Chapter X
are as informing as anything that has lately come to us about feudal Japan.”—Ind.
“In this readable volume Dr. Knox has succeeded in compressing into small space a great deal of interesting matter about Japan.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 211. Ja. 26, ‘05. 340w.
=R. of Rs.= 30: 758. D. ‘04. 50w.
=Kobbé, Gustav.= Famous actors and their homes. $1.50. Little.
Little chats about the home side of John Drew, William Gillette, Richard Mansfield, E. H. Sothern, and Francis Wilson with closing chapters on the Lamb’s club and the Players. There are many illustrations taken from photographs of the actors at home.
* “These sketches are deservedly popular, for they combine dignity with interest, in a field where such a combination is rarely achieved.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 445. D. 16, ‘05. 110w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 619. S. 23, ‘05. 250w.
=Kobbé, Gustav.= Famous actresses and their homes. $1.50. Little.
Word pictures and photographs of Maude Adams, Ethel Barrymore, Julia Marlowe, Annie Russell, and Mrs. Fiske, when off stage, also chapters upon, The actress’s home behind the scenes; The actress’s Christmas; and Some actresses in summer.
=Kobbé, Gustav.= Loves of great composers. *$2.50. Crowell.
In an easy conversational manner the real romance in the lives of Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, and Wagner is set forth. Several of the stories are based upon untranslated material, and many popular errors are corrected. The volume is illustrated from photographs, and includes portraits of the composers themselves and of Constance, wife of Mozart; Countess Therese von Brunswick, the “immortal beloved” of Beethoven; Mendelssohn’s wife and sister; Clara Schumann; and a reproduction of the famous pastel of Countess Potocka.
* + =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ‘05. 40w.
* “The accounts are entertaining, and the reader is grateful for their complete avoidance of sentimental rhapsodizing.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 445. D. 16, ‘05. 110w.
* + + =Nation.= 81: 467. D. 7, ‘05. 130w.
* “Mr. Kobbe’s book is curiously entertaining. It is not a rehash of old and stale matter in a new binding, but is the result of personal investigation and study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.
* “Two charmingly written volumes.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 751. D. ‘05. 60w.
=Kobbe, Gustav.= Opera singers; a pictorial souvenir. $1.50. Ditson.
“A profusely illustrated pictorial souvenir of the most famous living opera singers, with their biographies.... This handsome work is interesting as giving intimate glimpses of opera folk.... The artists considered in this attractive book are Nordica, Calvé, Eames, Melba, Sembrich, Ternina, and Schumann-Heink, and Caruso and Jean and Edouard De Reszke. There is also a chapter on ‘Opera-singers off duty.’”—R. of Rs.
“Besides being full of anecdotes, the compilation is of great value as giving biographic sketches of the singers taken down from their own lips, sometimes with the aid of stenography.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 380. My. 11, ‘05. 70w.
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 707. Mr. 18, ‘05. 30w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 10: 510. Ap. ‘05. 90w.
* =Kobbé, Gustav.= Wagner and his Isolde. **$1. Dodd.
“The correspondence and journals of Wagner and Mathilde Wesendonck, which have lately appeared, are the basis of this volume, which gives the whole story of that fascinating period of Wagner’s life. The author obtained from a friend of Mme. Wesendonck some personal impressions of her, and some photographs that are reproduced herein.”—Critic.
* + =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ‘05. 40w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 467. D. 7, ‘05. 80w.
* “To the student of Wagner’s music these letters afford some interesting commentary from the composer.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 432. O. 21, ‘05. 230w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 751. D. ‘05. 50w.
* =Kolle, Frederick Strange.= Fifty and one tales of modern fairyland, †$1.50. Grafton press.
“The tales are really new, and entertaining as well. They teach good lessons without obtruding the moral aim, and many of them are based on modern scientific discoveries and processes. Even the balloon and the automobile—a ‘conscientious’ one, not the ordinary unprincipled sort—figure in the stories. The illustrations by Flora Sheffield are in keeping.”—Critic.
* + =Critic.= 47: 576. D. ‘05. 60w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1387. D. 14, ‘05. 15w.
* “And one finds them exactly what one might expect sterilized fairy tales to be—made of quite tasteless and sawdusty particles.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 861. D. 2. ‘05. 370w.
* =Konody, Paul G.= Filippino Lippi. $1.25. Warne.
This volume in the “Newnes art library” contains a brief life of Filippino Lippi and sixty-four full-page reproductions of his works.
* + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 442. S. 30. 190w.
* “Is a more serious performance than most of the contributors to this series have offered us.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 449. N. 30, ‘05. 130w.
* + + =Outlook.= 81: 888. D. 9, ‘05. 130w.
=Koons, Ulysses Sidney (Brother Jabez, pseud.).= Tale of the kloster: a romance of the German mystics of the Cocalico. †$1.50. Am. Bapt.
A description of life in the curious celibate community of Ephrata, where German mystics, refugees to Pennsylvania from the persecutions which followed the Hundred years war, endured the hardships of the pioneer. There is also a love story interwoven with danger and suffering and the rigid life of the brotherhood.
“As a representation of the manners and feelings of the time and the strange community the story has its own value. It is written with simplicity and grace.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 350. F. 4, ‘05. 140w.
“Rather violently injected a love story. Every contribution to American history which recognizes the proportionate importance of the different ingredients which have gone to the composition of our national stock and so helps to a broader and fuller understanding of our national development deserves recognition and encouragement.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 94. Ja. 19, ‘05. 340w.
=Kropotkin, Petr Alexieevich, kniaz’.= Russian literature. **$2. McClure.
A very complete account of Russian literature from its beginning in mythology and folklore to the present day, with much personal information about its great figures and copious extracts from its masterpieces.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 656. Je. 24, ‘09. 610w.
“The work of Prince Kropotkin is very comprehensive in view of its scope. The English of Prince Kropotkin’s book is fairly good, although occasionally stiff and unidiomatic.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 70. Jl. 15, 2060w.
“The greater part of the book, devoted wholly to the nineteenth-century writings, treated from the author’s novel point of view and full of the charm of his attractive personality, make this volume, in spite of some glaring misprints, a very desirable addition to Russian literary history.” Henry James Forman.
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 185. Ag. ‘05. 1520w.
“Prince Kropotkin has given us a work of absorbing interest, colored, no doubt, by his own political philosophy, but discriminating and profound in its judgment of aesthetic values. Of the English language, as his readers well know, he is an absolute master.”
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 19. Jl. 1, ‘05. 270w.
“But he has done us an especial service by making accessible information concerning the younger Russian writers whom we want to know something about.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 638. S. 14, ‘05. 610w.
“Prince Kropotkin’s book is admirable, and, so far, at any rate, as the later Russian literature is concerned, should supercede all other works of the kind in our language.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 150. My. 12, ‘05. 1550w.
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 526. Je. 29, ‘05. 1780w.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 449. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1890w.
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 247. My. 27, ‘05. 320w.
“In our opinion the most satisfactory treatise which has yet appeared in English on the literature of Russia.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 99: 774. Je. 10, ‘05. 2260w.
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=La Colonie, Jean Martin de.= Chronicles of an old campaigner, M. De La Colonie, 1692-1717; from the French of Walter C. Horsley. *$4. Dutton.
“These memoirs of the war of the Spanish succession have been unknown to English readers, and in this adequate translation have real historic value. Curious sidelights on military customs and methods of war two hundred years ago are included. The ‘old campaigner’ had a bluff, rugged, and not uninteresting personality. There are portraits and other illustrations.”—Outlook.
“The book is preëminently for military men, being devoted to the details of battles and sieges, of marches and counter-marches. Other readers will find it tiresomely prolix. Both translator and printer appear to have done their work well. Portraits, plans of battles and a copious index are duly provided.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 158. Mr. 1, ‘05. 290w.
