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Cadogan, Edward Cecil G. Life of Cavour. *$2. Scribner. 7–37531.
A life of the Italian statesman built upon a political structure “revealing the causes that brought about, the influences which shaped, and the political consequences ensuing from the cause of United Italy.”
“Reading his book, with its pretense to learning which its author does not possess; with its disregard on every page of honest historical methods; and with its bluff at being a pioneer in a field which has already been well explored, we are at a loss to decide whether Jowett’s college has greater need of up-to-date instruction in history or in the elements of ethics.”
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 645. Ap. ’08. 800w.
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Ath. 1907, 2: 548. N. 2. 450w.
“It is an example of a certain kind of false scholarship which ought not to be tolerated in English universities or by English critics.”
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Nation. 86: 312. Ap. 2, ’08. 850w.
“Mr. Cadogan’s book should be read with interest; not, as we have said, as a biography of Cavour, but as a political essay outlining the story of his career and clearly defining and showing the development of those forces which were combined to produce the Italy of the present day.” Walter Littlefield.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 114. F. 29, ’08. 1330w.
“The story of how he had accomplished a work such as no statesman of the century could show, with what helps and what hindrances, is well told in these pages.”
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Spec. 100: sup. 129. Ja. 25, ’08. 400w.
Caffin, Charles Henry. Child’s guide to pictures. **$1.25. Baker.
8–22108.
A book whose sole aim is to help young people find expression in words for the feeling of beauty which pictures inspire in them, and to put some idea into the reader’s head that will lead him to find more and more beauty in pictures, in nature, and in life. The elementary principles of art analysis are outlined as the basis of criticism, and illustrations are furnished from the work of representative artists.
“Especially valuable for teachers and others who work with children.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 247. O. ’08.
“This attempt, in spite of an imperfect sympathy with the more formal side of art as compared with its picturesque qualities, is so well carried out that one feels inclined to advise Mr. Caffin to submit his book to some slight revision—relieving it of an occasional air of condescension.”
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Nation. 87: 272. S. 17, ’08. 580w.
“Written for children, it seems to be quite beyond their capacities. Its instruction is wonderfully clear and admirably simplified, but it is an extremely ambitious book, undertaking to give the child a much wider and deeper art education than he is capable of receiving.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 458. Ag. 22, ’08. 420w.
“The author assumes a great deal of authority in Ruskin-like patronizing tones, and there is an excess of waste verbiage throughout the volume. But Mr. Caffin is nearly always correct in his judgment upon great pictures.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 764. D. ’08. 70w.
Caffin, Charles Henry. Story of American painting. **$2.50. Stokes.
7–36959.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
“Reliable as to information and rating of artists, founded apparently on opinions of recognized authorities, but lacking in original criticism.... Does not compare favorably with Isham’s admirable work on the subject but has its place.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 37. F. ’08.
“Merely as a picture book the volume will be both entertaining and instructive. Mr. Caffin’s criticism, however, is not of the kind that is subordinate to its illustrations.”
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Dial. 43: 423. D. 16, ’07. 140w.
“While Mr. Caffin’s contributions to art criticism contain little that is new or original, he gleans his facts and opinions from authoritative sources and he is in the main a perfectly safe guide.”
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Ind. 64: 318. F. 6, ’08. 240w.
“If not an original critic, Mr. Caffin generally knows where to go for opinions or information, and seldom makes serious mistakes.”
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Nation. 86: 21. Ja. 2, ’08. 120w.
“There has long been a need for a book on American art that would trace its evolution in a manner at once popular and authoritative. This need is now supplied by Mr. Charles H. Caffin.”
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N. Y. Times. 12: 835. D. 14, ’07. 220w.
“While his estimates of the American painters of the past is, in general, just and forceful, when he discusses the qualities of his contemporaries his estimates seem sometimes too eulogistic. Nevertheless, the book is specially strong in dealing with contemporary American painting, and upon that latest phase of which Mr. Luks and Mr. Sloan are the apostles.”
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Outlook. 87: 873. D. 21, ’07. 430w.
* Caffin, Charles Henry, and Caffin, Caroline A. Appreciation of the drama. **$1.50. Baker.
The sixth volume in the “Appreciation series.” The promise of good things which the foreword, a little classic, gently intimates is fulfilled in large measure in the chapters that follow it. The author invites his reader at the start to take a comfortable seat in front of the curtain, then proceeds from an analysis of the sensations of the man in the audience to a review of some of the salient considerations that affect the appreciation of the drama, viz., a brief history of the drama, the art of acting and stage management, the building of a drama 57technically; and from these facts of experience past and present deduces principles for a basis of critical appreciation.
“He takes up the subject as a new thing, without prejudice, and he says again many of the old, old things with a fresh buoyancy of spirit. His historical chapters are exceedingly interesting and free from tedious details, and his discussion of the pictorial side of the contemporary stage, of the deficiencies in lighting in spite of the modern machinery, and the need of what he calls plastic scenery, is novel and suggestive.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 697. N. 28, ’08. 1100w.
Calthrop, H. C. Hollway-.. Petrarch: his life and times. *$3.50. Putnam.
8–6038.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
“Two slight objections must find their way into our short criticism. The one—the inappropriateness of the rhyme ... which Mr. Calthrop places on the dedicatory page. And, secondly ... we deprecate Mr. Calthrop’s references and allusions to the house of Stuart. Having aired these grievances against Mr. Calthrop, we end as we began, by saying his book is only too short.”
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Acad. 73: 263. D. 21, ’07. 1270w.
“A discriminating yet enthusiastic guide who has made good use of the material already published.” A. R. Marble.
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Dial. 44: 379. Je. 16, ’08. 1150w.
“He writes clearly, without mannerism or particular distinction, and he has put within reach of readers of English the best biography, so far as we are aware, of Petrarch.”
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Nation. 86: 355. Ap. 16, ’08. 300w.
“A literary hash in which there is little new material and in which the old, frequently over or under done often defies identification. The book is without references or footnotes of any sort. All this does not mean that the author has not written an entertaining book.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 467. Ag. 29, ’08. 980w.
“The volume may very well be placed on the shelf which holds Mrs. Ady’s ‘Beatrice of Milan’ as an equally picturesque account of mediæval social conditions in Italy.”
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Outlook. 88: 44. Ja. 4, ’08. 170w.
“It is so dull that considered as a work of the imagination it does not exist at all. A book full of vain repetitions, of the vaguest generalisation, inaccurate, untrustworthy, a mere arid interjection, an ipse dixit, without any evidence to support it or indeed any knowledge properly understood of the subject with which it deals.”
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Sat. R. 105: 111. Ja. 25, ’08. 1020w.
Calvert, Albert Frederick. Goya: an account of his life and works; with 612 reproductions from his pictures, etchings and lithographs. (Spanish ser.) *$1.25. Lane.
8–13747.
A biographical sketch precedes a full list of the artist’s work accompanied by descriptive notes which include information concerning where the originals may be found.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 130. My. ’08.
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Nation. 86: 362. Ap. 16, ’08. 100w.
“The text accompanying the pictures is biographical rather than critical, but contains some acute comment and is carefully prepared.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 268. My. 9, ’08. 390w.
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Spec. 100: 1003. Je. 27, ’08. 300w.
Calvert, Albert Frederick. Granada: present and bygone. *$2.50. Dutton.
8–21789.
Of interest alike to historian and artist, this volume in Mr. Calvert’s “Spanish series” reflects the Moorish and Christian grandeur of the “Mecca of every pilgrimage beyond the Pyrenees.” The volume is finely illustrated.
“The text shows considerable research, and compares favorably with the author’s earlier work in this series; it is, however, unfortunate that he is not the master of a more attractive style of presentation.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 256. N. ’08.
“The most satisfactory section of the book is a supplementary chapter written in collaboration with Miss C. Gasquoine Hartley, though Alonso Cano’s talent is decidedly overrated.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 264. S. 5. 140w.
“To all who have visited or hope to visit Granada, as well as to those who are interested in Spanish art, we can confidently recommend ‘Granada.’”
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Nation. 87: 137. Ag. 13, ’08. 360w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 392. Jl. 11, ’08. 170w.
“Its æsthetic value is somewhat lessened by the juxtaposition of a full-paged colored illustration and a large line drawing.”
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Outlook. 89: 815. Ag. 8, ’08. 200w.
R. of Rs. 38: 255. Ag. ’08. 30w.
“Treats, perhaps, more fully of the town of Granada, as well as of the Alhambra itself, than any other book upon the subject which is easily attainable. It is not deficient in humour. There are one or two little errors which might easily have been avoided.”
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Sat. R. 106: 116. Jl. 25, ’08. 1000w.
“A specially good volume.”
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Spec. 100: 871. My. 30, ’08. 80w.
Calvert, Albert Frederick. Leon, Burgos, and Salamanca: a historical and descriptive account. (Spanish ser.) 462 half-tones, *$1.25. Lane.
8–35378.
A souvenir rather than a guide book which in its historical sketches and descriptions provides information for the amateur on architecture and archaeology.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 131. My. ’08.
“The illustrations are plentiful, as in the other volumes of the series, but the text, as usual, leaves a good deal to be desired.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 264. S. 5. 460w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 50w.
Calvert, Albert Frederick. Murillo. (Langham ser., v. 20.) 165 il. $1. Scribner. (Spanish ser.) *$1.25. Lane.
W8–6.
The entire work of Mr. Calvert tends to furnish the tourist with the “royal roads to knowledge.” A biographical sketch of Murillo is followed by a list of the artist’s works with brief descriptions.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 131. My. ’08. 40w.
“He puts together the well-known facts with some skill, and his narrative is pleasantly written. We notice a few inaccuracies.”
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Lond. Times. 6: 126. Ap. 19, ’07. 300w.
Calvert, Albert Frederick. Toledo: an historical and descriptive account of the “City of generations;” with over 500 il. (Spanish ser.) *$1.25. Lane.
W8–6.
The author’s aim has been that of equipping the illustrations with brief descriptive matter rather than of supplying new facts and theories. “He gives us legend, as, for instance, the curious story of the birth of Pelayo; history—when it can be distinguished from legend—and this both local and national; art, in its various development of architecture, sculpture, etc.” (Spec.)
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 76. Mr. ’08.
“For the casual tourist a handbook of this sort is of value.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 441. S. ’08. 130w.
“The chapter on El Greco, in which Mr. Calvert has had the advantage of a collaborator, is the most readable part of this volume. The rest of the text is burdened with details which will seem excessive to the average reader, and many of which will be found inaccurate by scholars.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 352. Mr. 21. 420w.
