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Nash, Henry Sylvester. Atoning life. **$1. Macmillan.
8–12601.
A book instinct with the spirit that reforms, with the atoning life that lies at the root of good society, at the foundation of human fellowship. Dr. Nash says: “One of the pressing needs of ministers and laymen alike is a vital theology that springs from life and, returning quickly to the life out of which it sprang, gives form and clarity to experience.” It is with this vital theology that the book deals.
“Those who know Dr. Nash’s previous works will expect to find here deep scholarship and spiritual power and striking forms of speech. They may not expect to find such complete simplicity of style as will add clearness to depth. But just such a combination is to be found here.” E. S. Drown.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 607. O. 24, ’08. 140w.
“Here is a small book but a great one, in which deep and patient study issues in such terse expression that one should willingly give it two or three readings to absorb its fullness.”
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Outlook. 89: 352. Je. 13. ’08. 400w.
National civic federation. Municipal and private operation of public utilities; report. 3v. $10. National civic federation.
8–2952.
A report representing two years of exhaustive investigation which comprises three volumes—one containing the conclusions arrived at and the other two the statistics of plants examined, upon which these conclusions are based.
“These three volumes as a whole present the most valuable compilation of statistics concerning municipal affairs yet published in the United States. Whatever limitations are present are in large degree unavoidable, for the complexity of the subjects to be treated makes it unusually difficult, if not impossible, to draw from the facts a conclusion that will be convincing to all.” C. L. Jones.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 731. My. ’08. 600w.
“Far superior to anything of the kind heretofore published. It is to be regretted that the general review of the whole investigation contains so little in the way of judicial weighing and balancing.”
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Engin. N. 59: 291. Mr. 12, ’08. 6000w.
“This is probably the first time that such a complete discussion of the subject has been presented under conditions so favorable for clearing away the unessential assumptions and disputed facts that make the usual article on the subject hardly worth reading.”
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Engin. Rec. 56: 693. D. 21, ’07. 350w.
“The volumes are supplied with very minute indexes, which will enable a student to secure information on almost any point involved in the discussion of municipal operation.” D. R. Dewey.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 23: 337. Je. ’08. 850w.
Neff, Elizabeth. Altars to Mammon. il. †$1.50. Stokes.
8–5884.
The story of a young Methodist minister’s struggle against the over-powering money-methods by which a millionaire would gain entrance to the kingdom of heaven. “The pastor is fresh from a theological seminary, and the scene of the story is a sordid little town where the pull is toward the open saloons away from the churches.” (Ind.)
“The wealthy capitalist who grinds the faces of the poor and salves his conscience by building churches has been worked to death of late, and ought to be allowed a season of decent retirement.” W: M. Payne.
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Dial. 44: 245. Ap. 16, ’08. 300w.
“The story is written after the manner of E. P. Roe, and should have a wide circulation among those who admire the commonplace, even in heresies. It is realistic in situations, literal in details, and indicates that the author has good principles, excellent convictions, shrewd insight, everything except genius.”
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Ind. 64: 810. Ap. 9, ’08. 200w.
“The tale is at once a good story and a faithful study of material and spiritual conditions in American life. Its style is somewhat marred by too much insistence upon the uncouth speech of many of its characters—a thing that is always bad art, even if it is absolute truth.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 350w.
Neihardt, John Gneisenau. Bundle of myrrh. *$1. Outing pub.
8–1681.
“The title explains itself when you find the book is not just a collection of short poems but a symphony with first keynote the riotous joy of the flesh, working up in the last songs to the voicing of penitence, the birth of the spirit and of the vision.”—N. Y. Times.
“It may seem at first as if the singer were straining a little impotently in the modern way to feel for the feeling’s sake, yet the expression is not wholly feeble or insincere.”
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Nation. 87: 35. Jl. 9, ’08. 280w.
“You are distinctly conscious of something in Mr. Neihardt’s work besides the observance of schoolish rules not to accent prepositions nor introduce Alexandrines in iambics. You are conscious in every line of great passion and great beauty, as well as the technique that is good because it is unconscious of itself.” A. C. Laut.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 83. F. 15, ’08. 1100w.
“Mr. Neihardt has shown considerable daring in some of the poems. It is to be hoped that he will not make the mistake of thinking that nudity is strength, and that in order to show that one is independent and virile he must exhibit all his emotions unclothed rather than clothed upon by the imagination.”
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Outlook. 89: 260. My. 30, ’08. 750w.
Neilson, Robert M. Steam turbine. 4th ed. rev. and enl. *$4.20. Longmans.
