Chapter III
of the book deals with ‘The working child.’ It is probably
the most awful in the book.... The mill children, the glass factory boys, the mine boys, are studied.... Mr. Spargo’s remedies are many. As regards the babies, they include State or Federal supervision of infant food manufacture; meals for school children, medical inspection of schools, a minimum standard for working children established by Federal law.”—N. Y. Times.
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“School teachers need this book, social workers, librarians, pastors, editors, all who want to understand the problem of poverty or education. It is not only readable, it contains illustrations and facts that are matters of record, absolutely proved.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 196. Jl. ’06. 720w.
“Far inferior to the ‘Long day.’” Winthrop. More Daniels.
+ – =Atlan.= 97: 842. Je. ’06. 270w.
“Rather painfully interesting study.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 480. My. ’06. 180w.
Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ =Dial.= 40: 298. My. 1, ’06. 200w.
“No one fit to be called human can read it without the stirring of pulses that have never stirred before.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 868. Ap. 12, ’06. 1080w.
“Mr. Spargo’s book ought to be epoch-making; it ought to mark the turning of the tide in the treatment of children. We can think of no one who, of full age, would not be benefited by reading the book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 127. Mr. 3, ’06. 1400w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 805. Ap. 7, ’06. 340w.
=Pub. Opin.= 40: 271. Mr. 3. ’06. 1090w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 509. Ap. ’06. 160w.
=Spargo, John.= Socialism; a summary and interpretation of socialist principles. **$1.25. Macmillan.
“A summary and interpretation of Socialist principles.... Mr. Spargo offers no apology for the faith that is in him, but attempts merely to state in popular language what socialism really means and what it does not mean. In short the man in the street will find in this little volume an up-to-date exposition of the socialism that is alive in the world to-day.”—R. of Rs.
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“Until now there has not been any one book from which the inquirer could get any clear idea of the subject as a whole. This want Mr. Spargo has well supplied. His book is enjoyable as well as instructive, being comparatively free from the peculiar terminology which makes many Socialistic works unpalatable to the average reader, yet not sacrificing accuracy to popularity of expression.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 693. S. 20, ’06. 540w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 358. S. 15, ’06. 160w.
“The historical survey is both fragmentary and slight.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 76. Jl. 26, ’06. 320w.
Reviewed by Edward A. Bradford.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 628. O. 6, ’06. 2150w.
“Mr. Spargo’s book is less critical and more constructive than most treatises on socialism. It is a useful but a temporary contribution to current discussion.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 84: 92. S. 8, ’06. 540w.
“Written frankly from the point of view of a convinced socialist.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 253. Ag. ’06. 90w.
=Spearman, Frank Hamilton.= Whispering Smith. †$1.50. Scribner.
A railroad wreck forms the beginning of this story of adventure in the northwest, and also the beginning of a feud between Sinclair, foreman of the bridges, and McCloud, division superintendent. Sinclair, dismissed from his position, joins a band of outlaws who rob and pillage the railroad until Whispering Smith with his posse of men, after many wild and desperate encounters, finally captures them. It is essentially a story of action, but there is also a double love interest.
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“The characters are railroad men and cattle-ranchers, and the action rapid and adventurous in a way that holds the attention from start to finish.” Mary K. Ford.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 160. O. ’06. 1040w.
“It is extremely well done. It is even to be suspected that there is much to be learned from the book.”
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 568. S. 15, ’06. 880w.
“It is full of action and not without originality.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 127. O. ’06. 20w.
“We all have a sneaking fondness for gunplay and bad men in our reading-matter, but we cannot always procure them with the approval of our literary consciences. Mr. Spearman’s new novel, ‘Whispering Smith.’ is going to be a great success because it satisfies both consciences and tastes in this matter.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 224. N. ’06. 260w.
=Spears, John Randolph.= David G. Farragut. **$1.25. Jacobs.
“In its entirety, the biography of four hundred pages may be classed among the best books of its kind.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 51. Ja. 6, ’06. 230w.
=Spelling, Thomas Carl.= Bossism and monopoly. **$1.50. Appleton.
From the training of ultra-conservatism Mr. Spelling emerges with a “conviction of the need of the radical reforms which he advocates in his book. It is a sorry tale of graft, fraud, and oppression by big business, co-operating with political bosses, which he relates. He has looked over the whole ground and has found chicanery and robbery wherever this unholy alliance has been made. In the face of conditions, the seeming apathy of the people not unnaturally affects him with wonder. But he sees signs of a revolt and he expects remedial
## action. Municipal, State and Government ownership are the indicated
remedies.” (Ind.)
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“Tho desultory and disjointed in parts, it is well worth the serious consideration of all citizens interested in the welfare of their country.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 687. Mr. 22, ’06. 240w.
“A book quite well worth reading, but not at all easy reading.” Edward Cary.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 61. F. 3, ’06. 870w.
=Spender, R. E. S.= Display: a tale of newspaper life. †$1.50. Lane.
“Mr. Spender imagines an editor at a loss for a sensation, arranging that his special correspondent should discover in the heart of Africa a survival or imitation of More’s ‘Utopia.’ An expedition of learned men is sent off to investigate, and their experiences seem to be suggested by the recent adventures of the British association in Africa.” (Sat. R.) “In point of fact the adventures do not amount to much. The author is merely spending his high spirits on the way in satire, criticism, and conversational sallies. He is evidently young and interested in life and thought—points very much in his favor.” (Ath.)
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+ – =Acad.= 69: 1230. N. 25, ’05. 250w.
“On the whole his book is enlivening, but a trifle too elaborate.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 12. Ja. 6. 190w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 178. Mr. 24, ’06. 210w.
+ – =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 5. D. 9, ’05. 360w.
=Spenser, Edmund.= Faery queen: first book rewritten in simple language by Calvin Dill Wilson; decorated by Ralph Fletcher Seymour. $1. McClurg.
A handsomely decorated book in the series of “Old tales retold for young readers.”
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“Mr. Wilson has performed the task creditably and has kept the spirit of the poem.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 793. N. 24, ’06. 70w.
=Spenser, Edmund.= Una and the red cross knight and other tales from Spenser’s Faerie queene, by N. G. Royde-Smith; 50 il. and col. front, by F. H. Robinson. $2.50. Dutton.
The story of Spenser’s poem told in prose with occasional interspersions of the verses.
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“Well written, and illustrated in an imaginative style that will interest old and young readers equally.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 450. D. 16, ’05. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 894. D. 16, ’05. 290w.
“A commendable and on the whole fairly successful attempt to retell some of the more spirited incidents in Spenser’s ‘Faerie Queene’ for children’s reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1040. D. 23, ’05. 70w.
=Spielmann, Marion Henry, and Layard, George Somes.= Kate Greenaway. *$6.50. Putnam.
“These facts are presented by the authors of the monograph clearly, sympathetically, and with just sufficient detail to impart the requisite vitality, and this is further enhanced by the fact that Mr. Spielmann’s share of the work is the tribute of a personal friendship.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 23. Ja. 6. 1270w.
Reviewed by Royal Cortissoz.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 277. F. ’06. 430w.
“On the whole Miss Greenaway’s present biographers have dealt tactfully with the vast mass of material placed at their disposal.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 28: 275. My. ’06. 220w.
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 119. Ja. 27, ’06. 960w.
+ + =Nation.= 82: 15. Ja. 4, ’06. 2080w.
“This is a sympathetic biography.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 305. F. 24, ’06. 390w.
=Spiers, R. Phene.= Architecture east and west. *$4.50. Scribner.
“There are too many slips of the pen allowed to pass.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 71. Mr. 2, ’06. 820w.
=Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott (Mrs. Richard S. Spofford).= Old Washington. †$1.50. Little.
Washington in the days following the close of the civil war furnishes the setting for five delightful stories. They are “A Thanksgiving breakfast,” “A guardian angel,” “In a conspiracy,” “A little old woman,” and “The colonel’s Christmas.” The variations from the lavender-and-old-lace atmosphere to that of the stuffy hall-room sheltering impecunious gentle-folk, and that of the splendid reception halls, and even the senate chamber itself, suggest the characters which include Southern women, loyal mammies, struggling department clerks and politicians.
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“Five stories, good as such, but better as pictures of life and society at the capital as it was after the Civil war, forty or more years ago.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 477. My. ’06. 70w.
“As usual, the author draws too much upon the tears of her imagination; but she has done the best she could with the kind of material she selects.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.
+ – =Ind.= 60: 1219. My. 24, ’06. 60w.
“There is a dewdrop quality about Harriet Prescott Spofford’s style that gives it a gentle sparkle and makes the reading of one of her stories pleasant diversion indeed.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 228. Ap. 7, ’06. 380w.
“Humor, tenderness, and an intimate acquaintance with the time characterize these tales.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 909. Ap. 21, ’06. 60w.
“Mrs. Spofford has caught and fixed this fragrant, rose-leaf odor as surely as have F. Hopkinson Smith or Thomas Nelson Page.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 542. Ap. 28, ’06. 190w.
=Sprague, John Francis.= Sebastian Ralé. $1. Heintzmann press, Boston.
A monograph on the environment, work and character of Father Ralé who devoted thirty years of his life to a little band of Indians on the banks of the Kennebec and who was slain in an attack upon his mission.
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=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 749. Ap. ’06. 80w.
“We may sincerely congratulate Mr. Sprague, from the literary point of view, on having produced a monograph which is an excellent piece of historical work. We congratulate him still more warmly on the possession of the broadminded spirit, and the courage to manifest it.”
+ + + =Cath. World.= 84: 112. O. ’06. 490w.
=Outlook.= 83: 674. Jl. 21, ’06. 130w.
=Spurgeon, Rev. Charles Haddon.= Spurgeon’s illustrative anecdotes; arranged under subjects and topics by Rev. Louis Albert Banks. **$1.20. Funk.
For the benefit of preachers and teachers who have need of anecdotes with which to illustrate their sermons and religious talks the compiler has selected and classified some 500 of the stories which Spurgeon used so successfully. Their arrangement under such headings as Affliction, Ambition, Blessings, Christ, Conscience, Conversion, Duty, Faith, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Hope, Joy etc., etc. render them easy of access.
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“The work is admirably classified and arranged so that any special subject can be readily found.”
+ =Arena.= 36: 334. S. ’06. 80w.
“No doubt ministers of religion will find good use for the ammunition under each head, which has already been proved and found not wanting by the man from whose writings Dr. Banks has culled his material.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 483. Ag. 4, ’06. 230w.
=Spyri, Johanna.= Moni the goat boy, and other stories tr. from the German by Edith F. Kunz. *40c. Ginn.
There is a delightful simplicity about the three little stories which make up this volume; they breathe the love of children, of animals, and of mountain air. Moni, the goat boy, was happy when his conscience was wholly clear, he tended his goats, and sang to them, and did not want to become an egg boy because eggs could not love you or come when you called. Without a friend, tells of how stupid Rudi ceased to be stupid when friendship came to him, and The little runaway, is the story of the marvelous reformation of a saucy little boy.
=Squire, Charles.= Mythology of the British islands: an introduction to Celtic myth, legend, poetry, and romance. *$3.50 Scribner.
“It is well written and lucid, and leaves us with a clear idea of the scope of Celtic mythology. It is true that the author is inclined to assume too much, to treat as fact what the scholars he is following have merely conjectured.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 9. Ja. 6. 1010w.
“It aims in short, to impart some such knowledge of Celtic mythology as most persons of cultivation are supposed to possess of the mythology of Greece and Rome, and so far as the substance of the ancient tales is concerned it accomplishes this purpose satisfactorily.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 184. Ag. 30, ’06. 430w.
=Staley, Edgcumbe.= Fra Angelico; with memoir by Edgcumbe Staley, and 64 full-page reproductions of his works in half-tone. $1.25. Warne.
A “Newnes art library” volume. “In five brief chapters Mr. Staley depicts as many phases and periods in the development of an altogether lovable artist—the son of the Mugello, the novice of Cortona, the monk of Fiesole, the theologian of Florence and the saint of Rome.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Both the text and the illustrations are of such an excellent duality that the volume should have a firmly established place on the shelves of the student desiring a general view of the period.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 470. My. ’06. 70w.
“A valuable addition to the ‘Newnes art library.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 313. My. 12, ’06. 200w.
=Outlook.= 83: 331. Je. 9, ’06. 50w.
=Staley, Edgcumbe.= Guilds of Florence. **$5. McClurg.
The author says of this work “The cumulated energies of the Florentines had their focus in the corporate life of the trade-associations, and in no other community was the guild-system so thoroughly developed as it was in Florence. A complete and connected history of the guild has never been compiled. The present work is put forth, perhaps rather tentatively than exhaustively, to supply the omissions.” Beginning with chapters on Florentine commerce and industry, and, General history of the guilds, the guilds themselves are taken up under the sub-divisions of, The seven greater guilds, The five intermediate guilds, and The nine minor guilds, after which the life and work in the markets, the religion of the guilds, their patronage and their charity, are fully discussed. A bibliography, chronology, and index are provided and the volume is profusely illustrated after miniatures in illuminated manuscripts and Florentine woodcuts.
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“It is with real regret that we find a work of so much intrinsic worth defaced by the inclusion of so much which is unnecessary and irritating to read.”
+ – =Acad.= 71: 155. Ag. 18, ’06. 1520w.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 201. O. ’06. 40w.
“It is the commonplace book of an industrious worker. The history of the Florentine guilds has yet to be written.”
– =Ath.= 1906. 2: 555. N. 3. 1450w.
“In it one finds, conveniently, the answer to so many questions that arise through a morning’s wanderings in narrow and alluring byways. Even its dry statistics of revenues and taxes help you to repeople the dead centuries by the sense of activity and enterprise which the mere figures convey.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 24: 371. D. ’06. 1420w.
“In treating of the minor corporations such as those of inn-keepers, saddlers, bakers, etc., this indefatigable author enters into the very life of the people, so that his book is not only to a great extent a history of art, of literature, of science, and of commerce, but of social manners and customs.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 30: 91. N. ’06. 500w.
“When he is bestowing information, which he does both copiously and clearly, his style is concise and business like, and he says well what he has to say. But when he is afraid of being dull—which real information never is—he is by no means so happy.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 294. Ag. 31. ’06. 2010w.
“From the preface to the bibliography the book is crammed with mistakes.”
– =Nation.= 83: 537. D. 20, ’06. 630w.
“A remarkably complete, scholarly, and copiously illustrated history.”
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 380. D. ’06. 220w.
“Mr. Staley’s book is not precisely one to read through. It is a valuable work of reference, where every one who loves Florence and her history may find her medieval life reproduced from many sources difficult of access to the ordinary reader. The book would be worth having for its pictures alone.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 367. S. 15, ’06. 1680w.
=Staley, Edgcumbe.= Raphael; with a short biographical sketch of Raphael Santi or Sanzio; with a list of principal works. $1.25. Warne.
“We could spare some of Mr. Staley’s rather sophomoric characterizations of the great painter.”
– =Outlook.= 83: 331. Je. 9. ’06. 280w.
=Stamey, De Kellar.= Junction of laughter and tears. $1.25. Badger, R: G.
Half a hundred little poems which the author has dedicated to his wife and babe, and which picture the home and its interests in both sunshine and shadow.
=Stamey, De Keller.= Land of Schuyli Jing. $1.25. Broadway pub.
Fourscore little stories and poems which treat daintily of love, home, children, patriotism, religion, death, nature and other things.
=Standing, Percy Cross.= Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. *$1.50. Cassell.
This biography has been written under the sanction and practical co-operation of Alma-Tadema himself, a fact which establishes his career in an authoritative light. The sketch of his life emphasises the very tendencies that step by step produced the artist. The forces from within and without and the intrinsic idealism into which they have resolved themselves make a unity well worth careful analysis and study. The illustrations aim to show the gradual development of the power of expression, several of which have not been reproduced before.
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“He has not succeeded in conveying any real idea of the personality of Sir Lawrence, or of the characteristics of his style.”
– + =Int. Studio.= 26: 88. Mr. ’06. 80w.
“Is especially valuable as being the story which the artist himself would have the world know.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 229. Ap. 7, ’06. 1020w.
=Outlook.= 83: 670. Jl. 21. ’06. 60w.
=Standish, Winn.= Captain Jack Lorimer; il. $1.50. Page.
Jack Lorimer who has become well known thru the pages of the Boston Sunday Herald now makes his bow as the hero of a lively football story published in book form. He is captain of the Melville high school eleven and his pluck, hard work and fair dealing win the day for him against the deep treachery that a
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“Told with much go and spirit. The book is intended for boys midway of their teens and a little older.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 683. O. 20, ’06. 90w.
=Stanley, Caroline Abbot (Mrs. Elisha Stanley).= Modern Madonna. †$1.50. Century.
Upon the law in force until recent years in the District of Columbia, which gave to the father, power to will away the custody of his unborn child hinges the story of a cruelly wronged young wife. Margaret, after the tragic death of her husband who has proved faithless, finds that she must give her all, her baby Philip, into the hands of her husband’s brother, who has become alienated from her. But after a brave fight, in which her character develops in strength and tenderness, she wins both her boy and his uncle, and sees the cruel law repealed.
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“An interesting and readable novel.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 672. O. 13, ’06. 330w.
“A tragical and melodramatic story of real power although without much literary grace.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 583. N. 3, ’06. 110w.
=Stanwood, Edward.= James Gillespie Blaine. **$1.25. Houghton.
“Mr Stanwood was perhaps better equipped for the work than any other writer in the country He excels ... in the kind of fairness that consists in treating respectfully the men and views one opposes.” William Garrott Brown.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 701. Ap. ’06. 1160w.
“Even if Mr. Stanwood’s friendliness toward his theme carries him occasionally near to the limits of special pleading, he has in the large performed his task with marked success and skill.” M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
+ + – =Atlan.= 97: 113. Ja. ’06. 420w.
“He has written a very admirable condensed account of Mr. Blaine, and one which will be read with keen interest for its impartiality, insight and instructiveness.” H. T. P.
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 513. Ja. ’06. 1570w.
+ =Dial.= 40: 49. Ja. 16, ’06. 540w.
“Altho Mr. Stanwood has not the skill of a truly great biographer, yet the very logic of the events themselves, plainly and simply told, furnishes a stirring narrative.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 515. Mr. 1, ’06. 380w.
“The reader feels that the author is rather an apologist than a biographer, and even that he has not done full justice to Mr. Blaine’s astuteness as a politician. Certainly the appeal is rather to those whose interests are not primarily economic.” J. C.
– =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 459. Jl. ’06. 170w.
“We are forced to say that this book can hardly fail to harm the general series to which it belongs.”
– + =Nation.= 82: 141. F. 15, ’06. 2620w.
=Starr, Louis.= Hygiene of the nursery. $1. Blakiston.
The seventh edition of a manual which includes the general regimen and feeding of infants and children, massage, and the domestic management of the ordinary emergencies of early life.
=Stauffer, David McNeely.= Modern tunnel practice. *$5. Eng. news.
The change that has been made in the practice of tunneling by the introduction of high explosives, by the use of machine drills, by special appliances for handling the debris or protecting the roof of the tunnel and by the employment of electric power and light has made the present hand-book a necessity. The work is illustrated by examples taken from actual recent work in the United States and in foreign countries.
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“The author of this book is to be congratulated both upon having produced what will prove to be a useful book of reference for engineers engaged in the arduous work of tunnelling, and also upon the fair and impartial manner in which he writes.”
+ + =Nature.= 74: 409. Ag. 23, ’06. 1420w.
=Stead, Alfred.= Great Japan; a study of national efficiency. **$2.50. Lane.
“The author possesses a pleasing style at once direct and lucid. The work is entitled to rank among the best books of the character that have appeared. It is a standard work worthy of a place in the libraries of all thoughtful people.”
+ + + =Arena.= 35: 285. Mr. ’06. 3950w.
“Viewed as a manual of plausible and often valuable information, the
## book is a welcome addition to the library on Japan: but to take Mr.
Stead’s statements on their face value is to accept a fabric of delusion.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 496. Je. 14, ’06. 1210w.
+ – =Westminster R.= 164: 609. D. ’05. 1110w.
=Stealey, O. O.= Twenty years in the press gallery. $5. O. O. Stealey, 1421 G St., Washington, D. C.
A concise history of important legislation from the 48th to the 58th congress; the part played by the leading men of that period and the interesting and impressive incidents; impressions of official and political life in Washington. There is an introduction contributed by Mr. Henry Watterson in which he alludes to the seamy side of a Washington correspondent’s experiences and to the side that makes the life endurable.
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=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 211. O. ’06. 80w.
“He has a sunny, gossipy, conversational way of writing that leaves no wounds. And it is evident that he suppresses the unkind things he might say. The chief defect of the book is the suppression of the author’s personality. He tells too little of what he himself has seen and known of public men.”
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 433. Jl. 7, ’06. 1060w.
=Steel, Mrs. Flora Annie Webster.= Book of mortals: being a record of the good deeds and good qualities of what humanity is pleased to call the lower animals. $3. Macmillan.
“Reproductions of great paintings of animals have been published in attractive typographical form with a story written around them.” (R. of Rs.) “The book is divided into three parts—‘What our fellow-mortals are,’ ‘What animals have done for man,’ and ‘What our fellow-mortals are doing.’ In the first part the author shows the similarity of the ways of the ‘beasts that perish’ and those of mortals; Part 2, is given over to a few animal legends and tales of animal symbolism which have been interwoven with the history of the human race, while the third division concerns itself with the ways in which, day by day, hour by hour, they (our ‘fellow mortals’) make the life of each of us pleasurable, profitable—nay, more! possible.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The author’s is a hopelessly sentimental view, but she is very much in earnest, and pleads her case with eloquence and with the address of an advocate.”
– =Ath.= 1906, 1: 263. Mr. 3. 440w.
“There are both humor and kindliness in the writing of this book.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 274. F. 17, ’06. 170w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 70w.
“Perhaps the secret of the unsatisfactory and somewhat mystifying effect of the work is due to the fact that she writes not like one but as two distinct persons.”
– =Sat. R.= 101: 696. Je. 2, ’06. 1130w.
=Steffens, Joseph Lincoln.= Struggle for self-government: being an attempt to trace American political corruption to its sources in six states of the United States, with a dedication to the czar. **$1.20. McClure.
In this volume the author of “The shame of the cities,” “describes the government in six of our states in the direction of a return to the political cleanliness of former times. It is the general movement against bossism, of which the elections of 1905 gave many cheering indications. Mr. Steffens’ account of what has been accomplished in Ohio, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Wisconsin, and Missouri is full of encouragement to friends of popular government in other states.” (R. of Rs.)
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“It is unfortunate, however, that Mr. Steffens, with so commendable a purpose, should adopt in his writing a tone of arrogance and a disinclination to restraint in his use of the picturesque. It is difficult at times to overlook this fault, and to keep in mind that the author’s object is truth rather than sensationalism.”
+ – =Dial.= 41: 93. Ag. 16, ’06. 230w.
“If there is any serious fault to be found with this book it is a fault of style rather than of substance.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 19. Jl. 5, ’06. 600w.
“A specimen of workmanlike journalism rather than literature. Its value is of the moment, for there is no trace of the learning and insight which distinguish and give permanent worth to treatises like Bryce’s or De Tocqueville’s.” Edward A. Bradford.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 487. Ag. 4, ’06. 850w.
“We wish Mr. Steffens’s words were as sound and persuasive as they are courageous.”
– + =Outlook.= 83: 287. Je. 2, ’06. 460w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 126. Jl. ’06. 190w.
=Steindorff, Georg.= Religion of the ancient Egyptians. **$1.50. Putnam.
“The booklet gives about as good a picture of a complicated and wide subject as could be given in such limited space, and some further minor criticisms would not alter this judgment.” W. Max. Müller.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 868. Jl. ’06. 890w.
“It would be impossible to gain anything like a clear idea of the individual Egyptian deities from Steindorff’s book, which is, perhaps necessarily, sketchy and some what superficial.” L. H. Gray.
– + =Bookm.= 22: 359. D. ’05. 370w.
“As to the value of what Professor Steindorff has given us, there can be but one judgment. It is interesting in manner, and constructed on the best plan of advanced scholarship.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 82: 120. Ap. ’06. 380w.
“Prof. Steindorff’s lectures are comparatively comprehensive of all the light we have on Egyptian religion, set forth in popular and readable but distinctly scholarly terms.” Ira Maurice Pike.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 17. Jl. 1, ’06. 320w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1166. N. 15, ’06. 30w.
“The most reliable, readable, and sane treatment of the religion of Egypt which has appeared.”
+ + + =Nation.= 82: 105. F. 1, ’06. 290w.
=Steiner, Edward A.= On the trail of the immigrant. **$1.50. Revell.
Humanity and individual responsibility pulsate thru the pages of Mr. Steiner’s earnest statement of the immigrant problem. The work is offered as the result of careful study the author having been a steerage passenger himself, first out of necessity, and later, for the sake of a close range inquiry. He says that a new gigantic race is being born between the Atlantic and the Pacific, a race whose immigrant element is primitive, uncultured, untutored, with all the virtues and vices in the making. “They are the best material with which to build a nation materially; they are good stock to be used in replenishing physical depletion: and capable of taking on the highest intellectual and spiritual culture.” Yet he admits that they are a serious problem.
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“Dr. Steiner is a capital story-teller also, and enlivens his chapters with anecdote and incident. The book cannot fail to afford excellent material for the use of students of immigrant problems.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 795. N. 24, ’06. 270w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 754. D. ’06. 90w.
=Step, Edward.= Wild flowers month by month. 2v. *$4.50. Warne.
“Mr. Step has a deep knowledge of British plants, and this work is full of interesting and instructive details as to how, when and where they grow.... The author has not attempted (and wisely we think in a book of this description which is intended for the general reader rather than the botanist) anything like a full enumeration of the flora of the British Isles.... We find that mention is made of some five hundred different plants only.... The book deals chiefly with plants whose flowers are conspicuous, as distinct from those with inconspicuous blossoms.... One of the most interesting classes, and the most fully described, is that of the British orchids.” (Acad.) The volumes are profusely illustrated from photographs.
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“While we have nothing but praise for the accurate and interesting descriptions and entertaining particulars of the plants mentioned it is impossible to say the same of the illustrations.”
+ – =Acad.= 69: 1196. N. 18, ’05. 1010w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 435. S. 30. 150w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The traveler, as well as the botanist, will welcome [it.]”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 406. Je. 23, 06. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“A book which contains much rather commonplace descriptive writing, with a slightly professorial style and rather strained humorous sallies.”
+ – =Spec.= 95: 471. S. 30, ’05. 340w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Stephen, Leslie.= Hobbes. **75c. Macmillan.
+ =Dial.= 40: 157. Mr. 1, ’06. 330w.
=Stephens, Robert Neilson.= Flight of Georgiana. †$1.50. Page.
“A spirited and fairly-well written romantic love-story.”
+ =Arena.= 35: 111. Ja. ’06. 200w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 111. Ja. 11. ’06. 350w.
+ =Reader.= 7: 229. Ja. ’06. 210w.
=Stephens, Thomas=, ed. Child and religion. *$1.50. Putnam.
Reviewed by Robert R. Rusk.
+ =Hibbert J.= 4: 455. Ja. ’06. 1860w.
“Offers much attractive and suggestive material.” M. Mackenzie.
+ =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 254. Ja. ’06. 640w.
=Stephenson, Henry Thew.= Shakespeare’s London. **$2. Holt.
“Few volumes will do so much to supply the student of Shakespeare with what is necessary for visualizing not only the background of the life of the poet, but also the background present to the minds of him and his audience in many of his plays.” William Allen Neilson.
+ + – =Atlan.= 97: 702. My. ’06. 520w.
“We could wish that Professor Stephenson’s book might commend itself as certainly to the lover of good letters as to the lover of history. Its style is hardly worthy of its theme.” Charles H. A. Wager.
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 89. F. 1, ’06. 1330w.
“The curious matter is its own and best excuse for being, and the rarity of the forty odd illustrations adds, also, to the book’s value.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 719. N. ’05. 330w.
=Sterling, Sara Hawks.= Shakespeare’s sweetheart. †$2. Jacobs.
“The author has very much idealized the characters of both Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway, but she has succeeded in writing a most delightful tale.” Amy C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 35: 108. Ja. ’06. 130w.
“The tale has been told in a quaint, old-fashioned atmosphere that cannot but be pleasing.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 93. Ja. ’06. 80w.
“In many respects the story is a pleasing bit of fancy and can not but win the reader.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 91. Ja. 20, ’06. 120w.
“The story is told in quaint literary style, and the author has fairly succeeded in doing what she set out to do—in suggesting the rhythm of Shakespeare’s own poetry.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 256. F. ’06. 60w.
=Sterrett, James Macbride.= Freedom of authority: essays in apologetics. **$2. Macmillan.
“The author of these essays in apologetics is an impassioned pleader for religious conformity. Professor Sterrett is in greater sympathy with Loisy than with Protestant thinkers.” Nathaniel Schmidt.
+ =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 373. Ap. ’06. 1770w.
“If the book offers the technical philosopher little material and few view-points that are new, yet here much that is not new receives virile, suggestive, stimulating treatment. Its logic is robust, but to a comprehensive survey it does not always appear discriminating and convincing.” E. L. Norton.
– – =J. Philos.= 3: 239. Ap. 26, ’06. 2160w.
“It is not very well put together and sometimes declamation is offered as a substitute for patient criticism. There is a good deal of mere repetition. In my opinion, he propounds a much truer and sounder philosophical standpoint for the interpretation of Christianity than one finds in those whom he criticises.” J. A. Leighton.
+ + – =Philos. R.= 15: 338. My. ’06. 590w.
=Stevens, George Barker.= Christian doctrine of salvation. **$2.50. Scribner.
“The aim of this work is ‘to present a biblical, historical, and constructive discussion of the doctrine of salvation.’ It is therefore in the field of systematic theology, but approaches its problems distinctly from the historical side, through biblical theology, distinguishing between the different conceptions held by different biblical writers, and between the temporary and the permanent in their thought.”—Bib. World.
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“There are several points in the book which, did space permit, might furnish matter for criticism. But these do not seriously affect the main argument.”
+ – =Acad.= 71: 9. Jl. 7, ’06. 1210w.
“This magnificent piece of work is entitled to a hearty reception, for it not only abounds in rich and suggestive ideas, but it is also full of religious inspiration.” George Cross.
+ + + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 747. O. ’06. 2390w.
“Prof. Stevens’s work is a notable addition to our modern theological literature. It is marked by lucidity in its historical presentations and acuteness in its criticisms; and there is evidence of the author’s acquaintance with recent books on his subject.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 696. Je. 9. 660w.
=Bib. World.= 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 60w.
“The book is seen to be one of the best from Professor Stevens’s hand.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1167. N. 15, ’06. 70w.
“That volume is not suffused with feeling. It is without sentiment. The problem of suffering culminating in the suffering of Jesus Christ is discussed as a purely intellectual problem. In this, to our thinking, is the chief defect of the volume.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 41. Ja. 6, ’06. 810w.
=Stevenson, Burton Egbert.= Affairs of state: being an account of certain surprising adventures which befell an American family in the land of windmills; il. by F. Vaux Wilson. †$1.50. Holt.
A Wall street capitalist and two daughters are established in a poorly patronized hotel at a Dutch watering place. The inaction of the sojourn palls upon the father and he assumes the proprietorship of the place for one month. His American business methods result in large patronage and among the guests are diplomats who are bent upon settling the question of succession to the duchy of Schloshold-Markheim. Love, intrigue and misunderstanding produce a continuation of dramatic situations.
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“The easy indifference of the early style and story may have been part of the author’s plan. Whether it was or not, it contributes in no small measure to the sudden surprise and delight of the big chapter at the end.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 727. N. 3, ’06. 440w.
“Fails to hold the interest or stimulate the curiosity.”
– =Outlook.= 84: 839. D. 1, ’06. 10w.
=Stevenson, Burton Egbert.= Girl with the blue sailor. [+]1.50. Dodd.
“A young newspaper man, going upon his first real vacation since he left college, gets involved with an old college chum and the college chum’s bride upon their honeymoon, and entangled also with an interesting family consisting of a pompous papa, and affected mamma, and four charming unmarried daughters. All of them are guests at the same mountain tavern. The girl in the blue sailor also comes there.... First are jests Inspired by the presence of the bride and groom, then matchmaking plots, picnics, boating expeditions, sparkling conversations with rather frequent quotations from Browning. In the very midst of it the young newspaper man gets sent to South Africa, where he makes an immense name as a war correspondent. After several years he comes back after his reward.”—N. Y. Times.
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– =Critic.= 49: 287. S. ’06. 100w.
“A very college boyish and amateurish love story.”
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 361. Je. 2, ’06. 220w.
“Slight but rather pretty summer romance.”
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 243. My. 26, ’06. 60w.
=Stevenson, Burton E., and Elizabeth B.=, comps. Days and deeds; a book of verse for children’s reading and speaking. **$1. Baker.
Significant poetry relating to American holidays and to great Americans has been grouped in this volume for use in schools and in the family. To this have been added a short anthology of the seasons, and eight lyrics that every child should know, including “The chambered nautilus,” Kipling’s “L’envoi,” “Abou Ben Adhem,” etc.
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“This should prove a very useful book for schools.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 43. Jl. 16, ’06. 110w.
=Nation.= 83: 508. D. 13, ’06. 30w.
=Stevenson, Mrs. Margaret Isabella (Balfour).= Letters from Samoa, 1891–1895, ed. and arranged by Marie Clothilde Balfour. *$2. Scribner.
“The second and last instalment of these letters written by the mother of Stevenson during her journeys to Samoa and her life in his household there up to her return home after his death. All lovers of the man will be interested in them from their connection with the last years of his life, and no less for their personal charm and wit combined with sterling commonsense. They show that mother and son were in many respects alike—in their patience and fortitude in suffering as well as in their intellectual qualities and tastes.”—Critic.
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“This last batch of letters is always interesting, although Vailima was but a little world and life there much of a muchness day after day. Nor is anything described in these letters that is new to us.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 426. My. 5, ’06. 790w.
“Had the letters contained anything noteworthy, either for its own sake, or as illustrative of Stevenson’s character or genius, they would have been welcome.”
– =Ath.= 1906, 1: 419. Ap. 7. 340w.
+ =Critic.= 49: 91. Jl. ’06. 90w.
“Though the motive in publishing the book may have been the desire to preserve some record of Mrs. Stevenson, it is quite certain that the only motive in reading it will be the desire to press still further if that is possible into the intimacies of her son’s life.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 103. Mr. 23, ’06. 650w.
“No more delightful book about Stevenson has been published since his death, and it is a moral tonic as well.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 371. S. 15, ’06. 300w.
=Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour.= Child’s garden of verses. $2.50. Scribner.
“Stevenson’s delicate cameos of childhood have found a most apt interpreter who has a style of her own with a curious charm.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 798. D. 9. 90w.
“One of the most attractive forms in which this most delightful book about children has appeared.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 46. Ja. 6, ’06. 40w.
=Stickney, (Joseph) Trumbull.= Poems. *$1.50. Houghton.
A posthumous volume of verse which includes “all of Stickney’s work that is for any reason valuable.” There are six groups as follows: Dramatic verses, Fragments of a drama on the life of Emperor Julian, Later lyrics, A dramatic scene, Juvenilia, and Fragments.
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“Promise rather than fulfillment is a mark of this work as a whole.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 125. F. 16, ’06. 370w.
“The book is edited with a wealth of piety and a rather conspicuous poverty of taste. Had he lived and been able to attain to a mastery of form and of syntax, he would undoubtedly have been a poet to reckon with.”
– =Nation.= 81: 507. D. 21, ’05. 250w.
“We owe to the excellent judgment of his editors, no doubt that nothing commonplace or unworthy has crept into this posthumous book of his verse.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 277. Ap. 28, ’06. 420w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 40w.
=Stiefel, H. C.= Slices from a long loaf; logbook of an eventful voyage by five Pittsburg tourists down the beautiful Allegheny river, from Oil City to Pittsburg. $1.25. Bissell block pub.
“A minimum of information about some of the industries of the Pittsburg district is here combined with the story of a boating trip and with a retelling of some other stories, classical and otherwise. The author explains his title by saying that the book like a loaf, may be sliced into at either end or the middle, as fancy chooses.”—Engin. N.
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=Engin. N.= 54: 645. D. 14, ’05. 60w.
=Stimson, Frederic Jesup (J. S. of Dale, pseud.).= In cure of her soul. †$1.50. Appleton.
The complications created by a host of characters and a tangle of events make for this novel a much-involved plot in which the hero who married in haste, realizes his mistake, finds the woman whom he can love “as a star,” but renounces her and turns from the giddy world to sincere endeavor in the field of law and politics. The wife, meanwhile, develops from a selfish petulant girl who loves the admiration of other men and the ways of a flashy vulgar social set, into a wife and mother worthy of the husband to whom she is re-united on the eve of his greatest political victory. The whole is an argument against divorce.
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– =Bookm.= 23: 639. Ag. ’06. 510w.
“With certain marked faults of style and some looseness of construction, Mr. Stimson’s new novel is none the less one of the few genuinely valuable contributions to fiction of the year. Would that its like were more common.”
+ + – =Critic.= 49: 287. S. ’06. 360w.
“In failing to work out this problem psychologically, the author has missed a great opportunity, and to a certain extent disappointed us in the expectations which might reasonably be based upon the title he has chosen for his work.” Wm. M. Payne.
– + =Dial.= 41: 37. Jl. 16. ’06. 480w.
“Whether or not Mr. Stimson wrote his latest book keeping pace with a serial, it has faults which a serial form imposes. The lessons of the book are mainly noble ones developed with much generous interpretation of motive, much poetic breadth of vision.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 59. Jl. 19, ’06. 490w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.
“Excision and compression would have added greatly to the value of a striking book.”
– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 441. Jl. 7, ’06. 720w.
“It lacks a certain vitality which makes some stories popular, a certain brilliancy of touch or definiteness of characterization which carries other stories to great audiences; but it is a clean, clear, strong piece of work.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 801. Je. 30, ’06. 320w.
=Stodola, Aurel.= Steam turbines; with an appendix on gas turbines and the future of heat engines. *$4.50. Van Nostrand.
+ + =Nature.= 75: 50. N. 15, ’06. 100w.
=Stokely, Edith Keeley, and Hurd, Marian Kent.= Miss Billy. †$1.50. Lothrop.
“The story is pleasant and cheering, and it contains a lesson that we all need.”
+ =Cath. World.= 82: 122. Ap. ’06. 150w.
=Stoker, Bram (Abraham).= Reminiscences of Sir Henry Irving. *$7.50. Macmillan.
Mr. Stoker, for many years Mr. Irving’s business manager, writes from first-hand information. “Of Irving, as a man and manager—a personality potent, intellectual, indomitable, ambitious, honorable, tender, imperious, picturesque, and fascinating—he gives a most at-
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“Here, at last, the man lives for us in the pages of his friend; here, at last, we catch the sense of his greatness, which makes all the gossip and chatter seem dustier and dryer than before. Three things in the book are of importance: the account of Sir Henry’s views on his art; the financial history of his management and his attitude towards the contemporary dramatist.”
+ + – =Acad.= 71: 369. O. 13, ’06. 1090w.
“Mr. Stoker has failed to endow his sketch with life. The outline is conventional where it is not vague, and the filling in shows a decided want of the sense of proportion.”
– =Blackwood’s M.= 180: 613. N. ’06. 4360w.
“This tribute of love and admiration which his sorrowful lieutenant lays upon his tomb is not the least of his honours.” I. Ranken Towse.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 367. D. ’06. 1120w.
=Current Literature.= 41: 659. D. ’06. 880w.
“His candid Reminiscences have opened the actor’s life and character to the public. The wit, the wisdom, the anecdote, the talk by famous men and about them, the strangeness and vivacity of many of the incidents and eminence of many of the characters, combine to render the work fascinating and instructive.” Ingram A. Pyle.
+ + + =Dial.= 41: 276. N. 1, ’06. 1540w.
“The book may often enough provoke a good-humoured smile, but it is of first rate interest for the light it throws on one who was, in his line, a great man, and none the less welcome because it incidentally records the entirely honourable career of that man’s faithful friend.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 353. O. 19, ’06. 1310w.
“‘For my own part the work which I have undertaken in this book is to show future minds something of Henry Irving as he was to me.’ So says Bram Stoker, in his preface to these two bulky volumes of personal reminiscences, and no one, after reading them, can deny that to this extent at least he has fully and ably accomplished his purpose.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 334. O. 18, ’06. 1820w.
“It is not a biography at all, but it presents such a picture of Henry Irving from the beginning of his career to his last performance, as has not been hitherto accessible. As a gossip Mr. Stoker is always amiable.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 674. O. 13. ’06. 1890w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 801. D. ’06. 130w.
“Other shortcomings there are in these volumes besides the failure to make known to us the real Irving—Irving the man as distinguished from Irving the actor. But, after all is said, this is a book to be grateful for, a book that will be of deep interest to gentlemen of ‘the profession,’ and an important contribution to the history of the English stage.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 713. N. 24, ’06. 860w.
“Within the limitations laid down for himself by the author, however, the work is brimful of interest as a contribution not only to the history of the technical advance of the stage during half a century, but to that of its social rise as well.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 382. D. ’06. 320w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 757. D. ’06. 280w.
=Stone, Gertrude Lincoln, and Fickett, Mary Grace.= Days and deeds of a hundred years ago. *35c. Heath.
Under the headings: Two heroes of a “Far old year” (1780), From Massachusetts to Ohio (1787), The inauguration of Washington (1789), The story of the cotton gin (1793), The Parkers’ moving and settling (1798), The success of Robert Fulton (1807), A canal journey (1826), Kindling a fire (1828), A railroad story (1830), The electric telegraph (1844), are told stories of a hundred years ago which will make those days seem real to the children of today.
=Stoner, Burton.= Squeaks and squawks from far-away forests: a sequel to Jim Crow tales; il. by C: Livingston Bull. $1. Saalfield.
All about the first, second and third floor dwellers in White oak castle—which, unshorn of its romance, is a plain old oak tree. The animals and birds that tenant it furnish bits of wisdom and entertainment for juveniles.
=Strang, Herbert.= Brown of Moukden: a story of the Russo-Japanese war; il. by W. Rainey. †$1.50. Putnam.
Mr. Strang’s story is “an exciting narrative reciting the adventures of an English youth—Jack Brown—the son of a British merchant doing business in Moukden at the outbreak of the recent war between Russia and Japan.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Herbert Strang may be congratulated on another first-rate book.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 720. N. 25. 100w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 574. Je. ’06. 80w.
“The fault of the story is that it is too long, and, to tell the truth, is sometimes tedious. Yet there is more good matter in it than in most of the kind.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 4: 385. N. 10, ’05. 150w.
“A good story for boys.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 197. Mr. 31, ’06. 510w.
