estimates of
  men.” William E. Dodd.

   + + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 4. Ja. 5, ’07. 3460w. (Review of v. 6 and
         7.)

  “Must be deemed pre-eminently the standard work for the period with
  which it deals, and a work so exhaustive and so able that it will
  probably be long before its supremacy is challenged.”

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 113. My. 18, ’07. 1760w. (Review of v. 1–7.)

  “It seems probable that the general verdict will be that, though
  entitled to high praise, they are not in all respects up to the high
  standard set by some of the volumes that appeared before them.” Paul
  Leland Haworth.

   + + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 513. S. ’07. 2710w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)

  “While not strikingly original either in his conceptions of the import
  of the events of his period or in the manner in which he sets them
  forth, Mr. Rhodes has given us a piece of historical narrative which
  will command respect for solidity, fairness, and accuracy.” John
  Spencer Bassett.

   + + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 252. My. ’07. 580w. (Review of v. 5–7.)

   + + + =R. of Rs.= 35: 109. Ja. ’07. 270w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)

  “Far the best existing narrative of the events which led up to and
  followed the civil war as well as of the war itself, apart from more
  merely technical military treatises.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 103: 625. My. 18, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)

  “His one great limitation is that he has not penetrated deeply into
  the great underlying forces at work in our history and his judgments
  therefore are not always profound or such as will stand the test of
  time. Especially well suited for the reference library in our
  schools.” Webster Cook.

   + + − =School R.= 15: 716. D. ’07. 670w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)

         =Spec.= 98: 464. Mr. 23, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)

  “Other subjects such as finance and currency, commercial crises,
  political corruption, the tariff, and the broader economic and social
  changes affecting American society are not ignored, as they were not
  in the previous volumes; but they are not adequately treated, and the
  author shows in his treatment of them none of that breadth of view and
  well-balanced judgment which appears in his account of the political
  controversies that have to do with slavery, the civil war and the
  reconstruction.” G: Stevens Callender.

   + + − =Yale R.= 16: 198. Ag. ’07. 3390w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)


=Rhys, Ernest.= Fairy-gold; il. by Herbert Cole. $2.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–35196.

  “Mr. Rhys has retold many legends and fairy tales of the semi-mythical
  days in England.” (Outlook.) “The first part contains old favorites,
  of many of which the editor has found new versions; the second part
  consists of shorter fables and stories; and the third of fairy tales,
  and poems from Browning, Elia, Keats, Tom Hood and others. The book is
  daintily gotten up and Mr. Herbert Cole’s illustrations are
  excellent.” (Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A delight to handle and to read.”

       + =Acad.= 71: 584. D. 8, ’06. 80w.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 112. Ap. ’07.

  “This is a book to find welcome.”

       + =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 13, ’06. 80w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 868. D. 15, ’06. 90w.

  “The book is one to please older readers, but none the less for that
  will be acceptable to children.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 1083. D. 29, ’06. 80w.

  “A very interesting and artistic production.”

       + =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 70w.


=Ribot, Theodule Armand.= Essay on the creative imagination; tr. from
the French, by Albert H. N. Baron. *$1.75. Open ct.

                                                                6–32845.

  A discussion of the subject under the following heads: Analysis of the
  imagination, Development of the imagination, Types of imagination,
  Conclusion and Appendices.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “As a manual to a region well worthy of exploration, the volume may be
  recommended both in the original and in the present form.”

       + =Dial.= 41: 244. O. 16, ’06. 340w.

  “Mr. Baron has done us a service of some value in rendering into
  English M. Ribot’s monograph on the creative imagination. The
  translation sticks somewhat closely to the original idiom, but this is
  a virtue rather than a fault. It forms a valuable addition to the
  psychological literature on imagination.” Felix Arnold.

     + + =J. Philos.= 3: 695. D. 6, ’06. 800w.

  “Like all its author’s work, it is suggestive and thorough.”

   + + − =Nature.= 76: 196. Je. 27, ’07. 100w.

       + =Outlook.= 84: 530. O. 27, ’06. 150w.


=Rice, Mrs. Alice Caldwell (Hegan).= Captain June. †$1. Century.

                                                                7–29097.

  The story of a dear little American boy who stays with his Japanese
  nurse in her country while his mother is in Manila nursing his sick
  father through a fever.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A charming tale.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 399. O. 5. 100w.

  “Told with a certain freshness, although the situation is slight. Mrs.
  Rice has done better work.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 60w.

  “Very charming.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 60w.

  “Pleasantly told.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 50w.

  “While in ‘Captain June’ Mrs. Alice Hegan Rice does not write with
  quite the same firmness of touch that characterizes the work of the
  author of ‘Emmy Lou,’ she, like Mrs. Martin, throws her picture upon
  the screen in clear, sharp light and shadow.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 763. D. ’07. 230w.


=Rice, Cale Young.= Night in Avignon [a drama], **50c. McClure.

                                                                7–15143.

  The theme for Mr. Rice’s drama is “a momentary revolt on the part of
  Petrarch from the apparently unresponsive and remote Monna Laura, and
  the consequences in which it involves him.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The situation is conceived with an admirable intensity, but it is
  worked with such agitation of mood and manner that it fails to be
  pleasing or even convincing.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 35. Jl. 11, ’07. 270w.

  “Though brief, and slight in detail, as a one-act play must
  necessarily be, it is nevertheless so vivid and the fusion is so
  complete between the dialogue and action that it embraces in small
  compass all the essentials of the drama.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 220. Ap. 6, ’07. 920w.

  “Among the recent group of dramatic poets, Mr. Cale Young Rice ... has
  done excellent work, particularly worthy of comment on its
  architectonic side. Mr. Rice has an instinctive sense of dramatic
  relations; his dramas move by first intent and the unity of word and
  action is admirably maintained. His work is not without its
  immaturities.”

   + + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 350. Je. ’07. 120w.


=Rice, William de Groot C.=, comp. Book of American humorous verse, lea.
$1.25. Duffield.

                                                                7–25551.

  An anthology in which the verse of well-known American humorists
  appears.


=Rich, Charles Edward.= Voyage with Captain Dynamite. †$1. Barnes.

                                                                7–26459.

  “The story of three boys who go out from Cottage City in a small yacht
  and who are caught in a storm and run down by a larger vessel, a
  filibuster. They are rescued by Captain Dynamite, who carries them off
  to Cuba. There, having sent word home that they were safe, they take
  part in many adventures and do, perhaps, a little more than a boy
  outside a book would be able to do. Harry Hamilton rescues Juanita, a
  young Cuban girl, who is in prison, and who escapes in his
  clothes.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 110w.

  “Does not spare adventures, and boy readers will be thrilled by the
  excitements provided.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 270. O. 5, ’07. 70w.


=Rich, Walter Herbert.= Feathered game of the Northwest. **$3. Crowell.

                                                                7–29864.

  The author does not cover the broad field of general ornithology but
  narrows his scope to include only groups of birds of special interest
  to sportsmen. These he treats in a manner to be of interest also to
  the professional ornithologist and to the general reader. Fair
  sportsmanship is the keynote, discountenancing record-killing
  slaughter. Hunting yarns and bits of hunters’ wisdom gathered here and
  there over the gun-barrel mingle with the observations. Nearly ninety
  birds are described, located and illustrated in full-page half-tones.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His descriptions are so good that enjoyment of them need not be
  confined to sportsmen.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 418. D. 16, ’07. 100w.

  “On the whole, he succeeded in making a thoroughly, reliable and
  entertaining volume.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 760. N. 16, ’07. 410w.

  “The illustrations which are diagnostic, add considerably to the value
  of the volume. Mr. Rich has, however, fallen into the error very
  general among artists, of placing his ducks too high out of the water.
  On the more technical side we find recent scientific names given
  accurately, and the facts concerning life-histories, although of
  course mainly drawn from the point of view of the hunter, are
  reliable. As literature, the essays are commendable.”

   + + − =Nation.= 85: 402. O. 31, ’07. 380w.

  “Chatty and humorous as well as informing, and well illustrated.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 358. O. 19, ’07. 90w.


* =Richards, Ellen Henrietta.= Sanitation in daily life. *60c. Whitcomb
& B.

                                                                7–37734.

  A thorogoing manual on sanitation in the home and city based upon the
  most approved methods of sanitary science.


* =Richards, Mrs. Laura Elizabeth.= Grandmother. †75c. Estes.

                                                                7–24770.

  “A young girl forced by circumstances into marriage with an old man
  gave him the loyal gratitude and devotion his kindness merited. She
  overcame the hatred of his passionate granddaughter of her own age,
  and became the loved ‘Grandmother’ of all the village children for
  whom she wove sweet songs and pretty stories. The tragedies of her
  inner life were never realized by those about her, but they caused her
  to be a benediction to every one who knew her.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Those who enjoyed ‘Captain January,’ (and that means every one, young
  or old, that read it) will like Mrs. Richards’s new story,
  ‘Grandmother.’”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 110w.

  “A sweet and touching story.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 745. N. 30, ’07. 120w.


=Richards, Mrs. Laura Elizabeth (Howe).= Silver crown: another book of
fables. †$1.25. Little.

                                                                6–29779.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =Acad.= 71: 608. D. 15, ’06. 20w.

  “Useful to parents, teachers, and librarians, but containing little
  for the children themselves.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 54. F. ’07.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 868. D. 15, ’06. 50w.


=Richards, Ralph Coffin.= Railroad accidents, their cause and
prevention. $1. Ralph C. Richards, 215 Jackson boulevard, Chicago.

                                                                6–32141.

  “A general discussion of various classes of accidents is accompanied
  by citations of examples showing how the very accidents in question
  had happened to individuals. References to operating rules—which
  rules, if followed, would have prevented the accidents in many
  instances—are freely made throughout the book, and the rules
  themselves are given in an appendix forming the last 15 pages of the
  book.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Engin. N.= 56: 418. O. 18, ’06. 60w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 70w.


=Richards, William R.= Apostles’ creed in modern worship. **$1.
Scribner.

                                                                6–32847.

  “An exposition of the creed rather than a defence of it; and the
  exposition is spiritual and practical rather than historical and
  scholarly.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book may be considered to represent the best that can be said in
  favor of the adoption of the creed by the non-liturgical communions,
  though it by no means answers the objections raised against its use in
  the controversies over it in England and Germany.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 328. O. 18. ’06. 330w.

  “It is not and does not purport to be of value to the critical
  student; it will be of aid in giving rational significance to the
  creed to those who are accustomed to use it in public worship.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 383. O. 13, ’06. 80w.


=Richardson, Charles.= Chancellorsville campaign: Fredericksburg to
Salem church. $1. Neale.

                                                                7–17004.

  An account of the battles from Fredericksburg to Salem church and a
  description of the battle field, to which is appended a collection of
  abstracts from the reports of the operations of the Union army of the
  Potomac, covering the entire Chancellorsville campaign.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Borrows a certain quality of value from the circumstance that it
  contains in convenient form the text of President Lincoln’s
  correspondence with the egregious Hooker, together with other official
  notes of the campaign, and the report of Gen. Lee upon the battle in
  which Thomas Jonathan Jackson lost his life. Mr. Richardson’s own
  story of that battle is negligible.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 493. Ag. 10, ’07. 270w.

  “Had Colonel Charles Richardson chosen to utilize his personal
  experience as the basis for his ‘The Chancellorsville campaign,’ he
  might have made an interesting contribution to civil war literature;
  but as it is, his narrative is quite negligible. Barring a tedious—and
  to readers not familiar with the ground—difficult description of the
  scene of conflict, his account of the operations of Early and Sedgwick
  about Fredericksburg, displays little originality, and consists for
  the most part of quotations from official reports strung together in a
  commonplace way.”

       − =Outlook.= 86: 438. Je. 22. ’07. 110w.


=Richardson, Charles.= Tales of a warrior: sanguine but not saguinary
for old time people. $1.25. Neale.

                                                                7–16755.

  Nine simply told tales of the civil war time. Several of them are in
  southern dialect, and they deal with the county squire, the soldier,
  the old negro, and other southern types.


=Richardson, Frank.= 2835 Mayfair: a novel. $1.50. Kennerley.

  A detective story which has a double identity mystery in it, and one
  in which the author “takes care to discount the criticism that his
  story is not credible by making it absolutely impossible.” (Spec.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Regarded as satire or melodrama, ‘2835 Mayfair’ must be considered
  unsatisfactory. There is, however, plenty of ingenuity in the manner
  in which Mr. Richardson develops his tale, and his admirers will find
  no lack of those inconsequent humours which he has taught them to
  expect.”

     − + =Acad.= 72: 459. My. 11, ’07. 270w.

     − + =Nation.= 85: 234. S. 12, ’07. 330w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 110w.

  “Mr. Richardson’s efforts in what may be called his satirical manner
  are rather laboured in the present book, which may be best described
  as a sensational extravaganza and, as our American cousins would say,
  not very successful at that.”

       − =Spec.= 99: 333. S. 7, ’07. 150w.


=Richardson, Leon Josiah.= Helps to the reading of classical Latin
poetry. *50c. Ginn.

                                                                 7–6757.

  The book is intended for students of classical Roman poetry, primarily
  that of Virgil and Ovid. The book outlines the part that reading
  should play in the field of classical study, compares Latin and
  English rhythms, and explains simply the nature and structure of Latin
  verse, with special reference to the dactylic hexameter and the
  elegiac meter.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In all probability it contains rather more than the average student,
  or perhaps even the exceptional student, if he be an undergraduate,
  will take the time to read with care. On the other hand, one who is
  more advanced will scarcely find here anything that is new to him.
  Some of the illustrative material is ... well selected; and the first
  twenty pages or so may be read by any one with interest and pleasure.”
  H. T. P.

       + =Bookm.= 25: 207. Ap. ’07. 360w.

  “A helpful little volume for the sympathetic reader of Latin verse.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 387. Ap. 25, ’07. 90w.


=Richardson, Rev. Willard S.=, ed. David: warrior, poet, king. il.
$2.50. Appleton.

                                                                7–31970.

  In this narrative told by means of various passages of scripture,
  special stress is laid upon the qualities of the man David, the
  frailties over which the might of character triumphed, the friendship
  for Jonathan, and the anguish and grief over Absalom. The character
  development is traced thru the experience of exile, thru the early
  years of opposition to his rule over the two tribes, and thru the
  years of prosperity and adversity as king over Israel.


=Rickaby, Rev. Joseph, S. J.= Free will and four English philosophers; a
study of Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Mill. *$1.25. Benziger.

  “Father Rickaby believes that, though men are slow to see and loth to
  own it, free will still remains the hub and centre of philosophical
  speculation. The four philosophers whose views are here criticized are
  Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Mill. His method is to quote a passage from
  these authors and then discuss it.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Ath.= 1907, 1: 406. Ap. 6. 330w.

  “A long matured volume abounding with acute criticism and close
  reasoning. The most original feature of Father Rickaby’s treatment of
  the question is his theory on the working of free-will.”

     + + =Cath. World.= 84: 564. Ja. ’07. 330w.

  “A vigorous and interesting book.” St. George Stock.

     + − =Hibbert J.= 5: 704. Ap. ’07. 1330w.


=Rickert, (Martha) Edith.= Golden hawk. †$1.50. Baker.

                                                                7–15544.

  “A modern romance in the picaresque style, steeped in the sunshine of
  Provence.... Trillon, the hero, has a lordly disdain for
  commercialism.... We meet him ... fascinating the daughter of the
  inn-keeper by his audacious flattery, and after a courtship conducted
  with lightning rapidity in the teeth of every sort of opposition,
  going off to seek his fortune, while his betrothed is left to the
  untender mercies of her parents and the priest.... She enters a
  nunnery. But the irrepressible Trillon returns from the sea, abducts
  his betrothed ... sets himself to perform a labour of Hercules imposed
  by the priest as the condition of his consent to the marriage,—the
  conversion of a rocky wilderness known as the Pit of Artaban into a
  farm. Trillon’s exploits as a farmer ... make a most entertaining
  recital; and the final scene, in which he plays the part of a
  Provençal Lochinvar, brings a fantastic story to an appropriate
  close.”—Spec.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The only fault we have to find in her work is that it needs pruning.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 216. Mr. 2, ’07. 230w.

  “The sort of thing that could easily be turned into operetta.” Harry
  James Smith.

       + =Atlan.= 100: 134. Jl. ’07. 330w.

  “It is not a book to be judged by ordinary standards; it must be read
  indulgently, sympathetically, softly laughed over for the sake of its
  fantastic humor, its unexpected mingling of sunshine and of shadow.”
  Frederic Taber Cooper.

       + =Bookm.= 25: 392. Je. ’07. 300w.

  “A pretty story, full of surprises for even the seasoned reader of
  summer fiction.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 43. Jl. 4, ’07. 210w.

  “Her portraits with all their charm seem sometimes a little stiff,
  sometimes over flamboyant But there are fine, airy landscapes in
  plenty; the action is spirited throughout; and few of the incidents
  fail of the graces of pathos, humour, enthusiasm, and, above all,
  imagination.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 70. Mr. 1, ’07. 580w.

  “She escapes the danger of letting her picaresque hero seem hackneyed
  and mediocre, by tracing his mental processes from within out, here
  and there giving a genuine touch of character study, instead of
  relying entirely upon description of his fantastic dress and twinkling
  hawk-like eyes.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 435. My. 9, ’07. 350w.

  “Miss Rickart has undeniable talent, a grace of style, a keen sense of
  verbal felicity and skill in reproducing a superficial effect. She has
  not yet learned the lesson that to be a real artist one must not go
  too far afield from one’s own life and temperament.” Florence
  Wilkinson.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 314. My. 18, ’07. 690w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 230w.

  “The tale is told with dash and spirit, and has unity of conception.
  There is buoyancy and there is color, and the reader’s interest is
  swept along impetuously from beginning to end.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 255. Je. 1, ’07. 210w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 765. Je. ’07. 60w.

  “The ‘bravura’ style is at times somewhat forced.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: 541. Ap. ’07. 640w.


=Rickett, Arthur.= Vagabond in literature. *$1.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–35194.

  A volume “made up of ‘papers’ on Hazlitt, De Quincey, Walt Whitman.
  Robert Louis Stevenson, George Borrow, Henry Thoreau, and Richard
  Jefferies.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 104. Ap. ’07.

  “These agreeable essays are not epoch-making—how few books are!—but
  they offer many a page of good reading, none the worse for being on
  well-worn themes.”

     − + =Dial.= 42: 146. Mr. 1, ’07. 330w.

         =Ind.= 62: 973. Ap. 25, ’07. 630w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 789. D. 1, ’06. 300w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 256. F. ’07. 40w.


=Ricketts, Charles S.= Art of the Prado: a survey of the contents of the
gallery, together with detailed criticisms of its masterpieces and
biographical sketches of the famous painters who produced them. *$2.
Page.

                                                                7–30412.

  A finely illustrated volume which deals with the paintings of the
  Prado—Madrid’s famous treasure house of masterpieces. Here are found
  at their best the gold of Titian, the silver of Velasquez. the glow of
  Rubens and the magic and awe associated with Rembrandt. In what manner
  and to what extent these pictures are an unchallenged “congress of
  masterpieces” the author essays to enlighten the reader.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He understands how to give his criticism a turn which is at once
  illuminating and suggestive.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 379. D. 1, ’07. 310w.

  “This is a real book, containing real opinions, which may be read with
  profit and pleasure by any one who cares for the serious study of
  art.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 550. D. 12, ’07. 290w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

  “At best the book is an excellent and readable guide to a collection
  not too widely known, and considered as such the author is deserving
  of unqualified attention.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 835. D. 14, ’07. 310w.

         =Outlook.= 87: 615. N. 23, ’07. 80w.


=Rideal, Samuel.= Sewage and the bacterial purification of sewage. $4.
Wiley.

  A third and enlarged edition of a work which “consists chiefly of a
  statement of the problem of sewage treatment and of the principles
  involved and methods employed in the solution of that problem,
  together with a review of some of the large number of experiments on
  sewage.... It covers some events and literature well into
  1906.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “By means of the present revision, Dr. Rideal’s book becomes the most
  up-to-date and the best general work on sewage treatment now
  available.”

       + =Engin. N.= 57: 667. Je. 13, ’07. 340w.

  “It seems to be generally acknowledged among sanitary engineers that
  this work is the most comprehensive treatise on the subject in the
  English language, and the appearance of a third edition recently is
  only natural in view of the high standing which the book has won.”

     + + =Technical Literature.= 2: 333. O. ’07. 370w. (Reprinted from
         Engin. Rec.)


* =Rideout, Henry Milner.= Admiral’s light. †$1.50. Houghton.

                                                                7–36092.

  The shores of New Brunswick and Maine furnish the setting of a story
  in which are brought together a girl reared by Yankee gypsies, a lad,
  hungry for things of life, the recluse grandfather who keeps a
  lighthouse, an Italian sailor, and a Chinaman whose portion of the
  tale is one of mystery. The sea-change of the heroine into something
  rich and strange which breathes sacrifice is the absorbing part of the
  story.


=Rideout, Henry Milner.= Beached keels. †$1.50. Houghton.

                                                                6–38551.

  Three stories of the sea and shorefolk. The first is a “strange tale
  of curious people in an unusual setting; the second, a tragic,
  pathetic tale of two brothers; the third, humorous.” (A. L. A. Bkl.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “All are striking, and more than usually well told.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 18. Ja. ’07. ✠

  “Mr. Rideout’s construction is faulty; his stories short as they are,
  seem to ramble needlessly. But he has the gift of vividness and a rare
  sense of the value of little things; he can paint the crest of a wave
  or a trait of character with an admirable terseness.” Frederic Taber
  Cooper.

     + − =Bookm.= 24: 691. F. ’07. 330w.

  “His fancy is fertile and it imagines large canvases. He almost fills
  them, but not quite. It is in dealing with the emotions of his
  characters in the powerful situations in which he places them that Mr.
  Rideout still falls short: he leaves a little too much to the
  collaboration of the reader.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 915. Ap. 18, ’07. 260w.

  “‘Wild justice’ stands out with almost startling distinctness against
  the pale mediocrity of current magazine fiction.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 485. D. 6, ’06. 190w.

  “All of these three tales, but more especially the first have quite
  unusual vigor and originality. The author’s chief fault is a somewhat
  abrupt manner.”

     + − =Outlook.= 84. 1080. D. 29, ’06. 120w.


=Rideout, Henry Milner.= Siamese cat; il. by Will Grefe. †$1.25.
McClure.

                                                                7–15114.

  A love story in which a Siamese cat and a pigeon-blood ruby figure
  largely. It “swings along at a high speed and there is plenty of
  Asiatic coast atmosphere, of the semi-tourist, semi-native sort. The
  local color, appears veracious with its mixture of bad smells and pink
  mists and ruined temples and calm homicides and pigin English and
  poisonings and stabbings while you wait.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The setting is oriental, and adds not a little to the attractions of
  a light, swift-moving ingenious, and altogether entertaining tale.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 180. O. ’07. ✠

  “This is a book which tempts the reviewer to cast propriety to the
  winds and call it in cold print a thundering good story.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 544. Je. 13, ’07. 380w.

  “It is a merry tale, for all its trifling with human life.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 360. Je. 4, ’07. 280w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.


=Riedl, Frigyes.= History of Hungarian literature. *$1.75. Appleton.

                                                                 7–2035.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1996.

       + =Acad.= 71: 652. D. 29, ’06. 940w.

  “This book with Dr. Reich’s ‘Historical survey of Hungarian
  literature’ covers the subject comprehensively.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 127. My. ’07.

  “An extremely readable volume, exhibiting scholarship without
  pedantry, and resisting the temptation to dwell at too great length
  upon the formative period of the literature.”

     + + =Dial.= 42: 115. E. 16, ’07. 320w.

  “This is a remarkable book, as it is the first history of Hungarian
  literature in the English language.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 635. S. 12, ’07. 710w.

       + =Nation.= 84: 386. Ap. 25, ’07. 330w.

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 402. Mr. 30, ’07. 300w.


=Riemer, J.= Shaft-sinking in difficult cases; tr. from the Germ. by J.
W. Brough. *$3.50. Lippincott.

  “The volume is confined to a description of means that have to be
  resorted to when ordinary methods of sinking cannot be applied on
  account of excessive influx of water, the means described being shaft
  sinking by hand, boring shafts, the freezing method of sinking, and
  the sinking-drum method.” (Nature.) “The book is divided into four
  main sections, devoted respectively to (1) Shaft sinking by hand, (2)
  Shaft sinking by boring, (3) The freezing method, and (4) The sinking
  drum process. Concrete examples are given of the application of each
  method. The folding plates in the back of the book amply illustrate
  the constructive details involved.” (Engin. N.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Engin. N.= 58. 178. Ag. 15, ’07. 180w.

  “It is not a book for elementary students, but one that deserves the
  careful study of advanced students and of experienced engineers. The
  translation has been carefully made.”

     + + =Nature.= 76: 291. Jl. 25, ’07. 380w.


=Ries, Heinrich.= Clays, their occurrence, properties, and uses, with
especial reference to those of the United States. *$5. Wiley.

                                                                6–37212.

  “The author treats his subject under the following heads:—The origin
  of clay, chemical properties, physical properties, kinds of clay,
  methods of mining and manufacture, distribution of clay in the United
  States, Fuller’s earth.”—Nature.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The only work summarizing the scattered literature on American
  clays.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 171. O. ’07.

  “Notwithstanding defects in matter and manner, Dr. Ries has rendered a
  distinct service to ceramics in producing this work. It more nearly
  meets the general need than any other English book in the field, and
  will doubtless awaken in many aspiring minds an enthusiasm to know
  more than the book pretends to tell, and will thus lead to research
  and scholarship, which has so far groped in vain for lack of a guide.”
  Edward Orton, jr.

     + − =Engin. N.= 57: 437. Ap. 18, ’07. 1380w.

         =J. Geol.= 14: 459. Ag. ’06. 230w.

  “This book is very well produced and free from slips.”

       + =Nature.= 75: 411. Mr. 14, ’07. 460w.

  “The most comprehensive and evenly balanced, if not the only,
  presentation of the subject as a whole that we have.” Eugene A. Smith.

     + + =Science=, n. s. 25: 999. Je. 28, ’07. 1370w.


=Riley, James Whitcomb.= Morning. $1.25. Bobbs.

                                                                7–26127.

  The keynote of this latest group of Riley poems is struck in the
  following:

                     “Let us see as we have seen—
                     Where all paths are dewy-green,
                     And all human-kind are kin—
                     Let us be as we have been.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is doubtful if his admirers will find in it quite the charm of his
  earlier work.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

       + =Putnam’s.= 3: 363. D. ’07. 200w.


=Riley, James Whitcomb.= While the heart beats young. $2.50. Bobbs.

                                                                6–36414.

  Under this title are included “all the best of Mr. Riley’s
  child-verses, with many pictures in color by Ethel Franklin
  Betts.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

     + − =Dial.= 41: 398. D. 1, ’06. 130w.

  “Riley still makes the same heart-felt appeal to the people that he
  did more than a quarter of a century ago.”

       + =Ind.= 61: 1402. D. 13, ’06. 90w.


=Ripley, William Z.= Railway problems: a collection of reprints with
maps and introd. $2.25. Ginn.

                                                                 7–6187.

  Uniform with “Selections and documents in economics.” While the book
  is primarily intended to serve as a college text in the economics of
  transportation, it also aims to offer in convenient form for the
  general reader and student of American public questions authoritative
  information upon this important economic and political question.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Of use to the interested public, the student, the college instructor,
  and the debator.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 127. My. ’07. S.

  “Is by far the best compendium of papers on railway transportation
  that has yet been made.” Emory R. Johnson.

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 616. N. ’07. 460w.

  “The book is invaluable for college work, and to all who would take up
  the history of American railways.” Ralph Albertson.

       + =Arena.= 38: 219. Ag. ’07. 330w.

  “We can very heartily commend this book to anyone desiring to make a
  study of the economic relations of the railways to the public.”

       + =Engin. N.= 58: 77. Jl. 18, ’07. 520w.

  “Professor Ripley makes it easy for the student to get a view of the
  more important of our railway problems.” William Hill.

       + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 435. Jl. ’07. 320w.

  “One of the great advantages of the material presented in this volume
  for pedagogical purposes is that it deals so largely with debatable
  questions. With its aid there should be no difficulty in making
  college courses on railway problems interesting as well as
  profitable.”

       + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 559. S. ’07. 210w.

  “Has been edited with great care. The book fully meets the aim of the
  editor and is all that can be desired.” Albert I. Frye.

     + + =Technical Literature.= 1: 269. Je. ’07. 1050w.


=Ristori, Adelaide.= Memoirs and artistic studies of Adelaide Ristori;
rendered into English by G. Mantellini. **$2.50. Doubleday.

                                                                7–26130.

  “Besides the biographical matter furnished by Signor Ventura, the
  present book of memoirs consists of two parts: in the first, Madame
  Ristori gives her reminiscences of her stage career, commencing with
  her first appearance before the footlights at the age of two months,
  and extending over sixty-three years to her farewell performance,
  which was given twenty-two years ago at the New York Academy of music
  in a memorable production of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth,’ Edwin Booth
  taking the title-role on that occasion. The second part of her Memoirs
  is devoted to an analysis of six of the principal parts in her
  répertoire: Schiller’s ‘Mary Stuart,’ Giacometti’s ‘Queen Elizabeth,’
  Shakespeare’s ‘Lady Macbeth,’ Legouve’s ‘Medea,’ Alfieri’s ‘Myrrha,’
  and Racine’s ‘Phaedra.’”—Lit. D.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3:171. O. ’07. S.

  “To the already published lives of Adelaide Ristori this new edition
  of her memoirs, with its appended letters coming down nearly to the
  date of her death, is a useful supplement. But there is still room for
  a final, full, and critical account of the remarkable actress,
  prepared with far more care than the volume under review.” Percy F.
  Bicknell.

     + − =Dial.= 43: 160. S. 16, ’07. 1770w.

  “Her autobiography has not literary quality, and it is marred in the
  translation by a faulty English that editing might, it would seem,
  easily have bettered.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 1003. O. 24. ’07. 210w.

     + + =Lit. D.= 35: 452. S. 28, ’07. 1200w.

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 917. D. 14, ’07. 100w.

  “Not only is the arrangement of the matter slovenly ... but the
  English translation supplied by Signor G. Mantellini reflects but
  little credit upon the original composition.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 239. S. 12, ’07. 1000w.

  “The work of the translator is utterly inadequate. His mistakes, due
  to a very evident lack of familiarity with the conventions and idioms
  of the English language, are sometimes ludicrous, sometimes annoying,
  sometimes obscuring; and many of them would never have passed even a
  moderately good proof-reader, who was compelled to wade through the
  ridiculous pi of commas strewn thicker than Vallombrosan leaves.” Anne
  Peacock.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 537. S. 7, ’07. 1400w.

  “The story of her life is here told in a simple and informal way,
  without boasting, but with intelligent appreciation of men and
  things.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 132. S. 21, ’07. 200w.

         =R. of Rs.= 36: 512. O. ’07. 130w.


=Ritchie, Rev. Arthur.= Spiritual studies in St. Luke’s gospel. 2v. *$5.
Young ch.

                                                                6–39459.

  “The general character of these volumes is homiletical. and their aim
  is to feed the altar flame of the consecrated heart.” (Outlook.) “Dr.
  Ritchie has arranged his commentary in short sections, and divided
  each study into an exposition and a series of three ‘thoughts,’ thus
  adapting his work to quick reference and ready comprehension.”
  (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Nation.= 83: 370. N. 1, ’06. 170w.

         =Outlook.= 84: 633. N. 10, ’06. 120w.


=Rivers, W. H. R.= Todas; with il., map and chronological tables.
*$6.50. Macmillan.

                                                                7–18149.

  The author says that his book is not merely a record of the customs
  and beliefs of a people who amount to fewer than a thousand
  individuals all told, but is also a demonstration of anthropological
  method. These people occupy the well-watered plateau of the Nilgiri
  hills in Southern India, and their life, character, customs,
  ceremonials and factors upon which their social organization rests are
  informingly discussed.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A work as laborious as it is original.”

     + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 551. N. 3. 1350w.

  “An exhaustive study.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 317. My. 16, ’07. 360w.

  “As an example of scientific method, this is the best socio-religious
  monograph of a special community yet published.” A. C. Haddon.

     + + =Hibbert J.= 5: 680. Ap. ’07. 1560w.

     + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 406. D. 7, ’06. 960w.

  “An admirable study of savage life.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 33. Ja. 10, ’07. 180w.

  “Thanks to Dr. Rivers’s energy and care we have a complete and
  scientific account of one of the most significant phenomena in the
  history of that varied organism, religion. A monument of industry and
  care, not without insight, and the results of comparative study, and
  is an invaluable record of which Cambridge and the new anthropology
  may be proud.” A. E. Crawley.

     + + =Nature.= 75: 462. Mr. 14, ’07. 960w.

  “Mr. Rivers’ careful monograph will thus win and retain a central
  place, that between the preliminary and more or less amateurish
  anthropological observers whose works he practically supersedes, and
  the deeper interpretation for which he does so much to prepare.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 103: 113. Ja. 26, ’07. 1380w.

  “Mr. Rivers’s learned book will remain the chief authority on the
  interesting race with which he deals.”

     + + =Spec.= 98: sup. 120. Ja. 26, ’07. 300w.


=Rives, Hallie Erminie.= Satan Sanderson. †$1.50. Bobbs.

                                                                7–26018.

  Plot and action abound in this story of confused identity. In his
  college days, only four years past, the Reverend Harry Sanderson was
  known to his fellows as Satan Sanderson. There crosses his path one
  day an old associate, Hugh Stires, the degenerate son of St. James’
  richest parishioner, and so closely resembling Sanderson as to cause
  all the trouble that ensues. The ghosts of the past appear, but are
  downed by the invincible might of the young rector. The degenerate
  weds the woman Sanderson loves, proves unworthy of her, and throws
  himself upon Sanderson’s mercy, and the latter in attempting to save
  him meets with an accident that robs him of his memory. The climax and
  the fall grow out of the confusion of identity that follows, and a
  ne’er-do-well’s one impulse of manhood.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The thrills follow thick and fast as in melodrama by Theodore Kremer.
  They follow in good sharp English, moreover, with only occasional
  tiptoe reaches into preciosity.”

     + − =Lit. D.= 35: 656. N. 2, ’07. 590w.

  “Miss Rives writes well, though without much restraint upon her native
  luxuriance of expression, and with none whatever upon her
  imagination.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 512. Ag. 24, ’07. 960w.


=Rix, Herbert.= Tent and Testament; a camping tour in Palestine with
some notes on Scripture sites. *$2.50. Scribner.

                                                                7–15906.

  “This record of a camping tour in Palestine is from the hand of a
  scholarly and critical traveler.... Throughout a route which lay in
  part aside from the common track of tourists his interest in verifying
  Biblical sites and Biblical allusions fully justifies the title of his
  record.... The prolonged discussions required by controverted
  questions as to Nazareth, Bethlehem, Capernaum, and other localities
  are set off into appendices ... and the whole is indexed and
  illustrated.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A thoughtful, well-written, even learned work, far from the vain
  outpouring of the tourist. The narrative, though heavily charged with
  information, is wonderfully unembarrassed: and the word-pictures which
  abound are true to life.... We are sorry that Mr. Rix should have left
  so much perishable matter [Protestant theories with regard to holy
  places] in a work which has permanent interest.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 351. Mr. 23. 150w.

       + =Ind.= 62: 1474. Je. 20, ’07. 70w.

  “The narrative is sufficiently enlivened with incident and anecdote to
  give it continuous interest.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 282. F. 2, ’07. 110w.

  “His narrative of travel is that of an intelligent and well-informed
  traveller who went without prepossessions and was both able and
  willing to weigh evidence. His observations were careful. Now and then
  he is able to correct even so great an authority in Palestinian
  topography as Dr. George Smith.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 94. Ja. 19, ’07. 300w.


=Roach, Abby Meguire.= Some successful marriages. †$1.25. Harper.

                                                                6–37923.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The author is evidently a close observer of human nature and a clever
  analyst.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 352. Mr. 22. 180w.


=Roberts, Charles George Douglas.= Haunters of the silences. $2. Page.

                                                                7–18302.

  In the course of these eighteen short stories of the wild, Mr. Roberts
  not only introduces us to types of animal life in the earth’s silent
  places but takes us down into the depths of the sea to meet the orca,
  the shark, the narwhal, and the ocean cuttlefish.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is very well worth buying and keeping for the illustrations
  alone, and again it is well worth buying and keeping even had it no
  illustrations. It will be a world dull of appreciation which does not
  recognize great qualities in this volume.”

       + =Acad.= 73: 106. N. 9. ’07. 620w.

  “Charming stories of creatures of the air, the deep sea, of the
  northern forests and silent wastes.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 180. O. ’07. ✠

  “The book is full of good reading, and it is well written.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 587. N. 9. 270w.

  “It has remained for Mr. Roberts to crystallise into a series of brief
  and vibrant character-studies the really salient features of the
  horizonless life of the outer worlds.” Thomas Walsh.

     + + =Bookm.= 25: 305. My. ’07. 270w.

  “For this large-minded fairness, as well as for other reasons, the
  book belongs to the small but fortunately growing class of the best
  nature story-books.” May Estelle Cook.

     + + =Dial.= 42: 369. Je. 16. ’07. 840w.

  “The stories are said to be in a line with accurate natural history.
  However, it is not concerning questions of observed facts so much as
  the interpretations that scientific men will have a quarrel with the
  author of this and with those of similar books.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 1001. O. 24, ’07. 350w.

  “It is the most ambitious work of the kind that Mr. Roberts has yet
  written, and deserves to be placed in the first rank of nature books.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 34: 962. Je. 15, ’07. 400w.

       + =Nation.= 84: 591. Je. 27, ’07. 300w.

  “Of these nature writers, as they have come to be called, Mr. C. G. D.
  Roberts ... is far the most charming, the most literary, the most
  interesting. As for the illustrations by Mr. Bull, they merit an
  article in themselves. It is difficult to see how they could be more
  full both of imagination and accuracy.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 361. Je. 8, ’07. 1610w.

  “He writes of his subjects with sympathy and imagination, while his
  descriptions of their ways and hunts are scientifically exact.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.

  “He talks about wild life from the standpoint of a man who knows it
  well and is also a writer of refinement and of literary instinct.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 478. Je. 29, ’07. 100w.


=Roberts, Charles George Douglas.= Heart that knows. $1.50. Page.

                                                                6–30929.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 110. Ja. ’07. 440w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 128. Ja. ’07. 40w.


=Roberts, Charles George Douglas.= In the deep of the snow; il. by
Denman Fink. †50c. Crowell.

                                                                7–21228.

  A short Christmas story of the northern frontier in which a
  stout-hearted father takes a long snow-shoe journey to bring Santa
  Claus to his wilderness cabin.


=Roberts, George Simon.= Historic towns of the Connecticut river valley.
Il. *$3.50. Robson & Adee, Schenectady, N. Y.

                                                                6–24568.

  “The history of each town is given, some anecdotes of some of its
  distinguished sons and their careers told, old houses are described,
  landmarks pointed out, and places of historical interest shown.
  Pictures, too, are given of houses, sites of buildings, etc., and
  there are portraits, views of the town, etc.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The towns are taken up one by one, in an order extending from the
  mouth of the river northward. There is, however, little other order;
  repetitions are frequent, and in the selection of information to be
  included or excluded no clear purpose appears beyond that of
  furnishing entertaining reading matter.”

     + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 434. Ja. ’07. 60w.

  “He writes pleasantly, but he has not written a chronicle, for he has
  written loosely. Names are spelled wrongly, dates are awry, and now
  and again some statement amazes those familiar with the old towns.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 100. Ja. 10, ’07. 240w.

  “Its wealth consists mostly in the assembling of anecdotes, and of
  certain of the vital historical facts appertaining to each of the
  towns. A more analytic index would have greatly relieved the
  congestion of the text, and served to reveal its riches.”

     + − =Nation.= 83: 331. O. 18, ’06. 440w.

  “The volume is entertaining and authoritative.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 515. Ag. 18, ’06. 380w.


=Roberts, Margaret.= Saint Catherine of Siena and her times; by the
author of “Mademoiselle Mori.” *$2.75. Putnam.

                                                                7–10561.

  “St. Catherine, surnamed Benincasa, was born in the year 1348 when
  Siena lay in the grip of the black death, the daughter of a well-to-do
  citizen, a dyer by trade. She grew to be the peacemaker of Italy and
  the revered friend of popes and princes. The present narrative of her
  life, without being remarkable in any special way, gives a measurably
  adequate picture, as biographical pictures go, of this remarkable
  woman.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We have already devoted a considerable amount of space to this
  inaccurate book only because it is about the worst specimen of its
  class which we have seen.”

   − − − =Acad.= 72: 32. Ja. 12, ’07. 1900w.

  “An excellent life of Saint Catherine written in a tone as far removed
  from blind enthusiasm as from faint-hearted apology.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 178. Ag. 17. 890w.

  “Her pages present no evidence of her right to undertake the serious
  task in question; rather they give us reason to think that neither the
  faculty of clearly and logically presenting facts, nor the power of
  sympathetically appreciating Catherine Benincasa, has been granted to
  the saint’s latest biographer.”

       − =Cath. World.= 86: 254. N. ’07. 100w.

  “Miss Roberts ... brings a large store of knowledge and no small
  literary skill to her congenial task.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 1416. Je. 13, ’07. 160w.

  “The way in which this new ‘Life’ of her absorbs one, seeming to
  transmit her force and charm, is the best proof of the author’s
  excellence. It would, indeed, be hard to find an historical biography
  better done.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 65. Mr. 1, ’07. 630w.

  “Readable, vivacious life. References to volume and page of the works
  quoted are rarely given and, on the whole, one is forced to the
  conclusion that the historian’s well-documented life of St. Catherine
  is yet to be published. Throughout the book there are evidences of
  careless proof-reading.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 224. Mr. 7, ’07. 800w.

  “The book, in short, is more interesting than informing. It fails to
  leave a distinct impression of St. Catherine.”

     − + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 10. Ja. 5, ’07. 400w.

     + − =Outlook.= 85: 527. Mr. 2, ’07. 120w.

  Reviewed by A. I. du Pont Coleman.

     + − =Putnam’s.= 1: 629. F. ’07. 630w.

  “For one reason or another, perhaps because of some rather lengthy
  sentences, the present book has not quite the romantic—one might
  almost say the dashing—interest of others on the subject. Still, the
  book given to us by the well-known and accomplished author of
  ‘Mademoiselle Mori’ has very great merits of its own, and it will be
  read with interest by all who love the Italy of the fourteenth
  century.”

       + =Spec.= 98: sup. 121. Ja. 26, ’07. 230w.


=Roberts, Morley.= Flying Cloud: a story of the sea. $1.50. Page.

                                                                7–15115.

  Young Jack, the greenhorn, at the opening of this tale leaves his
  school and his angry uncle and embarks upon the Flying Cloud to seek
  his fortune in Australia. But neither school nor uncle could have
  given him the training he received from the brown men of the crew, the
  two brave mates, the old Malay bo’s’n, and the captain, the victim of
  opium. It is a thrilling tale, the story of how Jack learned the ways
  of the sea and the seamen.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We advise Mr. Roberts to let the sea alone for a while; he will only
  anger her by his florid compliments, and she has already a superfluity
  of verbose admirers. He can do better than this, and he might do
  excellent work if he were content to think a little more and write a
  great deal less.”

       − =Acad.= 72: 394. Ap. 20, ’07. 260w.

  “As story pure and simple has faults. When warmed to his work, he
  throws aside all that is pretentious and mannered, sloughs his
  colloquialism as a writer, and deals in sound, moving, graphic
  English.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 535. My. 4. 180w.

  “If the reader can once get over the rhapsodical opening chapters of
  this very good tale of the sea, he is probably in no danger of
  abandoning the gallant Flying Cloud.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 37. Jl. 11, ’07. 150w.

  “This new marine tale by Mr. Morley Roberts has the tang of authentic
  brine and the swift pulse of life in it.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 268. Ap. 27, ’07. 690w.

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 593. My. 11, ’07. 200w.


=Roberts, Morley.= Painted Rock, tales and narratives of Painted Rock,
South Panhandle, Texas, told by Charlie Baker, late of that city and
also of Snyder, Scurry county. †$1.50. Lippincott.

  A collection of ten short stories dealing with the citizens of Painted
  Rock, their “histories and their affairs.” There is a good deal of
  bloodthirsty revenge portrayed, and life seems to be cheap. The
  realism and its primitive setting will no doubt prove fascinating to
  people who look for the kernel of humanity amongst the waste of
  savagery.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Roberts’s intimate knowledge of Texas and its people enables him
  to reproduce both the atmosphere and the personalities of that strange
  country.”

       + =Acad.= 72: 296. Mr. 23, ’07. 290w.

  “This sort of record will ... always be interesting to English
  readers.”

       + =Ath.= 1907. 1: 351. Mr. 23. 280w.

  “Mr. Roberts seems to have caught most admirably the spirit of the
  southwest, its ethics, its code of manners, and, best of all, its
  inimitable breeziness of speech.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

       + =Bookm.= 25: 602. Ag. ’07. 670w.

  “The stories (of the familiar Alfred Henry Lewis stuff) in the present
  volume seem hardly up to Mr. Roberts’s mark.”

     − + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 393. Je. 15, ’07. 430w.


=Roberts, Theodore.= Red feathers. $1.50. Page.

                                                                7–26602.

  A story of the Island of Newfoundland before it had a name, of the
  days when chiefs and their warriors made prayers to the sun, the
  winds, the frost and the stars, when magicians were abroad in the
  land, evil as well as good ones, practicing their witchery to
  terrorize or to bless their tribes.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Roberts who has much real knowledge of Indian lore, tells his
  story in a delightful way that will please both little people and
  adults.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 90w.

         =Outlook.= 87: 451. O. 26, ’07. 90w.


* =Roberts, William.= Sir William Beechey. (Library of art.) *$2.
Scribner.

                                                                W 7–140.

  The honesty of the work of Beechey is emphasized in this study. “The
  task of tracing out the identity of Beechey’s sitters, which included
  most of the celebrities of his time has been pursued by Mr. Roberts
  with most patient industry and he has unearthed a mass of information
  of great value to future biographers. He sifts out carefully different
  versions of the same period of the artist’s life, and gives the
  evidence in their favour without insisting on the acceptance of one or
  the other.” (Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book was well worth publishing for its information not only about
  Beechey but about many of his distinguished contemporaries.”

       + =Acad.= 72: 602. Je. 22, ’07. 220w.

  “This expanded catalog of the work of that rather commonplace
  portraitist is both commonplace and dull.”

       − =Ind.= 63: 1176. N. 14, ’07. 120w.

  “Mr. Roberts’s monograph is expository rather than critical, and
  particular interest attaches to the chapter of forty pages in which he
  gives a series of extracts from Beechey’s account books.”

       + =Int. Studio.= 32: 85. Jl. ’07. 140w.


=Robertson, Alexander.= Discourses on the history, art and customs of
Venice. *$3. Scribner.

  A group of discourses which contain interesting information as to the
  religion of the early Venetians. The volume “is remarkable for two
  things—its seventy-three half tones reproduced from some of the most
  attractive photographs that we have yet seen of modern Venice and the
  attempt of the author to read into Venetian monuments Presbyterian
  texts as to their inspiration, building, and perpetuation.” (N. Y.
  Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

     + − =Nation.= 84: 565. Je. 20, ’07. 130w.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 294. My. 1, ’07. 520w.

       + =Outlook.= 86: 524. Jl. 6, ’07. 120w.


* =Robertson, Archibald Thomas.= Epochs in the life of Jesus: a study of
development and struggle in the Messiah’s work. **$1. Scribner.

                                                                7–35611.

  “These lectures, delivered at a Missouri summer assembly in 1906,
  present in popular form the main facts of Jesus’ life. The writer
  seeks to give ‘a straight-forward constructive discussion of the
  career of Jesus as set forth in the Gospels’ putting the emphasis upon
  the pivotal points in the movement of Jesus’ ministry, and avoiding
  critical discussion.”—Bib. World.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The point of view is conservative.”

       + =Bib. World.= 30: 480. D. ’07. 60w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 30w.


=Robertson, James Peter.= Personal adventures and anecdotes of an old
officer. **$3.50. Longmans.

  An octogenarian’s reminiscences of deathdealing adventures. In spite
  of the fact that his mother predicted early death unless he reformed,
  Colonel Robertson is hale and hearty at the age of eighty-four. “The
  volume is full of good stories, telling anecdotes, gallant exploits
  and hair-breadth adventures, related in a manner which at once
  fascinates and compels admiration for the old officer and his
  comrades. Like Sir Evelyn Wood, Sir John French, and Sir Henry
  Hildyard, Colonel Robertson was a middy before he took to soldiering,
  and a love for the sea and life afloat bore fruit in many stirring
  episodes in his subsequent career, while to the credit of the seaman’s
  instinct thus early imparted may be placed that readiness of resource
  so frequently exhibited during the vicissitudes of his military
  life.”—Acad.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Our readers will find it as exciting as any adventure story, and
  described with a naturalness and simplicity as delightful as they are
  unusual.”

     + + =Acad.= 72: 36. Ja. 12, ’07. 1730w.

  “An eminently readable and entertaining book.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 287. Mr. 9. 560w.

  “The startling exploits with which the book is packed ... make the
  ordinary sensational novel seem tame in comparison.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 548. Ap. 6, ’07. 450w.

  “Something exciting, of one sort or another, happens in nearly every
  paragraph. And it is all told with a naive sort of charm, in blunt,
  simple, and straightforward statement, with no more attempt at
  literary embellishment than you would find in a Quartermaster’s
  report. And the narrative gains much in interest and dignity by this
  soldierly simplicity in the telling of it.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 145. Mr. 9, ’07. 540w.

  “Colonel Robertson writes with energy and natural force, and his
  anecdotes are lively as his adventures.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 22. Ja. 5, ’07. 80w.

  “Colonel Robertson leaves us with a most agreeable impression of
  soldierly qualities.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 24. Ja. 5, ’07. 380w.


=Robertson, John Mackinnon.= Short history of free thought, ancient and
modern. 2d ed. 2v. *$6. Putnam.

                                                                 W 7–14.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “On the whole this is an excellent book, and yet it has one
  characteristic—for the author perhaps, an unavoidable one—that may
  limit its usefulness. It is written with a purpose additional to the
  scientific recording and explaining of facts, namely, to spread
  free-thought as above defined.” Carveth Read.

   + + − =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 513. Jl. ’07. 1480w.

  “He writes in narrative style and enlivens his thesis with humor.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 139. Mr. 3, ’06. 90w.

  “It is desirable to caution the unwary reader against accepting too
  confidingly his conclusions; but the skill with which he marshals the
  luminous points in a difficult subject is worthy of all praise.”
  Edward Fuller.

   + + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 127. Ap. ’07. 1200w.


=Robertson, Louis Alexander.= Through painted panes, and other poems.
*$1.50. Robertson.

                                                                7–16926.

  Consists chiefly of poems reprinted from earlier volumes, the plates
  of which were lost at the time of the San Francisco destruction.
  “Resurgam,” a new poem of the collection, grew out of the earthquakes
  ravages, and contains a prophecy for the rearing of earth’s fairest
  city where the old one stood.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Dial.= 43: 94. Ag. 16, ’07. 130w.


=Robins, Elizabeth (C. E. Raimond, pseud.).= The convert. †$1.50.
Macmillan.

                                                                7–35623.

  “The convert” is not merely a novel, it is a strong plea for woman’s
  suffrage. The work of the suffragettes of London with their open air
  meetings in squares and on wharfs crowded with rude and unsympathetic
  mobs is glaringly described until the heroine, if not the reader, is
  drawn over to them and their cause. The heroine, now a splendid woman
  moving in society’s inner circle, was, when a young girl, deceived by
  the man she loved and led to sacrifice the child which was to have
  been hers. Now, with this burning loss in her heart and the cause of
  down trodden woman strong in her soul, she meets the man once more
  and, closing the past forever, gives him to the girl he now loves but
  asks in return his help in the cause, that by helping other women he
  may expiate his guilt toward one.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Extremely clever and well written.”

       + =Acad.= 73: sup. 113. N. 9, ’07. 320w.

  “The play was said to have had its dramatic movements; but the novel
  is one long welter of talk.”

       − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 649. N. 23. 130w.

  “A sterling example of the bigger, worthier sort of book.” Frederic
  Taber Cooper.

     + + =Bookm.= 26: 406. D. ’07. 770w.

         =Ind.= 63: 1437. D. 12, ’07. 230w.

  “With the fullest admiration for much that is good in ‘The convert,’
  we regard it as an opportunity missed, not only by Miss Robins the
  novelist, but by Miss Robins the advocate of female suffrage.”

     − + =Lond. Times.= 6: 317. O. 18, ’07. 660w.

  “It is a strong book in many senses of the word. It is difficult,
  however, to speak of ‘The convert,’ as a novel. The conditions
  portrayed in the book, however, are British rather than American, and
  thus in this country ‘The convert’ will make its appeal to the
  critical judgment more as a work of fiction than as a brilliant and
  possibly accurate account of a burning political question.”

     − + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 727. N. 16, ’07. 1300w.

  “An interesting book written with skill.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 744. N. 30, ’07. 180w.

  “Its weakness as a novel lies in the fact that this girl had such an
  extraordinary past that she is not a typical figure.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. N. 16. ’07. 180w.

  “Successful as a story it is not, and it may be doubted whether is
  makes any serious contribution to the literature of the struggle.”

       − =Spec.= 99: 827. N. 23, ’07. 270w.


=Robinson, Charles Mulford.= Modern civic art. **$3. Putnam.

                                                                3–13052.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

  Reviewed by Lewis E. Palmer.

     + + =Charities.= 17: 509. D. 15, ’06. 1100w.


=Robinson, James Harvey.= Readings in European history. Abridged ed.
*$1.50. Ginn.

                                                                 6–6250.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

       + =Bookm.= 23: 455. Je. ’06. 190w.


=Robinson, William.= English flower garden and home grounds. 10th ed.
*$6. Scribner.

  A volume of nearly a thousand pages which sets forth the design and
  arrangement shown by existing examples of gardens in Great Britain and
  Ireland, followed by a description of the plants, shrubs for the
  open-air garden and their culture.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “To those who love to plan their own pleasure-grounds and make their
  own choice of plants, this is one of the best treatises within reach.
  It is moreover, written in such a pleasing style that it might even
  serve to wean from idleness those who now depute to professional
  gardeners the task of selection and care of plants.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 149. Ag. 15, ’07. 390w.

  “Exhaustive, detailed authoritative, and immensely practical, this
  book is one that has come to be regarded as indispensable to every man
  having such a piece of work in hand.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 210w.


=Robinson, William.= Garden beautiful: home woods, home landscape. *$4.
Scribner.

                                                             Agr 7–1170.

  A book of good counsel particularly for those who own large estates.
  The reader is told how to beautify his grounds, and the treatment of
  both forests and flower gardens is considered in detail. A plant
  dictionary is appended.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author has a final chapter defending his use of common English
  names of plants and trees; and here we must differ with him.” Edith
  Granger.

     + − =Dial.= 42: 367. Je. 16, ’97. 550w.

  “This book is most valuable in England, as it is written for that
  climate, but his careful list of trees with directions where each
  should be planted, his list of shrubs, and the true love of nature
  that runs thru the book will make it one that owners of woodlands or
  large estates will enjoy and find useful in spite of the mustard and
  pepper with which it is highly seasoned.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 500. F. 28, ’07. 420w.

  “Mr. Robinson is an attractive writer, who knows how to put sound
  advice in a telling form.... The only trouble with his books is the
  marked tendency to repetition.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 208. F. 28, ’07. 250w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 160w.

         =Outlook.= 86: 119. My. 18, ’07. 40w.

  “Undoubtedly the best modern book of reference for flower gardens.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 210. F. 16, ’07. 120w.

  “Mr. Robinson’s chapters are full of interesting suggestions about
  landscape gardening. He can give some practical as well as aesthetic
  advice, moreover, to owners of woodlands and parks.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 104: 583. N. 9, ’07. 170w.

         =Spec.= 99: 714. N. 9, ’07. 580w.


=Robinson, William Henry.= Golden palace of Neverland. il. †$1.50.
Dutton.

                                                                7–21222.

  “Mr. Robinson’s story tells of the transporting of a girl and boy to a
  fairy island on a magic raft. Numerous exciting adventures befall them
  there, leading them into the society of gnomes and other interesting
  beings; also into Mother Goose’s domain, where they encounter
  well-known friends, such as Tom the piper’s son, Little Jack Horner,
  etc.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “An excellent new fairy story book.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 80w.

         =Outlook.= 87: 451. O. 26, ’07. 60w.


=Roche, Francis Everard.= Exodus: an epic on liberty. $1.50. Badger, R:
G.

                                                                6–16205.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Is lacking, in poetic elevation, although it has seriousness and
  animation.”

     − + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 75. F. 9, ’07. 90w.


=Rodd, Sir James Rennell.= Princes of Achaia and the chronicles of
Morea: a study of Greece in the middle ages. 2v. *$7. Longmans.

                                                                7–29135.

  What Gibbon would not undertake Sir Rennell Rodd has accomplished,
  namely to give life and form to the “obscure and various dynasties
  that rose and fell on the continent or in the isles.” “There is a
  clear-cut introduction dealing with historical authorities. A readable
  account of the fourth crusade, including the sack of Constantinople
  and the partition of the empire, is given as a sort of prologue....
  The history from the time of Otho of Brunswick to the Greek
  restoration is summarized as an epilogue. There are three appendices,
  the third of which contains helpful genealogical tables; also a
  map ... and an index.” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It may safely be said that the volumes under notice are valuable for
  the parts relating to the Morea though they show traces of haste
  elsewhere. If the author could find time to cut the two volumes down
  to one, omitting such parts as have no immediate connection with his
  subject and revising the rest, his book would be improved and have a
  distinctly greater historical value.” Edwin Pears.

     + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 130. O. ’07. 1710w.

  “It is a conscientious and critical work. The author does not strain
  after effects, though he is fully alive to the interest of his
  subject.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 375. Mr. 30. 960w.

  “Our author has spared no effort to reach available sources, or to
  make his results perfectly clear. The style is simple and direct.” F.
  B. R. Hellems.

       + =Dial.= 42: 306. My. 16, ’07. 2850w.

  “Sir Rennell Rodd possesses almost every qualification for writing the
  history of Frankish Greece.” W. Miller.

   + + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 570. Jl. ’07. 1060w.

  “Though this history of medieval Achaia has certain limitations which
  the specialist will detect, it is based on sound and large
  foundations.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 82. Mr. 15, ’07. 1080w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 342. My. 25, ’07. 380w.

  “As a narrative his work is not likely to be superseded. Unfortunately
  the most interesting part of the book comes first.”

   + + − =Sat. R.= 103: 334. Mr. 16, ’07. 1910w.

  “A coherent narrative such as has not been offered to us before in
  English, though we do not forget Finlay.”

     + + =Spec.= 98: 371. Mr. 9, ’07. 1600w.

     + + =Yale R.= 16: 224. Ag. ’07. 420w.


=Rodocanachi, Emmanuel.= Roman capitol in ancient and modern times. *$1.
Dutton.

                                                                7–29082.

  In which are considered the citadel, the temples, the senatorial
  palace, the palace of the conservators and the museum. “The first part
  tells the story from the foundation of the city down to the sixth
  century. At this time a period of darkness set in. The place was
  practically forgotten. Then in the eleventh century it emerged again
  into light. The second part tells the story of the locality as it was
  in the period of the revival.” (Spec.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It must be admitted that the task of translating the mass of
  ill-digested material of which the book consists cannot have been
  otherwise than tiresome, but the shortcomings of the translation make
  the work in its present form still more tiresome to read.”

       − =Acad.= 72: 189. F. 23, ’07. 510w.

  “The translation is faithful, but not attractive. We notice a good
  many misprints. The shortcomings of the book do not seriously
  interfere with its general interest and usefulness.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 546. My. 4. 500w.

  “It is, of course, scholarly and scientific—too much so, perhaps, for
  the traveler who has neither time nor inclination for a minute
  examination of the antiquities, buildings and ruins of the famous
  hill; for such as have, the volume cannot be excelled.”

   + + − =Ind.= 62: 1357. Je. 6, ’07. 90w.

  “At first sight the book, with its multitudinous footnotes and wealth
  of historical erudition, may appear to be more acceptable by the
  student than by the ordinary reader. For the special kind of reader
  mentioned as being bodily on the capitol it must be invaluable, being
  a guide book informed with this peculiar charm, that, although no
  information is omitted which the pilgrim might be expected to possess
  already, the style conveys a delicate compliment in being far above
  the comprehension of the vulgar ignoramus.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 169. Mr. 23, ’07. 1210w.

       + =Spec.= 97: 544. O. 13, ’06. 80w.


=Roe, Fred.= Old oak furniture. **$3. McClurg.

  The author says “If any apology is needed for what may be termed old
  oak worship, I may say that the final aim of art is—or ought to
  be—beauty, and that the cult of old oak is really only one aspect of
  the pursuit of beauty.” He discusses English archaic rarities, Gothic
  styles of medieval time, styles of the renaissance and after, oaken
  chairs and stools before the renaissance, coffers and chests,
  cupboards and sideboards, bedsteads and cradles, panelling and filled
  furniture, furniture with hiding-places, vicissitudes of old
  furniture, and forgeries in old oak.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Dial.= 43: 384. D. 1, ’07. 260w.

  “Written rather for the inexperienced than the expert, his book will
  be an excellent aid to the neophyte; but it also contains much new
  information of value even to the accomplished antiquarian.”

       + =Int. Studio.= 27: 279. Ja. ’06. 130w.


=Rogers, Arthur Kenyon.= Religious conception of the world; an essay in
constructive philosophy. **$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                 7–5078.

  “In the opening lines of his introduction the author tells us that he
  set out to defend a view of the world which is frankly religious and
  theistic.... With grace and skill he discusses the eternal problems of
  philosophy regarding the relation of God and nature, God and man, the
  purely metaphysical question concerning the nature of God. In plain
  language he tries to explain the greatest historical mystery, the
  permission of evil on the part of God. He also dwells at some length
  on the problems of freedom and immortality.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Treats of religion in a logical and constructive manner. Despite the
  abstract nature of the topics, the author uses simple language,
  carefully avoiding the technical expressions of the philosophical
  schools.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 856. Ap. 11, ’07. 820w.

  “An acutely and cautiously reasoned work. It is addressed to earnest
  thinkers, it presumes patient consideration, and may weary those who
  are disinclined to intellectual exercise.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 622. Mr. 16, ’07. 420w.

  “Perhaps the strongest chapters in the book are those devoted to
  theism proper. A less satisfactory part of the book is that dealing
  with the foundations and validity of knowledge.” H. W. Wright.

   + + − =Philos. R.= 16: 555. S. ’07. 700w.


=Rogers, Arthur Kenyon.= Student’s history of philosophy. *$2.
Macmillan.

                                                                7–27624.

  A new edition whose revision includes some corrected errors of fact,
  “a large number of mistakes of judgment,” says the author, “and
  infelicities of expression.” The exposition itself has also been
  rewritten, references have been added in connection with quoted
  passages, and the bibliographies have been brought down to date.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is not in any sense noteworthy and the author’s style is decidedly
  heavy.”

       − =Educ. R.= 34: 535. D. ’07. 70w.

  “Next to the comprehensiveness of the treatment and the clearness of
  the exposition, the most remarkable characteristic of the book is the
  accuracy of the bibliography.”

   + + − =Nation.= 85: 398. O. 31, ’07. 390w.


• =Rogers, Gertrude.= Cobwebs. $1. Badger, R. G.

                                                                7–26605.

  A little book of dainty verse whose silvery texture is enhanced by the
  sunshine of youth, buoyancy and possibility.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A pale distillation of old poetic symbols.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 36. Jl. 11, ’07. 110w.


=Rogers, Robert Cameron.= Rosary and other poems. **$1.25. Lane.

                                                                6–32395.

  Four classical idyls in blank verse.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Are distinctly out of the common. But the talent of Mr. Rogers is for
  the most part lyrical, and a very charming talent it is.” Wm. M.
  Payne.

       + =Dial.= 41: 205. O. 1, ’06. 390w.

  “With all its variety and intelligence, the volume just misses
  distinction, chiefly, we should guess, because of a certain limitation
  of sentiment and because the life in it has been strained through too
  many books.”

     + − =Nation.= 83: 440. N. 22, ’07. 210w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 254. F. ’07. 30w.


=Roller, Frank W.= Electric and magnetic measurements and measuring
instruments. *$3.50. McGraw pub.

                                                                 7–6710.

  “A summary of the instruments and methods used or proposed for all
  kinds of measurements of electrical and magnetic quantities.”—Engin.
  N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is not a treatise that will be useful to a student, unless
  accompanied by very careful directions from a competent instructor.
  The descriptions appear to be accurate and a vast amount of
  information is rendered accessible.” Henry H. Morris.

     + − =Engin. N.= 57: 439. Ap. 18, ’07. 660w.


=Rollins, Frank West.= What can a young man do? **$1.50. Little.

                                                                7–32570.

  Over fifty possible careers are here sketched for the benefit of the
  young man with his life work before him. There are chapters upon the
  professions, various branches of business, politics, consular service,
  the sailor, the actor, the chauffeur, the farmer and many other ways
  of earning a living.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book will be read with interest and profit by the heads of
  families and by their sons who are about to choose their life work.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 711. N. 9. ’07. 170w.


* =Rollins, Montgomery.= Money and investments: a reference book for the
use of those desiring information in the handling of money or the
investment thereof. *$2. Estes.

                                                                7–31980.

  “The object of the book is essentially to furnish to the layman
  information about the simple forms of financial transactions, to
  explain the slang of the stock market, and to guide him in his
  investments. The foreword of 36 pages gives a general review of the
  financial situation with suggestions to investors. The remaining 436
  pages are in the form of an encyclopedia, with headings alphabetically
  arranged.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We have received many letters lately from our subscribers asking us
  to recommend an elementary book of finance. The present volume ...
  seems to fill the bill.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 1437. D. 12, ’07. 270w.

  “Is a workmanlike compilation of little financial essays, cast in
  dictionary form. The book is rather suitable for reference than for
  counsel in action.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 728. N. 16, ’07. 110w.


=Romanes, Ethel (Mrs. George John Romanes).= Story of Port Royal. *$5.
Dutton.

                                                                7–28621.

  “An attempt to give an account of the remarkable religious movement
  known as Port-Royal—which ... in the seventeenth century ... touched
  French life at almost every point.”—Lond. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We cannot commend the style of the writing. The sentences are jerky
  and the paragraphs disjointed. There is a running comment of religious
  and moral sententiousness which is both irritating and tedious. We
  have, however, nothing but praise for Mrs. Romanes’s industry and
  enthusiasm for her subject.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 696. Je. 8. 940w.

  “Sainte-Beuve’s great book, ‘Port Royal,’ is, as every one knows, the
  one supreme work on the subject. No substitute for it exists in
  English, nor can we honestly say that Mrs. Romanes’s book will occupy
  that place. It is written in a rambling, inconclusive style, which
  wanders from subject to subject, from biographical sketches of the
  principal actors in the story to long theological disquisitions and
  back again in a way which is most confusing to the reader.”

     − + =Lond. Times.= 6: 113. Ap. 12, ’07. 2000w.

  “It is to be regretted that Mrs. Romanes did not submit her manuscript
  to somebody competent to correct her French.”

     − + =Nation.= 84: 571. Je. 20, ’07. 550w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 252. Ap. 20, ’07. 140w.

  “Perhaps her seemingly unnecessary fullness of detail is essential to
  give a complete picture, but occasionally one feels that the text
  might have been condensed. This, however, if it be a blemish, is
  certainly a minor one. Her volume is to be heartily commended to all
  students of religious development.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 86: 342. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.

  “Mrs. Romanes has dealt with it sympathetically, if occasionally her
  observations are rather English and conventional.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 104: 273. Ag. 31, ’07. 690w.


=Rook, Clarence.= Switzerland, the country and its people; painted by
Effie Jardine. *$6. Putnam.

                                                                7–26626.

  Mr. Rook “gives us neither an arid chronological history nor a
  descriptive guide-book, but takes up chapter by chapter for broad
  intelligent treatment such subjects as ‘Swiss patriotism,’ ‘The growth
  of a republic,’ ‘The Swiss government,’ ‘Popular control,’ ‘Winter
  sports,’ ‘The Swiss as engineers.’”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The artist’s little pictures are very much like what one has been
  used to in similar books. She is more successful, to our mind, with
  lowlands and street scenes than with the high Alps, and with summer
  scenes than with winter. Mr. Rook writes in a cheerful journalistic
  style, without more regard for accuracy in details than that style
  tolerates. On the main facts of Swiss history and institutions he is
  usually correct.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 500. Ap. 27. 1260w.

  “We were very much surprised to find Mr. Rook’s part of this book not
  only readable, but interesting, even informing, tho not burdened with
  statistics.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 802. Ap. 4, ’07. 260w.

  “It is one of the most entertaining and instructive of the season’s
  books of travel.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 24: 724. My. 4, ’07. 240w.

  “About the text there is nothing heavy. In a style which is both easy
  and graceful, Mr. Rook introduces his reader to the admirable
  government and fine characteristics of the sturdy Swiss.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 571. Je. 20. ’07. 570w.

  “In several well-considered chapters the government of Switzerland is
  very adequately treated, and there are some suggestive comparisons
  between Swiss methods of government and those of other nations.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 274. Ap. 27, ’07. 310w.

  “With very few exceptions these pictures can be cordially praised.
  Each subject, whether serious or light, is treated in appropriate vein
  and with evidence of knowledge and discrimination.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 85: 814. Ap. 6, ’07. 150w.

  Reviewed by Charlotte Harwood.

       + =Putnam’s.= 2: 444. Jl. ’07. 400w.

  “Mr. Rook is a lively and picturesque writer, and we have never come
  across a more readable account of the rise and progress of the Swiss
  confederation.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 103: 434. Ap. 6, ’07. 250w.

  “A volume which is bound both to please and to profit.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 337. Mr. 2, ’07. 140w.


=Roosevelt, Theodore.= Good hunting in pursuit of big game in the West.
$1. Harper.

                                                                 7–6650.

  These true stories of big-game hunting in the West are written for
  young people, especially for young hunters. The tales are told wholly
  from the sportsman’s point of view and over-sympathetic little readers
  of the modern animal story may not enjoy these triumphant hunts which
  meant death to: the wapiti or round horned elk, a cattle-killing bear,
  a Christmas buck, the timber-wolf, the prong-buck, or the white goat.
  The volume closes with some sound advice upon ranching.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is eminently suited for its purpose, as its tone is sportsmanlike
  and the descriptions are in well-chosen words.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 575. My. 11. 90w.

  “Full of wholesome advice on hunting and ranching.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 1353. Je. 6, ’07. 140w.

  “Spirited papers.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 96. F. 16, ’07. 290w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 639. My. ’07. 90w.


=Roosevelt, Theodore.= Square deal. $1. Allendale press.

                                                                6–36925.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =Ind.= 61: 759. S. 27, ’06. 70w.


=Root, Edward Clary.= Unseen jury: a novel; with il. by Phillipps Ward.
†$1.50. Stokes.

                                                                 7–9546.

  The father of a girl with two lovers is found dead in a stream. All
  evidence points to the guilt of the dissipated lover whose suit had
  been repeatedly rejected by the father. When conviction seems
  imminent, the other lover, a lawyer, takes up the defense, wins the
  case and the free man goes back to the girl only to learn that his
  rival is her choice.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Detective stories involving murder mysteries do not seem likely to
  offer anything agreeably new. But in this respect a pleasant surprise
  awaits the reader of ‘The unseen jury.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.

       + =Bookm.= 25: 286. My. ’07. 440w.

  “The theme is an interesting one, and the author has handled his plot
  fairly well. Mr. Root could also have improved the story not a little
  by judicious condensation. And the manuscript has been edited with
  shocking carelessness.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 303. My. 11, ’07. 310w.


=Root, Elihu.= Citizen’s part in government. (Yale lectures on the
responsibilities of citizenship.) **$1. Scribner.

                                                                7–22700.

  “Secretary Root discusses (1) the task inherited or assumed by members
  of the governing body in a democracy; (2) the function of political
  parties as agencies of the governing body; (3) the duties of the
  citizens as a member of a political party; and (4) the grounds for
  encouragement.”—R. of Rs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a vigorous and stimulating book, well worth addition to Bishop
  Goodsell’s list.” Edward A. Bradley.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 417. Je. 29, ’07. 830w.

  Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.

       + =Putnam’s.= 3: 226. N. ’07. 310w.

  “Mr. Root’s sensible and well-proportioned treatment of these topics
  is precisely what is needed by the young American who aspires to have
  a real part in making the political conditions around him better.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 36: 382. S. ’07. 290w.


=Root, Jean Christie (Mrs. J. H. Root).= Does God comfort? by one who
has greatly needed to know. **30c. Crowell.

                                                                6–18575.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =Arena.= 37: 333. Mr. ’07. 60w.


=Root, Robert Kilburn.= Poetry of Chaucer: a guide to its study and
appreciation. **$1.50. Houghton.

                                                                6–34823.

  The author’s purpose has been “to put his readers in possession of the
  most recent results of Chaucerian research, which are at present
  widely scattered in learned periodicals. The scanty facts that have
  been unearthed about Chaucer’s biography, the chronology of his works,
  the sources to which he was indebted for his material—for, like
  Shakespeare and Molière, Chaucer took his own wherever he found it—and
  the social conditions and surroundings amid which and for which the
  poet wrote are amply set forth.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 104. Ap. ’07.

  “This interesting study avoids both the iridescent foam of clever but
  shallow appreciation and the dead calm of unanimated learning.”

     + + =Dial.= 42: 46. Ja. 16, ’07. 300w.

  “Especially to be commended is his conservatism in rejecting the
  ingenious speculations which have recently aimed at revolutionizing
  the generally accepted chronology of Chaucer’s poems. Like most books
  that issue from American universities, it is perhaps too didactic in
  aim, and the shadow of orthodoxy at times hangs a little heavily over
  its pages.”

     + − =Nation.= 83: 370. N. 1, ’06. 390w.

  “It is written with learning and from a sane and sympathetic point of
  view.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 737. N. 10, ’06. 940w.


=Ropes, James Hardy.= Apostolic age in the light of modern criticism.
**$1.50. Scribner.

                                                                6–14529.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The book is constructive in method, conservative in treatment, clear
  in style. An excellent supplement to Kent’s ‘Origin and permanent
  value of the Old Testament.’”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 128. My. ’07.

  “The interpretation of the Acts in ... Dr. Ropes’s Apostolic age ...
  is a living and breathing matter, a real thing, seeking honestly and
  earnestly for truth, and bringing us the truth thus found with all
  frank generosity.” George Hodges.

       + =Atlan.= 99: 565. Ap. ’07. 210w.

  “The general tendency of the book is distinctly orthodox. It is from
  such contributions to the subject that real progress may be hoped.”

       + =Spec.= 97: 24. Jl. 7. ’06. 90w.


=Rose, Arthur Richard.= Common sense hell. **$1. Dillingham.

                                                                 6–6895.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 196. Mr. 31, ’06. 190w.


* =Rose, Elise Whitlock.= Cathedrals and cloisters of midland France;
il. by Vida Hunt Francis. 2v. **$5. Putnam.

  “Together the volumes contain four photogravures and two hundred
  half-tone illustrations picturing the churches of central France,
  whose architecture is differentiated from that to the north and south
  by the dominance of the Byzantine influence. Miss Rose has already
  written of the south of France cathedrals; and the new books are bound
  uniformly with the others, and follow a similar method.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Architectural beauty, historical associations, and human interest are
  all considered, and accuracy rather than popularity is the author’s
  aim.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 425. D. 16, ’07. 110w.

         =Nation.= 85: 543. D. 12, ’07. 60w.

  “The book is almost as pleasant to read as to look at, being quite
  competent on the technical side and betraying the same artistic
  sensibility in text as in pictures.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 828. D. 14, ’07. 560w.


=Rose, Elise W.= Cathedrals and cloisters of the south of France: with
il. from original photographs by Vida H. Francis. 2v. **$5. Putnam.

                                                                6–45154.

  In which are arrayed artistic and historic charms of the cathedral and
  monasteries chiefly of Provence, Languedoc and Gascony. “This work
  aims to allure the curious traveller. It is not technical, and its
  historical side is not very systematic. Yet the author preserves a
  just sense of proportion.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 71. Mr. ’07.

  “Only those who know intimately the south of France can appreciate the
  amount of trouble that has gone to the making of this book, and the
  excellence of the photographs by which it is illustrated.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 488. O. 19. 170w.

  “She writes impersonally but informally, employs few technicalities,
  and describes and criticises in a general way rather than in detail.
  For the stay-at-home reader also these volumes will prove somewhat too
  diffuse to hold his interest.”

     + − =Dial.= 42: 345. Je. 1, ’07. 320w.

  “The author struggles rather helplessly with general historical and
  archaeological questions in the opening pages, and is often uncertain
  and inexpert in the use of language, but manages, nevertheless, with
  the help of many fine illustrations, to convey the charm.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 83. Ja. 24, ’07. 480w.

  “Miss Francis’s work as a photographer is characteristic of technical
  ability, artistic selection of models, and a thorough knowledge of the
  subjects photographed.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 812. D. 1, ’06. 160w.

  “A delightful book. One can hardly imagine a more fascinating sort of
  collaboration.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 94. F. 16, ’07. 330w.

  “The work is more attractive because of its apparent spontaneity of
  production.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 703. N. 24, ’06. 90w.

  “It is evident that loving and conscientious thought and ample time
  have been given to the making of these volumes, which are full of
  interest, architectural, historical and picturesque.” Charlotte
  Harwood.

       + =Putnam’s.= 2: 444. Jl. ’07. 260w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 383. Mr. ’07. 40w.

  “One of the best books we have read for many a day.”

   + + − =Spec.= 98: 620. Ap. 20, ’07. 1520w.


=Rose, John Holland.= Development of the European nations, 1870–1900.
2v. ea. **$2.50. Putnam.

                                                                5–34973.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “As essays, these volumes, apart from certain evidence of haste, would
  hold a high place; as serious history they do not appear, to the
  present writer, at least, to attain to the standard of historical
  writing set by Mr. Rose in his other work, nor indeed that reached by
  other work in the same field.” William E. Lingelbach.

     − + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 485. N. ’06. 760w.


=Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th earl of.= Lord Randolph
Churchill. **$2.25. Harper.

                                                                6–38396.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “By far the most lucid contribution to the political literature of the
  past few years.”

     + + =Acad.= 72: 133. F. 9, ’07. 430w.

  “Costs too much for the amount or value of the material in it.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 14. Ja. ’07.

  “With all deductions made, however, it is a lifelike as well as
  brilliantly attractive portrait that Lord Rosebery has sketched in
  this book.” Edward Clark Marsh.

   + + − =Bookm.= 24: 439. Ja. ’07. 1540w.

  “Is especially valuable for its candid tone and its critical
  judgment.”

     + + =Dial.= 42: 114. F. 16, ’07. 350w.

  “Lord Rosebery’s brilliant style and sparkling epigrams are admirably
  displayed in this study. Lord Rosebery’s book is full of charm, and
  one who begins it will not lay it aside until the end is reached.”

     + + =Educ. R.= 33: 207. F. ’07. 240w.

     + + =Ind.= 62: 499. F. 28, ’07. 770w.

  Reviewed by Gertrude Atherton.

     + + =No. Am.= 184: 87. Ja. 4, ’07. 2030w.

  “A fascinating study, absorbingly interesting from first to last. And
  yet, because of the anomalous attitude of the author toward the
  subject of his essay, it leaves an impression that is decidedly
  unpleasant.” Horatio S. Krans.

     + − =Outlook.= 84: 1077. D. 29, ’06. 750w.

  Reviewed by George Louis Beer.

     + + =Putnam’s.= 1: 762. Mr. ’07. 1380w.


=Rosenberg, E.= Electrical engineering: an elementary text-book; tr. by
W. W. Haldane Gee and Carl Kinzbrunner; authorized ed. rev. and brought
down to date for the American market by E. B. Raymond; new enl. rev. ed.
*$2. Wiley.

                                                                  7–970.

  “The author aims to describe in concise form and in simple
  non-mathematical language the important applications of the electric
  current. The underlying principles were stated and briefly illustrated
  in an easy conversational style, the evident attempt being to write as
  one would have spoken in addressing his audience in person. The scope
  of the book covers the construction and operation of direct and
  alternating current generators and motors, electric lighting and power
  transmission.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The revision has improved the work as a text-book for schools and has
  not made it inaccessible to the general reader, as he can pass over
  these pages without losing the general plan. It covers the same ground
  as ‘Electrical engineering,’ by Slingo and Brooker, and is one of the
  very few books in which the attempt is made to do so much in a small
  space. The general make-up of the volume shows plainly the way in
  which it has been built; in fact, the ‘patching’ is quite evident.”
  Henry H. Norris.

   + + − =Engin. N.= 57: 196. F. 14, ’07. 610w.


* =Rosengarten, Joseph George.= French colonists and exiles in the
United States. **$1. Lippincott.

                                                                7–30856.

  An important undertaking in a field heretofore only partially covered.
  The author has gathered together from the works of recognized
  historians facts about the French colonists and the Huguenots which
  show how much “character and ability they brought to the United
  States.”


=Ross, Denman Waldo.= Theory of pure design: harmony, balance, rhythm.
**$2.50. Houghton.

                                                                7–15335.

  “A notable attempt to show the mathematical origin and structure of
  the plastic arts.... [it] deals principally with harmony, balance and
  rhythm.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The reasoning is clear and in most respects convincing; it would be
  entirely so but for a false note at the outset, in a definition of
  harmony which virtually makes it synonymous with unity and takes no
  note of the accordance of correlations.”

     + − =Dial.= 43: 215. O. 1, ’07. 350w.

  “The impression given by a reading of Professor Ross’s volume is a
  singular one. Each definition seems precise, each paragraph logical,
  and the sequence of ideas seems clear, the argument convincing, yet
  one goes on the end with an increasing dissatisfaction, a growing
  sense that something is wrong.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 506. My. 30, ’07. 2270w.

  “Endless discussion is invited by every point he makes. There is no
  doubt, however, that perusal of his volumes will stimulate the faculty
  of artistic precision in production and criticism.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 300. My. 11, ’07. 450w.


=Ross, Edward Alsworth.= Foundations of sociology. *$1.25. Macmillan.

                                                                5–15556.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

  Reviewed by W. B. Guthrie.

       + =Charities.= 17: 473. D. 15, ’07. 590w.

  “No brief review, however, can do justice to the masterly manner in
  which most of these topics have been handled. Excellent as the book
  is, one receives the impression that it will hardly serve as the
  foundations of a science. It is rather a collection of carefully
  selected materials for such foundations. But ‘Foundations of
  sociology’ is something more than a scientific treatise. It is a piece
  of literature—and that it is good literature few would deny.” Alvin S.
  Johnson.

   + + − =Educ. R.= 33: 208. F. ’07. 1080w.


* =Ross, Edward Alsworth.= Sin and society: an analysis of latter-day
iniquity; with a letter from President Roosevelt. **$1. Houghton.

                                                                7–36978.

  “Professor Ross’ book is less an arraignment of the dictator-sinner,
  hiding behind corporations, than an exhortation to society in general
  to educate itself to know when our own democracy is outraged, and to
  the individual in particular to spend less time in painting Utopias
  and more in making good the things he has led his fellow men to expect
  of him. The discussion is pragmatistic.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =R. of Rs.= 36: 758. D. ’07. 180w.


=Rossetti, William Michael.= Some reminiscences of William Michael
Rossetti. 2v. *$10. Scribner.

                                                                6–45370.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “It is a wonder that with his vast opportunities Mr. Rossetti did not
  make a more readable book. The trouble is he has not the dramatic
  gift; he has little feeling for portraiture.” James Huneker.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 15. Ja. 12, ’07. 2240w.

  Reviewed by Jeannette L. Gilder.

       + =Putnam’s.= 1: 507. Ja. ’07. 570w.

  “No one can put down these reminiscences without a feeling of
  kindliness and respect for the writer, which in these days of
  ‘revelations’ and disclosures is no small praise.”

       + =Spec.= 98: sup. 117. Ja. 26, ’07. 570w.


* =Round, Douglass.= Date of St. Paul’s epistle to the Galatians. *60c.
Putnam.

  “It is urged that Galatians was written from Antioch before the
  Council at Jerusalem and the second missionary journey, that is about
  49–50 A. D. The argument is especially directed against certain
  elements in Ramsay’s position.”—Bib. World.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Bib. World.= 29: 479. Je. ’07. 30w.

  “We neither assent nor dissent, but welcome the very reasonable and
  moderate tone of the writer.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 379. Mr. 9, ’07. 110w.


Round the world: a series of interesting illustrated articles on a great
variety of subjects. 85c. Benziger.

  =v. 2.= Includes the following chapters: American cut glass, Street
  scenes in different lands, A visit to Mammoth cave, How flax is made,
  The great Arizona desert, Plowing in many lands, A word about Turkey,
  The grape and raisin industry in the United States, The capitol at
  Washington, From Greece to Italy, Cadet life at West Point, and Grain,
  and how it is handled.

  =v. 3.= Includes chapters on the great Eastern question, The West and
  the great petrified forest, In the footsteps of the apostles,
  Revetment work in the United States, Near to Galway town, In the heart
  of the African forest, The “blind” readers of the post office, The
  little republic, A day in the Zoo, The reclamation, service, and
  School-days in Egypt.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Cath. World.= 85: 690. Ag. ’07. 40w. (Review of v. 2.)


=Rowe, Eleanor.= Practical wood-carving: a book for the student, carver,
teacher, designer, and architect. *$3. Lane.

                                                                W 7–124.

  “The implements and woods employed, the various methods of work,
  Gothic, Renaissance, and pierced carving, are treated in successive
  chapters, amply illustrated, concluding with an instructive discussion
  of treatment and design. A useful glossary is appended.”—Int. Studio.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is practical, and the illustrations are beautiful.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 171. O. ’07.

       + =Int. Studio.= 31: 251. My. ’07. 950w.

  “Carries her subject to a still further and more practical, more
  artistic development.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 279. Ap. 27, ’07. 300w.

  “No one who reads this book can help being the wiser, for it is clear
  and practical, and the advice of the letterpress is well illustrated
  by reproductions of old and new work.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 722. My. 4, ’07. 150w.


=Rowntree, Joseph, and Sherwell, Arthur.= Taxation of the liquor trade,
v. 1, *$3.25. Macmillan.

                                                                6–17254.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “It is not too much to say that the result is one of the most
  important books upon the subject ever produced. It is very doubtful
  whether there exists elsewhere, in so convenient form, information
  relative to the systems of taxation by the different states of this
  country.”

   + + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 469. N. ’06. 230w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The book is a mine of information on almost every phase of the
  subject and constitutes a notable addition to the scanty literature
  dealing with this side of taxation.”

     + + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 565. S. ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 1.)


=Ruete, Frau Emilie.= Memoirs of an Arabian princess; tr. by Lionel
Strachey. **$2.50. Doubleday.

                                                                7–29873.

  “The ‘Memoirs,’ originally written, during a period of ill-health, for
  the future perusal of the author’s children, describe with great
  simpleness the Princess of Oman’s childhood in the Sultan’s palace and
  subsequently at the home of one of her brothers. The life of the
  harem, education of children, female fashions, the position of women
  in the East, Arabian suitorship and marriage, social customs,
  Mohammedan beliefs and festivals, medical methods, and the system of
  slavery are set forth from an intimate point of view.”—Lit. D.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 656. N. 2, ’07. 340w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

  “Her book is written in the simplest manner, and with a feeling for
  the value of picturesque and telling detail, and the two together make
  it a vivid picture of a sort of life as distant and as different from
  that of the princess’s American readers as if she had come out of the
  days of Haroun al Raschid.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 687. O. 26, ’07. 330w.

  “A new book containing some interesting intimate revelations of Arab
  life.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 636. N. ’07. 60w.


=Ruggles, John.= Recollections of a Lucknow veteran. *$1.50. Longmans.

                                                                7–29042.

  “This is an interesting and characteristic narrative of the Indian
  mutiny by a Lucknow veteran.... The familiar story is given here with
  many added incidents by a veteran who looked all these things in the
  face, and who retains a keen recollection of them.”—Lit. D.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is fresh and spontaneous, commendably brief and modest, and in
  many ways a model autobiography.”

   + + − =Acad.= 72: 14. Ja. 5, ’07. 360w.

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 594. Ap. 13, ’07. 130w.

       + =Spec.= 98: 58. Ja. 12, ’07. 240w.


=Ruhl, Arthur B.= Break in training, and other athletic stories; il. by
Howard Chandler Christy. $1.25. Outing pub.

                                                                6–43781.

  A reissue of a book first copyrighted in 1900. The present edition
  contains a colored frontispiece by Howard Chandler Christy.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 18. Ja. ’07.

  “They could not have been written before Kipling, but they are none
  the worse for that. We should like to see Kipling beat them. These
  stories are clean and wholesome, yet emphatically manly.”

   + + + =Ind.= 62: 738. Mr. 28, ’07. 290w.

  “It is a clean book and a healthful book. It is not profound, and it
  does not ruffle the waters of psychology. This collection of stories
  is noteworthy for its sincerity.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 141. Mr. 9, ’07. 260w.

  “Mr. Ruhl’s style of writing suits his subjects very well, as a ‘Break
  in training’ pleasantly demonstrates.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 768. Je. ’07. 50w.


=Russel, Mrs. Florence Kimball.= A woman’s journey through the
Philippines on a cable ship that linked together the strange lands seen
en route. $2.50. Page.

                                                                7–23256.

  An interestingly written and fully illustrated book which is chatty
  and informing and characterized by truly feminine observation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Bright and witty travel-talk.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

  “She sprinkles her sprightly narrative with much information, some of
  it intentional and some of it unconscious, about the native character
  and the nature and resources of the islands.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 420w.


=Russell, Charles Edward.= Uprising of the many. **$1.50. Doubleday.

                                                                7–23946.

  Questions are answered here that grow out of “the threat of a moneyed
  autocracy, the passing of wealth, and the power for which wealth
  stands, into the hands of a few.” “These chapters, largely a
  republication of material that has already appeared in Everybody’s
  magazine, form a powerful indictment against the shameless greed of
  ‘vested interests,’ and exhibit our own country as tolerating,
  constitutionally, legally, and by tacit consent, some of the most
  outrageous injustices in the history of the world.” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His book is rich in instructive matter.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 256. O. 16, ’07. 270w.

  “Has collected an immense amount of information that is of value to
  the perplexed student of current economic conditions in this country.
  The author’s view is a partizan one and occasionally passes over
  fairly obvious defects in the workings of the system of governmental
  and municipal control and ownership which he describes.”

     + − =Lit. D.= 35: 578. O. 19, ’07. 390w.

  “Altogether while much that he says is really informing, there is so
  much that requires to be read with great critical caution that we can
  hardly commend his work to the otherwise uninstructed reader.”

     − + =Outlook.= 87: 543. N. 9, ’07. 260w.

  “It is a comprehensive survey of the world movement for the
  democratization of industry.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 758. D. ’07. 60w.


=Russell, George William E.= Seeing and hearing. *$2.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–37516.

  “A volume of mixed gossip and reminiscence.... Mr. Russell knows
  English society intimately, and this volume is a sort of chorus
  accompanying it throughout its ‘season’ and on its travels. There are
  five chapters on the pleasures, or pangs of the table; others on
  social changes, purple and fine linen, suburban Sundays, hospitality,
  ostentation, publicity versus reticence, etc.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “On the whole, we like Mr. Russell best when he is touching on his
  earlier reminiscences.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 472. Ap. 20. 450w.

  “In ‘Seeing and hearing’ he still further works the vein opened in the
  two earlier volumes, but leaves the reader a little disposed to query
  whether the vein is not getting worked out.”

     − + =Dial.= 42: 316. My. 16, ’07. 310w.

  “This new book differs from the old in not containing so many
  anecdotes, and in being a trifle more reflective, even pensive at
  times, but the note is much the same.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 476. My. 23, ’07. 160w.

  “His style, less severely academic and chastened than Mr. Benson’s,
  has a charm of its own—the charm of the easy, flowing talk of a man of
  the world.” A. I. du. P. Coleman.

       + =Putnam’s.= 2: 615. Ag. ’07. 220w.

  “It has ... an excellent literary touch, and it is full of good
  stories, most of which will be new even to readers of Mr. Russell’s
  books.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 403. Mr. 30, ’07. 200w.

  “It is always easy to read Mr. Russell and it is commonly worth while.
  But he writes in haste, and does not always verify his references.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: 982. Je. 22, ’07. 1410w.


=Russell, Louis Arthur.= Commonplaces of vocal art: a plain statement of
the philosophy of singing. $1. Ditson.

                                                                7–23091.

  A volume for the singer, teacher and platform speaker which treats of
  the philosophy of the voice and of voice use, and offers suggestions
  as to the best method of practice for the development of the speaking
  voice and the voice in singing.


=Russell, T. Baron.= Hundred years hence; the expectations of an
optimist. *$1.50. McClurg.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Taken in small quantities, Mr. Russell’s prophecy is diverting, but
  those who read it continuously may wish that parts of it had been
  written in the age predicted by the author, when ‘boredom’ shall have
  been abolished.”

     − + =Nation.= 84: 40. Ja. 10, ’07. 470w.


=Rutherford, Ernest.= Radioactive transformations; with diagrams.
**$3.50. Scribner.

                                                                6–39464.

  The Silliman lectures delivered at Yale in 1905. “Some treatment of
  radioactivity in general is given, and then a detailed development of
  the special subject of the book. This treatment differs only from the
  author’s previous expositions in the greater detail in which the
  subject is worked out.” (Nature.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Although this book is less comprehensive, as far as the general
  treatment of radioactive phenomena is concerned, than his previous
  work on ‘Radioactivity,’ it is divested of most of the technical terms
  which baffle the general reader, and is, in consequence, a book for
  both the student and the intelligent layman.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 71. Mr. ’07.

  “We have the less compunction in thus drawing attention to these
  blemishes in what we believe to be a very valuable book that they are
  all such as may be easily removed either in the next edition or in the
  next public pronouncement Prof. Rutherford may make on the subject.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 18. Ja. 5. 2190w.

   + + + =Nation.= 84: 68. Ja. 17, ’07. 940w.

  “The only doubt which can be felt is whether it meets any want which
  was not already satisfied by his previous work, ‘Radio-activity.’” R.
  J. Strutt.

   + + − =Nature.= 75: 195. D. 27, ’06. 780w.

  “Whilst his writings are always authoritative, and therefore welcome
  to the student, they have been divested in this volume of most of the
  technical and mathematical subtleties which necessarily repel the
  general reader in such a book as that of Professor Thomson, and there
  is hardly a page which cannot be understood by the intelligent
  layman.”

     + + =Spec.= 98: 20. Ja. 5, ’07. 820w.


* =Ruville, Albert von.= William Pitt: earl of Chatham. 3v. *$9. Putnam.

  After the manner of German scholarship thoro research prepared the way
  for Ruville’s life of the “Great commoner.” “On two points he has, we
  think, added something valuable to our knowledge of Pitt. He brings
  out strongly the share which Pitt was forced to take in the personal
  intrigues which seemed so large an element in contemporary politics,
  the influence of his connections, of the Grenvilles especially, on his
  career, and the extent to which for many years he depended on the
  support of the Prince of Wales and the Leicester house party. And.
  secondly, Dr. von Ruville succeeds in making Lord Bute’s share in
  English politics clearer than it has been made before.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “One does miss, perhaps, now and then, a style and manner rising to a
  great occasion, as in the account of Chatham’s last speech in the
  lords—where, by the way, he did not die, as pictorial tradition
  represents. The fact of translation, though this one is excellently
  well done, may account for this, though, to be sure, impressive
  writing is not the mark of modern histories.” G. S. S.

     + − =Acad.= 73: 85. N. 2, ’07. 1070w.

  “The perusal of his conscientious pages leaves behind it a sense of
  disappointment. Dr. von Ruville is, in the first place, destitute of
  eloquence. Secondly, he takes but little account of human nature.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 511. O. 26. 890w.

  “Will always be of value to the historical student, at any rate as a
  mine of information. Throughout it he shows extraordinary wrong-headed
  judgment not in the presentation of facts, but in the deductions which
  he draws from them.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 329. N. 1, ’07. 1230w.

  “It is only when we come to look for breadth of view or width of
  treatment, for perception, proportion, sympathy, illumination, in fact
  for those larger qualities which make history and biography alive,
  that we are driven reluctantly to the conclusion that the book is
  unhappily depressing and depreciatory.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 517. D. 5, ’07. 1770w.

  “Dr. von Ruville goes through his work after the fashion of a chemist
  in his laboratory, weighing, dissolving, calculating, and recording
  results with the patient pen of science.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 104: 638. N. 23, ’07. 2420w.

  “It is the first history of Chatham which in any way brings together
  all the results which may be obtained from manuscripts and printed
  material. Save for a few trivial mistakes, the translation is well
  done. It is not inspiring; but then the original German has none of
  the qualities of eloquence.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: 775. N. 16, ’07. 1970w.


=Ryan, John Augustine.= Living wage: its ethical and economic aspects.
*$1. Macmillan.

                                                                6–14607.

