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Reading edition
8–5897.
A drama based upon historical facts selected from the period of Vane’s occupancy of the governorship of the Massachusetts Bay colony, 1636–1637. Political and theological controversies form the background of the drama, conspicuous among whose characters are Sir Harry Vane, Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, John Winthrop and Thomas Dudley.
Mary Stuart, queen of Scots. Queen Mary’s book: a collection of poems and essays; ed. by Mrs. P. Stewart-Mackenzie Arbuthnot. *$3.50. Macmillan.
8–16438.
“A translation of a collection of poems and essays written at intervals during her life, beginning with her Latin exercises at the age of twelve, and ending with the essay on adversity written in prison. Its best features are the five excellent reproductions of works in her handwriting, and an appendix containing the original texts in a generally accurate form.”—Ath.
“The editor is, in fact, not qualified to do good editorial work.”
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“It cannot be denied that there is a strange pathetic interest in ‘Queen Mary’s book.’ The pathos of the book lies in the poems and prose compositions of the queen herself, which are here for the first time brought together in a single volume. Our only quarrel with the book is that all the originals are not added.”
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Nation. 86: 102. Ja. 30, ’08. 400w.
“Mrs. Stewart-Mackenzie Arbuthnot does not pretend to be an historian or a critic of eminence. Her part, we may say, is to show her convictions by laying a flower on Mary’s grave, by adding a stone to the wall of defence against her enemies. And her work is done in a candid spirit.”
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246Marzo, Eduardo, comp, and ed. Art of vocalization. 3 bks. pa. ea. 75c. Ditson.
Shows to Americans with their beautiful singing voices the necessity of a “hurry never” creed if they would reach the goal of excellence attained by Europeans. Exercises for voice culture are selected from the works of Lablache, Panofka, Randegger, Marchesi, and others.
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* Masefield, John. Captain Margaret: a romance. †$1.50. Lippincott.
The story of a perilous journey to the Spanish Main whither Captain Margaret, dreamer no less than swordsman, goes from England to help the Indians against the oppression of Spain. The story tells how the renegade husband of Captain Margaret’s former sweetheart comes, with his wife, aboard the captain’s ship as it was putting out to sea, how he pretended to his wife to be nobly bent upon fighting for the Indians when in truth he is fleeing from justice, how the captain’s quiet, restrained power is a foil for the husband’s perfidy, how the wife finally recognizes it, how the colony fails but how love triumphs.
“It is a good yarn, full of colour and movement.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 92. Jl. 25. 230w.
“The psychology, and occasionally the dialogue, are strangely modern. But the story is finely conceived.”
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Sat. R. 106: 455. O. 10, ’08. 280w.
“We must say that the last chapter atones for some of the incredibilities, as it contains passages which are noble and moving, and will, we think, be very grateful to every reader.”
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Masefield, John. Tarpaulin muster. $1. Dodge, B. W.
8–10282.
Twenty-four stories, chiefly sea-tales with the tang of the salt in them, the changing lights that draw colors from old ocean, and sounds that range from alluring siren refrains to the creaking of cordage and the booming of breakers. A veritable classic is “Being ashore” which, contrary to the title, is a magnificent description of a run off River Plate, with the writer possessed of the spirit of the wind and the ecstasy of the spray.
“Mr. Masefield is a genuine sailor author, and his work merits support.”
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Ath. 1907, 1: 574. My. 11. 150w.
“Writes vividly of his themes.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 150w.
“To approach it in the same spirit that one opens an artist’s sketch-book is to guard against disappointment in not finding sea yarns of a stirring sort, and to insure appreciation of the author’s pleasant style.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 540. O. 3, ’08. 130w.
“Mr. Masefield is a master of strange effects. Writing of the sea or of Irish fairies, of whom he possesses an intimate knowledge, he leaves a feeling that haunts.”
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Sat. R. 104: 21. Jl. 6, ’07. 200w.
“Mr. Masefield challenges notice on a higher plane as a sea-folklorist (if we may be allowed the barbarous expression) and an interpreter of sea-magic; and, though the quality of his work is unequal, at its best it is very fine indeed.”
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Spec. 98: 801. My. 18, ’07. 1300w.
Mason, Caroline Atwater. Binding of the strong. †$1.50. Revell.
8–23544.
A story based upon historical facts concerning the hasty courtship and marriage of John Milton and Mary Powell. Into the background are woven facts of political strife and upheaval, while well to the fore are the desertion of the wife and the reconciliation effected by Delmé Davies, whom in the wife’s absence Milton had learned to trust and to love.
“It is a pleasing and happy story, in spite of the fact that ‘they’ did not marry in the end. It will make the great poet more real to some readers.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
“Pleasantly told tale.”
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Massey, Gerald. Ancient Egypt: the light of the world: a work of reclamation and restitution. 2v. *$12. Dutton.
8–13676.
“The volumes are divided into twelve books, in which Mr. Massey has treated ... the various forms of sign language and Egyptian wisdom as the source from which was derived most of the knowledge of the ancient world and the religion of the modern.”—N. Y. Times.
“In any case his book would be of no value except as a compilation. But, further, he had little idea of what is and what is not permissible in logical argument; very few of his syllogisms are without a flaw; he has no perception of what is possible or impossible in respect of philological comparisons, and he was dominated by a fanatical belief with regard to the origin of Christianity which at once takes his book out of the realm of science.”
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Nature. 77: 291. Ja. 30, ’08. 950w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 89. F. 15, ’08. 160w.
“Very interesting work.”
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Outlook. 89: 490. Je. 27, ’08. 500w.
Massey, Wilbur Fisk. Practical farming. *$1.50. Outing pub.
7–40013.
A book for farmers and agricultural students which treats of the care of the soil and crop production.
“Is well written, in an easy style.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 46. F. ’08.
“In every way this book is of decided value.”
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Ind. 65: 612. S. 10, ’08. 500w.
Massie, Walter Wentworth and Underhill, Charles R. Wireless telegraphy and telephony popularly explained; with a special article by Nikola Tesla. **$1. Van Nostrand.
8–22565.
Aims to give in simple untechnical language a clear idea of the reception and development of wireless communication. The author describes the substance thru which signals are sent, the theory of the propagation of waves, method of generating and receiving the waves, the apparatus used, the uses, limitations, and possibilities of wireless telegraphy—both commercially and financially.
Engin. D. 4: 547. N. ’08. 120w.
“The authors of this little work have succeeded better than one might expect in the task of giving the lay reader simple ideas of wireless telegraphy and telephony.”
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Engin. N. 60: 429. O. 15, ’08. 130w.
“The book cannot fail to be helpful to one wishing to obtain a fair idea of the principal features of wireless communication, for the authors have handled the subject in an instructive manner.”
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Engin. Rec. 58: 503. O. 31, ’08. 140w.
“The explanations are simple and clear and the descriptions are not overloaded with technical details.”
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Ind. 65: 790. O. 1, ’08. 50w.
“Deals fairly well with the first part of the title, giving the theory of electro-magnetic wave motion in an especially clear manner. Wireless telephony is but slightly touched upon.”
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Nation. 87: 343. O. 8, ’08. 80w.
R. of Rs. 38: 511. O. ’08. 30w.
247Masson, John. Lucretius, epicurean and poet. *$3.50. Dutton.
8–15762.
A work which represents the painstaking study of a lifetime. “Dr. Masson’s scheme includes a survey of Roman history in the time of Lucretius, a study of the influences working in the man, and an exhaustive exposition of the qualities of his work” (N. Y. Times.) including chapters on the atomic theory derived by Epicurus from Democritus, taken up by Lucretius, and revised by Gassendi.
“A careful perusal of Mr. Masson’s work has impressed us so favorably that we think that his book, rightly understood, cannot fail to extend and increase the knowledge and appreciation of one of the greatest of Roman poets.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 329. S. 19. 800w.
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Class. J. 4: 47. N. ’08. 40w.
“A good piece of work.”
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Ind. 65: 151. Jl. 16, ’08. 420w.
“Dr. Masson could not well treat the subject without giving much valuable material. But as a whole, the work is irritating and unsatisfactory. Dr. Masson’s work suffers fundamentally from lack of reflection.”
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Nation. 86: 381. Ap. 23, ’08. 1100w.
“The whole hook provides rare entertainment for the mind fitted to receive it.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 152. Mr. 21, ’08. 650w.
“For a faithful exposition of this noble poem this volume is unrivaled.”
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Outlook. 89: 126. My. 16, ’08. 350w.
“A reading of Mr. Masson’s substantial book and a fresh reading of the poet suggest that a wholesale appreciation of Lucretius comes natural nowadays either to persons who shut their ears to the music of words, or whose interest—and this is perhaps the case with Mr. Masson—lies really in the history of science.”
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Sat. R. 105: 535. Ap. 25, ’08. 1000w.
“The relation of Lucretius’s scientific reasoning to modern thought has been discussed by Dr. Masson in the present volume with a knowledge and insight which leave little to be desired.”
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Masson, Thomas Lansing. New Plato; or, Socrates redivivus. **75c. Moffat.
8–10888.
Socrates steps out of the pages of Plato into Mr. Masson’s humorous colloquies as easily as he quits the steerage of the Lusitania and takes up his headquarters at the Mills hotel. He acquaints himself with New Yorkers, visits their homes, and discusses with true modern insight such subjects as The married life, The gambler, The bridge player, Socialism, Learning, Surgeons, Philosophy, The missionary, and The nature of happiness.
“Probably no parodist has so struck the modern note as he has done in his ten brief colloquies. His English imitates successfully, and often amusingly, the Jowett style. He would have done well to submit his proofsheets to a Greek scholar before publication.” P. F. Bicknell.
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Dial. 44: 338. Je. 1, ’08. 340w.
“Mr. Masson’s wit is subtle and his humor is elusive. But both pervade his writings and give them appreciable value.”
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Mastin. J. B. Immortal light. $1.50. Cassell.
A romance with a scientific accompaniment which steers the reader to the South Pole. “Mr. Mastin pictures races of mankind far higher in development than ourselves as dwelling near the South Pole.... We see his travellers pass through solids, on ether, by a natural law applied by human intelligence to the art of locomotion. Instead of Eskimos, they meet radiant persons who can talk in all languages, but understand thought without speech. Instead of icefields, they find a pretty country where the panther grazes like a sheep. But the Pole itself is in a prohibited, region guarded by electricity.” (Ath.)