“An admirable piece of work.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 761. Mr. 31, ’06. 110w.
“Is certainly a success.”
+ =Spec.= 95: sup. 791. N. 18, ’05. 810w.
=Strasburger, Eduard.= Rambles on the Riviera; tr. from the German by O. and B. Comerford Casey. *$5. Scribner.
While in the main it is the botanist who studies his flowers for the reader’s benefit, yet in more than plants does he use his powers of observation. Descriptions of people, their surroundings, and the changes that the seasons make in both are to be found in the book, as well as intimate knowledge of the local flora. The illustrations reproduce almost every plant presented in the text.
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“One’s interest in his luxuriously printed and illustrated book is primarily scientific.” Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 41: 392. D. 1, ’06. 120w.
“As a writer, he is a true impressionist, making some times a single line or a touch of color tell a long story. This record then, is an attractive, as well as sound guide-book.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 471. N. 29, ’06. 740w.
“This luxurious—one might truly say luxuriant—book is pre-eminently the work of a scientific mind which would remove itself as far as possible from reposeless, useless, pleasure-seeking modern life and find rest and acquire knowledge in a contemplation of nature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 770. N. 24, ’06. 670w.
“Does for the Riviera something of the service that Mr. Thomas’s [‘Heart of England’] does for England.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 704. N. 24, ’06. 170w.
“Dr. Strasburger suggests a pursuit which would give novel zest to the walks of the dilettante sojourner.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 711. D. 8, ’06. 910w.
=Streamer, Col. D., pseud. (Harry Graham).= More misrepresentative men. **$1. Fox.
+ =Critic.= 48: 384. Ap. ’06. 230w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 344. F. 8. ’06. 70w.
=Streatfeild, Richard A.= Modern music and musicians. $2.75. Macmillan.
In this volume the author has made studies of most of the greater composers from the time of Palestrina to the present day, attempting to trace the growth of the idea of a poetic basis in music.
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“Our author—somewhat impulsive, and ... not always charitable—may now and again irritate us, but there is more to be learnt from him than from one who follows custom, and therefore displays little or no individuality.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 702. D. 1. 850w.
“On the whole, his criticisms are temperate and judicial, albeit at times the bias of an English point of view is discoverable. His style, though not polished, is especially easy, flowing and serviceable.” Lewis M. Isaacs.
– – =Bookm.= 24: 271. N. ’06. 840w.
“The whole volume seems to want a great deal of revision. It shows much reading and some research, it is well presented, with good illustrations and a good index, but it deals too lightly with a set of problems which, after all, are the most difficult in all musical criticism.”
– + =Lond. Times.= 5: 359. O. 26, ’06. 800w.
“There is a good deal that is insular in Mr. Streatfeild.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 399. N. 8, ’06. 660w.
“It is unfortunate that theories and prepossessions have taken so firm a hold of a writer who presents himself so authoritatively to the musical public as Mr. Streatfeild.” Richard Aldrich.
– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 762. N. 17, ’06. 930w.
=Putnam’s.= 1: 382. D. ’06. 200w.
“It Is a volume which may well be entitled to occupy an honoured place on the shelf of the book-lover, and which will make its appeal, as the reflection of a cultivated and catholic mind, far beyond the limited circle of English musicians.” Harold E. Gorst.
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 392. S. 29, ’06. 1680w.
=Street, George Edward.= Mount Desert: a history; ed. by S: A. Eliot; with a memorial introd. by Wilbert L. Anderson. **$2.50. Houghton.
“The whole history is simply and interestingly told.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 268. Ap. 16, ’06. 210w.
“It is of specific value as a local history, but it includes much that is beyond the range of its title.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 352. Ap. 26, ’06. 520w.
=Stringer, Arthur John Arbuthnott.= Wire tappers. †$1.50. Little.
A story of greed end craft and a goodly amount of implied electrical information. Two people, an electrical inventor, and an English girl, by force of unusual circumstances play in a game of chance side by side under the direction of a bookmaker ogre who attempts by wiretapping to beat a pool-room in New York City. “Yet there is in it a plot, or the suggestion of a plot, that might have served Ibsen. In its earlier chapters it develops a posture of events on which a ‘psychological’ novelist or dramatist could have builded a powerful work.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“As a whole this novel is one of the most original, interesting and suggestive romances of the year.”
+ + =Arena.= 36: 217. Ag. ’06. 790w.
“Quite as clever in its way as Mr. Hornung’s ‘Raffles’ stories.”
+ + =Bookm.= 23: 642. Ag. ’06. 420w.
“The story is exciting, but the morale is unqualifiedly bad.”
– + =Critic.= 49: 288. S. ’06. 80w.
“Although this story is about as immoral in its tendencies as any that we have ever read the crimes which it deals with are so ingeniously contrived as to prove remarkably interesting.” Wm. M. Payne.
– + =Dial.= 41: 38. Jl. 16, ’06. 280w.
“The book is at once action and life, virile and alluring. It grips, and remains a pleasant memory.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 983. Je. 30, ’06. 690w.
“We care much less for the characterization than for the incidents and the felicitous handling that gives them the semblance of reality.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 308. My. 12, ’06. 620w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.
“Ingenious story.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 387. Je. 16. ’06. 90w.
=Strong, Mrs. Isobel (Osbourne).= Girl from home: a story of Honolulu. †$1.50. McClure.
“Mrs. Strong’s story is of the slightest, but it leaves you with a cheerful sense of having lately picnicked in some pleasant spot where a perpetual sun shone with pure benevolence.” Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 49. Ja. ’06. 60w.
=Strong, Josiah.= Social progress: a year book and encyclopedia of economic, industrial, social and religious statistics, 1906. **$1. Baker.
“Social progress” for this present year directly aids the Department of international social information of the American institute of social service in its aim to create an exchange of thought and knowledge between the workers and students in all departments of social activity around the world. It takes its place in statistical value with the statesman’s year book, the census abstract, and the metropolitan almanacs.
=Stuart, Charles Duff.= Casa Grande. †$1.50. Holt.
Casa Grande is the California ranch house of a young Southerner who, in the early fifties, was forced into a serious struggle to make good his title to an unconfirmed Mexican grant in the Sonoma valley. The eviction of the squatters, who would neither sell their improvements nor buy his land, brings him in contact with Belle, a spirited young girl of true frontier type, adored by the sheriff, her family and dogs. In the course of the events which follow, Belle is mellowed into a truly womanly woman and, laying aside gunpowder and an explosive temper becomes the mistress of Casa Grande.
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“Mr. Stuart goes quietly to work to draw a romantic environment and succeeds in placing in it a number of people who, like volcanoes smolder without exploding until the right time comes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 705. O. 27, ’06. 320w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 629. N. 10, ’06. 110w.
=Stubbs, Charles William.= Christ of English poetry: being the Hulsean lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge, 1904–5. **$2. Dutton.
Dr. Stubbs calls four poets representing four periods in English history to witness to the personality of Christ. They are Cynewulf, Langland, Shakespeare and Browning. Some of the poems of each man are analyzed and there have been added full explanatory notes to each lecture.
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“The Christianity of these lectures is a little too vague and indefinite to be either historically true or practically valuable. This is not to deny that the argument of the lecturer is often clever, and that contact with a spirit so tolerant, so hopeful, so appreciative of the best in English life, is refreshing and delightful.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 1058. N. 1, ’06. 290w.
“They exhibit the preacher’s inevitable limitations. The most serious of these is the determination to force an edifying conclusion out of matter which in fact refuses to provide one. Many interesting things are said and quoted, both in the lectures and in the notes: but the book as a whole must be admitted to be a disappointment.”
– + =Lond. Times.= 5: 102. Mr. 23, ’06. 840w.
“It is a keen intellectual pleasure to read these scholarly and most graceful discourses, stimulating as they are to our own thought.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 807. Ap. 7, ’06. 320w.
+ =Spec.= 96: 449. Mr. 24, ’06. 1640w.
=Stubbs, Rev. Charles William.= Story of Cambridge; il. by Herbert Railton. $2. Macmillan.
The Dean of Ely’s work belongs to the “Mediaeval town series” and tells the reader “what Cambridge was in the past, how it grew materially and spiritually, and what it is now.” (Spec.)
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+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 544. My. 5. 70w.
“The book is somewhat dry reading, rather a book of reference.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 754. S. 27. ’06. 110w.
“This little book is a handy guide to the university town.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 288. Ap. 5, ’06. 450w.
“His style is not attractive; but everything he knows about town and university is placed at your service, you may help yourself.”
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 75. F. 3, ’06. 600w.
“Dean Stubbs knows his Cambridge at first hand, and, what is as important, knows also how to write.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 327. F. 10, ’06. 110w.
“The Dean has made a lively and picturesque volume out of his superabundant materials.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 136. F. 3, ’06. 1400w.
“This volume ... is in every way attractive.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 986. D. 9, ’05. 220w.
=Stubbs, Rt. Rev. William, bishop of Oxford.= Lectures on early English history; ed. by Arthur Hassall. *$4. Longmans.
“The first half of the volume is, in some measure, a commentary upon the author’s ‘Select charters.’ ... The second half of the book is a series of lectures on an entirely different topic—a study of medieval constitutions in the light of nationality and religion. In these pages Bishop Stubbs is less restrained than in his treatment of the details of the English constitution, and they reveal, not, indeed, the humour of the companion volume, but some of the speaker’s fundamental positions and convictions.”—Lond. Times.
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“We may be grateful for the publication of Bishop Stubbs’s ‘Lectures on early English history’ ... for biographical reasons, if for no other, for the light they throw on the author’s methods of work. For those who can separate what is obsolete from what is still of value, they are worth much more than this.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 933. Jl. ’06. 290w.
“Their work was done in the hour of their delivery; they can never have been meant for publication, for Stubbs knew how fast and far knowledge had posted since they were written.”
– =Ath.= 1906, 1: 384. Mr. 31. 1200w.
“Mr. Hassall has taken his editorial duties much too lightly.” James Tait.
+ – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 763. O. ’06. 790w.
“Students of early English history will find in these pages much that is useful and suggestive, and they will leave them with greater admiration than ever for the learning and the wisdom of the great Bishop of Oxford.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 99. Mr. 23, ’06. 670w.
“Some of the discourses published by Mr. Hassall would hardly have left Stubbs’s own hand for the press in their present unrevised condition, but, as revealing his more spontaneous habits of thought, it is well to have them in their present form.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 532. Je. 29, ’06. 210w.
“It is doubtful whether he intended these lectures to be published; and he would have been the first to admit that some parts of them required further elaboration before their argument could be regarded as complete.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 697. Je. 2, ’06. 880w.
“Here for the first time he has placed in his hands full, and for the most part satisfactory, explanations and the technical terms used in the laws and charters of the Norman kings, and what is really a full commentary upon the texts of the ‘Select charters.’”
+ + – =World To-Day.= 11: 1219. N. ’06. 210w.
Studies in philosophy and psychology: a commemorative volume by former students of Charles Edward Garman. *$2.50. Houghton.
A volume presented to Professor Charles Edward Garman on the 20th of June, 1906, in commemoration of his twenty-five years of service as teacher in philosophy in Amherst college. There are thirteen papers on philosophical subjects, nine of whose contributors are professors in American colleges and universities, one a professor in a theological seminary; two are college instructors; and one is head of the South End house, Boston.
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“The present volume will serve as a permanent and worthy memorial of this service, upon which the outside world may be permitted to congratulate all concerned.” James Rowland Angell and A. W. Moore.
+ + =J. Philos.= 3: 631. N. 8, ’06. 6200w.
“The ‘Outlook’ congratulates him on this well-deserved monument which they have reared to his memory.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 864. Ag. 11, ’06. 420w.
=Sturgis, Howard Overing.= All that was possible. †$1.50. Putnam.
A series of letters written by a woman who had sold her birthright for a mess of pottage. “The Earl of Medmenham was Sybil Croft’s first serious indiscretion; and when he took her from the stage and agreed to be responsible for her expenses, she justified herself by the belief that she really loved him. But when the Earl married, she realised that she was not in the least broken-hearted, philosophically accepted the modest settlement he offered her, and betook herself to a remote corner of Wales.” (Bookm.) Here Robert Henshaw finds her; “they fall in love,—she, uplifted by him, honourably; he, dragged down by her, dishonourably.” (Pub. Opin.).
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+ =Acad.= 70: 590. Je. 23, ’06. 1020w.
“The subtle understanding of mood and temperament stamps this book as a finer piece of art than many a more pretentious volume.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 23: 189. Ap. ’06. 470w.
“The book is extremely interesting, although much shorter and slighter in construction than that brilliant study of London life, Belchamber.” M. K. Ford.
+ – =Critic.= 48: 432. My. ’06. 750w.
“It is the most normally written, least emotional book of the season; and it may be a good one, but, if so, goodness may be regained, like the health by a change of scene, diet and climate.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.
– + =Ind.= 60: 1042. My. 3, ’06. 320w.
“The letters are brilliantly written.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 162. Mr. 17, ’06. 600w.
“The man, Robert Henshaw, is wooden and unconvincing—the woman behind the letters is strange, but very true.”
+ – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 411. Mr. 31, ’06. 180w.
“A successful psychologic study.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 758. Je. ’06. 190w.
=Spec.= 96: 1044. Je. 30, ’06. 80w.
=Sturgis, Howard Overing.= Belchamber. †$1.50. Putnam.
“Belongs among those books which are good enough not only to read, but to discuss.” Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 56. Ja. ’06. 190w.
=Sturgis, Russell.= Appreciation of pictures. **$1.50. Baker.
“Judging the book strictly on the standards thus set up by its author it is found to be of very uneven merit. We should like it better if the author had taken more pains with his verbal style, which is, barring the occasional technical jargon, a very ordinary journalese.”
– + =Ind.= 60: 574. Mr. 8, ’06. 290w.
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 83. Ja. 20, ’06. 960w.
“Mr. Sturgis strongly resembles Mr. Hamerton in the perverted diligence with which he forces the most unsuitable pairs of artists to work in harness under the same category for his own nefarious book-making ends.”
– =Sat. R.= 101: 528. Ap. 28, ’06. 320w.
“This is, on the whole, a wise and sensible book, full of wide-minded appreciation of art.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 101. Ja. 20, ’06. 200w.
=Sturgis, Russell.= Study of the artist’s way of working in various handicrafts and arts of design. 2v. **$15. Dodd.
Reviewed by John La Farge.
+ + =Architectural Record.= 19: 199. Mr. ’06. 4870w.
“The subjects are multitudinous, indeed, which Mr. Sturgis treats, and it seems invidious almost to claim a superiority of handling of one over the other.” Frank Fowler.
+ + =Bookm.= 23: 106. Mr. ’06. 860w.
“It is a form of notebook, but also of encyclopaedia, and one more offshoot of a habit of life constantly curious in everything connected with art.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 121. F. 8, ’06. 2790w.
=Sturt, Henry.= Idola theatri: a criticism of Oxford thought and thinkers from the standpoint of a personal idealism. *$3.25. Macmillan.
“Under this Baconian title an Oxford scholar, Mr. Henry Sturt, rips up some current philosophic fallacies. Recent British philosophy (and American also) has been carried captive, as he views it, by a German invasion inculcating a one-sided idealism, in which the conative factor of thought is overshadowed by the speculative.... The general charge is that the ‘idols’ deceive by substituting a static for the dynamic conception of reality, with resulting damage to various interests, chiefly those of ethics, politics, and religion.”—Outlook.
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“Mr. Sturt is sincere, and his way independent: but the structure of the book is slight; and in closing it we are haunted by the suspicion that its author has failed to master the doctrines he attacks.”
+ – =Acad.= 71: 106. Ag. 4, ’06. 2070w.
“Unfortunately, this is written from a very narrow outlook. It is history to suit a special interest. The attempt is made to convict Idealism of three great crimes—called Intellectualism, Absolutism, and Subjectivism.”
– =Ath.= 1906, 2: 95. Jl. 25. 1230w.
“The work lacks systematic thoroughness; the criticisms are often haphazard, and the positive views adopted are so various that the reconciliation and substantiation of them all prescribes a somewhat difficult task to that yet unwritten new system of philosophy to which the author looks for a complete proof of his ‘master principle.’” J. W. Scott.
– =Hibbert J.= 5: 212. O. ’06. 2220w.
“But altho the book is far from effective as a whole, the criticisms it contains of certain points in Green’s metaphysics and in Mr. Bradley’s doctrine of the Absolute are perfectly sound, and the protest on behalf of the importance of activity or conative experience may be accepted as substantially true.”
– + =Lond. Times.= 5: 321. S. 21, ’06. 1340w.
“Mr. Sturt’s work is worthy of all commendation. And in condensing so much and such crabbed material into so interesting a form he has achieved a considerable feat. His book deserves to be read, and doubtless will be.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 85. Jl. 26, ’06. 1460w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 329. My. 19, ’06. 670w.
“Mr. Sturt is keen, vigorous and clear.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 334. Je. 9, ’06. 310w.
“The main purpose of the book is critical, and ... we are prepared to admit that Mr. Sturt is, on the whole a ‘very respectable person’ in that field. Constructively the book is weak, and the weakness is a serious blemish.”
+ – =Spec.= 97: 266. Ag. 25, ’06. 1730w.
=Sudermann, Hermann.= Undying past; tr. by Beatrice Marshall. †$1.50. Lane.
“The scene of the story is East Prussia ... and the setting is agricultural. Two landed proprietors have grown up from childhood with the love of David and Jonathan.... Leo, having been detected in an intrigue with the wife of a nobleman of the neighborhood, is challenged by the injured husband to a duel, slays his opponent, is sentenced to a term of imprisonment, and, after his release, goes to South America, for a period of years. Ulrich, in the meanwhile, knowing nothing of his friend’s guilty relations with the widow of the slain, offers himself to her in marriage and is accepted. They have been united for some time, when Leo returns to his home, and at this point the story opens.... Leo is all the time conscious of the dark shadow of guilt that separates him from Ulrich. The latter, wholly unsuspecting, seeks to reknit the old relations, yet must defer to the stubborn fact that his wife had been made a widow by the deed of his friend.... Her old passion for her husband’s friend is revived upon his return, and ... the substance of the book is the struggle between these two characters-her struggle to bring him back into the old sinful relation, his to banish her from his thought, and purify his soul by repentance and expiation.”—Dial.
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“It cannot be said altogether that Miss Marshall has attained a very high standard. But at least it may be said that she has given us a readable and fairly literary rendering of the original.”
+ + – =Acad.= 70: 576. Je. 16, ’06. 520w.
“This is a gloomy but powerful psychologic study which also gives a fine realistic picture of life on the great landed estates of Prussia.” Amy C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 36: 571. N. ’06. 290w.
“If from the artistic point of view it is hardly equal to some of the author’s other novels that appeared before it, it is none the less a fine and forcible romance, and contains some of his best writing.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 729. Je. 16. 480w.
“The pages and chapters which are devoted to a portrayal of local customs and modes of thought, careful and vivid though they are, tend to obscure the real issue of the story rather than to elucidate it.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 24: 117. O. ’06. 530w.
“[This] English version is carelessly made.” Wm. M. Payne.
– =Dial.= 41: 113. S. 1. ’06. 650w.
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 217. Je. 15, ’06. 600w.
“That which is eminently unsatisfactory besides the title, however ... is the absence of any biographical introduction.”
– =Nation.= 83: 141. Ag. 16, ’06. 360w.
“A powerful drama of humanity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 494. Ag. 11, ’06. 1120w.
“There is a profound depression over the whole book, though the literary art which presents it is, as usual with Sudermann, full of force and of fine restraint.”
+ – =Spec.= 97: 173. Ag. 4, ’06. 170w.
=Suess, Eduard.= Face of the earth (Das antlitz der erde); tr. by Hertha B. C. Sollas under the direction of W. J. Sollas. 5v. per v. *$8.35. Oxford.
A work complete in five volumes. Volume one is divided into two parts. “The first consists of five chapters, in which are discussed the movements of the outer crust of the earth, diluvial, seismic, dislocatory and volcanic. In the second part the mountain systems of the world are examined in very varying detail, but sufficiently to bring out the main trend lines.” (Ath.) “The main purpose of [the second] volume is the statement of the evidence for Suess’s contention that continents are never uplifted in mass, and that the occurrence of raised shore lines and horizontal sheets of marine rocks is due to the lowering of sea level, and not to the raising of the land.” (Nature.)
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+ + =Nation.= 83: 12. Jl. 5. ’06. 130w. (Review of v. 2.)
+ + =Nature.= 74: 629. O. 25. ’06. 1690w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Sutcliffe, Halliwell.= Benedick in Arcady. †$1.50. Dutton.
Really the sequel to “A bachelor in Arcady,” the book reveals a rather prosaic coloring. “The scene is the same, but it has lost some of its colour and breeziness. Cathy is not less fascinating as wife than as maid: the Wanderer is as courtly and buoyant as ever; but the Bachelor, by turning Benedick, has become a different being. His touch with nature is less intimate. Instead of the delightful notes on gardens, fields, animals, and birds in the earlier book, we have attractively written essays on such subjects as the Stuarts, superstition, the yeomanry, and old age.” (Ath.)
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“In fact, the book is an idyll, and much better written than such idylls are wont to be.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 530. Je. 2, ’06. 340w.
“Is disappointing only because its predecessor was much better.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 97. Jl. 28. 150w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 192. My. 25, ’06. 280w.
“The wanderers with Mr. Sutcliffe into his Arcady will be rewarded for their stroll, and will come upon many a bye-the-bye bit, well worth tucking into their memories.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 480. Jl. 28, ’06. 440w.
“Though hardly the equal of its predecessor, ‘A bachelor in Arcady,’ there are to be found both grace and charm in these chapters, which occupy a middle ground between the story and the essay.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 43. S. 1, ’06. 60w.
=Sutphen, William Gilbert van Tassel.= Doomsman. †$1.50. Harper.
New York in the year 2015 A. D. forms the setting for a story of love and adventure in which the hero is supposed to rediscover the use of firearms and electricity, the knowledge of which has been lost in a great catastrophe which wiped out our modern civilization ninety years earlier. But for the gaunt and partially destroyed skyscrapers and other remains of our own day the tale, with all its primitive human nature, might well be one of the far past and not of the future.
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“In places the book is almost grotesque enough to be humourous; but if the author meant it for humour, he disguised his purpose too well. As it stands it is simply tedious and unprofitable.”
– =Bookm.= 23: 643. Ag. ’06. 360w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 419. Je. 30, ’06. 1240w.
=Suttner, Bertha, baroness von.= “Ground arms:” “Die waffen nieder;” a romance of European war, tr. from the German by Alice Asbury Abbott. †$1.25. McClurg.
—Same. With title “Lay down your arms: the autobiography of Martha Von Tilling: authorized tr. by T. Holmes.” 75c. Longmans.
This book, which won the Nobel peace prize for 1905, is a powerful plea for universal disarmament. It is the autobiography of an Austrian countess born with true martial spirit, her only grief that she cannot win laurels on the field of battle. At seventeen she marries a dashing young lieutenant and one short year later, clasping her fatherless son to her heart she awakens to the real horrors of war. Her hatred of war and warfare is justified by the story of the thirty years that follow. She draws pictures of agony, disease and mutilation as seen in 1864, 1866, and again when she lost the love of her mature years at Paris, and she shows between these periods such happy years of peace that the reader shudders with her at the contrast.
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“Regarded merely as a novel, the book has fine qualities—the reader’s interest never flags, and the realism is so vigorous that one who does not know the facts will continually feel inclined to suspect that the autobiography is fictitious only as far as the names of the personages are concerned.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 82: 841. Mr. ’06. 1320w.
“This version ... is both idiomatic and exact.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 161. Mr. 1, ’06. 50w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 1492. Je. 21. ’06. 150w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 254. F. 17, ’06. 170w.
“Constructively it shows no literary genius, and its war pictures fall far short of those in Tolstoy’s ‘War and peace.’”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 299. Ap. 12, ’06. 80w.
“The supreme grace of simplicity has been given her, and an exquisite tenderness whereby she holds the heart of her reader in the hollow of her hand.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 144. Mr. 10, ’06. 1350w.
“The story is thoroughly German, in remarkable good English.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 398. Je. 16, ’06. 250w.
“The story itself is of keen interest, but the argument is stronger than the story.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 521. Mr. 3, ’06. 110w.
“The greatest philanthropical novel of this generation.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 761. Je. ’06. 170w.
=Suyematsu, K., baron.= Risen sun. **$3. Dutton.
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 322. O. 6, ’05. 920w.
“Why, in the days of ‘The risen sun,’ when concealment of facts is no longer possible, should so frank a scholar, refined gentleman, true patriot, and man of the world as Baron Suyematsu is, and with so noble a recorded service, seek to imitate the uncanny fashion of his old-time literary brethren?”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 288. Ap. 5, ’06. 1070w.
=Swayne, Christine Siebeneck (Mrs. Noah F. Swayne).= Visionary and other poems. $1.25. Badger, R. G.
Three score little verses which sing much of love and something of nature.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 150w.
=Sweetser, Kate Dickinson.= Boys and girls from George Eliot; pictures by George Alfred Williams. †$2. Fox.
Really a happy thought contribution to child literature. Aside from the pleasure and value of the stories to young readers it is hoped that interest will extend to the books from which these pictures of child life are taken. The little people who are introduced are Tom and Maggie Tulliver, Eppie, Tottie Poyser, the Garths, Little Lizzie, Jacob Cohen, Tina, “The little black-eyed monkey,” Job Tudge and Harry Transome.
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“We question the advisability of such a volume, however; it gives a wrong impression of George Eliot, and adds a somber tone that will come later in life.”
– =Ind.= 61: 1410. D. 13, ’06. 100w.
“In these drawings Mr. Williams shows a mounting command and simplification.”
+ – =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 56. D. ’06. 140w.
“The work is very well done.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 150w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 763. D. ’06. 230w.
=Swinburne, Algernon Charles.= Love’s crosscurrents. $1.50. Harper.
“For all its slightness, the book leaves an impression. You have a far clearer vision of every person than of the elaborately explained Lady Kitty, in ‘William Ashe.’” Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 58. Ja. ’06. 420w.
=Swinburne, Algernon Charles.= Poems: selected and edited by Arthur Beatty. 35c. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Handy volume classics.” The poems have been carefully selected and annotated, and the volume is supplied with a prefatory note and an introduction, the latter briefly sketching Swinburne’s life.
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=Dial.= 41: 330. N. 16, ’06. 50w.
“Is worth having, for it contains some of the finest poems of the century and is mercifully free from some of the more luxuriant passages of the great poet.”
+ =World To-Day.= 11: 1221. N. ’06. 60w.
=Swinburne, Algernon Charles.= Selected lyrical poems. $1.50. Harper.
Swinburne’s first published volume, Poems and ballads, is included in this edition together with many later poems that are best representative of the poet’s genius.
=Swinburne, Algernon Charles.= Tragedies. Collected lib. ed. 5 v. *$10. Harper.
A five volume edition of Swinburne’s “Tragedies” which with the six-volume edition of his “Poems” makes available in collected form the “entire poetical product of the greatest of living poets.” (Dial.) Volume 1 contains “The Queen mother” and “Rosamund;” Volume 2 contains “Chastelard,” and the first two acts of “Bothwell,” the remaining three acts of which constitute Volume 3; Volume 4 includes the drama “Mary Stuart” and essays on her life and character; and Volume 5 contains “Locrine,” “The sisters,” “Marino Faliero,” and “Rosamund, queen of the Lombards.”
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+ + =Dial.= 40: 330. My. 16, ’06. 520w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 208. Je. 30, ’05. 1660w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 33. F. 2, ’06. 1760w. (Review of v. 2–4.)
+ + =Nation.= 82: 382. My. 10, ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
Reviewed by George S. Hellman.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 320. My. 19, ’06. 2950w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
+ =Outlook.= 83: 483. Je. 23, ’06. 110w. (Review of v. 1–5)
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 54. Jl. 8, ’05. 1050w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 238. F. 24, ’06. 1660w. (Review of v. 2–4.)
=Symonds, E. M. (George Paston, pseud.).= B. R. Haydon and his friends. **$3. Dutton.
“George Paston has admirably illustrated a fascinating subject.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 873. D. 23. 830w.
Reviewed by Royal Cortissoz.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 274. F. ’06. 440w.
“Is, for all its sorrow and tragedy, brightened by the record of many joyous days and hours, and is altogether a fascinating biography.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 92. Ag. 16, ’06. 350w.
=Symons, Arthur.= Spiritual adventures. **$2.50. Dutton.
“These stories, each of which deals with a separate personality, are studies of decadence. They explore the relation between life and art.” (Ath.) In each of the eight studies the author “is intent on reproducing a distinct temperamental type, or, to put it in another way, in each case he has isolated a temperament and assigned it to a person.” (Outlook.) “‘Esther Kahn’ is perhaps the most wholesome of these haunting stories, having a definite culmination in the creation of the artist through suffering. But on the whole, ‘The death of Peter Waydelin’ is the achievement of the book, in the tragedy and realistic horror of its setting.” (Critic.)
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“They are all, as one would expect, stories of the better sort, not depending upon incident, but expounding some emotional situation. For the work of an author not accustomed to express himself in this medium, they are surprisingly well told, though they present some of the technical defects which the essayist who sets himself to write stories is seldom able to avoid.”
+ =Acad.= 69: 1148. N. 4, ’05. 1330w.
=Ath.= 1906, 1: 161. F. 10. 1790w.
“It is Mr. Symons’s simple and forceful style, with its delicate psychic touches, combined with his really great gift for the vital story, which disarms our criticism of his philosophy.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 189. F. ’06. 380w.
“His very cleverness and facility make it more to be regretted that he has wasted his time in portraiture, brilliant but without significance, of subjects that are hardly worthy of such distinction.”
+ – =Dial.= 40: 201. Mr. 16, ’06. 380w.
“Evocations, these tales, if tales you can call them, will prove attractive for some to whom English fiction has become too material, too much a thing of bricks and mortar.” James Huneker.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 206. Ap. 7, ’06. 680w.
“No matter how impersonal the reader tries to be, he will probably close this book with a sense of depression.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 94. Ja. 13, ’06. 250w.
“The work of a literary artist with an extraordinarily engaging and subtly morbid personality, they sometimes fascinate and sometimes disgust but always awaken interest and rivet attention.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 365. Mr. 24. ’06. 1310w.
=Syrett, Netta.= Day’s journey. †$1.25. McClurg.
The “day’s journey” of a novelist and his wife from a state of infatuation to one of quiet affection carries them thru many stages. The young writer tires of a quiet country life and seeks emotional inspiration and sympathy from a frowsy artist of Greek robes and sandals who poses as a true Bohemian. He neglects his wife and to cover his latest “friendship” thrusts upon her the society of an old lover. This old lover inspires her to self assertion and she develops into a woman of character and talent who wins literary honors for herself, and turns from an admiring social world to find her husband once more at her feet.
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+ – =Acad.= 68: 639. Je. 17, ’05. 360w.
“Miss Syrett has a charming style and a dramatic faculty for keeping what Besant called the ‘flat times’ of her characters out of the reader’s knowledge. Her limitations, so far at least as the present novel is concerned, are chiefly those of environment.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 201. Ag. 12. 310w.
“The whole story is told in a crisp style which never drags and which is always charming.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 41: 242. O. 16, ’06. 230w.
“The story is written with considerable sense of humor and charm of manner.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 617. O. 6. ’06. 470w.
“Netta Syrett wields a clever pen and shows much wit in her society sketches.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 629. N. 10, ’06. 190w.
“The book is fairly written.”
+ – =Spec.= 95: 157. Jl. 29, ’06. 220w.
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=Taggart, Marion Ames.= Daddy’s daughters. †$1.50. Holt.
Daddy’s daughters are four in number,—Rosamund, sweetly even-tempered; Gaynor, quick as a flash of steel, but big-hearted and loyal; Sibyl, fretful and petulant of disposition, and Austiss, sunny, cheerful and loving. Daddy himself is a dreamer, a student, a poet, an ultra-refined and lovable man. The story records the lively doings in the family with the household ballast reposing in Mary Frances, the housekeeper.
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“A pleasant story.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1412. D. 13, ’06. 30w.
“Is quite as pleasing a book for girls as its suggestive title indicates.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 772. N. 24, ’06. 120w.
=Taggart, Marion Ames.= One afternoon, and other stories. $1.25. Benziger.
Twenty-one short stories, each of which gives sure, strong touches of real life—its romances, its strifes and its triumphs.
=Taggart, Marion Ames.= Pussy-cat town; il. in colors by Rebecca Chase. $1. Page.
A tale for young people. It gives a brisk account of a band of cats that built the city of Purrington in the river Meuse, a place where all poor, abused cats could come and live happily all their nine lives.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 60w.
=Taggart, Marion Ames.= Six girls and Bob: a story of patty-pans and green fields; il. †$1.50. Wilde.
A mother, six girls, and a son make up the spirited group that lived first in patty-pans—so they called their New York flat because the rooms resembled the cups of a patty-pan—and later in the country. The children are the lively wholesome sort and reflect health and happiness well tempered with bits of wisdom.
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=N. Y. Times.= 11: 711. O. 27, ’06. 90w.
=Taine, Hippolyte Adolphe.= Balzac: a critical study tr. with an appreciation of Taine by Lorenzo O’Rourke. *$1. Funk.
The excellent appreciation of Taine by Lorenzo O’Rourke which occupies the first part of this volume adds much to the reader’s appreciation of Taine’s critical study of Balzac which follows. The great critic treats of the great novelist as both man and artist, giving his life and character, estimating his genius, discussing his style, his world, his character and his philosophy until he and his work stand forth as tho re-created.
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“The translator of this minor work of the great French critic has done his original into, easy, flowing English, which retains the clearness of the French. Mr. O’Rourke has placed his meritorious piece of criticism at a great disadvantage by putting it into such close juxtaposition with Taine’s estimate of Balzac.”
+ – =Cath. World.= 83: 838. S. ’06. 580w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 970. Je. 30, ’06. 700w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 54. Jl. 19, ’06. 60w.
“Taine’s study of Balzac combines biography and criticism, and the translation seems excellent.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 462. Jl. 21, ’06. 160w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 511. O. ’06. 130w.
=Talbot, Rt. Rev. Ethelbert.= My people of the plains. **$1.75. Harper.
Let no one think that because the book is written by an Episcopal bishop it is an account of ceremonies and sermons. It is a human not an ecclesiastical document and the pictures it gives of pioneer life in Wyoming and Idaho, among cattlemen, gamblers, adventurers, Indians and army men are full of life and interest. The personal element is modestly subordinated and we think we can understand why the bishop was everywhere welcomed—even so cordially as by the old Indian with his limited cow-boy English. “Me damned glad to see you, heap-sleeve bishop.”
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“It is not amiss to call this one of the most cheerful books of the year. In a sense, it is the best of Christmas stories. The book is a lesson in simplicity. It is more vital than any essay on the art of living.”
+ + =Harper’s Weekly.= 50: 1716. D. 1, ’06. 1210w.
“The literary style is effective and the book adds a new chapter to the history of American missions.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33; 814. D. 1, ’06. 330w.
“The reader will lay this book down with the feeling that he has listened to a pleasant and instructive talk from a genuine man.” Cameron Mann.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 888. D. 22, ’06. 1850w.
“An excellently written little volume.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 758. D. ’06. 60w.
Talks with the little ones about the Apostles’ creed. 60c. Benziger.
The articles of the Apostles’ creed are taken up separately here and simplified to serve as instruction for Catholic little people.
=Tallentyre, S. G., pseud. (E. V. Hall).= Life of Voltaire. 2v. **$3.50. Putnam.
A third and illustrated edition of this life of Voltaire, the man of strong and varied emotions. “His life was a long conflict ... but when in old age he had become the acknowledged leader of European thought ... he was born with a genius for friendship; he was a man of heart and of feeling.... He took a low, some might say true, view of human nature, but he constantly sought to relieve miseries of humanity.... The attack upon oppression was the true work of his life. In this he was absolutely sincere. He told lie after lie, but he never descended to that most insiduous form of falsehood under which a man forsakes his own convictions.... He never deserted the cause to which he was devoted.” (Nation.)
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=Nation.= 83: 80. Jl. 26, ’06. 2110w.
“The book lacks perspective and proportion. The author’s painting is the reverse of the impressionist.... But it does not lack material carefully collected. It does not lack clearness, precision, a rational judgment, and occasional brilliance in expression. It may prove to be, we are not sure but that it will, the best life of Voltaire, in the English language for the student, just because of its amplitude of detail.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 81: 1086. D. 30, ’05. 140w.
=Tapp, Sidney C.= The struggle. †$1.50. Wessels. (Am. Bapt., Southeastern distributing agts.)
An arraignment of trusts. The author makes use of a quadruple romance to furnish characters and setting for his exposure of the evils of organized wealth. He drawls a living picture of the inside of Wall street and the great gambling institutions of the country which are overthrowing and destroying our civilization.
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=R. of Rs.= 33: 760. Je. ’06. 70w.
=Tappan, Eva March.= Short history of England’s literature. *85c. Houghton.
=Bookm.= 22: 533. Ja. ’06. 60w.
“To write a short history of a vast subject in the form of animated story is so difficult a task that its successful achievement is specially commendable. Miss Tappan has done this skillfully, singling out the things most worth knowing, and showing them in a succession of flashlights that stay in the memory.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 44. My. 3, ’06. 200w.
=Tarbell, Mrs. Martha (Treat).= Tarbell’s teachers’ guide to the international Sunday school lessons for 1906. $1.25. Bobbs.
In this large and comprehensive volume Dr. Tarbell presents something more than a mere guide; she gives the Bible texts of the lesson, explains their words and phrases, quotes suggestive thoughts from helpful writers, explains phases of Oriental life, and adds valuable suggestions for teaching the lessons under which are included: Three lesson thoughts with illustrations; Sentence sermons; The Bible its own interpreter: The lesson summary; Subjects for Bible class discussion; and Work to be assigned. The lesson course forms an outline of the life of Christ, gives the purpose and authorship of the gospels and the geography of Palestine. The volume is illustrated with maps, diagrams and pictures.
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“For orthodox Sunday-school teachers and workers we know of no work of equal value.”
+ + =Arena.= 35: 445. Ap. ’06. 190w.
“It will not replace Peloubet or the ‘Sunday school times,’ for it is antiquated and uncritical but its numerous quotations will often be suggestive and convenient.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 226. Ja. 25, ’06. 40w.
“Ranks with the best of its class. It would be difficult to excel it in the line which passes over all critical problems to illustrate and apply to pupils of all ages the teaching of the text as it stands.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 277. F. 3, ’06. 110w.
=Tarkington, (Newton) Booth.= Beautiful lady. †$1.25. McClure.
“Delightful in name as well as in nature.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 722. N. ’05. 220w.
=Tarkington, (Newton) Booth.= Conquest of Canaan. †$1.50. Harper.
+ – =Ath.= 1905. 2: 829. D. 16. 240w.
“Is one of the best of popular novels, a book that even the person of superior mind can read with secret joy, and that more ordinary and honest mortals can devour with open and avowed delight.” Edward Clark Marsh.
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 517. Ja. ’06. 1240w.
“The chief beauty of Mr. Tarkington’s novel is its intense sincerity. Its value as a historical document is not inconsiderable and there are parts, at least, of the story whose artistic excellence is solid and indisputable.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 286. Mr. ’06. 390w.
“Is a thoroughly readable book.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 155. Mr. 1, ’06. 100w.
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 492. Mr. 31. ’06. 490w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ – =North American.= 182: 926. Je. ’06. 160w.
“Nothing that Mr. Tarkington has written so clearly shows his gain in power as ‘The conquest of Canaan.’ Is a beautiful story, and it has the distinction too, in this day of clamorous and ill-judged titles, of possessing one that is exceptionally simple, strong and fitting.”
+ + =Reader.= 7: 224. Ja. ’06. 610w.
=Taylor, Bert Leston.= Charlatans. †$1.50. Bobbs.
A young neophyte of the provinces is one day visited by Enlightenment, more substantially known as Mrs. Maybury, who discovers in the country maid great musical genius. This story tells of the planning and sacrifices on the part of the farmer parents to send their Hope to the city for instruction, of her kindly reception there, many friends, and hard work. There is a fresher atmosphere with the Bohemian setting and a more spiritual sympathy for fellow mortals, than tales of the artist’s world usually possess.
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“This is a bright, entertaining novel that will appeal to the general reader as a pleasing story of present-day life.”
+ =Arena.= 36: 683. D. ’06. 420w.
“Any one who is familiar with the manners and habits of a certain class of musicians will realize how excellent is Mr. Taylor’s portrayal of this phase of life in a large city. The book, therefore, is veracious, and it is both satirical and amusing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 750. N. 17, ’06. 250w.
“For the blasé reader of novels it is genuinely refreshing.”
+ =World To-Day.= 11: 1222. N. ’06. 70w.
=Taylor, C. Bryson.= Nicanor, teller of tales. †$1.50. McClurg.
Great Britain under Roman rule furnishes the setting for this romance. Nicanor inherits from Melchior, his grandfather, so great a gift of telling tales that he casts a veritable spell over his hearers. Among those who learn of his fame is Veria. a Roman lard’s daughter, who forgets that Nicanor is a slave and yields to his enchantment. Then there is the love of Eldris, one of Nicanor’s own class. The spirit of the period as expressed in the sharp inequalities of the noble and the slave class is drawn with many a passionate, dramatic touch.
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“The author deserves credit for conceiving out of the dry pages of half-written history and out of the dust of traditions a character so consistent with both.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 521. Ag. 30, ’06. 280w.
“The author ... can cast a spell with his words that seems to be of something more than the mere story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 328. My. 19, ’06. 120w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 160w.
“A pure romance, in well sustained style.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 140. My. 19, ’06. 100w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 128. O. ’06. 90w.
=Taylor, Henry Charles.= Introduction to the study of agricultural economics. *$1.25. Macmillan.
“This volume is scientific in its substance, although for the most part popular in style.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ =Dial.= 40: 298. My. 1, ’06. 110w.
“In addition to the theoretical discussions, the book contains a few tables of prices, of tenancy, and other data which add to its convenience as a text book.” William Hill.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 184. Mr. ’06. 390w.
“The book contains many statistical details relating to the United States that are not readily accessible to the general reader.” E. H. G.
+ + =Nature.= 74: 193. Je. 28, ’06. 950w.
“The book is certainly full of suggestions, and will doubtless serve well enough its purpose of introducing American students to the further study of agriculture. There is too little information in the book about existing conditions, and too little explanation of those conditions.” G. S. C.
+ – =Yale R.= 15: 312. N. ’06. 690w.
=Taylor, Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-.= Molière: a biography; with an introd. by Thomas Frederick Crane. *$3. Duffield.
