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Vacandard, Elphege. Inquisition: a critical and historical study of the coercive power of the church; tr. from the 2d ed., by Bertrand L. Conway. **$1.50. Longmans.
8–7862.
Discusses the origin and development of the coercive power of the Catholic church in matters of faith. The author “proves that the primitive church has a horror of persecution for conscience sake, and declares that the church’s departure from her early tradition is not only revolting in itself but has far-reaching and lamentable consequences.... In his concluding chapter M. Vacandard endeavors to explain the atrocities of the inquisition from the standpoint of a loyal Catholic.” (Ind.)
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 242. O. ’08.
“A much-needed counterpoise to Mr. Lea’s ‘History of the inquisition.’”
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Cath. World. 87: 246. My. ’08. 830w.
“A book worthy of special notice. Vacandard is a historian first, an apologist afterward.”
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Ind. 65: 379. Ag. 13, ’08. 340w.
Vaizey, Jessie Mansergh. Pixie O’Shaugnessy. †$1.50. Jacobs.
7–39197.
A little Irish child from Knock castle, the ugly duckling among conspicuously pretty sisters, with no nose to speak of, and a mouth of enormous proportions, is the youthful heroine of this boarding-school tale. Honest, brave-hearted, loyal, witty, she is an unwavering example to school-mates and teachers.
Vance, Louis Joseph. Black bag. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–980.
The same hurried action and absorbing strain of romance are found here as in “The brass bowl.” At the center of the plot is a rascally diamond smuggler who pretends to be the long absent father of Dorothy Calendar, an English girl, who has just inherited a large fortune. He connives with the mother of the next heir in line and between them, hoodwinking Dorothy into aiding them, they attempt to rob the girl of her property of which the part most immediately desirable is a black bag of jewels. A young Californian takes a hand in the game, outwits the plotters and accidentally delivers Dorothy into the hands of the real George Burgoyne Calendar, her father.
“The book, if ingenious, is wanting in imaginative power, literary worth or striking elements of novelty which might to some extent compensate the reader for the extraordinary demand on his credulity.”
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Arena. 39: 506. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“Is one of the best specimens of modern adventure that we have read lately.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 39. Jl. 11. 100w.
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Ind. 64: 693. Mr. 26, ’08. 150w.
“‘The black bag’ is probably not a masterpiece, but it has certain very pleasing qualities. The most engaging thing about it is its youthfulness, its buoyancy, its joy of motion.”
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Nation. 86: 237. Mr. 12, ’08. 320w.
“There is an amount of adventure, movement, danger, and excitement that might almost surfeit the appetite were it not for a certain delightful whimsicality on the part of the author, who never takes himself too seriously.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 92. F. 15, ’08. 180w.
“As a sensational narrative of crime attempted and frustrated it is ingenious enough, but it does not come within sight of the remotest borders of real literature.”
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Outlook. 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 50w.
Vandewalker, Nina Catharine. Kindergarten in American education. *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–10422.
A book for teachers and all students of social and educational problems. It “gives a history of a half-century of kindergarten development, exhibits its relation to other movements that have been significant in American life and education, and shows how its practice is being gradually modified by the new educational psychology.” (Nation.)
“Because of its contemporaneousness the book is unusually concrete and explicit, and not in the least speculative.” M. V. O’Shea.
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Am. J. Soc. 14: 124. Jl. ’08. 900w.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 242. O. ’08.
“The book is encyclopedic in nature. The student of almost any phase of the subject will find an abundance of material well selected and well organized.” F. A. Manny.
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El. School T. 9: 54. S. ’08. 600w.
“She overestimates the importance of the movement and fails to see the future decline, or at least great modification, of the kindergarten.”
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Ind. 65: 320. Ag. 6, ’08. 50w.
Nation. 86: 399. Ap. 30, ’08. 100w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 251. My. 2, ’08. 180w.
R. of Rs. 37: 639. My. ’08. 120w.
Van Dyke, Henry. Counsels by the way. **$1. Crowell.