“It cannot be said that the book is a substantial addition to historical knowledge, but it is pleasant reading and is beautifully illustrated with portraits and plans.” I. S. Leadam.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 808. O. ‘05. 1610w.
“This book contains little information regarding politics or society, but certainly deserves to be known by all who care to study warfare as an art.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 461. Je. 8. ‘05. 410w.
“The translation of the memoirs by Mr. Horsley has its special merit, as it gives an excellent idea of the methods of warfare at the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. The translation is remarkably well done, and the notes at the foot of the pages of great value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 70. P. 4, ‘05. 1300w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 348. F. 4, ‘05. 60w.
* =La Fontaine, Rachel Adelaide.= Days and hours of Raphael, with a key to the hours. **$1. Grafton press.
“A little manual of art study, substantially bound, copiously illustrated, and intended for the tyro in matters aesthetic. The full page plates in half-tone, including, besides the seven ‘Days’ and the twelve ‘Hours,’ two portraits of Raphael, are of excellent quality. The accompanying notes of explanation are very elementary, presupposing little knowledge of art or mythology on the part of the reader.”—Dial.
* “It is a pity, seeing her effort for simplicity, that the author does not couch her ideas in less obscure and tortuously constructed sentences.”
+ — =Dial.= 39: 389. D. 1, ‘05. 110w.
* “The explanations of the illustrations the book contains are comprehensive and interesting. The book will have a place in any collection of Raphaeliana.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1376. D. 14, ‘05. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 874. D. 9, ‘05. 110w.
=Lahontan, Armand Louis de Delondarce, baron de.= New voyages to North America; reprinted from the English ed. of 1703, with a facsimile of original title pages, and 24 maps and il., and the addition of introd., notes, and analytical index, by Reuben Gold Thwaites; (with bibliography by Victor Hugo Paltists). 2v. *$7.50. McClurg.
Two books of adventurous travel in the heart of North America. The author came to New France at the age of seventeen in 1683 with a detachment of French marines, and he writes of experiences which cover many years, giving “an account of the customs, commerce, religion and strange opinions of the savages,” with geographical information and personal comment. “There is also a dialogue between the author and a general of the savages,” and “an account of the author’s retreat to Portugal and Denmark and his remarks on their courts.” His book was very popular when first published but the truth of the whole was later doubted because of one chapter, which gave in detail an apparently fictitious story of the discovery of the River Long.
“These volumes display enthusiasm as well as erudition, and render accessible a great quantity of curious information. The labour that has been bestowed both on the letters themselves and on the bibliography is worthy of the highest praise.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 386. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1050w.
“The foot-notes are admirably done, and a long introduction describes entertainingly the character of the writer and his narrative. Mr. Paltsits in this, as in preceding volumes of the series, contributes a scholarly and satisfying bibliography.”
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 946. Jl. ‘05. 100w.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 590. My. ‘05. 130w.
Reviewed by John J. Halsey.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 14. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1060w.
+ + =Ind.= 59: 211. Jl. 27, ‘05. 360w.
“Dr. Thwaites’s editorial notes are similar in quality to those which have accompanied his ‘Jesuit relations’ and other works of Western travel. The Introduction, however, contains one or two slips.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 13. Jl. 6, ‘05. 540w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 95. F. 11, ‘05. 190w.
“Mr. Reuben Gold Thwaites’s notes add much to the value of the text.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 180. Mr. 25. ‘05. 460w.
* =Laking, Guy Francis.= Furniture of Windsor castle, by Guy Francis Laking, Keeper of the king’s armory; published by command of His Majesty King Edward VII. *35c. Dutton.
* “A sumptuous book, appearing as an imperial quarto, bound in half leather, with the British royal monogram in color on one side. The collection at Windsor castle is well-known for its fine specimens of Louis XIV., XV., and XVI. periods, as well as the best examples of the most famous craftsmen of the past two centuries—Jacob Chippendale, Riesener, André Bouille, Gaspar Teune, and many others. The introduction to the book treats of the starting of the collection and its growth, from the beginning of the seventeenth century down to the present day.... The illustrations, presenting pictures of the finest specimens in the collection, are in photogravure.”—N. Y. Times.
* + =Int. Studio.= 27: 185. D. ‘05. 120w.
* “It is evidently the work of one who has a good knowledge of technical history and an eye that can discriminate between original work and restorations.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 428. D. 8, ‘05. 360w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 220w.
=Lamb, Charles and Mary.= Works and letters, v. 6 and 7. *$2.25. Putnam.
“Here certainly is the largest, richest edition of the ‘Letters’ which has been published, clearly superior to some in size, to others in the quality and scope of the notes, and to all as a book that is easy and pleasant to read. In short, Mr. Lucas seems to come near to an inaccessible perfection, as well as to have produced the best edition of the ‘Letters’.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 605. Je. 10, ‘05. 1890w. (Review of v. 6. and 7.)
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 680. Je. 3. 4290w.
“Mr. Lucas’s copious and most interesting notes are the fruit of years of loving study and research. To him Lamb is indeed ‘Saint Charles’; yet his chief editorial merit lies, perhaps, in giving us Saint Charles un-canonized.” William Archer.
+ + =Critic.= 47:50. Jl. ‘05. 1260w.
=Dial.= 38: 360. My. 16, ‘05. 150w.
“The editor has used extraordinary pains to make clear the innumerable allusions to persons and things well known to correspondents, but unknown to us.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 374. My. 11, ‘05. 300w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 108. F. 18, ‘05. 390w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 244. Ap. 15, ‘05. 1520w.
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 640. Ap. 29, ‘05. 1780w.
* =Lamb, Charles, and Lamb, Mary Anne.= Tales from Shakespeare. *$2.50. Scribner.
“A small quarto, liberal and very clear in print, and adorned for each play by a full-page colored design from the pencil of Norman M. Price. These designs are, in point of merit and attractiveness in perfect keeping with the rest of the elegant volume, and will impress and educate the taste of any child who reads the classic by himself.... The portraits of the authors after those in the National portrait gallery face the bordered title-page.”—Nation.
* + + =Dial.= 39: 448. D. 16, ‘05. 120w.
* + + =Ind.= 59: 1388. D. 14, ‘05. 40w.
* “We recall no edition of Charles and Mary Lamb’s ‘Tales from Shakespeare’ comparable at all points with that just issued by Jack in London.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 299. O. 12, ‘05. 120w.
* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 712. O. 21, ‘05. 360w.
* “This is a handsome book, worthy in form of its contents.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 692. N. 4. ‘05. 110w.
* =Lamb, Osborn Rennie.= Essay on the drama. $1. Ames & R.
This essay which discusses the drama in its various phases is developed under the divisions Criticism is not analysis; The aesthetic essential in drama; The play of the people; Sympathy as a dramatic force; The dramatic power of terror; Humor in drama; Reflective thought in drama; and Scenery and music in drama as an aid to the creation of atmosphere. The essay may prove suggestive to dramatic critics, and it will certainly help the average reader to form his own opinions and to challenge the “misstatement and false argument” so often found in newspaper criticism.
=Lamb, Osborn Rennie, and Dixon, H. Claiborn.= Iberian: Anglo-Greek play. $1.50. Ames & Rollinson press.
Following the ancient dramas in unities of time, place and theme, “The Iberian” combines in a one-act play “the beauties of the ancient Greek drama with those of the modern romantic play, so as to adapt the same to the stage and scenario of to-day.” Athens is the scene of the play, 435 B. C., the time.
