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Earhart, Lida Belle. Systematic study in the elementary schools. (Columbia university contributions to education. Teachers college series, no. 18.) Teachers college.
8–22123.
A thoughtful discussion based upon long experience. The divisions of the study are as follows: The nature of logical study, Relation of logical study to the study of the text-book, The ability of children in the elementary school to study, Are pupils being taught to study systematically in the elementary schools? and Can pupils in the elementary school be taught to study systematically?
Earp, Edwin Lee. Social aspects of religious institutions. *75c. Meth. bk.
8–2648.
“Prepared as a syllabus for the studies of theological students in a department of thought not familiar in divinity schools. It was natural that a wide territory should be covered, as religion touches all forms of life. From the technical standpoint no one subject could be exhaustively treated in such a plan, but the young minister is brought into sight of numerous problems and stimulated to follow them under the guidance of specialists.”—Am. J. Soc.
Reviewed by C. R. Henderson.
Am. J. Soc. 13: 858. My. ’08. 80w.
“He shows that he fails to distinguish between the duties which a man can discharge to another man and those which he can discharge only through or to a social group. It is no wonder then that this book makes little concrete contribution to the supply of the most insistent demand made upon the church.” A. T. Burns.
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Am. J. Theol. 12: 667. O. ’08. 640w.
Eastman, Charles Alexander. Old Indian days. †$1.50. McClure.
7–33219.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
“The light which the author throws upon Indian motive and sentiment, for he always shows how and why the Indian’s action is reasonable, from the Indian’s point of view, makes his book very interesting.”
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N. Y. Times. 12: 866. D. 28, ’07. 560w.
“For simplicity and modesty the book has a charm not found in many Caucasian authors, and Dr. Eastman’s contribution to good storytelling is conspicuous and his principles well worthy of imitation by white writers.” I. L. Bridgman.
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Putnam’s. 3: 621. F. ’08. 360w.
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R. of Rs. 37: 117. Ja. ’08. 70w.
Eaton, John. Grant, Lincoln, and the freedmen: reminiscences of the civil war with special reference to the work for the contrabands and freedmen of the Mississippi valley, from Jan. 1862–1865; Ethel Osgood Mason, collaborator. *$2. Longmans.
7–38431.
“These reminiscences have to do chiefly with the civil war, having special reference to the work for the contrabands and freedmen of the Mississippi valley. An interesting biographical sketch of General Eaton, prepared by Miss Ethel Osgood Mason, serves as an introduction to the volume.”—R. of Rs.
“The memoirs are well-planned, well-written and interesting throughout. By way of introduction and setting, Miss Mason, who has shared in their preparation, adds an admirable biographical sketch and appreciation of the author.” P. S. Peirce.
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 657. Ap. ’08. 470w.
“It is a distinct contribution to history and a very interesting book for the general reader.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 135. My. ’08.
“The most valuable part of the book is a summary of Eaton’s work among the blacks of the Mississippi valley during the war.” W. L. Fleming.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 520. Mr. ’08. 400w.
“A work of much interest.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 226. F. 22. 850w.
“Is an interesting and valuable addition to the historical literature of the civil war period.”
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Dial. 44: 136. Mr. 1, ’08. 370w.
“The book contains an unusual number of good stories of Lincoln and of Grant.”
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Educ. R. 35: 102. Ja. ’08. 70w.
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Lit. D. 36: 164. F. 1, ’08. 360w.
“This book makes a real contribution to our knowledge of the actual processes of emancipation and of the two men who did most to compass it.”
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Nation. 87: 38. Jl. 9, ’08. 680w.
“There is something altogether winning about the tone and temper of this book. Next to the account of the work among the freedmen, Eaton’s narrative of his intercourse with Grant is the most suggestive part of the volume.” W. A. Dunning.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 23: 320. Je. ’08. 1200w.
R. of Rs. 37: 114. Ja. ’08. 70w.
“The story which he tells is one of great interest.”
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Spec. 100: 231. F. 8, ’08. 470w.
Eaton, Walter Prichard. American stage of to-day. *$1.50. Small.
8–31171.
Contains chiefly articles which the author as dramatic critic for the New York sun has contributed to that paper. A chapter on Our infant industry (the creating of an American drama) shows that the authors who are at the fore in the movement are dramatists who connect our drama with life, who are leading our stage on toward better things by making it a vital force in the community. Informing descriptive and critical chapters follow which measure up some of the successful present-day plays.
“If not of any importance or weight, the book is certainly readable.”
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Ind. 65: 1179. N. 19, ’08. 80w.
“Mr. Eaton is a young man of much natural ability, fortified by extensive reading, who has a copious vocabulary, a fluent and attractive style, a pretty wit, the courage of his opinions, and a fine contempt for those who do not happen to agree with them. But he is lacking in catholicity of taste, breadth of view, and power of comparison.”
