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Nation. 86: 397. Ap. 30, ’08. 250w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“These volumes confirm the very high reputation of Gen. Dodge as a military historian. It is to be regretted that the illustrations and maps, though notably frequent, are scarcely worthy of the general merits of the book.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 293. My. 23, ’08. 600w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“These volumes present a broader, clearer, and more illuminating study of military development as affected by the Napoleonic wars than can be found in the writings of any of the earlier essayists.”
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Dole, Nathan Haskell. Pilgrims, and other poems, priv. ptd. pa. $2.50. Dole.
7–42340.
The lengthy poem of the title is an illustration of the application of the symphonic form to English poetry. The historical theme is carried thru four movements, each of which includes “a number of motifs or passages or whatever may be their technical designation, with their pace and rhythm rather superfluously indicated by such comments as presto, agitato, and the like—an odd instance of linguistic involution or potenzierung, as the Germans would call it.” (Nation.) A group of short poems complete the volume.
“Beyond this amusing transference of nomenclature and a kind of lowering of intellectual tone, it is impossible to see anything characteristically musical in Mr. Dole’s research or to take it for more than an entertaining experiment.”
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Nation. 87: 34. Jl. 9, ’08. 400w.
“At times he has, and again he seems to have lost, that magic which transmutes the things of everyday into the everlasting possession.” Christian Gauss.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 290. My. 23, ’08. 220w.
Dole, Nathan Haskell. Teacher of Dante, and other studies in Italian literature. **$1.75. Moffat.
8–11089.
Seven studies in Italian literature. The first gives the title to the volume and relates to Brunetto Lattini whose influence is traced in “The inferno.” The remaining essays are Dante and the picturesque, Lyric poetry and Petrarch, Boccaccio and the novella, The rise of the Italian drama, Goldoni and Italian comedy, Alfieri and tragedy.
“Seven delightful chapters.”
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“On the whole, however, our impression is rather unsatisfactory; for we cannot escape the feeling that the book might have been made much more valuable by its well-known author, as well as more attractive.”
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“A volume that, considered either as a contribution to knowledge, or as a summary of familiar facts, might be justly dismissed as of little value.”
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“He never fails, also in keeping a clear background of the social and political life of the time and in showing how out of this grew the characteristic forms of literary expression.”
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“All the chapters afford interesting and profitable reading.”
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Outlook. 89: 865. Ag. 15, ’08. 450w.
Dorland, W. A. Newman. Age of mental virility: an inquiry into the records of achievement of the world’s chief workers and thinkers. **$1. Century.
8–26841.
In which the author answers the question, What has been the age of the acme of mental activity as shown by the records of the famous men of modern times? He gives the results of investigation into the lives of 400 workers and thinkers, and his conclusions show that the average initial age of mental activity is twenty-four, and that its acme lies between forty and sixty.
“The handling of the theme is light, indeed statistically quite inadequate; but the gathering of data of first notable achievements, of the period of the ‘magnum opus’ of the length of productive activity of the world’s great workers, does leave in its wake a realistic sense of notable accomplishment in the later years.”
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Dial. 45: 349. N. 16, ’08. 120w.
Dorner, Herman B. Window gardening. il. **$1. Bobbs.
8–11765.
A book of cultural directions based upon an extended experience in handling house plants which suggests methods of treatment that will enable one to care for his plants intelligently and to be confident of success.
“There is no extraneous matter, and for the inexperienced the little volume will be a real help.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 264. My. 9, ’08. 30w.
“The instructions are succinct and clear.”
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Outlook. 89: 350. Je. 13, ’08. 70w.
Doubleday, Roman. Hemlock avenue mystery. †$1.50. Little.
8–6663.
A new edition of a popular mystery story in which a young attorney comes to sudden death, the supposition being that his rival and enemy killed him. The story involves two women suspected of participation in the crime, while a third one who had really slain the man by accident was wholly unconscious of the deed. A young newspaper reporter unravels the tangle which suspicion and doubt are alone responsible for.
“This is, we think, the best detective story by an American author that has appeared in recent years.”
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Ind. 64: 1037. My. 7, ’08. 80w.
“We must demur against a disposition in the present entertainer to disregard the rules of the game. The erroneous suspicions should not depend 103on a series of coincidences, each alone credible enough, but in the mass impossible; nor should we in the end be mocked by finding there was no murder at all.”
