Volume 2 — Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Digests of Reviews appearing in January-December, 1906 magazines (continued 6)
Reading edition
“It is not, however, structurally organic. In the personal narrative there are several minor errors of fact.”
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Nation. 82: 54. Ja. 18, ’06. 200w.
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Pub. Opin. 40: 249. F. 24, ’06. 220w.
Crosby, Oscar Terry. Tibet and Turkestan: a journey through old lands and a study of new conditions. **$2.50. Putnam.
The journey of exploration thru central Asia made in 1903 by Mr. Crosby in company with Capt. Ferdinand Anginieur of the French army furnishes much of the material for his “stirring tale of adventure and still more stirring record of wrongs.... [He] tears off with pitiless hand the thinly decent covering which ‘political necessity’ threw over the Lhasa affair, and exposes that affair in its naked simplicity.” The book is fully illustrated.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 175. Jl. ’06. 310w.
“We cannot rate Mr. Crosby’s book high, although we can readily understand that it may be useful and informing to the American reader.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 419. Ap. 7. 380w.
“The narrative is particularly attractive and valuable wherein he brings out the rival relation of the Russians and the British.” John W. Foster.
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Atlan. 97: 543. Ap. ’06. 100w.
“A book at once readable and disappointing.”
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Bookm. 33: 339. My. ’06. 370w.
“With its text, index, and brand-new map, it is a revelation of the new Asia of railways and telegraphs.” W. E. Griffis.
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Critic. 48: 372. Ap. ’06. 360w.
“Mr. Crosby’s description of the countries named is familiar, and his discussion of the political aspect is independent.” H. E. Coblentz.
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Dial. 40: 234. Ap. 1, ’06. 310w.
“There is much of interest in the narrative of his trip. Many of his views are quite novel.”
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Ind. 60: 873. Ap. 12, ’06. 160w.
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Lit. D. 32: 216. F. 10, ’06. 110w.
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Nation. 82: 81. Ja. 25, ’06. 880w.
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N. Y. Times. 10: 749. N. 4, ’05. 330w.
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Outlook. 81: 838. D. 2, ’05. 110w.
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Pub. Opin. 40: 410. Mr. 31, ’06. 260w.
R. of Rs. 33: 253. F. ’06. 110w.
Crosland, Thomas William Hodgson. Wild Irishman. **$1.25. Appleton.
“One expects of him bitter sarcasm and finds on the whole kindly appreciation.”
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Critic. 48: 189. F. ’06. 130w.
Crothers, Samuel McChord. Endless life. **75c. Houghton.
The will of the late George T. Ingersoll provides for an annual lecture on “the immortality of man.” Mr. McChord, chosen to deliver the 1905 address, cites the case neither of the primitive man nor of the average modern man, avoiding a “jungle growth of superstition” on the one hand, and a region of indifference on the other, but of the simple man who is viewed in contrast to the man of highly specialized intelligence. The relation of ethical idealism to future life is discussed.
“The book is a healthful consideration of a universally interesting topic, presenting old and familiar matter with clearness and suggestiveness.” Henry M. Bowden.
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Am. J. Theol. 10: 555. Jl. ’06. 80w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
Critic. 48: 458. My. ’06. 60w.
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Lit. D. 31: 957. D. 23, ’05. 970w.
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Lond. Times. 5: 127. Ap. 6, ’06. 320w.
“His volume is an interpretation of life by a seer.”
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Outlook. 82: 716. Mr. 24, ’06. 120w.
Crothers, Samuel McChord. Pardoner’s wallet. **$1.25. Houghton.
These ten essays by the author of “The gentle reader” offer indulgences for such sins as those of omission, of necessarily slighted work, of doing more than is expected of one, and of unreasonable virtues. He deals with the “foibles, peccadillos, fallacies and the prejudices” of mankind with a subtle but always kindly humor, and never fails to make his moral purpose responsible for the friendly arraignment. The undertone of the book sounds a note of gentle manners and broad charity.
“He shoots very straight, although he does not employ a deadly kind of ammunition.”
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Cath. World. 82: 116. Ap. ’06. 250w
“Mr. Crothers is less whimsical, but hardly less effective, than in ‘The gentle reader.’” H. W. Boynton.
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Critic. 48: 457. My. ’06. 650w.
“Finally, Dr. Crothers, to use the language of a brother divine, belongs to that best class of essayists who ‘clarify life by gentle illumination and lambent humor.’”
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Dial. 40: 22. Ja. 1, ’06. 430w.
“Like its predecessor, is altogether delightful reading.”
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Lit. D. 32: 454. Mr. 24, ’06. 160w.
“All the essays are well written.”
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Nation. 82: 200. Mr. 8, ’06. 220w.
“In that most genial and delightful style of which he is master Doctor Crothers has written a series of essays in which the connecting thread is a kindly judgment of human peccadillos.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 60. Ja. 13, ’06. 400w.
Crowley, Mary Catherine. In treaty with honor. †$1.50. Little.
The historic setting of this tale is the struggle of French Canada for independence in 1837. A young volunteer of Irish birth, French education and United States citizenship and his comrade, a Polish aristocrat fight the same battles, share thrilling adventures and love the same winsome Jacquette. In the end one gives up his life for his country’s cause and the other wins the heroine.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 743. N. 10, ’06. 230w.
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Outlook. 84: 678. N. 17, ’06. 100w.
Crowther, Samuel, jr., and Ruhl, A. Rowing and Track athletics. **$2. Macmillan.
A double volume in which the first subject is treated by Mr. Crowther and the second by Mr. Ruhl appears in the “American sportsman’s library.” “The treatment of rowing is largely historical, several chapters being devoted to the origin and development of collegiate rowing in the United States. The exposition of track athletics gives a convenient résumé of all the important records made in this branch of athletics during recent years.” (R. of Rs.)
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Nature. 73: 605. Ap. 26, ’06. 490w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 265. Ap. 21, ’06. 460w.
“In fact, the book is a history of athletics in America, so clearly and intelligently written that the layman may catch much of the professional’s enthusiasm.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 123. Ja. 27, ’06. 130w.
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R. of Rs. 33: 511. Ap. ’06. 70w.
“The somewhat dry statistics of track athletics in America are made readable by the excellence of the style in which the events are described by Mr. A. Ruhl.”
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Sat. R. 101: 368. Mr. 24, ’06. 1040w.
Culbertson, Anne Virginia. Banjo talks. $1. Bobbs.
“These include a captivating variety of themes, touched with considerable originality in dialect, idiom, and orthography.”
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Critic. 48: 288. Mr. ’06. 30w.
Cuppy, Hazlitt Alva, ed. Our own times: a continuous history of the twentieth century. *$3. J. A. Hill & co., New York.
The aim of this enterprise is to furnish each year a clear, concise compendium of the twelvemonth’s record, doing yearly what Dr. Albert Shaw does monthly in his Review of reviews. The initial volume, prepared by Bonnister Merwin touches upon the main conditioning forces of the world’s activity to-day. The book is provided with maps and also with many full-page half-tones of important personages and noteworthy events.
“That every reference library must have the series goes without saying. Dr. Cuppy should have the hearty gratitude of every literary worker.” A. W. S.
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Am. J. Soc. 11: 428. N. ’05. 820w. (Review of v. 1.)
“We have tested it at a number of points and have found it adequate and just in its treatment and comprehensive in its view.”
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Bookm. 23: 218. Ap. ’06. 310w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The whole not only forms an invaluable compendium of the year’s record, clear, concise, and reliable, but possesses a certain charm of style and literary grace that lend to the history the interest of a story.” Gerhardt C. Mars.
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Pub. Opin. 39: 859. D. 30, ’05. 760w. (Review of v. 1.)
Curry, Charles Emerson. Electromagnetic theory of light, pt. I. *$4. Macmillan.
“Dr. Curry’s account of the electromagnetic 75theory of light promises to be very useful to students of mathematical physics, for whom no English book of exactly similar scope is at present available.... This first part deals with such phenomena of light as can be fully explained by the beautiful theory of Clerk Maxwell, whilst the second part is to treat of those cases in which that theory has hitherto failed to yield a satisfactory explanation.”—Sat. R.
“The author has fallen into the error, only too common, of not confining himself within any definite limits. The author’s treatment is adequate for the most part, but we are not much impressed by it; his mathematics are heavy, of the ‘sledge-hammer’ order, but they are stronger than his physics.”
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Ath. 1905, 2: 440. S. 30. 1700w. (Review of pt. 1.)
“The work is purely theoretical, and in some chapters has no obvious pertinency to known facts.”
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Nation. 83: 98. Ag. 2, ’06. 100w. (Review of pt. 1.)
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Nature. 73: 316. F. 1, ’06. 930w. (Review of pt. 1.)
“The mathematician will find its pages at once lucid and accurate.”
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Sat. R. 99: 676. My. 20, ’05. 370w. (Review of pt. 1.)
“A book unnecessarily abstract, which, while entirely modern in treatment, and sufficiently cognizant of recent theoretical discussions, is out of touch with the experimental side of the science.” C. E. M.
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Science, n.s. 23: 385. Mr. 9, ’06. 390w. (Review of pt. 1.)
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Spec. 95: 155. Jl. 29, ’05. 50w. (Review of pt. 1.)
Curtis, David A. Stand pat; or, Poker stories from the Mississippi. $1.50. Page.
The little town of Brownsville, Arkansas, furnishes the setting for Mr. Curtis’ twenty poker stories. Long Mike, Gallagher, the man with one eye only, and Stumpy figure thruout the sketches, and the characterizations are chiefly of this card quartette so mis-matched in sporting proclivities.
“It is a pleasant volume for casual reading.”
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Critic. 49: 285. S. ’06. 80w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 379. Je. 9, ’06. 100w.
Curtis, Edward. Nature and health: a popular treatise on the hygiene of the person and the home. *$1.25. Holt.
How to claim “the priceless boon of health, happiness and the usefulness of years,” is discussed according to late enlightenment on the subject of hygiene. The chapters consider breathing, eating, drinking, drugging for delectation, seeing, hearing, clothing, bathing, disposing of waste, disinfecting, exercising the body, exercising the mind, sleeping and waking, working and playing, and living and dying.
“This is a particularly excellent manual.”
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Critic. 49: 95. Jl. ’06. 60w.
“It is full of good advice and usually in striking form.”
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Ind. 61: 261. Ag. 2, ’06. 50w.
“For those who must read about their health, there is no better book than this, with its clarion call back to nature.”
