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Jacob, Violet. History of Aythan Waring. **$1.25. Dutton.
8–3675.
Two cousins love “a delightful young Diana of the uplands,” thereby incurring for one of them the jealousy of a vindictive woman. “The hero is found guilty of attempted murder, and sentenced to death. His lady-love is a winsome creature, and his rival, the villain, is remarkably human for a character of his type. Hester is a striking figure; her delineation is a sombre study of the madness which may arise from a woman’s jealousy.” (Ath.)
“The tale is leisurely melodrama, presented with more fidelity to detail, and rather more logical sequence and characterization, than is usual in this class of story.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 155. F. 8. 130w.
“The characters are vaguely drawn; the dialogue is perfunctory and bookish; the melodramatic plot is dawdling, lifeless, and absurd.”
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Nation. 86: 287. Mr. 26, ’08. 200w.
“The book is somewhat above the average novel in style, characterization, and vigor of treatment. Mrs. Jacob, however, falls short in the most essential quality in fiction—the dramatic touch.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 104. F. 22, ’08. 100w.
“The story is very well told.”
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Outlook. 89: 40. My. 2, ’08. 70w.
R. of Rs. 37: 767. Je. ’08. 70 w.
“Nevertheless, though its execution is not so good as its conception, it is a fine story, thoughtful and imaginative. It is because Mrs. Jacob writes so well that we expect her to write better.”
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Sat. R. 105: 306. Mr. 7, ’08. 200w.
“It is characteristic of Mrs. Jacob’s method that she is able to dispense with all the trappings and actualities and decorative apparatus of modern society without in the least impairing the intrinsic interest of her story.”
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Spec. 100: 191. F. 1, ’08. 720w.
Jacobi, Mary Putnam. Stories and sketches (1860–1871). $1.50. Putnam.
8–11830.
A collection of the writings of Mary Putnam Jacobi which are “partly a memorial to the life of a talented woman, whose notable success as a physician and whose personal influence are worthy to be remembered, and partly a tribute to the intrinsic value of her few literary productions. All of these stories, sketches, and essays, eight in number, date previous to her graduation in 1871 from l’Ecole de Médecine, for after that event she decided to concentrate her energies upon her chosen scientific and professional work.” (N. Y. Times.)
“They make interesting studies from the historical point of view. Undoubted talent is exhibited in them, but they belong to another day; and probably the author was wise in giving up literary work for the scientific life to which she adhered subsequently.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 40. Ja. 11. 210w.
“Intent as she was on the scientific pursuits that were to be her life work, she could yet write papers of such delicate wit, such incisive expression, such clearness of thought and appreciation of the picturesque as raises them quite above the level of the magazine article for which purpose they served, and makes them as vividly interesting now as at their first printing, thirty or forty years ago.”
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Ind. 64: 319. F. 6, ’08. 310w.
“In the stories and sketches the appeal is usually to the intellect rather than to the emotions, and a striking feature of both these and of the essays is the firm touch with which the author goes to the heart of a character or a situation, and puts its essential feature into terse, telling, and concrete form.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 57. F. 1, ’08. 180w.
“A feeling for the supernatural, an appreciation of good style in writing, and a pleasant play of imagination characterize the stories. The book will be of especial value to the many friends of Dr. Jacobi.”
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Outlook. 87: 829. D. 14, ’07. 100w.
Jacobs, Philip P., comp. Campaign against tuberculosis in the United States, including a directory of institutions dealing with tuberculosis in the United States and Canada. $1. Charities pub. com.
8–27800.
This work, compiled by Mr. Philip P. Jacobs under the direction of the national association for the study and prevention of tuberculosis, is a survey of the Anti-tuberculosis activity during the past ten years. The book has been made possible thru the coöperation of the Russell Sage foundation.
* Jacobs, William Wymark. Salthaven. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–30011.
“A little seaport, a simple-minded captain, a pretty girl, a young man full of assurance and ingenuity, a pert maidservant with her sailor lover—we have met their like many a time in his 190pages, yet his story is so good humored that it is impossible not to enjoy it.” (Sat. R.) “The novel shows a keen appreciation of the conversational cruelties of women of the lower middle class; and an officious captain who contrives to be bedridden in the house of a couple returning from their honeymoon is prodigiously amusing.” (Ath.)
“Mr. Jacobs is one of those happy men who can be as funny as they please without detracting from the love-interest of their stories.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 603. N. 14. 110w.
“The author is here at his most characteristic. The growth of his familiar episode into a book has not impaired its quality.”
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Nation. 87: 467. N. 12, ’08. 120w.
“There are no thrills and no breathless passages, but it is thoroughly restful and charming.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 698. N. 28, ’08. 240w.
“The sly turns, the badinage and chaff, the oddly conceived situations, are all Jacobs at his best.”
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Outlook. 90: 748. N. 28, ’08. 60w.
“Mr. Jacobs has found no fresh ingredients for his latest dish, but his skill in varying the old recipe is so great that we hardly notice this until we have come to the end.”
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Sat. R. 106: 490. O. 17, ’08. 130w.
“Another of Mr. Jacobs’s delightful stories.”
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Spec. 101: 785. N. 14, ’08. 200w.
Jacobstein, Meyer. Tobacco industry in the United States. *$1.50. Longmans.
7–36149.
“Deals in a dispassionate way, yet clearly, with the facts of the development of the tobacco trust which has of late been the subject of such heated presentation and litigation. The book covers the whole field from the first plantations in the colonies to the foreign trade and the tobacco tax.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
“Dr. Jacobstein knows his subject and the monograph gives evidence of much careful work.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 446. S. ’08. 130w.
“The author has covered a large field in a relatively small compass but has done it in an eminently satisfactory manner, and has shown both good judgment in his selection of facts and wise discrimination in the emphasis he has given to the different parts of the subject. Few readers of the work will be inclined to feel dissatisfied with the completeness of the author’s statements or the reliability of his conclusions. The monograph is written in an excellent style and proves easy and interesting reading. Perhaps the only serious criticism of the work from scientific standpoint is the lack of a bibliography. Even the references in the footnotes are not abundant and apparently do not include all the sources of information used by the author.” M. B. Hammond.
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Econ. Bull. 1: 124. Je. ’08. 1200w.
Jacobus, Melancthon Williams, ed. Roman Catholic and Protestant Bibles compared. (Gould prize essays.) 2d ed. **$1.25. Scribner.
8–5163.
The scriptural controversy embodied in the Gould prize essays has resulted in the demand for a justification of the positions assumed by the authors. Such a justification is found in this second edition, which, in addition to the original essays, also includes the sources from which material has been drawn.
“The bibliography is a valuable piece of work.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 228. Je. ’08.
“Extended notes and bibliographies add much to the value of the papers.”
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Bib. World. 31: 320. Ap. ’08. 70w.
“The authors of the essays were somewhat overwhelmed by the mass of facts which they were supposed to include in a brief popular presentation of the subject, and their accounts are bewildering to the reader who is not at home in the history of Biblical translation.”
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Nation. 86: 377. Ap. 23, ’08. 150w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 78. F. 8, ’08. 300w.
“The work thus completed far outranks all others on the same subject.”
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Outlook. 88: 564. Mr. 7, ’08. 220w.
James, George Wharton. What the white race may learn from the Indian. *$1.50. Forbes.
8–17541.
Out of the fulness of a varied experience with red men, Dr. James sets down essentials of health and happiness which the Indian observes, and by a study of which the white man may profit. The author rejects the Indian’s shortcomings of slovenliness and dwells upon racial characteristics that are manifested in the lives of the best men and women and which seem to represent their habitual aims, ambitions and desires regarding physical, mental and religious development.
“His account of the life, labor, customs and mental attributes is excellent. The book is valuable and could be read to advantage by all whites.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 625. N. ’08. 140w.
“Many writers have treated of the Indian in a more or less interesting manner, yet we know of no modern essayist who approaches Mr. James in appealing at once to the artist, the utilitarian and the humanitarian.”