“The story is wildly improbable, but confronts incredulity with a considerable display of scientific detail. A strong religious feeling animates the last part of the book, but we think the author errs in linking his deism with the conception of a polar Eden.”
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N. Y. Times. 12: 657. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The details are worked out in a fairly interesting manner, and the novel deserves notice, as it points to the way in which further developments in scientific attainment may serve as the foundation for a higher spiritual evolution in human beings.”
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Spec. 100: 68. Ja. 11, ’08. 150w.
Mathews, Catharine Van Cortlandt. Andrew Ellicott: his life and letters. **$2.50. Grafton press.
8–13374.
Sets forth the work and character of “a foundation-builder,” a man who laid out the city of Washington, completed the survey of Mason and Dixon’s line, negotiated with the Indians and helped to settle numerous boundary disputes for the government.
“This revival ... of an old, honest, capable and useful member of a half-forgotten world, is a refreshing event. If the new ‘prosperity associations’ would encourage such revivals, American libraries would be the better for it.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 355. Je. 20, ’08. 100w.
Mathews, Frances Aymar. Flame dancer. †$1.50. Dillingham.
8–24467.
Mystery, oriental mysticism and romance mingle in this story which deals mainly with the disappearance of some jewels acquired by a millionaire from the treasure of the flame dancers and sought by the chief of the ravished shrine—a Chinaman who wields the art of See-foo-tee, or double hypnotism.
“No doubt this story will delight people who like to have their heads spin as they take their literary pabulum.”
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Mattapoisett, Mass. Mattapoisett and old Rochester, Massachusetts; being a history of these towns and also in part of Marion and a portion of Wareham. (Grafton historical ser.) **$2. Grafton press.
7–26622.
Early history of Rochester prepared under the direction of a committee of the town of Mattapoisett. “As dealing with one of the oldest settlements in Plymouth colony, it contains a good deal which is of more than local moment.” (Bookm.)
“It would have been more satisfactory if the author had supplied references, in foot-notes, to original authorities, though in some cases the information is given in the body of the text.” M. W. Jernegan.
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 660. Ap. ’08. 300w.
“Though full of detail, is successful in avoiding the drone of the village chronicler.” H. W. Boynton.
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Bookm. 26: 513. Ja. ’08. 100w.
“Is a new instance of good historical work resulting from a town or church celebration.”
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Ind. 64: 1203. My. 28, ’08. 150w.
“Is an admirable example of local history intelligently compiled by the co-operative method and written with a view to a larger than purely local interest.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 382. Mr. ’08. 50w.
248Matthews, (James) Brander. Inquiries and opinions. **$1.25. Scribner.
7–29534.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
Reviewed by Archibald Henderson.
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Atlan. 102: 259. Ag. ’08. 340w. (Review of chapter on “Ibsen the playwright.”)
“Essays of varying merit. Some of them might better have been left to the temporary honor of the popular magazine, to be read and enjoyed and forgotten; others deserve the doubtful permanence given to-day by publication in book form.”
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Dial. 44: 137. Mr. 1, ’08. 250w.
“I have had no hesitation in expressing divergent views from those set forth in this volume, not only because the book is in the main so fine, but because its author enjoys honest dissent fully as much as praise. For the benefit of the next edition, one or two minute slips may be mentioned.” W. L. Phelps.
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Forum. 39: 377. Ja. ’08. 1900w.
“It actually looks in some cases as though Professor Matthews had made too violent a wrench to get away from the academicism natural to his profession and were in danger of overleaping the saddle altogether.”
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Ind. 64: 1453. Je. 25, ’08. 220w.
“It is in the chapter devoted to ‘Ibsen the playwright’ that he most commands attention.” S. R. Cook.
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Putnam’s. 4: 238. My. ’08. 300w.
Matthews, (James) Brander. Short-story: specimens illustrating its development; ed. with introd. and notes by Brander Matthews. *$1. Am. bk.
8–1920.
The specimens illustrating the development of the short story are preceded by an introduction which traces the growth of the form thru the history of literature and seeks to set forth its slow attainment of the essential type.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 222. Je. ’08.
“The editor contributes some fifty pages of critical matter, which are highly interesting, both because they exhibit a man riding a hobby, and because they provide a sympathetic and penetrating study of the subject.”
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Dial. 44: 112. F. 16, ’08. 80w.
Ind. 65: 311. Ag. 6, ’08. 60w.
Matthews, Frank Herbert. Principles of intellectual education. *75c. Putnam.
8–3283.
A short, compact discussion which passes for a good illustration of the English method of treating educational theory. “What are the general qualities of mind which education is able to develop, if any? followed later by the natural sequel: What is the best means of doing so? The answer to the first question is ‘flexibility and exactness’; the second answer the reader must deduce from the investigation and statement of the ‘principles of intellectual education—the subject of the volume.’” (Ath.)
“For the matter of the book we have only praise, but the manner leaves much to be desired. In spite of blemishes, however, the book is good.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 260. S. 7. 1100w.
“The very fact that one could not well say that the author leans distinctly to either side [the outgoing activity emphasized by Froebel, and the inworking of the world upon the growing mind which is the foundation of Herbart’s doctrine] shows that he is not a slavish follower but a self-respecting thinker.”
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Dial. 44: 109. F. 16, ’08. 480w.
“The book can be strongly commended to teachers as, on the whole, an orderly exposition of contemporary educational ideals.” M. V. O’Shea.
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School R. 16: 207. Mr. ’08. 700w.
Matthews, Franklin. With the battle fleet. $1.50. Huebsch.
8–30928.
The cruise of the fleet of sixteen American battle ships from the leaving of Hampton Roads on December 16, to dropping anchors in San Francisco harbor on May 6. The stops, receptions tendered, routine and social life on an American man-o’-war, and lessons of the cruise make reading as interesting as it is informing.
“His active participation and his fresh descriptive instinct are far above the ordinary.” M. J. Moses.
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Ind. 65: 1478. D. 17, ’08. 50w.
“A book that offers not a little information.”
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Nation. 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 30w.
“Informative and entertaining.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 639. O. 31, ’08. 150w.
“One of the best recent examples of intelligent and graphic narrative and description in the form of newspaper correspondence.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 760. D. ’08. 120w.
Maude, E. Oriental campaigns and European furloughs: the autobiography of a veteran of the Indian mutiny. *$2.50. Wessels.
The experiences of a fighting man, a veteran of the Indian mutiny, who tells the story of his life from the time that he went out with a cadet ship in 1843 until 1887 when he retired.
“Possessing a certain old-time simplicity which somehow reminds one of Xenophon’s ‘Anabasis’ and those marches of twelve parasangs to an inhabited city, this is somehow a decidedly refreshing sort of book.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 468. Ag. 22, ’08. 240w.
“This is a pleasant and unaffected record of experiences in war and peace.”
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Spec. 100: 711. My. 2, ’08. 260w.
Maunder, Edward Walter. Astronomy of the Bible: an elementary commentary on the astronomical references of Holy Scripture. *$2. Kennerley.
An astronomical commentary on the Bible, quite free from technicalities. The general divisions of the treatment are as follows: Book 1, The heavenly bodies; Book 2, The constellations; Book 3, Times and seasons; Book 4, Three astronomical marvels, Joshua’s long day, The dial of Ahaz, and the star of Bethlehem. A table of scriptural reference and an index complete the volume.
“In Biblical astronomy, indeed, the present work may be considered almost an exhaustive treatise; and if some of the author’s conclusions are not universally accepted, all are well worthy of thoughtful discussion.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 216. Ag. 22. 1100w.
“The standpoint of the author is that of a believer in Holy Writ, who is free from those notions of inspiration that modern science has rendered untenable, and is to be classed as a devout man well acquainted with the latest teachings of science and eager to use them in classifying obscurities in the Scriptures.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 506. S. 19, ’08. 200w.
“There is much in the book that is interesting and valuable; when the author gets outside the supposed necessities of his apologetic he is well worth attention.”
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Maxwell, W. B. Hill Rise. 75c. Cupples & L.
8–271.
“In this story there is a certain moral hidden, which we take to be the recuperative and redemptive power of hard work. In reality the hero of the novel is an old builder, in whom the snobbish treatment of his neighbors on the Hill of Medford, with its 18,000 inhabitants, has 249engendered a passionate hatred. He buys the estate of Hill Rise with the intention of rooting out the snobs, and he all but fails. The story holds us by the interest of this battle.”—Ath.
“His touch is pleasant, light, and humorous at times; at others sufficiently earnest. Mr. Maxwell is one of the few writers who are always interesting, and the main reason is that he keeps in close touch with human nature.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 361. S. 26. 230w.
“Is quietly successful in its quality and interest as a clever satire upon self-sufficient uselessness.”
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“Mr. Maxwell knows how to tell a story, and therefore the faults of his somewhat limited outlook may be forgiven him.”
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Mayer, Clarence. Telephone construction: methods and cost. *$3. Clark, M. C.
8–23074.
“Presents a simple and comprehensive system for collecting, analyzing and recording the various costs involved in telephone line construction, giving examples of the forms and blanks used for the different divisions of the work, and explaining clearly the methods employed in computing, proportioning and prorating the costs.”—Engin. D.
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“The book recommends itself as being a volume of exact records of experience and not of theories and opinions.”
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Maynard, Samuel Taylor. Small country place. **$1.50. Lippincott.
8–17270.
“The book covers not only the treatment of buildings and grounds, but offers definite suggestions regarding the planting of gardens and orchards, poultry-keeping, dairying, and many other interests connected with the small rural or suburban place. The author has passed more than thirty years of his life in teaching botany and horticulture and has endeavored to make his book thoroughly practical. The book is fully illustrated.”—R. of Rs.
“The principles of the practices outlined might be more thoroughly discussed to advantage. The arrangement and style are good, and the facts accurate.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 239. O. ’08. ✠
“The text and illustrations combined promise to prove profitable to a large number of the class of readers for whom the book is intended.”
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“His book would be admirable if it were not in reality three or four books squeezed and contracted into one.”
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“No one who owns a country house or has the plan of one burgeoning in his imagination will care to ignore a book that contains so much valuable information and so few waste words.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 127. Jl. ’08. 70w.
