Volume 3 — D (continued 2)
Reading edition
− Acad. 72: 362. Ap. 13, ’07. 1310w.
“In the chapter that deals with the antiquity of the office and its duties in mediaeval days, Mr. Ditchfield might, with advantage, have exercised just a little more care.”
+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 534. My. 4. 1030w.
+ Dial. 43: 95. Ag. 16, ’07. 350w.
“The book is a useful addition to the history of English ecclesiastical institutions.”
+ Ind. 63: 700. S. 19, ’07. 100w.
“A book about parish clerks which, we should think, must be exhaustive.”
+ + Lond. Times. 6: 124. Ap. 19, ’07. 1330w.
“May be commended as a work of curious erudition and as a storehouse of capital anecdotes.”
+ Nation. 85: 420. N. 7, ’07. 150w.
“It makes a fascinating record, brimful of human nature, not by any means destitute of human failings, nor yet of lovely and gentle traits.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 477. Ag. 3, ’07. 1910w.
“Mr. Ditchfield has much that is entertaining to say about the subject, one which is entirely to his liking. He tells many curious things about the office and many more, still more curious, about the holder of it.”
+ Spec. 99: sup. 752. N. 16, ’07. 330w.
117Ditmars, Raymond Lee. Reptile book. **$4. Doubleday.
7–10051.
“A comprehensive, popularized work on the structure and habits of the turtles, tortoises, crocodilians, lizards, and snakes which inhabit the United States and Northern Mexico.” “But it is more than a popular book, for it is a gold mine of information for the zoologist.”—Ind.
A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 119. My. ’07.
“It is a great book, well planned, clearly written, popular and yet scientific.”
+ + Ind. 62: 799. Ap. 4, ’07. 950w.
“The text is a notable addition to popular herpetological literature, but we cannot agree with the author that this field is a gap which ‘has steadily remained unchanged.’”
+ + − Nation. 84: 504. My. 30, ’07. 680w.
“Mr. Ditmars has done his task excellently. He writes out of a large and intimate knowledge, and in a clear, intelligible style.” Cameron Mann.
+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 281. My. 4, ’07. 920w.
Dix, Beulah Marie. Merrylips; il. by Frank T. Merrill. $1.50. Macmillan.
6–34081.
A story dedicated “to every little girl who has wished for an hour to be a little boy.” The child heroine figures in exciting adventures among Roundheads and Cavaliers during Cromwell’s time, masquerading for a time as a boy among the King’s soldiers.
“The story is excellent in atmosphere and has more incident and plot than the author’s previous works.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 2: 250. D. ’06. ✠
+ Ind. 62: 275. Ja. 31, ’07. 130w.
“A most attractive tale for young people. Should it fall into the hands of the elders it will surely be read at a sitting.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 668. O. 13, ’06. 180w.
“This story has decidedly finer literary flavor than most books for children or about children.”
+ + Outlook. 84: 531. O. 27, ’06. 110w.
Dix, Edwin Asa. Prophet’s Landing: a novel. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–12634.
The rigor of monopoly in the early seventies in its iconoclastic treatment of the cherished idols of sentiment furnishes the motif of this story. A department store proprietor becomes a magnate thru the exercise of mighty business genius minus heart. His octopus methods work havoc in hearts and homes in Prophet’s Landing, and the events which follow one another in rapid succession show the ultimate futility of greed, tho it shelter itself under the moral law.
+ − A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 134. My. ’07. ✠
“The story is entitled to a place in the honorable line of our New England fiction.”
+ Ind. 63: 339. Ag. 8, ’07. 240w.
“The characters in this wholesome novel are strongly drawn. A simple tho powerful love-story traverses it, and there are interesting descriptions of New England life.”
+ Lit. D. 34: 841. My. 25, ’07. 280w.
“A good, obvious tract, which might be more serviceable than literature of a higher order, if it could conceivably be held before the eyes of the wicked shopkeeper and the wickeder railroad man.”
+ − Nation. 84: 523. Je. 6, ’07. 320w.
“It may be doubtful whether a strong and able man would ever repent in quite the spectacular manner in which Mr. Dix, accomplishes his hero’s reform ... but the book does present a salutary lesson on modern business methods.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 420. Je. 29, ’07. 230w.
“The story is unpretentious, but distinctively effective; and its humor and sentiment give it variety and dramatic vitality.”
+ Outlook. 86: 116. My. 19, ’07. 370w.
Dix, Morgan, ed. History of Trinity church in the city of New York. 4v. **$5. Putnam.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Dr. Dix has been thorough in his search for documents and careful in their use, and his work will be invaluable to students of the matters with which it deals.”
+ + Nation. 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 230w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
Dix, William Frederick. Face in the girandole: a romance of old furniture. **$2. Moffat.
6–39023.
Mr. Dix makes an asset of his hobby for old furniture in this charming book. “‘The face in the girandole’ sets forth something of the joys, something of the sorrows of an old furniture collector. Into it he has incidentally but skilfully woven just a dash of romance as a foil, and this added touch will make it appeal to others besides those who collect furniture.” (Ind.)
“It is a novelette that almost anybody might like to spend an idle hour upon.”
+ Dial. 41: 458. D. 16, ’06. 180w.
+ Ind. 61: 1400. D. 22, ’06. 130w.
+ Nation. 83: 539. D. 20, ’06. 150w.
“For the most part it is pleasantly and faithfully done.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 3. Ja. 5, ’07. 360w.
+ Outlook. 84: 840. D. 1, ’06. 70w.
Dix, William Frederick. Lost princess. †$1.50. Moffat.
7–26021.
“A direct descendant of the novel of imaginary principalities and imaginable adventures rendered popular by Mr. Anthony Hope.... The recipe for this kind of story calls for several manufactured geographical names, a group of appropriate gentlemen and ladies, all superlatively beautiful, brave, good or wicked, and then a rush and tumble of extraordinary events, ending in poetic justice for all concerned.”—N. Y. Times.
“The first chapter really makes one look for something new, but things soon settle down into the old familiar lines.”
− N. Y. Times. 12: 579. S. 28, ’07. 230w.
Outlook. 87: 270. O. 5, ’07. 110w.
Dixon, Thomas, jr. Traitor. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–24587.
The third novel in Mr. Dixon’s trilogy of reconstruction of which “The leopard’s spots” and “The clansman” were the first two. It deals with “the dissolution of the Ku Klux Klan and the attempt of unscrupulous men after its dissolution to use its garb and methods for personal ends.” (Outlook.) “It provides a secret panel and a secret passage, ghosts, a murder in the midst of the revelry of a masked ball of Ku Kluxes; a young man robbed of his heritage, and a young woman with coquettish curls and a Dolly Varden, who is a daughter of the thief. It makes this willful young woman suspect the young man of the murder—’twas the thief, her father, who perished by the assassin’s hand—and shows her fiercely set upon bringing him to the gallows by making him fall in love with herself, and, therefore, confidential enough to confess all.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The book cries out for the stage—the Third avenue stage. It is as full of situations, thrills, climaxes, ‘curtains,’ as a home of melodrama is of gallery gods.” Ward Clark.
