Volume 2 — Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Digests of Reviews appearing in January-December, 1906 magazines (continued 7)
Reading edition
“While we cannot but think that Mr. Dougherty’s work would have profited by condensation, particularly in its summaries of the opinions of members of Congress, its historical merits are both sound and considerable. So far as he has gone, his work is not likely to need doing over again.” Wm. MacDonald.
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Am. Hist. R. 12: 154. O. ’06. 750w.
“Invaluable as a historical treatise.”
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Dial. 41: 70. Ag. 1, ’06. 400w.
“The one adverse criticism that can be passed upon the book is that the author’s rigid ideals of historical exposition have led him to employ such wealth of detail that only the trained scholar will be able to keep a clear notion of what is essential in the work.”
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Ind. 60: 1435. Je. 14, ’06. 310w.
Ind. 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 30w.
“It is a searching review and criticism of the electoral system now in vogue, and altho it undoubtedly fails to take sufficient account of the obstacles in the way of radical reform proposed, it is a critique of no small value in reference to a subject which has hitherto received too little attention considering its importance to the Republic.”
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Lit. D. 33: 124. Jl. 28, ’06. 100w.
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Nation. 83: 85. Jl. 26, ’06. 790w.
“Mr. Dougherty has done an excellent piece of work in pointing out the evils of the present system.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 288. My. 5, ’06. 770w.
“All will not agree with his proposed remedies for the defects in the existing method of choosing the National chief executive, but none can fail to find suggestive value in the successive chapters.”
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Outlook. 83: 90. My. 12, ’06. 310w.
Douglas, James. Old France in the new world. $2.50. Burrows.
“The book as it stands is well worthy of careful consideration.”
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 904. Jl. ’06. 780w.
“Despite all that has been written on Quebec, Dr. Douglas manages to give us a fresh, unhackneyed and characteristic volume.”
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Nation. 82: 228. Mr. 15, ’06. 740w.
Dowd, Alice M. Our common wild flowers of springtime and autumn. $1.25. Badger, R. G.
While this volume will undoubtedly hold the interest of all young nature lovers it is intended primarily for school use and to this end is divided into four parts for use in four successive school years, and excludes those plants which blossom only during vacation days. The plants chosen are common to the northeastern part of the United States, and their classification follows the sequence of families adopted by the most recent botanical works.
“There is nothing of a scientific value to be derived from the use of such a text. But judged by the existing standards of nature study as it actually exists in our schools, the book has much to commend it.”
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Bookm. 24: 73. S. ’06. 230w.
“We do not feel quite so sure that the writer is a safe guide in matters of teleology, or the doctrine of final causes.”
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Nation. 83: 77. Jl. 26, ’06. 220w.
“Its author has contrived by careful condensation to pack much literary and artistic reference and allusion into its small space.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 473. Jl. 28, ’06. 100w.
Dowden, Edward. Montaigne. **$1.50. Lippincott.
“Professor Dowden’s volume is by no means contemptible, but it is unfortunate, like most of this serial piecework, in doing again what has been better done already.”
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Ind. 60: 809. Ap. 5, ’06. 260w.
Downey, Edmund. Charles Lever: his life and his letters. 2v. *$5. Scribner.
The author of “Harry Lorrequer,” and “Charles O’Malley” contributes somewhat to his own biography, thru letters and autobiographical prefaces to early stories which primarily show him to be a “typical good fellow,” with an amount of spring in his temperament and the power of enjoying life. The social and literary man, with a warm interest in politics, was a “good husband and father; he was honest (though his sincerity was sometimes under suspicion from the rapidity of his conclusions); he was kind; but he always got through more than he earned, and the result is a record of perpetual struggle to meet the claims upon him.... His extravagance led to a growing discontent, which reached unreasonable proportions. He was incapable alike of correcting his proof-sheets and his indulgences and grew embittered, unable to keep friends with himself, as the ‘good fellow’ is expected to do.” (Ath.)
“One would think it were an impossible feat to write a dull life of such an author, and yet, we fear, it has very nearly been accomplished by Mr. Edmund Downey.”
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Acad. 70: 325. Ap. 7, ’06. 1770w.
“It consists of materials for such a biography, but needs ... rigorous selection. There is a fair index, but the proof-reading has not been well done.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 540. My. 5. 2200w.
“On the whole the brilliant passages in these letters are much fewer than would have been expected.” H. W. Boynton.
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Bookm. 23: 625. Ag. ’06. 1350w.
“He wisely decided to base the work almost entirely upon the letters and other autobiographical 89material at his disposal, and the result is very satisfactory, though it might perhaps have been more so if the matter had been condensed into half the space.”
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Critic. 49: 189. Ag. ’06. 290w.
“Not even its careful workmanship gives it the flavor of an ideal biography. Mr. Downey’s index ... leaves much to be desired.” Percy F. Bicknell.
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Dial. 40: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 2090w.
“Mr. Downey’s biography is a great improvement on the previous one by Dr. Fitzpatrick. He is much more careful than his predecessor about his facts, and he has had the advantage of using new documents.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 147. Ap. 27, ’06. 1780w.
“These two volumes will probably be read when his novels are never taken from the shelf.”
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Nation. 83: 228. S. 13, ’06. 910w.
“These letters reveal the man. Nothing, in fact, could give posterity a better idea of the Irish novelist.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 353. Je. 2, ’06. 1950w.
“Mr. Downey’s volumes, however, are avowedly rather a supplement and corrective than a substitute [for Mr. Fitzpatrick’s Life.]”
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Sat. R. 101: 757. Je. 16, ’06. 1260w.
“He kept his fun for his books. We cannot blame him; but his biography suffers.”
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Spec. 96: 759. My. 12, ’06. 410w.
Downs, Sarah Elizabeth (Forbush) (Mrs. George Sheldon). Step by step. †$1.50. Dillingham.
An unusually wholesome, possible story for young people. It sketches the upward career of an orphan lad who early learns how to operate in his life a demonstrable principle of success.
Dowson, Ernest. Poems, with a memoir by Arthur Symons. *$1.50. Lane.
Reviewed by P. H. Frye.
Bookm. 23: 95. Mr. ’06. 280w.
Doyle, (Arthur) Conan. Green flag. *50c. Fenno.
A new popular edition of stories of war and sport which include besides the title story: Captain Sharkey, which recounts certain adventures in the career of a notorious pirate; The crime of the brigadier, in which the criminal himself tells of his strange fox hunt; The Croxley master; The “Slapping Sal”; The lord of Châteaunoir; The striped chest; A shadow before; The king of the foxes; The three correspondents; The new catacomb; The début of Bimbashi Joyce; and A foreign romance.
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Pub. Opin. 40: 347. Mr. 17, ’06. 110w.
Doyle, (Arthur) Conan. Sir Nigel; il. by the Kinneys. †$1.50. McClure.
“Paladin deeds crowd one on another in this story. The plot is highly colored, and concerns principally three deeds which Nigel swears to perform before he will return from Brittany to claim the Lady Mary Buttesthorn. Forced marches and the taking of robbers’ castles, and joustings for love of fighting, and real battles for the king, all befall on the way. How young Nigel captured ‘The Red Ferret’ and took the castle of La Brohiniere, and finally at the battle of Poitiers took prisoner King John II. of France, thus accomplishing his vows, and how he was knighted by the ‘Black Prince’ and sent home to get married is clearly and graphically told in this book.”—N. Y. Times.
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Acad. 71: 590. D. 8, ’06. 160w.
“He has taken pains with his authorities, and the result is an unqualified success.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 687. D. 1. 360w.
“As a narrative pure and simple, Sir Nigel deserves unstinted praise.” Beverly Stark.
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Bookm. 24: 279. N. ’06. 610w.
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Ind. 61: 1498. D. 20, ’06. 140w.
“Excellent as the story is in general, it is not flawless—what story is? The author is not immune from the besetting sin of the Celtic temperament—exaggeration.”
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Lit. D. 33: 555. O. 20, ’06. 270w.
“Nor does Sir Arthur ever quite fall between the two stools of explanation and action. It is only that the constant jumping from one to the other is not always deftly executed. But that is our only criticism. The spirit of the fourteenth century is well interpreted.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 386. D. 16, ’06. 480w.
“As a picture of the times, the book is successful, though the story does not seem so gripping as ‘The white company.’”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 631. O. 6, ’06. 320w.
“The novel is not only a spirited story, but a very carefully drawn picture of the age of chivalry, bringing out both the heroism and the brutality of that period and interpreting its spirit in its activities, ideals, dress, and social organization.”
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Outlook. 84: 710. N. 24, ’06. 170w.
“He can give you, in short, everything in the time and of the time but the time itself. That eludes him.”
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Sat. R. 102: 713. D. 8, ’06. 470w.
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Spec. 97: 938. D. 8, ’06. 180w.
Dozier, Orion Theophilus. Poems. $1.25. Neale.
The third edition of Mr. Dozier’s poems including “A galaxy of southern heroes” and other poems of former publications.
Dresser, Horatio Willis. Health and the inner life: an analytical and historical study of spiritual healing theories; with an account of the life and teachings of P. P. Quimby. **$1.35. Putnam.
“Mr. Dresser’s book is primarily devoted to rehabilitating the memory of Mr. P. P. Quimby whom the author declares to have been the founder of the new movement in this country.”—Pub. Opin.
“Mr. Dresser’s last book has the great virtue of presenting abstract truths concretely, in good literary style.”
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Critic. 48: 479. My. ’06. 100w.
Pub. Opin. 40: 315. Mr. 10, ’06. 160w.
Driscoll, Clara. In the shadow of the Alamo. †$1.50. Putnam.