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Ind. 61: 815. O. 4, ’06. 670w.
“Now and again there are signs that he is a bit of a ‘faddist,’ but notwithstanding this his book may be heartily commended to the lay reader desirous of leading a sane, clean, wholesome life.”
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Lit. D. 32: 492. Mr. 31, ’06. 150w.
“The style of the writing is easy and unconventional, possibly at times a little too colloquial.”
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Nation. 82: 280. Ap. 5, ’06. 130w.
“One can dip into it here and there, and be certain always of finding something worth while told succintly, with a dry wit that like the claws of a burr makes it stick.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 228. Ap. 7, ’06. 170w.
“Delightful treatise.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 445. Ap. 7, ’06. 90w.
“The book as a whole is characterized by accuracy of statement, clear discussion, and practical suggestion, and it is a welcome contribution to an important subject.” J. E. Raycroft.
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School R. 14: 616. O. ’06. 140w.
Curtis, Newton Martin. From Bull Run to Chancellorsville: the story of the Sixteenth New York infantry with personal reminiscences. **$2. Putnam.
In sketching the movements of the Sixteenth New York infantry from Bull Run to Chancellorsville there is also an amount of incidental information about northern New York organizations identified with the army of the Potomac. “The whole tendency of the narrative and of the comment which Gen. Curtis allows himself to make from time to time—with notable restraint and fairness—is to exalt the qualities of Gen. George B. McClellan as a commander of armies.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Few writers on events and conditions during the civil war have approached the subject with a better fund of historic information, and few have the vivid yet plain power of narration possessed by General Curtis.”
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Dial. 41: 284. N. 1, ’06. 240w.
“Not only does Gen. Curtis write entertainingly, but he has also seen in good perspective the part played by his regiment in the campaigns and battles which he describes.”
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Nation. 83: 284. O. 4, ’06. 130w.
“It is not often that a book which sets out to tell the story and record the services of a single military organization results in a narrative so full of really and generally interesting matter. He writes like a man and a soldier not like an army clerk.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 621. O. 6, ’06. 1620w.
“In addition to its value as material for full knowledge of military history of the Civil war, this book has also considerable interest in its personal narrative of camp and battle incidents. Here and there flashes of humor enliven the story.”
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Outlook. 84: 44. S. 1, ’06. 50w.
Curtis, Olin Alfred. Christian faith personally given in a system of doctrine. *$2.50. Meth. bk.
A book which claims simply to impart a vision of the Christian faith as an organic whole of doctrine. It is not dogmatic, does not attempt “to speak the final word.... The main clue to all can be found in one thing, namely, in the junction of the two ideas, personal responsibility and racial solidarity.” The introduction discusses man and the Christian religion, then follows a six part treatment of the system of doctrine.
Outlook. 82: 42. Ja. 6, ’06. 590w.
“A book which very fairly represents the present drift away from dogmatism in American theology.”
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R. of Rs. 32: 752. D. ’05. 80w.
Curtis, William Eleroy. Egypt, Burma and British Malaysia. **$2. Revell.
“This is the latest and best literary photograph of the contemporary British protectorates here so agreeably treated.”
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Critic. 48: 93. Ja. ’06. 150w.
“For the most part he gives us what we often need, recent and reliable information about distant lands.”
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Ind. 60: 873. Ap. 12, ’06. 60w.
76Curtis, William Eleroy. Modern India. **$2. Revell.
Reviewed by John W. Foster.
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Atlan. 97: 543. Ap. ’06. 160w.
“Its statistics are recent, and the author evidently has the reporter’s instinct highly developed and a well-trained eye for the picturesque. On the other hand, his style is diffuse, his diction ‘journalese,’ and his inaccuracy amazing.” Louis H. Gray.
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Bookm. 23: 339. My. ’06. 270w.
“He tells us much that most books leave out. He helps us to adjust traditional notions to present-day reality.”
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Critic. 48: 191. F. ’06. 250w.
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Ind. 60: 873. Ap. 12, ’06. 60w.
Curzon of Kedleston, George Nathaniel, 1st baron. Lord Curzon in India: being a selection from his speeches as viceroy and governor-general of India, 1898–1905. With a por., explanatory notes, and an index, and with an introd. by Sir Thomas Raleigh. *$4. Macmillan.
“Lord Curzon made more than 250 set speeches during his seven and a half years’ service as viceroy, of which some sixty are in Sir Thomas’s book. They refer to all sorts of subjects, from the Budget—seven budget speeches are given—to art, archaeology, education, the famine, irrigation, game, preservation, the plague, and temperance. Their interest to Americans is of the slightest, except as showing what manner of man Curzon is, who has reversed the usual course of events, and has served in the highest post under the British crown without having worked his way to it systematically.”—N. Y. Times.
“Lord Curzon does not possess a good literary style.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 511. Ap. 28. 930w.
“To the student, not only of history, but of sociology of the human atmosphere, so to speak, of the last decade, the book is deeply interesting and extremely suggestive.”
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Ind. 61: 215. Jl. 26, ’06. 250w.
“On the whole, however, it is the matter rather than the manner of the speeches that will interest the reader of this large volume.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 139. Ap. 20, ’06. 1220w.
“His selected speeches are for those who have to reckon with him in domestic politics, and again for all libraries.”
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Nation. 82: 427. My. 24, ’06. 90w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 332. My. 19, ’06. 310w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 342. My. 26, ’06. 160w.
“Indispensable to those who would understand how England has developed her vast dependency.”
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Outlook. 83: 672. Jl. 21, ’06. 190w.
R. of Rs. 34: 123. Jl. 06. 40w.
“If there is much of self-confidence in this volume of speeches so full of rare charm, commanding eloquence and literary delights, it is the just confidence of a strong man armed and equipped at all points for the fray.”
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Sat. R. 102: 206. Ag. 18, ’06. 2020w.
“Certainly no collection of speeches has been published for long so full of political wisdom and sustained at so high a level of style.”
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Spec. 96: 869. Je. 2, ’06. 1650w.
Cust, Lionel. Royal collection of paintings at Buckingham palace and Windsor castle; with an introd. and descriptive text. 2v. *$100. Scribner.
The benefits of King Edward’s recent movement to have the Royal art collection put in order, properly arranged, classified and cataloged are extended to the public through the medium of Mr. Cust’s magnificent two-volume work. There are one hundred and eight photogravures which illustrate masterpieces of the Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Flemish, German and English schools. The author furnishes an introduction and descriptive text which aid the illustrations in forming “a precious record of one of the finest collections of the world.”
“The public ... is certain to be grateful that the Royal commands have been so thoroughly and adequately executed by Mr. Lionel Cust.”
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Ath. 1905, 2: 768. D. 2. 1350w. (Review of v. 1.)
Reviewed by Royal Cortissoz.
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Atlan. 97: 270. F. ’06. 360w.
Ind. 60: 744. Mr. 29, ’06. 70w.
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Int. Studio. 27: 277. Ja. ’06. 750w.
“A work which reflects great credit on all who have been concerned in its preparation.”
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Int. Studio. 29: 271. S. ’06. 520w. (Review of v. 2.)
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Lond. Times. 4: 428. D. 8, ’05. 1110w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The second of Mr. Cust’s two magnificent volumes on the King’s pictures is of even greater interest than the first.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 256. Jl. 20, ’06. 1400w. (Review of v. 2.)
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N. Y. Times. 11: 465. Jl. 21, ’06. 1160w. (Review of v. 2.) (Reprinted from Lond. Times.)
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Sat. R. 102: 177. Ag. 11, ’06. 660w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Useful and handsome publication.”
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Sat. R. 100: 628. N. 11, ’05. 1280w. (Review of v. 1.)
“But though the work before us is open to criticism on these minor points, we have nothing but praise for the general result achieved.”
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Cust, Robert H. Hobart. Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, hitherto usually styled “Sodoma;” the man and the painter. *$6. Dutton.
A “just and fair-minded picture” of the artist deals with question of name,—including the origin of nickname, “Sodoma”—date of birth and birthplace of Bazzi; gives an account of his early years and apprenticeship; and then turns to discussions of his frescoes and paintings, his visits to Rome, and his fame and fortune. The book is equipped with notes, and numerous illustrations in photogravure which have been selected to aid the student in following the artist’s development.
“Mr. Cust’s book is a welcome and valuable addition to the existing literature relating to this fascinating painter.”
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Acad. 70: 475. My. 19, ’06. 1390w.
“With lawyer-like acuteness he weighs the evidence on either side before he pronounces judgment.”
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Int. Studio. 27: 371. Je. ’06. 250w.
“Persons interested in Italian art will read the book with pleasure, in spite of a somewhat heavy style and a superabundance of notes.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 94. Mr. 16, ’06. 1530w.
“A treatise which is practically exhaustive. Mr. Cust’s style throughout is clear and simple, and, in treating of artistic matters, he eschews the terminology of the modern scientific school.”
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Nation. 82: 392. My. 10, ’06. 630w.
“It is a fascinating volume, and will even hold the attention of the lay reader who has a keenness for the episodic drama of history and biography.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 303. My. 12, ’06. 900w.
“Even if Mr. Cust seems a little too enthusiastic about the subject of his book, his work is an interesting contribution to the literature of Renaissance art.”
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Spec. 96: sup. 1011. Je. 30, ’06. 200w.
77Cutler, James Elbert. Lynch law: an investigation into the history of lynching in the U. S. **$1.50. Longmans.
“The book is not only henceforth the authority on the subject, it is also a good example of a rational and scientific historical method.” Albert Bushnell Hart.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 425. Ja. ’06. 1100w.
Reviewed by Alvin S. Johnson.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 139. Mr. ’06. 750w.
“The general line of treatment is wholly satisfactory and eminently fair. The book is a contribution and is a good example of the scientific historical method.” Charles H. Ambler.
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Yale R. 15: 100. My. ’06. 1380w.
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Dale, Thomas F. Fox. $1.75. Longmans.
A recent volume in the “Fur, feather and fin series,” whose general aim is to treat the fowl, fish or beast under consideration from the standpoint of its natural history, its capture and its food value. “The present volume gives not only its natural but its psychological history adequately for the first time, and in a way that should attract all those interested in the question of the extent of animal intelligence.” (N. Y. Times.) The following headings suggest the extent of the treatment: The natural history of the fox, The education of the fox, The mind of the fox, How to preserve foxes, Home and haunts of the fox, The hunted fox, The fox as a captive, The fox as an outlaw, The fox in fable, Cousin Jack, The fox and his fur, and Hunting the fox.