  Descriptive note in Annual. 1906.

  “Is a good contribution on a most important subject. All good men
  everywhere should welcome this serious attempt to find the ethical and
  economic basis of just wages, and be grateful for its sane and dearly
  stated findings.” T. J. Riley.

   + + − =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 561. Ja. ’07. 860w.

  Reviewed by David Y. Thomas.

         =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 234. Ja. ’07. 600w.

  Reviewed by W: J. White.

         =Charities.= 17: 471. D. 15. ’06. 880w.

  “As a whole the work appears to be scholarly. The organization of the
  material used is excellent. On the main point however—the validity of
  the author’s ethical theory and judgment—the economic student cannot
  of course pass judgment.” R. F. Hoxie.

       + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 641. D. ’07. 280w.

  “The writer of this book has brought together in clear and readable
  form most of the essential arguments which have been offered for his
  contention; and he has supplied to trade unions and advocates of
  advanced social legislation very telling arguments for their
  position.” Charles Richmond Henderson.

       + =Dial.= 42: 288. My. 1, ’07. 370w.


=Ryan, Marah Ellis.= Indian love letters. **$1. McClurg.

                                                                7–10045.

  The hopeless love of a high-minded Indian for a fair haired girl in
  the East chants its sorrow here. Pathos, despair, renunciation, never
  impersonal where love is concerned, all stalk by the side of this
  stalwart young Indian over the sand dunes of Arizona. It is the old,
  old story but is tempered and colored by the strain of Indian poetry
  that reflects innate worship of Nature.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author has compressed a great deal within a few pages, and has
  managed her original and difficult theme with much artistic skill. The
  ethnic is one with the romantic element of the letters.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 178. Mr. 23, ’07. 400w.


* =Ryley, M. Beresford.= Queens of the renaissance. **$2. Small.

  A study of these types of the renaissance really means a study of the
  rapid development of woman’s intellect and fascination thru the
  humanist movement in Italy.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Miss Ryley has done her work well. She writes clearly, and with
  gusto, though at times she is led into being gratuitously ornate.”

       + =Acad.= 73: 864. S. 7, ’07. 810w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

  “The subject necessarily brings the writer and reader into situations
  which require tact to be properly dealt with. Here, again, we find
  little to commend.”

     − + =Spec.= 99: 335. S. 7, ’07. 170w.




                                   S


=Sabatier, Paul.= Disestablishment in France. *$1.25. Scribner.

                                                                6–21194.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The book lacks unity but presents the material in a style both
  instructive and clear. It is especially valuable for its presentation
  of the causes underlying the contest.”

     + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 222. Ja. ’07. 820w.


=Sabin, Louis Carlton.= Cement and concrete. 2d ed., rev. and enl. *$5.
McGraw pub.

                                                                7–14245.

  “The second edition has been enlarged from 507 to 572 pages, two pages
  of which have been added to the chapter on ‘Definitions and
  constituents,’ 12 pages to the chapter on ‘Manufacture,’ and the
  remainder to a new chapter on ‘Concrete building blocks; their
  manufacture and use,’ and to three appendices giving the standard
  specifications for cement.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book as it now stands is an admirable treatise on concrete as a
  material, but must be taken in connection with some reference book of
  design and construction to make a complete survey of the field of what
  may be called concrete engineering.”

       + =Engin. N.= 58: 75. Jl. 18, ’07. 450w.


=Sage, William.= By right divine. †$1.50. Little.

                                                                7–21363.

  Two men contend for political supremacy in their state and for the
  love of the heroine, in this political romance. One is the old
  Senator, the boss of his state, and the girl he loves is his daughter.
  The other is a young man of rigid principles who has been elected
  governor, whose growing power with the people menaces the older man’s
  prestige, and whose manly courage bids fair to supplant him as first
  in his daughter’s heart. The contest is bitterly fought, until honesty
  and youth and love triumph.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Though the element of improbability is at times present, the book as
  a whole is very true to life, and as a present-day political study it
  ranks with the best romances of recent years.”

   + + − =Arena.= 38: 348. S. ’07. 970w.

  “Mr. Sage handles his stock situation skilfully, and gives his story a
  certain freshness by various accessory devices.” Wm. M. Payne.

     + − =Dial.= 43: 64. Ag. 1, ’07. 240w.

         =Ind.= 63: 572. S. 5, ’07. 220w.

  “It should be noted that all the love passages have a convincing,
  manly air, while an underlying sincerity runs through the book and
  makes it a most readable and wholesome novel of its class.”

       + =Lit. D.= 36: 489. O. 5, ’07. 340w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 220w.


=Saglio, Andre.= French furniture. (Library of applied arts.) *$2.50.
Scribner.

                                                                W 7–141.

  A general history of the subject from the time of the Gauls down thru
  the Empire. There are ninety full-page plates, reproduced from
  photographs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This volume has not many obvious faults, and constitutes a fairly
  accurate guide to a study which, however, requires knowledge of the
  French tongue.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 172. Je. 1. 300w.

       + =Int. Studio.= 32: 252. S. ’07. 100w.

  “He has wished perhaps to make a thoughtful and readable book. The
  result is that we are presented with an essay upon the decorative art
  of many periods of French history, without being enabled to grasp
  firmly the manufacture and the design of any one period.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 289. S. 26, ’07. 510w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 446. Jl. 13. ’07. 430w.


* =Sakurai, Tadayoshi.= Human bullets: a soldier’s story of Port Arthur;
introd. by Count Okuma; tr. by Masujiro Honda and ed. by Alice M. Bacon.
**$1.25. Houghton.

                                                                7–31244.

  The actual experiences of the author who was a lieutenant in the
  Japanese army. One feels the personal responsibility which every
  soldier assumed for the outcome of the war, “the determination, the
  devotion to duty and the adaptability which won for the Japanese
  soldier such general sympathy and admiration in this country.”
  (Bookm.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Not only is the work ... the best that we have on fighting, but it
  also forms a valuable study of the relations between Buddhist and
  Shintu or official Japanese doctrine. The translation appears to be
  thoroughly competent.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 616. N. 16. 820w.

  “A curious study in race psychology is afforded by this ‘soldier’s
  story of Port Arthur’. The book furnishes a striking picture of what
  war actually is, even under its most humane aspects. And at a time
  when the eyes of the whole world are on Japan, it is worth while to be
  told so authoritatively just what manner of fighting man the Japanese
  soldier is.” Ward Clark.

       + =Bookm.= 26: 414. D ’07. 580w.

  “Considering the great difficulty of finding English phrases to give
  the exact meaning of the original, the translation has been very well
  done, though occasionally the choice of words is not happy. No review
  of the work would be quite complete without some reference to the
  colored frontispiece, reproduced from a drawing made by the author
  with his left hand after he had lost his right in the war.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 289. N. 1, ’07. 390w.

  “The essential interest and the real value of the little book is its
  record of the writer’s inner man, not merely of what his bone and
  flesh and blood and nerves did and suffered, but of his essential
  personality, perfectly exemplified that ‘as a man thinketh so he is.’”

       + =Nation.= 85: 492. N. 28, ’07. 400w.


=Salaman, Malcolm Charles.= Old engravers of England in their relation
to contemporary life and art. *$2. Lippincott.

                                                                 7–6389.

  “In a brief compass the author cannot do more than glance at many of
  the two hundred and more engravers whom he mentions, but his
  description of the principal characters is adequate, and the whole
  army is marshalled before the reader in strict relation to the object
  of the book.”—Acad.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This is a novel, interesting and almost romantic book. It clothes the
  dry bones of black-and-white prints with human attributes, and makes
  them live. The illustrations considering the low price of the book,
  are exceptionally good; in fact, some of them may be said to be
  remarkably beautiful.”

       + =Acad.= 72: 117. F. 2, ’07. 700w.

  “His pages flash with coronets, and sentimental rapture.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 742. D. 8. 310w.

  “The volume is indeed, a combination of good things well served.
  Gossip and portraiture and art are deftly interlaced, so that the
  reading of the pages is no less agreeable than instructive.” Charles
  Henry Hart.

       + =Dial.= 43: 60. Ag. 1, ’07. 540w.

  “The ideal collector is he who has this instinct, supported by
  knowledge, but who has also felt the fascination of looking in at all
  the side-doors upon history which old prints open. Mr. Salaman is such
  an ideal collector, and so proves himself a true guide for the novice
  and a companion of the already wise.”

     + + =Int. Studio.= 32: 336. O. ’07. 300w.

  “The book makes interesting reading; and yet there is too much of a
  certain air of attempted jocosity. An earnest reader will ask for a
  more grave and orderly treatment.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 268. S. 19, ’07. 940w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 273. Ap. 27, ’07. 490w.

  “If the old prints are worth anyone’s attention first of all because
  of their intrinsic merit as works of art, they are worth quite as much
  because they link us intimately with the past. A book has always been
  needed which should unite these two view points of art and life. At
  last it has come.”

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 745. Ag. 3, ’07. 290w.

  “Mr. Salaman gives a lucid and sufficient account of the engravers,
  and one which moreover is quite readable and intelligible to the
  inexperienced public. For this reason his book should be of value.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 19. Ja. 5, ’07. 1090w.

       + =Spec.= 97: 398. D. 8, ’06. 200w.


=Saleeby, Caleb Williams.= Worry, the disease of the age. **$1.35.
Stokes.

                                                                7–16990.

  “Dr. Saleeby apparently conceives worry as a sort of an entity, and he
  seems to hold to the old distinction of body and mind. Worry, for him,
  can be a cause, and one may gather is rather a cause than a mere
  result. And so he gives us instances of how worry can ruin one’s
  digestion, with it one’s temper as well, and make one thoroughly and
  really ill. This seems to the writer a curious reversal of the
  familiar relations of the cart and the horse.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A new volume of double usefulness: from the practical side offering
  serviceable hints for what he considers the disease of the age, and
  from the theoretical setting in their proper, light the current
  notions as to the healthful relations of mind and body.” I. Woodbridge
  Riley.

     + + =Bookm.= 26: 410. D. ’07. 1950w.

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 26. Jl. 6, ’07. 230w.

  “A profoundly serious medical consideration with much that is
  philosophical in the most practical and helpful way.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 268. Ap. 27, ’07. 100w.

  “He has read widely, he has studied deeply, he has thought out things
  for himself, and these are the fruits. Dr. Saleeby is a true
  philosopher.” Carl Snyder.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 313. My. 18, ’07. 2110w.

  “This is a good book on a grave subject, which it treats in an
  all-round discussion on causes and effects, physical and psychical,
  from scientific and practical, moral and religious points of view.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 342. Je. 15, ’07. 190w.

  “A noteworthy volume of sociological as well as scientific import.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 36: 125. Jl. ’07. 70w.

  “A most capable and thoughtful series of essays.”

     + + =Spec.= 98: 1006. Je. 29, ’07. 1110w.


=Salisbury, Rollin D.= Physiography. (American science ser., advanced
course.) *$3.50. Holt.

                                                                7–16499.

  An important text-book achievement which provides a complete course
  for those “who have no purpose of pursuing the study of physical
  geography beyond its elements, but who are yet mature enough for work
  beyond the grade appropriate for the early years of the secondary
  schools.” It outlines the work covered in the University of Chicago in
  a twelve weeks’ course.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The field is thoroughly and consistently explored.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 268. S. 19, ’07. 200w.

  “Teachers of physiography will welcome this new book, not only on
  account of the large amount of fresh material and the fine
  illustrations that it contains, but also because it represents the
  accumulated experience and the method of a scientist whose skill as a
  teacher is well known and widely appreciated.” L. H. Wood.

     + + =School R.= 15: 621. O. ’07. 1230w.

  “Professor Salisbury’s book meets a real want and the character of its
  compilation, based as it is, on many years of experience in teaching,
  gives the book a completeness far beyond any other physiography
  published up to this time.” George Burbank Shattuck.

     + + =Science=, n.s. 26: 830. D. 13, ’07. 510w.


=Salmon, George.= Human element in the gospels: a commentary on the
synoptic narrative; ed. by Newport J. D. White. *$4.50. Dutton.

  “By ‘the human element’ is meant, in distinction from divine
  revelations, ‘things that can be proved by ordinary historical
  testimony’—including, as Dr. Salmon assumes, the miraculous element in
  the gospels. His work is essentially devoted to an investigation of
  the sources of the gospel story, conducted with a purposed
  independence of traditional opinions.... ‘Editorial blunders’ are
  found in Matthew, and Luke is found to have ‘taken liberties with the
  earlier tradition’ of the resurrection. The Greek text only of the
  gospels, substantially that of Wescott and Hort, is given in parallel
  columns, beginning with the entrance of Jesus on his public
  career.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “While the reader comes upon interesting and suggestive remarks, he
  meets with no real or consistent solution.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 438. Ap. 13. 640w.

  “It is a striking fact that a scholar of the breadth and thoroness of
  Dr. Salmon, who gave so many years to this problem, apparently paid no
  attention whatever to the works of continental scholars.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 696. S. 19, ’07. 540w.

  “The chief usefulness of Dr. Salmon’s book lies in the acumen with
  which he discusses particular passages.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 163. My. 24, ’07. 1060w.

       + =Nation.= 85: 188. Ag. 29, ’07. 600w.

  “The critical commentary upon it shows a cultured scholarship and
  freedom which prompt to agreement with the author’s regret that he had
  not undertaken the study till late in life.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 837. Ag. 17, ’07. 260w.

         =Spec.= 98: 982. Je. 22, ’07. 200w.


=Salmon, Lucy Maynard.= Progress in the household. **$1.10. Houghton.

                                                                6–38548.

  Ten essays entitled Recent progress in the study of domestic service,
  Education in the household, The relation of college women to domestic
  science, Sairey Gamp and Dora Copperfield, Economics and ethics in
  domestic service, “Put yourself in his place,” Our kitchen, An
  illustrated edition, and The woman’s exchange.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 71. Mr. ’07.

  “While the author does not offer any universal agent for a lightning
  change she does write with knowledge and ability, and her opinion
  should have weight with thoughtful women.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 1081. D. 29, ’06. 130w.


=Saltus, Edgar Evertson.= Lords of the ghostland: a history of the
ideal. *$1.25. Kennerley.

                                                                7–14564.

  The history of the ideal, the genealogy of its overlords, Brahma,
  Armuzd, Amon-Râ, Bel-Marduk, Jehovah, Zeus, Jupiter and of the Christ
  himself, is here given in a spirit which lifts the veil without
  rending it.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His treatment of each subject is a deft mingling of historical
  knowledge, philosophical method and poetic feeling.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 512. Ag. 24, ’07. 150w.


* =Sanday, Rev. William.= Life of Christ in recent research. *$1.75.
Oxford.

                                                                7–33561.

  “Certain recent lectures, reviews, and sermons of Professor Sanday’s
  have been combined into this volume. It presents a survey of the most
  important literature of the past twenty years upon the life and person
  of Christ with a special chapter on miracles.”—Bib. World.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Professor Sanday’s well-known scholarly moderation characterizes the
  whole.”

       + =Bib. World.= 30: 480. D. ’07. 50w.

  “As a matter of fact, we have another preliminary essay—a survey of
  the chief tendencies and the more important conclusions of the
  criticism to which the evangelic narratives have been subjected in the
  last twenty years. No English writer is so well qualified as Dr.
  Sanday to make such a survey. Not only is he himself one of our most
  thorough and most cautious critics, but his appetite for German
  brochures is insatiable. The charm of the whole book lies in the
  receptiveness of its author’s mind.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 322. O. 25, ’07. 1270w.


=Sanders, Frank Knight, and Fowler, Henry Thatcher.= Outlines for the
study of Biblical history and literature; with maps and charts.
(Historical ser. for Bible students, v. 9.) **$1.25. Scribner.

                                                                6–39458.

  “Intelligent direction for systematic and discriminating study” is the
  aim of this book. It meets the needs of four classes of student: (1)
  the college student, (2) the graduate student in oriental history, (3)
  the student of theology, and (4) the general student of the Bible. The
  book covers both the Old and New Testaments, and is divided into four
  parts: (1) Hebrew literature and history, reaching from the beginning
  to the fall of Jerusalem (586 B. C.); (2) early Jewish history and
  literature (586–168 B. C.); (3) later Jewish history and literature
  (168 B. C.–135 A. D.); (4) early Christian history and literature.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “If there is one point in which the work does not come up to the
  standard laid down by the authors, it is that of answering the
  requirements of the graduate student. Otherwise, by a wise use of the
  literature assigned and a classification of the material thus procured
  there is little doubt that the book will prove very useful and helpful
  in filling the blanks in many students minds which should be occupied
  by Biblical history.” Ira M. Brice and John M. P. Smith.

   + + − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 141. Ja. ’07. 260w.

  “A valuable outline with useful bibliographies which would help small
  libraries in purchasing the best books on the subjects treated.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 71. Mr. ’07. S.

       + =Bib. World.= 28: 432. D. ’06. 60w.

       + =Dial.= 41: 462. D. 16, ’06. 60w.

       + =Ind.= 62: 390. F. 14, ’07. 50w.

  “As is the case with most works in English covering both the Old and
  the New Testaments, the treatment of Old Testament subjects is much
  superior.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 33. Ja. 10, ’07. 240w.

  “They give ample direction to the most recent works of Biblical
  scholars, with strict impartiality toward the supporters of divergent
  conclusions.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 839. D. 1, ’06. 130w.


=Sanders, Wilbur E.; McDonald, Bernard; Parlee, Norman W.; and others.=
Mine timbering. $2. Hill pub. co.

                                                                7–19426.

  A collection of papers which form a series of essays emphasizing many
  important details rather than a complete treatise on the subject.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Reviewed by E. J. McCaustland.

       + =Engin. N.= 57: 669. Je. 13, ’07. 880w.


=Sanderson, Edgar.= Great Britain in modern Africa. $1.75. Scribner.

                                                                7–10993.

  “A volume which gathers into easy compass the history and geography of
  all the present divisions and governments of Africa.... It treats of
  Germany, France, Portugal, and Italy in Africa, as well as of Great
  Britain. The only parts left untouched are the western countries in
  the Mediterranean.... It is a handbook of information concerning
  Africa, including statistics of imports and exports, revenue,
  population, and other matters.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 441. O. 13. 640w.

  “Mr. Sanderson’s history ... is told with vivacity and exact detail.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 178. F. 21, ’07. 460w.

  “Mr. Sanderson’s account of recent events is admirably concise and
  comprehensive, and affords an excellent idea of the many-sided
  activity of Great Britain from the Cape to Cairo and from Nigeria to
  Uganda.”

       + =Sat. R.= 102: 402. S. 29, ’06. 170w.


=Sanford, P. Gerald.= Nitro-explosives: a practical treatise concerning
the properties, manufacture, and analysis of nitrated substances,
including the fulminates, smokeless powders and celluloid. 2d ed. *$4.
Van Nostrand.

                                                               War 7–20.

  A work which “for ten years has been a standard authority, and now is
  revised and brought up to date. It describes the processes of
  manufacture of nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gun-cotton, picrates, and
  fulminates, and gives the methods of analyzing them and testing their
  strength.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The text is too much like the old, with some slight changes and
  explanations, and not at all enough reference to the progress in the
  manufacture of smokeless powders and insensitive blasting powders.”
  Charles F. McKenna

     + − =Engin. N.= 57: 83. Ja. 17, ’07. 860w.

         =Nation.= 84: 438. My. 9, ’07. 130w.


=Santayana, George.= Life of reason; or, The phases of human progress.
5v. ea. **$1.25. Scribner.

                                                                 5–5419.

  “This book is so wanting in clearness of thought that I doubt whether
  it can be of much use to anyone. Throughout the book, Mr. Santayana
  makes a great many scattered remarks, which are certainly
  ‘suggestive,’ and perhaps (as he himself declares to be his object)
  ‘stimulating,’ but what he says seems to be always mixed with a great
  deal that is definitely erroneous, and always imbedded in a mass that
  is greatly wanting in clearness.” G. E. Moore.

       − =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 248. Ja. ’07. 2500w. (Review of v. 1–5.)

  “These later volumes, though containing much that would be
  interesting, if Professor Santayana had not already made us familiar
  with his point of view and characteristic method of treatment, are
  something of a disappointment. It is not easy to see exactly for what
  class of readers they are intended. Unfortunately the last volume
  ‘Reason in science’—the only one of the last three volumes in which
  the author enters a new field—is perhaps the most disappointing of
  all.” Ernest Albee.

       − =Philos. R.= 16: 195. Mr. ’07. 3980w. (Review of v. 3–5.)


=Sargent, Dudley Allen.= Physical education. *$1.50. Ginn.

                                                                6–37870.

  An attempt “to place the training of the body upon the same
  educational basis as the training of the intellect.” There are
  chapters upon The physical training of the American people; Physical
  exercise and longevity; Physical education in colleges, in secondary,
  and in elementary schools; and ideals in physical education.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A valuable contribution to the subject.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 48. F. ’07. S.

  “There is much of interest in the volume.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 402. N. 8, ’06. 50w.


=Sargent, Herbert Howland.= Campaign of Santiago de Cuba. 3v. **$5.
McClurg.

                                                                7–29604.

  A full summary in three volumes of the campaign of our army and navy
  at Santiago in 1898. It is compiled from official documents, contains
  twelve maps which show the scene of fighting, and above all is
  fearless in its “criticism of American arms and in its tributes to the
  feats of Spanish valor.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The first thorough and complete account of the war between the United
  States and the Spanish in Cuba.”

     + + =Outlook.= 87: 454. O. 26, ’07. 140w.

         =R. of Rs.= 36: 510. O. ’07. 190w.


=Saunders, Margaret Marshall (“Marshall Saunders”).= Beautiful Joe; with
an introd. by Hezekiah Butterworth. il. †$1.25. Am. Bapt.

                                                                7–28456.

  A new and enlarged edition of this companion to “Black Beauty.” It is
  a dog’s autobiography which teaches a lesson of kindness not only to
  dogs but to the entire animal kingdom.


=Savage, William G.= Bacteriological examination of water-supplies.
*$2.50. Blakiston.

                                                             Agr 7–1421.

  By eliminating elementary matter, and by omitting a part of data early
  collected, the author has made his treatise one which covers only the
  pertinent phases of the subject.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Among the many books which have been recently written on the
  bacteriology of water, this latest one ... is by all odds the best.
  Although it is a comparatively small book, it covers the ground more
  thoroughly than any other.” George C. Whipple.

       + =Engin. N.= 57: 661. Je. 13, ’07. 1040w.

  “The chapter on the interpretation of results is particularly to be
  recommended. The medical officer of health, and the analyst, and the
  bacteriologist will find this book a trustworthy and useful guide.” R.
  T. Hewlett.

     + + =Nature.= 76: 245. Jl. 11, ’07. 120w.


=Sayce, Rev. Archibald Henry.= Archaeology of the cuneiform
inscriptions: Rhine lectures. *$1.75. Gorham.

  The volume “opens with a brief, but excellent account of the method of
  decipherment of the cuneiform inscriptions, describes the nature of
  the inscriptions found, shows the relation of the Sumerians to Semitic
  people, that of the Egyptian to the Babylonian civilization, that of
  Palestine to Babylonia, the character of the Hittite people of Asia
  Minor, and describes the condition of Canaan before the Exodus.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Acad.= 72: 265. Mr. 16, ’07. 850w.

  “The whole forms a sufficiently compact and readable account. Both
  these faults (the habit of stating conjectures as facts, and of
  catching at any parallel, however wild, which seems to bear out
  preconceived conclusions) are very much in evidence in this volume,
  and go some way towards spoiling what is one of the most interesting
  books that Prof. Sayce has written.”

     − + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 296. Mr. 9. 1590w.

  “Like all of Professor Sayce’s writings, it is very suggestive, broad
  in treatment, and the conclusions sometimes rest on insufficient
  evidence.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 445. F. 21, ’07. 90w.

  “Great mass of information closely packed in this small volume.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 103: 753. Je. 15, ’07. 1040w.

  “The story ... is well worth reading; nothing in literary history
  surpasses it; Professor Sayce, who has himself had no small part in
  its evolution, tells it with admirable clearness. Of course, it is not
  by any mean finished.”

     + − =Spec.= 97: 220. F. 9, ’07. 340w.


=Schaff, Morris.= Spirit of old West Point. **$3. Houghton.

                                                                7–32862.

  While there is a personal note sounded thruout this autobiography, it
  chronicles the universal experiences of all West Point cadets and so
  is important as a historic document. The early experiences of the
  newly-arrived youth through physical hardening processes to which he
  is subjected give way to the months of patriotic endeavor which result
  in the “ever-enduring virtues that characterize the soldier, the
  Christian and the gentleman.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His love of poetic imagery, his tendency to infuse with life and
  feeling the inanimate objects about him, his fondness for drawing
  spiritual truths from material facts give to his narrative a higher
  beauty and a deeper meaning than we are wont to find in a soldier’s
  reminiscences.” Percy F. Bicknell.

     + + =Dial.= 43. 310. N. 16, ’07. 1500w.

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 875. D. 7, ’07. 410w.

  “This book presents an interesting and vivid description of this
  discipline, physical, mental, and moral, by which a boy acquires ‘the
  ideals of the soldier and the gentleman.’”

       + =Nation.= 85: 499. N. 28, ’07. 920w.

  “A volume that has both historical value and picturesque interest.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 748. N. 28, ’07. 140w.

  “Throughout the volume the element of human interest strongly
  predominates.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 754. D. ’07. 120w.


=Schaff, Rev. Philip.= History of the Christian church. 5v. v. 5, pt. 1.
**$3.25. Scribner.

  =v. 5, pt. 1.= The middle ages from Gregory VII., 1049, to Boniface
  VIII., 1294, by David S. Schaff. “The period of the present volume is
  that of the papal theocracy and the scholastic theology, the
  ‘Blüthezeit’ of Catholicism, when it would hardly do to laugh in one’s
  sleeve at an encyclical. It was the time also of the rise of the
  universities, of the enthusiasm of the crusades, and of the noblest
  development of church architecture. The coming historian who writes a
  really great history of this period will find the ground well broken
  by this honorable endeavor of a son to complete a father’s unfinished
  task.” (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Dial.= 43: 322. N. 16, ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 5, pt. 1.)

  “General libraries, as well as those of ministers and ecclesiastical
  institutions will find the work invaluable for reference.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 945. O. 17, ’07. 420w. (Review of v. 5, pt. 1.)

  “A narrative interestingly put, well arranged and with copious
  references to the original sources. This volume is valuable both for
  the general reader and for the special student.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 677. O. 26. ’07. 120w. (Review of v. 5, pt.
         1.)

  “It is conspicuous for the qualities which secured to his father
  international fame.”

     + + =Outlook.= 87: 453. O. 26, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 5, pt. 1.)


* =Scharff, R. F.= European animals. *$2.50. Dutton.

  An introductory chapter treats of general matters affecting zoological
  distribution and the value of land mammals and molluscs as a basis for
  zoological geography. Then “beginning with Ireland he describes some
  of the most characteristic animals—and, in spite of his title, the
  plants—and by tracing them to their original homes, he, little by
  little, reveals the past geological changes which have affected that
  island.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Ath.= 1907, 1: 764. Je. 22. 80w.

  “For thoroughness and general scientific worth in its restricted
  geographical field, Dr. Scharff’s volume will long remain unequalled.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 450. N. 14, ’07. 550w.

  “The volume should be in the library of every naturalist.” R. L.

     + + =Nature.= 76: 441. Ag. 29, ’07. 790w.

  “Dr. Scharff’s work contributes to the science a great wealth of facts
  and observations collected from many sources. The general reader will
  find the subject treated in a manner that is rather beyond him; for
  the book is one that must be read with care and concentrated
  attention.”

     + + =Spec.= 99: 367. S. 14, ’07. 450w.


=Scherer, James Augustin Brown.= What is Japanese morality? *75c. S. S.
times co.

                                                                6–43772.

  Five essays which discuss Japanese morality. While they do full
  justice to Japan’s lofty idealism, they also point out the weak points
  in the Oriental code.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “On the whole Dr. Scherer is reasonable and judicial.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 328. F. 7. ’07. 510w.

  “Has been able to cram an astonishing amount of information into a
  little volume.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 298. Je. 8, ’07. 370w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 108. Ja. ’07. 90w.


=Schiller, Ferdinand Canning Scott.= Studies in humanism. *$3.25.
Macmillan.

                                                                7–25524.

  “This volume is the most comprehensive and far-reaching exposition of
  the new humanism that has appeared, yet the possibilities it suggests
  are more fascinating than the theories it definitely develops.” (Ind.)
  “What is humanism? And what its Transatlantic cousin, pragmatism? Have
  we in either of them a logic or a metaphysic, or both, or neither? Dr.
  Schiller does not shirk these questions.” (Ath.) His best constructive
  work is the essay on “The making of truth” in which he “disclaims the
  notion that truth is created by us out of nothing.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 281. Mr. 9. 2020w.

  “Whatever we may think of Dr. Schiller’s theory, he has given us an
  attractive and stimulating book—marked by acuteness and lucidity.”
  Herbert D. Stewart.

   + + − =Hibbert J.= 5: 938. Jl. ’07. 2320w.

  “Is largely controversial. Unfortunately only one side is given, so
  the effect is like listening to a man talking into a telephone. Our
  enjoyment of the author’s wit is often restrained by the question
  whether it is properly deserved.”

     − + =Ind.= 62: 797. Ap. 4, ’07. 880w.

  “His criticism is always well worth reading. On the other hand, his
  own system contains not a few features which will give many pause.”

     + − =Nature.= 76: 220. Jl. 4, ’07. 560w.

  “Yet with all his noble rage for concrete truth he is one of the must
  abstract of writers. This characteristic makes his latest work ...
  pretty stiff and not extravagantly fruitful reading.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 348. Je. 1, ’07. 190w.

  “The finished and attractive literary style in which he presents the
  new humanism manifests its identity, notwithstanding difference, with
  the old.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 37. My. 4, ’07. 360w.

  “Not only is Dr. Schiller, as we infer, young himself, but he is also
  writing for the young.”

       − =Sat. R.= 104: 420. O. 5, ’07. 2170w.


=Schillings, Carl Georg.= In wildest Africa. *$5. Harper.

                                                                7–35387.

  Encouraged by the reception of his “With flashlight and rifle,” the
  author offers this fresh series of sketches and impressions of
  Africa’s wild life, illustrated by 300 photographs or what Dr. Heck
  chooses to term “Nature documents.” The chapters reproduce in
  description and picture animals of jungle and plains, aiming to
  impress readers with the importance of taking active steps to prevent
  the complete extermination of wild life.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “For the most part well written, and, we think, particularly well
  translated; the style is often narrative, which is specially
  attractive to young people, but besides tales of adventure there is
  much that deserves serious attention.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 476. O. 19. 620w.

  “It brings the lives of African birds and beasts before us with almost
  startling accuracy. As a matter of fact, there is a wide divergence
  between title and text in this volume; the larger part of the text
  deals with matter entirely foreign to the title.” H. E. Coblentz.

     + − =Dial.= 43: 371. D. 1, ’07. 510w.

  “The power of the photograph in revealing the marvels of tropical
  scenery has never been so clearly demonstrated as in this volume,
  wherein the spirit of adventure is blent with the scientific spirit of
  investigation.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 35: 760. N. 16, ’07. 440w.

  “Mr. Whyte’s part in the preparation of this volume is admirably done.
  So easy is his style and so free from the traces of a foreign language
  that one hardly realizes that the writing is a translation.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 333. O. 10, ’07. 620w.

  “It is a pity the text—though it contains much information and some
  really important matter—is not of commensurate worth. But Dr.
  Schillings is a photographer—not a writer.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 595. O. 5, ’07. 1380w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 10w.

         =R. of Rs.= 36: 637. N. ’07. 130w.

  “The illustrations in this book are just as notable as those in ‘With
  flashlight and rifle.’ And the spirit of the book is the same.”

     + + =Spec.= 99: 572. O. 19, ’07. 1550w.


=Schmid, Rudolf.= Scientific creed of a theologian; tr. from the 2nd
German ed. by J. W. Stoughton. *$1.50. Armstrong.

  A plea for a mutual understating between science and Christianity in
  which the author takes up successively “the subjects of Creation,
  Providence, Prayer, Miracles, and the Person of Jesus Christ, he
  argues that science and religion nowhere collide, and that the
  Christian view is entirely compatible with all proper claims of
  science, to which he makes large concessions.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Reviewed by Charles R. Barnes.

         =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 357. Ap. ’07. 450w.

  “His book is mediating in a good sense of the word, and its pages
  inspire the reader with a feeling of confidence in the justice, if not
  always in the persuasiveness, of the writer’s intellect.” James
  Moffat.

       + =Hibbert J.= 5: 468. Ja. ’07. 720w.

         =Ind.= 63: 516. Ag. 20, ’07. 60w.

  “On the whole it is a useful book to credit to a country which has
  sent us too much of the contrary kind.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 377. F. 16, ’07, 190w.

  “May be recommended as an admirable handbook on its subject.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 1006. Je. 29, ’07. 410w.


=Schmidt, Ferdinand.= Gudrun, tr. from the German by George P. Upton.
*60c. McClurg.

                                                                6–36031.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 22. Ja. ’07. ✠


=Schmidt, Ferdinand.= Herman and Thusnelda; tr. from the German, by
George P. Upton. (Life stories for young people.) **60c. McClurg.

                                                                7–31226.

  This story of the hero of Tuetoberg forest extends from his early days
  to his defeat of Varus, the Roman general, in that year which his
  victory has celebrated, 9 A.D., and to his union with Thusnelda,
  daughter of Segest. With the thrilling incidents of Herman’s life are
  side lights upon the customs and superstitions of the day.


=Schmidt, Johann Kaspar (Max Stirner, pseud.).= Ego and his own; tr.
from the German by Steven T. Byington. $1.50. Tucker, B: R.

                                                                7–13485.

  “The book ... is divided into two parts: first, The man; second, I....
  Goethe’s ‘I place my all on nothing,’ ... is Stirner’s keynote to his
  egoistic symphony. His ego and not the family is the unit of the
  social life.... The world belong to all, but all are I. I alone am
  individual proprietor.... He repudiates all laws. Repudiates
  competition.... Socialism is a new god, a new abstraction to tyrannize
  over the ego.... Stirner was a foe to general ideas. He was an
  implacable realist.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “What interests one in Stirner is not his argument, but his audacity.
  The book is involved and incoherent, and even curiosity to see what
  can be said by an _advocatus diaboli_ will not tempt many to read it.”

       − =Ind.= 62: 1091. My. 9, ’07. 860w.

  “The English translation of ‘The ego and his own’ is admirable; it is
  that of a philologist and a versatile scholar. Stirner’s form is open
  to criticism. It is vermicular. His thought is never confused, but he
  sees too many sides of his theme, embroiders it with so many
  variations, that he repeats himself. He has neither the crystalline
  brilliance nor poetic glamour of Nietzsche.” James Huneker.

     − + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 249. Ap. 20, ’07. 5430w.

  “Max Stirner may shock, may amuse you. But he is bound to set you
  thinking.” James Huneker.

     + − =No. Am.= 185: 332. Je. 7, ’07. 2340w.


=Schmidt, Nathaniel.= Prophet of Nazareth. **$2.50. Macmillan.

                                                                5–39858.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “It is difficult to take Schmidt’s arguments seriously. A perusal of
  recent studies of the life of Jesus is an instructive discipline in
  the estimating of critical theories. Few of them, indeed, can be
  accused of the baseless extravagances which appear on the pages of
  Professor Schmidt.” H. A. A. Kennedy.

       − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 155. Ja. ’07. 930w.

  “A very scholarly, scientific, and iconoclastic, yet reverent,
  volume.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 117. Je. ’07. 160w.


=Schnabel, Carl.= Handbook of metallurgy, tr. by Henry Louis. 2v.
*$6.50. Macmillan.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

  “It will be seen that the criticisms made are all with the style and
  arrangement, rather the matter itself, which is copious and well and
  judiciously collected.” Bradley Stoughton.

     + − =Engin. N.= 57: 441. Ap. 18, ’07. 700w. (Review of v. 2)

  “The description of the alloys is usually rather meagre, with
  curiously slight regard to the work of the last twenty years. In
  general, however, the information is full, accurate, and up to date,
  and is conveyed in a pleasant, readable manner.”

     + − =Nature.= 75: 486. Mr. 21, ’07. 270w. (Review of v. 2.)


=Schofield, Alfred Taylor.= Home life in order. $1.50. Funk.

  “This book deals with the anatomy and physiology of the human body,
  the elements of hygiene, sick nursing, and first aid. It is written by
  one who has had a long and successful experience as a lecturer on all
  these subjects, and who is therefore able to speak with authority. The
  information conveyed is just of the right sort, and expressed in the
  simplest language.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A few strokes of the pen will easily remedy these small mistakes, and
  the book is good and trustworthy in every other respect.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 260. Mr. 2. 310w.

  “As the work of a physician of eminence in London, it has scientific
  value, but its greater merit is the charmingly intimate and humane
  spirit in which it is written.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 98. Jl. 20, ’07. 80w.

  “Filled with solid and reliable information useful to all who desire a
  knowledge of their physical nature and needs.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 258. Je. 1, ’07. 80w.


=Schofield, William Henry.= English literature, from the Norman conquest
to Chaucer. *$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                6–36418.

  This is the first of a two-volume work covering the literary history
  of England from the Norman conquest to the time of Elizabeth. “The
  book differs in plan from the other volumes in the series, and indeed
  from most histories of English literature, in that the author does not
  deal with the whole production of each successive period. Instead, he
  treats his material according to the different ‘genres,’ tracing
  separately the evolution of each.... In the main division of the
  work—that which deals with English literature proper—the chapter on
  the romance takes the leading place.... The chapters on the tales,
  historical, religious, and didactic works, and lyrics in the
  vernacular, are thorough and adequate—like the excellent bibliography
  which concludes the work.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Both the strength and the weakness of Prof. Schofield’s work may be
  expressed by saying that it is written from the point of view of a
  ‘Professor of comparative literature’ rather than from that of an
  expert in the special literature of Middle English.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 94. Ja. 26. 1540w.

  “The shortcoming is not in scholarship, for the book is a marvel of
  labor both close and discursive, but in maturity.” Frank Jewett
  Mather, jr.

     + − =Bookm.= 25: 617. Ag. ’07. 1670w.

  “It offers an exceptionally thorough treatment of its period, done in
  the light of a scholarly tradition that runs from Gaston Paris to
  Child, and from Child to Professors Kittredge and Norton.”

     + + =Dial.= 42: 115. F. 16, ’07. 260w.

  “Whatever the merits of Professor Schofield’s book, it is not
  particularly clear or easy reading.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 452. Ag. 22, ’07. 540w.

  “Tho of less interest to the general reader than to the special
  student, is to the latter fairly indispensable, in spite of its
  decided unevenness, as a contribution to the history of a period which
  has never been treated either quite thoroughly or satisfactorily.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 80w.

  “Mr. Schofield has not always succeeded in keeping the illusion of
  life and progress: we imagine that his work will be found more
  interesting as a book of reference than as a history to read through.
  The book is full of instruction, written with a delight in learning
  which comes out more clearly the more the argument is tested,”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 11. Ja. 11, ’07. 1240w.

  “In literary execution there is considerable unevenness. Parts are
  admirably written; for example, the introduction, distinguished by its
  freshness of treatment and breadth of view, the general discussion of
  the matter of Britain, and the chapter on religious works. On the
  other hand, the style, as we have intimated, betrays lassitude in the
  concluding sections of the chapter on romance and in some pages of the
  chapter on Anglo-Latin literature. On the whole, however, the work is
  excellent.”

     + − =Nation.= 83: 443. N. 22, ’06. 1530w.

  “To most readers the most interesting part will be the romance,
  Arthurian and other; but whatever the subject it will be found
  adequately treated.”

       + =Spec.= 97: 792. N. 17, ’07. 230w.


=Scholl, John William.= Ode to the Russian people. $1. Badger, R. G.

                                                                7–10040.

  An ode to Russia’s millions which cries not only “evolution” but
  “revolution.”


=Scholz, R. F., and Hornbeck, S. K.= Oxford and the Rhodes scholarships;
with list of Rhodes scholars and other information complete to the end
of January, 1907. *85c. Oxford.

                                                                7–26974.

  Information of a statistical nature required by those who contemplate
  trying for a Rhodes scholarship.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Nation.= 84: 264. Mr. 21, ’07. 50w.

  “A useful little volume.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 337. Mr. 2, ’07. 160w.


=Schuen, Rev. Joseph.= Outlines of sermons for young men and young
women. *$2. Benziger.

                                                                6–23286.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “They treat important topics in a practical fashion suited to the
  needs of the people.”

       + =Cath. World.= 84: 548. Ja. ’07. 90w.


=Schultz, James Willard.= My life as an Indian: the story of a red woman
and a white man in the lodges of the Blackfeet; il. from photographs
mostly by George B. Grinnell. **$1.50. Doubleday.

                                                                 7–6737.

  “An intimate revelation of the domestic life of the Blackfoot Indians
  by a man who married into the tribe and lived many years with them.
  Reads like a romance from beginning to end, not the least interesting
  part of it being the traditions and bits of old stories retold by the
  author with simplicity and real charm. Published originally as a
  serial in ‘Forest and stream,’ under the title of ‘In the lodges of
  the Blackfeet’ and the pseudonym W. B. Anderson.”—A. L. A. Bkl.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 105. Ap. ’07. S.

  “The value of the book is its record of a state of society which has
  now passed.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 787. Je. 29. 280w.

  “The author has inherited the Indian’s native eloquence along with his
  tastes and ideals, and his story is one of the most authoritative and
  interesting revelations of Indian life that we have seen.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 470. Mr. 23, ’07. 330w.

  “This trader is evidently plagued, like many others, by the presence
  of a secondary personality under imperfect control. His narrative is
  perpetually disturbed by the emergence of an invader, an unclean
  spirit in the shape of a literary person, a lover of the heroic, the
  romantic, the Arcadian, quite a gifted literary person too.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 222. Jl. 12, ’07. 970w.

  “Through the straightforward and unaffected manner in which he
  pictures his life, the reader learns more about the nature of the
  Indians among whom Mr. Schultz has lived than in the most elaborate
  scientific treatises.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 339. Ap. 11, ’07. 220w.

  “Should be widely circulated, if only to correct mistaken impressions
  of what the Indians were before the buffalo disappeared; and what they
  still may be under the guidance of honest and generous Indian agents.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 125. Mr. 2, ’07. 490w.

  “There are all sorts of humorous and other anecdotes, told in a
  literary manner.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 426. Jl. ’07. 130w.

       + =Sat. R.= 104: 304. S. 7, ’07. 730w.

  “Furnish the truest and most sympathetic records of the inner and
  domestic life of the Indian of the plains.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 134. Jl. 27. ’07. 350w.


* =Schurz, Carl.= Reminiscences of Carl Schurz. il. 2v. **$6. McClure.

                                                                7–36232.

  Reminiscences that are important for their German-American quality.
  “There are two characteristics of this attractive autobiography which
  should commend it to the study of the general reader. It is in the
  first place the account of an individual brought up with all the
  advantages of German education, amid all the associations of
  monarchism, and with prospects of success in his own country, whose
  convictions and predilections drove him into the arms of American
  republicanism.... In the second place, it throws a new light on the
  events of recent American history.” (Lit. D.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “With the externals of this work one might easily pick a few quarrels.
  Either the proofreading has been lamentably careless in a considerable
  number of instances, or else bad editorial judgment has religiously
  followed mere slips of the pen in the original manuscript. All this,
  however, cannot seriously detract from the value of the really great
  biographical works of recent years.” W. H. Johnson.

   + + − =Dial.= 43: 413. D. 16, ’07. 2320w.

  “The whole character of the work is one of frank and easy
  self-revelation. It is full of personal anecdote, personal adventure,
  personal opinion. Those who take it up are not likely to put it aside
  until they have read the whole of it, and, indeed, it is well worth
  reading both as a source of interest and an inspiration.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 35: 876. D. 7, ’07. 950w.

         =Lit. D.= 35: 917. D. 14, ’07. 120w.

  “They throw much light on the stormy politics of the time, on the
  characters and attainments of the leaders on either side, and on the
  temper and methods of party action. It is not too much to say that
  Lincoln cannot fully be known without this study.” Edward Cary.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 832. D. 14, ’07. 1900w.

  “To most of us this book reveals a new phase in his character in that
  it is pervaded with a gentle humor, with a shrewd discrimination as to
  men’s character and motives, and a power of direct and forcible
  narration which is rare indeed. The work will take a high place in the
  literature of biography and reminiscence.”

     + + =Outlook.= 87: 613. N. 23, ’07. 230w.

  “He enjoyed intimate personal acquaintance with a remarkably large
  number of American soldiers and statesmen. For that reason and because
  of the clarity and grace of his literary style these volumes of
  reminiscences by Mr. Schurz are of surpassing interest.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 36: 753. D. ’07. 250w.


* =Schuster, Ernest Joseph.= Principles of German civil law. *$4.15.
Oxford.

                                                                7–26411.

  Here Dr. Schuster has presented to English readers the entire private
  or civil law of the German empire. “The immediate and practical
  purpose of the book is to aid the English lawyer in dealing with
  conflicts of law; and for this reason the German rules of
  international private law are set forth and compared with the English
  in connection with the matters in which choice of law has most often
  to be made. The author’s chief purpose, however, is ... to aid in
  placing the study of the English law on a higher plane.” (Pol. Sci.
  Q.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This is an admirable book, well calculated to promote the serious
  study of comparative law and to give a trustworthy account of the
  great work accomplished by the juridical science of Germany. He has
  carried out his purpose with great acuteness and learning.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 130. Ap. 26, ’07. 1370w.

  “Dr. Schuster has done his work so well that his book is to be
  recommended to English, American and German lawyers. In helping
  Anglo-American and German lawyers to understand one another Dr.
  Schuster has not only facilitated the exchange of useful ideas, but
  has enabled the lawyers of each country to gain a better understanding
  of their own technical terms.” Rudolph Leonhard.

     + + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 723. D. ’07. 530w.

  “One of the most useful of studies for the young lawyer whose interest
  in law is not yet confined to turning up books for his cases, would be
  to read Mr. Schuster’s admirable book.”

       + =Sat. R.= 104: 212. Ag. 17, ’07. 220w.


=Schuyler, Montgomery.= Westward the course of empire: “out West” and
“back East” on the first trip of the Los Angeles limited; reprinted with
additions from the N. Y. Times. **$1.25. Putnam.

                                                                6–42436.

  An account of a trip across the continent in less than a fortnight, to
  which the author has added under the head of “Consideration by the
  way,” four suggestive chapters upon: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,
  and Triumphant democracy.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Writes philosophically and out of a full mind.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 106. Ja. 19, ’07. 80w.

         =Putnam’s.= 2: 119. Ap. ’07. 160w.


=Schuyler, William=, tr. and ed. Under Pontius Pilate. †$1.50. Funk.

                                                                6–36184.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “It is all done reverently enough, and can be read; but there is an
  effort at modernization in the attitude of the characters, and in the
  style there is more than one elapse of taste.”

     + − =Nation.= 83: 464. N. 29, ’06. 240w.

  “Considering the perennial interest of the subject and the skill and
  discretion of this treatment, one would expect for ‘Under Pontius
  Pilate’ a success, from the publisher’s point of view, by no means
  likely to exhaust itself with the season of the first publication.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 886. D. 22. ’06. 1130w.


=Scollard, Clinton.= Easter-song; lyrics and ballads of the joy of
springtime. $3.50. George W. Browning, Clinton, N. Y.

                                                                6–11539.

  A collection of half a hundred lyrics and ballads, all of which sing
  of the gladness which comes in “The green o’ the year.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.

         =Dial.= 42: 253. Ap. 16, ’07. 180w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 431. Jl. 6, ’07. 270w.

  “It is gentle April verse, not riotous nor riant ... full of delicate
  perception and expression.”

       + =Putnam’s.= 2: 121. Ap. ’07. 200w.


=Scott, Dixon.= Liverpool. il. (Color books ser.) *$2.50. Macmillan.

  Liverpool is described by Mr. Scott and pictured by J. Hamilton Hay.
  It is “an attempt to mirror the vital aspect which the city presents
  to the world today rather than to offer a rechauffé of the past.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The plates in colour are far above those usually found in books of
  this series, and while not doing full justice to Mr. Hay’s powers,
  they at least attest the quality of his colour and the purity of its
  application. Mr. Scott’s style, unlike his Liverpool, though
  ‘variegated and distracted,’ fails to be ‘puissant and concerted.’”

     + − =Acad.= 73: 840. Ag. 31, ’07. 760w.

  “We cannot call the book a success, for it conveys nothing very
  definite to the mind of the reader.”

     − + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 308. S. 14. 810w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

  “The book is somewhat fatiguing. Sometimes, too, it lapses into
  something that a hostile observer might call silliness.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: 370. S. 14, ’07. 400w.


=Scott, Ernest F.= Fourth gospel: its purpose and theology. *$2.
Scribner.

                                                                7–36975.

  A work which “is wholly concerned with the literary form, the purpose,
  and the theology of ‘John.’... A twofold purpose is seen in it;
  primarily, the expression of a profound personal religion, and at the
  same time the adjustment of it intellectually to a new age and
  environment, in the reconciliation of Hebraic with Hellenic
  ideas.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Thoughtful and stimulating book.” James S. Riggs.

     + + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 535. Jl. ’07. 1280w.

         =Ath.= 1907, 1: 437. Ap. 13. 760w.

  “A thorough study.”

       + =Bib. World.= 29: 239. Mr. ’07. 50w.

  “Perhaps it is best to take Mr. Scott as he has taken John (whether
  rightly remains to be seen)—a combination of streams of thought which
  can hardly be harmonized, and which leads to inconsistencies of
  thinking and direct contradictions of expression.” Frank Grant Lewis.

     + − =Bib. World.= 30: 235. S. ’07. 1180w.

  “A more complete and enlightening presentation of the Johannine
  theology has not been produced in recent years, and to one who would
  work his way into the thought and spirit of the fourth gospel no
  better guide could be recommended.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 452. Ag. 22, ’07. 270w.

  “The most valuable treatise on the Gospel of John that has appeared in
  recent years.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 1235. N. 21, ’07. 100w.

  “It is the merit of Mr. Scott both to have made clear the profitable
  line of study in connection with the Gospel of John, and also to have
  exhibited some valuable results of endeavor of this sort.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 315. Ap. 4, ’07. 540w.

  “This is a fresh work of the first rank among the many on its
  subject.”

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 281. F. 2, ’07. 450w.

  “We think that it is hardly possible for the case to be put more
  fully, more clearly, or more temperately than in the volume before us;
  and though we may disagree with its arguments and conclusions we
  cannot but admire the admirable way in which they are presented.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 104: 304. S. 7, ’07. 1410w.


=Scott, G. Firth.= Romance of polar exploration; interesting
descriptions of Arctic and Antarctic adventure from the earliest time to
the voyage of the “Discovery.” *$1.50. Lippincott.

                                                                6–35304.

  This book ably sustains the claim of its title. It gives the story of
  the explorations toward both poles in a fashion not only interesting
  but historically exact.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is a slight affair, milk for babes.” E. T. Brewster.

       − =Atlan.= 100: 261. Ag. ’07. 40w.

  “We may compare Mr. Scott’s book on polar exploration with the
  original records, and it will stand the test. It covers both the
  arctic and antarctic regions, and may be commended to any reader as a
  compilation that tells in a way that interests the story of many
  leading incidents in polar research.” Cyrus C. Adams.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 846. D. 8, ’06. 50w.

         =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 10. D. 8, ’06. 40w.

       + =Spec.= 97: sup. 657. N. 2, ’06. 180w.


=Scott, John Reed.= Beatrix of Clare. †$1.50. Lippincott.

                                                                7–18101.

  England in the time of Richard III, forms the setting for this tale of
  romance and adventure which takes place close about the throne.
  Beatrix, beauty, heiress, and countess of Clare is won by the young
  knight and courtier De Lacy beneath the friendly smiles of both king
  and queen, while their love affair is troubled by abduction and
  bloodshed, and influenced by the great events which stir the kingdom
  and even threaten the crown.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Rather better than the average of its kind.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 204. N. ’07.

  “Done with a freshness and a verve that makes one forgive the familiar
  situations, and well-worn devices, and for an idle hour quite enjoy
  the knight’s tempestuous wooing of his wilful lady.”

     + − =Bookm.= 25: 602. Ag. ’07. 320w.

  “In manner and sentiment is poor stuff, and about as unreal as
  possible.” Wm. M. Payne.

       − =Dial.= 43: 63. Ag. 1, ’07. 130w.

  “The book abounds in royal gossip.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 402. Ag. 15, ’07. 100w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.

  “It is a good story, as historical romances go.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 525. Ag. 31, ’07. 820w.

       + =Outlook.= 86: 833. Ag. 17, ’07. 110w.


=Scott, John Reed.= Colonel of the Red huzzars. †$1.50. Lippincott.

                                                                6–21386.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The story is impossible but more readable than most, and it is well
  printed and illustrated, full of bright dialogue, and has for heroine
  the most outrageous flirt since Rosalind.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 192. F. 23, ’07. 140w.


=Scott, Leroy.= To him that hath. †$1.50. Doubleday.

                                                                7–23303.

  “The story turns on the heroic self-sacrifice of a young man, David
  Aldrich, who, at the death of his best friend, the Rev. Philip Morton,
  finds out that the latter was hopelessly in the toils of an
  adventuress, who had blackmailed him out of $5,000.... Aldrich assumes
  the theft himself and goes to prison for four years.... It is a tract
  on prison discipline, the reformation of the criminal, the uplifting,
  physical, mental and moral of the masses, and the greed of wealth,
  thinly veneered with ‘heart interest.’”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is the simple directness of the narrative, as well as the reality
  of the types depicted, that holds you to the end.” Frederic Taber
  Cooper.

       + =Bookm.= 26: 164. O. ’07. 310w.

  “The plot of the novel is forced ... and the action is over
  melodramatic, but it is a particularly striking production for all
  that, and its essential pathos is relieved by much subsidiary
  incident, and even by touches of genuine humor.” Wm. M. Payne.

     + − =Dial.= 43: 253. O. 16, ’07. 310w.

  “Mr. Scott is a hero worshiper of martyred manhood among the poor and
  unfortunate, a writer who compels admiration and attention by his
  friendliness to the friendless and by the sanity of his conclusions
  concerning some sociological problems, rather than by literary
  ability.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 817. O. 3, ’07. 620w.

  “Far more important than its literary merit implies.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 60w.

  “It is written with much effort and earnestness; and it is fairly
  entertaining. The author is not without a sense of humor. But when all
  is said, fiction makes a poor appearance in the pulpit; and most books
  of this sort are neither good stories nor good sermons.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 540w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

  “That which gives Mr. Scott’s book the vitality and strength which it
  unquestionably possesses is his ability to make one see these luckless
  types ... as his hero saw them.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 44. S. 7, ’07. 450w.

  “It is good story-telling genius to get theory into the reader without
  his knowing it.”

       + =Putnam’s.= 3: 238. N. ’07. 710w.


=Scott, M. H. Baillie.= Houses and gardens. *$12. Scribner.

                                                                7–33972.

  “We have here the fruits of an exceptionally wide and varied
  experience in the planning, decoration and equipment of houses of all
  dimensions, from small week-end cottages to large country houses both
  in England and abroad. This volume testifies eloquently to the fact
  that, besides being an architect equipped with an ample fund of
  scientific knowledge, Mr. Scott is also an artist possessing a mature
  understanding of the proper relations of use and beauty; and the aim
  of this work is to show what possibilities of beauty are present in
  the construction of a house.”—Int. Studio.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In many ways this is a surprising volume. Its most striking feature
  is the skill of the draughtsmanship, particularly in the coloured
  plates. Much of it is well written, with eloquent passages and not a
  few well-turned epigrams, but more is equally dull, with the same idea
  reiterated in chapter after chapter in almost identical words.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 704. Je. 8. 360w.

  “It is to be hoped that a valuable treatise such as this will meet
  with that wide recognition which it deserves.”

     + + =Int. Studio.= 31: 83. Mr. ’07. 200w.

  “There is, on the whole, so much of good suggestion; of good taste,
  and of common sense in the book, that one easily overlooks minor
  deficiencies.”

   + + − =Nation.= 85: 106. Ag. 1, ’07. 730w.


=Scott, Sir Walter.= Quentin Durward; ed. by R. W. Bruere. *50c. Ginn.

                                                                 7–7198.

  An edition designed for the use of high schools and academies. It is
  equipped with ample editorial helps.


=Scratton, Howell.= Fortuna filly. $1.50. Luce, J: W.

  The Fortuna filly is a horse of rare promise and this story, while it
  is a romance, centers about the race track and the training stables,
  and concerns races and trainers so exclusively that the love affair of
  the owner’s daughter and the young lawyer who in the end wins his wife
  and a fortune on the Fortuna filly, is thrust into the background.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Food, drink, and horse are the delightful ingredients of this
  innocent idyl.”

       − =Nation.= 85: 58. Jl. 18, ’07. 570w.


=Scripture, Edward Wheeler.= Researches in experimental phonetics; the
study of speech curves. (Carnegie inst. of Washington. Pub. no. 44.) pa.
$2. Carnegie inst.

                                                                 7–2321.

  “The groundwork of the results of Dr. Scripture’s recent work abroad,
  in the laboratories organized at Munich, Berlin and Zurich. Save for
  illustrative examples from the records, the present volume deals
  almost exclusively with methods; nearly all of the last fifty pages
  are taken up with tables, some of which appear for the first time, and
  should prove most helpful to other investigators along these
  lines.”—Science.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Ind.= 63: 223. Jl. 25, ’07. 420w.

  “We congratulate Dr. Scripture on the production of a splendid
  monograph. It might have been improved by fuller bibliographical
  details, and perhaps by a more adequate recognition of the work of
  others.” John G. McKendrick.

   + + − =Nature.= 75: 392. F. 21, ’07. 2530w.

  “Perhaps the main objection to the work is that the correctness of the
  original gramophone records has been taken too much on faith.”
  Frederic Lyman Wells.

   + + − =Science=, n.s. 26: 170. Ag. 9, ’07. 740w.


=Scudder, Vida Dutton.= Disciple of a saint: being the imaginary
biography of Raniero di Landoccio dei Pagliaresi. $1.50. Dutton.

                                                                W 7–125.

  “This ‘imaginary biography’ of Neri di Landoccio, secretary of Saint
  Catherine of Siena is ... a book full of human interest.... Of story,
  in the ordinary sense, except such as is furnished by the background
  of actual recorded events, there is little.... The drama is a drama of
  ‘soul-states.’ Yet, if the chief interest is psychological, this is
  not through inability on the part of the author to present the
  material side of things: Siena in the throes of the plague-epidemic
  and the papal court at Avignon are vividly set before the
  reader.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author’s familiarity with her period is pleasantly apparent, and
  her characters, although they speak a language happily free from
  deliberate archaisms, fairly represent their century.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 659. Je. 1. 240w.

  “Perhaps, despite the author’s deft allusions and unmistakable
  accuracy, the historian will not be content.”

     + − =Cath. World.= 85: 825. S. ’07. 710w.

  “A noteworthy success in a most difficult form of writing. In the
  dialogue, the most difficult part of an historical romance, Miss
  Scudder has achieved a distinct success. Her diction, however, is at
  times decidedly overstrained.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 567. Je. 20, ’07, 640w.

  “All through the exquisitely elaborated story there are a reserve, a
  dignity of expression, and a comprehension of the required attitude of
  mind that are refreshing to the thoughtful reader.”

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 117. My. 18, ’07. 160w.


Sea stories, retold from St. Nicholas. (Geographical stories.) *65c.
Century.

                                                                7–29583.

  Jack London, Güstav Kobbé, George Kennan, Tudor Jenks and a good many
  others tell of exciting sea-happenings with a good bit of general
  information about divers, light-houses, tidal waves, etc.


=Seabrook, Phœbe Hamilton.= Daughter of the Confederacy: a story of the
old South and the new. $1.50. Neale.

                                                                6–43778.

  “Unlike the majority of novels of the war period, this one does not
  dwell upon the horrors of camp and field, of prison and hospital, but
  upon the daily life of a family left to the so-called slighter horrors
  of inactivity, anxiety and starvation.”


=Seaver, Richard W.= To Christ through criticism. (Donellan lectures,
1905–6.) **$1.50. Scribner.

  The burden of these lectures is “Justification of the new theology and
  defence of critical principles and results as not hostile to devout
  life.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A reverent and thoughtful discussion of the Gospel miracles in the
  light of modern criticism.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 390. Mr. 14, ’07. 40w.

         =Nation.= 84: 265. Mr. 21, ’07. 100w.


=Seawell, Molly Elliott.= Loves of the lady Arabella. †$1.50. Bobbs:

                                                                6–36177.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “A readable enough little tale.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 62. F. 2, ’07. 500w.

  “This old-fashioned romance, with its familiar types and conventional
  action, is charming because of its literary style and generally
  artistic workmanship. Mr. Underwood’s illustrations are a little
  stiff, and crude in color.”

     + − =Outlook.= 84: 941. D. 15, ’06. 30w.


=Seawell, Molly Elliott.= Secret of Toni; il. by George Brehm. †$1.50.
Appleton.

                                                                 7–5687.

  “The story of a dirty, lazy, little boy whose only friends are a nice
  clean little boy and a tin soldier to whom he tells all his trouble.
  The boys grow up as friends, and both become soldiers who have ups and
  downs enough to interest the reader to the happy end.”—A. L. A. Bkl.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The plot is absurd, but there is a certain freshness about it that
  many fiction readers will enjoy.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 79. Mr. ’07. ✠

  “A rather thin, unsubstantial little tale. But ... one feels no
  resentment toward it, for the childhood portion is really quite
  enjoyable.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

     + − =Bookm.= 25: 90. Mr. ’07. 270w.

  “Toni, the hero of the present novel, need not fear comparison with
  any of the cherub group that we heretofore have met in Miss Seawell’s
  pages.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 548. Ap. 6, ’07. 310w.

  “A sprightly story, well constructed and vivaciously told.
  Notwithstanding the numerous books which Miss Seawell has written, she
  has not yet learned what literary virtues are to be gained by an
  occasional due reserve of statement.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 99. F. 16, ’07. 270w.


=Sedgwick, Anne Douglas.= Fountain sealed. †$1.50. Century.

                                                                7–30436.

  A character study of three distinct types. A mother whose peace of
  mind was constantly assailed by a selfish husband exploiting all the
  proprieties of life decides to live apart from him. She goes abroad
  and makes a cozy drawingroom the center of a warmth which she radiates
  after the fashion of her own serenity, sincerity and dignity. The
  daughter, devoted to the father, furnishes the second type. At his
  death the mother returns to find her daughter an arrogant, selfish,
  heartless girl unable to detect values. The third type is honest Jack
  Pennington whose integrity but reveals more convincingly the girl’s
  shallowness and the mother’s patient unselfishness.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The workmanship is excellent and to those readers who enjoy a
  ruthless dissection, skilfully done, the book will be worth while. Of
  plot there is scarcely anything.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 204. N. ’07.

  “The best of many good qualities is the spirit in which it is written.
  A finished piece of true comedy.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 341. N. 8, ’07. 550w.

  “The plain citizen, the clamorer for a simple story, will not take
  kindly to ‘A fountain sealed.’ On the other hand, the reader who is
  attracted by the subtle in style and substance, who likes a maximum of
  soul-searching with a minimum of ‘scene,’ will find it a mine of
  interest, and will have the further satisfaction of perceiving that a
  novel may deal with the subtleties, yet be unquestionably clean.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 446. N. 14, ’07. 580w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 50w.

  “It is such a moving, vivid, illuminating picture of the kind of
  tragedy that everywhere dignifies human life, that it can but make a
  wide appeal.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 694. N. 2, ’07. 560w.

  “It will add to Miss Sedgwick’s already secure reputation, and give
  much real pleasure to thoughtful readers.”

     + + =Outlook.= 87: 450. O. 26, ’07. 340w.

  “Its admirable character-drawing, and its distinction of style, will
  add to a reputation already secure.”

     + + =Outlook.= 87: 623. N. 23, ’07. 40w.

  “Well-wrought and engrossing story.”

   + + − =Spec.= 99: 780. N. 16, ’07. 1200w.


=Sedgwick, Mrs. Mabel (Cabot).= Garden month by month. **$4. Stokes.

                                                                7–15329.

  A new plan is employed in this practical volume. “On each page there
  are six vertical columns under the month in which the flower blossoms.
  The first column gives the color, the next the English name, the next
  the botanical name, the next the description and method of culture,
  propagation and origin, and then the height and situation in the
  garden, and finally, the duration of the blooming. These are
  illustrated by over 200 ... engravings from photographs of growing
  plants.” (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The index is full and carefully made. Altogether. this is a most
  valuable book for the shelves devoted to one’s garden library, in a
  location handy for reference.” Edith Granger.

       + =Dial.= 42: 368. Je. 16, ’07. 590w.

  “There is in it no nonsense of fine writing and poetical quotations.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 972. Ap. 25, ’07. 130w.

  “We should suppose it might remain a standard for many years.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 132. Jl. 27, ’07. 110w.

       + =Nation.= 85: 547. D. 12, ’07. 110w.

  “It is an intelligent and amplified catalogue of the plants described,
  and its painstaking sincerity and infinite care of detail should give
  it a place on the reference shelf of garden books.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 236. Ap. 13, ’07. 1060w.

  “The beginner in this delightful pursuit would probably find some of
  the simpler and less exhaustive garden books more helpful and not so
  bewildering.”

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 118. My. 18, ’07. 200w.


=Segur, Marquis de.= Julie de Lespinasse; tr. from the French by P. H.
Lee Warner. *$2.50. Holt.

                                                                7–37963.

  The letters of Mademoiselle de Lespinasse not only form a human
  document that reveals a tortured existence but are a symbol of the
  revolution accomplished in contemporary thought during her period,
  viz., “the change of the age of reason into the age of passion and
  sentimental license.” The author had access to archives heretofore
  unattainable which cleared up facts regarding the early life of
  Mademoiselle Lespinasse, her education, relations with the Marquis de
  Mora, and the public and worldly side of her character. The sketch
  embodies its negative lesson chiefly in this intense woman’s blind
  adoration for Count de Guibert. Her suffering strikes the universal
  note, and she pays the full retributive price for her wrong-doing.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is a model of wise biography. The translation is on the
  whole, good and clear; but it is marred by occasional lapses which
  should certainly be amended before the second edition is produced.”

   + + − =Acad.= 72: 265. Mr. 16, ’07. 770w.

  “[The translation] is characterized ... by inelegance, and not
  infrequently by mis-representation of the original.”

       − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 177. Ag. 17. 190w.

  “At last we have an authoritative, and, it would seem, a definitive
  life of that most interesting [Julie de Lespinasse].” S. M. Francis.

     + + =Atlan.= 100: 491. O. ’07. 280w.

  “The Marquis de Segur has brought enough personal interest and
  enthusiasm to his work to counteract largely his lack of constructive
  literary ability.”

     + − =Dial.= 43: 67. Ag. 1, ’07. 360w.

  “Though ample and interesting, contributes but little of real weight
  to a familiar story.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 503. Je. 30, ’07. 420w.

  “Probably comes as near telling the truth about this remarkable woman
  as any sentimental biography written long after the death of the
  subject can be expected to come.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 285. My. 4, ’07. 1100w.

         =Outlook.= 86: 480. Je. 29, ’07. 300w.

  “More than one book has been written around her, but this simple
  record of her life by the Marquis de Segur is by far the most
  interesting of them all.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.

       + =Putnam’s.= 2: 475. Jl. ’07. 80w.

  “This book was really worth translating.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 372. Mr. 23, ’07. 110w.


=Seignobos, (Michel Jean) Charles.= History of ancient civilization; tr.
and ed. by Arthur Herbert Wilde. *$1.25. Scribner.

                                                                6–32375.

  =v. 1.= An English version of a well-known French text book designed
  for use in secondary schools. Volume 1 covers a period from
  pre-historic times down to the third century of our era.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 957. Jl. ’06. 30w. (Review of v. 1.)

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 72. Mr. ’07. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Is the most satisfactory history of civilization that has yet
  appeared.” J. W. Moncrief.

   + + + =Bib. World.= 30: 238. S. ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “A plain straightforward account.... The translation seems to have
  been carefully made, and the editor’s notes, though not numerous, are
  of distinct value. Nevertheless, the book is something of a
  disappointment. In his effort to cover the entire field the author has
  naturally been compelled to include a great deal that is already found
  in the high-school text-book.”

     + − =Dial.= 42: 47. Ja. 16, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “It is a sorry, dry-as-dust, uninteresting, and unprofitable
  compilation.”

       − =Sat. R.= 104: 520. O. 26, ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 1.)


=Seitz, Don Carlos.= Discoveries in every-day Europe. **$1.25. Harper.

                                                                7–29537.

  Little details that eminate from the store of a traveler’s latent
  impressions, the sort that fill the chinks of the memory but that are
  seldom offered to the stay-at-home tourist. In his shrewdly observant
  fashion, entertainingly humorous, the author tells the reader things
  worth remembering, and things that can be remembered for their very
  epigrammatic clearness. For instance, he says, “Ice is regarded with
  superstitious reverence in Italy, France and England. Common waiters
  are not allowed to touch the precious product. Instead, the head
  waiter hands it out in infinitesimal fragments with a pair of
  sugar-tongs.” The marginal illustrations are suggestive of the book’s
  humor.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The ordinary reader will find in it a great deal more about Europe
  that would interest him than he gets in the usual ponderous book of
  travel.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 642. O. 19, ’07. 160w.

  “Alert, humorous, and irrepressible.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 10w.


=Seligman, Edwin Robert Anderson.= Principles of economics; with special
reference to American conditions. 2d ed. *$2.25. Longmans.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “In the present reviewer’s opinion, Professor Seligman’s volume is
  likely to prove of more value to the teacher of economics than to the
  beginner in the subject for whose benefit primarily it was written.
  This is not because of any lack of clearness or other defects of
  style. It is due rather to the fact that the author has attempted to
  cover too much ground and to introduce the student to too great a
  variety of subjects.” M. B. Hammond.

   + + − =Dial.= 42: 36. Ja. 16, ’07. 2910w.


=Selleck, Willard Chamberlain.= New appreciation of the Bible: a study
of the spiritual outcome of Biblical criticism. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago
press.

                                                                7–11195.

  An attempt to popularize some of the results of scholarship. It aims
  to do three things: first, to state, briefly but clearly and
  accurately the principal conclusions of modern learning regarding the
  Bible; second, to show the enhanced values, ethical and religious,
  which the Bible exhibits thru the new views of its nature thus
  developed, and lastly, to point out practical ways in which it may be
  used in consonance with such conclusions and such views.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A most useful and valuable book.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 105. F. ’07. S.

         =Bib. World.= 29: 159. F. ’07. 90w.

       + =Ind.= 62: 390. F. 14, ’07. 50w.

  “Readers of his careful chapters will have little to unlearn if they
  pursue their studies further.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 222. Mr. 7, ’07. 210w.

  “The book is an excellent combination of the conservative spirit with
  the radical method in a constructive treatment of its subject.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 282. F. 2, ’07. 180w.


=Selous, Frederick Courteney.= Recent hunting trips in British North
America. *$5. imp. Scribner.

  “Mr. Selous divides his book into short chapters, each dealing with an
  expedition to various parts of the country. Thus he begins with a
  moose hunt in the forests of Central Canada, goes on to Newfoundland
  after woodland caribou, and visits St. John’s lake, the Macmillan
  river, Yukon territory, and other places, finding sport, and adding
  trophies to what must be one of the largest collections ever made by a
  single person.” (Ath.) “One last chapter is devoted to outfit, food,
  etc., all excellent practical hints.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is sure of a cordial welcome for many reasons.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 122. Ag. 3. 680w.

  Reviewed by H. E. Coblentz.

       + =Dial.= 43: 212. O. 1, ’07. 630w.

  “There is one quality about all Selous’s books which will win the
  attention of his readers: he is preeminently honest and sincere. There
  is no fine writing, no exaggeration: all his descriptions of
  adventures bear the hall-mark of truth.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 189. Ag. ’07. 1340w.

  “The book at large, while, of course, of much more interest to the
  British (or American) sportsman than to the casual reader whose tastes
  have not been developed that way, has a good deal, of the charm of its
  kind.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 482. Ag. 3, ’07. 760w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 40w.

  “Mr. Selous’s account of his daily doings is a plain, straightforward
  narrative which will be invaluable to those who follow him, into these
  northern wilds. He also gives much interesting information about the
  aspect of the country, the fauna, the habits of beavers, the races of
  wild sheep in North America, and the big game generally.”

     + + =Spec.= 99: 366. S. 14, ’07. 520w.


* =Seneca, Lucius Annæus.= Tragedies of Seneca; tr. into English verse,
to which have been appended comparative analyses of the corresponding
Greek and Roman plays, and a mythological index. by Frank Justus Miller.
*$3. Univ. of Chicago press.

  Aside from the fact that Seneca’s tragedies serve as the only
  connecting link between ancient and modern tragedy, the plays are of
  value and interest as independent dramatic literature of merit, and
  also as an illustration of the literary characteristics of the age of
  Nero. The author has aimed to present to the English reader all of the
  values accruing from a study of these plays except the benefit to be
  derived from reading them in the original.


* =Sergeant, Philip Walsingham.= Last empress of the French. **$3.50.
Lippincott.

  A contribution to history. “The book begins, as careful biographies
  should begin, with a due account of Eugénie’s grandparents, leading up
  to the birth of Eugénie, her early days, and eventual marriage with
  Napoleon III., through the machinations of her mother and the help of
  her own beauty.” (Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The present book is a painstaking collection of facts about the life
  of the Empress Eugénie, written without enthusiasm and without
  distinction. From one point of view it is an improving book, from
  another a very blasphemy against that most mysterious, most sacred of
  all things—life.”

     + − =Acad.= 73: 841. Ag. 31, ’07. 960w.

  “If not treated as history may be commended.”

       + =Ath.= 1907. 2: 208. Ag. 24. 910w.

  “Agreeably written, clearly printed, and handsomely illustrated, the
  book is worthy of its subject. It shows, too, care and painstaking
  research in its preparation; but one might have expected that the
  restraint imposed upon the biography by the Empress Eugénie’s being
  still alive would have been offset by the advantage of some little
  help from her in the clearing up of certain obscurities in her
  eventful history.”

     + − =Dial.= 43: 420. D. 16, ’07. 410w.

  “The book is well done, and the portraits and views are well
  selected.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 917. D. 14. ’07. 90w.

  “It is, as may be supposed, a difficult subject which Mr. Sergeant has
  elected to treat; and he must be allowed the credit of having
  accomplished his task with success.”

       + =Spec.= 99: sup. 753. N. 16, ’07. 180w.


=Seton, Grace Gallatin Thompson (Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton).= Nimrod’s
wife. **$1.75. Doubleday.

                                                                7–18186.

  An account of the author’s life in the open while accompanying her
  artist-author husband on his trips in search of copy rather than game.
  Many interesting feminine side lights are thrown upon experiences of
  camp and travel while there is much good advice to women as to proper
  dress and equipment.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This is a book to read; if you like books about hunting, without any
  adventures which give a distinct thrill.”

       + =Acad.= 73: 107. N. 9, ’07. 250w.

  “Written in a spirited manner, pervaded by enthusiasm for outdoor
  life, a love of adventure, and a cheerful, wholesome philosophy.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 181. O. ’07.

  “It is bright, unconventional narrative, and would be better if the
  writing were more coherent and less ‘highfalutin.’ But it is agreeable
  enough.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 617. N. 16. 130w.

  “Offers another study of feminine self-consciousness, superimposed, in
  this instance, upon a perverted and, and at times, amusingly naïve
  hero-worship.” George Gladden.

       − =Bookm.= 25: 623. Ag. ’07. 140w.

  “We can unreservedly praise her for her quick wit and catching humor,
  for her thorough-going sportsman-like manner, and for the literary
  graces of good composition.” H. E. Coblentz.

       + =Dial.= 43: 212. O. 1, ’07. 380w.

  “The views of Nimrod’s wife partake still of the charm of comparative
  novelty.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.

  “Certainly with safety and entire truthfulness it may be affirmed of
  Mrs. Thompson Seton’s animal anecdotes that they are at least good
  reading—and that in these intimate and formal records of camp life and
  travel she has so well preserved the atmosphere of close companionship
  with woods and waters that, even to the uninitiated, what is after all
  the chief charm of sport with gun and rod is made quite clear.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 476. Je. 29, ’07. 210w.


Seven sages of Rome, ed. from the manuscripts with introduction, notes
and glossary, by Killis Campbell. *$2.25. Ginn.

                                                                 7–5077.

  Besides the text, which follows the Cotton MS., this volume, one of
  the “Albion series of Anglo-Saxon and Middle English poetry,” contains
  an exhaustive introduction which discusses the early history of The
  seven sages, the Oriental, European, and English versions, and gives a
  list of originals and analogues. Full notes, a glossary and index
  complete the volume.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We congratulate Prof. Campbell on the skill and care displayed in
  this edition, which students of ‘comparative literature’ will find of
  great use.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 536. My. 4. 370w.

  “The text is an important one in the history of stories and a new
  edition was obviously needed. This want has just been supplied in a
  thoroughly satisfactory manner by Prof. Killis Campbell.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 454. My. 16, ’07. 280w.


=Severy, Melvin Linwood.= Gillette’s social redemption. Il. **$2.50.
Turner, H. B.

                                                                7–18591.

  A review of world-wide conditions as they exist to-day, offering an
  entirely new suggestion for the remedy of the evils they exhibit. Mr.
  Severy but gives expression to Mr. Gillette’s ingenious plan for the
  amelioration of the ever-increasing ills of the existing social
  system,—a plan which combines the best of the single tax scheme, the
  best of socialism with the best part of our present system as it
  exists to-day.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Sensational ‘stories’ from daily newspapers, even of the ‘yellow’
  type, are seriously treated as historical materials, without rational
  criticism. All the muckrakers are here invited to unload their
  unsavory burdens, and the result is a sort of literary
  dumping-ground.” Charles Richmond Henderson.

       − =Dial.= 43: 250. O. 16, ’07. 190w.

  “One could wish, however, for less material and a better sorting of
  what is used.”

       − =Ind.= 63: 1177. N. 14, ’07. 250w.

         =Lit. D.= 35: 490. O. 5, ’07. 410w.

  “It may be that some of the world’s scandals are omitted from this
  large and handsome book, of whose paper and print it is possible to
  speak well.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 348. Je. 1, ’07. 500w.

         =R. of Rs.= 36: 125. Jl. ’07. 160w.


=Sewell, Tyson.= Construction of dynamos, (alternating and direct
current): a textbook for students, engineer-constructors, and
electricians-in-charge. *$3. Van Nostrand.

  A text-book for students and apprentices in electrical engineering as
  well as helpful to civil, mechanical and other engineers. The earlier
  chapters are devoted to an exposition of the fundamental principles of
  direct and single phase alternating currents, and their bearing on the
  subject, of dynamos; the effects of polyphase currents being treated
  later on as an introduction to polyphase alternators.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A great deal of good information is given, but there is a lack of
  perspective the reader being left in doubt as to what is the standard
  practice.” Henry H. Norris.

     + − =Engin. N.= 58: 423. O. 17, ’07. 370w.

  “A perusal of Mr. Sewell’s book will leave the reader with the
  impression that the designer of dynamos will learn nothing from it,
  and that the student may with equal advantage read any of the previous
  publications treating of the dynamo in a popular style.” Gisbert Kapp.

     + − =Nature.= 76: 217. Jl. 4. ’07. 1190w.

         =Technical Literature.= 2: 582. D. ’07. 160w.


=Seymour, Frederick H. A.= Saunterings in Spain. **$3. Dutton.

                                                                7–35147.

  The “saunterings” include Barcelona, Madrid, Toledo, Cordova, Seville,
  and Granada. “The introduction giving an historical sketch of the
  Moorish occupation of Spain is a noteworthy tribute to remarkable
  people who shed light upon European art and science at a time when
  Europe was ‘in that slough of despond which we term “the dark ages.”’”
  (Sat. R.) “The book is essentially for the journey and not the
  fireside.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The historical sketch is good and concise, the description
  commonplace, superficial and too personal.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 72. Mr. ’07.

  “[The reader] should guard himself against too implicit an acceptance
  of all the dicta it contains. A spirit of recklessness may be found at
  work at various points in the main narrative.”

     − + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 193. F. 16. 980w.

  “The book is more deeply laden with useful knowledge than most, the
  studies of the art galleries in Spain being particularly close and
  appreciative.” Wallace Rice.

       + =Dial.= 41: 392. D. 1, ’06. 210w.

  “The illustrations are so fine that they almost make up for the
  shortcomings of the text.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 1357. Je. 6, ’07. 170w.

  “Perhaps the most interesting chapters of the book, in which there is
  not one dull page, are those on the Alhambra.”

       + =Int. Studio.= 30: 278. Ja. ’07. 280w.

  “Mr. Seymour ... is not a saunterer at all, but the cicerone, with
  much of the dryness and ponderosity of the guild, but informing, and
  if not so suggestive as Mr. Williams, far more valuable as a guide.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 39. Ja. 10, ’07. 1040w.

         =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 10. O. 13, ’06. 270w.


=Seymour, Frederick H. A.= Siena and her artists. *$1.50. Jacobs.

                                                                7–38017.

  A dissertation upon Sienese art as exemplified in her architecture,
  sculpture and painting. “General Seymour does not write as a
  specialist. He eschews technical language, and contents himself with
  setting down in simple terms the impressions produced upon him by
  study of the works of Duccio di Buoninsegna, the Lorenzetti, Taddeo di
  Bartolo, and their disciples and successors. It is interesting to
  note, from the records of these impressions, how strong an appeal to
  the modern mind may be made by an art which has deliberately adhered
  to a set of rigid conventions, if only it possesses the fundamental
  qualities of beauty and sincerity.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A book for the amateur—yes! Unimportant, but redeemed by enthusiasm
  and headlong interest in the subject.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 673. Je. 15, ’07. 310w.

  “The unpretending volume before us contains nothing for the scholar or
  the art-critic, but it will be welcome to the ordinary traveller
  visiting Siena for the first time, and desiring counsel as to how he
  may most profitably spend his leisure there.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 412. O. 5. 440w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 690. O. 26, ’07. 60w.

  “Another book which will be useful to the visitor to Italy who wishes
  for criticisms of pictures not too learned or technical.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 1007. Je. 27, ’07. 30w.


=Seymour, Thomas Day.= Life in the Homeric age. *$4. Macmillan.

                                                                7–36949.

  Based upon a study of the Homeric poems, this book deals with the life
  and times as reflected in the poet’s language. Hence it is
  philological rather than archaeological. The importance of the
  undertaking to the modern reader lies in the fact that Homer’s picture
  of the life of his age is the earliest account extant of the culture
  from which our own is a true lineal descendant. The cosmography and
  geography of the country are studied, the family, education, dress,
  food, slavery, trade, sea life and ships, agriculture, animals,
  worship, arms and war.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Very learned and extremely readable book, which we heartily recommend
  both to scholars and to the general reader.” R. T. Tyrrell.

   + + − =Acad.= 73: 181. N. 30, ’07. 1250w.

  “Is an admirable addition to a scholar’s bookshelves. There is little
  doubt that this work is exhaustive and accurate enough to satisfy all
  but the keenest departmental specialists.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 510. O. 26. 1530w.

  “The work seems too detailed for a younger student, while for the
  advanced worker it ought to embody more results from archaeology and
  the increasingly important science of anthropology. Again, one is
  compelled to notice a regrettable lack of proportion, a habit of
  repetition that might be called otiose if one did not know the
  over-conscientious author, and a constant recurrence of a negative
  method elucidation.” F. B. R. Hellems.

     + − =Dial.= 43: 311. N. 16, ’07. 3100w.

  “No one can doubt that it is definitive.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 1059. O. 31, ’07. 680w.

  “A more complete guide to the knowledge of life’s externals in the
  Homeric age we have never met with.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 35: 696. N. 9, ’07. 320w.

  “There is all through a certain lack of precision of view in this
  book.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 326. O. 25, ’07. 420w.

  “The present volume will be an indispensable work of reference in
  public and college libraries and a handsome ornament to private
  collections. But we fear that it is too bulky and too expensive for
  the students who need it in their reading of Homer.”

   + + − =Nation.= 85: 472. N. 21, ’07. 2220w.

  “In a broad sense one might call this work of opulent learning a
  sociological commentary upon the Bible of ancient Greece.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 357. O. 19, ’07. 290w.


=Shackleton, Robert, and Shackleton, Mrs. Elizabeth.= Quest of the
colonial. **$2.40. Century.

                                                                7–30414.

  While the chapters of this book are the personal experiences of two
  enthusiastic homemakers in quest of the useful, beautiful and
  interesting articles of colonial furniture and bric-a-brac, they
  afford generous information concerning colonial furniture of every
  kind, and offer helpful suggestions in the matter of selection.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It contains a great deal of definite and accurately stated
  information for the amateur collector, besides many anecdotes
  calculated to quicken his enthusiasm and arouse his envy and
  admiration.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 383. D. 1, ’07. 310w.

  “It is rare that one finds a book that deals so accurately with facts
  pertaining to the furnishing of our forefathers and at the same time
  uses dry data with sufficient cunning to make a charming readable
  tale.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 35: 696. N. 9, ’07. 170w.

         =Lit. D.= 35: 919. D. 14, ’07. 90w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 40w.

  “No one who has the slightest love of the old could fail to gain
  sincere pleasure from the reading of this book.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 359. O. 19, ’07. 120w.


=Shakespeare, William.= Complete dramatic and poetic works; ed. from the
text of the early quartos and the first folio by William A. Neilson. $3.
Houghton.

                                                                6–38336.

  Uniform with “Cambridge poets,” this volume shares with the others of
  the series the excellencies of book making. Professor Neilson’s
  “radical procedure in frankly adopting a modern punctuation will
  probably please readers, if they notice it, and raise questions among
  scholars. His rearrangement of the plays according to chronology
  within the three well-recognized divisions of comedies, histories, and
  tragedies, by which ‘Tempest’ appears as the seventeenth instead of
  the first play, is likely to give qualms to readers rather than to
  scholars. Both innovations seem to me to be worth trying, and it is
  needless to approve the small amount of textual apparatus in such an
  edition and the consequent saving of space for a good glossary.”
  (Forum.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We recommend it most cordially to the scholar, the student, and the
  general reader.”

       + =Cath. World.= 85: 262. My. ’07. 170w.

  “Calls for a word of hearty praise.”

     + + =Dial.= 42: 20. Ja. 1, ’07. 60w.

  “Professor Neilson ... has done a real service in his one volume of
  Shakespeare. His critical introduction and textual notes are very
  admirable.”

     + + =Educ. R.= 34: 210. S. ’07. 50w.

  “No more attractive single-volume edition exists.” W. P. Trent.

   + + + =Forum.= 38: 379. Ja. ’07. 480w.

   + + + =Ind.= 62: 622. Mr. 14, ’07. 270w.

   + + + =Lit. D.= 34: 264. F. 16, ’07. 190w.

  “This new edition by Prof. Neilson is easily the best single-volume
  edition that has yet been published.”

   + + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 41. Ja. 26, ’07. 1340w.

  “In every way the volume is suited for the use of the general reader
  and for a place on his library shelf.”

   + + + =Outlook.= 84: 1084. D. 29, ’06. 210w.

  “These textual variations are the merest trifles after all, and
  detract nothing from the general merit of the book, which is
  unquestionably the best one-volume edition of Shakespeare that has
  appeared—so nearly perfect in its way indeed, that its supremacy is
  not likely to be disputed for many a year.” Wm. J. Rolfe.

   + + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 723. S. ’07. 840w.


=Shakespeare, William.= First folio Shakespeare; ed. with notes, introd.
glossary, list of variorum readings, and selected criticisms, by
Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke, ea. 75c. Crowell.

  —As you like it.

                                                                6–42340.

  This volume shares with the volumes that have gone before the
  excellencies of the carefully compiled editorial matter.

  —Henry the fifth.

                                                                6–45068.

  The characteristic features of this entire series are found in this
  volume.

  —Much ado about nothing.

                                                                7–11050.

  Uniform with the “First folio edition,” and the twelfth to be issued.
  It is supplied with the full editorial equipment characteristic of the
  edition.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The reading public cannot be too grateful to the editors and
  publishers of this Shakespeare for bringing within their easy reach
  that which has hitherto been accessible only to millionaires and
  scholars.”

     + + =Acad.= 71: 605. D. 15, ’06. 220w.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 25. Ja. ’07.

  “Altogether the editors deserve to be warmly complimented on the
  thoroughness of their work, which must have cost them abundant time
  and labour.”

     + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 798. D. 22. 630w.

     + + =Nation.= 83: 533. D. 20. ’06. 50w.

  “There is nothing better at hand for the genuine student of
  Shakespeare and the development of the English language.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 96. F. 16, ’07. 340w.

  “We have no hesitation in saying that this is as great a help to
  Shakespearean study as has been produced for many years.”

     + + =Spec.= 97: 831. N. 24, ’06. 190w.


=Shakespeare, William.= Tragedie of Antonie and Cleopatra; ed. by Horace
H. Furness. *$4. Lippincott.

                                                                7–28476.

  “Antonie and Cleopatra” complete with the unsparing equipment of the
  “Variorum edition.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Differences of opinion with regard to the soundness of Dr. Furness’s
  original contributions, do not affect the high value to be placed upon
  the main purpose of his work and the splendid manner in which he
  continues to carry it out.”

   + + + =Nation.= 85: 356. O. 17. ’07. 1100w.

  “To exactness and fullness of knowledge the editor of the ‘Variorum
  edition’ has added the wisdom which is born of a great love.”

   + + + =Outlook.= 87: 329. O. 19, ’07. 620w.

   + + + =R. of Rs.= 36: 640. N. ’07. 80w.

   + + + =Spec.= 99: 535. O. 12, ’07. 180w.


=Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate.= From old fields: poems of the civil war.
**$3. Houghton.

                                                                6–39442.

  A collection of poems chiefly about civil war topics.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In a way, Mr. Shaler was the Crabbe of the battlefield. He saw the
  sordid, tragic commonplaces of war with an undeluded eye, and
  portrayed them with a firm and vivid pen.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 34. Ja. 10, ’07. 290w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 253. F. ’07. 60w.


=Shaler, Mrs. Sophia Penn Page.= Masters of fate; the power of the will.
**$1.50. Duffield.

                                                                6–32864.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 72. Mr. ’07. S.


=Shand, Alexander Innes.= Soldiers of fortune in camp and court. **$3.
Dutton.

  Phases of history “as it was built up by personal gallantry.” The
  author begins with the mediaeval Condottieri and ends with the Indian
  adventurers, the modern representatives of the Condottieri.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We have said that this is an interesting book, and apparently Mr.
  Shand, to judge by his reticence in the matter of dates and stern
  exclusion of references, does not mean it to be more than simply
  interesting. That, however, should not preclude a little care in the
  writing. The style, on the whole, is not unattractive, but it is
  sometimes careless.”

     + − =Acad.= 73: 9. O. 12, ’07. 940w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 671. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

  “‘Soldiers of fortune’ is very different from the kind of sham history
  we are often given under such a title. It is not tawdry or
  sensational; the author observes it as a point of honour with himself
  never to make what seems to him the truth lopsided in order that it
  may be more exciting.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 482. O. 5, ’07. 1440w.


* =Shaw, Albert.= Outlook for the average man. **$1.25. Macmillan.

  In five chapters, as follows, Dr. Shaw discusses the relation of the
  average man to present social, economic, and political conditions in
  the United States. The average man under changing economic conditions,
  Present economic problems, Our legacy from a century of pioneers, The
  business career and the community and Jefferson’s doctrines under new
  tests.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 762. N. 30. ’07. 180w.


=Shaw, Albert.= Political problems of American development. (Columbia
university lectures George Blumenthal foundation, 1907.) *$1.50.
Macmillan.

                                                                7–22104.

  “The book as a whole is a study of national development, dealing not
  with the questions of constitutional law that vexed the minds of the
  fathers, but with the practical difficulties that democracy has
  continuously encountered in its attempt to realize the national ideals
  in the American environment. Immigration and race questions, problems
  relating to our public lands, party machinery, the regulation of the
  railroads and the great industrial trusts, the tariff, the currency,
  foreign policy, and territorial expansion are all discussed from the
  point of view of the journalist and man of affairs.”—R. of Rs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is so valuable as to deserve a second edition.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 1372. D. 5, ’07. 620w.

  “We cannot feel that this work will add to Mr. Shaw’s reputation
  either as a writer or as a student of American problems. The whole
  volume smacks of the haste of journalism. It is frequently
  repetitious, and is not lacking in that dogmatic finality of opinion
  which is a pitfall for all editors.”

       − =Nation.= 85: 425. N. 7, ’07. 750w.

  “His views in their entirety are not always ours. But we may say that
  in no instance does he fail to illumine his subject for the great
  general public to whom he addresses himself; and that his little
  volume is an admirable textbook for the use of those who would pursue
  intelligently and conscientiously the schooling that makes for an
  efficient and triumphant democracy.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 87: 540. N. 9, ’07. 1040w.

  Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.

     + + =Putnam’s.= 3: 230. N. ’07. 750w.

         =R. of Rs.= 36: 383. S. ’07. 180w.


=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.

                                                                6–39443.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “A combination of acute and searching criticism of modern plays and
  players with unlimited flippancy and egotism. Deliciously
  entertaining, if not altogether profitable, reading; for those
  familiar with the plays and the actors.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 72. Mr. ’07.

  “Mr. Shaw is at his sanest in the dramatic criticisms contributed
  weekly to the ‘Saturday review.’” H. W. Boynton.

       + =Atlan.= 99: 553. Ap. ’07. 5910w.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 71. Ja. ’07. 2050w.

  “They made sparkling reading in those days, but that is hardly
  sufficient to justify the preservation of such current chroniclings in
  permanent form.”

     + − =Dial.= 42: 13. Ja. 1, ’07. 120w.

  “If there is anyone surviving at this time of day who thinks Mr. Shaw
  merely a crank or merely a ‘farceur’, these collected dramatic
  criticisms ought to open his eyes. They are, on the whole,
  tremendously earnest and absolutely sane; the work of a man who
  obviously longs to leave not only the stage, but the world, better
  than he found it.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 117. Ap. 12, ’07. 2000w.

       + =Outlook.= 84: 1082. D. 29, ’06. 280w.

  “These criticisms of Mr. Shaw’s have had, and we believe are likely to
  have, a wholesome effect upon the contemporary stage, but whether such
  be the case or no, they must at least be allowed this great
  virtue—they are tremendously entertaining.” Horatio S. Krans.

     + + =Putnam’s.= 1: 754. Mr. ’07. 620w.

  “Mr. Huneker has chosen the criticisms for republication, and written
  an heroic, gunnerlike preface, full of explosions and boomings, which
  is, perhaps, suitable to so gallant an occasion.”

       − =Spec.= 98: 567. Ap. 13, ’07. 1780w.


=Shaw, George Bernard.= John Bull’s other island and Major Barbara.
**$1.50. Brentano’s.

                                                                7–21528.

  There are three plays included in this group: John Bull’s other
  island, How he lied to her husband, and Major Barbara. There are the
  usual characteristic prefaces, and for an introduction he makes use of
  his “First aid to critics.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Both ‘John Bull’s other island’ and ‘Major Barbara’ are ill put
  together. They share with the ‘Doctor’s dilemma’ the defect of
  straggling on after the play is really at an end.” St. J. H.

       − =Acad.= 72: 621. Je. 29, ’07. 1120w.

  “It is only by the ideas which they embody that Mr. Shaw’s stage-works
  will live. Should those ideas ever become commonplaces—an unlikely
  contingency!—his plays possess, apart from their humour and wit, no
  quality which can save them from the doom of oblivion. They contain
  but the smallest amount of story, no plot worth speaking of, and very
  little emotional stress or conflict; any catastrophe they set forth is
  of a strictly intellectual sort.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 107. Jl. 27. 1500w.

  “The latest is the most interesting volume of Brentano’s new edition
  of Shaw, because none of the three plays in it has appeared in print
  before and only one of them has been played often enough in this
  country for many people to see it.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 879. O. 10, ’07. 860w.

  “If only to find the secret that is in Mr. Shaw’s heart, his prefaces
  are to be read. There are the plays to be read, as well—two of them as
  good plays as Mr. Shaw has ever done, and all three as amusing and
  stimulating in print as on the stage, all three brilliantly successful
  devices for compelling you to swallow the powder of the
  ‘paper-apostle’ in the jam of the ‘artist-magician.’”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 197. Je. 21, ’07. 1890w.

  “As a study of actual social conditions, or as drama, [Major Barbara]
  is quite worthless, being wholly unreasonable and packed, as is the
  writer’s habit, with all kinds of false and reckless generalizations,
  cynical extravagancies, and perverse misrepresentations; but it is,
  nevertheless, highly entertaining in its witty, bumptious, paradoxical
  and wholly irresponsible fashion.”

     − + =Nation.= 84: 19. Jl. 4, ’07. 350w.

  “The present writer is considering not Mr. Shaw the playwright, but
  Mr. Shaw, the clairvoyant, the acute observer and the critic of things
  as they are in the year of grace, 1907, the philosopher, if you will,
  of the open eye and mind. He is, as a matter of fact, the very
  inspiration of critics whether of literature or of life, for he is
  inexhaustively suggestive because he is marvelously perceiving.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 437. Jl. 13, ’07. 2370w.

