Volume 3 — M (continued 4)

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A handbook which is not encyclopedic yet is more than a simple exposition of the subject. It is intended for those who understand something of the theory and practice of wireless telegraphy and who are familiar with the technical terms.

“The author has arranged what may be fairly considered a most thorough general treatise of wireless telegraphy, and one bringing together the latest knowledge and theories.”

+ + Engin. N. 58: 540. N. 14, ’07. 490w.

“With all due respect to Dr. Erskine-Murray, we submit that this handbook is a striking example of how not to write on wireless telegraphy or any other subject. [Contains] much of intrinsic value and interest, particularly, for example the seventeenth chapter, on theories of transmission.” Maurice Solomon.

+ − Nature. 76: 563. O. 3, ’07. 660w.

Murrell, Cornelia Randolph (Mrs. David Gamble Murrell). What Marjorie saw abroad. $1.50. Neale.

6–43797.

A bright, wide-awake account of a trip abroad in which are given helpful bits of information for the prospective traveler. “It is not intended for a guide-book—only a forerunner.”

“The descriptions are accurate and good, and not so long drawn out as to be tiresome.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 19. Ja. 12, ’07. 120w.

Muther, Richard. History of modern painting; rev. ed. continued by the author to the end of the 19th century. 4v. *$25. Dutton.

A revision of the first German edition, appearing in 1894, which has been continued to the end of the nineteenth century. “Besides all the old illustrations from woodcuts and photographs, each of the new volumes contains about a dozen full-page plates in color—a fine gallery in themselves.” (Dial.)

“For a survey of so wide a field this is just what is wanted; a bold rather than a subtle vision and a valuable style that carries the reader along to the next chapter before he thinks of criticising the last.”

+ Acad. 73: 693. Jl. 20. ’07. 790w.

“Suffers precisely from a certain determinism which prevents him from realizing the artistic life of this period in relation not only to the past, but also to the future.”

+ − Ath. 1907, 2: 160. Ag. 10. 1480w.

“The whole latter portion of the second volume is inferior to the rest of the work, and gives the effect of having been written in a much more hurried and perfunctory manner.” Elizabeth Kendall.

+ + − Bookm. 25: 619. Ag. ’07. 1430w.

Reviewed by Anna B. McMahan.

+ Dial. 43: 11. Jl. 1. ’07. 130w.

“It is not often that one is permitted to write with unqualified enthusiasm of a history of art that is encyclopedic in its range, for the reason that few men who have written upon the subject combine Professor Muther’s profound erudition, sureness of judgment, excellence of taste and grace and fluency of expression.”

+ + Ind. 63: 220. Jl. 25, ’07. 550w.

“At the end of the English survey only does he fail us.”

+ − Int. Studio. 32: 167. Ag. ’07. 310w.

“The author, though there is a certain originality in his method (which is rather psychological than chronological) does not take the very high rank amongst art critics of the day claimed for him. In spite, however, of certain peculiarities of style, he has brought together in a convenient form a vast amount of information, and now and then hits on a very apt comparison.”

+ − Int. Studio. 32: 334. O. ’07. 230w.

“Nowhere else can the student turn for an exhaustive critical study of the nineteenth century, a statement which, in itself, declares the unique value of this work.”

+ Lit. D. 35: 417. S. 21, ’07. 700w.

“Every one—artist, connoisseur, and critic—who desires to learn the real mission of modern art and comprehend its present status as individually and still more or less nationally expressed should read Prof. Muther’s work.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 349. Je. 1, ’07. 1620w.

“Americans ... will feel some sense of disappointment, therefore, in not finding more pages devoted to American art in Dr. Muther’s books. Dr. Muther writes with an incisive phrase, far removed from the ponderous, involved style of some of his compatriots.”

+ − Outlook. 86: 478. Je. 29, ’07. 550w.

317Muther, Richard. History of painting; tr. from the Germ. and ed. with critical notes by George Kriehn. **$5. Putnam.