“Had Mr. Dale kept within his proper limits, we should have had nothing but commendation to bestow upon his work.”
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Nature. 74: 79. My. 24, ’06. 200w.
“Openly stating his sympathetic appreciation of the animal, the author proceeds with his study, combining faithful observation that carries conviction with it and all the compelling interest of a romance.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 405. Je. 23, ’06. 540w.
“It is in short a capital monograph, and will be read with interest we are sure not only by those who delight in the sport of fox-hunting, but also by every lover of natural history.”
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Sat. R. 102: 118. Jl. 28, ’06. 580w.
“Though this book on ‘The fox’ does not quite come up to the standard of certain of its predecessors, every one who cares about fox-hunting should read it. It would have been better had the natural history of the fox been entrusted to a zoölogist.”
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Spec. 97: 18. Jl. 7, ’06. 600w.
Dale, Thomas F. Polo, past and present. *$3.75. Scribner.
“The selection of this book dealing with the polo of the remote past might it seems to us well have been omitted. Has written on the whole an excellent book, and we can thoroughly recommend it to all interested in perhaps the most fascinating game that was ever invented.”
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Sat. R. 101: 402. Mr. 31, ’06. 470w.
Dana, John Cotton. Notes on bookbinding for libraries. 75c. Library bureau, Chicago.
“The problem with which this book deals is purely a library problem. It makes no pretence of contributing anything to the art or craft of book making; its aim is to give to librarians such an elementary knowledge of this craft that they may intelligently decide on the methods and materials that are best adapted to their needs. The point of view is purely the economic one—how shall the library bind its books so as to secure the largest possible service at the least cost.”—Nation.
Reviewed by Henry E. Bliss.
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Library J. 31: C130. Ag. ’06. 1530w.
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Library J. 31: 738. O. ’06. 950w.
“Library commissions are recommending it, and it is likely to become the standard text book on library binding in summer schools, apprentice classes, and in the more elementary of the regular library schools.”
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Nation. 83: 224. S. 13, ’06. 320w.
Dana, John Cotton, and Kent, Henry W. Literature of libraries in the 17th and 18th centuries. 6v. *$12. McClurg.
Two volumes of this series of six have made their appearance. One of them is “The duties and qualifications of a librarian: a discourse pronounced in the general assembly of the Sorbonne, December 23, 1870, by Jean-Baptiste Cotton des Houssayes, to which have been prefaced an introduction and bibliographical note.” The other introduction is “The reformed librarie-keeper. or two copies of letters concerning the place and office of librarie-keeper” by John Dury. with a biographical sketch of this Presbyterian divine of the sixteenth century.
“A collection that should be studied by all library workers, and that might well be read by any student of educational and intellectual history.”
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Nation. 83: 228. S. 13, ’06. 780w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
Putnam’s. 1: 252. N. ’06. 100w.
Daniel, James Walter. Maid of the foothills; or, Missing links in the story of reconstruction. $1.50. Neale.
It has been the aim of the author to depict the spirit of the times truthfully, and to give proper place to the importance of the Red-shirt movement which severed the shackles of a bound populace. The story treats of the grim humor of the oppressed citizens, the heroism of Southern women in that period of severest trial and oppression, and shows the infamous deeds and evil spirit of Southern men who joined the hosts of carpet-baggers and helped them to bleed the prostrate state.
Darrow, Clarence S. Eye for an eye. †$1.50. Fox.
Jim Jackson who tells the tale of his crime the night before the expiation of his guilt, is one of those unfortunate “submerged tenth” victims of negative circumstances. Not with the spirit of resentment but of discouragement over never having had a chance in life, Jim tells his story with a mildness that “is a more severe arraignment of social conditions than the fiercest tirades could be.” (Bookm.)
“If to create an illusion, to attain the effect aimed at, completely and entirely, is literary art, then Mr. Darrow’s work is literary art of the highest, in spite of an apparent neglect of all the canons of literary art.” Grace Isabel Colbron.
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Bookm. 22: 629. F. ’06. 420w.
Dauncey, Mrs. Campbell. Englishwoman in the Philippines. *$3.50. Dutton.
“This is a series of letters written by an Englishwoman during a stay of nine months in the Philippine islands, and they are full of those definite details of living which satisfy the curiosity and give precision, without any special attempt at style, the innumerable phases of a life so foreign as to be interesting in all its commonplaces: they describe the climate and scenery, the costumes of the natives, their houses, their occupations, amusements, politics, religion. And they abound in criticisms of the American administration, indeed of everything American.”—Outlook.
78“If [the great American people] read Mrs. Campbell Dauncey’s penetrating but not unkindly criticisms in the proper spirit, her book for them will be of real service. To the British reader it will appeal as a notable contribution to Pacific literature, worthy, at a reasonable interval, to be placed on the same shelf with Stevenson’s ‘South sea studies.’”
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Acad. 71: 396. O. 20, ’06. 1210w.
“Barring several ludicrous blunders thus almost wilfully made, the letters stick with great faithfulness to conditions as personally observed, and have the touch which comes from direct observation.” H. Parker Willis.
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Dial. 41: 279. N. 1, ’06. 1030w.
“Quite commonplace in all ways and practically valueless as bearing upon the Philippines. Scarcely a single general comment upon the Philippines or Philippine conditions is correct.”
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Ind. 61: 996. O. 25, ’06. 1360w.
“With every page a challenge, one may be glad to read the volume, regretting for the lively and confident author’s sake, that a competent editor had not revised some of its phrases.”
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Nation. 83: 267. S. 27, ’06. 600w.
“It is told much better and more interestingly than we have seen it told before.” Montgomery Schuyler.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 517. Ag. 25, ’06. 1030w.
Outlook. 84: 90. S. 8, ’06. 320w.
“It is distinctly above the average of such books.”
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Sat. R. 102: sup. 5. O. 13, ’06. 760w.
Davenport, Frederick Morgan. Primitive traits in religious revivals: a study in mental and social evolution. **$1.50. Macmillan.
“One may regret that not many first-hand observations of revivals in process are made by the author, that his material is almost exclusively historic; still his work of interpretation is vital throughout,—there are no dead pages.” H. H. Horne.
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J. Philos. 3: 48. Ja. 18, ’06. 600w.
“The book is admirable in many ways. It is perhaps marked by facility rather than by great power and depth. The book should prove helpful to readers of quite contrasted training and sympathies.” G. M. Stratton.
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Psychol. Bull. 3: 239. Jl. 15, ’06. 840w.
Davey, Richard Patrick Boyle. Pageant of London; with 40 il. in color by John Fulleylove. 2v. *$5. Pott.
A series of word-pictures with pictorial accompaniment of the principal events that have transpired in London. It is called a “Pageant,” “meaning not only coronations, royal marriages, funerals, and other pompous shows and spectacles, but as signifying the unrolling, as in a sort of procession, of the story of the British capital from the day when Julius Caesar appeared on the bank of the Thames, to that which witnessed the funeral of Queen Victoria.” (Ath.)
“Mr. Davey is not always accurate, and his style is not always pure, but his book is as good a compendium of the history of London as we know.”
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Acad. 70: 542. Je. 9, ’06. 1680w.
“In a work intended for the general reader rather than for the serious student it may perhaps seem ungracious to dwell on imperfections which a very little care could remove. It is a pleasanter task to dwell on the merits of a book which is replete with information, presented with a considerable amount of literary skill.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 756. Je. 23. 1520w.
“Thoroughly up-to-date, embodying the results of the most recent archæological researches, the new publication is indeed a most noteworthy one, full of curious information on all manner of side issues and giving token on every page of deep erudition.”
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Int. Studio. 29: 182. Ag. ’06. 280w.
“The coloured pictures by Mr. Fulleylove are a serious mistake. Such a book could not have been too copiously adorned with old engravings. Properly selected, such a pictorial accompaniment would more than have doubled its value.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 233. Je. 29, ’06. 230w.
“It is not always decreed that a man shall live to execute the work which his years have accumulated, but in this case the decree seems to have existed and seems to have been fulfilled. The world of history and literature is as much to be congratulated as the author.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 879. D. 15, ’06. 480w.
“Americans ... should find this book very entertaining and enlightening, and good reading before a trip to England—or even after one, as a pleasant reminder.”
+ Putnam’s. 1: 378. D. ’06. 220w.
Davies, D. Ffrangçon-. Singing of the future; with an introd. by Edward Elgar. *$2.50. Lane.
“A book which prompts thought.”
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Ath. 1905, 2: 905. D. 30. 580w.
“Is a direct and serious appeal to the English-speaking singer.”
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Dial. 40: 131. F. 16, ’06. 280w.
Davis, Henry William Charles. England under the Normans and the Angevins. *$3. Putnam.
Volume 2 of Professor C. W. C. Oman’s “History of England” to be complete in six volumes and to include the period “from the beginning” to 1815. “Mr. Davis seeks to focus his volume at a given point by dwelling on the inventive and experimental features of his era as contrasted with the spirit of consolidation which marked the age of the three Edwards.” (Nation.)
“An attractive book, at once well-planned, well-written, and scholarly. The narrative is crisp and clear and the characterizations pointed, and Mr. Davis treats his theme broadly.” Charles H. Haskins.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 882. Jl. 06. 1190w.
“To the author’s mastery of his sources as well as the literature on his subject is added the gift of writing in a bright and interesting fashion; while the excellent table of contents and the marginal headings will be found useful pilots by the teacher and the student.”
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Ath. 1905, 2: 825. D. 16. 1440w.
“As a popular history it is likely to take high rank.”
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Dial. 41: 41. Jl. 16, ’06. 330w.
“Thoroly as it has been covered by many historians before him, he adds touches of freshness and vigor to an old narrative.”
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Lit. D. 32: 453. Mr. 24, ’06. 280w.
“Mr. Davis is an excellent writer, and keeps at all points in touch with first hand authorities.”
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Nation. 82: 262. Mr. 29, ’06. 480w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 28. Ja. 13, ’06. 350w.
“Mr. Davis is scarcely at his best with regard to Norman England and its great constitutional document, Doomsday Book.” Joseph Jacobs.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 377. Je. 9, ’06. 570w.
“Mr. Davis’s sympathies are manifestly with the native element, and perhaps as a result of this he scarcely does justice to some of the notable foreigners who were responsible at once for the spoliation and regeneration of England. His work further suffers from carelessness in identifying persons and places, and from eccentricities in the spelling of proper names.”