  “In these two more substantial plays, as always, Mr. Shaw makes it
  plainer than ever, as has already been said, that he is first the
  determined moralist, the servant of his profoundly passionate
  convictions; then the architect of what happens to be their vehicle:
  in this case, satiric and imaginative drama. But scarcely less notable
  is the demonstration which is here furnished of that other
  inconvenient and embarrassing fact which Mr. Shaw is at such elaborate
  pains, when he is on his guard, to conceal: the fact that he is, ‘au
  fond’ and incurably a poet.” Lawrence Gilman.

       + =No. Am.= 186: 284. O. ’07. 2000w.

  “Not even Mr. Bernard Shaw’s wit and paradox can make his play about
  Ireland ... altogether easy reading.”

     − + =Outlook.= 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 40w.

  “The three plays show Mr. Shaw’s characteristic genius.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 383. S. ’07. 100w.


=Sheedy, Rev. Morgan M.= Briefs for our times. **$1. Whittaker.

                                                                6–31412.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The literary quality of the book is very good indeed; and, while the
  author does not pretend to original thinking, he has the knack of
  putting ancient truth in a fresh and pleasing, as well as convincing,
  manner.”

       + =Cath. World.= 84: 548. Ja. ’07. 190w.


=Sheehan, Rev. Patrick Augustine.= Early essays and lectures. *$1.60.
Longmans.

                                                                7–11584.

  A collection of essays “disinterred” from the magazines in which they
  appeared during the past twenty-five years. In them Father Sheehan
  discusses such men as Emerson, Arnold and Aubrey De Vere, and such
  subjects as, The German universities, The German and Gaelic muses, and
  Irish youth and high ideals.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In many places, the essays would have been improved by the
  application of the pruning knife.... Many of the essays would have
  gained a great deal by compression; in very few instances will one
  find a passage that deserves a place alongside almost any paragraph
  that might be taken at random from ‘Under the cedars and the stars.’”

     + − =Cath. World.= 84: 414. D. ’06. 220w.

         =Dial.= 42: 84. F. 1, ’07. 80w.

       + =Spec.= 97: 792. N. 17. ’06. 350w.


=Shelley, Henry C.= John Harvard and his times, il. **$2. Little.

                                                                7–34809.

  The facts concerning the life of John Harvard have been so few and the
  few so hard to obtain that no volume has been written before on the
  “young minister whose generosity had such important influence on the
  beginnings of education in America.” The sketch shows what were the
  environment and early influence in his Stratford-on-Avon home, and
  also gives what is known of his parentage. Then follow chapters on The
  Harvard circle, Cambridge, Last years in England; The new world and
  The praise of John Harvard.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Unfortunately, the author can not tell us what sort of a man John
  Harvard was. But he tells very cleverly the kind of man John Harvard
  might have been.” Arthur M. Chase.

       + =Bookm.= 26: 413. D. ’07. 530w.

  “Mr. Shelley shows himself accurate and unbiased in stating his
  slender store of absolutely determined facts, and singularly clever in
  piecing them together and eking them out with ingenious
  possibilities.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 382. D. 1, ’07. 290w.

  “The volume contains, of course, much valuable material relating to
  the founding of Harvard college, but besides that it furnishes an
  interesting picture of the Massachusetts colony as it was during the
  first twenty years of its history.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 917, D. 14, ’07. 180w.

  “In general we think Mr. Shelley’s inferences from the data at hand
  entirely reasonable; and when the picture is unfortunately obscure he
  shows skill in throwing upon it side-lights.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 475. N. 21, ’97. 1450w.

  “Mr. Shelley has brought to light much valuable material relating to
  Harvard, his parentage, his times, and friends.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 50w.

  “Mr. Shelley is entitled to the honor due a pioneer and to the
  satisfaction of feeling that he has produced a book interesting in
  itself and bearing the promise of fruitful results.” Elisabeth L.
  Cary.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 679. O. 26, ’07. 1600w.

  “It is no detraction from the supplementary value and interest of Mr.
  Shelley’s work if we recognize at once that his is a secondary book.”
  Ripley Hitchcock.

       + =No. Am.= 186: 611. D. ’07. 1830w.

  “As the life of John Harvard it can only be described as conjectural
  biography carried to the nth degree. Its sole distinction is its
  attractive reconstitution of the environment in which John Harvard was
  brought up, and the people he possibly knew.”

     + − =Outlook.= 87: 612. N. 23, ’07. 300w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 755. D. ’07. 50w.

       + =Spec.= 99: 718. N. 9, ’07. 250w.


=Shelley, Henry C.= Literary by-paths in old England; il. **$3. Little.

                                                                6–34854.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 73. Mr. ’07.

  “Mr. Shelley is in many respects quite the ideal guide, unassuming,
  sympathetic, and exceedingly well informed. He refreshes vague
  memories and supplies fresh clues at almost every turn, and his is
  exactly the book one would like to take along on a pilgrimage to
  poetic shrines, but—and it is a serious but—for the clumsy proportions
  and gross material weight of the volume.” Harriet Waters Preston.

     + − =Atlan.= 99: 420. Mr. ’07. 390w.

       + =Ind.= 62: 677. Mr. 21, ’07. 200w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 112. Ja. ’07. 70w.


=Shelton, Louise.= Seasons in a flower garden: a handbook of information
and instruction for the amateur. **$1. Scribner.

                                                                6–19004.

  (2d ed. rev. and enl.

                                                               7–18184.)

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 14. Ja. ’07. S.


* =Shepard, William Kent.= Problems in strength of materials. *$1.25.
Ginn.

                                                                7–30998.

  “A collection of nearly 600 specific problems or exercises in the
  strength of materials ... [which] confines itself strictly to the
  statement of problems, and with one exception, eight pages on the
  design of riveted joints, avoids explanatory interjections.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In the absence of either explanation or cautionary reference, the
  student is likely to go astray, even when the book is being
  administered by a teacher. Regardless of this, however, we welcome the
  appearance of such a collection of problems.”

   + + − =Engin. N.= 58: 537. N. 14, ’07. 620w.

         =Technical Literature.= 2: 584. D. ’07. 100w.


=Shepherd, Henry Elliot.= Life of Robert Edward Lee. $2. Neale.

                                                                6–46779.

  Not so much a biography as a characterization. The conditions under
  which Lee lived and worked and the results he achieved are outlined,
  as well as his ideals, motives, genius and character. The author says
  “It is my distinctive purpose to exhibit the life of our hero in those
  critical and all-pervading relations which constitute the abiding test
  of true greatness.”


=Sheppard, Alfred Tresidder.= Running horse inn. †$1.50. Lippincott.

                                                                7–18182.

  George Kennett, a soldier in the Peninsular campaign, returns to
  Running Horse inn in a little town in the south of England upon the
  day that his brother, believing him dead, weds the girl who had
  promised to wait for him. At first the returned soldier succeeds
  fairly well in accepting the inevitable, but when financial hardships
  come, and his old love for Bess masters him, he turns scoundrel, and
  brings misery to his brother’s home. He pays the penalty for the guilt
  which he was morally responsible for, although he is innocent
  technically of the charge that hangs him.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A really fine historical novel.”

       + =Acad.= 71: 479. N. 10, ’06. 190w.

  “His military experiences show more power than any other portion of
  the book.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 509. O. 27. 120w.

  “The tender character studies of rural English folk, the captain’s
  yarns, the homely life within the Inn, and the eternal scenery along
  the downs, and, above all, the solemn tread with which all events seem
  to march toward the final, inevitable tragedy gives the book power.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 572. S. 5, ’07. 140w.

  “Has set himself a difficult task and if he has not fully succeeded it
  is fair to recognize the ambition.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 369. N. 2, ’06. 250w.

  “The book shows a good measure of careful preparation. On the whole,
  interest is fairly well maintained.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 16. Jl. 4, ’07. 220w.

  “The tale is dramatic and has some thrilling situations.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.

  “The plot is too weak to support itself thru 400 pages, although the
  best part of it is near the close.”

     − + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 80w.

  “The design is ambitious, the details carefully wrought, but Mr.
  Sheppard seems to us to have essayed, with inadequate equipment, a
  theme which would have suited Mr. Thomas Hardy in his earlier manner.”

     − + =Sat. R.= 103: 22. Ja. 5, ’07. 180w.

  “It would be difficult to overpraise the way in which the atmosphere
  of impending calamity is sustained, or the subtlety with which the
  growing degradation of the chief figure is traced. The mere writing is
  of the best, and there are passages of high imaginative beauty.”

     + + =Spec.= 97: 731. N. 10, ’06. 350w.


=Sheppard, S. E. and Mees, C. E. Kenneth.= Investigations on the theory
of the photographic process. *$1.75. Longmans.

  A theoretical rather than practical work whose subjects are dealt with
  from the point of view of what is now understood as physical chemistry
  and are described in the language of that branch of science.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This volume will find a place, which it will worthily fill, in the
  libraries of all who are interested in the scientific aspects of
  photography.” C. J.

     + + =Nature.= 76: 468. S. 5, ’07. 700w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 333. My. 25, ’07. 70w.


=Sherard, Robert Harborough.= Twenty years in Paris; being some
recollections of a literary life; 2d ed. il. *$4. Jacobs.

                                                                6–18833.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 85. Mr. ’07.


=Sheridan, Richard Brinsley.= Major dramas of Richard Brinsley Sheridan:
The rivals, The school for scandal, The critic; ed. with introd. and
notes by George Henry Nettleton. (Athenaeum press ser.) *90c. Ginn.

                                                                6–43927.

  A school edition with abundant editorial matter.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He succeeds, not only in giving all the information needed by
  beginners with sterling fulness and accuracy, but in adding a great
  deal that will interest those who have already a good working
  knowledge of the plays.”

     + + =Acad.= 72: 112. F. 2, ’07. 1310w.

  “Is by far the most pretentious attempt yet made to edit these
  masterpieces of English comedy. It is to be regretted that the
  apparatus is more evident than the criticism. The several sections in
  which Professor Nettleton discusses Sheridan’s position in the English
  drama display no real insight into the art of dramaturgy.” Brander
  Matthews.

     − + =Educ. R.= 33: 318. Mr. ’07. 1200w.

  “A compact and careful piece of work, containing a considerable amount
  of useful information in small compass.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 251. Mr. 14, ’07. 310w.

  “We do not know any other book on Sheridan which crowds so much
  information into so small a compass.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 57. F. 2, ’07. 130w.

  “Admirers of Sheridan’s [plays] may now have their favorites printed
  (for the first time in America) from the authentic text of Sheridan’s
  plays taken from the original manuscripts and edited (for the first
  time anywhere) with complete annotation.” H. E. Coblentz.

     + + =School R.= 15: 625. O. ’07. 350w.


=Sheridan, Richard Brinsley B.= Rivals; with an introduction by Brander
Matthews. il. $2.50. Crowell.

                                                                7–24460.

  A de luxe edition illustrated by a series of five drawings, the work
  of Mr. O’Malley, which are reproduced in full-page photogravures. The
  drawings, the introduction by Brander Matthews and the excellent
  workmanship of the book make it a choice holiday offering.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Power O’Malley has illustrated the play for the present edition
  in a fashion to emphasize both its old-time quaintness and its
  sparkling humor.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 381. D. 1, ’07. 110w.

  “The notes are of little value.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 451. N. 14, ’07. 110w.


=Sheridan, Wilbur Fletcher.= Life of Isaac Wilson Joyce. *$1. West.
Meth. bk.

                                                                7–20972.

  A biography of Bishop Joyce of the Methodist Episcopal church which
  reveals him as preeminently the man of action, a man “too busy making
  history to record it.” His missionary zeal at home and in foreign
  fields sounds the strongest note in the sketch.


=Sherman, Ellen Burns.= Words to the wise—and others. **$1.50. Holt.

                                                                7–36126.

  A dozen delightful essays upon social and literary subjects such as:
  The root and foliage of style, Our kin and others, A plea for the
  naturalization of ghosts, Ruskin, Modern letter-writing, and Our
  comédie humaine. In each we find a discriminating taste for the best
  works of God and man.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Outlook.= 87: 746. N. 30, ’07. 130w.


=Sherring, Charles A.= Western Tibet and the British border land. *$6.
Longmans.

                                                                7–19489.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “It comes too late, and it is far too bulky.”

     − + =Acad.= 72: 13. Ja. 5, ’07. 480w.

  “The best parts of Mr. Sherring’s volume are the chapters devoted to
  the legends and myths of the natives especially the Bhotia tribes of
  the frontier, and to the quaint customs and manners of the British
  borderland.” H. E. Coblentz.

       + =Dial.= 42: 43. Ja. 16, ’07. 580w.

  “The present volume is one of the most valuable works that we have
  seen upon the subject.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 34: 594. Ap. 13, ’07. 410w.

  “Mr. Sherring is much to be congratulated upon the way in which he has
  acquitted himself of his task.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 234. Jl. 26, ’07. 1030w.

  “Nor is there anything new to interest the ethnologist, naturalist,
  botanist, geologist or sportsman. Altogether it is unfortunate that
  the author has missed this unique opportunity of making important
  additions to our knowledge of this little explored land. The best
  things in the book are the photographs of the peaks and passes, most
  of which are supplied by Dr. T. G. Longstaff.”

     − + =Sat. R.= 102: 776. D. 22, ’06. 1620w.


=Sherrington, Charles Scott.= Integrative action of the nervous system.
**$3.50. Scribner.

                                                                6–38912.

  “The aim of this book, as its title indicates, is to set forth in
  detail the manner in which the nervous system serves to bring together
  in united action the various parts of the animal organism.... The
  whole trend of the book, though it is primarily physiological, is a
  strong argument for some sort of ‘motor theory’ of consciousness....
  The book is accompanied by an exhaustive bibliography, and the author
  supports each step in his argument by frequent reference to his own
  extensive and minute experiments as well as to the results found by
  other investigators. Numerous reproductions of myograph curves, etc.,
  illustrate the text.”—J. Philos.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Reviewed by F. N. Freeman.

         =J. Philos.= 4: 301. My. 23, ’07. 1750w.

  “We have in this book the most valuable contribution to the
  comprehension of the functions of the nervous system that has appeared
  up to the present time, not only from the records of the experiments
  quoted, but also from the logical and orderly way in which the due
  inferences from the experiments are put forward, and the volume stands
  out as a landmark in our knowledge of the subject.”

   + + − =Nature.= 76: 122. Je. 6, ’07. 710w.


* =Sherwood, Margaret Pollock.= Princess Pourquoi. †$1.50. Houghton.

                                                                7–31285.

  The five tales in this volume are wonderstory fables. “The ‘Princess
  Pourquoi’ represents, let us say, the modern spirit of feminine
  inquiry in its dignified aspect; ‘The princess and the microbe’ and
  ‘The seven studious sisters’ represents the same spirit in an amusing
  light; and ‘The clever necromancer,’ its pathetic side. ‘The gentle
  robber’ is a more pungent satire upon the theoretical and the actual
  attitude of the world toward greed and dishonesty on a large scale.”
  (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Nation.= 85: 474. N. 21, ’07. 260w.

  “They are very gracefully written, and the effect of each is something
  like that of an old piece of richly colored embroidery.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 649. O. 19, ’07. 100w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 20w.


=Shoemaker, Blanche.= Woven of dreams. **$1.25. Lane.

                                                                7–10279.

  Under the four headings, Sonnets, Youth’s journey, Gathered petals,
  and Woven of dreams, are gathered more than a hundred exquisite
  verses, full of the joy of life and the depths of its emotions.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The work is uneven and weak lines mar otherwise good sonnets. There
  is, too, no allusiveness or elusiveness. The author forgets that
  poetry is the language of suggestion and tumbles everything out before
  us with a forwardness that is occasionally unpleasant.” Christian
  Gauss.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 220w.


=Shoemaker, Michael Myers.= Winged wheels in France. **$2.50. Putnam.

                                                                6–42912.

  The “winged wheels” belong to a “great red touring car” in which the
  author made a trip through the Rhine valley to Switzerland. The
  snapshot method has been employed and there are no time exposures. The
  book is embellished with numerous reproductions of photographs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 129. My. ’07.

  “He is always interesting and entertaining in his books, but we prefer
  him when he travels at more leisure than the motor-car permits. The
  volume is pleasantly written and admirably illustrated.” H. E.
  Coblentz.

       + =Dial.= 42: 373. Je. 16. ’07. 200w.

         =Nation.= 84: 59. Ja. 17, ’07. 110w.

  “The descriptions are graphic, and there is a wise avoidance of the
  geographical details.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 899. D. 22, ’06. 360w.

  “Mr. Shoemaker writes with sympathy, although his pages might well
  have been more picturesque and luminous considering his subject
  matter.”

     + − =Outlook.= 84: 1083. D. 29, ’06. 230w.

  “A good bit of descriptive travel writing.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 109. Ja. ’07. 50w.

  “It is a succession of rapid impressions, which seems to require eyes
  and a brain especially made for the purpose, if any fixed recollection
  is to be carried away. Yet these impressions are clear, in spite of
  their quickness and slightness.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 1013. Je. 29, ’07. 360w.


=Shorter, Dora Sigerson.= Through wintry terrors. $1.50. Cassell.

  “A struggling clerk and his silly young wife, a vicious little poet,
  an old maid, and a few of the submerged—these are the characters in
  ‘Through wintry terrors.’” (Lond. Times.) The tragedy of a hasty
  marriage is enacted in which misunderstandings lead to separation, and
  this, for the wife, to the sober trouble of London’s darker side. “The
  simple story moves straight to its end through troubles very real and
  affecting, shaped by the hand of an artist and touched with the spirit
  of a poet.” (Lond. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The best that can be said for it is that no doubt it will yield a
  number of amiable persons a certain harmless enjoyment; the worst,
  that there is no reason why it should have been written at all.”

       − =Acad.= 73: 194. N. 30, ’07. 230w.

  “Mrs. Shorter’s characters are skillfully and sympathetically drawn.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 400. O. 5. 180w.

  “[Only one] small blot on a story that within its little limits has
  the qualities of a work of art.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 317. O. 18, ’07. 330w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 50w.


=Shurter, Edwin DuBois=, ed. Masterpieces of modern oratory. *$l. Ginn.

                                                                 7–3094.

  A group of oratorical masterpieces which have been collected with a
  view of offering them to students as models for study.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Professor Shurter has made a good collection of orations, but he has
  committed the usual editor’s fault of presenting them incompletely.”

     + − =Educ. R.= 34: 209. S. ’07. 70w.

  “Hence we are inclined to place a high value on a book which contains
  such well-chosen selections. Professor Shurter has done his task
  well.” H. E. Coblentz.

       + =School R.= 15: 554. S. ’07. 740w.


=Sichel, Walter Sydney.= Emma. Lady Hamilton from new and original
sources and documents, together with an appendix of notes and new
letters. *$5. Dodd.

                                                                 6–1105.

  The important contribution which Mr. Sichel has to make to the story
  of Lady Hamilton throws light chiefly upon her relations with Nelson.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Sichel’s book is more than a biography of this remarkable woman;
  it might almost be called a history. His net is all-embracing and his
  capacity for taking pains is great.”

       + =Acad.= 69: 1259. D. 2. ’05. 880w.

     + − =Ath.= 1905, 2: 540. O. 21. 180w.

  “There can be no doubt that the author’s treatment of the whole
  subject is far more complete and authoritative than that of Mr. Cordy
  Jeaffreson.” W.

       + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 829. O. ’06. 300w.

  “His volume is in large measure an apologia for Lady Hamilton, nearly
  always ingenious, but sometimes a little too ‘precious’ in tone and
  not very often quite convincing.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 4: 356. O. 27, ’05. 1970w.

  “His pages continuously shock the reader acquainted with the period,
  not by gross lapses, but by constant petty distortions that are too
  minute to criticise, and that may be best summed up as indicating a
  complete lack of the historical sense. It is essentially this that
  robs the book of value.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 376. N. 1, ’06. 780w.

  “He has collected an enormous amount of valuable material, which he
  has arranged with picturesque effect, and a real dramatic sense. His
  style is careless and diffuse, and in the attempt to be forcible and
  expressive, he becomes strained and affected.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 100: 697. N. 25, ’05. 2260w.

  “This is a marvel of industry, enthusiasm, and of special pleading.”

     + − =Spec.= 95: 978. D. 9, ’05. 2250w.


=Sidgwick, Arthur, and Sidgwick, Eleanor Mildred (Mrs. Arthur
Sidgwick).= Henry Sidgwick—a memoir. *$4. Macmillan.

                                                                6–18307.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “To all who can feel the attraction of a noble mind spending itself in
  the search for truth this biography must be of compelling interest.”
  F. Melian Stawell.

     + + =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 241. Ja. ’07. 1360w.

  “It gives a reflected picture of the intellectual changes in British
  thought from 1860–1900.” John Dewey.

     + + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 133. Mr. ’07. 1100w.


=Sidgwick, Cecily Ullmann.= Kinsman. $1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                 7–4161.

  Another amusing comedy founded upon a case of mistaken identity. A
  young Englishman having closed out his interests in Australia comes to
  England to visit his kinsman, Colonel Blois, whose heir he is. Upon
  his arrival he meets his double who is a distant cousin and a
  worthless cockney clerk. The clerk, believing that his cousin has been
  drowned while in swimming, impersonates him to the confusion of his
  well-bred relatives and the joy of the reader. But in the end
  everything is straightened out and several love affairs come to a
  happy ending. The whole is amusing and the character of the weak,
  pleasure-loving clerk is exceedingly well drawn.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “An entertaining book, one of the best Mrs. Sidgwick has written.”

     + + =Acad.= 72: 143. F. 9, ’07. 260w.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 110. Ap. ’07. ✠

  “The story does not aim at a high standard of literary excellence, but
  is wholesome and mildly amusing.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 221. F. 23. 140w.

  “A distinctly amusing story, in which there is not for an instant any
  doubt which are the real hero and heroine.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

       + =Bookm.= 25: 89. Mr. ’07. 370w.

  “An exceptionally bright and entertaining work of fiction.” Wm. M.
  Payne.

       + =Dial.= 42: 377. Je. 16, ’07. 350w.

  “Is just conventional enough, foolish enough, pleasant enough, to be
  an excellent thing of its kind.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 157. F. 14, ’07. 380w.

  “An amusing, neatly built story, entertaining enough while it is being
  read and of no consequence afterward.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 120. F. 23, ’07. 310w.

  “Is rather rampant in fun, but is in that way decidedly amusing.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 479. F. 23, ’07. 70w.

         =Sat. R.= 103: 465. Ap. 13, ’07. 230w.

  “Capital specimen of fantastic comedy, bordering at times on farce,
  yet relieved in the case of Roger and Pamela with graceful and
  chivalrous sentiment.”

       + =Spec.= 97: 219. F. 9, ’07. 800w.


=Siegfried, Andre.= Race question in Canada. *$3. Appleton.

                                                                7–22822.

  Canada in its social, economic and political aspects. “Part 1,
  considers the rival races and religions, and gives a full and
  instructive view of the influences exerted by Roman Catholicism and by
  Protestantism. In part 2, the political life of Canada is described in
  ten chapters. The balance of power and influence forms the topic of
  part 3, and part 4, treats of Canada’s external relations, and
  endeavors to discuss the question of her probable future.” (N. Y.
  Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His book is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of a subject
  full of interest.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 619. O. 12, ’07. 200w.

  “This volume written apparently for the French kinsmen of French
  Canadians, is both interesting and illuminating for us.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 359. O. 19, ’07. 360w.

  “This is an interesting book.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 724. My. 4, ’07. 230w.


=Sigerson, George.= Bards of the Gael and Gall: examples of the poetic
literature of Erin, done into English after the meters and modes of the
Gael. *$1.50. Scribner.

  A second edition of this anthology of translated Gaelic poetry. “It
  follows the plan of the first edition in giving in historical series
  specimens of verses from the earliest known to that of recent times
  and in essaying to present them in the spirit, form, and structure of
  the originals. Several new versions have been introduced into this
  edition to illustrate different periods and show different styles.”
  (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Taken as a whole, we may say that the pieces have been well
  translated.... Had he omitted two-thirds of the pieces in the present
  volume, he would have strengthened his case considerably. By winnowing
  the chaff from the grain he might have convinced the average reader
  that ancient Ireland had a literature equal to, if not greater than,
  that of the Greeks.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 135. F. 9, ’07. 1950w.

  “A good index would have enhanced the value of the book”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 311. My. 11, ’07. 320w.


=Silberrad, Una L.= Good comrade. †$1.50. Doubleday.

                                                                7–30840.

  An English story with part of its scene laid in Holland. Julia
  Polkington the most self-respecting member of a family noted for
  “shifty expedients” takes a place as “lady help” in a Dutch
  bulb-grower’s family. Her aim is to get possession of a certain bulb,
  sell it, and so pay a home debt. Her honor prevents her. But she does
  steal from a Dutch chemist, by whom she is later employed, a valuable
  explosive and turns it over to her father’s creditor, who tried to
  secure it, and who is now her lover. The girl’s marriage finally
  crowns the meagre happenings of a restless life.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “She has given a description of ‘bourgeois’ Holland which is both
  vivid and true.”

     + + =Acad.= 73: 707. Jl. 20, ’07. 300w.

  “The author appeals insistently to our intelligence and sympathy, and
  has produced an exceptionally good novel.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 630. My. 25. 150w.

  “In spite of the fancifulness of the plot and the conventionality of
  the hero the book is not a silly one.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 474. N. 21, ’07. 260w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

  “Altogether it is such a book in its literary and artistic quality as
  American novelists do not seem able to write—or, if they can write
  such a book, which they are not able to get published. The get-up of
  the book deserves a word of reproof. Its proof-reading is so
  atrocious. errors frequently marring the sense, as to be a disgrace.”

   + + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 677. O. 26, ’07. 810w.

  “The ethics of a man, who is represented as ‘possessing the code of
  honor of a gentleman,’ seem peculiar. This is the only weak spot in
  the story that maintains its hold on the reader throughout. The
  character-painting is clever, the dialogue natural, and the humor
  gentle and pleasing.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 87: 450. O. 26, ’07. 190w.

  “Will do nothing to lower the high reputation which Miss Silberrad has
  made in the ranks of the novel-writers of to-day.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 908. Je. 8, ’07. 180w.


=Sill, Edward Rowland.= Poetical works. $1.50. Houghton.

                                                                6–35717.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 15. Ja. 07.


=Simpson, M. W. Hilton-.= Algiers and beyond. **$3.50. Appleton.

  The author’s narrative covers two expeditions into remote parts of
  Algiers. “The first expedition extended into the Khabylie country, the
  mountain region close to the coast, and after that to Biskra, within
  the borders of the Sahara.... The second expedition was into the
  region called Petit Sahara, and the author was for a time the guest of
  the Khalifa of Roumania, Belcassem Ben Toumy by name, and a most
  genial and agreeable personage.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Where he allowed his own mother-wit to guide him, the author’s
  versions of what he saw are admirably shrewd and generally accurate.
  He writes as a sportsman, and his information under this head is of a
  useful and practical sort.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 579. N. 10. 360w.

  “What one may see and do in the back country of Algeria is very
  agreeably set forth.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 450w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 40w.

  “Likely to be helpful to the visitor to Algiers who wishes to extend
  his acquaintance with that most interesting country.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 297. F. 23, ’07. 60w.


=Sinclair, May.= Audrey Craven. †$1.50. Holt.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The book is a competent study of ‘a small creature struggling with
  things too great,’ and it makes the reader uncomfortable.”

     + − =Putnam’s.= 1: 640. F. ’07. 90w.


=Sinclair, May.= Helpmate. †$1.50. Holt.

                                                                7–25509.

  While Walter and Anne Majendie are upon their honeymoon rumors reach
  the wife of scandal attached to her husband’s name. Anne at once
  enters the cloister of her own spiritual high mindedness thereby
  securing for herself a “sort of spiritual divorce from him, while she
  martyrised her body which was wedded to him.” Miss Sinclair delineates
  intimately the cold virtue of the wife as by degrees it drives away
  the half boyish, genuinely honest and wholly devoted husband who seeks
  consolation in a little shop girl. Only after terrible suffering does
  Anne realize that Walter has kept all his marriage vows except one,
  and she had broken all of hers, except one. Her understanding comes as
  a surprise, and permits the curtain to be rung down upon a happier
  group than seems possible from the stand point of logic.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a tribute to Miss Sinclair’s skill that she has not made Anne a
  bore; she is interesting as well as unpleasant.”

     + + =Acad.= 73: 929. S. 21, ’07. 430w.

  “Whether it has a place in a large library or not, there is no excuse
  for the small library putting money into it, first because it has
  appeared serially in the ‘Atlantic’ during the year and is, therefore,
  accessible to those who desire it, and second, because it should be
  consigned to the restricted shelves for which there is no need in the
  small library.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 181. O. ’07.

  “Unusually well-constructed and interesting.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 204. Ag. 24. 170w.

  “This novel of Miss Sinclair’s is one of more than ordinary power and
  with a more pressing raison d’être than have most novels, but it is
  almost certain that those who might draw from it a profitable idea are
  not the ones who will read it.” Dolores Bacon.

     + + =Bookm.= 26: 276. N. ’07. 1030w.

  “We may say at once that it is not as remarkable a performance as its
  predecessor, but we must quickly add that it is so far above the run
  of novels as to afford a high degree of intellectual satisfaction.”
  Wm. M. Payne.

     + + =Dial.= 43: 250. O. 16, ’07. 520w.

  “The ‘Helpmate’ is one of the most truthful novels written in many a
  day and therein lies its dignity and worth.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 877. O. 10, ’07. 820w.

  “Probably the most effective, the most humanly splendid story of the
  year comes from May Sinclair.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 1228. N. 21, ’07. 40w.

  “Not that the book is in any sense a sermon. It is far too
  artistically and honestly a novel, informed with sagacity of mind, and
  admirably distinguished in expression.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 35: 656. N. 2, ’07. 420w.

  “A novel which, though abounding in cleverness, must, for various
  reasons be held to have missed a success very nearly attained, must on
  the whole be regarded as a brilliant failure. I have been tempted to
  examine this failure—if so it be—in the light of the British
  convention.” Eleanor Cecil.

     − + =Living Age.= 255: 579. D. 7, ’07. 6950w.

  “‘The helpmate’ stands or falls by its fidelity to the fact. In spite
  of certain defects, we think it stands; and stands not only as a
  document but as an emotional story. We admire the book immensely; we
  admire its skill, its outspokenness, its reticence. Perhaps, most of
  all, we admire Miss Sinclair’s sympathetic understanding and
  tolerance, beyond that of most married novelists.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 269. S. 6, ’07. 670w.

       + =Nation.= 85: 259. S. 19, ’07. 640w.

  “The book contains unforgettable scenes, persons, phrases, and such a
  picture of the hardness of a good woman as exists nowhere else in our
  literature. If there are minor errors of judgment and lapses of
  kindliness, there is nevertheless and always that large charity which
  is the outward and visible sign of the inward and spiritual thing
  which is Miss Sinclair’s most wonderful gift—the gift of
  understanding.” H. I. Brock.

   + + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 510. Ag. 24, ’07. 1490w.

  “It is a good book for some women to read and a dangerous book for
  some men. A wider knowledge of life would have made ‘The helpmate’ a
  great story.”

     + − =Outlook.= 87: 621. N. 23, ’07. 270w.

  “We flatly refuse to believe in the final development of Anne into a
  perfectly rational human being, but we strongly commend the novel as a
  powerful study of temperament.”

   + + − =Sat. R.= 104: 370. S. 21, ’07. 310w.


=Sinclair, May.= Tysons. $1.50. Holt.

  A new edition of Miss Sinclair’s analytically keen inquiry into the
  relations of an ill-assorted pair.


=Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr.= Industrial republic: a study of the America
ten years hence. **$1.20. Doubleday.

                                                                7–18298.

  It is of America of ten years hence that Mr. Sinclair writes “not as a
  dreamer or as a child, but as a scientist and a prophet.” His theory
  of industrial suicide followed by resurrection has grown out of a
  careful study of the sociological problems of the day. He predicts
  that the industrial crisis will occur in 1912, following the
  presidential election of that year, that after that will be
  established an industrial republic with Utopian rule.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It must be admitted that there is a great deal of prophecy, but
  little science in this latest attempt to define socialism, while the
  reader will be more interested in those portions of the book which
  deal with the present and not the future.”

     − + =Acad.= 73: 746. Ag. 3, ’07. 700w.

  “In many respects his work is comparable with Mr. H. G. Wells’s ‘A
  modern Utopia.’ More careless and less methodical with his data than
  is Mr. Wells, his analysis of social evils is shrewder and clearer.
  His faults are haste and carelessness, an over-indulgence in his own
  intellectual caprices, a too unfaltering trust in the infallibility of
  his own judgment.”

     − + =Ind.= 63: 1060. O. 31, ’07. 840w.

       − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 572. N. ’07. 240w.

  “Some socialists are more emotional than others, and Mr. Sinclair is
  one of the more. He writes with great vigor and spirit, and makes his
  story very interesting. His vision is neither accurate, nor deep, nor
  broad, and he must be read with an elastic discount; he rakes the
  worst together, and makes the most of it.”

     − + =Lond. Times.= 6: 229. Jl. 19, ’07. 1810w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 451. Jl. 20, ’07. 530w.

  “His grotesque interpretation of history; ... his utter destitution in
  regard to knowledge of economics and political science; his vulgar and
  slanderous allusions to men and institutions that he does not
  like; ... his exploitation of writers and writing of the most
  ephemeral interest and importance; ... all these traits, in which the
  book abounds, deprive it and its author of any claim to the
  consideration of serious-minded men earnestly bent on improving the
  social and political conditions of the moment.”

     − − =Spec.= 99: 231. Ag. 17, ’07. 1280w.


=Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr.= Jungle. †$1.50. Doubleday.

                                                                 6–6264.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 27. Ja. ’07.

  “If it were possible to cut out the slaughterhouse and merely give the
  experience of the immigrant family struggling to find its level in a
  cruel new country, it would at once be clear that Mr. Sinclair’s work
  had reached a new plane of sincerity.” Mary Moss.

     + + =Atlan.= 99: 122. Ja. ’07. 530w.

  Reviewed by Madeleine Z. Doty.

     + − =Charities.= 17: 480. D. 15, ’06. 280w.


=Sinclair, Upton Beall, jr.= Overman. 50c. Doubleday.

                                                                7–30837.

  A slight story of some hundred pages. “Its narrator is a scientist who
  went to the South seas in search of a lost brother and found him on a
  tropic island where he had been living entirely alone for twenty
  years. At first absorbed in the music he composed, his one earthly
  passion, the brother had gradually been led, in his utter solitude, by
  contemplation, feeling, and will, to heights of philosophy ever calmer
  and wider, until at last mind and will together had enabled him to
  break the bonds of flesh and to hold communion with the spiritual
  world.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It has a certain haunting suggestiveness, and enough crudities to
  make it exasperating to the critical reader. Like most of Mr.
  Sinclair’s work, it is keyed too high emotionally to be quite natural.
  And, as usual, he is so concerned with the thing he wants to say that
  it never occurs to him even to try to make his characters lifelike and
  convincing.”

     − + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 600. O. 5, ’07. 280w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w.


=Singleton, Esther.= Dutch and Flemish furniture. **$7.50. McClure.

  A companion to Mrs. Singleton’s “French and English furniture.” “It
  opens with the splendour of the Burgundian court, where art and luxury
  first burst the fetters of stern mediævalism and where peace and
  plenty reigned at a time when the lands around were in the grip of
  battle or of civil war. It next plunges into the dark history of the
  religious wars and the emergence of a burgher state of staid habit and
  prudent outlay, though fully esteeming the domicile and eager for its
  comfort and adornment. Between the scheme of life of Duke Philip the
  Good and his nobles and that of the seventeenth-century Dutchman a
  great gulf is fixed, and Mrs. Singleton in her detailed and exhaustive
  work gives us ample material to realize the difference.” (Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This book deals ably and amply with the story of domestic life and
  its material adjuncts in the low countries.”

       + =Acad.= 72: 384. Ap. 20, ’07. 1530w.

  “Her choice to deal with the philosophy of the subject and its organic
  connexion with history has the disadvantage of rendering her book
  unpractical for the ordinary collector or connoisseur.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 672. Je. 1. 660w.

  “The author of the letterpress has a quite amiable enthusiasm for her
  subject, has read a good deal about and round about it, and has
  considerable, if rather vague and desultory, knowledge regarding it.
  Unfortunately, she seems to possess little critical or co-ordinative
  faculty; her facts are accumulated, not classified; she does not
  appear to discriminate between their relative values, or to feel the
  necessity of establishing much connexion between them.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 190. Je. 14, ’07. 560w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 10w.

  “There are many interesting things in this volume. To the connoisseur
  and collector it appeals by its descriptions and delineation of
  various articles which are included under the term ‘furniture.’ The
  general reader will be mostly attracted by the catalogues and the
  narratives of individual owners, of what they possessed and cared
  for.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 505. Mr. 30, ’07. 160w.


=Singleton, Esther.= Historic buildings of America as seen and described
by famous writers. **$1.60. Dodd.

                                                                6–38380.

  “By the methods used by Miss Singleton whereby she selects from the
  best available writers accounts of the things she wishes to include in
  her book, or failing this now and then writes a chapter herself, it is
  possible to get a good description of the thing wanted if one is
  persistent enough in search.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Not a remarkable book but contains useful material.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 49. F. ’07. S.

  “Miss Singleton has shown more than her customary ingenuity in
  unearthing vivid descriptions of the buildings.”

       + =Dial.= 41: 460. D. 16, ’06. 240w.

       + =Ind.= 61: 1405. D. 22, ’06. 70w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 781. N. 24, ’06. 180w.

       + =Outlook.= 84: 704. N. 24, ’06. 50w.

         =R. of Rs.= 34: 753. D. ’06. 40w.


* =Singleton, Esther=, ed. Historic landmarks of America as seen and
described by famous writers. **$1.60. Dodd.

                                                                7–35639.

  “The footprints of early settlers, explorers, Indian chiefs, and
  soldiers in our various wars, have been followed, so that not only
  cities but lakes, mountains, plains, and rivers are described.”
  (Dial.) In the present volume the descriptions come from Washington
  Irving, Daniel Webster, Francis Parkman, James Anthony Froude, Samuel
  Rawson Gardiner, and others.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Dial.= 43: 427. D. 16, ’07. 110w.

       + =Outlook.= 87: 618. N. 23, ’07. 170w.

  “On the whole the selections are noteworthy, and well entitled to a
  place in a collection of this character.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 757. D. ’07. 100w.


=Singleton, Esther.= Rome as described by great writers. **$1.60. Dodd.

                                                                6–40554.

  “The selections in the Roman volume not only describe the most famous
  buildings of the city and give glimpses of some of its beautiful
  environs, but also include accounts of ancient Rome, of the rise of
  modern Rome, of social life in the cosmopolitan city, of holy week,
  the yearly carnival, and the weekly rag fair. ‘Rome revisited,’ by Mr.
  Frederic Harrison, is the final selection—a sort of summary of all the
  multiform impressions that have preceded it.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The editing is not always careful, but in spite of this the book will
  be enjoyed by readers who like short sketches and will be useful to
  the librarian in reference work.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 73. Mr. ’07. S.

  “The volume will make an excellent guidebook for tourists, and those
  who have not seen Rome and do not expect to see it will enjoy the
  vivid and interesting descriptions and gain much comprehensive
  information, well distributed between topography, history,
  architecture, and manners and customs.”

       + =Dial.= 41: 460. D. 16, ’06. 130w.

  “Unfortunately the text is carelessly handled and misstatements in the
  writers quoted are allowed to go uncorrected. The proof-reading, too,
  is inexcusably careless. The book is not a credit either to editor or
  publisher.”

     − − =Nation.= 84: 153. F. 14, ’07. 420w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 787. N. 24, ’06. 120w.

  “Miss Singleton makes an interesting and picturesque choice as to
  authors.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 1080. D. 29, ’06. 160w.


* =Singleton, Esther.= White House. 2v. **$5. McClure.

  Here are brought together things of interest concerning the social
  life, relics, and traditions of the White House from the days of John
  and Abigail Adams to those of Theodore Roosevelt.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Dial.= 43: 431. D. 16, ’07. 140w.

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 90w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 728. N. 16, ’07. 130w.


=Sismondi, Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de.= History of the Italian
republic in the middle ages. Entirely recast and supplemented in the
light of subsequent historical research, with a memoir of the author, by
William Boulting. $2. Dutton.

  Mr. Boulting has brought this work up to date, and has divided it into
  eight parts each representing a period of Italian history. These parts
  are in turn subdivided, dealing separately with the separate
  republics; Rome, Milan, Venice, Pisa, Genoa, Florence, and Siena.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The bibliography is far from satisfactory, and the too frequent lack
  of foot-notes, giving chapter and verse for the statements made in the
  text, is much to be regretted. The index also needs enlargement and
  revision. Yet, with all its faults of omission and commission, the
  work remains a monument of painstaking compilation, and not even the
  most modest English library which has a shelf for books on things
  Italian can do without it.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 364. Ap. 18, ’07. 1630w.

  “The reader may feel that he has the substance of Sismondi.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: 25. Ja. 5, ’07. 100w.


=Skeat, Walter W., and Blagden, Charles Otto.= Pagan races of the Malay
peninsula. 2v. *$13. Macmillan.

                                                                7–11553.

  The pagans considered in this volume are divided into three races: the
  Negritos, or Semang, occupying the Siamese provinces; the Sakai, and
  the Jakun in the Straits Settlements and Federal Malay States. “Mr.
  Skeat deals with questions of race, physical anthropology. material
  culture, religion and magic, Mr. Blagden with the languages.” (Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The present work is, in fact, an exhaustive survey of available
  material; it will serve as a basis for future progress and smooth the
  path of those who attack the numerous problems raised but not solved
  by our authors.”

     + + =Acad.= 71: 660. D. 29, ’06. 1260w.

  “The conscientious manner in which the authors have performed their
  task will enable many future students to excuse themselves from
  consulting the great mass of authorities out of which these volumes
  have grown. A word of commendation is due to the excellent photographs
  with which they are illustrated.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 608. My. 18. 1140w.

  “This book may, therefore, be regarded as a standard work, which is
  never likely to be superseded. The value of photographs in
  anthropological books has long been recognized, but we do not remember
  any work of descriptive ethnology so lavishly illustrated as this, not
  only with photographs, but with excellent line drawings of native
  decorative art. The comparative vocabulary of the dialects collected
  by Mr. Blagden is a monument of research.”

   + + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 13. Ja. 11, ’07. 620w.

  “Though naturally not a work for the casual reader, it is full of
  interesting incidents and vivid pictures of native life, rendered more
  graphic by reproductions of photographs.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 250. Mr. 14, ’07. 860w.

  “Accurate though these statements be, they offer but slight indication
  of how thoroughly the book is inspired with the experience and
  critical knowledge of the authors, and how well the subjects dealt
  with have been unified in their hands, a task the difficulty of which
  may be judged in part by a consideration of the unsatisfactory nature
  of much that has been written as well as by the length of the
  bibliography which follows the preface.” C. G. S.

     + + =Nature.= 75: 415. Mr. 14, ’07. 2440w.

  “Mr. Skeat’s knowledge of the country has enabled him to weld together
  in a satisfactory manner a large number of facts previously published
  by other observers, more especially those which are concerned with
  material culture: but, unfortunately, the sections dealing with social
  life and organisation are extremely imperfect.”

   + + − =Sat. R.= 103: 336. Mr. 16, ’07. 1560w.

  “It ought to be studied not only by scientific readers—to whom it is
  quite indispensable—but by all who have to deal with the wild races
  whom it so fully and sympathetically describes.”

     + + =Spec.= 98: sup. 117. Ja. 26, ’07. 400w.


=Skinner, Robert P.= Abyssinia of to-day; an account of the first
mission sent by the American government to the court of the King of
Kings. *$3. Longmans.

                                                                 7–7544.

  The present volume is the outgrowth of an expedition to Abyssinia to
  treat with Emperor Menelik on commercial relations between that
  country and our own. The author’s notes “on this land of grave faces,
  elaborate courtesy, classic tone and Biblical civilization, its
  history, politics, language, literature, religion and trade, are full
  of interest; there are also some valuable hints on the organization
  and equipment of a caravan.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 129. My. ’07.

  “He writes fairly well, though sometimes with an effort at ‘smartness’
  which sits ill upon him. There is no index—but there is not much that
  needs one.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906. 2: 824. D. 29. 1900w.

  “Mr. Skinner had a very fascinating trip, spiced with a good dose of
  personal danger; and he shares his enjoyment with whoever reads his
  lively, entertaining account of his travels.”

       + =Cath. World.= 84: 408. D. ’06. 510w.

  “The account of the journey is uninteresting, being largely taken up
  with trivial details. Nor does the author describe in an entertaining
  manner the lively incidents of the nine days at the capital.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 293. Mr. 28. ’07. 530w.

  “Excellent book.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 92. Ja. 12, ’07. 470w.

  “This is in every way an excellent book; it is pleasantly written and
  contains some profitable suggestions.”

       + =Spec.= 98: sup. 651. Ap. 27, ’07. 270w.


=Sladen, Douglas.= Secrets of the Vatican, the palace of the popes. *$5.
Lippincott.

                                                                7–37968.

  The “secrets” of the Vatican are merely its history. Mr. Sladen is
  “guide, philosopher and friend” over the course chosen, and tells of
  the building of the original palace, the reconstruction of the present
  edifice, the Vatican libraries, its galleries and its gardens.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 40w.

  “The book has a distinct value. It is well arranged, full of facts.”

       + =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. S. 28, ’07. 390w.


=Sladen, Douglas.= Sicily, the new winter resort. *$2. Dutton.

                                                                W 7–145.

  “It is an enchantment to go to the island with him, his study of the
  moods, sentiments and temperaments of its people is so subtle,
  sensitive and penetrating.... Besides enabling us to enter into the
  intimacy of Sicilian life, he furnishes us with bright and vigorous
  descriptions of all that is most remarkable among the monuments,
  curiosities, products and resources of every kind of the
  country.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “So intimate and so thorough is Mr. Sladen’s familiarity with his
  subject, and so careful his explanations, that the reader will not
  easily discover any shortcomings in the book.”

     + + =Cath. World.= 86: 253. N. ’07. 190w.

  “_The_ book for travelers in Sicily, packed with history and good
  advice.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 1358. Je. 6, ’07. 110w.

  “Very practical book.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 195. Mr. 30, ’07. 230w.


=Slater, John Rothwell.= Sources of Tyndale’s version of the Pentateuch.
*50c. Univ. of Chicago press.

                                                                6–29757.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 183. Ja. ’07. 80w.


=Slattery, Rev. Charles Lewis.= Master of the world: a study of Christ.
**$1.50. Longmans.

                                                                6–45051.

  “The book attempts to interpret Jesus Christ in the light of modern
  scholarship, but at the same time to fuse with the primary sources of
  information concerning him all the subsequent doctrines which have
  grown up around his person.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Too large an undertaking to allow of much success.”

       − =Ind.= 62: 102. Ja. 10, ’07. 60w.

  “The endeavor to make a clear, consistent, historical picture by
  combining all New Testament documents as of equal weight, is a
  considerable undertaking: and when Dean Slattery proposes to add to
  his sources all the dogmas of the ages, and even ‘all the present
  faith,’ one must admire his daring, rather than respect his historical
  judgment.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 105. Ja. 31, ’07. 280w.

  “Written from a conservative standpoint, the volume is free from
  dogmatism, while leading up to the teaching of the Nicene creed.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 46. Ja. 5, ’07. 170w.


=Slicer, Thomas R.= Way to happiness. **$1.25. Macmillan.

                                                                 7–6629.

  The chapter headings furnish a suggestion of the scope of the book.
  The call to the way: the search; The way of the stoic: happiness by
  self-control; the way of the Epicurean: happiness by pleasure; The way
  of the altruist: one’s self and the other; The way of worship:
  happiness by inspiration; The way the holy peace: happiness at home;
  The way of freedom: happiness by liberty; The way to the heights: the
  vision and the dream; The end of the way: blessedness and peace.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Slicer seems not to have grasped the truth revealed in Professor
  Hilty’s book, ‘The steps of life.’”

     + − =Cath. World.= 86: 402. Je. ’07. 130w.

  “Teaches convincingly that happiness comes through our activities, not
  through our passivities, and through living to the spirit rather than
  to the flesh.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 231. Ap. 1, ’07. 200w.

  “His English is tangled and involved, so that the meaning of many
  passages is difficult to unravel.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 185. Mr. 30, ’07. 1140w.

  “The missing note, if any, in the book is of sympathy and
  encouragement for those that have lost heart and feel driven to the
  wall.”

     + − =Outlook.= 85: 719. Mr. 23, ’07. 170w.


=Slocum, Stephen Elmer and Hancock, Edward Lee.= Text-book on the
strength of materials. *$2. Ginn.

                                                                6–35989.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “It is, of course, granted that a mature and skilled reader, hardened
  to petty defects, able to sift the good from the indifferent, can find
  much of interest in the book, but why should we rest content until
  only lucid, straightforward, truly scholarly and invigorating
  textbooks be provided the student of that eminently rational
  profession, engineering.” Lewis J. Johnson.

     − + =Engin. N.= 56: 632. D. 13, ’06. 1900w.

  “It should prove of great service to those who are actively engaged in
  engineering design.”

       + =Nature.= 75: 484. Mr. 21, ’07. 610w.


=Slosson, Margaret.= How ferns grow. **$3. Holt.

                                                                6–23320.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =Nature.= 75: 298. Ja. 24, ’07. 150w.


=Small, Albion W.= Adam Smith and modern sociology: a study in the
methodology of the social sciences. **$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.

                                                                7–32182.

  A book written in the interest of a more conscious and systematic
  partnership between economists and sociologists. It is a development
  of the following argument: Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to
  take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which
  was implicit in Adam Smith’s moral philosophy, but which was surpassed
  for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the
  production of wealth.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Dr. Small in his extremely suggestive book puts the case very
  strongly, but while he clearly points out a number of trails, he does
  not follow them to the end.” Garrett Droppers.

     + − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 558. N. ’07. 850w.

  “In the main, however, we feel that Professor Small has failed to make
  out his case, and has, indeed, exposed himself in places to obvious
  and severe criticism.”

     − + =Outlook.= 87: 788. D. 7, ’07. 410w.


=Small, Albion Woodbury.= General sociology. *$4. Univ. of Chicago
press.

                                                                5–32452.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

  Reviewed by Robert E. Bisbee.

       − =Arena.= 37: 332. Mr. ’07. 140w.

  “In his great anxiety that the world should realise that there is only
  one science, and that sociology is its name, we perceive some of the
  anxiety, awkwardness, and spitefulness of epithet which are associated
  with those who are endeavouring to force a protégé on to persons of
  another class. Professor Small deserves severe treatment at the hand
  of a reviewer, for, well meaning and well informed though he is, he
  has allowed himself to speak of scientific thinkers in all branches of
  thought with the contemptuous manner that is usually associated with
  imperfect appreciation of real issues.”

       − =Spec.= 96: sup. 1012 Je. 30, ’06. 1040w.


=Smalley, Harrison Standish.= Railroad rate control in its legal
aspects: a study of the effect of judicial decisions upon public
regulation of railroad rates. $1. Macmillan.

                                                                6–26074.

  “This work consists of an introductory chapter on the public
  regulation of rates, three chapters on the doctrine of judicial
  review, two on the results of the doctrine, and a concluding chapter
  specifying certain remedies. Under this head the writer suggests a
  plan for compensation to the railroad for property taken.”—R. of Rs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He sets forth fully and clearly the doctrine of judicial review.”
  William Hill.

       + =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 638. D. ’06. 720w.

         =R. of Rs.= 34: 383. S. ’06. 90w.


=Smedley, Anne Constance.= Conflict. †$1.50. Moffat.

                                                                 7–9556.

  “The key-note of the story is conflict.... Mary van Heyten is a born
  fighter, from the moment when, alone and friendless, she wrests her
  daily bread from a cruel world, to the day on which, still struggling
  she is appropriated by a stronger nature than her own.... The book,
  apart from the fact that it deals with an important problem of the
  day, is an interesting character study.”—Acad.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Acad.= 72: 297. Mr. 23, ’07. 200w.

  “One would be tempted to call it distinctly clever, were it not that
  this particular phrase conveys a patronising tone, which in the
  present instance is undeserved.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

     + + =Bookm.= 25: 392. Je. ’07. 430w.

  “Nearly all the men are hard, if not brutal. As to woman. Miss
  Smedley’s opinion of her potentialities is nowhere in doubt. Yet she
  does not obtrude it.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 85. Mr. 15, ’07. 740w.

  “The present story is weakened by exaggerations—possibly it is a lack
  of assurance in dealing with realities. There is a certain integrity
  about the book; a definite idea and purpose. It is an attack on false
  ideals of womanhood ... and while the plot presents no very convincing
  solution, the story touches the interest because the writer had
  something genuine to say.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 287. My. 4, ’07. 460w.

  “Miss Smedley is decidedly clever; she has an eye for character, a
  vivacious style and other valuable gifts, but her talent totters under
  the burden of the abstract proposition she has undertaken to
  demonstrate.” Vernon Atwood.

     − + =Putnam’s.= 2: 617. Ag. ’07. 460w.

  “The critic cannot but regret that a story with so promising an
  opening should not attain to the level which seems to be promised by
  the first few chapters.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: 579. Ap. 13, ’07. 160w.


=Smith, A. Croxton.= British dogs at work; with 20 full-page il. in
colour by G. Vernon Stokes. *$3. Macmillan.

  “A brief history is given in the first chapter of ‘Man’s first
  friend.’ Then come discussions of kennels and their construction, how
  to buy a dog, the feeding and rearing of the animals, their general
  management, hounds at work, shooting dogs, the terriers, the science
  of breeding, and a description of some of the common dog ailments.
  Among the twenty dogs described and portrayed are the pointer, otter
  hound, deerhound, English setter, Clumber and Sussex spaniels, Irish
  setter, retriever, bulldog, and collie.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 857. D. 8, ’06. 340w.

  “The author is so frank and modest about his work that he disarms
  criticism.”

       + =Sat. R.= 102: 682. D. 1, ’06 140w.

  “The illustrations in colour ... are full of life, pleasant in colour
  and will delight an artist or a dog-lover. The text ... is very
  readable, but not very thorough or practical.”

     + − =Spec.= 98. 216. F. 9, ’07. 180w.


=Smith, A. Elizabeth Wager-.= Primer of skat. *75c. Lippincott.

                                                                7–16502.

  A thorogoing little handbook of a card game that “offers unlimited
  opportunity for strategic play and well-balanced judgment.”


=Smith, Albert William, and Marx, Guido Hugo.= Machine design. $3.
Wiley.

                                                                5–39881.

  “The authors ... have devoted the first five chapters to discussions
  of the general principles of kinematics which underlie the design of
  all classes of machinery.... In the sixth chapter the question of the
  proportions of machine parts as dictated by stress is taken up....
  Fastenings, including rivets, and bolts and nuts, are then
  considered.... The design of axles and shafts and of their
  bearings ... is very fully treated in several chapters; and then
  follow details of the design of couplings.... Fly-wheels and toothed
  wheel gearing are taken up in the next two chapters.... In the
  concluding chapter ... the proportions and best shapes for machine
  frames are discussed.”—Nature.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “All the figures are clear, and the important points in the design
  which they are intended to illustrate are easily followed. The book
  should prove a useful text-book for engineering students in their
  first and second years’ courses in machine design.” T. H. B.

       + =Nature.= 75: 172. D. 20, ’06. 490w.


=Smith, Alexander.= Dreamthorp: a book of essays written in the country,
with biographical and critical introd. by John Hogben. *$1. Kennerley.

  A new edition of Dreamthorp which revives a work first published in
  1863.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Those who are not familiar with Alexander Smith’s prose, with its
  happy turns and occasionally daring tropes may put down the book as
  worth buying and reading.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 800w.

         =Spec.= 96: 719. My. 5, ’06. 60w.


=Smith, Alexander.= Introduction to general inorganic chemistry. *$2.25.
Century.

                                                                 6–7325.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The book is well up to date, and has been written with great care.”

   + − − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 294. Mr. 9. 430w.

  “Prof. Smith has met the difficulties of his task with great skill,
  and has given us a very judicious and well-balanced selection of the
  facts of inorganic chemistry with a body of theoretical information
  little less than is to be found in a fairly advanced work on physical
  chemistry.” Arthur Smithells.

   + + − =Nature.= 75: sup. 4. Mr. 14, ’07. 900w.


=Smith, Mrs. Alice Prescott.= Montlivet. †$1.50. Houghton.

                                                                6–33573.

  “The end of the seventeenth century in Canada, English and French
  rivalries, Indian friends and foes, and a prisoner—such are the old
  materials for a new story into which Mrs. Smith infuses life and
  freshness.” (Acad.) The story interest centers about Armand de
  Montlivet, a French trader, and an English prisoner, Mary Starling in
  disguise, whom Montlivet rescues.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The story of these adventurous lovers is more than merely exciting,
  it is fascinating, and delightfully told.”

       + =Acad.= 71: 553. D. 1, ’06. 140w.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 217. N. ’06.

  “An exceptionally interesting piece of work, one which may perhaps be
  described as similar to the romances of the late Mrs. Catherwood with
  an added infusion of virility.” Wm. M. Payne.

     + + =Dial.= 42: 17. Ja. 1, ’07. 230w.

  “The book has unusual merit.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 280w.

  “Is rare if not unique among stories of warfare with Indians, for it
  contains no scenes of horror, and yet never allows a reader a moment’s
  rest from the dread of horrors to come.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 728. N. 3, ’06. 180w.


=Smith, Arthur Henderson.= China and America to-day: a study of
conditions and relations. **$1.25. Revell.

                                                                7–26625.

  In the course of the study America’s unpopularity in eastern Asia is
  shown to be due to her immigration laws which favor Japan and
  discriminate against China. “In the main the present volume is a
  discussion of China’s relations, present and future, with the United
  States, in which an exceedingly interesting historical sketch is
  given, incidentally of the Celestial empire.” (Lit. D.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We have here in brief space a vivid picture of old but rapidly
  changing conditions and relations.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 942. O. 17, ’07. 180w.

  “The book is filled with interesting revelations of Chinese life and
  customs and promises to occupy an authoritative place among the many
  volumes recently published dealing with the problems of the Far East.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 490. O. 5, ’07. 640w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 449. Jl. 20, ’07. 2100w.


=Smith, Arthur Henderson.= Uplift of China. 50c. Young people’s
missionary movement.

                                                                7–38590.

  A book for missionaries and for use in Sunday schools. It “gives a
  bird’s eye view of old China, the China that has persisted unchanged
  for so many thousand years, and of the forces now at work breaking up
  and changing the unchangeable and making a new China that is
  attracting the anxious and interested eyes of all the rest of the
  world.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 500. Ag. 17, ’07. 190w.

  “One of the ablest missionaries in China has packed this volume with
  an amount of information about ‘old’ China and ‘new’ nowhere else to
  be found in the same compass.”

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 792. Ag. 10, ’07. 190w.


=Smith, Bertram.= Whole art of caravanning; being personal experiences
in England and Scotland; with 6 il. from photographs. $1. Longmans.

  “England and Scotland furnish the scenery, the stamping ground, the
  night’s lodging, and the caravan is nothing more or less than the
  covered wagon the gypsies use as house and home. The narrative sets
  forth the experiences of the author, Bertram Smith, traveling in the
  United Kingdom in such a wagon and camping in it when he had no mind
  to be moving or a particular reason for stopping. His object is to
  show how a holiday can be spent in this way, with what delight and
  satisfaction.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Its title is perhaps a little over-ambitious, for it does not cover
  the ‘whole art’ to which he refers; and the reader who, with this
  guide, decides to spend a summer holiday in a caravan, will find that
  there are points he must elucidate for himself, though he will find a
  number of useful hints. The book is nicely illustrated from sketches
  and photographs: and the reminiscent vein in which it has been written
  is pleasantly humorous.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 574. My. 11. 110w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.


* =Smith, Bertram T. K.= How to collect postage stamps. *$2. Macmillan.

  A book for the advanced collector of stamps which gives information
  regarding values, rarities, forgeries, reprints and numerous other
  matters included in the field of philately.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Ind.= 63: 1178. N. 14, ’07. 120w.

  “Excellently printed and amply illustrated.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 540. D. 12, ’07. 40w.

  “For ... the timid lovers of manuals, why this is a very good little
  book, and it should turn out spurious gipsies by the score.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 206. Ag. 10, ’07. 160w.


=Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomasina.= Colonel’s conquest. †$1.50. Jacobs.

                                                                7–29156.

  The story of a frivolous mother’s awakening to womanliness and mother
  love through the devotion of her little lame child. The book contains
  a lesson for grown up readers even tho written for the young.


=Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomasina (formerly L. T. Meade).= Hill top girl.
†$1.50. Lippincott.

  Mrs. Smith’s story “exhibits the familiar contrast between rich and
  poor, worldly and unworldly households. The humble folk dwell on the
  top of the hill, the great folk in the plain below, and this
  symbolizes their relative position from an ethical point of view. A
  sudden girl-friendship that springs up between the two houses is
  discouraged by the hill-top father Prof. Primrose; and the rebellion
  against his decree occupies the greater part of the story.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The fault of the over-accentuation appears throughout.”

       − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 652. N. 24. 160w.

  “For American girls there will be all the charm of the unaccustomed in
  the ‘Hill-top girl.’”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 851. D. 8, ’06. 120w.

       − =Sat. R.= 102: 742. D. 15, ’06. 340w.


=Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomasina.= Little school mothers: a story for
girls. 75c. McKay.

                                                                7–21231.

  A boarding-school story for girls whose chief interest centers about a
  contest which is designed to reveal the girl best fitted to become the
  school-mother of a motherless child.


* =Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Tomasina (formerly L. T. Meade).= Three girls
from school. †$1.50. Lippincott.

  A story which centers about a trio of English school girls. The most
  intellectual of the three learns that she must leave school for
  financial reasons; the wealthy one learns that by winning a certain
  prize her cherished hope of leaving school and traveling with an aunt
  in France will be realized; while the third, an unscrupulous minx, is
  a go-between who bribes the honest Priscilla to turn over her essay to
  the girl whose pleasure depends upon winning the prize, in
  consideration for which Priscilla is to remain in school. This
  dishonesty followed by a series of tricks to support it causes no end
  of complication and humiliation.


=Smith, Elmer Boyd.= Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith; told
and pictured by E. Boyd Smith. **$2.50. Houghton.

                                                                6–42437.

  Here the story of America’s first “international romance” is told in
  picture as well as in text. There are twenty-six colored plates “full
  of spirit and beauty, and not without sly touches of humor at the
  expense of everybody concerned.” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Smith’s style is unique; all phases of it get full play in the
  new volume.”

     + + =Dial.= 41: 460. D. 16, ’06. 180w.

  “The pictures are vivid enough to render the text ‘rather a luxury
  than a necessity.’”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 806. D. 1, ’06. 180w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 253. Ap. 20, ’07. 50w.

  “Should have prominent place among picture books of the year. Its text
  is apparently historically correct.”

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 96. Ja. 12, ’07. 80w.


=Smith, Francis Asbury.= Critics versus Shakespeare: a brief for the
defendant. Knickerbocker press.

                                                                 7–8252.

  A defense in which the author contends that every piece of literature
  claiming Shakespearian authorship was written by the great dramatist.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We confess that we like Mr. Smith’s book. It strikes a wholesome
  note. He is wrong-headed, of course, but so are many of the greater
  commentators. Some of the evidence he discards is of great weight.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 96. F. 16, ’07. 430w.

  “A vigorous and independent book. One may pick flaws in Mr. Smith’s
  book at points, but he speaks as a man who loves the plays as
  literature, and who brings to them a keen human sense of the
  conditions under which they are probably produced.”

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 570. Je. 13, ’07. 170w.

  “Mr. Smith’s book shows a good degree of scholarship and wide reading,
  but he makes some mistakes that a sophomore should be ashamed of.” Wm.
  J. Rolfe.

     + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 728. S. ’07. 170w.


=Smith, Francis Henry.= Christ and science: Jesus Christ regarded as the
centre of science, **$1.25. Revell.

                                                                6–32410.

  “That Jesus Christ as a person is the center of the universe, and its
  creator ... is the thesis which these lectures at Vanderbilt
  university maintain.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We can only deeply regret that his laudable desire to honor the
  Master should lead to the erection of such a tawdry temple of
  fallacious analogy and science falsely so called, founded on the sands
  of verbal inspiration.” Charles R. Barnes.

       − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 356. Ap. ’07. 570w.

  “The argument for the main proposition is too thin to expose to close
  debate.”

     − + =Outlook.= 84: 581. N. 9, ’06. 160w.


=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= Old-fashioned folk. Privately printed. R. E.
Lee, 212 Summer st., Boston.

                                                                7–17373.

  “A plea for the simple life of former times;” further it is “an
  arraignment of selfish independence and self-assertive vulgarity,
  written with fine scorn of the mere treasure heaper, and it includes a
  stern hint of what may come from imitating him, and from tolerating
  the practice by which he helps himself, in both senses of the phrase.”
  (N. T. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Lit. D.= 34: 886. Je. 1, ’07. 70w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 418. Je. 29, ’07. 200w.


=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= Romance of an old-fashioned gentleman.
†$1.50. Scribner.

                                                                7–31210.

  “In ‘The romance of an old-fashioned gentleman’ we have the wholesome,
  noble, self-controlled side of a situation continually presented from
  the opposite side. A man who can deny himself and his love is shown as
  a strong, well-developed character—a man who has learned the lesson of
  life so well that he is able to guide others. His crisis long past,
  though the hurt is never healed, he grasps in his strong hand a
  younger man when he faces bitter temptation, and leads him safely
  through it. The women in the story are the sort Mr. Smith knows as
  well as Howells knows his kind.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A charming story of simple plot and well defined characters.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 204. N. ’07. ✠

         =Dial.= 43: 428. D. 16, ’07. 100w.

         =Nation.= 85: 446. N. 14, ’07. 310w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

  “The wide world is the scene of the rest of the story told in Mr.
  Smith’s colorful prose, but the portrait of the fair Southern holds
  its magic to the end.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 764. N. 30, ’07. 410w.

  “‘The romance of an old-fashioned gentleman’ is both beautiful and
  true.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 496. N. 2, ’07. 220w.

       + =Outlook.= 87: 623. N. 23, ’07. 20w.


=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= Veiled lady, and other men and women, il.
†$1.50. Scribner.

                                                                7–12697.

  Stories that are intrinsically good, that reveal characteristics of
  the story-teller, that offer to writers bits of advice which have
  grown out of the author’s wide study and observation. and that
  delicately rail against fads and foibles tho they be artistic ones and
  indulged in by the descendants of “earls and high-daddies.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 137. My. ’07. 70w. ✠

  “There is so little of the cynic and so much of the humanitarian in
  ‘the staid old painter,’ as he calls himself in this his latest volume
  of gentle tales, that we rejoice in the sentiment of an older fashion
  and the mellow mood of most of the stories.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 1102. Jl. 11. ’07. 180w.

  “For tho subjects are sufficiently various, a certain coordination and
  unity is furnished by the delightful human quality which links the
  stories one to another like a thread of gold. The illustrations, many
  of which are by the author, are a notable feature of the book.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 724. My. 4, ’07. 130w.

  “It is not the beautiful veiled lady who is his real achievement, but
  the conglomerate little dragoman who carries in his pocket enough of
  the small change of heroism to be a stanch friend in need.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 501. My. 30, ’07. 300w.

  “The truth is there is not very much to any of these stories except
  the water color effect of the backgrounds and the charm of the
  painter, engineer, good fellow visible and personally present in
  them.”

     − + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 189. Mr. 30, ’07. 620w.

  “A charming series of impressions of picturesque bits of life.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 170w.

  “The best of his stories are mainly those of Venice and the east, but
  every one will repay the time spent in reading.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 256. Je. 1, ’07. 40w.


=Smith, Francis Hopkinson.= Wood fire in no. 3. †$1.50. Scribner.

                                                                5–34173.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

  “It is the author’s way of thinking of them that makes them what they
  seem to be—charming.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 504. Ag. 11. ’06. 240w.


=Smith, Frank Berkeley.= In London town. **$1.50. Funk.

                                                                6–35588.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Mr. F. Berkeley Smith’s impressions of London town are not so much
  those of a lighthearted holiday-maker as of an alert, keen-eyed, and
  precociously sophisticated journalist.” Harriet Waters Preston.

       + =Atlan.= 99: 419. Mr. ’07. 510w.


=Smith, George Armitage.= Principles and methods of taxation. *$1.25.
Dutton.

                                                                 7–6425.

  An account of the British system of taxation and the principles on
  which it is based.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Armitage-Smith is a high authority on ‘The principles and methods
  of taxation,’ ... and his present volume ... is of value, and may be
  commended for educational purposes.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 607. My. 19. 510w.


=Smith, Gertrude.= Little Girl and Philip. **$1.30. Harper.

                                                                7–36981.

  Printed in large type with eight full page illustrations in color by
  Rachael Robinson these fifteen stories about the lively little girl
  and the quiet little boy who lived next door to her will make a
  pleasing gift-book for all small folks who like to hear about other
  people’s grandmas and grandpas, their nice uncles, their pets, their
  plays and their pleasant surprises.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 30w.


=Smith, Goldwin.= Labour and capital: a letter to a labour friend.
**50c. Macmillan.

                                                                 7–7165.

  A monograph which urges upon labour conservative progression.
  “Progress,” writes Professor Smith, “seems more hopeful than
  revolution.” and altho he has faith in the ultimate realization of the
  socialist ideal, perfect brotherhood, he closes his consideration of
  the questions of labour and capital, with the declaration “There is no
  leaping into the millenium.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 647. My. ’07. 60w.

  “The interest of the letter lies in its formulation of the judgment of
  a historical student who is familiar with many aspects of life and is
  reasonably free from bias.” Charles Richmond Henderson.

       + =Dial.= 42: 287. My. 1, ’07. 80w.

  “A series of interesting and suggestive reflections.”

       + =Engin. N.= 57: 307. Mr. 14, ’07. 200w.

  “Written in a characteristically clear style.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 110w.

         =Spec.= 98: 985. Je. 22, ’07. 820w.


=Smith, Rev. Haskett.= Patrollers of Palestine. *$3. Longmans.

                                                                7–10989.

  “The experiences of a lively party of tourist, men and women, who
  journey through the Holy Land, their conversation carried on by
  various characters such as The enthusiast, The pessimist, etc., form
  the subject matter of this posthumous book.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Though brightly written, is spoilt by the introduction of a good deal
  of humour which strikes us as often a little forced.”

     + − =Acad.= 71: 061. D. 29, ’06. 120w.

  “The present volume gives to all who are interested in present-day
  Palestine, as well as in its historical and religious significance, a
  certain intimate atmosphere hardly found in other works on that
  subject.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 575. Mr. 9. ’07. 130w.

  “Whatever we may think of Mr. Haskett Smith’s geographical theories or
  his speculations on the miraculous, he has certainly drawn a graphic
  picture of the modern tourist in Palestine and the necessity of
  finding a guide who will ‘suffer fools gladly.’”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 147. F. 2, ’07. 1120w.


=Smith, James Allen.= Spirit of American government: a study of the
constitution; its origin, influence and relation to democracy. **$1.25.
Macmillan.

                                                                7–16497.

  In which the author traces the influence of our constitutional system
  upon the political conditions which exist in this country to-day. He
  calls attention to the spirit of the Constitution, its inherent
  opposition to democracy, and the obstacles which it placed in the way
  of majority rule.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Every page shows evidence of much investigation and reflection and
  earnest analysis. Nevertheless, we are certain that his argument will
  from start to finish prove not only unsatisfactory but exceedingly
  exasperating to those who believe and insist that a democracy must be
  safe, sane, and stable as well as adjustable. The fundamental fallacy
  vitiating the entire narrative is the author’s misconception of the
  nature of democracy, due primarily to his non-appreciation of the
  inexorable necessities of a sovereignty.” F. I. Herriott.

     + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 620. N. ’07. 620w.

  “It is refreshing to find amid the arid compilations and
  inconsequential manuals on American government that pour forth
  annually from the press a volume that is well written, vigorous and
  highly contentious in a scholarly fashion.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 939. O. 17, ’07. 560w.

         =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 313. My. ’07. 140w.

  “The work has a certain importance, or, at least, significance, owing
  to the fact that it expresses so frankly the idea underlying a
  movement which is now with us and which must run its course. What
  Professor Smith desires in government would correspond to the
  untrained, unhampered individual, the slave of impressions. He has no
  understanding of the true democracy, which aims at once at the liberty
  of the individual as also of the masses.”

     − + =Nation.= 85: 121. Ag. 8, ’07. 1540w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 490. Ag. 10, ’07. 120w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 758. Je. ’07. 120w.


=Smith, Captain John.= Generall historie of Virginia, New England and
the Summer isles. 2v. *$6. Macmillan.

                                                                7–18581.

  An interesting work which the tri-centennial of Jamestown has called
  forth. “The rare works that make up this volume are here assembled in
  convenient form for the first time since their original publication in
  1624–30. The edition will contain facsimile reproductions of all the
  maps and illustrations in the originals, including the rare portraits
  of the Duchess of Richmond and Pocahontas.” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Acad.= 72: 310. Mr. 30, ’07. 1070w.

         =Dial.= 42: 118. F. 16, ’07. 130w.

  “Nothing, too, could be more praiseworthy than the manner in which the
  work has been done. With scholarly conscientiousness, the publishers
  have presented an exact reprint of the original editions.” Lawrence.
  J. Burpee.

     + + =Dial.= 42: 163. S. ’07. 2290w.

       + =Nation.= 84: 310. Ap. 4, ’07. 140w.

       + =Nature.= 76: 26. My. 9, ’07. 1060w.

  “These books are neither terse nor short, but they are rich in color
  and intimate interest and most entertaining and valuable reading.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 253. Ap. 20, ’07. 210w.

  “Except for the scantiest of mention in the brief introductory
  statements of the publishers, the reader is left absolutely in
  ignorance of the fact that Smith’s veracity has been questioned. For
  this there can be no excuse.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 86: 967. Ag. 31, ’07. 400w.

  “It is one of the best stories of adventure in our language. The
  volumes before us are simply a reprint without notes, and, if we may
  make bold enough to say so, are all the better for that.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 460. Mr. 23, ’07. 1860w.


=Smith, Justin Harvey.= Our struggle for the fourteenth colony: Canada
and the American revolution. 2v. **$6. Putnam.

                                                                7–26025.

  The story of how the thirteen colonies in asserting their own
  independence tried to force it upon Lower Canada. “It will appeal
  primarily to the specialist in American history, for few general
  readers of history would care to digest some twelve hundred pages to
  gain even a thorough understanding of a failure.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is not likely that any facts of importance will be added to those
  which Mr. Smith has unearthed and worked into his mosaic. Yet we are
  so ungracious as to wish that this definitive work had been done
  differently. Here his eye is somewhat too close to the object for
  broad vision. And thus his defects in point of view make his attempt
  to fix this episode in general revolutionary history the weakest part
  of his book.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 1119. N. 7, ’07. 970w.

  “What is likely long to remain the authoritative history of our
  attempt to secure the adhesion of the ‘fourteenth colony.’ Prof. Smith
  has not only conducted a faithful piece of research; he has written an
  interesting book, though it could be compressed to advantage.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7. ’07. 390w.

  “Traversing the subject as a whole, he shows himself an equally facile
  and entertaining historical writer. At times, to be sure, the effort
  to sustain the interest leads him into a floridity, and occasionally a
  levity, that distinctly detract from the dignity of his theme; while,
  on the other hand, his obvious passion for research induces him to
  include much petty detail that obscures rather than illuminates. But
  his work is so fresh, so original, and so informing that it deserves
  the heartiest of welcomes.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 87: 311. O. 12, ’07. 400w.

  “A dignified historical study—which, however, has not disdained to be
  interesting.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 510. O. ’07. 120w.

  “Mr. Justin Smith has worked on his subject with most laudable
  industry.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 335. S. 7, ’07. 150w.


=Smith, Margaret Bayard.= First forty years of Washington society: a
portrayal by the family letters from the collection of J. Henley Smith;
ed. by Gaillard Hunt, il. **$2.50. Scribner.

                                                                6–40262.

  Letters which until recently have been kept well guarded make
  available an authentic record of Washington society during its first
  forty years. Manners and customs, no less than notable political
  characters, appear in a new and intimate light.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The editor has furnished a satisfactory index and the notes necessary
  to explain the text.” Montgomery Blair.

     + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 669. Ap. ’07. 760w.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 73. Mr. ’07.

  “The editor’s notes are always to the point.” S. M. Francis.

       + =Atlan.= 100: 494 O. ’07. 480w.

  “Upon the deeper character and influence of the many notable men about
  her, Mrs. Smith’s comments are of no great value. But a clever woman
  is often able to see and portray the peculiar characteristics of an
  individual or an event in a way that is illuminating and valuable. It
  is this quality in the letters of Margaret Bayard Smith that makes
  their publication well worth while.” Sara Andrew Shafer.

   + + − =Dial.= 42: 139. Mr. 1, ’07. 1620w.

       + =Lit. D.= 33: 914. D. 15, ’06. 280w.

  “The book is too long ... but when we lay it down we feel as if we had
  been at a pleasant gathering, where no evil was spoken, and every one
  had a moderate old-fashioned enjoyment of life.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 83. Mr. 15, ’07. 1220w.

  “Possessing no special charm in themselves, they will be often
  resorted to for color by other writers. The editorial work is
  competently done by Gaillard Hunt. His candor in preserving the
  simplified spelling of the writer, and certain even more simplified
  grammatical constructions, contributes to the impressions of essential
  veracity.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 315. Ap. 4, ’07. 600w.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 270w.

  “This collection of letters ... is a distinct and valuable
  contribution to the completeness of the historical pictures of life in
  the highest political circles in the first half century of the
  American republic.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 870. D. 15. ’06. 1740w.

       + =Outlook.= 84: 939. D. 15, ’06. 340w.

  Reviewed by John Spencer Bassett.

       + =Putnam’s.= 2: 255. My. ’07. 100w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 110. Ja. ’07. 140w.


=Smith, Marion Couthouy.= Electric spirit, and other poems. $1.25.
Badger. R. G.

                                                                6–25984.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The author ... brings to her work noticeable strength of thought and
  unusual feeling for rhythm.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 858. Ap. 13, ’07. 160w.


=Smith, Mary P. Wells.= Boys of the border. †$1.25. Little.

                                                                7–31225.

  Events in the Deerfield valley during the French and Indian wars are
  narrated in this third volume of “The old Deerfield series,” which
  brings the history of western Massachusetts down to the revolutionary
  period. The tale of the border forts is told in a spirited fashion
  true to the times and scenes, the early settlers, their hardships,
  their sturdy endurance, are all clearly pictured in the course of the
  narrative which is told in a simple, personal fashion that will appeal
  to young readers.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 10w.

  “The general boy reader will, we fancy, rather protest at the
  overloading of details and the sad record of slaughter in the ending
  chapter.”

     + − =R. of Rs.= 36: 764. D. ’07. 70w.


=Smith, Richard.= Tour of four great rivers: the Hudson, Mohawk,
Susquehanna, and Delaware in 1769. **$5. Scribner.

                                                                6–32121.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The journal is well indexed and seems to be printed, in general, with
  praiseworthy accuracy. The foot-notes, perhaps adequate for the
  popular reader, will be found to explain the point which the student
  already understands more frequently than that as to which he needs
  enlightenment: and they are uniformly destitute of page references to
  the numerous books which they mention.” C. H. H.

     + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 427. Ja. ’07. 380w.

  “The charm and value of his journal is its remarkable directness.
  Several unfortunate blunders of the printer or of the proof-reader
  disclose themselves in the introduction, but the ‘Journal’ itself is a
  satisfactory reproduction of a valuable manuscript. The index, too,
  calls for a good word; it is full, yet not complicated; but why, pray,
  was it not strictly alphabetical?”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 204. F. 28, ’07. 480w.


=Smith, Rodney.= Gipsy Smith, his life and work: an autobiography. *$1.
Revell.

  “This volume gives the story of the life of this remarkable man from
  its beginning as a gypsy child, and of his work as an evangelist in
  four continents, dating from the time when he became a Christian and
  forsook the gypsy life, in his seventeenth year.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “An autobiography marked by somewhat unusual frankness, and by
  unmistakable sincerity.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 847. D. 8, ’06. 230w.

         =Outlook.= 84: 891. D. 8, ’06. 150w.


=Smith, Ruel Perley.= Prisoners of fortune. $1.50. Page.

                                                                 7–5061.

  A story of shipwreck and romance, of treasure stores, of intrigue, of
  wreckers and swarthy pirates. It is purported to be told in 1757,
  after an interval of fifty odd years, by one who at the time of the
  happenings was “active and strong and full of bold enterprisings.” The
  Atlantic shore waters are the scene of the adventures, and such bold
  spirits as Quelch and the famous Blackbeard of pirate notoriety
  animate the pages.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A good old-fashioned story of Massachusetts bay in the days of Cotton
  Mather, a story told with the affected garrulity of reminiscent old
  age,” Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 42: 378. Je. 16, ’07. 120w.

  “If one is very, very young, and not particular about the quality of
  his pirates, the blunderbuss type portrayed in this book may satisfy
  him.”

       − =Ind.= 62: 674. Mr. 21, ’07. 50w.

         =Nation.= 84: 292. Mr. 28, ’07. 170w.

  “In the beginning it reads like the real thing in piratical
  literature. Afterwards it hangs fire and trails its colors a bit—but
  taken as a whole there are worse stories of the brand.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 119. F. 23, ’07. 410w.

  “All put down in serious style, quite unrelieved by vivacity, but
  wholly consistent with the gravity of his day.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 718. Mr. 23, ’07. 100w.


=Smith, Ruel Perley.= Rival campers ashore; or, The mystery of the mill.
$1.50. Page.

                                                                7–30991.

  This third volume in the “Rival campers series” is full of interesting
  things for half-grown readers. The rival campers encounter many new
  adventures, and make many new friends, while old Colonel Witham loses
  his ill-gotten gains to the kind hearted Ellisons when the old mill,
  in a spring freshet, yields up its secret.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 80w.


=Smith, Rev. Samuel George.= Industrial conflict: a series of chapters
on present-day conditions. **$1. Revell.

                                                                7–20333.

  A discussion based upon two series of letters. “The letters from labor
  leaders, in answering the question put to them, ‘What do workingmen
  want?’ state the commoner demands of labor for shorter hours,
  increased wages, and improved conditions, and embrace such concrete
  suggestions as postal savings tanks, government ownership and control,
  state board of arbitration, restriction of immigration, the closed
  shop, and protection of women and children. Employers demand loyalty,
  freedom in management of affairs, the open shop, a ‘fair’ day’s work
  for ‘fair’ wages, and respect for law and contract agreements. The
  author’s comment upon these demands is entirely sympathetic. In a
  final chapter entitled ‘Would socialism do?’ he expresses the opinion
  that it would not.” (J. Pol. Econ.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 500. O. ’07. 150w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 499. Ag. 17, ’07. 1620w.


=Smyser, William Emory.= Tennyson. *$1. Meth. bk.

                                                                 7–6733.

  This volume is one of a series of six which is entitled Modern poets
  and Christian teaching. It includes chapters upon Tennyson and the
  religious movements of his time, “In memoriam,” The record of a
  spiritual struggle, The answer to materialism, Of the ethical and
  social bearings of Tennyson’s philosophy, The spiritual symbolism of
  the Idylls of the king, and The last poems of faith.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The writer is particularly happy in interpreting the poet’s thought
  in the light of the intellectual turmoil of his age.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 734. Mr. 28, ’07. 270w.

  “Mr. Smyser judiciously restrains his personal views, and allows the
  poet and the circumstances of the time to speak. The book is a
  sympathetic appreciation of the poet.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 574. Mr. 9, ’07. 330w.


=Smyth, Eleanor C.= Sir Rowland Hill: the story of a great reform: told
by his daughter. **$1.65. Wessels.

  The entire history of the penny post is traced here with generous
  detail concerning the originator’s home life.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This old story was well worth retelling, and Mrs. Smyth, the daughter
  of the originator of penny postage, tells it well.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 517. O. 26. 700w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

  “The special feature in the book is therefore due to the more intimate
  and personal atmosphere which she has thrown around her story; but
  this is mainly to be found in the first forty pages of introduction.”

       + =Sat. R.= 104: 460. O. 12, ’07. 170w.

  “A reformer in the heat of the struggle may well talk of ‘odious taxes
  on knowledge,’ and of the franking system as ‘a hoary iniquity,’ but
  such language is out of place in such a book as this. It is a mistake
  to apply to the past the standards of the present.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: sup. 751. N. 16, ’07. 460w.


=Smythe, William Ellsworth.= Conquest of arid America. **$1.50.
Macmillan.

                                                                5–41786.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The book is marred here and there by inferior typography. But it is
  valuable, interesting, entertaining—a clear, impartial presentation of
  all the aspects of the greatest achievement in present times, the
  conquest of arid America.”

     + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 419. Mr. ’07. 380w.


=Snaith, John Collis.= Henry Northcote. †$1.50. Turner, H. B.

                                                                6–14547.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The book is certainly one to be read, though we deplore the
  ultra-cynical scene at the end.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 662. Je. 2. 160w.

  “Whatever its defects, bears every trace of being conceived and
  carried out under the stress of genuine excitement; and whatever its
  measure of success neither in plan nor execution is there a taint of
  mediocrity.” Mary Moss.

   + + − =Atlan.= 99: 120. Ja. ’07. 1630w.

  “Is a book to be reckoned with.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 143. Mr. 1, ’07. 350w.

  “Mr. Snaith is either a madman or a new kind of a genius. He has
  written one of the most powerful books of the year, and he has
  deliberately cut it off from being a great book by founding it upon
  the egotism of one long-shanked big-headed young man.”

     + − =Ind.= 61: 1569. D. 27, ’06. 610w.

  “The great feat the author performs is to present a man of genius so
  that you not only believe in his genius but feel and see it. Its
  results are set before you and you are forced to admit it is the real
  thing. And to represent genius requires genius. Hats off to Mr.
  Snaith.”

   + + − =Putnam’s.= 1: 640. F. ’07. 260w.


=Snaith, John Collis.= Patricia at the inn; with an historical introd.
by W. B. M. Ferguson; il. by H. B. Matthews. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.

                                                                6–37964.

  A romance founded upon an adventure of Charles the Second when, after
  the battle of Worcester, he was a fugitive. “At an inn on a lonely
  coast the rascally landlord entertains unawares the king and two of
  his loyal subjects, man and wife. The vacillation of the Merry Monarch
  between his safety and his attraction to the Lady Patsy (although he
  had seen women ‘younger and more lyrical’), the Stuart witchcraft that
  held even injured husbands loyal, the cunning escape from the turncoat
  landlord, whose willingness to betray to the highest bidder led him at
  last to his horrid deserts, are the main features in the story.”
  (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The best work in the book ... comes from the author’s dramatic use of
  the fact that tragedy does not lie so much in circumstance as in the
  mind of the man involved.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 673. Mr. 21, ’07. 200w.

  “A story of perhaps ruggeder texture than many Stuart tales, but
  otherwise hardly to be distinguished from the rest of the drops in the
  Jacobite fiction sea which rolls from pole to pole.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 539. D. 20, ’06. 150w.

  “The author is one who knows how to give the material a turn out of
  the beaten path. He is not a mere plot concocter and marshal of
  incident. He makes his people real flesh and blood, with a due
  admixture of fire.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 180w.


=Snider, Denton Jaques.= American ten years’ war. $1.50. Sigma pub.

                                                                6–34283.

  The civil war treated philosophically goes back to 1855 for its
  starting point. Mr. Snider takes the invasion of Kansas as the
  beginning of the war and divides the period into three parts—the
  Border war, the Union disunited, and the Union reunited. “It
  represents, to put the matter briefly, an attempt to narrate the
  varying phases of the conflict in the form of a prose epic.”
  (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “However, valueless as much of this work is, there are here and there
  some keen observations, evidently based on personal experience in
  regard to conditions in the West before the civil war.”

     − + =Dial.= 41: 328. N. 16, ’06. 300w.

  “Written in Carlylese, but yet a book of uncommon power. No one
  interested in the phenomena of social control should neglect to read
  these illuminative and instructive chapters.”

   + + − =Ind.= 62: 617. Mr. 14, ’07. 510w.

  “The array of incident is, indeed, respectable, and the comments of
  the author are sometimes keen and suggestive; but as a contribution to
  the history of the Kansas struggle and the civil war, it is
  negligible.”

     − + =Nation.= 83: 371. N. 1, ’06. 110w.

  “It is quite evident that Mr. Snider has thought profoundly and as a
  rule clearly of the momentous events of which he writes, and if too
  frequently he leaves the impression of straining after effect, he
  undoubtedly contrives to set the essentials forth in bold relief.”

     − + =Outlook.= 85: 330. F. 9, ’07. 350w.


=Snider, Guy Edward.= Taxation of the gross receipts of railways in
Wisconsin. *$1. Macmillan.

                                                                6–46362.

  A monograph whose main thesis is “that the gross receipts tax is the
  superior tax for railroads, and that the rejection of that tax, for
  the ad valorem system in Wisconsin was a mistake.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Very painstaking, and in many respects excellent study.”

     + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 167. Jl. ’07. 440w.

  “This paper presents numerous facts of interest to the student of
  taxation and is valuable as an investigation of original sources. The
  fundamental defect in the author’s argument is that it fails to
  recognize the necessity of considering the taxation of railways as a
  part of a general system of taxation.” Robert Morris.

     + − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 177. Mr. ’07. 920w.

         =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 566. S. ’07. 130w.


=Snyder, Carl.= World machine: the first phase, the cosmic mechanism.
*$2.50. Longmans.

                                                                 W 7–93.

  When complete there will be three volumes under the general title,
  “The world machine.” The first phase, “Cosmic mechanism” is the one
  treated in the present volume, the two following are to be “The
  mechanism of life,” and “The social mechanism.” This volume “shows how
  the modern conception of the Cosmos was worked out from the crude
  fancies of primitive men, through ages of observation and reflection,
  into the immense range and detail of accurately systematized
  knowledge. The chief contributors, ancient and modern, to the grand
  result receive due commemoration.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 129. My. ’07.

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 477. Ap. 20. 560w.

  “It is a useful book for the public library, because it gives to the
  general reader more information on the history of science than he can
  find anywhere else in a readable form.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 563. Mr. 7, ’07. 440w.

  “He gets his information mostly at second or third hand and gives few
  references by which his sources can be traced. Besides the liability
  to historical errors due to this, he is fond of exaggeration and rash
  prophecy.”

       − =Nation.= 84: 595. Je. 27, ’07. 650w.

  “The narrative is very verbose, and does not clearly show how one idea
  or group of ideas has been developed from previous ones. The author
  has evidently not studied the original works of the heroes of science
  whose judge he has constituted himself, as he is anything but a
  trustworthy guide in the history of astronomy.” J. L. E. D.

       − =Nature.= 75: 553. Ap. 11, ’07. 1060w.

  “Mr. Snyder’s work is historical and not technical, and it is full of
  assured facts.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 96. F. 16, ’07. 120w.

  “The grandeur of the revelations of the book is intensified by the
  vigorous, picturesque, even dramatic, language of the author. That the
  work is a literary achievement of no mean order the most hostile of
  mystics, however contrasting his theories, must be ready to admit.”

   + + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 107. F. 23, ’07. 1690w.

  “A valuable addition to the literature of popularized science. The
  story is told, moreover, in good literary style, animated throughout,
  and, at times, picturesque.”

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 768. Mr. 30, ’07. 280w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 509. Ap. ’07. 200w.

  “We have not noted any positive blunders, but on the other hand we
  have no confidence that the author really understands the discoveries
  which he is expounding. The genuine scientific history which the book
  contains is drowned in a flood of turgid rhetoric, which bears along
  with it at intervals sprightly illustrations of the most depressing
  character.”

       − =Sat. R.= 101: 207. Ag. 17, ’07. 1430w.


=Sociological society, London.= Sociological papers, v. 2, by Francis
Galton and others. $3. Macmillan.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Some of the papers are couched in such language as to render their
  meaning very obscure.”

     + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 412. Ja. ’07. 310w. (Review of v. 2.)


=Soden, Hermann, baron von.= History of early Christian literature: the
writings of the New Testament; tr. by Rev. J. R. Wilkinson; ed. by Rev.
W. D. Morrison. *$1.50. Putnam.

                                                                6–11299.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The translation is vigorous and good, but some accident must have
  happened to the correction of the press. The book requires revision.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 695. Je. 9. 760w.

  “A good English translation.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 215. Ja. 24, ’07. 440w.


=Somerset, Edward Adolphus Seymour, 11th duke of.= Correspondence of two
brothers: Edward Adolphus [Seymour] eleventh duke of Somerset, and his
brother, Lord Webb Seymour, 1800 to 1819 and after; ed. and comp, by
Lady Guendolen Ramsden. *$4. Longmans.

  “This correspondence ... is various, interesting, and the work of
  distinguished men and women. Though the letters of the eleventh duke
  and his brother ... make up the greater part of the book, they are by
  no means the only correspondents. Of Madame de Stael there are several
  short and characteristic notes, while the letters of Metternich and
  the princesse de Sagan ... are of considerable value.”—Spec.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Lady Guendolen’s notions of editing are original, but not
  ineffective. On the whole, however, [she] is to be congratulated on a
  competent and conscientious piece of work.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 436. O. 13. 2100w.

  “The intimate correspondence here found on the concerns of such men is
  valuable not only for the facts and contemporary views given, but for
  the characters revealed by it.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 565. Mr. 7, ’07. 200w.

  “To say that this volume was more instructive than amusing would be
  ambiguous, and perhaps untrue. It is both in a moderate and neither in
  a very high degree.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 344. O. 12, ’06. 1750w.

  “If she is not orderly, neither is she narrow, and her discursiveness
  is fruitful of many neat glimpses of contemporary society.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 81. Ja. 24, ’07. 330w.

  “These letters are brief and dry. We commend the book to all students
  of the Waterloo period.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 102: 582. N. 10, ’06. 1150w.

  “The chief importance of the book is that it presents a picture of the
  cultured society which once gave Edinburgh a right to be called the
  modern Athens.”

       + =Spec.= 97: 576. O. 20, ’06. 1260w.


=Somerville, Edith Œnone, and Ross, Martin, pseud. (Violet Martin).=
Some Irish yesterdays: stories and sketches; with il. by E. Œ.
Somerville. †$1.50. Longmans.

                                                                7–35223.

  “A pleasant medley of sketches of the West of Ireland.... Dogs and
  gardens, picnics, the ways of servants and primitive inn-keepers, and
  the delights of childhood in an Irish country-house, combine to form
  an amusing volume which on nearly every page will recall memories to
  those who know the Atlantic seaboard.”—Sat. R.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “These sketches of Irish life and character are as charming and as
  amusing as anything that the authors of ‘The experiences of an Irish
  R. M.’ have ever done.”

       + =Acad.= 71: 522. N. 24, ’06. 610w.

  “Well written, with a warm, sympathetic, humorous touch.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 130. My. ’07.

  “The humour of this pleasant volume strikes us as a little less
  spontaneous than was the case with its predecessors.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 545. N. 3. 190w.

  “One may sum up the book as a happy blend wherein the grave and the
  gay wit of the authors is interwoven amid the humour that finds subtle
  expression in the brogue.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 5: 362. O. 26, ’06. 430w.

       + =Nation.= 84: 153. F. 14, ’07. 430w.

  “The book is seldom interesting, often dull, and sometimes almost
  unintelligible.”

       − =Outlook.= 85: 47. Ja. 5, ’07. 70w.

       + =Sat. R.= 102: 617. N. 17. ’06. 220w.

       + =Spec.= 97: 624. O. 27, ’06. 1420w.


=Soothill, W. E.= Typical mission in China. *$1.50. Revell.

  “A long series of moving pictures photographed from life. The author
  tells of the difficulties of establishing a mission, of its daily
  work, of the travels of the missionary about the country and the
  multitude of varied things his hands find to do, of the Chinese
  converts to Christianity and the aid they give, of the work that is
  done among the Chinese women by women missionaries, of the ravages of
  the opium habit, and of the movement toward westernization of Chinese
  education.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His book is vigorously informative, shot thru and thru with human
  interest, and made attractive with wit and humor.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 941. O. 17, ’07. 100w.

  “It is an entertaining volume, brimful of information about the life
  and work of the missionary, and vivid with pictures of the daily life
  of the Chinese.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 500. Ag. 17, ’07. 340w.

  “With many interesting descriptions and touches of humor.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 10w.


=Sorrel, Moxley.= Recollections of a Confederate staff officer. $2.
Neale.

  Not so much of a narrative as a series of pictures of “camp and field
  and of the more striking personalities of the Southern armies.” (Ind.)
  The reminiscences begin with the battle of Manassas, and continue thru
  Chickamauga and the Eastern Tennessee campaign.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Ath.= 1907, 1: 470. Ap. 20, 170w.

       + =Ind.= 62: 1267. My. 30, ’07. 40w.


Southern stories retold from St. Nicholas. (Geographical stories.) *65c.
Century.

                                                                7–29580.

