Volume 2 — Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Digests of Reviews appearing in January-December, 1906 magazines (continued 21)
Reading edition
Reid, G. Archdall. Principles of heredity, with some applications. *$3.50. Dutton.
“Although addressed largely to medical men this volume will be found of great value to all students of human progress and social problems. The work begins therefore with a clear statement of the various theories of heredity and evolution. The reviewer knows of no book in which the significance of these differences is more plainly shown. The reviewer has seldom seen a more carefully worked out thesis.” Carl Kelsey.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 254. Ja. ’06. 640w.
“Of the three general characters which distinguish Mr. Reid’s book, this ‘real lucidity’ ... is the first and the most valuable. The second general feature of this volume is what the sportsman would call its keenness. The third feature ... is the mere fact that it is written by a medical man.” C. W. Saleeby.
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Fortnightly R. 84: 604. O. ’05. 5430w.
“If true at all, the reasoning is in advance of our general knowledge.”
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Nation. 82: 345. Ap. 26, ’06. 250w.
“It is this quality of suggestion, of imagination, and the ability to compel history to contribute facts to his arguments, that make his work valuable to the student, and also readable to the unscientific thinker.”
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Spec. 96: sup. 649. Ap. 28, ’06. 160w.
Reid, George Winston. Conscience. $1. W. F. Brainard, N. Y.
“Heat is the common bond of the separate sciences, and binds them into one science. Since the Latin ‘cum’ or ‘con’ signifies ‘together,’ the sciences united or the philosophy of the sciences may be called ‘Conscience.’” So thru the following chapter the author evolves his conception of conscience, Matter, or the science of chemistry, Energy, or the science of physics, The heavenly bodies or the science of astronomy, Life, or the science of biology, Consciousness, or the science of psychology, and Conscience, or scientific philosophy.
“The volume is a queer jumble of natural physics, metaphysics, epistemology and religion, in which the method is that of piecing together brief quotations from the greatest variety of diverse sources.”
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Bookm. 22: 533. Ja. ’06. 60w.
289Reid, Sir (Thomas) Wemyss. Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid, 1842–1885; ed. with introd. by Stuart J. Reid. $5. Cassell.
“This is a book the last page of which leaves us in an Oliver Twist-like state of asking for more.” (N. Y. Times.) “Wemyss Reid was notable as a literary man, a biographer, and a writer of fiction. But his Memoirs are chiefly important as those of the editor of the Leeds ‘Mercury,’ a powerful paper of the moderate Liberal school in a stirring time. He flourished in what was perhaps the palmiest epoch of British journalism, when the editor of a great journal himself directed its policy and was a statesman of the pen, not a mere organist or the manager of a Yellow concern.” (Nation.)
“Not even the promise of ‘revelations,’ not even the prospect of the day, when Liberal policy will throw reticence to the winds, can atone for the banality of the present sad and sorry instalment.”
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Acad. 69: 1145. N. 4, ’05. 1050w
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Ath. 1905, 2: 610. N 4. 470w.
“The interesting matter in the volume could be presented in less than a score of pages.”
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Critic. 48: 570. Je. ’06. 230w.
“There are too many records of personal adventure, tours, and so on, which were hardly worth preserving in print. But on the whole the book is interesting.”
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Lond. Times. 4: 361. O. 27, ’05. 840w.
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Nation. 82: 56. Ja. 18, ’06. 870w.
“The author’s acquaintance with most of the leading English statesmen and literary men of the past two generations makes his memoirs not only a valuable addition to the modern English history, but fills them to the brim with delightful bits and anecdotes.” Elizabeth Banks.
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N. Y. Times. 10: 847. D. 2, ’05. 1780w.
“Sir Wemyss Reid is an excellent example of a good second-class ranker.”
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Sat. R. 100: 689. N. 25, ’05. 400w.
“Perhaps the most important, though not, in our opinion, the most interesting or attractive, sections of his volume are those which deal with the internal divisions in the Liberal party.”
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Spec. 95: 819. N. 18, ’05. 1510w.
Reinsch, Paul Samuel. Colonial administration. *$1.25. Macmillan.
“The author has no theories to exploit, and makes but few criticisms in the condensed space at his command.” Edwin E. Sparks.
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Am. J. Soc. 11: 577. Ja. ’06. 270w.
Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 178. Jl. ’06. 70w.
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Critic. 48: 94. Ja. ’06. 70w.
“The author, in fact, seems to be less well prepared to deal with the Philippines than with the colonial possessions of Great Britain, France, Germany, and even Java.”
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Ind. 60: 511. Mr. 1, ’06. 960w.
“A work that not only shows wide reading, but presents a careful study of the ultimate as well as the immediately practical character of the problems to which a colonial policy gives rise.” W. F. Willoughby.
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Int. J. Ethics. 16: 562. Jl. ’06. 810w.
“It is, of course, largely expository, but it is also constructive to a high degree, and every one engaged in colonial administration might wisely keep it near at hand for ready reference. Every chapter is compact and readable, and is rendered the more valuable by concrete illustrations from the practices and experiences of colonial governments the world over.”
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Outlook. 84: 38. S. 1, ’06. 700w.
Reviewed by F. J. Goodnow.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 21:135. Mr. ’06. 720w.
“It is a valuable epitome of the administrative methods of the great colonising powers as they exist to-day, and it contains also some interesting speculations upon the ethical basis of activity.”
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Spec. 96: 149. Ja. 27, ’06. 230w.
“It is as valuable a comparative study as was its predecessor [‘Colonial government’] which is high praise.”
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Yale R. 14: 446. F. ’06. 150w.
Reinach, Salomon. The story of art throughout the ages; tr. by Florence Simmons. **$2. Scribner.
“Taken as a whole, the work is a masterpiece of taste, of judgment, and of condensation, and should be in the library not only of every lover of art, but of every cultivated person.” George B. Zug.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 930. Jl. ’06. 590w.
Remington, Frederick. Way of an Indian. *$1.50. Fox.
“In the form of a story Mr. Remington has reproduced his popular pictures of Indian life. He has taken the period between the discovery of gold in California and the death of General Custer in the battle of the Little Big Horn, and has given us the life story of a Cheyenne boy with all the ambitions and aspirations of his race.... The story ranges from conflicts with rival tribes to massacres of immigrants, and, of course, in the last chapter civilization triumphs over savagery.” (Pub. Opin.) 15 pictures by the author illustrate the book.
“A remarkably realistic life-history of a typical Indian.”
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Critic. 48: 478. My. ’06. 90w.
“As a story, is singularly strong, if crude and simple, and, as a study in primitive instincts, and an epitome of the struggle that attended the coming of the whites into the buffalo country, is a wonderfully effective piece of work.”
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Lit. D. 32: 733. My. 12, ’06. 630w.
“Has told a very effective story of the tragic clash of the Indians of the Northwest with the resistless onward movement of the white man.”
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Nation. 82: 222. Mr. 15, ’06. 240w.
“If he does not fully succeed in making us feel as if we had been inside the skin of a redman ... at least we are given ... a vivid and picturesque exhibition of this typical Indian and his ways.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 146. Mr. 10, ’06. 190w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 170w.
“It is written from the Indian point of view, and is vivid, picturesque, and truthful.”
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Outlook. 82: 859. Ap. 14, ’06. 100w.
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Pub. Opin. 40: 346. Mr. 17, ’06. 260w.
“The literary quality of Remington’s stories may be a matter of dispute, but whose canvases rank before his in America’s gallery of historical painters?”
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R. of Rs. 33: 756. Je. ’06. 40w.
Remsburg, John E. Six historic Americans: Paine, Jefferson, Washington, Franklin, Lincoln, Grant: the fathers and saviors of our republic, freethinkers. $1.25. Truth seeker.
To the five names generally conceded as first among the historic figures of the first century of national existence the author adds that of Thomas Paine fortifying this patriot’s claim to prominence and setting straight his misinterpreted religious views.
Repplier, Agnes. In our convent days. **$1.10. Houghton.
“Miss Repplier writes with a grave humour which makes easy reading, but naturally her chronicle is somewhat ‘small beer.’”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 104. Ja. 27. 240w.
“Miss Repplier, in her latest volume, has recalled the past years, and presented them with such living power that, in all the charm, the frankness, the mischievousness, and romance of childhood, they live again.”
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Cath. World. 82: 560. Ja ’06. 760w.
290“Her admirable little stories are written to entertain, not to ‘improve’ ... they are free from the slightest suggestion of the sentimental or the banal.”
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Critic. 48: 381. Ap. ’06. 160w.
“A book of charming autobiographical tales.”
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Dial. 40: 51. Ja. 16, ’06. 200w.
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Reader. 7: 341. F. ’06. 230w.
Representative essays on the theory of style, chosen and edited by William Tenney Brewster. *$1.10. Macmillan.
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Critic. 48: 189. F. ’06. 60w.
“The essays are most excellently chosen.”
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R. of Rs. 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 100w.
Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie-. Thalassa. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
At the death of her father a young girl leaves her artistic and literary set in Florence with its Bohemian culture and goes to live with her guardian in England. Orme with his shaggy strength first repels than attracts Aldyth, eventually he plays the Rochester rôle and she that of Jane Eyre.
“Once the characters are staged—and this process is somewhat long drawn out—the dénouement is inevitable to those who know their ‘Jane Eyre.’ We cannot bestow higher praise than to say that this does not detract from our sustained interest in the characters and their story.”
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Ath. 1906. 2: 125. Ag. 4. 90w.
“We have read few recent novels with greater pleasure.”
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Nation. 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 430w.
Reynolds, John Schreiner. Reconstruction in South Carolina, 1865–77. $2. State co., Columbia, S. C.
“Beginning with a rather brief sketch of the provisional government set up by President Johnson, the author next exhibits in detail the workings of the administrations of the ‘carpet-bagger’ Governor Scott, of Governor Moses the ‘renegade secessionist,’ and of Governor Chamberlain, the ‘reform’ Republican. One chapter is devoted to the Ku Klux trials, another to the disgusting story of the ‘public frauds,’ and two chapters to the election of Hampton in 1876, the bargain with the Washington administration, and the overthrow of the rule of the ‘carpet-bagger’ and the negro.”—Dial.
“Mr. Reynolds loses sight of the philosophy of history in the combat of opposing parties.” Frederick W. Moore.
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Am. Hist. R. 12: 180. O. ’06. 430w.
“Mr. Reynolds has unusual qualifications for writing the history of that chaotic period; he was an observer of much about which he writes, he knew many of the leaders of the opposing forces, and he is familiar with the periodical and pamphlet literature from which the history of the Reconstruction must largely be drawn. It is much to be regretted that he did not see fit to indicate for the benefit of other students the sources from which he drew his information.”
