Volume 2 — Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Digests of Reviews appearing in January-December, 1906 magazines (continued 4)
Reading edition
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“Mr. Bumpus writes, for the most part, with moderation and good sense. It is a pleasure to follow a guide so well informed and so enthusiastic.”
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Spec. 96: 264. F. 17, ’06. 330w.
Bunyan, John. Pilgrim’s progress: with notes and a sketch of Bunyan’s life. *25c. Ginn.
Uniform with the “Standard English classics” this “Pilgrim’s progress” has been carefully edited and abridged for school use.
Burdick, Lewis Dayton. Hand. $1.50. Irving co.
A survey of facts, legends, and beliefs pertaining to manual ceremonies, covenants and symbols. The chapters include a historical study of the hand as “Executant of the brain,” “A symbol of life,” “A symbol of authority,” “An indicator of fortune,” “Trial by the hand,” “Laying on hands,” “Lifting the hand,” “Taking an oath,” “The social hand,” “The healing hand,” “The hand of evil,” and others related in idea.
Arena. 35: 335. Mr. ’06. 190w.
“An unusually interesting little monograph, prepared in a scholarly manner.”
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R. of Rs. 33: 511. Ap. ’06. 70w.
Burgess, (Frank) Gelett. Are you a bromide? or, The sulphitic theory expounded and exemplified according to the most recent researches into the psychology of boredom, including many well-known bromidioms now in use. *50c. Huebsch.
In his satiric essay the sulphitic author raises a question without an answer, furnishing a classification by which the bores may be separated from the apostles of the unexpected which the few will apply and the many will indignantly condemn. But his theory is expounded with such conviction that if he 45reach a wide enough audience the stock phrases of the bromides here listed are doomed to become obsolete.
Ind. 61: 1353. D. 6, ’06. 130w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 847. D. 8, ’06. 190w.
Burgess, (Frank) Gelett. Little sister of destiny. †$1.50. Houghton.
Margaret Million is a wealthy young heiress who plays the rôle of chorus girl, cashier, manicure, artist’s model, and serving maid in order to befriend and help less fortunate girls. Her Lady Bountiful methods demand that her beneficiaries never know the source of their good fortune—the idea of mystery enhancing the fairy-tale aspect of the book.
“The stories of her experiences are entertaining in spite of their unlikeliness.”
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Critic. 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 60w.
“Is one of the most lovable books that have come to our table for many a long day.”
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Ind. 60: 1686. My. 31, ’06. 150w.
“Everybody should read ‘The little sister of destiny.’”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 214. Ap. 14, ’06. 190w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.
“They vary in merit, but as a whole will not enhance the author’s reputation as a whimsical humorist.”
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Outlook. 83: 43. My. 2, ’06. 30w.
“After Mr. Burgess’s usual manner he mixes a good deal of sense with considerable whimsical nonsense.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 638. My. 19, ’06. 150w.
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R. of Rs. 33: 761. Je. ’06. 70w.
Burgess, William Watson. Life sentence; or, Duty in dealing with crime. $1.50. Badger, R. G.
The scene of this story is Carson City. In commuting the life sentence of a woman who had murdered a villainous man there is opportunity for the author’s arguments of justification. He would reform the world by preventing instead of punishing crime.
Burke, John Butler. Origin of life: its physical basis and definition. *$3. Stokes.
This bulky volume is based upon the “experiments of J. Butler Burke of Cambridge, England, upon the effect of radium salts upon sterile solutions of bouillon and other organic media. Under the influence of the radiations, small bodies (termed ‘radiobes’) appear in the medium which appear strikingly like micro-organisms in that they grow in size and later exhibit nuclei and then divide. It is held that they are not bacteria nor even protoplasm, but that they are really alive, and represent transitional and evanescent forms of matter and energy lying between the common inorganic types of matter and stable living aggregates.”—Nation.
“We are indeed no nearer the solution of the problem of the origin of life than before this book was written.” W. P. Pycraft.
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Acad. 70: 500. My. 26, ’06. 1280w.
“He possesses neither the learning nor the clarity of mind which give value to Dr. Bastian’s treatment of the same topics, irrespective of his personal views.” E. T. Brewster.
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Atlan. 98: 421. S. ’06. 380w.
“It is to be hoped that he is more skillful with the test-tube than with the pen. His style is extraordinarily loose and awkward.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 123. Ap. 6, ’06. 1320w.
“While biologists generally will regard this presentation, like the earlier one, as failing to prove the author’s main thesis ... nevertheless, the volume will serve a valuable purpose as an excellent exposé of both old and new theories of the origin of life, and of a philosophy of nature which is growing in popularity.”
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Nation. 83: 18. Jl. 5, ’06. 340w.
“An interesting book on a perennially interesting theme.” J. A. T.
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Nature. 74: 1. My. 3, ’06. 2200w.
“Mr. Burke may not have proved his points, but he is not dogmatical, and he certainly seems a very wholesome philosopher.” Charles Loomis Dana.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 430. Jl. 7, ’06. 1460w.
R of Rs. 33: 766. Je. ’06. 120w.
“It is amazing that a man should dare to publish such a record of experiment, so slipshod, so uncritical, so destitute of scientific method; great must be his trust in the abundant and unfailing beneficence of popular ignorance.”
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Sat. R. 101: 334. Mr. 17, ’06. 1560w.
Burland, Harris. Black motor car. †$1.50. Dillingham.
“The volume, contains indications of a gift for narrative, and some respectable powers of description; it is compact of energy and enthusiasm.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 758. Je. 23. 210w.
Burland, Harris. Financier. †$1.50. Dillingham.
A new story by the author of “The black motor car.” “Briefly set down, the plot involves an African region, a promoter who is also an unscrupulous British patriot, a contest with Germany, a little war with heaps of slain, an impossible young actress, an equally impossible young civil engineer, a peer or two, a panic, gold mines, and members of the kaiser’s secret service—especially a lady spy, picturesquely named Mrs. Wooddevil. Mr. Burland has by the way, a curious taste in names.” (N. Y. Times.)
“His ‘Financier’ like his other stories, is readable in spite of the glaring inexpertness of the diction, the wretched quality of the puppets, and the exposed condition of the wires that pull them about to do the showman’s will.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 130. Mr. 3, ’06. 280w.
“A crude story.”
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Outlook. 82: 1004. Ap. 26, ’06. 20w.
“Is an honest piece of sensationalism free from the most glaring vices of its class.”
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Sat. R. 102: 212. Ag. 18, ’06. 150w.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson (Mrs. Stephen Townsend). Dawn of a to-morrow. †$1. Scribner.
A book which embodies the spirit of Christian science without the letter seems to be a sermon with the unannounced text “I if I be lifted up ... will draw all men unto me.” A king of finance just ready to “shuffle off this mortal coil” by act of suicide withdraws to the slum section of London to hide his deed in a pauper’s seclusion. Here he is found by a “little rat of the gutter,” an ugly girl of twelve years, with astonishing insight into human hearts. This child with her sure faith in God as a present unfeared reality; Jenny Montaubyn who had taught her this hope; Polly, a girl of the streets; and a hungry thief form a group who make a great capitalist take hope and desire to work out his own salvation.
“Is a simple, old-fashioned miracle-play, set forth in modern London with the sure, swift touch of a practised story-teller.” Mary Moss.
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Bookm. 23: 299. My. ’06. 560w.
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Ind. 60: 1487. Je. 21, ’06. 160w.
“The little story is tenderly told, leaving the reader with a softened heart and broader sympathies.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 147. Mr. 10, ’06. 350w.
“It is an unusual little tale, written powerfully and dramatically.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.
46“There is a decidedly tense air about the short story, which detracts from its intended effect.”
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Outlook. 84: 708. N. 24, ’06. 320w.
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R. of Rs. 33: 761. Je. ’06. 40w.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson (Mrs. Stephen Townsend). Little princess: being the whole story of Sarah Crewe now told for the first time. †$2. Scribner.
“It is unusual to tell a story three times over, but all three versions are charming, and we accept them with gratitude.”
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Ath. 1905, 2: 833. D. 16. 150w.
“Is written in that fascinating style which has won for the gifted author of ‘The little Lord Fauntleroy’ so many admirers.”
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Int. Studio. 27: 375. F. ’06. 60w.
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Spec. 95: 1042. D. 16, ’05. 140w.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson (Mrs. Stephen Townsend). Queen Silver-Bell. [+]60c. Century.
Silver-Bell, queen of the fairies, grieves because people have grown so stupid that they no longer believe in fairies. She is so agitated that her temper flies out of its golden cage, and the Dormouse, to whom she goes for advice, assures her that the only way she can atone for her loss is to encourage the writing of fairy stories. Into the ears of her amanuensis, apprenticed for life, she whispers these stories, which so far are three in number. “Queen Silver-Bell” and “How Winnie hatched the little rooks” are found in this first volume of the series.
“The little story will be warmly received.”
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Ind. 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 50w.
Nation. 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 20w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 50w.
“While Mrs. Burnett’s style is so pure that it makes easy reading, there is not in her subject matter in these books any very striking motive to make an impression on the child’s mind.”
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R. of Rs. 34: 765. D. ’06. 20w.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson (Mrs. Stephen Townsend). Racketty-Packetty house. [+]60c. Century.
The second volume of fairy tales dictated by Queen Silver-Bell to her amanuensis.
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Ind. 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 40w.
Nation. 83: 514. D, 13, ’06. 20w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 50w.
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Burney, Frances (Madame D’Arblay). Diary and letters of Madame D’Arblay; ed. by her niece, Charlotte Barrett. 6v. ea. *$2.50. Macmillan.
Reviewed by J. C. Bailey.
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Living Age. 249: 268. Ja. ’06. 9790w. (Reprinted from Quarterly R.)
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Nation. 81: 526. D. 28, ’05. 2060w. (Review of v. 4–6.)
Reviewed by J. C. Bailey.
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Quarterly R. 204: 89. Ja. ’06. 9790w.
Burns, Robert. Poems; with biographical sketch by Nathan H. Dole. $1.25. Crowell.
One of the eight volumes in the “Thin paper poets” series. The book contains a biographical sketch and a glossary, and as a frontispiece reproduces the Peter Taylor painting of Burns in 1786.
Burr, Agnes Rush. Russell H. Conwell, founder of the institutional church in America: the work and the man. **$1. Winston.
This is the sketch of a philanthropist still living, still doing active work for church, college, and hospital, in all of which three lines “he has blazed new paths ... has not only proven their need, demonstrated their worth, but he has shown how it is possible to accomplish such results from small beginnings, with no large gifts of money, with only the hands and hearts of willing workers.”
