Volume 3 — M
Reading edition
Maartens, Maarten. New religion: a modern novel. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–29090.
A novel which embodies a satire on the medical profession whose aim is to disgust people with doctors and medicine. “Mr. Maartens gives us no inkling of what we are to do without doctors, but one of his characters whose legs have been mutilated in an accident is restored by faith. Several surgeons pronounce his case hopeless unless he will have both legs amputated. He refuses and is healed by prayer. Perhaps Mr. Maartens is an apostle of Faith healing or Christian science in disguise.” (Sat. R.)
“There is not a human character in the book, and not a wise idea. It is pretentious, badly constructed and badly written.”
− − Acad. 73: 928. S. 21, ’07. 700w.
“Such a book will not please those who seek for sensation; but as a criticism of modern western civilization, especially of its excessive care of the body, and neglect of the spirit, ‘The new religion’ has its charm and claim.”
+ Ath. 1907, 2: 362. S. 28. 240w.
“Will not bear comparison with ‘Dorothea,’ still less ‘God’s fool,’ but it contains interesting characters, witty comments and pathetic scenes, and its satire, unfair and exaggerated, like all satire, nevertheless has point and significance.”
+ − Ind. 63: 1121. N. 7, ’07. 440w.
“The personages in the novel are masterly portrayals, but they do not excite the reader’s sympathy, while the story, as a whole, in spite of its many brilliant passages, is not entirely convincing, and leaves the impression that in the treatment of his main theme the author has 273not been free from a tendency to exaggeration, which rather weakens his arraignment of the medical profession.”
+ − Lit. D. 35: 759. N. 16, ’07. 380w.
“We have not believed in the loves or the diseases; nor have we profited by the satire; but we have been very much entertained, and wit and fantasy are good, call them what you will.”
+ − Lond. Times. 6: 269. S. 6, ’07. 870w.
“Somehow the author has failed to hit the key; the story is neither fantastic enough nor sober enough to be more or less than a gentle irritant.”
− Nation. 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 310w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 80w.
“The characters and happenings of the story are mere pegs on which to hang the author’s theories, but none the less the pages of the book are illumined with numerous flashes of wit and startling examples of acute observation.”
+ − Sat. R. 104: sup. 7. S. 28, ’07. 1300w.
Maartens, Maarten. Woman’s victory and other stories. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–35218.
“The book takes its title from the caption of the first story, but it is suitable for the collection as a whole. For most of the stories recount a contest of some sort, of wit or will, or feeling, or intention, between people of opposite sex, in which the woman is usually the victor.”—N. Y. Times.
“It is a pity that work so admirable as the stories mentioned and some others should be jostled by work so feeble and inferior as ‘The diamonds’ and several stories better unnamed.”
+ − Acad. 71: 161. Ag. 18, ’06. 390w.
“Will appeal to students of human nature, and lovers of analytical and psychological stories, but not the casual fiction reader.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 136. My. ’07.
“The book exhibits to advantage the author’s creative power and artistry.”
+ Ath. 1906, 2: 545. N. 3. 200w.
“One can only wonder that a novelist of Mr. Maartens’ standing has cared to gather in permanent form these unimportant contributions to various periodicals.” A. Schade van Westrum.
+ − Bookm. 25: 190. Ap. ’07. 820w.
“The skill in representing women joined with one or other of the hatreds makes up more than a few vivid stories of action and the number of apparently swiftly sketched moments, impressions of persons and moods, which have the artistic quality of a fine etching and must have taken quite as much work.”
+ − Lond. Times. 5: 284. Ag. 17, ’06. 390w.
“The tales in the present collection display in form a factitious versatility; in substance they are rather monotonous.”
− + Nation. 84: 201. F. 28, ’07. 420w.
“This present sheaf of short stories gives evidence, for the most part, of little more than the habit of writing, although there is, now and then, a bit of clever craftsmanship or a stroke of subtle character-drawing.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 95. F. 16, ’07. 190w.
“There is a fineness and acuteness in these sketches, for they are little more, that few fiction writers of our day could equal.”
+ Outlook. 85: 717. Mr. 23, ’07. 60w.
+ − R. of Rs. 35: 762. Je. ’07. 40w.
Mabie, Hamilton Wright. Famous stories every child should know; ed. by Hamilton W. Mabie, assisted by Kate Stephens. **90c. Doubleday.
7–29005.
“Dickens, Ruskin, Hawthorne, Ouida are among the authors represented, and the Biblical story of Ruth is also included. There is an introduction by Mr. Mabie in which he emphasizes the value of really good literature for children and the unfortunate amount of cheap literature written especially for them, and the uselessness of the goody-good and unreal stories.”—N. Y. Times.
“Will be found more useful for reference than general reading.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 208. N. ’07.
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 80w.
+ Outlook. 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 70w.
Mabie, Hamilton Wright, ed. Heroes every child should know. **90c Doubleday.
6–36046.
“Heroic figures of many races, ages, and types are here presented for young people to admire—some legendary, some semi-legendary, but for the most part men of actual and recorded deed, like David, Roland, King Alfred, Robert Bruce, Washington, Lee, Lincoln, and Father Damien. The stories are told by recognized writers of ability and fame, and the narratives have been selected not only because of the subjects but because of dramatic and vivid story-telling power.”—Outlook.
Nation. 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 40w.
“To read it strengthens one’s pride in humanity.”
+ Outlook. 84: 677. N. 17, ’06. 150w.
“Most happy in its title as in its contents.”
+ R. of Rs. 34: 764. D. ’06. 40w.
Mabie, Hamilton Wright. Legends that every child should know; a selection of the great legends of all times for young people; il. and decorated by Blanche Ostertag. **90c. Doubleday.
6–32353.
Legends as told by famous authors in verse and prose, with some adaptation from other collections. Among them are Hiawatha, Beowulf, Childe Horn, Sir Galahad, Rustem and Sohrab, The seven sleepers of Ephesus, Guy of Warwick, Chevy Chase, The fate of the children of Lir, The beleaguered city, Prester John, The wandering Jew, King Robert of Sicily, The life of Beato Torello da Poppi, The Lorelei, The passing of Arthur, Rip Van Winkle, The gray champion, The legend of Sleepy Hollow.
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 22. Ja. ’07. ✠
“A book judiciously supervised by Mr. Mabie.”
+ Ind. 61: 1410. D. 22, ’06. 30w.
“Many an older person would profit by conning the legends. Mr. Mabie’s introduction is interesting, even though not illuminating.”
+ Nation. 83: 485. D. 6, ’06. 90w.
McAdoo, William. Guarding a great city. **$2. Harper.
6–18052.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The volume would have been much stronger had the author dropped the controversial tone and found a more logical arrangement for his material.”
+ + − Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 219. Ja. ’07. 320w.
McAllister, Addams Stratton. Alternating current motors. *$3. McGraw pub.
6–42400.
“This is a general treatise on single-phase and polyphase induction motors, synchronous motors and convertors, and single-phase commutator motors.”—Engin. N.
“The book is good, plain physics from beginning to end.”
+ Engin. N. 57: 83. Ja. 17, ’07. 230w.
McArthur, Peter. Prodigal and other poems. *$1. Kennerley.
7–19470.
Two score verses which range in subject from a mother’s lullaby to an Indian wind song, from Bob Fitzsimmons to Sarah Bernhardt, from sentiment to slang.
274“Is a thoughtful poet, although his inspiration is apt to be a little tame.” Wm. M. Payne.
− + Dial. 43: 92. Ag. 16, ’07. 260w.
“Shakespeare himself stands like a ghost behind the word-play and clever artistry of Peter McArthur.” Christian Gauss.
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 400w.
McCabe, Joseph. Talleyrand: a biographical study; with 25 portraits including a photogravure frontispiece. *$3. Appleton.
7–35192.
The author aims to present Talleyrand as a “consistent and intelligible personality.” The study is a defense of the man “who had faith in no principle, gratitude to no master, loyalty to no cause; who loved money, power and pleasure and sought each without scruple.”
“From the historical point of view the book cannot be compared with Lady Blennerhasset’s detailed biography.”
+ − A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 99. Ap. ’07.
“He has written a readable book, giving an artistic sketch of the life of one of the most remarkable men, and certainly the most skilful diplomatist of the period; but the work is at several points sketchy and inadequate, and lacking here and there in knowledge and soundness of judgment.”
+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 190. F. 16. 1200w.
“His biography is interesting if not convincing.” Joseph O’Connor.
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 137. Mr. 9, ’07. 3840w.
“Mr. McCabe, accordingly, must be said to have failed completely in his efforts to make out a case for the gentleman of many governments—albeit he has done some service in brushing away sundry myths that in the course of the years have clustered about the figure of this man of mystery.”
− + Outlook. 86: 336. Je. 15, ’07. 610w.
“Has set out to solve the enigma, and in the solution to redeem his subject’s reputation. That his task was difficult Mr. McCabe, doubtless, would not deny; that he has been to some extent successful in this task is high praise, nothing but the highest praise is due to his masterly and fascinating defence.”
+ − Spec. 98: sup. 111. Ja. 26, ’07. 2400w.
McCarthy, Justin Huntley. Illustrious O’Hagen. †$1.50. Harper.
6–39729.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A clever, but scarcely edifying story.”
+ − Cath. World. 85: 104. Ap. ’07. 100w.
“Here ends our entertainment, a romantic one withal, and a merry.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 12: 145. Mr. 1, ’07. 290w.
“It is a stirring tale written with the author’s accustomed grace and with a certain wanton sprightliness, which, for all its fascination, is a distinct lowering of his literary standards after the grave beauty and fine exaltation with which he wrote ‘The flower of France.’”
+ Ind. 62: 677. Mr. 21, ’07. 220w.
McCarthy, Justin Huntley. Needles and pins. †$1.50. Harper.
7–18594.
The old adage of “When a man marries his trouble begins,” is here applied to François Villon, the “beggar rhymer” whom Louis of France ennobled when Lady Katherine of Vaucelles loved and married him. When the story opens they have begun their married life on Katherine’s estate in Poitou, where her new lord is ill received. There is much fighting and bloodshed and also much marital skirmishing before Villon wins his wife’s respect and learns how to keep her love.
“Notable in the novel are its gaiety and brightness, and its deft literary workmanship. We must not seek dull realism here; it is a field of sheer entertainment.”
+ Ath. 1907, 1: 693. Je. 8. 180w.
“The tale is told with quiet humour, sympathy, and an underlying vein of poetry that lends a definite charm to many of the pages.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ Bookm. 25: 500. Jl. ’07. 370w.
“Mr. McCarthy presents Villon in the light of a perfectly monogamous Shelley. Apart from this somewhat trying piece of originality, the book has merit.”
+ − Nation. 84: 567. Je. 20, ’07. 260w.
