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F., C. R. L. Mr. Gladstone at Oxford, 1890. *$1. Dutton.
Simply an account of a visit which Mr. Gladstone paid to Oxford late in life as a guest of the Fellows of All Soul’s college. “Odds and ends on all sorts of subjects, history, the classics, the personal side of politics, life ‘then and now,’ art and music, are given.” (Sat. R.)
“The little book gives glimpses of Gladstone that one is thankful not to have missed.”
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Dial. 45: 216. O. 1, ’08. 400w.
“If we can imagine Boswell become a self-conscious Oxford don, extremely afraid of his eminent friend and yet privately aware of being better informed than he on all topics, we should have had a document like the present instead of his master-piece.”
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Nation. 87: 290. S. 24, ’08. 750w.
“The author ... has, perhaps, given us a more intimate view of the great English stateman’s recreation hours than any work of the kind previously attempted.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 474. Ag. 29, ’08. 100w.
“Unfortunately C. R. L. F. seems somewhat wanting in the imagination that rekindles. Let us agree that some of the scraps here given are very entertaining. It is not easy to put the book down till most of it has been read.”
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Sat. R. 106: 81. Jl. 16, ’08. 1050w.
“Not only a very pleasant narrative, but a real contribution to our knowledge of the man.”
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Spec. 101: 367. S. 12, ’08. 1500w.
Fagan, James O. Confessions of a railroad signalman. **$1. Houghton.
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Mr. Fagan’s confessions are the outgrowth of his experience as a signalman during twenty years. His shrewd observations and logical deductions regarding mismanagement of railroads and incompetency of employes may well cause railroad officials disquieting moments. The book aims to stimulate reform. “He does not content himself with an idealist’s statement of what ought to be, but takes into account existing conditions in the operative departments of our great railroads, and attempts to show how with all the recognized difficulties of administration there may yet be worked out a scheme that will assure a far smaller proportion of fatalities in the running of our trains.” (R. of Rs.)
“Clear, thoughtful papers.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 258. N. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Fagan, in his present book, forcefully discusses, with more than ordinary intelligence, some of the problems in American railroading.”
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Ind. 65: 1005. O. 29, ’08. 220w.
“One cannot feel sure, after reading this book, that the case for the employee has been fully presented, or that officials have been charged with their proper share of responsibility.”
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Nation. 87: 519. N. 26, ’08. 350w.
“His book certainly deserves the attention of railroad men of all kinds.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 564. O. 10, ’08. 300w.
“To the layman Mr. Fagan’s writings on the 115subject of railroad accidents impress themselves as singularly judicious, fair, and well considered.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 635. N. ’08. 240w.
Faguet, Emile. Literary history of France. (Library of literary history.) $4. Scribner.
7–36933.
An authoritative survey of French writers and their works from the origin of French literature in the middle ages to the end of the nineteenth century. M. Faguet makes a point of the influences in French literature directly traceable to English literature.
“Poor as his book is on the whole, and even mischievous in parts, it yet has a redeeming feature in the liberal tribute which the author pays to the greatness of England’s greatest novelist, Samuel Richardson.” Rowland Strong.
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Acad. 73: 142. N. 16, ’07. 1200w.
“Scholarly, enthusiastic, independent in judgment, suggestive, and readable. A defect in the book is the lack of English rendering of many of the extracts.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 180. Je. ’08.
“The facts are right; and the inferences from them often right; but where are the ideas, the personal views of things, which give value to a living book?”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 435. O. 12. 1350w.
“Is not only the newest, but one of the best. What is professedly translation, the history itself, is very well done by the anonymous translator, and either for reference as to literary and biographical facts, or for critical disquisitions on the work of particular authors, the English reader may go with complete satisfaction to the history of M. Faguet.”
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Sat. R. 104: 733. D. 14, ’07. 280w.
“After the publication of such a volume as this, ignorance or neglect is indeed without excuse. It is literally crammed with information; every page is interesting and valuable. We must, however, express our regret that the translation is hardly on so high a level.”
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Spec. 99: sup. 645. N. 2, ’07. 270w.
Fairbanks, Arthur. Athenian lekythoi, with outline drawing in glaze varnish on a white ground. (Univ. of Michigan studies. Humanistic ser., v. 6.) *$4. Macmillan.
8–852.
“The white Athenian lekythoi, or oil-jugs form a distinct class in the history of Greek vase-painting. The two large classes into which the author divides his material are lekythoi in which the lines of the drawing are in glaze, and lekythoi in which the lines are in dull color. The present volume deals with the glaze-outline lekythoi; the second class is reserved for another occasion.”—Nation.
“The present monograph supplies a much-felt need.”
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Nation. 86: 408. Ap. 30, ’08. 800w.
Spec. 100: 943. Je. 13, ’08. 60w.
Fairlie, John Archibald. Essays in municipal administration. **$2.50. Macmillan.
8–2954.
“The author has here gathered together various of his public addresses and a number of valuable articles, now in many cases revised, which had previously appeared in different periodicals, besides adding a few new ones. Of two of the groups of essays one centers around ‘the problems of organization and the legal relations of the cities to the state’ and the other deals with ‘municipal functions and activities.’ A third group contains the portion of the volume which is new (about one-sixth), and gives brief sketches of various municipal activities in Europe, among which may be mentioned rather neglected Vienna.”—J. Pol. Econ.
“It is well up to Professor Fairlie’s former standard. Only two errors of any consequence have been noted.” A. R. Hatton.
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Am. J. Soc. 14: 409. N. ’08. 1100w.
“The essays are helpful and instructive, the facts are reliable, and the book plainly written.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 181. Je. ’08.
“The make-up of the book is good, it is provided with a usable index and its contents are such as to make it well worthy of ownership by any and all serious-minded students of one of our greatest problems, the government and the proper functions of municipalities.”
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Engin. N. 59: 433. Ap. 16, ’08. 300w.
“Some of the chapters are worth preservation in a book, but others are already out of date.”
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Ind. 65: 438. Ag. 20, ’08. 220w.
“The essays of the third group are hardly more than ‘observations,’ as the writer calls them, and are inferior to the rest of the volume in value.”
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J. Pol. Econ. 16: 246. Ap. ’08. 130w.
“In general it is a serviceable and informing compend, touching various phases of city history, organization, and administration.”
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Nation. 87: 286. S. 24, ’08. 400w.
“It is a pity that Prof. Fairlie is unlikely to have a numerous circle of readers, owing to the nature of his topics, but the judicious will recognize the thoroughness of his work, and the industrious will find in the book a storehouse of facts, and ample references to original authorities.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 270. My. 9, ’08. 400w.
“In outline form, Professor Fairlie’s work covers a wide range, and students of municipal government will find it helpful in many ways.”
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Outlook. 88: 797. Ap. 4, ’08. 300w.
“All the papers are worth reprinting in their present form.”
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Pol. Sci. Q. 23: 571. S. ’08. 200w.
R. of Rs. 37: 383. Mr. ’08. 50w.
Farman, Elbert Eli. Egypt and its betrayal: an account of country during the periods of Ismâil and Tewfik pashas, and of how England acquired a new empire. **$2.50. Grafton press.
8–10621.
A discussion based upon personal experiences of the author while United States consul-general at Cairo, and Judge of the International court of appeals at Alexandria. The author attacks England’s policy and points out the possibilities and short-comings of the Cromer administration.
“The book is decidedly well worth reading, especially for those already somewhat familiar with the subject, to hear ‘the other side,’ if for no other reason.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 623. N. ’08. 240w.
“We should have liked the book better if Cromer and his administration had been left out and treated of in a separate work.”
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Outlook. 89: 864. Ag. 15, ’08. 250w.
Farrar, James M. Junior congregation. 1884–1908. **$1.20. Funk.
8–29743.
Outlines in a practical way Dr. Farrar’s methods used in perfecting his young people’s organization known as the “Junior congregation.”
Farrington, Herbert M. Gates that shall not prevail. †$1.50. Lane.
“In this volume the limelight is always in evidence. It plays round the head of the modern St. Anthony, who is a famous preacher in the East End, and poses for the picture which is to set all London talking; it dances round Violetta, frail and fair; and lights her path to a public confession; and it envelopes both the prologue, where the story of his mother’s dishonour 116is related to the schoolboy whom we next meet as Brother Paul of Hoxton, and the equally dramatic close, where he discovers a father in the peerage.”—Ath.
“A strong, inspiring and uplifting romance.” A. C. Rich.
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Arena. 40: 125. Jl. ’08. 260w.
“The picture is too highly coloured to afford sustained pleasure, but should appeal—and that not unsuccessfully—to the popular taste.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 476. Ap. 18. 120w.
“The author of this book is not devoid of humour.”
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Sat. R. 106: 119. Jl. 25, ’08. 130w.
Farrington, Margaret Vere. Fra Lippo Lippi: a romance. **$1.75. Putnam.
Set in the atmosphere of Fra Lippo Lippi’s art and its inspiration, this is the pathetic story of his love for the beautiful nun of Santa Margherita, Lucrezia Buti, and of the shadow cast upon it by the venomous interference of the jealous princess Beatrice. The book contains four photogravure illustrations.
Faulkner, John Alfred. Erasmus, the scholar. (Men of the kingdom.) *$1. West. Meth. bk.
8–5815.
Erasmus the scholar, the impartial friend and critic of Catholic and Lutheran alike, is portrayed thruout the course of his great labor of love to bring both bodies to a mutual concession. The study is an important one because in the light of modernism freed from theological difference one may best interpret this great Erasmian spirit which is coming to its own.
“The frequency of acknowledged quotation gives an air of frankness to the work which is hardly borne out by an examination of the many unacknowledged quotations, especially in the translations, which are not only freely borrowed, but are mangled at discretion in a way to make their defenseless authors wince. The best parts of Professor Faulkner’s work are his little summaries of Erasmus’s supposed views on doctrinal points.”
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Am. Hist. R. 14: 170. O. ’08. 320w.
“Professor Faulkner’s memoir is not only adequately appreciative of his subject, but also duly critical, not wanting in humor, and illuminated by ample extracts from Erasmus’s famous works.”
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Outlook. 87: 266. My. 30, ’08. 200w.
Faunce, Rev. Daniel W. Mature man’s difficulties with his Bible. *75c. Am. Bapt.
8–9798.
Addressed not so much to theologians, nor yet to men of leisure who may read extended treatises, but to busy men who still find time to read the newer books and magazines which raise questions concerning biblical facts. The chapters treat the Bible in relation to mathematical certainty; scientific spirit; historical spirit; the morality and method of the Bible; and the biblical Christ and human thinking.