Burrage, Henry Sweetser. Gettysburg and Lincoln: the battle, the cemetery, and the National park. **$1.50. Putnam.
“His book is divided into three parts, the first dealing with the battle, the second detailing the circumstances connected with the inception, dedication, and completion of the cemetery and the third giving a record of the work of the park commission.” (Outlook.) “Of special interest are the chapters on Lincoln’s address, and the slightly different versions of it printed. He shows that many persons who heard the address were deeply impressed by it.... Mr. Burrage, with greater fulness than Nicolay or Hay, has gone into the circumstances in which Lincoln wrote the speech. He presents facts which are as new as they are interesting.” (Lit. D.)
“The sketch is well written and to the point.” Edwin Erle Sparks.
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Dial. 41: 320. N. 16, ’06. 190w.
“Mr. Burrage’s monograph was worth the doing, and he has performed this task fairly well.”
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Lit. D. 33: 555. O. 20, ’06. 100w.
Nation. 83: 392. N. 8, ’06. 150w.
“A useful volume by Major Henry S. Burrage, himself a war veteran and imbued with obvious enthusiasm for his theme.”
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Outlook. 84: 795. N. 24, ’06. 250w.
Burrell, Joseph Dunn. New appraisal of Christian science. 50c. Funk.
An estimate of Christian science made according to the standard of mental science resulting in an adverse summary characterized by such expressions as “infantile logic, offensive pretentiousness, and slippery casuistry.”
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Lit. D. 33: 393. S. 22, ’06. 30w.
Burroughs, John. Bird and bough. **$1. Houghton.
This collection of the nature verses which have been published in various periodicals is happily dedicated “To the kinglet that sang in my evergreens in October and made me think it was May.” “The freshness and precision of Mr. Burrough’s observation need no comment. He is a master of clean-drawn phrase, and ... has a good gift of short-lined metre. So far as his work is poetry rather than versified nature study, it is so by virtue of a certain single-minded affectionateness of interest in nature.” (Nation.)
Reviewed by Edith M. Thomas.
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Critic. 49: 139. Ag. ’06. 780w.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 41: 206. O. 1, ’06. 190w.
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Nation. 82: 327. Ap. 19, ’06. 230w.
“Quite free from such introspection, without a trace of the haunting melancholy that pervades ‘The Shropshire lad,’ John Burroughs makes his songs of ‘Bird and bough.’”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 523. Ag. 25, ’06. 280w.
Burroughs, John. Ways of nature. **$1.10. Houghton.
“In his latest book his observations are new and described with freshness and point.”
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Acad. 70: 355. Ap. 14, ’06. 630w.
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Ind. 60: 286. F. 1, ’06. 350w.
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Nation. 82: 59. Ja. 18, ’06. 1140w.
“Burroughs evidently proves his case to his own convincing, if not to a legion of his hearty friends and admirers.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 64. F. 3, ’06. 1610w.
“He has thought out the subject, and what he writes is fairly interesting.”
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Spec. 95: 1128. D. 30, ’05. 110w.
Burry, B. Pullen-. Ethiopia in exile: Jamaica revisited. †$1.50. Wessels.
“It is a valuable contribution to the great racial problem which demands the serious attention of American statesmen. The author draws an instructive parallel between the condition of the negroes of Jamaica and those of the United States.” (Ath.) “The black man in republican America is vastly worse off than in monarchist Britain, she says; and no American has a right to gainsay her. The Jamaican is out of work because, owing to changed conditions, there is no work in Jamaica for him to do; the American negro is deliberately prevented from working by the whites, both North and South; they won’t have him.” (Nation.) “Miss Pullen-Burry sees the most hopeful sign in the work done by Dr. Booker T. Washington and his colleagues for the education and racial elevation of the negro, and gives a full and interesting account of this work.” (Ath.)
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Ath. 1906, 2: 39. Jl. 14. 300w.
“We can commend Miss Pullen-Burry’s book; it is an excellent account of Jamaica, it is a fair study of the chief problem before us Americans.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 71. F. 3, ’06. 540w.
Burton, Richard. Rahab: a drama in three acts. *$1.25. Holt.
A drama made out of the story of the “Woman of Jericho” whose house was on the city wall. Dr. Burton’s quick imagination has given life and a distinctive dramatic energy to a Bible story that of itself is meager. His Rahab who has seen the glory of God of Israel in a vision and has dreamed of the downfall of Jericho is drawn in flesh and blood characters, and thru her and her three rival lovers a strong human interest is maintained.
“Dr. Burton brings to his task the faculty of clearly perceiving his ‘dramatis personæ’ of determining the interaction of his characters, and a skilled workmanship in the management of the verse-vehicle.” Edith M. Thomas.
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Critic. 49: 219. S. ’06. 390w.
“Dr. Burton’s ‘Rahab’ is a pretty enough academic exercise. But it has about as much to do with existing conditions as has the megatherium.”
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Ind. 61: 758. S. 27, ’06. 130w.
“If the play lacks sufficient vigor to foretell for it length of days it has some qualities that are uncommon in contemporary verse.”
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Nation. 83: 145. Ag. 16, ’06. 180w.
“It is simply and fluently written, with many felicities of phrase, and with comparatively few passages to which the most super-sensitive critic might object.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 244. Ap. 14, ’06. 300w.
“It is not in any sense a great play, but it has movement, vivacity, color, and dramatic feeling.”
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Outlook. 83: 769. Jl. 28, ’06. 240w.
Bury, John B. Life of St. Patrick and his place in history. *$3.25. Macmillan.
“His method can without hesitation be said to be sound, and his mind singularly unbiased. His mastery of the evidence, both in Latin and in Irish, is also unquestionable. The style, too, though rather compact and severe, is lucid and readable.” F. N. Robinson.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 633. Ap. ’06. 770w.
“The arrangement of the book is admirable. We hope that in a second edition we may be supplied with a complete index.” F. E. Warren.
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Eng. Hist. R. 21: 347. Ap. ’06. 2360w.
Reviewed by T. W. Rolleston.
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Hibbert J. 4: 447. Ja. ’06. 1310w.
“The text of Professor Bury’s book is clear, succinct, and well arranged chronologically.”
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Nation. 82: 19. Ja. 4, ’05. 930w.
“We cannot part from Professor Bury’s work without expressing our unfeigned admiration for his complete control of the original authorities on which his narrative is based, and of the sound critical judgment he exhibits in dealing with sources which present unusual difficulties.”
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Spec. 95: 977. D. 9, ’05. 1830w.
Butler, Alford A. Churchman’s manual of methods: a practical Sunday school handbook for clerical and lay workers. $1. Young ch.
A practical handbook compiled wholly from the author’s experience as Sunday school teacher, superintendent, clergyman and professor of religious pedagogy.
Butler, Ellis Parker. Incubator baby. [+]75c. Funk.
The author of “Pigs is pigs” writes an incubator baby’s comments upon the change from her “paradise” to the big uncongenial world presided over by her indifferent father and mother.
“Here we have gentle satire at its best. It is a delightful story and will be enjoyed by old as well as young, though it will be especially pleasing to the little people.”
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Arena. 36: 684. D. ’06. 240w.
Lit. D. 33: 513. O. 13, ’06. 80w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 670. O. 13, ’06. 140w.
“The satire is relieved by an abundance of sentiment and common sense.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 801. D. 1, ’06. 120w.
Butler, Ellis Parker. Perkins of Portland; Perkins the Great. †$1. Turner, H. B.
Seven adventures of Perkins of Portland leave nothing to be desired in the way of advertising-finesse. He seizes the moment to launch a ware upon a gullible public, and whether it be porous plasters or guinea pigs his success is obvious.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 670. O. 13, 06. 110w.
“Sequels and second books in the wake of a popular success, while they may be measurably good themselves, are usually dangerous experiments. This little book is, unfortunately, no exception to the rule.”
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Outlook. 84: 532. O. 27, ’06. 50w.
Byrne, Mary Agnes. Fairy chaser and other stories. 60c. Saalfield.
Five charming fairy tales for young readers: The fairy chaser, Kitty’s ring, The magic mirror, The old gray shawl, and Cecelia’s gift.
Byron, George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th baron. Poetical works; new and rev. ed.; ed. with a memoir by Ernest Hartley Coleridge. *$1.50. Scribner.
A complete edition of Byron’s poetry, containing all the new poems included in the 1898–1904 edition. The reader will find “a lively and well-written memoir by the editor, and judicious notes to the various poems, which explain all that one needs to know.” (Ath.)
“The introductory memoir ... is all that could be desired; in every way this is a most satisfactory edition of Byron to have on the bookshelf, and we think it will continue for many a long day, to deserve a place there.”
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Acad. 70: 5. Ja. 6, ’06. 1160w.
“An admirable and probably final edition of the noble poet.”
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Critic. 48: 480. My. ’06. 290w.
“It contains the gist of the editorial matter in Mr. Coleridge’s definitive seven-volume edition.”
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Dial. 40: 240. Ap. 1, ’06. 100w.
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Lit. D. 33: 393. S. 22, ’06. 100w.
“The text is authoritative.”
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Nation. 82: 200. Mr. 8, ’06. 150w.
“In every way it is an excellent addition to one’s book shelves.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 130. Mr. 3, ’06. 150w.
“This is an acceptable one-volume edition of Byron’s poems.”
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Outlook. 82: 326. F. 10, ’06. 130w.
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Cabell, James Branch. Line of love. †$2. Harper.
“An interesting contribution to romantic literature, not beyond popular understanding and enjoyment.”
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Critic. 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 50w.
“Altogether Mr. Cabell’s book is unusual in style, poise, and dramatic fervor.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 91. Ja. 20, ’06. 100w.
Cable, George Washington. Old Creole days; with 8 full-page il. and head and tail pieces in photogravure by Albert Herter. $2.50. Scribner.
In reprinting “Old Creole days” eight full-page drawings and fourteen smaller ones add new charm to the contents.
“The mechanical features are all of a high grade of excellence, and the volume has an air of dignity and beauty that well fits the charm of the contents.”
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Dial. 41: 398. D. 1, ’06. 90w.
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Ind. 61: 1401. D. 13, ’06. 40w.
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Lit. D. 33: 767. N. 24, ’06. 60w.
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Outlook. 84: 706. N. 24, ’06. 50w.
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Putnam’s. 1: 384. D. ’06. 140w.
Cabot, Mrs. Ella Lyman. Everyday ethics. $1.25. Holt.
Both teacher and general reader will find in this volume the rudiments of right choosing and well doing. The moral aspects of the soul’s activities—memory, imagination courage, feeling and the sense of honor are discussed in detail with the special aim of serving the teacher’s needs.
“It is a book that every child might read with profit if it were not forced upon him in the form of ‘lessons.’”