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Outlook. 83: 140. My. 19, ’06. 360w.
79“The characters described are made alive, and the institutions real. We do not know a more suggestive or interesting guide to this important period.”
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Sat. R. 101: 463. Ap. 14, ’06. 1080w.
Davis, John Patterson. Corporations: a study of the origin and development of the great business combinations and their relation to the authority of the state. 2v. **$4.50. Putnam.
“Altogether, we must regard this book as materials collected with a view to the production of a definite theory, rather than any coherent statement of such a theory.”
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Nation. 82: 436. My. 24, ’06. 310w.
“It is also highly suggestive, penetratingly analytical, and rich in information useful to the economist, jurist, and legislator; and if it is impossible wholly to agree with Dr. Davis’s findings as to facts or to deem his influences always sound, it is equally impossible to deny the value of his work as an aid to the more intelligent consideration of its important subject.”
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Outlook. 82: 566. Mr. 10, ’06. 1440w.
Reviewed by Henry R. Seager.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 553. S. ’06. 860w.
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Sat. R. 101: 465. Ap. 14, ’06. 1150w.
“The work as it stands, is of very high merit, and covers a vast range of ground. It is a work that every library which wishes to be well equipped in the side-lights of history must possess, for, apart from the independent research and clear thought that distinguish it, it comprises the views and research of most modern thinkers on the difficult and often obscure subjects with which Dr. Davis deals.”
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Spec. 97: sup. 468. O. 6, ’06. 820w.
“As a whole, the work, while it shows careful thought and much reflection, lacks proportion, and is too plainly bent to a preconceived theory.” Simeon E. Baldwin.
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Yale. R. 15: 88. My. ’06: 740w.
Davis, Morgan Lewis. The gas offis, by the offis boy. $1. Broadway pub.
Dedicated “To everybody wot uses gas,” these observations of the gas company’s office boy will prove amusing reading for the gas burning public who will learn how the chronic kicker appears when viewed from inside, and of the many amusing devices to which human nature resorts to dodge or reduce the gas bill. It may even fulfill the pacific mission of rousing down-trodden customers to sympathize with an equally down-trodden head-bookkeeper.
Davis, Norah. Northerner. †$1.50. Century.
“If she lavishes ornamental words, she is never common.” Mary Moss.
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Atlan. 47: 49. Ja. ’06. 200w.
“It is an unusually strong book, with an unusually strong man for its central character.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 40: 16. Ja. 1, ’06. 230w.
Dawson, Miles Menander. Business of life insurance. **$1.50. Barnes.
“Any person intending to take out a policy who fails to read this or some similar work is certainly very short-sighted.”
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Bookm. 22: 533. Ja. ’06. 160w.
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Dial. 41: 117. S. 1, ’06. 350w.
“This book will be found good reading by all who are interested in life insurance.”
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Ind. 60: 47. Ja. 4, ’06. 530w.
“In short, precisely because the book is more than a text, it is for textbook purposes better than a text.” H. J. Davenport.
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J. Pol. Econ. 14: 127. F. ’06. 140w.
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Dawson, William Harbutt. German workman: a study in national efficiency. *$1.50. Scribner.
“In this volume William Harbutt Dawson gives an account of what the state is doing for the working classes in Germany. The book is a history, not an argument; a book of information not of philosophy. The reader will rise from the perusal of it impressed by the fact that the least democratic state in western Europe is also, at least in one sense of the term, the most socialistic state.... The book contains twenty-two chapters, each chapter devoted to a specific department of state provision of one sort or another for workingmen.”—Outlook.
Ind. 61: 752. S. 27, ’06. 210w.
“A volume which, if not attractively written, is probably the most convenient guide for English readers who would venture into the mazes of German ‘Sozialpolitik.’”
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Nation. 83: 397. N. 8, ’06. 890w.
Outlook. 84: 141. S. 15, ’06. 180w.
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Sat. R. 102: 648. N. 24, ’06. 270w.
“A valuable addition to our information.”
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Spec. 97: 300. S. 1, ’06. 230w.
Dawson, William James. Makers of English prose; new and rev. ed. *$1.50. Revell.
The author “traverses in one volume practically the whole realm of English verse from Burns to the men of our day and that of English prose from Johnson to Ruskin and Newman. The books deserve popularity in America for their helpfulness, sanity, and learning.”—Lit. D.
“The author refrains from wild theories or strange deductions, and is exempt from bias towards any especial domain of letters.”
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Critic. 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 70w.
“The discussion is trenchant, the style pithy, and the judgment pronounced is usually temperate and sound. An occasional statement may strike us as a rhetorical exaggeration, but in the main the criticism is intelligent and compact.”
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Dial. 40: 51. Ja. 16, ’06. 80w.
“Mr. Dawson is admirable—in his application of common sense to criticism, and in his moral prepossessions of literature.”
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Ind. 60: 285. F. 1, ’06. 520w.
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Lit. D. 33: 394. S. 22, ’06. 60w.
“Mr. Dawson has insight, sympathy, and knowledge, but with these qualities combines others that are more rare in an essayist; he has practical aims, and his style has both clearness and distinction.”
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Lit. D. 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 90w.
“We know of no book that gives a juster, sounder, or, on the whole, a more interesting view of the group of writers selected by Mr. Dawson, and of the times in which they lived and labored.” Edward Cary.
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Outlook. 11: 577. S. 22, ’06. 990w.
“A volume of literary criticism of unusual importance.”
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R. of Rs. 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 170w.
“Mr. Dawson’s breadth of view is remarkable and his memory extraordinarily retentive. His point of view is always eminently sane, sympathetic and impartial. His style, moreover, is delightfully clear, forceful, and smooth.”
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R. of Rs. 34: 640. N. ’06. 200w.
“He is clearly familiar with the great body of first-class English fiction, and can write with force and common sense. But we doubt the necessity or demand for books of this character.”
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Sat. R. 101: 146. F. 3, ’06. 160w.
“He says many true things, and says them well; he says some few things which do not seem to us true, but he always commends them by the manifest conviction from which they proceed.”
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Spec. 96: sup. 125. Ja. 27, ’06. 270w.
80Dawson, William James. Quest of the simple life. $1.50. Dutton.
In form Mr. Dawson’s book “is autobiographical, narrating the happy escape of a London clerk, after twenty years’ drudgery in the city, to the free air and manifold delights of a horticultural, piscatorial and literary life in the lake district.” (Dial.)
“It is to be hoped that the seductive volume may not fall into the hands of any London-weary clerk who shall mistake its plausible fictions for the gospel truth. A student of social problems, he has things to say about the evils of city life and the advantage of country life that are worth saying and worth reading.”
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Dial. 41: 284. N. 1, ’06. 350w.
“Animated by sanity, sympathy and knowledge, linked to a felicitous and forceful style.”
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Lit. D. 33: 973. O. ’06. 120w.
“Dr. Dawson’s account of his quest for a simpler and more satisfactory life has in it nothing extreme, nothing so austere as to make the ordinary man draw back and doubt its wisdom.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 824. D. 1, ’06. 700w.
“These essays have distinction and grace of manner, and they also contain not a little of philosophical value as relates to the social civilization and social movement of our day.”
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Outlook. 84: 385. O. 13, ’06. 170w.
Day, Holman Francis. Squire Phin. †$1.50. Barnes.
“Yet another story of Maine is ‘Squire Phin.’ His office was over Asa Brickett’s village store, and there and thereunder goes forward the chorus in this rustic melodrama. The protagonists, meanwhile, are variously occupied in practicing law, making love, adjusting quarrels, and preventing scandals, while over all is cast the limelight of burlesque by the return to his native town of the showman ... with chariots, parrot and elephant he shrieks and plunges and crashes through the story till, tired of his unchartered freedom, he sinks into the repose of wedlock.”—Nation.
“The dialect of this book touches deeper depths than even the usual New England coast story. The incidents bear the same enlarged relation as the dialect to the average village chronicle.”
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Nation. 81: 488. D. 14, ’05. 270w.
“Rarely have we met a more amusing group of village sages.”
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Outlook. 81: 530. O. 28. ’05. 120w.
Deakin, Dorothea. “Georgie.” †$1.50. Century.
Broad shouldered, blond, boyish, frankly engaging, and wholly sincere in each passing fancy, Georgie succeeds in becoming engaged to any number of nice girls, sometimes in quick succession and sometimes all at once. The story of his loves is amusing and it is interesting to see how one can be such a trifler and still remain a gentleman at heart. As for Violet, pretty as paint, Druscilla, plain Anne, the goddess girl, Phillida, Dolly and the little Puritan, their cause needs no sympathy.
“But though belonging to the bubbles of bookmaking, the story is of an ingratiating kind, and serves to wreathe an hour in half-protesting smiles.”
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Nation. 83: 485. D. 6, ’06. 210w.
“Making no pretensions that are not fulfilled, they disarm criticism and succeed in their mission of being diverting.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 777. N. 24, ’06. 250w.
“Such a book might easily be made silly, but in fact this is thoroughly amusing.”
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Outlook. 84: 677. N. 17, ’06. 60w.
Dealey, James Quayle, and Ward, Lester Frank. Text book of sociology. *$1.30. Macmillan.
“Sociology is in its infancy, but such a book as this will avail much to interpret it to students.”
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Ath. 1905, 2: 334. S. 9. 430w.
“The treatment throughout the book is altogether constructive and non-controversial. The style is very clear and attractive, considering the character of the work.” R. F. Hoxie.
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Philos. R. 15: 670. N. ’06. 260w.
“Only those who have had considerable training in the biological sciences, history, economics, and psychology will be able to get much good from the book. To the student so prepared, however, who will read also widely both from Ward’s larger works and from other works mentioned in the text, this little book will prove of great value.” Henry W. Thurston.
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School R. 14: 542. S. ’06. 760w.
“The book is very clever and very readable, but we cannot help thinking a trifle paradoxical.”
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Spec. 96: sup. 644. Ap. 28, ’06. 400w.
Decharme, Paul. Euripides and the spirit of his dramas; tr. by James Loeb. **$3. Macmillan.
An introduction shows the need of an “able” attempt to reveal the true Euripides. The author believes that both as a man and a poet he has been underrated from Aristophanes down. Part 1 of Professor Decharme’s discussion shows what were Euripides’ emancipatory views upon religious traditions, philosophy, society and politics. Part 2 is a critical study of Euripides’ dramatic art.
