D
Reading edition
Daggett, Stuart. Railroad reorganization. (Harvard economic studies, v. 4.) **$2. Houghton.
8–15469.
“This four-hundred-page work is the result of an investigation extending over a period of several years, during which the author collected, classified, and carefully studied the facts concerning a large number of railroad reorganizations. Nine chapters are devoted to the study of the reorganization of some of the greatest railroad systems in this country.... The tenth and concluding chapter constitutes a general treatment of railway reorganizations in which are framed rules and general principles deduced from the preceding study.”—J. Pol. Econ.
“Mr. Daggett’s work on ‘Railroad reorganization’ is doing an inestimable service in discussing one of the most recondite as well as most important phases of railway management—and mismanagement.” J: J. Halsey.
+
Dial. 45: 165. S. 16, ’08. 980w.
“The work should be of great aid to the investor who is involved in any of the current reorganizations, as well as an important source of materials for class-room study.” T: W. Mitchell.
+
J. Pol. Econ. 16: 535. O. ’08. 1800w.
“While these studies show great attention to accuracy of statement and an unusual grasp of the sources of information, yet the reader is not burdened with unnecessary detail. Excellent judgment has been displayed in the selection of the significant events and in the omission of irrelevant material. Too much praise cannot be ascribed to this scholarly book. It approaches the study of corporation finance from the right direction.” F. H. Dixon.
+ +
Pol. Sci. Q. 23: 721. D. ’08. 1100w.
Dahlgren, Ulric, and Kepner, William Allison. Text-book of the principles of animal histology. *$3.75. Macmillan.
8–19603.
“After seven introductory chapters dealing with protoplasm, the cell, multicellular organization viewed from the phylogenetic and from the ontogenetic standpoints, mitosis and amitosis, epithelium and glands, connecting, supporting and filling tissues, there are taken up in order, tissues for the production of motion, electricity, light and heat; tissues connected with circulation, sensation, pigmentation, alimentation, ductless glands; tissues concerned with respiration, gas secretion, excretion, protection, reproduction, accessory reproductive tissues and tissues for the nourishment of the young.”—Science.
“The most careful scrutiny reveals almost no defects. It easily takes first place among histologies, chiefly because of the invaluable comparative element.”
+ +
Nation. 87: 144. Ag. 13, ’08. 480w.
“The work as a whole is much more than a text-book, for it contains a large amount of original observation here published for the first time. This applies to every chapter, but particularly to those which deal with the production of light and electricity, and with the sense organs. In the opinion of the writer the most serious criticism of the work for use as a text-book is that it ‘falls between two stools’; it can be used advantageously only by advanced students who have had a pretty thorough training in zoology, while much of the material described is quite inaccessible to average classes.” E. G. Conklin.
+ + −
Science, n.s. 28: 520. O. 16, ’08. 1150w.
Dalliba, Gerda. Earth poem and other poems; with an introd. by Edwin Markham. **$2. Putnam.
8–25379.
“An earth poem” sets forth man’s needs, capabilities and progress thru long eons of evolution from materialism to spiritual understanding. “In the first part, Children of sod, man is seen in his mere sense-hunger and earth-wrestle; in the second part, Children of air, man begins to wonder over life and to send his restless heart across the stars; in the last part, Children of sun, man dreams of the long purpose of God and fares forth in daring adventures of spirit.” (Edwin Markham’s introd.)
Darwin, Leonard. Municipal ownership. *$1.25. Dutton.
8–16481.
A series of four lectures delivered at Harvard in 1905 which reveal England’s attitude towards the relations of taxation, wages, direct employment, and subjects allied to the question of public ownership. He maintains that the great evil of municipal ownership lies in the indirect results of municipal employment, and shows the influence a local policy exerted even by a small body of municipal employees. “His own remedy for existing evils is not municipal ownership, but a continuance of the system of private ownership, with insistence on short-term franchises and wise restrictions.” (Outlook.)
“Recommended for libraries which do not have Major Darwin’s larger work entitled ‘Municipal trading.’”
+
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 176. Je. ’08.
“Attempting to present the arguments, both for and against municipal ownership, it fails to command the respect of either advocates or opponents of increased functions for the municipality, nor does it deal with the subject in a sufficiently scholarly manner to raise it above the necessity of taking sides.”
−
Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 442. S. ’08. 160w.
“We take pleasure in commending the book as a fair presentation of most of the stronger of the arguments against municipal ownership, while at the same time reviewing, often with approval, some of the arguments for municipal ownership.”
+
Engin. N. 59: 542. My. 14, ’08. 600w.
“With a naive generosity he supplies his own reductio ad absurdum.”
−
Ind. 65: 722. S. 24, ’08. 400w.
“As well worth reading as an example of scholarly argument as to obtain a concise statement of opinion from the most unprejudiced and authoritative writer on the subject of municipal ownership.”
+ +
J. Pol. Econ. 16: 389. Je. ’08. 100w.
89“Dr. Darwin’s treatment is far less partisan and far more convincing than Professor Meyer’s. It may fairly be described as a calm and judicious discussion, having for its object the pointing out of better ways of controlling public utilities than have obtained in the past.”
+ +
Outlook. 88: 563. Mr. 7, ’08. 270w.
R. of Rs. 37: 383. Mr. ’08. 60w.
“Mr. Darwin is so well known as a great fighter against municipal extravagance that his views must be of interest. Disappointingly here he comes to no conclusion, and consequently gives little help in solving what has now become an essentially practical question. He treats the question of municipal corruption too complacently.”
−
Sat. R. 104: 801. D. 28, ’07. 570w.
“Contains scholarly and dispassionate arguments.”
+
Spec. 100: sup. 640. Ap. 25, ’08. 1800w.
Dasent, Arthur Irwin. John Thadeus Delane, 1817–1879, editor of “The London times”: his life and correspondence; compiled from hitherto unpublished letters by his nephew, Arthur Irwin Dasent. 2v. *$7.50. Scribner.
8–20731.
A sketch of the working life of Delane who at the age of twenty-three became editor of The London times—“a biography which, unlike some others, keeps documentary evidence carefully separate from gossip.” (Ath.) “We ascribe his ascendancy in politics and society to the fact that he was an honourable English gentleman, endowed with a double dose of mother-wit, and, placed by accident in a commanding position, with the strength to be just, to tell the truth, and, above all, to be master of his own house.... It is surely a rare combination of moral qualities that makes a man loved and hated, feared and trusted, and that made John Delane ‘the greatest editor the world has ever seen, or is ever likely to see.’” (Sat. R.)
“In editing his uncle’s correspondence Mr. Dasent, we consider, should have been much more liberal with foot-notes.”
+ −
Ath. 1908, 1: 501. Ap. 25. 1800w.
“An extremely clear picture of an extraordinary man.” H. W. Boynton.
+ +
Bookm. 28: 43. S. ’08. 1400w.
“Written in a style that comes so near to being good as almost to tantalize the reader. We must bestow a word of praise upon the excellent index and occasional footnotes, and the two clear portraits of Delane.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ −
Dial. 45: 56. Ag. 1, ’08. 1850w.
“To pass swiftly over the defects of these volumes, they are diffuse and padded, yet leave much lacking. We are let very little into the inner life of Delane.”
+ −
Nation. 86: 467. My. 21, ’08. 1350w.
“Of eulogy there is no lack, even if it is not always discriminating.” E: Porritt.
+ −
No. Am. 188: 296. Ag. ’08. 1750w.
“It is, indeed, something more than a biography, for Delane was so conspicuous a part of the history of his time that Mr. Dasent necessarily reviews that history in considerable detail.”
+
Outlook. 89: 626. Jl. 18, ’08. 480w.
“The biography of such a man is bound to be of absorbing interest; and Mr. Dasent’s only difficulty has been that of selection.”
+
Sat. R. 105: 533. Ap. 25, ’08. 2400w.
“Mr. Dasent’s style is not light nor easy; he distracts the reader with numerous unnecessary footnotes, and he has not bent the materials to his will, but has rather let them take charge of him. The tokens of his industry, however, are everywhere, and nothing can disguise the instructiveness of these volumes.”
+ −
Spec. 100: 619. Ap. 18, ’08. 1850w.
Daulton, Agnes McClelland. Fritzi, or The Princess Perhaps, il. †$1.50. Century.
8–8100.
A story for children whose little heroine loses her mother in a New York accident, and, too young to remember her home and father in Germany, is taken by a blind musician and his wife, who develop her young genius for the violin and train her in matters of self reliance. Later she becomes the temporary possession of a palmist who deserts her; then chance drops her into a Staten Island “eyrie” with a nest full of frolicsome boys and girls. Here she experiences her first home happiness, and thru the aid of her kind friends finds her long-lost father.
“Is written with such knowledge of human nature of all ages that it will appeal to their elders quite as much as to the youthful members of the family.”
+
N. Y. Times. 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 100w.
“Mrs. Daulton has a charming narrative style, and manages to make her readers as much in love with the characters she draws as they were with Fritzi.”
+
Outlook. 89: 85. My. 9, ’08. 150w.
Davenport, Cyril James. Book: its history and development. (Westminster ser.) *$2. Van Nostrand.
8–18737.
Written from the craftsman’s point of view, this study begins with a chapter on Early records in which the author follows the steps in the evolution of true writing from the chaos of inscription. In like manner he follows the steps that mark the evolution of bindings, paper, type and printing, and illustrations: after which are chapters devoted to the perfection and ornamentation of bindings, and to book-binding materials and tools. There is a bibliography following each chapter, and an index at the end of the book.
“Probably no other Englishman possesses so wide and detailed a knowledge of the history of bookbinding and the commercial and artistic development of the art. On other aspects of his subject he writes with much less authority, and occasionally with some confusion of thought.”
+ −
Ath. 1908, 1: 449. Ap. 11. 370w.
“The volume is remarkably free from technical terms, and the interested reader who desires to inform himself as to the history and development of book-making, as well as the many processes through which a volume passes, cannot afford to miss this excellent contribution.”
+
Bookm. 28: 51. S. ’08. 200w.
+
Dial. 45: 170. S. 16, ’08. 300w.
“All lovers of books may find pleasure in this skillful but untechnical account of their history and manufacture. Mr. Davenport’s style is clear and attractive, and the book is profusely illustrated in the best meaning of the word.”
+
N. Y. Times. 13: 462. Ag. 22, ’08. 300w.
+
R. of Rs. 38: 384. S. ’08. 50w.
Davenport, Cyril J. H. Jewellery. (Little books on art.) *$1. McClurg.