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Dial. 41: 400. D. 1, ’06. 40w.
Cadogan, Edward. Makers of modern history: three types: Louis Napoleon, Cavour, Bismarck. **$2.25. Pott.
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Critic. 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 80w.
Caffin, Charles Henry. How to study pictures. **$2. Century.
“Regarded as a frank imitation, however, the book is well enough of its kind.”
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Sat. R. 102: sup. 7. O. 13, ’06. 1100w.
“Mr. Caffin helps people to look at pictures with their eyes, a not too common thing with writers on art, who mostly see pictures with their minds, which is quite a different matter.”
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Spec. 97: 938. D. 8, ’06. 170w.
Caird, Edward. Evolution of theology in the Greek philosophers. *$4.25. Macmillan.
Reviewed by George Burman Foster.
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Am. J. Theol. 10: 762. O. ’06. 970w.
Caird, Mrs. Mona. Romantic cities of Provence; il. by Joseph Pennell and Edward Synge. *$3.75. Scribner.
“This is a book bred of a sojourn in Provence and attesting an awakened eye and sympathy. It aims to catch the spirit of the place, the indefinable quality lost in a hurried railway passage, and succeeds best, perhaps, in imparting the reflex effects produced upon the traveller. The book is illustrated from over two dozen pen sketches by Joseph Pennell and about twice the number by Edward M. Synge, who draws with a similar preoccupation with the effect of sunlight, but with a more downright stroke, a generally wider interspace in shading and a greater use of outline.”—Int. Studio.
“Mrs. Mona Caird brings a romancer’s love of sentiment and an artist’s powers of description to her ‘Romantic cities of Provence,’ with the happiest of results.” Wallace Rice.
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Dial. 41: 391. D. 1, ’06. 260w.
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Int. Studio. 30: sup. 56. D. ’06. 140w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 770. N. 24, ’06. 610w.
“Certainly no one of the season’s volumes is better worth owning than is this.”
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Outlook. 84: 703. N. 24, ’06. 130w.
Calderon de la Barca, Pedro. Eight dramas of Calderon; freely tr. by E. Fitzgerald. $1.50. Macmillan.
The eight dramas included here are as follows: The painter of his own dishonor, Keep your own secret, Gil Perez the Galician, Three judgments at a blow. The mayor of Zalamea, Beware of smooth water, The mighty magician and Such stuff as dreams are made of.
“His versions appeal neither to the scholar nor to the general reader: the one is irritated by constant omissions, amplifications, and liberties of every kind, while the other is disappointed at finding that the Spanish atmosphere has vanished.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 112. Jl. 28. 200w.
“It will save searching in a general collection, and can be comfortably held in the hand.”
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Nation. 83: 11. Jl. 5, ’06. 70w.
“The Eversley imprint, owing to its cheapness and excellent typography, will appeal to many lovers of the Spanish poet.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 495. Ag. 11, ’06. 260w.
Calvert, Albert Frederick. Moorish remains in Spain. **$15. Lane.
“Taken altogether, Mr. Calvert’s book is most disappointing, and we think that the Alhambra plates should be withdrawn.” A. J. Butler.
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Acad. 70: 471. My. 19, ’06. 1870w.
“The coloured plates reproduce admirably the delicate devices characteristic of Moorish workmanship at its best. Mr. Calvert habitually confounds legend with fact, and fails to distinguish between the random assertions of a tourist and the statements of a scholar.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 543. My. 5. 330w.
“His book, so complete in other respects, is without an index, a fact that detracts very greatly from its value to the student.”
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Int. Studio. 29: 88. Jl. ’06. 420w.
“With regard to the Moorish ‘architecture and decoration’ in these three cities, the main theme of the book, Mr. Calvert is himself rather prone to superlatives and gush; and, moreover, does not clearly see that architecture is something altogether different from decoration.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 243. Jl. 6, ’06. 870w.
49“The book seems worthy of its subject, and we would gladly give a more effective description of its many beauties.”
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Spec. 96: 545. Ap. 7. ’06. 120w.
Cambridge modern history; planned by Lord Acton; ed. by A. W. Ward, G. W. Prothero, and Stanley Leathes. 12v. ea. **$4. Macmillan.
“There are unhappily gaps filled with second-rate productions, which detract considerably from the value of the whole.”
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Acad. 70: 447. My. 12, ’06. 1890w. (Review of v. 9.)
“As a book of reference this one has a certain value, though it is neither a monument of British scholarship nor of Continental, there being neither continuity nor unity in the product of a well-meant effort to weld the two. There is little charm of style anywhere, no quality of mysterious evolution in the subject which compels attention, no magisterial character in the book to command the highest respect. As to the bibliography, no arrangement could have been invented more forbidding to the searcher after authors, titles, or subjects.”
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Am. Hist. R. 12: 135. O. ’06. 2270w. (Review of v. 9.)
Reviewed by W. E. Lingelbach.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 342. S. ’06. 1370w. (Review of v. 9.)
“It contains a great deal of good work by capable writers and if it does not reach Acton’s ideal, it does not fall far below that of M. Ernest Lavisse.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 691. Je. 9. 1990w. (Review of v. 9.)
“The weakest part of the scheme is its treatment of great men.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 725. D. 8. 1950w. (Review of v. 4.)
“In the assignments of topics to their European associates, the editors of this important series have been especially happy. The division of the subject-matter into topics has been accomplished satisfactorily.” Henry E. Bourne.
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Dial. 41: 203. O. 1, ’06. 1580w. (Review of v. 9.)
“One is naturally tempted to compare the two volumes with the corresponding ones of their predecessor, the ‘Histoire generale.’ They are full of well-attested facts. But from the point of view of attractiveness of style and matter the English books fall behind the French. Its writers have not the French knack of dovetailing a striking incident or quotation into a perforce heavy narrative. All of them possess learning and industry; but taken as a whole their product is but dull reading, though there are exceptions.” W. E. Rhodes.
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Eng. Hist. R. 21: 160. Ja. ’06. 1740w. (Review of v. 3 and 8.)
“It is in relation to international affairs, and especially to war, that the co-operative method breaks down worst. In a volume of such dimensions, with a scheme which drags most things away from chronological order, the lack of a thoroughly good index is especially unfortunate.” Hereford B. George.
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Eng. Hist. R. 21: 807. O. ’06. 1300w. (Review of v. 9.)
“The volume is ample for clear views of Napoleon the man, the soldier, the statesman, and for his effect on the world in government, religion, society and art.”
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Ind. 61: 1115. N. 8, ’06. 900w. (Review of v. 9.)
“It is hard to see who will read the book, for the expert can get little from the disconnected monographs, while the layman is confused by the overlapping divisions, where there is no charm of style and no evolution which holds the attention.”
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Ind. 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 70w. (Review of v. 9.)
“The volume before us is inferior to none of its predecessors. Some of the chapters are of conspicuous merit, and throughout a very respectable standard is maintained, while, as the editors observe, ‘the dominance of an overwhelming personality gives the events narrated cohesion and unity.’”
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Lond. Times. 5: 176. My. 18, ’06. 2710w. (Review of v. 9.)
“That part which deals with the literature printed and manuscript, including pamphlets and news letters, relating to the Thirty years’ war is likely to be of great service to students.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 397. N. 30. ’06. 2160w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The general level of quality is well-sustained. It is perhaps not so high as in the first two volumes—‘Renaissance’ and ‘Reformation’—but it strikes us as rather higher than in the last preceding volume, that on the French revolution.”
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Nation. 83: 225. S. 13, ’06. 2990w. (Review of v. 9.)
N. Y. Times. 11: 300. My. 5, ’06. 320w. (Review of v. 9.)
“It must be acknowledged that the volume on Napoleon is not so uniformly excellent as the volumes on earlier epochs—the renaissance, the reformation, and the wars of religion.” Christian Gauss.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 417. Je. 30, ’06. 4220w. (Review of v. 9.)
Outlook. 83: 286. Je. 2, ’06. 520w. (Review of v. 9.)
Reviewed by J. H. Robinson.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 702. D. ’06. 840w. (Review of v. 9.)
R. of Rs. 33: 764. Je. ’06. 170w. (Review of v. 9.)
“There is not only a lack of general cohesion in the fragments but most of them are far from complete in themselves.”
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Sat. R. 101: 589. My. 12, ’06. 1740w. (Review of v. 9.)
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Spec. 97: 166. Ag. 4, ’06. 2000w. (Review of v. 9.)
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World To-Day. 11: 763. Jl. ’06. 260w. (Review of v. 9.)
Campbell, Douglas Houghton. Structure and development of mosses and ferns. *$4.50. Macmillan.
A recently re-written and enlarged edition of Professor Campbell’s work.
“That the book is fairly brought up to date goes without saying, though one may differ from the author as to the relative values among some of the newer researches, and may wish that some of the old figures had been replaced by new and better ones. Proof-reading throughout the volume has been very bad. The index is really absurd. Spite of defects ... we welcome the new edition and commend it to every botanist as a necessary reference work, even though he have the first.” C. R. D. and C. J. C.
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Bot. Gaz. 40: 461. D. ’05. 1070w.
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Ind. 59: 1482. D. 21, ’05. 160w.
“Professor Campbell is an ardent investigator, to whom cryptogamic botany is much indebted for substantial advance in certain directions, and he is, moreover, a clear expositor.”
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Nation. 81: 532. D. 28, ’05. 450w.
“This edition without question must prove to be as helpful and suggestive as the one it supplants, and will be used by all students who wish to obtain a clear notion of the structure and relationship of higher plants.” Charles E. Bessey.
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Science, n.s. 22: 631. N. 17, ’05. 580w.
Campbell, Frances. Dearlove, the history of her summer’s make-believe. †$1.50. Dutton.
“Dearlove is a little maiden of eleven years, portrayed in a charming frontispiece. She holds 50sway over a family consisting of her grandfather, the Earl of Amherst; her uncle and aunt, Lord and Lady Inverona, and her young widowed mother Lady Margaret Gordon. The ‘Summer’s make-believe’ takes place on the Isle of Guernsey, where the family is spending a happy holiday. The ‘make-believe’ is an invention of Dearlove (otherwise Philomena,) who decrees that for the summer all the grownups shall become her age—except ‘Ganpa,’ who may be twenty-five—shall be called by their Christian names, and shall disport themselves like eleven-year-olds. How they do this, whom they meet, and what comes of it all makes a fanciful book.”—N. Y. Times.
“She tells her tale with a complete understanding of children and their ways; and heart as well as skill goes to make it the charming book it is.”
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Acad. 70: 405. Ap. 28, ’06. 270w.
“The author can do better than this, but her gifts appear to us to lie in the direction rather of pure fantasy than fiction.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 513. Ap. 28. 170w.
