Volume 3 — D

Dale, Robert W. History of English Congregationalism. **$4. Armstrong.

A book by one of England’s most commanding nonconformists which is written for Congregationalists but which will interest “Episcopalians and Presbyterians especially, as well as all Americans to whom the development of religious freedom and the delimitation of the spheres of church and state form an attractive subject.” (Outlook.) “He tells the life-history of a cause which suffered contempt and cruel oppression, and of which he was the latest—and the most eloquent—exponent.... So much only of political history is given as is absolutely necessary for his purpose.” (Ath.)

“By this book the author has erected a worthy monument to his own memory; but it must not be forgotten that without another’s labour it would never have seen the light. The manner in which the work of arrangement, of revision, of completion, and of illustration has been performed by his son demands separate, if brief recognition. In discretion, taste, and literary ability it is altogether admirable.”

+ + Ath. 1907, 1: 567. My. 11. 2030w.

103“Let us say at once that for thoroughness of treatment and for exactness of detail there is no work known to us on this subject which approaches the volume now produced by Principal Dale out of the materials which his father left.”

+ + Lond. Times. 6: 92. Mr. 22, ’07. 1300w.

“For a historical understanding of the peculiarities of religious life in England this history is eminently instructive.”

+ + Outlook. 86: 748. Ag. 3, ’07. 320w.

“In taking leave of a very able book we cannot but express our thankfulness that Professor Dale has been able to preserve unimpaired for the students of church history a valuable work which might have lost much by the too early death of its author.”

+ + Spec. 99: 22. Jl. 6, ’07. 1310w.

D’Alton, Rev. John A. History of Ireland from the earliest times to the present day. 3v. v. 2, from 1547 to 1782. *$3. Benziger.

Covers the ground from the earliest period down to the present day, and “aims not to contribute anything original in the way of research or criticism, but to produce a popular history by judicious selection of the best materials that his predecessors have furnished.” (Cath. World.)

“Being both a learned and an honest man, he seldom misstates facts, and is ready to face them as he understands them; but one cannot read twenty pages of the book without feeling that he is a Roman Catholic, and takes the standpoint of that church as his own. These flaws do not prevent the book before us from contrasting very favorably with various Irish histories which have come under our notice.”

+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 628. My. 25. 1560w. (Review of v. 2.)

“He is simple, clear, and at times, picturesque. The temper of the work is fairly critical, though not unfrequently our author does not acquaint his readers with the existence of an opinion at variance with the one he favors.”

+ − Cath. World. 85: 248. My. ’07. 480w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

“Father D’Alton has few graces of style, but he is workmanlike, and is wise to avoid rhetoric. On the whole, what impresses us most is his impartiality; he desires to get at the truth and tell it plainly. His view would be broader if he had entered more closely into English history.”

+ − Sat. R. 103: 620. My. 18, ’07. 1570w. (Review of v. 2.)

Dalton, William. Dalton’s complete bridge. **$1.25. Stokes.

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The most recent and authoritative work on bridge, written by the great British expert.

“We are still waiting for the Cavendish of bridge, but books like this help to pave the way for his arrival.”

+ − Ath. 1906, 1: 99. Jl. 28. 550w.

“A treatise which leaves nothing to be desired on the score of thoroughness.”

+ Dial. 41: 463. D. 16, ’06. 50w.

+ − Nation. 83: 393. N. 8, ’06. 100w.

Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.

+ N. Y. Times. 11: 866. D. 15, ’06. 90w.

Daly, Thomas Augustine. Canzoni. *$1. Catholic standard and times pub. co.

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“Mr. T. A. Daly’s dagoes, his darkies, and his Irishmen all satisfy one’s sense of verity. Of the dialect verses in this volume, those dealing with the humor and sentiment of the humble Italian life in our large cities make up the larger portion.... In his Irish verses there is something of the quality of Samuel Lover, an Old World flavor in the wit and lilt as well.”—N. Y. Times.

“Mr. Daly is happy, likewise, in his poems of love and home, which are always true and sound. What is most admirable throughout the volume is the union of wit, humor, or sprightliness, as the case may be, with a genuine respect for all that is pure, sweet, tender, manly, and noble.”

+ + Cath. World. 85: 547. Jl. ’07. 860w.

“Contains some unusually good light verse, mostly dialect, part of it Irish, part Italian. Both are handled skillfully.”

+ Ind. 61: 1497. D. 20, ’06. 250w.

“The pervading wholesome spirit particularly commends this book.”

+ N. Y. Times. 11: 692. O. 20, ’06. 270w.

Dampier, William. Voyages, ed. by John Masefield. 2v. *$7.50. Dutton.

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“A new and attractive edition in two volumes, with portrait, maps, and a brief sketch of Dampier’s life of the editor.”—Outlook.

+ Acad. 72: 187. F. 23, ’07. 1860w.

“The ‘Voyages’ here presented in two handy volumes, at a comparatively low price, are full of popular interest and romance. They are far more stirring reading than many a belauded work of modern fiction.”

+ Ath. 1907, 1: 472. Ap. 20. 300w.

“In Mr. Masefield’s reprint the type is clear and the editing generally excellent. The introductory memoir might indeed have been fuller for Admiral Smyth’s standard biographical sketch in the United service journal is now seventy years old, and no longer easy to find. From Mr. Masefield’s index we miss several entries, among them the name of Selkirk.” Lane Cooper.

+ + − Dial. 43: 205. O. 1, ’07. 2420w.

+ Outlook. 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 160w.

“A carefully annotated edition.”

+ Sat. R. 103: 148. F. 2, ’07. 240w.

Dana, John Cotton, and Kent, Henry W. Literature of libraries in the 17th and 18th centuries. 6v. *$12. McClurg.

v. 3 and 4. These volumes of this series deal respectively with “The life of Sir Thomas Bodley, written by himself, together with the first draft of the statutes of the public library at Oxon,” and “Two tracts on the founding and maintaining of parochial libraries in Scotland,” by James Kirkwood.

v. 5. This is “A brief outline of the history of libraries” by Justus Lipsius, translated from the second edition, the last from the hand of the author, by John Cotton Dana. The library of Osymandyas of Egypt is the first to be mentioned, then follows the brief history of other Egyptian libraries, of Grecian and of Roman collections. Two chapters in closing are devoted to historic library decoration, book cases, shelves, tables and seats.

v. 6. The concluding volume of this series is entitled “News from France,” or “A description of the library of Cardinal Mazarin,” preceded by “The surrender of the library,” two tracts written by Gabriel Naudé.

+ Ath. 1907, 2: 616. N. 16. 290w. (Review of v. 5 and 6.)

Reviewed by Laurence Burnham.

+ Bookm. 24: 639. F. ’07. 390w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

“The contents of the last volumes easily sustain the high standard of the previous books in the series and indeed are of even greater interest to the layman as well as the librarian.” Laurence Burnham.

+ + Bookm. 26: 101. S. ’07. 470w. (Review of v. 3–6.)

“As a whole, this series promises to be a delight to the bibliophile as well as to the librarian.” Percy F. Bicknell.

+ + Dial. 42: 73. F. 1, ’07. 1350w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

+ Dial. 43: 41. Jl. 16, ’07. 450w. (Review of v. 5 and 6.)

104“Both volumes will have antiquarian value for those engaged in library pursuits to-day. And the dignified sketch of Bodley’s life has also a general human interest.”

+ + Nation. 84: 243. Mr. 14, ’07. 110w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)

+ Nation. 84: 564. Je. 20, ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 5 and 6.)

N. Y. Times. 12: 548. S. 14, ’07. 150w. (Review of v. 5 and 6.)

Dane, John Colin. Champion: the story of a motor-car; il. by W. E. Webster. †$1.50. Dillingham.

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The autobiography of a motor-car, which is full of the love, adventure, and treachery of its several possessors. “The difference between this and the well-known autobiography of a horse, ‘Black Beauty,’ is in some respects typical of the changes in our own time since the mid-Victorian era.” (Ath.)

“It is crude and sensational, but the story moves forward with spirit, and certain exciting scenes in it are well realized; for instance, that in the great motor-car race in France.”

− + Ath. 1907, 1: 536. My. 4. 130w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 100w.

Daniels, Frank T. A text-book of topographical drawing. (Technical drawing ser.) *$1.50. Heath.

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“The first chapter deals briefly and concisely with the instruments and materials required in topographic drafting. The next two chapters take up the subject of paper and of plotting. The remaining chapters take up the subjects of drafting and the symbols used in drafting topographic maps, in ink and in colors, and the methods of representing surface form. This is followed by a brief treatise on earthwork and earthwork computation.”—Engin. N.

“Here is a book that makes a field of its own, and for which there is a place on shelves of all engineers and surveyors who have to do with topographic drafting. The book is concisely and clearly written. In reviewing so well written a text-book it seems ungracious to be critical over trifles.”

+ + − Engin. N. 58: 78. Jl. 18, ’07. 750w.

Danneel, Heinrich. Electrochemistry; v. 1, Theoretical electrochemistry and its physico-chemical foundations; tr. from the Sammlung Göschen by Edmund S. Merriam. *$1.25. Wiley.

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v 1. Treats of the modern theories of electrochemistry, as well as their physicochemical foundations. Explains the terms work, current, and voltage, and discusses gas laws, osmotic pressure, theory of electrolytic dissociation and conductivity, ionic theory, electromotive force, the galvanic current, polarization, electrolysis and the electron theory.

“The average student who is called upon to study the ionic theory will obtain, we venture to think, a better grip of the subject by a study of Danneel’s book than from that of Abegg. The latter book treats the subject more fully but Danneel’s style is more interesting, and he leaves none of the salient facts out.”

+ + Nature. 76: 380. Ag. 15, ’07. 200w. (Review of pt. 1.)

“This volume ... contains a surprising amount of fact and information within a very small compass. The translation is vigorous and clear.” Arthur B. Lamb.

+ + − Science, n. s. 26: 170. Ag. 9, ’07. 260w. (Review of pt. 1.)

Dante Alighieri. Divine comedy and The new life; ed. with introd. and notes by Oscar Kuhns, lea. $1.25. Crowell.

An edition uniform with the “Thin paper poets,” which with its introduction, bibliography and notes will serve to give a new impulse to the study of Dante.

Dargan, Olive Tilford. Lords and lovers and other dramas. **$1.50. Scribner.

“‘Lords and lovers’ is a romantic play in two parts of the time of Henry III. of England. It is as readable ... as a good novel, while it has the added charm of workmanlike and impressive blank verse and of dramatic situations, possibly not actable, yet conceived with a fine theatrical unction.... The second play, ‘The Shepherd,’ is in prose. It is a powerful presentation of contemporary Russian life, conceived with real force and imagination, though weakened as a work of art—as is also the concluding play, ‘The Siege,’—by an obvious concession to the desire of the sentimental reader for a measurably happy consummation.”—Nation.