“It is a more thoughtful book than ‘If I were king,’ a harder book to write, a book with much subtle analysis, and quite probably McCarthy himself likes it better. It’s a question whether the public, fain to stay unjarred in their rose-colored dream of romantic passion, will agree with his possible estimate.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 387. Je. 15, ’07. 450w.
Sat. R. 103: 690. Je. 1, ’07. 280w.
McClellan, Elisabeth. Historic dress in America, 1607–1800. **$10; hf. lev. or mor. **$20. Jacobs.
4–33115.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“The chapter on uniforms in America, 1775–1800, is more complete than anything of the kind we have seen before, and the glossary of the nomenclature of dress, while it is hardly so full as that to be found in the ‘Cyclopaedia of costume,’ is curious and useful.”
+ + Acad. 72: 245. Mr. 9, ’07. 450w.
“Elisabeth McClellan and Sophie Steel have written and illustrated a work invaluable for reference on the subject of dress in America. The pictures, often copied from originals yet extant, are beautiful; the portraits of governors most interesting; and the glossary of the odd language of dress—it rivals that of heralds in eccentricity—is extremely useful.”
+ + Lond. Times. 6: 18. Ja. 18, ’07. 1550w.
* MacClintock, Porter Lander. Literature in the elementary school. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–37019.
Such topics are discussed as the service rendered by literature in the education of children, the kind of literature and the elements of literature serviceable in the elementary school, the story, folk-tale and fairy-story, hero-tales, nature and animal stories, symbolistic stories, fables, poetry and drama. The presentation of the literature, the correlations of literature and outside reading are also treated.
McClure, Alexander Kelly. Old time notes of Pennsylvania. 2v. *$8. Winston.
6–9611.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
N. Y. Times. 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 140w.
MacColl, Hugh. Symbolic logic and its applications. *$1.50. Longmans.
7–29053.
“Points on which he lays considerable stress, and in which he does not command the uniform assent of the other symbolic logicians, are these:—(a) that he takes statements and not terms to be in all cases and necessarily the ultimate constituents of symbolic reasoning; (b) that he goes quite beyond the ordinary notation of the symbolists in classifying propositions according to such attributes as true, false, certain, impossible, variable; (c) that in regard to the existential import of propositions, while other symbolists define the null class O as containing no members, and understand it as contained in every class, real or unreal, he, on the other hand, defines it as consisting of the null or unreal members, O1, O2, O3, &c., and considers it to be excluded from every real class. A chapter is devoted to the solution of Prof. Jevon’s so-called inverse problem.”—Nature.
“There are some respects in which Mr. MacColl appears too much dominated by ordinary language. The present volume is interesting and instructive, and the points in which it is 275incontrovertible are much more numerous than those in which it is open to doubt.”
+ − Ath. 1906, 1: 396. Mr. 31. 1480w.
+ − Nature. 75: 1. N. 1, ’06. 190w.
Reviewed by John Grier Hibben.
Philos. R. 16: 190. Mr. ’07. 2020w.
McCook, Henry C. Nature’s craftsmen: popular studies of ants and other insects; il. from nature. **$2. Harper.
7–12257.
A book which has grown out of a series of nature articles printed in Harper’s magazine during the past four years. The papers deal principally with popular phases of insect and aranead life, with themes drawn chiefly from the author’s own specialties, ants and spiders. In addition, the products of some original studies have been included, as, for instance, wild bees, water-striders, caddis-flies, wasps and ant-lions.
“Well written, printed, illustrated and bound.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 168. O. ’07. S.
“One of the most interesting and instructive entomological publications of recent date. Its method is popular in the best sense of the term.”
+ + Ath. 1907, 1: 764. Je. 22. 950w.
Reviewed by George Gladden.
+ + Bookm. 25: 624. Ag. ’07. 230w.
“The character of the contents, the interesting nature of the observation related, and the clearness and grace of the author’s style, all combine to place the book in the first rank of popular natural histories.” Charles Atwood Kofoid.
+ + Dial. 42: 366. Je. 16, ’07. 460w.
“An admirable volume for the open shelves of the public or school library.”
+ + Ind. 62: 1353. Je. 6, ’07. 190w.
“There is throughout a strict adherence to truth and a spirit of careful research. Close to the ideal type of nature book, well written, well printed, and well illustrated.”
+ + Nation. 84: 416. My. 2, ’07. 290w.
“The book is written in a very pleasing style throughout, with the exception of the last few pages, which bear signs of haste.”
+ + − Nature. 76: 516. S. 19, ’07. 410w.
“In his years of close study of insects he has seen many a weird spectacle of which he writes here most entertainingly.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.
“The stories contain so little that is technical, and that little so easily explained, that teachers and others who wish to interest children in insect study will find the book one of the most valuable of all the flood of nature books which recent years have brought forth.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 431. Jl. 6, ’07. 360w.
“Although free from technical terms, Dr. McCook’s work is thoroughly scientific in its treatment.”
+ R. of Rs. 35: 640. My. ’07. 80w.
“Well suited for the general reader who is interested in entomology.”
+ Spec. 99: 367. S. 14, ’07. 120w.
McCrackan, William Denison. Italian lakes. (Little pilgrimages ser.) Il. $2. Page.
7–15494.
“Mr. McCrackan first gives a brief general description of the ‘lakes of azure, lakes of leisure,’ and then takes up, one by one, the lakes themselves, the points of greatest interest upon or near their shores, and the journeys to be made from each.” (N. Y. Times.) “The picturesque towns and villa gardens on the shores are vividly described, and not only those which are famous the world over, but many which have succeeded in shyly hiding their loveliness from all eyes but those of the author, who has done his work with conscientious thoroness. The last chapters deal with people who had more or less connection with the towns on the lakes.” (Ind.)
“Enthusiastic, trustworthy, but not remarkable in style.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 169. O. ’07.
“A very readable and not unprofitable book.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ Dial. 42: 373. Je. 16, ’07. 220w.
“He is enthusiastic and sympathetic, and every lake and island has for him its own special charm, its own distinctive beauties and its own historical or artistic associations.”
+ Ind. 62: 1357. Je. 6, ’07. 230w.
“It is a pleasure to commend ‘The Italian lakes.’ We have noted a few errors.”
+ − Nation. 84: 565. Je. 20, ’07. 330w.
“He has always a keenly appreciative eye for whatever is striking or picturesque or beautiful, and lets none of it escape the traveler’s attention, from the snowclad peaks in the background to the flowers by the wayside.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 309. My. 11, ’07. 290w.
“Certainly it offers to tourists and sojourners a feast contrasted with the scant fare with which, perforce, they have had to be content in reading their necessarily condensed Baedeker, Meyer, Murray, or Boniforti.”
+ Outlook. 86: 567. Je. 13, ’07. 400w.
McCullough, Ernest. Engineering work in towns and small cities. $3. Technical bk. agency.
7–19430.
“After discussing the city engineer and his duties the author takes up, in turn, roads and streets, sidewalks, curbs and gutters, pavements, sanitation in general, drainage, sewerage, water supply, concrete, building departments, miscellaneous data (in the course of which a few paragraphs on lighting are given), contracts and specifications, office systems, records, field work and engineering data. Appendixes are devoted to concrete mixing machines, trenching machines, bibliography, trade literature and specification index.”—Engin. N.
“The book is unique, for one of its class, in the amount of information it contains on how to do things. Much of this is based on the practical experience of the author, and the balance, for the most part, has been selected with good judgment.”
+ − Engin. N. 56: 638. D. 13, ’06. 490w.
* MacCurdy, Hansford, and Castle, William Ernest. Selection and cross-breeding in relation to inheritance of coat-pigments and coat-patterns in rats and guinea-pigs. (Carnegie institution of Washington. Publication no. 70.) pa. 50c. Carnegie inst.
7–21347.
The results of the authors’ recent researches which have included the study of a thousand animals throughout several generations.
Nation. 85: 266. S. 19, ’07. 170w.
Reviewed by T. H. Morgan.
+ Science, n.s. 26: 751. N. 29, ’07. 480w.
McCutcheon, George Barr. Daughter of Anderson Crow. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–25508.
It is not the real but the adopted daughter of Anderson Crow, town marshal, about whom this story centers. After many adventures including a kidnapping and a hold up, in which the inhabitants of the small western village in which the tale is set, play a part, the parentage of Rosalie is discovered and her real wealth and position made known.
“The humour and spirit of the book are well sustained by the illustrations.”
+ Ath. 1907, 2: 613. N. 16. 170w.
“Since the pursuit of literature, on the part of both authors and publishers—has transmuted itself from the desire to do something worth 276while into the endeavor to hit the bull’s eye of popular taste, that fact is perhaps justification for Mr. McCutcheon’s numerous books. Otherwise it is impossible to understand why they should be either written or published.”
− N. Y. Times. 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 670w.
“In addition to the various good qualities of the author shown in the book there is a good bit of character drawing in Crow.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
“Mr. McCutcheon, who told a good story in ‘Jane Cable,’ tells a better one in ‘The daughter of Anderson Crow.’”
+ Sat. R. 104: 582. N. 9, ’07. 270w.
McCutcheon, George Barr. Jane Cable. †$1.50. Dodd.
6–27704.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The plot does not strike one as being particularly probable, and the action is a little jerky and uncertain.”
− + Ath. 1907, 2: 11. Jl. 6. 80w.
Current Literature. 42: 459. Ap. ’07. 850w.
“It is admirably done up to a point, but somehow it fails to carry conviction. It is at least a hundred pages too long. It is discursive where it should be reticent, verbose where it should be merely suggestive.”
− + Sat. R. 104: 369. S. 21, ’07. 540w.
McDavid, Mittie Owen. Princess Pocahontas. $1.25. Neale.
7–32383.
A simple story of Pocahontas, her brief career and her relation to the English colonists.
* Macdonald, Alexander. In search of El Dorado: a wanderer’s experiences. $2. Jacobs.
“True romances, no fiction with the ‘Deus ex machina,’ at the psychological moment, but unadorned risks, escapes, and adventures ... and little epics of comradeship—impressions of men to whom gold and jewels are much, but to whom loyalty is the one thing better.” They are adventures of the Klondike, the Never-Never Land of Australia, and British New Guinea.
“The chief merit of the work lies in its graphic pictures of life in the mining camps, and of the quaint humours of their inmates, whom the author portrays in the most kindly spirit. As Mr. Macdonald in his preface lays claim to entire accuracy in geographical detail, we may mention one or two points on which his memory seems to be at fault.”
+ − Ath. 1905, 2: 759. D. 2. 520w.
“At times his adventures are a little too marvelous, the coincidences a bit too striking, and the luck or ill-luck slightly too much colored; but we can appreciate the stories for they are capitally told.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ − Dial. 43: 374. D. 1, ’07. 170w.
“Their adventures are worth the telling, and Mr. Macdonald has told them well. These are right good stories.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 699. N. 2, ’07. 140w.
“He has experiences to recount which we do not expect to find outside the boy’s adventure book. He writes admirably and picturesquely, notwithstanding his reminder that he knows more of the rifle than the pen.”