“Local color rather than plot is the most conspicuous element in these half-dozen sketches of the San Antonio valley. The spirit of the grim old Alamo pervades all of them and in one of them, Miss Driscoll tells once more the tale of soul-stirring bravery forever associated with its walls.”—Critic.
“Pathos and passion are both to be found in the stories, but it is the atmosphere which is most delightful.”
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Critic. 49: 286. S. ’06. 80w.
“They stray from probability and lack skill in the telling.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 375. Je. 9, ’06. 130w.
“A lack of literary finish and artistic proportion makes the reading somewhat tedious.”
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Outlook. 83: 481. Je. 23, ’06. 70w.
R. of Rs. 34: 382. S. ’06. 60w.
Dubois, Rev. Leo. L. St. Francis of Assisi, social reformer. *$1. Benziger.
A purely sociological study of St. Francis in which “an effort is made to describe the steps by which he became a reformer, the work accomplished by him, the processes of his mind and 90the traits of his character as far as these affected his reform work, the racial ideas and principles on which his reform work was grounded.”
“In many ways it does not compare favorably with the well-known biography of Sabatier, to which the author gives high praise.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 175. Jl. ’06. 60w.
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Cath. World. 83: 258. Ap. ’06. 430w.
Dubois, Paul. Influence of the mind on the body; tr. from the 5th Fr. ed. by L. B. Gallatin. **50c. Funk.
The education of the reason to control physical health is the watch word of Dr. Dubois’ little volume. In his discussion of the reciprocal influence which the spirit and body, the moral and the physical, exert upon each other, he believes that religion can be efficacious only when it creates a living philosophy in him who practices it, that such a philosophy has power to order harmony.
Dubois, Dr. Paul. Psychic treatment of nervous disorders; tr. from the French by Smith Ely Jelliffe, and William A. White. *$3. Funk.
“He does not make any exaggerated claims.”
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Ind. 60: 574. Mr. 8, ’06. 230w.
Du Bose, William Porcher. Gospel in the gospels. **$1.50. Longmans.
“‘The gospel in the gospels’ is their revelation of God in humanity and of humanity in God. Christianity is described ‘in its largest sense to be the fulfillment of God in the world through the fulfillment of the world in God.’ In these three stages are marked—(1) the gospel of the earthly life of Jesus, the common humanity; (2) the gospel of the resurrection, expressive of the new power communicated by Jesus as the conqueror and destroyer of sin and death; (3) the gospel of the incarnation, presenting the works wrought by Jesus as no mere act of an exceptional humanity, but a work of God, fulfilling and completing himself in humanity. These three stages constitute the main divisions of the work.”—Outlook.
“The former publications of Professor W. P. Du Bose ... have raised high expectations, which are justified in this his latest work.”
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Outlook. 82: 569. Mr. 10, ’06. 410w.
“The strong point of Mr. Du Bose’s book is, to the mind of the present writer, that it offers a logical position to metaphysically-minded persons who are already emotionally and spiritually convinced.”
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Spec. 97: 204. Ag. 11, ’06. 1420w.
Du Cane, Col. Herbert, tr. War in South Africa. **$4. Dutton.
An authorized translation of the German official account of the war in South Africa. Following a four part narrative of the war’s events is a “Tactical retrospect” of the conflict “in which are considered the skill of the Boers in the employment of their weapons, the defects of their methods of fighting, ‘innocuous’ bombardments, misapplied manoeuvres, the ‘essence’ of war, the difficulties confronting the offensive, the essential need for mental development.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Colonel DuCane’s translation of the German history has its place marked in the library of all soldiers who study their profession in a serious manner.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 19. Ja. 19, ’06. 1750w. (Review of v. 2.)
“While the book is written primarily for military purposes, it serves admirably as a history of the war for more general reading.”
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Nation. 83: 82. Jl. 26, ’06. 1090w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 108. F. 7, ’06. 250w.
“A book of considerable value to students of military matters, whether for tactical or historical purposes.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 484. Ag. 4, ’06. 880w.
“The text is clear, sober, and balanced throughout.”
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Outlook. 83: 818. Ag. 4, ’06. 60w.
“Admirable translation.”
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Spec. 96: 461. Mr. 24, ’06. 2140w. (Review of v. 2.)
Duclaux, Mary (Mary Darmesteter) (Agnes Mary Frances Robinson). Fields of France: little essays in descriptive sociology. $6. Lippincott.
“Those who have wandered much in France will enjoy this book, and those who have not may by it conceive a desire to do so.”
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Critic. 48: 382. Ap. ’06. 260w.
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Spec. 96: sup. 1016. Je. 30, ’06. 140w.
Dudden, F. Holmes. Gregory the Great: his place in history and thought. 2v. *$10. Longmans.
A biography which portrays “distinctly the Gregory of his own time.” (Lond. Times.) The sketch follows a three-fold division: (1) a detailed history of the life of Pope Gregory the Great; (2) a systematic exposition of Gregory’s theological opinions; (3) an account of the political, social and religious characterization of the Gregorian age. “Mr. Dudden has fairly faced his difficult task, and his industry has been equal to his courage. The book rests upon a thorough analysis of the original sources to which, by the way, an admirable index serves as guide, whether one use the narrative or not. On the other hand, modern authorities, unfortunately, have been almost entirely ignored.” (Lond. Times.)
“His book is a solid piece of genuine historical work which bears witness to conscientious and laborious research. So thorough is his method that he scarcely leaves room for a future writer to add anything to what will be henceforth the standard work on the subject.”
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Acad. 70: 137. F. 10, ’06. 950w.
“It rests everywhere sanely and safely on a personal study of the sources, guided and corrected by a wide knowledge of the researches of modern scholars.” George L. Burr.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 635. Ap. ’06. 1100w.
“Mr. Dudden must be congratulated upon the ample and well-devised scheme of his work. He cannot be congratulated upon his omission of all reference to the work of other scholars. In the more general field of thought and theology of the age Mr. Dudden fails, if at all, in completeness. He does not take a wide enough sweep. Gregory’s mental peculiarities are treated too much as isolated phenomena. It seems ungracious to dwell so much upon what is absent from so laborious, honest and interesting a book. Had Mr. Dudden allowed himself more time and more liberty of judgment it would have been fully successful.” E. H. Watson.
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Eng. Hist. R. 21: 760. O. ’06. 1560w.
“Adequate knowledge of the things Gregory said and did, and the sound sense to estimate their value; also an intimate acquaintance with the men and policies of the pope’s period, and sane historical judgment to test them, are conspicuous characteristics of Mr. Dudden’s work: and if the biographer has given us many pages—more than are necessary to satisfy our bare necessities—we may well forget to grumble, and may say our grace with thankfulness.” John Herkless.
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Hibbert J. 4: 924. Jl. ’06. 2350w.
“The style is clear and without affectation.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 29. Ja. 26, ’06. 1920w.
“Mr. Dudden has succeeded in bringing out in clear relief the truly constructive aspects of his work, and in leaving on the reader’s mind 91an adequate impression of one of the greatest of Christian prelates.”
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Nation. 82: 497. Je. 14, ’06. 1040w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 753. N. 4, ’05. 240w.
“For so thorough and informing a piece of historical labor it is wonderfully entertaining.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 655. O. 6, ’06. 2330w.
“An abler apologist than Mr. Dudden it would be impossible to find; because his defense is indirect and implicit, it is all the more convincing.”
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Sat. R. 100: 846. D. 30, ’05. 1670w.
“By reason of its literary merit, its vitalising power over the past, its successful relation of ancient springs of action to living and universal movements, and its strictly scientific use of difficult and often obscure material, will remain the standard work on the spiritual significance of the sixth century in the West.”
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Spec. 96: 753. My. 12, ’06. 2110w.
Dudeney, Mrs. Henry E. Battle of the weak: or, Gossips Green; il. by Paul Hardy. †$1.50. Dillingham.
A story of love of nearly a hundred years ago is set in a scene furnished by a little town of southern England near the sea. “Quaker Jay was always a Southerner, passionate and voluble, delighting in colour, music, and sunshine. Lucy Vernon, in love with love and with Quaker, and as much a child of the summer and sunshine as he, was married by arrangement to a husband whose gods were decency, self-restraint, and domestic order.” (Lond. Times.) From this romantic chaos unanticipated order finally emerges.
“Lovers of ‘Susan’ will turn eagerly to ‘Gossips Green’, and they will not be disappointed.”
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Acad. 71: 286. S. 22, ’06. 180w.
“Its author, in true modern fashion, is concerned less with the theme of the story ... than with the manner of telling it; and this manner, is in the main, admirable—sympathetic, humorous, artistic, yet conveying withal a slight suggestion of insincerity.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 362. S. 29. 230w.
“There are many poignant pages in Mrs. Dudeney’s new book, and for their sake she may be pardoned the palpable effort she had to make at last to secure a happy ending.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
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Bookm. 24: 389. D. ’06. 280w.
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Lond. Times. 5: 322. S. 21, ’06. 370w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 833. D. 1, ’06. 490w.
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Outlook. 84: 529. O. 27, ’06. 100w.
“The story ... is not always pleasant reading, and it is extremely difficult to believe in the reality of Quaker Jay, the foundling.”
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Spec. 97: 579. O. 20, ’06. 180w.
Dudley, John William Ward, 1st earl of. Letters to “Ivy” from the first Earl of Dudley; ed. with introd. and notes, by S. H. Romilly. *$5. Longmans.
