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Racster, Olga. Chats on violoncellos. (Music lovers’ lib.) il. *$1.25. Lippincott.
8–35540.
“Is concerned with the history of the instrument and its evolution from the ‘ravanastron’ of India, probably its earliest prototype, to its present form.” (Int. Studio.) “Not only gives an account of the instrument, but is full of pleasing anecdotes, subjective fancies, scenery, such, for instance, as the glimpse in the opening chapter of London on a foggy day, and records of players in centuries passed.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Not by any means indispensable to the ordinary collection of books on music.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 204. Je. ’08.
“The author ... has certainly made her book acceptable to the general reader; but it also contains plenty of solid information.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 425. Ap. 4. 250w.
“The numerous digressions introduced concerning those who have been responsible for the changes in the model of the instrument undoubtedly enhance the general interest of the work.”
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Int. Studio. 34: 172. Ap. ’08. 150w.
“There is a quaint flavor to Miss Racster’s style, a certain humorous enthusiasm, which makes her book capital reading, even for persons whose relations to the violoncello are through the ear alone; while he or she who has ever handled the instrument cannot fail of discovering an almost lyric charm in the pages.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 258. My. 2. ’08. 150w.
Radau, Hugo. Bel, the Christ of ancient times. *75c. Open ct.
8–19535.
“From the preface to this book we learn ‘that the Babylonian religion is a purely monotheistic religion, more particularly a monotheistic trinitarian religion.’ The first sentence of Part 1 reads: ‘It is admitted by every one who has studied the religion of the Babylonians, that it is from the first to the last polytheistic. By a more or less successful series of permutations and combinations this apparent contradiction is removed, and Enlil, who is “one flesh” with Ninlil, his wife, is shown to be the one Babylonian deity.’ The second part shows that the belief in the resurrection is the essential doctrine of the Babylonian, as well as of the Christian, religion.”—Bib. World.
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Bib. World. 32: 368. N. ’08. 200w.
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Ind. 65: 496. Ag. 27, ’08. 170w.
Raikes, Hugh P. Design, construction, and maintenance of sewage disposal works; being a practical guide to modern methods of sewage purification. *$4. Van Nostrand.
Written by an engineer for engineers. It “summarises a considerable amount of recently acquired knowledge relating to sewage disposal, and contains the advice and experience of one who has had to face the practical problems involved.” (Nature.)
“This is a ‘live book.’ Any differences of opinion which may be felt between author and reviewer are merely such as necessarily and usefully exist between workers in different parts of the same field. The practical man will find in its pages many useful ‘tips’ and will be led to see where he can be helped by scientific investigation, whilst the scientific worker will be enabled better to realize the practical limitations which are often set to the ideal design indicated by theory.” G. J. Fowler.
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Engin. N. 60: 183. Ag. 13, ’08. 2500w.
“Some of the bacteriological and chemical references in this volume are insufficient for the student’s comprehension as they stand at present, and in some cases they demand revision in a subsequent edition. A volume which, from the engineering standpoint, justifies its appearance.”
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Nature. 78: 473. S. 17, ’08. 830w.
Railway master mechanic. Railway shop up to date; a reference book of up to date American railway shop practice; comp. by the Editorial staff of the Railway master mechanic. $3. Crandall pub. (For sale by Van Nostrand.)
7–42333.
A reference book of up-to-date American railway shop practice showing what methods have been adopted to meet certain ends at individual plants. “The book takes up in turn the general lay-out of the shops, the locomotive shop, the blacksmith shop, the freight car shop, the passenger coach and paint shop, the planing mill, the foundry, the power house, the store house and the roundhouse. There is also an excellent bibliography of American articles on such structures.” (Engin. Rec.)
“The book will be of great value in the office of any railway motive-power or shop department officer.”
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Engin. N. 58: 652. D. 12, ’07. 400w.
“Of decided value to railroad master mechanics and mill architects generally.”
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Engin. Rec. 57: 195. F. 15, ’08. 150w.
Ramsay, Sir James Henry. Dawn of the constitution; or, The reigns of Henry III and Edward I. (A. D. 1216–1307). *$2.75. Macmillan.
8–21030.
The fourth volume in the author’s history of England in the middle ages. “Single minor incidents are made to contribute to the progress of the story; familiar dramatic events are sanely and soberly described; the royal finance is treated with unique fulness and clearness; the military element is not preponderant. The historian has, within his limits of matter and form, provided ‘those desirous of knowing the cardinal facts of English history with a consecutive and verified narrative.’” (Am. Hist. R.)
“In matters of general accuracy and apparatus somewhat is left to be desired. Sir James Ramsay has again done a great service, especially to students, who may at any time be helped by one or another apparently superfluous detail.” R. K. Richardson.
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Am. Hist. R. 14: 106. O. ’08. 950w.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 264. N. ’08.
“A work constructed on this plan can hardly be otherwise than dry. One grows weary of the author’s painstaking chronicle of movements and interests of but one class, his neglect of other aspects of the life and thought of the nation. Yet despite limitations, the merits of the history are many and lasting.”
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Nation. 87: 338. O. 8, ’08. 670w.
“Although Edward is the central figure in the volume now before us we fail to derive from it any clear conception of his personality. Sir James is an annalist of the most laborious description. Somewhere in his pages we may count on finding all important facts along with many that are unimportant.”
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Sat. R. 105: 501. Ap. 18, ’08. 860w.
Ramsay, William Mitchell. Cities of St. Paul: their influence on his life and thought: the cities of eastern Asia Minor. (Dale memorial lectures in Mansfield college, Oxford, 1907.) il. *$3. Armstrong.
8–3647.
The Dale memorial lectures for 1907. Tarsus, Pisidian Antioch, Iconium, Derbe and Lystra are the cities treated. “The lectures aim 298to show the element in Paul’s thought of social reorganization which was contributed by Greek ideas of development in individual freedom guided by education. They abound in points of historical, biblical, and antiquarian interest, with serious criticism of various current views. Much the largest section of the volume is deservedly given to Paul’s native city.” (Outlook.)
“The reviewer confesses to an impression that the material at the author’s disposal is often too slight for the conclusions that are based upon it.” G: H. Gilbert.
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Am. J. Theol. 12: 477. Jl. ’08. 1000w.
“These chapters narrating the history and showing the life of each of these cities will be invaluable to students of the New Testament; and Sir William Ramsay is to be congratulated on his excellent work.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 667. My. 30. 700w.
“This will be a useful book to students of the life of Paul.”
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Bib. World. 31: 320. Ap. ’08. 70w.
“No one knows Asia Minor more thoroly than does Professor Ramsay, and, as the learned public knows, this ‘Cities of St. Paul’ is but the latest of his series of volumes which have added so much to our knowledge of the physical, social and historical surroundings which affected the great apostle’s character and work.”
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Ind. 64: 975. Ap. 30, ’08. 500w.
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Lit. D. 37: 230. Ag. 15, ’08. 180w.
“Important work. Has no index.”
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Nation. 86: 554. Je. 18, ’08. 250w.
“The book indicates Dr. Ramsay’s undoubted scholarship and his wide grasp of facts.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 374. Jl. 4, ’08. 270w.
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Outlook. 88: 565. Mr. 7, ’08. 450w.
“He speaks with conscious authority and long experience, and is a little resentful of amateur encroachments upon his domain, whether those of ‘Palestinian tourist savants,’ whose half-knowledge he frankly criticises, or of German scholars who work from books and in long succession repeat each other’s errors.”
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Sat. R. 105: 469. Ap. 11, ’08. 1200w.
“If we cannot always accept Sir William Ramsay’s theories, we always find him full of enlightening suggestion.”
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Spec. 100: 620. Ap. 18, ’08. 1000w.
Rand, Benjamin, comp. Modern classical philosophers; selections illustrating modern philosophy from Bruno to Spencer. *$2.50. Houghton.
8–6098.
A series of selections valuable to college classes including philosophical writings of Bruno, Bacon, Hobbs, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibnitz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Condillac, Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Comte and Mill.
“Will immediately become a standard book of reference.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 204. Je. ’08.
“The book is a valuable one for the college student to have at his elbow.”
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Educ. R. 35: 521. My. ’08. 80w.
“Good as his book is, it might be bettered in the earlier editions which are certain to be called for. As it stands, the work is heartily to be recommended to instructors and students alike.” A. C. Armstrong.
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J. Philos. 5: 554. S. 24, ’08. 640w.
“One of the most useful books on its subject published in recent years. Any book of this kind is, of course, open to criticism of detail.”
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Nation. 86: 283. Mr. 26, ’08. 350w.
“The volume can be strongly recommended to the general reader. Such a book as this will best realize its final purpose, however, as indeed the compiler points out, if it serves as a stimulus to the student to turn to the unabridged writings themselves of the great thinkers. To that end the addition of a few bibliographical references would have been of real service in directing the uninitiated.” G. M. Duncan.
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Philos. R. 17: 662. N. ’08. 1850w.
Rankin, Carroll Watson. Adopting of Rosa Marie. †$1.50. Holt.
8–24300.
A story for children which is a sequel to “Dandelion cottage.” The chief interest for the group of lively children who laugh and play thru the book is a little Indian child borrowed for a day but kept indefinitely on account of the desertion of the parents.
Rappoport, Angelo S. Curse of the Romanovs: a study of the lives and reigns of two tsars: Paul I and Alexander I of Russia, 1754–1825. *$3.50. McClure.
8–9071.
“This book is dedicated to the memory of the ‘noble martyrs who have fallen in the struggle for Russian freedom.’ Herein lies the alpha and omega of the spirit in which it is written. The ulterior object of the author, in raking up as he does the bones of the dead, is obviously to stir up public indignation against the Tsar and enlist the reader’s sympathy in to-day’s policy and aims of the extreme revolutionaries of his own country—a policy which will lead, he hopes, to ‘the disappearance of the house of Romanov as a reigning family.’ The book is full of stories of court scandal, of ruling favourites, intrigues of mistresses and lovers’ plots.”—Sat. R.
“Considered as a book for the general reader, this handsome and well illustrated volume may be commended.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 334. S. 21. 800w.
“The first chapter is turgid rant; but after that matter and manner begin to improve. The author, if not sympathetic, is at least no longer obviously unfair, and he has used standard authorities.”
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Nation. 86: 511. Je. 4, ’08. 400w.
“At times the narrative is too theatrical in style.” G. S. Hellman.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 64. F. 1, ’08. 520w.
