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Abbott, Ernest Hamlin. On the training of parents. **$1. Houghton.
8–12208.
The first chapter on Spasm and habit urges mothers to forsake the collision and spasm methods of governing children. The author preaches the practice of regularity to insure health, contentment, and that obedience which marks the beginning of the child’s moral training. Other chapters follow on The will and the way, By rule of wit, Peace at a price, For it is their nature to [quarrel], and The beginning of wisdom.
“A popular but sound book.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 163. Je. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Abbott’s pleasant and profitable little book illustrates this truth [that ‘self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control,—these three alone lead life to sovereign power’] with much shrewdness, humor, good sense, and evidence of actual and often perplexing experience.”
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Dial. 44: 277. My. 1, ’08. 450w.
“There is an hour of genial reading, not without its minutes of instruction and more sober reflection, in Mr. Abbott’s little book.”
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Ind. 65: 100. Jl. 9, ’08. 150w.
“It should be in the hand of every parent and teacher of the young. The tone is genial, and a vein of pleasant, sympathetic humor lightens every page. Mr. Abbott’s little book cannot be too heartily commended.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 305. My. 30, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Abbott has a keen power of observation and the faculty of being serious without being dull.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 128. Jl. ’08. 60w.
Abbott, George Frederick. Israel in Europe. *$3.25. Macmillan.
7–37533.
A synopsis of the history of the Jews in Europe, from the earliest to the present times, which tells the “story of suffering, partial degradation, and petty general victory of the better elements of humanity.” (Ath.)
“With this reservation, the author may be praised for a concise and brightly written presentment of a singularly tragic and often repulsive story, a presentment which only degenerates into special pleading when the latter-day developments of the Jewish question are approached.” Rowland Strong.
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Acad. 73: 730. Jl. 27, ’07. 1650w.
“Obsessed by his idea of persecution, the author can not spare the space to recount the positive labors of the Jew in the field of letters, journalism, finance, invention and pure science. These defects are offset by a personal enthusiasm and vivacity of tone unusual in a work of encyclopedic character.” Ferdinand Schwill.
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 320. Ja. ’08. 740w.
“An excellent history, only slightly biased (because of association in modern questions with the English Jew’s viewpoint). Does not replace Graetz, but is more readable.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 253. N. ’08.
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Ath. 1907, 2: 174. Ag. 17. 580w.
“Admirable as are its tone and purpose, suffers from the fact that the authorities consulted are chiefly those on the Jewish side; that, in fact, what is needed is again to return to original authorities, whether Latin or Hebrew, and from them to reconstruct the history to which this book serves as a finger-post. Mr. Abbott also is unfair in his attitude to the medieval church.” E. R. Y.
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Eng. Hist. R. 22: 823. O. ’07. 200w.
“It is interesting in subject, comprehensive in material, and lucid in expression.”
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Lond. Times. 6: 270. S. 6, ’07. 690w.
“As to the future, Mr. Abbott is not hopeful—he believes that ‘there is no rest for Israel.’ This note of hopelessness is the only unsatisfactory feature in a work which will do much to popularize the knowledge of Jewish history and lead to a juster and kindlier estimate of the Jew’s place in modern civilization.”
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Nation. 86: 80. Ja. 23, ’08. 350w.
“It has knowledge, fairness, industry, and a lucid, pleasant style. And many besides those who can claim descent from the unconquerable race whose tribulations it chronicles will be glad to have a summary of Jewish history in a form so easy to handle and so agreeable to consult.”
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Spec. 99: 530. O. 12, ’07. 1260w.
Abbott, Katharine M. Old paths and legends of the New England border: Connecticut, Deerfield, and Berkshire. **$3.50. Putnam.
7–40881.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 35. F. ’08.
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Dial. 43: 425. D. 16, ’07. 110w.
“Miss Abbott is anxious to relate, not what actually occurred, but what the country-folk have believed or fancied as occurring; and, in pursuing this end she pours out a lavish store of things amusing, pathetic, often in a high degree romantic.”
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Nation. 86: 79. Ja. 23, ’08. 210w.
“It would be impossible to find, probably impossible to create, a book more fully saturated with the spirit of old New England.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 39. Ja. 25, ’08. 140w.
“To any one in the least interested in the old days of our Yankee ancestors this volume would prove an extremely satisfying gift.”
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Outlook. 87: 875. D. 21, ’07. 140w.
R. of Rs. 37: 115. Ja. ’08. 90w.
Abbott, Leonard D. Ernest Howard Crosby: a valuation and tribute. *50c. Ariel press.
A tribute to a Tolstoyan reformer whose life of service was the outgrowth of a rebirth experienced on the way from “stolid conservatism to extreme radicalism.” By profession, a judge, Mr. Crosby ceased to care to judge men but wished rather to love and serve them. His life was broad, sane, spiritual: he studied real values; his creed, if creed it may be called, seems to be summed up in the following:
“Love others; love them calmly, strongly, profoundly,
And you will find your immortal soul.”
“Mr. Abbott has rendered a service to the cause of human progress by writing this beautiful and worthy tribute.”
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Arena. 39: 500. Ap. ’08. 850w.
Ind. 64: 260. Ja. 30, ’08. 160w.
2Abbott, Lyman. Home builder. **75c. Houghton.
8–30941.
Short chapters portraying in the highest sense of idealism the daughter, the bride, the wife, the mother, the housekeeper, the philanthropist, the saint and the grandmother. This ideal woman is capable of sure practical results; is spiritual, wise, provident; obeys Heaven’s laws of order and cleanliness; in short, rises to the stature of Solomon’s word portrait of the virtuous woman.
Abercrombie, Lascelles. Interludes and poems. **$1.25. Lane.
“The chief poems in the book are tales in verse after Browning’s fashion,—the story of the girl turned by God into His own likeness, the tale of the sophist Peregrinus from Lucian, a beautiful little eclogue called An escape, and Blind, which tells a hideous tale with uncommon power. This last is the story of a woman and her blind son who wander through the world looking for the boy’s father.”—Spec.
“It is ‘Sordello’ uninspired; full of wanton tortuosities of syntax, vain gleaning of rare and obsolescent words, and a versification which congratulates itself upon flouting scansion. The book leaves an impression of Buddhistic philosophy, seeming to preach the dissolution of self-mannerism hymning Nirvana.” Brian Hooker.
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Forum. 39: 526. Ap. ’08. 200w.
“This book is interesting aside from its failure, for some human nature shows in it, despite a turgid diffuseness of language, an apparently willful avoidance of simplicity.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 252. My. 2, ’08. 130w.
“He has no prettinesses; he has a most defective ear; he works to death the trick of the extra syllable in the pentameter line; he is a true ‘spasmodic,’ and takes a delight in saying the simplest thing in the most extravagant way, with the result that he is as often as not forcible-feeble. Yet he has great merits. He has thought, imagination, and a rude gusto of style.”
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Spec. 100: 463. Mr. 21, ’08. 600w.
Abraham, George D. Complete mountaineer. **$4.80. Doubleday.
8–16910.
Full of hints and rules and suggestions for accoutrement, this is a book for beginners in mountain climbing which is occupied with a detailed description of the footholds of the celebrated peaks of Great Britain and the Continent.
“A very readable and admirable survey of the principal climbing districts in the world.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 163. Je. ’08. ✠
“His style is of the journalistic order, in which a cow is called ‘a bovine quadruped,’ and so forth. The ‘greased pole’ aspect of a mountain was never so remorselessly set forth.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 351. Mr. 21. 900w.
“Written with a great intimacy of detail. The philosophy of choice of guides especially, and when to do without them, is set forth with gratifying lucidity.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 250w.
“We have never before seen so many faithful and beautiful mountain pictures in one volume. The technical information is sound, and luminously set out, and the point of view throughout will secure the approbation of all climbers. The one fault is a tendency to minor jocularities. But the author is surely insufficiently appreciative of the merits of a good guide.”
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Spec. 99: sup. 900. D. 7, ’07. 1500w.
Acton, Sir John Emerich. Historical essays and studies; ed. by J: Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence. *$3. Macmillan.
8–2757.
A volume of bibliographical and biographical essays consisting of articles and reviews contributed to magazines and societies during the period between 1858 and 1892. “The two types may best be illustrated by the masterly article on German schools of history ... and the pronouncement on Cavour contributed to The Rambler in 1861.” (Ath.) Other topics are dealt with such as Wolsey and the divorce of Henry VIII. The secret history of Charles II. The causes of the Franco-Prussian war, and the war of 1870. A particularly scholarly essay is the one on George Eliot.
“They may be divided roughly into bibliographical and biographical essays, the former excellently instructive to the student, the latter often rather dull reading for scholar and layman alike.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 220. F. 22. 1100w.
“The editors have contributed an interesting introduction, but they have not done much besides. The actual words of Lord Acton had to be retained; but some small inconsistencies might have been remedied.” P. V. M. Benecke.
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Eng. Hist. R. 23: 538. Jl. ’08. 900w.
“Not only give us glimpses of the awe-inspiring scholarship of Lord Acton, but diffuse some quality of biography and reveal the personality of the man.”
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Sat. R. 105: 22. Ja. 4, ’08. 300w.
Acton, Sir John Emerich. History of freedom and other essays; ed. with an introd. by J: Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence. *$3. Macmillan.
8–2560.
In the introduction the editors have summed up Lord Acton’s personality, the character of his work, and the influence which he exerted upon historical scholarship. The body of the book gives all that was realized of a projected work on the history of liberty. It consists of an address on The history of freedom in antiquity, and one on The history of freedom in Christianity, to which has been added an article on Erskine May’s “Democracy in Europe.”
“It is a book which does more than add to our information: it strengthens and inspires.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 68. Ja. 18. 1450w.
“The greater part of the work shows those characteristics which are generally associated with the late Lord Acton: reading that seems to be limitless, and elusive style which is the despair of the ordinary man.” P. V. M. Benecke.
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Eng. Hist. R. 23: 538. Jl. ’08. 900w.
