Volume 2 — Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Digests of Reviews appearing in January-December, 1906 magazines (continued 15)
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Outlook. 82: 853. Ap. 14, ’06. 900w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Tells the story with an almost legal dryness of detail, and with an absence of all appearance of indignation, which he leaves unexpressed if not suppressed, and which for this reason his readers feel all the more forcibly.”
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Outlook. 84: 633. N. 10, ’06. 440w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Prodigious industry, careful discrimination of material, and a trained historical faculty have combined to make Mr. Lea’s book entirely worthy of the high reputation of the author.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 283. Mr. 3, ’06. 500w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This is the first thorough work in English on the Inquisition.”
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R. of Rs. 33: 381. Mr. ’06. 240w. (Review of v. 1.)
Leacock, Stephen. Elements of political science. *$1.75. Houghton.
This volume “contains chapters on the recent colonial expansion of the European states, the dependencies of the United States, the origin and growth of political parties in the United States, the organization of American political parties, government interference on behalf of the working class, and municipal control, and devotes to each of these subjects more attention than is usually accorded them in elementary works of this class.” (R. of Rs.)
“The book is accurate and well-informed, but the opinions conventional, and mostly inclining towards the ‘oligarchic’ principles ridiculed by Disraeli in his early days.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 476. O. 20. 450w.
“Mr. Leacock is broad in his grasp and suggestive in his criticism.”
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Ind. 61: 256. Ag. 2, ’06. 120w.
“His work as a whole is clear-cut, well written, logically arranged, and convincing.”
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Outlook. 83: 765. Jl. 28, ’06. 320w.
“A useful textbook of the subject, brought well up-to-date.”
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R. of Rs. 34: 253. Ag. ’06. 100w.
“On the whole a fair and impartial spirit pervades the book. The most serious defect of the book is due, not to the author, but to the nature of the subject. The task of condensing 203into a single small book an amount of material that would make several quarto volumes look respectably corpulent is not an easy one. The result, of necessity, is of the condensed-food variety. It is almost too strong to be taken clear by the young student of political science, but will make an excellent diet when properly diluted with class-room discussion.” Edward E. Hill.
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School R. 14: 770. D. ’06. 650w.
Learned, Ellin Craven (Mrs. Frank Learned) (Priscilla Wakefield, pseud.). Etiquette of New York to-day. **$1.25. Stokes.
Mrs. Learned writes with authority from experience gained thru connection with the best society and from an instinctive sense of courtesy inherited from generations of culture. Invitations, and answers, formal and informal dinners, luncheons, teas and parties, cotillions, dinner dances, theatre parties, the table and its appointments, visiting and the use of cards and wedding preparations, are among the topics discussed.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 865. D. 15, ’06. 390w.
Le Braz, Anatole. Land of pardons; tr. by Francis M. Gostling. *$2. Macmillan.
A translation of the 1900 edition of this work. “The book was a collection of hitherto unprinted legends of the early Breton saints supplemented by sympathetic descriptions of the modern ceremonies in their honor (known as ‘pardons’) which are the last vestiges of the ancient ‘Feasts of the dead.’” (Nation.)
“We can well sympathize with the translator’s desire to linger over its pages as a labour of love, and we hope that a speedy call for a second edition will give her an opportunity of careful revision.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 636. My. 26. 250w.
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Ind. 61: 1398. D. 13, ’06. 290w.
“Into its dreamy heart we are taken by the author of this charming book and by his sympathetic translator, whose labour has been one of love, and therefore of success.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 248. Jl. 13, ’06. 1390w.
“The translator has performed her task well, but no translation could hope to render the strange, melancholy charm of M. Le Braz’s lyric prose.”
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Nation. 83: 284. O. 4, ’06. 120w.
“Only a journalist could put his reader so immediately into the inner heart of things, only a seasoned traveler would so unconsciously leave out all the mere husks, and only a poet could write about it all with such fascination.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 653. O. 6, ’06. 660w.
“His style has that delicacy and dramatic point which are a source of pleasure in the best French writers.”
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Outlook. 84: 429. O. 20, ’06. 160w.
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R. of Rs. 34: 753. D. ’06. 80w.
“Apart from its interest as a full revelation of the religious life of France, it is of great sociological value.”
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Spec. 97: sup. 764. N. 17, ’06. 420w.
Lee, Jennette Barbour (Perry) (Mrs. Gerald Stanley Lee). Uncle William. †$1. Century.
“Shif’less” Uncle William, sailor and lover of the sea, desired only that he might possess his stretch of shore and his cliff cottage undisturbed. One day to his island off Nova Scotia came an artist to paint his clouds, his sea and even his rude abode. Uncle William houses him, steams his clams, fathers him; and a half year later when word comes from New York that fever has stricken the young painter, Uncle William goes to him and nurses him back to health. There is a sweet Russian girl in the tale, and there is Andy, Uncle William’s crony who maintained that a “a thing o’t to cost more’n the picter of it.” Uncle William sums up his philosophy of faith in mortals in this sentiment; “I’d a heap rather trust ’em and get fooled, than not to trust ’em and hev ’em all right.”
“To my mind, as an antidote for nervous prostration and a general bracer, Uncle William throws the popular Mrs. Wiggs completely in the shade.”
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Critic. 48: 465. My. ’06. 390w.
“It is good to know Uncle William, especially as he, like the book he is in, is short, sweet, and to the point.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 248. Ap. 14, ’06. 310w.
“There is a grace in the making of the story that owes its effect to an unstudied simplicity of style.”
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Outlook. 82: 859. Ap. 14, ’06. 90w.
“The little book with its cheery optimism and with a cameo character-like delineation is a positive joy.”
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World To-Day. 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 70w.
Lee, Vernon, pseud. (Violet Paget). Enchanted woods, and other essays on the genius of places. *$1.50. Lane.
“This is a delightfully restful book.”
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Arena. 35: 332. Mr. ’06. 270w.
Lee, Vernon, pseud. (Violet Paget). Hauntings: fantastic stories. **$1.50. Lane.
A new edition of these four subtly devised ghost stories: Amour dure, Dionea, Oke of Okehurst, and A wicked voice. The first tale is in diary form and tells of the tragic adventures of a German professor in Umbria, the second is the story of a beautiful sea waif who brings ruin to all who cross her path, the third has an English setting but it also has a phantom lover and a family superstition, while the fourth is the story of a musician who hears a voice from the past with disastrous results.
“These four curiously interesting stories have a weird fascination quite unlike any others of their order.”
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Acad. 70: 358. Ap. 14, ’06. 330w.
“We recommend these tales of mystery and romance to those who are a little weary of the analytical and impressionist method, and who crave for a beginning and an end and some happenings in a story.”
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Nation. 82: 510. Je. 21, ’06. 250w.
“The ideas upon which they are constructed are fertile and original, and they are, on the whole, artistic productions of uncommon distinction.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 409. Je. 23, ’06. 450w.
“Above all, they are picturesque, drawn with delicate and brilliant touches, and rich in colour and design.”
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Sat. R. 101: 592. My. 12, ’06. 190w.
Spec. 96: 989. Je. 23, ’06. 170w.
Lee, Vernon, pseud. (Violet Paget). Spirit of Rome: leaves from a diary. **$1.50. Lane.
The work of a literary impressionist. These “leaves from a diary” are “the merest shorthand notes of things felt rather than seen in Rome and its ‘dintorni,’ during the transient spring visits of many successive years, by an Englishwoman of keen and rarely cultivated perceptions, who has passed almost her whole life in some part of Italy.” (Atlan.)
“The author has done wisely to give these impressions in their unpolished freshness—unset 204jewels, but masterpieces in little, pictures which for beauty and magic may be likened to Rembrandt etchings.”
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Acad. 69: 1073. O. 14, ’05. 610w.
“Most of the book does not go much beyond what the average sharp journalist has now learned to write, grammar and all.”
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Ath. 1905, 2: 685. N. 18. 180w.
“Contain some of her subtlest and most suggestive word-painting.”
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Atlan. 97: 559. Ap. ’06. 250w.
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Critic. 48: 478. My. ’06. 50w.
“As a matter of fact, a surer grasp of the ‘spirit’ of Rome can be obtained from any guide-book.”
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Lit. D. 32: 623. Ap. 21, ’06. 730w.
“Admirers of her work, so sumptuous and exquisite in its texture, must resent being offered a meagre scrap-book of this kind.”
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Lond. Times. 4: 339. O. 13, ’05. 330w.
“It is a pity that the book has been given to the public without eliminating all that is purposeless and inadequate.”
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Nation. 82: 309. Ap. 12, ’06. 400w.
“The book is not confined to facts. It is the interpretation thereof which we find and which counts.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 217. Ap. 7, ’06. 450w.
“Valuable little volume.”
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Outlook. 83: 674. Jl. 21, ’06. 380w.
“Hangers-on of the pre-Raphaelites in the ’seventies might have pretended to care for such stuff: it will interest no human being now alive.”
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Sat. R. 101: 466. Ap. 14, ’06. 370w.
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Spec. 96: sup. 1016. Je. 30, ’06. 220w.
Leech, John. Pictures of life and character. $1.50. Putnam.
“It is a book full of enjoyment.”
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Critic. 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 60w.
Lees, Rev. G. Robinson. Village life in Palestine, $1.25. Longmans.
A new edition of a book that “endeavors, by means of a series of simple but intimate studies of the peasants or Fellaheen of the villages of Palestine, to put a little life and reality into people’s conceptions of the scenes and incidents of Old and New Testament story.” (Spec.)
“Dr. Lees’ book is one of more than common interest, and should appeal to Bible students in general.”
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Pub. Opin. 39: 283. Ag. 26, ’05. 60w.
“The book is full of information and instruction.”
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Spec. 96: 227. F. 10, ’06. 80w.
Le Gallienne, Richard. Painted shadows. †$1.50. Little.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 256. Ap. 21, ’06. 500w.
Legg, Leopold George Wickham, ed. Select documents illustrative of the history of the French revolution and the constituent assembly. 2v. *$4. Oxford.
“His work, full of interest and research, must rank among standard books of reference. The arrangement of material, the index, and the notes are all that can be desired.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 261. Mr. 3. 1130w.
“Mr. Wickham Legge has done good service in editing with conspicuous care this collection of documents.” J. Holland Rose.
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Eng. Hist. R. 21: 175. Ja. ’06. 850w.
Legge, Arthur E. J. The ford. †$1.50. Lane.
“In execution, if not perhaps in conception, this novel is decidedly above the average.”
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Ath. 1906. 1: 42. Ja. 13. 110w.
“The book is simple and genuine, and its style has the touch of poetic distinction.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 40: 154. Mr. 1, ’06. 160w.
Leigh, Oliver. Edgar Allan Poe: the man, the master, the martyr. $1.25. Morris.
