Volume 2 — Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Digests of Reviews appearing in January-December, 1906 magazines (continued 14)
Reading edition
Boys in the early “teens” will enjoy this story of a New England farm and of Joey and how he attained his great ambition of raising a calf which should win the blue ribbon at the county fair. The achievement is made more difficult because of a young city cousin who is a mischief maker from the time of his arrival and who almost succeeds in maliciously diverting the blue ribbon from the sleek Betty; but Joey and the calf win out in the end.
Kaler, James Otis (James Otis, pseud.). Light keepers: a story of the United States light-house service. †$1.50. Dutton.
How Cary’s Ledge light was kept according to the “rules an’ regerlations,” by its three old keepers, Cap’n Eph, Sammy, and Uncle Zenas, third assistant and also cook, is here told in a fashion pleasing to young folks. How they blamed themselves for neglecting the day’s routine in order to risk their lives to save the victims of fog and wreck, how the boy whom they called Sonny drifted to their ledge, stayed there and became a joy to them, how the government came to appreciate and reward them and many other matters of human interest furnish a pleasing variety in their bleak existence.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 721. N. 3, ’06. 210w.
Kauffman, Reginald Wright. Miss Frances Baird, detective: a passage from her memoirs. $1.25. Page.
A young woman, good-looking, alert, making a direct asset of her intuition, unravels the mystery of a diamond robbery in a manner that would commend her to the most exacting of detective staffs.
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Ind. 61: 697. S. 20, ’06. 270w.
Kaye, Percy Lewis. English colonial administration under Lord Clarendon, 1660–1667. 50c. Hopkins.
“On the whole, however, a comparison of Dr. Kaye’s paper with earlier treatments of the same subject indicates no considerable addition to our stock of information and no decided novelty in the handling of the material.” Evarts B. Greene.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 438. Ja. ’06. 410w.
Keats, John. Poems; with notes and appendices by H. Burton Forman. $1.25. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Thin paper poets.” A biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole, notes and appendices make the volume complete.
Keays, Mrs. H. A. Mitchell. Work of our hands. †$1.50. McClure.
A Montague and Capulet enmity is set at naught by the marriage of young Bronsart and Aylmer Forsythe. This hero is a capitalist “whose life of luxury has given him a moral myopia,” and his wife in a rather provocative way sets about to relieve the down-trodden condition among the laborers in his factories, and to force her husband into believing that his wealth should be used for aiding instead of oppressing the poor.
“In ‘The work of our hands,’ H. E. Mitchell Keays, with large outlook and wide sweep, shows a strange working out of destiny.”
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Lit. D. 32: 454. Mr. 24, ’06. 520w.
“The book will not contribute much to the solution of problems economic or marital, but it is a strong and clever story; the interest well sustained, despite a little too much preaching.”
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N. Y. Times. 10: 726. O. 28, ’05. 410w.
“The story suffers ... from evidences of overwrought nerves. The tone is feverish.”
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Keen, Walter Henry. Margaret Purdy. $1.50. Broadway pub.
Mr. Keen’s story traces the development of Margaret Purdy from her “puny child-wife” state to one of vigorous mental and moral freedom. Her growth under the direction of Professor Bickersteth whose laboratory assistant she becomes furnishes the real interest of the book.
Keen, William Williams. Addresses and other papers. *$3.75. Saunders.
“Perhaps more false impressions with regard to medical thought would be corrected by a casual reading of this volume than in any other way that we know.”
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Ind. 59: 1346. D. 7, ’05. 340w.
Keith, Marion. Silver maple, a story of upper Canada. $1.50. Revell.
Upper Canada and its people, the spirit of the woods, the sordidness of the everyday life, is at the heart of this story of Scotty, who, true to his Scotch grandparents and the early lessons he learns under the silver maple, fights a good fight, resists temptation, is true to himself, and when he comes at last into the heritage of his English father “by the right road, the road of truth and equity,” it is also into a heritage of love and happiness.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 727. N. 3, ’06. 220w.
Keller, Very Rev. J. A. Saint Joseph’s help; or, Stories of the power and efficacy of Saint Joseph’s intercession. *75c. Benziger.
The second edition of a book whose aim is to make known the power of St. Joseph’s intercession and the favors obtained through his assistance.
“The simple, trusting, tender faith of the narrator is contagious; and the book is sure to fasten in young minds a devout confidence in St. Joseph.”
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Cath. World. 83: 268. My. ’06. 70w.
Kelley, Florence. Some ethical gains through legislation. *$1.25. Macmillan.
“Legislation and judicial decision concerning the rights of the child, the rights of women, 189the rights of all labourers to leisure through restricted hours of labor, and the rights of the purchaser to knowledge of the condition of production and distribution of goods, are clearly presented and interpreted. The author is prepared for the work, and by long experience in social, economic investigation as government and state official, as special investigator, as a settlement resident, and as a member of the Illinois bar. The volume forms the latest addition to the ‘American citizens’ library.’”—Bookm.
“One marked distinction of Mrs. Kelley’s discussions is the vividness of the concrete images used to enforce the argument, and these illustrations are not borrowed from books.” C. R. Henderson.
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Am. J. Soc. 11: 846. My. ’06. 840w.
“Her topics are ripe and full: the book may well become a classic on industrial life, but this first edition lacks the final touch of care, the polish of revision to which it is richly entitled.” Charlotte Kimball Patten.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 249. Ja. ’06. 920w.
“Is a most valuable book to students of social conditions and of the general welfare.”
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Bookm. 22: 533. Ja. ’06. 130w.
“Mrs. Kelley’s book is, by the conditions of its subject, tentative. Its chief value lies in its suggestions for future improvement.”
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Dial. 40: 23. Ja. 1, ’06. 330w.
“Interesting and instructive volume.”
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Ind. 60: 343. F. 8, ’06. 240w.
“This book is marred by extremely bad arrangement. In spite of this, the volume is rich in fact, sound in theory, generally correct in reasoning, and replete with suggestion and stimulation.” Henry Raymond Mussey.
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Int. J. Ethics. 16: 382. Ap. ’06. 990w.
“Her facts and arguments, however, are such as no student of the problems involved can afford to neglect.”
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Nation. 83: 64. Jl. 19, ’06. 1510w.
“A brief, terse, but readable review of recent progress toward better things.”
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Outlook. 82: 806. Ap. 7, ’06. 310w.
Reviewed by Edward T. Devine.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 326. Je. ’06. 1400w.
R. of Rs. 33: 124. Ja. ’06. 110w.
Kelley, Gwendolyn Dunlevy, and Upton, George Putnam. Edouard Remenyi, musician, litterateur, and man: an appreciation. **$1.75. McClurg.
Here are sketches of Remenyi’s life and artistic career by friends and contemporaries, to which are added critical reviews of his playing and selections from his literary papers and correspondence. The biographical sketch reveals the Romany spirit of the man which made routine impossible and which led him at times to vanish from human sight. There are nine portraits of the famous violinist taken during a period of forty-four years.
“A book about a musician rather than a work on music. The personal element presses strongly forward on every page.” Josiah Renick Smith.
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Dial. 41: 12. Jl. 1, ’06. 860w.
“Is much more than what they call it—‘the skeleton of a work that might have been.’”
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Nation. 83: 147. Ag. 16, ’06. 1120w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 332. My. 19, ’06. 250w.
“The estimate of his personality is naturally indulgent, but it is vivid. There is plenty of Remenyi material here, even if there is not a Remenyi biography.” Richard Aldrich.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 336. My. 26, ’06. 1060w.
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Outlook. 83: 336. Je. 9, ’06. 90w.
Kellogg, Vernon. American insects. **$5. Holt.
“Prof. Kellogg has well summarized our present information on the subject, and drawn attention to future potentialities.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 78. Jl. 21. 730w.
“Notwithstanding these drawbacks, the work is probably the best that exists for anyone, desiring an introductory work on North American insects compressed into a single volume.” D. S.
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Nature. 73: 292. Ja. 25, ’06. 310w.
Kellor, Frances A. Out of work. **$1.25. Putnam.
“It is a pleasure to recommend a book with such confidence as this volume inspires.” John Graham Brooks.
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Int. J. Ethics. 16: 511. Jl. ’06. 260w.
Kellum, Margaret Dutton. Language of the Northumbrian gloss to the Gospel of St. Luke. 75c. Holt.
No. 30 in the “Yale studies in English.” The thesis covers fully the phonology and inflection of the Northumbrian gloss to the Gospel of St. Luke.
Kelly, Howard Atwood. Walter Reed and yellow fever. **$1.50. McClure.
A sketch of the life and work of the man who brought about the conviction that the mosquito is an agent for the spread of yellow fever.
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Dial. 41: 211. O. 1, ’06. 360w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 483. Ag. 4, ’06. 1400w.
Kelly, R. Talbot. Burma. *$6. Macmillan.
A seven months’ journey thru Burma, covering 3,500 miles is here interestingly “painted and described.” It is a book of first impressions gathered from forest and jungle.
“His is a perfect example of the colour-book of commerce, the merriest and most entertaining of peep-shows, but without relation to art or literature.”
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Acad. 70: 45. Ja. 13, ’06. 190w.
“His impressions of Burmese character are intelligent, and more often accurate than not.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 13. Ja. 6. 340w.
“In Mr. Kelly’s pictures we catch something of the charm of travel in a strange country and among people entirely unlike our own.”
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Ind. 59: 1380. D. 14, ’05. 180w.
“An eloquent writer, as well, as an accomplished artist, wielding the pen with even greater skill than the brush, and imbued, moreover, with the courage, perseverance, and enthusiasm of the true explorer, the author of this delightful volume has concentrated all his powers on his fascinating subject, producing what will certainly rank as a standard work on this great dependency of the British Empire.”
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Int. Studio. 26: 87. Mr. ’06. 260w.
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Nation. 82: 372. My. 3, ’06. 410w.
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N. Y. Times. 10: 862. D. 2, ’05. 210w.
“Mr. Kelly is one of the few artists who can write. The volume is a worthy member of a very attractive series.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 66. F. 3, ’06. 610w.
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Outlook. 81: 1038. D. 23, ’05. 80w.
“A narrative that on its own merits makes pleasant reading and gives a very true and sympathetic sketch of Burma and its people, and is much more than a mere explanation of his pictures. He has, however, been misled into a sweeping condemnation of Indian natives by generalizing hastily from the unfavourable specimens that are to be met in Burma.”
