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* Mabie, Hamilton Wright. Christmas to-day. **75c. Dodd.
8–31020.
“The substance of Mr. Mabie’s ‘Christmas to-day’ is an imaginary talk of a group of friends before a Christmas fire, and touches those changes of condition and feeling, those transformations of thought and sentiment, which separate the men and women to-day as by a great gulf from the men and women who heard the story of Bethlehem as a contemporary event.”—Outlook.
“It is handled in Mr. Mabie’s accustomed easy and readable style.”
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Dial. 45: 465. D. 16, ’08. 60w.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
Ind. 65: 1465. D. 17, ’08. 130w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 751. D. 5, ’08. 60w.
Outlook. 90: 843. D. 12, ’08. 160w.
Mabie, Hamilton Wright, ed. Essays that every child should know. (Every child should know ser.) **90c. Doubleday.
8–7181.
Essayists from Addison and Steele to Charles Dudley Warner and Thomas Bailey Aldrich are represented in this child’s book. “Though these essays would by no means all rank as among the greatest works of the kind in the language, many of them are justly famous, and all of them have been chosen with a view to meet the appreciative faculties of comparatively young readers.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Extracts from various sources, all of a high standard and valuable to those interested in developing the minds of young people; but not at all likely to meet any demand made by a child visiting a library.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 160. My. ’08.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 253. My. 2, ’08. 150w.
“The essays or narratives are, in every case, written simply, and most of them would appeal to the young imagination vividly.”
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Outlook. 88: 797. Ap. 4, ’08. 100w.
Mabie, Hamilton Wright, comp. Stories new and old: typical American and English tales; selected with introductions by Hamilton W. Mabie. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–18574.
A selection made in the interest of good reading with the purpose of presenting material for comparison of the earlier and later style of short stories and for the study of leading short story types or varieties. The stories are taken from Dickens, Hawthorne, Stevenson, Poe, Wister, T. B. Aldrich, William Austin, Dr. John Brown, J. Henry Shorthouse, and James Lane Allen.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 270. N. ’08.
“A very delightful reading for boys and girls, as well as for men and women.”
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Educ. R. 36: 525. D. ’08. 60w.
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Ind. 65: 439. Ag. 20, ’08. 70w.
“The ten he has selected are stories worth reading, studying, and comparing one with another.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 386. Jl. 11, ’08. 400w.
Outlook. 89: 622. Jl. 18, ’08. 330w.
Mabie, Hamilton Wright, and Stephens, Kate, eds. Heroines that every child should know; tales for young people of the world’s heroines of all ages. (Every child should know ser.) il. **90c. Doubleday.
8–5881.
A stimulating volume for young readers including among its heroines the following: Alcestis, Antigone, Iphigenia, Paula, Joan of Arc, Catherine Douglas, Lady Jane Grey, Pocahontas, Flora MacDonald, Madame Manon Jeanne Philipon, Grace Darling, Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison and Florence Nightingale.
“An interesting volume, and a useful one.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 160. My. ’08. ✠
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Dial. 44: 216. Ap. 1, ’08. 50w.
“Sure to interest children and written with literary charm.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 414. Jl. 25, ’08. 100w.
“The book will, of course, appeal especially to girls, and seems, in our judgment, to be one of the very best of the series.”
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Outlook. 88: 797. Ap. 4, ’08. 150w.
Macaulay, George Campbell. James Thomson. (English men of letters ser.) **75c. Macmillan.
8–9515.
More valuable than the inclusion of some new facts concerning the production of Thomson’s plays, his relations with Lyttelton, and the tenure of his successive posts under the government “are the author’s contributions, in the way of appreciative comment, toward a better understanding of Thomson as a poet of nature, and a more accurate determination of his influence on the poetry of his century, not only in England but also in France and Germany.” (Dial.)
“The poet has found in Mr. Macaulay a sober, sympathetic, and scholarly biographer, and a critic who does not allow his reasoned judgments to be impaired by any passion for brilliant paradox.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 597. My. 16. 1400w.
“As a careful study of a not superlatively prepossessing theme, the little volume deserves nothing but praise.”
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Dial. 44: 180. Mr. 16, ’08. 300w.
“Though we have been compelled to say that Mr. Macaulay does not seem to have done all that could and should be done with his brief, we are also compelled to point out that his discussion of Thomson’s poetry is, on the whole, competent, interesting, and suggestive.” Montgomery Schuyler.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 85. F. 15, ’08. 1400w.
232“Mr. Macaulay belongs to the scholastic school of critics. He is always careful, laborious and accurate; but he is never very illuminating, nor very profound.”
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Spec. 100: 421. Mr. 14, ’08. 2000w.
Macaulay, Thomas B. M. Marginal notes by Lord Macaulay; selected and arranged by Sir George O. Trevelyan. **50c. Longmans.
7–36134.
“It was Macaulay’s habit to write notes upon the margins of books that he read and especially of the astonishing number of books that he read again and again. In this little book, Sir George has made an entertaining discourse out of these notes, quoting many that are not highly important, to be sure, but also reproducing many sound and judicious observations. The historical reader will be particularly interested in the series of comments relating to Cicero, whose combination of the literary, oratorical and political life made him an object of especial interest to Macaulay.”—Am. Hist. R.
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 643. Ap. ’08. 140w.
“Make very pretty reading.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 786. Je. 27. 780w.
“No one who takes up this volume can fail to carry away from it something of his industry, his honesty, his noble and lifelong devotion to the great literature of the world.”
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Lond. Times. 6: 332. N. 1, ’07. 1500w.
“The habit is generally to be discouraged, but Macaulay has certainly fallen into safe and very competent hands.”
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Sat. R. 105: 21. Ja. 4, ’08. 420w.
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Spec. 99: sup. 743. N. 16, ’07. 830w.
* McBeth, Kate C. Nez Perces Indians since Lewis and Clark. **$1.50. Revell.
8–12811.
“Barring some historical matter, this is a sketch of the life and work of the author and her sister among these Indians for a period of a quarter of a century, and a general account of missionary activities. It contains practically nothing relative to the life of the Indians, but really tells what the white man has done for them, particularly in matters religious, and portrays the development of churches.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“While the scope of the book is not wide, the history is worth preservation.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 626. N. ’08. 80w.
“Her intimate knowledge of the customs and folklore will make her work of value to all students of the Indian race.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 280. My. 16, ’08. 180w.
McCarthy, Justin. Short history of our own times: from the accession of Queen Victoria to the accession of King Edward VII.; a new ed., rev. and enl. **$1.50. Harper.
8–5814.
A new edition which extends the story to the beginning of King Edward’s reign, and even beyond his accession in cases where issues, opened in Victoria’s reign, came to a close in the first years of her successor’s rule.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 121. Ap. ’08. ✠
“The best single volume history of modern England to be had.”
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Ind. 64: 533. Mr. 5, ’08. 70w.
“It is late in the day to say how entertainingly this history is written; it is never too late to protest against the printing of such a volume without maps or chronological tables.”
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Nation. 86: 216. Mr. 5, ’08. 70w.
“The rather small type and the narrow margins which have been necessary in order to bring the entire book into the compass of one volume do not add to its comeliness and for some readers may lessen its usefulness.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 146. Mr. 14, ’08. 130w.
McCarthy, Justin Huntly. Duke’s motto. †$1.50. Harper.
8–23545.
A stirring tale of love and intrigue set in the times of Louis XIII. In the background are plenty of rascals ready with trained swords to aid the villain in ridding his path of the Duke de Nevers, the one man who stands in way of winning wife, rank and fortune. Henri de Lagardere, the best swordsman of Europe, plunges into the game of avenging the duke’s death. During twenty years he lays his plans and brings them to a dramatic climax when the villain’s lifetime of treachery is exposed and punished.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 270. N. ’08.
“The author does his part so ardently and zealously that the reader is carried from episode to episode on a tide of interest.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 380. Mr. 28. 150w.
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Ind. 65: 549. S. 3, ’08. 100w.
“It is patent ... that this ‘melodrama’ ... has been very hastily and carelessly constructed.”
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Sat. R. 105: 730. Je. 6, ’08. 110w.
McCarthy, Justin Huntly. Seraphica. †$1.50. Harper.
8–4440.
An adventure romance of the time of Louis XV., when a regent was ruler of France. An alliance arranged to bring harmony to two rival duchies could not be consummated because of the wilfulness of a little duchess and the obstinacy of a young prince, whose heart had already been given to a court favorite. When the little duchess learns that the prince has refused even to look at her photograph and has fled to Paris, she decides to follow him, win his affections, and then avenge herself by spurning his love. The duchess escapes from home in male attire which she soon discards. In the role of a tavern maid, who aspires to be an actress, she makes friends with the prince, extricates him from many difficult situations and has a golden opportunity to take full and sweet revenge—but she doesn’t.
“Essentially stagy. Brisk and light of foot, careless and gay.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 546. N. 2. 170w.
“Mr. McCarthy makes, all things considered, the most of his opportunities offered by a plot so inherently improbable.” F: T. Cooper.
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Bookm. 27: 307. My. ’08. 300w.
“Is a gay little butterfly romance floating above the tangled ambitions and the graver policies of the times.”
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Ind. 65: 209. Jl. 23, ’08. 230w.
“An animated and effectively costumed story, ripe for a fall from the bookshelf to the footlights.”
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Nation. 86: 309. Ap. 2, ’08. 250w.
“A thoroughly delightful tale. The book possesses far more coherence, authority, and literary quality than the author has previously shown himself capable of—more, in fact, than are usually apparent in our current fiction.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 102. F. 22, ’08. 250w.
“An entertaining and ingenious plot.”
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Outlook. 88: 653. Mr. 21, ’08. 100w.
“The story is not one which we would recommend ‘virginibus puerisque,’ but it is all through on the right side.”
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Spec. 99: 781. N. 16, ’07. 140w.
MacClintock, Porter Lander. Literature in the elementary school. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–37019.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
“A book designed for teachers’ use, but somewhat lacking in those qualities that would make it of highest value—directness, definiteness and capability of being translated into every-day use in the classroom.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 262. N. ’08. ✠
233“The chapters on the folk tale and the fairy story and on myth as literature are especially good.”
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Educ. R. 36: 208. S. ’08. 40w.
“The book is unquestionably authoritative. It is so important, so well balanced, so scientific, so artistic, so human, so exquisitely adequate to the task proposed, that it ought to become a gospel. Teachers ought to buy it as they buy dictionaries—and read it better.” E. H. Lewis.