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Arena. 40: 473. N. ’08. 300w.
“The book is no mere apologetic essay in behalf of a wonderful people; it is a characterization of qualities which have been largely overlooked.”
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Lit. D. 37: 257. Ag. 22, ’08. 400w.
“Both hygienically and ethically this book is profitable in the easy chair, and those who would travel to meet ‘the call of the wild’ will find direction in it.”
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Outlook. 89: 582. Jl. 11, ’08. 140w.
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R. of Rs. 38: 125. Jl. ’08. 70w.
James, Henry. Novels and tales of Henry James. 23v. $46. Scribner.
7–41582.
A collective and definitive edition of Henry James’s novels. “To each volume the author contributes a preface, telling the circumstances under which he composed the story, the purpose he had in view, the difficulties under which he labored, and the final result as he now views it after the lapse of many years.” (Nation.)
“The prefaces will be a delight to all Jamesians, even to many who modestly disclaim such a title. To such a one these prefaces may be interesting chiefly as helping on toward one’s conception of the novel as a literary form.” E: E. Hale, jr.
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Dial. 44: 174. Mr. 16, ’08. 2050w. (Review of v. 1–6.)
“The same principles which Mr. James has discust in his other critical writing now take on [in the prefaces] an unwonted intensity and intimacy. They furnish the key to the whole admirable work he has accomplished; and show it as a goodly structure, reared upon a coherent plan.”
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Lit. D. 36: 418. Mr. 21, ’08. 800w. (Review of v. 1–6.)
“These prefaces ... are written, we regret to say, in Mr. James’s most exasperating style. The sentences are clogged with qualifying clauses, as if Mr. James’s readers had not sufficient intelligence and imagination to perceive qualifications in the very frame of the phrase and connotation of the words, but insisted that it all be put down to the last syllable.”
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Nation. 86: 11. Ja. 2, ’08. 450w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
191“The prefaces, in spite of the exasperating style, continue as interesting as in the first volumes of the set.”
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Nation. 86: 215. Mr. 5, ’08. 600w. (Review of v. 3–6.)
“The preface, in which Mr. James criticises his own work, is somewhat less interesting than earlier prefaces in this edition.”
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Nation. 86: 376. Ap. 23, ’08. 150w. (Review of v. 7 and 8.)
Nation. 86: 511. Je. 4, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 9 and 10.)
Nation. 87: 115. Ag. 6, ’08. 570w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)
“If a new quarto of ‘Hamlet’ should appear done over like the text of ‘The Americans’ the judicious scholiast would promptly declare that stage directions had, as inextricably as inexplicably, got tangled up with the text and helplessly corrupted it. Apparently the judicious reader will consult his interest and his pleasure if he reads the new preface very carefully, looks over the revised version for passages of exposition and comment, and then recurs to the original text.” Montgomery Schuyler.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 13. Ja. 11, ’08. 3800w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The most proportioned of his productions after ‘The ambassadors.’”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 111. F. 29, ’08. 1120w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
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N. Y. Times. 13: 128. Mr. 7, ’08. 880w. (Review of v. 5 and 6.)
“One is glad to have the preface with the new edition, and to any reader who does not yet know Mr. James’s works thoroughly we heartily commend both.” E: A. Dithmar.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 198. Ap. 11, ’08. 1050w. (Review of v. 7 and 8.)
“To these books he has prefaced essays of very considerable length and of characteristic thoroughness, which are really chapters in autobiography.”
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Outlook. 88: 145. Ja. 18, ’08. 360w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
James, Henry. Views and reviews; now first collected; with introd. by Le Roy Phillips. $1.50. Ball pub.
8–16451.
There are included here a dozen of Mr. James’s essays which were contributed to magazines during the sixties and seventies. They are as follows: The novels of George Eliot, On the drama of Robert Browning, Swinburne’s essays, The poetry of William Morris, Matthew Arnold’s essays, Mr. Walt Whitman, The poetry of George Eliot, The limitations of Dickens, Tennyson’s drama, Contemporary notes on Whistler vs. Ruskin, A note on John Burroughs and Mr. Kipling’s early stories. Mr. Phillips says: “A true lover of Mr. James’s work feels the same delightful sense of intimate discovery in touching these early papers that an artist does in finding a portfolio of early sketches by a beloved master.”
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Dial. 45: 171. S. 16, ’08. 120w.
“These miscellaneous articles by Mr. James have a real interest, often from the topics, still alive after two decades; always for the sake of their accurate thought and penetrating judgments.”
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Ind. 65: 1312. D. 3, ’08. 350w.
“Mr. Le Roy Phillips has done something which will give every reader of Henry James a distinct pleasure in collecting these early papers. The clarity of the views, the justice of the criticisms evident in these pages on writers long since become classical, are surprising.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 385. Jl. 11, ’08. 670w.
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Outlook. 89: 810. Ag. 18, ’08. 270w.
James, R. A. Scott-. Modernism and romance. *$2.50. Lane.
8–17229.
“Intended to form a continuous argument; and various authors and books are selected ‘as examples of certain intellectual or emotional forces which are working in our midst and are moulding the psychical organism of society.’ There are sixteen chapters with such captions as ‘Science and vandalism,’ ‘The decadents,’ ‘The apostles of protest,’ and ‘The new romance.’ In each chapter he discusses representative authors; thus under ‘The fugitives’ he writes of Lafcadio Hearn, Miss Edith Durham, Pierre Loti, and Jack London; under ‘The self-conscious poet,’ of Mr. W. B. Yeats, Mr. Stephen Phillips, and Mr. John Davidson.”—Dial.
“The individual essays in the book are bright as well as thoughtful, although one must often differ from the writer’s opinions, literary or other. Judging the volume as a whole, we must feel, despite the many meritorious parts and frequency of suggestive or even stimulating passages, that the author has not achieved the unity and comprehensiveness for which the title and introduction led us to hope.”
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Dial. 45: 255. O. 16, ’08. 320w.
“Is made up of rambling essays, light in their quality in spite of the formal introduction, and all readable enough.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 166. Mr. 28, ’08. 840w.
Jameson, E. M. Pendleton twins. il. $1.25. West. Meth. bk.
In this Pendleton book the twins occupy the center of the stage. Their frolics and thrilling adventure furnish for the young reader wholesome excitement.
N. Y. Times. 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The author understands child nature, and in the midst of fun and mischief keeps a steady view of the inherent honor to be found in well-brought-up children.”
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Outlook. 88: 654. Mr. 21, ’08. 80w.
Sat. R. 104: sup. 8. D. 7, ’07. 80w.
Jameson, John Franklin, ed. Original narratives of early American history, ea. **$3. Scribner.
7–6643.
v. 6. Davies, William T., ed. Bradford’s history of Plymouth plantation. 1606–1646.
After an eventful career the manuscript of which this volume is a reprint was deposited in the Massachusetts state library where it is protected by a fire-proof safe but daily exhibited under glass to visitors. It is the only extant history of the Plymouth colony’s early years. It tells of reformation and persecution in England, plans for removal, the voyage of the Mayflower, the growth of the colony, troubles with England, the policies of governors, the growth of the Salem church, beside numerous details of struggle and progress.
“Accepting ‘Narratives of early Virginia’ as it stands, too high praise cannot be given the splendid editorial work which has been done.”
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 909. Jl. ’08. 500w. (Review of v. 5.)
Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 724. My. ’08. 150w. (Review of v. 5.)
“The volume contains an admirable index.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 621. N. ’08. 130w. (Review of v. 6.)
Ind. 64: 924. Ap. 23, ’08. 350w. (Review of v. 3–6.)
“Mr. Davis has performed his editorial functions with good judgment and without prejudice, and has kept his comments refreshingly free from the incense of ancestor worship.”
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Nation. 87: 116. Ag. 6, ’08. 450w. (Review of v. 6.)