− Bookm. 26: 83. S. ’07. 1020w.
“The book is at least remarkable as a psychological phenomenon, for it is probably the first time a man has so successfully interpreted himself into the character of an historical, palpitating female.”
− Ind. 63: 762. S. 26, ’07. 110w.
118“There are not lacking some dramatic scenes in the course of the story, but as a defense of government by means of the Invisible Empire the author manifestly defeats his own purpose.”
− + Lit. D. 35: 451. S. 28, ’07. 480w.
“From a literary point of view there is much in common between Mr. Lawson and Mr. Dixon. In fact, both are yellow journalists.”
− N. Y. Times. 12: 475. Ag. 3, ’07. 1350w.
“This tale, like its predecessors, seems to us ill written and almost hysterically high-keyed in expression.”
− Outlook. 86: 832. Ag. 17, ’07. 140w.
Dodd, Helen C. Healthful farmhouse, by a farmer’s wife; with an introd. by Ellen H. Richards. *60c. Whitcomb & B.
6–45718.
A book written for the average farmer’s wife from the point of view of one who does all her own cooking, dishwashing, sweeping, and laundry work, yet runs a lawn mower and cares for the flower beds about the house, and does much work in the vegetable garden. It proves that art may be combined with the ideas of utility and sanitation.
“An admirable little book full of practical ideas.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 41. F. ’07. S.
+ Ind. 62: 678. Mr. 21, ’07. 80w.
Dodge, Walter P. Real Sir Richard Burton. *$1.80. Wessels.
Mr. Dodge’s biography was inspired by a desire “to overthrow the destructive criticism of Burton contained in the ‘Life’ by Thomas Wright.” “By confining himself not without a sense of proportion, to Burton’s main exploits, Mr. Dodge is able to skim over several pitfalls in which a fuller biography is likely to be enmeshed, and his reticence over certain threadbare controversies is welcome.” (Lond. Times.)
“His ‘Real Sir Richard Burton’ is no Sir Richard Burton at all, but an abstraction who made certain journeys and wrote certain books. He settles no vexed questions and produces no new information.”
− Acad. 72: 627. Je. 29, ’07. 420w.
“Is actually a panegyric rather than a biography. To original research or critical acumen it can make little claim, nor does the author appear to have had any personal acquaintance with the subject of his sketch.” Percy F. Bicknell.
− Dial. 43: 114. S. 1, ’07. 1530w.
+ − Lond. Times. 6: 204. Je. 28, ’07. 330w.
“Mr. Dodge is too passionate an admirer to be a good biographer. He sacrifices personality to achievement lest by chance he admit something to his hero’s discredit. In the case of Burton such caution is superfluous.”
− N. Y. Times. 12: 489. Ag. 10, ’07. 380w.
Dole, Charles Fletcher. Hope of immortality; our reasons for it. *75c. Crowell.
6–34260.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This is as far as any thinker of any age has ever reached, the final word for the present.” Robert E. Bisbee.
+ + Arena. 37: 110. Ja. ’07. 620w.
“Dr. Dole has handled a hard subject in a thoughtful, sympathetic fashion.”
+ + Nation. 84: 10. Ja. 3, ’07. 260w.
Dole, Charles Fletcher. Spirit of democracy. **$1.25. Crowell.
6–26499.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 119. My. ’07.
“A most readable book.”
+ Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 209. Ja. ’07. 270w.
“It is specially to be commended to young men and women who have not yet learned the value, the possibilities, and the triumphs of a true democracy.” I. C. Barrows.
+ + Charities. 17: 461. D. 15, ’06. 2790w.
“Of course the treatment of so many subjects in one small volume must necessarily be superficial and unsatisfactory.” Max West.
− Dial. 43: 122. S. 1, ’07. 320w.
“It is a reasonable and thoughtful presentation of some of the most pressing problems in our contemporary political life.”
+ Educ. R. 33: 207. F. ’07. 70w.
J. Pol. Econ. 15: 124. F. ’07. 220w.
Dole, Nathan Haskell, comp. and tr. Russian fairy book. †$2. Crowell.
7–24600.
Seven stories on which a child’s imagination may feed, full of adventure, humor, mystery and magic. They are Vasilisa the beauty, The Bright-Hawk’s feather, Ivan and the gray wolf, The little sister and little brother, The white duckling, Marya Morevna, and The frog-queen.
“The stories are in the nature of folk-lore, and are all good.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 40w.
“Opens a new and fascinating vista to lovers of stories that are full of original beauty and the naïve appeal of ancient folk-lore.”
+ Outlook. 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 70w.
“The illustrations allure on account of their novelty. However, in the tales there is little or no freshness of subject-matter or style.”
+ − R. of Rs. 36: 764. D. ’07. 40w.
Donaldson, James. Woman, her position and influence in ancient Greece and Rome, and among the early Christians. *$1.60. Longmans.
W 7–73.
“The book gives one a clear picture of the various ideals in regard to woman which prevailed through the Greek, Roman and early Christian times, and of how the women measured up to them.”—N. Y. Times.
“Dr. Donaldson’s readable little book is perhaps quite as useful as a work of more solid erudition would be.” Paul Shorey.
+ − Am. Hist. R. 13: 121. O. ’07. 620w.
“For the most part, a lucid and excellently written summary of the salient facts which may be gathered from the scattered and often conflicting testimonies available to us. He has a wide knowledge of the German writers who have done the ‘spade-work’ of the subject, but he has also an advantage they generally lack—a clear and attractive style.”
+ + Ath. 1907, 1: 248. Mr. 2. 4360w.
“We conclude by recording the impression of sanity and clarity produced alike by the first and second reading of this modest work. Occasionally we might quarrel about a nuance of interpretation or of presentation. The essential parts are readable and instructive; the whole is valuable.” F. B. R. Hellems.
+ + − Dial. 43: 86. Ag. 16, ’07. 1200w.
“His statements were based on sound scholarship, and were made with unusual caution, so that he could publish them in book form with the addition here and there of footnotes embodying certain modern discussions.”
+ + Nation. 84: 521. Je. 6, ’07. 1510w.
“It has the buoyancy and freshness of a spring day, a frank love of beauty, an invincible conviction that the generous and fine is the real and important side of human nature.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 201. Ap. 6, ’07. 1550w.