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Dial. 41: 118. S. 1, ’06. 470w.
“In spite of certain faults of temper and attitude, the book is, in many respects, worthy of high praise. A patient care in the gathering and use of its voluminous and minute data is everywhere observable, and a judicial method is attempted thruout, tho unfortunately not always maintained.”
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Ind. 61: 639. S. 13, ’06. 170w.
“Mr. Reynolds endeavors to be fair, temperate in statement, and sure in his conclusions. He has succeeded in a high degree but not entirely.” William E. Dodd.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 306. Ag. 18, ’06. 1330w.
“This history is not judicial. It abounds in statements of fact, but is sparing of references to sources.”
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Outlook. 83: 816. Ag. 4, ’06. 130w.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua. Discourses; with introd. and notes by Roger Fry. *$2.50. Dutton.
A new fully annotated and illustrated edition of Sir Joshua Reynolds’ lectures delivered to the students of the Royal Academy. “The enduring value of the ‘Discourses’ arises from the fact that they attempt to expound the laws of artistic expression from the artist’s point of view, and as Mr. Fry observes, it is rare that a writer has at once the requisite practical knowledge and the power of generalization.” (Ath.) Each lecture receives a critical introduction explaining by biographical or other data the artist-lecturer’s attitude on a given subject. There are 30 illustrations from the works of painters most frequently cited.
“Mr. Fry has paid the book a greater compliment by letting it speak for itself, and in his introductions to the various discourses and above all in his little notes to the illustrations he has shown himself to be imbued with all the better side of Reynold’s catholic criticism, besides proving himself an independent critic, whose observations are pregnant, illuminating and just.”
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Acad. 70: 16. Ja. 6, ’06. 2060w.
“To the serious student it is rendered of great value by the critical introductions which it contains.”
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Ath. 1905, 2: 652. N. 11. 330w.
“There is much good reading in this celebrated book, for the student who knows how to make the proper deductions for himself or can use caution in taking advantage of Mr. Fry’s guidance.” Royal Cortissoz.
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Atlan. 97: 274. F. ’06. 200w.
Reviewed by Charles Henry Hart.
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Dial. 40: 227. Ap. 1, ’06. 580w.
“A good edition.”
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Ind. 61: 943. O. 18, ’06. 90w.
“Injustice, however, is very rare in Mr. Fry, and this one example of it is the only fault to be found with an excellent book.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 73. Mr. 2, ’06. 1150w.
“Mr. Fry’s contributions, whether in the shape of contradiction, reinforcement, or explanation, are always able and intelligent.”
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Nation. 81: 510. D. 21, ’05. 240w.
“Mr. Roger Fry, the most recent editor of the literary Reynolds ... has presented an interpretation which is full of interest for the student of art.”
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N. Y. Times. 10: 891. D. 16, ’05. 250w.
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Outlook. 81: 1039. D. 23, ’05. 80w.
“A most interesting edition of ‘Reynolds’s Discourses.’”
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Spec. 96: 305. F. 24, ’06. 170w.
Rhoades, Cornelia Harsen (Nina Rhoades). Polly’s predicament: a story; il. by C: Copeland. †$1.50. Wilde.
Polly, young, bright and just out of school, accepts the invitation of a shallow-minded woman to spend three months in Europe. While at Carlsbad Polly is bound to a foolish promise which results in continuing the separation of a father from his little girl whom he supposes dead.
Rhodes, James Ford. History of the United States from the compromise of 1850. Vol. 5. **$2.50. Macmillan.
“It is full, exact and impartial. Controversial questions are weighed judicially with an unfailing and laborious effort to get all the best evidence available. If Mr. Rhodes’s treatment of such subjects is at times somewhat prolix, that proceeds from his extreme desire to lay the whole case for each side before the reader.” J. A. Doyle.
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Eng. Hist. R. 21: 183. Ja. ’06. 260w.
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Ind. 60: 113. Ja. 11, ’06. 170w.
291“Although Mr. Rhodes’s discussion of the treatment of prisoners leaves something to be desired, we welcome it as one of his most important contributions to correct understanding and sane judgment on a topic concerning which a dispassionate view is still difficult.” C. H. Smith.
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Yale R. 14: 427. F. ’06. 650w.
Rice, Cale Young. Plays and lyrics. $2. McClure.
“A stout and very handsome volume containing the better of the author’s early lyrics, many new ones, and two plays in verse, ‘Yolanda’ and ‘David.’”—Dial.
“To our taste, Mr. Rice’s lyric work in this volume far outvalues his dramatic. There is vital motive, touchingly rendered.” Edith M. Thomas.
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Critic. 49: 219. S. ’06. 310w.
“His work in this larger compass and maturer form deserves far more praise than could be accorded to those first fruits and gives us much sincere and conscientious workmanship. The old straining for effect is still apparent although far less so than formerly.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 41: 68. Ag. 1, ’06. 260w.
“If Mr. Rice had used his brain a little more, not only on ‘minutiæ’, but on the meaning of his poems, his book would have been half as long and twice as good.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 225. Je. 22, ’06. 470w.
“Occasionally he writes in simplicity as well as sincerity, without labored linguistic bravuras, or moody excesses: at such times, if not impeccable, he is often pleasurably poignant.”
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Nation. 83: 143. Ag. 16, ’06. 680w.
“Mr. Rice’s lyrical poetry has not in general the distinction of his dramatic.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 495. Ag. 11, ’06. 1970w.
Richards, John Morgan. With John Bull and Jonathan. **$4. Appleton.
The author of this book of personal reminiscences is the father of “John Oliver Hobbes” (Mrs. Craigie), and was for a time the owner of the London academy when the London times gave it up. An American’s life in England and the United States, is the theme, and regarding it the foreword states: “In putting on record my reminiscences of life on both sides of the Atlantic I do so from a British-American point of view. I have not attempted to give advice to ‘pilgrims’ about to visit England or the United States. There are no descriptions of climate and scenery ... nor statistics ... nor do politics enter into any of my observations. My narrative concerns my own personal experiences in both countries.”
Acad. 69: 1170. N. 11, ’05. 690w.
“He has not, however, the literary art of his brilliant and accomplished daughter, and mixes trivialities not worth publication with the more solid portions of his narrative.”
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Ath. 1905, 2: 721. N. 25. 400w.
“An odd book, which, indeed, judged by a literary standard is no book at all.”
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Lond. Times. 4: 422. D. 1, ’05. 610w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 175. Mr. 24, ’06. 1470w.
“A more attractive topic in his recollections is the contrast between London as it was when he first came over to this country in 1867 and as it is now, and generally between England and America. Now and then Mr. Richards’s memory is a little at fault.”
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Spec. 95: 933. D. 2, ’05. 350w.
Richards, Mrs. Laura Elizabeth (Howe). Silver crown: another book of fables for old and young. †$1.25. Little.
Patience, obedience, hospitality, duty promptness, and selflessness are among the lessons taught in these forty or more short fables. The keynote is the universality of good without time and space limitations.
“Forty-five simply written little fables, each one with its own delightful conception, and bearing its own little moral, fragrant with aspiration.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 798. D. 1, ’06. 80w.
Richards, Thomas Cole. Samuel J. Mills, missionary pathfinder, pioneer and promoter. *$1.25. Pilgrim press.
The life of Samuel J. Mills follows closely the founding and promulgating of American foreign missions. The influences brought to bear upon his awakening to the subject of missionary work, his education, and contemporary plans for the beginning of definite work in heathen lands, and later his own untiring efforts at home and on the Dark continent which was his passion, furnished material for a full and thoroly subjective study of the man and his work.
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Outlook. 83: 141. My. 19, ’06. 160w.
Richards, William Rogers. God’s choice of men; a study of Scripture. **$1.50. Scribner.
This book “is not a volume on theology, but a book of sermons; and if it does not succeed in justifying the Westminster doctrine of election, it does what is much more important, it interprets a Scriptural doctrine of election which is both rational and inspirational. Besides courage and clearness, these sermons have another characteristic—very clear-cut portraiture of modern characters typified by Scriptural characters.”—Outlook.
“Full of sound, practical argument and exhortation to Christian faith and duty.”
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Ind. 60: 223. Ja. 25, ’06. 110w.
“This volume of sermons is characterized by clearness of thought and a quiet courage of conviction. These sermons are worth reading by laymen for their spiritual instructiveness and by clergymen as suggestive models.”
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Outlook. 81: 526. O. 28, ’05. 370w.
Richardson, Charles Francis. Choice of books. **$1.25. Putnam.
A revised edition of Professor Richardson’s practical book which among other additions contains a lengthy appendix on “Suggestions for household libraries.”
“After the passage of a full quarter-century, Professor Richardson’s treatise on the choice and use of books remains the most complete, the most reasonable, and one of the most readable of books hitherto written on that head.” H. W. Boynton.
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Critic. 48: 456. My. ’06. 570w.
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Dial. 39: 449. D. 16, ’05. 30w.
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N. Y. Times. 10: 539. Ag. 19, ’05. 70w.
“A valuable and practical book on reading.”
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Outlook. 81: 938. D. 16, ’05. 60w.
Richardson, John. Wacousta: a tale of the Pontiac Conspiracy. Illustrated ed. $1.50. McClurg.
To the reissue of the text of Richardson’s thrilling old romance have been added some spirited illustrations, the work of C. W. Jeffreys. Pontiac’s treachery to gain possession of the English posts in the West, foiled by a beautiful Indian girl who forewarned the commandant at Detroit, makes possible a tale of adventure full of dramatic situations.
Richman, Irving Berdine. Rhode Island; a study in separatism. **$1.10. Houghton.
“The most enjoyable of the books on Rhode 292Island. It will not displace the solid history by Arnold, but the changes of a half-century will give it a place of its own.” Wm. B. Weeden.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 410. Ja. ’06. 380w.
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Bookm. 22: 532. Ja. ’06. 140w.
“A compact and useful summary.”
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Dial. 40: 132. F. 16, ’06. 200w.
“A welcome fruitage of the accurate researches into American history so earnestly pursued of late.” Louis Dyer.
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Hibbert J. 4: 705. Ap. ’06. 580w.
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Nation. 82: 182. Mr. 1, ’06. 1060w.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 168. Mr. ’06. 350w.
R. of Rs. 33: 115. Ja. ’06. 70w.
Rickert, (Martha) Edith. Folly; with a front. by Sigismond de Ivanowski. †$1.50. Baker.
