Volume 3 — L
Reading edition
Labriola, Antonio. Socialism and philosophy; tr. by Ernest Untermann. $1. Kerr.
7–3090.
This volume in the “International library of social science” has been translated from the third Italian edition, which has been revised and amplified by the author. In the form of a series of letters, “a conversation in writing” with Mr. G. Sorei, Labriola has shown “that we must study the social conditions which were the cradle of historical materialism, if we would understand its full meaning. He has demonstrated to us that we must familiarize ourselves also with the individual growth of the founders of scientific socialism, of its prominent interpreters, its present day elaborators.”
Ladd, Horatio Oliver. Chunda: a story of the Navajos. $1.25. Meth. bk.
6–37926.
“The career of an Indian girl and her lover, who broke away from their barbaric tribe to learn for its redemption the principles and arts of civilization. Years afterward they emerge from their training ... and go back to their native mountain ... to labor together for the civilization and Christianization of their people.... Dramatic and tragic interest is added to the narrative, which breathes a deeply religious spirit throughout with an evident purpose of stimulating a missionary interest.”—Outlook.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 110w.
“It is an excellent book for Sunday-school libraries. All that it seems to lack is a prefatory note to indicate how far it is fiction and how far it is fact.”
+ − Outlook. 84: 938. D. 15, ’06. 130w.
Lafargue, Paul. The right to be lazy and other studies. 50c. Kerr.
7–23081.
Papers whose purpose is to incite the socialist to march up to the assault of the ethics and the social theories of capitalism and establish a future communist society “peaceably if we may, forcibly if we must.”
Lamb, C. G. Alternating currents: a textbook for students of engineering. *$3 Longmans.
W 7–137.
“The first seven chapters cover the preliminary statements of the usual methods of treating alternate-current problems in general, also of measuring instruments, and discuss the theory of the single-phase transformer.... A very brief mention of single-phase commutator motors occupies the eighth chapter.... The rest of the book is devoted to the consideration of alternators both as generators and motors, and of induction motors.”—Nature.
“He has succeeded in producing an excellent reference book for engineers, but from the reviewer’s experience it is too heavy a text for undergraduates.” Henry H. Norris.
+ − Engin. N. 56: 635. D. 13, ’06. 530w.
+ − Nature. 75: 97. N. 29, ’06. 1510w.
Lamb, Charles. Essays of Elia; with an introduction and notes by Alfred Ainger, and a biographical sketch by Henry Morley. $1.25. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Thin paper classics,” this volume is furnished with such additional helps as a biographical sketch of Lamb, an introduction and notes.
247Lambert, Preston A. Computation and mensuration. *80c. Macmillan.
7–30461.
A short course whose chapters are as follows: Approximate computation, Graphic computation, Method of co-ordinates, Volumes of solids bounded by planes, Use of trigonometric functions, Use of logarithms, Limits, Graphic algebra, Areas bounded by curves, Volumes of solids. “These headings give in a general way the subject matter of the book. Greatest attention is given to concrete applications of principles. The solution of characteristic problems is illustrated and several additional are given for solution at numerous points throughout.” (Engin. N.)
+ Engin. N. 58: 427. O. 17, ’07. 330w.
Lampson, G. Locker-. Consideration of the state of Ireland in the nineteenth century. *$5. Dutton.
“A dictionary of English misgovernment of Ireland.” (Spec.) It is “expressly, intended to gibbet the incompetence of Ireland’s governors for five centuries and in suffusing British cheeks with shame to evoke better intentions for the future.” The author “does not believe Ireland’s ills will be cured by home rule. He proposes closer union, rather than separation. Only he suggests that that union be commercial and social, not political.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Relates, though not in well-arranged order, the chief political events connected with recent Irish history.”
+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 757. Je. 22. 130w.
“It is a combination of history, characterdrawing, political discussion, and the evisceration of blue books which Mr. Lampson’s volume offers. He is a shrewd observer of men.”
+ − Nation. 85: 142. Ag. 15, ’07. 470w.
“Mr. Locker-Lampson makes an exhaustive examination of Irish conditions—and finds what others have found. The chief interest of this book is in the remedy he proposes.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 545. S. 14, ’07. 1400w.
Outlook. 87: 589. N. 16, ’07. 270w.
“It is a pity that so much labor should have been marred by such want of judgment.”
− + Sat. R. 104: 422. O. 5, ’07. 1630w.
“Regarded, however, as a thesaurus of Irish history, this volume, well arranged, well indexed, almost too lavishly appendixed, is of the highest value as a reference book; it is ‘the case’ against Irish misgovernment.”
+ + − Spec. 99: 93. Jl. 20, ’07. 800w.
Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo. Golden days of the renaissance in Rome from the pontificate of Julius II. to that of Paul III. **$5. Houghton.
6–39434.
Against the glowing background of Rome’s renaissance, Signor Lanciani’s five distinct figures are traced: “Paul III., who during the fifteen years that he occupied the chair of St. Peter’s accomplished such wonders in rescuing Rome from the degradation into which it had fallen; Michelangelo and Raphael, supreme in art; Vittoria Colonna, the most cultured of sixteenth century women; and Agostino Chigi, the banker whose splendid financial abilities and great wealth gave him the surname of ‘Il Magnifico.’” (Dial.)
“A few slips in dates which we have observed may be due to oversight on the part of the proof-reader, but inconsistency in giving the modern equivalent for sums of money can hardly be due to that cause. In general there is good reason to speak well of the book.”
+ − Am. Hist. R. 12: 623. Ap. ’07. 840w.
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 2: 241. D. ’06.
“The work is one of permanent value and interest, and a special word of praise must be given to the illustrations. There is an excellent index.”
+ + Ath. 1907, 1: 545. My. 4. 1230w.
“Fills a gap in the important series of topographical and antiquarian studies whereby the most readable of archæologists has done so much to render the chaotic Rome of to-day an intelligible spectacle to the passing pilgrim.” Harriet Waters Preston.
+ Atlan. 99: 424. Mr. ’07. 1350w.
“The many matters which Signor Lanciani has taken out of their semi-obscurity in the Italian archives of learned societies and made available to the English reader, the many stories which he has himself aided in unfolding, entitle him to not a little gratitude.” Anna B. McMahan.
+ + Dial. 41: 446. D. 16, ’06. 1390w.
“It is really in this elaborate introduction to his main topic that the professor best proves his originality of thought and literary skill.”
+ − Int. Studio. 31: 165. Ap. ’07. 320w.
“The volume contains much hitherto-unpublished information gained from study of the old monuments.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 70w.
“The general attractiveness of Lanciani’s writing is indubitable. His sentences run fluently. He is singularly effective in the manner of telling a story as it were to a single listener. The writer can hardly hold himself down for two consecutive minutes to the topic he has in hand. Another fault is the tendency to inaccuracy, which appears so frequently in matters that can be checked, that it arouses distrust of the author’s accuracy in matters of perhaps greater moment that lie within the scope of his peculiar knowledge.”
+ − Nation. 84: 268. Mr. 21, ’07. 1340w.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 170w.
“Rodolfo Lanciani seems now to have reached the age when his accumulation of knowledge vaguely obscures his point of view as to the essentials required for popular interpretation.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 309. My. 11, ’07. 760w.
“A notable and impressive looking volume.”
+ Outlook. 85: 765. Mr. 30, ’07. 270w.
+ R. of Rs. 35: 115. Ja. ’07. 30w.
“Professor Lanciani, indeed, who, in the course of a gossiping and diverting book, devotes a chapter to the subject, writes of these poems with somewhat less than his customary insight.”
+ − Sat. R. 103: 430. Ap. 6, ’07. 880w.
“Signor Lanciani knows his subject thoroughly and at first hand, and he is able to bring to bear a vast amount of curious and interesting detail.”
+ Spec. 98: 1007. Je. 29, ’07. 250w.
Landon, Perceval. Under the sun. *$4.80. Doubleday.
7–35221.
“Twenty-five chapters written in the course of annual wanderings over India during the last five years.... Every province in India, including Burma, is represented.... The final chapter purports to describe the later days of Nana Sahib.... The book is well illustrated.”—Ath.
A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 124. My. ’07.
“The chapters are mainly impressions of many Indian cities, and they are generally correct and just; the writer is faithful as to local colour, and not less trustworthy as to local smells, which are often more insistent, if less insisted on by descriptive writers.”
+ − Ath. 1906, 2: 828. D. 29. 500w.
“Many of his narratives of famous persons and events ... are of thrilling interest.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ Dial. 42: 372. Je. 16, ’07. 250w.
“Has most of the attractive literary features of the author’s recent volume on Tibet. The illustrations, an important feature of the book, include many unusual aspects of India.”
+ + Lit. D. 35: 207. Ag. 10, ’07. 560w.
“Even the reader who has never seen India may enjoy these impressions; but it is the visitor reading on the spot, or, still more, the old resident refreshing his memory with them 248for whom they will have the greatest charm. As far as it is possible to do so in words, they certainly convey the impression of the colouring and the atmosphere of the scenes which they describe.”
+ Lond. Times. 5: 391. N. 23, ’06. 780w.
“He certainly has produced a readable book, though many of his sketches convey less clear-cut impressions of the places than those of some other writers who have gone over the ground before, Steevens, for instance; and they lack proportion. Some point is seized on and overstrained with a discursiveness that causes the reader at times to lose the thread of the narrative, whilst other more characteristic features of the picture are omitted.”
− + Nature. 75: 268. F. 17, ’07. 880w.
“The author has had a quick eye for the distinctive features of the Eastern wonderland.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 285. My. 4, ’07. 400w.
“Mr. Landon’s book is valuable because it comprises suggestive impressions of an acute observer as to the actual present.”
+ Outlook. 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.
+ R. of Rs. 36: 512. O. ’07. 60w.
“He writes well and picturesquely. Bookmaking of this sort is overdone, and the chief novelty in it is the account given at the end, of the last days of Nana Sahib. It is a somewhat incongruous chapter in such a book, and at best is not a very valuable or entertaining contribution to history.”
− + Sat. R. 102: 747. D. 15, ’06. 150w.
Landor, Walter Savage. Charles James Fox: a commentary on his life and character; ed. by Stephen Wheeler. *$2.75. Putnam.
7–29125.
A hitherto unpublished work of Walter Savage Landor’s—a study of the life and character of the statesman Charles James Fox. The book was printed in 1812, but suppressed, and the manuscript and all but one copy of the book were destroyed. “The memoirs were, of course, highly eulogistic of Fox, and hence a bête noire to Landor, who was in the habit of hurling abuse with impartial hand at most of the political leaders of his day.” (N. Y. Times.)
“It is handsomely set forth and the editorial notes are good and sufficient.” G. S. Street.
+ Acad. 72: 73. Je. 15, ’07. 880w.