“Will make grown-ups young again, if any book can.”
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Ind. 61: 1413. D. 13, ’06. 20w.
“The book is written in a style so limpid and pleasant, and tells about such true-hearted sweet people, besides having that indefinable thing we call ‘atmosphere,’ that, albeit with some grumbling, we fare on to the end.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 544. S. 1, ’06. 380w.
Outlook. 84: 140. S. 15, ’06. 120w.
“Readers who like a series of charming sketches with a delicate thread of plot connecting them are cordially recommended to send for ‘Dearlove.’”
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Spec. 97: 270. Ag. 25, ’06. 120w.
Campbell, Frances. Measure of life. **$1.50. Dutton.
“In her dedication Mrs. Campbell alludes to these tales and dreams as her ‘spiritual adventures,’ and that is perhaps the clearest description that can be given of them. Dreams, legends, and visions have each a golden thread of spiritual meaning woven into them. All the author’s eloquence is upon the side of right and goodness; her pages are full of counsels of perfection, of the wisdom of endurance, of the salutary effect of patience under pain, suffering and loss, of the value of self-sacrifice and tribulation in the discipline of life. Throughout she glorifies those bracing qualities which ordinary human nature is least inclined to go out of its way to cultivate. Some of the tales are charming in their tenderness and gaiety.... Others, of dreams and second sight, are curious and interesting.”—Acad.
“Ideas flow easily and find expression in a wealth of imagery that transforms familiar truths into something new and strange.”
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Acad. 70: 261. Mr. 17, ’06. 260w.
“While her symbolical personages, such as the ‘master of illusion,’ are charming, her contemporary characters, whether English ladies or Irish peasants, do not entirely carry conviction. This criticism does not, however, hold good with regard to the still-life of the picture, which testifies to an intimate and sympathetic acquaintance with Irish landscape, and to a notable gift of description.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 229. F. 24. 160w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 441. Jl. 7, ’06. 280w.
Campbell, Scott, pseud. (Frederick William Davis). Below the dead line. †$1.50. Dillingham.
When Inspector Byrnes commanded New York police he issued an order demanding the instant arrest of every crook found by day or night in that part of the city lying south of Fulton street. This order soon earned for the district the title “Below the dead line.” This story records the operations of clever criminals who tried to evade the order.
Campbell, Wilfred. Collected poems. **$1.50. Revell.
A collection of Mr. Campbell’s poems that have appeared in American and English periodicals. They are prefaced by an introduction by the author in which he says “After all, the real root of all poetry, from Shakespeare to the latest singer, is the human heart.... It is man the hoper, man the dreamer, the eternal child of delight and despair, whose ideals and desires are ever a lifetime ahead of his greatest accomplishments, who is the hero of nature and the darling of the ages. Because of this true poetry will always be to him a language.”
Critic. 49: 91. Jl. ’06. 260w.
“A poet whose inspiration is both strong and sustained.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 40: 128. F. 16, ’06. 500w.
“Is marked neither by exquisite craft nor by great imaginative power.”
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Ind. 61: 699. S. 20, ’06. 200w.
“His ‘Collected poems’ would have gained in poetic value by a more rigorous standard of selection, and by the drastic pruning of some of the pieces selected.”
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Nation. 82: 326. Ap. 19, ’06. 460w.
“They have a pleasant ease and a very true and sensitive feeling for nature.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 277. Ap. 28, ’06. 170w.
“Some of his patriotic verses are as good as anything we have seen of the kind.”
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Spec. 96: 756. My. 12, ’06. 250w.
Canning, Albert Stratford George. History in Scott’s novels. **$3.15. Wessels.
“Mr. Canning takes up fifteen novels in chronological sequence, from ‘The talisman’ to ‘Red-gauntlet.’ and runs through such portions of the plot as bring authentic personages into view.” (Nation.) “In each he explains the allusions, expands the references to historical facts, and in general connects romance with actuality.” (Outlook.)
“Is not without, some merit.”
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Nation. 82: 512. Je. 21, ’06. 520w.
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Outlook. 83: 140. My. 19, ’06. 130w.
Capart, Jean. Primitive art in Egypt; tr. by A. S. Griffith. *$5. Lippincott.
“M. Capart’s own part in the book appears to have been mostly confined to the selection of the matters to be reproduced, and this task has been discharged with both skill and judgment. The translation by Miss Griffith is adequate to its purpose.”
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Ath. 1905, 1: 557. My. 6. 170w.
“It appeals, with its wealth of illustration and its sober judgment, to all who concern themselves in any wise with the civilization of primitive man. A word of praise should be said for the admirable work of the translator of the book, Miss Griffith ... her version reads like a bit of original English.” L. H. Gray.
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Bookm. 22: 359. D. ’05. 310w.
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Nation. 82: 104. F. 1, ’06. 380w.
Capen, Oliver Bronson. Country homes of famous Americans. **$5. Doubleday.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 18. Ja. 13, ’06. 190w.
Capes, Bernard. Bembo: a tale of Italy. $1.50. Dutton.
“The tale opens in 1476, with the introduction of the heroine and a cavalier and their attendants going toward Milan. Later on in this chapter comes Bernard Bembo, who ‘mouths parables as it were prick-songs, and is esteemed among all as a saint.’ He is very young 51in appearance and ‘pretty.’ And he is a ‘child propagandist interpreting and embodying in himself the spirit of love.’ The story is not based on fact, Mr. Capes points out in preface, but ‘the fundamental fact of nature.’”—N. Y. Times.
“In the novel Mr. Bernard Capes is quite at his best.”
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Acad. 69: 784. Jl. 29, ’05. 330w.
“Not even Mr. Hewlett has so successfully reproduced the mediæval atmosphere. The whole characterization is of a piece with the swing and virility of the style. It is a fine work, and reaches the high-water mark of living romance.”
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Ath. 1905, 2: 234. Ag. 19. 580w.
“Mr. Capes has produced in this moving and opulent work something that comes near to being a masterpiece.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 41: 114. S. 1, ’06. 390w.
“The story is well told.”
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Ind. 61: 1060. N. 1, ’06. 340w.
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Lond. Times. 4: 233. Jl. 21, ’05. 290w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 371. Je. 9, ’06. 250w.
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Outlook. 83: 526. Je. 30, ’06. 80w.
“Extravagance and violent over-emphasis are the greatest faults of his style, which is always strained to top-pitch, and glaringly over-coloured.”
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Sat. R. 100: 562. O. 28, ’05. 420w.
“His euphuism sometimes gets out of hand and mars the poetry of his tale, and sometimes he lingers so long on an emotion that the reader is a little repelled. But for the work as a whole we have nothing but praise.”
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Spec. 95: 228. Ag. 12, ’05. 800w.
Carducci, Giosue. Poems of Italy: selections from the odes of Giosue Carducci; tr. with an introd. by M. W. Arms. **$1. Grafton press.
A half dozen pieces selected from “Odi barbare,” translated, introduced and annotated by M. W. Arms.
Dial. 40: 359. Je. 1, ’06. 60w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 277. Ap. 28, ’06. 440w.
Carey, Rosa Nouchette. No friend like a sister. †$1.50. Lippincott.
Sister Gresham, the strong, capable, contented woman, who establishes a model nurses’ home and finds her life’s happiness in it is a friend to the other characters in the book, in times of stress or trouble. They all lean upon her; her favorite sister Eleanor, who is made happy by the chance confession of the man who dares not aspire to her, her brother Lyall who goes as a missionary to Africa, and his child-like wife who refuses to go with him and later wakes to a realization of her love and duty. There are other characters also, some of whom stand alone, and there is another love affair in which the daughter of an old country family throws aside conventional barriers to marry the man of her choice.
“Her popularity is no doubt deservedly due in great part to the extreme wholesomeness of her tone, which makes her stories eminently suitable for the young girl, and also a love of detail which appeals to a certain order of mind in old and young alike.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 439. O. 13. 220w.
“It is her complacency, and the apparent conviction that she is conveying the truest and best in life to her twenty-five thousand readers that make Miss Carey’s books irritating.”
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Sat. R. 102: sup. 8. O. 13, ’06. 140w.
Carey, Wymond. “No. 101.” †$1.50. Putnam.
“No. 101” is a spy of the time of Louis XV, who betrays the secrets of the French ruler to the British. The identity of this spy is a mystery, and anyone so unfortunate as to discover the secret perishes within twenty-four hours. An English captain, a French nobleman, Louis XV, and Mme. de Pompadour figure prominently in the story.
“Few of the figures have the indefinable quality of vitality, but perusal brings the not altogether unsatisfactory sensation of having assisted at a well-staged historical drama while still enjoying the comforts of the domestic hearth.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 226. F. 24. 110w.
“He has allowed himself considerable liberties with the facts of history. But in view of the capital tale he has produced, the reviewer can not but readily forgive him.”
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Lit. D. 32: 454. Mr. 24, ’06. 550w.
“Taken by and large it is a good deal better (merely as an excuse for passing superfluous time away) than most of its kind.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 69. F. 3, ’06. 540w.
“The story is entertaining.”
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Outlook. 82: 375. F. 17, ’06. 80w.
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Pub. Opin. 40: 153. F. 3, ’06. 30w.
“The book is well above the average, but lovers of Dumas need feel no anxiety.”
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Sat. R. 101: 306. Mr. 10, ’06. 290w.
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Spec. 96: 226. F. 10, ’06. 560w.
Carl, Katherine A. With the empress dowager. **$2. Century.
“If she has been led away by gratitude and kindly feeling, it is difficult to find fault with her. And we may add that the skill and insight needed for literary portraiture are not often combined with the painter’s craft.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 196. F. 17. 810w.
“Reveals one of the most important steps in the transformation now going on in that giant empire.” John W. Foster.
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Atlan. 97: 544. Ap. ’06. 440w.
“Beside being fascinating in itself, reveals very much of historical and antiquarian interest to those who have read widely and critically in the court life of the vassal kingdoms around the Middle country.” W. E. Griffis.
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Critic. 48: 371. Ap. ’06. 270w.
“She is not to be blamed for writing of the empress as she found her. But she must not expect her readers to accept her estimate at face value.”
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Lit. D. 32: 253. F. 17, ’06. 560w.
“Cannot boast of any special literary attractions. The book is worthy of what it has not, an index.”
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Nation. 82: 125. F. 8, ’06. 910w.
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Pub. Opin. 40: 123. Ja. 27, ’06. 410w.
“It is interesting in a way and up to a certain point. But all that one cares to read might have been put into a smaller compass.”
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Spec. 96: 228. F. 10, ’06. 320w.
Carleton, Will. Poems for young Americans. $1.25. Harper.