N. Y. Times. 13: 207. Ap. 11, ’08. 170w. (Review of v. 6.)
“The editor has given the text a rather more liberal annotation than has been customary in 192this series of reprints, and has prefaced it with an excellent biographical and historical introduction.”
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Outlook. 89: 125. My. 16, ’08. 200w. (Review of v. 6.)
“An excellent reprint.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 754. Je. ’08. 100w. (Review of v. 6.)
Jeanrenaud, Henriette. Duke of Brittany; tr. from the German by G: P. Upton. (Life stories for young people.) **60c. McClurg.
8–23710.
The story of the brief career of Arthur, son of Geoffrey Plantagenet and Constance of Brittany. It records the events of Arthur’s youth, the death of the father, the relations of his mother to Philip of France, the boy’s love for his uncle Richard, his service in the field with Philip, his betrothal to Marie of France, the war with John, and his capture and assassination.
Jeans, James Hopwood. Mathematical theory of electricity and magnetism. *$4.50. Putnam.
8–14346.
An elementary text book for the student and physicist, aiming to cover the mathematical theory of a range of electro-magnetism, the understanding of which is necessary before proceeding to the study of special branches or developments of the subject. The work is more elementary than Maxwell’s treatise.
“We feel that in a treatise which is designed to guide students so far it would have been advantageous to insert more references to the authorities on parts of the subject for which space could not be found.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 18. Jl. 4. 640w.
“The most important book in the field of physics of the year—or of many a year.”
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Ind. 65: 315. Ag. 6, ’08. 150w.
“In a few places there are slips which can hardly be assigned to the printer. The type of reader for whom the book is best adapted is the student preparing for a mathematical examination, such as the Cambridge tripos, in which theory plays the principal part. It should also, however, prove a good book of reference to the physicist of superior mathematical attainments. For either of these types of readers it seems likely to be a really useful book, so far as its scope extends.” C. Chree.
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Nature. 78: 537. O. 1, ’08. 1000w.
Jebb, Camilla. Star of the salons: Julie de Lespinasse. (Memoir ser.) *$3.50. Putnam.
8–16930.
While the author scarcely lays bare the secrets of Mlle. Julie de Lespinasse’s success as a salonist, she does reveal the fascination of her personality, the intellectual charm which cast its spell over men of ambition and genius, and the piquant sorrow of her love first for the dying Marquis de Mora, and then the Comte de Guibert. “The four great scenes in French society are first depicted in a vivid, entertaining manner, and then Julie de Lespinasse is portrayed among them—an incarnation of the gloom, passion, and heroism hidden beneath the gay, untroubled surface of life in her age.” (Ath.)
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Ath. 1908, 1: 503. Ap. 25. 970w.
“The chief feature of interest in this new biography ... is the minute study it contains of the times in which she lived.”
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Ind. 65: 1004. O. 29, ’08. 200w.
“Is in substance an informal ‘doing into English’ of the biography, already officially translated, of M. de Segur. It makes, however, with its twenty illustrations, a fresh and delightful contribution to the subject.”
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Nation. 87: 15. Jl. 2, ’08. 580w.
“The writer is less engaged in the hunt for scandal than is usual in works of this kind.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 333. Je. 13, ’08. 100w.
“Miss Jebb uses the material discovered by M. de Ségur, but refashions it, with feminine wit and love, into a different effect.”
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Outlook. 90: 552. N. 7, ’08. 400w.
“It is a sincere, sympathetic, cultivated and even learned biography.”
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Sat. R. 105: 506. Ap. 18, ’08. 270w.
Jebb, Caroline Lane. Life and letters of Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, by his wife Caroline Jebb; with a chapter on Sir Richard Jebb as scholar and critic, by Dr. A. W. Verrall. $3. Putnam.
8–3928.
So far as the biographical portion is concerned it is an informing revelation of the influences brought to bear upon rare birthright ability to produce a profound scholar, teacher, and man of the world in the best sense of the trite expression. His letters “are long and numerous, and are gracefully written, vivid, self-revelatory to a sufficient degree to give them a strong personal flavor, and full of brilliant comment upon people and literature.” (N. Y. Times.)
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 189. Je. ’08.
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Ath. 1907, 2: 645. N. 23. 2150w.
“His wife has performed her task as editor with most commendable tact and cleverness, giving enough, even of his letters to her, to show what manner of man he was, and yet never overstepping due bounds.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 321. Je. 6, ’08. 330w.
“Written with taste and discretion, free alike from fatuous English and sentimentalism. But, apart from Dr. Verrall’s admirable chapter, she and her helpers have hardly paid attention enough to the scholarly side of the subject. Further she has not attempted any distinct portrait of the man.”
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Sat. R. 104: 609. N. 16, ’07. 1450w.
Jefferson, Charles Edward. Character of Jesus. **$1.50. Crowell. 8–24445.
Dr. Jefferson, of the Broadway tabernacle, discusses Jesus, the man, as seen by contemporary friends and enemies. The studies include such phases of Jesus’ character as strength, sincerity, reasonableness, poise, originality, narrowness, breadth, trust, brotherliness, optimism, chivalry, firmness, generosity, candor, enthusiasm, gladness, humility, patience, courage, indignation, reverence, holiness and greatness.
“The preacher’s attitude is one of healthful devotion, and is not marred either by polemical conservatism on the one hand or by barren criticism on the other.”
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Bib. World. 32: 367. N. ’08. 60w.
“Among the almost countless host of books on the life of Jesus Christ this volume has a place by itself.”
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Outlook. 90: 457. O. 24, ’08. 340w.
R. of Rs. 38: 757. D. ’08. 50w.
Jekyll, Gertrude. Colour in the flower garden. *$3.75. Scribner.
W8–153.
A fully illustrated volume based upon extensive knowledge, wide experience and good taste. The author shows how successfully a garden “may make a picture, or a succession of pictures”; she believes “that color and massing are as important to the gardener as to the artist.” “Of course, it may be said that this is gardening in excelsis. Still, it supplies an ideal; and we are the better for having an ideal, whether we can reach it or not.” (Spec.)
“The book may be thoroughly recommended to amateur gardeners, while even professionals may obtain from it much useful information.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 274. S. 5. 500w.
“Everyone with a trace of gardening instinct will enjoy Miss Jekyll’s book, and those who work under anything like the same conditions will find it very helpful.” E. K. Dunton.
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Dial. 44: 339. Je. 1, ’08. 460w.
193“The volume is worthy of the highest praise from all points of view.”
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Nation. 87: 166. Ag. 20, ’08. 210w.
“The photographs are charming, and, studied in conjunction with the plans, instructive; but there is considerable repetition in the letterpress.” A. M. Cecil.
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Sat. R. 105: 527. Ap. 25, ’08. 500w.
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Spec. 100: 626. Ap. 18, ’08. 140w.
* Jenks, Tudor. Photography for young people. **$1.50. Stokes.
8–18279.
A book for beginners which describes the use of the camera, chemicals and processes, and gives definite instruction on all points of picture taking and making. There are chapters also on the history and chemistry of photography.
“In his effort to be clear and explicit the author is very verbose, and the book could have been condensed to advantage.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 273. N. ’08.
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Nation. 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 30w.
“A great deal of valuable information and practical advice are contained in Tudor Jenks’s book.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 486. S. 5, ’08. 120w.
Jepson, Edgar. Four philanthropists: a clever satire. 75c. Cupples & L.
With London for a setting this story with many a shrewd scoundrel tells, in the main, how three men started a society to do away with philanthropists. A girl of seventeen is the fourth philanthropist and heroine-in-general, who makes a sure target of the hearts of the other three in her innocent arrow practice.
“Frankly, it is not up to his standard, and has nothing of the romantic interest which he got out of his stories in earlier days.”
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Ath. 1907, 1: 787. Je. 29. 90w.
“The narrative is well-sustained, and, with its avoidance of mere facetiousness, is a bit of agreeable fooling.”