“No reader of discrimination can lay the volume aside without feeling that, despite its extravagance and occasional perversity it is the product of a noble and magnificently endowed intellect.”
+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 656. Je. 1. 1270w.
“Its present day claim is upon students of literature rather than of politics. It is the vigorous unconventional prose in which Landor’s political and literary convictions are expressed that gives the volume any permanent value that attaches to it.”
+ Ind. 63: 881. O. 10, ’07. 490w.
+ Lond. Times. 6: 138. My. 3, ’07. 1320w.
“As an historical estimate of Fox the book is too polemical to have much value, but the style has a rare energy and color.”
+ − Nation. 85: 126. Ag. 8, ’07. 270w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 400w.
“Well worth the painstaking labor that Mr. Stephen Wheeler has bestowed upon it, for in its present form the ‘Commentary’ has both a literary and a political value.” Edward Porritt.
+ No. Am. 185: 664. Jl. 19, ’07. 1810w.
“A work which, for all its defects, bears in certain particulars the stamp of true genius.”
+ − Outlook. 86: 562. Je. 13, ’07. 1910w.
“It was certainly well worth publishing, and the editor has done his work with care and precision.”
+ Sat. R. 103: 625. My. 18, ’07. 130w.
“It is as a glimpse into Landor’s mind, as an additional chapter in the life of one of the strangest and most original among English men of letters, that his ‘commentary’ possesses its real and permanent value.”
+ Spec. 99: 292. Ag. 31, ’07. 2430w.
Lang, Andrew. Homer and his age. *$3.50. Longmans.
7–2323.
“The present volume, while it contains much that is to be found in its predecessor [‘Homer and the epic’] is less general, and deals rather with problems of archaeology, the writer seeking to show that throughout the Iliad there is a consistency in regard to such details as the peculiar feudal relations of the chiefs to their over-lord, the burial of the dead, the use of bronze for weapons, or the descriptions of armour, which affords convincing proof that all parts of the poem are approximately of the same date.” (Spec.)
“We welcome another powerful counterblast from the graceful and vigorous pen of Mr. Andrew Lang against the disintegrators of the poems of Homer.” R. Y. Tyrrell.
+ Acad. 71: 543. D. 1, ’06. 1600w.
“It is a fascinating book, and a noteworthy. Mr. Lang was born too late to keep the wolf from the door of the Homeric house, but this championship of Homer will go far to bring the poet’s scattered goods together again under one roof, to be the heirlooms of Achaean glory.”
+ + Acad. 72: 624. Je. 29, ’07. 2200w.
“Altogether, from frontispiece ... to finis, the book is one for which every Homeric student may well be grateful.” J. Irving Manatt.
+ + Am. Hist. R. 12: 605. Ap. ’07. 700w.
“We are sorry that Mr. Lang has not treated his subject more thoroughly, because we are at one with him in most that he says, and would fain go the whole way if we could.”
+ − Ath. 1907. 1: 38. Ja. 12. 1260w.
“Mr. Lang’s polemic, despite much repetition and some wearisome details, holds the attention by a wealth of pertinent illustration from Norse and Old French literature, and by the force and cunning of his dialectical swordplay.” Paul Shorey.
+ − Dial. 42: 248. Ap. 16, ’07. 1450w.
“Excellent book.”
+ Lond. Times. 6: 75. Mr. 8, ’07. 1790w.
“He has evidently written up his notes currente calamo, with little concern for system and unity of presentation, consistency in argument, or the elimination of wearisome repitition.”
+ − Nation. 84: 458. My. 16, ’07. 580w.
“Mr. Lang has written such a sound, humane and scholarly book that we can say directly: This is of the absolute truth.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 26. Ja. 19, ’07. 1630w.
+ Sat. R. 103: 304. Mr. 9, ’07. 1740w.
“Those who love Homer or admire Mr. Lang will take up this volume with eagerness, only to close it with a sigh, while the critic who dreamed of finding matter for a pleasant essay discovers that he has to deal with a dispute the pleadings in which would perplex and weary even the Court of Chancery.”
+ − Spec. 97: 1046. D. 22, ’06. 1850w.
Lang, Andrew, ed. Olive fairy book. **$1.60. Longmans.
7–31208.
Colored plates and numerous other illustrations give additional life to these tales derived from various sources, from India, France, Turkey, Armenia, and Denmark.
“As fascinating as those that have gone before. The book is sure to enthral any child who may possess it, and many persons of more discreet years.”
+ Ath. 1907, 2: 478. O. 19. 90w.
Nation. 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 70w.
“At times are gruesome and without moral, to an extent that prohibits their being wholesome reading for very young children.”
− R. of Rs. 36: 764. D. ’07. 100w.
249“The collection is an excellent one—Mr. Lang’s editorship vouches for that—and one and all are entertaining.”
+ Spec. 99: sup. 748. N. 16, ’07. 150w.
* Lang, Andrew, ed. Orange fairy book; il. by H. J. Ford. **$1.60. Longmans.
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Mr. Lang says that his stories “‘are taken from those told by grannies to grandchildren in many countries and many languages—French, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Gaelic, Icelandic, Cherokee, African, Indian, Australian, Slavonic, and what not.’ As he says, the old puzzle remains—‘why do the stories of the remotest people so closely resemble each other?’” (Sat. R.)
+ Acad. 71: 584. D. 8, ’06. 110w.
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 52. F. ’07. ✠
+ Ath. 1906, 2: 511. O. 27. 70w.
+ Cath. World. 84: 408. D. ’06. 60w.
“Mr. Lang’s ‘Orange fairy book’ will not have to look far for eager hands.”
+ Ind. 61: 1407. D. 22, ’06. 40w.
“High among fairy books must be placed Andrew Lang’s annual offering.”
+ Nation. 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 70w.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 140w.
+ Outlook. 84: 632. N. 10, ’06. 60w.
“Some of them again, as in past years, too gruesome for child reading.”
+ − R. of Rs. 34: 765. D. ’06. 50w.
Sat. R. 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 170w.
“There is less of the gruesome than we seem to remember in one or other of the earlier volumes, and there are, as usual, some illustrations of excellent quality.”
+ Spec. 97: sup. 659. N. 3, ’06. 230w.
Lang, Andrew, ed. Poets’ country, il. **$5. Lippincott.
In text and picture the purpose of this book is to trace the relations of poets with the aspects of “their ain countrie.” Among the poets are Scott, Shelley, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Chaucer, Goldsmith, Keats, Spencer, Moore and Burns. A number of men have participated in producing the volume.
“The fact is that the ‘spirit of place’ dominates a few poets only, and a more careful selection would have made this book more representative.”
+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 787. Je. 29. 520w.
“The book is one to delight lovers of poetry and lovers of the English country.”
+ Dial. 43: 377. D. 1, ’07. 280w.
+ Nation. 85: 397. O. 31, ’07. 480w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“It is chock-block full of telling quotations, and it really has plenty of pleasant and informed matter.”
+ Sat. R. 103: 788. Je. 22, ’07. 160w.
“All the essays included in the volume may be read with great pleasure.”
+ Spec. 99: 133. Jl. 27, ’07. 300w.
Lang, Andrew. Portraits and jewels of Mary Stuart. *$2.75. Macmillan.
7–2430.
A pictorial history of Mary Queen of Scots from her tenth year to that preceding her death. Mr. Lang has selected, in all, thirteen portraits which he proves to be contemporary and authentic. He is aided in accepting or rejecting a portrait by jewels represented to be worn at different sittings.
“Mr. Andrew Lang has now gone over the ground again with an historical acumen greater than that of any of his predecessors in the field.” J. H. Pollen, S. J.
+ + Acad. 70: 543. Je. 9, ’06. 1160w.
“The text is noteworthy for its criticism, its freshness, and its suggestiveness.”
+ + Ath. 1906, 2: 193. Ag. 18. 1020w.
“An inquiry from this point of view has added considerably to our knowledge of the subject, both with regard to portraits and miniatures. Mr. Lang’s most important result is a rehabilitation of a fascinating portrait in the possession of the earl of Leven and Melville.” Robert S. Rait.
+ + Eng. Hist. R. 21: 803. O. ’06. 570w.
“With infinite care and rare critical acumen he has summed up the arguments.”
+ + Int. Studio. 30: 90. N. ’06. 340w.
“The object of Mr. Lang, supplementing as he does the researches of Sir George Scharf, Mr. Lionel Cust, Mr. Foster, and others, is rather to correct over-scepticism and to indicate if possible the claims to consideration of certain portraits on which doubts are thrown.”
+ + Lond. Times. 5: 298. Ag. 31, ’06. 2590w.
“Especially in its account of the Queen’s jewels this study is a valuable addition to the knowledge of all who have not the advantage of being Scottish antiquarians.”
+ + Nation. 83: 418. N. 15, ’06. 950w.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 557. S. 8, ’06. 2220w. (Reprinted from Lond. Times.)
“Mr. Lang has had several predecessors in this field of research about Mary Stuart’s personal appearance and ornaments, but he has drawn information from original sources, and added some fresh facts.”
+ + Sat. R. 102: sup. 10. O. 13, ’06. 150w.
“It is a subject after his own heart, and he has done it ample justice.”
+ + Spec. 97: 173. Ag. 4, ’06. 450w.
Lang, Elsie M. Literary London; with introd. by G. K. Chesterton. *$1.50. Scribner.
7–13410.
Cyclopedic in its manner of treatment and alphabetic in its arrangement Miss Lang’s book becomes one of handy reference.
“Will prove useful to the tourist who is in search of the spots associated with the great English writers.”
+ Dial. 42: 48. Ja. 16, ’07. 50w.
“As a book of reference, it has merits, though they do not include completeness.”
+ − Nation. 84: 57. Ja. 17, ’07. 380w.
“To one who knows London well enough to have its broad map and the relative position of its neighborhoods in his mind, the book is a delight. It is a collection of prosaic but agreeable memories.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 885. D. 22, ’06. 1180w.
Langdon, Amelie, comp. Just for two: a collection of recipes designed for two persons. 3d ed., rev. and enl. *90c. Wilson, H. W.
A new edition of a popular cook book which deals in amounts small enough to serve two people without waste.
Langfeld, Millard. Introduction to infectious and parasitic diseases, including their cause and manner of transmission; with an introduction by Lewellys F. Barker. *$1.25. Blakiston.
7–17014.
A book for nurses, physicians and students which gives a clear description of the fundamental principles of the causation and manner of transmission of infectious diseases, and includes chapters on bacteriology, animal parasites and disinfectants and disinfection.
“For the general reader, it would be hard to find a better concise statement of the more modern view of micro-organisms in their relation to disease. But the classification of the non-specific bacteria (p. 51) is somewhat obscure, 250and the terminology, although justified by numerous precedents, is inconsistent.”