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Sat. R. 102: 86. Jl. 21, ’06. 260w.
190Kelsey, Frederick W. First county park system. $1.25. Ogilvie.
Although a ten year history of the development of the Essex county park system of New Jersey, this work is far reaching in its helpfulness. “It supplies a working-guide for other communities where park systems are to be established” exposes “The baneful influence of the public service corporations in frustrating a splendid and nobly planned work and subordinating the interests of the community to the selfish enrichment of those interested in the exploiting of the people thru the public service corporations.”
“It is a volume that merits wide circulation—a work that we can especially recommend to all persons interested in the development of park systems in and around American municipalities.”
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Arena. 35: 445. Ap. ’06. 340w.
“The book, is in the best sense of the term, a political pamphlet.”
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Engin. N. 55: 312. Mr. 15, ’06. 450w.
Outlook. 82: 1004. Ap. 29, ’06. 140w.
R. of Rs. 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 160w.
Kennard, Joseph Spencer. Italian romance writers. **$2. Brentano’s.
A well-wrought introduction furnishes an outline of the history of modern story telling, discusses the various early types of fiction and finally Italian tendencies and ideals. Then follows chapters upon Alexander Manzoni, Massimo Taparelli D’Azeglio, Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi, Tommaso Grossi, Ippolito Nievo, Edmondo De Amicis, Antonio Fogazzaro, Giovanni Verga, Matilde Serao, Federigo De Roberto, Anna Neera, Grazia Deledda, Enrico Annibale Butti, and Gabbriele D’Annunzio, which give something of the authors and much of the characters they created. The volume will serve as a pleasing commentary to students of modern Italian literature, and will prove an interesting source of enlightenment to all who have not time for further study.
“It is a pity, however, that American readers could not have been presented with a version in less ‘rocky’ English than the present one.”
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Dial. 41: 42. Jl. 16, ’06. 290w.
“Mr. Kennard had evidently read widely and thought earnestly before formulating his opinions. But he seems incapable of expressing opinions simply, plainly or convincingly. At its best his style is hardly brilliant. At its worst it is intolerable.”
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Ind. 61: 458. Ag. 23, ’06. 1250w.
Lit. D. 32: 936. Je. 23, ’06. 1190w.
“Notwithstanding repeated evidences of haste or carelessness in the execution, we maintain that the work is a good and useful introduction to the study of modern Italian fiction.”
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Nation. 83: 263. S. 27, ’06. 1460w.
“While not a profound or final treatise, is a pleasing, diffuse book, crowded with information, and worth the study.” James Huneker.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 423. Je. 30, ’06. 3250w.
“Dr. Kennard’s book as a whole is one of the most interesting and instructing contributions to our knowledge of Italian literature.”
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Outlook. 83: 862. Ag. 11, ’06. 330w.
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R. of Rs. 34: 125. Jl. ’06. 90w.
Kennedy, Charles William, tr. Legend of St. Juliana; translated from the Latin of the Acta sanctorum and the Anglo-Saxon of Cynewulf. Univ. lib., Princeton.
The Anglo-Saxon and Latin texts used by the translator for this double rendering into the English are those printed by Professor Strunk in the “Belles-Lettres” edition.
Kennedy, John Pendleton, ed. Journals of the house of burgesses of Virginia, 1773–1776. *$10. Putnam.
“Mr. Kennedy has set out upon an exceedingly valuable and important undertaking. He is carrying it forward with great care and skill; and he bids fair to make of it a monumental series, of which Virginia may well be proud, and which other states may well imitate.”
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 420. Ja. ’06. 600w.
Kenny, Louise. Red-haired woman: her autobiography. †$1.50. Dutton.
“This is a story of an Irish family called O’Curry, and the book may be described rather as a collection of materials than as a finished article.... No one episode is of more importance than any other, and there seems no particular reason, except indeed the marriage of the heroine, why the novel should not go on forever.” (Spec.) “The time of the main action begins with the famous Land war and extends, one may judge, well into the late Victorian generation, The personages involved are Irish gentlefolk and Irish peasants, half Hibernianized Englishmen—especially one who is the ideal bad landlord—an old usurer of fine conception, and several natives of Denmark, one in particular, the real hero of the piece.” (N. Y. Times.)
“She merely irritates when she might have amused.”
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Acad. 70: 40. Ja. 13, ’06. 410w.
“Here is a story curiously told rather than a really curious story.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 43. Ja. 13. 80w.
“The writer seems to have absorbed a strange miscellany of facts, legends, and theories, which she has poured out without any regard to form or coherency.”
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Lond. Times. 4: 445. D. 15, ’06. 340w.
“The trouble with the book as fiction of the hour is the leisurely way of it, the detail of it, and the faintness of the chief love interest already mentioned.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 437. Jl. 7, ’06. 490w.
“There are many scenes in it which are very interesting, and even thrilling, but there is no cohesion between the different parts of the story.”
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Spec. 96: 64. Ja. 13, ’06. 260w.
Kent, Charles Foster, ed. Israel’s historical and biographical narratives, from the establishment of the Hebrew kingdom to the end of the Maccabean struggle. **$2.75. Scribner.
“It is a pleasure to say that we find here, not a mere compendium of the methods and results of criticism, but a lucid exposition of the way the Hebrews wrote history, and a constructive exhibition, in the light of the best scholarship, of what that history is.” Augustus S. Carrier.
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Am. J. Theol. 10: 137. Ja. ’06. 740w.
“The book, with the introduction and the notes to the English text of the narratives, should be of value to those who study the Old Testament as the history of a nation or race, and as a record of the progress of a religion.”
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Ath. 1906. 1: 102. Ja. 27. 420w.
“Indeed, it is probable that this revision offers the untechnical student the nearest approximation to the true force of the original documents available at the present time.” Henry T. Fowler.
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Bib. World. 27: 392. My. ’06. 1250w.
Kent, Charles Foster. Narratives of the beginnings of Hebrew history, from the creation to the establishment of the Hebrew kingdom. **$2.75. Scribner.
“We would gratefully acknowledge the 191service that Dr. Kent is here doing for the cause of biblical scholarship, both by the rich learning which he brings to his task, and by the gentle temper with which he accomplishes it.”
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Cath. World. 82: 844. Mr. ’06. 800w.
Kent, Charles Foster. Origin and permanent value of the Old Testament. **$1. Scribner.
A popular book “not advocating new views nor justifying at length the positions held, but describing and making clear the opinions of scholars as to the literature, the history and the religion of the Hebrew people.” (Ind.) “The author is optimistic of a revival of interest in the Old Testament through the spread of knowledge of the results of criticism. He suggests methods to be employed in using the Old Testament in Sunday-schools and day-schools, and sketches a rough outline of a course of study extending over several years.” (Nation.)
Bib. World. 27: 479. Je. ’06. 60w.
“The book is not thoro, is to be read rather than studied or used for reference and, as the author says, is simply a ‘very informal introduction’ to careful investigation, which it seeks to encourage. For this purpose it is excellent.”
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Ind. 60: 1490. Je. 21, ’06. 310w.
“The style is clear, confusion of detail and argument is avoided, and salient features are kept well to the fore. The positions advanced are those generally accepted, disputed points being avoided.”
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Nation. 83: 36. Jl. 12, ’06. 200w.
“This general statement of cordial commendation must be accompanied with some qualifications.”
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Outlook. 84: 426. O. 20, ’06. 400w.
Kenyon, Frederic George, ed. Robert Browning and Alfred Domett. **$1.50. Dutton.
The friendship of Robert Browning and Alfred Domett, the “Waring” of his poem, is here revealed thru letters written by the poet to Domett in New Zealand. “Written chiefly during the years 1840–1846, they cover a period of Browning’s life of which little has been made public—the period just preceding his marriage, while he was living at New Cross, writing and publishing serially his ‘Bells and pomegranates.’... This collection of letters, though small, revealing a masculine friendship surviving the strain of separation of years, and of divided interests, helps to make an impression of a character which becomes the more exalted as it is better known. Portraits of Browning, of Domett, and of Sir Joseph Arnould (a third in this trio of Camberwell friends) illustrate the volume.” (Dial.)
“Admirably edited.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 358. Mr. 24. 410w.
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Dial. 40: 395. Je. 16, ’06. 330w.
Lit. D. 32: 937. Je. 23, ’06. 1130w.
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Lond. Times. 5: 106, Mr. 23, ’06. 620w.
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Nation. 83: 43. Jl. 12, ’06. 740w.
“They give a glimpse of an eager and generous nature, and show, too, somewhat of what Browning was thinking and feeling of his literary contemporaries in the early forties. For these letters of the early forties, with the light they throw on Browning’s personality, his admirers will be grateful.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 317. My. 19, ’06. 1050w.
“Not a little interesting criticism is scattered up and down the letters, interesting but a little eccentric.”
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Spec. 96: 625. Ap. 21, ’06. 370w.
Keon, Grace. “Not a judgment—.” $1.25. Benziger.
Mollie, a mad-cap girl of the slums, whose brother is a murderer and whose mother is a broken-down old woman, resolves that she will be thru her own efforts “not a judgment, but a blessing.” The story of her struggles, her true nobility which conquers against heavy odds, and her final happiness is the story of the book; while contrasted with her life is that of the pampered daughter of wealth and society who finds her happiness in loving service as a Roman Catholic religious.
Ker, William Paton. Essays on mediaeval literature. *$1.60. Macmillan.
Seven studies which treat the following subjects: “The earlier history of English prose,” “Historical notes on the similes of Dante,” “Boccaccio,” “Chaucer,” “Gower,” “Froissart,” and “Gaston Paris.”
“The seven studies ... have a cumulative value not often to be found in a short volume of essays. The comparative study of mediaeval literature has too few devotees in this country. We are fortunate in having one so learned and sympathetic as Mr. Ker.”
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Lond. Times. 4: 465. D. 29, ’05. 1520w.
“The author has, in addition to an unusually thorough acquaintance with the themes discussed, a knack of viewing old subjects from a new angle and looking through petty details at the great principles behind them, which, coupled with a graceful style, makes the ‘Essays’ not only attractive and valuable to the layman, but instructive even to the specialist.”