“It is not instructive reading, but entertaining as a ‘modern society’ book, with information ransacked from a heap of multifarious native and foreign sources, comprising archives of princes, secret feminine correspondence, journals and memoirs, selections from ancient history based to a great extent upon court rumors and private letters describing palace life behind the scenes. His book in the hands of the uninitiated is likely, at the present juncture of our international relations with Russia to do more harm than good.”
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Sat. R. 104: 730. D. 14, ’07. 1050w.
* Rasmussen, Knud. People of the polar north; compiled from the Danish originals and ed. by G. Herring. *$5. Lippincott.
Selections from the results of Mr. Rasmussen’s Eskimo study published recently in Copenhagen. “The author spent two winters with the polar Eskimos, familiarizing himself with their manner of living, their social institutions, their religion, and their traditional history. He was admirably equipped for this work, because he had spoken the Eskimo language from his babyhood, and because he was entitled to claim a certain racial kinship with the Eskimos.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Though the work does not appeal to the casual reader, it will be deeply interesting to the student of man.”
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Nation. 87: 526. N. 26, ’08. 800w.
“A valuable work.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 562. O. 10, ’08. 430w.
299Rath, E. J. Sixth speed. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–10277.
Tells of a chauffeur who wearies of his menial service, calls his millionaire employer names, “thereby separating himself from his job, and turns pirate in very up-to-date fashion. He invents, or somebody invents for him, a new motor which will propel a boat at the speed of more than a hundred miles an hour. His boat is secretly built and equipped, a trusty crew is secured, and he starts out to plunder the yachts of the wealthy.”—Dial.
“A book not to be taken seriously in any literary sense, without either form or style, but having the characteristics of surprise and excitement that go to the making of an entertaining yarn.” W: M. Payne.
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Dial. 44: 350. Je. 1, ’08. 300w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 213. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“A most enjoyable tale of adventure, full of action and interest.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 245. Ap. 25, ’08. 130w.
“There is something doing all the time.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 343. Je. 13, ’08. 130w.
Ray, Anna Chapin. Quickened. †$1.50. Little.
8–9530.
Dealing with picturesque phases of Quebec and its surroundings, drawing together French, English and American types, this story emphasizes some of the strongholds of the Roman Catholic faith.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 157. My. ’08.
“This is a mighty theme; the author fails to handle it convincingly. She only tells us that it happened.”
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Ind. 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 60w.
“The story is in no sense a great one, but its deftness of description of place and person, its seriousness and refinement, make it comfortable reading.”
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Nation. 86: 469. My. 21, ’08. 150w.
“There is something tragic in a really fine book that flags toward the end. However, there are at least a hundred pages of tense, well-written drama, and they alone would make the book well worth reading.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 206. Ap. 11, ’08. 170w.
Raymond, George Lansing. Psychology of inspiration. **$1.40. Funk.
8–794.
An attempt to distinguish religious from scientific truth and to harmonize Christianity with modern thought. The author shows that the subconscious mind is the avenue thru which truth in the form of intuitions and inspirations influences the progress of knowledge, ethics, art, and religion. He contends that these influences are suggestive rather than dictatorial in character, and that they insure development in proportion as they are heeded and understood. He finally shows that these truths, materialized, form the world with which science deals, and therefore the harmony between spirit and matter.
“It is, we think, difficult to over-estimate the value of this volume at the present critical pass in the history of Christianity.”
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Arena. 39: 508. Ap. ’08. 1000w.
“One expecting to find here a thoroughgoing discussion of inspiration from the psychological point of view will be greatly disappointed. The book has much that is valuable in relation both to inspiration and to the harmonizing of scientific and religious thought, but its chief usefulness is likely to be in stirring discussion upon the problems presented.”
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Lit. D. 36: 656. My. 2, ’08. 350w.
Outlook. 88: 326. F. 8, ’08. 300w.
Raymond, William Galt. Elements of railroad engineering. (Railroad engineering. v. 2.) $3.50. Wiley.
8–7887.
“The aim of the author has been to describe the fixed portion of a railroad plant and to present the underlying principles governing the design of its layout, a railroad being viewed as a plant operated for the manufacture of transportation which must be marketed at a profit to the owners.... The author includes a number of original articles, among which are those on curve resistance and the cost of the worst class of rise and fall.”—Engin. D.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 628. N. ’08. 110w.
Engin. D. 3: 525. My. ’08. 450w.
“The author’s comments in regard to overcapitalization and stock watering do not state all that is favorable to the railroads on this much-hackneyed subject, though the popular view is very clearly though briefly set out.” W. D. Taylor.
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Engin. N. 59: 434. Ap. 16, ’08. 3000w.
“The book is prepared for class-room use and furnishes a broad, substantial foundation for future study of details.”
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Engin. Rec. 58: 652. D. 5, ’08. 170w.
Read, D. H. Moutray. Highways and byways in Hampshire. (Highways and byways ser.) $2. Macmillan.
8–21025.
Notes and impressions of “happy days, motoring, driving, cycling and walking” in a country which to the author is “a bundle of memories, all colourful, with a setting of sun-washed landscapes, sweet scents, and bird melodies.” “Nearly a hundred charming pen-and-ink drawings are contributed by Mr. Arthur B. Connor, and a good map and an index are useful features deserving of mention.” (Dial.)
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 295. D. ’08.
“Haste and anger with locked doors are, we suppose, the reason that so many exceptional churches of Hampshire in the very parts visited by Mr. Read, and close to the highway, are left unnoticed or passed by with insufficient comment.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 566. My. 9. 850w.
“A book in every way worthy of the series in which it appears.”
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Dial. 44: 353. Je. 1, ’08. 150w.
“He treats you as if he were conducting you through his own estate, and took pleasure in pointing to this and that which he values for his own reasons. The result is entertaining.”
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Nation. 86: 511. Je. 4, ’08. 200w.
“Only a reader well versed in English history and English literature can properly enjoy it.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 379. Jl. 4, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Moutray Read has dealt with his subject in a satisfactory way.”
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Spec. 101: sup. 713. N. 7, ’08. 160w.
Redfield, Isabella Taylor. Reasonable way to study the Bible: the Acts of the Apostles, the Epistles. 50c. Isabella T. Redfield, Pittsfield, Mass.
7–42456.
“Miss Redfield has divided carefully the material in both the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles of Paul into convenient and related sections, and by a series of questions has prepared the way for the student to arrive at independent opinions on the course of the history and the various types of religious thought.”—R. of Rs.
Ind. 64: 1045. My. 7, ’08. 100w.
“The analysis of the Biblical material is good, the coördination of references to the historical work and the Epistles shows careful study, and the questions for the student are designed to call out independent thought and appreciation of the real problems of the period.”
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Nation. 86: 103. Ja. 30, ’08. 100w.
“Is stimulating to all teachers ambitious of thorough work.”
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Outlook. 88: 280. F. 1, ’08. 150w.
300Reed, Milton. Democratic ideal. *75c. Am. Unitar.
7–30430.
The initial progress that came out of the “iron necessities” of man’s being and which has developed principles of liberty, equality of rights, and justice is capable, the author believes, of continuing its work for the American people until all of its problems of government and society are solved.
“While the author prints some very just and harsh criticisms on modern economic conditions, he seems not to have a comprehension of the economic laws underlying many modern movements.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 450. S. ’08. 50w.
* Reed, Myrtle. Flower of the dusk. **$1.50. Putnam.
8–24448.
A story in which a crippled daughter struggles to keep up the deception of riches for the comfort of a blind father. When thru the aid of an heiress and her surgeon lover both are cured the father does not survive the joy of seeing the daughter who, on account of the resemblance to the mother and his unbalanced state of mind, he thinks is his long dead wife. The shadow of an early love tragedy lies across the pages of the story.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 271. N. ’08. ✠
“As a story this seems scarcely equal to the author’s former work, ‘A spinner in the sun.’”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 398. O. 3. 80w.
Ind. 65: 1244. N. 26, ’08. 200w.
“The slight little luminary of a story twinkles here and there with fun and revolves in a vast atmosphere of songs, dreams, parables, rhapsodies.”
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Nation. 87: 364. O. 15, ’08. 150w.
“It is a perfect example of its kind and a vast improvement upon the colorless fiction that seeks its dignity in harping on disagreeable topics.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 516. S. 19, ’08. 220w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 747. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
Rees, Arthur Dougherty. William Tell: a drama of the origin of Swiss democracy. Lippincott.
8–24854.
A play written around the legend of William Tell which is dedicated to the principles of human progress and which takes in the movement in Switzerland towards freedom and unity.
“Is not wholly devoid of imagination or descriptive power, but is so undramatic in its action and so untheatrical in form as to be wholly unsuitable for stage representation.”
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Nation. 87: 123. Ag. 6, ’08. 150w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 460. Ag. 22, ’08. 200w.
Reeves, Jesse Siddall. American diplomacy under Tyler and Polk. (Albert Shaw lectures on diplomatic history, 1906.) $1.50. Johns Hopkins.
7–39215.
“Thirteen chapters ... dealing with the diplomatic events of the administrations of two ‘accidental presidents.’ ... Their subject matter deals chiefly with questions of boundary—northeast, northwest, and southwest. Undoubtedly the best portions of the book are the eight chapters dealing with our relations to Texas and Mexico. The author does much to dispel the prevalent belief that the ‘peculiar institution of the south’ was an active aid to extension in the southwest.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 719. My. ’08. 180w.
Ind. 64: 1352. Je. 11, ’08. 170w.
“Dr. Reeve’s excellent study of the diplomacy of the United States under Tyler and Polk is necessarily lacking in unity, for neither a single administration or a single group of diplomatic negotiations is the theme. No one can neglect its use in the study of the diplomacy of this period. It is written in a clear style, plain and unadorned.” C. H. Van Tyne.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 23: 714. D. ’08. 520w.
R. of Rs. 37: 116. Ja. ’08. 120w.
* Reeves, William Pember. New Zealand. *$6. Macmillan.
A particularly illuminating book about New Zealand which “does not pretend to be either a guide-book or an exhaustive treatise.” “Especially interesting are the chapters on sport and country life, and much light is thrown on the social conditions, which, Keir Hardie asserts, have established a standard of comfort and a recognition of the rights of labor which make New Zealand the most desirable of all countries for the emigrant workman.” (Nation.)
“It is for its descriptive passages that the reader will most prize this book.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 726. D. 5. 630w.
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Dial. 45: 461. D. 16, ’08. 200w.
“Charmingly illustrated and informing account of New Zealand.”
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Nation. 87: 578. D. 10, ’08. 160w.