This minute study of the various portraits of Poe, as illustrated by Mr. Leigh’s own drawings, brings out the various phases of his character. A transposable face forms the frontispiece, then follow the wedding year portrait, the profile study, the widower year portrait and his monument. There are also besides a discussion of his troubles and his triumphs, critical notes upon his poetical work and methods.
“As a self-constituted authority on the subject he is naturally very severe with every one else who has ever written about it.”
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Nation. 83: 231. S. 13, ’06. 450w.
Lepicier, Fr. Alexius M. Unseen world: an exposition of Catholic theology in its relation to modern spiritism. *$1.60. Benziger.
To answer the claims of spiritism that profess ability to communicate with the outer world, Father Lépicier “sets forth, besides the teaching of the Church on the existence and nature of the angels, all the scholastic speculative conclusions concerning the nature of the angelic mind, the manner in which it acquires knowledge, the extent of that knowledge, the limitations of the angels’ power over things of the material cosmos, etc., etc. He then proceeds to unfold a quantity of similar information concerning the conditions in which the human soul finds itself with regard to the exercise of its facilities after death.” (Cath. World.)
Cath. World. 83: 269. My. ’06. 500w.
Le Roy, James A. Philippine life in town, and country. **$1.20. Putnam.
“A very sympathetic account of the life of the natives which is singularly free from prejudice.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 421. Mr. ’06. 290w.
“Differs in style from other volumes of the series, and has many advantages over the vast number of books upon the Philippines which have appeared in the English language since 1898.”
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Dial. 40: 198. Mr. 16, ’06. 200w.
“The index is most unworthy a volume like this and is not in any way indicative of the nuggets contained therein.”
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Ind. 60: 571. Mr. 8, ’06. 1010w.
“This sinking of the speculative beneath the objective has peculiar value for readers with all shades of preconceptions, the more as almost, if not quite, without exception the observations are accurately made and always temperately expressed.”
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Nation. 82: 305. Ap. 12, ’06. 1680w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 111. F. 24, ’06. 120w.
“We may give our testimony to the interest of the book, and to the large and tolerant spirit in which it is written.”
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Spec. 96: 760. My. 12, ’06. 80w.
“To those who are planning to go to the Philippines to engage in some branch of the public service, this little book should be indispensable.”
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Yale R. 14: 445. F. ’06. 90w.
Leroy-Beaulieu, Pierre Paul. United States in the twentieth century. **$2. Funk.
The author of this work comes of a family of thinkers and writers, being the son of Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, and nephew of Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu. The work is a review from the study of American documents of the economic resources of the United States at the beginning of 205the twentieth century. The work is treated under four heads: pt. I. The country and the people; pt. II, Rural America; pt. III, Industrial America; pt. IV. Commercial America.
“It is not too much to say that this is one of the three or four most important books yet written by Europeans to give to fellow-citizens an idea of the United States and its possibilities.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 422. Mr. ’06. 430w.
“That he is a foreigner who sees us at a peculiar angle and from a view-point different from our own, only augments the interest with which he invests his volume.” Winthrop More Daniels.
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Atlan. 97: 849. Je. ’06. 330w.
“When he ventures, as he occasionally does, a criticism, he offers it in so friendly a spirit, and gives so many solid reasons for his opinion, that not even prejudice itself could find cause for resentment. Exceedingly able and instructive work.”
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Cath. World. 84: 107. O. ’06. 1460w.
“M. Leroy-Beaulieu does not go behind the figures of the last census and his analysis is no more profound than that heard in a smoking-room after dinner.”
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Critic. 49: 94. Jl. ’06. 240w.
“The translation seems to have been well made, and though essentially statistical, the book as a whole may prove interesting to many who are not statistically inclined.”
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Engin. N. 55: 318. Mr. 15, ’06. 270w.
“It is not written in so interesting a style as Bryce’s ‘American commonwealth,’ and is more exclusively devoted to the commercial and industrial development of the United States, but is valuable as a competent and thoro discussion of our progress and problems from the impartial standpoint of a foreign statistician.”
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Ind. 61: 1171. N. 15, ’06. 80w.
“Exhaustive examination of the resources and possibilities of the United States. What gives his book its greatest worth, besides making it extremely easy reading, is the deftness with which Mr. Leroy-Beaulieu has combined the proverbial Gallican weakness for generalization with an un-Gallican appreciation of the value of facts and figures.”
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Lit. D. 31: 999. D. 30, ’05. 850w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 28. Ja. 13, ’06. 270w.
“He writes less as a critic than as an expositor.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 65. F. 3, ’06. 1030w.
“Carefully and admirably translated.”
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Outlook. 82: 277. F. 3, ’06. 420w.
“Is valuable not only in itself, but as a basis for other studies. Great credit is due Mr. Bruce, for the care with which he has made the translation and for his excellent rendering of French idioms into good English.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 188. F. 10, ’06. 310w.
“What is perhaps the most noteworthy work on the United States since the publication of Bryce’s ‘American commonwealth.’”
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R. of Rs. 33: 254. F. ’06. 190w.
Lessons of the King made plain to His little ones by a religious of the society of the Holy Child Jesus. Benziger.
Many of the lessons taught by Jesus while on earth are here repeated and explained in a simple fashion that will instruct and interest children of the Roman Catholic faith.
Lester, John C., and Wilson, Daniel Love. Ku Klux Klan, its origin, growth and disbandment. $1.50. Neale.
The main portion of the book is a reprint of an account of the origin and growth of this great order of Reconstruction days, first privately printed twenty-one years ago. Mr. Walter L. Fleming has contributed an introduction giving side-light information on the Klan and kindred organizations. There are appendices containing the constitution and specimens of orders and warnings issued by the Klan.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 748. Ap. ’06. 60w.
“The book is undoubtedly one of great interest.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 90. F. 10, ’06. 560w.
LeStrange, Guy. Lands of the eastern Caliphate, Mesopotamia, Persia and Central Asia, from the Moslem conquest to the time of Timur. *$4. Macmillan.
“It contains much information of value to the student of civilization.”
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 462. Ja. ’06. 50w.
“In spite of the immense number of facts which it contains, is not merely a work of reference, but also deserves to be read for its own sake.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 729. Je. 16. 300w.
“But it is as difficult to find blemishes as it is easy to discover merits in a book of which the usefulness to students will be felt not in one but in many fields of research.” C. R. Beazley.
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Eng. Hist. R. 21: 561. Jl. ’06. 580w.
Levasseur, Pierre Emile. Elements of political economy; tr. by Theodore Marburg. *$1.75. Macmillan.
“In spite of additions and changes made by the translator, it is, however, essentially a foreign work. It is therefore doubtful whether the book will prove available for use in American colleges.”
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Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 567. S. ’06. 190w.
Lewis, Alfred Henry (Dan Quin, pseud.). Story of Paul Jones. †$1.50. Dillingham.
The author of “The Wolfville stories” writes a stirring tale based upon the true facts of Paul Jones’ life from his boyhood in Scotland to his death in France. The main stress of the narrative which assumes the form of an historical romance is placed upon the naval hero’s service to the American colonies during the Revolutionary war.
“From first to last his book is quick with action, is enlivened by dialogue in which the atmosphere of the period is preserved, and is written in a vigorous, pleasing vein.”
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Outlook. 83: 482. Je. 23, ’06. 140w.
Lewis, Alfred Henry (Dan Quin, pseud.). Sunset trail. †$1.50. Barnes.
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Ind. 59: 1540. D. 28, ’05. 180w.
“Repulsive and dreary as is this picture of primitive Western life, there is much that is picturesque and entertaining, and of the two kinds of American novel the Western adventurous is decidedly preferable to the Eastern ‘cultured’ kind.”
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Sat. R. 101: 761. Je. 16, ’06. 160w.
Lewis, Alfred Henry (Dan Quin, pseud.). Throwback; a romance of the Southwest. $1.50. Outing pub.
The hero of this story “is a tremendously irresistible son and heir of an aristocratic Maryland family, who by some stroke of atavism is a reproduction of the fierce founder of the house. He turns a buffalo hunter in the Panhandle district and by his adventures meets all the requirements for a big, hearty dare-devil who can shoot buffalo, kill Indians, find treasures, and win the hand of a somewhat indistinctly drawn heroine. It is a ‘rattling’ story and doubtless portrays with literary impressionism the life of the old days in the great Southwest before the buffalo had disappeared and wire fences had turned cowboys into herdsmen.” (World To-Day.)
206“Mr. Lewis’s tale is an odd compound of silliness and brutality.”
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Critic. 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 100w.
“Mr. Lewis has tamed his usual picturesque Wolfville language, but he has left enough of it to add spice, and he has introduced some very engaging humorous personages.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 254. Ap. 21, ’06. 630w.
“It is a little more melodramatic than [‘The Virginian’] and does not carry with it quite the same conviction, but it is capital reading.”
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World To-Day. 11: 765. Jl. ’06. 140w.
Libbey, William, and Hoskins, Franklin E. Jordan valley and Petra. **$6. Putnam.
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Ath. 1906, 1: 418. Ap. 7. 670w.
“The volumes are a most important addition to the geography of the east Jordan and Petra regions of Palestine.” H. L. W.
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Bib. World. 28: 287. O. ’06. 500w.
“Conveys much valuable information for all, from the Bible student to the mere sportsman, with genial humor sprinkled thruout the pages.”
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Ind. 60: 1160. My. 17, ’06. 540w.
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Spec. 96: sup. 122. Ja. 27, ’06. 370w.
Liber, Maurice. Rashi; tr. from the French by Adele Szold. $1. Jewish pub.
Although a fitting testimony to the interest expressed in the recent eight hundredth anniversary of the death of Rabbi Rashi, this work is not a product of circumstances. It is designed to take its place as the second volume in the “Biographies of Jewish worthies” series of which “Maimonides” was the first. “Jewish history may include minds more brilliant and works more original than Rashi’s. But it is incontestable that he is one of those historical personages who afford a double interest; his own personality is striking and at the same time he is the representative of a civilization and of a period.... Rashi forms, so to say, an organic part of Jewish history.”
R. of Rs. 33: 764. Je. ’06. 70w.
Liljencrantz, Ottilie Adelina. Randvar, the songsmith: a romance of Norumbega. †$1.50. Harper.
In the days when the Norsemen held their fabled sway in the new world, Randvar, the songsmith, son of Rolf the Viking and Freya, King Hildebrand’s daughter, came to love the proud sister of the jarl with the blood red hair. The story of his love is a story of arms and adventure and thru it runs the mystic legend of the were-wolf. In the end the old round tower, which Randvar’s father built for Freya, claims another royal bride thru whom, and his own valor, Freya’s son comes to his own estate.