A book for the average engineer who is equipped with a fair scientific knowledge. The text has been revised to square the presentation with the development of the steam turbine during the past six years.
Engin. D. 3: 527. My. ’08. 300w.
“The whole presentation is weak and ineffective for the needs of engineers or students of engineering. It might serve very well as an introduction to the subject, but even for such a purpose is too voluminous.” C: E. Lucke.
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Engin. N. 60: 188. Ag. 13, ’08. 1200w.
Neumann, Angelo. Personal recollections of Wagner; tr. from the fourth German edition by Edith Livermore. **$2.50. Holt.
8–29008.
Boswellian intimacy pervades this volume, which reveals the great master of music “behind 265the scenes”—both figuratively and literally. The student of music gains a new and authoritative understanding—aided by numerous letters—of the history of the Nibelungen cycle in various European countries; he gets intimate glimpses of Wagner, and such musicians as Wahnfried, Seidl, Nikisch, the Vogls, and others; and above all he catches the meaning of the exaltation and its reaction which the musical temperament can experience so intensely.
“The publication of this volume of memoirs is proof that the supply of biographic literature on the subject of Wagner has not yet become exhausted, and also that interest in it shows no sign of flagging.” L. M. Isaacs.
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Bookm. 28: 361. D. ’08. 500w.
“It has more interest than the novels of the day; it tells a moving and heroic story; it abounds in characteristic anecdotes and incidents; it places the master and his immediate entourage before us in clear light; it brings us into close intimacy with the great people and great artists of the place and period.” L: J. Block.
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Dial. 45: 398. D. 1, ’08. 1850w.
“Here is material worth preserving and giving to the world, a valuable chapter added to the definitive life of Wagner and to the history of his music.”
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Ind. 65: 1177. N. 19, ’08. 50w.
“The translation by Edith Livermore is generally smooth and idiomatic, but there are some strange and quite inexplicable errors.”
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Nation. 87: 447. N. 5, ’08. 1000w.
“The translation preserves remarkably well the lively personal charm of the original. A good index, which was lacking in the German edition, adds to its value.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 549. O. 3, ’08. 100w.
Newcomb, Charles Benjamin. Principles of psychic philosophy. **$1.40. Lothrop.
8–10430.
Principles which are intended to arouse one to a consciousness of the power of his higher self to command his brain and body. Power, unlimited activity, invincible might are the keynotes. His brief chapters are devoted to the following subjects: God, nature, man, psychism, suffering, selfishness, responsibility, adjustment, power, freedom, healing, and fulfillment.
Newman, Ernest. Richard Strauss; with a personal note by Alfred Kalisch. (Living masters of music.) *$1. Lane.
8–30389.
“The story of Strauss’s life is told briefly, of necessity, for there is little to tell, apart from his evolution from a conservative composer of absolute music to the most audacious and grotesque of programme-music makers. The symphonic poems are not analyzed in detail, but considerable space is given to the operas, including ‘Salome.’”—Nation.
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Ath. 1908, 2: 410. O. 3. 540w.
“A little perverse, perhaps at times, in its bestowal of praise and stricture, yet one of the most interesting volumes publisht thus far in the ‘Living masters of music’ series of monographs.”
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Ind. 65: 1186. N. 19, ’08. 40w.
“His little book on Richard Strauss is one of the best things he has done, yet it is likely to exasperate both the detractors and the admirers of that sensational composer; the one class because of what they will regard as overpraise, the other because of what they will resent as over-censure.”
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Nation. 87: 420. O. 29, ’08. 800w.
“This is by far the best book that has yet appeared in this series, and is one of the best discussions of the career and work of Strauss that this much-discussed musician has evoked.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 636. O. 31, ’08. 720w.
“Altogether Mr. Newman has made a courageous and admirable contribution to the literature of an engrossing subject—the amazing, saddening, preposterous, inspired, incomparable tone-poet from Munich.” Lawrence Gilman.
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No. Am. 188: 934. D. ’08. 1700w.
Newman, Richard Brinsley. Belle Islers. il. †$1.50. Lothrop.
8–10613.
In a homely setting of a simple country town the writer has placed the family of a pure-minded minister of the gospel. The story is told by a son who recounts in a humorously satirical style the doings of the people in the village. The losing fight which his father wages against the sins of modern society is touchingly and truthfully portrayed.
N. Y. Times. 13: 213. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 120w.
Newmarch, Rosa. Tchaikovsky: his life and works, with extracts from his writings, and the diary of his tour abroad in 1888; ed. by Edwin Evans. *$2.50. Scribner.