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Nation. 87: 289. S. 24, ’08. 230w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 400w.
Jepson, Edgar. Tangled wedlock. †$1.50. McClure.
8–8097.
A group of sponging artistic and literary freaks of Bohemia form the background of this tale which places well to the fore the self-reliant daughter of one of “The circle” and her lover, a sculptor, who together strike some well-aimed blows at the lotus-eating elect of their Bohemia. The crisp, refreshing methods of the eccentric heroine in dealing with the butcher’s boy who kicked a cat, with her mother’s finances, with the subject of model-posing, and with marriage itself place her in an original class. The unconventional plot with its tangle of marriages is full of novel construction.
“The pages are enriched with some fine touches of involuntary humor; but on the whole, recalling the dictum that easy writing makes hard reading, one is led to the conclusion that ‘Tangled wedlock’ must have flowed lightly from a facile pen.”
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Nation. 86: 287. Mr. 26, ’08. 100w.
“The ill-chosen title does not prepare us for this very readable and well-written novel. The work is finely tempered, the style one of commendable clarity, and the whole is pervaded by humor.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 139. Mr. 14, ’08. 150w.
“The satire lacks subtlety, and the psychological analysis with which the other writers have added value to their chaff is wanting.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 762. Je. ’08. 50w.
“His work is a triumph of manner, and after reading his story it is by the way he has handled his subject rather than by the subject itself that one is impressed.”
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Sat. R. 106: 52. Je. 11, ’08. 320w.
Jerningham, Sir Hubert Edward Henry. From West to East, notes by the way. *$4. Dutton.
7–42345.
Although no portion of Sir Hubert’s travels from Paris to Japan and Manchuria is left unrecorded the interest centers in his impressions of Japan and the scenes of the late war. “The greater part of the volume, therefore, is devoted to an account of the Japanese experiences. These included interviews with several noted men, among others Admiral Togo and Marquis Ito. The government gave him permission to go to Mukden and Port Arthur, the battles and siege of which places are described with much detail.” (Nation.)
“Sir Hubert writes pleasantly always, if without great literary distinction; he has observed sensibly, and all men of intelligence must be interested in the chatty record of his observations.”
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Acad. 72: 161. F. 16, ’07. 450w.
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Ath. 1907, 1: 350. Mr. 23. 700w.
“A reading of this book leads one to look upon the author’s report of his six months’ journeying as a sort of ‘disjecta membra,’ written by a man who is capable of more valuable and entertaining writing than is contained in the present volume.” H. E. Coblentz.
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Dial. 41: 347. Je. 1, ’08. 250w.
“The work is quite superficial ... [though] free from the faults of the books of the majority of globe-trotters, frequently suggestive, and entertaining from beginning to end.”
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Lond. Times. 6: 59. F. 22, ’07. 600w.
“It is difficult to see the ‘raison d’être’ of the book, except the pleasure which the author evidently had in writing it.”
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Nation. 86: 306. Ap. 2, ’08. 230w.
“The author’s descriptions are always gracefully written and are often enthusiastic enough to be vivid, but they reveal only a mind of rather commonplace order. Sometimes his observation was too hasty to be accurate and his generalizations more picturesque than true.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 168. Mr. 28, ’08. 150w.
“[There are] some vivid descriptions of visits to battlefields of the Russo-Japanese war, and some incisive, picturesquely put opinions of Japanese national policies.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 509. Ap. ’08. 80w.
“An interesting and well-informed diary. The best part of the book is that dealing with the scenes of Japan’s great struggle with Russia from Port Arthur to Mukden.”
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Sat. R. 103: 180. F. 9, ’07. 150w.
Jerrold, Walter Copeland. Highways and byways in Kent; il. by Hugh Thomson. $2. Macmillan.
8–11802.
Guide book haste is eliminated from these pages which are intended for the sojourner rather than the lightning tourist. “Mr. Jerrold writes but little description—barely enough to keep before the reader’s eye a vague vision of the appearance of the country, but he peoples every road and field, every village and historic relic with an impressive company of spirits, the men and women who have made twenty centuries of history, the figures of legend and tradition, and the characters of history.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The book is pleasantly written.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 190. Je. ’08.
“Some of his illustrations suffer from undue haste. Notwithstanding criticisms, the general charm of the drawings prevails over any possible defects in a few cases. There is a good deal of pleasantly written and slightly informing matter throughout these pages, and certainly the writer takes some pains to relieve them from possible dullness.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 34. Ja. 11. 1000w.
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Dial. 44: 353. Je. 1, ’08. 130w.
“An exhaustive and informing volume.”
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Ind. 64: 694. Mr. 26, ’08. 250w.
194“Treated with fulness and fine reminiscent flavor.”
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Nation. 86: 147. F. 13, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Jerrold seems to know, with both love and knowledge, every foot of the ground and all its literary and historic associations. The illustrations show a quality in the treatment of picturesque corners and a skill in the suggestion of space and distance comparable with those of Joseph Pennell, although worked out with much more attention to detail than is usual with that artist.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 92. F. 15, ’08. 220w.
“Mr. Thomson’s figures are specially delightful; never careless and always in the right place, they in no case mar the general effect, as too often foreground figures will.”
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Sat. R. 105: 45. Ja. 11, ’08. 1250w.
“A book which at any rate will stand for long as the best ‘hors d’œuvre’ to the Kentish banquet.... Mr. Jerrold is staid enough, and though never startling in epithet or enthusiasm, is a very agreeable cicerone. Mr. Hugh Thomson, the illustrator, is very unequal. When he is not good, he is almost bad; but when he is good, he is very good indeed.”
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Spec. 100: 102. Ja. 18, ’08. 470w.
Jevons, Frank Byron. An introduction to the study of comparative religion. (Hartford-Lamson lectures on the religions of the world.) **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–30157.
The author treats his subject from the standpoint of the missionary in foreign countries, who must understand other religions besides Christianity in order to establish common ground for the basis of operation. The subjects treated are immortality, magic, fetichism, prayer, sacrifice, morality and Christianity. Bibliography and index.
Jewett, Sophie (Ellen Burroughs, pseud.). Pearl; a middle English poem; a modern version in the metre of the original. **$1. Crowell.
An accurate and melodious modern version of a middle English poem.
“A translation whose fidelity is instinctive, grace answering to grace. It is not too much to say that Miss Jewett’s translation crowns the series.” K. L. Bates.
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Dial. 45: 450. D. 16, ’08. 1450w.
Job, Herbert Keightley. Sport of birdstudy: a book for young or active people. *$2. Outing pub.
8–17737.
Designed for beginners in bird study, and tells how to become acquainted with the birds of any ordinary country town, how to go about the sport and what the results are likely to be. The book is profusely illustrated and “besides being an accurate piece of scientific work, forms a bird-census of a region never before investigated or written up.”
“Although written for adult readers, will be enjoyed by many young people.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 238. O. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Job will do well to see that hereafter his fine pictures are not stultified by this pointless use of his text.” G: Gladden.
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Bookm. 27: 605. Ag. ’08. 1000w.
“Deserves most commendation because it shows boys in story form how much pleasure and sport may be found in studying birds in any ordinary country place.”
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Ind. 65: 317. Ag. 6, ’08. 60w.
“It is quite devoid of unwholesome sentimentality, and yet shows for the bird world as loving sympathy as man can well have with the lower species.”
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Nation. 87: 366. O. 15, ’08. 400w.
“A book to delight the average healthy-minded boy, and one to create an interest in a fascinating form of recreation and study.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 356. Je. 20, ’08. 100w.
Johnson, Allen. Stephen A. Douglas: a study in American politics. **$2.50. Macmillan.
8–11832.
An interpretation of Douglas’s personality as a representative figure in the controversies that preceded the civil war, covering carefully the circumstances that shaped him into the “natural spokesman of the conservative slaveholding democracy and filled him with the ideas of expansion and local control out of which popular sovereignty was to grow.”