“Is not appreciably better or worse than the same author’s earlier volumes.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
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Bookm. 23: 285. My. ’06. 160w.
“It is a pretty story that Miss Liljencrantz has told, and it has many elements of popularity.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 40: 366. Je. 1, ’06. 220w.
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Harper’s Weekly. 50: 417. Mr. 24, ’06. 680w.
“Miss Liljencrantz lacks the skill and the power to weave these things into a compelling story, as she lacks also the power to breathe life into the words of her puppets. ‘Randvar the songsmith’ is an unrealized ambition.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 112. F. 24, ’06. 350w.
“The story is well told and as a pure romance, is well worth reading.”
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Outlook. 82: 571. Mr. ’06. 100w.
Lillibridge, William Otis. Ben Blair: the story of a plainsman. †$1.50. McClurg.
“An uneven book, which has some chapters of refreshing strength.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
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Bookm. 22: 634. F. ’06. 270w.
“Will at least hold the reader’s attention, tho at the end he may realize that the book has a touch of the dime novel.”
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Ind. 60: 518. Mr. 1, ’06. 160w.
Lincoln, Abraham. Complete works of Abraham Lincoln. 12v. ea. $3.75. Tandy.
“Some dozen years ago appeared ‘The complete works of Lincoln,’ edited by John G. Nicolay and John Hay, and published by the Century company. A new edition is now brought out by the Francis D. Tandy company ... in which are included ‘nearly 20 per cent. more of Lincoln’s own writings, culled from numerous public and private collections,’ with explanatory notes to make the significance of the text clear, and with a series of ‘introductions,’ articles by prominent writers—Greeley, Sumner, Bancroft, Beecher, Roosevelt, Gilder, and others.”—N. Y. Times.
“Enough that is new is brought together in this edition to make it necessary for every large library to purchase it for students of Lincoln and his times.” Charles H. Cooper.
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Dial. 41: 84. Ag. 16, ’06. 1190w. (Review of v. 1–6.)
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Dial. 41: 329. N. 16, ’06. 160w. (Review of v. 7–10.)
“A commendable work has been done in collecting these thousands of scattered bits.”
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Ind. 60: 1105. My. 10, ’06. 140w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
“The best edition of the complete works of Abraham Lincoln for a library is that edited by John E. Nicolay and John Hay.”
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Ind. 61: 943. O. 18, ’06. 90w. (Review of v. 7–10.)
Ind. 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 20w.
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Nation. 82: 177. Mr. 1, ’06. 190w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The portraits continue to present an interesting variety.”
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Nation. 82: 365. My. 3, ’06. 30w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
Nation. 83: 11. Jl. 5, ’06. 70w. (Review of v. 5 and 6.)
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Nation. 83: 347. O. 25, ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 7–10.)
Reviewed by Edward Cary.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 125. Mr. 3, ’06. 1140w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
N. Y. Times. 11: 415. Je. 23, ’06. 140w. (Review of v. 5–6.)
Lincoln, Charles Z. Constitutional history of New York from the beginning of the colonial period to the year 1905, showing the origin, development, and judicial construction of the constitution. 5v. $15. Lawyers’ co-op.
“We can best give an idea of what the book is by saying that it is arranged both historically and by topics. As a whole, it is the history of the constitution of New York traced from its earliest sources in Magna charta and the ‘Charter of liberties’ down to its present form, accompanied by explanations of the political and social changes underlying its development. But, being arranged also by subjects and having a whole volume of tables and indices, it is easy to find either the chronology and rationale of any particular topic ... or what is often of quite as much importance, the part played in the development of the Constitution by any particular person.”—Nation.
207“Not only a monument of industry and research, but a useful historical and legal compilation as well. The author is well qualified for his task.”
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Nation. 83: 129. Ag. 9, ’06. 570w.
“No effort is made to attract ‘the mind that requires to be tempted to the study of truth.’ The work is not cast in literary form. It can not be read through. The highest praise that can be given to it, the criticism that would gratify the author most highly, is to say that no one seeking any information about the Constitutions of the state of New York is likely to consult these volumes in vain.” Robert Livingston Schuyler.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 562. S. 15, ’06. 1890w.
Lincoln, Mrs. Jeanie Lincoln Gould. Javelin of fate. †$1.25. Houghton.
A love story of Civil war times with the “main action centering in that hot-bed of rebellion, Baltimore.... For years she escapes the Nemesis of fate, but throughout her brilliant career there is one motive behind her social activities and political intrigues—the wish to punish the man who spoiled her youth and robbed her of the capacity for happiness. At last her opportunity arrives, but old instincts and old affections assert themselves. She forgives the man and goes to find her child. Then the javelin strikes her. This is the main thread of the narrative, which is skilfully interwoven with others less sombre.” (Dial.) “It is only a very distant echo of the war that sounds in Mrs. Lincoln’s story. It is mostly the women’s side of the fray.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Is distinguished from the mass of current fiction by the technical skill with which it presents a plot that has in itself real movement and vitality.”
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Dial. 40: 18. Ja. 1, ’06. 160w.
“The best that can be said of ‘A javelin of fate’ is that it contains all the materials of a good story, but they have not been well put together.”
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N. Y. Times. 10: 877. D. 9, ’05. 380w.
Lincoln, Joseph Crosby (Joe Lincoln, pseud.). Mr. Pratt. †$1.50. Barnes.
“There is much rustic humor in this tale by the author of ‘Cap’n Eri,’ and Mr. Pratt is a continuation of the former country philosopher. That two tired young stock-brokers should elect to follow the rules of the ‘Natural life’ as laid down in a popular book is not so incongruous as it might have seemed a few years ago. Mr. Pratt is engaged as their factotum, and relates their adventures with much shrewd comment.” (Outlook.) “Whimsical medley of the ‘simple’ and ‘complex’ life.” (Lit. D.)
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Critic. 49: 286. S. ’06. 60w.
“Mr. Lincoln is particularly enjoyable in ‘Mr. Pratt’ which, altho evolved from sundry independent short stories, is as coherent and readable as could be wished.”
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Lit. D. 33: 124. Jl. 28, ’06. 640w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 40w.
“The story is absurd, but it is meant to be; it serves its purpose as a diversion, a gentle satire upon a recent popular fad.”
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Outlook. 83: 529. Je. 30, ’06. 100w.
Lincoln and Douglas debates; ed. by Archibald Lewis Bouton. *60c. Holt.
“The book is well edited and gives a good idea of the matter.” E. E. H., jr.
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Bookm. 22: 529. Ja. ’06. 370w.
Dial. 39: 449. D. 16, ’05. 40w.
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Lindsay, Charles Harcourt Ainslee Forbes (Charles Harcourt, pseud.). Panama: the isthmus and the canal. **$1. Winston.
“Mr. Forbes-Lindsay has done a service in bringing together in one small volume a large amount of material hitherto scattered through the American public documents and French company reports. He begins with the romantic history of the Isthmus when the city of Panama was one of the richest and most luxurious cities of the New World.... Gives some interesting figures in regard to the operations of the De Lesseps company and traces the history of the canal under the receivership, the New canal company, and the present commission. An appendix contains an abstract of the Government report on the great canals of the world. There is a good map and profile of the canal as authorized by Congress, and a number of half-tones of Panama scenes.”—Nation.
“He has not shown any skill in arranging his material. The volume contains many repetitions, not a few contradictions, and is generally incoherent.”
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Nation. 83: 172. Ag. 23, ’06. 640w.
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Lindsay, Thomas Martin. History of the Reformation, v. 1, The reformation in Germany from its beginning to the religious peace of Augsburg. **$2.50. Scribner.
More than a compilation. Dr. Lindsay “has brought out the full significance of the movement with which he deals by treating it, as it must be treated, in its social environment, complicated as it was by the political and economic conditions of the time, as the gradual outcome of a slow, unconscious process.”—Int. J. Ethics.
“It is not a great book and has not the grip of Creighton nor the ease of Mr. Armstrong, but it is useful, and will be to many Englishmen an excellent substitute for Köstlin and D’Aubigné.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 471. O. 20. 1070w. (Review of v. 1.)
“A valuable and comprehensive treatment of the first period of the Reformation.”
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Bib. World. 28: 80. Jl. ’06. 10w.
“As a summary of the sources, manner and result of the Reformation, at once succinct and adequate, this work is quite first rate.” M. A. Hamilton.
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Int. J. Ethics. 17: 140. O. ’06. 1140w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The work has many merits, but in our opinion its most distinctive feature is the careful analysis of social and religious life in Germany on the eve of the Protestant revolt. On the strength of first-hand knowledge, excellent arrangement, and thoughtfulness, this book deserves the most respectful attention. It is well adapted for use in the senior grades of university teaching.”
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Nation. 83: 351. O. 25, ’06. 900w. (Review of v. 1.)
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Outlook. 83: 91. My. 12, ’06. 250w. (Review of v. 1.)
Linville, Henry R., and Kelly, Henry A. Text-book in general zoology. *$1.50. Ginn.
A text-book for the educational public with suggestions for laboratory work. The volume is intended for high-school or elementary college classes and the inductive method is used with each class and phylum of invertebrate animals. In the first chapter after the remainder of the Arthropoda are described the other invertebrate phyla follow in a descending series, ending with Protozoa. Then, beginning with the fishes, the order ascends to the mammals and closes with man. There are 233 illustrations.
208“It has many original points, and deserves recommendation as one of the very best books yet published in this line. Every high school and biological laboratory should have reference copies, even tho some other book is already adopted as the regular text-book in zoology.”
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Ind. 61: 260. Ag. 2, ’06. 70w.
Lippincott, Mrs. Sara Jane (Clarke) (Grace Greenwood, pseud.). Stories from famous ballads; ed. by Caroline Burnite; with il. by Edmund H. Garrett. *50c. Ginn.
“These stories are reprinted in the hope that girls may appreciate the simplicity and beauty of them and thereby may be led to read the romantic ballads in their original poetic form.”
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Ind. 61: 1407. D. 13, ’06. 40w.
“The stories tell, in a style of remarkable simplicity and beauty, of ... famous old ballads.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 60w.
Lippmann, Friedrich. Engraving and etching: a handbook for the use of students and print collectors. 3d ed. rev. by Dr. Max Lehrs; tr. by Martin Hardie; with 131 il. *$3. Scribner.
Dr. Lehrs has made revisions in keeping with the last century’s results in modern research, especially along the lines of steel engraving, lithography and the modern mechanical processes which have caused a revolution in reproductive arts.
“Is not only comprehensive, but so well written that we scarcely appreciate, as we read, the industry and learning necessary for such a task. The chapter on engraving in England is very brief, and not up to the standard of the rest of the work.”
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Acad. 71: 499. N. 17, ’06. 1130w.