“As charming a book as we ever hope to read about the country he has so well represented. The text is more than worthy of the numerous illustrations, which are a true pleasure to the eye, and are by far the best pictures of New Zealand we have ever seen in a book. It may seem captious to complain of very small blemishes; but the book is written with such careful art that they are relatively more disfiguring than in most books. We unreservedly commend this book. It is romantic because Mr. Reeves is a poet, yet it nowhere exaggerates.”
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Spec. 101: 631. O. 24, ’08. 1900w.
Reich, Emil. Foundations of modern Europe. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–12963.
A book, growing out of a series of public lectures, which gives a short sketch of the main facts and tendencies of European history that, from 1756 onwards, have contributed to the making of the present state of politics and civilization. Under the wealth of facts the author finds the soul of progress which he reveals.
“A second edition gives opportunity to call attention again to the very suggestive lectures which this book contains. Dr. Reich is particularly happy in his insistence: first, upon the European influence of the American war of independence; and, second, upon the very important part played by the French in the war.”
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Educ. R. 36: 103. Je. ’08. 70w.
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Ind. 65: 378. Ag. 13, ’08. 300w.
“His glittering generalities and dogmatic judgment are particularly unsafe to readers like many of those in the C. L. S. C., who are inclined to take everything in print as gospel truth.”
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Ind. 65: 721. S. 24, ’08. 100w.
“It is not only in detail that this work fails, but in larger generalizations, which might, if well founded, counterbalance some degree of inaccuracy in minor points.”
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Nation. 86: 553. Je. 18, ’08. 450w.
“Whatever may be Dr. Reich’s faults, he is not dull, and, though his accuracy in explaining the course of human events has often been questioned and hardly less often denied he certainly does look at things with eyes that take in a good many of them at the same time.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 277. My. 16, ’08. 800w.
R. of Rs. 38: 254. Ag. ’08. 40w.
301Reich, Emil. General history of western nations from 5000 B. C. to 1900 A. D. 2v. *$4. Macmillan.
8–20728.
Two of the three volumes dealing with “Antiquity.” The first volume includes an Introduction containing the methodology of history, a general historical bibliography, and Books 1 and 2 which deal with the great land empires, Chaldea, Egypt, Assyria, the Hittites, the Phrygians and the Lydians; and with the border states, the Phoenicians, the Hebrews and the Hellenes. Volume two contains Rome, the Roman republic, and the Roman empire; with full index of both volumes.
“The fact is that these volumes are by no means the outcome of first-hand research. They do not even contain much systematic criticism.” H. W. C. D.
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Eng. Hist. R. 23: 816. O. ’08. 580w.
“It would be false to say that amid so many printed pages there are no wise and suggestive sentences, but it is all spoiled by the pompous dogma, vague assertion, high-sounding futility and arrogant assumption of omniscience on the part of the author.”
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Ind. 65: 377. Ag. 13, ’08. 400w.
“The value of these synthetic principles, whatever it may be, is largely offset by the glaring faults of the work. It contains many errors of detail; long periods, like that of the emperors, are inadequately treated; the theories it upholds are often pushed to extravagant lengths; and the spirit of the author is unnecessarily combative and egotistical.”
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Nation. 87: 467. N. 12, ’08. 680w.
“It takes close reading and some thinking to follow him, interesting though his assumptions and contentions are. It may be doubted whether Dr. Reich can sustain his positions except as hypotheses. As demonstrations they lack something of convincingness, and even of authority, despite his signature.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 545. O. 3, ’08. 2100w.
“Sometimes he even seems to strain a point to make his theories fit the facts. But in general his opinion is well worth the reader’s attention, and on every page the student should find food for thought.”
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Outlook. 90: 358. O. 17, ’08. 2200w.
R. of Rs. 38: 254. Ag. ’08. 200w.
“Herr Reich has written a good book, and as he might have clothed it in German or some even more native language, we must put up with his queer lingo.”
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Sat. R. 106: 516. O. 24, ’08. 1150w.
“Dr. Reich is somewhat paradoxical, and very firmly convinced of his being in the right.”
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Spec. 101: sup. 473. O. 3, ’08. 220w.
Reichel, Willy. Occultist’s travels. *$1. Fenno.
8–25375.
Describes the author’s travels thru Egypt, France and England, the United States, Hawaiian islands, Japan, China and the Philippines. His experiences with experimental occultism include seances, tests of trance inspiration, trumpet mediumship, crystal gazing and palmistry; he touches upon theosophy and reincarnation and describes certain visits to spiritual camps.
N. Y. Times. 13:522. S. 26, ’08. 680w.
Repplier, Agnes. Happy half-century, and other essays. **$1.10. Houghton.
8–27522.
Miss Repplier has brought out of their century-old silence people whose “little nothingnesses” of every day affairs and real work were woven into the tissue of England’s social and literary history. What these people thought about each other, what they read, and what they did constitute a book of delightful literary chit-chat. Some of the titles are When Lalla Rookh was young, On the slopes of Parnassus, The literary lady, and Our accomplished great-grandmother.
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 295. D. ’08. ✠
Reviewed by Edward Fuller.
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Bookm. 28: 324. D. ’08. 540w.
“A little volume of essays which confirms the judgment of the critic who declared that Miss Repplier possesses and monopolizes the almost lost art of essay writing.”
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Cath. World. 88: 256. N. ’08. 850w.
“In her customary pleasant fashion, and with abundance of apt quotation, she makes the reader share with her a sort of amused superiority to the persons pricked by her somewhat pitiless pen, held up writhing for a moment on its cruel point, and then consigned again to a well-earned oblivion.”
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Dial. 45: 254. O. 16, ’08. 400w.
“A Christmas present worth having.”
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Ind. 65: 1174. N. 19, ’08. 50w.
“In the end one has been instructed in much half-forgotten lore, as well as refreshed by the instructor’s twinkling wit and clear, quiet humor.”
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Nation. 87: 386. O. 22, ’08. 300w.
“She is the greatest living master of good-natured satire, if indeed she has ever been surpassed in it.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 575. O. 17, ’08. 220w.
“She is decidedly amusing, but we are not sure that she is just.”
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Spec. 101: 888. N. 28, ’08. 220w.
Repton, Humphry. Art of landscape gardening; including his sketches and hints on landscape gardening and Theory and practice of landscape gardening; ed. by J. Nolen, il. **$3. Houghton.
7–38627.
Deals with the principles of landscape gardening. “The grounds laid out or improved by Repton, perhaps it should be said, were gentlemen’s estates, large and small, and though these, or portions of them, were called parks, they were private rather than public parks, and each was associated with a residence, permanent or temporary. Many of the principles so clearly set forth, however, apply equally to either public or private work.” (Engin. N.)
“The illustrations are especially worthy of mention, because with the exception of a few modern photographs, they are reproductions of Repton’s own sketches.”
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Dial. 44: 179. Mr. 16, ’08. 600w.
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Engin. N. 59: 81. Ja. 16, ’08. 450w.
“Cannot fail to be of value and interest to Americans.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 511. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“Of course it is a book addressed to the few. Still, the book will be found interesting by readers who do not contemplate the making of landscapes.”
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Spec. 100: 105. Ja. 18, ’07. 110w.
Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie-. Broken off. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
“A variant of a popular theme, the engagement of a well-born, beautiful, but poor girl to a strong, honest, middle-class rich man whom she first despises and in the end adores.”—Sat. R.
“The story is a little too commonplace for the really original study of emotions to which it forms a background.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 683. N. 30. 160w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 47. Ja. 25, ’08. 250w.
“It is a very fair specimen of this kind of feminine novel, workmanlike in treatment, fluent with emotion and sentiment, and set in an adequate picture of country-house life.”
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Sat. R. 104: 769. D. 21, ’07. 60w.
302“Mrs. Baillie Reynold’s writing is never actually dull, but it must be confessed that in her present novel she comes perilously near it.”
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Spec. 99: 1057. D. 21, ’07. 120w.
Reynolds, Victor. Stories of the Flemish and Dutch artists from the time of the Van Eycks to the end of the seventeenth century; selected and arranged by Victor Reynolds. $3. Duffield.
Stories of Flemish and Dutch artists told in the words of the original historians of the two schools. The illustrations are selections from their paintings reproduced in colors and halftones; and appendices include respectively a chapter on “The discovery of oil-painting.” and a list of the authorities drawn upon for the sketches.
“This is first of all interesting; and it does well what it undertakes to do.”
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Outlook. 90: 843. D. 12, ’08. 200w.
Rhead, Louis John. Book of fish and fishing. il. **$1.50. Scribner.
8–18028.
A popular rather than scientific treatment of fishes found from Labrador to Dry Tortugas. “In addition to descriptions of the appearance and habits of the fish, are chapters headed, Where to get them, How to get them, and When to got them. The book is well illustrated with copious cuts and contains also some interesting maps and charts.” (Ind.)
“The English is sometimes slovenly, and the lack of an index a serious omission.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 295. D. ’08.
“Very useful book.” G: Gladden.
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Bookm. 27: 609. Ag. ’08. 150w.
Ind. 64: 1454. Je. 25, ’08. 110w.
“While Mr. Rhead’s ideas are in the main sound, his sins of omission are serious. There are many examples of slipshod English.”
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Nation. 86: 584. Je. 25, ’08. 110w.
“Contains a large amount of practical information in compact form.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 353. Je. 20, ’08. 200w.
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R. of Rs. 38: 253. Ag. ’08. 100w.
Rhodes, Harrison Garfield. Adventures of Charles Edward. (English title, Charles Edward.) il. †$1.50. Little.
8–13950.
Charles Edward, a young New Yorker, endowed with high spirits and abundant riches, is a prank-loving individual who perpetrates his jokes on two sides of the Atlantic. His first adventure secures him a wife, the daughter of an English lord; at another time he advertises for an heirdom and gets it; still again he buys the manuscripts of four authors, has them published simultaneously as the work of one man, and while reconciling the public to the dissimilarities apparent in the books, is also engaged in assuaging the injured feelings of the four authors whose identities have merged into that of one unknown man.
“Mr. Rhodes recounts pranks with easy gaiety and fluent humour.”
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Acad. 72: 169. F. 16, ’07. 200w.
“A sort of Americanized version of Stevenson’s ‘New Arabian nights.’”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 223. Je. ’08.
“A thoroughly delightful volume, quite out of the beaten track of humorous literature.”
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Arena. 40: 126. Jl. ’08. 110w.
“It is transatlantic both in its Gibsonian illustrations and its piquant humour, which we should have liked better had there been less of it—its qualities, refreshing when taken in small doses, becomes enervating in bulk; but for the busy man, who takes his literary refreshment homœopathically, ‘Charles Edward’ may be recommended.”
