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T., L. G. Three years behind the guns: the true chronicles of a “diddybox.” †$1.50. Century.
8–25121.
The chronicle of a San Francisco youth who ran away from home, enlisted in the navy in time to cross the Pacific on the Olympia and take part in the battle of Manila bay on the flagship with Dewey. Keen observation and quick wit characterize the intimate record of happenings on an American battleship, and the descriptions of people, climate and scenery.
Reviewed by K. L. M.
Bookm. 28: 385. D. ’08. 60w.
Reviewed by M. J. Moses.
Ind. 65: 1478. D. 17, ’08. 50w.
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Nation. 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 40w.
“The book affords an entertaining and occasionally edifying, confidential account of all that one particular man-o’-war’s man thought and felt and did during three years’ service.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 200w.
Taft, William Howard. Present day problems: a collection of addresses delivered on various occasions. **$1.50. Dodd.
8–19618.
Two of these addresses deal with the Philippines, two with the relations of China and Japan to the United States, two with the present 350administration, two with the judiciary, and others with General Grant, the army, the panic of 1907, labor and capital, the achievements of the Republican party, and southern democracy and Republican principles.
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 242. O. ’08.
Ind. 65: 269. Jl. 30, ’08. 110w.
“Matters of public policy and public interest are discussed in Mr. Taft’s informed and persuasive style, and whether one is for or ‘agin’ the administration and its policies, the collection provides valuable and instructive reading.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 448. Ag. 15, ’08. 1000w.
“Characterized by the traits which have made Mr. Taft the power that he is in America to-day—a warm and intelligent sympathy with his fellow-men; ... a judicial spirit; ... a higher regard for substance than form; ... a delight in achievement; and an almost ingenuous trust in the intelligence and good sense of the people, whether they be those whose government he is helping to administer or those whose attention, as an audience, he is undertaking to engage.”
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Outlook. 89: 776. Ag. 1, ’08. 500w.
Takahashi, Sakuyei. International law applied to the Russo-Japanese war, with the decisions of the Japanese prize courts. (American ed.) *$8. Banks.
8–17983.
“The most recent addition to the extensive literature on the international questions and legal relations raised by the Russo-Japanese war.” (Nation.) “The book is not a defense of Japan in any sense, although Japan’s conduct was bitterly criticised by her adversary. Instead of an apologia the book is a legal history of the memorable conflict, which has supplied a new set of precedents. Its usefulness is enhanced by its liberal citation of the original correspondence upon many disputed points.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Careless statements, English far from idiomatic and bearing unmistakable marks of its foreign authorship, misprints in quotations from foreign languages, and a general tone of extolling Japanese observances in contrast to Russian breaches of international law mar the value of the book.”
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Nation. 87: 159. Ag. 20, ’08. 200w.
“It is hard to recall any war of which the legal phases have been treated with similar fulness, and in a similar manner; that is, with equal citation of original documents. It is this which gives the book its value, apart from its logical and convenient arrangement.” E: A. Bradford.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 401. Jl. 18, ’08. 1500w.
Tappan, Eva March. Chaucer story book. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–28994.
Twelve stories in the “Canterbury tales” retold in the prose of to-day. The stories chosen are those that require fewest omissions in adapting them to modern taste.
“We cannot say that she has successfully retained the ancient flavor, and unless that is done, the task were hardly worth while doing at all.” M. J. Moses.
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“The transcription is fairly and faithfully done.”
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Nation. 87: 523. N. 26, ’08. 100w.
“Told in a readable fashion.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 580. O. 17, ’08. 160w.
Tappan, Eva March. ed. Children’s hour, 10v. $17.50. Houghton.
7–31214–23.
A ten volume anthology of the best children’s literature in story, poem and narrative.
“It cannot be recommended for the library with limited funds. It will make, however, a valuable addition to any library that can afford it.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 93. Mr. ’08.
Reviewed by M. J. Moses.
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Ind. 63: 1476. D. 19, ’07. 280w.
“Have much of interest in them. For the village library and for the home there is offered a rich choice and variety for ‘the children’s hour.’”
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Ind. 64: 625. Mr. 5, ’08. 600w.
“The selections suit all ages of children, and the work as a whole forms an almost ideal story-book-present for the holidays.”
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Outlook. 87: 544. N. 9, ’07. 290w.
Tappan, Eva March. Letters from colonial children. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–23916.
This collection of chatty letters, with the intimate personal note, introduces grown-ups and children of our early colonial days—the days of privation and valorous deeds, the days of John Smith and Pocahontas, of Roger Williams, William Penn and Peter Stuyvesant.
“These letters reflect admirably the child’s point of view on conditions and life in colonial times, and are both good history and delightful literature.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 312. D. ’08.
Reviewed by K. L. M.
Bookm. 28: 386. D. ’08. 60w.
“She has kept the letters historical on the one hand, yet has not deprived them of their youthful tone on the other.”
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Nation. 87: 523. N. 26, ’08. 50w.
“The letters form an interesting story.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 542. O. 3, ’08. 30w.
Tardieu, André. France and the alliances: the struggle for the balance of power. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–31144.
In substance eight lectures given under the auspices of the French circle at Harvard. Mr. Tardieu’s aim is to show Americans the France of to-day, in presence of Europe and the world, such as she has been shaped, after painful experiences, by thirty-eight years of sustained effort and diplomatic action. His chapters are as follows: France and the Russian alliance; France and the English “entente”; France and the Mediterranean understandings; France and the Triple alliance; Conflict of the alliances; The new Asiatic and European understandings; and France and the United States.
R. of Rs. 38: 761. D. ’08. 200w.
Tarkington, Booth. Guest of Quesnay. †$1.50. McClure.
8–27810.
Thru an automobile accident in the streets of Paris a young American loses the memory of his life that had gone before—a life which was rapidly winning him one of the most unsavory reputations on the continent. He becomes the charge of a scientific celebrity who undertakes a unique psychological experiment of restoration. The professor’s ends are all but defeated by the pursuit and vulture like claims of a Spanish dancer to whom his ward had formerly been prey. By rare strategy the dancer and her spies are baffled, and the “real man” comes to his own and to the love of a strong and charming woman—the guest of Quesnay.
“Not wholly convincing, but has much of the charm of Tarkington’s earlier stories and some delightful minor characters.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 305. D. ’08. ✠
“But if Mr. Tarkington never gets beneath the surface of his subject, he at least displays all the merits of the method he seems deliberately to have chosen. It is a charming surface that he presents.” E: C. Marsh.
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Bookm. 28: 278. N. ’08. 940w.
351“We discover in his new novel—metaphysics, subjected to the alchemy of a genius’s imagination, freshened with the immortality of hope, sweetened with the phenomena of love.”
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Ind. 65: 1061. N. 5, ’08. 760w.
“A bright and interesting story for all the metaphysics we found in it.” W: G. Bowdoin.
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Ind. 65: 1464. D. 17, ’08. 50w.
“Mr. Tarkington has made a hit.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 740. D. 5, ’08. 540w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
“Is not quite convincing in its theme. But the book has movement and some fun in it.”
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Outlook. 90: 362. O. 17, ’08. 80w.
“If Mr. Booth Tarkington had only kept his story out of ‘The guest of Quesnay,’ he might have given us a delightful book.” Agnes Repplier.
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Outlook. 90: 700. N. 28, ’08. 200w.
* Tarkington, Booth, and Wilson, Harry Leon. Man from home. †$1.25. Harper.
8–32634.
The play in which William Hodge has scored such a genial success. It turns upon an international marriage, in the preliminary settlement for which the Kokomo, Indiana guardian of the American girl marrying a title, crosses the ocean and takes a hand in revealing to the hoodwinked girl the precise character of a group of sharks bent upon benefiting by the settlement. A good plot, shrewd interpretation of human nature, and irresistible humor give merit to the play.
* Taylor, David Clark. Psychology of singing: a rational method of voice culture based on a scientific analysis of all systems, ancient and modern. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–34628.
After examining the numerous scientific treatises on voice culture and testing their practical value, Mr. Taylor’s conclusion of the whole matter is that mechanical vocal management is all wrong and that instruction by imitation is the one scientifically sound method for teachers to follow. The divisions of his discussion are as follows: Modern methods of instruction in singing; A critical analysis of modern methods; Basis of a real science of voice; and Vocal science and practical voice culture.
Taylor, Hannis. Science of jurisprudence. **$3.50. Macmillan.
8–28859.