“Though the version, on the whole, is spirited and readable, we have noticed several passages in which the sense of the original has been missed. In technical matters, however, which set most pitfalls for the translator of such a handbook, Mr. Hardie’s knowledge has enabled him to walk warily.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 279. S. 8. 130w.
“The book as it now stands is a fairly complete account of engraving and etching up to the beginning of the nineteenth century.”
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Int. Studio. 30: 90. N. ’06. 130w.
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Int. Studio. 30: sup. 26. N. ’06. 240w.
“No writer on the subject has so perfectly combined minute historical accuracy with a sober and just taste.”
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Nation. 83: 358. O. 25, ’06. 200w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 836. D. 1, ’06. 220w.
“Another indispensable book.”
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Outlook. 84: 705. N. 24, ’06. 80w.
Lipsett, Ella Partridge. Summer in the Apple Tree inn; il. by Mary Wellman. †$1.25. Holt.
Apple Tree inn is a charming play house which a kind Aunt Margaret had made ready for her group of young visitors. A clever Japanese youth is the central spirit of all the good times, entertaining his young charges with Japanese legends, giving motive and setting to their games, and incidentally teaching the children gentle manners and good morals.
“A pleasing story for children.”
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Critic. 48: 572. Je. ’06. 280w.
Outlook. 82: 1006. Ap. 28, ’06. 60w.
Liquor problem. **$1. Houghton.
“The committee, by publishing the results of their study in a single volume, will gain access to a far wider audience, and will thus induce many more persons to go more deeply into the evidence by turning back to the earlier special reports for more prolonged study. No more sane, balanced and convincing statement of the problem has been made.” C. R. Henderson.
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Am. J. Soc. 11: 578. Ja. ’06. 320w.
“The pseudo-scientific character of so-called temperance instruction in the public schools is unmasked. The remedial aspect of the matter is treated with breadth and sanity.” Winthrop More Daniels.
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Atlan. 97: 843. Je. ’06. 280w.
“While it will undoubtedly prove useful, it should not take the place of the larger books as a source of information.”
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Dial. 40: 203. Mr. 16, ’06. 90w.
Little, Alicia Bewicke. (Mrs. Archibald John Little). Round about my Peking garden. **$5. Lippincott.
“In her knowledge of the real China, Mrs. Archibald Little admittedly stands unrivalled among living European women.... She has ... genuine love and sympathy for China and its people—a trait which, it is perhaps unnecessary to say, is not universal among European residents in the country. ‘Round about my Peking garden’ may be described as a collection of sketches of North China.... By way of the Peking palaces, temples, etc., Mrs. Little takes us to the Ming tombs, the Western tombs, the Mongolian Grass Land, the seaside resorts near Peking, and even to Port Arthur. This is the geographical distribution ... of the sketches. With regard to time, they all appear to be dated about the period of the last occupation of Peking by the allied troops.... It is copiously illustrated from photographs.”—Ath.
“Mrs. Little’s manner of writing is generally pleasant. She has a genuine instinct for description, and excels therein. She is apt to mar her picturesque passages by a tendency to moralizing and emotional apostrophe.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 14. Ja. 6. 890w.
“Altogether the book is to be commended quite without qualification.”
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Critic. 48: 478. My. ’06. 160w.
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Nation. 82: 145. F. 15, ’06. 660w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 28. Ja. 13, ’06. 510w.
“‘Gush’ is the prevailing note, and Mrs. Little should not be regarded as a trustworthy guide.”
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Sat. R. 101: 242. F. 24, ’06. 800w.
Little, Archibald John. Far East. *$2. Oxford.
“It is hardly a book for the average reader, but rather for the scientific traveller, who takes careful notes by the way.”
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Bookm. 23: 339. My. ’06. 320w.
“Trustworthy in its general physiographic statements and so rich in maps, sketches, and diagrams, and all well indexed.”
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Critic. 48: 287. Mr. ’06. 180w.
Little, Frances. Lady of the decoration. †$1. Century.
With an unhappy married life behind her, a young Kentucky widow who had never missed a Derby since she was old enough to know a bay from a sorrel suddenly accepts an offer to go to Japan and teach in a mission school. Her letters home make the story, whose chief interest centers in a romance that grows out of her love for the man who she had supposed was lost to her. There are bits of Japanese life given with sprightly touches.
“Contains an odd mixture of fact, fun, opinions, vivid impressions, and sentiment. Unfortunately the sentiment is very much overdone, but the book is fresh and unconventional and well worth reading.”
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Acad. 70: 480. My. 19, ’06. 260w.
209“The descriptive portions of the book produce on the whole a strong effect of reality.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 510. Ap. 28. 130w.
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
Bookm. 23: 417. Je. ’06. 170w.
“It has somewhat of the thing that gave the ‘Saxe-Holm’ stories their success a generation ago; that popularized the first novel or two of the late Maria Louise Pool; that on a higher literary plane, gave the work of the Brontës its lasting value.”
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Critic. 49: 119. Ag. ’06. 490w.
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Nation. 82: 434. My. 24, ’06. 420w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 360. Je. 2, ’06. 330w.
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Outlook. 83: 285. Je. 2, ’06. 180w.
“A bright story about equally compounded of humor, philosophy, description and love.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 639. My. 19, ’06. 20w.
“A piece of rather tiresome gush.”
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Sat. R. 101: 625. My. 19, ’06. 80w.
“The reader would generally be very grateful if the book had been so planned as to give a little more fact and a little less sentimental reflection.”
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Spec. 96: 676. Ap. 28, ’06. 390w.
Livingston, Luther Samuel. Auction prices of books. 4v. *$40. Dodd.
“Mr. Livingston’s concluding volume is the most important of all.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 295. Mr. 10. 1040w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
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Outlook. 83: 812. Ag. 4, ’06. 870w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
Spec. 96: 188. F. 3, ’06. 100w. (Review of v. 4.)
Lloyd, Henry Demarest. Man, the social creator. **$2. Doubleday.
“A collection of addresses delivered by the late Henry D. Lloyd during the ten years preceding his death, and now brought together in a volume.... The main thesis of the present book is indicated by the title, namely, that man is creating, out of the divine potentialities of his own nature, the social life and institutions which are, for a large body of thinkers to-day, the ‘Kingdom of Heaven’ upon earth. The book is also understood to embody the author’s religious beliefs.... Everywhere we find optimism—evil interpreted as good in the making, and the future heralded as a mighty advance upon the present.”—Dial.
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Dial. 41: 43. Jl. 16, ’06. 210w.
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Ind. 61: 699. S. 20, ’06. 360w.
Lit. D. 32: 838. Je. 2, ’06. 1010w.
“The strength of this book is in its affirmations; its weakness is in its denials. When it is specific it is persuasive; when it deals with generalizations it invites doubt if not actual contradiction.”
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Outlook. 83: 863. Ag. 11, ’06. 390w.
R. of Rs. 34: 382. S. ’06. 100w.
Lloyd, Nelson (McAllister). Mrs. Radigan: her biography, with that of Miss Pearl Veal and the memoirs of J. Madison Mudison. †$1. Scribner.
“‘Mrs. Radigan’ is another book exposing New York society, but in so jocose and headlong a way as not to make much impression until one pauses to reflect how true to life and perspicacious Mr. Lloyd has been.” G. W. A.
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Bookm. 23: 108. Mr. ’06. 260w.
Lloyd, Nelson (McAllister). Six Stars; stories. †$1.50. Scribner.
Six Stars is a little village hidden away in a Pennsylvania mountain valley. The stories are pitched in the quiet monotonous key which the valley-folk sound in their uneventful lives. “There are some passages of serious feeling and indications of currents of passion, but in the main the tales are gently humorous, with a taste of dialect but without its abuse, and with a true perception of what is interesting and worth recording in the lives of simple people.” (Outlook.)
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Critic. 48: 572. Je. ’06. 100w.
“Is a book to read aloud, if you can for laughter, to some appreciative listener; it is one of the pleasures that are increased by dividing. The book is homey and wholesome as a red-clover field in full bloom, and is just the sort of literature that the nerve-weary need.”
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Ind. 61: 222. Jl. 26, ’06. 150w.
“Mr. Lloyd’s way with his rustics has an undoubted charm.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 289. My. 5, ’06. 470w.
“A dozen or more admirable short stories.”
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Outlook. 82: 910. Ap. 21, ’06. 110w.
Locke, William John. Beloved vagabond. †$1.50. Lane.
Who he is and what manner of vagabond he is may be gleaned from the following: “One who though a gentleman and a scholar, has become a peripatetic philosopher, a roadside humorist, and the delight of cafés of the Latin quarter.” (Outlook.) He picks up a little boy out of the gutter, adopts him, wanders with him all over Europe for the sake of the child’s education. This is the record of their pilgrimage told by the boy years afterward.
“The book is a little masterpiece, possessed of that exquisite charm and refined simplicity which are connected with French writers of the best period.”
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Acad. 71: 445. N. 3, ’06. 250w.
Reviewed by Amy C. Rich.
Arena. 36: 687. D. ’06. 330w.
“Mr. Locke’s new novel is less a novel than a study in temperament. The tale is picaresque in character, and is maintained with great spirit and gusto.”
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Ath. 1906. 2: 613. N. 17. 270w.
“Mr. Locke should not be judged by his ‘Beloved vagabond’ alone.”
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Nation. 83: 375. N. 1, ’06. 260w.
“As a novel the book is unique in its method and its treatment of the subject, while its intellectual flavor and its large and tolerant presentation of life make it constantly enjoyable from first page to last.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 740. N. 10, ’06. 530w.
“The author shows artistic courage and literary skill in thus following human nature rather than the ordinary conventions of romance and sentiment.”
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Outlook. 84: 580. N. 3, ’06. 130w.
“One may shrink from the realism with which some phases of our delightful vagabond’s life is depicted, but one is fascinated by the overflowing humor of his talk and by the free open-air spirit of the road with which the book is pervaded.”
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Outlook. 84: 711. N. 24, ’06. 180w.
Locke, William John. Morals of Marcus Ordeyne. †$1.50. Lane.
“It is brisk, witty, gay, even, with a minor modulation for relief.” Mary Moss.
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Atlan. 97: 57. Ja. ’06. 400w.
Lodge, George Cabot. Great adventure: sonnets. **$1. Houghton.
A volume of sonnets whose themes are Life, Love and Death. The twenty-five sonnets under the heading “Death” are dedicated to the memory of Trumbull Stickney.
“High praise must be given to the thoughtful and imaginative qualities of Mr. Lodge’s verse.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Nation. 81: 507. D. 21, ’05. 300w.
210“There is dignity and even nobility in many of them and there are occasional lines of great verbal felicity and real power, so that the apparently unnecessary lapses are the more teasing.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 400w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
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North American. 182: 759. My. ’06. 180w.
Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph. Life and matter. **$1. Putnam.