The verses of Will Carleton that are peculiarly adapted to younger readers have been grouped under three headings as follows: Poems for young Americans, Poems of festivals and anniversaries, and Humorous verse.
“They have the trick of rime, but somewhere there is the false ring of patriotism, that comes whenever one tries hard to write patriotically.”
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Ind. 61: 1409. D. 13, ’06. 60w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 692. O. 20, ’06. 100w.
Carlile, Rev. Wilson, and Carlile, Victor. Continental outcast: land colonies and poor law relief; with a preface by Rt. Rev. E. S. Talbot. *60c. Wessels.
An account of a visit to some of the labor colonies of Belgium, Holland, Germany and Denmark by two men engaged in the work of the Church army of England, and actually interested in the improvement 52of the English poor law. “How the unemployed of every sort, able-bodied or infirm, honest or criminal, men in search of work or vagrants and beggars, are treated in Continental Europe is the subject of this instructive volume.” (Outlook.)
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N. Y. Times. 11: 458. Jl. 21, ’06. 1500w.
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Outlook. 83: 526. Je. 30, ’06. 220w.
Carling, George. Richard Elliott, financier. $1.50. Page.
Trained in an unscrupulous school of finance, the hero of Mr. Carling’s tale shows how material success can be attained by very corrupt practices. An eavesdropping stenographer rises to the position of trust magnate and the rounds by which he did ascend materially are scathingly marked off. It is a sort of “crack o’ doom” warning to “high finance” aspirants.
“The book is not pleasant reading, but may be a faithful picture. The story part of it is closely, carefully, and skillfully woven. Its satire is perhaps rather too patent to be as biting as satire ought to be.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 674. O. 13. ’06. 470w.
Carling, John R. Viking’s skull. 75c. Little.
A popular edition of “The viking’s skull.” Mr. Carling has written a peculiarly interesting and thrilling story which involves the mystery centering about a crime, and the meaning of a runic inscription on an old Norse altar ring. The hero promises his mother before her death to find the criminal in whose stead his father is serving a life sentence. The father’s escape from prison and disappearance add to the mystery to be solved.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 195. Mr. 31, ’06. 320w.
Carlyle, Thomas. French revolution. 2v. $2.50. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Thin paper two volume sets.” The books are pocket size, with flexible leather binding, and are printed in large clear type on Bible paper. The frontispieces are respectively portraits of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
Carman, (William) Bliss. Pipes of Pan. *$2. Page.
Five recent collections of Mr. Bliss Carman’s poetry make up this substantial volume. They are as follows: From the book of myths, From the green book of the bards, Songs of the sea children, Songs from a northern garden, and From the book of valentines.
Lit. D. 33: 767. N. 24, ’06. 70w.
“There is scarcely a piece in the present volume that is devoid of melodious cadences and poetic imagery, yet the effect of the whole is of sunrise on a foggy morning at sea. Mr. Carman’s later work lacks poetic intensity, and the reader of it takes little away with him.”
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Nation. 83: 145. Ag. 16, ’06. 180w.
“It is the chief fault of this fluent and often charming verse that it, too, is singularly soulless.”
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Putnam’s. 1: 225. N. ’06. 380w.
Carman, (William) Bliss. Poetry of life. **$1.50. Page.
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Pub. Opin. 40: 91. Ja. 20, ’06. 160w.
Carmichael, Montgomery. In Tuscany: Tuscan towns, Tuscan types and the Tuscan tongue. **$2. Dutton.
“The author has lived long in the Tuscan cities and has learned to admire the Tuscan character. His book is a series of expositions of that character in various manifestations. First, there are some chapters about the temperament of the people in general; then descriptions of types, such as the priest, the cook and the coachman; then accounts of less-known localities—Portoferraio, Mont La Verna, Orbetello—and of the national sport and the national lottery.”—Ind.
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Ind. 61: 755. S. 27, ’06. 100w.
“No English reader, who thinks of visiting Tuscany or taking up residence there, should fail to read his book.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 443. Jl. 7, ’06. 560w.
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Putnam’s. 1: 378. D. ’06. 110w.
Carmichael, Montgomery, ed. Life of John William Walshe as written by his son Philip Regidius Walshe. *$1.50. Dutton.
“John Walshe, says his son, was a splendid scholar and a devoted servant of God. Of his scholarship he has left as a monument many volumes of material relating chiefly to St. Francis of Assisi; of his devotion to God, impressive evidence is given in this narrative of his quest to know God, a quest that began in England in his earliest youth and found its consummation in distant Italy, whither he had fled from his merchant father’s counting-room, and where he entered upon a life of study, love and religion that was to lead him to the purest and most profound mysticism. The phrase a nineteenth-century mystic sounds strange indeed, but such was John Walshe, and a mystic whose influence, as diffused by his son’s filial zeal, must touch with uplifting power all who read the story of his painful pilgrimage.”—Outlook.
“A most unusual, fine, eloquent, sincere, even inspired piece of writing.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 537. S. 1, ’06. 1410w.
“It is not a great biography, indeed, it has sundry obvious defects from a purely literary standpoint. But whatever of blemish it may seem to us to hold is lost from sight in contemplation of the saintly figure it reveals.”
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Outlook. 83: 1005. Ag. 25, ’06. 220w.
R. of Rs. 34: 382. S. ’06. 50w.
Carpenter, Edmund Janes. Long ago in Greece: a book of golden hours with the old story tellers. $1.50. Little.
The atmosphere and literary excellence of the old Greek tales are preserved in these twenty and more simplified stories. Among them are Homer’s “Battle of the frogs and mice,” a portion of Aristophanes’ “Birds,” the wooing of Pelops, the tale of Hero and Leander, Ovid’s version of Narcissus and his shadow, Hesiod’s account of Pandora’s curiosity, and Pindar’s sketch of Thetis and many others.
Ind. 61: 1407. D. 13, ’06. 60w.
“It has the particular merit that it follows the originals very closely and preserves something of the atmosphere as well as the subject matter of the famous old stories that it presents.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 70w.
“They are retold simply and in every way made attractive to the youthful reader.”
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Outlook. 84: 430. O. 20, ’06. 60w.
Carpenter, Edward. Days with Walt Whitman. $1.50. Macmillan.
“Mr. Carpenter, an English gentleman, made the poet’s acquaintance in the sixties through his writings; but met him only in 1877. Seven years later they met again. The notes made by the disciple were written out carefully, and have been published in an English magazine, but now only in book form.... The book has a chapter on Whitman as a prophet, one on the poetic form of ‘Leaves of grass,’ and another, and by no means the least interesting, on Whitman and Emerson. The new volume should please the ever-widening circle of lovers of the ‘Good gray poet.’”—N. Y. Times.
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Acad. 70: 547. Je. 9, ’06. 700w.
Reviewed by M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
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Atlan. 98: 898. D. ’06. 530w.
“What one misses most in the book is any evidence that the author saw and felt Whitman as a poet.”
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Critic. 49: 205. S. ’06. 410w.
“But while Traubel’s face to face likeness of Whitman in all his moods is more interesting, Carpenter’s book contains a more definite literary appreciation of the man and his genius.”
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Ind. 61: 153. Jl. 19, ’06. 650w.
“Mr. Carpenter’s attitude and language are those of an entirely sane person; he writes entertainingly and interestingly, without gush. Yet that his opinion of Whitman was that of a pupil toward a chosen master appears on every page.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 397. Je. 16, ’06. 220w.
“Pleasantly written, reminiscent book, in the entertaining style of Mr. Carpenter’s other books.”
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R. of Rs. 34: 125. Jl. ’06. 60w.
“It is a pity so much of this book should be mere tittle-tattle.”
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Sat. R. 102: sup. 5. O. 13, ’06. 1130w.
Carpenter, Edward Childs. Captain Courtesy, a story of Old California. *$1.50. Jacobs.
The struggle between Mexico and the United States in old California is intertwined with the story of Captain Courtesy whose Spanish mother and American father were killed by the Mexicans and who for six years waged a warfare of his own upon his enemies by becoming an outlaw whose name spelled terror, a daring road agent with a great price upon his head. After a series of bold adventures he wins an American wife and American citizenship.
“This is evidently a first book, and it shows many of the faults of the ’prentice hand. He merely skims over the surface of things, as if he were in haste to tell his slight little story with the fewest words possible.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 764. N. 17, ’06. 190w.
Carpenter, Joseph Estlin. James Martineau; theologian and teacher. *$2.50. Am. Unitar.
“The work is really a model of what a work of this kind should be.”
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Dial. 40: 22. Ja. 1, ’06. 380w.
Carpenter, Rt. Rev. William Boyd, bp. of Ripon. Witness to the influence of Christ; being the William Belden Noble lectures for 1904. **$1.10. Houghton.
“The author demands scientific examination of the religious facts, and shows himself well informed in the latest literature on the psychology of the religious experience.” Thomas C. Hall.
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Am. J. Theol. 10: 567. Jl. ’06. 1270w.
“Its chief excellence is its suggestiveness; its chief defect, its lack of orderly treatment of the subjects undertaken.” Henry Thomas Colestock.
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Bib. World. 27: 397. My. ’06. 290w.
Carr, Clark Ezra. Lincoln at Gettysburg. **$1. McClurg.
Written primarily as an address and delivered before the State historical society of Illinois, Mr. Carr’s effort may be considered an appreciation well worth the time of any student and reader. He sketches the transition from the disappointment of the assembled Gettysburg multitude, over Lincoln’s speech to the dawning realization that it was a masterpiece of oratory, and a “crowning triumph of literary achievement.”
Reviewed by Edwin Erle Sparks.
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Carrington, FitzRoy. Pilgrim’s staff: poems divine and moral, selected and arranged by FitzRoy Carrington. **75c. Duffield.
The aim of the compiler has been to choose from the verse of three and a half centuries a “handful of poems, beautiful in thoughts and spiritual import, which should reflect, as well as might be, in a space so limited, all moods for self abasement of utter unworthiness, to the courage born of a firm faith in the divinity of man, which can face, unafraid, the Great Unknown.”
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Nation. 83: 508. D. 13, ’06. 30w.
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“Though there are lacking some poems that one might expect in even so small a collection as this, those that are included have been discriminatingly selected.”
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Outlook. 84: 893. D. 8, ’06. 80w.
Carroll, Phidellia Patton. Soul-winning: a problem and its solution; with an introd. by C: H. Fowler. *50c. Meth. bk.
A seven part discussion of the problem of soul-winning treats The importance of soul-winning, Personal effort in soul-winning, A successful method, Steps leading to Christ, Children won by personal effort, A revival not absolutely essential to soul-winning, and Preparation for soul-winning.