“A treatise in which the growth of positive law is unfolded by the historical method and its elements classified and defined by the analytical.” “It is a systematic, comparative study of Roman and English law, revealing the fact that the ultimate outcome of the one is a dominating code of private law, the ultimate outcome of the other, a dominating code of public law.” Out of the fusion, the author shows, is arising the typical state law system of the future.
“He does, indeed, make a useful contribution to the comparative study of law. Dr. Taylor’s work in this respect is qualified to stand beside the best, and the good faith of his title is redeemed. But it is hard to resist the suspicion that his prime motive was to assert his belief that an American had influenced the development of the public law of the world fundamentally, in a manner, indeed, worthy to place the United States beside Greece or England as a molder of destinies of mankind.” E: A. Bradford.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 649. N. 7, ’08. 1400w.
“Scholarly work.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 640. N. ’08. 90w.
Taylor, Ida Ashworth. Lady Jane Grey and her times. *$4. Appleton.
8–34205.
Sound historically this biography outlines the brief life of Lady Jane Grey, the “little saint of the iconoclasts,” against the background of sordid ambitions, religious quarrels and political intrigue. There are also sketches of Mary and Elizabeth, of Edward, Katharine Parr, Dudley and Somerset, and the parts they played in the brief drama of Lady Jane’s latter days.
“She has gone carefully over the ground for herself, made a judicious use of authorities new and old, and embodied the results in a clear and readable narrative. The book may be recommended as a sound piece of work, likely to be of use to those who are mainly interested in the personal history of the period.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 409. Ap. 4. 1600w.
“‘The times’ bear, necessarily, a disproportionate relation to the heroine. It is the fault of all these popular biographies to avoid anything that is not superficially interesting.”
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Nation. 87: 411. O. 29, ’08. 280w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 595. O. 24, ’08. 200w.
“We have enjoyed the book, and would only venture to recommend to the author a little more fearless certainty of touch and confidence in her own intuitions. The spirit and the colour of the time break out too seldom. When they are allowed to have their way, the effect is convincing.”
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Spec. 100: 623. Ap. 18, ’08. 540w.
Taylor, John Metcalf. Witchcraft delusion in colonial Connecticut. (Grafton historical ser.) **$1.50. Grafton press.
8–17703.
The author shows from sources long hidden that Connecticut in no way repudiated witchcraft practices but took an active part in the persecution of its alleged demon-governed victims. In what manner the delusion took root in the minds of the colonists, its growth and final passing are set forth with due attention to an authentic colonial setting.
“His book shows marks of haste, especially in the somewhat chaotic and inaccurate opening chapters, and one may be permitted to suspect some errors in his transcripts and even a possible incompleteness in his roll of witches, but, such as it is, the little volume is most welcome.” G: L. Burr.
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Am. Hist. R. 14: 179. O. ’08. 320w.
“Mr. Taylor has done a service to psychology as well as to history in searching out and publishing the original documents in the most important of the Connecticut witchcraft cases.”
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Ind. 65: 208. Jl. 23, ’08. 700w.
“Despite his apology for the first four chapters they show that the history of witchcraft is beyond the scope of his powers and the bibliographical note at the end displays little familiarity with the literature of his subject.”
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Nation. 87: 188. Ag. 27, ’08. 500w.
“In an authoritative and concise manner, yet with all the charm of a narrative, the author sets forth ... the story of the rise, spread, and passage of the delusion.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 344. Je. 13, ’08. 230w.
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R. of Rs. 38: 512. O. ’08. 80w.
Taylor, Mary Imlay. Reaping. il. †$1.50. Little.
8–1781.
A cross section of Washington’s social and political life. No special lens is turned upon the slide; one sees with the naked eye a woman’s misery resulting from an unhappy marriage and the devotion of a young congressman, formerly her lover, who sacrifices political advancement and the girl he loves to aid the sufferer to obtain her lost happiness.
“It is not a pleasant story ... and it is not particularly convincing in its treatment of social problems; but it is undeniably readable, and the dialogue is excellent.”
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Cath. World. 87: 407. Je. ’08. 150w.
352“The general atmosphere of the social life of the capital is interestingly and almost brilliantly reproduced.” W: M. Payne.
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Dial. 44: 246. Ap. 16, ’08. 250w.
“Where credit for freshness is due is in the characterization.”
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Nation. 87: 36. Jl. 9, ’08. 300w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 247. Ap. 25, ’08. 200w.
R. of Rs. 37: 762. Je. ’08. 170w.
Temple, Alfred George. Modern Spanish painting. *$20. Lippincott.
8–13286.
“Pictures by modern Spanish painters being in great demand, it may be concluded that Mr. Temple’s volume supplies a want. He offers a copious list of the chief members of the school, the titles of their principal works, and in some instances the owners of those works—information which is not obtainable in any other work on the subject, and which must have cost a good deal of trouble and research.” (Ath.) There are 60 photogravure reproductions of the recent Spanish paintings of note.
“We might allow for a certain degree of complaisance in an author indebted for some of his store of information to the courtesy of artists and owners, but either gratitude distorts beyond measure the expression of his true opinion, or he takes a too lenient view of what are only masterpieces of shallow frippery.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 548. O. 31. 570w.
“Mr. Temple’s book supplies the entertaining record that we needed for English readers.”
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Int. Studio. 36: sup. 57. D. ’08. 260w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 671. N. 14, ’08. 80w.
“A very beautiful book and one of unique value to all who are interested in contemporary European art.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 782. D. 19, ’08. 300w.
Tennant, Pamela. Children and the pictures. $1.50. Macmillan.
8–13746.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
“Lady Tennant has exploded the frowning fortress of art criticism, and shown us the real way to see pictures—to become as little children.”
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Acad. 73: 213. D. 7, ’07. 700w.
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Int. Studio. 33: 253. Ja. ’08. 50w.
“One of the happiest books for children that we have seen.”
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Lond. Times. 6: 334. N. 1, ’07. 300w.
“A very pretty and readable book.”
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Spec. 99: sup. 903. D. 7, ’07. 90w.
Tenney, Alvan Alonzo. Social democracy and population. (Columbia univ. studies in history, economics and public law.) *75c. Macmillan.
7–36152.
“An attempt to answer the question whether it is possible for modern society to realize the democratic ideal—that every man shall have a chance and know that he has it. The author assumes that this ideal, which he terms ‘social democracy,’ can exist only where the plane of living is relatively high; and he investigates, from the ‘sociological’ standpoint, the effect of the growth of population upon the ‘plane of living.’”—Nation.
“The sample given indicates the originality, foresightedness, and statesmanlike breadth of an essay that no scholar or public man can afford to overlook.” E: A. Ross.
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Am. J. Soc. 13: 571. Ja. ’08. 870w.
Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 511. Mr. ’08. 120w.
“An able summary of the biological principles of population in their relation to modern democratic civilization.” C: A. Ellwood.
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Econ. Bull. 1: 154. Je. ’08. 330w.
“With its combination of things obvious and things past finding out the monograph well illustrates certain tendencies in sociological writings of the day.”
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Nation. 86: 80. Ja. 23, ’08. 200w.
Terhune, Albert Payson. World’s great events. **$1.20. Dodd.
8–24298.
From “Marathon, the first struggle between democracy and despotism,” “the half hundred chapters come on down through the ages, choosing here a decisive event, there a political movement, or again the life of a great man, but always aiming to present the crucial time or happening, and end with “Chinese” Gordon and Egypt.’ Each narrative is very brief, rarely exceeding five or six pages.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Each narrative ... is written in crisp, concise style, with the aim of giving the reader the gist of events and presenting to him an attractive birds-eye view of the progress of the world.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 538. O. 3, ’08. 170w.
“They give the essential facts of each event in their proper historical setting, and they do this in a way calculated to interest the casual reader. The book makes excellent supplementary reading for high-school classes in history.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 636. N. ’08. 100w.
* Terry, Ellen Alice. Story of my life: recollections and reflections. **$3.50. McClure.
A frank autobiography, entirely tuned to the personal note, which in its history, stage gossip, and stage criticism merges into the life of the stage in England for the past fifty years. Actors, artists and men of letters cross and recross the stage of her book, where all are seen in the light of her emotional fervor. The illustrations cover the entire period of her stage life and show the actress in her great variety of characterizations.
“Candid often to the point of indiscretion, they have the piquancy of good conversation—of a woman’s conversation, apt in its very inconsequence, intimate in its reserves, strangely shrewd even in its too expansive moments.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 411. O. 3. 1700w.
“The pages of her book are rich not only in anecdotes of the stage, but they deal to a large extent as well with the personages who have taken a leading part in the last half-century of England’s art, literature, and politics.”
