Volume 3 — C
Reading edition
Cabell, James Branch. Gallantry. $2. Harper.
7–32561.
“An eighteenth century dizain in ten comedies with an afterpiece.” There is romance true to the times of the second George and there is also much strange love-making in these tales of a day when gallantry ranked with the arts, when wit was broad and the sword was ready. The illustrations in color by Howard Pyle add much to the volume.
“His descriptions of the gallant is a bit of very pretty writing in prose, pleasantly suggestive, as is the versified prologue, of Mr. Andrew Lang.”
+ Dial. 43: 380. D. 1, ’07. 120w.
“We may safely say that while not for an instant comparing with such a masterpiece as Mr. Hewlett’s ‘Stooping lady,’ it has infinitely more merit than many such popular successes as, to take one example, ‘Monsieur Beaucaire.’”
+ Nation. 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 450w.
“A vigorous romance ... with the swift spirit of love and swords.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
Cabot, Mrs. Mary Lyman. Everyday ethics. $1.25. Holt.
6–33635.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Teachers will find the book a practical and valuable aid.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 118. My. ’07. S.
“Good sound principles, illustrated with a fund of illustrated matter, mark Mrs. Cabot’s chapters on ethics.”
+ Ath. 1907, 2: 93. Jl. 27. 110w.
“I suspect this book would not altogether win boys. But let not the book be altogether condemned, for it is after all one of the best that are to be met with, so full of the sense of real problems in the real life of the young of today.” Herbert G. Lord.
+ − Educ. R. 34: 103. Je. ’07. 870w.
“This volume is both interesting and suited to actual moral needs.”
+ Ind. 63: 760. S. 26, ’07. 300w.
“Throughout, the spirit of the work is wholesome, and the discussions helpfully suggestive. Particularly noteworthy is the avowed and fulfilled purpose of avoiding ‘sentimentalism’ and the usual ‘sugar-coated’ moral stories.” A. R. Gifford.
+ Int. J. Ethics. 17: 507. Jl. ’07. 1720w.
“The success of the author in finding examples from real life is a chief merit of the book.”
+ Nation. 85: 186. Ag. 29, ’07. 160w.
“This book is a distinct contribution to both the science and the art of ethical instruction.” Anna Garlin Spencer.
+ + School. R. 15: 231. Mr. ’07. 1080w.
Cadbury, Edward; Matheson, M. Cecile, and Shann, George. Women’s work and wages: a phase of life in an industrial city. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–11022.
“A record of investigation and philanthropic effort, principally in the city of Birmingham. The refrain of the whole is a complaint from the humanitarian point of view against existing conditions. It is a tale of honest effort to raise the standard of life.” (Spec.) “The book deals with conditions of work, life, recreation, and ameliorative agencies, wages, legislation, home life, recreation, clubs, trade union, legal minimum wage, and wages boards.” (Nation.)
“Three of the four aims which the writers of this book set before themselves have been successfully accomplished.”
+ + − Acad. 71: 157. Ag. 18, ’07. 1210w.
A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 161. O. ’07.
“The plan of the present study has been well worked out.” S. P. Breckinridge.
+ + Am. J. Soc. 13: 411. N. ’07. 1230w.
“Contains a goodly array of facts interesting to the economist and social reformer. The value of these facts would have been considerably enhanced by a more scientific method of arrangement, and a clearer view on the part of the writers of the volume touching the kind of book they were setting themselves to produce.”
+ − Ath. 1906, 2: 140. S. 1. 810w.
“The book is interesting and suggestive, and if it has not furnished any new or valuable statistical evidence on the subject of the employment of women, it has succeeded where some of the more detailed studies have failed—in giving the public a thoroughly readable account of an important social problem. The book undoubtedly loses in unity from the fact of its having had three authors, but it must also gain from the very special knowledge that each of the three possessed.” Edith Abbott.
+ + − J. Pol. Econ. 15: 563. N. ’07. 870w.
Nation. 83: 75. Jl. 26, ’06. 40w.
“The volume we are considering contains a vast amount of suggestive and instructive material.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 450. Jl. 20, ’07. 1310w.
“The concluding chapter, is for American readers probably the most valuable portion of the book.” Florence Kelley.
+ + Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 175. Mr. ’07. 530w.
Spec. 97: 540. O. 13, ’06. 100w.
* Caffin, Charles Henry. Story of American painting. **$2. Stokes.
7–36959.
A fully illustrated work which “goes back to the earliest painters working in this country and traces the various influences that have played upon American art up to the present time. In accordance with his plan of showing the connection between our art and our national life and history, he concentrates his attention upon those artists who best illustrate the effect of these influences.” (Putnam’s.)
N. Y. Times. 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“The text ... shows much detailed observation, an impartial temper, and an orderly method of procedure that gives it value as a book of reference.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.
+ + Putnam’s. 3: 359. D. ’07. 600w.
“He praises rather indiscriminately; but considering the difficulty of the subject ... he has put forth a volume that has surprisingly few mistakes in it, and in which the laymen will find a great deal of valuable information.”
+ − R. of Rs. 36: 760. D. ’07. 90w.
* Cain, Georges. Nooks and corners of old Paris; tr. by Frederick Lawton. *$3.50. Lippincott.
7–37532.
Under the headings, The old city, The isle of Saint-Louis, The left bank of the Seine, and 66The right bank of the river, M. Cain has set forth both the historic and artistic points of the city of by-gone days. “Though it is in no sense a guidebook, the prospective sojourner in Paris would do well to read the work, especially if he is at all interested in noteworthy sights outside the ken of the ordinary tourist.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The present translation cannot be praised, but the illustrations and the printing of the volume are admirable, and it thus forms an excellent gift-book.”
+ − Ath. 1907, 2: 548. N. 2. 600w.
“There is nothing aloof or academic in M. Cain’s account of the landmarks of the Paris of by-gone days; he takes his readers on four delightful rambles through four divisions of the region that held the germs of the great city of to-day.”
+ Dial. 43: 378. D. 1, ’07. 320w.
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 350w.
* Caird, Edward. Lay sermons and addresses: delivered in the hall of Balliol college, Oxford. *$2. Macmillan.
“Of the twelve addresses which are here published, the first deals more especially with the opportunities and duties of college life; three discuss in a large-hearted way the great themes of national patriotism and civic service, while the last two, on ‘Immortality’ and ‘The faith of Job,’ touch impressively on the ultimate questions of Divine justice and human destiny, which lie behind all the creeds. A sermon on ‘Salvation here and hereafter’ gives the author’s general view of the nature of the religious ideal and the place of religion in human life; while the remaining discourses are devoted to the perennial themes of moral and spiritual experience—‘Freedom and truth,’ ‘Spiritual development,’ ‘The great decision,’ ‘True purity,’ and ‘Courage.’”—Lond. Times.
“With the sermon-form there goes in Dr. Caird’s discourse the Christian outlook at its broadest and best.”
+ Ath. 1907, 2: 609. N. 16. 1520w.
“These discourses ... convey with a grave simplicity the counsels of a great teacher on the conduct of life, as well as his mature outlook on the problems of human destiny.”
+ Lond. Times. 6: 300. O. 4, ’07. 2260w.
“Addresses himself, with a rare combination of philosophic thought plainly and practically expressed, ethical keenness and vigor, and a finished literary style, to thoughtful young men confronted with the intellectual problems and moral temptations of university life. This volume should find place in all college libraries.”
+ + Outlook. 87: 543. N. 9, ’07. 170w.
Caird, Mrs. Mona. Romantic cities of Provence: il. by Joseph Pennell and Edward Synge. *$3.75. Scribner.
6–45159.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The excellence of the book lies chiefly in the illustrations.”
+ − Ath. 1906, 2: 441. O. 13. 1290w.
“The reader is brought face to face with the very spirit of the silent wilderness of stones known as La Cran, and with that of its even more melancholy neighbour, the deserted Camargue, whilst the idiosyncrasies of the travellers who are met by the way are humorously touched off. There is not one dull page in the book.”
+ Int. Studio. 32: 85. Jl. ’07. 240w.
“She is mortally afraid of being dull ... and in her panic lest she should commit this enormity she becomes chronically playful, almost depriving herself of the power to say anything simply. It is worse when Miss Caird is playful about dates. She shares the feminine tendency to include them in dulness, and only mentions them apologetically. Let us hasten to add, she takes us to fascinating places.”
+ − Lond. Times. 5: 432. D. 29, ’06. 740w.
“It is to the credit of the writer that she has managed to transfer to her pages something of the charm which lingers about these districts so unattractive at first sight and so enthralling when closely studied.”
+ Sat. R. 102: 746. D. 15, ’06. 240w.
“She has an easy style, though rather too abundant in long words and adjectives. Some of her pages, indeed, remind us of the plain of the Crau scattered over with stones, which she describes so picturesquely.”
+ − Spec. 98: sup. 653. Ap. 27, ’07. 220w.
Cairns, D. S. Christianity in the modern world. *$1.25. Armstrong.
7–15937.
Mr. Cairns discusses the mighty principle of Christianity as it has come thru the centuries, with such settings, mainly dogmatic, as people’s understandings have afforded, until today it stands for greater impersonal might with “the line of its hope lying in its power to moralize the selfishness of the individual by transforming private interest into the ideal of a common good.” (Outlook.)
“There can be no doubt that Mr. Cairns’s warning is needed; but his book is by no means free from an a-priori-coloring.” Gerald Birney Smith.
+ − Am. J. Theol. 11: 706. O. ’07. 540w.
“These essays exhibit a thoroly modern spirit and both logical and literary ability of a high order.”
+ Ind. 63: 456. Ag. 22, ’07. 400w.
“As a piece of Christian apologetic, the effort of Mr. Cairns is on a higher plane than that of much recent work.”
+ Nation. 84: 270. Mr. 21, ’07. 720w.
“Rarely, if ever, has the subject of the book been better treated.”
+ + Outlook. 85: 42. Ja. 5, ’07. 410w.
Caldecott, W. Shaw. Solomon’s temple: its history and its structure. *$2.50. Union press.
A fresh treatment, the outgrowth of diligent research, which makes the Biblical narrative its own interpreter, and which dwells at length upon the architectural details of the Hebrew temple.
“Although we cannot accept all Mr. Caldecott’s conclusions we welcome his volume as a solid and thoughtful contribution to the subject; he has boldly departed from the hard, beaten track and struck out an original line, and his reward will doubtless be an increased interest in the investigation of the problem he has so vigorously attacked.”
+ + − Acad. 73: 796. Ag. 17, ’07. 850w.