A twenty-five page introduction tells something of the work of Eligius, the patron saint of jewellery, and of Cellini; of early jewellery in various countries; and of the treatment of precious stones. The chapters of the body of the book are: Necklaces; Pendants; Diadems; Earrings, nose-rings, labrets; Bracelets; Finger rings; Pins and brooches. Bibliography and index.
“Is as general in its application, and as critical in its comparison of the habits of many nations and many times, as could be desired.”
+
Nation. 87: 558. D. 3, ’08. 110w.
“Has the double value of practical usefulness to the craftsman and interest to the general reader.”
+
N. Y. Times. 13: 656. N. 7, ’08. 380w.
90* Davenport, Cyril James. Miniatures, ancient and modern. (Little books on art.) *$1. McClurg.
An introductory chapter treats of miniature painting of antiquity, following which are three chapters devoted to English miniatures, one on foreign miniatures, one on enamels and one on wax miniatures. Illustrations, bibliography and index.
“A sound explanation of this minute and delicate portrait painting. It is desirable that the title of his book should be changed so as to describe more exactly its contents.”
+ −
Nation. 87: 558. D. 3, ’08. 170w.
“Combines artistic criticism with practical detail in an extraordinarily compact form.”
+
N. Y. Times. 13: 684. N. 21, ’08. 340w.
Davenport, Eugene. Principles of breeding: a treatise on thremmatology; or, The principles and practices involved in the economic improvement of domesticated animals and plants; with appendix by H. L. Rietz. $2.50. Ginn.
7–32122.
Seeks its audience among the students of agriculture in colleges and experiment stations and practical breeders upon the farm. It aims to define the problems involved in animal and plant improvement, to free the subject from the prejudice and tradition that have always befogged it, to bring to the study whatever facts are known to biological science, to recognize and define present limitations of knowledge and to indicate directions from which understanding is to come. It urges exact methods of study and practice.
“The only book published on the general subject of reading.”
+
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 176. Je. ’08.
“The index is very full. Prof. Davenport is to be congratulated on so happily combining scientific accuracy with practical advice.”
+
Nation. 87: 166. Ag. 20, ’08. 380w.
“If it has failings the book has great merit.”
+ + −
Nature. 78: 51. My. 21, ’08. 650w.
Davenport, Herbert Joseph. Value and distribution: a critical and constructive study. *$3.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–6683.
The author explains that there is nothing new in his entrepreneur point of view in the computation of costs and in the analysis of the process by which distributive shares are assigned, that it need be only “clearly distinguished, consistently held and fully developed.” To this end he rids the science of the doctrines that do not belong to it and selects, articulates and expands the necessary propositions bearing upon the subjects of value, demand and cost.
“This is an excellent technical book on economic theory which, while it is exceedingly well done and ought to be in all libraries large enough to buy books for the academic student of economics, is beyond the understanding of the general public.”
+
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 176. Je. ’08.
“A lengthy and ponderous volume leading to no practical conclusions. It is certain that he has placed before the economic world a book which will be read only by a few because of its difficult phraseology, unnecessary indulgence in detail quotations and involved investigations into the questions which do not concern even the average economist.” Scott Nearing.
−
Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 631. N. ’08. 260w.
“The chief objection to the author’s own views are that they lean too much in the direction of the impressionistic school of economics which frequently mistakes figures of speech for facts, and the quantitative expression of a thing, or, rather, the expression of the quantity of a thing for the thing itself.” T. N. Carver.
− +
Econ. Bull. 1: 115. Je. ’08. 600w.
“This book, the reviewer believes, will in future years rank as the best and ripest fruit of a period of intensive critical study of economic theory.” A. S. Johnson.
+ + −
J. Pol. Econ. 16: 380. Je. ’08. 2350w.
“It is the irony of fate that the work must be a sealed book except to that inconsiderable number of trained economists who have followed the windings of the higher economic analysis of the past two decades. To read the book is altogether too much like trying to follow Lasker playing three games of chess at the same time.”
−
Nation. 87: 416. O. 29, ’08. 460w.
“The book is profound and technical and not well suited to popular reading.”
+
N. Y. Times. 13: 222. Ap. 11, ’08. 350w.
“Undoubtedly an original and in some ways a stimulating work, it is unduly elaborate, distressingly wordy, and cumbered with a most formidable terminology.”
− +
Outlook. 89: 264. My. 30, ’08. 330w.
Univ. Rec. 12: 161. Ap. ’08. 400w.
Davey, John. Tree doctor: the care of trees and plants. *$2. Saalfield.
7–36735.
A book of judicious advice and instruction based upon a study of trees, their injuries, diseases and methods of preservation.
“From first to last, the author presents the whole matter just as an enthusiastic tree-doctor might talk to a sympathetic audience. But we must express regret that so good a book should be without index or even table of contents. Even the two hundred photographic reproductions, most of them good and well-chosen, cannot make up for this unnecessary defect.”
+ −
Nation. 86: 383. Ap. 23, ’08. 250w.
“Some readers may be disappointed that Mr. Davey does not go more thoroughly into the science of tree doctoring, but what the volume lacks in this respect is more than compensated for in the well-directed appeal for intelligent education in the principles of tree life instead of merely emotional admiration.”
+
N. Y. Times. 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 350w.
Davidson, Augusta M. C. Present-day Japan. *$1.50. Scribner.
“Founded upon a study of the ethical forces and the national religion of the Japanese, their daily goings in and comings out,—their social life, and their amusements.” (Dial.) It touches “lightly the surface of Japanese life, or if seriously attempting to enter the arcana of thought and inheritance, shows little acquaintance with the historic monuments or the native literature except through translations. For this very reason, it may be, the work will be attractive to those who prefer to know about the Japan of to-day and do not care to probe phenomena for reasons. The text is based on letters written at the time and on the spot, and afterwards topically arranged.” (Nation.)
“There are few books about Japan more illuminating and entertaining than this one.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ +
Dial. 44: 346. Je. 1, ’08. 500w.
“As sympathy is itself a key to interpretation, many of the popular customs, festivals, and daily acts are made more intelligible to us by this educated English woman than by the average traveler who writes.”
+
Nation. 86: 444. My. 14, ’08. 180w.
“Her book is reminiscent of letters written from foreign lands for publication in a village weekly newspaper.”
+ −
N. Y. Times. 13: 331. Je. 13, ’08. 160w.
Davidson, Lillias Campbell. Catherine of Braganca: infanta of Portugal and queen consort of England. *$5. Dutton.
8–21033.
Five hundred pages which aim to “trace the blameless life of Catherine of Bragança and to 91unfold the wrappings that leave long hidden the character refined and ennobled by much unnecessary suffering; to unwind webs, and to disentangle threads.” It is a biography based upon long research, and becomes a defense and an apology for the life of the unhappy queen of Charles the second.
“We have felt bound to call attention to the lapses in taste and judgment which are the outstanding features of a book claiming notice as a serious contribution to historical learning.”
−
Ath. 1908, 2: 174. Ag. 15. 2000w.
+ −
Nation. 87: 214. S. 3, ’08. 500w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 355. Je. 20, ’08. 300w.
“The book should take its place alongside those other books of good women, Maud Jerrold’s ‘Vittoria Colonna,’ for instance, and Sidney Lee’s ‘Queen Victoria.’”
+
Outlook. 90: 316. O. 10, ’08. 430w.
“Mrs. Davidson’s book gives an excellent, picturesque account of England, and especially of London during Charles’s reign. We think a biographer’s chief end has been successfully reached: Catherine herself is and remains the central figure.”
+ −
Spec. 101: 234. Ag. 15, ’08. 1550w.
Davies, F. H. Electric power and traction. (Westminster ser.) *$2. Van Nostrand.
8–21956.
This book is intended to appeal to members of trades allied with electrical engineering. “Four chapters deal with the generation and distribution of power.... Two chapters are devoted to D. C. and A. C. motors, and their principles are expounded.... The chapters on the application of electric power are the best in the book, and the advantages of electric driving are clearly brought out.... The last ten chapters of the book are devoted to electric traction.” (Nature.)
+
Engin. D. 4: 54. Jl. ’08. 270w.
“It is devoted to English methods and machinery when the minor, but notable, departures from well-known American practice are noted.”
+ −
Engin. N. 60: 191. Ag. 13, ’08. 640w.
“It contains a good deal of sound practical information, and can be recommended to the class of readers for whom it is intended.”
+ + −
Nature. 77: 74. N. 28, ’07. 660w.
“It covers practical ground, and at the same time is technical enough to meet with the approval of those who are fairly well grounded in the study of electrical science.”
+
N. Y. Times. 13: 584. O. 17, ’08. 60w.
Davies, Randall. English society of the eighteenth century in contemporary art. (Portfolio monographs.) *$2. Dutton.
7–37521.
To the impressions of eighteenth century society gained from books and letters, Mr. Davies has added the “oddities and characteristic features” that the art of the century reveals. He sees the eighteenth century thru the paintings of Hogarth, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Copley, Zoffany, Rolandson, Stubbs and others.
“The idea of this volume is a good one, and the result should not be missed by anyone interested in old manners and old pictures.”
+
Acad. 73: 162. N. 23, ’07. 240w.
“From the scanty materials at his disposal, he has succeeded in producing an agreeable book.”
+
Ath. 1907, 2: 661. N. 23. 640w.
“May be called a happy vade mecum for readers of the novels and letters of the period. It is not an erudite book. The charm of the book lies in the parallel reproduction of eighteenth century life in text and illustration.”
+
Nation. 85: 543. D. 12, ’07. 170w.
“Throws an interesting light on the gay life of a time in English history that was far from being commonplace.”
+
N. Y. Times. 12: 836. D. 14, ’07. 70w
“His book is something of a curiosity in literature, and is worth having, not only because of the pictures, which are beautifully reproduced, but because the chapters in which the phases of the day are described have been written with knowledge and sympathy.”
+
Outlook. 87: 590. N. 16, ’07. 170w.
Davies, Randall, and Hunt, Cecil, comps. Stories of the English artists from Vandyck to Turner. $3. Duffield.
A book for the general reader not well versed in art but who may be “interested to learn what manner of men they were who founded the art of painting in England or who worthily sustained the traditions of their greater predecessors.” The man himself is the theme in each instance; so there are given personal details, anecdotes, scraps of gossip, and bits of conversation to guide the reader in forming an idea of the character, habits and thoughts of the painters introduced.
“Within the narrow field chosen the work is acceptably accomplished by the free and acknowledged use of material gathered by others. It is, therefore, not surprising to find an almost equal meed of praise bestowed upon each artist in turn, and the uninformed reader will have to look elsewhere for anything like discrimination.”
+ −
N. Y. Times. 13: 726. D. 5, ’08. 400w.
Davis, Charles Belmont. Stage door. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–15297.