“For the most part, his work is rather a series of suggestive essays on comparatively well-known facts than a fresh contribution to knowledge. As such, however, it has great value, and the author exhibits exactly the learning, insight, and judgment which we need for the full investigation of a difficult but fascinating subject.”
+ + Spec. 98: 500. Mr. 30, ’07. 1750w.
119Dos Passos, John R. American lawyer as he was—as he is—as he can be. *$1.75. Banks.
7–2440.
“In this work Mr. Dos Passos discusses in broad outline what he conceives to be the real mission of the lawyer in society, his relation to the government of which he is a citizen, and his clearly defined duties in that relation.”—R. of Rs.
N. Y. Times. 12: 61. F. 2, ’07. 420w.
R. of Rs. 35: 509. Ap. ’07. 120w.
Doubleday, Nellie Blanchan (Neltje Blanchan, pseud.). Birds that every child should know: the East; 63 pages of photographs from life. (Every child should know series.) **$1.20. Doubleday.
7–7517.
While primarily for children this book interests other bird-lovers as well. “Nearly a hundred species are described and talked about in an informal, interesting way, technicalities being avoided as much as possible, perhaps too much for convenience of identification.” (Ind.)
“A very good book for children, or to use with children, for supplementary work. Does not supplant Chapman’s ‘Birdlife’ as an identification book, and one might hesitate to choose it in preference to Olive Thorne Miller’s two books for teaching purposes, but is superior for reading.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 111. Ap. ’07.
“A book charmingly written and copiously illustrated.”
+ Dial. 42: 260. Ap. 16, ’07. 20w.
“Mrs. Doubleday occasionally ‘talks down’ to her readers in a way that a child who has got beyond the Mother Goose stage and is proud of it would be apt to resent.”
+ − Ind. 62: 564. Mr. 7, ’07. 140w.
“One of the most attractive bird-books that we have seen.”
+ + Lit. D. 34: 547. Ap. 6, ’07. 180w.
“The chief criticism is the number of these facts which is crowded into each short essay. Slips are few, and the book, as a whole, is well up to the standard set by the numerous pictures, which is very high.”
+ − Nation. 84: 295. Mr. 28, ’07. 280w.
“One feels that it would be fine to make the personal acquaintance of the author—and that is saying much. Here is an author who knows the calls of the woodland as a man might know his multiplication table.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 227. Ap. 6, ’07. 440w.
“A pleasant, chatty little book.”
+ Outlook. 86: 37. My. 4, ’07. 140w.
+ R. of Rs. 35: 639. My. ’07. 70w.
* Downes, Alfred M. Fire-fighters and their pets. il. †$1.50. Harper.
Here one finds described the bravery of the guardians of modern life, their allegiance to the great machine called the Fire department, the training, the discipline of the men and horses, and for the gentler part, the devotion of the men to their pets.
Dowson, Joseph Emerson. Producer gas. *$3. Longmans.
7–25693.
A discussion of the theory of producer gas, the practical results obtained, best means of securing them, and the use and application of producer gas.
“It is evident all through the book that the authors are thoroughly conversant with the actual working of apparatus for both the production and use of producer gas, and their book meets the needs of persons handling such plants better than any of the other books on the subject with which the reviewer is acquainted.” Alfred E. Forstall.
+ + Engin. N. 57: 306. Mr. 14, ’07. 700w.
Doyle, (Arthur) Conan. Sir Nigel; il. by the Kinneys. †$1.50. McClure.
6–34805.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Current Literature. 42: 228. F. ’07. 700w.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
Dial. 42: 14. Ja. 1, ’07. 130w.
R. of Rs. 35: 126. Ja. ’07. 120w.
Doyle, J. A. Colonies under the House of Hanover. $3.50. Holt.
2–11920.
The fifth volume in Mr. Doyle’s “English colonies in America.” It deals collectively with the whole body of colonies from the accession of the House of Hanover to the beginning of those disputes which ended in separation from the mother country.
+ + Acad. 72: 184. F. 23, ’07. 760w.
A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 96. Ap. ’07.
“Mr. Doyle’s work compares favourably with the new French volume of Prof. Schefer in which are discussed many of the same ‘Colonial problems.’”
+ + Ath. 1907, 1: 99. Ja. 26. 730w.
“A work as unique as it is valuable, for a one-volume history of the colonies under the House of Hanover has, we believe, no mate.”
+ + − Ind. 63: 98. Jl. 11, ’07. 520w.
+ Ind. 63: 1232. N. 21, ’07. 20w.
+ + − Lit. D. 34: 841. My. 25, ’07. 480w.
+ + − Lond. Times. 6: 59. F. 22, ’07. 1060w.
“It is evident that Mr. Doyle’s last volumes are no better than those that preceded them, and will do nothing to re-establish the reputation of his earlier work.”
− + Nation. 85: 399. O. 31, ’07. 1050w.
Reviewed by Robert Livingston Schuyler.
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 444. Jl. 13, ’07. 1150w.
+ − Outlook. 86: 969. Ag. 31, ’07. 390w.
“His final volume is far more fragmentary and inadequate than any of its predecessors.”
− Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 506. S. ’07. 900w.
“Mr. Doyle seems quite content to accept, without further investigation on his own part, what he finds ready to his hand in the books of American writers on colonial history, and has neglected much first-hand authority (or its equivalent) of which he should most certainly have known.”
− Sat. R. 103: 813. Je. 29, ’07. 2430w.
“Far more important than Mr. Doyle’s misapprehensions as to the social condition of Virginia is his bland acceptance of the ‘Yankee convention’ regarding education in the colony.”
− Sat. R. 104: 18. Jl. 6, ’07. 2370w.
“The book swarms with misprints and errors in citation. Mr. Doyle’s style is pleasing in the main and often spirited and graphic—far more so than that of the usual chronicler of colonial annals.”
+ − Sat. R. 104: 50. Jl. 13, ’07. 2620w.
Doyle, J. A. Middle colonies. $3.50. Holt.
2–11920.
The fourth volume in Mr. Doyle’s “English colonies in America” deals with the history of the Middle colonies down to the accession of the House of Hanover, coincident with the disappearance of Penn from the field of colonial politics.
+ + Acad. 72: 184. F. 23, ’07. 760w.
A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 96. Ap. ’07.
+ + − Ind. 63: 98. Jl. 11, ’07. 520w.
“There is no fairer view of American colonial development than that contained in the five bulky volumes of Mr. Doyle.”
+ Ind. 63: 1232. N. 21, ’07. 20w.
+ + − Lit. D. 34: 841. My. 25, ’07. 480w.
“It is safe to say that no one can hereafter write about or study the colonial period of American history without reckoning with, and constantly referring to, Mr. Doyle’s work.”
+ + − Lond. Times. 6: 59. F. 22, ’07. 1060w.