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Lit. D. 37: 909. D. 12, ’08. 200w.
“This is an agreeable but disappointing volume: agreeable because characteristic in its butterfly style of one of the brightest personalities known to the modern stage; and disappointing because, abounding as it does in evidences of quick and shrewd observation, it is so comparatively poor in those revelations of close personal intimacies in which the memory of Miss Terry must be so rich. The whole book would be the better for judicious editing.”
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Nation. 87: 584. D. 10, ’08. 1100w.
“It makes an interesting book, and in some way a remarkable one, for a large part of it is truly autobiographical, ingenuously self-revelatory. The book is so well written that it holds the reader’s attention for 400 pages.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 753. D. 5, ’08. 2300w.
“Her writing is for the most part frankly the writing of an amateur. But when an amateur happens, like Miss Terry, to be a born writer, the result is always charming, and one may well be thankful for the lack of professionalism.” Max Beerbohm.
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Sat. R. 106: 449. O. 10, ’08. 1400w.
“Here we have some criticism of actors by an actress, and a great actress. That alone will give this book a permanent worth which belongs to very few works of its kind. The criticisms of Irving are, to our mind, the most interesting and instructive part.”
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Spec. 101: 447. S. 26, ’08. 1900w.
353Terry, Hubert L. India-rubber and its manufacture; with chapters on guttapercha and balata. (Westminster ser.) *$2. Van Nostrand.
8–26204.
Not a working guide or hand-book for the india-rubber manufacturer but rather a book of information for the general reader. It gives the history of the rubber industry, treats of the production of raw rubber, and rubber plantations, outlines the steps taken in preparing it for commercial purposes, treats of the manufacture of various mechanical goods, and discusses the subject of contracts for india-rubber goods.
“Accurate yet popular. Not too technical for general use.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 151. My. ’08.
“Mr. Terry writes on these subjects with the authority of personal knowledge, though perhaps without the lightness of touch desirable in a work of this character.” C. Simmons.
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Nature. 77: 296. Ja. 30, ’08. 1000w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 584. O. 17, ’08. 270w.
“Though dealing with a distinctly technical field, the author has succeeded in making a very readable book, and this is due not a little to his pleasing style, occasional prolixity to the contrary notwithstanding. One experiences a slight feeling of disappointment in reading the first two chapters, those dealing with the history of the matter and with the botanical origin of crude rubber. It would have been justifiable to have dealt with these topics with greater liberality.” F. E. Loyd.
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Science, n.s. 28: 890. D. 18, ’08. 730w.
Terry, Milton Spenser. Biblical dogmatics: an exposition of the principal doctrines of the Holy Scriptures. *$3.50. Meth. bk.
7–16991.
“An attempt, as the author says, to present ‘the old abiding truths’ in a manner somewhat new. In fact, he is careful not to exploit any ‘strange doctrines.’ His method of exposition is based on the persuasion that the Bible is ‘a remarkably self-interpreting book,’ when its different portions are studied in their proper historical connections and in the light of contemporary literature and circumstances, so that a single system of theology may be constructed out of it. The difference in view-point of the biblical writers is not overlooked, but they are regarded as mutually complementary, never as opposed.”—Am. J. Theol.
“The whole work exhibits an intimate acquaintance with the language of the Scriptures and a reverent submission to their teachings, without any of the bitterness toward opponent, which, unfortunately, so often appears in works similarly conceived. On the contrary, there is a frank acknowledgment of the value of critical studies. None the less it seems to the reviewer that the harmonistic purpose interferes at times with freedom of interpretation and a full recognition of differences in the writers, while at times they appear to be made to say more or less than they really do.” G: Cross.
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Am. J. Theol. 12: 160. Ja. ’08. 470w.
“Its tone and spirit are admirable—non-controversial, open-minded, alive with warm religious feeling. Dogmatizing is avoided, and some deep questions are left open with candid and cautious reserve.”
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Outlook. 86: 837. Ag. 17, ’07. 280w.
Thayer, James Bradley. Legal essays. *$3.50. Boston bk.
A collection of papers on a variety of subjects connected with legal theory and practice. “There are a few of a distinctly general interest, notably an essay on the origin and scope of the American doctrine of constitutional law, a second on legal tender, a third on Sir Frederick Pollock’s suggestion that the English House of Lords and Privy council and the United States supreme court might reciprocally consult for the settlement of difficult questions of common concern, a fourth on the legal stateus of the Indian, and a fifth on ‘Our new possessions.’” (Outlook.)
“Like all posthumous collections, these essays lack the freshness given by the final touch of the author’s hand. The best of the contributions of the book are the critical chapters on authorities and decisions.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 723. My. ’08. 100w.
“While [the layman] cannot judge the learning of the author, he may at least admire his lucidity, and will come to the conclusion that Prof. Thayer is entitled to rank with such philosophical and literary expositors of the principles of the law as Sir Frederick Pollock, Prof. Maitland, and Prof. Dicey, a class of which the American representatives are rather surprisingly few.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 102. F. 22, ’08. 250w.
“All of the essays, and particularly those dealing with constitutional topics, bear abundant testimony to the enthusiasm, insight and thoroughness with which Professor Thayer attacked the many problems that came before him as a student and exponent of law.”
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Outlook. 88: 378. F. 15, ’08. 350w.
Thayer, William Roscoe. Italica: studies in Italian life and letters. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–13685.
With the freshness, vividness and bias which the land inspires, these papers catch and hold passing aspects of Italian life and thought. The following essays are included: Fogazzaro and his masterpiece, Venetian legends and pageants, Mazzini’s centenary, Dante in America, Giordano Bruno’s “Expulsion of the beast triumphant,” Countess Martinengo Cesaresco, Leopardi’s home, Election of a pope, Thirty years of Italian progress, Luigi Chiala, Dante as lyric poet, Cardinal Hohenlohe—liberal, Italy in 1907, and Giosuè Carducci.
“Recommended because of the comparative scarcity of material in book form on recent Italian literature and history. In the literary essays there are some surprising lapses.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 266. N. ’08.
“Altogether this is not a very serious contribution to the growing number of books on Italian subjects.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 437. O. 10. 250w.
“The reflections and verdicts recorded in the volume are such as we should expect from a student and critic of Mr. Thayer’s standing.”
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Dial. 45: 43. Jl. 16, ’08. 420w.
“Mr. Thayer has earned a right to claim our attention on matters literary and historical relating to modern Italy.”
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Ind. 65: 434. Ag. 20, ’08. 450w.
“He writes with a zest often verging on passion, and at times, perhaps, allows his feelings to permeate his facts, tingeing them with strong colors of his own. Being interested himself, he interests the reader, but his method will not gratify those historians who demand documentary evidence at every step.”
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Nation. 87: 143. Ag. 13, ’08. 540w.
“Mr. Thayer has a pleasing style, his knowledge is broad, his scholarship unquestioned, and his critical acumen satisfying to foreigners.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 315. Je. 6, ’08. 250w.
“No chapter of ‘Italica’ is uninteresting or unsuggestive, but the most impressive seem those in which the critic makes all Dante students his debtors.”
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Outlook. 90: 271. O. 3, ’08. 1050w.
“Quite apart, however, from these fulminations of a fervent believer in the Italy of progress and taxation to the starving-point, there is much of great interest in the book.” A. I. du P. Coleman.
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Putnam’s. 4: 747. S. ’08. 560w.
Spec. 101: sup. 812. N. 21, ’08. 230w.
354Thibaudeau, Antoine Claire. Bonaparte and the consulate; tr. and ed. by G. K. Fortescue. *$3.25. Macmillan.
8–23294.
“The present memoir covers the four years of the Consulate from 1799 to 1804, when Napoleon became emperor. Their special character consists in their reporting the conversations and discourses of Napoleon on important questions in the Council of state or in private conversation and of conversations with Josephine on political events. They are not speeches but talk as in a committee round a table.”—Sat. R.
“This volume will give the general reader a good insight into the administrative genius of Bonaparte, but the student will consult the original edition.” G: M. Dutcher.
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Am. Hist. R. 14: 173. O. ’08. 320w.
“Dr. Fortescue’s introduction here and there invites criticism. Perhaps it is a desire for brevity which is accountable for exaggerations at some points and omissions at others.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 364. S. 26. 430w.
“The [memoirs] certainly rank with the memoirs of Miot or Mollien. and the ‘Recollections’ of Chaptal. The volume has an unnecessary number of misprints or slight errors.” H: E: Bourne.
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Dial. 45: 86. Ag. 16, ’08. 1000w.