“Admirable both as a biography and as a contribution to American history.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 190. Je. ’08. ✠
“The very limitation of the subject has led to omissions that prevent the study from being a complete picture of Douglas. The description of the politician, however, is very satisfactory.” C. W. Alvord.
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Dial. 45: 211. O. 1, ’08. 1500w.
“He has given us a brilliant and well-balanced biography. To a notable degree he has succeeded in portraying a man moving in his environment.”
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Ind. 64: 1146. My. 21, ’08. 300w.
“A careful and animated account of a vehement and stormy career.”
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Lit. D. 37: 326. S. 5, ’08. 280w.
“On the whole, Professor Johnson has made good his sub-title, for he has produced ‘a study in American politics’ that has all the life and realism of a moving picture in which Douglas is the most conspicuous figure.”
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Nation. 86: 577. Je. 25, ’08. 360w.
“His style is clear and pleasant, and he quotes so freely from his authorities, naming them so numerously, that his book will be one of authority.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 302. My. 30, ’08. 700w.
“Well constructed, well written, and eminently sensible.”
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Outlook. 89: 859. Ag. 15, ’08. 970w.
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R. of Rs. 37: 753. Je. ’08. 180w.
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Spec. 101: sup. 475. O. 3, ’08. 450w.
Johnson, Alvin Saunders. Introductory economics. $1.50. School of liberal arts and sciences for non residents, N. Y.
8–9770.
“In the main Dr. Johnson has written a series of studies illustrating the operation of the two economic principles of diminishing utility and diminishing returns with some additional chapters on general economic subjects such as money, financial institutions, international trade, etc. The volume does not claim to be a general text-book on the whole field of economics. Its aim is rather to reach the lay public than the student body, for the author believes that, ‘in a democratic state economic science should be for the many, not for the few.’”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“By those economists who hold the productivity theory of distribution, this book can merit naught but praise. It is a clear, logical presentation written in terse English. To that growing group of economists, however, who have broken from the Clark idea of marginal productivity and adhere to the price or exchange theory, the book offers little of value.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 446. S. ’08. 200w.
“In point of scholarship leaves nothing to be desired. Unfortunately the mechanical execution of the volume is not all that is should be.”
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Educ. R. 36: 317. O. ’08. 60w.
“Assuming that there is a real need for a book of this character—which some of us will consider questionable—the one before us must be accounted to have met that need very successfully. 195The style is simple and effective; the illustrations happy; the tone moderate and candid. The peculiar doctrines of the school represented are so diluted by qualifications or contradictions that their objectionableness is much diminished; while the treatment is so concrete as to give an air of complete reality to a body of doctrine which is, to say the least, somewhat transcendental.” F. M. Taylor.
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J. Pol. Econ. 16: 459. Jl. ’08. 900w.
“If any criticism is to be passed upon his work it is that it is confessedly eclectic rather than hewn from a single quarry. The absence of an index is inexcusable.”
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Nation. 87: 233. S. 10, ’08. 300w.
“If the other books in this series succeed as well as this one in popularizing modern learning the School of liberal arts will have accomplished much for the education of a large number of Americans who are now deprived of such advantages.”
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* Johnson, Clifton, ed. Elm-tree fairy book. †$1.50. Little.
A third collection of Mr. Johnson’s versions of wonder tales. It follows the plans of his two previous volumes. He retains the charm, goodness and interest of the old classics but cleanses them of lies, cruelties, bloodshed and suffering.
Nation. 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 100w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 50w.
“The illustrations are decorative in arrangement, but the characters are rather gross in type.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 765. D. ’08. 50w.
Johnson, Clifton. Highways and byways of the Pacific coast. (American highways and byways ser.) **$2. Macmillan.
8–26885.
A book of leisurely tourist jaunts over mountain trails, into rural byways, among mountain foothills, and thru farming regions of the Pacific coast country. Emphasis is placed upon typical and picturesque country life. At the end of each chapter are to be found notes containing suggestions for prospective travelers.
“A more readable book of travel is not often published.”
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Dial. 45: 410. D. 1, ’08. 200w.
“Besides a book written primarily to entertain, Mr. Johnson has brought together here so much practical information in regard to the places which he has visited that his work should prove to be of value to those contemplating a trip on the western coast of the United States.”
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Lit. D. 37: 902. D. 12, ’08. 170w.
Johnson, Henry. Life and voyages of Joseph Wiggins, F. R. G. S., modern discoverer of the Kara sea route to Siberia; based on his journals and letters. *$5. Dutton.
8–15733.
Captain Wiggins, the Hudson of the Northeastern seas, was the discoverer of the Kara sea route to Siberia. From extracts and journals the story is told of his years of seafaring life and his thirty years of struggle and hardship to open a highway thru the Arctic seas, and of his dying without its establishment.
“A deeply interesting volume.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 151. Ag. 8. 1200w.
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Nation. 86: 305. Ap. 2, ’08. 300w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 100. F. 22, ’08. 350w.
R. of Rs. 37: 510. Ap. ’08. 30w.
“The book is well written.”
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Sat. R. 105: 21. Ja. 4, ’08. 300w.
“A spirited story of the undertaking.”
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Spec. 99: 1058. D. 21, ’07. 400w.
Johnson, Herrick. Ideal ministry. **$1.75. Revell.
8–16404.
Ideal ministry as here set forth “merely brings home to conscience the responsibility attaching to the individual sinners, and the offer of a salvation obtained for each by the cross of Christ as an expiation for their guilt.” (Outlook.) “We may specially mention what seems to us a very sensible summary of the respective advantages of the extempore and the written discourse, and of the memoriter method.” (Spec.)
“His sage counsels are distinguished by rugged common sense.”
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Nation. 87: 463. N. 12, ’08. 70w.
“That the ideal ministry must be based on the theology of seventeenth-century Presbyterians, as Dr. Johnson insists, none disputes more incisively than his fellow-presbyter, Dr. Carter, in his recent book, ‘Wanted—a theology.’ Nor will the ideal ministry draw Dr. Johnson’s line between sacred and ‘merely secular’ topics, to exclude the latter from the pulpit. All real interests in God’s world, however secular, have a sacred side. But, while open to these criticisms, this volume is, as the work of an acknowledged master should be, a valuable addition to the cultural apparatus of preachers.”
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Outlook. 89: 580. Jl. 11, ’08. 300w.
“Much that he says will be found of value. And all through there is manifest a most earnest spirit, and a desire to give his readers or hearers of his very best. We should like to have had a much fuller bibliography.”
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Spec. 101: 595. O. 17, ’08. 200w.
Johnson, Robert Underwood. Poems. 2d ed. **$1.20. Century.
8–16592.
Includes poems formerly published under the titles, “The winter hour,” and “Songs of liberty,” also two new groups of poems under the headings “Italian rhapsody, and other poems” and “Moments of Italy, and other poems.” “Who longs for music merely longs for love” suggests the characteristic philosophy of the poet in abstracting absolute qualities of resemblance and presenting them on the plane of the ideal.
“Gracefulness and facility are the dominating qualities of Mr. Johnson’s verse, together with a sense of technique, and skill in the using of it.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 265. S. 5. 300w.
“This is clearly a case in which the effect of the whole is greater than the sum of the effects produced by the several parts. For one thing, the collective volume shows us the surprising breadth of the poet’s range.” W: M. Payne.
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Dial. 45: 63. Ag. 1, ’08. 530w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 389. Jl. 11, ’08. 380w.
Johnston, Charles H. L. Famous cavalry leaders. $1.50. Page.
8–22309.
Accounts of the forced marches, dashing raids and glorious charges of fifteen heroes of sabre, spur and saddle: Attila, Saladin, Genghis Khan, Chevalier Bayard, Count Pappenheim, Gustavus Adolphus, Prince Rupert, Old father Ziethen, Frederick William Baron von Seydlitz, Francis Marion, Marshal Ney, Joachim Murat, Jeb Stuart, Phil Sheridan and George Armstrong Custer.