8–21627.
A group of Dr. Van Dyke’s most stimulating short papers and addresses. The following are included: Ships and havens, under which general heading are Pilgrims of the sea, whither bound? The haven of work, The haven of character and the last port; The poetry of the Psalms; Joy and power; The battle of life; and The good old way. A general note of optimism is sounded thruout, the warranted optimism of one who knows true service, struggle and conquest.
“They are excellent in point of style and permeated with a helpful optimism.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 298. D. ’08. ✠
367“The author hardly meets our expectations at times. The work as a whole, however, is one of the finest volumes of ethical, literary and religious essays of the year.”
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Dial. 45: 414. D. 1, ’08. 160w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 541. O. 3, ’08. 110w.
* Van Dyke, Henry. House of Rimmon: a drama in four acts. **$1. Scribner.
8–30293.
A drama whose scene is laid in Damascus and the mountains of Assyria in 850 B. C. Naaman, the Damascus captain, is the central figure, who, a leper, and a victim of an unfaithful wife’s plotting is cared for by the Israelitish maid, Ruahmah, thru whose aid he is healed by the prophet Elisha.
“Its pre-Christian setting is sympathetically imagined; the psychology of character is bound up in some haunting poetry; but when that is said, all is said. His scenes are fragmentary and his material is shaped for imaginative effect, not for externalizing.”
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Ind. 65: 1063. N. 5, ’08. 200w.
“Its lines throughout are rhythmic prose, lacking the impassioned beauty, the unity of word and emotion, which are the essence of true poetic drama. In action ‘The house of Rimmon’ shows an instinctive sense of dramatic effectiveness, of the value of spectacle and climax, but its psychology is in several places so defective that its most impressive scenes are open to impeachment when considered as other than a spectacle. The points in which Dr. Van Dyke has shown most strength are in the delicate and beautiful characterization of the Hebrew captive Ruahmah, in his portrayal of the fine spirit of Naaman, the hero, and in the generally high ethical standard of the drama.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 690. N. 21, ’08. 720w.
“Must be counted among the most important recent achievements in the poetic drama. In idea and feeling it is unaffectedly religious, in interest it is engrossingly dramatic, in form and phrase it is deeply poetic.”
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Outlook. 90: 746. N. 28, ’08. 1200w.
* Van Dyke, Henry. Out-of-doors in the Holy Land: impressions of travel in body and spirit. **$1.50. Scribner.
8–29361.
The record of a journey thru Palestine which was “a religious revelation to the author.” “Dr. Van Dyke has discovered that ‘Christianity is an out-of-doors religion,’ and journeys in the faith that ‘the shut-in shrines and altered memorials are less significant than what we find in the open among the streets and on the surrounding hill-sides.’ His ‘impressions of travel in body and spirit’ (his sub-title) are therefore not heavy with human creeds and contentions, but breathe the spirit of the land itself. His writing always combines poetry, religion, and the love of nature, and this threefold felicity could not be more appropriately displayed than in celebrating the birthplace of Christianity.” (Dial.)
“His descriptions of these long-loved places are at once refreshing and reverent.”
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Dial. 45: 408. D. 1, ’08. 270w.
Ind. 65: 1181. N. 19, ’08. 40w.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
Ind. 65: 1465. D. 17, ’08. 140w.
“The work will be welcomed as a rare gift-book, and the sixteen full-page colored illustrations are no mean addition to its claim on general popularity.”
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Lit. D. 37: 909. D. 12, ’08. 160w.
“There is nothing new in it, and yet the author has added to the literature of the Holy Land something worth having in the record of impressions made by the land itself, its people, and its pilgrims on a devout and poetic soul.”
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Nation. 87: 548. D. 3, ’08. 400w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
“The book is exactly what might be expected from a traveler whose eyes, like Dr. Van Dyke’s, are ever open to the beautiful and whose pen is so well able to set forth what he sees.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 754. D. 5, ’08. 430w.