“A book containing many good things. But on the whole it must be pronounced inadequate to its purpose. The author does not fully grasp the difficulties occasioned to the Bible student by the modern scientific world-view.”
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Bib. World. 32: 80. Jl. ’08. 100w.
“Contains much sensible counsel concerning Scripture.”
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Ind. 64: 1405. Je. 18, ’08. 80w.
* Fay, Charles Ryle. Co-operation at home and abroad; a description and analysis. *$3. Macmillan.
8–33820.
“An English university scholar, a research student in the London School of economics, gives in this volume a vast amount of valuable information covering the entire field of co-operative activity in European countries—(1) in banking, (2) in agricultural societies for production, sale, and land tenure, (3) in workers’ societies for production and sale, (4) in co-operative stores, social and industrial, concluding with an account of co-operative law, and a large bibliography.... It is ‘not the herald of socialism, nor is it a means to combat it,’ but simply a natural outworking of the associative instinct in a line of self-help not cultivated by socialism.”—Outlook.
Ath. 1908, 2: 267. S. 5. 170w.
“A work of wide and varied practical interest for social workers is this.”
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Outlook. 90: 596. N. 14, ’08. 220w.
“It does not detract at all, but in our judgment rather enhances, the value of Mr. Fay’s work, if we see reason to demur to some of the distinctions which he draws.”
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Spec. 101: sup. 806. N. 21, ’08. 1350w.
Fea, Allan. Nooks and corners of old England. *$2.50. Scribner.
W7–227.
Away from beaten tracks “the author covers with pencil and camera counties as widely apart as Norfolk, Suffolk, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, and Yorkshire, and he has reproduced over fifty excellent photographs of both known and unknown manor-houses, churches, hamlets, and interiors. One can only be grateful to him for his notes on Beckington castle, Croscombe church, with its wonderful canopied pulpit, Melplash court, said to have been a residence of Nell Gwyn, Postlip hall, with its Elizabethan gables, and Hautboys hall, a beautiful old Tudor house, a few miles to the south-east of Oxford. In no sense a guide-book proper.” (Acad.)
“A sensible, chatty record of devious wanderings in the byways of old England, and as such may be honestly recommended to those who are not in a hurry and who love old England.”
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Acad. 73: 651. Jl. 6, ’07. 250w.
“The most we can say of the book is that it may prove attractive to those who are content with cursory descriptions of attractive places, and may lead the ordinary tourist to things of particular interest in his own country.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 237. Ag. 31. 280w.
“Mr. Fea has a large store of curious information.”
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Nation. 85: 543. D. 12, ’07. 530w.
Fenn, George Manville. Trapped by the Malays. †$1.50. Lippincott.
A book which recommends itself to girls as well as boys. It is the story “of a young English officer, not much more than a boy, and his exciting experiences in the English dominions on the other side of the world. Captured by treachery by a native prince, he and one of his soldiers escape on the rajah’s elephant, with which they have made friends.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Mr. Manville Fenn continues to deserve well of the youth of England.”
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Ath. 1907. 2: 652. N. 23. 130w.
“An exciting story.”
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N. Y. Times. 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 60w.
“In this tale of bayonet and kris Mr. Manville Fenn shows all the spirit, the humor and the knowledge of character and place which have made his stories so popular with both young readers and those whose business it is to select books for them.”
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Sat. R. 104: sup. 5. D. 7, ’07. 170w.
Ferris, George Hooper. Formation of the New Testament. **90c. Am. Bapt.
7–28619.
A “study of the rise of the books of the New Testament to pre-eminence among early Christian works, and the causes contributing to it.”—Bib. World.
“Mr. Ferris sketches the rise of the New 117Testament canon with bold and telling strokes.” E. J. Goodspeed.
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Am. J. Theol. 12: 274. Ap. ’08. 350w.
“An able and intelligent study. The presentation is popular and at the same time scholarly.”
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Bib. World. 30: 480. D. ’07. 50w.
“He has given the results of his study in clear flexible English, that never declines and never wearies the reader. This is a piece of excellent theological writing.” E: A. Wicher.
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Bib. World. 32: 138. Ag. ’08. 980w.
“A forceful and enlightening study. It should establish the author’s reputation as a writer on religious history who can at the same time master facts and exhibit their vital bearing.”
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Ind. 64: 925. Ap. 23, ’08. 300w.
“There can be no question, however, but that Mr. Ferris has put his finger upon the source of endless confusion of mind and barrenness of doctrine.... Awakening to the facts which Mr. Ferris has brought into the clear must serve as an emancipation to not a few.”
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Nation. 86: 241. Mr. 12, ’08. 700w.
“A careful, scholarly, courageous work.”
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Outlook. 88: 795. Ap. 4, ’08. 800w.
Fessenden, Francis. Life and public services of William Pitt Fessenden. 2v. **$5. Houghton.
7–37243.
A biography of a man “best entitled to rank as Maine’s prime contribution to American statesmanship.” It is the “story of a public man who never ‘put his ear to the ground’ to listen for the voice of duty, never ‘climbed into the band-wagon’ in search of office, never chose to go against his conscientious judgment a hair’s breadth rather than ‘get left.’” (Dial.)
“To such a hero, this book is a fitting tribute.” D: M. DeWitt.
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 622. Ap. ’08. 1000w.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 136. My. ’08.
“William Pitt Fessenden was a great senator and deserved a proper biography, but it cannot be said that the volumes by his son fulfil the need. The author shows slight acquaintance with the historical literature of his period.” W. L. Fleming.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 521. Mr. ’08. 400w.
“A piece of biography so morally invigorating as to deserve, in its own very different way, a place alongside the reminiscences of Carl Schurz.” W. H. Johnson.
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Dial. 44: 73. F. 1, ’08. 500w.
“A good life.”
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Ind. 64: 753. Ap. 2, ’08. 450w.
“The literary form and method of this work mark it as a real addition to the historic literature of the country.”
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Lit. D. 36: 417. Mr. 21, ’08. 450w.
“The arrangement of the matter is defective, but the matter itself is of the first class.”
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Nation. 86: 127. F. 6, ’08. 2650w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 77. F. 8, ’08. 630w.
“A work which, if in parts rather dry reading, is a distinct contribution to American political biography. Some of the numerous letters and autobiographical statements which it contains throw fresh and really helpful light on civil war men and measures.”
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Outlook. 88: 379. F. 15, ’08. 430w.
“Few biographies written by relatives show less bias—less of what Macaulay was fond of calling the ‘lues Boswelliana’. The narrative sometimes backs and fills in a manner that is confusing, and exception could easily be taken to some of the statements; yet, as a whole, the work has been well done.” P. L. Haworth.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 23: 132. Mr. ’08. 850w.
“Full and very satisfactory account.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 113. Ja. ’08. 180w.
Field, Louise Maunsell. Katharine Trevalyan. †$1.50. McClure.
8–10431.
Against the unhealthy background furnished by craven types selected from fashionable New York, the author places his unworldly-minded heroine. She is drawn into a net of matrimony by a contemptible fortune hunter, frees herself from its meshes, and slips away disillusioned, having discovered that reciprocity—a thing she had never experienced—is at the foundation of the human bond. Her supreme moment comes when real love proves the truth of her theory and she is no longer outside of life.
Nation. 87: 36. Jl. 9, ’08. 370w.
“It has plenty of flesh-and-blood characters, and an easy style, but it falls short of absorbing the attention.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 242. Ap. 25, ’08. 50w.
Field, Michael, pseud. (Catherine Bradley and Edith Cooper). Wild honey from various thyme. *$1.65. Wessels.
“A collection of sonnets and lyrics of which, the inspiration is mainly classical, but which show an unclassical luxuriance of imagery.” (Spec.)
“The undoubted poetical taste and feeling displayed ... are largely discounted by a serious lack of discriminating power.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 414. Ap. 4. 330w.
“Here are nearly two hundred lyrics and sonnets, packed with thought, and arresting in their originality of expression.” W: M. Payne.
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Dial. 45: 63. Ag. 1, ’08. 450w.
Nation. 87: 35. Jl. 9, ’08. 150w.
“Each of the poems in the present collection conveys to the mind a picture with color and design and atmosphere.” E. L. Cary.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 424. Ag. 1, ’08. 200w.
“The work is always musical and accomplished, and now and then, as in ‘Chariclo,’ it attains real distinction.”
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Spec. 100: 463. Mr. 21, ’08. 40w.
Figgis, John Neville. Studies of political thought from Gerson to Grotius, 1414–1625; the Birkbeck lectures delivered in Trinity college, 1900. *$1.10. Putnam.
7–32802.
A literary revision of the Birkbeck lectures, delivered nearly ten years ago. The author discusses the transition of political thought from the province of the church to that of the state. “The nature and source of all authority is the final object of political research. From this everything else flows easily: communication is established on this basis with all the controversies that distracted medieval society and that form the subject of this book. The relationship of church and state—involving of necessity interminable arguments about the nature of a state, its rights, its moral code—the position of the individual in society: such are some of the catchwords of dispute throughout this fruitful period of political theorising.” (Sat. R.)
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Ath. 1907, 2: 145. Ag. 10. 2200w.
“In detail, unfortunately, the volume leaves a good deal to be desired.” P. V. M. Benecke.
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Eng. Hist. R. 23: 352. Ap. ’08. 800w.
“This is an extremely valuable contribution to historical and political science. It embodies broad suggestion rather than detailed information; it is philosophical, not descriptive. A deep and accurate scholarship is revealed on every page, and the insight that gives life and usefulness to mere learning is not less conspicuous. There are very few points on which a critic familiar with the subject would venture to question the accuracy of Mr. Figgis in either his facts or his interpretations.” W: A. Dunning.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 708. D. ’07. 1320w.
“We congratulate Mr. Figgis on the publication of these lectures, and we hope that the wider audience will appreciate their value.”
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Sat. R. 104: 455. O. 12, ’07. 1300w.
118* Filippi, Filippo de. Ruwenzori: being an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of the Abruzzi, to the snow ranges situated between the equatorial lakes of Central Africa; tr. by Caroline de Filippi. *$8. Dutton.
“The volume is introduced with a preface written by the Duke himself. As compiled and written Signor de Filippi’s book is a narrative describing the adventures as well as the scientific researches of the Duke’s party from Mombasa to those snow-capped peaks in the interior, which were called by the ancients ‘Mountains of the moon.’”—N. Y. Times.