+ − Nation. 85: 238. S. 12, ’07. 220w.
+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 465. Jl. 27, ’07. 200w.
Lankester, Edwin Ray. Kingdom of man. **$1.40. Holt.
7–29194.
This is not “as its title might indicate, an anthropological treatise, but rather a group of three very interesting and striking essays on scientific subjects, especially as related to the needs and interests of humanity. The first is the Romanes lecture at Oxford in 1905, and is a ... plea that the English universities abandon the compulsory study of Greek and Latin and make the study of nature an integral and predominant part of every man’s education.... The second essay is an outline of the advance in science made in the last quarter of a century, being the presidential address at the recent meeting of the British association for the advancement of science.... The closing essay is on the ‘Sleeping sickness’ which is now devastating tropical Africa and bids fair to become the third great plague of the race.”—Dial.
“He has conjured up for us, in the three chapters of this book, a lurid picture of our position to-day; while, at the same time, he gives us a masterly exposition of what the new learning will do for us, both as regards our private and our public affairs. The latest discoveries in astronomy, physics, chemistry, and biology are here lucidly set forth; and in such a way that even the most skeptical must feel that we have too long neglected our duty in this matter.” W. P. Pycraft.
+ Acad. 72: 206. Mr. 2, ’07. 1350w.
Review by Charles Atwood Kofoid.
+ Dial. 43: 14. Jl. 1, ’07. 740w.
“The volume is a valuable addition to popular scientific literature. Its skeptical, almost contemptuous attitude toward certain conclusions of psychologists, quite as well established as the human nature of the ‘pithecanthropus,’ e. g. telepathy, freshly illustrates the streak of provincialism observable in men of the highest special learning.”
+ − Outlook. 86: 479. Je. 29, ’70. 320w.
“A work of interest and scientific insight.”
+ Spec. 98: sup. 644. Ap. 27, ’07. 1220w.
Lansdale, Maria Horner. Chateaux of Touraine. **$6. Century.
6–34856.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Authoritative, accurate, and charming in style.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 45. F. ’07.
“The only chapter in which the author breaks new ground is that on Luynes, which relates at some length the history of the descendants of Charles d’Albert.”
+ Ath. 1907, 1: 583. My. 11. 180w.
Reviewed by Harriet Waters Preston.
+ Atlan. 99: 422. Mr. ’07. 110w.
Lapponi, Giuseppe. Hypnotism and spiritism: a critical and medical study; tr. from the 2d rev. ed. by Mrs. Philip Gibbs. *$1.50. Longmans.
7–11197.
“The doctor carefully distinguishes hypnotism from spiritism; and he points out the two considerations that have led some writers to confound them. The first is that hypnotic subjects, as well as spiritistic media, belong to the neurotic class; the second is that from hypnotic to spiritistic phenomena the distance is not great, and very frequently they are found side by side, alternately, or even together.”—Cath. World.
“The author treats his subject in a simple, popular fashion, and does not profess to have any personal experience of spiritistic manifestations, and no expert acquaintance with hypnotism.”
+ Cath. World. 85: 403. Je. ’07. 400w.
Nature. 76: 348. Ag. 8, ’07. 390w.
“Unquestionably it is highly interesting, but its interest is for [one] who wants to study the mind of a pope’s physician rather than occultism, or for an ardent disbeliever in metaphysics who may be pleased by an agreement with his thoughts.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 173. Mr. 23, ’07. 280w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
N. Y. Times. 12: 425. Jl. 6, ’07. 710w.
Larned, Josephus Nelson. Books, culture and character. **$1. Houghton.
6–36012.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Am. Hist. R. 12: 687, Ap. ’07. 140w.
“Mr. Larned’s book to some degree shows the limitation under which many good treatises suffer. They deal with what ought to be, to the exclusion of what is.” Wm. T. Brewster.
+ + − Forum. 28: 382. Ja. ’07. 1210w.
“The addresses are neither erudite nor ‘literary.’ But they are commendable for the plain common-sense and simple clear-sightedness with which they resolve some of the confusions and sophistries of the day.”
+ Nation. 84: 10. Ja. 3, ’07. 170w.
“The appeal for a more humanistic teaching of history and the straightforward attack upon many sophistical subtilities of the present day commend the book to those who are not bored by the plain good intention and right-minded common-sense.” George H. Browne.
+ + − School R. 15: 401. My. ’07. 850w.
* Lasance, F. X. Thoughts on the religious life. *$1.50. Benziger.
On the general principles of religious life, on perfect charity the end of the religious life, on vocation, the vows, the rules, the cloister virtues and the main devotions of the church.
* Lathers, Richard. Reminiscences of Richard Lathers. **$2.50. Grafton press.
7–21270.
Reminiscences of sixty years of active life spent in South Carolina, Massachusetts, and New York. Tho a Southerner, the author’s attitude was against secession and he stood for the preservation of the Union.
N. Y. Times. 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The many friendships that he formed during and after the civil war with men of prominence give a peculiar interest to his letters, which chiefly make up the present volume.”
+ R. of Rs. 36: 755. D. ’07. 90w.
Lathrop, Elise. Where Shakespeare set his stage. **$2. Pott.
6–33547.
“Lovers of Shakespeare will be particularly interested in the Lathrop volume.”
+ Ind. 61: 1403. D. 22, ’06. 150w.
“The book is a welcome, if not a weighty, addition to the Shakespearian literature, and will form a profitable companion volume to an edition of his works.”
+ Spec. 99: sup. 466. O. 5, ’07. 180w.
Latta, Marion Nisbet-. Handbook of American gas-engineering practice. *$4.50. Van Nostrand.
7–30142.
A three-part work as follows: 1, Water-gas manufacture, from the consideration of the fuels and materials to the gas-holder; 2, Gas distribution, including also a discussion of the various gas-burning appliances and their attendant data; 3, General technical data, containing theoretical, mathematical, and technical information on the properties of gases and steam caloric values, temperature data, etc.
“The sweeping condemnation of any work should ever be unpleasant and not lightly done. Nothing else seems possible, however, in the case of this book and gas engineers, should be 251prompt to disavow it as representing to any appreciable extent ‘American gas engineering practice.’” Walton Forstall and Charles J. Ramsburg.
− − Engin. N. 58: 531. N. 14, ’07. 1940w.
Lau, Robert Julius. Old Babylonian temple records. **$1.50. Macmillan.
6–46312.
“In the winter of 1894–95 DeSarzec, the explorer of Tello, unearthed ... large collections of inscribed clay tablets, estimated to number about 30,000.... Columbia university acquired 258 of them, which Dr. Lau has published in this small and handy volume. A little more than one-third of the tablets he has transcribed. These appear in facsimile reproduction with a sign list and glossary. Prefixed to this is a catalogue of the entire collection, containing a description of each tablet and its contents.”—Nation.
“It is a fine piece of work, accurately done, and a credit to the university’s scholarship; while it illustrates the importance to a university of having access to such original material for study.”
+ + Ind. 62: 445. F. 21, ’07. 330w.
“Intended primarily for Assyriologists, they contain material of the first value for the student of the history of mankind.”
+ Nation. 84: 414. My. 2, ’07. 600w.
Laughlin, Clara E. Felicity: the making of a comedienne. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–10619.
The story of a stage career. Felicity Fergus, orphaned in babyhood, is brought up by an austere grandmother who fought the child’s irrepressible sense of humor, vivid imagination and general spirit of hero worship. Felicity comes under the spell of an old comedian, who discovers the spark of histrionism in her, but who discourages an ambitious aunt in starting the child upon the long road to stage fame. Nevertheless the start is made, and the reader is given an intimate view of hardships that pave the way to success, of heartaches and struggles that lie just back of the footlights. The great charm of the story lies in the unsullied freshness with which Felicity emerges from her developing process against odds to grace the high places in her profession.
A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 136. My. ’07.
“It leaves you with the pleasant feeling that the world is full of gentle and brave people; that suffering is accounted for by the sweetening of character under its ministry; and that love will not pass by on the other side if one’s heart is ready to receive it.” Harry James Smith.
+ Atlan. 100: 133. Jl. ’07. 380w.
“Studies of theatrical life, that bear the imprint of accurate knowledge are so few and far between that ‘Felicity’ would still be a noteworthy book even without the blending of tender humour and pathos which it in no small degree possesses.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + Bookm. 25: 284. Ap. ’07. 390w.
“It is, on the whole, a novel of such interest and charm that we are content to accept it, with whatever defects may accompany its qualities, as one of the most pleasing contributions to the season’s output of fiction.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − Dial. 42: 315. My. 16, ’07. 500w.
“It is the first American story of stage life that promises to achieve a popular success, perhaps because it does not go too far below the surface.”
+ Ind. 62: 1268. My. 30, ’07. 120w.
“The story gives a very fair idea of the wholesome side of the stage.”
+ Lit. D. 34: 593. Ap. 13, ’07. 280w.
“The merits of this book lie largely in its freedom from the usual features of the theatrical novel.”
+ Nation. 84: 291. Mr. 28, ’07. 310w.
“There are some awkward constructions. The story upon the whole, however, is an admirable one, quite out of the common, and full of varied interest.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 189. Mr. 30, ’07. 880w.
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.
“It is full of unusual qualities, but there are too many monologues and duets in it; everybody except Phineas Morton talks too much.”
+ − Outlook. 86: 115. My. 18, ’07. 180w.
Laughlin, James Laurence. Industrial America; the Berlin lectures of 1906. **$1.25. Scribner.
6–37187.
These lectures given at Berlin by Prof. Laughlin of Chicago university were delivered in the German language and include the following industrial subjects: American competition with Europe, Protection and reciprocity, The labor problem, The trust problem, The railway question, The banking problem, The present status of economic thinking in the United States.
A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 99. Ap. ’07. S.
“The volume is to be commended to all who are seeking to understand these questions.”
+ Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 468. N. ’06. 120w.
“But while we believe Professor Laughlin has not over-stated the facts concerning the Senate we wonder at his inability to reason consistently when he attempts to discuss some other important problems.” Robert E. Bisbee.
+ − Arena. 36: 675. D. ’06. 1950w.
“Interesting and well-written volume.”
+ + Ath. 1907, 1: 314. Mr. 16. 1260w.
“It must be admitted that he has not duly considered in his argument some very important aspects of the subject.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ − Dial. 43: 248. O. 16, ’07. 140w.
“Tho much contained therein may appear to us trite and commonplace, the volume, nevertheless, forms a noteworthy addition to our economic literature.”
+ Ind. 61: 1230. N. 22, ’06. 860w.
“There is nothing now in print better worth the attention of American readers of average intelligence, who are looking for explanations of those problems at once clear, calm, and of moderate compass.” Horace White.
+ + J. Pol. Econ. 15: 48. Ja. ’07. 2280w.