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Nation. 81: 362. N. 2, ’05. 390w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 680. O. 14, ’05. 160w.
“Six essays which better deserve reproduction and a common title-page than many such collectanea.”
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Sat. R. 101: 530. Ap. 28, ’06. 330w.
“They are the work of a cultivated man, as well as of a learned one, so that the ordinary reader will find himself quite at home wherever Mr. Ker may lead him. Mr. Ker deals in masterly fashion with a great variety of subjects.”
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Spec. 97: 786. N. 17, ’06. 1560w.
Kern, O. J. Among country schools. $1.25. Ginn.
A little manual which the author hopes “will prove suggestive to the teacher and school officer who are striving for the spiritualization of country life thru the medium of the country school. He believes that a careful reading of its pages will show a practical way of interesting the ‘farm child thru farm topics.’”
“Here is a county superintendent with ideas, the courage of his convictions, and the ability to persuade taxpayers to look at the matter from his point of view.”
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Nation. 83: 516. D. 13, ’06. 280w.
Kernahan, Coulson. World without a child. **50c. Revell.
A picture of life in Anglo-Saxon cities where the race-suicide theory is carried to its logical outcome.
“Coulson Kernahan, though he may be perfectly sincere, has pitched his song of woe in a false key.”
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N. Y. Times. 10: 730. O. 28, ’05. 90w.
Pub. Opin. 40: 315. Mr. 10, ’06. 130w.
Kester, Vaughan. Fortunes of the Landrays. †$1.50. McClure.
“The author does not so much give the impression of a trained writer as of a person with a story to tell and some first-hand knowledge of the places and people he describes.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 270. S. 8. 110w.
192Kidd, Dudley. Savage childhood: a study of Kafir children; with 32 full-page il. from the photographs by the author. $3.50. Macmillan.
Herbert Spencer’s notion that man’s first duty is to become a good animal finds expression in the untrained, unconditioned state which is best illustrated in the savage child. Mr. Kidd pictures these untrammeled children at their innocent amusements, and as practices conducive to robustness are traditional among the Kafir people, the children are splendid types of physical development. The blighting tendencies of indolence, sensuality and vanity are later manifestations which only education can hope to avert.
“Mr. Dudley Kidd has written a most charming and instructive book about the children whom he found in the Kafir kraals. Every line of it is full of interest.”
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Acad. 71: 496. N. 17, ’06. 840w.
“It is artistic rather than scientific. The scientific possibilities in all this field of observation have been practically untouched.”
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Nature. 75: 128. D. 6, ’06. 1220w.
“The volume is a distinct addition to popular knowledge of anthropology and ethnography.”
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Outlook. 84: 843. D. 1, ’06. 170w.
“All through this book we are not introduced to any one individual, though Mr. Kidd’s graphic pen has power to make his reader dream that he has been living among a pack of black children.”
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Kidder, Frank Eugene. Building construction and superintendence. Pt. 3. Trussed roofs and roof trusses. $3. Comstock.
The author’s clear and comprehensive description accompanied by ample illustrations covers types of modern and steel trusses, the layout of trussed roofs, open timber roofs and church roofs, vaulted and domed ceilings, octagonal and domed roofs, roofs and trusses of coliseums, armored trainsheds, and exposition buildings, data and methods for computing the purlin and truss loads and supporting forces or reactions. A chapter is further devoted to numerical examples for the determinations of stresses in roof trusses of different types by the graphic method.
“Throughout the volume the contents give constant evidence of good judgment in the selection of material, while painstaking care is shown in the composition of the text.” Henry S. Jacoby.
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Engin. N. 55: 426. Ap. 12, ’06. 1350w.
Kilbourne, Frederick W. Alterations and adaptations of Shakespeare. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
The author points out in his study the pronounced change in dramatic taste which differentiates a period from the proceeding one, and then indicates the effect of the belief in different dramatic tenets on the opinion of Shakespeare. He discusses the principles of dramatic art which came to rule and to which the playwrights of the time endeavored to make Shakespeare’s plays conform by means of alteration. Then he describes the altered versions, comments on the modifications, shows whether they have been made according to dramatic theories or whether they are the result of “personal opinions, judgment, or caprice of a reviewer.”
“A useful and convenient handbook to an interesting and somewhat neglected subject.” Henry B. Wheatly.
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Acad. 71: 491. N. 17. ’06. 2130w.
“The only cheerful element in this necessarily somewhat dismal treatise is the indication of the growth of reverence for the text of Shakespeare in more modern times.”
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Nation. 83: 330. O. 18, ’06. 130w.
“An interesting little book of some value, doubtless, as a work of reference.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 474. Jl. 28, ’06. 310w.
Kildare, Owen. Wisdom of the simple: a tale of lower New York. †$1.50. Revell.
Once more Mr. Kildare draws his material from the Bowery district of New York city. It is a tale of poverty and concerns the careers of two boys who grow up to be rivals in love and politics.
“Of more value than many ordinary sociological studies, and far more interesting reading.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 420. Mr. ’06. 110w.
“Probably no writer in New York is capable of presenting slum life, its needs and its temptations, as does Owen Kildare.”
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Critic. 48: 381. Ap. ’06. 130w.
“The peculiar interest of ‘The wisdom of the simple’ as a sociological study lies in the ethics and ideals that are of indigenous growth, and not transplanted or imposed from without.”
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Ind. 60: 514. Mr. 1, ’06. 500w.
“About the most interesting story that we have come across in a long time. It is something better than interesting—it is suggestive, encouraging and inspiring, the kind of a book that renews one’s trust in the saving grace of the human heart.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 79. F. 10, ’06. 670w.
“A little too much of the atmosphere of the old-fashioned Sunday-school book to be a good story.”
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Outlook. 82: 94. Ja. 13, ’06. 90w.
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R. of Rs. 33: 761. Je. ’06. 40w.
Kimball, George Selwyn. Jay Gould Harmon with Maine folks: a picture of life in the Maine woods. $1.50. Clark.
“Jay Gould Harmon is a fine, manly character, and plays his part among the rough and trying incidents of the Maine logging camps in a way that excites the admiration even of those men born and brought up in a land where fearless courage is an everyday characteristic.... The book contains a little of everything from a love affair to a baseball game.”—Ind.
“There is a noticeable flavor of the dime novel about it.”
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Ind. 59: 1346. D. 7, ’05. 120w.
“The book shows some merit, but it strikes one that the author would have succeeded very much better in his purpose, if he could have found some other means of bringing out the characteristics of his ‘Down-Easters’ than by setting up in their midst some painfully unreal city folks and drawing theatrical contrasts.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 98. F. 17, ’06. 540w.
King, Charles. Soldier’s trial. $1.50. Hobart.
“General King’s readers, if desirous of information upon the comparative merits of canteen, or no canteen, will be well rewarded by a perusal of the book while those who want only a good novel, with plenty of action, a little intrigue, ending in the triumph of worth and the detection of villainy, will not be disappointed.”
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Cath. World. 84: 116. O. ’06. 250w.
“There is very little action for a King novel, and the interest is nursed along by very slender means.”
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Ind. 59: 1542. D. 28, ’05. 320w.
King, Charles. Tonio, son of the Sierras: a story of the Apache war. †$1.50. Dillingham.
Another of General King’s stories of army life, post intrigue and frontier war-fare. Tonio 193is an Indian scout, silent, courageous, and faithful. Altho he is cruelly misjudged and unjustly dealt with by his general, he sacrifices his life in the service of the army and his army friends. About him circles the love story of Lilian Archer, an army girl who accepts the love of an unworthy lieutenant only to discover her error and see little Harris, a discarded suitor, in a new light.
“A story of the Apache war, told in an entertaining manner by one thoroughly familiar with his material.”
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King, Henry Churchill. Letters to Sunday-school teachers on the great truths of our Christian faith. *$1. Pilgrim press.
“President King’s letters are addressed to Sunday-school teachers only as persons likely to be interested in the fundamental problems of religious belief. They are a sort of theological primer, a plain, non-technical argument for the leading articles of Christian faith.”—Ind.
“President King has the right spirit of approach to these questions: he is frank and honest, and tries to keep hard by reality.”
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Nation. 83: 201. S. 6, ’06. 310w.
King, Henry Churchill. Rational living: some practical inferences from modern psychology. **$1.25. Macmillan.
“As a contribution to the science of ethics its value is twofold. First it makes clear certain practical corollaries and conclusions for the direction of conduct. But second, and chiefly, it emphasizes a method in ethical study—the method which reasons from the nature of mind to the practical principles that ought to govern life.” Herbert A. Youtz.
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Am. J. Theol. 10: 769. O. ’06. 630w.
“Good sense shines in President King’s treatise.” George Hodges.
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Atlan. 97: 419. Mr. ’06. 40w.
“It abounds in illustration and is marked by lucidity of expression and exposition.”
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Bookm. 22: 535. Ja. ’06. 150w.
“All things considered we must believe that President King’s book will carry a real and valuable message to those for whom it was intended.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
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Dial. 40: 151. Mr. 1, ’06. 400w.
King, William Lyon Mackenzie. Secret of heroism: a memoir of Henry Albert Harper. **$1. Revell.
A tribute to the memory of Henry Albert Harper, a Canadian journalist and writer, who lost his life in trying to rescue a drowning girl. The tragic event took place on the Ottawa river in December of 1901 and the heroism of one willing to face almost certain death is the theme of Mr. King’s sketch.
Am. Hist. R. 11: 733. Ap. ’06. 40w.
“It is a book to make the reader humbler, braver, purer and, whether for a life time or but a day, every way better.”
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Dial. 40: 301. My. 1, ’06. 130w.
“On Mr. King’s part, it may be added, the work discloses not only a genuine sympathy for the twentieth-century Sir Galahad, of whom he writes, but a clear insight into many of the fundamental facts of life and experience.”
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Lit. D. 32: 492. Mr. 31, ’06. 220w.
“It is a book which should stir the heart of many a young reader.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 79. Mr. 9, ’06. 760w.
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Spec. 96: 497. Mr. 31, ’06. 1210w.
Kingsbury, Susan Myra. Introduction to the records of the Virginia company, with a bibliographical list of the extant documents, pa. gratis. Lib. of Congress.