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El. School T. 8: 347. F. ’08. 780w.
McClung, Mrs. Nellie Letitia. Sowing seeds in Danny. †$1. Doubleday.
8–9810.
A frontier Manitoba town furnishes the background for this tale in which a delightful little Irish girl and her brother Danny teach lessons of child wisdom and helpfulness.
“The style is very poor, the plot slight and far from original, but there is much of the same kind of homely humor and sentiment that made ‘Mrs. Wiggs of the cabbage patch’ unique and popular.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 271. N. ’08. ✠
“There is an atmosphere of kind thinking about the loosely constructed narrative which gives an otherwise unpretentious tale a sufficient reason for existence.” G. I. Colbron.
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Bookm. 27: 604. Ag. ’08. 420w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 260w.
“The humor and sentiment which the members of [a very interesting Irish] family exhibit in their homely lives are what make the book worth while.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 446. Ag. 15, ’08. 100w.
“A wholesome, optimistic story.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 508. O. ’08. 120w.
McCormick, Frederick. Tragedy of Russia in Pacific Asia. 2v. *$6. Outing pub.
8–2962.
A serious, unimpassioned account of the Russo-Japanese struggle, written by a special representative of the Associated press who went thru the entire war. Mr. McCormick writes vividly of the principal battles from the opening shot at Port Arthur to the triumph of the “Japanese military” at Mukden. He further discusses the peace and armistice, the Russian, the Japanese and the Chinese in the war, the elimination of Korea, the rise of Japan, Eastern consolidation and the elimination of the West, and the position of America.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 141. My. ’08.
“There is no other book on the war which combines so many elements of excellence. The work of Mr. McCormick is a commentary on the values of civilization as they revealed themselves in a great struggle.” P. S. Reinsch.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 635. N. ’08. 450w.
“We are glad to possess the volumes for their many merits.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 239. Ag. 29. 450w.
“The value of Mr. McCormick’s work arises wholly from the intimacy with which the author was acquainted with the conditions, the personalities, and the events of the war. Mr. McCormick is very far from being an historian. Yet, despite more or less serious limitations, a perusal of his volumes is sufficient to give the assurance that they contain much that is essential to a full knowledge of the war, and a good deal that one may never be able to lay hold of elsewhere.” F: A. Ogg.
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Dial. 44: 97. F. 16, ’08. 1700w.
Ind. 64: 750. Ap. 2, ’08. 170w.
“For accuracy and authenticity may rank perhaps with Kinglake’s ‘Crimean war.’ Mr. McCormick is not only a clever writer, but an artist, and his own sketches are among the most interesting illustrations of this brilliant work.”
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Lit. D. 36: 418. Mr. 21, ’08. 200w.
“The narrative is often obscure, ill-connected, largely speculative, and carries in consequence no large sense of authority.”
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Nation. 86: 512. Je. 4, ’08. 270w.
“A more satisfyingly illustrated record of its kind would be hard to find. The reader who followed the events of the war as closely as he could from the material then available, will find here a far more vivid view than he was able to get then.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 84. F. 15, ’08. 1850w.
“A clear and graphic account.”
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Outlook. 89: 310. Je. 6, ’08. 900w.
“No doubt it is extremely interesting to be able to realise the American view of affairs in the Far East, yet we cannot but reflect that it would be far pleasanter to study it in a style less irritating.”
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Sat. R. 106: 612. N. 14, ’08. 1150w.
McCullough, Ernest. Reinforced concrete: a manual of practice. $1. Cement era pub., Chicago.
“This book has been written for the purpose of supplying a working manual, full of practical hints for men not technically educated and with as little as possible of theoretical discussion.” (Engin. D.) “The pages are full of useful hints as to methods, the kinds of tools to use, the personnel of the force, the conduct of the work, form design and construction, all quite clearly and correctly stated.” (Engin. N.)
“Much of the matter is original, and the work is in no sense a compilation.”
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Engin. D. 4: 416. O. ’08. 150w.
“It is frankly a ‘manual of practice,’ and as such it is as complete as its limited size admits. It is only when it leaves practice to take up theory that its usefulness diminishes.”
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Engin. N. 60: 190. Ag. 13, ’08. 480w.
“Mr. Ernest McCullough handles his subject in a sane way that is quite refreshing. It is exceedingly easy to read and quite up to date in its statements and warnings. A few lapses are usually to be found in the best book, and in this case may be mentioned the defining of the modulus of elasticity as a force, which is perhaps only a little lax.”
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Engin. Rec. 58: 448. O. 17, ’08. 200w.
Maccunn, John. Six radical thinkers. *$1.70. Longmans.
W 7–109.
Six expository essays as follows: Bentham and his philosophy of reform, The utilitarian optimism of J. S. Mill, The commercial radicalism of Cobden, The anti-democratic radicalism of Carlyle, The religious radicalism of Mazzini, and The political idealism of T. H. Green.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 142. My. ’08.
“An interesting volume, subject, however, to the drawback that the treatment of political philosophy in chapters devoted to and distinguished by the names of individuals is never thoroughly satisfactory. The treatment of the lives is pleasant, and any reader, learned or ignorant, may peruse them with some advantage.”
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Ath. 1907, 1: 288. Mr. 9. 1000w.
“The style is forceful and clear, and the crisp, short sentences enforce attention from beginning to end. Equally helpful to the reader is the author’s manner of seizing upon certain sharply contrasted features in each of the six radical systems, features which, because antithetical, one would scarcely expect to find side by side in a single political philosophy. Of the writers treated in this book T. H. Green is the one with whom Professor Maccunn appears to be most thoroughly in sympathy.” M. S. MacDonald.
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Philos. R. 17: 347. My. ’08. 350w.
“It would be difficult to overpraise the technical skill with which Professor Maccunn has used his six Radicals ... as stepping-stones 234for traversing a difficult period in political and philosophical thought. The argument has a perfect continuity. The essay on Cobden we find the least satisfactory in the book, because it is so ‘judicial’ that it is in fact rather nebulous.”
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Spec. 98: 575. Ap. 13, ’07. 1600w.
McCutcheon, George Barr. Husbands of Edith. †$1.25. Dodd.
8–13724.
Young Medcroft, a London architect, who has arranged with his wife to visit cousins of hers in Vienna whom he has never seen, finds that it would be vastly to his advantage to seem to be off on that trip and yet remain in London to fight a coming bill. So he induces a New York friend to play the rôle of husband to Edith. The humorous situations growing out of the substitution reach their climax when the masquerader falls in love with the wife’s sister and defies the horrified relatives by openly making love to her. It is an uncommonly good comedy in plot and execution.
“Mr. McCutcheon has never written a more entertaining tale.”
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Ind. 65: 211. Jl. 23, ’08. 150w.
“An unblushing piece of newstand literature which will doubtless please the audience at which it is aimed.”
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Nation. 87: 56. Jl. 16, ’08. 220w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 220w.
“Described in the author’s most entertaining manner.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
McCutcheon, George Barr. Man from Brodney’s. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–23920.
A South sea island is the scene of this tale into whose composition Mr. McCutcheon works his favorite ingredients. Two Englishmen, smarting from domestic irritation, go to the island of Japat, south of the Arabian sea, amass a fortune equal to Monte Cristo’s, die and leave it to two grandchildren who must marry in order to possess it; otherwise it would go to the islanders. The fact that each heir had already married complicates the settlement which involves heirs, lawyers, islanders, and indirectly a beautiful princess with copper-colored hair. The man from Brodney’s, counselor for the islanders, is the hero of the all-conquering McCutcheon type.
“Mr. McCutcheon has his usual success in writing an interesting story, and in making the impossible plausible.”
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Ind. 65: 1247. N. 26, ’08. 160w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 523. S. 26, ’08. 700w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
Macdonald, Mrs. Frederika. Iliad of the East: a selection of legends drawn from the Sanskrit poem, The Ramayana. *$1.50. Lane.
A reprint of a popular version of the mythological tales in which Valmiki’s The Ramayana abounds. The purpose remains the same as it was stated in 1870, “to bring home to English readers the proofs of the resemblance between some special qualities characteristic of the modern sentimental temper and the sentimental temper which penetrates old Indian poetry.”
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Dial. 45: 169. S. 16, ’08. 380w.
“Will serve to renew interest in a clever and popular abridgement of the huge epic Ramayana.”
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Nation. 86: 554. Je. 18, ’08. 160w.
“A treat for a new generation. The book does not represent any scholarly effort to reproduce the original Sanscrit, but is merely a collection of stories delightfully told through the medium of a French translation.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 410. Jl. 25, ’08. 720w.
“The editor, in her admiration of Buddhism, evinces a radical misconception of Christianity, derived from its mediæval theology.”
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Outlook. 89: 814. Ag. 8, ’08. 170w.
* Macdonald, George. Princess and Curdie. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–23533.
A reprint of this child’s favorite with twelve illustrations in colors by Maria L. Kirk.
“This is another of the books which are never outgrown.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 60w.
MacDonald, Robert. Mind, religion and health. **$1.30. Funk.
8–30268.
A discussion of the psychological principles underlying mental and religious therapeutics; a call to the church to apply these principles in ministering to those who are afflicted either in mind or body; and an appreciation of the Emmanuel movement, with an account of the practical good accomplished.
Ind. 65: 1184. N. 19, ’08. 140w.
“This is a timely and judicious book.”
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Lit. D. 37: 904. D. 12, ’08. 170w.
Macdonald, William, ed. Documentary source book of American history, 1606–1898. *$1.75. Macmillan.
8–23907.
“Gives satisfactory evidence that a wise principle of selection has been followed in choosing documents to illustrate the history of the United States from the time of the founding to the close of the Spanish war. In all, nearly two hundred items are included, comprising colonial charters, acts of Parliament and Congress, treaties, resolutions, and executive papers.”—Outlook.
“The student who has this book as an adjunct to his narrative text may easily double the efficiency of his work.”
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Dial. 45: 268. O. 16, ’08. 80w.
“In the aggregate the collection will meet the need of most students. We can only regret that the editor has not extended the period of his compilation, in order to include some of the commoner documents of the last ten years.”
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Ind. 65: 1067. N. 5, ’08. 130w.
“There is very little to criticise in Professor Macdonald’s compilation, barring a conspicuous absence of documents illustrative of the first steps in territorial expansion.”
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Outlook. 90: 363. O. 17, ’08. 220w.
MacDougal, Daniel Trembly. Mutations, variations, and relationships of the oenotheras, by D. T. MacDougal, A. M. Vail, and G. H. Shull, pa. $1. Carnegie inst.