“Professor Laughlin has acquitted himself creditably, and we trust that his successors may be equally fortunate in their diplomatic missions.”
+ Nation. 83: 538. D. 20, ’06. 880w.
“The topics touched are pregnant with present and future interest, and even those who dissent from the author’s views upon highly contentious matters will find much said in little compass.” Edward A. Bradford.
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 2. Ja. 5, ’07. 1600w.
“Not all readers will agree with all of Dr. Laughlin’s conclusions. There can be but few readers, however, to whom the book will not be suggestive, and that is the highest merit of any work of utility or art.”
+ − Outlook. 86: 252. Je. 1, ’07. 930w.
“It must be said, however, that the lectures are so elementary and the lecturer’s conclusions so trite that it is doubtful whether they will be of much use to those who have time for even a brief course of reading.”
− Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 572. S. ’07. 240w.
+ R. of Rs. 35: 115. Ja. ’07. 230w.
Laurie, Simon Somerville. Synthetica: being meditations epistemological and ontological; comprising the Edinburgh university Gifford lectures of 1905–6. 2v. *$7. Longmans.
7–19465.
The first of these volumes contains nineteen meditations on knowledge, the second, eighteen meditations on God and man.
252“As we read Dr. Laurie we cannot escape a sense of strangeness, amounting almost to despair. It all seems aloof and unfamiliar. He has a language and a terminology of his own, which we can only regard as gratuitously scholastic and unhomely. There can be no question but that his thought would have come to us more easily if he could have written more simply.”
+ − Acad. 71: 224. S. 8, ’06. 3540w. (Review of v. 1.)
Acad. 71: 657. D. 29, ’06. 2110w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Again, the first volume is by no means free from the confusions between psychology and epistemology, against which Sidgwick uttered an emphatic warning. However, whether we agree or disagree with the conclusions drawn—and they are many and controversial—the book well repays the not inconsiderable trouble of reading it.”
+ − Ath. 1906, 2: 267. S. 8. 820w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The interest of these volumes as a whole, apart from the feeling, and in many parts real inspiration and ‘élan,’ with which they are written, will probably be found in the comprehensiveness with which the problem of philosophy is grasped, and the sustained effort that is made to escape from the Scylla of the static or ‘stagnant’ Absolute without falling into the Charybdis of subjectivism and pluralism. In their own peculiar way they contain much that is helpful towards the restatement of idealism which is the chief philosophical requirement of the present time. Why this irritating form? It is not only that the second volume is merely a somewhat less technical restatement of the first, but in the argument of each there is endless repetition. For whom, again, is the book written? The uninitiated will find far too little; the initiated would be satisfied with much less; the positivist who could understand it if he would is not likely to persevere long in the attempt. But all this might be passed over if the writer had not made clear the point on which, as he rightly perceives, the whole must rest.” J. H. Muirhead.
+ − Hibbert. J. 6: 207. O. ’07. 2700w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Difficult in expression and intellectually confused as the work is, its general aim and method as well as its philosophical affiliations may yet be detected.”
− Nation. 84: 390. Ap. 25, ’07. 780w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Regard for a rigorously clear form of exposition would have resulted in the simplification of many passages as well as the elimination of numerous repetitions. The author also has a tendency to construct for himself an elaborate terminology quite his own, and to employ unusual words when those of more general acceptance among philosophical writers would often have served his purpose equally well. These defects are the more to be regretted, as Dr. Laurie, at his best, is the master of a style which is clear, forceful, and not wanting in a note of distinction.” Walter G. Everett.
− + Philos. R. 16: 639. N. ’07. 2370w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“It is by no means easy reading, but it will reward a careful study.”
+ Sat. R. 103: 83. Ja. 19, ’07. 1230w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
La Villeniere, Toussaint-Ambrose Talour de la Cartrie, comte de. Memoirs of the Count de Cartrie; with introd. by F: Masson, and appendices and notes by Pierre Amedee Pichot. *$5 Lane.
W 6–336.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Cartrie’s narrative is thrilling; M. Pichot’s editing almost perfect; and Mr. Lane’s bookmaking very attractive.” G: M. Dutcher.
+ + Am. Hist. R. 12: 376. Ja. ’07. 600w.
“Certainly M. Pichot’s distinguished success in discovering the identity of the Count de Cartrie, and in tracing his family history, is a very pretty piece of highly skilled detective work.” S. M. Francis.
+ Atlan. 100: 492. O. ’07. 370w.
“Though of no particular historical value, sheds a good deal of light on the condition of provincial France during the months of the Terror.”
+ Spec. 97: 1081. D. 29, ’06. 3330w.
Lavis, Fred. Railroad location, surveys and estimates. *$3. Clark, M. C.
6–34656.
A work that combines detailed instruction on modern American methods of location with data on the estimating of quantities and unit prices.
“Despite the reviewer’s criticism of some of the author’s methods, yet he quite agrees with the author that the method of location advocated by him is most thorough and up-to-date, and the best practice. The book is comprehensive, is an excellent epitome of good modern practice, and well adapted to the purposes for which it was designed.” M. P. Paret.
+ + − Engin. N. 57: 81. Ja. 17, ’07. 2560w.
“After the teacher has given us what he can out of his study-room, then the young engineer will turn to such books as this one, gaining much information and getting by proxy valuable experience which, without such a book, would cost him much time and pains to acquire. The railroad engineers will appreciate this book and feel thankful to its author.” Willard Beahan.
+ + Technical Literature. 1: 174. Ap. ’07. 1950w.
Lawrence, C. E. Pilgrimage. †$1.50. Dutton.
“Peruel, an angel of the army of the lost, seeks reentrance into heaven. Being given a chance, through the influence of Azrael, he becomes incarnate as a foundling baby in a country called Argovie. There he grows up as Luke, swineherd to the monastery of St. Donstan, where the situation between some of the friars vividly recalls Browning’s ‘Soliloquy of the Spanish cloister.’ The entire book is devoted to Luke’s spiritual struggles, his persecution by bigoted monks, by outlaws, and men at arms.... He ends, triumphant, a leper in a lazar house.”—Nation.
“Mr. Lawrence has no quaint humour, no impassioned sincerity, no superb poetry, that can do justice to such an idea. His book is little more than pleasantly sentimental; there is no backbone of earnest or new thought.”
− Acad. 72: 73. Je. 15, ’07. 280w.
“His present work, we fear, is too shadowy; too remote from experience, and too ethereal.”
− Ath. 1907, 1: 786. Je. 29. 170w.
Ind. 63: 762. S. 26, ’07. 120w.
Nation. 85: 188. Ag. 29, ’07. 190w.
“The story is written with unusual delicacy of touch and with a knowledge of human nature that considering the spiritual quality of the tale, is somewhat surprising.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 230w.
Sat. R. 104: 117. Jl. 27, ’07. 180w.
Lawrence, Sir Thomas. Sir Thomas Lawrence’s letter-bag; ed. by G. S. Layard. *$4. Longmans.
7–28948.
Letters collected from Sir Thomas Lawrence’s voluminous correspondence which “correct and proper” epistles that they are and having little to do with his love affairs, tend to banish from the reader’s mind the story of the artist’s unhappy relations with Mrs. Siddons’ two daughters.
“In these letters there is a good deal that is valuable as well as interesting.”
+ Acad. 71: 656. D. 29, ’06. 1090w.
253“This volume does not make material additions to the known circumstance of Lawrence’s life as set forth in Williams’s ponderous biography, but it is undeniably interesting.”
+ Ath. 1906, 2: 649. N. 24. 1510w.
+ Dial. 42: 82. F. 1, ’07. 280w.
“This volume contains much new and interesting personal information about the great English painter.”
+ Lit. D. 34: 341. Mr. 2, ’07. 240w.
“It should be added that the illustrations are excellent and well chosen, and that the ‘Recollections’ by Miss Croft, who was an intimate friend of the painter for many years, are a very interesting addition to the book.”
+ + Lond. Times. 5: 407. D. 7, ’06. 1150w.
“A more delightful volume than Mr. Layard’s it would be hard to find.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 56. Ja. 26, ’07. 560w.
“We do not relish Mr. Layard’s literary style. It is vehement and familiar. Nor are the letters of Sir Thomas Lawrence pleasing, as letters. They are dry and formal and generally ungrammatical and obscure. The facts of the great artist’s life as exhibited in the letters are however interesting enough.”
+ − Sat. R. 103: 177. F. 9. ’07. 1510w.
“With the material at his command, Mr. Layard might have produced a satisfactory biography. He has been content to give us this material (or a part of it) instead of the finished work.”
+ Spec. 98: 458. Mr. 23, ’07. 1360w.
Lawson, Thomas W. Friday the 13th. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–8213.
The spirit of frenzied finance hovers over this tale in which figure a proud ex-governor of Virginia, who loses in a speculation game carried on with trust funds, a loyal daughter, and a hero who plays the stock market to retrieve the Virginian’s fortune. “It may be characterized as a nightmare of love and stock gambling, wherein the ‘System’ shakes its gory locks and brandishes a handful of bloodstained razors, stalking the while prodigious over the necks of its prostrate victims.” (N. Y. Times.) “What Mr. Lawson attempts to do is to show the degrading effect of speculation upon character.” (Nation.)
“The author fails to convince us that his theory is without flaw, or that it could be depended upon in practice, to produce the results which he desires.”
− + Ath. 1907, 1: 436. Ap. 13. 140w.
“A crude, shrieking dime novel is this story, and therefore not likely to be without its host of readers. It is an incendiary book as well.”
− Ind. 62: 798. Ap. 4, ’07. 370w.
“The reader has an uncomfortable impression of a stuffed dragon and a stage St. George. But there are stirring incidents in the book, many pieces of lurid description, and not a little moralizing.”
− + Lit. D. 34: 509. Mr. 30, ’07. 210w.
“The delineation of character requires more literary art than Mr. Lawson, with all his red-hot, hyphenated adjectives, can show, and as for his plot, it steadily thins instead of thickens. Of course everyone that has been within a mile of Trinity church knows that the book, as a picture of Wall Street life and methods, is absurd.”
− Nation. 84: 201. F. 28, ’07. 410w.
“The moral was Mr. Lawson’s first thought, perhaps, but the book shows him as a sentimentalist of the deepest dye. He quite loses in the depth of that sentiment sight of the fashion in which his moral turns and rends his own chosen personages and protagonists of the tragedy of greed.”
− N. Y. Times. 12: 124. Mr. 2, ’07. 880w.
Outlook. 85: 718. Mr. 23, ’07. 120w.
“Mr. Lawson is another offensive partisan in literature—or perhaps I had better say fiction. It’s a poor novel.” Vernon Atwood.
− Putnam’s. 2: 619. Ag. ’07. 180w.