Folly, the frivolous, whose wealth of hair tones with the “coppery gold of unfolding peach-buds ... never pretty ... but with the smile that would turn the head of the devil himself” furnishes an unusual study of the alluring feminine type. The ban of human opinion would relegate her to outer darkness for leaving her home and husband and placing her love in the keeping of a man to whom she is irresistibly drawn, one upon whom disease had passed the death sentence. In spite of the inverted moral perspective, Folly works out her own salvation, gathers force and courage in her negative struggle and in the end rights her stand in a manner to free the reader from the story’s depression. Thruout her freakish career she is never deserted by a “complaisant, upright and at times stupid” husband, a tender sympathetic mother-in-law and a staunch and loyal friend of her school days.
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Acad. 70: 287. Mr. 24, ’06. 280w.
“The book is written with brightness and fluency, but it is repulsive.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 474. Ap. 21. 260w.
“The book is interesting as being the product of a vigorous but undisciplined talent.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
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Bookm. 23: 191. Ap. ’06. 830w.
“This is one of those books that deliberately enlist our sympathies on the side of wrong-doing, yet maintain throughout a hypocritical pose in defence of morality.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 41: 114. S. 1, ’06. 160w.
“A more revolting denouement can only be imagined by Bernard Shaw.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.
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Ind. 60: 1042. My. 3, ’06. 110w.
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Ind. 61: 1160. N. 15, ’06. 40w.
“Except for a certain artificiality in the handling of some of the situations and the resulting dialogue, the story is a good one, and well told.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 147. Mr. 10, ’06. 350w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
“The difficult theme is worked out with reserve and discrimination.”
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Outlook. 82: 758. Mr. 31, ’06. 220w.
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Sat. R. 101: 465. Ap. 14, ’06. 200w.
Rickett, Arthur. Personal forces in modern literature. **$1.25. Dutton.
Papers which “are not intended as contributions to critical literature ... but are concerned rather with the ‘personal equation’ of the writers discussed than with the purely literary aspects of their work.” Newman and Martineau represent the moralist type; Huxley, the scientist; Wordsworth, Keats, Dante and Gabriel Rossetti, the poet; Dickens, the novelist; Hazlitt and De Quincey, the vagabond.
“Despite shortcomings, however, Mr. Rickett’s book is the agreeable work of a man of taste and many sympathies; while he himself hastens to deny that it is profound.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 757. Je. 23. 1180w.
“Mr. Rickett has, we think, indulged himself too far in the method of ‘intermittent bursts;’ he leaves with us no impression of a well-considered singleness of aim. There are few errors in matters of fact.”
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Dial. 41: 210. O. 1, ’06. 450w.
“It is in the detail of his several subjects however, that Mr. Rickett is most entertaining. Without being actually profound, he is occasionally shrewd and suggestive, if not always quite accurate or just.”
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Nation. 83: 334. O. 18, ’06. 520w.
“As a whole, however, they are a good piece of work.”
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Spec. 97: sup. 473. O. 6, ’06. 210w.
Ridgeway, William. Origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse. *$3.75. Macmillan.
“Some failings notwithstanding, no one who takes an interest, scientific or otherwise, in the origin and descent of the horse should fail to read this brilliant book on these subjects.”
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Acad. 70: 8. Ja. 6, ’06. 1490w.
“It is the simple truth that no such addition has been made in biology to the study of a domesticated animal since Darwin wrote.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 255. Mr. 3. 2030w.
“This long argument would gain greatly if the book were divided up into shorter chapters, each with its due table of contents.” G. Le Strange.
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Eng. Hist. R. 21: 402. Ap. ’06. 680w.
“Recommending him to make a better study of that portion of his subject which relates to Arabia, if he would establish his theory on really solid ground.” W. S. Blunt.
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Nineteenth Century. 59: 58. Ja. ’06. 7610w.
Riedl, Frederick. History of Hungarian literature. *$1.75. Appleton.
A volume uniform with “Literatures of the world” series. “In no country in the world is literature so much a part of history, of its patriotic feelings, and of the struggle to preserve the liberties as in Hungary.... It mirrors throughout the simple, unsophisticated feelings and thoughts of men who loved their country wholly, sincerely, faithfully, and were ready to lay down their lives to preserve its freedom. Here if ever, the soul of the people is revealed in its literature.”
R. of Rs. 34: 760. D. ’06. 90w.
Ries, Heinrich. Economic geology of the United States. *$2.60. Macmillan.
“The aim of the author ... is to give the reader in an encyclopaedic way an account of the economic geology of the United States, including Alaska, but excluding our insular possessions. As the main object is to set forth the facts of occurrence and the production of minerals he has to assume that those who follow his work have some general knowledge concerning the origin, structure and accidents of rocks.... Dr. Ries begins his presentation with a study of American coals.... After coal, petroleum and natural gas are briefly and well-treated, then building materials, clays, limes and cements. Next in succession, salines, gypsums, fertilizers, and abrasives, followed by the usual amount of minor minerals, and of mineral waters, closing with a singularly insufficient account of soils and road materials.... The second part of the book is devoted to ore deposits.... The book is amply illustrated.”—Engin. N.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 240. Ja. ’06. 170w.
“As a whole the book is excellent as it now is; with the revisions of later editions which its 293goodness should ensure it, it is likely to become a standard work.” N. S. Shaler.
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Engin. N. 55: 75. Ja. 18, ’06. 1440w.
J. Geol. 14: 660. O. ’06. 100w.
“The book has many well selected maps and plates and an excellent bibliography.” Robert Morris.
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J. Pol. Econ. 14: 254. Ap. ’06. 110w.
“Altogether the work is an admirable one, and we strongly commend it to teachers in this country as a source of concise, accurate, and recent information regarding the mineral deposits of the United States.”
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Nature. 73: 437. Mr. 8, ’06. 340w.
“On the whole, the book may be pronounced excellent—one that every broadminded business man should have, and that deserves the wide acceptance in the colleges that it is finding.” A. C. Lane.
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Science, n.s. 23: 225. F. 9, ’06. 1060w.
Riley, James Whitcomb. Riley songs o’ cheer. $1.25. Bobbs.
R. of Rs. 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 40w.
Riordon, William L. Plunkitt of Tammany hall. †$1. McClure.
Critic. 48: 96. Ja. ’06. 80w.
Ripley, William Zebina, ed. Trusts, pools and corporations. *$1.80. Ginn.
“These selected readings and cases admirably supplement the usual text-books, and put the essence of the most suggestive collateral material in the hands of every student. As labor-saving devices alone, they will amply repay their cost.” Winthrop More Daniels.
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Atlan. 97: 849. Je. ’06. 210w.
“Most of the contributions attain, each in its own way, a high standard of merit.”
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Ind. 60: 1045. My. 3, ’06. 220w.
“Some chapters are of high individual merit, and all as individual bricks contribute to the making of a solid and useful whole.” H. C. E.
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Yale R. 15: 333. N. ’06. 480w.
Roach, Abby Meguire. Some successful marriages. †$1.25. Harper.
Thoroly modern matrimonial problems are illustrated seriously, humorously and realistically in this group of stories. Tact, loyalty, man’s and woman’s philosophy all enter into the illustrated give-and-take process necessary to the harmonious adjustment of wedded lives along understood lines of liberty.
N. Y. Times. 11: 833. D. 1, ’06. 190w.
“Its limitation is a lack of humor, which results in a self-conscious style from time to time, and leads one to suspect that the characters are not quite average—as they are intended to be—but ultra-introspective, thinking their way through difficulties that over and over should dissolve in fun.”
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Outlook. 84: 895. D. 8, ’06. 220w.
Roads, Charles. Bible studies for teacher training: analytical, synthetic side lights; a normal class text book. *60c. Meth. bk.
Suggestive outlines to be followed in both analytical and synthetic study of the Bible.
Roberts, Charles George Douglas. Heart that knows. $1.50. Page.
When Jim Calder is made mate of the good ship G. G. Goodridge he does not marry Luella Warden as he has promised, but, stinging under the evil insinuations of a forged letter which a designing woman has shown him, he sails out of the Bay of Fundy and away leaving Luella to her shame. How he fares on the high seas, and how Luella brings up her son alone and undefended, and how this son after twenty years finds the father who wronged his mother and himself, loves him and brings him home, is the story of the book.
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Acad. 71: 552. D. 1, ’06. 120w.
“It is a bold, compelling piece of work, intimately realistic, except where the author has occasion to transport two of the leading characters to eastern seas.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 650. N. 24. 100w.
“We forget the improbability in the joy of the workmanship.”
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Ind. 61: 755. S. 27, ’06. 420w.
“Mr. Roberts’s new novel has all the characteristics of his previous work, with some additional distinction.”
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Lit. D. 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 200w.
“We have a right to expect better things than this from Mr. Roberts or nothing at all.”
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Nation. 83: 308. O. 11, ’06. 450w.
“We find it less satisfactory in plot than in its delightful scenery and delineation of character.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 564. S. 15, ’06. 630w.
“It is not so much a story, however, as a series of cameo-like character studies of a small town.”
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World To-Day. 11: 1222. N. ’06. 100w.
Roberts, Charles George Douglas. Red fox: the story of his adventurous career in the Ringwaak wilds and of his final triumph over the enemies of his kind. †$2. Page.
“Among the many writers of nature-books none is more satisfactory than Mr. Roberts.” Amy C. Rich.
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Arena. 35: 105. Ja. ’06. 220w.
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Bookm. 23: 341. My. ’06. 300w.
“It isn’t a sincere piece of work. There isn’t enough to a fox; his psychology, his interests, his daily round is too limited to sustain him throughout a volume. The author has tried to meet the lack of substance with style.”
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Critic. 48: 122. F. ’06. 250w.
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Lit. D. 32: 332. Mr. 3, ’06. 660w.
“It is a good specimen of the work of a well-known author.”
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Spec. 95: 1128. D. 30, ’05. 200w.
Roberts, Morley. Idlers. †$1.50. Page.
“A very modern tale, dealing very modestly with British society—with true love, unsanctified passion, stark madness, and many vanities and pretences of this wicked world.... The hero is intellectually a fool ... a fine strapping young chap of true English meat, dull, but sound. Being the only son and heir of a baronet, his mother, who believes firmly in mustard plasters, has kept him out of the army and the university. Therefore going up to London, he promptly falls a victim to the wiles of a certain charmer of the town ... very beautiful and very, very wicked.... The book is full of malign caricatures of British types, the malignity lying largely in the closeness of the caricature to the living original.”—N. Y. Times.
“This tale of intrigue is well handled, and sometimes well told. It is always told with power; and it has the merit of being essentially interesting.”
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Ath. 1905, 2: 681. N. 18. 340w.
“The book would be melodrama, if not for the atmosphere of reality it exhales, and the fine sanity of the lesson it teaches.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
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Bookm. 23: 189. Ap. ’06. 300w.