“The translation is satisfactory, and the illustrations fully deserve this second mention in so brief and general a notice as the present one.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 665. N. 14, ’08. 980w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
Fillmore, Millard. Millard Fillmore papers; ed. by Frank H. Severance. (Buffalo historical soc. Publications, v. 10–11.) 2v. *$7. Buffalo hist. soc.
A memorial prepared to perpetuate the name of the organizer and first president of the Buffalo historical society. “Besides the ‘Fillmore papers’ there are biographical introductions, an historical address by General J. G. Wilson, some interesting reminiscences and a dozen or more portraits. The papers themselves are arranged by Mr. Severance chronologically under appropriate headings and consist chiefly of legislative speeches, political addresses and private correspondence.” (Am. Hist. R.)
“The editor has shown excellent judgment, excluding the trivial or local matter which is too often allowed to cumber the pages of historical society publications. In both volumes few errata have been noticed and only a few slight errors. On the whole, one derives from these papers an increased respect for the honest conservatism of the man’s character and a deepened sense of his limitations as a statesman.” T. C. Smith.
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 876. Jl. ’08. 600w.
“While Mr. Severance has evidently spared no pains, and has collected in his introduction and notes a mass of data for which some future biographer will be grateful, his editorial work cannot be unqualifiedly praised.”
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Nation. 87: 122. Ag. 6, ’08. 700w.
Finley, William Lovell. American birds, studied and photographed from life. il. **$1.50. Scribner.
7–36870.
“The text is divided into twenty-one chapters, each treating some one species or group of species, from the hummingbird to the golden eagle. Most of the studies were made in the extreme west ... but with few exceptions all have closely related eastern representatives, with habits differing but slightly. The facts relate chiefly to the conduct of parents at the breeding season and to the appearance, growth, and general characteristics of the young.” (Nation.) The illustrations, chiefly from Herman T. Bohlman’s photographs, are numerous and excellent.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 78. Mr. ’08.
“One is tempted to dare a superlative and call this the most delightful bird book that has been written.” M. E. Cook.
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Dial. 43: 419. D. 16, 07. 300w.
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Educ. R. 36: 208. S. ’08. 50w.
“Fortunately, whatever errors the text might contain, the pictures can be trusted.”
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Ind. 64: 51. Ja. 2, ’08. 240w.
“The text is uneven. Some chapters are excellent and thoroughly enjoyable; others are spoiled by a padding of unimportant details of uninteresting actions. The work is accurate as to observation and forms a real addition to our knowledge of Western bird life. It is, however, as a splendid record of the photographer’s skill in portraying the more intimate home life of wild birds that the volume deserves especial mention.”
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Nation. 86: 17. Ja. 2, ’08. 440w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“The text is delightful.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 40. Ja. 25, ’08. 110w.
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R. of Rs. 37: 112. Ja. ’08. 160w.
“The chapters on the ‘Hummingbirds’ and the ‘Barn owls’ are especially interesting and instructive.” R. W. Hegner.
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School R. 16: 272. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“In spite of the criticisms of such matters as are here suggested, the volume is a fresh contribution to popular ornithology, and is both interesting and informing in an unusual degree.” F. H. Herrick.
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Science, n.s. 27: 182. Ja. 31, ’08. 2450w.
Fisher, Herbert Albert L. Bonapartism: six lectures delivered in the University of London. *$1.15. Oxford.
8–19594.
Six lectures which show that the Bonapartist governments of both First and Second empires “were to a large extent inspired by the same principles, rested upon the support of the same intellectual and social forces, ... and shared in the same kind of ruin.” The lectures are as follows: The bequest of the revolution, The growth of a legend, The Napoleonic state, Napoleon and Europe, The rise of the Second empire, and The downfall.
Am. Hist. R. 13: 686. Ap. ’08. 70w.
“That the author has telling gifts of historical presentation is clear on every page; his lucidity and power of summary are aided by a constant attention to literary form, and by a skilful use of some striking bits of literary material.” Victor Coffin.
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 870. Jl. ’08. 960w.
“Deftness of touch and a happy choice of illustrative details are among the attractions of this volume. Among the chief defects of his method of treatment is that it tends to undue emphasis; and at several points we think that Mr. Fisher’s statements are strained, just as his style is occasionally tense and overloaded with adjectives.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 279. Mr. 7. 1400w.
“Vigorous and suggestive in grasp of matter and style of treatment.”
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Dial. 44: 247. Ap. 16, ’08. 400w.
“He ranges from the campaign of Italy to that of Sedan with a strong grasp of fact and a power of generalization that never flags. The book has the true historic ring, and should be useful for students of the period.”
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Nation. 86: 260. Mr. 19, ’08. 150w.
“He writes about ‘Bonapartism,’ a word which he does not define, the existence of which he does not prove, and he has consequently produced by a tour de force a work of coruscating phrases, of high lights and deep shadows, but one which will not command the assent of the historian, the politician, or the man of common sense.”
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Sat. R. 105: 303. Mr. 7, ’08. 1200w.
Fisher, Irving. Rate of interest: its nature, determination and relation to economic phenomena. *$3. Macmillan.
7–36195.
Professor Fisher of Yale bases his thesis largely upon the theories of Rae, Boehm-Bawerk and Landry. He expands these former versions of the theory by the introduction of an “income concept.” The solution he offers is that the rate of interest be made to depend upon the character of the income stream.
“This is a notable work. Professor Fisher has made an enduring contribution to the progress of economic thought in emphasizing the peculiar psychical relation which the value of 119income sustains, through the principle of discount, to the value of capital.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 501. Mr. ’08. 400w.
“The treatise throughout is ‘Fisheresque’ ... that is to say, it is worked out with the author’s well known and unflinching thoroughness and his merciless (from the reader’s point of view) marshalling of details. It is also characterized throughout by a certain scientific hard-headedness which is not always found nowadays in writings upon capital and allied topics.” T. N. Carver.
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Econ. Bull. 1: 25. Ap. ’08. 700w.
Reviewed by H. J. Davenport.
J. Pol. Econ. 15: 635. D. ’07. 3050w.
Reviewed by E. A. Bradford.
N. Y. Times. 13: 16. Ja. 11, ’08. 820w.
Spec. 100: 1007. Je. 27, ’08. 280w.
Fisher, Sydney George. Struggle for American independence. 2v. **$4. Lippincott.
8–14831.
A continuation and enlargement of “The true history of the American revolution” with which, a few years since, the author startled out of their complacency people who were willing to avoid “their own country’s birth pangs.” Rejecting tradition and substituting facts ascertained from original sources, the volumes become “an excellent corrective, worthy of careful study by all who would know of the revolution as it was.” (Ind.)
“He has gone to the original sources for information; his citations and references are numerous and valuable; the arrangement of his material is good, and his style is readable and attractive. Yet however creditable his work, it must be confessed that the author seems excessively ‘otherwise-minded,’ and his spirit of criticism and correction seem, in a measure, to outrun his spirit of historical impartiality and fairness.” J. A. Woodburn.
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Am. Hist. R. 14: 143. O. ’08. 1150w.
“Gives a full, detailed, interesting account but is written in a bad spirit and sometimes places wrong interpretations and emphasis upon accepted facts.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 181. Je. ’08.
“His ‘true’ history of the American revolution does not differ in large degree from those heretofore written.” E. E. Sparks.
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Dial. 45: 110. S. 1, ’08. 970w.
“The story here told is interesting and convincing. Mr. Fisher has good literary ability and the faculty of knowing a point when he sees it.”
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Ind. 65: 96. Jl. 9, ’08. 680w.
“Whether Mr. Fisher’s position be admitted or rejected, his volumes cannot be overlooked by any who wish to be well informed upon the origins and fundamentals of our nation or the future of England’s colonial relations.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 1150w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 362. Je. 27, ’08. 160w.
“However he may have erred in detail, he has taken a large view of a large subject, has explored it with painstaking, honest effort, and, despite his unfortunate preface, has written a book that will be enjoyed even by those most inclined to dissent from its conclusions.”
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Outlook. 90: 39. S. 5, ’08. 1700w.
“He has made a commendable attempt to deal frankly with this evidence.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 123. Jl. ’08. 110w.
“There is no end to the histories of the war of independence, but Mr. Sydney Fisher can give a good reason for writing his.”
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Sat. R. 106: sup. 7. O. 24, ’08. 870w.
Fisk, George Mygatt. International commercial policies, with special reference to the United States: a text book. (Citizen’s lib.) *$1.25. Macmillan.
7–39069.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 102. Ap. ’08. ✠
“The work is valuable for its clear English, its direct statements and its rounded treatment of a broad subject within the compass of a text-book of less than three hundred pages, including the excellent bibliographies appended to each chapter.” F. D. Watson.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 522. Mr. ’08. 230w.
“On the whole the book is a worthy addition to the ‘Citizens’ library,’ and will prove stimulating to college students taking courses in commerce or economics.”
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Ind. 65: 495. Ag. 27, ’08. 170w.
“Throughout the book the treatment is concise—possibly, at times, too concise—and is descriptive and expository rather than controversial. The book is especially strong on its pedagogical side.” H. S. Smalley.
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J. Pol. Econ. 16: 168. Mr. ’08. 750w.
“A very useful handbook.”
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Pol. Sci. Q. 23: 564. S. ’08. 80w.
R. of Rs. 37: 254. F. ’08. 60w.
Fitzpatrick, Samuel A. O. Dublin: a historical and topographical account of the city; il. by W. Curtis Green. (Ancient cities.) *$1.75. Dutton.
8–3118.
“Six of Mr. Fitzpatrick’s eleven chapters are given to the different periods of the city’s life; another deals with Trinity college. The social life of the city from the time when records of the subject begin to be available, the municipal history, the theatre, which has achieved no small distinction, are successively treated, and there is a separate account of ‘Historic houses and distinguished Dubliners.’ The cathedrals of Christ church and St. Patrick are duly described.”—Spec.
“Is not only the best book that has so far been written on Dublin—it is the best volume which has yet appeared in the series.”
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Acad. 72: 627. Je. 29, ’07. 420w.
“The author is a careful man, and has learnt a great deal about his subject.... In recording so many facts an author cannot be infallible, and we add some suggestions, which may be of use when a new edition is in sight.”
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Ath. 1907, 1: 754. Je. 22. 1080w.
“The volume is not so attractive in style or dress as Mr. Chart’s, but as a guide to Dublin, old and new, it is equally exact and useful. There is no modern map.”
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Nation. 87: 71. Jl. 23. ’08. 100w.