+ Sat. R. 100: sup. 10. O. 14, ’05. 320w.
“No book of the kind we have come across for long so decidedly merits reading.”
+ + Spec. 97: sup. 473. O. 6, ’06. 180w.
MacDonald, Frederick W. In a nook with a book. *$1. Scribner.
7–24202.
“Mr. Macdonald’s eighteen short chapters touch on all sorts of themes dear to bibliophiles.... While he writes understandingly of the church fathers and historians, and of the Anglican divines, from Latimer and Jewell to Mozley and Liddon, this ministerial book-lover can also gossip about Pepys and Mrs. Piozzi and Charles Lamb, and is even caught quoting, with admirable effect, from Eugene Field’s ‘Bibliomaniac’s prayer.’”—Dial.
“It is clear that, like some divines of an older period, he belongs both to literature and religion.”
+ + Ath. 1907, 1: 45. Ja. 12. 340w.
“A little volume of unusual charm. This is the most brightly entertaining book about books that has fallen into our hands for a long time.”
+ + Dial. 43: 169. S. 16, ’07. 400w.
“Of actual criticism in Mr. Macdonald’s book there is little, but that good.”
+ Lond. Times. 6: 20. Ja. 18, ’07. 790w.
Macdonald, Frederika. Jean Jacques Rousseau: a new criticism. *$6.50. Putnam.
7–11002.
An “attempt to rehabilitate” the character of Rousseau by showing that he has ever been viewed in the light of the false reputation which attached itself to him as the result of a conspiracy between two contemporaries.
“Mrs. Macdonald has presented a very good case in a very bad manner. Her book is narrow in scope, and written in an uncritical frame of mind.”
− + Ath. 1906, 2: 470. O. 20. 1960w.
Current Literature. 42: 175. F. ’07. 1500w.
“So far as the impression made by the book on the present reviewer is concerned, the future of the reputation of ‘the virtuous Jean Jacques Rousseau’ lies still on the knees of the gods.”
+ − Ind. 62: 327. F. 7, ’07. 1230w.
“She writes rather like the advocate who sought to secure the acquittal of his client by abusing the plaintiff’s attorney. That is the weak side of her work. But she has nevertheless made a literary discovery for which credit must be ungrudgingly accorded.”
+ − Lond. Times. 5: 337. O. 5, ’06. 1850w.
“Her work is an honor to her head and heart, and as a repository is indispensable to every Rousseau library.”
+ + Nation. 83: 556. D. 27, ’06. 3490w.
“Mrs. Macdonald has only brushed away some calumniating gossip; the main questions at issue are as they were a century ago.” James Huneker.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 902. D. 29, ’06. 1330w.
“However significant the results of Mrs. MacDonald’s investigations may prove, she herself has not worked them out in a manner above criticism.”
− + Outlook. 86: 337. Je. 15, ’07. 900w.
“The new evidence which she has unearthed is so striking that it cannot be lightly put aside.”
+ Sat. R. 102: 487. O. 20, ’06. 2630w.
* Macdonald, George. Princess and the goblin. il. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–12642.
A charming new edition of George Macdonald’s most popular children’s story. The original wood engravings after the drawings of Arthur Hughes have been retained, and Miss Maria L. Kirk has contributed some attractive colored illustrations embodying the atmosphere and spirit of the story.
+ Nation. 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 70w.
Macdonell, Anne. Touraine and its story; il. by A. B. Atkinson. *$6. Dutton.
W 7–36.
Leisurely does Miss Macdonell conduct her follower thru the land of chateaux, and takes him into the byways of the “thousand valleys.” “Indeed, she finds more of the flavor of by-gone days in the lesser castles, where there are no guides to hurry the visitors, and where the shabbiness 277and quiet decay give the imagination free rein. It is to these that she takes her readers; to the grim fortresses, also, that guarded the lands: to the humble dwellings that nestled in the shadow of the lordly manors; and to the rivers—shy and silent or swift and rapacious—that water this ‘Garden of France.’” (Dial.)
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 99. Ap. ’07.
“The book is especially strong on its historical side.”
+ Ath. 1907. 1: 575. My. 11. 450w.
“Her history systematizes and rounds out the story of the twelve individual chateaux, as told by Miss Lansdale, and her itineraries sometimes duplicate but often supplement the other writers.”
+ Dial. 41: 394. D. 1, ’06. 380w.
+ Ind. 61: 1397. D. 22, ’06. 180w.
“One that, in spite of all the competitors already in the field, will undoubtedly hold its own, so beautiful are many of the illustrations it contains, so freshly is the apparently inexhaustible theme treated.”
+ + Int. Studio. 30: 364. F. ’07. 330w.
“Perhaps the difference between her writing and that of Mr. Cook is chiefly the difference between the man and woman author. His is more complete. Hers is more picturesque, more literary, more diffuse, above all, more personal. It is inseparable from herself as a traveller; and if we sometimes feel a little too much colour, a faint desire for dry bones and for form, we also feel that her style has more charm than that of her predecessor.”
+ + − Lond. Times. 5: 432. D. 28, ’06. 950w.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 811. D. 1, ’06. 160w.
“A sympathetic chronicler has been found in Miss Macdonell who possesses the historical knowledge which is essential in treating of this district of France where every site has its story and association; she also has no little capacity for describing scenery and introducing the incidents appropriate to the locality.”
+ + Sat. R. 103: 56. Ja. 12, ’07. 220w.
“The blemishes are so really insignificant that we feel safe in recommending the book, with its pretty illustrations, to all who care for a fascinating subject.”
+ + − Spec. 98: 121. Ja. 26, ’07. 200w.
McFadyen, John Edgar. Prayers of the Bible. $1.75. Armstrong.
7–7187.
“Contains valuable devotional and liturgical material, together with discussions of the character and content of both Old and New Testament petitions.” (Ind.) It is divided into four parts; The prayers of the Bible, Modern prayer, The prayers of the Bible collected and classified, and Biblical prayers for modern use.
“It is a timely contribution to the understanding of the devotional elements in the Bible by an interpreter thoroughly in sympathy with the modern scientific and historical spirit.”
+ Bib. World. 28: 159. F. ’07. 60w.
“The method of the author is scientific, the spirit devout. The study of biblical prayer is of interest alike to the student of the Bible and to the man of religious life and temper whether he be a student or not. To both, this volume will prove of interest and value.” Frederick Carl Eislen.
+ Bib. World. 30: 297. O. ’07. 600w.
+ Ind. 62: 742. Mr. 28, ’07. 60w.
+ Outlook. 84: 941. D. 15, ’06. 60w.
MacFall, Haldane. Ibsen, the man, his art and his significance; il. by Joseph Simpson. *$1.50. Shepard, Morgan.
7–3098.
A running narrative composed of the plots of the plays and the incidents of the biography. The material is drawn chiefly from Jaeger, Brandes, Gosse, Archer and Boyesen.
“Boiled down, his enthusiastic chapters amount to a fair exposition of some portions of Ibsen’s genius.”
+ − Acad. 72: 283. Mr. 23, ’07. 30w.
A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 124. My. ’07.
“His individual contribution is a jerky emotional commentary, which makes a brave pretense of being impressive, but exhibits no particular insight or sense of perspective.”
− Dial. 42: 116. F. 16, ’07. 270w.
“This book ... is a curious compound of indiscriminating eulogy and sound criticism.”
+ − Nation. 84: 137. F. 7, ’07. 680w.
“We fear MacFall has read too much Shaw.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 242. Ap. 13, ’07. 610w.
“On the whole, though doubtless Mr. MacFall would resent it, his book is a good one for beginners.”
+ − Putnam’s. 2: 120. Ap. ’07. 110w.
McGaffey, Ernest. Outdoors: a book of the woods, fields and marshlands. **$1.25. Scribner.
7–14649.
“Mr. McGaffey’s book tells of the pleasures of out-door life in the fields and prairies and marshlands of the northern part of the Mississippi valley, and it is written from the point of view of the hunterman and fisherman who take the chase of fur, scales, and feathers more as an excuse for getting into the open than as an object in itself.”—N. Y. Times.
Reviewed by George Gladden.
− Bookm. 25: 623. Ag. ’07. 410w.
“The advice to sportsmen which the book contains is not full enough or new enough to compensate for the disappointment this point of view causes the nature lover. Nevertheless, Mr. McGaffey’s appreciation of the background of these naturalistic plays in one act is so delicate and often so poetically worded as to gain him grateful acknowledgment.” May Estelle Cook.
+ − Dial. 42: 370. Je. 16, ’07. 550w.
“The style of the book vouches for itself.”
+ Ind. 62: 1354. Je. 6, ’07. 70w.
Nation. 85: 56. Jl. 18, ’07. 100w.
“Will give a pleasant hour to any one who loves and knows the out-of-doors.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 284. My. 4, ’07. 330w.
+ R. of Rs. 36: 127. Jl. ’07. 60w.
McGehee, Lucius Polk. Due process of law under the federal Constitution. $3. Thompson.
6–32130.
A volume which “deals accurately and clearly with a subject of which some phase or other is under daily discussion. The regulation of railway rates, the protection against impure food, the suppression of child labor and of monopolies, the validity of a decree for divorce based on constructive service, are but a few of the problems in which ‘due process’ is involved.... The rules expounded are as far as possible based on decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States.” (Nation.)
“The author ... succeeds in being concise as well as readable; and he criticises modestly, but firmly.”
+ Nation. 84: 133. F. 7, ’07. 190w.
“The text of the book is admirably unobstructed by confusing detail.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 624. O. 6, ’06. 1160w.
“He displays a sense of proportion and a faculty for generalization, arrangement and concise and exact statement which render his work lucid and readable and remarkably free from the clumsiness of much legal writing.” Thomas Reed Powell.
+ Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 541. S. ’07. 1180w.
278McGinley, Anna M. A. Profit of love: studies in altruism; with preface by Rev. George Tyrrell. **$1.50. Longmans.
7–4504.
“Is the world growing in love as well as in knowledge? This is the fundamental question dealt with in the present volume of essays on human love and its relation to our common daily experiences.... The dedication of the series ‘to my neighbor’ is significant, and the aim of the author thruout is to show from a study of the elementary laws of natural growth that the trend of all human progress is toward universal brotherhood, enlightened and sustained by a supremely dominant altruism rather than by man-made laws.... It deals with principles rather than with their practical application, tho many useful hints in this direction can be easily gathered by way of influence.”—Ind.
“The main point is: Has this book power and vitality enough to arouse views, thoughts, ambitions of any kind in the mind of its readers? This book has that power and vitality, and we wish a wide circulation for it.”
+ + Cath. World. 84: 705. F. ’07. 840w.
“The book is deeply spiritual, but it does not belong to the conventional and still less the conventual type of such writings. Certain accepted educational and religious notions are called in question with a frankness which, while it may alarm the timid, cannot fail to prove stimulating to the thoughtful, and for these alone the book is intended.”