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Nation. 86: 219. Mr. 5, ’08. 150w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 206. Ap. 11, ’08. 150w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 337. Je. 13, ’08. 240w.
“Mr. Doubleday’s plot is ingenious, and the solution is well concealed and theoretically possible although certainly extremely improbable.”
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Outlook. 88: 654. Mr. 21, ’08. 50w.
Doughty, Charles Montagu. Wanderings in Arabia: an abridgment of “Travels in Arabia deserta”; arranged with introd. by E: Garnett. *$4.50. Scribner.
8–21785.
An abridgment of an important travel book published twenty years ago. The excision extends to the scientific matter chiefly, while the author preserves with care the charm and picturesqueness of the original volume.
“His book fully deserved reprinting, and we are grateful to Mr. Garnett for making it accessible, now that the original edition cannot be had, and for making it less unwieldy. Had he been a little more ruthless, he would have done perhaps an even greater service to the literature of travel: for to literature, in the true sense, Mr. Doughty’s book belongs.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 536. My. 2. 1300w.
“His style has an oddly archaic flavor, but it is wonderfully direct and trenchant, in fit correspondence with the incisive quality of his insight.”
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Dial. 44: 354. Je. 1, ’08. 200w.
“The work is an achievement in the realm of pure literature apart from its interest as an account of remarkable journeys.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 500w.
“A book containing the most intimately true and penetrating account of desert life ever written.”
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Sat. R. 106: 114. Jl. 25, ’08. 1500w.
“Not since the Elizabethan voyagers has there been any parallel to it either in style or in Quixotic adventure. A man taking it up casually might imagine that he was reading one of Hakluyt’s volumes.”
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Spec. 100: 377. Mr. 7, ’08. 2000w.
Douglas, Hugh A. Venice on foot. *$1.50. Scribner.
W 8–12.
Leaving the gondolas to the sightseers who are satisfied with the usual course of waterways, Mr. Douglas sets out on foot and explores bridges and back alleys. “He contents himself with showing the way to palaces, churches and galleries, and then leaving us at the door, to the tender mercies of our Baedekers. But in his own way, he does cover very completely the entire maze of streets in ten well-arranged walks, each calculated to occupy a couple of hours. Any one with ten days at his disposal could spend a portion of each day in no better way than by intrusting himself unreservedly to Mr. Douglas’s guidance.” (Bookm.)
“So far as we have tested it we have found it accurate; its type is clear, and its form convenient for the pocket, and no visitor to Venice should be without it.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 687. N. 30. 150w.
“Should do some useful missionary service, in disseminating the simple truth that there is no more direct, thorough and altogether instructive way of exploring the city than by walking.” F: T. Cooper.
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Bookm. 26: 511. Ja. ’08. 300w.
“It is a model of clearness, conciseness, and concrete information.”
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Nation. 86: 38. Ja. 9, ’08. 250w.
“The maps are clear and the directions explicit, so that no one of ordinary intelligence should have any difficulty in following them.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 90. F. 15, ’08. 190w.
Dow, Earle Wilbur. Atlas of European history. *$1.50. Holt.
7–29562.
Especially useful to teachers of history in schools and colleges. This atlas gives a history almost exclusively by maps and charts of the different peoples of Europe.
“While on the whole the work is to be highly commended, yet it is not entirely above adverse criticism.” W. R. Manning.
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 668. Ap. ’08. 600w.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 39. F. ’08. ✠
“The presentation is made in detail great enough to meet the needs of one intent upon a special field and embodies the results of the best historical map making.”
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Educ. R. 34: 537. D. ’07. 20w.
“Excellent work.”
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R. of Rs. 87: 254. F. ’08. 140w.
“While the work is not faultless, it is a very creditable and valuable undertaking and should greatly stimulate the study of place in connection with the development of history.” G: L. Scherger.
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School R. 16: 690. D. ’08. 300w.
Dowd, Jerome. Negro races: a sociological study. 3v. ea. *$2.50. Macmillan.
7–40054.
v. 1. The first of a series which in three volumes will cover “a sociological study of mankind from the standpoint of race.” This instalment treats of the life of the most primitive of the black races: the Negritos (pygmies and Hottentots of South Africa), the Nigritians (Ashantis, Dahomans, and Central African blacks), and the Fellatahs (of Central Sudan).