120“In organizing and distributing his data Mr. Doyle followed very conventional models, and in the work before us has neglected some of the most essential portions of our history.”
− + Nation. 85: 399. O. 31, ’07. 1050w.
“But although specialists will find fault with him for inaccuracies, the great value of the work is unquestionable. It is regrettable that the indexes have not been better made.” Robert Livingston Schuyler.
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 444. Jl. 13, ’07. 1150w.
+ − Outlook. 86: 969. Ag. 31, ’07. 390w.
“In the volume upon the middle colonies the treatment is to a degree systematic and in some parts quite detailed. Much the same method is followed as was apparent in the earlier instalments of the work. But the writer’s chief fault lies in his failure to grasp, or at least to set forth, the significance of our colonial history as a whole.” Herbert L. Osgood.
+ − Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 506. S. ’07. 900w.
R. of Rs. 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 60w.
“Mr. Doyle has made the most of his material. He never lets us forget that if his picture is crowded with a mass of insignificant detail, its outlines are large.”
+ Sat. R. 103: 494. Ap. 20, ’07. 1690w.
Draught of the blue, together with An essence of the dusk; tr. from the original manuscript by Francis William Bain. †$1.50. Putnam.
7–6406.
A volume of love stories translated from the original Hindoo manuscripts by the author of “A digit of the moon.” “The title, as he tells us in his charming introduction, signifies in some occult way the new moon, the lotus, and the blue eyes of a girl.... The book is pure sublimated fancy, where Western ideals appear in the delicate garb of Eastern mysticism.” (Spec.)
“There is a very genuine pleasure in reading the two curious tales that make up this new volume, because they are not only fascinating in themselves, as specimens of delicate and involved mysticism, but because they are so abundantly and unmistakably saturated with the spirit of the Orient.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + Bookm. 25: 90. Mr. ’07. 260w.
“The English of the version is singularly fluent, simple, and graceful.”
+ Nation. 84: 247. Mr. 14, ’07. 140w.
“They breathe a delicacy and fragrance of sentiment that are as entrancing as they are foreign to the literature to which the author modestly claims to be indebted, and they are rendered in English that charms with its pure music.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 202. Ap. 6, ’07. 480w.
“It is superfluous to praise the charm of Mr. Bain’s style. He writes the English of a scholar and an artist.”
+ + Spec. 96: 465. Mr. 24, ’06. 380w.
Dreiser, Theodore. Sister Carrie. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
A reissue of a realistic novel which first appeared in 1900. “It is the direct, unflinching, pitiless history of the physical and moral ruin of one more fool, for the sake of a woman who did not care—a pretty, self-centred, passionless thing, who indifferently suffers his presence while he is useful to her—and then climbs over the wreck of his life in her hasty escape from the mire into which she has helped to sink him.” (Bookm.)
“Mr. Dreiser is no stylist. He merely writes with great simplicity and quiet force of life as he sees and understands it. The only adverse criticism which it seems worth while to make ... is in regard to its rather colourless and misleading title.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − Bookm. 25: 287. My. ’07. 430w.
“It is a book very much worth reading. But as about a lady one might be excused for noticing that a costume dating seven years back was a trifle out of fashion, so in the case of Mr. Theodore Dreiser’s story, one may perhaps be pardoned for feeling strongly, as one begins to read, that the stock tricks of the realistic method, even in 1900 somewhat discredited, now almost fatally fail to impress or to move. He moves both the intellect and the heart—a considerable achievement.” Harrison Rhodes.
+ − Bookm. 25: 298. My. ’07. 1260w.
“There are two reasons why ‘Sister Carrie’ is a book to be recommended in spite of its boldness of theme. First of all for the sake of its truthfulness, the frankness of its portrayal of a widespread type. Secondly it is a pitiless, unsparing portrayal of a man’s ruin.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ Forum. 39: 117. Jl. ’07. 550w.
“We do not recommend the book to the fastidious reader, or the one who clings to ‘old-fashioned ideas.’”
− N. Y. Times. 12: 332. My. 25, ’07. 350w.
“‘Sister Carrie’ is a book to be reckoned with, just as the social conditions—or defects—on which it rests must be reckoned with.” Joseph Hornor Coates.
+ No. Am. 186: 288. O. ’07. 1500w.
Dresslar, Fletcher B. Superstition and education. pa. $2.50. Univ. of Cal.
7–29553.
An interesting tabulation of superstitions gathered from students in two California normal schools. With each superstition furnished, the student was asked to express belief, partial belief, or disbelief. The results are classified and presented statistically.
Dial. 43: 172. S. 16, ’07. 150w.
Dressler, Friedrich August. Moltke in his home. *$2. Dutton.
7–29134.
A sketch of Moltke written, by a musician. “The book has little to do with the creator of the modern German army. Instead it emphasizes the domestic side of the Field-Marshall’s character, his charming home life, his simplicity and refinement.... We learn to know, not only Moltke more familiarly, but also other Germans—the emperors, Bismarck, Richard Wagner, for instance.” (Outlook.)
“Herr Dressler tells us nothing very new, and a good deal of what he has to say is very small beer, yet his book is interesting because he has excellent opportunities, as a musician in great favour, of observing Moltke in every respect of private life.”
+ Acad. 72: 139. F. 9, ’07. 320w.
“The book will interest musicians, and also admirers of quiet family life.”
+ Ath. 1907, 1: 98. Ja. 26. 60w.
“Herr Dressler’s story, charming in its simplicity and the whole-hearted devotion, is adequately translated by Mrs. Charles Edward Barrett-Lennard.”
+ Lond. Times. 6: 46. F. 8, ’07. 480w.
“The picture of life in the Moltke home is full of the homeliest German flavor, the quaint figure of the marshall himself as fresh and vivid and human as possible. A monument to the musician-author’s harmless vanity and his deep affection for the great man in whose glory he sunned himself.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 268. Ap. 27, ’07. 670w.
Outlook. 86: 76. My. 11, ’07. 240w.
+ Spec. 97: 259. F. 16, ’07. 320w.
Drew, Gilman A. Laboratory manual of invertebrate zoölogy. *$1.25. Saunders.
7–21555.
A manual prepared in conjunction with the members of the zoölogical staff of the Marine biological laboratory in Wood’s Hole. “The invertebrates are here considered under twelve headings, and detailed directions are given for the study of each division. Following this, 121come suggestions and questions in regard to allied form.” (Nation.)
“This book possesses the unusual qualification of originality and great practical value. From a pedagogical point of view, the manual answers all requirements.”
+ + + Nation. 85: 258. S. 19, ’07. 240w.
“A rather careful reading of several sections reveals no serious faults, while typographical errors are few.” J. S. Kingsley.