+ Ind. 63: 162. Jl. 18, ’07. 390w.
McGrath, Harold. Best man. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–30162.
Three stories: “The best man,” “Two candidates,” and “The adventures of Mr. ‘Shifty’ Sullivan,” make up this volume. The first is the story of a young lawyer who finds that the millionaire father of the girl he loves has made more millions by a dishonest transaction and he is torn between love and duty of disclosure. He chooses duty, but the girl’s grandfather comes to the rescue and the honest lawyer is able to keep her love and to see the wrong righted. The second is a tale of love and politics, and the last tells of how a young minister fought a good fight.
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 687. O. 26, ’07. 170w.
+ Outlook. 87: 451. O. 26, ’07. 140w.
MacGrath, Harold. Half a rogue. †$1.50. Bobbs.
6–43779.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“There is nothing new and striking about the story as a study of American life; while as a romance pure and simple it is far inferior to the ‘Man on the box.’” Amy C. Rich.
− + Arena. 37: 221. F. ’07. 190w.
“There is very little plot in the story, tho much diversity of incident marks the rather lively narrative. Upon the whole, it is a good machine-made novel.”
+ − Lit. D. 34: 217. F. 9, ’07. 160w.
“We cannot give unstinted praise to Mr. McGrath’s last novel. His tendency to be epigrammatic is occasionally a trifle wearisome.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 3. Ja. 5, ’07. 880w.
“A bright, entertaining story.”
+ Outlook. 84: 1082. D. 29, ’06. 100w.
Macgregor, David Hutchison. Industrial combination. *$2.50. Macmillan.
7–12496.
“Everything that can be said either in favor of or against trusts, cartels, and unions is stated fairly and minutely.... [The author] analyzes with much skill the various phases of modern organizations—their productive efficiency, the greater or less risk as compared with competitive methods, their bargaining strength, their resources—and discusses at length their relation to labor, especially in connection with trade unions. He sums up his general views in the two final chapters—the attitude of public opinion and legislation.”—J. Pol. Econ.
“No student of combinations can afford to dispense with this book and no reader will fail to learn from it. Copious material has been used, but it has been so adequately digested that the reader will nowhere find himself overburdened with detail, though the touch of reality is preserved throughout by the illustrations selected. The arrangement suits well the method of treatment.” S. J. Chapman.
+ − Int. J. Ethics. 17: 393. Ap. ’07. 990w.
“Mr. Macgregor’s style and mode of presentation are disappointing. His method, while detailed, is essentially abstract. There is no guiding purpose visible in the work. It is altogether a fair and impartial study of the subject, and in this respect is wholly admirable. But there seems to be no point to which the author is aiming. It is as if he did not see the wood for the trees, and yet the trees are all abstractions, not concrete things. This quality will prove a serious handicap to the success of the work.” Garrett Droppers.
+ − J. Pol. Econ. 15: 120. F. ’07. 710w.
“The most careful scientific study which has yet been made in this field of investigation. Mr. Macgregor’s conclusions are generally as sane as his methods of procedure are correct. The chief, if not the only ground for criticism is his disposition to take too seriously ‘official’ material dealing with the trust movement in the United States.”
+ − Nation. 84: 153. F. 14, ’07. 230w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 768. N. 17, ’06. 310w.
“Mr. Macgregor does not share the view of his compatriot, Mr. Macrosty, that cartels and trusts are stages in a movement toward socialism. The reasons for his dissent from that view are given in the third division of his book and must be considered the least satisfactory part of his work.” Henry L. Moore.
+ − Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 337. Je. ’07. 660w.
Spec. 97: 177. F. 2, ’07. 300w.
“Perhaps the most instructive feature of the work is its discussion of the effects of the protective tariff upon the operation of the trusts. On the whole the work is a valuable addition to the literature of the general trust movement. It is, however, likely to find its chief usefulness among the scholarly students of the subject since it is marred by the constant use of technical terms many of which seem to have been coined by the author and which he does not usually explain.” Maurice H. Robinson.
+ + Yale R. 16: 330. N. ’07. 1050w.
Mach, Edmund Robert Otto von. Outlines of the history of painting, from 1200–1900 A. D. *$1.50. Ginn.
6–30483.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In small compass is given all the information that has so far been scattered through encyclopedias.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 65. F. 2, ’07. 310w.
Mach, Ernst. Space and geometry in the light of physiological, psychological, and physical inquiry. *$1. Open ct.
6–34085.
“The first essay deals with the relation of the spatial concept to the senses. In the second we have an attempt to trace the natural development of geometry from psychological causes, while the last essay discusses the subject from the point of view of physical inquiry. Incidentally, a number of illustrations are introduced, some of which are admirably adapted for teaching purposes.”—Nature.
“The translation is well-nigh perfect.”
+ Nation. 83: 519. D. 13, ’06. 580w.
“There could be no more suitable book for giving the elementary or secondary teacher some intelligent ideas about geometry than Dr. Mach’s series of essays.”
+ Nature. 75: 603. Ap. 25, ’07. 210w.
279“We certainly have to thank the Open court publishing company for adding this little book to the other works of Professor Mach that they have published in English.” W. T. Marvin.
+ Psychol. Bull. 4: 259. Ag. 15, ’07. 670w.
Machen, Arthur. Hill of dreams; il. by S. H. Sime. †$1.50. Estes.
“The ‘Hill of dreams’ is a study of the perverted mental and moral development of a boy with an absorbing love of the beautiful. ‘Beauty for beauty’s sake’ and ‘art for art’s sake’ his cult are accustomed to call it when they drench a poisonous swamp with perfumes and cover it with rose leaves.”—N. Y. Times.
“There is something sinister in the beauty of Mr. Machen’s book. It is like some strangely shaped orchid, the colour of which is fierce and terrible, and its perfume is haunting to suffocation by reason of its intolerable sweetness.”
+ − Acad. 72: 273. Mr. 16, ’07. 330w.
“His Muse is a kind of Lilith—not a drop of her blood is human—and thus, except from the decorative point of view, he leaves us cold.”
− + Ath. 1907, 1. 317. Mr. 16. 410w.
“Although written with noticeable ability, the book in itself has not sufficient strength to deserve attention here, did it not mark a curious morbid phase of English fiction in which sound, color, and scent are put to superfine uses by neurotic young gentlemen who should be shut up, or set at manual labor.”
− + Nation. 85: 37. Jl. 11, ’07. 420w.
“This ‘Hill of dreams’ is like nothing so much as a long-drawn-out bad dream from which one awakens with a feeling of thankfulness that it isn’t true, after all.”
− N. Y. Times. 12: 457. Jl. 20, ’07. 190w.
Mackail, John William, ed. Select epigrams from the Greek anthology. *75c. Longmans.
“A new edition of ... a book which has long been out of print.... The word ‘epigram’ is the equivalent of ‘inscriptions,’ and the greater number of the pieces have this character,—lines inscribed on tombs and altars and votive offerings and family memorials. In the anthology as we know it to-day other verses have been added, fragments of idylls, lyrics, quotations, from forgotten gnomic and dramatic poets.”—Spec.
“Mr. Mackail’s introduction is an entirely delightful piece of work. The subtle and beautifully expressed analysis of the Oxford professor of poetry makes it quite a different thing from the ordinary introduction to a classical edition.” R. Y. Tyrrell.
+ Acad. 72: 85. Ja. 26, ’07. 1560w.
“This little volume alone suggests that Greek is ‘worth while.’”
+ Ath. 1907, 1: 441. Ap. 13. 140w.
“Would that the number of Americans who could make use of so delightful a book were many times greater.”
+ Nation. 84: 432. My. 9, ’07. 40w.
“Its charm is its homeliness, its intimate appeal, and its amazing range.”
+ Spec. 97: 779. N. 17, ’06. 1580w.
“It is not easy to choose where there is so much beauty and pathos.”
+ Spec. 98: 581. Ap. 13, ’07. 220w.
MacKaye, James. Economy of happiness. **$2.50. Little.
6–28423.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The volume seems to be the work of a man who has not stopped learning, and who is likely to use the clues in the present argument to good purpose in further study of social problems. He is well entitled to a hearing. The absence of an index is unfortunate.” A. W. S.
+ − Am. J. Soc. 12: 566. Ja. ’07. 920w.
“Is an elevated and closely knit moral system with an outcome frankly socialistic.” John Graham Brooks.
+ Atlan. 99: 279. F. ’07. 580w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 119. F. 24, ’06. 110w.
MacKaye, James. Politics of utility: the technology of happiness—applied: being book 3 of “The economy of happiness.” **50c. Little.
6–37899.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is well written and contains some very incisive criticisms of modern society, and several interesting economic distinctions and theories, but on the whole, it can be fairly said that the average thinker would find difficulty in seeing just where the proposed scheme differs from modern socialism.”
+ − Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 641. My. ’07. 250w.
Ind. 62: 102. Ja. 10, ’07. 80w.
J. Pol. Econ. 15: 313. My. ’07. 140w.
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 45. Ja. 26, ’07. 120w.
Spec. 98: 1007. Je. 29, ’07. 230w.
Mackaye, Percy Wallace. Jeanne d’Arc. *$1.25. Macmillan.
6–35545.
“In constructing his drama Mr. Mackaye has focused the interest upon the child nature of the present heroine—the simplicity that the records abundantly show was hers—and the mystery of power and inspiration behind that simplicity. The contrasting character is the Duc d’Alençon, a skeptic with a rationalism which differs in no essential from that now in vogue.”—N. Y. Times.
“A dignified and poetic treatment of one of the noblest of all possible themes. Such publications are among the most welcome signs of the times.”
+ Dial. 41: 463. D. 16, ’06. 60w.
“There are passages that quite thrill you in the first act of Jeanne d’Arc. But at the same time there is a kind of inconsequence about the piece as a whole which destroys, at least to some extent, the effect.”
+ − Ind. 63: 222. Jl. 25, ’07. 400w.
“It is a succession of moods and pictures with no real dramatic knot, and with but one or two dramatic situations; and the traditions of Jeanne d’Arc are sentimentalized to such a degree that they cease to be quite convincing, either as history or as material for tragedy embodying a criticism of life.”
− Nation. 83: 440. N. 23, ’06. 220w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 806. D. 1, ’06. 240w.
“An excellent poetical drama eminently fitted for the stage.” Louise Collier Willcox.
+ No. Am. 186: 96. S. ’07. 110w.
“While Mr. Mackaye has not succeeded in fusing this mass of material into a wholly organic drama, he has succeeded much more nearly in doing so than would have seemed probable at the outset.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ − Putnam’s. 2: 348. Je. ’07. 240w.
Mackaye, Percy Wallace. Sappho and Phaon: a tragedy, set forth with a prologue, induction, prelude, interludes, and epilogue. **$1.25. Macmillan.
7–17376.