R. of Rs. 35: 761. Je. ’07. 90w.
“We are certain that such a novel as ‘Friday the 13th’ will do little or nothing to cure the evil of stock-gambling. None of Mr. Lawson’s characters—if indeed they deserve the name, for they are merely puppets—are lovely or lovable.”
− Sat. R. 103: 497. Ap. 20, ’07. 750w.
Lawton, Frederick. Life and work of Auguste Rodin. *$3.75. Scribner.
7–13425.
A “life” made authoritative and significant through M. Rodin’s personal assistance. “From first-hand sources and with infinite pains, Mr. Lawton has compiled a connected account of Rodin’s career which is vastly more valuable as a document than as an interpretation.” (Putnam’s.) “Stress, strain, and struggle have been from first to last the dominant characteristics of the life of a man who stands almost alone amongst his contemporaries as a realistic exponent of plastic art, and who in spite of the great value of everything from his hand ... is not even now in what can be called easy circumstances.” (Int. Studio.)
“Viewed in the most favourable light it is a useful compilation and gathering together of scattered fragments of criticism and biography emanating from more competent pens. It has, consequently, some value as a work of reference, more especially to the student who is conversant with Mr. Lawton’s sources of information. A more favourable opinion of the author would have been created were these sources more clearly acknowledged. As criticism, his book cannot have, even for the general reader, more than a slight, and generally borrowed value.”
+ − Acad. 72: 38. Ja. 12, ’07. 900w.
“The biographer is too near his subject to see him in true relation with the rest of the world, and the book, pitched on a note of monotonous laudation, makes small attempt at a balanced judgment.”
+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 172. F. 9. 2630w.
“Mr. Lawton’s well-illustrated volume is a work of close and cogent reasoning, eminently fair and candid, and must promote a better understanding of the relative positions of representatives of the plastic art on questions which seem to involve serious but not necessarily irreconcilable antagonism.”
+ Dial. 42: 290. My. 1, ’07. 420w.
+ Int. Studio. 31: 164. Ap. ’07. 210w.
“His biographer ... after a sufficiently entertaining yet exhaustive description of the man and his work, leaves us in considerable doubt whether Pheidias or Praxiteles or Michael Angelo all together could bulk as large and satisfy the soul of the esthete as well as the author of ‘Le Penseur.’” Charles de Kay.
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 169. Mr. 23, ’07. 2360w.
“Though possessing neither psychological penetration nor literary distinction, the book, because of its size and general sincerity of purpose, ranks as one of the most important studies yet published on the solitary plastic Titan of the day.” Christian Brinton.
+ − Putnam’s. 2: 126. Ap. ’07. 220w.
* Layard, George Somes. Shirley Brooks of ‘Punch;’ his life, letters and diaries. **$3.50. Holt.
A rather voluminous biography of a London journalist written over thirty years after his death. It is written from the memorials that he left of himself in his own letters, diaries and journals.
“The biographer is unnecessarily outspoken at the expense of his subject.”
− Ath. 1907, 2: 680. N. 30. 880w.
254“It is so painstaking, its intentions are so honourable, and yet it is impossible conscientiously to say that more than one-tenth of its pages are necessary or, indeed, ordinarily readable. Technically the book is good, for Mr. Layard has a pleasant easy style; but a biographer’s style is nothing if his judgment is not sound, and in the disproportion of this work we find the gravest reason to doubt the soundness of Mr. Layard’s.”
+ − Lond. Times. 6: 355. N. 22, ’07. 1350w.
“Mr. Layard’s volume was very well worth making.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 758. N. 30, ’07. 1520w.
Lea, Henry Charles. History of sacerdotal celibacy in the Christian church. 3d ed. 2v. *$5. Macmillan.
7–37256.
Originally published in 1867 this work has come to its third edition which includes additions and changes. “The futility of a fifteen centuries’ struggle against the nature of things appears throughout the narrative, and is emphasized by the scandalous conditions reported in Italy and in Latin America during the latter part of the nineteenth century. Throughout all these centuries the church has been more tolerant of concubinage than of marriage among her clergy.... The republication of this monumental work is timely for the new crisis which the apparent irreformability of the Vatican seems to be bringing on.”
“The revision for the new edition has not been so thorough as the subject deserves. The proof-reading is not quite up to Mr. Lea’s high standard. It is a pity that references are still given to antiquated collections ... in cases where the texts cited are to be found in more correct and more accessible modern editions.”
+ + − Nation. 85: 492. N. 28, ’07. 380w.
“Scholars are already acquainted with the earlier editions, and will welcome their enlargement.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 677. O. 26, ’07. 290w.
“It is non-controversial history, content with a record of facts.”
+ + Outlook. 87: 453. O. 26, ’07. 360w.
“It is an accurate and exhaustive account of a clearly defined object, and well merits the place which is commonly assigned to it among standard authorities.”
+ + Sat. R. 104: 366. S. 21, ’07. 1260w.
“Dr. Lea’s reputation for impartiality and a judicial temper, needed in this as much as in any subject, stands high, and the reader will find that it is not undeserved.”
+ + Spec. 99: 27. Jl. 6, ’07. 60w.
Lea, Henry Charles. History of the Inquisition of Spain. 4v. ea. **$2.50. Macmillan.
6–2996.
v. 3. The first two chapters of Mr. Lea’s third volume are upon “‘Torture’ and ‘The trial’ and complete his study of the practice of the Inquisition; five others, beginning with ‘The sentence’ and ending with ‘The auto de fé,’ cover what he has to tell us of its punishments; and the closing four, on ‘Jews,’ ‘Moriscos,’ ‘Protestantism,’ and ‘Censorship,’ open that survey of its spheres of action which is to fill also most of his final volume.”—Am. Hist. R.
v. 4. The author’s study of the Inquisition, brought to a close in this volume, results in the conclusion “that its work was almost wholly evil, and that, through reflex action, the persecutor suffered along with the persecuted.” The volume deals with curious phases of doctrine and superstition prevalent at that time, such as sorcery and the occult arts, witchcraft, Jansenism and the varied political and social conditions which fostered not only the Inquisition itself but the tendencies that it was intended to combat.
Reviewed by George L. Burr.
Am. Hist. R. 12: 359. Ja. ’07. 800w. (Review of v. 2.)
Reviewed by George L. Burr.
Am. Hist. R. 12: 625. Ap. ’07. 1050w. (Review of v. 3.)
Reviewed by Franklin Johnson.
Am. J. Theol. 11: 342. Ap. ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The ripe work of a great scholar, acknowledged to be the greatest living authority in his field—the history of the inquisition.”
+ + A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 45. F. ’07. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“To say that he has written the best book on the subject is scarcely to convey an adequate idea of its merit, for there is really no book that deserves to be compared with it.”
+ + − Ath. 1907, 1: 127. F. 2. 1280w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Written in the impartial spirit characteristic of the author’s earlier publications, this is the crowning achievement in the career of the octogenarian who is generally recognized on the continent as second to no other American historian.”
+ + + Ind. 62: 496. F. 28, ’07. 1130w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
“No other work of the year approaches this in significance, altho in the general field of European history there have been some notable contributions.”
+ + + Ind. 63: 1231. N. 21, ’97. 110w. (Review of v. 4.)
Lit. D. 35: 534. O. 12, ’07. 520w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The author keeps the larger aspects of the subject well in mind, and is not afraid to generalize at the proper time, but he is in accord with the recent tendencies in institutional study in striving to be as concrete as possible.”
+ + Nation. 84: 455. My. 11, ’07. 2350w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“In substance, as we have seen, it is almost immaculate. It is complete, accurate, impartial. But its form leaves much to be desired, Mr. Lea seems to have almost gone out of his way to avoid making his history ‘interesting’ by vivid presentation or captivating style.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ + − N. Y. Times. 12: 693. N. 2, ’07. 2390w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
Outlook. 86: 119. My. 18, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ + R. of Rs. 36: 636. N. ’07. 90w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“There can be no doubt as to Mr. Lea’s views, but he does not write as a partisan.”
+ + Spec. 98: 425. Mr. 16, ’07. 280w. (Review of v. 3.)
* Leach, Henry, ed. Great golfers in the making, by thirty-four famous players. **$2.50. Jacobs.
A group of autobiographical sketches. “The stories are nearly all on one plan: Where I was born; when I got my first club; how I learned the game; where I won my first championship. Almost no direct instruction is given but the theory of the book appears to be that golf fulfills the Arabian proverb that the fig-tree, looking on the fig-tree, becometh fruitful.” (Nation.)
Nation. 85: 325. O. 10, ’07. 90w.
“Well edited book.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 380w.
“The egoism is frank and ingenuous, that is what the editor no doubt wanted, but it is in almost every case quite free from any silly affectation or any outrageous claims on behalf of the game.”
+ Sat. R. 103: sup. 5. My. 4, ’07. 330w.
“A golfer, whether good or bad, will find this volume interesting, and it is at least possible that he may learn something from it”
+ Spec. 98: 259. F. 16, ’07. 250w.
255Leage, Richard W. Roman private law, founded on the “Institutes” of Gaius and Justinian. *$3.25. Macmillan.
6–35562.
The book aims “to give as simply as possible the subject matter of the Institutes of Gaius and Justinian.” This the author does “not by translating or commenting on the original texts, but by describing clearly and concisely the substance of the law revealed to us by those texts. The historical point of view is omitted, except so far as it is necessarily involved in recording the fact (e. g.) that the forms of execution under the Antonines were different from those employed under Justinian.” (Nation.)
“The book falls between two stools. It is not a simple digest of the Institutes, nor is it a proper critical treatment of the subject. Many of the sections show considerable power of lucid exposition, notably that on servitudes, and again that on legacies and that on dos. There is a good summary of the slave’s position in the matter of contract. But it is a pity that an elementary work should contain so many mistakes, and it is not altogether desirable that a work, professedly of that particular character, should now and again, on no apparent principle, give a cursory account of what requires deeper treatment.”
+ − Acad. 71: 131. Ag. 11, ’06. 1190w.
“The chief objection which can be taken to the author’s treatment of the subject is that it is not sufficiently Roman. The author has, we think, followed Maine a little too blindly in several instances. Despite these blemishes however, the book is, in our view, a great advance on any previous work of the same character written for the student, and should prove of considerable utility to him.”
+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 162. F. 9. 410w.
“Mr. Leage’s attempt may be said to be a thoroughly successful one. He has stated clearly and simply the law of the Institutes, avoiding controversy and showing good judgment where the evidence is conflicting. A few passages will need revision in a second edition, which will no doubt soon be called for.” H. Bd.
+ + − Eng. Hist. R. 22: 192. Ja. ’07. 520w.
“The work is admirably done, and should prove useful, not only to elementary students, but to anyone who wishes to be saved the trouble of referring to the original Institutes.”
+ Nation. 84: 154. F. 14, ’07. 150w.