“There is nothing to redeem ‘The idlers’ from being the worst of fungus fiction except this element of masculine health in closing the situation.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.
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Ind. 60: 1043. My. 3, ’06. 450w.
“It is a good story for people who like their romance spiced with wit and anchored to a sense of things as they are.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 117. F. 24, ’06. 670w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.
“The present story seems to us deplorable, if not reprehensible, because it is cynical and 294too realistic in its presentation of viciousness and decadence in fashionable London society.”
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Outlook. 82: 763. Mr. 31, ’06. 120w.
Robertson, Florence H. Shadow land: stories of the South. $1.25. Badger, R: G.
Two of these three tales of the South reveal the “Old mammy” of slavery days, showing her unfailing loyalty and devotion to her “mistis.” Two “Knobite” waifs of the Southwest Virginia mountains “who had paired off with the birds,” ignorant of everything save humanity’s heart-throbbings give the title to the third, “Children of the woods.”
Robertson, John Mackinnon. Short history of free thought, ancient and modern. 2v. *$6. Putnam.
“This outspoken and admirable work first published in 1899, has now been re-written, and enlarged to such an extent that it fills two stout volumes instead of one.”—Dial.
“Mr. Robertson is always stimulating and often amusing: and these two volumes are no exception.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 268. S. 8. 160w.
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Dial. 41: 62. Ag. 1, ’06. 40w.
“He writes fluently with a pen that never falters, always with a felicity of phrase that make his writing agreeable reading.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 411. Je. 23, ’06. 880w.
“It might be termed the history of unbelief. It is comprehensive. But it is not marked by any notable philosophical insight or dramatic power.”
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Outlook. 84: 44. S. 1, ’06. 140w.
Robertson, Morgan. Land ho! †$1.25. Harper.
Angus McPherson, otherwise known as Scotty, “a man with a face like a harvest moon and the soul of a Scotsman” is the principal figure in several of the adventures narrated in Mr. Robertson’s new book of sea tales. “The sea, as Scotty and the rest of Mr. Robertson’s heroes know it, is a hard mistress, exacting a heavy toll of labor and sorrow and making little return; and as a whole Mr. Robertson’s book does not make cheerful reading.” (Dial.)
“His style is powerful, but his insight is always exercised on gruesome situations.”
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Dial. 40: 19. Ja. 1, ’06. 180w.
“As a whole the stories are very readable.”
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Ind. 60: 455. F. 22, ’06. 300w.
“The book is always interesting.”
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N. Y. Times. 10: 811. N. 25, ’05. 270w.
“The tales are remarkable rather for ingenuity than for any convincing quality.”
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Outlook. 82: 46. Ja. 6, ’06. 90w.
“A rattling, rousing, salty story.”
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R. of Rs. 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 20w.
Robie, Virginia. Historic styles in Furniture. *$1.60. Stone.
“The title indicates the special point of view of this new ‘furniture book.’ Sometimes the century made the style, as in the fifteenth century; sometimes the period, as with the Italian Renaissance; sometimes the monarch, as with Louis XV. Taking each style as a chapter division, the author writes clearly of its development, highest type, and merger into other styles. The illustrations are admirably chosen and well printed.”—Outlook.
“For a convenient and well-balanced account of the general trend and development of styles this book is to be commended.”
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Int. Studio. 29: 114. O. ’06. 450w.
“Mistakes, however, are discoverable, and some of them seem as if caused by a lack or knowledge of the actual pieces.”
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Nation. 82: 538. Je. 28, ’06. 610w.
“The book which is popularly written, adequately serves two purposes—an introduction to those elaborate monographs by specialists already mentioned: a text-book by the means of which the modest house holder may be inspired to beautify his home in many artistic ways.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 233. Ap. 7, ’06. 270w.
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Outlook. 82: 521. Mr. 3, ’06. 70w.
Robins, Edward. William T. Sherman. *$1.25. Jacobs.
“It is designed for popular reading, a somewhat slight work but at the same time unpretentious. While by no means a scientific military biography, it yet gives the main facts in the life of Sherman correctly, and in as much detail as the ordinary reader requires.” J. K. Hosmer.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 928. Jl. ’06. 690w.
“Quite up to the creditable standard of its predecessors.”
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Critic. 48: 380. Ap. ’06. 60w.
“He has made an excellent portrait of the great soldier, giving the shadows as well as the lights.”
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Dial. 40: 239. Ap. 1, ’06. 190w.
“His is distinctly not a biography, but a military memoir.”
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Lit. D. 32: 332. Mr. 3, ’06. 510w.
“There is a pleasant atmosphere of fairness about his book.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 50. Ja. 27, ’06. 520w.
“It presents a truthful and striking portrait, and is very acceptable as a military memoir. It is to be wished that in his presentation he had attained a higher level of literary quality.”
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Outlook. 82: 327. F. 10, ’06. 170w.
“The book is written attractively and with due regard to the official and standard authorities.”
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R. of Rs. 33: 253. F. ’06. 120w.
Robins, Elizabeth (Mrs. G. R. Parkes). Dark lantern; a story with a prologue. †$1.50. Macmillan.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
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Atlan. 97: 55. Ja. ’06. 270w.
Robinson, Edward Kay. Religion of nature. **90c. McClure.
“A scientific attempt to justify the ways of God to man.... The seeming ruthlessness, the cruelty of nature has been a stumbling-block to many patient thinkers. Mr. Kay Robinson, having found a haven of refuge, is anxious that others should share it.... The key of his solution is simply this—that real suffering can only be experienced when it is ‘conscious’; and that since man is the only animal that has attained consciousness man alone can suffer pain.”—Ath.
“He has in no sense taken a survey of the vast and varied considerations that would occur to one who had read widely and thought deeply on the growth and development of religious ideas.”
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Acad. 70: 570. Je. 16, ’06. 1970w.
“This book deserves serious consideration. In the end we must find a verdict of ‘not proven,’ at the same time acknowledging with lively gratitude the suggestiveness and the admirable ideal of this interesting book.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 34. Jl. 14. 1520w.
“The essay is an interesting one, but to many persons it will not seem that it is possible to follow the author in all his deductions.”
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Critic. 49: 282. S. ’06. 170w.
“A book that is sure to interest a large number of readers. In the opinion of the present writer, though, Mr. Robinson fails to prove his thesis.”
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Nature. 74: 513. S. 20, ’06. 550w.
295“The motive and spirit of the writer are more commendable than his reasoning.”
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Outlook. 83: 864. Ag. 11, ’06. 110w.
R. of Rs. 34: 384. S. ’06. 110w.
Spec. 96: 978. Je. 23, ’06. 1540w.
Robinson, Edwin Arlington. Children of the night. **$1. Scribner.
“Shows real poetic insight and a fine touch.”
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R. of Rs. 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 50w.
Robinson, Emma Amelia, and Morgan, Charles Herbert. Short studies of Old Testament heroes. *50c. Meth. bk.
Bible heroes are treated in text book manner for any who wish a short and simple Bible course.
Robinson, Frederick S. English furniture. *$6.75. Putnam.
A late addition to the “Connoisseur’s library.” The subject is treated historically from the collector’s point of view, covering the entire period of furniture-making in England down to the beginning of the nineteenth century. “After the different styles of furniture have been dealt with and their characteristics compared and their particular points shown, Mr. Robinson provides a few notes on the materials, manufacture, and care of furniture made of oak, walnut and mahogany, giving instructions for polishing, the retaining of the color of the wood, etc.” (N. Y. Times.) There are 160 collotype plates and one photogravure all appearing at the end of the work.
“On a subject crowded with sociological interest and aesthetic pleasure, Mr. Robinson has given us a book that should form the type and pattern for future volumes in the ‘Connoisseur’s library,’ and at the same time, be the last word on English furniture for at least a generation.”
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Acad. 70: 487. My. 19, ’06. 480w.
“Mr. Robinson’s book is indispensable to a connoisseur.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 272. Mr. 3. 730w.
“Furniture collectors and dealers will find helpful and valuable information in this book.”
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Ind. 60: 628. Mr. 15, ’06. 840w.
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Int. Studio. 28: 180. Ap. ’06. 170w.
“Mr. Robinson’s may be described as a very useful general survey of the history of this branch of art, and as a worthy successor to Mr. Dillon’s book on porcelain, published in the same series.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 270. Ag. 3, ’06. 80w.
“It may be stated as a general truth that the book is written throughout with a strong personal character impressed upon it, as being the work of one who has collected or at least studied and gathered material on his own account.”
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Nation. 82: 125. F. 8, ’06. 870w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 927. D. 30, ’05. 220w.
“Altogether the book is a valuable and attractive addition to the series.”
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Outlook. 81: 1082. D. 30, ’05. 260w.
Robinson, James Harvey. Readings in European history. Abridged ed. *$1.50. Ginn.
A high school text which is a collection of extracts from the sources chosen with the purpose of illustrating the progress of culture in Western Europe since the German invasions. Each chapter is accompanied by a carefully chosen bibliography.
Am. Hist. R. 11: 727. Ap. ’06. 60w.
“The book is so admirably adapted to its purpose of aiding the imagination and rendering more vivid the history of Europe from the period of the German invasions that it is gratifying to have it in a form in which it will find its way into the hands of many pupils who would not otherwise have known it.”—F. G. B.
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Am. Hist. R. 12: 168. O. ’06. 240w.
“Selected with a wide knowledge of the field, and nice judgment of the needs of youthful learners.”
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Dial. 40: 333. My. 16, ’06. 70w.
Nation. 82: 382. My. 10, ’06. 60w.
“Good judgment has been used in the abridgment, but the omission of so many important and interesting extracts is a cause for regret. The book fills a long-felt want.” M. W. Jernegan.
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School R. 14: 619. O. ’06. 130w.
Roche, Francis Everard. Exodus: an epic on liberty. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
The period of this poem is fixed sometime prior to the Trojan war and the action extends thru eighteen days and part of the miraculous three days and nights of continued darkness over the land of Egypt. The fable which deals with the oppression of the Israelites by the Egyptians assumes that liberty—inseparable from the redemption and happiness of mankind—looks to the Exodus from Egypt as the true turning point in its triumph over the ills of slavery and despotism.
Roden, Robert F. Cambridge press, 1638–1692: a history of the first printing press established in English America, together with a biographical list of the issues of the press. *$5. Dodd.
The second volume in a series on “Famous presses.” The author deals historically and bibliographically with the history of the first printing press established in English North America. “The treatment of the subject comprehends a list of the publications of the Cambridge press; sketches of the several printers whose names are connected with its history; and matters of interest connected with the rare volumes published at this early date, the history being given in many instances of their transmission from purchaser to purchaser and of the constant appreciation of the market value of these much-sought-after treasures. This method of treatment brings the reader in contact with many collectors of Americana during the last century whose names are as familiar as household words to librarians and students.” (Am. Hist. R.)