A life of Molière for English readers “both scholarly and popular in which the man stands out in the midst of his managerial and literary labours.” It depicts Molière, the man, the actor and the dramatist with the political, social and literary background of Louis the Fourteenth’s time. The author’s intention has been to interpret Molière’s life by his plays and his plays by his life rather than to write an exhaustive criticism of his dramatic works.
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“It is not simply a biography of Molière, but as complete a presentation as is needed by the general public of the history, the sources and the contents of his masterpieces.” Adolphe Cohn.
+ + – =Bookm.= 24: 355. D. ’06. 2190w.
“This book most certainly comes nearer to absolute accuracy than many volumes of the kind: and hostile criticism of the book will be aimed less at the matter which it contains than at the style, the form and way in which it is presented.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 1346. D. 6, ’06. 880w.
“This new biography shows the careful student’s attention to details. More emphasis might have been placed upon the mechanism of Molière’s theater, which was the germ of a national home for French drama. There might likewise have been a deeper consideration of the special genre of play which Molière created. But despite all this, the volume, which is sumptuous in form, deserves special consideration.”
+ + – =Lit. D.= 33: 645. N. 3, ’06. 280w.
“Is a volume of some real note in Molière literature.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 855. D. 8. ’06. 110w.
“Slips are comparatively few in this book. The extracts from the plays are judiciously chosen and felicitously, translated.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 516. D. 13, ’06. 980w.
“It is disfigured by the back-number orthography, which is still used by most British printers, although denounced by most British scholars. Mr. Chatfield-Taylor has set an example to all who deal with foreign authors. He has not assumed in his readers any knowledge of French: therefore, whenever he is moved to quote he has turned the French verse into English.” Brander Matthews.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 792. D. ’06. 610w.
“It is from a failure in sympathy and insight that the book suffers most grievously—from a seeming incapacity to sound the tragic depths in the nature of the great comic master.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 714. N. 24, ’06. 430w.
“A serious piece of work from the pen of a student who has spared neither time, nor trouble, nor care to produce the picture of a man of genius in his proper historical and social setting, and its reflection in and influence upon his life and his work.”
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 381. D. ’06. 220w.
“A conscientious, thorough piece of biography.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 759. D. ’06. 100w.
=Taylor, Ida A.= Life of Queen Henrietta Maria; with 32 il. and 2 photogravure fronts, 2d. ed. **$7.50. Dutton.
“The object of these volumes is to present to us, not a period of history, but a living personality, to whom for the nonce the whole period is a skillfully sketched background, subordinated but true to nature. Not an unnecessary figure or point of view is introduced. We are intended to see the face, and hear the voice, and mark the thoughts, the woes and joys, of that Queen of England who called herself ‘La Reine Malheureuse,’ and it can truly be said that when the
## book is at last laid aside, a new Henrietta Maria is recorded in the
mind—a queen intensely human, intensely living and wonderfully lovable.” (Spec.)
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“The last word to the author must be one of sincere congratulation.”
+ + =Acad.= 70: 377. Ap. 21, ’06. 1260w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 570. Je. ’06. 100w.
“The book is brightly and pleasantly written.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 326. O. 6, ’05. 1780w.
“We must call this work a much more finished and interesting performance than the same writer’s ‘Revolutionary types.’”
+ =Nation.= 82: 491. Je. 14, ’06. 560w.
“The author of these volumes has told his story well and sympathetically; but he has not proved that it was really worth telling.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 159. Mr. 17, ’06. 260w.
“There is about the work a certain freshness of interest due in part to the facility with which the Royalist point of view is apprehended. The narrative is, as has been said, unnecessarily extended; it is also discursive, and otherwise bears marks of an unaccustomed hand, and it is animated by an exaggerated sentimentalism which affects almost every personage discussed.”
– + =Outlook.= 82: 811. Ap. 7, ’06. 330w.
“Whether Miss Taylor altogether satisfies the critical reader in this or that deduction, the fact remains that she has achieved an artistic triumph,—her canvas is alive. A complete sense of proportion is preserved throughout.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 98. Ja. 20, ’06. 2020w.
=Taylor, Marie Hansen (Mrs. Bayard Taylor).= On two continents. **$2.75. Doubleday.
“If the volume does not take its place with biographies of commanding importance, at least it will do its part in preserving the memory of a significant name and personality.” M. A. de Wolfe Howe.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 112. Ja. ’06. 240w.
“The volume brings much that is new, and what was previously known has been well retold. There is, in general, a wise discrimination as to content.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 100. F. 1, ’06. 1120w.
=Taylor, Mary Imlay.= Impersonator. †$1.50. Little.
An art student in Paris is invited by her aunt to make a three weeks visit in Washington. For certain reasons she sends a friend to impersonate her. The one chosen is really too sincere and honest to enjoy the rôle, but when once launched upon it, the fear of being discovered is subordinate to the joy of social popularity. Among the characters portrayed are the businesslike tho unrefined aunt, a young congressman and a trust magnate who both declare their love for Mary, a prying social secretary who makes mountains of scandal out of molehills of evidence, and a French ambassador who averts a painful crisis by claiming the heroine as his daughter and giving her rightful title of countess.
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“Readers who still hold to the old-time standards of honor in fiction as well as in real life, and who reject the modern American dictum that success is the main thing, no matter how it is won, may find it a bit disconcerting to be expected to admire and sympathize with a heroine who wins through by means that are not in the least debatable. Otherwise they may find ‘The impersonator’ a moderately entertaining story, written with vivacity and occasional mild humor.”
– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 751. N. 17, ’06. 430w.
“A superfluous story of Washington society.”
– =Outlook.= 84: 892. D. 8, ’06. 40w.
=Taylor, Talbot Jones.= Talbot J. Taylor collection: furniture, wood carving, and other branches of the decorative arts. **$6. Putnam.
“This handsome volume, which contains 187 splendid illustrations, is designed to reveal to the world the decorative treasures hidden in Mr. Taylor’s house, Cedarhurst, Long Island. Talbot house, of which a photograph is given, is built in Elizabethan style, and is by no means pretentious, but its contents are invaluable. It would seem as if its owner had made a hobby of buying, not so much for the purposes of use as for ‘a collection.’... The house is especially rich in old carved woods, and in German and French furniture.”—Ath.
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“This book will, therefore, be mainly of interest to collectors, who are not always the same as connoisseurs.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 308. S. 15. 120w.
+ + =Ind.= 61: 819. O. 4, ’06. 440w.
=Nation.= 82: 510. Je. 21, ’06. 180w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 474. Jl. 28, ’06. 750w.
=Spec.= 97: 136. Jl. 28, ’06. 80w.
=Taylor, W. Purves.= Practical cement testing. *$3. Clark, M. C.
A book for the expert or the novice which will increase the accuracy and simplify the routine of testing work. “With the exception of the chapter on ‘Classification and statistics’ and the one on ‘Cement manufacture,’ comprising together barely 30 pages, the entire book is devoted to the discussion and description of methods of cement testing. The tests considered are those employed in ordinary routine work to determine whether a particular shipment of cement is of a quality sufficiently good for construction work.” (Engin. N.)
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“A unique book, which promises to be of great value to cement testers and to all others interested in seeing that cement conforms with the best standards of the day.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 55: 79. Ja. 18, 06. 1020w.
=Tchaikovsky, Modeste Il’ich.= Life and letters of Peter Il’ich Tchaikovsky; ed. from the Russian with an introd. by Rosa Newmarch. *$5. Lane.
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 905. D. 30. 770w.
Reviewed by Joseph Sohn.
+ =Forum.= 37: 527. Ap. ’06. 180w.
+ + =Ind.= 60: 1489. Je. 21, ’06. 660w.
“A book of more absorbing human as well as artistic interest has seldom been written.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 351. Ap. 26, ’06. 900w.
“Mrs. Newmarch has retained quite enough to give a complete view of Tschaikovsky’s life and activities, even his intimate relations.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 190. Mr. 31, ’06. 820w.
“The great Russian’s musical work is so full of the sincerely emotional and human elements of his character that the story of his life and selections from his letters make reading almost as attractive as that of a novel.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 253. F. ’06. 140w.
=Temple, Most Rev. Frederick (Archbishop of Canterbury).= Memoirs of Archbishop Temple by seven friends; ed. by E. G. Sandford. *$9. Macmillan.
The life story of a man who “seemed cast in a heroic mould, more than life-size,—colossal ... good and simple, of uncommon force of mind, and power of acquiring knowledge.” (Spec.) The sketch is in seven parts, commented upon in the preface as follows: “Its different divisions are clearly marked and defined; the mental characteristic of the man was breadth, and the fact that different types of mind are represented in the writers may help to preserve this feature of breadth in the general portrait. The subject of it was many-sided, and a mistake would be made if the view presented were contracted.... These memoirs accordingly regard his life as far as possible under its more public aspects; they are not a biography, but records of a career.”
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“The seven contributors as well as the editor, have been perhaps too industrious. They have, no doubt, given the salient features of Archbishop Temple’s life but they have also added many that are insignificant, and the two large volumes would, if they had been boiled down into one, have presented a biography more likely to endure.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 157. F. 17, ’06. 1150w.
“Unless compounded expressly for clerical consumption, the book lacks proportion.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 351. Mr. 24. 2940w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
=Atlan.= 98: 281. Ag. ’06. 740w.
+ – =Edinburgh R.= 203: 429. Ap ’06. 11010w.
“Remembering the difficult conditions under which these volumes have been prepared, I think that the editor and his helpers are to be congratulated upon their success in having subordinated the individual portions of the work into such just proportion that the personal force, characteristic energy, and life-story of Archbishop Temple are felt to constitute the real interest of these volumes.” W. B. Ripon.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 4: 912. Jl. ’06. 4660w.
=Ind.= 60: 1222. My. 24, ’06. 710w.
“In spite of its length, ill-proportion, and abundance of repetition, the book is quite readable, and is to be commended as a contribution of no small importance to the ecclesiastical history of the England of the past half-century.”
+ + – =Lit. D.= 33: 158. Ag. 4, ’06. 170w.
“In respect of the fulness of its public detail this memoir may take its place beside those of Tait, who was Temple’s tutor, and of Benson, his colleague and friend.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 57. F. 23, ’06. 2540w.
+ =Nation.= 82: 351. Ap. 26, ’06. 850w.
“On the whole Is well done.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 178. Mr. 24, ’06. 500w.
“More serious is the inability of the writers to secure that detachment of vision necessary to a correct estimate of their subject.”
– + =Outlook.= 82: 806. Ap. 7, ’06. 440w.
“We could wish that someone had been found able to weld into one whole the mass of material collected in these two volumes, with a critical tact to know what to omit, and with skill in grouping and arranging material. As it is, there is much repetition. But the critical reader may find advantages in compensation. There is a unity in the volumes.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 302. Mr. 10, ’06. 1910w.
“This life is a record of work and business. It is so many chapters in English educational and ecclesiastical history. Viewed as such, it is admirably done by experts whose judgment is most valuable, and who express it excellently.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 382. Mr. 10, ’06. 2040w.
=Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st baron.= In memoriam; annotated by the author. **$1. Macmillan.
A little volume whose green covers recall “those which of yore made so many Christmastides or New Year’s days memorable.” It is an important edition because it contains Tennyson’s own notes on the poem: “notes,” says the present Lord Tennyson, “left by my father partly in his own hand-writing, and partly dictated to me.”
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“The interest, after all, of the commentary, is, partly, that we see, so to speak, the dust and chips of the workshop, and partly, too, that we discover the thought which underlies the poems to be really neither abstruse or recondite at all.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 110. F. 3, ’06. 850w.
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 48. Ja. 13. 420w.
“I note a few misprints on the commentary.” W. J. Rolfe.
+ + – =Critic.= 48: 453. My. ’06. 1910w.
“A very precious little book.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 133. F. 16, ’06. 120w.
+ + =Ind.= 60: 802. Ap. 5, ’06. 600w.
“Their great value is that we feel that we have been in contact with a great mind, of which the force lay not in intellectual grasp so much as interpretative insight, a mind which worked not by logical processes, but rather in a visible substance of beauty.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 453. D. 22, ’05. 1810w.
“A rather unsatisfactory piece of book-making.”
– =Nation.= 82: 179. Mr. 1, ’06. 480w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 28. Ja. 13, ’06. 310w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 166. Mr. 17, ’06. 260w.
“The notes themselves are not always of importance, but frequently they do throw light on the meaning and association of particular lines.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 375. F. 17, ’06. 100w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 510. Ap. ’06. 40w.
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 370. Mr. 24, ’06. 330w.
“But what is before all valuable is to read rightly the message of the poem as a whole.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 21. Ja. 6, ’06. 560w.
=Tennyson, Hallam, 2d baron.= Alfred Lord Tennyson: a memoir by his son, new ed. **$4. Macmillan.
“This one-volume edition is of convenient size and attractive make-up.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 119. Ja. ’06. 60w.
=Thackeray, William Makepeace.= History of Henry Esmond: ed. by Hamilton Byron Moore. 60c. Ginn.
+ + =Bookm.= 23: 104. Mr. ’06. 40w.
“Unusually helpful notes.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 93. Ja. ’06. 20w.
+ =Nation.= 82: 10. Ja. 4, ’06. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 926. D. 30, ’05. 130w.
=School R.= 14: 233. Mr. ’05. 12w.
=Thackeray, William Makepeace.= Letters to an American family; with an introd. by Lucy D. Baxter and original drawings by Thackeray. **$1.50. Century.
“The charm of the contents of this book, giving as it does such an unusual insight into the attractive personality of Thackeray, together with the successful make-up, combine to make a volume that is to be doubly valued.”
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 646. F. ’06. 110w.
That reminds me: a collection of tales worth telling. **75c. Jacobs.
+ =Arena.= 35: 108. Ja. ’06. 120w.
=Thayer, William Roscoe.= Short history of Venice. **$1.50. Macmillan.
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 223. F. 24. 1090w.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 555. Ap. ’06. 780w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 94. Ja. ’06. 50w.
“Is a pleasantly written and quite adequate epitome.” H. F. B.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 196. Ja. ’06. 390w.
=Thomas, Carl Clapp.= Steam turbines. $3.50. Wiley.
“A thoroly scientific as well as practical treatment of steam turbines which is designed as a text-book for technical colleges.”
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“As a text-book it is quite satisfactory. The only other book in the English language with which it could be compared is that of Dr. Stodola. The reviewer is of the opinion that Professor Thomas’ book will fill a want that has been felt by a great many technical educators.” Storm Bull.
+ + – =Engin. N.= 55: 427. Ap. 12, ’06. 1170w.
=Thomas, Edward.= Wales: painted by Robert Fowler; described by E. Thomas. *$6. Macmillan.
+ – =Int. Studio.= 27: 182. D. ’05. 290w.
=Thompson, Charles Willis.= Party leaders of the time; character studies of public men at Washington, Senate portraits, House etchings, snapshots at executive officers and diplomats, and flashlights in the country at large. **$1.75. Dillingham.
The excellent photographs of over thirty of the public men sketched in this volume add much to this popular account of those figures prominent in the Senate and the House, at “the other end of the avenue,” and “out in the field.” The author has aimed to make clear the personalities of our public men, “to make visible human beings and not mere names out of them,” and he has done this by means of a wealth of anecdote and a newspaper correspondent’s observant eye and ready pen.
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+ =Critic.= 48: 570. Je. ’06. 100w.
“His studies are liberally punctuated with anecdote and afford lively as well as instructive reading.”
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 808. My. 26, ’06. 140w.
“Now that they are hung in a gallery together, the complete effectiveness of each single picture destroys more or less the total effect, and gives an impression of exaggeration. Everybody is painted large, and each much of the same bigness.”
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 174. Mr. 24, ’06. 1880w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 443. Ap. 7. ’06. 360w.
=Thompson, Holland.= From the cotton field to the cotton mill: a study of the industrial transition in North Carolina. **$1.50. Macmillan.
“Mr. Thompson’s study goes back to colonial days in North Carolina. He carries it down to as recent a date as March, 1906; and not a phase of the social and industrial development of the state has escaped his careful attention. Besides the study of the cotton industry there are informing chapters dealing with present day social and religious conditions in North Carolina; and much more than local interest attaches to Mr. Thompson’s admirable presentation of all these conditions.”—Ind.
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“From many points of view the work was well worth doing, and it has been well done. The spirit that characterizes Mr. Thompson’s book is that of the trained investigator.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 215. Jl. 26, 06. 970w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 440. Jl. 7, ’06. 330w.
=Thompson, John.= Hither and thither: a collection of comments on books and bookish matters. Jacobs.
The librarian of the Free library of Philadelphia has made various summaries and comments upon many of the volumes, rare and curious, which he has examined from time to time. The results of his observations are presented in a series of chapters which include “The ten lost tribes,” “Early chronicles,” “British essayists,” “A polyglot psalter,” “Sevres porcelain,” “Palestrina’s music,” “Alexandre Dumas,” etc.
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“Writes entertainingly and instructively on matters chiefly of antiquarian interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 286. My. 5, ’06. 390w.
=Thompson, Osmund Rhodes Howard, and Rauch, William H.= History of the “Bucktails,” Kane rifle regiment of the Pennsylvania reserves, 42nd of the line: published by H. W. Rauch, historian, for the regimental association; with a dedicatory note by the Hon. E: A. Irvin. $2. William H. Rauch, 2141 N. Park av., Phil.
A volume which “contains the muster rolls of the regiment and a full account of the organization of the Bucktails from the excellent material furnished by the mountaineers of Northern Pennsylvania.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Unhappily its authors were plainly inexperienced both in the art of
## bookmaking and of writing history. Hence, it does not add much to the
growing collection of valuable regimental histories.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 307. O. 11, ’06. 480w.
“Not a very satisfactory volume altogether, the ‘History of the Bucktails’ ... contains, nevertheless, some material which will be of use to the future historian of the civil war and much that is interesting to the friends, kinsfolk, and descendants of the men who made up a celebrated body of Pennsylvania troops.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 620. O. 6, ’06. 640w.
=Thompson, Robert John=, comp. Proofs of life after death. **$1.50. Turner, H. B.
The opinions of eminent thinkers on the subject of life after death are grouped about such headings as science, psychical research, philosophy and spiritualism. The book contains many arguments from a scientific standpoint that will interest all who wish evidence other than theological.
=Thomson, John Arthur.= Herbert Spencer. *$1. Dutton.
“This biography is useful for two reasons: it presents a concise but luminous account of the human side of the great philosopher, and it gives the reader an idea of the position of the scientific world today in regard to the views which Spencer formulated or championed. The biographical portion proper consumes a comparatively small space—fewer than one hundred pages—the remainder of the volume being occupied with exposition and discussion of Spencer’s work, with special reference to his ‘Principles of biology’ and his attitude to the evolution idea generally.”—Outlook.
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“Prof. Thomson’s criticism is always clear and suggestive, and his
## book is stimulating.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 800. Je. 30. 630w.
“All is so well presented, and is so significant in relation to the thought of our day, that one is tempted to class the book among the comparatively small number of those which ‘everybody’ should read.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ + =Dial.= 51: 104. S. 16, ’06. 830w.
“The subject could not have fallen into better hands than those of Prof. Thomson, who writes clearly, argues cogently, and never fails to leave his reader interested and informed.”
+ + =Nature.= 74: 533. S. 27, ’06. 430w.
“He writes sympathetically yet critically in his judgment both of the man and his results.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 366. Je. 9. ’06. 1270w.
“Some of his passages are difficult reading indeed.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 83: 526. Je. 30, ’06. 210w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 50w.
=Thomson, William Hanna.= Brain and personality; or, The physical relations of the brain to the mind. **$1.20. Dodd.
“The object of this book is to acquaint the general reader with the remarkable discoveries of modern physiological science of the specific relations of certain areas on the surface of the brain to special mental functions. One of the first results of these discoveries is to impart an entirely new aspect to the important subject of Education.”
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“This work on ‘Brain and personality’ ought to be of interest to every person who possesses either of those entities. Aiming to acquaint the general reader with the remarkable discoveries of modern physiological science, it is eminently clear and readable. Confusions and inconsistencies in ontology do not invalidate the author’s contributions to physiology, for, like the brain itself, while one
## part may be useless in solving problems, the other half is
indispensable.” I. Woodbridge Riley.
+ + – =Bookm.= 24: 373. D. ’06. 1600w.
“Volumes like the present, that fail of this through fundamental lack of fitness, do not aid the cause which they espouse with good faith and earnest intention.”
– =Dial.= 41: 284. N. 1, ’06. 270w.
“His book treats the subject in a purely scientific manner, but it is written in a peculiarly lucid style, and can be easily understood without expert knowledge by the thoughtful layman.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 909. D. 15, ’06. 730w.
=Thoreau, Henry David.= Excursions: with biographical sketch by Ralph Waldo Emerson. 35c. Crowell.
One of the season’s additions to the “Handy volume classics.”
=Thoreau, Henry David.= Friendship. **50c. Crowell.
This essay, originally a part of “A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers” is Thoreau’s estimate of what he called “the secret of the universe.”
=Thoreau, Henry David.= Maine woods; with an introd. by Annie Russell Marble. 35c. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Handy volume classic” series.
=Thorndike, Edward L.= Elements of psychology. *$1.50. A. G. Seiler, N. Y.
“Of the elementary books on psychology which have appeared in recent years, this volume by Professor Thorndike seems, to the present reviewer, to be one of the most useful and interesting. Its arrangement and distribution of the subject matter; its adequate and lucid exposition and its well formulated definitions make it useful; while its wealth of examples drawn from common life makes it interesting.”
+ + + =Psychol. Bull.= 3: 292. S. 15, ’06. 760w.
“It not only ensures to the student a clear grasp of the science as a theoretical whole, but is well calculated to make it vital and real to him, and helpful in the understanding and conduct of his own practical life.” Edmund B. Delabarre.
+ + =Science=, n. s. 23: 260. F. 16, ’06. 1070w.
=Thorndike, Edward L.= Principles of teaching. *$1.25. A. G. Seiler, New York.
The author says, “The aim of this book is to make the study of teaching scientific and practical—scientific in the sense of dealing with verifiable facts rather than attractive opinions, practical in the sense of giving knowledge and power that will make a difference in the actual work of teaching.”
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“The most striking qualities of the work are richness of content and balance and sanity of treatment. On the whole we do not know any single book more to be recommended for giving young teachers a scientific conception of their work.” Edward O. Sisson.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 90. Ag. 16, ’06. 770w.
“The book does clearly what it, in the main, sets out to do—to couple up closely psychological theory with the theory of practice. It is a valuable addition to educational literature.” W. S. J.
+ + =El. School T.= 6: 440. Ap. ’06. 420w.
“It is a good book for normal school classes, and its numerous and apt questions and exercises will be found provocative of profitable discussion in teachers’ meetings and institutes.”
+ =Ind.= 01: 262. Ag. 2, ’06. 90w.
“Gives the same evidence of vigor, virility, and originality that characterizes all his other writings.” Frederick E. Bolton.
+ + =Psychol. Bull.= 3: 366. N. 15, ’06. 570w.
“In spite of these possible weaknesses, this book must be regarded as one of the very best of its kind.” J. L. Meriam.
+ + – =School R.= 14: 765. D. ’06. 790w.
=Thorndike, Lynn.= Place of magic in the intellectual history of Europe. *75c. Macmillan.
A monograph in the historical series of Columbia university. “The noteworthy point in the resume is that magic among the educated was always associated with science, and is related to it as the guesses of the child to the positive knowledge of the man.” (Outlook.)
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“He has dipped for himself into the ancient writers, has gathered much curious information, and has set it forth with gusto and with considerable sprightliness of style; but his study, though intelligent, is sadly lacking in thoroughness and yet more so in closeness of thought and precision of diction. Of magic itself his conception is confused in the extreme.”
– + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 707. Ap. ’06. 200w.
“An interesting monograph.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 133. F. 16, ’06. 30w.
Reviewed by Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 37. Ja. 20, ’06. 1360w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 231. Ja. 27, ’06. 130w.
Thread of gold, by the author of “The house of quiet.” *$3. Dutton.
“We should deal with life in a generous and high-hearted mood.... Nor must we aim at mere tranquility ... our peace must be heartened by eagerness, our zest calmed by serenity.” Such is the burden of this anonymous author’s book. The essays treat such subjects as prayer, the pleasure of work, the beetle, the hare, the artist, Westminster Abbey, the Apocalypse, the statue and music.
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“In what superficially appears a volume of fugitive essays on the most desultory and often trifling themes, we have really the revelation, by significant flash-lights, of a high-minded nature solitarily and often doubtfully feeling its way towards truth and right.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 224. F. 24. 1250w.
“Its fault is a complacent fluency. But no inquiring mind could fail to find something vital and suggestive in its pages.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 31. Ja. 26, ’06. 290w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 904. D. 16, ’05. 240w.
“For the most part, the book is the sincere, spontaneous talk of a man of culture who has observed and felt keenly, and who expresses himself in simple, limpid, captivating style.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 161. Mr. 17, ’06. 710w.
“Is indeed a beautiful book, one that will give the reader a realization of the joy of life. It is a succession of exquisite sketches presented by an artist gifted with the elusive literary touch and a delicate instinct for the beautiful.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 478. F. 24, ’06. 260w.
365 tasty dishes: a tasty dish for every day in the year. *40c. Jacobs.
The full gamut of the simple menu is run in these 365 dishes which follow the season’s changes beginning with prune snowballs for New Year’s day, providing rhubarb fool for April 1st, raspberry foam for the Fourth of July, and plum pudding croquettes for Christmas.
=Thruston, Lucy Meacham.= Called to the field. †$1.50. Little.
A story which looks out upon the Civil war from a Southern home corner. The heroine is a newly wed Virginia girl who, with the exception of a risky visit to the enemies’ camp, instead of dipping into the daring undertakings of most war story heroines stays at the home helm, where in spite of Northern foraging bands, skirmishes at her very door, a wounded husband to nurse back to life, she suffers duty, citizenship and sacrifice to argue their case against the menace and terror of battle.
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+ =Critic.= 48: 574. Je. ’06. 70w.
“Is really a fine piece of work.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.
+ =Ind.= 60: 1219. My. 24, ’06. 120w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 223. Ap. 7, ’06. 350w.
“But for tropical zones of language and landscape. ‘Called to the field’ is a well-made book—all the more historically correct, perhaps, for those very exaggerations.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 390. My. 10, ’06. 210w.
“The charm of it lies in its perfect naturalness, and there also is the secret of its intensity.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 907. Ap. 21, ’06. 120w.
+ – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 711. Je. 9, ’06. 80w.
=Thurso, John Wolf.= Modern turbine practice and water-power plants. *$4. Van Nostrand.
“The whole book is thoroughly up to date in its information, the facts and data are well marshalled, and it should be consulted by every engineer who may be called upon to deal with the problem of the utilisation of water-power.”
+ + =Nature.= 75: 52. N. 15, ’06. 960w.
=Thurston, E. Temple.= Apple of Eden. †$1.50. Dodd.
“No English novel by a new writer, for serious, restrained ability, bears comparison with ‘The apple of Eden.’” Mary Moss.
+ + =Atlan.= 97: 57. Ja. ’06. 260w.
=Thurston, Ernest Temple.= Traffic, the story of a faithful woman. †$1.50. Dillingham.
In his arraignment of society in general and certain phases of human nature in particular, the author takes his reader over the ground of an old question—the Roman Catholic denial of divorce. “The noble-hearted Irish girl of the story is most cruelly confronted with the fact that unless she would lose what is to her the only hope of heaven, she may not put away finally and by divorce her drunken, brutal, and bestial husband, and in plain fact may hold more hope of final salvation in a life of sin than in a marriage of the truest affection following a divorce.” (Outlook.)
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– =Acad.= 70: 334. Ap. 7, ’06. 470w.
“The writing is vigorous, and the exposition courageous, and the book is better in parts than as a whole.”
– + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 294. Mr. 10. 330w.
“A forceful, pathetic, but most unpleasant book.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
– + =Bookm.= 24: 387. D. ’06. 350w.
“Mr. Thurston does not suggest the possession of the imaginative sympathy or even the ordinary knowledge of life that would warrant him in attempting so tremendous a task as this. He writes easily, but there is not in all these 450 pages any indications of vision, any profound sense of human nature. The book is smooth and superficial, and, shorn of its coarseness, conventional in every line.”
– + =Lond. Times.= 5: 84. Mr. 9, ’06. 820w.
“Mr. Thurston more than accomplishes his object of rousing the sympathy and indignation of the reader. His characters also are both lifelike and interesting. But the incessant painfulness of the situation is continuously distressing, so that the book is anything but a restful novel, while the plain speaking in describing coarse viciousness exceeds good taste and sound literary judgment.”
– + =Outlook.= 84: 584. N. 9, ’06. 240w.
“The story is written in the spirit of rancour, and of obstinate prejudice, and is therefore useless as a protest against the imagined wrongs which have inflamed its author’s spirit.”
– =Sat. R.= 101: 369. Mr. 24, ’06. 120w.
“It is seldom one meets with a book so wholly disagreeable as this novel.”
– =Spec.= 96: 345. Mr. 3, ’06. 140w.
=Thurston, Katherine Cecil.= Gambler. †$1.50. Harper.
“The author throws herself too ardently into the thick of the fight to judge the relative importance of scenes and incidents. But the story is told with warm sympathy and with much insight into motive and character.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 181. F. 24, ’06. 620w.
“It interests us as showing, we fancy, a zeal for the portrayal of character which the writer’s last success did not display.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 259. Mr. 3. 320w.
“If ‘The gambler’, which is a better book than ‘The masquerader’, shall prove to be less popular, we shall personally ascribe the fact to the very unfortunate illustrations that misrepresent the text.” R. W. Kemp.
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 361. D. ’05. 2390w.
“It falls short of the standard which ‘The circle’ and ‘The masquerader’ have established for their author. ‘The gambler’ is a work that interests you, but it does not vastly enhance Mrs. Thurston’s fame.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 171. F. 3, ’06. 690w.
“The characters are conventional through and through, in body, heart and soul. The style of the book is diffuse, inexact, inelegant. The writer has no very clear idea of what is her plot.”
– + =Lond. Times.= 5: 52. F. 16, ’06. 500w.
“The strongest situations and the best character-drawing are to be found in the early part of the book.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 304. F. 24, ’06. 880w.
=Thwaites, Reuben Gold=, ed. Early western travels, 1748–1846; a series of annotated reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the aborigines and social and economic conditions in the middle and far West, during the period of early American settlement. 31v. ea. *$4. Clark, A. H.
An editorial preface; Wyeth’s Oregon; or A short history of a long journey from the Atlantic ocean to the region of the Pacific, by land; and Townsend’s narrative of a journey across the Rocky mountains to the Columbia river; form the contents of volume 21 of this interesting series.
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=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 747. Ap. ’06. 70w. (Review of v. 22–24.)
“The style in translation is singularly clear and simple. No small portion of the narrative is of historical value. The editing appears to have been done with exceptional fullness and care, the notes are abundant and supplement the text with information of a scientific and historical character. Few volumes of travels have received such careful attention from the editor. The amount of information thus given on places and persons that are incidentally mentioned by the author is very large.”
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 179. O. ’06. 360w. (Review of v. 22–24.)
“The introduction and notes of the editor add much to the interest of the reprint, as throughout the series.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 383. Ap. ’06. 210w. (Review of v. 21.)
“In spite of rare slips ... the notes themselves are among the most valuable of the contributions to American historical scholarship presented by this excellent series.” Frederick J. Turner.
+ + + =Dial.= 41: 6. Jl. 1, ’06. 2960w. (Review of v. 5–20.)
“Not merely useful to the historian, but filled with tales of such strange and thrilling adventures as to hold the attention of the veriest schoolboy.”
+ + + =Ind.= 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 40w. (Review of v. 8–23.)
+ + + =Nation.= 82: 53. Ja. 18, ’06. 200w. (Review of v. 19 and 20.)
=Nation.= 82: 489. Je. 14, ’06. 150w. (Review of v. 21.)
+ + + =Nation.= 83: 438. N. 22, ’06. 400w. (Review of v. 22–27.)
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 15. Ja. 13, ’06. 380w. (Review of v. 19.)
+ + + =Outlook.= 82: 522. Mr. 3, ’06. 100w. (Review of v. 18.)
=Thwing, Rev. Charles Franklin.= History of higher education in America. **$3. Appleton.
“The story of the oldest and the newest foundations, the picture of the environing conditions in former and in later times, and of the advancing development, is given with many an enlivening touch of biographical notice and historical incident. Religious and ecclesiastical influences come into view together with the patriotic, scholarly, and scientific. The financial side of the history is not omitted, nor is the architectural. Of course the libraries and the graduate and professional schools have their appropriate chapters, and so do undergraduate affairs, including the Greek-letter societies and athletics. All this, however, is no mere chronicle: the lessons it yields are interwoven with it.”—Outlook.
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“The book is conceived and executed in a large and generous spirit, combines accuracy and interest in an unusual degree, and is a notable addition to the literature of our educational history.” Edward O. Sisson.
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 321. N. 16, ’06. 2080w.
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 419. N. 15, ’06. 830w.
“Instructive and entertaining volume.” Charles Elliott Fitch.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 720. N. 3, ’06. 2330w.
“What others have given either in outline or in fragments is here given in detail and completeness. No work on American history is more worth reading.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 84: 582. N. 3, ’06. 230w.
=Thwing, Eugene.= Man from Red Keg. †$1.50. Dodd.
“In the ‘Man from Red Keg’ we are given the raw material for a great novel. Much of the dialog is badly written and deals in the baldest commonplaces, showing that ruthless revision and condensation would have strengthened the book, but we do get the atmosphere of the Michigan woods, of a country town, and of live men with vital interests.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 342. F. 8, ’06. 210w.
=Tilghman, Emily (Ursula Tannenforst, pseud.).= Thistles of Mount Cedar: a story of school-life for girls. †$1.25. Winston.
“The story is not marked by any special strength and impresses us as being stilted and artificial in treatment. The moral atmosphere, however, is excellent.”
+ =Arena.= 35: 111. Ja. ’06 100w.
=Tilton, Dwight, pseud. (George Tilton Richardson, and Wilder Dwight Quint).= Golden grayhound. †$1.50. Lothrop.
“The improbability of a man in his senses, but without a cent in his pocket following a pretty face seen ‘in a snow-storm outside Tiffany’s’ even to the jaws of the Golden greyhound, which turns out to be not a dog but an ocean liner, is followed up in its turn by other improbabilities of varied and amusing as well as amazing sort.” (N. Y. Times.)
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– =Ind.= 61: 213. Jl. 26, ’06. 130w.
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 175. Mr. 24, ’06. 170w.
“A very human story of hearts and fortunes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.
“Is a particularly silly example of its silly class.”
– =Outlook.= 82: 809. Ap. 7, ’06. 50w.
=Tilton, Theodore.= Fading of the mayflower, a poem of the present time; drawings by W. J. Enright: decorations by Ralph Fletcher Seymour. $1.50. Marquis.
“A rhythmic lamentation over the decay of the ideals of the early New Englanders and the rise of the passion for money-getting. The book, however, closes with a temperately optimistic prophecy of a better day to come.”—World To-Day.
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“The homiletic value of the sonnets is considerable and they embody much quaint information and homely wisdom, but they almost never appeal to us as poetry.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 41: 67. Ag. 1, ’06. 270w.
“He tells again, in flowing verses that are easily read, the old Colonial tales, and his poem is full of apt historical allusion and pertinent moral reflections. It is quite worthy of its fine setting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 244. Ap. 14, ’06. 350w.
=World To-Day.= 11: 1220. N. ’06. 60w.
=Titchener, Edward Bradford.= Experimental psychology: a manual of laboratory practice, v. 2. pt. 1, *$1.40; pt. 2, *$2.50. Macmillan.
This second volume of Professor Titchener’s work is a manual of “Quantitative experiments” as was its predecessor of “Qualitative.” It comprises two parts, an instructor’s manual and a student’s manual. The student’s manual contains chapters “on Preliminary experiments, comprising experiments in tone and pressure discrimination, leading up to demonstrations of Weber’s Law; on the Metric methods—historical notes accompanying the experiments; on the Reaction experiment, the Psychology of time and the range of Quantitative psychology. The Instructor’s manual contains, in addition, appendices giving examination questions, bibliographies and a list of important instruments for psychophysical research with prices and names of makers.” (Bookm.)
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“Lucid, methodical and business-like in the extreme.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 582. My. 11. 360w.
=Bookm.= 22: 535. Ja. ’06. 80w.
“It is safe to say that Professor Titchener’s ‘Experimental psychology’ is much the most important general work on the subject yet published by an English writer.” H. B. Alexander.
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 641. F. ’06. 760w.
“Professor Titchener’s is the most complete guide to quantitative work in psychology that we have in English, and will be indispensable as a reference book in laboratories where the course as a whole cannot be followed.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 261. Ag. 2, ’06. 180w.
+ + =Nation.= 83: 98. Ag. 2, ’06. 100w.
“Professor Titchener may congratulate himself not only on having completed a long and arduous labor, but also upon having produced a veritable bible for his experimental colleagues.” Edmund C. Sanford.
+ + + =Phys. R.= 15: 424. Jl. ’06. 1080w.
“The work amply deserves to be adopted, for firstly, it is specifically planned to afford just that discipline that American psychology to-day lacks, and secondly, this plan is worked out to the last practical detail with remarkable skill and a prodigious amount of care.” Edwin B. Holt.
+ + – =Psychol. Bull.= 3: 93. Mr. 15, ’06. 1830w.
“The author has accomplished the most arduous and difficult task with such distinguished success as to put the coming generation of psychologists under lasting obligation to him.” James R. Angell.
+ + + =School R.= 14: 155. F. ’06. 350w.
=Todd, Charles Burr.= In olde Connecticut. **$1.25. Grafton press.
“The byways of history often have a fascination denied to the highlands. In these interesting pages Mr. Todd discourses pleasantly upon various episodes in the past of an old New England commonwealth. He takes us to Fairfield, to Lebanon, to New London, and gives us glimpses of matters not often set down.... There were dinners and dances at Lebanon, the home of Trumbull, when the French officers were there, and ‘the fair Connecticut girls’ were considered attractive by the visitors. The volume is the first in ‘The Grafton historical series,’ designed, as the editor remarks, to ‘provide an effective background for our Americanism and a welcome perspective to patriotism.’”—Critic.
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“If the succeeding volumes are as well written as Mr. Todd’s the object will be attained.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 284. S. ’06. 150w.
“The little book will prove of especial interest to persons connected by birth or kinship with Connecticut, and will also be read with pleasure and profit by the general public.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 285. N. 1, ’06. 260w.
“It is all pleasing to read, but wants the importance of coherent narrative working toward some definite result—a book for the fireside and not for the historian’s shelves.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 331. O. 18, ’06. 600w.
“Entertaining little book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 432. Jl. 7, ’06. 660w.
“The reader will be agreeably surprised by the amount and variety of information unearthed by Mr. Todd in his sojournings in Connecticut, much of it admittedly legendary and traditional, but all of it rich in human interest.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 765. Jl. 28, ’06. 230w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 382. S. ’06. 70w.
=Tomlinson, Rev. Everett Titsworth.= Four boys in the Yellowstone; how they went and what they did; il. by H. C. Edward. †$1.50. Lothrop.
With “Four boys in the Yellowstone” Mr. Tomlinson launches his new series of tales about the scenic wonders and beauties of our own land. Four boys from as many quarters of the country who are chums at a New England school share the joys of a vacation trip to the Yellowstone.
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=N. Y. Times.= 11: 639. O. 6, ’06. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 683. O. 20, ’06. 110w.
=Outlook.= 84: 429. O. 20, ’06. 60w.
=Tomlinson, Rev. Everett Titsworth.= Young rangers: a story of the conquest of Canada; with il. by Chase Emerson. †$1.50. Wilde.
The concluding volume in the “Colonial series,” without lessening the glory of the attack on the stronghold of Quebec, portrays some of the heroic acts of the regulars and their comrades of the provinces in the lesser known but equally important events that contributed to the final victory.
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=Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 30w.
=Tooker, Lewis Frank.= Under rocking skies. †$1.50. Century.
“Distinctly a readable story.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 477. My. ’06. 50w.
=Torrey, Bradford.= Friends on the shelf. **$1.25. Houghton.
The friends of the library shelf who have inspired part of these essays are Hazlitt, FitzGerald, Thoreau, Stevenson, Keats and Anatole France. Not alone of men does Mr. Torrey write for in the volume are such subjects treated as “Verbal magic,” “Quotability,” “The grace of obscurity,” “In defense of the traveler’s notebook,” and “Concerning the lack of an American literature.”
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“Human personality emerging from the page of genius is the thing that has had most attraction for him, and is also the feature of the book which has the strongest appeal to the reader.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 728. N. 17, ’06. 170w.
“A very pretty style. It is lithe and simple. Within its own limits it is resourceful, too, and full of variety; but its bounds are narrow.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 533. D. 20, ’06. 310w.
“These papers contain, in fact, much sensible talk on bookish matters. It is, I say, sensible rather than in any way brilliant or original; and it is talk rather than finished literature.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 804. D. 1, ’06. 1150w.
=Tosi, Pier Francesco.= Observations on the florid song; or, Sentiments on the ancient and modern singers; written in Italian; tr. into English by Mr. Galliard. *$1.75. Scribner.
One of the chief authorities on the singing of the older Italian period. Tho written in 1743 and especially valuable for historic interest, the foibles arraigned and the problems discussed are of interest to present day students.
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+ =Nation.= 83: 169. Ag. 23, ’06. 1340w.
“This reprint, with all practical fidelity of the quaint English translation, offers a curious and in some ways entertaining addition to the library of the musical student.” Richard Aldrich.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 666. O. 13, ’06. 830w.
=Townsend, Malcolm=, comp. Handbook of United States political history for readers and students. **$1.60. Lothrop.
“The attempt is made to arrange chronologically, and when possible to tabulate all the facts and dates of American political history from the time of the first visit of the Norsemen (985) to the present.” (Ind.) “Prepared under the stimulus of the merciless questioning of the author’s boys, this work gives complete tables of information of all species. Genealogies, nicknames, autographs, lists of the writings of all the Presidents; accounts of their educational advantages, and descriptions of their inaugurations and burial places; a political history of the Confederate States; the province of each department of the general Government, are some of the contents of the volume.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“It is one of the most useful reference books for teacher and student alike, and the amount of out-of-the-way information which it collects and classifies is simply amazing.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 314. N. 16, ’05. 60w.
“The arrangement is excellent, and the quantity of detail assembled and classified is remarkable. Sufficient care has not been taken on the score of accuracy.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 168. Ja. 18, ’06. 450w.
“It is by no means always correct.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 115. F. 24, ’06. 580w.
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 629. N. 11, ’05. 100w.
=Tracy, Louis.= Karl Grier: the strange story of a man with a sixth sense. †$1.50. Clode, E. J.