Ten stories of New York stage life. “The stories are alike in taking their savor from the stage, and generally develop the idea that the people of the theatre are much like other folks, having their own failings, to be sure, but developing unsuspected virtues under trial as well.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Realistic and well written stories.”
+
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 218. Je. ’08. ✠
“The author’s study is the triumph of atmosphere, the triumph of environment.”
+
Nation. 86: 515. Je. 4, ’08. 450w.
“The tales are slender in texture, but they are entertaining, with much atmosphere of newspaper life as well as dramatic, and both touched with the pen of a familiar.”
+
N. Y. Times. 13: 306. My. 30, ’08. 250w.
“Stories which have originality, plot-invention, and unusual skill in narrative.”
+
Outlook. 89: 532. Jl. 4, ’08. 40w.
“Without preoccupying himself overmuch with the graces of style, Mr. Davis creates a very satisfactory and convincing atmosphere for the up-to-date characters introduced in these clever tales.” Charlotte Harwood.
+
Putnam’s. 4: 622. Ag. ’08. 110w.
Davis, Charles H. S. Consumption: its prevention and cure without medicine. *$1. Treat.
A new edition which contains additional chapters on bovine tuberculosis, the use of milk, general tuberculosis, marriage and offspring, and a list of institutions in the United States where tuberculosis patients are received.
R. of Rs. 38: 510. O. ’08. 80w.
Davis, George Breckenridge. Elements of international law: with an account of its origin, sources and historical development. 3d ed. $3. Harper.
8–23585.
The third edition of a text-book for students into which have been incorporated the results of the work of the second Peace conference. The appendix includes the texts of the several treaties and declarations concluded at the 92Hague, on October 18, 1907, and such notation and comment as will enable them to be understood readily. A number of chapters have been recast and amplified.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 276. N. ’08.
“Mr. Davis has put under obligation not only every student of law, but every publicist and newspaper editor who needs a reliable book of reference on the international questions of the hour.”
+
Lit. D. 37: 469. O. 3, ’08. 230w.
Davis, Nathaniel Newnham-. Gourmet’s guide to Europe. 2d ed. *$1.50. Brentano’s.
The second edition of a book devoted to the interests of the epicurean tourist through Europe. There are directions for luxury-loving people concerning where to eat, what to eat and what to avoid.
“Should be appreciated by many travellers.”
+
Ath. 1908, 1: 447. Ap. 11. 120w.
“The greater part of our way lies through a succession of menus and national tastes that is instructive, interesting, and valuable from the practical point of view, but lacks the touch that makes literature.”
+ −
Nation. 87: 71. Jl. 23, ’08. 330w.
“A veritable masterwork of its own genre.”
+
N. Y. Times. 13: 389. Jl. 11, ’08. 970w.
Davis, Richard Harding. Congo and coasts of Africa. **$1.50. Scribner.
7–37527.
Mr. Davis records what he saw and heard in the Congo region, picturing much of the former and vouching astutely for the latter. He writes entertainingly of the Berlin conference, the “stewardship” of King Leopold, the failure of the latter to fulfil the letter of his promises, and the resulting present state and outlook of the Congo situation.
“Written in the author’s usual graphic style. Will appeal to some readers, familiar with his other books, who would not read a valuable and reliable work on the subject.”
+ −
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 39. F. ’08.
“The reader who wishes to be entertained will find this book one hard to lay down. He who reads to get information on the subjects covered by the title will be greatly disappointed.”
+ −
Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 500. Mr. ’08. 180w.
“A ‘good work’ in other than a literary sense.”
+ −
Ath. 1908, 2: 180. Ag. 15. 780w.
+ −
Cath. World. 86: 823. Mr. ’08. 270w.
“This is an interesting record.” E. D. Jones.
+
Econ. Bull. 1: 134. Je. ’08. 320w.
“It certainly contains nothing that is new or authoritative.”
+ −
Ind. 64: 1289. Je. 4, ’08. 100w.
“Has made no noticeable contribution to our knowledge of a question on which issue has been joined so sharply. Even as journalism the book is slovenly.”
−
Nation. 85: 564. D. 19, ’07. 270w.
“His ignorance of the political history and origin of the Congo Free State is abysmal, and the amount of his geographical misinformation stupendous.”
−
N. Y. Times. 12: 827. D. 14, ’07. 1120w.
“Has made a very readable travel book out of his experiences in equatorial Africa.”
+
R. of Rs. 37: 117. Ja. ’08. 70w.
Davis, Richard Harding. Vera the medium. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–17791.
Whether Stephen Hallowell, at the point of death, shall return his millions to their rightful owner or leave them to a charitable institution—the latter being the scheme of a legal adviser to throw the control of the fortune into his own unscrupulous hands—is to be decided during a séance conducted by Vera the medium. She has been instructed to decide in favor of the tricksters, but under the influence of the man who had bared to her view the falsity of her life, at the crucial moment of the séance, she repudiates the fraud and dishonesty of her seamy profession.
“Of more than ordinary interest, written in the author’s best style.”
+
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 218. Je. ’08.
“There is in it scarcely a trace of Mr. Davis’s former power of vivid narration.”
−
Ind. 65: 213. Jl. 23, ’08. 60w.
“The material is not of a durable kind, but it is well-tailored.”
+ −
Nation. 86: 579. Je. 25, ’08. 360w.
“The book has a certain interest, but it is of an artificial and not elevated sort. Possibly the book’s strongest merit is the distaste it inspires with the sort of life which it describes.”
+ −
N. Y. Times. 13: 354. Je. 20, ’08. 330w.
“Must be regarded as a short story of double the average length rather than as a novel. So looked at, it has pith, life, and plot interest.”
+ −
Outlook. 89: 532. Jl. 4, ’08. 80w.
“The movement is as brisk and the style as crisp as usual.” Charlotte Harwood.
+
Putnam’s. 4: 622. Ag. ’08. 120w.
Davis, Theodore M. Tomb of Iouiya and Touiyou. *$12.50. Dutton.
8–20521.
Including The finding of the tomb, by Theodore M. Davis; Notes on Iouiya and Touiyou, by Gaston Maspero; Description of the objects found in the tomb, by Percy E. Newberry; and Illustrations of the objects, by Howard Carter.
“Perhaps the most important part of the book [is] in the shape of a catalogue with full descriptions of the different objects found in the tomb from the capable pen of Prof. Newberry. One of the handsomest publications we have seen for some time.”
+ +
Ath. 1907, 2: 724. D. 7. 1150w.
“The publication takes its place at once as a valuable contribution and as a definitive work.”
+ +
Nation. 86: 17. Ja. 2, ’08. 410w.
Dawson, Mrs. Nelson. Enamels. (Little books on art.) *$1. McClurg.
A helpful little volume for the handicraft student and general reader. An introduction touching briefly upon the origin, history and development of enameling precedes the following chapters: Cloisonné enamels; Champlevé enamels; Painted enamels; Oriental enamels; Irish enamels; and Modern enamels. A list of books and articles on enamels and an index complete the volume.
“This breach in logical sequence is a matter of regret, for nothing is more to be desired than a treatise which shall insist upon the unity of design and of processes between East and West, the middle ages and modern times. In short, the value of the book ceases with page 140, and the close of the discussion of European enamels.”
− +
Nation. 87: 558. D. 3, ’08. 360w.
“The history and the description of different methods are given with care and spirit.”
+
N. Y. Times. 13: 684. N. 21, ’08. 220w.
Dawson, William James. Prophet in Babylon: a story of social service. †$1.50.
Revell. 7–31420.
John Gaunt, the rector of a prosperous New York church, awakens from the preaching which has been along the line of least resistance, “speaks out, consequently incurring the wrath of his fat flock, and finally [goes] out into the highways and byways,—according to his Master’s bidding,—and establishes a great, unselfish League of universal service, a new social force, that ‘League of universal service, whose emblem is the cross, whose motto is the union of all who love in the service of all who suffer.’” (R. of Rs.)
93“It is not without flaws in treatment and taste, and to some readers will be unconvincing, but its sincerity and strength will as certainly attract others.”
− +
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 219. Je. ’08.
+
Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 708. My. ’08. 100w.
“Dr. Dawson ... seems to be suffering from religious, if not moral, megalomania. The methods used for his propaganda are evangelistic, sensational, and meretricious. And we cannot think Dr. Dawson’s novel a serious contribution to the solution of the question.”
−
Ind. 64: 370. F. 13, ’08. 620w.
“A serious attempt to express in the form of fiction the upshot of his speculations as to the connection between religion and modern life.”
+
Nation. 86: 106. Ja. 30, ’08. 700w.
“This story will be widely read, and with good desert. It will miss its appeal to a certain class of minds because of the strain of mysticism and miraculousness that runs thru it. The Hellenists will be repelled by its abounding Hebraism. But on the whole it is well suited to find the hearts of all those who love a story of purpose and moral passion.” C: Ferguson. “I have read every word of it, and I doubt if anyone who starts the book can help going through it to the end. It is strong, vital, and it handles a great theme that is bound to attract attention and do good.” C: H. Parkhurst. “I think so much of Dr. Dawson’s book that I have already recommended it to my congregation as a good book to read, and I expect personally to give away quite a number of copies of it.” P. S. Grant.
+ +
N. Y. Times. 12: 857. D. 28, ’07. 3350w.
“Dramatic situations, striking personalities, pathetic and tragic incidents, domestic love and sacrifice, are interwoven with literary skill, and the whole is suffused with religious passion and enthusiasm for humanity.”
+ +
Outlook. 87: 874. D. 21, ’07. 350w.
“The whole story shows Dr. Dawson’s keen analysis of character, his sympathetic and high-minded idealism, and his fine English style.”
+ +
R. of Rs. 36: 758. D. ’07. 120w.
“We do not assert Dr. Dawson’s novel to shine forth as a literary masterpiece; far from this we could point out bad flaws in treatment, technique, taste. But we do affirm that here before us lies a book inspiring and uplifting through its clean, direct sincerity, integrity, virility.”
+ + −
R. of Rs. 37: 127. Ja. ’08. 360w.
Day, Clive. History of commerce. (Longmans’ commercial text-books.) *$2. Longmans.
7–22933.
Professor Clive “begins his story with thirty pages on antiquities, but gets down to serious business in his description of medieval commerce—town, sea and levant trade, gilds, fairs, economic theory and exploration. Modern commerce begins with the opening of the sea routes, and here our author reviews the origins of commercial enterprise, mercantilism and the development of credit—taking up each European nation after a general survey of economic principles. The industrial revolution—machinery, international trade and recent economic transformations—receives the proportion of space which its importance warrants, and for the benefit of the American student nearly one-third of the volume is devoted to the commercial history of the United States.” (Ind.)