“All who are interested in the politics of the period between Pitt’s death in 1806 and the great Reform bill of 1832 will be delighted with these letters of Lord Dudley to Mrs. Dugald Stewart.” (Sat. R.) “Speaking broadly, one-third of the papers may be called unimportant, since they are but hasty notes illustrating merely the writer’s filial affection for Mrs. Stewart. The other two-thirds consist of moderately long epistles—epistles, at any rate, which are long enough to disclose the nature of Ward’s tastes and mind.... The correspondence here published runs parallel during the greater part of its course with the ‘Creevy papers,’ and covers some of the ground traversed by the first volume of Grenville.” (Nation.)
“The book is efficiently edited ... the one objection that we have to make against it is its title.”
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Acad. 69: 1071. O. 14, ’05. 1150w.
“Mr. Romilly’s chapter-prefaces are, in general, excellent, but his notes are too exclusively political.”
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Ath. 1905, 2: 573. O. 28. 2090w.
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Ind. 61: 100. Jl. 12, ’06. 520w.
“In these letters he is seen at his best. They are a rich feast for all who enjoy the lighter phases of politics, literature, society and travel.”
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Lond. Times. 4: 440. D. 15, ’05. 2850w.
“The interest attaching to these letters is much greater than that belonging to the average volume of eighteenth-century correspondence, and, quite apart from their service in recalling the memory of an extraordinary man, they bring us much nearer to Dudley himself than do any of his other writings.”
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Nation. 82: 101. F. 1, ’06. 1650w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 641. S. 30, ’05. 280w.
“As a lively contemporary view of the men and events of that critical period they possess something of the attraction which belongs to those of Horace Walpole himself for a period slightly earlier.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 25. Ja. 13, ’06. 1070w.
“Next to their keenness and geniality, their predominant note is extreme sanity. Written in an easy and affectionate style, and full of shrewd judgments on politics and society. We cannot praise too highly the editorial work of Mr. S. H. Romilly.”
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Sat. R. 100: 593. N. 4, ’05. 1650w.
“Not only are they excellent in themselves, but they reveal a strange and curiously attractive figure, somewhat of a mystery to his generation, and almost forgotten nowadays save by diligent students of memoirs.”
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Spec. 95: 611. O. 21, ’05. 1750w.
Dudley, M. E. Tangled threads: a tale of Mormonism. 50c. Badger, R: G.
An anti-mormon poem which in nine cantos of rhymed couplets tells the direful story of the handsome Mormon Rolland, of the wives he married, and of his death which finally set them free.
Duignan, W. H. Worcestershire place names. *$2.40. Oxford.
Am. Hist. R. 11: 466. Ja. ’06. 30w.
Duke, Basil W. Morgan’s cavalry. $2. Neale.
Gen. Duke “who has fought under John Morgan gives some accounts of various raids in which he took part. His point of view is that of a Kentucky man who went South; and what is of most interest in the volume is the description of the straits to which the Kentucky secession regiments were driven in the last period of the war, especially after the secession of Lee and Johnston.” (Nation.)
“It is really a long time since there has come into this office a Civil-war book affording such unmixed satisfaction.”
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Lit. D. 33: 123. Jl. 28, ’06. 140w.
Nation. 83: 78. Jl. 26, ’06. 70w.
“It contains, moreover, a vast deal of interesting and picturesque matter—in spite of the fact that Gen. Duke is not always cunning at narrative—and throws as much light on the actual state of affairs in the Western army, especially as to the weaknesses of that army, as any contribution to the subject that we now recall.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 465. Jl. 21, ’06. 740w.
“His is a well-written narrative, direct, simple, aglow with human interest, rich in anecdote, and free from animosity against those who brought his leader’s and his own efforts to naught. As a military history it is somewhat 92open to criticism, but corrective readings can easily be obtained, and it is undoubtedly deserving of a wide audience.”
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Outlook. 83: 482. Je. 23, ’06. 240w.
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Putnam’s. 1: 253. N. ’06. 50w.
Dumas, Alexandre. Count of Monte Cristo; complete rev. tr. with biographical sketch by Adolphe Cohn. 2v. $2.50. Crowell.
Compactness and utility are foremost among the characteristics that recommend the thin paper two volume sets. This “Monte Cristo” with its two thousand pages will occupy no more than two inches of shelf space. A biographical sketch of Dumas and an introduction make the book desirable from a student’s viewpoint.
Dunbar, Agnes B. C. Dictionary of saintly women. 2v. ea. *$4. Macmillan.
“We have found the references, as far as we have been able to verify them, exact and correct. No Catholic library ought to be without this useful work.”
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Cath. World. 82: 118. Ap. ’06. 130w. (Review of v. 2.)
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Howdy, honey, howdy. **$1.50. Dodd.
“Tho they are songs without notes, they have a lilt by which they sing themselves for the reader. Mr. Dunbar’s poems are much the better of the two, but some of the photographs reproduced in ‘Banjo talks’ have the greater artistic merit.”
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Ind. 60: 284. F. 1, ’06. 250w.
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R. of Rs. 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 40w.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Lyrics of sunshine and shadow. **$1. Dodd.
“Every poem in this little collection counts.”
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Reader. 7: 453. Mr. ’06. 250w.
Duncan, Norman. Adventures of Billy Topsail. †$1.50. Revell.
The second edition of a book that can delight the heart of a real boy. The author says “All Newfoundland boys have adventures; but not all Newfoundland boys survive them.” Billy Topsail is among the lucky survivors of prank and adventure. He captures a huge devil fish, goes whaling, is lost on a cliff, runs away to join a sealer, and is equally ready in calm or gale, high tide or low to beat any companion’s emergency record. A wholesome book with the right spirit for boys.
“A rare style marks the book.”
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Nation. 83: 484. D. 6, ’06. 140w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 683. O. 20, ’06. 130w.
Outlook. 84: 386. O. 13, ’06. 110w.
“‘The adventures of Billy Topsail’ ... are not in themselves of absorbing interest, and Mr. Duncan’s style is rather spasmodic and impressionistic, but they have the virtue of being out of the ordinary.”
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R. of Rs. 34: 767. D. ’06. 50w.
Duncan, Norman. Mother. †$1.25. Revell.
Outlook. 81: 683. N. 18, ’05. 60w.
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Reader. 6: 719. N. ’05. 120w.
Duncan, Robert Kennedy. New knowledge: a popular account of the new physics and the new chemistry in their relation to the new theory of matter. **$2. Barnes.
“Is a book on science for the layman that will rank among the best of its kind.”
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Bookm. 22: 535. Ja. ’06. 170w.
Dunham, Curtis. Golden goblin; or, The Flying Dutchman, junior: a pleasant fantasy for children based on the most fascinating of all undying legends; told in prose and verse; pictures by George F. Kerr. †$1.25. Bobbs.
A fantastic tale of the experiences of two little shipwrecked Dutch children who were picked up by the phantom ship, the Flying Dutchman. Even the most imaginative child will have to exert himself to keep pace with the swift panorama of sea adventures.
N. Y. Times. 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 60w.
Duniway, Clyde Augustus. Development of the freedom of the press in Massachusetts. *$1.50. Longmans.
A monograph which won the Toppan prize of Harvard University in 1897. “After the preliminary chapter on the control of the press in England, the author transfers his investigations to Massachusetts, and traces in chronological order the events which marked the decline of authority over the press in the New World.” (Dial.)
“A valuable addition to the ‘Harvard historical studies’ series in which it is published.” Andrew McFarland Davis.
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Am. Hist. R. 12: 145. O. ’06. 1220w.
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“Hereafter anyone who wishes to know anything on this subject will refer to this monograph.” Theodore Clarke Smith.
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“In Professor Duniway’s excellent monograph a subject requiring exhaustive research is developed with thoroughness, with logical and historic continuity, and flanked by a large array of authorities, personal and documentary.” C. Deming.
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Dunn, Martha Baker. Cicero in Maine, and other essays. **$1.25. Houghton.
“Rather too self-consciously light and airy in tone.”
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Dunne, Finley Peter (Martin Dooley). Dissertations by Mr. Dooley. †$1.50. Harper.
Mr. Dooley’s observations here recorded deal with such thoroly modern topics as short marriage contracts, automobiles, the Irish question, oats as food, the Carnegie-Homer controversy, gambling, oratory and the comforts of travel. He is at his best and Hennesy as ever a willing foil.
93“His present series of dissertations deserves a place with its forerunners.”
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Dunning, Harry Westbrook. To-day on the Nile. *$2.50. Pott.
This book was “written primarily for the benefit of prospective tourists.... The Boston Transcript concisely sums it up, in saying: ‘The volume is at once a history and description of the country, and a guide-book, valuable and interesting in each of these respects.’... When the traveler starts he would be well advised to drop a copy of Dr. Dunning’s book into his steamer-trunk.”—Lit. D.
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Dunning, William Archibald. History of political theories from Luther to Montesquieu. **$2.50. Macmillan.
“The history of political theories has exceptional interest, and the recent English literature devoted to it, already comprising a considerable number of volumes, includes no work more noteworthy than that of Professor Dunning.” Alfred H. Lloyd.
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“For one who desires a general survey of the ideas of political writers of the period, the book will fill a long-felt want, but there is a decided lack of critical analysis, which, to the student of political institutions, leaves much to be desired.” Ward W. Pierson.
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“This second volume on the ‘History of political theory,’ like the first by the same author, is a credit to American scholarship.” Isaac Althaus Loos.
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Dunton, Theodore Watts-. Coming of love, Rhona Boswell’s story and other poems. *$2. Lane.
The seventh and enlarged edition of Mr. Watts-Dunton’s “Coming of love” includes in addition to the poems of previous editions those that had been “lent to friends in manuscript and mislaid” among them, “Haymaking song,” and “The haunted girl.”
“The freshness of this poem is amazing, almost as amazing as its audacity and simplicity. This poem is a triumph of artistry.” J. S.
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“It is in structure, as well as imaginative quality, one of the most original poems written during the past century.”