“Though sometimes vivid and even dramatic, it is written in a confused and repetitive style, and occasionally we find contradictions ... and some uncertainty in treating of contemporary Egyptian history.”
+ − Ath. 1907, 2: 556. N. 2. 460w.
“On his proper subject, the construction of the temple and the adjoining palaces, our author has much that is interesting to tell us.”
+ − Spec. 99: 235. Ag. 17, ’07. 250w.
Calhoun, Mary E. Dorothy’s rabbit stories. †$1. Crowell.
7–24584.
A group of children’s stories which a little southern girl tells to her kitten Kim. “Neighbor rabbit” figures as a thoroly enjoyable hero, and seems to bear kinship to Uncle Remus’s “br’er rabbit.”
“For the child of this decade who has not read ‘Uncle Remus,’ ‘Dorothy’s rabbit stories’ will prove fascinating.”
+ R. of Rs. 36: 766. D. ’07. 60w.
67Calkins, Franklin Wells. Wooing of Tokala: an intimate tale of the wild life of the American Indian drawn from camp and trail. †$1.50. Revell.
7–16943.
“With only a thread of a story in the conventional sense, this is a thoroughly competent study of a group of Dakotah and Sioux Indians. Their habits, traditions, and point of view are given with a detail which though painstaking is never tiresome.” (Nation.) His Tokala is a creature of her native environment. “He tells you here picturesquely how this maid was loved and won in the face of at least the usual allowance of difficulties.” (N. Y. Times.)
A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 176. O. ’07. ✠
“He makes his Indians quite plain, as creatures in the toils of tradition and beliefs which they must obey. His style is clear and simple, attaining excellent effects by dint of completely avoiding self-conscious and labored efforts. In fact, the whole book contains matter of real interest, which is conveyed without parade of knowledge and with a total absence of trick or mannerism.”
+ + Nation. 84: 591. Je. 27, ’07. 180w.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 160w.
“The story is well told, with not a little ingenuity and cleverness in the construction of the plot and throughout with a simplicity that adds to its charm.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 476. Ag. 3, ’07. 300w.
Calkins, Mary Whiton. Persistent problems of philosophy: an introduction to metaphysics through the study of modern systems. *$2.50. Macmillan.
7–11605.
“The professor of philosophy in Wellesley college has made a most useful résumé and exposition of the tendencies and doctrines of modern philosophy since Descartes. The bibliographies are especially good. Readers who desire to become familiar with the presentation of the movement called Pragmatism will find here succinct definitions and helpful references to recent literature on the subject.” (Educ. R.) “It differs from most introductions of the kind in that it is historical, and from most histories of philosophy in that it is critical.” (Nation.)
Educ. R. 33: 534. My. ’07. 80w.
“The historical and critical portions of the volume are written with a facile pen. Few recent treatises on philosophy have combined so constant reference to the sources with so readable an expository style. The writer exhibits, moreover, a comprehensive acquaintance with the history of modern thinking, at the same time that she exercises independent historical judgment.” A. C. Armstrong.
+ + J. Philos. 4: 440. Ag. 1, ’07. 1540w.
“Professor Calkins not only criticises, but constructs, and sets forth her own doctrine with such ability that she should have a distinguished place among contemporary Hegelians.”
+ + − Nation. 84: 525. Je. 6, ’07. 910w.
“Insight, poise, and a fine blending of clarity with brevity make this an eminently serviceable book for [serious students]. Such a work, in addition to her well-wrought ‘Introduction to psychology,’ gives Professor Calkins a distinction among American women as meritorious as it is unique.”
+ + Outlook. 86: 437. Je. 22, ’07. 420w.
Call, Annie Payson. Everyday living. **$1.25. Stokes.
6–37967.
That the knowledge of God’s law of liberty is power to the person who will gain it, nay, use it, is the theme running thru Mrs. Call’s dozen and more essays. There is the note of impersonal freedom which everybody can catch if he but work. She sets forth working principles, approved by experiment, which clear away the mists of material existence.
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 7. Ja. ’07. S.
“The statements are so bare as to read like platitudes in many instances, and the manner is unnecessarily didactic.”
− + Outlook. 84: 840. D. 1, ’06. 50w.
Putnam’s. 2: 621. Ag. ’07. 200w.
Call, Annie Payson. Heart of good health. **30c. Crowell.
7–21545.
A monologue urging the training for the human body that corresponds to the progress of the soul in its regeneration. The little volume belongs to the “What is worth while series.”
Calthrop, Dion Clayton. Dance of love. †$1.50. Holt.
7–31413.
A romance of the days of the “dawn of intellect” with scenes shifting from France to England. It is a tale of a love quest upon which Pipin, the hero, meets a dozen women. Each one affords the author an opportunity to draw an individual type of the dame of yesterday. The dominant qualities of the “eternal feminine” are strikingly portrayed.
“Mr. Calthrop has sacrificed too much to high morality. It will certainly be much liked by those who value originality of idea and vivid, poetical expression, and we think that the insatiable readers of novels, who rather resent these merits, will forgive them in a short book full of attractive incidents related in an unusual form with considerable dramatic effect.”
+ − Acad. 73: sup. 114. N. 9, ’07. 900w.
“Picturesque charm and a real feeling for romance mark the story.”
+ Ath. 1907, 2: 580. N. 9. 950w.
“This is a romance to be enjoyed if one happens to be in the right mood, but one that does not command the reader’s satisfaction.”
+ − Sat. R. 104: 642. N. 23, ’07. 180w.
Calthrop, Dion Clayton. English costume; painted and described by Dion Clayton Calthrop. 4v. ea. $2.75. Macmillan.
6–32380.
A history of English costume in four volumes which divide the subject into as many periods: 1, Early English; 2, Middle ages; 3, Tudor and Stuart; 4, Georgian. “The colored illustrations will appeal to everybody, but the little sketches in the letterpress will be invaluable to the costumier and the stage manager if not to many tailors and milliners as well. Scattered throughout the four volumes are also a series of word-pictures, of which mention must be made.” (Acad.)
“We confess to a preference for his pictures, which, it seems to us, are a valuable addition to English history, whereas his notes, for all his system, are at times irritatingly scrappy, and at others provokingly trivial.”
+ − Acad. 72: 245. Mr. 9, ’07. 530w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
“He still exhibits a flippant style which is out of place in such a treatise, and he has obviously made careful studies of dress from old manuscripts and missals.”
+ − Ath. 1906, 2: 699. D. 1. 370w. (Review of v. 3.)
“We cannot but feel that the author had somewhat tired of his task, particularly as he devotes a good deal of his space to quotations. The book is scrappy, and for fuller information we must still go to other authorities.”
− + Ath. 1907, 1: 672. Je. 1. 340w. (Review of v. 4.)
“After the enormous amount of research, it is remarkable that he can handle his subject as lightly as he does. Interesting and readable he certainly is, in spite of an occasional slip in idiom or construction. He has a happy faculty for making his costumes live, as it were, in the times to which they belong.” May Estelle Cook.
+ + Dial. 43: 57. Ag. 1, ’07. 620w.
68“Unfortunately, however, it is impossible entirely to endorse this very high estimate of a book which, though brightly and humorously written, does not contain much that is new.”
+ − Int. Studio. 29: 364. O. ’06. 230w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The full-page illustrations in colour are by no means satisfactory, the artist’s sartorial lore being far superior to his technical skill and knowledge of the anatomy of the human form. The best drawings in the book are the small reproductions after the Dightons.”
+ − Int. Studio. 31: 251. My. ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 4.)
+ − Liv. Age. 252: 571. Mr. 2, ’07. 660w. (Reprinted from Lond. Times.) (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“If he had gone a little further and a little deeper, if he had kept clear of a certain annoying jauntiness of style, his book, valuable already, might have been of still greater worth.”
+ − Lond. Times. 6: 18. Ja. 18. ’07. 660w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“As a book of reference it loses half its value from the absence of an index; as a serious history of clothes it suffers from the author’s attempt to be sprightly; as a book of entertainment, it is too learned. Taken as a whole, as a work at once moderately entertaining to read and moderately useful for study, it may serve a purpose.”
+ − Nation. 84. 454. My. 16, ’07. 400w.
“This book will be invaluable to costumers and playwrights and of delight to the casual reader.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 300w.
“His facts are in the main accurate, and his research thorough, though he has a tendency to antedate changes of costume, and his method of division into reigns involves constant repetition and a too decided ascription of certain fashions to certain years. He is irritatingly chary of reference, but this omission is due to the popular design of the book, which is written throughout in a would-be entertaining way. If not a really valuable book of reference, still less is it an amusing book to read, merely as a piece of writing.”
+ − Sat. R. 102: 335. S. 15, ’06. 1030w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
Sat. R. 103: 88. Ja. 19, ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ + Spec. 97: sup. 766. N. 17, ’06. 160w. (Review of v. 3.)
* Calthrop, H. C. Hollway-. Petrarch: his life, work and times. (Memoir ser.) **$2.75. Putnam.
A popular life of Petrarch which keeps close to his mission as herald and prophet of the renaissance.
“The book is a work of a ripe scholar, and is evidently the fruit of years of patient study. Its chief defect is the complete absence of all references, even to Fracassetti’s standard edition of the letters, to which, nevertheless, the author acknowledges his supreme obligation. If we now mention a few points in which our author is hardly abreast of recent research, it is in no captious spirit, but with the hope that in the next edition, which must soon be called for, these slight blemishes may be removed.”
+ + Ath. 1907, 2: 573. N. 9. 1740w.
“An interesting sketch.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
Calvert, Albert Frederick. Alhambra of Granada. *$15. Lane.
The history which forms the background of this volume covers the Moslem rule from the reign of Mohammed to the expulsion of the Moors. “The Alhambra or the Red castle, will ever, in spite of its lamentable state of decay, take first rank, on account of the combined beauty and variety of its ornamentation, and the thrilling memories with which it is associated.... The author lays great stress in the preface to his first edition on the fact that he has given pride of place to the pictorial side of his volume, making his chief appeal to the public by the beauty and variety of the illustrations he has collected, which include nearly 500 reproductions in black-and-white of details of architecture, and over 100 in colour of typical decoration.” (Int. Studio.)
“Mr. Calvert has a profound knowledge of the Alhambra as it is now and as it was at every stage of its chequered life-story, and he has the gift of imparting that knowledge in an impressive and satisfying manner.”
+ + Int. Studio. 31: 164. Ap. ’07. 310w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
Calvert, Albert Frederick. Escorial: a historical and descriptive account of the Spanish royal palace, monastery and mausoleum. (Spanish ser.) *$1.25. Lane.
7–32150.