“The best general treatise on the subject in English.”
+
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 39. F. ’08.
“This is the best single-volume treatise that has thus far appeared in English on the history of commerce. From the bibliographical standpoint the book is a model.” E. R. Johnson.
+ +
Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 517. Mr. ’08. 400w.
“Writing as he does from a great university in the United States, he takes a point of view which coincides with that of his own country, but those who are not his fellow-citizens may also read his volume with pleasure and advantage.”
+ + −
Ath. 1907, 2: 820. D. 28. 730w.
“A work of this kind, in the production of which the author has had but little help from similar attempts by predecessors in the endeavor, cannot be expected to attain anything like perfection before it reaches a second or a third, or even a fourth edition, a success to which this one will, no doubt, attain.”
+ −
Cath. World. 86: 548. Ja. ’08. 470w.
“Will undoubtedly take front rank in the all too meager text-book literature of the subject, tho one cannot help regretting that the author, who is well equipped for the task, had not undertaken a more monumental work. The chief features of the book are excellence of arrangement, proportion, clearness of presentation and extensive bibliographical apparatus.”
+ +
Ind. 63: 1177. N. 14. ’07. 160w.
“Some shortcomings may be noticed. The author, in pitching the key of his discourse, sometimes strikes too low. Some indefiniteness is permissible in so general a text, yet it would often be a good investment to have the exact fact.” J. P. Goode.
+ + −
J. Pol. Econ. 16: 309. My. ’08. 900w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 376. Je. 8, ’07. 120w.
“This work is an interesting specimen of the new textbooks which the subject requires.”
+
Spec. 99: sup. 643. N. 2, ’07. 590w.
Day, Holman Francis. Eagle badge; or The Skokums of the Allagash. †$1.25. Harper.
8–29336.
The Maine lumber tracts are once more the scene of a wilderness sketch which is a companion piece to “King spruce.” The young hero is a gritty lad who joins a driving crew, who by hard knocks develops the muscle and alacrity necessary for facing a jam’s toils and perils, and who eventually thru heroic service succeeds the retiring Andy Tedd as master of the drive.
“Boys who like stories of out-of-door adventure will be apt to read this tale of the Maine forests a second time. The story is wholesome.”
+
N. Y. Times. 13: 650. N. 7, ’08. 160w.
Day, Holman Francis. King Spruce: a novel. †$1.50. Harper.
8–11702.
A strong story of the Maine timber regions in which Dwight Wade, a young college man, invincible in the might of essential manhood, is pitted against a timber-baron personified in King Spruce. For daring to love the magnate’s daughter, Wade receives from him only anathemas and curses. He plunges into the hard life of the woods, where his winning struggles against fire and flood, tyrants and bosses, treachery in ambush and in the open elicit the “well done” alike of friend and foe.
“The descriptions are vivid, the situations often verge on the melodramatic, and the love story is inadequate.”
+ −
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 219. Je. ’08.
“It is too much technical speech for easy reading, but we do not need to understand all the terms employed to enjoy the tale, which is both virile and exciting.” W: M. Payne.
+ −
Dial. 44: 349. Je. 1, ’08. 270w.
“Mr. Day’s story stands up like a mountain peak among lesser fellows for its large proportions and virile treatment.”
+
Nation. 86: 537. Je. 18, ’08. 220w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 40w.
“It has the breath of the woods in it, not nature faking woods, but the real thing, and is moreover an excellent tale, with love that suits the wild setting, rough humor and a philosophy that has the merit of vitality. There is a sense of bigness about it, whether of muscle or environment; a deep breath taken into lusty lungs, the full sound of a man’s voice.”
+ +
N. Y. Times. 13: 254. My. 2, ’08. 150w.
94“Like all Mr. Day’s stories and poems, it is fresh and is inspired by honest love of the woods and the woods-people. It is sure to be widely read.”
+
Outlook. 89: 40. My. 2, ’08. 120w.
Day, James Roscoe. Raid on prosperity. **$1.50. Appleton.
7–36714.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
“Presents a side of the vital question of trusts on which little is written, and is, therefore, useful for debates particularly.”
+
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 39. F. ’08.
“The chancellor of the Syracuse university has made himself a foremost champion of the Standard oil company and its confederates, with the result that public antagonism has roused his temper, and his style has become furious. Dr. Day must produce a substitute policy more consistent with economic progress and actual conditions if he is to command the respect we would fain give to all college presidents.”
−
Ind. 64: 418. F. 20, ’08. 300w.
“It is not argument at all. It is extreme glorification on the one hand, and bitter denunciation on the other.”
−
Nation. 86: 290. Mr. 26, ’08. 550w.
Putnam’s. 3: 754. Mr. ’08. 150w.
R. of Rs. 37: 254. F. ’08. 100w.
Day, Lewis Forman. Enameling: a comparative account of the development and practice of the art. *$3. Scribner.
W8–71.
“In this volume enameling is dealt with from its historic rather than from its technical point of view. Mr. Day treats the beginnings of the art in early times as the result of the goldsmith calling in the glassmaker to help him. The different varieties of Champlevé, Cloisonné, Limoges, and other enamels are all clearly described in separate chapters of the book.” (Spec.) “To quote almost his own words, he has sought to put in a handy, readable, and intelligible shape the gist of what he has learnt from the works of many able specialists; to write a book for the beginner which shall smooth his way to understanding; and to point out the progress of one of the most ancient of the arts.” (Ath.)
“Mr. Lewis Day ... avoids, on the one hand, the appearance—it is often no more—of great learning; on the other, triviality and misleading platitude.”
+ +
Ath. 1907, 2: 805. D. 21. 870w.
Int. Studio. 33: 337. F. ’08. 50w.
“In this book he has produced a model work of its kind.”
+ +
Nation. 86: 499. My. 28, ’08. 200w.
+
Spec. 100: 1004. Je. 27, ’08. 70w.
Dean, Sara. Travers: a story of the San Francisco earthquake. †$1.50. Stokes.
7–24768.
Travers, driven from service as a British army officer under suspicion of theft, tires of braving the odium of his accusation and determines to reap the profits of his reputation. He turns burglar and is in the act of robbing a Palace hotel guest of her diamonds when the earthquake shocks him to his better senses and effects a moral revolution. He rescues the girl, administers to her wants during the days following, and even wins her love through service.
“That the author has a big theme, one may even say without fear of contradiction, a tremendous theme, becomes evident before we are a third of the way through the volume. That she has handled certain phases of it with real power and an intelligent recognition of what she is trying to do must also be conceded. And if, at the end, we are forced to admit that the plot was bigger than the execution of it, that is not to the author’s discredit, because only one of the giants among the makers of fiction could have told that story as it deserves to have been told.” F: T. Cooper.
+ −
Bookm. 27: 101. Mr. ’08. 700w.
“The relation of the man and the girl, however fancifully brought about, is a sound and credible one. In short, though the tale is not of power, it is of interest both as a story and a document.”
+ −
Nation. 86: 153. F. 13, ’08. 180w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 87. F. 15, ’08. 330w.
Dearmer, Mabel White (Mrs. Percy Dearmer). The sisters. (English title, The alien sisters.) †$1.50. McClure.
8–8089.
“The two sisters of the title are daughters of one father; one the delicately nurtured and fine-natured child of a wife of supreme sweetness and beauty of character; the other the illegitimate daughter of a vulgar and avaricious courtesan, who is presented only too realistically. The two love the same man. Hypnotism and the subliminal consciousness are dragged in to give a modern touch.”—Outlook.
“With bolder handling the story, which is full of incident, might well have been dramatic; from a coarser pen it would certainly have been offensive; but Mrs. Dearmer’s work is neither the one nor the other. The plot is evolved with too great elaboration of detail to be specially effective.”
+ −
Ath. 1908, 1: 413. Ap. 4. 200w.
“The scenes that hurt are not introduced in the detestably ‘knowing and showing’ manner of lesser novels, but a greater writer, we think, would have conveyed the moral with less offence.”
− +
Nation. 86: 468. My. 21, ’08. 300w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The study of the two characters is detailed and interesting. The story is told with much strength and skill and shows a good deal of power.”
+
N. Y. Times. 13: 266. My. 9, ’08. 80w.
“Most painful in character, and the undoubted intellectual ability of the author, and even her genuine moral intention, do not compensate the reader for the sorrow and suffering he is called on vicariously to suffer.”
−
Outlook. 88: 838. Ap. 11, ’08. 100w.
“Mrs. Dearmer’s new novel, though its ultimate lessons are sound enough, probes the seamy side of nature too deeply to suit the requirements of all readers, and cannot be recommended without reserves.”
+ −
Spec. 100: 674. Ap. 25, ’08. 550w.
Deeping, (George) Warwick. Bertrand of Brittany. †$1.50. Harper.
8–12223.
This is a story of mediaeval adventure. The hero is the neglected son of an unloving mother who blasts his youth with her heartless taunts. The faith and trust of a little maid of seven spurs him on at last to a vindication of himself in a tournament at Rennes. After that through the changing fortunes of war Bertrand carries with him this memory which causes him to perform deeds of heroism by which his manhood is finally triumphantly revealed.
“The book gives a faithful picture of the times, but is neither inspired nor has it much atmosphere.”
+ −
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 219. Je. ’08.
“Mr. Deeping has a good story to tell and he tells it well.”
+
Ath. 1908, 1: 724. Je. 13. 90w.
“This is the author’s success that he has created an illusion of the life in ancient Brittany that is faithful to the modern imagination of that period.”
+
Ind. 65: 149. Jl. 16, ’08. 340w.
“It has a certain youthful gusto which should commend it to the honest citizen.”
+
Nation. 87: 141. Ag. 13, ’08. 180w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 211. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
95“The action is rapid, and the coloring rich and vivid. Warwick Deeping does this sort of thing better than he does stories of modern life.”
+
N. Y. Times. 13: 266. My. 9, ’08. 100w.
R. of Rs. 37: 764. Je. ’08. 80w.
Deering, John Richard. Lee and his cause; or, The why and how of the war between the states. *$1.50. Neale.
7–41770.
Historical items “more or less involved in the solution of questions which have arisen as to the rightfulness of secession; the origin and conduct of its cause; the character, motives and sentiments of the people who espoused and defended it as well as of those who forced them to fields of blood.” (Preface.)
“The book belongs to that increasing group of works by Confederate veterans in which, thru iteration and allusion to the perfect character of General Lee, the attempt is made to save the South from infamy in history.”
−
Ind. 65: 1067. N. 5, ’08. 200w.
“Perhaps this little volume of memorial day sentiment and of countless purple patches made up of fancy and fact, is not entirely worthless.”