“To many the most interesting part of the text will be its account of early history. That of Dublin is specially interesting.”
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Outlook. 89: 534. Jl. 4, ’08. 120w.
“A carefully written and interesting book.”
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Spec. 99: 169. Ag. 3, ’07. 180w.
Flammarion, Camille. Mysterious psychic forces. **$2.50. Small.
7–30610.
The author “describes his first experiences at seances, his own experiments, with Eusapia Paiadino, the experiments of the Dialectical society of London and of Sir William Crookes and others, drawing from them his own theories and conclusions.” (Lit. D.)
Dial. 45: 119. S. 1, ’08. 320w.
Lit. D. 35: 920. D. 14. ’07. 60w.
“An honest record of long and careful scientific study.”
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Lit. D. 36: 417. Mr. 21, ’08. 400w.
“A complete account of the like investigations on the continent of Europe has as yet been wanting. This book comes nearer than any other to filling the gap.”
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N. Y. Times. 12: 846. D. 21, ’07. 580w.
R. of Rs. 37: 255. F. ’08. 40w.
Flandrau, Charles Macomb. Viva, Mexico! **$1.25. Appleton.
8–28075.
A description of Mexico and the Mexicans which gives an intimate insight into the social, political, religious, and commercial life. It is the traveler’s Mexico that is projected in panorama 120upon the author’s canvas with the certain details that catch the tourist’s eye but which are too often omitted from guide books.
“An entertaining book in which the author with unrestrained frankness quaintly discusses Mexican things that interest him. It touches upon social, religious, political, and business topics, and handles them all in bold, independent fashion and with as much carefulness as a writer with a whimsical and somewhat humorous disposition could be expected to exhibit.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 440w.
Fleming, John Dick. Israel’s golden age: a story of the United kingdom. (Handbooks for Bible classes.) *45c. imp. Scribner.
8–32325.
“The standpoint of the author is historical, his spirit is profoundly religious.... The difficulties of the narratives of this early period are frankly recognized and the religious limitations of the time are fully allowed for, but the emphasis of the book is on the positive and progressive elements in the history, rather than upon its defects and weaknesses.”—Bib. World.
“A student who works through the period of Saul and David under Professor Fleming’s guidance will have a new conception of Old Testament history and religion.”
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Am. J. Theol. 12: 341. Ap. ’08. 50w.
“The author possesses interpretative insight in a marked degree, and is master of a pleasing style. The historical judgment of the author is well balanced and his book may be highly commended to all teachers of Bible classes.”
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Bib. World. 31: 79. Ja. ’08. 100w.
“Professor Fleming has treated it in a scholarly manner.”
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Ind. 64: 472. F. 27, ’08. 60w.
“Professor Fleming has found his way through the conflicting sources with no small skill, and his manual affords sufficient help for the serious student to form his own opinions intelligently.”
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Nation. 86: 171. F. 20, ’08. 110w.
Fleshman, Arthur Cary. Educational process. (Lippincott’s educational ser.) $1.25. Lippincott.
An attempt, the author says, to organize a new doctrine of education out of an old theory of thought. The author yields to the latter-day conclusions that life is a spiritual process; that activity is spiritual. He takes the problems of education out of the domain of the mechanical, experimental, physiological, physical and psycho-physical and explains them as spiritual processes.
“Is neither original in method nor brilliant in style.”
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Ind. 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 40w.
Fletcher, Beaumont. Richard Wilson. (Makers of British art ser.) *$1.25. Scribner.
8–33825.
A sketch which aims to give proper prominence to a famous landscape painter whose merit during the century and more since his death has been overlooked. The sketch takes into account the conditioning factors of his life, his education, and his place in art. The volume is made complete by reproductions of his pictures, a list of authorities consulted, and an index.
“It is quite time something of the sort should have appeared.” E: E. Hale, jr.
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Dial. 45: 208. O. 1, ’08. 1850w.
“That the facts are so few may well be no fault of the author, but as much cannot be said for the paucity of ideas.”
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Nation. 86: 542. Je. 11, ’08. 160w.
“To those interested either in his work or in the larger question of the development of landscape art the book can be recommended. Whether agreeing with the author’s estimate of the artist’s importance or not, the facts presented and the opinions of other writers freely drawn upon give value and interest to the biography.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 312. My. 30, ’08. 480w.
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Outlook. 89: 533. Jl. 4, ’08. 450w.
Fletcher, Ella Adelia. Law of the rhythmic breath: teaching the generation, conservation, and control of vital force. *$1. Fenno.
Explains the bare truths of the rhythmic breath as taught in ancient Hindu philosophy and developed by the author.
N. Y. Times. 13: 668. N. 14, ’08. 170w.
Fletcher, Horace. Optimism, a real remedy; with a foreword by William Dana Orcutt. **75c. McClurg.
8–1690.
Horace Fletcher, identified with furthering the Gladstonian doctrine of excessive chewing, shows the life-prolonging influence of physiologic optimism. He discusses the passing of medicine, optimism as opportunism, and happiness after fifty.
Fletcher, J. S. Book about Yorkshire. *$2. McClure.
“A book about Yorkshire, with thirty-two illustrations, half of which are attractive sketches in colour, covers the wide field of things worth seeing and saying as well as a single volume could. Much more might, of course, be said about scenery, and charms of wood and water; but these things are in the guide-books, and we think the author was well advised in laying stress rather on Yorkshire dialect, customs, folk-lore, and oddities as well as the churches, castles, and great-houses which always figure in these county records.”—Ath.
Ath. 1908, 1: 759. Je. 20. 130w.
“All in all, his book is an important contribution to the literature of his country.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 639. O. 31, ’08. 540w.
“He has selected and arranged his material admirably.”
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Sat. R. 106: 338. S. 12, ’08. 250w.
“He has used his eyes and the historical records with judgment, and has done his best to give us a real notion of the wealth of interest and association that lies in the great shire.”
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Spec. 101: 65. Jl. 11, ’08. 220w.
Fletcher, Joseph Smith. Harringtons of Highcroft farm. il. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
8–8308.
The story of a Yorkshire homestead which introduces an over worked, much abused young hero. “There is something pleasant about the air of the sixties, which is the period of this tale. Uncle Benjamin stands for what villain there is, and Uncle Dick is that misunderstood and self-sacrificing artist whom we may remember even further back than the sixties. And is not the wilful daughter of an earl who weds in due time with the yeoman’s son a creature of that bygone generation?” (Ath.)
“The very headings of the chapters acquaint us that we are committed to an old-fashioned and somewhat dull story.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 613. N. 17. 150w.
“Chronicle is a better name than novel for this book. Its interest is not so much in how it all turns out as in the personality of every separate member of the Harrington family.” F: T. Cooper.
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Bookm. 27: 102. Mr. ’08. 300w.
“The manner of the book is charming, quiet, placid, but with much depth and richness of feeling.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 233. Ap. 18, ’08. 150w.
121Fletcher, Joseph Smith. Mothers in Israel: a study in rustic amenities. †$1.25. Moffat.
8–19023.
The two “mothers in Israel” are two Yorkshire farmers’ wives with marriageable daughters. They begin their backbiting when they learn that the young minister has become engaged to the schoolmistress. The rustic amenities referred to in the sub-title are lying, slander, evil-speaking, and malice. “There are not wanting graphic touches of village landscape and figures, and if some readers feel cheated out of tragedy, others will take comfort in comedy, for the curtain falls on backbiters thoroughly frustrated, if not in the least reformed.” (Nation.)
“He handles [Yorkshire village life] tenderly and with a sense of humour.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 349. Mr. 21. 130w.
“The study is made with the utmost seriousness of intention, and the utmost solemnity of belief.”
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Nation. 86: 310. Ap. 2, ’08. 200w.
“The book is redolent of fresh Yorkshire butter, sun-baked fields, and blooming chestnuts, and it makes amusing and restful reading.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 198. Ap. 11, ’08. 150w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 212. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The author has managed to invest his characters with reality.”
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Sat. R. 105: 342. Mr. 14, ’08. 250w.
“Apart from the special purpose of the book, ‘Mothers in Israel’ is a well-constructed picture of life in a Yorkshire village, and the portraits of the two principal characters and of the clergyman’s housekeeper, Elizabeth, are drawn in a very clear and lifelike manner.”
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Spec. 100: 383. Mr. 7, ’08. 300w.
Flexner, Abraham. American college: a criticism. **$1. Century.
8–30713.
An analysis of the educational procedure of the American college from the moment when it tells the secondary school how the boy is to be made ready for college to the day when he receives his bachelor’s degree. The chapters are as follows: The problem defined, The development of the college, The college and the secondary school, The elective system, Graduate and undergraduate and The way out.
“The author’s tone is very dogmatic, far more so than either his experience or his knowledge of the subject would seem to justify. What he has chiefly done is to record his impressions of the impressions of other people. Mr. Flexner’s aims are of the best but his diagnosis is faulty and his information is neither sufficient nor exact.”
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Educ. R. 36: 513. D. ’08. 720w.
Fling, Fred Morrow. Mirabeau and the French revolution. 3v. v. 1. **$3.50. Putnam.
8–25730.
v. 1. The youth of Mirabeau.
The first instalment of a three part biography. The divisions as outlined for the three volumes accord with the well marked phases of Mirabeau’s life, and are as follows: (1) His youth; (2) His public career to the beginning of the revolutionary crisis; (3) His activities in the assembly. The aim is to study Mirabeau as a product of his times, to follow his emergence from a background of historical conditioning forces. In this first volume the sketch of his first twenty-five years is preceded by a presentation of the struggle against arbitrary government in France, and of the origin and rise of the Riqueti, also by four chapters on the direct antecedents of Mirabeau.
“It is careful, learned, and rich in bibliographical references.”
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Lit. D. 37: 809. N. 28, ’08. 740w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Is characterized by a large and coherent plan, a mastery of voluminous material, a power of presenting characters in just relief against the background of the age, by moderation of judgment and detachment of view. The style is marred by an occasional awkwardness of phrase and a translation at times too literal. The note at the bottom of page 153 contains some errors of dates.”
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Nation. 87: 553. D. 3, ’08. 1000w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Prof. Fling has achieved something very like a masterpiece in [its] kind. If the forthcoming volumes are as interesting and valuable as the first they will be welcome to all students and to the general reader as well.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 575. O. 17, ’08. 500w. (Review of v. 1.)
Floy, Henry. Compilation of the records of the Colorado Springs lighting controversy; with an introd. and epitome. *$4. Illuminating engineering pub. co., N. Y.