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Nation. 87: 471. N. 12, ’08. 400w.
“The book is not quite as large as the title. It will not circulate in so many states. But it is all readable. It is a cheerful and buoyant little work, which is rare when the subject is theatrical.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 687. N. 21, ’08. 880w.
Eddy, Arthur Jerome. Ganton & co.: a story of Chicago commercial and social life. †$1.50. McClurg.
8–28058.
A story built up around the indefatigable energy and industry of one Ganton of a mammoth meat-packing concern. Social and labor problems abound, with a full characterization of the self-made man of low ideals whose god is money and whose highest aim is commercial power.
“Because the ponderous indomitable far-seeing figure of old Ganton is never out of our sight for a moment, whether he is on the scene or not; because his mood controls at all time the mood of the book; because in short the tempo of the story is so admirably sustained 109from first to last,—because of this the comings and goings of a little world of rather unimportant people becomes fraught with a rather vital interest.” F: T. Cooper.
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Bookm. 28: 380. D. ’08. 530w.
“He has attempted only to make a study of life, customs, and character against the background of a huge business concern. On the whole, the task has been rather too large for him, but he must be credited with remarkable success in his delineation of the personality of old man Ganton.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 556. O. 10, ’08. 670w.
Edminster, Clothier Franklin. Structural drawing. $2.50. Pub. by the author; for sale by Williams.
7–38620.
“The book opens with the usual instructions concerning drafting materials, which are followed by a collection of geometrical problems. Simple projection such as is used in preparing working drawings is then explained, after which structural drafting is taken up in detail.”—Engin. Rec.
“The mechanical draftsman who may have, from time to time, structural drawing to do, as well as the student and mechanic interested in structural drawing, will find this work of value.”
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Engin. D. 3: 420. Ap. ’08. 130w.
“As a portfolio of plates supplementary to oral instruction the book may have some value to a beginner, but the paucity of explanatory text deprives the drawings of much of their usefulness. The drawings themselves would be clearer if they had been drawn with a view to reproduction.”
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Engin. N. 59: 208. F. 20, ’08. 120w.
“The book as a whole is an excellent outline of the somewhat special class of drafting necessary for steel.”
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Engin. Rec. 56: 692. D. 21, ’07. 220w.
Edwards, Alba M. Labor legislation of Connecticut. (Publications of the American economic assn. Third ser., v. 7, no. 3.) pa. $1. Macmillan.
7–30620.
The purpose of the author is “to discuss the labor legislation of Connecticut historically and critically, and ... to trace the economic effects of the different laws.” “In scope the work covers factory legislation (including child labor), the employment contract, employers’ liability, boycotting and blacklisting, free public employment bureaus, mediation and arbitration, the union label, the barbers’ license law, and convict labor, with a separate chapter on the State bureau of labor statistics.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
“A valuable contribution to the literature of social legislation.” J. L. Barnard.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 521. Mr. ’08. 350w.
“May be placed side by side with Miss Whittlesey’s work on the labor legislation of Massachusetts. The information is valuable, and generally it is presented in a plain, straightforward manner, though at times the main points are somewhat obscured by a mass of historical detail.” J: C. Kennedy.
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J. Pol. Econ. 16: 120. F. ’08. 850w.
Edwards, John Harrington. God and music. *$1.25. Baker.
A new edition which corrects errors and eliminates the more fanciful portions. The object is still to “give reasonable proof that music, by its constitution, correlations, and effects, discloses a Supreme Being.”
“Vague, dogmatic, diffuse, and rather tiresome.”
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Nation. 86: 474. My. 21, ’08. 300w.
* Egerton, Hakluyt. Liberal theology and the ground of faith: essays towards a conservative re-statement of apologetic. **$1.25. Dutton.
“A contribution towards a conservative restatement of religious thought” which is directed in part against the “new theology” of Dr. Campbell. There are two essays, Liberal theology and The ground of faith. “His attitude toward science and toward the Bible is distinctively liberal. The apostolic presentation of Christian doctrine is viewed as ‘temporal,’ changeable in changed times. The conservatism he stands for is contrasted with liberalism, not as non-progressive, rather as not preoccupied with ‘novelty.’” (Outlook.)
“Mr. Egerton has written a brilliant and valuable essay [Ground of faith]. It deserves to be published by itself, and not to be discounted by being bound up with the longer and greatly inferior treatment of ‘Liberal theology.’” E. S. Drown.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 670w.
“With no unkindly words for his opponents, he reasons in a calm, irenic style against all modernists of the Ritschlian and Hegelian type.”
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Outlook. 90: 458. O. 24, ’08. 170w.
Eggleston, George Cary. Two gentlemen of Virginia. †$1.50. Lothrop.
8–22541.