=Lamia, pseud.= See =Austin, Alfred.=
=Lamprecht, Karl Gotthard.= What is history? Five lectures on the modern science of history; tr. from the Germ. by E. A. Andrews, **$1.25. Macmillan.
One of these lectures was first given at the Congress of arts and sciences in St. Louis, and the other four at the sesquicentennial of Columbia university. The subjects treated are Historical development and present character of the science of history; The general course of German history from a psychological point of view; The translation to the psychic character of the German present; Universal mechanism of psychic periods of transition; Psychology of the periods of culture in general; and Problems of universal history.
“‘What is history?’ is throughout suggestive and provocative, though the work of translation has not been skilfully performed; indeed, the English version is in one or two passages unintelligible.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 801. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1480w.
“The translation inevitably suffers from such conditions. In spite of them it gives us a rendering which is clear, readable, and reliable for sense, and which is a useful contribution toward an English terminology of the subject. Many inexcusable inaccuracies in detail occur, however.” Asa Currier Tilton.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 119. O. ‘05. 1360w.
“Unfortunately the book abounds in abstruse terminology borrowed from psychology and kindred sciences.”
+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 590. My. ‘05. 380w.
“Mr. Andrews has done his work well, and made a good rendering.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 529. Ap. 29. 60w.
+ =Critic.= 47: 187. Ag. ‘05. 60w.
“Throughout, indeed, the translation scarcely helps to clear up the obscurities of the original.” A. G.
+ — =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 604. Jl. ‘05. 390w.
“Professor Lamprecht has a clumsy method of presentation ... and he adds to the difficulty by much elusiveness of demonstration and by an awkward terminology. Professor Lamprecht’s method may be good psychology, it certainly is not history.”
+ — — =Nation.= 81: 123. Ag. 10, ‘05. 2270w.
“If well translated, they would constitute a very stimulating volume.”
— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 439. Jl. 1, ‘05. 530w.
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 1062. Ap. 29, ‘05. 150w.
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 190w.
“There is a meaning, we doubt not, in his words, but it is very hard to get at.”
— =Spec.= 94: 719. My. 13, ‘05. 190w.
“Their appeal is to the student of the science of society rather than to the historian proper.”
+ =Yale R.= 14: 107. My. ‘05. 100w.
=Lancaster, G. B.= Sons o’ men. †$1.50. Doubleday.
A collection of short stories which “deal with the men who herd and shear the sheep in South New Zealand and save them from storm and snow at the cost of hardships scarce endurable. At times, too, the native plays a part.” (R. of Rs.)
“Through such books hope grows less forlorn.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 761. Je. ‘05. 210w.
* “Lively reading—and informative as well.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 758. D. ‘05. 170w.
“Mr. Lancaster reaches a high level of excellence in ‘The story of Wi.’”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 23. Ja. 7, ‘05. 100w.
=Lancaster, R. V.= Creed of Christ: a study of the Gospels. 60c. Presbyterian com.
The author states in his preface, “I have caught a glimpse of Jesus from what, to me, is a fresh viewpoint,” and this he voices in his book, which is divided into two sections: The introduction, and The creed. Under the latter head he discusses, The scriptures; God; Satan; Sin; Redeemed men; The kingdom; The second coming; The final glory, and Kindred subjects.
“His volume is careful, painstaking, conscientious, but without insight or imagination, and so without literary quality.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 569. N. 4, ‘05. 360w.
=Landon, Percival.= The opening of Tibet. $3.80. Doubleday.
“Mr. Landon gives in ‘The opening of Tibet,’ an account of Lhasa, the history of Tibet, the folk-lore and manners of the Tibetans, and the present relations with the rest of the world, with which he became acquainted as the representative of the London Times with the mission sent by the British government to Lhasa. The book is profusely illustrated with reproductions of photographs and sketches and maps.” (N. Y. Times). An introduction is provided by Col. Younghusband, who headed the mission to the Forbidden land.
“The book is ponderous in size, wide in its scope and interesting reading. Including the numerous appendices, the range of information extends from the frogs and fishes of the country to the folklore, art, religion and amazing priest-craft of the people.”
+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 591. S. ‘05. 170w.
“Regrettable that some errors of fact and date should have crept into the earlier and historical pages of the work.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 231. F. 25. 2440w.
“Fine descriptive writing, indeed, is characteristic of Mr. Landon’s work throughout.”
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 305. My. ‘05. 1100w.
“His style is a model for the writer of travel books.” W. E. Griffis.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 560. Je. ‘05. 790w.
“Is a virile and picturesque narrative of great general interest. All in all, it is a welcome addition to the annals of travel and exploration.” H. Addington Bruce.
+ + =Current Literature.= 38: 345. Ap. ‘05. 3400w.
“Mr. Landon has the genius of the true reporter for weaving a large amount of detail in an interesting ‘story,’ but he gives no map or index.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 1186. My. 25, ‘05. 370w.
“The work is conceived on broader lines, historically and philosophically, than the rival volume of Mr. Candler.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 273. Ap. 6, ‘05. 1710w.
“A characteristically British presentation of a most interesting and somewhat delicate subject. The vast amount of information which Mr. Landon has collected ... This is not a solemn book altogether.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 116. F. 25, ‘05. 2590w.
“The Tibetan expedition was fortunate to have with it a writer so competent to do justice to its romance, so sympathetic towards Tibetan life, so eagerly inquisitive and retentive of impressions, and above all, the possessor of a style so dexterous and graceful.”
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 365. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1620w.
=Landor, Arnold Henry Savage.= Tibet and Nepal. *$5. Macmillan.
“In his book, Mr. Landor tells about a second journey to Tibet. He describes the natives, their costumes, and religion, and the country through which he passes, besides recounting adventures on the way. He has provided numerous colored and black-and-white pictures, being reproductions of sketches made on the spot. These illustrations are portraits of the native men, women, and children, scenery, churches, animals, &c. In the opening chapter the author writes of his preparations for this visit.”—N. Y. Times.
“This odd, unsatisfactory and fascinating essay. The present writer can only say that for his part, he believes his author to be sincere and correct, and one of the pluckiest, truest-hearted and most enterprising men in the world to boot.... One of the cleverest, too, for the drawings in colour and black and white display a very acute artistic sense and an exquisite perception of the beauty and grandeur of mountain scenery.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 101. F. 4, ‘05. 570w.
“It is difficult to take Mr. Landor seriously, and we find it impossible to follow his tour geographically.”
— =Ath.= 1905, 1: 334. Mr. 18. 530w.
“The illustrations with which Mr. Landor has liberally besprinkled the story of his achievements are even more astonishing than the text.” H. Addington Bruce.
— =Bookm.= 21: 307. My. ‘05. 520w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 105. F. 18, ‘05. 230w.
“Apart from some apparent faults, the book is decidedly agreeable and even exciting reading, and presents in many ways an intimate picture of the life of the Tibetans and their innumerable curious customs. The colored pictures are striking and effective.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 606. Mr. 4, ‘05. 130w.
“It is a weird and fascinating story, told in the author’s best vein.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 508. Ap. ‘05. 90w.
“He traveled only on the outskirts of the country, and he makes some obvious mistakes; but he writes with an assumption of the highest expert knowledge. This swashbuckling air does not reassure the reader; but when it comes to climbing snow mountains our imagination falters far behind him.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 179. F. 4, ‘05. 280w.
=Lang, Andrew.= Adventures among books. *$1.60. Longmans.
Seventeen essays are collected in this volume. Adventures among books, Recollections of Robert Louis Stevenson, Rab’s friend, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mr. Morris’s poems, Mrs. Radcliff’s novels, A Scottish romanticist of 1830, The confessions of St. Augustine, Smollet, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The paradise of poets, Paris and Helen, Enchanted cigarettes, Stories and story telling, The supernatural in fiction, An old Scottish psychical researcher, The boy.