“Such verse as this leaves no room for criticism. It bears the visible mark of the divine gift, and there is no poet of our time who might not be proud to claim it for his own.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ Dial. 42: 253. Ap. 16, ’07. 540w.

+ − Nation. 83: 439. N. 22, ’06. 570w.

Reviewed by Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 30. Ja. 19, ’07. 880w.

“Mrs. Dargan is a poet, not a great one, because not original, though she is decidedly individual.” James Huneker.

+ No. Am. 184: 190. Ja. 18, ’07. 1410w.

“If one were asked to say wherein the chief weakness lay, one would feel that one had acquired no new or individual point of view from the reading, and that there was no serious comment upon life.” Louise Collier Willcox.

+ − No. Am. 186: 95. S. ’07. 280w.

“There are abundant signs of immaturity in the first book of plays, and only a very young writer would have attempted the dramatization of such a character and experience as Poe’s; but there are also indisputable marks of original force of mind and imagination; the quality of promise which comes from strength and vitality rather than from facility and sensibility.”

+ − Outlook. 85: 328. F. 9, ’07. 1320w.

“[The reader] cannot be unconscious of certain defects of plot. Mrs. Dargan’s great strength lies in the personality with which she invests her characters and in her remarkable command of blank verse.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

+ + − Putnam’s. 2: 349. Je. ’07. 300w.

Davenport, Charles Benedict. Inheritance in poultry. pa. $1. Carnegie inst.

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Mr. Davenport has made an application of Mendelian principles to inheritance similar to that carried out by Saunders, Hurst and Bateson in England. “In part, however, he has studied different characters and races, and has been able to add many new and important facts to those already known. The present work is, however, to be looked upon rather as a preliminary—a first installment of the extensive experiments under way at Cold Spring Harbor.” (Science.)

“This is a valuable addition to the rapidly-increasing literature dealing with the subject of inheritance. There are a few marks of carelessness in the text.” F. A. D.

+ + − Nature. 74: 583. O. 11, ’06. 330w.

“The facts are presented with admirable clearness and conciseness, and despite the large 105number of details that the subject demands the matter is handled in a very attractive way.” T. H. Morgan.

+ + + Science, n. s. 25: 464. Mr. 22, ’07. 1220w.

Davenport, Frances Gardiner. Economic development of a Norfolk manor, 1086–1565. *$3. Putnam.

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The subject of Miss Davenport’s study has been the court rolls of the manor of Forncett, near Norwich, which formed a part of the estate of the Earls of Norfolk. She carries it thru five centuries, and affords her readers an opportunity to follow in Forncett’s complex history the agricultural history of a great part of England.

“With no theory to establish and no prejudice to maintain, she gathered all the information that could be procured relating to a single Norfolk manor, arranged it logically, and thus furnished a contribution to our knowledge of medieval economic conditions that is thoroughly trustworthy.” Thomas Walker Page.

+ + Am. Hist. R. 12: 609. Ap. ’07. 720w.

+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 153. Jl. ’07. 330w.

“This is an extremely unpretentious, but none the less very remarkable piece of work. We commend specially to the attention of students the map of Forncett which accompanies this book.”

+ + Ath. 1906, 2: 125. Ag. 4. 810w.

“The care with which the author has done her work is worthy of all praise. Her calculations and tables are correct to a fraction. This accuracy of inquiry bears fruit in a series of results with which every student of economic history will have to reckon. The writer is not so safe a guide in regard to the social and legal side of the inquiry, and this is due partly to her insufficient use of the help to be obtained from comparison with kindred cases.” P. Vinogradoff.

+ + − Eng. Hist. R. 22: 154. Ja. ’07. 1370w.

+ + Ind. 63: 692. S. 19, ’07. 260w.

“This essay publishes the results of painstaking and scholarly original research.”

+ J. Pol. Econ. 15: 59. Ja. ’07. 80w.

“In the certainty and precision of statement that comes from an unusual knowledge of the minute detail of her subject lies the value of Miss Davenport’s study of Forncett.”

+ + Nation. 83: 267. S. 27, ’06. 480w.

“Valuable as an analysis of a typical community.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 101. F. 16, ’07. 60w.

“Though it leaves many questions unanswered, and though in some respects the picture is not as clear as we might wish—the sokeman still remaining something of a puzzle—we can but feel content with a work that is in the highest degree painstaking and scholarly.” Charles M. Andrews.

+ + − Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 726. D. ’07. 1060w.

“The full value of it will appear only as other studies of a similar kind are published with which comparisons may be made. Meanwhile it remains a model of the way in which such work should be done. The material has been collected and examined with painstaking thoroughness, and has been written up with admirable discrimination.” C. D.

+ + Yale R. 16: 211. Ag. ’07. 720w.

Davey, Richard Patrick Boyle. Pageant of London; with 40 il. in color by John Fulleylove. 2v. *$5. Pott.

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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“The whole book is inaccurate and slipshod. Mr. Fulleylove’s charming illustrations deserved a better surrounding.” C. L. K.

− + Eng. Hist. R. 22: 206. Ja. ’07. 370w.

Davidson, Gladys. Stories from the operas. 2d ser. *$1.25. Lippincott.

Here “Wagner is represented by only two of his operas—‘Parsifal’ and ‘Die Meistersinger.’ Of the other operas whose stories are told by her, four—Gounod’s ‘Philemon and Baucis,’ Meyerbeer’s ‘Star of the north,’ Halévy’s ‘The Jewess,’ and Bellini’s ‘La sonnambula’—have practically disappeared from the stage, while a fifth, Tchaikovsky’s ‘Eugene Onegin,’ has never become acclimated outside of Russia. The others in the list are popular favorites of today and likely to remain so for some time. Their plots are told by the author in the form of short stories without reference to the stage or the music.”—Nation.

Nation. 85: 404. O. 31, ’07. 100w.

“The value of the book might have been materially increased had the author boiled down each plot-story and given us all the standard operas instead of merely a selected number.”

+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 677. O. 26, ’07. 180w.

Davidson, John. Holiday and other poems. *$1. Dutton.

The technical experiments which the form of Mr. Davidson’s poetry abounds in, are fully in keeping with the venturesomeness of his themes and ideas. “He has nothing to do with civilization, except to denounce and defy it; his self-chosen part is that of the upsetter of all equanimities, the denier of all commonly accepted creeds, conventions, and traditions.” (Lond. Times.) “The very title of the book is manifold in its meaning. Life is a holiday, and the holiday of holidays is the final liberty torn by the spirit out of its material servitudes.” (Ath.)

“It is evident that what he lacks mostly is discipline and that austerity and economy of language which go with it. The fault looks straight out of the verse, and it is equally noticeable in his essay, which rambles over the whole universe of thought, touching on many things of which Mr. Davidson speaks with no authority and yet containing many interesting and suggestive things. Here we have extravagance both of thought and expression. It is the outpouring of an uncurbed, undisciplined, and vain mind.”

− + Acad. 71: 77. Jl. 28, ’06. 2000w.

“This volume ought to win for Mr. Davidson the wider audience that he deserves. But his anarchic violence and metaphysical eccentricity are still rocks of offence, and he is not the sort of man who is easily taught or tamed.”

+ − Ath. 1966, 2: 151. Ag. 11. 1990w.

“In the closing passage of this ‘Note,’ Mr. Davidson, after a tribute to Poe, enlarges upon America in general, and makes it evident that he has been ‘seeing things.’” Wm. M. Payne.

− Dial. 42: 254. Ap. 16, ’07. 240w.

“His essay is a most stimulating and interesting piece of work. With all its eccentricities, it does the most useful thing criticism can do: it increases our sense of the greatness of poetry.”

+ − Lond. Times. 5: 281. Ag. 17, ’06. 1550w.

+ − Nation. 84: 200. F. 28, ’07. 180w.

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 172. Mr. 23, ’07. 640w.

“In his prose, however, as in his verse, Mr. Davidson betrays a touch of rodomontade, a want of balance, and the vice of self-consciousness. He disappoints by a certain want of grip. His hands seem ever to be sliding over a hard surface. This criticism, none the less, must not be taken as disparagement. If not the poet of the future, he is a forerunner—one of the minor prophets.”

+ − Sat. R. 102: 304. S. 8, ’06. 1460w.

“Mr. Davidson’s fault is that he is inclined at times to torture his fancy into conceits. He can draw wonderful little vignettes of landscape; but he can also describe nature in a way so painfully ‘literary’ that our teeth are set on edge. Colour, imagination, and fire are rarely absent from his lines, and above all he has the singer’s supreme gift of the infallible ear.”

+ − Spec. 97: 296. S. 1, ’06. 340w.

106Davidson, Thomas. Philosophy of Goethe’s Faust; ed. by Charles M. Bakewell. *60c. Ginn.

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Mr. Davidson tells in these six lectures what the poem has come to mean to him, and has sought to lay bare its “philosophical or ethical skeleton.” Speaking of the poem, he says: “Its content, I believe, is the entire spiritual movement toward individual emancipation, composed of the Teutonic reformation and the Italian Renaissance in all their history, scope, and consequences.”

“The merit of the book is that it presents an individual point of view, and is not merely a gathering from the opinions of previous critics and commentators; while its defects arise, to some extent at least, from this very quality of independence. However, many of Mr. Davidson’s ideas are interesting, and some of his remarks on single passages are really thoughtful and illuminating, although his work, taken in its entirety, is, we think more acceptable as an exposition of his own philosophy than of Goethe’s.”

+ − Ath. 1907, 2: 153. Ag. 10. 390w.

“The book is too slight to deal thoroughly with ‘Faust’ or its philosophy, and many a reader will be more interested in what Mr. Davidson betrays of his own opinions than in what he says about Goethe’s.” G. Santayana.

+ − J. Philos. 14: 106. F. 14, ’07. 880w.

+ Lond. Times. 6: 74. Mr. 8, ’07. 1660w.

“It would almost seem that Mr. Davidson has done his work as guide too thoroughly. He overloads his interpretations with meanings, he scents symbolism everywhere, and constructs a philosophy of ‘Faust’ which, though interesting and instructive in itself, can hardly be proved to have been in the poet’s mind. It holds the reader’s interest from beginning to end, and arouses in him a keen desire to take up his ‘Faust’ again, which is, after all, the most important function of a book of this kind.” Frank Thilly.

+ + − Philos. R. 16: 552. S. ’07. 360w.

Davidson, William L. Stoic creed. *$1.75. Scribner.