In picture and text this proves the first exhaustive English treatment of the Escorial—the Spanish royal palace, monastery and mausoleum in one.
“The views of the garden of the Casita de Abajo and of the interior of the Escorial itself are satisfactory and characteristic; the photographs of pictures and tapestries are much less effective; while the reproductions of Alfonso’s ‘Cantigas de Sancta Maria’ and other literary rarities are on so reduced a scale as to be virtually useless. Mr. Calvert’s text is compiled from Rotondo’s work, but he has introduced a considerable number of errors which imply, we fear, insufficient knowledge of Spanish history and literature.”
− − + Ath. 1907, 1: 583. My. 11. 260w.
“The text ... is the merest hack work ... though readable enough. One may gather from the whole some notion at least of what the Escorial is like and what it signifies in history.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 480. Ag. 3, ’07. 390w.
Outlook. 86: 526. Jl. 6, ’07. 80w.
+ Spec. 98: 1008. Je. 29, ’07. 150w.
Calvert, Albert Frederick. Seville: an historical and descriptive account of The pearl of Andalusia. (Spanish ser.) *$1.25. Lane.
7–32150.
One of Mr. Calvert’s series on Spain. Seville, “great because of her past, and actual because of her vivid present,” (Outlook) is treated historically with emphasis placed upon the preservation by the Christians of the memorials of Moslem occupation. There is an account of the artists of Seville, including, prominently, Murillo. The illustrations include a view of the city from various points of view, its buildings, and fully sixty reproductions of famous works of art.
+ Nation. 85: 443. N. 14, ’07. 80w.
“This book should appeal alike to the tourist, artist, archaeologist, and historical student.”
+ + Outlook. 87: 272. O. 5, ’07. 270w.
“This is a volume of the ‘Spanish series,’ and, as might be expected, not surpassed—perhaps, one might say equalled—in interest by any other.”
+ + Spec. 99: 133. Jl. 27, ’07. 250w.
Calvert, Albert F., and Hartley, Catherine G. Prado: a guide and handbook to the Royal picture gallery at Madrid. (Spanish ser.) *$1.25. Lane.
One of the first volumes in a series dealing with Spain in its various aspects, its history its cities and monuments. This one is devoted to Madrid’s famous “congress of masterpieces”—the Prado. “The text does no more than tell in a general way something about the painters represented, name the more famous masterpieces, indicate the division into schools, and 69show how these schools, Spanish, Italian, and Dutch, are represented.” (N. Y. Times.) There are two hundred and twenty-one illustrations.
“Equally pleasing as the style is the general construction of the book. I must break a lance, several lances, with authors and producers with regard to the excellence of the illustrations in this particular issue.”
+ + − Acad. 72: 622. Je. 29, ’07. 2240w.
“It contains much sound and sympathetic criticism of the principal pictures in the gallery of the Prado, set forth in a pleasant, sober style.”
+ + − Ath. 1907, 2: 487. O. 19. 590w.
“The chief value of this volume lies in the pictures.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 463. Jl. 27, ’07. 320w.
Calvert, Thomas Henry. Regulation of commerce under the federal constitution. (Studies in constitutional law, v. 3.) $3. Thompson.
7–12250.
This book is based mainly upon an examination of decisions of the Supreme court of the United States, arranged in such order that together they make a critical commentary upon a constitutional power.
“The arrangement is logical, the cases well chosen, and the significant points in decisions clearly formulated. The book lacks attractiveness for the general reader in the fact that it contains little else than cases—almost no comment, explanation, or summary. Neither does it possess sufficient originality to enable it to usurp the places occupied by its predecessors.”
+ − Nation. 85: 43. Je. 11, ’07. 290w.
“The law student, the practicing lawyer, the legislator, the man of affairs, will all find here an orderly presentation of the subject, with ample references to original decisions.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 267. Ap. 27, ’07. 960w.
“A work of this character should be a digest having the merits which go to make an index valuable. It should be complete, brief, logically arranged and clearly stated. These merits the author cannot claim.” E. Parmalee Prentice.
− Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 336. Je. ’07. 510w.
Cambridge modern history; planned by Lord Acton; ed. by A. W. Ward, G. W. Prothero, and Stanley Leathes. 12v. ea. **$4. Macmillan.
2–26356.
v. 10. The restoration.
This volume deals with the principles and problems that occupied statesmen during “the period of reaction and ebullition which followed the close of the Napoleonic wars.” (Outlook)
“Many of these essays are excellent and some of them deal with the subject indicated by the title: others are not up to the standard, and some have no apparent connection with the theme.”
+ − Acad. 71: 654. D. 29, ’06. 1330w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The chief section of the book is constituted by Professor Ward’s able treatment of the war as a whole, in its narrower sense; thorough as is the writer’s grasp of the field, he has little gift of narration, leaves no vivid impressions of either men or events, and casts no new light on problems.” Victor Coffin.
+ + − Am. Hist. R. 12: 627. Ap. ’07. 1800w. (Review of v. 4.)
“On the whole we may conclude that the volume is, in some respects, a distinct contribution to the literature of the subject in English, and in spite of the defects natural to such a work, is likely to prove very useful for many purposes.” Wilbur C. Abbott.
+ + − Am. Hist. R. 13: 143. O. ’07. 1440w. (Review of v. 10.)
“There is altogether too little of the economic and social side of history in this work.” Wm. E. Lingelbach.
+ + − Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 653. My. ’07. 1010w. (Review of v. 4.)
“This volume has not always triumphed over the tendency to make a history of these periods of recovery a résumé of names and dates.”
+ + − Ath. 1907, 2: 173. Ag. 17. 1880w. (Review of v. 10.)
“It cannot but be acknowledged that no single author in this volume has succeeded in conveying ideas as Lord Acton, himself has conveyed them in his lectures.” E. D. Adams.
+ + − Dial. 42: 223. Ap. 1, ’07. 900w. (Review of v. 4.)
“If there appears less unity in this volume, because there is no great central figure or theme, it nevertheless possesses sound utility.”
+ + Dial. 43: 288. N. 1, ’07. 370w. (Review of v. 10.)
“This is incontestably one of the most important, best-written, and most homogeneous of the volumes of the ‘Cambridge modern history’ that have appeared so far.” W. E. Rhodes.
+ + + Eng. Hist. R. 22: 807. O. ’07. 730w. (Review of v. 4.)
“A notable feature of the volume—it will remain an exceptional feature of this particular volume, the editors inform us—are its bibliographies, especially that of the extant original manuscripts and contemporary narrative and controversial literature of the Thirty years’ war, based on the collections in Lord Acton’s library, without which, indeed, it could not have been compiled.”
+ + Ind. 62: 1152. My. 16, ’07. 530w. (Review of v. 4.)
“Every library should have it, and the busy scholar who wants facts, not eloquent fiction, will secure it for reference, but no one will read it over his evening pipe. In this regard it cannot be esteemed an equal to the French cooperative work, the ‘Histoire generale,’ which is always lucid and sometimes interesting.”
+ + Ind. 63: 1313. N. 28, ’07. 310w. (Review of v. 10.)
“The chapters are often of great merit, and there are fewer dull parts, omissions, repetitions, and inconsistencies than in some of the previous volumes.”
+ + + Lond. Times. 6: 226. Jl. 19, ’07. 2610w. (Review of v. 10.)
“Everywhere one finds care, accuracy and a businesslike spirit, which presents the facts in a clear and coherent way.”
+ + + Nation. 85: 166. Ag. 22, ’07. 2590w. (Review of v. 4.)
+ + Nation. 85: 327. O. 10, ’07. 1200w. (Review of v. 10.)
“Altogether, it will be seen that I regard the plan of the ‘Cambridge modern history’ as unsatisfactory. It is a compromise between the needs of the general reader and the special student.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 13. Ja. 12, ’07. 890w. (Review of v. 4.)
“If the present volume happens to be more than usually dull, it is because it deals with a period of the world’s history in which the world was for the most part marking time and preparing the way for startling developments.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ + − N. Y. Times. 12: 493. Ag. 10, ’07. 1830w. (Review of v. 10.)
Outlook. 84: 1080. D. 29, ’06. 260w. (Review of v. 4.)
+ + Outlook. 86: 747. Ag. 3, ’07. 360w. (Review of v. 10.)
“The development during the first half of the period has been conscientiously if not entertainingly, described in the ponderous volume.” G. Louis Beer.
+ − Putnam’s. 2: 743. S. ’07. 140w. (Review of v. 10.)
R. of Rs. 36: 381. S. ’07. 150w. (Review of v. 10.)
70 Sat. R. 103: 49. Ja. 12, ’07. 1610w. (Review of v. 4.)
+ + Spec. 99: sup. 749. N. 16, ’07. 580w. (Review of v. 10.)
Cambridge natural history, v. 1. *$4.25. Macmillan.
Ten large volumes will be included in this work which will cover the natural history of the animal kingdom.
v. 1. “The present volume includes four of the lowest groups. The protozoa are treated by Prof. M. M. Hartog of Queen’s college, Cork.... The sponges are described by Miss Igerna Sollars, lecturer at Newnham college.... The extensive and important group of jelly-fishes, sea-anemones, and hydroids is dealt with by Prof. S. J. Hickson of the Victoria university of Manchester.... The last group, including star-fishes, sea-urchins, and their allies, is described by Prof. E. W. McBride of McGill university, Montreal.”—Nation.
“As a guide to the scientific study of those animals with which it deals, the whole book can be safely recommended.”
+ + Lond. Times. 6: 138. My. 3, ’07. 1660w. (Review of v. 1.)
“In attempting to bring together within short compass many scattered facts the authors of this and of some of the other volumes have failed both in giving a readable account of the subjects and in distinguishing between what is important and what is trivial.”
+ + − Nation. 84: 294. Mr. 28, ’07. 540w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Taken in conjunction with the earlier published volumes, the work seems to fulfil the purpose of providing an intelligible and adequate survey of the entire animal kingdom without giving undue prominence to particular groups.”
+ + Nature. 75: 31. N. 8, ’06. 1330w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The zealous student of animal morphology, or the professional zoologist anxious to bring his knowledge up to date, will find here a compendium upon which he can rely.”
+ + − Sat. R. 103: sup. 3. My. 4, ’07. 1470w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The different divisions are unevenly balanced as to both matter and substance, and in two of the divisions at least, the impression is gained that the author had mainly a book knowledge of the group he was monographing.” G. N. C.
+ − Science, n. s. 26: 44. Jl. 12, ’07. 620w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The work in all cases is extremely well done.”
+ + Spec. 98: 909. Je. 8, ’07. 190w. (Review of v. 1.)