“Karl Grier has not only all the advantages physical and mental that a young man can desire, but he possesses the power of projecting his consciousness into any part of the world according to his wish.... Mr. Tracy’s hero ‘presented an unrecorded phase of hypertrophy of the brain,’ the unnatural growth being ‘permitted by the occasional bursting of a distended membrane.’ Of course every novel reader knows that such happenings would have extraordinary results. Twice his marvellous knowledge almost costs Karl his life; it drives one villain to suicide and the other to stand on his head in a large and fashionable restaurant. That same villain, too, subsequently makes a murderous attack upon Karl, which by fracturing his skull and causing a lesion of the middle and lower lobes of the brain renders his future life perfectly normal by knocking ‘the sixth sense’ out of him.”—Sat. R.
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“Remarkably interesting novel.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 69. F. 3, ’06. 510w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 180w.
“We do not find much to please us in such stories.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 274. S. 1, ’06. 240w.
=Traubel, Horace.= With Walt Whitman in Camden: a daily record of conversations kept by Horace Traubel. **$3. Small.
The author, an Englishman, makes no claim to biographical completeness, but simply gives daily jottings on talks with Whitman extending over a period of four months together with many letters of the period. “One may hazard a prophecy that the unbeliever will be a convert before he closes its pages; not from any propaganda on the poet’s part, but from the sheer human affection which his companionship inspires.” (N. Y. Times.)
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+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 179. Jl. ’06. 80w.
“In all the mass of chaff there is quite enough of true grain—of sage and admirable thoughts and sayings—to have made a smaller book which would have done the fame of Whitman a laudable service.” M. A. DeWolfe Howe.
+ – =Atlan.= 98: 849. D. ’06. 950w.
“The fact that Mr. Traubel has not trusted to his memory, but took down Whitman’s words, hot from his lips, gives this book its great value and interest. It is a pity, however, that he took down so many ‘hot’ words.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ + – =Critic.= 49: 185. Ag. ’06. 1600w.
“The whole book, unstudied and unpolished, conveys a realistic impression of the poet and the man, such as only a devoted Boswell is able to give.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 144. Mr. 1, ’06. 1540w.
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 475. Mr. 31, ’06. 1050w.
“Though the book itself is well arranged and beautifully printed, it leaves the reader in a somewhat dreary wonder whether it faithfully records even the declining and enfeebled years of the poet.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 353. Ap. 26, ’06. 540w.
“The book should be distinguished in importance sharply from the mass, not only for its charm, but as a complete self-revelation of the man who is likely to hold the ultimate place among our poets.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 109. F. 24, ’06. 2620w.
“One of the most remarkable biographical volumes that have appeared in many years.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 507. Ap. ’06. 350w.
=Travis, Elma Allen.= Pang-Yanger. †$1.50. McClure.
Abijah Bead, the Pang-Yanger, who with his four-year-old Rob had been deserted by the woman whom he had secretly married takes his boy to the town where the young woman is the wife of a prominent citizen. His purpose is revenge, for the startling resemblance of the child to the mother must reveal her story and be a witness to her infidelity. This forms one thread of the story whose other phase pictures Abijah and an irresponsible tho charming Southern girl in the light of an ill-assorted pair.
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“The book is a strong one, but we are fain to ask ‘Cui bono?’ Certainly, it does not leave us the better or the happier for the reading; it does not invoke admiration for the truly admirable; it presents situations repulsive and painful, and we are glad to think that it fails as a presentation of life.”
– + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 926. D. 30, ’05. 580w.
“Its technical faults are of the kind that the author, with greater experience, will be unlikely to repeat, and the main outlines of the plot are strong and interesting. The material is somewhat sensational.”
– + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 123. Ja. 27, ’06. 100w.
=Trent, William Peterfield.= Greatness in literature, and other papers. **$1.20. Crowell.
+ =Critic.= 48: 90. Ja. ’06. 200w.
“Upon all these subjects the author has excellent things to say, and the manner of his discourse is both persuasive and engaging.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 23. Ja. 1, ’06. 280w.
“A most thoughtful and interesting volume.” Christian Gauss.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 96. F. 17, ’06. 2160w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 60w.
“They are transparently sincere, and more than ordinarily suggestive.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 473. O. 6, ’06. 200w.
=Trevelyan, George Macaulay.= England under the Stuarts. *$3. Putnam.
“It is, on the whole, abreast of the times. It is, on the whole, accurate. It is well conceived, well written, and eminently readable, and is without doubt the best, if not the only, single-volume history of the seventeenth century.” Wilbur C. Abbott.
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 378. Ja. ’06. 1930w.
+ + – =Lit. D.= 32: 453. Mr. 24, ’06. 280w.
=Trevelyan, George Macaulay.= Poetry and philosophy of George Meredith. *$1.50. Scribner.
“A manifest labour of love, the work of an enthusiastic admirer, as appreciative criticism should be.... The volume aims at being a kind of guide to Meredith the poet, a Meredith manual. It studies the poems in all their varieties, and the poet, in all his aspects.... A good and helpful book, which really expounds Mr. Meredith’s strength, without shirking the acknowledgment that he is more trying than a poet should be.”—Ath.
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“Mr. Trevelyan’s is the most detailed and elaborate study of Mr. Meredith’s poetry that has yet appeared. It is also mainly just and discriminating in temper. It is not brilliant or subtle, and its treatment is not always exhaustive.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 5. Jl. 7. 1910w.
“A scholarly and sympathetic study.”
+ + =Current Literature.= 41: 641. D. ’06. 1500w.
“This book ought to be of great service to those of Meredith’s readers ... who wish to grasp a view of life that seems to them at once impressive, sane, and extremely perplexing.” F. Melian Stawell.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 128. O. ’06. 1000w.
“Mr. Trevelyan is never the merely literary critic; he has no concern with fine lines considered apart from their meaning; he deals little with verbal niceties, with questions of rhythm and metre. He is more at home, he writes with more authority on the philosophy of the subject. His judgments of poetry have less insight and persuasion.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 200. Je. 1, ’06. 2080w.
=Nation.= 83: 249. S. 20, ’06. 720w.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 370. Je. 9, ’06. 1860w. (Reprinted from Lond. Times.)
“It is a very sincere and generous tribute from a disciple to a teacher.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 758. Je. 16, ’06. 950w.
=Treves, Sir Frederick.= Highways and byways of Dorset. $2. Macmillan.
“The praise of Dorset is the theme of this volume, in which Sir Frederick Treves tells us what most to admire in that pleasant land of green vales and breezy gorse-clad down, of purple heath and rocky coast.... In describing the highways and byways of Dorset he writes of places known to him from childhood ... and thus, with a facility which comes with knowledge, he sometimes gives us in a few lines a sketch of a spot which is so true that we overlook its slightness, and wish for no detailed description. This faculty makes ‘Highways and byways in Dorset’ something more than a glorified guidebook.”—Ath.
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“The illustrations to the book are numerous, but unequal, and, on the whole, somewhat disappointing; some of them are trivial.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 207. Ag. 25. 2780w.
“The author has a keen eye for picturesque anecdotes and antiquities. All this archaeology is borne up and carried along by an easy, flowing style, so it does not weigh upon the reader, and Pennell’s pen-sketches come just at the right time.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 755. S. 27, ’06. 100w.
“Mr. Pennell’s sketches serve as an admirable supplement to the great surgeon’s interesting narrative.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 30: 89. N. ’06. 190w.
+ + =Nation.= 83: 462. N. 29, ’06. 550w.
“He writes gracefully with a knack of vivid phrasing, and the great variety of things which have appealed to him gives an ever-changing interest and charm to his pages.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 629. O. 6, ’06. 290w.
“This book is ideal in its way.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 429. O. 20, ’06. 110w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 380. D. ’06. 70w.
=Sat. R.= 102: 393. S. 29, ’06. 1660w.
“The pen of Sir Frederick Treves and the pencil of Mr. Joseph Pennell make a very powerful combination for dealing with such a subject, and the subject is one which amply repays the labour that is spent upon it.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 271. Ag. 25, ’06. 410w.
=Triggs, H. Inigo.= Art of garden design in Italy. **$20. Longmans.
The planning and arrangement, the architectural features and accessories of the old Italian gardens of the best periods are described in this sumptuous volume which also contains an historical introduction tracing the development of garden planning and description and critical accounts of the principal gardens of Italy. Numerous plates, plans and sketches illustrate the text.
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“This is a splendid volume which equals, if it does not surpass in interest the author’s former work on the gardens of England and Scotland.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906. 2: 554. N. 3. 1740w.
=Lond. Times.= 5: 288. Ag. 24, ’06. 670w.
“Magnificent volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 520. Ag. 25, ’06. 720w.
“In spite of its imposing appearance the book is not an interesting one. The descriptions, like the photographs, are commonplace and superficial. There is little or no illuminating criticism and no entering into the spirit of the artists who designed the beautiful gardens of Italy.”
– =Spec.= 97: 938. D. 8, ’06. 60w.
=Trinks, Willibald, and Housum, Chenoweth.= Shaft governors. 50c. Van Nostrand.
A little pocket book uniform with “The Van Nostrand science series.” It covers the statics of shaft governing which forms a self-contained part of the theory but does not claim to cover the entire ground.
=Trollope, Anthony.= Autobiography. $1.25. Dodd.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 119. Ja. ’06. 40w.
=Trollope, Henry M.= Life of Moliere. **$3.50. Dutton.
“It is a model of cautious erudition and sound criticism.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 338. Mr. 17. 1530w.
“As for Mr. Trollope’s very long, very painstaking, very accurate, and infinitely circumstantial ‘Life of Molière,’ it should, we think, be given an excellent place as a book of reference and detailed information.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 25. Ja. 26, ’06. 2960w.
“Relying chiefly on French authorities, this work is a full and elaborate compilation of facts, whether important or trivial.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 229. Mr. 15, ’06. 890w.
“A complete and sympathetic analysis of the man and his genius.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 1086. D. 30, ’05. 410w.
“The book is very interesting; it is a conscientious piece of work which was well worth doing, and it represents a considerable amount of careful research. It is a mine of usually correct information as to Molière’s life and the world he lived in.”
+ + – =Spec.= 96: sup. 116. Ja. 27, ’06. 1610w.
=Troubetzkoy, Amelie (Rives) Chanler, princess.= Augustine the man. **$1.50. Lane.
The scenes of this dramatic poem are laid in Carthage, Milan, Lago Maggiore, and Tagaste. “The struggles of the saint after conversion between his devotion to Christ and his love for his former mistress and his son is displayed with insight and sympathy.” (Spec.)
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“Her blank verse is often delightful and always melodious, and she reaches heights of passion which affect the reader with the sense of yet greater powers restrained.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 189. Ag. 25, ’06. 290w.
“While as a whole, it does not rise to the dramatic height it was meant to keep, is full of passages of equal intensity and beauty.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 51. Jl. ’06. 180w.
“The four scenes make a moving story, very gracefully told in sensitive, sympathetic verse, and rising at times ... into dramatic intensity. It is a pity perhaps, that in the first scene the author did not keep more strictly to her subject, Augustine the man.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 248. Jl. 13, ’06. 200w.
“The piece is written in fluent and highly flavored verse, and is not devoid of a good deal of Euripidean poignancy.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 145. Ag. 16, ’06. 90w.
“Miss Rives has an exceedingly sure, firm touch, no hesitancy, no experimentation. Her work moves as if by first intent, first impulse, copious, colorful, forceful.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 397. Je. 16, ’06. 500w.
“The blank verse is not the mere vehicle of the tale, but the work of a genuine poet.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: 756. My. 12, ’06. 80w.
=Troubetzkoy, Amelie (Rives) Chanler, princess.= Selene. **$1.20. Harper.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ =North American.= 182: 754. My. ’06. 270w.
=Trowbridge, William Rutherford Hayes, jr.= Court beauties of old Whitehall: historiettes of the restoration. *$3.75. Scribner.
“The book takes up and gives rather full biographies of the lives of eight of the beautiful women who graced, and disgraced, the English court at the time of the Restoration. Each ‘historiette’ is illustrated by remarkably well made portraits, prints from famous pictures, of its subject, and of famous people connected with her career.”—N. Y. Times.
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“It is no better and no worse than its fellows. There seems no reason why it should ever have been written. Its author displays neither knowledge of his period nor sympathy with the men and women, whose names irrelevantly decorate his page.”
– =Acad.= 71: 468. N. 10, ’06. 1180w.
“After a bowing acquaintance of a good many years’ standing with the women of the Restoration, we cannot but feel that any attempt to deal with them after Mr. Trowbridge’s manner would be, to ourselves, a thankless task, and must, with any one result in disappointment.”
– =Ath.= 1906, 2: 507. O. 27. 1440w.
“Will take no prominent place either for original research or for naughty piquancy of style.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ – =Dial.= 41: 385. D. 1, ’06. 290w.
+ – =Nation.= 83: 462. N. 29, ’06. 1140w.
“Mr. Trowbridge has written these chronicles very vividly and with a clear wide view of the backgrounding history. His style is so lacking in the elusive but crowning quality of distinction that sometimes it is almost offensive.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 763. N. 17, ’06. 480w.
=Truesdell, Ella M.= Over the bridge and other poems. $1.25. Badger, R: G.
A book of dainty verse that sings of love, of life, of flower and field, and of sunshine and showers. A fine quality of imagination gives color and delicacy to the volume.
=Turley, Charles.= Maitland, major and minor. †$1.50. Dutton.
A story which “deals with the adventures of two brothers at a small private school, and should appeal to the class of boy readers for whom it is especially written. There are the usual fights, and the usual cases of bullying, and all the plots and counter-plots of school-life as lived in the private school. Mr. Turley understands boys. The book contains six illustrations by Mr. Gordon Browne.”—Sat. R.
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+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 890. D. 30. 180w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 540. S. 1, ’06. 170w.
“A rather favourable example of the school story.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 7. D. 9, ’05. 80w.
“Mr. Turley has harked back and given us a study of life at a private school, of which it is enough to say that it is as true, as wholesome, and as entertaining as his first venture. Thoroughly delightful book.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 870. N. 25, ’05. 1500w.
=Turner, Henry Gyles.= History of the colony of Victoria from its discovery to its absorption into the commonwealth of Australia. 2v. $7. Longmans.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 172. Mr. ’06. 230w.
=Tuttle, Rt. Rev. Daniel Sylvester.= Reminiscences of a missionary bishop. **$2. Whittaker.
Bishop Tuttle writes helpfully of his twenty years as missionary bishop in the Rocky mountains. His preparatory training in a New York parish taught him organization principles and methods and the real duties of pastor and rector. The main portion of the sketch deals with church work in the mountains and its associated hospital and school interests.
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“A candid and often naïve way has disclosed those attributes of his personality and conceptions of the functions of his office which have made him effective as bishop since 1866.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 242. S. 20, ’06. 320w.
“It is a solid contribution to American history. These reminiscences abound in quotable stories: but their value is for much more than amusement.” Rt. Rev. Cameron Mann, D. D.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 618. O. 6, ’06. 2000w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 284. O. 13, ’06. 140w.
“Well worth reading.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 405. S. 22, ’06. 320w.
=Tweedie, Ethel B. (Harley) (Mrs. Alec Tweedie).= Maker of modern Mexico: Porfirio Diaz. *$5. Lane.
Mrs. Tweedie’s sketch furnishes an Interesting personality thru which to view the history of modern Mexico. President Diaz himself gave the author diaries, letters, told her anecdotes about himself and associates, related events and described battles and various incidents of his life. With this first-hand information, Mrs. Tweedie received her charge, “Write as you will, but speak good of my country.”
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“By leaving out a number of entirely unnecessary exhibitions of personal admiration for the great statesman, the work would have greatly gained in value and the subject himself would have stood forth in nobler proportions.”
+ + – =Arena.= 36: 661. D. ’06. 7770w.
“A book which begins badly, but becomes most interesting when we reach the man himself.”
– + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 197. F. 17. 480w.
“The book rises to the distinction of being the first adequate biography of the greatest man Mexico has produced.” Arthur Howard Noll.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 109. S. 1, ’06. 920w.
“The only portions of value are the descriptions of Diaz in his home and of social life among certain of the prominent social families of Mexico city.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 881. O. 11, ’06. 590w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 283. S. 1, ’06. 480w.
“Her history is not scientific but it is interesting. The faults are perhaps the too constant intrusion of a rather pleasant personality, a rather careless and a rather diffuse style. It is not a deep or an original reading of a remarkable man, but it is a pretty good sketch.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 112. Mr. 30, ’06. 480w.
“It is neither a real Mexico nor a real Diaz which is set before us.”
– =Nation.= 83: 171. Ag. 23, ’06. 880w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 456. Jl. 14, ’06. 490w.
“This man’s work, unique of its kind, is set forth in a wonderfully fascinating, coherent, and authoritative manner.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 459. Jl. 21, ’06. 1680w.
“The book is interesting reading and, like most biographies of living men, it is exceedingly one-sided.”
+ – =Putnam’s.= 1: 126. O. ’06. 70w.
“The work is full, clear and written in the authoress’ well-known interesting style.”
+ + – =R. of Rs.= 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 170w.
“Enthusiasm, without doubt, exudes from every page and paragraph of Mrs. Tweedie’s work, and had she only brought discretion to her task, she might have given to the public a book as solid as it undoubtedly is interesting.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 397. Mr. 31, ’06. 1890w.
“Mrs. Tweedie’s book can best be described as a romantic biography.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 789. My. 19, ’06. 2100w.
=Tyler, Henry Mather.= Selections from the Greek lyric poets with a historical introduction and explanatory notes. *$1. Ginn.
The revised edition of this text is characterized by the audition of selections from Bacchylides and a few other short poems, and the inclusion of more illustrative and parallel references in the notes.
=Tyrrell, Rev. George.= Lex credendi; a sequel to “Lex orandi.” $1.75. Longmans.
“‘Lex credendi, in substance is a treatment of the Lord’s Prayer viewed as the rule and criterion of pure doctrine—as the living expression of that Christian spirit whereof faith in God and his kingdom, together with hope and charity, is a constituent factor.’... The book consists of two parts. The first is a treatise on the spirit of Christ.... Father Tyrrell proceeds in the second part, to a profound analysis of the spiritual and moral content of each petition of the prayer.”—Cath. World.
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“We find this volume an altogether worthy continuation of the previous work published with full theological censorship and ecclesiastical sanction.”
+ =Cath. World.= 83: 561. Jl. ’06. 890w.
+ – =Spec.= 97: 337. S. 8, ’06. 300w.
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=Ular, Alexander.= Russia from within. **$1.75. Holt.
“Our author seems to have guessed rather than worked at his Russian history.”
– =Ath.= 1905, 2: 45. Jl. 8. 670w.
“This writer is always picturesque, whether he is abusive, malicious, hysterical, or merely lively, entertaining, and full of surprises.”
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 138. My. 19, ’06. 160w.
=Underhill, Evelyn.= Miracles of our lady Saint Mary, brought out of divers tongues and set forth in English. *$2. Dutton.
“In these pages Miss Underhill ... reintroduces to English readers a cycle of old sacred tales in which their ancestors took much delight. The Mary-legends, or ‘Miracles of our lady,’ form a group of religious romances, the connecting link being that the Virgin Mary supplies in each of them the supernatural element.... Miss Underhill has made a good selection, with much diligence, of some of the happiest and quaintest of what she terms ‘the fairy tales of mediaeval Catholicism.’... The incidents selected vary in character from the crudely sensational to the depths of mystical devotion; and they extend in time from the fourth to the fifteenth century.”—Ath.
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+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 389. Mr. 31. 300w.
“Possesses a literary quality very much superior to the standard that prevails in our popular religious literature.”
+ =Cath. World.= 83: 686. Ag. ’06. 110w.
“Miss Underhill’s translation gives us an exquisite piece of literary workmanship.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 367. Je. 1, ’06. 70w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 243. My. 26, ’06. 370w.
=Underwood, Rev. J. L.= Women of the confederacy. $2. Neale.
Here are gathered from various sources paragraphs from speeches; essays, and books that give just tribute to the women of the Confederacy, making an anthology of direct historical value. These excerpts appear under the following headings: Symposium of tributes to Confederate women, Their work, Their trials, Their pluck, Their cause, and Mater redivia.
=United States. Library of Congress. Division of manuscripts.= List of the Benjamin Franklin papers in the Library of Congress. Lib. of Congress.
This list has been compiled by Mr. John C. Fitzpatrick under the direction of Worthington Chauncey Ford. “The papers here listed constitute those of the Franklin collection known as the ‘second series’ and are exclusive of the diplomatic papers, which were retained in the Department of State when the collection was transferred to the Library of Congress. The compilation is termed a ‘list’ rather than a ‘calendar’ because, although each piece of manuscript is entered, only the more important of its contents are noted. The list covers over two hundred pages, the items run in chronological order, and a full Index is provided.” (Am. Hist. R.)
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=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 475. Ja. ’06. 110w.
=Ind.= 60: 49. Ja. 4, ’06. 50w.
+ + – =Nation.= 81: 523. D. 28, ’05. 200w.
=Unwin, A. Harold.= Future forest trees. *$2.25. Wessels.
“A good translation of an Austrian account of experiments in the introduction of American trees. The recorded experiments deal with broad-leaved and with coniferous trees belonging to east and west North America, planted not alone in Austria as might be supposed, but in Germany, Switzerland, and Great Britain as well.”—Nation.
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“This little book may be confidently recommended as supplying details of German practice not easily to be procured elsewhere.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 544. O. 21. 640w.
“In spite of its lack of proportion and its marked gaps, it is likely to be of use in any forest library.”
– =Nation.= 81: 360. N. 2, ’05. 100w.
“Its thoroughly sound, practical and scientific character should secure it a wide circulation.”
+ + =Nature.= 73: 244. Ja. 11, ’06. 490w.
“This book is of value and interest to all Americans who love and venerate the trees of their own fast-vanishing forests.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 448. Jl. 14, ’06. 170w.
=Upson, Arthur.= City, and other poems. *$1. Macmillan.
“Mr. Arthur Upson has achieved a most creditable piece of work in this, his ‘Poem-drama’ ... all which material Mr. Upson has woven most judiciously, with firmness and with delicacy, into his drama, the personages of which live, move, and have individual being, to quite an unusual degree. Mr. Upson has notable lines—notable both for substance and for manner.” Edith M. Thomas.
+ + =Critic.= 48: 271. Mr. ’06. 330w.
“Mr. Upson seems to be rather remarkable among the younger poets for having retained something of the traditional moral sentiment of the past.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 43. Jl. 5, ’06. 150w.
=Upton, George Putnam.= Standard operas: their plots, their music, and their composers; new enl. and rev. ed.; il. $1.75. McClurg.
Numerous illustrations of the artists who have been closely associated with certain rôles characterize the nineteenth printing of this popular handling of the standard operas. Also operas that have become popular since the first edition appeared have been included. It is a
## book designed for the general reader rather than the musician.
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“In its present form, this work is far more useful and attractive than it ever was before and we predict for it a long lease of renewed popularity.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 330. N. 16, ’06. 120w.
+ + =Nation.= 83: 468. N. 29, ’06. 340w.
“This is a book of reference without an equal in its field.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 778. N. 24, ’06. 100w.
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=Vachell, Horace Annesley.= Face of clay: an interpretation. †$1.50. Dodd.
A spell of mystery is cast over Mr. Vachell’s new story in which a young English-Breton girl and a Cornish artist play the leading rôles. “Falsely they both play because the two troublesome strings of their instruments, love and ambition refuse to get into tune. The resulting discords seem to Tephany to be due to a certain face of clay, the death mask of a beautiful model her lover, Michael, has once painted, and she resolves to destroy it. Her hand, however is mysteriously stayed.... The message of the mask accomplishes itself, the avenging Furic finds his due, the apparition of the aukon is driven away, and ‘by a miracle,’ says the curé, Tephany is saved. Not until after that do she and Michael learn their instruments.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“We have read Mr. Vachell’s story with a curious sense of wandering through a lovely and gracious region to the accompaniment of tragic music.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 382. Ap. 21, ’06. 500w.
“Mr. Vachell shows an occasional tendency to stand outside his puppets, as if they were not real, which is disconcerting. Altogether it is a noteworthy novel by one of our most promising writers.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 541. My. 5. 310w.
“But though there are some weak passages, especially, it seems, in any crisis of emotion, the book is interesting not only as a study of curious beliefs and superstitions, but in a wider sense as a study of the life that is not limited to peasants.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 133. Ap. 12, ’06. 420w.
“Is as such things now go, what would be called a very good story. It has dignity as well as interest.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 308. O. 11, ’06. 240w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 723. N. 3, ’06. 220w.
“An attractive story of artist life in Brittany.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 793. N. 24, ’06. 110w.
“As a study of the effect of remorse on a morbid temperament, the book is deeply interesting, and all the characters of the drama are skilfully handled.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 698. Je. 2, ’06. 210w.
=Vachell, Horace Annesley.= The hill: a romance of friendship. †$1.50. Dodd.
A public-school story “brave in daring to enter the lists of the school-stories, where ‘Tom Brown at Rugby’ forever wins out, and brave in daring to do without the usual interest of lovemaking.” (N. Y. Times.) The author’s boys “are cleverly conventional types, nicely contrasted and distinguished, his incidents familiar to all readers of social life. But what raises his book above the ordinary level of such stories and connects it with life, is the love of Harrow. The corporate life of the school is here, though the individual boys do not live ... the corporate spirit of a great school.” (Acad.)
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“Mr. Vachell writes with such tact and delicacy that we do not think that his book will offend either Harrovians or those who love another school.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 495. My. 6, ’05. 290w.
“The story itself is interesting and well told.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 619. Mr. 20. 410w.
“It is a moving story, in no idle sense of the phrase; with its purity, its sanity, its true boyishness.—its true boys—well fitted to take the Stalky taste out of our mouths.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Bookm.= 23: 298. My. ’06. 660w.
“It is no exaggeration to declare that not since ‘Tom Brown’ have we had a school story of such vitality and significance.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 918. Je. 16, ’06. 820w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 152. Mr. 10, ’06. 250w.
“An admirable book for boys.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 762. Mr. 31, ’06. 190w.
“There are many clever touches in the book, and some scenes are spirited.”
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 744. Je. 3, ’05. 540w.
“Of what goes on in school hours we hardly read anything at all; but, with this reserve, ‘The hill’ may be commended as a detailed as well as attractive record of five years at a great English public school.”
+ – =Spec.= 94: 64. Ap. 29, ’05. 940w.
=Vambery, Arminius.= Western culture in eastern lands: a comparison of the methods adopted by England and Russia in the Middle East. *$3.50. Dutton.
The author, who occupies a chair in the University of Budapest, “has long been known as an enthusiastic admirer of England and a severe critic of Russia. This, his last book, is a systematic description and comparison of Russian and British rule in Asia, with an explanation of what he considers the immense superiority of the latter.... The book consists of three parts, entitled respectively the civilizing influence of Russia, the civilizing influence of England, and the future of Islam.” (Lond. Times.)
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“The attitude adopted in the present volume is on the whole sound, and, as Britons, we think just. It is not quite uniform throughout. There are some contradictions in passages which would be startling if put side by side.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 358. Mr. 24. 1160w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 214. Jl. 26, ’06. 660w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 145. Ap. 27, ’06. 1880w.
“Could easily have been reduced to half its length and been a much better book. The book is disfigured by Professor Vambéry’s usual extraordinary Arabic, and by his quoting as ‘Koran’ all sorts of traditions from Muhammed which never had any connection with the Koran.”
– =Nation.= 83: 12. Jl. 5, ’06. 280w.
“It may be taken for granted that Prof. Vambéry writes entertainingly and with great circumspection. Prof. Vambéry cannot escape the condemnation of his countrymen as being a partisan of England.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 471. Jl. 28, ’06. 1100w.
“We find it more interesting than his ‘History of Bokhara,’ or his ‘Travels in Central Asia,’ or even his ‘Autobiography.’”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 912. Ag. 18, ’06. 130w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. ’06. 60w.
“This striking book presents in vivid contrast the methods of the Slav and the Anglo-Saxon in Middle Asia.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 469. O. 6, ’06. 760w.
=Vance, Louis Joseph.= Private war: being the truth about Gordon Traill; his personal statement. †$1.50. Appleton.
“In this somber tale the brave and resourceful American lover, the astute English friend, and the wily German fortune-hunter circle about a lovely American widow of an English baronet. It is but an incident to be expected that Nihilists, Russian torpedo destroyers, and brilliant naval encounters enliven the progress of the love-story. In spite of, or because of, several violent deaths the lovers are united—in the end. The awful tragedy of a young mulatto girl awakens the schoolmaster to action, and moved by powerful moral conviction, he sacrifices his chances as a political leader to his convictions. In this way he incurs the hatred of his political opponents, and suffers for his courage.”—Outlook.
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“The melodrama goes with a careless swing; probability is properly ignored, and there is enough blood to satisfy the thirstiest.”
– + =Acad.= 71: 311. S. 29, ’06. 90w.
“A rattling good story of sensation and adventure.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 363. S. 29. 250w.
“Is one of those novels that just escape the category of ‘shockers’ by virtue of a certain neatness of plot and a bare touch of stylistic virtue.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 365. Je. 1, ’06. 220w.
“Mr. Vance has an interesting story to tell, and he tells it in a most lively and captivating manner. The characters may be of a more or less conventional and stagy nature ... but in this case they are decidedly well drawn.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 431. Jl. 7, ’06. 400w.
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 141. My. 19, ’06. 170w.
“Each season gives us many stories of this character both better and worse—and the best are but ephemeral.”
– + =Sat. R.= 102: 492. O. 20, ’06. 210w.
=Vance, Louis Joseph.= Terence O’Rourke, gentleman adventurer. †$1.50. Wessels.
“People who like a series of hair’s-breadth escapes, and are not
## particular as to whether they can believe in them or not, will
thoroughly enjoy the story, which is written with some skill, and a good deal of ingenuity.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 426. Mr. 17, ’06. 290w.
=Van Dyke, Henry.= Americanism of Washington. 50c. Harper.
Mr. Van Dyke aims to unsay two things often said about Washington: first, that he was a solitary and inexplicable phenomena of greatness, and second, that he was not an American. He interprets in brief the drama which Washington enacted of the eternal conflict in the soul of war between self-interest in its Protean forms, and loyalty to the right, service to a cause, and allegiance to an ideal.
=Van Dyke, Henry.= Essays in application. **$1.50. Scribner.
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 547. N. 3. 160w.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 419. Mr. ’06. 110w.
“The paper among the present series which is on the whole best worth reading, is that upon ‘The creative ideal of education.’” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Critic.= 48: 456. My. ’06. 570w.
“A book so admirably combining entertainment and edification is not published every day, or every month.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 20. Ja. 1, ’06. 390w.
“Every essay, however, is valuable, combining suggestions, application and criticism, and the volume will be given no unworthy place among the literature of essays as well as among the works of the author.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 168. Ja. 18, ’06. 210w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 510. Ap. ’06. 80w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 543. O. 13, ’06. 240w.
=Van Dyke, Henry.= Fisherman’s luck, and some other uncertain things. †$1.50. Scribner.
“A leisurely book, and rather prolix, it is written in good English on the model of Lamb.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 730. Je. 16. 170w.
=Van Dyke, John Charles.= Opal sea. **$1.25. Scribner.
“Here are all the facts and fancies about the sea, accumulations of the ages, harmoniously blended, not set down in the cyclopaedic manner; the fear of the sea, and the love of it, its terror and its beauty, the creatures that dwell in it, and the other creatures that float upon it in boats; its mystery, its never failing charm.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“It is not technical; it is not scientific; it is not a popular description; and it is not a rhapsody.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 241. S. 1. 180w.
“You cannot read it without feeling cool and clean and invigorated as from a dip into the ocean itself.”
+ + =Critic.= 49: 118. Ag. ’06. 330w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 1371. Je. 7, ’06. 1180w.
“Many readers of these essays will be encouraged to undertake a more precise study of the physical geography of the sea from formal treatises.”
+ =Nature.= 74: 269. Jl. 19, ’06. 70w.
“His point of view shifts from the scientific to the poetical with no loss of balance. ‘The opal sea’ is, indeed, a fascinating book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 180. Mr. 24, ’06. 230w.
“Written in an unostentatious yet brilliant manner, the least to be said of this latest work of Professor Van Dyke’s is that it forms an invaluable addition to the treasures of the bookshelf.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 410. Mr. 31, ’06. 310w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 510. Ap. ’06. 60w.
“This is certainly a book to be read.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 238. Ag. 18, ’06. 280w.
=Van Dyke, Paul.= Renascence portraits. **$2. Scribner.
“These papers belong to a delightful class of historical writing and illustrate the opportunities it affords to those who combine ideas with scholarship. The few slips we have noticed are of no great moment.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 651. Ap. ’06. 940w.
“Interesting volume.” Edward Fuller.
+ =Critic.= 48: 213. Mr. ’06. 680w.
“Of American historians, Professor Van Dyke has given us the most important contribution to the literature of the Renascence. What in his earlier work he did for the general reader, he has done in these ‘Renascence portraits’ for the student.” L. E. Robinson.
+ + + =Dial.= 41: 13. Jl. 1, ’06. 2290w.
“In his general reflections upon the period Mr. Van Dyke is not
## particularly happy, but he has made a clever use of the letters of
Aretino, in whom his book will help to create a living interest.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 239. Jl. 6, ’06. 900w.
“He has read widely and well in the period. His style is pleasant if without distinction. Yet the book as a whole is not convincing. It betrays too clearly its publicistic origin.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 165. F. 22, ’06. 530w.
“The book is picturesque and interesting.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 403. S. 22, ’06. 1720w.
=Van Millingen, Alexander.= Constantinople: painted by Warwick Goble. *$6. Macmillan.
“Such a subject makes exceptional demands upon both painter and describer, and it says much for Mr. Warwick Goble and Professor van Millingen that they have risen to their great occasion.... We have seldom seen views which were more successful in imparting the subtle secret of the scenery beloved by every one who has enjoyed the unspeakable privilege of feasting his eyes on the Bosporus and the Seven hills.... Prof. van Millingen ... best known as a learned and authoritative archaeologist ... has contrived to present a sketch of the history and life of the city suggestive of the imagination, not too crowded with facts, yet sufficiently full to embody the impression created by the pictures.... His account of the modern inhabitants is ... both sympathetic and life-like, besides being decidedly readable.”—Ath.
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“The virtue of the book lies more often in suggestion and stimulation than in finality.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 693. Je. 9. 1860w.
“In spite of an evidently conscientious desire on the part of the collaborators to do justice to the world-famous capital of the Ottoman Empire ... it can scarcely be claimed that the result is a complete success, either from the artistic or the literary point of view.”
– =Int. Studio.= 29: 182. Ag. ’06. 270w.
“Such care has been taken to connect the pictures and the text, that one scarcely knows whether the text was made to fit the pictures or the pictures to fit the text, but whichever it be the harmony is remarkable.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 104. Ag. 2, ’06. 1180w.
“The print, the pictures, and the text vie with each other for commendation. Dr. van Millingen enriches the real importance of his descriptions by a readable and limpid style of writing, showing sane, individual judgment, competent study, and sympathetic interest.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 530. Je. 30, ’06. 110w.
“The distinguished feature is the writing, the pictures are merely accessories, and too often not highly serviceable even in that capacity.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 120. Jl. 28. ’06. 320w.
“A volume which it is a pleasure both to read and to look at. The pictures are all good; some are quite excellent.”
+ + – =Spec.= 96: 912. Je. 9, ’06. 290w.
=Van Norden, Charles.= Jesus: an unfinished portrait. *$1. Funk.
Thirty-five years of study and reflection on the career of Jesus are summed up in these pages. It is the aim of the author to present the real Man from the standpoint of scientific accuracy. Following the introduction are the following subdivisions: The author’s point of view, How Jesus discovered his mission, What Jesus taught, The Master’s method and personality and Reflection.
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=Outlook.= 82: 810. Ap. 7, ’06. 320w.
=Van Vorst, Marie.= Amanda of the mill: a novel. †$1.50. Dodd.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
=Atlan.= 97: 51. Ja. ’06. 30w.
=Van Vorst, Marie.= Miss Desmond: an impression. †$1.50. Macmillan.
It was Balzac who created the heroine of thirty, and Marie Van Vorst has perpetuated the creation in her present fiction study. Miss Desmond is of the Puritan type, and after burying thirty-two years in her shut-away New England garden, finds herself unexpectedly expanding under the influence of the new life at a Swiss resort while chaperoning the daughter of her handsome and much talked-of sister. The threads of the story begin to tangle when the increasingly radiant Miss Desmond becomes her sister’s rival, and yields to the enchantment in spite of the fact that Robert Bedford has not an unblemished reputation.
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+ – =Acad.= 70: 40. Ja. 13, ’06. 340w.
“Neither the plot nor the characters are strikingly original.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 42. Ja. 13. 310w
“The development of the theme is dramatic, though at times a little unsure; and the characterization is uncommonly delicate and significant.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 19. Ja. 1, ’06. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 18. Ja. 13, ’06. 250w.
“Her ‘study’ of Miss Desmond’s transformation is accomplished brilliantly, with a few bold strokes.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 26. Ja. 6, ’06. 90w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 40w.
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 786. D. 16, ’05. 240w.
“There are, indeed one or two faults of taste in the book, which will not recommend it to the fastidious reader. But the analysis of character is well if rather pitilessly done, and the descriptions of the Swiss scenery amidst which the action passes are decidedly attractive. The book, however, is by no means on the same level as ‘Amanda of the mill.’”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 64. Ja. 13, ’06. 240w.
=Van Vorst, Marie.= Sin of George Warrener. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“The worthless wife of the virtuous poor man, who is corrupted by a wealthy lover and ruins her meritorious husband” (Spec.) is the central figure in this story which “recognizes the influence of petty, sordid, every-day details upon the great mass of mediocre, plodding, average human lives.” (Bookm.)
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“It is a repulsive theme, and we cannot feel that anything in this author’s treatment justifies its revival.”
– =Ath.= 1906, 1: 792. Je. 30. 150w.
“Is ... entitled to serious recognition, virile in its frankness, but very feminine in its subtle discernment.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 23: 643. Ag. ’06. 530w.
“The chief fault of the book is that the psychological element has so far dominated all the other elements of the novel that were that part of it to be removed there would practically be nothing else.”
+ – =Critic.= 49: 288. S. ’06. 210w.
“This unflinching realism, combined with a certain forcefulness of presentation, impels a reluctant sort of admiration for the book, despite a diction that is slovenly to the point of exasperation.” Wm. M. Payne.
– + =Dial.= 41: 114. S. 1, ’06. 80w.
“This story is well conceived and ably written, but it is not elevating.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 820. O. 4, ’06. 370w.
“The story, though always readable, had been almost a failure, had not the character of Mrs. Warrener, developed from some quality of will from shallow stupidity to an almost triumphant independence, held and mastered the interest throughout.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 249. Jl. 13, ’06. 540w.
“The very evident literary force and skill that have gone into the writing of ‘The sin of George Warrener’ only make one the more regretful that Miss Van Vorst should use her talents in behalf of such a sordid, unpleasant group of beings as are there depicted. Incidentally it may be mentioned that Miss Van Vorst is exceedingly fond of split infinitives and is far from avoiding other inaccuracies and inelegancies of style.”
– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 461. Jl. 21, ’06. 510w.
“The book will neither corrupt the morals nor engage the mind of any reader who knows how these subjects are treated by great writers.”
– =Sat. R.= 102: 211. Ag. 18, ’06. 180w.
“There are many faults of construction in the book: there are many faults of style, for at times the writing is painfully slipshod; but for the working out of the conception we have nothing but praise.”
+ – =Spec.= 97: 135. Jl. 28, ’06. 950w.
=Vaughan, Rev. John.= Wild flowers of Selborne, and other papers. **$1.50. Lane.
“A book which deserves a place beside Gilbert White’s “Natural history of Selborne” written over a century ago. There is in Rector Vaughan’s book a happy mingling of plants and people. Following a chapter on “The wild flowers of Selborne” is a chatty sketch of White himself; and then follow in succession the chapters on the use of Simples, Pot-herbs, Wild fruits, Wall-flowers, Poisonous plants, and so on, until we come to the essays on Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick, Izaak Walton at Droxford, and French prisoners at Portchester.” (Nation.)
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“The literary charm of the book is marked, and it is altogether a work of distinction and value.” Sara Andrew Shafer.
+ =Dial.= 40: 359. Je. 1, ’06. 530w.
“Whoever obtains this volume as an accession to his library of Whiteana may possibly be disappointed, but nevertheless will get his money’s worth in cheerful gossip about matters that certainly would have interested Gilbert White.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 415. My. 17, ’06. 880w.
“This is in truth a delightful book, set apart and above so much of the rural reporting of the day, by keen observation, a clearness of narrative, and distinct literary quality.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 406. Je. 23, ’06. 300w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 128. O. ’06. 90w.
+ =Spec.= 96: 584. Ap. 14, ’06. 250w.
=Vaux, Patrick.= Shock of battle, †$1.50. Putnam.
“A war between Great Britain and Germany, supposed to take place after the opening of the Panama canal, serves as an opportunity to develop the horrible scenes of a twentieth century conflict. Political causes are merely touched upon and the author confines himself to the presentation of the actual battles, in which even the trained and scientific fighters of this century fall back to a certain degree upon their primal instincts. This record of a naval battle bounds in pictures so revolting and at the same time so realistic that it brings home once more the terrible discrepancy between the methods of modern warfare and the ideals of our civilization.”—Outlook.
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“He writes with animation and vividness. As a piece of imaginative journalism the book may rank about with Mr. Well’s prophetic flights.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 228. S. 13, ’06. 190w.
“There is very little plot, however, and what power there is in the
## book lies in the descriptions of the fights between the battleships.”
– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 595. S. 29, ’06. 250w.
“The writer has produced not only a successful narrative, but a number of vigorous descriptions, excellent in themselves and contributing to the tensity of the situations.”
+ |=Outlook.= 84: 92. S. 8, ’06. 150w.
=Vay de Vaya and Luskod, Count.= Empires and emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan, notes and recollections. **$4. Dutton.
“Count Vay de Vaya ... early in life devoted himself to the work of the Roman Catholic church. A study of its missions and various organizations has taken him into all parts of the world and his unique experiences are told with unusual simplicity and charm.... The main part of the present volume was written on the eve of the Russo-Japanese war, and apart from the descriptions of the ‘traditions, quaint customs, and picturesque features of the land’ (of which he has the artistic perception) Count Vay de Vaya interprets the more fundamental social, political, and religious conditions existing in the Far East, which are of special interest just at this period.”—Outlook.
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=Ind.= 61: 641. S. 13, ’06. 120w.