“The book is divided into three main ‘sections,’ followed by an appendix on ‘Pragmatism and humanism.’ The first section deals with ‘Moulding influences and leaders of the school,’ and shows how stoicism is mainly derived, on its ethical side, from the impulse of Socrates and the sophists. The second section, on ‘Stoic science and speculation,’ contains chapters dealing with the conception of philosophy, the logic and epistemology, the physics and cosmology, of the school, concluding with a chapter on the atomic theory of Epicurus in its relation to stoicism. The third section has for its title ‘Morality and religion,’ and occupies about half the book. It contains, in addition to a detailed exposition of the ethical system and its relation to cynicism, some useful pages of criticism, in which the defects of the system are indicated; and an interesting chapter entitled ‘Present-day value of stoicism,’ in which the dicta of eminent moderns, such as M. Arnold and Renan, concerning the stoic moralists are examined and appreciated.”—Ath.

“On the present-day value of stoicism and on its aspects as the precursor of much modern theory, Professor Davidson writes admirably in his excellent volume. It is no dry-as-dust treatise compact of dates and uncompromising facts. It is a sympathetic study of the history and development of the stoic philosophy which no student can afford to neglect.”

+ + Acad. 73: 918. S. 21, ’07. 770w.

“The book shows a competent knowledge of the subject and a gift of clear exposition. Occasionally, however, the writing is rather loose.”

+ + − Ath. 1907, 2: 37. Jl. 13. 400w.

“A most important chapter in the history of thought on the great problems of the world is embodied in this discriminating and interesting volume.”

+ + Outlook. 86: 836. Ag. 17, ’07. 320w.

Davies, A. C. Fox-. Dangerville, inheritance. †$1.50. Lane.

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“This differs from most other detective tales in being the story of a mystery rather than the glorification of a detective. It also differs from them in keeping the solution from even the reader until the last page. Lord and Lady Dangerville seem to have been magnetised to attract mysteries, and mysteries of no mean radius.”—Acad.

“For the lovers of Sherlock Holmes ‘The Dangerville inheritance’ will be a fine detective story; but as an unusual drama of human life, and as an excellently told history it will have a more discriminating audience.”

+ Acad. 71: 553. D. 1, ’06. 180w.

“The whole story is too preposterous to be taken seriously.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

− Bookm. 25: 393. Je. ’07. 280w.

“The final outcome is slightly irritating from its shock to one’s sense of probability.”

+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 237. Ap. 13, ’07. 90w.

Davies, A. C. Fox-. Mauleverer murders. †$1.50. Lane.

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Mystery and plot abound in this story. “The heroine leads a double life, and is suspected of leading a triple or quadruple one. Sums like £150,000 are juggled with airily as feathers; the properties include bicycles, revolvers, knotted cords, strychnine, (wholesale,) perfumed handkerchiefs, half-destroyed letters, watches stopped at dreadfully significant hours, and the southern European kingdom of Moritania—royal line extinct. There is a detective who is not likely to displace Sergeant Cuff or Mr. Sherlock Holmes in our affections.” (N. Y. Times.)

“Beginning with the title, the author furnishes us with a thrill if not in every line, certainly on every page. The plot does not unfold; it rolls up and accumulates like a snowball.”

− N. Y. Times. 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 320w.

+ − Sat. R. 104: 210. Ag. 17, ’07. 170w.

“As a detective story the book suffers a little from the same thread of interest not being sustained all through. The end of the story is brutally horrible, and we are not convinced by the author’s production of the real criminal.”

− Spec. 99: 298. Ag. 31, ’07. 160w.

Davis, Grace T. Hero tales of congregational history. *$1. Pilgrim press.

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“The characters sketched in this volume are all illustrious in the history of the Congregational churches for nearly three centuries. As pioneers of religion and civilization, and as builders of institutions, their names have gone into our national history, and their lives deserve the commemoration here bestowed. It is intended especially for adolescent readers, and is effectively illustrated.”—Outlook.

+ Ind. 62: 505. F. 28, ’07. 90w.

+ Outlook. 85: 238. Ja. 26, ’07. 60w.

Davis, Hayne, ed. Among the world’s peace-makers: an epitome of the Interparliamentary union. $1.50. Progressive pub. co.

An epitome of the Interparliamentary union, with sketches of eminent members of this international house of representatives and of progressive people who are promoting the plan for permanent peace which this union of lawmakers has espoused.

107“Will be to the future historian a trustworthy and most fruitful source of information.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 238. Ap. 13, ’07. 720w.

R. of Rs. 35: 639. My. ’07. 110w.

Davis, Henry William Charles. England under the Normans and the Angevins. *$3. Putnam.

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Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

Reviewed by Ch.-V. Langlois.

+ + − Eng. Hist. R. 22: 150. Ja. ’07. 1210w.

Davis, Latham. Shakespeare, England’s Ulysses: the masque of Love’s labor’s won, or The enacted will; dramatized from the sonnets of 1609. *$3. Stechert.

The masque, whose text is the sonnets of 1609, is really a legal document whose sole purpose is to convey and re-establish by a will the authorship of our Shakespearian literature. “The name of the new heir to the Shakespearian mantle, as revealed by the ‘star-like’ acrostic that ‘stands fix’d’ at the termination of the dramatis personæ is that of ... Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex.”

“It is a queer book, an unreadable one, and to the ordinary mind quite unintelligible, but it is a book and it is printed, and it will comfortably amaze a few of the credulous. There’s not a bit of harm in it.”

− − + N. Y. Times. 12: 220. My. 18, ’07. 200w.

Davis, Mrs. Mary Evelyn M. Price of silence; with il. by Griswold Tyng. †$1.50. Houghton.

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New Orleans furnishes the setting for this romance whose prologue deals with civil war times. “Then the tale passes over the intervening years to the present time and concerns itself with the love and complications of a grandniece of the mansions’s chatelaine, a son of the Union officer who commanded the looting provost guard, and young relatives and friends of the heroine.” (N. Y. Times.)

A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 134. My. ’07. ✠

“Its interest is cleverly maintained, and its colouring is vivid and pleasing.”

+ Ath. 1907, 1: 786. Je. 29. 140w.

“The story is told with unfailing animation, and pictures with great fidelity the traits of the old French society now rapidly passing from view as a distinctive element in the life of the ancient city of Bienville.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ Dial. 42: 380. Je. 16, ’07. 280w.

“We suspect that the story is of a sort to be widely read, and to be generally taken, at least in the North, for a true and pleasing picture of southern types and southern life. We protest against such acceptance of it, and decline to believe that this colonel-myth is anything but a travesty of the truth.”

− Nation. 84: 544. Je. 13, ’07. 370w.

“It is very curious that an author who can write as well and with as much taste as Mrs. Davis should be so entirely lacking in artistic instinct. There is much in her book that is very charming. And along with it is much that is deplorably clumsy and grotesque.”

+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 242. Ap. 13, ’07. 310w.

“The book is unsatisfactory, both as a picture of the times with which it deals and as a story.”

− Sat. R. 104: 369. S. 21, ’07. 90w.

Davis, Michael M. Gabriel Tarde: an essay in sociological theory. $1. Michael M. Davis, 791 West End av., N. Y.

6–46265.

An analysis of M. Tarde’s system. “After reviewing and summarizing Tarde’s positions the author introduces some evidence to show that Tarde only partly understood the role of imitation and has consequently over-estimated it. The criticism is well taken. So, too, is the criticism based upon Tarde’s neglect or ignorance of the work of others which might have saved some missteps. The author gives him great credit for original and suggestive discussions.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)

“A piece of clean critical workmanship. Mr. Davis is to be congratulated upon the catholicity of his discussion.” Albion W. Small.

+ + Am. J. Soc. 12: 125. Jl. ’06. 450w.

“Students of social theory will find this monograph of interest and value.”

+ Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 154. Jl. ’07. 140w.

Davis, Norah. World’s warrant; with a frontispiece by F. C. Yohn. †$1.50. Houghton.

7–13951.

“Briefly, it is the endeavor to get a wife by advertisement, and the resulting tangle in the lives of a number of persons whose characters, cultivation, and position in the world would ordinarily remove them far from any such complications.”—N. Y. Times.

“Miss Davis merits notice chiefly from her treating the South as a live country, inhabited by contemporary human beings, and not by a set of conventional lay figures left over from the tragedy of the last generation.”

+ − Nation. 84: 501. My 30, ’07. 250w.

“Miss Davis has evolved a plot of unusual ingenuity and dotted it with situations that are striking and unexpected. A good many of them must be taken at a gulp if they are taken at all. The author has developed the plot very cleverly.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 299. My. 11, ’07. 310w.

“Miss Davis not only makes very real both the atmosphere of somnolent Dixieland and the rattle and bustle and determined energy that are waking it up, but she also has the knack of weaving a plot and the ability to invent incidents and situations and to depict character.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 349. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.

Davis, Richard Harding. Real soldiers of fortune. **$1.50. Scribner.

6–42911.

Mr. Davis sketches “the kind of man who in any walk of life makes his own fortune, who, when he sees it come, leaps to meet it and turns it to his advantage.” The group includes Gen. William Walker, Baron Harden-Hickey, General MacIver, Winston Spencer Churchill, Capt. Philo Norton McGiffen, and Major Burnham.

“Written with the author’s usual spirit and dash.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 8. Ja. ’07. S.

“A collection of biographical sketches of unequal merit.”

+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 380. Mr. 30. 680w.

“The remarkable deeds of six remarkable men, told by a writer also accounted remarkable, furnish reading that should be and is remarkably interesting.”

+ Dial. 42: 83. F. 1, ’07. 230w.

“The exploits and adventures of these real soldiers of fortune are not a whit less interesting or astonishing than those of Mr. Davis’s ideal soldier of fortune.”

+ Lit. D. 34: 25. Ja. 5, ’07. 190w.

“Adventurous spirits are presented in the narrative, with anecdote, episode, and adventure, which reads like the wildest romance, and yet through the care of the author is not dissociated from the historical events in which these men played important, but, for the most part, thankless rôles.”

+ N. Y. Times. 11: 801. D. 1, ’06. 150w.

“The spirit and dash with which these biographical sketches are written will certainly attract young readers.”

+ Outlook. 84: 1084. D. 29, ’06. 90w.

108“Mr. Davis’ study of Walker, the filibuster king, has resulted in a real contribution to our knowledge of that strange character, and many Americans, young and old, will read this new estimate of Walker with a fresh interest.”

+ R. of Rs. 35: 111. Ja. ’07. 230w.

“The best sketch in the book is that of ‘Major Burnham, chief of scouts.’”

+ − Spec. 99: sup. 465. O. 5, ’07. 410w.

Davis, Richard Harding. Scarlet car. †$1.25. Scribner.

7–22818.