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Ath. 1907, 1: 98. Ja. 26. 70w.
“In this last chapter, as in other isolated moments through the book, the author shows himself endowed not only with wit, but with true humour, the humour that draws the tear as well as the laugh.” G. I. Colbron.
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Bookm. 27: 414. Je. ’08. 650w.
“Only a very unreasonable critic could deny that they possess the quality of entertainment.” F: T. Cooper.
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Bookm. 27: 501. Jl. ’08. 150w.
“The book is breezy and entertaining.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 302. My. 30, ’08. 400w.
“The book is one smile from the first page to the last.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 343. Je. 13, ’08. 300w.
Rice, Cale Young. Yolanda of Cyprus. **$1.25. McClure.
8–13705.
A sixteenth century melodrama presented in modern style. Its scene is laid in the Island of Cyprus. It was published in London two years ago, and in its present slightly revised form will be produced next season in Chicago by Donald Robertson.
“Tho Mr. Rice seems occasionally in danger of betraying the essentials to the accidents of drama, his plays have still sufficient life to animate them, even when read in the study.”
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Ind. 65: 265. Jl. 30, ’08. 70w.
“Exhibits both literary facility and poetic imagination. It contains, indeed, many melodious and some striking passages, but its general conception is so extravagant, its construction so crude, and its semi-miraculous happy ending so conventionally theatrical in its futility, that as drama it is inconsiderable.”
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Nation. 86: 407. Ap. 30, ’08. 100w.
“When all is said, ‘Yolanda of Cyprus’ is no inconsiderable achievement; and it is most encouraging to our hope of a native drama to know that an American has written a play which is at the same time of decided poetic merit and of detailed dramaturgic power.” C: M. Hathaway, jr.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 267. My. 9, ’08. 550w.
Rich, Walter Herbert. Feathered game of the Northeast; with il. by the author. (English title, Feathered game of New England.) **$3. Crowell.
7–29864.
Short descriptions of nearly a hundred game birds, both land and water, written by “a man whose nature study has been conducted in the open and mostly over a gun-barrel,” yet one who discourages the conscienceless depletion of flocks.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 204. Je. ’08.
“The book is attractively written, though both style and spelling follow New England fashion; whilst, the illustrations, especially those of the birds, deserve great praise.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 608. My. 16. 320w.
“The general reader will find much to repay him for the time devoted to this book, and it contains no end of detailed, scientific information for the professional ornithologist.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 356. Je. 20, ’08. 200w.
“The style is of that vivacious and exuberant kind which we should expect of an American sportsman.”
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Spec. 100: 710. My. 2, ’08. 130w.
Richards, Mrs. Laura Elizabeth. Wooing of Calvin Parks. †$1.25. Estes.
8–23552.
“Mrs. Richards makes a very engaging central figure of Calvin Parks, once ‘master of the Mary Sands, Bath and Floridy—with lumber,’ now owner of a ‘candy route, hoss and waggin.’ Sam and Sim, the old twin brothers in their temporary reaction from too long and too heavily enforced love-each-otherness, make a good field for missionary effort and Christmas 303reconciling. It is caricature, of course, but not stupid caricature. And the benevolences of the story are amiable, but not cloying. Pervading the whole are Maine-isms of choicest quality.”—Nation.
“Is full of humor and abounding in genuine ‘down East’ sayings.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 271. N. ’08.
“Mrs. Richards serves a feast of Maine humor, seasoning it with her own sympathy.”
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Nation. 87: 340. O. 8, ’08. 200w.
“Altogether the story is a bright one without a line of tragedy in it.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 343. Je. 13, ’08. 150w.
“There is only a slight little thread of story, but the telling of it is very delightful. For it is full of the unconscious humor in turn of thought, habit of mind, and forms of expression characteristic of the old-time, rustic New Englander.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 512. S. 19, ’08. 270w.
“Tells her new tale simply and with homely humor and hearty sympathy with human nature’s foibles and generous impulses.”
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Outlook. 90: 274. O. 3, ’08. 60w.
Richards, Ralph Webster. Synopsis of mineral characters. *$1.25. Wiley.
7–10258.
Alphabetically arranged for laboratory and field use this pocket-book includes crystal form, habit, system, cleavage, hardness, fusion, and solubility in hydrochloric or other acid. Definitions of mineral terms and of rocks associated with the minerals included are also provided.
“The descriptions are concise and accurate and include all the more essential properties of the species described. The book will be useful both to students in the laboratory and field, and to miners and others who are interested in minerals.” C. W. W.
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J. Geol. 15: 824. N. ’07. 70w.
“The arrangement of the matter makes reference to the book easy.”
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Nature. 75: 583. Ap. 18, ’07. 50w.
Richardson, Alfred Madeley. Modern organ accompaniment. *$2.50. Longmans.
8–4012.
“All the various topics bearing upon the subject are considered in detail; the art of registration, the accompanying of hymn tunes, motets, and plain song, the use of ornamentation, and the art of augmenting or reducing piano scores for use on the organ.”—Cath. World.
“Contains an interesting and valuable chapter on the materials for tone-colouring which modern organs offer, also a very practical one on the accompaniment of plain-song.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 163. Ag. 10. 450w.
“A chapter on the art of accompanying such a quality of voice [the boy-soprano voice] would be very opportune just now, and would complete what is otherwise a splendid volume.”
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Cath. World. 87: 105. Ap. ’08. 400w.
“The book is very inaccurate and confessedly careless.... The plan of the book, we gladly admit, is exhaustive and irreproachable.”
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Lond. Times. 6: 142. My. 3, ’07. 1100w.
Richardson, Mrs. Aubrey. Lover of Queen Elizabeth. *$3.50. Appleton.
A sketch that gives Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester’s relations to the Queen, and in particular his forced connection with the policy of her marriage and succession.
“It is a sound, good book, and more conscientious than its romantic title would lead one to suppose. If it were otherwise, it would hardly be worth pointing to one defect ... the absence of all citation of the authorities quoted, and even of a preface indicating the sources consulted. Nor is the index at all adequate for a volume of 390 pages so fully packed with incident.”
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Acad. 73: 140. N. 16, ’07. 700w.
“A simpler and more proportionate treatment might easily have rendered this book a worthy contribution to Elizabethan history.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 441. O. 12. 540w.
“However familiar the author may be with the easily accessible material of Elizabeth’s reign, she has little acquaintance with good style.”
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Nation. 87: 411. O. 29, ’08. 400w.
“Mrs. Richardson unfortunately writes very badly, with no distinction, not much care as to grammatical construction, and a colloquialism that jars upon the reader. Probably most of the events belonging to Leicester and Queen Elizabeth’s long intimacy are brought together in this book, and the story is sufficiently romantic to be readable.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 595. O. 24, ’08. 500w.
“Nor can we say that Mrs. Richardson succeeds in making the sorry story live. She seems to be an imitator of Mr. Maurice Hewlett, and has caught something of the stylistic obscurity and preciosity of that school.”
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Sat. R. 104: 395. S. 28, ’07. 1250w.
“We cannot say that there is no ‘scandal about Queen Elizabeth’ in this volume; but the subject is handled with adequate gravity and discretion.”
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Spec. 99: 439. S. 28, ’07. 270w.
Richardson, Ernest Cushing, and others, comps. and eds. Alphabetical subject index and index encyclopedia to periodical articles on religion, 1890–1899. *$10. For the Hartford seminary press by Scribner.
8–2949.
A volume of nearly 1200 pages. More than 60,000 articles from some 1500 reviews are indexed. References are made under upwards of 15,000 subjects and under each a brief definition is given. A large majority of the periodicals indexed cover the years 1890–1899 only but some are indexed from their initial volume and some are carried down to the year 1907. A special feature is the indexing of 175 encyclopedias and reference works. The indexing is done according to the Poole method. Under subjects the material is arranged alphabetically according to authors. Volume number, year and inclusive paging are given but no note is made of the monthly or weekly date of periodicals. The work is practically without cross references, only an occasional one being given.
Am. Hist. R. 13: 926. Jl. ’08. 50w.
“A compendious work, and a distinctly valuable contribution to library aids for the larger libraries and special collections.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 107. Ap. ’08.
“One of the most important bibliographical publications of recent years.”
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Dial. 44: 138. Mr. 1, ’08. 140w.
Richey, Harry Grant. Building mechanics’ ready reference. Cement workers’ and plasterers’ ed. **$1.50. Wiley.
8–22300.
The second volume in “The building mechanic’s ready reference” series. “There are seven parts covering in a general way: 1, Cements: specifications, tests, analyses, strength; 2, Concrete: aggregates, mixing, strength, specifications, composition, notes; 3, Mortar, reinforced concrete, concrete piles, forms, etc.; 4, Sidewalk construction and other special uses of cement and concrete; 5, Cement building blocks; materials, manufacture, use, tests and building regulations; 6, Plastering; 7, a chapter on laying out work, tables, and miscellaneous information.” (Engin. D.)
“It certainly would be to the great advantage of any piece of work for the mechanics 304and workmen engaged to know more of what they are doing than merely how to conduct the mechanical operations involved and there is no book that we have yet seen in the field of cement and concrete that can give this information as thoroughly and clearly as the one before us.”
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Engin. D. 4: 304. S. ’08. 470w.
“An admirable book to put in the hands of the mason or mechanic who wishes to learn something about the rapidly-growing cement industry.”
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Engin. N. 60: 190. Ag. 13, ’08. 150w.
Richey, Harry Grant. Building mechanics’ ready reference. Plumbers’, steam-fitters’ and tinners’ ed. **$1.50. Wiley.
8–23582.
“The book is divided into five parts, treating of the following subjects: 1, Hot air, steam and hot water heating; piping of heating systems and pipe fittings. 2, Data on boilers; radiation; tables of sizes, strengths, weights, etc. 3, Hydraulics; sewers; excavation; tin and sheet metal work, etc. 4, Gas fittings; gas, soil and vent pipes; plumbing rules, etc. 5, Examples of modern plumbing; specifications; receipts, tables, etc.”—Engin. D.
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Engin. D. 4: 418. O. ’08. 120w.
“Is quite up to the standards previously set, and, for the purposes intended, these standards are high.”
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Engin. N. 60: 321. S. 17, ’08. 100w.
Richmond, Grace Louise S. Round the corner in Gay street. †$1.50. Doubleday.
8–23930.
A story in which is depicted the leavening influence of the Bells, father, mother and five children, among the wealthy Townsends of a nearby mansion. Contains “a strong flavor of ‘Little women’ in an up-to-date setting.”