“The analytical index of a dozen pages is a commendable feature.”
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Critic. 48: 478. My. ’06. 190w.
Reviewed by F. B. R. Hellems.
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Dial. 40: 389. Je. 16, ’06. 1520w.
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Ind. 60: 1224. My. 24, ’06. 410w.
“Excellent version.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 279. Ag. 10, ’06. 820w.
“Mr. Loeb has escaped the danger of over-literalness, and has lost nothing of the lucidity of Decharme’s French. It should be in the hands of all students of the drama.”
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Nation. 82: 371. My. 3, ’06. 510w.
“We know, however, of no analysis of the character and work of Euripides that is, all things considered, as thorough, impartial, and convincing as that made by Paul Decharme.” George S. Hellman.
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N. Y. Times. 11:189. Mr. 31, ’06. 1560w.
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Outlook. 82: 809. Ap. 7, ’06. 290w.
“In breadth of view, close analysis, and well-thought-out presentation, Professor Decharme’s work is very able, and Mr. Loeb seems to have done justice to his self-imposed task.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 509. Ap. 21, ’06. 170w.
R. of Rs. 33: 511. Ap. ’06. 50w.
Deeping, (George) Warwick. Bess of the woods. †$1.50. Harper.
Bess, the courageous heroine of this stirring tale, has been brought up as one of a rough band of English smugglers who quarrel over her among themselves, but when one of them tries to win her by brute force, there comes to her aid young Richard Jaffray, owner of a near-by estate, who rescues her and is wounded in her defence. How Bess is freed from Dan, and how Richard escapes from the toils of the passé Miss Jilian, and how they both come to their own, forms the substance of this story of brave deeds and social banter, of ball-room, of forest and of sea.
81“A vigorous, full-blooded romance of the eighteenth century, in which the tone and temper of the age are most successfully realized.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 98. Jl. 28. 190w.
“Might have been written by any one of a dozen other novelists—and written rather better.”
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Bookm. 23: 641. Ag. ’06. 470w.
“The characters are vividly drawn; the plot ‘marches’; the color is laid on freely and not without sureness.”
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Critic. 49: 285. S. ’06. 110w.
“Extremely interesting well-written and artistically framed romance, which has not had many equals in the action of recent years.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 41: 240. O. 16, ’06. 360w.
“Marked by—clear style and a simplicity of diction. It is an engaging story, full of entertainment for those who ask no more of a novelist than that he should entertain.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 234. Je. 29, ’06. 360w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 454. Jl. 14, ’06. 400w.
Deland, Ellen Douglas. Little son of sunshine, a story for boys and girls. †$1.25. Harper.
Sunny little Christopher, an orphan with only one leg and a pair of crutches upon which to begin his walk thru life, limps straights into the hearts of a kindly farmer and his childless wife who have taken the little waif into their home for a summer’s outing. At the end of his holiday, which is made merry by his escapades with Betty who with her aunt has come to board at the farm, he finds that two homes are open to him and later discovers that General Keith, the rich, lonely old man whose stern nature has melted before the sunshine of Christopher’s nature, is really his own grandfather.
“All told with much literary skill, and the storyteller’s knack of weaving incidents together to give them the flavor of reality.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 822. D. 1, ’06. 100w.
“A pretty, well-managed story of a dear child.”
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Outlook. 84: 678. N. 17, ’06. 130w.
Deland, Mrs. Margaret Wade (Campbell). Awakening of Helena Richie. †$1.50. Harper.
Helena Richie’s soul awakening seems so natural and possible amid the Old Chester people and Old Chester surroundings, with Dr. Lavendar at his best, as philanthropist, philosopher and mentor. This woman has violated the structural facts of the moral law. She is led by little David, a homeless child whom she takes, to discover the great religion of duty. As the light comes, her old standards seem the poor tottering things they really are and she struggles for permanent defences. When her life becomes known and Dr. Lavendar regards her unfit to keep David, her submission to the law of retributive justice which operates for a time then gives way, and her determination to make the remainder of her life “clear and sound” but give evidence to the genuineness of her awakened sincerity.
“The book has many of the merits and faults that are frequently met in novels written by women.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 153. Ag. 11. 280w.
“In this last story we feel that Mrs. Deland has, as never before, proved herself the creator, and not merely the finely-equipped and enjoyable story-teller.” Edith Baker Brown.
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Bookm. 24: 57. S. ’06. 1150w.
“It is a story that has seldom been told as appealingly and with such conscience-searching effect as in ... Mrs. Deland’s latest and best novel.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 41: 115. S. 1, ’06. 520w.
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Ind. 61: 336. Ag. 9, ’06. 1140w.
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Ind. 61: 1160. N. 15, ’06. 60w.
“Strikes a deeper and truer chord of human passion, and indeed of tragedy, than most of the novels of the day that deal with a similar theme.”
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Lit. D. 33: 283. S. 1, ’06. 540w.
Lit. D. 33: 594. O. 27, ’06. 550w.
“The story is beyond question a contribution to real literature. We are inclined to believe it must be coupled with Mr. Wister’s ‘Lady Baltimore’ as the finest fiction produced in this country this year.”
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Lit. D. 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 90w.
“It is a good thing to have a ‘text’ for your novel, if your judgment is so well able to bear it as is Mrs. Deland’s; if it warms you to so much sympathy and understanding as are revealed in this wise, deep, and tender story.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 271. Ag. 3, ’06. 440w.
“Mrs. Deland’s latest novel opens and proceeds with a firm tread which has not always characterized her larger books. At the same time the accustomed fine inlay work that marks all her dealings with Old Chester and its inhabitants is here peerlessly present.”
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Nation. 83: 83. Jl. 26, ’06. 380w.
“Flawless in literary form, penetrated through and through with ‘an inward spiritual grace,’ surely it must come to its own—a permanent place among the books that abide.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 445. Jl. 14, ’06. 990w.
“Mrs. Margaret Deland’s latest and most successful novel.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 796. D. 1, ’06. 230w.
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Outlook. 83: 1005. Ag. 25, ’06. 270w.
“Highly sophisticated cosmopolitan novels are so numerous that the success of this deeply human tale, told in the universal language of the writers who are born and not made, is a thing in which even the judicious may rejoice without loss of dignity.”
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Outlook. 84: 708. N. 24, ’06. 320w.
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Putnam’s. 1: 109. O. ’06. 350w.
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Spec. 97: 543. O. 13, ’06. 420w.
De La Pasture, Elizabeth (Bonham) (Mrs. Henry De La Pasture). Man from America. †$1.50. Dutton.
A story by the author of “Peter’s mother.” “The pretty granddaughters—one is a butterfly beauty but as sweet and good as good can be, the other an earnest thinker, but no prig—grow up and fall in love and get married to the right people, and learn in time that bon-papa is not really poor, but that he (and they) are very rich; and the little troubles they have passed through, the little white clouds that have sailed across on the summer wind, only make the sunshine of their sunny lives more golden.” (Acad.)
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Ath. 1905, 2: 758. D. 2. 200w.
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Critic. 49: 190. Ag. ’06. 90w.
“That the work is fresh, human and altogether delightful, must be the verdict of every reader.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 41: 241. O. 16, ’06. 140w.
“Crude as it is in execution, told with a frank disregard for the niceties of narrative art, it comes very close to being great.”
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Lit. D. 33: 124. Jl. 28, ’06. 400w.
“We ... find in the author’s portraits of one or two not a little of the genius of Jane Austen.”
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Lond. Times. 4: 409. N. 24, ’05. 230w.
“Comedy of the most light and charming kind, with sentiment enough of a natural and healthy kind and wit enough to add savor to the sentiment.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 254. Ap. 21, ’06. 470w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 200w. 82
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Outlook. 84: 431. O. 20, ’06. 120w.
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Sat. R. 100: 402. Mr. 31, ’06. 110w.
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Outlook. 82: 858. Ap. 14, ’06. 100w.
“A very genial and entertaining romance.”
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Spec. 95: 1040. D. 16, ’05. 270w.
De La Pasture, Elizabeth (Bonham) (Mrs. Henry De La Pasture). Toy tragedy: a story of children. †$1.50. Dutton.
The tragedy is a toy tragedy merely because it deals with children, and the things which make up their weal and woe, and it is a story of, rather than for, children because the tale of the four orphaned little folks and how they learned too early the harder side of human nature and how to cope with it, is really a story for thoughtful grown ups. The death of little Elsie, and the sweet chastened spirit of Jean cast a shadow over the story which the success of the two boys does not dispel.
“The story is well written.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 772. N. 24, ’06. 80w.
“It is an attractive children’s story, although the situations are just the least bit improbable, and there is a touch of false sentiment in the relations between the good little sister and the pretty spoiled one.”
Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel. Breaking the wilderness: the story of the conquest of the far West. **$3.50. Putnam.
“A very readable book, which has the great attraction of a thoroughly humane and reasonable point of view; nor is the drift of the main argument less interesting to follow because some conclusions differ from those of several who have gone before in the same track of adventure.”
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Acad. 69: 1353. D. 30, ’05. 1170w.
De Mille, James. Cord and creese. †$1. Harper.
This new edition of an old story enables a new generation to revel in its dramatic scenes of love and mystery, in its graphic descriptions of the search for a stolen treasure, and to follow the many tangled threads of its plot to a happy ending. The cord of the title is one of curious Eastern manufacture, the creese is a Malay dagger, and the two form the principal clues in the search for the villain of this stirring tale.
“So far as style goes it is much superior to the novel of adventure of commerce, as put on the market to-day.”
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Critic. 49: 285. S. ’06. 120w.
“A story better worth reading than most of the more recent examples of its class.”
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Dial. 41: 44. Jl. 16, ’06. 60w.
“Folks who like good measure, however, will find ‘Cord and creese’ a satisfying book, the work of a story-teller who knew his business as it was practiced in his day, and who knew the world.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 409. Je. 23, ’06. 280w.
Outlook. 83: 765. Jl. 28, ’06. 20w.
De Morgan, William Frend. Joseph Vance: an ill-written autobiography. †$1.50. Holt.
The autobiography of a middle-class Englishman of fifty years ago which unites the characteristics of the novel with the interest of a human document. The author turns analyst, and includes father, mother, friends and self in a sketch that runs close to the heart. He follows his boyhood days, and youth amid poverty, his Oxford days which developed an inordinate love for chess as well as mechanical inventive ability, and colors the latter happenings with his love for a woman whom he does not marry. The life-story reflects much of middle-class English thought and customs of fifty years ago.