These sprightly stories, three in number, are brimful of adventure. A large red motor car furnishes the possibilities of romance which involves the affections of a charming Beatrice, young Peabody whom she drops unceremoniously, and Billy Winthrop, “the right man” of the scarlet car. “Knowing Mr. Davis’s taking ways where proper figured men and pretty women are concerned, and his ingenuity in finding interesting situations for them—noble, manly attributes for the men, graceful, girlish tricks for the women, sentiment for both—you do not need to be told any more details of the story of the scarlet car. You will find out for yourself.” (N. Y. Times.)

“A light, bright, little story for an idle hour or two.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 176. O. ’07. ✠

“Why should Mr. Davis, a man who knows Gallegher, make himself the literary chauffeur of such merely sleek, well-fed supernumeraries?”

+ Ind. 63: 761. S. 26, ’07. 180w.

“The amusing incidents which happen by the way are appropriate to the undisguisedly farcical nature of the whole affair.”

+ − Nation. 85: 102. Ag. 1, ’07. 260w.

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 200w.

“Mr. Davis is not at his best in ‘The scarlet car.’ It is very distinctly destined for the most careless of summer readers. Frederick Dow Steele’s pictures are excellent.”

− + N. Y. Times. 12: 419. Je. 29, ’07. 610w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

“An extravaganza-like tale, in which love, motoring, and adventure are carelessly mingled with a quite modern infusion of humor.”

+ − Outlook. 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 40w.

Davis, William Stearns. Victor of Salamis: a tale of the days of Xerxes, Leonidas, and Themistocles. †$1.50. Macmillan.

7–15591.

This piece of historical fiction deals with the invasion of Greece by the Persians under Xerxes. Altho many of the characters are fictitious and the love story is purely imaginary, the scenes are apparently true to the times, and Athens and Sparta are made to tremble before the invader as history tells us they trembled, while her heroes of the hour play the glorious parts which history says they played. Perhaps the best chapters are those descriptive of Thermopylae and Salamis.

“Interest is well sustained by the incidents of war and fortunes of love.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 176. O. ’07. ✠

“We think that Mr. Davis might have been a little more careful in his proper names.”

+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 724. Je. 15. 250w.

“Knowledge and deep sympathy combine to make the book something more than readable, which is perhaps all that was to be expected of it.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ Dial. 43: 63. Ag. 1, ’07. 260w.

“It is a particularly grim story of war, with amply abundant details to satisfy, even to satiate, the most bloodthirsty reader who ever frequented a circulating library.”

− N. Y. Times. 12: 327. My. 18, ’07. 240w.

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 170w.

“The leading historical personages are made to appear real men.”

+ Outlook. 86: 254. Je. 1, ’07. 90w.

“The weakness of the book is in some details, which count, it may be, for more than they are worth.”

+ − Spec. 99: 234. Ag. 17, ’07. 170w.

Dawson, Alec J. The message. †$1.50. Estes.

A novel with a purpose which presumes to command a 1940 view point. “His standpoint is frankly imperial, and even partisan. He assumes that the trend of the present government is towards weakness and sentimentalism and the neglect of national interests; and from that postulate he has developed a pretty pickle for the country it governs. The Germans land in force on the coasts of East Anglia, and in an almost incredibly short time Great Britain is at their mercy. Thereafter comes the rebuilding—the re-edification which is implied in the title. This tack is initially undertaken by Canadian preachers, and indeed the entire regeneration comes from the colonies.” (Ath.)

“What remains of highest value in the story is the human current of interest, which is maintained from the first.”

+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 501. Ap. 27. 420w.

“Is for the most part rather frankly boresome, with here and there a welcome oasis of something distinctly better, something that seems almost worthy of the author of ‘Hidden manna.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.

− Bookm. 26: 81. S. ’07. 310w.

“Mr. Dawson is afire with patriotic purpose, but he is so didactic as to be at times dull.”

+ − Sat. R. 103: 658. Je. 25, ’07. 260w.

“The whole book moves briskly, and is exciting reading, although in the earlier part anything but exhilarating.”

+ Spec. 98: 802. My. 18, ’07. 220w.

Dawson, Coningsby William. Worker, and other poems. **$1.25. Macmillan.

6–41523.

The distinctive notes of Mr. Dawson’s verse are “passionate sympathy with contemporaneous experiences and conditions, ardent feeling, and a forcible though sometimes unmusical expression.” (Outlook.)

“The author of these poems possesses genuine lyrical feeling, and his thought, where abstract themes are dispensed with, is graceful and not too reminiscent. A more serious flaw is the tendency, constantly noticeable, to manufacture refrains, as it were, in season and out. By multiplying instances of this device, the author has gone far to defeat his own object, and incidentally, to disfigure a book of considerable promise.”

+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 725. Je. 15. 310w.

Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.

+ Dial. 42: 255. Ap. 16, ’07. 280w.

“Shows something of James Thomson’s poignant view of the world, something also of a pre-Raphaelite savor of phrase, but it is only intermittently visited by any real spell of verbal magic and compelling mood.”

− + Nation. 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 70w.

“One reads this excellently cadenced verse, where never a note jars, but cannot recover it when lost to the ear. A certain tenuous, immaterial atmosphere pervades it all, leaving one uncertain as to what Mr. Dawson has said, or what has been won from his personal relation to life. Mr. Dawson is a poet of white light, but life is multi-colored.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 30. Ja. 19, ’07. 350w.

“His poetry is, so to speak, too close to the age in which it is written. For that reason it is likely to be heard, for it is the voice of the moment; for the same reason it is not likely to endure. It would be unjust to Mr. Dawson, however, to give the impression that he is simply a journalist in verse. Interesting and significant volume of verse.”

+ − Outlook. 85: 373. F. 16, ’07. 360w.

109Dawson, Nelson. Goldsmiths’ and silversmiths’ work. (Connoisseur’s lib.) *$7.50. Putnam.

7–37522.

“As befits the subject, this volume is beautifully printed and richly illustrated. It is intended not so much for the craftsman and worker in gold or silver as for the collector and art lover. Beginning with the gold and silver ore in the ground, the author follows the history of the manufacture of ornaments and articles of use in the precious metals from the very earliest dates, far back of the Greek and Roman period, down to our own times, with a specially full description of such little-known periods as that of the Irish metal-workers and of the early English renaissance.”—Outlook.

“There is really not one dull page in a publication that will no doubt appeal alike to the antiquarian, the student of ecclesiastical history, the artist and the craftsman.”

+ + Int. Studio. 33: 167. D. ’07. 340w.

“On the historical side it is a little elementary; on the practical and artistic side it has the interesting personal touch that is only to be found in the notes of a man who knows from experience what the artist aims at, what means he employs, and what difficulties he has to face and overcome.”

+ − Lond. Times. 6: 282. S. 20, ’07. 490w.

Outlook. 87: 359. O. 19, ’07. 100w.

Spec. 99: 336. S. 7, ’07. 60w.

Dawson, William Harbutt. German workman: a study in national efficiency. *$1.50. Scribner.

6–23711.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“A very readable account of that splendid system of ‘social policy’ by means of which the health and efficiency of the workman have been promoted as by no other people in the history of the race.” Charles Richmond Henderson.

+ Dial. 43: 249. O. 16, ’07. 190w.

J. Pol. Econ. 14: 643. D. ’06. 610w.

+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 31. Ja. 19, ’07. 1000w.

Day, Emily Foster (Mrs. Frank R. Day). Princess of Manoa. **$1.50. Elder.

6–45043.

Nine sketches from the folk-lore of Hawaii. Brown paper, black type, and full page illustrations in sepia, make a unique book daring in its oddity.

Dial. 41: 456. D. 16, ’06. 60w.

+ Ind. 61: 1500. D. 20, ’06. 70w.

“The legends of old Hawaii are rich in romance and piquant charm, and Emily Foster Day puts into graceful English a few of the most interesting.”

+ N. Y. Times. 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 40w.

+ N. Y. Times. 11: 867. D. 15, ’06. 90w.

“Very simply and sympathetically told, and in excellent taste.”

+ Outlook. 85: 143. Ja. 19, ’07. 70w.

Day, Holman Francis. Rainy day railroad war. †$1. Barnes.

6–27347.

A story for boys which “relates the history of a fight over the building of a railway through the timber lands of Maine. The young hero is an assistant engineer, and develops in this contest resourcefulness and courage.”—Outlook.

“Only fairly well done, but will be interesting to boys.”

+ − A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 20. Ja. ’07.

+ N. Y. Times. 11: 868. D. 15, ’06. 60w.

“A spirited and vigorous story for boys.”

+ Outlook. 84: 239. S. 22, ’06. 80w.

Day, James Roscoe. Raid on prosperity. **$1.50. Appleton.

7–36714.

Chancellor Day, the champion of corporate business, shows how trusts are logical, natural and consistent with the developing interests of the “new age.” He discusses corporations, the distribution of wealth, organized charity, tainted money and labor unions. Several interesting chapters are devoted to a defence of the Standard oil company.

N. Y. Times. 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

Decharme, Paul. Euripides and the spirit of his dramas; tr. by James Loeb. **$3. Macmillan.

6–5711.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“As a book of reference for the contents of Euripides’s plays, or a collection of passages bearing upon certain topics, Professor Decharme’s work will unquestionably be found useful; but for an introduction to the spirit of Euripides we should rather refer the student to Croiset, Dr. Murray, or Dr. Verrall.”

+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 143. F. 2. 360w.

Deeping, Warwick. Woman’s war. †$1.50. Harper.

7–20869.

The story of the contentions of two women whose husbands are rival doctors in a little English town. And in this game of chess, so maliciously carried on by the blacks, it is the queen that centers her energies, in the king’s behalf, on check-mating the king of the whites. The darkest moment for the white men is when the queen of the blacks attacks the castle of the white king’s reputation and sweeps it from the board, and it is only by steadily pushing a white pawn step by step to the king-row that the king and queen of the whites redeem the castle and check-mate the black king.

“In the effort to give greater life to the central figures the minor ones appear to have been neglected. Nevertheless we do not hesitate to commend the book.”

+ − Ath. 1907, 2: 11. Jl. 6. 100w.

Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ Bookm. 26: 77. S. ’07. 1370w.

“Having chosen a painful but live contemporary theme, he proceeds to treat it with a childish superficiality.”

− Nation. 85: 37. Jl. 11, ’07. 270w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 457. Jl. 20, ’07. 260w.

“A clever and forceful book this, but not entertaining, and hard as nails.”

+ − Outlook. 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 50w.

“As a whole, both in seriousness of conception and in success of execution, the novel must be pronounced to have attained a high level of merit.”

+ Spec. 99: 202. Ag. 10, ’07. 340w.

De Garmo, Charles. Principles of secondary education: the studies. *$1.25. Macmillan.

7–6800.