“It is a pity that the printing of [the notes] was not seen to with more care, as there are some annoying but not serious slips. The book is to be warmly welcomed.” L. G. W. L.
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Eng. Hist. R. 23: 832. O. ’08. 150w.
“Dr. Fortescue has done his work with the utmost care. All has been done that could be done to make the book useful.”
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Nation. 87: 54. Jl. 16, ’08. 560w.
“No one could have provided a more authoritative edition of the valuable Thibaudeau memoirs. The translation is splendidly done, and the introduction and notes provide admirable matter to supplement the text as it appears in the original work.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 485. S. 5, ’08. 750w.
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Spec. 101: sup. 472. O. 3, ’08. 1350w.
Thomalen, Adolf. Text-book of electrical engineering; translated from the German by George W. O. Howe. *$4.20. Longmans.
8–15869.
Covers “the whole range of electromagnetic phenomena usually taught to students of electrical engineering in high-grade colleges. Starting with the elementary principles of electrophysics and electrochemistry, and stating Ohm’s law in its simplest terms, the author leads the student into the involved electromagnetic relations in dynamos by way of the most easily traveled routes.” (Elec. World.)
“[An] excellent treatise ... that will be welcomed alike by the student and the instructor in electrical engineering.”
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Elec. World. 51: 310. F. 8, ’08. 380w.
Reviewed by H: H. Norris.
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Engin. N. 59: 299. Mr. 12, ’08. 950w.
“The treatment of the polyphase induction motor is unnecessarily complicated, but that of the single-phase motor is better. It is not a ‘popular’ book, but a substantial, scholarly work.”
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Engin. Rec. 57: 307. Mr. 14, ’08. 150w.
“The translator has done his work with marked success; it is sufficient to say that the book does not read like a translation from the German, and all who have done such work will agree that this is high praise.”
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Nature. 77: 124. D. 12, ’07. 670w.
Thomas, Augustus. Witching hour. †$1.50. Harper.
8–30012.
Mr. Thomas has novelized his own play, so insuring no loss of the drama’s compelling interest that was due to telepathy, mental suggestion and hypnotism.
“A story of considerable interest.”
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Ind. 65: 1126. N. 12, ’08. 90w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 618. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“A lively and interesting narrative of romantic events brought about under remarkable conditions, and whether you are disposed to grant the facts or not, it can hardly be denied that the conclusions are entirely in accordance with the promises the author has laid down.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 645. O. 31, ’08. 500w.
Thomas, John M. The Christian faith and the Old Testament. **$1. Crowell.
8–14748.
The author discusses the contributions of the Old Testament to Christianity in its moral, religious, and theological teaching and in affording Christians a sense of continuity with the life of the past; but he admits that in the allegorizing of the Old Testament, and in the acceptance of all as of equal value, the true spiritual significance of the Old and much of the New Testament was lost sight of. Modern criticism is rediscovering, restoring our Bible and of the process and results of this discovery the author gives a brief but comprehensive account.
“Brief, reverent, logical; for the general reader not familiar with the achievements and benefits of higher criticism.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 298. D. ’08.
“The author’s point of view is scholarly and he is thoroughly in sympathy with modern thinking. To those who doubt whether anything of usefulness is left to the Old Testament as interpreted by the modern scholar, this volume may be warmly commended.”
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Bib. World. 31: 478. Je. ’08. 50w.
“A serious and scholarly treatment of present-day religious problems and difficulties.”
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Educ. R. 36: 422. N. ’08. 40w.
“It represents frank, free and devout study of current biblical problems, by one who has the taste of study and the art of expression. We commend it heartily to thinking people.”
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Ind. 64: 1040. My. 7, ’08. 150w.
“Dr. Thomas will succeed, in our judgment, in stirring up in his readers the desire to study the Old Testament with intelligent appreciation.”
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Nation. 86: 554. Je. 18, ’08. 130w.
“He combines a full acceptance of the modern point of view with a deep sense of the value of the Old Testament and shows clearly that these two attitudes are not opposed.” E. S. Drown.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 606. O. 24, ’08. 90w.
“This little book is, for plain readers with scant leisure, an admirable presentation of what all ought to know who care to understand the essential facts and their significance.”
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Outlook. 89: 128. My. 16, ’08. 170w.
* Thomas, William Jenkyn. Welsh fairy book. †$1.50. Stokes.
8–26193.
“This is the first English collection ever made of an excellent source of folk- and fairy-lore.... The stories are varied, derived from old writers like Giraldus Cambrensis and the stores of accomplished modern scholars like Sir John Rhys. ‘Nothing has been inserted which is not genuinely traditionary,’ adds the author, and the book shows the richness of the mine which he has opened for English readers.”—Ath.
“‘The Welsh fairy book’ is worth reading for several reasons. The Welsh are spiritual and musical, and they have waited for their Grimm till to-day.”
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Acad. 73: 218. D. 7, ’07. 1200w.
355“Adults as well as young people will rejoice in ‘The Welsh fairy book.’”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 516. O. 26. 220w.
Reviewed by M. J. Moses.
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Ind. 65: 1473. D. 17, ’08. 40w.
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Nation. 85: 544. D. 12, ’07. 170w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 120w.
“It will form a welcome and even necessary addition to any child’s collection of fairy-tales.”
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Sat. R. 104: sup. 10. D. 7, ’07. 50w.
“On the whole, there is much novelty about the collection.”
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Spec. 99: sup. 905. D. 7, ’07. 110w.
Thompson, Charles Miner. Calico cat: a rural detective story minus a detective. †$1.25. Houghton.
8–30016.
In attempting to rid his premises of a mocking calico cat, a respectable Yankee shoots a tramp, slips away from the scene of trouble, and allows an innocent boy to be sent to jail. He is chosen juror on the very jury that is to try the case when his conscience goads him to a confession. The clearing up of the tangle reveals that the victim, entirely unhurt, was posing for money; that the boy believed his father to have fired the shot and was shielding him; and that a termagant wife really did have a heart.
* Thompson, Francis. Selected poems; with a biographical note by Wilfrid Meynell. **$1.50. Lane.
Selections contained in this volume have been made from “Sister songs,” “Poems” and “New poems,” which with a biographical note and a number of “appreciations” are intended to bear witness to a fine quality of genius.
“I feel much in him that is great. Even in this residue from which all the dross of his work has supposedly been drawn off, there is still so much to harass the ear and tease the mind.” P. E. M.
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Nation. 87: 486. N. 19, ’08. 3500w.
“Francis Thompson’s work is of such excellence in its own kind that no selection can be satisfactory except to those who have not time for more.”
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Sat. R. 106: 395. S. 26, ’08. 1250w.
Thompson, Peter Anthony. Lotus land; being an account of the country and the people of southern Siam. *$3.50. Lippincott.
7–37975.
“Opening with a chapter on the history of Siam which suggests that research might well be turned in that direction, Mr. Thompson gives an account of the capital and then takes us right into the country.” (Sat. R.) “The picture of country life among the people, the study of their habits and beliefs—where the Buddhist faith is laid over deep-seated superstitions, tree-worship, taboo, ghost-terrors, charms, and curious rites and precautions—the descriptions of their sport, fishing, elephant driving; these, to our mind, constitute the best part of Mr. Thompson’s volume.” (Ath.)
“It is not easy to hit the mean between a globe-trotter’s transient impressions and a resident’s cumbrous statistics, but Mr. Thompson has achieved this. [An] admirable account of a singularly attractive people.”
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Ath. 1906, 2: 506. O. 27. 1570w.
“The historical sketch of Siam will well repay a careful study.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 90. F. 15, ’08. 130w.
“No more intimate book on southern Siam has appeared than this.”
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Sat. R. 102: 682. D. 1, ’06. 300w.
“A delightful picture of a people not overanxious to march in the van of progress and of a country the wealth of which lies at present almost dormant.”
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Spec. 97: sup. 763. N. 17, ’06. 230w.
* Thomson, John Arthur. Bible of nature: five lectures delivered before Lake Forest college on the foundation of the late William Bross. (Bross lib. v. 4.) **$1. Scribner.
8–25139.
Five lectures which state “some of the lessons which man—minister and interpreter—may learn from Nature.” They are: The wonder of the world; The history of things; Organisms and their origin; The evolution of organism; and Man’s place in nature.
“The book is a joy to read and is to be heartily commended to all religious persons who feel the difficulties caused by the present scientific situation.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 777. D. 12, ’08. 270w.
“Not only for its clarifying of many hazy ideas, but for its correction alike of dogmatic scientists and dogmatic theologians, this volume should be in every Sunday-school library.”
