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Reading edition
“This is undoubtedly the best book upon the fire assay for gold and silver, as well as the most scientific discussion of the subject, that has yet been produced. It is written in a clear and easy style, which is less tiresome to read than most treatises of so technical a character. The index is as complete as a great majority of indexes to scientific books, but it falls far short of what it should be.” Bradley Stoughton.
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Engin. N. 58: 651. D. 12, ’07. 500w.
Furnival, Frederick James. Babees’ book: medieval manners for the young, done into English with an introd. and notes by Edith Rickert. (New medieval lib.) *$2. Duffield.
A reprint of one of the “divers treatises touching the manners and meals of Englishmen in former days.” It is primarily a book on courtesy as it was taught in homes of medieval England. The volume is bound in brown leather with clasps.
“Miss Rickert has done her work with tact and scholarship.”
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Nation. 87: 336. O. 8, ’08. 430w.
“[Has] a readable and decidedly entertaining introduction. The flavor of these old poetical and prose exhortations to courtesy and good manners has been preserved with all its quaintness.”
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Outlook. 90: 274. O. 3, ’08. 300w.
129* Furnivall, Frederick James, and Munroe, John. Shakespeare’s life and work. Cassell.
An extra volume added to the “Century Shakespeare” series. It deals with Shakespeare’s early life, and details of schooling, discusses the chronological order of his plays, and his four periods of literary activity; following which are chapters on “My experience in Shakespeare work” and “Shakespeare as revealed in his works.”
“Dr. Furnivall indulges in his own form of spelling, and, we notice, writes ‘Shakspere’ in his text, while the various title-pages have the different spelling we give above.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 473. O. 17. 200w.
“No man knows his Shakespeare better than Furnivall, and a lively, picturesque story he has made of the early life of the great dramatist, the conditions about him, followed by a careful exposition of his successive plays. A better manual for Shakespeare classes or for private reading cannot be found.”
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Ind. 65: 1071. N. 5, ’08. 170w.
“We do not expect anything new, but we find not a little illustration gathered from the writer’s very extensive acquaintance with the literature of English life and manners. We may not be able to accept all the writer’s conclusions, but they are eminently suggestive.”
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Spec. 101: 592. O. 17. ’08. 670w.
Futrelle, Jacques. Simple case of Susan. †$1.25. Appleton.
8–13276.
A rollicking comedy. Susan, the wife of a lieutenant, lunches with another lieutenant and is observed by a former suitor who, to the best of his belief, informs Marjorie Stanwood, the young woman at his side, that Susan’s companion is her husband. When Marjorie is wooed persistently by Susan’s luncheon companion, complications arise, which are finally swept away in an elopement in which Marjorie’s father and his automobile unconsciously aid.
“For the most part the story bubbles frothily along, evoking an occasional smile—a trifle much, much lighter than air.”
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Nation. 86: 580. Je. 25, ’08. 170w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 308. My. 30, ’08. 160w.
Futrelle, Jacques. Thinking machine on the case. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–9816.
A series of detective stories built up about Professor Augustus Van Dusen, a scientific detective, who is introduced to the reader at a game of chess, having been challenged by a champion as a result of exploiting the theory that by the use of logic a man who had never played the game could defeat the greatest master. The professor, after a morning’s instruction, played, won and heard his antagonist exclaim “you are a brain—a machine—a thinking machine.” It is this clever “thinking machine” which we see at work on a series of detective marvels.
“What, above all, marks Mr. Futrell’s work in this as well as the earlier book, is not the cleverness of any particular tale, but rather the consistent excellence and fertility of invention of them all.” R. A. Whay.
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Bookm. 27: 496. Jl. ’08. 770w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 208. Ap. 11, ’08. 170w.
Fynn, Arthur John. American Indian as a product of environment; with special reference to the Pueblos. **$1.50. Little.
7–34805.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
“Not a well-balanced book. Despite its amateurishness and some very obvious padding, both useful and interesting to a student of the subject, but not to the average reader.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 12. Ja. ’08.
“From the standpoint of the general reader the book must prove decidedly interesting and suggestive. It is well written in an easy entertaining style, and must be regarded as a very acceptable contribution to the growing literature popularizing the geographic control of racial development.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 710. My. ’08. 250w.
“An instructive book that might well be used by high-school students for collateral reading is Mr. Fynn’s study of the American Indian. Both the text and illustrations are good.”
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Educ. R. 34: 537. D. ’07. 40w.
“This is, with certain reservations, a pretty good book; it takes hold of the subject in the right way, and it is clear and simple.”
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Nation. 86: 244. Mr. 12, ’08. 200w.
“He has set forth only the salient features of the environment of primitive life, and he has treated these with a view to the tastes and capacities of the general reader and not of the student. It is a book for popular consumption.”
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N. Y. Times. 12: 866. D. 28, ’07. 250w.
“All of Doctor Fynn’s comments are of interest to the general reader as well as to the student of anthropology.”
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R. of Rs. 36: 757. D. ’07. 100w.