“The book has a meagre index, but on the whole is a satisfactory piece of work, the only serious blemish being the unnecessary attack on the Boston collectors.” Andrew McFarland Davis.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 906. Jl. ’06. 730w.
“He certainly has made a valuable and useful book, and if it is in parts rather barren reading, it is because the history of the first press established in English America is not a very fruitful theme. It is to the historian of early presses in America and to the bibliographer and the collector of early American imprints that this book must of necessity appeal.”
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Nation. 83: 224. S. 13, ’06. 430w.
“It will prove itself a necessity in the library of any collector.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 146. Mr. 10, ’06. 420w.
Rogers, Bessie Story. As it may be: a story of the future. *$1. Badger, R. G.
“As it may be” jumps to the year 2905 and shows how sickness and consequently doctors have been eliminated not thru spiritual freedom but thru liberty that results from nourishing the body according to a set of Utopian principles.
Rogers, Joseph Morgan. The true Henry Clay. **$2. Lippincott.
Reviewed by M. A. de Wolfe Howe.
Atlan. 97: 113. Ja. ’06. 100w.
296Rogers, Julia Ellen. Tree book: a popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation. 16 plates in color and 160 in black and white from photographs by A. Radclyffe Dugmore. **$4. Doubleday.
“One of the fruits of efforts recently made to bring the literature of popular science and nature-study to a sane and solid basis.” (Dial.) Pt. 1 contains an introduction, names of trees, a sketch of tree families, and a key to the principal ones followed by fifty biographical chapters, each treating one family; pt. 2 is devoted to the subject of forestry; pt. 3 deals with the uses of the products of the forest; and pt. 4 describes the life of the trees.
“The style is pleasing and popular, while on the whole the work is scientifically accurate.” Bohnmil Shimek.
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Dial. 40: 358. Je. 1. ’06. 1040w.
“The technical arrangement of the book is admirable and most practical.” Mabel O. Wright.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 168. Mr. 17, ’06. 1410w.
Roosevelt, Theodore. Outdoor pastimes of an American hunter. **$3. Scribner.
“His pages are alive with healthy incident and an observant criticism of birds and beasts, together with an admirably expressed appreciation of the wild and beautiful districts he visited in search of sport. From a British point of view this work is enhanced by being written in good readable English.” P.
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Acad. 70: 89. Ja. 27, ’06. 1540w.
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Ath. 1906, 1: 168. F. 10. 260w.
“Mr. Roosevelt’s style is, as usual, practical and prosaic, almost unimaginative. But the volume is well-nigh cyclopaedic upon the ground that it covers. The author gathers large stores of information, and does not jump at conclusions. He is scrupulous as to the accuracy of the smallest details.”
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Dial. 40: 49. Ja. 16, ’06. 420w.
“It would be hard to put one’s finger on another writer on sport who is so keen an observer as President Roosevelt, or who gives us in his chapters on hunting so many interesting and good observations on natural history.”
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Ind. 59: 1535. D. 28, ’05. 450w.
Ind. 61: 1172. N. 15, ’06. 10w.
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Lit. D. 32: 70. Ja. 13, ’06. 1400w.
“It is written by a man who is a delightful ‘raconteur,’ and who has an intense conviction of the virile reality of his own life and of the deep integrity of the life around him.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 26. Ja. 6, ’06. 380w.
“The volume that records his adventures is straightforward, vigorous and pithy, with no wasted words and no ineffective ones.”
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Reader. 7: 339. F. ’06. 310w.
Roosevelt, Theodore. Square deal. $1. Allendale press.
Ideals of citizenship, success in life, nobility of parenthood, the problem of the South, the Chinese question and the essence of Christian character are among the subjects treated here. It is a book of cullings from the President’s addresses. A new photogravure portrait appears on the frontispiece.
Root, Jean Christie (Mrs. J. H. Root). Does God comfort? by one who has greatly needed to know. **30c. Crowell.
Thru sorrow, loss, and temptation has come to the author the assurance that all that God has given to him He will give to every soul that honestly seeks Him.
Ropes, James Hardy. Apostolic age in the light of modern criticism. **$1.50. Scribner.
“The author, a professor at Harvard, in 1904 delivered a course of Lowell institute lectures on the apostolic age. The publication of these lectures places within reach of those who may be inquiring what New Testament criticism has done with the reputations of Paul and Peter, a clear, graphic account of the happenings of the apostolic days as at present understood by historians.... The aim is to describe the currents of thought, and life which made the apostolic age so great, and the success of the endeavor is notable.”—Ind.
“A concise and scholarly discussion, in attractive popular form, of the history and literature of the apostolic age.”
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Bib. World. 27: 480. Je. ’06. 30w.
“Considering the field covered the work is brief, but more than a compensation for inadequacy of space to certain details is offered in the clarity and vividness in which the whole movement is portrayed. The résumé of recent criticism bearing on the period is fair and impartial.”
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Ind. 61: 1118. N. 8, ’06. 370w.
“The poetical element in the character of the man of Tarsus has rarely found more sympathetic and forceful exposition.”
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Ind. 61: 1160. N. 15, ’06. 30w.
“Examination of the work reveals not only a thorough and painstaking scholar, but also a writer of no little skill in holding material well in hand, in suppressing overplus of detail and bringing salient points into the clear, and also in presenting critical results with a minimum of offence to the traditionalist. There are occasional blunders in proofreading.”
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Nation. 83: 37. Jl. 12, ’06. 360w.
“Professor Ropes gives an admirable survey of Jewish Christianity, an admirable character sketch of the Apostle Paul, and an admirable summary of the modern view respecting the date, origin, and form of composition of the four Gospels. His interpretation of Paul’s theology is, unfortunately, couched too much in modern theological phraseology, and he seems to us to fail to bring out the most fundamental characteristic of Paul’s teaching, namely, its subjective character.”
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Outlook. 84: 427. O. 20, ’06. 500w.
Roscoe, Henry Enfield. Life and experience of Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe written by himself. *$4. Macmillan.
“There is a refreshing old-time atmosphere about the volume of reminiscences recently written by the famous English chemist.... There is much ... in the way of illuminating recollections of later giants of the nineteenth century—the illustrious Bunsen, who pointed him the path to success in chemical research; Faraday, Pasteur, Huxley, Tyndall, Lister, Kirchoff, Helmholtz, Dalton, Jevons, and, outside the realm of science, Gladstone, Martineau, Francis Newman, Richard Hutton, John Bright, and Sir Leslie Stephen. But perhaps the most interesting aspect of this volume lies in the light it throws on the progress of scientific investigation in Great Britain.”—Outlook.
“It should also be available at all public libraries as the story of one who has made use of his life and health to do work which has benefited his fellow-citizens, his fellow-countrymen, and the world at large.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 77. Jl. 21. 680w.
“Not for a long time has there come from England an autobiography of more all-around interest.”
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Ind. 61: 515. Ag. 30, ’06. 760w.
“It contains pleasant references to numerous men of mark, but it is as a valuable contribution to the history of education that it claims lasting recognition.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 278. Ag. 10, ’06. 1090w.
“The index is so meagre as to be almost worthless.”
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Nation. 83: 43. Jl. 12, ’06. 610w.
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Nature. 74: 289. Jl. 26, ’06. 1750w.
297“An unassuming and leisurely narrative.”
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Outlook. 83: 529. Je. 30, ’06. 280w.
R. of Rs. 34: 125. Jl. ’06. 110w.
Spec. 97: 332. S. 8, ’06. 600w.
Rose, Arthur Richard. Common sense hell. **$1. Dillingham.
Mr. Rose, a practical business man, proves that hell fire is an absolute absurdity, and then reveals the reasonable, logical, sane and adequate hell which awaits each person who dies in his sins.
Rose, John Holland. Development of the European nations, 1870–1900. 2v. ea. **$2.50. Putnam.
A two-volume work by the historian of the Napoleonic period. The author says: “After working at my subject for some time, I found it desirable to limit it to events which had a distinctly formative influence on the development of European states.” The two great impulses of the world—Democracy and Nationality as developed in the nations of Europe during the past four decades—are fully discussed and criticised from the vantage point of a twentieth century observer.
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Acad. 70: 474. My. 19, ’06. 1500w.
“Though Mr. Rose’s essays have considerable value, they are very far from justifying his title or constituting a history of the period.” Victor Coffin.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 895. Jl. ’06. 1040w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Dr. Rose has a sound judgment and a clear lucid style. Our only doubt is whether in every case he can have obtained certain data on which to found his conclusions.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 723. Je. 16. 1910w.
“It must be said that the second volume is of a distinctly lower grade than the first. There is in it a note of weariness of the task. It is correct and up to date, but the language is less vivid. But both volumes are always and everywhere absolutely simple and clear, so that concise and correct information on whatever of importance pertains to modern European history, within the period covered, is available to anyone.” E. D. Adams.
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Dial. 41: 63. Ag. 1, ’06. 1670w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Combining wide reading, sound judgment, and an absence of party spirit not often found together.” W. Miller.
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Eng. Hist. R. 21: 396. Ap. ’06. 560w.
“The title-page of Dr. Rose’s latest book is full of promise. The book itself, however, disappoints the hopes thus invoked. It is an eminently readable book. Dr. Rose is a craftsman of experience, who, on the whole, does his work well.”
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Ind. 61: 816. O. 4, ’06. 440w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
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Ind. 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 80w.
“The substantial merits of this volume, which contains a large amount of useful information laboriously compiled, are obscured by a slipshod, sometimes almost illiterate style.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 34. F. 2, ’06. 1470w.
“Mr. Rose is somewhat uneven in style. Yet the period he deals with is so important and so interesting, and reliable works upon it are so few, that his volumes deserve a warm welcome.”
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Nation. 82: 515. Je. 21, ’06. 1410w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“As a pioneer work this must rank very high. The author shows great independence of thought as well as judgment and discretion.” R. L. Schuyler.
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N. Y. Times. 10: 857. D. 2, ’05. 460w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Taken as a whole, the volume offers an interesting if not valuable insight into the attempts of old régimes to adjust their policies to the irrepressible growth of internal liberty of thought and action.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 632. O. 6, ’06. 2360w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Until the private papers of great personages and state documents now locked up shall come to light, the sources of history used by Dr. Rose can hardly be enlarged. The reader cannot fail to see in his work the hand of a careful and sympathetic student of the struggle of nations toward the realization of their ideals.”