−
Nation. 86: 557. Je. 18, ’08. 80w.
De Guerin, E. W. Malice of the stars. †$1.50. Lane.
A woman somewhat inclined towards a crooked path is wooed and won by a man who believes her to be good and honest. “Thankful to be rescued from all that impended, she was a good wife, and a good mother both to their own children and to his by a former marriage. But finally came the time of revelation and retribution for the misdeeds of her youth. Then her husband’s love saved the day, and out of something that came near to being wreckage for every one concerned, his devotion wrought a salvation that turned out to be ‘somehow good.’” (N. Y. Times.)
“There is much that is good in this story and a little that is bad. It is written with a charming humour and a real and sympathetic knowledge of, at any rate, womankind. The plot is weak and sensational and smacks strongly of a serial in a halfpenny paper, and even a marked unconventionality of treatment ... does not save it from mediocrity.”
+ −
Acad. 73: 298. D. 28, ’07. 100w.
“He offers us no little entertainment: a story of mystery and complexity of motives, of unhappy passion and abiding repentance, woven around a plot of cunning structure, told, too, with much delightful humour and some real insight into human character. Defects of style ... will, we trust, be remedied in future volumes from the same pen.”
+ + −
Ath. 1907, 2: 684. N. 30. 90w.
“Related with much lifelikeness and with a certain mastery of touch and charm of manner that make it a very readable tale.”
+
N. Y. Times. 13: 100. F. 22, ’08. 250w.
Deland, Ellen Douglas. Friendship of Anne. †$1.50. Wilde.
7–26962.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
“Here is the generous one, the impulsive one, the good one, the shoddy one. With such characters it is not a surprise to find the narrative developing mechanically—a striving to be clever.” M. J. Moses.
−
Ind. 63: 1483. D. 19, ’07. 70w.
“It is very interestingly told; the characters depicted in it are natural and are developed in a lifelike manner. There is plenty of incident, and the author evidently understands girls and school-girl life thoroughly.”
+
Outlook. 87: 828. D. 14, ’07. 90w.
Deland, Margaret Wade. R. J.’s mother, and some other people. †$1.50. Harper.
8–15300.
Six short stories as follows: R. J.’s mother, The Mormon, Many waters, The house of Rimmon, A black drop, and The white feather. Here are portrayed the simple tho deep things of common experience that lie close to universal suffering and awaken in the reader a sense of sympathy and kinship.
“None, with the possible exception of the title story, comes up to her best work.”
+ −
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 219. Je. ’08. ✠
“Skill and invention are shown in all but one of the six stories.”
+ −
Ath. 1908, 1: 695. Je. 6. 150w.
“If ‘R. J.’s mother’ has its shortcomings, they are more than offset by the fine workmanship in such a story as ‘Many waters.’” F: T. Cooper.
+ −
Bookm. 27: 577. Ag. ’08. 570w.
“The tear they bring to the easy eye is not, one reflects, a tear to be proud of. The fact of artifice is too readily apparent, the means employed too patent.”
−
Nation. 86: 580. Je. 25, ’08. 360w.
“The stories may be taken very seriously by serious persons, or they may be read merely for their interest by the frivolous. But the tales will live in memory even as did the story of Helena Ritchie’s temptation and her triumph.”
+
N. Y. Times. 13: 326. Je. 13, ’08. 600w.
“The new volume holds a bit of quiet tragedy, more than a hint of comedy, and an insight into silent grief and an outlook upon final joy.”
+
N. Y. Times. 13: 337. Je. 13, ’08. 170w.
+
Outlook. 89: 957. Ag. 22, ’08. 40w.
“A book of delightful short stories.”
+ −
Spec. 100: 980. Je. 20, ’08. 220w.
De La Pasture, Elizabeth. Deborah of Tods. †$1.50. Dutton.
8–23924.
An American edition of the author’s first book written before “Peter’s mother” and “The lonely lady of Grosvenor square.” “A self-reliant Devonshire young woman, who owns and works her own farm, marries an elderly Major, a typical clubman and worldling. Under the glamour of the fact that he knew her father as a brother officer, and even lent him money, poor Deborah takes her Major for a noble soul. The tale of her disillusionment is told with simplicity, and she is to the end a wholesome, large-hearted, lovable woman.” (Outlook.)
“The character is unusual and well drawn, and the delicacy and refinement of the author’s earlier stories are prominent.”
+
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 268. N. ’08. ✠
“In stories like this, with their naïve waiver of those psychological and pathological problems which encumber our fiction, there is much to content and soothe, if not profoundly edify, the old-fashioned reader who resents, now and then, the increasing claims of the story-teller to be guide and philosopher as well as friend.”
+
Nation. 86: 195. F. 27, ’08. 500w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 87. F. 15, ’08. 130w.
“There is, however, no sign of immaturity in the workmanship, no indication of extreme youth in the tale as a whole—unless a certain sober freshness, a clear-eyed idealism be thus accepted. The entire novel leaves behind it a scent as sweet and comfortable as wild herbs and balsam, young grass and ripe fruit.”
+ +
N. Y. Times. 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 300w.
“A little compression would have improved the book.”
+
Outlook. 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 130w.
De la Pasture, Mrs. Elizabeth Bonham. Grey knight. †$1.50. Dutton.
8–15880.
The story of a titled Englishman of sixty who weds the woman of thirty-three who in the capacity of trained nurse had cared for him thru a critical illness. Family oppositions and misunderstandings run their course before affairs are turned into a placid channel. “The most attractive parts of the story are the descriptions of the Welsh country in which most of the action passes, and of the fine old Norman 96castle which is the property of Sir Harry Gwynne, the elderly hero.” (Spec.)
“The descriptions of Wales and of life in an old manor house are good.”
+
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 220. Je. ’08. ✠
“Though constructed from unpromising materials, the story has much of Mrs. de la Pasture’s usual charm.”
+ −
Ath. 1908, 1: 505. Ap. 25. 130w.
“Depends for its interest on delineation of character rather than on construction of plot.” F: T. Cooper.
+
Bookm. 27: 398. Je. ’08. 400w.
+ −
Nation. 87: 236. S. 10, ’08. 250w.
“An excellent field for her delicate scrutiny of human motives in the everyday relations of life.”
+
N. Y. Times. 13: 337. Je. 13, ’08. 270w.
“The author has proved herself so unmistakably serious by her previous work as to deepen the sense of disappointment in her lack of craftsmanship.” E. L. Cary.
− +
N. Y. Times. 13: 391. Jl. 11, ’08. 1350w.
“The sketches of the ordinary persons in the book are drawn with Mrs. de la Pasture’s accustomed skill, and the whole volume is eminently readable.”
+
Spec. 100: 834. My. 23, ’08. 250w.
De la Pasture, Elizabeth. Unlucky family. il. †$1.50. Dutton.
8–8101.
Thirteen members constitute the family whose misfortunes are amusingly set down in this story. They inherit a country estate and a deal of money and enter upon a course of blunders in assuming the responsibilities of their luxurious surroundings “with dukes and admirals and mayors as calling neighbors.” (Nation.)
“The humor is rather English, and of the kind that will be irresistible to one and tiresome to another, as humor is apt to be, English or American.”
+ −
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 155. My. ’08. ✠
“Her gifts of delicate humour and characterization are thrown away in the region of broad farce, and the conjunction with Mr. E. T. Reed seems to us unfortunate.”
−
Ath. 1907, 2: 728. D. 7. 100w.
“Capital fun.”
+
Int. Studio. 33: 253. Ja. ’08. 50w.
“The series of ridiculous contretemps involved have the kind of virtual plausibility which distinguishes good nonsense from mere inanity.”
+
Nation. 86: 427. My. 7, ’08. 170w.
“A humorous story which smiles and chuckles.”
+
N. Y. Times. 13: 266. My. 9, ’08. 100w.
“A diverting blend of extravaganza and reality.”
+
Sat. R. 104: sup. 8. D. 7, ’07. 150w.
“Of course, neither the story nor the pictures can be said to have much to do with life or nature; but this does not prevent them from being amusing.”
+
Spec. 99: sup. 903. D. 7, ’07. 150w.
De la Ramée, Louise (Ouida, pseud.). Helianthus. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–26831.
Ouida’s last story, published, as she left it, in its incomplete form. Helianthus is a land, supposedly Italy, in which is enacted an international drama whose poignant note is liberty. The characters include the royal family; the action turns on the situation of Prince Elim, the people’s idol, when he finds himself brought by accident into the direct succession to the throne at a time when he is engrossed in the cause of the revolutionists. Many rulers of Europe figure in the story.
“Resembles her earlier books in many of its flamboyant qualities, its exaggeration, but also in its revelation of a continued power of a beautiful talent.”
+ −
Ind. 65: 1182. N. 19, ’08. 80w.
“In spite of defects, perhaps because of them, it smacks of ‘Ouida’ on every page, and is another interesting revelation of her remarkable talent.”
+ −
Nation. 87: 442. N. 5, ’08. 700w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
De La Warr, Constance, countess. Twice crowned queen. *$3. Appleton.
7–42478.
The life story of Anne Duchess of Brittany, wife first of Charles VIII. of France and afterwards of Louis XII. Her rather dull life takes something of color from its settings, but first to last she was conceded to be a great lady.
“Although Lady De La Warr has made diligent use of the best available material, the result of her efforts is a somewhat pale presentment.”
+ −
Ath. 1906, 2: 610. N. 17. 1570w.
“The Countess De La Warr is not a very lively historian, though she describes the costumes and trappings worn at pageants with great accuracy and particularity, and records faithfully all the essential facts.”
+ −
N. Y. Times. 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 470w.
“Lady De La Warr has written a pleasant and careful monograph vividly reproducing contemporary life, on one of the most interesting personalities of the period when the Borgias reigned at Rome.”
+
Spec. 99: 871. N. 30, ’07. 780w.
Deledda, Grazia. Ashes; tr. from the Italian by Helen. H. Colvill. †$1.50. Lane.
A Sardinian story of peasant life in which the hero, illegitimate of birth and deserted by his mother, is brought up in his father’s household. “He grows up ardent, ambitious, and idealistic, the two great aims of his life being to win a position which shall enable him to marry his patron’s daughter, and to find and reclaim the mother who had deserted him in his childhood. The conflict of these aims makes up the drama of ‘Ashes.’” (Nation.)
“A profoundly melancholy book, but its sadness is tempered by many passages of great idyllic charm, and it would be unjust to call it morbid.”
+ −
Ath. 1908, 1: 634. My. 23. 200w.
“Most readers will feel that the story wanders through its fascinating setting too slowly, with too many dreamy pauses and backward looks. It is, as a whole, a readable and adequate rendering of ‘Cenere.’”