Mayow, John. Medico-physical works; being a translation of Tractatus quinque medico-physici. (Alembic club reprints, no. 17.) *$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–3602.
“A larger volume than most of its predecessors, and contains the ‘Medico-physical works’ of John Mayow, who as early as 1668 in chemical matters relating to combustion, respiration, and other vital activities, anticipated opinions which were not established for another hundred years. The text is a translation of the five essays of the Oxford edition of 1674. The editors have noted the main facts of Mayow’s life and a few explanations in a rather brief preface.” (Nation.) “The basis of Mayow’s work was his recognition of the existence in the air and in common nitre of extremely subtle particles to which he gave the name ‘nitro-aërial spirit.’” (Nature.)
“Judged by a few random comparisons with the original text, the translation is exact and good, but we are not quite in accord with the limitations as to explanations which the translators have set themselves. Nor is the comment as to the neglect of Mayow altogether just.”
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Meehan, Michael. Mrs. Eddy and the late suit in equity. $2.25. Michael Meehan, Concord, N. H.
8–8275.
Records with justice to Mrs. Eddy the out-of-court events and utterances that led up to, grew out of or resulted from the late suit brought against her.
“It is well that a reliable and exhaustive history of the famous suit in equity ... should appear in substantial form for preservation.”
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* Megargel, Percy Freeman, and Mason, Grace Sartwell. Car and the lady. †$1.50. Baker.
8–22795.
This is a story, based upon actual happenings, of a transcontinental motor race, which tested both the respective merits of rival cars and the manhood and hardihood of two lovers, an Italian and an American, who were rivals for the hand of a spirited New York girl.
“One of the best of the numerous motor stories.”
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“There are exciting events in plenty, and the story moves with appropriate swiftness.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 618. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
* Meier-Graefe, Julius A. Modern art; tr. from the German by Florence Simmonds and George W. Chrystal. 2v. *$10.50. Putnam.
“A comparative study of the formative arts, being a contribution to a new system of aesthetics.” “In his exhaustive work he traces the source of modern art to Rubens, following its development through the careers of the great men and movements that have come since his day down to the present time. He brilliantly analyzes such great protagonists and varied characters as Delacroix, Daumier, Constable, Ingrès, Manet, Millet, Gaughin, William Morris, Van Gogh, Renier, Renoir, etc., and shows in an intellectual manner how they influenced the events of their respective periods.”—N. Y. Times.
“These plates call for more than casual attention, not only because they contribute much to the attractiveness of the volumes, but because they form an unusually representative collection covering the entire period dealt with in the book. As reflected in what is apparently an excellent translation, this style is sometimes lucid and at other times a mixture of clever epigram and verbosity in which the leading thought is not readily disentangled from a wealth of illustrative imagery that obscures it. But always there is entertainment and mental stimulus.” F: W. Gookin.
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“Now and then in the chaos of words one seems to catch an idea by the tail, but one can never hold it long.”
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250“For the first time we have presented such a full study of modern international activities, causes, and effects.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
“A series of discursive, thoughtful, suggestive essays, which seem quite as effective in English as in their original German. The volumes are lavishly illustrated as to quantity and poorly as to quality. Our critic, in truth, seems not so remarkable for his review of English or German or any other painting as in his account of French art.”
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Outlook. 90: 796. D. 5, ’08. 670w.
“With most of Herr Meier-Graefe’s views, though he has a good deal to say that is of interest and incites to argument, I more or less acutely disagree.” Laurence Binyon.
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Sat. R. 106: 635. N. 21, ’08. 520w.
“His passionate bias for anything and everything French colours the whole book. Herr Meier-Graefe has great ability; he has at command a vast amount of information and a ceaseless store of sometimes striking and suggestive aphorisms. If he kept to generalities, and did not illustrate by tangible examples, we should find him a great deal more persuasive than he is.” Laurence Binyon.
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Mencken, Henry L. Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. *$2. Luce, J. W.
8–4452.
Nietzsche is here translated into terms familiar to all readers. He is considered the “high priest of the actual,” divine mysteries are lunacies to him, he believes with Schopenhauer that philosophy is comfortless because it is the truth. The will to live is the only thing that must concern us, moral codes are simply expedients found helpful in successful endeavors to live. The book sets forth how his philosophy rejects Christianity and democracy; how it points out the evolution of the human race thru the immoralist to the superman; how it combats ideas held holy and impeccable by mankind to-day.
“A very able elucidation of a distinctive field of modern thought.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 239. O. ’08.
“Though we dissent profoundly from the appreciation of Nietzsche expressed in this volume, we have to thank the author for his keen analysis and clear statement of the ideas and principles that characterize the philosophy of the Superman.”
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Cath. World. 87: 398. Je. ’08. 750w.
“Mr. Mencken has produced a very readable book and a better presentation of Nietzsche to the English reader than is elsewhere available. Critically speaking, it has one serious fault,—that the reader is often left in doubt as to where the author is speaking his own views and where he is merely presenting those of Nietzsche.”
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Dial. 45: 19. Jl. 1, ’08. 330w.
“One of the most interesting and instructive books that has come from the American press in many a long day. The presentation of Nietzsche’s philosophical teachings is both intelligent, intelligible, and highly amusing.”
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Educ. R. 35: 508. My. ’08. 550w.
“His exposition of Nietzsche’s philosophy is clear, simple, and orderly, quite free from the cobwebs of metaphysics; if he shows bad taste in the details of writing, this may be passed over as a mark of zeal in imitating his master. We can commend the exegesis, though we repudiate the conclusions.”
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Nation. 86: 312. Ap. 2, ’08. 600w.
“It is evident that Mr. Mencken possesses the requisite sympathy, and withal a certain clear, forceful, even ardent style, a keen and thorough-going intellect, knowledge of men, and a sense of humor. He is not hampered by prejudice nor dismayed by traditions, and he is able to leave out inessentials without destroying the harmony of what remains. He has made a good book and gives us a pretty fair conception of just what Nietzsche was and what he stood for.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 90. F. 15, ’08. 420w.
“Whatever may be thought of Nietzsche’s philosophy, there is here a clear exposition of it in vigorous, straightforward language, together with a really interesting and thoughtful biographical memoir.”
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Outlook. 89: 42. My. 2, ’08. 200w.
Meriwether, Colyer. Our colonial curriculum, 1607–1706. $2. Central pub. co., Washington, D. C.
8–13757.
“The author covers a wide field and gives excessive space to a consideration of the curriculum of schools and universities in England and other European countries during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The book has eight chapters as follows: Elementary course, The general college course, Ancient languages, Theology and philosophy, Geography, history and modern language, Mathematics, Science, Disputation.”
“In spite of its incompleteness the book represents much study and should be in the library of all persons interested in this field.” Marcus W. Jernegan.
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 910. Jl. ’08. 480w.
“What the book lacks is the ability to interpret the lessons which the facts brought together teach.”
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Educ. R. 36: 103. Je. ’08. 80w.
“An excessive modernity, including a style not infrequently verging upon the flippant, characterizes the book.”
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Nation. 86: 552. Je. 18, ’08. 150w.
* Merriam, Charles Edward. Primary elections: a study of the history and tendencies of primary election legislation. *$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–33814.
Traces the development of the legal regulation of party primaries from 1866 down to 1908, sums up the general tendencies evident in this movement, discusses some of the disputed points in the primary problem, and states certain conclusions concerning our nominating machinery.
Merrick, Leonard. Lynch’s daughter. †$1.50. McClure.
8–29737.
A story of tainted millions. Lynch’s daughter, an American girl, weds a poor English artist who gains her consent to refuse one cent from a father who is known as “the devastating trust magnate, the debaucher of politics, the infamous multi-millionaire.” Her trials under the strain of poverty lead her to a period of estrangement from her husband during which she returns to her father, is solaced for a time, then suffers remorse, renounces her wealth, and, finally finds full compensation in her husband’s love and genius.
“May be read without dread and with pleasure.”
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Nation. 87: 580. D. 10, ’08. 270w.
“As a whole, we have found ‘Lynch’s daughter’ superior alike in charm and verity to ‘The worldlings.’ Take it as a fantasy, if you can, make allowances for its appeal to the commoner kind of readers if you will, and you will find much in it to repay perusal.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 568. O. 10, ’08. 1300w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 90w.
“It is not a great work of art, but Mr. Merrick may be congratulated on having produced a book which is thoroughly entertaining, while at the same time depicting every-day life with homely fidelity.”
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251Merrill, Lilburn. Winning the boy; with an introd. by Judge Ben B. Lindsey. **75c. Revell.
8–11441.
“The author has brought together, in an entertaining and instructive manner, some stories and essays on boy life that every parent, teacher, and other individual interested in children should read. No man is better equipped, and in my judgment, more capable of speaking and writing helpfully and wisely upon the subject than Dr. Merrill.”—Introd.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 239. O. ’08.
“Is in very truth a book, as the publishers declare on the cover, ‘for every parent, teacher or person interested in children.’”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 208. Ap. 11, ’08. 240w.
Merrill, Selah. Ancient Jerusalem. **$6. Revell.
8–10618.
Dr. Merrill thru the years of his exploration and later consulship devoted himself to his study of the ancient topography of Jerusalem. “The gist of Dr. Merrill’s thesis is that ... the original city of Jerusalem lay not on the eastern, or Temple, hill, but northward of the present Zion, or westerly hill, in the neighborhood of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre; and that the Acra, which play so prominent a part in the story of the Maccabean contests, was located at this spot.” (Nation.)
“His view’s on many points are striking, and his presentation is original and interesting.”
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Bib. World. 32: 79. Jl. ’08. 80w.
“Few scholars probably will accept Dr. Merrill’s general conclusions, and in details he contributes little to our knowledge of Jerusalem not already available in other volumes.”
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Ind. 65: 41. Jl. 2, ’08. 560w.
“Dr. Merrill is quite out of sympathy with modern views, and especially with modern views of the date and composition of Old Testament books, and on that account he fails to use the Bible effectively in his topographical studies. Moreover, his whole presentation is one-sided; he cites only that which tends to support his positions.”
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Nation. 86: 560. Je. 18, ’08. 460w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 154. Mr. 21, ’08. 200w.
“The author has viewed the subject from all sides, and given his conclusions in a scholarly form.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 240w.
“Dr. Merrill’s noble work has a value that can hardly be overestimated.”