“It will serve admirably for reading with the various titles of the Institutes either as introduction or review; and we do not suppose that without such aid even Roman law students found themselves equal to the bare texts, much less English students.”
+ Sat. R. 101: 764. Je. 16, ’06. 170w.
“A non-legal reader, if he is interested in historical and social questions, will find it full of noteworthy matter.”
+ Spec. 96: 589. Ap. 14, ’06. 270w.
Leblanc, Maurice. Exploits of Arsène Lupin; tr. by A. Teixeira De Mattos. †$1.28. Harper.
7–31976.
Arsène Lupin is a gentleman burglar whose mind, cunning, gracious manners and clever histrionic powers are all employed in paving an artistic way for the trickery of his profession. Followed out into mid-ocean by a wireless message, his disguise wards off suspicion, and even while crossing he steals money and jewels and tucks them away in the very kodak that aids him in his love making with the girl whose aunt he robs; Lupin is his own narrator, and occasionally in whisking about to an objective point of view he tracks himself to cover with the reader eager in pursuit.
“The stories, aside from the unaccountable manner of their unfolding, are of uneven merit, but some are capital.”
+ − Nation. 85: 545. D. 12, ’07. 280w.
“His adventures are thrillingly and gracefully told.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“The book is lively and witty in the French manner, and the courteous trial of wits between Arsène and Sherlock Holmes at the end is most impressive.”
+ Outlook. 87: 497. N. 2, ’07. 60w.
Le Bon, Gustave. Evolution of matter; tr. from the 3d French ed. with introd. and notes by F. Legge. *$1.50. Scribner.
7–38563.
A translation of the third French edition by Mr. Legge who stands “as sponsor for the recognition by scientific experts in Europe, England and America of the value of Dr. Le Bon’s experiments and their reception in various degrees of the soundness of his theories.” (Sat. R.)
“We may say, then, that readers who, without being scientific experts, wish to inform themselves of the latest developments of physical science may safely trust themselves to the guidance of this book. It has the prestige on which the general reader must rely; and it is as fascinating for its literary qualities as for its combination of marvellous facts and bold speculation and suggestion.”
+ Acad. 72: 495. My. 18, ’07. 580w.
“In spite of the faults upon which we have commented, the present book is one of widespread interest. The translation here given is adequate, inasmuch as it renders, for the most part into readable English, the meaning, and—in some cases only too faithfully—the style of the author. But it has been very badly prepared for the press, and the misprints are a great deal more frequent in it than they should be.”
+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 200. F. 16. 1620w.
Nation. 85: 257. S. 19, ’07. 340w.
“A translation of this work ... was very much to be desired, for it would be hard to conceive any reading more fascinating.”
+ Sat. R. 103: 209. F. 16, ’07. 310w.
Le Braz, Anatole. Land of pardons; tr. by Francis M. Gostling. *$2. Macmillan.
6–46329.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 45. F. ’07.
Le Dantec, Felix Alexandre. Nature and origin of life, in the light of new knowledge. *$2. Barnes.
W 7–76.
“The plan of Professor Le Dantec’s book is admirably adapted for the amateur student of science, all technical terms being explained in simple language. The subjects are divided as follows: The objective study of natural bodies; analysis of natural and vital phenomena; decomposition into functions; agreement of Darwin’s and Lamarck’s systems; phenomena, evolution, and bipolarity of living and not living matter; formation of species and appearance of life. Illustrations in diagram accompany the volume.”—Lit. D.
“M. Le Dantec’s book is for the most part a superficial survey of the present situation as he himself appears to see it.”
+ − Acad. 73: 944. S. 28, ’07. 1460w.
Reviewed by Raymond Pearl.
− Dial. 43: 210. O. 1, ’07. 180w.
“Life is chemism, says he. And he says it in the book before us lucidly, sparklingly, positively—but not convincingly.”
− + Ind. 63: 510. Ag. 29, ’07. 480w.
“Written in a clear simple style, it makes plain to the understanding of the general reader one of the most fascinating theories of recent science.”
+ Lit. D. 34: 677. Ap. 27, ’07. 560w.
− Lond. Times. 6: 115. Ap. 12, ’07. 490w.
256“The volume is worthy of philosophical consideration as advocating an unproved possibility, but the ‘light of new knowledge’ will have to become much brighter than at present before one can pencil q. e. d. on the margins of many of the pages.”
+ − Nation. 85: 169. Ag. 22, ’07. 290w.
“With a humour which we appreciate he has entirely shirked the question of origin, only referring to it in a casual, half-hearted sort of way on the last page.” J. A. T.
− Nature. 76: 2. My. 2, ’07. 720w.
“The mechanical processes that build up and sustain living bodies are exhibited in the present volume with remarkable clearness and completeness. On this side of the subject given in its title it is all that could be desired.”
+ − Outlook. 86: 437. Je. 22, ’07. 310w.
Ledoux, Louis Vernon. Soul’s progress, and other poems. **$1.25. Lane.
6–46753.
“The titular piece in his volume is a lyric sequence of some forty pages—the old poetic wayfaring of the ‘soul’ through the dubious experiences of life to the ‘higher optimism.’” (Dial.) The remaining poems reflect equally plainly “the elevated spirit in which he accepts the call to poetry.”
“Technically there is little fault to find except in the case of the blank verse, which is not successful.”
+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 319. Mr. 16. 280w.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
Dial. 43: 93. Ag. 16, ’07. 140w.
“There is an engaging fervor in the spirit of his work. Embodied as it is in clear and fluent verse, with an unusual melody of vowelsound, it makes a gently insistent appeal, not unlike that to be felt in certain pieces of Longfellow’s.”
+ Nation. 84: 199. F. 28, ’07. 270w.
“Singularly engaging.... ‘The soul’s progress,’ with its fine, high seriousness of tone and intention, its evidences of an ardent enthusiasm for the traditional ideals of English verse, and its frank, youthful assumption of an interest on the part of the world in the motions of a soul newly awakened to the universality of its own individual life.” William Aspenwall Bradley.
+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 132. Mr. 2, ’07. 650w.
“In a pleasing variety of metrical forms, and with sincere poetical feeling, this vision of advancing spiritual growth through beauty and truth is presented simply and clearly.”
+ Outlook. 86: 258. Je. 1, ’07. 110w.
Lee, Gerald Stanley. Voice of the machines; an introduction to the twentieth century. $1.25. Mount Tom press, Northampton, Mass.
6–46754.
Since this is an age of machines, the author feels that we must learn to see in this machinery, poetry, religion, love, liberty and immortality. He puts forth this necessity in chapters entitled The men behind the machines, The language of machines, The machines as poets, The ideas behind the machines.
“Some passages go a step beyond the sublime and some of the epigrams miss fire, but it is so encouraging to find a man who can recognize contemporaneous poetry that we are not inclined to be critical.”
+ − Ind. 62: 390. F. 14, ’07. 130w.
“At least he is as eloquent about machinery as the author of Job about Leviathan, and it is impossible not to approve his eloquence, whatever reservations one may have about his philosophy.”
+ − Putnam’s. 2: 120. Ap. ’07. 490w.
Yale R. 16: 109. My. ’07, 110w.
* Lee, Jennette Barbour. Ibsen secret: a key to the prose dramas of Henrik Ibsen. **$1.25. Putnam.
7–32577.
A reprint in book form of a series of papers on Ibsen published a year ago in Putnam’s monthly. Her discussion is devoted principally to the symbolism in the Ibsen drama. “Many essayists before her have probed, to their own satisfaction, and proclaimed the meaning of many of his alleged mysteries, and her contention is that each of the social plays is constructed around one central symbol, a knowledge of which is essential to a proper understanding of the work. Thus the Tarantelle is the key to ‘A doll’s house,’ the pistol to ‘Hedda Gabler,’ and Eyolf and his crutch to ‘Little Eyolf.’” (Nation.)
“It might be dismissed with brief mention—for it has nothing new or significant to say in the way of either criticism or interpretation—if it were not so entirely representative of the attitude of a large class of professed Ibsen worshippers, who have more enthusiasm than discrimination.”
− Nation. 85: 500. N. 28, ’07. 550w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
Lee, John. Religious liberty in South America, with special reference to recent legislation in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia; with an introd. by Bishop John H. Vincent. *$1.25. West. Meth. bk.
7–11041.
In the spirit of broad religious tolerance, the author traces the movement for religious liberty in the South American republics of Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia.
“The volume points out flagrant conditions and aims to create a sentiment against existing religious intolerance. It is of special interest to students of religious social and political conditions, and from either of these standpoints is scientific.”
+ Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 164. Jl. ’07. 290w.
“Dr. Lee, we repeat, has done a good service in publishing this book; and if it were read by American Catholics as well as by Protestants, the world would be the better for it. It is to be regretted that the author has once or twice slipped into an expression which is unnecessarily bitter, and, perhaps, even unjust. Neither would the volume have suffered, if an occasional bit of padding had been left out.”
+ − Ind. 63: 882. O. 10, ’07. 330w.
R. of Rs. 35: 638. My. ’07. 50w.
Lee, Marian, pseud. See Comstock, Anna Botsford.
Lee, Sidney. Shakespeare and the modern stage, with other essays. **$2. Scribner.
6–38524.
“Although it is composed of papers written at different times and for various occasions, and although it breaks into three divisions, the group already cited, contributions to historical and biographical Shakespeareana, and Shakespearean essays properly so called, the volume possesses more unity than such collections of occasional addresses and articles are wont to have.”—Forum.
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 2: 241. D. ’06.
“Mr. Lee writes here rather as a ‘popularizer’ than an expert, but his work has none of the slipshod rhetoric of the increasing crowd who demand the public favour.”
+ + Ath. 1906, 2: 648. N. 24. 1060w.
“It was a happy thought of Mr. Lee’s to write a paper on ‘Pepys and Shakespeare,’ and this, no doubt, many readers will find the most amusing thing in the volume.” Charles H. A. Wager.
+ + Dial. 42: 220. Ap. 1, ’07. 1090w.
257“Mr. Lee’s latest contribution to Shakespearean literature is based, as all his other books are, upon a scholarship that is remarkably solid and sane. Hence it is sure to appeal to the limited audience interested in English and, particularly, in Shakespearean studies.” W. P. Trent.
+ + Forum. 38: 376. Ja. ’07. 1720w.
“These are good, sound papers, worth preserving; and if we sometimes wish that the ‘intention’ were kept a little more ‘private’ ... it is an intention in which all may join.”
+ + − Lond. Times. 5: 385. D. 14, ’06. 1160w.
“Among the most interesting papers in Mr. Lee’s volumes are those on Shakespere’s philosophy, oral traditions, and the perils of unscientific research. There is not a dull page in the book.”
+ + Nation. 83: 444. N. 22, ’06. 1160w.