A reply to Professor Haeckel’s “Riddle of the universe,” intended to “act as an antidote against the destructive and speculative portions of Professor Haeckel’s interesting and widely read work.” The author “holds that life belongs to a separate order of existence from the material world, on which it depends for phenomenal manifestation, and on which it reacts according to laws as yet undiscovered, though discoverable.” (Outlook.)
“One could wish that ‘Life and matter’ were somewhat less controversial in form, that it somewhat less obviously grew out of separate articles and addresses, still more could one wish that the discussion were less condensed, for the book is but a little one: one could not ask for a more penetrating criticism of current opinions by a great scientist who is as little given to serving idols of the cave as of the market place.” E. T. Brewster.
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Atlan. 98: 421. S. ’06. 580w.
“Besides fulfilling its immediate object, will serve as a complete reply to Mr. Mallock, and a host of less distinguished thinkers.”
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Cath. World. 83: 393. Je. ’06. 920w.
Critic. 48: 378. Ap. ’06. 160w.
“The main value of the book is, after all, the fact that Professor Haeckel’s theories enable Sir Oliver Lodge to present us with a most interesting study of the relation between life and matter. No higher praise could be given Sir Oliver Lodge’s book than to say that it is a strong assertion of the rights of human experience as against artificial dogma, the product of abstraction.” Charles F. Clogher.
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Hibbert J. 4: 699. Ap. ’06. 3950w.
Lond. Times. 5: 41. F. 9, ’06. 520w.
“The arrangement of the various topics is not always the best possible. Apart from these slight defects the book deserves hearty commendation.”
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Nature. 74: 78. My. 24, ’06. 410w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 862. D. 2, ’05. 300w.
“While Professor Haeckel’s errors are exposed, the solid part of his work receives an extension into a fruitful field of scientific inquiry.”
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Outlook. 81: 941. D. 16, ’05. 110w.
“At present ... it is doubtful whether the great mass of his ‘brother scientists’ will accept him as their spokesman.” Frank Thilly.
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Phys. R. 15: 438. Jl. ’06. 1150w.
“The book is an interesting and well-intended but disappointing attempt to reconcile the categories of exact science and humanistic idealism.” H. Heath Bawden.
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Psychol. Bull. 3: 353. O. 15, ’06. 720w.
R. of Rs. 33: 255. F. ’06. 80w.
“It is needless to say that Sir Oliver Lodge is well worth hearing on such a fascinating subject as the relation of the higher physics to the phenomena of life.”
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Spec. 97: sup. 467. O. 6, ’06. 300w.
Loeb, Jacques. Dynamics of living matter. *$3. Macmillan.
This volume owes its origin to a series of lectures delivered by the author at Columbia university in 1902. It is the purpose of the lectures “to state to what extent we are able to control the phenomena of development, self preservation, and reproduction.” The chapters are as follows: Concerning the general chemistry of life phenomena, The general physical constitution of living matter, On some physical manifestations of life, The role of electrolytes in the formation and preservation of living matter, The effects of heat and radiant energy upon living matter, Heliotropism, Further facts concerning tropisms and related phenomena, Fertilization, Heredity, and On the dynamics of regenerative processes.
“The book is in all respects a worthy member of the ‘Columbia university biological series,’ of which it is the eighth volume. I could not give it higher praise.” E. T. Brewster.
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Atlan. 98: 419. S. ’06. 380w.
“The lectures are readable and instructive, and they are especially commended to the attention of plant physiologists, who are too apt to pass over literature not strictly pertaining to plants.”
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Bot. G. 41: 449. Je. ’06. 270w.
“The present volume, containing a survey of recent work in biology, may be commended, not to the specialist, for he knows of it already, but to the sociologist or the theologian—to any scholar, in fact, who is interested in the fundamental questions of life, and not afraid of meeting many words that he does not know and cannot find in the dictionary.”
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Ind. 61: 752. S. 27, ’06. 600w.
Ind. 61: 1172. N. 15, ’06. 50w.
“Think what we may of such questions of logic, it is undeniable that the book is full of the most instructive and extraordinarily interesting matter, in large part new to all but the most fully informed, which is presented with great perspicuity, and put in as simple a form as possible.”
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Nation. 83: 17. Jl. 5, ’06. 980w.
“We may regard the work as a useful counterblast to those who term themselves neovitalists.”
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Nature. 74: 631. O. 25, ’06. 200w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 181. Mr. 24, ’06. 150w.
R. of Rs. 33: 765. Je. ’06. 210w.
“It is a very interesting book which instructs and at the same time stimulates the reader to independent thinking.” S. J. Meltzer.
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Science, n.s. 24: 145. Ag. 3, ’06. 1290w.
“Is marred by sneers at psychology and metaphysics.”
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World To-Day. 11: 764. Jl. ’06. 260w.
Loeb, Jacques. Studies in general physiology. 2v. *$7.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
“These two volumes of the Decennial series of the University of Chicago, bring together in reprint the list of brilliant contributions which gave to the author his prestige in protoplasmic physiology. They consist of thirty-eight papers, published through various channels and in two languages, between the years 1889 and 1902. These are arranged in the chronological order of their previous publication, beginning with those on tropisms and ending with those on artificial parthenogenesis and on the irritability of muscles.”—Bot. Gaz.
Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
Atlan. 96: 681. N. ’05. 340w.
Reviewed by B. E. Livingston.
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Bot. Gaz. 40: 75. Jl. ’05. 330w.
“The two volumes of papers collected under this title form one of the most interesting and suggestive works that have been published on the subject.”
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Nature. 73: 195. D. 28, ’05. 530w.
“We have here before us the fruit of a most indefatigable and ingenious investigator who has done pioneer work in many fields in biology. These studies will be a source of instruction and stimulation to many an earnest student in general physiology.” S. J. Meltzer.
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Science, n. s. 23: 742. My. 11, ’06. 960w.
211London, Jack. The game. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“Excellent novelette.” Mary Moss.
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Atlan. 97: 49. Ja. ’06. 90w.
London, Jack. Moon face; and other stories. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“The eight stories which comprise this volume exhibit in quite varied fields the dramatic quality and virile powers of expression for which Mr. London is noted.” (Lit. D.) They include besides the title-story; Planchette, The shadow and the flash, Local color, and All Gold canyon.
“They are terse, virile to the verge of brutality, and they grip the mind. The language is fresh and convincing, save for one irritating phrase, ‘what of’, which Mr. London uses very unsuitably.”
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Acad. 71: 399. O. 20, ’06. 200w.
“Not nearly so good as they should be—as they might be, if Mr. London were in less of a hurry.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 477. O. 20. 220w.
“Mr. London, when he errs, does so on the side of flesh; there are moments even in his most powerful work, when one is prompted to say, ‘That is a false note: human nature is nobler than that!’” Frederic Taber Cooper.
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Bookm. 24: 247. N. ’06. 400w.
“But the quality of these stories indicates either a decline in power or disposition to live on the unearned increment of his former reputation, a shocking ethical fault in the apostle of the proletariat.”
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Ind. 61: 698. S. 20, ’06. 130w.
“There is a freshness and originality in these unconventional tales, a sort of primitive vigor and pulsing life, that lift them above the average of the short stories that now have such vogue. Here and there, it is true, his style is disfigured by a grotesque stroke.”
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Lit. D. 33: 474. O. 6, ’06. 260w.
“These stories present Jack London at his shallowest, but by no means at his worst. Everything in them even their brutality, is subordinated to a trivial ingenuity of plot.”
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Nation. 83: 308. O. 11, ’06. 80w.
“Nearly all are below his average level of achievement.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 596. S. 29, ’06. 390w.
“Have all of Mr. London’s recognized vigor and originality.”
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Outlook. 84: 337. O. 6, ’06. 30w.
“Shows here and there the author’s power, but will add nothing to his reputation.”
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World To-Day. 11: 1222. N. ’06. 50w.
London, Jack. Tales of the fish patrol. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“Fairly exciting the stories certainly are.”
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Acad. 70: 287. Mr. 24, ’06. 300w.
“Mr. London’s style has of late shown marked signs of a chastening process. He progresses. This is better work than ‘The game.’”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 229. F. 24. 170w.
“The author seems to know his subject thoroughly, and he can make excellent use of his knowledge.”
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Sat. R. 101: 338. Mr. 17, ’06. 160w.
“All are told with vigour, but they are the kind of tales which any magazine-writer might have written, and admirers of Mr. London’s work must confess to some disappointment.”
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Spec. 97: 98. Jl. 21, ’06. 140w.
London, Jack. War of the classes. **$1.50. Macmillan.
“In short, the book may serve a useful purpose by stimulating thought in readers of independent judgment, but will prove a stumbling block to the unwary.”
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Charities. 15: 403. D. 23, ’05. 1310w.
“The economic reasoning, however, is not clear, and there is little constructive thinking.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
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Dial. 40: 297. My. 1, ’06. 140w.
London, Jack. White Fang. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“In “White Fang” Mr. London reverses the “process of retrogression” of “The call of the wild,” and traces the fortune of a dog which is part wolf to the time of the redeeming of his brute nature. And the transition is not without triumphs for the ugly nature within him. Finally when he merges from his last fight—and there is no more blood-curdling dog-fight in literature—he is rescued by his love-master. By this patient, kind man, his brute nature is redeemed, and for the master he loves he learns to endure the restraints of civilization.” (Dial.)
“The book will be judged inferior to ‘The Call of the Wild’ by sticklers for ‘strong’ endings; nevertheless it will be more enjoyed by the mass of readers.” May Estelle Cook.
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Dial. 41: 389. D. 1, ’06. 400w.
“In workmanship it is as good as anything the author has done in this field, and no one has done better.”
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Ind. 61: 1055. N. 1, ’06. 320w.
“This is the kind of thing Jack London does best.”
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Nation. 83: 440. N. 22, ’06. 390w.
“By far the best thing that has come from his pen since ‘The call of the wild,’ and in some points a better dog story than the latter ever succeeded in seeming to the present writer.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 764. N. 17, ’06. 650w.
“The subject is one which fits the author’s peculiar gifts admirably and gives him full scope.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 797. D. 1, ’06. 170w.
“No stronger piece of work in this field has appeared.”
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Outlook. 84: 710. N. 24, ’06. 170w.
London, Jack, and others. Argonaut stories. 50c. Argonaut pub.
Twenty-two stories contributed by as many writers among whom are Jack London, Frank Norris, Gwendolen Overton, C. W. Doyle, Robert D. Milne and Buckey O’Neill.
Long, Augustus White, ed. American poems, 1776–1900, with notes and biographies. *90c. Am. bk.
“Mr. Long’s book puts in a volume convenient for class work a good selection of American poetry, beginning with Freneau and coming down to the poets of our own day. There are also biographical introductions, a little critical comment, and notes.”—Bookm.