7–37035.
A further account of evolutionary studies upon the oenotheras (evening primroses). Seeds representing the species in cultivation in the principal botanical gardens of the world have been received in America and have been sown for cultural investigation. These with a number of forms native to North America are included in the papers of the present volume.
Bot. Gaz. 45: 61. Ja. ’08. 150w.
“An investigation which for minuteness and exhaustiveness is without parallel. The part of this memoir which has interested us most is that which deals with the origin of mutants from strains of Oenotheras different from that which de Vries found at Hilversum and observed his classical series of mutations in.” A. D. D.
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Nature. 78: 10. My. 7, ’08. 700w.
235McFadden, Elizabeth Apthorp, and Davis, Lilian E., comps. Selected list of plays for amateurs and students of dramatic expression in schools and colleges; with an introd. by Ludella L. Peck. *$2. Miss E. A. McFadden, Box 328, Cincinnati, Ohio.
8–4425.
A wide range of plays is included in the list suitable for all occasions. There are plays for children, out-of-door plays, Christmas plays, etc., all systematically arranged for the amateur’s benefit.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 80. Mr. ’08.
“Promoters of school entertainments will be grateful for this compilation.”
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Dial. 44: 112. F. 16, ’08. 60w.
“The volume will prove serviceable.”
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Ind. 65: 46. Jl. 2, ’08. 120w.
Macfarland, Charles Stedman. Infinite affection. *$1. Pilgrim press.
7–36403.
Here is outlined “the theology of a young man who has hospitably submitted himself to what is termed ‘modern thought.’” He believes that “we can no longer confine inspiration to the Bible, the incarnation to Christ, or religion to a church” and that Christ “is actually what man is prophetically,” and that man can reach the perfection of the great Exemplar.
“This work, by one of the most brilliant and deeply thoughtful of the younger ministers of the Congregational church, merits wide circulation. It is instinct with lofty spirituality and the living faith that makes religion most vital to those who thus believe.”
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Arena. 39: 249. F. ’08. 1700w.
Outlook. 88: 46. Ja. 4, ’08. 190w.
* McFee, William. Letters of an ocean tramp. *$1.50. Cassell.
“Under the thin disguise of letters from a dead friend Mr. McFee presents us with impressions of life afloat, as seen from the point of view of third engineer on board a small trading steamer. One is puzzled at first to understand whether it is fact or fiction; it is overwhelmingly literary, fastidious (and a little self-conscious) in style, full of moralization and philosophy, and crammed with allusions to eminent authors—Ruskin, Pater, Nietzsche, Heine, Boileau, Beaumarchais, Borrow, Browning, and many others.”—Ath.
“He never forgets himself in his subject, as other sea-writers do.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 508. O. 24. 260w.
“Whatever he sees in persons or things—the romantic, pathetic or the fascinating—in foreign climes, he describes in virile English, which is both descriptive and philosophic, and in which the reminiscent and anecdotal are not absent.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
MacGowan, Alice. Judith of the Cumberlands. †$1.50. Putnam.
8–28314.
Here the charm and spirit of life in a primitive mountain settlement are brought vividly to view. Fires of old feuds yet smoulder; the illicit still works in secret cover; and the new justice of the peace finds himself on shifting ground. But light comes to the chaotic region of the “Turkey Tracks,” when plots and counterplots with their reign of doubt and pain and misunderstanding give way to the love of a strong man for the maid of the Cumberlands.
“Her book is simply a rude, unvarnished picture of mountain folk drawn with a cool literalness which brings into the foreground all their coarseness, with little of the finer touches of intelligence to soften it.”
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Ind. 65: 1121. N. 12, ’08. 350w.
“A book that combines historical value with so good a story is a book to be praised.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 614. O. 24, ’08. 300w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
“There is no shadow of imitation in the author’s work, but it recalls some of the best early writing of Miss Murfree, and has an especial freshness of its own.”
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Outlook. 90: 502. O. 31, ’08. 160w.
Macgowan, Rev. John. Sidelights on Chinese life. *$3.75. Lippincott.
8–3983.
“Dr. Macgowan’s volume professes to give no more than the general views of the salient points of the Chinese character. In fact, it consists of a series of essays in which the author descants on the various phases of Chinese life from the cradle to the grave. He has much that is interesting to say on these topics, and we derive from a perusal of his pages an enhanced regard for the Chinese people.”—Ath.
“If we have a fault to find with Mr. Macgowan, it is that he deals too often in the superlative degree in his paraphrases of facts.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 785. Je. 27. 820w.
“A series of informing and interesting chapters.”
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Dial. 45: 410. D. 1, ’08. 180w.
“It is an authoritative and illuminating book.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 440w.
“It may be pointed out, not as a criticism but as a caution, that Dr. Macgowan is writing of the Chinese of the South, who differ in many material respects from their compatriots of the North. His chapter on Chinese education is out of date, and it is a pity that so modern a book should not have given more than a notice of a few lines to the drastic changes that are taking place in the Chinese educational world.”
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Sat. R. 105: 49. Ja. 11, ’08. 1200w.
“One cannot read many pages without discovering the mark of the writer who has firsthand information: and yet Mr. Macgowan detracts from what might have been a much more illuminating book by careless writing, which involves him in many seeming contradictions and repetitions, and by such trite reflections as a satirist once called ‘Glimpses into the obvious.’”
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Spec. 100: 151. Ja. 25, ’08. 1850w.
MacGrath, Harold. Lure of the mask. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–17786.
A lilt from an Italian opera sung by a well-trained voice from out a blurring New York fog begins for young Hillard, who from his bachelor quarters hears the siren note, a romance all atingle with adventure. It ends happily in an Italian villa after the trail of a titled serpent has been obliterated.
“This novel is pervaded by a morally enervating atmosphere whose subtlety and insinuating character render it all the more injurious, and nullify any possible good of the vocal morality that from time to time confronts the reader.”
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Arena. 40: 125. Jl. ’08. 500w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 100w.
* McIlwaine, Richard. Memories of three score years and ten. *$3. Neale.
8–19140.
Nearly four hundred pages of “memories” from out a long useful life as student, pastor, soldier, chaplain, and college president. The events of his life are related to the development of Virginia’s political, religious, and educational interests of the past half century.
“A notable contribution to the biographical literature of the country.”
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Lit. D. 37: 852. D. 5, ’08. 270w.
236M’Intosh, John Geddes. Industrial alcohol: the production and use of alcohol for industrial purposes and for use as an illuminant and as a source of motive power. *$3. Van Nostrand.
Agr 7–2204.
“The first of these books, after describing the properties of grain, or ethyl, alcohol, and the general principles of fermentation, takes up the manufacture of alcohol from [its many sources]. A long chapter is given to the description of the various methods of distillation and rectification of the alcohol obtained from the above sources. The concluding chapter gives in more or less detail the uses of grain alcohol in the arts, the principal part being devoted to its action as a solvent.”—Engin. N.
“This book will certainly be of great use in pointing out the successful processes in use abroad, and will, therefore, serve a highly important role in the development of American industrial alcohol.”
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Engin. D. 3: 70. Ja. ’08. 530w.
“The book on the whole is well written and is carefully indexed. The diagrams are numerous and well chosen. The book serves a useful purpose in bringing together under one head much interesting and valuable information.” L. P. Kinnicutt.
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Engin. N. 58: 424. O. 17, ’07. 210w.
McIntyre, John Thomas. In the dead of night. il. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–12558.
The thrilling side of night life in New York city is portrayed in this story of adventure which begins by kidnapping an innocent man, placing him in another man’s shoes, and requiring him to work his way thru a maze of mystery.
“Mr. McIntyre has been unusually successful in ravelling up his mystery, but, as too commonly happens in these stories, the solution is an anticlimax.”
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Nation. 86: 558. Je. 18, ’08. 130w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 80w.
McIntyre, John Thomas. With fighting Jack Barry. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–28972.
John Barry whose name is linked with many a naval achievement before and during the revolution is the hero-in-general of this exciting tale. Yet the young reader who is fast upon the heels of adventure follows Bob Fairly in his struggle to keep possession of a mammoth ruby presented by the French king to a Fairly for service. Once stolen, its recovery furnishes as exciting a series of incidents as ever a Sherlock Holmes attempted to untangle.
McIntyre, Margaret A. Cave boy of the age of stone. (Stories of primitive life for primary grades.) *40c. Appleton.
7–15587.
Here the author has worked into story form the progress made by the cavemen and moundmen. She tells how primitive people lived, how they fared, how they fished, how they trapped and killed wild game, and how they used the margin of time for development.
“An interesting and readable account. For children of the primary grades.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 22. Ja. ’08. ✠
“Miss McIntyre must be commended for a happy thought. The story is sufficiently interesting to attract [children].”
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Ath. 1908. 1: 578. My. 9. 130w.
“The matter is all excellent and her book, In scheme, most acceptable.”
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N. Y. Times. 12: 268. Ap. 27, ’07. 100w.
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N. Y. Times. 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 50w.
Spec. 100: 426. Mr. 14, ’08. 200w.
Mackaye, Percy Wallace. Mater: an American study in comedy. **$1.25. Macmillan.
8–29017.
A satirical comedy in which a mother resorts to what she deems justifiable deception in aiding her son, opposed to bribery, to win a political fight. “The play is remarkable for two reasons; first because satire is applied poignantly to American conditions in the guise of charming fancy and poetic allegory; second, because it subjects American life, as portrayed on the stage, to a literary treatment that adds to Mr. Mackaye’s poetic reputation—a sense of humor that sinks below situation and touches character.” (Ind.)
“After reading the play, we are still doubtful whether its democratic ideas are quite clear, and whether or not its levity is sufficiently under control. But the book is an achievement to the decided credit of Mr. Mackaye.”
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Ind. 65: 1063. N. 5, ’08. 470w.
“Mr. Mackaye has done a sparkling piece of literary work, but with a flavor of cynicism which is not altogether agreeable.”
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Nation. 87: 344. O. 8, ’08. 360w.
“It is a little too fine, perhaps, for the popular theatre, but will surely appeal to the reader of taste and intelligence. Its satire is keen, and the character of ‘Mater’ has unusual charm.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 559. O. 10, ’08. 400w.
Mackaye, Percy Wallace. Scarecrow; or, The glass of truth: a tragedy of the ludicrous. **$1.25. Macmillan.
8–7173.