“Some 764 separate documents are listed and described in such a way that the location, nature, and place of publication may be easily determined. The writer made many discoveries of new documents in the English archives, and established the loss of many more by the receipts and memoranda of books and papers received or delivered in the various changes in the form of the ruling body.” (Nation). An introduction, notes, bibliography and index add to the value of the volumes.
“There can be no question of the great debt which students owe her for the interesting labors here described. Her general remarks on the development of the Company and its career are less valuable, partly because not expressed in clear style. This catalogue is extremely well executed. Less satisfactory in respect to form is the list of authorities with which the introduction closes.”
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Am. Hist. R. 12: 174. O. ’06. 420w.
“Miss Susan M. Kingsbury has made a study of the sources for the history of the Virginia company of London, and the resulting publication must rank high in point of thoroughness and general form.”
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Nation. 82: 301. Ap. 12, ’06. 380w.
“These papers are all of great value to the student of the beginnings of American history.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 778. N. 24, ’06. 110w.
Kingsford, Charles Lethbridge. Chronicles of London; with introd. and notes. *$3.40. Oxford.
“This scholarly work presents to the reader three of the old London chronicles which are contained in the Cottonian Mss., Julius B. ii., Cleopatra C. iv., and Vitellius A. xvi., and which embrace a period of English history extending from the times of Richard I. to the year 1509. The editor in his introduction traces the evolution of the ‘chronicle’ from the early official record known as the ‘Liber de antiquis legibus’ to the popular works of Holinshed and Stow.”—Ath.
“Mr. Kingsford deserves much praise for the scholarly work displayed in this volume, which is provided with ample notes, a useful glossary, and a good index.” Charles Gross.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 884. Jl. ’06. 510w.
“These notes exhibit the same fullness of learning that is apparent in the introduction.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 132. F. 3. 1040w.
“It is impossible to praise too highly the manner of executing the work.”
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Nation. 82: 415. My. 17, ’06. 800w.
“The student must be very circumspect as to the manner in which he uses the information he gleans from these ‘Chronicles,’ as the dates are often inaccurate, though the facts are, in the main, correct. Mr. Kingsford’s scholarly introduction and notes will, however, aid him very materially to avoid missing his way in the labyrinth of rather loosely put information in which the ancient chroniclers conveyed their facts.”
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Sat. R. 102: 120. Jl. 28, ’06. 290w.
Spec. 96: sup. 650. Ap. 28, ’06. 260w.
Kingsley, Mrs. Florence (Morse). Intellectual Miss Lamb. 75c. Century.
“The exuberantly youthful, kittenish beauty exhibited in Miss Lamb’s pink and white curl-shaded cherubic countenance” seems far from suggesting the fact that she is “little more than a walking edition of the great Greathead’s 194‘Physiological psychology.’” She can subject the man who loves her to as critical a scientific analysis as the little “Master William,” who calls her “Lamby,”—and all for the sake of her “Tabulated records.” One day the precious manuscript is chewed to pulp by a bull terrier that must have been in sympathy with Billy Gregg; for it was the day of his delayed innings.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 369. Je. 9, ’06. 190w.
“Merry little story.”
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Kingsley, Mrs. Florence (Morse). Resurrection of Miss Cynthia. †$1.50. Dodd.
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Ind. 59: 1344. D. 7, ’05. 250w.
“This is a graceful, human kind of story, and incidentally, at the same time a sensible protest against the theory that life is necessarily a thing of gloom and repression.”
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Reader. 7: 228. Ja. ’06. 370w.
“The book has some of the qualities of Miss Wilkins’ New England stories, and, slight as is its texture, is pleasant to read.”
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Sat. R. 101: 22. Ja. 6, ’06. 200w.
“There is a great deal of charm in this account of what may be called the resuscitation of an old maid.”
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Spec. 96: 186. F. 3, ’06. 180w.
Kinkead, Eleanor Talbot. Invisible bond. †$1.50. Moffat.
“The scene of this novel is laid in Kentucky.... A scheming woman, poor and beautiful, ensnares a man whose nature demanded a nobler companion spirit than hers. Unhappiness, disgrace, and tragedy followed their marriage. But, with the power bestowed upon novelists, the author restores the worthy characters to happiness and consigns the unworthy to their own place.”—Outlook.
“If only her pictorial sense were better developed,—if she were half as good in the composition of her plot as she is in the use of verbal colouring,—‘The invisible bond’ would be a very uncommon and interesting book.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
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Bookm. 23: 539. Jl. ’06. 490w.
“The best feature of the book is the picture of Kentucky life, which is attractive and not overdrawn.”
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Critic. 49: 190. Ag. ’06. 130w.
“This sweet and wholesome tale, although by no means devoid of dramatic excitement, has nevertheless a tranquillizing effect upon the mind; it seems somehow to have a life apart from the sickly everyday world, and to breathe an air of its own, pure and uninfected by the malaria of most current fiction.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 41: 115. S. 1, ’06. 230w.
Ind. 61: 213. Jl. 26, ’06. 50w.
“Impresses us as a first book, one of interest and of promise, but crude in its performance, and suffering greatly from its prolixity.”
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Outlook. 83: 243. My. 26, ’06. 60w.
Kinzbrunner, C. Alternate current windings, their theory and construction: a handbook for student designers and all practical men. *$1.50. Van Nostrand.
The clear and simple explanation of the principles of alternating current windings given in this volume makes it suitable not only for students and designers but also for the workman engaged in the manufacture and repair of alternating winding currents. Chapter 1, treats of The production of alternating currents; Chapter 2, Alternating current windings; Chapter 3, Continuous current windings; Chapter 4, Dissolved continuous current windings; Chapter 5, Multiphase windings; Chapter 6, The construction of alternating current windings; Chapter 7, The insulation of alternating current windings. The volume is illustrated and contains a list of symbols and an index.
Kinzbrunner, C. Continuous current armatures, their winding and construction: a handbook for students, designers and all practical men. *$1.50. Van Nostrand.
“By means of the rules given in this volume, the reader will, if necessary, always be able to design any other winding not actually discussed here. The explanations are given in a very popular manner, so that anybody possessing an elementary knowledge of the principles of continuous current machines should be able to understand them fully.” Chapter 1, is upon the Theory of windings, Chapter 2, The construction of drum windings, Chapter 3, The construction of armatures. The book is well illustrated and indexed.
Kipling, Rudyard. Puck of Pook’s hill. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“We are alway persuaded to ‘believe in fairies’ when they bid us listen and look. And so we are quite sure it is true that Puck came to Dan and Una and told them of the ‘old things’ and showed them how to recall the long ago of their ancestors and ours, giving the history of England the most attractive guise that ever the boys and girls could dream of, and incidentally, preaching a few sermons to the powers of the present day.”—Ind.
“The serious reader may be warned that Mr. Rudyard Kipling is here not quite at his very best. The tales that concern the Roman Centurion are ill-constructed and want cohesion, and those connected with smuggling in later times have been better told before.”
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Acad. 71: 327. O. 6, ’06. 510w.
“The machinery of the tales ... is awkward, and even provoking. The story of the ‘Dymchurch flit’ stands alone in its method, style and picturesque beauty. It is an exquisite piece of work unrelated to its predecessors and its successor.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 404. O. 6. 660w.
“There is no doubt that he has gained in his mastery of technique. There is equally no doubt that he has lost immensely in spontaneity and vigor. One reads him now with admiration, but without being in the least swept away by the inimitable dash and force and fire of his earlier and rougher style. His artistry is something exquisite.” Harry Thurston Peck.
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Lit. D. 33: 594. O. 27, ’06. 280w.
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Living Age. 251: 569. D. 1, ’06. 2330w. (Reprinted from the Lond. Times.)
“When he first began he was a determined realist, and, though he sometimes dreamed with his eyes open, there was nothing to show that he would ever write a book so full of white magic as this.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 336. O. 5, ’06. 220w.
“Each of the stories is full of life and movement. Taken together however, they have a unity and interest which are marred by separate publication in the magazines. They convey an uncommonly vivid sense of that past which to most of us is hazier than a dream.”
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Nation. 83: 286. O. 4, ’06. 1140w.
“Fairy tales which (minus a serious moral purpose) could have been told as well by many a lesser writer. They could not perhaps have been told quite as well in a purely literary sense 195by many others, for Mr. Kipling is one of the strongest factors in this hour in the development of the English language.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 593. S. 29, ’06. 1150w.
“Puck and the men he calls to his aid are graphic narrators, there are some effective interludes in verse, and the treatment as a whole is fresh and vital.”
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Outlook. 84: 708. N. 24, ’06. 160w.
Putnam’s. 1: 384. D. ’06. 130w.
“These stories are at the best but second hand work.”
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Sat. R. 102: 430. O. 6, ’06. 900w.
“More than once in these columns we have called Mr. Kipling the interpreter to the English-speaking race. Nothing of his writing has ever justified the name better than the volume before us.”
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Spec. 97: 538. O. 13, ’06. 1750w.
Kirk, William. National labor federations in the United States. 75c. Johns Hopkins.
One of the “University studies in historical and political science.” The three-fold treatment covers the subjects of general labor federations, trades councils and industrial unions.
Kirkbride, Franklin B., and Sterrett, J. E. Modern trust company, its function and organization. *$2.50. Macmillan.
A book for the enlightenment of the general public which offers for the first time a full and consistent description of the various lines of work in which a modern trust company engages. It discusses the duties of trust company officers, and the relation of trust companies to the banking community and the public, and gives in detail the most recent methods of organization and accounting for trust companies in their several functions.
“They have made it possible for the business community to become intimately acquainted with this mighty engine of modern finance. A book well rounded in thought and execution, brief where brevity is advisable and detailed where explanation is desirable.” Thomas Conway, jr.
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Ind. 60: 399. F. 15, ’06. 80w.
“Covers the ground with a fullness that leaves little to be desired, and from a sanely conservative viewpoint.”
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Lit. D. 32: 332. Mr. 3, ’06. 120w.
“The care and judgment with which the rest of their work is done, justify the belief that our authors are competent to deal with the broader aspects of their subject. As their book now stands, however, it fails to give us all that we have a right to expect from a comprehensive treatise upon trust companies.”
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Nation. 82: 118. F. 8, ’06. 270w.
“This is a book of practice rather than theory.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 71. F. 3, ’06. 200w.