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R. of Rs. 38: 757. D. ’08. 50w.
Van Dyke, John Charles. Money god: chapters of heresy and dissent concerning business methods and mercenary ideals in American life. **$1. Scribner.
8–14734.
“Devoted to the exposure of money-madness as the great American epidemic. This afflicts millions of ‘little rascals’ as well as the comparatively few ‘wealthy malefactors.’ It ‘has journalism by the throat,’ depraves the drama, and taints all business life. It despoils the land by waste; it demoralizes our national life, and gives us ill fame throughout the world. ‘The trail of the dollar is over it all.’”—Outlook.
Reviewed by I. A. Loos.
Econ. Bull. 1: 150. Je. ’08. 380w.
“Finely wrought chapters.”
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Ind. 65: 842. O. 8, ’08. 100w.
“Mr. Vandyke ... has no remedy to suggest for the social troubles which he describes. In that case the description hardly seems worth while unless better done than by Mr. Vandyke. What Mr. Vandyke deserves most credit for is his chapter showing the folly of legislation as a remedy for faults which lie deep in human nature.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 287. My. 23, ’08. 440w.
“It is a tremendous indictment of the degrading materialism now menacing both democracy and religion. As such it should be read by all who have at heart the need of a moral revival. Exception, however, must be taken to an occasional savor of race prejudice.”
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Outlook. 89: 389. Je. 20, ’08. 160w.
“He has brought to his task that directness of vision and statement which have so well served him in the treatment of subjects of a very different nature.” H. W. Boynton.
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Putnam’s. 5: 110. O. ’08. 450w.
Van Dyne, Frederick. Treatise on the law of naturalization of the United States. *$5. Lawyers’ co-op.
7–23477.
“Mr. Van Dyne brings together all the laws still in force dealing with the acquisition of citizenship by foreigners. The historical development of our present regulations is traced, as are also the judicial decisions and the opinions and rulings of the executive and international claims commissions.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“The book will be found to be of great value to those having jurisdiction in naturalization proceedings, to lawyers who desire to advise clients who are seeking naturalization or to establish rights of citizenship and, in general, to every student and citizen who has an interest in solving those problems arising from the assimilation by the nation of the hundreds of thousands of aliens coming to our shores every year.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 451. S. ’08. 250w.
“The book is essentially complete as a textbook, and, if its 500 pages are slightly padded, it is with interesting matter.”
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Ind. 64: 1150. My. 21, ’08. 140w.
“The book may be adversely criticised for its somewhat defective organization, the long quotations from documents and cases and the failure to give a list of the cases cited.” H: B. Armes.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 23: 522. S. ’08. 580w.
“A new legal work of more than ordinary importance.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 255. F. ’08. 100w.
368Van Vorst, Bessie (Mrs. John Van Vorst). Cry of the children: a study of child-labor; with introd. by Hon. Albert J. Beveridge. **$1.25. Moffat.
8–4342.
A first-hand study based upon an investigation conducted in the cotton mills of Alabama, Georgia, Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Mrs. Van Vorst’s aim has been to get at the human side of the child-labor question without making her interest sensational. She talked and walked with the children, visited their homes and their schools, questioned them and drew conclusions. “Without doubt her series of impressionistic pictures will give to most readers an idea more vivid and intelligible of conditions in the mill towns than would any other method of presentation.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Sympathetically but not sensationally told, save as the facts themselves are sensational.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 151. My. ’08. ✠
“Nothing is gained by over-statement and hysterics. Mrs. Van Vorst would do better to confine herself strictly to describing what she saw, for her strong point is not in drawing inferences.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 451. S. ’08. 300w.
Ind. 65: 267. Jl. 30, ’08. 400w.
“Interestingly told narrative.”
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J. Pol. Econ. 16: 246. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“Her treatment of the subject is popular and impressionistic. Her book is a straightforward account of what she herself saw and heard.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 70. F. 8, ’08. 600w.
Outlook. 88: 610. Mr. 14, ’08. 400w.
