Volume 2 — Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Digests of Reviews appearing in January-December, 1906 magazines (continued 28)
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Dial. 41: 241. O. 16, ’06. 340w.
“In our opinion, his book—lacking any moral idea or the forcible enunciation of any moral idea—is by no means suitable for mixed reading, and should be kept strictly to adults.”
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Lond. Times. 4: 421. D. 1, 05. 560w.
“All through the book there is somehow a sense of strain, of tension, as if the author were trying to materialise some inspiration that kept ever evading him. Some of the descriptions are excellent and the book abounds 389in happy phrases. But the final impression is disappointment.”
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Sat. R. 101: 22. Ja. 6, ’06. 1000w.
Young, Egerton Ryerson. Hector my dog. $1.50. Wilde.
“Is that rare thing, a book about dogs with which even those who love and understand dog nature will find no fault.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 17. Ja. 13, ’06. 630w.
Yulee, C. Wickliffe. Awakening: a Washington novel. $1.25. Neale.
Here is a picture of Washington projected on a screen, with the city,—its ideals, its types, and its institutions,—as a background. Well to the fore are the intrigues, political and social, which are intended to prevent the Honorable Arthur Montresor from securing a charming American wife whose “character had that froufrou which is inevitable with gay vivacity or fashion, but about which there was nothing tawdry—it was as graceful and refined as some exquisite lace.”
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Critic. 49: 94. Jl. ’06. 60w.
“The local color of the Capital of a few years ago is well given.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 336. My. 26, ’06. 210w.
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Zacher, Albert. Rome as an art city. *$1. Scribner.
N. Y. Times. 10: 927. D. 30, ’05. 90w.
Zedtwitz, Baroness von. Double doctrine of the church of Rome. 35c. Revell.
The author has prepared this repudiation of the two-fold system of the Romish church with a view of proclaiming her final renunciation of papacy.
Arena. 36: 442. O. ’06. 1430w.
Ind. 60: 1227. My. 24, ’06. 100w.
R. of Rs. 33: 765. Je. ’06. 110w.
Ziémssen, Ludwig. Johann Sebastian Bach; tr. from the German by George P. Upton. *60c. McClurg.
“While it is in the main accurate as to the facts it is not entirely so.” Richard Aldrich.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 336. My. 26, ’06. 230w.
Zilliacus, Konni. Russian revolutionary movement: a history of the various uprisings from the beginning. *$2.50. Dutton.
“With the exception of occasional slips, very few in number, the translation is entirely adequate.”
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Nation. 82: 411. My. 17, ’06. 2840w.
“M. Zilliacus merely repeats what has already been given in some dozen books during the last few months. The one merit of the book is the author’s confession of bias.”
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Sat. R. 100: 219. Ag. 12, ’05. 140w.
Zimmern, Alice. Old tales from Rome. †$1.25. McClurg.
A three part story book whose tales are founded upon legends and fables of Rome as related by Virgil. Part I. gives the story of Aeneas and his comrades from the fall of Troy to the founding of Lavinium; part II. carries the date thru the early years of Rome to the period when fable is merged in history; part III. consists of a group of stories partly Italian in origin, partly Greek, yet “essentially are Latin in spirit and treatment.”
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Critic. 49: 96. Jl. ’06. 100w.
Dial. 40: 302. My. 1, ’06. 50w.
“The author would have done better, we think, to have kept her book free from any dependence upon the previous reading of her ‘Old tales from Greece.’”
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Nation. 82: 365. My. 3, ’06. 170w.
“If a comparison were to be made between Alice Zimmern and other authors who have been moved to do similar things, it is that the former is conspicuous for the tactful respect she pays juvenile intelligence.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 341. My. 26, ’06. 330w.
“It would not be easy to conceive of a better or more gracefully written book of the kind, which is in every respect an admirable companion volume to ‘Tales of old Greece.’”
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Spec. 95: sup. 907. D. 2, ’05. 90w.
Zueblin, Charles. Decade of civic development. *$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.
A sketch of the “civic renascence” in America “is not merely a chronicle of civic development for the last decade. Its tone is hortatory and also prophetic.” (School R.) Under the following chapter headings, there is material for teachers to use in awakening the “civic consciousness” in pupils: The new civic spirit, The training of the citizen, The making of the city, “The White city” and after, Metropolitan Boston, Greater New York, The Harrisburg plan, Washington, old and new, The return to nature.
“The well-founded optimism of the book, the attractive record of fact, the revelation of correlation and co-ordination, and the fascinating glimpses of realizable possibility give this little volume a place of unusual value.” E. G. Routzahn.
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Am. J. Soc. 12: 188. Jl. ’06. 290w.
“The book is optimistic in tone, and is well worth the perusal of those who have bewailed the failure of American municipal government.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 424. Mr. ’06. 110w.
“Refreshingly interesting.”
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Dial. 40: 200. Mr. 16, ’06. 370w.
“In mechanical execution and in subject-matter the book is exceedingly attractive. It is a book for the student of society, the teacher, and the general reader.” Nathaniel Butler.
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School R. 14: 67. Ja. ’06. 370w.