“Mr. Eggleston, scion of an excellent Virginia family, brought up in the west, and domiciled in the North these many years, writes of Virginians specifically for the New England reader—his book Virginians have the same relation to the real Virginian that the black-faced comedian in the minstrel show—of which Northern audiences are so fond—has to the real cornfield darky.... This particular story deals with a pretty girl who was saved from a convent in New Orleans, with an old gentleman of the old school, with a grand dame of the old school, and with two young men who are in love with the pretty girl.”—N. Y. Times.
“The book fails of its purpose, because it has not enough virility to save the men of the book from mere foppishness.”
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Ind. 65: 785. O. 1, ’08. 130w.
“By and large Mr. Eggleston’s Virginians are fantastic figments—the delicacy of his heroines and the theatricality of his heroes is all of melodrama and none of life.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 478. Ag. 29, ’08. 400w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
Eggleston, George Cary. Warrens of Virginia: a novel founded on the play of William C. De Mille. †$1.50. Dillingham.
8–22798.
A story based upon the play whose subject “belongs to Mr. Eggleston’s chosen field, but the spirit sought in the play was the spirit of Thomas Nelson Page—of ‘Marse Chan’ and ‘Meh Lady’—not the spirit of ‘Dorothy South.’... The love story is the old story—the story of ‘Meh Lady’—of the girl of the South and her lover of the North—of battles, scoutings, captures, life in prison, chivalrous conduct on both sides, (and the reverse,) misunderstandings, bitterness, and reconciliation.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Mr. Belasco’s atmosphere is romance, his instrument illusion. Mr. Eggleston produces no illusions.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 459. Ag. 22, ’08. 200w.
Egypt and how to see it; il. by A. O. Lamplough. **$1.40. Doubleday.
8–35364.
A handy little guide for the Egyptian tourist, whose aim is to point out the things most worth seeing, and to help the traveler to economize time, money and fatigue. “The text is written in a style considerably less impersonal than that of the out-and-out guide-book, but it 110is systematically arranged, and there are outlines of tours of various length, an English-Arabic vocabulary, lists of hotels and banks, time-tables of the Egyptian state railway, and much other useful information for travellers. And a traveller through Egypt everyone who looks at Mr. Lamplough’s pictures will long to become.” (Dial.)
“Appears to be a practical, useful guidebook.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 135. My. ’08.
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Dial. 44: 355. Je. 1, ’08. 130w.
Eldridge, George Dyre. In the potter’s house. †$1.50. Doubleday.
8–4438.
“This exhibition of shapes of clay includes the wide extremes that may be met in a Maine village untouched by modern thought. It embraces the minister who is of the oldest theological type, and the particularly unpleasant and explicit primitive man. Between these are to be found every shade of the godless and the hell-fearing; deacons and Dogberries with varyingly elastic views of theology and conduct.”—Nation.
“While certain incidents may be classed as ‘powerful’ the really strong is outweighed by the repellant.”
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Nation. 86: 402. Ap. 30, ’08. 170w.
“Though the author has failed in creating the impression he presumably intended to create, he has written with sincerity, and he succeeds in holding the reader’s interest in the thread of his story. The book is a promise rather than a performance.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 362. Je. 27, ’08. 280w.
“It will be admitted that there is a great deal of strength in [the book].”
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R. of Rs. 37: 763. Je. ’08. 70w.
Eldridge, William Tillinghast. Meryl. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–9814.
A story of kidnapping and theft planned for the purpose of depriving a young girl of her heritage. The drama is enacted on the shores of Winnepesaukee lake, and one Bob Hernald, booked for a rest at a club house, chances all unwittingly to play into the hands of the kidnappers. Straightway he learns of his mistake, and atones for his blunder by proving most useful in solving a mystery and rounding up a villain. He does not go unrewarded by the heroine.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 351. Je. 20, ’08. 180w.
Elgood, George S. Italian gardens, after drawings by G: S. Elgood, R. I., with notes by the artist. *$12. Longmans.
8–14727.
The descriptive and historical bits concerning the formal, time-honored gardens of Italy here so handsomely pictured have been subordinated to the drawings. The gardens reproduced are those surrounding Roman, Florentine and Tuscan villas, villas of Frascati, Viterbo and northern Italy. Fountains, clipped trees and hedges, foliage in masses, and flowers of varied hues all test the artist’s skill for reproduction.
“His strength lies in detail, whether it be a blaze of colour, as in the group of crimson azaleas, or some beautiful spot with an architectural feature as a centre; but the garden in its broader and serener aspects is hardly represented here.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 768. Je. 20. 560w.
“A fitting companion to the delightful book on English gardens which Mr. Elgood brought out some four years ago.”
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Int. Studio. 38: 250. Ja. ’08. 360w.
“The artist has studied his subject exhaustively, but, we regret to say, prosaically, for in these water-colours the wonderful poetry and romance of the villa gardens of Italy have escaped the painter.”
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Spec. 100: 1004. Je. 27, ’08. 50w.