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 249. O. ’08. ✠
“It is unfortunate that the story cannot fully impress the reader with its own merit.”
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Nation. 87: 187. Ag. 27, ’08. 100w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 474. Ag. 29, ’08. 300w.
Richmond, Mary Ellen. Good neighbor in the modern city. **60c. Lippincott.
7–39066.
Makes its appeal to all who are interested in the problem of social service and community living. It tells how to be neighborly when conditions least favor it. Some of the chapters are: The child in the city, The invalid, The family in distress, The contributor, The church member, and The tenant.
“Sane, stirring talks on social science and practical charity.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 148. My. ’08. ✠
“A good book to read, to lend, or to give to other neighbors.”
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Outlook. 88: 42. Ja. 4, ’08. 380w.
“As a distinct contribution to knowledge the book will not take rank, but as a safe guide and inspiration to the kindly impulses of the individual it will find its place, and this seems to be the purpose for which it was written.”
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Yale R. 16: 447. F. ’08. 780w.
Rickard, Thomas Arthur. Journeys of observation. $3.50. Mining and scientific press.
8–2203.
“The observations of a mining engineer on trips into two representative mining regions of Mexico and southwestern Colorado, describing industrial conditions, geological structure, mining methods, and metallurgical practices which were found there. Abundant and excellent illustrations are included.”—J. Pol. Econ.
“The trips from place to place are incidental linkages between collections of rather diversified (some people might say ‘scattered’) notes on methods of tunneling, drifting, stoping and timbering, on processes of ore treatment and mine management.”
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Engin. N. 59: 649. My. 14, ’08. 1000w.
J. Pol. Econ. 16: 317. My. ’08. 40w.
Riddle, Matthew Brown. Story of the Revised New Testament, American standard ed. *75c. S. S. Times co.
8–17776.
A little book for the general public which gives an account of the origin, methods, and progress of the revision movement during thirty-five years.
“Constitutes a valuable ‘footnote to history.’”
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Bib. World. 32: 151. Ag. ’08. 70w.
Riggs, James Stevenson. Messages of Jesus according to the Gospel of John. (Messages of the Bible.) **$1.25. Scribner.
7–38254.
The discourses of Jesus in the Gospels of John arranged, analyzed and freely rendered in paraphrase.
“The subtitle hardly does justice to the useful introduction and extended notes which give this little volume much of its value.”
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Bib. World. 31: 80. Ja. ’08. 40w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 763. N. 30, ’07. 210w.
“Dr. Rigg’s ability is not in question, but rather the nature of his task.”
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Outlook. 88: 48. Ja. 4, ’08. 200w.
Riley, Isaac Woodbridge. American philosophy: the early schools. **$3.50. Dodd.
7–36876.
A work intended both as a source book and as a critical exposition of the growth of philosophical opinion in the land. It is divided into five books, corresponding to the five schools which the author believes to have divided the allegiance of the early American thinkers: Book I takes up the question of early Puritanism in New England; Book II deals with early Idealism; Book III considers the speculative emancipation of the various colleges, Harvard, Yale, King’s college, and Princeton, in a deistic direction; Book IV is devoted to Materialism, the prevailing thought in the South; and Book V treats of the Realism of the Scottish type.
“Dr. Riley’s method, the patience and thoroughness of his research, the fairness and general sanity of his judgments, are all good models for imitation. The value of his work is much more than that of a source-book. As a finished product it is likely to hold its place as an authority in the field it has so thoroughly explored for a long time to come.” A. T. Ormond.
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 603. Ap. ’08. 650w.
“We have here an important book, important both for what it is and what it promises.” A. H. Lloyd.
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Am. J. Theol. 12: 505. Jl. ’08. 1250w.
“Though open to some adverse criticism the book is thorough and scholarly, and is the most nearly complete work on the subject.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 265. N. ’08
“The book was well worth the doing, and it has been superlatively well done. Neither his subject nor his method of treatment requires any ‘apologia.’ We may note in passing a few slips in proof-reading.” H. T. Peck.
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Bookm. 27: 400. Je. ’08. 2800w.
305“The result of extended inquiry, and seems to give us at once footing among the thoughtful nations of the world. Dr. Riley seems to us to wander a little too much at random through an author’s works, and, by mingling his own criticism, to help us still further to lose our way and to be left with a colorless impression of the force and order of events.” John Bascom.
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Dial. 44: 177. Mr. 16, ’08. 800w.
“This is by far the most complete work which has yet appeared on the early history of philosophy in America. It is, in fact, the only one which attempts to treat the subject with thoroughness and in all its details.” A. L. Jones.
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J. Philos. 5: 157. Mr. 12, ’08. 2250w.
“This volume is often somewhat burdened by weight of detail.”
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Nation. 87: 13. Jl. 2, ’08. 1350w.
“This is a book which makes us wish we had something here like the French Academy, that so good a book might be stamped with the seal of national approval.” C: Johnston.
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No. Am. 187: 927. Je. ’08. 1100w.
“All American philosophy, indeed, is from imported stock, the account of whose naturalization and development here is a valuable contribution to the history of civilization on this continent.”
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Outlook. 88: 45. Ja. 4, ’08. 450w.
“Clearness in a book of exposition, either historical or doctrinal, is a quality on which too much stress can never be laid, and there is certainly enough of that in ‘American philosophy.’ His estimate of individual thinkers and schools cannot but be influenced by his personal speculative leanings; and, while this is unavoidable and natural, it will render the work less acceptable to such as have other preferences and inclinations.” E. L. van Becelaere.
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Philos. R. 17: 202. Mr. ’08. 2550w.
“Though open to criticism upon some details, the book as a whole is a thorough and scholarly piece of research in a territory where the author has often been obliged to blaze his own way, and a notable addition to our historical literature.” A. O. Lovejoy.
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Science, n.s. 27: 464. Mr. 20, ’08. 1650w.
Riley, James Whitcomb. Boys of the old glee club. il. **$1.50. Bobbs.
7–39035.
A poem full of reminiscence written in Riley’s inimitable Hoosier dialect. The following is suggestive of the whole:
“You folks rickollect, I know—
’Tain’t so very long ago—
Th’ Old Glee Club—was got up here
’Bout the first time Grant tuk the cheer
Fer President four years—and then
Riz—and tuk the thing again.”
“It is instinct with that human interest that is the chief charm of Riley’s verse, and it will be especially enjoyed by the ‘Boys in blue.’”
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Arena. 39: 126. Ja. ’08. 100w.
“The illustrations by Will Vawter really ‘belong’; they tell the story parallel to the poem.”
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Ind. 64: 756. Ap. 2, ’08. 80w.
Rinehart, Mary Roberts. Circular staircase. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–23102.
The unmarried aunt of a brother and sister just out of college and finishing school is persuaded by the young people to take a country house for the summer. The series of mysterious crimes into which this peace-abiding trio is plunged is traced to the machinations of a bank defaulter whose home the aunt had rented, and within whose walls were hidden stolen securities.
“Humorously told.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 271. N. ’08.
“With the possible exception of ‘The house of a thousand candles,’ this is by far the best mystery or detective story of recent years.”
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Arena. 40: 394. O. ’08. 270w.
Ind. 65: 556. S. 3, ’08. 100w.
“Written in any old style it would be the sort of thing people sit up nights to finish; written in the delightfully humorous vein which makes it stand out so much above the ordinary detective story, it is bound to be, with more than usual deserts, a popular success.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 460. Ag. 22, ’08. 250w.
“Readable, entertaining, amusing.”
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Outlook. 90: 135. S. 19, ’08. 60w.
* Ritchie, Anne Isabella (Thackeray). Blackstick papers. **$1.75. Putnam.
8–33772.
A group of essays gathered together under the name of “Blackstick papers” after the Fairy Blackstick who thousands of years ago lived in Crim Tartary. They are so called because they concern subjects in which this fairy was interested—old books, young people, schools of practical instruction, rings, roses and sentimental affairs. Some of the chapter headings are: Haydn; Felicia Felix; St. Andrews; Concerning Joseph Joachim; Mary and Agnes Berry; Paris, Prisms, and Primitifs; Mrs. Gaskell; Concerning Tourguenieff; and Concerning Thomas Bewick.
Robbins, Helen H., ed. Our first ambassador to China: the life and correspondence of George, earl of Macartney, and his experiences in China, as told by himself. *$5. Dutton.
8–19596.
“Affords an interesting picture of Chinese court and customs of the day, of loyal entertainments which rivalled Arabian nights, and of the most amusing subtility and illusiveness of Oriental diplomacy. Moreover, the ambassador’s reflections upon Chinese character, his recognition of the stability and cohesion of the people and the courtliness of the educated class, form a valuable memorial to eighteenth century impartiality and insight.”—Ind.
“Mrs. Robbins has done her part of the work exceedingly well, and her comments are judicious and reasonable.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 375. Mr. 28. 1700w.
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Ind. 64: 1451. Je. 25, ’08. 260w.
“This book is both readable and valuable.”
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Nation. 87: 14. Jl. 2, ’08. 800w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 204. Ap. 11, ’08. 130w.
“The diary makes a valuable and interesting addition to the information given in Sir George Staunton’s narrative, confirming in the main the impression it left, while possessing the superior charm of a private letter over an official despatch.”
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Sat. R. 105: 468. Ap. 11, ’08. 1550w.
“Macartney’s own diary of the mission ... is that of an accomplished and very observant man, and as a story of travel, difficulty, and fresh experience it is quite romantic.”
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Spec. 100: 263. F. 15, ’08. 1550w.
Robbins, Leonard H. Jersey jingles. $1. Wilson J. Vance, 164 Market st., Newark, N. J.
Humor, the wisdom of childhood, and the homely philosophy of grown-ups combine to make Mr. Robbins’s jingles full of the sentiments which everybody feels but permits to go unexpressed because they are so closely associated with humdrum, uneventful experiences.
“Accepted only for what they are, Mr. Robbins’s book will help to brighten a dull half hour.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 105. F. 22, ’08. 300w.
Robbins, Mrs. Sarah (Stuart). Old Andover days: memories of a Puritan childhood. *$1. Pilgrim press.
8–30581.
Mrs. Robbins, past ninety years of age, reviews the Andover days of her youth with its distinguished men and gracious women. “It is 306not so much of minute events that she writes, as of the general spirit and atmosphere which pervaded the seminary and those who were attached to it either as professors or as students. It all seems to us of to-day a gloomy and forlorn sort of life, but it is obvious from Mrs. Robbins’s chronicle, that the young, at least, were able to find their pleasures in the midst of those somber and terribly serious surroundings.” (Lit. D.)