The fundamental principles of American secondary education are here set forth in the form of a text book for college and university classes. The object being “to reveal thru an analysis of the content of the studies themselves their inherent and comparative educational value, and upon a basis of the values thus established to determine the best possible combination of the studies into the various curricula now demanded by democratic society.” A second object is to show how secondary education can most effectively perform its proper functions.

“It is evident that such a systematic treatment by an authority so competent and respected as Professor De Garmo will be welcomed by students of education in America, and particularly by teachers of the principles of secondary education, who will find the book invaluable as text-book and reference.” Edward O. Sisson.

+ + Dial. 43: 287. N. 1, ’07. 900w.

“The greatest value of the volume before us lies in the stimulus that it affords for classroom-work. An urgent need of this work, if it is 110to be truly serviceable, is a more extensive bibliography than the present meager references furnish.” Julius Sachs.

+ + − Educ. R. 34: 421. N. ’07. 1160w.

+ Nation. 85: 234. S. 12, ’07. 290w.

“So far as regards the distinctive study of secondary education, it must be said that Dr. De Garmo’s book is the first in the field. The name of the author and the title will arouse general interest in the volume, and this interest will be sustained by the contents.” Nathaniel Butler.

+ + School. R. 15: 472. Je. ’07. 1000w.

De Lancey, Magdalene (Hall), lady. A week at Waterloo in 1815. *$1.50. Dutton.

7–8229.

“Lady de Lancey gives an account of the wound received by her husband at the great battle, of the agony of suspense caused to her as the varying news came filtering through to her at Antwerp, and of the way in which she tended him in a cottage in Mont St. Jean. The story is one of genuine pathos, which is, if that could be possible, enhanced by the fact that they had been married less than three months.... Letters by Walter Scott and Dickens add interest to the volume.”—Ath.

+ Acad. 71: 11. Jl. 7, ’06. 610w.

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 66. Mr. ’07. S.

“The narrative is touching in its simplicity, and occasionally gives new and startling glimpses into the horrors of war.”

+ Ath. 1906, 2: 70. Jl. 21. 430w.

Eng. Hist. R. 21: 830. O. ’06. 160w.

“Lady De Lancey’s book is, however, literature, worthy to stand beside Lucy Hutchinson’s life of her colonel and Margaret of Newcastle’s life of her lord.”

+ + Lond. Times. 5: 263. Je. 2, ’07. 310w.

+ Sat. R. 102: 86. Jl. 21, ’06. 110w.

+ Spec. 97: 64. Jl. 14, ’06. 270w.

Deland, Ellen Douglas. Friendship of Anne. †$1.50. Wilde.

7–26962.

A boarding school story for girls which pictures the weaknesses, hopes and aims of some very true-to-life girls.

Deland, Mrs. Margaret Wade (Campbell). Awakening of Helena Richie. †$1.50. Harper.

6–24158.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Our nearest equivalent to the old-fashioned English novel.” Mary Moss.

+ + Atlan. 99: 124. Ja. ’07. 580w.

“Helena Richie herself is faintly, thinly conceived. Her consciousness is too elementary to feel seriously about, and one only wonders that such grave events can hang themselves upon so slight a character.” Louise Collier Willcox.

+ − No. Am. 183: 547. S. 21, ’06. 1180w.

+ − R. of Rs. 35: 125. Ja. ’07. 280w.

Deland, Margaret W. C. Encore. †$1.50. Harper.

7–32562.

A slight story of Margaret Deland’s favorite spot, Old Chester. When Letty Morris and Alfred Price tried in early youth to elope, the good Dr. Lavendar, whom they sought to unite them, withdrew for a moment and sent a message to the parents of the runaways. Their day of bliss was over. The encore is the repetition of the love-making after fifty years, and this time it is dissenting children who make the way hard; but Dr. Lavendar comes to the rescue and this time lends his clerical aid.

“This prettily bound and illustrated edition of one of the most charming of the Old Chester chronicles is, we suppose, aimed at the holiday public. We hope it will hit the mark.”

+ Nation. 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 120w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

“The tale is told with delightful ease and humor.”

+ Outlook. 87: 622. N. 23, ’07. 60w.

De La Pasture, Elizabeth (Bonham). Catherine of Calais; new ed. $1.50. Dutton.

7–28454.

“Catherine is a girl of quiet charm and of lifelong devotion to an ideal of romance. She quite takes hold of the readers heart, and he is glad that she loves to the end the stately, handsome, conscientious husband she has awesomely admired as a girl, and that she never penetrates the secret that he is essentially a dull and commonplace gentleman. In contrast to Catherine there are two capitally drawn elderly women, one of infernal temper and overbearing self-approval, the other of indolent and self-indulgent temperament, but exceedingly clever in character-reading and in social comment.”—Outlook.

“Readers who like little star-trimmed heroines who give the impression of having moonbeam toes and of being incapable but good will enjoy this story. The interest of the story depends upon what the characters say, not what they do.”

− Ind. 63: 573. S. 5, ’07. 190w.

“Catherine is, in fact, a silly and meek and dutiful and loving little creature, one of the Amelia Sedleys who do not become extinct in life, whether they are to be found in fiction or not.”

+ − Nation. 84: 544. Je. 13, ’07. 240w.

“It is pleasant to be able to acknowledge so clean and sweet a book.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 476. Ag. 3, ’07. 500w.

“To those who love a simple story, simply told, but with true sentiment and gentle grace, we highly commend this new novel. The story entertains but does not excite; it affords a refreshing contrast both to the problem novel and to the cloak-and-sword romance.”

+ Outlook. 86: 476. Je. 29, ’07. 160w.

De La Pasture, Elizabeth. Lonely lady of Grosvenor square. †$1.50. Dutton.

6–41709.

The lonely lady is a pretty country bred girl of twenty-five who comes to Grosvenor square as the guest of a great-aunt and stays there after her aunt’s death to watch over the estate which is an inheritance of her twin brother who is in active service in Africa. The account of how she tries to do honor to her name and position by following the social code of her country rector’s wife, and how from the dull loneliness of London state and formality she is rescued by her distant cousin the Duke, forms a pretty old fashioned love story.

“The author writes as gracefully and as easily as ever—almost too easily—and her touch both in humor and pathos is light and sure.”

+ Acad. 72: 144. F. 9, ’07. 270w.

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 77. Mr. ’07. ✠

“The characters are well drawn and natural, and the narrative has sufficient vitality to sustain the reader’s interest.”

+ Ath. 1907, 1: 192. F. 16. 280w.

“The very genuine charm of this quiet and refreshing story of present-day London is its simple unassuming naturalness.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ Bookm. 25: 181. Ap. ’07. 600w.

“A book of manners and sentiments; it touches only the surface of life, but it is agreeably written and proves mildly entertaining.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ Dial. 42: 226. Ap. 1, ’07. 220w.

“‘Charming’ is the word that attaches itself instinctively to her work; it may not be the highest praise, but in this case it implies popularity as well.”

+ Lond. Times. 6: 37. F. 1, ’07. 390w.

Nation. 84: 291. Mr. 28, ’07. 120w.

111“A story that in its sweetness and wholesomeness and simple unaffected pathos forms a refreshing contrast to the morbid and unpleasant matters with which fictionmakers frequently feel themselves obliged to deal.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 99. F. 16, ’07. 990w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 280w.

“The book would be nothing if it were not for its genuine humor, which is none the less welcome because it is not boisterous.”

+ Outlook. 85: 479. F. 23, ’07. 160w.

“Mrs. de la Pasture’s powers as a narrator are considerable: and this story is a thoroughly pleasant though not a very robust example of her manner.”

+ Sat. R. 103: 244. F. 23, ’07. 90w.

“The book is not quite on the level of ‘Peter’s mother’ but it is sufficiently amusing to rank among the most pleasing novels of the season.”

+ − Spec. 97: 258. F. 16, ’07. 160w.

Delehaye, H. Legends of the saints: an introduction to hagiography; from the French, tr. by Mrs. V. M. Crawford. (Westminster lib.) *$1.20. Longmans.

A two-part work whose purpose is to show the application of the ordinary rules and methods of historical criticism to hagiographical criticism. The first treats of hagiography; the second, of the relation of paganism to Christianity.

“For the elucidation of the first part the author has peculiar and rare qualifications. The other part of his book is not so good. M. Delehaye also makes it evident in his book that he is but imperfectly acquainted with some subjects on which he pronounces an opinion.”

+ − Ath. 1907, 2: 326. S. 21. 1570w.

“Historical students will find the work to be a fine example of sound, conservative, scientific method.”

+ Cath. World. 86: 259. N. ’07. 760w.

Deming, Philander. Story of a pathfinder. **$1.25. Houghton.

7–17047.

In this volume Mr. Deming “gathers up some loose threads of autobiography and romance.... The six chapters or sections are chiefly reprints from ... periodicals. Opening with an account of his rise to the dignity and emoluments of a court stenographer, Mr. Deming goes on to relate how he wrote his first successful story, then gives a few tastes of his quality as a narrator of fiction, and concludes with another bit of autobiographic reminiscence.”—Dial.

“His style, easy and conversational, is attractive; and the plots of his tales, which have the touch of real life, are ingenious without being involved, and all end with a fine-conceived and unexpected stroke that pleasingly caps the already well-developed climax.”

+ + Dial. 43: 19. Jl. 1, ’07. 330w.

“After reading his little volume, full of unobtrusive sincerity and penetrated with that sort of poetry which marks the evening of certain lives, one feels in contact with one of those rare personalities which give biography its chief charm.”

+ + Lit. D. 35: 97. Jl. 20, ’07. 400w.

“Although written at a much later date, both his stories and preface bear rather the impress of the fifties than of the postbellum newspaper world. It is the atmosphere of Greeley’s Memoirs, with all the mildness and restraint of what might be called the middle Victorian period in American fiction.”

+ Nation. 84: 568. Je. 20, ’07. 170w.

De Montmorency, J. E. G. Thomas a Kempis. *$2.25. Putnam.

7–11046.

“The mooted question of its authorship is here critically discussed, and its authenticity fairly demonstrated; its structure is analyzed, and the various sources shown from which its author drew; lists and accounts of its manuscripts and printed editions are given; many fine illustrations, including some facsimile pages, are added; full recognition is shown to the work of Thomas’s fellow-mystics.”—Outlook.

“Mr. de Montmorency has an axe to grind—and sharpens it on á Kempis. He sets up a distinction between the visible or official church, and the invisible church, existing within the official church of which it is truly the vital and Catholic part. With the needful caution, the reader will find Mr. de Montmorency’s handling of the book full of suggestion and matter for reflection. In treating purely evidential questions, such as the authorship, he is sane and dispassionate enough.”

+ + − Ath. 1907, 1: 67. Ja. 19. 1300w.

+ Ind. 62: 1415. Je. 13, ’07. 100w.