Van Vorst, Marie. Sentimental adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode. il. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–10276.
Adventures of a wealthy bachelor during ten years of devotion to a married woman. Everywhere “the kind fates give him glimpses of the woman who has a husband, and to her his conduct is the essence of propriety, delicacy, and devotion combined and double distilled.” (N. Y. Times.) Finally his faithfulness is rewarded.
“He is really not a bad fellow, and his adventures make sufficiently agreeable reading.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 473. Ap. 18. 150w.
“There is more sentiment than adventure in the concoction, and more words than either.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 230w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 211. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
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R. of Rs. 37: 761. Je. ’08. 100w.
Vasari, Giorgio. Vasari on technique; translated by Louisa S. Maclehose; edited with introduction and notes by G. Baldwin Brown. *$4. Dutton.
8–12590.
This treatise, translated for the first time, constitutes the introduction to Vasari’s “Lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors and architects.” “So far as the art-worker is concerned, this preliminary exposition of the various processes and materials employed by the artists and craftsmen of his day is of far greater interest than the biographical details constituting the bulk of the work.” (Int. Studio.) “In the province of painting, for instance, Vasari tells us not only concerning the different methods of executing drawings and cartoons, and then of the subsequent mural painting, or of the oil painting on panel or canvas; he also informs us concerning permanent decorative painting for façades, he tells us about gilding, about glass or marble mosaics, about tarsia, or wood inlays, about stained glass, and about methods of enameling.” (Outlook.)
“The book, interesting as it is, is only to a limited degree calculated to satisfy the curiosity of which it is so welcome a symptom, and it would be even less satisfactory were it confined strictly to the matter indicated in its title.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 265. F. 29. 500w.
Dial. 44: 250. Ap. 16, ’08. 100w.
“A welcome contribution to the literature of craftsmanship. Its serviceableness is enhanced by Professor Brown’s introductory essay and his copious notes, which are both learned and interesting.”
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Ind. 64: 473. F. 27, ’08. 20w.
“The translation and editing of the work have been carried out with conscientious thoroughness, and additional interest is given to the volume by the numerous illustrations contained in it.”
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Int. Studio. 33: 252. Ja. ’08. 250w.
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Nation. 86: 270. Mr. 19, ’08. 80w.
“Its language is technical, of course, but not so technical as to be too far above the head of the general reader. Its value is manifest when we consider its comprehensiveness.”
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Outlook. 88: 562. Mr. 7, ’08. 450w.
* Vaughan, Herbert Millingchamp. Medici popes (Leo X and Clement VII). **$4. Putnam.
“It is to a study of the personal character of Leo X that he devotes the greater portion of his book; what he has to say of the other Medici popes he compresses into a few brief chapters, and the political relations of the church with the several countries of Europe during the Medici period, he practically ignores.”—N. Y. Times.
“After reading Mr. Vaughan’s book we know better than before what Leo looked like, what his mind was like, in what his strength consisted, and the nature of his weakness.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 610. O. 24, ’08. 480w.
“Even from the point of view of a personal study the wisdom of his omissions may be questioned. The undue prominence given to unimportant details makes the book a perilous one for the uninitiated. Yet it is obviously intended for the uninitiated. Mr. Vaughan’s particular outlook may be right enough, but his book gives an entirely false notion of the renaissance as a whole.”
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Sat. R. 106: 614. N. 14, ’08. 1050w.
“Mr. Vaughan quotes largely from Benvenuto Cellini, but he has been unable to bring the glamour and the movement of that astonishing autobiography into the rest of his book.”
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Spec. 101: 839. N. 21, ’08. 160w.
Vedder, Henry Clay. Christian epoch-makers: the story of the great missionary eras in the history of Christianity. **$1.20. Am. Bapt.
8–21632.
A chapter on the philosophy of Christian missions introduces a graphic account of the great leaders of the missionary epochs of the Christian church. The seventeen men whose work is outlined are as follows: Paul, Ulfilas, Patrick, Augustine, Boniface, Aurgar, Vladimir, Raimund Lull, Francis of Assisi, Xavier, Ziegenbalg, Schwartz, Zinzendorf, Carey, Martyn, Judson and Livingstone.