Spec. 100: 105. Ja. ’08. 70w.
58Calvert, Albert Frederick, and Gallichan, Catherine G. (Hartley). Velazquez: an account of his life and works; with 136 reproductions from his most celebrated pictures. (Spanish ser.) *$1.25. Lane.
8–13287.
“It is not an exhaustive treatise of the painter’s work, nor a full biographical essay, still less is it a handbook to explain his pictures. It is just an invitation, as it were, to look more carefully at the pictures themselves.... The list of the paintings of Velasquez, together with an indication of where the originals may be found, is in itself a valuable guide to the student.”—N. Y. Times.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 131. My. ’08.
“The principal value ... will be found in the almost unprecedented fulness of illustration.”
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Nation. 86: 362. Ap. 16, ’08. 100w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 170. Mr. 28, ’08. 280w.
“The book gives the well-known information in a convenient form.”
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Spec. 100: 1003. Je. 27, ’08. 50w.
Calvert, Albert Frederick, and Gallichan, Walter M. Cordova: a city of the Moors. il. *$1.25. Lane.
7–41577.
“A historical sketch of three chapters gives the setting of the town in the life of the peninsula, and another chapter introduces us to its famous sons, Seneca, Lucan, El Gran Capitan and others less noted. One hundred and fifty-nine excellent plates give an outlook upon the chief objects of interest. These form almost half of the book and contribute to its value in at least the same proportion.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“It is a mischievously bad book. The larger works were, at least, protected by their high price from falling into the hands of ordinary students: this handbook is within the reach of all, and therefore able to mislead a large number of readers. Even worse than his want of all method is the mawkish clap-trap meant for poetical description. Mr. Calvert has not the art of fine writing, and had better give up these ungainly essays.”
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Acad. 13: 917. S. 21, ’07. 1250w.
“The author has excellent powers of description, and leads us around the city and through the mosque in a way that enables the reader to catch the spirit of the place exceptionally well.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 268. Ja. ’08. 250w.
“Their labour in respect of the collection of plates which occupies a good half of their book has been well bestowed. The book, is, on the whole, well and agreeably written.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 412. O. 5. 800w.
Cambridge history of English literature; ed. by A. W. Ward. 14v. ea. *$2.50. Putnam.
7–40854.
A work covering the whole course of English literature from Beowulf to the end of the Victorian age which is intended (a) to give a connected account of the successive movements, both main and subsidiary, in English literature; (b) to trace the progress of English as a vehicle of English literature; (c) to take note of the influence of foreign literature upon English literature and on foreign literatures; (d) to provide each chapter with a sufficient bibliography.
v. 1. From the beginning to the cycle of romance.
The volume is composed of a number of essays contributed by different writers whose scholarship and fitness have recommended them for the service.
v. 2. Carries the treatment from the time of Chaucer to the end of the middle ages.
“The authority of some of the many contributors to these two volumes may be questioned, the treatment in the main is cyclopedic rather than continuous, and the general trend linguistic more than literary, but the work as a whole will from its scope and nature be a valuable tool in larger libraries.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 256. N. ’08. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Dealing with the book as a whole, we can commend it as an astonishingly correct and well-printed handbook; but it falls short of satisfaction as a history of English literature. It will not stand comparison with ‘Petit de Julleville,’ the test which presents itself naturally, either in quality of production or literary style. More efforts might be made to prevent overlapping.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 719. D. 7. 3000w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The editors of this volume are to be congratulated on a much higher level of achievement than its predecessor showed; they have produced a book which is indispensable to any serious student of English literature.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 325. S. 19. 1350w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Not all the contributors are persons, we will not say of ripe scholarship, but even of accurate and ordered knowledge.”
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Atlan. 102: 692. N. ’08. 3000w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Most of the bibliographies are well compiled, though there is a want of uniformity in their plan. The volume as a whole deserves unstinted admiration.” D.
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Eng. Hist. R. 23: 402. Ap. ’08. 650w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The first volume is altogether too encyclopedic for a thoroly satisfactory literary history, which ought to be continuous and expansive.”
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Ind. 64: 1094. My. 14, ’08. 500w. (Review of v. 1.)
“We must look upon the present work as the first-fruits, albeit ripe and perfect, of the new school of English scholarship, and we welcome the present volume as a splendid specimen of taste, learning, and research in this department. As an earnest of what is yet to come its contents are remarkable.”
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Lit. D. 36: 236. F. 15, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)
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Lit. D. 37: 400. S. 19, ’08. 240w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The cooperative history of which we now have the first volume, fulfils, to a respectable degree, our expectations. It is a pity, however, that for so many chapters, the editors have been unable to secure contributors of authority. On the other hand, actual errors of statement are few.”
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Nation. 86: 129. F. 6, ’08. 660w. (Review of v. 1.)
“A serious deficiency in the present volume is the want of a general characterization of the period.”
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Nation. 87: 74. Jl. 23, ’08. 800w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The volume has an interest as well as a value, only the interest is rather linguistic than literary.”
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N. Y. Times. 12: 861. D. 28, ’07. 830w. (Review of v. 1.)
“To the reader of ordinary culture the second volume seems vastly more interesting and instructive in the right sense, than the first. Its array of essays represents sound and broad scholarship and they form a collection of good literature by themselves.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 350. Je. 20, ’08. 630w. (Review of v. 2.)
R. of Rs. 38: 125. Jl. ’08. 150w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“For the larger of these tasks some of the authors of this volume are not very well qualified.”
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Sat. R. 105: 437. Ap. 4, ’08. 2200w. (Review of v. 1.)
59Cambridge modern history; planned by the late Lord Acton; ed. by Adolphus W: Ward, G: Walter Prothero and Stanley Leathes. 12v. ea. *$4. Macmillan.
v. 5. The age of Louis XIV.
“The government of Louis, his foreign policy, the Gallican church, Molière and his contemporaries in letters, and the war of the Spanish succession are here, but they have been taught their place in the scheme of things. The revolution in England, the affairs of the small but mighty United Provinces, the Anglo-Dutch rivalries, and Peter the Great, Charles XII, the Great Elector and their respective enterprises are justly estimated and printer’s space meted out to them accordingly. The colonies and India also have a chapter.”—Ind.
“The English edition of this volume, like its companions, is notably free from such errors, but a considerable number of typographical mistakes, sometimes quite serious ones, have found their way into the American edition. Few more useful volumes, and, save for one hopelessly confused contribution, few more eminently usable volumes on this period have appeared or are likely to appear.” W. C. Abbott.
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 863. Jl. ’08. 1800w. (Review of v. 5.)
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 234. O. ’08. (Review of v. 5.)
“Contains a number of exceptionally good articles, but it leaves us wondering how the editors would justify the inclusion of others.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 722. Je. 13. 1400w. (Review of v. 5.)
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Ind. 64: 1200. My. 28, ’08. 350w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Regarded as literature, this volume seems to us less effectively written than the first two were, and there are fewer contributors of first-rate eminence.”
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Nation. 87: 11. Jl. 2, ’08. 1850w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Making allowances for deficiencies of the plan, it is a remarkable contribution to historic science by its comprehensiveness, its almost excessive fullness of detail, and its facilities for easy references.” Joseph Jacobs.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 286. My. 23, ’08. 1000w. (Review of v. 5.)
“A high standard of scholarship prevails, together perhaps with a rather higher quality of literary excellence than usual.”
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Outlook. 88: 657. Mr. 21, ’08. 300w. (Review of v. 5.)
Reviewed by J. T. Shotwell.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 23: 529. S. ’08. 1200w. (Review of v. 5 and 10.)
R. of Rs. 37: 636. My. ’08. 200w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Is fully equal to any of its predecessors. The chapter by M. Faguet on French seventeenth-century literature and its influence in Europe is disappointing. Making all allowances, this contribution remains sketchy and unsatisfying.”
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Sat. R. 105: 141. F. 1, ’08. 1800w. (Review of v. 5.)
“By some mysterious process it has converted the excitement and the significance of the seventeenth century into flatness and insipidity. The book falls between two stools; it should have been either a great deal longer or a great deal more condensed.”
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Spec. 100: 577. Ap. 11, ’08. 1700w. (Review of v. 5.)
Cameron, Margaret. Cat and the canary. †$1. Harper.
8–5576.
A suburban farce-comedy that grows out of a husband’s invitation to an influential capitalist and his wife to spend the night at his home. The wife suddenly bethinks herself of the fact that the necessary lingerie garment to offer her guest is not forthcoming on account of a series of accidents, chief among which being the baby’s overturning of an ink bottle in the laundry basket. In desperation the husband robs his neighbor’s wash, pins a five-dollar bill to the line, is caught, extricates himself thru the prestidigitateur’s art and wins the approval of his admiring neighbor.
“The humor is heightened by the plausibility of the situation.”
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Campbell, Frances. Shepherd of the stars. *$1.50. Dutton.
Steeped in the atmosphere of the East, beguiling in its invitation to “embark immediately for Morocco,” this book is all about a maiden aunt and two wonderful nieces, Felicia and Pickle, who journey and camp in Morocco. “Felicia, who is always in the foreground of prettily studied Eastern life and scenery, is a blend of alluring early-Victorian and twentieth century models.... We can watch the wooing and winning of her by that astonishingly splendid young duke in disguise without a pang of envy, since for ourselves we prefer Pickle.” (Lond. Times.)
“No one but the most carping of readers would deny its cleverness and quick sympathy and charm. And yet one has constantly to regret little exaggerations, little pieces of carelessness, little shallownesses more apparent, perhaps, than real.”
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Lond. Times. 6: 142. My. 3, ’07. 380w.
“For its unconscious humor, its ingenuous amateurishness, the book has a value not to be ignored in this day of sophisticated accomplishment.”
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Nation. 86: 380. Ap. 23, ’08. 250w.
“The author’s power of transmitting impressions of colors, sounds, scents, moods, and a host of other delicate things usually incommunicable is almost magical.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 200w.
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Campbell, James Mann. Paul the mystic: a study in apostolic experience. (Crown theological lib.) *$1.50. Putnam.
8–25728.
Paul’s experiences and teaching interpreted from the standpoint of the mystic. “Even those who do not like mysticism will scarcely find any violence done to the apostle here: Paul the mystic is Paul at his best. In this respect I think that Dr. Campbell’s book is to be welcomed: it awakens distrust of those rationalistic accounts of the apostle’s character, in which everything really divine in his life and doctrine is relegated to the irresponsible void of religious fancy, where anything may happen.... Throughout the book, Paul’s mysticism is shown to be the vital, originative, principle in religious experience; it is, in fact, the highest expression of his faith.” (Hibbert J.)