“The chief criticism against the book from a sociological standpoint is that it makes the total social life depend too exclusively on economic conditions. On the whole, however, the book is deserving of high praise. If Professor Dowd succeeds in keeping the other volumes up to the high standard of the first, the complete work will be one of great value to every serious student of sociology.” C: A. Ellwood.
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Am. J. Soc. 13: 855. My. ’08. 1200w.
“Mr. Dowd has given us the best description of the African negroes in brief compass yet produced. The book should be carefully read by all who have to deal with negroes in any way, or who are interested in social studies.” Carl Kelsey.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 518. Mr. ’08. 550w.
“It is in high degree valuable.”
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Educ. R. 35: 207. F. ’08. 50w.
“Of the book as a whole it must be said that it leaves on the mind of the reader the impression of a conscientious inventory.” C. H. Hawes.
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J. Philos. 5: 442. Jl. 30, ’08. 1200w.
“The volume contains considerable interesting material on the economic life of these primitive races.”
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J. Pol. Econ. 16: 390. Je. ’08. 260w.
“The author has assumed rather light-heartedly a task too difficult and encyclopædic for any save the hand of a profound and highly gifted scholar.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 38. Ja. 25, ’08. 200w.
“The material presented is sadly deficient in accuracy and in completeness, and the point of view is vague and one-sided.” Franz Boas.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 23: 729. D. ’08. 930w.
“An important work.”
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“The whole deserves careful study, though we must not be understood as accepting the author’s conclusions and suggestions.”
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Spec. 100: 304. F. 22, ’08. 350w.
104Downes, Alfred M. Fire-fighters and their pets. il. †$1.50. Harper.
7–38206.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
“Not written for children, but will interest boys particularly.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 11. Ja. ’08. ✠
“The tragedy and the heroism in the work of our firemen, and the comedy, and sometimes the tragedy too, of the mascots to which they are so devoted, are set forth in stirring style.”
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Doyle, A. Conan. Round the fire stories. †$1.50. McClure.
8–28056.
“If an author might choose his time and place as an artist does the light and hanging of his picture,” says Mr. Doyle, “these tales might well be read ‘round the fire’ upon a winter’s night.” They deal with the grotesque and the terrible. Among the seventeen stories are the following: The pot of caviare, ingenious in its horror; The club-footed grocer; The sealed room; The Brazilian cat; and The lost special.
“Two or three of the tales are so uncompromisingly artificial that one regrets their inclusion in the collection. Again and again the sly and highly intellectual humor of the author is in evidence, even in his quite seriously conceived tales.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 688. N. 21, ’08. 440w.
“There is not a page of the book which the most timorous of his admirers might fear to read at midnight, though there are murders, ghosts, visions, and spiritualistic materialisations. Sir Arthur reduces them all by his methods to a condition of ponderable solidity in which they can be handled without a tremor. These things are not of his genre, he should not attempt them.”
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Sat. R. 106: 547. O. 31, ’08. 400w.
“The reader who takes up the book may make sure of having quite enough thrills to last him for some time.”
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Spec. 101: 594. O. 17, ’08. 140w.
Doyle, A. Conan. Through the magic door. **$1.25. McClure.
8–16226.
The magic door is the portal thru which one passes from the outer world to the world of books where stand comrades for every mood and aspiration. In a series of essays Mr. Doyle gives in a “hurry-never” fashion an account of his literary tastes and experiences. It is a new role for Mr. Doyle to assume before the public, but one likes it because it is the idealistic background from which could emerge even the eminently practical Sherlock Holmes.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 235. O. ’08. ✠
“As a genial introduction to literature it has a certain value; but from another point of view its interest is greater as a revelation of the author’s own literary history.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 824. D. 28. 450w.
“To the mind of the present reviewer one must hark back to Thackeray’s ‘Roundabout papers’ to find more ingenuous, agreeable reading of this kind.” A. B. Maurice.
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Bookm. 27: 597. Ag. ’08. 1200w.
“As an essayist and critic his style is informal and agreeable.” P. F. Bicknell.
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Dial. 44: 338. Je. 1, ’08. 350w.