To Mrs. Newmarch’s story of Tchaikovsky’s life published in 1899, six chapters, covering two hundred pages have been added by Edwin Evans. They are Instrumentation, Form, Idealism, Nationalism, Individuality and Criticism.
“Mr. Evans gives long analyses of selected works, and these, from certain expressions he uses, we take to have been originally delivered as lectures to students, and in that shape, the illustrations being played, they probably proved easier to follow, and therefore more interesting.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 219. Ag. 22. 320w.
“Why write pages of explanations which are intelligible to those only who do not need them?”
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Nation. 86: 473. My. 21, ’08. 380w.
“His career ... is carefully and understandingly set forth.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 388. Je. 20, ’08. 170w.
Newsholme, Arthur. Prevention of tuberculosis. *$3. Dutton.
8–33920.
Written primarily as a manual for medical officials, showing the latest recognized methods for controlling tuberculosis. “While written for an English public, it has no limitations, or style or expressions which bar it from American circulation.” (R. of Rs.)
“Minor points detract scarcely at all from the value of a book which is well worth reading.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 442. O. 10. 520w.
“Will be welcome to the lay reader as well as to the medical practitioner.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 490. S. 5, ’08. 350w.
“The book should be found useful to all medical practitioners, members of hospital boards, and to all persons interested in the progress of preventive medicine.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 510. O. ’08. 70w.
Nicholas, Francis Child. Power supreme: a novel of church and state in South America. $1.50. R. E. Lee co., Boston.
8–20675.
“A romance of the rubber forest, not on the Kongo, but in the wildest part of South America; a passionate indictment of the Church in her dealings with the Indians, who, at the expense of frightful labor, bring down the loads of rubber to the river; a description of a revolution which the Indian helps win but is betrayed by his leader; such is the story of ‘The power supreme.’”—Ind.
“The story is strong and realistic, unmistakably the work of one who has been personally 266familiar with the country in which the scene is cast, and the manners and character of the people who fill his stage.”
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Cath. World. 88: 408. D. ’08. 200w.
“It is told in a simple and straightforward narrative style that does not gloss over his own vices and failures, and is not devoid of graphic force in its portrayal of anti-clerical and revolutionary feeling.”
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Ind. 65: 264. Jl. 30, ’08. 170w.
“As a sincere and serious record of a day and a race and an evil order of things, it has a painful interest and a grim value.”
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Nation. 87: 213. S. 3, ’08. 320w.
“The plot is kept well in hand, and the action is swift.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 442. Ag. 8, ’08. 340w.
Nicholson, Meredith. Little brown jug at Kildare. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–25998.
“This tale takes up the important question of what the governor of North Carolina really did say to the governor of South Carolina. Both governors having disappeared from public view, their charming young daughters take up the cares of administration, assisted each by a young man who happens in. There follows a net work of plot and counterplot, invasion and counter-invasion, which nearly precipitates a war, but ends in wedding bells.”—Outlook.
“Wholesome in tone, full of excitement and some fun.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 246. O. ’08.
“‘The little brown jug at Kildare’ is to the novel what the farce-comedy is to the drama.”
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Arena. 40: 481. N. ’08. 520w.
“We recommend [it] as a sovereign specific for loathed melancholy or any other form of the blues.”
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Dial. 45: 214. O. 1, ’08. 300w.
“If he does not write after the manner of George Barr McCutcheon, he takes a certain whimsical quality of imagination from a very similar source.”
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Ind. 65: 1070. N. 5, ’08. 270w.
“Mr. Nicholson has written an amusing book.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 538. O. 3, ’08. 640w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
“The book aims to amuse—and it does.”
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Outlook. 90: 274. O. 3, ’08. 100w.
Nicholson, Meredith. Rosalind at Red Gate. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–38599.
Miss Patricia Holbrook to relieve herself of the persecutions of a degenerate brother bent upon a settlement of the family fortune which she has in trust takes the latter’s daughter and seeks seclusion at St. Agatha’s school. Their champion and protector is one Larry Donovan who is spending his summer at a nearby estate. The tale furnishes the varied factors of rivals, doubles, a Cain and Abel, and an Italian or two who instinctively ally themselves with the Cain of the story. There are to be found humor, mystery, comedy and a narrowly averted tragedy.
“This is we think the best American mystery story of the year.”
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Arena. 39: 125. Ja. ’08. 170w.
“A sprightly, agreeable story, with not the slightest pretensions to originality.” Ward Clark.
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Bookm. 26: 665. F. ’08. 860w.
“The author does not quite repeat his earlier great success.”