“Few of the author’s statements go above the level of those of the average hasty traveller who accepts uncritically any story which is interesting. Yet, despite these criticisms, the style of the author is easy and his text entertaining. The average reader will surely be delighted with these experiences of a gentleman of kindly heart who adds to a pleasing style the graces of a cosmopolitan traveller.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 350. O. 25, ’06. 330w.
“He hardly provides much that is new, striking or significant. On the other hand he does provide much that is interesting though he is sometimes extraordinarily dull, and the hasty manner in which his notes have been thrown together leads to tedious repetitions.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 581. S. 22. ’06. 1010w.
“Interesting and valuable studies.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 238. S. 22, ’06. 250w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 511. O. ’06. 140w.
“The merit of this book lies in the author’s faculties of observation and brilliant description. He is an artist by temperament.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 102: 461. O. 13, ’06. 1240w.
=Vedder, Henry Clay.= Balthasar Hubmaier. **$1.35. Putnam.
The latest addition to the “Heroes of the reformation” series gives the history of Hübmaier’s life, his devotion to the Anabaptist cause, his doctrines, and his martyr death. The material has been gathered from Hübmaier’s own writings and a German life by Dr. Johann Loserth.
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“Dr. Vedder’s treatment in the book under review is sympathetic, but with conscientious regard for the facts, which are stated with clearness, candor, and accuracy.” Albert J. Ramaker.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 746. O. ’06. 500w.
“With its numerous illustrations the book gives an interesting picture of certain phases of the great protestant reformation not to be found elsewhere.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 267. Ap. 16, ’06. 320w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 904. D. 16, ’05. 400w.
=Venable, William Mayo.= Garbage crematories in America. $2. Wiley.
While the main portion of Mr. Venable’s treatment has to do with the subject of incineration, he deals briefly with quantities of refuse to be handled and with systems of the collection of city wastes. “As a whole, Mr. Venable’s book presents some of the fundamental principles governing, or which should govern, garbage and refuse furnaces, and outlines in a useful manner the various types of American furnaces.” (Engin. N.)
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“On the sanitary phases of refuse disposal Mr. Venable is quite unsatisfactory. As a whole Mr. Venable’s book presents some of the fundamental principles governing, or which should govern, garbage and refuse furnaces, and outlines in a useful manner the various types of American furnaces.”
+ – =Engin. N.= 55: 558. My. 17, ’06. 720w.
+ + =Nature.= 74: 631. O. 25, ’06. 460w.
=Ver Beck, Frank (William Francis).= Ver Beck’s book of bears; some of the lines were thought out by Hanna Rion, others by Hayden Carruth, the worst ones by Frank Ver Beck, the best ones by the bear himself. †$1.50. Lippincott.
A “bear” book in which the spirited illustrations put a whole bear family, if not through Jiu Jitsu, at least thru acrobatic and pugilistic performances which are marvelous as to expertness.
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“Is chiefly pictorial in its appeal, for the comment in verse and prose is not half so telling as the illustrations which it accompanies.”
+ – =Dial.= 41: 397. D. 1, ’06. 60w.
“The child will be hard to please indeed who cannot find hours of delight in the volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 50w.
=Verrall, Arthur Woolgar.= Essays on four plays of Euripides: Andromache, Helen, Heracles, Orestes. *$2.25. Macmillan.
“In ‘Euripides the rationalist’ Dr. Verrall dealt with his author on broad lines; here he takes four of his plays, veritable puzzles, and after showing the absurdity of the common interpretations of them, offers new ones of his own, based on the general view of the poet’s genius which he has formed. He claims to have found for these four plays interpretations reasonable and consistent, in place of the only possible alternative, the assumption that as dramas they are complete failures.”—Ath.
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“The notes are of the characteristic Verrallian type, brilliant and scholarly in the highest degree, but fantastic and unconvincing.” R. Y. Tyrrell.
+ – =Acad.= 69: 1283. D. 9, ’05. 1750w.
“We must offer our congratulations to Dr. Verrall on the admirable clearness with which he states and analyzes the intricate plots.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 192. F. 17. 1640w.
“By a chance, fortunate for Euripides and his readers, we have ... a second instalment ... of Dr. Verrall’s prose studies of the poet. That amounts to saying that the brightest and most ingenious exponent of the ‘true inwardness’ of Euripides as poet and dramatist and the most poetical of living translators have simultaneously helped forward a now winning cause—the rehabilitation of Euripides.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 63. F. 23. ’06. 1650w.
“The new volume is written with the acuteness and scholarship, the excessive ingenuity, the sensational manner of the old. Dr. Verrall is a thorough scholar, and no one can read him without profit. It is his method, not his knowledge that is at fault.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 302. Ap. 12, ’06. 2060w.
“One may not always agree with his conclusions, some of them are very daring, one must give them consideration for the sake of the ability, sincerity and enthusiasm which he displays in arriving at them.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 100: 820. D. 22, ’05. 600w.
“[Dr. Verrall] is so ingeniously intricate in his arguments, he weaves into them so many curious facts and acute observations, he so intertwines exact details with fine-spun fancies, that to put even some of his conclusions simply is no easy task, while any close criticism of his reasoning would need not an article but a volume.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 586. Ap. 14. ’06. 1500w.
=Vesey, Arthur Henry.= Castle of lies. †$1.50. Appleton.
A young man branded a coward because he did not risk his life to rescue a friend who had fallen over a precipice is the hero of a stormy tale rife with intrigue and hair-breadth escapes. He is led to believe that he may retrieve his former self respect by saving a life for the life lost. “The story is around the love of an American for an English girl. The title of the book is from the castle owned by the villain of the story, a countess, who, for political reasons, spirits away an ambassador, the brother of the heroine, and kidnaps the hero.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The whole thing is a tissue of glaring improbabilities strung together with no regard for sequence.”
– =Critic.= 49: 94. Jl. ’06. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 242. Ap. 14, ’06. 260w.
– =Outlook.= 82: 907. Ap. 21, ’06. 70w.
=Vetch, Robert Hamilton=, ed. Life of Lt.-Gen. the Hon. Sir Andrew Clarke; with a pref. by Sir G. S. Clarke. **$4. Dutton.
Sir Andrew Clarke of “the shrewd eye for capable men” deserves a biography “if only as an example of how the servants of the empire are made.” “To have played a part in the early struggles of two of the Australasian colonies, to have undertaken engineering works on a large scale, to have settled complex native problems in the Straits settlements and to have served on the Viceroy’s Council would have been enough for most men; but Sir Andrew Clarke was a man of such unceasing activity that these achievements were but a part of his career, and the training which he obtained in thus serving his country abroad only fitted him the better for becoming at home Commandant of the School of military engineering and Inspector-General of fortifications.” (Acad.)
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+ =Acad.= 70: 60. Ja. 20, ’06. 600w.
“The volume in which this story is told is judiciously edited.”
+ =Ath.= 1906. 1: 197. F. 17. 320w.
=Critic.= 48: 285. Mr. ’06. 80w.
=Ind.= 60: 629. Mr. 15, ’06. 400w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 455. D. 22, ’05. 660w.
“The book, which contains some interesting portraits, illustrations, and maps, is full of information as to persons, places, and events; but it is wanting in individual human interest. It is rather a record than a well-digested biography.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 365. My. 3, ’06. 250w.
“The life of this civilian in the army is admirably told by Col. Vetch.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 3. Ja. 6, ’06. 930w.
“A very able and judicious biographer he is. Colonel Vetch’s lucidly written, informing, and detailed biography deserves to be, and doubtless will be, considered an authority on the matter in, and the system by, which the British Empire was extended and consolidated in the nineteenth century.”
+ + + =Spec.= 96: sup. 121. Ja. 27, ’06. 430w.
=Villari, Luigi=, ed. Balkan question. *$3. Dutton.
+ =Spec.= 96: 227. F. 10. ’06. 170w.
=Vincent, Leon Henry.= American literary masters. **$2. Houghton.
Each of the nineteen chapters in this volume treats of the life and works of some American author of the period 1809–1860. The writers considered are: Irving, Bryant, Cooper, Longfellow, Poe, Bancroft, Prescott, Hawthorne, Whittier, Holmes, Motley, Emerson, Thoreau, Taylor, Mitchell, Curtis, Lowell, Whitman and Parkman.
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+ – =Acad.= 71: 572. D. 8, ’06. 1090w.
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 971. Jl. ’06. 30w.
“Mr. Vincent is clear, concise and definite, without being dry.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 91. Jl. ’06. 80w.
“The work is pleasing in style, and provides much systematically-ordered information.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 43. Jl. 16, ’06. 50w.
“He writes to instruct, but has the happy inspiration of retaining all the graces which he displays for the fastidious.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 167. Mr. 17, ’06. 210w.
“Among recent works of its kind we have seen none likely to be more useful.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 180. Mr. 24, ’06. 150w.
“But he has done his work conservatively and well.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 510. Ap. 31, ’06. 110w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 498. O. 6, ’06. 150w.
=Vinogradoff, Paul.= Growth of the manor. *$2.50. Macmillan.
“To the special student of the period.... The book is indispensable; while, on account of its breadth of treatment and its suggestive quality, it ought also to be welcomed by a far wider circle. The book is by no means conclusive. So little evidence is adduced in support of large generalizations that the author often fails to convince.” Frances G. Davenport.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 361. Ja. ’06. 1710w.
“In spite of these criticisms we cannot but admire the comprehensive knowledge of the history of the land tenure shown in this book, covering, as it does, a period of over a thousand years, and dealing with systems so different as those of the Romans, the Celts, the Saxons, and the Normans. English historical students must acknowledge their indebtedness to Professor Vinogradoff for the labour he has spent on the elucidation of the ancient institutions of our country.” F. G. M. Beck.
+ + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 764. O. ’06. 1500w.
Reviewed by Charles Beard.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 165. Mr. ’06. 1120w.
“A book which is, without question, the most important treatise now available for students and scholars who seek a knowledge of the subject. The style is simple and clear, and except for the arrangement of paragraphs, which run unbroken sometimes for three pages or more, no criticism can be passed on the construction of the book.” C. D.
+ + + =Yale R.= 14: 429. F. ’06. 1610w.
=Vizetelly, Francis (Frank) Horace.= Deskbook of errors in English. *75c. Funk.
The author’s object is to correct careless diction and to point out common errors and vulgarisms that have crept into our language so that his readers may acquire refined speech by learning what to avoid. To this end he has arranged those words which are most often incorrectly used in alphabetical order, including slang and colloquialisms, and has given each a concise note in explaining its use and misuse.
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+ =Ind.= 61: 252. Ag. 2, ’06. 40w.
“As an interesting, convenient, and not in the least academic desk manual, the book will go far to show the busy men the value of a ready precise use of good words in neat, unmistakable relations.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 451. Jl. 14. ’06. 400w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 671. Jl. 21, ’06. 210w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 60w.
=Vizetelly, Francis (Frank) Horace.= Preparation of manuscripts for the printer. *75c. Funk.
“This is a work that should be possessed by all persons with literary aspirations. It is also a treatise that will materially aid the practical culture of the general reader.”
+ + =Arena.= 35: 105. Ja. ’06. 500w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 60w.
=Vries, Hugo de.= Species and varieties: their origin by mutation: lectures delivered at the University of California; ed. by Daniel Trembly MacDougal. *$5. Open ct.
+ + =Nation.= 82: 496. Je. 14, ’06. 990w.
“Ranks with the most important on its subject which have thus far appeared.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 83: 45. My. 3, ’06. 490w.
=Vye, J. A.= Farm accounts: a manual for farmers and those desiring a simple method of keeping accounts. $1.25. J. A. Vye. St. Anthony Park, St. Paul.
A manual prepared for the classes of the School of agriculture of the Minnesota university, and adapted to the needs of high schools and business colleges.
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=Wack, Henry Wellington.= In Thamesland being a gossiping record of rambles thru England from the source of the Thames to the sea, with casual studies of the English people, their histories, literary and romantic shrines. The whole forming a complete guide to the Thames valley. **$3. Putnam.
Mr. Wack and a friend voyaged down the Thames “from near its obscure source to Kingston-upon-Thames, a short distance above London, where tidewater is met with. Mr. Wack has quite a faculty for accumulating facts, and his ‘Thamesland’ is a veritable mine of history, interspersed with much observation of scenery and occasionally a facetious remark at the expense of the natives with whom they came in contact. The book, which is admirably illustrated and has a good map, will serve as a very useful and interesting guide to those who wish to take a similar voyage down the historic Thames or spend the days in wandering among the towns on its banks.”-Ind.
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“This volume so frequently fails in accuracy that the reader who knows the river must be moved to impatience.”
– =Ath.= 1906, 2: 212. Ag. 25. 1070w.
Reviewed by Anna Benneson McMahan.
=Dial.= 41: 200. O. 1, ’06. 990w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 638. S. 13, ’06. 300w.
“He writes agreeably and has been careful in collecting his information.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 430. S. 29, ’06. 90w.
“The book is, in fact, one to make an Englishman shudder, and to depress even more the American who has been over the same ground.”
– =Nation.= 83: 350. O. 25, ’06. 280w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 15, ’06. 100w.
“We know of none at once so entertaining, so beautiful, and so comprehensive in its scope as this.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 450. Jl. 14, ’06. 230w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 254. N. ’06. 240w.
“High-class guide-book.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 255. Ag. ’06. 70w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 271. Ag. 25, ’06. 220w.
=Wack, Henry Wellington.= Story of the Congo Free State. **$3.50. Putnam.
– =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 196. Ja. ’06. 350w.
“The present volume, in its controversial part, is useful in presenting the other side, as against Dilke, Fox-Bourne and their supporters. Its elaborate collection of data not especially bearing on the ‘Congo question’ is the more immediately valuable to the student.” A. G. K.
– + =Yale R.= 14: 434. F. ’06. 680w.
=Waddell, Charles Carey.= Van Suyden sapphires. † $1.50. Dodd.
“Is decidedly one of the best stories of this class that has been put out in many a day.”
+ + =Reader.= 7: 562. Ap. ’06. 160w.
=Waddell, Laurence Austine.= Lhasa and its mysteries: with a record of the expedition of 1903–1905. *$3. Dutton.
“This is a new and cheaper edition of Colonel Waddell’s account of our recent expedition into Tibet. In its more expensive shape it passed through two editions, and the present one is a marvel of cheapness. Not very many of the illustrations of last year are omitted in this year’s reprint, and the type is the same.”-Nature.
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“A volume which is almost, if not quite as handsome and complete as the expensive first and second editions.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 487. My. 19, ’06. 290w.
“Colonel Waddell’s book ... now appears in a cheaper edition, $3.00, which for most persons and libraries will be as satisfactory.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 883. O. 1, ’06. 80w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 474. O. 6, ’06. 100w.
+ =Nature.= 74: 518. S. 20, ’06. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 757. N. 17, ’06. 270w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 630. N. 10, ’06. 350w.
=Waddington, Mary Alsop King.= Italian letters of a diplomat’s wife. **$2.50. Scribner.
“For readers of whatever experience the letters are at their best when they have to do with the two latest occupants of the Quirinal, their queens, and their three contemporaries in the Vatican.” M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 113. Ja. ’06. 260w.
=Wade, Blanche Elizabeth.= Garden in pink. **$1.75. McClurg.
“Is an exquisite and perfect bit of bookmaking but having said this it is difficult to add anything in praise of the book’s literary substance.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 168. Mr. 17, ’06. 430w.
=Wade, Blanche Elizabeth.= Stained glass lady: an idyl; with frontispiece and other drawings by Blanche Ostertag. †$2.50. McClurg.
Imaginative “Little boy” after “counting things” to keep awake during the big people’s sermon spies a beautiful young woman outlined against the stained glass window. In his youthful fancy she is fit to wear the crown suspended in the glass above her head. He calls her the “Stained-glass lady,” and there springs up between the two an idyllic friendship which is characterized by the child’s susceptibility to the poetic graces of the woman, and to the flower and sunlight atmosphere of her surroundings.
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“A vivid descriptive touch, a whimsical humor, and a highly imaginative appreciation of nature combine to produce a unique and decided charm, which a slight affectation of style rather increases than diminishes.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 394. D. ’06. 220w.
“Such children as are blessed with imagination and a love of the beautiful will delight in ‘The stained glass lady.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 752. N. 17, ’06. 100w.
=Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton (Blanchard).= Indian fairy tales, as told to the children of the wigwam. $1. Wilde.
The folk-lore of the red people as it was handed down from generation to generation is found in this little volume for young readers who cannot but feel the charm of the mythical red heroes and of the things of the water, the air, and the stars themselves which figure in these stories of: The daughter of the stars, White Feather and the six giants, The magic moccasins, Hiawatha, Lex, Gloaskap, Manabozho, The fire plume and all the others.
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+ =Ind.= 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 40w.
=Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton (Blanchard).= Old colony days: stories of the first settlers and how the country grew, with il. by Sears Gallagher. [+]75c. Wilde.
The second volume in “Uncle Sam’s old-time stories.” Uncle Sam is the story-teller and follows the principal events of colonial days, showing with what courage, in spite of hardships and dangers, the settlers struggled for free homes. It is a juvenile book adapted to class-room needs.
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“Would have been much more effective had the first settlers and the country’s growth been followed in a direct manner.”
– =Ind.= 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 40w.
=Waggaman, Mary T., and others.= Juvenile round table, third series. $1. Benziger.
A group of interesting stories with Catholic teaching.
=Wagnalls, Mabel.= Miserere. **40c. Funk.
A sad tale with a musical setting in which a young prima donna is the central spirit.
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“A charming little story of music and music-lovers.” Amy C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 36: 686. D. ’06. 70w.
=Wagner, Charles.= Justice; tr. from the French by Mary Louise Hendee. **$1. McClure.
=Critic.= 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 70w.
+ =Reader.= 7: 225. Ja. ’06. 240w.
=Wagner, Charles.= My impressions of America; tr. from the French by Mary Louise Hendee. **$1. McClure.
“The author of ‘The simple life’ has made a record of his personal experiences rather than a formal study of American institutions. His attitude is one of sympathy and appreciation, seldom running into criticism. The book is not without passages of the reflective and serious kind, but they are thrown in here and there as breaks in the narrative.”—Lit. D.
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“From a literary point of view, it is about nil; as also from the point of view of the American who desires to see his country more clearly through the eyes of a stranger.”
+ – =Dial.= 41: 286. N. 1, ’06. 190w.
=Ind.= 61: 825. O. 4, ’06. 100w.
“Mr. Wagner has offered to Americans a graceful and interesting souvenir of his recent visit.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 474. O. 6, ’06. 70w.
“Dr. Wagner is above all a keen observer. He notices little things as well as those of great dimensions, and writes of them simply and charmingly.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 633. O. 6, ’06. 450w.
“It is the spontaneous expression of a man who is wholly delightful as a companion and who writes as simply and as freely and in as friendly a fashion as he talks.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 795. N. 24, ’06. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 512. O. ’06. 50w.
=Wagner, Richard.= Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck; tr. by W. Ashton Ellis. $4. Scribner.
“Our author dwells at too great length on Wagner’s virtues and Minna’s failings.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 711. Je. 9. 800w.
=Wagner, (Wilhelm) Richard.= Tannhäuser; a dramatic poem freely translated in poetic narrative form by Oliver Huckel. **75c. Crowell.
A companion volume to Mr. Huckel’s “Parsifal” and “Lohengrin.” This parable of the redemptive power of a pure and unselfish love loses neither dignity nor strength in the translation.
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“This essay alone is worth more than the price of the work to lovers of the greatest musical genius of the nineteenth century.”
+ + =Arena.= 36: 685. D. ’06. 190w.
“There is a prose introduction, which is both historical and critical and the verse is smooth and flowing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 724. N. 3, ’06. 90w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 377. D. ’06. 90w.
=Wagstaff, Henry McGilbert.= State rights and political parties in North Carolina, 1776–1861. 50c. Johns Hopkins.
A monograph setting forth the political tendencies of North Carolinians between the war of independence and the war of secession.
=Walcott, Earle Ashley.= Blindfolded. $1.50. Bobbs.
San Francisco with its Chinatown and its water front, its wild life and its desperadoes, is the scene of this adventurous tale of two dual personalities. A young stranger arrives at the Golden Gate just in time to take up, blindfolded, the work of his murdered friend and double, and he is further blinded because of the strange resemblance which his friend’s benefactor bears to his friend’s enemy. Thru murders, brawls, wild scenes in the stock exchange, and strange adventurous missions he gropes courageously in the dark towards light, wealth and happiness.
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“This is a mystery-romance displaying considerable ability on the part of the author in construction, plot and counterplot. It is fairly well written and is, we think, the best story of the kind that has appeared in recent months.”
+ + =Arena.= 36: 571. N. ’06. 350w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 646. N. 3, ’06. 80w.
“In spite of the triteness of both fiction and machinery, it cannot be denied that the book holds our attention from start to finish by means of an interest born of suspense.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 656. O. 6, ’06. 350w.
– =Outlook.= 84: 839. D. 1, ’06. 30w.
=World To-Day.= 11: 1222. N. ’06. 80w.
=Walker, Alice Morehouse.= Historic Hadley: a story of the making of a famous Massachusetts town. **$1. Grafton press.
In this sketch of historic Hadley “truth has not been sacrificed to style. Painstaking effort has been made to search the town records, to scrutinize every historical document, and to weigh carefully famous traditions. The old dwellings, the highways and byways, the mountains, the river and the meadows, the ancient elms, heirlooms and antique relics have been questioned and they have broken their silence of centuries and told the story of by-gone days.”
=Walker, James.= Analytical theory of light. *$5. Macmillan.
“Not a text-book of physical optics, but of the analytical theory of light.... It is a book to which students who desire to know how far the mathematical side of the wave theory has been carried, what are its limitations, and in what directions advances are possible will usefully turn.”—Nature.
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“Mr. Walker has added to the literature of the subject a book of real value.”
+ + – =Nature.= 73: 241. Ja. 11, ’06. 1290w.
“Is, perhaps, the most complete treatment of the subject so far attempted from the standpoint of the general wave theory.” C. E. M.
+ + – =Science=, n.s. 23: 385. Mr. 9, ’06. 220w.
=Walker, Williston.= John Calvin, the organizer of reformed Protestantism, 1509–1564. **$1.35. Putnam.
Uniform with the “Heroes of the Reformation.” The volume “lays special stress on Calvin’s training, spiritual development, and constructive work, giving secondary place to the details of his Genevan contests, or of his relations to the spread of the Reformation in the different countries to which his influence extended. Calvin, as Mr. Walker points out at the very beginning of his book, was of the second generation of reformers.” (Putnam’s.)
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“It is an excellent piece of work. While by no means light reading, the book is clear and straightforward, and it makes the real man Calvin live before us his strange life, so far-reaching in its influence.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 286. N. 1, ’06. 140w.
“It contains about all that the average scholar needs to care for. It is free from exaggerations of either praise or blame. The bias on the whole is for Calvin. Will be useful to any student of history, no matter what others he may have on the same topic; and it is competent by itself to meet the requirements of most of us. It gives the essential facts in a straightforward, unambitious style. And it has a very good index.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 775. N. 24, ’06. 1120w.
“The present biography is critical as well as sympathetic, carefully citing authorities, and candidly exhibiting both the lights and the shadows of a masterful character and career.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 384. O. 13. ’06. 150w.
=Putnam’s.= 1: 383. D. ’06. 210w.
“A well-balanced, temperate historical character sketch.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 758. D. ’06. 90w.
=Wallace, Alfred Russel.= My life: a record of events and opinion. *$6. Dodd.
“It dwells in a somewhat too extended manner on unimportant personal details and facts relating to the family and friends of the author. This fault, however, is insignificant in comparison with the general excellence of the life story, which merits the widest reading.”
+ – =Arena.= 36: 202. Ag. ’06. 10,400w.
“The narrative has very little literary charm, ingenious or other. The annalist’s expression is often incorrect, and invariably clumsy. He has no organic mode of speech, and words are but rough counters with him.” H. W. Boynton.
+ – =Atlan.= 98: 279. Ag. ’06. 860w.
“Like one of his disembodied spirits, able to get outside of himself and write an autobiography as interesting as it is disinterested.” I. Woodbridge Riley.
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 626. F. ’06. 1670w.
“The record is planned on too large a scale. The reader who knows how to skip will find these volumes deeply interesting.”
+ + – =Contemporary R.= 88: 899. D. ’05. 2220w.
“In the past year which has been prolific of biographies and autobiographies there has been nothing more important or more entertaining than the autobiography of Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ + =Critic.= 48: 352. Ap. ’06. 1410w.
“There is a good deal of matter in the book which does not strike one as being particularly valuable or important; but on the other hand, the variety of subjects discussed, and the wide human interests of the author, cause it to appeal to a far larger circle than the usual biography of a man engaged in the investigation of technical matters.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 11. Ja. 1, ’06. 1710w.
“This autobiography is as self-revealing as Pepys’s or Rousseau’s.”
+ + + =Ind.= 60: 280. F. 1, ’06. 950w.
“This is certainly a very entertaining book, highly instructive in several distinct ways.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 160. F. 22, ’06. 2960w.
Reviewed by J. A. T.
+ + + =Nature.= 73: 145. D. 14, ’05. 1890w.
Reviewed by Joseph Jacobs.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 13. Ja. 13. ’06. 1700w.
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 371. F. 17, ’06. 2140w.
“His autobiography is a welcome and worthy record of an honourable and strenuous career.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: 61. Ja. 13. ’06. 1500w.
=Wallace, Sir Donald Mackenzie.= Russia. $5. Holt.
“The additions to the book will be of primary interest to the student of contemporaneous political, social, and economic conditions rather than to the historian.” F. G. D.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 440. Ja. ’06. 320w.
+ + + =Outlook.= 83: 137. My. 19, ’06. 630w.
+ + =Quarterly R.= 204: 249. Ja. ’06. 3570w.
“The book continues to be, as it has been for nearly a generation, the best English book on Russia.” C. D.
+ + + =Yale R.= 15: 331. N. ’06. 330w.
=Wallace, Lew (Lewis), general.= Lew Wallace: an autobiography. 2v. **$5. Harper.
At the time of General Lew Wallace’s death his autobiography was practically complete. It is written with the personal note individualizing and vitalizing a career which tho it began in uneventful commonplaces grew to distinction in letters, politics, war and diplomacy. A certain simplicity of life and creed pervades the sketch and a magnificent sense of justice. Wallace’s boyhood and youth, in which are set forth the struggles to find himself, his young manhood, full of patriotism and his maturity in which the lawyer and politician figure, all attest to a devotion to life for the purpose of finding working principles.
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“No more frank and informal record of personal experience has ever been written. In a way, no higher compliment can be paid to his story than to say that it is one of those grownup books which a boy would read with understanding and enjoyment.”
+ + + =Harper’s Weekly.= 50: 1866. D. 22, ’06. 1590w.
“An intimate and entertaining narrative.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 120w.
“Is interesting both for the career ... and for the light which it throws upon the conditions which made the writing of the first best seller possible.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 800. D. 1, ’06. 230w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 889. D. 22, ’06. 1330w.
“General Wallace’s war experiences were full of romance, adventure and inspiration. He has not failed to let his kindly, mellow sense of humor play over his narrative.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 757. D. ’06. 150w.
=Waller, Mary Ella.= Through the gates of the Netherlands; with 24 photogravure pl. after Lanne, and others by A. A. Montferrand, reproduced in photogravure. **$3. Little.
An intimate sketch of Holland and its people which purports to be written by an architect’s wife during a sojourn with her husband in this land of dunes and dykes. It is a record, accompanied by various illustrations, of the essentials that have gone to make up the beauty, the glory, the struggle and the toil of this “brave little land.”
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+ =Dial.= 41: 452. D. 16, ’06. 220w.
“The results of much close observation may be found in her account of the manner in which the Hollanders live, their habits of body and of thought, the picturesque details of the country, and the rest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 806. D. 1, ’06. 120w.
“An attractive book which in graphic and readable qualities is decidedly above the average of such works.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 940. D. 15, ’06. 120w.
=Wallis, Louis.= Egoism: a study in the social premises of religion. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.
Reviewed by A. W. Small and Charles Rufus Brown.
=Am. J. Soc.= 11: 848. My. ’06. 1400w.
“The line of argument is interesting and stimulating, and calls for more thorough work before we can feel quite satisfied that the case is proved.” Ira Maurice Price and John M. P. Smith.
+ – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 326. Ap. ’06. 250w.
“It is a sociological study of considerable value, the chief defect of which is the tendency to make assumed sociological conditions account for so much as to leave little for the religious genius of Israel to do.”
+ + – =Bib. World.= 27: 159. F. ’06. 60w.
“The best part of the book is the terse rapid survey of Israel’s internal development; and the writer does good service in calling attention again to sociological facts conditioning prophetic teaching. However, his generalizations are too sweeping; but this fact may be due to the brevity of the book.” Milton G. Evans.
+ – =Bib. World.= 28: 288. O. ’06. 240w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 55. Ja. 13, ’06. 900w.
=Walpole, Horace.= Letters chronologically arranged and ed. with notes and indices, by Mrs. Paget Toynbee. 16v. ea. *$2; set, *$32. Oxford.
“In accuracy of text and diligence of annotation this edition satisfies a close criticism.”
+ + + =Acad.= 69: 1310. D. 16, ’05. 260w. (Review of v. 13–15.)
“As she began she went on, and the conclusion maintains her high level of editorial efficiency. It is certainly to be deplored that so important and laborious a work has not been crowned by a complete index. That supplied cannot be regarded as worthy of a great scheme. These volumes are his rosemary, and we cannot conceive that the world will ever forget them.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 69. Ja. 20. 1860w. (Review of v. 13–16.)
“Mrs. Toynbee has done her author good service in other ways besides the collection of new letters. She has made many alterations in the chronology of Cunningham’s arrangement. She has also much amended the text. From every point of view Mrs. Paget Toynbee has done a monumental piece of work, creditable in the highest degree for accuracy and thoroughness.” Gamaliel Bradford, jr.
+ + + =Atlan.= 97: 330. Mr. ’06. 5560w.
“On the whole, her text would seem to be more accurate and more nearly intact than any of its predecessors.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 320. My. 16, ’06. 1330w. (Review of v. 1–16.)
“This edition can scarcely be said to add anything of importance to our knowledge of Horace Walpole or of his times. Nor is the editorial work, though well done, by any means remarkable. Further, as completeness seems to have been the special object of the edition, its appearance has been premature.” William Hunt.
+ + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 386. Ap. ’06. 1040w. (Review of v. 13–16.)
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 898. D. 16, ’05. 170w. (Review of v. 13–15.)
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 66. F. 3, ’06. 460w. (Review of v. 16.)
“Fully as interesting, in some respects indeed almost more interesting, than any of those which preceded them. Indices compiled even by the very competent assistants called in at the eleventh hour cannot produce the same accurate minuteness as that which undoubtedly Mrs. Toynbee would have given her readers.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 110. Ja. 27, ’06. 2190w. (Review of v. 12–16.)
=Walsh, Walter.= Moral damage of war. *75c. Ginn.
An “unsparing, detailed and specific arraignment of the war system.” The book is almost exclusively a résumé of the crimes and demoralization caused by the Boer war.
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=Dial.= 41: 330. N. 16, ’06. 130w.
=Walters, F. Ruffenacht.= Sanatoria for consumptives. *$5. Dutton.
An unofficial descriptive catalog of sanatoria in various countries for the open-air treatment of consumption.
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=Nation.= 82: 300. Ap. 12, ’06. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 552. Ag. 19, ’05. 230w.
“The information has been carefully and intelligently compiled.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 529. O. 28, ’05. 40w.
=Walters, Henry Beauchamp.= Art of the Greeks. $6. Macmillan.
An informing treatment of all phases of Greek art including architecture, sculpture, painting, pottery, coins, gems, gold and silverware, presented in the light of recent archaeological discovery.
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+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 742. D. 8. 380w.
“The tale is well told and loaded with additions that recent years have brought. The excellent form and the well-nigh perfect and abundant illustrations will make the book extremely popular. One rises from a reading of the book with wonder that so much has been put into such little space. One might almost say ‘Infinite riches in a little room.’”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1289. N. 29, ’06. 1160w.
“Recommends itself among books on art subjects at this season of gifts by its substantial worth and its attractive make-up.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 52. D. ’06. 340w.
+ – =Nation.= 83: 518. D. 13, ’06. 1070w.
“The book is written in a broad, dignified, and authoritative style, with a fine sense of suppression, which makes adverse criticism dangerous.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 837. D. 1, ’06. 350w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 704. N. 24, ’06. 200w.
“An exhaustive handbook.”
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 377. D. ’06. 130w.
=Walters, Henry Beauchamp.= History of ancient pottery, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman; based on the work of Samuel Birch. 2v. *$15. Scribner.
“This is a difficult book to estimate justly. Such a work was much needed; and this has great merits, and will probably be read and valued widely. But it has bad defects, both of plan and of workmanship.”
+ + – =Acad.= 70: 55. Ja. 20, ’06. 2210w.
“Gives us after long waiting an adequate history of ancient pottery, of which vases are the chief item.” Rufus B. Richardson.
+ + – =Ind.= 60: 41. Ja. 4, ’06. 1770w.
=Waltz, Elizabeth Cherry.= Ancient landmark. †$1.50. McClure.
“The prologue to this entertaining story is a mistake.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 140. F. 10, ’06. 280w.
“On the whole, we find variety in the types depicted, sordid and unpleasing as they mostly are.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 194. F. 17. 130w.
“As a ‘problem novel’ the book has no claim to originality, but the delicacy with which the subject is handled is unusual and refreshing.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 178. F. 10, ’06. 220w.
Wampum library of American literature; ed. by Brander Matthews. **$1.40. Longmans.
“Dr. Payne’s choice of critics and of critical work is admirable, and his characterization of our American contribution to criticism is, on the whole, exceptionally good.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 215. Jl. 27, ’05. (Review of v. 2.)
War in the Far East, 1904–1905, by the military correspondent of the London Times; with 34 maps especially prepared by Percy Fisher. **$5. Dutton.
This book is a compilation of the comments printed in The London Times from day to day during the war between Russia and Japan, contributed by its able military correspondent, Mr. Emery. “The military expert of the Times holds a high position in Europe as a critic and student of war, and his comments, criticisms, predictions on events, the lessons he drew from them, were read the world over with close attention. The republication of the daily comments, with certain purely personal remarks omitted, is then very acceptable to other students both of history and of the science of war, though the volume is not, and does not pretend to be, a history of war in the ordinary sense.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The maps are more complete than those in almost any book of military history.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 606. N. 4. 1590w.
“This book is magnificent, but it is not a story. Read it for what it purports to express and actually is, and it will be found to have hardly a peer in its class of literature, and probably will have no equal or successor for many years.” William Eliot Griffis.
+ + + =Dial.= 40: 194. Mr. 16, ’06. 1440w.
“Taken for what it professes to be, this book is of eminent value, but since each chapter was written within a short time after the battle it narrates ... the historian of the future, with the official records at his command, will doubtless find in it many errors of detail.”
+ + – =Ind.= 60: 516. Mr. 1, ’06. 300w.
“As a contribution to the literature of scientific warfare the volume is of high value. We cannot commend it as a narrative of the
## particular war under review, for it retains altogether too much of the
speculative comment of the original, so interesting at the time, but so tedious after the event.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 172. F. 3, ’06. 90w.
“Embellished as they now are by an admirable series of maps, they form by far the most scientific study of the war that has yet been published. It is, however, unfortunate that the spelling of names in the letterpress should not have been brought into accord with that adopted by the map maker.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 353. O. 27, ’05. 2880w.
“This book contains many remarks on matters of strategy and military science that are of permanent value.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 79. Ja. 25, ’06. 130w.
“Apart from its technical interest, it is noteworthy as showing how well its author could prophesy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 890. D. 16, ’06. 410w.
“Whoever he may be, the ‘Times’ critic is a master of the art of warfare, and the possessor of a singularly vigorous and happy style, and his work is undoubtedly one of the most suggestive and illuminating battle-books in print.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 81: 943. D. 16, ’05. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 114. Ja. ’06. 130w.
“Where military questions only are concerned fully bears out the expectations which other works of a similar nature would lead us to expect. And yet there is a good deal too much advertisement about it. We would add too that the comments on the military operations are in their broad features often excellent.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 100: 686. N. 25, ’05. 2030w.
“It is a remarkable feat to have given us contemporary accounts of the battles themselves so accurate that when read in conjunction with the maps which show us each phase of these battles ... they may fitly serve as the best general introduction to closer and more detailed study. Even more remarkable still are the ‘appreciations’ which show us the workings of a mind wise before and not after the event.”
+ + + =Spec.= 96: 221. F. 10, ’06. 1110w.
=Ward, Elizabeth Stuart (Phelps) (Mrs. Herbert D. Ward).= Man in the case; il. by H: J. Peck. †$1.50. Houghton.
Joan Dare past the first flush of youth withdraws her promise to marry Douglas Ray the day following her betrothal. She enters upon a period of martyrdom which involves the mystery of the tale. “There is nothing sensational about the book but its title, although its theme is a village sensation. It contains some credible new New England villagers, and one old woman who is more than credible. It is, moreover, free from religious or erotic sentimentality.” (Nation).
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+ + =Ind.= 61: 1116. N. 8, ’06. 380w.
“The love-story in her new novel is told with such perfect art that it recalls the great ones of literature: yet the materials and the setting are of the simplest and the interest is dependent upon the writer’s art alone.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 646. N. 3, ’06. 230w.
“Mrs. Ward is to be congratulated upon having, in this little tale, escaped from the morbidness and mawkishness which have made much of her work, especially her recent work, a thing popular and to be abhorred by the judicious.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 287. O. 4, ’06. 80w.
“The book is written with Mrs. Ward’s usual elevation of feeling and dignity of manner. It shows the same tense quality of imagination, sometimes becoming almost exaggeration, which have always marked her work. There is perhaps less of care and detail in the drawing of her characters, which affect one like unfinished sketches, than one used to find in her work.”
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 619. O. 6, ’06. 300w.
“She has never been more out of key with a wholesome way of dealing with life than in this story of a heroic and self-sacrificing woman.”
– =Outlook.= 84: 708. N. 24, ’06. 120w.
“Her best work next to ‘A singular life.’”
+ + – =World To-Day.= 11: 1221. N. ’06. 140w.
=Ward, H. Snowden.= Canterbury pilgrimages. *$1.75. Lippincott.
+ =Dial.= 40: 268. Ap. 16, ’06. 160w.
“From the point of view of the historian, Mr. Ward has written a very minute and interesting description of the life and death of Thomas à Becket and of the cult of St. Thomas.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 525. D. 28, ’05. 490w.
=Ward, Josephine Mary Hope-Scott (Mrs. Wilfrid Philip Ward).= Out of due time. $1.50. Longmans.
“The present novel is not of the sort likely to satisfy the ordinary appetite for fiction, but it is well thought out, and represents the mental and religious struggle of a strong mind. Two women sacrificed themselves to a man who, as his sister said, did not pray—he only thought. The inroads of scientific knowledge upon such a soul can be imagined from the Catholic standpoint. The story is one of contest between theological fervor and emotionless intellect; the effect is somber, and the style somewhat ponderous.”—Outlook.
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“Here is the simple, direct style—the outcome of natural distinction under fine culture—the serene, benignant attitude towards matters of controversy; the loftiness of thought that marked her former work. The
## book is on a high plane.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 382. Ap. 21, ’06. 440w.
=Ath.= 1906, 1: 542. My. 5. 220w.
“As one is about to assign to this doubly fascinating volume a permanent place on the book shelf, embarrassment arises. We think its proper place is [in the useful apologetic literature of the day].” James J. Fox, D. D.
+ =Cath. World.= 83: 382. Je. ’06. 4720w.
“[We] have regretted that a book with such excellent and penetrating work in it should drop from the high level on which it begins.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 125. Ap. 6, ’06. 500w.
“The book is hampered by its argument, but it is, nevertheless, so full of humanity, of beauty, of literary value that to miss it would be to miss such a feast as does not come every day.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 338. My. 26, ’06. 1220w.
“In spite of her special motive, the author handles her material with tact and delicacy.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 286. Je. 2, ’06. 100w.
“The intense spirituality of the conception and the grace of the style render the book memorable.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 760. Je. 16, ’06. 440w.
“The main interest of the book has nothing to do with fiction.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 676. Ap. 28, ’06. 330w.
=Ward, Lester Frank.= Applied sociology: a treatise on the conscious improvement of society by society. *$2.50. Ginn.
The central thought of this discussion is that of a true science of society, capable, in the measure that it approaches completeness, of being turned to the profit of mankind. Movement, Achievement, and Improvement are the three subdivisions of the treatment.
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“Right or wrong in its main contentions, the ‘Applied sociology’ is, together with the appropriate parts of the ‘Pure sociology,’ the most impressive treatment of the general principles of education since Spencer’s. Those who, like the writer, are puzzled to fit the facts to its doctrines and those who heartily accept it will equally enjoy it and equally admire it as a further example of the author’s great gifts as a thinker and as a writer.” Edward L. Thorndike.
+ + – =Bookm.= 24: 290. N. ’06. 3690w.
“The clearness, brilliancy and vigorous defense of some pronounced doctrine which we have learned to expect from Professor Ward are characteristics of this book. It concerns real facts, not verbal distinctions; it delights by its cleverness of thought and style. The one failure in clearness of this volume is its failure to distinguish between absolute and relative achievement and to assign the proper social value to each.” Edward L. Thorndike.
+ + – =Science=, n.s. 24: 299. S. 7, ’06. 1130w.
=Ward, Mary Augusta Arnold (Mrs. Thomas Humphry Ward).= Fenwick’s career; il. by Albert E. Sterner. *$1.50. Harper.
Mrs. Ward’s latest novel is based upon the story of the painter George Romney, whose thirty years’ separation from his wife for the sake of his art is reduced to twelve in the present story. The hero, John Fenwick, from the Westmorland hills, possesses a great uncouth, untrained genius for painting which longs for expression. In satisfying his ambition to go to London he subordinates wife, child, all heart things to his one great art passion. Out of his hesitation to admit the existence of a wife to his uncertain London friends and patrons grows an estrangement which is unconsciously aided by Eugenie de Pastourelles, the Eleanor of the story, a woman of great strength, but unfortunate in her marriage. As Mrs. Ward’s art demands the shifting of moral and ethical values to the right focus, with sure steady touch she extricates and arrays in order the confused forces.
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“The criticism that one is almost compelled to pass upon the book is that the characters are somewhat wanting in life and full-bloodedness.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 422. My. 5, ’06. 1470w.
“As to Fenwick himself the portrait lacks outline. It is thoroughly enjoyable, with charm as well as an idea of its own.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 572. My. 11. 1330w.
“You read her latest volume with a wish that, having conceived so vital and typical a character as Fenwick, she might have been inspired to treat him less conventionally.” Mary Moss.