* Eliot, Charles William. University of administration. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–32425.
The N. W. Harris lectures for 1908. They compass all the branches of university administration in its numerous departments of teaching, in its financial and maintenance departments, its museums, laboratories, and libraries, in its extensive grounds and numerous buildings, and in its social organization. The chapters are: University trustees; An inspecting and consenting body—alumni influence; The university faculty; The elective system; Methods of instruction; Social organization—the president—general administration.
“We may look upon this volume as an epitome, or record, of a life devoted to the service of Harvard, and, through Harvard, of the nation and the world—a devotion and a service for which the fitting reward is the gratitude and regard of thousands of men and women and the approval of conscience.”
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Nation. 87: 551. D. 3, ’08. 2000w.
Elliot, George F. S. Chile: its history and development, natural features, products, commerce and present conditions; with an introd. by Martin Hume. *$3. Scribner.
7–40116.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
“There has been little attempt to go back to the original sources. Indeed the great collections of documents do not appear to have come within Mr. Elliot’s horizon. The book should really be judged simply as an entertaining handbook. From this standpoint the work has been well although rather hastily done.” Hiram Bingham.
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 919. Jl. ’08. 550w.
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 258. N. ’08. ✠
Dial. 44: 181. Mr. 16, ’08. 250w.
“The account of economic conditions will be of greatest value to the more general reader rather than the economist.”
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J. Pol. Econ. 16: 635. N. ’08. 40w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 122. F. 29, ’08. 170w.
“The only thing that can be suggested as an improvement to this work is the addition of a smaller and more easily handled map for frequent reference.”
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Outlook. 88: 44. Ja. 4, ’08. 290w.
“A perusal of Mr. Elliot’s book certainly leaves the impression that it is a compilation made at home rather than a digest of data acquired personally on the spot. It is not devoid of interest and, so far as it goes, it does justice to the Chileans, but it is too deficient in selection, proportion and topical arrangement to be of much value to the public.” W: R. Shepherd.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 23: 348. Je. ’08. 650w.
“He has produced a clear and readable narrative. Mr. Scott Elliot’s book should prove invaluable to those who want to know something about the most virile and the most law-abiding of all the South American peoples.”
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Spec. 100: 103. Ja. 18, ’08. 520w.
Ellis, Elizabeth. Fair Moon of Bath. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–8093.
Bath is the scene of this story of the times of the Jacobite uprising. The hero is an intrepid youth who readily enlists his wits and sword in the cause of romance and whose Hanovarian sympathies are never allowed to come between him and his friendship for friends pledged to the House of Stuart. The heroine, the Moon of Bath, is less exacting and more charming than the usual cloak-and-sword story heroine.
“A light, pleasant book.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 220. Je. ’08.
“A good example of the fiction produced by 111the theory that its ultimate and highest function is merely to entertain.” F: T. Cooper.
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Bookm. 27: 580. Ag. ’08. 280w.
“Miss Ellis is to be congratulated upon her success in dealing freshly with this well-worn theme.” W: M. Payne.
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Dial. 44: 352. Je. 1, ’08. 200w.
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Ind. 65: 549. S. 3, ’08. 180w.
“The motive power is neither history nor human nature, and, except for a pleasant touch here and there of fancy, the story left us uninterested and unmoved. If the author would try another branch of the art the result might be very different, for the book shows dramatic power and a sense of humour.”
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Lond. Times. 6: 381. D. 13, ’07. 200w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The book is an excellent specimen of its sort, light and daintily written, with verve and taste to attract any one who likes work well done, aside from the mere story interest.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 245. Ap. 25, ’08. 150w.
Ellis, Havelock. Soul of Spain. **$2. Houghton.
8–17935.
Twenty years of close study and close scrutiny lie back of Mr. Ellis’ impressions which offer a series of inductions and psychological conclusions. Some of his sixteen chapters are the Spain of old romance, The women of Spain (in which he refutes the “Carmen” idea of the woman of Spain), The art of Spain, Velasquez, Spanish dancing, Don Quixote, The gardens of Granada, Seville in spring, and Spanish ideals of to-day.
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 179. Je. ’08.
“It is unquestionably one of the best books on Spain published during the last few years. We have noted a few oversights for correction, apart from misprints.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 264. S. 5. 820w.
“There is perhaps little that is new in the book, yet the discussion, being philosophical and suggestive, forms interesting reading.” G: G. Brownell.
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Dial. 45: 113. S. 1, ’08. 400w.
“His latest book is a delightful blend of the comments of a thoroly informed and appreciative traveler and the observations of a keen student of races and social affairs.”
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Ind. 65: 614. S. 10, ’08. 300w.
“The book, as a whole, both pleases and stimulates.”
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Nation. 87: 38. Jl. 9, ’08. 480w.