“It is a quaint picture—sternness and smiles, catechism and cakes. We only regret that her memory of the shorter catechism is faulty. Exactness was the merit in those days, and she quotes three answers, and two of them wrong.”
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Ind. 65: 1071. N. 5, ’08. 230w.
“Mrs. Robbins’s memory goes back with vividness to the life she knew on that New-England hilltop.”
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Lit. D. 37: 603. O. 24, ’08. 160w.
Roberts, Charles G. D. House in the water: a book of animal stories. $1.50. Page.
8–17808.
Eight animal stories. “Bear and moose and lynx and wolf range again through these pages; and those other favorite heroes and heroines of fiction whom Mr. Roberts is fond of calling ‘the wild kindreds.’” (Nation.) “The illustrations by Mr. Bull and the decorations by Mr. Vining Smith are not only in general harmony but in very subtle sympathy with the text.” (Outlook.)
“Mr. Roberts maintains in this new collection his high rank as an interpreter of the woods people.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 274. N. ’08. ✠
“His zest in wild nature is intense, and he succeeds in communicating it to the reader. Also he tells a story dramatically.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 642. N. 21. 400w.
“These variations upon the old theme strike one as a little perfunctory.”
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Nation. 87: 187. Ag. 27, ’08. 200w.
“From the nature standpoint the book should interest young and old alike. In addition, the volume is distinctly noteworthy as an example of style.”
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Outlook. 89: 957. Ag. 22, ’08. 120w.
Roberts, John, jr. Laboratory work in electrical engineering (preliminary grade): a series of laboratory experiments for first and second year students of electrical engineering. *$2. Van Nostrand.
The material treated here “divides itself naturally into two general sections, the first dealing with measurements of resistance, electromotive force, current, quantity and energy. The preliminary work leads up naturally to the calibration of instruments. The second part treats of measurements of an engineering nature such as tests of materials used in electrical machinery, of electrical lamps, and of small electrical machines.” (Engin. N.)
“The only criticism of this arrangement is that the student is not directly stimulated to draw deductions from his experiments. This lack can be easily supplied by the personal instruction of the teacher.” H: H. Norris.
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Engin. N. 58: 422. O. 17, ’07. 340w.
“The scope of this book is partly in the field of electrical (physical) measurement and partly in the field of electrical engineering; and for some places, as the laboratory for which it was written, it may be well suited. For other places it may be found not to cover sufficiently either field.”
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Phys. R. 26: 546. Je. ’08. 180w.
Roberts, Morley. Blue Peter. $1.50. Page.
Contains five sprightly sea yarns as follows: Extra hands on the “Nemesis”; The overcrowded iceburg; The remarkable conversion of Rev. Thomas Ruddle; The strange case of Captain Bragger; The captain of the “Ulswater.”
“Comes as an invigorating breath of salt air.” F: T. Cooper.
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Bookm. 28: 68. S. ’08. 500w.
“Contains several good sea yarns.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 435. Ag. 8, ’08. 70w.
Roberts, Morley. Captain Spink, and other sea comedies. †$1.50. Lippincott.
Mr. Roberts is “a sea-rover of literature, with a buccaneer’s swagger and a sailor’s roll; ‘full of strange oaths,’ and with a broad sense of humour. These are really farces of the sea, which he delivers to us over his pipe and glass. The author knows every foot of a ship and every turn of the ocean. Landlubbers will enjoy his stories perhaps even better than seafarers, who may find themselves too broadly painted.” (Ath.) “Six of them centre round a sea-captain, and six more diverting ‘old men’ it has seldom been our lot to meet.” (Sat. R.)
“Mr. Morley Roberts uses crude colours and chalks, and you must stand a little way back to get the best effects.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 254. F. 29. 150w.
“The first two of the seven stories catch and clog a little on their own humorousness.”
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Nation. 87: 290. S. 24, ’08. 250w.
“The plots are the slightest possible, but the book is reasonably entertaining on account of an odd whimsicality in the dialogue.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 412. Jl. 25, ’08. 100w.
“These comedies are seven in number, and the listening landsman will wish they had been more, so captivating is Mr. Roberts in his merry mood, so clever at infecting his reader with his mirth.”
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Sat. R. 105: 274. F. 29, ’08. 200w.
“People who like sketches of the sea, and of nothing but the sea, cannot do better than read this collection.”
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Spec. 100: 425. Mr. 14, ’08. 80w.
Roberts, Theodore. Captain Love. $1.50. Page.
8–15150.
Highway robbery, kidnappings, gambling, love and gallantry abound in this tale set in the reign of George I. A young nobleman on his way to London is robbed of his money, clothes, and memory; for when returning consciousness finds him at a farmhouse he fails to recall his name or family. Under the name of Captain Love he enters upon a round of exciting adventure. “The captain is a thoroughly expurgated d’Artagnan with a touch of Monsieur Beaucaire and a strong dash of Quixote.” (Nation.)
“If not a novelty it is at least done with considerable zest.”
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Ind. 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 60w.
“Although, in the main incidents, the story conforms heartily to its type, there is a certain novelty and attractiveness in the hero, something of the finer spirit of romance.”
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Nation. 86: 536. Je. 11, ’08. 360w.
“Mr. Roberts has perhaps overdone the business of being exciting. He does not give you time to enjoy properly a single one of the thrills in his eagerness to ring all the possible changes and produce a sensation for every paragraph.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 270w.
Robertson, James Alexander. Bibliography of the Philippine islands, printed and manuscript, preceded by a descriptive account of the most important archives and collections containing Philippina. *$10. Clark, A. H.
8–16566.
Issued as volume 53 of the extended series on “The Philippine islands, 1493–1898.” Mr. 307Robertson “has not undertaken to prepare a full comprehensive bibliography of the Philippines ... his purpose has been, as regards printed Philippina, to point out the sources for a complete study of Philippine bibliography, while also setting forth the main data regarding rare works in this field; and to list manuscripts in a way hitherto unattempted.” (Dial.)
“Painstaking editorial work is apparent all through it. The reviewer has handled it considerably without detecting an error of statement, and the very few mistakes in proper names thus far noted seem chargeable rather to original transcription than proof-reading.” J. A. LeRoy.
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Am. Hist. R. 14: 160. O. ’08. 650w.
“Indispensable for every library pretending to cover this field at all and for every special student therein.” J. A. LeRoy.
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Dial. 45: 116. S. 1. ’08. 1350w.
“Dr. Robertson has acquired an unequaled knowledge of the contents of the libraries of the world on the subject.”
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Ind. 65: 46. Jl. 2, ’08. 80w.
“Mr. Robertson’s work is quite indispensable for one who wishes to make ‘a thorough bibliographical survey of the Philippines’—the test of usefulness which the compiler had in view. It is not, however, a comprehensive bibliography, to be independently used as such.”
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Nation. 87: 142. Ag. 13, ’08. 800w.
“Is indispensable to libraries not possessing the series as a whole.” J. A. Le Roy.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 657. N. 7, ’08. 50w.
“Used as supplementary to Retana’s, the Library of Congress, and Pardo de Tarera’s lists of printed Philippina, it is indispensable to any good library and to the special student of the Philippines.”
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Outlook. 90: 549. N. 7, ’08. 40w.
Robins, Elizabeth (C. E. Raimond, pseud.). Come and find me. †$1.50. Century.
8–5885.
A story of California and the gold fields of Alaska. The author brings together a varied group of characters: a tired father hugging thru life the secret of a gold field’s location, a hard woman who ruled husband and household with a hand of iron, two girls worshipping secretly a stalwart youth, passion-mad for the north and discovery, and an enduring lover who braves slights and hardships for the girl he loves. In the wonderful light of the north facts are seen shorn of doubt and mystery, and lifetime misunderstandings are adjusted.
“A story of unusual dramatic power and interest, the characters drawn with delicacy and vigor. A truly absorbing piece of fiction.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 88. Mr. ’08. ✠
“The story is entirely out of the ordinary.”
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Arena. 39: 496. Ap. ’08. 500w.
“Cleverness is everywhere the mark of the book, but one is disposed to lament that so much of it is allowed to run to waste.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 412. Ap. 4. 280w.
“It might have easily been much stronger, if the author had only been a little more sure of her point of view. The material of Miss Robins’s latest book is admirable, but she has failed to give it to us in the proper proportions.” F: T. Cooper.
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Bookm. 27: 183. Ap. ’08. 500w.
“The whole story, rambling and incoherent beyond what is ordinarily permissible, is redeemed by the bits of reality.” W: M. Payne.
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Dial. 44: 245. Ap. 16, ’08. 500w.
“It is the thrilling interpretation of a man’s patriotism for the unknown that gives the story its peculiar significance.”
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Ind. 64: 867. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“It is very long-winded, not much happens, and the people are hardly deserving of prolonged study for their own sakes.”
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Nation. 86: 354. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“Miss Robins is not so well endowed with the story teller’s instinct as she is with the faculty for the dramatic portrayal of character.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 206. Ap. 11, ’08. 850w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 343. Je. 13. ’08. 300w.
“The fault of the story is in its undue length and in some ineffective details. But as a compelling representation of the fatal and glorious fascination of exploring it is a success.”
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Outlook. 88: 652. Mr. 21, ’08. 200w.
“Her story is much more fundamental than London’s tales of the north, for instance; much more thoroughgoing; and yet there is an evident lack of homogeneity, an unsatisfying absence of balance, too many untied ends that mar its completeness and leave it roughly unfinished.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 760. Je. ’08. 250w.
“Mrs. Mar is drawn with delightfully humorous appreciation, and the love affairs of the two girls is one of those fancies which would probably have never occurred to a man, and could not certainly have been treated by him with that airy yet exact discrimination which makes so light of its unlikelihood. There is much in the earlier part which could scarcely be better done. These things remain and will remain in one’s gratitude long after one’s regrets have vanished for the completer work they seemed to foretell.”
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Sat. R. 105: 273. F. 29, ’08. 750w.
“With all deductions on the score of structure, ‘Come and find me’ is a remarkable and suggestive study of the conflict of love, duty, and ambition.”
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Spec. 100: 543. Ap. 4, ’08. 750w.
Robins, Elizabeth (C. E. Raimond, pseud.). Under the Southern cross. **$1.50. Stokes.
7–36093.