+ + − Science, n. s. 26: 250. Ag. 23, ’07. 410w.
Driver, Rev. Samuel Rolles. Book of the prophet Jeremiah: a revised translation, with introd. and short explanations. *$1.50. Scribner.
7–15938.
“The aim of Dr. Driver’s book as he tells us is ‘to assist an ordinary educated reader to read the Book of Jeremiah intelligently and to understand the gist and scope of its different parts.’ To this end a new translation is given which aims to be ‘idiomatic, dignified, accurate, and clear.’ This aim is attained. An introductory sketch of the life of Jeremiah and a characterization of his style is given and brief notes at the foot of the page and in an appendix supply the most needed elucidations of the text.”—Am. J. Theol.
“The book is a good illustration of the author’s well-known caution in the matter of literary and textual criticism.” Kemper Fullerton.
+ Am. J. Theol. 11: 668. O. ’07. 180w.
“A very useful handbook.”
+ Ind. 62: 678. Mr. 21, ’07. 50w.
“The reader with an ordinary education may read the book intelligently.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 61. F. 2, ’07. 30w.
“It all looks so simple and easy that we cannot help asking why no one ever did it before; but the very simplicity is the sign of the master mind.”
+ + Sat. R. 103: 531. Ap. 27, ’07. 110w.
Druce, George C. Dillenian herbaria: an account of the Dillenius collections in the Herbarium of the University of Oxford, together with a biographical sketch of Dillenius, selections from his correspondence, notes, etc.; ed., with introd. by S. H. Vines. *$4.15. Oxford.
“Mr. Druce has drawn up this account of the collections left by Dillenius, and has critically examined the specimens preserved as vouchers, illuminating many doubtful passages in the third edition of Ray’s ‘Synopsis,’ and practically disposing of the dubious entries which have troubled many subsequent botanists. For studies of this character the facilities offered at the Botanic garden, Oxford, are extremely good, and only to be excelled by the Sloane volumes in the department of botany, Cromwell road.... The introduction by Prof. Vines is an appreciative essay on the position of Dillenius as regards his contemporaries; then, with a single page of preface, Mr. Druce gives a life of Dillenius and bibliography.”
“The technical account of these three herbaria would not in itself be interesting to the general reader, were it not for the sundry introductory notes and fragments of letters. But these fragments have the charm which clings to a great part of eighteenth-century science, and carry one back to the days when naturalists did not confine themselves to single and restricted fields.”
+ Nation. 85: 148. Ag. 15, ’07. 700w.
“This volume is a valuable contribution to the history of the botanic preeminence of Oxford in the first half of the eighteenth century.” B. D. J.
+ Nature. 76: 289. Jl. 25, ’07. 690w.
Drummond, Henry. Natural law in the spiritual world. 35c. Crowell.
A reprint uniform with the “Handy volume classics.”
Dry, Wakeling. Giacomo Puccini. (Living masters of music.) *$1. Lane.
7–14600.
The man and his history are sketched as fully as is possible in the case of a “living master.” The author offers an analysis of Puccini’s operas down to and including “Madame Butterfly.” There are portraits of the composer, views of his various dwelling places and facsimiles of his musical autographs.
“Personal intercourse with the composer has enabled the writer to give point and life to his narration of certain events in the life of Puccini.”
+ Ath. 1906, 2: 841. D. 29. 130w.
“A biographer should, of course, be sympathetic to his subject, but critical insight would make the book more helpful to those who have not arrived at his standpoint. This attitude and the fact that it is evidently very hastily written—a haste which too often shows itself in the use of slipshod English and badly corrected proof-sheets—make the first chapters, which are biographical and include some personal reminiscences, the most interesting reading.”
+ − Lond. Times. 5: 378. N. 9, ’06. 580w.
+ Nation. 83: 541. D. 20, ’06. 670w.
“Mr. Wakeling Dry possesses little distinction as a writer, and his book is a purely journalistic compilation.” Richard Aldrich.
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 148. Mr. 9, ’07. 290w.
DuBois, Elizabeth Hichman. Stress accent in Latin poetry. **$1.25. Macmillan.
6–30472.
Dr. Du Bois’ aim has been “to establish an explanation of the purely quantitative Latin poetry which shall reconcile the opposing views as to an apparent clash between word accent and verse accent.” Her work “consists of ninety-six pages only, but every paragraph is closely reasoned, and the writer supports her argument in each case with copious quotations.” (Acad.)
“We are inclined, indeed, to say that Miss du Bois attributes too much importance to accent as an element in language. We find it difficult to believe that any one will be nearer to scholarship for studying Miss du Bois’s book, though we do not deny that she may render service incidentally.”
+ − Acad. 71: 667. D. 29, ’06. 560w.
“We have said nothing of the thoroughness and breadth of the author’s scholarship, to which, however, each page of this monograph bears abundant witness.” Harry Thurston Peck.
+ + + Bookm. 24: 265. N. ’06. 1530w.
Dial. 41: 287. N. 1, ’06. 50w.
“The little book of ninety-six pages fairly justifies Professor Peck’s imprimatur, notwithstanding a too frequent looseness of statement, careless proof reading, and the small ratio of original discussion to mere summarizing of the views of others.”
+ − Nation. 83: 534. D. 20, ’06. 110w.
“All the authorities on the subject have been carefully scrutinized and are duly cited, and the book is full of evidence of the most elaborate and careful research on the part of the author into a region of classical scholarship which is practically unexplored by the average Latinist.”
+ + Sat. R. 103: sup. 4. F. 23, ’07. 260w.
DuBois, Patterson. Culture of justice: a mode of moral education and social reform. **75c. Dodd.
7–16993.
“Justice is here presented as the root-principle of the moral life—the, rather than, as the 122Greek and Roman philosophy esteemed it, a cardinal virtue.... Wisdom and justice, as Plato taught, are mutually involved and inseparable. This is finely exemplified in Mr. Du Bois’s treatment of ‘the culture of justice.’ His ‘basal rule of practice is to think justice—to do this as an acquired habit of mind.’... Mr. Du Bois draws largely upon facts both of adult and childish experience to illustrate by discriminating criticism what justice is and is not, both in large matters and in small, down to keeping dirty shoes off of car-seats.”—Outlook.
“If there is any better book on this subject in our language than this small volume, we would like to know it. To magistrates and lawyers, to teachers and parents, to all who care for progressive morality, social and personal, this admirable treatise cannot be too strongly commended.”
+ + + Outlook. 86: 611. Jl. 20, ’07. 280w.
R. of Rs. 35: 759. Je. ’07. 30w.
Du Bose, Horace M. Symbol of Methodism; being an inquiry into the history, authority, inclusions, and uses of the twenty-five articles; with introduction by Bishop E. E. Hoss. $1. Pub. house M. E. ch. So.