“One of the best and most enlightening books on Spain and the Spaniards that have ever appeared. Mr. Ellis is that rare combination, a scientist who is also a poet, and he is sensitive of much that scientists, as such, never feel.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 262. My. 9, ’08. 1070w.
“We may be grateful to him for his careful and often profound study of the character of the people.” A. J. du P. Coleman.
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Putnam’s. 4: 748. S. ’08. 500w.
“Seldom, if ever, we are persuaded has there been written a more closely woven, subtle, and fascinating analysis of a national character and type by a writer of another widely different stock than Havelock Ellis’ ‘Soul of Spain.’”
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R. of Rs. 37: 758. Je. ’08. 170w.
Ellis, John Breckenridge. Arkinsaw cousins: a story of the Ozarks. †$1.50. Holt.
8–5878.
The Thornberry cousins whose “little nothingnesses” of every-day life make up this story include individuals differing in occupation and standing, but clannish in family relations and loyal to their cousinship claims. It is the homely, intimate pictures of humdrum village life, enlivened by clear cut characters that give the book a touch of realism and charm.
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 155. My. ’08. ✠
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Ind. 64: 1452. Je. 25, ’08. 600w.
“‘Arkinsaw cousins’ is striking among stories of its kind for its spontaneity, its zest born of affectionate intimacy with the subject. Consequently, though it is not without crudity of detail, the affair as a whole is unusually refreshing.”
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Nation. 86: 354. Ap. 16, ’08. 300w.
“It is a sprightly narrative, told with a good deal of humor, especially in its portrayal of character.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 166. Mr. 28, ’08. 150w.
“Not an inviting picture. The effect of the narrative is crude, though there is good material in it.”
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Outlook. 88: 653. Mr. 21, ’08. 100w.
Elson, Arthur. Music club programs from all nations. $1.25. Ditson.
7–39405.
Giving an historical outline of each national school of music, with questions for study, and a series of programs for the use of clubs and other organizations. In arranging his programs, Mr. Elson offers three grades: easy, medium and difficult.
“The selections have been made with judgment, and the whole work will prove a distinctly practical help to students of music.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 101. Ap. ’08. ✠
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Dial. 44: 112. F. 16, ’08. 100w.
“The distinct value of this publication lies in its direct appeal to common sense and ordinary intelligence. Stripped of the mystifying ‘shibboleth’ of the average singing master, the treatise well deserves study from either professional or amateur.”
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Ind. 64: 472. F. 27, ’08. 120w.
“Undoubtedly meets a genuine need.”
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Ind. 65: 321. Ag. 6, ’08. 60w.
“Such a book, undoubtedly, has been a desideratum. Excellent judgment is shown in the choice of pieces. Mr. Elson’s book might also be used as a brief sketch of the history of concert music.”
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Nation. 86: 134. F. 6, ’08. 260w.
Elton, Oliver. Modern studies. *$2.10. Longmans.
8–5194.
These essays characterized by “their good sense and compendious material” include informing studies on Tennyson, Swinburne, George Meredith, Henry James, Living Irish literature, Recent Shakespeare criticism, The meaning of literary history, Giordano Bruno in England, Literary fame, Color and imagery in Spenser and A word on mysticism.
“Without the vigour of poetic originality, he has the beautiful correctness of poetic sensibility. If we say, then, that his critical work is not very great work, we must add that it is very fine work—work that, in the present condition of our civilization, is becoming dangerously rare.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 818. D. 28. 1000w.
“His traditions of literary criticism are the best; his appreciation of the growing importance of natural science in the literary field is significant of his keen and forward vision; his advocacy of comparative literature must win unhesitating approval; his outlook on life is clear and wide; his sympathies are at once advanced and catholic.” F. B. R. Hellems.
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Dial. 44: 206. Ap. 1, ’08. 2800w.
“Altogether this is a book of erudition and insight, although its materials are not always fused into complete uniformity.”
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Nation. 86: 57. Ja. 16, ’08. 530w.
“Is a wholly delightful book, scholarly, acute, and invariably interesting.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 131. Mr. 7, ’08. 350w.
“Solid and versatile attainment is the principal quality that strikes us in reading these reprinted essays. In respect of illumination their merits are patchy. Above all—to state at once the most serious defect and so have done with it—they rather lack that first of 112critical virtues, simplicity. To read these essays is to breathe the atmosphere of enlightened but rather thick quarterlies.”
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Sat. R. 104: 766. D. 21, ’07. 1420w.
“Each ‘study’ appears to us to be a masterpiece of compressed and accurate knowledge.”
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Spec. 100: 267. F. 15, ’08. 500w.
Eltzbacher, Paul. Anarchism; tr. by Steven T. Byington. $1.50. Tucker, B: R.
8–5260.