“It is a pity that a volume of such character should be vitiated by two well-defined flaws. Dr. Campbell is most rabidly anti-Roman. Side by side with these unnecessary jibes are occasional lapses of taste in diction.”
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Acad. 72: 361. Ap. 13, ’07. 1000w.
“A stimulating and interesting study.”
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Bib. World. 32: 78. Jl. ’08. 20w.
“He shows a varied knowledge of books, especially of those on the subject with which he deals, and has a sound grasp of the principles of critical exegesis.” R. A. C. Macmillan.
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Hibbert J. 6: 690. Ap. ’08. 660w.
“He has written a good deal that is true, and much that is important, but he has hardly come at the heart of his subject or portrayed with any clearness or satisfaction the mystical elements in Paul’s religious faith.”
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Ind. 65: 899. O. 15, ’08. 440w.
“Such a writer may convey much information on Paul the missionary, or even Paul the maker of dogma, but he cannot deal successfully with Paul the mystic.”
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Nation. 87: 314. O. 1, ’08. 300w.
60“An interesting and thought-provoking volume.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 376. Jl. 4, ’08. 120w.
Campbell, Norman Robert. Modern electrical theory. (Cambridge physical ser.) *$2.25. Putnam.
8–16903.
“The present book might be called ‘The science of the electron.’ It is not written for the expert. ‘It was begun with the idea of providing a text-book from which students, well-grounded in the elementary branches of physics, might obtain some knowledge of the later developments’; and although this scheme has been departed from in some respects, the above quotation from the preface represents fairly well the general scope of the book.” (Nature.)
“Some few objections may be taken to the book. An honest and very able book.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 163. F. 8. 1230w.
Ind. 65: 316. Ag. 6, ’08. 100w.
“His exposition would gain if the overbearing tone were modified. The reader also resents the too colloquial character of some sentences. Although we do not find ourselves in agreement with everything in this book, it is undeniably a very invigorating study of the subject.”
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Nature. 78: 73. My. 28, ’08. 1450w.
“The author has chosen his material wisely and combined it with skill. The perspective is thoroughly good and the point of view is not that of the popularizer of second-hand knowledge.” H. A. Bumstead.
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Science, n.s. 28: 649. N. 6, ’08. 600w.
Campbell, Rev. Reginald John. Christianity and the social order. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–41762.
An analysis which shows the correspondence between the principles of Christianity and those of modern socialism—socialism in its best sense. The book is written “from the point of view of one who believes that the movement reprobated by the Pope on the one hand, and dogmatic protestantism on the other, under the name of modernism really represents a return to the primitive Christian evangel, freed from its limitations and illusions.” Mr. Campbell believes that the present spiritual movement is destined to rescue Christianity from ecclesiasticism in all its forms.
“The writer cannot agree with the ultimate conclusions of this book.” A. T. Burns.
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Am. J. Theol. 12: 671. O. ’08. 400w.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 37. F. ’08.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 499. Mr. ’08. 130w.
“The volume is one of the most profoundly thoughtful popular treatises dealing with the world-wide struggle and irrepressible conflict for economic independence that has yet appeared from the pen of a moral idealist. The Rev. R. J. Campbell is a worthy successor to Canon Kingsley and Frederic D. Maurice.” B. O. Flower.
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Arena. 39: 374. Mr. ’08. 4700w.
Reviewed by G: Hodges.
Atlan. 102: 127. Jl. ’08. 870w.
“I do not know where a better general discussion of the subject may be found; it is wholly sympathetic, yet not at the expense of truth, and might well carry conviction to those who would not be moved by a colder and more purely scientific treatment.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
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Dial. 45: 164. S. 16, ’08. 500w.
Reviewed by James Seth.
Hibbert J. 6: 910. Jl. ’08. 1800w.
“It is an able work, free from the blemishes of style and sentiment which make volumes of sermons the least popular of all forms of literature.”
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Ind. 64: 587. Mr. 12, ’08. 350w.
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J. Pol. Econ. 16: 317. My. ’08. 350w.
“Dr. Campbell is undoubtedly doing good, But his best work is as a preacher of religion. He is not a success as theologian or economist.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 84. F. 15, ’08. 120w.
“One reads a book like this with regret and misgiving. Not only is one forced to disagree with very much that it contains, but one is also compelled to think that it will inevitably cast a shadow on Mr. Campbell’s earlier work.” C: Johnston.
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No. Am. 188: 140. Jl. ’08. 980w.
“Mr. Campbell’s volume illustrates that curious incoherence of thought which seems to me to be a general characteristic of the radical socialists.” Lyman Abbott.
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Outlook. 88: 538. Mr. 7, ’08. 650w.
“It is not worth while to examine Mr. Campbell’s argument chapter by chapter. He has nothing that is particularly striking or novel to say.”
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Spec. 100: 192. F. 1, ’08. 320w.
Campbell, Rev. Reginald John. New theology sermons. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–33946.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
“These sermons are a very interesting exhibition of the homiletic possibilities of what Mr. Campbell reluctantly calls the new theology.”
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Am. J. Theol. 12: 675. O. ’08. 120w.
“The controversial is subordinated to the practical ethics or the spiritual message that glows in the light and warmth of the living truth on every page.” B. O. Flower.
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Arena. 39: 113. Ja. ’08. 3850w.
“Many will find them altogether too theological, and too much of any theology, old or new, is bad for sermons.”
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Ind. 64: 1045. My. 7, ’08. 100w.
“With their endless confusions, their perfervid and narrow zeal for a type of doctrine, their blindness to the most real distinctions, the discourses of Mr. Campbell induce anything but the feeling of religious calm and trustfulness.”
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Nation. 86: 81. Ja. 23, ’08. 170w.
“Hastily written, bad in style, and based on a rough mixture of diluted Hegelianism and cheap nonism. He will make many men think whom profounder theologians will leave untouched.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 84. F. 15, ’08. 160w.
“These sermons are characterized by insistence on reality, by care for things rather than names, by warmth of human feeling and by confidence in the invincibility of love. To the reader who shares in these qualities they will prove broadening and uplifting, despite what we regard as a theological one-sidedness.”
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Outlook. 87: 829. D. 14, ’07. 470w.
Campbell, Thomas. Complete poetical works; ed. by J. Logie Robertson. (Oxford ed. of standard authors.) *75c. Oxford.
Mr. Robertson has collected Campbell’s poems and rearranged them according to natural rather than chronological order. The author in his preface “explains that he has ‘not printed everything metrical that Campbell wrote,’ but that this edition contains more than any previous one, and ‘nothing that deserved to be included has been omitted.’” (Ath.)
“The book is a further specimen of the careful editing and arrangement we associate with ‘The Oxford poets.’”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 227. F. 22. 200w.
Dial. 44: 251. Ap. 16, ’08. 140w.
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Nation. 86: 102. Ja. 30, ’08. 300w.
“On the whole Campbell deserves a high place among the second class of poets because of his national poems.”
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Sat. R. 105: 211. F. 15, ’08. 190w.
61Campbell, Rev. Thomas Joseph. Pioneer priests of North America, 1642–1710. $1.60. Fordham univ. press.
8–22530.
Consists of eighteen monographs of the missionaries who labored among the Iroquois Indians. From Isaac Jogues to Julien Garnier, the sketches become a continued story of heroism and holy living as revealed in the missionary cause. The book is profusely illustrated.
“In lasting popular form, a splendid story of heroic apostolic zeal, and a valuable contribution to American ecclesiastical history.”
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Cath. World. 87: 832. S. ’08. 170w.
“One may well wish for Father Campbell’s book the general circulation in public and private historical libraries which it well deserves to secure.”
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Lit. D. 37: 161. Ag. 1, ’08. 250w.
“Altogether Father Campbell’s book is one of permanent interest and value. One may commend the numerous and well-chosen illustrations quite as heartily as one must deplore the absence of any kind of index.”
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Nation. 87: 341. O. 8, ’08. 550w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 320. Je. 6, ’08. 200w.
Campbell, W. S. Passer-by in London. *$1.75. Scribner.
8–21786.
Largely based upon second hand information, characterized by ‘bare and brief’ statements, this volume is devoted to points of interest to the sight-seer in London. The fullest portion of the book is that offering information about Wren’s city churches.
“His book does not tell inquirers much.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 446. Ap. 11. 200w.
“For its carefully compiled contents rather than its style, of which, indeed, it has little, the book may be recommended. It will be useful to tourists.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 334. Je. 13, ’08. 130w.
Canfield, Dorothea Frances. Gunhild: a Norwegian-American episode. †$1.50. Holt.
7–33199.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
“It is so well written as to leave one distinctly depressed.”
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Nation. 85: 568. D. 19, ’07. 480w.
“After seeking in vain for the purpose of the story, it ends in the air.”
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Outlook. 87: 828. D. 14, ’07. 110w.
Canfield, Dorothy Frances, and others. What shall we do now? new rev. Am. ed. †$1.50. Stokes.
7–36217.
Five hundred games and pastimes are included in this book for children. Science underlies the suggestions for play so that children may be instructed as well as amused.
Ind. 63: 1485. D. 19, ’07. 50w.
“There is abundant fun in its pages, well grouped.”
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Nation. 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 90w.
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R. of Rs. 36: 767. D. ’07. 70w.
Canfield, Mrs. Flavia A. Kidnapped campers: a story of out-of-doors. †$1.25. Harper.
8–28985.
A story for boys which tells of a camping trip that changed a sickly, fretful young son of wealthy parents into a sturdy, brown skinned youngster who becomes the hero of a bear-hunt.
Canning, Albert S. G. British writers on classic lands: a literary sketch. *$2.25. Wessels.
8–19258.
“A series of short—even abrupt—literary sketches, quite elementary in their scope, [this volume] deals with the literary treatment of classical lands and learning by British poets and prose-writers of varying fame. Dean Farrar and Milton, Mangnall’s ‘Questions’ and Macaulay’s ‘Essays,’ Lecky and Lemprière are all here.” (Acad.)
“The writing is pleasant and readable, but rather aimless. It is not quite clear whether the author has any definite object in writing his book.”
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Acad. 73: 727. Jl. 27, ’07. 340w.
“The style of the book is loose to exasperation, and often ungrammatical, and there is no evidence whatever of sound scholarship.”