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Outlook. 82: 43. Ja. 6, ’06. 290w. (Review of v. 1.)
“His work is singularly valuable for an understanding of the international relations of contemporary Europe.”
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Outlook. 82: 568. Mr. 10, ’06. 410w. (Review of v. 2.)
“A period of European history as yet only cursorily treated ... has been graphically summed up in a scholarly manner.”
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R. of Rs. 33: 254. F. ’06. 90w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Dr. Rose has the faculty of writing history in an entertaining way and making the essential facts stick in the memory.”
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R. of Rs. 33: 382. Mr. ’06. 80w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is skilfully planned, carefully executed, and exhibits on every page a sincere desire to master the problem and present it fairly and accurately.”
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Sat. R. 100: 782. D. 16, ’05. 1900w.
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Spec. 96: 183. F. 3, ’06. 1600w.
Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th earl of. Lord Randolph Churchill. **$2.25. Harper.
Lord Rosebery, tho a political opponent yet from the point of view of intimacy and affection presents a reminiscence and a study rather than a life of Lord Churchill. He sets this “brilliant half-success” in the field of high politics, reveals the qualities that made for mastery and also those that marred a brilliant career. There are side lights thrown upon such men as Gladstone, Beaconsfield, Salisbury, Parnell, and others.
“The best literary work, in our opinion, which he has produced.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 395. O. 6. 1370w.
“In literary quality and in the human interest of its pages, this book will bear comparison with the former monographs of the distinguished author.”
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Lit. D. 33: 768. N. 24, ’06. 300w.
“The book is small, but every page attracts, instructs, and inspires.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 335. O. 5, ’06. 960w.
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Nation. 83: 413. N. 15, ’06. 240w.
“One cannot but wonder, on closing this fascinating yet disagreeable volume, why its author wrote it. At the end, you are conscious, more than anything else, of a bad taste in the mouth.” Edward Cary.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 736. N. 10, ’06. 1120w.
“What this monograph lacks in care and polish is more than made up for by its spontaneity, and by the vital interest of Lord Rosebery’s comments on the political parties of his own day, and on a career which has some striking points of resemblance to his own.” Arthur A. Baumann.
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Sat. R. 102: 422. O. 6, ’06. 1840w.
Rosegger, Petri Kettenfeier. I. N. R. I.: a prisoner’s story of the cross, tr. by Elizabeth Lee. †$1.50. McClure.
Ath. 1905, 2: 893. D. 30. 280w.
“Powerful and admirably translated story.”
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Spec. 95: 1077. D. 23, ’05. 2030w.
Ross, Edward Alsworth. Foundations of sociology. *$1.25. Macmillan.
“Like Professor Ross’s previous studies of 298the influence of social control upon human society, his work of analysis and criticism of the foundations of sociology deserves universal recognition as a contribution of the first order to both sociological literature and sociological science.” Frederick Morgan Davenport.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 541. S. ’06. 1720w.
Ross, Henry M. Her blind folly. $1.25. Benziger.
The story of a girl’s unhappy marriage and its attending trials relieved by the Roman Catholic faith.
Ross, Janet Anne (Mrs. Henry J. Ross). Florentine palaces; with 30 il. by Adelaide Marchrist. **$1.50. Dutton.
“It is with the historic and literary associations of the Florentine palaces—the bold, massive, rusticated buildings, so characteristic, Fergusson says, of the manly energy of the republic in the Medicean era—that Mrs. Ross is chiefly concerned.” (Ath.) “She gives to us suprisingly scant information concerning architecture, but a great deal about the important events which happened within the buildings she describes or in connection with them.” (Outlook.)
“The style is somewhat dry, but the book is none the less a delightful one to dip into here and there.”
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Acad. 70: 22. Ja. 6, ’06. 210w.
“Her book is a mine of valuable information, gathered not only from the standard works of Villari and other writers, but also from little-known contemporary records inaccessible to the English reader.”
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Ath. 1905. 2: 887. D. 30. 560w.
“Mrs. Ross has every qualification for writing a book of this kind.”
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Ind. 60: 872. Ap. 12, ’06. 50w.
“The volume will be found more interesting for reference than for consecutive perusal.”
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Nation. 82: 331. Ap. 19, ’06. 340w.
“A solid study, a reference book for any one who may purpose spending intelligently a winter in Florence.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 27. Ja. 13, ’06. 480w.
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Outlook. 82: 46. Ja. 6, ’06. 100w.
“She writes history admirably well, having a due consideration for the general reader, and not shrinking from recounting, in a fresh and pleasant way, old stories which the superior person may sniff at as stale. The work is not free from small inaccuracies.”
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Sat. R. 101: 274. Mr. 3, ’06. 230w.
Rossetti, William Michael. Some reminiscences of William Michael Rossetti. 2v. *$10. Scribner.
Interesting recollections and anecdotes concerning founders of the Pre-Raphaelite movement that bring the reader in touch with a procession of famous artists and men of letters. “Of course, we want, too, illuminating gossip about our remarkable figures. That is why we welcome Mr. Rossetti’s reminiscences. We need to know all we can about humanity—not because humanity is Pre-Raphaelite, but because it is interesting.” (Acad.)
“It would be difficult to find a commentary more useful to those interested in the men and movements of the last sixty years.”
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Acad. 71: 466. N. 10, ’06. 1590w.
“Next to the outspokenness with which we have dealt ... the most striking attribute of the confessions is common sense.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 541. N. 3. 1800w.
“The general tone of these memoirs is a little disappointing. Mr. Rossetti is so afraid of saying something that he has said already, as well as seeming either to blow his own trumpet or to cast undue blame on someone else, that his chapters decidedly lack color and movement as compared with much of his previous writing.” Edith Kellogg Dunton.
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Dial. 41: 444. D. 16, ’06. 2270w.
“Taken as a whole the book is far too diffuse; a single volume would have been enough and, possibly, too much.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 370. N. 2, ’06. 480w.
“It may as well be said explicitly that these memoirs are a disappointment. The fact is that Mr. Rossetti has in various memoirs and introductions given out all his wheat and that only the chaff is left for this garnering.”
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Nation. 83: 353. O. 25, ’06. 890w.
“Delightfully written.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 90w.
Rothschild, Alonzo. Lincoln, master of men. **$3. Houghton.
Mastery over different types of men as well as over self serves as the keynote to this eight-chapter biography. “‘A Samson of the backwoods’ gives an account of Lincoln’s early struggles and triumphs; ‘Love, war, and politics,’ carries him to his leadership of the Whig party in Illinois; ‘Giants, big and little’ narrates his rivalry with Douglas from their young manhood to the day of Lincoln’s great triumph when Douglas held his hat through the inauguration ceremonies; ‘The power behind the throne’ is of course Seward, and ‘An indispensable man’ is Chase; while ‘The curbing of Stanton’ conveys an altogether wrong impression of Lincoln’s relations with his great war minister; ‘How the pathfinder lost the trail’ tells the story of Fremont and his lamentable failure as general and politician; ‘The young Napoleon’ is General McClellan.” (Dial.)
Am. Hist. R. 11: 976. Jl. ’06. 70w.
“This method of writing biography is exposed to peculiar hazards. Mr. Rothschild has not escaped these pitfalls, though his portraiture of Lincoln is fairly successful.” Allen Johnson.
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Am. Hist. R. 12: 166. O. ’06. 940w.
“The story is well and forcibly told and the style is admirably terse.”
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Critic. 48: 570. Je. ’06. 130w.
“The author tells his story with zest and force. It abounds with well-chosen anecdotes, and with the interesting personal items that give life to biography. The bibliography and citations of authorities are indeed fuller and better than any other that we know.” Charles H. Cooper.
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Dial. 40: 254. Ap. 16, ’06. 1180w.
“All the details have been studied, and have been handled with skill and judgment; and the result is a picture that both charms and convinces.”
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Ind. 60: 1105. My. 10, ’06. 550w.
“It is scholarly, without being pedantic; is on the contrary, intensely readable, being liberally punctuated with anecdote. It is sane, it is stimulating. Above all, it makes for keener appreciation of the immensity of Lincoln’s task and of the greatness of his achievement.”
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Lit. D. 32: 769. My. 19, ’06. 760w.
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Nation. 83: 102. Ag. 2, ’06. 1060w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 375. Je. 9, ’06. 340w.
“I believe that Mr. Rothschild’s book is the best of all for the Lincoln student to begin with, to keep to hand during his course, and to rely on as help in reviewing at the end. The faults are but few. The greatest is the disrespect shown Douglas, one of the ablest men of his day.” John C. Reed.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 460. Jl. 21, ’06. 2720w.
“He is open to criticism in his delineation of the men whose policies and purposes at times crossed with Lincoln.”
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Outlook. 83: 623. Jl. 14, ’06. 1390w.
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Pub. Opin. 40: 508. Ap. 21, ’06. 750w.
“Mr. Alonzo Rothschild premises an acquaintance with American political history which is beyond the equipment of the ordinary English 299reader; he is unduly redundant. But he has a definite theme and he keeps to it.”
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Spec. 97: 130. Jl. 28, ’06. 1870w.
Roulet, Mary F. Nixon-. Trail of the dragon, and other stories. $1.25. Benziger.
Twenty and more short stories by such writers as Marion Ames Taggart, Anna T. Sadlier, Jerome Harte and others.
Round the world: a series of interesting illustrated articles on a great variety of subjects. 85c. Benziger.
The following subjects are treated in an interestingly informing manner: Climbing the Alps, The great wall of China, Nature study and photography, The making of a newspaper, Rookwood pottery, The magic kettle, Some wonderful birds, Ostriches, Skis and ski racing, The marvel of the New World, Triumphal arches, and Venders in different lands.
Routh, James Edward, jr. Fall of Tollan. $1. Badger, R: G.
“The author of ‘The fall of Tollan’ displays considerable aptitude in his wielding of blank verse, and a fair degree of the ability to ‘visualize’ the scene.” Edith M. Thomas.
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Critic. 48: 184. F. ’06. 210w.
Rowe, James W. Hand-book on the newly-born. *75c. J. W. Rowe. (For sale by U. P. James, 127 W. 7th st., Cincinnati.)
A book for young physicians and nurses.
Rowe, Stuart Henry. Physical nature of the child, and how to study it. *90c. Macmillan.
The fifth edition of a useful book on “child study.” The author acquaints a child’s sponsors with everything they should know for the best possible development of the child. “The treatise is based upon the principle that activity is the cause of growth, that individuals vary enormously in their capacity for different kinds of mental and physical action, and that physical conditions affect fundamentally that power of action in most various ways in different children. Therefore, the teacher, and the parent as well, should know and pay constant attention to the physical condition of their children.” (Bookm.)