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Ind. 64: 208. Ja. 23, ’08. 90w.
“For the invention of preposterous but fairly engaging plots the author of ‘The house of a thousand candles,’ will suffer no loss of reputation through this latest novel.”
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Nation. 86: 62. Ja. 16, ’08. 260w.
“Although the mystery is a distracting affair and the love element proportionately interesting, all but the most casual readers will realize that the feature in which lies its greatest merit is the delineation of character.”
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N. Y. Times. 12: 868. D. 28, ’07. 260w.
Nicolay, Fernand. Napoleon at the Boulogne camp; based on numerous hitherto unpublished documents; tr. by Georgina L. Davis. *$3.50. Lane.
8–3124.
“An uncritical, but pleasantly discursive narrative, dealing with the flotilla, the state of public opinion, the episodes of the struggle along the coast, and the personality of Napoleon.”—Ath.
“This volume has gained in interest by modesty of purpose. The value and interest of the volume is heightened by an excellent, thoroughly idiomatic translation.” H. M. Bowman.
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 641. Ap. ’08. 450w.
“This work, though lacking in critical insight and thoroughness, abounds in interesting details; and it was well worth while to present it in English.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 154. Ag. 10. 580w.
“For a task of this sort the author seems unfitted, for he gives more credence to the random and inexact recollections of Constant than to the results of the researches of Desbrière, based upon official papers preserved in the Archives of war and marine.”
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Dial. 44: 315. My. 16, ’08. 200w.
“The anecdotes he has strung together ... are not always entertaining, or vital, or even plausible.”
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Nation. 86: 125. F. 6, ’08. 170w.
“We find accordingly much new material and considerable information of a personal nature about Napoleon.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 16. Ja. 11, ’08. 80w.
“M. Nicolay has collected a vast quantity of details about the Boulogne period. In fact, he somewhat overlays his subject with this multitude of details.”
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Spec. 98: 986. Je. 22, ’07. 330w.
Nicoll, Michael John. Three voyages of a naturalist: being an account of many little-known islands in three oceans visited by the “Valhalla” R. Y. S.; with an introd. by the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Crawford. *$2.50. Scribner.
8–14717.
A diary of the observations made by a young naturalist who accompanied Lord Crawford upon three cruises made in his splendid yacht, the “Valhalla.” They circumnavigated the African continent in the first voyage; went to the West Indies and back for the second; while the third took them around the world. Remote islands are described and the new contributions they offered to the naturalists’ realm of science.
“The most interesting part of the whole book, though not the most satisfying, is the chapter on the author’s visit to Easter island, the home of the colossal statues, facing the ocean from their platforms.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 446. Ap. 11. 860w.
“There is a simple realism which permits the reader to accompany the author in thought to the various remote islands visited, to see them more or less as he saw them, and to search with him for the rare and new birds so many of them harbored.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
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Dial. 44: 344. Je. 1, ’08. 800w.
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Nation. 86: 539. Je. 11, ’08. 1050w.
“The work of an acute observer, who knows what to look for, and how to describe in readable language what he has seen. Although containing little that is absolutely new, may be commended as a well-written narrative of the experiences of an eager naturalist in remote islands.”
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Nature. 78: 32. My. 14, ’08. 730w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 353. Je. 20, ’08. 240w.
267“To the naturalist the book must be of quite unusual interest on account of the many new species described.”
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Spec. 100: 583. Ap. 11, ’08. 460w.
Nicoll, William Robertson, and Seccombe, Thomas. History of English literature. 3v. **$6. Dodd.
7–37996.
Interpreting literature in a broad sense rather than in its more technical aspects this is a work for the general public rather than for specialists and scholars. It emphasizes the biographical part of literary history at the expense of literary criticism and of literary origins and movements.
“Those familiar with these pages will be able to give a fairly intelligent opinion—or rather the echo of a fairly intelligent opinion—upon almost any author or book that happens to be mentioned, but the thoughtful reader will miss that suggestiveness which would have set his own thoughts to work without perhaps furnishing him with matter for superficial conversation.”
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Acad. 71: 625. D. 22, ’06. 1500w.
“Makes a useful addition to the histories of English literature but would be selected after the library owned old standards.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 227. Je. ’08.
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Lond. Times. 6: 126. Ap. 19, ’07. 1000w.
“With all its faults, of plan and execution, the book is not only valuable, it is really readable.”
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N. Y. Times. 12: 732. N. 16, ’07. 1400w.
“In a word, the book, as a whole, lacks greatness—it has not the large perspective of Taine, nor is it written in the glowing style of Jusserand, nor is it marked by the literary judgment of Courthope.”