In the prologue of this drama the dramatist has imagined the players’ quarter of a theatre of Herculaneum to be unearthed. An archaeologist present finds a papyrus scroll containing the players’ copy of “Sappho and Phaon.” The play presents Sappho created entirely from the bits of her verse that have been preserved. Among Sappho’s lovers are Pittacus, the Mitylene tyrant, and Alcaeus, while Sappho herself loves Phaon, a slave, who is bound to his slave mate Thalassa. Pittacus relinquishes his suit while Alcaeus persecutes Phaon. The tragedy grows out of these conditions, and into it are woven the traditional vengeance of the gods, with the modern note of symbolism and mysticism.
280“The trait that lingers in the mind as the finest promise is the way in which he has invested the old passionate story with intimations of tender and wistful humanity.” Ferris Greenlet.
+ Atlan. 100: 848. D. ’07. 700w.
“The least convincing episodes in Mr. MacKaye’s very unusual and interesting work are those in which, to suit his own fancy rather than fact, he has endeavored to restore to us the life, customs and habits of the ancient Roman stage.”
+ − Ind. 63: 569. S. 5, ’07. 650w.
+ Ind. 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 80w.
“Dr. Mackaye’s work is the most notable addition that has been made for many years to American dramatic literature. It is a true poetic tragedy, classic in form and spirit, not always glowing with the fire of genius, but nevertheless charged with happy inspiration; dignified, eloquent, passionate, imaginative; and thoroughly human in its emotions.”
+ + Nation. 84: 504. My. 30, ’07. 1060w.
“A work of unusual merit, in which the author’s high aspirations are measurably justified by his powers of expression, and his feeling for the spirit of Greek life and art is shown to be allied with knowledge.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 332. My. 25, ’07. 1540w.
“Considered as a poem to be read ... ‘Sappho and Phaon’ surpasses all his earlier productions. Considered as a play to be acted, it does not pass beyond their ineffectiveness.” Clayton Hamilton.
+ − No. Am. 185: 880. Ag. 16, ’07. 1490w.
“Here once more Mr. Mackaye’s fantasticality runs riot.” Louise Collier Willcox.
− No. Am. 186: 96. S. ’07. 140w.
+ + Outlook. 86: 452. Je. 29, ’07. 460w.
* McKenzie, F. A. Unveiled East. *$3.50. Dutton.
A serious dissertation upon the growing imperialism of Japan as attested by her territorial expansion, increased fighting power, and aggressive commercial campaign. The author offers his deductions as a warning to Great Britain and the United States whose trade and prestige are being threatened.
“We are inclined to fear some little prejudice on the author’s part.”
+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 575. My. 11. 520w.
“His book is well-balanced and reserved in opinion and in fact, and makes interesting and profitable reading for anyone concerned in Far Eastern affairs.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ Dial. 43: 372. D. 1, ’07. 370w.
“Altho Mr. McKenzie’s book is avowedly written for a purpose ... it is not lacking in entertaining descriptions of the countries he has visited, and furnishes, on the whole, a valuable contribution to the literature dealing with the problems of the Far East.”
+ Lit. D. 35: 796. N. 23, ’07. 390w.
“Although we are quite unable to accept all Mr. McKenzie’s conclusions with regard either to Japan, China, or Russia, his book certainly constitutes a skilful presentation of the case of Korea.”
+ + − Lond. Times. 6: 238. Ag. 2, ’07. 1200w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 474. Ag. 3, ’07. 1100w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“We call it ‘remarkable’ for, though the book is full of faults of manner, including an undue sentimentality, and of arrangement, including constant repetitions, yet it has the great merit of stating adequately a point of view which has hitherto been confined to the conversation of certain Far East residents.”
+ − Spec. 99: 262. Ag. 24, ’07. 1150w.
Mackenzie, John Steuart. Lectures on humanism. (Ethical lib.) **$1.25. Macmillan.
7–33950.
“Prof. Mackenzie’s own humanism is described as ‘a point of view from which human life is regarded as an independent centre of interest’—as contrasted with a naturalism and supernaturalism which seek the explanation of human life either in the forces around man or in some powers distinct from man and those forces. In the light of that description the influence of humanism in philosophy, politics, economics, education, and religion is studied, and the two closing chapters examine the limitations and implications of humanism.”—Nature.
“Prof. Mackenzie’s lectures provide excellent reading. The metaphysical expert is offered, in a final lecture, a few choice nuts to crack; whilst for the sociological expert—if, indeed, there is such a person, it matters less if the argument comes scarcely within bowing distance of him.”
+ − Ath. 1907, 2: 437. O. 12. 730w.
Ind. 63: 1369. D. 5, ’07. 820w.
“While in the earlier part of the book discussions are somewhat abstract and sometimes obscure, even those not metaphysically trained can read with perfect understanding, lectures iv-ix., which deal with the applications of these teleological principles to politics, economics, education, and religion.”
+ − Nation. 85: 448. N. 14, ’07. 600w.
“Prof. Mackenzie fears that the style of treatment may be regarded as sketchy; sketchy it is, and the title of the volume perhaps induces expectations that are not realised; but undeniably the work has substantial merits.”
+ − Nature. 76: 220. Jl. 4, ’07. 250w.
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 512. Ag. 24, ’07. 300w.
* MacKinlay, Malcolm Sterling. Antoinette Sterling and other celebrities. **$3.50 Appleton.
These stories and impressions of artistic circles have for their central figure Madame Sterling. In her youth she studied under the most famous teachers of Europe and later became an interesting factor in American music tho “no singer is likely in the future to achieve such a position as she undoubtedly held with so limited a repertory or such disregard for the higher technical developments of the art.” (Spec.)
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
“Mr. MacKinlay’s memoir of his mother, written in a spirit of true filial piety, yet with refreshing candour, is well worth reading by amateurs as well as professionals.” C. L. G.
+ Spec. 96: 617. Ap. 21, ’06. 2100w.
McKinney, Mrs. Kate Slaughter. Silent witness. $1.50. Neale.
6–46772.
A story of hurried action built up about a crime and the accusation of the wrong man.
* Mackinnon, Albert G. Tangible tests for a young man’s faith. *75c. West. Meth. bk.
This book offers a remedy for the belief that one must look to scholars for an answer in all matters pertaining to religious belief. It is intended to aid self help in arriving at conclusions regarding the truth of the gospel.
MacKinnon, James. History of modern liberty. set, *$10. Longmans.
6–15083.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Dr. Mackinnon has produced a superlatively good book, marred only by an occasional looseness of style that detracts from the dignity of an important work.”
+ + − Spec. 98: 421. Mr. 16, ’07. 1690w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
Macklin, Herbert W. The brasses of England. (The antiquary’s books.) *$2.50. Dutton.
7–38576.
“In this volume, the chronological as opposed to the class division has been adopted, with the advantage of bringing its subject into a 281closer relation with history. The earliest brass is that of Sir John Daubernon at Stoke D’Abernon. This is dated 1277. Nineteen other examples belong to the next half-century, the latest but one being another Daubernon at the same place (1327). These are treated at length. The regular series begins with chap. 3. The Plantagenet, Lancastrian, Wars of the roses, and Tudor periods are successively dealt with. A chapter is given to the spoliation of the monasteries, ... and another to the Elizabethan revival. The illustrations are plentiful and excellent.”—Spec.
“The indexes are thorough, and the whole arrangement will be found convenient to the hasty searcher as well as pleasant to the more leisurely reader.”
+ + Ath. 1907. 2: 104. Jl. 27. 580w.
“The numerous and interesting brasses of Lancashire and Yorkshire and of the other northern counties are not included, and his book thus falls short of being a complete account of the brasses of England.”
+ − Ind. 63: 825. O. 3, ’07. 300w.
“Though it contains little that is new, and some of the illustrations have been copied or reduced from those in other books, the author has managed to give a certain freshness to a somewhat hackneyed theme by connecting it more closely than has hitherto been done with the history of the country in which the quaint memorials of the dead he so eloquently describes were produced. The various appendices dealing with minor groups of brasses, which might perhaps have been with advantage incorporated in the text, display a really remarkable grasp of a subject that would appear to be practically inexhaustible.”
+ Int. Studio. 32: 168. Ag. ’07. 220w.
“The entire book is certain to interest students of the literature and art of the centuries in which monumental brasses were produced.”
+ Nation. 85: 312. O. 3, ’07. 800w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 356. Je. 1, ’07. 110w.
Reviewed by Charles De Kay.
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 452. Jl. 20, ’07. 2000w.
“He has already earned a right to champion the cause of brasses, and his thorough and comprehensive survey of them gives him a further claim to plead for their better perservation.”
+ Sat. R. 103: 686. Je. 1, ’07. 900w.
Spec. 98: 425. Mr. 16, ’07. 140w.
Maclaren, Alexander. Expositions of Holy Scripture. 30v. ea. *$1.25. Armstrong.
“A commentary on the entire Bible, in 30 volumes. Sold in series of six volumes. The treatment proceeds on the plan of an ‘anthology of the passages best suited for homiletic treatment in the expository method.’”
ser. 1. Genesis, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Matthew.
ser. 2. Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers; Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth and the First book of Samuel; Second book of Samuel and the First book of Kings; St. Mark, 2 v.; and Acts of the Apostles, 1st. v.
“Full of insight and suggestiveness.”
+ Bib. World. 29: 400. My. ’07. 20w. (Review of first ser.)
“The work is rather voluminous and diffusive, making it cumbersome and expensive for practical use.”
− + Ind. 62: 804. Ap. 4, ’07. 90w. (Review of first ser.)
“Dr. Maclaren is always intent on spiritual truths, felicitous in drawing instructive modern parallels to ancient experiences, ingenious in making unpromising sentences yield fruitful lessons, and putting fresh point into trite texts.”
+ + Outlook. 86: 301. Je. 8, ’07. 200w. (Review of second ser.)
Macleane, Douglas. Reason, thought and language; or, The many and the one: a revised system of logical doctrine in relation to the forms of idiomatic discourse. *$6. Oxford.
7–29051.
A book whose object is “to strengthen and revivify formal logic by bringing into close connection with the living facts of thought and speech.” “His work is rather a restatement and a defence of traditional doctrines.” (Nation.)
“This is a pleasantly written, discursive, fairly comprehensive book on logic, and a notable feature of it is the unusual number, variety, and freshness of the examples given. The chief objection which Mr. Macleane has failed to meet is that the more intentionally formal our logic the less can the actual risk of ‘ambiguous middle’ be taken into account.”
+ − Acad. 71: 606. D. 15, ’06. 620w.
“Apart from the defects of the traditional standpoint, Mr. Macleane’s book has much to recommend it. Though in some places needlessly prolix, the author generally expresses his views with much sense, point, and an abundant supply of appropriate and often humorous examples.”
+ − Ath. 1907, 2: 185. Ag. 17. 1880w.
