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Title: The Book Review Digest, Volume 3, 1907 Author: Various Release date: June 10, 2020 [eBook #62369] Most recently updated: October 18, 2024 Language: English Credits: Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BOOK REVIEW DIGEST, VOLUME 3, 1907 *** 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.