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Nation. 86: 309. Ap. 2, ’08. 400w.
“Psychological analysis worked out unusually well and narrative of a simple, straightforward style, combined in the form of a novel.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 185. Ap. 4, ’08. 200w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 212. Ap. 11, ’08. 40w.
“The story is well written, serious in tone, and an admirable study of spiritual conflict.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 766. Je. ’08. 100w.
* Little, George. Life on the ocean; or, Twenty years at sea; with an introd. by W. Clark Russell. †$2. Lippincott.
The republication of a book of sea adventure which appeared nearly a century ago, and which “to the marine archaeologist,” says Mr. Russell in his introduction, “must prove extremely interesting.”
N. Y. Times. 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 120w.
“There is an old-fashioned flavor about the book ... which gives us a strikingly convincing picture of that life on the ocean which filled our grandfathers with the wild longing to run away to sea.”
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Spec. 100: 646. Ap. 25, ’08. 200w.
Lloyd, Francis Ernest. Physiology of stomata. $1.50. Carnegie inst.
8–9545.
“Lloyd has given us a careful study of the behavior of the stomata in two desert plants, Fouquieria splendens and Verbena ciliata, made at the Desert botanical laboratory of the Carnegie institution. He addressed himself particularly to the question of the regulation of transpiration by stomatal movements, and furnishes conclusive evidence that the stomata in these plants, where there are no complications in the way of pits, plugs, or other contrivances, are not able to adjust the transpiration to the ‘needs’ of the plants.”—Bot. Gaz.
“This is a careful and thorough piece of work, highly creditable to the laboratory from which it comes.” C. R. B.
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Bot. Gaz. 46: 62. Jl. ’08. 350w.
Nation. 87: 57. Jl. 16, ’08. 200w.
Reviewed by C. C. Curtis.
Science, n.s. 28: 409. S. 25, ’08. 800w.
Lloyd, John. Captain’s wife. $1.50. Kennerley.
8–15725.
A story with an Arizona setting in which army officers, their families, ranchmen, miners, and savages figure. The heroine is an eastern girl who secretly marries an army captain, then during a lapse of memory, induced by a terrible fight, forgets him and marries another. A final readjustment follows misunderstanding and suffering.
“The writer’s touch is light and keen, and his little novel ... runs along at full speed.”
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Nation. 86: 536. Je. 11, ’08. 160w.
“A good story of army life. The plot, though not very intricate, is well contrived.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 150w.
Loane, M. From their point of view. $2. Longmans.
8–35515.
Social studies in which the author’s conclusions are deduced from first-hand impressions of life among the poor. As a district nurse and the superintendent of district nurses she has come close to people’s problems, and her stories of “the lives in the squalid homes, of the daily struggles for progress, of the neglect which breeds unhappiness and disease will find their counterpart in the experiences of the district worker whether her activities are confined to East End, London, or New York.” (N. Y. Times.)
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 221. Je. ’08. ✠
“Where she is guided by her own experiences, her conclusions are almost always shrewd and sound: where she generalizes they seem less well founded.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 645. N. 21. 250w.
“The particular value of the book is its freedom from sentimentality. Students in sociology will find much in the book to repay them for the time spent in reading it, and the general reader will be entertained by a constant succession of good stories.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 367. Je. 27, ’08. 270w.
“In Miss Loane we find the happiest combination of the qualities required for the task she has undertaken—the task of making the British people understand what should be their true attitude towards poverty.”
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Spec. 105: 503. Mr. 28, ’08. 1900w.
Locke, James. Stem of the crimson dahlia, il. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–3426.
“A thrilling story of conspiracy that plunges the reader from the first chapter, when the hero picks up the stem of a faded and torn dahlia on the Bridge of Galata, in Constantinople, into a whirl of strange adventures and breathless happenings. A charming American girl, anxious to put a king on the throne of Bulgaria, a king to lead his people to a glorious freedom, comes soon and startlingly into the story.... The setting is picturesque; Russians, Bulgarians, Americans, peasants, and aristocrats rub elbows from page to page.”—N. Y. Times.
“The exciting beginning is well kept up throughout, and we are grateful to Mr. Locke for a steady supply of sensation which does not give time to think over improbabilities.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 398. O. 3. 60w.
Ind. 64: 974. Ap. 30, ’08. 200w.
“He plays fair to the last page. A good, stirring plot will often hold one if there be nothing or little else to recommend it. But in ‘The stem of the red dahlia’ there is the added fascination of the thing well done.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 82. F. 15, ’08. 250w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 160w.
224Lockwood, George Browning. New Harmony movement, by G. B. Lockwood, with the collaboration of C. A. Prosser, in the preparation of the educational chapters. *$1.50. Appleton.
5–16517.
“Concerned with the history of two important communities which had their seat at the village of New Harmony, Ind. The first of these was the settlement of the Rappites, early in the nineteenth century, which after ten years gave place to the society founded by Robert Owen.... It is claimed for the New Harmony community that it was a pioneer in the establishment of infant schools, kindergartens, trade schools, and industrial schools and a part of the free public-school system.”—R. of Rs.
“It is a good supplement to the volumes of Mr. Podmore, the books together setting forth this important episode of nineteenth century life as has not been done before.”
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Nation. 86: 356. Ap. 16, ’08. 50w.
“The most important chapter in this book is devoted to his educational experiment.”
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Outlook. 86: 836. Ag. 17, ’07. 230w.
R. of Rs. 37: 252. F. ’08. 150w.
Locy, William Albert. Biology and its makers. **$2.75. Holt.
8–21045.
An untechnical account of the rise and progress of biology, which aims to bring under one view the broad features of biological progress, and to increase the human interest by writing the story around the lives of the great biological leaders. The first part deals with The sources of biological ideas except those of organic evolution; the second treats of The doctrine of organic evolution.
“It is entertainingly written, and, better than any other existing single work in any language, gives the layman a clear idea of the scope and development of the broad science of biology.”
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Dial. 45: 298. N. 1, ’08. 420w.