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Nation. 85: 587. D. 26, ’07. 220w.
Carden, Robert W. City of Genoa. *$2.50. Pott.
Deals with the history, life and art of Genoa. The historical survey extends from the early colonizing struggles of the people to the alliance with Napoleon in 1797. The main portion of the book “is devoted to a study of the principal civic monuments—the Church of S. Siro, the cathedral, the harbor, the Palazzo di S. Giorgio, the Palazzo Ducale, etc., etc.—and, in each and every instance, the dull details of topography are illuminated by the associations of the sites described.” (Nation.)
“Perhaps the weakest point in the book is to be found in the fact that Mr. Carden studies his Genoa, as it were, in a vacuum, and rarely draws an analogy from the history of other communes. The volume is one which no visitor to Genoa can possibly afford to do without, and our author is to be congratulated upon the production of what is at once a learned and a readable book, serviceable alike to the student and the tourist.”
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Nation. 87: 318. O. 1, ’08. 780w.
“An admirable condensation of the history of the city and gives us in a very satisfactory way the sum and substance of the information that is available about the various objects of interest that are on view in the city at the present time.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 563. O. 10, ’08. 300w.
“What he has to say he says concisely and well, and the visitor will find his account of the art and architecture of the city more extensively serviceable than anything to be got from the none the less necessary guide-book.”
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Sat. R. 106: sup. 10. O. 24, ’08. 260w.
“He has worked the story out with unfailing industry, and has given it all the interest of which it is capable.”
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Spec. 101: sup. 711. N. 7, ’08. 360w.
Carey, Rosa Nouchette. Sunny side of the hill. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–26685.
A bright story of wholesome girlhood in which the daughter of a typically English household strives cheerily through many vicissitudes to sight the silver lining.
Carlisle, George Lister. Around the world in a year. $2. Cooke.
8–10289.
A book which exceeds in interest the ordinary book of travel. It is a record of impressions, reproduced with humor, gained by an overworked New York lawyer off for a year’s vacation. “The book may be read with decided interest by all who want to know about those things which are essential to national life the world over, and about industrial and political conditions. There are many photographic illustrations.” (Outlook.)
“Would merit but little attention were it not for the author’s genial good sense, his freshness of observation, his odd turns of speech, his delightful scorn of all things praised by those more scholastically inclined, and his almost sinful disrespect for venerable objects, both sacred and profane.” H. E. Coblentz.
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Dial. 44: 347. Je. 1, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Carlisle is keenly and shrewdly observant as well as humorous.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 144. Mr. 14, ’08. 500w.
“Mr. Carlisle has a trained mind and decided facility in arranging and placing in literary perspective his observations.”
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Outlook. 89: 127. My. 16, ’08. 130w.
62Carman, Bliss. Making of personality. $1.50. Page.
8–12175.
A plea for self-culture. Mr. Bliss introduces ideas of reform in bodies and raiment that shall make for better symbolism of soul fitness and poise.
“Mr. Carman’s book is both philosophy and poetry, and its appeal is twofold.”
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Dial. 44: 313. My. 16, ’08. 480w.
“It is, thruout, a gospel of good cheer that the poet preaches, kindly, hopeful and reasonable, with more spiritual import than appears on the surface; the happy phrases run on so pleasantly that the book might be called ‘light reading,’ but they are ‘good sentences’ that ‘would be better if well followed.’”
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Ind. 65: 1311. D. 3, ’08. 300w.
“The clear lyric utterance of the poet is apparent in many of his sentences, and this work as a whole will be found by all readers of taste at once a suggestive guide and a source of inspiration.”
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Lit. D. 37: 599. O. 24, ’08. 380w.
“It is a beautiful philosophy, most delightfully set forth, and whoever looks into it will feel impelled to do some of the things he is invited to do.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 356. Je. 20, ’08. 400w.
“Mr. Carman’s prose—if it be understood as his—is as clumsy and cacophonous as his verse is nimble and sweet.” H. W. Boynton.
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Carotti, Giulio. History of art. 4v. ea. *$1.50. Dutton.
v. 1. Ancient art; ed. and rev. by Mrs. Arthur Strong; tr. by Alice Todd.
“Professor Carotti has wished to do on a larger scale something like what Solomon Reinach has done in his admirable ‘Apollo.’... The ground covered in the present volume is that of Chapters 3 to 10, inclusive, of ‘Apollo’ (Professor Carotti does not concern himself with prehistoric art); and the 350 pages of text correspond to some 72 of Reinach’s, the pages containing much the same amount of matter, while there are 540 illustrations, against 128 in the ‘Apollo.’”—Nation.
“The translation is rather stiff, and not easy to read, but it appears to be accurate.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 409. O. 3. 660w. (Review of v. 1.)
“With its very numerous illustrations the work should be of great value to the student.”
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Int. Studio. 35: 318. O. ’08. 140w. (Review of v. 1.)
“If Professor Carotti is thus enabled to give us more detail, he has neither the grasp and lucidity nor the charm of Reinach. His book is dryer reading and will hardly convey so definite a conception of the character of the art discussed in it.”
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Nation. 87: 124. Ag. 6, ’08. 350w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Is crammed with information and cannot fail to be highly appreciated as a textbook or work of reference. Despite the admirable translation the style is conspicuous for it dryness. Dr. Carotti’s budget of compressed information deserves all possible praise for the care with which it has been brought together from authoritative sources and arranged to throw light on the chronological development of ancient art.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 500w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The first part of Signor Carotti’s volume seems more striking and novel than does the second, which is in comparison more like the treatment of classical art found in other histories.”
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Outlook. 90: 43. S. 5, ’08. 700w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The amount of information which has been compressed into this small book is astonishing.”
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Spec. 100: 1004. Je. 27, ’08. 60w. (Review of v. 1.)
Carpenter, Charles U. Profit making in shop and factory management. (Works management library.) *$2. Eng. mag.
8–11463.
In the first part of the book not only does the author discuss “the internal management, i. e., that which must secure maximum output, minimum cost, elimination of delays, and stability as well as progressiveness of manufacturing conditions, but he considers also the direction of the external phases of the business, such as marketing the product, keeping in touch with the demands of trade in order to bring out new products to meet changing demand and the like.” (Engin. N.) The second division considers for its principal topic the upbuilding of a selling organization.
“Among the many and various writings ... on factory management, Mr. Carpenter’s little book claims a high place for practical utility.”
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Engin. N. 59: 549. My. 14, ’08. 500w.
“Altogether the book is one that can be studied by manufacturers, to their benefit.”
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Engin. D. 4: 416. O. ’08. 380w.
“This well written and concise volume is full of sound and practical advice that can scarcely fail to be of great value to all manufacturers and students of industrial economics.”
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Ind. 64: 1201. My. 28, ’08. 160w.
“The book makes no appeal to literary or popular appreciation, but it has considerable economic value.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 414. Jl. 25, ’08. 180w.
Carpenter, Edward. Sketches from life in town and country, and some verses. *$1.50. Macmillan.
8–16591.
“Sketches and notes, straight from life, with no stuffing or gilding, from life chiefly in English villages, but also in a slum and in Bombay. In addition there is a note on the International socialist congress at Paris in 1889, a humorous piece of autobiography, a chapter on weeds, and some poems.”—Sat. R.
“Their power consists not in the style in which they are written so much as in their evident truthfulness.” R. E. Bisbee.
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Arena. 40: 391. O. ’08. 340w.
“When he reflects on ‘civilization, its cause and cure,’ he is a petulant child with the temper of the older Ruskin, and his mouth echoing Rousellian fallacies. When he sets quietly to work depicting the lives of the humble which have appealed to his imagination ... he reveals a certain talent of his own, albeit slightly reminiscent of Thomas Hardy.”
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Nation. 87: 313. O. 1. ’08. 260w.
“Some of the notes are excellent, the work of patient observation, and careful if not always vivid record.”
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Sat. R. 105: 826. Je. 27, ’08. 540w.
Carr, Clark Ezra. My day and generation; with 63 il. **$3. McClurg.
8–11659.
Reminiscences of an Illinois lawyer who has been active in every pre-election campaign since 1856.
“Some of the best pages in the book treat of matters European, and more particularly Danish. Colonel Carr’s pen is not so severely correct as to be incapable of making an occasional slip.” P. F. Bicknell.
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Dial. 44: 273. My. 1, ’08. 1350w.
“Colonel Carr has given us a really delightful and ever-valuable article in ‘Journey to California in 1869 with governor Yates.’”
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Lit. D. 37: 325. S. 5, ’08. 170w.
“While Mr. Carr’s relations are sometimes scrappy, sometimes tell too little and sometimes too much, they are worth reading, and 63will be resorted to hereafter by historians on the lookout for character and color.”
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Nation. 87: 290. S. 24, ’08. 600w.
“A pleasant book of memoirs.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 308. My. 30, ’08. 230w.
Carrick, John Charles. Wycliffe and the Lollards. $1.25. Scribner. 8–20493.
“A conventional treatment characterized throughout by a belligerent attitude toward Romanism. The last part gives a very fine, concise statement of the work of the reforming councils, which in the author’s opinion are due to the ‘ne’er-ending influence of Wycliffe.’”—Am. J. Theol.
“This is a scholarly treatment, condensed and highly attractive.”
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Am. J. Theol. 12: 674. O. ’08. 50w.
“A slovenly index forms a worthy conclusion to a book which has no real reason for being.”
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Nation. 87: 286. S. 24, ’08. 260w.
* Carrington, Hereward. Coming science; with an introd. by James H. Hyslop. **$1.50. Small.
A book which covers in a clear, cautious, intelligible way the real or possible meaning and explanation of the main points of interest in the problems which the psychic researcher attempts to solve. The Coming science as the author views it is psychic research.
Carrington, Hereward. Vitality, fasting and nutrition: a physiological study of the curative power of fasting; together with a new theory of the relation of food to human vitality; with an introd. by A. Rabagliati. *$5. Rebman co.
8–4583.
A book which refutes the whole system of orthodox medicine and all accepted notions as to the nature of disease and maintains that life is a thing apart from the body; that food merely replaces tissue; that the cause of all disease is the presence of effete, morbid matter within the organism; that to cure disease one must fast.
“He has written 650 pages in which a robust common sense struggles with erroneous statements, perverted facts, and uncritical methods.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 158. Ag. 8. 860w.
Lit. D. 36: 655. My. 2, ’08. 450w.