Mr. Mackaye, author of “Sappho and Phaon,” uses New England in the days of witchcraft for a setting of this his first prose drama, and acknowledges his indebtedness to Hawthorne for inspiration. “It is an imaginative study of New England temperament, as a local phase of broader human psychology.” The comic theme has for its underlying idea “the sense of human sympathy which is, it would seem, a more searching critic of human frailty than satire.”
“We find the piece to have these three excellent possibilities, of significance, scenic capacity, and construction, what does it lack? We think it lacks coherence.”
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Dial. 44: 380. Je. 16, ’08. 400w.
“It is fairly well constructed, and has enough movement to keep the reader steadily interested.”
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Ind. 65: 784. O. 1, ’08. 330w.
“It is a play of vigorous imaginative richness and often of colorful, felicitous diction. The satire may be readily appreciated but is not an essential to enjoyment. For the story and the manner of telling are in themselves highly diverting.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 315. Je. 6, ’08. 930w.
McKean, Thomas. Master influence. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–13277.
A story whose central figure is a girl who, indifferent to her “smart set” surroundings, gropes for an influence that can lift her above ennui. Hospital work is more alluring than doctors, men of dreams or dukes. But one day a young politician, a leader of men, reveals his power thru love and becomes her “master influence.”
Ind. 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 70w.
McKenzie, Frederick Arthur. Tragedy of Korea. *$2. Dutton.
8–32329.
An anti-Japanese narrative covering a period of thirty years during which the history of Korea has been linked with international developments. The author’s conclusions all emphasize his view that Japanese rule in Korea has been unnecessarily harsh and cruel.
Ath. 1908, 1: 476. Ap. 18. 840w.
237“The statements of fact and the assertions of opinion which Mr. McKenzie has set down in his little book are abundantly worth giving to the world.” F: A. Ogg.
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Dial. 45: 289. N. 1, ’08. 1500w.
“Though obviously intended to be fair, scarcely makes as much allowance for the difficulties of the conqueror as circumstances might seem to warrant. He is a trained observer, and has a graphic, picturesque style that gives life and color to the page.” Adolphe Klauber.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 433. Ag. 8, ’08. 1650w.
R. of Rs. 38: 383. S. ’08. 120w.
* Mackinder, Halford John. The Rhine: its valley and history. *$3.50. Dodd.
8–24297.
The history and geography of the Rhine valley take precedence in this informing Rhine book over its natural beauty and romance. “The reader is given a wonderful bird’s-eye view of that great valley which has seen so much of the history of Europe. By presenting landscape in bare, almost mathematical, lines he succeeds in forcing a novel aspect upon the reader’s mind, much as in another sphere Mr. Hardy in his ‘Dynasts’ presents us with the bones of history, and therefore with a fresh view of it.” (Spec.)
“A text which is, in a scholar’s eyes, worthy of its surroundings. The fault of it is, perhaps, for the general reader, that in dealing with a subject of such romantic interest, he has clung too closely to topographical detail. He has not allowed the romance of the great river to inspire him. In the spelling of names Mr. Mackinder is a trifle inconsistent.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 456. Ap. 11. 1100w.
“The work shows careful study and patient labor, and is good to read by itself or to use as a supplement (even though a ‘colored supplement’) to Murray or Baedeker.”
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Dial. 45: 461. D. 16, ’08. 220w.
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Nation. 87: 577. D. 10, ’08. 50w.
“One of the most beautiful travel books of the year.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 90w.
“We commend this book as a unique guide to the essentials of both European geography and history. Without abating one jot of his scientific purpose, Mr. Mackinder has succeeded in making his narrative as fascinating as a romance.”
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Spec. 100: 500. Mr. 28, ’08. 1400w.
M’Laren, R. S. Mechanical engineering for beginners. *$1.75. Lippincott.
8–32659.
“In this book the author has endeavored to give in broad outlines the information it is necessary to possess concerning the ordinary branches of mechanical engineering, and at the same time to go sufficiently into detail to enable the beginner to make all the calculations likely to be required during the earlier stages of his study.”—Engin. D.
“For a young man who is thinking of taking up a mechanical engineering course at a technical school, the book will serve as an admirable introduction thereto. Young draftsmen and machinists desiring to know something of mechanical science will have their interest whetted by reading it, for the calculations included are extremely simple, and invite, rather than repel a continuance of study.”
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Engin. D. 4: 56. Jl. ’08. 150w.
“If the author had entirely left out his chapter on electrical things he would have an admirable book, but that one section is grossly misleading in important and elementary matters. Throughout the book the student needs to bear in mind that British practice is dealt with and that American ideas depart from this widely at times.”
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Engin. N. 60: 82. Jl. 16, ’08. 780w.
McLaws, (Emily) Lafayette. The welding. †$1.50. Little.
7–34773.
The south before the war furnishes the background for this story which follows the career of the ambitious son of a Georgia cracker. Abolitionists and their opponents figure true to history, and there appear such notable ones among them as Garrison, Lincoln, Greeley, Clay, Calhoun, Daniel Webster, Jefferson Davis, President Buchanan and Alexander H. Stephens.
“As a novelist Lafayette McLaws has many superiors in American fiction; that is, many people who can make their characters more vital and convincing, but we know of no historical romance that presents so fine or true a picture of life in the South and in the national capital from forty-nine to sixty-five as is given in ‘The welding.’”
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Arena. 38: 691. D. ’07. 540w.
“The more personal side of the narrative is constantly interesting, and we heartily congratulate Miss McLaws on her work.”
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Cath. World. 86: 695. F. ’08. 400w.
“She has the national rather than the sectional consciousness and hates slavery both from the humanitarian and patriotic standpoint. She offers really valuable information concerning social conditions in the South prior to the war.”
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Ind. 64: 531. Mr. 5, ’08. 330w.
Nation. 86: 106. Ja. 30, ’08. 270w.
McMillan, Archibald Harold. Telephone law: the organization and operation of telephone companies. *$3. McGraw.
8–22088.
A compact and concise handbook of legal information designed to serve the practical telephone man rather than the practicing lawyer. All of the matters pertaining to the organization of telephone companies are discussed in relation to the laws governing them, including a thoro examination of the statutes of different states.
“This excellent work will be found of use by others than telephonists and may be heartily recommended.”
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Elec. World. 52: 259. Ag. 1, ’08. 250w.
“Mr. McMillan’s book gives valuable information for men in a certain line of enterprise; it is compiled from authoritative sources and put together in a style that is consecutive, concise and understandable.”
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Engin. D. 4: 302. S. ’08. 370w.
Engin. N. 60: 186. Ag. 13, ’08. 50w.
Macmillan, Rev. Donald. Life of George Matheson. *$2. Armstrong.
8–9534.
A biography of Scotland’s celebrated blind preacher. “Blind at his entrance to Glasgow university, but winning its highest honors, minister to a city parish with nearly two thousand communicants and a multitude of poor, assiduously visiting them, but never preaching the same sermon twice, while continually addressing the public through the press, he was one of the few heroic souls whose energy has wrung triumph out of seemingly hopeless disaster.” (Outlook.)
“A sympathetic and appreciative biography.”
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Ind. 64: 690. Mr. 26, ’08. 950w.
“Is a most stimulating book. While it is full of lessons for every one, it appeals especially to young men or women who, laboring under some great physical infirmity, feel that for them an actively useful life is an impossibility.”
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Nation. 86: 148. F. 13, ’08. 320w.
“The note of eulogy that recurs throughout this record of an extraordinary career is justified by the facts.”
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Outlook. 88: 47. Ja. 4, ’08. 420w.
“Dr. Macmillan has given us a touching record of a great life, which was singularly fruitful of good in adverse conditions.”
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Spec. 99: 1100. D. 28, ’07. 360w.
238Macnaughton, Miss S. The expensive Miss Du Cane. †$1.50. Dutton.
A novel abounding in types. “The story is one of the slightest, just the awakening and growth of love between two very likeable young people at a house party.... Nobody is made to say or do anything for the purpose of carrying the story along. The talk, of which there is a great deal, and the action, of which there is very little, all of it merely makes the reader acquainted with the people, and whatever happens is the natural development of the characters and the situations as they react upon one another.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Miss Macnaughton is too clever, has too much of the novelist’s instinct, not to manage her people with skill, and not to make many shrewd comments on women and life; but we are forced to admit that she has not escaped the sin of monotony.”
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Lond. Times. 6: 62. F. 22, ’07. 350w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 654. N. 7, ’08. 740w.
“The story is not convulsed by storms of elemental passion—the setting precludes high tragedy—but it has affecting as well as shining moments.”
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Spec. 97: 258. F. 16, ’07. 1400w.
* McNeil, Everett. Boy forty-niners; or, Across the plains and mountains to the gold-mines of California in a prairie-schooner. †$1.50. McClure.
8–27102.
The first of three volumes intended to picture to the eyes of the younger generation something of the perils and hardships endured across country in 1849, to the gold field of California. This story deals with the experiences of two boys who travel down the Ohio river, up the Mississippi and Missouri and on across the mountains, encountering the hardships of thousands of emigrants to whom the lure of gold was irresistible.
Reviewed by K. L. M.
Bookm. 28: 387. D. ’08. 100w.
“Its chief virtue is of the unrefined diamond sort, its atmosphere suspensive.” M. J. Moses.
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Ind. 65: 1477. D. 17, ’08. 50w.
“Any newsboy would enjoy this narrative, however clumsy the writing. The book is not to be recommended for children who can get better, but some librarians may welcome this story as a stepping-stone to higher things.”
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Nation. 87: 551. D. 3, ’08. 70w.
Macrosty, Henry William. Trust movement in British industry. *$2.50. Longmans.
W7–120.
“In this volume the author shows not only that the combination movement has made substantial progress in Great Britain, but that it presents similarities to the movement in protectionist countries at so many points as to necessitate the conclusion that there are behind it world causes more fundamental than tariff vagaries. The book is divided into an introductory chapter, twelve chapters describing combinations in different industries and a chapter presenting a ‘Survey and conclusions.’ In the introduction a convenient classification of combinations is suggested which forms the skeleton for the descriptive chapters which follow.”—Pol. Sci. Q.
“The volume is a bit disappointing because it represents nothing more than results which might be obtained by an ordinary legislative commission. The book is hard to read. The paragraphs are long and tiresome. The style is clumsy. We need thought—but that thought must be transmitted by means of good English.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 281. Ja. ’08. 140w.
“A comprehensive and fairly detailed narrative. We can only regret that in his summary and conclusions as to the mass of material presented the author has not ventured into more detail.” C. W. Wright.