“What is remarkable in these generalizations is not so much their inconsistencies as their air of unreality. They are the work of a man with a passion for truth, indeed, but a one-sided passion.” Sydney Waterlow.
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Int. J. Ethics. 18: 506. Jl. ’08. 1150w.
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Sat. R. 105: 22. Ja. 4, ’08. 220w.
“Sufficient to convince us, if we had needed conviction, of the prodigious learning, the consummate literary ability, and the unfailing candour of the writer.”
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Spec. 100: 265. F. 15, ’08. 1800w.
Adam, James. Religious teachers of Greece: being Gifford lectures on natural religion delivered at Aberdeen; ed. with a memoir by his wife, Adela Marion Adam. *$4. Scribner.
8–25723.
“A splendid piece of work on the great thinkers of Greece from Homer to Plato. Five lectures are devoted to the latter, two each to Homer, Heraclitus, Socrates, and Euripides, and one each to Pindar, Aeschylus, and Sophocles.”—Bib. World.
“Exhibit throughout the fine qualities which mark all Adam’s work: soundness of scholarship, fullness and accuracy of knowledge, clearness and vigour of expression. Apart from a few slips of printing, the revision has been executed ... with commendable care.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 146. Ag. 8. 1050w.
3“The lectures display the master’s control of the subject and its literature, a fine literary charm and distinction, and profound appreciation of the problems of the religious view of the world.”
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Bib. World. 32: 152. Ag. ’08. 100w.
“Dr. Adam’s book is likely to hold its place for long, not only because of its learning and philosophic insight, but as a complete and worthy memorial of a life of constant and conspicuous devotion to the study of Greek literature and thought.” G. F. Barbour.
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Hibbert J. 7: 198. O. ’08. 2850w.
“A work of unusual merit, the opus magnum of a man who literally put his life into it.”
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Ind. 65: 100. Jl. 9, ’08. 450w.
“Not the least of Professor Adam’s merits then has been his steadfast hold upon common sense, even at the risk occasionally of appearing commonplace. His comparisons, as far as they go, are generally excellent, but we could wish that he had not confined one side of his parallel so closely to a Christianity of Anglican hue. Once or twice this tendency draws him, we think, into false or forged analogies.”
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Nation. 87: 55. Jl. 16, ’08. 1550w.
“[His method of taking each author singly] is defective, inasmuch as it fails to bring out satisfactorily the general trend of Greek religious thought, to show how one system is connected with another.”
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Sat. R. 106: 272. Ag. 29, ’08. 1750w.
* Adams, Elizabeth Kemper. Aesthetic experience: its meaning in a functional psychology: a dissertation. pa. *75c. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–2424.
“From data furnished by analytic psychology and descriptive sociology, the author of this excellent monograph attempts a philosophical interpretation and estimate of the aesthetic experience from a single and definite point of view. Among the important topics treated with special suggestiveness are: The relation of the aesthetic to the intellectual; its relation to fundamental life interests, instincts, and activities; its social characteristics; and a reinterpretation of the aesthetic categories from the functional and social point of view.”—Philos. R.
“Among its commendable features are its arrangement, its connectedness, its grasp of essential problems in their bearings. The monograph should have considerable value for all who are interested in aesthetics or functional psychology.” E. L. Norton.
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Philos. R. 16: 660. N. ’07. 400w.
“The reviewer is unable to harmonize the conclusions of the final part of the monograph with the preceding parts.” W. D. Furry.
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Psychol. Bull. 5: 363. N. 15, ’08. 1650w.
Adams, Rev. John. Sermons in syntax; or, Studies in the Hebrew text: a book for preachers and students. *$1.50. Scribner.
8–5282.
A guide to students who desire “to gain a clear insight into the varied and often picturesque use of verbal forms in Hebrew, and to employ the knowledge thus obtained for homiletical purposes.... The first chapter treats of the value of Hebrew study; the second gives a brief account of Hebrew grammarians, Jewish and Christian; and the remaining twelve deal with the Hebrew tenses in all their forms and moods.... It is in the elucidation of the special texts introduced to illustrate the grammatical propositions that the expository and homiletical element of the treatise appears.” (Ath.)
“We have rarely seen a book which, under a title apparently stiff and uninviting, provides valuable instruction in so attractive a manner.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 319. Mr. 14. 230w.
“The non-Hebraist even will often obtain here illuminative hints for the treatment of biblical texts.”
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Bib. World. 31: 478. Je. ’08. 90w.
“It offers sermon-stuff to all expositors who care for the finer lines of thought.”
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Outlook. 89: 86. My. 9, ’08. 130w.
“The student of Hebrew will doubtless find in it a valuable supplement to the grammar which he may be in the habit of using.”
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Spec. 100: 193. F. 1, ’08. 70w.
Adams, Joseph Henry. Harper’s electricity book for boys. $1.75. Harper.
7–37737.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
“An excellent book for the ordinary boy who has only ordinary resources.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 21. Ja. ’08. ✠
“The boy who goes through this admirable book with vim and zest stands an excellent chance of making a good electrical engineer in the long run.”
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Elec. World. 50: 1128. D. 7, ’07. 230w.
“The book is not so historical as Mr. Jenks’s; on the other hand, it is more practical.”
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Nation. 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 100w.
Adams, Joseph Henry. Harper’s indoor book for boys. $1.75. Harper.
8–12775.
A companion to Harper’s outdoor book for boys which, equally practical and comprehensive, shows how leisure time indoors may be spent pleasantly and profitably. Clear instruction and simple equipment commend the book to every active boy. Work is outlined under four general headings: Wood-working, Metalworking, Household arts, Round about the house.
“A practical and comprehensive book.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 225. Je. ’08.
“Ought to be in every school library and wherever else there are boys who like to make things.”
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Ind. 65: 322. Ag. 6, ’08. 50w.
“Is even a better handbook of its kind than the ‘Outdoor book.’”
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Nation. 87: 54. Jl. 16, ’08. 340w.
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Nation. 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 20w.
“It is quite up to the high mark set by its predecessors. A world of boys could be kept busy and interested with the help and instruction afforded by this thick volume.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 254. My. 2, ’08. 120w.
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Putnam’s. 5: 368. D. ’08. 320w.
Adams, Samuel. Writings of Samuel Adams, ed. by H. A. Cushing. 4v. ea. *$5. Putnam.
4–18620 Additions.
These volumes contain an accurate collection of the writings of Samuel Adams during the first ten years of his public career, and afford the student of history “the opportunity of examining critically the work of the foremost democratic leader of the great democratic movement of the last century.” (Am. Hist. R.) “The productions of his pen were among the most powerful and persistently active forces that brought about the American revolution.... [And his opinions are recorded in] legislative reports, in instructions of the Boston town meeting, in circular letters to the other colonies, in controversies over constitutional points with the governors, in petitions and protests to the home government, in elaborate statements of principles to the agents of Massachusetts resident in England, and in trenchant newspaper articles.” (Pol. Sci. Q.)
“There was in fact no wisdom in hoping that this third volume would contain the wealth of material found in the earlier ones. The private letters are in a good many instances, if not in all, not very illuminating.” A. C. McLaughlin.
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 367. Ja. ’08. 880w. (Review of v. 3.)
4“The usefulness of the four volumes is much diminished by the very imperfect index, which is, in fact, all an index should not be.”
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Nation. 87: 159. Ag. 20, ’08. 470w. (Review of v. 4.)
“There are a good many interesting and instructive letters in this volume.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 427. Ag. 1, ’08. 720w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The absence of an adequate topical index is to be regretted.”
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Outlook. 90: 315. O. 10, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 4.)
Pol. Sci. Q. 23: 174. Mr. ’08. 300w. (Review of v. 3.)
Adams, Samuel Hopkins. Flying death. †$1.50. McClure.
8–3520.
Montauk Point, the tip-end of Long Island is the scene of a series of casualties which baffle the guests at Third House. After a sailor, an aeronaut, a newspaper man, and a coast-guard are stretched upon the sands, with evidence of having suffered a similar fate, a crusade is instituted to solve the mystery of the ravages. A pteranadon, a huge arrow-beaked bird, known only to the beginning of the race, is laid low after an encounter which results in the loss of one man of the party. In addition to thrilling adventure there are two romances which relieve the weight of the tragedy.
“One smells the lamp here and there; the effort the book has cost is perceptible.”
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Ind. 64: 974. Ap. 30, ’08. 130w.
“Mr. Adams has written quite an interesting story.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 72. F. 8, ’08. 160w.
“Mr. Adams has written a readable story, and has offered for his mystery an explanation at the same time impossible and eminently satisfying.”
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Outlook. 88: 513. F. 20, ’08. 140w.
Addison, Mrs. Julia De Wolf. Arts and crafts in the middle ages: a description of mediaeval workmanship in several of the departments of applied art, together with some account of special artisans in the early renaissance. $3. Page.
8–19089.
Examines mediaeval artistic crafts for the original processes which are being restored in the great handicraft revival in America to-day. Fully illustrated, the chapters touch upon gold and silver work, jewelry and precious stones, enamel, tapestry, embroideries, sculpture in stone, carving in wood and ivory, inlay and mosaic, illumination of books. Bibliography and index.
“Necessarily, the accounts are fragmentary, but they serve their purpose.”
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Dial. 45: 216. O. 1, ’08. 340w.
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Int. Studio. 36: sup. 58. D. ’08. 70w.
R. of Rs. 38: 511. O. ’08. 120w.
* Addison, Mrs. Julia De Wolf. Mrs. John Vernon: a study of a social situation. $1.25. Badger, R: G.
8–32645.
When Mrs. John Vernon faces the question of consenting to the marriage of her daughter, born out of wedlock, with the young scion of a Boston family, she takes her secret to her clergyman, asks advice and is counseled on the side of silence. Tho the author intimates little good from a disclosure, the secret comes to light thru outside sources, the lover is constant, the daughter dies ignorant of the cloud, and the mother purges her life thru hard work and good deeds.