“In so far as it deals with logic as an art, Mr. Macleane’s book will be useful for reference even if it is too long and discursive for the classroom. In his discussion of extra-logical subjects, he is not always convincing.”
+ − Nation. 84: 291. Mr. 28, ’07. 530w.
“There can be no question of its learning and ability. Formal logic is apt to be heavy reading to the average mind, and the lavish introduction of this relieving element of bright and amusing illustration is a real gain in the lengthy and solid volume before us.”
+ + Sat. R. 104: 518. O. 26, ’07. 1370w.
Macleod, Mary. A book of ballad stories. $1.50. Stokes.
7–35074.
Many old friends will be found in new prose dress. Patient Griselda, The beggar’s daughter of Bethnal Green, Thomas the rhymer, The Robin Hood cycle, King Cophetua and the beggar maid, The friar of orders gray, and two score more.
“Much of the charm of the originals is unavoidably sacrificed in the change of form.”
+ − A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 53. F. ’07.
“Prof. Edward Dowden has written an excellent historical introduction. [She turns] the swinging rhythm into something else without weighing carefully the taste for poetry which young people largely possess.”
− + Ind. 61: 1407. D. 22, ’06. 60w.
McMahan, Mrs. Anna B. Shakespeare’s Christmas gift to Queen Bess. **$1. McClurg.
7–33927.
A story woven around the first presentation of “A midsummer night’s dream” at the court of Queen Elizabeth.
“A whimsical bibelot, which may be counted upon to please fastidious readers both in substance and mechanical features.”
+ Dial. 43: 384. D. 1, ’07. 160w.
McMahan, Anna Benneson, ed. With Byron in Italy; being a selection of the poems and letters of Lord Byron which have to do with his life in Italy from 1816 to 1823. **$1.40. McClurg.
6–34853.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In one sense the compiler is certainly a follower of Byron—in the carelessness of her style. The information which she imparts could be read just as easily in almost any literary history. The selections from the letters and 282poems are aggravatingly cut about by lacunæ and curtailments.”
− Acad. 72: 92. Ja. 26, ’07. 650w.
“Is a pleasant, if not quite equal companion to the admirable ‘With Shelley in Italy,’ which appeared last year. The new book has a little the air of having been made as an afterthought, or to order, because of the merited success of the earlier.” Harriet Waters Preston.
+ − Atlan. 99: 422. Mr. ’07. 500w.
“It does not throw any new light on Byron or help us to more understanding or enjoyment of his poems.”
− Sat. R. 103: 150. F. 2, ’07. 120w.
McMahan, Anna Benneson, ed. With Wordsworth in England. **$1.40. McClurg.
7–31456.
A selection of the poems and letters of William Wordsworth which have to do with English scenery and English life. An author’s viewpoint and the world he looks upon are no where better commanded than from the subjective realm of his own poetry, for that reason this volume of Wordsworth’s verse is offered as “a guide to some of his well-beloved haunts.”
“Mrs. McMahan has already proved herself ... a singularly inspiring guide to intimate acquaintance with recondite poetic treasure.”
+ + Dial. 43: 255. O. 16, ’07. 370w.
Lit. D. 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 80w.
“The volume is thus an excellent supplement to Mr. Rannie’s (which is illustrated less freely), although her own introductions and comments are of no special value.”
+ Nation. 85: 521. D. 5, ’07. 80w.
Reviewed by Bliss Carman.
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 701. N. 2, ’07. 1280w.
McMaster, John Bach. History of the people of the United States, from the Revolution to the Civil war. v. 6, 1830–1842. **$2.50. Appleton.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The volume before us presents a coherent, comprehensive, and illuminating narrative. It is not a series of monographs, but gives the impression of the progressive development of national powers in relation to one another. A few typographical errors have been noted.” C. H. Levermore.
+ + − Am. Hist. R. 12: 899. Jl. ’07. 1230w. (Review of v. 6.)
A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 124. My. ’07. S. (Review of v. 6.)
Reviewed by David Y. Thomas.
+ + − Dial. 42: 179. Mr. 16, ’07. 890w. (Review of v. 6.)
“This big book, which may well be called a life-work, is a mine of information. All the severest demands of the new school as to scholarship and industry are fully met, and there is in it a wholesome human sympathy.” John Spencer Bassett.
+ Putnam’s. 2: 251. My. ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 6.)
McNaugher, John, ed. Psalms in worship; a series of convention papers bearing upon the place of the Psalms in the worship of the church. *$1. Un. Presb.
7–18116.
These papers were presented at two Presbyterian conventions called to promote the claims of the Psalms in the field of worship and they are now published in the hope that they may influence the Christian church at large to “restore the Psalms to their true place in the hearts and on the lips of Christian believers.” The volume contains “a comprehensive statement of the reasons for the exclusive use in worship of the Bible Psalms. Definitely argumentative discussions of a doctrinal and critical kind are in the forefront. Others of broader type succeed.”
Macnaughtan, S. Lame dog’s diary. †$1.50 Dodd.
6–6931.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The whole is like a bit of ‘Cranford’ with a few more masculine complications.” Mary Moss.
+ Atlan. 99: 118. Ja. ’07. 190w.
McPherson, Logan Grant. Working of the railroads. **$1.50. Holt.
6–43941.
“The author does not so much analyze the technical work of the individual railroad departments as the general principles which they pursue in their work.... The separate chapters deal with construction and operation, traffic, accounting and statistics, financial and executive administration, correlation and integration of the railroads and with their relations to the public and the state.” (Ann. Am. Acad.) “It would pay the railroads to buy a million copies of this book and place it in the hands of the public for educational purposes.” (Dial.)
A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 125. My. ’07. S.
“The general and elementary principles of railroad transportation are explained in an interesting way.”
+ − Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 416. Mr. ’07. 210w.
“In a most scientific and careful manner it presents the various functions of railroading.” John J. Halsey.
+ Dial. 42: 282. My. 1. ’07. 1170w.
“The value of the book lies in the fact that it is a clear and concise exposition of its subject, written by one who is both a practical railroad man and a trained economist.”
− + Ind. 62: 1211. My. 23, ’07. 390w.
“While the attitude of Mr. McPherson is naturally favorable to the railroad, he is very fair in his treatment of mooted questions.”
+ J. Pol. Econ. 15: 570. N. ’07. 130w.
“To the subject of actual government control and regulation, and to the arguments that support this agitation, Mr. McPherson has given a careful and impartial study.”
+ Lit. D. 34: 593. Ap. 13, ’07. 290w.
“A modest attempt, distinctly successful within its limits, to explain the operation of an American railway.”
+ Nation. 84: 20. Jl. 4, ’07. 260w.
Outlook. 86: 38. My. 4, ’07. 470w.
“This little volume provides material for instruction in railroad economics, much needed, but difficult of attainment by most teachers.”
+ + Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 559. S. ’07. 120w.
“For those who wish to get a good general outline of the railroad situation in this country without going much into details, Mr. McPherson’s book can be heartily recommended, and not the least important part of it is the list of references with which the book concludes.” Ray Morris.
+ + − Yale R. 16: 326. N. ’07. 1280w.
Macray, Rev. William Dunn. Register of the members of St. Mary Magdalen college. Oxford, from the foundation of the college, v. 5. *$2.50. Oxford.
v. 5. “The present volume consists of two portions. In the first we have extracts from the registers and accounts, in the second biographical notices of fellows and demies,—every one may not know that ‘Demy’ is the Magdalen name for a scholar.... There is a quite indescribable medley of facts in the extracts. All of them will have an interest for members of the college, and many have a general significance.”—Spec.
Ath. 1907. 1: 44. Ja. 12. 490w. (Review of v. 5.)
Nation. 84: 264. Mr. 21, ’07. 170w. (Review of v. 5.)
283“The extracts in the volume have been carefully compiled.”
+ Sat. R. 103: 88. Ja. 19, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 5.)
+ Spec. 97: 685. N. 3, ’06. 370w. (Review of v. 5.)
McSpadden, Joseph Walker. Famous painters of America. **$2.50. Crowell.
7–30413.
This book does not discuss art, altho it deals with artists. The personal and picturesque side of men known to the casual reader is presented here with much amusing anecdote and comment. The lives of Benjamin West, Copley, Stuart, Inness, Vedder, Homer, La Farge, Whistler, Sargent, Abbey and Chase are given and there are three dozen handsome full page illustrations from photographs of the artists and their works.
“The book is not well written, is florid in style, but contains material on some of the later artists of which little is to be found elsewhere except in magazine files or expensive works.”
+ − A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 195. N. ’07.
“It ought to appeal to the holiday buyer who is interested in art from the outside.”
+ Cath. World. 86: 404. D. ’07. 190w.
“While its point of view is popular there is nothing superficial about its method.”
+ Dial. 43: 379. D. 1, ’07. 200w.
“The author has done what he has tried to do, which is more than can be said about every writer.”
+ Ind. 63: 1121. N. 7, ’07. 240w.
“The general reader might find some mild entertainment in it—it makes no pretense to give any information about art.”
+ − Nation. 85: 383. O. 24, ’07. 50w.
+ Outlook. 87: 615. N. 23, ’07. 80w.
Reviewed by Elisabeth Luther Cary.
Putnam’s. 3: 361. D. ’07. 30w.
“It is anecdotal in the extreme.”
+ − R. of Rs. 36: 760. D. ’07. 50w.
McTaggart, John Ellis. Some dogmas of religion. *$3. Longmans.
7–7484.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Dr. McTaggart is a master of clear definition and concise ratiocination. Indeed, his clearness and conciseness are of such exquisite quality that almost of themselves they afford the impression of wit.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 320. Mr. 17. 1240w.
Cath. World. 84: 563. Ja. ’07. 200w.
“This arbitrary method of criticism seems to us to vitiate a good deal of the book. It is undeniably clever, and very many good things are said; and it fully sustains Dr. McTaggart’s reputation as a clear thinker and a lucid writer; but much of it is likely to produce irritation rather than reflection.” David Phillips.
+ − Int. J. Ethics. 17: 383. Ap. ’07. 2260w.
“This very curious volume has interest as disclosing a personality and as illustrating a phase of thought. It is written in a simple almost childlike style, without the slightest pretence. The author does not seem to be aware of the conflict and incompatibility of the various elements in his mind.”
+ − Sat. R. 101: 591. My. 12, ’06. 1240w.
MacWhirter, John. MacWhirter sketch book; being reproductions of a selection of sketches in color and pencil from the sketch book of John MacWhirter, designed to assist the student of landscape painting in water color. $1.50. Cassell.
“Wonderfully exact reproductions of sketches in color and pencil by a famous Scotch water colorist, designed to assist the student. There are no fewer than twenty-four full-page reproductions of water color studies, the landscape being generally either Scotch or Swiss or Italian.... There is an introduction by Edwin Bale, and some interesting notes by the artist are also included.”—N. Y. Times.
“The pencil sketches, even the slightest of them, will be found of value by the student.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 304. My. 11. ’07. 130w.