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 324. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1970w.
“It holds the sound criticism which proceeds from good taste and wide knowledge, though it is so lightly presented as to seem mere butterfly work.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 368. Mr. 25. 470w.
“But one forgives Mr. Lang his little affectations for the sake of his delightful humor, his literary touch, and his real bookishness.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 409. My. ‘05. 1770w.
“Those who have a taste for books about books will hunt long before they will find one more tickling to the palate than Mr. Lang’s ‘Adventures among books.’” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 409. Je. 16, ‘05. 2240w.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 264. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1170w.
“They are very high class work of the moment rather than work of a permanent quality.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 244. My. 27, ‘05. 220w.
“Mr. Lang’s account of his own ‘adventures among books’ is full of teaching and attractiveness. So indeed are all the papers that make up this volume.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 924. Je. 24, ‘05. 250w.
=Lang, Andrew.= History of Scotland from the Roman occupation. V. 3, *$3.50. Dodd.
The period covered in the third volume of Mr. Lang’s history begins with the accession of Charles I., and continues to the end of Argyll’s rising, 1625-1688. “With always interesting details, he carefully considers successively the Protestant disruption, the riot in St. Giles’s church and its consequences, the bishops’ war, the Scotch invasion of England, the relations of the commonwealth to Scotland, finally the restoration.... It is true that the period was one of theological, political, and physical conflict, measured by the battles of Aberdeen, Auldearn, Alford, Kilsyth, Carbinsdale, Dunbar.... But out of the general swaying, struggling mass of men rise certain commanding figures who receive characteristic treatment from Mr. Lang—Hamilton, Montrose, Charles the First, Sharp, Argyll, Cromwell.” (Outlook).
“If the present volume maintains the standard of excellence set by its predecessors it does not escape the shortcomings that characterized them. The proportion is occasionally obscured and the connection of events lost sight of, by the inclusion of details which although interesting are unrelated. The disposition of the material and the general structure of the volume are, on the other hand, excellent; and some of the characterizations—notably those of the two Argylls, Montrose and Archbishop Sharp—are altogether vital and admirable.” Gaillard Thomas Lapsley.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 150. O. ‘05. 1400w.
“The impression received from this work is that the author is not attempting to write a formal history of Scotland, but is rather using the materials he has collected and studied to test the accuracy of earlier works by well-known authors. The result is that while those who are intimately familiar with the details of Scottish history will find Mr. Lang intensely interesting as a critic and as a shrewd investigator, uncovering new sources of information, the ordinary reader must frequently be puzzled to understand the connection and relation of events. But in respect to exact statement of doubtful events at least, Mr. Lang’s work is a fine example of modern scholarship, being based on a careful analysis of the documents and other sources available for the study of Scottish history.”
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 19. Ja. 1, ‘05. 470w.
“He is, as usual, at his best in appreciations of character, and, as usual, he sees important points which have generally been ignored. His work suffers somewhat from its great accuracy in points of detail. Mr. Lang has gone to the original sources, and ... he has thrown fresh light on many obscure topics, and he has brought a sane and enlightened judgment to bear on the numerous controverted issues in his story.”
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 799. O. ‘05. 710w.
“He takes little or no thought about style, but simply jots down the facts in a succession of short sentences. The modern passion for scrutinizing all the sources and presenting their results in the most plain and summary fashion has seized and carried away this accomplished man of letters. The chief blemish of the book is the spirit in which it is written. We might have expected Mr. Lang, in dealing with men and events that lie two centuries and a half behind him, to show that calmness and detachment which befit the philosophic historian. The best parts of his book, and certainly the most readable, are those which describe the campaigns of that brilliant leader [Montrose].”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 13. Ja. 5, ‘05. 2240w.
=R. of Rs.= 30: 756. D. ‘04. 70w.
“It is less frequently relieved by what Stevenson termed its author’s ‘incommunicable humour.’ There is, further, in this volume a good deal more than we have noticed before of Mr. Lang’s ‘perversity.’”
— + + =Spec.= 94: 716. My. 13, ‘05. 2850w.
=Lang, Andrew.= John Knox and the reformation. *$3.50. Longmans.
In his account of the life of John Knox, Mr. Lang has endeavored to get behind enveloping traditions and reveal the real man. He criticises Knox’s history carefully and disagrees with it. He gives much Scottish history and an interesting account of Knox’s struggle with Mary Stuart and his onslaught upon Mary of Guise in which is much gentle irony.
“Even in exposing the enormities of John Knox he keeps his literary temper, and instead of breaking the reformer’s head with a bludgeon, gently pricks him with the pin-point of his scorn.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 585. Je. 3, ‘05. 1580w.
=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 942. Jl. ‘05. 60w.
“The book is exceedingly lively in tone and style, but is, we think, rather spoilt throughout by the apparent desire to make points.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 230. Ag. 19. 2020w.
“But because the work is as true and impartial as it is, it is the best life of Knox we have.”
+ + + =Cath. World.= 81: 693. Ag. ‘05. 470w.
“Mr. Lang writes as a man of letters, without much respect for popular traditions or what the elders consider orthodoxy. He goes not only to the sources, but back of tradition, even to the intensely human John Knox. Lang makes Knox not less great, but more human.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 381. O. ‘05. 310w.
“From the beginning to the end of his book, Mr. Lang employs all the resources of his literary art, irony, denunciation, special pleading, to discredit the great Reformer.” Charles H. Cooper.
— =Dial.= 39: 206. O. 1, ‘05. 310w.
“But what separates Mr. Lang from his colleagues in this literature is a marked lack of sympathy with the public life of his subject. That he writes a charming book is a matter of course.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 190. Je. 16, ‘05. 460w.
“Mr. Lang has studied his subject as few of the more solemn of his biographers have, and exhibits in his entertaining book a very human, powerful, and not unlikable Knox.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 432. Jl. 1, ‘05. 990w.
“It would command universal admiration (out of Scotland general assent) if it were not for a satirical style, which hardly befits history.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 440. S. 30, ‘05. 580w.
* =Lang, Andrew.= Oxford. *$1.50. Lippincott.
“This edition has fifty illustrations reproduced from drawings or etchings by J. H. Lorimer, Alfred Dawson, Toussaint, Brunet-Debaines, Ernest Stamp, Lancelot Speed, T. H. Crawford, R. K. Thomas, and Joseph Pennell, and there are one or two rather charming drawings to which no artist’s name is given. The book itself is too well known to need discussion now.”—Acad.
* “The present edition makes a very pleasant gift-book.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 1111. O. 21, ‘05. 90w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 444. N. 30, ‘05. 110w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 825. D. 2, ‘05. 1380w.
* =Lang, Andrew,= ed. Red book of romance. **$1.60. Longmans.
“‘All the stories were done by Mrs. Lang out of the old romances,’ says the editor, who proffers excellent advice as to what should be read, being the sworn foe of the youthful prig. Mr. H. J. Ford has provided alluring illustrations, some of which are full of bright color. The stories come largely from the North, which produces, perhaps, the best romances in the world; but we have also ‘The tale of the Cid,’ ‘Don Quixote’s homecoming,’ ‘Cupid and Psyche,’ ‘Guy of Warwick,’ and others.”—Ath.
* “It is full of the kind of entertainment always provided by its compiler.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 1287. D. 9, ‘05. 90w.
* + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 576. O. 28. 110w.
* “No better reading for the young will be found among this year’s Christmas books.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 576. D. ‘05. 50w.
* “The book is rich in appearance and varied in contents.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1387. D. 14, ‘05. 60w.