+ + – =Bookm.= 23: 533. Jl. ’06. 2890w.
“Mrs. Ward has certainly forgotten for the moment one of the prime principles of literary artistry—that sympathy can hardly be excited in the reader’s mind for unsympathetic characters.”
+ – =Critic.= 49: 50. Jl. ’06. 580w.
“Another positive merit of this novel is found in its comparative freedom from the prolixity that lies like a dead weight on most of its predecessors.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 36. Jl. 16, ’06. 710w.
“If there is any fault to be found with the book it is the emphasis which the author places upon refinement, sensibility and the society which these elements create.”
+ + – =Ind.= 60: 1432. Je. 14, ’06. 1020w.
– + =Ind.= 61: 1161. N. 15, ’06. 90w.
“The book is justified by the artistic and well-rounded-out finale.”
+ + – =Lit. D.= 33: 123. Jl. 28, ’06. 850w.
“It shows all the old thoroughness, knowledge, good sense: a little more than the old tenderness and sympathy. It does not hit hard; it does not carry the reader on in a fever. It never surprises.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 158. My. 4, ’06. 1070w.
“It is only in construction that ‘Fenwick’s career’ seems to us better than the preceding novel.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 15. Jl. 5, ’06. 630w.
“While ‘Fenwick’s career’ may fail of an instant appeal to ‘the general,’ we think it attains a height hitherto unreached by its author. She has poured into it her deepest thought, her ripest wisdom, and it stands to-day the noblest expression of her genius.” M. Gordon Pryor. Rice.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. My. 5, ’06. 2330w.
“Mrs. Ward handles each delicate situation with her characteristic skill.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 150w.
“Is full of talent, but stops short of being a work of genius.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 501. Je. 30, ’06. 240w.
+ + – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 660. My. 26, 06. 1380w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 762. Je. ’06. 70w.
“They should be set down as fundamentally inartistic and unedifying.”
– =Sat. R.= 101: 725. Je. 9, ’06. 1500w.
+ + =Spec.= 96: 757. My. 12, ’06. 1370w.
“It is a piece of sincere writing, gripping the reader without appeal to literary tricks or falsetto sentiment.”
+ + =World To-Day.= 11: 765. Jl. ’06. 120w.
=Ward, Mary Augusta Arnold (Mrs. Thomas Humphry Ward).= Marriage of William Ashe. †$1.50. Harper.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 55. Ja. ’06. 230w.
=Warden, Florence, pseud. (Mrs Florence Alice Price James).= House by the river. $1. Ogilvie.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 153. F. 3, ’06. 150w.
“The lovers of sensational fiction ... no doubt will not be troubled by the utter improbability of the incidents and characters, nor annoyed by vulgarities of style, and crudities of description, and will be quite satisfied with the fare supplied by the ingenious author.”
– =Sat. R.= 100: 345. S. 9. ’05. 130w.
=Wardman, Ervin.= Princess Olga, †$1.50. Harper.
The invincible hero of Mr. Wardman’s story is an American who had received his hardy training in a Mexican mining district. He is sent by his New York company to further its interest in the Italian kingdom of Crevonia where plots and counterplots, conspiracies and assassinations, mark the riotous settlement of a disputed succession. Among the spies is Princess Olga whose charms the defiant American cannot resist. Her sense of duty to kingdom and her love for a bold man fight for mastery, with the world-old result that can eliminate the importance of kingdoms and courts.
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“The story is compact of intrigue, adventure, and general nervous excitement; it is a capital production of its sort.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 366. Je. 1, ’06. 240w.
“For a first novel, his is a finished and striking production.”
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 808. My. 26, ’06. 610w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 270. Ap. 28, ’06. 520w.
=Warman, Cy.= Last spike, and other railroad stories. †$1.25. Scribner.
“These short stories, by a well-known popular magazine writer, tell of adventures on railroad surveys, in railway locomotives and cars and elsewhere. Some of the best of the stories have the Canadian Northwest as their scene of action.” (Engin. N.).
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+ =Engin. N.= 55: 313. Mr. 15, ’06. 40w.
“Many of them are good of their kind, and all of them have a certain stamp of mechanic strength.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 133. Mr. 3, ’06. 280w.
“The stories are readable and entertaining, but they lack that something which, for want of a better name is called ‘the literary touch.’”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 909. Ap. 21, ’06. 100w.
“Breezy and realistic stories. Mr. Warman not only knows the language of railroading but he has also caught the spirit.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 315. Mr. 10, ’06. 150w.
=Warne, Frank Julien.= Coal-mine workers: a study in labor organization. **$1. Longmans.
This little volume is the direct outgrowth of Dr. Warne’s sympathetic study of the coal-miners’ situation in periods of peace as well as in times of strikes. It is a “treatise on the anatomy of the trade union.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Dr. Warne has done a valuable service in placing in compact and readable form a study of the United mine workers of America, one of the strongest labor unions in the world.” E. S. Meade.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 354. S. ’06. 550w.
“It might also be described as a miniature encyclopedia, so full of information is it and so readily does it answer the questions that occur to one regarding the miners and their employers.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 930. Ap. 19. ’06. 200w.
“The author’s attitude is sympathetic, but not partisan, and he has made a distinct contribution to the knowledge of the controversy which once convulsed the nation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 65. F. 3, ’06. 450w.
“In our judgment, this book deserves to be characterized as an authority, and, as far as we know, as the best authority, in the limited field of which it treats.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 82: 275. F. 3, ’06. 150w.
“The book is written in a scientific spirit, if one excepts a tendency at times to condone violence on the part of the union against nonunion men.”
+ – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 567. S. ’06. 160w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 83: 254. F. ’06. 240w.
=Warner, Beverley Ellison.= Famous introductions to Shakespeare’s plays by the notable editors of the eighteenth century, ed. with a critical introd., biographical and explanatory notes. **$2.50. Dodd.
A compilation of the best known introductions including those contributed by Rowe, Pope, Theobald, Hamner, Warburton, Johnson, Stevens, Capell, Reed and Malone. A biographical sketch of each author prefaces his work, and the work is handsomely illustrated.
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“Dr. Warner’s idea though a good one, has been anticipated, and his labor is largely wasted.” William Allen Neilson.
+ – =Atlan.= 97: 701. My. ’06. 420w.
“We note a few misprints.”
+ + – =Critic.= 48: 471. My. ’06. 200w.
“His own editorial matter is not of great value and there is no index. The English, too, is not always irreproachable.”
+ – =Dial.= 40: 332. My. 16, ’06. 420w.
“On the whole the make-up of the book leaves something to be desired. The matter is not very clearly distinguished for easy reference.”
– =Nation.= 83: 183. Ag. 30, ’06. 430w.
“Without Dr. Warner’s own lucid and learned introductions, and his invaluable footnotes, the new book would have been esteemed a veritable treasure. Dr. Warner’s editorial work makes it only the more valuable.”
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 180. Mr. 24, ’06. 520w.
“A very useful compilation.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 42. My. 3, ’06. 210w.
=Warner, George H.= Jewish spectre. **$1.50. Doubleday.
“A remarkably brilliant book which will have decided influence upon all open-minded readers. In literary skill the author stands comparison with his better known brother, Charles Dudley Warner.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 241. Ja. ’06. 170w.
=Warren, F. D.= Handbook on reinforced concrete for architects, engineers and contractors. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
A handbook “treating upon a general form of design rather than upon any one particular or patented system.... The book is divided into four parts: Part I gives a general but concise resume of the subject from a practical standpoint, bringing out some of the difficulties met with in practice, and suggesting remedies. Under Part II is compiled a series of tests justifying the use of various constants and coefficients in preparing the tables under Part III, as well as bearing out the theory of elasticity. Part III contains a series of tables from which it is hoped the designer may obtain all necessary information to meet the more common cases in practice. Part IV treats of the design of trussed roofs from a practical standpoint.”
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“The reviewer regrets that it is his duty to give his opinion that this book is fundamentally in error in so many ways that it is not worthy of a place in the working library of an engineer.” Arthur N. Talbot.
– – =Engin. N.= 55: 311. Mr. 15, ’06. 1780w.
=Washington, Booker Taliaferro.= Putting the most into life. **75c. Crowell.
A recent series of Sunday evening talks has been recast and enlarged for the general public. The discussion includes the physical, mental, spiritual and racial aspects of the case.
=Washington, Booker Taliaferro.= Tuskegee and its people: their ideals and achievements. *$2. Appleton.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 254. F. ’06. 250w.
=Washington, George.= Letters and recollections of George Washington; being letters to Tobias Lear and others between 1790 and 1799, showing the first American in the management of his estate and domestic affairs with a diary of Washington’s last days, kept by Mr. Lear; il. from rare old portraits, photographs, and engravings. **$2.50. Doubleday.
Washington is portrayed in the light of a “domestic man managing his own affairs; as a planter looking over crops, cattle, and overseers; and as a business man driving bargains, suing for bad debts, collecting rents, and making investments.” (Dial.)
+ =Acad.= 71: 416. O. 27, ’06. 1660w.
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“The chief attraction of the present volume is manifestly meant to be Lear’s account of Washington’s death.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 434. O. 13. 1850w.
“Of editing there is practically none; and to the lack of it, as well as to careless proofreading, is due the perpetuation of the copyist’s misreadings of Washington’s spelling. The reviewer has been unable to find anything in the book that will justify the word ‘Recollections’ in the title. There is no index.” Walter L. Fleming.
– + =Dial.= 41: 237. O. 16, ’06. 1300w.
“They are valuable historically as showing the genius for detail which must have formed one of the strongest characteristics of Washington.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 284. S. 1, ’06. 220w.
“On the whole, then, these letters, though telling us little that is new, are full of interest, as any letters unfolding for us the intimate thoughts and workaday occupations of such a man must be.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 374. N. 9, ’06. 1440w.
“The work could have been rendered more readable by a few explanatory foot-notes, and more useful to the student by brief introductions stating where the originals of other than the Lear letters are to be found, and how far they have been used before.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 285. O. 4, ’06. 1200w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 512. O. ’06. 70w.
=Washington, George.= Washington and the West. **$2. Century.
+ + =Critic.= 48: 94. Ja. ’06. 70w.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 93. F. 1, ’06. 480w.
=Watanna, Onoto (Mrs. Winnifred Eaton Babcock) (Mrs. Bertrand Babcock).= Japanese blossom. **$2. Harper.
The dainty marginal drawings upon each page of this volume add much to the Japanese effect of the story of the strangely assorted family of Mr. Kurukawa. To retrieve his shattered fortunes this descendant of the Samurai goes to America leaving behind him four children and his wife, to whom shortly after his departure a baby boy is born. Later his wife dies and her father and mother care for the children while Mr. Kurukawa marries an American widow with two children and, after the birth of another baby, brings his new family back to Japan to unite it with his old family. The difficulties are easily seen but all are surmounted. The eldest son has rebelled against his new mother and joined the Japanese army, the father follows him, wins glory in the war and all ends happily.
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+ =Dial.= 41: 398. D. 1, ’06. 130w.
=Ind.= 61: 1400. D. 13, ’06. 30w.
“A charming idyl of Japanese home life in war times.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 728. N. 17, ’06. 50w.
“This story is a particularly pleasing one, with certain elements of novelty.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 160w.
=Outlook.= 84: 678. N. 17, ’06. 70w.
=Waters, N. McGee.= Young man’s religion and his father’s faith. **90c. Crowell.
“This book, written with the eloquence of the man who is speaking instead of writing, will unquestionably help many readers over perplexities that now stand in the way of a practical application of religion to life.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 523. Mr. 3, ’06. 180w.
“These topics are handled without any trace of cant or bias.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 126. Ja. ’06. 60w.
=Watson, Edward Willard.= Old lamps and new, and other verse; also, By Gaza’s gate, a cantata. $1. Fisher.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
=Dial.= 40: 127. F. 16, ’06. 160w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 152. Mr. 10, ’06. 330w.
=Watson, Esther.= All the year in the garden: a nature calendar. $1. Crowell.
An apt quotation for every day in the year selected from out of door sentiments of our great poets and teachers.
=Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott.= Midsummer day’s dream. †$1.50. Appleton.
“A delightful bit of romantic foolery.... The sketch is a record of certain amorous adventures contingent upon an out-of-doors amateur rendering of the ‘Midsummer night’s dream.’ The principal motive is a mystery connected with the finding and trailing of a woman’s shoe. In the course of his search the hero is constrained to make love pleasantly if somewhat indiscriminately; and there is plenty of chance in ‘Titania’s glade’ for comfortable philandering. Titania is married and therefore immune from his attentions, which wander among Hermia, Helena, and several of the fairies.”—Nation.
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“The whimsical tone of the book is so well maintained that all its absurdities of situation and incident take on an amiable glamour.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 228. S. 13, ’06. 210w.
“In addition to being amusing and cleverly done, the story is written very gracefully, with a touch of poetic imagination, that, like everything else in the book is not more than half serious.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 579. S. 22, ’06. 460w.
“The chief criticism that one is inclined to make is that the situation is dwelt upon a little too long and that the story would have left a better impression if it had been considerably shortened.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 337. O. 6, ’06. 100w.
=Watson, Henry Brereton Marriott.= Twisted eglantine. †$1.50. Appleton.
“Whatever its success may be, this book puts him in the front rank of living romancers.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 330. S. 9. 590w.
“Mr. Marriott Watson has never given us a finer character-study than this of Sir Piers.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 17. Ja. 1, ’06. 300w.
=Watson, John (Ian Maclaren, pseud.).= Inspiration of our faith: sermons. **$1.25. Armstrong.
“Somewhat of the same idea, that of ascending in personal Christ-like life to fellowship with the Father, and thence deriving the help necessary for the fulfillment of duty, runs thru a series of twenty-nine sermons by the Rev. John Watson, better known as ‘Ian Maclaren.’ Each sermon breathes that practical Christianity which has characterized Ian Maclaren’s fiction and theological writings alike.”—Ind.
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“They have the supreme merit (rare in sermons) of being interesting.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 297. Mr. 10. 90w.
“Strikingly beautiful as the language is, the volume will be prized by those who desire inspiring and helpful words for their devotional reading.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 223. Ja. 25, ’06. 80w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 370. Mr. 10, ’06. 1060w.
“Here the ethical and the inspirational are happily blended, as elsewhere in his writings.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1040. D. 23, ’05. 190w.
=Watson, William.= Poems; ed. by J. A. Spender. 2v. *$2.50. Lane.
“It constitutes, for the present at least, a definitive edition of Mr. Watson’s work.”
+ + + =Dial.= 40: 24. Ja. 1, ’06. 60w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ + + =North American.= 182: 756. My. ’06. 290w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 121. Ja. ’06. 80w.
=Wayne, Charles Stokes.= Prince to order. †$1.50. Lane.
“To fiction readers, who do not care for the element of probability, and to whom artificiality is not objectionable, this book will be enjoyable as it is bright and full of action and excitement if one can become deeply interested in a story that is wanting in the important element of probability.”
+ – =Arena.= 35: 331. Mr. ’06. 630w.
=Weale, B. L. Putnam.= Re-shaping of the Far East; with numerous il. from photographs. 2v. **$6. Macmillan.
The author “tells us just as much of the history of the subject as we need to know, sketching the annals of China in particular from the earliest times, and then describing in greater detail the commercial relations of Europe and America not only with China, but also with Korea and Japan. Relations of journeys into the interior and along the coasts give a picturesque glimpse of present Far Eastern conditions. We are shown Sir Robert Hart’s Service at work, the Germans introducing their characteristic methods at Kiao-chau, Dr. Morrison watching the Legations through a glass door at Peking, and the Marconi mast standing ready to signal for help to Ta-ku. There follows a fairly elaborate history of the Russo-Japanese war, and a severe criticism of its operations; and we are told finally what the Chinese are thinking and intending, what Mr. Weale expects the future to bring forth, and what policy seems to him most likely to serve British interests. In fact, we have an embarrassing choice of topics which equally invite discussion.”—Lond. Times.
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“Despite some loose history, exaggerated statements, and rather wild speculations, the work is the best account of twentieth-century China in existence, and affords useful, though far from infallible hints as to the possibilities of the next decade in the Far East.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 193. F. 17. 1070w.
“One of the most readable and valuable books which have appeared in recent years.” John W. Foster.
+ + =Atlan.= 97: 543. Ap. ’06. 180w.
“For a work of undoubted weight, in the sense that it shows throughout a remarkably intimate acquaintance with the affairs of the East ... the style is a delight, though style is altogether too big a word to describe the absolutely nonchalant, personal, pungent way of the author with his book.” S. S. Trunsky.
+ + =Bookm.= 23: 656. Ag. ’06. 1120w.
“Is by no means a perfect work of its kind, but its indisputable merits far outweigh the faults which even the most captious critic could ascribe to it.” Frederick Austin Ogg.
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 317. My. 16, ’06. 2600w.
“Thruout, he shows a lamentable ignorance of American history and policy.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 400. F. 15, ’06. 840w.
“Mr. Putnam Weale’s new book is hardly so interesting as his ‘Manchu and Muscovite.’ It is burdened by a belated account of the early months of the Russo-Japanese war, is somewhat discursive and would ... be improved by elimination and condensation.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 623. Ap. 21, ’06. 640w.
“The author, combining the knowledge of the student with the knowledge of the man on the spot, presents the Far Eastern question exhaustively in almost every imaginable aspect. In spite of the manner in which the Russian ‘débâcle’ has upset some of his calculations, his book is the most valuable of recent contributions to the elucidation of Far Eastern problems.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 438. D. 15, ’05. 1640w.
“In other words, Mr. Weale approaches the Chinese question from a strictly insular point of view. Yet his books may be highly recommended. All reserves made, there is nothing better on the Far Eastern question as it stands at this moment.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 79. Ja. 25, ’06. 1180w.
“Comprehensive and luminous discussion of the development of Far Eastern affairs.” George R. Bishop.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 80. F. 10, ’06. 3230w.
=Outlook.= 84: 40. S. 1, ’06. 310w.
“Mr. Weale has given a complete and yet concise survey of the situation. His introduction is a historical prologue giving in a few score pages one of the best ideas of Chinese history that has ever been presented.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 123. Ja. 27, ’06. 670w.
“By far the most valuable book that has appeared on the East for a number of years. Nowhere else can so much valuable information be found in so compact a form.”
+ + + =Putnam’s.= 1: 126. O. ’06. 270w.
“An absorbingly interesting work, including both description and history.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 253. F. ’06. 240w.
“Mr. Weale has unquestionably collected and marshalled a mass of information with ability and lucidity, and the result is a comprehensive survey of the situation outlined with a vigorous but light, albeit sharply-pointed, pen.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 174. F. 10, ’06. 2020w.
=Webster, Jean.= Wheat princess. †$1.50. Century.
“The conversations are realistic, and the characters individual.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 94. Jl. ’06. 60w.
=Wedmore, Frederick.= National gallery, London: the Flemish school. *$1.25. Warne.
This is the initial volume of a new series to be called the “Art galleries of Europe.” Mr. Wedmore gives a brief sketch of Flemish art, and emphasizes its two phases: the Mediæval phase dominated by Jan Van Eyck and Hans Menlinc, the Renaissance phase, by Rubens and Vandyke. There are fifty-five reproductions from Haufstaengl photographs.
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+ + =Acad.= 70: 557. Je. 9, ’06. 90w.
“Mr. Wedmore’s introduction is not an altogether favourable specimen of his power as a writer on art. True, it contains some very apposite criticisms, but these are interspersed with somewhat captious digressions.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 707. Je. 9. 370w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 943. O. 18, ’06. 110w.
=Int. Studio.= 29: sup. 83. S. ’06. 240w.
“Taken all in all, however, Mr. Wedmore’s paper is not a coherent dissertation on the Flemish school; it is too itemized, too scrappy, and too diversified to be of much value as a serious study. As a collection of notes, however, appended to artists’ names, it will save the student of the National gallery with Flemish proclivities much toil and trouble among art encyclopædias.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 508. Ag. 18, ’06. 350w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 671. Jl. 31, ’06. 50w.
=Wedmore, Frederick.= Whistler and others. *$1.50. Scribner.
Mr. Wedmore’s volume of essays is prefaced by a chapter entitled “A candid word to the English reader” in which he makes serious charge against the Englishman as an art critic. Some observations on Venetian art, Goya, Richard Wilson, Romney, Laurence, Watts, Etty, and others may be passed over to find the real worth of the book in the papers on Whistler, Fantin and Boudin, English watercolour, The print collector. Constable’s English landscapes, and The Norwich school.
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“His critical method is not exhaustive but suggestive, and no inventory of qualities could so stimulate the imagination as one of his pregnant summaries.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 31. Jl. 14, ’06. 970w.
“The essays and fragments that make up the volume are in part reprinted from various periodicals. Some of them seem hardly of sufficient importance to warrant the more permanent form.”
+ – =Dial.= 41: 285. N. 1, ’06. 180w.
“Perhaps the best piece in the book is the study of Fantin and Boudin. We wish that some of the other articles had been undertaken in a like spirit of respect for his subject and respect for his reader.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 202. Je. 1, ’06. 1000w.
“It was, however, an error of taste to pad the volume out with trifling notes which may have served well enough to introduce a temporary exhibition or to characterize a single painting.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 99. Ag. 2, ’06. 220w.
“The critic’s survey is characteristically candid and suggestive.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 706. N. 24, ’06. 60w.
“If you want the final word upon Whistler, Wedmore has not said it or thought it.”
– + =Putnam’s.= 1: 226. N. ’06. 670w.
=Weeden, William Babcock.= War government: federal and state, in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Indiana, 1861–1865. **$2.50. Houghton.
Using Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania. and Indiana as typical states, this study of the civil war period shows that “war government, federal and state, accomplished most potent and far-reaching results in the readjustment of the relations between states and nation, and between the people and the governing body.”
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“The style, sometimes eccentric and inclined to digression, is always keen, pungent and fearless. The characterization of Lincoln is refreshingly free from conventionality either in praise or blame, and, with all its partisanship, the book has distinct value.” Theodore Clarke Smith.
+ – =Atlan.= 98: 705. N. ’06. 380w.
“With his conclusions many will disagree. In some places a rearrangement of the material might have made the book easier reading; but the vigorous style and independent judgment of the author are calculated to enlist one’s interest to the end.”
+ – =Critic.= 49: 189. Ag. ’06. 240w.
“The author’s dislike of those on the other side and his failure to appreciate their position, his inability to recognize and understand the principle of evolution in human affairs, and his twentieth century criticism of nineteenth century deeds, are defects that mar a work which otherwise might have been of considerable interest and value.”
– + =Dial.= 41: 167. S. 16. ’06. 530w.
“It is entertainingly written, and only the most ‘blasé’ of readers of Civil war matters can fall to find an engaging interest in its pages. It reveals moreover, a vast deal of research. But it can hardly be called a critical study of the relation of federal to state government during the Civil war.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 639. S. 13. ’06. 210w.
“The subject is one deserving exhaustive exploration and it is therefore the more to be regretted that Mr. Weeden has not treated it with a firmer grasp and an unprejudiced mind.”
– + =Lit. D.= 33: 123. Jl. 28, ’06. 150w.
“The narrative, well fortified by references, is marred by a good deal of feeble and confused rhetoric.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 511. Je. 21, ’06. 280w.
“It is an interesting and able work.” Wm. E. Dodd.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 505. Ag. 18, ’06. 1320w.
“He has undertaken a most interesting task; but his spirit is so
## partisan and his style so turgid, discursive, and inaccurate that his
## book is of only very limited value.”
– + =Outlook.= 83: 288. Je. 2, ’06. 210w.
“Mr. Weeden’s book should do much to put needed emphasis on a somewhat neglected aspect of the war.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. ’06. 280w.
=Weedon, L. L.= Child characters from Dickens. $2.50. Dutton.
There are eighteen stories in this group, including many of the children’s favorites, among them are those of Harvey and Norah, of “The holly tree,” Paul Dombey, Johnny and the Boofer Lady, Little Nell, the Marchioness, Polly, Little Dorrit, etc. Six colored plates and seventy half-tones “tell their part of the story so well that every character in the book can be told offhand.” (N. Y. Times.) “His illustrator, Mr. A. A. Dixon, has distributed good looks to everybody with the facility of a fairy of the olden time at a christening.” (Ath.)
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=Ath.= 1905, 2: 796. D. 9. 60w.
– =Nation.= 81: 489. D. 14, ’05. 250w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 911. D. 23, ’05. 180w.
“This is a charming book. The tales are skillfully managed. A better introduction to Dickens could not be.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 1091. D. 23, ’05. 50w.
=Weikel, Anna Hamlin.= Betty Baird: a boarding-school story; il. †$1.50. Little.
Betty Baird is the daughter of a scholarly Presbyterian minister who had trained his daughter thru her fourteen years on rather oldfashioned but thoro lines. Betty is sent to boarding school and, bright, nimble witted tho she is, she has many trying experiences among her snobbish, fashionable mates. The story follows her thru her three years of victories terminating in first honor at graduation.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 700. O. 27, ’06. 120w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 767. D. ’06. 50w.
=Weinel, Heinrich.= St. Paul, the man and his work; tr. by Rev. G. A. Bienemann and ed. by Rev. W. D. Morrison. *$2.50. Putnam.
Professor Weinel of the University of Jena says in his preface: “This book forms a necessary supplement to my ‘Jesus in the nineteenth century,’ for it shows how the Gospel came to make that concordat with the ‘world’ i. e., with the ancient state and its religion and morality, which we call ‘church.’ I have tried to show how necessary, and how solitary this compromise was, by what pure motives it was animated, but also with what dangers it was pregnant for the Gospel itself.” Further the author says: “I have wanted to make our people understand and love Paul.”
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“He is a scholar who does not intrude his scholarship but is competent to speak on St. Paul.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 154. Ag. 11. 840w.
“It is a work of careful thought and thoro scholarship.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 1433. Je. 14, ’06. 1050w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1165. N. 15, ’06. 140w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 618. Ap. 21, ’06. 890w.
“His translator, the Rev. G. A. Bienemann, has rendered him into lucid and finished English form.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 1005. Ap. 28, ’06. 400w.
“His biography does not add very much to our knowledge of the apostle and his time; it is vigorously written. fairly interesting, drastic in its criticism, and very anti-Catholic.”
– + =Sat. R.= 102: 372. S. 22, ’06. 400w.
=Weininger, Otto.= Sex and character; authorized tr. from the 6th Germ. ed. *$3. Putnam.
Six editions in the German are to the credit of this volume. There is a two-fold treatment of the subject, the first dealing with the physical phase, the second with the psychological. “In his view woman ‘is merely non-moral. She is characterized by shamelessness and heartlessness.’ Only man has a ‘share, in ontological reality.’ ‘Women have no existence; and no essence; they are not, they are nothing.’ It does not surprise us to be told that such a philosopher died by his own hand at the age of twenty three.” (Outlook.)
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“There is exhibited the most acute and subtle mental play throughout, but the whole argument is characterized by downright unreasonableness. There are parts so poor, obscure, illogical, and stupid that they would not be accepted in a college boy’s essay, and other parts worthy of Kant or Schopenhauer.” W. I. Thomas.
– – + =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 843. My. ’06. 1250w.
“Never before in all our literature has the ultra-masculine view of woman been so logically carried out, so unsparingly forced to its conclusion.” Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
– – + =Critic.= 48: 414. My. ’06. 3030w.
– =Lond. Times.= 5: 54. F. 16, ’06. 270w.
“Preposterous charlatanry.”
– =Outlook.= 82: 764. Mr. 31, ’06. 220w.
“It is thus ... as a human document, one unconsciously illustrating the pathology of adolescent sex and character, even more than consciously investigating their nature, that this tragic book will survive, if at all.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 557. My. 5, ’06. 1830w.
=Weir, Irene.= Greek painters’ art. *$3. Ginn.
– =Ath.= 1906. 2: 743. D. 8. 160w.
“Unpretending but most interesting little volume.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 27: 373. F. ’06. 150w.
=Weiss, Bernhard.= Commentary on the New Testament; tr. by George H. Schodde, and Epiphanius Wilson; with an introd. by James S. Riggs. 4v. ea. *$3. Funk.
In these four volumes we have the results of the work of a great scholar, who has spent over half a century in a study of his subject which while scientific was tempered by true spiritual insight. The work is intended not only for students but for those who have not time for study and desire a better understanding of the scriptures as they read them. Volume 1, contains the commentary upon Matthew and Mark; Volume 2, Luke, John and The Acts; Vol. 3, Romans, Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians; Volume 4, Thessalonians, Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Hebrew, James, Peter, John, Jude and Revelation.
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“Professor Weiss’s concise commentary exhibits his well-known learning, thoroughness, and conservatism. It is unfortunate that its English dress was not more carefully prepared.”
+ + – =Bib. World.= 28: 160. Ag. ’06. 20w.
=Weiss, Bernhard.= Religion of the New Testament; tr. from the Germ. by G: H. Schodde. *$2. Funk.
“It must, however, be said with frankness that the work of translation has not been well done. The book is a very clear presentation of the general idea which is represented in Harnack’s ‘What is Christianity?’ and, in more extreme form, by Wernle’s ‘Beginnings of Christianity.’” Irving F. Wood.
+ – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 130. Jl. ’06. 490w.
=Wells, Amos R.= Tuxedo avenue to Water street: the story of a transplanted church. $1. Funk.
The author calls his story a parable, and also, the story of a possibility, which the united action of God and the people may make a reality. He tells of a fashionable church which was mysteriously transplanted in a single night and set up stone on stone among the poor of Water street. He depicts most vividly the scorn with which the fashionable members of the old church regard the poor with whom they are thus brought in contact, and he shows the great good which came of it all. It is a story so true to human nature that it makes one pause to think. The author’s character drawing is excellent and he has softened his moral by introducing into his parable the love story of the young minister and Irene, the flower of his flock.
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+ =Arena.= 36: 222. Ag. ’06. 310w.
“His little book is of more than passing interest as a well-developed piece of fiction, and it is profoundly significant as a Parable and an indictment.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 158. Ag. 4, ’06. 160w.
“The little book is effective in its way.”
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 817. Ag. 4, ’06. 150w.
=Wells, Amos Russel.= Donald Barton and the doings of the Ajax club. †$1.50. Little.
The “Ajax club” is composed of lusty boys who meet in “The glen” and plan adventures worthy of their honored Greek hero. They do battle against a band of disreputable village boys and win the commendation of the townspeople.
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“Though there is the highest intent in this, the author has somehow missed the mark.”
– =Nation.= 83: 484. D. 6, ’06. 170w.
=Wells, Carolyn.= At the sign of the sphinx. $1. Duffield.
Miss Wells’ fancy-juggling has produced one hundred and twenty rhymed riddles to which are appended answers.
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=Dial.= 41: 287. N. 1, ’06. 30w.
“Is marked by the same cleverness that is always characteristic of this writer.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1399. D. 13, ’06. 210w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 440. N. 22, ’06. 90w.
“Generally her mood is playful and her ingenuity is always equal to the task she sets for it. As a general thing, her touch is becomingly light and she treats her syllables with respect. Sometimes the enigma is still a bit enigmatical after one knows the answer.”
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 692. O. 20, ’06. 190w.
=Wells, Carolyn.= Dorrance doings; il. †$1.50. Wilde.
Another chapter in the lives of the wide-awake Dorrances which is really a sequel to the “Dorrance domain.” The inventive ability of the quartette and their energy in executing have suffered no diminution since they first made their bow to young readers.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 711. O. 27, ’06. 120w.
“Written in a rather perfunctory manner—lacking in charm and freshness.”
– + =Outlook.= 84: 792. N. 24, ’06. 50w.
=Wells, Carolyn.= Whimsey anthology. **$1.25. Scribner.
“A whimsey, Miss Wells explains, is ‘a whim, a freak, a capricious notion, an odd device.’ Her new book contains nearly 300 selections from the poets old and new.... Here we have famous wheezes touching the eccentricities of the English language, typographical frenzies in which the compositor shapes the poem as nearly as possible like the object it treats of.... Alphabetical nonsense ... acrostics and lipograms, alliterative efforts, enigmas and charades, macaronic poetry, travesties, certomes, (which are made up of assorted lines from divers poems,) and palindromes are here in rich profusion.”—N. Y. Times.
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+ =Ind.= 61: 756. S. 27, ’06. 410w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 580. S. 22, ’06. 740w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1, 06. 140w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 338. O. 6. ’06. 50w.
=World To-Day.= 11: 1221. N. ’06. 50w.
=Wells, Herbert George.= Future in America: a search after realities. **$2. Harper.
America’s social, economic, and material phases furnish conditions for objective scrutiny which any American would do well to observe. Mr. Wells finds the note of a “fatal, gigantic, economic development, of large prevision and enormous pressures” uppermost and invincible. His range of observations is broad, covering the main representative cities of America, his insight ready to cope with the peculiarly American conditions, and his comments virile and convincing.
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“‘When the sleeper wakes,’ for example, is an astonishing caricature of the inordinate individualism of the American sort. ‘The future in America,’ a sober study of the same subject, is, we think, below it in insight as well as in effectiveness. Mr. Wells’s book is written rather in a mood of despondency.”
– =Acad.= 71: 544. D. 1, ’06. 1360w.
“His lucid and discriminating description of the present in America is probably worth more than his intended prophecy of the future of America would have been, had he ventured to write it.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 614. N. 17. 370w.
“His is a book which will be criticised, but it will be read, and no reader will fail to gain from it a broader view of the great world-power with its vast opportunities and inequalities, its contradictions and aspirations, its towering wealth, and its suffering, which Mr. Wells has analyzed in this book.” James Wellman.
+ – =Harper’s Weekly.= 50: 1898. D. 29, ’06. 1810w.
“He has brought to the study of the social, economical, and material problems now confronting us an insight rarely found in an Englishman, and has given lucid expressions to certain ideas concerning the future which have been vaguely stirring in the national consciousness.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 814. D. 1, ’06. 240w.
“A volume, that more than any other book I know of picks out and co-ordinates the tendencies and conditions that are really shaping the American future, disencumbers them from the misleading obstruction of detail, and displays them with that spaciousness, that fervent clarity, which Mr. Wells commands so easily.” Sidney Brooks.
+ + =Living Age.= 251: 565. D. 1, ’06. 2590w.
“He has struck some nails on the head that have, perhaps, never been struck before—at least with so emphatic a hammer.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 537. D. 20. ’06. 1540w.
“To us, Mr. Wells’s hasty observations of American life seem only dull. It is frequently interesting. It is generally disparaging. It is often inaccurate.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 758. N. 17, ’06. 150w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 760. D. ’06. 140w.
“The prophesying is hedging, vague, indeterminate. Probably a fairer book about America has never been written.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 581. N. 10, ’06. 1630w.
“The book is illuminating in the fullest sense, a criticism not only of America, but of all civilised society, and it is written in a style which is always attractive and rises now and then to uncommon beauty and power. Though we endorse his demand for reform in many directions, we are bound to condemn his frequent exaggerations, the shrillness, nay feverishness, of his criticism, and his want of a sense of proportion. He says many true things about the United States, but his picture as a whole is false.”
+ – =Spec.= 97: 683. N. 3, ’06. 2320w.
=Wells, Herbert George.= In the days of the comet. †$1.50. Century.
A young middle-class Englishman loves a girl who elopes with the son of a landed proprietor. The outraged suitor pursues the couple, bent upon murder and suicide. Then the comet intervenes. It strikes the earth and diffuses a trance-producing vapor. When the world wakens there are no longer passions and rivalries. At this point the author works out a state of socialistic reform characterized by brotherhood principles. The hero finds love an impersonal thing with none of the old proprietary limitations. Woman to him becomes the “shape and color of the divine principle that lights the world,” and whether wife or friend he may love her without reproach.
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“An earnest and exceedingly interesting book.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 266. S. 15, ’06. 180w.
“Is far more than an interesting romance written in the fine literary style that marks the works of this popular imaginative novelist.”
+ =Arena.= 36: 683. D. ’06. 380w.
“It remains as a whole a fine testimony to the imagination and intellect of one of the most original thinkers of the day.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 362. S. 29. 640w.
=Current Literature.= 41: 700. D. 06. 880w.
“Regarded as an argument for socialism ... it is a very weak one.”
– =Ind.= 61: 1053. N. 1, ’06. 1080w.
“Perhaps it is not the best book Mr. Wells has written. It is in reality no more than a brilliant piece of descriptive writing. But no reader can fail to be touched by the picture of the glorious life that awaits mankind after some great change.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 220w.
=Lond. Times.= 5: 314. S. 14, ’06. 580w.
+ =Nature.= 75: 124. D. 6, ’06. 440w.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 719. N. 3, ’06. 200w.
“As a story pure and simple, it falls far below his ‘War of the worlds.’”
– =Outlook.= 84: 582. N. 3, ’06. 230w.
=Sat. R.= 102: 365. S. 22, ’06. 1560w.
+ – =Spec.= 97: 496. O. 6, ’06. 1230w.
=Wells, Herbert George.= Kipps: the story of a simple soul. †$1.50. Scribner.
“Displaying an almost Dickens-like gift for the portrayal of eccentric traits and types of character.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 17. Ja. 1. ’06, 350w.
=Edinburgh R.= 203: 66. Ja. ’06. 2920w.
=Living Age.= 248: 726. Mr. 24, ’06. 2920w. (Reprinted from Edinburgh R.)
=Wells, Herbert George.= Modern Utopia. *$1.50. Scribner.
“Culling over the literature of 1905, I should place at the head of works of the first-class ‘A modern utopia.’” Winthrop More Daniels.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 840. Je. ’06. 710w.
Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 296. My. 1, ’06. 250w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 581. N. ’06. 270w.
=Wendell, Barrett.= Temper of the 17th century in English literature. **$1.50. Scribner.
“We must thank Professor Wendell for the pleasant, if slightly exotic, prose of this thoughtful and inspiring volume. The fly in the amber is the continual use of the word ‘elder.’”
+ – =Spec.= 97: sup. 468. O. 6, ’06. 860w.
=Wertheimer, Edward de.= Duke of Reichstadt. **$5. Lane.
“The general reader, for whom this handsome volume is evidently intended, will find that the events and persons in the life of this son of Napoleon stand out sharp, clear, and interesting. Some errors have slipped into the translation. This book with its good index and illustrations is the best on the subject.” Sidney B. Fay.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 662. Ap. ’06. 860w.
=Critic.= 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 120w.
“Is essentially an historical study, not a mere collection of gossip and rumor.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 21. Ja. ’06. 360w.
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 113. Ja. 27, ’06. 1150w.
=Wesselhoeft, Mrs. Elizabeth Foster (Pope) (Lily F.).= Ready, the reliable. †$1.50. Little.
Thru the influence of a little child a wealthy, crusty, bachelor uncle learns the great lesson of love and opens his heart to the needs of an overworked mother and her three responsible little ones. Ready, a befriended street dog, is so important a factor in the tale that he has appropriated the title.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 868. D. 15, ’06. 90w.
“When it comes to one part of a story dealing with humans and the other part giving us the thoughts and conversations of cats and dogs ... we think a literary license is taken that is not warranted by the results obtained.”
– =R. of Rs.= 34: 764. D. ’06. 50w.
=Westermarck, Edward Alexander.= Origin and development of the moral ideas. 2v. v. 1. *$3.50. Macmillan.
“A multitude of curious facts concerning the crude institutions of early times and savage tribes awaits the general reader of these pages. About one-fourth of the volume is concerned with homicide, both in general and in its varying forms down to feticide. The philosophic student finds what he has a right to expect from such an investigator ... acute insight and discriminating judgment in tracing the evolution of moral ideas.”—Outlook.
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“We have drawn attention to a few points in which Dr. Westermarck has seemed to us unconvincing. We have intended this only as the criticism which makes appreciation significant. And for the book as a whole—for its learning, its open-mindedness, its catholicity, of interest—we have the warmest appreciation.”
+ + – =Acad.= 70: 521, Je. 2, ’06. 2520w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Westermarck’s great strength ... consists in his ability to assemble materials, and if he has a weakness, it is on the psychological side.” W. I. Thomas.
+ + – =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 127. Jl. ’06. 330w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Even suppose, however, certain shortcomings on the side of pure theory, this book remains an achievement unsurpassed in its own kind, a perpetual monument of the courage, the versatility, and the amazing industry of its author.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 692. Je. 9. 1820w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It may be partly owing to this special study, but largely no doubt also to a remarkably sympathetic and candid turn of mind that Dr. Westermarck presents this heterogeneous mass of evidence with so much understanding, and avoids those hasty generalizations and those uncomprehending judgments of alien races that so frequently characterize many writers, even among those who have dwelt long among the people they describe.”
+ + – =Ind.= 61: 997. O. 25, ’06. 1170w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The mass of information included in these chapters is wonderful. The use which Dr Westermarck makes of it, I have no pretensions to criticise. At any rate, everyone who reads this volume will look forward with impatience to the next.” J. Ellis McTaggart.
+ + – =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 125. O. ’06. 1140w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Exceptionally wide reading and a faculty of lucid arrangement in dealing with masses of detail are the necessary equipment for such a task, and to these Dr. Westermarck adds a four years’ residence among the country population of Morocco.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 250. Jl. 13, ’06. 740w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + – =Nature.= 74: 377. Ag. 16, ’06. 1320w. (Review of v. 1.)
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 180. Mr. 24, ’06. 250w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Although this massive work is elaborately analytical and critical, it is none the less interesting.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 1005. Ap. 28, 06. 250w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Sat. R.= 101: 821. Je. 30, ’06. 1260w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Westrup, Margaret.= Young O’Briens. †$1.50. Lane.
“A family of undisciplined young people from the wilds of Ireland, thrust for many months upon the society of a Scotch spinster aunt in a squalid little house in London, suggests a situation which might well draw tears from a stone.” (Ath.) “The transplanting is a hard trial for all of them, and not less trying at times to the aunt. The humor of some of the episodes is delightful.” (Critic.)
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“Makes an enjoyable afternoon’s reading, but from a literary point of view does not begin to compare with ‘Helen Alliston’” Amy C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 36: 218. Ag. ’06. 330w.
“The narrative ... is told with much humor and not a little pathos, but at too great length.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 792. Je. 30. 180w.
“Both young and old will enjoy this entertaining account of the doings of four Irish young folk.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 190. Ag. ’06. 100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 375. Je. 9, ’06. 830w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 170w.
“The book is too long, but the high spirits of the family carry the reader on.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 243. Ag. 25, ’06. 290w.
=Weyman, Stanley John.= Chippinge Borough. †$1.50. McClure.
“Mr. Weyman’s latest romance has for its background the passing of the Reform bill of 1832. No novelist is more conscientious in his treatment of historical events, and the picture he presents of the fierce struggle between the old governing class and the advocates of the ‘People’s bill’ is singularly faithful and vivid.... Into this political struggle he has successfully woven a romantic story.”—Ath.