“His book is a strange medley, and hardly merits serious consideration in a scientific journal. The book is only remarkable as an instance of the lengths to which a fad can be carried.” W. D. H.
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Nature. 79: 66. N. 19, ’08. 360w.
“Certainly a great book. Mr. Carrington knows a whole lot of things, some of which are so and a few more of which may be, and his big book can be read with profit and interest, even by those who will not accept many of its main contentions.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 169. Mr. 28, ’08. 850w.
Carter, James Coolidge. Law: its origin, growth and function. **$2.50. Putnam.
7–31236.
A course of lectures prepared for delivery before the Harvard law school. “The lectures, as would be anticipated from the proposed occasion, are general in their nature and couched in non-technical language. They make no contribution to legal history. Mr. Carter adopts, for his purposes, the views and conclusions generally held by others. These lectures make no such attempt to determine the province of jurisprudence, as was the purpose of the painful and laborious logic of John Austin. They contain no such searching analysis of legal ideas as is to be found in the classical treatise of Professor Holland. Their force is spent upon the general theorem, that ‘the whole private law, which governs much the larger part of human conduct, has arisen from and still stands upon custom, and is the necessary product of the life of society, and therefore incapable of being made at all.’” (Am. Hist. R.)
“Whether one agrees with him or not, the book is of great interest as an expression of the deliberate and mature conviction of one of the most thoroughly trained and powerful legal minds which this country has yet produced.” F. R. Mechem.
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 313. Ja. ’08. 660w.
“It is an honor to American literature, as well as to the American bar, to have made such a contribution as this to the philosophy of jurisprudence. It is hardly hazardous to predict that this posthumous volume will prove to be an epochmaking work in the study of its subject.” Montgomery Schuyler.
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N. Y. Times. 12: 717. N. 9, ’07. 2670w.
Outlook. 88: 514. F. 29, ’08. 530w.
Carter, John F., jr. Destroyers. $1.50. Neale.
8–1780.
A novel which depicts the struggle of a young American capitalist against organized labor. “A strong plea is made for the incorporation of unions. But the argument throughout is for the victory of might, not right, and presupposes that men are enemies and that society must naturally be based on that supposition.” (N. Y. Times.)
“It is the book of a man who has made up his mind hastily about some of the greatest questions with which society is confronted. He has seen the danger in the unions—he has overlooked much else.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 356. Je. 20, ’08. 240w.
Carter, Samuel T. Wanted—a theology. *75c. Funk.
8–17230.
A continuation of Dr. Carter’s contention against scholastic theology. It is a forcible arraignment of the old doctrine and a plea for the religion as Christ taught it in the love of God and man.
“It is a vital work that merits the widest possible circulation among orthodox Christians who yearn for something more than the husks of scholastic or creedal theology.”
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Arena. 40: 469. N. ’08. 2000w.
Ind. 65: 790. O. 1, ’08. 120w.
Nation. 87: 73. Jl. 23, ’08. 300w.
“He writes incisively, but evidently out of a long experience of gladsome faith in God.”
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Outlook. 89: 389. Je. 20, ’08. 250w.
Cary, Elisabeth Luther. Art of William Blake: his sketch-book, his water-colors, his painted books. **$3.50. Moffat.
7–41109.
“The various phases of Blake’s art are discussed.... She bases part of her information on Blake’s sketch book, to the manuscript copy of which she had access. Many of the illustrations are published for the first time.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The essay ... is a bit of unrestrained eulogy.” F: W. Gookin.
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Lit. D. 35: 919. D. 14, ’07. 130w.
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Nation. 86: 317. Ap. 2, ’08. 100w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“Is notable for its penetration, its critical acumen, and the sanity and breadth of its appreciation.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 380. Jl. 4, ’08. 770w.
“To the general reader and, we think, to many a technician, Miss Cary’s text may seem to be unduly emphatic as to the importance of drawing as the true essence of great art.”
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Outlook. 88: 278. F. 1, ’08. 300w.
64Cary, Elisabeth Luther. Honoré Daumier. **$3.75. Putnam.
7–36960.
Miss Cary says “If we care to look upon the France of the past century with eyes that note not merely the surface view, but types, characteristics, deep-seated principles, unconscious tendencies, with a clear appreciation of their values and relations, we cannot do better than turn page by page a collection of Daumier’s drawings if by good fortune, such may have fallen in our way.” Here are reproduced about seventy-five of Daumier’s social and political caricatures with an introductory and explanatory essay on his art.
“Miss Cary’s introduction is critical and interpretative, and makes an excellent basis for a study of the great cartoonist’s work.”
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Dial. 43: 423. D. 16, ’07. 130w.
“As a character-study, not only of an artworker, but also of his times, Miss Cary’s ‘Honoré Daumier’ occupies a unique place.”
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Outlook. 87: 616. N. 23, ’07. 180w.
Casson, Herbert Newton. Romance of steel: the story of a thousand millionaires. **$2.50. Barnes.
7–25647.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
“Bright, interesting, and apparently reliable biographical sketches of men in whom the public is interested. Not a great book, nor especially educational, but answering the demands of a legitimate curiosity.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 8. Ja. ’08. ✠
“It is decidedly readable, despite an occasional complication of biographies. The title, however, may prove misleading. The person seeking a scholarly, or even complete, history of the iron and steel industry in this country will certainly be disappointed at the brief mention accorded the early history of iron making. The book is to be heartily recommended to all who would know the manner in which America’s greatest industry came to be controlled by a relatively small group of men.” W. S. Tower.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 290. Ja. ’08. 390w.
“His book is almost entirely free from the errors met with frequently in works of this class.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 387. Mr. 28. 1200w.
“It may be of interest to the public, but is more likely to be highly valued by the various steel magnates for whose greater glory it seems to have been written. Its appropriate place seems to be among the ‘Fads and fancies’ of economic literature.”
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Nation. 86: 160. F. 13, ’08. 120w.
“Gives a popular and dramatic account of the development of the modern iron industry.”
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Pol. Sci. Q. 23: 189. Mr. ’08. 50w.
Casson, Herbert Newton. Romance of the reaper. **$1. Doubleday.
8–15470.
“The tenacious struggle of the inventors of the reaping machine, their Titanic combats for supremacy, the succession of mechanical triumphs that have produced the modern self-binder and the final development of the harvester trust, together form a wonder tale of modern industry as marvelous as a story from the ‘Arabian nights.’” (Ind.) “Beginning with the story of the first practical reaper, which was completed in 1831 by Cyrus McCormick, the author traces its growth through the improvements made from time to time by other inventors up to the present harvester, a machine almost human in its workings.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Its slightly sensational style may attract older boys, for whom it is particularly suitable.”
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“At times the vivid imagination of Mr. Casson seems to take possession of his mental machinery.”
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Arena. 40: 381. O. ’08. 1200w.
“Reading a chapter by Mr. Casson is like holding the handle of an electric machine—one gets a series of shocks that make the nerves tingle.”
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Ind. 65: 665. S. 17, ’08. 220w.
“A bright, entertainingly written, and popular account of the development and importance of the American harvester.”
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J. Pol. Econ. 16: 464. Jl. ’08. 80w.
“He tells the history of the International course, for the book is at bottom a piece of trust publicity—but most of all vitally and in a very interesting manner.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 539. O. 3, ’08. 160w.
Castle, Mrs. Agnes Sweetman, and Castle, Egerton. Flower o’ the orange. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–5883.
A collection of short stories written during the years since 1900. They are tales of the sort of daring that wins love, and are set in times all the way from the days of Elizabethan chivalry to the nineteenth century. There are eight as follows: Flower o’ the orange, The young conspiracy, The great white deeps, My rapier and my daughter, The great Todescan’s secret thrust, Pomona, and The mirror of the faithful heart.
“Light, pleasant, rather graceful, love stories.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 110. Ap. ’08.
“Unflagging spirits mark the volume, and sometimes tend to screw up the key slightly above the requisite pitch. The tales, being the issue of deft craftsmanship, are far above the average short story, and may be read with pleasure by the discriminating.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 448. Ap. 11. 200w.
“All have merit; if one must choose, the one which gives its title to the volume seems to have a rather special claim.” F: T. Cooper.
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Bookm. 27: 185. Ap. ’08. 200w.
“The stories are thin, absurd, and uninteresting, composed upon half-made plots.”
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Ind. 65: 149. Jl. 16, ’08. 200w.
“A courtly book, and good for a fireside evening.”
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Nation. 86: 354. Ap. 16, ’08. 170w.
“Such stories are meant for nothing more than the entertainment of an idle hour, and when they are as well told as are these they serve their purpose very well.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 142. Mr. 14, ’08. 350w.
“In point of style and manner the authors have done nothing better, and they have done much that is praiseworthy in story-telling.”
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Outlook. 88: 653. Mr. 21, ’08. 70w.
“They are very just in the conception of the material required by a short story; they are well shaped and quite adequately contrived; the writing is always polished and sometimes admirable; and the adventures in many instances challenge one’s concern. Yet there is not from cover to cover the least suggestion of character.”
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Sat. R. 105: 305. Mr. 7, ’08. 500w.
Castle, Mrs. Agnes Sweetman, and Castle, Egerton. Wroth. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–26197.
The Castles have hit upon an ingenious plot for their new story. A young Englishwoman, the wife of an old Italian nobleman, cherishes the memory of a brief moment of love-making when Lord Wroth swore that she was the queen of his life. They go their separate ways, her husband dies, she returns to England and learns that Lord Wroth is advertising for a wife, whom he must wed within two days or lose a vast fortune. Veiled, she presents herself with other candidates, is passed by, but buys from the chosen woman the privilege of marrying Wroth, and is wedded to him. The remainder of the story is concerned with her reasons for withholding from him the fact that she is his wife, with the conflict between love and pride.
65“Told with the usual dash of these authors, but with little of that delicate charm that made their earlier stories acceptable.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 267. N. ’08.
“It is atmosphere and incident that tell; and both are here. Moreover, the style is vivid, and full of force and colour.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 360. S. 26. 180w.
“There is in all the writing’s of the Castles a certain deliberate and wilful note of exaggeration, an almost confessed intention to write as glowingly as the resources of verbal colouring and rich imagery may achieve.” F: T. Cooper.
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Bookm. 28: 143. O. ’08. 640w.
“Lord Wroth, is artificial and Ouida-esque. He is introduced in an overwrought and almost hysterical piece of purple writing; and throughout the story is peppered with exclamation points and has an excess of sentiment and pseudo-passion.”