− +
Nation. 86: 579. Je. 25, ’08. 340w.
“Is tense with the tragedies born of love and of hate and of the destiny man makes for himself.”
+
N. Y. Times. 13: 267. My. 9, ’08. 50w.
* Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel. Canyon voyage: the narrative of the second Powell expedition down the Green-Colorado river from Wyoming, and the explorations on land, in the years 1871 and 1872. **$3.50. Putnam.
8–30303.
A narrative of a government expedition which is practically a continuation of the author’s “Romance of the Colorado river.” It contains the full story of the Powell’s second expedition under the direction of the Smithsonian institution, and gives the daily experiences and actual camp life of the explorers at the same time furnishing in its accuracy of statement a trustworthy guide for navigating the river as far as Kanab canyon. The book is handsomely illustrated.
+
N. Y. Times. 13: 639. O. 31, ’08. 260w.
97De Morgan, William Frend. Somehow good. †$1.75. Holt.
8–4365.
A headstrong girl had gone from London to India to marry a young officer. On her way she falls into evil hands and is betrayed. She continues her journey, marries her lover who is awaiting her; after the ceremony, the truth of her wrong to him becomes known and a separation follows. After nearly twenty years of absence from his wife, during a complete suspension of memory and loss of identity, the husband, thru an accident, finds shelter in the wife’s home, now in London. At this point the story opens, and is an intimate analysis of the peculiar situations that would attend such a lapse of memory no less than a handling of the Magdalene’s wrong, from the standpoint of him who for spiritual charity’s sake would not cast the stone rather than from the scribes’ and Pharisees’ condemnatory point of view.
“It is characterized by deliberation, quiet, often quaint, humor, remarkable character drawing, and delightful literary style.”
+
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 87. Mr. ’08.
“The book has real charm. One of the good things in it is the description of a London fog. This is so well done that the seasoned Londoner may almost catch his breath.”
+
Ath. 1908, 1: 252. F. 29. 500w.
“‘Somehow good’ makes me fully aware of Mr. De Morgan’s as a solid corporeal head and shoulders, set square and calm above the fiddling impatience and impotence which shrills its wares in the popular market place of letters.” H. W. Boynton.
+ +
Bookm. 27: 176. Ap. ’08. 1050w.
“The plot, while simple in one sense, is extremely ingenious and complicated in another. And the writer’s style—simple and natural, freighted alternately with rich humor and warm-hearted philosophy—is so enjoyable on its own account that it makes garrulity a virtue, and gives point to the most pointless of digressions.” W: M. Payne.
+ +
Dial. 44: 132. Mr. 1, ’08. 970w.
“The book is not one to be swallowed at a gulp like most novels of the day. It is to be leisurely sipped, so as to enjoy the flavor. Every paragraph has its charm, and after reading it one wants to read it aloud to those few friends who share one’s own good taste in literature.”
+ +
Ind. 64: 369. F. 13, ’08. 860w.
“The fact that we have to record is that on this theme Mr. De Morgan has written a book as sound, as sweet, as wholesome, as wise, as any in the range of fiction.”
+ +
Nation. 86: 152. F. 13, ’08. 900w.
“If you are of those that know not Joseph, the son of Christopher (builder, drains promptly attended to) and Alice that was short for Alicia, yet love your Thackeray, you may chance it safely enough—and have your reward. If you know Joseph and Alice you do not need to be told anything more.”
+ +
N. Y. Times. 13: 67. F. 8, ’08. 1150w.
+
N. Y. Times. 13: 337. Je. 13, ’08. 250w.
“Those who like leisurely narrative, shrewd observation, and gentle satire will find the novel mellow and quietly entertaining. It is a book to read at one’s ease, not to rush through in order to kill an idle hour.”
+ −
Outlook. 88: 511. F. 20, ’08. 300w.
“An extraordinary example of creative power.” E. L. Cary.
+ +
Putnam’s. 4: 617. Ag. ’08. 350w.
“Though granting his style to be lightly touched by Meredithian eccentricity, one must avow of this man that the distinction belongs to him of having written some real English literature.”
+ + −
R. of Rs. 37: 767. Je. ’08. 150w.
“It is formless, it is prolix, it is magnificently old-fashioned, it is built up on improbabilities and coincidences.”
+ −
Sat. R. 105: 241. F. 22, ’08. 450w.
“To define the secret of Mr. De Morgan’s success is not easy. But we should be inclined to attribute it, first and foremost, to his unfeigned and wholehearted enjoyment in the exercise of his great gifts as a born storyteller. He loves his characters.... He is an inveterate optimist.... He is an improvisatore with a touch of the clairvoyant; and as he is entirely on the side of the angels, and at the same time a most entertaining companion, the popularity of such a benefactor may be welcomed without misgiving or reserve.”
+
Spec. 100: 230. F. 8, ’08. 570w.
Dennis, Rev. James Shepard. New horoscope of missions. (The John H. Converse lectures on missions, 1907.) **$1. Revell.
8–15498.
Lectures which summarize from a missionary point of view the significance of the awakening and development in principal mission fields. The titles are as follows: A new world consciousness; Strategic aspects of the missionary outlook; A new cloud of witnesses; Fresh annals of the kingdom; The message of Christianity to other religions. Index.
+
Ind. 65: 782. O. 1, ’08. 130w.
“Such a book as this should be put especially into decadent churches, of which there are far too many. It might rouse them from shameful stagnation.”
+
Outlook. 89: 628. Jl. 18, ’08. 140w.
“Students of the subject will find interesting and valuable this summary.”
+
R. of Rs. 38: 128. Jl. ’08. 60w.
* Dennistoun, James. Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino; illustrating the arms, art and literature of Italy from 1440–1630; new ed., with notes by Edward Hutton. 3v. **$12. Lane.
Reprinted verbatim in the original three-volume form. While finding most of Dennistoun’s facts sound, the editor disagrees as to critical estimates. “In the divisions dealing with art Mr. Hutton has found it necessary frequently to disagree both with the facts and views expressed by Dennistoun. When the work was first published, it was these divisions which called forth most praise from critics, but many of the opinions he gave utterance to, especially those concerning modern tendencies, will fail to find general acceptance now.” (Int. Studio.)
“The work as a whole, containing as it does much matter of interest that cannot easily be found elsewhere, will prove a desirable acquisition to the library of the student of Italian history.”
+ −
Int. Studio. 36: 166. D. ’08. 400w.
+
N. Y. Times. 13: 621. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
+
N. Y. Times. 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Hutton’s notes, written as they are with wide knowledge and with the greater steadiness of the present day, add so much to the value of the work as to increase one’s regret that he did not produce an original volume. Pleader though he may be, and not always in the best cause, Dennistoun is still a charming writer.”
+ −
Sat. R. 106: 669. N. 28, ’08. 1500w.
“Dennistoun’s book is valuable chiefly as a storehouse of curious and varied information, collected with great industry from a multitude of out-of-the-way sources; and it has the additional merit of being written in a distinguished and pleasant, though a slightly pompous, style. As Mr. Hutton points out, the chapters upon art are the weakest part of the book. Not only do they suffer from inevitable deficiencies in knowledge, but their whole point of view strikes the modern reader as curiously out of date.”
+ −
Spec. 101: 838. N. 21, ’08. 1100w.
98Denys, Nicolas. Description and natural history of the coasts of North America (Acadia); tr. and ed., with a memoir of the author, collateral documents, and a reprint of the original, by W: F. Ganong. (Publications of the Champlain society, v. 2.) Champlain society, Toronto.
8–19184.
One of a series of reprints elucidating the history of French exploration and occupation of what is now British North America.
“We are under especial obligations to Professor Ganong for this excellent translation of Denys’s work, and for the painstaking and scholarly manner in which he has accomplished his difficult task. Some readers will doubtless wish that the bracketed English words intended to clear passages from ambiguity, as well as the French words likewise in brackets, which are readily found in the French text, had been left out altogether or placed at the bottom of the page, leaving the page clear. These however are minor blemishes in a good piece of work.” J. P. Baxter.
+ + −
Am. Hist. R. 14: 161. O. ’08. 830w.
“Denys gives admirable simple descriptions.” J. P. W.
+
Eng. Hist. R. 23: 828. O. ’08. 150w.
“Denys’s book possesses no charm of style; but his omnivorous eye and his painstaking, businesslike method of observation and narrative have resulted in a mass of information in regard to the geography, resources, and fauna of the old Acadia.”
+
Nation. 87: 467. N. 12, ’08. 800w.
Spec. 101: sup. 713. N. 7, ’08. 150w.
De Saix, Tyler. Man without a head. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–22800.
A detective story which “has to do with two murders widely separated in time and place, but strikingly similar in method. The victim’s head is removed with surgical skill and taken away by the murderer. In each case a respectable and honored gentleman is suspected of the crime, but each time he has disappeared.” (Outlook.)
“It is good of its class.”
+
Nation. 87: 213. S. 3, ’08. 160w.
“It is not only ingenious to the nth degree, but it is written with a knowledge of human nature and a touch of imagination rarely found in these stories of murder and mystery.”
+
N. Y. Times. 13: 500. S. 12, ’08. 270w.
“The story is gruesome but readable.”
+ −
Outlook. 90: 135. S. 19, ’08. 100w.
De Selincourt, Hugh. Great Ralegh; being the life and times of Sir Walter Ralegh. (Memoir ser. v. 40.) *$3.50. Putnam.
8–34204.
Written for the general reader this biography aims “to make the character of Ralegh live again, and draw a picture of the times in as lively a manner as the author sees it.” “There are several chapters in the book which alone would make its perusal worth while—particularly the chapters dealing with the friendship of Ralegh and Spenser, Ralegh’s trial, and his life in the Tower.” (Outlook.)
“On the whole, the volume must be pronounced a most readable contribution to the lighter side of Elizabethan history; and some peculiarities of style and taste should not be allowed to depreciate the excellent work of selection, and, we may add, criticism, which it represents.”
+ −
Ath. 1908, 2: 327. S. 19. 880w.
“The liveliness with which the story is told will recommend it to one already familiar with the facts.”
+
Dial. 45: 256. O. 16, ’08. 260w.
+
Lit. D. 37: 566. O. 17, ’08. 320w.
“A book which is written professedly for the general reader rather than for the special student must be judged as a piece of literature, and as such the present work is typical of the times in its failure to distinguish between vivacity and a cheap smartness and between legitimate illustration and irrelevance.”
− +
Nation. 87: 498. N. 19, ’08. 750w.