Campbell, Harry Huse. Manufacture and properties of iron and steel. 4th ed. $5. Hill pub. co.
7–13501.
A thoroly revised edition brought down to date by the inclusion of valuable new matter. It is of importance to engineers and students of metallurgy, and also to “those interested in the economics of one of the world’s leading industries.”
Review by Henry H. Norris.
+ Engin. N. 57: 664. Je. 13, ’07. 500w.
“The treatment throughout is that of a thorough master of metallurgical science, embodying not only sound theoretical exposition, but including as well specific citations of the best modern practice. The work ... will be found of exceeding value, not only to engineers and students of metallurgy, but to those interested in the economics of one of the world’s leading industries.”
+ Technical Literature. 1: 177. Ap. ’07. 550w.
Campbell, Reginald John. New theology. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–11604.
A restatement of the essential truth of the Christian religion in terms of the modern mind. The author gives an outline of his own personal views, and some of the chapter headings are as follows: God and the universe, Man in relation to God, The nature of evil, Jesus the divine man, The eternal Christ, The incarnation of the Son of God, The atonement, The authority of Scripture, and The church and the kingdom of God.
“Mr. Campbell displays a vigorous hostility to traditional theological opinions which will hardly serve to help matters. In many instances, he cannot escape the charge of having caricatured those doctrines in order to cast odium upon them.” Gerald Birney Smith.
− Am. J. Theol. 11: 705, O. ’07. 490w.
“The weak side of Mr. Campbell’s thinking is his imperfect grasp of finite personality. He is apt to lose his way in reveries of the infinite. Mr. Campbell will probably come to see that his new theology is only a halfway house which cannot be his permanent home.” David Balsillie.
+ − Fortnightly R. 88: 48. Jl. ’07. 7900w.
“One cannot but honour Mr. Campbell for the courage and candour with which he has addressed himself to what he believes to be one of the crying needs of the church of to-day. Still I cannot but think that the root of the evil, which he, as prophet and preacher combats, lies deeper than he realises.” G. Tyrrell.
+ Hibbert J. 5: 917. Jl. ’07. 2270w.
Ind. 62: 911. Ap. 18, ’07. 550w.
“He is an earnest preacher, but possesses a heterogeneous mind and is a bit daft on the doctrine of immanence and on ‘psychic investigations.’”
+ − Ind. 63: 1236. N. 21, ’07. 70w.
Outlook. 85: 879. Ap. 20, ’07. 300w.
“His volume is interesting, it is intellectually suggestive, but it is not self-evidently consistent. In short, it confirms the judgment which we have heretofore expressed, that he is a preacher, not a theologian.”
+ − Outlook. 86: 257. Je. 1, ’07. 460w.
“A work of unusual clearness.”
+ R. of Rs. 35: 637. My. ’07. 110w.
“A really beautiful and fervently Christian book.”
+ Spec. 98: 982. Je. 22, ’07. 130w.
Campbell, Reginald John. New theology sermons. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–33946.
A group of sermons preached from the City Temple pulpit, London, which teach that cooperation must replace competition, brotherhood must replace individualism; that the kingdom of love must be realized on earth.
Campbell, W. Wilfred. Canada; described by Wilfred Campbell; painted by T. Mower Martin. *$6. Macmillan.
W 7–130.
Here are reproduced in picture and text wonders of Canadian scenery “from Cape Breton to Vancouver island. The same brush has caught the peculiar charm of the old Acadian country around the Basin of Minas, with its quaint suggestions of a transplanted Holland: the rugged beauty of the Gut of Canso; the ancient capital on the St. Lawrence, with its crowding memories of other days and other ways; the wild scenery of the Muskoka lakes; the rich coloring of the autumn prairies; the grandeur of the Canadian Rockies, and the almost tropical luxuriance of British Columbian valleys.” (Nation.)
“Mr. Campbell lacks the faculty of condensation, and the subjects have proved too large for him: while Mr. Mower Martin’s part of the book is almost always happy and suggestive. He indeed, reveals throughout an amazing lack of perception or discrimination.”
+ − Acad. 72: 554. Je. 8, ’07. 640w.
71“The pictures both in the coloured plates and in letterpress, are to be commended to those who want a Canadian view of Canada. The doctrines of the author upon the future of Canada are a little difficult to understand.”
+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 603. My. 18. 570w.
“The value of this book to the ordinary reader is that it brings together various kinds of information which without it would have to be gathered from many sources. Mr. Campbell’s original work is mostly in the descriptions, many of which are very good.” May Estelle Cook.
+ + Dial. 43: 118. S. 1, ’07. 670w.
“He has much to say, but somehow has not succeeded in saying it effectively. The watercolour drawings of Mr. Martin show in a noticeable degree the defects of his literary collaborator.”
+ − Int. Studio. 32: 335. O. ’07. 280w.
“In selecting Dr. Wilfred Campbell, the well-known Canadian poet, to write the descriptive matter for this book, the publishers made on the whole a commendable choice.”
+ + − Nation. 85: 148. Ag. 15, 510w.
“The ‘description’ let it be said at once, is rather dull reading, in a style which suggests not so much the guide book as the promoter’s prospectus, with a dash of that sort of sentiment which is the stock in trade of the patriotic campaign orator. These pictures are, on the whole, rather good than bad though, like most pictures of the sort, they make the colors too bright.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 482. Ag. 3, ’07. 470w.
“Author and painter have combined happily and successfully in presenting Canadian life and scenery agreeably and with abundant and dependable information.”
+ Outlook. 86: 525. Jl. 6, ’07. 130w.
“On the whole his commentary makes pleasant if not often impressive reading.”
+ Sat. R. 104: 372. S. 21, ’07. 150w.
“In Mr. Martin Canada has an artist who is well fitted to do her justice. He has the true sense for both colour and space, and while he is not afraid of rich and startling contrasts, he always contrives to give his pictures something of the clearness and delicacy of the Canadian atmosphere.”
+ + − Spec. 99: 197. Ag. 10, ’07. 690w.
Campbell, Wilfred J. Ian of the Orcades. †$1.50. Revell.
A tale of the North Sea coast of Scotland in the days of King Robert Third. “It is full of dark deeds and violence, and the lusts of the flesh, and we suppose that the author desires to put the picture forward as a genuine study of the past.” (Ath.)
“Mr. Campbell’s effort cannot compare with the best of the sort. It is more conventional, more titanic, and somewhat sentimental.”
+ − Ath. 1906, 2: 768. D. 15. 100w.
“The book is to be valued, not merely as a thrilling tale of bygone times, but as a curious work of art by which an author has produced the impression of a chant with words that are common and are musical simply by imparting into them the meaning of old fancies.”
+ Ind. 63: 699. S. 19, ’07. 170w.
“It is a good story, full of adventures and excitements, although somewhat wordy in the telling.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 517. Ag. 24, ’07. 160w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“There seems to be something like a mist over the whole story.”
− Spec. 97: 181. F. 2, ’07. 120w.
Candee, Helen Churchill. Decorative styles and periods in the home; with 177 il. **$2. Stokes.
6–43919.
Furniture makers no less than the collector and general reader will find instruction in this well-printed and fully illustrated study of furniture from antiquity thru the Renaissance to the present time.
“A readable and careful study.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 39. F. ’07. S.
“Mrs. Candee is somewhat flamboyant and rhapsodic in her style, and her taste is more generous than chaste. Mrs. Candee does not seem to understand the importance and influence of the English eighteenth-century schools of design.”
− Ath. 1907, 2: 450. O. 12. 240w.
“In spite of such fine writing, this book is a valuable one and full of information.”
+ − Ind. 63: 698. S. 19, ’07. 220w.
“The text is oddly composed, with unusual turns of language, but it is intelligible, and the distinction between styles has evidently been clear to the writer. There is a little too free a treatment of the periods.”
+ − Nation. 84: 43. Ja. 10, ’07. 250w.
+ + Outlook. 85: 238. Ja. 26, ’07. 150w.
Canfield, Chauncey L., ed. Diary of a forty-niner. *$1.25. Shepard, Morgan.
6–43550.
Questionable as to its authenticity, this volume is a record of life in a mining-camp on one of the forks of the Yuba river from May 18, 1850, to June 17, 1852.
Am. Hist. R. 12: 731. Ap. ’07. 70w.
“Presents certain phases of a life forever passed, simply, picturesquely, and vividly, and hence, whether diary or reminiscence, has interest and historical value.”
+ Nation. 84: 293. Mr. 28, ’07. 360w.
Canfield, Dorothea Frances. Gunhild: a Norwegian-American episode. †$1.50. Holt.
7–33199.
There is great strength in this story, and it is so planned that a beautiful self centered American girl traveling through Norway in company with a sister, an admirer and an aged aunt, is contrasted strongly with Gunhild, a Norwegian peasant. This girl, born in America, a child of the people, shows among her northern snows a depth of soul that belittles the conventional thought of the society girl; and the man stirred by something deeper and more profound than his life has yet known, turns from the girl he might have married to Gunhild and finds that she too is not for him.
“‘Gunhild’ is her first novel, and a promising one.”
+ Ind. 63: 1377. D. 5, ’07. 260w.
Canfield, William Walker. The spotter: a romance of the oil region. $1.50. Fenno.
7–27157.
A dramatic tale of the Pennsylvania oil region in which a sturdy Scotchman who refused to sell his farm to the oil syndicate is the victim of intrigue. In it are pictured the newly rich in the complete reaction from financial restraint, smooth-tongued conspirators, spotters and moonshiners.
“Melodramatic fiction.”
− Nation. 85: 401. O. 31, ’07. 280w.
* Canning, Albert S. G. Shakespeare studied in six plays. **$4. Jacobs.
The six plays studied are Othello, Macbeth, King John, Richard II., Henry IV., and The merry wives of Windsor. The method is one of exposition rather than analysis, consisting of a succession of quotations interspersed with explanatory remarks.
“Its author is a master of the prosaic, nor have we encountered any other commentator equally skilled in the art of reducing noble poetry to small beer.”
− Acad. 72: 85. Ja. 26, ’07. 1100w.
72“We have seldom occasion to examine a more unnecessary book. It contains no learning and, except in the quotations, no wit; the style is that of a schoolboy; the general intelligence is barely mediocre. The few explanatory notes are borrowed from an out-of-date commentary, and are often inaccurate.”
− − Nation. 85: 427. N. 7, ’07. 240w.
“On points of history his adequate comments are fitly introduced. The unsatisfactoriness of the book results from faults of omissions, leaving a volume of no little usefulness on its positive side.” George S. Hellman.
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 745. N. 23, ’07. 780w.