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Outlook. 89: 38. My. 2, ’08. 1100w.
“Will no doubt please all who like to read about books rather than read the books themselves.”
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Sat. R. 103: 210. F. 16, ’07. 120w.
Spec. 95: 764. N. 11, ’05. 150w.
“The work shows a most praiseworthy completeness. Omissions there are, but we are not sure that they may not have been deliberately made.”
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Spec. 98: sup. 645. Ap. 27, ’07. 1200w.
Nicolls, William Jasper. Brunhilda of Orr’s Island. †$1.50. Jacobs.
8–17253.
The romance of a New Yorker who aimlessly whiling away time in his yacht steams into Casco bay where he picks up the fair-haired Valkerie and carries her to her island. She is a merry minx and leads her adoring Siegfried an exciting chase. There are touches of local color which lend reality to the story for people who know Casco bay and its islands.
“For some readers the setting of this love story—on the Maine coast—and the lively conversation will compensate for lack of incident and originality of plot.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 304. D. ’08.
“The padding has accomplished its work, and the result is an amiable little story which in shunning depth has also escaped sentimentality.”
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Nation. 87: 289. S. 24, ’08. 100w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 120w.
“The story ... is well told, and much charm is added to the narrative by the frequent introduction of what seem to be real bits of Orr’s island life.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 436. Ag. 8, ’08. 180w.
Niecks, Frederick. Programme music in the last four centuries: a contribution to the history of musical expression. $8. Novello.
7–27022.
“Our author begins his book by asking the pertinent question, What is programme music? Many, he tells us, regard it as music which imitates sounds ... while others taking a wider view, look upon it as that ‘which not only describes, but expresses.’ Of these different kinds the author traces the history from the sixteenth century down to the present time. After two short chapters on early vocal specimens of programme music, he turns to instrumental music.”—Ath.
“Prof. Niecks’s book is a veritable cyclópædia of information on programme music, and full of valuable comments and criticisms.”
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Ath. 1907. 1: 391. Mr. 30. 900w.
“Professor Niecks traces its development and gradual transformation with much acumen and erudition; his book is the most elaborate and valuable treatise on the subject in any language.”
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Nation. 86: 361. Ap. 16, ’08. 800w.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future; authorized tr. by Helen Zimmern. **$1.50. Macmillan.
No philosopher since Hegel has acquired such influence over modern European culture as Nietzsche. This work is meant on the one hand to explain more clearly in prose form the ideas expressed poetically and somewhat obscurely in “Thus spake Zarathustra”; and on the other hand it is meant as a prelude to his great work “The will to power.” Making the ethical end the highest excellence of society, favoring a true aristocracy as the best means for elevating society, he discusses such subjects as Prejudices of philosophers, The free spirit, The religious mood, Natural history of morals, We scholars, Our virtues, and What is noble?
“The book is to be read and meditated on by the few. To the multitude it will be simply the massing of words, without coherence and almost without meaning. The general impression made by the book is that it emanates from a mind of tremendous individuality.” R. E. Bisbee.
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Arena. 39: 121. Ja. ’08. 230w.
“This version should form a quite successful book and should have considerable circulation.” G. R. T. Ross.
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Int. J. Ethics. 18: 517. Jl. ’08. 400w.
“As a protest against effeminacy, hyper-sentimentalism. misguided sympathy, and exaggerated socialism, Nietzsche’s book mirrors certain undercurrents in the thinking of our age, but as a serious contribution to the science of ethics or as a practical guide to life, it does not possess the value which the writer of the introduction claims for it.” F. Thilly.
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J. Philos. 5: 75. Ja. 30, ’08. 1440w.
“Miss Zimmern ... has in the present volume turned his German into fluent and easy English.”
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Nation. 86: 12. Ja. 2, ’08. 140w.
“It will interest and instruct those who are unfamiliar with Nietzsche’s philosophy to read what the philosopher has to say here on the natural history of morals and other subjects.”
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Nature. 77: 460. Mr. 19, ’08. 80w.
“To the plain man, nourished on the precepts of the old-fashioned morality, this latest deliverance of Nietzsche will seem to be made ‘behind the looking glass,’ in a topsy-turvy world of its own.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 4. Ja. 4, ’08. 1950w.
“The translation is in most respects all that could be desired.” G. N. Dolson.
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Philos. R. 17: 557. S. ’08. 340w.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. Human, all too human: a book for free spirits; tr. by Alexander Harvey. (Library of science for the workers.) 50c. Kerr.