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Outlook. 89: 352. Je. 13, ’08. 340w.
Merritt, Albert Newton. Federal regulation of railway rates. **$1. Houghton.
7–37945.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
“It should be in large libraries or in any library whose patrons have special interest in the subject, because of its compact summary of arguments.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 143. My. ’08.
Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 716. My. ’08. 250w.
“A careful and dispassionate piece of work.” J: J. Halsey.
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Dial. 44: 130. Mr. 1, ’08. 950w.
“A clear and concise presentation of the problem.”
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J. Pol. Econ. 16: 389. Je. ’08. 160w.
“A better brief than this in defense of the Inter-state commerce commission has hardly been produced. Dr. Merritt’s book is scholarly and useful.”
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N. Y. Times. 12: 860. D. 28, ’07. 510w.
“A useful review of the chief decisions of the Interstate commerce commission. Not only is the book out of date, but some of its statements are questionable.”
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Pol. Sci. Q. 23: 186. Mr. ’08. 170w.
Metcalfe, Richard Lee. “Of such is the kingdom,” and other stories from life. 3d ed. $1. Richard L. Metcalfe, Lincoln, Neb.
7–37252.
An optimistic tone pervades this book which draws the mind of man from selfishness and brutality, hypocrisy and insincerity, double dealing and lack of candor to the temple of childhood where there is sincerity and truth, to the “Kingdom of never grow old” where there is relief from the meanness and the malice of the world.
Metchnikoff, Elie. Prolongation of life: optimistic studies. *$2.50. Putnam.
8–12571.
Pasteur’s successor here continues his warfare against disease, old age and death. “Although Metchnikoff in this new book does not claim to have made the ultimate discovery in biology that will at once conquer the evils of disease and death, nevertheless he does reach certain definite conclusions as to the causes for the relatively short duration of human life, and having found what he believes to be these causes he makes what are at least tentative suggestions looking to their modification.” (N. Y. Times.)
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 144. My. ’08.
“The work is suggestive.” Scott Nearing.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 456. S. ’08. 250w.
“Dr. Chalmers Mitchell has performed his task as a translator in a most satisfactory manner, for the book reads as though it had been written in English.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 624. N. 16. 200w.
Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
Atlan. 102: 124. Jl. ’08. 220w.
“Although Professor Metchnikoff’s book is important on account of its topic, and interesting and suggestive in its treatment of it, it is impossible to praise it very highly from a literary standpoint.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
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Dial. 44: 270. My. 1, ’08. 1350w.
“The book deserves a wide and careful study.”
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Educ. R. 35: 314. Mr. ’08. 100w.
“The book is one that will be widely read by the general public on account of its frank and simple style, altho he makes no effort to dodge the use of scientific terms or to palliate his conclusions to meet popular taste.”
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Ind. 64: 864. Ap. 16, ’08. 1000w.
“While an ultra-materialist, Metchnikoff is enthusiastically optimistic as to the future of the race, and his work is a help toward ideal living.”
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Lit. D. 36: 491. Ap. 4, ’08. 450w.
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Lond. Times. 6: 371. D. 6, ’07. 1030w.
“He writes with the spirit of a seeker after truth. His book, while highly suggestive, is intended to be neither exhaustive nor conclusive. Its purpose is rather to point out the problems of somatic limitations, and the principles involved in attempting their ultimate solution.”
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Nation. 86: 132. F. 6, ’08. 710w.
“A remarkable book in many ways. The whole range of literature is ransacked by the author, and the facts and opinions collected are discussed with an originality, a width of view, and knowledge that give the book an especial fascination and constantly arrest the attention.”
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Nature. 77: 289. Ja. 30, ’08. 820w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 25. Ja. 18, ’08. 2900w.
“When he comes finally to discourse upon morality, he illustrates afresh the unwisdom of specialists who disregard the maxim ‘Let the shoemaker stick to his last.’”
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Outlook. 89: 769. Ag: 1, ’08. 440w.
Reviewed by Charles DeKay.
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Putnam’s. 5: 233. N. ’08. 1550w.
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R. of Rs. 37: 382. Mr. ’08. 160w.
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Sat. R. 105: 244. F. 22, ’08. 350w.
252“It is to be regretted that Professor Metchnikoff has not more clearly defined his use of such purely relative terms as ‘pessimism’ and ‘optimism;’ but whatever meaning he attaches to the word ‘pessimism,’ whether he regards it as an attitude of the mind or as a matured judgment arrived at only after study of life’s problems, we absolutely dispute the assumption that the intellectual world is at present pessimist.”
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Spec. 100: sup. 120. Ja. 25, ’08. 1250w.
Meyer, Hugo R. British state telegraphs. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–33625.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
“The work of a partizan who is unable to write disinterestedly, but the only available book on an exceedingly interesting and important subject. The facts are fairly accurate, but twisted out of their natural meaning and import.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 15. Ja. ’08.
“It is highly probable that if the evidence has been given its proper weight the dark picture here presented might prove less sombre.” S: E. Sparling.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 731. My. ’08. 300w.
“His conclusions are in the main directly contrary to those of the recent commission appointed to investigate public ownership in Great Britain.”
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Arena. 39: 122. Ja. ’08. 250w.
Reviewed by J. W. Garner.
Dial. 44: 71. F. 1, ’08. 300w.
“Is worthy of the most serious consideration by every student of municipal affairs.” F. L. McVey.
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Econ. Bull. 1: 128. Je. ’08. 360w.
Engin. N. 59: 208. F. 20, ’08. 450w.
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Forum. 39: 395. Ja. ’08. 280w.
“It is, in fact, giving more credit to Mr. Meyer than is his due—perhaps more than he himself would claim—to describe his book as a study of the working of state ownership of telegraphs. It is an examination of some of the weaknesses of the system, with an overemphasis on each of the defects exposed.”
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Ind. 64: 256. Ja. 30, ’08. 1200w.
“He is a prosecuting attorney rather than a judge, and it must be admitted that his indictment is thorough.”
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N. Y. Times. 12: 849. D. 21, ’07. 360w.
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Outlook. 88: 321. F. 8, ’08. 200w.
“Admirable little book.”
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Spec. 100: 341. F. 29, ’08. 850w.
Meyer, Hugo R. Public ownership and the telephone in Great Britain. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–31983.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
“Brings together an important mass of material which is combined and treated in such a way as to produce a distinctly partizan and prejudiced piece of work. Useful for debate because the preponderance of published matter on the subject takes the other side of the question.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 46. F. ’08.
“Will prove of great help to those who wish to marshall on one side all that can be said against public management. Room is left for a more rounded and judicial treatment of the subject.” E: W. Bemis.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 527. Mr. ’08. 550w.
“An ably written, extremely partisan brief.”
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Engin. N. 59: 208. F. 20, ’08. 530w.
“As pictured by Mr. Meyer, there is no redeeming feature in the long chronicle of stupidity, ignorance, incapacity, mismanagement, and political intrigue which make up the state operation of these industries. As may be imagined, such a black case against government management of industry is not secured without some distortion of facts; statistics abound and give a ‘vraisemblance’ of finality to the discussion, but a careful selection of only those favorable to his case absolutely vitiates the conclusion.” E. L. Bogart.
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Forum. 39: 395. Ja. ’08. 280w.
“Mr. Meyer pays little heed to this attitude of English people toward expenditure, and attributes the lack of progress in telephone development to the muddle-headedness of the government.”
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Ind. 64: 257. Ja. 30, ’08. 330w.
“Mr. Meyer’s book is rather a curious sample of social psychology than a useful contribution to a solution of the telephone problem.” J. R. Commons.
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J. Pol. Econ. 16: 631. N. ’08. 900w.
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N. Y. Times. 12: 849. D. 21, ’07. 670w.
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Outlook. 88: 321. F. 8, ’08. 200w.
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Spec. 100: 342. F. 29. ’08. 1300w.
Mijatovich, Chedomille. Servia and the Servians. *$3. Page.
“The volume consists of chapters on the history, religion, and national characteristics of the people, including special chapters on the peasant, the music, the literature, and the economic possibilities of Servia. An appendix contains a specimen of the Servian national poems and of Servian folklore, and gives some interesting statistical information of the most recent data upon the country of King Peter. There are sixteen full-page illustrations, chiefly from photographs taken by the author, landscape views and peasant type.”—R. of Rs.
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Ath. 1908, 1: 569. My. 9. 880w.
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Lit. D. 37: 905. D. 12, ’08. 150w.
“He has written of them sympathetically, of course, but at the same time with discrimination.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 563. O. 10, ’08. 280w.
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R. of Rs. 38: 638. N. ’08. 250w.
Miles, George Henry. Review of Hamlet. **$1. Longmans.
7–39206.
A new edition of a work which appeared in 1870. “Miles sees in Hamlet superb intellectual strength and a strong and tender conscience which guides the whole course of the prince’s conduct. And, he argues, the secret of the tragedy’s hold on men is that it mirrors forth the struggle between passion and conscience, and the sharp antithesis between fate and Providence; and throws across the action of life the deep shadow of the world to come.” (Cath. World.)
“There is more education in this book than is to be found in many specimens of what are called, through courtesy or bland presumption, courses of English literature.”
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Cath. World. 86: 693. F. ’08. 880w.
“It throws light upon aspects of the play which the great army of Shakespearian critics have left exceedingly dark.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 12. Ja. 4. ’08. 640w.
Millais, John Guille. Newfoundland and its untrodden ways. il. *$6. Longmans.
8–3111.
“Primarily for hunters and naturalists, dealing with the fauna of the country and the chase of its wild beasts and birds. But Mr. Millais has also much to tell of the daily life of the islanders and the customs of the Micmac Indians, of whom he has made a special study.... There are a dozen beautiful photogravures and colored plates and nearly a hundred line drawings and half-tones, either by Mr. Millais or photographed.”—Dial.
“Makes the reader interested in his adventures.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 759. Je. 20. 70w.
Dial. 43: 425. D. 16, ’07. 140w.
253“To all who wish to know about Newfoundland and her attractions for the tourist, the man of business, or the sportsman, we can strongly recommend Millais’s book. It is the best work that has ever been written on the natural history of the island.”
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Nation. 86: 198. F. 27, ’08. 1000w.