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“As interesting as the story itself, is the prefatory explanation by the author as to the growth and final evolution of ‘The coming of love’ as it now stands.” Edith M. Thomas.
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Nation. 82: 326. Ap. 19, ’06. 310w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
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Durham, M. Edith. Burden of the Balkans. $4. Longmans.
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Durstan, Mrs. Georgia Roberts. Candle light; il. by Katharine H. Greenland. $1.25. Saalfield.
The imaginative child and his dreams, the active child and his busy work and play are portrayed in rhyme and color for little people.
“A series of child verse with agreeable qualities.”
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Dyer, G. W. Democracy in the South before the Civil war. $1. Pub. house of the M. E. ch. So.
“A strong protest against the theory usually advocated by our historians, that affairs in the South in ante-bellum times were largely controlled by an oligarchy of slave-holders, who kept down the average white man, who made labor disdained, who kept the South agricultural, while the great mass of the people were idle, illiterate, and lazy.”—Am. J. Soc.
“While its substance is of very uneven value, the style and thought are vigorous, and the book deserves attention as a product of its time.” Ulrich B. Phillips.
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“The syllabus suggests a most interesting line of work, which, if carried out without prejudice or passion, of which unfortunately there are traces, ought to yield results of great value to the student of American social and economic history.” J. W. Shepardson.
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“Some of his statements are, to say the least, open to question, and more of his conclusions. Nevertheless, its general thesis is sound.”
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Dyer, Henry. Dai Nippon: a study in national evolution. *$3.50. Scribner.
“The book is interesting, modern, and very thoughtful; having the outlook of a man of scientific training, who is yet conscious of the deeper currents of individual and racial life.”
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Dyer, Thomas Finninger Thiselton-. Folklore of women, as illustrated by legendary and traditionary tales, folk-rhymes, proverbial sayings, superstitions, etc. **$1.50. McClurg.
An anthology, concise and classified, of the proverbial sayings, folk-rhymes, superstitions, and traditionary lore associated with women.
“He displays as usual a great industry and a minute knowledge. But his work would be more illuminating if he had chosen fewer facts, and written of each one with more suggestion and fancy.”
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“The intention of the author in writing this book has been to reveal and demonstrate beyond all question the origin of the negro; to trace his history from the beginning to the present, and to state what he believes to be the true solution of the race problem.” The work contains a reply to “The negro, a beast.”
Easton, H. T. Money, exchange, and banking, in their practical, theoretical, and legal aspects. $1.75. Pitman.
A complete manual for bank officials, business men and students of commerce. “The nature and use of money, the mechanism of exchange, and the development of banking in various parts of the world—but with special reference to England and the money market—are fully explained. But, in addition, the organization of a bank, the duties of its various officials, and the manner in which the books of a bank are kept and the balance sheet prepared are dealt with.” The legal side of banking and the most important points in connection with bills of exchange, cheques, and the relationship between banker and customer are carefully considered.
“Mr. Easton’s book appeals neither to the theorist nor to the accomplished banker, but to the average student of such matters, and it will serve his purpose well.”
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Easton, M. G. House by the bridge. †$1.50. Lane.
Transplanted from sunshiny regiment life in India to a gloomy English home steeped in a skilfully guarded mystery, the sensitive heroine of this tale grows wise among people who “appear either to have mated with the wrong person or suffered troubles of the heart.” The tragic element of the story is fully offset by a romantic interest that grows up about Joan and guides her interests into pleasanter ways.
“The book shows great promise of better things to come. Like many modern novels it has far too much plot.”
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“The ’prentice hand betrays itself in an exuberance of incident and coincidence which gives a sense of overcrowding. The plot is, however, well constructed, and the mystery successfully sustained.”
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“Here is a story done all in gray and brown and black, with scarcely a gleam of sunshine.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
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Eckel, Edwin C. Cements, limes and plasters: their materials, manufacture, and properties. *$6. Wiley.
“It is probably one of the most complete treatises which has been published up to the present day on this subject.”
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Edgar, Madalen G. Stories from Scottish history. 60c. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Children’s favorite classics.” A bright series of narratives based on Scott’s “Tales of a grandfather,” running continuously from the struggle for freedom under Wallace and Bruce to the union of the crowns.
“It is well, however, for the reader to bear in mind the fact that Sir Walter Scott was a Tory and his historical tales are sometimes strongly tinged with the deep reactionary prejudices he entertained.”
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Edghill, E. A. Inquiry into the evidential value of prophecy: being the Hulsean prize essay for 1904; with preface by Rt. Rev. H. E. Ryle. $2. Macmillan.
“An accomplished scholar, at present a young Anglican curate, presents in this volume both the maximum and the minimum estimate of the validity of the prophecies relating to the Messiah of the Hebrew hope, which conservatively applied criticism may be well considered to justify.”—Outlook.
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“His book is not only a conscientious and well-reasoned presentation of his own point of view; it will also assure his readers, whatever their own prepossessions, of the adherence of the best instructed among the younger clergy to the ancient lines of the faith.”
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Edwards, A. Harbage. Kakemono: Japanese sketches. *$1.75. McClurg.
Reverently and simply the author sets before us these dainty sketches of Japan and her people, her faith, her art, her gods, and the heart of her. They are dedicated “To my teachers, the people of Japan,” and they breathe the spirit of the cherry blossoms and whisper to our modern commercialism of a something we have lost, or never gained. “‘What is the soul of Japan?’ asked the poet. ‘It is the mountain cherry-tree in the morning sun.’ But a soul so simple, the civilized nations, of course, disdain.”
“Written with reverence and without adulation.”
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“Pleasantly written sketches. These pictures are drawn with restraint of colour and line and display no little insight into Japanese life.”
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“His is a book of tender meditations, of sympathetic insight. He has made a mosaic out of his many brief chapters which glistens with beauty and has a peculiar charm.”
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Edwards, Tryon. Our country; historic and picturesque. $4. Perrien-Keydel co., Detroit, Mich.
A complete story of our country’s development and progress from the first discovery by the Northmen to the present time, embellished by many hundreds of engravings illustrative of war and historic incidents and the grandeur of American scenery.
Egan, Maurice Francis. Ghost in Hamlet, and other essays in comparative literature. **$1. McClurg.
There are ten essays in this volume. The ghost in Hamlet, Some phases of Shakespearian Interpretation, Some pedagogical uses of Shakespeare, Lyrism in Shakespeare’s comedies, The puzzle of Hamlet, The greatest of Shakespeare’s contemporaries, Imitators of Shakespeare, The comparative method in literature, A definition of literature, and The ebb and flow of romance.
95“He has a felicitous knack of presenting in an original manner, established judgments of first-class criticism. And he has the gift of the born teacher, which is to know how to present his ideas luminously to his readers and his audience. This excellent little volume is replete with suggestion and information for those who, without some commentator, are not always equipped to extract a full share of profit and pleasure from the mines of literature.”
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Eggleston, George Cary. Blind alleys. $1.50. Lothrop.
The characters who find themselves groping in the “blind alleys” of modern New York life as they strive honestly to be helpful to those less fortunate are a young newspaper man who has become separated from the wife he loves, a young doctor who received funds for his education from some mysterious source and knows not his own parentage, a fabulously wealthy spinster and the girl who passes as her ward, and others who are hedged about by circumstances more or less unusual. The story of their various complications and how they are finally straightened out is given in great detail.
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Eggleston, George Cary. Life in the eighteenth century. **$1.20. Barnes.
“In this companion volume to ‘Our first century,’ Mr. Eggleston carries his story through the eighteenth century. The plan pursued is essentially the same as in the first book, the author seeking to give his narrative as human a meaning as possible, and merely touching upon the events which are treated at length in the conventional school history.”—Pub. Opin.
“The author has dealt too largely in generalities, included too much vain repetition of the matter contained in the very volumes to which this one should be auxiliary, and omitted too many of the picturesque minor details which more than anything else reveal what the life of any past epoch really was.”
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Eichendorff, Joseph Karl Benedikt, freiherr von. Happy-go-lucky; or leaves from the life of a good for nothing; tr. from the German by Mrs. A. L. Wister; il. in color. $2. Lippincott.
A merry youth with the “Wanderlust” upon him follows woodland trails, scales mountains, dreams of his Lady fair and plays his beloved fiddle. The sketch is of his tramps and chance acquaintances.
“Many readers will enjoy these ‘leaves from the life of a good-for-nothing’ in their new garb.”
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Elbé, Louis. Future life in the light of ancient wisdom and modern science. **$1.20. McClurg.
This is a translation of a book which has been creating wide comment thruout France under the title “La vie future.” With great care and exactness M. Elbé has arranged a plain statement of the discoveries, theories, and ideas of the greatest investigators, together with his own views and comments, and a mass of authentic information regarding the beliefs of the primitive races. The two parts into which the treatment is divided are Ideas of the survival as considered by the primitive races, and Deductions drawn from the fundamental sciences.
“A noteworthy book.”
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Elements of practical pedagogy, by the brothers of the Christian schools. La Salle bureau of supplies, N. Y.
This volume “treats as fully as may be done in a small book, every side of elementary education—the principles of which regulate the physical, the mental, and the moral development of the young; the school and its organization; the equipment, the duties, and the methods of the teacher; the special methods proper to the teaching of the various branches. The treatment of each topic is systematic, minute, and, above all, practical.”—Cath. World.
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“All students of pedagogy will welcome the appearance of this little volume.” Thomas Edward Shields.
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Eliot, Charles William. Great riches. **75c. Crowell.
President Eliot’s judicial mind with its eminent fairness is in evidence thruout this well organized discussion. He emphasizes the obligations as well as the powers and privileges of moneyed people, and believes that the only safeguard for the rich man against suspicion and adverse judgments is publicity for his methods and results.