Reviewed by K. L. M.
Bookm. 28: 387. D. ’08. 70w.
“It is a historical book and a good one.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 110w.
R. of Rs. 38: 633. N. ’08. 60w.
Johnston, Mary. Lewis Rand. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–23560.
An historical novel set in the administration of Jefferson. Federalist and democrat-republican 196are pitted against each other in political combat. The hero, Lewis Rand, is a republican; his rival in love and politics, a federalist. Rand, self-made, a protegé of Jefferson, is on the way to fame when he is tempted by Burr to join the latter in his mad and treasonable enterprise of setting up an empire beyond the Alleghanies. The tragedy of Rand’s temptation and fall is powerfully portrayed, intermingled with the gentleness and devotion of the wonderful Jaqueline.
“The story is in marked advance of Miss Johnston’s earlier ones.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 269. N. ’08. ✠
“An historical novel extending over 450 closely printed pages subjects the reader’s patience to an unduly severe test, and we cannot say that the interest is always maintained; but the charm of Miss Johnston’s writing makes amends for much.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 537. O. 31. 130w.
“A well imagined and strongly told tale, within the limitations laid down by the conventions of this particular kind of story telling.” F: T. Cooper.
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Bookm. 28: 143. O. ’08. 430w.
“The tragedy of Rand’s life is cleverly worked out; though he occasionally indulges in a display of sentimentality that scarcely fits the strong man’s character and tediously delays the march of the action.”
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Cath. World. 88: 259. N. ’08. 470w.
“The story is a strong one, richly furnished forth with the accessories of historical fact and of the manners of Virginians a century ago. It provides a vivid presentation of a deeply interesting period in our national annals, and it throbs with a very real life, albeit a life romantically tinged.” W: M. Payne.
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Dial. 45: 294. N. 1, ’08. 600w.
“Made notable by a sudden maturing of its author’s power to portray the depths of character.”
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Ind. 65: 1182. N. 19, ’08. 40w.
“The book is, we think, a piece of permanent literature and must rank as one of the finest novels of its class which have appeared.”
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Lit. D. 37: 600. O. 24. ’08. 380w.
“The story is notable for a deepening of thought and maturity of analysis that are almost startling in comparison with its predecessors.”
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Nation. 87: 317. O. 1, ’08. 530w.
“One of the strongest works of fiction that has seen the light of day in America.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 538. O. 3, ’08. 660w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 20w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 744. D. 5, ’08. 180w.
“This story marks a decided advance in Miss Johnston’s power and art.”
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Outlook. 90: 361. O. 17, ’08. 340w.
“Some of the customs of the time, notably the method of viva voce voting, are well described.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 634. N. ’08. 70w.
“Will add to her reputation as a serious novelist both by the interest of the plot and by the excellence of the character-drawing.”
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Spec. 101: 887. N. 28, ’08. 250w.
Johnston, Reginald Fleming. From Peking to Mandalay: a journey from North China to Burma through Tibetan Ssuch’uan and Yunnan. *$5. Dutton.
8–34209.
“Mr. Johnston is a district officer and magistrate at Wei-hai-wei. The journey he describes was a result of a long-felt desire to see the various tribes subject to China which inhabit the wild regions of Chinese Tibet and north-western Yunnan. He went neither as a sportsman nor a political agent, but as a scholar—an adventurous scholar, which, we may add, is a very admirable character. Boldness is generally rewarded and Mr. Johnston met with no ill-treatment or even discourtesy in districts supposed to be the most ‘anti-foreign’ in the Empire.”—Spec.
“Taken as a whole, his work is the most important of its kind that has come under our notice for some years.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 721. Je. 13. 1750w.
“There is a great deal of matter in his book that will interest geographers, ethnologists, and religionists.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 513. S. 19, ’08. 300w.
“We cannot profess always to agree with his conclusions, but there is not a page on which he does not earn our respect. Such a work may safely be included among the small number of books of travel which are important.”
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Spec. 101: 267. Ag. 22, ’08. 1350w.
Joly, Henri L. Legend in Japanese art. il. *$25. Lane.
8–15873.
A description of historical episodes, legendary characters, folklore, myths, religious symbols and of historical and fabulous personages and incidents illustrated in the arts of old Japan. The book contains over seven hundred half-tone illustrations and sixteen full-page color prints.
“We commend with confidence this sumptuous treasury of research, not only to British collectors, who are sometimes reproached with appraising their ‘curios’ at a purely commercial value, but also to more disinterested lovers of art and legend, who will find in it many golden keys to the genius and spiritual wealth of Japan.”
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Acad. 73: 261. D. 21, ’07. 2500w.
“The work is indispensable to collectors, who will find in it ample, and on the whole accurate, explanations of the subjects of Japanese art, without which no real comprehension of the merits of an example is possible.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 168. F. 8. 450w.
“Far transcends anything heretofore available for reference. In the main it is accurate, the errors being few and of minor importance.” F: W. Gookin.
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Dial. 44: 211. Ap. 1, ’08. 1100w.
“The enormous amount of matter collected together in the volume bears testimony to the indefatigable zeal with which the author has attacked his subject.”
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Int. Studio. 34: 343. Je. ’08. 200w.
“This handsome and interesting book will no doubt be as welcome to collectors of various forms of Japanese art as to the general reader, who will find it excellent entertainment.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 286. My. 23, ’08. 450w.
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Spec. 100: sup. 644. Ap. 25, ’08. 50w.
Jones, Francis Arthur. Thomas Alva Edison: sixty years of an inventor’s life. il. **$2. Crowell.
8–4377.
A book for every library. It is not alone valuable for its history of the great inventor’s achievements in electricity but for its illustration of the fact that inventing may be learned, if only the creative germ is fostered that lies hidden in most brains. We have Edison at fourteen a shock-headed “news butcher,” newspaper editor and chemical experimenter—all on train-board; at eighteen, “tramp” telegraph operator; at two and twenty an inventor, selling his stock-ticker for forty thousand dollars. Then follow one after another inventions that have astonished the world. Besides his scientific successes, Edison, the man, is portrayed as intensely human.
“A really fascinating biography which makes no pretence to distinctive literary style but tells the story of the man and the inventor with simplicity, enthusiasm, and sincerity.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 80. Mr. ’08. ✠
197“One of the most valuable biographical sketches of recent years.”
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Arena. 39: 730. Je. ’08. 470w.
“With young men possessed of some love of science, fondness for machinery, a taste for experimenting, and a touch perhaps of inventive genius, the book is sure to be a favorite; as a finger-post pointing the way to success for brains and energy, it ought to exert a good influence; and its attractiveness to the lover of biography is beyond dispute.” P. F. Bicknell.
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Dial. 44: 126. Mr. 1, ’08. 1750w.
Educ. R. 35: 315. Mr. ’08. 40w.
“Is written quite agreeably and sympathetically.”
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Elec. World. 51: 514. Mr. 7, ’08. 120w.
“It is regrettable that the many interesting passages should be so promiscuously peppered with inaccurate and misleading technical matter.”
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Engin. N. 59: 296. Mr. 12, ’08. 450w.
“The value of the book is limited by the fact that his attitude is entirely uncritical.”
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Ind. 64: 868. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“The literary critic and the scientific man, however, will not regard it as a finished piece of work, since it reads too much like a series of newspaper articles, or contributions to ten-cent magazines. But the results detailed in Mr. Jones’s biography are immensely impressive.”
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Nation. 86: 313. Ap. 2, ’08. 400w.
“It would be a capital book to place in the hands of schoolboys.” G. H. Bryan.
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Nature. 78: 122. Je. 11, ’08. 1000w.
“They who care to watch the wheels of progress go around will like this record of the wizard and his spells.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 133. Mr. 7, ’08. 150w.
“A most human picture of the man himself.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 340. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
“We should say that this was in every way an attractive and very likely an inspiring book to put in a boy’s hands, while in its literary character it is perfectly well suited for older readers also.”