“Professor Locy meets the demand for an up-to-date, reasonably complete and interesting account of the development of biology tolerably well. While in the main, in regard to essential points, the book is entirely accurate, minor errors in the spelling of proper names occur with annoying frequency.”
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Ind. 65: 785. O. 1, ’08. 320w.
“The drawback to the division into two parts is the necessity of cross-references and repetitions, for no phase of biological progress can logically be separated from the doctrine of organic evolution.”
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Nation. 87: 268. S. 17, ’08. 470w.
“Professor Locy has made a good selective use of an embarrassing wealth of material, and has not neglected to give their place to the important subsidiary sciences.”
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Outlook. 90: 42. S. 5, ’08. 260w.
Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph. Immortality of the soul. (Eng. title, Man and the universe.) *$1. Ball pub.
8–29637.
In substance given as a Drew lecture in Hackney college, October, 1907. The discussion deals first with The transitory and permanent—the bodily presentment, and the essence or intrinsic reality; and second with The permanence of personality.
“We think that Sir Oliver Lodge’s friends and admirers—and their name is legion—cannot but be sorry that he should have published this book. A well-deserved reputation in one branch of science does not enable its possessor to speak ex cathedra on others in which he is not expert.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 686. N. 28. 2250w.
Nation. 87: 117. Ag. 6, ’08. 50w.
Outlook. 89: 768. Ag. 1, ’08. 150w.
“What, another new-modelled religion from the ever-ready knight? No, only some old ‘Hibbert journal’ and ‘Contemporary’ friends, the familiar cheap thought in a more expensive dress.”
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Sat. R. 106: 580. N. 7, ’08. 1300w.
Lomas, John. In Spain. *$2. Macmillan.
8–26238.
A revised, rewritten and enlarged edition of “Sketches in Spain.” It aims to furnish information on the spot, may be used as “sole guide and counsellor.” “It is a full but utterly uninspired account of what the traveller would encounter in passing from the Spanish frontier at San Sebastian to Cadiz in the South, and thence from one to another of the Mediterranean seaports, up to Barcelona; afterwards, to Zaragoza, Bilbao, Leon, and Santiago.” (Nation.) A folding map and illustrations add to its value.
“As a rule, Mr. Lomas is well informed, his judgments are sensible, and, though a little verbose, he avoids the rhetoric to which most writers on Spain seem prone.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 264. S. 5. 230w.
“Will be most helpful to the traveller, and more especially to the antiquarian or the ecclesiologist.” G: G. Brownell.
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Dial. 45: 115. S. 1, ’08. 760w.
“The whole is thoroughly pedestrian. Scarcely one illuminating remark is met with in the 344 pages. There is not even anything absurd, or glaringly incorrect, to flag one’s interest.”
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Nation. 87: 38. Jl. 9, ’08. 180w.
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Spec. 101: sup. 481. O. 3, ’08. 240w.
London, Jack. Iron heel. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–3084.
The manuscript which furnishes the story of the Iron heel records events occurring between the years 1912 and 1932 but from the view-point of seven centuries in the future. Mr. London portrays the terrors of a supposititious oligarchy—the monstrous offshoot of capitalism—with its reign of the iron heel; his spirit of prophecy guides him to revolutionary crises, brought about by socialism, that break the rule of the capitalist oligarch, and, after three centuries, usher in the era in which the world-movement of labor comes into its own—the era of the brotherhood of man.
“Considered from a literary and imaginative point-of-view, is one of his greatest works of fiction. He has seen and felt the tragedies of the poor to-day throughout Christian lands; and those things have, we think, made him unduly hopeless and have unfortunately so colored his thought as to make his book a detriment rather than a help to the cause of social justice in our days.”
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Arena. 39: 503. Ap. ’08. 2000w.
“Such books as this ... have a mischievous influence upon unbalanced minds, and we cannot but deplore their multiplication.” W: M. Payne.
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Dial. 44: 247. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“Semi-barbarians, to whom this sort of stuff appeals, may possibly tear down our civilization; they will never lay a single brick of a nobler civilization.”
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Ind. 64: 865. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“The gore through which, in the course of these pages, we are invited to wallow, is far more of his taste [than peaceful conquest]; three hundred years of it is not a day too much for him.”
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Nation. 86: 264. Mr. 19, ’08. 350w.
“This is not a pleasant book to read; as a work of fiction it has little to commend it; and as a socialist tract it is distinctly unconvincing.” H. A. Bruce.
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Outlook. 89: 388. Je. 20, ’08. 400w.
R. of Rs. 37: 760. Je. ’08. 150w.
225London, Jack. The road. **$2. Macmillan.
7–39522.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
“Mr. London’s book is far from pleasing reading, but it carries a tremendous lesson with it—a lesson that men of conscience and high-minded patriots cannot afford to overlook. It is a book that will help on the social revolution that is making for a better and nobler civilization.”
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Arena. 39: 124. Ja. ’08. 270w.
“One has to search diligently through the book to find any quality or trait (not purely physical) that is not vicious.” E: E. Hale, jr.
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Dial. 44: 301. My. 16, ’08. 400w.
“In spite of his frankness he does not give the impression of sincerity and strict accuracy. He is too smooth a story-teller to be altogether plausible and he takes such manifest delight in his skill and success as a liar when he was beating his way across the continent that we involuntarily wonder at what date he abandoned the habit.”
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Ind. 64: 421. F. 20, ’08. 170w.
“Written with Mr. London’s usual command of clear, incisive English and powers of terse, vivid description.”
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N. Y. Times. 12: 861. D. 28, ’07. 470w.
London municipal society. Case against socialism: a handbook for speakers and candidates; with a prefatory letter by A. J. Balfour. *$1.50. Macmillan.
8–21561.
“This work was prepared in England as a handbook for use there in the campaign against the spread of socialism. It comprises a compact statement of the main points in the dispute, with abundant footnote references to authorities.” (R. of Rs.) “This useful compilation contains a mass of sound arguments and useful facts and figures, and should prove of no little value, not only to speakers and writers, but to all who wish to acquaint themselves with the great controversy of the hour.” (Spec.)