* Adventures at sea, by F. H. Converse and others. (Harper’s adventure ser.) †60c. Harper.
8–32331.
A story for boys and girls which reproduces the fascination of the sea. There are fourteen chapters including strange stories of whale-hunts, shark-encounters, wrecks, fires, storms, castaways and heroic rescues whose dramatic incidents are actual facts.
“A number of stories, all worth reading.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 20w.
Adventures of pirates and sea-rovers, by Howard Pyle, Rear-Admiral J: H: Upshur, Paul Hull and others. (Harper’s adventure ser.) †60c. Harper.
8–18406.
The wild life of the seventeenth-century buccaneers pictured vividly by Howard Pyle, Rear-admiral Upshur, Paul Hull and others. The first part gives strange glimpses of colonial conditions along our Atlantic seaboard from New England to Carthagena, with colonial pirates bent upon treasure hunts; the second part gives a series of pictures of the great sea-rovers in the times of Queen Elizabeth and James I.
“Satisfy the demand for pirate stories without being too sensational.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 272. N. ’08. ✠
N. Y. Times. 13: 789. Jl. 11, ’08. 130w.
Adventures with Indians, by Philip V. Mighels and others. il. †60c. Harper.
8–3518.
Pioneer life in the middle west is pictured here in stirring tales of ambush, battle, and adventure in which the wit and courage of the white man struggle against the stealth and savage instinct of the Indian. Many of the stories are based upon fact, and many contain actual historical incidents, while together they reveal Indian life and character as represented by tribes from the Montagnais of Canada to the Seminoles of Florida and to the Piutes of the Rockies. The contributors include eleven well known writers of stories.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 112. Ap. ’08. ✠
N. Y. Times. 13: 158. Mr. 21, ’08. 120w.
Ady, Cecelia M. History of Milan under the Sforza. (Historic states of Italy.) *$3.50. Putnam.
8–5826.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
“As a monograph on the Sforza it seems to us one of the very best books ever written by a foreigner about Italy. A bibliography at the end of the volume, however full it may be, is not enough. We must have notes.”
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Acad. 73: 266. D. 21, ’07. 1350w.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 75. Mr. ’08.
“In point of construction, narrative skill, and judgment on men and matters, it would do credit to a far more experienced historian.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 316. Mr. 14. 950w.
“Miss Ady’s book will take a prominent place among the histories of Italy in the English language, and this largely because of the care and accuracy with which she has studied her subject. A few slips are to be noticed.” K. H. Vickers.
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Eng. Hist. R. 23: 781. O. ’08. 1400w.
“With reasonable fulness, it is intended to be popular, but not shallow.”
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Nation. 86: 260. Mr. 19, ’08. 200w.
“Is the first in English to describe on an adequate scale the dramatic events in Milan under the house of Sforza. It is to be hoped, however, that future writers in this series will be more generous in their notes and less chary of dispensing with authorities.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 470. Ag. 29, ’08. 700w.
“Here, if anywhere, one can find an account of a particular historical period affecting one of the Italian states, an account as clear and concise as it is brilliant and forceful.”
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Outlook. 88: 46. Ja. 4, ’08. 240w.
“This book is painstaking to a degree and full of information about the Sforza dukes. But it does not kindle; it does not warm; it does 5not incite to further study. If not exactly argumentative in itself, yet the style has at times an argumentative cast which spoils its narrative quality.”
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Sat. R. 105: 271. F. 29, ’08. 1000w.
Agger, Eugene E. Budget in the American commonwealth. (Studies in history, economics and public law, v. 25, no. 2.) *$1.50. Longmans.
7–16495.
The misuse of public funds with attendant carelessness in auditing them has sent many an economist to the root of evil. Dr. Agger’s book brings together the constitutional and statutory provisions and the various customs affecting the budget right. “He points out the differences between American and European procedure; he describes the budget as a report and as a project of law; he sets forth the conditions of voting the budget, the collection of revenue and its centralization, the safe-keeping of the public funds and their disbursement; finally he treats of the control of the budget, in which the subject of auditing is emphasized as above.” (Outlook.)
“It will prove a very useful contribution to our knowledge of a much confused and bewildering subject.” C. C. Plehn.
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Econ. Bull. 1: 142. Je. ’08. 570w.
“Dr. Agger’s book gives a valuable general survey of the American system.”
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Outlook. 86: 612. Jl. 20, ’07. 300w.
Aglionby, Francis Keyes. Life of Edward Henry Bickersteth, poet and bishop. $2.50. Longmans.
A biography of the “poet and bishop” who is best known thru his two hymns, “Peace, perfect peace,” and “Yesterday, to-day, and for ever.” He is portrayed more as a saint than a man of intellectual powers. “It will be said that by tradition and by choice Bishop Bickersteth was a strong party man of the Evangelical persuasion, and that partisanship is too often inimical to saintship. Some would reply that the evangelicalism of a man whom Mr. Gladstone promoted twice within a few weeks must have been of a doubtful quality. The true answer is to be traced through this sketch of his life which shows how he was saved from the perils of partisanship by a genius for friendship with men of the opposite school.” (Lond. Times.)
Ind. 64: 49. Ja. 2, ’08. 220w.
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Lond. Times. 6: 315. O. 18, ’07. 580w.
“Mr. Aglionby draws an attractive picture of the man, of his zeal for good works, his devoutness, his generous sympathy with all efforts that made for the benefit of others.”
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Spec. 99: 672. N. 2, ’07. 380w.
Aitken, Robert. Golden horseshoe. il. $1.50. McBride, J.
7–34306.
“A mysterious advertisement calling for adventurers willing to enter blindly upon a hazardous undertaking [is answered by three young men], an American, an Englishman and an Irishman—[who] get mixed up in the villainous doings of a Central American dictator and his plots against his beautiful niece.” (Ind.) “The predicaments are magnificently many and ingenious, full of novelty to even the well-inured reader.” (Nation.)
“It is distinctly American, and is full of exciting incident.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 474. Ap. 18. 270w.
Ind. 64: 209. Ja. 23, ’08. 80w.
“There is everything in the book to recommend it as a fantasy in exploit. It may be added that it makes appeal mainly to the reader who likes that kind of thing and likes a good deal of it.”
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Nation. 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 400w.
Aitken, Thomas. Road making and maintenance: a practical treatise for engineers, surveyors, and others; with an historical sketch of ancient and modern practice. 2d ed. *$6. Lippincott.
Agr 8–366.
This new edition has been prepared to keep pace with changed conditions. The new matter relates chiefly to the question of damage done to roads by motor-cars, and the nuisance arising from dust caused by the speed at which these vehicles are driven. The author who has been actively identified with the movement to prevent dust believes that the system of tar macadam offers the best solution to the dust problem.
“The volume as a whole might serve in many respects as a model for a technical book. The book should find a place in every engineering library which makes any pretense of including the best works on roads and pavements.”
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“The book deals in an exhaustive and practical manner with [16] subjects.”
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Nature. 77: 244. Ja. 16, ’08. 600w.
Aix, pseud. Adventures of a nice young man. †$1.50. Duffield.
8–26194.
The adventures of a genteel, pedantic youth, who, impressionable and unqualified for struggle, goes to New York to seek his fortune. The incidents of the story are strung together upon a slight thread of plot relating to a valid will and a forged one.
“One reads it, a chapter at a time ... for the sake of the rather whimsical humor of what happens from page to page.” F: T. Cooper.
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“The interest of the book is entirely in the manner of its telling, which is whimsical, quaintly audacious in its irreverence for literary tradition, sometimes as romantically impossible as a fairy tale in its narrative of events, and again crudely realistic.”
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* Aked, Charles Frederic. Old events and modern meanings, and other sermons. **$1.25. Revell.
8–29641.
A group of sermons preached from the pulpit of the Fifth Avenue Baptist church. “They are evangelical, and they are also distinctly modern in their wide outlook upon the things and thoughts of the world’s work, and play, and folly, and wrong. Their ethical tone and temper are incisive and stirring. Their felicitously modernized interpretation from an ethical and religious standpoint of Lord Bacon’s famous aphorisms concerning the ‘idols of the tribe, the cave, the market-place, and the theatre’ is thoroughly characteristic of the preacher.” (Outlook.)
“Dr. Aked occasionally offends against good taste. When all’s said Dr. Aked is a strong man and has published a good book. The kind of preaching in these sermons is not only what people want, but what they need.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 637. O. 31, ’08. 720w.
“The discourses in this volume are not merely sermons; they are also literature.”
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Outlook. 90: 596. N. 14, ’08. 110w.
Albanesi, Effie Adelaide Maria (Effie Adelaide Rowlands, pseud.). Forbidden road. 75c. Cupples & L.
7–42010.
“The story of what happened to a man when wealth came to him at the age of 30 and found him rather simple in his tastes, good looking, intelligent, right meaning, and with an unspoiled capacity for enjoyment. The two chief women characters are a gay, fascinating, light-minded 6young widow and the capable and lovable young woman who is the governess of the widow’s children.”—N. Y. Times.
“It is rather regrettable, a bit of shoddy sufficiently smooth of surface to engage the eye, but with no real substance. The governess, the baronet, the millionaire, all have human attributes, and even an air of individuality; but they really are, and are meant to be, nothing more than wax figures designed with sufficient cunning to deceive the ignorant or indolent patron of the show.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 184. Ap. 4, ’08. 150w.
Alden, Henry Mills. Magazine writing and the new literature. **$2. Harper.
8–28839.
Writing out of the fulness of fifty years of close association with literature, forty years of which have been spent on the editorial staff of Harper’s magazine, the author has two objects in view: “First, to show the intimate relations of periodical to general literature, as to authorship and aim; secondly, to present certain characteristic features of a new life and literature, beginning two centuries ago with the emergence, in the natural course of evolution, of the distinctively modern physical era.” The keynote of the study is the ever-developing relation of modern literature to life itself.
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“The present work is a symmetrical and impressive whole, a harmonious composition, with a distinctive historical and critical meaning.”