“We do not criticise [the notes] because they explain what is obvious ... but rather because they often do not explain what is not obvious.”
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Bookm. 23: 567. Jl. ’06. 380w.
“Has made his selections with discriminating intelligence.”
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R. of Rs. 34: 124. Jl. ’06. 40w.
Long, John Luther. Heimweh and other stories. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“The book is worth reading though its contents are of unequal value.”
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Spec. 96: 264. F. 17. ’06. 170w.
Long, John Luther. Seffy; a little comedy of country manners. †$1.50. Bobbs.
“All these go to make up a charming book, despite the sordid and rather coarse phases of 212life that are especially emphasized in the early chapters.”
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Arena. 35: 222. F. ’06. 260w.
“A tender little story, exquisitely told, and full of the delicate half-tones of human emotions.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
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Bookm. 22: 634. F. ’06. 140w.
“The story is slight but fairly interesting.”
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Critic. 48: 573. Je. ’06. 70w.
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N. Y. Times. 10: 925. D. 30, ’05. 350w.
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Outlook. 81: 1085. D. 30, ’05. 70w.
“It is a charming story, charmingly written, with just enough romance to save it from the bald monotony of reality and enough reality to prevent it from being hopelessly romantic.”
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Pub. Opin. 39: 859. D. 30, 05. 110w.
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World To-Day. 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 50w.
Long, John Luther. Way of the gods. †$1.50. Macmillan.
In this story of Japan “the little Samurai—a ‘girl-boy’—born to be a gentle poet, is educated and inspired to be a soldier of the Emperor.... Never a warrior in appearance, the spirit and patriotism of the man carries him honorably through two wars. He succumbs to love for a Japanese maiden of lowly birth whom he finds in China. He marries her, and upon that act follow all the tremendous train of suffering and tragedy in which the two loving souls are engulfed.... Mr. Long is able to make us see from the Japanese point of view, and reverence the nobility of the lowly maid who sacrificed all for love and rose to heights of heroism that her beloved Samurai could never attain.”—Outlook.
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Ath. 1906, 1: 791. Je. 30. 180w.
“On close inspection this curious, erratic, exotic bit of fiction offers a better example of this whole matter of pictorial art in novels than any other book of the month.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
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Bookm. 23: 538. Jl. ’06. 740w.
Critic. 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 80w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.
“Perhaps ungrateful to complain very bitterly of mere mannerisms when the matter beneath is altogether admirable.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 451. Jl. 14, ’06. 510w.
“Mr. Long has succeeded in conveying in this romantic yet thoroughly modern story a fine impression of the marvelous persistence of hereditary ideals of honor and sacrifice among the Japanese.”
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Outlook. 83: 244. My. 26, ’06. 190w.
Long, William Joseph. Brier-patch philosophy, by “Peter Rabbit” interpreted by W: J. Long; il. by Charles Copeland. *$1.50. Ginn.
The rabbit’s sunny brier patch to which Mr. Long’s readers are invited is a pleasant place to contemplate “the sweet reasonableness of animal thinking,” and the associated subject of animal psychology. “If you care to follow the rabbit’s trail ... he will take you thru the dead timber of science, thru streets of reason and psychology, thru the open country of instincts and habits and dawning intelligence, to the origin of natural religion and the distant glimpse of immortality in which we are all interested.”
“Mr. Long in this serious piece of work, has made a contribution to animal study that will have permanent influence. It should be said, moreover, that the unusually animated illustrations save the book from being too serious.” May Estelle Cook.
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Dial. 41: 390. D. 1, ’06. 490w.
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Ind. 61: 1057. N. 1, ’06. 220w.
“Plausibility and proof are two very different things, and it is just in the failure to distinguish carefully between them that Mr. Long has always shown himself radically weak.”
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Nation. 83: 448. N. 22, ’06. 450w.
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Outlook. 84: 581. N. 3, ’06. 200w.
Long, William Joseph. Northern trails: stories of animal life in the far north. *$1.50. Ginn.
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Ath. 1905, 2: 863. D. 23. 120w.
“These ‘Northern trails’ lead one through many other evidences of Mr. Long’s ability as a naturalist.” George Gladden.
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Bookm. 23: 89. Mr. ’06. 680w.
“The book would have been much better without the first story—for the plan is not original; it is ‘written down’ and it lacks reality in spite of the author’s efforts. But as for the rest, even Mr. Burroughs will find little in the natural history to object to, and certainly no one can hold out against the story interest of the chapters, nor the grace and charm of the style.” Dallas Lore Sharp.
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Critic. 48: 122. F. ’06. 150w.
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Nature. 73: 177. D. 21, ’05. 170w.
“There is a certain sameness about his work, but we do not think that he has written anything better than ‘Northern trails.’”
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Spec. 95: 1128. D. 30, ’05. 150w.
Long day: a true story of a New York working girl as told by herself. *$1.20. Century.
“This book will do good. It presents a section from the social life of today with pathetic fidelity.”
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Arena. 35: 332. Mr. ’06. 320w.
“There are innumerable flashes of [humor] in ‘The long day.’” Winthrop More Daniels.
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Atlan. 97: 841. Je. ’06. 610w.
“As a human document this is an important piece of work.”
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Critic. 48: 95. Ja. ’06. 380w.
“The writer’s tone, even when there is most provocation to heat, is conspicuously fair and free from hysteria; eminently broad, sane and hopeful is her view. With its disclosures, its suggestions, and its hopes, ‘The long day’ is a book that must and will be read.”
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Nation. 82: 82. Ja. 25, ’06. 940w.
“Few novels have such sheer narrative interest as this book: fewer still combine with such interest so vivid portraiture. The book abounds, too, with descriptive writing of no mean order.”
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Outlook. 82: 805. Ap. 7, ’06. 430w.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Poems; with a biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole. $1.25. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Thin paper poets,” and contains a sketch of Longfellow’s life, notes, and a frontispiece.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Tales of a wayside inn; with an introd. by Nathan Haskell Dole. 35c. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Handy volume classics.”
Loomis, Charles Battell. Minerva’s manoeuvres: the cheerful facts of a “return to nature.” †$1.50. Barnes.
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Bookm. 23: 310. My. ’06. 470w.
Lord, Eliot; Trenor, John J. D.; and Barrows, Samuel June. Italian in America. $1.50. Buck.
“Apart from its value as an important contribution towards a correct statement of the immigration problem, his volume is well worth reading.”
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Cath. World. 82: 839. Mr. ’06. 880w.
Ind. 61: 156. Jl. 19, ’06. 300w.
Lord, Walter Frewen. Mirror of the century. *$1.50. Lane.
Twelve crtical essays each one of which is a study of one of the following nineteenth-century novelists: Trollope, George Eliot, Jane Austen, 213Lytton, Thackeray, Charlotte Brontë, the Kingsleys, Charles Reade, Beaconsfield and W. E. Norris.
“We find it impossible to realize the standard of ideas which makes such a judgment as he sets down possible. On every possible occasion he says the thing that is exactly wrong with a perversity that never deviates into illuminating criticism.”
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Acad. 70: 424. My. 5, ’06. 1210w.
“Mr. Frewen Lord is a clever talker, whose ambition exceeds his industry. As a revelation of temperament the volume is not striking. Is at his best when he has found a quotation upon which to exercise his humor.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 730. Je. 16. 720w.
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Dial. 41: 91. Ag. 16, ’06. 320w.
“The charm of Mr. Lloyd’s book lies in this very novelty of many of its ideas, its piquancy of expression, and its revelation of his own alert and unconventional mind. It is a suggestive and readable book.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 356. Je. 2, ’06. 470w.
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Putnam’s. 1: 252. N. ’06. 190w.
“These criticisms are smartly done, and there is plenty of suggestion in most of them. They are well up to the average papers of the sort. Of the necessity for them in book form we are not so sure.”
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Sat. R. 101: 664. My. 26, ’06. 200w.
“They are eminently readable; they are manifestly the result of very careful work; they are often marked by ingenuity and force. In his ‘Dedicatory letter’ Mr. Lord writes a little wildly.”
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Spec. 96: 794. My. 19, ’06. 470w.
Lorenz, Daniel Edward. Mediterranean traveller. *$2.50. Revell.
“It has many illustrations, but is a heavy and cumbrous volume, decidedly inferior to Baedeker’s in compactness and arrangement.”
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Ind. 60: 871. Ap. 12, ’06,. 50w.
Lorenz, Hans. Modern refrigerating machinery; its construction, methods of working, and industrial applications; a guide for engineers and owners of refrigerating plants. *$4. Wiley.
“This book is based on ‘Neuere kuehlmaschinen’ ... and is systematically arranged in ten chapters, and the matter is treated in a clear and concise manner. Examples are used to demonstrate the application of the rules, and by this method, together with the great number of fine illustrations, even the inexperienced reader can find advice without waste of time. The metric system of weights and measures, as used in the German editions, is converted into the system customary in this country, so that no calculations are necessary.”—Engin. N.
“The success of this book must be attributed to the acknowledged competency of the author as well as to the fact that mathematical treatment is strictly eliminated. The characteristics of Prof. Lorenz’s work ... are impartiality and copiousness of practical information.” J. C. Bertsch.
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Engin. N. 55: 428. Ap. 12, ’06. 3770w.
Lorimer, George Horace. False gods. †$1.25. Appleton.
A reporter’s adventure prompted by a laudable greed for first-hand facts tingles with the excitement of Egyptian mysteries, statues that seem to possess human power, black cats, supposed crime, all animated and controlled by a beautiful woman. That he follows up the wrong train of evidences and makes false steps perturbs his soul but little, and he is soon back “again serving false gods.”
“Simpkins is well characterized and the story is rather clever in its way.”
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Critic. 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 60w.
“We can heartily commend Mr. Lorimer’s book as a stirring story to read at one sitting.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 260. Ap. 21, ’06. 210w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.
Outlook. 83: 91. My. 12. ’06. 110w.
Loring, Andrew, comp, and ed. Rhymer’s lexicon; with an introd. by George Saintsbury. *$2.50. Dutton.
“We commend this volume heartily to those who need such a book, and how innumerable are our poets our daily mail shows.”
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Loti, Pierre, pseud. (Louis Marie Julien Viaud). Disenchanted; tr. by Clara Bell. †$1.50. Macmillan.
Awaking from the ennui and monotony of their surroundings the women of the harem are here portrayed with a thirst for knowledge a desire to let into their life-prisons the breath of a free world without any confining, artificial requirements. “We have no agonizing feeling that we are looking on at a bit of real life torn, raw and bleeding, from actual tragedy. It is sorrow and pain seen through a veiling yashmak, a tragedy in a dream.” (Ind.)