“In works of the present nature, Mr. Millais is at his best; and his best, alike with pen and pencil, is, it is almost unnecessary to say, very good indeed.” R. L.
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Nature. 77: 223. Ja. 9, ’08. 400w.
“It is a breath-taking experience to pass with Mr. Millais into the virgin forest, to see with his eyes, and, without the dangers and discomforts, to enjoy with him the fascination of the big game hunt.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 200w.
“We like the book above all else for a quality which goes very near to mysticism.”
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Sat. R. 105: 272. F. 29, ’08. 950w.
“If it is the mark of a good travel book to make the reader earnestly desire to go to the places described, then this is a highly successful work, Mr. Millais’s vivid narrative, and a wealth of beautiful illustrations, convey a most attractive picture of the island and its sport.”
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Spec. 100: 673. Ap. 25, ’08. 1400w.
Miller, Elizabeth Jane. City of delight: a love drama of the siege and fall of Jerusalem. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–9528.
Against the historical background of the fall of Jerusalem, Miss Miller has sketched a romance of compelling charm. The hero, Philadelphus, a Judean prince, great grandson of Judas Maccabeus, was wedded at the age of ten to a child of four. After fourteen years of separation they are to be reunited in Jerusalem whither Laodice is conducted by a treacherous servant who plays into the hands of Salome bent upon usurping Laodice’s place. At the same time a jealous cousin leaves Philadelphus for dead, hastens to Jerusalem and also becomes a usurper. For the rest of the tale it is a battle royal, attended by confusion, between the revived Philadelphus and Laodice and their enemies Salome and the pretender.
“The story is far inferior to ‘The yoke.’ though we think it is almost as good as ... ‘Saul of Tarsus.’”
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Arena. 39: 510. Ap. ’08. 550w.
“The plan is a good one, the story interesting, the setting admirably chosen. If the execution were only as good as the design! Even as it is, the glint of historic interest gives the book a welcome dignity.”
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Nation. 86: 427. My. 7, ’08. 250w.
“In descriptive detail and collocation of events it holds its own with many similar novels which are called classics. The author has observed consistency throughout. There is a simple but dramatic plot, few characters, and every evidence of sincerity. It is to be hoped that the book will find the appreciation it deserves.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 255. My. 2, ’08. 150w.
“The book is the strongest and best written Miss Miller has so far done.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 160w.
Miller, Elmer Isaiah. Legislature of the province of Virginia: its internal development. (Columbia univ. Studies in history, economics and public law.) *$1.50. Longmans.
8–1371.
An historical account of the subject from the beginning of the government of Virginia to the revolution of 1776.
“A methodical and useful study, though the author makes dull reading of the development of our chief colonial legislature, whose history might easily be made interesting.”
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 652. Ap. ’08. 90w.
“There is one slip in the very learned and valuable monograph.” H. E. E.
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Eng. Hist. R. 23: 617. Jl. ’08. 140w.
“A very interesting and readable contribution.”
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Ind. 65: 666. S. 17, ’08. 170w.
Miller, Frank Justus. Two dramatizations from Vergil: 1, Dido—the Phoenician queen; 2, The fall of Troy; arranged and translated into English verse. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–29879.
Includes “Dido: an epic tragedy” which appeared in 1900, and also a new dramatization, The fall of Troy. It is a helpful supplement to the text for classes in Vergil, and affords a play which has been staged with satisfactory results.
Miller, Mrs. Harriet (Mann) (Olive Thorne Miller, pseud.). The bird our brother. **$1.25. Houghton.
8–14948.
Information which goes to reveal the bird’s kinship with the human family is treated here in a popular sense for the general reader. Chapters treat of the bird’s individuality, intelligence, language, altruism, education, affections, courtship, home, amusements, means of defense and attack, odd ways, equipment, and usefulness to us.
“A unique addition to bird literature, which will be interesting to the adult bird-lover, but will not appeal to readers in general as do the author’s earlier and more individual writings.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 263. N. ’08. ✠
“It will be a valuable defense for those who uphold the same theories, though for pure delight in the reading one cannot help grudging the pages that are thus taken from the writer’s record of her own discoveries.” M. E. Cook.
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Dial. 44: 343. Je. 1, ’08. 370w.
“The modern psychologist will undoubtedly question the author’s point of view in reading so much human life into bird life; but aside from this possible quibble about interpretations, the book is certainly interesting reading, and forms a good climax to the series of books which this author has contributed.”
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Ind. 64: 1295. Je. 4, ’08. 180w.
“It seems invidious to criticise such an excellent book, but it must be confessed that the author is somewhat handicapped in her efforts to preserve a dispassionate attitude by her ardent affection for the world of birds.”
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Nation. 87: 18. Jl. 2, ’08. 150w.
“Will surely add to her reputation.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 316. Je. 6, ’08. 250w.
* Miller, Kelly. Race adjustment: essays on the negro in America. *$2. Neale.
8–24845.
Nineteen essays which discuss the various phases of the negro problem, and the questions that enter into a full solution. Some of the chapters are as follows: Radicals and conservatives; As to the leopard’s spots; An appeal to reason on the race problem; The negro’s part in the negro problem; Social equality; Religion as a solvent of the race problem; Rise of the professional class; Eminent negroes; What Walt Whitman means to the negro; The artistic gifts of the negro; A brief for the higher education of the negro; Roosevelt and the negro.
Milligan, Rev. George. St. Paul’s epistle to the Thessalonians: the Greek text; with introd. and notes. *$2.60. Macmillan.
A commentary and exegesis. “Two purposes are apparent in the present commentary on Thessalonians, one to follow Swete, Mayor, and Robinson in filling up what was lacking in the task which Lightfoot, Westcott, and Hort had set before themselves; the other, to bring to bear upon the language and grammar 254of the Thessalonian letters the results of the author’s investigations in papyri, inscriptions, and ostraca.” (Am. J. Theol.)
“Thorough acquaintance with the literature of the subject, catholicity of outlook, caution in the expression of opinion, and a distinct winsomeness in the personal equation are in evidence throughout the book.” J. E. Frame.
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Am. J. Theol. 12: 487. Jl. ’08. 1050w.
“Is especially welcome, since the need of it was great.” G. E. French.
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Hibbert J. 6: 942. Jl. ’08. 540w.
“This is a most careful contribution to the exegesis of the New Testament.”
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Spec. 100: 268. F. 15, ’08. 360w.
Milligan, Robert H. Jungle folk of Africa. **$1.50. Revell.
8–25385.
Impressions gained during seven years of missionary work in West Africa. “He dissents from the view he has found presented in recently published books about the Dark Continent, that its people are physically ugly, mentally stupid, morally repulsive, and everlastingly uninteresting ... and pictures the Africans he met as a very interesting people, constituted, like the rest of us, with brain and soul and capacity of one sort and another not essentially different from his own. He rates these people as human beings, and finds many of them distinctly lovable.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Is as readable and interesting a book of travel as one can wish for.”
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Ind. 65: 1181. N. 19, ’08. 70w.
“A book that is remarkable for its vitality, picturesqueness, humor, and literary quality.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 360w.
“The book is entertaining and far more illuminating than many of the travelers’ accounts that have appeared in recent years.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 638. N. ’08. 90w.
Millikan, Robert Andrews, and Mills, John. Short university course in electricity, sound and light. *$2. Ginn.
8–31127.
A course built up around laboratory outline which represents one semester’s work. The method is analytical rather than descriptive, and the book contains sixteen chapters on electricity, five on sound and seven on light.
Mills, Lawrence Heyworth. Avesta eschatology compared with the books of Daniel and Revelations; being supplementary to Zarathushtra, Philo, the Achæmenids and Israel. 50c. Open ct.
8–5564.
“In this thin octavo the aged Zend scholar gives his conclusion that the doctrines of angels, devils, the resurrection and the eternal life were adopted by the Jews at the time of the exile from the religion of Media and Persia.” (Ind.) “This work ... ought to be a reliable source of information regarding Zoroastrian conceptions of the future.” (Bib. World.)
“The work is valuable as a compendious statement of the more important teachings of Zoroastrianism.”
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Am. J. Theol. 12: 524. Jl. ’08. 130w.
“The biblical side of the treatment is too largely fanciful.”
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Bib. World. 31: 400. My. ’08. 30w.
“The author often sees parallelisms that are not convincing, and his arguments are at times inconclusive. The book is not easy reading, but deserves critical study, for Mills was one of the best Zend scholars.”
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Ind. 64: 1045. My. 7, ’08. 170w.
“This essay ... presents a peculiarly interesting chapter in the study of comparative religion.”
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Outlook. 87: 266. My. 30, ’08. 150w.
Mills, Weymer Jay. Van Rensselaers of old Manhattan. **$1.50. Stokes.
7–38597.
A novel set in “the days of New York when brocades, powder and patches were worn.... The heroine rejoices in the name of India, and is a hoyden, as her starched old Tory relative appropriately but impolitely informs her. Still, she is so attractive that her path is literally besieged by the gallants of the day.... The other characters include the hero, a young Tory of fallen fortunes, a desperate and most repulsive villain, and an actress; while George Washington appears upon the scene, though very cursorily.” (Outlook.)
“The whole is in the style of an acute Christmas card many times multiplied. Incidentally there is some text.”
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Nation. 86: 84. Ja. 23, ’08. 160w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 657. O. ’07. 50w.
“There is very little plot, too much declamation, and a constant striving to produce atmosphere that is too apparent and therefore fails of its effect.”
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Outlook. 88: 40. Ja. 4, ’08. 180w.
* Milman, Lena. Sir Christopher Wren. (Library of art.) *$2. Scribner.
A life of Christopher Wren, the celebrated architect of St. Paul’s cathedral, for which the material has been carefully sifted, and which benefits by the present day view-point and triumph of photography.
“Miss Milman has written a most interesting life of a fascinating personality.”
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Int. Studio. 36: 165. D. ’08. 340w.
“Upon the whole, the biography justifies itself. It was well worth doing, and it is done well.”
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Nation. 87: 421. O. 29, ’08. 900w.
Milne, John Stewart. Surgical instruments in Greek and Roman times. *$4.75. Oxford.
8–9768.
A first venture into an untried region. “From all available ancient authors who touched on medical matters Milne has collected the references which throw light on the description or use of an appliance. This material he supplements by illustrations from the more important museums and collections of Europe. In the text the instruments are grouped under suitable divisions, but no account is taken of devices for the reduction of deformities, or of splints and related appliances.” (Nation.) The volume is fully illustrated.