“These essays ... are conscientious, but they are nothing more. The themes upon which Coleridge and Lamb have lavished their genius ... cry aloud for a more inspired and a more original treatment than that which Mr. Canning has given them. Nor are the passages selected for quotation always those which particularly deserve attention and comment.”
+ − Spec. 99: sup. 462. O. 5, ’07. 480w.
Capek, Thomas. Slovaks of Hungary, Slavs and Panslavism. priv. ptd. T. Capek, 225 E. 71st St., N. Y.
6–6749.
Including statistical information concerning the American Slovaks; something of their ambitions and efforts. “Much of the book is taken up with matters of discontent over the Magyar domination and others of peculiar concern to the home country.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
“While we have no desire to question the aim and purpose of the writer, we believe that a greater service would have been performed if he had aimed to interpret to the American people more of the virtues and qualities which make the Slovak immigrant a desirable addition to our population.”
+ − Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 207. Ja. ’07. 460w.
“The book is interesting as containing much information about a country and people little known, and especially as throwing light upon the complexities of that wonderful polyglot empire of Francis Joseph.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 506. Ag. 18, ’06. 440w.
R. of Rs. 33: 508. Ap. ’06. 50w.
Card, Fred Wallace. Farm management. (Farm lib.) **$2. Doubleday.
7–12691.
A thoro-going treatment of the subject from the standpoint of business methods. The discussion includes business accounts, suggestions for watching markets, time for marketing various products, and adaptation to local conditions.
“Practical, suggestive, probably the best of the ‘Farm library’ series yet published.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 118. My. ’07. S.
“A practical book, an intensely practical book, it is, nevertheless, to a man with the farm bee buzzing in his bonnet, as fascinating as a Persian tale. The book is unique in agricultural literature.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 260w.
R. of Rs. 35: 640. My. ’07. 80w.
Carey, Rosa Nouchette. Angel of forgiveness. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–31281.
A young girl’s story of her own life from the ago of eight to eighteen. They are full years, for in them she learns much thru sickness and suffering, she finds the mother she had always thought dead in the person of her dearest cousin and brings her back to the home she had left in her young wife-hood and to the husband who loves her. Then, when the angel of forgiveness has brought joy to her home she leaves it, a bride of eighteen, to mother the children of a husband much her senior and with him to find true happiness.
N. Y. Times. 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The way out of the dilemma has been happily contrived by Miss Carey, and the whole book is pleasant to read.”
+ Spec. 99: sup. 672. N. 2, ’07. 140w.
Carling, George. Richard Elliott, financier. $1.50. Page.
6–34796.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The atmosphere of greed and treachery is unpleasant from first to last but for all that the account of these latter-day land-pirates is absorbing.”
+ − Acad. 72: 610. Je. 22, ’07. 280w.
Carling, John R. By Neva’s waters; being an episode in the secret history of Alexander the first, czar of all the Russias. †$1.50. Little.
7–21539.
An episode in the secret history of Alexander the first, czar of all the Russias. There are love and court intrigue in plenty, which center chiefly about a young English lord whose love affair with the czarina is in the end forgiven because he did not know she was a wife, and she, owing to a strange lapse of memory, had forgotten her estate. It is a book which holds the interest until the last strand of the plot is untangled.
N. Y. Times. 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
Carlson, John S. Swedish grammar and reader. *$1.50. Wilson, H. W.
7–23330.
A practical text-book for the school-room and home, which lays no claim to a purely scientific exposition of the principles of language.
“This is a book that has been much needed, and does for the student of Swedish what Professor Julius Olson’s similar work does for the student of Norwegian. The selections which fill the ‘reader’ section of the volume are judiciously made and of much interest.”
+ + Dial. 43: 291. N. 1, ’07. 60w.
“A new and thoroughly practical text-book for the elementary study of Swedish.”
+ + Educ. R. 34: 535. D. ’07. 40w.
Carpenter, Edward Childs. Code of Victor Jallot: a romance of old New Orleans. il. †$1.50. Jacobs.
7–31421.
A story of the early nineteenth century whose scenes are laid in Louisiana. A French refugee, a Beau Brummel type of hero with plenty of sturdier qualities of manhood, fights for the love of “mademoiselle of the magnolias” and wins.
N. Y. Times. 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
Carpenter, Frank G. Foods; or, How the world is fed. *60c. Am. bk.
7–20683.
The first book of a series upon the great industries of the world. It aims to provide a knowledge of the production and preparation of foods, and to show how civilization and commerce grew from man’s need of foods and the exchange of foods between the different nations of the earth.
A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 207. N. ’07. ✠
“The boy who has read it will be much better prepared for economic studies later on than the boy who has never become interested in any of these things.”
+ Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 572. S. ’07. 220w.
Carpenter, Margaret Boyd. Child in art. $2. Ginn.
A sympathetic treatment of the child in art, with some thirty reproductions of famous paintings and works of sculpture. The volume sketches the history of the use of the child in art and shows that the development of Christianity first brought childhood into prominence.
“The present volume is summary and superficial: the writer has an unfortunate instinct for the obvious and the trite.”
− Sat. R. 103: 628. My. 18, ’07. 160w.
“Even if there are omissions, there is also plenty of interest in the book.”
+ − Spec. 97: 939. D. 8, ’06. 140w.
73Carpenter, Rolla Clinton. Experimental engineering and manual for testing; for engineers and for students in engineering laboratories. 6th rev. and enl. ed. $6. Wiley.
6–16782.
“The present book is the sixth edition, and is the result of many revisions and additions by which, as the author states, with the aid of colleagues and assistants, he has brought the subject down to present-day requirements.”—Engin. N.
“Despite these rather damaging criticisms, it must be said in conclusion that the book has many features which make it a valuable addition to engineering literature. It is to be hoped that, in the next edition, the author will re-edit the book throughout, correct the errors, omit such descriptive matter and verbiage as is unnecessary, add to subjects which are incomplete, and thus produce a model, not only as regards superficial pretensions, but also as regards real worth.”
+ − Engin. N. 56: 519. N. 15, ’06. 2930w.
Carr, Sarah Pratt. Iron way; a tale of the builders of the West. †$1.50. McClurg.
7–12274.
“A romance of the gold-fever days in California which shifts scene to follow the course of construction of the Central Pacific railway. The traditions, heroic deeds and thrilling adventures associated with the building of this highway across the continent are recorded from the author’s memory. The book has a buoyant pioneer atmosphere.”
Reviewed by William Morton Payne.
Dial. 42: 316. My. 16, ’07. 140w.
“One feels that one is reading authentic history, but such is the art of the writer that the deftly inwoven romance—a captivating love story—remains the predominant interest. It would appear that the book is Mrs. Carr’s debut in literature, yet it is written with an ease, a freshness and a power which many a practised hand would be glad to have acquired.”
+ + Ind. 62: 1526. Je. 27, ’07. 260w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 240. Ap. 13, ’07. 210w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.
Carr, W. M. Open hearth steel castings. $1.50. Penton pub.
7–33981.
“This little book is a reprint of a series of articles which were published in the ‘Iron trade review’ and ‘The foundry,’ in 1905 and 1906. It comprises chapters on: Raw materials for acid and basic practice and moldings; open hearth furnace construction; fuels and accessories; manipulation of acid and of basic heats; chemical and physical tests; relation between chemical composition and physical properties; blowholes and checks in steel castings; heat treatment and annealing; repairing with thermit, and cost of equipment.”—Engin. N.
“Each subject is treated briefly and the information given is well-chosen, useful and accurate, reflecting the author’s own experience in practice, and utilizing advantageously the small amount of printed space occupied. It is written in a clear manner and the greater part of it will be comprehensible even to men who have no technical education.” Bradley Stoughton.
+ + − Engin. N. 58: 79. Jl. 18, ’07. 350w.
Carrington, Hereward. Physical phenomena of spiritualism, fraudulent and genuine. **$2. Turner, H. B.
7–17909.
A brief account of the most important historical phenomena, a criticism of their evidential value, and a complete exposition of the methods employed in fraudulently reproducing the same. The book is mainly devoted to exposing the frauds of professional mediums.
N. Y. Times. 12: 307. My. 11, ’07. 130w.
“This book is interesting, it is amusing, it is even, in its revelation of the frauds practised by nearly every professional medium, revolting. The paramount impression this writer conveys is that of being a fair and openminded gentleman of excellent balance and keen intelligence.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 425. Jl. 6, ’07. 550w.
“It is, indeed, a storehouse of raw material from which one may learn to generalize safely about the psychology of deception.”
+ Outlook. 86: 790. Ag. 10, ’07. 140w.
R. of Rs. 36: 511. O. ’07. 110w.
Carroll, Benajah Harvey. Political history of Europe from 1815 to 1848, based on continental authorities. $2. Baylor univ. press, Waco, Texas.
6–13425.
A volume which “is intended to give American students, an accurate if somewhat succinct account of the course of Post-Napoleonic European political history,” and “does not pretend to be more than a compilation from the best and most accessible and usually untranslated continental authorities.”
“The author was apparently in too great haste to attend much to the medium of his thoughts. Present and past tenses and conditions are mixed up indiscriminately, and extraordinary language is indulged in. Most of it is fairly good, and the characterizations of public men are at times excellent. But the arrangement is poor and detail is usually put in where uncalled for; the disjointed sections give little impression of continuity and do not make clear the general development; nothing stands out in bold relief.” Victor Coffin.
+ − Am. Hist. R. 11: 947. Jl ’06. 530w.
“The work may have its place as a survey of the history of the period for an elementary class, but should not have been introduced to the general public in its present form.”
− Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 464. N. ’06. 170w.
“It does not pretend to be based on sources, and apparently the only authority mentioned is Lord’s ‘Beacon lights of history.’ The book, however, displays considerable historical reading, and contains a few useful suggestions and apt quotations. In some respects it is a literary curiosity; it is written in an English more vigorous than elegant, and was evidently prepared in great haste.... All things considered, the book seems to have no justification for its existence.”
− Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 191. Mr. ’07. 170w.
Carson, William Henry. Evelyn Van Courtland. $1.50. Fenno.
7–29570.
Jealousy incites Howard Van Courtland to murder his business partner. Malcolm, a young clerk in their employ, is accused and the story is mainly concerned with the trial in which Van Courtland’s daughter, learning of her father’s guilt, is bent upon clearing Malcolm. She draws information from the prosecuting attorney and passes it on to the defendant’s counsel, all of which finally proves of no avail until in a dramatic court-room scene the father confesses his guilt and dies suddenly. In the end misunderstandings are adjusted and love wins a hard fought battle.