  A group of sunny south stories including How we bought Louisiana, The
  earthquake at Charleston, St. Augustine, Hiding places in war times,
  The ’gator, Catching terrapin and Queer American rivers.


=Souttar, Robinson.= Short history of mediæval peoples, from the dawn of
the Christian era to the fall of Constantinople. *$3 Scribner.

                                                                7–25500.

  “Mr. Souttar begins with a review of the Augustan age and devotes
  three chapters to Roman literature before taking up the serious
  narrative of the reign of Tiberius. The progress of the Roman empire
  from that time until the death of Justinian occupies more than half of
  the large volume. Comfortable space is found in seventy-two pages for
  a sketch of Mohammedanism and an equal measure is allotted to the
  crusades. The remainder of the book is devoted to the Byzantine empire
  from Justinian to the fall of Constantinople in 1453.”—Am. Hist. R.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Possibly the greatest praise we can give the book is that,
  notwithstanding the compression, it is not only not dull, but in fact
  very readable, not like the author’s own description of early Roman
  literature, ‘Historic annals so bald and imperfect that they are of
  little use even to the historian.’”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 312. Mr. 30, ’07. 2140w.

  “The reader appears to be in safe hands, however, for the current
  modern opinion is not departed from, unless the author takes occasion
  to differ with some one as to the causes of the decline and fall of
  the empire, or as to the effect of Christianity upon early political
  and social institutions.” J. M. Vincent.

       + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 175. O. ’07. 470w.

  “He has used in his book what may be regarded as respectable
  authorities but he shows no knowledge of the special literature
  concerning the topics which he treats. The author is seen at his best
  in his chapters on the early emperors, whom he treats with both
  fairness and common sense. But inveterate mistakes are repeated
  because ... Dr. Souttar is not abreast of recent investigation.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 67. Jl. 20. 720w.

  “Granting Mr. Souttar’s method, he has chosen his material with skill
  and knowledge and described it with as much vividness as his method
  will allow.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 611. O. 12, ’07. 230w.

  “The whole thing is certainly not the work of a thorough scholar, or
  of a literary man with any cultivated skill in his craft.”

     − + =Sat. R.= 104: 114. Jl. 27, ’07. 1370w.

  “The truth of the matter is that Dr. Souttar is not sufficiently armed
  with authorities to reverse the judgment of history. Dr. Souttar’s
  inability to deal with the more obscure problems of history is shown
  by his treatment of the subject of Roman persecution of the
  Christians.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: 399. S. 21, ’07. 1340w.


=Spargo, John.= Bitter cry of the children. **$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                 6–5679.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “This work is a masterly volume marked by a firm and comprehensive
  grasp of the subject which speaks of wide and painstaking research and
  investigation. A real contribution to the conscience literature of the
  hour.”

   + + + =Arena.= 37: 205. F. ’07. 5540w.

  Reviewed by Mary Willcox Glenn.

         =Charities.= 17: 497. D. 15, ’06. 1610w.


=Spargo, John.= Capitalist and laborer. (Standard socialist series.)
50c. Kerr.

                                                                7–23082.

  The first part of this little volume contains a reply to Professor
  Goldwin Smith’s attacks on socialism in his book “Capital and labor;”
  the second, a lecture on “Modern socialism,” delivered to the students
  of the school of philanthropy, New York City.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Reviewed by Albion W. Small.

         =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 272. S. ’07. 110w.

  “The paper will be especially valuable to the average reader whose
  acquaintance with socialism consists chiefly of a bundle of
  misapprehensions.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 1370. D. 5, ’07. 150w.


=Spargo, John.= Socialism; a summary and interpretation of socialist
principles. **$1.25. Macmillan.

                                                                6–22326.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  Reviewed by John Graham Brooks.

     + + =Atlan.= 99: 280. F. ’07. 1230w.

  “Mr. Spargo’s views, which if not authoritative are representative,
  have the merit of being those of a socialist who is an educated man
  commanding a clear and temperate style, accustomed to dealing with
  actual affairs and thinking in terms of American life.” Emily Greene
  Balch.

       + =Charities.= 17: 464. D. 15, ’06. 2030w.

  “In spite of the brevity of his work—the result of conciseness rather
  than of superficiality—Mr. Spargo gives a satisfactory general view of
  his subject, and his book is to be recommended especially as a
  foundation for a more detailed knowledge to be afterwards acquired.”
  Eunice Follansbee.

       + =Dial.= 42: 110. F. 16, ’07. 300w.

  “As an elementary presentation Mr. Spargo’s work is distinctly
  meritorious, in spite of undoubted faults of style, exposition, and
  reasoning. Economically it need mislead no one. Sociologically it will
  prove stimulating to many. It is probably well worth publishing,
  though it adds nothing to the specialist’s knowledge of socialist
  history or theory.” R. F. Hoxie.

       + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 122. F. ’07. 540w.

  “It is to be regretted that in preparing such an able hand-book for
  the propagation of socialistic ideas, the author did not give more
  serious consideration to the later developments of economic thought
  and thus bring the ‘economics of socialism’ into closer harmony with
  the economics of economists.” Henry R. Seager.

     + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 166. Mr. ’07. 960w.


=Sparhawk, Frances Campbell.= Life of Lincoln for boys. (Young peoples
ser.) †75c. Crowell.

                                                                7–26624.

  Purpose, honest and unyielding, marks the development of Lincoln the
  little boy in the lonely woods into Lincoln the patriot, the lover and
  friend of his whole country. The sketch has been prepared especially
  for boys and furnishes the keynote to a successful life in any place
  or station.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Adapted to the understanding of the young. At the same time, it is
  not written in a tone of condescension, an attitude which boys are
  sure to resent. Adults might well read it and be instructed.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 614. O. 26, ’07. 70w.


=Sparling, Samuel Edwin.= Introduction to business organization.
(Citizen’s lib. of economics, politics, and sociology.) $1.25.
Macmillan.

                                                                6–43943.

  “This book is another indication of the growing interest in the
  systematic study of business. In the introductory part of the work
  definitions and analysis of business organization are given with
  considerable attention to the legal aspects and forms of organization.
  After this introduction Professor Sparling passes to a discussion of
  such topics as, Business aspects of farming, Factory organization,
  Factory cost-keeping, Commercial organization, Exchanges, Direct
  selling, wholesaling and retailing, Advertising, Credits and
  collections.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The only book on the subject.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 105. Ap. ’07.

  “So many things have received treatment, and the limits set by the
  very nature of the series are so narrow, that it has been impossible
  for Professor Sparling to make himself clear on a number of points.”
  Charles Lee Raper.

     + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 662. My. ’07. 370w.

  “The work is clear and readable. While it is not likely to offer much
  detailed information of value to any thoughtful business man about the
  organization of his own business, it is likely to prove helpful and
  suggestive to the student who wants a general view of the field and to
  the beginner who is studying methods of systematizing his own
  business.” Wm. Hill.

       + =J. Pol. Econ.= 51: 57. Ja. ’07. 160w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 510. Ap. ’07. 100w.


=Spears, John Randolph.= Short history of the American navy. **50c.
Scribner.

                                                                7–12867.

  Published under the auspices of the new navy league of the United
  States, this book aims to be a campaign document for keeping alive
  people’s pride in our navy and the part it is playing in the making of
  America’s history.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This book is not to be taken too seriously. It contributes little new
  knowledge and fortunately not many errors worthy of being noted.”
  Charles Oscar Paullin.

     + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 185. O. ’07. 470w.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 172. O. ’07. S.

  “Interestingly and compactly written, it cannot, however, claim
  consideration as a serious historical study.”

     − + =Nation.= 85: 33. Jl. 11, ’07. 160w.

  “This short history of the navy is something more—and less—than a
  history. A tract—even a good tract—is still a tract and should be so
  labeled.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 488. Ag. 10, ’07. 390w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 757. D. ’07. 90w.


=Speed, Capt. Thomas.= Union cause in Kentucky, 1860–1865. **$2.50.
Putnam.

                                                                7–14671.

  A study of this special phase of the civil war by an active
  participant.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The work has those faults to which the author objects so strongly in
  the other state historians. The method employed is interesting, but
  unfortunately not convincing. In spite of Captain Speed’s
  controversial method, which causes him often to forget facts for
  arguments and opinions, the work will be found useful, for it is the
  best available source of information about the Union cause in
  Kentucky.”

     + − =Dial.= 43: 41. Jl. 16, ’07. 440w.

       + =Ind.= 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 60w.

  “The book does not tell a consecutive story, but is rather a not
  altogether well-assorted collection of fragments relating to men and
  events, sometimes only locally interesting.”

     − + =Nation.= 85: 187. Ag. 29, ’07. 650w.

  “It is a polemic, though not of a fierce nature. It will have
  value ... simply because it will be essential to the future historian
  of Kentucky and the other border states.” Wm. E. Dodd.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 265. Ap. 27, ’07. 1130w.

         =R. of Rs.= 36: 128. Jl. ’07. 80w.


=Speer, Robert E.= Marks of a man: or, The essentials of Christian
character. *$1. West. Meth. bk.

                                                                7–16361.

  The Merrick lectures for 1906–7. They are on the following subjects,
  Truth: no lie in character ever justifiable; Purity: a plea for
  ignorance; Service: the living use of life; Freedom: the necessity of
  a margin; Progress and patience: the value of a sense of failure.


=Speicher, Jacob.= Conquest of the cross in China. **$1.50. Revell.

                                                                7–20641.

  A first-hand view of the conditions to be met by missionaries in
  southern China.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Speicher’s lectures ... were well worth bringing out in permanent
  form, because they give good pictures of present conditions at Kityang
  and the South China field generally, and are full of sane advice on
  what kind of missionary the country needs and what kind of training
  the missionary needs.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 942. O. 17, ’07. 80w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 20w.


* =Spinners’ club.= Spinners’ book of fiction. **$2. Elder.

                                                                7–32566.

  A book of stories by well known writers of western fiction. Its
  mission is to secure additions to a fund started by the Spinner’s club
  to aid writers, artists or musicians whose fortunes are at low ebb.
  Miss Ina D. Coolbrith whose literary treasures were swept away by the
  earth-quake is the first beneficiary.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Dial.= 43: 428. D. 16, ’07. 90w.

  “A worthy memorial of Californian literary art.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 789. D. 7, ’07. 230w.


=Spinney, William Anthony.= Health through self-control in thinking,
breathing, eating. **$1.20. Lothrop.

                                                                 7–2729.

  An untechnical book whose purpose is to prove that health of body and
  mind is a science and an art, and not in any respect a haphazard
  matter. The author reveals the way to perfect health.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is much ... nonsense in the book.”

       − =Ind.= 62: 1474. Je. 20, ’07. 140w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 138. Mr. 9, ’07. 70w.


=Spitta, Edmund J.= Microscopy, the construction, theory and use of the
microscope. *$6. Dutton.

  This “is a new and comprehensive volume on the technique of the
  instrument, its construction and the theory of optics as applied to
  the microscope. It differs essentially from ‘Carpenter on the
  microscope,’ which has long been considered as standard, in that
  Spitta has nothing to say regarding microscopic objects. He concerns
  himself entirely with the instrument as a medium. The present volume
  considers for the first time metallurgical microscopes and illustrates
  the most recent types.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We have noticed a few points which might receive attention in a
  future edition, but our opinion of the work as a whole is high, and
  every microscopist will be glad to add it to his library.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 448. O. 12. 970w.

  “Advanced students in microscopy will find the present volume
  extremely helpful.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 1062. O. 31, ’07. 100w.

  “In this aim he has, we think, been in a marked degree successful.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 274. S. 13, ’07. 400w.

       + =Nation.= 85: 476. N. 21, ’07. 160w.

  “The merit of Dr. Spitta’s work lies in its practical hints, which are
  the work of an experienced and skilled microscopist, and not in its
  theory, which in fact hardly merits even the subordinate place which
  he modestly assigns to it in his preface.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 104: 581. N. 9, ’07. 790w.


=Squires, Grace.= Merle and May: a story of girlhood days. †$1.50.
Dutton.

                                                                6–39753.

  The story of May and the winning over of her friend Merle, whose world
  was all awry, to a wholesome girlish view of life will interest boys
  as well as girls, for it is full of both fun and incident.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It would interest boys, too, and it is better than the title would
  suggest.”

       + =Bookm.= 24: 525. Ja. ’07. 30w.

  “It is full of wholesome lively, good fun, with just enough
  seriousness to carry it home to susceptible young hearts. It would do
  any girl good to read it.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 3. Ja. 5, ’07. 480w.


=Stael-Holstein, Mme. de.= Madame de Staël and Benjamin Constant; ed. by
Mme. de Constant’s great-granddaughter. Baroness Elizabeth de Nolde; tr.
from the French by Charlotte Harwood. **$1.50. Putnam.

                                                                7–29169.

  “These letters from Madame de Staël to Benjamin Constant, while not of
  great political importance, show clearly the temper of the times, as
  well as the emotions of the distinguished woman who wrote them. They
  are not many, and do not by any means cover the whole period when
  these two famous people were intimately connected. They show the
  decadence of their devotion, and represent, by implication, ‘the
  inconstant Constant’ in any but an admirable light.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “These letters of Mme. de Staël, with their frequent references to
  current events, have some historical as well as biographical interest,
  but are perhaps not quite so important or interesting as the Baroness
  de Nolde would have us believe. The translation is a little too
  obviously a translation.”

     + − =Dial.= 43: 254. O. 16, ’07. 370w.

  “As a whole the small volume is an interesting addition, though not of
  great importance, to the voluminous literature of the time.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 356. O. 19, ’07. 380w.

  “The book is to be recommended to all readers who are attracted by the
  name of Madame de Staël. She, not Constant, benefits by this
  publication of new letters.”

       + =Spec.= 99: sup. 753. N. 16, ’07. 210w.


=Staley, Edgcumbe.= Guilds of Florence. *$5. McClurg.

                                                                6–37191.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 105. Ap. 16, ’07.

  “It is not provided with notes of any sort, and the literary style is
  too exuberant to be that of an historian writing primarily for
  students. It is not likely that very many readers will be able to
  plough through all of the twenty chapters. But no one with any
  interest in the general subject can afford to miss the last hundred
  pages of the book.” Laurence M. Larson.

     + − =Dial.= 42: 41. Ja. 16, ’07. 1450w.

  “Easy as it would be to quarrel with the impression caused by this
  presentation, and to detect inaccuracies, the heart of Mr. Staley’s
  book is sound. It is not an important contribution to historical
  knowledge but an attractive work for the general reader.”

   + + + =Ind.= 62: 155. Ja. 17, ’07. 780w.


=Staley, Edgcumbe.= Lord Leighton of Stretton. (Makers of British art.)
*$1.25. Scribner.

  “An attempt to give Lord Leighton of Stretton his true place in art
  history, and at the same time designate a proper proportion to his
  gentlemanly characteristics. By birth, fortune, and environment
  Frederick Leighton was singularly placed for advancement in any
  profession toward which he might have been attracted. The first 173
  pages of the book form a narrative biography built around the work of
  the artist from his early student sketches in Berlin and Florence to
  the unfinished canvases left at his death.... The closing pages of the
  book deal in a fragmentary, discursive, yet natural, manner with
  Leighton’s versatility, nobility of purpose, courtesy, sincerity,
  daily habits and patriotism.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It happens that Mr. Staley’s praise is not only tiresome, but
  generally meaningless, and without any clear perception of the real
  quality of the work praised.”

       − =Nation.= 84: 67. Ja. 17, ’07. 260w.

  “The [narrative biography] is admirably told with sufficient anecdote
  to appeal to the general reader, while the chronology of his
  advancement is preserved for reference through the titles of his
  pictures inserted as marginal notes.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 836. D. 1, ’06. 570w.

  “He has written with such apparent indiscrimination.”

       − =Outlook.= 84: 706. N. 24, ’06. 340w.


=Stamey, De Kellar.= Junction of laughter and tears. $1.25. Badger, R:
G.

                                                                6–16206.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “If the moral is at times a little too obvious, and the language
  rather that of the man in the street, the verses are at least the
  author’s own, there is here no troublesome echo of greater poets.”

     − + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 75. F. 9, ’07. 70w.


=Stanard, Mrs. Mary Newton.= Story of Bacon’s rebellion. $1. Neale.

                                                                7–20751.

  Another bit of Jamestown history is told in this story of Nathaniel
  Bacon who in 1676 led the poverty-stricken people of Virginia in
  rebellion against Governor Berkeley and his grandees. The story is
  well told and the motives, aims, and ideals of its hero have been
  carefully sought out.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mrs. Stanard has been able to write a tolerably complete account of
  the whole stirring episode. It cannot be said that every gap has been
  filled out, neither is it altogether certain that the author’s
  interpretations are always correct. The historical student may incline
  to question whether the romantic in the episode has not sometimes
  lifted the author’s feet off the solid rock of historical criticism.”

     + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 188. O. ’07. 280w.

         =Ath.= 1907, 2: 154. Ag. 10. 140w.

  “Mrs. Stanard has caught the spirit of the movement, and, fortified
  with study of the original records and documents, has written a
  thoroughly readable little account of the rebellion.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 487. Ag. 10, ’07. 150w.

  “Mrs. Stanard has a way of raising opposition in her readers; but that
  there is much to be said for her hero we do not doubt; in any case,
  there is much that is picturesque and interesting in her story.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: 236. Ag. 17, ’07. 230w.


=Standage, H. C.= Agglutinants of all kinds for all purposes. *$3.50.
Van Nostrand.

  Here are scientifically discussed cements and agglutinants suited to a
  great variety of trade purpose. The methods of preparing the compounds
  are such as the author has found to give the best and surest results.


=Stanmore, Arthur H. G., 1st baron.= Sidney Herbert; Lord Herbert of
Lea. 2v. *$7.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–28487.

  Owing to the dearth of facts available for Lord Stanmore’s biography
  he offers, as he says, a “bare recital of outer events” with “a sketch
  of the times in which Lord Herbert lived.” “His career was hardly such
  as to place him among the distinguished men of his generation, and
  certainly was not such as to warrant his biographer’s assertion that
  had he lived longer he would have been prime minister of England. His
  chief claims to remembrance rest on his charming personality and on
  his connection with the little group of Parliamentarians who banded
  themselves together to keep alive Sir Robert Peel’s principles and
  policies.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Lord Stanmore has, on the whole, done his work well, but some readers
  will object to the occasional intrusion of his own personality and
  opinions.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 726. D. 8. 3450w.

  “It is good that the world should know what war means for the men who
  are of the administrations responsible for a war; and except for the
  Aberdeen memoirs, there are among English political biographies no
  books which are more valuable from this point of view than the
  biography of Sidney Herbert.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 822. O. 3, ’07. 790w.

  “In many respects Sidney Herbert is singularly fortunate in his
  biographer. He is only unfortunate in having had to wait so long. His
  treatment of the Crimean war and its causes is such as might not
  unfairly be called in these days a little old-fashioned.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 413. D. 14, ’06. 2700w.

  “The net impression would have been better made in one-third the
  space.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 204. F. 28, ’07. 410w.

  “It is as a history of the Peelites that biography is chiefly
  interesting, and especially for the fresh light it throws, not on
  Herbert, but on Gladstone, the most distinguished and the most able of
  the Peelites. For the rest, we must admit, that we have found the work
  formidable and rather dreary reading.”

     + − =Outlook.= 85: 332. F. 9, ’07. 260w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 756. Je. ’07. 90w.

  “Very interesting memoir.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 103: 18. Ja. 5, ’07. 2150w.

         =Spec.= 97: 1043. D. 22, ’06. 2060w.


=Stanton, Coralie.= Adventuress. Frontispiece by Harrison Fisher. $1.50.
McBride, T. J.

                                                                7–11588.

  The story of Miriam Lemaire, a money lender, a society vampire, a
  compelling criminal. The adventures of this woman, “who became a power
  for good and evil, playing with men and even nations, as a cat plays
  with mice” are recounted by the person, among all who appear on the
  horizon of the tale, who suffered no ill at the hands of the
  adventuress.


=Starbuck, Robert Macy.= Modern plumbing illustrated; a comprehensive
and thoroughly practical work on the modern and most approved methods of
plumbing construction; il. by fifty-five detailed plates made expressly
by the author for this work. $4. Henley.

                                                                 7–2755.

  A plumbers’ handbook including the most practical up-to-date handling
  of the questions of drainage, sewerage, and water supply.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Exception must be taken to some of the author’s remarks. These
  exceptions, however, affect only a small part of the book, and
  probably most of them will do little harm, considering the class of
  readers concerned. The main purpose of the book seems to be admirably
  fulfilled.”

   + + − =Engin. N.= 57: 308. Mr. 14, ’07. 420w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 50w.

  “It will be found of value not only to master plumbers, craftsmen and
  apprentices, but to architects, builders and all others who have
  occasion to require clearly stated and excellently illustrated
  information on the installation of sanitary appliances.”

     + + =Technical Literature.= 1: 225. My. ’07. 270w.


=Starke, Dr. J.= Alcohol: the sanction for its use scientifically
established and popularly expounded by a physiologist; tr. from the
German. **$1.50. Putnam.

                                                                7–12259.

  A popular treatise on the relations of alcohol to living organisms,
  especially to man. The subject is discussed from the medical and also
  the physical standpoint. On the one hand the author concludes that
  “There is nothing in medical experience which speaks against the
  moderate use of good alcoholic drinks by the public, but much that
  speaks in favor of it,” on the other, that the bodily cells of man are
  not strangers to alcohol and to its elaboration, that it nourishes,
  exerts a specific action on the nervous system, acts no less as a
  nutrient and a specific than cereals and sugar, and that the
  disposition to drink excessively has its origin in the peculiarities
  and circumstances of the individual, and that alcohol does not of
  itself possess the property of inducing excessive use.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It bears the earmarks of prejudice and is written in popular style in
  order to influence public opinion more effectively.”

       − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 168. Jl. ’07. 110w.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 449. Ap. ’07. 3120w.

  “This common-sense volume will be a useful antidote to much of the
  unscientific and incendiary literature on the subject that is in
  circulation.”

       + =Educ. R.= 34: 208. S. ’07. 70w.

         =Ind.= 63: 1119. N. 7, ’07. 130w.

  “The translation, from a German original, is for the most part smooth
  and clear, but the ‘Checking sensations’ of the sixth chapter are
  somewhat obscure.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 476. My. 23, ’07. 170w.

         =R. of Rs.= 36: 384. S. ’07. 110w.

  “While this volume will scarcely meet with unanimous approval, it
  might still be recommended as an antidote to the attenuated nonsense
  of the ‘scientific temperance’ of the school books.” Graham Lusk.

     + − =Science=, n.s. 25: 787. My. 17, ’07. 180w.


=Starr, Frederick.= Truth about the Congo: the Chicago tribune articles.
$1. Forbes.

                                                                7–20882.

  An unbiased statement of the present social and political conditions
  in the Congo Free State. The author, in the course of a year’s travel
  of seven thousand miles, visited twenty-eight different tribes and
  found conditions much better than he had expected. His account is well
  illustrated by photographs of the natives.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 172. O. ’07. S.

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 602. N. ’07. 160w.

     + + =Cath. World.= 85: 840. S. ’07. 990w.

         =Nation.= 85: 281. S. 26, ’07. 120w.

  “His book is a sane, calm statement of what he saw and understood on
  his Congo trip.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 282. My. 4, ’07. 200w.

  “He gives the public a clearer statement of the actual state of things
  under the government of the Independent Congo State than has been
  afforded by any publication since the beginning of the controversy
  over alleged atrocities there.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 511. Ag. 24, ’07. 1330w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 757. Je. ’07. 60w.


=Stauffer, David McNeely.= Modern tunnel practice. *$5. Eng. news.

                                                                 6–7716.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Within the limitations imposed by the size of the book and with the
  reservation noted above, the author has made a very creditable
  compilation of the recent periodical literature on the subject, which
  is presented in an acceptable manner and quite profusely illustrated.”
  F. Lavis.

     + − =Engin. N.= 56: 526. N. 15, ’06. 1350w.


* =Stead, Richard.= Adventures on high mountains. **$1.50. Lippincott.

  “Boys will find a wide range of adventure to choose from in this
  volume, and should be able to form a comprehensive notion of the
  dangers that beset pioneers and travellers in the robber region of the
  Mexican mountains and the lofty peaks of Abyssinia.” (Spec.) “The
  compilation, beginning with Napoleon’s feat in crossing the Great St.
  Bernard, and, coming down to the eruption of Mont Pelée, includes many
  notable feats of climbing, as those of Tyndall on the Weisshorn and
  Mr. Whymper’s terrible experience on the Matterhorn, as well as
  less-known adventures in every part of the world.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 515. O. 26. 100w.

  “The illustrations alone are sufficiently attractive to induce one to
  run through the 328 pages.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 40w.

  “The book seems lacking in spirit, and yet Mr. Stead made the great
  rivers most interesting to us; it is too obviously a compilation.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: sup. 640. N. 2, ’07. 190w.


=Stead, Richard.= Adventures on the great rivers, romantic incidents and
perils of travel, sport and exploration throughout the world. *$1.50.
Lippincott.

                                                                6–45336.

  An interesting collection of adventures “in which figure a long line
  of heroes from the Abbé Huc down to the miners who rushed to
  Klondyke.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Ath.= 1906, 2: 51. O. 27. 130w.

  “A chronicle irresistible to any boy with a soul for wild adventure
  and wilder beasts.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 40w.

  “The author handles his material well. But his book would have been
  better had he been more fully acquainted with the literature of the
  topics he treats.” Cyrus C. Adams.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 846. D. 8, ’06. 160w.

  “Boy readers will find a kaleidoscope of brilliant and picturesque
  scenes from all lands collected for their benefit by Mr. Stead. And
  from all of them they will learn some healthy lessons which, we think,
  the author has striven to inculcate,—the value of coolness and
  steadiness, tact and patience, and that, as books should educate as
  well as recreate, is one of the good points of these twenty-nine
  stories of adventure and exploration.”

       + =Spec.= 97: sup. 659. N. 3, ’06. 210w.


* =Stead, William Thomas.= Peers or people? the House of lords weighed
in the balance and found wanting; an appeal to history. *$1. Wessels.

  A three-part political monograph which urges that the hereditary
  chamber of the British parliament be replaced by some sort of senate
  which would be more responsive to popular will. The divisions of the
  study are The lords versus the nation, What the House of lords has
  done, and What must be done with the House of lords.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is far less of Mr. Stead than is usual in his political or
  social monographs; and were all of Mr. Stead discarded, the
  authorities he has drawn upon ... are brought together with much skill
  and care; and these alone would greatly help to an understanding of
  the problem.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 310. O. 3, ’07. 490w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 507. Ap. ’07. 120w.


=Stearns, Frank Preston.= Life and genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne. **$2.
Lippincott.

                                                                6–37623.

  A biography which aims to supply more critical comment than is found
  in previous lives of Hawthorne. Eased somewhat on personal memories it
  “contains much interesting matter, and shows marks of faithful and
  loving labor; its citations and references and illustrations are
  varied and sometimes illuminating.” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He does not seem to understand that unstinted praise of everything
  that Hawthorne wrote is not criticism.”

     − + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 603. My. 18. 370w.

  “Its style is rambling and diffuse—a fault not offset by any keenness
  of criticism in the chapters devoted to what he proclaims as the
  distinctive feature of his work.”

     − + =Dial.= 42: 45. Ja. 16, ’07. 360w.

  “The author of this new ‘Life of Hawthorne’ comes to his task with
  some advantages over the ordinary biographer and critic. To a keen
  sympathy and with vivid admiration of the genius of our one great
  romancer he adds some personal acquaintance with him and his
  surroundings.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 446. F. 21, ’07. 390w.

  “In spite of all that has been published in the note-books, in Horatio
  Bridge’s memoirs, and in Julian Hawthorne’s biography, there are even
  new facts to be found here, some of which are interesting and
  valuable. But the best reason for reading the book lies in this—it
  furnishes a perfect example or what a biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne
  should not be.”

     − + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 68. F. 2, ’07. 620w.


* =Stearns, Frank Preston.= Life and public services of George Luther
Stearns. **$2. Lippincott.

                                                                7–38430.

  A full biography of Major Stearns who was “the Sir Galahad of the
  antislavery struggle.” It has been compiled partly from documentary
  evidence and partly from family traditions. It furnishes interesting
  sidelights on the civil war and its issues.


=Steel, Flora Annie.= Sovereign remedy. †$1.50. Doubleday.

                                                                6–26482.

  “Two young men, a clerk from a Midland city and an uncomfortable
  millionaire ... meet a beautiful girl, who has been brought up by a
  philosophic grandfather in seclusion.... Both fall in love with her,
  and she falls in love with the millionaire, Lord Blackborough, but,
  being afraid of love, she marries the other, for whom she has only a
  humdrum liking. Lord Blackborough continues to make ducks and drakes
  of his fortune, while the other, Cruttenden, becomes the hard
  commercial money-spinner. Aura, his wife, is at first fascinated by
  domesticity, but she is soon repelled by the heartlessness of
  prosperity, and begins to turn to her first love. She is killed
  accidentally in his company, and he, too, mad with grief, dies in the
  ward of a workhouse infirmary with the words of Eastern mysticism on
  his lips.”—Spec.

                  *       *       *       *       *

     + − =Acad.= 71: 182. Ag. 25, ’06. 680w.

  “Is essentially a good story, witty and poignant, and full of
  interesting modern people; but it is almost intolerably sad.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 181. Ag. 18. 550w.

  “The chief fault to be found with ... ‘The sovereign remedy,’ is that,
  out of a rather confusing number of characters, it seems impossible to
  determine which one she herself was personally interested in, and
  which she meant the reader to regard as the leading parts. This
  confusion mars what would otherwise have been a book of considerable
  strength.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

     + − =Bookm.= 25: 88. Mr. ’07. 560w.

  “Mrs. Steel is so wise a woman and so admirable a writer that her work
  always gives pleasure of a refined sort, but the present story offers
  only a pale reflection of the power displayed in her novels of Indian
  life.” Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 42: 225. Ap. 1, ’07. 260w.

  “The book is a beautiful story, beautifully told. It emerges quite
  evidently from a full mind, a wide experience and an appeased and
  noble outlook upon life.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 442. F. 21, ’07. 320w.

  “There is a certain literary distinction in Mrs. Steel’s new story
  which lifts it well above the novels of the hour.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 34: 386. Mr. 9, ’07. 220w.

  “The actual story told is so unimportant and uninteresting that a
  novelist of her competence would hardly have written it without
  ulterior motives; and one is driven, therefore to search for
  symbolism, and to find it, though the relation between the symbol and
  the thing symbolized is not invariably clear.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 271. Ag. 3, ’06. 500w.

  “Lavishness, in fact, is the note of the whole story.”

       − =Nation.= 84: 136. F. 7, ’07. 560w.

  “A most unusual and interesting novel. Few are the occurrences to be
  measured beside the sort of thing that really happens; few characters
  are at all like any one meets in life. Much of the action, too, is
  quite inexplicable. It is to the credit of Mrs. Steel’s art that as we
  read we believe—the incredulities come with the backward look.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 78. F. 9, ’07. 670w.

  “She comes to her task with a mind well furnished, with a habit of
  skilled observation, and with the wide outlook of one who has in the
  fullest way lived threescore years.” Louise Collier Willcox.

       + =No. Am.= 184: 861. Ap. 19, ’07. 840w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 766. Je. ’07. 30w.

  “It is hard to say whether the frank improbabilities of the
  story—though they are heaped together in the opening pages till they
  look like an intentional signal—and the high-pitched (not to say
  melodramatic) key of much of the action, are intended to emphasise the
  strain of mysticism and the occult which runs through the book and to
  put the reader in tune with immaterial influences, or—a thing scarcely
  to be thought of in Mrs. Steel’s hands—are merely structural mishaps.
  Again, it is difficult to decide whether the frequent reflections on
  modern developments of social order are the prepossessions of a
  reformer forcing their way through the story at almost every turn, or
  are the main moral of which the fiction is only the vehicle.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 102: 175. Ag. 11, ’06. 740w.

  “The truth is that Mrs. Steel has attempted to write a tale of Eastern
  mysticism in an irrelevant setting. She has moments of great power and
  beauty, but they serve only to accentuate the weakness of the main
  theme. One exception, indeed should be made, for the picture of the
  revival in the village is done with remarkable skill.”

     − + =Spec.= 97: 205. Ag. 11, ’06. 890w.


=Steele, Francesca Maria (Fanny) (Darley Dale, pseud.).= Naomi’s
transgression. †$1.50. Warne.

  A wealthy Australian Quaker at his death leaves his large fortune to
  his daughter Naomi on condition that she marries her London cousin
  Robin. If he refuses she is to have the fortune; if she refuses, it
  goes to him. Naomi’s friend, Kitty Marvin, goes to London in her place
  crudely impersonates the Quakeress and antagonizes Robin who becomes
  engaged to another girl. When the deception is discovered the
  complication is all that any weaver of plots could wish, and its
  untangling is deftly accomplished.


=Stein, Evaleen.= Gabriel and the hour book. $1. Page.

                                                                6–25686.

  “The story of a little Norman boy in the time of Louis XII., who went
  daily to St. Martin’s abbey to help the monks who made the wonderful
  illuminated books.... He worked with one of the monks who was the most
  skilful of them all on an hour book which the king wanted as a gift to
  his bride.... Finally a little prayer to the king which he put into
  the book brought great good fortune.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 83. Mr. ’07. ✠

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 772. N. 24, ’06. 150w.


=Steiner, Bernard Christian.= Maryland during the English civil wars.
pa. 50c. Johns Hopkins.

                                                                7–11189.

  =pt. 2.= Beginning with the events of the year 1643 the second part of
  this monograph takes up Maryland’s narrative and examines it in detail
  down to the famous Act concerning religion enacted by the Assembly of
  1649.


=Steiner, Edward A.= On the trail of the immigrant. **$1.50. Revell.

                                                                6–39003.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Most interesting as to the telling, accurate as to facts, based upon
  personal experience and investigation.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 74. Mr. ’07. S.

  “This volume is easily one of the most interesting, accurate and
  important discussions of the immigrant yet produced in this country.”

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 224. Ja. ’07. 360w.

  Reviewed by Arthur B. Reeve.

         =Charities.= 17: 507. D. 15, ’06. 690w.

       + =Ind.= 62: 211. Ja. 24, ’07. 500w.

  “Professor Steiner’s social studies of Jew and Slav are especially
  valuable; and his reasoning throughout is clear and incisive. The
  volume is written in popular style, but by no means lacks scientific
  interest.”

     + + =Yale R.= 15: 467. F. ’07. 120w.


* =Stejneger, Leonhard Hess.= Herpetology of Japan and adjacent
territory. $1. Supt. of doc.

                                                                7–35282.

  With a number of changes in established nomenclature Dr. Stejneger has
  treated the reptiles of Japan, the Liu Kiu, neighboring islands, and a
  large portion of the mainland devoting particular attention to
  geographical distribution.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A valuable systematic monograph.”

       + =Nature.= 77: 92. N. 28, ’07. 40w.

  “His manner of simplifying descriptions, interspersing paragraphs
  helpful to the novice, besides giving some attention to habits,
  produces a work of far broader use and interest than a strictly
  technical compilation.” Raymond L. Ditmars.

   + + − =Science=, n.s. 26: 507. O. 18, ’07. 2160w.


=Stelzle, Rev. Charles.= Messages to working men. **50c. Revell.

                                                                6–20202.

  A plea for the church as a means of economic and social betterment.
  The “messages” aim to bring the workingmen and the church into closer
  relation by solving through brotherly love the economic and social
  problems which are in reality moral and religious questions.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Stelzle delivers this message in a very pleasing manner. His
  language is simple; his style spirited. He deals with familiar things
  in a familiar way. The fatal error of the book is just in this air of
  reality and sanity. It imparts this air to a statement and solution of
  the problem altogether too simple.” R. F. Hoxie.

     + − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 181. Mr. ’07. 310w.

  “Their outstanding characteristics are sound sense, a broad humanity,
  and insistence on personal loyalty to Christ.”

     + + =Outlook.= 83: 911. Ag. 18, ’06. 130w.


=Stephen, Sir Leslie.= Essays of Sir Leslie Stephen, literary and
critical. Authorized American ed. 10v. ea. *$1.50. Putnam.

  =v. 6.= English literature and society in the eighteenth century.

  The sixth volume in this series includes the Ford lectures for 1903,
  which deal more with the literature of the period than with society.
  “Society is only dealt with in just so far as the poetic and prose
  writers expressed it, or in so far as it affected them.” (N. Y.
  Times).

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The lectures ... do not exhibit Stephen at his best. The subject was
  one with which he was thoroughly familiar; it afforded him opportunity
  for many passages of shrewd comment and keen analysis. And yet the
  whole is not so thoroughly knit together and so happily phrased as the
  work of his prime.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 384. Ap 25, ’07. 170w.

  “Sir Leslie Stephen ... has written them in a much more entertaining
  style than that in which the average professor delivers the average
  lecture.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 375. Je. 8, ’07. 480w.


* =Stephen, Sir Leslie.= Science of ethics; 2d ed. *$2.50. Putnam.

                                                                W 7–196.

  Starting from the utilitarian theory, the author’s aim is to “lay down
  an ethical doctrine in harmony with the doctrine of evolution.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Nation.= 85: 469. N. 21, ’07. 120w.

  “Sir Leslie Stephen, not disdaining any homely illustration that
  occurs to him, makes the study of ethics as delightful a pursuit as
  Bagehot made economics or as Prof. James makes psychology.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 748. N. 23, ’07. 530w.


=Stephens, Robert Neilson, and Westley, G: Hembert.= Clementina’s
highwayman: a romance. $1.50. Page.

                                                                7–27613.

  The highwayman is a young lord whose fortune has been squandered in
  his absence by a rascally steward. He takes a dare to be a highwayman
  for a night for the spice of adventure there is in it, and gets
  himself into no end of trouble. The situations growing out of the
  wager make a lively little comedy of errors leading up to a romance
  whose course is interrupted by an unconscionable eighteenth century
  beau.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Clementina is fascinating, her highwayman acts up to his part in fine
  style, and, incidentally, the reader gains many a realistic glimpse of
  the strenuous thing life was for even a plain citizen in the days of
  George II.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 680. O. 26, ’07. 270w.


=Sterling, Sara Hawks.= Queens’ company: a story for girls. †$1.25.
Lippincott.

                                                                7–31224.

  The queens are the much loved teachers in a girls’ boarding school and
  the company consists of a group of fun loving girls of boarding school
  age. The story centers about the production of an amateur “As you like
  it” and there is much wholesome human nature in the tale.


* =Sterns, Justin.= Song of the boy. 15c. Ariel press, Westwood, Mass.

  The first note struck in the poem is that of “vivid glorification of
  the joys of healthy youth—wrestling, skating, diving, rowing,
  climbing, running, jumping, the subtler joys of the senses, the
  pleasures of the fresh fancy and imagination, of young sympathy and
  friendship.... Then other voices are heard. Death, the World, the
  Flesh, the Devil, address themselves to the boy, suggesting the
  pleasantness of the Primrose path and the wisdom of plucking roses
  while one may. Finally Love speaks in the crucial strophe of the
  poem.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Shows a wholesome, fine poetic imagination.”

       + =Arena.= 38: 215. Ag. ’07. 590w.

  “The piece has its faults; it would have gained by some revision and
  excision by an occasional refining of phrase, but as a whole it is a
  telling expression of the perennially pagan spirit of youth and of an
  admirable promise.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 199. F. 28, ’07. 420w.


=Stevens, George Barker.= Christian doctrine of salvation. **$2.50.
Scribner.

                                                                5–32666.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “We doubt whether, with all his learning and his keenness to press
  home every point of vantage, he can be awarded many of the spoils of
  victory. But in saying this we do not wish to deny the interest and
  importance of his work from a historical point of view. It is a
  learned study in some of the by-paths of religious thought and
  belief.” W. H. Drummond.

     + − =Hibbert J.= 5: 691. Ap. ’07. 2550w.


=Stevens, Horace J.= Copper handbook, v. 6. $5. Stevens, H. J.

  “This volume covers the entire subject of copper, its history,
  biography, metallurgy, finances, and statistics.”—R. of Rs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In general, the descriptions are well written, and many of them are
  not only readable but in some parts highly interesting.”

     + − =Engin. N.= 56: 640. D. 13, ’06. 190w.

  “The frankness, honesty and sincerity of the comments on
  copper-producing mines is perhaps the most valuable characteristic of
  the book, although the typographical arrangement is unusually helpful
  in making the contents accessible.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 511. Ap. ’07. 90w.


=Stevenson, Burton Egbert.= Affairs of state. †$1.50. Holt.

                                                                6–34368.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “It makes a pleasant comedy.” Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 42: 16. Ja. 1, ’07. 200w.

  “It is easy reading, and the events are such as to hold the
  attention.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 90w.

  “Novels of diplomacy must be very good to be tolerable, and Mr.
  Stevenson has not the equipment necessary to make his treatment of
  continental politics convincing.”

       − =Sat. R.= 104: 306. S. 7, ’07. 130w.


=Stevenson, Burton Egbert.= That affair at Elizabeth. †$1.50. Holt.

                                                                7–34779.

  A strange confusion in the relationship of a beautiful girl, who
  disappears mysteriously on her wedding day, and the man whom she was
  to have married is made clear in the course of this story by the young
  lawyer, Lester, and Godfrey, the reporter. Both hero and heroine are
  mistaken as to their real parents so that when the puzzle is but half
  solved it leaves them brother and sister. This makes a doubly
  thrilling tale which holds the reader’s interest through murder and
  mystery to the last page.


=Stevenson, Richard Taylor.= John Calvin; the statesman. *$1. West.
Meth. bk.

                                                                7–14592.

  A volume in the “Men of the kingdom” series, which treats of Calvin
  the man and the statesman, rather than of Calvin, the theologian.


=Stevenson, Robert Louis.= Sea fogs: with an introduction by Thomas R.
Bacon. **$1.50. Elder.

                                                                7–33227.

  The initial volume in a series to be known as “Western classics.” Here
  Stevenson describes the rolling in of the sea fogs over the valley
  until his mountainside became a lone sea-beach. It is a beautiful
  picture all done in silver-gray.


=Stewart, Charles D.= Partners of providence. †$1.50. Century.

                                                                7–12003.

  In the vernacular of the rover, Sam Daly recounts his “rolling-stone,
  happy-go-lucky” experiences mainly on “Mississippi river steamboats
  and the rafts and landings alongside from Cairo to New Orleans.” Sam’s
  partners are his dog Rags and Clancy, the expert “tosser” of hot
  rivets into a bridge-builder’s bucket. They run the round of chance,
  sometimes are masters of fate, often a prey to it, but are ever
  cheerful philosophers.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 137. My. ’07. ✠

  “Mr. Stewart forces his tale, and lets it meander over a course as
  long as his river, and as crooked.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 514. O. 26. 120w.

  “Perhaps the worst fault of the book is that, paradoxically enough,
  the spirit of pure fun holds sway too completely.” Ward Clark.

     + − =Bookm.= 25: 299. My. ’07. 990w.

  “Has given a new boy to literature for Sam Daly is not a Tom Sawyer by
  any means; he has a personality all his own, and a most attractive
  one.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 221. Jl. 25, ’07. 330w.

         =Lit. D.= 34: 678. Ap. 27, ’07. 210w.

  “There is not a false note, a sentence out of key, or—rare finality in
  books of popular humor—one second of doubtful taste.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 362. Ap. 18, 07. 450w.

  “The book is refreshing and delightful beyond adequate expression in
  critical prose.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 193. Mr. 30, ’07. 790w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 180w.

  “It is a book to read, not hurriedly, but a bit at a time.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 475. Je. 29, ’07. 350w.


=Stickney, Albert.= Organized democracy. **$1. Houghton.

                                                                6–37188.

  “The author has endeavored to present an impartial and dispassionate
  statement of political affairs as they exist to-day, to call attention
  to certain definite imperfections in the machinery of election, and to
  suggest remedies looking to vital reforms, which would bring the
  administration of government in line with the ideals of the founders
  of the democratic state.”—Lit. D.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His book is suggestive and valuable in parts. In other parts it is
  full of repetition and lacking in clearness.”

     + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 648. My. ’07. 630w.

  “The suggestions of reform are for the most part fragmentary and not
  sufficiently worked out to give the reader any adequate conception of
  their value or lack of it.”

       − =Ind.= 63: 161. Jl. 18, ’07. 360w.

         =Lit. D.= 33: 728. N. 17, ’06. 490w.

  “We fear that Mr. Stickney is too optimistic, and too little
  appreciative of the difficulty in this country of achieving reforms by
  wholesale; but his shrewd observations and obvious seriousness make
  his book not uninteresting.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 229. S. 12, ’07. 220w.


=Still, Alfred.= Polyphase currents. $2.50. Macmillan.

                                                                 W 7–56.

  “A large part of the book deals with the functions and properties of
  the power transmission line.... Concluding third of the volume is
  devoted to the induction and to the synchronous motor, including the
  rotary converter.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Still’s book contains little that is novel in material or
  treatment. Its merit lies in a simple direct style and in the
  systematic arrangement of topics. A reference text which will be very
  useful to the operators of electrical machinery who desire to know
  something of the theory of their machines but who are not prepared or
  inclined to pursue the subject exhaustively.” Henry H. Norris.

     − + =Engin. N.= 56: 522. N. 15, ’06. 640w.

  “This is a sound and practical guide to the electrical engineer in a
  field.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 257. S. 19, ’07. 120w.


=Stockton, Francis Richard.= Queen’s museum and other fanciful tales.
$2.50. Scribner.

                                                                6–39760.

  The “other fanciful tales” which follow “The queen’s museum” in this
  volume are The Christmas truants, The griffin and the minor canon, Old
  Pipes and the dryad, The bee-man of Orn, The clocks of Rondaine,
  Christmas before last, Prince Hassack’s march, The philopena, and The
  accomodating circumstance.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 23. Ja. ’07.

  “So far excels any other that has come to our notice this year that it
  is almost in a class by itself.”

       + =Bookm.= 24: 527. Ja. ’07. 100w.

         =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 30w.

       + =Outlook.= 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 60w.


=Stockwell, Chester Twitchell.= Evolution of immortality: suggestions on
an individual immortality based upon our organic and life history. 4th
ed., rev. and enl. *$1. West, J. H.

                                                                6–37617.

  That there is no retrograde movement in nature, that individual
  self-consciousness is eternal, that there is no sense developed
  without some corresponding objective reality that calls it into
  action, that all things are spiritual, are among the propositions
  either suggested or demonstrated.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a remarkable little book and worthy of the four editions into
  which it has passed.” Robert E. Pisbee.

       + =Arena.= 37: 217. F. ’07. 390w.

  “He has certainly succeeded in putting before the reader many
  interesting thoughts.” W. A. Hammond.

       + =Philos. R.= 16: 211. Mr. ’07. 330w.


=Stoddart, Anna M.= Life of Isabella Bird (Mrs. Bishop). *$5. Dutton.

                                                                7–25137.

  A biography of an indefatigable traveler, a writer, and
  philanthropist.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “As biographer, the one mistake which, in our opinion Miss Stoddart is
  inclined to make is that she underlines the religious side of her
  subject’s character. But these passages are exceptional, and the
  momentary quivering of the balance serves to draw attention to its
  usual fine steadiness.”

   + + − =Acad.= 71: 629. D. 22, ’06. 750w.

  “Miss Stoddart had a good subject for a biography in Isabella Bird,
  and she has reflected her life both faithfully and ably. The result is
  that she has written an excellent book.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 283. Mr. 9. 1100w.

  “The most admirable feature of this biography is that it gives the
  more personal side of Mrs. Bishop’s life during the forty-six years of
  her travels.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 153. Jl. 18, ’07. 580w.

  “If there is a fault it is a certain lack of perspective into which
  the writer has been betrayed by devoted and admiring affection.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 369. N. 2, ’06. 960w.

  “She writes as a sentimentalist rather than a psychologist. The value
  of her work lies chiefly in the account it gives of the scope and
  results of Mrs. Bishop’s journeys.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 547. Je. 13, ’07. 1000w.

  “The reader feels too strongly the point of view of the biographer;
  suspects that some interesting material is thrown into uninteresting
  form. The book as it stands is tedious reading.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 307. My. 11, ’07. 690w.

  “A beautiful tribute to Mrs. Bishop’s character and a fine estimate of
  her accomplishments.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 902. Ap. 20, ’07. 500w.

  “Miss Stoddart has been an almost too industrious biographer, yet this
  was rara ‘avis’ in terris. We could have wished some cheap remarks
  about ecclesiastical Christianity away, and one or two bits of
  ignorance.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 104: 303. S. 7, ’07. 740w.

  “Her book cannot fail to be read with the interest and admiration
  which it deserves.”

       + =Spec.= 98: sup. 114. Ja. 26, ’07. 1570w.


=Stoddart, Jane T.= Life of the Empress Eugenie. 3d ed. *$3. Dutton.

                                                                7–26628.

  After careful research among state documents, reviews, newspapers, and
  various authoritative works the author has presented some fresh
  material which reveals Empress Eugénie in relation to court life
  rather than in relation to “state policies.” “The reader has served up
  to him small, detached chunks of history, isolated incidents,
  descriptions of festivities, scenes at court, constant praise of
  Eugénie’s beauty and charm, all mingled together without any attempt
  to trace either a logical sequence of events, development of
  character, or growth of purpose.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This is the first volume in which a serious attempt has been made to
  give a complete and authentic account of the remarkable woman.”

       + =Acad.= 71: 653. D. 29, ’06. 1660w.

  “On the whole, we repeat, the book is excellent, and it contains very
  few downright blunders; though naturally the cause of the Empress is
  espoused.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 477. O. 20. 480w.

  “Queen Victoria’s affection for Eugenie seems to have gone a long way
  in determining the biographer’s point of view. It is a point of view,
  however, that rather fails to emphasize than denies faults in its
  subject.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 634. S. 12, ’07. 230w.

  “The author of the present volume has tried eagerly to do full justice
  to her subject. But partly by reason of that very eagerness and partly
  by reason of what is apparently native incapacity, her book is very
  unsatisfactory.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 125. Mr. 2, ’07. 910w.

         =Outlook.= 85: 763. Mr. 30, ’07. 270w.

  Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.

         =Putnam’s.= 2: 475. Jl. ’07. 140w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 507. Ap. ’07. 170w.

  “It no doubt contains a good deal of information, more or less
  accurate, of the eventful career of the Empress which may serve to
  gratify the curiosity of those who would draw aside the veil,
  irrespective of the feelings of the individual concerned.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 102: 713. D. 8. ’06. 200w.


=Stoker, Bram (Abraham).= Personal reminiscences of Henry Irving.
**$7.50. Macmillan.

                                                                6–36011.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “His life of Sir Henry has, however, a personal touch that no other
  hand could give it and subsequent biographers will be obliged to
  consult its pages freely.” Jeannette L. Gilder.

       + =Putnam’s.= 1: 508. Ja. ’07. 230w.


=Stone, Christopher.= Sea songs and ballads; selected by Christopher
Stone; with introd. by Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge. *90c. Oxford.

                                                                7–12668.

  “Sir Cyprian Bridge tells us of the ‘Fore-bitters’ or sailors’
  ditties, sung from the stage of the forebitts in the old sailing days,
  ditties of endless length, unaccompanied by any instrument, but not
  destitute of melody, ditties suited to ‘a voice like a gale of wind,’
  and invariably provided with a ship’s company chorus. These and the
  chanties (pronounced shanties) of the merchant service are perhaps the
  only genuine songs of the sea. The chanties are of three kinds, each
  adapted to a special part of the vessels’ work—‘the capstan’ chanty,
  the ‘halliard’ chanty, and ‘the sheet, tack, and bowline’ chanty.”
  (Lond. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The little volume should have a very large circulation and nowhere
  will be more heartily welcomed than on the mess decks of our warships.
  We have nothing but praise for the scholarly notes and the attractive
  form of the volume.”

     + + =Acad.= 71: 633. D. 22, ’06. 670w.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 130. My. ’07. S.

  “All that is given here deserves preservation.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 827. D. 29. 330w.

       + =Dial.= 42: 190. Mr. 16, ’07. 60w.

         =Lond. Times.= 6: 44. F. 8, ’07. 530w.

  “A corpus of salty folks-poesie that is as instructive as
  entertaining.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 201. F. 28, ’07. 230w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 100. F. 16, ’07. 480w. (Reprinted from Lond.
         Times.)

         =Sat. R.= 102: 684. D. 1, ’06. 110w.

         =Spec.= 97: 940. D. 8, ’06. 140w.


=Stone, Melville E., jr.=, comp. Book of American prose humor. lea.
$1.25. Duffield.

                                                                7–25552.

  A collection of humorous and witty tales, sketches and anecdotes
  written by the best known American writers.


Stories of strange sights retold from St. Nicholas. (Geographical
stories.) *65c. Century.

                                                                7–29585.

  Curious phenomena and freaks of nature which make a wonderland of land
  and sea are described for young readers in these chapters. In the
  groups are the mirage, ocean storms, waterspouts at sea, volcanoes and
  earthquakes, cyclones, the southern cross, etc.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A most attractive series of tales.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 90w.


Stories of the Great Lakes, retold from St. Nicholas. (Geographical
stories.) *$65c. Century.

                                                                7–29582.

  Here is outlined for young readers the fascinating story of the Great
  lakes from the standpoint of their grandeur, significance in time of
  war, and their vast commercial importance.


=Storm, Theodor W.= Immensee; translated from the German by George P.
Upton. il. **$1.75. McClurg.

                                                                7–33212.

  Mr. Upton’s aim has been, not so much to render a literal translation
  of this excellent example of German lyric sentiment, as to give
  English readers as perfect an English version as possible. The story
  is prettily illustrated, generous use being made of the water-lily
  which is the symbol of the vision of lost youth—the motif of
  “Immensee.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. George P. Upton, the translator, furnishes, besides a singularly
  graceful rendering of the text, an interesting appreciation of Storm
  and his work.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 381. D. 1, ’07. 90w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 90w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

       + =Outlook.= 87: 619. N. 23, ’07. 80w.


=Strachan, James.= Hebrew ideals; from the story of the patriarchs; part
2d, Genesis, chapters 25–50. (Bible class hand books ser.) *60c.
Scribner.

  “A series of brief exhortations based on some element of character in
  the lives of the patriarchs or a short sermon with a keen edge.”—Bib.
  World.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 184. Ja. ’07. 80w. (Review of pt. 2.)

         =Bib. World.= 27: 399. My. ’06. 20w. (Review of pt. 2.)

  “One lays down the book with much the same feeling as one has after
  studying Holman Hunt’s ‘Light of the world’—beautiful, but a bit too
  modern, and therefore unreal. The book from a literary point of view
  is worth reading.” Clifton D. Gray.

     + − =Bib. World.= 29: 237. Mr. ’07. 560w. (Review of pt. 2.)


=Strang, Herbert.= Fighting on the Congo: the story of an American boy
among the rubber slaves, il. †$1.50. Bobbs.

                                                                6–41714.

  A story written for the purpose of revealing the horror of the rubber
  traffic on the Congo, to show what has been the effect of the white
  man’s rule. Young Jack Challoner in company with his uncle makes a
  nobler fight than ever mediaeval crusaders undertook. The uncle dies
  with this admonition “help the negroes of the Congo fight the corrupt
  government that enriches itself on their blood; go to the
  fountain-head and expose the hypocrisy of King Leopold.” Jack carries
  on his battle with Samba at his side, Samba, whose woeful plight had
  first brought home to his heart the terrible realities of the rubber
  slavery. The tale abounds in thrilling adventure, bloodshed and
  cruelty.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The special literature of the subject has been mastered, and
  indebtedness is acknowledged to Mr. and Mrs. Harris, the energetic
  missionaries, for assistance to which is doubtless owing the
  exceptional accuracy and minuteness of the descriptions of the Central
  African scenery and animals. The young readers for whom the volume is
  primarily intended are not likely to find fault with it on account of
  the triteness of its characterisation.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 732. D. 8. 220w.

  “Whether a book for young people should be built upon a grave
  political problem, the data for which are taken from one side only, is
  a matter for serious doubt. The story is full of pathos and is
  admirably told, with the same informing touches that we find in all
  Mr. Strang’s books.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 5. D. 8, ’06. 230w.


=Strang, Herbert.= In Clive’s command: a story of the fight for India.
†$1.50. Bobbs.

                                                                6–32681.

  Many regard Herbert Strang as the one upon whom the mantle of Henty
  fell. This is “an absorbing story which takes the reader back to the
  capture of Gheria and the battle of Plassey, and, as a matter of
  course, chronicles the brave deeds of an English lad.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Better than Henty’s ‘With Clive in India’ both as to style and to
  historical setting.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 143. My. ’07.

  “Mr. Strang has imagination of a high order, which was singularly
  absent in Henty’s stories. He has been true to the historic demands
  while writing a story that palpitates with action and whose characters
  are real, live personalities, and not manikins, such as were Henty’s.”

       + =Arena.= 36: 688. D. ’06. 230w.

  “The narrative not only thrills, but also weaves skilfully out of fact
  and fiction a clear impression of our fierce struggle for India.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 652. N. 21. 70w.

  “A personal story of adventure that must be most fascinating to any
  normal, healthy boy.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 120w.

  “It is full of thrilling adventure, and mingles the historical and
  romantic in acceptable proportion.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 841. D. 1, ’06. 50w.

  “Mr. Herbert Strang improves with every season, which is saying much
  when we remember how good his previous work has been.”

       + =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 5. D. S, ’06. 200w.

  “The persons in the drama of his Indian life are vigorously drawn.”

       + =Spec.= 97: sup. 759. N. 17, ’06. 400w.


* =Strang, Herbert.= On the trail of the Arabs; a story of heroic deeds
in Africa, il. †$1.50. Bobbs.

                                                                7–29572.

  Mr. Strang returns to a period lying back of the present days of
  rubber slavery which latter were treated in his “Fighting on the
  Congo.” The present story deals with an earlier time and a different
  region of the Great forest. “It is a picture of the last years of the
  Arab domination, when the remnants of Tippu Tib’s hordes, in remote
  fastnesses, pursued their evil traffic in humanity. The two pictures
  are companions and contrasts; but they have this in common: they
  attempt to show the native races at their best, as they may be and are
  when oppression is replaced by sympathy.”


* =Strang, Herbert.= Rob the ranger: a story of the fight for Canada,
il. †$1.50. Bobbs.

                                                                7–31414.

  A story of Canada in the provincial days before the capture of Quebec.
  It gives the exciting adventures of a boy in search of his father and
  brother separated from him during a French-Indian raid. It is the
  wilderness of the Hurons and Mohawks that furnishes the background of
  the story.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Ath.= 1907, 2:652. N. 23. 110w.


=Strang, William.= Etchings; with critical introductions by Frank
Newbolt. *$2.50, Scribner.

  It is the “characteristic work” of many moods that Mr. Newbolt has
  brought together in this collection. “Mr. Newbolt’s introduction does
  full justice to the fertility of Strang’s invention, to the great
  range of his experience in technique, to his courage in ever tackling
  fresh problems and difficulties instead of settling down steadily, as
  artists are prone to do, to the repetition of some stock subject which
  makes a sure appeal to the public taste and binds the artist in the
  slavery of habit.” (Lond. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Newbolt’s ... essay is written in an easy, unaffected style,
  without partiality or any undue parade of the technical knowledge
  which adds a special value to an etcher’s criticism of etchings.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 448. Ap. 13. 300w.

  “The only fault that can be found with them is the colour of the paper
  on which they are printed. It is too deep in tone, an unwise
  concession to a popular prejudice against white paper for purposes of
  this kind.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 6; 102. Mr. 29, ’07. 370w.

         =Nation.= 84: 346. Ap. 11, ’07. 150w.

  “It is a satisfaction to all art-lovers that a collection of the
  Strang etchings has now been published, with an excellent prefatory
  account of them and their creator by Mr. Frank Newbolt.”

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 814. Ap. 6, ’07. 130w.


=Strange, Edward Fairbrother.= Hokusai; the old man mad with painting.
(Langham ser., an illustrated collection of art monographs, v. 17.),
*$1. Scribner.

                                                                6–46317.

  Not only gives “a resumé of what is known of the life of the great
  Japanese artist and a discriminating guide to those qualities which
  make the greatness of his art, but tends to give the reader a sounder
  understanding of what art is than many a volume ten times its size and
  ten times more pretentious.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He is one of the few who, having an authoritative knowledge of his
  subject, has also the gift of presenting that knowledge in an
  entertaining and stimulating fashion.”

     + + =Acad.= 72: 14. Ja. 5, ’07. 350w.

  “Gives a clear enough picture of the place of that artist in the art
  of Japan, but it is difficult to accept altogether the judgment which
  ranks him with ‘the masters of the world’s art.’”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 186. F. 21. ’07. 210w.

  “Excellent monograph.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 61. F. 2, ’07. 340w.


Strange stories of colonial days. †60c. Harper.

                                                                7–17360.

  Among these 16 pictures of colonial life and adventure are stories of
  early Indiana history, of King Philip’s wars, Bacon’s rebellion, the
  treasure hunt of William Phipps in the late 17th century, stories of
  pirates and buccaneers, of scouts and drummer boys. The authors
  include Francis Drake, Hezekiah Butterworth, Robert Fuller, Rowan
  Stevens and others.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The stories will add light and color and interest to the school
  history they too often—and quite reasonably—find dull.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 375. Je. 8, ’07 230w.


Strange stories of 1812. †60c. Harper.

                                                                7–18099.

  Eleven stories by five different authors of the warfare which our
  soldiers waged along the Canadian frontier against the British and
  their Indian allies, of the massacre of Fort Dearborn, the exploit of
  a young hero of the New York frontier, and also stories of our navy
  and our privateers, of the chase of the Hornet and the victories of
  the Constitution.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 210. N. ’07.


Strange stories of the civil war. †60c. Harper.

                                                                7–18097.

  The history of the civil war is supplemented in this volume by stories
  which, though cast in the form of fiction, present the atmosphere of
  the times and give a vivid picture of some of the thrilling episodes
  which actually took place. They include boyish tales of a midshipman,
  a blockade runner, an adventure with guerillas, a raw recruit, how
  Cushing destroyed the “Albemarle,” President Lincoln and the sleeping
  sentinel, the battle of the “Monitor” and “Merrimac”, and Sheridan’s
  ride and Lee’s surrender, as told by Robert Shackleton, John
  Habberton, Captain Howard Patterson, L. E. Chittenden, General Fosythe
  and others.


Strange stories of the revolution. †60c. Harper.

                                                                7–15588.

  This volume in the Harper’s young people series pictures a number of
  dramatic scenes in the Revolution ranging from Lexington to Yorktown.
  They include: the true story of Paul Revere, an account of the days
  before Bunker Hill, The capture of the “Margaretta,” the pursuit of
  Arnold, how Lafayette played the war game of 1781 against Cornwallis,
  and five other stories by Howard Pyle, Winthrop Packard, Percival
  Redsdale and others.


=Strasburger, Eduard.= Rambles on the Riviera; tr. from the German by O.
and B. Comerford Casey. *$5. Scribner.

                                                                 7–4810.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

     + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 804. D. 22. 230w.


=Streatfeild, Richard Alexander.= Modern music and musicians. $2.75.
Macmillan.

                                                                6–45303.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 131. My. ’07.

  “All his chapters are interesting, tho some are marred by rhetorical
  skyrockets. He has the courage of his convictions and utters some new
  opinions that are worth considering; but he also publishes some
  opinions (and even a few misstatements of fact) which prove that his
  authoritative pose is not wholly justified.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 1528. Je. 27, ’07. 390w.

         =Spec.= 98: 139. Ja. 26, ’07. 930w.


=Streatfield, Rev. George Sidney.= Self-interpretation of Jesus Christ:
a study of the Messianic consciousness as reflected in the synoptics.
*$1.25. Meth. bk.

  “The Jesus of the synoptists, it is here argued with much force and
  learning, asserts Himself as the transcendental Christ.”—Bib. World.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Compels respect by reason of the conspicuous earnestness and
  sincerity of the author. The book is fundamentally in error in two
  respects. The value of Jesus and his message to man is not determined
  precisely by his peculiar ontological relation to God. And further,
  the dilemma which the author proposes will not exhaust the
  possibilities in the light of an honest historical interpretation of
  the gospels.” J. W. Bailey.

     + − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 688. O. ’07. 300w.

  “The author’s familiarity with modern controversial literature has
  overloaded his pages with variant opinions, while theological terms
  are not always clearly and precisely distinguished. In general he
  seems to be defending the truth rather than seeking it.”

     − + =Bib. World.= 28: 432. D. ’06. 50w.

       + =Spec.= 97: 830. N. 24, ’06. 310w.


* =Streckfuss, Adolf.= Lonely house; tr. from the German by Mrs. A. L.
Wister. il. †$1.50. Lippincott.

                                                                7–33203.

  A story which tells how a German scientist hunting for specimens in
  the mountains of Southern Ukraine is drawn into a murder case, how
  unwittingly he aids the guilty man in his prosecution of an innocent
  one, and how finally he accidentally discovers clews which lead to the
  straightening of the tangle.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 50w.


* =Street, George Slythe.= Ghosts of Piccadilly. **$2.50. Putnam.

  With Mr. Street as guide, the reader enters the Piccadilly of the late
  eighteenth and early nineteenth century, goes from house to house, and
  studies the characteristics of the “ghosts of no ordinary men and
  women.” Among them are Dr. Johnson, Beau Brummel, Lady Ashburton,
  Tennyson, the Carlyles, “Old Q,” Macaulay, Byron and Lady Hamilton.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “On the whole a very worthy addition to the noble army of books about
  the Town.”

       + =Acad.= 73: 58. O. 26, ’07. 620w.

  “Much of his matter will be fresh enough to most readers, but the
  point is the freshness with which he tells the story, the insight and
  balance of his judgments on people, the sharp light on his thumb-nail
  sketches. There is all Piccadilly in this volume, presented in a
  medium of imaginative talk.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 648. N. 23. 1440w.

  “Lively, gossipy chronicles of bygone days.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 424. D. 16, ’07. 130w.

  “If one cannot praise the book quite without reserve, that is mainly
  because of the conditions under which it was composed. It was written
  for the magazines and was intended to be read, not at a sitting, but
  in installments.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 324. O. 25, ’07. 1020w.

  “Author and subject are in an ‘affinity.’”

     + + =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 3. N. 16, ’07. 1560w.

  “A most readable kind [of book]. It is not, it will be understood, for
  every reader.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: 718. N. 9, ’07. 120w.


=Stringer, Arthur.= Phantom wires. †$1.50. Little.

                                                                7–12004.

  A continuation of the fortunes of the wire tappers who married hastily
  and left New York strong in the resolution to abandon their
  questionable methods of gaining a livelihood. Abroad, luck seems to
  turn against them and once more Durkin turns his electrical
  engineering skill to account, locates valuable papers and turns
  burglar. The adventures which he and his clever wife share are quite
  as novel as they are thrilling.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We regard it as distinctly inferior to the author’s former story.”

       − =Arena.= 38: 217. Ag. ’07. 470w.

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 724. My. 4, ’07. 280w.

  “The plot is constructed with skill and worked out with more than
  ordinary ability.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 362. Ap. 18, ’07. 130w.

  “It is a risky theme, but the author handles it skillfully and with
  restraint.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 237. Ap. 13, ’07. 520w.

  “There is decided talent shown in the management of the details of
  this intricate and highly sensational novel.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 70w.


=Stringer, Arthur John Arbuthnott.= Wire tappers. †$1.50. Little.

                                                                6–16649.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “As a psychologist Mr. Stringer is less successful. Frances, in
  particular is an incredible character.” Herbert W. Horwill.

     − + =Forum.= 38: 546. Ap. ’07. 540w.


* =Stringer, Arthur John A.= Woman in the rain and other poems. **$1.25.
Little.

                                                                7–37033.

  In “The woman in the rain” Mr. Stringer pictures the horror of the
  “huddled sins” of the unregenerate woman grown old in her vice. Among
  the other poems are “The passing of Aphrodite,” and “Sappho in
  Leucadia.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Both new and old verses are sincere and human in note.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 20w.


=Strong, Mrs. Arthur (Eugenie Sellers).= Roman sculpture: from Augustus
to Constantine. (Library of art.) *$3. Scribner.

                                                                7–35388.

  Based upon a series of lectures delivered at intervals during the past
  seven years Mrs. Strong’s work is “an exposition of the distinctive
  character and the evolutionary process of Roman art from the inception
  of the empire to the official triumph of Christianity.” (Lond. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We have criticised this book somewhat closely because it has
  interested us deeply. Mrs. Strong is a vigorous critic and will not
  shun criticism. The book is more than a valuable addition to the
  literature of Roman art. It is practically the first book in this
  language to give a wide conspectus of the scope and aims of Roman
  sculpture.”

   + + − =Acad.= 72: 530. Je. 1, ’07. 2620w.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 198. N. ’07.

  “Inasmuch as her ability and attainments are so well known that
  unfavorable criticism cannot be regarded as unfriendly, we must record
  the unhesitating opinion that she could have written a much better
  book.”

   + + − =Dial.= 43: 168. S. 16, ’07. 470w.

  “It is no flattery to say that she is foremost among the excellent
  women now working in the classics. She is, however, hardly justified
  in saying that it is ‘evidently absurd to talk of a realistic as
  opposed to an idealistic art.’”

   + + − =Ind.= 63: 761. S. 26, ’07. 390w.

         =Int. Studio.= 32: 85. Jl. ’07. 40w.

  “Mrs. Strong has thrown down a gauntlet which will doubtless be taken
  up; but he will be a bold man who does it. Her knowledge is immense,
  her observation most accurate, her criticism penetrative and fine.
  There is no one now writing on ancient art with greater insight than
  Mrs. Strong. The points to which we have demurred are not among the
  essentials of her book.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 171. My. 31, ’07. 1670w.

  “A volume like this should be welcomed. It should not be concealed
  that Mrs. Strong hurts her case very often by claiming too much for
  her works that are cold and clumsy, poorly disposed, and lacking in
  true distinction.” Charles de Kay.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 479. Ag. 3, ’07. 1570w.

  “Small blemishes should not prevent us from expressing our deep
  gratitude to Mrs. Strong for a book produced at the right time and in
  the right way.”

   + + − =Spec.= 99: 56. Jl. 13, ’07. 1740w.


* =Strong, Rev. Josiah.= Challenge of the city. **$1. Baker.

  “The president of the American institute of social service here adds
  to his widely read and stimulating books one for younger readers.”
  (Outlook.) He “treats the problem of those churches and parishes which
  are being crowded out of many city districts by the oncoming of
  business houses. Eighty-five churches below Fourteenth street have
  gone out of existence during the last twenty years. The author finds a
  remedy in the direction of federation. Four chapters of the book
  appeared previously in a periodical.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 373. Je. 8, ’07. 90w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

         =Outlook.= 87: 790. D. 7, ’07. 160w.


=Strong, Very Rev. Thomas Banks=, ed. Lectures on the methods of
science. *$2.50. Oxford.

                                                                6–37941.

  Nine lectures by as many eminent lecturers upon such subjects as
  Scientific method as a mental operation, Physiology, Inheritance in
  animals and plants, Psychophysical method, The evolution of double
  stars, Anthropology, Archaeological evidence, and Scientific method as
  applied to history.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Acad.= 71: 59. Jl. 21, ’06. 1840w.

  “The present volume, however, depends too much upon its title and its
  preface. Uninspired by their suggestions, the reader would not suspect
  that he was following a course on scientific method. He would rather
  suppose that he was receiving an amount of very interesting and very
  miscellaneous information.” Frederick J. E. Woodbridge.

     − + =J. Philos.= 3: 692. D. 6, ’06. 1820w.

       + =Lond. Times.= 5: 238. Jl. 6, ’06. 2230w.

  “The first two lectures ... which treat explicitly of the subject
  designated in the title of the book, are in reality the least valuable
  chapters. The real contributions to the study of method are tacit and
  incidental features of the other papers, which make the least overt
  reference to the subject.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 366. Ap. 18, ’07. 400w.

       − =Nature.= 74: 149. Je. 14, ’06. 200w.

  “In this handy form they should do much to teach the ordinary reader
  what science claims to be and how its operations are conducted.”

       + =Spec.= 97: 61. Jl. 14, ’06. 490w.


=Stuart, Ruth McEnery.= Woman’s exchange of Simpkinsville. †$1.25.
Harper.

  Two spinster sisters, “upon whose frail maiden shoulders had devolved
  responsibilities hitherto unknown to the women of the name of
  Simpkins” lose the fortune of their Arkansas forebears and have to
  face the question of earning a livelihood. They hit upon the idea of a
  Woman’s exchange, establish it and manage it with credit to the name
  of Simpkins. Their rather tame existence is broken by bits of town
  gossip, echoes of sentiment of long ago, and chiefly by a proposition
  of ten thousand dollars for the collection of birds in the extending
  of which an only brother had lost his life.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mrs. Stuart’s touch is broader than Mrs. Deland’s, and she is more
  open to the charge of sentimentalism.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 110w.


Studies in philosophy and psychology: by former students of Charles
Edward Garman, in commemoration of twenty-five years of service as
teacher of philosophy in Amherst college. *$2.50. Houghton.

                                                                6–22901.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  Reviewed by John Dewey.

       + =Philos. R.= 16: 312. My. ’07. 4220w.

  Reviewed by Arthur O. Lovejoy.

         =Psychol. Bull.= 4: 18. Ja. 15, ’07. 2840w. (Review of pt. 1.)

  Reviewed by Charles H. Judd.

         =Psychol. Bull.= 4: 24. Ja. 15, ’07. 1960w. (Review of pt. 2.)


=Sturdy, William A. (Isaac Didwin, pseud.).= Degeneracy of the
aristocracy. $1. Pub. by the author; For sale by the Rhode Island news
co., Providence, R. I.

                                                                7–15554.

  “The purpose of this book is to show, by the retrospect of history,
  that democracy is destined to assert itself in such a positive manner
  as to overthrow the commonly accepted theories of the past, that are
  so tenaciously held to, for the apparent purpose of trying to maintain
  a declining aristocracy.”


=Sturgis, Russell.= History of architecture. 3v. v. 1. per set. **$15.
Baker.

                                                                6–45368.

  “Mr. Sturgis’s book belongs to the monumental class. It belongs also
  to the encyclopedic class, except that the arrangement is
  chronological and by countries instead of by topics arranged in
  alphabetical order.” (Lit. D.) “An important feature of this work will
  be the careful study of the climatic influences on architecture and of
  the relation of the domestic to the monumental architecture in various
  countries—a field which has been somewhat neglected by architectural
  writers. The first volume will deal with the architecture of Egypt,
  Western Asia, Greece, Etruria, and Rome.” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Masterly work. Beautifully printed and illustrated, but the paper is
  so heavy and brittle as to be unsatisfactory for library use.”

   + + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 74. Mr. ’07. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Much of it is brilliantly written, and the whole is evidently the
  result of wide reading, travel, and study.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 187. Ag. 17. 1100w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “As a record of architectural events, this history, as evidenced by
  the volume in hand, leaves nothing to be desired. The task of
  collating and arranging the great mass of detail has been heavy, and
  the outcome is a work of great value and a matter of congratulation to
  both author and publisher.” Irving K. Pond.

   + + + =Dial.= 42: 137. Mr. 1, ’07. 1680w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The nomenclature of places is occasionally open to criticism. A book
  full of information and suggestion, the fruits of a ripe scholarship,
  and far more readable than most works of this kind are apt to be.”

   + + − =Ind.= 62: 271. Ja. 31, ’07. 770w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The work must at once be accepted as a standard treatise.”

   + + + =Lit. D.= 34: 106. Ja. 19, ’07. 230w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Despite these minor blemishes, the work is plainly the fruit of
  careful scholarship, accurate in all its specific information, and
  usually sound in all its analysis and criticism. It ought to be of
  real service in the stimulation of public interest and the training of
  public taste.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 20. Jl. 4, ’07. 1470w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “One need have no hesitation in commending the work as by far the best
  on its subject and of its scope in the English language. It takes its
  place at once as an authority.” Montgomery Schuyler.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 553. S. 14, ’07. 1380w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Half the volume’s value ... is represented by the illustrations.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 36. My. 4, ’07. 440w. (Review of v. 1.)

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 30w. (Review of v. 1.)


=Sturt, Henry Cecil.= Idola theatri: a criticism of Oxford thought and
thinkers from the standpoint of a personal idealism. *$3.25. Macmillan.

                                                                6–36468.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Mr. Sturt has produced a book of vigorous and suggestive criticism of
  current thought and especially of the logical and metaphysical
  doctrine of Mr. Bradley, who has to bear the brunt of the attack upon
  ‘Anglo-Hegelianism.’ One could wish, however, that the standpoint of
  personal idealism had been more fully indicated.” A. Mackie.

   + + − =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 403. Ap. ’07. 640w.

  Reviewed by John Watson.

       − =Philos. R.= 16: 78. Ja. ’07. 2240w.


=Sue, Eugene.= Wandering Jew. 2v. ea. $1.25. Crowell.

  A reissue of, uniform with the limp leather “Thin papers sets.”


=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. *$7.75.
Oxford.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Students of Professor Suess’s masterpieces hardly know whether to
  admire most his encyclopedic knowledge of the earth’s surface, his
  familiarity with the literature of his subject, his grasp of detail,
  his reach of speculation, or his fine poetical feeling and gifts of
  expression.”

   + + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 77. Ja. 19. 770w. (Review of v. 2.)


=Sumner, William Graham.= Folkways: a study of the sociological
importance of usages, manners; customs, mores, and morals. *$3. Ginn.

                                                                7–21403.

  An analytical definition of the folkways and a description of their
  functions in the formation and integration of society. Folkways are
  the ways of satisfying needs which become habitual and customary by
  the uncoördinated coöperation of individuals. The author shows how
  these uncoördinated acts grow into habits, thence into traditional
  customs related to social welfare, later have a philosophy and become
  rules of the life policy.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Professor Sumner has written a very valuable and timely book, and one
  involving years of patient research as well as the possession of a
  ripe and fearless mind. The two most serious defects of ‘Folkways’ are
  a lack of psychological standpoint and a lack of systematic and
  complete presentation.” Wm. I. Thomas.

     + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 116. O. ’07. 730w.

  “The data from anthropology and ethnology seem at times to overweigh
  the book by their sheer bulk and multiplicity, but for the most part
  they deepen the impression of the main thesis.” George E. Vincent.

   + + − =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 414. N. ’07. 2000w.

  “A distinct gap is filled by this dissertation. From the student’s
  point of view it is not an easy text-book to read or digest. From the
  standpoint of those of larger growth it appears congested and scrappy,
  and suffers the penalty of brevity in drifting occasionally into
  overstatement and uncritical acceptance of evidence. Throughout the
  book the author hits hard and does not stay to bandy words with his
  adversary; but, although the reader may not always agree with him, he
  will find Professor Sumner suggestive and stimulating.” C. H. Hawes.

     + + =J. Philos.= 4: 666. N. 21, ’07. 640w.


=Sweeney, Mildred I. McNeal-.= When yesterday was young; poems. $1.50.
Cooke.

                                                                 7–1960.

  Poems descriptive of nature or of places, with a few of legendary,
  historical or personal character.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Nearly every one of the poems in the book seems a ‘tour de force.’ A
  phrase, a line, or, at the most, a stanza speaks: the rest is
  deliberate verse-making—elaboration.”

     − + =Ind.= 62: 733. Mr. 28, ’07. 160w.

  “Mr. Sweeney’s verse in both conception and phrase is the product more
  of fancy than of imagination, and a book of the size of this can
  scarcely be energized save by the latter.”

     − + =Nation.= 85: 36. Jl. 11, ’07. 260w.

  “One will not read far in Mrs. Sweeney’s poems without noting both
  their delicacy of vision and their reflective mood. Though now and
  again of blither note, they have, in the main, a thoughtful quality,
  wistful, but never melancholy.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 220. Ap. 6, ’07. 340w.


=Sweet, J. M.= Birth and infancy of Jesus Christ. *$1.50. Presbyterian
bd.

                                                                6–43773.

  An exposition of the arguments that tend to prove the historical
  authenticity of the virgin birth of Jesus Christ.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His reasoning is not always cogent, but his research has been
  patient, his consideration of the subject on all sides thoro, and he
  has preserved thruout the convincing spirit of inquiry”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 1175. N. 14, ’07. 110w.

  “His critical skill and appreciation are not sufficient to allow him
  to do full justice to his theme, this being especially noticeable in
  his treatment of Old Testament passages.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 449. N. 14, ’07. 80w.

  “If there is a more thorough and scholarly defense of the virgin birth
  of Jesus Christ than this monograph of Mr. Sweet, we are not
  acquainted with it. It is not and does not pretend to be impartial; it
  is a defense of the orthodox doctrine. But it is fair-minded, erudite,
  thorough.”

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 576. Mr. 9, ’07. 400w.

         =Spec.= 98: 982. Je. 22, ’07. 60w.


=Sweetser, Kate Dickinson.= Boys and girls from Thackeray, il. †$2.
Duffield.

                                                                7–28978.

  A companion volume to “Boys and girls from Dickens” and “Boys and
  girls from George Eliot.” A volume warranted by the emphasis which
  Thackeray has placed upon his juvenile sketches, They are reprinted
  without the adult intrigue and plot surrounding them in the novels
  from which they are taken.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 110w.

       + =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 80w.


=Swete, Henry Barclay.= Apocalypse of St. John: the Greek text with
introd., notes and indices. *$3.50. Macmillan.

  Preceding the text and occupying about half the book such introductory
  subjects are discussed as Prophecy in the apostolic church, Jewish and
  Christian apocalypses, Contemporary scholarship and thought in western
  Asia, Origin of the apocalypse of St. John, including a discussion of
  its grammatical, rhetorical and literary style and an interpretation
  of the text from the religious, symbolical, mystical, historical and
  biographical point of view.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Dr. Swete’s work is marked by all the care, thoroughness, and
  precision of scholarship in linguistic and grammatical interpretation
  which distinguished all his work and secure to him his place as a
  member of the famous ‘Cambridge’ school. But to the present writer he
  appears, by the complete rejection of the methods applied, e. g., by
  Boussett, to exclude the only possible means of arriving at an
  interpretation of the book which is at once consistent and primary;
  i.e., an interpretation of what was in the mind of the author.” C.
  Anderson Scott.

     + − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 540. Jl. ’07. 1140w.

  “We must be content with adding an emphatic commendation of Dr.
  Swete’s volume to the attention of our readers.”

     + + =Spec.= 98: 1005. Je. 29, ’07. 420w.


=Swettenham, Sir Frank Athelstane.= British Malaya: an account of the
origin and progress of British influence in Malaya. *$4.50. Lane.

                                                                 7–7542.

  Essentially historical. “Of the fourteen chapters, the first deals
  with the milieu, the next with the early history according to native
  and European sources; then follow two chapters on the dawn of British
  influence; they are not always pleasant reading, for our treatment of
  the Sultan of Kedah was anything but creditable. The next two chapters
  cover the middle fifty years of the last century. This was a period of
  anarchy, brought to an end, though not at once, by the appointment of
  British residents.... Not the least attractive portions of the work
  are of the author’s testimony to the virtues of the Chinese and his
  condemnation of the ordinary system of building railways in British
  colonies.... The final chapter gives us the author’s views on the
  future of the British colony with some more criticism of irrational
  methods.”—Acad.

                  *       *       *       *       *

     + + =Acad.= 71: 651. D. 29, ’06. 400w.

  “The volume is one which should appeal in an extraordinary degree to
  American readers, for there is scarcely a page which does not present
  some problem or recount some incident which throws light upon the
  peculiar character of the Peninsular Malay who is the first cousin of
  the Filipino.” Alleyne Ireland.

     + + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 154. O. ’07. 970w.

  “If ever we should reach the conclusion that instead of trying to fit
  people to institutions, institutions should be fitted to the nature
  and capacities of the people as they develop under the influence of
  industrial opportunity, our administrators may derive valuable
  suggestions as to sensible procedure from such books as this one by
  Sir Francis Swettenham.” Henry Jones Ford.

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 663. My. ’07. 1170w.

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 13. Ja. 5. 330w.

  “May well rank as a masterpiece among the host of similar books
  written by the servants of the British government.”

     + + =Dial.= 42: 343. Je. 1, ’07. 480w.

  “Will appeal not only to those interested in the geographical and
  political questions discussed, but also to the comparatively
  restricted public who delight in Oriental art work unmodified by
  western influence.”

     + + =Int. Studio.= 30: 277. Ja. ’07. 160w.

  “It is [a story] that has never been told before with any historic
  continuity or in any detail; he tells it with full knowledge, with
  great literary skill and with infinite sympathy.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 351. O. 19, ’06. 2200w.

  “Were the applicants for positions in our Philippine civil service
  obliged to pass an examination to prove their fitness, ‘British
  Malaya’ would be an invaluable text-book.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 249. Mr. 14, ’07. 1030w.

  “Sir Frank Swettenham writes always with force, sometimes with humour,
  very often with charm, with delicacy, and with finish, in spite of an
  occasional tendency to split a hapless infinitive. It should be read
  by every Englishman who loves his country, for from Sir Frank
  Swettenham’s eloquent pages all who read will carry away many
  beautiful and striking pictures, many facts of great value, and a
  number of imperial lessons very well worth learning and remembering.”

     + + =Spec.= 97: 889. D. 1, ’06. 1730w.


=Swinburne, Algernon Charles.= Poems: selected and edited by Arthur
Beatty. 35c. Crowell.

                                                                6–34710.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “This admirable little volume brings the cream of Swinburne’s poetry
  within easy reach of all lovers of poetry, and in a handy-sized
  volume.”

       + =Arena.= 36: 635. D. ’06. 100w.


=Swinburne, Algernon Charles.= William Blake; a critical essay. 3d ed.
*$2. Dutton.

                                                                7–35152.

  Along with the revival of Blake literature appears a reprint of
  Swinburne’s essay published forty years ago. “Where Mr. Swinburne’s
  book is invaluable is in his interpretation of poetry, of symbolism as
  poetry, of pictorial design as poetry.... In this huge book of
  criticism, in which the main incidents of the life of Blake are told,
  and a detailed account is given of nearly the whole of his literary
  and much of his painted and engraved work, there is not a page—not
  even in those flaming foot-notes which spire from page to page after
  the dwindling body of the text—which is not essentially poetry rather
  than prose.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 86. Mr. ’07.

  “It is difficult to think of another book, written by a poet on a
  poet, which is so generous and so illuminating.”

     + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 149. Ag. 11. 1920w.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 169. F. ’07 1100w.

     + + =Dial.= 41: 400. D. 1, ’06. 70w.

  “Allowing for some extravagance of expression, the criticism of the
  book is both just and profound; and the commentary, whether it be
  right or wrong on particular points, provides a clear and probably
  accurate statement of Blake’s ideas and beliefs. It is all written
  with the confidence and prolixity of youth.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 276. Ag. 10, ’06. 1530w.

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 527. Mr. 2, ’07. 150w.

  “There is never likely to be a work on Blake which will supersede that
  just, eloquent, generous, and illuminating ‘critical’ essay which Mr.
  Swinburne wrote forty years ago and has only now reprinted. It is a
  book marvellous for sanity and insight; it was a defence of Blake at a
  time when he needed to be defended, and it repeats his praise now,
  when the praise is no longer startling.” Arthur Symons.

     + + =Sat. R.= 102: 231. Ag. 25, ’06. 1840w.


* =Swing, Albert Temple.= James Harris Fairchild; or, Sixty-eight years
with a Christian college. **$2. Revell.

                                                                7–15571.

  An intimate sketch of the life of President Fairchild who was
  associated with Oberlin college in the capacity of student, teacher,
  president and professor emeritus from 1834 to 1902.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 40w.

  “Instead of a real book [this is] a volume that makes its chief appeal
  to the alumni of Oberlin, by whom it will doubtless be appreciated, in
  oblivion of the larger public.” Montgomery Schuyler.

       − =Putnam’s.= 3: 103. O. ’07. 580w.

         =R. of Rs.= 36: 381. S. ’07. 120w.


* =Symonds, John Addington.= Essays, speculative and suggestive; new ed.
*$2. Scribner.

  A group of essays first printed seventeen years ago, since which time
  the harsh judgments then passed upon it have softened somewhat.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “On a second reading the volume appears very unequal, but it is
  certainly full of ideas.”

     − + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 550. N. 2. 120w.

  “Some of the essays, particularly those on style and on Walt Whitman,
  are in his best vein.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 469. N. 21, ’07. 120w.

       + =Outlook.= 87: 830. D. 14, ’07. 70w.


* =Symonds, John Addington.= Wine, women, and song; being an essay on
the medieval Latin student’s drinking songs, with translations. il.
*$1.50. McClure.

  Recalled from the past of twenty years ago this book “should be widely
  studied if only in order to hasten the death of the absurd belief that
  the Middle ages were a time of unnatural misery, when religious mania
  ruled the world and joy and laughter died under the frown of a
  monstrous puritanical church.” (Acad.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Until some kind person will issue a selection of the Goliardic songs
  in their original Latin, at a price, and in a form that will help them
  to popularity, there is nothing quite so good as this book of J. A.
  Symonds’s translations and comments.”

       + =Acad.= 73: 837. Ag. 31, ’07. 1070w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 40w.


=Symons, Arthur.= Cities. *$2.50. Dutton.

  “Mr. Symons’s note is his own.... Rome, Venice, Naples, Seville,
  Prague, Moscow, Budapest, Belgrade, Sofia and Constantinople are
  traversed and exposed for us by a temperament at once subtle and
  impressionistic.”—No. Am.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Symons is quite at his best. It is witchery of fine sensations
  that characterizes Rome or Seville or Prague or whatever city Mr.
  Symons visits.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 481. D. 6, ’06. 140w.

  “He is the Whistler of critics.” James Huneker.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 205. Ap. 7, ’06. 550w.

  “The book is of a rare charm.” James Huneker.

       + =No. Am.= 185: 76. My. 3, ’07. 160w.

  “Some of these [cities] he loves; some he hates. In both cases he
  tells us why and with frank thoroughness.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 527. Mr. 2, ’07. 220w.


=Symons, Arthur.= Fool of the world and other poems. *$1.50. Lane.

                                                                7–18138.

  “The title poem of the volume, a brief Morality play, called ‘The fool
  of the world,’ employs a style which admirably suits the theme,
  infusing into the simple colloquy between Man and Death all the dread,
  the fear, the mystery of mortality as they pervade ‘Everyman’ and
  other of the old Morality plays. Following this ... Mr. Symons has a
  group of ‘Meditations,’ poised and passionless as a Buddhistic
  reverie, fatalistic, ‘sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought.’...
  Contrary to the mood of his prose, the prevailing note of Mr. Symons’
  poetry is negative and over his pages futility, and ever futility, is
  written.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “[‘The fool of the world’] shows, for all its slenderness, strong
  dramatic power. It asks a question; it leads you on, as you fancy,
  ever nearer to the answer, working up your eagerness in every line;
  and suddenly at the close, in the very last word, it flashes upon you
  the piteous truth.”

     + + =Acad.= 71: 498. N. 17, ’06. 640w.

  “Although Mr. Symons has not mastered poetic forms, his poetry is full
  of sensitive beauty.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 284. Mr. 9. 380w.

  “There are exquisite things in this volume, lyrical and meditational,
  and there is a graver burden, as of satiety, than we have been wont to
  find in the work of the poet.” Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 42: 254. Ap. 16, ’07. 220w.

         =Ind.= 62: 1529. Je. 27, ’07. 370w.

  “It is decidedly good compared with anything but the best.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 5: 392. N. 23, ’06. 520w.

  “He has an admirable poetic scholarship and an equally admirable
  intellectual integrity; his cup may be small, but he drinks from his
  cup. Yet Mr. Symons’s pride in his intellectual integrity is sometimes
  his undoing. His uneasy hatred of the commonplace and his constant
  endeavor to give it as wide a berth as possible involve such an
  expenditure of energy that in the long run he falls a prey to the very
  thing he would escape.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 34. Ja. 10, ’07. 590w.

  “His style, which in prose has so much distinction, in poetry lacks
  the barb of personality, the differentiating touch. His phrasing is
  restrained, delicate, often beautiful, but of magic, of color, of
  divinely unpremeditated art he is not the master.” Jessie B.
  Rittenhouse.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 30. Ja. 19, ’07. 1030w.

  “An idea lies at the bottom of each of these finely chased cups
  offered by the poet. Poison, too, is not absent, the venom of love and
  life and death.” James Huneker.

     + − =No. Am.= 185: 76. My. 3, ’07. 260w.

  “He has developed a theory of poetry and the arts; he has found a
  locality other than London; he has even touched Keltic dreams in
  Cornwall; in the lyric rather than in the drama lies the value of his
  new, as his older, tone.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 207. F. 16, ’07. 320w.


=Symons, Arthur.= Introduction to the study of Browning. *$1.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–18128.

  A reissue, revised and enlarged. “Mr. Symons discusses Browning’s
  ‘general characteristics’ and those of each of his poems. In the
  appendix will be found a bibliography of the poet and a reprint of
  discarded prefaces to the first issues of some of his works. There is
  also an index to poems referred to in the text. Like other books of
  this type, there are innumerable quotations from the writings of the
  poet. In addition to all these, the footnotes are full and clear.” (N.
  Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Nation.= 84: 288. Mr. 28, ’07. 60w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 830. D. 1, ’06. 320w.

  “In this second edition ... Mr. Symons has been able to add materially
  to the interest of the book through the publication of comments upon
  it by three no less authoritative critics than Walter Pater, George
  Meredith, to whom the book is dedicated, and Robert Browning himself.”
  A. G.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 494. Ag. 10, ’07. 410w.

  “Notwithstanding the appearance of numerous studies of Browning, his
  introduction remains the best commentary upon that poet’s works.”
  James Huneker.

     + + =No. Am.= 185: 75. My. 3, ’07. 390w.


=Symons, Arthur.= Spiritual adventures. **$2.50. Dutton.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  Reviewed by James Huneker.

       + =No. Am.= 185: 77. My. 3, ’07. 300w.


=Symons, Arthur.= Studies in seven arts. *$2.50. Dutton.

                                                                 7–6390.

  Containing the following studies: Rodin, The painting of the
  nineteenth century, Gustave Moreau, Watts, Whistler, Cathedrals, The
  decay of craftsmanship in England, Beethoven, The ideas of Richard
  Wagner, The problem of Richard Strauss, Eleanor Dusé, A new art of the
  stage, A symbolistic farce [Ubo roi, by A. Jarry], Pantomime and the
  poetic drama, The world as ballet.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In his last book Mr. Symons has adventured in search of new
  sensations and new moods into unfamiliar fields of art, where he has
  occasionally lost confidence in himself and followed the advice of
  every person of authority he chanced to encounter. When he confides in
  his own faculty of insight he is still an admirable interpreter of the
  eternal miracles of beauty: when he mistrusts his own powers he
  becomes merely a conscientious student of the opinions of other men.
  Criticism distilled from criticism is wanting in life and personality:
  it is a branch of the dead sciences.”

     − + =Acad.= 71: 629. D. 22, ’06. 770w.

  “It is agreeable to read this cunning prose, but we must not be
  forbidden to challenge some of its pontificial assumptions. The charm,
  however, of these essays lies not in their critical or technical
  exactitude, but in their incomparably delicate impressionism.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 284. Mr. 9. 1250w.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 297. Mr. ’07. 400w.

  “In at least five cases out of the seven (the exceptions being the
  articles on architecture and handicraft, the first of which is merely
  descriptive and the second merely a pointed and forcible repetition of
  standing truths) he has something good, often something profound to
  say, not merely on points of detail, but on what he conceives to be
  the principles of the art in question. And after reading his charming,
  illuminating, often exquisitely written book, we reach instinctively
  for an antidote—‘The Republic,’ or ‘What is art?’”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 408. D. 7, ’06. 1000w.

  “Seven essays ... belong to the best of our time. They are indeed
  discriminating.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 457. My. 16, ’07. 1000w.

  “Mr. Symons preserves order throughout his book and reproduces for the
  reader much of his own original aesthetic enjoyment.” Percy Vincent
  Donovan.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 254. Ap. 20, ’07. 1610w.

  “He has personality, charm, erudition.” James Huneker.

     + − =No. Am.= 185: 78. My. 3, ’07. 600w.

  “Each paper is distinguished by a general excellence in the selection
  of material and by an extreme finish in the manner of its exposition.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 119. My. 18, ’07. 420w.

  “Here is subjective impressionism in the finest flower. As a matter of
  record few Frenchmen, even, can excel Mr. Symons in subtlety or
  penetration. A poet first and last, his attitude is always imperiously
  personal.” Christian Brinton.

     + + =Putnam’s.= 2: 126. Ap. ’07. 180w.

  “Why, then, when we think thus highly of the book, have we spent
  nearly our whole space in criticising rather than in praising it? On
  his own terms he comes to us, and on his own terms right glad are we
  to welcome him. But, to quote the old saying, though Plato is dear to
  us, Truth is dearer. This too daintily allusive, too artificially
  picturesque, too laboriously, extravagantly illustrative method of art
  criticism ... is dangerous: in the hands of the commoner critic it
  becomes absurd.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: sup. 1. F. 23, ’07. 1930w.


=Symons, Arthur.= William Blake. *$3. Dutton.

                                                                7–37535.