8–7591.
Not a socialist book but one that “tells facts about human conduct to those who are not afraid to read them.”
Nation. 86: 376. Ap. 23, ’08. 50w.
268Noble, Margaret E. (Sister Nivedita). Cradle tales of Hinduism. *$1.60. Longmans.
8–13677.
The author of “The web of Indian life” has reproduced here for the school-room and nursery a number of stories from the Puranas and the two great epics of India. “In the legends which Miss Noble has brought to us across the sea [the snakes and monkeys, the forest boy and the villagers] are steeped in an atmosphere which no European imagination can ever counterfeit.” (Spec.)
“It is not a book for children primarily; it will interest all lovers of the magic and the human.”
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Nation. 85: 564. D. 19, ’07. 120w.
“The reader will be well advised to accept these versions with some reservation, for a double reason. In the first place, there is too much of the Bengali spirit in them; secondly, all the eroticism and coarseness which are unhappily so prominent in this literature, and especially in that characteristic of Bengal, have necessarily been rigidly suppressed, and the student who reads these stories for the first time may be led to form an impression of their delicacy and purity of sentiment which will soon be dissipated on acquaintance with the originals.”
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Nature. 77: 605. Ap. 30, ’08. 450w.
“If we are to understand our fellow-subjects in the East we must begin at the beginning, and this pleasant introduction to the lore of the Hindu cradle will help where more ambitious books would fail.”
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Spec. 100: sup. 128. Ja. 25, ’08. 360w.
Nojine, E. K. Truth about Port Arthur; tr. by Captain A. B. Lindsay; ed. by Major E. D. Swinton. *$5. Dutton.
W 8–120.
The version of Port Arthur presented by the accredited Russian war correspondent. “M. Nojine’s principal themes are the unpreparedness of Port Arthur for a siege, largely due to the incapacity of General Stoessel, and his contempt for the Japanese and the divided authority and quarrels amongst the officers entrusted with the defence.” (Sat. R.) “We learn little that is new about the actual fighting of the siege, but a great deal about the almost incredible conflict of authority between Stoessel and General Smirnoff.” (Ind.)
Ath. 1908, 1: 508. Ap. 25, ’08. 230w.
“M. Nojine’s book must stand on the shelves with the half dozen others that tell the terrible story of that siege—but as a Philippic rather than as a narrative.”
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Ind. 64: 1452. Je. 25, ’08. 200w.
“M. Nojine’s book is the first to marshall details into broad lines easily followed; and this without apparent effort at being vivid or picturesque.”
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Nation. 37: 100. Jl. 30, ’08. 640w.
“Must be read by all who would get a detailed knowledge of the famous siege as seen by a Russian of the new school. Its general truth is beyond question, but its partisanship is evident, and one somehow gets from it the impression that it proves too much.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 326. Je. 13, ’08. 820w.
“From his own point of view, the story is told with vigor and picturesqueness.”
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Outlook. 89: 491. Je. 27, ’08. 370w.
“This is the first really satisfactory connected story about the siege of Port Arthur and its final fall that we have yet seen.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 123. Jl. ’08. 220w.
Sat. R. 105: 666. My. 23, ’08. 300w.
Nolhac, Pierre Giraud de. Petrarch and the ancient world; ed. by John W. Mackail. (Humanist lib., no. 3.) $6. Updike.
8–838.
“The author regards Petrarch as the initiator of the Renaissance, and upholds this theme with knowledge and skill, although he recognizes the poet’s obligations to his masters, Virgil and Cicero. Not the least interesting and certainly the most novel part of his monograph is that which deals with Petrarch’s library—its contents and character as reconstructed from the references found in his own works.”—Outlook.
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Ath. 1908, 1: 411. Ap. 4. 100w.
“Notable contribution.” A. R. Marble.
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Dial. 44: 378. Je. 16, ’08. 450w.
“The work in its present form is the pleasantest of introductions to the study of Petrarch’s relations to the revival of learning and to the beginnings of modern classical culture.”
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Nation. 86: 489. My. 28, ’08. 200w.
“A real classic would have been more acceptable in this admirable setting than this information and discussion about such a classic.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 31. Ja. 18, ’08. 480w.
“M. de Nolhac has written carefully and with enthusiasm about certain aspects of Petrarch’s relations to the world of letters of his time.”
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Outlook. 88: 326. F. 8, ’08. 140w.
Noorden, Karl Harko von, ed. Metabolism and practical medicine; tr. by I. Walker Hall. 3v. v. 1, *$4; v. 2 & 3, ea. *$6. Keener.