“Through extracts from the writings of anarchists we have a methodical presentation of the views of Godwin, Proudhon, Stirner, Balcuim, Kropotkin, Tucker, and Tolstoi, as well as summarizing chapters giving the opinion of the author. The translator, a follower of Tucker, adds a critical preface pointing out the strong and weak points in the book and some critical notes especially in the chapter on Tucker, which has also been augmented by him.”—J. Pol. Econ.
“The book is particularly timely. The style is scientific in the extreme, heavy and uninteresting, yet to the student in search of the fundamental principles underlying the science of anarchy, the facts are presented in a masterful way, worthy of the highest commendation.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 442. S. ’08. 420w.
“Dr. Eltzbacher deserves great credit, not only for his own fair and luminous exposition of the philosophy of anarchy, but also for the manner in which he has presented the thoughts of the greatest anarchistic masters in their own words. The work ... should find a place in the libraries of all thinkers interested in political, social and economic philosophy.”
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Arena. 39: 380. Mr. ’08. 1100w.
“Every public library should have for completeness’ sake some representative of this school of thought, and this small volume presents it in its most authoritative and least objectionable form.”
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Ind. 64: 810. Ap. 9, ’08. 350w.
“This translation makes available for English readers one of the most complete and concise accounts of the teachings of the leading anarchists.”
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J. Pol. Econ. 16: 247. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“The weakest part of the book is the preliminary statement of Dr. Eltzbacher’s own views on law, the state, and property—views presented with needless wordiness and repetition, difficult to grasp and made more difficult by a fondness for terms of many syllables.”
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Outlook. 88: 565. Mr. 7, ’08. 300w.
“This is perhaps the handiest and most satisfactory manual on the teachings of leading anarchists. The book should be in the hands of all students of modern movements who have not time to investigate for themselves.”
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Pol. Sci. Q. 23: 558. S. ’08. 130w.
Emerald and ermine: a tale of the Argoat by the author of “The martyrdom of an empress.” *$1.50. Harper.
7–33591.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
“Is a reversion to type, absurd because it is out of drawing with the mind of the times.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.
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Ind. 64: 183. Ja. 23, ’08. 230w.
“There is a vivid quality to these pages, and the characters are drawn with an intense sympathy, a sympathy that communicates itself to the reader.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 66. F. 8, ’08. 180w.
England, Minnie Throop. Statistical inquiry into the influence of credit upon the level of prices. (In Nebraska. University. University studies. v. 7, no. 1.) pa. $1. Univ. of Neb.
7–19450.
“A monograph inspired by the question ‘does business create money or money create business.’ It is a statistical argument in favor of the quantity theory of money, or rather of the influence of credit on prices, in opposition to the views held by Professor Laughlin, who has maintained that this is a reversal to cause and effect. The method employed by Miss England ... consists in noting the years of lowest and highest points for prices, clearings, loans, note circulations, deposits, etc.”—Yale R.
J. Pol. Econ. 15: 571. N. ’07. 200w.
“The tables which Miss England has constructed are of much value and interest to the economist even though we may not all concur in some of the conclusions she draws from them. These criticisms, however, relate more to the form of the statement than to the contentions of Miss England, against whose statistics, and the general conclusions from them, we have no fundamental objections.” I. F.
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Yale R. 17: 238. Ag. ’08. 640w.
Enock, C. Reginald. Andes and the Amazon: life and travel in Peru. *$5. Scribner.
7–38359.
The Peru of romance gives way in this treatment to the Peru of present day practicalism. The author is a mining engineer who in the light of modern progress discusses with professional keenness the mineral wealth, the undeveloped resources of the country, the prospects of creating means of access to the interior, and the facilities of communication for commercial purposes. Good maps illustrate, and an index adds to the value of the book.
“It should be of service to those whose interests, commercial, scientific or geographical, are concerned with that wonderful part of the world.”
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Acad. 73: 163. N. 23, ’07. 320w.
“In describing the Peru of to-day, Mr. Enock is at his best. His philosophy is not deep, but his statements are often interesting. There is little that throws any light on modern Peruvian history or politics.” Hiram Bingham.
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 664. Ap. ’08. 400w.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 180. Je. ’08.
“Mr. Enock’s criticism of the various institutions and his comments on South American relations are essentially different from those of a citizen of the United States, nevertheless they do not detract from the utility of the book.” H: R. Ringe.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 728. My. ’08. 350w.
“Mr. Enock’s book presents a sufficiently graphic picture of some aspects of the country in an early transitional stage, but its treatment is too slight and unscientific to make it of much permanent value. To the general reader it may be more confidently recommended, for it contains hardly a dull page.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 679. N. 30. 1650w.
“His rovings were conducted in such a hearty spirit, with such a commendable leisure, and are written down in such a pleasing manner, that his book adds much to our rapidly accumulating library on South American affairs.” H. E. Coblentz.
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Dial. 44: 107. F. 16, ’08. 200w.