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Outlook. 90: 362. O. 17, ’08. 110w.
“The atmosphere of the footlights descends upon the story as it advances, and it concludes in sheer theatricality.”
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Sat. R. 106: 488. O. 17, ’08. 580w.
Catholic encyclopedia: an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic church; ed. by C: G. Herbermann and others. 15v. ea. $6. Appleton, Robert.
v. 3. “The contents of the present volume range between Brownson and Clairvaux, and cover a subject-list of unusual interest to the non-Catholic reader.”—Lit. D.
“A question that might be worth the consideration of the editorial board is whether there are not too many biographical notices of obscure and insignificant persons. One weakness is in the matter of places and persons that have been concerned in events in modern history which have had a grave bearing on the interests of Catholics and Catholicism even up to our own day.”
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Cath. World. 88: 99. O. ’08. 1600w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“The silences of the book are more eloquent than its utterances. If the ‘Catholic encyclopedia’ is to be of this stamp thruout, it does not deserve the name of scholarship.”
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Ind. 64: 103. Ja. 9, ’08. 670w. (Review of v. 2.)
“On the whole, the ‘Catholic encyclopedia’ has more than fulfilled its promises. It only remains to demand a slightly greater editorial care and discretion in the choice of subject and allotment of space. In comparison with other contemporary works of reference, neither authors nor publishers have anything to fear.”
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Lit. D. 36: 163. F. 1, ’08. 2200w. (Review of v. 2.)
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Lit. D. 37: 227. Ag. 15, ’08. 1350w. (Review of v. 3.)
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Nation. 87: 121. Ag. 6, ’08. 680w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“In respect to candor and fairness, the editors deserve great commendation.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 351. Je. 20, ’08. 1050w. (Review of v. 3.)
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Outlook. 89: 628. Jl. 18, ’08. 130w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The work has a value not only for Catholics, but for the general reader of whatever religious belief.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 255. F. ’08. 130w. (Review of v. 2.)
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R. of Rs. 38: 127. Jl. ’08. 70w. (Review of v. 3.)
“When due allowance is made for the special difficulties likely to be felt in the early volumes of any international undertaking, the performance, though very unequal, seems to us to be distinctly high in its general level.”
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Sat. R. 106: sup. 4. N. 21, ’08. 1250w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
Cavanagh, Francis. Care of the body. (New lib. of medicine.) *$2.50. Dutton.
8–6051.
“In the series, as planned, all the great aspects of ‘preventive medicine’ are dealt with from many standpoints. In ‘The care of the body’ Dr. Cavanagh handles in a very popular yet fundamentally scientific way the leading generalities of personal bodily hygiene—sleep, baths, exercise, training, fatigue and massage, clothing, skin, hair, teeth, feet and hands, light, eye, ear, nose. Each of these has a chapter. The volume is completed by chapters on position, habit, and the functions of the physician.”
“The author is well read, writes attractively and is original in his method of presentation.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 257. N. ’08.
“The book may serve as a standard one for the subject with which it deals; the information is accurate and useful.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 485. O. 19. 200w.
“The general criticism may be made that there is often lack of explicitness as to the remedy for the evils which the reader is asked to recognize; in fact, the book appeals to a rather well-bred and somewhat limited class of readers.”
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Nation. 86: 359. Ap. 16, ’08. 260w.
“The author succeeds in his effort to be simple, scientific and vivacious.”
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Nature. 77: 5. N. 7, ’07. 500w.
“It is a doctor’s book which every educated man and woman should read who desires to follow such a health toilet as may keep the body and mind comfortable and fit for everyday life.”
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Sat. R. 104: sup. 8. N. 16, ’07. 250w.
Cecil, Alicia-Margaret. London parks and gardens. *$6. Dutton.
8–21790.
“It is the history of the irregular growth of open spaces with which Mrs. Evelyn Cecil deals, beginning with Hyde, Green, and St. James’s parks, and so through the municipal parks, the commons and open spaces, to end among the squares and private gardens. But she has written more than a mere history; she describes the parks and gardens themselves, and especially deals with their horticultural possibilities. This is the distinctive feature of the book.” (Spec.) The illustrations are from water colors done by Lady Victoria Manners.
“It contains everything one could reasonably wish to know on the subject, together with some details that seem unlikely to be of the slightest possible interest to anyone.”
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Dial. 44: 353. Je. 1, ’08. 370w.
“Altho written for English readers there is a fascination in the perusal of the volume for us who have but the rare chance of seeing the famous places here described.”
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Ind. 64: 1200. My. 28, ’08. 200w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 104. F. 22, ’08. 70w.
“There was room for a writer who should look at London apart from streets and houses, and Mrs. Evelyn Cecil has filled the gap with an engaging book.”
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Spec. 99: 1097. D. 28, ’07. 680w.
Cena, Giovanni. Forewarners; tr. by Olivia Agresti Rossetti; preface by Mrs. Humphry Ward. †$1.50. Doubleday.
The story of a poor proof-reader in Turin. “Sorrow, toil, injustice, all force the hero to brood upon a solution of the problems about him. Some of the scenes are marvelously vivid, notably a company in the etcher’s room, made up of the pathetic figure of the drunkard’s wife and her imbecile child, a mad cobbler, a woman called the Salamander, and the two men. One conclusion is reached by the author. The first imperative duty of society is to favor and watch over birth—death should not be the all-absorbing point of the thought of mankind.” (Outlook.)
“The novel possesses little narrative interest, but holds the attention by virtue of its compelling sincerity, and many of its scenes and 66episodes are rich in artistic beauty. We should add that the translation is excellent.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 123. Ag. 1. 240w.
“It is well worth reading; it quickens thought, widens the horizon, gives a living value to the ideal, and, best of all, it touches the heart.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 577. O. 17, ’08. 230w.
“It moves on with irresistible force, carrying one away by its picturesque and real power.”
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Outlook. 90: 503. O. 31, ’08. 330w.
“It presents a vivid picture of a part of the body politic in Italy that has not been presented, at least to the outside world, by any previous novelist.”
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Putnam’s. 5: 366. D. ’08. 530w.
“As a close and poignant study of the life of the poor in an Italian town the book is remarkable and depressing.”
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Sat. R. 106: 337. S. 12, ’08. 170w.
“Signor Cena has described brilliantly the episodes of preternatural gloom ... which he proposed to himself, but we ourselves can hardly read the philosophy of Stanga as such with patience.”
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Spec. 101: 63. Jl. 11, ’08. 1150w.
Chadwick, William Edward. Pastoral teaching of St. Paul: his ministerial ideals. *$2.50. Scribner.
8–19131.
“The principles, methods, and spirit of the great Apostle are submitted to careful examination with a view to securing counsel for ministerial, activity in the present day. The temptation in this sort of essay is to let one’s feeling for present needs dominate his research into the work of the exemplar, but Dr. Chadwick has evidently studied Paul first, and subsequently applied conscientiously to present needs the principles discovered.”—Nation.
“It is refreshing to see a book on the pastoral teaching of Paul, sounding a note that has long been wanting.” H. P. J. Selinger.
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Am. J. Theol. 12: 515. Jl. ’08. 400w.
“Though there is a taint of prolixity in the style, the book is to be praised for the high conception of ministerial work which it reveals and for its earnest treatment of that work. It may be safely commended to men who desire to be helped in their spiritual labours by wise advice and an assurance of their high calling.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 189. F. 16. 340w.
“A sympathetic inquiry into the pastoral aims and methods of the great missionary ... which will help the pastor, or Christian worker, who is in need of inspiration for his task.” H: B. Carré.
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Bib. World. 32: 145. Ag. ’08. 460w.
“The treatise is none the less practical because it is in the first instance a careful piece of Christian biography.”
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Nation. 86: 149. F. 13. ’08. 130w.
Chaffers, William. Keramic gallery. rev. ed. *$12.50. Scribner.
A pictorial supplement to the author’s “marks and monograms on pottery and porcelain.” “In the present edition [the illustrations] have been reproduced by the half-tone process, and are inserted with the letterpress referring to them.... It has been found possible also, notwithstanding the inclusion of a hundred additional illustrations from important collections, to make one volume serve in place of two bulky ones which were required for the first edition, and as this one volume is not inconveniently large, the usefulness of the work is increased.” (Int. Studio.)
“Mr. Cundall’s letterpress is hopelessly antiquated: to enumerate the inaccuracies which Mr. Cundall has not corrected would be practically to re-write the book, and Mr. Cundall’s additions are mere unskilled botching. But it is by sins of omission that Mr. Cundall’s inadequacy is most clearly exposed.”
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Acad. 73: 265. D. 21, ’07. 1650w.
“It includes both historical and descriptive matter, and it is both exact and exhaustive.”
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Dial. 43: 423. D. 16, ’07. 200w.
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Int. Studio. 33: 168. D. ’07. 160w.
“A well-made and valuable, if somewhat colorless book.”
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Nation. 86: 563. Je. 18, ’08. 600w.
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N. Y. Times. 12: 834. D. 14, ’07. 220w.
“Unfortunately, the index is not ample enough for so exhaustive a work.”
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Outlook. 87: 616. N. 23, ’07. 150w.
* Chamberlain, Arthur Henry. Conditions and tendencies of technical education in Germany. 50c. Bardeen.
8–13346.
“A brief but very complete classification and account of the industrial and technical continuation schools of Germany. The chief function of the schools is viewed as vocational training. The commercial demand for such training is naïvely accepted as the sufficient reason for their being and the psychology of manual work in the schools is not considered.”—El. School T.
“Mr. Chamberlain has brought together in small compass a great deal of valuable material.”
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Educ. R. 36: 424. N. ’08. 50w.
“While we may not agree with Mr. Chamberlain in the very few deductions which he makes, and though the book is very poorly printed, it is an exceedingly valuable report of existing conditions in the home of vocational schools.” W: C. Payne.
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El. School T. 9: 218. D. ’08. 100w.
“Not only those interested in technical education, but all who are interested in fundamental questions of education should read Chamberlain’s little book.”
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Ind. 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 40w.
Chamberlain, Esther, and Chamberlain, Lucia. Coast of chance; pictures by C. F. Underwood. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–13722.
A story of love and intrigue with an adorable heroine and two lovers who are mysteriously involved in the theft of a famous ring. One is the real thief, the other the owner of this remarkable craftsman’s conceit; the two are made to change places, and upon the attending confusion hangs the plot.
“Much better than most of the modern mystery tales.”
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Arena. 39: 733. Je. ’08. 160w.