“Though another student of the stage may be moved to dispute an occasional opinion of Mr. Lee’s, no student of the stage can fail to feel respect for the solid scholarship which sustains these collected essays and for the sobriety and sanity which is visible in whatever Mr. Lee writes.” Brander Matthews.
+ + − N. Y. Times. 12: 42. Ja. 26, ’07. 900w.
“One of his strongest claims to attention is the fact that he has rigorously held the speculative impulse in check, and has brought to the study of the dramatist, not only as much knowledge as any man of his time, but robust common sense.”
+ + Outlook. 85: 482. F. 23, ’07. 250w.
“In his new volume of essays on Shakespearean subjects he is always interesting, and instructive, but he is very rarely sympathetic. Mr. Lee’s essays, however, have a great deal more in them than an occasional unpleasant hardness of tone. They are full of matter, lucidly arranged and carefully substantiated. They are serious and scholarly contributions to the literature of Shakespearean criticism.”
+ + − Spec. 97: 887. D. 1, ’06. 2190w.
Lee, Sidney. Stratford-on-Avon: from the earliest times to the death of Shakespeare; il. by Herbert Railton. *$1.50. Lippincott.
“Among the mass of modern Shakespeariana which grows vaster with every publishing season, it is a relief to find one book on Stratford that deals with the town for its own rather than for the great poet’s sake. This picturesque account of Stratford’s early history,—its old markets and fairs, its nobility, its guild, its village sports and industries,—serves not only to make a setting for the life of Shakespeare, but also to bring out much that, having nothing to do with him, is nevertheless quaint and characteristic.”—Dial.
A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 54. F. ’07.
“Mr. Lee has revised his text to bring it strictly up to date, and has added considerable information which historical researches since 1890 have brought to light.”
+ Dial. 41: 461. D. 16, ’06. 200w.
+ Int. Studio. 30: 185. D. ’06. 190w.
“The book deserves to be read not only as being supplementary of Mr. Lee’s biography of the poet, but also in connection with George Brandes’s ‘Life of Shakespeare,’ whose bold theories become more interesting in the comparison.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 94. D. 15, ’06. 350w.
“The book is written with the seriousness and caution that are characteristic of all Mr. Lee’s work, and is in all cases based on documents.”
+ Nation. 83: 437. N. 22, ’06. 160w.
“It is accurate, entertaining and handsomely illustrated.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 778. N. 24, ’06. 150w.
Lees, Dorothy Neville. Scenes and shrines in Tuscany. *$1.25. Dutton.
Twenty-three sketches of Tuscan scenes and customs, written while the author was connected with an Italian family of the upper class. “To this family belongs her little six-year-old friend, Mafalda, who, with her big sister, Francesca, and the contadini on the villa estate, form a group as interesting as if they were characters in a story.” (Nation.)
“We advise every lover of Italy to read ‘Scenes and shrines in Tuscany.’ It is a careful and delightful piece of work, marred by few errors of taste or fact.”
+ + − Acad. 72: 533. Je. 1, ’07. 930w.
“Episodes in the daily life of the people, like the Harvest, the Vintage, and All Souls’ day in Florence, are described with knowledge and insight. We advise even those to whom a sojourn in Tuscany is a future experience to read this book.”
+ + − Nation. 84: 14. Jl. 4, ’07. 260w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 482. Ag. 3, ’07. 480w.
+ Spec. 98: 947. Je. 15, ’07. 360w.
Lefevre, Edwin. Sampson Rock of Wall street. †$1.50. Harper.
7–8216.
The vast centripetal action of all the issues that make toward the center of a big New York stock-brokerage office shows the author’s complete understanding of the “technique of speculation.” The son of a magnate of finance deplores the methods by which his father aims to get possession of the Virginia central railroad, and plans to outwit him. In so doing he plays a Wall street game that lacks neither characters nor situation to make it realistic.
“Spirited and full of incident. Will probably be popular with men.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 110. Ap. ’07.
+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 349. Mr. 23. 230w.
“It makes a fairly interesting story upon a subject that is essentially devoid of any vital human interest.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − Dial. 42: 378. Je. 16, ’07. 320w.
“Mr. Lefevre’s growth in his art is constant.”
+ Ind. 62: 799. Ap. 4, ’07. 160w.
“It is a strong and interesting characterization of a modern money king that Mr. Lefevre has given us.”
+ Lit. D. 34: 509. Mr. 30, ’07. 240w.
“Is entirely readable. To the diligent reader the story may almost be recommended as a hand-book and ready reference guide to speculation.”
+ Nation. 84: 210. F. 28, ’07. 190w.
“Here is undoubtedly a novel with a purpose—a didactic purpose—a purpose, too, which will not meet with everybody’s approval. Fortunately the author as the thing progressed and his scent grew warm, almost lost sight of his own purpose in his own interest in the story.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 115. F. 23, ’07. 660w.
“It was a bold thing to base a novel so exclusively on financial battling—for the love story is extremely slight. One feels that the author has succeeded by sheer weight of ability, but the experiment is one not to be easily repeated.”
+ Outlook. 85: 718. Mr. 23, ’07. 220w.
“Is convincingly realistic.” Vernon Atwood.
+ Putnam’s. 2: 619. Ag. ’07. 120w.
“A dreary epic of barter in railway shares, comparing unfavorably with his brisk short stories.”
− R. of Rs. 35: 761. Je. ’07. 80w.
Leffler, Burton R. Elastic arch, with special reference to the reinforced concrete arch. $1. Holt.
6–45715.
A work which contains among new features a deduction of the subject from one simple equation, graphic application of the easy method of drawing the closing line of the equilibrium polygon, a correct and simple method of designing a reenforced concrete section for combined thrust and movement, and a graphical analysis of an arch for oblique forces.
258“We can commend the book only to the careful and intelligent reader.”
+ − Engin. N. 57: 85. Ja. 17, ’07. 320w.
* Leger, Jacques Nicholas. Haiti: her history and her detractors. *$3. Neale.
7–25045.
The author who is Envoy extraordinary and Minister plenipotentiary of Haiti in the United States addresses himself especially to students of international affairs and political history and to the reader of sociological literature. The first part deals with the history of the island from before its discovery by Columbus to the election of General Nord Alexis to the presidency; the second, with the natural conditions of the country, the general organization, the customs and manners of the people, and their continued efforts to better their condition.
Legge, Ronald. Admirable Davis. $1.50. Cassell.
“‘The admirable Davis’ is the valet of a member of the British foreign office who is sent to an Eastern potentate with an important treaty. The valet is intimately connected with his master’s adventures, for which the latter is mostly to blame. The valet, in the end, sets things to rights.”—N. Y. Times.
“A crude product on the popular model of ‘The prisoner of Zenda.’”
− Ath. 1907, 2: 438. O. 12. 140w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
* Legler, Henry Edward. Poe’s Raven: its origin and genesis: a compilation and a survey. pa. bds. $3. Philosopher press.
A good deal of interesting material concerning “The raven” has been collected for this volume. Mr. Legler discusses its genesis and the circumstances attending the writing and publishing of the poem; gives the alleged sources of “The raven” including “To Allegra Florence in heaven,” a chapter from “Barnaby Rudge,” “Lady Geraldine’s courtship,” “Clare,” “The rime of the ancient mariner,” “The funiao,” and “The parrot;” discusses the manuscript of “The raven” and adds bibliographical notes.
Leigh, Oliver. Edgar Allan Poe: the man, the master, the martyr. *$1.25. Morris.
6–32457.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
− Acad. 71: 617. D. 15, ’06. 250w.
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 29. Ja. 19, ’07. 140w.
Leighton, Joseph Alexander. Jesus Christ and the civilization of to-day: the ethical teaching of Jesus considered in its bearings on the moral foundations of modern culture. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–18115.
A practical rather than technical consideration of the ethical teachings of Jesus Christ in their bearings on the spiritual life of civilization, in which no account is taken of the external events of Christ’s life or of his deeds further than necessary for an interpretation of the meaning and application of his teaching. It addresses all “intelligent persons who are honestly and open-mindedly seeking to determine the relation of the words of the Great Master of Life and Religion to their own lives and to the complex and confused life of contemporary civilization.”
“A careful study”
+ Bib. World. 30: 80. Jl. ’07. 20w.
Ind. 63: 571. S. 5, ’07. 440w.
“Professor Leighton would seem to be more at home in the field of ethics than in matters of New Testament criticism. One can but wish him well in his doctrine of the freedom of the individual and victory over the forces of time, but it must be said that a more critical attitude toward early Christian traditions would have added not a little to the soundness of his results.”
− + Nation. 85: 119. Ag. 8, ’07. 220w.
+ Outlook. 86: 766. Ag. 10, ’07. 500w.
R. of Rs. 36: 127. Jl. ’07. 80w.
* Lemaitre, Jules. Jean Jacques Rousseau; tr. by Mme. Ch. Bigot. **$2. McClure.
In which M. Lemaitre, “the most clear-sighted and independent of critics” deals with Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s influence on the history of humanity. He shows what propaganda there are in the “Contrat social,” “La nouvelle Heloïse,” and “Emile,” that helped to precipitate the revolution.
N. Y. Times. 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“Is a brilliant picture, painted with the sympathy and the justice of a true artist.”
+ + Spec. 99: 57. Jl. 13, ’07. 290w.
Lenotre, Gosselin. Flight of Marie Antoinette; tr. from the French by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell. *$3.50. Lippincott.
7–28490.
The incidents of the flight of Marie Antoinette to Varennes, where she is overtaken and compelled to return a prisoner flash before us with panoramic swiftness and dramatic intensity. She is the one strong figure amid the deplorable weakness of husband, children and dependents, and “wherever she passes” strikes “the note of something great, of something gracious, whimsical, and sweet.” (Lond. Times.)
“M. Lenôtre’s work is one of minute research, in which no detail is neglected, and conjecture is never allowed to masquerade as fact.”
+ + Ath. 1907, 1: 379. Mr. 30. 520w.
Reviewed by S. M. Francis.
+ Atlan. 100: 491. O. ’07. 300w.
“He has used the historical method as severely in determining each detail of the story as if he were engaged on a far duller task. The fulness and exactness of the author’s information has not impaired his sense of the requirements of the story.” Henry E. Bourne.
+ Dial. 42: 141. Mr. 1, ’07. 1230w.
“It is a scholarly and documented account of a striking episode, told in an entertaining fashion.”
+ Ind. 62: 971. Ap. 25, ’07. 100w.
+ Lit. D. 34: 106. Ja. 19, ’07. 310w.
“We have no words in which to criticize this book. If any one who takes it up can lay it down ere the last page is turned he may be calm enough to criticize. The whole volume is not only alive, it is on fire.”
+ + Lond. Times. 5: 408. D. 7, ’06. 1970w.