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Outlook. 90: 458. O. 24, ’08. 130w.
Thomson, John Arthur. Heredity. (Science ser.) **$3.50. Putnam.
A thoroly practical exposition based upon conclusions reached thru microscopic study of the germ-cells, thru the application of statistical methods, and thru experiment. The aim is to expand the facts of heredity and inheritance as known at present, to give the securely established conclusions and the more important theories. The handling is impartial altho the author adheres to what is called Weismannism, or—to take a particular case—the conviction that we do not know of any instance of the transmission of an acquired character.
“The best book on the subject for the general reader; comprehensive, scholarly and popular in the best sense of the word.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 298. D. ’08.
“The English student will welcome a volume which places within his grasp an adequate summary of the work not only of leading English authorities but also of continental writers.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 47. Jl. 11. 1000w.
“This newest work, strikingly like the older ‘Evolution of sex’ in method, may well attain the same high repute.” E. T. Brewster.
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Atlan. 102: 122. Jl. ’08. 300w.
“Is intelligible, pleasant to read, and distinguished by a broad outlook.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
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Dial. 45: 59. Ag. 1, ’08. 1250w.
“It is ‘easy’ reading; the clearness and force of the style hold the reader’s attention so that he forgets for the moment that it is an abstruse scientific matter which is under discussion. The chief particular in which the book is open to criticism is in the matter of construction.”
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Ind. 65: 376. Ag. 13. ’08. 900w.
“In spite of its condensation, this is the only book in the language which has methodically handled heredity from its origin in physical reproduction to its further development in social phenomena.”
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Lit. D. 37: 470. O. 3, ’08. 350w.
“In addition to a clear statement of current theories, there is much instructive criticism and comment, often requiring very attentive perusal, which the reader will find most stimulating and suggestive.”
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Nation. 87: 499. N. 19, ’08. 650w.
“The outstanding feature of the book is its great, perhaps its excessive, kindliness and toleration.” G. A. Reid.
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Nature. 78: 361. Ag. 20, ’08. 2200w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 227. Ap. 18, ’08. 250w.
“The volume, if not quite so readable and full of suggestion as Metchnikoff’s, is yet of more immediate application to the problems that confront them.” Charles De Kay.
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Putnam’s. 5: 236. N. ’08. 660w.
R. of Rs. 37: 759. Je. ’08. 70w.
356“It is in fact a vast encyclopaedia article, in which all the aspects of the subject are presented in orderly fashion and from many points of view, always with the historical development of each, and with its varying controversies summed up with clearness.”
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Sat. R. 105: 791. Je. 20, ’08. 1450w.
“The few imperfections that might be noticed do not interfere materially with the value of the book. It fulfils its purpose as an ‘introduction to the study of heredity’ excellently well, it is rich in illustrative facts and judicious criticism, and is written in a style which is clear, consecutive, forcible and at times, even picturesque.” J. P. McM.
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Science, n.s. 28: 210. Ag. 14, ’08. 1050w.
Thomson, William Chase. Design of typical steel railway bridges: an elementary course for engineering students and draftsmen. *$2. Eng. news.
8–11716.
A sequel to “Bridge and structural design.” “The present volume is devoted chiefly to the presentation of six examples in design of steel superstructures. An introduction gives the necessary extracts from a specification, with some annotations, tables and a moment diagram; and there is a final chapter on latticing of compression members. The examples are selected with good judgment and cover the range of average railway bridge superstructures in a way that may be called typical.” (Engin. N.)
“The thoroughly practical character of the work would seem to make it well suited for use as a text-book in engineering schools and of marked value to junior draftsmen in bridge shops and to those who desire to fit themselves for such work.”
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Engin. D. 4: 53. Jl. ’08. 330w.
“Notwithstanding these shortcomings, which are mostly non-essentials ... the book is a commendable effort to fill a long-felt want. It should be in the possession of all the younger men engaged in structural steel work, and many older ones will find it useful.” A. W. Buel.
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Engin. N. 60: 73. Jl. 16, ’08. 1350w.
“Has the character of a set of rules for designing issued by a bridge company to its draftsmen.”
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Engin. Rec. 58: 476. O. 24, ’08. 440w.
* Thoreau, Henry David. Cape Cod; with introd. and il. by Clifton Johnson. **$2. Crowell.
8–22336.
A holiday edition of “Cape Cod” whose careful word pictures are aided by a series of illustrations produced by Mr. Johnson’s camera during a leisurely tramp over Thoreau’s own course.
“An unusually attractive reprint of the work.”
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Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
Ind. 65: 1462. D. 17, ’08. 60w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
Thorndike, Ashley Horace. Tragedy. (Types of English literature ser.) **$1.50. Houghton.
8–15303.
The third volume so far published in a literature series which disregards the usual chronological divisions and proceeds on the basis of a division according to types. This book traces the course of English tragedy from its beginning in England in 1562, the year of the production of “Gorboduc,” thru Marlowe and his contemporaries, Shakespeare, the later Elizabethans, the Restoration, the eighteenth century, and the romantic movement, to the middle of the nineteenth century. It indicates the part tragedy has played in the history of the theatre and of literature.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 212. Je. ’08.
“The interest of the book consists in its handling of familiar matter from this unifying point of view, rather than in its contribution of new facts to scholarship. On the whole he is to be congratulated on the accomplishment of a piece of sound scholarly work.” C. M. Hathaway, jr.
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Dial. 45: 116. S. 1, ’08. 640w.
“Professor Thorndike’s book, taken as a whole, is mildly disappointing. We find ourselves in constant agreement with him, but with no enthusiasm. The latter part of the work is somewhat breathless, as though the writer were acutely aware of the fact that the volume must not exceed a certain length, and that everything must somehow be mentioned.” W: L. Phelps.
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Forum. 40: 592. D. ’08. 1600w.
“We must insist then that a good deal of the present work is necessarily unsatisfactory. It is not complete enough in detail to serve the scholar; it is often too meagre to preserve human interest. But, within the limitations, Prof. Thorndike has succeeded commendably.”
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Nation. 86: 561. Je. 18, ’08. 830w.
“Comprehensive treatment of his large subject.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 830w.
R. of Rs. 38: 126. Jl. ’08. 80w.
“Able review of the tragic drama in England.”
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Spec. 101: 266. Ag. 22, ’08. 480w.
Thurston, Katherine Cecil. Fly on the wheel. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–27495.
A determined young Irish councellor married five years to a placid, unthinking woman whose personality he completely dominates, attempts to break up the love affair of his youngest brother and a spirited young girl. He yields to the spell of this girl’s power, finds himself in love with her as she is with him, and in his madness confesses his love. The reaction comes, he knows his duty; but the girl, young, motherless, gives up to morbid despair and ends her life as did Oswald in Ibsen’s “Ghosts.”
“It is a study of sexual passion rising at times to real power. It is a conscientious and clever piece of work.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 380. Mr. 28. 120w.
“Best work she has done thus far.”
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Ind. 65: 1182. N. 19, ’08. 30w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“As a story is less sensational than some former stories by this author, but it far exceeds any of them in perfection of development and in real interest.”
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Outlook. 90: 503. O. 31, ’08. 160w.
“The end is startlingly tragic, in what seems to us a forced, unlikely way. What she does well is the description of emotions, moods, and behaviour, her sense of ordinary character is true and perceptive, and is shown in one or two quite excellent sketches, notably that of Father James.”
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Sat. R. 105: 664. My. 23, ’08. 220w.
“The story is well told and interesting in its way, but singularly lacking in elevation.”
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Spec. 100: 505. Mr. 28, ’08. 780w.
Thwaites, Reuben Gold, and Kellogg, Louise Phelps, eds. The revolution on the upper Ohio, 1775–1777. $1.50. Wis. hist. soc. Madison.
8–8546.
Compiled from the Draper manuscripts in the library of the Wisconsin historical society, the events chronicled in this volume “immediately succeeded and in a considerable degree were the direct outgrowth of Dunmore’s war.... The documents chosen for publication herein do not afford a continuous history of any one campaign or group of men. They do, however, shed light upon the principal incidents and the prominent characters of the long frontier stretching from the Greenbrier region in Southwestern 357Virginia to the post at Kittanning on the upper Allegheny.” (Preface.)
“Much credit is due the editors for the excellent compilation of these documents.” V. A. Lewis.
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Tiernan, Mrs. Frances C. (Christian Reid, pseud.). Princess Nadine. †$1.50. Putnam.
7–42008.