“The present work, however, is so complete and lucid that it should serve as a standard guide and not only to the public but to students of banking and finance, and deserves wide recognition as an authoritative text-book. The point of view is soundly conservative, and there is little theorizing, concreteness being the distinguishing characteristic throughout.”
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Outlook. 82: 93. Ja. 13, ’05. 130w.
“Organizers of such institutions should find this information very helpful. The information is also very important to all who have business dealings with trust companies, however slight.”
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R. of Rs. 33: 382. Mr. ’06. 130w.
Kittredge, George Lyman. Old farmer and his almanack. *$2.50. Ware.
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Sat. R. 101: 180. F. 10, ’06. 190w.
Klein, Charles. Lion and the mouse; a story of American life novelized from the play by Arthur Hornblow. $1.50. Dillingham.
Mr. Klein’s popular play has been turned by Mr. Hornblow into that most unusual thing a really good novelized drama. The story remains unchanged. The lion, the richest man in the world, tries to revenge himself on a supreme court judge for certain just decisions by involving him in a scandal which threatens his impeachment. Then comes the mouse, the daughter of the judge, who has already written a novel setting forth the character and financial methods of the lion to his disadvantage, and has also won the love of the lion’s only son. Thus armed she is the first of all human creatures who dares to defy the magnate, and she successfully gnaws the cords which tie up the plot and wins happiness for her father, her lover, and, incidentally, herself.
“In comparison with the rapid action and the terse dialog of the play, the novel seems long-winded and tedious.”
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Ind. 61: 697. S. 20, ’06. 350w.
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Lit. D. 33: 358. S. 15, ’06. 130w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 220w.
“The book as a separate performance, lacks the vitality and sharp characterization which make the play successful.”
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Outlook. 84: 141. S. 15, ’06. 240w.
“With its poise, its unity, its swift action, its deep human note, it is certain to find a kindly disposed audience among those who do not care for the theatre.”
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World To-Day. 11: 1222. N. ’06. 220w.
Klein, Felix. In the land of the strenuous life. **$2. McClurg.
“From a literary standpoint it is a model of simple, direct narrative.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 238. Ja. ’06. 140w.
“This picturesque book deserves to find as many and as appreciative readers in the country which it describes as it has already found in the land to which it holds up a democratic exemplar.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 40. Jl. 14. 620w.
“His observations on this and other matters were, considering the circumstances, remarkably accurate. The English of the translation is also very good.”
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Cath. World. 82: 547. Ja. ’06. 280w.
“The present translation ... is fluent, idiomatic and entirely free from gallicisms. There are a few mistakes, which we should have been inclined to attribute to the printer did they not appear in the index.”
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Ind. 60: 1223. My. 24, ’06. 360w.
Kleiser, Grenville. How to speak in public. *$1.25. Funk.
A book intended for teachers, students, and orators which is a complete elocutionary manual, comprising numerous exercises for developing the speaking voice, deep breathing, pronunciation, vocal expression, and gesture, also selections for practice from masterpieces of ancient and modern eloquence.
“The work is especially adapted for self-instruction.”
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Lit. D. 33: 814. D. 1, ’06. 150w.
Knowles, Frederick Lawrence. Love triumphant. **$1. Estes.
Reviewed by P. H. Frye.
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Knowles, Frederick Milton. Cheerful year book for engagements and other serious matters. **$1.50. Holt.
“Accompanied by philosophic and moral aphorisms for the instruction of youth the inspiration 196of maturity and the solace of age, the same being illustrated by tasteful and illuminating pictures by C. F. Lester and the whole being introduced and concluded with profound and edifying remarks by Carolyn Wells.”
“It is not too much to say that anyone with a sense of humor will enjoy the ‘Cheerful yearbook;’ its jests are merry without being in the least vulgar.”
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Nation. 83: 463. N. 29, ’06. 70w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 230w.
Knowles, Robert Edward. St. Cuthbert’s: a novel. †$1.50. Revell.
“Greater skill in the handling and selection of materials would have made this an interesting—as it is undoubtedly a conscientious—piece of work.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 12. Ja. 6. 110w.
“There is displayed very little skill in story telling, and a ruthless use of the pruning knife among the exuberant growths of rhetoric and sentimentality would have helped the book to a stronger and more fruitful vitality.”
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Ind. 60: 518. Mr. 1, ’06. 260w.
Knowles, Robert E. Undertow: a tale of both sides of the sea. †$1.50. Revell.
Caught in the undertow of selfishness a young theologian breasts its fury and wins a hard fought victory in the end. He battles his arch enemy among the self-sacrificing father and mother of the fine old Scotch school, and faithful brother Reuben, he fights it in the midst of graduate studies no less than in London in the church to which he is called. The bitterness of an enemy which leads to a misunderstanding with his wife furnishes the annealing process which his nature needs.
“This is one of the innumerable novels based on a sentimental perception of right and wrong.”
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Knowling, Rev. Richard John. Testimony of St. Paul to Christ: as viewed in some of its aspects. *$3 Scribner.
“This important work is divided into three parts: I, The documents and the grounds upon which their use is justified; II, Paul’s testimony in relation to ‘The life’ of the gospels; III. Paul’s testimony in relation to the life of the church. The concluding chapter deals with the literature on the subject published in 1903–5.”—Bib. World.
“Of Dr. Knowling’s learning and ability there can be no question; he is moreover, thoroughly well up in the latest results of criticism, and although he apparently regards critics who are nothing but critics as opponents of Christianity, he usually states their opinions fairly. It is in the second and third parts that Dr. Knowling is revealed as the apologist with a very thin veneer of criticism.”
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Acad. 70: 524. Je. 2, 06. 1060w.
Reviewed by George H. Gilbert.
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Am. J. Theol. 10: 725. O. ’06. 1180w.
“His weight of learning presses heavily on the reader, if not on the writer.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 103. Ja. 27. 530w.
Bib. World. 27: 79. Ja. ’06. 40w.
“It must be admitted that the book has the fault of its virtue. It reveals the processes of an able and learned mind defending what is held to be the truth, rather than seeking the truth.” William H. Ryder.
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Bib. World. 28: 156. Ag. ’06. 1080w.
Lond. Times. 4: 427. D. 8, ’05. 1330w.
“As a summary and an appreciation of the present fruits of scholarly work on a fourth part of the new Testament such a work is of uncommon value.”
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Outlook. 82: 377. F. 17, ’06. 260w.
“If one were to criticise Dr. Knowling’s book, it would be not for lack of learning, but for lack of proportion. The impression remains that in all these five hundred pages the real essence of the problem is hardly touched upon.”
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Sat. R. 102: 273. S. 1, ’06. 1150w.
Spec. 95: 1086. D. 23, ’05. 280w.
Knox, George H. Thoughts that inspire. 2v. *$1.70. Personal help.
An anthology under classified headings of bits of wisdom, advice and admonition culled from the writings of men and women of all ages.
Knox, George William. Spirit of the Orient. *$1.50. Crowell.
In the face of the great changes that are confronting an awakening East, these well illustrated studies by Professor Knox will be welcomed as gratifying additions to the many studies of the Orient which have recently appeared. Beginning with an introductory chapter upon America and the East, Professor Knox takes up first the American point of view, then the Asiatic point of view, and then passes on to a discussion of India, China, and Japan dividing the discussion of each into, Its people and customs, and, Its spirit and problems, and closing with a chapter upon, The new world. The whole forms a fund of Occidental entertainment and enlightenment.
“Scholarly philosophical work.”
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Dial. 41: 328. N. 16, ’06. 300w.
“No abler book on the mind of Asia has yet appeared.”
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Ind. 61: 1113. N. 8, ’06. 460w.
“In writing about India, China, and Japan he approaches the subjective attitude more closely than is usual with Occidental writers.”
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R. of Rs. 34: 640. N. ’06. 90w.
Knuth, Paul. Handbook of flower pollination; based upon Hermann Müller’s work, The fertilization of flowers by insects; tr. by J. R. Ainsworth Davis, v. I. Introduction and literature. *$5.75. Oxford.
“This is a text-book not for students, but for professors.... The original first volume consisted entirely of an introduction and bibliography; the introduction, however, is complete in itself, and gives a mass of ordered detail about the highly complex relations between insects and flowers.... In the translation ... the bibliography of flower pollination forms one useful list, of which the references have been specially revised by Dr. Fritsch to ensure accuracy. To the text the editor has added several useful notes indicating matters of importance that have arisen since Knuth’s work was completed. In the arrangement of the text as well as the many text figures the original is followed.”—Ath.
“The present volume is the first of the three comprising Knuth’s masterly work, which is by far the most comprehensive on its subject, and of world-wide renown. Not only is the text index omitted, but also the equally essential index of subjects appended to the bibliography in the original.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 305. S. 15. 680w. (Review of v. 1.)
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Bot. G. 42: 494. D. ’06. 360w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The compendious treatise entitled ‘Introduction’ in this first volume, is beyond question, the best presentation of the matter of flower-pollination by insects yet given in an English dress.”
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Nation. 83: 270. S. 27, ’06. 1680w. (Review of v. 1.)
“English readers will welcome the present work, incorporating as it does the great mass of research on floral biology which has been carried out in recent years. The translator 197has done his work well on the whole. We must, however, direct attention to a few instances of faulty rendering.” F. D.
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Nature. 74: 605. O. 18, ’06. 720w. (Review of v. 1.)
Kobbe, Gustav. Famous American songs. il. **$1.50. Crowell.
Lovers of the sentiment and tradition, that enter into the making of our few timetested American songs will prize this book. Mr. Kobbé, musical critic and writer, tells how each song happened to be written, where it was first sung, and gives interesting incidents in careers of the writers. The songs of the group are: Home, sweet home, Old folks at home, Dixie, Ben Bolt, Star-spangled banner, Yankee Doodle, Hail Columbia and America.
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Dial. 41: 395. D. 1, ’06. 190w.
Nation. 83: 446. N. 22, ’06. 210w.
“The book contains a wealth of curious information gathered from many recondite sources.”
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Putnam’s. 1: 377. D. ’06. 140w.
Kobbé, Gustav. Famous actors and their homes. $1.50. Little.
“There is both new material in Mr. Kobbe’s book and old material adapted to new points of view.”
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Kobbé, Gustav. Wagner and his Isolde. **$1. Dodd.