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J. Pol. Econ. 16: 42. Ja. ’08. 700w.
“An admirable survey.”
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Nation. 86: 181. F. 20, ’08. 500w.
“[The chapters] give every evidence of exhaustive research and accurate scholarship.”
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Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 558. S. ’07. 320w.
“For this scholarly and impartial treatise we have nothing but praise. Our readers will find in his pages a very full and detailed account of the most important instances of trust combination in this country.”
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Spec. 99: 263. Ag. 24, ’07. 2220w.
Reviewed by G. H. Montague.
Yale R. 17: 109. My. ’08. 750w.
McSpadden, Joseph Walker, comp. Handy book of synonyms. (Handy information series.) 50c. Crowell.
7–22888.
A practical desk guide to words in daily use, giving their definition and parallel meaning.
Macvane, Edith. Duchess of dreams. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–14334.
The story tells how a social climber of Newport reaches an enviable height of popularity as the prospective hostess of a Romanoff princess, how at the last moment the princess on account of illness fails to arrive, and how the undaunted hostess substitutes a girl from the coast of Maine who had a French mother and a gift for play-acting—a duchess of dreams.
“In places she is a little unconvincing and her characters lack personality.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 93. Jl. 25. 100w.
“All that one asks in such a coil is pleasing style and sustained interest and here are both to the reader’s hand.”
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Nation. 86: 536. Je. 11, ’08. 150w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 110w.
“People who like this sort of story will be apt to recommend this literary sweetmeat to their friends as ‘perfectly dandy’ or ‘just charming.’”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 404. Jl. 18, ’08. 220w.
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Spec. 101: 238. Ag. 15, ’08. 100w.
Macy, John Albert. Edgar Allan Poe. (Beacon biographies.) **75c. Small.
8–7372.
Without extenuating or accusing, this sketch seeks to treat the biographical facts of Poe’s life with fairness to the poet and to give the reader a right view of the man as seen from modern days and interests.
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 262. N. ’08. ✠
“It contains everything that the busy man or woman wants to know about the author of ‘The raven’ and ‘The bells.’”
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Cath. World. 88: 106. O. ’08. 800w.
“His little book sustains the general excellence of the series to which it belongs.”
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Dial. 45: 66. Ag. 1, ’08. 350w.
“We are glad it was Mr. Macy and not some one else who did it.”
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Ind. 65: 206. Jl. 23, ’08. 120w.
“His critical comment, interspersed throughout the narration, runs for the most part in the common groove, although occasionally we can not follow him.”
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Nation. 86: 488. My. 28, ’08. 150w.
“Many new things are told of his life that have been unknown and unheard of until now.”
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N. Y. Times. 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“He has followed the generally accepted facts, but his interpretation of them is eminently sane and cool, free from prejudice, and unmuddled by any unnecessary mixing up of moral and intellectual judgments. A vein of grim, dignified, and restrained humor runs through the work.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 321. Je. 6, ’08. 150w.
239“The brief ‘Life’ is not in any sense a finality; its style is too journalistic; but it is an interesting account of a perplexing career.”
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Outlook. 89: 351. Je. 13, ’08. 110w.
“An admirable little volume.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 510. O. ’08. 110w.
“His critical dicta we cannot always accept.”
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Spec. 100: 981. Je. 20, ’08. 200w.
Madden, Eva Annie. Two royal foes. il. †$1.25. McClure.
7–33904.
“The story has a historical background, its scenes being in Prussia at the time of the invasion by Napoleon. The story opens with the Battle of Jena, through which the heroine, a peasant girl, is left an orphan. She then goes to live with her grandfather, and the two have many adventures. Queen Louisa of Prussia also figures in the novel.”—N. Y. Times.
“Quaint, pretty, unpretentious story. History seems well founded and characters are life-like.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 23. Ja. ’08. ✠
“There is a certain very charming German atmosphere thruout ‘Two royal foes’ and yet we are baffled. For without condemning it, we needs must criticise it for its diffuse story, for its over-exact narration of Napoleon’s ravages in Prussia, and for the very slight juvenile strain in its pages.” M. J. Moses.
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Ind. 63: 1481. D. 19, ’07. 100w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
“A charming historical story.”
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N. Y. Times. 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 30w.
Madison, James. Journal of the debates in the convention which framed the constitution of the United States, May-September, 1787; as recorded by James Madison; ed. by Gaillard Hunt. 2v. **$4.50. Putnam.
8–20180.
Madison’s journal is the only complete record of the constitutional convention extant. It is a continuous chronicle of the proceedings of the convention and has been reproduced in these two volumes with notes which include a comparison of the journal with the records kept respectively by Robert Yates, Rufus King and William Pierce.
“A number of errors have been left uncorrected. The debates have been edited in a careful and scholarly manner.” W. F. Dodd.
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 915. Jl. ’08. 410w.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 625. N. ’08. 140w.
“This whole admirable edition of Madison’s ‘Journal’ will be a boon both to scholars and to less ambitious students of the constitution and its history.”
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Educ. R. 36: 101. Je. ’08. 100w.
“No further edition of the Madison notes will be needed for many years.”
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Ind. 65: 786. O. 1, ’08. 120w.
“This work will bring into the hands of teachers, scholars, and students of national politics a historical document of the first importance, edited and printed in the best style and at an exceedingly moderate price.”
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Lit. D. 37: 258. Ag. 22, ’08. 180w.
“Does not give a definitive edition of the debates, and much remains yet to be done in the study of available material. The convenient form of this reprint is hardly sufficient to justify its existence, and there are not a few misprints which could have been avoided.”
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Nation. 87: 94. Jl. 30, ’08. 230w.
“An exhaustive index makes the work thoroughly usable.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 316. Je. 6, ’08. 250w.
“It shows textual differences from the earlier editions over which it is a vast improvement, if only from the standpoint of convenience for reference.”
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Outlook. 89: 534. Jl. 4, ’08. 210w.
“Of the several editions of this invaluable journal which have appeared since Madison’s death by far the most satisfactory is the new two-volume edition edited by Mr. Gaillard Hunt. The special value of Mr. Hunt’s work lies in the fact that he has compared the statements made by contemporary writers with the corresponding entries in Madison’s journal.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 754. Je. ’08. 150w.
Maeterlinck, Maurice. Intelligence of the flowers; tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. **$1.20. Dodd.
7–36869.
An essay on the signs of reasoning in flowers which “is a complement to his essay on bees ... [The author] wishes ‘merely to recall a few facts known to every botanist,’ and has ‘no intention of reviewing all the proofs of intelligence which the plants give us.’ He confines himself almost entirely to the delicate arrangements for cross-fertilization, describing them with as great scientific accuracy as if he were not a poet.” (Dial.)
“A charming companion piece to the ‘Life of the bee.’” Florence Converse.
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Atlan. 101: 710. My. ’08. 200w.
“The charm of the book lies nevertheless in the fact that he is a poet.” M. E. Cook.
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Dial. 43: 418. D. 16, ’07. 280w.
“It is a unique combination of fact and fancy, scientific in its statements, humanistic in its interpretation of them, mystical in its philosophy, poetical in its expression.”
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Ind. 64: 158. Ja. 16, ’08. 60w.
“Is a good example of the decorated giftbook.”
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Nation. 85: 443. N. 14, ’07. 150w.
“The translation preserves most of the original’s charm.”
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Outlook. 87: 619. N. 23, ’07. 120w.
“A translation of extraordinary refinement.”
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Putnam’s. 4: 112. Ap. ’08. 550w.
“Is ostensibly a nature book, but the delicate imagination and exquisite literary style of the author are so persuasive and charming throughout the book that it is really a work of literature.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 118. Ja. ’08. 50w.
Maeterlinck, Maurice. Pélléas and Mélisande; tr. by Erving Winslow; with an introd. by Montrose J. Moses. **$1.50. Crowell.
8–22493.
An edition of Maeterlinck’s play for which Mr. Montrose J. Moses has written an introduction revealing Maeterlinck’s mastery of delicate and strange intuitions, enumerating the fragments of his philosophy and calling attention to his spectral background and dramatic theory. The volume is a fitting holiday offering with its marginal decoration and excellent illustrations.
Dial. 45: 415. D. 1, ’08. 100w.
“The translation is ... prosaic and discordant: poorer even than the Alma Tadema version.”
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Ind. 65: 843. O. 8, ’08. 320w.
“Mr. Winslow’s translation is adequate. Mr. Moses contributes a readable, painstaking introductory essay. As a Mary Garden picture book the Crowell edition of ‘Pélléas and Mélisande’ deserves cordial praise.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 603. O. 24, ’08. 400w.
Mahabharata. Bhagavad-gita; or, The message of the master; compiled and adapted from numerous old and new translations of the original Sanscrit text by Yogi Ramacharaka. 2d ed. 75c. Yogi pub.
7–15127.
A trustworthy English version of a poem embodying the essence of Vedantic philosophy. 240The translation is accompanied by a general introduction and separate introductions to each of the eighteen books of the Gita.
“Can be recommended as the most satisfactory version of the ‘Bhagavad Gita’ in the English language. It would be possible to point to a good many passages in which, in the opinion of the present reviewer, he has not used the best equivalent for the technical terms of the Sanskrit or has failed to reproduce the force of the original.”
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Nation. 87: 117. Ag. 6, ’08. 400w.
“Those who wish to know something at first hand of the essence of Vedantic philosophy will find this fine translation, with its admirable expository commentaries, a convenient and satisfactory little volume.” J. H. Coates.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 445. Ag. 15, ’08. 2200w.
* Mahan, Alfred Thayer. Naval administration and warfare: some general principles, with other essays. **$1.50. Little.
8–31976.
A collection of papers including “a few large, plain, simple ideas” concerning naval matters which the general reader ought to know. Captain Mahan discusses The principles of naval administration, The United States navy department, Principles involved in the war between Japan and Russia, Objects of the United States naval war college, The practical character of the United States naval war college, Subordination in historical treatment, The strength of Nelson, The value of the Pacific cruise of the United States fleet, and The Monroe doctrine.
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Ind. 65: 1185. N. 19, ’08. 60w.
“Ought to be in the hands of every intelligent man.”
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Lit. D. 37: 852. D. 5, ’08. 270w.
“Each essay conveys sound information in an entertaining, readable way. The socialism of this book is of the ‘Fabian’ school, educative and opportunist; its weapons are not carnal but spiritual.”
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Outlook. 90: 888. D. 19, ’08. 520w.