7–22109.
A frank treatment which refutes the charge of inadequacy brought to bear upon the Confessional articles of Methodism, and contributes to a correct understanding of the present doctrinal situation.
DuBose, William P. Gospel according to St. Paul. **$1.50. Longmans.
7–11043.
“Humanity, he says, ‘was predestined for the gospel in the sense that the gospel, which is Jesus Christ himself, is the natural, more than natural, supernatural or ultimate highest natural end or completion, and so predestination, of humanity.’ His work is designed to emphasise the divinity of Christ. ‘I bow,’ he says, ‘not only before the work of Jesus Christ as truly God’s, but the worker in Jesus Christ as truly God.’ This was, he thinks, Paul’s gospel.”—Spec.
“We agree heartily with Dr. Du Bose’s interpretation of Paul as far as we understand it. But we find it hard reading, and the interpretator of Paul should make his interpretation easy reading to the thoughtful reader.”
+ − Outlook. 86: 76. My. 11, ’07. 390w.
Spec. 98: 982. Je. 22, ’07. 130w.
* Duckworth, Lawrence. Encyclopaedia of marine law. $2. Pitman.
An encyclopaedia including the main principles of marine law. The latest authorities have been consulted, and the latest statutes and decisions are incorporated in the text. The volume makes an appeal to all who deal with shipping in any shape or form.
Duer, Elizabeth. Prince goes fishing. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–35453.
“The story, one of ‘yesterday,’ has a familiar background in the mythical European kingdom. There is the prince who has the not unnatural wish to study the princess selected as his bride; as to the Princess Hélène, she fills well the part of an adorable heroine. What befalls this royal pair is sufficiently diverting, and the life at the toy court of Palatina is also amusingly described.”—Ind.
A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 108. Ap. ’07.
“The novel will while away a leisure hour or so very pleasantly.”
+ Ind. 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 100w.
“Really it is a very entertaining little story, very cleverly put together, and not without a pretty wit.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 750. N. 17, ’06. 530w.
“The dialogue is vivacious, and many of the situations are cleverly managed.”
+ Outlook. 84: 430. O. 20, ’06. 110w.
Duff, Edward G. Printers, stationers, and bookbinders of Westminster and London from 1476 to 1535. *$1.50. Putnam.
7–7493.
“In these lectures the first half-century of book-making in England is covered. The Westminster printers, Caxton, Wynken de Worde, and Notary; the London printers, Pynson, Lettou, and William de Machlinia; foreign printers and the books they made for the English market; the early English bookbinders—these are some of the subjects touched upon. The lectures are narrative in form, not technical, and are filled with interesting allusions and notes on old printers and their ways, old books, and old bindings.”—Nation.
“The Act of 1534 was passed, we may imagine, not (as was professed) for the protection of printing, but in the interest of the royal censorship of the press. The one may be defended and the other condemned with excellent reason, but to defend and condemn them on the grounds put forward by Mr. Duff seems to us a curious aberration in an otherwise very sane and scholarly book.”
+ + − Acad. 72: 37. Ja. 12, ’07. 690w.
“His knowledge of early English printing and bookbinding is probably unequalled, and his power of putting his material into an attractive and interesting form is very great. We congratulate booklovers on this important addition to their library.”
+ + Ath. 1907, 1: 225. F. 23. 610w.
“They are in the nature of outlines of that larger work on the history and development of printing in England which is yet to be written.”
+ Nation. 83: 461. N. 29, ’06. 330w.
“Without questioning the author’s knowledge or the value of his contributions to the history of English printing, on this point alone it is not unjust to ascribe his reasons for the deterioration of protected bookmaking to his zeal as a free trader. This is a matter of history, and Mr. Duff should not have caused its misinterpretation to form the one blemish on an otherwise important and valuable work.”
+ + − N. Y. Times. 12: 44. Ja. 26, ’07. 470w.
Duff, Mildred. Novelties and how to make them. 50c. Jacobs.
7–29717.
Hints and helps in providing pleasant occupation for young and old. Directions are included for making every thing from an ark full of animals to furniture.
Duke, Basil W. Morgan’s cavalry. $2. Neale.
6–18975.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Ath. 1907, 1: 470. Ap. 20. 310w.
Ind. 62: 1166. My. 30, ’07. 90w.
Spec. 99: 397. S. 21, ’07. 430w.
Duley, G. Wilson. Dream of hell. $1. Badger.
6–46743.
“The poem is not geographical but psychological, having for its object the teaching of retributive justice, and how utterly nugatory is self justification.”
Dumas, Alexandre. Novels, 10v. ea. $1.25. Crowell.
The ten volumes of Dumas’s novels included in this set are Monte Cristo, two volumes, Marguerite de Valois, Dame de Monsoreau, Forty-five guardsmen, Three musketeers, Twenty years after, Vicomte de Bragelonne, Louise de la Valliere and Man in the iron mask. They are uniform with the thin paper sets and each volume contains an introduction and frontispiece.
+ Lit. D. 35: 533. O. 12, ’07. 110w.
123Dumas, Alexandre. My memoirs; tr. by E. M. Waller, with an introd by Andrew Lang. 6v. ea. $1.75. Macmillan.
The first appearance of this work in English. This initial volume deals with the first nineteen years of Dumas’ life chiefly spent at Villers-Cotterets. “He was beyond doubt a lazy boy, hugely fond of bird-snaring and of hunting, and it is with accounts of these pastimes, related with the charm of a poet, the skill of a dramatist and the knowledge of a woodsman, that some of the best chapters of these memoirs are occupied.” (N. Y. Times.) The central historical figure of this volume is Napoleon under whom Dumas’ father served in various campaigns.
v. 2. The second volume continues the biography thru the days of the drudgery of a clerkship to Dumas’ emancipation when on “the threshhold of success, he is surrounded by his new-found friends of literature and the drama.” (Outlook.)
“A most entertaining book. The translation is easy and fluent, but the last sentence of the book reads oddly.”
+ + − Ath. 1907, 2: 518. O. 26. 260w. (Review of v. 1.)
“No element of completeness and accuracy should be wanting in the present English form.”
+ Lit. D. 35: 655. N. 2, ’07. 270w. (Review of v. 1.)
“A series of chapters of unending and ever varying interest.” George S. Hellman.
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 613. O. 12, ’07. 760w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Everything is preserved, even the nauseating passages that may be characteristic of their writer but can only disgust readers of any delicacy. Aside from this the ‘Memoirs’ form an admirable addition to our biographical literature.”
+ + − Outlook. 87: 610. N. 23, ’07. 430w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“No book that we know of beats these memoirs for a vivid, thrilling account of the state of France from 1812 to 1815. Scientific history may have its corrections to make, but the general impression is not to be effaced.”