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Lit. D. 37: 671. N. 7, ’08. 400w.
“Minor differences of opinion, however, and the intellectual effort required in following the argument should prejudice no one against the important and startling major conclusions.”
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Nation. 87: 493. N. 19, ’08. 520w.
“If anything were needed to complete the extraordinary character of the new volume by the editor of Harper’s magazine it would be supplied by the fact that a veteran in letters, such as Mr. Alden, is the author of it.”
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Aldis, Janet. Queen of letter writers, Marquise de Sévigné, Dame de Bourbilly, 1626–1696. *$3. Putnam.
8–9535.
The letters cover, as Sainte-Beuve said, “twenty-seven years of the most delightful period of the most agreeable French society”—the time of Corneille and La Fontaine, Moliere and Racine, the time when court and society set the example of good breeding to all the world, when “the church [was] rich in great preachers as she never was before or since ... and the king [was] at last really on his throne and preparing France for the only century of freedom from the civil war she has ever known.” (Lond. Times.)
“Shows in a lively way Madame de Sévigné’s relation to her times and her connection with the important people and the events of her day.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 163. Je. ’08.
“Miss Aldis’s style lacks distinction and sometimes correctness.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 205. Ag. 22. 640w.
“A full, readable, and altogether excellent account of Madame de Sévigné and her times.”
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Dial. 43: 420. D. 16, ’07. 410w.
“Mrs. Aldis has gathered much of interest.”
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Ind. 65: 381. Ag. 13, ’08. 230w.
“The fault of Mr. Lucas is that he has given nothing of this ‘delightful creature’; and of Miss Aldis that she has allowed her to be too much buried under the pomps and vanities of a ‘Life and times.’”
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Nation. 86: 238. Mr. 12, ’08. 200w.
“Miss Aldis evidently loves the image of the brilliant and amiable Marquise, for she writes of her with a deft and understanding pen.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 158. Mr. 21, ’08. 850w.
“The author has been wonderfully successful in throwing into relief and rendering attractive to readers of our own day just those things which made up the social and literary associations which surrounded Madame de Sévigné and her friends. The story, as told here, is lively and even brilliant.”
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Outlook. 87: 589. N. 16, ’07. 160w.
“An excellent example of its class.” E. J. Putnam.
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Putnam’s. 4: 364. Je. ’08. 400w.
“An excellent piece of work.”
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Sat. R. 105: 792. Je. 20, ’08. 860w.
“With such a subject and such materials, of which she has made the fullest use, it is no wonder that Mrs. Aldis should have written a delightful book. To our mind, its defect is a necessary one: the amount of translation from Madame de Sévigné’s letters.”
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* Aleramo, Sibilla, pseud. A woman at bay; translation of the Italian “Una donna” by M. H. Lansdale. †$1.50. Putnam.
8–30133.
A woman’s troubled life revealed thru the process of subjective analysis becomes a human document from very introspection. The story depicts the agony resulting from marriage with a dull, brutal man, and deals with the problem of separation which involves separation also from her child, the one being she loves devotedly.
“The chief fault of the book is not merely that it is a purpose novel, but that it flaunts its purpose rampantly on every page.” F: T. Cooper.
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Bookm. 28: 383. D. ’08. 280w.
“It is hard for an American woman, however she may pity the protagonist of the book, to sympathize with this morbid, ‘oversexed’—if we may coin such a word—passionately complaining creature; but the story of brutal physical tyranny and abuse, however hysterically told, is not negligible when we consider that it represents an actual condition of the present day, permitted—one might almost say enforced—by law.”
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Nation. 87: 553. D. 3, ’08. 330w.
“Signora Aleramo knows how to enlist the warmest human sympathies in behalf of the wronged woman’s right to freedom and to support her view of the matter by reason and the fervor of her eloquence.”
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“Of calm logic there is little; and hysteria flavors the emotional passages.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 688. N. 21, ’08. 140w.
“It has been very happily rendered.”
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Putnam’s. 5: 366. D. ’08. 100w.
Alexander, Archibald B. D. Short history of philosophy. *$2.60. Macmillan.
8–1778.
A history of philosophy from the beginning to the present time, showing the characterizing features of each system and its place and influence in the evolution of thought. The plan involves “a very cursory treatment of Greek, patristic, and scholastic philosophy; a fairly extended treatment of that of the seventeenth century; and then a very full account of the English, French, and German enlightenment, of Kant, and of the movement, from Kant to Hegel. Post-Hegelian thought is touched lightly.” (Philos. R.)
“As for Mr. Alexander’s method in particular the various philosophies he expounds appear to us bereft of life and actuality in a peculiar degree. The whole treatment of ancient philosophies strikes us as uncritical.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 321. Mr. 14. 350w.
7“One feels that the secondary sources have been the main inspiration of the book. It can hardly be said that the book offers anything which can not be had as well, if not better, in already existing works, though written by Germans or even by Americans.” Norman Wilde.
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“For the most part the author’s explanations and criticisms are clear and just. He is, however, less happy in his chapters on German philosophy from Kant to Hegel than in any other part of his work.”
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Nation. 85: 354. O. 17, ’07. 450w.
“The accounts which Mr. Alexander gives of the various systems of philosophy are clear and sound, and in all important cases have the vital quality that comes from first-hand acquaintance with the classics of his subject. The pages which we grudge to the lesser Teutonic lights might well have been used to make more adequate the author’s picture of recent philosophical discussion in this country.”
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Nature. 78: 443. S. 10, ’08. 430w.
“In point of execution, the work is uneven. While the book is unreliable on delicate matters throughout, candor demands the recognition that much of it is instructive and effectively written, and presents material not otherwise so readily available.” E. L. Hinman.
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Philos. R. 17: 219. Mr. ’08. 1500w.
Allaben, Frank. John Watts de Peyster. (Allaben biographical ser.) 2v. *$2.50. Frank Allaben genealogical co., 3 W. 42 st., N. Y.
8–21542.
A complete biography of General de Peyster, “the first notable military critic produced by America—the first to treat the battles and campaigns of our great conflicts in the spirit of a true philosophy of the art of war.” Ten chapters are devoted to his ancestors of Flemish origin, nine to early recollections, ten to military career, and twenty-three to literary work.
“A work which will prove of high interest to many countrymen of Gen. de Peyster, especially if they are New Yorkers.”
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Lit. D. 37: 325. S. 5, ’08. 360w.
Allen, Alexander V. G. Phillips Brooks. *$2.50. Dutton.
7–41554.
An abridgment of the two volume biography which appeared six years ago. It is authoritative and concise and “is a history of the evolution of a character of a spirit, and that rather under the influence of the events which affected all men whose allotted term of life was the latter half of the nineteenth century, rather than under that of the special events which befell the individual, Phillips Brooks.” (N. Y. Times.)
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 35. F. ’08. ✠
“It will be welcomed by many who found the two large volumes too expensive.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 508. O. 24. 60w.
Dial. 44: 111. F. 16, ’08. 100w.
“The abridgment is of sufficient compass to tell the story of the man and his work, and the most valuable and interesting portions of the letters have been retained.”
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Nation. 86: 81. Je. 23, ’08. 60w.
“Dr. Allen has allowed Phillips Brooks to furnish this explanation largely in his own words, following discriminately revealing journals, memoranda, and letters ... and the result is a personal revelation as fascinating in its way as the ‘Confessions of Augustine’ or the ‘Journal intime of Amiel.’”
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N. Y. Times. 12: 829. D. 14, ’07. 700w.
Outlook. 88: 44. Ja. 4, ’08. 100w.
“The process of condensation ... has not in any way detracted from the clearness of the picture which Professor Allen draws of the man and his ministry. This, like the more elaborate biography published eight years ago, is an inspiring and compelling human portrait.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 380. Mr. ’08. 130w.
“We may commend it generally to our readers.”
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Spec. 101: 451. S. 26, ’08. 300w.
Allen, Annie Winsor. Home, school and vacation; a book of suggestions. **$1.25. Houghton.
7–36254.
A book of detailed rules for bringing up children written for the average parent who is not able to cope with the terminology of the new psychology. “The opening chapters are devoted to generalities and ‘what to avoid’; and the rest is constructive, with appended tables telling what should be accomplished at the various ages, both physically and mentally. The underlying principle in Mrs. Allen’s scheme of education is well expressed by her phrases: ‘Not a month must be unheeded—the child will never come to that age again.’” (Nation.)
“Rather dogmatic at times, and not thoroughly based in scientific research, but on the whole, sane and wholesome, and will be read when more critical books will be passed over.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 127. My. ’08.
“There are qualities which all will admire on all her pages—the sanity of her judgment, the sincerity of her feeling, and the evidence visible everywhere that the writer has gathered her conclusions from an experience unusually rich and varied.” J. G. Croswell.
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Educ. R. 35: 512. My. ’08. 550w.
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Nation. 86: 193. F. 27, ’08. 200w.
“Its suggestions, broadly conceived and evolved from a long and valuable experience as a teacher, cannot fail to lead to saner educational processes and to more fruitful results, if intelligently grasped and applied in the homes and schools of to-day.”
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R. of Rs. 36: 758. D. ’07. 150w.
Allen, Charles C. Engineering workshop practice. *$1.25. Dutton.
“The first 30 odd pages are given up to a general discussion of materials and kinematics, as involved in machine-shop practice.... About 20 pages hold descriptions of gages, micrometer and vernier callipers, and their proper field and use. The following 18 pages treat of tool steels and their manipulation, and the next few pages contain practical directions for brazing, soldering, riveting, etc. The rest of the book is mainly composed of chapters on chipping, filing and scraping, on lathe work, boring, planing, milling, grinding, screw cutting, gear cutting, etc.”—Engin. N.
“The volume as a whole may be indicative of British instruction in metal working, but it cannot be taken as representative of American methods and could not well serve as a guide in manual-training schools and technical-school workshops on this side of the Atlantic.”
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Engin. N. 59: 296. Mr. 12, ’08. 300w.