A tale in which a Peruvian baron and a thoroly self-reliant American girl cross swords. “The special triumph which Miss Robins has achieved is to carry through a really serious love affair with a sustained touch of lightness during a lengthy voyage; to make us thoroughly fond of the man and of the girl; to make us hope, almost to the last, that in some way their temperamental and their acquired differences may be reconciled; and then, in the end, to leave us quite satisfied to find that the inevitable has happened.” (Bookm.)
“It is seldom that one comes across a new type of hero in the lighter sort of hammock fiction who is so sympathetic, so genuine, so altogether attractive as the Baron de Bach. An exceedingly clever story, written with a half-veiled touch of satire.” F: T. Cooper.
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Bookm. 27: 104. Mr. 08. 300w.
“A slight romance. The story is somewhat overdressed with decorative margins on every page and several colored plates and other pictures.”
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Ind. 64: 421. F. 20, ’08. 60w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
Robinson, Charles Mulford. Call of the city. **$1.25. Elder.
8–23563.
Essays which express to the reader the myriad reflective thoughts that surge thru his brain when he is under the spell of a great city’s “abundant vitality, splendid power, and organization of forces.”
“Verses, selected with the same discrimination and originality that mark the style of the essays, appear as headings for the prose.”
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Ind. 65: 1248. N. 26, ’08. 300w.
“These essays are trifling; they are not overweighted with thought, and they are frankly sentimental. It ought to be much sought by purchasers of gift books in the coming holiday season.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 540. O. 3, ’08. 750w.
R. of Rs. 38: 635. N. ’08. 100w.
308Robinson, Harry Perry. Twentieth century American: a comparative study of the peoples of the two great Anglo-Saxon nations. **$1.75. Putnam.
8–19181.
Observations, comparisons, and criticisms concerning political, social and industrial life as it exists in England and America. “Many of our people can draw information from his observations here. These take a wide range—the attitude toward women, humor and art, education and culture, politics and politicians, constitutional questions now in controversy, Mr. Roosevelt and the corporations, commercial morality, the growth of honesty, comparison of commercial methods here and in England.” (Outlook.)
“There is nothing at all superficial or cursory about his work. A classic accordingly the careful reader will be apt to acknowledge that Mr. Robinson has produced. There are some few slips, such as will occur when one trusts to his memory without verifying everything.” Montgomery Schuyler.
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Bookm. 28: 44. S. ’08. 1800w.
“The American reader ... only in rare cases will feel inclined to challenge the essential truth of his statements. He has been conspicuously successful in making plain two or three causes of misunderstanding between the two peoples that are usually ignored.”
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Ind. 65: 379. Ag. 13, ’08. 340w.
“The volume must be read to be appreciated, and it ought to be widely read and attentively pondered.”
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Nation. 87: 292. S. 24, ’08. 1150w.
“Conversational in tone and wholly without the dogmatic utterance from which it seems to be almost equally difficult for the preacher, the teacher, and the critical writer to get free.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 412. Jl. 25, ’08. 1150w.
“Since the appearance of Mr. Bryce’s ‘American commonwealth,’ some twenty years since, no Englishman till now has published observations on the American people of such value as these.”
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Outlook. 89: 770. Ag. 1, ’08. 400w.
“Is a book that may well turn out to have marked an epoch. Mr. Robinson knows more about this country than do most of its natives.” E. J. Putnam.
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Putnam’s. 5: 360. D. ’08. 2500w.
“An unusually well-informed and sympathetic piece of international observation.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 510. O. ’08. 100w.
“This is a readable book, with plenty of anecdotes and other good things, and written in an excellent spirit.”
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Spec. 101: sup. 813. N. 21, ’08. 200w.
Robinson, James Harvey, and Beard, Charles Austin. Development of modern Europe; an introduction to the study of current history. 2v. v. 1. *$1.50; v. 2, *$1.60. Ginn.
7–36724.
A work which uses past history only for the light that it throws upon the political, economic and social present. It begins with the age of Louis XIV. Volume one covers the eighteenth century including the French revolution and the Napoleonic period: volume two treats of Europe since the Congress of Vienna.
“Errors in the text are very few. It is as solid and informing as it is interesting and clever.” S. B. Fay.
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Am. Hist. R. 14: 188. O. ’08. 1300w.
“An admirable collection of selections from the best original sources filling a long known gap for teacher and student.”
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Dial. 44: 383. Je. 16, ’08. 170w.
“There is no better text-book for the nineteenth century than this.”
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Ind. 65: 99. Jl. 9, ’08. 270w.
Robinson, John Beverley. Architectural composition. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
8–9099.
The author aims to raise “the power to design from its comparatively obscure position as an art to the dignity of a science.” “Throughout the volume architecture is treated merely as a plastic art, apart from construction or the texture of materials—apart from the uses of the building, or the locality in which it is erected, or the interest attaching to it as the work of different peoples.” (Ath.) “Instead of attempting to impose upon the reader the dogmatic decrees of his personal taste, he endeavors to discover the fundamental reasons why certain lines and proportions are harmonious and pleasing and others the reverse.” (Ind.)
“There is much in the volume worth careful consideration.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 443. O. 10. 400w.
“The book would be especially valuable to building committees of laymen who are called upon to decide between plans submitted by architects.”
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Ind. 64: 1149. My. 21, ’08. 180w.
Robinson, Tracy. Panama: a personal record of forty-six years, 1861–1907. $1.50. Tracy Robinson, P. O. box 58, Colon, Panama.
7–41775.
Mr. Robinson’s personal record of forty-six years includes nothing that cannot be called Panama history during that period. The building of the first railroad and its bearing upon the development of the country, the establishment of the French Panama company, with De Lesseps as its moving spirit, and all of the political, religious, and domestic problems are treated in an informing manner.
“His book gives as good a general notion of the course of things at Panama up to the beginning of the present canal enterprise as can be found anywhere in like convenient shape.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 81. F. 15, ’08. 220w.
Robson, Philip W. Power gas producers: their design and application. *$3. Longmans.
“Devoted almost entirely to the design, construction, and operation of producers. It is divided into three sections, the first, which takes up very nearly two-thirds of the whole volume, treating of suction gas producers; the second, which is short, dealing with pressure plants for non-bituminous fuel, and the third, occupying about one-quarter of the volume, covering pressure producers for bituminous coal.”—Engin. N.
“Those who wish to know why gas producer plants are built as they are, and how they should be operated after they are built, will find this book a valuable addition to their libraries.” A. E. Forstall.
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Engin. N. 59: 647. Je. 11, ’08. 1000w.
“It sets the subject out in a clear and concise manner, and indicates the theory of the various actions, as well as the means by which the application is carried out. The description on p. 56 of the arrangements in the Crossley plant for varying the entering mixture is not very clear, and throughout the book but little is said of the generators by this firm, and it is limitations of this kind which are the chief fault that can be urged against an otherwise admirable book.”
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Nature. 78: 658. O. 29, ’08. 920w.
Roeder, Rev. Adolph. Practical citizenship. $1.50. Blanchard.
8–19014.
“A series of popular articles, published in the Newark Evening news, on the nature of the body politic as an organism, the forces that give it life, and the attainment of practical citizenship is here presented in book form.” 309(Ann. Am. Acad.) The volume is divided into three parts: 1, The machine, a description of the elements of government; 2, The force, an analysis of the forces behind results; 3, Practice, the citizen’s part in the work of running the machine properly.
“The scientific shortcomings of the first two divisions may be overlooked. The third is better. The series as a whole is inspiring in the cause of a larger manhood and may be read with profit.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 628. N. ’08. 70w.
“In the last chapter, ‘Ideals,’ Mr. Roeder strikes a lofty note, and makes a fitting end to an inspiring book.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 434. Ag. 8, ’08. 470w.
Rogers, Julia Ellen. Shell book. **$4. Doubleday.
8–12800.
A popular guide to the knowledge of the families of living mollusks, and an aid to the identification of shells native and foreign. (Subtitle.) “Three aspects of conchology enforce attention: the biological, the purely systematic, and the zo-geographic.... Of these three Miss Rogers has wisely selected the second as her dominant theme.” (Nation.) The illustrations are in colors and black-and-white from photographs by A. R. Dugmore.
“The present volume is, then, more valuable to the student than Baker’s book by reason of its arrangement and scope, and is at the same time not beyond the range of the interested general reader, while the latter offers some interesting general matter not to be found in the former.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 205. Je. ’08. ✠
“Supplies a real need. The style is graceful not without touches of pleasant fancy.”
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Nation. 87: 18. Jl. 2, ’08. 900w.
“Might be called a popular work if that term was not so misleading. It is a book scientifically arranged, carefully indexed, and beautifully illustrated. The pictures are fascinating.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 353. Je. 20, ’08. 540w.
Rose, George B. Renaissance masters: the art of Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, Correggio, Botticelli and Rubens. *$1.25. Putnam.
8–2389.
“The design of this book is to give in a brief compass an insight into the essential characteristics of each of the masters treated, so that the traveler may be able to enjoy them for what they are, without looking for merits in one which can be found only in another.”—N. Y. Times.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 171. Mr. 28, ’08. 150w.
“An excellent book.”
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Outlook. 88: 658. Mr. 21, ’08. 400w.
Rose, John Holland, and Broadley, A. M. Dumouriez and the defence of England against Napoleon. **$5. Lane.
A story based on “a French manuscript of 397 pages, in which Dumouriez, with his own hand, set forth the scheme he had worked out to insure the safety of his adopted country.” (N. Y. Times.) “In their last chapter the authors sum up as far as possible in his favour, but they are not able to deny that a Commander-in-Chief who deliberately offers to hand over to the enemy the fortresses which constitute his country’s main line of defence cannot properly be designated as anything else than traitor.” (Sat. R.)
N. Y. Times. 13: 576. O. 17, ’08. 220w.
“The authors have rendered a real service to history in producing this book and have displayed much industry in collecting material. They have succeeded in giving us what was lacking before in English—a clear and consecutive account of Dumouriez’ remarkable career.”
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Sat. R. 106: sup. 3. S. 26, ’08. 1400w.
Rosenkrantz, Palle, baron von. Magistrate’s own case. †$1.50. McClure.
8–2946.
In addition to the all essential story interest, this book is one that commands and holds the attention of the legal profession. It is an argument against too great reliance upon circumstantial evidence. A crime is committed, the wrong man accused, and although the accused man knows who the real murderer is he withholds information for personal reasons. For personal reasons too the prosecuting magistrate resigns his work on the case. From beginning to end technical issues are at variance with personal and emotional issues. The psychologist as well as the lawyer will be interested in the story.