“The story is such a fascinating one that, in spite of Mr. Kobbe’s limitations in the direction of tact, good taste and good English, he who begins it will not lay the book aside until he has finished the last page.”
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Ind. 59: 1349. D. 7, ’05. 330w.
Konkle, Burton Alva. Life and speeches of Thomas Williams, orator, statesman and jurist, 1806–1872. 2v. $6. Campion & co.
“Mr. Williams, as is well known, was a founder of the Whig and Republican parties, and also a lawyer and jurist of eminence. His career and his speeches naturally and necessarily form no insignificant part of the national history, and they are ably and fully described and presented in these volumes, to which Senator Knox of Pennsylvania contributes an introduction.”—Critic.
Reviewed by David Miller DeWitt.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 697. Ap. ’06. 880w.
“This is one of the most important works on the momentous period before and during the Civil war.”
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Critic. 48: 284. Mr. ’06. 80w.
“The two volumes seem passably free from errata.” Edwin E. Sparks.
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Dial. 40: 229. Ap. 1, ’06. 1150w.
“A book that is neither very interesting nor very useful.”
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Koopman, Harry Lyman. At the gates of the century. 75c. Everett press.
“The metrical diversions of a score of years—mostly bits of verse—are collected into a volume [in which] neatly epigrammatic couplets and quatrains abound.”—Dial.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
Dial. 41: 207. O. 1, ’06. 160w.
“There is little in Mr. Koopman’s slender but pithy book to arouse any other sentiment than admiration for his gift of compact, suggestive phrase.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 290w.
Kramer, Harold M. Hearts and the cross. †$1.50. Lothrop.
A young minister of many creeds wanders into a Hoosier community, is befriended by a good old Indiana family, and assumes the double role of farm hand and minister. He becomes involved in political and neighborhood feuds and it develops that he is a pardoned convict and that long ago in Florida he bound an elder daughter of the house by what was supposed to be a mock marriage to the dissolute wretch who deserted her. However the untangled plot clears his character, the weakness of the past is forgotten in the strength of the present, and he wins the love of a younger daughter whom he has all along confused with the elder sister and wins also the respect of the community.
“‘Wholesome’ is the adjective that best expresses the quality of the book; and that quality is its chief charm. Talent it surely displays, but as yet it is the talent of the amateur, crude in spots, and more or less immature.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 656. O. 6, ’06. 130w.
“A dramatic story with a mystery in it which keeps the interest alive to the very last.”
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“A thoroughly commonplace story.”
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Kuhn, Franz. Barbarossa, tr. from the German, by George P. Upton. *60c. McClurg.
This little volume in the “Life stories for young people” series sketches the great events in the life of Frederick I in a simple but vigorous style that will appeal to all wide-awake children.
Kuhns, (Levi) Oscar. Saint Francis of Assisi. **50c. Crowell.
A picture of Saint Francis of Assisi which shows a “gentle spirit, humble and patient, yet kind and courteous, renouncing all earthly riches, knowledge, and glory filled with the triple love for God, for nature, and for man.”
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Ladd, George Trumbull. Philosophy of religion: critical and speculative treatise of man’s religious experience and development in the light of modern science and reflective thinking. 2v. **$7. Scribner.
“The present work presents at considerable length the facts of man’s religious experience, the origin and development of religion in various races, and the relation of religion to other departments of human life, and this treatment of phenomenology of religion is followed by a criticism of the conceptions and tenets of spiritual experience from the point of view of modern science and philosophy. It aims to be a quite free and scientific treatise of the total religious life and religious development of humanity, but its chief interest is to prove philosophically that theism is entirely tenable and also demonstrable by the instruments in the hands of philosophy.”—Ind.
“The work is erudite and encyclopaedic, even heavily so at times; but the vital dialectic of his discussions, and the living search for truth that dominates the whole work, will make it of intense interest to the student of the subject. We regard it as an enriching contribution to the developing science of religion.” Herbert Alden Youtz.
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Am. J. Theol. 10: 366. Ap. ’06. 1790w.
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Bibliotheca Sacra. 63: 364. Ap. ’06. 3090w.
198“He writes in an irenic spirit, and always with constructive aim, but he is sometimes more abstruse than is needful and more than a trifle prolix.”
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Ind. 60: 688. Mr. 22, ’06. 200w.
“What impresses the thoughtful reader of Professor Ladd’s volumes is the thoroughness with which they canvass practically the whole field of discussion. It is difficult to decide on what ground he is strongest, whether in history, anthropology, psychology or general philosophy. In each field he treads familiar ground and pronounces sane and rational judgments.” A. T. Ormond.
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J. Philos. 3: 522. S. 13, ’06. 2290w.
“The description of the religious phenomena is, with a few exceptions, accurate. Throughout the book there are suggestive remarks. The great extent of the field traversed, and the author’s anxiety to make his positions clear, lead to a good deal of repetition. An undue amount of space seems to be given to the review of early religious phenomena.”
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Nation. 82: 229. Mr. 15, ’06. 1060w.
“A massive work admirable both in analysis and synthesis, candid in its recognition of difficulties remaining to be solved.”
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Outlook. 82: 47. Ja. 6, ’06. 540w.
“The total impression is that of a great drama which the author is opening to our vision rather than that of a chain or web of speculative notions. This concreteness, which is pervasive of the entire work, is perhaps its greatest merit. One can only wish that the evidential logic of it had been wrought out rather more systematically.” George A. Coe.
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Philos. R. 15: 528. S. ’06. 3300w.
Reviewed by E. S. Ames.
Psychol. Bull. 3: 411. D. 15, ’06. 1020w.
Laking, Guy Francis. Furniture of Windsor castle, by Guy Francis Laking, Keeper of the king’s armory; published by command of His Majesty King Edward VII. 35c. Dutton.
“In preparing this deeply interesting and richly illustrated account of the most beautiful and typical examples of the furniture in Windsor castle—a worthy companion of that on the armours from the same pen—the scholarly editor has wisely adopted the historical method.”
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Int. Studio. 27: 371. F. ’06. 510w.
“Although it claims no great learning and displays no great acumen in the description of the pieces, it still gives information that is worth having.”
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Nation. 82: 206. Mr. 6, ’06. 1960w.
Lamb, Charles. Essays of Elia, 1st series; selected and edited with an introduction and notes by George A. Wauchope. *40c. Ginn.
A selection containing about thirty of the most popular essays well annotated.
Lamb, Charles and Mary. Works and letters. v. 6 and 7. *$2.25. Putnam.
Reviewed by Sidney T. Irwin.
Quarterly R. 204: 163. Ja. ’06. 1760w. (Review of v. 1–7.)
Lamb, Mrs. Edith M. What the baby needs. $1. Nunn & co.
Complete instruction and suggestions for the care of a baby.
Lancaster, G. B. Sons o’ men. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“Another collection of curious, faraway, exotic tales with a touch of real distinction both in theme and treatment.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
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Bookm. 22: 493. Ja. ’06. 420w.
“Of the faults the most noticeable are in the form of grammatical errors. But the author’s ability is unquestionable and the stories are good.”
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Ind. 59: 1540. D. 28, ’05. 210w.
Lancaster, G. B. The spur. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“Any one who knows aught of Australian or Island life, of sheep farms, or copra gatherers and traders, will respond to this vivid writing, as those who know India used to respond to Kipling.” (Outlook.) “The spur to smite was a cool, calculating man of the world named Haddington, and the spurred smiter an Australian youth who had it in him to be something of a Kipling. Detecting merit in the boy’s literary beginnings, Haddington induced him to sell himself to him for seven years.... The book is the story of Kin’s struggle as an honest, clean, impulsive, brave fellow under this contract and his futile efforts to free himself from it.” (Lond. Times.)
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Acad. 69: 1177. N. 11, ’05. 330w.
“The author unfortunately falls into a certain exasperating preciosity of style which interferes seriously with the reader’s enjoyment.”
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Critic. 48: 572. Je. ’08. 130w.
“A strong novel, and holds the reader until the grewsome end.”
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Ind. 61: 1160. N. 15, ’06. 140w.
“Is impaired also by some confusion and want of order in its episodes, and an excess of that virile, almost brutal, kind of writing. But it is a striking book, having much force and directness of phrase, and in the earlier parts some vivid effects of atmosphere.”
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Lond. Times. 4: 329. O. 6, ’05. 230w.
“A story which grows more moving and more intense as it builds toward its climax.” H. I. Brock.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 253. Ap. 21, ’06. 920w.
“The words sting, the people live, and the story is a story.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 200w.
“A unique story, marked by much strength, but somewhat marred by the unrelieved wickedness of one man.”
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Outlook. 82: 1006. Ap. 28, ’06. 80w.
“A story of intense action.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 661. My. 26, ’06. 120w.
Lane, Anna Eichberg Ring (Mrs. John Lane). Champagne standard. **$1.50. Lane.
“‘The champagne standard’ is the title of the first seventeen essays in which Mrs. John Lane describes, satirises, and, perhaps it should be added, counsels what we may call the ‘upper middle class.’... Mrs. Lane, who describes herself as ‘an exiled American sister,’ fills her pages with wisdom and wit. She writes from an American—or, rather from a transplanted American—standpoint, and this gives a fresh force and meaning to her words.... A cook who disdains to be spoken to through a tube, and a housemaid who will not take notice after noon, but promptly gives it herself next morning.... The conductor who bids you hurry up, the host, the ‘saleslady’ who makes you wait while she discusses things in general with a colleague, the verger in a fashionable church—this last is peculiarly American—are specimens.”—Spec.
“Mrs. Lane may congratulate herself on having that blessed sense of humour which is one of the most valuable possessions in life. In any case English-women should be grateful to her for writing them this delightful, candid book, which is full of original and bright ideas.”
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Acad. 70: 136. F. 10, ’06. 900w.
“Mrs. Lane’s style is admirably suited to the racy and ephemeral matter which these papers 199contain, and she treats each topic with such freshness and originality that the book is as entertaining as it is suggestive.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 197. F. 17. 220w.
“Spontaneous wit united with keen judgment makes this volume a delightful one.”
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Critic. 48: 470. My. ’06. 200w.
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Dial. 40: 200. Mr. 16, ’06. 400w.
“In ‘The champagne standard’ Mrs. John Lane has carried the art of prattle (on paper) to a point of rare perfection.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 54. F. 16, ’06. 450w.