“The revised edition ... is justified by its serviceableness to teachers in general.”
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Bookm. 23: 219. Ap. ’06. 190w.
“We heartily agree with Superintendent Maxwell’s praise, cited in the preface to the second edition, and wish that every teacher and parent might read the book.” Edward O. Sisson.
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Dial. 41: 89. Ag. 16, ’06. 460w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 228. Ap. 7, ’06. 200w.
“Is an admirable guide in this line of work both for teachers and parents.”
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Outlook. 82: 570. Mr. 10, ’06. 130w.
Rowell, George Presbury. Forty years an advertising agent, 1865–1905. Printers’ ink pub.
“This is a most engaging volume—this breezy gossipy story of the life and observations of an advertising man.... You will find mentioned among Mr. Rowell’s acquaintances most of the names that you have ever seen associated with pills, lotions, hair restorers, and panaceas generally. Mr. Rowell speaks quite familiarly of these great men and supplies much curious inside information—all in the friendliest spirit. His anecdotes are not, however, confined to patent medicine people; he tells stories of famous newspaper publishers all over the country, beginning with Boston of forty years ago and ending with New York of last year; he reveals a number of prison-house secrets and supplies gossip about many statesmen and men of affairs.”—N. Y. Times.
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Ind. 60: 402. F. 15, ’06. 60w.
“Truth is, Mr. Rowell is the Horace Walpole of the world of ‘business’ during the past four decades.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 50. Ja. 27, ’06. 1120w.
“The book is a mine of anecdotes of publishers, authors, advertisers, and advertising agents, written in a breezy, chatty style.”
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Outlook. 82: 857. Ap. 14, ’06. 80w.
“Even to the ordinary reader, with only a remote interest in advertising and its problems, Mr. Rowell’s book will hold a lasting charm.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 315. Mr. 10, ’06. 560w.
Rowland, Henry Cottrell. In the shadow. †$1.50. Appleton.
“This is a study, rather powerful and chiefly depressing, of a ‘pure bred African,’ a native of Hayti, who goes to England to be educated.” (N. Y. Times.) He “has a certain social standing there, and dreams of becoming a revolutionary hero, and of making a great nation of Hayti. Under the pressure of a series of frightful incidents he ‘reverts to type’ and becomes a semi-savage with pathetic helplessness and alternating moods of brutal ferocity and shrinking cowardice.” (Outlook.) The author’s evident theory that any one of these primitive races can not have the qualities necessary to a leader is worked out to a logical conclusion in the story.
“A study of the real negro, and a wonderfully powerful and convincing study it is.”
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Ath. 1906. 1: 758. Je 23. 190w.
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
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Bookm. 23: 414. Je. ’06. 860w.
“We simply refuse to admit that the magnificent specimen of cultivated manhood who appears in the opening chapters can be one and the same person with the cowering wretch who makes his exit from the stage at the close of the book.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 41: 116. S. 1, ’06. 240w.
“On the whole, we may say that if Mr. Rowland’s story is of the story-with-a-moral sort, its characters are by no means therefore puppets.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 290. My. 5, ’06. 450w.
“There is a great deal that is unpleasant about the tale, and, although it is told with vividness, one doubts whether such a psycho-physiological analysis is really desirable.”
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Outlook. 83: 42. My. 3, ’06. 100w.
“The story as a whole impresses the reader with a sense of futility.”
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Putnam’s. 1: 127. O. ’06. 140w.
R. of Rs. 33: 762. Je. ’06. 50w.
“This is a remarkable novel in every way. It possess unusual grip and vital human interest. Written in terse, nervous language it is the work of a man who has made an intimate study of psychology.”
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Sat. R. 102: 305. S. 8, ’06. 270w.
“For all these artistic blemishes, the book shows originality and power; its interest heightens as the narrative advances, and the terrible scenes in Hayti and the cypress swamp, gruesome as they are, yet lift the romance from the level of melodrama to that of real tragedy.”
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Spec. 96: 988. Je. 23, ’06. 1230w.
Rowland, Henry Cottrell. Mountain of fears. †$1.50. Barnes.
“In this particular volume Mr. Rowland has revealed himself as one of the few writers who can tell a tale ‘just so’ when he wants to do so.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
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Bookm. 22: 492. Ja. ’06. 690w.
“Is an unusual book, albeit morbid, as tales of the uncanny need must be.”
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Ind. 60: 744. Mr. 24, ’06. 120w.
300“There is plenty of go to the stories, which afford a pleasant couple of hours’ entertainment.”
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Lit. D. 31: 1000. D. 30, ’05. 110w.
“Remind one very strongly of the work of Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells ... though they fall perceptibly short of the very close approach to technical perfection of both those writers.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 130. Mr. 3, ’06. 620w.
Rowntree, B. Seebohm. Betting and gambling: a national evil. *$1.60. Macmillan.
“There is probably no more useful work on the whole subject of betting and gambling than the present volume.” W. R. Sorley.
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Int. J. Ethics. 16: 380. Ap. ’06. 1190w.
Rowntree, Joseph, and Sherwell, Arthur. Taxation of the liquor trade, v. 1. *$3.25. Macmillan.
“The present volume is concerned with public-houses, hotels, restaurants, theaters, railway bars, and clubs as they are managed in Great Britain. It also includes two chapters on the subject of license taxation in the United States, giving the varied experiences of such states as Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania. The chief purpose of the writers in this volume is to show the inadequacy of the existing scale of taxation in Great Britain.”—R. of Rs.
+ Ind. 61: 159. Jl. 19, ’06. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Though written with a distinct purpose and to support a precise programme, it is a careful study of a highly complex question, a well stored armoury for the friends of temperance, and also a careful aid to the fiscal reformer.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 262. Jl. 27, ’06. 680w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Our authors are concerned chiefly with the fiscal aspects of the license problem, and it is from this point of view that their performance must be judged. Tested by such a criterion, they have done their work well and they have left few loopholes for the shafts of the severest critic.”
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Nation. 83: 312. O. 11, ’06. 980w. (Review of v. 1.)
R. of Rs. 33: 768. Je. ’06. 200w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Timely and valuable volume.”
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Spec. 97: 498. Mr. 31, ’06. 1730w. (Review of v. 1.)
Rowson, Susanna Haswell. Charlotte Temple: a tale of truth; with an historical and biographical introd. by Francis W. Halsey; reprinted from the first Am. ed., 1794. $1.25. Funk.
Critic. 48: 286. Mr. ’06. 60w.
“Mr. Halsey has given his edition a very thorough equipment of historical and bibliographical matter.”
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Dial. 40: 52. Ja. 16, ’06. 170w.
Ind. 60: 287. F. 1, ’06. 70w.
R. of Rs. 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 40w.
Rumbold, Sir Horace. Final recollections of a diplomatist. $5. Longmans.
The fourth volume of Sir Horace Rumbold’s reminiscences covers the period from 1885 to his retirement from diplomatic service in 1900. During these years he was sent to three courts—to Athens, The Hague, and Vienna.
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Acad. 69: 1194. N. 18, ’05. 880w.
Am. Hist. R. 11: 465. Ja. ’06. 40w.
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Ath. 1905, 2: 540. O. 21. 700w.
“It is characterized by the same lightness of touch as its predecessors, and also, perhaps by the same preference for matters of superficial and personal interest over the graver side of public affairs.”
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Lond. Times. 4: 465. D. 29, ’05. 2130w.
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Nation. 82: 98. F. 1, ’06. 150w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 19. Ja. 13, ’06. 300w.
“The reader’s one regret is apt to be that the man who had the chance to see so much saw so little.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 59. Ja. 13, ’06. 100w.
“Garrulous Sir Horace Rumbold is in the sense that he repeats a fact simply because it is a fact, and he happens to remember it, without ever stopping to consider whether it is an interesting fact.”
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Sat. R. 100: 561. O. 25, ’05. 810w.
“The merits of this book, if viewed not only as the story of a long diplomatic life, but as literature, are visible in every chapter.”
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Spec. 95: sup. 900. D. 2, ’05. 2010w.
Runkle, Bertha. Truth about Tolna. †$1.50. Century.
Tolna, the golden-throated tenor, who is not what he seems to be, gives to this novel of modern New York society a real individuality. The whole action occupies but seven days. There are many people more or less rich and more or less socially ambitious involved in the plot, but they are merely vivacious adjuncts to the story of Tolna and his love for Honor, the cold beauty who was his boyhood’s playmate, and or Denys Alden, the man who, having lost his own voice, rejoices in the triumphs of his protégé, living in his success until he even renounces to him Marjorie, the girl he loves, only to find that her heart is his, but not his to renounce.
“There is a degree of clever originality about Bertha Runkle’s new book. ‘The truth about Tolna,’ of which her previous venture in fiction, ‘The helmet of Navarre,’ gave scant promise.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
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Bookm. 23: 285. My. ’06. 380w.
“This frothy story is moderately entertaining, but is not to be taken seriously from any point of view.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Ind. 60: 1046. My. 3, ’06. 200w.
“Miss Runkle has conceived a very original plot, and shows much skill both in tangling and untangling its threads.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 158. Mr. 17, ’06. 410w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.
“There are a dash and vigor about the handling of this novel of modern New York life that will carry it perhaps beyond its real merits.”
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Outlook. 82: 718. Mr. 24, ’06. 100w.
“It can hardly be counted a successful piece of fiction.”
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Outlook. 82: 759. Mr. 31, ’06. 60w.
“From the ‘Helmet of Navarre’ to ‘The truth about Tolna’ is a long leap, but Miss Runkle has taken it with no signs of effort.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 378. Mr. 24, ’06. 270w.
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R. of Rs. 33: 758. Je. ’06. 130w.
Ruskin, John. Works; edited by E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. 37v. ea. $9. Longmans.
The thirty-seven volumes which make up this library edition contain the complete written life-work of Ruskin, illustrated with woodcuts, plates, and facsimile manuscripts. “The introductions ... are consecutive chapters of what will always remain a far more authoritative biography of Ruskin than any that exists. The reprints of the published books and lectures contain the best possible text, with annotations as careful and minute as if the editors were dealing with a Greek classic; they give us a remark on every various reading, hundreds of cross references, and many references also to many passages in other writers who 301have been influenced by them or controverted them. Moreover ... a great number of the lectures and letters are here published for the first time.” (Lond. Times.)
“The editors have striven with the most praiseworthy diligence to make their edition complete and definitive. They have done a great work.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 137. Ap. 20, ’06. 2000w. (Review of v. 1–22.)
N. Y. Times. 10: 709. O. 21, ’05. 480w. (Review of v. 8.)
N. Y. Times. 11: 235. Ap. 7, ’06. 820w. (Review of v. 20.)
Russell, George William Erskine. Social silhouettes. **$3. Dutton.