“Here is another novel hinging on the unwritten law. It is not as unsavory as some of its kind, and, as its lack of distinction precludes the probability of a wide circulation, it is not likely to do any harm.”
− N. Y. Times. 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 230w.
Cartrie, Count de. See La Villeniere, T.-A. T. de la C.
Carus, Paul. Our children; hints from practical experience for parents and teachers. *$1. Open ct.
7–2052.
Written by “one of the most distinguished exponents of the new philosophical conception known as monism.” It supplements Froebelism 74with the results of recent scientific investigation and advanced psychological methods. “In the chapter which treats upon the subject of punishment, we get the key-note to the author’s ethical principles. Like Tolstoy, and like a greater Teacher, he advocates non-resistance of evil with evil. Retaliation is condemned, a lie must be overcome by truth, wrong by right and violence by patience.... Punishment, Dr. Carus declares, ought to be the ‘consequence of a wrong act which is brought home to the knowledge and sentiments of the child.’”—Lit. D.
“Like Huxley he knows the secret of clothing abstruse subjects in an attractive garb and his works have a popular appeal. It will prove of especial interest and value to those engaged in kindergarten work.”
+ + Lit. D. 24: 385. Mr. 9, ’07. 300w.
“Written in thought-provoking style. The book contains many hints from practical experience.”
+ R. of Rs. 35: 509. Ap. ’07. 40w.
Carver, Thomas Nixon, comp. Sociology and social progress. *$2.75. Ginn.
6–5680.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by R. C. Chapin.
+ Charities. 17: 472. D. 15, ’06. 430w.
“A timely and valuable book. The selections from large works, which is no easy task, are judiciously made. He has supplied an introduction to it of his own, in which he sets forth as clearly as has ever been done the true scope and method of sociology. His treatment is thoroughly sane.” Lester F. Ward.
+ + − Science, n.s. 25: 27. Ja. 4, ’07. 1110w.
Cary, Elisabeth Luther. Works of James McNeill Whistler; a study. **$4. Moffat.
7–3697.
Not so much a work of ultimate authority and exhaustive knowledge, as an intelligent and reasoned view of Whistler’s work for the benefit of the reader of somewhat limited opportunities.
A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 119. My. ’07.
Current Literature. 42: 289. Mr. ’07. 810w.
“As a piece of critical writing, it is eminently sound and true to right principles. The aptness of Miss Cary’s phraseology is deserving of more than casual comment. Exception must, however, be taken to one expression.” Frederick W. Gookin.
+ + − Dial. 42: 218. Ap. 1, ’07. 1540w.
“A book which comprehensively covers the field of Whistler’s accomplishments and embodies a perspicuous account of his methods.”
+ + Ind. 61: 1404. D. 22, ’06. 130w.
+ Lit. D. 34: 469. Mr. 23, ’07. 360w.
+ Nation. 84: 322. Ap. 4, ’07. 90w.
“In a word, it is a survey of Whistler’s artistic accomplishments, presented in an elaborate, beautiful, pictorial setting by an author whose experience has given her rare insight into the mysteries and functions of artistic expression.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 808. D. 15, ’06. 190w.
“Miss Cary’s book is admirably adjusted in its aim. It seems ... equally admirable in its manner and the selection of its matter.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 76. F. 9, ’07. 640w.
“She is admirable alike in the selection of material and in the non-technical treatment of his inspiration.”
+ Outlook. 85: 903. Ap. 20, ’07. 210w.
“It is indeed a patient, accurate literalness which chiefly distinguishes this book. We get the facts, it is true, but in the end feel somewhat deprived of that spirit which animates and transcends mere fact—a spirit which Whistler himself possesses in so abounding a degree and which he would seem to demand of others.” Christian Brinton.
+ − Putnam’s. 2: 125. Ap. ’07. 370w.
Casson, Herbert Newton. Romance of steel: the story of a thousand millionaires. **$2.50. Barnes.
7–25647.
“Not so much a history of the steel industry itself as of the successive efforts to capitalize that industry and of the personal careers of the men whose fortunes have been made in steel-making, although they themselves were in most instances as ignorant of the industrial processes by which their wealth was gained as the average man in the street.”—R. of Rs.
“Mr. Casson’s story has the merit of being remarkably inclusive, on the historic and physical sides, as well as in its personal aspects.”
+ Ind. 63: 820. O. 3, ’07. 800w.
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 428. Jl. 6, ’07. 150w.
“One of the most readable books of the year.”
+ R. of Rs. 34: 381. S. ’07. 140w.
Castle, Mrs. Agnes Sweetman, and Castle, Edgerton. My merry Rockhurst. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–34310.
“Some episodes in the life of Viscount Rockhurst, a friend of King Charles II. and at one time constable of his majesty’s tower of London.” These episodes, although they do not form a consecutive story, all deal with the same reckless, daring cynic, loyal friend and devoted father. They tell of his fortunes, his misfortunes, his varied adventures, his struggles with the world and with himself, and all have as a background the strangely romantic court at which he played such a conspicuous part.
N. Y. Times. 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“The tales are so ingeniously and thoroughly welded together that the book as a whole forms a complete and satisfactory romance.”
+ Outlook. 87: 624. N. 23, ’07. 130w.
* Cathedrals of England and Wales: their history, architecture and associations. 2v. $10. Churchman co.
An opportunity is here afforded of becoming acquainted with the character, the history, the traditions and associations connected with the cathedrals of southern Britain.
“A sumptuous gift-book and the enterprise of the publishers is to be commended. They have introduced to the American public a volume which is a treasury of art, literature, and history.”
+ + Lit. D. 35: 795. N. 23, ’07. 310w.
“The present volumes give an entertaining and, for the general reader, an adequate account and portrayal.” Cameron Mann.
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 629. O. 19, ’07. 860w.
Catholic encyclopedia: an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline, and history of the Catholic church; ed. by Chas. G. Herbermann, Edward A. Pace, Conde B. Pallen, Thomas J. Shahan, John J. Wynne, assisted by numerous collaborators. 15v. ea. $6. Appleton, Robert.
7–11606.
An encyclopedia which as it is produced by American Catholic scholars who have brought to their task the freshness of view and freedom of inspiration that stamps Catholicism in America may be said to represent the “ripest and most developed product of Catholic thought.” (Lit. D.)
v. 1. In this first volume are to be found the contributions of over 1,000 men and women of recognized scholarship, representing 27 nationalities.
75“Unfortunately, several of the articles are egregiously one-sided; some others are conspicuously incompetent, and a few display such violations of a sane and critical spirit that we could hardly believe our eyes when we read them.”
+ − Ind. 62: 1150. My. 16, ’07. 1030w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Considered as an achievement of scholarship alone, it will command attention.”
+ Lit. D. 34: 765. My. 11, ’07. 1410w. (Review of v. 1.)
“In spite of all criticism ... [it] remains a very notable contribution to science and a remarkable example of American enterprise.”
+ + − Lond. Times. 6: 267. S. 6, ’07. 2420w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Though this important work has chief value and significance for Catholics, it contains a great deal of interest to every intelligent man, and, so far as it is used by non-Catholics, must contribute to the correcting of erroneous opinions and the breaking down of existing prejudices.”
+ + Nation. 84: 566. Je. 20, ’07. 1830w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It will be generally admitted that the work is the best for themselves that English-speaking Catholics have yet published, and the most popular and the most interesting one they have ever presented to the non-Catholic world.” Henry A. Brann.
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 233. Ap. 13, ’07. 2340w. (Review of v. 1.)
“On the whole, in spite of the mediævalism of certain portions, and in spite of occasional lapses from the general level of excellence—lapses inevitable in any work of the kind—the first volume must be pronounced fair and sane, and if succeeding volumes maintain the same standard the work cannot fail to prove exceedingly useful.”
+ + − Outlook. 86: 787. Ag. 10, ’07. 2040w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The contributors represent Catholic scholarship in its broadest sense throughout the world.”
+ + R. of Rs. 35: 757. Je. ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 1.)
* Cattelle, Wallis Richard. The pearl: its story, its charm and its value. il. **$2. Lippincott.
7–30808.
The story of the pearl is told “from its birth and growth under tropic seas, through the search for it by dark skinned divers of the Orient and its journeyings by the hands of men who traffic in precious things, until it becomes finally the cherished familiar of the great. Historical and traditional allusions, the sentiment and superstitions, the romance of ancient and noble associations drawn to it through the ages, are garnered here and to them added the more prosaic facts which a merchant’s experience suggests, to enable lovers of the dainty sea-gem to discriminate.”
Cautley, C. Holmes. Millmaster. $1.50. Longmans.
With a setting furnished by a Yorkshire manufacturing village the reader’s interest is centered in “the upright and self-contained millmaster and his son, Mark, a character gentler than his father but as estimable.” (Lond. Times.) A book in which the human element is strong, the description informing, and which is “stamped with the hallmark of sincerity.”
“It is something to the credit of the author that he has done what he evidently set out to do, and those who can master the dialect may like those parts of the book which fail to attract us.”
+ − Ath. 1906, 2: 768. D. 15. 130w.
“The author has looked with clear and kindly eyes upon life, and is concerned only to portray it as it is. The result is a novel of very real value.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 72. F. 2, ’07. 500w.
“Mr. Cautley’s novel is too long, but there is good stuff in it.”
+ − Sat. R. 103: 148. F. 2, ’07. 150w.
Cellini, Benvenuto. Life of Benvenuto Cellini; tr. and ed. by John Addington Symonds, with an introd. to this ed. by Royal Cortissoz. 2v. **$6. Brentano’s.
6–40203.
This edition is complete enough for the student and artistic enough in book workmanship for the collector. Besides Mr. Symonds’ introductory material, Royal Cortissoz presents a “sympathetic though critical” interpretation of the “discrepancy between Cellini’s personal forcefulness and artistic achievement.”
“It may be said at once that no more distinguished piece of book-making has come from an American press for a long while past. The typography while usually excellent, is not impeccable.”
+ + − Dial. 41: 455. D. 16, ’06. 330w.
“A more satisfying edition of this classic autobiography does not exist in English.”
+ + Lit. D. 34: 64. Ja. 12, ’07. 90w.
“This reprint is likely to remain for years the preferable library edition of these fascinating memoirs.”
+ + Nation. 83: 463. N. 29, ’06. 150w.
“Altogether the edition presents this classic in a form of such good taste and solid excellence of workmanship that it will be welcomed by all lovers of literature.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 866. D. 15, ’06. 160w.
R. of Rs. 35: 114. Ja. ’07. 60w.
Chadwick, Hector Munro. Origin of the English nation. (Cambridge archæological and ethnological ser.) *$2.25. Putnam.
7–29044.