“Mr. de Montmorency is full of enthusiasm for Thomas á Kempis and his book and his zeal is according to knowledge; but his knowledge is not always displayed with discretion. He could find it in his heart to spend it all upon us.”

+ − Lond. Times. 5: 429. D. 28, ’06. 860w.

Nation. 84: 222. Mr. 7, ’07. 110w.

“Mr. Montmorency might have been with advantage at greater pains to organize his book, which is obviously a labor of love.”

− + N. Y. Times. 11: 887. D. 22, ’06. 1230w.

“It is a timely and helpful commentary upon a great recreative and reconstructive movement.”

+ Outlook. 85: 44. Ja. 5, ’07. 300w.

“Mr. de Montmorency has given us the results of the most recent investigations, lucidly stated and with an absence of ‘parti pris’ which is worthy of high praise.” A. I. du Pont Coleman.

+ + Putnam’s. 1: 630. F. ’07. 240w.

“Mr. de Montmorency’s general observations about this wonderful book are pregnant and excellent.”

+ Sat. R. 103: 431. Ap. 6, ’07. 750w.

“Interesting and learned book.”

+ + Spec. 97: 178. F. 2, ’07. 1510w.

De Morgan, John. In lighter vein. **$1.50. Elder.

7–24148.

An anthology of witty sayings and anecdotes of prominent people from Elizabeth to our own Mark Twain and Roosevelt. It is designed for relaxation.

“It contains some good jokes and some dull ones, some that we never heard and some that we are glad to have recalled to memory.”

+ − Ind. 63: 576. S. 5, ’07. 60w.

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 150w.

De Morgan, William. Alice-for-short: a dichronism. †$1.75. Holt.

7–20515.

Alice-for-short, six years old and timid, bravely plods thru a London fog with a jug of beer. She breaks the jug, which accident brings to her side a protector, who, a little later, when the drunk-sodden parents die, rescues her from the basement of an old house in Soho and places her in the care of his sister. The chief interest of the tale lies in the development of the child in intimate portrayal, the simple life-likeness of characters, and the sure tho delayed consummation of the romance. There are ghosts and mysteries in the plot which seems to be a sensitive conscience’s concession to the veteran novel-reader rather than a scheme vitally necessary to the character-drawing.

“We applaud Mr. De Morgan in that whatever he writes is instinct with an infinite knowledge of humanity, with a subtle and tender humor, and an exquisite skill in characterisation.”

+ + Acad. 73: 658. Jl. 6, ’07. 1080w.

112“The story is disconnected, and slow in movement, full of humor, and shows exquisite skill in characterization.”

+ − A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 177. O. ’07. ✠

“Before the two hundredth [page] is reached a falling off in the quality of the work must be noted, and a serious shrinkage in the warp and woof of the fabric. The author has been perhaps just a little too sure of his readers, just a little too palpably in love with his creatures.”

+ − Ath. 1907, 2: 10. Jl. 6. 310w.

“You have come in contact with a rarely engaging personality which, by some alchemy defying analysis, is capable of being seized and passed on through the medium of cold print.” Mary Moss.

+ + Bookm. 25: 519. Jl. ’07. 1230w.

“Only a crabbed partisan of the formal could place his hand upon his heart and sincerely aver that he would willingly spare any of these irrelevancies. They add salt and savour to a novel which even without them would be reckoned a remarkable example of the art of fiction at its noblest.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ + − Dial. 42: 375. Je. 16, ’07. 1000w.

+ + Ind. 63: 397. Ag. 15, ’07. 890w.

“Is disappointing after ‘Joseph Vance.’”

+ − Ind. 63: 1228. N. 21, ’07. 30w.

“This ripeness of vision constitutes Mr. De Morgan’s charm. He has lived to see, to see tolerantly, tho not without feeling.”

+ Lit. D. 35: 272. Ag. 24, ’07. 600w.

“When the 563 very closely printed pages are finished, it seems incredible that the story should have been made to fill them. The odd thing is that we have not been bored.”

+ − Lond. Times. 6: 181. Je. 7, ’07. 740w.

“There is no denying that Mr. De Morgan’s humor now and then degenerates into mere facetiousness, or that his familiar prolixity becomes at times mere garrulousness. Yet one cannot help liking M. De Morgan, even when he is most trying. The writer has, we should say, a sensitive conscience in the matter of plot—a desire to give the reader his money’s worth of that staple—but an instinctive contempt for it for its own sake. What really interests him is his persons and his talk about them.”

+ − Nation. 84: 522. Je. 6, ’07. 870w.

“To the present reviewer at any rate it seems that Mr. De Morgan has somehow been able to see us, not as we see ourselves, but in a certain perspective belonging properly to a next generation. Of the literary quality of Mr. De Morgan’s work it is impossible to speak without a degree of enthusiasm which might invite suspicion of incoherence. These stories differ from those of the old masters not in manner but in matter.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 363. Je. 8, ’07. 1620w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 80w.

“After all the truth about such a book as ‘Alice-for-short’ may be said in a sentence. It is in great qualities that it is deficient—and how often may great qualities be found? And it is in the lesser, but not negligible ones—in wise comment, deft workmanship, in humor, fancifulness and charm—that it is satisfyingly replete.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.

+ − No. Am. 186: 449. N. ’07. 1350w.

“Mr. De Morgan is not an imitator of Dickens, but he has certain things in common with Dickens, and one is that we, not grudgingly but cordially forgive him traits that would damn utterly a lesser genius.”

+ + − Outlook. 86: 475. Je. 29, ’07. 540w.

“Is interminably long and too nebulous to talk about.”

+ − Putnam’s. 3: 112. O. ’07. 210w.

“The book is indeed an excellent example of the manner without the matter of Mr. Thackeray. Here are all the faults in method in spite of which he was great.”

− + Sat. R. 104: 54. Jl. 13, ’07. 460w.

“This new story will establish his right, we think, to be accepted without further hesitation as a very considerable novelist.”

+ Spec. 99: 96. Jl. 20, ’07. 1310w.

De Morgan, William Frend. Joseph Vance: an ill-written autobiography. †$1.50. Holt.

6–25695.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

Current Literature. 42: 344. Mr. ’07. 1050w.

“Singularly rich, mellow, and human narrative, which is garrulous in the genial sense, and as effective as it is unpretending.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ + Dial. 42: 13. Ja. ’07. 440w.

“A book that must take its place, by virtue of its tenderness and pathos, its wit and humor, its love of human kind, and its virile characterization, as the first great English novel that has appeared in the twentieth century.” Lewis Melville.

+ + + N. Y. Times. 12: 395. Je. 15, ’07. 1080w.

“Is probably the only book of its kind that the present generation will offer; therefore the most may as well be made of the temperate, mellow, elderly enjoyment it affords.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.

+ No. Am. 183: 1187. D. 7, ’06. 1460w.

Putnam’s. 3: 112. O. ’07. 390w.

Denk, Victor Martin Otto (Otto von Schaching, pseud.). Bell foundry. 45c. Benziger.

7–21531.

Gerold, a young bell founder on his way from Italy to his home in Bavaria encounters Gatterer, a noted bell founder of the Tyrol and stops to work in his foundry. Thru a series of rough and bloody incidents it is discovered that Gatterer and his workmen are a gang of villains who plunder and murder all who travel thru their forest. As a result of this discovery Elizabeth, who has passed as his daughter, is restored to the name and position of which the highwaymen robbed her and becomes the bride of Gerold.

N. Y. Times. 12: 511. Ag. 24, ’07. 110w.

Dennett, R. E. At the back of the black man’s mind; or, Notes on the kingly office in West Africa. *$3.25. Macmillan.

7–13004.

Mr. Dennett writes out of the fulness of a wide experience among the Bavili both as a private resident and as an official. About three-quarters of the book under review deals with the hierarchy of kings and chiefs, the laws, social organization, marriage, birth, and death customs, psychology and philosophy of the Bavili; the remainder of the book treats with much the same subjects as they have been observed by the author in Benin. Finally, there is a valuable appendix by Bishop James Johnson on the religious beliefs and social laws of the Yoruba people.

“The evident sincerity of the writer and his sympathetic appeal on behalf of a better understanding of the black man must commend him both to those whose interest in the backward races of mankind is purely scientific and to those who desire to understand the negro for his own sake.”

+ Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 634. My. ’07. 380w.

“With a little more sense of method, the value of [his] contribution to science might have been doubled.”

+ − Ath. 1906, 2: 832. D. 29. 1260w.

“Not the least interesting part of this curious book is the appendix, which contains extracts from the writings of two educated negroes ... and it must be confessed that they are easier to follow than Mr. Dennett when he sets himself to explain native symbolism.”

+ − Lond. Times. 6: 43. F. 8, ’07. 280w.

113“The reviewer cannot accept Mr. Dennett’s etymology of the Bantu phrases he attempts to explain. It is such a valuable contribution to ethnology that one could almost wish a second edition might be brought out with revised and reasonable orthography.”

+ − Nature. 75: 248. F. 10, ’07. 840w.

N. Y. Times. 11: 907. D. 29, ’06. 230w.

“All students will be grateful to Mr. Dennett for the care and labour which he has expended in collecting and recording [the beliefs and customs] although some may wish that he could have carried out his task in a simpler and less perplexing fashion.”

+ − Sat. R. 103: 622. My. 18, ’07. 1460w.

Dennis, James Shepard. Christian missions and social progress. v. 3. **$2.50. Revell.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“It is impracticable here to give any conception of the wealth of this material or of the skill with which it is arranged and presented.” C. R. Henderson.

+ + Am. J. Soc. 12: 569. Ja. ’07. 330w. (Review of v. 3.)

“Dr. Dennis has furnished an arsenal, well stored with weapons of many kinds, but all effective for both offensive and defensive warfare.” A. K. Parker.

+ − Am. J. Theol. 11: 362. Ap. ’07. 510w. (Review of v. 3.)

“Whether as a description of Christian missions or as a source book for students of social progress, this work is invaluable.”

+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 465. N. ’06. 360w. (Review of v. 3.)

“Crowded with information concerning the beneficent results of missions.”

+ + Ind. 62: 505. F. 28, ’07. 50w. (Review of v. 3.)

“All that was said in the previous notice as to the author’s breadth of view and catholicity of interest, as well as of the superlative worth of the work as a missionary apologetic, is even more true of this volume. Notwithstanding defects, these volumes will stand for years to come as a witness to the manifoldness and beneficent character of one of the most helpful social factors of the less enlightened lands.” Harlan P. Beach.

+ − Yale R. 15: 457. F. ’07. 1150w. (Review of v. 3.)

Denslow, William Wallace, and Bragdon, Dudley A. Billy Bounce: pictures by Denslow. *$1.50. Dillingham.

6–34681.