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Ind. 64: 1038. My. 7, ’08. 70w.
“It is new, vital, well written, and so crisp yet smooth of motion, that it carries the most unwilling reader pell-mell to the finish.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 308. My. 30, ’08. 470w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 336. Je. 16, ’08. 100w.
* Chamberlain, Jacob. Kingdom in India. **$1.50. Revell.
8–16957.
“No man did more with his life than did Jacob Chamberlain, who was for many years a missionary of the Reformed church in India. A great preacher, an accomplished scholar, a business man of ability, a medical practitioner of no mean skill, all his talents were devoted with tremendous enthusiasm to the evangelization of India.” (Ind.) “The volume itself consists of addresses, &c., on various aspects of Christian work in India. In the first there is an appreciation of Indian religions under the title of ‘The religions in the Orient: their beauties and their fatal defects.’ Then comes a paper on the Bible in India, followed by others on missionary topics, medical missions and the work of women among them. Under this last heading comes an interesting account of the high-caste Hindu girls’ schools.” (Spec.)
“All the papers and addresses are interesting, but more so after reading Dr. Cobb’s appreciation of the veteran.”
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Ind. 65: 782. O. 1, ’08. 120w.
67“Dr. Chamberlain was a diligent worker and a keen observer, and he knew how to describe what he did and what he saw.”
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Spec. 101: sup. 813. N. 21, ’08. 270w.
Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar. Ifs of history. **$1. Altemus.
7–42024.
Twenty-two “ifs” constitute a novel discussion, one which suggests a process of construction that bears resemblance to the process of restoration engaged in by sculptors who fashion arms for the Venus de Milo and heads for the Samothracian Victory. If Charles the second had accepted the kingship of Virginia, and If the Confederates had marched on Washington after Bull Run, are two of the propositions fitted to the then-existing structure of government and war, with the well-rounded conclusions which a sense of proportion demands.
“The volume is well written and is a valuable work especially to place before young people to stimulate a further interest in history.”
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Arena. 39: 491. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“Mr. Chamberlin writes agreeably and suggestively.”
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Educ. R. 35: 313. Mr. ’08. 70w.
“It would be wearisome, and would spoil the romantic flavor of the book, to point out all the technical inaccuracies in the different chapters. The author writes with a charming disregard of all probabilities, and limits his speculations by possibilities only.” S. E. Thomas.
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El. School T. 8: 465. Ap. ’08. 100w.
Chambers, Robert William. Firing line. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–23561.
Palm Beach furnishes the setting for nearly all of the scenes in this love drama. The heroine, clever, beautiful, with a heart and head struggling with each other for mastery, finds at twenty that her heart is in the ascendency and that she is hopelessly in love. A simple enough fact had she not two years before in a moment of despondency over the discovery that she was a foundling, secretly married a young college student, whom she did not love, he returning the same day to college and she to her foster-parents’ home. This secret lying at the foundation of her happiness to menace it directs the course of the story thru which run the anguish and heroism of two lovers who could meet only as comrades on the firing line.
“The story, like other good stories, suffers from the fact that it is based on a rather ancient situation.” Ward Clark.
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Bookm. 28: 151. O. ’08. 1050w.
“The best thing about this rather cheap book is its semi-tropical setting, which is the author’s opportunity for a great deal of observant and loving description. The worst part of it is the slangy talk of most of the characters.” W: M. Payne.
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Dial. 45: 214. O. 1, ’08. 320w.
“Is not so good a novel as ‘The fighting chance’ because it lacks the uplift of a great moral victory.”
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Ind. 65: 553. S. 3, ’08. 330w.
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Nation. 87: 235. S. 10, ’08. 360w.
“It is hard to forgive a hundred pages of introductory drivel, but Louis Malcourt more than atones even for that.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 494. S. 12, ’08. 350w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 741. D. 5, ’08. 180w.
“The book may be best described as having in certain parts humor, lively dialogue, and some charm, but as lacking compactness and a continuously single situation.”
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Outlook. 90: 134. S. 19, ’08. 300w.
Chambers, Robert William. Some ladies in haste. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–13948.
In which a New York man of leisure discovers that he has hypnotic power and exercises it upon a few of his acquaintances with the hope of turning them from their frivolous society inanities to nature and the open. Most astonishing things happen,—whimsical, curious, surprising ones, not the least fantastic of which is the wooing of a society girl by a club man in a tree-top.
N. Y. Times. 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“A vastly amusing bit of whimsicality, of the recognized Chambers variety.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 280. My. 16, ’08. 350w.
“The adventures have the Chambers spice, the adventurers—unreal as is their world in many respects—have always nevertheless a certain warm suggestion of being really human and delightfully alive.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 336. Je. 13, ’08. 270w.
“Only a light touch would carry off this preposterous fun, but here, as in ‘Iolanthe,’ Mr. Chambers has a fantastic fancy and the suggestion at least of poetic feeling.”
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Outlook. 89: 85. My. 9. ’08. 100w.
“Quite delightful, even if improbable.” Charlotte Harwood.
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Putnam’s. 4: 622. Ag. ’08. 130w.
Champney, Elizabeth. Romance of Roman villas (the renaissance). **$3.50. Putnam.
8–25384.
Here is given the most important chapter of the every day happenings that history records concerning each of the following villas of the great cardinals of the renaissance: Vatican, Villa of the Belvedere; Villa Farnesina; Villa Madama; Villa Aldobrandini; Villa d’Este; Villas Borghese and Mondragone; Villa Medici; Collona palace and castle of Palliano; and Hadrian’s villa. The book deals with the life more than the art of these villas. It is profusely illustrated with photogravures and reproduced photographs.
“Mrs. Champney is not equal to the occasion, and is altogether at the mercy of the difficult form she has adopted. Her English is careless, and full of Americanisms; her Italian is inaccurate; and her book exhibits a romanticism of speech that in truth was never heard on sea or land.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 506. O. 24. 130w.
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Dial. 45: 415. D. 1, ’08. 140w.
“She has told the stories of Raphael and Pauline particularly well.”
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Ind. 65: 782. O. 1, ’08. 240w.
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Nation. 87: 360. O. 15, ’08. 220w.
“To turn its handsome pages and catch the names on them, to glance at the illustrations is to make the least adventurous long to behold the grandeur that was Rome’s.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 320w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 741. D. 5. ’08. 160w.
“Mrs. Champney is always an agreeable writer, and she has made in her new volume excellent use of the abundant material in the field indicated by the title.”
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Outlook. 90: 229. S. 26, ’08. 200w.
Chancellor, William Estabrook. Theory of motives, ideals and values in education. *$1.75. Houghton.
7–33579.
“A really philosophical and ethical reflection upon the fundamental bases of life, society, and education.... [The author] devotes himself principally to the study of civilization—its nature, its institutions, its tendency towards degeneracy under urban conditions, the requisites for a stable and progressive civilization, and so on. For his principles he draws on a large group of sciences—upon history, psychology, physiology, anthropology, social science, theology, mental development, pathology, biology, logic, ethics, aesthetics, philology, and education in its history, theory and practice.”—Psychol. Bull.
“A stimulating, scholarly discussion of education as an integral part of civilization.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 8. Ja. ’08.
68“The book is not for all readers, but rather for those who can bring to it some knowledge of philosophical as well as educational thought. To such it will prove a stimulus and inspiration. Every teacher may well feel a deep satisfaction in the production of so strong and able a work on the deeper problem of his profession.” E: O. Sisson.
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Dial. 44: 275. My. 1, ’08. 1000w.
“Is rich in suggestion and on the whole is a broad and philosophic treatment of the subject.”
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Ind. 65: 318. Ag. 6, ’08. 90w.
“While it is stimulating and will doubtless be read by many teachers, it will have little influence upon the course of education.”
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Nation. 86: 399. Ap. 30, ’08. 120w.
“The topics chosen for discussion, the point of view taken in treating them, the extraordinary quality of the style, the absence of current and conventional educational terms and phrases—all make this volume an exceptional one in educational literature. Dealing in general conceptions and in ideals as the book does, it is not likely that any reader will endorse without question all that he reads, though I believe that in the large it is in accord with contemporary scientific thought.” M. V. O’Shea.
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Psychol. Bull. 5: 16. Ja. 15, ’08. 1000w.
Chandler, Frank Wadleigh. Literature of roguery. (Types of English literature ser.) 2v. **$3. Houghton.
7–31996.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
“Valuable to the special student, and probably interesting but not valuable to the general reader of more than average education.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 8. Ja. ’08.
“A very complete and admirable piece of synthetic work.” G: H. Casamajor.
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Forum. 39: 533. Ap. ’08. 1900w.
“On the whole his book must be considered mainly as a collection of materials never before gathered into one place, and, as such, a useful, indeed, an indispensable, preliminary to further work in this field.”
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Ind. 64: 754. Ap. 2, ’08. 250w.
“The book is one big bibliography; and as such it is not without its value.”
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Nation. 86: 196. F. 27, ’08. 1020w.
“Mr. Chandler’s work is a very comprehensive and generally excellent study.”
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Spec. 100: 28. Ja. 4, ’08. 350w.
* Chapman, Frank Michler. Camps and cruises of an ornithologist. **$3. Appleton.
A volume of over four hundred pages which contains in text and illustration the results of the author’s field study in preparation for a series of “Habitat groups” of North American birds for the American Museum of natural history. These groups including certain birds from the West Indies to western Canada are designed to illustrate not only the habits and haunts of the birds shown, but also the country in which they live. The reproduced illustrations contain in the foreground the birds and nests with from sixty to one hundred and sixty square feet of the locality in which they are found; while sketches of the surrounding country have been painted from nature for a background.
Chapman, John Jay. Four plays for children. **$1. Moffat.
8–18062.
Four plays in blank verse which lend themselves readily to children’s acting. They are The lost prince, King Ithuriel, The hermits, and Christmas in Leipsic.
“[Three of] the stories are in themselves sufficiently juvenile, but the dialogue, written with a magniloquence often approaching rhodomontade—in which all the little fishes talk like whales—is, as a rule, quite unsuitable for childish entertainment.”
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Nation. 87: 19. Jl. 2, ’08. 540w.
“One may read thru many books of verse without the enjoyment to be found in the perusal of these four brief plays. All the plays are written in a blank verse that is decidedly worthy of comment, not for great brilliancy, but for its almost classic simplicity and charm.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 465. Ag. 22, ’08. 200w.