“A novel involving an heiress of American birth and her ambition for a European title. Nadine is everything exquisite, aristocratic, and fascinating. About to be betrothed by her American grandmother to a lovely prince who hopes to be king of ‘Serabia,’ she meets a money king from America, whose advent completely changes her future.... Of the complications between an imprudent and revolutionary young Russian, a daring American girl, and a diplomatic Slav, the reader must learn for himself.”—Outlook.
“The character of Nadine is the artistic merit of the story.”
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Cath. World. 87: 262. My. ’08. 150w.
“The game of intrigue, which brings about Nadine’s defiance of the Czar’s government, is played light-heartedly enough, hero and heroine holding the usual marked cards.”
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Nation. 86: 379. Ap. 23, ’08. 250w.
“Upon the whole, the most fitting adjective for this novel is ‘elegant.’”
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Outlook. 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 100w.
Tilden, Samuel Jones. Letters and literary memorials of Samuel J. Tilden; ed. by John Bigelow. 2v. **$6. Harper.
8–4918.
From a vast collection of papers the executors of Mr. Tilden have selected speeches, public documents and letters which not only offer sidelights on the latter half of the last century’s history but give proper proportion to public services of this man whose party standards were “too high for the multitude.” His battles and their victories are traced thru these documents.
“If we find somewhat too much of the genial editor in the volumes, he has good examples to quote, and we should be grateful for what he has given.” F.
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Am. Hist. R. 14: 152. O. ’08. 1500w.
“Necessary for the historian because of details of politics, especially in New York state, but not particularly valuable or interesting to the general reader.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 212. Je. ’08.
“The work as a whole is an important and historically valuable supplement to Mr. Bigelow’s earlier publications in the same field.” P. F. Bicknell.
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Dial. 44: 205. Ap. 1, ’08. 1650w.
Lit. D. 36: 657. My. 2, ’08. 600w.
“There is less material of first-rate political importance in these volumes than one had hoped. Though these letters add but little to our knowledge of the man, they fall in perfectly with that conception of his character which those who have studied it most closely have slowly formed.”
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Nation. 86: 336. Ap. 9, ’08. 600w.
“Absorbingly interesting volumes. They are of the highest class of ‘memoires pour servir.’” Montgomery Schuyler.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 109. F. 29, ’08. 2450w.
“It aids in the understanding both of Tilden’s conduct of life and of the seemingly extravagant esteem in which he was held by his intimate friends.”
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Outlook. 89: 862. Ag. 15, ’08. 540w.
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R. of Rs. 37: 507. Ap. ’08. 300w.
* Tileston, Mary Wilder, ed. Children’s treasure trove of pearls. †$1.50. Little.
Contains some forty stories rescued from oblivion for children from five to nine years to enjoy. Among them are: Fiama; Bean Flower and Pea Blossom; Tatterhood, Tom Tit Tot; Tom, nurse’s story, etc.
Reviewed by M. J. Moses.
Ind. 65: 1473. D. 17, ’08. 30w.
Nation. 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 50w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 70w.
R. of Rs. 38: 765. D. ’08. 50w.
Tipping, H. Avray, ed. Gardens, old and new. 3d. series. *$12. Scribner.
8–23521.
ser. 3. Country house and its garden environment.
“Contains accounts, amply illustrated, of thirty-four gardens, all more or less famous. The best known among them are Hatfield house, Holland house, Lyme hall (Cheshire, belonging to Lord Newton), South Wraxall manor, Wilton house, and Wotton house (near Aylesbury). An introduction, itself fully illustrated, gives particulars of other places.”—Spec.
“Notable addition to garden literature.”
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Dial. 45: 412. D. 1, ’08. 320w (Review of ser. 3.)
“The volume has an interest extending quite beyond that of a guide to a house or garden building.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 404. Jl. 18, ’08. 280w. (Review of ser. 3.)
“This is a very handsome and interesting volume.”
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Spec. 101: 101. Jl, 18, ’08. 80w. (Review of ser. 3.)
Titchener, Edward Bradford. Lectures on the elementary psychology of feeling and attention. *$1.40. Macmillan.
8–21948.
“The book discusses analytically the ultimate mode of conceiving the nature of the fundamental psychological processes. For current usage as coins of the intellectual realm, the value of such terms as feeling, sensation, attention, is sufficiently understood; but an accurate essay is indispensable when technical definition and analysis are to be reached. As an example of the clarification of concepts, as a contribution to the mode of extracting the metal from the crude ore, the work may be strongly recommended to the student analyst.”—Dial.
“The treatment suitable to a general audience is equally suitable to the general reader.”
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Dial. 45: 300. N. 1, ’08. 180w.
“It cannot be said, however, that the writer is without his own bias. This bias in our author’s case is in favor of sensationalism. Collections of classroom lectures are not often inspiring, but this work is a welcome exception to this rule. It must add much to its author’s reputation.”
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Nation. 87: 444. N. 5, ’08. 630w.
“The entire treatment of attention as sensory clearness as set forth by Professor Titchener, however, is the best which has appeared thus far. His unbiased discussion of the leading authorities and his interesting style render the book worth reading apart from its psychological value, while the list of authorities which is given makes the volume probably the best of its kind for the research student.” Felix Arnold.
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Psychol. Bull. 5: 367. N. 15, ’08. 730w.
358Todd, Charles Burr. In olde New York; sketches of old times and places in both the state and the city. (Grafton historical series.) **$1.50. Grafton press.
7–36943.
A series of sketches brought forward from twenty years ago which describe types and conditions, landmarks and structures, that no longer exist.
“It cannot supersede or compete with definite historical treatises on the state, but it offers interesting sketches and will prove of use for certain phases of old New York life.” E. K. Alden.
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 655. Ap. ’08. 300w.
“What with text and pictures, an amusing little book to look over.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 3. Ja. 4, ’08. 160w.
“It is well that this valuable and curious information, at first prepared for more ephemeral publication, has been preserved and collected in this tasteful volume.”
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Tomlinson, Everett Titsworth. Camp-fire of Mad Anthony. †$1.50. Houghton.
7–29723.
Tells of a tea party which took place in Philadelphia, and involved the heroes of this story; also relates the adventures of the Pennsylvania troops under Anthony Wayne, from 1774 to 1776.
“A story used as a vehicle becomes stereotyped and Mr. Tomlinson’s strength does not lie in his plots.” M. J. Moses.
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Ind. 63: 1482. D. 19, ’07. 150w.
“In his customary manner, Mr. Tomlinson bases his incident upon fact. In this respect he is a seasoned writer, but he falls short in the development of his plot, and his style is not irreproachable.”
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Nation. 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 80w.
Tomlinson, Everett Titsworth. Mad Anthony’s young scout: a story of the winter of 1777–78. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–20024.
Philadelphia, Valley Forge and the outlying country furnish the setting for this tale of exciting adventure based upon the happenings of the hard winter of 1777–78. Noah Dare is the hero, and into the story are introduced “Mad Anthony” Wayne, Washington, Lafayette and other revolutionary generals. Also there is among the historical sidelights a clear presentation of the division among the Quakers—one portion swearing allegiance to the British government, the other, to the cause of the colonists.
“No boy who once begins the book will want to lay it down until it is finished.”
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* Tompkins, A. E. Marine engineering: a text book. *$4.50. Macmillan.
“Gives a very full history of the development of the steam engine from Savery in 1688 to the turbine and gas producer of to-day. Much information is given to the one wishing to practise the art of designing the different structures, but the most to those desiring to become skilled in the construction, operation and care of the marine engine, as the designing of such machinery demands a line of study outside of what can be given in a treatise of this kind.”—Science.
“It deserves and will secure a good reception from all who are interested in the subjects of which it treats. The author has the courage of his opinions, and, in not a few instances, exception may be taken to his conclusions; but in all cases the materials for judging independently are given, and readers can claim no more.” W. H. White.
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Nature. 78: 598. O. 15, ’08. 800w.
“This single criticism [about his view of the combustion chamber in the cylindrical boiler] should not take from the value of the work as it abounds in so much that is good and valuable to one seeking information on the subject and desiring to be correctly informed as to the marine engine practise of to-day and the lines on which it may be extended in the future.” Horace See.
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Science, n.s. 28: 686. N. 13, ’08. 1000w.
Tompkins, Juliet Wilbor. Dr. Ellen. †$1.50. Baker.
8–2613.
The story of a stout-hearted struggle to care for a consumptive sister and to establish a reputation as a medical practitioner in a little town among the Sierras. “It is a love story, a character study and the history of a brave woman’s struggle against ignorant prejudice, all welded into a single narrative.” (Bookm.)
“Has no particular strength nor depth but is wholesome.”