  “An enthusiastic interpretation and impassioned defense of the poet
  and painter whose art still puzzles and fascinates.... Mr. Symons
  begins by narrating every fact of importance in Blake’s life and
  achievements, giving his own interpretation of Blake’s intentions.
  Then comes a verbatim reprint of all available documents, containing
  every personal account of Blake printed during his life, to which are
  added references to him in the diary and letters of Crabb
  Robinson.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It will be seen that any new book on Blake must justify its
  appearance by extraordinary merit, and it cannot be said that Mr.
  Symons’s work quite stands the test.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 286. S. 26, ’07. 1480w.

  “Mr. Symons has written a book of unusual interest. Absorbed and in
  accord with his subject, he employs a style elevated and somewhat
  mystical at times, yet well sustained and peculiarly fitted for the
  narrative.”

     + + =Outlook.= 87: 307. O. 12, ’07. 1610w.

  “We did not expect from him the divine energy and insight of Mr.
  Swinburne; but we did expect scholarship, research, grace and order,
  and we have them here in a book which we cannot do without.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 104: 483. O. 19, ’07. 1230w.


=Synge, M. B.= Short history of social life in England. **$1.50. Barnes.

                                                                7–11534.

  “A decidedly entertaining account of the growth of social institutions
  and modern customs in England. The absurdities of bygone fashion, the
  changes made by scientific inventions, domestic conveniences and
  inconveniences, old-time gambling, the abolition of dueling, the
  improvement of table manners, and a hundred other little land-marks of
  advancing civilization are discussed in an unconventional, amusing
  way.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He has thrown together a mass of details, apparently without being
  able to determine which facts were worth being told, which were not,
  nor yet which were actually facts and which were only supposed to be
  such. He seems to have no well-ordered plan for presenting his
  material. Finally, he devotes too much space to political history,
  though he gives notice in his introduction that he will avoid doing
  so.” Ralph C. H. Catterall.

       − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 194. O. ’07. 550w.

  “The author treats the entire subject as one of development, advance,
  and betterment, and does it very successfully. The work is evidently
  based on wide reading and research.”

     + − =Dial.= 42: 289. My. 1, ’07. 450w.

  “Mr. Synge’s book is exceptionally helpful in giving an idea of the
  occupations, the pleasures, the manners and customs of the English
  people of all ranks from the days of the early Britons to the
  present.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 699. S. 19, ’07. 410w.

  “He tells his story well. It is not a work of original research. The
  records are all easily accessible. It is not the first work of its
  kind. But it is one of the most readable books of the year thus far.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 160. Mr. 16, ’07. 290w.

  “A series of shifting society pictures not without significance and
  with a strong interest to all who like to delve into the quaint,
  queer, and curious.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 766. Mr. 30. ’07. 80w.

  “This book is pleasant to read, full of sprightly humour, and as far
  as we have been able to test it, historically accurate.”

     + + =Spec.= 97: 212. F. 9, ’07. 2170w.


=Syrett, Netta.= Day’s journey. †$1.25. McClurg.

                                                                6–33579.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The story is brilliantly told, and is a study of ‘temperaments,’
  artistic and otherwise, of an unusually readable sort.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 389. F. 14, ’07. 410w.


=Szold, Henrietta=, ed. American Jewish year book 5668, September 9,
1907, to September 25, 1908. $3. Jewish pub.

  Two directories are included in this year book: The directory of
  Jewish national organizations, and The directory of Jewish local
  organizations.




                                   T


=Tabb, John Banister.= Selection from the verses of the Rev. John Tabb,
made by Alice Meynell. **$1. Small.

  “The deliciously tender songs of childhood, of flowers, of lament, the
  delicate fancies and symbols ... and the sacred poems, which in their
  union of individuality and universality remind us often of the best of
  Herbert, are the work of one who is none the less a poet, because four
  lines often contain his thought.”—Acad.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “One of Mr. Tabb’s leading characteristics is his power of suggesting
  by the lightest of touches, the most delicate of hints, some mighty
  truth.”

       + =Acad.= 71: 498. N. 17, ’06. 250w.

  “His tiny poems like the psychologist’s pinpricks, are very perfect
  tests of poetic sensibility.” Ferris Greenslet.

       + =Atlan.= 100: 846. D, ’07. 280w.

  “Mrs. Meynell’s selection, which is not free from misprints nor
  immaculately edited, should at least prove a valuable introduction to
  the four little volumes of ‘Poems,’ ‘Lyrics,’ ‘Child verse,’ and
  ‘Later lyrics.’”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 297. O. 4, ’07. 1940w.

  “Is a fairly satisfactory exhibition of the quality of that keenly
  individual poet.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 35. Jl. 11, ’07. 360w.

  “His pearls here have been beautifully strung, and they show him at
  his best.” Christian Gauss.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 260w.

  “Mrs. Meynell has made a good selection from Mr. Tabb’s poems, and we
  miss nothing we should desire to see reprinted. At his best he has the
  quaintness and poignancy of Crashaw, but he is not always at his best;
  and when his conceits master him he is guilty of doubtful taste.
  Sometimes, as in the sonnet ‘Unmoored,’ he attains a fine dignity of
  rhythm; but his strength lies usually in simple catches, in which a
  thought or an emotion is delicately wedded to a metaphor.”

     + − =Spec.= 97: 179. F. 2, ’07. 160w.


=Taft, Lorado.= Talks on sculpture. pa. 15c. Caproni.

                                                                7–16504.

  A pamphlet reprint of papers written by the sculptor-author in
  response to the movement instigated by Miss Brinkhaus to beautify
  school rooms with casts of sculpture masterpieces. These brief talks
  will awaken in both children and grown ups a desire for and an
  appreciation of good art.


=Taft, William Howard.= Four aspects of civic duty. (Yale lectures on
the responsibilities of citizenship.) **$1. Scribner.

                                                                6–46256.

  The duties of citizens viewed from the standpoint of a recent graduate
  of a university, of a judge on the bench of colonial administration
  and of the national executive constitute the four aspects of civic
  duty considered by Secretary Taft.

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       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 49. F. ’97. S.

         =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 420. Mr. ’07. 330w.

         =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 59. Ja. ’07. 190w.

  “As a talker to young men on civic duty Dr. Hadley can hardly have
  failed to see in him the supreme fitness of a man who has done a great
  deal of that duty in an especially effectual fashion.” Edward Cary.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 13. Ja. 12, ’07. 1120w.

         =Outlook.= 85: 766. Mr. 30, ’07. 290w.

  “There is no rhetorical attempt at all, but a rhetorical success all
  the same, in which the lecturers, can quite unmistakably say what they
  mean and in which they always mean something.” Montgomery Schuyler.

     + + =Putnam’s.= 3: 226. N. ’07. 490w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 381. Mr. ’07. 80w.

  “The manner in which the character of the speaker, who has been so
  effective an actor in the various public offices to which he has been
  called, impresses itself upon the reader is not the least of the many
  valuable features which the lectures contain.”

       + =Yale R.= 16: 108. My. ’07. 130w.


* =Taggart, Marion Ames.= Daughters of the little grey house. †$1.50.
McClure.

                                                                7–33202.

  A sequel to “The little grey house.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 30w.


=Taggart, Marion Ames.= Doctor’s little girl. $1.50. Page.

                                                                7–30163.

  Other little girls will enjoy reading of this sunny child of ten whose
  father is the kindly village doctor. They will delight with her in her
  games and her playmates, sorrow at her troubles and her illness, and
  with the others drink her health in the closing toast to “Everybody’s
  little girl.”


=Taggart, Marion Ames.= Six girls and the tea room. †$1.50. Wilde.

                                                                7–26963.

  A companion volume to “Six girls and Bob,” in which the cheerful
  Scollard family make light of their poverty and force their little tea
  room to yield them pleasure as well as financial profit. Their
  lighthearted optimism carries them and their friends thru many
  troubles and brings to them happiness and, in the end, prosperity.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 60w.

         =R. of Rs.= 36: 765. D. ’07. 50w.


=Takekoshi, Yosaburo.= Japanese rule in Formosa; with preface by Baron
Shimpei Goto; tr. by George Braithwaite. *$3. Longmans.

                                                                7–25501.

  A “narrative of all salient facts of historical interest since the
  date of the annexation of Formosa to Japan.... [It is] typical of the
  Japanese administrative system, which is the enthronement of
  bureaucratic principles of collective effort to the rigid exclusion of
  individualism. The book deserves study by all who wish to acquaint
  themselves with the methods by which Japan has raised herself to her
  present high position in the world, and which her statesmen will
  continue to use in pursuing their further plans of Imperial
  expansion.”—Lond. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Where the author is not concerned to emphasize the success of his
  countrymen the volume is one of undoubted value, since it contains a
  great deal of information as to the administrative mechanism of the
  government, which is not available in other works on the island.”
  Alleyne Ireland.

     + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 156. O. ’07. 840w.

  “An interesting, informing account of present conditions.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 172. O. ’07.

  “His ability to see the contrasts and similarities in the peoples and
  the economic and geographical conditions make the book not only
  informing but entertaining.” Chester Lloyd Jones.

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 622. N. ’07. 690w.

  “Throughout ... the book which has been admirably translated by Mr.
  George Braithwaite, there is not a single touch of imagination; but in
  its place a succession of useful statistical tables elaborated with
  the methodical accuracy which delights the Japanese mind, and
  illustrative of every conceivable subject, connected with the
  government of the island.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 113. Ap. 12, ’07. 1410w.

  “It is obvious that he is bent on making as favorable a showing as
  possible for his beloved country, his conclusions must be accepted
  with some reserve. Faithful and intelligent translation.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 565. Je. 20, ’07. 320w.

  “This book ... is neither as lucid in style nor as felicitous in
  diction as his previous works, but it is none the less readable,
  containing as it does many bright passages and charming expressions.”
  K. K. Kawakami.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 361. Je. 8, ’07. 1670w.

  “Graphic attempt to describe the conditions and possibilities of
  Japanese rule in Formosa.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 103: 500. Ap. 20, ’07. 230w.


=Talbot, Arthur Newell.= Tests of concrete and reinforced concrete
columns. gratis. Engineering experiment station, Urbana, Ill.

                                                                7–19783.

  “This pamphlet summarizes tests of (1) the shearing strength of
  concrete and (2) the bond or adhesion between concrete and straight,
  plain bars embedded in it; the tests were made in 1905 and
  1906.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Engin. N.= 57: 83. Ja. 17, ’07. 510w.


=Talbot, Ellen Bliss.= Fundamental principle of Fichte’s philosophy.
*$1. Macmillan.

                                                                7–21441.

  This monograph “contains a critical interpretation of Fichte’s
  teaching concerning the Ego, Being, and Existence. Incidentally Dr.
  Talbot sets forth ... the relation of Fichte to Kant, the nature of
  ‘intellectual perception’ in both the critical and the absolute
  philosophy, and adds an important appendix to show that Kant’s ‘I
  think’ is a purely formal principle.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “As under the category of ‘Fichte-studien,’ the book deserves the
  highest praise, not only for careful scholarship, but also for
  clearness and articulation of argument. It is a characteristic product
  of the thoroughness of training which is shown in the ‘Cornell
  studies.’” W. H. Sheldon.

     + + =J. Philos.= 4: 471. Ag. 15, ’07. 1190w.

  “[The author] expresses herself with simplicity and great clearness;
  her temper is judicial; and in her interpretation she is faithful to
  the philosopher’s writings undistorted by her own preconceptions, or
  by deductions as to what he ‘ought to have thought.’”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 264. Mr. 21, ’07. 210w.

  “The work as a whole is an admirable discussion of the main principles
  of Fichte’s philosophy, and one could not ask, for one entering upon
  the study of Fichte, a much better guide. Such monographs as the
  present one are not mere pieces of philosophical archaeology. They set
  the contributions of great thinkers in a clearer light, and so furnish
  points of departure for the systematic investigations of the present.”
  J. A. Leighton.

     + + =Philos. R.= 16: 437. Jl. ’07. 1710w.


=Talbot, Rt. Rev. Ethelbert.= My people of the plains. **$1.75. Harper.

                                                                6–39742.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 49. F. ’07. S.

  “Bishop Talbot writes in a popular literary style, and for the
  entertainment of the general reader.” Arthur Howard Noll.

       + =Dial.= 42: 248. Ap. 17, ’07. 130w.

  “It is a vivacious and veracious transcript of a fascinating stage in
  the evolution of the West, a life that is fast becoming a memory, and
  Bishop Talbot has rendered a service in preserving some of its more
  picturesque features and characters in his story.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 1036. My. 2, ’07. 180w.

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 40. Ja. 5, ’07. 570w.

  “We feel that we cannot too warmly recommend ‘My people of the plains’
  to our readers.”

     + + =Spec.= 98: 864. Je. 1, ’07. 1420w.


Talks with the little ones about the Apostles’ creed. 60c. Benziger.

                                                                6–31411.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =Cath. World.= 84: 554. Ja. ’07. 120w.


=Tallentyre, S. G. pseud. (E. V. Hall).= Friends of Voltaire. *$2.30.
Putnam.

                                                                W 7–118.

  Sketches of ten apostles of Voltaire’s teachings. Miss Tallentyre has
  worked her material into “an anecdotal history,” thru the pages of
  which is easily discernible pre-Revolutionary thought. The ten men
  whose vices and virtues are delineated are D’Alembert, Diderot,
  Gallani, Vauvenargues, d’Holbach, Grimm, Helvétius, Beaumarchais and
  Condorcet.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Her book is an agreeable contexture of anecdotes, epigrams and light
  biographical sketches.”

       + =Acad.= 72: 56. Ja. 19, ’07. 1360w.

  “Taste of a sort and talent of a sort are certainly exhibited in its
  composition: taste to select amusing stories, witty sayings, and
  lively traits of character; talent to frame out of this material a
  light and entertaining description of the society of the age.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 288. Mr. 9. 440w.

  “The book, throughout, is entertaining and helpful to a clear
  understanding of a momentous and often misunderstood epoch in both
  history and literature.” Josiah Renick Smith.

     + + =Dial.= 43: 58. Ag. 1, ’07. 1180w.

  “Apart from petty vices and the constant effort to awaken the
  momentary interest of uninformed readers, the book has a certain
  journalistic merit. It can be read rapidly, and many of its judgments
  strike one as sound, while still more of them are no doubt sincere.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 521. Je. 6, ’07. 240w.

  “S. G. Tallentyre, knows the France of the eighteenth century rather
  better, one may say, than she knows the art of English composition.
  But for all that, her book throbs with life, and an exceeding
  interesting, if often deplorable, phase of life it portrays.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 364. Je. 8, ’07. 1550w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 100w.

  “Even in the least successful of the studies ... apart from an
  occasional and sometimes pardonable lapse into extravagance of
  statement, there is little to criticise.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 86: 436. Je. 22, ’07. 290w.

  “Her sallies are saddening, and no vivid picture is given of the
  brilliant circles through which she leads her readers. But none the
  less her book is worth reading and forms an adequate sequel to her
  ‘Life of Voltaire.’”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 208. F. 16, ’07. 1300w.

  “This new work was well worth doing, for the subjects cannot fail to
  be found interesting, especially by readers of the former book.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 803. My. 18, ’07. 260w.


* =Tappan, Eva March.= American hero stories. †$1. Houghton.

                                                                6–13065.

  Designed for young readers this volume gives “accounts of the most
  important of American explorers, from Columbus to Lewis and Clark,
  tales of life in five of the early colonies, north and south; lives of
  our most famous pioneers, and some stories of war times.” (N. Y.
  Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Dial.= 41: 286. N. 1, ’06. 30w.

  “Children will find here no end of things that will interest them in
  the lives of Magellan, Drake, Stuyvesant, Dolly Madison, Kit Carson,
  Davy Crockett, and many others.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 90w.


=Tappan, Eva March.= Short history of England’s literature. *85c.
Houghton.

                                                                 5–8088.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

  Reviewed by John Maxwell Crowe.

     + + =School R.= 14: 698. N. ’06. 230w.


=Tarbell, Ida Minerva.= He knew Lincoln. **50c. McClure.

                                                                7–12636.

  A brief sketch which Billy Brown, one time druggist at Springfield,
  Illinois, gives of the Abraham Lincoln whom he knew, the Lincoln who
  used to sit swapping stories with his cronies in Billy’s little store.
  It is a vivid picture of the man; pathetic, humorous, but above all
  human.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Although short, and expensive for the number of its pages, it is
  worth buying because of its excellence and the universality of its
  appeal.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 204. N. ’07.

  “It is sure to take its place among the permanent and valued tributes
  to the memory of its hero.” Harry James Smith.

     + + =Atlan.= 100: 135. Jl. ’07. 180w.

  “A little masterpiece sure to have a place in future collections of
  such.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 724. My. 4. ’07. 40w.

  “Throughout the recital Miss Tarbell has shown a restraint which is
  the finest art.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 188. Mr. 30, ’07. 560w.

  “As a piece of art this story belongs with the best of recent American
  writing; as a piece of fiction it is so faithful in its interpretation
  of the spirit of its subject that it is more veracious than a great
  deal of history.”

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 256. Je. 1, ’07. 110w.

  “Once in a while a modern writer with enough journalism to be vivid
  and vital, and sufficient dignity and scholarship to keep the idea of
  a book in mind, gives us a picture of contemporary or bygone character
  which is more than mere writing. It is life itself. Miss Ida Tarbell,
  it may fairly be said, has done this.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 35: 756. Je. ’07. 110w.


=Tarbell, Mrs. Martha (Treat).= Tarbell’s teachers’ guide to the
International Sunday school lessons for 1906. $1.25. Bobbs.

                                                                5–40811.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “For orthodox Sunday-school teachers and workers we know of no work of
  equal value.”

     + + =Arena.= 35: 445. Ap. ’06. 190w.

  “The teacher who has not access to large library facilities, or time
  and training for wide personal study will find in Miss Tarbell’s
  ‘Guide’ a veritable treasure house.” Henry T. Fowler.

       + =Bib. World.= 29: 70. Ja. ’07. 810w.


=Tarkington, Booth.= His own people. il. **90c. Doubleday.

                                                                7–30869.

  An Indiana hero in realizing his dream of a European tour succumbs to
  the wiles of a bogus countess who shows him a good deal of Europe and
  then cheats him out of his last dollar at cards.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “One may criticise it with downright hostility, rail at its staleness,
  and deplore its triviality. But always it is impossible to ignore the
  fact that it is the work of a writer who, ever and always, at his
  worst as at his best, possesses the rare and absolutely indescribable
  gift of charm.” Arthur Bartlett Maurice.

     + − =Bookm.= 26: 279. N. ’07. 390w.

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 614. O. 26, ’07. 380w.

  “In this latest novelette of Mr. Tarkington’s there is a little more
  intention and a little less brilliancy than we are accustomed to
  associate with his work.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 400. O. 31, ’07. 380w.

  “Is real comedy and is decidedly interesting.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 190w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 50w.


=Taylor, Bert Leston.= Charlatans. †$1.50. Bobbs.

                                                                6–30926.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Mr. Taylor’s touch is everywhere light and pleasing: he has the gift
  of gentle social satire and the trick of clever dialogue.” Wm. M.
  Payne.

       + =Dial.= 42: 228. Ap. 1, ’07. 180w.

  “As fiction the book stands on a par with many of the stories its
  author has satirized so freely in the past. It is woefully lacking in
  literary distinction, and even in literary promise.”

       − =Ind.= 62: 562. Mr. 7, ’07. 270w.


=Taylor, Edward Robeson.= Selected poems. *$2. Robertson.

                                                                7–18557.

  This selection includes pieces from the author’s two volumes “Visions
  and other verse” and “Into the light and other verse,” whose unsold
  copies were destroyed in San Francisco’s fire, and also some poems
  written since.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 43: 94. Ag. 16, ’07. 180w.

  “The whole book shows everywhere the stamp of the thinker and the
  student. A great poet he is not; a true poet, in his degree, he is.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 263. Ag. 30, ’07. 1310w.


=Taylor, Emerson Gifford.= Upper hand. †$1.50. Barnes.

                                                                6–24575.

  A story of mystery in which the rich man of a New England village, the
  pretty girl who in a strange fashion becomes his ward, a pirate, a
  fanatical labor leader and others are involved in many exciting
  complications which include labor troubles and narrow escapes from
  death. There is also a love interest.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A story which, despite its fantastic character, sustains our interest
  to the end.” Wm. M. Payne.

     + − =Dial.= 43: 63. Ag. 1, ’07. 320w.

  “Told with some vigor in the writing but with little charm or literary
  grace.”

     − + =Outlook.= 84: 337. O. 6, ’06. 20w.

  “The construction of the book is somewhat loose and episodic.”

       − =Ind.= 62: 101. Ja. 10, ’07. 240w.

  “When Mr. Taylor learns to take more pains with his work he will find
  that it is much better.”

     − + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 585. S. 22, ’06. 440w.


=Taylor, Henry Charles.= Introduction to the study of agricultural
economics. *$1.25. Macmillan.

                                                                5–32900.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

         =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 421. Mr. ’07. 220w.

  “As a text, however, Professor Taylor’s work fills a need of the time.
  Whether we agree with the author’s rather tenuous theories and
  laborious mathematical demonstrations or not, we feel that he is
  following the right track, in applying economic theory to practical
  agriculture in a special treatise. The reader is constantly made aware
  that Professor Taylor has wrought with rare patience, industry and
  intelligence.” Royal Meeker.

   + + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 157. Mr. ’07. 700w.


=Taylor, Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-.= Moliere: a biography; with an
introd. by Thomas Frederick Crane. *$3. Duffield.

                                                                6–34857.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Except in the account of the death-scene, which (based on Grimarest)
  is related with passion, good sense and good feeling, it lacks
  inspiration.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 644. My. 25. 540w.

  “One may challenge Mr. Chatfield-Taylor’s presentation of his
  materials in these and other points, and still assert that his book is
  the best that we have so far in English for the general reader who
  wishes to know the life and work of the master of comedy.” A. G.
  Canfield.

   + + − =Dial.= 42: 111. F. 16, ’07. 2130w.


=Taylor, Ida Ashworth.= Queen Hortense and her friends, 1783–1837. 2v.
*$6. Scribner.

  A fair-minded study of the life of Napoleon’s step-daughter, Hortense
  de Beauharnais. The author says “Hortense has not been permitted to
  make her defense to the public. Her confessions, perhaps her
  justifications, remain as she left them, unprinted, and it is upon the
  data supplied by contemporaries that posterity must form its
  conclusions.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There was need of a book in English on Queen Hortense. Miss Taylor
  has fairly supplied it and incidentally has furnished the best
  complete account of her in any language.” George M. Dutcher.

     + + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 137. O. ’07. 790w.

  “It is a creditable piece of popular biography, founded on a careful
  study of the best authorities, and making no concessions to readers
  whose sole appetite is for scandal relieved by domestic sentiment.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 6. Jl. 6. 1490w.

  “Although Miss Taylor affects the pose of the historian, let not the
  unwary be taken in; she clearly has done little else than get together
  enough picturesque materials for her purpose.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 100. Ag. 1, ’07. 210w.

  “The chief events of Hortense’s life are traced at length in these
  two-volumes by a biographer almost too discreet and conscientious for
  a task which leads her through such worlds of gossip, back-stair
  politics, of queer people and gimcrack pretenders.”

     + − =Spec.= 99: 434. S. 28, ’07. 1540w.


=Taylor, J. A.= Robert Southwell, S. J., priest and poet. *70c. Herder.

  “A truthful and forcible sketch of the most widely known and most
  interesting of the heroic band that gave their lives for the faith
  under Elizabeth.”—Cath. World.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Notwithstanding its aloofness from sympathy with Southwell’s cause,
  this short biography does full justice to the holiness of the man, to
  his remarkable and winning character; and does not slur over the
  baseness of the creatures who hunted him to death. The simple style of
  the narrative sets forth, more adequately than would florid periods,
  the grandeur of the man and his deeds.”

       + =Cath. World.= 84: 832. Mr. ’07. 500w.

     − + =Spec.= 97: 580. O. 20, ’06. 150w.


=Taylor, John W.= Coming of the saints: imaginations and studies in
early church history and tradition. *$3. Dutton.

                                                                7–29078.

  The story of the journeyings of saints from Palestine to the West in
  the early days of the Christian era. Mr. Taylor writes of the comings
  of both the Hebrew and the later Greek missionaries, and in his
  account he has mingled both history and legend.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It may not satisfy the technical critics of the writings of the
  sub-Apostolic age; but all will admit that it is a well-written,
  interesting and discriminating narrative.” J. Charles Cox.

       + =Acad.= 71: 328. O. 6, ’06. 1200w.

  “This is no ordinary book. With much patient learning, and careful,
  sympathetic study of all the reputed resting-places of the early
  saints, Mr. Taylor weaves together the frail but fine threads that
  link the Christianity of tradition with the Christianity of the Bible,
  and both of these with the histories of Gaul and Britain.”

     + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 435. O. 13. 2060w.

  “An uncritical use of medieval miracle stories in the attempt to write
  history.”

       − =Ind.= 62: 1094. My. 9, ’07. 60w.

  “If, instead of constructing imaginary histories, he had endeavored to
  account for the rise of these legends, he might have added a chapter
  to the history of the early English church; as it is, his volume is a
  collection of fanciful stories, and nothing more.”

       − =Nation.= 84: 14. Jl. 4, ’07. 320w.

  “These studies ... are marked by ample learning and good judgment.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 523. Mr. 2, ’07. 280w.


=Taylor, Sedley.= Indebtedness of Handel to works by other composers.
*$4. Putnam.

                                                                7–27021.

  Two centuries of accumulated evidence go to show that Handel was a
  plagiarist. Mr. Taylor brings together the results of the careful
  investigation on the part of capable authorities. “The main object of
  this book appears to be the presentation, by a simplified process, of
  the materials necessary to enable every intelligent person to compare
  passages in Handel’s music with the sources from which they have been
  derived.” (Sat. R.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 841. D. 29. 430w.

  “His reasoning is close and exceedingly clever; but he will hardly get
  the acquittal for which he seeks in the face of his masterly
  presentment of the evidence against the master. The author has turned
  out an excellent piece of work, and one with which no student of
  Handel can afford to dispense.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 5: 427 D. 21, ’06. 460w.

       + =Nation.= 84: 183. F. 21, ’07. 970w.

  Reviewed by Richard Aldrich.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 148. Mr. 9, ’07. 960w.

  Reviewed by Harold E. Gorst.

     + + =Sat. R.= 103: 167. F. 9, ’07. 1880w.


=Taylor, Talbot Jones.= Talbot J. Taylor collection: furniture, wood
carving, and other branches of the decorative arts. **$6. Putnam.

                                                                6–20689.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

       + =Outlook.= 85: 858. Ap. 13, ’07. 90w.


=Taylor, Walter Herron.= General Lee, his campaigns in Virginia,
1861–1865, with personal reminiscences. *$2. Nusbaum bk.

                                                                 7–1480.

  The author, who served on General Lee’s staff, thruout the war, has
  written a clear account of the great battles in which Lee’s army took
  part, and has added an appreciative memoir.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The present writer has undertaken his task in a spirit of fairness
  and without a trace of bitterness.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 218. F. 9, ’07. 170w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 380. Mr. ’07. 130w.


=Teasdale, Sara.= Sonnets to Duse, and other poems. $1. Badger, R: G.

  Nine sonnets which pay exquisite tribute to Eleonora Duse and two
  score other poems and sonnets some breathing of love, some singing of
  little children and some chanting a hymn of joy with an undernote of
  sadness.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is a small, delightful thing, which one is not tempted to
  say much about, but to welcome.”

       + =Sat. R.= 104: 426. O. 5, ’07. 260w.


=Tegner, Esias.= Frithiof saga; tr. from the German of Ferdinand
Schmidt, by George P. Upton. (Life stories for young people.) **60c.
McClurg.

                                                                7–31176.

  The Frithiof saga which narrates the stirring adventures of Frithiof,
  a hero of the Northland and viking of its seas, is “noble, heroic, and
  free from exaggerated description or overwrought sentiment.... The
  central motives of the saga are his love for King Bele’s daughter,
  Ingeborg; the refusal of her brothers to sanction their marriage
  because the hero is not of royal birth; her unwilling marriage to the
  old King Ring; Frithiof’s exile and final union with Ingeborg.”


=Teller, Charlotte.= The cage. †$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                 7–9551.

  A novel built up along the lines of socialism, with its setting in the
  lumber-yard districts of Chicago. A preacher of the gospel whose point
  of view is “We must teach these working people to respect the laws of
  the land,” a young Austrian socialist whose opinion is, “We must
  change the laws so that they can be respected,” an “egotistical
  philanthropic employer” and a group of women, subordinating their
  ideas to the men whose opinions they respect, occupy the stage of the
  drama.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Aside from [one] rather irritating feature, which savours of
  trick-work, the book is a good piece of work, painting in certain
  aspects of labour troubles with broad, comprehensive brush strokes.”
  Frederic Taber Cooper.

     + − =Bookm.= 25: 184. Ap. ’07. 300w.

  “The unaffected style, the ease and strength with which she has put
  together the varying phases of a difficult situation so as to produce
  a perfect illusion, indicates that she may win high rank among the
  writers of the new fiction.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 559. Mr. 7, ’07. 710w.

  “It is a readable book rather than a conclusive one; interesting
  rather than valuable; a ramble, by turns painful and pleasant, rather
  than an arrival.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 267. Mr. 21, ’07. 390w.

  “Unlike most American novels the book has in its fibre something
  more—indeed, a good deal more—than its bare story. It is evidently the
  fruit of a mind and heart that have studied and questioned life in its
  nakedness.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 143. Mr. 9, ’07. 640w.


* =Tennant, Pamela.= Children and the pictures. $1.50. Macmillan.

  Lady Tennant permits the figures in the pictures of the Tennant
  collection to come to life, step down from their canvases, and tell
  her children tales of the life and times which they helped to make.
  “Thus the real children who have been taught to love them in their
  frames play with Beppo, Dolores, the Leslie boy, and Charlotte and
  Harry Spencer, who tell the story of their kidnapping by the
  gipsies.... Lady Crosbie flits by, looking ‘permanently mischievous;’
  and Peg Woffington rustles about the passages, sometimes finding the
  children a nuisance.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a charming and original idea, which Lady Tennant has carried
  out very gracefully.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 651. N. 23. 240w.

         =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 60w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 50w.


=Tenney, Rev. Edward P.= Contrasts in social progress. **$2.50.
Longmans.

                                                                7–14562.

  The method used in this comparative study of religion “consists,
  briefly, in applying the principles of natural selection and the
  survival of the fittest to the great religions of the world, with a
  view to ascertaining which may justifiably claim pre-eminence on a
  basis of concrete services rendered to mankind.” (Outlook.) Social
  betterment is used as the basis for the test of conditions which
  appear in countries under the sway of Brahmanism, Buddhism,
  Confucianism, Mohammedanism and Christianity. “In each case his
  examination comprises distinct sociological departments—as, the
  condition of women and children, the individual situation,
  philanthropic and charitable measures, educational facilities.”
  (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author manifestly aims to be fair: he uncovers the errors and
  evils of Christendom, and praises the virtues and truths of alien
  civilizations, and everywhere are the evidences of painstaking
  industry in the collection of facts and of expert judgments.” Charles
  Richmond Henderson.

       + =Dial.= 43: 249. O. 16, ’07. 300w.

  Reviewed by Joseph O’Connor.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 346. Jl. 1, ’07. 410w.

  “As developed, Mr. Tenney’s book becomes in some important respects a
  mine of valuable information relating to present-day conditions in
  various countries; and although it is open to a certain degree of
  criticism on the score of imperfect appreciation of the Oriental point
  of view, there can be no question that he has satisfactorily made out
  his case. A book which the Christian reader will find unusually
  hopeful and inspiring.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 86: 835. Ag. 17, ’07. 340w.


* =Terhune, Albert Payson.= Caleb Conover, railroader, il. 50c. Authors
& newspapers assn.

                                                                7–11205.

  “Vastly more obscure and poor than the Corsican, and in addition
  illiterate, Caleb Conover has become by the masterful force of his
  natural endowment a ‘Napoleon of finance.’... And it is with his
  career as an imperious, despotic and unspeakably corrupt political
  boss that Mr. Terhune chiefly concerns himself—tho the militant
  railway as a basis and bulwark of Conover’s empire is kept constantly
  in sight.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Ath.= 1907, 2: 547. N. 2. 160w.

  “This book is one of the strongest studies ever made of the American
  ‘Big boss,’ and from beginning to end is increasingly clever and
  interesting.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 1526. Je. 27, ’07. 230w.


* =Thackeray, William Makepeace.= Ballads and songs. $1.50. Putnam.

  Containing “Ballad of Bouillabaisse,” the “Mahogany tree,” the
  “Sorrows of Werther,” “At the church gate,” the “Lyra hibernica,” the
  “Old friends with new faces.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This is one of the ready choice illustrated books of the year.”

     + + =Dial.= 41: 395. D. 1, ’06. 240w.

  “In make-up the book lacks distinction, and seems moreover, peculiarly
  out of harmony with the subject matter.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 567. Mr. 7, ’07. 70w.

  “All illustrated by Mr. H. M. Brock with that friendly, graceful
  pencil of his. A welcome, simple, neat volume, great riches stored in
  a little room.”

     + + =Putnam’s.= 1: 378. D. ’06. 70w.


=Thanet, Octave, pseud. (Alice French).= Lion’s share. †$1.50. Bobbs.

                                                                7–31229.

  The ingredients out of which Miss French compounds her “Lion’s
  share” are many and varied: high finance with accompanying
  intrigue, kidnapping and consequent detective work, and love and
  adventure to suit the most satiated appetite. The hero is a United
  States army officer who occupies the centre of the stage and is
  champion-in-general. “When the time comes for him either to uphold
  the laws and constitution of his country as he has sworn to do, or
  protect and aid his relatives in a criminal proceeding, he decides
  on the latter course, easing his conscience by resigning his
  commission.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Miss French’s book, however, is certainly built on lines calculated
  to please the multitude. The book is not a particularly valuable one
  and hardly up to Miss French’s standard. Its characters are not
  admirable when they are good, and not bad enough to be fascinating
  when they are bad.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 570w.

  “Although quite convincingly sensational, and, apart from its
  entertainment as fiction, it touches suggestively some of the graver
  industrial problems of the day.”

     + − =Outlook.= 87: 745. N. 30, ’07. 100w.


=Thanet, Octave, pseud. (Alice French).= Man of the hour. †$1.50. Bobbs.

                                                                5–26124.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 25. Ja. ’07.


=Thomas, Edward.= Heart of England. *$6. Dutton.

                                                                7–25143.

  “Rambling descriptive matter, with a sprinkling of poetry and
  philosophy, and an occasional backward glance at the ‘old-fashioned
  times,’ serve to string some forty-eight colored pictures together.”
  (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The fault of the book is that it is written in a style that is much
  too affected.”

     − + =Acad.= 71: 417. O. 27, ’06. 540w.

  “Mr. Thomas suffers from an over-excitation of the colour-sense, and
  he indulges in a great deal of fine writing. The process of
  reproduction is not kind to Mr. H. L. Richardson’s illustrations, some
  of which are pretty; but they bear singularly little relation to the
  text.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 735. D. 8. 510w.

         =Dial.= 41: 454. D. 16, ’06. 80w.

  “Imperceptibly the reader is impressed by the writer who carries him
  here and there in and about England and shows him new and old things
  with equal charm.”

       + =Ind.= 61: 1396. D. 13, ’06. 110w.

  “Such a book as Mr. Thomas’s makes one take root in England.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 703. N. 24, ’06. 280w.

  “Mr. Thomas possesses in an uncommon degree the primary quality of a
  good writer, imagination.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 53. Ja. 12, ’07. 710w.


=Thomas, Henry Wilton.= Sword of wealth. †$1.50. Putnam.

                                                                6–42369.

  A story of industrial slavery which is set in Northern Italy. “The
  capitalist is a Sicilian rogue, the hero is a socialist, and the
  rioters are Italian peasants.” (Ind.) Such dramatic incidents are
  included as the insurrection of Milan, the assassination of King
  Humbert and the radical democratic movement in Italy.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       − =Ind.= 62: 739. Mr. 28, ’07. 220w.

  “It takes a more practiced hand than Mr. Thomas seems to possess to
  combine romance and economics in the same novel.”

     − + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 906. D. 29, ’06. 380w.


=Thomas, J. M. Lloyd.= Free Catholic church. *80c. Am. Unitar.

  Under the essay titles: The catholicity of religion, The fulfilling of
  Christianity, An undogmatic church, The importance of doctrine, The
  need of symbolism, and The higher churchmanship, the author advocates
  a church based on union of spirit which shall meet the demands of our
  critical age, and he urges ecclesiastical bodies to “abandon the
  treacherous dogmatic principle on which they are now organized and
  seek another and firmer foundation.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In his brief essay on the establishment of what he calls ‘A free
  Catholic church,’ Mr. Lloyd Thomas shows himself if not a fanatic, at
  any rate a wholly unpracticed visionary.” A. E. M. F.

       − =Acad.= 72: 289. Mr. 23, ’07. 1000w.

         =Nation.= 85: 164. Ag. 22, ’07. 190w.


=Thomas, Northcote W.= Kinship organizations and group marriage in
Australia. *$2. Putnam.

                                                                7–28949.

  “This interesting monograph belongs to the Cambridge archaeological
  and ethnological series. It is an endeavor to summarize what is
  actually known and understood as to the Australian systems and to
  point out the obscure points which need further investigation. It will
  be of assistance to all who are studying the history of the
  development of the family.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Thomas’s book is a severely critical and much-needed essay in
  restraint of the making of hasty theories.” Andrew Lang.

     + + =Acad.= 72: 87. Ja. 26, ’07. 920w.

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 70: 168. Jl. ’07. 60w.

  “Mr. Thomas ... both is, and seems, sound. No one, indeed, is more
  competent than Mr. Thomas to give the world an accurate digest of the
  information at present available in regard to the status regulations
  affecting marriage amongst the Australians.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 257. Mr. 2. 1180w.

  “The author seems to be at his best in the discussion of such a vexed
  question as group marriage; the argument is closely reasoned, and
  brings out several new points.” A. E. Crawley.

     + + =Nature.= 76: 221. Jl. 4, ’07. 170w.


=Thomas, William I.= Sex and society; studies in the social psychology
of sex. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.

                                                                 7–7162.

  The author says in his preface: “While each study is complete in
  itself, the general thesis running through all of them [eight in
  number] is the same—that the differences in bodily habit between men
  and women particularly the greater strength, restlessness, the motor
  aptitude of man, and the more stationary condition of woman, have had
  an important influence on social forms and activities, and on the
  character and mind of the two sexes.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Valuable and stimulating contribution to sociological literature.”
  Alfred C. Haddon.

     + + =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 113. Jl. ’07. 2220w.

  “A strong, scholarly, well-balanced, and well arranged book.”

     + + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 131. My. ’07.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 445. Ap. ’07. 1770w.

  “Professor Thomas moves with an expert discernment, discloses many a
  short-coming in prevalent doctrine, and builds up a consistent
  objective picture of woman’s sociological status.”

     + + =Dial.= 42: 146. Mr. 1, ’07. 370w.

   + + − =Ind.= 62: 561. Mr. 7, ’07. 900w.

  “The book has genuine interest for the general reader and makes a
  direct appeal to the student of sociology.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 34: 433. Mr. 16, ’07. 410w.

  “The data upon which the conclusions rest though drawn from a wide
  area of social observation, are admittedly incomplete; but Professor
  Thomas is commendably cautious in his inferences, and does not
  hesitate to point out the weak spots in the chain of evidence. We do
  not imagine that Professor Thomas holds any brief for the so-called
  ‘rights’ of woman, but he has certainly put the case in an interesting
  light.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 309. Ap. 4, ’07. 320w.

  “The book is extremely interesting. It is written with clearness and
  charm, and in spite of its scientific character, it moves with the
  speed and life of a narrative. Prof. Thomas is a sincere and
  intelligent man, and his book is a fair and useful addition to the
  literature on the subject. Women had better read it with sympathy
  rather than hysteria; it will do us good.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 89. F. 16, ’07. 1040w.

         =Outlook.= 85: 899. Ap. 20, ’07. 870w.

  “In scientific circles the essays will be accepted as presenting many
  novel and weighty conclusions on society as seen from a single, but
  extremely important, view point.” Robert C. Brooks.

     + + =Philos. R.= 16: 655. N. ’07. 750w.

         =Putnam’s.= 2: 621. Ag. ’07. 320w.

         =Putnam’s.= 2: 622. Ag. ’07. 270w.

       + =Sat. R.= 104: 174. Ag. 10, ’07. 1250w.


=Thomas, William S.= Hunting big game with gun and with kodak; a record
of personal experiences in the United States, Canada, and Mexico; with
70 il. from original photographs by the author. *$2. Putnam.

                                                                 7–4834.

  In which “Mr. Thomas gives his readers ample variety, hunting the
  bighorn and grizzly in British Columbia, the caribou and moose in New
  Brunswick and Quebec, and deer in Virginia and Mexico.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 106. Ap. ’07.

  “His camera was apparently unsuited to the work. In comparison with
  the recent achievements of Schillings and Hornaday and others in this
  field they make a very poor showing.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 1353. Je. 6, ’07. 90w.

  “It is hard to make a flat failure out of an outdoor book, but still
  harder to make it a distinguished success. ‘Hunting big game with gun
  and kodak,’ comes some distance from either extreme.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 339. Ap. 11, ’07. 250w.

  “This charming book, excellently printed and illustrated, has the
  value of convincing and picturesque simplicity. By adhering strictly
  to an account of personal experiences the author, while limiting the
  scope of his narrative has shown himself to be a discriminating and
  appreciative observer of nature.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 76. F. 9, ’07. 300w.

  “His book is very readable without being remarkable.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 1036. Je. 29, ’07. 180w.


=Thompson, Holland.= From the cotton field to the cotton mill: a study
of the industrial transition in North Carolina. **$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                6–20350.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The author gives evidence of thorough familiarity with social and
  industrial conditions in the southern states, and his study is a
  valuable contribution to the literature descriptive of our industrial
  development.” J. C.

     + + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 57. Ja. ’07. 230w.

       + =Nation.= 83: 242. S. 20, ’06. 180w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 80w.


=Thompson, Mrs. Jeanette May.= Water wonders every child should know.
**$1.10. Doubleday.

                                                                7–35227.

  “This is an interesting book, because it deals in a very simple and
  entertaining way with frost, ice, snow, dew, and running water; and
  because it is enriched by many reproductions of beautiful photographs
  of crystals taken by Mr. Bentley.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 143. My. ’07. ✠

  “This book happily combines adequate knowledge of the subject with a
  graphic and entertaining style.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 526. Jl. 6. ’07. 50w.


=Thompson, R. F. Meysey-.= Hunting catechism. $1.25. Longmans.

  Colonel Meysey-Thompson has lived with hounds and horses and hunting
  men the greater portion of his life. So he is on familiar ground in
  everything pertaining to the etiquette of the hunting field, hunters
  and hounds, as also pertaining to habits of the hunted,—of stags,
  foxes, and hares.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A man who does not know most of it before he dreams of riding ‘cross
  country’ cannot learn it here, and the work has the aridity of a
  schoolbook to one who has had its contents knocked into him years
  ago.”

     − + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 432. Jl. 6, ’07. 470w.

  “A most amusing little volume. Although it is nominally intended for
  the use of beginners, many who have had some experience of the
  hunting-field can learn from it; and if they are above learning, they
  cannot fail to be entertained by the anecdotes, recollections, and
  reflections which many seasons’ hunting has enabled the author to
  sprinkle through the pages.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: 1036. Je. 29, ’07. 480w.


* =Thompson, Ralph Wardlaw.= Griffith John, the story of fifty years in
China. *$2. Armstrong.

                                                                7–15464.

  “While the book sets forth the enthusiasm and optimism of a gifted
  missionary working under nineteenth-century conditions, its real value
  lies in the fact that it gives the evolution of mission methods under
  exterritorialty.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is one of the best ever written for its frank portrayal of
  the ups and downs of a great missionary’s aggressive work and his
  boundless hope for China.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 942. O. 17, ’07. 260w.

       + =Outlook.= 85: 524. Mr. 2, ’07. 260w.


=Thompson, Robert John=, comp. Proofs of life after death. **$1.50.
Turner, H. B.

                                                                6–34653.

  A symposium embracing opinions as to the future life whose
  contributors include scientists, psychical researchers, philosophers,
  and spiritualists.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 717. O. ’07. 20w.

  “In spite of the fact that in a few instances the thinkers who wrote
  for the symposium or whose opinions are here cited, have advanced to
  more positive grounds since the book was compiled, it is a volume of
  real merit, not the least interesting part being the writings of Mr.
  Thompson introducing the subject and the different groups of
  thinkers.”

       + =Arena.= 86: 671. Je. ’07. 400w.


=Thomson, John Arthur.= Herbert Spencer. *$1. Dutton.

                                                                W 6–274.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 102. Ja. ’07. 1340w.


=Thomson, W. G.= History of tapestry, from the earliest times until the
present day; with 4 plates in color and numerous il. in black and white.
*$12. Putnam.

                                                                7–25516.

  A pretentious work on tapestry from the earliest times to the present
  day. “Its records throw valuable side-lights on history. In the
  present volume we find many more instances than are generally known
  where national events have been commemorated and where sovereigns and
  princes have paved the way to negotiations and treaties desired by
  them by the timely gift of a costly tapestry. Finally, tapestries give
  us a wonderfully graphic idea of house construction and decoration, of
  folk and home life of old times.” (Outlook.) Over eighty color and
  half-tone illustrations enhance the value to students of tapestries.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We are not sure if the definition of tapestry given by the author is
  faultless.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 217. Ag: 24. 1020w.

  “It is not only a treasury of information, but so cleverly have the
  innumerable details been woven into the narrative that it is readable
  as well as interesting.” Frederick W. Goodkin.

     + + =Dial.= 43: 36. Jl. 16, ’07. 1300w.

  “Full of interest, full of surprises and always spiced with romance,
  and Mr. Thomson has not spoiled the story in its telling.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 1471. Je. 20, ’07. 900w.

  “We take leave of the author, then, with admiration of his power as a
  faithful draughtsman, and with respect for his diligent search among
  original sources of information.”

   + + − =Nation.= 85: 63. Jl. 18, ’07. 710w.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 95. F. 16, ’07. 310w.

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 858. Ap. 13. ’07. 190w.

  “It is impossible not to grumble especially at the information
  withheld by Mr. Thomson.”

   + + − =Sat. R.= 104: 52. Jl. 13, ’07. 1240w.


=Thomson, William Hanna.= Brain and personality; or, The physical
relations of the brain to the mind. **$1.20. Dodd.

                                                                 7–6262.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 131. My. ’07.

  “The book is printed in the United States, the illustrations are poor,
  and there is no Index.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 260. Mr. 2. 470w.


=Thoreau, Henry David.= Works. Bijou, ed. 5v. $2.50. Crowell.

  These five volumes of the selected works of Thoreau are furnished with
  introductions by Nathan H. Dole, Annie Russell Marble, and Charles C.
  D. Roberts, while Emerson’s biographical sketch prefaces “Excursions.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 578. O. 19, ’07. 70w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 542. S. 7, ’07. 120w.


=Thoreau, Henry David.= Writings of Henry David Thoreau. (Walden ed.)
20v. ea. $1.75. Houghton.

  A monumental undertaking which becomes an atonement to a mighty soul
  for lack of appreciation during the most of life. The first six
  volumes include Thoreau’s miscellaneous writings and the remaining
  fourteen are devoted to his journal which is published for the first
  time. The edition furnishes “a record of the life-work of one whose
  observations of the phenomena of nature were most thorough and
  untiring and whose descriptions are among the best in literature.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “On the whole this ‘Walden edition’ is every way satisfactory in its
  different forms for different purchasers and prices.” F. B. Sanborn.

   + + − =Dial.= 41: 232. O. 16, ’06. 2880w.

  “Have the interest of an autobiography, and will be read for more
  light upon one of the most piquant and romantic careers among American
  scholars and reformers. For the full understanding of this part of the
  copious work, many more notes and explanations are needed than the
  editors had room to afford even had they the needful knowledge.” F. B.
  Sanborn.

   + + − =Dial.= 42: 107. F. 16, ’07. 2140w. (Review of v. 8–20.)

  “If we should quarrel with it for anything it would be for its too
  great abundance. Much is trivial, yet much also is of extraordinary
  interest.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 56. Ja. 17, ’07. 220w. (Review of v. 11–20.)

  “Mr. Torrey is an accomplished writer as well as a well-known
  naturalist. His introductions are of a quality rare in such
  performances. They are free from the spirit of hero-worship or of
  hero-manufacture; now and then they perhaps approach the other
  extreme.” H. W. Boynton.

   + + − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 681. O. 20, ’06. (Review of v. 1–10.)

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 427. Jl. 6, ’07. 990w.


=Thoreau, Henry David.= Cape Cod; with an introd. by Annie R. Marble.
35c. Crowell.

                                                                7–37720.

  Uniform with the “Handy volume classics.”


=Thorndike, Lynn.= Place of magic in the intellectual history of Europe.
*75c. Macmillan.

                                                                 6–4648.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The book is based on independent study and ... it abundantly proves
  its point.” A. G.

     + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 396. Ap. ’07. 350w.


=Thorp, Frank Hall.= Outlines of industrial chemistry: a text-book for
students. 2d ed. *$3.75. Macmillan.

  The second edition, revised and enlarged, and including a chapter on
  metallurgy. “This work has been prepared for the purpose of comprising
  in a single volume of moderate dimensions an outline treatment of the
  more important industrial chemical processes.... It is divided into
  three parts: Inorganic industries, Organic industries, and
  Metallurgy.” (Technical Literature.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Gives in one volume a comprehensive and clearly written description
  of all branches of chemical industry.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 257. S. 19, ’07. 100w.

  “The work is well suited to the instruction of students in engineering
  and will be found of value to engineers in all branches, who are often
  confronted with problems requiring a knowledge of industrial chemistry
  for their solution.”

       + =Technical Literature.= 2: 30. Jl. ’07. 370w.


=Thorpe, William Henry.= Anatomy of bridgework. $2.50. Spon.

                                                                7–28955.

  A book which treats “of the behavior of bridges under traffic so as to
  show the weak points in their design and their effect upon the cost of
  maintenance.” (Engin. N.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book will be of relatively small service to American engineers.”
  Henry S. Jacoby.

     − + =Engin. N.= 57: 436. Ap. 18, ’07. 890w.

       + =Technical Literature.= 1: 224. My. ’07. 280w.


=Throckmorton, Josephine Holt.= Donald MacDonald. $1.25. Murdock McPhee
& Co., 221 Pennsylvania av., Washington, D. C.

                                                                7–20710.

  In this story which begins at West Point and later depicts army scenes
  during the civil war, the characters of two men are brought into sharp
  contrast. Red Tracy, the selfish boy who becomes a false lover, a
  thief, and an officer untrue to his friends and ashamed of his old
  father, is a fitting foil for MacDonald, the best type of gentleman
  and soldier.


=Thrum, Thomas G.= Hawaiian folk tales: a collection of native legends;
il. from photographs. **$1.75. McClurg.

                                                                 7–9782.

  In this group are twenty-five folk lore tales contributed by
  recognized authorities including Rev. A. O. Forbes, Dr. N. B. Emerson,
  J. S. Emerson, Mrs. E. M. Nakuina, Dr. C. M. Hyde and others. The
  volume rescues from oblivion tales of mythology, religious functions,
  tradition and cosmology, and preserves their native poetic quality.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 132. My. ’07.

       + =Dial.= 42: 291. My. 1, ’07. 250w.

  “Of this collection some [of the legends] are obviously sophisticated
  and treated in a literary manner, others are crude and dry.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 1035. My. 2, ’07. 180w.


=Thruston, Mrs. Lucy (Meacham).= Jenifer. †$1.50. Little.

                                                                7–16941.

  The Carolina mountains form the setting for this story of the
  development of the character of Jenifer, a poor country lad, who
  discovers kaolin upon some land which he promptly buys from the needy
  owner, who does not suspect its value. This makes him rich and he goes
  to the city to see life and there marries Alice the frivolous clerk of
  a glove counter. This is but the beginning. How he comes back to his
  land, awakes to the responsibility of his position and re-orders his
  life, forms the story.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Is a firm, smooth piece of work, without those early marks of the
  amateur.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 635. S. 12, ’07. 190w.

  “The plot itself is not very original, but the literary handling of it
  is worthy of all praise. Spontaneity and genuine imagination mark the
  book, and the descriptions of mountain scenery are admirable.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 110w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 291. My. 4, ’07. 130w.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 514. Ag. 24, ’07. 210w.

  “As charming and as open to criticism as the vivacious yet irregular
  features of a pretty girl.”

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 100w.


=Thureau-Dangin, Paul.= Saint Bernardine of Siena; tr. by Baroness G.
von Hugel. *$1.50. Dutton.

                                                                 W 7–28.

  “Two centuries after St. Francis of Assisi, his followers labored for
  a revival of religion contemporaneously with the revival of learning
  known as the Renaissance. A leading promoter of it was the saintly
  preacher of whom this volume is a memorial. An account of the moral
  and civic anarchy of the time forms the historical setting of the
  story of the revivalist’s missionary life, the popular enthusiasm he
  kindled, his trials with ecclesiastical opponents, his sermons, and,
  finally, of the two orders of the Franciscan brotherhood, from the
  less to the more rigorous of which he went over.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Admirable life.”

       + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 201. O. ’06. 90w.

  “Two temptations seem to beset the biographers of a saint: one is to
  idealize the subject, ... and the other is to attribute to Divine
  intervention every extraordinary event associated in any way with his
  career. The volume before us, because it contains but few evidences of
  these imperfections, merits special commendation.”

     + + =Cath. World.= 85: 838. S. ’07. 260w.

  “By the time M. Thureau-Dangin’s French has been transmuted into the
  Baroness’s English, the sayings of the saint are often barely
  recognizable.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 224. Mr. 7, ’07. 750w.

  “The volume which tells of his life will be chiefly interesting to
  students and to the devout,”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 10. Ja. 5, ’07. 230w.

         =Outlook.= 84: 681. N. 17, ’06. 130w.

  “A delightful book. It is characterized by a limpid felicity of style,
  a quiet power of objective presentment, complete sympathy with its
  subject, and a serene impartiality which, however—a great gift
  this—takes none of the fire and life out of the book. Of the Baroness
  von Hugel’s translation we can say that it is eminently readable and
  writ in passable English. But it bristles in inaccuracies, and the
  translator’s fear of being fettered by the original causes her at
  times to take undue liberties with the text.”

   + + − =Sat. R.= 102: 402. S. 29, ’06. 380w.

       + =Spec.= 97: 24. Jl. 7, ’06. 280w.


=Thurston, Ernest Temple.= Katherine. †$1.50. Harper.

                                                                7–11213.

  Katherine Crichton marries a big-hearted, broad-minded man whose work
  principles she does not understand, and therefore nurses unhappiness
  as a result of fancied neglect. An accident results in a physical
  state that promises her only two years of life, and she determines to
  give herself up to happiness and the romance which had been denied
  her. How her husband spares her the ignominy of dishonor and restores
  her to her home is handled with keen perception and an understanding
  of genuine nobility of heart.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Men and women do not speak and think as Mr. Thurston writes. Of the
  evolution of Katherine we see nothing; what we see of the evolution of
  Mr. Thurston does not inspire us with any confidence as to his future.
  His characters bear much the same relation to life as do the emerald
  woods in a penny shooting-gallery.”

       − =Acad.= 72: 273. Mr. 16, ’07. 340w.

  “Mr. Thurston continues to display a familiarity with feminine
  psychology which is unusual in English fiction. Will no doubt soon
  shed his Meredithian manner. At present he has a bad attack.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 317. Mr. 16. 300w.

  “‘Katherine’ differs from his earlier books in portraying Protestant
  England rather than Catholic Ireland; but it conveys the same
  impression of being the outcome of direct, keen observation of
  flesh-and-blood men and women.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

       + =Bookm.= 25: 283. My. ’07. 510w.

  “This story, weighted with much futile philosophizing, is not exactly
  edifying, and its dulness is relieved by few flashes of brilliancy.”
  Wm. M. Payne.

       − =Dial.= 43: 62. Ag. 1, ’07. 280w.

  “Mr. Thurston takes it out of the class to which it apparently
  belonged, and cloaks it with the dignity of a grave psychological
  problem.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

       + =Forum.= 39: 116. Jl. ’07. 350w.

  “It is characteristic of the horror-minded present that a writer like
  Mr. Thurston should dramatize the diagnosis of cancer and call it a
  romance.”

       − =Ind.= 62: 1529. Je. 27, ’07. 210w.

  “The most striking and most interesting thing about Mr. Thurston’s
  book is the manner in which it is written.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 216. Ap. 6, ’07. 930w.


=Thurston, Ernest Temple.= Traffic, the story of a faithful woman.
†$1.50. Dillingham.

                                                                6–29093.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “As in ‘The apple of Eden,’ Mr. Thurston dissects deep and pitilessly
  as the modern Frenchman: but even in this candidly repellant theme, he
  keeps a certain fervor which makes his work worth while for adult
  readers of firm nerves and serious mind.” Mary Moss.

     + − =Atlan.= 99: 116. Ja. ’07. 420w.


=Thurston, Katherine Cecil.= Mystics, il. †$1.25. Harper.

                                                                7–14253.

  A strong young man loving life and freedom serves an ascetic uncle for
  seven years. The uncle dies bequeathing his vast wealth to a sect
  known as the Mystics. A sense of deep wrong leads the nephew to
  violate the uncle’s dying request to guard the sacred book of the sect
  until it could be turned over to one of the leaders. He copies it word
  for word, finds that the Mystics look forward to the appearing of a
  prophet, decides to play the rôle himself and to appear at the proper
  moment, his one aim being to secure the money out of which these
  people had defrauded him. His course leads to a dramatic though
  logical dénouement.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The characters are mere puppets without a semblance of life, and the
  episodes of the story are vague and loosely put together.”

       − =Acad.= 72: 416. Ap. 27, ’07. 300w.

  “She has taken her public too cheaply.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 535. My. 1. 190w.

  “The story is not only short, but jejune and projected on a low level;
  though it may be granted, freely, that the presentation is powerful,
  the few characters well marked, and the plot simple and logically
  worked out.”

     − + =Cath. World.= 85: 550. Jl. ’07. 580w.

  “The wild improbability of the plot and the essentially childish
  nature of the whole story make it barren as a subject for criticism.”

       − =Lit. D.= 34: 766. My. 11, ’07. 80w.

  “Mrs. Thurston possesses imagination and a laudable desire to skip the
  dull parts; explanations, for instance.”

       − =Nation.= 84: 389. Ap. 25, ’07. 280w.

  “Is rather a disappointment to those who have read ‘The gambler’ and
  ‘The masquerader.’”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 353. Je. 1, ’07. 190w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 170w.

  “A piece of manufacture and not particularly interesting at that.”

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 116. My. 18, ’07. 220w.

  “It might have been written by an incompetent understudy so far as
  interest is concerned, and no amount of oxygen in the reader’s blood
  can make it seem to him other than hopelessly wooden.” Vernon Atwood.

       − =Putnam’s.= 2: 616. Ag. ’07. 130w.

  “The contents are so vapid and drearily profitless that it seems
  unfair to seek a type for them in any semblance to humanity.”

       − =Sat. R.= 103: 529. Ap. 27, ’07. 410w.


=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.

                                                                 4–6902.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “These volumes, as is usual in the series, are well edited. The
  reviewer suspects—only suspects because he has not been able to
  compare the reprint with the original edition—that there are a few
  errors in proof-reading; but these would not be worth mentioning were
  it not for the high standard already set for the workmanship of the
  series.”

   + + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 430. Ja. ’07. 450w. (Review of v. 18 and
         19.)

  “Continue to reach the standard of value and interest found in the
  earlier issues.”

   + + + =Ind.= 61: 878. O. 11, ’06. 1180w. (Review of v. 18–24.)

  “Is the most valuable of the five or six volumes published in the
  series this year.” Webster Cook.

     + + =School R.= 15: 712. D. ’07. 230w. (Review of v. 25.)


=Thwing, Rev. Charles Franklin.= History of higher education in America.
**$3. Appleton.

                                                                6–35963.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 106. Ap. ’07.

  “One cannot but regret that the author has not seen fit to describe
  the highest type of university as it exists today in this country, and
  to present a view of higher education in its latest and finest aspects
  with the particularity and appreciation which he devotes to its
  beginnings in the early colonial days.” J. B. P.

     + − =Educ. R.= 33: 87. Ja. ’07. 700w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 117. Ja. ’07. 170w.

  “An eminently readable and human account of the history of higher
  education with especial attention to the story of the older colleges.”
  J. H. T.

       + =School R.= 15: 239. Mr. ’07. 330w.


=Tilley, Arthur Augustus.= François Rabelais. (French men of letters, v.
3.) **$1.50. Lippincott.

                                                                7–29040.

  A biographical and critical study of Rabelais written for the “French
  men of letters” series. The author’s familiarity with his subject and
  his comprehensive study of sources, have resulted in an authoritative
  narrative which assumes less knowledge on the part of readers than as
  tho it had been written for Frenchmen.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Let it be said at once, and with all frankness, that it is the very
  work to be consulted by anyone who wants to be well instructed in the
  known facts concerning Rabelais. It is when we cease to consider facts
  and dates and such matters that Mr. Tilley becomes tiresome and quite
  ineffectual.”

     + − =Acad.= 73: 133. N. 16, ’07. 1870w.

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 696. N. 9, ’07. 390w.

       + =Outlook.= 87: 612. N. 23, ’07. 260w.


=Tillson, Benjamin Richards.= Complete automobile instructor. $1.50.
Wiley.

                                                                 7–1971.

  A timely companion for every one who drives a car, containing over six
  hundred questions with answers. It covers the ground of the
  principles, the operation and the care of gasoline automobiles.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The possession of the book obviates the necessity for the new car
  owner’s ‘cramming’ with a mass of befuddling details at the outset,
  and enables him gradually to acquire a working knowledge of his
  machine as necessity demands it.”

       + =Engin. N.= 57: 555. My. 16, ’07. 250w.

         =Nation.= 84: 152. F. 14, ’07. 30w.

  “Of the crop of automobile instruction books that have appeared in the
  last two or three years this seems to us the one the automobile owner
  who knows little of mechanics will find it easiest to master.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 522. D. 5, ’07. 180w.


=Tinney, W. H.= Gold mining machinery; its selection, arrangement and
installation: a practical handbook for the use of mine managers and
engineers, with a chapter on the preparation of estimates of cost. *$5.
Van Nostrand.

  The volume includes a concise treatment of steam generation, water
  motors, gas and oil engines, engine erection, the various kinds of
  pumps adapted to mining work, winding machinery, air compressors, air
  drills, reduction of ores, transmission of power by shafting belts,
  compressed air and electricity, transport, piping, joints, etc.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Reviewed by Walter R. Crane.

     − + =Engin. N.= 57: 88. Ja. 17, ’07. 1080w.

  “Mr. Tinney’s production fails in its purpose, for it is out of date
  and superficial.”

       − =Nature.= 76: 7. My. 2, ’07. 130w.


=Titsworth, Alfred Alexander.= Elements of mechanical drawing. *$1.25.
Wiley.

                                                                6–35444.

  “This book is divided into two parts. In the first part, for
  beginners, the various drawing instruments in common use are
  described, and a series of exercises is given to illustrate the use of
  each of the instruments. The rest of this section is devoted to
  examples in simple projection, to intersections, of solids, and
  development of surfaces. Part 2, for more advanced students, comprises
  problems in descriptive geometry, isometric projection, oblique
  projection, shadows, and perspective work, and concludes with a series
  of problems.”—Nature.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Its mechanical make-up is unusually neat.”

     + − =Engin. N.= 56: 521. N. 15, ’06. 50w.

         =Nature.= 75: 172. D. 20, ’06. 120w.


* =Tittle, Walter.= First Nantucket tea party, il. **$2. Doubleday.

                                                                7–38632.

  “This is a letter written in 1754 by Ruth Starbuck Wentworth to her
  mother. Besides relating the amusing story of the first teabrewing
  that ever took place on Nantucket, it traces the romance of Ruth
  Wentworth and Captain Morris, which began and ended while the letter
  was being written in those delightful daily portions that our
  grandmothers used to indite as painstakingly as they did their other
  daily stints.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A curious little document.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 432. D. 16, ’07. 130w.

  “The illuminated illustrations and decorations by Walter Tittle,
  reproducing the style of some medieval manuscript, form an admirably
  appropriate setting to the pretty little colonial romance.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 920. D. 14, ’07. 100w.


=Toch, Maximilian.= Chemistry and technology of mixed paints. *$3. Van
Nostrand.

                                                                 7–2131.

  “Intended for the student in chemistry who desires to familiarize
  himself with paint, or the inquirer who desires a better knowledge of
  the subject, or for the paint manufacturer and paint chemist as a work
  of reference.” “The whole effect of the book will be towards
  improvement of manufacture and in the mutual relations between makers
  and users.... The microphotographs are excellent, and inserted on
  calendered paper, the print is large and clear, paper good, binding
  attractive.” (Technical Literature.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Authoritative. Contains much useful information. Only book on the
  subject.”

     + + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 173. O. ’07.

  “Taken as a whole, the book will be found instructive and useful.
  Naturally, it does not give away trade secrets, but on the other hand,
  it contains much that is very little known by the general public, and
  it will well repay careful study.” Robert Job.

     + + =Engin. N.= 57: 552. My. 16, ’07. 1570w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 79 F. 9. ’07. 60w.

  “Altogether, a credit and an ornament to American technological
  literature.” Joseph W. Richards.

     + + =Technical Literature.= 1: 224. My. ’07. 520w.


=Todd, Charles Burr.= In olde Massachusetts. **$1.50. Grafton press.

                                                                7–23474.

  In these sketches of old times and places during the early days of the
  commonwealth are included descriptions of Cambridge in midsummer, a
  day in Lexington, autumn days in Quincy, Marblehead scenes, Martha’s
  Vineyard, and tales of Nantucket’s first tea-party, wrecks and
  wrecking, historic Deerfield, Pittsfield, the Hoosac tunnel, Lenox,
  and other historic places, many of which are pictured by photographs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Dial.= 43: 123. S. 1, ’07. 290w.

  “An entertaining volume.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 637. N. ’07. 60w.


=Todd, Margaret Georgina (Graham Travers, pseud.).= Growth. †$1.50.
Holt.

                                                                7–17048.

  The growth, not only of Dugald Dalgleish, the hero, the son of an
  obscure nonconformist minister, who from a student at the University
  of Edinburgh develops into a popular preacher, but also the growth,
  mental and spiritual, of his friend Thatcher, who becomes a priest of
  Rome, is chronicled in the course of this tale of inward struggle.
  Judith Lemaistre, the big doctor, the woman Dugald marries, and many
  other characters worth knowing, take their leisurely way thru the
  story, which with its religious background and earnest Scotch
  atmosphere is very different from the usual novel of today.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We honestly admire the author’s thoroughness and all-round fairness
  of view. The tone is dignified and sincere, the story gravely
  interesting; it is also, though we say it with regret, many pages too
  long.”

     + − =Acad.= 71: 526. N. 24, ’06. 160w.

  “There is little plot in the story, but it is written with care, and
  bears the signs of good workmanship on every page.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 768. D. 15. 120w.

  “Out of all this diverse material we get a picture of human life that
  grows fairly absorbing in its interest as we proceed, a dramatic
  structure in which the claims of both spirit and sense are allowed, a
  residual philosophy that is shaped to fine intellectual issues, yet
  which keeps all the time in close contact with the world of practical
  affairs.” Wm. M. Payne.

     + + =Dial.= 43: 251. O. 16, ’07. 340w.

         =Nation.= 85: 307. O. 3, ’07. 320w.

  “The characters all stand out very vividly, each one strongly
  individualized. And they are interesting people to meet in the pages
  of a story.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 301. My. 11, ’07. 590w.

  “The picture of student life is particularly appealing in respect of
  certain characteristic natural qualities.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 100w.

  “The story is too serious to attract the regular novel reader, and
  perhaps too much occupied with past questions to absorb the lovers of
  problems, but it is a well-constructed, interesting bit of work.”

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 117. My. 18, ’07. 180w.

  “It is a relief, after the slight and sketchy specimens of fiction
  which are published as complete novels, to come across a piece of
  conscientious and detailed work, even if that work is not completely
  successful.”

     + − =Spec.= 97: 938. D. 8, ’06. 300w.


=Toffteen, Olaf A.= Ancient chronology. Pt. 1. Published for the
Oriental society of the Western Theological seminary. *$2.50. Univ. of
Chicago press.

                                                                7–36124.

  A volume which covers the ancient chronology of Palestine, Assyria,
  Babylonia, and Egypt down to 1050 B. C. The first chapter treats
  biblical chronology solely on the basis of the dates furnished by the
  Bible, taking them at their face value, and without any inquiry,
  either into the age of the documents, or into their historicity; the
  second chapter contains a full treatment of the ancient history of
  these countries; and the third is devoted to Egyptian chronology.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “An interesting work designed to defend traditional views. It presents
  a wealth of material, many new interpretations of fact, and original
  conclusions. The work is marred by many inexcusable errors in
  spelling.”

   + + − =Bib. World.= 30: 479. D. ’07. 30w.

  “The treatment of monumental sources is careful, and the general
  conclusions do not contradict the more sane and conservative scholars,
  to whose investigations he has added much that is of value.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 1316. N. 28, ’07. 250w.


=Tolstoy, Leo.= Tolstoy on Shakespeare: a critical essay on Shakespeare;
tr. by V. Tchertkoff; followed by Shakespeare’s attitude to the working
classes, by Ernest Crosby, and a letter from G. Bernard Shaw. *75c.
Funk.

                                                                7–14638.

  Full of disagreement with the “universal adulation,” in fact,
  iconoclastic thruout, Tolstoy argues, among other things, that
  Shakespeare is lacking in the very point of excellence that by general
  consensus of the world’s opinion earned for him the right to be called
  an imperial genius, namely, delineation of character.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The orthodox must consign this book to perdition, and anathematize
  its author as a literary iconoclast steeped in guilt inexpressible.”

       − =Cath. World.= 84: 836. Mr. ’97. 630w.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 46. Ja. ’07. 2460w.

  “No doubt such critical onslaughts upon our accepted standards of
  literary achievement, as those contained in this little volume, serve
  a useful purpose, if only by arousing us from a conventional and lazy
  acquiescence in fundamental matters of literary taste, which receive
  from us all too little consideration.”

       − =Ind.= 62: 441. F. 21, ’07. 970w.

         =Lit. D.= 34: 218. F. 9, ’07. 180w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 850. D. 8, ’06. 1160w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 253. F. ’07. 80w.


* =Tolstoy, Leo.= Twenty-three tales from Tolstoy; selected and tr. by
Louise and Aylmer Maude. *75c. Funk.

  These twenty-three stories are arranged under seven heads: Tales for
  children, published about 1872 when Tolstoy was interested in the
  education of peasant children; Popular stories, including What men
  live by; A fairy tale, which contains Tolstoy’s indictment of
  militarism and commercialism; Stories written to pictures, intended to
  help the sale of cheap reproductions of good drawings; Folk-tales
  retold; Adaptations from the French; and Stories given to aid the
  persecuted Jews.


=Tomalin, H. F.= Three vagabonds in Friesland with a yacht and camera.
*$3. Dutton.

  “A book which is frankly described in its introduction as a ‘book
  of photographs, with letterpress obligato,’ records a vagabond
  trip through Friesland, a little frequented part of North
  Holland.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It will take rank amongst the best illustrated volumes of travel that
  have recently appeared.”

     + + =Int. Studio.= 32: 251. S. ’07. 430w.

  “Charming account of a June outing in northern Holland.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 263. S. 19, ’07. 690w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.

  “The photographs are remarkable both from an artistic and a technical
  point of view, and illustrate the life and people of one of the most
  picturesque districts in Europe. The ‘obligato,’ too, is rather well
  played.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 258. Je. 1, ’07. 60w.

  “They are cheery fellows and capital company, and Mr. Marshall’s
  numerous photographs of the scenes, and especially of the natives, are
  deserving of praise.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 434. Ap. 6, ’07. 110w.


=Tomlinson, Everett Titsworth.= Marching against the Iroquois. †$1.50.
Houghton.

                                                                6–37600.

  A tale based upon General Sullivan’s expedition against the Iroquois
  in the Mohawk valley in the year 1779.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 143. My. ’07.

  “It is a combination of history and fiction that the young people will
  find both instructive and entertaining.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 822. D. 1, ’06. 60w.


=Tompkins, Herbert W.= In Constable’s country; with many reproductions
from his paintings. *$4. Dutton.

  More a transcript of impressions, penned, in the first instance, by
  the wayside than an essay on Constable and his art.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A gossipy chronicle of unimportant wanderings, readable because the
  author has written of what interested himself.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 779. D. 15. 380w.

       + =Dial.= 41: 454. D. 16, ’06. 180w.

       + =Ind.= 61: 1397. D. 13, ’06. 90w.

  “Mr. Tompkins gives us no formal essay on Constable, but instead, the
  more instructive, informal illumination contained in a transcript of
  impressions written, in the first instance, by the wayside.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 891. D. 8, ’06. 390w.

       + =Sat. R.= 102: 682. D. 1, ’06. 120w.


=Tonge, James.= Principles and practice of coal mining. *$1.60.
Macmillan.

  “A compact, comprehensive, and not too technical treatise covering the
  entire field of coal production.... The illustrations, both
  photographic and diagrammatic, are comprehensive, and serve well to
  illuminate the descriptive matter. At the end of each chapter is a
  series of questions bearing upon it, as on aid to fixing the subject
  matter thereof in the memory of the student.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is adapted to use as a lighter text-book for students intending to
  specialize in mining engineering, and is so written as to be equally
  well adapted to the needs of the practical miner who may wish to
  qualify for higher and more responsible positions in the coal-mining
  industry.”

       + =Engin. N.= 58: 297. S. 12, ’07. 330w.

  “These varied subjects are dealt with in a thoroughly practical
  manner, and although necessarily brief, the descriptions are well up
  to date.”

       + =Nature.= 75: 364. F. 14, ’07. 530w.


=Toothaker, Charles Robinson.= Commercial raw materials. $1.25. Ginn.

  A comprehensive and conveniently arranged handbook describing briefly
  the important materials which enter into the commerce of the
  world—such as cotton, sugar, woods, rubber, silk, iron and coal.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is distinctly a book of facts, with no attempt to bring out
  the causal side of production or trade. Hence the volume can only be a
  supplementary reference text, a present help in trouble; and it is not
  intended as a class book.” Richard Elwood Dodge.

       + =Educ. R.= 34: 534. D. ’07. 170w.


=Topliff, Samuel.= Topliff’s travels: letters from abroad in the years
1828 and 1829; ed. with a memoir and notes by Ethel Stanwood Bolton. $2.
Boston Athenaeum.

                                                                 7–6782.

  The letters of a “typical hard-working American” written during his
  travels in England, Scotland, Holland, France, Spain and Italy during
  1828–29, including a visit to Lafayette at his chateau Lagrange. “His
  travels are of interest because few Americans in his day indulged in
  such pleasures.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 724. Ap. ’07. 70w.

  “He was an accurate observer, writing in the formal and stately style
  of the age, though he often condescended to waggishness on such
  subjects as leapyear and matrimony, and had clearly a liberal spice of
  the Old Adam in his composition.”

       + =Ath.= 1907. 1: 165. F. 9. 440w.

       + =Nation.= 84: 226. Mr. 7, ’07. 580w.


=Torrence, Frederic Ridgely.= Abelard and Heloise. **$1.25. Scribner.

                                                                 7–8253.

  In this poetic drama “there are four acts, the first two being
  separated from the others by a score of years. The first half of the
  work gives us the Paris school and Fulbert’s villa, the second half of
  Paraclete and Chalons. The dramatic handling of the story is spirited
  and rapid.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “To his close study of the sources we owe the thousand vivid
  historical details that are woven into the vigorous give and take of
  the dialogue with fine, dramatic and poetic effect. In the matter of
  structure, however, there is a question whether Mr. Torrence’s play
  has not lost its effectiveness through his endeavor to give the whole
  story as it is in the books.” Ferris Greenslet.

     + − =Atlan.= 100: 847. D. ’07. 620w.

  “It is not without infelicities, verbal and rhythmical, but its
  movement is, on the whole, stately and impressive.” Wm. M. Payne.

     + − =Dial.= 42: 252. Ap. 17, ’07. 640w.

  “Nor can it be said that the poet’s style has changed for the better.
  There is a general air of strain; his metaphors frequently pall before
  he has done with them, and his metre has a way of being so free as to
  be crabbed.” H. W. Boynton.

     − + =No. Am.= 185: 86. My. 3, ’07. 1440w.

  “Is disappointing when one reflects upon what one demands of so high a
  theme. The ejaculatory method of speech in the first twenty pages is
  nothing less than exasperating, and one wonders if no one will ever
  stand still long enough to utter a finished sentence. The character of
  Abelard is so weak and vacillating as to make the love of Heloise seem
  unworthy.” Louise Collier Willcox.

       − =No. Am.= 186: 96. S. ’07. 120w.

  “The difficulties presented by this famous love story are so great as
  to be almost insuperable. Mr. Torrence has met them with courage and
  with tact.”

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 453. Je. 29, ’07. 500w.

  “The character of Heloise seems illogical and there are certain points
  in the conception of the plot which might be challenged, as poetry it
  is full of exquisite passages and has the choice, uncommon beauty, the
  distinction, of Mr. Torrence’s art.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

     + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 349. Je. ’07. 230w.


=Torrey, Bradford.= Friends on the shelf. **$1.25. Houghton.

                                                                6–36033.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 75. Mr. ’07.

  “Endowed with sound taste, and a fine literary touch, he pronounces,
  in a desultory review of the man’s life or work, much sound
  common-sense judgment upon his methods or his productions.”

       + =Cath. World.= 84: 638. Mr. ’07. 480w.

  “Some little matters to quarrel over might easily be singled out.”

     + − =Dial.= 42: 145. Mr. 1, ’07. 470w.

         =Putnam’s.= 1: 637. F. ’07. 670w.


=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.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Tosi, like most of the men of his day, is witty and garrulous even
  when he is most earnest about his subject, and in the very racy
  contemporary translation he makes capital reading.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 22. Ja. 18, ’07. 590w.


=Tout, Thomas Frederick.= Advanced history of Great Britain from the
earliest times to the death of Queen Victoria. *$1.50. Longmans.

                                                                 W 7–13.

  A book which “serves a double purpose. It belongs to a series designed
  for school use.... But it is also a most convenient volume of easy
  reference.... The maps are abundant and simple, and there are a number
  of genealogical and other tables, including a list of ministers and
  governments since 1689.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “He weighs and sifts his evidence with the aim of writing history, not
  a pleasant mixture of facts and fancies; and he never lets his
  enthusiasm get the better of his judgment. As a history for students
  who are within a year or so of leaving school we do not hesitate to
  say that Professor Tout’s is the best obtainable at the present day.”

       + =Acad.= 72: 65. Ja. 19, ’07. 220w.

  “The maps are the best for their purpose which the writer has ever
  encountered in a text-book. The scholarship displayed in the book must
  be heartily commended. The information is drawn from the best primary
  and secondary sources and is used with great discrimination. In only
  two points has the present reviewer found anything to criticize.”
  Ralph C. H. Catterall.

   + + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 193. O. ’07. 950w.

  “The bibliographies given are altogether too short and unsatisfactory
  for an advanced history. In this respect the book leaves much to be
  desired. As a chronicle of events the work is well done.”

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 168. Jl. ’07. 130w.

  “It is abundantly provided with maps and genealogical tables, and has
  all the well-known merits of his scholastic work.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 654. N. 24. 70w.

  “The narrative is pointed and succinct, but broad enough to include a
  clear account of political and constitutional changes.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 132. F. 7, ’07. 90w.

  “The complicated politics of Charles II.’s reign are set forth with
  special clearness.”

       + =Spec.= 97: 302. S. 1, ’06. 280w.


* =Tower, Walter S.= History of the American whale fishery.
(Publications of the Univ. of Pennsylvania. Series of political economy
and public law, no. 20.) $1.50. Winston.

                                                                7–19443.

  This work which appeals to both historians and economists gives a
  “comprehensive review of the origin and development of the whaling
  industry from colonial times to the present. The volume has its
  particular value in the fact that it is the only complete history of
  its kind both as regards time and treatment. As the author pointed
  out, the latest work on the subject in question appeared in 1876 but
  the discussion was superficial, especially of the whole period after
  1815.” (Yale R.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “An exceedingly valuable work. Every library will desire to own this
  book, and economists and historians will wish to have the volume upon
  the shelves of their private collections.”

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 603. N. ’07. 170w.

       + =Yale R.= 16: 226. Ag. ’07. 140w.


=Tower, William Lawrence.= Investigation of evolution in chrysomelid
beetles of the genus leptinotarsa. (Carnegie institution of Washington
publications, no. 48. Station for experimental evolution. Paper no. 4.)
$3.25. Carnegie inst.

                                                                 7–9833.

  “This genus embraces forty-three species, of which the best known is
  the common potato beetle. Starting with the distribution of the group,
  Professor Tower passes to individual variation in color pattern, size,
  and shape: he discusses the structure, ontogeny, and phylogeny of
  coloration in these and other insects; experimental modification of
  the colors and the significance of the various hues and patterns, both
  in the larvae and adults; the normal habits and instincts of these
  beetles; details of interesting selection experiments in breeding and
  the production of new races; and a final chapter on the relation of
  all the results obtained to the problem of the origin of
  species.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Not only does it extend our knowledge of evolution along the old
  lines of research, but now for the first time do we have clear cases
  of the modification of the germ plasm by external conditions.”

   + + + =Ind.= 63: 398. Ag. 15, ’07. 240w.

  “The thoroughness of the work and clearness of exposition inspire
  confidence in the results and conclusions. It is a valuable
  contribution to the literature of evolution.”

   + + + =Nation.= 84: 228. Mr. 7, ’07. 250w.

  “It is of the first importance to every biologist.” T. D. A.
  Cockerell.

   + + + =Science=, n.s. 26: 71. Jl. 19, ’07. 2170w.


=Townsend, Charles Wendell.= Along the Labrador coast. †$1.50. Estes.

                                                                7–20631.

  “The journey which this book records was undertaken chiefly for the
  study of birds, but the author became greatly interested in the
  scenery, the geology, the flowers and trees, the fish and fishermen,
  the Eskimos and Eskimo dogs, the Hudson bay company’s posts, the
  Moravians, and Dr. Grenfell’s mission.” (R. of Rs.) The author writes
  of Labrador “merely as an interested visitor and amateur
  ornithologist.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 198. N. ’07.

  “The simple narrative makes enjoyable reading and admirably
  supplements the more technical ‘Birds of Labrador,’ which Dr. Townsend
  has published.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 450. N. 14, ’07. 270w.

  “A straightforward and pleasant narrative of a summer vacation.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 510w.

  “Both text and pictures form a distinct contribution to our knowledge
  of Labrador life and scenery.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 126. Jl. ’07. 120w.


=Townsend, Edward Waterman.= Beaver Creek farm. †$1.25. Appleton.

                                                                7–29726.

  A city lad’s experiences while rusticating at his grandfather’s farm,
  where he meets a country boy who teaches him the wholesome wonders of
  country life.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

       + =Outlook.= 87: 371. O. 12, ’07. 50w.


=Townsend, Edward Waterman.= Our constitution: why and how it was made,
who made it, and what it is. **$1.50. Moffat.

                                                                6–38915.

  “A popular review of our great instrument of government.... After a
  brief review of the previous experiences of the colonies with
  self-government, the various movements toward union are described, and
  the familiar struggles and compromises which finally ended in our
  present constitution. A discussion of the amendments concludes the
  text proper. A last chapter and an appendix include the chief
  documents, English and colonial, which form the background of the
  history of our present constitution.”—Acad.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In the light of its object it should be said that on the whole the
  work is entertainingly written and will furnish an easy introduction
  to the study of the constitution to a class of readers who would be
  repelled by a work of greater scholastic pretensions.”

     + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 225. Ja. ’07. 300w.

  “As a whole ... the book should be of service, as it is clear, compact
  and expressed in a fairly interesting manner.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 162. Jl. 18, ’07. 230w.


=Townsend, John Wilson.= Kentuckians in history and literature. $2.
Neale.

                                                                7–29721.

  A love for Kentucky’s history, traditions and literature has prompted
  the researches which have resulted in this volume of side-lights. The
  galaxy includes poets, novelists, lawyers, warriors and statesmen.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 508. S. 28, ’07. 110w.


* =Tozier, Josephine.= Spring fortnight in France. **$2. Dodd.

                                                                7–31243.

  The journeys which Angela Victoria, thirty-six and alone, makes thru
  central France are strung upon a thread of romance and are only the
  more captivating for that reason. “In her own charming fashion, she
  visits Le Mans, Poitiers, Carcassonne, Arles, Tarascon, and half a
  dozen other cities of southern France, and many excellent
  illustrations from photographs show characteristic views of them.”
  (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A sprightly combination of romantic fiction and traveller’s
  impressions.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 378. D. 1, ’07. 190w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 743. N. 23, ’07. 100w.

  “Josephine Tozier, besides knowing her France, is gifted with
  vivacity, and imparts all the information we want in most engaging
  style.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 498. N. 2, ’07. 220w.


=Tozier, Josephine=, comp. Travelers’ handbook; new and rev. ed. **$1.
Funk.

                                                                7–17665.

  This manual for transatlantic tourists “is not concerned with
  descriptions of sights and tours, but is full of practical advice as
  to the customs of the various countries, their coinage, tramways,
  railroad guides, fees, food, etc. Much of the information is intended
  for American women.” (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Ind.= 62: 1359. Je. 6, ’07. 150w.

         =Lit. D.= 34: 766. My. 11, ’07. 30w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 126. Jl. ’07. 30w.


* =Tracy, John Clayton.= Plane surveying: a text-book and pocket manual.
$3. Wiley.

                                                                7–33942.

  A complete manual for students. “In plan it is a text-book and pocket
  manual combined, while in scope its aim is not to cover the whole
  field of surveying, but to treat with thoroughness fundamental
  principles and methods. As a text-book, it deals with the theory of
  surveying, while as a manual it gives many practical suggestions and
  directions which are usually left for oral instruction.” (Tech. Lit.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Prof. Tracy has written a book of great value to the surveyor, both
  in his student days and in the first years of his practice.”

       + =Engin. N.= 58: 569. D. 12, ’07. 730w.

         =Technical Literature.= 2: 458. N. ’07. 760w.


=Tracy, Louis.= Captain of the Kansas. $1.50. Clode, E. J.

                                                                 7–6181.

  Mr. Tracy uses his well-tested ingredients again,—the sea, shipwreck,
  fights with cannibals, hairbreadth escapes, etc. “He has valiantly
  succeeded in making the primary colours once more effective. Even in
  Chile the black angel whose disciple puts sticks of dynamite among the
  coals of a seagoing steamer is not ill-served. The voyage of that
  steamer is a triumph of pyrotechnical narrative, assisted by a map....
  Peril from cannibals obliges a physician to reserve a bullet for the
  heroine, but Ossa on Pelion could not have flattened the good cherub
  who looked after her and her lover.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “If heartiness can freshen a stale phrase, Mr. Tracy’s romance may be
  described as a thrilling novel of adventure.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 767. D. 15. 120w.

  “Everybody in the book is a live human being, and they are all carried
  along by the skillful story teller who has a very neat and effective
  style and a happy knack of characterization.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 91. F. 16. ’07. 770w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 210w.

  “As a sea-story the book is capital, as a novel it is nothing.”

     + − =Outlook.= 85: 718. Mr. 23, ’07. 90w.


* =Train, Arthur Cheney.= Mortmain. †$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                7–33597.

  Eight stories, each of which deals with some sort of adventure. “‘A
  man hunt’ seems the modern New York equivalent for the complicated
  expeditions with which du Boisgobe thrilled Paris in the seventies;
  but ‘A study of sociology,’ with its sinister termination, gives a
  welcome glimpse of Mr. Train’s special knowledge, and approaches more
  nearly to the realistic interest of ‘A prisoner at the bar.’”
  (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Within their obvious limits, these stories are good. They are quick,
  lively, ingenious, better written than the majority of their class,
  more competently worked out, less childish.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 474. N. 21, ’07. 160w.

  “[There is] piquancy which will commend the group to the most
  indifferent reader.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 743. N. 23, ’07. 240w.


=Train, Arthur Cheney.= Prisoner at the bar: side-lights on the
administration of criminal justice. **$2. Scribner.

                                                                6–43223.

  “The object of Mr. Train’s book is to give a concrete idea of the
  actual administration of criminal justice in large cities. The book is
  by no means an academic essay in criminology, but the result of actual
  observation and experience, the author having been associated for some
  years with District Attorney Jerome as prosecutor in the criminal
  courts of New York city.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 75. Mr. ’07.

  “It is not too much to say that this volume is easily one of the most
  important books on penology of the last decade.” Carl Kelsey.

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 235. Ja. ’07. 590w.

  “He has written an authoritative description of the machinery of
  criminal justice and has done his work so well that even he who runs
  may see the wheels go ’round.” Frederick Trevor Hill.

     + + =Bookm.= 24: 484. Ja. ’07. 840w.

  “Although thoroughly serious in purpose, he lightens his chapters with
  amusing anecdote and thus gives us an entertaining as well as a
  strikingly suggestive book.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 291. My. 1, ’07. 200w.

  “Let no one think that because Mr. Train has written a book lightly
  readable and brimming with humor that it has no significance.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 1269. My. 30. ’07. 360w.

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 64. Ja. 12, ’07. 100w.

  “An instructive and interesting account of the actual administration
  of criminal law in the largest of American cities.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 202. Je. 28, ’07. 1010w.

  “A set of most interesting sidelights on the actual administration of
  criminal justice in our large cities. The voice is the voice of the
  expert, though the hand is rather that of the journalist.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 133. F. 7, ’07. 250w.

  “The book as a whole belongs to the same class as Mr. Francis
  Wellman’s ‘Art of cross-examination.’”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 1084. D. 29, ’06. 280w.

  “Mr. Train’s greatest service, perhaps, lies in his showing partly
  intentionally but partly unconsciously, the extent to which we
  tolerate mediaeval methods ill-adapted to modern conditions, and the
  extent to which, in practice at least, we hold the mediaeval theory
  that vengeance is the object of punishment.”

       + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 574. S. ’07. 190w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 510. Ap. ’07. 160w.

  “We hope that Mr. Train’s book will meet the reception in this country
  which it deserves.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 128. Jl. 27, ’07. 1980w.


=Trask, Kate Nichols.= In my lady’s garden; pages from the diary of Sir
John Elwynne. **$1. Lane.

                                                                 7–6766.

  A love idyl whose background is a tangle of fragrance. The capricious
  Mary is wooed by the staid Sir John and is simply waiting for him to
  conquer her caprice. When the conquest is made the feminine question
  comes, “O, Jack, why did you let us waste so much time?”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The fragrance and beauty of the English garden in May are in the
  book. There is wisdom in it, too.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 144. My. 9, ’07. 130w.


=Trask, Kate Nichols.= Night and morning. **$1.25. Lane.

  A side-light on the divorce problem. It upholds the “higher inner law
  of love itself which in itself is the highest freedom,” and which is
  “a Beatitude rather than a law.” It “is the story of the woman taken
  in adultery retold in picturesquely colored blank verse, with the
  imaginative addition of the personality of her lover, a ‘subtle Greek’
  Leonidas.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Its development and constructive power indicate a mind of very
  uncommon order. There is a continuous upbuilding of interest until the
  last words are spoken. The poem is didactic, but its artistic form is
  preserved, in spite of the extreme difficulty of the situation which
  might easily have resulted in the art being, at all events, obscured
  by theological discussion.” D. Frangcon-Davies.

     + + =Arena.= 37: 556. My. ’07. 2730w.

  “The story is told with picturesque beauty and adorned with happy
  imagery. Avowedly a didactic composition, the poem is nevertheless
  deeply moving, and its spiritual message is high and clear.” Wm. M.
  Payne.

       + =Dial.= 42: 254. Ap. 16, ’07. 130w.

  “The mood of the poem is admirable throughout, and the workmanship
  respectable.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 395. N. 8, ’06. 150w.

  “Here and there an occasional false quantity is found, but the poem,
  as a whole, is of surpassing beauty and Miltonic dignity. This quality
  of its verse and the high quality of its philosophy should destine
  ‘Night and morning’ to become immortal.” U. W.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 617. O. 6, ’06. 800w.


=Traubel, Horace.= With Walt Whitman in Camden: (March 28–July 14,
1888). **$3. Small.

                                                                 6–6242.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Is as revealing in character as it is unconventional in its literary
  make-up.”

       + =Arena.= 37: 325. Mr. ’07. 1860w.


=Treffry, Elford Eveleigh=, comp. Stokes’ encyclopedia of familiar
quotations. **$2.25. Stokes.

                                                                6–46744.

  “A work that can be easily consulted for phrases and sentiments, as
  the quotations are arranged under subjects. A general index gives the
  usual reference for every important word in every quotation, making it
  available for fugitive line or passage. The author index, with its
  long list of mere page references to authors, is of little value. An
  effort has been made to include quotations by modern authors, Kipling,
  Hay, Roosevelt, Stedman, Henry Van Dyke, and others.”—A. L. A. Bkl.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The work will supplement but not replace Hoyt’s ‘Cyclopaedia of
  practical quotations’ and Bartlett’s ‘Familiar quotations.’”

     + + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 75. Mr. ’07.

       + =Dial.= 42: 20. Ja. 1, ’07. 60w.

     + + =Lit. D.= 34: 510. Mr. 30, ’07. 170w.


=Trent, William P., and Henneman, John B.=, comps. Best American tales.
35c. Crowell.

                                                                7–25511.

  Tales from Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, Fitz-James O’Brien, and Edward
  Everett Hale have been selected for this addition to the “Handy volume
  classics.”


=Trevelyan, George Macaulay.= Garibaldi’s defence of the Roman republic.
*$2, Longmans.

                                                                7–21750.

  “This volume has to do with Mazzini’s short-lived Roman republic in
  1849.... The volume is divided into three parts, the first ... tells
  the story of Garibaldi’s childhood at Nice, of his adventurous life in
  South America, and his romantic marriage ... of the condition of the
  Roman states from 1815 to 1846, and of the reform movements and
  democratic protests. This prepares the way for part second, which
  describes the defense of Rome, and part third, which treats of
  Garibaldi’s retreat and escape.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is at once illuminated by enthusiasm and clarified by faithful
  scholarship. It is a worthy English monument to one of the noblest
  periods in the life of a noble nation.” H. S.

     + + =Acad.= 72: 455. My. 11, ’07. 1260w.

  “He deserves the warmest thanks for his picture of a period which
  suits excellently his vivid style.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 39. Jl. 13. 780w.

  “Mr. Trevelyan does not display much knowledge of Italy as she is
  to-day.” W. Miller.

     + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 816. O. ’07. 390w.

  “A book of literary distinction and genuine utility.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 886. Je. 1, ’07. 420w.

  “It is to be hoped that a serious historical work, at once so
  authoritative, so well written, and so romantic, will do much to
  dispel the popular illusion that history must needs be ‘dull.’”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 130. Ap. 26, ’07. 2300w.

  “It is when he enters into communion with the soul of his hero that
  Mr. Trevelyan is at his best, and that is to say that he excells at a
  point where even the greatest historians have failed.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 569. Je. 20, ’07. 830w.

  “The author’s attitude is that of sympathetic admiration, but he does
  not permit enthusiasm to blind him to the mistakes and errors of his
  hero.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 308. My. 11, ’07. 450w.

  “We wish that Mr. Trevelyan would write another volume like this, of
  exceptional merit, recounting Garibaldi’s later triumphs.”

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 341. Je. 15, ’07. 180w.

  “An interesting and scholarly—a rare juxtaposition of
  adjectives—account of this strenuous patriot’s heroic defence of the
  short-lived Roman republic.” G: Louis Beer.

     + + =Putnam’s.= 2: 743. S. ’07. 110w.

  “Mr. Trevelyan has walked over every inch of the ground; he has
  described the country and the military problem in a clear and
  picturesque narrative.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 619. Ap. 20, ’07. 2350w.


=Trine, Ralph Waldo.= In the fire of the heart. **$1. McClure.

                                                                 7–4378.

  The author “has collected a vast quantity of statistics and quotable
  facts upon social conditions in America and woven them together in the
  web of his own enthusiasm for humanity.” (Outlook.) The subjects are
  as follows: With the people: a revelation; The conditions that hold
  among us; As time deals with nations; As to government; A great
  people’s movement; Public utilities for the public good; Labor and its
  uniting power; Agencies whereby we shall secure the people’s greatest
  good; The great nation; and The life of the higher beauty and power.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “With strong moral undertone, the book presents rather strikingly a
  number of the vital facts of our modern industrial system and the
  problems resulting from it.”

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 169. Jl. ’07. 230w.

  “This work is a very important addition to the rapidly growing
  literature of social progress that is emanating from our younger men
  of clear mental vision, of heart and of conscience.”

     + + =Arena.= 37: 328. Mr. ’07. 1310w.