“A useful and interesting book.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 127. Ja. ’08. 80w.
“Dr. Milne had virtually a virgin soil, and he has worked it in a thoroughly scientific manner until it has yielded a rich harvest.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 243. Ag. 31. 1000w.
“Learned and interesting treatise.”
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Lond. Times. 6: 306. O. 11, ’07. 1100w.
“An attractive study of the subject. Although the book itself is well indexed, the plates are not indexed, so that to find any figure is a matter of some difficulty. The bibliography, which appears to have been put together somewhat hurriedly, pays too little attention to journalistic literature.”
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Nation. 86: 472. My. 21, ’08. 300w.
“Dr. Milne has done his work so well and so accurately that as this monograph is the first dealing with the subject it must remain for a long time the standard authority until further finds prove or disprove some of the disputable conclusions drawn by the author. The monograph presupposes a considerable amount of knowledge on the part of the reader. He must in the first place be skilled in the practice of his profession, he must be interested in its antiquities, and he must be a fair classic. 255These qualifications being granted, the book is most excellent reading, and throws abundant light, not only on the subject of which it treats, but also on many collateral points.”
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Nature. 76: 468. S. 5, ’07. 450w.
Mincoff, Mrs. Elizabeth, and Marriage, Margaret S. Pillow lace: a practical handbook. *$5. Dutton.
8–5855.
Not a book for connoisseurs, but a guide to amateurs in the actual making of lace. “The first chapters contain a short historical survey of the art of lace-making from its earliest known period, that is to say about the year 1520; also brief accounts of its manufacture in different countries and towns. The rest of the book, from the third chapter to the last, is entirely practical, describing tools and methods of lace-making, and giving a large number of patterns with full explanations, and working diagrams, and directions for tracing and rubbing.” (Sat. R.)
“The book is the first in English treating the subject especially from the viewpoint of the maker.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 197. Je. ’08.
“The authors have very sensibly made their explanations as short as possible, relying much on the excellent diagrams.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 199. F. 15. 1270w.
“The book has practical interest for those who wish to teach art industries to women who need to become self-supporting.”
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Ind. 64: 810. Ap. 9, ’08. 170w.
“Those who desire to know and apply the principles underlying a large class of laces, will find it an almost inexhaustible treasure house. Though a little bulky, it is a practical manual.”
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Nation. 86: 224. Mr. 5, ’08. 400w.
“Mrs. Mincoff’s book is somewhat expensive in proportion to the cost of the tools, but it is well and fully illustrated, and we hope that it will have the effect of persuading women to be industrious in a useful artistic way.”
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Sat. R. 105: 85. J. 18, ’08. 300w.
“The lessons are carefully graduated and clearly expressed.”
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Spec. 100: sup. 127. Ja. 25, ’08. 240w.
Ming, Rev. John Joseph. Characteristics and the religion of modern socialism. *$1.50. Benziger.
8–16212.
A book whose aim is that of stimulating inquiry to the end of reaching reliable conclusions concerning the moral and religious attitude of contemporary socialists. The discussion falls under two heads, The characteristics of modern socialism and The religion of socialism.
“Father Ming has drawn up a powerful arraignment, amply sustained with testimony, against atheistic socialism; and it will serve the purpose of warning Catholics against it.”
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Cath. World. 87: 544. Jl. ’08. 1050w.
“The author’s own religious belief appears to have biased his treatment of the subject.”
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J. Pol. Econ. 16: 711. D. ’08. 80w.
Minot, Charles Sedgwick. Problem of age, growth, and death: a study of cytomorphosis, based on lectures at the Lowell institute, March, 1907. (Science ser., no. 21.) **$2.50. Putnam.
8–24260.
Presents arguments and evidence to support the following laws and corollary: “First, rejuvenation depends on the increase of the nuclei. Second, senescence depends on the increase of the protoplasm and on the differentiation of the cells. Third, the rate of growth depends on the degree of senescence. Fourth, senescence is at its maximum in the very young stages, and the rate of senescence diminishes with age. As the corollary from these, we have this—natural death is the consequence of cellular differentiation.”
“An interesting and suggestive volume.”
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Ind. 65: 951. O. 22, ’08. 300w.
“Possesses a more or less general and popular interest.”
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Lit. D. 37: 469. O. 3, ’08. 400w.
“With his usual skill and lucidity the author develops his views concerning these questions which he has studied carefully for many years.”
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Nation. 87: 366. O. 15, ’08. 320w.
Mistral, Frederic. Memoirs of Mistral, 1830–1877; rendered into English by Constance E. Maud, with Lyrics from the Provençal by Alma Strettell. *$3.50. Baker.
8–8543.
“The memoirs of Mistral not only recount the steps which were taken by him and his confrères in the Felibres movement, but they are filled also with charming details of Provençal farm life, the legends and primitive customs of the Provençal peasantry; there are many little personal anecdotes that give a picturesque view of some of the poet’s experiences at school and on the paternal farm, and his amusing contact with some of his peasant neighbors. The whole leaves the reader with the belief that there may still be room for the romantic troubadour, the follower of the ‘Gay science’ in our modern civilization.”—N. Y. Times.
“A book of quite unusual charm, but not essential to the economical library.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 105. Ap. ’08.
“Admirably translated.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 577. N. 9. 1300w.
“The book has (to give it the highest of all praise) charm: it captivates the reader and holds his attention to the end. Miss Maud’s translation is smooth, but ... not always grammatical.” P. F. Bicknell.
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Dial. 44: 36. Ja. 16, ’08. 2440w.
“A delightful volume.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 18. Ja. 11, ’08. 1200w.
“Throughout full of interest and charm.” H. S. Krans.
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Putnam’s. 3: 751. Mr. ’08. 450w.
R. of Rs. 37: 381. Mr. ’08. 160w.
“Miss Maud adds some footnotes. For the duplicate note on the ‘trees of liberty’ and the somewhat vague note on ‘les Aliscamps,’ it might have been well to substitute a note on the meaning of that puzzling word ‘Félibrige.’ But good service has been done. To read about the man who knows so much about his country and feels so truly about it is a fine antidote to an English winter; refreshing too to get new knowledge about a literary revival so spontaneous, so free from the squalor of politics.”
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Sat. R. 104: 700. D. 7, ’07. 1080w.
Mitchell, Evelyn Groesbeeck. Mosquito life: the habits and life cycles of known mosquitoes of the United States. il. **$2. Putnam.
7–39002.
An account based on the investigations of the late James William Dupree, surgeon-general of Louisiana and upon original observations by the author. “The book is replete with information concerning the mosquitoes of the United States, especially those of New York, New Jersey, and Louisiana. The anatomy of the adults, larvæ, and pupæ is described, and an illuminating account of their habits, flight, and breeding-places is given in detail. The relation of mosquitoes to malaria, yellow fever, elephantiasis, and other diseases, is treated in a popular way, and a description of the means of control of these pests is supplemented with an account of their principal enemies.” (Dial.)
“The drawings would have been more useful 256if magnifications had been given, and more acceptable from a technical point of view if more contrast had been employed, and if the direction of lighting had been consistently used, at least in contiguous drawings.”
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Dial. 44: 214. Ap. 1, ’08. 380w.
“An entertaining (although loosely written) book about the subject in general.”
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Nation. 86: 338. Ap. 9, ’08. 150w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 204. Ap. 11, ’08. 100w.
“One may learn from this book a great deal about the lives of mosquitoes.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 253. Ag. ’08. 130w.
“For health inspectors, for those interested in sanitation generally and for physicians this book will be especially useful. On the whole this is a very useful book; with plenty of faults and an abundance of points that might be criticised if criticism is fault-finding; but altogether considered it is commendable.” J: B. Smith.
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Science, n.s. 28: 22. Jl. 3, ’08. 780w.
Mitchell, Henry Bedinger. Talks on religion: a collective enquiry, recorded by H: Bedinger Mitchell. **$1.50. Longmans.
8–14747.
“A group of fifteen friends in council meet monthly for a comparison of views on fundamental questions about religion. The group includes men in scientific, literary, church, and business life, some of them university professors and men of international reputation.” (Outlook.) These “talks” show the manner in which they grapple with religious and philosophical questions of the day. “They exhibit both skeptical and constructive thinking at their best, they tend to clear the air of religious thought.” (Outlook.)
“This book is of exceptional interest because of the place of its origin, the personnel of its speakers, and the subject-matter of its discussions.” I. W. Riley.
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Bookm. 27: 488. Jl. ’08. 1700w.
“It is a highly stimulating book.”
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Ind. 65: 1308. D. 3, ’08. 130w.
Reviewed by G: A. Coe.
J. Philos. 5: 661. N. 19, ’08. 1100w.
“It would be impossible to indicate adequately in the course of a single review the rich variety of theme, felicity of expression, and breadth of spirit which characterize ‘Talks on religion.’” G. C. Mars.
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No. Am. 188: 614. O. ’08. 2200w.
“For those who lack the opportunities of mental sharpening in the private discussions of cultured minds this volume is a most attractive substitute.”
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Outlook. 89: 582. Jl. 11, ’08. 200w.
Mitchell, Silas Weir. Red city: a novel of the second administration of President Washington. †$1.50. Century.
8–30709.
Philadelphia is the scene of this story of Washington’s second administration in which Hugh Wynne and Aunt Gainor reappear. The hero is a Huguenot émigré who with his mother is grief-stricken over the wanton murder of his father at Avignon by the revolutionists. His life in a Quaker home and love for a Quaker maiden, his work in Hugh Wynne’s employ, his relation to affairs of state, and his methods of avenging his father’s death suggest the outline of the tale steeped in the atmosphere of the times.
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 303. D. ’08. ✠
“In French matters, he slips occasionally. It is a real story of real human interest, and its action is often exciting beyond the limits of Quaker sobriety.” W: M. Payne.
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Dial. 45: 456. D. 16, ’08. 300w.
Ind. 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 60w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 120w.
“A book full of charm and feeling, a novel which is less a novel than a panorama of a brick-built town.” Agnes Repplier.
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Outlook. 90: 699. N. 28, ’08. 360w.