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“It is Dr. Ellen’s courageous and victorious struggle to retrieve her losses that makes the real strength and interest of the book; although the delicate and subtle love-story which is interwoven with it will have no small share in assuring the book the popularity it deserves.” F: T. Cooper.
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Nation. 86: 195. F. 27, ’08. 250w.
“This new book is quite as sparkling as anything she has ever done.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 77. F. 8, ’08. 320w.
“It is a privilege to meet a woman so noble in character, so well equipped in mind, and so essentially feminine in heart and soul as Dr. Ellen.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 344. Je. 13, ’08. 250w.
R. of Rs. 37: 761. Je. ’08. 70w.
Tonge, James. Coal. *$2. Van Nostrand.
8–17746.
“This book is a popular presentation of the latest facts regarding the origin, position and extent of coal seams throughout the world, together with particulars as to the economical utilization and application of this indispensable mineral fuel. It treats of the history and occurrence of coal, the mode of formation of coal seams and the fossils and botany of the coal measures.”—Engin. D.
“The book should be interesting and instructive to students of various sciences, as well as to those who, though proud of the high commercial position of their country, are unaware as to how greatly this is due to an abundant supply of inexpensive fuel.”
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Engin. D. 4: 415. O. ’08. 200w.
“The work appears to have been hastily compiled, and the proofs carelessly revised.”
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Nature. 77: 389. F. 27, ’08. 200w.
Torbett, D. Schemers. 75c. Doscher.
8–10856.
“This volume is frankly designed to provide an hour’s light entertainment. It tells of a quite preposterous cad, of a society widow unwilling to part with her youth, of that widow’s attractive daughter, and of the daughter’s loyal but impoverished suitor.” (Bookm.) “Positively harmless ... unless the author could be persuaded to give the name of the Paris doctor who produced such marvelous results in Mrs. Van Agan’s face.” (N. Y. Times.)
“[The incidents] are certainly new and certainly amusing.”
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Bookm. 27: 242. My. ’08. 140w.
“It is written with a certain smartness.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 415. Jl. 25, ’08. 110w.
359Tourville, Henri de. Growth of modern nations: a history of the particularist form of society; tr. from the French of Henri de Tourville, by M. G. Loch. *$3.50. Longmans.
8–5819.
“Not in any sense a history of western Europe. Rather it tells how far different our society is from the society of antiquity; how a certain human race became emancipated from that society of the past and how when settled in one corner of Europe its society received a special form. The most powerful modern nations, it is declared, have gradually evolved, not by public action, but by the free play of private initiative. From germanic and gothic origins to the constitution of the present great nations, the author carefully points out the steps.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“The book is a mass of generalizations, of which many are based on hypotheses rather than upon ascertained facts, while few, if any, are supported by sufficient evidence. The book may be of some value in suggesting new points of view: but the method is so superficial that the conclusions carry slight weight.”
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 898. Jl. ’08. 520w.
“The volume is very suggestive and contains some especially interesting chapters.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 723. My. ’08. 230w.
“To the historical student (as opposed perhaps to the student of social science), the detail and method of these essays will have more interest than their generalizations.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 39. Jl. 11. 900w.
“Not the least of the author’s peculiarities is the ease with which he bends each bit of evidence to conform to his theory. The chapter on the United States is childish in its ignorance.”
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Nation. 87: 266. S. 17, ’08. 900w.
“It is fair to add that Mr. Loch has done his work as translator fairly well, quite as well as the original deserves.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 168. Mr. 28, ’08. 130w.
“Valuable, therefore, though it is a sort of dictionary of sociological growth, and delightful to dip into at odd moments both for entertainment and edification, this volume is lacking in compactness, and in that lucidity and vividness which compactness brings with it.”
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Tracy, Louis. Red year: a story of the Indian mutiny. $1.50. Clode, E. J.
8–979.
More of a history of the mutiny than a story. “The hero, who begins as Lieutenant and ends as Major Malcolm, distinguished himself especially by riding across the risen country for relief, first from Lucknow to Allahabad, and again from Allahabad to Delhi. In the latter half of the book he has as stirring a military career as the most jaded novel reader could wish.” (N. Y. Times.)
Acad. 73: 297. D. 28, ’07. 170w.
“Is really a very fair history of the Sepoy mutiny. But its value is slight as a novel.”
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Ind. 64: 317. F. 6, ’08. 400w.
“The power of ‘The red year’—for ‘The red year’ is a powerful book—lies in the stern realism of its account of the never to be forgotten events of 1857.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 38. Ja. 25, ’08. 660w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
Tracy, Louis. Wheel o’ fortune. $1.50. Clode, E. J.
8–25370.
A story of a hunt for buried treasure which, to vary it from the stock variety, is “tangled up with mystery and archaeology and Roman triremes and loot taken from the land of the Queen of Sheba and Bedouins and camels and the Abyssinian desert.” (N. Y. Times.)
“This fluent sensational story ... is devoid of humor and characterization.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 724. Je. 13. 30w.
“It is a good tale, entertaining and well told. The author adds much to its interest by his cleverness in keeping the story moving along a blind trail.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 539. O. 3, ’08. 450w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
Train, Arthur (Cheney). True stories of crime. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–17543.
Thirteen stories of crime. “As assistant to Mr. Jerome Mr. Train has had great opportunities to meet interesting criminals and know their careers. The stories are guaranteed true to the facts. They are very interesting and valuable.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
“The style is interesting and the tone is wholesome.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 224. Je. ’08. ✠
“The author is a good story-teller.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 629. N. ’08. 40w.
Tratman, E. E. Russell. Railway track and track work. 3d ed. *$3.50. Eng. news.
8–23881.
“Mr. E. E. Russell Tratman ... not only treats this subject in an exhaustive and comprehensive manner, but provides a most valuable addition to the literature on the American railway track.” (Engin. N.) “This new edition contains some fifty pages and several illustrations more than the previous edition. There are two more chapters, some of the subjects having gained so in importance as to demand more exhaustive treatment and some of the combinations of subjects, treated in one chapter, being changed.” (Engin. D.)
“Its comprehensive and representative treatment of the subject is most commendable and assures the book of a continued recognition as the standard authority on railway track work.”
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Engin. D. 4: 300. S. ’08. 1350w.
“Outside of the official publications of the American engineering and maintenance of way association, there is no single work which contains between its covers such a broad and comprehensive treatment of the subject.” J: F. Wallace.
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Engin. N. 60: 537. N. 12, ’08. 340w.
“There is not anything written in the book which a railway engineer would desire to have left out.”
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Engin. Rec. 58: 567. N. 14, ’08. 540w.
Travis, Elma Allen. The cobbler. $1.25. Outing pub.
8–17997.
In the main this is a character sketch of a will o’ the wisp youth, a victim of his temperamental moods. He is a poet, a dreamer and an irresponsible lover whose life, a thing of shreds and patches, is symbolized by the cobbler heritage transmitted by his father. It is a life abounding in atmosphere whose structural poise and practicality it becomes a woman’s mission to supply.
“The story is told gracefully, and is unburdened by moralizing or flippancy. The eminence of the hero seems to consist far less clearly in what he does or is than in what his creator says of him.”
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Nation. 87: 76. Jl. 23, ’08. 600w.
“Barring the occasional evidences of feminine pedantism, the style is admirable, and the author has a fine gift for descriptive writing. It is a book which should win success, for it reflects knowledge and thought.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 358. Je. 20. ’08. 380w.
Travis, Thomas. Young malefactor: a study in juvenile delinquency; with an introd. by Judge Ben B. Lindsey. **$1.50. Crowell.
8–12983.
A book which no library can overlook. The introduction contributed by the widely-known 360authority on children’s courts emphasizes the necessity for a better understanding of the subject of juvenile delinquency. The body of the book resting upon facts collected during six years of investigation in Europe and America urges that inasmuch as the child criminal of to-day becomes the man criminal of to-morrow, the important task is to reach the child thru study of individual cases and causes.
“The bibliography has important defects, but indicates significant books. Apprentice work, but work full of promise.” C. R. Henderson.
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Am. J. Soc. 14: 130. Jl. ’08. 90w.
“A thoroughly scientific study. Clearly written, well arranged, reliable in its statements, and temperate in tone.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 213. Je. ’08. ✠
“The style is very diffuse, there is a decided lack of logical order, and repetitions are numerous.”
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Ann. Am. Acad. 32: 629. N. ’08. 200w.
“This is a thorough, scholarly, honest work. Its importance consists not only in what it teaches but also in that it shows us the limitations of our knowledge of one of the great vital questions of the hour.” R. E. Bisbee.