Mahan, Alfred Thayer. Some neglected aspects of war; together with The power that makes for peace, by Henry S. Pritchett, and The capture of private property at sea, by Julian S. Corbett. **$1.50. Little.
7–41543.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 196. Je. ’08.
“Books like the present volume do, in our judgment, incalculable injury by catering to the military spirit.” B. O. Flower.
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Arena. 39: 592. My. ’08. 410w.
Ath. 1908, 1: 286. Mr. 7. 60w.
“There is nothing new in it excepting the preface, which is a summing up of the argument. Yet it is very well worth having and reading, or re-reading.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 100. F. 22, ’08. 350w.
Outlook. 88: 43. Ja. 4, ’08. 380w.
R. of Rs. 37: 117. Ja. ’07. 90w.
“It would certainly be well if the apostles of peace at any price—and we have many in our midst—would study Captain Mahan’s admirable and dispassionate essays.”
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Sat. R. 106: 210. Ag. 16, ’08. 220w.
Spec. 100: 461. Mr. 21, ’08. 1700w.
* Maire, Frederick. Modern pigments and their vehicles: their properties and uses considered mainly from the practical side, and how to make tints from them. $2. Wiley.
8–1476.
“The manual is written for the men who use or sell pigments, and who mainly want to know what they can expect of them. It is especially designed to be of value to the young man who is starting out to learn the painter’s trade. The various pigments which are used in compounding colors and tints are taken up in order, beginning with the yellow pigments, and dealing with the reds, greens, blues, browns and blacks, respectively. Their history, early use, methods of mining and preparing for market, and adulterations, are described.”—Engin. Rec.
“For the purpose for which it was written this book should be of value.”
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Engin. Rec. 58: 363. S. 26, ’08. 170w.
“A most excellent book written by one who evidently knows the practical side thoroughly. There are several books which are more scientific and chemical, but there is none which will be of greater value to the chemist, the practical man or the young apprentice at the painter’s trade.” A. H. Gill.
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Science, n.s. 28: 843. D. 11, ’08. 120w.
Maitland, Frederic William. Constitutional history of England: a course of lectures. **$3.50. Putnam.
“These lectures discuss the public law of Great Britain at five periods. The first period runs from 1066 to 1307, the second period extends to 1509, the third to 1625, the fourth to 1702, and the fifth to the closing years of the nineteenth century. Much of the ground covered by the lectures was later traversed by Prof. Maitland in his carefully written ‘History of English law,’ ‘Domesday book and beyond,’ ‘Township and borough,’ and other publications, to the preparation of which he devoted a great deal of time and study.”—N. Y. Times.
“The publication of these lectures in their original form, under the care of such a competent and sympathetic editor as Mr. Herbert Fisher, is a matter for congratulation on behalf of a large body of teachers and students alike.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 394. O. 3. 820w.
“The plan of the work is unique. The editorial supervision is done with that discrimination and good judgment which characterizes all the work of Mr. Fisher.”
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Ind. 65: 662. S. 17, ’08. 680w.
“What he has written is in the main indisputable, and needs no revision. By contenting himself with established facts he has rendered his work of almost as much value to-day as it was twenty years ago.”
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Nation. 87: 339. O. 8, ’08. 1250w.
“Persons familiar with the works of Prof. Maitland that were published in his lifetime will have little use for this posthumous volume; but we believe Mr. Fisher is quite right in saying that the study of the Cambridge lectures will serve as an excellent introduction to an exhaustive inquiry into English constitutional history.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 483. S. 5, ’08. 450w.
“Is distinguished by profound erudition and clearness of exposition. A good many popular misconceptions, perhaps more prevalent here than in England, are cleared away, and a better understanding had of the factors making for England’s continued strength and stability.”
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Outlook. 90: 316. O. 10, ’08. 280w.
Major, Charles. Uncle Tom Andy Bill: a story of bears and Indian treasure. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–28633.
A book of lively, wholesome stories of adventure which Uncle Tom Andy Bill, seventy and reminiscent, selects from his boyhood experiences.
“A new juvenile which will receive a ready welcome.” K. L. M.
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Bookm. 28: 387. D. ’08. 40w.
“Even if the older reader may not care so much for the treasure and the bears as the 241boy, he will admit that the story is a true and lively picture of life half a century ago in what is now the middle west, but was then the frontier.”
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Outlook. 90: 844. D. 12, ’08. 120w.
Makower, Stanley V. Perdita: a romance in biography. *$4. Appleton.
8–34595.
A sketch of Mary Darby Robinson whose beauty was passed down to posterity by Gainsborough, Reynolds, Romney and other artists, who was a favorite pupil of Garrick and as Perdita captured the affections of George, Prince of Wales. “As here told, the story is a veritable microcosm of eighteenth-century life, not only the relation of the first important intrigue of a royal debauchee; so the mere lover of scandal will be compelled, whether he will or no, to see things in their right perspective.” (Ath.)
“The faults are few and far between, and the merits considerable. The latter far exceed those of the ordinary popular biography, and the impression left is that of literature rather than book-making.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 315. Mr. 14. 1700w.
“The present book tells her capricious career with an admixture of fiction which does not jar with the known facts, and which certainly makes sprightly reading.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 595. O. 24, ’08. 130w.
“The book that lies before us will certainly appeal to all novel-readers as well as to the smaller public which prefers its history and biography unspiced by imagination.”
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Spec. 100: 504. Mr. 28, ’08. 420w.
Mallock, William Hurrell. An immortal soul. †$1.50. Harper.
8–31158.
A study of girlhood at the point of its emergence from the school room into the world where coquettishness, seriousness, ingeniousness and young philosophy struggle with one another for the upper hand. The problem of double personality appears and with it two lovers, a clergyman and a scientist, who claim to be respectively interested in the heroine’s soul health and the psychological problem which she embodies.
“A fine piece of irony, though the simple will devour it for its sensation.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 641. N. 21. 240w.
“The descriptions of English rural life are true and entertaining.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 617. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
Mallock. William Hurrell. Critical examination of socialism. **$2. Harper. 7–39227.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
“The book is, on the whole, one of the best attacks on socialism although purely theoretical.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 143. My. ’08.
“Mr. Mallock’s analysis appears to us radically unsound.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 447. S. ’08. 550w.
“[In the second part of the work] the Socialists and their opponent, Mr. Mallock, are equally academic—their illustrations are equally in the clouds, except where examples quoted by Mr. Mallock err in the opposite direction of an over-practical crudity.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 191. F. 15. 800w.
“On the purely intellectual side, his criticisms, valid or otherwise, will arouse fruitful thought and discussion; but though we must admit that he justly accuses many socialists of improperly prejudicing the subject, we cannot acquit him of this same fault.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
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Dial. 44: 39. Ja. 16, ’08. 1650w.
“This volume, on account of its compactness of argument, felicity of illustration and dialectical cleverness, cannot be ignored or scorned by the socialist editors and pamphleteers who are preaching a new evangel.”
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Ind. 64: 636. Mr. 19, ’08. 650w.
“On its positive or non-controversial side the book before us merits no particular comment. Where it is not positively erroneous it is merely commonplace.” R. F. Hoxie.
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J. Pol. Econ. 16: 540. O. ’08. 430w.
“With all his cleverness Mallock is unconvincing. To deal effectively with socialism, one must have some genuine capacity for appreciating the need and the possibility of social betterment, and Mallock’s work makes the impression of one whose social sympathies are atrophied.”
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Nation. 86: 491. My. 28, ’08. 700w.
“Mr. Mallock’s book will be read with interest by all who heard his lectures in sundry American cities, and it might well attract an even larger number in its elaborate form. The topic is worth it, and the treatment is at least easier reading than Marx’s.” E: A. Bradford.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 30. Ja. 18, ’08. 1030w.
“He is both clear and clever; but he is not always conclusive.” Lyman Abbott.
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Outlook. 88: 539. Mr. 7, ’08. 530w.
“His analytic and literary powers as shown so brilliantly in his former well-known work, ‘The reconstruction of religious belief,’ characterize also this little volume.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 118. Ja. ’08. 120w.
“What the situation requires is a successful apology for the system of liberty and free exchange which, with many lets and hindrances, has during historical times been becoming the progressive basis of existing society. Mr. Mallock’s book, though it is not specifically addressed to this aspect of the controversy, makes its definite contribution thereto, and it is more valuable in this respect than as a hostile criticism of the nebulous aspirations of socialism.”
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Spec. 100: 940. Je. 13, ’08. 1000w.
Malvery, Olive Christian. Soul market. $1.50. McClure.
8–13767.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
“This book owes a charm to its nondescript character. There is a quality very warm and human and engaging in this casual narrative.”
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Nation. 85: 592. D. 26, ’07. 610w.
“A series of first-hand views of London life on its pathetic side, with much of the sociological interest, is brought out under the title of ‘The soul market.’”
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R. of Rs. 37: 117. Ja. ’08. 30w.
Manchester, Arthur Livingston. Twelve lessons in the fundamentals of voice production. (Music students lib.) $1. Ditson.
8–33831.
Deals with the fundamentals of tone production. The purpose is to present simply and in easily understood terms the essentials of good tone production in such order, and the accompanying instruction and exercises with such definiteness that the difficulties which discourage students may be at least minimized.
Mansfield, Milburg Francisco (Francis Miltoun, pseud.). Castles and chateaux of old Navarre and the Basque Provinces including also Foix, Roussillon and Bearn, il. $3. Page.
7–38519.
Uniform with “Castles and chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire country.” Geographically the rambles cover the French slopes of the Pyrenees from the Atlantic Gulf of Gascony to the Mediterranean Gulf of Lyons and on to the Rhône. The feudal chateaux and fortified bourgs of this region furnish the author abundant material for his appreciation of their architecture, 242comments on the manner of living in far-away times, and for his chatty presentation of men and manners of to-day.
“The title of this handsomely bound and illustrated volume scarcely does justice to its contents.”
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Cath. World. 87: 681. Ag. ’08. 450w.
“The text combines descriptive and historical material with personal impressions.”
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Dial. 43: 426. D. 16, ’07. 80w.
Nation. 85: 543. D. 12, ’07. 90w.
“A work which summarizes his knowledge in good pedestrian prose and, being carefully indexed, should be valuable for purposes of reference.”
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Putnam’s. 3: 625. F. ’08. 180w.
Mansfield, Milburg F. In the land of mosques and minarets. $3. Page.
8–15291.