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An “attempt to explain from the psychology of each period its dominant style and to interpret the works of art as ‘human documents.’” “The work is in two volumes and contains eighty illustrations. It deals with the entire development of European paintings from the ‘downfall of the antique world,’ the fourth century, to the early years of the nineteenth.” (N. Y. Times.)

“A valuable book.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 125. My. ’07.

“The excellent bibliography and the index of artists are additional merits of these exhaustive, original, sumptuous volumes.” Anna B. McMahan.

+ + Dial. 43: 12. Jl. 1, ’07. 1920w.

“It is only by comparison with the larger work that this two-volume ‘history of painting’ elicits criticism. There is hardly another work of similar scope that is at once so compact with information and so pleasant to read.”

+ − Ind. 63: 220. Jl. 25, ’07. 110w.

“He seeks the explanation of the painter’s work as a product of the times. Though Dr. Muther has not been the only writer to employ this method in the study of art, it is not the general fashion, and his development of it is conspicuous particularly for the breadth of the field to which he has applied it. The style is, for a book of the kind, unexpectedly spontaneous and free from the pedantic touch.”

+ + Int. Studio. 31: sup. 51. Ap. ’07. 880w.

“His book reveals considerable familiarity with a very wide range of art, and may be read with as much advantage as entertainment, if the reader will constantly remain on his guard and take frequent opportunities of testing the author’s statements, especially when they strike him as particularly clever.”

+ − Lond. Times. 6: 182. Je. 7, ’07. 680w.

“Dr. Muther’s faults are what seem to us the faults of broad philosophical generalizations based on erroneous or insufficient premises—the faults of a man who would take a large view of things without allowing himself to be hampered by inconvenient or tedious facts, who would, in a word, evolve his camel from his inner consciousness.”

+ − Nation. 85: 85. Jl. 25, ’07. 2110w.

“It is more elaborate and less encyclopaedic than ‘The story of art throughout the ages,’ by S. Reinach, and is hardly a ‘history’ in the general acceptation of the term. Its principal features are exposition, criticism and connoisseurship.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 811. D. 1, ’06. 80w.

“His criticism is entirely modern—his appraisements justified by the effect produced on the modern mind. Vain endeavor, idiosyncrasy, custom—all are gauged according to the modern standard of satisfying results.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 300. My. 11, ’07. 580w.

“His books are distinguished from others because, as far as possible, their author approaches every great movement and every great man from a purely psychological point of view. The result is gratifying.”

+ + Outlook. 86: 568. Je. 13, ’07. 480w.

“From a strictly scientific standpoint the work as a whole is somewhat lacking in a due appreciation of the racial element in art, for the author is manifestly more of a psychologist than an ethnologist. And yet so grateful is one for these fresh, vital and inspirational volumes that criticism is almost disarmed.” Christian Brinton.

+ + − Putnam’s. 2: 124. Ap. ’07. 590w.

“Scholarly work.”

+ R. of Rs. 35: 639. My. ’07. 50w.

Myers, Frederic William H. Human personality and its survival of bodily death; ed. and abridged by his son, Leopold H. Myers. **$3. Longmans.

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An abridged editions of a work whose aim “is principally, to collect evidence of the phenomena discussed. Nevertheless, the author enters to some extent, on the more difficult and dangerous path of interpretation and theory.” (Cath. World.) Following an introduction the chapter headings are as follows: Disintegration of personality, Genius, Sleep, Hypnotism, Sensory automatism, Phantasms of the dead, Motor automatism and Trance, possession and ecstasy.

A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 144. My. ’07.

“One of the most valuable contributions that has been made to the literature of psychic science.”

+ + Arena. 36: 671. Je. ’07. 520w.

“Without eliminating anything characteristic or typical, the editor has compressed the original into this one volume.”

+ Cath. World. 85: 254. My. ’07. 280w.