“Here is ... the country gentleman of ripe reading, and sound, if not very profound scholarship.” A. B. Maurice.
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Forum. 40: 128. Ag. ’08. 1450w.
“The present book is merely a rambling account of what he likes and what he does not like.”
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Nation. 87: 77. Jl. 23, ’08. 550w.
“It is all pleasant gossip, bearing the impress of a clever, wholesome mind; an alert and many sided mind, too, if not essentially profound. A writer who can and will make a whole chapter out of the joy of reading Macaulay’s essays, who can still glory in Gibbon’s ‘Decline and fall,’ is unspoiled by cheap, modern ideas, and untouched by pedantry.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 265. My. 9, ’08. 1400w.
“It has an enjoyable quality which is sometimes more agreeable than greatness.”
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Spec. 100: 69. Ja. 11, ’08. 150w.
Drake, Allison Emery. Discoveries in Hebrew, Gaelic, Anglo-Saxon, Latin, Basque, and other Caucasic languages; showing fundamental kinship of the Aryan tongues and of Basque with the Semitic tongues. *$6. Herrick bk.
8–448.
A book whose “discoveries” are addressed to comparative philologists in which the author concludes that Hebrew is the mother tongue from which both Aryan and Semitic languages have been derived.
“Scholars who are acquainted with ‘Authorship of West-Saxon gospels’ will probably be disposed to hope that the author’s new book deserves consideration. If such is their expectation, it will be, we fear, disappointed.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 475. Ap. 18. 220w.
“The conclusion is in direct conflict with the findings of every scientific student of comparative philology.”
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Bib. World. 32: 223. S. ’08. 70w.
Educ. R. 35: 206. F. ’08. 50w.
“With such limber license of comparison and all the dictionaries to resort to, any conclusion desired can be reached, and would justify the definition of comparative philology as that science in which the vowels count for nothing and the consonants for very little.”
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Ind. 64: 533. Mr. 5, ’08. 230w.
“His work bristles with philological impossibilities. The volume is unworthy of serious attention, and its only interest arises from its being one of those strange works that spring from the union of a certain kind of learned industry with misdirected ingenuity.”
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Nature. 78: 77. My. 28, ’08. 200w.
Draper, George Otis. More: a study of financial conditions now prevalent. **$1. Little.
8–8153.
A book of theories derived from twenty years of practical experience in creation and investment. He discusses after a novel fashion such subjects as the following: the many that are less rich, division of profits, dishonesty, incomes, law not justice, socialism, antagonism to property, how wealth increases, millions, trade unions, trusts, tariff, expenditure, savings, currency, reform, destroying confidence, public ownership, lack of track, retail profits and possible perfection.
“The author’s purpose is commendable, and many of his observations are just and useful, but we cannot think that he has been successful in making either a readable or very helpful book.”
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Educ. R. 35: 521. My. ’08. 50w.
“Positive, plain-spoken and somewhat superficial.”
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Ind. 64: 695. Mr. 20, ’08. 100w.
“A volume well worth reading by either wage earners or wage payers, or whoever buys or sells.”
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Draper, William Franklin. Recollections of a varied career. **$3. Little.
8–26882.
Personal reminiscences whose range is suggested in the following excerpt: “My public experience,—as a soldier in time of war, a member of Congress while great questions were under consideration, and a diplomat, also in war time,—would be hard to equal in variety; and my private life covers invention in important lines, and a business career, commencing as an employee and closing as the head of a 105large industrial establishment, perhaps the largest in Massachusetts that is owned by its managers.”
Dial. 45: 298. N. 1, ’08. 350w.
Ind. 65: 1176. N. 19, ’08. 80w.
“It is the quality of directness and plain common sense as applied to the narrative of a notably successful and varied career which gives to the book an interest really genuine and quite exceptional.”
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“The story of a life that is interesting and remarkable.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 633. N. ’08. 70w.
Dresser, Horatio Willis. Philosophy of the spirit: a study of the spiritual nature of man and the presence of God, with a supplementary essay on the logic of Hegel. **$2.50. Putnam.
8–16563.
“Taking account of the present positions reached by psychology, and advancing beyond these, Mr. Dresser devotes himself to a study of the higher nature of man as related to the creative life, or spirit, the dynamic ground of all existence, activity, and reason.” (Outlook.)