“Although the volume is directly intended for ‘candidates,’ there are statements inviting consideration from many who are not partisans of either side.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 507. Ap. 25. 360w.
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Nation. 87: 262. S. 17, ’08. 200w.
“As a campaign textbook it is of more than usual value.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 124. Jl. ’08. 50w.
“The best feature of the work is the moderation with which it is written. Except for an occasional outburst of indignation at the folly of some particularly ridiculous socialistic paradox, the writer shows a commendable coolness and absence of rhetoric. ‘Socialism and religion,’ [is] the only chapter which we regret in the book.”
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Spec. 100: 747. My. 9, ’08. 2350w.
Long, William Joseph. Whose home is the wilderness: some studies of wild animal life. il. *$1.25. Ginn.
7–37000.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
“Written in the author’s usual interesting manner.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 115. Ap. ’08. ✠
“Seems to us a little thin in comparison with previous volumes from the same hand; but there is no denying the talent of Mr. Long, who is one of the best present-day writers on the world of living things.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 764. D. 14. 60w.
“He usually manages to turn his shooting into a joke, and to tell entertainingly how his interest in his intended victim overcame his desire for meat.” M. E. Cook.
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Dial. 43: 418. D. 16, ’07. 350w.
“Many passages in this attractive volume bear equally eloquent testimony to the closeness with which its author has observed the habits of the creatures he loves so well and describes so graphically.” R. L.
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Nature. 77: 393. F. 27, ’08. 350w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 353. Je. 20, ’08. 230w.
“Though Mr. Long is a prolific writer, his standard of excellence has not fallen off.”
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Spec. 100: sup. 646. Ap. 25, ’08. 210w.
Longueville, Thomas. Marshall Turenne; by the author of “A life of Sir Kenelm Digby,” etc.; with an introd. by Brigadier-general Francis Lloyd. *$4.50. Longmans.
8–10271.
A biography of this contemporary of Cromwell and Condé which is “drawn mainly from Ramsay, but is seasoned by Napoleon’s comments and enlivened by anecdotes from contemporary memoirs. Turenne is one of the men who are always worth reading about, and we are given a vivid picture of him.” (Eng. Hist. R.)
“The author leans heavily on Ramsay, and quotes largely from Napoleon’s ‘Abstract of the wars of Marshal Turenne.’”
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 861. Jl. ’08. 540w.
“The record of affairs at the French court is too long in a work which should deal mainly with military matters. In the account of these the lack of the critical faculty is only too apparent.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 207. Ag. 22. 230w.
“The account of Turenne’s operations is not always easy to follow. It is a pleasure to turn the pages of a book so well printed and illustrated, but the map at the end should have shown western Europe as it was in the seventeenth century, and omitted railways.” E. M. Ll.
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Eng. Hist. R. 23: 408. Ap. ’08. 300w.
“The author has exercised extreme discretion and sound common sense. He has never permitted himself to become so immersed in the seventeenth century maze of politics and warfare as to neglect the more humanly appealing biographical elements to be found in character study.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 229. Ap. 18, ’08. 1400w.
“In these days when personal aims and objects supply the place of worthier motives, the life of a man of character is exactly the kind of literature which our young officers should read, and for this reason especially we welcome the appearance of this book. As a military history we are not by any means so well pleased with it.”
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Sat. R. 105: 111. Ja. 25, ’08. 1000w.
“Though the author struggles manfully with an extremely difficult period, he is evidently less successful as a writer of civil and political than of military history. The figure of Turenne stands out plainly enough, but against a background which seems unnecessarily confused and vague.”
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Spec. 100: sup. 639. Ap. 25, ’08. 1500w.
Loomis, Charles Battell. Holiday touch, and other tales of undaunted Americans. †$1.25. Holt.
8–29333.
“America ahead” is the note which sounds out in this group of entertaining stories—the buoyant, invincible, never-say-die note of the ingenious Yankee. Here are accounts of a joke played upon a prestidigitator just arriving in Boston; of the generosity of a well-known American philanthropist; of a penniless artist’s experience with a New York dinner invitation which omitted to mention the place; and of a bride’s unwillingness to be daunted by the non-appearance of the bridegroom on two successive occasions named for the ceremony.
226Loomis, Charles Battell. Knack of it: some essays in optimism. **75c. Revell.
8–23515.
A collection of essays which descant upon the leavening knack of self mastery, and of bringing harmony out of our every day affairs. Mr. Loomis says, “Wake up. Live. Be happy. Let us all be happy together. Hands all round. It’s only a knack.”
“It is written with that kind of artificial cheerfulness often observed in the professionally happy. But this should not discredit the performance, since nine-tenths of those who read it will never discover that what Mr. Loomis calls ‘The knack of it’ is really a jack-in-the-box performance at so much a jump.”
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Ind. 65: 1243. N. 26, ’08. 180w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 517. S. 19, ’08. 80w.
“Just the sort of vigorously optimistic advice that fits in with this vigorous age of ours.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 613. O. 24, ’08. 170w.
Loomis, Charles Battell. Poe’s “Raven” in an elevator, and other tales, il. †$1.25. Holt.
7–29153.
The third edition of “More cheerful Americans.” The initial story which gives the book its title, tells of a reader’s mishap in being hung up in an elevator with only his head visible to the audience that poured out of the apartment into the halls when the hostess announced the accident and also the fact that the entertainment would proceed. From the sub-level of the cage he renders the “Raven” to the accompaniment of the rapping and tapping of tools. Other tales as humorously conceived follow.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 53. F. ’08.
“The incongruous is what appeals to Mr. Loomis, the juxtaposition of unfamiliar ideas, the truly American quirk that finds humor in the most unlikely materials and maintains all the while a deceptive gravity. There is a deal of healthy philosophy incorporated in the book.”
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N. Y. Times. 12: 856 D. 21, ’07. 220w.
Lorey, Eustache de, and Sladen, Douglas. Queer things about Persia, il. *$3.50. Lippincott.