“M. Loti is gently sympathetic, writes charmingly of everything, paints delightful pictures, but suggests no remedy for sufferings.”
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Acad. 71: 421. O. 27, ’06. 140w.
“Altogether ‘Disenchanted’ presents a very new view of the Turkish women.”
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Ind. 61: 757. S. 27, ’06. 650w.
Ind. 61: 1159. N. 15, ’06. 60w.
“The details of the picture are perfectly finished, as we expect of Loti, but there is a deep note of earnestness in his appeal that shows profound emotion.”
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Outlook. 84: 431. O. 20, ’06. 220w.
“This situation M. Loti has developed in a story of rare delicacy and beauty, full of refinement and feeling, and sketched in those sensitive colors, with that extreme sensibility of feeling, which have made him perhaps the foremost of impressionist writers.”
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Outlook. 84: 709. N. 24, ’06. 250w.
Lottridge, Silas A. Animal snap-shots and how made. **$2. Holt.
“No nature book has been written for a long time so comfortable in its general tone as Mr. Lottridge’s.”
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Dial. 40: 94. F. 1, ’06. 350w.
Ind. 60: 804. Ap. 5, ’06. 190w.
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Nation. 83: 151. Ag. 16, ’06. 310w.
“This author is a laureate of the lesser beasts.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 25. Ja. 13, ’06. 410w.
“A practical and convincing manual, easy to be used by any one wishing to follow the guidance of the author.”
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Outlook. 81: 1081. D. 30, ’05. 120w.
Lottridge, Silas A. Familiar wild animals. *60c. Holt.
Sketches and pictures chosen from the author’s “Animal snapshots” to help stimulate school children in the direct observation of outdoor life.
Lounsberry, Alice. Wild flower book for young people. **$1.50. Stokes.
A little girl from the city tells in her own way about the beautiful things which she finds in the country when thru a spring, summer and autumn she wanders among woods, meadows and swamps. The flowers which interest her 214are those common thruout the Northeastern states, and she learns to love them, to call them by name, and hears many interesting stories about them from the friends who roam with her in the haunts of the wild flowers, the butterflies and the birds. There are many illustrations from photographs of flowers and children.
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Ind. 61: 1406. D. 13, ’06. 130w.
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Lit. D. 33: 514. O. 13, ’06. 100w.
“A happy combination of story and botany, illustrated.”
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Nation. 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 20w.
“Will be not only a useful but an entertaining book to put in the hands of any child who loves the out of doors.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 110w.
“Miss Lounsberry is at her best when her method is clear and concise, and her touch is not perfectly adapted to the form she chooses here, although a great deal of interesting and useful information is thus conveyed in simple language.”
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Outlook. 84: 534. O. 27, ’06. 240w.
“Is poorly written. If a book of this kind were as clearly written as Gertrude Smith writes her child fiction it would have, we believe, increased value, for the pages contain many items of information profitable to childhood.”
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R. of Rs. 34: 768. D. ’06. 50w.
Lounsbery, G. Constant. Love’s testament: a sonnet sequence. **$1.25. Lane.
Eleven groups of six sonnets each classified under, love, absence, passion, doubt, philosophy, content, separation, solitude, reconciliation, jealousy and retrospect.
“A few of these sonnets have merit. The pity is that they are submerged beneath a mass of tedious commonplace.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 664. Je. 2. 230w.
“The author knows a great deal about the use of words and the management of the sonnet-form, but of the use of love and the management of life, she seems deplorably ignorant.”
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Critic. 49: 51. Jl. ’06. 380w.
“There is much excellent poetry in Mrs. Lounsbery’s volume.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 40: 329. My. 16, ’06. 210w.
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Nation. 83: 144. Ag. ’06. 150w.
“There is little fault to be found with the facility of the verse.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 523. Ag. 25. ’06. 260w.
“A collection of sonnets of real poetic strength and beauty.”
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R. of Rs. 33: 768. Je. ’06. 30w.
“To write a multitude of sonnets on love a man must have a greater subtlety of thought and feeling than falls to the author’s share.”
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Lowell, James Russell. Fireside travels; with introd. by William P. Treat. 35c. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Handy volume classics.”
Lowery, Woodbury. Spanish settlements within the present limits of the United States: Florida. 1562–1574. **$2.50. Putnam.
“Really interesting book.”
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Bookm. 23: 658. Ag. ’06. 300w.
“One of the most valuable and interesting of recent works on the early discovery and settlement of our national territory.”
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Critic. 48: 94. Ja. ’06. 80w.
“Mr. Lowery’s book is the most accurate and scientific account yet written upon this subject.”
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Ind. 60: 629. Mr. 15, ’06. 470w.
“A voluminous appendix, exceedingly important for the many difficult historical and geographical problems treated, completes the documentary material contained in the numerous footnotes. They bear witness to the conscientious manner in which Mr. Lowery has undertaken and carried out his task.”
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Nation. 82: 225. Mr. 15, ’06. 1940w.
Loyson, Mme. Emilie Jane (Butterfield) Meriman (Mme. Hyacinthe Loyson). To Jerusalem through the lands of Islam, among Jews, Christians, and Moslems. $2.50. Open ct.
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Ind. 60: 1161. My. 17, ’06. 510w.
Lubbock, Basil. Jack Derringer: a tale of deep water. †$1.50. Dutton.
“‘The notorious Yankee skysail-yard clipper “Silas K. Higgins” the hottest hell-ship under the stars and stripes,’ ... furnishes the setting for this story which ... is a thrilling romance of the life lead by ‘shanghaied’ and other seamen in more or less lawless conditions. Brutal officers, mixed nationalities in the seamen, fightings, murderings, wreckings, and a fight with albatrosses provide plenty of exciting episodes before Jack Derringer reaches a peaceful haven with the woman he loves. Jack is a roving Englishman and his greatest chum is a certain cowboy who is ‘shanghaied’ on the ‘Higgins’ and plays an important part in the development of the story.” (Sat. R.)
“Mr. Lubbock has not ‘composed’ his picture at all. There is little perspective about it, and the very energy and knowledge which he brings to bear upon every detail sometimes confuse the general effect.”
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Acad. 70: 359. Ap. 14, ’06. 350w.
“Lacks only the art of the finished craftsman to make of it a veritable epic of the sea.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 387. Mr. 31. 200w.
Lit. D. 33: 157. Ag. 4, ’06. 260w.
“Mr. Lubbock is a descriptive writer with little skill in the arts of construction and arrangement. The plot, or groundwork of his book, is slight and conventional.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 116. Mr. 30, ’06. 400w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.
“The thing has all the elements proper to a sea story of the old school. And it is not bad of its kind.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 439. Jl. 7, ’06. 520w.
“Unwholesome and uncomfortable novel. Vulgarity and cheap melodrama run riot.”
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Outlook. 83: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 50w.
“It is a spirited, interesting romance. But we should like that glossary.”
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Sat. R. 101: 661. My. 26, ’06. 280w.
Lucas, Charles Prestwood. Canadian war of 1812. *$4.15. Oxford.
It has been the mission of Mr. Lucas to assist President Roosevelt and Captain Mahan in redeeming the history of the war of 1812 alike from “prejudiced treatment and undeserved neglect.” Mr. Lucas views the war from the Canadian standpoint and “the book is in the strictest sense ‘an installment of Canadian history,’ as Mr. Lucas calls it. The sources, in the main, are official dispatches. Slight use has been made of autobiographies, vindications, and ephemeral literature, like Hull’s ‘Memoirs,’ Wilkinson’s ‘Memoirs,’ and Armstrong’s ‘Notices of the war.’ The narrative, so far as it deals with upper Canada, is full and satisfactory. The same can hardly be said of the treatment which lower Canada receives.” (Nation.)
“Though not free from defects, a splendid instalment of Canadian history.”
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Acad. 71: 158. Ag. 18, ’06. 570w.
215“Mr. Lucas possesses to a remarkable degree the judicial temperament which is necessary for an historian whose subject is steeped in controversy.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 241. S. 1. 580w.
“Is always temperate and fair-minded.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 275. Ag. 10, ’06. 1750w.
“His tone throughout is discriminating, and though admiration for the courage of the loyalists may be said to dominate the narrative as a whole, it does not lead to special pleading on their behalf or wilful detraction from the merits of their opponents.”
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Nation. 83: 306. O. 11, ’06. 1280w.
“These maps are not so clear for study of different regions of the theatre of conflict as are those scattered through Mr. Henry Adams’s volumes. The narrative, too, lacks the verve and animation which that of Mr. Adams exhibits. But it is clear and unambiguous.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 900. D. 22, ’06. 1510w.
“His chapters contain evidence of much patient research, and the elaborate details which he has collected have been carefully pieced together and lucidly arranged. Undoubtedly they supply the student of war with a much-needed work. To the general reader it will inevitably seem dull.”
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Sat. R. 102: sup. 6. O. 13, ’06. 600w.
Lucas, Edward Verrall, comp. Friendly town: a little book for the urbane. $1.50. Holt.
This anthology is a companion volume to “The open road.” The London of playhouses, taverns, cards and music, as well as of sobriety and sentiment is revealed in glints. Mr. Lucas “begins with winter and Christmas poems. Sections follow with such characteristic headings as Friends and the fire, Four-footed friends, The play, The tavern, Good townsmen, and The post. We find ‘inter alia,’ prose of Pepys, Boswell, Lamb, George Meredith; verse sentimental by Thackeray, cheerful by Henley, and the grace of the ‘Greek anthology’ as retained by the skill of Mr. Mackail.” (Ath.)
“Is, without qualification, a most delightful and attractive book.”
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Acad. 69: 1192. N. 18, ’05. 410w.
“There is actually no index, either of authors or of first lines.”
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Ath. 1905, 2: 723. N. 25. 230w.
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Dial. 41: 457. D. 16, ’06. 230w.
“A real invention marks ‘The friendly town.’”
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Nation. 81: 484. D. 14, ’05. 170w.
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Nation. 83: 508. D. 13, ’06. 80w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 806. D. 1, ’06. 190w.
Lucas, Edward Verrall. Life of Charles Lamb. 2v. *$6. Putnam.
“Fitly complements his admirable edition of the ‘Works and letters.’” H. W. Boynton.
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Critic. 48: 27. Ja. ’06. 4760w.
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Current Literature. 40: 511. My. ’06. 640w.
“As Mr. Lucas has shown himself to be the ideal editor and annotator in his recently-published seven-volume edition of Lamb’s works, so here he demonstrated his unequalled qualifications as a compiler of all discoverable material bearing on the life-history of his chosen author. A few slight errors of execution, amid so much excellence of design, may be noted for correction in a second edition.” Percy F. Bicknell.
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Dial. 40: 6. Ja. 1, ’06. 2470w.