N. Y. Times. 13: 316. Je. 6, ’08. 150w.
Outlook. 89: 768. Ag. 1, ’08. 500w.
R. of Rs. 38: 126. Jl. ’08. 40w.
* Dresser, Horatio Willis. Physician to the soul. **$1. Putnam.
8–30363.
A book for “teachers, ministers and others who wish to become physicians to the soul,” in which the author applies the idealism of his previous volumes to individual problems. The chapter headings are as follows: An ideal occupation; Mental attitudes; Besetting self-consciousness; Persistent fear; Spiritual quickening; A letter to a skeptic; The Emmanuel movement; The power of the spirit; and The true Christian science.
“The position he takes is in the main so eminently sane, reasonable, and convincing that his ‘A physician to the soul’ must be reckoned one of the most helpful books of its kind issued within the year.” H. A. Bruce.
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Outlook. 90: 704. N. 28, ’08. 260w.
Drewitt, Frederick G. D. Bombay in the days of George IV: memoirs of Sir Edward West, chief justice of the king’s court during its conflict with the East India company; with hitherto unpublished documents. $3.50. Longmans.
8–3992.
“In the main an account of an almost forgotten episode in Indian history, the quarrels between the king’s judges and the executive government in Bombay in the second quarter of the last century.... The present work places the case of the king’s judges before the public. It is an attempt to vindicate the action of Sir Edward West, who was the last recorder and the first chief justice of Bombay.” (Eng. Hist. R.) “Aside from the light thrown upon West’s personality by Dr. Drewitt’s volume, students of economic thought will be interested in the occasional references therein to West’s economic writings.” (Econ. Bull.)
“Altogether the volume fills, in the most acceptable manner, a conspicuous gap in the personal aspect of ‘the first, though not the name-father and greatest of the Ricardian school.’” J. H. Hollander.
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Econ. Bull. 1: 31. Ap. ’08. 830w.
“This book may well be recommended to those who take an interest in the study of English life and society in India. The copious extracts from Lady West’s diary give considerable insight into the way in which Europeans lived in India in the beginning of the last century. In this respect the book will repay perusal.” E. J. T.
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Eng. Hist. R. 23: 411. Ap. ’08. 280w.
Drucker, Aaron P. Trial of Jesus, from Jewish sources. 25c. Bloch.
8–10427.
“Jewish traditions, as indicated by Rabbi Drucker, while they differ from the New Testament narratives, do not really oppose or contradict those narratives, but rather confirm and corroborate them. The learned Rabbi stoutly maintains that Jesus was not tried by a Jewish court, that the charges brought against him were un-Jewish, and that the Jewish people were betrayed by the Romans.”—R. of Rs.
Bib. World. 32: 151. Ag. ’08. 130w.
“Highly interesting brochure.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 119. Ja. ’08. 100w.
Drummond, William Henry. Great fight: poems and sketches; ed. with a biographical sketch by May Harvey Drummond. **$1.25. Putnam.
8–28424.
A volume which brings together the poems and sketches which remained unpublished at the time of Drummond’s death. Some are connected with his life at Kerr Lake, in the Cobalt district, where he died; some are in dialect, and deal with the French-Canadian life; and still others relate to his own people, the Irish. Mrs. Drummond has contributed a biographical sketch including facts of his life and comment upon his poems.
“Will be welcome to the many readers, on both sides of the line, of ‘The habitant’ and ‘Johnnie Courteau.’”
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Ind. 65: 1174. N. 19, ’08. 50w.
Du Bois, Mary R. J., comp. Poems for travelers. *$1.50. Holt.
8–33902.
Poems selected from literature of all ages whose themes are associated with historic and classic localities in the track of the tourist in France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and Greece.
Ind. 65: 383. Ag. 13, ’08. 110w.
“In breadth of choice, ‘Poems for travellers,’ is superior [to ‘Poetic old-world,’] but its arrangement is not so good.”
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Nation. 87: 232. S. 10, ’08. 80w.
Duncan, David. Life and letters of Herbert Spencer. 2v. **$5. Appleton.
8–17798.