“This book, good as it is, would have been much more useful if no attempt had been made to write for the information of both the beginner and the skilled workman; their needs are so different that the result cannot be satisfactory to either class.”
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Nature. 77: 28. N. 14, ’07. 450w.
Allen, Grant. Evolution in Italian art. *$3.50. Wessels.
An introductory chapter suggesting some of the forces affecting the painters of the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries precedes a detailed study of the set subjects of Italian art. In his study the author shows “the stream of development by which, thru the hands of various artists and various schools, the dry and lifeless picture in the rude native manner was vivified and spiritualised into the art of Fra Angelico, of Bellini, of Leonardo.” Some of the subjects studied are the marriage of the Virgin, the visitation, the annunciation, the madonna and child, the madonna and saints, the adoration of the Magi, the presentation, and the Pietà.
8“His cogent argument is pleasant to read and by the aid of a large number of excellent illustrations is made easy to follow.”
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Nation. 87: 395. O. 22, ’08. 170w.
“Evolution in art is of course taken into consideration by every serious historian of art, but it has never been so systematically studied as in the present volume.” E. L. Cary.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 557. O. 10, ’08. 1650w.
“Whether one agrees with the Grant Allen idea or not, Mr. Cruickshank’s introductory chapter is pertinent reading for anyone.”
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Outlook. 90: 796. D. 5, ’08. 570w.
Allin, C. D. Early federation movement of Australia. $1.50. British Whig pub. co., Kingston, Ontario.
8–17801.
Deals with the beginnings of this movement in Australia, continuing to 1863. “Mr. Allin traces successively the federal policy of Lord Grey, which he treats with great fulness and sympathy; the proposals of constitutional committees in New South Wales and Victoria; and, lastly, the conclusions arrived at in parliamentary reports.” (Eng. Hist. R.)
“Mr. Allin’s work is a clear exposition of his theme and has the merit of being well written. It is not free of occasional slips, but the only objection of consequence to which the volume as a whole appears to be open, is a too exhaustive treatment.”
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 643. Ap. ’08. 350w.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 707. My. ’08. 200w.
“A sound and accurate, but somewhat arid survey.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 126. Ag. 3. 150w.
“Mr. Allin’s work is generally of a sound and trustworthy character, but a few slips have found admission.” H. E. Egerton.
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Eng. Hist. R. 23: 389. Ap. ’08. 600w.
“The work will prove illuminating to those who have regarded federation as a recent idea and who are unaware of the long and arduous work which precedes any considerable political achievement. Dr. Allin has marshaled the results of his thorough researches with mature and sober judgment, while the vigor of his style lends color and charm to a theme naturally lacking in these qualities.”
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Pol. Sci. Q. 23: 173. Mr. ’08. 150w.
Allingham, William. William Allingham: a diary; ed. by H. Allingham and D. Radford. *$3.75. Macmillan.
8–9512.
Literary small talk, quips and jests bring the reader into touch with the companionable side of such men of letters as Tennyson, Browning, Carlyle, and many of their contemporaries. “One does not see why this diary is not the Boswell’s Johnson of its time, as authentic and interesting a delineation of literary London during the Victorian as the other during the Georgian period.” (N. Y. Times.)
“In literary charm the book suffers from being so largely a ‘rudis indigestaque moles’—for which, however, no one is to blame, unless we choose to quarrel with the dead poet for dropping so soon the autobiography that he had begun to frame out of his diary material. This too-short portion, indeed, does possess a very readable quality. Mrs. Allingham and Mrs. Radford have done good editorial work.” P. F. Bicknell.
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Dial. 44: 69. F. 1, ’08. 1470w.
“The volume might yield many more stories than those we have taken; and most of them are true in the best sense of the word.”
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Lond. Times. 6: 387. D. 20, ’07. 820w.
“A good deal of this is entirely trivial, and ought to have been suppressed. There would still be sufficient left to fill a fair-sized volume.”
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Nation. 86: 40. Ja. 9, ’08. 700w.
“A fascinating book as well as a most instructive document.”
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N. Y. Times. 12: 841. D. 21, ’07. 3420w.
“This is a book with a pleasant literary flavour, though some of the entries from Allingham’s diaries seem rather small beer.”
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Sat. R. 104: 582. N. 9, ’07. 250w.
“The little sketches of the man [Tennyson], of his looks and ways, the little scraps of his talk, have a convincing air of truth about them. After Tennyson come Browning and Carlyle, and after these again a multitude of literary men, every one being happily touched off.”
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Spec. 89: 713. N. 9, ’07. 450w.
Almack, Edward. Bookplates. (Little books on art.) *$1. McClurg.
8–34675.
An introduction treats of the different kinds of blocks or plates from which bookplates were first produced and the styles of ex libris early predominating in Germany, France and England. This is followed by chapters on bookplates chronologically, bookplates with mantling, some specimens found in the British museum, Chippendale and crestplates, modern bookplates, various bookplates, and bookplates in America.
Nation. 87: 558. D. 3, ’08. 200w.
“Unfortunately the volume does not deserve the same commendation that may freely be given to the rest of the series. Although it contains much information, particularly concerning armorial book plates, it is ill-balanced.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 684. N. 21, ’08. 60w.
Alston, Leonard. White man’s work in Asia and Africa: a discussion of the main difficulties of the colour question. *$1. Longmans.
8–1381.
With a broad grasp of the situation, thru optimistic and eclectic doctrines, Mr. Alston treats the political, social, and religious factors which combine to make the color problem a complicated one.
“No one interested in civil administration of colonies, or in foreign mission work can afford to overlook this modest essay.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 616. N. ’08. 130w.
“Leonard Alston considers the white man’s burden with as much open-mindedness as is reconcilable with the nature of a thesis which assumes that the white man is, on the whole, right and the child of destiny.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 37. Ja. 25, ’08. 1000w.
“In style and in command of English the author displays a singular ability; but the book is more noteworthy for these characteristics than for any practical suggestion which it contains for the solution of the most important question of the future.”
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Spec. 99: sup. 909. D. 7, ’07. 300w.
Ames, Joseph Bushnell. Pete, cow-puncher: a story of the Texas plains. †$1.50. Holt.
8–30533.
The experience of a young New Yorker who, much to the chagrin of his father, preferred life in the Texas plains to Yale first and Wall Street afterwards. It is the story of a clean, honest, resolute fight against hardships and peril.
Amundsen, Roald. North-west passage: being a record of a voyage of exploration of the ship Gjöa in the years 1903–7; with a supplement by Lieut. Hansen. 2v. *$8. Dutton.
8–35750.
An account of the voyage which Captain Amundsen and his crew of seven men made in exploration of the North-west passage. “Difficult navigation, sledge excursions that were not exactly summer picnics, meteorological and magnetic observations under trying conditions, the exaction of some degree of respect and decorum from the swarming Esquimaux that beset 9them in their winter quarters, and the continual problem of food, fuel, and shelter in the cruel cold of these latitudes—that, in brief, indicates the work that was cut out for Captain Amundsen and his little crew.” Lieut. Hansen’s supplementary chapter relates to his surveying expedition to the east coast of Victoria Land.
“This record ... is written with sailorlike simplicity and with an attractive enthusiasm for the subject. The arrangement leaves something to be desired. Lieut. Hansen’s supplement should have been inserted in the body of the narrative; and the historical survey of previous exploration, which is slight and in some points inaccurate, appears rather aimlessly in the tenth chapter.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 33. Jl. 11. 1800w.
“Not the least interesting parts of the book are the stories of the distinctly Scandinavian character of practical jokes which, apparently, were everlastingly played on each other by all the members of the party.” A. W. Vorse.
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Bookm. 28: 276. N. ’08. 1200w.
“His straightforward narrative makes not only one of the best books of Arctic exploration, but one of the best books of adventure of any sort that have ever been written. The narrative is not free from bewildering inconsistencies, which sometimes amount to positive inaccuracies.” P. F. Bicknell.
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Dial. 45: 80. Ag. 16, ’08. 1850w.
“It is difficult to realize that the book is a translation, so easy is the style.”
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Nation. 87: 267. S. 17, ’08. 950w.
“Though the book would not lose by condensation in places, it is singularly free from the trivialities with which such volumes are often loaded. But an appendix of scientific results would have given more permanent value to these volumes.”
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Nature. 78: 478. S. 17, ’08. 1550w.
“With the skill of the true artist, the North-west passage is there, the real hero of the story, behind all the humorous and sometimes tragic adventures with which this excellent narrator entertains his readers.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 383. S. ’08. 120w.
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Sat. R. 105: 823. Je. 27, ’08. 660w.
“The observations which Captain Amundsen makes on the mode of life, manners, and struggle for existence of the inhabitants near the North-west passage are quite the most interesting and valuable in the volume.”
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Spec. 101: 840. N. 21, ’08. 1100w.
Anderson, Ada Woodruff. Heart of the red firs. †$1.50. Little.
8–9815.
Set in the grim forest country of the Pacific northwest, this story deals with the epoch that closed with the completion of the Northern Pacific road thru to the coast. A charming heroine is portrayed who has fearlessness, ability to command, the foresight and memory necessary for the self protection of pioneers, and withal is feminine to the core. The perils of the wilds are truthfully set down.
“For the most part one brings away from the reading an abiding sense of splendid freedom, health and courage in a glorious setting of fir-clad mountains.” F: T. Cooper.
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Bookm. 27: 578. Ag. ’08. 400w.
Ind. 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 50w.
“It is more effective in description than in narrative.”
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Nation. 87: 56. Jl. 16, ’08. 270w.
“Is written very vigorously and authoritatively. The ‘story part,’ as the children say, lags often, and, indeed, does not seem to have been conceived in the first place with any marked conviction or originality.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 335. Je. 13, ’08. 140w.
Anderson, Galusha. Story of a border city during the civil war. **$1.50. Little.
8–27164.
A story of St. Louis during the civil war told by a man who was a clergyman in that city from 1858 to 1866. It is an intimate sketch of local conditions and local feeling recorded from personal observations and experiences, revealing the struggle between the opposing factions standing respectively for secession and for the union.