“We wish that Mr. de Morgan had been content with a manner of construction as simple and direct as the actual writing of his book.”
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Acad. 71: 112. Ag. 4, ’06. 270w.
“Is fresh, original, and unusually clever.”
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Ath. 1906. 2: 97. Jl. 28. 250w.
“In my personal opinion this ‘ill-written autobiography’ is wise, witty, gentle and of unflagging interest, but then, I have been frightfully prejudiced in its favour—by reading it.” Mary Moss.
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Bookm. 24: 277. N. ’06. 1480w.
“It is not a book that the reviewer can boom, much as he would like to; nor can he give a more definite idea of it than to say that, if the reader likes both ‘David Copperfield’ and ‘Peter Ibbetson,’ he can find the two books in this one.”
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Ind. 61: 1161. N. 15, ’06. 100w.
“It is ill-written only in the sense of not being composed according to the present trim, abrupt fashion of novel-reading. We hardly know how to suggest the mellowness of this story, and therein lies its charm. We doubt if any reader who has a sense for true humour will find it tedious.”
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Nation. 83: 287. O. 4, ’06. 650w.
“A work as admirable in detail as in mass effect, a book worth reading and rereading and keeping in your house.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 620. O. 6, ’06. 980w.
“This is a novel of the first order—one that aligns itself with the best English fiction.”
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Outlook. 84: 582. N. 3, ’06. 240w.
“Amuses by its willful divagations from the straight of narrative, quietly pleases by its wholesome sentiment, and leaves one with an impression of thorough enjoyment.”
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Outlook. 84: 711. N. 24, ’06. 330w.
“The style is strong and expressive, but very often clumsy and over-elaborate and would-be humorous. The strength and interest of the book lies in the fresh original observation of lower-middle-class life; in its shrewd characterisation and life-like dialogue and incidents.”
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Sat. R. 102: 117. Jl. 28, ’06. 330w.
“Were it not that he challenges comparison with the classics, we might almost call it a great novel.”
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Spec. 97: 172. Ag. 4, ’06. 1230w.
Denby, Charles, colonel. China and her people. **$2.40. Page.
Uniform with the “Travel lover’s library,” this new work is in two handy-sized volumes. “The first volume is filled with reminiscences of the author’s stay in China and his personal impressions of the land and the people, and with accounts of court life at Pekin and social life and customs elsewhere in the kingdom. The second volume is concerned with Chinese politics and industrial and commercial problems and conditions.” (Dial.)
“The material is arranged in an interesting fashion. The books are readable and, more important, reliable.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 416. Mr. ’06. 310w.
“It must be accepted as the most authoritative of late contributions to the literature on Chinese affairs, and is especially valuable in its observations on political topics.” John W. Foster.
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Atlan. 97: 543. Ap. ’06. 130w.
“In general, the topics dealt with in both volumes are of the sort that would naturally interest a man of affairs, and Colonel Denby’s method of treating them will appeal particularly to masculine readers.”
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Dial. 39: 445. D. 16, ’05. 220w.
“Particularly is it of service to American statesmen and business men.”
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Lit. D. 32: 623. Ap. 21, ’06. 540w.
“A few ... inaccuracies ... are but minor blemishes in a very delightful and informing book.”
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Nation. 82: 330. Ap. 19, ’06. 670w.
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N. Y. Times. 10: 808. N. 25, ’05. 130w.
“Colonel Denby made good use of the unusual opportunities for observation which he enjoyed, and for absorption of the Oriental spirit and way of looking at things.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 284. Mr. 3, ’06. 130w.
“Especially interesting and important are the late minister’s own words on the Boxer rebellion and the missionary question.”
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Dennis, James Shepard. Christian missions and social progress. v. 3. **$2.50. Revell.
The third and last volume of an encyclopedic work on missions. “This entire volume is concerned with the contribution of missions to social progress and every phase of the subject is accorded full and careful treatment, with abundant illustrations from missionary activities under all churches, and in all countries.” (Nation.)
“The work is valuable for reference.”
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Nation. 83: 260. S. 27, ’06. 230w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The range is cyclopædic the details multitudinous and interesting throughout. Altogether, this is a unique work, without which no reference library can be considered complete.”
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Outlook. 84: 140. S. 15, ’06. 310w. (Review of v. 3.)
“In the twelve years in which Dr. Dennis has been engaged upon this great task, he has accumulated a vast store of interesting facts, most of which had never before been classified or grouped in systematic order.”
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R. of Rs. 34: 382. S. ’06. 110w. (Review of v. 3.)
Spec. 97: 498. O. 6, ’06. 220w. (Review of v. 3.)
De Quincey, Thomas. Autobiography and confessions of Thomas De Quincey; with photogravure front. por. and biographical and critical introd. by Tighe Hopkins. *$1.25. Scribner.
Uniform with the “Caxton thin paper classics.” The volume is prefaced by the editor’s introduction.
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 749. N. 17, ’06. 1300w.
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Outlook. 84: 530. N. 27, ’06. 10w.
Devine, Edward Thomas. Efficiency and relief: a programme of social work. **75c. Macmillan.
“The inaugural address of Mr. Edward T. Devine on the occasion of his taking the Schiff Professorship of social economy at Columbia University.... His subject is ‘Efficiency and relief,’ and he discusses modern methods of increasing the industrial efficiency of the individual and at the same time of providing adequate relief for those who are of deficient wage-earning capacity.”—Ind.
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Am. J. Soc. 11: 707. Mr. ’06. 110w.
“Large and fine as is the outlook of this lecture, it lacks something of complete analysis of the aim of charity. The treatment is, indeed, broader than the definition; the spirit of the author is wider than the programme he outlines; and the lectures which will follow will pass beyond the territory which can be accurately named ‘economics.’” C. R. Henderson.
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Am. J. Soc. 12: 423. N. ’06. 180w.
“Those who are interested in these great problems of social advance will find this address most helpful and stimulating.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 417. Mr. ’06. 170w.
Reviewed by Winthrop More Daniels.
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Atlan. 97: 842. Je. ’06. 310w.
“The necessity of the scientific study of these problems in the analysis of conditions and the formulation of principles of action are clearly and forcefully stated.”
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Bookm. 23: 219. Ap. ’06. 110w.
“The little book is packed with ideas and is larger than it looks.” Chas. Richmond Henderson.
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Ind. 60: 402. F. 15, ’06. 70w.
J. Pol. Econ. 14: 333. My. ’06. 300w.
“We commend Mr. Devine’s little volume to all who would intelligently co-operate in the work of social betterment.”
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Lit. D. 32: 624. Ap. 21, ’06. 180w.
“We venture to predict that all who get to read it at all will be interested readers.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 114. F. 24, ’06. 1070w.
Devins, John Bancroft. Observer in the Philippines. $2. Am. tract.
“The random and indiscriminating observations of a visitor in missionary interests.”
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Dewsnup, Ernest Ritson, ed. Railway organization and working. $2. Univ. of Chicago press.
“To those acquainted with the literature of railway transportation it will not need emphasizing that the book really occupies a unique place. The numerous aspects of the railway service which it treats, the plain and untechnical way in which every subject is handled, the fact that more than a score of railway experts of the highest reputation, have collaborated in its production, all combine to make the volume indispensable to the ambitious young ‘railroader.’... It is also to be hoped that the book ... will have a stimulating effect upon the teaching of railway economics in our universities.”
“Should appeal to serious students of railway economics.”
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Outlook. 84: 681. N. 17, ’06. 240w.
Dexter, Henry Martyn, and Dexter, Morton. England and Holland of the Pilgrims. **$3.50. Houghton.
“The book is strongest on the side of opinion, theology, and controversial literature.” William Elliot Griffis.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 654. Ap. ’06. 860w.
“A very minute and learned study of the early founders of Congregationalism.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 126. Ag. 4. 280w.
“This work is absolutely unique in thoroness and accuracy.”
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Ind. 60: 455. F. 22, ’06. 270w.
“Lightness of touch this volume does not possess in an eminent degree, but it contains a large amount of information which has been digested with affectionate and conscientious care.”
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Nation. 82: 372. My. 3, ’06. 810w.
“This is by all odds the most complete record of Pilgrim origins yet published in this country.”
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R. of Rs. 33: 115. Ja. ’06. 150w.
Dicey, A. V. Law and opinion in England. *$3. Macmillan.
“Clear thought, wide scholarship, and lucid writing make the defence as strong as the facts will warrant, and the facts are so conclusive that few flaws can be found in the proof.”
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Ind. 59: 1348. D. 7, ’05. 440w.
Reviewed by C. J. Hamilton.
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Int. J. Ethics. 16: 257. Ja. ’06. 860w.
“While carefully delimiting the field to be covered, presents a wealth and variety of fact, 84suggestion, and speculation on governmental concerns.” George R. Bishop.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 16. Ja. 13, ’06. 1180w.
Quarterly R. 204: 229. Ja. ’06. 2380w.
Dick, Stewart. Arts and crafts of old Japan. **$1.20. McClurg.
“After the score of books on Japanese art and art industry, and by men who on the ground have studied the art of Nippon, this book seems shallow and of slight value.”
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Critic. 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 140w.
“The book seems also the best familiar study we have seen of the visible tangible work of art which we get from Japan, as distinguished from the subtle influences which lie back of it.”
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Nation. 82: 165. F. 22, ’06. 320w.
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Dickens, Charles. Mr. Pickwick’s Christmas. $2. Baker.
The account of the Pickwickians’ Christmas at the Manor farm, of the adventures there and tale of the goblin who stole a sexton, and of the famous sports on the ice, are here recorded as in the famous Pickwick chronicle. George Alfred Williams has written an introduction and has illustrated the volume.
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Dickens, Charles. Tale of two cities; ed. with introd. and notes by James Weber Linn. 50c. Ginn.
A student’s edition well annotated. The editor’s aim has been principally to show the general relation of this novel to Dickens’ other works, and to point out the devices of Dickens’ art in the construction of the plot.
Dickens, Charles. Tales from Dickens, ed. by Hallie Erminie Rives. †$1.50. Bobbs.
“If the mature reader would enjoy Dickens he must read Dickens; but to children or youthful persons not acquainted with the marvelous stories of England’s greatest novelist this book will appeal.”
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Arena. 35: 222. F. ’06. 140w.