“To all who follow Dr. Carroll in his apparent contention that winsomeness consists in words fitly spoken, this book will be of great and interesting and in some respects a difficult sub-permanent value.” Edward Braislin.
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Carter, E. Fremlett. Motive power and gearing for electrical machinery: a treatise on the theory and practice of the mechanical equipment of power stations for electricity supply and for electric power and traction. *$5. Van Nostrand.
“The first edition of this book was issued in 1896.... The book is essentially a compilation of principles, theory and results of experiments of the mechanical engineering features of electrical power plants, with some illustrated descriptions of existing plants.... [It includes] many subjects which are usually treated in separate books. It is neither a textbook nor a work of reference but practically an encyclopaedic compilation, from various sources, of descriptions and data on mechanical engineering which are supposed to be of interest to the electrical engineer.”—Engin. N.
“The engineering student will find each of the subjects of this book treated in far better shape in numerous standard works, and the general reader who is not a student will find the book in many cases too difficult of comprehension for him.” William Kent.
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Carter, Jesse Benedict. Religion of Numa, and other essays on the religion of ancient Rome. *$1. Macmillan.
In order to facilitate presentation, Mr. Carter divides Roman history into five epochs, those of the legendary kings and the semi-historical kings, the first half of the republic, the last half of the republic, the beginning of the empire, and the renaissance of religion under Augustus. It “is less a handbook than a sketch of the change by which the original agricultural and secluded mythology of Rome and its gods who had their proper home within the Pomerium, developed into the prevailing mythology of the classical period.” (Ind.)
54“Gives, perhaps, as clear a general view as the reading public either desires or deserves. The work is entirely destitute of reference to authorities.” Andrew Lang.
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Acad. 70: 134. F. 10, ’06. 1330w.
“Mr. Carter gives no authorities and not too many details; hence his book will not supply the needs of real students of the subject. Nevertheless, the book will serve well as an introduction to the subject, being clearly and forcibly written.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 12. Jl. 7. 350w.
“This is a very valuable short study of an interesting and in some respects a difficult subject.”
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Critic. 48: 470. My. ’06. 180w.
“This little volume is full of suggestion and value.”
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Ind. 60: 743. Mr. 29, ’06. 240w.
“The society may be congratulated on a carefully prepared and valuable volume.”
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Nation. 83: 127. Ag. 9, ’06. 590w.
“Involves some interesting excursions in the bypaths of classical learning.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 196. Mr. 31, ’06. 240w.
R. of Rs. 33: 508. Ap. ’06. 40w.
“A readable sketch ... based on the recent critical work which has pieced together many isolated indications and filled numerous gaps by illuminating conjecture.”
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Sat. R. 102: 271. S. 1, ’06. 680w.
Carter, Thomas. Shakespeare and the Holy Scriptures, with the version he used. *$3. Dutton.
“The good intentions and industry of the author of this volume are, of course, worthy of all respect, but we cannot avoid the feeling that they have been wasted on a tedious piece of work.”
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Ath. 1905, 2: 847. D. 16. 190w.
Cartrie, Count de. Memoirs of the Count de Cartrie; with introd. by F: Masson, and appendices and notes by Pierre Amédée Pichot. *$5. Lane.
A record of the extraordinary events in the life of a French royalist during the war in La Vendée, and of his flight to Southampton, where he followed the humble occupation of gardener.
“A work which reflects credit on all concerned.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 399. O. 6. 2150w.
“As a tale of adventure, the work cannot fail to attract. It also has value as a side-light thrown on a memorable epoch in French history.”
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Dial. 41: 285. N. 1, ’06. 260w.
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Lond. Times. 5: 366. N. 2. ’06. 1580w.
“The interest of these memoirs is very great, great everywhere and they have considerable historic value.”
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Nation. 83: 373. N. 1, ’06. 1180w.
“Its limitations in interest are its best guarantee of genuineness: and in genuineness as a human document typically illustrative of personal fortunes during the French revolution its chief interest lies.” G: S. Hellman.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 811. D. 1. ’06. 280w.
“This story of suffering and hairbreadth escape shows the nature of the struggle in a way that historians as well as students will welcome.”
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Sat. R. 102: 522. O. 27, ’06. 140w.
Cartwright, Julia (Mrs. Henry Ady). Raphael. *75c. Dutton.
This little manual on the life and art of Raphael is the fourteenth volume in “The popular library of art.” The author tells about the “birth of Raphael and his life and studies at Perugia, Florence and Rome. She describes his Madonnas, the Vatican Stanze, his portraits of contemporaries, his work as architect and decorator, and his cartoons, the last of which, she says, ‘mark the final stage of Raphael’s artistic development.’” (N. Y. Times.)
“Mrs. Ady seems to have been helped by the rigid limitations of space to give us her very best. The essential acts of Raphael’s life and art could not have been stated more concisely. Nor has the necessary compression of the material made for dullness.”
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Ath. 1905, 2: 690. N. 18. 410w.
“Within its limited compass, a singularly complete account of the character and development of Raphael’s work. She is of course thoroughly familiar with modern critical opinion, and as far as it goes her work is exact and scholarly.”
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Dial. 40: 160. Mr. 1, ’06. 110w.
“The volume is a worthy successor to its forerunners.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 162. Mr. 17, ’06. 250w.
Carus, Paul. Friedrich Schiller. **75c. Open ct.
In Mr. Carus’ memorial volume fittingly contributed at the time of the Schiller centenary, a biographical sketch is followed by two essays on Schiller as a philosophical poet and on Schiller’s poetry. There are illustrative selections from the poet’s works given in both German and English.
“A concise but scholarly sketch of Schiller’s life and an appreciation of his poetry.”
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Critic. 48: 379. Ap. ’06. 30w.
“It is a book of popular character, and very interesting in its presentation of the subject.”
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Carver, Thomas Nixon, comp. Sociology and social progress: a handbook for students of sociology. *$2.75. Ginn.
A book designed to be used as the basis for class-room discussions or to furnish collateral reading to a course of lectures. The author has gone out-side of systematic treatises on sociology for observations upon the phenomena of society, upon the laws of social growth and decay, and upon the problems of social improvement, and has presented them in form for the student and the general reader as well. The discussion is in three parts: part 1, The nature, scope and method of sociology; part 2. Sociology as a study of social progress—the direction of social progress; part 3. The factors of social progress.
“The general purpose is admirable, and Professor Carver’s book will be welcomed by sociologists as a distinct enlargement of library facilities.” G: E. Vincent.
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Am. J. Soc. 12: 122. Ag. ’06. 900w.
“The compiler has produced a volume which will be of very great service to those of his readers who wish to get a general conception of the ideas of the best thinkers and students of society, but who have not the time to read the works in extenso, nor the wisdom to choose well.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 174. Jl. ’06. 310w.
“The volume does not, accordingly, show us much of its compiler’s personal opinions, and can hardly, we think, be of great usefulness to the general reader.”
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Nation. 83: 77. Jl. 26, ’06. 350w.
“The book is a timely one and should both promote and assist the teaching of sociology.”
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Yale R. 15: 339. N. ’06. 200w.
55Cary, Elisabeth Luther. Novels of Henry James: a study. **$1.25. Putnam.
“Miss Cary is not quite an ideal interpreter.”
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Acad. 71: 103. Ag. 4, ’06. 1280w.
“Elisabeth Luther Cary would appear to have done, in her study of Henry James, pretty much all for him that it is possible for an ardent disciple to do at this time.” H. W. Boynton.
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Ind. 60: 44. Ja. 4, ’06. 120w.
R. of Rs. 33: 121. Ja. ’06. 100w.
Cary, Elisabeth Luther, and Jones, Annie Maria. Books and my food. **$1. Moffat.
Mental and physical aliment in the form of quotations and recipes for every day in the year.
“We hope that the culinary taste of the authors is in keeping with the literary.”
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Critic. 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 50w.
“On the whole, the object has been attained; but now and again an exception must be taken to the compiler’s accuracy.”
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Ind. 61: 155. Jl. 19, ’06. 200w.
“The quotations will be a godsend to the harassed makers of menus for public occasions.”
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Nation. 83: 54. Jl. 19, ’06. 60w.
Castle, Mrs. Agnes (Sweetman), and Castle, Edgerton. Heart of Lady Anne. †$1.50. Stokes.
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Critic. 48: 474. My. ’06. 100w.
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N. Y. Times. 10: 922. D. 30, ’05. 370w.
“It is very dainty, amusing and inconsequential.”
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Pub. Opin. 39: 859. D. 30, ’05. 190w
“The texture is of the lightest, but skilfully woven.”
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Sat. R. 100: 786. D. 16, ’05. 190w.
“The book is gracefully written and is easy reading, but it will strike many readers as being as artificial as the age which it is intended to represent.”
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Spec. 95: 1130. D. 30, ’05. 70w.
Castle, Mrs. Agnes (Sweetman), and Castle, Egerton. If youth but knew. †$1.50. Macmillan.
The time and rule of Jerome Bonaparte furnish the “occasion and material of this romance.... The period chosen by the authors is just anterior to the fall of Jerome, and the critical part of the narrative passes in Cassel at the King’s court. The atmosphere clothes this story as a garment from the very outset, when we make the acquaintance of the young Anglo-Austrian count and his chance companion, the wayfaring fiddler, Geiger-Hans. It begins to be romantic, it continues in the true vein of romance, and ends sweetly upon a proper romantic note, to the accompaniment of Geiger-Hans’s fiddle.” (Ath.)
“From the opening pages of the present story the stage and its machinery are always in sight. But once accept the book as a glorified libretto of a romantic opera, clever, dainty, delicately treated, and all runs smoothly and delightfully to the end.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 474. Ap. 21. 400w.
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Critic. 48: 571. Je. ’06. 60w.
“It is a story throbbing with life, instinct with poetic feeling, and bearing the stamp of a creative power that is closely akin to genius.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Ind. 60: 1488. Je. 21, ’06. 120w.
“This is one of the prettiest of the stories of Agnes and Egerton Castle.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 270. Ap. 28, ’06. 630w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
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Castleman, Virginia Carter. Roger of Fairfield. $1.25. Neale.
With picturesque and historic Virginia for a setting, reflecting the spirit of ante-bellum days, Miss Castleman follows the fortunes of Roger of Fairfield thru college and the theological seminary to his ordination and marriage.
Cather, Willa Sibert. Troll garden. †$1.25. McClure.
“For cultivation and distinction of style, Miss Cather may even rank with Mrs. Edith Wharton, but she is far more sympathetic, far deeper. Although her stories are short and unpretentious, they seem to me quite the most important in recent American fiction.” Mary Moss.
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Atlan. 97: 48. Ja. ’06. 380w.