By making use of all branches of ethnological study—history, tradition, language, custom, religion and antiquities—the author “deals with the history, social and otherwise of the tribes whose coming, to put the matter briefly, changed Britain to England.” (Spec.)
Am. Hist. R. 12: 709. Ap. ’07. 40w.
“Mr. Chadwick has written a book which no special student of Saxon England can neglect. But this critical method is open to cavil. In the first place, the criticism is too linguistic. In the second place, being linguistic, the criticism lacks principle.”
+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 468. Ap. 20. 480w.
“It is a work for students, and they are not likely to neglect it: but many years will pass before its results can be incorporated in textbook and handbook.”
+ + − Lond. Times. 6: 91. Mr. 22, ’07. 820w.
“There was certainly room for such a work, in which all the available evidence should be carefully considered, and Mr. Chadwick has done this with the greatest minuteness. In fact, his book suffers to some extent from over-minute discussion of questions which have at best a very faint bearing upon the main subject of his inquiry. Another general criticism which might be made is that Mr. Chadwick is rather too much given to the common, but very unsatisfactory, process of drawing a strong conclusion from a series of very weak premises.”
+ − Nature. 75: 555. Ap. 11, ’07. 780w.
“The value of the book lies in the healthy spirit of scepticism which pervades it, and which is the outgrowth of an unusually wide knowledge of Teutonic philology, literature and archaeology.”
+ + Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 550. S. ’07. 180w.
“A very learned and careful work.”
+ + Spec. 98: 337. Mr. 2, ’07. 220w.
76Chadwick, Rev. John White. Cap’n Chadwick, Marblehead skipper and shoemaker. *60c. Am. Unitar.
6–35723.
A portrait, sketched by his son, of a rugged yet unvaryingly tender hearted New Englander who plied his shoemaker trade in winter and followed a skipper’s life in summer.
“In spite of some looseness of style the book is spell binding from start to finish.” Robert E. Bisbee.
+ − Arena. 37: 111. Ja. ’07. 120w.
“This little biography will be treasured not alone by those who revere its author’s memory, but by the wider public who will find in it a sympathetic yet discriminating characterization of a life well worth telling about, but of a kind not often described outside of fiction.”
+ Outlook. 85: 93. Ja. 12, ’07. 750w.
Chamberlin, Georgia Louise, and Kern, Mary Root. Child religion in song and story: a manual for use in the Sunday schools or in the home. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–26993.
Believing in unity in lesson, songs, prayers and memorized texts the authors of this book have arranged a series of thirty-nine lessons for children from six to nine in the Sunday school. The development of a general religious theme is aimed at in each group, and the groups follow each other in logical arrangement. The book is suggestive thruout and may be used in the home as well as in the Bible school.
Chambers, Robert William. Fighting chance. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–29527.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Deeply interesting as it is, ‘The fighting chance’ is not without flaws and imperfections.”
+ − Acad. 72: 121. F. 2, ’07. 370w.
“Mr. Chambers has achieved another success.”
+ Ath. 1907, 1: 193. F. 16. 180w.
“How far Mr. Chambers is correct in his representation of the ways and manners of wealthy and ‘exclusive’ New Yorkers, especially of those who contrive to combine business with pleasure, must be left to the judgment of critics equipped with expert knowledge; but at any rate it is brisk and credible.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ Forum. 38: 544. Ap. ’07. 760w.
− R. of Rs. 35: 120. Ja. ’07. 60w.
“Mr. Chambers has handled a problem, unpleasant in itself, with exceptional skill and delicacy in this story.”
+ Spec. 97: 220. F. 9, ’07. 220w.
Chambers, Robert William. Tracer of lost persons. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–20360.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“All the light side of his nature, the fun and the cleverness, go into such a collection of stories as this, and the world is the better for getting so much wholesome laughter and tender sentiment.”
+ Acad. 72: 345. Ap. 6, ’07. 350w.
“Though cast in the guise of a continuous narrative, this volume consists in reality of short stories and should be read as such.”
+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 574. My. 11. 140w.
“The humor is quite delicious, and the whole thing is carried through with great spirit.”
+ R. of Rs. 35: 120. Ja. ’07. 80w.
Chambers, Robert William. Tree of heaven. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–17386.
“The occult in everyday affairs is the theme of this new book.... Each one of the stories of which the volume is composed tells the tale of some mysterious happening, some supernatural experience, beyond the power of material reasoning to explain, which comes into the life of some ordinary everyday man.”—N. Y. Times.
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ Bookm. 25: 603. Ag. ’07. 360w.
+ Ind. 63: 458. Ag. 22, ’07. 140w.
“Trim, carefully upholstered, and perfectly imaginable tales. Very good of their extravagant kind.”
+ Nation. 84: 544. Je. 13, ’07. 110w.
“Some of the separate stories are excellent in their mechanism and in the way of their telling. Nearly all of them suffer from opulent adjectivitis. Mr. Chambers too often marches along with his head in rainbowlike clouds, which he scatters like fragments all over his pages until the reader fairly longs for a nice gloomy page or two in which nothing will sparkle or flash or flame or dazzle or scintillate.”
− + N. Y. Times. 12: 332. My. 25, ’07. 630w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 90w.
Chambers, Robert W. Younger set. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–26022.
“In the ‘younger set’ from which he gets his title Mr. Chambers finds much that is buoyant, much that augurs well for the future of the social development of New York. His hero is a gentleman and a soldier; his heroine a clear-eyed pure-minded young girl, the embodiment of faithfulness, good breeding, and true-heartedness; while there is a really charming family picture of father, mother, children, and dogs—Mr. Chambers’s dogs are always capital, by the way. The more serious purpose of the book is to discuss certain aspects of the divorce problem.”—Outlook.
“It is this vicious, sordid element which, we think, spoils the genuine love story that runs through the book. But Mr. Chambers is a clever writer and a close student of character.”
+ − Ath. 1907, 2: 580. N. 9. 250w.
“Under a veil of pseudo-realism can no more disguise its fundamental melodrama than cottonseed oil can escape notice in a salad dressing.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
− Bookm. 26: 163. O. ’07. 630w.
“The treatment is marred by the note of insincerity, and the virtuous types that the author contrasts with the vicious ones are too unreal to be taken seriously. It has certain elements of positive excellence, such as constructive art, poetical elegance of diction, and a sympathetic touch.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − Dial. 43: 252. O. 16, ’07. 350w.
“A sort of perverted Sabbath school story about the younger set in New York society.”
− Ind. 63: 756. S. 26, ’07. 950w.
“This argument is the weakness in his story, because it is out of place, and it is not sustained by the lives of the characters portrayed.”
− Ind. 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 120w.
“The purpose of the novel—the inculcation of the idea that divorce does not terminate all the obligations of marriage—is clearly and interestingly evolved, in spite of the exaggerations and artificialities of expression with which it is at times obscured.”
+ − Lit. D. 35: 577. O. 19, ’07. 620w.
“The author has taken plenty of space and filled his stage with more men and women, girls and boys, than we can enumerate. But they are all drawn with such skill and knowledge that one closes the book with a pleasant sense of its abundant vitality, breadth, and charm.”
+ Lond. Times. 6: 309. O. 11, ’07. 450w.
Nation. 85: 187. Ag. 29, ’07. 320w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 535. S. 7, ’07. 670w.
“An absorbing story.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“The present volume is a genuine piece of work, alive and tingling with nervous energy, although it is inferior in some respects to Mr. Chambers’s best work.”
+ − Outlook. 87: 44. S. 7, ’07. 260w.
77“It is in more than one respect far more pleasant than the average novel of American society.”
+ Sat. R. 104: 549. N. 2, ’07. 220w.
Champlain, Samuel de. Voyages and explorations of Samuel de Champlain (1604–1616) narrated by himself; tr. by Annie Nettleton Bourne, together with the voyage of 1603, reprinted from Purchas his pilgrimes; ed. with introd. and notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne. 2v. ea. **$1. Barnes.
6–32458.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The translation is readable, the introduction excellent, and the notes, though not numerous, frequently offer original and valuable suggestions.”
+ Am. Hist. R. 12: 424. Ja. ’07. 290w.
“A very detailed account, which should be found in any considerable collection on the early period of American and Canadian history.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 7. Ja. ’07.
“The editing and translation show painstaking care and appreciation of the work of the author. Disputed points, obscure references and seeming contradictions are satisfactorily explained in succinct foot-notes. An index, also, would have been of value.”
+ + − Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 205. Ja. ’07. 360w.
+ Ind. 62: 153. Ja. 17, ’07. 80w.
“The present translation by Mrs. Bourne is a boon to the reading public as well as a tribute to the great explorer and the acute observer whose fame grows as the knowledge of his service becomes more generally known.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 133. Mr. 2, ’07. 960w.
Champney, Elizabeth W. Romance of the Italian villas. **$3. Putnam.
7–431.
“From the vast storehouse of Italian legendary lore the author has collected a dozen or so stories identified with as many villas and has retold them, mostly in archaic form, so as to present an illusion of the past.” (N. Y. Times.) “She writes not so much of buildings as of the romantic and dramatic events which have taken place within their walls, not to mention other interesting incidents in the lives of famous people who dwelt there.” (Lit. D.) Numerous fine illustrations which are reproductions of paintings emphasize the value of the work.
“Carefully selected and delightfully told.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 65. Mr. ’07.
“Will not take high rank either as a collection of tales or a literary guide-book. The style is undistinguished, and the author’s version of the histories attaching to the villas of which she writes is tame and undramatic.”
− + Ath. 1907, 1: 788. Je. 29. 200w.
“She writes with verve, communicating to her reader the charm she feels herself.”
+ Ind. 62: 1152. My. 16, ’07. 130w.
“It is a book such as only careful research could have produced well, but Mrs. Champney can be trusted to be sure of her ground. Having done this, she proceeds to write in a manner that is always felicitous.”
+ + Lit. D. 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 90w.
“The reader, for whom many personages of history are perhaps but names, is brought, as it were, into close intimacy with them in their very palaces.”
+ Lit. D. 34: 547. Ap. 6, ’07. 250w.
“It is a question whether anyone has the right to change facts even though they have no securer foundation than legend. These things Mrs. Champney has done. There is not the slightest doubt that she has improved the dramatic qualities of several of the stories she has handled.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 11: 770. N. 24, ’06. 630w.
“Mrs. Elizabeth W. Champney has made some very careful selections from the treasures of Italian legends, and has presented them in a manner most attractive to foreign readers.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 808. D. ’06. 210w.
+ Outlook. 84: 704. N. 24, ’06. 40w.