+ + Spec. 99: sup. 637. N. 2, ’07. 1280w. (Review of v. 1.)
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Joggin’ erlong. **$1.50. Dodd.
6–37888.
“‘Joggin’ erlong’ and other dialect poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar are here bound in attractive form and illustrated with good photographs of negro life.”—Outlook.
“Will add nothing to the laurels won by the young negro poet.”
+ − Ind. 62: 732. Mr. 28, ’07. 240w.
+ Outlook. 84: 841. D. 1, ’06. 50w.
* Dunbar, William. Poems of William Dunbar; with introd., notes and glossary by H. Bellyse Baildon. *$2. Putnam.
A book intended for the ordinary reader or student which throws much light upon the life and poetry of this fifteenth century Scottish poet.
“Mr. Bellyse Baildon has given us an excellent edition with an admirable preface, most suggestive notes, and a useful vocabulary. Lovers of poetry are greatly indebted to him.”
+ Acad. 73: 717. Jl. 27, ’07. 1700w.
“We are not so ready to allow that it will be useful to ‘the ordinary reader or student.’”
− Ath. 1907, 2: 332. S. 21. 540w.
“Mr. Baildon acknowledges his obligations to the Scottish and German savants who have edited Dunbar. His own work contains quite as much erudition as the ardent reader of poetry requires in a light and handy volume.”
+ Lond. Times. 6: 253. Ag. 23, ’07. 1360w.
“Prof. Schipper’s complaint that the text and glossary are taken bodily from his work appears substantially justified; and one may add that whatever value the notes possess is in the main due to the same authority. As it is, we have, of course, a good text and glossary, and, in the main, adequate notes, but discredited by the circumstances which we have just recited. Various passages in both introduction and notes cast doubt on the editor’s philological knowledge.”
− + Nation. 85: 469. N. 21, ’07. 350w.
“All the assistance that can be given has been supplied by Mr. Baildon, a glossary being the chief of the reader’s help.”
+ Spec. 99: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 260w.
Duncan, Norman. Cruise of the “Shining Light.” †$1.50. Harper.
7–15117.
The skipper of the Will-o’-the-Wisp steers his craft upon a reef in a furious gale, drowning seven men and surrendering his own life in order that the “pot o’ money” in the undertaking may “make a gentleman” of his little Dannie. He hastily bequeaths Dannie to Nick Top, a ship-mate, charging him to “fetch un up as his mother would have un grow.” True to his oath, Nick, the seamed and scarred survivor of many wrecks, assumes the education of Dannie, comes to love him and to abhor the rascality and the crime involved in securing the “pot o’ money.” “I’ll not be sorry—not even in hell—for I’ll think o’ the years when you was a wee little lad, an’ I’ll be content t’ remember.” “A story of mystery, of love, of quaint humor and vigorous action.”
“The characters are real, the action vigorous, the mystery really illusive, the love theme well handled, and all is touched with a quaint and delightful humor.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 134. My. ’07. ✠
“This is distinctly the most ambitious, and, we think the best, book that Mr. Duncan has written. The matter is original, and the whole is entertaining, despite the fact that the author overdoes such locutions as ‘the boy that was I’ to an extent which sometimes becomes irritating.”
+ + − Ath. 1907, 2: 547. N. 2. 170w.
“An achievement that marks a long forward stride in Mr. Duncan’s career.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + Forum. 39: 118. Jl. ’07. 440w.
“To the accentuated reappearance in this book of the unmodern style which characterized Dr. Luke we are less reconciled. A romance beautiful and strong. If inwoven with the quaintness of an older literature, its style is none the less an unfailing delight, so lucid, so vivid, so picturesque, so infused with the quality of charm that among contemporary writers of fiction in English few outrank Mr. Duncan in literary technique. Mr. Duncan’s fool almost persuades us that his creator belongs in the glorious company of geniuses.”
+ + − Ind. 63: 101. Jl. 11, ’07. 610w.
“A novel that may truly be said to make waste paper of much modern fiction.”
+ + Lit. D. 34: 961. Je. 15, ’07. 230w.
“May lay definite claim to be considered as a real book, that indefinable result of original personal impulse and conservative literary tradition.”
+ Nation. 84: 478. My. 25, ’07. 360w.
“If old Nicholas Top does not become a permanent member of the honor roll in fiction it will be a marvelous case of non-appreciation.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 302. My. 11, ’07. 930w.
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.
“The cruise with Norman Duncan as skipper is invigorating, and it ends in a sunny haven.” Philip Loring Allen.
+ No. Am. 185: 328. Je. 7, ’07. 1440w.
Duncan, Robert Kennedy. Chemistry of commerce: a simple interpretation of some new chemistry in its relation to modern industry. **$2. Harper.
7–31986.
A work which directs the attention of educated 124lay-folk to science in its subservience to the practical needs of the human race. The author develops the theory that modern science is applicable to the economy and progress of manufacturing and agricultural operations. He shows, among other illustrations of his theory, how the fixation of nitrogen and how industrial alcohol may operate to increase the success of a series of operations to which they are applied.
“It is a book for the open shelves of the public reading-room and one that the manufacturer and business man will profit by perusing, for it contains information on a great variety of topics impossible to get elsewhere in such convenient form.”
+ + Ind. 63: 823. O. 3, ’07. 290w.
“Has explained in a clear and interesting way many of the chemical processes used in the manufacture of common and uncommon things.”
+ Ind. 63: 1238. N. 21, ’07. 30w.
“This book has the rare qualification of being needed, for nowhere else can the average reader find recent discoveries and manufacturing processes so clearly and accurately explained.”
+ + Nation. 85: 522. D. 5, ’07. 430w.
“To a reader who is not over-fastidious as regards literary style, or whose sensitiveness has been dulled by daily perusal of the journalism of Kansas there is much in this book to interest and amuse.”
− Nature. 77: 49. N. 21, ’07. 2250w.
“A book full of appeal to the lay reader.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“Mr. Duncan’s book sets out some of the triumphs of science in this direction in a manner to fire the imaginations of students and men of affairs alike.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 718. N. 9, ’07. 470w.
Dunham, Edith. Fifty flower friends with familiar faces: a field book for boys and girls. $1.50. Lothrop.
7–17393.
Fifty wild flowers are described and pictured in this volume which not only gives an accurate description of each plant, tells where to find it, but adds little sketches and quotations from flower poems, which will awaken interest in each flower’s distinct personality.
“The boy or girl into whose hands this book is placed can hardly fail to acquire a real and lasting interest in our every-day wild flowers.”
+ Dial. 42: 381. Je. 16, ’07. 100w.