Catherine of Siena, St., tr. by Vida D. Scudder. *$2.50. Dutton.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 462. Ja. ’06. 60w.
Cator, Dorothy. Everyday life among the head-hunters, and other experiences from East to West. $1.75. Longmans.
“Without making any pretense to being scientific this plain and unvarnished but eminently readable, narrative ... contains a large amount of interesting information with regard to the customs and modes of life of both Dyaks and the less well known Muruts.” R. D.
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Nature. 73: 203. D. 28, ’05. 570w.
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Spec. 96: sup. 648. Ap. 28, ’06. 380w.
Cattell, J. McKeen, ed. American men of science: a biographical directory. *$5. Science press, N. Y.
A “who’s who” for the men who work in the field of pure science.
Ind. 60: 809. Ap. 5, ’06. 70w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 153. Mr. 10, ’06. 270w.
Cavaness, Alpheus Asbury Brenton. Rubaiyat of hope. *$1. Meth. bk.
Omar’s red rose, wine-dyed, gives place to the lily which waves with a palm, symbol of victory. The author of this poem sounds a triumphant note of hope mastering despair, man mastering destiny. He teaches that “nothing can unhinge us but ourselves.”
Cawein, Madison Julius. Nature-notes and impressions, in prose and verse. **$1.50. Dutton.
Brief sketches in prose and verse taken from the author’s note book. “A memorandum of moods, of accents in nature, caught at the moment, to be elaborated later into a picture.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The whole output tends to give the impression that the successes themselves are not spontaneous but the mere chance triumphs of a highly self-conscious and wholly artificial method.”
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Nation. 83: 288. O. 4, ’06. 370w.
“One of the qualities, indeed which in poetry serves to give him distinction, a remarkably affluent and picturesque imagery, in prose has a tendency to become a defect, rendering the style too poetic and imaginative and the periods 56over-sustained. This is, indeed the chief limitation to the volume, but a limitation redeemed by the delicate picturing to be found on every page.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 616. O. 6, ’06. 1160w.
“The work of Mr. Cawein is not distinctly lyric, although the verse has rhymthic charm.”
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Outlook. 84: 337. O. 6, ’06. 220w.
Cawein, Madison Julius. Vale of Tempe. *$1.50. Dutton.
“The most surprising thing about Mr. Cawein’s work is the even excellence which characterizes so great a quantity of matter.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 40: 126. F. 16, ’06. 270w.
Cervantes, Saavedra Miguel de. Don Quixote; tr. with introd. by John Quimby. 2v. $2.50. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Thin paper two volume set” this “Don Quixote” is of interest alike to students and library collectors. There is an informing introduction, the first part of which presents the merits and demerits of the edition offered to English readers thru the past two centuries and a half, and the second part of which sketches Cervantes’ life.
Chadwick, John White. Later poems. *$1.25. Houghton.
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Reader. 7: 229. Ja. ’06. 160w.
Chadwick, Samuel. Humanity and God. **$1.50. Revell.
“The one weakness in the otherwise masterful work is in the lowering of the standard of human perfection in order to permit to consciousness the sense of its attainment.” Edward Braislin.
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Am. J. Theol. 10: 571. Jl. ’06. 340w.
Chamberlain, Charles Joseph. Methods in plant histology. *$2.25. Univ. of Chicago press.
“The book will be very useful to teachers of secondary schools, as well as to independent workers, for it gives in usable and concise form the latest and most approved methods of modern micro-technique.” W. J. G. Land.
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Chamberlain, Leander Trowbridge. True doctrine of prayer: with foreword by the Rev. W: R. Huntington. **$1. Baker.
Dr. Chamberlain has presented the doctrine of prayer in a logical succession of paragraphs “each one of which presents truth which no one who desires to think deeply about prayer can afford to lose out of sight.... It is not merely as a healthful exercise for the soul that he would have us think of prayer, but as a potency, a dynamic, an efficient cause.... He is willing to explain, to interpret, to justify, but never to minimize.”
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Outlook. 82: 523. Mr. 3, ’06. 230w.
Chamberlin, Thomas Chrowder, and Salisbury, Rollin D. Geology. 3v. v. 1, Processes and their results; v. 2, and 3, Earth history, ea. *$4. Holt.
The first volume of the work appeared in 1904 and is now in its second edition. “In that volume was given a statement of the planetismal hypothesis of earth origin. In these new volumes the hypothesis is developed and applied, and its application requires a new reading of dynamical geology, with a consequent new interpretation of geologic history.... A notable feature of the work is the attention paid to past climates and the use made of them in interpretation.... The treatment of Pleistocene and the human or present periods is unusually full and satisfactory.... The book closes with a very interesting and suggestive discussion of man as a geologic agent, and as influenced by his geologic environment.”—Dial.
“Whether we accept or reject their views, there is no gainsaying the fact that Profs. Chamberlin and Salisbury have produced a very suggestive work, which is likely to exert a marked influence on the teaching of geology in all English-speaking countries.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 191. Ag. 18. 1410w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“It is not sufficiently complete to be an entirely satisfactory book of reference. For the general reader the book has a charm and freshness not common to scientific texts, but it contains so much new and not yet accepted doctrine that such a reader will need to take careful note of the qualifying phrases. It is to working geologists that the book will make the strongest appeal.” H. Foster Bain.
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Dial. 40: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 1420w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“For the graduate student and as a reference work for the teacher and general reader the work is, however, indispensable.”
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Ind. 61: 1172. N. 15, ’06. 60w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
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Nation. 82: 476. Je. 7, ’06. 1240w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“The arrangement of the book is in most respects well adapted to the requirements of students, and the presentation of the subject matter is always clear.” A. H.
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Nature. 74: 557. O. 4, ’06. 2210w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“The principal adverse criticisms that can be made, relate to the minor details of editing—not to the subject-matter or the method of treatment. In the presence of so much that is large, and helpful, and inspiring such criticisms seem like mere quibbling. Not a subject is touched upon in the entire work that does not have the breath of a new life breathed into it.” J. C. Branner.
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Science, n.s. 24: 462. O. 12, ’06. 2540w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
“The authors give an admirable account of the various stages through which the earth has passed since it became solid, and their beautifully illustrated volumes form one of the most complete and trustworthy geological treatises which have yet been published.”
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Spec. 97: sup. 654. N. 3, ’06. 370w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
Chambers, Robert William. Fighting chance. **$1.50. Appleton.
Silvia Landis, a spoiled society girl, and Stephen Siward, who has inherited a weakness for drink, meet at a railway station “and continue the game there begun at a house party where assorted time killers are assembled.... Silvia angles for a new millionaire and plays with Stephen even while she lands him.... The story passes from the house party to the city, where Silvia pursues her social pastimes and retains her golden fiancé and Stephen ... fights the demon rum alone with more or less unsuccess. You have in the meantime club scenes, bridge scenes, scenes of domestic, infelicity, scenes of sordid life, glimpses of the half-world, a panorama of high finance.... In the end ... Mr. Chambers, to achieve his happy ending appropriates a motor car ... and lets it blow up with the marplot.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Mr. Chambers is so clever, has so keen a sense of character, that after enjoying his book, you ungratefully regard him with violent irritation. He has no right not to do even better! 57His abundant and interesting material is not thoroughly digested.” Mary Moss.
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Bookm. 24: 157. O. ’06. 870w.
“Such books as this play with the glittering surface of life but have nothing to do with its deeper realities.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 41: 243. O. 16, ’06. 270w.
“A real rival to Mrs. Wharton’s ‘House of Mirth.’”
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Ind. 61: 642. S. 13, ’06. 70w.
“The interpretation which Mrs. Wharton attempted of New York society in ‘The house of mirth,’ Robert Chambers has really accomplished in his new novel.”
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Ind. 61: 1158. N. 15, ’06. 100w.
“Realistic in the extreme and to the extent of introducing slang and even profanity, it still has fine touches of sentiment and reveals an intimate knowledge of a species of human existence which, in a sense is as new and as modern as the motor and skyscraper.”
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Lit. D. 33: 593. O. 27, ’06. 500w.
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Lit. D. 33: 857. D. 8, ’06. 90w.
“With all its palpable defects upon it, this novel was framed for popularity. It is emphatically not for the literary epicure.”
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Nation. 83: 246. S. 20, ’06. 140w.
“Mr. Robert W. Chambers has taken the material of Mrs. Wharton’s ‘House of mirth’ and made it over. Like Mrs. Wharton, Mr. Chambers shows you the brightest and best touched with the poison; unlike Mrs. Wharton, he refuses to permit, much less to organize, a conspiracy of bitter circumstances which shall assist the poison in its cruel work and bring everything to a bitter end.” H. I. Brock.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 548. S. 8, ’06. 1160w.
“A particularly good story.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 797. D. 1, ’06. 210w.
“While the novel may be at heart no more pessimistic, socially speaking, than Mrs. Wharton’s ‘The House of mirth,’ it lacks the delicate perception and fine literary shading of that searching analysis.”
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Outlook. 84: 141. S. 15, ’06. 240w.
“If Mr. Chambers had only taken the time to reconstruct the volume, prune it of superfluous conversations, and infuse into it a little more of the heroism his title suggests, he would have had a novel of real significance.”
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World To-Day. 11: 1221. N. ’06. 160w.
Chambers, Robert William. Iole. †$1.25. Appleton.
“This is the prettiest and gayest bit of satire that we have seen in print for many a day; daintily good-humored, but none the less piercing and effective.”
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Acad. 71: 286. S. 22, ’06. 150w.
“The fun really ends with Iole’s marriage, at which point a wise reader, grateful for a smile, will move on to other pastures.” Mary Moss.
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Atlan. 97: 50. Ja. ’06. 100w.
Chambers, Robert William. Mountain-land; with 8 full page il. in col. by Frank Richardson. **$1.50. Appleton.
Two little children have an instructive day’s journey to the mountain-land during which they converse with the mountains centuries old and learn the lesson of its disregard for time and change, and talk with the ice-fly, the snow jay, a band of owls, a squirrel, a lynx and giant silkworm moths. Each one of the creatures furnishes instruction regarding its identity, habitat and general characteristics.
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Chambers, Robert William. Reckoning. †$1.50. Appleton.
“Mr. Chambers’s richly dressed puppets move briskly through their many trials to a happy end, and the author, as I before said, is a competent story teller.” Mary Moss.
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Atlan. 97: 50. Ja. ’06. 150w.
“It leaves you with a sense of puzzled doubt just where erudition ceases and the dime novel begins.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
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Bookm. 22: 374. D. ’05. 380w.
Chambers, Robert William. Tracer of lost persons. †$1.50. Appleton.