“The volume is delightful and contains many things to laugh over—and afterwards to think over seriously.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 149. Mr. 10, ’06. 870w.
“Mrs. Lane’s papers are light, agreeable fare for those who want to know about certain sections of society, their follies and trifles, and her book was made to be read.”
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Sat. R. 101: 404. Mr. 31, ’06. 170w.
“The whole book is thoroughly worth reading.”
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Spec. 96: 306. F. 24, ’06. 300w.
Lane, Elinor Macartney. All for the love of a lady; 6 full-page il. by Arthur Becher. †$1.25. Appleton.
“A tale of chivalrous love and dastardly conspiracy told with the grace that we should expect from the author of ‘Nancy Stair.’” (Ind.) Lady Iseult of Castle Carfrae has a quartette of lovers—two of whom are little Scotch lads of nine who swear fealty to their lady and defend her in the absence of her favored lover. “Incidentally the story is furnished with a villain, and a faithful old retainer in the person of a Scotch lawyer, who, by the help of the two dauntless midgets, rescues the maid from her danger and restores her to her true love.” (Outlook.)
“The sketch is one of the best things the author has written.”
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Ind. 60: 1377. Je. 7, ’06. 100w.
“Every one of the six characters is marvelously well defined, there is much humor, much delightful talk, and a reality and naturalness about it all that speaks much for the writer’s skill—even genius.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.
“There is much wit and many clever scenes in the story.”
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Outlook. 83: 243. My. 26, ’06. 170w.
Lang, Andrew. John Knox and the reformation. *$3.50. Longmans.
“Its ‘saeva indignatio’ may not always be earnest, but the work is a painful contribution to the literature of exposure.” Francis A. Christie.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 371. Ja. ’06. 1230w.
“The book is rather a criticism of other biographies than a biography itself, and herein lie at once its value and its limitations. Yet the book has many merits, though it is not free from casual errors. It should always be read with the ordinary lives of Knox, and should not be read without one or the other of them.” A. F. Pollard.
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Eng. Hist. R. 21: 163. Ja. ’06. 1100w.
“In a life of Knox his blunders as an historian and his vagaries as a politician must have a place, but that must be at least a little lower than the place set apart for his work as a reformer and his policy as an ecclesiastical statesman. And, when his words and actions are subjected to criticism, the toleration of history demands that these should be seen in light of the sixteenth century.” John Herkless.
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Hibbert J. 3: 819. Jl. ’06. 2380w.
“He has let rather too much cleverness and subtlety creep into his book.”
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Nation. 82: 287. Ap. 5, ’06. 1220w.
Lang, Andrew. New collected rhymes. *$1.25. Longmans.
“Mr. Lang’s “New collected rhymes” are an epitome of his work in verse. The volume contains ballads and folk-songs and parodies, topical rhymes on life and literature, and lyrics on angling, on cricket, and on Prince Charlie.” (Spec.)
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Ath. 1906. 1: 195. F. 17. 720w.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 40: 327. My. 16, ’06. 340w.
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Lond. Times. 5: 149. Ap. 27, ’06. 240w.
“His ‘New collected rhymes’ have the metrical facility and grace, the urbane humor, that make his ‘Ballads of books’ of such pleasant memory.”
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Nation. 82: 326. Ap. 19, ’06. 260w.
Reviewed by Florence Wilkinson.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 225. Ap. 7, ’06. 440w.
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Putnam’s. 1: 126. O. ’06. 220w.
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Spec. 96: 262. F. 17, ’06. 320w.
Lang, Andrew. Oxford. *$1.50. Lippincott.
“If ever a topic would have appealed to him, surely it would be this. Yet the impression left after perusal is of put-together chapters.”
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Lang, Andrew, ed. Red romance book. **$1.60. Longmans.
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Lond. Times. 4: 432. D. 8, ’05. 130w.
Lang, Andrew. Secret of the totem. $3. Longmans.
This present work is a sequel to Mr. Lang’s “Social origins and primal law” published three years ago. It “deals with the obscure beginnings of society so far as these can be traced in the organization—or want of organization—found in the lowest savage tribes, those of Australia. These, as is well known, are organized on the totem system, by which a certain number of individuals are bound together by belief in their common descent from a common ancestor, generally of an animal nature, and known as the totem.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Mr. Lang has given us in this work a skilful exposition of a complicated subject. Totemism is more often talked about than understood, and Mr. Lang’s accuracy in the use of terms may, incidentally, serve as a corrective to the wilder spirits who see totemism everywhere.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 421. Mr. ’06. 210w.
“He has made a distinct advance towards the solution of many difficult problems. Mr. Lang’s method of dealing with his argument is altogether admirable. It is clear, consistent, and logical.”
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Ath. 1905, 2: 726. N. 25. 1720w.
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Dial. 40: 265. Ap. 16, ’06. 410w.
Lond. Times. 5: 14. Ja. 12, ’06. 720w.
“The somewhat arrogant claim of the title is not modified by what Mr. Lang says in the course of this rather dull volume.”
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Nation. 82: 455. My. 31, ’06. 770w.
“Truth to tell, he is wandering somewhat out of his sphere in dealing with the subject at all. One gets the impression that he has simply manipulated the materials and theories of others instead of producing a new one out of the materials himself.” Joseph Jacobs.
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N. Y. Times. 10: 922. D. 30, ’05. 900w.
Reviewed by Franklin H. Giddings.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 724. D. ’06. 390w.
“For the first time we have a consecutive presentation of his views concerning the origin and early evolution of totemism.”
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Sat. R. 101: 270. Mr. 3, ’06. 1500w.
“The treatment is detailed, technical, and except to the specialist, very dry.”
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Yale R. 15: 338. N. ’06. 160w.
200Lang, Andrew. Sir Walter Scott. **$1. Scribner.
Thoro familiarity with Scott’s life and surroundings, with all the Abbotsford Mss., and with the details of Scottish life and history, has equipped Mr. Lang for an undertaking that does not claim to rival Lockhart’s, only to compress “the essence of Lockhart’s great book into small space, with a few additions from other sources.”
“We venture to think that Scott’s admirers will find much that is new and more that is freshly put in this biography, which is permeated by a sympathy and understanding of which praise would be an impertinence. There is only one aspect of the book to which we would draw attention, and that in the way of homologating rather than criticising what is said.”
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Acad. 70: 280. Mr. 24, ’06. 950w.
“We have one complaint to make: it is really too bad of experts like Mr. Lang and his publishers to produce a book without an index.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 413. Ap. 7. 1680w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
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Atlan. 98: 279. Ag. ’06. 570w.
“Mr. Lang is capable of being irritating, but he is never prosy. This book is probably all the better for its purpose because it has not the property of high finish.” H. W. Boynton.
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Critic. 49: 49. Jl. ’06. 450w.
“Lang’s biography, for a brief one, is very full of details without being encyclopaedically dry.”
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Dial. 40: 394. Je. 16, ’06. 380w.
“Mr. Lang’s chief contribution in this volume is to our collection of epigrams, and to our stock of somewhat buoyant common sense. Except in the matter of condensing Lockhart, it is a bit difficult to see what addition the book makes to our convenience.” William T. Brewster.
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Forum. 38: 101. Jl. ’06. 620w.
“It is altogether too conscious of the authorities that have preceded it to be as satisfactory a substitute, as it pretends, to a reader who knows nothing about them.”
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Lit. D. 32: 474. Mr. 31, ’06. 1240w.
“Mr. Lang’s book is pre-eminently, if not exclusively, for advanced readers—those who know their Lockhart and are fairly familiar with what has been written on the subject since 1837. In this present book ... in spite of all its fine qualities, there is some oddity or other upon almost every other page.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 121. Ap. 6, ’06. 2140w.
Reviewed by Florence Wilkinson.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 224. Ap. 7, ’06. 3080w.
“Thanks to his study of the history of Scotland he has turned new and true lights on many contested points, and he enlivens with anecdote and personal reminiscence the romance of the Borders he knows so well.”
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Sat. R. 102: 49. Jl. 14, ’06. 790w.
“Mr. Lang’s criticisms are invariably interesting, partly because they are invariably characteristic, and are what are known in the loose journalese of the day as ‘sidelights.’”
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Lankester, Edwin Ray. Extinct animals. *$1.75. Holt.
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“The work is authoritative, quite up to date, and on the whole one of the best popular accounts of the life of the ancient world in print.”
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Dial. 40: 238. Ap. 1, ’06. 230w.
“The book will be interesting and perfectly intelligible to children of high-school age, but even the general reader of mature years will find much to claim the interest.”
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Lansdale, Maria Horner. Châteaux of Touraine; il. with pictures by Jules Guérin, and by photographs. **$6. Century.
In text, illustrations, and workmanship this volume furnishes the same excellencies that characterized Mrs. Wharton’s “Italian villas” with the Parrish pictures, to which it is a companion volume. Accuracy and authority stamp the sketches of these twelve Touraine chateaux. The charm which casts a spell over pilgrims from every quarter of the globe, says the author, is born of a variety of causes, their captivating beauty, their architectural interest, the loveliness of the surrounding country and the halo of historical associations in which each is wrapped. There are sixteen wash drawings by Jules Guérin besides over forty reproductions in black and tint of photographs.
“Her facts are accurate and authoritative, and at the same time picturesquely presented.”
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Ind. 61: 1398. D. 13, ’06. 190w.
“The subjects are well suited to a hand trained in architectural rendering. And the artist has here as elsewhere found himself at ease in restriction to flat tones of a few low-keyed colours. He shows imagination in these sketches and a cleverness in atmospheric feeling.”
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“M. Guérin’s fine water-colour drawings, with their extreme simplicity, absence of realism and touch of conventionalism, are full of delicate suggestion and decorative feeling—excellent examples of what book illustration should be.”
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Nation. 83: 463. N. 29, ’06. 120w.
“Is surely one of the best of all the handsome gift books of this season.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 769. N. 24, ’06. 360w.
“Is one of the most elaborate travel books appearing this season.”
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Outlook. 84: 703. N. 24, ’06. 130w.
“If the text serves as an admirable guidebook, the illustrations render it worthy to be called a glorified one.”
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“Miss Lansdale’s touch is easy and interesting.”
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“Miss Lansdale describes their features and tells their story with a freshness which saves her chapters from falling into the rut of a guide-book.”