By request of Herbert Spencer expressed in his will, Dr. David Duncan supplements Mr. Spencer’s “Autobiography” by means of this objective study including the biographical materials that were omitted from the philosopher’s own record of his life. “The sixty-two years included in the autobiography have been treated by Dr. Duncan in just about one-half of the present volume of five hundred and fifty pages. The rest contains the subsequent twenty years which Spencer had not dealt with. In addition there are several appendices, one by Spencer entitled ‘Physical traits and some sequences’ which would have found its proper place in the ‘Autobiography’; another entitled ‘The filiation of ideas.’” (Sat. R.)
“It includes a great deal of valuable new matter.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 235. O. ’08.
“This is one of the most important biographies of the year; a work that should find a place in all well-ordered libraries.”
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Arena. 40: 267. S. ’08. 1200w.
“On the whole, we cannot say that Mr. Duncan’s portrait is more vivid or more interesting than Spencer’s own self-revelation.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 5. Jl. 4. 2350w.
106Reviewed by T. D. A. Cockerell.
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Dial. 45: 10. Jl. 1, ’08. 1400w.
“It is a work well worth doing, for it is the permanent and authentic record of a man, who, by his individual life work, created a new era of philosophical thought. And Mr. Duncan has done the work well.”
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Ind. 65: 261. Jl. 30, ’08. 1600w.
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Int. Studio. 35: 242. S. ’08. 330w.
“Dr. Duncan ... has prepared them in workmanlike manner, and does succeed in giving the reader a somewhat more intimate view of Spencer’s character.”
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Lit. D. 37: 161. Ag. 1, ’08. 1150w.
“Mr. Duncan’s book contains a good deal of new matter that was well worth printing. Much of the first volume is merely a weakened paraphrase of the ‘Autobiography.’”
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Nation. 86: 534. Je. 11, ’08. 2250w.
“It is the chief merit of this book that it displays all his traits in the just proportion.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 302. My. 30, ’08. 800w.
“Dr. Duncan’s editing has been skillfully done.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 121. Jl. ’08. 900w.
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Sat. R. 105: 666. My. 23, ’08. 520w.
“He seems to me to have performed a task of infinite difficulty, with admirable spirit and skill.” R. M. Wenley.
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Science, n.s. 28: 760. N. 27, ’08. 2200w.
“The biographer has shown remarkable judgment in what he has included and excluded.”
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Spec. 101: 232. Ag. 15, ’08. 1800w.
Duncan, Edmondstoune. Story of minstrelsy. (Music story ser.) *$1.25. Scribner.
7–40289.
Facts in the history of minstrelsy are recorded from the times of Druid bards, Saxon scalds and gleemen down to the end of the Stuart period, comprising “references to the first Christian church, Saint Cecilia, monks and miracle plays, the Elizabethan period, music in the time of Chaucer, old glees and madrigals, etc. There is, besides, an interesting chapter on songs and a bibliography of the literature of minstrelsy, including a very complete list of collections of old songs.” (N. Y. Times.)
“In a rambling yet agreeable style, Mr. Duncan gives much curious information about minstrelsy.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 179. Je. ’08.
“His style is rambling; he does not aim at framing a regular history, but like Ritson in his ‘Dissertation,’ links together ‘little fragments and slight notices’ that may ‘serve to gratify a sympathetic curiosity.’”
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Nation. 86: 315. Ap. 2, ’08. 170w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 763. N. 30, ’07. 200w.
“On the widely inclusive subject he has discoursed agreeably, without parade of scholarship, yet with evidences of wide if not always accurate reading.” Richard Aldrich.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 128. Mr. 7, ’08. 600w.
Duncan, Norman. Every man for himself. †$1.50. Harper.
8–26677.
Out of the mouths of Newfoundland fisherfolk proceeds the ordained strength of wise philosophy, the religion of helpfulness and human kindness. One of the best of this group of Mr. Duncan’s stories is “The wayfarer” in which Tumm, the clerk of the trader Good Samaritan, tells all about the perplexity of Abraham Botch of Jug Cave in fathoming the mystery of his soul. Botch says: “’Tis all come down t’ this, now: that I is. An’ if I is, I was an’ will be. But sometimes I misdoubt the was; an’ if I loses my grip on the was, Tumm, my God! what’ll become o’ the will be?”
“The difficult dialect will deter many people from reading them.”
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Ind. 65: 1305. D. 3, ’08. 370w.