  “The simple reassertion of opinions is not proof of their soundness,
  and the reader can easily discover that the arguments on one side are
  here urged without much consideration of those on the other side. With
  the ethical ideals of the author it would be difficult to take issue.”
  Charles Richmond Henderson.

     − + =Dial.= 42: 287. My. 1, ’07. 130w.

  “A deep and fervent sympathy with the toilers characterizes the book.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 455. Ag. 22, ’07. 290w.

  “Abounds in suggestive ideas bearing upon present-day life.”

     + − =Lit. D.= 34: 178. F. 2, ’07. 180w.

         =Outlook.= 84: 1082. D. 29, ’06. 230w.


=Trine, Ralph Waldo.= This mystical life of ours; a book of suggestive
thoughts for each week through the year. **$1. Crowell.

                                                                7–29412.

  An even fifty-two helpful thoughts selected from the works of Dr.
  Trine. They exhort the one striving for success to come into harmony
  with the higher laws and forces, to come into league and to work in
  conjunction with them, for only then is the wayfarer in a position to
  test and to be benefited by the “ever present Help.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Outlook.= 87: 453. O. 26, ’07. 80w.


=Trobridge, George.= Emanuel Swedenborg: his life, teachings, and
influence. 25c. Warne.

  A reliable life of Swedenborg which “is not only a mine of original
  information, but provides the means of correcting many current
  misconceptions concerning this remarkable man.”


=Trow, Cora Welles.= Parliamentarian. 75c. Wessels.

                                                                6–16228.

  A manual of parliamentary procedure, extemporaneous speaking and
  informal debate.


=Trowbridge, William Rutherford Hayes, jr.= Court beauties of old
Whitehall: historiettes of the restoration. *$3.75. Scribner.

                                                                 7–2574.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Merely a superfluous piece of book making, badly done. Its style is
  journalese of a poor type”

       − =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 10. O. 13, ’06. 50w.


=Trumbull, William.= Evolution and religion: a parent’s talk with his
children concerning the moral side of evolution. **$1.25. Grafton press.

                                                                7–17356.

  In these brief religious talks on evolution the author touches upon
  all the great facts of life, in a simple, wholesome way that will
  prepare the child mind for larger and more scientific works upon
  prolonged infancy, race survival, government, human beliefs, animal
  worship, selection, and the hundred other topics here suggested.


=Tucker, T. G.= Life in ancient Athens: the social and public life of a
classical Athenian from day to day. *$1.25. Macmillan.

                                                                 7–4807.

  Athens during the hey-day of its classical period is portrayed, the
  time when Athenian life stood for vigorous vitality and unblemished
  character. It is mainly of the things that have been too well
  preserved in antiquities for time to efface that Mr. Tucker writes;
  actual events, actual buildings; knowledge of manners, customs,
  ideals; of Attic virtues, vices, weaknesses, humors, drolleries; and
  knowledge of what law and society allowed.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “If we must criticise, we would cast a doubt upon the statement that
  the Athenians were a mixed race. We can find no evidence of an Achaean
  strain in their ancestry. Nor do we hold that the Greek tongue was a
  Homeric importation. And to speak of the Propylæa as a ‘triumphal
  arch’ is surely misleading to the novice in these matters. Apart from
  these points, our only quarrel with Professor Tucker is the complete
  absence of all references.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 188. F. 23, ’07. 560w.

         =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 706. Ap. ’07. 40w.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 132. My. ’07.

  “On the whole, the volume achieves its modest aim, which at once
  disarms criticism; but it rather suffers from the inevitable
  comparison with some of the other members of the same series.”

     + − =Dial.= 42: 148. Mr. 1, ’07. 210w.

  “Humor bubbles up from time to time. It is perhaps ungracious to note
  errors. What are they compared with the Attic salt of the author which
  leaves a pleasant taste?”

   + + − =Ind.= 62: 1414. Je. 13, ’07. 480w.

  “It is no easy matter with a book to make an ancient people live
  again. For either the writer’s learning clouds his sense of style to
  the dusty detriment of the reader’s interest, or love of style,
  dangerously liable to profit by lack of industry, is indulged in at
  the expense of solid learning. But Prof. Tucker of the University of
  Melbourne has fairly steered between that Scylla and this Charbydis.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 85. F. 9, ’07. 1420w.

  “Nothing can be found covering so satisfactorily and completely the
  subject here treated as does this book.”

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 331. F. 9, ’07. 200w.

  “A most instructive and illuminating book.”

     + + =Spec.= 98: 379. Mr. 9, ’07. 290w.


=Tuker, M. A. R.= Cambridge; painted by William Matthison. *$6.
Macmillan.

  A “businesslike” volume which in addition to descriptive information
  which one desires is the “inspiration which we expect in one who
  writes about an ancient home of learning, haunted by the associations
  of great names.” (Spec.) “The origin and history of the schools of
  Cambridge, an account of their social and intellectual life, and of
  their distinguished graduates, together with seventy-seven full-page
  illustrations in color of the colleges and grounds, painted by William
  Matthison are the principal features of the work.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Miss Tuker has put a quart of solid information into her pint pot,
  but her text is as a whole much above the standard hitherto reached in
  these ‘colour’ books.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 787. Je. 29. 400w.

  “If Mr. Tuker chose to write a reference book instead of evoking a
  spirit, perhaps there is nothing to say except that he has performed
  his task well.” May Estelle Cook.

     + − =Dial.= 43: 119. S. 1, ’07. 450w.

  “Contains nearly a hundred colored illustrations, as to the excellence
  of which tastes will doubtless differ. The text, however, may be
  commended as an intelligent and careful exposition of the mysteries of
  an English university, sound, discriminating, and readable.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 41. Jl. 11, ’07. 240w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 430. Jl. 6, ’07. 180w.

  “The pity is that this middle portion has not been expanded to shut
  out both the beginning and end of the book.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 104: 372. S. 21, ’07. 320w.

  “Topics that have been handled not once or twice only before become
  fresh under the author’s vigorous treatment. And a new topic, which
  has hitherto been but casually referred to, receives the full
  attention which it requires. The pictures themselves are very
  attractive, finely finished, and always pleasant to look at. One might
  say that the imaginative element is wanting. We see the places to the
  very best advantage, but there is no hint of anything more. There is
  nothing Turneresque about them.”

   + + − =Spec.= 98: 868. Je. 1, ’07. 340w.


=Tunison, Joseph Salathiel.= Dramatic traditions of the dark ages.
*$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.

                                                                7–18809.

  Mr. Tunison’s aim is “to popularize the investigations of the learned,
  cumbrous, and eccentric Sathas, who sought to show that whatever
  dramatic tendencies appeared in western Europe during the middle ages
  were directly inspired by Byzantium.” (Nation.) “The book is a mine of
  interesting facts about social, religious, and literary life, as
  connected with or influencing the stage, during the centuries of the
  Christian era.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is obvious, then, that Mr. Tunison’s evidence cannot always be
  accepted without examination. But the book is ... distinctly
  interesting and valuable. It is the work of a scholarly and
  independent mind; but unfortunately the lack of sound methods produces
  as strange results in literary history as it used to produce in
  etymology.” John Matthews Manly.

     + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 124. O. ’07. 1200w.

  “The author commands plain facts enough to make up a useful popular
  history of dramatic tendencies in Byzantium and the Western empire,
  but owing to his vitiated method, he merely gives the impression of
  being widely misinformed.”

     − + =Nation.= 85: 287. S. 26, ’07. 1100w.

  “Mr. Tunison has the skill and liveliness of method which enable him
  to marshall this wonderful array of facts which he has got together
  into a readable thesis of mingled narrative and argument. His own
  vigorous intellectual personality, evident in the assurance with which
  he sets forth his surmises, convictions, and arguments, gives a
  pleasurable tang to his scholarly production.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 300w.


=Turgenieff, Ivan Sergieevitch.= Novels and stories of Ivan Turgenieff;
tr. from the Russian by Isabel F. Hapgood. 14v. English ed. in 16v. ea.
$1.25. Scribner.

  A complete translation of Turgénieff’s works, “The present version by
  Miss Hapgood is more extended [than Mrs. Garnett’s] as it includes all
  the well-known works, with the addition of a few writings of minor
  importance which had not been before translated.” (Ath.) Mr. Henry
  James has furnished the set with an introduction which is “a
  sympathetic study of the great author as a man.” (Spec.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “On the whole, the translation is distinctly good.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 70. Ja. 20. 1000w. (Review of v. 1–16)

     + + =Lit. D.= 34: 842. My. 25, ’07. 60w. (Review of “Smoke.”)

  “In any proper sense of the word, Turgénieff is one of the most real
  of writers. We feel, though we cannot test the feeling as we could in
  the case of a story of English life, that the characters are truly
  drawn, that their creator knows a great deal more about them than they
  know about themselves, and that they are at once individuals and
  types.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 5: 285. Ag. 24, ’06. 2000w. (Review of v. 1–16.)

  Reviewed by S. Strunsky.

         =Nation.= 85: 488. N. 28, ’07. 2690w. (Review of v. 1–14.)

  “A great service to the younger generation of readers.” Florence Finch
  Kelley.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 339. My. 25, ’07. 1400w. (Review of v.
         1–16.)

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 30w. (Review of v. 9–14.)

  “Miss Hapgood knows Turgénieff as thoroughly as she knows the language
  in which he has written.”

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 475. Je. 29, ’07. 190w. (Review of v. 1–8.)

  “The translator, an accomplished Russian scholar, appears to have done
  her work as well as possible”

       + =Spec.= 96: 222. F. 10, ’06. 1770w. (Review of v. 1–16.)


=Turner, George Frederic.= Frost and friendship. †$1.50. Little.

  At the court of his friend, King Karl of Grimland, a rich young
  Englishman, a draper’s son encounters an amazing series of adventures
  and in the end, of course, wins a wife. Winter sports, tobogganing,
  and curling furnish amusement and also play their part in the drama in
  which frost and friendship melt beneath the warmth of love.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Comes dangerously near the superfluous.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906. 2: 651. N. 24. 140w.

     − + =Nation.= 84: 291. Mr. 28, ’07. 280w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 101. F. 16, ’07. 260w.

  “There are exciting incidents, but improbabilities end by becoming
  absurdities.”

       − =Outlook.= 85: 779. F. 23, ’07. 60w.


=Tuttle, Rt. Rev. Daniel Sylvester.= Reminiscences of a missionary
bishop. **$2. Whittaker.

                                                                6–28227.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The author records his experiences with no word of complaint for the
  hardships he was called upon to endure, and his book cannot fail to be
  an inspiration to the younger members of the ministry of his church,
  to whom he gives useful advice upon a variety of topics.”

     + − =Dial.= 42: 247. Ap. 17, ’07. 720w.


=Tweedie, Ethel B. (Harley) (Mrs. Alec Tweedie).= Maker of modern
Mexico: Porfirio Diaz. *$5. Lane.

                                                                6–16716.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The style is clear and entertaining, and, though the numerous byways
  through which the author leads us, destroy the logical arrangement and
  proportion of the book, still she tells us much that is welcome
  concerning Mexico which it would have been necessary to omit had she
  confined herself more strictly to her subject.” Chester Lloyd Jones.

     + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 423. Mr. ’07. 500w.


=Twelvetrees, W. Noble.= Concrete-steel buildings; being a companion
volume to the treatise on Concrete-steel. *$3.25. Macmillan.

  “In this book, detailed accounts are given of various buildings in
  reinforced concrete which have been built in Europe and America, the
  original data for which have for the most part appeared in the
  technical press. The descriptions are very complete, entering into all
  the details of design and construction, and are very well illustrated
  with numerous drawings and photographs.”—Engin N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book presents a very satisfactory compilation. Great care has
  been taken to acknowledge all indebtedness to British publications; to
  French, German and American authors small consideration is shown.”

   + + − =Engin. N.= 58. 182. Ag. 15, ’07. 340w.

  “An excellent index adds much to the value of this book for reference
  purposes, which will prove a welcome addition to the library of every
  architect and civil engineer.” T. H. B.

     + + =Nature.= 76: 516. S. 19, ’07. 330w.


=Tybout, Ella Middleton.= The smuggler. †$1.50. Lippincott.

                                                                7–31227.

  Three American girls seek refuge from hayfever on a Canadian island
  and instead of passing an uneventful summer they find themselves
  involved in a series of strange happenings by a band of clever
  smugglers who pose as their friends and use them as a blind to pass
  their ill-gotten goods over the border. The story is told in a
  sprightly fashion and there is a pretty love tale and two not so
  pretty but more dramatic. All in all, it is an interesting novel with
  a pleasing mixture of love, mystery, adventure, tragedy and humor.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.


=Tylee, Edward Sydney.= Trumpet and flag, and other poems of war and
peace. *$1.25. Putnam.

  These poems are largely upon present day topics and include among
  others “After Vereeniging,” studies of “Bismarck” and “Rhodes,” an
  elegy on Queen Victoria, “The drummer,” The salute, Balliol college
  chapel, Somersetshire dialect poems, and Sculling at midnight.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The verse is smooth and pleasing, although its themes are often
  grim.” Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 43: 167. S. 16, ’07. 140w.

  “Mr. Tylee’s more ambitious pieces have a certain careful timeliness,
  a skilful obviousness that gives them rather the attraction of an
  eloquent leading article than of poetry.”

     + − =Nation.= 83: 440. N. 22, ’06. 250w.

  “Mr. Tylee’s chief fault is that he is a little inclined to monotony
  both in rhythm and imagery.”

     + − =Spec.= 97: 296. S. 1, ’06. 370w.


* =Tyler, John Mason.= Growth and education. **$1.50. Houghton.

                                                                7–22411.

  The author evidently agrees with Spencer that “man’s first duty is to
  become a good animal.” “While the book deals mainly with bodily growth
  and development, the writer is led naturally by his subject into the
  field of moral and intellectual culture. He recognizes the importance
  of character-forming agencies in all periods, but justly emphasizes
  the high school as the time of final determination.” (Dial.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Professor Tyler’s recent book ... comes, with rather unusual
  authority on account of the high scientific standing of the writer,
  and it is enriched by a broad view of the subject, and a certain
  warmth of treatment which adds greatly to the value of a book intended
  for teachers. We recommend it heartily to the library of every
  teacher.” Edward O. Sisson.

     + + =Dial.= 43: 287. N. 1, ’07. 400w.

  “To the defects and mistakes of current educational practice, this
  enlightening volume brings sound scientific and practical
  correctives.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 747. Ag. 3, ’07. 420w.


* =Tyndale, Walter.= Below the cataracts. il. **$3–50. Lippincott.

  “Mr. Walter Tyndale is a painter who has spent some years at work in
  the Nile valley and is interested in both the mysterious beauty of the
  ancient monuments and in the picturesqueness of the Egyptian life of
  to-day. Cairo with its winding streets, beautiful mosques, and
  tempting bazaars, Thebes with its tombs and temples, and Karnak with
  its wonderful wall-inscriptions and reliefs, furnish most of the
  material for the sixty beautiful colored plates and the chapters of
  description and personal reminiscence of travel in Egypt which make up
  his recently published volume ‘Below the cataracts.’”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Dial.= 43: 426. D. 16, ’07. 100w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w.


* =Tyrrell, Rev. George.= Much-abused letter. *90c. Longmans.

                                                                7–15463.

  In this volume Father Tyrrell explains and defends his letter to a
  perplexed scientist which resulted in the Pope’s recent encyclical and
  caused Tyrrell’s excommunication from the church.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Its essence is certainly radical, and is intended to meet the
  esoteric needs. And it is an illustration—very important and
  interesting—of a movement of thought in the Catholic as well as the
  Protestant church.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 502. F. 28, ’07. 250w.

         =Outlook.= 87: 564. N. 16, ’07. 1000w.


=Tyrrell, Rev. George.= Through Scylla and Charybdis; or, The old
theology and the new. *$1.50. Longmans.

  An exposition by a broad and spiritually minded Catholic upon both the
  dogmatic and the political position of priests. “It deals with the
  difference between revelation and theology, and leaves the reader with
  the impression that in Father Tyrrell’s mind dogma can now only be
  accepted metaphorically, as the changing expression of the truth,—as
  if one were to say, for instance, that remorse is a revelation and
  hell a metaphor, forgiveness a revelation and absolution a metaphor.”
  (Spec.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book makes its appeal to every one at all modern in sympathy who
  is at the same time not disposed to cut the Gordian knot and let
  religion altogether go by the board.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 395. O. 5. 1320w.

  “His book, though addressed to Catholics, is profitable reading for
  Protestants also, many of whom need some of its lessons.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 498. N. 2, ’07. 340w.

         =Spec.= 99: 397. S. 21, ’07. 600w.




                                   U


=Underwood, Rev. John Levi.= Women of the confederacy. $2. Neale.

                                                                6–37621.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =Ind.= 62: 332. F. 7, ’07. 340w.

         =Nation.= 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 130w.


=Underwood, Loring.= Garden and its accessories. **$2. Little.

                                                                6–45023.

  A book full of suggestion to people who make their gardens out-door
  living rooms. Points of comfort and beauty are adapted to the
  individuality of the maker and the character of the corner to be
  developed and adorned. Heavy plate paper and some charming
  illustrations add attractiveness to the instruction of the text.

                  *       *       *       *       *

     + + =Dial.= 42: 82. F. 1, ’07. 270w.

         =Ind.= 62: 500. F. 28, ’07. 240w.

  “So far as it goes, it is practical and carries many hints of
  first-rate importance, but it aims rather to open the subject
  intelligently than to publish directions.”

     + + =Int. Studio.= 31: sup. 54. Ap. ’07. 420w.

  “To one who is interested in gardens this work will be found to
  contain many suggestions of value.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 24. Ja. 12, ’07. 60w.

  “Is full of suggestion for rendering the garden more homelike, more
  livable, and more picturesque by the appropriate addition of
  accessories.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 119. My. 18, ’07. 90w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 511. Ap. ’07. 30w.


=Upton, George Putnam.= Standard operas: their plots, their music, and
their composers; new enl. and rev. ed.; il. $1.75. McClurg.

                                                                6–38906.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 54. F. ’07. ✠

  “The book, being full of errors ... is untrustworthy.”

       − =Ath.= 1906. 1: 711. Je. 9. 110w.

       + =Ind.= 62: 498. F. 28. ’07. 50w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 114. Ja. ’07. 30w.


=Ussher, Sir Thomas, and Glover, John R.= Napoleon’s last voyages; being
the diaries of Admiral Sir Thomas Ussher, R. N., K. C. B. (on board the
Undaunted), and John R. Glover, secretary to Rear-admiral Cockburn (on
board the Northumberland); new ed., with introd. and notes by J. Holland
Rose. *$3. Scribner.

                                                                7–15907.

  “The personality of Napoleon is as fascinating to the present
  generation as it has been to any since his death. And no part of his
  life is more fascinating than the story of his adversity. The two
  books before us, of very unequal value, illustrate this period of his
  career. The first contains the journal of his voyage to Elba, and of
  his slow progress to his prison-island, the other gives the history of
  his reign at Elba.”—Sat. R.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is annotated, illustrated, indexed and confessed—if the word may
  serve us—in a manner which disarms criticism.”

       + =Acad.= 71: 631. D. 22, ’06. 1040w.

  “The notes are not abundant but are pithy and to the point. By what
  seems an excess of conscientious editorship Mr. Rose has translated
  back into what he surmises to have been Napoleon’s actual words the
  language attributed to him by the diarists.” J. W. T.

     + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 691. Ap. ’07. 240w.

       + =Dial.= 42: 257. Ap. 16, ’07. 80w.

  “Dr. Rose’s introduction is of no particular importance, but several
  of the illustrations are new and interesting.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 534. D. 20, ’06. 50w.

  “These documents are historically valuable, because they were written
  without partisan bias, or the desire to prove anything.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 40. Ja. 19, ’07. 580w.

  “Dr. Rose will not enhance his reputation by his editing of this
  volume. His notes consist mainly of pen-knife digs at the hero of the
  narrative, and in the emphatic denial of everything asserted by
  Napoleon in the slightest degree favourable to himself.”

       − =Sat. R.= 103: 84. Ja. 19, ’07. 230w.


=Uzanne, Louis Octave.= Ingres. (Newnes’ art lib., no. 23.) *$1.25.
Warne.

                                                                 W 7–57.

  A brief sketch of Ingre’s life and works is followed by reproductions
  of sixty-five of the artist’s paintings.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 132. My. ’07. 20w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 446. Jl. 13, ’07. 310w.




                                   V


=Vachell, Horace Annesley.= Face of clay: an interpretation. †$1.50.
Dodd.

                                                                6–24581.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The story is delightfully written, and the people and places stand
  clearly before us.” Mary K. Ford.

       + =Bookm.= 25: 83. Mr. ’07. 960w.

  “The book must be called successful, if only for the very striking
  background which Mr. Vachell gives to a drama otherwise lacking in
  intrinsic interest.”

     + − =Spec.= 96: 836. My. 26. ’06. 290w.


=Vachell, Horace Annesley.= Her son: a chronicle of love. †$1.50. Dodd.

                                                                7–31481.

  The story of a foster-mother’s devotion to the illegitimate son of the
  man whom she was engaged to marry. The compromising situations that
  arise from her determination to shield the boy leave in the reader’s
  mind “two ideas: first, a strong doubt as to the wisdom of too much
  self-sacrifice, and secondly, the enormous advantage, even from the
  point of view of expediency, of the open and straightforward course of
  action.” (Bookm.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This is a story which grows in interest from the first to the last
  page. It is well constructed and full of dramatic situations which
  nowhere develop into melodrama, in fact the more intense and strained
  these situations become the more naturally and simply does the author
  treat them.”

       + =Acad.= 72: 415. Ap. 27, ’07. 290w.

  “For a novel so well written, the theme, as we have said, is
  disappointing. People do make wrecks of their lives, but not in this
  wantonly sentimental manner.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 501. Ap. 27. 240w.

  “The book is interesting, the characters have a life and personality
  of their own and it is written in that pleasant, tranquil narrative
  style which is destined to flourish and charm long after the present
  morbid and neurotic school shall have disappeared.” Mary K. Ford.

     − + =Bookm.= 26: 278. N. ’07. 600w.

  “He has the credit of elaborating what is probably a new situation in
  the old triangular plot, and earns gratitude thereby, even if the
  characters, especially the actress and the journalist, suggest only
  the properties of his art.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 118. Ap. 12, ’07. 300w.

  “No doubt the action turns upon sentiment; but, as readers of the ‘The
  hill’ well recall, Mr. Vachell’s sentiment is not of the watery kind.
  It consorts very well with sensible thinking and a plain and sturdy
  way of speech.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 420w.

  “Is an unusual novel and will be deeply relished by those who think
  and feel. There is enough of a problem in it to arouse warm
  discussion.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 644. O. 19. ’07. 670w.

  “A highly dramatic and human story by one of the five best writers in
  England.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 10w.

  “The book goes beneath the surface in its study of motive and
  character and although it sometimes touches on delicate ground, it
  holds up a high standard of honor, faithfulness, and nobility of
  purpose.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 497. N. 2, ’07. 80w.

  “We readily admit that the novel is well written, that the dialogue is
  bright, and the narrative well handled. But viewed as a whole the
  story stands or falls with the character of Dorothy Fairfax ... and we
  fear that a good many readers, instead of regarding her, with Lady
  Curragh, as ‘a heavenly fool,’ will be tempted to pronounce her an
  unearthly idiot.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: 721. My. 4, ’07. 1000w.


=Vambery, Arminius.= Western culture in eastern lands: a comparison of
the methods adopted by England and Russia in the Middle East. *$3.50.
Dutton.

                                                                6–25742.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “However frequently one may be disposed to take issue with Prof.
  Vambéry in his assumptions and conclusions, the scholarly merits of
  his work must be recognized at every turn. He occasionally falls into
  a panegyrical strain which is ill advised.... But these lapses are not
  frequent, and they probably flow from the author’s vivacity of style
  rather than from any inherent faults in his thought.” Frederic Austin
  Ogg.

     + − =Dial.= 42: 309. My. 16, ’07. 2400w.


* =Vance, Rev. James Isaac.= Eternal in man. **$1. Revell.

                                                                7–13923.

  An appeal to higher living based on the conviction that man is a
  citizen of the eternal world.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A vigorous and rhetorically effective appeal to higher living.”

       + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 716. O. ’07. 20w.

  “Such regrettable extravagance, akin to the ‘mother of God’ doctrine
  of the fourth century, is offset, but not atoned for, by many an
  excellent statement of moral and religious verities.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 838. Ag. 17, ’07. 150w.


=Vance, Louis Joseph.= Brass bowl. †$1.50. Bobbs.

                                                                7–12274.

  A charming young New York girl who assumes the role of a burglar for
  the purpose of securing papers that will bring comfort to a grief
  stricken father; a real burglar, as dangerous as he is clever; and a
  young millionaire who is an exact counterpart of the burglar are the
  chief actors in this drama, whose exciting situations grow out of the
  resemblance of the two men.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A more amusing and ingenious ‘shocker’ than this we have seldom read.
  Can be recommended for railway journeys and for all who wish to be
  amused without being made to think; incidentally it gives interesting
  glimpses into American life.”

       + =Acad.= 73: 193. N. 30, ’07. 220w.

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 137. My. ’07.

  “Will hold the breathless interest of the reader who is seeking only
  to be amused, as the action is rapid and the dialogue well written.”
  Amy C. Rich.

     + − =Arena.= 38: 217. Ag. ’07. 150w.

  “A reader may protest, may resent the undue strain upon his sense of
  probability, but he will be tolerably sure to follow the story to its
  end.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 229. Ap. 6, ’07. 190w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 280w.


=Vanderlip, Frank Arthur.= Business and education. **$1.50. Duffield.

                                                                7–17640.

  A collection of Mr. Vanderlip’s addresses and speeches dealing
  authoritatively with financial, industrial and educational questions.
  The author is vice-president of the National city bank, New York, and
  writes out of the fulness of a long commercial experience, made
  valuable by a broad knowledge of his fellow-man and a soundness of
  business judgment.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Reviewed by J. C.

         =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 440. Jl. ’07. 470w.

  “We would not gainsay the right of successful business men to their
  literary diversions, but will venture the delicate suggestion that not
  every article contributed to popular magazines needs to be reproduced
  in more permanent form.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 21. Jl. 4, ’07. 240w.

  “Mr. Vanderlip’s book is a good qualification for his doctorate in
  finance.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 316. My. 18, ’07. 1250w.

  “Mr. Vanderlip’s conclusions are well thought out and clearly stated.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 758. Je. ’07. 160w.


* =Van Dresser, Mrs. Jesmine Stone.= How to find Happyland: a book of
children’s stories. il. **$2. Putnam.

                                                                7–16944.

  A book of fairy tales written by a mother for her son.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Charmingly written.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12. ’07. 70w.

  “A pretty wholesome fairy book, sufficiently mysterious to awaken
  interest in the children, yet very gracefully written, and having nice
  little morals tucked craftily away within its pages. The writer has
  the true gift of story-telling for little folks, and the pictures by
  Florence E. Storer quite suit the text.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 60w.


=Van Dyke, Henry.= Americanism of Washington. 50c. Harper.

                                                                6–34847.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Dr. van Dyke’s practised and graceful pen has made a book by no means
  without literary charm. If, from the literary point of view, one were
  to criticise this volume, such criticism would surely involve a
  discounting of the effectiveness of the peroration, which is more
  smoke than flame, and never rises beyond the mere rhetoric of
  patriotism and moral enthusiasm.” Horatio S. Krans.

     + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 110. Ap. ’07. 720w.


=Van Dyke, Henry.= Battle of life. **30c. Crowell.

                                                                7–20955.

  This sermon, preached from the text, “Overcome evil with good” appears
  uniform with the “What is worth while series.”


=Van Dyke, Henry.= Days off, and other digressions. †$1.50. Scribner.

                                                                7–33932.

  Uniform with “Fisherman’s luck” and “Little rivers.” The “days off”
  are “more or less occupied with fishing, with now and then a bit of
  hunting, one long drive over the glorious English roads among the
  Quantock hills, one woodland excursion between the lupin and the
  laurel with no record of killing, and one or two chats on bookish
  subjects.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Van Dyke writes of these jaunts with a taking measure of
  fancifulness, and a flavour of bookishness which is agreeably
  elusive.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 687. N. 30. 130w.

     + + =Dial.= 43: 380. D. 1, ’07. 250w.

  “It is mighty pleasant to take a ‘day off’ with the parson.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 920. D. 14. ’07. 70w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 60w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 762. N. 2, ’07. 260w.

  “One does not need to read far in ‘Days off’ before he comes upon the
  secret of its vitality and interest; it is revealed in a phrase—‘no
  vacation is perfect without a holiday in it.’”

     + + =Outlook.= 87: 765. D. 7, ’07. 720w.

  “Altogether, this is a readable book, but it would have been more
  prudent not to invite, as on p. 37, a comparison with Charles Lamb.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 874. N. 30, ’07. 120w.


=Van Dyke, Henry.= Good old way. **30c. Crowell.

                                                                7–20954.

  An addition to the “What is worth while series.” The good old way is
  the path of faith and duty which runs amid the tangle of sensuality,
  avarice, social ambition, intellectual pride, moral indifference,
  hypocrisy and indecision.


* =Van Dyke, Henry.= Music lover. **$1. Moffat.

                                                                7–35629.

  “Dr. van Dyke describes the emotions of the true lover of music, as he
  sits in his chosen place and hears a great orchestra render a great
  symphony. Generous margins appropriately decorated in color, and a
  colored frontispiece by Sigismund de Ivanowski, whose work has lately
  attracted much attention, are the decorative features.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Dial.= 43: 431. D. 16, ’07. 90w.

  “A beautiful prose poem.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 10w.


* =Van Dyke, Henry.= Story of the other wise man. $5. Harper.

  A special holiday edition containing a new preface by the author. “He
  tells us that he had studied and loved the curious tales of the three
  wise men of the East as told in the Golden legend of Jacobus de
  Voragine and other mediæval books; but of the fourth wise man he had
  never heard until the long, lonely night when the story came to him.”
  (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 647. O. 19, ’07. 70w.

  “Particularly well printed and illustrated.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 619. N. 23, ’07. 120w.


=Van Dyke, John Charles.= Opal sea. *$1.25. Scribner.

                                                                 6–8871.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Since Ruskin no more charming guide to the beauties of nature has put
  himself at our disposition than Professor Van Dyke.”

       + =Cath. World.= 85: 408. Je. ’07. 400w.


=Van Dyke, John C.= Studies in pictures: an introduction to the famous
galleries. **$1.25. Scribner.

                                                                 7–9576.

  The service which Mr. Van Dyke renders is that of aiding the student
  of painting in seeing truly, comprehending adequately, and judging
  justly. There are ten chapters as follows: Old masters out of place;
  Pictures ruined, restored and repainted; False attributions, copies,
  forgeries; Themes of the masters; Workmanship of the old masters;
  Figure painting; Portrait painting; Genre painting; The animal in art;
  Landscape and painting.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “To his credit be it said he is never irrelevant, he relates
  historical facts which have bearings on certain cases, he makes
  suggestive comparisons, but ultimately when he wishes to explain
  beauty of a certain piece of drawing, of a harmony of color, or of a
  composition of masses, he perforce refers his reader to the picture
  itself.”

       + =Acad.= 73: 726. Jl. 27, ’07. 930w.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 132. My. ’07. S.

       + =Dial.= 43: 95. Ag. 16, ’07. 250w.

  “Professor Van Dyke is a helpful cicerone, for he does not overpower
  the reader with his theories, or force upon him his tastes, or crush
  him with the weight of his learning, but talks clearly and sensibly
  about what pictures are painted for and how we can get the most out of
  them.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 736. Mr. 28, ’07. 230w.

  “The passenger who expects to take a look at the famous galleries will
  take a far more sensible, comprehending look if he has scanned these
  brief, chatty pages; the passenger who, picking up a friend’s copy,
  had planned to waste no time poking about under European skylights
  will probably conceive some curiosity for the art treasures abroad.”

     + + =Int. Studio.= 31: sup. 52. Ap. ’07. 440w.

  “Mr. Van Dyke is a most trustworthy guide, who knows what he is
  talking about, with a knowledge rare indeed even amongst those who
  enjoy a great reputation as critics.”

     + + =Int. Studio.= 32: 252. S. ’07. 150w.

  “Not only useful to the unsophisticated, to whom it is admirably
  adapted, but valuable to those who have a tendency to lose themselves
  in technicalities. The treatment is popular, almost casual [and] is
  based on a sympathetic attitude toward ignorance, which is rare in the
  writing of a specialist and a mark of mental breadth.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 300. My. 11, ’07. 940w.

       + =Outlook.= 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 280w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 383. S. ’07. 50w.

  “Is just the kind of work that is wanted to put the uninstructed lover
  of pictures on the right track.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 1007. Je. 29, ’07. 250w.


=Van Eps, Frank S., and Van Eps, Marion B.= Rejoice always: or,
Happiness is for you. $1. Frank S. Van Eps, 144 W. 123 st., N. Y.

                                                                  7–514.

  A little book which preaches the gospel of happiness, sets forth its
  value and explains how it may be attained. Its chapter headings show
  its scope and trend of argument; Rejoice, The consciousness of God, No
  anxiety, Prayer and supplication, Thanksgiving, and The peace of God.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Very optimistic little book.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 851. D. 8, ’06. 80w.

  “Its fundamental positions are true psychologically and ethically, as
  well as in the mystical religious life. It may be heartily commended
  to all who would reach the high levels of ‘the life that is life
  indeed,’ where no cloud or storm is that the sun does not quickly
  dissipate.”

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 45. Ja. 5, ’07. 80w.


=Van Norden, Charles.= Yoland of Idle Isle. †$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                7–29008.

  Idle isle is one of the Bermudas whither a New England college
  president and his granddaughter go to live in seclusion. The
  adventures that befall the heroine who is being reared away from the
  wicked world and the madding crowds suggest those of Miranda before
  Ferdinand awakens her.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The one extraordinary thing in the book is the language in which its
  characters converse and soliloquize. It is surely the strongest
  mixture of grandiloquence and nonsense ever put down in sober print
  and attributed to people in their right minds. He promises quite
  plainly that there are further ‘annals yet to be written.’ It is to be
  hoped that he will think better of it and continue his ‘leisure.’”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 564. S. 21, ’07. 900w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 60w.


=Van Norman, Louis Edwin.= Poland, the knight among nations; with an
introd. by Helena Modjeska. **$1.50. Revell.

                                                                7–32871.

  “Because of his intimate relations with Poles of the best class, Mr.
  Van Norman’s opportunities for studying both town and country life in
  all sections of the tripartite kingdom were exceptional, and his
  comments on Polish music and art, the national psychology and
  political and social problems are well worth considering; but his
  account of his pilgrimages to the scenes of Sienkewicz’s three great
  historical novels, and his picture of the great interpreter of Poland
  himself in his home among the Carpathian mountains are perhaps of the
  greatest interest to readers of contemporary literature.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “If Madame Modjeska has briefly prepared the reader for much, Mr. Van
  Norman has made himself admirably accessory after the fact, by telling
  the whole story in a vivid, impressive and scholarly manner.” Dolores
  Bacon.

     + + =Bookm.= 26: 414. D. ’07. 590w.

  “A sympathetic, first-hand study of a noble race of vigorous virtues
  and lovable faults.” Arthur Guiterman.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 632. O. 19, ’07. 1820w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

  “Mr. Van Norman has had unusual opportunities of studying Poland at
  first hand, and his sympathies for the people are naturally keen, as
  he married a Pole. On every page of the present volume we are
  conscious of that knowledge and sympathy.”

     + + =Outlook.= 87: 747. N. 30, ’07. 640w.

  “It is in the portrayal of modern Polish activities and
  accomplishments that Mr. Van Norman’s book performs its most distinct
  service.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 637. N. ’07. 270w.


=Van Sommer, Annie, and Zwemer, Samuel M.=, eds. Our Moslem sisters: a
cry of need from lands of darkness interpreted by those who heard it.
**$1.25. Revell.

                                                                7–16363.

  “In this book is collected a mass of testimony and undoubted facts
  that merely lift the edge of the sad truth as to the lives of women in
  Mohammedan communities.... The universality and ease of divorce, the
  absolute freedom of the husband, and the utter helplessness of the
  wife, are revelations to many. A mere sentence, repeated three times,
  is irrevocable, and the wife is cast out to a life of sorrow, shame,
  and poverty very often.... Egypt, all Africa, Palestine, Turkey,
  Bulgaria, Persia, India, Java, and all Malaysia are darkened by this
  unholy revelation to Mohammed.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The conditions of women in Turkey, Arabia, Persia, Northern Africa,
  India, and Southeastern Asia are described forcibly and clearly.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

       + =Outlook.= 86: 301. Je. 8, ’07. 320w.

         =Spec.= 99: 205. Ag. 10, ’07. 200w.


=Van Vorst, Bessie.= Letters to women in love. †$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                6–36049.

  Four groups of advisory letters written to four American women
  “occupying quite different places in the historical development of
  love.” Mrs. Van Vorst “thinks that the thing which counts about a
  woman more than anything else, from beginning to end, is her age.” She
  spends half her life “not being old enough and the rest in being too
  old.” And she tempers her advice accordingly. For example, “if a woman
  is over thirty-eight she must have patience in dealing with the man
  she loves; if she is less than twenty-five she may risk defiance in
  order to bring him to terms.” (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Few women will like the book, it is so pertinent, but most of them
  over thirty years of age could profit by Mrs. Van Vorst’s suggestions
  without injuring society.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 101. Ja. 10, ’07. 280w.

  “There was abundant material here for the making of an interesting
  book. Mrs. Van Vorst has done little with it beyond discovering its
  possibilities. The cases she presents are not lacking in human
  interest, but the deeper note is lacking.”

     + − =Nation.= 83: 375. N. 1, ’06. 290w.

  “Her conscientious efforts to be ‘guide, philosopher, and friend’
  result admirably—in the book—but in real life we fear her
  dissertations would be relegated to the same high shelf whither every
  guide, philosopher, and friend has retired from time immemorial.”

     + − =Outlook.= 84: 583. N. 3, ’06. 90w.


=Van Vorst, Marie.= Amanda of the mill: a novel. †$1.50. Dodd.

                                                                 5–8736.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 27. Ja. ’07.


=Van Vorst, Marie.= Sin of George Warrener. †$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                6–20363.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “As the excellent study of a thoroughly vain, vapid, and at the same
  time utterly unscrupulous creature, Mrs. Warrener stands out
  distinctly among this year’s novelistic figures. ‘The sin of George
  Warrener’ is executed with distinguished artistic feeling.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 35: 124. Ja. ’07. 240w.


=Vasari, Giorgio.= Stories of the Italian artists; collected and
arranged by E. L. Seeley. *$3. Dutton.

                                                                W 6–323.

  A collection of extracts from Vasari’s monumental work dealing chiefly
  with anecdote and biography, and designed evidently, for young
  readers. The volume is illustrated with 25 half tone reproductions in
  sepia and 8 colored plates.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Dial.= 42: 318. My. 16, ’07. 320w.

  “A digest of Vasari’s biographies, which is amply sufficient for
  artist and critic and intensely interesting for the general lover of
  Italian art history. The editor and translator manages the subject
  with consummate skill. What is of notorious inaccuracy is deftly
  suppressed, and what is of permanent value in the lives of the artists
  or in the surroundings in which they worked is quite as skillfully
  emphasized. The style, too, has a touch of the archaic, which while
  everywhere intelligible, gives a charming illusion of antiquity.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 301. My. 11, ’07. 560w.

       + =Outlook.= 86: 76. My. 11, ’07. 60w.


=Vaughan, Charles Edwyn.= Romantic revolt. (Periods of European
literature.) *$1.50. Scribner.

                                                                7–32815.

  A monograph which treats of the rise and progress of the Romantic
  revolt against classicism in Great Britain; of a group of German
  writers, including Lessing, Herder, Kant, Schiller and Goethe; of the
  romantic movement in France and Italy; and of the history of
  romanticism in Spain, the Netherlands, the Slav countries,
  Scandinavia, Bohemia, Poland and Russia.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Acad.= 72: 181. F. 23, ’07. 1520w.

  “The book is exceptionally readable.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 319. My. 16, ’07. 110w.

         =Nation.= 85: 103. Ag. 1, ’07. 730w.

  “It is unusual to find so large an amount of important literary
  history and of sound literary criticism within the compass of a book
  which may be read within a comparatively short time.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 261. Ap. 20, ’07. 440w.


=Vaughan, Herbert M.= Last of the royal Stuarts. 2d ed. *$3.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–28488.

  “A footnote to history” which is conceded to be one of the most
  interesting of recent contributions to the literature of Jacobitism.
  “Henry Stuart was born in 1725, became a wealthy Cardinal-Bishop, had
  to flee from Napoleon, accepted, in his need, a pension from George
  III., and died in 1807.” (Lond. Times.) “A good account is given of
  the cardinal’s place as an historical figure. Genius is not claimed
  for him, but his piety, bounty, and kindness are pointed out, and the
  author perhaps wisely omits to quote the ill-natured gossip of Henry
  Swinburne.” (Eng. Hist. R.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is doubtful if any more interesting record of the life of the
  Prince Cardinal has ever been produced.” W. F. Dennehy.

     + + =Am. Cath. Q.= 32: 1. Ja. ’07. 8000w.

  “That the Duke scarcely deserved a biography is our opinion; while the
  biography is written without much research, and with rather inadequate
  references.”

     − + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 471. O. 20. 1090w.

  “The author has put together whatever is worth knowing about the
  rather uneventful career of Henry IX.” A. F. S.

       + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 201. Ja. ’07. 380w.

  “Much good and careful work has gone into Mr. Vaughan’s history of the
  Cardinal Duke of York, and the book is of value as rounding out the
  literature of the Stuart family. The references in Mr. Vaughan’s
  footnotes are curiously indefinite, and consequently lose much of
  their value and usefulness.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 943. O. 17, ’07. 450w.

  “A life of Cardinal York, though it could not be a work of great
  historical import, was yet worth writing, and Mr. Vaughan has written
  it well.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 5: 320. S. 21, ’06. 1210w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 599. S. 29, ’06. 1210w. (Reprinted from
         Lond. Times.)

  “This life of the Cardinal Duke is one of the most interesting of
  recent contributions to the literature of Jacobitism.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 286. Mr. 30, ’07. 430w.

  “Interesting and carefully prepared book.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 327. S. 7, ’07. 1350w.


=Vaughan, Herbert Millingchamp.= The Naples Riviera. il. $2. Stokes.

                                                                W 7–197.

  “Mr. Vaughan gives a generous interpretation to the Naples Riviera,
  including the Islands of the Blessed that float in a pellucid
  atmosphere in the enchanting bay. Everywhere he is resuscitating a
  dead past, from Herculaneum submerged in volcanic mud, and Pompeii
  long buried in a shroud of ashes, to Salerno of the once famous
  medical schools, to Pæstum with the temples that were dilapidated when
  S. Paul landed at Puteoli, and to Amalfi which was for a time supreme
  at sea till the now moribund Pisa contested the supremacy.” (Sat. R.)
  “The reader of these pages, therefore, will collect, with a minimum of
  effort, a little history, a little folk-lore, a little biography, a
  little literary reminiscence, and a little appreciation of the places
  which interest him in these parts.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “‘The Naples Riviera’ is a paradise of colour. It is therefore an
  ideal subject for a colour-book, and an artist so conspicuously clever
  in seizing and reproducing an effect as Mr. Maurice Greiffenhagen
  could be trusted to make the most of such an opportunity.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 573. My. 11. 380w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 50w.

  “This is an agreeable book upon a well-worn theme.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 732. N. 16, ’07. 110w.

  “Altogether the book, though written with verve and sympathy, is
  somewhat melancholy reading. We are disappointed in Mr.
  Greiffenhagen’s drawings. They show evident traces of haste, and in
  some is a sad lack of perspective.”

     − + =Sat. R.= 103: 434. Ap. 6, ’07. 240w.


=Vedder, Henry Clay.= Balthasar Hubmaier. **$1.35. Putnam.

                                                                5–37146.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “If much of the material were relegated to foot-notes or appendixes,
  the reader would feel more directly the charm, the tragedy and the
  great significance of the career to which Dr. Vedder has devoted so
  much sympathetic study.” William Walker Rockwell.

     + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 364. Ja. ’07. 1160w.

       + =Ind.= 62: 1154. My. 16, ’07. 60w.


=Velvin, Ellen.= Behind the scenes with wild animals. **$2. Moffat.

                                                                6–40578.

  “Interesting talks about the ways of animals, wild and tame, the
  perils behind the scenes in animal shows, the curiosities of animal
  life, the methods of animal trainers, and other kindred
  topics.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 15. Ja. ’07. S.

  “The disjointed way in which anecdote follows anecdote, and the lack
  of coherence between chapters and parts of chapters leave in the
  reader’s mind only a blur of disconnected facts. The single thing that
  approaches lasting value is the list of various species of mammals
  which have been bred in captivity.”

     − + =Nation.= 84: 83. Ja. 24, ’07. 140w.

  “She writes with animation and directness, and her narrative is
  enlivened by many capital photographs.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 895. D. 8, ’06. 80w.


* =Velvin, Ellen.= Wild animal celebrities. **$1 Moffat.

                                                                7–31196.

  Here are told the life stories of celebrated animals in which “the
  author has sketched for us the events befalling the lions, bears, and
  elephants, from their wild days to the time of their captivity; and
  besides that, she has given us good insight into the dangers
  encountered by the men who are responsible for the animals on
  exhibition.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Such a book ought to be read by every one who visits collections of
  wild animals.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 1001. O. 24, ’07. 120w.

       + =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 110w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 671. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 740. N. 16, ’07. 150w.


=Vernon, Ambrose White.= Religious value of the Old Testament in the
light of modern scholarship. **90c. Crowell.

                                                                7–10032.

  A comparison of the earlier attitude toward the Old Testament with the
  present view of modern scholarship. While in sympathy with the higher
  criticism, the author holds to the belief that the Bible, every word
  of it, is true, and that it is the inspired word.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Those who agree with the author will thank him for setting forth what
  they feel, with such eloquence. To those who are hesitating between
  the older and newer views the book will make a strong appeal through
  its spiritual earnestness and suggestiveness. But what will its effect
  be upon those who love the old wine of the ‘Infallible word?’ To them
  many of his epigrammatic expressions will appear irritating.” Kemper
  Fullerton.

       + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 666. O. ’07. 280w.

  “The discussion is concise, clear, and interesting, and should be read
  by every minister and Bible student.”

     + + =Bib. World.= 29: 399. My. ’07. 90w.

  “Mr. Vernon ... has studied the problems of the Old Testament with
  conscientious thoroness, with painstaking use of the best literature,
  and with a singular faculty of discerning salient and significant
  facts and assembling details into a consistent picture.”

   + + − =Ind.= 62: 1032. My. 2, ’07. 1520w.

         =Ind.= 63: 1235. N. 21, ’07. 70w.

  “Professor Vernon writes with eagerness, with evident sincerity and
  intensity of conviction, and there is a certain tension and activity
  in his style, which, while it may not leave his sentences always
  smooth, keeps one’s interest alert.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 549. Je. 13, ’07. 750w.

  “The aim of this little book is so admirable and the spirit is so
  praiseworthy that we regret to speak of it in criticism rather than in
  commendation. But it appears to us to be inadequate in its treatment
  of a theme where inadequacy is tantamount to error.”

     − + =Outlook.= 86: 300. Je. 5, ’07. 340w.


=Vianney, Joseph.= Blessed John Vianney. (Saints ser.) *$1. Benziger.

  “In the life of the Curé d’Ars we have a story of devotion and
  self-sacrifice, of magic influence over others, of shrewd common-sense
  and humour, so wonderful as to be almost past belief.”—Sat. R.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A well-written and interesting sketch. It is clear, however, that the
  narrative is not free from exaggeration.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 150. F. 9, ’07. 240w.

  “The admirable life of the Curé of Ars, written by his nephew, has
  been translated into English so idiomatic that one would scarcely
  suspect that the version is not an original.”

     + + =Cath. World.= 84: 555. Ja. ’07. 230w.

         =Sat. R.= 103: 212. F. 16, ’07. 230w.

         =Spec.= 97: 580. O. 20, ’06. 170w.


=Victoria, queen of Great Britain.= Letters of Queen Victoria: a
selection from Her majesty’s correspondence between the years 1837 and
1861; ed. by Arthur C. Benson and Viscount Esher. 3v. **$15. Longmans.

                                                                7–36986.

  While there is to be found political history in plenty in these
  letters, they constitute, in the main, a document “whose chief
  importance consists in revelation of character.... Even in her
  prejudices the queen commands admiration, while proof appears on every
  page of her innate rectitude; the masculine discernment which kept her
  feminine susceptibilities under control, her knowledge of business,
  which neither excused slackness nor pardoned obscurity, and her grasp
  of detail are all emphasized.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The general editing is worthy of the documents which it elucidates,
  though in the third volume Mr. Benson and Lord Esher lead their
  readers into one or two blind alleys, whence foot-notes might have
  extricated them.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 509. O. 26. 1820w.

  “The care and skill shown in editing and annotating this great
  quantity of miscellaneous matter are all that could be desired. Dr.
  Eugene Oswald has done good work in translation.” Percy F. Bicknell.

     + + =Dial.= 43: 368. D. 1, ’07. 1870w.

  “If it were not for the greatest interest that attaches to the
  letters, their reading would be somewhat wearisome and would give
  little enjoyment.”

   + + − =Ind.= 63: 1366. D. 5, ’07. 1950w.

     + + =Lit. D.= 35: 917. D. 14, ’07. 150w.

  “There is, therefore, no use in denying that the interest of these
  volumes lies rather in the substance than in form. They do not give us
  quite the vivid and brilliant picture of the times, as they appeared
  when seen from the Throne, which a ‘Life’ might and probably would
  have given us. The book is, in fact, pre-eminently ‘a book for
  students of political history;’ it is a mass of material for the
  future historian of the reign.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 313. O. 18, ’07. 5420w.

  “It is, accordingly, the public aspect of the Queen which alone can
  give much interest to these volumes of her letters.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 422. N. 7, ’07. 1600w.

  “It is absorbing as history; it is, if possible, more absorbing as a
  revelation of the inner life of the great family of sovereigns.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 673. O. 26, ’07. 3320w.

  “It is in reality a human document of unusual value.”

     + + =Outlook.= 87: 608. N. 23, ’07. 940w.

  “Those who only know Queen Victoria’s gifts as a writer through her
  Highland journals will be astonished when they read these volumes. To
  say that the book is of absorbing interest does it scant justice, for
  it is one of the great books of the century.” Jeannette L. Gilder.

   + + + =R. of Rs.= 36: 703. D. ’07. 2180w.

  “Despite the suppressions, enough has been left in the correspondence
  to render it not only interesting, but piquant and amusing. Mr. Benson
  and Lord Esher have received very efficient assistance. The
  introductory notes to the chapter, giving an historical summary of
  each year, are models of compression and accuracy.”

     + + =Sat. R.= 104: 514. O. 26, ’07. 1800w.

     + + =Sat. R.= 104: 545. N. 2. ’07. 2370w.

  “Besides providing an intimate portrait of the Queen’s mind, it gives
  a fascinating picture of her times, and incidentally of the chief
  figures of the Victorian epoch. In our opinion, not a little of the
  success of the book—and from the historical and literary point of view
  it is a very great success—is due to the fact that the documents are
  as a rule quoted entire, and we are not put off with scrappy extracts
  and excerpts from letters.”

     + + =Spec.= 99: 611. O. 26, ’07. 2540w.

     + + =Spec.= 99: 667. N. 2, ’07. 3500w.


=Viereck, George Sylvester.= Game at love and other plays. †$1.25.
Brentano’s.

                                                                6–28417.

  “A series of short prose dramatic studies.... Of the six subjects
  treated, four are ... suggestive ... of a contempt for all the
  restrictions which prevent human society from relapsing into barbaric
  animalism.... The last two pieces, grouped under the single title,
  ‘The butterfly,’ are cast in the shape of the old moralities.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The volume is remarkable not only for its promise but also for its
  accomplishment.”

       + =Bookm.= 25: 426. Je. ’07. 320w.

  “They may be dismissed at once as naught.”

       − =Ind.= 63: 158. Jl. 18, ’07. 550w.

  “What Mr. Viereck may achieve in the future, if ever his rankly
  luxuriant boyish fancies acquire the ballast of solid learning and
  common sense, it would be hazardous to predict. At present, he is
  devoting precious gifts to futile and unworthy ends.”

     + − =Nation.= 83: 541. D. 20, ’06. 370w.

  “It is this collection that has now come to us ... as the first
  adequate representation in our tongue of a poet who has been compared
  with Shelley and Keats and Swinburne, Baudelaire and Heine.” Wm.
  Aspenwall Bradley.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 407. Je. 22, ’07. 920w.

  “These little plays, cynically catching life at some unnatural angle,
  as they do, and cleverly, even brilliantly, done as they are, scarcely
  amount to a raison d’etre.” Richard Le Gallienne.

     + − =No. Am.= 184: 421. F. 15, ’07. 1060w.

  “Quite evidently not the result of experience but due to a somewhat
  decadent outlook upon life.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 253. F. ’07. 180w.


=Viereck, George Sylvester.= House of the vampire. †$1.25. Moffat.

                                                                7–28969.

  “His vampire is a personage of immense literary distinction, who moves
  among his contemporaries like a god, yet all of whose works are
  actually the product of others whose minds he enters, whose mental
  creations he steals, and whose vigor he saps.” (N. Y. Times.) Every
  note of originality which he discovers in any one he appropriates,
  reproduces as his own, justifying himself with this: “I carry the
  essence of what is cosmic ... of what is divine.... I am Homer ...
  Goethe ... Shakespeare.... I am an embodiment of the same force of
  which Alexander, Cæsar, Confucius, and the Christos were also
  embodiments.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Only in a few pages does Mr. Viereck succeed in producing the effects
  he strives for; the rest of it is crude and commonplace.”

     − + =Ind.= 63: 1006. O. 24, ’07. 200w.

  “The difficulty with Mr. Viereck’s treatment lies in purely
  melodramatic conception of character, an utter lack of subtlety in
  dealing with the whole situation, and a distressing congestion of
  large words.”

       − =Nation.= 85: 307. O. 3, ’07. 350w.

  “Except in the final scene, where its extravagances are in keeping
  with the subject, the style of the book is quite impossible. ‘The
  house of the vampire’ may be described as a tale of horror, keyed from
  the first word to the last in the highest pitch of tragic emotion.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 594. O. 5, ’07. 400w.


=Viereck, George Sylvester.= Nineveh and other poems. **$1.25. Moffat.

                                                                7–17378.

  “In this volume of verse the author’s theme is, for the most part, the
  anguish and the joy of adolescence. Some of the best poems are
  glorious riots of purely sensuous passion; others are despairing cries
  to some solidity of stay amid the turbulence of sense. The poet and
  the immoralist are at war in many verses, but the poems are sane
  because the poet is the stronger.” (Bookm.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We have spoken unkindly of Mr. Viereck, because we feel that he has
  fine poetic possibilities; and all his self-confidence fails to
  convince us that he is not wrong in adopting the now too conventional
  part of defiant Titan.”

     − + =Acad.= 73: 58. O 26, ’07. 230w.

  “Perhaps no poet now writing is more proficient in the loud
  symphonious lay, and the quality of Mr. Viereck’s vigorous, if
  unhealthy imagination is of a sort to be expressed very perfectly in
  his reverberating verse.” Ferris Greenslet.

     + − =Atlan.= 100: 845. D. ’07. 500w.

  “Mr. Viereck owes something to the world. His recent volume proves him
  to be indisputably a poet. It also indicates the lines along which he
  must develop in order to fulfil his promise. As yet his genius is
  greater than his talent. His verse has spontaneity, but not perfected
  art; and it behooves him to study carefully the master poets and grow
  to greater sureness of technical effect.” Clayton Hamilton.

     + − =Bookm.= 25: 426. Je. ’07. 520w.

  “Despite the note of sensuality only too apparent in these
  compositions, they are remarkable productions, and we trust that their
  licentiousness illustrates what will prove but a passing phase of
  their writer’s expression.” Wm. M. Payne.

     + − =Ind.= 43: 91. Ag. 16, ’07. 600w.

  “At times he is amazingly clever; tho, like clever children, he pays
  up for it by periods of dire fatuity.”

     − + =Ind.= 63: 158. Jl. 18, ’07. 250w.

  “With the exception of the amazing cleverness of this youthful verse
  there seems little promise in it.”

     − + =Ind.= 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 30w.

  “Even Mr. Viereck’s sustained energy of phrase and the fine orotund
  music of his verse hardly avails against this vicious monotony of
  subject. The subject, however, is fortunately taken not so much from
  life as from a rather narrow segment of poetic literature.”

     − + =Nation.= 85: 36. Jl. 11, ’07. 330w.

  Reviewed by Wm. Aspenwall Bradley.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 407. Je. 22, ’07. 920w.

  “He speaks in spontaneous and eloquent verse, melodious with the
  memories of the recurrent haunting harmonies of Poe, the sea-surge of
  Mr. Swinburne and the plangent tenderness of Oscar Wilde, and ringing
  also with a certain hammer-blow of passion which is entirely his own.
  He speaks with authority of the half-sensuous and half-religious
  hysteria of adolescence. Mr. Viereck is as yet only a possibility; but
  his possibility is glorious.” Clayton Hamilton.

   + + − =No. Am.= 185: 556. Jl. 5, ’07. 1180w.

  “It will never set the poetic world on fire by its originality, for
  the writer has but a note and a half at best, and follows closely
  certain poets whom he obviously admires with extravagance. Mr. Viereck
  has as yet accomplished only a fair imitation of the real thing. A
  near-poet of twenty-two has still so much to learn.”

       − =Putnam’s.= 3: 111. O. ’07. 220w.

  “He has not developed the ‘rhythmic effects’ he talks of by any device
  more essential than ingenious systems of indentation, which gives the
  printed pages a resemblance to parts of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ or a
  long-division sum. Similar affectations spoil his sense as well as his
  form.”

     − + =Sat. R.= 104. sup. 5. S. 28, ’07. 280w.


* =Villani, Giovanni.= Villani’s chronicle; being selections from the
first nine books of the Chronicle Florentine of Giovanni Villani; tr. by
Rose E. Selfe and ed. by P. H. Wicksteed. *$2. Dutton.

  “Within the compass of twenty pages the author retells the tangled
  tale of Florentine political history, from the days of the Countess
  Matilda to those of Cosmo Pater Patriæ, handling his subject in a
  fashion which leaves the reader better informed as to the real forces
  at work throughout that troubled period than the perusal of many bulky
  volumes is likely to make him.” (Ath.) It throws light upon the
  historical allusions in the “Divine comedy.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Of the translation we can speak in terms of high praise, not only for
  its fidelity, but also for the admirable manner in which it reflects
  the garrulous grace and lively movement of the original.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 604. My. 18. 500w.

  “Like Rambaldi’s Latin commentary on the ‘Commedia,’ Villani’s
  chronicle is a perfect mine of information in regard to the thirteenth
  and fourteenth centuries in Tuscany, although less personal and not so
  anecdotal as the work of the Imola professor.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 758. N. 30, ’07. 310w.

  “Mr. Wicksteed’s introduction shows all the qualities that might be
  expected from one of the most widely read of English Dantists. In a
  few pages he manages to throw a really searching light on the confused
  struggle of Florentine politics.”

       + =Sat. R.= 104: 340. S. 14, ’07. 230w.


=Villari, Luigi.= Fire and sword in the Caucasus. **$3.50. Pott.

                                                                 7–7543.

  “A vivid picture of the revolutionary outbreaks and the racial strife
  that have made many a scene of horror in parts of the Caucasus within
  the past year and a half.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “By his new book he will add considerably to his reputation.”

     + + =Acad.= 71: 8. Jl. 7, ’06. 1140w.

  “Mr. Villari tells his story well. In his present volume the author
  makes few mistakes.”

     + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 699. Je. 9. 1050w.

  “We have no hesitation in commending it to all who seek a competent
  guide with whose assistance they may penetrate behind the veil of
  silence or exaggeration which hides or distorts the truth as regards
  the situation in Russia.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 230. Je. 29, ’06. 530w.

  “The numerous reproductions of the author’s photographs are
  interesting, and add substantially to his narrative.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 488. D. 6, ’06. 650w.

  “It is of permanent value because it is a careful study of the chief
  races living there—a study that was necessary to make some aspects of
  the political situation clear.” Cyrus C. Adams.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 846. D. 8, ’06. 570w.

  “Unlike the generality of writers upon Russia in the present day,
  however, he displays no animus against either government or people.”

       + =Sat. R.= 102: 303. D. 8, ’06. 520w.

  “He has a facile pen, and is a master of the special correspondent’s
  variety of the ‘graphic’ style.”

       + =Spec.= 97: sup. 471. O. 6, ’06. 430w.


=Vincent, Charles John=, ed. Fifty Shakespeare songs. (Musicians’ lib.,
v. 21.) $2.50. Ditson.

                                                                6–37861.

  The Shakespeare songs to which this volume is devoted are grouped as
  follows: Songs mentioned by Shakespeare in his plays, Songs possibly
  sung in the original performances, Settings composed since
  Shakespeare’s time to the middle of the nineteenth century, and Recent
  settings.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Many of the selections are practically unobtainable for the average
  seeker in any other form.”

     + + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 214. N. ’06.

  “The editor has furnished excellent historical and critical notes on
  the songs.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 235. F. 23. 140w.

         =Dial.= 41: 330. N. 16, ’06. 110w.

         =Nation.= 83: 491. D. 6, ’06. 140w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 114. Ja. ’07. 40w.


=Vincent, James Edmund.= Highways and byways in Berkshire; with il. by
Frederick L. Griggs. $2. Macmillan.

                                                                 W 7–45.

  Nothing of guide book order and inclusiveness is found in Mr.
  Vincent’s description. He goes out of the beaten path, in fact, and
  “the reader is introduced to many an old country house not magnificent
  enough to be mentioned in the ordinary guide-books, but adorned each
  with its own legends and private tragedies.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His style is weighed down with mannerisms; and there is in the book
  too much about Mr. Vincent, with the result that Berkshire often comes
  off second best.”

     + − =Acad.= 71: 642. D. 22, ’06. 260w.

  “A volume of less than five hundred pages is bound to be an imperfect
  record of a county; but Mr. Vincent, who is an engaging guide as far
  as he goes, leaves too large a tract of the county out of his
  itinerary for this commonplace to do him service.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 347. Mr. 23. 710w.

  “Berkshire has found in her new biographer a most sympathetic
  interpreter, one who knows how to read the meaning of the most trivial
  everyday incidents, and to trace their connection with those of days
  gone by.”

     + + =Int. Studio.= 30: 365. F. ’07. 200w.

  “The work is well designed for those who wish to know, but do not
  already know, this country of meadows and downs and dapper woods. But
  the Berkshire man will miss much, especially he who has had commerce
  with the southern and eastern sides.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 36. F. 1, ’07. 1030w.

       + =Nation.= 84: 133. F. 7, ’07. 410w.

  “The style of production, the illustrations and the spirit of the
  author will together insure the volume a wide popularity. Mr. Vincent
  is never dull.”

     + + =Nature.= 75: 149. D. 13, ’06. 150w.

  “The illustrations by Frederick L. Griggs are quaintly attractive, and
  the artist has caught the spirit of the text in a most happy manner.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 68. F. 2, ’07. 130w.

       + =Outlook.= 85: 574. Mr. 9, ’07. 200w.

  “On the whole he is a good and pleasant general guide, and his book
  one of the most thorough and interesting in the series.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 305. Mr. 9, ’07. 280w.

  “Mr. Vincent informs all that he sees with his own joyous temper, and
  gossips of men and things in a spirit so frank and candid, yet so free
  withal from malice, that he would be a dull soul indeed who failed to
  catch the infection of his gaiety. Besides the light-heartedness to
  which he confesses in his preface, the writer brings to his task,
  literary acquirements of no mean order, a genuine love for the county
  of his adoption, an eye for the larger effects of nature, and a happy
  ease of style.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 502. Mr. 30, ’07. 1640w.


=Vinci, Leonardo da.= Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, with critical
introd. by Charles L. Hind. (Drawings of great masters.) *$2.50.
Scribner.

  “As Mr. Hind remarks, Leonardo da Vinci found in drawing the readiest
  and most stimulating way of self-expression. One welcomes with
  pleasure the extremely clear and fine renderings of some fifty of the
  drawings in this volume. The critical study by Mr. Hind is
  discriminating and sympathetic.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Dial.= 42: 231. Ap. 1, ’07. 40w.

       + =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 53. D. ’06. 130w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 837. D. 1, ’06. 250w.

         =Outlook.= 84: 141. S. 15, ’06. 50w.

         =Outlook.= 84: 705. N. 24, ’06. 30w.


=Vinci, Leonardo da.= Note-books; arranged and rendered into English,
with introd. by Edward McCurdy. *$3.50. Scribner.

                                                                7–15913.

  An anthology of Leonardo’s work in literature comprising the record
  and results of his studies in the theory of art together with
  fragments of literary composition of a philosophical or imaginative
  character, and much personal and biographical matter.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His translation is always lucid, when the original permits it to be
  so.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 360. O. 26, ’06. 1630w.

  “We have observed only two errors In Mr. McCurdy’s contributions to
  the volume.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 67. Ja. 17. ’07. 610w.

  “The collection of the great Italian’s notes should be put into the
  hands of every young artist—indeed, one might say of every man.”

     + + =Outlook.= 84: 705. N. 24, ’06. 210w.

       + =Spec.= 98: 92. Ja. 19, ’07. 1530w.


* =Voorhees, Irving Wilson.= Teachings of Thomas Henry Huxley. $1.
Broadway pub.

                                                                7–30873.

  “After recounting with brevity the influences of heredity and
  environment which acted upon Huxley’s early years, the author sets
  forth and discusses his teachings in biology, theology, education,
  morals, and psychology, and concerning individual rights and the
  gospel of work. He believes that two main forces were at work
  throughout Huxley’s life—‘the one that of the scientific investigator,
  full of enthusiasm, dominant, persevering, toiling arduously day by
  day.... The other that of the polemical philosopher, fond of
  arguments, combative ... fighting ... partly for victory, partly for
  the upholding of what he deemed a principle of ideal.’”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A sympathetic interpretation.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 1438. D. 12, ’07. 60w.

  “The book is written impartially, recognizing fully the philosopher’s
  great services to scientific advancement, but discussing freely the
  flaws in his theories.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 718. N. 9, ’07. 170w.


=Vries, Hugo de.= Plant breeding: comments on the experiments of Nilsson
and Burbank. *$1.50. Open ct.

                                                                7–19453.

  “After a general survey of the historical material, Professor De Vries
  examines the work of these two men in the light of recent discoveries
  in heredity and hybridization, and uses their results to test the
  Darwinian theory and the mutation theory, and finds all the data in
  favor of the latter.”—Lit. D.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Can be heartily commended to the practical farmer and gardener as
  well as to the scientific student.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 198. N. ’07.

  “The book is one that can be confidently commended to the notice of
  the practical plantbreeder as well as to the students of science.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 242. Ag. 31. 1730w.

  “It is a compact and popular presentation of the recent wonderful
  development in methods of plant breeding, and a clear statement of the
  bearing of all this vast experimental work upon the author’s theory of
  mutation. Altogether, the book is full of pregnant suggestions, and
  should do much toward clearing up some of the evident confusion
  concerning the views of the distinguished author.” J. M. C.

     + + =Bot. Gaz.= 44: 47. Ag. ’07. 2250w.

  “The volume is clearly and pleasantly written, and as the forms of
  plant-life discussed are those in which there is much general
  interest,—such as wheat, oats, corn, and various fruits,—it may be
  read with satisfaction and profit by all.”

     + + =Dial.= 43: 43. Jl. 16, ’07. 320w.

  “The chapter on the association of characters—correlation biologists
  usually call it—is simply rich in its array of facts and its
  suggestiveness, and the keen analysis of the methods and results of
  plant amelioration is equally admirable. The whole book is perfectly
  comprehensible by the general reader.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 694. S. 19, ’07. 220w.

  “This book is one of the most valuable contributions to botanical
  science that has appeared in recent years. It will be widely read
  because of the clear scientific discussion of the principles that
  underlie plant breeding.” Carlton C. Curtis.

   + + + =J. Philos.= 4: 606. O. 24, ’07. 2260w.

  “The book is full of valuable information for the live farmer, the
  gardener, nurseryman, or seed-grower, as well as for the student of
  evolution and the lover of plants.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 35: 61. Jl. 13, ’07. 270w.

  “The volume can be heartily recommended as an interesting and safe
  guide to amateurs who desire to examine more closely the variant
  plants around them.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 238. S. 12, ’07. 760w.


=Vries, Hugo de.= Species and varieties; their origin by imitations; ed.
by Daniel T. MacDougal. 2d ed. *$5. Open ct.

  “Very few changes are to be seen in the new edition.... The few errors
  of the first edition have been corrected, and some alterations have
  been made for the sake of clearness.”—Bot. Gaz.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The most important new feature is an explanatory note on variations
  in ‘Oenothera biennis.’” H. C. Cowles.

     + + =Bot. Gaz.= 43: 140. F. ’07. 150w.

  “All the misprints that we pointed out in our review of the first
  edition have been corrected; and even our suggestion that uniformity
  in the termination of the adjectives derived from such terms as
  physiology was desirable has been adopted. But, curiously enough, the
  uniformity is intra-verbal and not inter-verbal. There is no need to
  commend the book. It is indispensable, inasmuch as it is the only
  available account of Prof, de Vries’s work in English, so far.” A. D.
  D.

   + + − =Nature.= 75: 268. F. 17, ’07. 230w.




                                   W


=Waddell, Laurence Austine.= Lhasa and its mysteries: with a record of
the expedition of 1903–1904. 3d ed. *$3. Dutton.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  Reviewed by H. E. Coblentz.

       + =Dial.= 42: 43. Ja. 16, ’07. 460w.


=Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton.= Building the nation: stories of how our
fathers lived, and what they did to make our country a united one. †75c.
Wilde.

                                                                7–26964.

  The third volume in the “Uncle Sam’s old-time story” series. This
  portion of the history deals with the revolution and is a well taught
  lesson in American patriotism.


=Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton.= Ten Indian hunters: stories of famous Indian
hunters. il. †$1. Wilde.

                                                                7–26965.

  The fourth volume in Mrs. Wade’s Indian series tells of ten hunters
  who gained prowess among their several tribes for their cunning and
  ability to trap game. Aside from their successful efforts, daring
  adventure and marvelous skill, the stories picture the various tribes
  and their manner of living.


=Wagner, Charles.= My impressions of America; tr. from the French by
Mary Louise Hendee. **$1. McClure.

                                                                6–33643.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Sweet-tempered and simple-minded little book.” James F. Muirhead.

       + =Atlan.= 100: 558. O. ’07. 100w.

       + =Putnam’s.= 1: 638. F. ’07. 330w.


=Wagner, (Wilhelm) Richard.= Tannhauser; a dramatic poem freely
translated in poetic narrative form by Oliver Huckel. **75c. Crowell.

                                                                6–32851.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Worthy of a place in any library where there is sufficient interest
  in musical drama.”

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 50. F. ’07. S.

       + =Ind.= 62: 498. F. 28, ’07. 150w.

  “Is a rather languid performance.”

       − =Nation.= 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 30w.


=Walcott, Earle Ashley.= Apple of discord. †$1.50. Bobbs.

                                                                7–31209.

  A tale of San Francisco during the days of the “Sand-lot” riots and
  the attempted Chinese expulsion. There is a double love story running
  thru the stress and storm, the more unique of which concerns “Big
  Sam,” the king of Chinatown and little Moon Ying, the contested
  possession of two rival tongs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “For those who find diversion in excitement, this story will furnish
  marked satisfaction.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 740. N. 16, ’07. 230w.


=Walford, Lucy Bethia.= Enlightenment of Olivia. $1.50. Longmans.

                                                                7–31230.

  The study of a female egotist. “The character of the heroine seems on
  the whole original, and is drawn with much humour. The Oxford
  professor who, unconsciously to himself, becomes the instrument of her
  reformation, can scarcely be taken seriously, and it seems to us that
  the author did not at first intend him for the monstrosity into which
  he developes. Olivia’s husband, on the other hand, is an admirable
  specimen of the middle-class British Philistine at his very
  best—manly, honorable, and chivalrous to the finger-tips, but alas!
  somewhat of a bore.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A book which at least will not offend through lack of taste or
  carelessness of style. There is never anything complex about either
  her plots or her characters, but she tells her tale simply in good
  plain English and, as a result, her books are eminently readable.”

       + =Acad.= 73: 682. Jl. 13, ’07. 240w.

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 723. Je. 15. 120w.

  “Mrs. Walford’s tales are reminiscent of Mrs. Oliphant’s peaceful
  stories of English country life, calm and uneventful, but nevertheless
  full of pleasant interest and restful to a weary mind on a hot
  summer’s day.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 140w.

  “It is not art, and being artless no limit can be set anywhere to its
  mischief nor in England to its circulation.”

       − =Sat. R.= 104: 21. Jl. 6, ’07. 480w.


=Walker, Alice Morehouse.= Historic Hadley: a story of the making of a
famous Massachusetts town. **$1. Grafton press.

                                                                6–30490.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The little book too, is accurate, never sacrificing the facts to
  readability or picturesqueness. Has value both literary and historic,
  and considerable narrative charm.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 110. Ja. 31, ’07. 550w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 756. N. 17, ’06. 250w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 110. Ja. ’07. 100w.


=Walker, Dawson.= Gift of tongues and other essays. *$1.75. Scribner.

  “A series of able and scholarly essays on certain New Testament
  problems; the speaking with tongues in the apostolic church, the legal
  phraseology in the Epistle to the Galatians, the visit to Jerusalem
  recorded in the second chapter of that epistle and its relation to the
  fifteenth chapter of the Acts, and the date of the Acts and the third
  gospel.”—Sat R.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Though none of these essays makes any notable contribution to the
  subject, and the conclusions of the first and last are distinctly
  improbable, all are worthy of attention.”

     + − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 182. Ja. ’07. 170w.

  “The book will have little influence on the trend of opinion.” Wm. R.
  Shoemaker.

       − =Bib. World.= 30: 76. Jl. ’07. 420w.

  “All would do well to read Dr. Walker’s essays; he arranges his facts
  well, writes clearly, and is always interesting; his essay on the gift
  of tongues is the best we have ever read on that puzzling problem.”

       + =Sat. R.= 102: 372. S. 22, ’06. 180w.


=Walker, Ernest.= Beethoven. $1. Brentano’s. W 5–8.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “A thoughtful little book.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 840. D. 29. 170w.


=Walker, Margaret Coulson.= Lady Hollyhock and her friends: a book of
nature dolls and others; drawings by Mary Isabel Hunt. †$1.25. Baker.

                                                                6–39448.

  A happy thought for little people which will provide busy work the
  year round. Cucumber, radish, and corn dolls, pansy, hollyhock and
  poppy maids, apple, peanut and acorn children—and pictures to show how
  they are made.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 253. D. ’06.

       + =Ind.= 61: 1411. D. 22, ’06. 30w.

       + =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 30w.

  “An interesting book for all little folks ... for it will give them no
  end of the sort of employment that all children like.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 752. N. 17, ’06. 90w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 34: 766. D. ’06. 50w.


=Walker, Rev. William Lowe.= Christian theism and a spiritual monism:
God, freedom and immortality in view of monistic evolution. *$3.
Scribner.

                                                                7–12986.

  “The work aims to show what ground there is for Christian theism in
  the spiritual monism toward which science and philosophy now
  preponderate. Its author ... endeavors to ‘set forth that spiritual
  interpretation of the universe on the basis of Mr. Spencer’s system of
  philosophy which he himself affirmed to be possible.’... The argument
  is mainly objective, in an inductive method, and designed for ‘the
  plain man.’”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Nowhere have we seen this thesis more lucidly and convincingly
  handled than by this able writer.”

       + =Acad.= 71: 521. N. 24, ’06. 1190w.

  “A very readable book. Mr. Walker shows wide reading in science and
  philosophy, and states his position with clearness and force.” W. C.
  Kierstead.

     + + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 548. Jl. ’07. 490w.

  “Though the work falls short of its aim in some central questions, it
  is, on the whole, a stimulating contribution to further discussions,
  and a strong presentation of the harmony of science and religion.”

     + − =Outlook.= 83: 1006. Ag. 25, ’06. 610w.

  “However valuable this line of thought may be, it requires a deeper
  treatment to make it convincing.”

     − + =Sat. R.= 103: 592. My. 11, ’07. 1820w.


=Walker, Williston.= John Calvin, the organizer of reformed
Protestantism, 1509–1564. **$1.35. Putnam.

                                                                6–34268.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 50. F. ’07. S.

  “There are no errors of vital importance. The reviewer would dissent
  from a few conclusions, which must, however, remain largely matters of
  opinion. The amount to criticise is small; there is much to praise. To
  say that the book is the best biography written in English is not
  enough. No other equally brief life has so well assimilated the vast
  amount of material or summed up Calvin’s character and career with so
  much insight; and no other life of Calvin preserves throughout so
  judicial a tone. It is a book whose scholarship will appeal to both
  the church historian and the general historical reader.” Herbert
  Darling Foster.

   + + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 366. Ja. ’07. 1210w.

  “We accept what is given, and return thanks for a very good book.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 131. F. 2. 280w.

  “A fairly objective account from a sympathetic point of view.”

       + =Cath. World.= 85: 250. My. ’07. 70w.

  “With a difficult subject, Professor Walker has taken particular pains
  to be impartial and just, both to his hero’s greatness and his
  failings, and he has succeeded well.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 1154. My. 16, ’07. 100w.

  “For its scope and purpose Prof. Williston Walker’s biography of ‘John
  Calvin’ is a model.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 1236. N. 21, ’07. 30w.

  “The picture which emerges from the pages of Professor Walker is
  luminous.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 15. Ja. 3, ’07. 1690w.

  “His book is admirable in every way.”

     + + =Spec.= 97: 990. D. 15, ’06. 230w.


=Wallace, Dillon.= Long Labrador trail. *$1.50. Outing.

                                                                7–17002.

  This “glorious record of American ‘do and dare’” follows the
  wilderness adventure of one who besides being lured by the
  irresistible call of the wild is fulfilling the command to accomplish
  the work of exploration undertaken by his fallen leader, Leonidas
  Hubbard, viz., to penetrate the Labrador peninsula from Groswater bay
  to Lake Michikamau, thence thru the lake and northward over the
  divide, where he hoped to locate the headwaters of the George river.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a record of privation and heroism, well-told, full of the
  irresistible charm of real exploration.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 173. O. ’07. S.

  “It is to be doubted if he has added greatly to our knowledge of this
  region; but he has certainly written an interesting book, wholly
  independent of literary charm.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 442. O. 12. 460w.

  “Somehow, the very lack of rhetorical polish seems appropriate in the
  description of an undertaking which bespeaks essentially grim
  determination, and offers little occasion for the play of the finer
  feelings or of the imagination.” George Gladden.

       + =Bookm.= 25: 615. Ag. ’07. 840w.

  “None can fail to enjoy the author’s account of his expedition.” H. E.
  Coblentz.

       + =Dial.= 42: 374. Je. 16, ’07. 320w.

  “A thoroughly interesting account of a country which, in desolation
  may be said to rival the ‘Far north.’”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 26. Jl. 6, ’07. 300w.

  “Mr. Wallace takes himself and his achievement a trifle too
  seriously.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 100. Ag. 1, ’07. 370w.

  “It is an interesting story that Mr. Wallace has recounted of perils
  ignored and hardships welcomed, of grim and desolate wilds, and of the
  strength, the courage, and the goodness of human nature rising always
  above its environment.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 362. Je. 8, ’07. 720w.

  “The details of the travelling supply an attractive narrative.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 438. S. 28, ’07. 170w.


=Wallace, Dillon.= Ungava Bob: a winter’s tale. †$1.50. Revell.

                                                                7–29093.

  These experiences of a young fur trapper in the frozen interior of
  Labrador are the sort that will put a lad in the corner and keep him
  there until the last page is reached. There are encounters with wolves
  on the fur trails, intimate portrayals of the life and humanity of the
  Nascaupee Indians who capture and protect the hero, and stirring
  accounts of dangerous adventures among the ice-packs of the Labrador
  country.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The story is told with the greatest simplicity and naturalness.
  Characters and incidents all have the touch of verity.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 581. S. 28, ’07. 290w.

  “Bob is a plucky young trapper, and his adventures are exciting
  enough, but the chief merit of the book lies in the pictures of life
  in the remote regions of Labrador and among the Indians and Eskimos of
  that frozen country.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 312. O. 12, ’07. 160w.


=Wallace, Helen.= Coming of Isobel. $1.50. Cassell.

  A story whose plot is founded upon coincidences. “When one young girl
  is lost we are expected to believe that another exactly like her is
  found; that this latter has lost her memory, and consequently acts as
  an innocent substitute; and finally that the foundling is no other
  than the half-sister of the lost girl.... Other detached coincidences
  roughly hew the destinies of the family of whose fortunes this book is
  a record.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is very feminine work in all its aspects, and carries with it
  unnecessary tragedies and heartburnings. Problems such as are here
  presented offer comparatively little difficulty in real life.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 297. S. 14. 150w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.


=Wallace, Helen.= Sons of the Seigneur. $1.50. Outing pub.

                                                                7–20711.

  A romance of the days of Cromwell with its scene laid in the Island of
  Guernsey. A Royalist maid is the heroine and is loved by two brothers
  one of whom is cruel and selfish while the other runs the round of
  chance and peril to serve and protect her. The visit of King Charles
  II. to the island in disguise is made the turning point in the story
  which is full of action and feeling.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “On the whole, it is what may fairly be called a brave story of the
  type it represents.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

       + =Bookm.= 26: 82. S. ’07. 290w.

       − =Ind.= 63: 575. S. 5, ’07. 430w.

  “The book is especially noteworthy for the fascinating character of
  the heroine and the daintiness and charm of its love interest.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 170w.

  “Notable constructive ability, fertility of invention, dramatic
  imagination and good taste in the management of these various
  faculties are all evident. The author has not succeeded, however, in
  creating a historical atmosphere—the illusion of time and place.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 479. Ag. 3, ’07. 300w.


=Wallace, Lew (Lewis), general.= Lew Wallace: an autobiography. 2v.
**$5. Harper.

                                                                6–38539.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 178. F. ’07. 1800w.

  “The book is excellent reading. Errors of haste or negligence,
  including even lapses in grammar, and other more deliberate faults,
  can be found by the critical; but their enumeration would be a
  thankless task.” Percy F. Bicknell.

   + + − =Dial.= 42: 34. Ja. 16, ’07. 2180w.

  “Quite equal in vividness to his fiction is the dramatic interest with
  which General Wallace manages to invest the story of his life in some
  of its vital facts.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 1093. My. 9, ’07. 670w.

  “While it is, as a whole, entertaining, there is a diffuseness, an
  over-elaboration of small points, and a too frequent triviality which
  suggests lack of proper editorial revision. Literary merit aside, the
  value of these volumes as a contribution to American history is not
  inconsiderable.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 87. Ja. 24, ’07. 710w.

  “Nothing I have read, except, perhaps, ‘Ben-Hur,’ has so filled my
  heart and mind and thrilled me as this autobiography of General Lew
  Wallace.” Oliver Otis Howard.

   + + + =No. Am.= 183: 1294. D. 21, ’06. 1940w.

  Reviewed by Horatio S. Krans.

   + + − =Outlook.= 84: 1079. D. 29, ’06. 470w.


=Wallace, W. G.= Locomotive breakdown questions answered and
illustrated; indexed for quick reference. $1.50. Drake, F. J.

                                                                7–21741.

  Questions and answers just as they appeared in the Fireman’s magazine.
  “All of us who have shared in those informal discussions around and
  about the steel horse know their attraction, though realizing their
  casual, undecisive or disconnected nature.” (Engin. N.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This collection might, with rearrangement, excision and addition,
  serve a far more useful purpose in systematic education of the men
  whose very business is system to a degree, and who deserve and are
  always anxious to learn from those best qualified to teach them the
  principles of mechanical science related to their duties.” H. Wade
  Hibbard.

     + − =Engin. N.= 58: 293. S. 12, ’07. 560w.


=Waller, Mary Ella.= Through the gates of the Netherlands; with il.
after Lalanne and others by A. A. Montferrand, reproduced in
photogravure. **$3. Little.

                                                                6–42908.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 75. Mr. ’07.

  “Tho her knowledge of history is not particularly striking, her
  insight into human nature is quick and deep.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 912. Ap. 18, ’07. 290w.

       + =Nation.= 84: 269. Mr. 21, ’07. 680w.

  “The illustrations in this volume are excellent, and the text is full
  of conviction and enthusiasm.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 109. Ja. ’07. 60w.


=Walling, Robert A. J.= Sea-dog of Devon: a life of Sir John Hawkins.
**$1.75. Lane.

  A popular biography of Hawkins which “vindicates the hero from the
  charge of having inaugurated the British slave trade.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We are bound to say that it is not a biography in the received sense
  of the word; that it is not the first; and that it is a poor réchauffé
  of uncritical stuff.”

       − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 13. Jl. 6. 180w.

  “Mr. Walling’s book is a good, an interesting, and a useful piece of
  work.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 215. O. 1, ’07. 300w.

  “While it can hardly be called exhaustive, it is certainly readable
  and animated.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 272. O. 5, ’07. 190w.

  “Till a full biography appears, however, we shall do very well with
  this book, which is a thoroughly workmanlike narrative with fairly
  judicious comment. It has a strong flavour of hero-worship to be sure,
  but we do not wish it to be without that, even though a hero
  worshipper can scarcely be the best of judges.”

     + − =Spec.= 98: 718. My. 4, ’07. 1250w.


=Wallington, Nellie Urner.= Historic churches of America; with an
introd. by E: E. Hale. **$2. Duffield.

                                                                7–31235.

  Mrs. Wallington has made her study cover nearly seventy historic
  churches of America. It traces “in some detail the first steps which
  were taken in different parts of the nation by persons of distinct
  religious motive who had exiled themselves from Europe and who meant
  to maintain their allegiance to a living God.” The book is finely
  illustrated.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Brief but entertaining sketches.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 427. D. 16, ’07. 90w.

  “The descriptions are picturesquely given and through the whole book
  there is traced in detail the growth of the various religious
  movements which took their starting point from the days of the
  colonies and have found their outward expression in many notable
  edifices thruout the country.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 100w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

  “There is not as much information as one expects in a work of this
  kind.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 758. N. 30, ’07. 140w.


=Walpole, Sir Spencer.= Studies in biography. *$4. Dutton.

                                                                7–29124.

  Biographical essays upon celebrated men; including Peel, Cobden,
  Disraeli, Gibbon, Lord Dufferin, Lord Shaftesbury, Bismarck, and
  Napoleon III. A chapter upon “Some decisive marriages in history,”
  concludes the volume.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “They deserve to be read for their balance of judgment and orderly
  presentment of fact.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 288. Mr. 9. 720w.

  “It should be added that the reader receives from all these essays an
  impression as stimulating as if he had had a quiet and illuminating
  conversation with a man of wide observation and fruitful reflection.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 254. O. 16, ’07. 470w.

  “The essays in the present volume are all readable, and have to a high
  degree the human interest which differentiates biography from general
  history.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 226. Jl. 25, ’07. 230w.

  “In the main, here as elsewhere, Sir Spencer Walpole is a writer who
  will not dip his pen into the ink until he is quite sure of the
  accuracy of the assertion he is going to make. The road he takes us by
  may not afford many romantic prospects but at least the guide knows
  every inch of it.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 20. Ja. 18, ’07. 1510w.

  “We welcome these essays ... not only for their intrinsic merits, but
  because they are a sign of that trend toward biography which is needed
  for the enriching of historical studies in general.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 340. Ap. 11, ’07. 1040w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 68. F. 2, ’07. 300w.

  “These studies are notable for a temperate and judicial spirit. They
  are uniformly edifying; and though they do not sway the mind by high
  eloquence they never descend to dullness or commonplace, but win
  sympathetic assent by their workmanlike thoroughness and their
  manifest frankness.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 132. Mr. 2, ’07. 750w.

  “Sir Spencer Walpole’s volume is characterized by profound erudition
  and real literary distinction as well as by critical acumen and
  breadth of view.”

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 335. Je. 15, ’07. 1220w.

  Reviewed by W. Roy Smith.

       + =Putnam’s.= 2: 360. Je. ’07. 1000w.

  “The whole book is well worth reading, if only that we may have our
  vague knowledge of political history arranged and corrected by a
  writer who rarely suffers the informing instinct to oust the critical
  faculty.”

   + + − =Spec.= 98: 371. Mr. 9, ’07. 1390w.


=Walsh, James Joseph.= Catholic churchmen in science: sketches of the
lives of Catholic ecclesiastics who were among the great founders in
science. *$1. Dolphin press.

                                                                6–38910.

  In order to refute the charge that the Roman Catholic church is the
  enemy of science, the author has prepared brief biographies of some
  Catholic ecclesiastics who have made important contributions to
  physical science. They include: Copernicus, Basil Valentine, Linacre,
  Father Kircher, Bishop Stenson, Abbé Haüy, and Abbot Mendel.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The doctor has enhanced the value of this welcome little book by
  prefixing a short, forcible answer to the claim that science and
  religion are in conflict.”

       + =Cath. World.= 84: 548. Ja. ’07. 260w.

       + =Ind.= 62: 333. F. 7, ’07. 170w.


=Walsh, James Joseph.= Makers of modern medicine. *$2. Fordham
university press.

                                                                 7–7512.

  The volume “is not simply a series of biographies of men who have in
  the past two hundred years or so helped in building up the modern
  science of healing, written with no other view than the setting forth
  of their discoveries and their title of fame. It has an ulterior
  motive, and this motive is to show that among these men were a dozen
  at least who were content to accept the teachings of the Christian
  religion, and in particular those of the Roman Catholic branch of that
  religion.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Dr. Walsh has drawn from many sources, not always judiciously
  (certainly not judicially). These sources are often so insufficiently
  indicated that it is not easy to verify the statements that flow
  freely from his facile, sometimes almost too facile pen. The list of
  ‘makers’ will hardly satisfy all readers.”

     − + =Nation.= 84: 526. Je. 6, ’07. 320w.

  “The book, though interesting and informing in itself, is not so much
  designed as a contribution to medical history as it is to overthrow
  the notion expressed in the old saying that where there are three
  doctors there will be two atheists.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 372. Je. 8, ’07. 670w.

  “For the purpose for which they are aimed, the general instruction of
  the public in matters pertaining to medical history, they are, like
  the similar essays of Richardson, extremely entertaining and useful.”
  W. G. MacCallum.

       + =Science=, n.s. 26: 251. Ag. 23, ’07. 450w.


=Walsh, Walter.= Moral damage of war. *75c. Ginn.

                                                                6–37868.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “It is a rhetorical and aggressive, but it is also in its way a
  useful, arraignment of the war system.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 768. Mr. 30, ’07. 330w.


=Walters, Henry Beauchamp.= Art of the Greeks. $6. Macmillan.

                                                                7–35229.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 145. My. ’07.

  “The publishers have produced such a charming book in all external
  respects that it seems a pity it should not be equally satisfying to
  the mind of the classical scholar.”

     − + =Dial.= 42: 147. Mr. 1, 07. 380w.

  “As a whole the book is written with singular lucidity and charm, and
  is evidently the flower of deep and painstaking scholarship.”

       + =Int. Studio.= 32: 334. O. ’07. 260w.

  “Contains a mass of information intelligently grouped but not
  commented on.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 145. F. 2, ’07. 1300w.


* =Waltham, T. Ernest=, ed. Tangerine: a child’s letters from Morocco.
$1.50. Macmillan.

  The impressions of a little English girl during a short visit to the
  chief coast town of Morocco. “The human interest is predominant, of
  course, and it is illustrated by some good photographs of the
  Tangerines with the wonderful backgrounds of Moorish architecture.”
  (Spec.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

  “To [children] ‘Tangerine’ ought to be a charming picture-book, and a
  gift-book with a somewhat unusual interest attaching to it.”

       + =Spec.= 99: sup. 748. N. 16, ’07. 90w.


=Walton, Mrs. Octavius Frank.= Doctor Forester. $1.25. Union press.

  A hidden treasure, a secret stairway, strange footsteps heard at night
  in an old tower, all help to make the summer vacation of Dr. Forester
  a notable one. His love story, so hopelessly interwoven with that of
  his best friend, also adds excitement to his time of rest and
  recreation, but his reward more than repays his worry and distress.


=Ward, Cyrennus Osborne.= The ancient lowly: a story of the ancient
working people from the earliest known period to the adoption of
Christianity by Constantine. 2v. ea. $2. Kerr.

  In which the author traces the early history of modern socialism. “Its
  conspicuous merit is the light which it throws on the seamy side of
  life in the pre-Christian era, as revealed by the fragmentary writings
  of ancient historians and by the inscriptional discoveries of modern
  archæology. Its conspicuous defect is the strained interpretation
  given to the facts with which it is concerned, and the violent, even
  incendiary spirit in which these facts are discussed. It is, indeed, a
  work admirably calculated to inflame the already lamentably intense
  feeling of class hatred.” (Outlook.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This is manifestly not the appropriate place for the discussion of a
  purely controversial work of this kind. Mr. Ward does not write in
  English conspicuous for clearness or for grace, and his positiveness
  of statement is not reassuring and fails to inspire confidence.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 306. My. 11, ’07. 400w.

  “Undoubtedly containing much of value to the discriminating student of
  history, and obviously the result of years of arduous research, it is
  nevertheless for the general public a book of pernicious influence,
  contributing nothing to the solution of actual present-day problems
  and making for greater discontent and bitterness. One is almost
  tempted to declare that the historical method of investigation has
  seldom been more sadly misapplied.”

     − + =Outlook.= 87: 538. N. 9, ’07. 740w.


=Ward, Elizabeth Stuart (Phelps) (Mrs. Herbert D. Ward).= Man in the
case; il. by H: J. Peck. †$1.50. Houghton.

                                                                6–32116.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “It is rather surprising to find a veteran like the author employing a
  plot so worn and transparent as the plot of ‘The man in the case;’ but
  she certainly managed to make her story attractive.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 797. D. 22. 130w.

  “A good story, full of emotion and suspense, without any recourse at
  all to sensational methods.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 125. Ja. ’07. 180w.

  “The book is inadequate as a psychological study.”

     − + =Sat. R.= 103: 56. Ja. 12, ’07. 200w.


=Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.= Walled in. †$1.50. Harper.

                                                                7–33590.

  A story of a college town. Professor Ferris, a singularly strong man,
  is “walled in” by a terrible automobile accident. His months of
  convalescence reveal his enduring qualities which are contrasted with
  the impatience and frivolity of his butterfly wife. The story follows
  the love of this man for two women, one whose waywardness is her own
  undoing and one whose strength and beauty of character bring their own
  reward.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Told in somewhat long-drawn-out fashion.”

       − =Outlook.= 87: 744. N. 30, ’07. 150w.


=Ward, Lester Frank.= Applied sociology: a treatise on the conscious
improvement of society by society. *$2.50. Ginn.

                                                                6–23549.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “It is an epoch making work. Not only is it a contribution to social
  science of first-rate value; but it is also of fundamental practical
  interest to education. No other book has done so much to reveal the
  true function of knowledge.” George Elliott Howard.

   + + + =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 854. My. ’07. 1830w.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 76. Mr. ’07.

  “Whether one agrees with all Dr. Ward’s thesis or not, he will profit
  by a careful study of this book. In correctness of statement, and in
  rigorous application of scientific methods, it is to be commended to
  all who have occasion to write upon matters social.” Carl Kelsey.

   + + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 487. N. ’06. 990w.

  “While exhibiting some of the characteristic defects of its class, Mr.
  Ward’s work is always marked by vigorous thinking and seldom, fails to
  prove interesting and suggestive.”

   + + − =Nation.= 83: 502. D. 27, ’06. 650w.

  “This great book is a noble crown to the author’s philosophy. No
  writer has presented so powerfully the claims of education as a
  conscious social policy. No one has so vindicated the worth of the
  teacher’s work.” Edward Alsworth Ross.

   + + + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 356. Je. ’07. 960w.


=Wardle, Jens.= Artistic temperament. †$1.50. McClure.

                                                                7–21364.

  “Mr. Stephen Cartmel is a painter. He is engaged to a young woman with
  a rich father, and all the qualities which serve best to steady a man
  with the artistic tendency to flit from flower to flower. She is not
  beautiful, but she is serious, womanly, and staying and she loves him
  protectingly. Then Mr. Stephen Cartmel journeys by cab into Tooting to
  call upon a neglected school friend.... And he meets the friend’s
  pretty wife—who began by being his typist, and has been starving all
  her life for art, romance, and beauty. Delia Blaicklock sits to Mr.
  Cartmel for her portrait—and the artistic temperament gets in its
  work.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This novel is quite as tiresome as its title would lead us to
  expect.”

       − =Acad.= 72: 295. My. 23, ’07. 480w.

  “There is not a dull page in it. Like many English novels which ought
  to sell better in this country than they do, it strikes deep, keeping
  a firm hold on elemental things in human nature.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 208. Ag. 10, ’07. 380w.

       + =Nation.= 85: 122. Ag. 8, ’07. 550w.

  “Miss Wardle manages the theme admirably—with insight, humor,
  comprehension, sympa-

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 476. Ag. 3, ’07. 660w.