“We sincerely thank Dr. Eliot for his brilliant essay, and shall be greatly pleased to meet him again, carrying on his earnest endeavor to maintain the standard of plain living and high thinking.”
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Eliot, Charles William. Happy life. 75c. Crowell.
R. of Rs. 33: 126. Ja. ’06. 70w.
96Eliot, George, pseud. (Mrs. Mary Ann Evans (Lewes) Cross). Romola; historically il. and ed., with introd. and notes, by Guido Biagi. 2v. *$3. McClurg.
The edition is made valuable by the hundred and sixty illustrations which make a historical background for the story. They have been carefully selected by Dr. Biagi, librarian of the Laurentian library at Florence, who also contributes an introduction on “The making of the romance.” He has found it interesting “to attempt an investigation, new, curious and engrossing, of the historical foundation upon which is based this work of art and fiction, to try to discover the hidden scaffolding which supports it, and see what materials have been employed in its making.”
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Eliot, George. Silas Marner. $2. Dutton.
Charles E. Brock has made this “Silas Marner” especially attractive with his twenty-four pictures in color. “He has a most delicate way of setting off what is ‘old-fashioned’ through a rare combination of lavender, old rose, pea greens, and pale yellows superimposed on examples of most careful and suggestive draughtsmanship.” (N. Y. Times.)
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Elliott, Mrs. Maude Howe (Mrs. John Elliott). Two in Italy. *$2. Little.
“A delightful account of little visits and rambles by the author and her husband and chiefly distinguished for its vivid portraits of Italian life.”
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Ellis, Clara Spalding. What’s next; or, Shall man live again? $1.50. Badger, R: G.
The great question is answered by two hundred living Americans of prominence in politics; in the army and navy; in science, art, music, and literature; in the mercantile world; in the professions; and in the chairs of universities. An expression from secular life only—the views of all clergyman being excluded.
Dial. 41: 462. D. 16, ’06. 60w.
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Ellis, Edward Sylvester (Colonel H. R. Gordon, pseud.). Black Partridge, or, The fall of Fort Dearborn. †$1.50. Dutton.
Auric Kingdom, a Fort Wayne lad, his chum, Jethro Judd of Fort Dearborn, and Black Partridge, the Pottawatomie chief and friend of the white man, are the most prominent figures in this story which culminates in the destruction of Fort Dearborn. The book is full of adventure, of bad Indians, brave settlers, and the woodcraft dear to all boy hearts.
Ellis, Edward Sylvester. Deerfoot in the mountains. †$1. Winston.
“The special value of the tales, apart from their interest for the young, lies in their portrayal of the hardships and perils of the early pioneers who blazed the overland pathway to the Pacific.”
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Ellis, Edward Sylvester. Deerfoot on the prairies. †$1. Winston.
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Ellis, Edward Sylvester. Hunt on snowshoes. [+]75c. Winston.
The second of these volumes in the “Up and doing series.” It is an account of the adventures of two boys who spend the holidays with an old French Canadian trapper. The race for life with a pack of wolves at their heels, the escape from a huge bear, the moose hunt, the encounter with a panther, etc. all supply aliment for a brave imagination.
Ellis, Elizabeth. Barbara Winslow, rebel. †$1.50. Dodd.
“Another historical romance with an English setting, its scene being laid just after the defeat of Monmouth at Sedgemoor. Here we have a fascinating heroine, arrested for harboring rebels, and a victim of Jeffreys and the Bloody Circuit. Sentenced to a brutal punishment, she is saved by one of the king’s officers, who thereby becomes himself a rebel, and the two take flight together.... Barbara is a young woman of the pert and proud type so dear to the romantic heart, and her soldier lover has the complementary virtues that the situation requires.” (Dial.)
“No complaint may be made of it for lack of interest or excitement.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Ellis, John Breckenridge. Stork’s nest. †$1.50. Moffat.
“A tale of rough life in northern Missouri.... The process of molding Emmy, the woodland beauty, into a ‘Person’ suitable to be presented to her relatives in St. Louis, is confided to a youth who seeks health in the woods. He becomes one of a strange company, in which figure a ghost, a weak-minded boy, a brutal counterfeiter, and several tools of the last character. Floods and dangers of all sorts interfere with the progress of the romance, but love is triumphant over evil in the end—the bad people die, and the good live happy ever after.”—Outlook.
“We cannot help reading to a finish, but we have no desire to reread any part of it.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
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Ellison, Mrs. Edith Nicholl. Childs recollections of Tennyson. *$1. Dutton.
These child-hood and girl-hood recollections of Tennyson and the life he lived at Farringford began when at the age of three the writer and the poet celebrated a birthday together. Many little incidents of Tennyson’s devotion to his invalid wife and his two sons are given, there are anecdotes of his friends and his friendships and the picture of this happily congenial household is a pleasing addition to our knowledge of the laureate.
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97Elson, Henry William. School history of the United States. *90c. Macmillan.
A work whose “record of our national development neglects no phase of progress—social, industrial, political, or literary—and takes note of the underlying causes at work, as well as of the changes wrought. In subjects that have been hotly controverted its temper is eminently fair and judicial. Designed for young people in their teens, many of the elders will find it both interesting and instructive. Foot-notes are often skipped, but Mr. Elson’s are so full of anecdote as to escape neglect.”—Outlook.
“The book possesses two decided merits. The first of them is an effort at proportion in dealing with events.”
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Reviewed by Marcus W. Jernegan.
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School R. 14: 458. Je. ’06. 230w.
Elson, Louis Charles. Elson’s music dictionary. $1. Ditson.
A valuable book of reference for musicians, containing the definition and pronunciation of such terms and signs as are used in modern music, together with a list of foreign composers and artists, with pronunciation of their names, a list of popular errors in music, rules for pronouncing foreign words, and a short English-Italian vocabulary of musical words and expressions.
“For the most part, however, this handy dictionary deserves commendation.”
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Ath. 1906. 1: 807. Je. 30. 190w.
“We can cordially commend this book to students and teachers alike.”
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Dial. 40: 333. My. 16, ’06. 70w.
“A marvel of lucid condensation.”
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Nation. 82: 413. My. 17, ’06. 170w.
“Is rather more inclusive than most books of its class. We cannot quite understand why its list of composers and other musical artists should not include Americans.”
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Outlook. 82: 907. Ap. 21, ’06. 90w.
“This is one of the first successful attempts to classify and revise, in compact, accessible form, the musical terms which puzzle the layman, and which the teacher is constantly called upon to explain.”
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Spec. 96: 102. Ja. 20, ’06. 50w.
Elton, Oliver. Michael Drayton. Constable & co., London.
This little volume by Professor Elton is “as an ‘avant-courier’ to the concerted attempt to restore Drayton to his place of eminence in English literature ... [and it tells] the prospective reader of the poetry all that is known, through the researches of modern scholarship of the man and his work.” (Dial.)
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Acad. 69: 1001. S. 30, ’05. 1300w.
“Here, then, is the preparation one should need for the study and proper understanding of Drayton’s voluminous works.” W. A. Bradley.
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Dial. 41: 10. Jl. 1, ’06. 1740w.
“As regards the study of Drayton this volume should be more or less final. Professor Elton’s style is a trifle too figured for our own taste, but he writes well and has produced a book whose real critical value is considerably more extensive than one might have expected from the subject. There is evidence throughout of long research and indubitable scholarship.”
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Sat. R. 101: 51. Ja. 13, ’06. 1520w.
Eltzbacher, O. Modern Germany. **$2.50. Dutton.
“The author of this very instructive book defines its scope as a study of Germany’s political and economic problems, her policy, her ambitions, and the causes of her success.” (Sat. R.) The author has undertaken to answer the following questions in his discussion: “Will Germany eventually supplant Great Britain and take our place in the world? What is Germany’s policy towards this country, towards the United States, towards Austria-Hungary, and towards Russia? What are Germany’s aims, what are her ambitions, and, above all, what are the causes of her marvelous success?”
“An able and most interesting account of German politics and incidentally of German ambitions.”
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Acad. 69: 1270. D. 2, ’05. 250w.
“Taken together the two volumes present admirable general discussions, from a strictly British point of view, of the imperialisms of Britain and Germany respectively.” Robert C. Brooks.
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Bookm. 23: 251. My. ’06. 800w.
“Is both instructive and opportune.”
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Dial. 40: 333. My. 16, ’06. 280w.
“His speculations and asservations would, however, bear more weight if he were less prone to trace results to their causes along the lines that suit his thesis, and if he had less of a slap-dash way of drawing inferences from statistics.”
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Nation. 82: 513. Je. 21, ’06. 1910w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 789. N. 18, ’05. 330w.
“There are many assertions and fancies set forth in Mr. Eltzbacher’s handy volume with which one must be allowed to differ. He appears to the reviewer to arrive at weighty conclusions, now and then, based on flimsy or at least insufficient premises. But of this there can be no doubt, his book is interesting and full of virile thought.” Wolf von Schierbrand.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 469. Jl. 28, ’06. 1670w.
“In view of the new tariff which is going into effect on the first of March, Mr. Eltzbacher’s book will receive a timely welcome. Mr. Eltzbacher writes as a protectionist, and his argument is of extreme interest; to the general student, however, his book might have been more valuable if he had devoted more space to the arguments of his opponents. We note his fairness, nevertheless.”
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Outlook. 82: 325. F. 10, ’06. 360w.
“A very keen and informing study of the German Empire. Mr. Eltzbacher writes in a clear, suggestive style, and has added an excellent index and bibliography to complete his text.”
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R. of Rs. 33: 381. Mr. ’06. 190w.