“The author is at his best, on the whole, in such a strange and haunting tale as that of Abraham Botch ... and in the grim tragedy of ‘slow Jim Tool.’”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
“Wintry gleams of humor play about some of the narratives, but the compelling interest in all, cruel or kind, is the undercurrent of steady faith in God and man.”
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Outlook. 90: 504. O. 31, ’08. 230w.
“The same rare sympathy, knowledge of the human heart, and appeal to healthy sentiment that won us in ‘Dr. Luke of the Labrador’ characterize these tales.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 634. N. ’08. 80w.
Duncon, John. Lady Lettice, vi-countess Falkland; ed. with introd. by M. F. Howard. *$2. Dutton.
W8–115.
A companion to the Life of Lord Falkland. It is a reprint of the 1649 edition, the principal part of which is a biography written by Lady Falkland’s chaplain in the form of a letter to her mother. This letter is interspersed with extracts from correspondence between Lady Falkland and her chaplain, embodying a discourse on spiritual grief and comfort.
“The account given in these pages of her prayers and works of charity, of her struggles with herself, and of her kindness and generosity to all about her is very pathetic, and it is also of historical value and interest as a more or less typical picture of the life of a devout churchwoman of the seventeenth century.” Eva Scott.
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Eng. Hist. R. 23: 794. O. ’08. 260w.
“There is altogether too much pious ejaculation and too little narrative in the good chaplain’s memorial, but through all his religious platitudes there shines the image of one of those beautiful and unworldly women of the seventeenth century.”
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Nation. 86: 511. Je. 4, ’08. 520w.
Dunkerley, S. Hydraulics. 2v. ea. *$3. Longmans.
W 8–14.
v. 1. Hydraulic machinery.
This volume discusses in seven chapters the following subjects: The flow of a perfect fluid; Fluid friction; Hydraulic pressure machines; Reciprocating pumps; Simple machines—turbines; Centrifugal pumps; and Researches on flow in pipes and on the theory of lubrication.
v. 2. Resistance and propulsion of ships.
“It brings together in a clear and compact form the modern theories of stream-lines and wave-motion, and summarises experimental investigations on resistance and propulsion.” (Nature.)
“The details of Prof. Osborne’s researches and the descriptions of certain apparatus before-mentioned make the work a desirable addition to recent hydraulic literature. Some misspellings of proper nouns will doubtless be corrected in future printings.”
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Engin. D. 4: 666. D. ’08. 260w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Chapter 7 is devoted to Professor Reynolds’ researches on flow in pipes and on the theory of lubrication, and for those not having access to the ‘Transactions of the royal society,’ this chapter is worth the price of the book, if the loose methods of citation and proof-reading which are apparent elsewhere have not vitiated the material it contains.” G. S. Williams.
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Engin. N. 58: 650. D. 12, ’07. 710w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This book has a great many typographical errors. For the purposes of the ordinary student the treatment of plane stream lines around a cylinder and of waves of translation is quite as adequate as the original papers by Rankine 107and Scott Russell.” D. W. Taylor.
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Engin. N. 60: 535. N. 12, ’08. 1400w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is one of the best resumés of British research in hydraulics that has yet appeared. Its defects, outside of the poor proof-reading, lie in the references to machinery that can hardly be considered typical of the state of engineering at present.”
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Engin. Rec. 56: 637. D. 7, ’07. 370w. (Review of v. 1.)
“On its merits the book deserves, and will receive, favourable recognition from all interested in the subjects of which it treats. Certain errors in mathematical formulae occurring in the book should be corrected in future editions. There is evidence, too, that the book was, for the most part, completed some time ago; as it gives no account of valuable experimental investigations made during the last two or three years in this country and the United States.”
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Nature. 78: 659. O. 29, ’08. 740w. (Review of v. 2.)
Dunmore, Walter T. Ship subsidies: an economic study of the policy of subsidizing merchant marines. **$1. Houghton.
7–39520.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
“Not detailed, but an unprejudiced, comprehensive, and scholarly summary of arguments on a subject of great present-day interest.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 78. Mr. ’08.
“A well-balanced, carefully-written book.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 174. My. ’08. 170w.
“The value of Mr. Dunmore’s book lies in his lucid and careful examination and summary of the causes which led to the loss of the place which the United States once held in the ocean carrying trade, and of the arguments for and against further government aid to the ocean transport business.”