=Waring, Henry F.= Christianity and its Bible: a text-book for private
reading. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.

                                                                7–19773.

  Addresses the audience of “clear-eyed middle-men between the
  specialists and the ordinary readers.” It surveys the whole religious
  field in a practical trustworthy manner, “gives pigeon-holes,” as the
  author says, “in which to put the valuable results of all future
  hearing, reading. and study concerning religious themes.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The task is well done, and the book will be of great value to all who
  are thoughtfully interested in its theme.”

       + =Bib. World.= 29: 479. Je. ’07. 80w.

  “It is both a trustworthy and a useful book, well adapted to increase
  religious intelligence in a period of mingled joy and faith.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 790. Ag. 10, ’07. 140w.


=Waring, Luther Hess.= Law and the gospel of labor. *$1. Neale.

                                                                7–29710.

  A two part study, whose aim is to present, first, the law of the land,
  and, secondly, the highest law known to man,—the gospel of Jesus
  Christ.


=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.

                                                                 6–9259.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 76. Mr. ’07.


=Warner, Horace Everett.= Cricket’s song and other melodies. **$1.
Lippincott.

                                                                7–31376.

  Two score and ten poems which are concerned with life, here and
  hereafter, with mother love, Indian legend, the roar of the weird and
  thunder of man made things.


=Warren, Ina Russelle=, comp. Under the holly bough: a collection of
Christmas poems. $1.50. Jacobs.

                                                                7–36928.

  An anthology of Christmas verse from writers old and new which
  presents the subject in a variety of phases, “from the holy sound of
  the Christmas chimes, heralding the Day of days, to the merry laugh of
  the little child over its toys.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A particularly attractive Christmas anthology.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 382. D. 1, ’07. 90w.


=Warren, Thomas Herbert.= Magdalen college, Oxford. (College
monographs.) *75c. Dutton.

  A history of Magdalen college by its present Head and Vice-Chancellor,
  from its foundation in the dawn of the renaissance to the present.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It contains as much local history as the general public is likely to
  desire, and some interesting notes on the customs and worthies of
  Magdalen.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 120. Ag. 8, ’07. 180w.

  Reviewed by Goldwin Smith.

       + =Outlook.= 87: 78. S. 14, ’07. 1450w.

  “Mr. Warren has given us a most interesting account of his college.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 804. My. 18, ’07. 260w.


=Warren, Waldo Pondray.= Thoughts on business. $1.25. Forbes.

                                                                7–33622.

  A collection of more than two hundred editorials which have been
  contributed to leading newspapers and have been called good by
  prominent business men the country over. The general captions under
  which the short talks are grouped are: Starting points,
  Self-improvement, About methods, Developing the workers, With the
  manager, Buying and selling, Words by the way, and Gleanings.


=Washburne, Marion Foster.= Family secrets. †$1.25. Macmillan.

                                                                7–14264.

  Monologues which reveal the secrets of the inner sanctuary of the true
  home. The revelator is a woman who when reverses come goes with her
  husband to a little farm on the edge of a manufacturing town. She
  lives for life’s sake, learns its values and the competence of love,
  and believes that when women discover their social unequals, and
  cherish them till they grow into social equals, then we shall begin to
  get at the real secrets of that family which is the human race. She
  says: “We must recognize that the brotherhood of man presupposes not
  only the Fatherhood of God. but also the Motherhood of essential
  woman.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 274. Ap. 27. ’07. 50w.

  “A slender but not unpleasing narrative gives a certain coherence to
  what is essentially a series of lay sermons upon many important
  problems of domestic and social life.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 365. Je. 8, ’07. 400w.

  “It is a kind of informal philosophy of the family life, very
  pleasantly written, with a good deal of shrewdness and humor, and in a
  wholesome attitude toward the trials, vexations, and tragedies of life
  and character.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 255. Je. 1, ’07. 280w.


=Washington, Booker T.= Frederick Douglass. (American crisis
biographies.) **$1.25. Jacobs.

                                                                 7–8512.

  A sympathetic study of a career which was identified with the race
  problem in the period of revolution and liberation. The sketch reveals
  Douglass as the personification of the historical events that marked
  the transition from slavery to citizenship.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It will interest both the student of history, and the student of
  life—the ordinary reader.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 173. O. ’07. S.

  “The book is exceedingly clear and simple in its style.” R. R. Wright,
  jr.

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 623. N. ’07. 320w.

  “The book deserves a better index.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 397. O. 5. 1620w.

  “The story is well told, with enthusiasm and admiration of the hero,
  but with self-repression, dignity, and a high degree of ability as a
  biographer.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 345. Je. 1. ’07. 280w.

  “A tale at once moving and picturesque.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 251. Ap. 20, ’07. 1000w.

  “It is remarkable because it gives with great frankness, great
  impartiality, and an entire absence of bitterness of spirit, the views
  of both men respecting slavery, reconstruction, the political rights
  and duties of the negro, and the relations between the races.”

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 76. My. 11. ’07. 280w.

  “The old story of the growth of the movement for abolition, and of
  Douglass’s concern with it, was well worthy of being told again. It is
  told in these pages simply, clearly and as fully as the limits of such
  a biography admitted—better told, one is inclined to say than in
  Douglass’s own version.” Montgomery Schuyler.

       + =Putnam’s.= 3: 105. O. ’07. 290w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 635. My. ’07. 140w.

  “He has found an eminently worthy biographer.”

       + =Spec.= 99: 437. S. 28. ’07. 510w.


=Washington, Booker T., and Du Bois, W: E. Burghardt.= Negro in the
South: his economic progress in relation to his moral and religious
development; being the William Levi Bull lectures for the year 1907.
**$1. Jacobs.

                                                                7–21310.

  An objective study of the influence of slavery including two lectures
  by Mr. Washington and two by Mr. Du Bois, as follows: The economic
  development of the negro race in slavery; The economic development of
  the negro race since its emancipation; The economic revolution in the
  South; and Religion in the South.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 174. O. ’07.

         =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 502. O. ’07. 230w.

  “Du Bois is a dreamer, a rhapsodist, a sort of embodied consciousness
  of the doom of his race. He writes always with tragic intensity and
  drifts infallibly from facts and arguments to impassioned upbraidings.
  anathemas, panegyrics. Booker Washington, a practical man and no
  dreamer or poet, writes otherwise. He cannot see the tragic end. His
  eye is fixed upon the present and the immediate future. He is made an
  optimist by the good things he sees his race has already got and is
  getting. He strives practically and sensibly to enable that race to
  get as much as possible without alarming the other race.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 429. Jl. 6, ’07. 2070w.

  “They contain an excellent summing up from the negro’s point of view
  of the conditions, both adverse and favorable, under which the
  Southern negro is gradually working out his own salvation.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 640. N. ’07. 90w.


=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.

                                                                6–25624.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “With more skilful editing and arrangement, and with a boldly applied
  pruning hook, they would supply material for a vivid and sympathetic
  sketch of Washington in the rôle of Cincinnatus.”

       + =Spec.= 98: sup. 652. Ap. 27, ’07. 360w.


=Watanna, Onoto, pseud. (Mrs. Winnifred Eaton Babcock) (Mrs. Bertrand
Babcock).= Diary of Delia: being a veracious chronicle of the kitchen
with some side-lights on the parlour. †$1.25. Doubleday.

                                                                7–18102.

  “Delia is the maid-of-all-work for a ‘family of six,’ and so well is
  she rendered that one gets an unaccustomed serious glimpse at many
  things perhaps before unseen, through reading her diary, the humor of
  which also exists independently of its simplified spelling à la
  Irlandais. From that phrase it follows that Delia’s heart is in the
  right place, so we know at once where her sympathies will be in her
  young mistress’s love affair, and divine with equal certainty and
  pleasure her ultimate possession of a sweetheart of her own.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a pity that the author did not elect to tell the history of her
  heroine in some other language intelligible to human beings. To say
  that the book is lacking in any vestige of humor is not derogatory,
  for no one expects humor in Yahoo or Tibetan.”

       − =Lit. D.= 35: 26. Jl. 6, ’07. 290w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 180w.

  “The comedy is good enough to inspire an occasional laugh, especially
  when it runs into farce, and there are now and then some touches of
  self-revelation of character by Delia and her friend Minnie that are
  done rather deftly.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 418. Je. 29, ’07. 230w.

       + =Outlook.= 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 90w.


=Waterman, Nixon.= Boy wanted: a book of cheerful counsel. $1.25.
Forbes.

                                                                6–46363.

  Advice and incentive are happily united for the enterprising boy. The
  keynote of the book is sounded in the following:

           Ask no favors of “luck,”—win your way like a man;
             Be active and earnest and plucky;
           Then your work will come out just about as you plan
             And the world will exclaim, “Oh how lucky.”


=Waters, N. McGee.= Heroes and heroism in common life: an appreciation
of the things of every day life. **$1.25. Crowell.

                                                                7–29737.

  A group of essays which turn back to the waysides and neglected places
  where have dwelt masters of plain living and high thinking. A book to
  be added to the simple-life literature of the library.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The papers ... are quietly and pleasantly written, and while much of
  their thought is commonplace, there are many passages of tender
  feeling and vivid description which show appreciation of all that is
  most beautiful in both nature and mankind.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 636. O. 19, ’07. 180w.


=Watson, Gilbert.= Caddie of St. Andrew’s. †$1.50. Holt.

  The caddies of St. Andrew’s golf course were a pathetic group of
  Scotch failures—fishermen who, worn out by their strenuous calling,
  had drifted to the links. The particular caddie who gives the book its
  title is Skipper, a cheerful old philosopher and toper whose rigid
  daughter is the dread of his easy-going existence. His view of life
  and the things to which it brings him form the story, which, though
  full of Scotch humor, is nevertheless a tragedy.


=Watson, Gilbert.= Voice of the South. *$2.50. Dutton.

  “While descriptive of some travels in southern Algeria, the book is a
  narrative dealing with the return of an Arab to his desert home....
  Athman, the hero in the book, is a poet, musician, and guide.... The
  traveler was taken to many beautiful oases, including Sidi Okba, until
  one day ... the guide and his employer, Sidi, as he called him, went
  into an Arab café and there saw a desert woman dance.... She danced to
  desert music the dance of the desert—the South—and Athman’s homeland.
  Athman fell in love with her. The Sidi tried to buy her away from him,
  but Athman drove away one dark night and was never heard of or seen
  again.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We would recommend ‘The voice of the South’ to all who have a taste
  for good prose. To define or describe a good style is always
  difficult; but in this particular case it is chiefly apparent in the
  simple and adequate narrative, and in the descriptive passages, which
  without being either pre-Raphaelite or impressionist, make us see
  sufficiently all the important detail, and at the same time realise
  the effect of the whole.”

     + + =Acad.= 70: 379. Ap. 21, ’06. 870w.

  “A chatty, descriptive narrative.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 133. F. 3. 150w.

  “The clear, suggestive and beautiful pictures of people, places, and
  especially camels, bring you back to geographic reality from a
  placeless world of fancy.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 405. N. 24, ’06. 380w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 612. S. 29, ’06. 310w.


=Watson, Helen H.= Andrew Goodfellow: a tale of 1805. $1.50. Macmillan.

  The author’s first story which has its setting in the town of Plymouth
  Dock during the time of Nelson. Its chief interest is concerned with
  the sea.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This lack of artistic treatment is to be regretted, as the author has
  made an interesting choice of characters.”

     + − =Acad.= 71: 612. D. 15, ’06. 130w.

  “We think it prettily handled and successfully rendered.”

       + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 826. D. 29. 210w.

  “There is nothing original, nothing, indeed, remarkable. It is a happy
  example of a simple thing done well.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 5: 417. D. 14, ’06. 240w.

  “It must be classed as better than the average of novels. It cannot be
  said that the author succeeds in creating much historical atmosphere.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 66. F. 2, ’07. 410w.

  “The story is told in a frank, open-hearted way, with no subtlety and
  without much literary art.”

     + − =Outlook.= 85: 41. Ja. 5, ’07. 30w.

  “The book is ably written and the plot well constructed, though the
  only character that the author has carefully worked out is that of the
  hero, Andrew Goodfellow.”

       + =Spec.= 97: 1084. D. 29, ’06. 190w.


=Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott.= Midsummer day’s dream. †$1.50.
Appleton.

                                                                6–31656.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “It is not often that a story which is written with such buoyancy is
  also written with such care as Mr. Marriott Watson invariably bestows
  upon his work.”

       + =Acad.= 72: 143. F. 9, ’07. 290w.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 52. F. ’07. ✠

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 129. F. 2. 440w.

  “The vein of light and fanciful comedy in which this story is written
  makes of it a charming piece of work.” Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 42: 226. Ap. 1, ’07. 230w.

  “As a provocative of clean and wholesome gayety, ‘A midsummer day’s
  dream’ would be hard to beat.” Herbert W. Horwill.

     + + =Forum.= 38: 552. Ap. ’07. 270w.

  “It never palls, because the author’s spirits never lag, and his
  inventiveness never grows stale. Mr. Watson is a master of dialog that
  sparkles and amuses; he turns it, gives it grace and charm, yet never
  twists it violently for the sake of effect.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 1035. My. 2, ’07. 160w.

  “It is a delicious book.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 37. F. 1, ’07. 550w.

  “Unfortunately the story drags: Mr. Watson’s hand is not quite light
  enough for a successful soufflé.”

     − + =Sat. R.= 103: 305. Mr. 9, ’07. 200w.


=Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott.= Privateers. †$1.50. Doubleday.

                                                                 7–2061.

  A young English girl, who unknown to herself, is the possessor of a
  block of valuable railroad stock is pursued by two unscrupulous
  American speculators. “There are 395 pages in Mr. Watson’s story and
  it is certainly no exaggeration to say that there is at least one
  hair-disturbing sensation for every third page, exclusive of the
  numerous illustrations, which are designed to furnish little extra
  shudders of their own.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The story is well-planned and ably engineered, but there is too much
  of every thing; if the author has been less generous, the reader could
  follow these extraordinary happenings with equal pleasure and
  considerably less fatigue.”

     + − =Acad.= 73: 872. S. 7, ’07. 360w.

  “He belongs ... to the select body which we once called the ‘Higher
  sensationalists,’ and of which Stevenson is the master.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 232. Ag. 31. 230w.

  “We cannot say very much for Mr. Watson’s Americans. Their acts and
  their words are reflections of an Englishman’s fertile imagination
  rather than products of observation.” Wm. Payne.

     + − =Dial.= 42: 226. Ap. 1, ’07. 160w.

  “It is a fast and furious melodrama written for the special delight of
  the gallery gods.”

       − =Ind.= 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 320w.

  “Flesh and blood are essential to stir the emotions, and these men and
  women are solid wax.”

       − =Lit. D.= 34: 386. Mr. 9, ’07. 160w.

  “Having not a moment to enter into poor Sylvia’s feelings, he has left
  her a mere figurehead.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 278. S. 13, ’07. 440w.

  “A toy-house of slang, not without surface glitter and iridescence,
  though of no substance.”

     − + =Nation.= 84: 85. Ja. 24, ’07. 380w.

  “Strikes one as nearing the limit of laboriously ingenious
  sensationalism. One is forced to assume that Mr. Watson dwells in some
  particularly remote and inaccessible part of the British Isles to
  which Americans of flesh and blood never have penetrated.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 56. Ja. 26, ’07. 630w.

  “A crude piece of preposterous sensationalism.”

       − =Outlook.= 85: 378. F. 16, ’07. 70w.


=Watson, John (Ian Maclaren, pseud).= Graham of Claverhouse; il. by
Frank T. Merrill. 50c. Authors and newspapers assn.

                                                                7–14589.

  “A tale of love, adventure, intrigues, and swagger, of incomparable
  Scottish knights and beautiful Highland maidens. The protagonist of
  the highly exciting drama is a brilliant and picturesque figure, well
  known to Scottish traditions, the hitherto almost neglected by writers
  of romance. John Graham, of the famous house of Claverhouse and
  kinsman of the great Montrose, is almost ideally adapted for the hero
  of what has come to be called a historical novel. Beautiful as
  Antinoüs, and a veritable Mars for valor, he completely dominates the
  lively chronicle.”—Lit. D.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is no trace of unfairness in this presentment of the cavalier
  by the Presbyterian, and the portrait is attractive.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 1153. My. 16, ’07. 330w.

  “It is a highly colored and on the whole a satisfactory picture of
  Scottish chivalry that Dr. Watson has given us.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 842. My. 25, ’07. 280w.


=Watson, John (Ian Maclaren, pseud.).= Inspiration of our faith:
sermons. **$1.25. Armstrong.

                                                                5–41620.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “These twenty-nine sermons may indeed be called a contribution to
  sermonic literature. Here is rare spiritual insight, winning appeal,
  poetic beauty of expression.” T. G. S.

       + =Bib. World.= 29: 76. Ja. ’07. 160w.


=Watson, W. Petrie.= Future of Japan; with a survey of present
conditions. *$3.50. Dutton.

  Mr. Watson “aims to predict the trend of Japan’s development, but he
  does so by analyzing and reasoning about the Japan of to-day, its
  tendencies, conditions, ‘atmosphere,’ and aspirations. The book is not
  so much one which records achievements or glances at historical
  perspectives as one which takes up basic aspects of character and
  derives by philosophical induction a knowledge of what is to be
  expected.” (Outlook.) Mr. Watson’s conclusion is “that Japanese
  development will not materially influence the civilization of the
  west; that as a universal fact Japan is almost negligible; that she
  will try to carry out her destiny without the aid of religion, yet
  that so far as she will attain success, it will be more and more upon
  Western lines.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Yet, though one may dissent from Mr. Watson’s conclusions (perhaps on
  account of a bias as purely personal as his own) full justice should
  be rendered to the absorbing and stimulating qualities of his book. In
  it the salient characteristics of Japanese life and mentality are
  admirably brought out.” Osman Edwards.

     + − =Acad.= 72: 477. My. 18, ’07. 1540w.

  “We would, however, willingly exchange much of his philosophy for more
  of his information.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 38. Jl. 13. 450w.

  “If the author has learned from original sources the actual workings
  of the Japanese mind, and if he were more familiar with ... the great
  transforming forces evident in the press, the literature, and the life
  of the nation, especially since the outbreak of the war with
  Russia,—his opinions might have been quite different.”

     + − =Dial.= 43: 284. N. 1, ’07. 900w.

  “Entirely too subjective in attitude and overloaded with references to
  things occidental, the text shows slight acquaintance with real
  Japanese thought or origins.”

     − + =Ind.= 63: 759. S. 26, ’07. 430w.

  “No falling off in the author’s latest contribution to the study of
  the various aspects of Japanese life.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 179. Je. 7, ’07. 1240w.

  “Mr. Watson, to be a true prophet, ought not only to have become
  familiar with the results of research and the facts of actual history,
  but he ought to have known far more than his pages would lead us to
  suppose he does know about the actual state of Christianity in Japan
  and the real mind of the leaders of the nation.”

     + − =Nation.= 85: 309. O. 3, ’07. 1120w.

  Reviewed by George R. Bishop.

   + + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 556. S. 14, ’07. 2700w.

  “Extremely valuable book.”

     + + =Outlook.= 86: 791. Ag. 10, ’07. 410w.

  “Mr. Watson takes himself very seriously, and has evidently devoted an
  immense amount of thought and study to the production of this book,
  which on some heads is full of interesting facts; but his facts are so
  inextricably tangled up with his theories that the process of
  disentanglement is a greater task than human nature cares to
  undertake.”

     − + =Sat. R.= 104: 19. Jl. 6, ’07. 1180w.


=Watson, William.= Text-book of practical physics. *$3. Longmans.

  “A treatise on physical measurements, or experimental physics; no
  description of phenomena or laws is included.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The descriptions are throughout clear and detailed, but the author
  has perhaps erred by sometimes giving unnecessarily minute directions
  as to points of minor importance.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 137. F. 2. 750w.

  “Both the arrangement of the text and its style are excellent.”

       + =Engin. N.= 57: 193. F. 14, ’07. 90w.

  “The diagrams are very clear, and serve their purpose of elucidating
  the text better than elaborate pictures of apparatus.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 314. S. 14, ’06. 280w.

  “Schoolmasters should have a copy for reference and for their higher
  work.” S. S.

       + =Nature.= 76: 99. My. 30, ’07. 780w.

  “Any student specializing in physics ought to be acquainted with the
  contents of the book.” K. E. Guthe.

       + =Science=, n.s. 26: 341. S. 13, ’07. 260w.


* =Wayne, Charles Stokes.= Marriage of Mrs. Merlin. †$1.25. Dillingham.

                                                                7–26961.

  The unique situations growing out of a wealthy young widow’s purchase
  of a husband constitute the fabric of this tale. Mrs. Merlin seeks out
  a good looking, broad-shouldered young Englishman, offers him the sum
  of twenty thousand pounds to marry her and protect her during a year
  of travel; at the end of which time either may end the contract.
  Shadows out of the past flit across the path of each which are
  dissipated by the growing faith in each other. The year’s end brings
  to them an earldom and proves that their trial marriage has been
  successful enough to endure.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is all very foolish and a little improper, but peculiarly
  ingenious and interesting withal.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 200w.


=Weale, B. L. Putnam=, ed. Indiscreet letters from Peking; being the
notes of an eye-witness, which set forth in some detail, from day to
day, the real story of the siege and sack of a distressed capital in
1900—the year of the great tribulation. **$2. Dodd.

                                                                7–14591.

  “This volume is really the story, not the history, of the siege of the
  legations in Peking, of the relief of the besieged, and of the sack of
  the city. Interesting sidelights are cast upon the actions of the
  diplomatic representatives of allied Europe and America, and ...
  [there are] comments upon the way the different international troops
  behaved during the siege.”—R. of Rs.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “These letters bear the hall-mark of truth and raise the wish that it
  had not been necessary to edit them as ruthlessly as they are said to
  have been edited. Though his style is vivid he lays no undue emphasis
  on horrors for their own sake. He writes with that kind of restraint
  which is convincing, and which goes to make these letters one of the
  most remarkable documents we have ever read.”

   + + − =Acad.= 72: 235. Mr. 9. ’07. 1350w.

  “This ‘catch penny’ title is descriptive of the contents of the
  volume.”

       − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 635. My. 25. 360w.

  “One cannot easily recall a more vivid picture of what a siege really
  is. The value of [the chapter, ‘How I saw the relief,’] as fiction is
  doubtful. As history its interest is great, but more than any other
  portion of the book it requires the support of authority. If it is to
  stand as authentic history, it constitutes a chapter that will be
  willingly forgotten by every one save the student of mob psychology.”
  Edward Clark Marsh.

     + − =Bookm.= 25: 288. My. ’07. 1620w.

  “The reader cannot help feeling that the narrative is colored, that
  the real facts cannot have been quite so lurid or the characters of
  the men and women quite so mean as they are here portrayed. But after
  all deductions are made, the story here given, of the warning, the
  siege, and sack, is remarkably interesting, even tho it is full of
  horrors.”

     + − =Dial.= 43: 67. Ag. 1, ’07. 310w.

  “Vivid and remarkably good reading the account is, almost throughout,
  although too often the author or editor strives too patently after his
  effect.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 570. Je. 20, ’07. 480w.

  “They are certainly indiscreet, for they are frank and outspoken in
  regard to the blindness of the British government, and they are full
  of spirit and picturesqueness.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 144. Mr. 9, ’07. 230w.

  “The note of high tension, so high that it is almost hysterical, runs
  through all the pages.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 284. My. 4, ’07. 660w.

  “He writes with the pen of a scandalmonger; he sees the events as they
  happen around him with the eye of the yellow journalist.”

       − =Outlook.= 86: 36. My. 4, ’07. 280w.

  “For vivid descriptive writing this story ... has seldom been equaled
  in our experience.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 636. My. ’07. 140w.

  “The accounts given of many incidents of the siege are Zolaesque in
  their grimness of detail and, to give Mr. Weale credit, his word
  pictures are well drawn. He tells blood-curdling stories with a gusto
  which may appeal to the morbid fancy of a certain class of readers,
  but there are many who will want to put down his book, with the
  feeling that they wish to read no more.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 240. F. 23, ’07. 1100w.

  “The letters are strong and lurid, brutal in realism, often brutal in
  cynicism, and invariably clever.”

     + − =Spec.= 37: 256. F. 16, ’07. 1700w.


=Weale, B. L. Putnam.= Truce in the East and its aftermath: being the
sequel to “The reshaping of the Far East.” **$3.50. Macmillan.

                                                                7–12875.

  A frank analysis and discussion of the factors that go to make what is
  known as the “Far Eastern problem.” The study resolves itself into
  three parts: Japan and the new position. China and the Chinese, and
  The powers and their influence. The author warns his reader against
  over confidence in the ten years’ truce now in operation, yet he does
  believe that it will be one of the greatest constructive victories of
  diplomacy, if, during nine years of the Anglo-Japanese alliance, a
  permanent Far Eastern peace is evolved. There are nearly two hundred
  pages of appendices including documents peculiarly pertinent to the
  subject-matter of the political chapters.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “With his presentment of facts it would be difficult to quarrel, but
  with the conclusions ... it is not easy to agree.”

     + − =Acad.= 73: 673. Jl. 13, ’07. 950w.

  “The book is an admirable presentation of the impressions of one of
  the closest observers of Oriental politics.” Chester Lloyd Jones.

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 189. Jl. ’07. 870w.

  “His book is not convincing. It is too confident in statement, too
  dramatic in expression, and knows more of the future of half of Asia
  than it is possible for any one even to guess at—above all, any
  European. Mr. Weale is always lucid, and even when we are least
  convinced by his conclusions, we feel that they have been honestly
  formed upon a fairly wide basis of knowledge, experience, and
  thought.”

     − + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 433. Ap. 13. 1520w.

  “A genuine pupil of such men as Sir Harry Parkes and other devotees of
  a diplomatic policy increasingly absolute, he takes himself entirely
  too seriously.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 758. S. 26, ’07. 350w.

  “An interesting contribution to the discussion.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 113. Ap. 12, ’07. 660w.

         =Nation.= 84: 571. Je. 20, ’07. 350w.

  Reviewed by George R. Bishop.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 348. Je. 1, ’07. 1980w.

       + =Outlook.= 86: 436. Je. 22, ’07. 90w.

  “His penetrating insight and shrewdness of observation in combination
  with a broad and minute knowledge, give, a firmness of touch that
  inspires a strong feeling of confidence in the author’s opinions.” G:
  Louis Beer.

     + + =Putnam’s.= 2: 746. S. ’07. 910w.

  “Few writers on the Far East can be as vivid, entertaining, and at the
  same time as accurate and informing.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 636. My. ’07. 280w.

  “The student of the Far Eastern politics will appreciate the clear
  grouping of topics, and the ordinary reader will find himself in a
  position to estimate more clearly the play of forces that have—for
  good or evil—been set in motion.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 784. Je. 22, ’07. 1910w.


=Weatherford, W. D.= Fundamental religious principles in Browning’s
poetry. $1. Pub: House M. E. ch. So.

                                                                7–23628.

  “Mr. Weatherford has made a thorough study of Browning’s works, has
  gathered up his views on the great fundamentals, has arranged them in
  systematic order, and has put them in plain and lucid prose. Browning
  interpreted nature, man and life; and Mr. Weatherford has interpreted
  Browning’s interpretation.”


=Webb, Sidney, and Webb, Beatrice.= English local government, from the
revolution to the municipal corporations act; the parish and the county.
*$4. Longmans.

                                                                6–40962.

  The first volume of five or six to be devoted to the history of local
  government in England during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
  It covers the government of the parish and the country, and reveals
  methods of great accuracy in the use of material.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This book is epoch-making. The completed work, as planned by the
  authors, will constitute a veritable magnum opus both in scope and in
  quality, to judge by this splendid installment.” George Elliott
  Howard.

   + + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 631. Ap. ’07. 1050w.

  “Altogether it may be said that every student of English local history
  or administration will now have to read this book with care, and every
  such student is to be congratulated on having such a key to his
  subject.” Edward P. Cheyney.

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 191. Jl. ’07. 580w.

  “If we may venture to offer a suggestion in face of the immense
  industry this book reveals, the authors do not seem to have made much
  use of a most important source—the Privy council registers. There is
  little to correct in the authors’ work, and that only on minor
  points.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1997, 1: 95. Ja. 26. 2390w.

     + + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 58. Ja. ’07. 210w.

  “The editors have shown throughout a restrained and judicial
  temperament.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 366. N. 2. ’06. 960w.

  “The nature of the work precludes any attempt at literary finish; but
  the narrative flows easily, and, as new light is thrown at every turn
  on old and hitherto unexplored institutions, no student of English
  government will assert that the subject has been too exhaustively
  handled.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 135. F. 7, ’07. 1200w.

  “The whole shows through grasp of the subject, in principle and
  detail, lucidity of explanation and facility of expression, infinite
  care, laborious research and skill in marshalling facts and
  innumerable details. It is a book of great value to the thinking
  public and local government administrators and students, and worthy of
  its authors, who have spent years on it. No part of the book will be
  skipped by those really interested in local government.”

   + + + =Sat. R.= 102: 616. N. 17, ’06. 1530w.

  “The method seems to us as good as possible. The authors are never
  lost amid the multitude of their detail, but disentangle the lines of
  growth with masterly precision. It is a work which in its way should
  become a classic.”

   + + + =Spec.= 98: 424. Mr. 16, ’07. 470w.

  “A wholly new contribution to the history of England—a contribution
  which is invaluable on account of its thoroughness of research, the
  fulness of the authorities quoted for every important statement, and
  not least for the excellence of its arrangement and indexing.” Annie
  G. Porritt.

   + + + =Yale R.= 15: 460. F. ’07. 1420w.


=Webb, Walter Loring.= Economics of railroad construction. $2.50. Wiley.

                                                                6–35441.

  “It is designed as a manual of instruction for those engaged in the
  practical problems of railroad engineering, but it aims at the same
  time to give an insight into the problems of railroad management and
  control. With this in mind, Part 1 is devoted to the ‘Financial and
  legal elements of the problem,’ in which an excellent summary is given
  of railroad statistics, organization capitalization and valuation, and
  a chapter on methods of estimating volume of traffic. Part 2 concerns
  the ‘Operating elements of the problem,’ including motive power, car
  construction and operation, track economics, and train resistance.
  Part 3, called the ‘Physical elements of the problem,’ discusses
  distance, curvature and grades.”—Pol. Sci. Q.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A more accurate and descriptive title for Professor Webb’s book would
  have been ‘The technical problems of railroad construction and
  operation.’” Emory R. Johnson.

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 619. N. ’07. 280w.

  “The work as a whole is an excellent treatment of a subject the
  complete understanding of which is essential to those upon whom rests
  the responsibility for the economic design and improvement of
  railways. A vast amount of matter is epitomized and systematized into
  convenient compass, which considering the authority of its source,
  should commend it alike to the student and the busy contractor.”
  Walter W. Colpitts.

     + + =Engin. N.= 57: 440. Ap. 18, ’07. 2020w.

  “The condensed character of Mr. Webb’s book would hardly lead to its
  substitution for the more extended treatment given by Wellington. In
  spite of the author’s modest assertion that the lawyer or legislator
  will find in the book little or nothing of use to him, and the
  implication that the professor of social economics will pass it by,
  this little manual is well worth a careful reading by all these
  classes.” Frank Haigh Dixon.

       + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 155. Mr. ’07. 300w.


=Webster, Jean.= Jerry Junior. †$1.50. Century.

                                                                7–13435.

  The game of love is played according to new rules in this story of
  Jerry Junior, the young American who finds himself stranded at an out
  of the way Italian watering place, awaiting the coming of a delayed
  sister and aunt. He meets an American girl who lives at a near by
  villa by inauspiciously falling off a stone wall at her feet and, in
  order to know her better impersonates an Italian donkey-driver with
  earrings and a red sash. The girl is not deceived and by the time the
  donkey driver has advanced in her good graces far enough to hold her
  hand she succeeds in making him jealous both of the stranger who fell
  off the wall and of Jerry Junior, both being himself, but he doesn’t
  know that she knows. It is all very amusing and pretty.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 181. O. ’07. ✠

  “A book as airy-light, as iridescent, as inconsequential as a
  soap-bubble.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

     + − =Bookm.= 26: 80. S. ’07. 410w.

       + =Ind.= 63: 163. Jl. 18, ’07. 90w.

  “Much of the charm of the tale is due to its locale. The descriptions
  are unforced and Miss Webster has the tact not to insist on her scenic
  environment, not to force the moonlight and the snowy summits on her
  readers.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 266. Ap. 27, ’07. 350w.

  “The book like the author’s other works, is a ‘delightful bit of
  nonsense.’”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 90w.

       + =Outlook.= 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 70w.


=Weed, Walter Harvey.= Copper mines of the world. $4. Hill pub. co.

                                                                7–25687.

  “The work does not attempt to treat various properties described from
  the viewpoint of their financial merit; nor does it lead the reader
  into the deeper technicalities of physical chemistry or metallurgy. On
  the contrary it is, so to speak, a bird’s-eye view of the copper
  world, so presented as to answer such questions as: (1) Where are the
  deposits found? (2) What is the nature of the ore and its amenability
  to treatment? (3) How much of it is there? (4) What is the geologic
  occurrence? (5) What is the bearing of the observed and recorded facts
  on the probability of richness and continuity in depth? (6) What is
  the genesis of the deposit, and its bearings on the present and
  probable future production?”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Will fill an important niche in the libraries of mining men,
  investors, and students, and of those as well who are interested in
  the metal from the industrial point of view only. From the geological
  standpoint, the author has handled the subject with an undeniable
  mastery and comprehensiveness. A possible minor criticism is that, in
  Chapter 2, on ‘Production,’ some of the world’s production tables and
  diagrams are in terms of metric tons, others in terms of long tons,
  while United States statistics are given in pounds. This disparity in
  units does not facilitate off-hand comparisons by the reader.”

   + + − =Engin. N.= 58: 296. S. 12, ’07. 430w.


=Weeden, William Babcock.= War government: federal and state, in
Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Indiana, 1861–1865. **$2.50.
Houghton.

                                                                6–13925.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Many of Mr. Weeden’s characterizations and criticisms are shrewd and
  to the point, showing real insight into the problems of that troublous
  time and independence of thought in his estimates of men and measures.
  His judgments, however, are usually impressionistic, and not based on
  ordered evidence and argument.”

     + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 408. Ja. ’07. 820w.

  “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.


* =Wegmann, Edward.= Design and construction of dams. 5th ed., rev. and
enl. $6. Wiley.

                                                                7–31985.

  A revised and enlarged edition of Mr. Wegmann’s work including
  masonry, earth, rockfill, timber and steel structures also the
  principal types of movable dams. It has been carefully brought up to
  date.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A thorough and satisfactory revision.”

       + =Engin. N.= 58: 539. N. 14, ’07. 550w.

       + =Technical Literature.= 2: 459. N. ’07. 460w.


=Weikel, Anna Hamlin.= Betty Baird: a boarding-school story; il. †$1.50.
Little.

                                                                6–29775.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 23. Ja. ’07. ✠


=Weikel, Anna Hamlin.= Betty Baird’s ventures. il. †$1.50. Little.

                                                                7–31479.

  Friends of Betty Baird will be glad to follow her on a round of
  activity that begins the fulfilment of her dream to do something in
  the world. The simple things that lie nearest to her, house work,
  pickling, preserving were none too prosaic rounds for her ascent. She
  is a girl whose very enthusiasm is contagious, and whose cheer alone
  is worth any young girl’s emulation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 10w.

  “Altogether it is a very good book.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 30w.


=Weingartner, (Paul) Felix.= Post-Beethoven symphonists: symphony
writers since Beethoven; tr. from the German by Arthur Bles. *$1.75.
Scribner.

                                                                7–18586.

  An essay which treats of the contributions which Schumann, Brahms,
  Bruckner, Strauss, Schubert, Dvorak, Saint-Saëns, Berlioz and Liszt
  have made to orchestral music.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The English translation by Arthur Bles is serviceable, without being
  a model.”

     − + =Nation.= 84: 42. Ja. 10, ’07. 720w.

  “It is not the work of a skillful translator. It is full of awkward
  and unfortunate paraphrases of the original. It also shows none too
  great familiarity with German.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 28. Ja. 19. ’07. 410w.


=Weininger, Otto.= Sex and character; authorized tr. from the 6th Germ.
ed. *$3. Putnam.

                                                                 6–9695.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “It is brilliantly written, and contains at once profound reflections
  and almost laughably unfounded statements of fact. It is at times
  stimulating and suggestive, but, nevertheless, often irritating,
  because the central idea seems rather an obsession of a brilliant but
  inexperienced mind than a conception to which the writer has been
  driven by carefully considered facts.” L. A.

     + − =Nature.= 75: 481. Mr. 21, ’07. 1340w.


* =Weir, Archibald.= Introduction to the history of modern Europe. $2.
Houghton.

  The author reviews in their logical connection the chief groups of
  events which formed the groundwork of European history in the
  nineteenth century. The period covered is approximately that between
  1720 and 1820. “It treats of the political and social reforms
  introduced in the several monarchies, beginning with the opening of
  the eighteenth century; the changes brought about by the French
  revolution and by the Napoleonic despotism; the growth of personal
  liberty and political solidarity in the various countries of
  continental Europe after the downfall of Napoleon; the industrial
  revolution in England; the development of machinery and its influence
  on economics; and the advance in science; philosophy, and literature.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A somewhat unsafe guide to the unwary reader. When all has been said
  by the way of criticism, however, there is much in this work which
  makes it a most useful text-book for teachers. It does not pretend to
  be sufficient in itself; and, while they will be able to modify some
  of its conclusions by their wider reading, it will open up many lines
  of study not accessible in the usual text-books.”

     − + =Lond. Times.= 6: 263. Ag. 30, ’07. 1100w.


=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.

                                                                6–17019.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Is by no means representative of the best work now being done by
  German scholars. Professor Weiss is an able exegete, and he has
  studied the text with astounding diligence. He is fitted also by deep
  religious sympathies to be a commentator of the New Testament. The
  meaning of a particular verse he often states with surprising
  clearness. But insight into the historical processes which gave rise
  to the New Testament writings is lacking, and one who studies these
  works of evangelist and apostles in order to trace the life and growth
  of which they were a part will find little help in this commentary.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 331. F. 7, ’07. 300w.


=Weiss, Bernhard.= Religion of the New Testament; tr. from the Germ. by
G: H. Schodde. *$2. Funk.

                                                                 5–3717.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

  “It does, indeed, show wide research and much painstaking toil of the
  true German type, but it is wholly unpractical and unnecessary.”
  Robert E. Bisbee.

     + − =Arena.= 37: 218. F. ’07. 80w.


=Wells, Carolyn.= Patty’s summer days. †$1.25. Dodd.

                                                                6–30458.

  “With this volume the “Patty series” is swelled to four, and we have
  that attractive young person brought down, or rather up, to the sweet
  girl graduate stage, with just enough of more advanced festivities
  thrown in to serve as a suitable excuse for the next ... phase of her
  career.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “As delightful as its predecessors.”

       + =Bookm.= 24: 524. Ja. ’07. 30w.

  “Without seeming to lecture, Miss Wells has buried some very good
  advice for city schoolgirls in this little story of Patty’s senior
  year at the Oliphant school.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 721. N. 3, ’06. 370w.


* =Wells, Carolyn.= Rainy day diversions. *$1. Moffat.

                                                                7–28641.

  The “diversions” are grouped as follows: Uncle Bob’s astonishing
  tricks, consisting of tricks, puzzles and games, told in story form;
  Holiday amusements, full of suggestions for holiday celebrations;
  Children’s plays, giving two Christmas plays.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 210. N. ’07.

         =Ind.= 63: 1007. O. 24, ’07. 60w.

  “Offers too much mental exercise, and too little actual
  entertainment.”

       − =Nation.= 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 40w.


=Wells, David Dwight.= Parlous times. $1.50. Holt.

  Love and diplomacy play at cross purposes in Mr. Wells’ story. The
  trend of the logic of the book would tend to prove the triteness of
  the saying that “everything is fair in love and war;” the sense of
  justice, however, rules, and the woman, married to one man, but
  playing a desperate diplomatic game while attempting to win the love
  of another is no more harshly dealt with than to be brought to an
  understanding of right and of her sense of duty.


=Wells, Edward L.= Hampton and reconstruction. $1.50. State co.

                                                                7–17887.

  “Mainly an account of the nomination and election in 1876 of General
  Wade Hampton as governor of South Carolina on the ‘straightout’
  Democratic platform. Introductory chapters give an account of
  Hampton’s ancestry, his early life and training, an appreciation of
  his character, and a sketch of his service as a Confederate general in
  the civil war. In the last chapter the author speaks briefly of the
  later years of Hampton as United States senator and as retired
  citizen.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The work is interestingly written, with perhaps too much moralizing,
  and contains an abundant store of good anecdotes.”

     + − =Dial.= 43: 170. S. 16, ’07. 250w.

  “The narrative is often rambling and disjointed; and the tone, while
  sincere is too partisan for the purpose of history.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 946. O. 17, ’07. 230w.


=Wells, Herbert George.= Future in America: a search after realities.
**$2. Harper.

                                                                6–40259.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “His consideration of our economic, social, and material phases, shows
  considerable insight and sympathy. Exaggerations may easily be picked
  out, and palpable errors, not a few, but in spite of them, the
  American reader will gain a broader view, and some food for thought.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 50. F. ’07. S.

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 226. Ja. ’07. 440w.

  “It is surely impossible to class him with the critics of jaundiced
  eye, even though he quits us in a state of wistful bewilderment rather
  than in one of confident hope.” James F. Muirhead.

       + =Atlan.= 100: 563. O. ’07. 1970w.

  “Mr. Wells’s ‘Future in America’ is but the present that to-morrow
  will be the past. We had a right to expect from him a more
  philosophical, a more scientific, a farther-seeing book.” A. Schade
  van Westrum.

     + − =Bookm.= 24: 482. Ja. ’07. 1390w.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 78. Ja. ’07. 2240w.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 404. Ap. ’07. 1490w.

  “Appears to us to deserve, instead of praise, sharp censure for its
  superficiality, bad English and its frivolousness.”

       − =Educ. R.= 34: 105. Je. ’07. 20w.

  “Tho a few of the pages might have been modified had the writer
  prolonged his visit none the less they are worth perusal, not alone
  for the criticisms themselves, but also for the charm of the literary
  art with which they are expressed.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 731. Mr. 28, ’07. 640w.

  Reviewed by Garrett Droppers.

       + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 174. Mr. ’07. 1410w.

  “Mr. Wells is acute in observation, he is well informed on English
  social problems, and he reasons carefully. Never was an outside critic
  more kindly and sympathetic than Mr. Wells, and we have no doubt that
  during the next twenty years this book will be referred to and quoted
  from by every good writer on social problems, which, after all, are
  not peculiar to America.” John Perry.

       + =Nature.= 75: 265. F. 17, ’07. 1550w.

  “The book is full of quotable sentences, and nothing could prove the
  actual maturity of the American people better than the interest and
  good nature we feel in just such inadequate representations of our
  country as this is.”

     − + =Outlook.= 85: 526. Mr. 2, ’07. 390w.


=Wells, Herbert George.= In the days of the comet. †$1.50. Century.

                                                                6–34685.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The volume is scarcely to be considered as the portrayal of an ideal
  commonwealth; nor as a serious study of social conditions, while as a
  love story it is pretty weak.”

       − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 470. N. ’06. 80w.

  Reviewed by Mary Moss.

         =Atlan.= 99: 115. Ja. ’07. 170w.

  Reviewed by Madeleine Z. Doty.

         =Charities.= 17: 487. D. 15, ’06. 490w.

  “He used to spin capital yarns after an improved Jules Verne fashion,
  but his reconstructions of society are neither exciting nor plausible.
  He has deceived us by false pretenses, and we shall hereafter regard
  his books with justifiable suspicion.” Wm. M. Payne.

       − =Dial.= 42: 14. Ja. 1, ’07. 160w.

     − + =R. of Rs.= 35: 126. Ja. ’07. 100w.


=Wells, Herbert George.= Time machine; an invention. †$1. Holt.

  Instead of a comet to lead up to a new regime, Mr. Wells invents in
  his present story a time machine which flies with the narrator thru
  the future to a golden age in which the dreams of to-day, speculations
  upon the destiny of our race have become projects deliberately put in
  hand and carried forward. Among them communism, disappearance of
  disease, subjugation of Nature, warring of physical force, and the
  close resemblance of the sexes.


=Welsh, Charles=, ed. Golden treasury of Irish songs and lyrics. 2v.
$2.50. Dodge.

                                                                7–11574.

  “The present anthology ... undertakes to present the best examples of
  Irish lyrical literature, the songs of the bards of old, the
  folksongs, the street ballads, the patriotic, pathetic, and romantic
  songs of the people so far as they have been preserved, the humorous
  and convivial verse, in which also the literature of the country
  abounds. Mr. Welsh has included as well poems of the current Irish
  revival, of which Mr. Yeats and Mr. Hyde are the prophets.”—N. Y.
  Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Welsh has given us in such generous measure all that he promised,
  that it would be ungracious to grumble because he has thrown a lot of
  odds and ends into the bargain.”

     + + =Cath. World.= 86: 120. O. ’07. 450w.

         =Nation.= 84: 570. Je. 20, ’07. 1270w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 811. D. 1, ’06. 160w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 220w.

  “Mr. Welsh’s anthology is more complete than any former collection of
  Irish poetry and necessarily admits some work that does not commend
  itself to all, but this may be pardoned more readily than the omission
  of Moira O’Neill whose verse, almost more than that of its fellows, is
  fashioned of the iridescent web of smiles and tears we have learned to
  call the Celtic temperament.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

   + + − =Putnam’s.= 3: 364. D. ’07. 160w.


=Wendell, Barrett.= France of to-day. **$1.50. Scribner.

                                                                7–29424.

  “Professor Barrett Wendell aims to interpret, not one Frenchman, but
  the French people. He undertakes to portray their character, to
  explain what to the Anglo-Saxon appear to be strange contradictions in
  their conduct, to interpret their life, to a people whose temperament
  is antagonistic and whose point of view is widely different.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is delightfully entertaining, and makes for a better
  understanding of the French people, their life and their ideals.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 199. N. ’07.

  “The early chapters are full of illuminating passages. But when the
  author ceases to deal with things which he has seen, he gets out of
  his depth, and is less valuable. The book suffers a little ... from
  having been composed for American consumption, but on the whole it is
  both interesting and informing.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 686. N. 30. 1320w.

  “The work is delightfully written with a leisurely air of personal
  reminiscences and full of those secure generalities which can be made
  only as a result of genuine experience.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 35: 876. D. 7, ’07. 380w.

  “Professor Wendell’s book is both entertaining and profitable, and can
  be recommended as an introduction to the study of the French
  character.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 498. N. 28, ’07. 940w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 60w.

  “I greatly admire the book, it is full of excellent things; the author
  combines acumen with sympathy. He knows how to praise and he knows
  also how to blame, a much rarer art.” J. A. J. Jusserand.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 742. N. 23, ’07. 110w.

  “He is appreciative without being eulogistic, discriminating without
  being critical. In general his catholic spirit is wholly admirable,
  his insight keen, his conceptions clear, and his style felicitous. The
  book is a valuable contribution to an understanding of the French.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 87: 499. N. 2, ’07. 340w.

  “It is a rather keen study of the highly complex French temperament
  which Professor Wendell gives.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 639. N. ’07. 110w.

  “Whether the reader knows or does not know France, he will learn very
  much from this thoughtful book.”

     + + =Spec.= 99: 822. N. 23, ’07. 1780w.


=Wendell, Barrett.= Liberty, union, and democracy: the national ideals
of America. **$1.25. Scribner.

                                                                6–36883.

  From its beginning, back to the days of the Declaration of
  independence and the Constitution, Professor Wendell traces
  Americanism historically.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 76. Mr. ’07.

  “This is in many respects a remarkable book. Even those who disagree
  fundamentally with the brilliant generalizations of the author cannot
  deny the bristling suggestiveness on every page. The breadth of view
  and acuteness of analysis which characterize this book give it an
  unique place in our political literature.” L. S. Rowe.

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 624. N. ’07. 500w.

  “It is difficult to comprehend how a man who for a generation and more
  has been in a position of vantage from which to observe the currents
  of American political, social and intellectual life, should have had
  his provincialism so little disturbed by the almost universal
  intellectual unrest that marks contemporary America.”

     − + =Ind.= 62: 213. Ja. 24, ’06. 770w.

         =Lit. D.= 34: 178. F. 2, ’07. 250w.

  “With sober yet unconventional reflection, keen and matured insight,
  pervading reasonableness and good sense, and uncommon grace of speech,
  he has made clear some of the ideals which have made America great.
  The book should be widely read.”

     + + =Nation.= 83: 444. N. 22, ’06. 1390w.

  “The weakness of Mr. Wendell’s expository methods [is], having evolved
  a brilliant theory, ... he bends all facts to fit it.” H. W. Boynton.

     + − =No. Am.= 183: 1182. D. 7, ’07. 1250w.

  “To my mind the most satisfactory recent defence of the fundamental
  elements of American character is to be found in Barrett Wendell’s
  ‘Liberty, union, and democracy.’”

     + + =Putnam’s.= 1: 639. F. ’07. 430w.

  Reviewed by Horatio S. Krans.

       + =Putnam’s.= 2: 107. Ap. ’07. 1970w.

  “His writings on political subjects are suggestive and his
  interpretation of the American, in the main, sound and sane.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 34: 760. D. ’06. 70w.


=Werder, Karl.= Heart of Hamlet’s mystery; tr. from the German by
Elizabeth Wilder; with introd. by W. J. Rolfe. **$1.50. Putnam.

                                                                 7–6156.

  Some of the lectures delivered by Professor Werder in Berlin 1859–60,
  which graphically present his theory that Hamlet was obliged by
  circumstances to delay his revenge in order to unmask and convict the
  king. They also contain a critical summary of the whole drama and
  discussions upon other disputed points.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  Reviewed by Edward Fuller.

         =Bookm.= 26: 158. O. ’07. 360w.

         =Ind.= 63: 155. Jl. 18, ’07. 290w.

         =Nation.= 84: 390. Ap. 25, ’07. 560w.

  “Werder is an intensely matter-of-fact critic—all prose. The beauty of
  the book is that Werder has a firm grip on his argument, and
  coherently analyzes the play in its light. It is therefore, for most
  readers, a new and intelligible study of ‘Hamlet,’ and as such it will
  be welcomed.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 73. F. 9, ’07. 800w.

  “The argument is presented with great clearness and force.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 436. Je. 22, ’07. 290w.


=Wesley, John.= John Wesley’s journal. Abridged. *50c. West. Meth. bk.

  A handy one-volume edition in which the more interesting features of
  the two volume work are brought into condensed form. The main facts
  that illustrate the rise and progress of Methodism have been preserved
  in a continuous narrative.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The condensation is considerable but the most characteristic and
  valuable features of this intensely interesting human document are
  preserved, and no liberties (except of omission) have been taken with
  Wesley’s text.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 179. Mr. 16, ’07. 40w.


=Wesselhoeft, Mrs. Elizabeth F. P.= Diamond king and the little man in
gray. il. †$1.50. Little.

                                                                7–30454.

  A child’s Christmas dream in which she wanders among the elves, gnomes
  and giants of the diamond king’s realm. It is a pretty fairy tale as
  well as wholesome.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A new kind of fairy tale.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 40w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 150w.


=West, Andrew Fleming.= Short papers on American liberal education.
**75c. Scribner.

                                                                 7–8568.

  “How to combine the advantages of a large university with the peculiar
  benefits of the small college, is one of the problems of our higher
  education. Dr. Andrew Fleming West, dean of the graduate school of
  Princeton, answers it in his book ‘American liberal education,’ by the
  tutorial system now in force at Princeton, and he presents some good
  arguments in its favor, if the teachers and the taught are to know
  each other at all.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 133. My. ’07.

  Reviewed by Edward O. Sisson.

         =Dial.= 43: 286. N. 1, ’07. 440w.

       + =Ind.= 62: 742. Mr. 28, ’07. 70w.

  “The only fault reasonably to be found with the volume is that it is a
  collection of occasional papers and addresses, having much in common,
  but not dealing adequately with the highly important subject to which
  they relate. Sanity is the distinguishing quality of Prof. West’s
  little volume.” E. C.

   + + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 153. Mr. 16, ’07. 1180w.

  “Should be read by all college alumni who would keep pace with
  advancing change.”

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 764. Mr. 30, ’07. 230w.


=Westcott, Rt. Rev. Brooke Foss.= St. Paul’s epistle to the Ephesians:
the Greek text with notes and addenda. *$2.50. Macmillan.

  “The late bishop of Durham, left an all but finished commentary, which
  is here presented with an introduction and appendix to which friends
  and co-workers have supplied the larger part. The text is that of the
  last edition of Westcott and Hort’s ‘New Testament.’ Added to it are
  the Vulgate (Latin) version of the fourth century and the versions of
  Wicliff and Tyndale.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Lond. Times.= 5: 366. N. 2, ’06. 1130w.

         =Nation.= 83: 482. D. 6, ’06. 120w.

         =Outlook.= 84: 681. N. 17. ’06. 70w.

  “In his last, and unhappily almost fragmentary, commentary on
  Ephesians we find no failure. So far as we have Westcott, it is
  Westcott at his best.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 242. F. 23, ’07. 830w.


=Westcott, Rt. Rev. Brooke Foss.= Village sermons. $1.75. Macmillan.

  Forty sermons preached upon various occasions from 1852 to 1881 while
  the late Bishop of Durham was rector of a rural church.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “When the simplicity of their form and expression is considered, as
  well as the regretted personality of their author, we look to these
  sermons at once to enrich and to clarify the teaching of those who
  stand to-day in similar pulpits.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 30. Ja. 25, ’07. 480w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 12. Ja. 5, ’07. 300w.

         =Outlook.= 85: 576. Mr. 9, ’07. 70w.

  “They are for the most part direct, simple, suggestive sermons, full
  of fact and thought rather than of exhortation.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 26. Ja. 5, ’07. 190w.


=Westell, W. Percival.= British bird life: being popular sketches of
every species of bird now regularly nesting in the British Isles. $1.25.
Wessels.

  One hundred and seventy-seven species are included in this volume
  which is profusely illustrated by photographs and drawings. “Each bird
  is treated under a separate head.... Each sketch includes a brief
  description of the bird and of its eggs and nest, together with some
  comment on its habits and haunts.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Another of the cheap illustrated books which are now so much in
  vogue. Signs of weakness are perceptible with regard to unfamiliar
  species and especially respecting migrants.”

       − =Ath.= 1905, 2: 213. Ag. 12. 400w.

       − =Nature.= 72: 196. Je. 29, ’05. 580w.

  “When treating of disputed matters Mr. Westell digresses from the more
  stereotyped form into very interesting narration of personal
  experiences.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 59. F. 2, ’07. 300w.

  “The work is done very carefully and with scientific accuracy, but
  ready-made knowledge has its deficiencies; it is especially apt to
  fail in style.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 99: 601. My. 6, ’05. 100w.

  “The title is misleading, since only birds which regularly nest in the
  British Isles are included; and the alphabetical order is
  inconvenient. The information in the text is unreliable, and grammar
  as well as sense are frequently disregarded by the writer.”

       − =Spec.= 94: 752. My. 20, ’05. 110w.


=Westermarck, Edward Alexander.= Origin and development of the moral
ideas. 2v. v. 1. *$3.50. Macmillan.

                                                                6–18579.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The citations are accurate and from so many writers that this volume
  at once becomes a source book of great value. The style is compact,
  but very readable. Only in a few of the first chapters did the
  reviewer have any sense of an attempt at hair-splitting. On the whole,
  the volume is a masterly discussion of great moral questions and
  leaves one anxious to see the second.” Carl Kelsey.

   + + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 489. N. ’06. 760w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “Dr. Westermarck’s book makes good reading for all who are interested
  in the evolution of human ideas and human institutions, from the
  tariff to woman suffrage, and from capital punishment to the elective
  system in colleges and universities.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 545. Je. 13, ’07. 1470w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The interpretation of these facts may here and there be questioned,
  but the important thing is to have the facts collected so as to be
  within easy reach. Ethical theorists should find the work invaluable,
  as thus furnishing them with concrete facts to rest their theories on
  or to test their theories by. The sociologist will find illuminating
  discussion of many customs, while the general reader if interested in
  matters of universal human concern, cannot fail to get pleasure and
  instruction from the reading of the book. Altogether it is perhaps
  safe to say that the work is the most important contribution to
  ethical literature within recent years.” Evander Bradley McGilvary.

   + + − =Philos. R.= 16: 70. Ja. ’07. 3830w. (Review of v. 1.)


Western frontier stories, retold from St. Nicholas. (Geographical
stories.) *65c. Century.

                                                                7–29581.

  Sixteen stories for young readers of early frontier life which teem
  with such adventure as only western made grit can cope with. Indians,
  desperadoes, wolves and storms give the stout-hearted and quick of
  action plenty of opportunity to show their courage.


=Weston, Thomas.= History of the town of Middleboro, Mass. **$5.
Houghton.

                                                                6–23056.

  “This volume not only gives the dry facts of history and genealogy
  very fully, but also tells of the social customs of the eighteenth
  century, and supplies many pictures of and scenes in King Philip’s war
  and the French war.”—Ind.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This is an unusually interesting history of a class which ought to be
  very large, for every town should have an official historian.”

     + + =Ind.= 61: 1234. N. 22, ’06. 280w.

       + =Nation.= 84: 58. Ja. 17, ’07. 430w.

  “Does credit to all concerned in its publication.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 841. D. 1, ’06. 230w.


=Weyman, Stanley John.= Chippinge Borough. †$1.50. McClure.

                                                                6–37198.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 19. Ja. ’07.

  “There is, perhaps, nothing better in the book than the sense of
  tension everywhere prevailing on the eve of an election.” Frederic
  Taber Cooper.

     + − =Bookm.= 24: 488. Ja. ’07. 400w.

  “On the whole, we must congratulate the author upon what is very
  nearly if not quite the best of all his novels.” Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 42: 144. Mr. 1. ’07. 290w.

  “Stanley J. Weyman has come to that place as a novelist where he can
  afford to amuse himself when he writes whether he entertains the
  reader or not.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 674. Mr. 21, ’07 70w.


=Weyman, Stanley John.= Laid up in lavender. †$1.50. Longmans.

                                                                7–32320.

  “A venerable arch-deacon is entreated by a lady whom he knew in his
  youth to visit her in her illness. She is an actress, and has a
  daughter who is a well-known and beautiful actress; and he finds it
  rather embarrassing when he is asked to undertake the charge of the
  latter in the event of her mother’s death. When he does find his ward
  on his hands, he takes counsel of his son, a barrister, who gives him
  advice in the hypothetical case put to him. Of course the father,
  hoping to marry off the awkward ward to the man he has heard she
  loves, discovers this to be his own son under his writing name.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “They are all good stories, and each of them causes something of that
  feeling of excitement which Mr. Weyman knows so well how to produce.”

       + =Acad.= 73: sup. 115. N. 9, ’07. 420w.

  “[The stories] are uninspired and take the author’s reputation no
  further. Indeed, they ‘drop’ it.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 516. O. 26. 250w.

  “Slight as they are, these early sketches leave the impression that
  Mr. Weyman understood contemporary life so well that a very promising
  disciple of Trollope was lost when he turned aside to don the sword
  and buskin.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

       + =Bookm.= 26: 410. D. ’07. 350w.

  “The variety of the provender supplied in the group makes a wholesome
  and digestible banquet from nourishing soup through seasoned entrée to
  contenting coffee.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 447. N. 14, ’07. 150w.

  “None of the twelve tales has anything to raise it above the level of
  ordinary magazine fiction, and two or three of them are positively
  dull.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 711. N. 9, ’07. 100w.

  “Most of the other tales bear internal evidence of having been written
  some time ago, and the author would have been best advised to have
  kept them still laid up in lavender.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 104: 641. N. 23, ’07. 520w.


=Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth.= Italian days and ways. **$1.50.
Lippincott.

                                                                6–41526.

  The amusing experiences of “three women—one young, the others
  uncertainly older—who land at Genoa and travel through the highways of
  Italy à la American tourist.” (Nation.) The record of the travels is
  in the form of letters written by one of the older women to a friend
  at home.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Lacks the humor and buoyancy of Mrs. Wiggin’s Penelope stories but
  has much human interest and reflects considerable culture and
  appreciation of Italian sights and scenes.”

     + − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 15. Ja. ’07. S.

  “Something of the unfading charm of Italy is caught in the pages of
  Miss Wharton’s ‘Italian days and ways.’”

       + =Dial.= 41: 452. D. 16, ’06. 170w.

       + =Lit. D.= 33: 857. D. 8, ’06. 80w.

  “There is a tendency to enlarge upon trifling incidents, which
  produces the effect of padding; but the spirit of enthusiastic
  enjoyment gives a fresh view to old scenes.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 153. F. 14, ’07. 210w.

  “Her accounts of life in the various towns of Italy are as unhackneyed
  as they are simple and unaffected.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 574. Mr. 9, ’07. 50w.


=Wharton, Edith.= Fruit of the tree. †$1.50. Scribner.

                                                                7–32842.

  The interest of the first part of this story centers in the efforts of
  young John Amherst, who occupies a subordinate position in the
  management of the Westmore mills, to solve some of the industrial
  problems there presented, particularly in providing for the health and
  safety of the employes. His opportunity to carry out his cherished
  plans seems to be at hand when he gains the sympathy and interest and
  finally the love of the beautiful young widow who owns the mills. The
  marriage follows, and a little later there befalls a terrible accident
  in which the wife is hopelessly injured and to put her out of her
  pain, Justine, friend and nurse, administers an overdose of morphine.
  Justine marries Amherst who thru the blackmailing scheme of a young
  physician learns of Justine’s act and for a time is overwhelmed with
  her technical responsibility of Bessie’s death while his reason tells
  him that she is innocent.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A novel of extraordinary power and intense interest, interpreting
  American life of the present day, done with Mrs. Wharton’s usual
  subtlety, ease and precision.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 204. N. ’07. ✠

  “Though a better book than its predecessor, is not likely to provoke
  an equal amount of that heated and emotional public discussion which
  is the true sign of popularity.” Edward Clark Marsh.

     + + =Bookm.= 26: 273. N. ’07. 1300w.

  “Besides its accomplished artistry, Mrs. Wharton’s work always gives
  us the sense of ethical responsibility.” Wm. M. Payne.

       + =Dial.= 43: 317. N. 16, ’07. 580w.

     + − =Ind.= 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 330w.

     + − =Ind.= 63: 1436. D. 12, ’07. 910w.

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 920. D. 14, ’07. 140w.

  “Again Mrs. Wharton has done a difficult thing with ease and
  precision.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 352. O. 17, ’07. 970w.

  “The astonishing thing is that we close the book with the feeling
  that, after all, the execution is superior to the idea; the story is
  better told than such a story deserves to be. We admire, but we are a
  little chilled; Mrs. Wharton sits at her desk like a disembodied
  intelligence; acute and critical and entirely unsympathetic; she is as
  detached as a scientific student viewing bacilli under a microscope.”

   + + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 637. O. 19, ’07. 1000w.

  “Even better than ‘The house of mirth.’”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

  “Is not a bringer of joy, but it is penetrating in analysis, and
  evades none of the issues it raises. It lacks humor and contrast of
  character. The luxury and frivolity of a certain set of society people
  are almost too insistently driven home.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 87: 621. N. 23, ’07. 210w.


=Wharton, Edith.= Madame de Treymes. †$1. Scribner.

                                                                 7–8219.

  Mrs. Wharton’s stage is occupied by two women—one French by birth, the
  other by marriage—and an American who at forty is dabbling in the
  rather unsafe business of aiding one of them in divorce proceedings in
  order to attain his belated happiness. In transferring her point of
  observation from a New York to a Paris drawing room, Mrs. Wharton has
  made the enamel of convention only a little more brilliant, and in
  suffering it to crack to reveal a shrivelled up heart, only shows that
  underneath such gloss, life has ceased to ring true to any standards
  of spontaneity. Family, society, and the church are inexorable Molochs
  to whom must be sacrificed infant joy, freedom, hope and even courage.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Now there is much that is admirable and subtle in the story and its
  treatment. The different points of view of two types of character are
  set forth with great clearness. The story, however, loses its
  poignancy owing to the fact that these types are not individualized.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 465. My. 11, ’07. 470w.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 137. My. ’07.

  “The writing is distinguished by that blend of strength and grace
  which is characteristic of Mrs. Wharton.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 535. My. 4. 170w.

  “Whether or not in her most recently published novelette Mrs. Wharton
  gives a just evaluation to the ideals of another race, there can be no
  two opinions of the story’s literary merits.” Harry James Smith.

     + + =Atlan.= 100: 131. Jl. ’07. 550w.

  “Although a miracle of condensation, in matter, in form, and by an
  unimpeachable distinction of style, Mrs. Wharton has written a short
  story which stands entirely above criticism.” Mary Moss.

     + + =Bookm.= 25: 303. My. ’07. 1000w.

  “The author’s ideas are evaporated into Henry James subtleties, and so
  it is merely a little pamphlet of elegant discriminations.”

       − =Ind.= 62: 1528. Je. 27, ’07. 220w.

  “Mrs. Wharton’s little story is as thin as her astral shape and should
  not be mentioned except to call attention to the fact that she has
  learned to begin where Henry James leaves off.”

       − =Ind.= 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 30w.

  “Her pages exhale the undefinable atmosphere and aroma of aristocratic
  French life of the present day—a phase of life almost incomprehensible
  to the foreigner. The author’s style is full of distinction and is
  marked by those exquisite reserves that characterize the born artist.
  Slight as the volume is, it reveals artistic possibilities hitherto
  undiscerned.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 34: 640. Ap. 20, ’07. 350w.

       + =Nation.= 84: 313. Ap. 4, ’07. 710w.

  “She succeeds in painting her gray picture not so subtly that we
  forget her art, but exquisitely enough for us to recognize how fine
  that art is.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 137. Mr. 9, ’07. 1400w.

  “The precision of her technique ... the sensitiveness and significance
  of her observation, her feeling for the harmonious sentence and the
  suggestive phrase ... must always stamp her work as superior to that
  of many writers of wider sympathy and more spontaneous talent.” Olivia
  Howard Dunbar.

     + + =No. Am.= 185: 218. My. 17, ’07. 1200w.

  “A characteristic piece of work from an extremely careful and artistic
  writer.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 255. Je. 1, ’07. 150w.

  “An absolutely flawless and satisfying piece of workmanship.” Vernon
  Atwood.

     + + =Putnam’s.= 2: 616. Ag. ’07. 700w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 764. Je. ’07. 320w.

  “The great force of the French family as an organization has never
  been better treated by a foreign pen, and the little book is written
  with all the author’s usual delicacy and distinction of style.”

     + + =Spec.= 98: 764. My. 11, ’07. 90w.


=Whates, H. R.= Canada, the new nation. **$1.50. Dutton.

                                                                6–43469.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 133. My. ’07. S.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 109. Ja. ’07. 150w.

       + =Sat. R.= 102: 53. Jl. 14, ’06. 380w.


=Wheeler, W. H.= Practical manual of tides and waves. *$2.80. Longmans.

                                                                6–33569.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 252. Ap. 14, ’06. 200w.


=Whelpley, James Davenport.= Problem of the immigrant. *$3. Dutton.

                                                                5–11644.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

  “Mr. Whelpley’s conclusions are forcefully stated even though it is
  impossible to follow him in all of them.” Arthur B. Reeve.

     + − =Charities.= 17: 506. D. 15, ’06. 930w.


=Wherry, Elwood Morris.= Islam and Christianity in India and the Far
East. (The student lectures on missions at Princeton theological
seminary for 1906–’07.) **$1.25. Revell.

                                                                7–17908.

  In which the author “recounts and describes the various methods of
  conquest by which Islamism established itself in these several
  countries, how it has been modified by Hinduism, Buddhism, and
  Confucianism, and, finally, what Christianity is doing for the
  conversion of the Mohammedans of these various countries, and what
  success is attending its efforts.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is evident throughout the book a thorough knowledge of the
  history of Islamism, and also of present-day social and moral
  conditions in Mohammedan countries.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 500. Ag. 17, ’07. 200w.

       + =Outlook.= 87: 46. S. 7, ’07. 140w.


=Whinery, Samuel.= Specifications for street roadway pavements. *50c.
Eng. news.

  “After a discussion of the theory of specifications, the general
  features of specifications are considered, such as those providing for
  inspection, public convenience and safety, extra work etc. Foundations
  are then taken up, concrete, old paving stone and broken stone being
  included. Under the heading ‘Bituminous pavements’ are found asphalt,
  block asphalt and rock asphalt. The various ingredients of these
  pavements are treated in detail, and the best methods for laying each
  pavement are specified. Granite, brick and woodblock pavements are
  given ample attention, and in the closing pages paragraphs of a
  general nature, relating to all pavements, are given, including
  payments, specifications for experimental and untried pavements,
  etc.”—Technical Literature.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The pamphlet is a valuable contribution to the literature upon the
  proper construction of pavements, and will undoubtedly have much
  influence in standardizing, so far as local conditions will permit,
  specifications for this kind of work.” Edwin A. Fisher.

     + − =Engin. N.= 58: 179. Ag. 15, ’07. 1750w.

         =Technical Literature.= 2: 97. Ag. ’07. 220w.


=Whipple, George Chandler.= Value of pure water. $1. Wiley.

                                                                 7–8249.

  Here “an attempt is made from valuable data to establish formulae
  which may be employed to calculate the allowable depreciation due to
  sanitary quality, physical characteristics (colour, odour, etc.),
  hardness, etc., of a water supply.”—Nature.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This little book is planned on novel lines and deserves recognition.
  The book is suggestive and stimulating reading, the various tables add
  to its value, and we heartily commend it to the sanitarian and water
  engineer.”

     + + =Nature.= 76: 245. Jl. 11, ’07. 450w.

  “The book is well worth its price and should be found in every water
  library.” W. P. Mason.

     + + =Science=, n.s. 25: 787. My. 17, ’07. 400w.


=Whistler, Charles W.= Gerald the sheriff: a story of the sea in the
days of William Rufus. †$1.50. Warne.

  A story of life in England in the twelfth century. “It tells of the
  outlawing of a young Saxon thane, who joined wits and grievances with
  a displaced Cornish sheriff and, gathering together a hand of Saxon
  malcontents, hatched a plot for driving out the hated Norman king and
  seating in his place a Saxon heir to the throne. The tale is told in
  the first person and merely recounts the adventures which befell the
  young man and his friend as they followed their forlorn hope. But the
  adventures are perilous and exciting, and they follow close upon one
  another, until finally the chief actors win back to place and lands
  and safety.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author has made an interesting tale of swift action and high
  motives, and has told it with a simplicity and dignity of style worthy
  of a higher grade of work.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 37. Ja. 19, ’07. 410w.


=Whitaker, Herman.= Settler. †$1.50 Harper.

                                                                7–32564.

  Manitoba in its primeval loneliness is the scene of his story. A
  gently reared girl enters the wilderness to care for her brother in
  his last illness. After his death she marries a rough, crude,
  strong-hearted settler, then permits her regret for the step to drive
  the pride-hurt man from her. The situations which grow out of the
  separation and final reunion are all intensified by the savagery of
  the wild surroundings.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A rapid, active tale of adventure.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 474. N. 21, ’07. 190w.

  “Much information may be gleaned from ‘The settler’ relating to lumber
  camps and farming lands of the Canadian Northwest and to the effects
  on its industrial conditions of the scheming of railway monopolists.
  We submit that the attempted realism here, especially in the freedom
  of speech employed by the women, is, in any case, unnecessarily
  offensive.”

     + − =Outlook.= 87: 828. D. 14, ’07. 150w.


=Whitcomb, Ida Prentice.= Young people’s story of art. $2. Dodd.

                                                                6–38344.

  A concise and interesting sketch of the Egyptian, Grecian, Roman,
  Italian, Spanish, German, Flemish, Dutch, English, and French schools
  of art into which are woven stories and legends of the artists and
  their works.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 23. Ja. ’07.

  “It is interesting and instructive and will be read quite as eagerly
  and with as much profit by the older folks.”

     + − =Bookm.= 24: 526. Ja. ’07. 90w.

  “The accounts are full, biographically, historically and in a literary
  way, while the illustrations are in themselves of distinct value.”

       + =Ind.= 61: 1406. D. 13, ’06. 80w.

  “A sympathetically written text, interpolated with most carefully
  selected pictures. No child who has any sense of the beautiful will
  find this book dull. Its inspiration to visit museums and see with his
  own eyes the pictures described is undoubted.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 836. D. 1, ’06. 440w.


* =White, Frederick M.= Nether millstone. †$1.50. Little.

                                                                7–36980.

  A fine old English estate is the scene of most that happens in this
  tale. Ralph Darnley, the lost heir, returns to find Sir George
  Dashwood the next of kin in possession, but with only his grandmother
  and an old butler in his confidence Darnley plans to conceal his
  identity until he teaches the girl he loves, the daughter of Sir
  George, the futility of her Dashwood pride which stands in the way of
  accepting his suit. He aids a false claimant to a nominal control of
  the property, which renders Sir George and his daughter penniless. The
  daughter is thrown upon the world and when she has learned its lessons
  and discovered what true worthiness is Darnley reveals his identity
  and carries her back to Dashwood hall.


=White, Frederick M.= Slave of silence. †$1.50. Little.

                                                                6–24582.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “We are glad to notice in [this novel] the evidence of more care in
  its production than the last one or two from his pen had led us to
  expect.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 162. F. 9. 100w.


=White, Stewart Edward.= Camp and trail. *$1.25. Outing.

                                                                7–31474.

  A practical experience book for the wilderness traveler. The author
  tells in detail how to select what is necessary and to reject what is
  unnecessary for camp convenience and comfort.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Certainly with the drawings, and even the names of firms that furnish
  the desirable articles, the way of it all is as ‘plain as plum
  porridge,’ so that the westward-faring man, tho a tenderfoot, cannot
  err therein.” May Estelle Cook.

       + =Dial.= 43: 419. D. 16, ’07. 90w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

  “The humors of life in the open air are happily touched upon, and make
  the book something more than a manual.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 769. N. 30, ’07. 140w.


=White, Stewart Edward.= The pass. *$1.25. Outing pub.

                                                               6–325827.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “He impresses one as being more true than Mr. Jack London, with a
  measurably broader outlook than Mr. Thompson Seton, and more vigorous,
  more actual than Dr. van Dyke. There are times when one cannot help
  wishing that he would be a shade less conscientiously breezy in his
  language.”

     + − =Acad.= 72: 386. Ap. 20, ’07. 580w.


=White, Stewart Edward, and Adams, Samuel Hopkins.= Mystery; il. by Will
Crawford. †$1.50. McClure.

                                                                 7–2060.

  “The plot turns upon the mysterious and wonderful happenings that
  occurred on a volcanic island in the Pacific and upon equally strange
  and uncanny encounters on the high seas. A long series of happenings
  follow. More astonishing than anything that ever occurred to the
  imagination of Stevenson or Marryat.”—Lit. D.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is a happy mixture of R. L. Stevenson and Mr. H. G. Wells.”

       + =Acad.= 72: 441. My. 4, ’07. 360w.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 79. Mr. ’07. ✠

  “The authors indulge in more slang and technical detail of a marine
  sort than the ordinary reader can readily grasp.”

     − + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 572. My. 11. 90w.

  “A well-rounded romance.” Richard Hughes Remsen.

   + + − =Bookm.= 25: 84. Mr. ’07. 720w.

       + =Ind.= 62: 970. Ap. 25, ’07. 130w.

  “The story is well told in a lively style, and the characters are
  strongly portrayed. Perhaps there is in the dialog a dash too much of
  smartness. The credibility of the reader is at times overstrained. But
  the novel has real merit and is a notable contribution to the
  ‘thrillers’ of the sea.”

     + − =Lit. D.= 34: 218. F. 9, ’07. 160w.

  “The narrative sags badly amidships, but the faith of the romancer
  serves to keep us afloat till we reach port.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 61. Ja. 17, ’07. 180w.

  “Even ‘Treasure island’ has need to look to its laurels when books
  like the ‘Mystery’ are being written, though the former’s claims are
  safe as long as Mr. White and Mr. Adams are compelled to adopt such a
  theatrical device for their wonder worker as the precious substance
  which the chest on board the Laughing Lass was supposed to contain.”

   + + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 29. Ja. 19, ’07. 1050w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 170w.

  “In a certain way it is very well done; but it is a tour-de-force, not
  a piece of real writing.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 377. F. 16, ’07. 210w.


=White, William Allen.= In our town. †$1.50. McClure.

                                                                6–12564.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “It is a clever and a wholesome book about people large and small who
  live in a little city.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 1035. My. 2, ’07. 270w.


=Whitehouse, Henry Remsen.= Revolutionary princess; Christina Belgiojoso
Trivulzio, her life and times, 1808–1871. *$3. Dutton.

  A biography which gives in detail the story of the devoted Milanese,
  her exile in Paris, her revolutionary plots, her travels, her writings
  and the remarkable characteristics which make the princess a
  conspicuous figure of her time.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Ath.= 1907, 1: 250. Mr. 2. 1320w.

  “Mr. Whitehouse has given the English reader an interesting account of
  a romantic personality.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 698. S. 19, ’07. 310w.

  “Though his book cannot rank very high either as literature or
  history, it will do well enough to introduce to the subject those who
  cannot read Italian.”

     − + =Nation.= 84: 366. Ap. 18, ’07. 450w.

  “It is a pity that the publishers of the life of the Princess
  Belgiojoso did not select a biographer more in sympathy with the
  subject.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 98. F. 16, ’07. 440w.

  “Mr. Whitehouse has given us not only an interesting biography but a
  vivacious history of the first three-quarters of the past century in
  leading to one of the greatest achievements of that century, the
  unification and liberation of Italy.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 860. Ap. 13, ’07. 370w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 507. Ap. ’07.

         =Spec.= 98: 577. Ap. 13, ’07. 1620w.


=Whiteing, Richard.= Ring in the new. †$1.50. Century.

                                                                6–34801.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 27. Ja. ’07.

  “Mr. Whiteing knows the difficulties of the great city for the
  untrained bread-winner, but his present attempt to give this knowledge
  literary form is a pretty flat failure.”

       − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 470. N. ’06. 80w.

  “Is clever, readable, and not to be taken too seriously.” Mary Moss.

     + − =Atlan.= 99: 114. Ja. ’07. 110w.

  “Mr. Whiteing has a big social purpose and he makes you feel it, but
  the book as a story is not sufficiently interesting and vital to hold
  popular attention.” Madeleine Z. Doty.

     − + =Charities.= 17: 485. D. 15, ’06. 690w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 119. Ja. ’07. 70w.


* =Whiting, Lilian.= Italy, the magic land. **$2.50. Little.

                                                                7–37741.

  A companion to Miss Whiting’s “Florence of Landor.” It is a panoramic
  view of the comparatively modern part of Rome “which, opening with the
  period of Canova and Thorwaldsen, proceeds to the contemporary Rome of
  Vedder and Franklin Simmons, in which the author depicts the Rome of
  the Hawthornes and the Brownings, and of that intense artistic life
  attracted by the stupendous works of Michael Angelo and the galleries
  of the Vatican.” The chapter headings are: The period of modern art in
  Rome, Social life in the Eternal city, Day-dreams in Naples, Amalfi,
  and Capri, A page de conti from Ischia, Voices of St. Francis of
  Assisi, The glory of a Venetian June, and The magic land.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 70w.


=Whiting, Lilian.= Land of enchantment: from Pike’s Peak to the Pacific.
**$2.50. Little.

                                                                6–42359.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 15. Ja. ’07.

  “The historian or he who would present economic and political
  conditions from a democratic view-point must be fundamental in his
  investigations and fearlessly impartial in weighing and presenting all
  the facts as they exist. Any failure to do this impairs the work as a
  valuable contribution to historic or economic and social literature.
  And just here, it seems to us, is found the one weak point in Miss
  Whiting’s otherwise charmingly instructive and valuable work.”

   + + − =Arena.= 37: 211. F. ’07. 2190w.

  “It makes a poor showing in comparison with Mr. James’s thoro and
  original study.”

     − + =Ind.= 62: 43. Ja. 3, ’07. 180w.

       + =Putnam’s.= 2: 119. Ap. ’07. 30w.

         =R. of Rs.= 35: 256. F. ’07. 40w.


=Whitlock, Brand.= Turn of the balance. †$1.50. Bobbs.

                                                                7–10046.

  An arraignment of the law as it is administered in our commonwealth
  to-day. Pitted against the big machine of the law is human justice
  which attempts to overthrow the merciless momentum of legal
  incompetence, and fails. The force of the story lies along the line of
  a plea for human sympathy and improved conditions.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is as strong and purposeful as ‘The jungle,’ and as
  literature it is a more finished creation. It is a distinctly great
  novel, presenting a vivid and effective picture of the miserables of
  our social order.”

     + + =Arena.= 86: 664. Je. ’07. 2870w.

  “From beginning to end there is not one scene that is forced or
  unnatural or out of place or out of proportion or improbable or
  inadequate; there is not one sentence or phrase that is overdone or
  written for effect; of all the characters there is not one that fails
  to be convincing.” Charles Edward Russell.

     + + =Arena.= 38: 209. Ag. ’07. 1450w.

  “It is a particularly sordid story of criminal life, unredeemed by any
  special skill in the telling, and lacking the breadth of treatment
  which alone can make such a subject impressive.”

     − + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 400. O. 5. 130w.

  “Grim as his story is, it must claim attention both for its passionate
  devotion to an idea of mercy and charity, and for its profound
  recognition of the organic and indestructible unity of human life.”
  Harry James Smith.

       + =Atlan.= 100: 130. Jl. ’07. 750w.

  “Is chiefly remarkable as an exhibit of the criminal under-world, its
  viewpoint, its customs, and its speech.” Wm. M. Payne.

       − =Dial.= 42: 314. My. 16, ’07. 200w.

  “A serious book this, convincing even while one looks for the other
  side of the picture—one of the most striking of the many indictments
  of society of recent years.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 1031. My. 2, ’07. 340w.

  “The author has an eye for details that give many passages of
  description a distinctive virtue; but all the virtues are overborne by
  the pulpit utterance, and swamped in a crowd of people who are all
  very good or very bad as the illustration of the thesis demands.”

     − + =Lond. Times.= 6: 366. N. 29, ’07. 430w.

  “Contains many revelations of our own city life. It is fascinating to
  read and—worth reading.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 170. Mr. 23, ’07. 640w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.

  “Profoundly depressing is the effect of this story, yet the author
  surely must have been moved by the desire to better the conditions he
  describes with great power.”

     + − =Outlook.= 85: 812. Ap. 6, ’07. 180w.


=Whitlock, William Wallace.= When kings go forth to battle. †$1.50.
Lippincott.

                                                                7–28962.

  A small German principality is the seat of exciting warfare. An
  unscrupulous king and a conniving “minister of interior improvements”
  find their match in two invincible Americans who keep the secret of a
  young prince’s hiding place, and with characteristic American energy
  join in a revolutionary plot to unseat the reigning monarch and place
  the prince upon the throne.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 619. O. 12, ’07. 160w.


=Whitmore, C. S.= Harmony flats: the gifts of a tenement-house fairy.
85c. Benziger.

                                                                7–22914.

  All about some little neglected children whose squalor and suffering
  in a New York tenement house are relieved by a kind benefactor, who
  turns out to be the very irascible old gentleman whom the children had
  greatly feared.


* =Whitney, Helen Hay.= Bed-time book; with pictures by Jessie Willcox
Smith. †$1.50. Duffield.

                                                                7–25151.

  A bed-time book for children even to the little nightgown-clad people
  surrounding the text on every page marching off with their candles to
  bed.

                  *       *       *       *       *

     + − =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 40w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 200w.

  “The most attractive picture-book of the year. There is a strain of
  seriousness, we might almost say sadness, underlying the expression of
  Miss Smith’s characters, that the young folks may not find attractive,
  though they may not penetrate deep enough into the philosophy of art
  to know the cause. But artistically these pictures would be hard to
  equal.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 766. D. ’07. 100w.


=Whitney, Rev. James Pounder.= Reformation: being an outline of the
history of the church from A. D. 1503 to A. D. 1648. (Church universal
ser., v. 6.) *$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                7–37538.

  A complete handbook of the reformation belonging to the series known
  as “The church universal” which deals with the history of the
  Christian church as a historic body.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His effort ‘to be fair to all schools of thought and to all men to
  the time’ has, in the opinion of the reviewer, met with indifferent
  success. Chapters 7–9 (141 pages) are devoted to the Council of Trent.
  Here we at once become aware that the author is treading on firmer
  ground. He no longer deals in vague generalities or manifests the
  ‘possession’ on his part of vast supplies of ignorance and
  misinformation, but he shows interest in the minutest details and the
  possession of a creditable amount of authentic knowledge. These
  chapters constitute the only really valuable part of the work and
  justify its publication.” Albert Henry Newman.

     + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 876. Jl. ’07. 820w.

  “The treatment of the very large subject is brief and summary, the
  point of view is Anglican, and the spirit non-partisan.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 763. S. 26, ’07. 50w.

  “He has to do his work his own way, and he has done it admirably. But
  we are sorry to say that he has sometimes been hasty, and has allowed
  ill-shapen sentences and sometimes errors of fact to escape his
  notice.”

   + + − =Sat. R.= 104: 244. Ag. 24, ’07. 440w.


=Whitson, John Harvey.= Castle of doubt. †$1.50. Little.

                                                                7–16940.

  A novel in which a young man tells his own strange story. While
  enjoying a spring-time stroll in Central Park he is suddenly
  confronted by an up-to-date carriage containing two pretty women, one
  of whom declares she is his wife. Despite his remonstrance he is
  thrust into the carriage by the foot-man, embraced, welcomed and
  carried off to a luxurious house where he is told that he is Julian
  Randolph, a young millionaire whose sudden disappearance was a matter
  of national comment two years before. So far the story differs little
  from other novels of mistaken identity, but the concluding chapters,
  which establish the right of the hero to the love and the position he
  has come to covet, are unusual, unexpected, and well handled.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Belongs [to] the class of books written for that optimistic age that
  still can believe, if only for twenty-four hours, that the book last
  read is the best book ever written.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

       + =Bookm.= 25: 600. Ag. ’07. 550w.

  “Is an interesting story, not without many instances in real life to
  prove its plausibility.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 574. S. 5, ’07. 230w.

  “The tale is as puzzling as a detective story, and the denouement is
  as much a surprise to the hero as to the reader.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.

  “The story is well told, and modern New York is graphically pictured.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 100w.


* =Whittier, John Greenleaf.= John Greenleaf Whittier: a sketch of his
life, by Bliss Perry, with selected poems. **75c. Houghton.

                                                                7–36386.

  A short sketch of Whittier which leaves out the non-essentials and
  presents the chief formative influences which made the character and
  career of the poet. The poems chosen illustrate the trend of his
  boyhood imagination, the political and social struggle of his mature
  years, and the peace of the resting and waiting in which his life was
  brought to a close.


Whys and wherefores of the automobile. il. 50c. Automobile Institute,
Cleveland, O.

  A simple explanation of the elements of the gasoline motor car,
  prepared for the non-technical reader.


=Whyte, Christina Gowans.= Adventures of Merrywink. $2. Crowell.

  A fresh, wholesome fairy tale which won the prize of £100 which the
  Bookman of London offered for the best story submitted in a recent
  competition.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The illustrations are unequal, and though some are very feeble,
  others are exceptionally good.”

     + − =Acad.= 71: 584. D. 8, ’06. 50w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 140w.

  “The story is delightful, merry, and well written, certain to please
  children.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 50w.

  “A very fair specimen of the modern fairy tale.”

       + =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 60w.


=Whyte, Christina Gowans.= Nina’s career. †$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                7–32567.

  The doings of a group of wholesome English young folk are chronicled
  in this story. The girl who was granddaughter to a Liberal peer, the
  once-a-year friend who had to have an artistic career, a delightful
  family of brothers and sisters, all help to make a pleasing tale of
  youth, its amusements, ambitions, and achievements.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A cheerful story, full of life and movement, and by no means lacking
  in humour.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 652. N. 23. 110w.


=Whyte, Christina Gowans.= Story book girls. †$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                6–41715.

  “A group of English girls attempt to conduct their lives according to
  story-book ideals. The difficulties in the way are innumerable, but
  the faith is great, the rewards are many.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Acad.= 71: 643. D. 22, ’06. 90w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 50w.

  “A very interestingly planned and well-executed book, with a
  delightfully fresh plot.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 238. Ja. 26, ’07. 120w.


=Widney, Joseph Pomeroy.= Race-life of the Aryan peoples. 2v. **$4.
Funk.

                                                                7–23307.

  =v. 1. The old world.= Beginning with the Asiatic period in the race
  life of the Aryan people, their various emigrations are here traced
  chronologically into India and South and West Europe. The whole is an
  unfolding of “The race epic which the Aryan peoples have lived.”

  =v. 2. The new world.= In this volume the author carries his “race
  epic” over seas and follows the westward march of the Aryan people
  from ocean to ocean in America, discussing also present day conditions
  and problems.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is what would be called in its own language a ‘live’ book, and for
  that we are thankful. It is not to be expected that we should
  sympathise wholly with American ideals and aspirations, or even those
  of the best Americans, but we can pay Dr. Widney no higher compliment
  than to wish that he had been born an Englishman, so that he might
  have written this book from an English point of view.”

     + − =Acad.= 73: 161. N. 23, ’07. 990w.

  “It is a pity that Mr. Widney, many of whose observations are
  extremely shrewd, should have allowed a book that has evidently cost
  him much labour to degenerate into a political pamphlet.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 484. O. 19. 970w.

  “The best that can be said of the work is that it has swing and style
  and may afford material for patriotic addresses. As for the scientific
  value, it has none.”

       − =Ind.= 63: 1375. D. 5, ’07. 410w.

  “His book is not a compilation, nor is it a new statement of a theme
  already set forth at length by other writers, but an original
  conception worked out through fine research, carefully coordinated and
  written in a clear and attractive style.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 35: 208 Ag. 10, ’07. 420w.

  “Though Widney’s book is instructive when read aright, that is, with a
  clear conception of who the Aryan is and whence he came, yet it is
  misleading, and very much so, if the reader ignores scientific
  ethnology and anthropology as much as does the author.” Charles E.
  Woodruff.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 497. Ag. 17, ’07. 2380w.

  “His style is animated and energetic; he is philosophic, discursive,
  poetic; he is quick to trace analogies and mark contrasts, fond of
  generalization and prone to turn history into prophecy. The total
  impression of his work is realistic and picturesque. His national and
  international forecasts, with one prominent exception are the least
  satisfactory portion of his work.”

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 973. Ag. 31, ’07. 400w.

  “Not only the latest result of scholarship in ethnology, but an
  unusually absorbing narrative.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 36: 382. S. ’07. 270w.

  “A highly interesting and suggestive book.”

       + =Spec.= 99: sup. 645. N. 2, ’07. 330w.


=Wieland, George Reber.= American fossil cycads. $6.25. Carnegie inst.

                                                                6–34020.

  “This contribution to American paleo-botany is richly illustrated with
  fifty plates and 138 text figures. It is an account of the American
  collections of fossil cycads—plants allied to the fern—so far as they
  have been studied, and the results of the author’s investigations on
  the vegetative anatomy and reproductive organs, followed by a
  comparison of these with similar structures in living cycads, and a
  discussion of relationships.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The monograph is creditable to American botany and the presswork of
  the Carnegie institution.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 471. N. 29, ’06. 220w.

  “A flood of light has been thrown on the morphology of an extinct
  group of Mesozoic gymnosperms, which it is possible to study with a
  precision and thoroughness hardly to be surpassed in the case of
  recent plants.”

       + =Nature.= 75: 329. Ja. 31, ’07. 1760w.

  “Marks a very important forward step in our knowledge of the
  cycadales, while it also throws a great deal of light upon the general
  problem of the phylogeny of the gymnosperms and their supposed
  relation to filicinean ancestors.” D. P. Penhallow.

     + + =Science=, n. s. 25: 856. My. 31, ’07. 1530w.


=Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Smith) (Mrs. George C. Riggs).= New chronicles of
Rebecca. †$1.25. Houghton.

                                                                7–11587.

  Eleven more quaintly amusing chronicles which carry Rebecca thru
  various stages of girlhood and bring her to her eighteenth birthday.
  They are entitled: Jack o’lantern. Daughters of Zion, Rebecca’s
  thought-book, A tragedy in millinery, The saving of the colors, The
  state o’ Maine girl, The little prophet, Abner Simpson’s new leaf, The
  green isle, Rebecca’s reminiscences, Abijah the brave and fair
  Emmajane.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Written with the quiet humour which is her characteristic.”

       + =Acad.= 73: 848. Ag. 31, ’07. 160w.

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 138. My. ’07. ✠

  “The pathos is kept commendably in check, however, and there is plenty
  of humour in the chronicle.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 179. Ag. 17. 210w.

  “The stories are brimming with mirth and kindly sentiment.” Harry
  James Smith.

       + =Atlan.= 100: 133. Jl. ’07. 80w.

  Reviewed by Mary K. Ford.

         =Bookm.= 25: 304. My. ’07. 800w.

  “The story, abounding in touches of genuine humor and pathos, comes as
  a delightful treat to both the older and younger reader.”

       + =Cath. World.= 85: 693. Ag. ’07. 120w.

  “Conscious invention has taken the place of intuition. It is inferior
  to its predecessor.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 574. S. 5, ’07. 240w.

  “There are here the same quaintness, pathos, and humor found in her
  former books, the same understanding of the abysses of childhood, the
  same realism and fidelity to nature. The pictures by F. C. Yohn are in
  perfect tune with the story and a model of what novel illustrations
  should be.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 640. Ap. 20, ’07. 290w.

         =Nation.= 84: 362. Ap. 18, ’07. 200w.

  “This volume is not quite up to the level of its predecessor.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 233. Ap. 13, ’07. 940w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 387. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.

  “‘New chronicles of Rebecca’ have ... freshness of sentiment and
  humor.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 115. My. 18, ’07. 190w.

  “Those who did not make the acquaintance of Rebecca at Sunnybrook farm
  are recommended not to miss the present opportunity.”

       + =Sat. R.= 104: 86. Jl. 20, ’07. 200w.

  “Worthily maintain the reputation of a writer who has done for the
  present generation of American and English readers much what Miss
  Alcott did for its predecessor.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 1037. Je. 29. ’07. 990w.


=Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Smith) (Mrs. George C. Riggs).= Old Peabody pew;
a Christmas romance of a country church. il. †$1.50. Houghton.

                                                                7–32837.

  A Christmas story of a “certain handful of dear New England women of
  names unknown, dwelling in a certain quiet village, alike unknown.” A
  new carpet, pews washed in lieu of paint, and cushions mended with
  care told on Christmas eve the story of days of hard work by the
  Dorcas society. Among the number had been Nancy Wentworth who, quiet
  and apart from the rest, had lavished her strength on the Peabody pew,
  sacred to her early romance, where Christmas eve finds her alone
  taking the last stitch in the worn-out cushion. To this spot comes
  Justin Peabody the wanderer lover who, weary as the prodigal son,
  seeks the comfort and love of Nancy.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “One of the prettiest novelettes of this season, as well as one of the
  most delightful from a literary point of view.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 380. D. 1, ’07. 200w.

  “It is withal so sweet and wholesome that we wish more books like it
  might be written to take the place of the so-called ‘problem novels’
  of the day.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 920. D. 14, ’07. 100w.

  “Many pathetic and humorous touches.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 10w.

  “Notwithstanding the slightness of the plot, there are all the
  elements of humor and pathos and love that go to make up a story of
  much sweetness, the kind one feels better for reading.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 716. N. 9, ’07. 100w.

  “A characteristically bright tale of a New England life full of
  sentiment and humor.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 622. N. 23, ’07. 30w.


=Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Smith) (Mrs. G. C. Riggs), and Smith, Nora
Archibald.= Fairy ring. **$1.50. McClure.

                                                                6–42427.

  Sixty-five fairy tales gathered from every nation. They include some
  well known stories and some recently discovered ones.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A choice collection.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 23. Ja. ’07. ✠

  “Less hackneyed than those of the Cinderella kind. For that reason
  they will read strangely, yet entertainingly to modern ears.”

       + =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 13, ’06. 40w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 784. N. 24, ’06. 170w.

  “Most readable fairy tales.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 93. Ja. 12, ’07. 70w.


* =Wiggin, Mrs. Kate Douglas, and Smith, Nora Archibald=, eds. Pinafore
and palace. †$1.50. McClure.

                                                                7–30444.

  “This volume of jingles is judiciously divided, somewhat like Charles
  Welsh’s edition of ‘Mother Goose,’ to accord with the physical
  activities and dawning mental appreciation of small folk. There is a
  diversity of selection, ranging from ‘Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, where have
  you been?’ to Tennyson’s least childlike and most stilted poem,
  ‘Minnie and Winnie.’”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 211. N. ’07. ✠

  “Taken in a set, these three volumes of verse represent an agreeable
  progress from classic jingle to rarest poetry.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 495. N. 28, ’07. 130w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 90w.


=Wigram, Edgar T. A.= Northern Spain; painted and described by Edgar T.
A. Wigram. *$6. Macmillan.