“In spite of this flavour of a bygone time, there are one or two sketches which have in them that freshness and charm which are so often worried out of finished exhibition pictures.”
+ Spec. 98: 542. Ap. 6, ’07. 130w.
Macy, Arthur. Poems. *$2.25. Clarke, W. B.
5–36098.
“A memorial volume of an unusually pleasant quality.... Mr. Macy was essentially the poet of good-fellowship. If such an impulse does not produce, in his own phrase, ‘Poetry with a big P,’ yet ... it does possess a very comfortable and lasting appeal.”—Nation.
“It is informed with a genuine warmth of sentiment, a Thackerayan humor, and a mellow morality, and is expressed with a clean music of phrase.”
+ Nation. 81: 507. D. 21, ’05. 300w.
“Mr. Macy showed a felicity in the choice of words and an almost unerring ear for perfection of rhyme, combined with an unusual exactness in the use of difficult meter.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 523. Ag. 25, ’06. 230w.
Madden, John. Forest friends: the woodland adventures of a boy pioneer. †$1.25. McClurg.
7–12644.
It is of a little lad of seven with a passionate, enduring love of the forest and its wild inhabitants that Mr. Madden writes. The experiences that result from a child’s quick fascination of things of the woods are told reflectively out of the fulness of the man’s memory.
“A good example of the static drama. It fills a real need in supplying a record of the animal life of regions near at hand in the early days of man’s occupation.” May Estelle Cook.
+ Dial. 42: 369. Je. 16, ’07. 630w.
“Will be read with profit by many other men’s sons.”
+ Ind. 62: 1355. Je. 6, ’07. 60w.
“Although no new facts are added to our store of knowledge, it is a relief to read a book treating of just ordinary creatures with ordinary habits.”
+ Nation. 85: 83. Jl. 25, ’07. 190w.
“Not necessarily for the boy, but quite as attractive to the boy’s father.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 140w.
Madison, James. Writings; comprising his public papers and private correspondence, including numerous letters and documents now for the first time printed: ed. by Gaillard Hunt. *$5. Putnam.
v. 6. “This volume covers the years 1790 to 1802. There is little that is new.... About half of it consists of Madison’s speeches in the First Congress, ... his various contributions to Freneau’s ‘National gazette,’ ‘Helvidius,’ his speech on the Jay treaty, and his Virginian report of 1799–1800. The rest is correspondence, embracing a dozen or so of family letters.... There are also a few new letters, and from Madison’s assumption of the secretaryship of state in May, 1801, an important series of instructions to the American representatives in England, France, and Spain. The footnotes, though not numerous, are almost uniformly good.” (Am. Hist. R.)
+ − Am. Hist. R. 12: 697. Ap. ’07. 440w. (Review of v. 6.)
“The printing of so many speeches is of doubtful utility, as the reporting of that day was notoriously defective, and these summaries 284can only be comprehended from their context in the ‘Annals.’ The space thus occupied could have been better employed by including more of the correspondence, and especially the letters to Jefferson. The notes of the editor are judicious and accurate.”
+ − Nation. 84: 175. F. 21, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 6.)
Madison, Lucy (Foster) (Mrs. Winfield Scott Madison). Maid of Salem towne. †$1.25. Penn.
6–11309.
Into this story of the charming little maid who came so near being hanged for a witch, and who was rescued in dramatic fashion by her friends at a critical moment, are woven sketches of the good old colony folk including Cotton Mather himself. The whole forms a vivid picture of life in a time more picturesque than comfortable.
“Most happily told.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 880. D. 15, ’06. 150w.
Madonna of the poets; an anthology of only the best poems written about the Blessed Virgin. *85c. Benziger.
“An anthology covering a long period of literature. Many of the verses ... are far from being widely known to-day. Robert Grosseteste, William Forest, Richard Rowlands, Ben Jonson, Sir John Beaumont, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Henry Vaughan, represent the inspiration of the Madonna in English life, from the middle ages till long after England had ceased to be Catholic. Among the modern contributors are Wordsworth, Newman, Hawker, Aubrey de Vere, Coventry Patmore, George Macdonald, Father Tabb, Alice Meynell, Louise Imogen Guiney, Francis Thompson, Lionel Johnson, and Rudyard Kipling.” (Cath. World.)
“A very curious mingling of pieces.”
+ − Acad. 70: 374. Ap. 21, ’06. 1340w.
Cath. World. 84: 558. Ja. ’07. 230w.
Maeterlinck, Maurice. Measure of the hours; tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. **$1.40. Dodd.
7–15583.
Some new essays and others lately appearing in magazines are included among the twelve of this group. The collection “is somewhat heterogeneous, and ranges over questions of morality, social duty, literary appreciation, scenery and popular science.” (Nation.)
“A book of fragments, not all of equal value.”
+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 466. Ap. 20. 1150w.
“All of them are admirably translated, so far as one may judge without comparing the French, by Mr. Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, and many of them offer something novel and worthy of more than a moment’s pondering.”
+ − Dial. 42: 346. Je. 1, ’07. 250w.
“The main interest of nearly all these essays is essentially that of the earlier volumes; the aim is still to combat insensibility to the possibilities of unguessed mysteries in what lies around us.”
+ − Nation. 84: 546. Je. 13, ’07. 870w.
+ Nature. 76: 198. Je. 27, ’07. 120w.
“Maeterlinck can weave mysticism, educe a moral, out of whatever comes to his hand. The merit of his style, of its pellucid originality, is the metaphor and that metaphor generally a single type, personification. It is no willful trick of style, no imposed elaborateness of location. It is the simple expression of his vision.” Florence Wilkinson.
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 662. O. 19, ’07. 1570w.
+ R. of Rs. 36: 512. O. ’07. 100w.
Maffitt, Emma Martin. Life and services of John Newland Maffitt; il. $3. Neale.
7–429.
A sympathetic sketch of Captain John Newland Maffitt, seaman, surveyor, commander, author and patriot.
Am. Hist. R. 12: 722. Ap. ’07. 90w.
Ind. 62: 619. Mr. 14. 130w.
R. of Rs. 35: 386. Mr. ’07. 80w.
* Magda, queen of Sheba; tr. into French from the original Ghese, by Hugues Le Roux, and from the French into English by Mrs. John Van Vorst; with an introd. by Hugues Le Roux. **$1.20. Funk.
The alleged romance of the historic Queen of Sheba translated from “The glory of the kings,” an ancient royal Abyssinian manuscript.
Lit. D. 35: 920. D. 14, ’07. 80w.
“Textually it is a remarkable book—curiously compounded of stately phrases imitated from the authorized version and other phrases singularly bald, modern, and pedestrian.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 695. N. 2, ’07. 1680w.
“The volume, which is half story, half study, has an undoubted literary charm as well as historic value.”
+ R. of Rs. 36: 756. D. ’07. 80w.
Magill, Edward Hicks. Sixty-five years in the life of a teacher. **$1.50. Houghton.
7–9847.
“Dr. Magill’s career as a teacher began when he was sixteen. He is now over eighty, so that his career as an educator literally spans the whole history of the development of American education.”—Lit. D.
“The work is very unpretentious in style and naïve in its simple-hearted revelations of the writer’s feelings, filial, paternal, and professional.”
+ Dial. 42: 258. Ap. 16, ’07. 240w.
Educ. R. 34: 208. S. ’07. 80w.
“Given with much detail, and forms one of the most interesting chapters of American educational history.”
+ Lit. D. 34: 678. Ap. 27, ’07. 240w.
“Taken as a human document, this autobiography has something of the charm and flavor of the old-time Quaker journals, their unconscious wholesomeness and delightful naïveté.”
+ Nation. 84: 524. Je. 6, ’07. 810w.
“To those interested in educational matters his book would have been of more value if it had had more of the pedagogical and less of the personal note.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 195. Mr. 30, ’07. 390w.
“It is ... an exemplification of the rule that autobiographies are never dull.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ Putnam’s. 3: 104. O. ’07. 480w.
Magnay, Sir William, 2d baronet. Master spirit. †$1.50. Little.
6–35732.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“If it had been handled with considerably more restraint, and if the characters concerned had been a little more like ordinary human beings and not quite such impossible combinations of superlative virtue and cleverness, vindictiveness and villainy, it might easily have made a better book.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
− + Bookm. 24: 591. F. ’07. 340w.
“Is the strongest novel yet written by Sir William Magnay.”
+ + Ind. 62: 1529. Je. 27, ’07. 180w.
Mahaffy, John Pentland. Silver age of the Greek world. *$3. Univ. of Chicago press.
6–20870.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“After all, it is the only book of its kind. Nowhere else can one get a connected survey of what the Greeks were doing and thinking 285and saying under the dominance of that empire whose social life has been depicted in such a scholarly and yet fascinating manner by Professor Dill.” B. Perrin.
+ + Am. Hist. R. 12: 414. Ja. ’07. 580w.
“It is much to be regretted that a scholar of distinction should have published a work which everywhere exhibits the wide range of his learning, but which seems to bear clear signs of hasty compilation and an imperfect appreciation of what readers may justly look for in a costly and, it might have been presumed, authoritative work.”
+ − Spec. 98: sup. 116. Ja. 26, ’07. 750w.
Mahan, Alfred Thayer. From sail to steam: recollections of naval life. **$2.25. Harper.
7–32861.
This narrative of naval affairs, much of it in the form of personal reminiscences, tells of the change from sail to steam power, and so becomes a history of the old navy and the new. It is an authoritative account and although intimate, none the less permits of impersonal conclusions and generalizations.
“A very attractive book, which albeit devoid of much striking incident or much stirring adventure, is full of Captain Mahan himself.”
+ Lond. Times. 6: 356. N. 22, ’07. 1870w.
“A capital book, this, to take up of a winter’s evening, when the day has been long and trying.”
+ Outlook. 87: 610. N. 23, ’07. 210w.
+ R. of Rs. 36: 754. D. ’07. 100w.
“The author has, indeed, ‘let himself go,’ which must have been a very pleasant change from his usual austerity of construction and argument, and the reader shares the delights of the escapade. The mixture of autobiography, anecdote and essay is only less casual than the autobiography Mark Twain is publishing.”
+ Spec. 99: 614. O. 26, ’07. 7800w.
* Mahan, Alfred Thayer. Some neglected aspects of war; together with The power that makes for peace, by Henry S. Pritchett, and The capture of private property at sea, by Julian S. Corbett. **$1.50. Little.
“A group of articles demonstrating the necessary and righteous part played in modern civilization by war, broadly considered, and the impossibility of replacing it shortly by any other agency, the conditions of the world remaining as they now are.”
Maine, Sir Henry James. Ancient law with introduction and notes by Sir Frederick Pollock. **$1.75. Holt.
7–26409.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 221. Ja. ’07. 360w.
+ + Nation. 84: 159. F. 14, ’07. 480w.