“Miss Rives’s book must have a good influence; her summaries of the famous novels are lucid, tasteful, and sympathetic; she gives much in little.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 6. Ja. 6, ’06. 340w.
“Not only is the book well suited to the peculiarities of the child mind, but it is also of no negligible value as a book of reference.”
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Dickerson, Mary Cynthia. Frog book. **$4. Doubleday.
“An enthusiastic recital of close and critical observation.... The introductory chapter deals with the distinction between batrachians and fishes and reptiles, development and metamorphoses, classification, phylogeny, hibernation, poison, voice, color, change, behavior, and distribution of the ‘batrachia salientia,’ or frogs and toads.... The remainder of the book is given up to a detailed account of about sixty frogs, tree-toads and toads, of this continent.”—Dial.
“The scope of the work is not too great for the space allotted; the treatment is scientific, thoroughly modern and up-to-date, reflecting current university standards. The selection of material and the completeness and comprehensiveness of the treatment are commendable.”
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Dial. 41: 209. O. 1, ’06. 520w.
“The need of a popular frog book is now well met for Miss Dickerson has given just the information wanted by the general nature student and in a form which will surely win popular interest for these interesting vertebrated animals.”
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Ind. 61: 1052. N. 1, ’06. 710w.
“Notwithstanding some examples of the prevailing nature-study gush or cant the style is generally simple and direct. Unmixed commendation cannot be accorded either the author or the publishers.”
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Nation. 83: 248. S. 20, ’06. 810w.
“She gives the fruit of much study and personal investigation with a light, though none the less sure, literary touch.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 530. S. 1, ’06. 980w.
Dickinson, Emily Monroe. Patriot’s mistake; being personal recollections of the Parnell family, by a daughter of the house. *$3. Lane.
“The history of the great patriot Charles Parnell is too well known to need any comment here; but many others of the family, though not always through fault or sin of their own, met with misfortune and premature death. The entire story is peculiarly sad, but the fearful ‘mistake’ of Charles, with the shame and disgrace that followed hard upon it, overshadows all the other painful chapters in the record.”—Critic.
“Extraordinary indiscretion.”
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“A narrative of most pathetic interest.”
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Critic. 49: 92. Jl. ’06. 290w.
“The radical fault of it lies in the fact that it was ever published.”
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Lond. Times. 4: 463. D. 29, ’05. 210w.
“We think that a little more reserve would not have been amiss; but there is romance about some of her pages that is real Irish.”
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Sat. R. 101: 493. Ap. 21, ’06. 160w.
Dickinson, Edward. Study of the history of music; with an annotated guide to music literature. **$2.50. Scribner.
“It will be a vade mecum for all musicians, students, and music lovers.” W. J. Henderson.
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Atlan. 96: 854. D. ’05. 100w.
“It offers a straightforward and scholarly treatment of the subject.”
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Dial. 40: 23. Ja. 1, ’06. 370w.
“In its field there is probably no book in any language that can compare with this one in completeness, suggestiveness, clearness and general usefulness for the student of musical history.”
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Ind. 60: 401. F. 15, ’06. 320w.
Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes. Greek view of life. 3d ed. (new issue). **$1. McClure.
“It is an investigation and explanation of the attitude of the Greeks toward life, nature and humanity, based upon a study of the Greek classics.” (N. Y. Times.) “The book has five chapters.—1. The Greek view of religion, 2. The Greek view of the state, 3. The Greek view of the individual, 4. The Greek view of art, 5. Conclusion. Each chapter has its divisions carefully planned and succintly treated, and concludes with a useful summary.” (Dial.)
“A well-balanced and well-written book from the hands of a competent author.” F. B. R. Hellens.
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Dial. 40: 196. Mr. 16, ’06. 1470w.
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R. of Rs. 33: 256. F. ’06, 40w.
85Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes. Modern symposium. **$1. McClure.
“It is impossible, without more quotation, to do justice to the security and ease, the lightness and penetration combined, of Mr. Dickinson. The book is as charming as it is suggestive. In its author we have one of the few living Englishmen who can really write prose.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 292. Mr. 10. 2260w.
“A suggestive little volume, well worth reading.”
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Critic. 48: 90. Ja. ’06. 20w.
“The book has a genuinely literary character and is entertaining in the best sense. The dramatic setting increases the interest; but there is a lack of spontaneity in the arranging of the speakers which mars the artistic effect; the chairman is too much in evidence.” David Phillips.
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R. of Rs. 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 60w.
“We have to thank Mr. Dickinson for several pleasing epigrams, and the brilliant comparison of America and Europe, put into the mouth of Ellis the journalist, makes by itself the slender book worth reading.”
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Sat. R. 101: 461. Ap. 14, ’06. 1280w.
“He does his best for all, and he shows remarkable versatility in doing it.”
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Spec. 95: 1041. D. 16, ’05. 440w.
“It is, of course, the work of a critic, and its use is to interpret men of different opinions to each other. The defect of it is that while it throws much light upon opinions, it throws none on the problems.”
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Spec. 96: 832. My. 26, ’06. 1880w.
Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes. Religion: a criticism and a forecast. **50c. McClure.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
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Atlan. 97: 416. Mr. ’06. 170w.
Dickson, Harris. Gabrielle, transgressor. †$1.50. Lippincott.
The scene of this romance, by the author of “The Ravanels,” is laid in the colonies. Gabrielle, daughter of a sturdy Frenchman, is married at the age of five and left to grow up in a convent. When she has reached a woman’s years, but while still a child in mind, she is taken forth to meet her husband. Before he arrives, however, an exiled prince of Turkey comes into the life of this impulsive young woman and, by his mystic suggestions of the Orient, takes her heart captive. The love story is especially ardent and has an unexpected ending.
“The author’s treatment of the theme makes the yarn rather less absurd than might have been expected.”
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Nation. 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 160w.
“It is an ‘Arabian nights’ tale without the simple faith of the narrator which conquers the incredulity of the reader. Hence the interest it excites is languid, and it is not easy to follow it to its finish.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 868. D. 15, ’06. 400w.
Dignan, Frank W. Idle actor in Aeschylus. *50c. Univ. of Chicago press.
In his monograph Mr. Dignan shows that the fault of Aeschylus’s technique, if it really exists, is due to material limitations and to the restraints of tradition.
Dilke, Lady Amelia Frances Strong. Book of the spiritual life, with a memoir of the author by the Rt. Rev. Sir Charles W. Dilke. *$3. Dutton.
“Should be read by everyone interested in the literature of art.” Royal Cortissoz.
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Dill, Samuel. Roman society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius. *$2.50. Macmillan.
“The work is a magnificent piece of historical synthesis. It is drawn from many sources, and presents a comprehensive view of the intellectual, social, moral and religious conditions of an important epoch. Whether the author’s opinions will receive universal acceptance may be doubted.” Patrick J. Healy, D. D.
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Cath. World. 83: 433. Jl. ’06. 5310w.
Dillon, Mary. In Old Bellaire. †$1.50. Century.
A quaint old Pennsylvania town with its cavalry school and dashing young officers at the east end and its students and intellectual mentors at the west end furnishes the scene of his story of the early sixties. The heroine is a prim little Puritan maiden whom it takes four years to convince that Quaker teaching and Northern prejudices can be made compatible with her love for a handsome, fastidious, daring, Southern-bred lover.
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Reviewed by Mrs. L. H. Harris.
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Ind. 60: 1219. My. 24, ’06. 140w.
“Treats of the war time with the admirable poise and impartial spirit we have learned to expect.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 72. F. 3, ’06. 1250w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 160w.
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“To our ears the conversations have an unreal, stilted sound.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 187. F. 10, ’06. 260w.
Dillon, Mrs. Mary C. The leader. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“The story is concerned mainly with the career of a statesman, in whom it is the author’s evident intention to picture William J. Bryan, who has made himself the leader and the idol of the masses of his party. A large part of the narrative is taken up with events connected with the last Democratic national convention. There are some spirited descriptions of convention scenes, and a very good picture is presented of the convention as a whole.”—N. Y. Times.
“All in all, ‘The leader’ is a great political work—a matchless campaign document. It were superfluous to dwell on the evidence that its author is as unskilled in the use of the English language as most makers of political documents; that the construction of her novel, considered merely as a novel, is as shaky as that of many a party platform.” Edward Clark Marsh.
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Bookm. 24: 158. O. ’06. 1030w.
“One feature of the book, however, is distinctly offensive; that is the affectation of British phrasing for the common details of American life.”
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“The veil of fiction cast over these incidents is of the thinnest; the writer’s art gives them no fresh meaning.”
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Nation. 83: 246. S. 20, ’06. 210w.
“Mrs. Dillon’s sole equipment for the writing of fiction is a knack for descriptive narrative. The plot of her story could hardly be more flimsy or more hackneyed.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 579. S. 22, ’06. 500w.
“A very good story in a conventional way, although the politics are rather bookish, and the social background is not specially true to any American locality.”
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Outlook. 84: 429. O. 20, ’06. 80w.
Discrepant world: being an essay in fiction by the author of “Through spectacles of feeling.” $2. Longmans.
86“The scene is a Scottish village; there is a real story; there are several real characters from a lord to a pussy-cat that purred ‘three threads and a thrum;’ there are incidents as startling as a murder, and there are many deaths.... The author puts his folks into promising dilemmas, then ... has recourse to nature’s method—always ready. Fortunately the story is told with nature’s own simplicity, and the resultant for the reader is a vast cheerfulness in woe.”—Nation.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 458. Jl. 21, ’06. 410w.
“This book is really good.”
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Dix, Beulah Marie. Fair maid of Graystones. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“The book is alive; now and again it may border on the melodramatic, but it is all wholesomely good and healthily sentimental. The presentation shows power, skill, and sympathy, and we congratulate the author.”
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Cath. World. 82: 563. Ja. ’06. 420w.
“Miss Beulah Dix is an accomplished artificer of historical romance.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 40: 155. Mr. 1, ’06. 210w.
“Is really interesting.”
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Dix, Morgan, ed. History of Trinity church in the city of New York; compiled in large part from original documents, by order of the corporation. 4v. **$5. Putnam.
The last volume of the four devoted to the history of Trinity church brings the account of the earliest Episcopal church in the city of New York down to the accession of the author who is the present rector.
“An interest ... far wider than the limits of the parish, albeit the largest and most influential parish in the land.”
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Dial. 40: 198. Mr. 16, ’06. 600w. (Review of v. 3.)