Ind. 65: 1250. N. 26, ’08. 300w.
“Rich in the material of which history is made as well as most interesting in itself. He writes with calmness and in a judicial, objective sort of way that cannot carry any offense. On its literary side his work would have been the better for more careful revision and editing, for his style is often so slovenly as to be annoying.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 549. O. 3, ’08. 600w.
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Anderson, J. Wemyss. Refrigeration: an elementary text-book. *$2.25. Longmans.
8–28304.
“An exposition of the scientific principles involved in the production of low temperatures, and descriptions of the apparatus by which they are obtained. The work being an elementary one, questions relating to the design of apparatus have been properly withheld for a succeeding and more advanced volume.”—Engin. D.
“The illustrations are good, the index is ample, and many instructive and practical problems are given in their proper place for the further use of the student.”
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Engin. D. 3: 652. Je. ’08. 300w.
“This book differs and compares favorably with all other books on that subject, inasmuch as examples are used for explaining the fundamental principles. The book as a whole is all that is claimed for it and can therefore be highly recommended.” J. C. Bertsch.
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Engin. N. 60: 77. Jl. 16, ’08. 860w.
“The treatment of the subject is accurate and lucid, and in all cases the necessary mathematical investigations are reduced to their simplest elements, many numerical examples being added.” E. Edser.
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Nature. 78: 317. Ag. 6, ’08. 470w.
Andreiyeff, Leonidas. Silence: tr. from the Russian by John Cournos. bds. 25c. Brown bros.
“A story, a melancholy poem, in which the reader is subjected to a series of heart pangs, and is forced to listen to a music, in which the dominant motif is a terrible, oppressive and crushing silence.” (Translator’s preface.) The author who is linked in literary sympathies with Gorky embodies “conscious artistry” while Gorky is possessed of “crude blind force.”
“So painful a story does not make a favorable introduction to the series.”
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Ind. 65: 615. S. 10, ’08. 70w.
Nation. 87: 494. N. 19, ’08. 90w.
Andrews, Eliza Frances. War-time journal of a Georgia girl. **$2.50. Appleton.
8–27163.
A spirited diary extending thru the year and a half that followed December of 1864 and covering the last days of the war and the beginning of the reconstruction era. “This diary, intended solely for the author’s own eyes, gives an intimate picture of the intensity of Southern feeling, at the same time that it describes the diversions in which Southern society sought to forget the continual tragedy through which the country was passing.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The book is charmingly natural and lifelike, and will prove a valuable addition to the diaries of the war.”
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Lit. D. 37: 599. O. 24, ’08. 370w.
10“It is, in fact, what one might call an original document in history.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 506. S. 19, ’08. 180w.
“The journal is a contribution of real merit to the literature of Southern conditions at that time.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 523. S. 26, ’08. 400w.
“An exceedingly interesting book to those who care for absolutely truthful, unaffected pictures of life during the civil war.”
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Outlook. 90: 550. N. 7, ’08. 400w.
Andrews, Hiram Bertrand. Practical reinforced concrete standards for the design of reinforced concrete buildings. $2. Simpson bros.
8–21937.
Contains chapters on the design of beams, with tables and diagrams, and standardized sizes for buildings, together with sets of specifications for concrete work.
“Allowing for the usual tendency to use a designing diagram without regard for the varying conditions that must affect the design, this book of standards must be of value.”
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Engin. N. 60: 190. Ag. 13, ’08. 100w.
“A suggested standard building code for concrete work is published, but it incorporates all of the author’s original ideas, thus making it of questionable value without revision. Some of the author’s statements ... do not agree with the opinions held by reinforced concrete specialists.”
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Engin. Rec. 58: 391. O. 3, ’08. 240w.
Andrews, William Symes. Magic squares and cubes. *$1.50. Open ct.
8–19276.
“Here may be found directions for making quadratic combinations that surpass Benjamin Franklin’s famous sixteen puzzle, which he said was ‘the most magically magical of any magic square ever made by any magician.’ Dr. Paul Carus contributes a chapter on the importance of magic squares in Hindu, Chinese and Greek philosophy.”—Ind.
Ind. 65: 213. Jl. 23, ’08. 90w.
“To those who are interested in the subject, Mr. Andrews’s book will be very acceptable.”
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Nation. 87: 101. Jl. 30, ’08. 180w.
Anet, Claude. Through Persia in a motorcar, by Russia and the Caucasus; tr. by M. Beresford Ryley. *$4.50. Appleton.
A lively account of a tour by train, boat and motor-car. “The route followed was through Bessarabia, the Crimea and the Caucasus; Persia is reached on p. 84, but the motoring does not begin until p. 151. It consisted of a run from Ispahan to Teheran. Ispahan is reached on p. 192. A week in that city which excites the enthusiasm of our traveller, occupies thirty-eight pages. And then we have about fifty pages in which the return is described.” (Spec.)
“Altogether a not uninteresting book, and ably translated; but as there are no maps and no index, it is useless as a work of reference. It might have been so much better done.”
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Acad. 73: 59. O. 26, ’07. 420w.
“A book which has few dull pages.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 206. Ag. 22. 550w.
“A work in which veracity has not been sacrificed to imagination.”
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Nation. 87: 462. N. 12, ’08. 320w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 370w.
“M. Anet has written a lively and amusing account of the tour, illustrated with photographs, and has been fortunate in his translator.”
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Sat. R. 104: 767. D. 21, ’07. 350w.
“Directions are given which should prove helpful to intending travellers.”
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Spec. 99: 370. S. 14, ’07. 300w.
Annesley, Maude. Door of darkness. †$1.50. Lane.
A story built up around the unexplained mysteries of clairvoyance and magic. “Miss Annesley secures her most striking effects by imagining mysteries which she cannot attempt to explain; and the reader of a novel, like the spectator at a manifestation, wants to know how things are done. In this case the reader very soon perceives that the central figure in the book is an ‘adept’ who has mastered the secret of perpetual youth. The love of such a man for a girl bound by the normal conditions of human life can be made, and here is made, into an interesting romance.” (Sat. R.)
“It needs some courage to write a novel upon the elixir of life, and we can scarcely say that the enterprise is in this case justified. We note also a large proportion of commonplace and uninteresting padding.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 784. Je. 27. 100w.
“While it does not lack complication, is a mixture of such unlike parts that anything like a co-ordinated impression is out of the question.” E. L. Cary.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 391. Jl. 11, ’08. 440w.
“The opening chapters of this novel are so good that we recognize with disappointment the author’s failure to maintain the plausible atmosphere of the supernatural which envelops them.”
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Sat. R. 106: sup. 7. S. 26, ’08. 180w.
Annunzio, Gabriele d’. Daughter of Jorio: a pastoral tragedy; tr. by Charlotte Porter, Pietro Isola, and Alice Henry; with an introd. by Miss Porter. *$1.50. Little.
7–37999.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
“The merely English reader will get little good from it, and will meet with scarcely a line, certainly not with a passage of any length, that will appeal to him as poetry.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 27. Ja. 18, ’08. 200w.
“It has something of the majesty of a classical drama and of the inexorableness of fate. The play is wonderfully reproduced in English.”
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Outlook. 88: 142. Ja. 18, ’08. 500w.
“Really remarkable dramatic work.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 255. F. ’08. 70w.
Anthropological essays presented to Edward Burnett Tylor in honor of his 75th birthday, Oct. 2, 1907, by H. Balfour, A. E. Crawley [etc.] *$5. Oxford.
8–1439.
These nineteen essays contributed by eminent specialists are a birthday offering to a distinguished Oxford scholar. See Cumulative book index for contents.
“The arrangement of the essays is alphabetical, according to the surnames of the authors. The result of this automatic distribution is to produce a course of miscellaneous reading which is rather bewildering.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 522. O. 26. 1400w.
“Contain a large mass of permanently important material.”
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Nation. 86: 470. My. 21, ’08. 900w.
“The book will be a welcome addition to all anthropological libraries, and we could not give it higher praise than to say that it is quite worthy of the great scholar whose name it bears.”
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Spec. 100: sup. 129. Ja. 25, ’08. 400w.
Archer, William, and Barker, Henry Granville. Scheme and estimates for a national theatre. *$2.50. Duffield.
Here are the scheme and estimates for the building of a national theatre in Great Britain, but inclusive enough to apply to the establishment 11of a similar institution in America. “The book discusses, with a convincing array of facts and figures, every step in the process of construction from the appointment of the first committee to the raising of the curtain on the opening night.” (Nation.) “They are ready with a scheme of decoration for the entrance-hall of their hypothetical theatre; they have drawn up elaborate lists and tables of the repertory of plays to be performed there; they have even gone so far as to create a company of imaginary actors with imaginary names, and to cast them for imaginary parts.” (Spec.) The plans also include the founding of a dramatic college to provide actors for the theatre.
“One cannot withhold from the authors the admiration which is due to a lively faith. The estimates for the various branches of the theatre collected here ... are the work of experts, and we may assume them to be, on the whole, calculated with as much accuracy as the nature of the case admits.”
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Acad. 73: 139. N. 16, ’07. 1000w.
Ath. 1908, 1: 488. Ap. 18. 700w.
“Both Mr. Archer and Mr. Barker are well qualified for the task which they have undertaken, the one by his long study of dramatic literature and the art of acting in England and on the continent, and the other by his experience as a dramatist, as an actor, and a producing manager. The bulky volume which they have compiled does infinite credit to their enthusiasm, their industry, their technical knowledge and their foresight.”
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Nation. 86: 178. F. 20, ’08. 1250w.
“For lovers of the theatre it will have all the attractiveness of a fascinating romance.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 143. Mr. 14, ’08. 2300w.
“It would be difficult to conceive of two men better qualified to prepare such a volume.” S. R. Cook.
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Putnam’s. 4: 235. My. ’08. 600w.