* “The stories are all told by Mrs. Lang and are in a graceful easy style, except for a trick of generalization in a would-be humorous fashion, and occasional unpleasant affectations.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 503. D. 21. ‘05. 150w.
* “A fine book for a holiday gift either for a youngster, or an old person with a young heart.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 764. N. 11, ‘05. 190w.
* “Mrs. Lang has written the stories out of the old romances and has done it admirably.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 684. N. 18, ‘05. 130w.
* =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 9. D. 9, ‘05. 220w.
* + =Spec.= 95: 692. N. 4, ‘05. 310w.
=Lankester, Edwin Ray.= Extinct animals. *$1.75. Holt.
“A peep at the strange and wonderful history of extinct animals” thru which the author hopes to awaken in young people an interest in its further study. The volume embodies a corrected shorthand report of a course of lectures adapted to a juvenile audience given by the author during the Christmas holidays, 1903-4 at the Royal institution, London. The lantern slides used in the lectures have been converted into process blocks to illustrate the volume, there are over two hundred illustrations and drawings, many of which are from photographs of specimens in the Natural history museum.
* “It may safely be said that since the days of that ‘most delightful collector and explorer of the earth’s crust, Dr. Gideon Mantell,’ there has been published no book on this subject combining so successfully the virtues of accuracy and attractiveness.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 357. O. 27, ‘05. 1010w.
“We give the book a hearty welcome, feeling sure that its perusal will draw many young recruits to the army of naturalists and many readers to its pages.”
+ + + =Nature.= 73: 6. N. 2, ‘05. 1140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 657. O. 7, ‘05. 320w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 100w.
“It is well adapted to arouse the interest of adult as well as youthful minds in a fascinating branch of study.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 681. N. 18, ‘05. 180w.
“Appealing chiefly to young people ... the author adopts an easy, somewhat conversational style, as free as possible from unnecessary technicalities. But simple and elementary though the book is, it is by no means confined to matter already well known even to scientific readers.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 597. N. 4, ‘05. 1680w.
=Larned, Josephus Nelson.= Seventy centuries of the life of mankind. 2v. $4.50. C. A. Nichols Co., Springfield, Mass.
“These volumes are evidently intended for the general reader who wishes an intelligent grasp of the broad outlines of general history.... The biographical prefaces to each period are unique and useful, the index is good, the illustrations are chosen with discrimination.”—Ind.
“The arrangement of the work is not striking and the impressions conveyed are not clear cut. He has made remarkably discriminating use of excellent and recent materials available in English.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 576. S. 7, ‘05. 810w.
* “Makes the serious error of a chronological arrangement regardless of the logical sequence of events, and he divides time into periods measured by the lives of great men—a method destructive of real historical unity.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 1155. N. 16, ‘05. 50w.
“Unlike most abridgments, it is extremely readable, and is well calculated to stimulate the beginner to further inquiry. When all is said, however, the excellencies of the work outweigh its defects.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 984. Ag. 19, ‘05. 470w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 509. O. ‘05. 130w.
=Larson, Laurence Marcellus.= King’s household in England before the Norman conquest. 50c. Univ. of Wis.
A monograph submitted for the degree of doctor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin. First comes a discussion of the relations of the king and his nobles, the eorls, gesiths, and thegns; then the various officers of the royal household, the king’s reeve, seneschal, butler, chamberlain, staller, and house-carls are considered and the development of their offices is traced.
“Exhibits much more originality and power of research than the average doctoral thesis, it also displays a linguistic equipment and a lucid style. He has carefully exploited charters, laws, chronicles, sagas, lives of saints, and poetic monuments in quest of evidence bearing on his subject; and the result is a substantial contribution to our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon institutions.” C: Gross.
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 631. Ap. ‘05. 690w.
“Is an admirable study of a subject beset with great difficulties. Dr. Larson deserves warm praise for the skill which he has shown.”
+ + + =Yale R.= 14: 229. Ag. ‘05. 140w.
=Latham, Charles.= Gardens of Italy: a series of over 300 illustrations from photographs of the most famous examples of Italian gardens, with descriptive text by E. March Phillipps. 2v. $18. Scribner.
“A pair of very sumptuous folio volumes containing the collected series of photographs of Italian gardens by Mr. Charles Latham.... These fine photographs have more than an artistic charm; one dwells on them all with delicious memories.” (Lond. Times.) “As a photographer of architecture, and especially of gardens, Latham stands among the ablest.... Some descriptive text by E. March Phillipps accompanies the pictures. It is of a gossiping, semi-historical sort.” (Nation.)
* “He who has never seen them will find the present treatment at once comprehensive and suggestive.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 381. D. 1, ‘05. 330w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 215. Jl. 7, ‘05. 100w.
“The value of such a splendid collection of photographs as Mr. Latham’s is so evident, and the expense of securing them so great, that it is much to be regretted, that they should not be accompanied by plans.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 341. O. 26, ‘05. 380w.
“Miss Phillipps brings to her descriptive text those elements of knowledge which are most conducive toward a pleasant and worthy realization of her work.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 758. N. 11, ‘05. 760w.
* “The text leaves somewhat to be desired; there is in it much too little of the noble art of landscape gardening.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 705. N. 25, ‘05. 160w.
=Laurvik, John Nilsen=, tr. See =Michaelis, Karin.=
=Laut, Agnes Christina.= Pathfinders of the West. **$2. Macmillan.
This volume “tells the story of the men who discovered and explored the great Northwest. First among the explorers of the land west of the Mississippi the author places Pierre Radisson, claiming precedence for him over Marquette, Joliet, and La Salle.... The discovery of an account of Radisson’s voyages, written by himself, the authenticity of which has been generally admitted by scholars, has induced the author to popularize the story of his life in the West and rescue his name from oblivion.” (Cath. World.) There are many illustrations, an historical appendix and an index.
“But whatever we may decide as to Miss Laut’s theory as to the Mississippi and Lake Superior discoveries, two facts remain: first, Radisson and Groseillers were pathfinders—in the real sense—to Hudson Bay; and, secondly, the author has made a readable translation of much of Radisson’s narrative.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 199. O. ‘05. 420w.
“More absorbing than the most thrilling romance of imaginary heroes.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 128. Ap. ‘05. 230w.
“Her work is not merely authentic, and founded, as history must always be founded, on the original documents, but it is vivified by the touch of an artist.” Lawrence J. Burpee.
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 353. My. 16, ‘05. 1260w.
=Nation.= 80: 318. Ap. 20, ‘05. 1120w.
“Asks us to readjust our notions of the early history of the western United States. Miss Laut is doing a work which deserves well of historians in following up to their sources the stories and traditions of the Western history of our country and retelling the stories in her characteristically clear style.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 248. F. ‘05. 160w.
=Lawson, Publius Virgilius.= Bravest of the brave. Captain Charles de Langlade. $1.50. Log cabin inn, Menasha, Wis.
Altho the hero of this sketch fought upon the other side in the French and Indian war and the Revolutionary war, he compels the interest of Americans as a great French-Canadian pioneer. The account of some of the “ninety-nine battles, skirmishes and border affrays” in which he took part is stirring.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 135. Ja. 26, ‘05. 410w.
“From materials in the possession of the Wisconsin historical society, and from other sources, Mr. Lawson has constructed a most interesting sketch of this ardent pioneer and fighter.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 249. F. ‘05. 110w.
=Lawson, Publius Virgilius.= Prince or creole: the mystery of Louis Seventeenth. $1.50. G. Banta pub. co.
An attempt to prove that the late Rev. Eleazer Williams, who devoted his life to missionary work among the Indians, was really the boy king, son of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, and that instead of dying in the Temple prison, Paris, he was sent to America where he grew up as the son of a half-breed.