“This survey of the German’s industrial life is extremely well done, and we do not know any book which within such moderate limits enables one to estimate the ability and energy which are devoted by the State to the purpose of furthering the material prosperity and power of the German people.”
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Sat. R. 100: 851. D. 30, ’05. 440w.
“We would suggest that the latter half of the book, dealing with the financial and economic aspects of the German Empire, would have been better qualified to serve the requirements of the general public had the writer been content to minimise his tables and lists of figures, and so far as possible, to avoid such very thorny problems as that of the comparative wisdom of the fiscal policies of Germany and Great Britain.”
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Spec. 96: 22. Ja. 6, ’06. 1600w.
98Elzas, Barnett Abraham. Jews of South Carolina. *$6. Press of J. B. Lippincott co.
“The author’s aim has been to show the part taken by the Jew in commercial, professional, political, and social activities. The volume includes chapters on the beginnings of the Jewish settlements in the colony, their religious organization and religious dissensions, the part taken by the Jews in the wars and in affairs of government, the expansion of the Jews over the State, and short biographies of the most prominent members of the race.”—Dial.
“He has materially added to our knowledge of South Carolina Jewish history, and he might safely have permitted historical students to discover this fact for themselves, without attempting to emphasize it by belittling all his predecessors.” Max J. Kohler.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 940. Jl. ’06. 470w.
“In spite of minor defects, the work has a great value as an account of one of the influential elements in Southern society.”
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Dial. 40: 392. Je. 16, ’06. 590w.
“His book is of the same order as hundreds of local and genealogical histories written about ‘towns’ and old families of New England, but appeals perhaps to a larger public.”
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Nation. 82: 534. Je. 28, ’06. 1130w.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Friendship and character. $1. Century.
The value of this “Thumbnail” offering is increased by Emma Lazarus’s essay on Emerson’s personality which forms the introduction.
Emerson, Willis George. Builders. $1.50. Forbes.
A young New York newspaper man is sent out west by his managing editor to write a series of sane minded articles on the futility of western investments which will keep eastern money at home. He, however, catches the western fever, invests in lots in an unbuilt city, loses his position by his enthusiastic reports, and finally stakes his all upon a gold mine which to the surprise of everyone “strikes pay dirt.” There is of course, a western girl in the story and there are other characters chiefly prospectors, western in type and of mingled good and evil. The plot of the story is superior to its workmanship.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.
“Yet for all the crudeness of the story and the people there’s a sort of romantic quality about Mr. Emerson’s book which tempts the reader on from page to page.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 472. Jl. 28, ’06. 650w.
Empire and the century: a series of essays on imperial problems and possibilities, by various writers. **$6. Dutton.
“The present volume is intended to give, within the compass of a single book, the current views of representative men and women upon those special departments of imperial development with which they are severally qualified to deal. Its purpose is to give an authoritative account of the British Empire, as it appeared to contemporaries at this particular moment of its history.” There is an introduction by Mr. Charles Sydney Goldmann, and a poem by Rudyard Kipling, called “The heritage”; the other writers include J. St. Loe Strachey, J. L. Garvin, the Bishop of Stepney, Carolyn Bellairs, R. N.; George Peel, Sir Edward Hutton, Prof. J. W. Robertson, Benjamin Sulte, Sir Godfrey Lagden, Lady Lugard, Valentine Chirol, Sir Frederick Lugard, Col. Younghusband, and many others.
“The essays often contradict one another, and the whole is somewhat in the nature of a collection of magazine articles. On the other hand, some of the contributions are full of interest and well worthy of attentive consideration.”
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Ath. 1905, 2: 715. N. 25. 1380w.
“Admirable and extensive compendium.” Robert C. Brooks.
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Bookm. 23: 251. My. ’06. 620w.
“It contains a great deal of political, geographical and commercial information hard to find elsewhere.”
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Ind. 61: 1171. N. 15, ’06. 70w.
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Lond. Times. 4: 377. N. 10, ’05. 2420w.
“The work is a collection of expert opinion not a methodical treatise.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 98. F. 17, ’06. 600w.
“In every instance the writers are competent to treat of the themes allotted to them, and if their views are frequently colored by political preferences they are nevertheless informative and deserving of close attention.”
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Outlook. 82: 276. F. 3, ’06. 350w.
“This volume forms an extremely valuable contribution to our knowledge of Imperial problems.”
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Spec. 95: 1087. D. 23, ’05. 2260w.
English essays, selected and edited by Walter Cochrane Bronson. *$1.25. Holt.
“While the volume is in no way designed as a text in the history of English literature, it would prove a most excellent companion piece to such a course.”
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Bookm. 22: 643. F. ’06. 140w.
“The book is well suited to its special purpose, and should also be welcome to the general reader who is interested in this line of literature.”
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R. of Rs. 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 50w.
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Eno, Henry Lane. Baglioni: a play in five acts. **$1.25. Moffat.
A drama founded upon the story of the celebrated Baglioni family who ruled in Umbria for over fifty years. “Set in Perugia, in the Italy of the fifteenth century, with a plot which swims in a mist of blood and tears, it is cast in that antiquated literary style which is always so perilous to handle, and which betrays one so easily into turgidity and bombast.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The blank verse marches with tolerable, even correctness, but the rhetoric is often turgid and we should doubt if the play could be found to be actable, though possibly possessing some dramatic passages.”
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Critic. 49: 286. S. ’06. 100w.
“He has allowed himself to be distracted by dramatically irrelevant circumstances.”
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Ind. 60: 517. Mr. 1, ’06. 180w.
“It is worth reading, if one has the time, as a vivacious portrayal of the renaissance mood.”
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Nation. 81: 508. D. 21, ’05. 60w.
“The work, which ought to be biting, almost corrosive from its nature, tastes insipid.” Bliss Carman.
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N. Y. Times. 10: 818. D. 2, ’05. 750w.
Erb, J. Lawrence. Brahms. $1.25. Dutton.
A useful and suggestive introduction to the life of Johannes Brahms which appears uniform with the “Master musicians” series. “There are no stirring events to recount, no revolution, or hurling of artistic thunderbolts; his life is but a record of work, unswervingly pursued, and of a homely, simple life of quiet friendships, with rambles through Italy or Switzerland in holiday times, though these holidays were the opportunities for some of his best work, as is ever the case with a true artist.” (Acad.)
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“Mr. Erb’s book is not a bad book; he has gathered his materials conscientiously and he has not tortured truth in their presentation—only he has missed the opportunity to create a fine piece of work.”
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Ind. 61: 490. Ag. 16, ’06. 470w.
99“The most useful of these, [biographies of Brahms] for the general reader, is Erb’s.”
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Nation. 82: 473. Je. 7, ’06. 90w.
“His biography is not marked by originality, either of research or of critical views; but it will fill a place that has not been exactly filled in English.” Richard Aldrich.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 190. Mr. 31, ’06. 60w.
“Although it is written without any great distinction of style, it is decidedly readable.”
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Outlook. 82: 45. Ja. 6, ’05. 190w.
“Though not on the same level of excellence as Mr. Duncan’s work, is a useful and unpretending little book.”
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Eva Mary, Sister. Community life for women; with introd. by Boyd Vincent. 75c. Young ch.
A little book which advocates the sisterhood idea and organization as an authorized part of church order. The subject is treated in nine chapters, as follows: The need of religious communities, Vocation, Probation, The regular life, The vow, The common life, The temptations of the community life, Popular objections to the community life, and Helps and hindrances.
Evans, Florence Adele. Woodland elf. 60c. Saalfield.
The stories which the woodland elf reads from the leaves of his library bush to comfort Maidie, who is lost in the woods, will interest other little people who are not lost for they tell all about the chameleon’s color, why snakes shed their skins, why Indian pipes grow, why the wild-cat has no tail, why seals wear furs, why wishes no longer come true and explain the whys and wherefores of many other wonderful things.
Evans, Henry Ridgely. Old and new magic; introd. by Dr. Paul Carus. *$1.50. Open ct.
“This book begins with the ancient Egyptian magic and comes down to such modern prestidigitateurs as Kellar and Herrmann. Scores of conjurers’ tricks are explained, with abundant illustration. In its introduction Dr. Paul Carus discourses in a readable way about the relations between magic, illusion, and miracle from the point of view of one to whom the miraculous is the impossible.”—Outlook.
“A discursive and unpolished but hugely entertaining account of necromancy and conjuring.”
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Lit. D. 32: 770. My. 19, ’06. 290w.
“No reader need fear to take up this book because of its moral or ethical purpose. It contains fascinating reading for everybody.”
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Outlook. 82: 857. Ap. 14, ’06. 60w.
R. of Rs. 34: 128. Jl. ’06. 50w.
Evans, Herbert Arthur. Highways and byways in Oxford and the Cotswolds. $2. Macmillan.
In this new volume in the “Highways and byways” series the author “takes Oxford as a starting-place, and wisely devotes far the larger part of the book to less well-known places.... Upper and lower Slaughter, Temple Guiting, Chipping Warden, Stow-on-the-Wold.... These are the samples of the many quaint names of scores of English villages through which the author takes his reader in a leisurely pedestrian trip. Everywhere he finds ancient hills, ruined abbeys, picturesque cottages, or old-fashioned inns, and his narrative abounds in local traditions, legends, and the drift of the side-eddies of history. The drawings are by Frederick L. Griggs.” (Outlook.)
“Mr. Evans, except for an occasional touch of affectation, writes very well, and displays a knowledge alike of architecture, history, and botany.”
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Ath. 1906. 1: 417. Ap. 7. 340w.
“The volume is a thoroly good one, and will be of service to the tourist who visits Oxford, for all necessary instructions for following the route are given.”