“The skillful use he makes of this material, balancing probabilities against probabilities, checking one document by another, and always picking out with unerring finger the convincing, essential fact, is as striking as the intensity of life which he manages to give to his revival of the past.”
+ Nation. 84: 58. Ja. 17, ’07. 490w.
“The volume may have a useful place among historical documents, but it will be found tedious and almost trivial in its exhaustiveness.”
+ − Outlook. 85: 44. Ja. 5, ’07. 270w.
“There was never another story like this, and told as it is here it wrings the heart.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ Putnam’s. 2: 474. Jl. ’07. 540w.
“He has acquired the requisite knowledge; he is endowed with a delicate and vivid imagination; he has learned how to construct a story, and, more difficult still, he can tell the story he has constructed. The book is both easy and pleasant to read in its English dress, and nothing better can be said of a translation.”
+ + Sat. R. 103: 241. F. 23, ’07. 1630w.
259“One forgets that the English book is a translation, and there can be no higher praise. No one who cares to study the French revolution at all, and no one who loves a true story uncommonly well told, including many interesting characters impossible to be mentioned here, should neglect to read this book.”
+ + Spec. 97: sup. 756. N. 17, ’06. 1800w.
Lenotre, Gosselin. Last days of Marie Antoinette; tr. from the French by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell. *$3.50. Lippincott.
Not a life of Marie Antoinette but a collection of narratives, written by eyewitnesses, of the life of the royal family from their imprisonment in the Temple to the execution of the unfortunate queen.
“The book is of poignant interest, and its interest is heightened by the illustrations.”
+ Acad. 73: 87. N. 2, ’07. 890w.
“He has performed a task needing not only research, but restraint, so that every reader can know the truth and be his own interpreter.”
+ Lond. Times. 6: 339. N. 8, ’07. 720w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“Certainly no one can deny that the pathos of these narratives is deep, and exceeds that of any novel, since they deal with real characters and events.”
+ + Sat. R. 104: sup. 5. O. 19, ’07. 1520w.
“Intensely interesting, if very painful, book.”
+ Spec. 99: 870. N. 30, ’07. 1270w.
Leonard, Arthur Glyn. Lower Niger and its tribes. *$4. Macmillan.
7–11550.
“The book opens with a description of the physical features of the country, the tribes inhabiting the various divisions, and of the local traditions, ... Then come chapters on the philosophy of the people as expressed in certain words in their vocabulary, names, proverbs, and fables. The third division of the volume is devoted to a discussion of the ‘natural’ religion of the various tribes dealt with.... Other chapters take up emblemism, ceremonials, and practices of Naturalism, etc.”—N. Y. Times.
“The defect of his book is its verbal exuberance, and its overflow of theories about the origin of religion.” Andrew Lang.
+ − Acad. 71: 623. D. 22, ’06. 1730w.
“Whilst Mr. Dennett’s book suffers from too little synthesis, Major Leonard’s suffers from too much. His facts, not his theories, will be valued most by the expert. A rich quarry, but the stone that is to serve for building purposes must be selected with some care.”
+ − Ath. 1906, 2: 832. D. 29. 240w.
“Behind his self-complacency and occasional arrogance there is evidence of real sympathy and insight.”
+ − Lond. Times. 6: 43. F. 8, ’07. 470w.
N. Y. Times. 11: 905. D. 29, ’06. 290w.
Le Rossignol, James Edward. Orthodox socialism. (Lib. of economics.) **$1. Crowell.
7–12999.
A brief exposition and criticism of the Marxian or scientific socialism. It is a thoroly practical treatment which defines the creed of socialism and traces the historic rise: discusses the labor-cost theory of value; the iron law of wages; surplus value; the use of machinery and its effects upon skilled labor; panics, strikes, and industrial crises; the struggle of the man with the class; and the social revolution which has been threatened.
Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 596. N. ’07. 140w.
“Mr. Le Rossignol makes his points skillfully.”
+ Dial. 43: 69. Ag. 1, ’07. 190w.
“Attractively and helpfully presented.”
+ Educ. R. 34: 209. S. ’07. 50w.
“His style is didactic, and his diction clear, but a confusion of thought is often apparent.”
+ − Ind. 63: 1370. D. 5, ’07. 120w.
Lethaby, William Richard. Westminster abbey and the kings’ craftsmen: a study of mediaeval building. *$3.50. Dutton.
7–19737.
Less a description of the edifice than an account of the craftsmen who built and decorated it. “The author seeks to rebuild in our imaginations this ‘supreme work of art’ in all its perfection of form, its beauty of adornment, its suavity of environment, its church and chapterhouse, its monastery and mill, its garden and farm, seated by the side of the king’s palace on the bank of the clear-running Thames.” (Acad.)
“For genuine love of the past; for unwearied study of its records and minute observation of its example; for accurate marshalling of facts and for incontrovertible conclusions, in support of admirable principles, Professor Lethaby’s book deserves high commendation.”
+ + Acad. 72: 34. Ja. 12, ’07. 1720w.
“Altogether the work is of first-rate importance—by far the most authoritative that has yet appeared, and likely to remain so for many years to come.”
+ + Ath. 1907, 1: 388. Mr. 30. 1530w.
“The book is so thorough a piece of work from beginning to end that slips are very rare. Mr. Lethaby’s fascinating book is so emphatically a new departure that no one could have a better or more trustworthy guide to the glorious abbey church of Westminster.” W. H. St. John Hope.
+ + − Eng. Hist. R. 22: 355. Ap. ’07. 1230w.
“The characteristic feature of this new work, the outcome of twelve years of close research, is its recognition of the importance of individual craftsmen in the evolution of the great abbey.”
+ Int. Studio. 31: 250. My. ’07. 270w.
“Mr. Lethaby has rummaged his ‘documents’ to very good effect and has secured some valuable rays of illumination on the practical organization of building operations.”
+ + − N. Y. Times. 12: 636. O. 19, ’07. 700w.
“Written in a style which must win readers among all who love Westminster abbey or care to read at all, it contains a body of research at first hand which we do not hesitate to declare unequalled in importance by any similar publication on either side of the channel, for the double reason that there are no such complete records elsewhere, and no archaeologists possessing Mr. Lethaby’s combination of qualities.”
+ + + Sat. R. 103: 303. Mr. 9, ’07. 1670w.
“It is quite safe to say that not since Dean Stanley’s ‘Memorials’ has a book been written on the abbey which has succeeded in conveying so much of the fascination of its subject, and not since Sir Gilbert Scott put together his ‘Gleanings’ has so much fresh light been thrown on the history of the fabric and its ornaments.”
+ + Spec. 97: 1079. D. 29, ’06. 1500w.
Levasseur, Pierre Emile. Elements of political economy; tr. by Theodore Marburg. *$1.75. Macmillan.
5–17608.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“The present work is a rather small volume, following the conventional lines, clear and logical in style, but treating the subject in a very elementary way.”
+ Yale. R. 15: 468. F. ’07. 50w.
Levussove, Moses Samuel. New art of an ancient people, the work of Ephraim Mose Lilien. *75c. Huebsch.
6–45172.
Ephraim Mose Lilien is among the younger intellectual Galician Jews who are reflecting the race’s awakening to newer activity and 260larger creative effort. Here are reproduced a dozen or so of his studies in black and white, and Mr. Levussove points out the excellencies of style and content as they reveal Lilien’s mastery of the technic of composition and his understanding of Hebrew nature.
“The work will appeal alike to those who have an interest in the rejuvenation of an ancient race, and to those who will be attracted by a technique suggestive of the skill of Japanese decorators and of the European masters of line-work.”
+ Dial. 42: 149. Mr. 1, ’07. 130w.
“Mr. Levussove leaves the reader not only with an understanding of the highly poetic value of the artist’s work, but with a vivid sympathy for the racial quality of serious aspiration, which he exemplifies.”
+ Ind. 62: 804. Ap. 4, ’07. 190w.
Lit. D. 34: 103. Ja. 19, ’07. 670w.
Nation. 84: 140. F. 7, ’07. 150w.
“Mr. Levussove entertainingly covers his subject, keeping always in mind the fact that the awakening art spirit among the Jews is exemplified by Lilien’s works.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 44. Ja. 26, ’07. 250w.
R. of Rs. 35: 256. F. ’07. 40w.
* Lewis, Alfred Henry. When men grew tall; or, The story of Andrew Jackson. **$2. Appleton.
7–36233.
“Tells the story of Andrew Jackson’s career in, we conceive, precisely the way Andrew Jackson himself would have delighted to tell it.... It has the true Jacksonian flavor of unquenchable ardor to twist the tail of the British lion, supreme contempt for the Spanish Dons, burning antipathy to the ‘corrupt bargainers’ Adams and Clay—poor ‘Machiavelli’ Clay, as Mr. Lewis persists in calling him—and unrestrained enmity for ‘serpentine’ Banker Biddle and the rest of the money crew.”—Outlook.
N. Y. Times. 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“It is written in a virile, intense, vehement strain that keeps the reader wide awake. As a ‘story’ it certainly has much to commend it, bringing out in vivid relief some of the most dramatic episodes of Jackson’s life, and being distinctly human from beginning to end.”
+ Outlook. 87: 788. D. 7, ’07. 240w.
Lewis, Charlton Miner. Principles of English verse. **$1.25. Holt.
6–27939.
“In the main a plea for common sense as opposed to metaphysics in the treatment of the subject.”—Dial.
“Many a bewildered reader of larger works will be grateful for the breath of fresh air that comes to them from these pages.”
+ Dial. 41: 246. O. 16, ’06. 60w.
“Mr. Lewis shies at the notion of the foot in English. If [he] could take this one logical step, he might give us a book which would reveal to all who care to penetrate it, the whole heart of the mystery of English verse-rhythms.”
+ + − Nation. 83: 420. N. 15, ’06. 950w.
“Compact and easily read volume.”
+ + Outlook. 85: 526. Mr. 2, ’07. 100w.
Lewis, Elizabeth. Lorenzo of Sarzana. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
7–20618.
In Genoa, just before the plague descends upon her, is set this story of a group of artists, studying under the old Italian Maestro in his attic studio. A three stranded love motive tangles the plot into which is woven a double thread of mystery in the persons of a white swathed figure which haunts a young American art student and a demented painter who destroys her canvases as soon as she finishes them. All this throws a glamour over an otherwise modern romance in which a match-making mother and a dowry hunting Italian figure conspicuously.
Lewis, Emily Westwood. Next door Morelands. †$1.50. Little.
7–30990.
A story for girls from twelve to sixteen which tells of the coming of Corinne, an orphan, from France to the home of an American uncle. The Morelands are five rollicking children, who initiate Corinne into the mysteries of their mirth-loving circle.
Lewis. Rev. Howell Elvet. With Christ among the miners; incidents and impressions of the Welsh revival. *$1. West. Meth. bk.