  “The kind of description which lies halfway between the guide-book and
  the book of atmosphere.” (Outlook.) “The author made his tour as a
  bicyclist. He journeyed with observing eyes, and very little in Spain
  that was really worth while escaped him.” (Ind.) “Besides ‘hamlets’
  and small towns, the traveler stopped at the larger cities, including
  Covadonga and Asturias, Leon, Galicia, Benavente, Zamora, Toro,
  Salamanca, Bejar, Avila, Toledo, Segovia, Burgos, Navarre, and
  others.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “One cannot open these pages anywhere without being struck by our
  author’s capacity for presenting a scene in words at once fit and
  few.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 9. Ja. 5. 1360w.

  “As we read what he has written we see Spanish types with a new
  significance, and we lay down the volume with a better and a clearer
  understanding of Spain and the Spaniards.”

       + =Ind.= 61: 1398. D. 22, ’06. 150w.

  “It is greatly to be regretted that Mr. Wigram ... was not accompanied
  on his journey through Northern Spain by a professional painter who
  would have been able to supplement his eloquent descriptions of the
  scenes he visited by aesthetic presentments of them in colour. Gifted,
  moreover, with a vivid imagination and a keen sense of humor, Mr.
  Wigram manages to hit off in a few telling sentences the
  idiosyncrasies not only of the men and women, but of the animals he
  met.”

     + − =Int. Studio.= 35: 167. Ap. ’07. 340w.

  “Mr. Wigram has well caught in his pictures the varied colors of
  Spain, which seem at first glance so inharmonious when viewed by
  essentially Occidental eyes. But they are true, and the artist is to
  be congratulated that he has dared to depict the truth and to account
  for it so entertainingly in a most attractively written text.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 770. N. 24, ’06. 620w.

  “The author not only describes the country through which he rode or
  walked, but also tells anecdotes, gives bits of the history of certain
  places, and provides other interesting information.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 830. D. 1, ’06. 360w.

  “An altogether unworthy successor to Ford and Borrow is Mr. Wigram who
  possesses one faculty denied to those worthies—namely, the facility of
  describing by picture as well as by pen.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 703. N. 24, ’06. 100w.

  “As a writer he harps too much upon merely pictorial effects, which
  were doubtless attractive to an artist but suffer through vain
  repetition. Though we may not claim him as guide or philosopher, he is
  certainly well met as a soothing friend.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103:372. Mr. 23, ’07. 230w.


=Wilberforce, Wilfrid, and Gilbert, Mrs. A. R.= Her faith against the
world. *$l. Benziger.

  A young barrister asks the aristocratic Sir Richard Forrester for the
  hand of his daughter, Gertrude and is refused because he lacks
  position. Later he gets into Parliament on assuring his constituents
  that he is not a Roman Catholic. Sir Richard then welcomes him, but
  Gertrude, who has joined the Roman church, refuses to marry a
  Protestant, and is turned out of her father’s house. The solution of
  this complication is the burden of this political-religious novel.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is written from the point of view of a Roman Catholic, but
  without bitterness and intolerance.”

       + =Acad.= 71: 553. D. 1, ’06. 140w.

  “An entertaining novel, although it is somewhat sketchy in both action
  and character, and although it does carry a moral instruction.”

     + − =Cath. World.= 84: 701. F. ’07. 260w.


=Wilcox, Earley Vernon.= Farm animals: horses, cows, sheep, swine,
goats, poultry, etc. **$2. Doubleday.

                                                                6–35959.

  A practical book giving general information about the breeding and
  care of farm animals.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A good, popular guide.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 106. Ap. 16, ’07.

  “It is rather an excellent compend of general information. The chapter
  on dairy stock is the best in the book, but every chapter is good. The
  illustrations have the advantage of being well related to the
  subject.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 402. N. 8, ’06. 140w.


=Wilde, Oscar.= Decorative art in America: a lecture, together with
letters, reviews, and interviews; ed. with an introd. by Richard B.
Glaenzer. **$1.50. Brentano’s.

                                                                6–39452.

  Mr. Glaenzer in his introduction sets forth the characteristics
  chiefly as they pertain to art, of “the most pitiful dreamer, the
  wittiest cynic and the most brilliant wit of his century.” The
  nineteen essays or groups of letters which this volume includes strike
  the dominant art notes of Oscar Wilde’s nature. Among the
  personalities touched up by the “verbal colourist” are Mrs. Langtry,
  Sarah Bernhardt, Whistler, Keats, and Kipling.


=Wilde, Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills.= Ballad of Reading gaol;
drawings by Latimer J. Wilson. *$1. Buckles.

                                                                7–16474.

  In this new edition of the well-known ballad the spirit of the
  gruesome revelation of a soul in torment is marred by the
  illustrations which, lacking any subtle suggestion of the horrors of
  the hangman and the terrors of death, are commonplace and repellant.


=Wiley, Harvey Washington.= Foods and their adulteration. Il. *$4.
Blakiston.

                                                                7–19428.

  This book, descriptive in character, reaches a large audience,
  including the consumer, the manufacturer and the scientific as well as
  the general reader. It treats of the origin, manufacture and
  composition of food products; the description of common adulterations,
  food standards and national food laws and regulations. The information
  contained in this manual appeals especially to the intelligent and
  scientific cook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The book is invaluable to the manufacturer and the consumer, to the
  scientist and the layman; it is indispensable to even a small
  collection on this subject of wide, present-day interest.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 199. N. ’07.

  “This is the most authoritative and comprehensive book that has
  appeared on this important subject, and there is no other man in
  America who is better fitted to handle it from both the scientific and
  the legislative sides than the author.”

     + + =Ind.= 63: 834. O. 3, ’07. 360w.

  “This is not the book of a crank, and Dr. Wiley’s views regarding the
  future of the American food-supply are in general optimistic.”

     + + =Nation.= 85: 213. S. 5, ’07. 750w.

  “The information furnished by Dr. Wiley arms the public with
  knowledge—knowledge of the conditions and of its own rights.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 404. Je. 22, ’07. 1370w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 384. S. ’07. 120w.

  “Amid a large mass of confusing and often exaggerated newspaper
  articles dealing with the subject, it is a comfort to find a book
  covering the field so completely, so sanely and withal in so
  interesting a way.”

     + + =Science=, n.s. 26: 714. N. 22, ’07. 880w.


=Wiley, Sara King.= Alcestis and other poems. **75c. Macmillan.

                                                                5–32655.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

       + =Outlook.= 85: 573. Mr. 9, ’07. 380w.


=Wiley, Sara King.= Coming of Philibert. **$1.25. Macmillan.

                                                                7–18078.

  A tragic poem-drama of three acts in which Prince Philibert, who has
  been reared in the forest and kept unconscious of his heritage,
  according to the wish of his dead father, is brought to the court of
  Artacia by his twin brother, the young king who feels that he has been
  unjustly dealt with. Here the world is opened to him, all his latent
  emotions awake, and unwittingly, he usurps his brother’s place in the
  hearts of his people, and comes to wear his crown and marry his
  Clementia.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It will bear reading. But, in the acting, it would appear lamentably
  monotonous and wanting in almost every essential of a play, notably
  characterization, contrast and ‘suspense.’”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 571. S. 5, ’07. 330w.

  “Is an interesting bit of dramatic blank verse which just misses
  distinction.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 35. Jl. 11, ’07. 210w.

  “As a play there is much good exposition but little vital action. The
  verse is always correct, and occasionally there are flashes of fine
  poetry.” Christian Gauss.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 100w.

  “Mrs. Drummond is an essentially feminine poet of fine insight and
  delicate sensibility. The chief gain in ‘The coming of Philibert’ is
  the dramatic action and force.” Louise Collier Willcox.

       + =No. Am.= 186: 97. S. ’07. 270w.


=Wilkinson, Florence.= Silent door. †$1.50. McClure.

                                                                7–10292.

  A village story ... “which revolves about Justinian Penrith, incarnate
  genius of austerity, and a little child left ... upon his doorstep.
  Given a beautiful daughter who had fled from home some years previous
  for an affaire d’amour and whose whereabouts had baffled all
  search—and you have the key to ‘The silent door.’” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In Miss Wilkinson’s novel ... one recognizes the promise rather than
  the achievement. The story taken as a whole is unimpressive. The plot
  is mildly preposterous, and none of the characters, not even little
  Rue herself, seems ever quite detachable from the printed page. But
  the details of Miss Wilkinson’s work are a constant delight.” Harry
  James Smith.

     + − =Atlan.= 100: 132. Jl. ’07. 450w.

  “The chief charm about Miss Wilkinson’s style is its absolute lack of
  hurry. It is seldom that one encounters such genuine charm in a volume
  constructed upon a plan so simple.”

     + + =Bookm.= 25: 284. My. ’07. 480w.

  “There are some fine pages of description. The humor is abundant and
  genuine.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 98. Jl. 20, ’07. 330w.

  “It has a pervasive, though not obtrusive, spiritual quality, and
  leaves upon one an impression of sweetness and light.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 170. Mr. 23, ’07. 970w.

  “In her first novel, she has accomplished something also rare, and
  certainly thoroughly delightful.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 254. Je. 1, ’07. 210w.


=Wilkinson, Rt. Rev. Thomas Edward.= Twenty years of continental work
and travel. *$3 50. Longmans.

  “The record of an Anglican bishop’s experience in north and central
  Europe among British colonies, factories, and communities, comprising
  an area eight times the size of Great Britain.”—Lit. D.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Bishop Wilkinson has great power of observation and much skill in
  expressing that observation in words. There is in the volume a good
  deal of padding which, should have been omitted.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 580. N. 10. 1360w.

  “An interesting panorama of Europe, with a fine historic perspective.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 264. F. 16, ’07. 190w.

     + − =Spec.= 98: 121. Ja. 26, ’07. 380w.


=Willcocks, M. P.= Wingless victory. $1.50. Lane.

                                                                7–35625.

  Devonshire furnishes the setting of this story. “The plot centres
  about the winning of an unloving and pretty nearly unfaithful wife
  by her husband.... The husband is a physician, a curious mixture
  of strength and weakness, heroism and failure, and altogether a
  very human and lovable person. The wife is not so comprehensible a
  type, but still real enough in her feminine perversity and
  unreasonableness.... Johanna is of another type, and she, too,
  makes one see deep down into the reality of things. The whole book
  is alive with human passion, powerfully portrayed, and with the
  vigor and freshness of the open air.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Talent such as hers was not and never could be acquired in any of the
  ready-made schools of fiction. It bears the stamp of originality.”

     + + =Acad.= 72: 319. Mr. 30, ’07. 550w.

  “The author has certainly produced a notable as well as a good story.
  It seems to us somewhat clogged by over elaboration of style and
  metaphor.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 659. Je. 1. 250w.

  “The book is the work of one who has thought much. Scattered through
  it are gnomic sayings that stick in the memory. These and an intimate
  sense of natural forces, are perhaps the striking external features of
  the book.” Ward Clark.

       + =Bookm.= 25: 523. Jl. ’07. 450w.

  “The book has strength ... although not in this plot with its dubious
  ethical implications. It is the strength of keen analysis, vivid
  descriptive power, and a characterization of the rustic population of
  Devon and Dartmoor fairly comparable with the work of Mr. Phillpotts
  and other disciples of the school of Thomas Hardy.” Wm. M. Payne.

   + + − =Dial.= 43: 62. Ag. 1, ’07. 340w.

  “An Ibsen plot set in a Thomas Hardy environment. The combination is,
  on the whole, an effective one, for the author has undoubted talent.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 1312. N. 28, ’07. 400w.

  “In the case of Miss Willcock’s book ... we have need of some emphatic
  word that shall signify a book that is not a season’s masterpiece or a
  giant among pigmies, but, as we conceive, one that takes its place, if
  not among the highest, still among books where rules of measurement
  seem a little out of place.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 110. Ap. 5, ’07. 540w.

  “Rises high above the level of common day fiction. In Miss Willcock’s
  elaborate descriptions we discern a certain scraping of stage scenery
  being shifted. In the same way there is unnecessary harping on such
  indefinable elements as ‘race-processes’ and ‘electric forces of the
  ages’ unnecessary reductions of action and feeling to terms of biology
  and prehistoric anthropology.”

   + + − =Nation.= 85: 79. Jl. 25, ’07. 570w.

  “A helpful and heartening story, not because any of its characters are
  particularly high or heroic in their accomplishment, but because it
  conveys that life itself in its simple, homely, everyday guise is a
  thing worth while.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 365. Je. 8, ’07. 990w.

  “A very remarkable piece of work, and not less interesting than
  remarkable.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 387. Je. 15, ’07. 190w.

         =Sat. R.= 103: 433. Ap. 6, ’07. 210w.

  “No one except the serious-minded reader who loves a problem novel
  should embark upon ‘The wingless victory.’”

     + − =Spec.= 98: 679. Ap. 27, ’07. 210w.


=Williams, Archibald.= How it works: dealing in simple language with
steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and
their application to apparatus in common use. $1.25. Nelson.

                                                                7–29122.

  “Here the reader will find explained in a concise, straightforward
  manner the working of everything from a locomotive or a motorcar to a
  Bunsen burner or a Westinghouse brake. The book is profusely
  illustrated with helpful diagrams, and we are glad to note that an
  index has been provided.”—Acad.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Acad.= 71: 607. D. 15, ’06. 100w.

  “Hardly any other volume will answer as many of the questions that a
  bright boy asks and ought to ask about the things he sees and uses. It
  should head the list of books to be bought for school libraries.”

     + + =Ind.= 62: 737. Mr. 28, ’07. 150w.

  “The volume furnishes much that is practical and lucid.”

       + =Outlook.= 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 80w.


=Williams, Archibald.= Romance of early exploration, with descriptions
of interesting discoveries, thrilling adventures, and wonderful bravery
of the early explorers. *$1.50. Lippincott.

                                                                6–39449.

  “The present book brings exploration down to A. D. 1600 beginning with
  its infancy 200 years before Herodotus. Pictures and maps add
  desirabilty to the book.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The writer’s own manner is one of manly straightforwardness, as free
  from dulness as from misplaced embellishment.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 70w.

  Reviewed by Cyrus C. Adams.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 846. D. 8, ’06. 120w.

  “An intelligent boy could hardly have a book which would give him more
  entertainment and more instruction.”

       + =Spec.= 97: sup. 760. N. 17, ’06. 300w.


=Williams, Egerton Ryerson, jr.= Ridolfo, the coming of the dawn, a tale
of the Renaissance. †$1.50. McClurg.

                                                                6–36880.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

       − =Ind.= 62: 673. Mr. 21, ’07. 100w.

       + =Outlook.= 85: 575. Mr. 9, ’07. 280w.

  “One thing is certain about Mr. Williams’ first attempt to write a
  novel; he has succeeded.”

         =R. of Rs.= 36: 126. Jl. ’07. 40w.


=Williams, Elizabeth Otis.= Sojourning, shopping and studying in Paris,
a handbook particularly for women. **$1. McClurg.

                                                                7–18307.

  An excellent little book into which has been compressed a wealth of
  valuable information for the woman who is traveling alone in France.
  It contains the addresses of suitable hotels, boarding houses, schools
  of art, places of amusement, and shops in Paris, it tells what
  charges, fees, etc. are just, it explains customs and conventions,
  tells where one may go without an escort, what one may bring home
  without duty, how to arrange one’s finances, and appends a classified
  vocabulary which contains all the words and phrases essential to a
  shopping tour or an excursion.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A suggestive, helpful little handbook.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 175. O. ’07.

       + =Dial.= 42: 381. Je. 16, ’07. 40w.

  “Just the sort of information needed by American ladies in Paris. And,
  altho written for women, we fancy that men will find it almost as
  valuable.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 1357. Je. 6, ’07. 70w.

         =R. of Rs.= 36: 126. Jl. ’07. 40w.


=Williams, Henry Llewellyn, jr.=, comp. Lincoln story book. **$1.50.
Dillingham.

                                                                 7–8232.

  It is the story-telling Lincoln shorn of platform oratory who is
  revealed in this generous collection of anecdotes. There are over four
  hundred of them and in the retelling nothing of the humor, or of the
  tone of the classics has been sacrificed.


=Williams, Hugh Noel.= Madame Recamier and her friends. *$2. Scribner.

  The details of the long salon-reign of Mme. Récamier are carefully set
  forth here. “With no commanding ability such as in itself might draw a
  group about her, yet, in wealth and in poverty, in court favor and
  banishment, in youth and in age, Mme. Récamier was ever the center of
  a great circle, and ever herself simple, contented, generous,
  unspoiled by attention from all the famous people of her time.” (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Granting the ‘raison d’etre’ of the biography, it may be said that
  the author has conscientiously studied the life of his heroine,
  together with those of her friends as they affected hers, and presents
  the results in a pleasant, easy manner, which makes the book an
  entertaining one.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 44. Jl. 16, ’07. 260w.

  “A most satisfactory story of an extraordinary career.”

       + =Ind.= 63: 342. Ag. 8, ’07. 170w.

  Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.

         =Putnam’s.= 2: 475. Jl. ’07. 150w.


=Williams, Hugh Noel.= Queen Margot, wife of Henry IV. of France.
*$7.50. Scribner.

                                                                7–25144.

  Daughter of Catherine de Medici, wife of Henry of Navarre, the
  brilliant La Reine Margot is revealed in both an attractive and
  forbidding light. She figures thruout the sketch as a being mightily
  swayed by emotions yet capable of detaching herself from them as in
  the case of her “debonair equanimity of mind” when divorced from her
  husband, and called upon to mingle with his new queen and their
  children.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “On the whole, the author has succeeded in his endeavour to give a
  full and impartial account of her life, and has acquitted himself
  satisfactorily of his secondary aim—that of sketching the historical
  events ‘in which she was more or less directly concerned.’”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1. 68. Ja. 19. 2090w.

  “Despite this special diligence and an adequate knowledge of sixteenth
  century memoirs, we have found this book enriched by little
  illuminating criticism.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 17. Jl. 4, ’07. 430w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 83. F. 2, ’07. 720w.


=Williams, James Mickel.= An American town: a sociological study. Priv.
ptd.

                                                                6–46255.

  “The author, formerly a fellow in sociology in Columbia university,
  has in connection with his graduate work, made this sociological study
  of a small town of rural New York.... He has given us a little bit of
  the social history of the town and community, dividing it into two
  periods—from the settlement to 1875 and from 1875 on.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a painstaking, intelligent, and extremely suggestive piece of
  scholarly work. On the whole Mr. Williams is to be heartily
  congratulated on a piece of work which opens up new possibilities in
  the intensive study of localities, and proves that monographic work of
  this kind is to be of prime importance to sociology.” George E.
  Vincent.

       + =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 421. N. ’06. 850w.

  “This volume is valuable because it is an illustration of careful,
  conscientious field work, even if occasionally the conclusions seem
  unwarranted.”

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 471. N. ’06. 190w.


=Williams, John E. H.= Life of Sir George Williams, founder of the Young
men’s Christian association. **$1.25. Armstrong.

                                                                6–42910.

  Written at the request of Sir George Williams’ family by “one who has
  had intimate access to all the sources of information and who writes
  with keen sympathy and appreciation.... Beginning as a poor young
  clerk and without other resources than his own strength of character
  and an indomitable will, the subject of the present work rose to be
  one of the most considerable men in England.” (Lit. D.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 342. Mr. 2. ’07. 240w.

       + =Lond. Times.= 5: 403. N. 30, ’06. 750w.

       + =Nation.= 84: 154. F. 14, ’07. 450w.

  “Is a contribution to the literature of power.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 942. D. 15, ’06. 160w.


=Williams, Leonard.= Granada: memories, adventures, studies and
impressions. **$2.50. Lippincott.

                                                                6–35342.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 76. Mr. ’07.

  Reviewed by Wallace Rice.

         =Dial.= 41: 392. D. 1, ’06. 170w.

       + =Nation.= 84: 39. Ja. 10, ’07. 180w.


=Williams, T. Rhondda.= Evangel of the new theology. *$1.50. Scribner.

  “The basal question of religion, as he observes, is the relation of
  God to the living world. The theology now being outgrown conceived of
  God and man as external to each other, beings apart, and out of this
  fallacious dualism the Unitarian controversy grew. But ‘the gist of
  the new theology’ is the oneness of the spiritual nature in God and
  man, so that humanity itself is ‘an incarnation of the divine
  life.’”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “In one way or another the whole realm of modern religious thought is
  touched upon with profound discrimination. The book will prove
  exceedingly helpful to all who desire a clear and sane statement on
  vital matters from the modern point of view. As a group of sermons,
  however, it would seem that the book gives undue emphasis to intellect
  and does not sufficiently appeal to the deeper things of the heart.
  Also, the use of Scripture is not large.” E. A. Hanley.

     + − =Bib. World.= 29: 475. Je. ’07. 220w.

  “It is marked by warmth as well as freshness and force, and by
  intentness on the realities of religious faith.”

       + =Outlook.= 82: 617. Mr. 17, ’06. 260w.


=Williamson, Charles Norris, and Williamson, Alice Muriel.= Car of
destiny. †$1.50. McClure.

                                                                7–30841.

  “This is a description of several of the more interesting Spanish
  cities, strung on the thin threads of an automobile trip and a love
  story. The hero and the heroine fall in love—of course at first
  sight—at Biarritz. The heroine and her mother are whisked off through
  Spain in an automobile by the wicked Spanish duke whom this scheming
  mother wishes the daughter to marry. The hero follows in his
  automobile. The account of the roads, the country, and the towns is
  broken by the incidents of the chase—some of them highly
  melodramatic.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Frankly, the book contains every one of the elements which ought to
  annoy a reader of critical taste. And yet, paradoxically, instead of
  annoying, it furnishes a very genuine, even though not enduring,
  enjoyment.”

     + − =Bookm.= 26: 267. N. ’07. 740w.

  “So unconvincing is the characterization, that marriage as well as
  misadventure leaves the reader cold.”

       − =Nation.= 85: 329. O. 10, ’07. 180w.

  “Splendid descriptions of Spanish life and scenes abound.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 70w.

  “It is a penny-in-the-slot romance, as mechanical as if it were turned
  out of a factory, marketable like calico, and of about as much
  distinction.”

       − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 685. O. 26, ’07. 450w.


=Williamson, Charles Norris, and Williamson, Alice Muriel Livingston.=
Princess Virginia. †$1.50. McClure.

                                                                7–15121.

  This story “provides a lovely princess with American blood in her
  veins and ... a pretty will of her own. Also a proper American
  romantic idea of falling in love with whom she pleases and marrying to
  suit. But the safety of Europe depends upon her marrying the young
  Emperor of Rhaetia. What is to be done?... The impressionable Princess
  Virginia must happen upon the handsome Emperor when she does not know
  who he is, and he does not know who she is. They will, of course, both
  of them fall in love at sight. It is always thus. No sooner said than
  done.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The most one can say for it is that it is harmless.”

       − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 181. O. ’07.

         =Lit. D.= 35: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 210w.

  “No motors in this, but a manner so glib and facile that it resembles
  nothing so much as the swift revolutions of a new front wheel, when
  the salesman turns the bicycle upside down and gives a twirl to prove
  the smooth perfection of its ball-bearings. There is the same near
  approach to perpetual motion, and the same lack of arriving.”

       − =Nation.= 84: 568. Je. 20, ’07. 190w.

  “The Williamsons have produced another fine, galloping romance of the
  most approved rose-color order.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 320w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 387. Je. 15, ’07. 260w.


=Williamson, Charles Norris, and Williamson, Alice Muriel.= Rosemary in
search of a father. †$1.50. McClure.

                                                                6–40214.

  “The five-year old Rosemary at Monte Carlo, seeing that her mother is
  sad, sets out to find a lost father, and meets with such extraordinary
  good luck that we can only suspect the intervention of Christmas
  fairies. They send Rosemary a wonderful father, far more attractive
  than the real one, and just the man her mother most desired to meet
  again. So with the help of an old love-affair, an American
  millionaire, a pretty French adventuress, a profusion of jewels, and
  costly raiment such as might haunt the delirious dreams of a
  milliner’s girl, the tale runs on to a happy conclusion.”—Acad.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a brisk, highly coloured story, of the lightest possible
  construction.”

     + − =Acad.= 71: 638. D. 22, ’06. 150w.

  “This little novel has distinction, a literary aroma.”

       + =Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 60w.

  “When this has been described as a ‘pretty’ tale of the whipped cream
  and bonbon box type, there is not much more to say about it.”

       + =Nation.= 83: 464. N. 29, ’06. 160w.

  “All this is highly melodramatic, but Rosemary is a quaint little
  creature, and adds a large redeeming feature to an otherwise
  impossible picture.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 888. D. 22, ’06. 370w.

  “An agreeable little short story.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 942. D. 15, ’06. 8w.


=Willys, A. A.= Swiss heroes, an historical romance of the time of
Charles the Bold; tr. from the German by George P. Upton. (Life stories
for young people.) **60c. McClure.

                                                                7–31242.

  The careers of Hans Vögeli, Heinrich Vögeli and Walter Irmy. three
  Swiss heroes, are followed in their relations with Charles the Bold,
  whose oppressive measures they avenged for the safety of their people.


=Wilson, Mrs. Augusta J. E.= Devota; il. by Stuart Travis. †$1.50.
Dillingham.

                                                                7–21224.

  “‘Devota’ is the story of a tragedy in the lives of two persons, a man
  of sterling character, and a proud woman—does it not sound
  familiar?—who are separated by a misunderstanding and kept apart by
  the woman’s obstinacy. But after many years they are reconciled.
  Surely Mrs. Wilson has filled her ink bottle from the spring of
  eternal youth!”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Without having read ‘St. Elmo,’ one may safely assert that not even
  an ornamental border on every page, and illustrations of preternatural
  loveliness will quite bring ‘Devota’ the vogue of its predecessor.”

       − =Nation.= 85: 188. Ag. 29, ’07. 180w.

  “Although it is hardly more than a novelette, has the self same
  characteristics of style, thought, conception, viewpoint, which marked
  Mrs. Wilson’s novels of the long ago and which will carry back to his
  youth the memories of many a gray-haired reader.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 180w.


* =Wilson, David Henry.= George Morland. *$1.25. Scribner.

  The growing popularity of the Morland paintings seems to be reason
  enough for producing this biography which covers all of the phases of
  his artistic career and besides records a good many impressions of the
  seamy side of man’s life.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Wilson does not exhibit, in his pleasant little volume, any
  special qualification for his task. He moralizes too much on Morland’s
  career. He seems to fail when he has an opportunity of adding a useful
  chapter to his book.”

   − − + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 625. N. 16. 910w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 536. S. 7, ’07. 700w.


* =Wilson, Harry Leon.= Ewing’s lady. †$1.50. Appleton.

                                                                7–38598.

  The story of a young Westerner with genius for painting who is both
  the protégé of a young New York widow and the object of diabolical
  revenge on the part of the man whom his mother ran away from to marry
  his father. Apart from the melodramatic fury of the story a group of
  minor characters is drawn including “the cowboy in the clear, heady
  Colorado air, the genial freemasonry of the studio, Clarence, the
  lovable convert from civilization, dyspepsia and predigested food, and
  Ben Crider, fit associate for Billy Brue.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A generation ago such a story would have been branded as the rankest
  and frankest of shockers. But Mr. Wilson keeps a strong literary grip
  on his plot. His characters are admirably drawn, consistent and
  lifelike. There is plenty of real humour in the book, and some
  excellent pictures of manners, Eastern and Western.” Burton Blass.

     + − =Bookm.= 26: 415. D. ’07. 960w.

  “It is the drawing of the minor characters and their environment that
  gives the book its charm.”

   + + − =Nation.= 85: 545. D. 12, ’07. 190w.


=Wilson, James Harrison.= Life of Charles A. Dana. **$3. Harper.

                                                                7–19056.

  This volume has grown out of the biographer’s intimate acquaintance
  and immense admiration for a man who during fifty years and more of
  the past century helped to make the history of our nation. Chapters on
  his education and early battle with poverty, association with Greeley
  on the New York Tribune, his telling service to the Federal government
  during the civil war have been written from letters, documents and
  clippings bearing upon public and private life.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 174. O. ’07. S.

  Reviewed by M. A. De Wolfe Howe.

     + + =Atlan.= 100: 419. S. ’07. 1210w.

  “The whole narrative is very interesting. One could wish that General
  Wilson would have given us as minute a study of Dana the editor as of
  Dana the commissioner and the Assistant Secretary of War.” Richard W.
  Kemp.

     + − =Bookm.= 25: 612. Ag. ’07. 800w.

  “His long and intimate acquaintance with an admiration for the man
  have qualified him to write understandingly without dependence on such
  outside aid.” Percy F. Bicknell.

     + + =Dial.= 43: 32. Jl. 16, ’07. 1490w.

  “While in the main it is laudatory, it is not laudatory in a fulsome
  sense.”

       + =Lit. D.= 35: 132. Jl. 27, ’07. 950w.

       + =Nation.= 84: 548. Je. 13, ’07. 860w.

  “The facts of his life have been diligently assembled, and they are
  set forth authentically in good chronological order.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 337. My. 25, ’07. 1700w.

     + − =Outlook.= 87: 586. N. 16, ’07. 1250w.

  “Taken as a whole, General Wilson’s book is excellent in so far as it
  relates to Dana’s early years and to the civil war. For the rest, it
  lacks that fulness of information which is necessary to a complete
  survey of a remarkable career.” Harry Thurston Peck.

     + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 518. S. ’07. 1120w.

  Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.

         =Putnam’s.= 3: 108. O. ’07. 1100w.

  “While a journalist might perhaps have written a biography of Dana
  more interesting to journalists, it is doubtful whether any of Mr.
  Dana’s newspaper acquaintances could have put into the book more of a
  personal history of the past generation.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 124. Jl. ’07. 200w.


=Wilson, James Southall.= Alexander Wilson, poet-naturalist: a study of
his life with selected poems. $2. Neale.

                                                                  7–410.

  A sketch of the life of America’s first ornithologist, and poet of
  somewhat indifferent fame. Alexander Wilson came to America from
  Scotland in 1794 to be free from the turmoil of revolution. The life
  story includes Jefferson’s letters about birds, a study of the
  Scotland of Wilson’s and Burns’s time, and a careful analysis of
  Wilson’s character.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The one serious mistake of the author is reflected in the title. He
  undertakes to rescue from oblivion not only the man and the bird
  fancier, but the poet.”

   + + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 63. F. 2, ’07. 630w.

  “An interesting memoir.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 380. Mr. ’07. 110w.


=Wilson, May (Anison North, pseud.).= Carmichael. †$1.50. Doubleday.

                                                                7–12002.

  “A pretty story of Canadian rural life. The heroine tells the tale,
  and we see her loving, helpful ministry to family and neighbors, yet
  sharing her father’s feud and trying to keep it up after his death.
  But justice and love are too strong for her filial theories, and the
  houses of Mallory and Carmichael are reconciled. The illustrations and
  marginal decorations do not add especially to the simple
  narrative.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 353. Je. 15, ’07. 80w.

  “A story with a distinct moral lesson—which lesson is well to the
  front in the author’s mind. Yet it is a very pleasant and readable
  story also—one which will recommend itself particularly to
  old-fashioned maiden ladies but need not necessarily on that account
  be scorned by younger and wiser persons.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 476. Ag. 3, ’07. 630w.

       + =Outlook.= 86: 476. Je. 29, ’07. 80w.


=Winckler, Hugo.= History of Babylonia and Assyria; tr. and ed. by James
A. Craig; rev. by the author. **$1.50. Scribner.

                                                                7–29420.

  “What a few decades of spade-work have revealed of more than three
  thousand years of civilization is presented here, with the caution not
  to expect any connected history of it until future excavators shall
  have done the work awaiting them.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

         =Outlook.= 87: 311. O. 12, ’07. 300w.


=Winslow, Helen Maria.= President of Quex: a woman’s club story. †$1.25.
Lothrop.

                                                                6–36041.

  A novel whose heroine, the president of Quex, “is led out of the
  useless life of a sorrowing recluse by her work as president of the
  club, which she makes a factor of consequence in the social,
  industrial, and political life of her state.” (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 675. O. 13, ’06. 160w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 744. N. 10, ’06. 260w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 11: 798. D. 1, ’06. 90w.

  “We close the little book with a smile compounded of amusement and
  skepticism.”

     + − =Outlook.= 84: 683. N. 17, ’06. 100w.


=Winter, Alice Ames.= Jewel weed. †$1.50. Bobbs.

                                                                6–36042.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The book is too full of reflected culture, and lacking in realism and
  vitality. It is weak fiction.”

       − =Outlook.= 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 40w.


=Winter, Nevin Otto.= Mexico and her people of to-day. $3. Page.

                                                                7–34163.

  An account of the customs, characteristics, amusements, history and
  advancement of the Mexicans, and the development and resources of
  their country illustrated from original photographs. The author bases
  his book upon both travel and study and presents it in the hope that
  it may help Americans to a better understanding of their neighbors
  across the line.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “A book of up-to-date information of a miscellaneous sort about a
  nation concerning which, though she stands at our very doors, most of
  us know very little.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 378. D. 1, ’07. 240w.


=Winterburn, Mrs. Rosa V.= Methods in teaching. *$1.25. Macmillan.

                                                                7–20690.

  “This book is made up of a series of monographs explaining the methods
  employed in the elementary school of Stockton, California. The English
  teacher will find much here that is obvious, but the monograph on the
  teaching of English deserves attention.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The monographs are very thorough, but also, for the most part very
  dull.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 93. Jl. 27. 130w.

  “It is a record of experience, of the deductions made by a body of
  practical teachers working together for a considerable period. As such
  it is valuable—of greater value perhaps to many teachers than a more
  profound statement of theoretical pedagogy.”

       + =Nation.= 85: 234. S. 12, ’07. 180w.


=Wister, Owen.= How doth the simple spelling bee. *50c. Macmillan.

                                                                 7–8533.

  An extravaganza on reform spelling, in which the reformer “at the age
  of seventy-five, with uncounted millions, and ten United States
  Senators, and a fourth young wife all in his pocket, proposed to hand
  his name to Immortality by simplifying the spelling of English all
  over the earth.” The sketch is worthy a Dickens up to date, and
  exposes humorously the unrelated scraps in the “rag-bag of
  lawlessness” which Mr. Wister chooses to denominate English spelling.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The author has mist his aim and is badly mixt in his ideas.”

       − =Ind.= 62: 741. Mr. 28, ’07. 50w.

  “A witty satire.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 243. Mr. 14, ’07. 30w.

  “Were well worth preserving, for a time at least.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 144. Mr. 9, ’07. 150w.

  “This fantastic skit is immensely amusing at its outset, but becomes a
  little tedious before the end.”

     + − =Outlook.= 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 40w.


=Wister, Owen.= Lady Baltimore. †$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                6–10312.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The first serious and patriotic American story which candidly has the
  courage to uphold the aristocratic ideal.” Mary Moss.

     + + =Atlan.= 99: 121. Ja. ’07. 620w.


* =Wister, Owen.= Mother. †$1.25. Dodd.

                                                                7–32323.

  “Love and speculation in copper stocks are the themes of the
  novelette, which Mr. Wister blithely dedicates ‘To my favorite broker,
  with the earnest assurance that Mr. Beverly is not meant for
  him.’”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Dial.= 43: 421. D. 16, ’07. 80w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 60w.


* =Wister, Owen.= Seven ages of Washington: a biography. **$2.
Macmillan.

                                                                7–38230.

  An elaboration of a Washington address by the author. It is “a
  full-length portrait of Washington with enough of his times to see him
  clearly against.” Mr. Wister shows how the unfreezing of Washington
  began by Irving, but that he went at it gingerly; “to-day,” he says
  “we can see the live and human Washington full length. He does not
  lose an inch of it, and we gain a progenitor of flesh and blood. The
  seven ages are Ancestry, The boy, The young man. The married man. The
  commander, The president, and Immortality.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “His portrait is thoroughly convincing.”

       + =Dial.= 43: 424. D. 16, ’07. 140w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w.


=Witt, Robert Clermont.= How to look at pictures. **$1.40. Putnam.

                                                                3–15103.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “There is no better book of the kind.”

     + + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3:86. Mr. ’07.


=Wolfe, Albert Benedict.= Lodging-house problem in Boston: published
from the income of the W. H. Baldwin, jr., 1885 fund. (Harvard economic
studies, v. 2.) **$1.50. Houghton.

                                                                6–45064.

  While for two years holding the South End house fellowship Dr. Wolfe
  collected the material which he has presented here. His treatise
  “deals with the class of dwellings that are known in many cities as
  rooming-houses or furnished-room houses, and with the mercantile
  employees and skilled mechanics who are sheltered in these houses.
  Oddly enough, it appears that there has never been, heretofore,
  anything like an adequate investigation of lodging-house conditions in
  any of our great cities.” (R. of Rs.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Societies which aim to promote the wellbeing of young people of this
  class will find here materials and methods of investigation of highest
  value.” C. R. Henderson.

       + =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 275. S. ’07. 100w.

  “The author has made an important contribution to our knowledge of
  home (?) life of the great class in our communities, and his volume,
  and its suggestions, should be carefully studied.”

     + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 227. Ja. ’07. 450w.

  “The author is disappointing in not being more convincing and
  conclusive in some of the salient points he has raised; he has left
  vital issues related to the subject for others to investigate and
  develop.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 399. Ag. 15, ’07. 420w.

  “Taking the volume as a whole, the student of social conditions will
  find in it much to interest him, and he will certainly credit the
  author with much conscientious industry. At the same time, he will
  hardly avoid the conclusion that valuable time and energy have been
  sacrificed to microscopic detail of trivial importance and leading to
  nowhere in particular.” E. R. Dewsnup.

     + − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 179. Mr. ’07. 590w.

       + =Nation.= 84: 105. Ja. 31, ’07. 320w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 72. F. 2, ’07. 250w.

  “While somewhat academic, Dr. Wolfe’s discussion of immediate and
  ultimate means for the betterment of lodging-house conditions is
  written broadly and judicially.”

       + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 569. S. ’07. 330w.

  “Dr. Wolfe has gone into the subject very thoroughly.”

     + + =R. of Rs.= 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 180w.


=Wood, Robert Williams.= Physical optics. *$3.50. Macmillan.

                                                                 6–5702.

  “While the book hardly claims, perhaps, to be a complete treatise, it
  covers a great deal of ground, and in particular deals with a number
  of matters, such as the laws of radiation, dispersion, fluorescence,
  and the optics of moving media, which are not so fully treated in some
  other recent works. A student commencing the study of optics would
  perhaps hardly begin with this book; he would find, however, in its
  pages when he came to read them some most instructive views of the
  subject.”—Nature.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is full of instruction clearly conveyed, is instinct with
  intelligence and is uncommonly interesting, because it is largely
  about the author’s own work. Some day we shall have a better
  proportioned book, but that it will be a more serviceable one is not
  so certain.”

   + + − =Nation.= 83: 99. Ag. 2, ’06. 170w.

  “The theoretical treatment of the matter is perhaps less
  satisfactory.”

   + + − =Nature.= 74: 509. S. 20, ’06. 1150w.

  “It would be difficult to collect a more instructive and interesting
  group of experiments in optics than that presented. In quite a number
  of places the notation does not agree with the figures. Apart from
  these slight defects the book is an inspiration to students and
  teachers and will be a great aid in rescuing physical optics from the
  absurd mathematical symbolism which sometimes seems to throttle
  progress in this fruitful field of investigation.” J. S. Shearer.

   + + − =Phys. R.= 25: 303. O. ’07. 240w.


=Wood, Walter Birbeck, and Edmonds, James Edward.= History of the Civil
war in the United States, 1861–1865. *$3.50. Putnam.

                                                                5–35776.

  Descriptive note in December, 1905.

  “It is enough to say that the book can be read with pleasure, but we
  have to read slowly and closely.” J. E. Morris.

     + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 386. Ap. ’07. 1560w.


=Wood, William.= Fight for Canada; a sketch from the history of the
great imperial war. Definitive ed. $2.50. Little.

                                                                6–15420.

  A new edition which includes revisions and additional notes. The
  author gives much detail concerning the personnel and technical
  equipment of the army and of the navy, and emphasizes particularly the
  part played by the naval forces in the campaign against Quebec.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 973. Jl. ’06. 100w.

  “The author writes with clearness and force. His characterizations are
  often presented with succinct and epigrammatic phrase. One defect in
  the author’s treatment is that all men are either black or white; none
  are, to use Professor Morse Stephen’s illuminating phrase, pale gray.
  The author’s strong convictions on present-day subjects ... show a
  lack of judicial restraint.” S. J. McLean.

   + + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 438. Mr. ’07. 680w.


=Wood, William Wallace.= Walschaert locomotive valve gear. $1.50.
Henley.

                                                                6–46770.

  A practical treatise on the locomotive valve actuating mechanism,
  originally invented by Egide Walschaert, with the history of the
  development by American and European engine designers, and its
  evolution into the mechanically correct locomotive valve gear of the
  present day.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The work is clear and explicit in the manner of handling the subject,
  and it should give any careful reader an excellent idea of the
  principles and application of the Walschaert gear, together with much
  important relative information of practical value to the engineman and
  master mechanic.” Arthur M. Waitt.

     + + =Engin. N.= 57: 307. Mr. 14, ’07. 440w.


* =Woodberry, George Edward.= Great writers. **$1.20. McClure.

                                                                7–33931.

  Essays of a critical nature upon three prose writers and three poets:
  Cervantes, Scott, Montaigne; Virgil, Milton and Shakespeare.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The peculiar critical genius of G. E. Woodberry is seen to
  exceptional advantage. He approaches high matters with a subtle
  simplicity that lends a dignity to the texture of his prose, and
  reinforces his humane imagination with a singularly concrete and vivid
  sense of the individuality of historical periods. The essays upon the
  prose writers are perhaps a little more interesting and satisfactory
  than those upon the poets.”

   + + − =Nation.= 85: 498. N. 28, ’07. 550w.

  “Carefully wrought and singularly beautiful, Mr. Woodberry is so much
  of a poet in temperament that his prose sometimes exchanges simplicity
  and clear definition for a vagueness which gives the atmosphere of the
  critic’s mind rather than the fullness of his ideas.”

   + + − =Outlook.= 87: 766. D. 7, ’07. 470w.


=Woodberry, George Edward.= Ralph Waldo Emerson. **75c. Macmillan.

                                                                 7–3927.

  The life of Emerson written for the “English men of letters” series.
  “‘The process of a soul in matter’ was his biography,” says Mr.
  Woodberry. The life is sketched thru the following chapters: The voice
  obeyed at prime, “Nature,” and its corollaries, “The hypocritic days.”
  The essays, The poems, and Terminus.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 106. Ap. 16, ’07. S.

         =Current Literature.= 42: 288. Mr. ’07. 1410w.

  “The volume is charmingly written—the style so distinctive, the ideas
  so often luminous and so generally fascinating.”

       + =Lit. D.= 34: 548. Ap. 6, ’07. 180w.

  “In our opinion this is the best of the American volumes that have so
  far appeared in the series, and it is about the best work of its
  author. But if the book as a whole deserves high praise, there are
  still grave reservations to be made. There is altogether too much
  repetition; certain ideas, such as Emerson’s relation to the clergy
  and the pulpit, come up with needless frequency. And again, there are
  a few apparent contradictions that call for reconciliation, such as
  the varying portraiture of Emerson now as practical and now as
  unpractical. Graver than these are the lapses in scholarship.”

   + + − =Nation.= 84: 179. F. 21, ’07. 950w.

  “It is a book by which we may be content to have our Emerson and his
  critics judged on the other side of the Atlantic.” Edward Cary.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 90. F. 16, ’07. 1260w.

  “More serviceable to the student than any previous biography or
  criticism, because it expounds Emerson from the inside out instead of
  from the outside in. Professor Woodberry’s study is a triumph of sweet
  reasonableness; but it is planned without abandonment and executed
  without ecstacy.” Clayton Hamilton.

     + + =No. Am.= 185: 83. My. 3, ’07. 1040w.

  “It is altogether the best among recent additions to the ‘English men
  of letters series’—indeed, quite the most satisfying interpretation of
  Emerson which has been offered.” H. W. Boynton.

     + + =Putnam’s.= 3: 107. O. ’07. 1050w.

  “Professor Woodberry’s treatment of Emerson is adequate and
  dignified.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 756. Je. ’07. 40w.


=Woodburn, James Albert, and Moran, Thomas Francis.= American history
and government: a text-book for grammar schools on the history and civil
government of the United States. *$1. Longmans.

                                                                 6–9273.

  An attempt “to combine in a single grammarschool text-book the related
  subjects of American history and civil government.... The combination
  consists of ... the interpolation, just after the account of the
  adoption of the constitution, of seven chapters descriptive of the
  skeleton of national and state governmental forms.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The style of the historical chapters is not attractive; the
  subject-matter is too condensed to be interesting. In the main the
  spirit of the book is eminently fair and judicial.” Archibald Freeman.

     + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 196. O. ’07. 690w.

         =Dial.= 42: 118. F. 16, ’07. 60w.

  “The historical narrative, while devoid of literacy merit, is, as a
  whole, accurate and well proportioned, and shows skill in selecting
  important incidents.”

     − + =Nation.= 84: 411. My. 2, ’07. 320w.

       − =Spec.= 97: 207. Ag. 11, ’06. 190w.

  “The author is admirably successful in bringing his subject down to
  the level of those for whom he writes. The style is simple and
  picturesque. In a few instances, however, he seems to forget that he
  is writing a condensed, general account.” E. D. Fite.

     + − =Yale R.= 16: 101. My. ’07. 310w.


=Woodrow, Nancy Mann Waddel (Mrs. Wilson Woodrow).= Bird of time: being
conversations with Egeria. **$1. McClure.

                                                                7–15323.

  “Contains a series of essaylike conversations on the subject of the
  many-sided phases and attractions of the typical person who came to be
  generally known a dozen years ago as ‘the new woman.’” (N. Y. Times.)
  “Sitting with Egeria and her friends in her ‘sweet, sedate, secluded’
  garden, or around her birchwood fires, the reader may hear much good
  talk on subjects as old as the story of Joseph and as new as the
  balefulness of woman’s economic dependence.... A pretty wisp of story
  binds all the parts together.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 138. My. ’07.

  “Short crisp chapters of conversational give and take.”

       + =Dial.= 42: 345. Je. 1, ’07. 290w.

  “These conversations of Egeria and her friends are thoroughly
  delightful. The pages sparkle. Epigram is kept within bounds, and the
  style is natural and pure. The book is of the sort that makes waste
  paper of whole shelves full of ‘smart-set’ fiction.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 34: 640. Ap. 20, ’07. 280w.

  “A book by a woman largely about ‘us women’ naturally contains a good
  deal about ‘you men.’ But never does it fall into the humor-lacking
  acridities of its class. The proof-reading leaves very much to be
  desired.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 292. Mr. 28, ’07. 380w.

  “A series of clever conversations.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 173. Mr. 23, ’07, 470w.

         =Outlook.= 86: 258. Je. 1, ’07. 90w.


=Woodrow, Nancy Mann.= New missioner. il. †$1.50. McClure.

                                                                7–33209.

  “In this story the central figure is Frances Benton, a missionary to
  the mining camp of Zenith, and around her is woven a story of much
  originality and some force. Here, if we are not mistaken, blackmail as
  a missionary’s weapon is introduced into fiction for the first time.
  Miss Benson’s advent is not welcomed by the feminine population of
  Zenith, and her existence there is not an enviable one.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

  “The author’s delineation of character is clean cut and sympathetic,
  and her restraint in the use of thrilling situations, in which most
  western stories are too prolific, is commendable.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 711. N. 9, ’07. 260w.

  “It is an unusual piece of fiction, and more than once really touches
  the heart.”

       + =Outlook.= 87: 745. N. 30, ’07. 50w.


=Woods, Francis Henry.= For faith and science. *$1.20. Longmans.

                                                                7–29070.

  “The author’s purpose ... is to indicate how science as a whole is
  actually influencing Christian faith and the attitude of intelligent
  minds towards Christian faith.... There is a good discussion on the
  limitations of the Bible as the standard of faith and morality.... The
  main interest is in the third part of the book, which discusses such
  problems as ‘Is evolution consistent with the Bible?’ ‘Has science any
  valid ground of objection against miracles?’ and so forth.”—Ath.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “We confess that, amid much that is scholarly and sound, we find a
  certain lameness in apologetic works of this class.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 696. D. 1. 850w.

         =Ind.= 62: 505. F. 28, ’07. 20w.


* =Woods, James Houghton.= Practice and science of religion: a study of
method in comparative religion. (Paddock lectures, 1905–1906.) *80c.
Longmans.

                                                                6–22299.

  Mr. Woods “classifies religious faiths according as the judgments they
  imply are individual, collective, or universal and normative. Under
  the first division he considers primitive beliefs not strictly
  religious, under the second ancestral systems, and in the third he
  includes various forms of mysticism, of the Vedânta system and
  Buddhism as well as Christianity.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “For the [embodiment of a method and system for solving religious]
  problems its data are too scant and its touch too light. Moreover, the
  employment of logical, ethical and metaphysical categories is so
  frequent and so apparently a priori as almost to belie the author’s
  initial appeal to the standards of inductive inquiry. There is present
  also a lack of clearness and incisiveness in the concepts which are
  described as involved in religious experience. The reader feels
  himself sometimes on shifting sand when he looks to deal with a
  clearly developed dialectic.” E. L. Norton.

                  *       *       *       *       *

     − + =J. Philos.= 4: 580. O. 10, ’07. 1170w.

         =Nation.= 83: 304. O. 11, ’06. 210w.

  “When describing the history of primitive beliefs and customs he is
  clear and interesting. But we must confess that his philosophy of
  religion is not so good; there he seems to us wordy and pretentious,
  without making any solid contributions to the subject.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 103: 212. F. 16, ’07. 150w.


=Woods, Margaret Louisa (Bradley).= Invader. †$1.50. Harper.

                                                                7–17049.

  Sedate Oxford is made the setting for this astonishing tale of a dual
  personality, of the young Don who marries Milly, the quiet and
  adoring, and who loves Mildred the reckless, deceitful and
  captivating. These two natures struggle for mastery in the body of his
  young wife until after a series of strange happenings, Milly
  heroically sacrifices all in order that the rival within her, the
  invader whom she has come to hate and fear, may not embitter her
  husband’s future or ruin the life of the child, really Milly’s child,
  who has already felt the strange alternating maternal influences that
  play over him.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is a pity that a certain inability to rouse the sympathy and
  interest of the reader should make a dull book of what might be, at
  worst, an ingenious one.”

     − + =Acad.= 72: 516. My. 25, ’07. 230w.

  “The author writes crisply, and with a skilful command of her chosen
  medium. Decidedly a creditable venture.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 630. My. 25. 150w.

  Reviewed by Mary K. Ford.

         =Bookm.= 25: 522. Jl. ’07. 580w.

  “The interest of this fantastic tale is but moderate, which is chiefly
  due to the fact that the author takes her subject over-seriously,
  instead of frankly abandoning herself to its possibilities of comedy
  and dramatic effect.” Wm. M. Payne.

       − =Dial.= 43: 64. Ag. 1, ’07. 440w.

  “Distinctly repulsive ending.”

       − =Ind.= 63: 574. S. 5, ’07. 90w.

  “It has in fact, a hundred good qualities, which make it well worth
  reading. It has one defect which, in our opinion, prevents it from
  taking its place beside the ‘Village tragedy,’ or the best of modern
  fiction. Our objections to Mr. Woods’s book (against so able a book we
  have no scruples about urging objections) is that it falls between the
  two stools of fact and fancy.”

     + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 149. My. 10, ’07. 680w.

  “A sufficiently readable novel.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 501. My. 30, ’07. 260w.

  “The story can be commended as readable, and its picture of life in
  Oxford is interesting. The background is very well filled in, and the
  author has some humor, plenty of sentiment, and appreciable feeling
  for inanimate nature.”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 298. My. 11, ’07. 330w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 387. Je. 15, ’07. 210w.

  “The story is disagreeable and at times offensive to good taste, if
  not to good morals.”

       − =Outlook.= 86: 339. Je. 15, ’07. 80w.

  “Mrs. Woods succeeds better with her female than with her male
  characters, which are rather shadowy.”

     + − =Sat. R.= 104: 241. Ag. 24, ’07. 400w.

  “It is impossible to deny that the narrative has a certain engrossing
  quality, but personally we have no hesitation in expressing our regret
  that so much talent should have been lavished on a theme which makes
  neither for health nor happiness.”

     − + =Spec.= 98: 983. Je. 22, ’07. 1390w.


=Woods, Margaret Louisa.= King’s revoke: an episode in the life of
Patrick Dillon. †$1.50. Dutton.

                                                                W 6–298.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “The narrative is clogged with details and embarrassed by the
  introduction of too many characters, but it is a careful study of the
  types and is written with unusual fulness of information.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 673. Mr. 21, ’07. 130w.


=Woodworth, Joseph V.= Punches, dies and tools for manufacturing in
presses. $4. Henley.

                                                                 7–8248.

  “The author has aimed to give to the practical man as much useful
  information as possible on the working of sheet metals, the design and
  construction of punches and dies and the manufacture of repetition
  parts and articles in presses. The book is a broader and more
  comprehensive view of the subject than that given in the author’s
  previous work.”—Engin. N.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There is probably no other one place where so much valuable data on
  this specialty can be found.” W. W. Bird.

     + + =Engin. N.= 57: 194. F. 14, ’07. 150w.


=Worcester, Dean C.= Non-Christian tribes of northern Luzon. Bureau of
ptg., Manila.

  “Professor Worcester, a secretary of the interior in the Philippine
  government, has charge both of the ethnological study and the
  government of the wild peoples. He has made many trips, some of them
  heartbreaking ‘hikes,’ on occasions also incurring serious danger in
  regions previously unexplored.... He points out our lack as yet of
  detailed studies of these various mountain communities, and publishes
  his views only to help ‘awaken interest’ and to stimulate thus the
  study needed either to verify or to correct such conclusions as he has
  ventured.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Ind.= 63: 631. S. 12, ’07. 960w.

  “This is the latest, and to date the most authoritative, discussion of
  the mountain people of Northern Luzon as a whole.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 228. Mr. 7, ’07. 570w.


=Wordsworth, William.= Poems; selected with introd. by Stopford A.
Brooke. *$3. McClure.

  Mr. Brooke’s introduction “dwells on the poet’s life at Grasmere, the
  effects of the scenery on his genius and moral being, and his
  interpretation of that scenery and those effects in his verse.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “For one who has never yet come under the spell of Wordsworth no
  fitter passkey could be imagined than is found in [this book].”

     + + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 67. Jl. 20. 630w.

  “In this well-got-up volume literature and art are happily
  associated.”

     + + =Int. Studio.= 32: 85. Jl. ’07. 140w.

     + + =Lond. Times.= 6: 228. Jl. 19, ’07. 900w.

       + =Nation.= 85: 521. D. 5, ’07. 50w.

  “Mr. Stopford Brooke is always an agreeable literary companion, and in
  his introduction to these selections from Wordsworth he is
  particularly happy. Several of his touches give us a very human and
  intimate knowledge of the poet.” Bliss Carman.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 701. N. 2, ’07. 430w.


=Workman, Herbert B.= Persecution in the early church: a chapter in the
history of renunciation. *$1.50. West. Meth. bk.

                                                                7–26456.

  A discussion of persecution in the early church based upon all the
  actors both in the inner life and outer environment to which it was
  due. The treatment covers the “legal, historical, ecclesiastical and
  experiential aspects.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Workman’s book is a valuable contribution to the ecclesiastical
  and political history of the first three centuries of Christianity,
  and an authoritative study of a very interesting but partially known
  subject.”

     + + =Dial.= 43: 68. Ag. 1, ’07. 410w.

  “The volume covers much the same ground as Mr. Allard’s recently
  published work on Martyrdom, though with differences characteristic of
  the two writers. It may be said at once, without any offence to Dr.
  Workman, that his writing lacks the charm of style which seems almost
  inevitable in a Frenchman: where, however, critical questions are
  involved the advantage rests with the English scholar, whose sound
  judgment removes him as far from M. Allard’s excessive adherence to
  tradition as from the scepticism of Père Delehaye.” P. V. M. Benecke.

       + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 328. Ap. ’07. 3160w.

  “This is a really valuable book.”

     + + =Spec.= 97: 732. N. 10, ’06. 250w.


=Worsfold, Basil.= Lord Milner’s work in South Africa. *$4.50. Dutton.

                                                                7–15501.

  An intimate view of the official labors of Lord Milner in South
  Africa. “Mr. Worsfold has written a straightforward, connected account
  of events that are nowhere else so compactly and coherently set forth;
  he not only knows his subject thoroughly, but has evidently had
  opportunities of gathering much personal information directly from
  Lord Milner himself and from other leading actors in the South African
  drama; his analysis of the moral and material factors at work is, in
  the main, to our mind at least, just and convincing.” (Lond. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is neither journalism nor history, and it has the air of being
  hopelessly out of date. Mr. Worsfold, then, has a twice-told tale to
  tell, and he tells it with becoming gravity. He does full justice to a
  great public servant.”

     + − =Acad.= 71: 650. D. 29, ’06. 890w.

  “A large part of Mr. Worsfold’s volume seems to us wide of his
  subject.”

     − + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 689. D. 1. 1350w.

  “Mr. Worsfold is frankly a partisan, and a thick-and-thin partisan, of
  Lord Milner; and is unsparing in his condemnation of the Liberal
  leaders who showed any sympathy with the Boer republics.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 400. Ag. 15, ’07. 390w.

  “His thought and his style alike lack that distinction which so
  strikingly characterizes the extracts from Lord Milner’s own
  despatches and speeches which make no small portion of the present
  volume. He may not have given us ‘a possession forever,’ but he has
  compiled a volume which no one who professes to take an intelligent
  interest in Imperial politics can well afford to leave unread at this
  present juncture.”

   + + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 390. N. 23, ’06. 2570w.

  “The book is on a high level, but it is all admiration of Lord
  Milner.”

     + − =Nation.= 84: 342. Ap. 11, ’07. 800w.

         =Outlook.= 85: 903. Ap. 20, ’07. 180w.

  “A valuable footnote to the history of the South African war and the
  reconstruction period immediately following.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 383. Mr. ’07. 50w.

  “What he does not know at first hand he has been at great pains to
  verify by the documentary evidence of blue-books. His story is
  consecutive, and the sense of perspective is not wanting. His style is
  clear and occasionally dramatic if somewhat diffuse and iterative.”

   + + − =Sat. R.= 102: 710. D. 8, ’06. 1770w.


=Wright, Sir Almroth Edward.= Principles of microscopy: being a handbook
to the microscope. *$6.50. Macmillan.

                                                                7–25539.

  “A scientific treatise on the optical technique of the
  microscope, exclusive of actual microscopic work and study. The
  theme is illustrated at every step by an exhaustive series of
  experiments.”—Nation.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “An exhaustive index leaves the critic with nothing but praise for the
  thoroughness which marks every step in the treatment of the subject.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 206. F. 28, ’07. 150w.

  Reviewed by Thomas H. Blakesley.

     + − =Nature.= 75: 386. F. 21, ’07. 1420w.


=Wright, Carroll Davidson.= Battles of labor: being the William Levi
Bull lectures for the year 1906. **$1. Jacobs.

                                                                6–14781.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  “Colonel Wright, in this latest book, takes a historical point of view
  which lends special interest to his discussion.”

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 228. Ja. ’07. 190w.

  Reviewed by W. B. Guthrie.

     + + =Charities.= 17: 468. D. 15, ’06. 350w.

  “With good sense, wide learning, and ripe experience the eminent
  statistician opens to young theologians that world of conflict in
  which ethical and religious principles are put to severest strain.”
  Charles Richmond Henderson.

     + − =Dial.= 42: 287. My. 1, ’07. 140w.

  “Especially interesting are the last two lectures, which are based
  largely on the personal experience and observation of the author.”

       + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 181. Mr. ’07. 110w.


=Wright, George Frederick.= Scientific confirmations of Old Testament
history. *$2. Bibliotheca sacra co., Oberlin. O.

                                                                 7–2423.

  “This volume embodies the results of his latest investigations besides
  those found in the authors former writings. They show, what other
  investigators have held that certain occurrences recorded in the Old
  Testament as miracles—the deluge, the destruction of Sodom, the
  Hebrews’ fording of the Red sea and the Jordan, the overthrow of
  Jericho—belong to the history of the natural operation of geological
  causes. These causes however, Dr. Wright holds to have been touched
  off by the direct act of God to meet the occasions, as really as the
  hunter fires his gun.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Ind.= 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 590w.

  “Is one of the most thorough books of its kind, in a popular form,
  lately published. The author’s unabating enthusiasm, his obvious
  sincerity, and simple and forcible manner make the book interesting.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 48. Ja. 26, ’07. 170w.

  “Whether in the Old Testament or in the New, Dr. Wright is
  uncompromisingly opposed to the conclusions adopted by the majority of
  Biblical scholars. Geology is his forte, and the value of the present
  volume comes from his researches in that field.”

     − + =Outlook.= 85: 238. Ja. 26, ’07. 210w.


=Wright, Hamilton M.= Handbook of the Philippines. **$1.40. McClurg.

                                                                7–32869.

  A book for the student or traveler which is the outgrowth of
  investigations made in the Philippines in order to furnish a complete
  report to the Manufacturers and producers association of San
  Francisco. It is a practical reference book recording interesting
  facts about commerce, productions, industries and prospects. The
  illustrations are numerous and suggestive.

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 199. N. ’07.

  “Not only is it written with the roseate optimism of promotors’
  literature but as a compilation of facts it has been carelessly
  prepared, from inadequate study of sources and hasty observations, and
  is far from being either accurate or complete.”

       − =Ind.= 63: 1371. D. 5, ’07. 580w.

  “In which is compactly set forth a great amount of information
  concerning the islands and their peoples.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 716. N. 9, ’07. 320w.

  “It is, as an indication of Philippine industrial conditions that the
  book has chief value. It is emphatically a reference book, not only
  for the tourist but in a greater measure for the business man, the
  promoter, the industrialist, the capitalist.”

     + + =Outlook.= 87: 541. N. 9, ’07. 1060w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 638. N. ’07. 180w.


=Wright, Harold Bell.= Shepherd of the hills. $1.50. Book supply co.

                                                                7–26339.

  The crude mountaineers of the Ozarks are the people of this story, and
  those of them who were not really born to this wild life have come to
  it satiated with the ways of men in the world outside and have here
  been born anew. It is a strange tale of love, of hate, of deception
  and retribution but, although it deals with tough folk and their rough
  ways, about it is cast the glamour of the everlasting hills. These men
  are men of action and their brawn and muscle when exerted in a good
  cause, have all the force of oratory.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “There are many bits of excellent description, in the course of the
  story, and an atmosphere as fresh and sweet and free from modern grime
  as one would breathe on the Ozark trails themselves.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 250w.

  “Both in the more melodramatic and the more sentimental parts of his
  tale he is apt to overdo the thing. With all its crudeness, however,
  the story does appeal to one’s admiration of pluck and honesty.”

     − + =Outlook.= 87: 269. O. 5, ’07. 120w.


=Wright, Mabel Osgood.= Birdcraft. 7th ed. **$2. Macmillan.

  A new edition of a book whose “especial value lies in the way in which
  the principal facts concerning a bird—length, color, song, season,
  distribution, nest and eggs—are set off in distinct paragraphs, making
  reference easy and direct. The only change from the old editions is
  the absence of the badly colored plates of minute figures of birds and
  the substitution of eighty uncolored plates by Fuertes, including some
  of this artist’s best work.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

       + =Ind.= 62: 1353. Je. 6, ’07. 80w.

       + =Nation.= 84: 295. Mr. 28, ’07. 90w.

  “The bird is, so to speak, a guide to the realm of bird-land, well
  composed and arranged.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 227. Ap. 6, ’07. 150w.

       + =Outlook.= 85: 763. Mr. 30, ’07. 70w.


* =Wright, Mabel Osgood.= Gray Lady and the birds: stories of the bird
year for home and school, il. **$1.75. Macmillan.

                                                                7–38237.

  Children and birds are brought into close sympathy here. The author
  does not give detailed descriptions and tabulated facts, but a record
  “of the doings of some children who were eager to know; together with
  a few hints upon the migrations, winter feeding, and protection of
  some of our common birds and the stories of their lives, that may lead
  both teacher and pupil to more detailed study when opportunity
  offers.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 20w.


=Wright, Thomas.= Life of Walter Pater. 2v. *$6.50. Putnam.

                                                                7–25136.

  “In the main, it avoids the proportion of literary exposition,
  criticism, and general biography already so thoroughly dealt with in
  the biographies of Pater written by A. C. Benson and Ferris Greenslet
  and strives to be familiarly subjective rather than personally and
  intimately objective. Much of the material employed has been derived
  from school-fellows, pupils, and colleagues, some of whom speak with
  questionable freedom.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “What evil angel—what bat—inspired him to choose a man whose mind and
  character he was totally incapable of understanding, and then to
  patronise him?”

     − − =Acad.= 72: 263. Mr. 16, ’67. 1900w.

  “The book contains a good deal of new material, especially in the
  account given of the literary relations between Pater and Oscar Wilde.
  Mr. Benson’s ‘Walter Pater’ ... was more satisfactory to Pater’s
  friends than is the present venture.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 353. Mr. 23. 100w.

  “This is the most absurd of his absurdities; the chief, and let us
  hope, the last of his biographical ineptitudes.” H. W. Boynton.

     − − =Bookm.= 25: 420. Je. ’07. 1880w.

  “If his workmanlike methods are not exactly those of previous writers
  who have rhapsodized on the life and genius of Pater, the difference
  is not altogether one to be regretted. The richness of illustrative
  and sometimes not too closely relevant matter more than once comes
  very near to being padding. The footnotes are superfluously and
  tiresomely numerous.” Percy F. Bicknell.

     + − =Dial.= 42: 280. My. 1, ’07. 2220w.

  “It is equally distinguished for failure to penetrate the character of
  the man and pitiful in capacity to appreciate the excellence of his
  work.” Edward Clark Marsh.

     − − =Forum.= 39: 106. Jl. ’07. 1130w.

  “This is pretty nearly everything a self-respecting biography ought
  not to be.”

     − − =Ind.= 63: 762. S. 26, ’07. 150w.

  “Mr. Benson and Mr. Greenslet are at any rate critics of taste and
  culture: and not all the mass of new facts accumulated by Mr. Wright
  can make up for his entire lack which he here displays of the
  interpretative gift and of any distinction either in thought or in
  style.”

       − =Lond. Times.= 6: 94. Mr. 22, ’07. 370w.

  “It is, in short the failure of the ‘Boswellian’ method in biography
  when applied by a man who is not a Boswell to a subject not a
  Johnson.”

       − =Nation.= 84: 312. Ap. 4, ’07. 1810w.

  “Mr. Wright’s book is, in all respects, for the multitude of readers,
  a straightforward, unimaginative narrative of facts, big and little,
  and chronicle of gossip concerning a remarkable man about whom the
  multitude of readers has, hitherto, known very little.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 192. Mr. 30, ’07. 220w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 284. My. 4, ’07. 1400w.

  “The biographer places too great a reliance upon the cumulative effect
  of unimportant conversations and recollections, and his anxiety to see
  Pater through the eyes of certain of his early friends promotes a
  sense of uneasiness in the reader lest there should be another side to
  many of these stories.” Thomas Walsh.

       − =No. Am.= 185: 552. Jl. 5, ’07. 1910w.

     + − =Outlook.= 86: 75. My. 11, ’07. 260w.

  “Some services he has undoubtedly rendered.” A. I. du P. Coleman.

     − + =Putnam’s.= 2: 614. Ag. ’07. 160w.

  “If we took his work seriously at all, we should have to say much
  harder things about it. As it is, he is just an irritation. We want
  him out of the way.”

     − − =Sat. R.= 103: 590. My. 11, ’07. 1610w.


=Wright, Wilmer Cave.= Short history of Greek literature from Homer to
Julian. *$1.50. Am. bk.

                                                                7–32173.

  A book for the reader who believes that he cannot appreciate
  literature unless he can relate the masterpieces to the types set,
  once for all, by the Greeks; and also for the student who in the
  second or third year at college desires a rapid survey of the whole
  field of Greek literature.


=Wrixon, Sir Henry John.= Pattern nation. *$1. Macmillan.

                                                                7–11013.

  The factors in the problem which Sir Henry Wrixon discusses are stated
  in the following: “The problem [of the day] is, What will the poor do
  with the rich? It arises when on the political side of life, lawful
  government of the majority of the people becomes an established fact
  in vindication of the principle that men are equal; while the
  industrial and social side of life is still left to be controlled by
  methods that have for their foundation the fact that men are unequal
  and that their rewards in life are to be unequal also.” His book
  answers the question raised in this statement.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 170. Jl. ’07. 400w.

         =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 187. Mr. ’07. 280w.

  “The facts and arguments adduced by Sir Henry Wrixon are weighty. They
  are presented with an earnestness which commands attention.”

     + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 354. O. 19, ’06. 680w.

  “The true merit of a volume which in its 172 pages contains more
  thought and more wisdom than is often to be found in books of tenfold
  its size, is that it suggests ideas which ought to arrest the
  attention of the whole English people, whether living in the United
  Kingdom, or in the United States.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 223. Mr. 7, ’07. 1950w.

  “The essay is valuable as a reflection of a phase of opinion in
  England, if not very convincing as an argument.”

     − + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 555. S. ’07. 180w.

  “Is a little book of great merit.”

     + + =Spec.= 97: 937. D. 15, ’06. 1540w.


=Wyld, Henry Cecil Kennedy.= Historical study of the mother tongue: an
introduction to philological method. *$2. Dutton.

                                                                7–15482.

  A purely technical work designed as a textbook for students of
  philology. “It contains a large amount of information on the history
  of the language, the facts of comparative grammar bearing on its
  external relations, and the nature of the causes that operate in the
  development of language in general.” (Ath.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “To many teachers of the classics it will be a matter of great regret
  that an introduction as clear, accurate, scientific, and complete as
  this has not yet been written for the young student of the classical
  languages.” A. L. Mayhew.

   + + − =Acad.= 72: 134. F. 9, ’07. 1050w.

  “One great merit of the work consists in the fullness and lucidity
  with which it explains the reasons for conclusions that are too often
  presented dogmatically. Although on some points we consider Prof.
  Wyld’s views rather one-sided, we have no hesitation in cordially
  recommending his book.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 504. Ap. 27. 1130w.

  “A book such as has long been needed by teachers both in Great Britain
  and in America. The indexes, prepared by Miss Irene Williams, are
  admirably thorough and full.”

   + + − =Dial.= 42: 344. Je. 1, ’07. 400w.

  “It is full of specific fact and observation, drawn from the stores of
  a wide and sound scholarship. It is, however, in the theories and
  principles set forth in the book ... that its main interest lies. The
  reader will not always agree with the author, but his own opinions are
  pretty certain to undergo some modifications before he has heard him
  thru.” George Philip Krapp.

   + + − =Educ. R.= 34: 525. D. ’07. 2200w.

  “This is an excellent work for post-graduate students in the Germanic
  languages—especially, of course, English—to supplement the usual
  courses in historical grammar.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 17. Jl. 4, ’07. 660w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 17. Ja. 12, ’07. 270w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 268. Ap. 27, ’07. 190w.

  “Mr. Wyld has added an excellent bibliography and an equally good
  index.”

       + =Spec.= 98: sup. 648. Ap. 27, ’07. 540w.


=Wyllarde, Dolf.= As ye have sown. †$1.50. Lane.

  The author’s thesis “seems to be that the British aristocracy has been
  bred in idleness and nursed in vice for generations until its men are
  gamblers and roués by instinct, its women unspeakable things clad in
  scale-like sequins and triply armed with brazen conceit, lewdness and
  loudness. In contrast, she draws a flattering portrait of the ‘Great
  middle class’ of England.... A beautiful young woman, Patricia
  Mornington, wanders into the story and into the fast society, where
  she finds herself about as much at home as an angel in Tophet or an
  ascension lily in a foundry furnace.” (Ind.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “This is a brilliant and convincing picture of society life among the
  members of the British aristocracy.”

       + =Arena.= 38: 215. Ag. ’07. 160w.

  “She shows a less sure touch, in depicting the routine of English
  suburban homes than in her former vivid sketches of military and
  colonial life; and she has not succeeded in the task—a difficult one,
  admittedly—of endowing virtue in the person of her heroine with
  fascinations exceeding those proper to vice.”

       − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 730. D. 8. 180w.

  “We must confess to a doubt concerning the open indecency of the talk
  at the dinner tables in ‘As ye have sown.’”

       − =Ind.= 63: 573. S. 5, ’07. 380w.

  “The intention of the novel is no doubt good, but why does the author
  forget this wholesome tenet, and insist that her reader shall ‘know of
  the bad?’”

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 432. Jl. 6, ’07. 250w.


=Wyllie, M. A.= Norway and its fjords. *$2. Pott.

  A “thirty-day scheduled, beaten-track survey of the Norwegian coast”
  described by Mrs. Wyllie and pictured by W. L. Wyllie.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “As a monthly tourists’ log, the book is good enough to make the
  reader disappointed that it is not better.”

     + − =Acad.= 73: 967. O. 5, ’07. 950w.

  “It is a pity that the book has not been revised—and abridged—by a
  competent hand; for when its author steps down from the lecturer’s
  chair, she relates the incidents of travel with spirit, and shows
  excellent taste in her description of scenery.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 441. O. 12. 400w.

  “This is one of the literary guide-books which in recent years have
  been prepared by persons of culture and observative powers to
  supplement the mechanical information contained in the Baedeker series
  and their like.”

     + + =Lit. D.= 35: 919. D. 14, ’07. 70w.

  “What with the chatty intimate style, the excellent descriptions, and
  the numerous illustrations of this book, one feels on reading it
  almost as though he had been to Norway.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 210w.


=Wymore, Mary Isabel.= Adrienne, and other poems. $1. Badger, R. G.

                                                                 7–7474.

  “Adrienne,” a tale of the sea, is the first of a group of poems which
  are arranged in the order in which they were written, “thus making,”
  the author says, “an unbroken chain in the development of an idea.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 147. Mr. 9, ’07. 40w.


=Wyndham, George.= Ronsard and La Pleiade: with selections from their
poetry and some translations in original metres. $2. Macmillan.

  An introductory essay tells the story of Ronsard and the Pleiad and
  shows how French and English literature were influenced by the school;
  then come the “selections,” which contain the best of Ronsard, Du
  Bellay and lesser folk; the volume concludes with sixty pages of
  translations of lyric poetry and sonnets in original metres.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Mr. Wyndham is well fitted for the task. He has caught the spirit of
  Elizabethan England, and written admirably and with insight of its
  greatest poetry. The necessary compression of treatment leaves us in
  some hesitation as to whether the author has not assumed a great many
  things on very questionable authority.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 648. N. 24. 1500w.

  “Mr. Wyndham has felt, not only the importance but especially the
  grace of Ronsard and his school; and he shows, with delicacy of
  sentiment, how that grace pervaded their lives no less than their
  works.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 5: 381. D. 16, ’06. 2470w.

  “His translations are faithful.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 57. Ja. 17, ’07. 280w.

  “He shows us the astonishing fact that it is possible to be a
  politician and yet to have the instinct, much even of the craft, of
  the poet. Mr. Wyndham writes sharply and emphatically, not lingering
  by the way, and often flashing a rapid illumination as he goes. Here
  and there his lines creak or cloud.” Arthur Symons.

     + − =Sat. R.= 102: 543. N. 3, ’06. 1870w.

  “The selection is admirably done; the introduction is adequate, though
  we are always a little uneasy in reading Mr. Wyndham’s prose. He is
  apt to be too luscious for human nature’s daily food, and he has a
  wearing habit of using no substantive without several epithets
  attached.”

     + − =Spec.= 97: 930. D. 8, ’06. 510w.




                                   Y


=Yardley, Maud H.= Sinless. *$1. Fenno.

  An emotional story growing out of the almost inconceivable situation
  of an unconscious exchange of wives. Two men return to England and
  their wives after ten years residence in India. That the wife of one
  should greet the husband of the other, be accepted in turn as his wife
  and neither find out the mistake for sometime seems a little short of
  impossible. The confusion is aided by the fact that both women
  responded to “Nell,” and both men were named “Kenyon.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Miss Yardley nurses her material with such skill and keeps her secret
  so well that the close of the chapter, where she allows the truth to
  burst on us, is a triumph of dramatic effect.”

       + =Acad.= 71: 399. O. 20, ’06. 150w.

  “The improbability is redeemed by the very delicate way in which the
  consequent tragedy is handled.”

     + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 439. O. 13. 110w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 498. Ag. 17, ’07. 120w.

  “After [the first twenty-five pages] the story flows languidly in a
  stream of verbosity.”

       − =Sat. R.= 102: 434. O. 6. ’06. 150w.


=Yeats, William Butler.= Poetical works. 2v. v. 1. **$1.75. Macmillan.

                                                                6–43534.

  This is a volume of Mr. Yeats’ lyrical poems, and will be followed in
  the spring by a second containing his dramas. Here are to be found
  “Ballads and lyrics,” “The wanderings of Oisin,” “The rose,” “The wind
  among the reeds,” “In seven woods,” “The old age of Queen Meave,” and
  “Baile and Aillinn.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Not all Mr. Yeats’s gifts of music and Celtic magic avail to make the
  volume other than a little tedious.” Ferris Greenslet.

     + − =Atlan.= 100: 850. D. ’07. 350w.

  “It seems doubtful whether in the mass Mr. Yeats’ lyrical poetry can
  be appreciated save by a cult or will be remembered save by the
  curious. Yet there are fine things in the volume.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 34. Ja. 10, ’07. 430w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “The fact that he is occasionally carried away by his love for the old
  fairy legends of his native land must not be held against him. It is
  only occasionally that he transcends common sense and loses sight of
  reason in a fog of mysticism.” Bliss Carman.

     + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 68. F. 2, ’07. 1770w.

  “Foremost—indeed, as far as permanent value goes, entirely alone—in
  this year’s output stands the volume of Mr. Yeats’s collected dramas.”
  Louise Collier Willcox.

     + + =No. Am.= 186: 92. S. ’07. 840w.

         =Outlook.= 85: 238. Ja. 26, ’07. 80w. (Review of v. 1.)

  “For Mr. Yeats’s poetry I have more respectful sympathy than liking. I
  wish I liked it better. I feel quite sure that it deserves affection.
  Often in phrases and occasionally in whole lyrics it is exquisite. And
  it is always admirable in intention, but, somehow, it lacks something.
  It does not give the thrill. It is wanting in the pull on the heart.”

     + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 118. Ap. ’07. 770w.

  “Here the intangible, the illusive and elusive weave their shadowy
  world, and one knows not when he returns from it what shapes he has
  met; but he knows that he has been in an enchanted place and that his
  spirit was stirred.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

       + =Putnam’s.= 3: 363. D. ’07. 590w.


=Yost, Casper S.= Making of a successful husband: letters of a happily
married man to his son. **$1. Dillingham.

                                                                7–24184.

  “The book is in the form of letters from a father who has found
  marriage a success to his son. They begin with the young man’s
  announcement of his engagement, and are carried on through indefinite
  intervals of time as the young husband makes known one and other
  problems of married life. The letters consider the questions of
  boarding or keeping house, the wife’s allowance, the bride’s
  relations, should women work, and other practical and sentimental
  matters.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “They are all written in an easy, natural style, enlivened with
  anecdotes, and show much common sense of an up-to-date variety.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 517. Ag. 24. ’07. 180w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 759. D. ’07. 30w.


* =Yost, Casper S.= Making of a successful wife. **$1. Dillingham.

                                                                7–36141.

  The letters of a father to his daughter give some interesting advice,
  plenty of humor and a good deal of marital philosophy. “In the first
  letter John Sneed gives his consent to the marriage of his daughter,
  and in those ensuing he advises her on his problems of married life.”
  (N. Y. Times.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The tenth [letter] deals with [the problem] of raising a family, and
  presents homely truths in a pleasant fashion.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 713. N. 9. ’07. 90w.

       + =R. of Rs.= 36: 759. D. ’07. 30w.


=Young, Alexander Bell Filson.= Christopher Columbus and the New world
of his discovery. 2v. *$6.50. Lippincott.

                                                                 7–3929.

  “The central object of Mr. Young’s work is to reveal to the reader
  what he conceives to be the personality of Columbus. He has tried to
  discover, from a reverent examination of monographs, histories,
  essays, memoirs, and controversies, what Columbus did and what he was.
  In order that his portrait might not lack reality, he has endeavored
  to bring out even his hero’s defects.”—Lit. D.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “It is picturesquely, vivaciously and vigorously written, with here
  and there a touch reminiscent of Carlyle. He does not, however, strike
  us as an infallible witness, and ‘modern historical research,’ which
  may dispose of Washington Irving, is not perhaps always on the side of
  Mr. Filson Young.”

     + − =Acad.= 71: 627. D. 22, ’06. 1150w.

  “The most serious deficiency in Mr. Young’s work is not its occasional
  errors, but its great lack of the true historical spirit of
  interpretation. It is the work of a clear and versatile writer, but
  not of a historical scholar. It will amuse and interest the general
  reader and not seriously mislead him as to the career of Columbus, but
  from it he will gain little instruction in historical interpretation.”
  E. G. B.

     + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 656. Ap. ’07. 630w.

  “Is deserving of high praise, and upon the whole it is trustworthy,
  notwithstanding the conjectural details which are introduced in order
  to impart life and colour to the little that is known of the early
  days of Columbus.”

   + + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 576. N. 10. 1390w.

  “The one great and glaring defect of Mr. Young’s work lies in the
  spirit of levity that more or less pervades it.” Anna Heloise Abel.

     − + =Dial.= 42: 342. Je. 1, ’07. 1000w.

  “The knowledge of motives and mental processes of Columbus which
  Filson Young displays in his new two-volume life of the navigator is
  enough to make the world of Columbian scholarship stand aghast.”

       − =Ind.= 62: 1154. My. 16, ’07. 340w.

         =Lit. D.= 34: 218. F. 9, ’07. 230w.

  “Mr. Young can tell a story tersely, rapidly and vividly when he
  chooses. But he seldom chooses so to tell it. He is too prone to
  listen to that demonic whisper which bids him tell it with abundance
  of florid embroidery; so that where we look for Columbus and his
  deeds, adventures, and sufferings, we too often find Mr. Filson Young
  and his words, conjectures, and fond inventions.”

     − + =Lond. Times.= 5: 392. N. 23, ’06. 1730w.

  “The defects of his own work illustrate the inevitable weakness of
  history written by one who has not saturated himself with its
  materials. No student of the Columbus narratives will fail to find in
  [the Earl of Dunraven’s] valuable essay an explanation of many things
  left partly or wholly in the dark by the editors of Columbus’s
  writings.”

     − + =Nation.= 84: 271. Mr. 21, ’07. 1180w.

  “Nothing has come from the presses recently which is able to give a
  deeper insight into the character of the discoverer of America than
  the two-volumed work of Filson Young just issued.”

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12:26. Ja. 19, ’07. 360w.

  “It is our opinion that he has pressed the theories of the picturesque
  school to a dangerous extreme, and he could have attained his purpose
  with even greater surety, and without any sacrifice of the dramatic
  elements of the story, by writing with more restraint.”

     + − =Outlook.= 85: 855. Ap. 13, ’07. 1330w.

  “The book, take it for all in all, is interesting although badly
  written, and its unflinching, almost infernal honesty of purpose
  places it far above the too-abundant crop of ‘Memoirs,’ ‘Lifes’ and
  ‘Notes’ about the doings of quite unimportant men, which literally
  stuff the libraries.” R. B. Cunninghame Graham.

   + + − =Sat. R.= 102: 576. N. 10, ’06. 1750w.


=Young, Alexander Bell Filson.= Mastersingers. *$1.25. Lippincott.

  “A republication, with some additions, of a series of essays on
  musical subjects which appeared several years ago and which has
  therefore won something more than ephemeral recognition in England and
  America.... Some of the essays are ‘programme’ interpretations of
  great symphonies like Beethoven’s Pastoral and Tschaikowsky’s
  Pathetic; ‘Tristan and and Isolde’ is a more objective description of
  Wagner’s great drama of love and death; and ‘The spirit of the piano’
  is a very just appreciation of Chopin’s genius.”—Dial.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “As the work of so youthful a writer ... these papers display a
  remarkable maturity of thought and even world wisdom; and the fervid
  intensity of many passages is intelligible and excusable.” Josiah
  Renick Smith.

       + =Dial.= 42: 224. Ap. 1, ’07. 170w.

  “They are agreeable and somewhat highly wrought examples of the
  ‘subjective,’ literary criticism.” Richard Aldrich.

     − + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 763. N. 17, ’06. 320w.


=Young, Alexander Bell Filson.= Wagner stories **$1.30. McClure.

  The stories of the Wagner operas from “Flying Dutchman” to “Parsifal”
  are told “for the benefit of those idle people who go to the opera
  without having taken the trouble to read the poem on which the music
  is founded. They are the larger proportion of audiences, and this
  handy guide to knowledge ought to help them. They will get not only a
  very good idea of the stories themselves, but a fairly definite idea,
  in Mr. Eric Maclagan’s metrical translations of detached passages, of
  that curious amalgam which Wagner constructed out of partly poetical
  and partly musical elements.”—(Sat. R.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Both useful and attractive.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 615. My. 18. 140w.

         =Nation.= 85: 404. O. 31, ’07. 150w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

  “A serious book for young people but the old tales are well told in a
  manner that older people will find interesting.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 50w.

  “The writing of Mr. Young’s book is done with fluency, and is best
  when it tries least to ‘be inspired with some breadth of the emotional
  atmosphere which it is the peculiar quality of Wagner’s music to
  produce.’”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 788. Je. 22, ’07. 270w.


=Young, Egerton Ryerson.= Battle of the bears. †$1.50. Wilde.

                                                                7–27029.

  Mr. Young’s stories of life in the northland all aim to catch and hold
  aspects of life which are fast disappearing as civilization penetrates
  the wilderness haunts of wolves and bears. “His pictures of nature as
  he saw it in that frozen world are remarkable, while the makeshifts to
  which he was forced to resort, the privations which he had to endure,
  give to the reader an insight into life in this north country such as
  has never been before portrayed.”


=Young, Rida Johnson, and Coleman, Gilbert P.= Brown of Harvard. †$1.50.
Putnam.

                                                                7–18595.

  “The quite simple story of Brown, who is wrongfully suspected by his
  sweetheart and her mother, suffers in silence to shield the quite
  stereotyped villain, who would have been much more wisely dealt with
  if his weakness had had the tonic of publicity, and who inevitably
  wins the boat race.”—N. Y. Times.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “The lively plot, full of ingenious and surprising incidents, and the
  very striking dénouement make the reader unwilling to lay down the
  book until he has finished it.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 60w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 397. Je. 15, ’07. 100w.




                                   Z


=Zangwill, Israel.= Ghetto comedies. †$1.50. Macmillan.

                                                                7–15120.

  Fourteen stories of the Jew. Some are little comedies but in some the
  comedy element is pathetically lacking. The model of sorrows,
  Anglicization, The Jewish Trinity, The Sabbath question in Sudminster,
  The red mark, The bearer of burdens. The Luftmensch, The tug of love,
  The Yiddish Hamlet, The converts, Holy wedlock, Elijah’s goblet, The
  hirelings, and Samooborona.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Strong, artistic, short stories of the Jew.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 181. O. ’07.

  “We are grateful to him for a book of interesting stories, which give
  his readers problems to ponder—and some, maybe, also reason for
  despair.”

       + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 788. Je. 29. 390w.

  “Never has he proved more plainly that a special theme in no way
  hampers an artist, if only the artist be sufficiently strong and
  fecund to resist over-specialization and to remain alive and sentient
  within his chosen field.” Mary Moss.

     + + =Bookm.= 25: 430. Je. ’07. 1120w.

  “The reader feels as tho he has been wandering in a land of
  grotesques. More than a touch of exaggeration mars some of his best
  tales.”

     + − =Ind.= 63: 694. S. 19, ’07. 360w.

  “Although in one way the book may be taken as an ironical open letter
  to the Christian nations, showing them what their centuries of
  oppression have done to debase their victim, it is also a work rich in
  understanding and humor, a very quick and true sympathy, and that
  fearless satirical directness which, when it comes (as it does so very
  infrequently) from one of this race, is always so telling.”

       + =Lond. Times.= 6: 158. My. 17, ’07. 670w.

  “In reading these stories (fourteen in all) it is impossible not to
  feel that merely as a writer of fiction Mr. Zangwill has gained
  greatly in the past decade. Moreover, his point of view has broadened,
  and while his sympathies and enthusiasms are as distinctively national
  as ever, while he still loves so tenderly that he can find fault, or
  even laugh, he never falls into that partisan sentimentalism which
  would rob his Jewish pictures of their unflinching sincerity.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 478. My. 23, ’07. 420w.

         =N. Y. Times.= 12: 272. Ap. 27, ’07. 70w.

  “They have all the realism, the almost grim impartiality of their
  predecessors.”

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 284. My. 4, ’07. 660w.

       + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 387. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.

  “They have the compelling force of reality.”

       + =Outlook.= 86: 256. Je. 1, ’07. 90w.

  “When a writer of fiction sets out to defend or attack some system of
  religion or philosophy or politics or social economy, he must beware
  of producing a lecture instead of a tale. Mr. Zangwill, an
  enthusiastic Zionist, has frequently yielded to this weakness, and his
  ‘Ghetto comedies’ show that he is not done with it yet.”

     − + =R. of Rs.= 35: 762. Je. ’07. 280w.

  “What one is perhaps most conscious of when reading Mr. Zangwill is
  the sureness of his level. His stories are not all of the same value
  but one is sure when beginning each of them that it will lead
  somewhere.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 624. My. 18, ’07. 540w.

  “Alike in matter and manner this is a book of singular and engrossing
  interest.”

       + =Spec.= 98: 677. Ap. 27, ’07. 1470w.


=Zartman, Lester William.= Investments of life insurance companies.
**$1.25. Holt.

                                                                  7–451.

  A book which does not attempt to reflect any of the agitation
  attending the recent official investigation of life insurance
  companies, but undertakes the “more congenial task of tracing the
  beneficent influences which life insurance accumulations have
  exercised upon the economic development of the country and the
  relation of those accumulations to social welfare.”

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Will interest readers of thoughtful mind, although it is somewhat
  restricted in scope, and does not consider many of the most
  interesting aspects of insurance. Extremely well done.”

       + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 107. Ap. ’07.

  “The author’s conclusions appeal to the reader as thoroughly sane and
  the recommendations as wise and salutary.” H. J. Davenport.

   + + − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 184. Mr. ’07. 220w.

  “His method is rigorously scientific, and the result is a most useful
  contribution to the subject.”

     + + =Nation.= 84: 164. F. 14, ’07. 380w.

  Reviewed by Edward A. Bradford.

     + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 180. Mr. 23, ’07. 2020w.

  “There is much information in his book concerning the character and
  cost of insurance investments.”

       + =R. of Rs.= 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 120w.

  “This little hand-book should be of much interest and value to those
  who are responsible for the safe and profitable investment of trust or
  other funds, and to the policy-holder, now somewhat alive to insurance
  problems who desires to know how his savings are being cared for.” J.
  M. Gaines.

       + =Yale R.= 16: 213. Ag. ’07. 490w.


=Zimmern, Helen.= Italy of the Italians. *$1.50. Scribner.

                                                                 7–6779.

  “Her aim is not so much to describe the Italy of the past as actual
  conditions in the peninsula. In that description she is thoroughgoing,
  she dips beneath the surface. She has interesting things to say about
  the court, artists, authors, archæologists, scientists, inventors.
  dramatists, and journalists. But, what is more striking, she seems
  equally at home whether putting such a poet as Ada Negri or such an
  archæologist as Giacomo Boni in their proper places, or in discussing
  agrarian and fiscal conditions. Her treatment of those conditions
  should commend it to students of economics.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

         =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 133. My. ’07. S.

  “Miss Zimmern’s facts appear to be almost wholly drawn from her
  knowledge of the northern and central districts of the peninsula, with
  the result that the peculiar difficulties of administration with which
  the government is confronted in the South and in Sicily are passed
  over in silence. The book bears signs of having been written in a
  hurry, and evidences of careless proof reading abound. This
  indifference to style is particularly to be regretted in the case of
  an author who can write well when she pleases. A word of commendation
  must be given to the unusually complete index.”

     + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 194. F. 16. 840w.

  “Her equipment as a scholar and writer on many subjects, artistic,
  philosophic, and literary, has given her a power of condensed
  generalization.”

     + + =Dial.= 42: 187. Mr. 16, ’07. 510w.

  “The least successful chapters are those on art and literature. Where
  facts are concerned. Miss Zimmern is instructive; where personal bias
  filters through, her position is radical, anti-church.”

     + − =Nation.= 83: 412. D. 13, ’06. 290w.

  “An interesting and valuable book on Italy.”

     + + =Outlook.= 85: 574. Mr. 9, ’07. 150w.

  “The whole volume is one of remarkable interest.”

     + + =Spec.= 97: 892. D. 1, ’06. 280w.


=Zueblin, Charles.= Decade of civic development. *$1.25. Univ. of
Chicago press.

                                                                  6–674.

  Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

  Reviewed by Lewis E. Palmer.

         =Charities.= 17: 508. D. 15, ’06. 770w.


=Zuylen van Nyevelt, Suzette van, barones.= Court life in the Dutch
republic, 1638–1689. *$4. Dutton.

                                                                7–11547.

  A history of Holland from 1638–1689 in which “we have family life in
  the upper classes, religious influences, literature and art, society
  and diplomacy! The bitterness between the Orangeists and
  anti-Orangeists, the strife of parties, the cumbrousness of the Dutch
  system of government, are all sympathetically explained.” (Nation.)

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “Baroness van Zuylen van Nyevelt pilots the reader ably through the
  complicated genealogy of the house of Nassau. Her grasp of her subject
  and her wide sympathy both for the ill-fated and lovable Stuarts and
  the harder-headed and somewhat uncompromising Princes of Orange, would
  make a less dramatic period interesting.”

       + =Acad.= 71: 545. D. 1, ’06. 910w.

  “The book fills a gap in the popular historical library, and is
  excellently written. It should be widely read.”

     + + =Ath.= 1907. 1: 379. Mr. 30. 700w.

  “On the whole this is an admirable historical study.”

       + =Ind.= 62: 912. Ap. 18, ’07. 580w.

  “The real value of this excellent book, illustrated and indexed as it
  is, consists in its descriptions, rich in coloring, of the social life
  of the period, the Dutch golden era.”

       + =Nation.= 84: 137. F. 7, ’07. 540w.

  “Though the Baroness van Nyevelt writes in strained and dignified
  style, the picturesqueness of her subject matter gives vividness to
  every page of her interesting narrative.”

     + − =Outlook.= 84: 844. D. 1, ’06. 210w.

  “The baroness’ book is a painstaking and readable contribution to the
  understanding of the great age of the Dutch republic. If we compare
  Mr. Barker and the Baroness van Zuylen van Nyevelt when they cover the
  same ground, it seems fairly clear not merely that the baroness is
  better acquainted with the best literature of the subject, but is more
  accurate, more fair and more critical in the proper sense of that
  term.”

       + =Sat. R.= 103: 525. Ap. 27, ’07. 750w.


=Zwemer, Samuel Marinus, Wherry, Elwood Morris, and Barton, James Levi=,
eds. Mohammedan world of to-day: being papers read at the first
missionary conference on behalf of the Mohammedan world held at Cairo,
April 4th–9th, 1906. **$1.50. Revell.

                                                                6–41773.

  “These papers exhibit the actual state of things both for better and
  for worse, as seen by eye-witnesses long conversant with the facts.
  They report both the difficulties in the way of betterment and the
  encouraging successes here and there achieved. For an understanding
  merely of the problems in world-politics which grow out of
  Mohammedanism these papers are valuable, much more for those which
  appeal to humanitarian and Christian sympathy. They effectually
  dissipate the allusion that Mohammedanism is on the whole, a
  beneficent religion, suited to the character of its adherents.
  Statistics, maps, and illustrations enrich the volume.”—Outlook.

                  *       *       *       *       *

  “As in all books of this character the essays vary greatly in merit.
  Especial mention should be made of those treating Arabia and India,
  which are excellent.”

       + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 631. My. ’07. 610w.

  “The book has many serious blemishes: it omits North Africa from the
  field of view; its index is of little use; and its illustrations, good
  enough in their way, are hastily collected from the stock in general
  circulation. But its defects do not destroy its interest nor its
  profound importance as a careful exhibit of the practical results of
  Islam upon the races that have committed themselves to its guidance.”

     + − =Ind.= 62: 801. Ap. 4, ’07. 830w.

  “They correct some widely current misinformation.”

       + =Outlook.= 84: 941. D. 15, ’06. 150w.

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                          TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES


 1. P. 86, changed “who made of his Seamen’s Bethel” to “who made use of
      his Seamen’s Bethel”.
 2. P. 459, “insight, humor, comprehension, sympa-” was the incomplete
      end of a line.
 3. 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-.=
 4. Added Table of Contents.
 5. 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.
 6. Included “and” in the authors bold markup to be consistent with
      majority practice in this book.
 7. Added missing “A” heading on p. 1.
 8. Silently corrected typographical errors.
 9. Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed.
10. Did not use a hanging indent in book description in text version.
11. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.
12. Enclosed bold font in =equals=.