Agr 7–2016.
A translation of the first volume of von Noorden’s “Handbuch der pathologie des stoffwechsels.”
v. 1. The physiology of metabolism, by Adolf Magnus-Levy “treats of normal metabolism in all its different phases.... It is a veritable mine of numberless detailed facts and corresponding references to the original literature.” (Science.)
v. 2. The pathology of metabolism, by Karl von Noorden and others, deals with starvation, in over feeding, in fevers, and in diseases of the digestive tract, respiration, the liver, the blood and the kidneys.
v. 3. Metabolism of special conditions, by Karl von Noorden, Carl Neuberg, L. Mohr, and others.
“There are marked differences of opinion among medical men as to the utility of this line of study, but all will be glad to have the enormous material in a fairly convenient and accessible form; and many of the discussions will be found to be inspiring quite apart from the validity of some of the conclusions. The translation is fresh and often rather free, but appears to be adequate as judged by a dozen comparisons quite at random.”
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Nation. 86: 132. F. 6, ’08. 280w. (Review of v. 3.)
“[Volume 1] should prove exceedingly valuable to the investigator who wishes to look up definite facts with the minimum waste of time. It is to be regretted that the scholarly character of this valuable work should have suffered at the hands of the translators. They have evidently done their part in great haste, with little regard for English style, and sometimes without even bringing out the correct sense of the original.” Otto Folin.
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Science, n.s. 26: 439. O. 4, ’07. 840w.
(Review of v. 1 and 2.)
Norris, Henry Hutchinson. Introduction to the study of electrical engineering. *$2.50. Wiley.
8–348.
(2d. ed. rev. 8–20679.)
“The author states that the plan of this work is to take the every-day experience of the student as the basis of a general survey of electrical application. The treatment covers fundamental electrical and magnetic quantities, materials of electrical engineering and magnetic circuits, construction and operation of generating station, transformers and motors, and their 269applications, electric lighting and heating, electrical measurements, and the transmission of intelligence.” (Elec. World.)
“The book is lacking in depth ... but the accuracy of presentation more than compensates for this deficiency.”
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Elec. World. 51: 731. Ap. 4, ’08. 200w.
“A very complete index adds considerably to the value of the book.”
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Engin. D. 3: 417. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“The present book suffers seriously through a looseness and inaccuracy of expression, especially in the earlier preparatory chapters, that is often surprising.”
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Engin. N. 59: 206. F. 20, ’08. 1400w.
“The volume is well illustrated and deserves a very careful study by instructors in high schools and academies who wish to make their courses of real value instead of a means of smearing the youthful intellect with a skim coat of worthless generalities.”
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Engin. Rec. 57: 167. F. 8, ’08. 600w.
“The writer has succeeded admirably in dealing with the side of the subject which he has selected.”
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Phys. R. 26: 545. Je. ’08. 110w.
Norris, Mary Harriott. Veil: a fantasy. $1.50. Badger.
8–444.
A theosophical tale which illustrates ideas of reincarnation held by the cult.
N. Y. Times. 13: 168. Mr. 28, ’08. 300w.
North, Arthur Walbridge. Mother of California; with an introd. by Cyrus C. Adams, il. **$2. Elder.
An historical sketch of the little-known land of Baja California, from the days of Cortez to the present time, depicting the ancient missions therein established, the mines there found, and the physical, social and political aspects of the country; together with an extensive bibliography relative to the same. (Explanatory title.) It is fully illustrated and makes its appeal to “those who look ahead beyond the opening of the Panama canal and to all interested in California history.”
“It contains a fairly full sketch of the history of the country from the days of the Conquistadors to the present.”
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Cath. World. 87: 684. Ag. ’08. 560w.
“Mr. North’s style is suited to his subject matter, mostly arid, but blossoming at times into semi-tropical rhetoric. But the book is timely and useful.”
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Ind. 64: 751. Ap. 2, ’08. 350w.
“The volume is one that will deeply interest all those who care for geographical and historical research and also all those who take delight in the romance of history. Mr. North writes in a graphic and interesting style, although it is marred sometimes by indulgence in a too florid rhetoric.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 231. Ap. 18, ’08. 350w.
R. of Rs. 37: 636. My. ’08. 150w.
Norton, Grace, comp. Influence of Montaigne: his personal relations to some of his contemporaries, and his literary relations to some later writers. **$1.50. Houghton.
“Contains, drawn from French and English writers, comments on Montaigne, allusions to him and plagiarisms from his writings.”—Nation.
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Nation. 87: 53. Jl. 16, ’08. 120w.