“When the time shall come for the history of this period to be written, let us hope that the historian will go back over the contents of this fourth volume, and, using the material therein collated, will place it in its true historic perspective and in its proper relation to the times now present.”
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Dial. 41: 119. S. 1, ’06. 480w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The work now finished is rather the collection of material for history than history itself.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 181. Mr. 24, ’06. 420w. (Review of v. 4.)
“A variety of incidents that attracted much public interest in their time occur in this record.”
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Outlook. 82: 809. Ap. 7, ’06. 140w. (Review of v. 4.)
Dixon, Richard Watson. Last poems of Richard Watson Dixon. Selected and ed. by Robert Bridges. *$1.40. Oxford.
“There are less than two-score pages in this final sheaf of song, and more than half of them are occupied by ‘Too much friendship,’ a miniature epic having for its hero an Athenian whose fortunes (or misfortunes) suggest those of both King Candaules and Job.” (Dial.) “Though this little volume holds the last gleanings of a poetic field, the ears of corn are firm and sound.” (Acad.)
“The first-piece, a tale of Roman friendship, is indeed unsuccessful, but the more intimate poems have a directness which at once arrests attention.”
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Acad. 70: 329. Ap. 7, ’06. 180w.
“His lyrical faculty which was considerable, shows here somewhat laboriously, and yet it is from the purely lyrical pieces that the book derives such value as it may possess.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 195. F. 17, 530w.
“A poet of sincerity and thoughtfulness.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Lond. Times. 4: 464. D. 29, ’05. 500w.
Dixon, Thomas, jr. Life worth living. **$1.20. Doubleday.
Critic. 48: 95. Ja. ’06. 80w.
Doat, Taxile Maximin. Grand feu ceramics; tr. by S: E. Robineau. *$7.50. Keramic Studio pub. co., Syracuse, N. Y.
The series of articles by the well-known French authority on pottery which appeared in the “Keramic studio” during 1903. Part 1 is a view of the position of porcelain at the beginning of the twentieth century: Part 2 covers the ground of the technical instruction in the making of the Grand feu porcelain and grès.
“Comprehensive handbook.”
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Dodd, Lee Wilson. Modern alchemist, and other poems. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
The author says:
“I would not have you think me all I seem
In these illuding mimicries of dream.”
Further
“My art, you see, is just to take a hint
Expand and make it permanent in print.”
Observations of men and things, and retrospect in history’s and fancy’s realm have furnished most of the hints of his poems.
“There is stuff in these poems—deep thought and deep feeling. And conjoined with them is a delicacy of touch that shows the artist keeping the upper hand of his emotions.” Wm. M. Payne.
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“There is brain work behind Mr. Dodd’s verse, and poetic information. There is at present a certain overemphasis in Mr. Dodd’s phrasing which blunts his fineness.”
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Nation. 83: 145. Ag. 16, ’06. 250w.
“It is a pleasure to take up ‘A modern alchemist.’ It gives no hint that a great poem has arisen; but there is an agreeable certainty that the author has something to say and has not disdained to learn the art of saying it.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 774. N. 24, ’06. 430w.
Dodge, David Low. War inconsistent with the religion of Jesus Christ; with an introd. by Edwin D. Mead. 75c. Ginn.
This volume contains both of Mr. Dodge’s famous old pamphlets, with an introduction which tells the story of his remarkable life and reviews his pioneering work in the peace cause in the early part of the century.
Dodge, Henry Irving. Other Mr. Barclay; drawings by Nella Fontaine Binckley. †$1.50. Consolidated retail booksellers.
A tale of Wall street. “The plot concerns a certain Mr. Barclay, who was a bear, and went short to such an extent that he was ruined. After that he retired to a country town called Cosburg, and filled the place with frenzy. For he got the inhabitants interested in a pool, and later admitted them all as partners with himself in a joint stock grocery concern.” (N. Y. Times.) “The devastation wrought in a sleepy village by one stock gambler who fans the spirit of greed is forcibly depicted.” (Outlook.)
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N. Y. Times. 11: 265. Ap. 21, ’06. 340w.
“The author knows his subject and handles it with directness and spirit.”
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Outlook. 82: 858. Ap. 14, ’06. 60w.
“With the narrative goes much shrewd country humor and more than a passing insight into the rustic temperament.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 346. Mr. 17, ’06. 300w.
Dodge, Henry Nehemiah. Mystery of the West. $1.25. Badger, R: G.
A book of stirring verse dedicated to “sea lords strong of soul” who boldly discovered new lands, to “the heroic dead” who bled for freedom, and to the faithful who guard the state from wrong.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
Dial. 41: 268. O. 1, ’06. 180w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 523. Ag. 25, ’06. 640w.
Dole, Charles Fletcher. Hope of immortality; our reasons for it. *75c. Crowell.
The Ingersoll lecture for 1906. Mr. Dole maintains that the hope of immortality arises out of a unity of thought, feeling and conduct, and he gives cumulative facts in which human life consists and which point to the hope of future life.
“The perusal of this little volume leaves one questioning whether any better argument will ever be addressed to doubters of the future life.”
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Outlook. 84: 793. N. 24, ’06. 180w.
Dole, Charles Fletcher. Spirit of democracy. **$1.25. Crowell.
A timely work dealing fairly and hopefully with the leading problems of present-day democracy and showing what real democratic government is.
“Though the book is full of suggestive and helpful thoughts and on the whole is a valuable contribution to social progress, it is far inferior, we think, to Mr. Henry George’s latest work ‘The menace of privilege,’ in which democracy is treated in a far more fundamental and able manner.”
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Arena. 36: 680. D. ’06. 580w.
“We need an accurate, clear and thoroughgoing description of actual social conditions, and a sound, practical, restrained indication of ways in which we may better ourselves. To the satisfaction of the first of these needs, Mr. Dole has made a worthy and suggestive contribution, but we cannot think that his treatment of the second has permanent significance.”
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Nation. 83: 355. O. 25, ’06. 880w.
“Its style is clear; its principles are simple and put with great simplicity. It embodies many wise suggestions. But it lacks intellectual coherence. On the whole, the book must be described as an expression of the author’s social and political ideals, many of which are admirable, rather than as an interpretation of historical facts or a study of fundamental social principles.”
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Outlook. 84: 383. O. 13, ’06. 450w.
R. of Rs. 34: 759. D. ’06. 130w.
Dole, Nathan Haskell, comp. Latin poets: an anthology. $2. Crowell.
“The selections from the various English translators have been most judiciously made.”
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Critic. 49: 285. S. ’06. 110w.
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R. of Rs. 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 80w.
Donaldson, James. Westminster confession of faith and Thirty-nine articles of the Church of England: the legal, moral, and religious aspects of subscription to them. *$1.20. Longmans.
“By the decision of the House of Lords the vast properties of the Free church of Scotland pass over to the “Wee Frees,” a little company of belated ministers who in 1900 refused to acquiesce in the union of the Free church and the United Presbyterian. The ground of the verdict of the last court of appeal is that the Free church has departed from the literal and rigid terms of the Confession of faith, thereby forfeiting its belongings of whatever sort to the insignificant minority who still accent the Confession in its original bare, bald literalness. This, with its manifold implications is the theme to which the principal of St. Andrews addresses himself.”—Am. J. Theol.
“Principal Donaldson’s volume ought to awaken serious inquiry in the minds of all Christians who are fettered by creed subscriptions, for it all goes to show how unwise it is, and how dishonest and how morally ruinous, to cling to an outworn creed and outwardly to maintain religious tenets which the subscriber knows are no longer tenable.” Eri B. Hulbert.
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Lond. Times. 4: 223. Jl. 14, ’05. 960w.
“This is a deeply interesting book dealing with subjects which are smouldering to-day and may be burning to-morrow. We would offer to the writer of so thought-provoking a book not polemics but thanks.”
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Doney, Carl G. Throne-room of the soul: a study in the culture of the spiritual. $1. Meth. bk.
The synopsis of thirty sermons on the culture of the soul.
Donnell, Annie Hamilton. Rebecca Mary; with eight illustrations in color by Mary Shippen Green. †$1.50. Harper.
“As a whole the story is an admirable example of that American school of fiction which esteems simplicity in art as its highest achievement.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 388. Mr. 31. 170w.
“And she deserves to live in our hearts along with Mrs. Rice’s ‘Lovey Mary.’”
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Donnell, Annie Hamilton. Very small person; il. by Elizabeth Shippen Green. †$1.25. Harper.
The stories here are about children but their lesson is entirely for grown ups who have in their trust the developing child. The little comedies as well as the heart tragedies of children grow pathetic when there is no one near with whom to share them. It is to such a lonely group of children that the author turns in her sketches. It is a book for every mother.
Nation. 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 30w.
“They are written, for the most part, with a delicate art, with a keen sympathy for the needs of the childish heart, and a humorous appreciation of the workings of the childish mind. The central theme of most of the stories, however, lacks freshness both in idea and method of treatment.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 744. N. 10, ’06. 260w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 180w.
“The effect is decidedly morbid.”
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Outlook. 84: 796. N. 24, ’06. 80w.
88Dorsey, George Amos. Cheyenne. 2v. ea. 50c. Field Columbian museum.
An extensive monograph on the ceremonial organization of the Cheyenne which appears in the anthropological series of publications of the Field Columbian museum.
“A most interesting and valuable account of some of the social organizations of the Cheyenne Indians.”
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Dial. 39: 212. O. 1, ’05. 70w.
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Nature. 73: 300. Ja. 25, ’06. 880w.
Doub, William Coligny. History of the United States. *$1. Macmillan.
“The author has carried the grouping system to the extreme. Among the commendable features are the following: the space given to the life of the people; comparatively few pages given to accounts of the wars; and the large number of well-executed maps.” J. A. James.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 446. Ja. ’06. 520w.
Dougherty, John Hampden. Electoral system of the United States; its history together with a study of the perils that have attended its operations; an analysis of the several efforts by legislation to avert these perils, and a proposed remedy by amendment of the constitution. **$1.50. Putnam.
Mr. Dougherty’s book “deals with the counting of votes for president and vice-president of the United States. Mr. Dougherty tells the story of debates over the question and of the settlement of the dispute between the Senate and House of representatives in 1877; he reviews the judgments of the Electoral commission in Florida, Louisiana, Oregon, and South Carolina, and criticises the law of 1877. There are also discussions of the dangers of the electoral system and the ‘evils’ of the general election ticket system. The book closes with a remedy and explanation of it.”—N. Y. Times.