“It is as a scientific engineer and a mining expert that Mr. Enock is especially strong. On the subject of the church in Peru he shows he can write in a spirit of pure prejudice on a subject of which he has no first-hand knowledge.”
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Lond. Times. 6: 387. D. 20, ’07. 1150w.
“Every student of Spanish America owes him a debt of gratitude, for he has made a study of modern Peru such as no other foreigner has ever attempted.”
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Nation. 86: 423. My. 7, ’08. 300w.
“One of the best of recent books about South America. Mr. Enock is a good traveler, whose records of his travels is blemished only by an occasional and unsuccessful attempt at fine writing.”
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N. Y. Times. 12: 851. D. 21, ’07. 370w.
113“Informative text.”
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Outlook. 88: 280. F. 1, ’08. 140w.
“Although Mr. Enock’s book is entertaining and in many respects instructive, it is too desultory to give the reader anything like a complete view of Peruvian conditions. As literature, its value is seriously impaired by an irresistible bent toward fine writing.” W: R. Shepherd.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 23: 349. Je. ’08. 350w.
“Mr. Enock writes with a fullness of knowledge—and a superfluity of words—gained by much travel across the mountains into the Montana. He is but slightly historical, though he has not a little to tell of the vestiges of Inca civilisation; and the chief interest of the book lies in its graphic sketches of scenes and people.”
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Sat. R. 104: 640. N. 23, ’07. 220w.
Erman, Adolf. Handbook of Egyptian religion; tr. from the original German by A. S. Griffith. *$3. Dutton.
8–35517.
A popular manual which serves as a guide to the Berlin Imperial museums. During more than thirty years the author has studied the monuments of Egyptian religion and his conclusions set down here represent the working basis of the Berlin school’s theories.
“An excellent popular presentation by an authority on the subject.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 180. Je. ’08.
“Perhaps the greatest inversion of facts to fit the author’s theories occurs in Prof. Erman’s constant resort to punning or assonance as a link between unrelated words. The book is an excellent guide to the rich Egyptian museum of Berlin.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 117. Ag. 3. 1000w.
Essays, philosophical and psychological, in honor of William James, professor in Harvard university, by his colleagues at Columbia university. **$3. Longmans.
8–12972.
These nineteen essays “diverse in point of view, in subject, and in quality,” (Nation.) contributed by nineteen expounders of philosophy and psychology, treat of ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, logic, psychology, and the history of philosophy. The book is a tribute to Professor James’s work and his influence on his colleagues.
“This sort of book is the delight of the reader and the despair of the reviewer.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 430. O. 10. 830w.
“The present papers are on a high level of excellence.”
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Educ. R. 36: 102. Je. ’08. 160w.
“The book, as a whole, is easy and pleasant reading, and shows serious attempts to grapple with some of the most important problems of philosophy. The method of short essays has the drawback that no really difficult subject can be treated as fully as would be necessary for an adequate discussion; but, within the inevitable limitation, many of the essays will be found stimulating and highly suggestive.” B. Russell.
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Hibbert, J. 7: 203. O. ’08. 1700w.
“For those interested in the development of philosophy in America, and qualified to do serious reading on the subject, a more excellent index to the present status could hardly be found. It is to be regretted that none of these admirers of Professor James is capable of imitating his light and lively style.”
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Ind. 65: 780. O. 1, ’08. 670w.
“This beautiful volume is an honor not only to William James, but to the contributors.”
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Nation. 87: 37. Jl. 9, ’08. 570w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 339. Je. 13, ’08. 160w.
“It is a book whose tone is distinguished for breadth and tolerance.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 422. Ag. 1, ’08. 660w.
“Apart from all personal association ... this volume has a distinctive value.”
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Outlook. 89: 626. Jl. 18, ’08. 170w.
“Remarkable volume of essays.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 126. Jl. ’08. 80w.
“Their interest is less their positive contribution to thought than the light which they cast upon the directions in which American thought is moving.”
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Spec. 101: 267. Ag. 22, ’08. 1500w.
Eve, George W. Heraldry as art: an account of its development and practice, chiefly in England. *$5. Scribner.
8–15734.
“A ‘trade catalogue’ of the well-known engraver of book-plates and designer of heraldic decorations whose name appears on the title-page, a considerable percentage of the large illustrations being from examples of his own works. The book contains some three hundred pages, mostly made up of the elementary chapters which appear in the work of every writer on heraldry who has not got beyond the limits of the current handbooks.”—Ath.
“In many ways it is as good a work as any other manual at present in the field for the beginner in heraldic art.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 295. Mr. 7. 230w.
“Will prove extremely useful to designers who have occasion to introduce heraldic symbols into their work. Mr. Eve is thoroughly at home in the subject, and his exposition of the rules governing the use of heraldic figures is both lucid and exhaustive.”
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Int. Studio. 33: 337. F. ’08. 70w.