“The value of this book lies in the bringing together in a unique manner of a vast mass of materials, in their lucid interpretation, and in the really fine generalizations, which are interpolated without obtrusiveness.” H. P. J. Selinger.
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Am. J. Theol. 12: 672. O. ’08. 360w.
“This book should have a wide reading.”
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Bib. World. 32: 368. N. ’08. 30w.
* Vedder, Henry Clay. Our New Testament: how did we get it? **$1. Am. Bapt.
8–35968.
A historical investigation rather than a work of apologetics in polemics whose central thought is that in the formal sense of the term there was no such thing as a closed canon.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 316. Jl. 6, ’08. 90w.
369Venable, William Mayo. Methods and devices for bacterial treatment of sewage. $3. Wiley.
8–10451.
“The introductory chapter briefly explains what is meant by the bacterial treatment of sewage and the second chapter gives a list of books on the subject and references to similar articles in technical journals. The aerobic treatment of crude sewage, the mechanical removal of sludge, the anaerobic treatment of sewage, intermittent contact systems, automatic discharging devices and percolating filters are given a chapter each, after which there is a summary of engineering principles regarding the design of sewage purification works.” (Engin. Rec.) “The tenth chapter describes in detail the actual installation of two plants.” (Engin. D.)
“As a guide to the sanitary engineer, it seems to the reviewer that this book will prove indispensable.” R. W. Hall.
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Engin. D. 3: 525. My. ’08. 380w.
“There is much interesting reading in this book and the author’s idea as to the importance of intelligent supervision is thoroughly sound. However, the subjects of comparative efficiencies and costs, size of filtering material, rates of filtration, depth of beds, etc., are left in a rather unsatisfactory state.” G: W. Fuller.
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Engin. N. 59: 540. My. 14, ’08. 650w.
Engin. Rec. 57: 624. My. 9, ’08. 250w.
Verschoyle, W. Denham. Electricity: what is it? *$1. Macmillan.
8–28960.
“The main object of this book is to sustain the contention that something more than the usually accepted electrical idea is needed if we would aim at solving the many problems which exist around us.... The author of this book, starting merely with three postulates, (1) absolute energy, (2) aether, (3) some form of interaction between them, develops a theory which claims to admit of the main facts of natural phenomena being arranged ‘in a homogeneous and inter-related series.’ The fundamental conception of the theory is that of the gyron.... It is not very clear how the author arrives at the existence of forces emanating from the gyron, but by means of them he is able to discuss the evolution of the atom, the relations of the elements, heat, light, electricity, dissociation. The ‘mystery of life’ even is not excluded from the discussion.”—Nature.
“The work can hardly be regarded as a serious contribution to science.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 131. Ag. 1. 740w.
“He so mixes reliable experimental knowledge with abstruse hypotheses, which are, to say the least, still disputable, that the reader is left quite bewildered.”
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Nation. 87: 212. S. 3, ’08. 140w.
“We do not agree with him in thinking that the diverse and tentative views held just now by our leading investigators as to the ultimate constitution of matter afford a sufficient justification for the present attempt to explain matter and electricity by an effort of the imagination.”
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Nature. 78: 475. S. 17, ’08. 370w.
“This is a brave attempt by an enquirer devoid of the first essential requirement—exact knowledge of elementary mechanical laws—to explain the relation between electrical phenomena and the ether of space.”
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Sat. R. 106: 369. S. 19, ’08. 800w.
Viele, Herman Knickerbocker. Heartbreak Hill. †$1.50. Duffield.
8–26196.
The prospect of a stepfather is an outrage to Mopsie Beatoun, so she runs away to live with an uncle and aunt. How she throve among her relatives, breathing all the while the peaceful air of Heartbreak Hill, is told with charm and fidelity to the things of real life.