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Outlook. 88: 514. F. 29, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Jones has made the most of his materials, and the result is a volume of captivating and unusual interest.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 380. Mr. ’08. 160w.
“It is a very human and vivid picture of an energetic boyhood, and a very stimulating one too; for if he had ideal parents, and especially that type of mother which all great men must have, his boyhood reflects credit on the man himself. We should like to have heard more about them; it is our only disappointment on putting down this fascinating book, which will please both the scientific enthusiast and the student of character.”
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Spec. 99: 994. D. 14, ’07. 140w.
Jones, H. Stuart. Roman empire. (Story of the nations, v. 75.) $1.50. Putnam.
8–22316.
For the professional student as well as the lay reader of Roman history. The author aims “to present in a graphic narrative the picturesque and noteworthy periods and episodes of Roman history in their philosophical relations to each other as well as to universal history.”
“He seems to us wanting in boldness of omission, if we may use such a phrase.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 260. S. 5. 920w.
“A work of great value in itself, and of rare promise for the future.” W. A. Goligher.
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Eng. Hist. R. 23: 541. Jl. ’08. 740w.
“Probably no more competent writer could be found to tell the story of the Roman empire than Stuart Jones.”
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Ind. 65: 321. Ag. 6, ’08. 150w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 454. Ag. 15, ’08. 240w.
R. of Rs. 38: 254. Ag. ’08. 80w.
“Mr. Stuart Jones has done a very great feat.”
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Sat. R. 105: 792. Je. 20, ’08. 950w.
“A very warm commendation of his book to our readers.”
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Spec. 101: 22. Jl. 4, ’08. 640w.
Jones, Rev. John Peter. India, its life and thought. **$2.50. Macmillan. 8–30291.
Observations and experiences recorded out of thirty years of missionary life in India. Themes which the author discusses are India’s growing unrest, due to the dawning consciousness of strength, India’s many faiths, the Hindu caste system, the gita, popular Hinduism, pessimism, modern religious movement and the progress of Christianity in India.
Jones, Llewellyn A. A., and Bellot, Hugh H. L. Commerce in war. *$6. Appleton.
8–8473.
A book providing a full exposition of the rules of international law which govern the commercial relations of neutral and belligerent states. Its value is enhanced by its full quotation from treaties, ordinances, and judgments bearing on subjects of contraband, blockade, continuous voyage, carriage of property at sea, right and formality of search, capture and condemnation, recapture and rescue.
“The treatment of the subject is extremely practical.”
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Ath. 1907, 1: 471. Ap. 20. 1000w.
“Mr. Atherley-Jones has given his views on certain well-known decisions and executive orders with trenchant vigour.” T. Raleigh.
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Eng. Hist. R. 22: 389. Ap. ’07. 150w.
“It is the fruit of great industry. Some parts of the subject, notably contraband, have been examined with much care. The exposition is generally clear and accurate. There are copious citations from judgments and treaties which make the book useful to those whose library of international law is small. It is the critical side of the volume which is the weakest.”
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Lond. Times. 6: 19. Ja. 18, ’07. 800w.
“Such an exposition cannot fail to prove useful—as the author hopes—to the lawyer, the shipowner and shipper; to diplomatists and consuls: but it will also contribute to the advancement of the freedom of commerce in war.”
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Nation. 86: 306. Ap. 2, ’08. 200w.
“On all the rules of international law under these headings, governing the commercial relations of the subjects of neutral and belligerent states, Mr. Atherley-Jones’s book is a treasure-house of information.”
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Outlook. 88: 607. Mr. 14, ’08. 150w.
“So far as we have examined the digest it seems carefully and lucidly framed, and the book should fulfil the authors’ desires and make an excellent manual of practice.”
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Spec. 98: 504. Mr. 30, ’07. 300w.
* Jones, Plummer Flippen. Shamrock-land: a ramble through Ireland. **$2. Moffat.
8–33798.
“A good general description in a running, happy-go-lucky way, of Ireland as it is at the present time, with a lot of good pictures.” (R. of Rs.) “In seeking places of interest and scenes of beauty, of course the author visited Lissoy (now better known as Auburn, Goldsmith’s Deserted village), the Lakes of Killarney, Blarney castle, the Giant’s causeway, the Golden vale of Tipperary, and other inviting districts.... There is much more of the sunshine of the Celtic temperament than of its occasional gloom in this study of Pat and his Emerald Isle.” (Dial.)
“Has just enough of historical and statistical information to be useful without being tiresome, and a wealth of personal observation and experience that make excellent reading.”
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Dial. 45: 410. D. 1, ’08. 260w.
198“The photographs illustrating the book are excellent.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 50w.
“Mr. Jones not only knows Ireland, but loves it, and writes with enthusiasm and vivacity.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 758. D. ’08. 90w.
Jones, Thomas S. From quiet valleys; poems. $1.25. G. W. Browning, Clinton, N. Y.
7–38615.
A book of graceful verse, which borrows its peace-loving themes from nature.
“Mr. Jones is a poet of nature, and has felt the soothing ministries of woods and fields and skies. His verse, moreover, is freighted with enough of imagination to be truly significant of the life of the spirit.” W: M. Payne.
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Dial. 45: 64. Ag. 1, ’08. 150w.
“Aspects and seasons of nature most inspire his volume and fill it with a kind of transparent violet shadow.”
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Nation. 87: 34. Jl. 9, ’08. 100w.
Jonson, Ben. New inn; or, The light heart; ed. with introd., notes, and glossary by George Bremner Tennant. (Yale studies in English, 34.) *$2.50. Holt.
8–12456.
“The justification for this edition is the text, which has been carefully prepared from the earliest editions.”—Nation.
“The introduction is for the most part a perfunctory discussion of previous discussion, and quite without edification. The notes on the text, although they exhibit much industry, are needlessly copious.”
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Nation. 87: 192. Ag. 27, ’08. 400w.
Jordan, David Starr, ed. California earthquake of 1906. *$3.50. Robertson.
7–42337.
Contains eight separate articles each of which discusses the subject from a different viewpoint. “The general scientific or, more properly, geological matters, are treated by President Jordan, Prof. J. C. Branner, G. K. Gilbert, and Dr. H. W. Fairbanks; the more strictly seismological aspects by Dr. F. Omori of the Imperial earthquake investigation committee of Japan; the engineering and architectural lessons, by Prof. Charles Derleth, jr., certain local details by Stephen Taber; and the human side of the sudden calamity, by Mrs. Mary Austin.” (Nation.)
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 190. Je. ’08.
“While written from the scientific point of view, they are invested with a good degree of popular interest.”
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Dial. 44: 248. Ap. 16, ’08. 250w.
“Both scientific and non-scientific readers will find much to interest them in it.” H. H.
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J. Geol. 16: 584. S. ’08. 90w.
“They afford an interesting account of the catastrophe; but the advantage of presentation from different points of view is offset in part by the unavoidable repetitions incident to a compilation.”
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Nation. 86: 338. Ap. 9, ’08. 200w.
“This is a collection of nine well-written essays, which, as might be expected, more or less overlap in their subject-matter.” J. Milne.
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Nature. 78: 27. My. 14, ’08. 800w.
“Mrs. Austin’s contribution is the vivid, human picture of an eye-witness of the catastrophe.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 89. F. 15, ’08. 150w.
“These essays and descriptive papers give perhaps as well as writings can give a clear, comprehensive, and accurate view of the great earthquake and its associated phenomena.”
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Jordan, David Starr. Fishes. (American nature series.) il. **$6. Holt.
7–42325.
Less for technical students of ichthyology than for nature lovers and anglers this volume contains practically all of the non-technical material included in Dr. Jordan’s “Guide to the study of fishes.” The fishes used as food and those of special interest to anglers in America receive full attention while both existing and extinct families of fishes are treated in proportion to their importance. The volume of nearly eight hundred pages contains approximately seven hundred illustrations.