“He has not marshaled his evidences; his brief is a hodge podge; his statements, made with much éclat, are unsubstantiated by references. He has not even the grace of style to make his book interesting.”
— — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 363. Je. 3, ‘05. 430w.
“If he does not succeed in winning his readers to his way of thinking, Mr. Lawson may at least take to himself the credit of having recounted, in an entertaining way, a narrative of high interest altogether apart from that naturally attached to historical mysteries.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 446. Je. 17, ‘05. 240w.
=Leach, Albert Ernest.= Food inspection and analysis, for the use of public analysis, health officers, sanitary chemists, and food economists. $7.50. Wiley.
“The foregoing title very well describes this book written by one of America’s analysts of longest experience in this field of chemistry.... Food inspection, its principles and the precautions necessary in its conduct are ably, though briefly discussed.... The mass of information gathered in American laboratories together with the more recent developments in European food inspection, ... the author has ably systematized and condensed.... Nearly two hundred carefully compiled tables of composition are given, and upward of fifty tables showing the physical characters, chemical constants, etc., of food constituents, are introduced.... The worker in the field of food chemistry will find of great value the list of bibliographic references with which each chapter closes.”—Science.
“Few American contributions of importance seem to have escaped his notice. No important class of foods has failed to receive careful consideration. As a guide to special analytical methods the work is no less valuable. In literary style, the book is clear and concise. There are a few striking omissions. All considered, however, this book is the best manual on its special subject in the English language, possibly in any language.” William Frear.
+ + + =Science=, n. s. 21: 465. Mr. 24, ‘05. 1610w.
* =Learned, Arthur G.= Eve’s daughters: epigrams about women from world-wide sources. Compiled by a mere man and portrayed by A. G. Learned. $1.75. Estes.
“These epigrams, made by men concerning women and compiled by ‘a mere man,’ include wise and witty sayings from the works of such men as Goethe, Hugo, Cervantes, Tolstoy, Emerson, Shakespeare, Euripides, Thackeray, Ruskin, Byron, Bourget, Maupassant, and many others ... about the widow, the coquette, the flirt, the debutante, the prude, the summer girl, and the best and highest type of womanhood as well. The work is designed as a gift-book, and is beautifully illustrated by Mr. A. G. Learned with delicate marginal line drawings, and more elaborate full-page designs.”—N. Y. Times.
* “The epigrams contained herein are famous; the numerous illustrations are not.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 572. D. ‘05. 10w.
* “The volume belongs to the large class of pretty and amusing gift-books which are intended not for systematic reading, but for pleasant companionship in an idle hour.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 448. D. 16, ‘05. 140w.
* “The epigrams have been chosen with considerable judgment.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1384. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.
* + =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 29. D. ‘05. 80w.
* “The selection of the quotations has been carefully made.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 823. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.
=Ledoux, Louis Vernon.= Songs from the silent land. **$2. Brentano’s.
An attractive little volume which contains about forty poems on such subjects as life, love, nature, and thought.
“All may be said to be ‘sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,’ rather than to evince any novel or original thought on the author’s part. Yet the verse itself is at least of average merit.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 566. Je. ‘05. 80w.
“These two examples show Mr. Ledoux to have refined sensibilities and something of the poetic vision; and they are fairly representative of a body of work that is finished in execution and uniformly pleasing.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 66. Ag. 1, ‘05. 330w.
“Mr. Ledoux’s poems strike a pure and high note.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 447. Je. 17, ‘05. 270w.
=Lee, E. Markham.= Tchaikovsky. $1. Brentano’s.
The second volume in the “Music of the masters” series. Mr. Lee’s exposition at no time loses sight of the object of the series which is helpfulness to the “plain man,” and in so doing he analyses, summarizes and holds up to broad day the vitalizing facts of Tchaikovsky’s musical genius. The symphonies, chamber music, orchestral works, piano-forte music and songs are discussed in turn with illustrations of the principal themes.
“His criticism is searching and candid as well as sympathetic, and his descriptions are picturesque.” Richard Aldrich.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 308. My. 13, ‘05. 170w.
=Lee, Rev. Frank T.= Bible study popularized. *$1.25. Winona pub.
“The first chapter in this book is devoted to general information about manuscripts and translations, and closes with commendation of the American revision. A chapter on personal Bible study follows. The rest of the book is taken up with illustrations of different methods of Bible study—by books, by historic periods, by characters and incidents—and a concluding chapter on expository preaching.”—Bib. World.
“The style is simple and clear, although the range of subjects required too much condensation. The critical standpoint is quite conservative. The historical sketches are compiled from ordinary sources.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ + — =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 390. Ap. ‘05. 120w.
Reviewed by Irving F. Wood.
+ — =Bib. World.= 25: 315. Ap. ‘05. 450w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 253. F. ‘05. 60w.
=Lee, Robert Edward, Capt.= Recollections and letters of General Robert E. Lee, by his son. **$2.50. Doubleday.
“The author allows Gen. Lee’s letters, written to his most intimate ones, to form the body of the book. As these letters were written without any idea of their being made public, this book turns the light on the man as he really was.” (Ind.) “The hero of the Confederacy, seen through the eyes of his youngest son, stands forth a living personage, a kindly husband and father no less than an ideal commander, not unduly elated by victory, nor unduly cast down by defeat.” Some of the chapters are devoted to “Services in the United States army,” “The confederate general,” “The army of northern Virginia,” “Fronting the army of the Potomac,” “The surrender,” “A private citizen,” “President of Washington college,” “The idol of the South,” “Lee’s opinion of the late war,” “An ideal father,” and “The reconstruction period.”
“Such comments as Captain Lee has added are delightfully told and in perfect good taste. The style is simple, but betrays a practiced hand.” John R. Ficklen.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 674. Ap. ‘05. 710w.
Reviewed by M. A. DeWolfe Howe.
+ + =Atlan.= 95: 133. Ja. ‘05. 630w.
“A true representation of himself. The book does not attempt to exalt Lee.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 155. Ja. 19, ‘05. 350w.
* “A charming work, which should be read by every Northern man who finds himself intolerant of southern heroes.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1157. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.
“The story is gentle and soothing, and it will not disappoint those who may wish to forget the horrors of war and the screech-owls of peace.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 54. Ja. 19, ‘05. 190w.
“One cannot read this book without being convinced of the man’s disinterested motives and nobility of character, nor can we wonder that he developed qualities of leadership.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 30: 754. D. ‘04. 160w.
“If we must look elsewhere for a proper appreciation of the soldier, we cannot read these Recollections without gaining a clearer knowledge of the dignity and kindliness which distinguished the private citizen.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 220. F. 11, ‘05. 2420w.
=Lee, Sidney Lazarus.= Great Englishmen of the sixteenth century. **$1.75. Scribner.
The contents of this volume are based on a series of eight lectures delivered at Lowell Institute, Boston, in the spring of 1903. After an opening chapter on the Renaissance in England, “he has vivified the personalities of these half-dozen men,—More, Sidney, Raleigh, Spenser, Bacon and Shakespeare,—and has made them show forth almost the entire
## activity of the age.” (Dial).
“It contains no original discoveries, no profound generalizations, no subtleties of criticism. But it gives the results of sound scholarship and sound common sense in a dry but pleasant way. Perhaps the best essays in the book are those on More and Bacon.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 73. Ja. 21. 2090w.
“With commendable fairness and conscientious criticism Mr. Lee has handled the virtues and the weaknesses of his subjects. This volume of essays is a valuable addition to literature on the subject.”
+ + + =Cath. World=, 81: 549. Jl. ‘05. 540w.
“The versatility of the intellect and the imagination of their age was never better shown than in this charming account of these five men.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 187. F. ‘05. 80w.