Certain interesting cases taken up by Mr. Keen, head of the firm of Keen & co., Tracers of lost persons, form the substance of these amusing stories, but they are not on the old detective story order, for they are all cases in which the lost person is a lost love or a lost ideal and they all end in happy marriages as the dinner given to Mr. Keen at the close of the volume by five radiant young couples testifies.
“Somewhat puerile and wholly absurd is the main idea of this amorous tale, but some of the incidents are amusing, and the dialogue is brisk.”
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Critic. 49: 284. S. ’06. 50w.
“A new and improved form of the detective story.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.
“Capital reading for a leisure hour or two.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 422. Je. 30, ’06. 140w.
Chamblin, Jean. Lady Bobs, her brother and I: a romance of the Azores. †$1.25. Putnam.
“The trick of pitching an unpretentious story in just the right key is rare enough to entitle Jean Chamblin’s placid little idyl of the Azores, ‘Lady Bobs, her brother and I’, to a word or two of cordial commendation.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
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Bookm. 22: 494. Ja. ’06. 190w.
“She has a facile and humorous pen and her letters are literature.”
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Critic. 48: 190. F. ’06. 160w.
“It is a pity that Miss Chamblin has felt it necessary to resort to meaningless slang and cheap humor in order to enliven her heroine’s letters.”
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Dial. 40: 20. Ja. 1, ’06. 150w.
“A large amount of interesting description and information regarding these unique islands is cleverly woven into the story.”
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Ind. 60: 343. F. 8, ’06. 120w.
Champlain, Samuel de. Voyages and explorations of Samuel de Champlain (1604–1616) narrated by himself; tr. by Annie Nettleton Bourne, together with the voyage of 1603, reprinted from Purchas his pilgrimes; ed. with introd. and notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne. 2v. ea. **$1. Barnes.
“These volumes are a welcome addition to the ‘Trail makers’ series. They comprise the first English translation of Champlain’s ‘Voyages and explorations’ that has ever been made accessible to the general public. Thirty years ago translations were made for the Prince society, but they were published in an edition ‘strictly limited and now to be found only in the richer public and private collections of Americana.’ Professor and Mrs. Bourne have therefore rendered a distinct service to students of our early history. An extremely adequate and interesting introduction of twenty-eight pages has been contributed by Professor Bourne.”—Lit. D.
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Lit. D. 33: 513. O. 13, ’06. 190w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 779. N. 24, ’06. 250w.
“An edition that represents in brief the sum of present-day knowledge.”
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Outlook. 84: 534. O. 27, ’06. 210w.
“A work of considerable interest to the historical student.”
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R. of Rs. 34: 756. D. ’06. 50w.
Champlin, John Denison. Young folks’ cyclopedia of common things. $2.50. Holt.
This third edition revised and enlarged meets the demands of rapid advance during the past decade in everything pertaining to science and industrial arts.
Champlin, John Denison. Young folks’ cyclopaedia of persons and places. $2.50. Holt.
More than five hundred new articles appear in this fifth edition, including names of persons and places prominent in latter-day happenings.
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Lit. D. 33: 393. S. 22, ’06. 70w.
“Will be welcomed by all boys and girls of alert, inquiring mind.”
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Outlook. 84: 285. S. 29, ’06. 20w.
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R. of Rs. 34: 512. O. ’06. 70w.
Champney, Elizabeth Williams. Romance of the French abbeys. **$3. Putnam.
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Chancellor, William Estabrook, and Hewes, Fletcher Willis. United States; a history of three centuries. 10 pts. pt. 2, Colonial union, 1698–1774. **$3.50. Putnam.
“It is unfortunate that so faulty a work should be launched upon the public by the reputation of a great publishing house and by strangely favorable notices from several literary periodicals of high standing.” W. M. West.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 441. Ja. ’06. 120w. (Review of v. 2.)
“His material is slight and it is further obscured by a flood of ‘literary’ allusions and historical philosophy-and-water in an inflated style which becomes a weariness to the reader’s patience.” Theodore Clarke Smith.
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Atlan. 98: 707. N. ’06. 230w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
Channing, Edward. History of the United States. 8v. v. 1, Planting of a nation in the New World. **$2.50. Macmillan.
“Not only an admirable specimen of historical scholarship, but also a successful effort to present the results of scholarship in an attractive form.” Edward Gaylord Bourne.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 390. Ja. ’06. 1750w.
“[His] sense of balanced judgment is reinforced by the shrewd, occasionally ironical or humorous style which reflects the personality of the author.” Theodore Clarke Smith.
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Atlan. 98: 706. N. ’06. 150w.
“He still shows the mastery, the cool, skeptical scholarship, with the occasional gleam of wit and the constant clearness of expression which marked his first volume.”
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Ind. 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 70w. (Review of v. 2.)
Reviewed by Henry Russell Spencer.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 346. Je. ’06. 1220w.
Chapin, Henry Dwight. Vital questions. **$1. Crowell.
“The volume is a good one to put in the hands of one whose interest in matters social needs quickening.”
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Charles, Frances Asa. Pardner of Blossom range. †$1.50. Little.
A tale of Arizona in which cowboys and Indians figure. Holly, the granddaughter of the owner of Blossom ranch conceives a dislike for an army captain who is alleged to be responsible for the death of a private whose horse Pardner comes into her possession. That this same officer should become a favorite in her train of suitors suggests an interesting situation which is satisfactorily worked out.
“The story is pretty, and the author has evidently made a resolute effort to soften the asperities of her early manner.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 711. O. 27, ’06. 130w.
Charlton, John. Speeches and addresses: political, literary, and religious. $2. Morang & co.
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Dial. 40: 53. Ja. 16, ’06. 170w.
Chaucer, Geoffrey. Canterbury tales, prologue and selections: rewritten in simple language by Calvin Dill Wilson, and decorated by Ralph Fletcher Seymour. *$1. McClurg.
In retelling old tales for young readers, Mr. Wilson aims to preserve in his prose rendering the literary no less than the poetic and artistic qualities of the original. This Chaucer is a charming volume which is uniform with Mr. Wilson’s retold “Faery queen.”
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Nation. 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 50w.
Cheney, John Vance. Poems. **$1.50. Houghton.
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Critic. 48: 96. Ja. ’06. 110w.
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Reader. 7: 228. Ja. ’06. 200w.
Cheney, Warren. Challenge. †$1.50. Bobbs.
The dramatic incidents of Mr. Cheney’s tale serve to show in turn stout-hearted, superstitious and treacherous phases of character as exhibited among a group of Russians in the Alaskan bay of Ltua. The rebellious gurgling of the “draw”—a dangerous whirlpool at a certain turn of the tide—gets into the very action of the story, and as it sinks every mortal caught in its swirl except the brave-hearted Ivan and his Mortyra, typifies the evil of the tale. There is also a case of mental assassination worked out which introduces a metaphysical problem.
“There are some very strong situations and finely-drawn scenes in the work, which on the whole is far above the ordinary present-day story of this character.”
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Arena. 36: 572. N. ’06. 220w.
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Critic. 48: 572. Je. ’06. 50w.
“It is a novel with a new idea, if there is such a thing in the world, and a new field, which is worth while in itself.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 274. Ap. 28, ’06. 410w.
“Warren Cheney ... knows his Alaska and the Russians there thoroughly. There is in this story a restrained dramatic intensity very grateful to the artistic sense.”
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Outlook. 82: 762. Mr. 31, ’06. 110w.
“There is decided value in the tale’s study of motive and character, together with a singularly full acquaintance with the local color and of a little-known historical episode.”
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Chesnutt, Charles Waddell. Colonel’s dream. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“The narrative not unfrequently drags, and the character-drawing is sometimes wanting in clearness.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 43. Ja. 13. 180w.
59Chesterton, Gilbert Keith. Charles Dickens. **$1.50. Dodd.
“This new book is builded on the false idea that just at this time Dickens needs a champion among his own people.” (N. Y. Times.) “Mr. Dickens and Mr. Chesterton move ... arm in arm through these pages like a pair of boon companions, and the ordinary reader may be trusted not to notice that Mr. Dickens’ arm is somewhat hard held.” (Sat. R.) “Dickens is a typical English figure, and it is on this side that Mr. Chesterton’s study is illuminating. It abounds in side-lights thrown by a somewhat mystical optimism and uproarious spirits on the Gargantuan feast of good humour provided by the master.” (Ath.)
“The style in which the book is written reminds us too closely of the smart political leader.”
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Acad. 71: 221. S. 8, ’06. 1620w.
“The real misfortune of the book is that the author seems unable to check his propensity for wild paradox, and cherishes a growing habit of exaggeration, which leads to false emphasis and essentially obscures the issue.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 294. S. 15. 2230w.
“Mr. Chesterton’s book is one which no one who loves Dickens or who admires brilliant writing can afford to ignore.” Arthur Bartlett Maurice.
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Bookm. 24: 267. N. ’06. 2650w.
“As a life of Dickens it does not profess to have value. At the same time, it is entertaining, suggestive, brilliant in spots, the very last book one would go to sleep over. As a self-portrayal of Mr. Chesterton, rather than a picture of his greater countryman, it has decided merits.” Percy F. Bicknell.
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Lond. Times. 5: 296. Ag. 31, ’06. 1140w.
“As biography Mr. Chesterton’s book is quite superfluous, and, we may add, quite inadequate. As criticism it will hugely delight folks who find enjoyment in literary fireworks.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 598. S. 29, ’06. 2260w.
“With so good a book as Dr. Ward’s little critical biography in the field, the present volume seems a work of supererogation.”
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Outlook. 84: 715. N. 24, ’06. 200w.
“One cannot regard Mr. Chesterton as the ideal critic of Charles Dickens though he makes a very effective apologist.”
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Sat. R. 102: 368. S. 22, ’06. 1510w.
“The book, taken as a whole, is as warm and understanding a tribute as any hand has laid on the great writer’s grave. We find ourselves also largely in accordance with him when he blames and demurs.”
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Spec. 97: 364. S. 15, ’06. 2500w.
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith. Club of queer trades. †$1.25. Harper.
“They have not a free inventive stroke. They are whimsical and studied.”
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Reader. 6: 727. N. ’05. 160w.
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith. Heretics. *$1.50. Lane.
“As a critic, not only of heretics but of various aspects and relations of life discussed in this volume, when he has finished off the heretics, Mr. Chesterton shows a definite advance in clearness and force.”
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Nation. 82: 208. Mr. 8, ’06. 1500w.
Cheyne, Thomas Kelly. Bible problems and the new material for their solution. *$1.50. Putnam.
“The book is stimulating and thought-provoking, even though its theories are now and then insufficiently supported by facts.” Ira Maurice Price and John M. P. Smith.