8–3931.
“In an introductory section, the author gives a historical résumé of the case, together with comments on its main features and conclusions.... The report of the testimony comprises the great part of the contents of the book.”—Elec. World.
“The book will be of particular value to central stations having municipal contracts for street lighting.”
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Elec. World. 51: 730. Ap. 4, ’08. 450w.
“It is a work that will be of permanent value to electrical engineers and lawyers throughout the country.”
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Engin. D. 3: 528. My. ’08. 300w.
“The immediate interest of the book to engineers lies in the statements under oath of several men generally recognized as experts in arc-lamp illumination.”
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Engin. N. 59: 210. F. 20, ’08. 350w.
R. of Rs. 37: 383. Mr. ’08. 170w.
Flynt, Josiah. My life; with an introd. by Arthur Symons. *$2. Outing. pub.
8–30135.
The self-written “life” of the man, who, instinct with human curiosity, sounded the depths of the under-world and brought back experiences which he casts in the human document form. Early life, his rebellion against order, his days in a reform school, his escape and early tramping experiences, his voyage to Germany as a coal-passer, his life and wanderings in Europe, the friendship with Arthur Symons whom he called his literary god-father, his meeting with Tolstoy are all full of human interest.
“His narrative is all the more characteristic from its lack of polish. Like all that he has written, it is extremely interesting, even though far less interesting than his talk is said to have been.” P. F. Bicknell.
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Dial. 45: 338. N. 16, ’08. 1850w.
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Ind. 65: 1176. N. 19, ’08. 80w.
“The book will perhaps sufficiently appeal to those who care for autobiography for its own sake. There is much of the joy of vagabondage in it, little of achievement. The telling of the story is easy, in spite of its disjointed quality. In the latter part of the book coherence is lacking, and its anecdotal quality is but mildly interesting.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 607. O. 24, ’08. 630w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
Fogazzaro, Antonio. Politician; being the English tr. of his “Daniele Cortis,” done by G. Mantellini. $1.50. Luce, J. W.
8–4034.
A strongly emotional story of a young Italian politician’s love for the wife of a thoroly bad senator. Duty prevails to the point of renunciation, grief is quelled by the call to 122work, and one must be satisfied with the triumph of moral justice.
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Ind. 65: 556. S. 3, ’08. 250w.
“The American reader who happens to possess no special knowledge of the affairs of church and state in modern Italy may find it more readable than the novels of the trilogy. Not only is the English thoroughly shiftless and awkward, nowhere rising to the plane of Fogazzaro’s Italian, but the pages are sown thick with the most astonishing errors in translation.”
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Nation. 86: 333. Ap. 9, ’08. 270w.
“Translated into excellent and sympathetic English.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 96. F. 15, ’08. 60w.
“A keen, fond eye for natural scenery, and the passionate Italian temperament of the interlocutors, pervade the narrator. This, as well as ‘The sinner,’ while not lacking in dramatic situations and tragic interest, has little of that significance for the neo-Catholic movement which gave such popularity to ‘The saint.’”
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Outlook. 88: 652. Mr. 21, ’08. 170w.
Folwell, William Watts. Minnesota, the North star state. (American commonwealths.) **$1.25. Houghton.
8–29356.
A concise narrative, based upon original sources, in which events are unfolded in their relation to the political and economic development of the state without diminution of their dramatic interest. The author has been identified with the public interests of the state for the past forty years, holding for many years the chair of Political Science at the state university.
“Mr. Folwell offers a readable compend of the state’s history, and by reason of having had access to several sources of original information not previously available he has made considerable additions to those already before the public. The final chapter would have been of more interest and value had it treated more fully recent political developments.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 653. N. 7, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Folwell writes with considerable dash and vigor, and with a frankness that will scarcely be relished by the survivors among the land and timber manipulators and other corruptionists who were so much in evidence in Minnesota during its formative period. This frankness, however, and an uncompromising insistence on viewing the facts of history from the standpoint of a sturdy morality, far more than compensate for certain minor defects in treatment and construction.”
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Outlook. 90: 789. D. 5, ’08. 300w.
Fontaine, Lamar. My life and my lectures. *$3. Neale.
8–16524.
The experiences of an invincible hero who as school boy, Indian, hunter, or civil engineer, escaped the arrows aimed at the vulnerable heel. During sixteen years he wandered in China, Egypt, India, Palestine and South America after which he enlisted with the Fourth Mississippi infantry of the Confederate army.
“In spite of the savage delight he had in killing and fighting and in writing about it ad nauseam, the author has a graphic way in relating details of adventure that is often admirable. The book with all its brutality, bad grammar, and conceit, was well worth while as presenting a character the like of which may never be seen again. One ought to be sufficient.”
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Lit. D. 37: 228. Ag. 15, ’08. 730w.
“He tells of [his adventures] interestingly and with happy, pleasant, humorous touches that serve to lighten the narrative of peril and of suffering.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 375. Jl. 4, ’08. 140w.
Forbes, Henry Prentiss. Johannine literature and the Acts of the apostles. (International handbooks to the New Testament, no. 4.) **$2. Putnam.
7–15616.
“The general view taken of the Acts is that ‘it is history in the ancient, Oriental, religious, not in the modern, Occidental, critical sense.’ The Fourth gospel is regarded as an idealization of material more or less historical by ‘an Asian Christian’ of the second century, and is presented as such with the remark, ‘The truth of fiction may be most lifegiving; it is the ideal which endures.’”—Outlook.
“One will find much suggestive treatment of important passages without the confusion of encyclopedic detail. A bibliography might have been added without defeating the object of the series and one finds the index to the four volumes too compact.” R. H. Ferris.
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Am. J. Theol. 12: 479. Jl. ’08. 670w.
“Concise and useful introductions and commentaries prepared from the critical point of view.”
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Bib. World. 29: 480. Je. ’07. 30w.
“The author contrives to inspire faith in his guidance as a well-equipped interpreter, with stores of learning of which he makes no parade, and sufficient warmth of religious sympathy to prevent anyone from being wounded by his clearcut decision.” J. E. Carpenter.
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Hibbert J. 6: 460. Ja. ’08. 220w.
“Mastery of critical material, however it be interpreted, and spiritual appreciation of Jesus are alike conspicuous in this volume.”
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Outlook. 87: 132. S. 21, ’07. 190w.
Ford, Sewell. Side-stepping with Shorty. il. $1.50. Kennerley.
8–12803.
Sprightliness, sympathy with human nature and an abounding sense of humor are the requisites for “side-stepping with Shorty.” When once the reader has acquired the necessary momentum, there is no stopping until he reaches the last page. For Shorty makes no pauses for observation; he sees in transit, thinks while on the move, and delivers himself of his wit at every breath. The twenty skits present people with their foibles lying close to their saner ideals.
“The substance has that essential vulgarity of which a sound realism, however unflinching, is never really in danger.”
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Nation. 87: 97. Jl. 30, ’08. 180w.
“Shorty sees a good deal of life and tells about it with a zest and an unconventionality of expression that make his stories as breezy as the sidewalks round about the Times building on a windy day.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 90w.
“A very humorous story, containing some of the mirthful qualities of ‘Mr. Dooley,’ Dickens’s Sam Weller, and the dry wit and shrewdness of Mark Twain.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 338. Je. 13, ’08. 80w.
Forel, August Henri. Hygiene of nerves and mind in health and disease; authorized tr. from the second German ed. by Herbert Austin Aikens. (Science ser., no. 16.) **$2. Putnam.
7–20717.
The first part of the book contains an “outline of the author’s view of mental phenomena, and of the relation of mind to brain, a singularly brief but neat and clean cut account of the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system, and an illuminating consideration of development and of the significance of the Darwinian doctrines and the mnemetic engraphy of Semon.... The second part treats of the pathology of the nervous life.... Nervous hygiene in the most general sense is treated in the last third of the book.” (Nation.)
“Dr. Austin Aikins has performed his task of 123translation well and faithfully, and there is a good index.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 276. S. 7. 480w.
“With no unusual programme or originality of view, or indeed with any notable message to deliver, Professor Forel has used his intimate acquaintance with the phenomena from all sides to set forth in plain language a convenient survey of the data now available for the understanding of the hygiene of the mind.” Joseph Jastrow.
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J. Philos. 5: 583. O. 8, ’08. 520w.
“The work is a clear and sensible treatment of the questions involved, and deserves to be widely read.”
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Nation. 85: 500. N. 28, ’07. 220w.
Forster, Hugh O. A-. English socialism of to-day: its teachings and its aims examined. *$1.25. Dutton.
8–17762.
A criticism of socialism, polemical in its nature, written from the point of view of the British politician who maintains that he owes his liberties to the protection of the British constitution: “but that the constitution lends itself readily to legislation coercive of his liberties where such legislation is thought to be necessary on behalf of a depressed section of society.” The author deals only with the socialism of the active propagandist who is negligible in his practices however right his theories may be.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 236. O. ’08.
“The book shows throughout a woeful lack of understanding of economic principles and is written in a prejudiced and bombastic style which is as unscientific and blatant as the most extreme socialist pamphlets which he criticises.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 440. S. ’08. 90w.
“When he discusses economical questions, they are handled so briefly that the result is far from satisfactory.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 158. F. 8. 330w.
“In much of this discussion the argument is attenuated, being little more than the assertion that a majority of the English people do not desire such changes as the socialists favor.” F. A. Fetter.
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Econ. Bull. 1: 147. Je. ’08. 300w.
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Nation. 86: 492. My. 28, ’08. 130w.
“Mr. Arnold-Forster’s original contributions are not disparaged when it is said that the main usefulness of his book lies rather in the selections and arrangements of his authorities than in the original additions, for nobody has done just this thing, and it is a thing which much needed doing.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 294. My. 23, ’08. 1700w.
“He does not help matters by the abuse, invective, and sarcasm with which he assails socialism in general and English socialism in particular.” W. A. Bruce.
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Outlook. 89: 386. Je. 20, ’08. 1000w.
Sat. R. 105: 302. Mr. 7, ’08. 300w.
“His criticism of the ordinary propaganda of socialism is most effective, and as it is throughout documented by appropriate references to socialist authorities, his book will be most useful.”
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Spec. 100: 465. Mr. 21, ’08. 630w.
Forsyth, Rev. Peter Taylor. Positive preaching and modern mind: the Lyman Beecher lectures on preaching, Yale university, 1907. *$1.75. Armstrong.
8–9053.