“The utility of such a popular treatise as this must lie in its illustrations, unless indeed it is wrought into a rather dull book of reference, a mere glossary of technical terms.”
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Nation. 87: 219. S. 3, ’08. 480w.
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Spec. 99: 829. N. 23, ’07. 100w.
Everts, Katherine Jewell. Speaking voice: principles of training simplified and condensed. **$1. Harper.
A practical handbook whose aim is to furnish simple, practical instruction in the training of the speaking voice. Miss Everts demands only fifteen minutes each day for the training which will convert “our high-pitched, harsh, hard American instrument of torture into the low-toned, efficient agent of personality it was intended by nature to be.” The divisions of the study are the following: The tuning of the instrument; Learning to re-enforce the tone; The technique of the instrument; and Studies in the vocal interpretation of literature.
“A vivacious discussion of the proper management of the voice in ordinary conversation.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 628. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“Miss Everts’s interesting and thoroughly usable book combines in rare degree the knowledge of the mechanism of the voice with skill in making practical suggestions for individual study.”
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Outlook. 90: 611. N. 21, ’08. 500w.
Everyman: a morality play; ed. with an introduction, notes and bibliography by Montrose J. Moses. *$1. Kennerley.
8–20701.
A student’s “Everyman” furnished with an eighty-page introduction tracing the dramatic development of which it is a part; with notes; and with a bibliography of works concerning the different periods surveyed in the introduction.
114Ewald, Carl. Old room; tr. from the Danish by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. †$1.25. Scribner.
8–10275.
“A study of domestic tragedy, complicated by the strange moods of an abnormal man and a still more abnormal woman. Over all hovers the furtive shadow of that madness which gives to the story its dreadful climax. The old room is a secret chamber which sturdy ancestors consecrated as the altar of the family and the home.”—Bookm.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 220. Je. ’08.
“If one is strongly addicted to Ibsen, and delights in allopathic doses of the dismal, ‘The old room’ may be very heartily endorsed. For what Carl Ewald started out to do has been very admirably done.”
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Bookm. 27: 240. My. ’08. 350w.
“This searching allegory probes deeper than all the ‘divorce novels’ ever written. The little volume is as full of suggestive symbolism as an Ibsen play, and its simple but illusive language will be as variously interpreted by different readers.”
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Ind. 64: 809. Ap. 3, ’08. 550w.
Nation. 86: 469. My. 21, ’08. 120w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 212. An. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The book is as modern, as openly significant, and as puzzling and elusive in its significance as an Ibsen drama, and far more beautifully and poetically imagined and worked out. The translation seems to have preserved to a remarkable degree the unique flavor of the original. It possesses the welcome distinction of not being illustrated.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 268. My. 9, ’08. 650w.
“We do not see in it the great beauty of form or thought claimed for it by its admirers, and especially by the translator. It will appeal to readers who crave the somber excitement offered by several continental writers of dramatic fiction.”
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Outlook. 89: 84. My. 9, ’08. 120w.
R. of Rs. 37: 766. Je. ’08. 70w.
Ewart, John S. Kingdom of Canada, imperial federation, the colonial conferences, the Alaska boundary, and other essays. $2.50. Morang & co.
8–19240.
“John S. Ewart, the Canadian lawyer and publicist, has brought together in a volume of some 370 pages a number of public addresses and several essays—all devoted to the large problems of Canada’s political destiny. Independence is not the goal toward which Mr. Ewart would point the way—that is to say, not independence in the sense of political separation from the British empire.”—Nation.
“While there may, therefore, be differences of opinion as to the correctness of all Mr. Ewart’s conclusions, his essays may be taken as representative of the views of at least one strong and growing school of thought in Canada; and to that extent they are of distinct interest and value.” L. J. Burpee.
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Dial. 45: 210. O. 1, ’08. 850w.
Nation. 87: 262. S. 17, ’08. 230w.
Spec. 101: 101. Jl. 18, ’08. 140w.
* Excerpta Cypria; tr. and transcribed by Claude Delaval Cobham. *$6.30. Putnam.
“The book, of over 500 quarto pages, is made up of extracts in English dress concerning the character, history, and antiquities of the island, gathered from the works of eighty different travelers of varied nationality, ranging in date from Strabo to the second half of the last century. A few documents are included, and a rather full bibliography appended, including one on the not yet forgotten Cesnola controversy.”—Nation.
“The book is eminently readable, and the translations are made in good style, and, so far as tests have been possible, with reasonable accuracy. But the compiler’s assertion that within the range of the individual excerpts nothing has been omitted which directly concerns the island is not quite true, at any rate of the quotation from Strabo.”
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Nation. 87: 462. N. 12, ’08. 180w.
“Cyprus is a treasure island for historical research. A guide for this terra incognita has now been found in Mr. C. D. Cobham. No one could be better fitted to point out its sights.”
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Sat. R. 106: 518. O. 24, ’08. 1150w.