“The book is no mere rehashing of the commonplace. Mr. Lee endeavors to place these men before us in the light of their personal environment as well as in the greater light of their relation to their time.” J. W. Tupper.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 123. F. 16, ‘05. 930w.
“Delightfully written biographies ... prefaced by the best sketch of the intellectual spirit peculiar to the sixteenth century which we remember anywhere to have read.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 1074. My. 11, ‘05. 170w.
“One great merit of the book is the catholic sympathy it displays with minds of very different types.... The admirable marshalling of the facts.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 116. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1220w.
=Lee, Vernon, pseud. (Violet Paget).= Enchanted woods, and other essays on the genius of places. *$1.50. Lane.
A “rag-bag of impressions” the author calls her “pilgrimage through the open and hidden ways where, without any noisy calling, the Genius loci meets her. In Italy ... at every time of year; at Pisa, Ravenna, Venice; among Tuscan churches in summer ... in the last fir-woods of the Apennines ... she sees what Keats might have seen.” (Spec.)
“There is also in the book, besides its charm, a sympathetic insight into the past, born of wide and intimate knowledge, a sanity, a clearness of vision and perspective, all of which make the author a delightful companion.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 478. N. ‘05. 240w.
“The habitual grace of Vernon Lee’s style is present in these pages, and her unfailing vivacity makes her the most delightful of couriers and engaging of companions.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 120. S. 1, ‘05. 190w.
“This is made up of just what the guide book leaves out, the personal equation, the temperamental interpretation.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1070. My. 11, ‘05. 170w.
“What gives the book a permanent value is her thorough knowledge of the literature, the art, and the architecture of these countries in whose remote corners she has from time to time made her home.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 33. Jl. 13, ‘05. 310w.
“They are not very deep, many of them are quite superficial, but they are charming, and if not full of thought themselves, may easily cause thought in those who read them.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 310. My. 13, ‘05. 780w.
+ =Reader.= 6: 358. Ag. ‘05. 280w.
“The many little essays are very like ‘Vernon Lee’s’ other work, which is always pretty and delicate, and shows a capacity for arriving at the genius of places.”
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 637. My. 13, ‘05. 170w.
“Her remarks contain much more than empty fancy and personal enjoyment; she sees, but she also thinks, and so the book is worth reading for its wisdom as well as its beauty.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 330. Mr. 4, ‘05. 1550w.
=Leech, John.= Pictures of life and character. $1.50. Putnam.
A collection of the cartoons of John Leech, taken mainly from Punch.
* =Ind.= 59: 1390. D. 14, ‘05. 60w.
“They have historic value, no doubt, for manners and customs, for dress, etc. In some the humor of the drawing suffices; in many the legend is necessary for the smile.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 278. O. 5, ‘05. 180w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 723. O. 28, ‘05. 200w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 180w.
“It is pleasant to have in this book so full and satisfactory a collection of John Leech’s pictures.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 835. O. 7, ‘05. 50w.
=Lefevre, Edwin.= Golden flood. †$1. McClure.
The story of a young chemist who outwitted both the president of New York’s largest bank and the richest man in the world by depositing assay office checks to the amount of several millions a week until the great financiers believed that he manufactured his gold in his laboratory is cleverly told. Wall street and the reader are excited until the young man has made his fortune and explained his methods.
“Mr. Lefevre’s delightful sense of humor would sufficiently commend his book, were it not also remarkable for its technical adroitness and its excellent character touches.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 283. S. ‘05. 90w.
“This is an exceedingly interesting story.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 359. Je. 3, ‘05. 300w.
“Mr. Edwin Lefevre has constructed an interesting story with a most ingeniously worked out dénouement. It is a dénouement in the very simplicity of which lies its strength.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 220w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 26. Jl. 1, ‘05. 190w.
“That story, however, has more than its element of uniqueness to recommend it. The studies in the characters of great financiers, Gentile and Jew, are of unusual vividness and verisimilitude.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 759. Je. ‘05. 120w.
=Le Gallienne, Richard.= Painted shadows. †$1.50. Little.
These are not stories, nor essays, nor a part of prosaic today; they are verily painted shadows, as clear, as fanciful, and as elusive. There is much charming verse and much poetic prose, and many truthful things which strike home to a troubled soul. “The youth of lady Contantia,” “The shadow of a rose,” “What of love? What of fame?”—they were real only so long as they ran before us, shining shapes of promise. They were real only so long as they were shadows. “Old silver,” with its exquisite song, “The woman of dreams,” “Household gods,” “Dear dead woman,” “The two ghosts”; they and the others form a book which will be dear to all who love what is good and beautiful in literature.
“Devotees of the realistic school in literature will never enjoy Mr. Le Gallienne’s work, but for those who value a story more for its fine literary quality than for its fidelity to the real conditions of life, his beauty of phrasing and delicacy of imagination hold a charm which never grows old.” Amy C. Rich.
+ + =Arena.= 33: 221. F. ‘05. 160w.
“... In ‘Painted shadows,’ where pretty phrasing usurps the place of beautiful thought, where the mental amiability of the author’s attitude is unsupported by any vigor or nobility of utterance.”
— + =Reader.= 5: 784. My. ‘05. 570w.
“Le Gallienne’s style, when at its best, is one of the finest things in contemporary literature. It is distinctly at its best in ‘Painted shadows.’ Should add materially to Mr. Le Gallienne’s reputation.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 116. Ja. ‘05. 110w.
“He touches life with a delicate brush. His plots are not strong, or very purposeful; but they have the true aroma of my lady’s boudoir. He does not hesitate to use the impossible fancies of mediaeval romance to bring his stories to a desired consummation.” J. R. Ormond.
+ =The South Atlantic Quarterly.= 4: 98. Ja. ‘05. 180w.
=Le Gallienne, Richard.= Romances of old France. **$1.50. Baker.
Daintily bound, with marginal drawings the floral designs of which, in pale green ink, wander across its pages, this small volume contains the old stories of King Florus and the fair Jehane; Amis and Amile; The tale of King Coustans the emperor; Blonde of Oxford and Jehan of Dammartin; Aucassin and Nicolete; and The history of over sea, all retold in the author’s own delicate fashion with little digressions and comments.
* + =Critic.= 47: 581. D. ‘05. 50w.
* “Mr. Le Gallienne’s style is graceful, piquant, and spirited, without being archaic; and he tells as much of the stories as most readers will care to hear.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 446. D. 16, ‘05. 180w.
* =Nation.= 81: 484. D. 14, ‘05. 120w.
* “He is near enough to his readers in lack of deep learning and near enough to his subjects in romantic feeling to give his work an undoubted interpretative value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 830. D. 2, ‘05. 500w.
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 684. N. 18, ‘05. 100w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 753. D. ‘05. 20w.
=Le Gallienne, Richard,= tr. See =Hafiz.= Odes from the Divan of.
=Legg, Leopold George Wickham=, ed. Select documents illustrative of the history of the French revolution and the constituent assembly. 2v. *$4. Oxford.
The editor’s aim is “to tell the story of the Revolution ‘almost in the words of the Frenchmen of the time.’ For this purpose he has made his selections chiefly from ... such journals as the political part of the Mercure de France, edited by Mallet du Pan, Mirabeau’s Courrier de Provence, and Brissot’s Patriote français.... Occasionally the texts of laws vital to the comprehension of the period are inserted in the body of the work, while others fill about one hundred pages of the appendix.” (Dial.)
“Along with numerous capital features there are some grave defects. The finding apparatus is not what it should be. The dogmatic manner and the partisan spirit which mark these comments are particularly out of place in a work which will probably find its chief use among university students.” Frank Maloy Anderson.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 196. O. ‘05. 500w.