“The lecturer exalts the place of preaching with a fresh emphasis. It is essential to worship. It is the creed of the church, expressed for the stimulus and growth of the Christian body. It must be modern, taking account of science and criticism, though it must not preach these. But while all is conceded to criticism—Bible, historical Jesus, theology—‘gospel’ is above criticism. And ‘gospel’ is that the divine Christ through atonement expiates human guilt, so that in Him the holy God actually redeems men.”—Bib. World.
Bib. World. 31: 400. My. ’08. 120w.
“The book is stimulating and suggestive, and should especially be read by those liberal divines who will most dissent from it.”
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Ind. 65: 436. Ag. 20, ’08. 400w.
“These lectures on preaching are throughout a keen struggle in favour of reality, and it is hard to know which to admire more, their moral earnestness or their intellectual grip.”
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Lond. Times. 6: 387. D. 20, ’07. 450w.
“It is a long time since the subject of Christian preaching has been approached with such thoroughness and such deeply religious earnestness as in these Yale lectures of Principal Forsyth.”
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Nation. 86: 284. Mr. 26, ’08. 400w.
“Short, pithy, illuminative sentences, biting, clear, and sometimes humorous, are what men want. And they will find them here. Yet it is to be confessed that this style sometimes becomes monotonous. Its very agility wearies the reader, who longs for a rest in the easy swing of the discarded ‘period.’”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 267. My. 9, ’08. 250w.
“Though they provoked dissent as a harking back toward scholasticism, these lectures are certainly virile and vitalizing, and quite up to the high standard of the Yale lectureship. Notwithstanding their defects, there is a note of moral life and inspiration throughout these lectures which is both tonic and timely.”
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Outlook. 88: 560. Mr. 7, ’08. 600w.
“It is refreshing to find someone courageous enough to say these and other unfashionable things, and able to say them racily.”
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Sat. R. 106: 24. Jl. 4, ’08. 460w.
Foster, Maximillian. Corrie who? †$1.50. Small.
8–30937.
The story of an orphan child’s struggle to discover her identity which was craftily guarded by relatives who wished to control her money.
Foster, William Trufant. Argumentation and debating. **$1.25. Houghton.
8–19899.
A book in which the author is concerned with the art and method of debating rather than the formulation of the principles. “While it insists rigorously upon method, order, and system, as the ‘back-bone of argument,’ it avoids all pedantries of classification and terminology, and addresses itself strictly to practical ends.... A copious appendix gives specimens of analysis, briefs, material for briefing, a forensic, and a complete specimen debate, a model for instruction to judges and for the formation of a debating league, together with 275 debatable propositions.” (Nation.)
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 236. O. ’08.
“It is scientific in method and helpful in suggestion to the student.”
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Dial. 45: 171. S. 16. ’08. 40w.
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Ind. 65: 311. Ag. 6, ’08. 60w.
“Is one of the most satisfactory books in this field.”
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Nation. 87: 210. S. 3, ’08. 230w.
Four-Pools mystery. †$1.50. Century.
8–8103.
The mysterious events here recorded take place on a Southern plantation whither a New Yorker, a worn-out lawyer, goes for a vacation. The series of uncanny happenings, culminating in a tragedy, involve the prospects and honor of the youngest son of the house of Radnor. The mystery is finally cleared up by a New York newspaper man, a quick witted Irishman. Plantation life, negro superstition and 124fear of the “ha’nt”, and the honor of the southern gentleman are clearly portrayed.
“A rattling good detective story, not up to Conan Doyle’s best, but with decided ‘go,’ and without the objectionable features which so frequently attend the tale of mystery.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 111. Ap. ’08. ✠
“This story is one of the best mystery tales of recent years.”
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Arena. 39: 510. Ap. ’08. 200w.
“The story itself is a good one, but nothing positively astonishing. The chief virtue of the book is that it introduces in the character of Terry K. Patten an amateur detective of real individuality; potentially the most entertaining figure of this kind that has appeared since Sherlock Holmes.”
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Bookm. 27: 235. My. ’08. 100w.
Ind. 64: 1037. My. 7, ’08. 150w.
“There is a verve to the story which, it seems, would survive dramatization, for there is no waste of words, the padding being ‘blue penciled’ to the skeleton.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08, 450w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 250w.
“A rather clever specimen of its class, better written than many crime-tales, and original in its subject.”
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Outlook. 88: 839. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
* Fowler, Ellen Thorneycroft (Mrs. Alfred Laurence Felkin). Miss Fallowfield’s fortune. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–29869.
A woman longing for wealth finally inherits it, weds late in life a clergyman, is lost at sea on her honeymoon, supposedly the husband too. Her property was to revert to a niece in case the wife survived her husband; if he should be the last to die, it passed to his son. The legal question of a successor, a romance, and the final return of the husband furnish incidents in plenty.
“The plot is thin, and not devoid of what may be called common-place improbabilities.”
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Ath. 1908. 2: 603. N. 14. 250w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“It has a better constructed and more reasonable plot than this author has ever made use of before, and the incidents and characters are woven together with rather more skill than she has heretofore shown. A strong and earnest religious feeling permeates the book.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 757. D. 5, ’08. 250w.
“It is an ill-assorted jumble of religious precept, misplaced melodrama, and many amusing conversations between rather stupid persons.”
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Outlook. 90: 751. N. 28, ’08. 230w.
“The author moralises at great length throughout this disjointed story. The plot is not of sufficient interest to make us resent such interruptions, but unfortunately the moralising is banal in the extreme.”
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Sat. R. 106: 644. N. 21, ’08. 230w.
Fox, Edgar Alonzo. Pastor’s place of privilege and power in the Sunday school. 75c. Pub. house M. E. ch. So.
7–39010.
In this book is found “A compilation of ideas” expressed by prominent writers on the subject of the pastor as a factor in the Sunday school work.
Fox, John, jr. Trail of the lonesome pine. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–27497.
“The story, briefly told, is that of the growth and development of a particularly beautiful and attractive mountain girl, ‘June’ Tolliver, a fascinating and picturesque heroine who finally added the training of the cities to the charm of the mountains. The development of her mind and love for ‘John Hale, engineer’, the hero, a human man of triumphs and mistakes, furnishes the thread around which is woven the stirring tale of feuds and fighting in the Kentucky mountains and the arousing of a mountain village to a realization of law and order through the pluck and determination of the young engineer.”—R. of Rs.
“Mr. Fox’s world is a wholesome one, and he inspires his readers with an increased respect for the elemental things of life.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 268. N. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Fox’s minor characters are more truly set forth than his hero and heroine, and the incidents of the plot are more plausible than the plot itself. For the enjoyment of such a book one must fall back on the local colour.” Ward Clark.
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Bookm. 28: 364. D. ’08. 950w.
“The author presents very admirably the poetic side of mountain life, even lifting the spirit of its feuds into something like rude knight errantry.”
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Ind. 65: 1121. N. 12, ’08. 370w.
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Ind. 65: 1182. N. 19, ’08. 20w.
“It is melodrama—granted; but melodrama of so high a grade, so joyous an enthusiasm, and so compelling an interest as to give its reader an hour of uncritical pleasure.”
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Nation. 87: 466. N. 12, ’08. 250w.
“He has invested a somewhat simple and not especially original tale of the Southern mountains ... with a new sense of reality and a very winning charm.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 570. O. 17, ’08. 570w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 743. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
“It is one of the freest, most vigorous and interesting pieces of writing that will fall into the hands of American readers this autumn.”
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Outlook. 90: 361. O. 17, ’08. 350w.
Reviewed by Agnes Repplier.
Outlook. 90: 701. N. 28, ’08. 320w.
“In ‘The trail of the lonesome pine’ Mr. Fox has exceeded even the strength and beauty of ‘The little shepherd of Kingdom Come.’”
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R. of Rs. 38: 632. N. ’08. 1000w.
Francis of Assisi, St. Little flowers of St. Francis of Assisi; newly revised and augmented version of the tr. by T. W. Arnold. (Art and letters lib.) *$3. Duffield.
A collection of episodes or “the fairest and choicest flowers of the seraphic life of St. Francis and his companions.” “In this popular and mystical legend, St. Francis, encircled with a halo of love and charity, and shining with pure glory which no cloud of criticism is able to dim, appears like a knight of the San Graal in the immortal legend of the north.” Contains some quaint illustrations reproduced from a fourteenth century manuscript.
“We can recommend it to any one in search of a first-class edition of this classic of religious literature.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 680. N. 28. 350w.
“These illustrations convey very happily the mediaeval atmosphere.”
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Nation. 87: 579. D. 10, ’08. 70w.
Frank, Henry. Mastery of mind in the making of man. $1. Fenno.
8–24255.
A study of the practical application of the laws of psychic force, telepathy, and mental magnetism to man’s mental, moral and physical requirements. The first division of the study is devoted to the psychic factors; the second, to the physical instruments; and the third to the moral agents.
N. Y. Times. 13: 484. S. 5, ’08. 110w.
125Frankau, Mrs. Julia (Frank Danby, pseud.). Heart of a child. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–11080.
From Sally Snape of the gutter to Lady Kidderminster, prominent in London society, is a long way. Yet the author has spanned the chasm with a development as convincing as it is phenomenal. A wondrous crown of bronze hair set off the pallor of Sally’s face, the green of her eyes and the slightness of her figure. In the tailor shop, in the pickling factory, in the show-room of a London shop, and in a London music-hall, Sally earned an honest living; immune from temptation, she was sound to the core. Without wiles or affectation, she unconsciously works her way to Lord Kidderminster’s heart, loves and is loved; with his home for a background she loses her sharp outlines but nothing of her truth and simplicity.
“A sense of reality in this novel overbears the incongruities and improbabilities of conduct, character, and incident. The nature of the girl shows originality of conception.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 349. Mr. 21. 300w.
“Mrs. Frankau has attempted to maintain the affirmative side of a thesis.” F: T. Cooper.
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Bookm. 27: 303. My. ’08. 1000w.
“The author’s realism, as exhibited in her earlier books, has often come near to being disgusting, but in the present instance, save for a few touches of vulgarity, it is realism of a good and honest sort.” W: M. Payne.
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Dial. 44: 352. Je. 1, ’08. 250w.
“It is a clever book and an entertaining one, and a welcome one for its wholesome tone.”
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Ind. 65: 551. S. 3, ’08. 90w
“The sordid cataloguing is done with brisk touch and with affronting thoroughness.”
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Nation. 86: 333. Ap. 9, ’08. 250w.
“The heroine’s childlike heart is rather difficult to believe in, but otherwise the story is cleverly written.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 182. Ap. 4, ’08. 100w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 337. Je. 13, ’08. 260w.