“An essay in ‘character’ writing, the author passing in review most of the types that a clubman and Londoner meets with in the narrow confines of his life—the eldest son, the journalist, the Bishop, the don, the carpet-bagger, the invalid, the buck, and so forth.” (Lond. Times.) “They catch those fleeting aspects of things which, once let slip, are recovered with the utmost difficulty; and they establish suggestive standards of comparison between the present and a comparatively recent past. Mr. Russell knows Dickens, Thackeray, and Disraeli by heart, nor has he neglected that most faithful of writers Anthony Trollope.” (Ath.)
“‘Social silhouettes,’ it is not unfair to remark, are a little lacking in balance. Still, without attaining omniscience, Mr. Russell has succeeded in hitting off the polite and professional world in nearly every instance, and his stories are so cleverly handled that he avoids wounding the feelings even of the most susceptible.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 440. O. 13. 800w.
“We lay the book aside with the conviction that Mr. Russell has not observed enough, has not lived enough, for this kind of work. He has met many men and heard many stories, but he lacks alike the seeing eye and the searching phrase. Also the sense of the moment for he seems to have stood still for many years.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 370. N. 2, ’06. 500w.
“The political portraits are drawn with a peculiarly expert hand.”
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Nation. 83: 509. D. 13, ’06. 330w.
“The various short papers on English types are full of refreshing and enlivening touches.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 813. D. 1, ’06. 1170w.
Russell, T. Baron. Hundred years hence; the expectations of an optimist. *$1.50. McClurg.
The mechanical, scientific and ethical progress which the author predicts for the next hundred years promises to our descendants a world of “almost unthinkable perfection.” No war, no coal, no washer-women; all unelevating domestic labor will be eliminated; dress, heat, travel, the air we breathe, the water, we drink, will be perfected; and man, enlightened and developed, will live in a net-work of invention so complicated that life itself will seem a very simple thing.
“Even regarded as the baseless fabric of a vision, the book has a certain fascination; but its forecasts are not without a foundation of scientific probability.”
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Dial. 41: 283. N. 1, ’06. 330w.
“So far from being in advance of his age in his ideas, he has not caught up with it. He has an open and unprejudiced mind and makes many interesting suggestions.”
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Ind. 61: 940. O. 18, ’06. 300w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 653. O. 5, ’06. 280w.
“Far from astonishing us by a bold flight into the regions of scientific impossibilities, which he seems to fear, he leaves us lost in amazement at the feebleness of his imagination.”
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Outlook. 84: 531. O. 27. ’06. 150w.
Russell, W. Clark. Yarn of Old Harbour town. *$1.50. Jacobs.
Harbor life, and life on the high seas one hundred years ago is vividly pictured in this story of Lucy Acton who was kidnapped by her lover and feigned madness for her own protection. The search made for her by her father in his “Aurora,” the appearance of Admiral Nelson, the rescue of Lucy, all making stirring reading, but after all is done, instead of bringing her abductor to justice Lucy nurses him thru an illness, forgets, forgives, and marries him.
“Although the plot and construction of the tale leave little to be desired yet there is much superficial description, and many trifling details are here introduced.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 723. N. 3, ’06. 240w.
“As a love story the book is not very successful, but as a picture of sea and harbor life a hundred years ago it cannot fail to interest its readers.”
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Spec. 95: 571. O. 14, ’05. 160w.
Rutherford, Ernest. Radio-activity. 2d ed. with much additional matter. *$4. Macmillan.
“The fact that the second edition is almost a new work, although the first edition was everywhere hailed as most remarkable, simply evidences the wonderful advance of the science in which Professor Rutherford is himself so large and active a factor.” (Nation.) “It is not a popular work. It is not easy reading to the layman: it is not intended for him. It has a spaciousness of active scientific thought which reaches far into the unknown. Authentic, it is rich in suggestions to the investigator, be he chemist, physicist, engineer, or physiologist.” (Engin. N.)
“It seems likely, therefore, that for some years to come successive editions of Professor Rutherford’s work will remain the best source of information for the reader in whom may be assumed a certain modicum of technical information.”
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Atlan. 98: 418. S. ’06. 40w.
“No words are wasted. The terse diction of the masterpiece gives it a literary charm that carries the competent reader on almost precipitously, yet with discriminating caution.” Charles Baskerville.
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Engin. N. 55: 77. Ja. 18. ’06. 1290w.
“For the student. Professor Rutherford’s book is of the greatest value.”
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Ind. 61: 457. Ag. 23, ’06. 410w.
“Is the most complete and authoritative account of the recent remarkable discoveries in this field by one who has made many of them.”
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Ind. 61: 1172. N. 15, ’06. 20w.
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Nation. 82: 61. Ja. 18, ’06. 1240w.
“We must once more congratulate Prof. Rutherford on the admirable manner in which he has brought his book up to date.” R. J. Strutt.
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Nature. 73: 289. Ja. 25, ’06. 1100w.
“The new treatise gives evidence of the same skilful presentation and arrangement as the old.” C. Barus.
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Science, n.s. 23: 262. F. 16, ’06. 240w.
Ryan, Coletta. Songs in a sun garden. **$1. Turner, H. B.
In Miss Ryan’s poems dreams seem so possible of realization that one credits her with having found a demonstrable principle of life. Head, heart and imagination are all active. “She is a young woman of strong emotion, a child of the imagination, and if no conventional or reactionary power curbs or holds in check her higher and finer impulses, she will do much fine and vital work.” (Arena.)
302“There is much imagination displayed in some of the lines—something all too rare in present day verse. Many of the poems are also rich in rhythmic and musical qualities that tend to sing the lines into the mind of the reader.”
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Arena. 35: 556. My. ’06. 1040w.
“‘A lover’s song’ is one of the few things afforded by this volume that are reasonably acceptable.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 41: 209. O. 1, ’06. 170w.
“They are in the main, bright and sweet, with individuality in their tenderness and with a buoyant spirit of trust and good-will.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 180w.
Ryan, John Augustine. Living wage: its ethical and economic aspects. *$1. Macmillan.
The work of a Roman Catholic priest and teacher in St. Paul’s seminary. “It is perhaps the first attempt in the English language to elaborate what may be called a Roman Catholic system of political economy.... Professor Ryan combines in this work economic and ethical arguments with those derived from authority, and while Professor Ely admits [in the introduction] that members of other religious bodies, both Christian and Jewish, may reject this particular system of wages because it is assumed to rest on the approved teachings of the Roman Catholic church, he bespeaks for it an examination of the question: Does or does not this doctrine of wages rest upon broad Christian, religious, and ethical foundations?” (R. of Rs.)
“The credit due to him for the conception of his task is doubled by the manner in which he has executed it. Thoroughly acquainted with all authorities on political economy, economics and ethics, he has done his work in scientific fashion.”
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Cath. World. 83: 688. Ag. ’06. 1560w.
“Mr. Ryan’s economics are stronger than his ethics.”
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Ind. 61: 517. Ag. 30, ’06. 550w.
“As an alternative to socialism, as an antidote to anarchism. as a stimulator of thought the book seems to us well described in Dr. Ely’s words—‘a meritorious performance.’” Edward A. Bradford.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 317. My. 19, ’06. 2290w.
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Outlook. 84: 91. S. 8, ’06. 560w.
R. of Rs. 33: 768. Je. ’06. 210w.
“Many modern writers have dealt with the subject from the same point of view. Few of them have had the courage of their opinions to the same extent as Professor Ryan.”
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Spec. 97: 233. Ag. 18, ’06. 2260w.
Ryan, Marah Ellis (Martin) (Mrs. S. E. Ryan). For the soul of Rafael: a romance of old California. †$1.50. McClurg.
The heights of San Jacinto stand guard over the valley which furnishes the picturesque setting of this tale. The ruined dome of an old mission gleams among the clustered adobes of the Mexicans which are “like children creeping close to the feet of the one mother: and beyond that the illimitable ranges of mesa and valley.” The characters are all the fine, aristocratic Spanish type, looking upon Americans as “godless invaders.” Dramatic intensity marks each development in a story of strong passions and a splendid renunciation.
“A picturesque and romantic story, which stands out vividly against the careful and realistic brushwork of the background.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
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Bookm. 24: 52. S. ’06. 320w.
“Mrs. Ryan’s new novel has so confused a way of introducing its characters and setting forth their relationships that we are midway in the volume before we have fairly straightened them out. Aside from this defect of constructive technique, we may say that the work is one of vivid dramatic quality and appealing romantic charm.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 41: 39. Jl. 16, ’06. 210w.
“A somewhat crudely told melodrama.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 307. My. 12, ’06. 200w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 341. My. 26. ’06. 200w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.
“A dramatic story of California.”
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Sabatier, Paul. Disestablishment in France; with preface by the translator Robert Dell, and the French-English text of the Separation law, with notes. *$1.25. Scribner.
This work “is partly an examination of the deep-seated causes (as distinguished from the accidental circumstances) which led to the denunciation of the Concordat, and partly an attempt to forecast the religious consequences of that extreme anti-clerical measure. In his treatment of the first half of his subject ... the author seems to us both lucid and just.... The second half of his volume is of a more speculative character. He fancies that he foresees ‘the advent of a new Catholicism’ and ‘the rising of new sap in the old religious trunk.’”—Lond. Times.
Acad. 71: 56. Jl. 21, ’06. 1820w.
“Not an important contribution to the literature of the ecclesiastical controversy in France. The tone of the author is as polemical as the style of the translator is journalistic.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 512. Ap. 28. 1180w.
“The translation of the pamphlet is well done by Mr. Robert Dell, who also contributes an interesting explanatory preface.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 146. Ap. 27, ’06. 740w.
“Its chief defect, for those who are not among the admirers of the writer’s earliest work is, as might be anticipated, its complete failure to attain an historical point of view.”
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Nation. 82: 489. Je. 14, ’06. 140w.
Reviewed by Walter Littlefield.
N. Y. Times. 11: 596. S. 8, ’06. 1350w.
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Outlook. 83: 813. Ag. 4. ’06. 320w.
Sabin, Edwin Legrand. When you were a boy. †$1.50. Baker.
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Critic. 48: 479. My. ’06. 130w.
Saddle and song; a collection of verses made at Warrenton, Va., during the winter of 1904–1905. **$1.50. Lippincott.
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Sadlier, Anna Theresa. Mystery of Hornby hall. 85c. Benziger.
A book for young people which contains the chivalric unearthing of a mystery guarded by a human tigress and one involving the happiness of a long wronged child.
Sage, William. District attorney. †$1.50 Little.