Chapman, Sydney John. Work and wages; in continuation of Lord Brassey’s “Work and wages” and “Foreign work and English wages.” 2 pt. ea. $4. Longmans.
pt. 2. Wages and employment; with an introd. by Lord Brassey.
“The present instalment is ‘largely in the nature of a report,’ but ‘attempts have been made to sum up evidence and to frame independent judgments.’ These independent judgments cover some of the most important controversies of the day.... Chapters deal with the organisation of labour; the policy of trade-unions; industrial peace, with some interesting information on arbitration and wage boards in the Australasian colonies; unemployment; and lastly, workmen’s insurance and old-age pensions.”—Spec.
“Able, scientific in spirit, moderate in tone.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 257. N. ’08. (Review of pt. 2.)
“Granted the scope of the inquiry undertaken in this second volume, it is difficult to see how it could have been made more exhaustive than it is.” J: Cummings.
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J. Pol. Econ. 16: 462. Jl. ’08. 460w. (Review of pt. 2.)
Nation. 87: 72. Jl. 23, ’08. 160w. (Review of pt. 2.)
“For a long time it will remain the chief storehouse of co-ordinated facts regarding employment and unemployment, the organization of labor, and the policies of trades unions, industrial insurance, and pensions. Prof. Chapman writes in the scientific spirit, without bias or faddism, seeking rather the true thing than the forwarding of any hobby.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 228. Ap. 18, ’08. 1100w. (Review of pt. 2.)
“Unfortunately the very qualities that should commend it to English readers render it of little value to readers in other lands. For them its treatment of English conditions is, if anything, too full and its treatment of the experience of other countries too meager and, it must be added, not up-to-date.” H: R. Seager.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 23: 727. D. ’08. 700w. (Review of pt. 2.)
“By reason of its fulness of information and moderation of tone is not unworthy of the honourable traditions of the Brassey family.”
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Spec. 100: 834. My. 23, ’08. 370w. (Review of pt. 2.)
Charlton, Randal. Virgin widow. †$1.50. Dillingham.
8–9522.
A colorless, stolid, withal sensitive cripple, the brother-in-law of the “virgin widow” tells the story. He stands between the woman and the traps which her temperament sets for her. He shields her from a blackmailing Italian with the same quality of patience that he uses in protecting her from the agonies of her unrequited love. His is a work of love, unappreciated, unrewarded. The book abounds in weird atmosphere.
“Is as improbable and uncomfortable as the title suggests, but there is no denying that he has a gift for inventing ingenious and dramatic situations. His handling of these is as clumsy and unfinished as his style; but he has a rude force that overrides improbability, and holds the reader’s interest.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 505. Ap. 25. 170w.
Cheetham, Samuel. History of the Christian church since the reformation. *$2.60. Macmillan.
8–15779.
“Gives the history of three centuries and a 69half, to speak in round numbers; it includes the great churches of the East and the West, the Anglican church, and the dissident communities here and abroad.”—Spec.
“The book is learned, readable, and honest.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 572. N. 7. 140w.
“Is full of miscellaneous information, carefully and accurately compiled. The whole is written in so reasonable and sympathetic a spirit that its merits as an interpretation add greatly to its value as a narrative.” E. W. W.
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Eng. Hist. R. 23: 827. O. ’08. 420w.
“A very valuable book. It is impartial and it is comprehensive.”
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Spec. 100: 648. Ap. 25, ’08. 350w.
* Chesson, W. H. George Cruikshank. (Popular lib. of art.) *75c. Dutton.
A sketch of Cruikshank’s career which was continued thru seventy-six working years. More than fifty illustrations show the development of his art.
“Any who are interested will wish for a more straight-forward and less affected book.”
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Nation. 87: 533. N. 26, ’08. 80w.
“Mr. Chesson shows that he appreciates the artist, sees his merits, and is aware of his limitations. But we have found the style in which he sets forth his knowledge distinctly fatiguing.”
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Spec. 101: 374. S. 12, ’08. 180w.
Chester, George Randolph. Get-rich-quick Wallingford: a cheerful account of the rise and fall of an American business buccaneer. †$1.50. Altemus.
8–12804.
“This is a buoyant and blithesome account of the life and deeds of one who would probably describe himself as the past grand master of the gentle art of separating the gullible from their coin.” (N. Y. Times.) It “shows an astonishing knowledge of the ways and tricks of American ‘financiers’ and swindlers of the class indicated by the title, and the narrative is lively and amusing.” (Outlook.)
“This is a story that cannot fail to do good.”
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Arena. 39: 732. Je. ’08. 550w.
Educ. R. 36: 422. N. ’08. 30w.
“Behind ‘Get rich quick Wallingford’ is a larger significance than that usually conveyed in a good yarn well told. Mr. Chester has put his finger on a phase of our life that demands treatment.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 288. My. 23, ’08. 570w.
“The narrative is lively and amusing.”
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Outlook. 89: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 30w.
* Chesterton, Gilbert Keith. All things considered. *$1.50. Lane.
8–34727.
Thirty-five essays upon topics ranging from fairy tales to phonetic spelling from the death of Francis Thompson to the Communal kitchen.
“‘All things considered’ has, in its incoherence and scrappiness and in its unrelieved joltiness of style, the Chestertonic quality distilled to quintessential strength.”
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Dial. 45: 347. N. 16, ’08. 400w.
“It is true that these sparkling diatribes have a kind of journalistic and temporal appositeness; but all will never be so well that they will lose their point.”
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Nation. 87: 527. N. 26, ’08. 270w.
“Coming into competition with ‘Orthodoxy’ it loses its raison d’être altogether, so much is it overshadowed by its more vital fellow.” J. B. Rittenhouse.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 589. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
“Whatever were the merits of his earlier writing, they are here overlaid; whatever the faults, they are here accentuated.”
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Sat. R. 106: sup. 5. O. 24, ’08. 120w.
“Sincere, enthusiastic, endlessly witty little essays. He is so witty, one must simply refuse, in sheer self-defence perhaps, to acknowledge that he is always wise.”
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Spec. 101: sup. 709. N. 7, ’08. 420w.
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith. Man who was Thursday: a nightmare. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–7893.
A story of fantastic fears, of “the huge devils that hide the stars, yet fall at a pistol shot.” The chasers of evil are seven members of a central anarchical council, mainly detectives in disguise, who are named for the days of the week. “The actual change from the horrible to the burlesque is happily contrived; but unluckily, once the transit is completely effected, every semblance of realism is abandoned, and we are committed to a carnival of incredible absurdity, out of which, by an abrupt jerk of the kaleidoscope, we are suddenly projected into an atmosphere of exalted allegory, in which the demon-Falstaff of the plot assumes a role of mystical benevolence.” (Spec.)
“A fantasia faithfully modelled on Stevenson’s ‘New Arabian nights.’ Mr. Chesterton has not produced the eerieness or awesomeness of Stevenson, and perhaps had no desire to do so. On the other hand, he is very witty and amusing.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 350. Mr. 21. 150w.
Reviewed by F. M. Colby.
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Bookm. 27: 452. Jl. ’08. 1600w.
“A highly entertaining yarn.” W: M. Payne.
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Dial. 45: 89. Ag. 16, ’08. 280w.
“Is consistent with nothing but its author’s freakish inclination of the moment.” E: C. Marsh.
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Forum. 40: 400. O. ’08. 330w.
“Mr. Chesterton pays the penalty of the wit in not being taken seriously, even when most serious.”
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Ind. 64: 869. Ap. 16, ’08. 400w.
“Although the work is negligible as a piece of fiction, it has the interest of Mr. Chesterton’s essays—a vivacious and clever style that glitters with paradox, sometimes almost silly, and sometimes shrewd and suggestive.”
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Nation. 86: 380. Ap. 23, ’08. 180w.
“This story is told as Mr. Chesterton tells things, with wit and paradox nudging you into frequent smiles, with felicitous phrase and apt simile—quotable from page to page.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 253. My. 2, ’08. 800w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 336. Je. 13, ’08. 170w.
“Mr. Chesterton is, in short, a master of fantastic fiction.” Charlotte Harwood.
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Putnam’s. 4: 622. Ag. ’08. 300w.
“An ingenious fabric of topsy-turvey, written with all the dexterous play of phrase and wit that might be expected from the author.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 764. Je. ’08. 100w.
“The story, viewed as a mere piece of narration, is up to certain point quite first-rate. Mr. Chesterton cannot be blamed for failing to achieve the impossible—to graft spiritual ecstasy on to riotous extravaganza—but it is a pity that he should be so wanting in self-criticism as to have made the attempt.”
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Spec. 100: 465. Mr. 21, ’08. 550w.
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith. Orthodoxy. **$1.50. Lane.
8–28073.
Essays which “are concerned only to discuss the actual fact that the central Christian theology (sufficiently summarized in the Apostles’ creed) is the best root of energy and sound ethics.”
“Lest any one should be tempted again to rediscover Christianity after Mr. Chesterton’s fashion, we should like to point out that before proceeding upon his explorations he should acquire a more satisfactory equipment than Mr. Chesterton has had time to do.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 534. O. 31, 1000w.
70“You may be startled, even shocked, by this novel book; but you must admit that the heart of this witty Philistine is in the right place.”
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Nation. 87: 527. N. 26, ’08. 500w.
Reviewed by J. B. Rittenhouse.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 588. O. 24, ’08. 2400w.
“This book is as funny as Punch, and it is a new and unusual type of humorous theology.”
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Outlook. 90: 842. D. 12, ’08. 560w.
R. of Rs. 38: 638. N. ’08. 70w.
Sat. R. 106: sup. 4. O. 24, ’08. 900w.
Childs, Mary Fairfax. De namin’ ob de twins, and other sketches from the cotton land. *$1. Dodge, B. W.
8–14809.
In prose and rime these dialect sketches portray the old time negro with his loyalty, irresponsibility, and humor truthfully accentuated. The title piece depicts a grandmother’s indecision over selecting names for her dead Ceely Ann’s twins, with the final choice of “Neu-ral-gy” and “Hom-i-cide.”
“Embraces a sentiment so tender as to endow it with altogether a rare and charming quality.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 304. My. 30. ’08. 250w.
Chisholm, Louey, comp. Golden staircase: poems and verses for children. il. *$2.50. Putnam.
W7–200.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
“A well-selected anthology.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 21. Ja. ’08.
“There is a random choice and a random arrangement: some inclusions of historic interest, other inclusions of undoubted beauty; but between them there is a depression of the mediocre.”
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Nation. 85: 495. N. 28, ’07. 110w.