Mitchell, Wesley Clair. Gold, prices and wages under the greenback standard. (Univ. of Cal. publications in economics, v. 1.) *$5. Univ. of Cal.
8–14358.
“Contains five chapters of text covering a total of 283 pages (with the included statistics), the remainder of the book being given over to elaborate statistical tables showing rates of wages, relative prices, etc.... Dr. Mitchell describes his volume as ‘the statistical apparatus of a book still to be written,’ the chapters of the text being intended merely to expound the nature of the figures and the modes of getting the results.” (Econ Bull.)
“Such a pace as is here set for the academic monograph will be hard to follow.”
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Dial. 44: 280. My. 1, ’08. 60w.
“It is not too much to say that, taking the present volume with his earlier contribution, he has done the most satisfactory piece of work on the history of the greenbacks and their effects that has yet appeared, and in the course of so doing has contributed something to the process of putting American price statistics upon a rather better basis.” H. Parker Willis.
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Econ. Bull. 1: 137. Je. ’08. 660w.
“In fact, the book is beyond praise.” J. L. Laughlin.
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J. Pol. Econ. 16: 629. N. ’08. 950w.
Miyakawa, Masuji. Life of Japan. **$3. Baker. 7–28500.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
“Dr. Miyakawa’s object in writing the book is clearly one of which all progressive men of both nationalities must approve, that of bringing the two peoples to a clear understanding of each other, and the work is well calculated to fulfil this object.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 281. Ja, ’08. 150w.
“In structure, style and dress, shows just what a book ought not to be.”
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Ind. 64: 44. Ja. 2, ’08. 100w.
“Though the text does not impress one as having as great originality and influence as some other books on Japan, there is in it a certain forcefulness and even fascination, for in it we learn the better to appreciate the peculiar Japanese way of looking at men and things.”
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Outlook. 88: 44. Ja. 4, ’08. 280w.
Miyakawa, Masuji. Powers of the American people; Congress, President, and courts (according to the evolution of constitutional construction). 2d ed., rev. **$2.50. Baker.
8–24433.
Constitutional government of the United States as viewed by a Japanese attorney. The edition has been carefully revised thruout. All criticisms, objections and controverted points have been thoroly considered; all sections and some chapters have been abridged and additions made; and changes from technical to popular form have been made to suit the better a wide range of readers.
Moffett, Cleveland. King in rags. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–36249.
A sociological story whose three leading characters maintain respectively the following attitudes toward the question of poverty: Poverty is an ugly beast ... created by the greedy and luxurious rich for their own undoing; poverty is the lot of the weak and unworthy, the survival of the unfittest; poverty would disappear if there were a fair division of the products of toil.
“The main defect of the book is its sentimentalism—a 257pit into which reformers are apt to fall. But, despite its inconsistencies and improbabilities, it is well worth reading.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 253. F. 29. 150w.
“It is assuredly not a commanding exposition of its theme or in any large way sensational. But while obviously, even naïvely, a vehicle for a moral, the story slips along so easily that it affords no chance to escape the appalling facts it marshals relating to the conditions of labor and living in our city.”
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Nation. 86: 84. Ja. 23, ’08. 400w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“One derives the impression that the author grew a bit tired of ‘A king in rags’ before he put the cap to his climax. Nevertheless, a novel the interest of which does not flag through nine-tenths of its unfolding is worthy of serious consideration. Let it be said that Mr. Moffett’s first novel, though not, perhaps a great achievement, is, at the very least, a most brilliant promise.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 74. F. 8, ’08. 700w.
Molmenti, Pompeo Gherardo. Venice, its individual growth from the earliest beginnings to the fall of the republic; translated from the Italian by Horatio F. Brown. pt. 3, 2v. *$5. McClurg.
Two volumes constituting the third and last instalment of Molmenti’s history. It treats fully of Venice and its decadence.
Ind. 65: 1178. N. 19, ’08. 70w.
“They are probably the most elaborate and instructive volumes on Venetian manners and customs yet attempted.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 622. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
Molmenti, Pompeo Gherardo, and Ludwig, Gustav. Life and works of Vittorio Carpaccio: tr. by Robert H. H. Cust. *$15. Dutton.
8–14763.
A volume “of archaeological and artistic interest” which has appeared with the revival of Carpaccio. Its keynote is the faithful manner in which the painter mirrored in his pictures the Venetian life of the fifteenth century.
“The one quality lacking in this otherwise admirable book [is] that of a convincing system of critical argument in support of the authors’ often plausible views.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 134. F. 1. 1270w.
“Pictorially as well as from the point of view of scholarship the work is exhaustive.”
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Dial. 43: 423. D. 16, ’07. 100w.
“English readers are fortunate in having put before them Mr. Cust’s skilful and admirable translation of this excellent work.”
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Ind. 64: 313. F. 6, ’08. 620w.
“It is sure to take rank as the standard work on the long-neglected master of whom it treats.”
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Int. Studio. 33: 335. F. ’08. 400w.
“The book is a notable addition to the body of historical art criticism, and the translator, Robert H. Hobart Cust is to be highly commended for having placed this volume within the reach of the English reading public in a version that is at once readable and authoritative.”
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N. Y. Times. 12: 834. D. 14, ’07. 800w.
“It is just as important to unearth an old friendship as it is to unearth an old picture. Professor Molmenti’s sumptuous volume does both. The most important-looking of the season’s books on art.”
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Outlook. 87: 873. D. 21, ’07. 540w.
“It is exhaustive, laborious, and learned. But though we leave the book satiated with facts relating to the externals of the work of Carpaccio, we feel that we are unsatisfied.”
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Spec. 100: sup. 643. Ap. 25, ’08. 350w.
Molnár, Ferencz. Devil; adapted by Oliver Herford. *$1. Kennerley.
8–26860.
A three act play adapted from the Hungarian by Oliver Herford. The devil in the guise of a modern society man takes a hand in overcoming whatever of resolution and honorable purpose remain in the minds of a man and woman who are wrestling with the temptation of forbidden love.
“Oliver Herford’s adaption of Ferencz Molnar’s play ... is on the whole rather a clumsy effort. Points which probably gave value to the original have been considerably blunted in translation.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 320w.
“It bears the same marks of haste as the stage production. Grammatical and typographical errors abound, speeches are assigned to the wrong persons, and even the leading characters are misnamed.”
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Outlook. 65: 790. O. 1, ’08. 130w.
* Monckton, C. C. F. Radio-telegraphy. *$2. Van Nostrand.
“Contains a general exposition of the principles underlying the subject, together with a description of a large amount of the apparatus and methods used by the various companies.” (Nature.) “Although not so complete as Prof. J. A. Fleming’s work, it gives the general reader a good account of the rapid progress in the new art of wireless telegraphy and wireless telephony.” (Nation.)
“Mr. Monckton is successful in making his exposition of the various systems of transmission and reception, now in use, intelligible to the non-scientific reader.”
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Nation. 87: 583. D. 10, ’08. 150w.
“Mr. Monckton is to be congratulated on having written a very interesting and valuable book.” C. C. G.
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Nature. 78: 505. S. 24, ’08. 1050w.
Montgomery, Harry Earl. Vital American problems. **$1.50. Putnam.
8–24847.
The trust problem, freight-rate problem, government ownership, labor problem, and the negro problem are five vital problems discussed with calm, sane and deliberate judgment.
“The reader will find the proposed remedies set forth with more reasonableness than the rather assertive confidence of the author’s language might suggest; while the array of statistical and other data gives the book a value for popular reference.”
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Nation. 87: 338. O. 8, ’08. 200w.
Montgomery, Rev. Henry Hutchinson, ed. Mankind and the church; being an attempt to estimate the contribution of great races to the fulness of the church of God, by seven bishops. *$2.25. Longmans.
“Two Indian bishops, the archbishop of the West Indies, a bishop in Japan, another who was for some years in China, and the bishop of New Guinea speak of the Anglican communion as they have seen it in their dioceses, its strength, its weakness, its successes, and its failures. They speak for the Mohammedans and the Hindus of India, for the Japanese and the Chinese, for the negroes, and for the population, other than Malay, of the largest island of the Pacific.”—Spec.
“It is written in a manner which will give enjoyment to every cultivated reader.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 435. O. 10. 300w.
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Cath. World. 87: 260. My. ’08. 700w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 763. N. 30, ’07. 150w.
“Highly interesting and valuable introduction furnished by Bishop Montgomery.”
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Spec. 89: 994. D. 14, ’07. 310w.
258Montgomery, Lucy Maud. Anne of Green Gables. $1.50. Page.
8–18572.
“A farmer in Prince Edward’s island ordered a boy from a Nova Scotia asylum, but the order got twisted and the result was that a girl was sent the farmer instead of a boy. That girl is the heroine of this story.” (N. Y. Times.) “Anne is a sort of Canadian ‘Rebecca of Sunnybrook farm’ in her imaginativeness, love of high-flown language, and propensity to get into scrapes. But the book is by no means an imitation; it has plenty of originality and character.” (Outlook.)
“A story that all girls from 12 to 15, and many grown-ups, will enjoy.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 274. N. ’08. ✠
“The author’s probable intention was to exhibit a unique development in this little asylum waif, but there is no real difference between the girl at the end of the story and the one at the beginning of it. All the other characters in the book are human enough.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 404. Jl. 18, ’08. 280w.
“It will please grown-up people quite or nearly as well as the school-girls for whom it is primarily designed. It ought to have a wide reading.”
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Outlook. 89: 956. Ag. 22, ’08. 100w.
Moody, Walter. Men who sell things; observations and experiences of over twenty years as travelling salesman, European buyer, sales manager, employer. **$1. McClurg.
7–41593.
A book of sound advice which is the outcome of knowing every round of the ladder. Alertness and poise are the salesman’s essentials acquired “thru the natural law of infinite patience, constant study of new conditions, clear adaptation of means to ends, infinite devotion to instant duty, and absolute fidelity to his house as it is and yet may be.”
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 144. My. ’08.
“While the book is not of a technical nature, nevertheless the fact that so many engineers are connected with the selling departments of their firms ... will make it one of value to many technical men.”
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Engin. D. 3: 306. Mr. ’08. 100w.
Ind. 64: 321. F. 6, ’08. 50w.
Moore, Frank Frankfort. Trial marriage. 75c. Empire book co.
8–19570.