“Is extremely interesting.” E: Cary.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 307. My. 30, ’08. 260w.
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Norton, Grace, ed. Spirit of Montaigne: some thoughts and expressions similar to those in his essays. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–16222.
“Made up of parallel passages expressing thoughts like those of Montaigne, among which the works of Bacon, Locke, and Rousseau stand foremost.”—Nation.
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Nation. 87: 53. Jl. 16, ’08. 120w.
Reviewed by E: Cary.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 307. My. 30, ’08. 400w.
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Outlook. 89: 579. Jl. 11, ’08. 220w.
* Nott, Charles Cooper. Mystery of the Pinckney draught. **$2. Century.
8–33815.
A work which may be considered authoritative and final concerning the much mooted question of Pinckney’s draught of the constitution. The author shows what the original document contained, shows why the charges against the verity of the second document are false, in short, covers step by step a course of vindication that solves the problem and clears up the mystery.
Ind. 65: 1178. N. 19, ’08. 50w.
Noyes, Alfred. The Golden Hynde and other poems. **$1.25. Macmillan.
8–5889.
This poetry is well symbolized by the Golden Hynde, the dream craft that skims the glittering foam, sailing on to the golden gateway, over golden seas. Many of the poems turn upon classical themes, with such exceptions as A seventh birthday, In honor of Algernon Charles Swinburne, To England in 1907, The call of the spring.
“He is certainly of the rank of Mr. Phillips and Mr. Watson, and he surpasses the former in freshness of vision, the latter in facility of utterance.” W: M. Payne.
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Dial. 45: 61. Ag. 1, ’08. 820w.
“For all his volubility he thinks deeplier and sanlier, feels with a fresher ardor, and versifies with a more catholic skill than many of the worthies did at his years. He has not, indeed, learned blank verse; but he has already come near to it.” Brian Hooker.
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Forum. 39: 528. Ap. ’08. 600w.
“He knows how to include in his compositions something besides the mere splendor of vision.”
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Nation. 87: 34. Jl. 9, ’08. 250w.
“‘The Golden Hynde’ will not enhance Mr. Noyes’s reputation, but it should not detract from it.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 183. Ap. 4, ’08. 1000w.
“When an intellectual or moral purpose gets in his way, he usually misses that perfect emotional fusion of content and expression which is poetry. Mr. Noyes is by far the most promising of all the younger English poets, because of his vigor and variety, his freshness of personality, and his ease of art.” Clayton Hamilton.
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No. Am. 188: 451. S. ’08. 1200w.
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Outlook. 89: 261. My. 30, ’08. 300w.
Nuelsen, John L. Some recent phases of German theology. *75c. West. Meth. bk.
8–7161.
Three lectures by the Professor of exegetical theology in Nast theological seminary covering the present state of modern biblical criticism in Germany, the views of the person and work of Jesus Christ, and the “modern-positive” school of theology. The author, while not approving the conservatism of one class of theologians, laments the radicalism which presents an almost obliterated and an ineffectual Christ, and the vague mysticism which seeks no objective basis—no foundation outside of ourselves.
“This is a meaty little book, not of equal value throughout. As a report of the varying 270phases of German theology at present and less recently, it is lucid and instructive, showing on one side a high and dry conservatism, on another a reckless and arid radicalism, and between these some mediating varieties.”
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Outlook. 89: 86. My. 9, ’08. 180w.
Nutting, Mary Adelaide, and Dock, Lavinia L. History of nursing, the evolution of nursing systems from the earliest times to the foundation of the first English and American training schools for nurses. 2v. **$5. Putnam.
7–41533.
Discusses the aid which animals render each other; the care of the sick in primitive times; nursing in India, Ceylon, Egypt, Assyria, Palestine, Greece and Rome; the hospitals of the early Christian church; use of nursing among monastic orders; nursing orders of the crusades; the rise of the city hospitals; Florence Nightingale’s work; and the Treaty of Geneva and the Red cross.
“Perhaps no book that has been written in recent years brings out more clearly the value of the Christian brotherhood of man in making life more livable, under unfavorable circumstances, than this scholarly and exhaustive history of nursing. We commend its really absorbing pages to all those who are interested in what men and women have done and may do to alleviate human suffering.”
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Ind. 64: 638. Mr. 19, ’08. 550w.
“An instructive as well as entertaining story.”
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Nation. 86: 221. Mr. 5, ’08. 550w.
“We could wish that every woman who is likely to be called to such duties—and who is not?—should read it.”
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Spec. 100: 1007. Je. 27, ’08. 300w.