“It is not critical ... and it is spun out to an unconscionable length. Yet it is impossible to read it without real enjoyment, so full is it of ‘atmosphere,’ so rich in philosophic touches and flashes of terse, vivid characterization.”
+ −
Outlook. 90: 456. O. 24, ’08. 250w.
“We cannot say that the author before us has added anything of value to the controversy. He gives us no new facts.”
−
Sat. R. 106: sup. 5. O. 24, ’08. 1950w.
De Selincourt, Hugh. High adventure. †$1.50. Lane.
“In intention, this is a delicate and very serious study of an idealistic temperament perplexed by the facts of sex till, under the stress of an innocent love and marriage, the problem solves itself.”—Nation.
“The disjointed quotations from the classics have an air of being dragged in, and the various specimens of gush would come more aptly from the lips of an Early Victorian maiden than an advanced folk here portrayed.”
−
Ath. 1908, 2: 204. Ag. 22. 150w.
“From no point of view can much be said for it as a novel.”
−
Nation. 87: 389. O. 22, ’08. 350w.
“Mr. De Selincourt is a very thoughtful writer. He is, indeed, rather too thoughtful, like his hero, who is apt occasionally to bore us with his perpetual concern about his state of mind and his lack of purpose.”
−
Sat. R. 106: 582. N. 7, ’08. 90w.
Desmond, Harry W., and Frohne, H. W. Building a home. **$1.80. Baker.
8–35360.
A book of fundamental advice for the layman about to build. In a thoroly practical manner the authors discuss the selection of a site, the respective duties of architect and builder, materials, methods of construction, details of equipment, drainage, plumbing, heating, ventilating, and decoration.
+
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 177. Je. ’08. ✠
“The book is a strong presentation of the architect’s side of the case.”
+ −
Dial. 44: 382. Je. 16, ’08. 400w.
“The work seems to us indispensable to a home seeker who intends to build for himself.”
+
Lit. D. 37: 562. O. 17, ’08. 150w.
“In general, it may be said that estimates of cost can scarcely be held to be of value.”
+ −
Nation. 86: 475. My. 21, ’08. 200w.
“A book brimming full of sensible, practical, and most wholesome advice.”
+
N. Y. Times. 13: 281. My. 16, ’08. 180w.
“A book which will be invaluable to any one who purposes to build a home now or hopes to do so at some future time.”
+
N. Y. Times. 13: 337. Je. 13, ’08. 250w.
“The suggestions made are practical and based upon sound architectural principles.”
+
R. of Rs. 38: 127. Jl. ’08. 70w.
* Dewe, Rev. Juhl Adalbert. History of economics; or, Economics as a factor in the making of history. *$1.50. Benziger.
8–14737.
“An elementary textbook on general economic history, and economic thought.... The writer declares that the influences which shape the events of history, may be summed up under three categories: physical surroundings, religion, and economics; and he seeks to show how 99the first and last named (for religion is rather slighted) have affected history from Greek and Roman times to the present.” J. Pol. Econ.
“It is scarcely adequate as a history of economics; there is too much vagueness in the facts collected; their significance and correlation are not brought out with the fullness required by even an introductory scientific study of economics.”
− +
Cath. World. 87: 553. Jl. ’08. 100w.
“It will be of service as a companion to the ordinary textbooks in which, especially in the older ones, this feature is almost entirely neglected.”
− +
Cath. World. 88: 263. N. ’08. 120w.
“His style is clear and succinct, and his scholarship admirable. The book may be found valuable either for general reading or for a textbook.”
+
Educ. R. 36: 424. N. ’08. 80w.
“It would be difficult to say much in favor of the volume. Though of the most elementary character, it shows a lack, not only of scholarship, but even a fair knowledge and grasp of the subject, besides being poorly written, especially as regards arrangement.”
−
J. Pol. Econ. 16: 635. N. ’08. 120w.
De Weese, Truman A. Principles of practical publicity; being a treatise on the art of advertising. 2d ed. **$2. Jacobs.
8–31176.
A valuable practical complement to W. D. Scott’s “Psychology of advertising.” It is a treatise on the successful adaptation of advertising to all lines of commercial enterprise. “Its aim is to cover the broad field of commercial publicity, showing the relation of advertising to modern business without elaborating any abstruse or far-fetched theories that are advanced to explain its influence upon the public mind.” (Preface.)
N. Y. Times. 13: 627. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
Dewey, John, and Tufts, James Hayden. Ethics. *$2. Holt.
8–22532.
A text whose significance lies in its effort to awaken a vital conviction of the genuine reality of moral problems and the value of reflective thought in dealing with them objectively and definitely. Part 1, deals with historic material—the beginnings and growth of morality; Part 2, treats of the different types of theoretical interpretation; and Part 3, discusses some typical social and economic problems which characterize the present.
“If this is not the ideal text-book in ethics for which we have been waiting so many years, it is, at least, a very good substitute for it. These perhaps inevitable omissions can weigh little against the general utility of the work both as to form and content. The references are abundant and interesting, the index and table of contents adequate, and the style fresh and vigorous. It should appeal not only to the special student of ethics, but to those in economics, politics, and sociology as well.” Norman Wilde.
+ + −
J. Philos. 5: 636. N. 5, ’08. 1600w.
“Above the level of textbooks. The choice and arrangement of material are admirably calculated to indicate the methods and the general direction of ethical analyses. From the teacher’s point of view the work is of singularly even merit throughout; but its second and third divisions are most attractive to the general reader.”
+
Nation. 87: 438. N. 5, ’08. 560w.
“In several respects this work, among the many of its kind appearing in recent years, is eminently valuable, especially for the ample treatment given to ethics in the world of action in civil society, amidst the relations of political, economic, and family life.”
+
Outlook. 90: 595. N. 14, ’08. 500w.
Dewey, Thomas Emmet. Poetry in song, and some other studies in literature; with an introd. by Charles Moreau Harger. $1.50. C. M. Harger, Abilene, Kan.
7–41998.
“This volume contains essays on poetry in song (a somewhat extended piece of work), on literary truth, on several of the world’s recognized great poets, and on Masonry in its aspects to the state and the individual (the author had long felt the charm of Masonry, and stood high in the craft), together with a few simple, earnest poems which were unquestionably worth preservation in this form.”—Outlook.
“These lectures were deservedly very popular, and they bring out with great clearness the beauties and characteristics of true poetry. The selections are made with admirable appreciation of what is choicest and best.”
+
Ind. 64: 159. Ja. 16, ’08. 160w.
+
Outlook. 88: 327. F. 8, ’08. 140w.
Diamant, Sidney. Curves for calculating beams, channels and reactions; a manual for engineers, architects, designers, draughtsmen, builders and contractors. *$2. McGraw.
8–21493.
A set of diagrams for computing graphically the sizes of beams and channels used in floor construction and their reactions. “Separate diagrams are given for the various intensities of loading, which range from 80 to 500 lbs. per sq. ft. Full instructions are included for using the diagrams and the assumptions made in their preparation are stated. Tables for live and dead loads and general values for combined live and dead loads accompany the instructions.” (Engin. D.)
“The book should prove decidedly valuable to those having many such computations to make.”
+
Engin. D. 4: 306. S. ’08. 120w.
“When the designer has become familiar with the use of the tables, as he should in a short time, they should prove very convenient and, since a nicer adjustment between size and spacing may be made, quite economical.”
+
Engin. N. 60: 316. S. 17, ’08. 80w.
Dick, Stewart. Heart of Spain: an artist’s impressions of Toledo. il. *$1.25. Jacobs.
7–42350.
“The ‘Heart of Spain,’ to the author, is the city of Toledo, and the graphic way in which the grim old capital is shown to epitomize the life history of the peninsula justifies the choice of words. The book is avowedly a series of personal impressions, not a guide book, yet one could use it for the latter purpose and get a much better insight into the spirit of the place than by seeking the list of double-starred attractions usually brought to the attention of the tourist.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“Light but interesting.”
+
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 134. My. ’08.
+
Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 501. Mr. ’08. 100w.
“Mr. Dick is an artist as well as a devotee, and his slight descriptions of the scenes he loves are often charming pieces of word-painting.”
+
Ath. 1907, 1: 574. My. 11. 270w.
* Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes. Justice and liberty: a political dialogue. **$1.20. McClure.
Argument characterizes this dialogue which is conducted by a philosopher, a banker and a gentleman of leisure. “Martin and Harington are both idealists, while Stuart [the banker] is the practical man of the world. Harington’s ideal is an aristocracy of the Platonic type, 100which is founded on status, or hereditary caste.... Martin’s ideal is a democracy, which shall neither be an ochlocracy nor an official oligarchy, but shall be founded on equity or equality of opportunity, to be obtained, so far as we can discover, by making everybody ‘life-tenants’ or life-owners of the products of their faculties, and abolishing bequest. The State is to be owner of all property, but is to lease its various forms for life to individuals, if they choose and are capable of management, while the lazy, the timid, and the incapable are to receive State wages.” (Sat. R.)
“Is far below a book he wrote in 1895, ‘The development of parliament.’ Mr. Lowes Dickinson does not solve the problem. The cultivated democracy of Athens still haunts his mind, but he forgets that it was founded on slavery.”
−
Sat. R. 106: 643. N. 21, ’08. 520w.
Diehl, Alice Mangold. True story of my life: an autobiography. **$3.50. Lane.
Mme. Diehl, novelist, writer, musician, writes unreservedly of her precocious childhood days, her debut in Paris, her return to England where she engaged in “a brave and unflagging struggle to care for her growing family. There are apparently no reserves in the story: her mother’s imperiousness, her husband’s foibles, her own failures and triumphs in fighting off the ‘wolf,’ are recorded with such fidelity that we seem to be turning the pages of a diary.” (Dial.)
“One of those discursive autobiographies of non-famous persons which chronicle an immense amount of unimportant private history and must rely chiefly on their realism for their charm.”
+ −
Dial. 44: 48. Ja. 16, ’08. 280w.
“Lovers of the chronicles of music cannot fail to be interested in Mme. Diehl’s stories.”
+
Lond. Times. 6: 301. O. 4, ’07. 480w.
+
Nation. 86: 245. Mr. 12, ’08. 500w.
“There are times when we fancy that we have found our way into a ‘Palace of truth.’ For the most part she is sufficiently kindly in her notices of events and people. Sometimes, however, it would have been better for her to have held her hand, when for instance, she tells us about the stormy period of her marriage.”
+ −
Spec. 99: 439. S. 28, ’07. 160w.
Dillon, John M. Motor days in England. **$3. Putnam.
8–20148.
An illustrated account of a motor trip thru the southwestern part of England—east of London, north to Leamington. Instead of the guide book with its impersonal note, the reader enjoys the glow of personal enthusiasm along the journey. In town and countryside, architecture and landscape are commented upon, as well as places and buildings, sacred and profane, of historical interest.