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Ind. 61: 641. S. 13, ’06. 290w.
“The volume is fully up to the rest of this charming series.”
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Nation. 83: 250. S. 20, ’06. 620w.
“It is not only attractive, but taking it as a whole it is accurate and valuable; between its covers is store both of pleasure and of profit.”
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Nature. 74: 124. Je. 7, ’06. 560w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 103. F. 17, ’06. 330w.
“Mr Evans writes in a discursive and agreeably rambling way.”
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Outlook. 82: 477. F. 24, ’06. 200w.
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Sat. R. 100: 852. D. 20, ’05. 70w.
“Mr. Evans is fully equal to his task of guide and historian.”
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Spec. 96: sup. 645, Ap. 28, ’06. 220w.
Evans, Thomas Wiltberger. Memoirs of Dr. Thomas W. Evans: recollections of the second French empire. *$3. Appleton.
Dr. Evans, American dentist of the French court, had a particularly favorable viewpoint for first hand facts, and in becoming Napoleon III’s “eulogist and apologist” he finds “unusual opportunities of observing the evolution of political ideas and institutions in France and the conditions and causes that immediately preceded and determined the fall of the second empire as seen from within.” (Critic.) The first absolutely authentic account of Empress Eugénie’s flight from France at the time of the Commune is furnished by Dr. Evans, who himself aided in her escape.
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Ath. 1905, 2: 829. D. 16. 1370w.
“Dr Evans made no pretension to literary ability, but at the same time, if these ‘Memoirs’ are in his own words, he knew how to express himself in an interesting and picturesque manner.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
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Critic. 48: 82. Ja. ’06. 750w.
“It is evident that he could, did he choose, throw much light on the history of the Empire and its fall. The present volume, intelligently edited by his friend and executor, Dr. Crane, is ample evidence that he has so chosen. The last [part] is the most interesting, the first the least convincing.”
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Lit. D. 32: 215. F. 10, ’06. 870w.
“His attempts at assuming political importance leave one unconvinced, his judgments on men and things reveal more a mixture of naiveté and self-importance than anything else, and yet there is a residium that has some claim to attention.”
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Nation. 82: 185. Mr. 1, ’06. 360w.
“It is interesting—it ought to be conclusive, but it is not, for some reason.”
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N. Y. Times. 10: 774. N. 18, ’05. 1390w.
“The book is thoroughly readable and quotable.”
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N. Y. Times. 10: 820. D. 2, ’05. 140w.
“The human personal interest in the notes and letters more than atones for the lack of literary form.”
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R. of Rs. 33: 113. Ja. ’06. 290w.
“His Memoirs lack both authority and charm.”
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“More ‘Memoirs’ of Dr. Evans may be published. It is to be hoped that they will be as interesting as these, but editorially better compressed.”
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Spec. 96: 674. Ap. 28, ’06. 1640w.
100Evelyn, John. Diary and correspondence of John Evelyn, esq.; with the life of the author by Henry B. Wheatley. 4v. *$12. Scribner.
The bicentenary of the death of John Evelyn has renewed interest in the famous diarist who “by a prodigal accident” was a contemporary of Samuel Pepys. This four-volume importation contains the diary of John Evelyn, selections from his letters, a biographical sketch of the author and a new preface.
“Mr. Wheatley’s edition is second only to his famous edition of Pepys.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 165. Ag. 11. 570w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
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Dial. 41: 451. D. 16, ’06. 370w.
“We may welcome an old favorite in its new dress, although we might wish that the volumes were a trifle less bulky—and expensive.”
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Nation. 83: 183. Ag. 30, ’06. 590w.
“The extreme dryness of the memoir, one may almost say, is a guarantee of its authenticity, and in truth it is chiefly, as it almost had to be, a summary of the diary itself.” Montgomery Schuyler.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 593. S. 29, ’06. 950w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
“This is undoubtedly the definitive edition of Evelyn’s ‘Diary’.”
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Putnam’s. 1: 126. O. ’06. 20w.
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Spec. 96: 712. My. 5, ’06. 1480w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
Everett, Grace W. Hymn treasures. $1.25. Meth. bk.
It is the aim of this book to bring to light some of the hidden treasures of hymnody and to show their worth. From the Magnificat and the Benedictus sung by Mary and Zacharias, respectively, to the very modern songs, the author writes interestingly about the makers of hymns and their contributions.
Ewald, Carl. My little boy; tr. from the Danish by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. **$1. Scribner.
“Not often does the father of a little boy write his biography so humorously, tenderly and sympathetically as does Carl Ewald, in telling the story of his little son. The two are comrades, bound together by many common interests and pursuits.... The little boy ... teaches his father a few lessons, altho the wise man needs fewer than most parents; and the little lad learns many lessons, as all boys and girls must.... He must be taught strict honesty, and respect for the rights of others. The father teaches these things as well as many others, truthfulness, fidelity to a trust or to a promise, the cruelty of race prejudice, in a way of his own, which is always sympathetic and respectful of a child’s feelings.”—Ind.
“It is the sweetest biography we remember.”
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Eyre, Archibald. Girl in waiting. $1.50. Luce.
“This story belongs to a class now prevalent in fiction, the short extravaganza.” (Ath.) “This is an unpretentious tale of a rich girl masquerading as a poor one and coming under suspicion as a dangerous character. There is a young man in the case, of course, and circumstances shape themselves, equally of course, to bring the two together.” (Critic.)
“It does not lack the modern essentials of the genus—liveliness and flippancy. As a whole its tone is not quite equal, as the airs of comedy and farce are intermingled a little too crudely.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 324. Mr. 17. 90w.
“Mr. Eyre writes pleasantly and cleverly and enables the reader to avoid ennui for an idle hour.”
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Critic. 48: 475. My. ’06. 60w.
“Taken all together ‘The girl in waiting’ is almost as good as some of the things in the same line which have been done by Mr. Morley Roberts. There’s a light touch, a venturesome spirit, an eye for human oddities, not a little human sympathy, and a knack of kindly caricature.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 144. Mr. 10, ’06. 580w.
“A droll little comedy of misunderstanding, although beyond this Archibald Eyre has produced an unusual story told in an unusual way.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.
Eytinge, Rose. Memories of Rose Eytinge. **80c; **$1.20. Stokes.
Critic. 48: 284. Mr. ’06. 70w.
“The book abounds in interesting bits of reminiscence, anecdotes, and incidents of public characters, with sidelights on their idiosyncrasies,—forming the naïve chronicles and observation of over half a century.”
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Dial. 40: 96. F. 1, ’06. 190w.
“There are spirit and individuality in many of her comments upon people.”
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Outlook. 81: 1087. D. 30, ’05. 150w.
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Fairlie, John Archibald. Local government in counties, towns and villages. *$1.25. Century.
Uniform with the “American state series,” Dr. Fairlie’s work is mainly descriptive of the present time, reducing historical discussion to a brief summary. Such matters are treated as “county officers, police, and justices; the town in New England, in the south and the west; public education, charities, public health, and local finance in a manner suited to the large mass of readers who approach such a subject neither as lawyers nor as philosophers.” (Nation.)
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Dial. 41: 73. Ag. 1, ’06. 60w.
“He gives a careful and businesslike presentation for the general reader or the young person who wants to get the subject up for a college course.”
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Nation. 83: 241. S. 20, ’06. 200w.
“The usefulness of this work will be at once appreciated by any one who has attempted to find an adequate treatment of this topic in existing text-books.”
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R. of Rs. 34: 253. Ag. ’06. 200w.
Fairman, James Farquharson. Standard telephone wiring for common battery and magneto systems. *$1. McGraw pub.
A handbook for telephone men, containing diagrams of circuits for straight lines, party lines, plans, sub-stations, private lines and intercommunicating systems, with a brief description of the apparatus used and rules of the fire underwriters.
“The book is intended primarily for telephone wiremen, and it appears to be well adapted to their work.” H. H. Norris.
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Fairweather, Mary. Passion stroke: a tale of ancient masonry. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
A mystical tale of the strange passing of the Sibyl of Delphi-Pythia and the high-priest, Hiereros of Delphi, and his dual personality. 101the faun thru the two kingdoms of the flesh and of the mind to the great third kingdom of life in love. The action centers about the time of the burning of the ancient temple of Delphi.
Fairy stories; retold from St. Nicholas. **65c. Century.
Sixteen fairy tales in prose and rhyme, copyrighted all the way from 1874 to the present year appear here in an attractively illustrated volume for young readers. Among them are Tinkey, The ten little dwarfs, The king of the golden woods, Casperl, Giant Thunder Bones, and How an elf set up housekeeping.
Fanning, Clara E., comp. Selected articles on the enlargement of the United States navy. *$1. Wilson, H. W.
Fifteen articles dealing with material on both sides of the question, “Resolved that the policy of substantially enlarging the American navy is preferable to the policy of maintaining it at its present strength and efficiency” have been reprinted from various magazines to make up this little volume. The result is a fund of information on the subject which will prove valuable not only to the high school debating league but will help all students, club members, or librarians who wish information upon this subject in compact form. Articles by Captain Mahan, John D. Long, Captain Hobson, and Rear Admiral George W. Melville have been included.
Fanshawe, Reginald. Corydon: an elegy in memory of Matthew Arnold and Oxford. *$1.80. Oxford.
In the 224 Spenserian stanzas which compose this tribute to Matthew Arnold “The evolution of the intellectual life of Oxford during the last sixty years is traced with knowledge and insight, and there is some felicitous literary criticism by the way.... Though the elegy abounds in memorable phrases ... depends for its success neither on these nor on the beauty of individual stanzas, but rather on the orderly progress of the closely knit thought and the sustained dignity of the language.” (Ath.)