“The grown-ups of the family will find many things that possibly had escaped their attention.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 130w.
+ R. of Rs. 34: 127. Jl. ’07. 90w.
* Dunmore, Walter T. Ship subsidies: an economic study of the policy of subsidizing merchant marines. **$1. Houghton.
The subject of ship subsidies is considered by Mr. Dunmore from an unprejudiced, non-partisan standpoint, and he endeavors to decide what is the best policy from the point of view of the commercial and economic interests of the United States; and also what is best, considering the question in its bearing on the national defense. The study is well tabulated and is provided with a bibliography of books and articles consulted.
Dunn, Robert. Shameless diary of an explorer; with il. from photographs by the author. *$1.50. Outing pub.
7–21274.
Mr. Dunn “was one of a party that strove to reach the summit of Mount McKinley, crowned with everlasting snow and ice in the sub-arctic solitudes of Alaska. Day by day he kept a diary of the movements and adventures of the party, noting the smallest details. After the unsuccessful attempt had ended, and those concerned in it had returned to civilization, the idea of publishing the diary occurred to its author, and he determined to lay before the public an unvarnished tale.”—Dial.
“The author might advantageously have omitted some of the profanity and coarseness which he has retained, but apart from this blemish the book is a vivid account of exploring the strange wilds of the remote northwest.”
+ − Dial. 43: 20. Jl. 1, ’07. 200w.
“As with many a predecessor, the result of his self-conscious determination to avoid the posing of which he imagines all others guilty has been his perhaps unconscious transformation into the worst sort of poseur himself. None the less, the volume contains here and there a bit of effective description.”
+ − Nation. 85: 82. Jl. 25, ’07. 590w.
Dunne, Finley Peter (Martin Dooley). Dissertations by Mr. Dooley. †$1.50. Harper.
6–38400.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 8. Ja. ’07.
“As a whole the Dooley philosophy is a work of excellent innuendo, of polished and admirably concealed artistry.”
+ Ath. 1907, 1: 13. Ja. 5. 380w.
+ Ind. 62: 741. Mr. 28, ’07. 390w.
“Beneath his joyous gift of extravagant ridicule, he is perhaps the wisest man now writing, and America should be very proud of him.”
+ + Lond. Times. 6: 14. Ja. 11, ’07. 340w.
“The quality of the entertainment furnished by the new volume is quite on a level with that of its predecessors; indeed, in some respects it is better, in that it is less parochial in outlook and terminology, and consequently appeals to a wider audience.”
+ + Spec. 98: 93. Ja. 19, ’07. 990w.
Dunraven and Mount-Earl, Windham Thomas, 4th earl of. Outlook in Ireland: case for devolution and conciliation. *$3. Dutton.
“Lord Dunraven makes, in measured and fit language, a strong case for the moderate fashion in which Irish affairs have been approached by the committee known by his name.”—Ath.
+ Ath. 1907, 1: 224. F. 23. 110w.
“Lord Dunraven’s book has an inevitable air of being born out of due time.”
+ − Nation. 85: 142. Ag. 15, ’07. 230w.
“The book is a statesmanlike consideration of the present status of affairs in Ireland and of the most pressing needs of the unhappy isle, and a masterly plea for fair play, friendliness, tolerance, and justice on both sides of the Irish channel.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 414. Je. 29, ’07. 1410w.
+ Outlook. 86: 742. Ag. 3, ’07. 1680w.
“From the beginning to the end of his book there is hardly a chapter in which he does not either shut his eyes to palpable facts, or at least regard them through some distorting medium of national prejudice, with the result that, however well intended his advice, it will scarcely commend itself to those who have given calm consideration to the Irish problem.”
− − + Spec. 98: 290. F. 23, ’07. 2020w.
During, Stella M. Disinherited; with a frontispiece by Paula B. M. Himmelsbach. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–20512.
Set in England this story with its tangled threads and continuous action shows how an inheritance proved a pitfall. A naive, unconscionable girl marries the gouty old Sir Peter—of a less irascible temperament, tho in many points not unlike Sheridan’s Sir Peter—and does it to save herself from the battle for bread. After the sudden death of Sir Peter a daughter is born, and the mother, finding that the bulk of the estate had been willed to a nephew, begins 125a long series of sham proceedings which, to hold the property for herself, require that the child be brought up as a boy. At sixteen the child takes things into her own hands, apparently drowns, reappears as a twin sister who, so the fiction ran, had for family reasons been sent to California in infancy, restores to the cousin his property, falls in love with this cousin, and, heart-broken because it is not returned and because she has all thru life served only as her mother’s tool, drowns herself. Plot and counter-plot abound.
“The ultra crudities of the opening, where Avice makes her entrance into society, so little prepare the reader for any display of ingenuity that the latter absurdities prove a rather welcome relief.”
− + Nation. 85: 79. Jl. 25, ’07. 220w.
* Durland, Kellogg. Red reign: the true story of an adventurous year in Russia. il. **$2. Century.
7–32827.
Russia of today as an American sees it. Mr. Durland spent a twelve-month traveling thru European Russia, Poland, the Caucasus, and a part of western Siberia. Mr. Durland’s presentations are not only picturesque descriptions of a traveler, nor yet merely thrilling stories of an active journalist, but contain accurate and authoritative observations on the social, economic and political conditions of the country. The volume is fully illustrated.
Dutton, Maude Barrows. Little stories of Germany. *40c. Am. bk. co.
7–6771.
“Separate stories arranged so as to form a connected account of the history of Germany, beginning with the mythological heroes and extending to Kaiser Wilhelm. There are stories of the great masters of music and painting, as well as of kings and warriors, of the invention of printing as well as of the conquest of land.”—A. L. A. Bkl.
A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 139. My. ’07. ✠
Dye, Eva Emery. McDonald of Oregon; a tale of two shores. †$1.50. McClurg.
6–33578.
A story which “deals first with the occupation of Oregon by American settlers, and later with McDonald’s expedition to Japan, undertaken in a spirit of adventure, and resulting in the Perry expedition, of such international consequence.” (Outlook.)
“Although the narrative is based ... upon an exhaustive examination of historical material, the volume can hardly be ranked as a historical publication.”
+ − Am. Hist. R. 12: 479. Ja. ’07. 70w.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 703. O. 27, ’06. 230w.
“There is so much vitality in the material upon which this book is based, and the writer expresses herself with such enthusiasm, that the volume holds the interest in spite of the fact that it is too loosely knit for a historical novel, and lacks the unity of a good biography.”
+ − Outlook. 84: 941. D. 15, ’06. 80w.
“This is history where the substantial facts are so woven with romance and restored to vitality by vivid imagination as to give atmosphere, color and life.”
+ World To-Day. 11: 1221. N. ’06. 90w.