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Ind. 64: 1043. My. 7, ’08. 400w.
“To speak in general terms, the discussion is largely a summary of arguments upon the question at issue—a summary which is convenient because of arrangement, (this is marred by typographical errors in part 3), and because of an analytical table of contents. The range of materials consulted is not as wide as one would wish and the book must be characterized as ‘useful’ but by no means ‘final’—possibly not even as ‘authoritative.’” L. C. Marshall.
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J. Pol. Econ. 16: 119. F. ’08. 420w.
“His narrative is as convincing as his argument.” E: A. Bradford.
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“The chief value of Mr. Dunmore’s book lies in his answer to the question, How shall we increase our foreign trade marine?”
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Outlook. 89: 81. My. 9, ’08. 1500w.
“It is a meritorious work, painstaking and unbiased, though brief and necessarily incomplete.” Royal Meeker.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 23: 720. D. ’08. 700w.
Dunning, Harry Westbrook. To-day in Palestine. **$2.50. Pott.
7–38636.
“Substantially a reproduction in print of the information which the author gives to the parties whom he takes through the country, together with descriptions of the scenery and the present condition of the places visited. As the result of observations of ten journeys during the last fifteen years, he has a high opinion of the character and capabilities of the people.”—Nation.
“His chapters are too condensed to be of great value to the student or interest to the general reader.”
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“The want of an index detracts much from its usefulness as a book of reference.”
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Nation. 86: 125. F. 6, ’08. 170w.
“The necessary condensation of the subject matter, of which there is too much for the size of the book, gives it the haste generally associated with such reading matter.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 133. Mr. 7, ’08. 150w.
Durham, Robert Lee. Call of the south. $1.50. Page.
8–9811.
A race-problem story whose purpose “is plainly to enforce by a horrible example the argument that any attempt to give social recognition to the negro must needs result in the mingling of the races.” (Dial.)
“Mr. Durham has created a disagreeable situation, and made the most of it.” W: M. Payne.
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“The situation ... might have been made to yield an interesting picture of human life, if there had been a more successful effort to show us the complex workings of the human mind.” E. L. Cary.
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Durland, Kellogg. Red reign: the true story of an adventurous year in Russia. il. **$2. Century.
7–32827.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
“An interesting book less sensational and better written than Fraser’s ‘Red Russia’; but neither of them to be compared in permanent value with Pares’ ‘Russia and reform.’”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 40. F. ’08. ✠
“This book will rank as one of the most important as well as most interesting of recent accounts of conditions in Russia.” Carl Kelsey.
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“This is a work that will interest all students of present-day conditions, and especially those who have at heart the cause of social justice and free government.” A. C. Rich.
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Arena. 38: 671. D. ’07. 970w.
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Ath. 1908, 1: 192. F. 15. 120w.
“Mr. Durland seems to us the ideal newspaper reporter—born, not made—with an unfailing sense for the thrilling, the striking, the pathetic, the place, and the persons.”
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Ind. 64: 1034. My. 7, ’08. 300w.
“Illustrated, indexed, written carefully, each sentence judicially weighed, this is the book of the hour about Russia.”
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Lit. D. 36: 25. Ja. 4, ’08. 460w.
“The best book on present-day Russia that has so far been written, for completeness, clearness, and picturesqueness of treatment.”
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Nation. 86: 198. F. 27, ’08. 270w.
“Worthy of more than casual reading. Written in a graphic, nervous, journalistic style which holds the attention throughout.”
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Dutton, Maude Barrows. Tortoise and the geese, and other fables of Bidpai. †$1. Houghton.
8–28835.
The fables here translated into English were written about 300 B. C. They embody the moral wisdom and philosophy of Bidpai, a sage of India. Starting in Sanscrit, they have passed into Pehlevi, Arabic, Persian, Greek, Latin, Hebrew and on to modern languages. They take their place beside Esop’s fables.
“La Fontaine and Aesop drew from this Indian philosopher, and we should imagine, to judge by the present book, surpassed him in liveliness.”
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Dyar, Muriel Campbell. Davie and Elisabeth, wonderful adventures. †$1. Harper.
8–29338.
The simple happenings of a quaint, sweet spirited, contented couple who try daily to make up to each other for their childless estate.
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