“Never has more elaborate care been manifest in biography than under Mr. Lucas’s most patient superintendence and competent companionship. The one defect that must be mentioned ... is the insistent preoccupation with Lamb’s enslavement to drink and tobacco.”
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Ind. 60: 338. F. 8, ’06. 890w.
“Every shred of available material that may throw the faintest light upon the poet or his associates is turned and returned, until there remains apparently little or nothing to be unearthed in future.”
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Ind. 61: 1163. N. 15, ’06. 110w.
“Mr. Lucas writes in the long run with more light than warmth.”
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Nation. 82: 304. Ap. 12, ’06. 2090w.
“Will be a mine of riches for those who care for one of the most interesting groups of writers of the last century.”
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Outlook. 81: 960. D. 23, ’05. 1140w.
Reviewed by Sidney T. Irwin.
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Quarterly R. 204: 177. Ja. ’06. 1970w.
“His book is a noteworthy contribution to literary memorabilia.”
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R. of Rs. 33: 118. Ja. ’06. 260w.
Lucas, Edward Verrall. Listener’s lure: a Kensington comedy. †$1.50. Macmillan.
The story of “how Lynn Haberton was in love with his ward and secretary, Edith Graham, but thought he was too old and dry for her; how he sent her to London as companion to a charming old lady surrounded with cranks; how every man she met proposed to her, and in the end how she married her guardian” (Acad.) is told by means of a general correspondence among a group of people attached to the chief characters.
“You can turn back again and open where you will, sure of finding something amusing or interesting, some clever touch of character or some shrewd piece of wisdom.”
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Acad. 71: 286. S. 22, ’06. 160w.
“Mr. Lucas seems to have been afraid to trust to his own design, and to have borrowed the sentiment of his book from conventions. He is, however, full of wit and wisdom.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 473. O. 20. 330w.
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Lond. Times. 5: 329. S. 28, ’06. 580w.
“A bit of good comedy.”
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Nation. 83: 353. O. 25, ’06. 230w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 667. O. 13, ’06. 270w.
“Especial joy may be found in these pages by any American who knows England and her people.”
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Outlook. 84: 430. O. 20, ’06. 160w.
“In his hands the form so familiar to our fathers affords opportunity for reflection on many subjects, for much clever comment on people and society, and for a very pretty play of wit; and the story goes on its way to a happy ending, as it ought.”
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Outlook. 84: 709. N. 24, ’06. 120w.
“Attractive as are the characters in the book, the main interest lies in the delightful things that are said by the way. Mr. Lucas is essentially an essayist.”
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Sat. R. 102: 432. O. 6, ’06. 410w.
“‘Listener’s lure’ is the work of a genuine humorist who is not afraid on occasion to be serious; it has lent freshness and charm to a mode of narration which too often makes for irritation; and it is marked by that enviable quality of sympathy which makes a friend of every reader.”
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Spec. 97: 542. O. 13, ’06. 1150w.
Lucas, Edward Verrall. Wanderer in Holland. *$2. Macmillan.
“The text is literary, chatty, easily read and quickly enjoyed.”
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Ind. 60: 454. F. 22, ’06. 300w.
Lucas, Edward Verrall. Wanderer in London. **$1.75. Macmillan.
“Mr. Lucas ... gives us his own London. A very odd place it is, full of odd characters, odd animals, odd entertainments, odds and ends of every description. The ordinary ‘sights’ do not belong to it.” (Lond. Times.) “He knows and 216tells all the associations of localities; he takes one into a hundred odd corners; he is in sympathetic touch with living Londoners of all classes and occupations. The fascination of London, he tells us, that which the traveler must come to see, is London men and women, her millions of men and women.” (Outlook.)
“The book abounds in out-of-the-way bits of information. The digressions are entertaining. The index is unsatisfactory.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 512. O. 27. 940w.
“Past and present are allied with the strongest ties of association and charm of literary treatment.” Wallace Rice.
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Dial. 41: 391. D. 1, ’06. 180w.
“Londoners ... are all writ down by their fellow-citizen with a charm, a sympathy, a friendly enthusiasm that will go far to make them forget the misplaced compassion of country folk.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 320. S. 21, ’06. 1690w.
“A well-qualified personal book.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 812. D. 1, ’06. 160w.
“To read ‘A wanderer in London’ is like taking long tramps through all parts of the city with a companion who knows all the interesting things and places and people and has something wise or gay or genial to say about all of them.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 825. D. 1, ’06. 490w.
“Mr. Lucas spends proportionately too much time in the picture galleries. One can hardly hope to find a better way of reviving impressions and seeing things in a new setting than through this cheerful and friendly volume.”
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Outlook. 84: 432. O. 20, ’06. 230w.
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R. of Rs. 34: 639. N. ’06. 80w.
“Mr. Lucas’ wanderings will very likely be popular. There is so much in them that gives pleasure to the many who read everything except literature.”
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Sat. R. 102: 518. O. 27, ’06. 940w.
Luccock, Naphtali. Royalty of Jesus. *50c. Meth. bk.
A group of eight sermons preached by the pastor of the Union Methodist Episcopal church of St. Louis, teaching that “through free intelligence, an enlightened conscience, a righteous will, and a heart aglow with love, Christ lives and reigns in human affairs.”
Luce, Morton. Handbook to the works of William Shakespeare. $1.75. Macmillan.
“A series of introductions to the separate works, taken chronologically, fills the bulk of the volume, the remaining contents being chapters of history, biography and bibliography, with discussions of Shakespeare’s art, philosophy and metrics.” (Dial.) “Mr. Luce’s volume is something more than a handbook; it is a criticism and an esthetic too. Not only does it contain all the generally accepted facts with regard to Shakespeare, together with the general consensus of critical opinion, but it also propounds a number of original or at least novel, ideas and dramatic theories of its own.” (Ind.)
“Has collected a good deal of value as to the sources of the plays and poems, the extant testimony concerning them, and the circumstance of their appearance. He has not the gift of arrangement. The compiler does not apparently know, what true conciseness (a quality essential in a single book about the whole of Shakespeare) means.”
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Ath. 1906. 2: 210. Ag. 25. 101Ow.
“The book is prepared with knowledge and judgment, and seems to be, with the possible exception of Professor Dowden’s similar work, the best single volume available for a fairly close and detailed study of the poet. Certainly, the amount of matter packed within a small compass is remarkable.”
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Dial. 41: 43. Jl. 16, ’06. 120w.
“It is suggestive, stimulating and to the lover of Shakespeare, thoroly readable.”
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Ind. 61: 758. S. 27, ’06. 290w.
“Seems to be accurate in statement and sound in its literary judgments, generally speaking. The author’s plan leads to a good deal of repetition, which might have been avoided by a better arrangement.”
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Nation. 82: 489. Je. 14, ’06. 240w.
“Mr. Luce is no blind worshipper, and his criticism is of excellent quality. He has laid students of Shakespeare under very considerable obligations.”
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Spec. 96: 912. Je. 9, ’06. 180w.
Lucian (Lucianus Samosatensis). Work of Lucian of Samosata; trans. by H. W. Fowler, and F. G. Fowler. 4v. *$4. Oxford.
“The versions are very readable and at the same time bear comparison with the Greek text.” John C. Rolfe.
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Bookm. 23: 214. Ap. ’06. 940w.
Ludlow, James Meeker. Sir Raoul: a tale of the theft of an empire. †$1.50. Revell.
“‘Sir Raoul,’ is a story of the fourth crusade, and of its diversion, through Venetian intrigue, from its primary object to the raid upon Constantinople, which resulted in the brief restoration of the Emperor Alexius, the temporary union of the Greek and Roman churches, and the establishment of the Latin empire of the East under Baldwin.... Mr. Ludlow’s hero is a youthful knight of the Black forest, who suffers disgrace early in his career, and is given out for dead, but who in reality remains very much alive and participates, under an assumed name, in the exciting happenings with which the romance is concerned.”—Dial.
“The interest is sustained at a high pitch throughout, and the author’s knowledge of his subject seems to embrace both the broad historical issues of the period and a diversity of curious matters of detail. A neat and pointed style provides the story with an added element of attractiveness.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 40: 16. Ja. 1, ’06. 240w.
“The technique is somewhat imperfect, but the manners, the superstitions, the barbarism, of the time are faithfully portrayed. The plot is ingenious, the action vigorous, the turning-points extraordinary.”
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Outlook. 81: 631. N. 11, ’05. 100w.
Lützow, Francis, count. Lectures on the historians of Bohemia. *$1.75. Oxford.
Reviewed by A. W. W.
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Eng. Hist. R. 21: 197. Ja. ’06. 530w.
Lyle, Eugene P. Missourian. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“Mr. Lyle possesses true creative vision and power.”
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R. of Rs. 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 230w.
“The details of this book are so complex as very often to be tedious. The book will be read only for its historical interest.”
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Spec. 96: 465. Mr. 24, ’06. 270w.
Lyman, Henry Munson. Hawaiian yesterdays. **$2. McClurg.
Chapters from a boy’s life in the Sandwich Islands in the early days. The boy is the son of a missionary and was born in Hilo in 1835. His sketch, autobiographical in nature, is set in the primitive surroundings of pioneer life, and touches upon his education, upon the possible stimulation to piety and scholarship, upon 217adventures in this ocean country, upon the tropical splendors and upon the civilization among the natives.
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Critic. 49: 96. Jl. ’06. 100w.
“From cover to cover the book is entertaining.” Percy F. Bicknell.
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Dial. 40: 223. Ap. 1, ’06. 1580w.
“Some interesting reminiscences, tho too largely of a personal nature.”
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Ind. 60: 1167. My. 17, ’06. 60w.
“It is a work that charms and attracts.”
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Lit. D. 32: 917. Je. 16, ’06. 700w.
“Our chief criticism is that the narrative seems to terminate somewhat abruptly, leaving the curiosity and interest it awakens not wholly satisfied.”
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Nation. 83: 128. Ag. 9, ’06. 430w.
“These reminiscences throw not a little light on religious, educational, and political conditions during the troublous period of Hawaiian history.”
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R. of Rs. 34: 382. S. ’06. 50w.
Lyman, Olin Linus. Micky: a novel. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
Michael O’Byrn, a tattered knight of the road, saunters into the office of the Daily courier importuning the city editor for a chance to show his mettle. From the first “write-up”—a dramatic portrayal of a slum fight—Micky scores triumphs. His special task becomes that of unearthing the corrupt schemes of a political boss and a group of graft-practicing associates. Tho success is his, the bitter consequences of his yielding to a fondness for drink, together with the tragic ending of his brief romance compel him to cut himself adrift and once more became a wanderer.
“There is a great deal of the ‘atmosphere’ of newspapers in the book, and considerable of the ‘chaff’ and back talk supposed to exist among ‘the boys,’ which is all more or less according to truth.”