Another Mansfield-McManus collaboration which takes the reader to the less frequented places of Tunisia and Algeria. It is full of information “both ordinary and unusual, about the lives, manners, and customs of the natives, the country itself, and the line of contact between the natives and the many-nationed crowd of aliens.” (N. Y. Times.)
Int. Studio. 36: sup. 58. D. ’08. 50w.
“He has set before us a glowing panorama of Algerian life and scenery.”
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Lit. D. 37: 258. Ag. 22, ’08. 120w.
“The text is written entertainingly and gives no end of information.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 307. My. 30, ’08. 200w.
“It contains much information interesting alike to the traveler and to the general reader.”
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Outlook. 90: 44. S. 5, ’08. 60w.
“This is a very pleasantly written and readable volume, well set off with illustrations.”
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Spec. 101: 338. S. 5, ’08. 330w.
Marble, Annie Russell. Heralds of American literature: a group of patriot writers of the revolutionary and national periods. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–39037.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
“The result of her labors, however, displays neither the extent of learning—except in matters of somewhat gossipy detail—the grasp of her subject, nor the command of style needful to justify three hundred pages and more about matter of which scholars as well as general readers may contentedly remain ignorant.”
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 662. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“An extensive bibliography, carefully classified, a full index, and careful annotation will commend the book to students. Mrs. Marble writes fully and entertainingly.”
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Dial. 44: 110. F. 16, ’08. 300w.
“An entertaining little book.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 44. Ja. 25, ’08. 600w.
“Mrs. Marble, whose method is largely descriptive and biographic, has put the knowledge about this group of writers into very convenient form.”
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Outlook. 88: 98. Ja. 11, ’08. 150w.
R. of Rs. 37: 381. Mr. ’08. 30w.
Marchmont, Arthur Williams. My lost self; il. by Alex. O. Levy. 75c. Cupples & L.
8–8096.
Cuthbert Dalrymple, a young New Yorker of the exclusive, law-abiding set loses consciousness through a mysterious blow. When a second blow restores him he finds that he has been ruled for a season by a lower personality—that he is in Sicily and the most feared of a band of desperadoes. His chief business in his restored state is that of fighting to protect the Sicilian heroine against intrigue and danger in wild surroundings.
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Ath. 1908, 2: 297. S. 12. 130w.
“Whatever may be said as to the credibility of such events as depicted it cannot be denied that they follow one another with a rather fascinating rapidity.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 377. Jl. 4, ’08. 350w.
Marden, Orison Swett. He can who thinks he can, and other papers on success in life. **$1. Crowell.
8–30895.
A group of forcible editorials reprinted from Success magazine including the following: He can who thinks he can; Getting around; Education by absorption; Freedom at any cost; What the world owes to dreamers; The spirit in which you work; Responsibility of power; An overmastering purpose; Has your vocation your unqualified approval? Stand for something; Happy, if not why not? Originality; Had money but lost it; Sizing up people; Does the world owe you a living? What has luck done for you? Success with a flaw; and Getting away from poverty.
“Undoubtedly it will be helpful in many ways to many men.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 320w.
Marden, Philip Sanford. Greece and the Aegean islands. **$3. Houghton.
7–36985.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
“Recommended because it is as good as, or better than, any other general book on the subject.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 196. Je. ’08.
“On the whole, we think it will amuse, but hardly instruct, the reader.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 39. Ja. 11. 480w.
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Cath. World. 88: 409. D. ’08. 200w.
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Dial. 43: 426. D. 16, ’07. 120w.
“An altogether delightful book. We sincerely wish that it might be generally read to or by secondary schools and colleges in Greek or in ancient history.”
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Educ. R. 35: 312. Mr. ’08. 80w.
“It is, however, odious to weigh mint and anise and cumin in the presence of a really fine work.”
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Ind. 63: 1567. D. 26, ’07. 970w.
“The illustrations are admirable, and would make a book of much value and interest worth possessing.”
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Nation. 86: 193. F. 27, ’08. 300w.
“There is a ground which this volume covers as no other has yet done. With this volume in hand any intelligent traveler should find the rough places made smooth, with the direction and information that the stranger craves.”
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Outlook. 88: 41. Ja. 4, ’08. 140w.
“It will also prove useful to the intending traveler in those regions, for the writer gives an accurate and not exaggerated picture of the incidents inevitable to such an expedition. As a guide the author is only moderately well informed. He clearly knows nothing of the mediæval history of Greece.”
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Sat. R. 104: 113. Ja. 25, ’08. 200w.
“A very pleasant and useful book.”
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Spec. 100: 1009. Je. 27, ’08. 260w.
Margoliouth, David Samuel. Cairo, Jerusalem, and Damascus. *$3.50. Dodd.
7–38520.
“Professor Margoliouth tells his readers some interesting facts about these three famed Eastern cities. The buildings of the Fatimide and Ayyubid eras are described. The sovereigns who ruled over Cairo are treated at length, and 243nothing essential is missed in the historical sketches given of Jerusalem and Damascus.”—Lit. D.
“It bears throughout the stamp of an individual mind, well stored with the original sources familiar to the learned author, but able to take independent views and here and there to draw a luminous generalization.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 152. F. 8. 1600w.
“Is intensely interesting both in its historical account and its description of these three great cities. Is certainly one of the most beautiful of the series.” Justin McCarthy.
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Ind. 63: 1421. D. 12, ’07. 210w.
“The text has the rare merit of being trustworthy.”
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Ind. 64: 320. F. 6, ’08. 200w.
“Very superior to the greater number of the colour books that have recently been issued, for it would be of permanent value even without the illustrations.”
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Int. Studio. 34: 343. Je. ’08. 350w.
Lit. D. 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 90w.
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Lond. Times. 6: 346. N. 15, ’07. 1460w.
“It must frankly be said that the history of Cairo here given is dreary reading. The illustrations are beautifully executed with carefully worked-out detail.”
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Nation. 86: 240. Mr. 12, ’08. 550w.
“The text of Mr. Margoliouth’s book differs from that of most volumes which describe the history of Cairo or Jerusalem or Damascus because it has been written by one long immersed in the atmosphere of the Orient and of the Arabic language.”
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Outlook. 88: 48. Ja. 4, ’08. 300w.
“The artist gives us only the picturesque or artistic scenes in the Oriental cities he delineates, and wisely passes by the dirt or the dull ugliness amidst which they are set; and the historian would do well to follow his example where literary interest and not historical completeness is his object.”
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Sat. R. 105: 52. Ja. 11, ’08. 800w.
“This attractive volume appeals in equal measure to lovers of art and students of history.”
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Spec. 101: sup. 473. O. 3, ’08. 1000w.
Markham, Sir Clements Robert. King Edward VI, an appreciation, attempted by Sir Clements R. Markham. *$3. Dutton.
8–10272.
A eulogistic treatment of a “period of anarchy in which a Tammany ring of titled ruffians ... left England the legacy of a pauper class.” (Sat. R.) The precocious Edward VI of this book “was a statesman who understood the self-seeking, unprincipled character of the politicians about him; a princely boy who had more sense in his little finger than both his uncles put together had in their whole bodies.” (Nation.) The author exploits the young king’s learning, his interest in geography, his fondness for games; and above all argues that he was neither a tool nor a figurehead.
“Unluckily, Sir Clement’s passion for historical paradox does much to spoil the effect of his nervous and sympathetic narrative.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 39. Jl. 11. 380w.
“Sir Clements’s knowledge of the period is not profound, and it is only his own idiosyncrasies which make his book remarkable.” A. F. P.
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Eng. Hist. R. 23: 199. Ja. ’08. 380w.
“It is not, we think, possible to say that Sir Clements Markham has added anything to our knowledge of the reign, or that his confidently-expressed judgments enable us to understand better the men and women who played their part in it. The chief interest of the book lies in the details of Edward’s interest in such subjects as geography and exploration, a much more healthy occupation for him than his boyish attempts at theology.”
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Lond. Times. 6: 358. N. 22, ’07. 630w.
“The book contains many excellent portraits and much useful biographical and genealogical information, but its conclusions will hardly find acceptance at the hands of fair-minded historians.”
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Nation. 87: 96. Jl. 30, ’08. 770w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 471. Ag. 29, ’08. 840w.
“While we dissent entirely from Sir Clements’ estimate of the reign, we must say that his pages make pleasant reading. Pageantry and heraldry he understands, and he gives a brilliant description of his young hero’s coronation. Interesting and original also are the pages in the book that tell of the Tudor navy and the ‘first Arctic expedition.’”
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Sat. R. 105: 206. F. 15, ’08. 1000w.
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Spec. 101: sup. 704. N. 7, ’08. 1100w.
Marks, William Dennis. Finances of gas and electric light and power enterprises: electric railways, electric light stations, gas works, oil motor cars. 4th ed. $4. William D. Marks, 623 Park Row bldg., N. Y.
7–27171.
“Five chapters have been added to the present edition. Included in the new matter is a digest of some of the evidence in the recent lawsuit (not yet settled) over the reduction of the price of gas in New York city to 80 cts. per 1,000 cu. ft. There is also included a paper on ‘Railway rates for electric railways.’”—Engin. N.
“The book as a whole contains a large amount of information, statistical and descriptive, on various phases of the subject indicated by the title.”
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Engin. N. 58: 79. Jl. 18, ’07. 140w.
J. Pol. Econ. 16: 49. Ja. ’08. 100w.
Marriott, H. Crittenden. Uncle Sam’s business; told for young Americans. $1.25. Harper.
8–28399.
An informing story which shows Uncle Sam as ruler, captain of industry and public servant. In the first instance Uncle Sam is shown as law-maker, judge, ambassador, society man, trader, soldier, sailor, peace-maker, and immigrant; in the second, as builder, house-cleaner, store-keeper, builder of war ships, manager of public lands, maker and distributer of money; in the third, as farmer, chemist, forester, weatherman, and patron of science and art.
“The information is rather disconnected and the style wordy and careless, but the book has value in connection with the study of civics.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 311. D. ’08. ✠
Reviewed by K. L. M.
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Bookm. 28: 385. D. ’08. 80w.
“It should meet the present demand for instruction without drudgery.”
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Nation. 87: 337. O. 8, ’08. 140w.
“Older people may obtain clear ideas of governmental matters upon which they have not been well informed.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 542. O. 3, ’08. 130w.
Mars, Gerhardt Cornell. Interpretation of life; in which is shown the relation of modern culture to Christian science. **$3. Appleton.
8–18359.