“Few books of recent publication hold the reader’s attention more closely.”
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Outlook. 89: 39. My. 2, ’08. 250w.
“Sarah Snape, the heroine of Mrs. Frankau’s story, does not prove her case, because she is an impossible creature.”
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Putnam’s. 4: 241. My. ’08. 300w.
R. of Rs. 37: 765. Je. ’08. 100w.
“Though the book is rather the presentation than the interpretation of character, and misses in more ways than one a breadth of handling, it well deserves to be read for the very qualities that make Sally an acquisition to her new station.”
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Sat. R. 105: 442. Ap. 4, ’08. 600w.
“It is a fine bit of work. The one scene which we should like to see away is in chap. 21.”
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Spec. 100: 582. Ap. 11, ’08. 200w.
Franklin, Fabian. People and problems: a collection of addresses and editorials. **$1.50. Holt.
8–14656.
Gleanings from the editorial work of a man who was called from the chair of mathematics in Johns Hopkins university to become editor of the Baltimore news. There are four addresses and about sixty editorials. Of the latter many relate to conditions which have passed, but the chapters are none the less valuable as sidelights on events of the last decade and more.
“In these editorials, we find a distinctly refreshing viewpoint put forth by a thinker of more than usual sympathy and breadth.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 624. N. ’08. 180w.
“There is enough of present interest in the book to give it life as a whole, while every page is marked by a style so little ‘journalistic’ as to make the entire volume attractive.”
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Dial. 45: 169. S. 16, ’08. 300w.
“These comments on current events are not merely of historical interest, but are valuable as examples of the best style of American editorial writing, sensible and well informed as well as pertinent and readable.”
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Ind. 65: 157. Jl. 16, ’08. 80w.
“But the chief impress of Professor Franklin’s previous studies must be sought in that moderation, with that striving after the just and fair statement, which most strikes one in these collected writings.”
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Nation. 86: 444. My. 14, ’08. 270w.
“It is a good thing, as a sort of monument to journalism, that the work of one of its ablest exponents should thus be put into permanent form.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 300. My. 23, ’08. 170w.
“We find the viewpoint that of the thoughtful, cultured American student who has radical ideas but believes in applying them conservatively and the clear, lucid style which characterizes all good newspaper editorial writing.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 124. Jl. ’08. 100w.
Franklin, William Suddards, and McNutt, Barry. Elements of mechanics: a textbook for colleges and technical schools. *$1.50. Macmillan.
7–23872.
“Contains many novel examples as a result of his determined efforts to bring together the abstract and concrete which the average student keeps in separate compartments of his brain. Thus we find that in the laundry it is the force, 4π2n2rm which wrings the water from the clothes, and that if a batsman will solve the equation Mxy = k he can tell just where to hit the ball so that the bat will not sting his hands.”—Nation.
“The diagrams and sketches used in this book are new and to the point, the problems are numerous, and the discussions logical and concise.”
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Nation. 85: 257. S. 19, ’07. 100w.
“Does not present any new features worthy of notice, except that inaccuracies and lack of precision in the statement of scientific principles are numerous.” E. G. C.
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Nature. 77: 29. N. 14, ’07. 350w.
Fraprie, Frank Roy. Castles and keeps of Scotland. $3. Page.
7–39017.
Being a description of sundry fortresses, towers, peels, and other houses of strength built by the princes and barons of old time in the highlands, islands, inlands and borders of the ancient and Godfearing kingdom of Scotland. History and romance as well as architectural characteristics are brought together here and excellent illustrations add to the value of the sketch. Uniform with Francis Miltoun’s “Castles and chateaux of old Touraine” and “Castles and chateaux of old Navarre.”
“The principal value of the book lies in its usefulness and convenience, bringing together, as it does, information only to be found by consulting many books.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 136. My. ’08.
“As the only popular hand-book on the subject, it will be sure to find an eager welcome.”
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Dial. 43: 427. D. 16, ’07. 130w.
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Nation. 86: 57. Ja. 16, ’08. 90w.
“Is a storehouse of Scotch history and romance.”
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N. Y. Times. 12: 763. N. 30, ’07. 50w.
“An interesting and, to the traveler, valuable handbook.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 54. F. 1, ’08. 190w.
Fraser, Edward. Champions of the fleet: captains and men-of-war and days that helped to make the empire. *$1.50. Lane.
W8–35.
“It is made up of tales of the English navy and of the fighting men who through the centuries 126since Elizabeth’s time have made for it a long and glorious history. He tells how many of the famous names still carried by English battleships were first chosen by the great Queen herself in a characteristic combination of high-heartedness and shrewd policy. Much space is given to stories of Trafalgar and to the fleet in Nelson’s time. There is a chapter also on what the navy did for Clive in India, and there are many stories of the building of famous ships and of their deeds in battle.”—N. Y. Times.
N. Y. Times. 13: 84. F. 15, ’08. 120w.
“In painting his portraits of ships and men Mr. Fraser has made full and skilful use of local colour.”
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Sat. R. 104: 547. N. 2, ’07. 220w.
“Mr. Fraser, if he has not unearthed very much that is new, has certainly rediscovered some things and given us fresh sidelights on others. The illustrations are excellent and in keeping, and contribute to the making of an eminently fascinating book.”
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Spec. 99: 718. N. 9, ’07. 380w.
Fraser, Edward. “Londons” of the British fleet: how they faced the enemy on the day of battle and what their story means for us to-day. *$1.50. Lane.
“A well-written account of the six naval vessels which have borne the name of London, from the time of Oliver Cromwell to Edward VII. Incidentally there are woven into the thread of the story many bits of fact and gossip which throw light on naval life and manners”—Nation.
“The volume is eminently readable and instructive.”
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Nation. 87: 314. O. 1, ’08. 120w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 472. Ag. 29, ’08. 560w.
“Mr. Fraser has collected an astonishing amount of interesting information concerning the building of the ‘Londons,’ their services and their crews. He quite rightly tells us plenty of the naval history of the time. Indeed, he almost loses his equanimity and sequence of ideas in holding up Lord Sandwich’s administration to contempt, running to so much repetition and redundancy as to impair our appreciation of his ordinary lucidity.”
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Spec. 101: sup. 811. N. 21, ’08. 460w.
Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins. Shoulders of Atlas. †$1.50. Harper.
8–18373.
Against the familiar New England background Mrs. Freeman portrays another group of fascinating people. There are Sylvia and Henry Whitman, who, when a windfall comes, regret the fashion in which Henry had been wont to sour his shoe-shop drudgery with chronic discontent; there is Sylvia’s boarder, the schoolmaster, reveling in the old mahogany of the new home; his assistant, a beautiful woman whose brief career and whose death are shrouded in mystery; there is the altogether charming Rose Fletcher, who slips into the lives of East Westlandites and lays siege to every heart; and there is Rose’s rival, a passion-mad girl who resorts to tears for herself and poison for others. Sylvia is the Atlas of the title. She bears a burden of conscience which in the end proves unwarranted.
“This note of mystery is forced throughout, but none the less the book is full of human interest.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 38. Jl. 11. 220w.
“This novel outranks ‘Jerome’ and ‘Jane Field’ and Mrs. Freeman’s other dramas of conscience and of New England.”
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Ind. 65: 554. S. 3, ’08. 280w.
“The book is disappointing, because it is disjointed and repellent.”
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Lit. D. 37: 325. S. 5, ’08. 140w.
“In the Aunt Sylvia of this tale Mrs. Freeman has produced another of her little masterpieces of New England portraiture.”
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Nation. 87: 35. Jl. 9, ’08. 500w.
“An absorbing story.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 320w.
“This study of the conscience of a plain New England woman will interest any who have problems of their own and redeems the blemishes of the book already mentioned.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 400. Jl. 18, ’08. 450w.
“Hard in style, but startling in its rendering of human nature in type and individual.”
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Outlook. 89: 532. Jl. 4, ’08. 150w.
Freeman, William George, and Chandler, Stafford Edwin. World’s commercial products: a descriptive account of the economic plants of the world and of their commercial uses; with contributions by T. A. Henry, C. E. Jones and E. H. Wilson. *$3.50. Ginn.
7–22708.
“The subtitle of this work, ‘A descriptive account of the economic plants of the world and of their commercial uses,’ indicates far more clearly than does the title the scope and character of the book. The work is not primarily for the specialist, technicalities and tables of statistics being carefully excluded, while the illustrations, colored plates, and maps run into the hundreds.”—J. Pol. Econ.
“It is to be hoped that the book in general is more accurate than the chapter on corn which I have critically examined as a test.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 709. My. ’08. 350w.
“The merit of the book is that it presents in the English language a good general summary of information concerning the more important economic plants, their cultivation and commercial utilization.”
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J. Pol. Econ. 15: 644. D. ’07. 110w.
“An important omission is a summary of the commercial values and exportable surplus of the agricultural staples of different lands. The maps, together with the illustrations, are perhaps as valuable as the letterpress itself.”
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Nation. 87: 208. S. 3, ’08. 200w.
R. of Rs. 37: 255. F. ’08. 70w.
Freemantle, Elizabeth. One and I. †$1.50. Jacobs.
8–23925.
In the form of a diary an engaged girl writes of her doubts and misgivings on the subject of her feelings for “The One.” She believes that “only an infatuation can make one content—nay, even eager—to marry in comparative poverty, and thus couple with connubial bliss the elevating companionship of saucepans and potato peelings.” How the “big white love” creeps into her heart, and is fostered by the voices of field and forest, the cries of pain and anguish, is recorded with simplicity and fidelity to the human heart.
“It is simply the patter of a wide-awake, breezy, wholesome and vital woman.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 538. O. 3, ’08. 360w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“A vein of quiet humor runs through it all.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 743. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
French, Anne Warner. Original gentlemen. †$1.50. Little.
8–26824.
Twenty-two short stories brim full of life and humor. The initial story, “An original gentlemen” tells of the experiences of a New Yorker abroad who upon losing his letter of credit answers an advertisement for “an original gentleman, speaking perfect English.” His originality being called upon to extricate a young woman from a trying situation is taxed beyond its powers and he bribes to his assistance a resourceful head waiter. Complications once swept out of the way, the field is left to romance as whimsical as it is serious.
127“This is one of the very best, if not indeed the best of Anne Warner’s books.”
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Arena. 40: 484. N. ’08. 100w.
“Miss Warner’s most charming quality is the way in which she lets her characters talk, the while revealing themselves with apparent unconsciousness.”