8–1464.
“The simple, but entertaining, record of the experiences and impressions gained during two years’ residence in the Persian capital by a young member of the French legation. M. de Lorey describes his house, his servants, street scenes, bazaars, a dinner at the palace of the Grand Vizier, a reception by the late Shah, and a religious play, ‘Kassem’s marriage,’ a veritable Mohammedan Oberammergau.”—Nation.
“A curious and acute observer with a pleasant gift of story-telling.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 206. Ag. 22. 430w.
“This is the sort of book which will appeal to the casual reader of books of travel, and it will not be uninteresting even to the well-read student of Persian life and manners.” H. E. Coblentz.
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Dial. 44: 107. F. 16, ’08. 300w.
“The book, together with the views and photographs from life, gives as faithful a presentation of the mysteries of the land of Xerxes as an Occidental can hope to achieve.”
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Lit. D. 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 110w.
“Much interesting and valuable information is given in regard to marriage and divorce, and the position of woman.”
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Nation. 85: 450. N. 14, ’07. 460w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“He has made good use of his opportunities, and there are few phases of Persian life which he has not described in graphic language. Still these faults, and the jerky style which Mr. Sladen often affects, cannot quite destroy the reader’s interest in one of the most complete accounts of Persian life ever written.”
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Sat. R. 104: 767. D. 21, ’07. 660w.
“If you want to know the Persian as he is, read M. Eustaehe de Lorey, from whose dictation Mr. Douglas Sladen has presented us with a fascinating and most instructive book.”
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Spec. 99: 438. S. 28, ’07. 190w.
Lorimer, George Horace. Jack Spurlock—prodigal; by F. R. Gruger. †$1.50. Doubleday.
8–16951.
By the author of “Letters of a self-made merchant to his son.” “The story relates, in the picturesque language of the young man himself, the last act in the sowing of a crop of wild oats and the successive steps in the reaping of it. In the course of the harvesting the boy, with the aid of a delightful old reprobate of a colonel of Southern extraction, manages to gather in a pretty fair crop of domesticated grain as well. When the prodigal finally returns to the parental fold, he does not come empty-headed if he does come empty-handed.” (Outlook.)
“Humorous extravaganza.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 177. Ag. 15. 200w.
“One cannot believe that anything of the kind ever happened, or could happen, but it is very distinctly funny, and the happy phrase, the neat epigram, or the jest in earnest, invariably arrive at the moment, when credulity threatens to grow tired.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 303. My. 30, ’08. 900w.
“A lively and well-told story.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
“The story is told rapidly and in racy language.”
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Outlook. 89: 536. Jl. 4, ’08. 180w.
“When it is translated into English, we shall be better able to give it critical attention.”
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Sat. R. 106: 274. Ag. 29, ’08. 80w.
“There are two reasons why English readers will like this book,—first, because most of the episodes are delightfully droll in themselves; and secondly, because the writing is a liberal education in the American language.”
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Spec. 101: 169. Ag. 1, ’08. 1200w.
Loughnan, R. A. New Zealand at home. *$1.75. Scribner.
8–22496.
A volume of a series dealing with various countries “at home.” “Mr. Loughnan in an unpretentious way manages to leave a well-defined impression on the reader’s mind of the forces which go to make the New Zealander-born as loyal to the Empire as he is to his colony. His chapters cover town life and country life, wealth, agriculture, mining, labour, religion, literature, art, sport, the position of woman and the rest of it, and their special merit is that they can be read by those who know New Zealand as well as by those who want to know it.” (Sat. R.)
“Mr. Loughnan’s book is one in which, in spite of the interest of the subject, it is difficult to take much pleasure. His geographical chapters are so ill-planned as to be almost unintelligible in the absence of a map, his opening chapter on the population tells the reader absolutely nothing about it.”
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Nation. 87: 162. Ag. 20, ’08. 260w.
“Some of the most interesting chapters of the book relate to the characteristics and treatment of the Maoris, the inhabitants of the country before the advent of the European.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 466. Ag. 22, ’08. 300w.
“If the book has a fault it is that its eulogy is unrelieved; the New Zealanders have done things deserving of the praise he gives, but the things that could be criticised he either ignores or dismisses with a humorous touch.”
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Sat. R. 106: 274. Ag. 29, ’08. 300w.
Lounsberry, Alice. Garden book for young people. **$1.50. Stokes.
8–12186.
Information about the making of a garden, 227about the names, habits, and seasons of plant life in story form “after the model of the Rollo books.” The book is fully illustrated.
“It is useful especially because of a good index to flowers. The style is too diffuse. Children would enjoy it more and find it more practical if it contained less story.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 226. Je. ’08.
Ind. 64: 1299. Je. 4, ’08. 80w.
Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford. Standard of usage in English. *$1.50. Harper.
8–12736.
In this volume of essays the dictum is laid down that the standard of speech is the usage of the cultivated. They are the law givers whose edicts it is the grammarian’s duty to record. The writer further affirms that usage must also be good usage and present usage. Good usage is something which must be learned, and in the acquisition grammars often hinder more than they aid. Knowledge of good usage can be acquired only by association with the best speakers and writers. Much space is taken up in illustrating these principles.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 196. Je. ’08.
“A dash of humor, with occasionally a bite of sarcasm, gives flavor and relish to Professor Lounsbury’s pages. The book is excellent reading as well as sound doctrine.”
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Dial. 45: 16. Jl. 1, ’08. 400w.
“The reader, whether or not he agrees with the author’s general principles, is bound to be pleased by his treatment of his special instances.” G: P. Krapp.
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Educ. R. 36: 195. S. ’08. 2600w.
“But there is delight in every chapter, some for readers of one kind and some for readers of another.”
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Ind. 65: 148. Jl. 16, ’08. 650w.
“It is hard to conceive what audience Professor Lounsbury’s volume of essays in popular philology will benefit. A volume of protest against ‘schoolmastering the language’ should give better evidence that the writer has mastered his language.”