A work written from the Christian science standpoint which makes a stirring appeal to every thinker. Dr. Mars “discusses successively the natural world-order in its evolution, inorganic and organic; then the supranatural or rational world-order; next the threefold unity of reason, in science, art, and ethics; then the threefold interpretation of reason, theoretical, 244aesthetic, and ethical; then ‘the pedagogy of pain,’ involving the problems of evil, sin, and atonement, or reconciliation.” (Outlook.) He closes with a defense of Mrs. Eddy.
“It is as suggestive as it is lucid, as logical and closely reasoned as it is profoundly thoughtful and convincing to the reason.” B. O. Flower.
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Arena. 40: 258. S. ’08. 8000w.
“The work will not be of much value in proselyting, but it ought to exert a good influence inside the church in checking the disposition to scoff at scientific methods and defy common sense.”
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Ind. 65: 432. Ag. 20, ’08. 700w.
“Christian science ... has at last found an expositor and defender who really knows something, who has read widely and intelligently, who can compare and reason, and who does write English that means something.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 349. Je. 20, ’08. 880w.
“Fundamentally as we disagree with many of Dr. Mars’s conclusions, we believe that so long as these problems exist such earnest attempts to solve them cannot be useless. He at least brings to consciousness many of the contradictions of our social order and he thinks nobly of man.” Christian Gauss.
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No. Am. 188: 771. N. ’08. 1750w.
“Dr. Mars’s surprising conclusion should not in sober judgment impugn the solid merits of the work to which it is, in strict logic, no more than an appendix.”
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Outlook. 89: 767. Ag. 1, ’08. 480w.
Marsh, Charles Fleming, and Dunn, William. Manual of reinforced concrete and concrete block construction. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
“Presents in compact handbook form the necessary information required in the design, construction and supervision of reinforced concrete work. The text is based upon that of the third edition of their favorably-known quarto treatise, ‘Reinforced concrete.’ the demonstrations or reasoning, however, upon which the formulas are based, being omitted in order to keep the work within handbook limits.”—Engin. D.
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Engin. D. 4: 545. N. ’08. 340w.
“Its main faults for American sale are its rather unwieldly size ... and its use of British standards of measurement and practice. A very good designing hand-book, a trifle obscure, perhaps, in some of the theory, but still quite valuable to the office-man in concrete work.”
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Engin. N. 60: 539. N. 12, ’08. 400w.
“Some of the methods of design employed in the book will be questioned by some engineers, but the book as a whole is excellent.”
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Engin. Rec. 58: 475. O. 24, ’08. 200w.
Marshall, Archibald. Exton Manor. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–3427.
English country life is depicted here in a manner to create atmosphere and with it the feeling of knowing the characters intimately. In this Exton Manor community a social war is waged which has for its cause the question of marriage with a deceased wife’s sister. The episode is used to test the Christianity, apart from Churchmanship, of a group of people prominent among whom are a clergyman’s busy-body wife and an adherent of the Woman’s reformation league.
“The book is a long one.... It moves with all the slowness of the old three-volume novel; and it moves with that slowness just because the author is not an analyst ... but shows you life itself.”
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Acad. 72: 216. Mr. 2, ’07. 330w.
“A tale of much more than ordinary excellence, which moves slowly and is not strong in plot, but which introduces real people who live out very real lives and command interest to the end.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 111. Ap. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Marshall succeeds in keeping our interest to the end, for his people are living people, and never once do they descend to caricature.”
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Ath. 1907, 1: 221. F. 23. 300w.
“There is enough that is good in this book, and enough that shows possibilities for later work from the author, to justify serious criticism.” G. I. Colbron.
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Bookm. 27: 178. Ap. ’08. 900w.
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Nation. 86: 579. Je. 25, ’08. 560w.
“The details are painted in with so much fidelity and with such loving care that it has with good reason recalled to most reviewers the works of Anthony Trollope.”
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N. Y. Times. 12: 394. Je. 15, ’07. 480w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 208. Ap. 11, ’08. 200w.
“The story that he unfolds in his successive chapters is an interesting one, while as a study of contemporaneous life it is strong, keen and humorous.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 240w.
“Is one of the most carefully written and thoroughly worked out pieces of fiction that has appeared in England for a long time past.”
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Outlook. 88: 611. F. 29, ’08. 300w.
“There is very little art in it; but the fact that such a chronicle should only occasionally be boring proves a skill in the chronicler which is sure to commend him to the many readers to whom gossip makes a more direct appeal than art.”
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Sat. R. 103: 562. My. 4, ’07. 450w.
“Mr. Marshall has written nothing better than this, and we might say nothing nearly so good. We heartily recommend this calming book to a bustling age.”
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Spec. 98: 462. Mr. 23, ’07. 150w.
* Marston, Edward (“Amateur Angler,” pseud.). Thomas Ken and Izaak Walton: a sketch of their lives and family connection. *$2. Longmans.
An octogenarian has brought together late material which further illuminates the history of the famous angler, Izaak Walton, and has presented it with the quiet enthusiasm of fellow sympathy.
“A book of somewhat disjointed notes on the two worthies.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 400. O. 3. 360w.
“The story of how Ken became bishop alone makes the book worth while.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 751. D. 5, ’08. 450w.
* Martin, Edward Sandford. In a new century. **$1.50. Scribner.
8–27778.
Twenty-two essays telling “of the consequences of too much success, of some advantages of the common lot, of the remuneration found in reading and writing, of the prospects of ‘Society’ in America, of riches, character, and money, of the profound need in our leaders of what he calls the spiritual quality, of the seashore and the inland countryside, of the purpose and use of deafness, and many another subject handled with skill and distinct literary ability.” (Outlook.) See Cumulative book index for contents.
“Mr. Martin is a genial philosopher, but his teaching is none the less timely and vigorous.” E: Fuller.
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Bookm. 28: 324. D. ’08. 500w.
“What he says is always worth reading, and he always says it felicitously.”
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Ind. 65: 1174. N. 19, ’08. 40w.
“Very much up to date and very typically American is this collection of essays.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 698. N. 28, ’08. 540w.
245“His sturdy, uncompromising stand for truth, and civic and personal righteousness, is clothed in a form of grace, and sparkles with the irony admissible to a thoroughly refined mind.”
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Outlook. 90: 797. D. 5, ’08. 240w.
Martin, George Madden. Letitia: nursery corps, U. S. A. il. †$1.50. McClure.
7–37709.
Stories of army life with a little girl in the foreground whose happiness is less in the hands of a heartless mother and a self-centered father than in the keeping of her “striker” guardians. “In one of the stories the canteen question is viewed from a familiar standpoint—that with the abolishment of the army saloon the soldiers seek amusement in worse places. Another shows how the social distinctions of army life extend even to the children of the commissioned and non-commissioned officers.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Humorous setting-forth of some of the unromantic features of army life.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 19. Ja. ’08.
“This forlorn little waif, remaining unspotted by her very wordly world, the reprehensible morals and manners from which she springs, and the problems of post life as seen here, are compounded of paper and printer’s ink.”
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Ind. 64: 313. F. 6, ’08. 80w.
“Six commonplace short stories of life at an army post are all one finds in this book by the creator of the winsome Emmy Lou.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 2. Ja. 4, ’08. 140w.
“The stories are amusing and give a good insight into wandering military life. But the language is sometimes marred by obscurity owing to an obvious effort to imitate Kipling’s style.”
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Outlook. 88: 40. Ja. 4, ’08. 170w.
Martin, Helen Riemensnyder. Revolt of Anne Royle. †$1.50. Century.
8–25996.
This story follows the development of a lonely child from the age of eight thru years of struggle against the authority of a stern guardian and the snobbishness of his relatives, thru years of growing self assertion and revolt against imperious control, on to maturity and happiness. There is also a portrayal without exaggeration of a worldly minded clergyman, whose shallowness is strongly contrasted with the results of service achieved by a young curate of determination and power.
“The story is forced and unnatural and many of the characters are exaggerated, but as a clever love tale it will be acceptable.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 303. D. ’08.
“Whether considered as a love romance or as a sectional view of American life, the story is one of the best American novels of the season.”
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Arena. 40: 482. N. ’08. 220w.
“If the reader can conceive of a story that combines the old-fashioned charm of the ‘Wide, wide world’ and ‘Jane Eyre’ with the fresher interest of a modern romance, he will have some idea of the fascination of this remarkable book.”
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Ind. 65: 1249. N. 26, ’08. 100w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“The dénouement is not unforeseen, but the bits of artifice relied upon to sustain the plot interest and attain a fit ending are forgivable in view of the real interest in the people of the book, which is never wanting.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 701. N. 28, ’08. 480w.
“The story is overweighted, and the effect is neither agreeable nor artistic.”
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Outlook. 90: 503. O. 31, ’08. 100w.
Martin, Percy Falcke. Mexico of the twentieth century. 2v. *$8.50. Dodd.
8–4360.
“An authoritative and exhaustive account of present-day conditions in our neighbor republic, written in the hope of remedying popular ignorance and prejudice in regard to a country whose geography, social and economic conditions, and facilities of travel are as a sealed book to Europeans and even to other Americans.”—Dial.
“A valuable compendium. Readable, letter press excellent, illustrations admirable, binding only fairly durable.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 80. Mr. ’08.
“The book contains much that is of value, and almost everything that will be sought for in such a work. But it is padded with a great deal of gossip, here slightly out of place, as having often little or no connexion with the subject.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 549. N. 2. 730w.
“He knows his subject thoroughly. He treats it in so many different aspects that the seeker after any conceivable piece of information will be likely to find just what he wants somewhere in these two volumes.”
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Dial. 43: 425. D. 16, ’07. 160w.
“Although more pretentious is in reality less valuable than Mr. Starr’s book.”
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Nation. 87: 71. Jl. 23, ’08. 120w.
“He has piled up a mountain of facts, has amassed what should be most useful to both the Englishman and the American.” G. R. Bishop.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 421. Ag. 1, ’08. 1500w.
“As an aid to promoters, industrialists, and investors generally, Mr. Martin’s volumes have special value.”
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Outlook. 88: 277. F. 1, ’08. 350w.
“Verbose and chaotic volume.”
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Sat. R. 104: 640. N. 23, ’07. 360w.
“The fault we find is that Mr. Martin gives us information which is quite unnecessary, and has really little or nothing to do with Mexico, and yet declares that he has been forced to omit things obviously more pertinent for want of room.”
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Spec. 99: 990. D. 14, ’07. 1700w.
Martin, William Frank. Sir Harry Vane: a drama in five acts. $1.25. Roxburgh pub.