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“It is wholesome, mediocre work, and will delight Mr. Stanley Weyman’s immense number of readers.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 421. O. 27, ’06. 130w.
“Is to be numbered among the best of Mr. Weyman’s books.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 613. N. 17. 180w.
“Novels that urge you along with them as ‘Chippinge’ does are not so common that you can afford to quarrel with the means by which they do it.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 377. N. 9, ’06. 440w.
“The chief defect of the book is its length. Good as it all is, the temptation to skip, soon becomes overpowering.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 835. D. 1, ’06. 640w.
“Rarely does one find a semi-historical subject treated so dramatically and with such intense personal interest.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 711. N. 2, ’06. 150w.
“It is not for its tale however that the book may be commended. The interest of the book is in its atmosphere. It renders admirably the spirit and sentiment.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 585. N. 10, ’06. 440w.
“A most enjoyable story as well as a deeply interesting study of a great struggle.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 731. N. 10, ’06. 790w.
=Weyman, Stanley John.= Starvecrow farm. †$1.50. Longmans.
“This is by no means the best of Mr. Weyman’s novels, but it has a considerable interest nevertheless.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 17. Ja. 1, ’06. 170w.
“Mr. Weyman’s atmosphere is charmingly true; the story that he has to tell is more than ordinarily worth telling.”
+ =Reader.= 7: 563. Ap. ’06. 210w.
=Wharton, Edith Newbold (Jones).= House of mirth. †$1.50. Scribner.
“For all its brilliancy, ‘The house of mirth’ has a certain shallowness; it is thin. At best, Lily can only inspire interest and curiosity.” Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 52. Ja. ’06. 630w.
“It is Mrs. Wharton’s great achievement, in a book where all is fine, that she makes us see and sympathize with the true distinction in a woman who on the surface has little else than beauty and charm.” E. E. Hale, jr.
+ + + =Bookm.= 22: 364. D. ’05. 1190w.
=Critic.= 48: 463. My. ’06. 260w.
“It is a story elaborated in every detail to a high degree of refinement, and evidently a product of the artistic conscience. Having paid this deserved tribute to its finer characteristics, we are bound to add that it is deficient in interest.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 15. Ja. 1, ’06. 720w.
Reviewed by Charles Waldstein.
=North American.= 182: 840. Je. ’06 and 183: 125. Jl. ’06. 5670 + 4890w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ + =North American.= 182: 922. Je. ’06. 400w.
“The book is one of the few novels which can claim to rank as literature.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 101: 209. F. 17, ’06. 400w.
=Wharton, Henry Marvin.= White blood; a story of the South. $1.50. Neale.
The natural ingratitude and inability of the negro to rise to the level of the white man forms the motif of this story written for the purpose of proving that “white blood must rule.” A love story with a southern setting imparts an interest to the much mooted question.
What would one have?: a woman’s confession. *$1. West, J. H.
“An essentially New England temperament is revealed in this ‘confession.’ ... The supposed author is a plain woman of the middle class, brought up on a farm with few opportunities. She has so many sorrows and by them she learns what seems to her the meaning of life.”—Critic.
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“The tone of the book is strongly religious; it is at least free from the morbid taint usually to be found in revelations of a similar character, and doubtless it will make a strong appeal to persons of a type of mind similar to that of the ‘woman’ supposed to make the ‘confession.’”
+ =Critic.= 49: 190. Ag. ’06. 130w.
“There are doubtless countless readers who will find some sort of spiritual consolation in the book, and mental edification, too, in its appreciation of easily accessible literature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 340. My. 26, ’06. 180w.
“Is manifestly genuine and written with an earnest desire to help others.”
– =R. of Rs.= 34: 127. Jl. ’06. 90w.
=Whates, H. R.= Canada, the new nation. **$1.50. Dutton.
“Mr. Whates ... went to Canada as a steerage passenger, posed as an emigrant, and made actual trial of the difficulties which confront an actual settler. In this way he met Canadians of every type and class and had every chance of learning their real views. He travelled over much of the continent, selected a homestead area in the wheatlands of the North-west, and returned after five well-spent months with a knowledge of the land which few could acquire in as many years. The result is a book which is partly a record of travel, partly a most practical guide to the intending settler, and partly a careful and sympathetic study of Canadian political thought.”—Spec.
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“Mr. Whates is a little wild in his emigration scheme, and appears in some passages to upset himself.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906. 1: 699. Je. 9. 740w.
Reviewed by Lawrence J. Burpee.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 278. N. 1, ’06. 690w.
“The French element in Canadian life receives somewhat less attention than it deserves.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 313. O. 11, ’06. 450w.
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 606. S. 29, ’06. 690w.
“He has performed his task with a singularly open mind, utterly free from the bias which so often renders valueless the observations of traveling Englishmen.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 436. D. 15, ’06. 1200w.
“An admirable book which we have read with keen enjoyment. Mr. Whates writes with grace and distinction, he has keen powers of observation, and the tolerant humorous outlook of the true traveller.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 95. Jl. 21, ’06. 1460w.
=Wheat, Mrs. Lu.= Third daughter: a story of Chinese home life. $1.50. Mrs. Lu Wheat, 910 W. 8th st., Los Angeles, Cal.
“Ah Moy, the third daughter of a good family, is the central figure in an idyllic picture of a Chinese home. This is at length broken up by the dire calamities, which give occasion for the display of high qualities of character, but bring Ah Moy to a tragic end. Chinese customs, the position of women, foot-binding, sex-morality, the Boxers, the traffic in slave-girls, their importation hither, and the efforts of missionaries to thwart it, make up the rapidly shifting scene.”—Outlook.
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“An extremely interesting and well-written picture of Chinese home-life in a high-caste family.” Amy C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 36: 218. Ag. ’06. 250w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 477. My. ’06. 80w.
“Writes in large sympathy with whatever she has seen that is attractive and worthy. Concerning Christian missionaries there she has not taken equal pains to inform herself correctly.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 619. Mr. 17, ’06. 130w.
=Wheeler, Everett Pepperell.= Daniel Webster, the expounder of the Constitution. **$1.50. Putnam.
“A convenient manual for any one who wishes to get in a small compass a view of Webster’s career as expounder.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 55. Ja. 18, ’06. 340w.
=Wheeler, W. H.= Practical manual of tides and waves. *$2.80. Longmans.
The principal part of Mr. Wheeler’s work is devoted to “as practical an account as possible, free from all mathematical demonstration of the action of the sun and moon in producing the tides: and of the physical causes by which the tides are affected after their generation, and of their propagation throughout the tidal waters of the earth.” (Nature.) He further deals with wave phenomena in a manner to be useful to practising engineers.
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“A perusal of this work will convince any reader that the entire discussion of tides and tidal phenomena has been undertaken by one familiar with the subject, both practically and theoretically, and influenced by genuine love for the work. As a result the author has produced a valuable practical manual of tides and waves which should be found in the library of every one interested in these subjects.” D. D. Gaillard.
+ + + =Engin. N.= 56: 49. Jl. 12, ’06. 1620w.
“On the whole, Mr. Wheeler has succeeded in the object he had in view, and has ‘produced a handbook that will be of interest and practical service to those who have neither the time nor the opportunity of investigating the subject for themselves.’”
+ + =Nature.= 74: 218. Jl. 5, ’06. 1400w.
=Whelpley, James Davenport.= Problem of the immigrant. *$3. Dutton.
“A most convenient handbook for reference, supplying the student with a mass of materials not elsewhere available in one language or in any sort of connected form.” Frederic Austin Ogg.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 259. Ap. 16, ’06. 570w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 577. Jl. 7, ’06. 400w.
=Whiffen, Edwin T.= Samson marrying, Samson at Timnah, Samson Hybistes, Samson blinded: four dramatic poems. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
“The poetic impulse is hardly sufficient in the dialogue to overcome its tedious length and there are few beautiful or splendid passages to break the monotony of the diction.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 18. Ja. 13. ’06. 210w.
=Whitcomb, Selden Lincoln.= Study of a novel. $1.25. Heath.
It is not with the science of the novel but with certain fixed values of material and of form that Mr. Whitcomb’s analysis deals. He shows the laudable and practical work of novel dissection to be a necessary part of the teaching of literature. He discusses external structure, consecutive structure, plot, the settings, the “dramatis personae,” characterization, subject-matter, style, the process of composition, the shaping of forces, influence of a novel, comparative rhetoric and æsthetics, and general aesthetic interest.
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“As an attempt to break ground in a comparatively uncultivated field the book is commendable. The writer has got together a good deal of material where it can be found when wanted.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 252. Ag. 2, ’06. 150w.
“In its own chosen field this book is exceedingly thorough and instructive.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 910. Ap. 21, ’06. 110w.
“Is really a dissection, diagrammatically set forth, of a number of the great novels in English.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 256. F. ’06. 60w.
=White, Frederick M.= Slave of silence. †$1.50. Little.
The Royal Palace hotel, London, is in this complicated story made the center of a series of strange happenings which begin when Sir Charles, who is marrying his daughter to a rich brute to save his own financial honor, is found dead in his bed at the close of the ceremony. Then follows the disappearance of his body, and the series of adventures which his daughter, her old lover, and their friend Perington encounter when they trace the thieves to a house in Audley place which is full of electrical surprises. Diamonds of fabulous value and certain ruby mine concessions in Burmah complicate the plot, but at last Sir Charles reappears alive, his daughter is left a widow at an auspicious moment for her lover, and the slave of silence is released from allegiance to the crippled villain who is her brother, and marries the faithful Perrington.
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“There is a suggestion of occultism from the East, which, serving no purpose in the plot, seems a little superfluous, but for genuine entertainment one cannot do better than to read this book.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 825. D. 1, ’06. 150w.
=White, Frederick M.= Weight of the crown. $1.50. Fenno.
A story in which plots and counter plots run their brisk course as Russia makes a tool of the dissipated crowned head of Asturia and tries to force an abdication. There are two sets of doubles in the story introduced on the one hand to facilitate, on the other hand to retard and complicate the movement towards the dramatic climax.
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+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 110. F. 24, ’06. 220w.
=White, Stewart Edward.= The Pass. *$1.25. Outing pub.
In which Mr. White tells the story of a journey across the high Sierras made by an explorer, his wife, his guide, their two dogs and four horses.
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“It is the triumph of Mr. White’s enthusiasm and of his ability to put his facts and his impressions into the right words that what was encountered and what was seen on the trip is almost as plain on the printed page as it would have been to you or me had we taken the trip with him.” Churchill Williams.
+ + =Bookm.= 24: 376. D. ’06. 1270w.
“It is told simply in a style as crisp as mountain air.” May Estelle Cook.
+ =Dial.= 41: 387. D. 1, ’06. 180w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1234. N. 22, ’06. 160w.
“Like most of Mr. White’s books ‘The Pass’ is very agreeable reading indeed, soothing, but not exciting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 685. O. 20, ’06. 770w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 532. O. 27, ’06. 80w.
=White, William Allen.= In our town. †$1.50. McClure.
Thirteen stories made up from happenings observed by the editor of a Western newspaper. “He draws humorously convincing portraits of the people of the town, the town millionaire and the town drunkard, the smart set and those who try to be smart, the literary crowd that laughs at them and envies them for their superior culture. But it is not all humorous. The trail of Jim Nevison, the black sheep and ‘desert scorpion,’ is followed to the end and the career of Sampson, a good fellow ‘and yet a fool,’ is graphically outlined by Colonel Alphabetical Morrison.” (Pub. Opin.)
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“Read at intervals it will be found quite entertaining, but it decidedly is not a book for steady perusal.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 83: 124. Jl. 28, ’06. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.
“A good and wholesome book ... that may serve its best purpose in showing the American people themselves just what they are in this very hour.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 450. Jl. 14, ’06. 250w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 91. My. 12, ’06. 120w.
“He may not have made great stories but he has put into his sketches the stuff out of which great stories are made.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 604. My. 12, ’06. 200w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 756. Je. ’06. 60w.
“Every newspaper man has his recollections, but few of them can give them with such an artistic blending of pathos and humor as he has.”
+ + =World To-Day.= 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 170w.
=Whiteing, Richard.= Ring in the new. †$1.50. Century.
London and its awful problems of labor and poverty is the theme of this bitterly real study of “the other half,” thru which there ever runs a note of hope. Prue at twenty, penniless, unskilled, tho gently born and bred, casts herself into the maelstrom of London in a pitiful attempt to earn a living, and there realizes her own helplessness and all but goes down before the overwhelming fear of it, clinging for comfort to the mongrel dog she can ill afford to keep. The people whom she meets in the course of her plucky career as an incompetent working girl. Sarah the charwoman, Laura, a gem engraver, Leonard the young editor of The branding-iron, a journal of the back streets, and all the others, interest us not so much as individuals as parts of a struggling whole.
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“This is the most important romance of recent months dealing with social progress. The author is a finished writer, a scholar skillful with the use of words. This is a work that we can heartily recommend to all lovers of human progress and social advance.”
+ + =Arena.= 36: 682. D. ’06. 950w.
“The darker side of the picture, as seen by his heroine during her terrible initiation into the struggle for existence, is presented with power, but also with commendable sobriety and restraint.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 633. My. 26. 280w.
“He is earnestly, even angrily intense with the sincerity of his motive. And his motive the noblest of all, is the brotherhood of man.” Richard Duffy.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 276. N. ’06. 670w.
“The style is somewhat Meredithian—brilliant, suggestive, prismatic, but oftentimes blinding through an excess of nervous energy that entices its possessor from a consistent point of view. As a performance in fiction this book hardly ranks with the same author’s ‘No. 5 John street.’”
+ – =Lit. D.= 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 270w.
“A story that flashes with wit, glows with indignation, and beams with the steady light of an unshakable hope.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 158. My. 4, ’06. 390w.
“‘Ring in the new’ cannot but compel the absorbed interest of its readers, but more than this, it is worthy the writing and the reading, because it is a voice for the voiceless, because it needs must have its share in bringing about a social condition wherein at least no ‘evil is wrought by want of thought.’ Such a book deserves to be held high above the flood of ordinary fiction, in that its appeal is not to anything less than the noblest elements of character.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 596. S. 29, ’06. 1930w.
“The most vivid individual in the book is Sarah, the charwoman. The weakest parts of the story are the extracts from ‘The branding iron.’”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 533. O. 27, ’06. 210w.
“The charm of Mr. Whiteing’s narrative is greatly enhanced by his mastery of the art of presentation. He writes with a most engaging ease, preserving a happy mean between pedantry and looseness,—indeed, the impression created is curiously like that of listening to a brilliant talker.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 717. My. 5, ’06. 880w.
=Whiting, Lilian.= Florence of Landor. **$2.50. Little.
“In this fascinating work Lillian Whiting is seen at her best.”
+ + =Arena.= 35: 444. Ap. ’06. 600w.
“So far as Landor is concerned, the more valuable parts of Miss Whiting’s volume are those containing the reminiscences of his young American friend Miss Kate Field, who saw a good deal of him during the last four or five years of his long life.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 886. D. 30. 1120w.
“It contains some new and interesting anecdotes and a few good illustrations.”
+ – =Atlan.= 97: 558. Ap. ’06. 370w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 456. F. 22, ’06. 420w.
“It is not, to be sure, one of those that invite perusal at a single sitting. On the contrary, the best enjoyment will be derived through desultory browsing.”
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 171, F. 3, ’06. 270w.
“Without giving any but the barest details of the poet’s life, Miss Whiting brings vividly before us the brilliant circle of choice intellects, so attached to Landor and to Florence, who ministered to his later years.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 527. D. 28, ’05. 1820w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 110w.
=Whiting, Lilian.= From dream to vision of life. *$1. Little.
“Optimistic papers in which scientific knowledge and religious fervor are combined, compose this volume. They are entitled; Thine eyes shall behold the King in his beauty, The key of the secret, Live in harmony with the new forces, The incalculable power of the spirit, The spiritual illumination, All’s love and all’s law, The rose and flame of life, The glory of summers that are not yet, and To whom the eternal world speaks.”
=Whiting, Lilian.= Joy that no man taketh from you. **50c. Little.
“It will appeal with special force to those saddened, discouraged, disappointed ones from which riches have taken wings, or who have been overcome by still greater calamities.”
+ =Arena.= 35: 103. Ja. ’06. 980w.
=Whiting, Lilian.= Land of enchantment: from Pike’s Peak to the Pacific. **$2.50. Little.
The grandeur and scenic marvels of the great Southwest with its resources and development of life fill Miss Whiting’s volume. The wonders of Colorado, both in the Pike’s Peak region and in Denver “the beautiful,” the surprises of New Mexico with its ruins, traditions and mines, the magic of Arizona with its petrified forest, and Grand cañon, and southern California, mild in its sunshine, all compel the reader to traverse the way under the spell of enchantment.
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+ =Dial.= 41: 453. D. 16, ’06. 210w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 857. D. 8, ’06. 60w.
“She makes proper copy of excellent material for such a purpose.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 812. D. 1, ’06. 150w.
“The author has gone over well-known ground quite thoroughly, and has discovered much that is new and picturesque.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 940. D. 15, ’06. 70w.
=Whitney, Caspar.= Jungle trails and jungle people; travel, adventure and observation in the Far East. **$3. Scribner.
“The style, instead of being halting, has the rapid stride of an expert American journalist, and, in spite of occasional disfigurements, the author has produced a work of considerable interest to the general reader, and painted some pictures of Eastern manners and character unfamiliar to those who live in the smaller world of the West.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 669. Je. 2. 1180w.
“What he saw and what he did are pleasantly set down with many illustrations in this handsome volume.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1536. D. 28, ’05. 270w.
“Mr. Whitney conveys to the reader a good deal of the pleasure and excitement which he himself experienced.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 1128. D. 30, ’05. 500w.
=Whitney, Helen Hay.= Sonnets and songs. **$1.20. Harper.
“Gifted young debutante.” Edith M. Thomas.
+ =Critic.= 48: 271. Mr. ’06. 610w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 30w.
=Whitson, John H.= Justin Wingate, ranchman. †$1.50. Little.
“It is a capital story of the West and well worth the reading.”
+ =Arena.= 35: 334. Mr. ’06. 220w.
=Whittier, John Greenleaf.= Poems; with a biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole. $1.25. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Thin paper poets” this volume becomes a student’s textbook thru its introduction and notes.
Who’s Who, 1906. *$2. Macmillan.
The 1906 volume contains two thousand more biographies than its predecessor. It contains also the number of a man’s sons and daughters, his telegraphic address and telephone number and the registered number of his motor-car.
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“The book seems to us to have entirely changed its character since its inception; but in its present form it is exceedingly useful as a book of reference.”
– + + =Acad.= 69: 1341. D. 23, ’05. 70w.
“The new detail tends to promote self-advertisement rather than public utility.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1905. 2: 863. D. 23. 40w.
“The selection of American names is as capricious as ever.”
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 161. Mr. 1, ’06. 60w.
– – – =Ind.= 60: 287. F. 1, ’06. 50w.
+ + + =Int. Studio.= 28: 181. Ap. ’06. 40w.
+ + + =Nation.= 82: 117. F. 8, ’06. 60w.
+ + + =Outlook.= 82: 327. F. 10, ’06. 270w.
+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 822. D. 23, ’05. 80w.
+ + + =Spec.= 95: 1092. D. 23. ’05. 100w.
=Whyte, Rev. Alexander.= Walk, conversation and character of Jesus Christ our Lord. $1.50. Revell.
“Permeated with this moral purpose, these addresses may be classified as devotional reflections upon the life of Jesus.” Llewellyn Phillips.
+ =Bib. World.= 27: 78. Ja. ’06. 240w.
=Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Smith) (Mrs. G. C. Riggs).= Rose o’ the river. †$1.25. Houghton.
“The vivid glimpses of life among the lumbermen are the best features of the book which surely must have made its way on the strength of its predecessor, ‘Rebecca,’ rather than on its own merits.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 22: 494. Ja. ’06. 200w.
“Is as spontaneous and fascinating in its way as was her ‘Rebecca’ in another.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 711. N. 25, ’05. 50w.
+ =Reader.= 7: 227. Ja. ’06. 190w.
=Wilcox, Henry S.= Foibles of the bench. $1. Legal literature co., Chicago
The various types found upon the bench in all lands and ages and here personified and analyzed under such chapter headings as; Egotism, Courtesy, Concentration, Courage, Decision, Vain display, Corruption, etc.; in which appear Judge Knowall, Judge Wasp, Judge Doall, Judge Fearful, Judge Wobbler, Judge Wind, Judge Graft and others, who are classed under the virtues which they fail to represent. The whole is breezy and amusing.
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“It is excellent work of this character that makes one regret the carelessness and lack of skill that have ruined what might otherwise have been a valuable criticism of the Bench.” Frederick Trevor Hill.
+ – =Bookm.= 24: 54. S. ’06. 810w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 877. D. 15, ’06. 150w.
=Wilde, Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills.= De profundis. **$1.25. Putnam.
“This last work of Oscar Wilde’s may be read with deep interest from many points of view; but it is perhaps most truly remarkable as a piece of introspective psychology.” Rafford Pyke.
+ =Bookm.= 22: 628. F. ’06. 600w.
“Fantastic his utterances often are, but they are always shrewd, penetrating, suggestive.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 222. Mr. 15, ’06. 200w.
=Wilde, Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Willis.= Picture of Dorian Gray. **$1.50. Brentano’s.
A new edition of Oscar Wilde’s “psychological masterpiece”, containing chapters that have never before appeared in any American edition. Dorian Gray of the beautiful face and black soul presents just the antithesis of character that fascinated the author’s mind. Love, joy, sorrow all exist in the vesture of life—so they can be donned or doffed at pleasure.
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“The book is more effective now than when first published because we know now how true it is.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 219. Jl. 26, ’06. 400w.
=Wildman, Murray Shipley.= Money inflation in the United States: a study in social pathology. **$1.50. Putnam.
A sociological study which “has nothing to do with individual morals, but is an attempt to explain certain incidents in our National life to which as a people we cannot point with pride. We are a people with a financial ‘past,’ and Mr. Wildman sets out to rehabilitate us by connecting financial vagaries little different from immoralities, with facts in our National history which show that we were not naturally bad, but yielded to stress of circumstances and most naturally.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Is well worthy of commendation to the inquiring student.” Frank L. McVey.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 165. S. 16, ’06. 410w.
“No one has hitherto treated with such detail the economic conditions underlying the successive movements in favor of cheap money.”
+ + – =Ind.= 60: 399. F. 15, ’06. 150w.
“Although the book is far from controversial in its tone, its reading will certainly do much to create harmony of opinion on the subject of sound money. As a study of the formation of opinion on one question it is very suggestive.” Caroline M. Hill.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 188. Mr. ’06. 760w.
“Mr. Wildman has written a most ingenious and suggestive apologia for our financial heresies of the period he selected.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 78. F. 10. ’06. 660w.
“Both his method and his reasoning are ingenious, and although it seems to us that he presses a hypothesis to an extreme, we have found his little treatise singularly stimulating.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 616. Mr. 17. ’06. 430w.
=Wiley, Sara King.= Alcestis and other poems. **75c. Macmillan.
+ =Ind.= 60: 49. Ja. 4, ’06. 150w.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 7. Ja. 6, ’06. 360w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ + =North American.= 182: 753. My. ’06. 270w.
=Wilkins, William Henry.= Mrs. Fitzherbert and George IV. **$5. Longmans.
“There is no great addition to historical knowledge in Mr. Wilkins’s story of Mrs. Fitzherbert and George IV.” A. G. Porritt.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 659. Ap. ’06. 510w.
+ =Cath. World.= 82: 694. F. ’06. 2480w.
“He is just to George IV., and gives besides an excellent picture of the period.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 380. Ap. ’06. 140w.
+ =Dial.= 40: 202. Mr. 16, ’06. 300w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 223. Ja. 25, ’06. 640w.
“It must be said that Mr. Wilkins, though a conscientious searcher and worker, is here rather an apologist than an historian.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 350. Ap. 26, ’06. 1510w.
“Mr. Wilkins is too much of an advocate to be a wholly convincing historian and there are signs that he has written in some haste. He deserves full credit for the tact, sensibility, and good taste with which he has performed it.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 81: 1084. D. 30, ’05. 310w.
=Wilkinson, Florence.= Far country: poems. **$1. McClure.
“Miss Wilkinson ... is before all, a romanticist, the narrative and ballad are her predestined forms, and she handles them with all the freedom of a native gift.... In phrasing and imagery ‘The far country’ ... shows a freshness and imaginative vision that bespeak the poet’s hand and eye, and above all a joy in the art.... Miss Wilkinson is not a sonneteer ... but to show that she knows wherein her strength lies, there are few sonnets in the volume. It is chiefly the human riddle which haunts her eager, questioning mind.”—N. Y. Times.
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“A tendency toward forced forms of expression and an indulgence in mere emotional ejaculation appear to be the most noticeable fault of what is, on the whole, a volume of quite exceptional richness and strength.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 68. Ag. 1, ’06. 470w.
“A volume of uneven, but on the whole, singularly poetic verse. A little sharper discrimination between profusion and diffusion, a little sterner renunciation of unreal and extraneous adornment, a little firmer grasp of organic structure, and Miss Wilkinson will be a poet to reckon with.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 145. Ag. 16, ’06. 230w.
“Miss Wilkinson is so rarely unsure in metre, has indeed such command of herself in the most intricate forms, that when one comes upon a jarring line he knows it to be willful heresy rather than unconscious error.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 396. Je. 16, ’06. 1230w.
“An occasional bit of self-consciousness, an evident effort, mar some verses otherwise most pleasing.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 83: 284. Je. 2, ’06. 90w.
=Williams, C. F. Abdy.= Story of organ music. *$1.25. Scribner.
“A recent volume in the “Music story series.” The author has outlined a history of the rise and development of organ music, in which the works of the leading composers are described. He is of the opinion that the history of organ music revolves around one gigantic personality, that of Bach, and that no organ composer of any eminence has existed who has not been largely influenced by him. The author has drawn considerably on Ritter’s ‘Geschichte des orgelspiels,’ and on the collections of Comer and others.” (Dial.) The book contains a number of musical illustrations including the whole of a toccata by Pasquini.
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“Mr. William’s treatise is scholarly, clear, concise, and elucidative.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 395. Je. 16, ’06. 200w.
“Interesting as well as scholarly the book is one of the best in a series that has varied noticeably in merit.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 942. O. 18, ’06. 320w.
“Cannot be commended too highly to all organists.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 474. Je. 7, ’06. 130w.
“His book is brief but scholarly, and is the work of a man that knows his subject and knows how to present it interestingly—even the more abstruse historical portions of it. The book is one of the best of a series that has varied greatly in merit.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 237. Ap. 14, ’06. 660w.
=Williams, Egerton Ryerson, jr.= Ridolfo, the coming of the dawn, a tale of the Renaissance. †$1.50. McClurg.
Perugia, harassed as it was in the hundred and fifty years or more that the Baglioni ruled it by violence, is the scene of this story of Gismonda, the Florentine bride of Ridolfo Baglioni, then signore of Perugia. He marries her for her dowry and leaves her on her wedding day a prisoner in his castle to continue his career of crime and oppression; but she, by her faithfulness, her goodness, and her beauty, finally succeeds in awakening the soul of Ridolfo to a realization of his sins. He forthwith repents of his black deeds, inaugurates a new era for down-trodden Perugia and makes of himself a man worthy of his wife’s love.
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“It leaves a strong and even valuable impression of an age which it is well to look back at, not only when modern puzzles seem petty, but when modern civilization seems defective.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 353. O. 25, ’06. 390w.
“The book is eminently readable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 721. N. 3. ’06. 190w.
“The story is full of action and dramatic situations.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 796. D. ’06. 140w.
=Williams, Hugh Noel.= Five fair sisters: an Italian episode at the court of Louis XIV. **$3.50. Putnam.
The five sisters of this historical biography are Laure, Olympe, Marie, Hortense, and Marianne Mancini, the nieces of Cardinal Mazarin. All were taken from Rome to France as children and made brilliant marriages. With the exception of Laure, they all lived long and had romantic careers. Had not Mazarin been so obstinate, Marie Mancini would have been consort of Louis XIV. of France. Olympe became the Comtesse de Soissons; Marianne, Duchesse de Bouillon, who was implicated in the poison trials of 1680; Hortense the Duchesse de Mazarin, fled from her jealous, bigoted husband, and became a reigning beauty at the Court of Charles II. of England.
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“He does not affect to have made any additions to historical knowledge, and shows no great fondness for discussing problems or unravelling mysteries; but the facts are stated fairly, and, as a rule, fully enough for the general reader.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 787. Je. 30. 2050w.
Reviewed by Percy F. Bicknell.
=Dial.= 41: 386. D. 1, ’06. 180w.
“His volume looks well; his illustrations are interesting: his style, though it smacks a good deal too much of translation, is readable; his subject could hardly have been better chosen.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 288. O. 4. ’06. 800w.
“The present author has put the facts together in a very satisfactory fashion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 565. S. 15, ’06. 1010w.
“Both entertaining and of interest as throwing light on the life of this great period in French history.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 238. S. 22, ’06. 210w.
“Mr. Williams, however, has made a readable story out of material only too abundant. His book is quite as much a study of times and manners as a regular biography: with so many leading figures this was a foregone conclusion.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 465. O. 6, ’06. 1700w.
=Williams, Hugh Noel.= Later queens of the French stage. Scribner.
A less distinctive work for stage art has been wrought by the six women in this group than by the women who were sketched in the first book of the series, “Queens of the French stage.” This latter group includes Sophie Arnould, Mlle. Guimard, Mlle. Raucourt, Mme. Dugazon, Mlle. Contat, and Mme. Saint-Huberty, and “they were rather reapers than sowers and left few traces on their art.” (Lond. Times.)
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“To anyone who likes gossip, amusing stories, vivid descriptions of a very brilliant and heartless state of society, just before it toppled to its fall, we recommend Mr. Williams’s handsomely published book. He has spared no little trouble in research, and is thoroughly well up in his subject; and his book makes most agreeable reading.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 472. My. 19, ’06. 1200w.
“Mr. Williams’s new book has all the faults of his ‘Queens of the French stage,’ and has them in an aggravated degree. His style is still more slovenly, his grammar still more faulty, his accuracy still more blemished ... his proofs still more carelessly read.”
– – =Lond. Times.= 5: 171. My. 11, ’06. 930w.
“It is a record of scandals.”
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 359. Je. 2, ’06. 870w.
=Williams, Hugh Noel.= Queens of the French stage. *$2.50. Scribner.
“He tells his stories very well, and has a wide knowledge of the memoirs, letters, the epigrams and so forth which illustrate his subjects, and quotes them freely on his handsome pages.”
+ =Acad.= 70. 112. F. 3, ’06. 1500w.
=Spec.= 95: 533. O. 7, ’05. 160w.
=Williams, Jesse Lynch.= Day-dreamer. †$1.50. Scribner.
An unabridged rendering of “News and the man,” an amplified version of “The stolen story.” “There is a general stir in this novel which successfully stimulates the rush of a daily newspaper office when the presses are in motion and the ‘stories’ are coming in from every quarter. The reporter’s slang, which is a kind of dialect known only to the initiated, is freely used and the narrative bristles with expert knowledge of reportorial ways and speech.” (Outlook.)
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“A very plausible story and a splendid picture of newspaper life and newspaper men.” Stephen Chalmers.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 181. Mr. 24, ’06. 70w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ – =North American.= 182: 927. Je. ’06. 110w.
“Among the entertaining stories of the season a first place must be given to ... ‘The day dreamer.’”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 759. Mr. 31, ’06. 90w.
“But in spite of the well-seasoned character of the plot and the persons, ‘The day-dreamer’ is nevertheless a neatly articulated and very readable tale.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 127. O. ’06. 140w.
=Williams, Leonard.= Granada: memories, adventures, studies and impressions. **$2.50. Lippincott.
“Here is a book that gives only one chapter to the Alhambra. ‘The Alhambra by moonlight,’ all the rest being devoted to pilgrimages within easy reach of the City of Granada.... Some lead into the snows of the splendid Sierra Nevada, but most of them are within the power of any one.” (N. Y. Times.) “To the systematic frauds connected with the famous sacred mountain, he devotes several chapters, in which he tells the whole story of the exploitation of the caves—‘a longish story,’ he says, ‘full of interest, social, national and psychological, the story of the most astounding, amazing and protracted swindle the world has ever heard of.’” (Int. Studio.)
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“The chapters which make up this volume are much too disconnected in subject, and the author has not the art of interesting us in ... commonplace experiences.”
– + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 542. My. 5. 470w.
“It is unfortunate that a book so full of varied charm should not have better illustrations. The want of an index is also a considerable drawback to the value of the work.”
+ – =Int. Studio.= 29: 181. Ag. ’06. 290w.
=Williams, Neil Wynn.= Electric theft. †$1.50. Small.
An unusual story with plenty of plot, action and romance has its setting in Athens, with the scene shifting to London. A young engineer, who is also an inventor, is sent to Athens to discover the cause of the theft of electricity from the Athenian electric power company. The closely guarded villainy is operated by a band of anarchists whose leader becomes the hero’s rival in affairs of heart as well as schemes in which cunning and skill abound.
=Williams, Rebecca R. (“Riddell,” pseud.).= Fireside fancies. *75c. Jenkins.
A poem in which the author’s fancy recalls a sequence of brave deeds long past and weaves them into verse at his own fireside.
=Williams, Sarah Stone (Hester E. Shipley).= Man from London town. $1.50. Neale.
There was a man from London town, and in this modern version of the old rhyme, having scratched out both his eyes as the result of an unfortunate love affair he becomes a cynic, is bored with life and loving. But at last he realizes that his eyes are out thru the influence of a young widow of high ideals and a charming personality, and she is the cause of his jumping once more into the bramble bush and scratching them in again. Unfortunately the man has become so embittered and, is so lacking in fine feeling that he handles too roughly the thing which gave him light. He is the type of a man whose vision is permanently distorted and even love could not make him see.
=Williams, Theodore C.= Elegies of Tibullus. $1.25. Badger, R. G.
“Of this work the judgment must be that it is a paraphrase rather than a translation, and the frequent felicities in the rendering add to one’s regret at its defects.”
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 338. My. ’06. 760w.
=Williamson, Charles Norris, and Williamson, Mrs. Alice Muriel (Livingston).= Lady Betty across the water. †$1.50. McClure.
Lady Betty, the naive young sister of an impoverished duke, comes over from England to visit a Mrs. Stuyvesant-Knox at Newport. The plans of her hostess for securing the sister of a duke as her brother’s wife are frustrated, and the plans of Betty’s mother of securing an American fortune seem, for a time, endangered by a young man who crosses in the steerage of Betty’s ship and who wins her young affection by heroic deeds before she discovers him to be a millionaire in disguise. The story is light and breezy and is full of social satire.
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“The interest is smartly whipped up, and kept spinning and humming gaily to the last page.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 550. Je. 9, ’06. 380w.
“A little more of the handsome Californian, and a little less violet teas and cat lunches would have made it a better balanced book.” Frederick Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 540. Jl. ’06. 310w.
“A frothy sort of cleverness is the chief attribute of the story, but its thin vein of wit is exhausted long before the end is reached, and nothing more substantial is found to take its place.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 41: 37. Jl. 16, ’06. 240w.
“The intent is to present a friendly picture of real American life, to hold up the mirror to ‘society’, and to provide a sort of guide book of America’s typical institutions; but it’s all done British visitors must be warned not to take it upon such meagre knowledge of the facts that seriously.”
– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 319. My. 19, ’06. 690w.
“It is a pleasantly written narrative, very frothy.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 190w.
“A lively and entertaining tale.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 863. Ag. 11, ’06. 50w.
“A readable and entertaining story.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 826. Je. 30, ’06. 80w.
=Spec.= 97: 23. Jl. 7, ’06. 190w.
=Williamson, Charles Norris, and Williamson, Mrs. Alice Muriel.= My friend the chauffeur. †$1.50. McClure.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 10: 154. Mr. 1, 06. 290w.
“The tale is amusing enough, but on the whole less good than other stories by the clever authors.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 254. N. ’06. 60w.
=Willis, Henry Parker.= Our Philippine problem: a study of American colonial policy. $1.50. Holt.
Reviewed by Winthrop More Daniels.
=Atlan.= 97: 848. Je. ’06. 470w.
“So, while there is much in this book ... which is of very considerable import, it is so intermixed with errors, half-truths, misinformation of one sort and another, and political insinuation, as to make the book an altogether unsafe guide for him who is not already expert in Philippine matters.”
+ – – =Ind.= 59: 1538. D. 28, ’05. 1210w.
Reviewed by Hugh Clifford.
=Living Age.= 251: 515. D. 1, ’06. 5630w.
=Willoughby, William Franklin.= Territories and dependencies of the United States: their government and administration. *$1.25. Century.
Reviewed by F. J. Goodnow.
+ – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 136. Mr. ’06. 1010w.
=Wilson, Alice.= Actaeon’s defense and other poems. $1. Badger, R: G.
Half a hundred nature poems, love sonnets and lyrics.
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Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 41: 208. O. 1, ’06. 200w.
=Wilson, Rev. C. T.= Peasant life in the Holy Land. *$3.50. Putnam.
“Peasant life in Palestine was cast in stereotype plates centuries ago, long before the Christian era, and the present life is printed from the old plates. Therefore to see how peasants live and what they think and feel now is to understand how they lived and what they thought in the time of Christ, not to say in the time of Abraham. That fact gives to a portrait of modern life by one who has been a long-time resident of the Holy Land value as well as interest.”—Outlook.
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“It is only when he quits his own subject to indulge in speculations or a general view that he stumbles.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 449. Ap. 14. 400w.
“This interesting book is not so much, as the author claims, a contribution to the folklore of Palestine, altho some stories are given, as a description of the peasant life.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 941. O. 18, ’06. 200w.
“It gives a picture of the better side of peasant life, and incidentally is of considerable value to the student of Oriental and Biblical archaeology, folklore, and religion.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 129. Ag. 9, ’06. 640w.
“The value of the book lies in a wealth of detail about the daily lives of the fellahin. This sharp definition of detail lends a special worth to Mr. Wilson’s work.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 649. O. 6, ’06. 940w.
“It contains not a great deal which will be fresh to one who is familiar with Dr. Thomson’s ‘Land and the book’ or Professor Curtiss’s ‘Primitive Semitic religion to-day.’”
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 482. Je. 23, ’06. 160w.
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 211. Ag. 18, ’06. 810w.
“Mr. Wilson’s book is full of interesting details about Palestinian life. He has extended his observations to natural objects, and has much that is curious to tell us.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 588. Ap. 14, ’06. 290w.
=Wilson, Calvin Dill.= Making the most of ourselves. **$1. McClurg.
“For young men and women who are at a groping and impressionable age and who have not had ‘advantages,’ this book ought to be of far greater value than most of its kind.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 569. Je. ’06. 60w.
=Wilson, Floyd Baker.= Through silence to realization; or, The human awakening. $1. Fenno.
Self-mastery is the keynote of this volume. Practical suggestions for the achievement of it along metaphysical lines are made by one who has proved that “thoughts are things,” and as entities can be implanted into consciousness and vitalized there.
=Wilson, Francis.= Joseph Jefferson. **$2. Scribner.
A sketch of Mr. Jefferson by a close friend and fellow actor which pictures “what will be of inestimable value to future generations of playgoers—the personality of Joseph Jefferson.” (Ind.) “New light is thrown on the best qualities of Jefferson, his amiability, his genial humor, his sound artistry. The illustrations include reproductions of photographs of the actors, and some of Jefferson’s paintings.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Those who knew Mr. Jefferson personally and those who knew him only on the stage will be sorry to see him so belittled by an account which, meaning to exalt, succeeds only in debasing.”
– =Acad.= 71: 370. O. 13, ’06. 380w.
Reviewed by Louise Closser Hale.
+ + =Bookm.= 23: 532. Jl. ’06. 930w.
+ + =Critic.= 48: 570. Je. ’06. 410w.
“A pleasing and worthy portrait.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 316. My. 16, ’06. 1770w.
“His analysis of many of the elements of Jefferson’s success—as in “Rip Van Winkle”—is a good one, and the chief impressions are agreeable.” Wm. T. Brewster.
+ + =Forum.= 38: 96. Jl. ’06. 770w.
+ + =Ind.= 60: 987. Ap. 26, ’06. 560w.
“There are few such nuggets in the book, and they can be found only by sifting a vast amount of rubbish.”
– + =Nation.= 82: 516. Je. 21, ’06. 1160w.
“The sketches of personalities are intimate and charmingly done.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 244. Ap. 14, ’06. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.
“A book as true to nature as it is entertaining.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 92. My. 12, ’06. 280w.
“Mr. Wilson has done a careful piece of work in bringing together his reminiscences, and there is none of the feeling that he is holding something back to use later on.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 710. Je. 9, ’06. 930w.
“Is packed full of story, incident, and picturesque description.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 766. Je. ’06. 210w.
=Winchester, Caleb Thomas.= Life of John Wesley. **$1.50. Macmillan.
Professor Winchester “points out that Wesley was the child of his age in his distrust of enthusiasm. He laid great stress upon an intelligent faith, and endeavored himself to be clear, candid, and logical. That he could have carried on his especial work within the Anglican church, had the bishops of his day held more statesmanlike ideas as to their duty is plain enough; in fact, he never abandoned that church nor did he desire his followers to do so. Yet the logic of events made the organization of a distinctive Methodist body inevitable.”—Critic.
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Reviewed by H W. Boynton.
+ =Atlan.= 98: 278. Ag. ’06. 690w.
“He brings out the character and personality of the man better, on the whole, than any of Wesley’s previous biographers have done.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 473. My. ’06. 150w.
“The last chapter on ‘John Wesley the man’ is an especially clear and satisfactory presentation of the great preacher’s mind and personality.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 42. Jl. 16, ’06. 300w.
“It is written in excellent style, and is marked by thoroness of information, fairness of judgment, and that sanity and balance, which come only with extensive knowledge.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 1162. My. 17, ’06. 440w.
“It is compact, bright, clear-sighted, a book in which an American writer seems to have achieved something of the lucidity, combined with accurate knowledge, of the best French work. There are a few slips here and there in it.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 247. Jl. 13, ’06. 1490w.
“This writer has given us, in brief space, probably the clearest view of his hero.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 537. Je. 28, ’06. 940w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
“He writes in a style which is luminous without being rhetorical, warm without being emotional, and simple without being commonplace.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 625. Jl. 14, ’06. 1750w.
“Professor Winchester has dealt fairly with his subject, showing the dark as well as the light sides.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 378. Mr. 24, ’06. 370w.
“Is not primarily a Methodist tribute to the founder of his church; it is the seasoned judgment of a man of literature and an historian of philosophic mind concerning a great divine.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 507. Ap. ’06. 140w.