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Nation. 86: 583. Je. 25, ’08. 670w.
“It would be a bold man who should assume to differ with the professor on his specialty, and the newspaper writer who should do so would be ungrateful as well, considering the professor’s generous treatment of newspaper usage.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 275. My. 16, ’08. 800w.
“Pleasantly written little book, as unpedantic and as unpedagogic as possible, as full of good-humor as it is of humor.” Brander Matthews.
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No. Am. 188: 300. Ag. ’08. 900w.
“The net influence of these scholarly and entertaining essays makes for the encouragement of educated independence in preferring language that is idiomatic and natural to what is formal and precise.”
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Outlook. 90: 42. S. 5, ’08. 270w.
R. of Rs. 37: 758. Je. ’08. 100w.
Lovell, William H. Plane table and its use in surveying. *$1. McGraw.
8–22566.
“While not containing any additional information than the usual chapter on the plane-table in any of the standard works on surveying, the compact form of this little book by Mr. Lovell may make it useful for those learning map plotting by use of the plane-table.”—Engin. N.
“The present book could have been very much improved as well as made more nearly worth the price asked, by the inclusion of more examples and illustrations of the methods of use, and a more detailed explanation of the methods of a solution of the various problems.”
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Engin. D. 4: 418. O. ’08. 170w.
“The instructions regarding the practical use of the instrument and its equipment are much better than the treatment of the three-point problem, which is rather too confused to convey a clear understanding to the student approaching for the first time this most important factor of plane-table surveying.”
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Engin. N. 60: 190. Ag. 13, ’08. 100w.
Lovett, James D’Wolf. Old Boston boys and the games they played. **$1.50. Little.
“A book which grew out of memories recalled at a dinner given by Samuel Cabot to a group of the old boys “who had known early-day athletic prowess.” It tells all about how the boys and youths enjoyed themselves playing ball on the Common, running with the fire engines, rowing on the Charles river, snowballing, playing tricks, and otherwise putting in vigorous days. Incidentally, too, there is a good deal of description to the life and times of the Boston of those days.” (N. Y. Times.)
“For the history of cricket, football, baseball, and rowing, Mr. Lovett’s chapters are of value; and as giving a picture of mid-nineteenth-century open-air pastimes in Boston, they are highly entertaining. One small error, or seeming error, noteworthy because so unexpected, may be mentioned. In commenting on the unvarying order of boys’ games, the year round, Mr. Lovett makes marbles come after tops. Is it possible that the present cheerful sign of spring, the nimble marble, has not always made its appearance with the retreat of snow and mud?”
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Dial. 45: 216. O. 1, ’08. 330w.
“The book will be of much interest to the boys of to-day, especially the Boston boys.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 650. N. 7, ’08. 200w.
Low, A. Maurice. America at home. *$1.75. Scribner.
8–26412.
A book written for Englishmen which the author says “does not pose as a profound critique of American psychology, nor a minute investigation into social and political conditions in the United States, but rather as a rapid presentation of the phases of life which have appealed to me, and I trust may interest the reader.” Some of the chapters are: The American political system; Bosses, big and little; The American girl; Washington, the republican court; The almighty dollar; and Social customs.
“Mr. Low’s book is of very unequal merit, and the best chapters, those which deal in a clear and accurate way with our political institutions, are of no especial value to the American reader. In short, this book is not at all valuable, but it contains some effective summaries and a few good anecdotes.”
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Nation. 87: 162. Ag. 20, ’08. 650w.
“Rapidly sketched, but in the main shows an intelligent understanding of conditions and ambitions.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 319. Je. 6. ’08. 150w.
“All chapters are characterized by a trenchant style and entertaining subject-matter. Mr. Low supplies a corrective ... for the most of his generalizations which, if considered alone, might leave an erroneous impression.”
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Outlook. 89: 627. Jl. 18, ’08. 400w.
Lowell, Abbott Lawrence. Government of England. 2v. **$4. Macmillan.
8–16501.
A book of detailed information rather than one of political philosophy which is a survey of Great Britain’s present political system. The most important divisions of the work are The organization and construction of the government, The working of the political parties and The courts of law; other sections deal with Social government, Education, The colonies and dependencies and Foreign relations.
“It stands in distinguished isolation by reason 228of its comprehensive plan, the masterly way in which the plan has been developed, and the sympathetic insight with which Mr. Lowell has described and analyzed the spirit in which English people work their Parliamentary and municipal institutions.”
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Am. Hist. R. 14: 140. O. ’08. 1250w.
“A work of the first magnitude, accurate and full as to facts and evidence, and impartial and dispassionate in treatment.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 239. O. ’08.
“We think it is not too much to say that this is the most important historical work of the year.”
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Arena. 40: 380. O. ’08. 970w.
“Prof. Lowell is so firm an admirer of Whig principles and the British constitution as created and explained by Whigs that he hardly makes sufficient reservation of still-existent and important old Tory views.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 760. Je. 20. 950w.
“In this important book Professor Lowell has done for England what Mr. Bryce has done for the American commonwealth.” T. Raleigh.
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Eng. Hist. R. 23: 809. O. ’08. 860w.
“The comprehensiveness of Mr. Lowell’s book, the insight into English character by which it is so signally marked, and the accuracy which so generally characterizes definite statements, all contribute to make it of the highest permanent value to students of political science the world over.” E: Porritt.
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Forum. 40: 123. Ag. ’08. 1900w.
“Of the greatest value as a work of reference, and is a book that can be read from beginning to end, and there are sections which will amply repay re-reading.”
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Ind. 65: 375. Ag. 13, ’08. 1100w.
“The reader will acknowledge a debt of gratitude to the author of this really remarkable work, not only for its wealth of learning and boldness of reasoning, but for its topical arrangement and the scholarly simplicity of its style.”
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Lit. D. 37: 326. S. 5, ’08. 900w.
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Lit. D. 37: 904. D. 12, ’08. 120w.