“An interesting and suggestive volume. [The authors] have thrown themselves with gusto into the task of castle-building, and have produced an airy edifice which for completeness of conception and minuteness of execution it would be difficult to rival. But it would be doing an injustice to the book to suggest that it is nothing more than an ingenious Utopian ‘jeu d’esprit.’ It will be welcome to all who are interested in the welfare of the theatre, if only on the score of the quantity of information which it contains, and the light which it throws on the actual conditions of theatrical work.”
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Spec. 99: 1093. D. 28, ’07. 1600w.
Armagnat, H. Theory, design and construction of induction coils; tr. and ed. by Otis Allen Kenyon. *$2. McGraw.
8–17739.
An exact and definite treatment of the theory relating to induction coils and their practical uses. The translator has extended the bibliography to include all contributions to the subject since 1904, the date of the appearance of the original work.
Engin. D. 4: 55 Jl. ’08. 100w.
“Until recently there has been in English no book adequately setting forth the extent of our knowledge of this apparatus.”
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Engin. N. 60: 316. S. 17, ’08. 400w.
Armour, Frances J. Brotherhood of wisdom. †$1.50. Lane.
A London professor discovers a combination of chemistry and electricity which detaches the soul from the body. A member of the Brotherhood of wisdom, an oriental occult society, works his way into the professor’s confidence, persuades him to try the experiment upon his niece; then kidnaps her astral body, when it has been set free, and installs her as high priestess in one of the brotherhood’s secret shrines. The adventures which the girl’s lover has in uniting soul and body are as thrilling as they are ingeniously conceived.
“A fine theme for a pithy short story has been stretched by divers expedients to the dimensions of a novel; and shows its resentment, as ideas will, by declining to infuse with any of its own life the mechanical effects that have been forced upon it.”
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Nation. 87: 236. S. 10, ’08. 240w.
“The author is to be congratulated upon having invented a new sort of thrills and excitements. She has handled her weird matter very well, and the interest, excitement, and general uncanniness accumulate and intensify to a fitting climax.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 495. S. 12, ’08. 300w.
“Redeemed from the realm of the impossible for the reader who yields himself to the spell, the tale is cleverly told.”
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Outlook. 90: 362. O. 17, ’08. 200w.
“The book shows at times a certain unfamiliarity with the life depicted. But against this inexperience must be set the valuable qualities of energy and enthusiasm, a picturesque imagination, and a style much above the average. Lastly, she must be congratulated on her ability to excite the curiosity and retain the interest of her readers without resorting to the repulsive realism into which she might easily have been led by the somewhat macabre nature of her theme.”
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Spec. 100: 382. Mr. 7, ’08. 880w.
Arrhenius, Svante August. Immunochemistry; the application of the principles of physical chemistry to the study of the biological antibodies. *$1.60. Macmillan.
7–34600.
A volume based upon a course of lectures given by the author at the University of California. The object of the lectures was to illustrate the application of the methods of physical chemistry to the study of the theory of toxins and antitoxins. The idea is that the reciprocal action of toxin and antitoxin is of the same nature as a chemical reaction.
Dial. 43: 385. D. 1, ’07. 40w.
“The book is to be recommended to all who have an elementary knowledge of physical chemistry.”
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Nation. 86: 407. Ap. 30, ’08. 120w.
“Would especially call the attention of the younger biologists to the importance of a study of Arrhenius’s books.” Jacques Loeb.
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Science, n.s. 27: 343. F. 28, ’08. 400w.
Arrhenius, Svante August. Worlds in the making. il. **$1.60. Harper.
8–9543.
A new theory of the universe evolved from the principle of the mechanical radiation pressure of light—that rays of light falling upon a surface tend to push that surface back. The guiding principle in this exposition of cosmogonic problems has been the conviction that the universe in essence has always been what it is now. Matter, energy, and life have only varied as to shape and position.
“A valuable treatise.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 166. Je. ’08.
“It would be difficult to find a book which gives so well and in such short compass a view of the modern developments of the science.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 130. Ag. 1. 700w.
“It is to be regretted that neither the author, the translator, nor the publisher of this thoughtful and stimulating book has provided it with an index; for, though the work contains only 230 pages, it is full of details many of which will be valuable for purposes of reference.”
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Dial. 44: 277. My. 1, ’08. 500w.
12“Astronomers will question his conclusions at many points, here and there holding his data insufficient and his assumptions unwarranted.”
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Ind. 64: 1401. Je. 18, ’08. 1000w.
“This throwing back of the life problem to the region of primal things is carefully worked out, and though I, for one, cannot believe it is forced by our present knowledge, or lack of it, there are no especial objections to such a view, save in that it will probably be taken to give a new lease of life to the Obscurantists—the people who want to make a mystery of everything.” Carl Snyder.
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No. Am. 187: 932. Je. ’08. 1000w.
Spec. 100: 676. Ap. 25, ’08. 250w.
Ashe, Sydney Whitmore. Electric railways theoretically and practically treated. v. 2. il. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
The second of a three volume series designed to cover the entire field of electric railway operation. “The present volume contains two main divisions. The first comprises the engineering studies which are made before a railway project is undertaken. The second is descriptive of the equipment and operation of sub-stations in which the electric power is transformed from the standard, three-phase variety necessary for transmission, to the direct-current form still used in most railway systems.” (Engin. N.)
“The book suffers from a lack of consistent editing. By far the best part of the book is found in chapters 2, 3, and 4 on ‘Electrical features,’ which contains much useful information presented in a logical manner. In fact, it may be stated that the intrinsic value of these chapters is sufficient to counterbalance the errors of carelessness found elsewhere in the book.”
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Elec. World. 50: 1128. D. 7, ’07. 520w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Owing to the fact that the scissors are conspicuous in the make-up, there is a certain lack of homogeneity in the treatment, but the author is very careful to give proper credit for all quotations and data. The authorities quoted are excellent, but they are not all in agreement; in fact, some of the papers given aroused violent opposition upon their original presentation.” H: H. Norris.
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Engin. N. 58: 654. D. 12, ’07. 900w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Contains some excellent articles ... but the author has not always shown sound judgment in the selection of his illustrations or specific examples. Taken as a whole, however, the work should be useful to the student in showing the various factors which must be considered in the simple layout of an electrical railroad system.”
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Nation. 86: 401. Ap. 30, ’08. 70w. (Review of v. 2.)
“This is essentially a book for experts, and especially American experts. Altogether the author’s mathematics is not characterised by exactitude.” Gisbert Kapp.
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Nature. 78: 27. My. 14, ’08. 600w. (Review of v. 2.)
Askew, Alice, and Askew, Claude Arthur Cary. Lucy Gort: a study in temperament. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
“The minute details of the miserable existence of a young woman whose discontent leads her to forsake her quiet but comfortable home in a small English town and become a lady’s traveling companion are recorded in this ‘study of temperament.’”—N. Y. Times.
“It merely deals with the imaginings of high life as set forth through many years, one had supposed, for the edification of shop-girls and serving-maids. It is full of sensationalism.”
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Ath. 1907, 1: 409. Ap. 20. 90w.
“It is morbid, artificial, and meretricious.”
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N. Y. Times. 12: 842. D. 21, ’07. 310w.
Association of American law schools. Select essays in Anglo-American legal history. 3v. v. 1. set, *$12. Little.
7–26401.
v. 1. “Contains a series of twenty essays, by various authors, all except one heretofore published in magazine or in book form, and an autobiographical letter by James Kent. They are arranged in five groups: 1, prior to the Norman conquest; 2, thence to the 18th century; 3, the American colonial period; 4, development of law in the 19th century; and 5, a biographical survey of the bench and bar from the Norman conquest to the present.”—Yale R.
“Present-day readers will welcome these volumes not alone because of their diverting qualities, but also because of their informing, guiding and inspiring qualities. The charm and spirit of the year-books are in them, and so too are some of the most important results of researches by the new historical school of English and American lawyers.” H. D. Hazeltine.
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 628. Ap. ’08. 650w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It is particularly well done. A volume that the casual reader with only a few minutes to spare can dip into almost anywhere with pleasure and profit.”
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N. Y. Times. 12: 728. N. 16, ’07. 850w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Good judgment is shown in the compilation and editing of this volume.”
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Pol. Sci. Q. 23: 568. S. ’08. 300w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The selection is certainly good, and the arrangement is such as to give a certain unity and a tolerable continuity to the whole. This unity and continuity, however, are disturbed by the numbers included under part v, the substance and construction of which are scarcely in harmony with the preceding parts. It is unquestionable that the editing committee are performing a very valuable service to all who are or may be led to become interested in legal history, in making accessible the results of the best thought along this line.” A. L. Corbin.
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Yale R. 17: 99. My. ’08. 1300w. (Review of v. 1.)
* Astley, Rev. Hugh John Dunkinfield. Prehistoric archaeology and the Old Testament: being the Donnellan lectures delivered before the University of Dublin in 1906–1907, enl. and ed. with notes and appendices. *$2. Scribner.
8–26257.
“This is another eirenicon between science and religion and from the pen of an episcopal clergyman who seems familiar with the main outlines, at least, of both archaeological science and Old Testament scholarship.”—Bib. World.
“The book certainly deserves the careful reading of all interested in this important theme.”
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Bib. World. 32: 77. Jl. ’08. 50w.
“This volume, however, has distinctive interest in the support for the conclusions of Biblical scholars which it adduces from the sciences of archaeology and anthropology. Rather curiously, he combines with this breadth of view a narrow sacramentalism. But only a few pages of a really useful book are thus spoiled.”
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Outlook. 89: 581. Jl. 11, ’08. 200w.
* Atherton, Gertrude Franklin. Gorgeous isle: a romance; scene: Nevis, B. W. I., 1842. **90c. Doubleday.
8–28995.
A story set in the West Indian island of Nevis. “The heroine, having married a man to save him, arrives gradually at the conviction that his creative power (he is a poet of the first rank) is irretrievably dependent on unlimited alcohol, and that it is therefore her duty no longer to stand between him and this noble source of inspiration—a rather excessive concession to the principle ‘art for art’s sake.’ The 13period is Early Victorian, and the language and customs of that day are reproduced, on the whole, with accuracy, though perhaps with a slight tendency to archaism.” (Ath.)