The adventures of a messenger boy whose inflated rubber suit sends him bouncing through the air with astonishing ease and rapidity. He visits the land of bogie men, bugbears and ghosts, and exposes them to youthful readers as entirely harmless.

+ N. Y. Times. 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 60w.

“A whimsical and comical tale.”

+ Outlook. 84: 530. O. 27, ’06. 60w.

“The wit of this book is vaudeville wit and not meant for analysis. Of Mr. Denslow’s illustrations, however, it may be said that the coloring is less crude than in his previous books.”

+ R. of Rs. 34: 765. D. ’06. 70w.

Densmore, Emmet. Sex equality. **$1.50. Funk.

7–32183.

Dr. Densmore’s theories are based upon the teachings of Darwin, Spencer, and modern exponents of the doctrine of evolution. The book teaches that women are more intuitive, refined, unselfish and spiritual than men, but are inferior to them in initiative, resource, power and breadth of view; that these mental differences are not fundamental nor the result of sex but are caused by environment and heredity. The book makes a strong plea for extending democracy into all phases of human life.

Derby, George, comp. Conspectus of American biography; being an analytical summary of American history and biography, containing also the complete indexes of The national cyclopaedia of American biography. $10. White.

6–38537.

“This substantial volume of nearly eight hundred pages contains, in indexed or tabular form, an enormous number of facts so arranged as to make it a helpful book of reference.” (Dial.) It includes lists of men prominent in public or private office; it tabulates poems, plays and novels in which historical characters figure; there is a catalogue of public statutes in the United States, a collection of “notable sayings,” an “anniversary calendar,” and a list of “founders of American families and their descendants.”

“There are sins of omission as well as of commission. Yet the volume will be found useful for reference.”

+ − Am. Hist. R. 12: 926. Jl. ’07. 180w.

Dial. 42: 259. Ap. 16, ’07. 240w.

“Mr. Derby’s work is as important as that of an explorer who opens up a new country for industrial and commercial activity. The treasures were there. Mr. Derby has made them available for all.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 257. Ap. 20, ’07. 430w.

Derr, Louis. Photography for students of physics and chemistry. *$1.40. Macmillan.

7–471.

“This book is eminently not for the perusal of the ‘snap-shot camera man,’ unless he be an ardent amateur and profoundly interested in the scientific possibilities and details of his subject.... The book is divided into eighteen chapters dealing with the camera and all its accessories. It includes articles on lenses, photo-chemical action, development and developers, fixing, washing, and drying, intensification and reduction, halation and reversal, printing processes, lantern slides and shutter exposures.”—N. Y. Times.

“He may have suited his book to the needs of his students, but the result to a stranger presents itself as a very uneven treatment of the subject.” C. J.

+ − Nature. 75: sup. 6. Mr. 14, ’07. 670w.

“The language is simple and the diagrams assist materially in the exposition. The book should have unquestionable value for the class of readers designated in the title—and for others bent individually on experimental investigation.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 37. Ja. 19, ’07. 250w.

De Selincourt, Beryl, and Henderson, May Sturge. Venice. il. **$3.50; ed. de luxe, **$7.50. Dodd.

7–31989.

A generous amount of fresh material has been discovered for this much pictured city. “The illustrations, after the water-colours of Mr. Barratt, who has lived for many years in the city of the lagoons and is familiar with her in all her moods, are real triumphs of reproduction, interpreting with rare fidelity the delicate atmospheric effects that are the chief charm of the originals.” (Int. Studio.)

“They have treated it both from the art and literary point of view with a certain amount of freshness.”

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

“There are many admirable descriptive touches; and if nothing is set in a new light, that is probably because a city which has been studied and re-studied by so many lovers is familiar now to all the world. Mr. Barratt’s illustrations are exceedingly successful, and add materially to the attractiveness of the book.”

+ Sat. R. 103: 820. Je. 29, ’07. 260w.

114De Selincourt, Hugh. Boy’s marriage. †$1.50. Lane.

“Beverley Teruel, nicknamed Girlie because of his lack of sophistication, shortly after leaving Oxford marries the girl of his father’s choice.” (N. Y. Times.) “Beverley flies into a morbid suspicion of the purity of his perfectly healthy passion. He seeks solace in a platonic affection for a literary woman, finds it difficult to exist without her, disobeys her by rushing to London to see her, and, when severely snubbed, falls an easy victim to the wiles of a woman of the town. During his absence Eva has been making discoveries which impel her towards a whole-hearted bid for her husband’s vanished affection. But it is too late. Innocence has given place to morbidity, and everything ends as, granting the premisses, it must end, miserably.” (Acad.)

“The workmanship of the book, though sensitive, is sometimes feeble. There is a good deal of superfluous detail, and the lines are not always clear. But the choice and development of the theme show courage, humour, and a severe logic which promise well.”

+ − Acad. 71: 611. D. 15, ’06. 440w.

“It is mainly for the promise in the book that we commend it.”

+ − Ath. 1906, 2: 767. D. 15. 190w.

− N. Y. Times. 12: 120. F. 23, ’07. 160w.

De Selincourt, Hugh. Strongest plume. †$1.50. Lane.

“In ‘The strongest plume’ Mr. de Selincourt tackles in characteristic fashion the problem of the girl who in conventional phrase ‘goes wrong’ before her marriage.... The man to whom she is engaged is a very ordinary, common-place prig, quite incapable of understanding the real nature of the girl who has given herself to him. He is perfectly ready, indeed anxious, to do ‘the right thing’ and marry her as soon as possible, but he is at no pains to disguise his personal feeling that Joan is really a ‘fallen’ woman. She resents his attitude ... comes gradually to the realisation that it has all been a terrible mistake. She comes to see that she has no love for him at all, and that marriage, so far from setting everything right, will only be an added wrong.”—Acad.

“In his study of the girl’s mental development, in the fidelity of his psychological analysis, Mr. de Selincourt almost touches greatness. His delineation bears the unmistakable stamp of truth. It carries conviction.”

+ − Acad. 73: 696. Jl. 20, ’07. 780w.

“The portraiture is much superior to the knowledge of life displayed. Mr. De Sélincourt’s cynicism is still that of youth, without an adequate basis; but though we find the work immature, we remain confident that he will yet write a fine story.”

− Ath. 1907, 2: 36. Jl. 13. 150w.

“He writes well, and he has a notable gift for the analysis of character. But at present he does not escape dulness; he gives the impression of distinction, and leaves us cold.”

− + Lond. Times. 6: 258. Ag. 23, ’07. 270w.

− N. Y. Times. 12: 636. O. 19, ’07. 150w.

“Its chief characters have been pressed into the service and illustration of a theory, as the reader is constantly made to feel. This compulsion makes them shadowy and ineffectual, and it cannot even be said that they are pleasant shades.”

− Sat. R. 104: 177. Ag. 10, ’07. 160w.

Deussen, Paul. Outline of the Vedanta system of philosophy according to Shankara; tr. by J. H. Woods and C. B. Runkle. **$1. Grafton press.

6–35998.

The Vedanta philosophy which grew out of the teachings of the Upanishads represents the common belief of nearly all thoughtful Hindus. Following a brief introduction which gives the fundamental idea of the system, Mr. Deussen discusses the Vedanta’s teaching regarding theology, cosmology, psychology, migration of the soul and emancipation.

“The name of Dr. Woods, who has studied the Hindu systems with Deussen at Kiel as well as with native pundits in India, is a sufficient guaranty of the accuracy of the rendering both of German and of Sanskrit technical terms. It will be a convenience, especially to those who give university courses in Hindu philosophy, to have this compendium accessible in English.” Arthur O. Lovejoy.

+ + J. Philos. 4: 23. Ja. 3, ’07. 700w.

“It is the best exposition of the chief school of Hindu metaphysics obtainable in brief compass.”

+ + Nation. 83: 370. N. 1, ’06. 240w.

+ Outlook. 84: 842. D. 1. ’06. 180w.

Devine, E. J. Training of Silas. $1.25. Benziger.

7–2759.

A Roman Catholic story which brings a “purse-proud plebeian millionaire to a realization that there is a greater end to be considered than the possession of wealth.”

“It has a strongly didactic purpose, which is gracefully draped in a thin suit of fiction.”

+ Cath. World. 84: 835. Mr. ’07. 160w.

Dewar, Douglas. Bombay ducks: an account of some of the every-day birds and beasts found in a naturalist’s Eldorado. *$5. Lane.

Agr 6–1634.

With less of a scientific smack than the title suggests, Mr. Dewar writes of the birds and small animals of India. Excellent illustrations which are Captain Fayrer’s photographs reproduced on “unglazed and tonal paper give a Japanese effect which is quite unusual and well worthy of imitation.” (Spec.)

“The little essays or articles are pleasantly written, and the descriptions are in essentials correct.”

+ Ath. 1906, 2: 98. Jl. 28. 480w.

“The style is piquant and refreshing.” May Estelle Cook.

+ + Dial. 41: 388. D. 1, ’06. 210w.

“Without in any way questioning the ornithological value of Mr. Dewar’s work, it is in the literary side of the volume, the facility of expression, easy narrative style, and genial satire, that the worth of the book lies.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 236. Ap. 13, ’07. 640w.

“Mr. Dewar is a naturalist and a good observer.”

+ Spec. 97: 19. Jl. 7, ’06. 220w.

Dewhurst, Frederic Eli. Investment of truth. *$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.

7–23074.

A posthumous volume of sermons “for unemotional and meditative people, especially those who are a little troubled by religious uncertainty.” (Ind.)

“Dr. Dewhurst was a man of unusual gifts, among which were religious insight and the faculty of clear speech. He was not a noisy prophet, but he could make a chosen text ring with truth from which one could not escape.”

+ Ind. 63: 885. O. 10, ’07. 90w.

“Mr. Dewhurst’s appeal is to the few, but to these he appeals strongly.”

+ Nation. 85: 208. S. 5, ’07. 140w.

De Windt, Harry. Through savage Europe; being a narrative of a journey throughout the Balkan states and European Russia. **$3. Lippincott.

7–29080.

This is a vivid account of a journey taken as correspondent to the Westminster gazette through Montenegro, Herzegovina, Bosnia, Servia, Bulgaria, Roumania, Southern Russia and 115the Caucasus. “He found the remoter districts hotbeds of outlawry and brigandage, where the traveler must needs take his life in his hand. Yet these same Balkans, he avers, can boast of cities which ‘are miniature replicas of London and Paris,’ civilized centers having very little in common with the country as a whole.” (Lit. D.)

“The book is to be commended, but rather to those who have not read recent works dealing with the same subjects than to those who may have had enough of them already.”

+ Ath. 1907, 1: 224. F. 23. 190w.