“With the subjects she has chosen it would be hard not to make a readable book, and this one is eminently so.” Charlotte Harwood.
+ Putnam’s. 2: 445. Jl. ’07. 350w.
Chancellor, Edwin Beresford. History of the squares of London: topographical and historical. *$5. Lippincott.
A history of London squares thru time and change with anecdotes of their famous occupants, omitting present or recent owners. In interesting succession are presented Berkeley square with its statue which Herbert Spencer maintained is better than the Venus de Milo; Grosvenor square with anecdotes of Alvanley and Nelson, Thrale and Wilkes; Cavendish square, with its reminiscences of the Marquis of Steyne and Princess Amelia, and Selwyn and Lord Bessborough.
“This book, which Mr. Chancellor has compiled with remarkable skill and industry, appears at a fitting time.”
+ + − Ath. 1907, 2: 12. Jl. 6. 1000w.
“Mr. Chancellor’s account of his style is too modest. There is very little indeed in his book that can accurately be called ‘dull enumeration,’ and there are plenty of anecdotes, bits of forgotten history, and curious reminiscence.”
+ Dial. 43: 376. D. 1, ’07. 450w.
“There may be nothing new in it—and indeed it is the kind of book that can be written only by grace of the books that have preceded it; but it is never dull, and that is saying much of a work which contains 400 large pages and weighs 3 lb.”
+ Lond. Times. 6: 230. Jl. 19, ’07. 320w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“A work of considerable research and replete with curious and often valuable historical information.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 769. N. 30, ’07. 160w.
“Very entertaining is a good deal of the information the author has piled together about all the principal squares in London.”
+ Sat. R. 104: 21. Jl. 6, ’07. 390w.
Chandler, Frank Wadleigh. Literature of roguery. (Types of English literature ser.) 2v. **$3. Houghton.
7–31996.
The second work of a series whose plan is to deal with all the important literary forms in English by a division according to types rather than a division into chronological periods. A concise description is given of the earlier appearances of the rogue as a typical figure in the literatures of Spain, France, Germany and Holland; then follows the rogue of the mediaeval time as he appears in drama, legend, and jest book, and the rogue of the picaresque novel of Elizabethan time. Criminal biographies, prison chronicles, drama, opera, sociological studies, and lyric verse are shown to yield their rascals, and the authors who have portrayed them are discussed.
“Its greatest charm lies in its peculiar combination of authority with human interest, of scholarly methods and an imposing bibliography with a fine sense of proportion,—a large grasp of the matter as a whole and in its relation to other lines of literary research.” Edith Kellogg Dunton.
+ + Dial. 43: 315. N. 16, ’07. 1920w.
“His work is unique in its scope.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 195. Mr. 30, ’07. 130w.
“Whoever has the courage to plow through or the inspired wisdom to skip that dismal first volume will find that in the second, beginning with Defoe and coming down to Thackeray, there is a really interesting account of the English 78literature of roguery, punctuated with pertinent critical remarks, and delivered like a man of this world.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 744. N. 23, ’07. 1400w.
Channing, Elizabeth Parsons. Autobiography and diary: gleanings of a thoughtful life. *$1. Am. Unitar.
7–25238.
A diary kept by the author during more than thirty years. The aim of Miss Channing’s friends in offering the volume is to lead to a “closer realization of the value of clear thinking and sincere feeling in things religious ... to promote reverence for things deep and true, love for things high and holy, patience in trial, and above all, faith in God.”
“Her diary is the simple record of a thoughtful mind, essentially womanly, carrying on homely tasks with patience, yet capable of sharing in the world’s movements.”
+ Outlook. 87: 747. N. 30, ’07. 350w.
Chapin, Anna Alice. Heart of music: the story of the violin. **$1.60. Dodd.
6–43758.
“Beginning far back in the region of legend, the story of this most ancient of all stringed instruments grows from the turtle shell to the marvel of Stradivarius, and is enthroned as the one perfect thing—‘the heart of music incarnate and triumphant.’”—Outlook.
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 39. F. ’07.
“Her book is good of its kind, replete with curious information, and well written.”
+ Nation. 83: 542. D. 20, ’06. 150w.
“This vivid style and her faculty for choosing and setting forth lucidly and logically the salient characteristics of an epoch, a nation, or an individual makes her pages very readable.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 51. Ja. 26, ’07. 570w.
“An attractive book for all passionate lovers of the violin, and yet one that, by reason of the great mass of facts collected will hold the attention of students.”
+ Outlook. 84: 1082. D. 29, ’06. 110w.
Chapman, Frank Michler. Warblers of North America, by Frank M. Chapman, with the cooperation of other ornithologists; with 24 full-page colored pls., il. every species, from drawings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes and Bruce Horsfall, and half-tones of nests and eggs. **$3. Appleton.
7–14643.
“The first untechnical monograph on a single group of American birds,” including Gerald Thayer’s notes on songs and habits of birds. The special treatment of the warbler family, each species and subspecies being taken up in turn, is followed by a list of biographical references which “rounds out the treatment in a way that leaves nothing to be desired.” (Nation.)
A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 119. My. ’07.
“To the technical ornithologist, as well as to the amateur with only the myrtle and yellow warblers on his ‘list,’ this volume will be of constant use.”
+ Nation. 84: 438. My. 9, ’07. 570w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 74. F. 9, ’07. 150w.
“Its plan is easy of grasp and tends to make the book not only a pleasant reference volume, but gives it a place as a work of permanent and authoritative value.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 110w.
“Its title would much better have been ‘The wood warblers of North America,’ for the true warblers, family Sylviidae, also represented in North America, are not treated at all.” Harry C. Oberholser.
+ + − Science, n.s. 26: 305. S. 6, ’07. 480w.
Chapman, J. Wilbur. S. H. Hadley of Water street: a miracle of grace. **$1.25. Revell.
6–29045.
The narrative of the thoro evangelization of a man who spent a wild youth, became a drunkard, thief and gambler, but who after the transformation devoted twenty years to a useful life.
“Dr. Chapman has yielded somewhat disproportionate space to the eulogies pronounced over Mr. Hadley at the time of his death.”
+ − Nation. 84: 59. Ja. 17, ’07. 130w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 850. D. 8, ’06. 190w.
+ Outlook. 84: 894. D. 8, ’06. 180w.
Charles, R. H., ed. Ethiopic version of the book of Enoch; ed. from 23 Mss., together with the fragmentary Greek and Latin versions. (Anecdota oxoniensia, Semitis ser., pt. XI.) *$4. Oxford.
The author “holds that parts of the book were originally composed in Hebrew, parts in Aramaic, and that some at least of the original was in poetic form. The text is clearly printed and there is an ample apparatus of variant readings.”—Bib. World.
“Professor Charles’s long-expected critical text of Enoch constitutes a marked advance upon previous editions of that important work.”
+ + Bib. World. 29: 320. Ap. ’07. 60w.
“In the present careful text and very full apparatus the task seems done with tolerable finality.”
+ + Nation. 84: 106. Ja. 31, ’07. 300w.
Chart, D. A. Story of Dublin; il. by Henry J. Howard. (Mediaeval towns ser.) $2. Macmillan.
7–25495.
This is a story of Dublin from the year 150 A.D., in which the author does his surest work when he reaches mediaeval Dublin with its wealth of reliable material. He writes of the city, its topography, its buildings, of the variety and picturesqueness of the outlying country, of people and incidents; and lends to the whole a historical background. The illustrations are principally from pen-and-ink sketches and give value to the work.
“It is unfortunate that in his desire to write a popular tourists’ book Mr. Chart should have spoilt the history which, so far as it goes, has evidence of a real interest, research, and, we venture to say, promise of better work.”
− + Acad. 73: 942. S. 28, ’07. 820w.
“There are plenty of truths in this book—plenty of learning also; but there are grave gaps and often annoying inaccuracies.”
+ − Ath. 1907, 2: 34. Jl. 13. 1320w.
“A narrative at once agreeable to read and of historic value.”
+ Outlook. 86: 791. Ag. 10, ’07. 230w.
Chaucer, Geoffrey. Stories from Chaucer, (Children’s favorite classics.) 60c. Crowell.
7–25660.
A faithful prose rendering of the best of the “Canterbury tales” written for young readers with the hope of stimulating a later study of Chaucer in the original text.
“When one re-tells the Canterbury stories, adding to them material which is not part of them, the result is of doubtful value. Mr. McSpadden’s introduction is in many ways worthy, and he shows a sincere effort to retain the spirit of the master genius.”
+ − Nation. 86: 496. N. 28, ’07. 100w.
“The best that can be said about ... ‘Stories from Chaucer’ ... is that [it is] a literary impertinence. They are written, it is true ... with skill and cleverness, and with a limpid style that brings them quite within 79the limits of ten-year-old understanding. But why should mayhem be committed upon the literary body of a subtle, suggestive, and intellectual poet in order to make a holiday for babes?”
− + N. Y. Times. 12: 568. S. 21, ’07. 320w.
Cheney, John Vance, ed. Inaugural addresses of the presidents of the United States from Washington to Polk, from Taylor to Roosevelt. 2v. *$3. Reilly & B.
6–34849; 6–35584.
Two handsome volumes which print collectively for the first time the inaugural addresses of our presidents.
“The bindings are simple and chaste, and the presswork unexceptionable. The addresses themselves form a subject well suited to be clothed in the form in which they here appear.”
+ Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 633. My. ’07. 100w.
Dial. 40: 133. F. 16, ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 2.)
Reviewed by Edward Cary.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 682. O. 20, ’06. 1130w.
Cheney, Warren. His wife. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–31211.
A group of Russian peasants among Alaskan snows enact here a drama impossible in its primitive passions to a more conventional setting. The wife of Luka dies in the first chapter, and he, crazed by her loss, wanders away to search for her. He fancies he has found her in his brother’s promised bride, wins her love, is wounded in the quarrel with his brother for her possession, and awakes after an illness to a realization that she is not the much loved wife he has lost. How these two souls so oddly met, so strangely bound together, work out their own happiness is the story of the book.
N. Y. Times. 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
Chesson, Nora. Father Felix’s chronicles; with introd. by W. H. Chesson. *$1.50. Wessels.
“If ‘Father Felix’s chronicles’ suggest Maurice Hewlett, it is by no means in the ways of imitation, conscious or involuntary.” (Nation.) “Father Felix is a priest of the order of St. Benedict in the early part of the fifteenth century, and he has knowledge, in one way or another, of the loves and hates and desires and revenges of the men and women who surround the throne of King Henry IV. The author makes him tell the story of these vanished people so vividly that the dust of their passions seems touched with the fire of actual life.” (N. Y. Times.)