“There is no justification for its being offered to the general public.”
−
Ind. 65: 666. S. 17, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Dillon has read widely and appreciatively; and the literary and historical associations are always uppermost in his mind. His remarks on these subjects, however, are rather obvious, his quotations familiar.”
+ −
Nation. 86: 576. Jl. 2, ’08. 140w.
“A document of considerable general interest, with informing descriptions of places of historic or architectural interest and of literary associations, which every intelligent traveler and sight-seer will want to know.”
+
N. Y. Times. 13: 376. Jl. 4, ’08. 170w.
“These journeyings are very pleasantly described.”
+
Spec. 101: 238. Ag. 15, ’08. 330w.
Dinger, Henry C. Handbook for the care and operation of naval machinery. *$2. Van Nostrand.
8–8476.
A practical handbook which “gives concisely, but clearly, very complete information as to the best methods used in the engineering department of naval vessels and contains a great deal of information as to the current practice of the Bureau of steam engineering of the navy department in regard to the design of details, fittings and auxiliaries. In addition to the main engine and its auxiliaries ... it deals with joints and packing, stuffing boxes, feed and filter tanks, feed-water heaters, evaporators and distillers, refrigerating plant, gages and thermometers, piping, valves, and all other machinery or fittings connected with machinery on naval vessels.” (Engin. N.)
“There is no doubt that this book will be of great use to those for whom it is intended, and of interest to all who have to deal with naval machinery.” D. W. Taylor.
+
Engin. N. 59: 437. Ap. 16, ’08. 500w.
Engin. Rec. 58: 475. O. 24, ’08. 250w.
Dinsmore, John Wirt. Teaching a district school: a book for young teachers. *$1. Am. bk.
8–21614.
A book whose object is that of helping the district teacher in solving his problems and discharging his duties. It is based on long research and careful investigation, and while offering specific help on the organization and maintenance of a good school, it urges high ideals and worthiness for the profession of teaching.
“The earnest, conscientious spirit of the work is as admirable as its practicable, detailed instructions are valuable.”
+
Nation. 87: 185. Ag. 27, ’08. 200w.
“A practical, comprehensive, and exceedingly lucid treatise.”
+
N. Y. Times. 13: 465. Ag. 22, ’08. 260w.
Ditchfield, Peter Hampson. Charm of the English village. *$3. Scribner.
8–20520.
A volume “in which churches, manor houses, rectories, farms, inns, mills, bridges, cottages, barns, crosses, greens, dovecotes, and even such minor details as sundials and weathercocks, are described and pictured. The writer pleads with eager eloquence for the preservation of time-honored survivals of the long ago, and mourns over the reckless destruction of buildings that should have been treasured as heirlooms of the nation.”—Int. Studio.
“We do not wish to undervalue Mr. Jones’s work, which strikes us as adequate and interesting; but the constant attention which the author pays to it is distracting. The result is that the letterpress is disjointed and scrappy.”
+ −
Ath. 1908, 1: 728. Je. 13. 260w.
+
Int. Studio. 35: 167. Ag. ’08. 230w.
“An attractive collection of descriptions and comments.”
+
Nation. 87: 244. S. 10, ’08. 200w.
“The charm of the elder England has a kind of sturdiness, a downright dependence on tangible and visible qualities that make it comparatively easy of definition, and this definition is what Mr. Ditchfield attempts and accomplishes in his handsome little volume.”
+
N. Y. Times. 13: 463. Ag. 22, ’08. 760w.
“This is a very pleasing book.”
+
Spec. 100: 908. Je. 6, ’08. 180w.
Diver, Maud. Great amulet. †$1.50. Lane.
A story of Anglo-Indian life in which a British army officer weds an artist, permits a misunderstanding to separate him from her on their wedding day, and effects a reconciliation five years later. “Such wider issues as frontier 101warfare, Himalayan exploration, and cholera camps play a large part in the action, and are handled with sympathy and power.” (Ath.)
“The story errs perhaps on the side of length. The author’s men and women are clearly drawn, and nearly always impress us as real people; and her style shows refinement and distinction.”
+ −
Ath. 1908, 1: 600. My. 16. 120w.
“There are too many climaxes, and the tendency is toward hysteria rather than realism.”
−
N. Y. Times. 13: 425. Ag. 1, ’08. 200w.
Dixon, E., ed. Fairy tales from the Arabian nights. il. *$250. Putnam.
Edited and arranged from the version based on Galland, with numerous illustrations by John D. Batten.
“A capital selection of fairy tales.”
+
Educ. R. 34: 537. D. ’07. 30w.
+
Nation. 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 90w.
Outlook. 87: 619. N. 23, ’07. 60w.
Dobson, (Henry) Austin. De libris. *$1.50. Macmillan.
8–30143.
A volume dealing with books and matters relating to books, interspersed with the author’s poetry “gay with wit” and bearing upon the themes of his essays. Some of his chapters are as follows: Books and their associations; The parent’s assistant; Modern book illustrators; A French critic on Bath; Thackeray’s “Esmond”; and Fresh facts about Fielding.
“Yet though he shows little desire to marshal facts in set order and sequence, only dull readers will fail to perceive that he is writing from a fullness of knowledge, which many professors might envy.”
+
Ath. 1908, 2: 608. N. 14. 600w.
“He is not at his best in it, but even so he is worth reading.”
+
Ind. 65: 1174. N. 19, ’08. 60w.
“Of the papers as a whole, it may fairly be said that they lack distinction of substance or style. The verse is even farther below the standard.”
+ −
Nation. 87: 462. N. 12, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Dobson belongs among the most charming poets and the most agreeable prose writers of our time.”
+
Outlook. 90: 752. N. 28, ’08. 200w.
+
Sat. R. 106: 611. N. 14, ’08. 100w.
Dock, Christopher. Life and works of Christopher Dock, America’s pioneer writer on education; with a translation of his works into the English language by Martin G. Brumbaugh, and an introd. by S. W. Pennypacker. **$5. Lippincott.
8–17821.
“Interesting in point of time, this, the earliest American book about school teaching, is remarkable for insight into human nature, for the admirable character which it revealed, and for its minute statement of an educational method which substituted the law of love for the rule of force, long before the change had been made in the school world.”—Nation.
“His writings possess a special interest for all who are engaged in educational work, and they are, moreover, one of the foundation-stones of American culture.” I: R. Pennypacker.
+
Dial. 45: 166. S. 16, ’08. 900w.
“Probably the educational historian will find interest in the ‘Life of Christopher Dock,’ but the general reader will wonder at the attempt to rescue Dock from the sleep of oblivion.”
+ −
Ind. 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 30w.
“Dr. Brumbaugh ... has shown fine editorial taste and skill in the making of the book, and in writing the life of the pious schoolmaster he seems to have left no source of information uninvestigated.”
+
Lit. D. 37: 397. S. 19, ’08. 320w.
Nation. 86: 553. Je. 18, ’08. 230w.
Dodd, Anna Bowman. On the knees of the gods. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–3428.
A tale of Athens during the time of Alcibiades. It tells of the romance of a slave girl and an Athenian nobleman. The parents of Ion come between the lovers and send the youth off to war where he is captured and enslaved. His ransom is paid by his sweetheart who has been made free, and whose final happiness includes the discovery that she, too, is descended from a royal house of Athens.
“To the last chapter the description is sustained. There are some errors to correct. The chief blemish is the curious spelling.”
+ −
Ind. 65: 209. Jl. 23, ’08. 350w.
−
Nation. 86: 236. Mr. 12, ’08. 430w.
“The story is, indeed, not without interest and excitement, but there is a feverishness in the manner in which it is imparted that wearies the reader. Yet there is a fresh passion in some of the love passages and a delight in pictorial scenes and natural beauty, with enough feeling for plot to make the reader heartily wish Miss Anna Bowman Dodd would care enough for her art to put better work into it.”
+ −
N. Y. Times. 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 260w.
“The effort to make an impression of mild gayety, unlimited luxury of living, and pagan beauty is too apparent. Something more should have been left to the imagination of the reader.”
−
Outlook. 88: 653. Mr. 21, ’08. 100w.
Dodd, William Edward. Jefferson Davis. (American crisis biographies.) **$1.25. Jacobs.
8–820.
A sketch of Jefferson Davis intended “not to justify or even defend the course of the foremost leader of the Confederate cause; but simply to relate the story of that remarkably tragic life and to correlate his career to the main current of American history.”
“The author is not always accurate in his statements. Deserving of wide and thoughtful consideration.” C: F. Adams.
+ −
Am. Hist. R. 13: 878. Jl. ’08. 1050w.
“As a biography the book is satisfactory; as a history it is not adequate.”
+ −
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 178. Je. ’08.
“Notwithstanding his superior qualities, Professor Dodd must take heed lest his errors furnish hostile critics with weapons for his own destruction.”
+ −
Nation. 86: 556. Je. 18, ’08. 700w.
“Prof. Dodd has written this history with a scholarly grace and manly sympathy that makes it in itself delightful reading.”
+
N. Y. Times. 13: 92. F. 15, ’08. 150w.
“Professor Dodd has performed a difficult task well, writing sympathetically of the President of the short-lived Confederacy, yet not allowing his sympathies to run away with his judgment.”
+
Outlook. 88: 562. Mr. 7, ’08. 300w.
R. of Rs. 37: 380. Mr. ’08. 230w.
Dodge, Theodore Ayrault. Napoleon: a history of the art of war. (Great captains.) 4v. il. ea. **$4. Houghton.
4–13231.
v. 3. Covers the period of Napoleon’s decline from the beginning of the peninsular war to the end of the Russian campaigns.
v. 4. Deals with the history of the art of war from the battle of Lutzen thru Napoleon’s last campaign.
“This work constitutes an invaluable addition to military literature; certainly there is 102nothing else in English possessing the same scope and exhaustiveness, and, perhaps, it is not too much to say that the student may search every other language in vain for a general military history of the most consummate of the great captains which is better than Colonel Dodge’s ‘Napoleon.’” F: L: Huidekoper.
+ +
Am. Hist. R. 13: 578. Ap. ’08. 2400w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“A scholarly work.”
+
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 134. My. ’08. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“The thoroughness with which he has carried out his task is apparent even to the civilian reader.” R: W. Kemp.
+
Bookm. 27: 167. Ap. ’08. 1550w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“Colonel Dodge marshals facts and figures with passionless veracity. In the concluding volume, the author has put forth to the utmost his powers of profound investigation and lucid description.” J. R. Smith.
+
Dial. 44: 173. Mr. 16, ’08. 1000w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)