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“The book is agreeably written, and full of historical and antiquarian information.”
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Larned, Josephus Nelson. Books, culture and character. **$1. Houghton.
Seven addresses delivered at various times since the year 1883 are connected here, and offer the sound advice of one interested in the active problems of education. They are as follows; A familiar talk about books, The test of quality in books, Hints as to reading, The mission and the missionaries of the book, Good and evil from the printing press, Public libraries and public education, School reading versus school training of history.
“With his wonted clearness and force, and in English that it is a delight to read, Mr. 201Larned ... emphasizes the urgent necessity of spreading the culture of good literature among the people at large.”
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Dial. 41: 327. N. 16, ’06. 380w.
“It is the kind of book about books that cannot be accused of dilettantism, a book informed with wholesome and fine feeling which also has much merit of the kind as literary—which is also informed; that is with taste.” H. W. Boynton.
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Larned, Josephus Nelson. Seventy centuries of the life of mankind, 2v. $4.50. C. A. Nichols co., Springfield, Mass.
“He may be right, but his is not the judicial tone of Ranke or Stubbs. Nor does his list of authorities show very extensive reading even in the secondary sources, and it is confined to works in English. Yet his book is to be praised: it is an accurate and lucid summary of the chief events in world-history put forth in an attractive form.” George M. Wrong.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 707. Ap. ’06. 520w.
Latham, Charles. Gardens of Italy: a series of over 300 illustrations from photographs of the most famous examples of Italian gardens, with descriptive text by E. March Phillipps. 2v. $18. Scribner.
“It would be difficult to better the photographs, and the letterpress is interesting and readable.”
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Lathbury, Clarence. Balanced life. $1. Nunc Licet press.
“This is one of the best recent works which seeks to strengthen and round out character by stimulating the inner life and impressing on the mind in a realizing sense the omnipotence and omnipresence of Good.” (Arena.) The contents include: The return to nature; Rhythm of the universe; In the stream of power; The white line of the dawn; Built without hands; The highway of the spirit; The central melody; The great amens; Oil in our lamps; Vision and patience; Thoughts that find us young.
“The author’s style is clear. He makes his thought easily understood, though he is somewhat redundant at times. Barring this defect the style is, on the whole, excellent and the thought well calculated to strengthen, purify and upbuild the character of the reader.”
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Arena. 35: 107. Ja. ’06. 310w.
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Dial. 39: 171. S. 16, ’05. 160w.
Lathrop, Elise. Where Shakespeare set his stage; decorations by G. W. Hood. **$2. Pott.
Twelve Shakespeare plays are described with respect to scene, appearance of characters and periods in which they lived, and the sources of the plots. The author bases her study upon visits to the localities which are reproduced in text and illustrations.
“No harm will be done to readers who confine themselves to the illustrations, but the letter press is capable of conveying many misleading ideas to uninformed youth.”
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Nation. 83: 330. O. 18, ’06. 160w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 757. N. 17, ’06. 250w.
Lathrop, John R. T. How a man grows. $1.25. Meth. bk.
The development of man is traced thru a series of stages indicated by the following chapter headings: The problem stated, The data of philosophy, Cosmic ethics, Christian ethics, Cosmic regeneration, Christian regeneration, Forces in man’s becoming, Certainties in religion, Religion, The religion of the future, The coronation of man.
Latrobe, Benjamin Henry. Journal of Latrobe. *$3.50. Appleton.
The notes and sketches of an architect, naturalist and traveler in the United States from 1796 to 1820. Following a biographical introduction by J. H. B. Latrobe are chapters on Virginia and its people; a visit to Washington at Mt. Vernon; Philadelphia, and the construction of the water works in the Schuylkill for the city’s water supply; the building of the national capitol and the designing of the navy yard, St. John’s church, and Christ church; and New Orleans and its people.
Am. Hist. R. 11: 477. Ja. ’06. 80w.
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Critic. 48: 285. Mr. ’06. 140w.
“Should find an honored place in every library.”
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Nation. 82: 387. My. 10, ’06, 410w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 5. Ja. 6, ’06. 470w.
“This journal is now a valuable source-book of American history, particularly on the social side. His observations are also highly entertaining, for he had a keen sense of the interesting.”
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Outlook. 81: 941. D. 16, ’05. 240w.
“The most interesting passages in his journal are the shrewd characterizations of men and manners.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 59. Ja. 13, ’06. 290w.
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R. of Rs. 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 130w.
Laut, Agnes Christina. Vikings of the Pacific. **$2. Macmillan.
Volume 1, of “The pathfinders of the West” series. The adventures of the explorers who came from the West, eastward; Bering, the Dane; the outlaw hunters of Russia; Benyowsky, the Polish pirate; Cook and Vancouver, the English navigators; Gray of Boston, discoverer of the Columbia; Drake, Ledyard and other soldiers of fortune on the west coast of America are presented in an interesting fashion, and the volume is freely and well illustrated.
“In matters of detail the author is fairly accurate; though there are a few errors which argue a lack of familiarity with the best secondary authorities within her field. After making all necessary deductions, it may still be said that the book will furnish to the discriminating student a considerable fund of information not so conveniently accessible elsewhere.” Joseph Schafer.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 680. Ap. ’06. 370w.
“The attractive title of the volume is scarcely justified by its contents.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 635. My. 26, ’06. 360w.
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Critic. 48: 478. My. ’06. 80w.
“Miss Laut possesses the happy faculty of seizing upon the element of human interest that lie buried in even the dryest of historical documents, enfolding them in a glamour of romance without destroying their historical value, and presenting them to the reader with the combined fidelity and skill of historian and novelist.”
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Dial. 41: 166. S. 16, ’06. 650w.
“A splendid piece of work.”
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Ind. 60: 1048. My. 3, ’06. 300w.
“Leaving petty incongruities of style, one may inquire into the accuracy of the facts of historic origin which the author has woven into her text. In the main her narrative is fairly correct, after one rejects its imaginary setting and presumptuous epithets.”
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Nation. 82: 286. Ap. 5, ’06. 1350w.
“It is an interesting story that Miss Laut tells, and it should open the history of the Northwest to Eastern readers.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 19. Ja. 13, ’06. 500w.
“She writes ... always in a way that clearly visualizes for the reader the exciting events and notable deeds described, the text being based on first sources.”
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Outlook. 81: 1087. D. 30, ’05. 190w.
202“In Miss Laut’s hands the narrative has all the fascination of a daring story of adventure with the added and novel merit of being absolutely true.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 510. Ap. 21, ’06. 130w.
“It is remarkable that the details of these early attempts at settlement and trade have remained so long unknown to the mass of American readers.”
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R. of Rs. 33: 126. Ja. ’06. 190w.
“A most interesting book.”
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Spec. 96: 306. F. 24, ’06. 280w.
Lawrence, Albert Lathrop. Wolverine. 75c. Little.
A new popular edition of “The Wolverine.” The scene of this romance is laid in Michigan territory just before it becomes the Wolverine state. Perry North, a young man of New England blood, and pale orange colored hair, comes to Detroit from his home state, Massachusetts, as a government surveyor. He meets Marie Beaucoeur, and loves her in spite of the fact that her free French Catholic views of life are a constant shock to his Puritanical upbringing. It is only after many thrilling scenes such as naturally belong to that time and place where the Ohio boundary line was a constant source of trouble, and negroes and Indians added an unruly element, that young North comes to reconcile his conscience and his love.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 286. My. 5, ’06. 170w.
Laycock, Craven and Scales, Robert Leighton. Argumentation and debate. 60c. Macmillan.
The book “systematizes and makes a unified art of the principles which should be followed in preparing for the presentation of a given subject in the form of reasoned argument.”
“A statement of the traditional arguments from antecedent probability, sign and example is in itself of little use to the ordinary debater. Nor does the part of the book on debate, though interesting and well written, seem to us to offer sufficient ground for exercise and practise to those who may use it.” E. E. H., jr.
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Bookm. 22: 528. Ja. ’06. 310w.
“There is not a little sensible advice and acute suggestion to be found in this book, and it is likely to be useful, not only in the classroom, but to all persons preparing for public discussion.”
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Outlook. 82: 475. F. 24, ’06. 120w.
“Parts of the book are excellently done. The chapter on brief-drawing is the best to be found anywhere; the advice in the appendix is practical and helpful. But the book, on the whole, is diffuse. Yet with all its faults the book is perhaps the most practical of the compilations that have thus far treated the subject.” Fred Lewis Pattee.
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School R. 15: 545. S. ’06. 460w.
Lea, Henry Charles. History of the Inquisition of Spain. 4v. v. 1 and 2 ea. **$2.50. Macmillan.
A work built up from a vast amount of material drawn from Spanish archives. Volume one is chiefly devoted to tracing the rise of the Inquisition in Spain; volume two discusses the disastrous influence of the institution upon the rulers who supported it, the people who suffered under it and the nation that survived it.
Am. Hist. R. 11: 739. Ap. ’06. 60w. (Review of v. 1.)
“In style and treatment the book shows to the full the qualities so long familiar in Mr. Lea’s work—the same wealth of detail, the same direct dependence on the sources, the same avoidance of polemics and all rhetorical amplification. It is everywhere the work of one who still believes that the history of jurisprudence is the history of civilization.” George L. Burr.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 887. Jl. ’06. 1810w. (Review of v. 1.)
“An accurate and complete survey of the subject.” Franklin Johnson.
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Am. J. Theol. 10: 351. Ap. ’06. 180w. (Review of v. 1.)
Critic. 48: 382. Ap. ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The book of the year which touches the high-water mark of scholarship in the flood of European histories is H. C. Lea’s ‘Inquisition in Spain.’ Once again this man, who is the pride of American scholars, outdoes the European historians in their own field.”
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Ind. 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 40w. (Review of v. 1. and 2.)
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Lit. D. 33: 514. O. 13, ’06. 180w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is refreshing to have at hand a substantial amount of definite fact in a field where previous writers have given us so much passionate and unsupported generalization.”
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Nation. 82: 385. My. 10, ’06. 2800w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This severely analytical method of dealing with the subject is somewhat repellent even to the trained reader.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 853. D. 8, ’06. 380w. (Review of v. 1. and 2.)
“His narrative is not dramatic in form. It never even suggests the theatrical. But it is thoroughly human.”