“A detective story of excellent plot, holding one’s attention closely, and giving one a very good idea of German criminal procedure.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 157. My. ’08. ✠
“The author’s study of persons and motives is much better done than in the ordinary English story of murder; but his narrative has a heaviness here and there, especially at the beginning, which may repel the reader of what is, after all, an interesting book.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 155. F. 8. 160w.
“Its plot leaves nothing to be desired; it is a ‘capital puzzle,’ but its treatment by a trained mind lifts it above the average.”
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Ind. 64: 1037. My. 7, ’08. 100w.
“The effect of this [story] is to vindicate the contemporary writers who imitate Poe and Wilkie Collins.”
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Nation. 86: 333. Ap. 9, ’08. 200w.
“A really clever story.”
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Outlook. 88: 513. F. 29, ’08. 120w.
Sat. R. 105: 664. My. 23, ’08. 300w.
“A detective story, very cleverly contrived, with something more, and on a higher plane of interest.”
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Spec. 100: 192. F. 1, ’08. 20w.
Ross, Edward Alsworth. Sin and society; an analysis of latter-day iniquity; with a letter from President Roosevelt. **$1. Houghton.
7–36978.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
“For competent persons, who are seriously interested in discerning the signs of the times, this book will perform the service of a high-power magnifying glass. The weakest passage in the book is from the pen of the President of the United States.” A. W. Small.
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Am. J. Soc. 13: 566. Ja. ’08. 840w.
“Style is vigorous and fresh.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 48. F. ’08.
“One of those rare books that are really worth while. We could wish that he had laid more emphasis on publicity of great business affairs as a means of making public opinion effective; but one ought not to find fault with so good a book. It well deserves the wide influence invoked for it in the interesting prefatory letter of President Roosevelt.” H. R. Mussey.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 295. Ja. ’08. 250w.
“No one who seeks to guide public opinion, whether he be journalist, statesman, clergyman or teacher, can afford to miss getting its point of view—that of social solidarity as the basis of social morality.” C: A. Ellwood.
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Econ. Bull. 1: 61. Ap. ’08. 540w.
Reviewed by A. O. Lovejoy.
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Hibbert J. 6: 510. Ap. ’08. 1400w.
“The appeal to public opinion and the analysis of the defects in the present public opinion are perhaps the most profitable parts of the work.” L. W. Sprague.
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Int. J. Ethics. 19: 136. O. ’08. 400w.
“Professor Ross is master of the literary style which the importance of his subject demands for due effect on thought and conscience.”
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Outlook. 87: 874. D. 21, ’07. 170w.
310“His book would be more effective if it were written more simply, with less obvious straining for novelty of expression.”
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Pol. Sci. Q. 23: 555. S. ’08. 250w.
Ross, Edward Alsworth. Social psychology: an outline and source book. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–21601.
Professor Ross has been the pioneer in this branch of social science and offers the first treatise, in any language, professing to deal systematically with the subject of social psychology. He considers the nature and scope of social psychology, suggestibility, the mob mind, conventionality and imitation, custom imitation, conditions affecting the sway of custom, interference and conflict, union and accumulation, compromise, public opinion, and disequilibration.
“Without great depth or undue consistency, it is peculiarly suggestive and stimulating, and will interest a larger body of readers than the conventional literature of psychology attracts.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 265. N. ’08.
“This is a work we can heartily recommend to our readers.”
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Arena. 40: 467. N. ’08. 420w.
“Professor Ross’s manner is comparatively free from scientific affectation. The tone of the book is temperate, but the spirit that of a man very eager to read the signs of the times and full of the sense or illusion of progress.” C. M. Francis.
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Bookm. 27: 593. Ag. ’08. 2000w.
“In general the book seems admirably made for college uses. The discussion is at almost all times clear, and it has the spicy interest common to Professor Ross’s works. There are two general adverse criticisms of the book which it seems fair to make. In the first place, the title is misleading. The other general criticism relates to the tone of the book.” J: L. March.
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Educ. R. 36: 517. D. ’08. 960w.
“Tho it is intended as a college textbook, the adventurous reader who picks here and there some of this fruit from the tree of knowledge will be rewarded with more sweet mouthfuls than the grower promises. Rays of humor lighten the pages.”
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Ind. 65: 434. Ag. 20, ’08. 680w.
“One must dissent from it occasionally, but it is a wholesome, stimulating and serviceable work.”
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Outlook. 90: 41. S. 5, ’08. 300w.
“Throughout his book the psychologist feels the lack of any true psychological analysis. As the book does not attempt to take up the principles involved in special uniformities like language or religion, it becomes virtually a treatise on the various aspects of imitation.” M. F. Washburn.
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Philos. R. 17: 666. N. ’08. 400w.
“As it stands, it is still one of the best studies of custom and convention in any language.” C: A. Ellwood.
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Psychol. Bull. 5: 381. D. 15, ’08. 1900w.
“Professor Ross is one of the few specialists in the subject who are able to popularize their discoveries and to make the subject interesting to the lay mind.”
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“On the whole we have in this work an able marshaling of the knowledge thus far brought to light on the subject of social psychology, and a clear, untechnical, while at the same time often eloquent, discussion of the laws, principles and leading truths of that rather subtle and recondite branch of sociology.” L. F. Ward.
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Science, n.s. 28: 54. Jl. 10, ’08. 1400w.
* Rossetti, Christina Georgina. Family letters of Christina Rossetti; ed. by William M. Rossetti. *$3.50. Scribner.
Family letters which are offered for the value they possess in showing forth the writer’s “genuine self, her personality and tone of mind and feeling.”
“Seldom has been given a more beautiful glimpse of home life than Mr. Rossetti has afforded us in this volume.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 601. N. 14. 1450w.
“The letters are especially rewarding as documents of life.” E. L. Cary.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 735. D. 5, ’08. 1000w.
“Full and formal publication was not necessary, since neither in bulk nor in quality are the letters telling.”
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Sat. R. 106: sup. 5. N. 21, ’08. 900w.
Rossi, L. Melano. Santuario of the Madonna di Vico: Pantheon of Charles Emanuel I. of Savoy. il. *$6.50. Macmillan.
8–13292.
“The author has written a history of architecture, of painting, and of sculpture, and has frankly told us the names of the books from which he has compiled it. He has shown that the dome of Vicoforte is superior to the dome of St. Paul’s, London, which latter is no dome at all, and he has furnished us with a scientific account of what a dome ought to be.”—Lit. D.
“All who are interested in architecture and the decorative arts, or in the political and religious history of Italy, owe to Signor Rossi a deep debt of gratitude for the unwearying patience with which he has collected information on his important subject, the number and beauty of the illustrations supplementing his text, and the clearness with which he has told the whole story of the evolution of the building.”
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Int. Studio. 33: 168. D. ’07. 450w.
“It is pleasant and instructive reading, but has nothing directly to do with the Madonna of Vicoforte.”
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Lit. D. 36: 492. Ap. 4, ’08. 400w.
“The book shows wide, but undigested, reading of authorities, down to the most recent; it is overlain with references and footnotes to the point of suffocation; but the unwary reader had best shun the ‘historical’ chapters; they are full of pitfalls. It is a pity that so much labour, research, and effective illustration should be marred by writing so grotesque.”
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Lond. Times. 6: 338. N. 8, ’07. 1000w.
“Includes in its moderate compass a great array of information.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 354. Je. 20, ’08. 900w.
Rothschild, Alonzo. Lincoln, master of men: a study in character. Anniversary ed. **$1.50. Houghton.
A study which follows Lincoln’s search after power over the rough way of apprenticeship to hardship, toil and discipline. Here is portrayed the indispensable man, the master man, shaped and molded by the potentialities of invincible energy, courage, honesty and patriotism.
N. Y. Times. 13: 701. N. 28, ’08. 120w.
* Roulet, Mary F. Nixon-. Our little Australian cousin. (Little cousin ser.) 60c. Page.
8–29330.
An informing child’s study of Australia touching upon the points of history, geography, life in the bush, characteristics of natives and present day civilization.
* Roulet, Mary F. Nixon-. Our little Grecian cousin. (Little cousin ser.) 60c. Page.
8–23099.
A story which introduces young readers to Greece old and new and to the every-day life of the little Grecian cousin.
Rowe, Leo S. Problems of city government. **$1.50. Appleton.
8–29625.
An analysis of the general principles involved in city growth, with an inquiry into the nature 311of the changes in social structure which are traceable to the rapidly increasing population in cities. In the course of the study reasons are made clear for the present-day doubt concerning most effective municipal legislation, and lines of progressive evolution are suggested.
“The very full and scientific treatment of the problem of public utilities should recommend the work to all thoughtful citizens.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 296. D. ’08.
“Professor Rowe’s work possesses usefulness—particularly in his account of the spread of the commission plan and in the comparative view of American and European experience in the management of public utilities.”
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Nation. 87: 496. N. 19. ’08. 2000w.
“A very original and suggestive discussion of municipal questions by an eminent authority.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 628. O. 24, ’08. 13w.
“His book is much more than a mere summary of foreign experience.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 635. N. ’08. 200w.
Rowland, Dunbar. Encyclopedia of Mississippi history; comprising sketches of counties, towns, events, institutions, and persons. 2d ed. 2v. $12. Dunbar Rowland, Jackson, Miss.
“A large two-volume work of more than two thousand pages containing historical sketches of the important events and episodes in the life of the commonwealth, of all the counties, cities and towns of the state including towns and villages now extinct, biographical sketches of men ‘who have left their impress on the history of the state’ and sketches of various institutions.... The design of the work ... is to present in compact form, arranged in alphabetical order, a complete history of Mississippi from 1540 to 1906, the plan being to combine the best features of history for continuous reading with the cyclopedic style for ready reference.” (Am. Hist. R.)
“The encyclopedia has the inherent faults of a work prepared according to the topical plan. The work shows evidence of great industry and of intimate knowledge of the state’s history. There are many very good sketches and compilations which have more than a local interest.” J. W. Garner.
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 661. Ap. ’08. 520w.
“Dr. Rowland and his helpers seem to have carried out the plan fairly well. The scale is too generous. There are some failures to meet successfully a difficulty inseparable from the form. The work would also be better for an index.”
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Nation. 87: 56. Jl. 16, ’08. 480w.
Rowland, Henry Cottrell. Across Europe in a motor boat. **$2. Appleton.
8–27781.
This is a record of the adventures of the motor boat Beaver on a voyage over “a long wet trail” across Europe by way of the Seine, the Rhine, the Danube and the Black sea. In spite of the fact that the jaunt required a deal of preparation and experimenting, and that it ended in a wreck does not lessen the satisfaction of the achievement.