“He is neither a worshipper nor an iconoclast.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 718: My. 5, ’06. 160w.
+ =World To-Day.= 11: 764. Jl. ’06. 160w.
=Winslow, Helen Maria.= Woman of tomorrow. *$1. Pott.
“The author points out the weak spots in the woman of to-day, and tells her what to do in order to become a more able woman of to-morrow.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The writer has made no attempt, in these discreet articles, to treat her subject profoundly or from an original point of view.”
+ – =Critic.= 47: 573. D. ’05. 120w.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 3. Ja. 6, ’06. 540w.
=Winter, Alice Ames.= Jewel weed. †$1.50. Bobbs.
In the foreground of this story with a middle west setting is a quartette of young people composed of Dick Percival of substantial family connections, his college friend Ellery Norris who is striving to make good his heralded efficiency, Madeline Elton, a finely bred young woman, and Lena Quincy whose gilded vulgarity finds fit expression in the jewel weed. The “jewel weed” becomes Dick’s protege, later his wife, and as such a foreign element in the refined atmosphere of his mother’s home. In contrast to her selfishness which menaces her husband’s social, financial and political career is the fine loyalty of Madeline, which champions everybody’s cause—Ellery Norris more than all others.
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“Though not a great novel, this is an excellent love-story written in a bright and pleasing style and very rich in human interest. More than this, it is for the most part true to the life it depicts.”
+ =Arena.= 36: 687. D. ’05. 300w.
=Wise, John Sergeant.= Recollections of thirteen presidents. **$2.50. Doubleday.
From the political atmosphere surrounding him in boyhood, the author absorbed the personalities of the presidents of his father’s day, Tyler, Pierce and Buchanan; and of the men following down to the present day he is able to write out of the fulness of his intimate knowledge of them. The author is a Southerner, fought with the confederacy, and does not neglect to make prominent the just position from which to view the work of Jefferson Davis.
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+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 210. O. ’06. 50w.
“The taste displayed is often a bit more questionable. and there are many signs of hasty and ill-considered writing. It can, however, never be called a dull book, or one lacking in a fine sense of patriotism.”
+ – =Dial.= 41: 117. S. 1, ’06. 780w.
“Some wonderfully fresh and striking pen portraits.”
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 983. Je. 30, ’06. 1180w.
“The book is confessedly partisan rather than judicial in its tone. It is an interesting series of political sketches from a personal point of view, and the intelligent reader will have no trouble in recognizing the point of view and making all necessary allowances. We have noticed few slips of fact.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 103. Ag. 2, ’06. 1020w.
“His estimates of the public men he discusses in his book are to a rather remarkable degree free from partisan, even though not always from personal bias. They are both interesting and entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 333. My. 26, ’06. 1250w.
“His estimates of these historical characters, expressed with the utmost frankness and evident sincerity, make ‘readable footnotes to history.’”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. ’06. 250w.
=Wise, John Sergeant.= Treatise on American citizenship. $3. Thompson.
A book dealing with the primary rights, duties, and privileges of the American citizen and analyzing the peculiar dual system—federal and state—under which he lives. There are seven parts to the treatise: Of citizenship generally; How American citizenship may be acquired; Of the obligations and duties of the citizens to the nation and the state; Of the rights, privileges and immunities of the citizen; Privileges and immunities under the war amendments; Of the protection of citizens abroad; Of expatriation, aliens and who may not become citizens.
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“While Mr. Wise has given us here a useful and valuable work, it must be said that it leaves much to be desired and that there is still room for a comprehensive text on the law of citizenship.” Frank Hamsher.
+ – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 356. S. ’06. 670w.
“As a popular summary of the more important features of our system, the book will be found useful. It is marked by great fairness and freedom from bias of any kind.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 451. My. 31, ’06. 310w.
“It is a very useful book, showing a great deal of patient industry, and a clear and sound judgment in dealing with authorities.” Edward Cary.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 93. F. 17, ’06. 1150w.
“He has made no use of treaty stipulations, diplomatic correspondence, rulings of the Department of state or decisions of arbitration commissions. He does not seem to have examined the excellent works of Van Dyne and Howard or the less valuable ones of Morse and Webster, from all of which he could have gained useful information both as to the law of citizenship and methods of treatment. Notwithstanding all that has been said above in criticism of Mr. Wise’s book as a treatise on the law of citizenship, it is a useful and interesting work. To the idea of state citizenship he makes a distinct contribution and his discussion of civil rights under the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments contains many original and valuable suggestions.” James Wilford Garner.
+ – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 558. S. ’06. 1300w.
=Wishart, Alfred Wesley.= Primary facts in religious thought. *75c. Univ. of Chicago press.
“Dr. Wishart is a careful reasoner and the volume, on the whole, is an admirable work of the kind. As is so frequently the case in didactic theological works, however, the author, it seems to us, sometimes presumes too much, and therefore his premises are open to criticism.”
+ – =Arena.= 36: 440. O. ’06. 860w.
+ =Bib. World.= 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 50w.
=Wister, Owen.= Lady Baltimore. †$1.50. Macmillan.
This story might be called the “Love affairs of a bachelor” in the objective sense of Lilian Bell’s “Love affairs of an old maid.” For the hero finds real life and other people’s matrimonial projects more fascinating than musty genealogical records that sufficiently searched will prove the blood of kings in his veins and admit him to the “Selected salic scions.” The setting is typically Southern and among the characters are a charming dispenser of cakes at a Woman’s exchange, a young man whose approaching marriage to a brilliant siren furnishes cause for a vast expenditure of the hero’s quixotic chivalry, and numerous old ladies of King’s Port. It would divulge too much of the whimsically clever story to reveal the meaning of so high sounding a title as “Lady Baltimore.”
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“The story is one of love, prettily conceived and executed, but it is, perhaps, a little longwinded and slow of development.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906. 1: 603. My. 19. 280w.
“But it is not merely for its adherence to an academic formula that ‘Lady Baltimore’ is to be praised. It is good to read because of its characterisation, its geniality and its ideas.” Edward Clark Marsh.
+ + – =Bookm.= 23: 296. My. ’06. 1180w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 509. Je. ’06. 980w.
“Like Mr. Owen Wister’s other fiction, is defective on the side of construction, but the defect is atoned for by the author’s powers of characterization and his narrative charm.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 365. Je. 1, ’06. 410w.
“It is doubtful if any other author has so accurately touched the keynote of the real South, or contrasted it so shrewdly with that of the North.”
+ + + =Ind.= 60: 1159. My. 17, ’06. 950w.
“He has given us the most courteous, intelligent and veracious interpretation of Southern life ever published without losing a single man by violence out of the tale.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1160. N. 15, ’06. 50w.
“Mr. Wister brings to this new environment all the fine play and parry of style, all the insight, all the certainty of coloring, that carried the West before his compelling pen.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 158. Ag. 4, ’06. 420w.
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 70w.
“‘The Virginian’ can no longer be held to be the work of an impassioned tiro by any one who observes how in ‘Lady Baltimore’ the story is informed by the idea, how light and delicate the humour is for all the urgency of the pleading, how fragrant is that atmosphere of lavender which the whole story breathes.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 142. Ap. 20, ’06. 530w.
“Is marked by all the author’s cleverness and power of observation. What Mr. Wister has written might be called extravaganza with a purpose.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 390. My. 10, ’06. 430w.
“The attraction of the book is in its hitting off things and people in little illuminating phrases which flash this and that characteristic home to you.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 254. Ap. 21, ’06. 680w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 250w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ + – =North American.= 182: 928. Je. ’06. 100w.
“It is a true American novel in subject, spirit, and atmosphere.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 83: 111. My. 19, ’06. 1490w.
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 707. N. 24, ’06. 100w.
“There is little success in striking the deeper chords that might be set vibrating by a stronger hand and one less preoccupied with its own rather capable cleverness and its stylistic ingenuity.”
+ – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 572. My. 5, ’06. 710w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 756. Je. ’06. 70w.
“Owen Wister displays as before the delicacy of touch, the clear precise treatment of ideas, the felicity and grace of expression which make his writing distinguished and admirable, but his material is this time too scanty, and his dissertations seem tedious and complicated to the point of mystification.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 794. Je. 23, ’06. 250w.
“Is a many-sided book, in which plot and incident, ingenious though they are, are of subsidiary importance, and serve the ulterior purpose of enabling the writer to liberate his mind on a number of burning questions. His satire is inspired not by malice, but by a genuine desire of reform.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: 675. Ap. 28, ’06. 820w.
=Witt, Robert Clermont.= How to look at pictures. **$1.40. Putnam.
America finds this book published five years ago in England of such value that it deems it worth while to reprint it even tho there have appeared a number of works akin to it—books whose purpose is identical with it, viz. to direct laymen how to judge first class works of art, “Mr Witt speaks of the personal point of view, the point of view of the subject the picture represents, that of the artist, how to look at a portrait, a historical painting, a colored picture, a genre painting, a landscape and a drawing; how to note the light and shade in a painting, the composition of the picture, the treatment of the subject by the artist, and the methods and materials of a painter.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Several helpful books dealing with the general subject of looking at pictures have been published within the last year, but none of these has the breadth or scope of this admirable book by Mr Witt.”
+ + =Critic.= 49: 90. Jl. ’06. 180w.
+ =Dial.= 41: 120. S. 1, ’06. 310w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 518. Ag. 30, ’06. 270w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 832. Je. 2, ’06. 1120w.
“Its contents are marked by tranquil common sense. There is nothing in it which is not true, and nothing, perhaps, which may not still be novel to some part of the great public.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 468. Je. 7, ’06. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 376. Je. 9, ’06. 440w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 671. Jl. 21, ’06. 80w.
=Wolfenstein, Martha.= Renegade, and other tales. $1.25. Jewish pub.
“‘A renegade’ presents to us a number of Gentile sinners and Jewish saints in the setting of far-away Bohemia.” (Nation.) This story “is tragical, of course, and there are ten others. The prevailing atmospheric effect is gray, a dull sad gray, and there is always a sense of what may be called the joy of suffering, a sort of reveling in the luxury of woe.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“We need not quarrel with the characterization if the stories were only interesting; but they are not.”
– =Nation.= 82: 182. Mr. 1, ’06. 110w.
“Many of them show a considerable dramatic power.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 113. F. 24, ’06. 430w.
“Full of local color, race peculiarities treated with knowledge and skill, and withal broad human sympathy and delicate humor.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1087. D. 30, ’05. 70w.
=Wood, Eugene.= Back home. †$1.50. McClure.
“The book itself is very like an apple: juicy, ripe and red with garnered sunshine. It is altogether wholesome and sweet to the core.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1345. D. 7, ’05. 230w.
=Wood, Henry.= Life more abundant: scriptural truth in modern application. **$1.20. Lothrop.
“It is an important contribution to the constructive religious thought of the day.”
+ + =Arena.= 35: 100. Ja. ’06. 370w.
=Wood, Theodore.= Natural history for young people. $2.50. Dutton.
A survey of the animal world so copiously and realistically illustrated that it furnishes “zoological garden in a book.” “The writer has given a few original observations. Beyond a general classification, he has not attempted scientific methods of treatment. He has selected, from the various groups, the most interesting species, and has written about them with much entertaining detail.” (Nation.)
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“On account of its sumptuous format, is for the library rather than for field and forest.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1390. D. 14, ’05. 30w.
+ =Nation.= 81: 503. D. 21, ’05. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 761. N. 11, ’05. 60w.
“The text is written simply and clearly and is kept free from super-scientific terminology. Decidedly a commendable work.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 683. N. 18, ’06. 50w.
=Wood, Walter Birbeck, and Edmonds, James Edward.= History of the Civil war in the United States, 1861–1865. *$3.50. Putnam.
“There is no lack of intelligent comprehension of the events described, and the presentment is simple and direct. Though one may here and there find fault with the work of Messrs. Wood and Edmonds, the book is nevertheless a good military account of our Civil war—impartial, painstaking, intelligent.” J. K. Hosmer.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 699. Ap. ’06. 1060w.
“It is a useful condensation of the best military histories and is illuminated by much judicious comment.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 264. Ap. 16, ’06. 550w.
“It is characterized by understanding, by impartial attitude and by thoroness of treatment.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 341. F. 8, ’06. 260w.
“It is readily admitted that for succinctness of statement, for saneness of judgment, for fairness of conclusion there is scarce a volume anywhere in all our war literature which equals this one.” William E. Dodd.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 34. Ja. 20, ’06. 1670w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 90w.
=Wood, William.= Fight for Canada; a sketch from the history of the great Imperial war. *$2.50. Little.
This history of England’s fight for Canada has been prepared in the light of recently discovered sources of original information and has been treated from a point of view both naval and military. Chapters are devoted to: Pitt’s imperial war; New France and New England; Vandreuil and Bigot; Montcalm; Anson and Saunders; Wolfe; The siege of Quebec; The Battle of the plains; The fall of Quebec; and The fall of New France. The text is both scholarly and interesting, the notes, bibliography, and index are full and satisfactory, and there are portraits and colored maps.
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“Mr Wood has not Mr. Parkman’s command of resonant prose, but in simple language details the events hour by hour, describing the character of the ground as one familiar with every foot of it, and the movements of the men of each side as if at a review.” James Bain.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 398. Ja. ’05. 660w.
+ =Nation.= 82: 260. Mr. 29, ’06. 80w.
“An interesting and praiseworthy book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 248. Ap. 14, ’06. 280w.
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 807. Ap. 7, ’06. 140w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. ’06. 50w.
=Sat. R.= 99: 814. Je. 17, ’05. 70w.
=Woodberry, George Edward.= Swinburne. **75c. McClure.
A recent volume in the “Contemporary men of letters series.” The sketch is not a biography but “a subtle and subjective study not so much of Swinburne’s poetry as of his poetic impulses.” (Nation.)
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=Critic.= 48: 459. My. ’06. 320w.
+ + =Nation.= 82: 58. Ja. 18, ’06. 1080w.
“The book is important not so much because of the accident of its being perhaps the first on the subject to be published in this country as because of an uncommon qualification of the author for his task. It is true that he has broad perspective and intimate knowledge, but of greater significance is the affinity of spirit between the poet and his critic.” Lewis N. Chase.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 889. D. 16, ’05. 2110w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 30w.
=Woodberry, George Edward.= Torch: eight lectures on race power in literature, delivered before the Lowell institute of Boston. **$1.20. McClure.
Thru “The torch” “one increasing purpose runs. This purpose is the thought that there is a race-mind which slowly, unfalteringly, grandly, approaches through the centuries its final summation (if finality in this connection be conceivable) through a variety of channels, but chiefly through the treasure-stores of great literature.” (Reader.) “The work of the race-mind in literature, as it seems to Mr. Woodberry’s optimistic idealism, is not so much mere self-expression as self-conquest, liberation, racial euthanasia.” (Nation.) The title of the lectures are: Man and the race, The language of all the world, The Titan myth, Spenser, Milton, Wordsworth and Shelley.
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“There is no question of the author’s sincerity, and if but as a narrative of personal faith, the book possesses both charm and force.” H. B. Alexander.
+ =Bookm.= 23: 194. Ap. ’06. 1410w.
“Mr. Woodberry has possibly read into the poets, ancient and modern, more than they intended to say. In dealing with the four ... he shows his finely critical sense, although some of his dicta are open to disagreement.” Edward Fuller.
+ – =Critic.= 48: 212. Mr. ’06. 620w.
“The high note of idealism thus sounded at the outset is maintained to the last.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 236. Ap. 1, ’06. 350w.
“Our author’s thought is less convincing in the retrospect than in the reading. It is clear that his choice of typical literature has been very strictly selective, and (though there is much admirable criticism by the way) poetically rather than critically selective. No writer in recent years has presented the cause of the Platonist with greater eloquence and devotion, or has made a more telling synthesis of old poetry and new science.”
+ – =Nation.= 81: 365. N. 2, ’05. 1220w.
“When Prof. Woodberry leaves the field of theory, or, rather, when he imports into that field specific appreciation and criticism, he is often extremely instructive, and what is more important if he will pardon us for saying so, he is stimulating, satisfying, and quite delightful. It is a pleasure to acknowledge the sincerity, the pure-mindedness, the whole-hearted love of the best that shine in Prof. Woodberry’s pages.” E. C.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 721. O. 25, ’05. 640w.
“The philosophy of these lectures—a product of the author’s studies in comparative literature—is profound, and in one aspect, despairing, since it is vitally and essentially sacrificial, and the very death-warrant to all personal egoism.”
+ =Reader.= 7: 225, Ja. ’06. 680w.
=Woodhull, Alfred Alexander.= Personal hygiene; designed for undergraduates. *$1. Wiley.
This treatise “embodies in the first place a short but practical and sufficient account of the anatomy and physiology of the different organs and functions of the body, and then considers one by one, the reasons that should guide us in exercise, in food, in bathing, in our choice of clothing, and in reference to stimulants and narcotics.”—Nation.
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“On the whole, the book is admirable.”
+ =Engin. N.= 55: 560. My. 17, ’06. 130w.
+ =Nation.= 82: 280. Ap. 5. ’06. 130w.
+ + =Nature.= 74: 78. My. 24, ’06. 460w.
“We think that its wide circulation would be a good thing for all concerned.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 228. Ap. 7, ’06. 170w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 510. Ap. ’06. 70w.
=Woodruff, Anna Helena.= Pond in the marshy meadow. $1.50. Saalfield.
A book to open the eyes of children. An “ordinary pond in an ordinary field, belonging to an ordinary farmer” furnishes the objects for lessons of observation and the author is guide and teacher.
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“A book with plenty of entertainment in it and considerable instruction put so pleasantly as to be entertaining too.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 772. N. 24, ’06. 140w.
“Has the indefinable touch which will commend it to the minds of children, but the little folks to whom it is dedicated will have to share their pleasure with every one who can remember brooks and pasture-lands, and all the sweet, lazy experiences of childhood in the country.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 532. O. 27, ’06. 210w.
=Woods, David Walker, jr.= John Witherspoon. **$1.50. Revell.
The great-grandson of John Witherspoon has written the first story of that able Scotsman, Presbyterian and American ever published, in which is given a full account of the part he played in the struggle for popular rights in the Church of Scotland, his administration as president of Princeton college, his work in the organization of the American Presbyterian church, and as an active man in the conduct of the revolution and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 209. O. ’06. 60w.
“A biography which will appeal to Princeton men and to students of church history, as well as to those interested in the Revolutionary period of our national life.”
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 70. Ag. 1, ’06. 380w.
“Dr. Witherspoon’s career does not lend itself to lively narrative, and Mr. Woods is a dull biographer at best.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 482. Ag. 4, ’06. 550w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 908. Ap. 21, ’06. 190w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 80w.
=Woods, Frederick Adams.= Mental and moral heredity in royalty: a statistical study in history and psychology. **$3. Holt.
A scientific inquiry into the characteristics of royalty based upon a large and well chosen bibliography to which detailed references are given. The study of 832 characters forms the main body of the work, altho 3,312 distinct persons are mentioned. The members of the ruling families of England, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Italy, Russia, Denmark, and Sweden are considered, each individual being graded mentally and morally according to a standard of 1 to 10, the period covered extending in general back to the 16th century. The object of the work is to give a fair estimate of the mental and moral status of royalty as compared with the world in general, and to throw light upon the old question of relative importance of environment and heredity. 104 portraits illustrate the text.
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“The author has done his work with skill and good judgment and his book will be specially profitable for reproof and instruction to political doctrinaires of every school.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 110. O. ’06. 800w.
“In arrangement and presentation the author has been very successful.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 180. Jl. ’06. 380w.
Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
=Atlan.= 98: 423. S. ’06. 450w.
“It would be easy to show the flaws in his system by which such extreme conclusions as his would be weakened.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 480. My. ’06. 290w.
“Dr. Woods rarely goes much beyond the statistical warrant of his evidence, and has at all events presented his case more strongly and more judicially, as well as scientifically, than any other contribution to this particular problem.”
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 299. My. 1, ’06. 430w.
“There will be certain objections made by specialists to both the methods of measurement and the inferences of Dr. Woods. But every one should admire his zeal and fairmindedness and appreciate the importance of the investigation.”
+ + – =Ind.= 60: 1103. My. 10, ’06. 580w.
“The choice of materials is singularly fortunate, and the method of treatment as far as possible fair and impersonal.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 308. Ap. 12. ’06. 1240w.
“The book would be the better for a good index.” I.
+ + – =Nature.= 74: 97. My. 31, ’06. 1230w.
“The volume is well planned and well worked out.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 143. Mr. 10, ’06. 840w.
“Is a work of the first class in its department of research.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 763. Mr. 31, ’06. 340w.
=Pub. Opin.= 40: 480. Ap. 14, ’06. 80w.
“Dr. Woods’s work is an important contribution to psychology and a most admirable lesson to show that history may become a natural science.” Edward L. Thorndike.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 23: 693. My. 4, ’06. 840w.
“Dr. Woods cannot be said to have produced a very readable book. The pageant of Regality is lost in mathematical formulae, in ‘grading by intellect’, and ‘in grading by virtue.’”
+ – =Spec.= 97: sup. 652. N. 3, ’06. 2170w.
=Woods, Margaret Louisa.= King’s revoke: an episode in the life of Patrick Dillon. †$1.50. Dutton.
“Patrick Dillon, Irishman as he was, served the King of Spain de jure during the usurpation of Joseph Bonaparte. Dillon, in combination with others and with the co-operation of England, designed to rescue Ferdinand VII. from his prison in Valencay, and this is the story of their failure. They failed because of the incredible cowardice of the King, who to curry favor with Napoleon, denounced his own
## partisans.... The story abounds with episode, and is a very taking
piece of intrigue and adventure.”—Ath.
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“Mrs. Woods has evidently taken the greatest pains to draw a true picture of Ferdinand, the last of those old-world Spanish monarchs.”
+ =Acad.= 69: 1229. N. 25, ’05. 510w.
“It is, for all that, a sound, painstaking piece of work, deserving of high praise.”
+ =Ath.= 1905. 2: 793. D. 9. 320w.
“We expect work of very high character from Mrs. Margaret Woods, and ‘The king’s revoke’ does not disappoint us.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 41: 241. O. 16, ’06. 280w.
+ – =Lond. Times.= 4: 407. N. 24, ’05. 350w.
“If the narrative paragraphs move ponderously, honorable amends are made in the ingenious conversation.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 188. Ag. 30, ’06. 240w.
“She has written a well-considered, carefully wrought novel, but alas, it is undeniably heavy, and among its many good features intrudes the unalluring one of skipability.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 471. Jl. 28. ’06. 190w.
“The theme strikes us as of too rough-and-tumble a character for Mrs. Woods’ delicate talent. The workmanship is skilful, but smugglers, brigands, and the like are a little beyond her control, though the several women of the drama are excellent. As a novel of incident, ‘The king’s revoke’ falls below ‘Sons of the sword.’”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 22. Ja. 6, ’06. 220w.
“In spite, therefore, of sundry misprints and a frequently faulty punctuation, the book is a delight to read for the charm of its characterisation, for its fine historic sense of the glory and weakness of Spain, and for a genuine distinction of style unsurpassed by contemporary writers of this class of fiction.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 1129. D. 30, ’05. 630w.
=Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey (Susan Coolidge, pseud.).= Last verses; with an introd. by her sister, Mrs. Daniel C. Gilman. *$1. Little.
Mrs. Gilman has collected her sister’s poems which had not appeared in book form and has added some hitherto unpublished in magazines, prefacing the volume with a short sketch of Susan Coolidge’s life and literary work. It is uniform with “Verses” and “More Verses” by the same author.
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“The easily-won, temperamental optimism, the gentle if somewhat thin piety, which marked the poetic work of Susan Coolidge and won many readers, is the most notable trait in her ‘Last verses.’”
+ =Nation.= 83: 395. N. 8, ’06. 300w.
=Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey (Susan Coolidge, pseud.).= Sheaf of stories; il. by J. W. F. Kennedy. †$1.25. Little.
The author who delighted the children of the past generation with her “What Katy did,” “What Katy did at school” and other stories, offers here twelve sketches of child character which teach happy, wholesome, livable lessons.
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“Full of the habitual good sense and good English of that lamented writer.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’08. 20w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 533. O. 27, ’06. 50w.
=Woolson, Grace A.= Ferns and how to grow them. **$1. Doubleday.
The second volume in the “Garden Library.” It is a practical cultural guide to fern-growing with a definite botanical atmosphere.
* * * * *
+ + – =Ind.= 60: 575. Mr. 8, ’06. 230w.
“The volume is practical without being dull.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 406. Je. 23, ’06. 430w.
=Wordsworth, William.= Literary criticism; ed. with an introd. by Nowell C. Smith. *90c. Oxford.
A volume which “contains all of his prose writings of a critical nature, his prefaces, his essays upon epitaphs, certain familiar letters touching on literary matters, and his ‘opinions expressed in conversation with his nephew and biographer.’” (Nation.)
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 70: 29. Ja. 15, ’06. 1570w.
“Admirably lucid introduction.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 326. Mr. 17. 570w.
=Lond. Times.= 5: 110. Mr. 30, ’06. 900w.
“The selections are interesting, as showing a subtlety as well as a shrewdness of critical faculty. Read consecutively, they convey a peculiar impression of independence, fresh air, and wholesomeness.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 74. Ja. 25, ’06. 80w.
“Of the two dozen pieces of which the volume is made up there is not one that is not worth reading by interested students of the subject, which, in various phases, is always essentially the same—that of literary and specifically of poetical criticism, and no other readers are likely to be attracted by the volume.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 29. Ja. 20, ’06. 670w.
“Mr. Nowell Smith has collected from the prefaces and appendices to Wordsworth’s poems a good deal of interesting critical matter.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 852. D. 30, ’05. 200w.
=Wordsworth, William.= Poems and extracts; chosen by W. Wordsworth for an album presented to Lady Mary Lowther. Christmas, 1819; printed literally from the original album with facsimiles. *90c. Oxford.
The contributors to this album are Anne, Countess of Winchelsea, and about twenty-three other poets ranging from Webster to William Mickle, and from Shakespeare to Lætitia Pilkington.
* * * * *
“Lovers of Wordsworth all the world over must be grateful to Mr. John Rogers Rees for his generosity in sharing with them this long-hidden treasure, and to Prof. Littledale for enriching the gift with his scholarly introduction and accurate notes.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 325. Mr. 17, 990w.
“Diverse as the sources are, the poems are homogeneous in a certain intensity of moral inspiration: and in their choice and arrangement a very sensitive taste is displayed.”
– =Nation.= 82: 74. Ja. 25, ’06. 120w.
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 29. Ja. 20, ’06. 510w.
=Wright, Carroll Davidson.= Battles of labor: being the William Levi Bull lectures for the year 1906. **$1. Jacobs.
Four lectures which show that industrial, social and political problems can be met only with a new application of religion, a new political economy “which looks first ‘to the care and culture of men,’” and with Drummond’s “other selfishness.” The lectures are The background, In mediæval and modern industry, Great modern battles, and How modern battles of labor are treated.
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“Interesting and well worth reading.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 55: 675. Je. 14, ’06. 180w.
“The chief merit of these four lectures is that accuracy, especially in statistical presentation, which Mr. Wright always attains. But they contain nothing new either in fact or philosophy.”
+ =Ind.= 51: 758. S. 27, ’06. 330w.
“‘Battles of labor’ gives evidence, not of scientific research extended, but rather of fulness of experience, reminiscence, and common knowledge regarding labor troubles of all times.” J. C.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 577. N. ’06. 360w.
“The style of the book is colloquial, for reasons sufficiently indicated above, and it conveys not a little information to the credit of the recent generations which have ameliorated the condition of labor.” Edward A. Bradford.
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 505. Ag. 18, ’06. 1120w.
+ + – =Outlook.= 84: 89. S. 8, ’06. 480w.
– =R. of Rs.= 34: 383. S. ’06. 90w.
=Wright, Mabel Osgood. (Mrs. James Osborne Wright) (Barbara, pseud.).= The Garden, you and I. †$1.50. Macmillan.
The reappearance of some of the most delightful members of Mrs. Wright’s gardening fraternity gives an old-friend atmosphere to her new book. The story is mainly in the form of letters. “The purpose of the correspondence is to afford opportunity for the experienced Barbara to give of her more abundant knowledge to Mary Penrose, who with her husband is having a ‘garden vacation,’ camping in an old open barn in their own grounds.... A thread of romance runs through the letters, and the same spirit of sympathy with nature that has informed the writer’s other volumes is evident in the present one. For the sake of the garden-lover who reads to learn, it should be said that there are several excellent and suggestive lists of perennials, annuals, and roses, with explanatory notes: but there is no index.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“A book from Mrs. Wright’s pen is always welcome, for her really reliable information about gardens is sure to be interwoven with the thread of a story which, however slight, has both interest and charm.” Mary K. Ford.
+ + =Bookm.= 23: 631. Ag. ’06. 770w.
“Somewhat is lacking of the freshness and spontaneity of Barbara’s first appearance.”
+ – =Dial.= 41: 70. Ag. 1, ’06. 500w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 1379. Je. 7, ’06. 100w.
“Her book is an intensely practical one.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 357. S. 15, ’06. 260w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 389. Je. 16, ’06. 1770w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 110. O. ’06. 340w.
“Those who read Barbara’s earlier book and perhaps wished for more specific guidance on many subjects should not fall to consult this new and attractive epitome of garden knowledge.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 127. Jl. ’06. 90w.
“We have also quiet humor in the way of putting things, and some pleasant sketches of character.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 337. S. 15, ’06. 210w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 99. Jl. 21, ’06. 70w.
=Wright, Mary Tappan (Mrs. John Henry Wright).= Tower: a novel. †$1.50. Scribner.
In her story of the faculty side of college life, Mrs. Wright presents a “masterful president and bishop, several young professors, a few pathetically overworked and underpaid old ones with their wives, children and personal friends.” (Ind.) Eighteen years separate Silvia Langdon, the bishop’s daughter and her lover who parted without pledging of vows. Upon his return to the faculty temporarily he finds her “young and fascinating” at thirty-eight. There is a pathetic side to the renewed love-making which, however, ends triumphantly.
* * * * *
“There is obvious merit in ‘The tower’, but its plot is extremely slight, and lacks movement and interest.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906. 1: 695. Je. 9. 130w.
“In these final pages Mrs. Wright has cleared herself of the charge of being incapable of creating real human beings.” Edward Clark Marsh.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 628. Ag. ’06. 1080w.
“There is plenty of clever characterization in the book, and the people are sufficiently differentiated to be interesting. They invariably talk well.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 1223. My. 24. ’06. 390w.
“The author has somewhat of the insight and delicacy of touch that might have turned out a bit of Cranford-like description of the dullness and narrowness of faculty life in a small college town; but the many pages of uninteresting detail and conversation rob the book of real charm.”
– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 286. My. 5, ’06. 500w.
“If the characters were only a little more real and the motives for their action a little more obvious, the book would be something to be reckoned with.”
– =World To-Day.= 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 110w.
=Wright, Thomas.= Life of Sir Richard Burton. 2v. *$6.50. Putnam.
“The life of Sir Richard Burton leaves the reader in a kind of a stupor; the record is almost incredibly romantic. He was a soldier, a traveler, an explorer, a linguist, an anthropologist an ethnologist, an official. His published works extend to over a hundred volumes. He was a kind of amiable demon; he was a born romancer and boaster, a superstitious atheist; he thanked God that he had committed every sin in the Decalogue, and there seems to be little reason to doubt it; yet he was tender-hearted, loyal, a philanthropist, a devoted friend, a lover of liberty.... As for Mr. Thomas Wright’s book it does more credit to his industry than his literary skill. He has worked in the Boswellian manner, and has amassed a rich harvest of detail, anecdotes and gossip.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 70: 277. Mr. 24, ’06. 2290w.
+ =Acad.= 70: 303. Mr. 31, ’06. 1120w.
“Mr. Wright’s ideas of taste differ so widely from our own that we cannot view his work with pleasure.”
– =Ath.= 1906, 1: 420. Ap. 7. 210w.
=Current Literature.= 41: 638. D. ’06. 860w.
“Self-confidence and self-praise, notwithstanding, the author has turned out a creditable piece of book-making.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 29. Jl. 16, ’06. 1870w.
“He is so incredibly rude to Sir Richard and Lady Burton that one wonders why he should have concerned himself at all with persons of whom he has, in spite of intermittent adulation, so bad an opinion.”
– – =Ind.= 61: 98. Jl. 12, ’06. 880w.
“The most interesting and by far the best done part of the present ‘Life’ is concerned with Burton’s work as a translator.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 82. Mr. 9, ’06. 3090w.
“Of all the five preceding books about Burton, its only real rival is that of Mr. Wilkins, which dealt with Burton only indirectly.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 205. S. 6, ’06. 2380w.
“Mr. Wright has ... achieved an extremely well-balanced, candid, and fully detailed biography of Burton, just in its estimate alike of the man and his works and leaving us finally with a strong and vivid impression of that extraordinary character and a definite idea of his remarkable adventures.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 408. Je. 23, ’06. 2310w.
“The present biography, while everywhere interesting and certainly good, is assuredly not supremely good. The author writes well, in an easy, racy, idiomatic, and humorously allusive style, that makes the book extremely good reading.” Horatio S. Krans.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 84. S. 8, ’06. 2580w.
“Would be very useful to anyone who undertook to write a life of Burton; but there is no attempt at portraiture, and no artistic selection of material.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 429. Ap. 7, ’06. 1690w.
“His manner is always that of the curiosity hunter, to whom Burton is primarily material for anecdotes.”
– + =Spec.= 96: 833. My. 26, ’06. 1520w.
=Wright, William Burnet.= Cities of Paul: beacons of the past rekindled for the present. **$1.10. Houghton.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 414. Mr. ’06. 160w.
“The reader may learn something from Mr. Wright, who sees many things in the books which he studies—sometimes more than there really are—and has a way of putting them forcibly.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 677. Ap. 28, ’06. 250w.
=Wylie, Edna Edwards.= Ward of the sewing-circle. †$1. Little.
“This is no book for grown-ups, who have lost the ability to get the child’s point of view, for herein lies its real charm.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1541. D. 28, ’05. 350w.
=Wyllie, William Lionel.= J. M. W. Turner. $3. Macmillan.
“This volume is illustrated in tint and color, with reproductions of most of Turner’s well-known paintings. The author has tried, he says, to look at Turner’s life and work from a non-literary point of view, ‘as they appear to a fellow-painter traveling, however remotely, along the same road.’”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“An artist’s history of an artist’s life and work, which is interesting and informing on every page.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 617. Je. 30, ’06. 310w.
“Mr. Wyllie’s style is somewhat crude, and there may be even an occasional lapse in grammar, but he succeeds in sketching graphically the course of Turner’s artistic development.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 817. O. 4, ’06. 280w.
“Marked throughout by the insight of true sympathy. The numerous illustrations form a very practical commentary on the fascinating text.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 28: 277. My. ’06. 70w.
“The book as a whole is rambling, ill-constructed, and inconsequent.”
– =Nation.= 81: 500. D. 21, ’05. 210w.
“However sympathetic Mr. Wyllie’s attitude, he may well envy the literary man’s style.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 94. Ja. 13, ’06. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 256. F. ’06. 70w.
=Wyllie, William Lionel, and Wyllie, M. A.= London to the Nore; painted and described by W. L. and M. A. Wyllie. *$6. Macmillan.
“The narrative seems to have been written for the most part ‘on the spot,’ and it is no injustice to say that it smells very little of the lamp. There is, of course, a considerable historical spice. After all the pictures are the thing.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 335. Mr. 17. 520w.
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=Young, Alexander Bell Filson.= Sands of pleasure. †$1.50. Estes.
A young engineer is the hero of this tale, busy in the first part with constructing a light house on the Cornish coast. The scene shifts to Paris when the reaction after work is of the pleasure seeking sort and deadly. The third part of the book presents the hero back from the scene of infatuations hard at work, effacing stains and memories.
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“He is a photographer, not a painter, and his photographs will be merely unpleasant to some of his readers and frankly disappointing to others.”
– =Acad.= 69: 1263. D. 2, ’05. 430w.
“Mr. Filson Young has a better sense of style than sense of life. His work bears the hallmark of youth and inexperience.”
– =Ath.= 1905, 2: 794. D. 9. 330w.
“A book that from first to last is stamped by a rare sanity and subtle wisdom. The scene of their dramatic parting and its petty, sordid cause is ... one of those little miracles of intuition which are the hallmarks of genius.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + – =Bookm.= 34: 385. D. ’06. 710w.
“It is not a book for the young to read, but it is one that will work no harm to mature and balanced minds.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 41: 241. O. 16, ’06. 340w.
“In our opinion, his book—lacking any moral idea or the forcible enunciation of any moral idea—is by no means suitable for mixed reading, and should be kept strictly to adults.”
– =Lond. Times.= 4: 421. D. 1, 05. 560w.
“All through the book there is somehow a sense of strain, of tension, as if the author were trying to materialise some inspiration that kept ever evading him. Some of the descriptions are excellent and the book abounds in happy phrases. But the final impression is disappointment.”
– + =Sat. R.= 101: 22. Ja. 6, ’06. 1000w.
=Young, Egerton Ryerson.= Hector my dog. $1.50. Wilde.
“Is that rare thing, a book about dogs with which even those who love and understand dog nature will find no fault.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 17. Ja. 13, ’06. 630w.
=Yulee, C. Wickliffe.= Awakening: a Washington novel. $1.25. Neale.
Here is a picture of Washington projected on a screen, with the city,—its ideals, its types, and its institutions,—as a background. Well to the fore are the intrigues, political and social, which are intended to prevent the Honorable Arthur Montresor from securing a charming American wife whose “character had that froufrou which is inevitable with gay vivacity or fashion, but about which there was nothing tawdry—it was as graceful and refined as some exquisite lace.”
* * * * *
+ =Critic.= 49: 94. Jl. ’06. 60w.
“The local color of the Capital of a few years ago is well given.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 336. My. 26, ’06. 210w.
Z
=Zacher, Albert.= Rome as an art city. *$1. Scribner.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 927. D. 30, ’05. 90w.
=Zedtwitz, Baroness von.= Double doctrine of the church of Rome. 35c. Revell.
The author has prepared this repudiation of the two-fold system of the Romish church with a view of proclaiming her final renunciation of papacy.
* * * * *
=Arena.= 36: 442. O. ’06. 1430w.
=Ind.= 60: 1227. My. 24, ’06. 100w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 765. Je. ’06. 110w.
=Ziémssen, Ludwig.= Johann Sebastian Bach; tr. from the German by George P. Upton. *60c. McClurg.
“While it is in the main accurate as to the facts it is not entirely so.” Richard Aldrich.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 336. My. 26, ’06. 230w.
=Zilliacus, Konni.= Russian revolutionary movement: a history of the various uprisings from the beginning. *$2.50. Dutton.
“With the exception of occasional slips, very few in number, the translation is entirely adequate.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 411. My. 17, ’06. 2840w.
“M. Zilliacus merely repeats what has already been given in some dozen books during the last few months. The one merit of the book is the author’s confession of bias.”
– =Sat. R.= 100: 219. Ag. 12, ’05. 140w.
=Zimmern, Alice.= Old tales from Rome. †$1.25. McClurg.
A three part story book whose tales are founded upon legends and fables of Rome as related by Virgil. Part I. gives the story of Aeneas and his comrades from the fall of Troy to the founding of Lavinium;
## part II. carries the date thru the early years of Rome to the period
when fable is merged in history; part III. consists of a group of stories partly Italian in origin, partly Greek, yet “essentially are Latin in spirit and treatment.”
* * * * *
+ =Critic.= 49: 96. Jl. ’06. 100w.
=Dial.= 40: 302. My. 1, ’06. 50w.
“The author would have done better, we think, to have kept her book free from any dependence upon the previous reading of her ‘Old tales from Greece.’”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 365. My. 3, ’06. 170w.
“If a comparison were to be made between Alice Zimmern and other authors who have been moved to do similar things, it is that the former is conspicuous for the tactful respect she pays juvenile intelligence.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 341. My. 26, ’06. 330w.
“It would not be easy to conceive of a better or more gracefully written book of the kind, which is in every respect an admirable companion volume to ‘Tales of old Greece.’”
+ + =Spec.= 95: sup. 907. D. 2, ’05. 90w.
=Zueblin, Charles.= Decade of civic development. *$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.
A sketch of the “civic renascence” in America “is not merely a chronicle of civic development for the last decade. Its tone is hortatory and also prophetic.” (School R.) Under the following chapter headings, there is material for teachers to use in awakening the “civic consciousness” in pupils: The new civic spirit, The training of the citizen, The making of the city, “The White city” and after, Metropolitan Boston, Greater New York, The Harrisburg plan, Washington, old and new, The return to nature.
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“The well-founded optimism of the book, the attractive record of fact, the revelation of correlation and co-ordination, and the fascinating glimpses of realizable possibility give this little volume a place of unusual value.” E. G. Routzahn.
+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 188. Jl. ’06. 290w.
“The book is optimistic in tone, and is well worth the perusal of those who have bewailed the failure of American municipal government.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 424. Mr. ’06. 110w.
“Refreshingly interesting.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 200. Mr. 16, ’06. 370w.
“In mechanical execution and in subject-matter the book is exceedingly attractive. It is a book for the student of society, the teacher, and the general reader.” Nathaniel Butler.
+ + =School R.= 14: 67. Ja. ’06. 370w.
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
1. P. 32, changed “experiences in contain” to “experiences and contain”. 2. P. 79, changed “Socialpolitik” to “Sozialpolitik”. 3. P. 120, “The style is excellent, the spirit earnest, the” was truncated in source. 4. P. 138, “This is a compilation of explicit and prac-” was truncated in source. 5. P. 183, “criticism of three current conceptions of” was truncated in source. 6. P. 243, changed “Instituto Italiano d’arts grafichi” to “Istituto Italiano d’arts grafiche”. 7. P. 253, “to Cardinal Newman, with his re-” was truncated in source. 8. P. 332, “day for him against the deep treachery that a” was truncated in source. 9. 336, “and fascinating—he gives a most at-” was truncated in source. 10. Table of Contents added by transcriber. 11. Please note that the publisher split hyphenated surnames. The portion after the hyphen was listed before the forename. The portion before the split was listed after the forenames with a hyphen. E.g. E. Burton-Brown was listed as =Brown, E. Burton-.= 12. Removed the bold markup from book titles with no author listed. This is to be consistent with book titles with authors listed. Also the publisher was inconsistent in the book title markup—usually only the first word but sometimes the entire title. 13. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling. 14. Retained anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed. 15. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. 16. Enclosed bold font in =equals=. 17. Did not use a hanging indent in book description in text version. This is to aid with electronic processing.
End of Project Gutenberg's The Book Review Digest, Volume II, 1906, by Various