“Mr. Legg’s selections are made with excellent judgment, and are all interesting.”
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 117. S. 1, ‘05. 380w.
“Two volumes of extracts that are well worth the editorial care he has lavished upon them.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 14. Jl. 6, ‘05. 580w.
“Mr. Legg’s book is admirably edited, it supplies not only a charming refreshment but a valuable and even an indispensable assistance to the serious student of the French revolution.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 279. Ag. 26, ‘05. 850w.
=Legge, Arthur E. J.= Ford, The. †$1.50. Lane.
“The ford in question connects the lands of an old-fashioned peer with those of a new soap-boiler, and its use gives cause for a feud between the houses. On this basis it is clear that a love affair between the millionaire’s son and the peer’s daughter is, as the doctors say, indicated. But the peer’s middle-aged cousin and heir, Paul Gleddayne, unwittingly introduces complication. He had loved the soap-boiler’s wife, and Mr. Legge very frankly tells us that Ralph Harrold, the jeune premier, might have been Paul Gleddayne’s son, though he happens not to be. Paul at any rate is very fond of him for his dead mother’s sake, and is distressed to find himself in the young man’s way alike in politics and love.”—Sat. R.
“The cynical indifference with which he depicts the lax morality of his men and women detracts much from an otherwise admirable piece of work.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 947. S. 16, ‘05. 370w.
“It displays close observation and an unusual knowledge of life, and tells its story in excellent style, terse and graceful. The characters are drawn with vigor, and altogether the book is quite out of the ordinary in both its plot and its workmanship. While it is interesting, however, it fails to compel interest.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 707. O. 21, ‘05. 300w.
“There is a pervasive air of marital infidelity about the book which should make it popular. Mr. Legge labours his points unnecessarily, and might with advantage refrain from working up to very obvious epigrams.”
— + =Sat. R.= 100: 345. S. 9, ‘05. 300w.
“His novel is only incidentally melodramatic, and primarily appeals to the reader as a study in character, not as a sensational romance. A book which is characterized more by charm than by strength.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 323. S. 2, ‘05. 730w.
=Lent, Edward Burcham.= Being done good. *$1.25. Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
A sufferer from rheumatism gives his experience with physicians of various schools in their attempts to cure him. “Blisters and red-hot cautery” is followed by disquisitions upon Turkish and electric baths, patent medicines, liver cures, hot-water treatment, and osteopathy. The humor is so genial it will not offend even those who are ridiculed.
“Here we have a satire, a humorous, but none the less biting satire, upon the medical science of today and those who apply its principles.”
+ =Baltimore Sun.= :8. Mr. 8, ‘05. 120w.
“In genuine humorous style.”
=R. of Rs.= 31: 384. Mr. ‘05. 60w.
=Leonard, Mary Finley.= Story of the big front door. 75c. Crowell.
This volume of the “Twentieth century juveniles” tells of the doings of the Hazeltine children who lived behind the big front door, of Ikey Ford, and other boys and girls, of their aunts, uncles, and neighbors, their plays and their clubs. The children are good children who openly repent of their pranks, and the gentle strain of moralizing which runs thru the book fits it for Sunday school use.
* =Leonard, William Samuel.= Machine-shop tools and methods. $4. Wiley.
A third revised and enlarged edition of a book which represents Mr. Leonard’s “lectures on shop practice and machine design, given to the students in the Michigan agricultural college. The text is concise, comprehensive, and clear.... The description of the machines and tools is good and covers the principal details without useless words. The names of the machine parts, tools and fixtures are those used in general shop practice.”—Engin. N.
* “The book as a whole is undoubtedly the best one on machine shop practice that has yet appeared.” William W. Bird.
+ + + =Engin. N.= 54: 529. N. 16, ‘05. 220w.
=Le Poer, John Patrick.= Modern legionary. $1.50. Dutton.
A story uniform with Roger Patrick’s “Frontiersman.” “The tale is told by the hero, an Irish boy of sixteen, who joins the French foreign legion and is sent to Algeria. He describes the life of the ‘legionary’ among Chinese, Berbers, and other semi-savage tribes; and recounts several adventures.” (N. Y. Times).
“The chief characters are drawn boldly and effectively, and the scenes are described with a certain raciness which makes the story worth reading.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 782. Je. 24. 430w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 502. Jl. 29, ‘05. 450w.
“It is not easy to dismiss the idea that a vast deal of fancy is intermingled with the fact, so extraordinary are the adventures accredited to the narrator. Book leaves an unpleasant taste. But with all its cynicism and unquestionable offenses against the canons of good taste, it is not without value as a protest against the evils of militarism and war, a forcefully worded indictment reciting the evils attendant upon armed strife.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 451. F. 18, ‘05. 180w.
* =Le Queux, William.= Czar’s spy; the mystery of a silent love. 50c. Smart set.
A young Englishman, the hero of this story, becomes involved in a series of strange happenings which occur in Italy, England, Scotland, Finland, and Russia, and include ghastly murders, robberies and plots. The maneuvers of a mysterious yacht owned by a band of international criminals, the dark deeds of the strangler, governor of Finland, and the sufferings of the beautiful young heroine whose enemies have rendered her deaf and dumb because she knows their guilty secret, form but a part of the thrilling and complicated plot.
* “It is a story that sets out to harrow your feelings and keep them harrowed till the end, which is as happy as possible.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 860. D. 2, ‘05. 220w.
* =Le Roy, James A.= Philippine life in town and country. **$1.20. Putnam.
“Mr. Le Roy’s aim has been rather to set forth the social constituents of the population than to describe in minute detail the customs and manners of the people. He regards all Filipinos ... as the crude recipients of the blessings or curses of the American system. In this light he studies their religion, their tribal life, their family organization, and their social status. On questions which are still undetermined and uncertain he refrains from pronouncing judgment.”—Pub. Opin.
* “Mr. Le Roy’s writing is always fair-minded and non-partisan in attitude. Is both instructive and readable.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 350w.
* “Everything considered, it is one of the best studies of the essential character of the Filipinos which has yet appeared.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 725. D. 2, ‘05. 370w.
=Le Strange, Guy.= Lands of the Eastern Caliphate, Mesopotamia, Persia and Central Asia, from the Moslem conquest to the time of Timur. *$4. Macmillan.
“Mr. Le Strange’s book is nominally a geography, but it is more than that—it is a fairly close description of Western Central Asia during the time of its greatest prosperity, with especial reference, of course to the geography of the country.”—N. Y. Times.
“We cannot express our gratitude to him better than by hoping that he will resume his laborious task and publish another volume as well indexed and as admirably provided with maps as that which he has already given us.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 268. Ag. 25, ‘05. 2140w.
“Of course such a book cannot be very readable, but its value for the students of mediaeval Hither Asia cannot be exaggerated, and even for the student of civilization in the broad it will be full of suggestion.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 360. N. 2, ‘05. 380w.
“The book is extremely suggestive and provocative of thought; it tells such tales as it has to tell in an interesting way, and throws a strong side light on the civilization of the Arab ‘misbelievers’ at the time when Christian Europe was groveling in outer darkness.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 664. O. 7, ‘05. 860w.
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 280. S. 30, ‘05. 120w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 510. O. ‘05. 60w.
“Mr. Le Strange has earned the gratitude of students for the valuable work which he has done in the field, comparatively unexplored, of Arabian geography.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 505. O. 7, ‘05. 350w.
=Lethaby, William Richard.= Mediaeval art from the peace of the church to the eve of the Renaissance, 312-1250. *$2. imp. Scribner.
“The book is divided into twelve chapters, of which the first deals with the age of Constantine.... Four chapters following this treat of the Romanesque and Byzantine.... Then comes