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 305. D. ’08. ✠
“Sentiment and humor are nicely balanced in its pages, and the transcript of New England life and character is both truthful and charming.” W: M. Payne.
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Dial. 45: 295. N. 1, ’08. 230w.
“A writer of such stories as Mr. Vielé’s earlier ‘Inn of the silver moon’ and the present book is a public benefactor.”
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Nation. 87: 318. O. 1, ’08. 170w.
“It always is a matter for regret when a good story goes wrong, and in this instance there is ground for deep and earnest regret, because in his opening chapters Mr. Viele arouses great expectations.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 480w.
“A love story full of amusing complications.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 618. O. 24, ’08. 20w.
“The introduction of a preposterous plot about a copper mine and the burlesque attitude of the characters one to another become distinctly tiresome before the plot draws to a weak-kneed close.”
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Outlook. 90: 273. O. 3, ’08. 70w.
Villari, Pasquale. Studies historical and critical; tr. by Linda Villari. *$3.75. Scribner.
7–38555.
Seven essays, most important of which is the critical treatment of “Is history a science?” “The others are all on Italians of different ages and different degrees of distinction,—Cavour, Savonarola (on whom Professor Villari is, of course, the supreme authority), Donatello, Luigi Settembrini, Francesco de Sanctis, the critic, and Domenico Morelli, the painter.” (Spec.)
“The essay [on ‘Is history a science?’] is an interesting one, although it contains perhaps little of originality, but the expert collation and contrast of so many weighty opinions upon a subject that is in its essence a vital one, renders it a valuable contribution to the philosophy of history.”
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Acad. 73: 10. O. 12, ’07. 650w.
“The style is excellent but too weighty and scholarly for the ordinary reader. The translation is well done.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 214. Je. ’08.
“The question, whether history should be a science or an art, is handled with great wealth of detail, and with large knowledge of kindred studies; but there is decidedly too much amateur metaphysic in the essay.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 544. N. 2. 1150w.
“The essay on ‘Savonarola and the present day’ is perhaps the most suggestive of any and the fullest of Professor Villari’s essential teaching.”
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Lond. Times. 6: 346. N. 15, ’07. 550w.
“As he is as thoroughgoing as a German pedant in his application of the scientific method to research, his opinions ought to command a hearing in quarters where the dry-as-dust theory of historical study still prevails.”
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Nation. 86: 239. Mr. 12, ’08. 700w.
“[In ‘Is history a science?’] the author swirls about in an eddy of other men’s opinions, and it might be said of his method, as of an earlier school of criticism, that it does not conclude.” Christian Gauss.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 199. Ap. 11, ’08. 900w.
“The whole volume is competently translated, though in its English dress it has lost distinction.”
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Spec. 99: 433. S. 28, ’07. 1600w.
Vinogradoff, Paul. English society in the eleventh century: essays in English mediaeval history. *$5.20. Oxford.
8–17763.
“The volume is a sort of sequel to ‘Villainage in England.’ ... It is divided into two essays, one on government and organized society, the other on the tenure and use of land, the various classes of the population, and the 370relations of people and land. Under these general headings are ranged some fifteen chapters of detailed investigation, with concrete summaries at the end of each section, and two admirable chapters stating his general conclusions.”—Nation.
“Professor Vinogradoff’s book is, however, much more than a series of special and important Domesday studies. Its highest value lies in the fact that it is a reasonable, well-ordered explanation of English society at an important moment.”
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Am. Hist. R. 14: 102. O. ’08. 1000w.
“A high level of abstract science is maintained; and in scope and language the volume is for specialists, and fully intelligible to them alone. A few criticisms of detail cannot be omitted, especially as the cardinal limitation of a most scholarly and in all ways remarkable book is some lack of pains in finishing off the details, and even in seeing the work through the press.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 753. Je. 20. 2150w.
“The work well fulfills the promise of its title by giving on the whole much the best account that we possess of the organization and classes of the English people in the critical eleventh century.”