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N. Y. Times. 33: 548. O. 3, ’08. 200w.
* French, Anne Warner. The panther; a tale of temptation. †$1.25. Small.
8–29870.
An allegorical tale of temptation in which a panther, growing from a furry ball to the huge proportions of a lion symbolizes the increasing struggle in a young woman’s soul to overcome sin.
Arena. 40: 483. N. ’08. 470w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 650. N. 7, ’08. 120w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 751. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
French, Anne Warner. Seeing England with Uncle John. †$1.50. Century.
8–8098.
A new chapter of Uncle John’s traveling experiences. He takes for a companion a “living encyclopaedia” in the person of an old college professor, sails for Liverpool, sending word ahead to Yvonne and Lee, now living in Oxford, to meet him, but neglecting to give date and name of steamer. The result is a merry gallop thru England with the niece and nephew in close pursuit. The niece in her “‘letters home’ romantically presents the guide-book information that Uncle John authenticates in his inimitable way.”
“This is the best work that has come from the pen of this popular author, if we except ‘The rejuvenation of Aunt Mary.’”
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Arena. 39: 510. Ap. ’08. 300w.
“An unusually entertaining example of this type. Some of the minor characters are a little overdone.”
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Dial. 45: 93. Ag. 16, ’08. 300w.
“As the author states, the method is stenographic; it is therefore inartistic. And consequently, as the native humor has little savor, one prefers the twenty odd pages of index. Yvonne’s letters, it should be said, are fairly pleasant feminine reading.”
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Nation. 86: 402. Ap. 30, ’08. 170w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 211. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
“The best thing about the book is that it improves steadily up to the very last chapter.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 350. Je. 20, ’08. 630w.
“‘Seeing England with Uncle John’ is not as funny as seeing France with him, but Miss Warner has made it amusing enough, though it should not be read at one sitting.”
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Outlook. 89: 84. My. 9, ’08. 150w.
* French, Lillie Hamilton. House dignified: its design, its arrangement, and its decoration. **$5. Putnam.
8–28317.
A book designed to aid people of wealth in exercising taste in the important matter of designing, arranging and decorating their homes. “The method of the book is to take up separately the different parts of the house—hall, salon, dining-room, stairway, library, fireplaces, windows and doors, and so on—to study their relation to the whole house and to one another, and the fitness or unfitness of different plans of decoration, furnishing, and equipment.” (Outlook.)
“Her suggestions, tho written for the rich, can profitably be read and followed by any householder who has the large happiness ‘to be seated in the mean.’”
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Ind. 65: 1064. N. 5, ’08. 280w.
Nation. 87: 421. O. 29, ’08. 300w.
“A worthy treatment of a subject most desirable for consideration.”
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Outlook. 90: 551. N. 7, ’08. 150w.
Frenssen, Gustav. Peter Moor’s journey to Southwest Africa: a narrative of the German campaign; tr. from the original with the consent of the author, by Margaret May Ward. †$1.25. Houghton.
8–23712.
“Peter Moor is an average young German workman who joins the naval corps and is well pleased with being a soldier in time of peace. He is sent with his battalion in 1903 to quell the rising of the blacks in Southwest Africa. In language simple and straightforward almost to quaintness he tells the detailed story of the trip to Africa, the march into the interior, the fighting, the journey home. It is like looking thru a window into another’s soul. For he tells not only the outer but the inner things, the feelings, the motives that govern action, the sensations that fill the soul at important and at trivial times.”—N. Y. Times.
“Frenssen has in this work contrived to make an exceedingly interesting story out of materials which provide little in the way of romantic or sentimental appeal.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 470. O. 17. 160w.
“One of the most impressive peace documents ever prepared.”
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Dial. 45: 420. D. 1, ’08. 100w.
“The translator has certainly well translated a little, simple tale for the purpose of showing ‘the hardships and horrors and the unnecessary cruelty’ of war.”
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Lit. D. 37: 671. N. 7, ’08. 300w.
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Nation. 84: 314. Ap. 4, ’07. 950w.
“In the annals of war it ought to become a classic. It is a book that ought to bring true the translator’s hope that it might aid the cause of peace.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 524. S. 26, ’08. 470w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 621. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
“That the story is absorbingly interesting and beautifully told every reader will agree, and we add with pleasure that the translation is worthy of the book.”
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Sat. R. 106: 398. S. 26, ’08. 360w.
“This is a notable book, both for what it actually tells and for the questions which it suggests.”
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Spec. 101: sup. 713. N. 7, ’08. 300w.
Frothingham, Paul Revere. Temple of virtue. **$1.25. Houghton.
7–29414.
“The emphasis placed on [temperance, prudence, justice and fortitude] by Plato and Aristotle is pointed out, and their nature is explained and illustrated. But the final discourse, ‘The altar of love,’ calls attention to the pagan blindness to the highest virtue of all, love—the love of God and one’s neighbor. The book is a help to right living, and it is written in an unpretentious and pleasing style, with occasional apt quotations from Bacon, Harnack, Aquinas, Paulsen, Franklin, Pausanias, and a considerable range of other writers, ancient and modern.”—Dial.
“Unity of design, however, holds together all the variety of detail, and each chapter is succinct, simple, and direct. The little volume can be read pleasantly and profitably at a single sitting, or it can be digested piecemeal.”
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Dial. 43: 291. N. 1, ’07. 180w.
“Mr. Frothingham writes in a gentle, pleasant style, with much persuasiveness.”
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Ind. 64: 1044. My. 7, ’08. 80w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 77. F. 8, ’08. 50w.
Frye, Prosser Hall. Literary reviews and criticisms. **$1.25. Putnam.
8–27523.
Thirteen essays clear of discernment and sound of judgment dealing with the Elizabethan sonnet, with French writers—Balzac, George Sand, Zola, Maupassant, Corneille, Anatole France, Sainte-Beuve; with Hardy’s naturalism, 128Hawthorne’s supernaturalism, with Swift, Dryden and Emerson.
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Ind. 65: 1245. N. 26, ’08. 900w.
“Here are thirteen studies of the kind which some persons still think impossible outside of France, studies which help deliver men now from the flippancies of modish tastes and again from the solemn arrogance of perverted scholarship. His charming variety has distracted him from the deeper consistencies.”
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Nation. 87: 365. O. 15, ’08. 1000w.
“There is intellectual grasp in cataloguing and classifying his subjects which is in excess of his susceptibility to their charms. One cannot take quite without protest some of the statements which Mr. Frye tosses off as axiomatic truths.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 612. O. 24, ’08. 1000w.
“The thirteen essays here collected bring good entertainment and profitable thought to the easy chair in one’s library. Instructive as Mr. Frye is, he has his limitations.”
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Outlook. 90: 457. O. 24, ’08. 270w.
* Fuller, Henry Blake. Waldo Trench and others. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–23926.
Seven short stories dealing with the American colonies at Florence, Rome, Venice and other Italian cities. Contents: Waldo Trench regains his youth; New wine; A coal from the embers; For the faith; Eliza Hepburn’s deliverance; Addolorata’s intervention; and The house-cat.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4; 269. N. ’08.
“Yet, in spite of the humor, the technical skill in the manipulation of words and phrases (Mr. Fuller has not read his Henry James in vain), we are left cold and critical. The author can do better work than this; he has done it.”
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Ind. 65: 1070. N. 5, ’08. 270w.
“Those who have not yet had the pleasure of reading any of Mr. Fuller’s writings will be quite astonished when they discover how much cleverness and fun is concealed between the Quakerish-looking covers.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 500. S. 12, ’08. 90w.
“The ‘high dilutions’ of Henry James and Mrs. Wharton ... lack zest and sparkle.”
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Outlook. 90: 135. S. 19, ’08. 60w.
Fuller, Robert Hart. South Africa at home. *$1.75. Scribner.
8–22497.
“This volume, like Mr. A. Maurice Low’s ‘America at home,’ is evidently part of a series intended to afford an intimate view of the conditions obtaining in different countries.... Besides discussing present-day social and political problems, Mr. Fuller’s volume covers a wide range of topics, from descriptions of South African scenery and town and country life, to chapters on the country’s resources and industrial possibilities.”—Outlook.
“His experience is wide and first-hand, his style very fair, his temper admirable. Nothing could be more sympathetic and generous, without sentimentality or lack of shrewdness, than his treatment of the Boers.”
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Nation. 87: 162. Ag. 20, ’08. 330w.
“So skillfully has he supplemented personal knowledge with the knowledge accessible from reports, letters, and other documents, that his book contains a great deal of information helpful to those who would learn what the South African is like, what manner of land it is in which he dwells, and what the future seems to hold for him.”
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Outlook. 89: 628. Jl. 18, ’08. 300w.
Fuller, Robert Higginson. Government by the people: laws and customs regulating the election system and the formation and control of political parties in the United States. **$1. Macmillan.
8–13760.
“A convenient manual for the study of American government, so far as it is conducted through the agency of political parties.... It consists of an elementary discussion of the laws and customs governing the holding of elections and the organization, methods, agencies and means of control of political parties in the United States. It contains a great deal of useful and well-arranged information expressed in simple language, regarding the nature of elections, the qualifications for voting, the nomination of candidates, primary elections, corrupt practices and the part played by political parties in our public life.”—Ind.
“Useful for reference rather than for general reading.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 236. O. ’08. ✠
“The facts here given are such as should be thoroughly known to every voter.”
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Arena. 39: 732. Je. ’08. 200w.
“A perfect mine of information which is of value to the American citizen and voter. The book is particularly useful just at this time.”
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Educ. R. 36: 523. D. ’08. 90w.
“It is a little book which deserves to be studied in the schools as a part of the instruction in civil government.”
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Ind. 64: 1352. Je. 11, ’08. 130w.
“The book should prove useful for reference, and for instruction in college courses in government.”
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Nation. 87: 212. S. 3, ’08. 170w.
“While the book is limited in its references, which are principally to the state of New York, it has general value.”
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Pol. Sci. Q. 23: 572. S. ’08. 100w.
“A book that will be found interesting and useful to every American citizen desirous of learning the mechanism of our political system.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 124. Jl. ’08. 190w.
Fulton, Charles Herman. Manual of fire assaying. il. $2. Hill pub.
7–37731.
This manual “gives all the data necessary to teach the subject to students or beginners, or to assist an experienced man in running an office, including keeping the instruments and apparatus in the best order, handling large amounts of work per day and new or unusual ores, and making such corrections in the work as will give the highest degree of accuracy.” (Engin. N.)