“He gives us literally a handbook of English government brought up to date. It sustains every test of accuracy. If one were to hesitate a fault, or rather a defect in interest, it would be that Prof. Lowell does not often enough make biography a handmaiden to his exposition of constitutional rule and procedure.”
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Nation. 87: 36. Jl. 9, ’08. 850w.
“One of the chief features of the value as well as the charm of Prof. Lowell’s admirable volumes ... is that he treats the government as a ‘going concern,’ or, in the more dignified language of science, as a living organism. The author’s style is happy. It fits the work, is simple, direct, lucid, sober without undue gravity, and lightened by touches of humor that deepen the impression of the writer’s easy command of his subject matter.” E: Cary.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 403. Jl. 18, ’08. 2250w.
“It is free from those prejudices from which an English political writer could hardly be free. It is free from American prejudices.”
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Outlook. 90: 839. D. 12, ’08. 1350w.
“Few criticisms can be made upon a work at once so well conceived and so admirably executed. Some matters, however, that one might expect the author to discuss are passed over.” J. M. Mathews.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 23: 712. D. ’08. 880w.
“A study of British government comparable in thoroughness and insight with Mr. Bryce’s monumental work on the American commonwealth.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 124. Jl. ’08. 230w.
“Apart from many other useful qualities, the main value of this book lies in its text-book nature.”
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Sat. R. 106: 268. Ag. 29, ’08. 1700w.
* Lownhaupt, Frederick. Investment bonds, their issue and their place in finance: a book for students, investors, and practical financiers. **$1.75. Putnam.
Covers for the first time investment bonds as a separate subject. “The contents of this book have been developed with reference to two principal ideas, that of the relation of the bond to its issuing corporation, and the general investment aspect of the instrument. These central ideas have been developed to treat of classification of issuing corporations and specific issues; process of issue and the practices of negotiation; market, in its extent and general conditions; interest, in its definition, methods, and times of payment; security, in its relationship to various types; default and its effects; reorganization and how accomplished, etc., together with other important features.” (Preface)
Lucas, Bernard. Fifth gospel: being the Pauline interpretation of the Christ. $1.50. Macmillan.
8–26838.
A psychological rather than a philosophical method has been adopted in this study. “The assertion is possibly true, though it suggests strange problems, that ‘It cannot be too strongly emphasized that the gospel of apostolic times was not the teaching of Jesus, but the good news about Jesus, His life and death and resurrection, looked at from the point of view of their religious significance.’ The author proceeds, true to his psychological method, to examine the effect of this gospel on the soul of St. Paul, and also the form or expression of the gospel after the apostle has analyzed that effect.” (Ath.)
“The unnamed writer of ‘The fifth gospel’ has as qualifications for theological work a method which is not hackneyed and a reasonable comprehension of difficulties.”
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Ath. 1907, 1: 631. My. 2. 540w.
“A spirited and skilful sketch of the main elements in the religious experiences and thought of Paul, psychologically investigated.”
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Bib. World. 29: 400. My. ’07. 20w.
“This little book is a real contribution to Christian Apologetic, in view of present difficulties. Its success does not lie in well-arranged arguments, but in the strength of its thought, which finds full expression in a masculine, straightforward style.” R. A. C. MacMillan.
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Hibbert J. 6: 688. Ap. ’08. 850w.
“The work is a strenuous, tho not very logical and consistent defense of the physical resurrection as an historic fact and an essential of Christianity.”
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Ind. 63: 1438. D. 12, ’07. 100w.
“If our writer’s attitude to the apostle and his Christian development is open to criticism at all, we should be inclined to see its vulnerable point in a tendency to forget how near Saul of Tarsus was to the actual date of Jesus of Nazareth.”
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Lond. Times. 6: 122. Ap. 19, ’07. 1130w.
“It is a vigorous piece of writing throughout and deserves the attention and the thanks of theologians.”
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Sat. R. 104: 460. O. 12, ’07. 340w.
* Lucas, Edward Verrall. Anne’s terrible good nature, and other stories for children. †$1.75. Macmillan.
A group of wholesome stories about healthy, natural children. “Roderick, the small boy cricketer; Christina, who disobeyed and spoiled her doll; Mary Stavely, who became one of a pair of Anti-Burglars, and kept a most entrancing account of her proceedings; the Little Mother who kept a Christmas shop for a day—every one of these children, led by the ‘terrible’ Anne, is absolutely convincing. Though her adventures may be rather unusual, as children 229they always keep their own place—and that is in our hearts.” (Outlook.)
“Delicate traits of fancy are not entirely lacking, but the narrative thread is mostly exiguous, and the humour scarcely seems of the description which appeals successfully to children.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 505. O. 24. 80w.
“Whimsical enough to amuse a child, and yet never baffling him by a subtle wit intended for an older audience, these stories are inimitable.”
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Outlook. 90: 750. N. 28, ’08. 400w.
Lucas, Edward Verrall, comp. Ladies’ pageant. *$1.25. Macmillan.
A collection of prose and verse whose theme is woman. It is prefaced by F. W. Bain’s account of Twashtri’s materials used in compounding woman. Woman appears in this volume as the poets have seen her, understood her, and eulogized her in all phases, times and climes.
“The theme offers plenty of scope for variety, and there is no lack of that quality in Mr. Lucas’s book.”
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Dial. 45: 415. D. 1, ’08. 120w.
“There has been gathered much that is very interesting.”
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Ind. 65: 1006. O. 29, ’08. 80w.
“There is no index (a sad fault).”
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Nation. 87: 493. N. 19, ’08. 230w.
“It most surely would make an acceptable present to any woman.”
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Outlook. 90: 844. D. 12, ’08. 130w.
Lucas, Edward Verrall. Over Bemerton’s: an easy-going chronicle. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–28632.