“It deals with a situation which is fresh and powerfully handled, though not entirely exempt from a suspicion of grotesqueness.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 640. N. 21. 150w.
“Mrs. Atherton in her new novel launches an interesting ethical problem, which she solves in her own way, but which will undoubtedly suggest different solutions to her readers, according as the latter differ in temperament and point of view from the author. One is somewhat dubious over the possibility of the physiological theory, advanced as fact, which is involved in Mrs. Atherton’s problem.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 655. N. 7, ’08. 950w.
Atkey, Bertram. Folk of the wild. il. $1.50. Lippincott.
8–19028.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
“Apart from its unoriginal mannerisms, this is an excellent book, and entertaining throughout.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 441. O. 12. 130w.
“No British boy can read ‘Folk of the wild’ without understanding more of the animals he may have the good fortune to see in the wilder spots of his home. It is the kind of book that begets a desire for sanctuaries of wild life.”
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Spec. 99. sup. 748. N. 16, ’07. 130w.
Atkinson, Eleanor. Boyhood of Lincoln. **50c. McClure.
8–30378.
An old man dozing between relays of reminiscences tells of the early days when he, Dennis Hanks, cousin and playmate of Lincoln, stood in uncomprehending awe of the crude stripling and his mighty ambition. The little book is only a handful of memories, without philosophizing, in which “tragedy and comedy mingle as only Shakespeare and real life can bring them together.”
“Its inherent interest warrants its preservation in permanent form.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 716. D. 5, ’08. 90w.
Atlay, J. B. Victorian chancellors. 2v. ea. $4. Little.
v. 2. Contains sketches of Lords St. Leonards, Cranworth, Chelmsford, Campbell, Westbury, Cairus, Hatherley, Selborne, Halsbury, and Herschell. “Mr. Atlay ... has surrounded his biographies with their appropriate political, legal and social atmosphere; and he is so well versed in the forensic traditions that his memoirs are as amusing as they are instructive. The sketches of Lord St. Leonards, Lord Campbell, and Lord Westbury are admirable of the generation which preceded those later Victorian chancellors Lord Halsbury and Lord Herschell.” (Sat. R.)
“A want of proportion is the most noticeable defect of a valuable and entertaining work.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 358. S. 26. 660w. (Review of v. 2.)
“His work is distinguished by conciseness, research, preëminent fairness.”
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Nation. 87: 413. O. 29, ’08. 2500w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Though doubtless intended primarily for the delectation and instruction of members of the legal profession, there is not a sketch in the volume that ought not to attract the man of letters, and especially the student of politics and English political history.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 438. Ag. 8, ’08. 230w. (Review of v. 2)
“It is because Mr. Atlay fastens on the personality that his ‘Lives’ are never dull.”
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Sat. R. 106: 86. Jl. 18, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Mr. Atlay is a friendly critic of most chancellors; but we are inclined to think that he is too severe in his final judgment on Lord Westbury.”
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Spec. 100: 939. Je. 13, ’08. 1750w. (Review of v. 2.)
Atton, Henry, and Holland, Henry Hurst. King’s customs: an account of maritime revenue and contraband traffic in England, Scotland and Ireland, from the earliest times to the year 1800; with a preface by F. S. Parry *$3.50. Dutton.
8–33017.
“A rich mine of good stories of desperate and resourceful smugglers, and of ineptitude or connivance on the part of officials. The stories are gathered from official records of the ports, from letters addressed by customs house officers to their superiors, and from the reports of cases in the law courts.”—Ind.
“Rarely does a book make so many sided an appeal to readers as is made by ‘The king’s customs.’ So much could scarcely be gathered into so comparatively few pages and leave room for literary style. The anecdotes and incidents are presented one after another tersely and somewhat abruptly. To the ordinary reader also there is abundant opportunity for judicious skipping; but the parts skipped by the reader in search of entertainment are the parts most valuable to the student and scholar.”
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Ind. 65: 779. O. 1, ’08. 700w.
“While the book cannot be accepted as a history of the customs, it contains a certain amount of valuable new material, particularly upon the subject of contraband trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.”
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Nation. 87: 438. N. 5, ’08. 280w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 398. Jl. 18, ’08. 800w.
Auerbacher, Louis John. Electrical contracting; shop system, estimating, wiring, construction methods, and hints on getting business. *$2. McGraw.
8–21776.
A book for the wireman and contractor containing practical hints on the latest construction methods, with suggestions concerning means of increasing his income.
“Every branch of work which falls in the province of the average electrical contractor is covered, and taken all in all the book is well adapted to his needs.”
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Elec. World. 52: 99. Jl. 11, ’08. 160w.
“The book is a very useful one and many of the men for whom it was written could profit materially by it.”
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Engin. D. 4: 302. S. ’08. 180w.
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Engin. N. 60: 429. O. 15, ’08. 200w.
Austin, Mrs. Mary Hunter. Santa Lucia: a common story. †$1.50. Harper.
8–11701.
When Serena Haven was wooed, she mistook chivalry for love. But she is true to the bond and stands out in contrast—and here is the point of the story—to Julia Maybury who marries, also without love, the college biologist. Julia has not the character to be faithful to her vows and a tragedy ensues.
“The story is told with leisureliness and sureness that raises it decidedly above the average, but it is not characterized by the charm of the author’s earlier work.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 154. My. ’08. ✠
“It is a pity that Mrs. Austin did not take more pains with her plot, for she displays plenty of cleverness in her characterization as well as her observation of life.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 664. My. 30. 140w.
“It is a substantial advance upon ‘Isidro’ and ‘The land of little rain.’” F: T. Cooper.
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Bookm. 27: 400. Je. ’08. 180w.
14“The interest of her story lies not in the plot, which is conventional, but in her literalism, particularly in her understanding of human nature constrained by a college campus environment.”
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Ind. 65: 154. Jl. 16, ’08. 460w.
“She aims to present a fairly complete picture of life in this set of Santa Lucia society; and to do this she does not hesitate to introduce as many subordinate characters as she pleases. They are all distinct and well drawn. The novel, as a whole, is decidedly above the average.”
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Nation. 86: 380. Ap. 23, ’08. 300w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“There is delightful art in the depiction of some of her characters, both men and women, and her descriptions of nature are exquisitely beautiful. But one grieves to note a falling off in that distinction of style which has marked her previous work.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 280. My. 16, ’08. 250w.
“It is painfully deficient in construction, and, as it nears its culmination, positively depressing.”
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Outlook. 89: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 30w.
Aveling, Rev. Francis. God of philosophy. *$1. Herder.
“A statement of the scholastic proofs of the existence of God. The author, expanding by illustration and comment, the matter of the ordinary text-book, presents the arguments in a form freed, as far as may be, from technical language, and adapted to the minds not possessed of much experience in metaphysical reflection.” (Cath. World.)
“It would be well, we think, if the very meagre treatment of the claim of the Roman church had been omitted. It is inadequate, to say the least, and could not possibly convince any one not already persuaded. We doubt if any one trained in modern philosophy will find the work at all adequate.”
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Ath. 1907, 1: 497. Ap. 6. 100w.
“The classic proofs could not be more lucidly set forth; and they are formulated in their full strength.”
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Cath. World. 84: 560. Ja. ’07. 180w.
Avery, Elroy McKendree. History of the United States and its people from their earliest records to the present time. 15v. ea. *$6.25. Burrows.
v. 4. “Covers the comparatively short period in the middle decades of the eighteenth century, during which took place the final contest between England and France for the possession of North America.... An important part of the story is the Indian warfare waged along the border, including the remarkable conspiracy of Chief Pontiac. As in the case of preceding volumes in this history, especial care has been taken to obtain authentic portraits and reproductions of significant documents.”—R. of Rs.
“Mr. Avery has not superseded Parkman. What Mr. Avery has done, however, is to take Parkman’s material, study it carefully, cull from it generously, and then add to it the rich findings of investigators subsequent to Parkman. The result is par excellence.” A. H. Abel.
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Dial. 45: 252. O. 16, ’08. 960w. (Review of v. 4.)
“Informing, and as a whole readable, as the book is, one wonders whether, after all, Dr. Avery takes his history seriously.”
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Nation. 86: 423. My. 7, ’08. 280w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The [Indian warfare] period has never before been covered in just this way by any American historian.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 754. Je. ’08. 180w. (Review of v. 4.)
Ayscough, John. Marotz. †$1.50. Putnam.
A story centering about a Sicilian nobleman’s family. “Much of the scene passes in a convent of contemplative nuns, and the novel generally is concerned with the higher problems of religion and the mystical aspects of the Christian faith. The book is written from the point of view of the Roman church, but it will not be found in any way offensive to Protestant readers, and those who wish to take their sermons disguised as stories will gain much edification from its perusal.” (Spec.)
“Altogether ‘Marotz’ is a notable piece of work.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 568. My. 9. 230w.
“The novel is strong and striking, with one structural fault—it is poorly knit together. Even with this fault, it stands high above the average of the year’s fiction.”
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Cath. World. 88: 111. O. ’08. 320w.
“One may be but languidly interested in the book as a whole, but he cannot help liking the parts of which it is constructed.”
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Ind. 65: 552. S. 3, ’08. 50w.
“It is not a good novel—it is a chronicle, rather, ... slowly and clumsily related, and delayed in its course by many elaborate studies of eccentric character quite unnecessary to the plot.”
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Nation. 87: 163. Ag. 20, ’08. 460w.
“The simple story is delightfully told.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 438. Ag. 8, ’08. 170w.
“The purpose of the book is rather misty. The book has a spice of fun.”
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Outlook. 90: 134. S. 19, ’08. 250w.
“The work though by no means faultless, is yet a remarkable achievement, and the serious purpose which the author has obviously set himself is fully attained.”
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Spec. 100: 907. Je. 6, ’08. 400w.