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Ath. 1906. 1: 663. Je. 2. 340w.
“Mr. Reginald Fanshaw has paid a heartfelt tribute to an institution, a man and an intellectual epoch.” Wm. M. Payne.
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Dial. 41: 65. Ag. 1, ’06. 330w.
“In passing from the programme to the performance itself the reader is most pleasantly surprised to find it continuously informed by a mellow poetic mood, and containing scarcely a lapse from suave and accomplished workmanship. The tone is frankly academic and traditional, and most successfully so. There is a lack of intensity, of original poetic energy in the conception of this that makes against its wide and enduring appeal.”
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Nation. 83: 143. Ag. 16, ’06. 500w.
“He is a little inclined to a surfeit of epithets, but his verse is orderly and musical, and he expresses gracefully many genuine, if not very startling truths.”
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Spec. 96: 757. My. 12, ’06. 90w.
Fariss, Amy Cameron. Sin of Saint Desmond. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
A tale of the loves of a will-o’-the-wisp girl who allows the marriage with the man she does not love to bind her in no way to marital allegiance. She finally enthrals a man of supposedly strong nature known among his relations as “Saint Desmond.” The story is dramatic, even tragic as it finds no better solution than making death a punishment for waywardness.
N. Y. Times. 11: 441. Jl. 7, ’06. 250w.
Farmer, James Eugene. Versailles and the court under Louis XIV. *$3.50. Century.
“It has been a pleasure to read so historically accurate, and so well-balanced a survey of the court of the Grand Monarque.” James Westfall Thompson.
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Am. Hist. R. 11: 658. Ap. ’06. 730w.
“The book is therefore likely to be of some value as a work of reference, whilst it should also appeal to the general reader. The index is unfortunately far from adequate; but we have seldom read a book containing so much matter which was so free from printers’ errors.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 225. F. 24. 2050w.
“Altogether, this is an entertaining and instructive book, although devoid of pretension to profound interpretations of the age of Louis XIV.”
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Dial. 40: 50. Ja. 16, ’06. 350w.
“In some descriptions Mr. Farmer goes dangerously near the language of auctioneers. Though laborious and careful, Mr. Farmer has only produced a guidebook of a very superior kind. A visitor to Versailles could hardly read anything better.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 51. F. 16, ’06. 610w.
“One submits to the charm of narrative with the feeling that he is resting on absolutely sure ground.”
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Pub. Opin. 40: 249. F. 24, ’06. 600w.
“One could hardly ask for a more intimate life-like and exact picture of the first gentleman of Europe and his time.”
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Reader. 7: 565. Ap. ’06. 630w.
R. of Rs. 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 120w.
“As it stands, it is half guide-book, half history and biography, and so arranged that one finds it difficult to read through. Mr. Farmer’s selections from the memoirs of the time are made with great judgment.”
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Spec. 96: 713. My. 5, ’06. 1420w.
Farnell, Louis Richard. Evolution of religion: an anthropological study. *$1.50. Putnam.
Two of the four lectures delivered in 1905 for the Hibbert trust deal with the methods and the value of the study of comparative religion and its relations to anthropology; the remaining two are special studies in the anthropological manner, of the ritual of purification and the evolution of prayer from lower to higher forms.
“It contains much that is suggestive and valuable, and the two chapters on ritual purification and the evolution of prayer are real contributions to the study of these important matters.”
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Acad. 69: 1258. D. 2, ’05. 320w.
“This first essay is essentially only a vindication of the comparative study of religion. The remaining two essays are excellent specimens of constructive work.” F. C. French.
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J. Philos. 3: 580. O. 11, ’06. 920w.
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Lond. Times. 4: 443. D. 15, ’05. 490w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 749. N. 4, ’05. 270w.
Farquhar, Edward. Poems. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
“A volume of somewhat remarkable verse not without promise of future work, as ambitious in theme, and as widely speculative, yet with all mature reflection and more disciplined regard for order.”
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Critic. 49: 282. S. ’06. 110w.
Farquhar, Edward. Youth of Messiah. $1. Badger, R: G.
A poem which is based upon material supposed to have been found in an ancient manuscript newly discovered.
102Farquhar, George. Plays; ed. with an introd. and notes by William Archer. *$1. Scribner.
An addition to the “Mermaid series.” The volume contains the following, four plays: The constant couple, The town rivals, The recruiting officer, and The beaux’ stratagem.
“Mr. Archer’s edition is, as would be expected, scholarly and trustworthy.”
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Acad. 71: 199. S. 1, ’06. 1970w.
“The ‘Mermaid’ texts are now issued in those thin-paper editions which are the detestation of most good book-lovers.”
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Nation. 83: 200. S. 6, ’06. 100w.
Outlook. 84: 141. S. 15, ’06. 60w.
Farrer, Reginald J. House of shadows. †$1.50. Longmans.
“Tempest Ladon, is a north-country squire of ancient lineage, who marries a young Italian lady. Elena dies in giving birth prematurely to a son, and leaves behind her a casket of love-letters written, she says, to her husband, which he promises never to read. The son, St. John, in his turn, marries a beautiful middle-class girl and brings her home to his father, who hates her as she hates him. Meanwhile Tempest discovers that he is dying of sarcoma, and is so afraid of hell-fire if he commits suicide that he tries to persuade his son to take the chances of damnation and kill him. Ultimately the daughter-in-law is tempted into handing him the overdose which ends him, but not before he has discovered that Elena’s letters were written to an Italian cousin, who is the real father of St. John.”—Acad.
“It is clever enough to make us hope that, when Mr. Farrer has read more widely and thought more sanely, he may yet do good work.”
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Acad. 70: 406. Ap. 28, ’06. 370w.
“The characters are drawn with a vivid touch, but not one is genuinely agreeable.”
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Ath. 1906, 1: 324. My. 17. 250w.
“A book remarkable for its force and continuity.”
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Lond. Times. 5: 84. Mr. 9, ’06. 480w.
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N. Y. Times. 11: 290. My. 5, ’06. 240w.
Fawcett, Mrs. Millicent Garrett (Mrs. Henry Fawcett.) Five famous French women. $2. Cassell.
Five character studies of French women “of intellect who were born to hold the reins of power.” (Acad.) They are Joan of Arc, Renée, Duchess of Ferrara. Louise of Savoy, her daughter, Margaret of Angoulême and Jeanne d’Albrét, queen of Navarre.
“The studies suffer from weak construction, but they are interesting. The style is clear, with a certain cheerful colloquialism which is rather unexpected.”
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Acad. 70: 352. Ap. 14, ’06. 950w.
“It is a little difficult to determine what kind of public she has in view. Evidences of carelessness in proof-reading are somewhat numerous.”
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Ath. 1905, 2: 892. D. 30. 280w.
“As Mrs. Fawcett’s standpoint is a non-Catholic one, she expresses some opinions with which we cannot agree; and she hardly applies the same weights and measures to the Catholic and Huguenot.”
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Cath. World. 84: 106. O. ’06. 430w.
“The author is to be congratulated ... for having brought very near to modern appreciation a series of remarkable characters.”
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N. Y. Times. 11: 309. My. 12, ’06. 680w.
Fechner, Gustav Theodor. On life after death, from the German by Hugo Wernekke. **75c. Open ct.
“This is a new edition of a book too little known in this country. The author, a professor of physics in the University of Leipsic ... is at once a scientist and a poet.... His fundamental postulate is the continuity of life, and it will commend itself alike to the student of the New Testament and the student of philosophy.... The biographical sketch of the author which is appended to the volume adds to its interest and serves to interpret it.”—Outlook.
Reviewed by W. C. Keirstead.
Am. J. Soc. 10: 556. Jl. ’06. 120w.
“Dr. Wernekke’s [translation] is the more literal, but Miss Wadsworth’s reads more smoothly.”
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Ind. 60: 1597. Je. 28, ’06. 360w.
“The chief defect of the book is its tone of assurance, the author’s fancies being affirmed with the same positiveness as if they were scientific observations of philosophical deductions.”
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Outlook. 83: 243. My. 26, ’06. 190w.
Outlook. 83: 357. Je. 16, ’06. 1210w.
Fenollosa, Mary McNeil (Mrs. Ernest F. Fenollosa) (Sidney McCall, pseud.). Dragon painter. †$1.50. Little.
The depth of feeling which the Japanese of the passing generation hold for Japan and the art that has always been hers is strongly brought out in this story of Kano Indara, the last of a line of great artists, who views with terror the encroachments of western art. He hears of Tatsu, the wild mountain dragon painter and, in his deathless longing for an artist-son, he sends for him and gives to him his daughter Umè-Ko that he may be indeed his son, and also because he could not hold him otherwise, for the youth has painted his dragon-pictures merely because his soul was filled with a longing for the dragon-maid, his mate thruout all incarnations. When he finds her in Kano’s daughter his great love absorbs the artist in him and Kano, who lives for art alone, in his rage and disappointment takes the young wife from her too-loving husband until, from the depths of his great grief and agony of spirit, the artist in him once more emerges, then she is restored to him as from the dead.
“In our judgment ‘The dragon painter’ is far inferior as a novel to either ‘Truth Dexter’ or ‘The breath of the gods.’”
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Arena. 36: 686. D. ’06. 530w.
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Ind. 61: 1494. D. 20, ’06. 590w.
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Nation. 83: 396. N. 8, ’06. 330w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 812. D. 1, ’06. 170w.
“One does not need to have had any personal experience in the land of which Mrs. Fenollosa writes in order to be perfectly certain that these pages give a truthful picture of Japanese domestic life and a faithful revelation of the inner depths of Japanese feeling—not one of those specious translations of Japan in terms of modern ‘Westernism.’”