“The narrator in Mr. Lucas’s new book ... is a man of fifty-five, who after thirty-three years in the Argentine, returned to London, with a modest competence.... In our opinion he never left London at all but fell asleep, like Rip Van Winkle, in a second-hand bookseller’s shop or at the Oval when he was two-and-twenty, and woke up at fifty-five with precisely the same tastes, the same love of London, old books, cricket, the music-halls, and eccentric goodness.... When it is added that his lodging-house-keeper is a waiter of the old school; that his son is a famous music-hall singer, and his daughter ‘dresser’ to a fascinating actress; that an honest but vitriolic editor lives in the rooms overhead; that one of his nephews is a journalist and the other a county cricketer; that his elder niece is an angel and the younger a ‘suffragette’ who studies at the Slade school and consorts with Fabians,—it is not difficult to guess what use Mr. Lucas makes of his opportunities.”—Spec.
“Naturally the whole narrative saunters through a bookish atmosphere at a pace of leisured ease, with here and there a gleam of gentle humour, alternating with nice points of observation and kindly human touches.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 537. O. 31. 120w.
“Irrelevance and discontinuity are here a legitimate device, but it does seem at times as if Mr. Lucas was irrelevant from haste rather than from design.”
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Nation. 87: 415. O. 29, ’08. 270w.
“There is no author in England or America to-day who can equal Mr. E. V. Lucas in the ability to write about Things in General with charm and cleverness, and that sure, delicate touch which can always reveal some new interest in ordinary things, and can always do it gracefully and entertainingly.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 450w.
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Outlook. 90: 661. N. 28, ’08. 140w.
“It’s excellence is contemplative, speculative, reminiscent; at times somnolently reminiscent.”
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Sat. R. 106: sup. 7. O. 24, ’08. 480w.
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Spec. 101: 548. O. 10, ’08. 1500w.
Lucas, Reginald. Colonel Saunderson, M. P.: a memoir. *$4. Dutton.
A sketch of the country gentleman in politics—an Irish land-holder, a strong Unionist and a bitter opponent of home rule. “The first thing about him was that he was a country gentleman, a landowner who loved his duties, a sportsman, a man with intense local affections. His patriotism was based on Castle Saunderson as the unit, Ulster, Ireland, Britain, the Empire being the larger multiples.” (Spec.)
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Ath. 1908, 1: 668. My. 30. 370w.
“Though he was not in the first rank, to read this book puts one in close contact with men of the first rank and with the momentous events in English history for the past forty years.”
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Nation. 87: 208. S. 3, ’08. 250w.
“A vivid picture of the human side of a man who endeared himself to the heart of the English people.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 592. O. 24, ’08. 110w.
“Mr. Reginald Lucas writes this biography as ‘an avowed personal partisan,’ and he is equipped with an intimate knowledge of his subject. But though a frankly affectionate, Mr. Lucas is also a discerning critic, and duly notes the foibles of his hero.”
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Sat. R. 105: 693. My. 30, ’08. 1230w.
“One of the most successful specimens of a not very easy form of literature. It is just such a tribute as the wisest kind of friend might prepare to a long friendship, very sincere, human, and straightforward.”
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Spec. 101: 130. Jl. 25, ’08. 1350w.
Lucas, St. John W. L. Oxford book of French verse, XIIth century-XIXth century. *$1.90. Oxford.
8–9513.
Concerned mainly with the poetry of Renaissance and the nineteenth century. There is a noticeable leaning toward the romantic to the exclusion of narrative and dramatic verse.
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 141. My. ’08.
“Excellent anthology of French verse.”
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Spec. 99: 1051. D. 21, ’07. 300w.
Lucy, Henry W. Memories of eight parliaments, 1868–1906. **$2.50. Putnam.
Memories which have grown out of a close and constant observation of parliamentary life in its many aspects. The first part of the volume is devoted to men whom the author has known, including a group of five prime ministers besides Mr. Chamberlain, Sir Stafford Northcote, Mr. John Morley, Lord Hugh Cecil, Lord Courtney and Lord Randolph Churchill. The second part deals with manners, and treats of the drama at Westminster, Parliamentary manners, Procedure in two hemispheres, A new house for the Commons, The lungs of the House of Commons, and Bulls in the Westminster china shop.
“The careful reader is rewarded by many good things, generally, but not invariably, kind.”
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Ath. 1908. 1: 285. Mr. 7. 650w.
“The value of Mr. Lucy’s book lies precisely in its informal miscellaneousness.”
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Nation. 87: 15. Jl. 2, ’08. 1000w.
“It is not history in the ordinary sense that he writes, nor does that sort of history seem to possess very keen interest for him. It is the game that delights him, and as a game he describes it. Mr. Lucy is nothing if not readable. Perhaps he is most readable where he is most in earnest.” Edward Cary.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 273. My. 16, ’08. 1400w.
“There is none of the cant of false modesty about the writer of this book. He looks you in the face from his frontispiece and you are assured 230straightway on his title-page that ‘on anything relating to Parliament Mr. Lucy speaks as an expert.’”
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Sat. R. 105: 306. Mr. 7, ’08. 450w.
“A master of the written word and descriptive phrase.”
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Spec. 100: 903. Je. 6, ’08. 500w.
Ludlow, James Meeker. Jesse ben David: a shepherd of Bethlehem. il. **$1. Revell.
7–38030.
The story of the Christ birth as shepherds, seers, soldiers, Jews and Romans saw it and commented upon it, with curious illustrations and marginal decorations in color.
“The English is modern but dignified and adequate and the incidents worked out in the vivid form of fiction, gain a fresh interest.”
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Dial. 43: 432. D. 16, ’07. 110w.
“Something of the mysticism and light of Bethlehem’s star finds lodgment in the story that goes to make up the book.” W. G. Bowdoin.
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Ind. 63: 1465. D. 19, ’07. 70w.
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Nation. 86: 15. Ja. 2, ’08. 280w.
Lungo, Isidoro del. Women of Florence; tr. by Mary C. Steegmann. **$2.25. Doubleday.
8–2186.
Lives over the old days of Florence, revealing the influence that woman has exerted upon Florentine life and history. “The author simply presents a picture of Florentine women, authentic and vivid, largely drawn from the Paradiso, for the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and from private records which show domestic life in the Italian Commune with exquisite reality. These women are studied from three standpoints—historical reality, legend or tradition, and poetical idealization.” (Outlook.)