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Nation. 87: 264. S. 17, ’08. 940w.
“Exhaustive enquiry.”
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Sat. R. 105: 501. Ap. 18, ’08. 1550w
“It is difficult to give in a review any adequate idea of the value of this monumental work, which reconstructs in a very wonderful way the social life of the eleventh century. It is possible at last to feel that we are in positive touch with the nation that William the Conqueror subdued and transformed. In accomplishing such a task Professor Vinogradoff has carried Maitland’s work noticeably forward.”
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Spec. 100: 977. Je. 20, ’08. 2100w.
* Virgil, Publius Virgilius Maro. Aeneid; tr. into English verse by Theodore C. Williams. *$1.50. Houghton.
Moved by the desire for a smooth story-rendering of the Aeneid the author has produced a translation that will permit of continuous reading aloud. It is characterized by lucidity, swift, clear movement, an avoidance of the commonplace, and the preservation of both the dramatic and argumentative force of the speeches contained in the poem and the religious suggestiveness.
Voogt, Gos de. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos de Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley; ed. for America by C: W. Burkett. *$3.50. Ginn.
7–40011.
“This volume is devoted to dogs, cats, horses, asses, sheep, goats, pigs, cattle, fowl and rabbits, described in an easy popular style, with abundant photographic illustrations. There are over five hundred of these, besides seven full-page color plates.”—Ind.
“Especially useful in the children’s room for reference use in connection with the schools.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 50. F. ’08.
“An interesting and profitable book to look over.”
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Ind. 64: 1044. My. 7, ’08. 100w.
Voorhees, Edward Burnett. Forage crops for soiling, silage, hay and pasture. (Rural science ser.) **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–31477.
A practical treatment from the cultivator’s and feeder’s standpoint, prepared by the director of the New Jersey experimental stations. It deals with the problem of continual forage supply, a matter of particular interest to dairy farmers near the cities.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 724. My. ’08. 100w.
“The summaries are perhaps the best part of the book, and will be appreciated both by the student and the farmer. Certain statements will want correction in a future edition.” E. J. R.
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Nature. 77: 388. F. 27, ’08. 750w.
“Although the work is prepared for American readers, there are useful ideas in it for many English agriculturists.”
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Spec. 100: sup. 130. Ja. 25, ’08. 120w.
Vorse, Mary Heaton. Breaking in of a yachtsman’s wife. il. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–14521.
A delightful book of “maritime miscellany” which records in the main the experiences of a landlubber who married a nautical man and learned to love every phase of the happy carefree life. “A voyager on many seas, and these as various as the differing shores of Venice and Cape Cod can make them, she and the faithful Stan, yachtsman-in-chief, were attended by more than one pair of lovers in differing stages of infection.” (Dial.)
“A charming summer book.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 224. Je. ’08. ✠
“One may justly pay it a compliment rarely due to fiction of the episodic sort, of feeling that instead of there being a superfluity of episodes, there is on the contrary no page that we would willingly have sacrificed.” F: T. Cooper.
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Bookm. 27: 502. Jl. ’08. 220w.
“It is a pleasant book, flavored with more than one kind of salt.”
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Dial. 44: 354. Je. 1, ’08. 250w.
“The writer of this little book has a sense of humor which is apparent in the first chapter and appears intermittently thruout the story.”
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Ind. 64: 1290. Je. 4, ’08. 120w.
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Lit. D. 37: 398. S. 19, ’08. 170w.
“Human nature under the influence of the boating passion is a study which Mrs. Vorse has prosecuted thoroughly, humorously, altogether delightfully.”
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Nation. 86: 515. Je. 4, ’08. 200w.
“The string of stories—for such is the character of the book—may be recommended even more decidedly to the serious than to the young and frivolous. As a tonic to depression and an antidote to gloom, it has a higher mission than even the entertainment of those for whom presumably it was written.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 288. My. 23, ’08. 400w.
“All through the pages there is the amusing give-and-take repartée and the whole book has a breezy, salty flavor.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.