Maitland, Frederic William. Life and letters of Leslie Stephen. *$4.50. Putnam.
7–15902.
The biographer holds the reader’s attention close to the moral and intellectual qualities “which gradually made Leslie Stephen the first among English critics and thinkers and one of the most influential among English moralists.” (Nation.) “Quite apart from the admirable literary form of the record, Professor Maitland has presented us with the portrait of an intensely human character, who took life, sunshine and thunder alike, with a free forehead and a free heart.” (Sat. R.)
“Will amply repay reading.”
+ + Acad. 71: 463. N. 10, ’06. 1620w.
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 70. Mr. ’07.
+ Ath. 1906, 2: 684. D. 1. 1830w.
“The biography now published should be the most welcome of books to all whose interests are engaged in the highest ideals of thought and conduct.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + Dial. 42: 102. F. 16, ’07. 3000w.
“It may be doubted if the present year will bring us from England a biographical work surpassing this in real literary distinction and literary value.”
+ + Lit. D. 34: 178. F. 2, ’07. 440w.
“Mr. Maitland has done as well for Leslie Stephen as Leslie Stephen did for Fitzjames, and the only possible ground of complaint is that he has not given us quite enough of himself.” Sir Frederick Pollock.
+ + + Living Age. 252: 153. Ja. 19, ’07. 2990w. (Reprinted from Independent Review.)
+ + Lond. Times. 5: 384. D. 16, ’06. 2290w.
“He has composed a biography which thrills in every line with affection and admiration for his hero, but never lies.”
+ + Nation. 84: 12. Ja. 3, ’07. 2410w.
“Part of its charm is the unconscious subsidiary portrait that the biographer has done of himself.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 14. Ja. 12, ’07. 1520w.
Reviewed by Ferris Greenslet.
+ + No. Am. 184: 195. Ja. 18, ’07. 1680w.
“For American readers the book would have been better had the author, or editor—for he is more editor than author—given a little more historical background. Historically the letters need some interpretation.”
+ + − Outlook. 85: 759. Mr. 30, ’07. 1720w.
“It has not a trace of the cant of conventional biography. He has the double advantage of having known Stephen intimately and of having deserved to know him.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + Putnam’s. 1: 633. F. ’07. 1000w.
“Professor Maitland’s book is neither a criticism, nor an appreciation, nor a panegyric; it is a living and breathing portrait of a modest, strong, active-minded, melancholy, tenderhearted man. The lights are not heightened, the shadows not deepened.”
+ + Sat. R. 102: 580. N. 10, ’06. 1920w.
“It would be difficult to overpraise the merits of Mr. Maitland’s work. Written in a style which rivals Stephen’s own in nervous strength, and excels it, perhaps, in colour and certain whimsical humour, it presents a most living portrait of a most vital being.”
+ + + Spec. 97: 1047. D. 22, ’06. 1850w.
Malet, Lucas, pseud. See Harrison, M. S. K.
Malim, Margaret F. Old English woodcarving patterns; from oak furniture of the Jacobean period. *$4.50. Lane.
7–29184.
“A large portfolio containing reproductions of facsimile drawings from rubbings, designed especially for teachers, students and classes. Thirty examples are shown on twenty plates.... All the patterns given in this portfolio have been collected from genuine pieces of old oak furniture from various parts of the country.”—Int. Studio.
Int. Studio. 31: sup. 85. My. ’07. 510w.
“A really useful portfolio.”
+ Spec. 97: 939. D. 8, ’06. 130w.
* Mallock, William Hurrell. Critical examination of socialism. **$2. Harper.
A controversial treatment of the entire subject of socialism which may serve as a first introduction to the subject and which points out with equal fairness the strong and weak points of the system as it exists at the present time. The author discusses the historical beginning of socialism, Marxian socialism, the proximate and ultimate difficulties, individual motive and democracy, Christian socialism, the just reward 286of labor, interest and abstract justice, equality of opportunity and the social policy of the future.
“The book contains some crudities of plan and detail and an inexcusable number of grammatical or typographical errors.”
− Engin. N. 58: 296. S. 12, ’07. 230w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
* Malvery, Olive Christian. Soul market. †$1.50. McClure.
The experiences and observation of Miss Malvery who impersonated various types of slum folk for the sake of studying their lives at close range.
“The cleverly delineated views from an inner standpoint are more fresh and impressive than methodical statistics.”
+ Ath. 1907, 1: 133. F. 2. 210w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
Manly, John Matthews, comp. English poetry, 1170–1892. *$1.50. Ginn.
7–11577.
A high school and college text which includes between fifty and sixty thousand lines of poetry from the beginning of the Middle-English period down to the death of Tennyson. Intrinsic worth and beauty, and special significance in the history of English literature have determined the choice of the poems.
+ Dial. 43: 213. O. 1, ’07. 400w.
Mann, Charles Riborg, and Twiss, George Ransom. Physics. *$1.25. Scott.
5–33989.
In Professor Mann’s thoroly modern textbook, “intended for third or fourth year high school or freshman collegiate students ... he has abolished such problems as ‘let the forces a, b and c meet at the point q’ and substituted real concrete examples of the applications of physical formulae. He has substituted photographs of modern machinery, such as turbine engines, motors and loop-the-loop, for the antiquated and diagrammatic illustrations of the old text-books.” (Ind.)
“Professor Mann has made a special effort to make the student realize that physics is a practical subject and necessary to the understanding of the operations of daily life. Some of his pictures seem unnecessary and somewhat kindergartenish.”
+ − Ind. 61: 259. Ag. 2, ’06. 170w.
Nation. 83: 203. S. 6, ’06. 60w.
Mann, Horace K. Lives of the popes in the early middle ages. v. 2 and 3: The popes during the Carolingian empire, Leo III. to Formosus, 795–891. ea. *$3. Herder.
These volumes “include a period of thirty-three years and six pontificates,—Popes in those days very seldom even approached the ‘annos Petri.’ This was the time of the ‘false decretals,’ and Mr. Mann is at great pains to show that the Popes with whom he is concerned did not use the evidence which these forgeries offered to support their claims.”—Spec.
“He has gone over his sources with painstaking care, and has thrown an extensive mass of historical erudition into an easy and well-ordered narrative. If there is anything in this volume against which one might feel inclined to utter an adverse criticism, it is the polemical note which strikes us as over-assertive in Father Mann’s pages.”
+ + − Cath. World. 84: 413. D. ’06. 410w. (Review of v. 3.)
“As Mr. Mann has given us the facts, we need not be in any way prejudiced by his deductions. But here we think the value of the work before us ceases. It will be known as a handy and compendious book of reference (it would be still more handy if the index were not so inadequate), and though we cannot deny that the author has, to some extent, read himself into the atmosphere of the early middle ages, he gives us little that is new or original in the encyclopaedic knowledge which he has so diligently culled from well-known sources. To literary style he disclaims all pretension, but by the want of it his volumes miss the charm which might otherwise surround his subject.”
+ − Lond. Times. 6: 2. Ja. 4, ’07. 1300w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
Spec. 96: sup. 1017. Je. 30, ’06. 250w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Though we differ from Mr. Mann on various points, we may sincerely congratulate him on bringing this learned work to a successful conclusion.”
+ + − Spec. 97: 238. Ag. 18, ’06. 180w. (Review of v. 3.)
Manners and social usages: revised and corrected. $1.25. Harper.
A complete revision of a standard work which offers suggestions for proper conduct in all the ordinary walks and emergencies of life. It is based on broad principles of good taste and consideration for others, and on the social conditions of our country.
“We know of no other book that so amply meets the need.”
+ Ind. 63: 226. Jl. 25, ’07. 170w.
“The present volume is excellent of its sort, well-written, clear, tactful. It tells the social aspirant all he needs to know.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 266. Ap. 27, ’07. 640w.
Mannix, Mary Ella. Patron saints for Catholic youth. 60c. Benziger.
v. 3. Includes St. Francis Xavier, St. Patrick, St. Louis, St. Charles, St. Catharine, St. Elizabeth, St. Margaret and St. Claire.
Mansfield, Blanche McManus (Mrs. M. F. Mansfield). Our little Dutch cousin. †60c. Page.
6–18353.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The visit of a little New York boy to his cousin in Holland is the pretext for much interesting information that an American child would most enjoy.”
+ Bookm. 24: 530. Ja. ’07. 40w.
Mansfield, Milburg Francisco (Francis Miltoun, pseud.). Automobilist abroad; with il. and decorations by Blanche McManus. *$3. Page.
7–21289.
“Mr. Miltoun ... might have called his book ‘The automobilist’s hotel abroad,’ for in his running commentary on the roads and routes of Europe he lays special emphasis upon the methods of catering to motorists, and he has no hesitancy in mentioning by name the good and inferior inns one may meet in different towns.... The European motorist will find considerable practical information in the closing chapters of the book. One gives a short account of the leading European races and winners; another tells how to join the touring club of France, and another gives a comprehensive digest of the automobile regulations, custom duties, and methods of securing drivers’ licenses and registrations in different countries.”—N. Y. Times.
“Mr. Miltoun’s enthusiasm for the motor-car, however, does not overbalance the practical and practicable problems of touring abroad. Every point of such a tour ... is adequately and interestingly recounted by the author of this book.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + Dial. 43: 211. O. 1, ’07. 730w.
“His book has the distinction of being one of the first satisfactory volumes of travel written by an automobilist.”
+ + Nation. 85: 308. O. 3, ’07. 770w.
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 397. Je. 15, ’07. 340w.
287“While not exactly an automobilist’s vade mecum, it contains all the essential elements of a motor guide through Europe, presented through the medium of a personal and very practical experience.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 432. Jl. 6, ’07. 1020w.
Mansfield, Milburg F. (Francis Miltoun, pseud.). Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country; il. by Blanche McManus. $3. Page.
6–29521.
Leisurely wanderings thru the Loire country have made possible in this sketch more of atmosphere and historic setting than conventional rambles usually permit. It is Touraine’s feudal and Renaissance châteaux that chiefly occupy the author. Blois, with its counts who rivalled in power and wealth the churchmen of Tours and the dukes of Brittany, Cambord with its master-builders’ massive art, Amboise, the rival of the capital in cradling the thought and action of fifteenth and sixteenth century monarchs, are described, with many another château, in the light of their monumental glory. The volume is handsomely illustrated.
“It is a pity that Mr. Miltoun should continue to present his material in so disorderly a form. His arrangement lacks both method and sequence, and his style has a qualified and uncertain ring that is very annoying.”
+ − Dial. 41: 394. D. 1, ’06. 210w.
“Old Touraine ... is here vividly portrayed with brush and pen.”
+ + Lit. D. 33: 914. D. 15. ’06. 120w.
“Thus we have in this book, a series of personal impressions unrolled like a panorama, the course of which is stayed from time to time, while author and artist bring up something from the past which may pleasurably instruct without a too heavy laying on of archæology, history or architectural technique.”