“The distinctive merit of this book lies in the fact that the author visited these same countries a generation ago, and consequently is competent to gauge the various lines of progress made in these everchanging hot-beds of European discord.” H. E. Coblentz.

+ Dial. 42: 374. Je. 16, ’07. 220w.

+ Lit. D. 35: 61. Jl. 13, ’07. 630w.

“A pleasant chatty account.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 478. Ag. 3, ’07. 220w.

“A vivacious account of travel and observation.”

+ Outlook. 86: 567. Je. 13, 07. 280w.

“Mr. Harry De Windt has written several very interesting and informing books of travel, but none more attractive than this.”

+ Sat. R. 103: 340. Mr. 16, ’07. 280w.

“A most entertaining volume.”

+ Spec. 98: 765. My. 11, ’07. 380w.

Dewsnup, Ernest Ritson, ed. Railway organization and working: a series of lectures delivered before the railway classes of the University of Chicago. *$2. Univ. of Chicago press.

6–41297.

A series of twenty-five papers or lectures that were delivered by prominent railway officials bearing upon the traffic, auditing, and operating of the American railway.

“An admirable book in spite of its being a collection.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 8. Ja. ’07.

“The papers are of high average excellence and the volume constitutes a most welcome addition to the scanty literature dealing with the management of railway traffic.”

+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 209. Ja. ’07. 200w.

“The book should be placed in every reference library used by railway employees; and any young engineer in railway service will find it worth while to read the book, since it will aid him to gain a broader outlook upon the industry in which he is playing a part.”

+ + Engin. N. 57: 664. Je. 13, ’07. 260w.

“The volume contains remarkably few repetitions, considering the manner of its construction, and few of the contributors have failed to observe the limits of their special subjects. I believe everyone interested in railways will enjoy it. And everyone who reads it will profit by it.” Balhasar H. Meyer.

+ + J. Pol. Econ. 15: 244. Ap. ’07. 470w.

“It will be found of great practical service to students. The treatment of the subject is plain and untechnical.”

+ Lit. D. 34: 547. Ap. 6, ’07. 260w.

Dickins, Frederick Victor. Primitive and mediaeval Japanese texts, Romanized and translated into English. 2 v. *$6.75. Oxford.

7–29200–29201.

The two hundred and sixty-four lays of which the anthology consists are “Japanese proper, not Chino-Japanese.” “They have a character of their own, giving the impression of lovely and delicate workmanship. Mr. Dickins has translated in vol. i, some short mediaeval lays; the Preface to ‘The garner of Japanese verse old and new;’ the Mime of Takasago; and ‘The story of the old bamboo wicker-worker,’ the earliest work of fiction in Japanese or any Ural-Altaic tongue. Volume ii, is not for the general reader but for students of the Japanese language, containing the text of the Lays romanised, and a short grammar, with glossary and index.” (Acad.)

“He has done with splendid success the task which he has set himself.” R. Y. Tyrrell.

+ + Acad. 72: 54. Ja. 19, ’07. 1500w.

“These two volumes, apart from their interest to the general reader, comprise in themselves all that is necessary for very considerable progress in the direct knowledge of the older Japanese literature. They take high rank among scholarly works on Japan, and will be the indispensable companion of the serious student.”

+ + Ath. 1906, 2: 576. N. 10. 1340w.

“Altogether, one has in these two volumes a sufficient apparatus for the study of the mind of pre-Mongolian Japan.”

+ + Nation. 84: 292. Mr. 28, ’07. 730w.

Spec. 97: 686. N. 3, ’06. 50w.

Dickinson, F. A. Big game shooting on the equator; with introd. by Sir C: Norton Eliot. **$4. Lane.

“In brief, the volume is largely a note-book of observations on the various species of game, their habitat, appearance, size, color, habits, and head measurements, jotted down in the curtest and most uninteresting terms imaginable. Should any hunter of big game anticipate a sporting pilgrimage to Africa, however, Captain Dickinson’s book will offer him some additional information on the rarer kinds of game in the East African country.”—Dial.

“It is all written in a straightforward, sensible way, without any attempt at word-painting or fine phrasing. All who are going to East Africa on a hunting trip should read it for the value of its advice, and all who have already enjoyed the experience for the memories it may evoke.”

+ Acad. 73: 107. N. 9, ’07. 700w.

“Were it not for the excellent illustrations, and for the summaries of the game regulations of the British East African Protectorate and the German East African Protectorate, the book would have but little intrinsic value.” H. E. Coblentz.

+ − Dial. 43: 213. O. 1, ’07. 150w.

“As regards his claim ... of accuracy, a little more care might have laid a better foundation for it. We have mentioned these few blemishes because this book is likely to be largely consulted by intending big game shooters, and because otherwise it is so trustworthy an authority on the subject. To the general public the volume is likely to commend itself highly by its excellent photographs and its breezy, amusing, and interesting style.”

+ − Lond. Times. 6: 308. O. 11, ’07. 960w.

“Capt. Dickinson writes in tabloid style. He wastes no words, and his crisp, short sentences do their duty, and have done, with the clearness and precision of a military command.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 535. S. 7, ’07. 540w.

“Nothing could be more useful than some of his recommendations. The style is one of the oddest that we have met with for many days. It is slangy to a degree far beyond what is usual even in smoking-room gossip. The curious thing is that he can write exceedingly well when he tries.”

+ − Spec. 99: sup. 750. N. 16, ’07. 400w.

Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes. From king to king. **$1. McClure.

7–12876.

For this American edition the work appearing in England in 1891 has been rewritten and revised. “Aims at presenting ‘The tragedy of the Puritan revolution’ in a series of dramatic scenes or dialogues. ‘The pages that follow,’ writes Mr. Dickinson in his reprinted preface to the first edition, ‘contain an attempt to state, in a concrete form, certain universal aspects of a particular period of history. The 116tragedy lies in a conflict of reforming energy with actual men and institutions; and it has been the object of the author to delineate vividly the characters of leading actors in the struggle, their ideals and the distortion of these, as reflected in the current of events.’” (N. Y. Times.)

“All criticism of the work must return to the question of the success of the dramatic dialogue as an essay form. On the whole, one finds himself inclined to decide that the experiment is successful; for the dialogue has enabled our author to realize his hope of effectively setting forth the clash of the individual with a movement. And yet there is a little reserve about one’s commendation of the book as a whole. In the first place, it can appeal only to a much narrower circle than most of Mr. Dickinson’s other productions. In the second place, there are occasional suggestions of the cold literary exercise.” F. B. R. Hellems.

+ − Dial. 43: 115. S. 1, ’07. 1500w.

“One of the most satisfactory books of closet drama of the extreme type that we have lately seen.”

+ Nation. 85: 35. Jl. 11, ’07. 440w.

Reviewed by Cleveland Palmer.

+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 153. Mr. 16, ’07. 3280w.

“There is a wealth of poetic feeling and command of noble diction doubtless hitherto unsuspected in Mr. Dickinson.” Christian Gauss.

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 240w.

Dietzgen, Joseph. Positive outcome of philosophy, tr. by Ernest Untermann. $1. Kerr.

6–38881.

The three principal works of Dietzgen, “The nature of human brain work,” “Letters in logic,” and “The positive outcome of philosophy,” are included in this volume, which brings within the reach of American students the work of one of the greatest writers on socialist philosophy.

Am. J. Soc. 12: 564. Ja. ’07. 390w.

Reviewed by Franklin H. Giddings.

Int. J. Ethics. 17: 262. Ja. ’07. 450w.

Dillon, Edward. Glass. (Connoisseur’s lib.) *$7.50. Putnam.

7–15911.

“The first half a dozen chapters are devoted to primitive and early glass down to the middle ages.... There are also Assyrian cylinders of glass and an Assyrian cone of the beautiful emerald glass. Other chapters tell of medieval treatises on glass, of Saracenic enameled glass, of Venetian glass, whether enameled or otherwise, and that of the renaissance, French, Spanish and Netherlandish. Two chapters are devoted to German, two to English and one to Dutch glass; Persia, India and China together supply material for another chapter; while the final pages are devoted to contemporary glass.”—Ind.

“Mr. Dillon’s book should aid in the improvement of taste. His work is ably written.”

+ + Acad. 73: 5. O. 12, ’07. 1940w.

“The book is technical enough to be useful to the student, and full enough of history, romantic suggestion and beautiful illustrations to hold the attention of the untrained person with artistic impulses who is beginning to take an interest in glass.”

+ Ind. 63: 226. Jl. 25, ’07. 280w.

“It is a compilation, of course; but it will for a long time hold its place as the best and most authoritative general account of the subject to be found in English, or perhaps in any language.”

+ + Lond. Times. 6: 142. My. 3, ’07. 490w.

“We cannot blame a book or work of art for not being what it does not pretend to be, but a large volume with the general title ‘Glass’ may be called to account if it gives no hint of the interesting things which are being done in our time.”

+ − Nation. 85: 193. Ag. 29, ’07. 1450w.

“The text is written in an interesting style, as by a man intensely interested in his task, and shows exhaustive study and thorough mastery of the subject.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 150w.

Dinsmore, Rev. Charles Allen. Atonement in literature and life. **$1.50. Houghton.

6–45133.

“This is a philosophical rather than a literary dissertation on ... the idea of sin, retribution, and reconciliation. Assuming that literature is life in its highest expression, Mr. Dinsmore undertakes to show that it is this idea of offence and subsequent reconciliation which gives their value to some of the great masterpieces of literature—Homer’s Iliad; the plays of Aeschylus and Sophocles; the Divina Comedia; Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Richard III., The winter’s tale, Henry VIII., and The tempest; Paradise lost; Adam Bede; The scarlet letter; and some other classics.”—Cath. World.

“The book is written in a style worthy of the subject, and is singularly interesting from its dealing with masters in literature.”

+ Ath. 1907, 1: 437. Ap. 13. 810w.

“This study is in fine contrast with the manner in which the people who belong to the ‘art for art’s sake’ school treat the great masterpieces of literature.”

+ Cath. World. 85: 258. My. ’07. 190w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 63. F. 2, ’07. 300w.

Outlook. 85: 375. F. 16, ’07. 340w.

Ditchfield, Rev. Peter H. Parish clerk; with 31 il. *$2.50. Dutton.

7–27625.

A methodical record of the duties, the quaint ways, and the peculiar manners of the race of English parish clerks. This functionary “is studied in his substance and in his accidents, and every trait of character is illustrated and anecdotes drawn from the literature and experience and folklore of centuries. These stories by themselves would make the fortune of an ‘encyclopædia of wit,’ and by bringing them together Mr. Ditchfield has certainly added to the gaiety of the nation.” (Lond. Times.)

“The chapters themselves are badly arranged, repetitions are frequent; the style is jerky and colorless; and anecdotes have been dragged in with little regard to probability. It is little more than a scrap-book.”