“The author’s aim in this novel seems to be to demonstrate how inevitable are the fetters of law and custom which, forged at the dawn of civilization, have now linked themselves into the life and thought of the twentieth century; we are, he maintains, so strongly bound in many ways that a return to more primitive usage would be impossible.... With regard to the scientific care and education of the young, Mr. Moore puts forth theories not yet advocated by the most advanced socialist, only to demonstrate their futility.”—Ath.
“We think that he has thus fallen between two stools, and has written neither interesting fiction nor a useful political tract.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 263. S. 7. 170w.
“We are told that in England Mr. Moore is considered witty but this does not appear in [this book], although [it] is full of dialogue into which much glitter has been introduced. It is not the glitter of a naturally brilliant man, however.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 54. F. 1, ’08. 1170w.
Spec. 99: 267. Ag. 24, ’07. 150w.
Moore, Frederick. Passing of Morocco. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–21029.
An account of the recent outbreak in Morocco and the resulting French expeditions, interspersed with descriptions of Moroccan life.
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Ind. 64: 1289. Je. 4, ’08. 250w.
“One point only is made which we have not seen sharply brought out elsewhere, and that is the ruthlessness with which the French have been carrying on the campaign against the Shawia tribesmen.”
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Nation. 87: 53. Jl. 16, ’08. 330w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 150w.
R. of Rs. 38: 255. Ag. ’08. 40w.
“Here is an eyewitness worth hearing. Mr. Moore, we think, has a more pliant and engaging style than before.”
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Spec. 100: 748. My. 9, ’08. 1400w.
Moore, James Hall. Defence of the Mecklenburg declaration of independence. *$1.50. Stone & Barringer co.
8–17535.
An attempt to prove the authenticity of the documents which Carolinians hold to have been drawn up by the citizens of the county of Mecklenburg, May 20, 1775, in which they declared their independence of England. The author storms the Hoyt strongholds of opposition and incidentally throws light on some of the obscure phases of the revolution.
“Mr. Moore adds almost no new facts to the controversy, and his literary skill is not large.”
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Ind. 65: 98. Jl. 9, ’08. 320w.
“He possesses neither the historical sense nor the critical acumen of Mr. Hoyt. As a complete expression of what can be said in favor of the declaration his book has value.”
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Nation. 87: 116. Ag. 6, ’08. 250w.
“It is difficult to see where he has made any impression on Mr. Hoyt’s position, which is practically that taken by Adams and Jefferson.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 411. Jl. 25, ’08. 1550w.
“There can be no doubt that Mr. Moore’s book is to the pro-Mecklenburg literature what Mr. Hoyt’s is to the anti-Mecklenburg—the best that has yet been published.”
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Outlook. 89: 623. Jl. 18, ’08. 360w.
* Moore, Mrs. N. Hudson. Delftware, Dutch and English. **$1. Stokes.
8–26011.
The initial volume in “The collector’s handbooks” series. It is a guide to many styles of Delftware, explains its nature and tells the story of its production from 1672 to the present time, including Oriental influence and the origin of designs for decoration.
“Mrs. Moore’s book has been judiciously and interestingly compiled.”
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Nation. 87: 586. D. 10, ’08. 200w.
“Follows the plan of her earlier books in its chief features and is quite up to her standard.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 684. N. 21, ’08. 170w.
Moore, Norman. History of the study of medicine in the British Isles. *$3.40. Oxford.
The Fitz-Patrick lectures before the Royal college of physicians of London, for 1905–6. “The inner title, ‘History of the study of medicine in the British Isles,’ is somewhat misleading, since Dr. Moore does not attempt to show precisely how practitioners were trained. What he has done is to pick out various medical men of different periods, and to sketch partly their training and partly their methods as indicative of the general state of medical study in Great Britain at the time.” (Nation.) “The whole is a curious combination of science, tradition, and what we may, perhaps, call white magic.” (Spec.)
“Dr. Moore’s volume is rather episodic and biographical than historical in any broad sense; but what he writes is of extreme interest, and may well form a basis for further work since he has gone to original sources for the facts.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 421. Ap. 4. 650w.
“It is very creditable to Dr. Norman Moore that he has made time to consult original authorities, and that he has cast his results into four such interesting chapters.” D’Arcy Power.
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259“An exceedingly entertaining and instructive book, despite the somewhat rambling and unsystematic treatment.”
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Nation. 86: 495. My. 28, ’08. 300w.
“Dr. Moore’s book is a most interesting and scholarly contribution to the history of medicine.”
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“All this deserves, and, so excellent is Dr. Moore’s method, will easily secure, careful attention.”
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Moral training in the public schools. $1.50. Ginn.
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Two essays that received respectively first and second prizes offered by an anonymous California citizen for the best essays written on the subject.
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 144. My. ’08.
“This collection of views is well deserving of study for much valuable pedagogical instruction that it contains. It is, too, a pregnant, ready-made text for a powerful article in defense of our parochial schools.”
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Cath. World. 86: 824. Mr. ’08. 400w.
“No teacher can afford to neglect a careful reading of the book.” E: O. Sisson.
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Dial. 44: 276. My. 1, ’08. 600w.
“Is distinctly worth reading and reading again.”
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“On the whole, sound, sane, suggestive, instructive, inspiring, seem to the reviewer the adjectives that most fitly describe this little book. It is worthy the attention of teachers.” C. T. Lane.
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“The volume is a notable contribution to the discussion of moral education and allied problems, and the simplicity of treatment makes it easy reading. The absence of an index is to be regretted.” W. S. Monroe.
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J. Philos. 5: 51. Ja. 16, ’08. 380w.
“The book deserves attention from parents as well as teachers.”
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Nation. 86: 399. Ap. 30, ’08. 70w.
More, Paul Elmer. Shelburne essays, 5th. ser. **$1.25. Putnam.
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ser. 5. A fifth volume of “Shelburne essays.” There are eleven in number, and they deal with such subjects as The Greek anthology, The centenary of Longfellow, Dickens, Chesterfield, Gissing, and Donald G. Mitchell.
“Their literary merit warrants their purchase in book form by larger libraries.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 292. D. ’08. (Review of v. 5.)
“In the pages of so accomplished a literary artist as Mr. More one looks for, and finds, many an apt phrase that lingers in the mind.”
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Dial. 45: 93. Ag. 15, ’08. 140w. (Review of v. 5.)
“The book is a valuable outcome of much knowledge and wise deliberation.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 352. Je. 20, ’08. 180w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Whatever Mr. More writes, however, has the value of thorough and competent workmanship; but a little salt of wit, an occasional lightness of touch, would cheer his readers without weakening the fiber of his very scholarly work.”
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Outlook. 89: 811. Ag. 8, ’08. 260w. (Review of v. 5.)
Morgan, George. True Patrick Henry. **$2. Lippincott.
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Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
“One omission it seems to the reviewer has been made: the sectional conflict in Virginia which paralleled and followed the Stamp act controversy.” W: E. Dodd.
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“The writer’s imagination occasionally runs riot when he attempts to reconstruct the scenes through which the orator of Virginia moved.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 823. D. 28. 190w.
“The author also brings in many details of persons and events that distract attention from the main current of the narrative.”
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Dial. 44: 80. F. 1, ’08. 240w.
“It is the chief defect of Mr. Morgan’s book that he claims too much, in too many directions.”
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Nation. 85: 591. D. 26, ’07. 1920w.
“This is a biography which, if somewhat colored by the zeal of hero-worship, is profitable as well as pleasurable reading.”
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Outlook. 87: 877. D. 21, ’07. 320w.
Morgan, George Campbell. Analysed Bible. 3v. ea. **$1. Revell.
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A commentary to be complete in about thirty volumes which attempts to preserve a unity by analysing the books of the Bible into large logical sections. Volumes one to three are as follows: Genesis to Esther; Job to Malachi; Matthew to Revelation.
“These analyses are always clever, but sometimes at least not sufficiently supported by the text.”
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Bib. World. 31: 478. Je. ’08. 90w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The analyses and titles are generally striking and rhetorical rather than simply faithful to the works discussed.”
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“While these three volumes, containing brief introductions to all the books of scripture, might be useful for a Sunday school Bible class, yet they are vitiated by an utter lack of criticism, and by a failure to put the reader at all in touch with the way of regarding the Bible that should be inevitable to every modern man.” E. S. Drown.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 606. O. 21, ’08. 100w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
Morgan, James. Abraham Lincoln. †$1.50. Macmillan.
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Mr. Morgan aims not to form a history of the civil war, nor to give an analysis of Lincoln’s character but to write a simple straightforward story of his life in its true sequence. This plain story of essentials is a “series of dramatic pictures of the struggles and achievements of a common man in whom a race of common men is exalted. In the preparation of his book Mr. Morgan has made use of the various accessible authorities, presenting those incidents in his hero’s life which are most significant and essential.” (R. of Rs.)
“He tells a story, simple and straightforward—one that will interest and inspire the young American reader.” K. L. M.
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Bookm. 28: 387. D. ’08. 60w.
“Mr. Morgan is much more than a faithful compiler. He has points of view of his own, and seizes with individual judgment upon the facts worth while.”
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“Mr. Morgan tells his story pleasingly, and presents in it a very good sketch of Lincoln’s remarkable career.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 593. O. 24, ’08. 140w.
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“We do not see that he tells us anything new about Lincoln. A book about Lincoln is, we might say, always welcome; when carefully and sympathetically written it is a thing to be highly appreciated.”
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Spec. 101: 887. N. 28, ’08. 150w.
260Morley, John. Critical miscellanies, v. 4. *$1.50. Macmillan.
A group of “fugitive pieces, yet perhaps not altogether without a clue.” (Preface.) The subjects are as follows: Machiavelli; Guicciardini; A new calendar of great men; John Stuart Mill, an anniversary; Lecky on democracy; A historical romance; and Democracy and reaction. The appendix furnishes explanatory and bibliographical notes.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 293. D. ’08.
“The volume is commended to those who enjoy a literary style of the highest excellence, allusive yet never obscure, deep reflection enriched by wide literary knowledge and rendered precise by personal experience in governmental affairs, fair-minded treatment of opposing views, and a vindication of political idealism.”
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Am. Hist. R. 14: 176. O. ’08. 330w.
“A work of real value to serious persons and merits a place in all well-ordered libraries.”