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N. Y. Times. 13: 652. N. 7, ’08. 1500w.
“A book for the curious and leisurely reader. The author, if he errs at all, leans to the side of idealism. The work is translated sympathetically.”
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Outlook. 90: 549. N. 7, ’08. 500w.
“The book is really interesting, though the originally rather high-flown and pompous style does not gain in naturalness through translation.”
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Spec. 100: sup. 129. Ja. 25, ’08. 280w.
Luther, Mark Lee. Crucible. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–33211.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
“The story offers little more than a variation of a few well-worn themes, but the action moves rapidly from point to point, and the dramatic effects are skilfully contrived.” W: M. Payne.
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Dial. 44: 45. Ja. 16, ’08. 220w.
“Mr. Luther is as devoid of literary genius as a hen is of musical sense, but he has produced a popular story because he has written literally of things about which people like to gossip.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.
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Ind. 64: 184. Ja. 23, ’08. 510w.
Luther, Martin. Letters of Martin Luther; selected and tr. by Margaret A. Currie. *$3.75. Macmillan.
8–18069.
“The five hundred letters [contained in this volume] include a period of thirty-nine years from his ordination to the priesthood to the week of his death in 1546. The Pope, the Emperor, princes, church dignitaries, his fellow-workers and bosom friends, his wife, and many others, each serve to reflect a view of his strenuous, eventful life, both inner and outer, in all the changes of thought, feeling, and experience.”—Outlook.
“It is a pity that the worth of so good a selection as has been made by the present translator should be largely impaired by her unscientific method and imperfect acquaintance with the subject, as well as by numerous errors in form and rendering.” Preserved Smith.
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 899. Jl. ’08. 770w.
“The edition is not scholarly. The volume is worth having, in spite of its shortcomings.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 333. S. 19. 180w.
“Mrs. Currie has ... on the whole been wise in her selections. It is a great pity that a volume otherwise so handsomely and carefully prepared should not have been submitted to thorough criticism by an expert German scholar.”
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Dial. 44: 381. Je. 16, ’08. 500w.
“We have here an amiable attempt to do a really worthy piece of work with an altogether insufficient equipment.”
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Nation. 87: 97. Jl. 30, ’08. 660w.
“Naturally [the letters] do not give a complete picture of the man or of his stormy career, but they have been chosen with judgment and sympathy, and are intensely interesting. The notes accompanying them are useful though somewhat insufficient. Their value would be enhanced by a fuller and more careful index. It is to be noted with gratitude that these letters are rendered into most satisfactory English, simple, flexible, expressive, and natural. They constitute a work unique in its value and interest.” E: Cary.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 193. Ap. 11, ’08. 1600w.
“Readers of the history of the reformation are here provided with a most valuable companion-book.”
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Outlook. 89: 265. My. 30, ’08. 170w.
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Spec. 100: 900. Je. 6, ’08. 1500w.
Lutz, Grace Livingston H. Marcia Schuyler. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–5229.
Set in the times of full skirts and poke bonnets this story opens upon the wedding preparations for the marriage of a winsome, willful Kate to a strong and good David. On the eve of her marriage she elopes with a young lieutenant and her angry father urges the benumbed lover to wed in her place the younger sister, Marcia. After a period of trials and heartaches Marcia wins her husband’s love when he comes to understand her worthiness and Kate’s heartless frivolity and duplicity.
“Girlishness is the key-note. Little new, brilliant, or finished in the way of narrative writing can be discovered. The book needs a very hot day and a hammock.”
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Nation. 86: 402. Ap. 30, ’08. 200w.
Lynn, Margaret, ed. Collection of eighteenth century verse. *$1.10. Macmillan.
7–39508.
This volume of verse includes the poems which are the landmarks of eighteenth century development in poetry. The anthology is concluded by notes which furnish terse estimates of the peculiar service rendered to the world of letters by each author represented.
Dial. 44: 182. Mr. 16, ’08. 60w.
Ind. 65: 311. Ag. 6, ’08. 30w.
“Worth while. The selections are well chosen, abundant, and are edited with sufficient notes. Secondary schools will find the book excellent for reference work or supplementary reading.”
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School R. 16: 419. Je. ’08. 100w.
Lyon, Thomas Lyttleton, and Montgomery, Edward Gerrard. Examining and grading grains; new ed. *60c. Ginn.
7–17674.
A handbook which gives the methods for testing the germinating of seeds and their purity. Corn, oats, barley, and wheat chiefly are treated.
Reviewed by Bertha Chapman.
El. School T. 8: 465. Ap. ’08. 100w.
231“Is worth notice as a pioneer in an important development of agricultural science.”
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Nation. 85: 266. S. 19, ’07. 220w.
Lyster, Mrs. Gertrude Agnes, ed. Family chronicle; derived from notes and letters selected by Barbarina, the Hon. Lady Grey. *$5. Dutton.
8–18702.
“This chronicle of an English family and its connections represents English life at its best. In it we see sturdy physical and mental vigor, simplicity, sincerity, and straightforwardness of manner, unaffected devotion to morals, and an impressive measure of accomplishment.” (Outlook.) “Besides personal, social, and literary matters, it furnishes vivid sights of the Crimean war, where Grey served on the Hannibal, and of Cape Colony, to command which station he was appointed in 1857.” (Nation.)
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Ath. 1908, 2: 41. Jl. 11. 400w.
“Such a volume is naturally desultory; therein lies much of its charm. This one gives us, however, some interesting side-lights on historic events.”
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Nation. 87: 238. S. 10, ’08. 620w.
“The letters in this volume ... are often full of juicy anecdote and pithy opinion. They reveal such shrewdness and acuteness that we seem to see the Gallic united with the Anglo-Saxon.”
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Outlook. 90: 43. S. 5, ’08. 330w.
“It is a pleasant gossipy book, charmingly illustrated, and full of readable items.”
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Sat. R. 105: 239. F. 22, ’08. 950w.