“As the contraction has been effected by means of the scissors and practically no change has been made in the text the connections are not always smooth.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 190. Je. ’08.
“The author’s wide knowledge of this group of animals, his comprehensive selection of interesting data, his terse, lucid, often humorous presentation of his subject, and the superb selection of illustrations, all combine to make this by far the most readable and interesting popular natural history of fishes which has as yet been published.”
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Dial. 44: 181. Mr. 16, ’08. 230w.
“Presents contradictory and disappointing features.”
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Nation. 86: 290. Mr. 26, ’08. 550w.
“It is difficult to conceive of a better book on the subject, for Mr. Jordan possesses the exact knowledge and infinite patience of the scientific mind with the sympathy and imagination of the great teacher, so that he not only knows his subject, but he also knows how to awaken keen interest and understanding in his readers. There is thus a vital quality to his book.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 93. F. 15, ’08. 200w.
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Outlook. 88: 513. F. 29, ’08. 120w.
“Dr. Jordan has aimed to make this volume interesting to nature-lovers and anglers and instructive to all.”
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* Jordan, Edwin Oakes. Text-book of general bacteriology. *$3. Saunders.
“This book is intended to give a bird’s-eye view of the entire field of bacteriology and, although necessarily largely medical in its scope, it includes also references to the various applications of bacteriology to the arts and industries. Although treating the subject in this general way, it cannot be considered as an elementary book. It is rather a sort of bacteriological Baedeker in which the reader will find references to guide him in whatever direction his interest lies.” (Engin. Rec.)
“The author’s style is clear and pleasing, and the arrangement of the subject matter is excellent, the frequent side-headings and the very complete index making reference easy. Engineers may find the work somewhat limited on its sanitary side. Throughout the book the more theoretical aspects of bacteriology are, if anything, treated better than the practical applications.”
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Engin. Rec. 58: 566. N. 14, ’08. 540w.
“Some of it is a little special for a general reader quite unfamiliar with the subject, but much of the book is easy and pleasant reading.”
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Nation. 87: 556. D. 3, ’08. 440w.
* Jordon, Elizabeth Garver. Many kingdoms. †$1.50. Harper.
8–30707.
Creatures of fancy as well as sturdy flesh and blood mortals of real life people Miss Jordon’s world of stories. The elusive lady of dreams and the invisible child playmate demand of the reader a subliminal flight, while the Henry Smiths—middle aged newly-weds—detain this same reader within the walls of a New York 199hotel where the two spend their honeymoon too diverted to risk their lives among the crowds of Broadway.
“There is no startling originality in these pleasant tales, indeed, at times the note is definitely reminiscent, but there are wholesome humor and pathos, and the felicity of description that one has come to expect from Miss Jordon as a matter of course.”
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Nation. 87: 526. N. 26, ’08. 140w.
“For the most part Miss Jordon’s literary workmanship is very clever and of more artistic value than is to be found in a great portion of prolific output of American short stories. She frequently spoils the artistic effect of a scene or of an entire story by overelaborate description of presentation and by unbridled indulgence in adjectives and adverbs.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 720. D. 5, ’08. 220w.
Jost, Ludwig. Lectures on plant physiology; authorized English tr. by R. J. Harvey Gibson. *$6.75. Oxford.
8–3923.
The work of the professor of botany in the Strassburg university translated by the professor of botany in the University of Liverpool. “After an introduction, which states clearly the problems and methods of physiology, the author divides the field into three parts: (1) Metabolism, (2) Metamorphosis, (3) Transformation of energy.” (Nation.)
“Though it lacks the suggestiveness and comprehensiveness of Pfeffer, and can by no means replace that indispensable work, its clear and picturesque style adapts it better to the advanced student and teacher. It is well to have it available in English even at the exorbitant price.” C. R. B.
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Bot. Gaz. 44: 309. O. ’07. 770w.
“The translator has done his work conscientiously and on the whole satisfactorily.”
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Nation. 86: 243. Mr. 12, ’08. 1100w.
“The English rendering lacks accuracy. We express our high esteem for Prof. Jost’s lectures. The exposition is extremely lucid, and just what is needed for students taking up the advanced study of physiology.” F. F. B.
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Nature. 77: 97. D. 5, ’07. 1150w.
Judd, Charles Hubbard. Psychology; general introduction: volume one of a series of text books designed to introduce the student to the methods and principles of scientific psychology. *$1.50. Scribner.
7–23072.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
“When one recalls the multiple and difficult aims of the work, the result constitutes a notable achievement. Many will vote it the most comprehensive introductory text that has recently appeared. The chapters wide in scope, rich in learning, and intensely practical,—all these produce an impression of fullness and adequacy to be desired in a general introduction. The style is pedestrian, simple, and generally clear.” E. H. Lindley.
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J. Philos. 4: 713. D. 19, ’07. 600w.
“The most defective portion of this book is that on the formation of the concept, a title which is forced into covering the judgment and the process of reasoning as well.”
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Nation. 86: 516. Je. 4, ’08. 1400w.
“Unquestionably the approach to the material is in several chapters somewhat sophisticated, and the absence at many points of definite and distinct lines of demarcation is likely to be felt by the beginner in a disastrous manner.” J. R. Angell.
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Philos. R. 17: 432. Jl. ’08. 2500w.
“This volume, taken as a whole, impresses me as an exposition of the author’s system of psychology which is calculated more to interest and challenge the attention of his brother psychologists than that of his students. The author’s style is expository and argumentative, straightforward, but not easy and varied enough to hold the attention of immature readers.” G. M. Whipple.
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Psychol. Bull. 5: 114. Ap. 15, ’08. 2600w.
“Professor Judd’s contribution to the available facilities for the teaching of psychology is a notable one. The plan is consistent, the execution capable, the result distinctive.” Joseph Jastrow.
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Judson, William Pierson. Road preservation and dust prevention. *$1.50. Eng. news.
8–24251.
Concerned with the problem of the preservation of the surface and the prevention of dust on macadamized roads. “The author has compiled in convenient form a history, taken from the principal engineering journals and publications, of the experiments which have been conducted in recent years attempting to solve the problems, and of the manner, as well as the materials, in and with which they have been carried out.” (Engin. Rec.)
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 261. N. ’08. ✠
“We feel that Mr. Judson has rendered a valuable service in reducing the subject to a condition that permits of comparisons being made and that gives officials who are not experts, reliable information to guide them in the selection of a suitable remedy for the cure of their own local troubles.”
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Engin. D. 4: 303. S. ’08. 740w.
“Mr. Judson has rendered the road engineers and roadmakers of the whole country a very valuable service in collecting, collating and discussing the great mass of data on the subject, scattered through the periodicals and society transactions.” S. Whinery.
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Engin. N. 60: 427. O. 15, ’08. 650w.
“May be referred to with benefit by those who are taking up the subject for the first time.”
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Engin. Rec. 58: 306. S. 12, ’08. 170w.
“His book should be in the hands of state and local road officials throughout the country.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 636. N. ’08. 250w.
Julie’s diary: a personal record; tr. from the Danish by Julia Le Gallienne. $1.50. Luce, J: W.
A personal record which serves as a “beware!” for girls chafing under the monotony of a colorless life, who demand a little day of eventful happenings. Julie is an austere professor’s daughter. She holds in abeyance her lover who could do no more than transplant her from one home at the mercy of the peace of dullness to another like it. Of her own accord she comes under the hypnotic spell of an actor. Her day once spent on the husks of life she returns to the shelter of Erik’s love, scarred but wiser far.
N. Y. Times. 13: 340. Je. 13, ’08. 130w.
“Full of a charm, a delicacy, and an insight rarely met with and refreshing in the extreme. A fine art is required to tell such a story and keep it on its high level. This art the author possessed and the translation retains much of it, though it is not quite first rate.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 398. Jl. 18, ’08. 260w.