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Arena. 40: 386. O. ’08. 530w.
“Mr. Travis’ book is a most able work and, considering the importance of the subject, it fills a much needed want in literature.”
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Cath. World. 87: 401. Je. ’08. 400w.
“May be commended to superintendents and principals of schools, to judges in the criminal courts, and, indeed, and unhappily, to not a few parents.”
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Educ. R. 36: 522. D. ’08. 40w.
“A volume which will enable a more careful study of causes of juvenile delinquency and dependency, and consequently of better trained application in the development of these youths toward straight paths in life. It is regrettable that the author has not put his matter in somewhat better style, so as to be attractive to the general reader and to those who are not students.”
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Ind. 65: 491. Ag. 27, ’08. 240w.
“A good study.”
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J. Pol. Econ. 16: 636. N. ’08. 280w.
“It contains much trustworthy information usually couched in simple, direct language, and seldom swamped under the purposeless erudition which Mr. Travis occasionally displays.”
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Nation. 87: 262. S. 17, ’08. 200w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 170w.
R. of Rs. 38: 256. Ag. ’08. 40w.
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Spec. 101: sup. 477. O. 3, ’08. 260w.
* Tremayne, Eleanor E. First governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria. **$3. Putnam.
A biography painstakingly produced from reliable material for which Mr. Hume, editor of the “Romantic history series,” to which this volume belongs, writes an introduction containing a resumé of certain letters throwing light upon the life of Margaret of Austria.
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Ath. 1908, 2: 606. N. 14. 1100w.
“Mrs. Tremayne’s biography is well written and interesting, but she lacks the vitalizing, constructive imagination which enables the historical writer to make past scenes and events and long dead men and women live again, in all their native warmth and color, before the reader’s eyes.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 640. O. 31, ’08. 380w.
Trevelyan, Sir George Otto. American revolution. pt. 3. *$2.50. Longmans.
pt. 3. Covers Howe’s inactivity during the early months of 1777 and his subsequent capture of Philadelphia; Burgoyne’s long march from Canada and his enforced surrender at Saratoga; Washington’s tribulations at Valley Forge during the dismal winter of 1778; Clinton’s evacuation of Philadelphia and his successful retreat to New York despite the obstacles placed in his way by the American army at Monmouth; and concludes with the steps that led up to the alliance of 1778 with France.
Reviewed by John Bigelow, jr.
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 874. Jl. ’08. 1200w. (Review of pt. 3.)
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 108. Ap. ’08. (Review of pt. 3.)
“The book is scholarly and free from vulgar errors of fact, and will have a permanent place in the literature of the subject both for the scholar and the more general reader.” C. R. Fish.
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Ann. Am. Acad. 31: 532. Mr. ’08. 450w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“Hardly a page is to be found in the volume where a careful proof-reader would fail to mark peculiarities, or even errors.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 541. N. 2. 2200w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“The most touchy of patriots can find nothing to complain of in the treatment measured out in this volume to the worthy American leaders and the Americans as a nation.”
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Cath. World. 86: 399. D. ’07. 1150w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“Sir George Trevelyan possesses to a peculiar degree the art of portrait-painting, and no more human or satisfying description of Howe has probably ever been written than that presented in these pages.” H. E. Egerton.
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Eng. Hist. R. 23: 167. Ja. ’08. 1100w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“It ranks equally high as history and literature.”
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Ind. 64: 586. Mr. 12, ’08. 550w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“The rounded and highly sustained style of the earlier volumes, which some have likened to that of Trevelyan’s uncle, Lord Macaulay, is maintained, and there is just enough of the British point of view to give new zest to a subject so frequently treated by our own writers.”
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Lit. D. 36: 96. Ja. 18, ’08. 600w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“If Sir George scarcely has that rare talent which can take a wilderness of scattered and rather disorganized military actions, and show plainly what was done in each case, and why, and with what result, he can rise admirably to the big situations where the professional interest is lost in the greatness of the human tragedy.”
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Lond. Times. 6: 297. O. 4, ’07. 1450w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“His point of view is so catholic, his reading so wide, and his likes and dislikes so positive that he confers upon the story a semblance of novelty, due to his own personal qualities as a writer.”
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Nation. 86: 194. F. 27, ’08. 1120w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“It is obvious from this that Trevelyan is not always a safe guide, and that the reader must make allowances for the personal equation. His work, though ranking high as a piece of literature, is but a slight contribution to historical knowledge.”
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N. Y. Times. 12: 741. N. 23, ’07. 270w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“It is as interesting as Lord Macaulay’s ‘History of England.’”
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Outlook. 89: 42. My. 2, ’08. 500w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“Those who have read the fascinating earlier volumes of Trevelyan’s ‘American revolution’ will find in this new volume the same quaint and personal touch, the same exquisite satire, the same easy mastery of what the author knows about his subject, and epigrams fitted as nicely as ever into the serious portions of the text. There is, too, the old way of rambling, which carries the reader irresistibly along, but 361just as surely causing him to lose the logical development of the story.” C. H. Vantyne.
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Pol. Sci. Q. 23: 134. Mr. ’08. 950w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“The book is truly a Washingtoniad.” Montgomery Schuyler.
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Putnam’s. 4: 490. Jl. ’08. 570w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“This is the best of the four published volumes of Sir George Trevelyan’s history.”
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Sat. R. 104: sup. 3. O. 19, ’07. 1250w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“Sir George Trevelyan proves himself an admirable military historian, showing merits of lucidity, arrangement, and criticism which his earlier work has not prepared us for. It is true that he has lost the charm of his first manner, with its astounding plentitude of lightly borne knowledge and its allusive grace of style, but he has acquired another kind of charm.”
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Spec. 99. 710. N. 9, ’07. 1720w. (Review of pt. 3.)
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Yale R. 17: 355. N. ’08. 330w. (Review of pt. 3.)
Trevena, John. Furze the cruel. †$1.50. Moffat.
“Furze,” “Heather” and “Granite” are the titles of a contemplated trilogy. Furze symbolizes cruelty, heather endurance, and granite strength. This first volume “is a strenuous upheaval of the mire of the moors.” The flesh and blood characters include a quixotic boy, a girl of doubtful origin, the half-witted Mary and Peter Tavy, a vice-sodden deacon and his victim, the simple, dull Thomasine.
“Since Charles Kingsley’s ‘Yeast’ we cannot recall any picture of rural life in England that approaches within any measurable distance of this ghastly description of the Dartmoor peasant. It is undoubtedly a great book—almost a masterpiece.”
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Acad. 73: 66. O. 26, ’07. 550w.
“The characters live and move, and are so nicely balanced in their relations as to make them seem the result of their environment.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 683. N. 30. 170w.
“There is good reason to believe that Mr. Trevena is one of the few men of real promise among the new recruits of English fiction.” F: T. Cooper.
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Bookm. 27: 304. My. ’08. 650w.
“He strips bare the ugliness of Dartmoor life with a merciless candor that shows too much schooling from Zola, Ibsen, and Tolstoy.”
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Nation. 86: 287. Mr. 26, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Trevena’s handling of Thomasine’s misfortunes is Zolaesque in treatment, and her scene with the brutal Pendoggat suggests a page of ‘La terre’ in its realism.” Lewis Melville.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 157. Mr. 21, ’08. 1650w.
R. of Rs. 37: 767. Je. ’08. 1000w.
Treves, Sir Frederick. Cradle of the deep: an account of a voyage to the West Indies. *$4. Dutton.
8–21129.
Beginning with Barbados, the author visits in turn the islands of the West Indies. “Everywhere against the back drop furnished by the present scene Sir Frederick throws all sorts of pictures from the magic lantern slides of history and legend.” (N. Y. Times.) “Buccaneers, explorers, and great captains, Dampier, Hawkins, Drake, Rodney, and Nelson are among the dramatic personae of the story he has to tell, and the incidents alternate between the convulsions of nature—he has a vivid account of Kingston after the earthquake—and the crash of great fleets in the struggle for world empire.” (Sat. R.)
“This book is, of its kind, excellent. We note a few small inaccuracies in the author’s account of Capt. Kidd’s voyages.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 782. Je. 27. 1100w.
“If the reader takes it up for what it is, a rambling descriptive account of a recent voyage in the West Indies, written at leisure and with great gusto and packed with historical and romantic anecdote, he may spend a very pleasant hour.”
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Nation. 87: 237. S. 10, ’08. 400w.
“He has read widely and he has read in a spirit which enables him to make the record of his course as different from a guide-book as possible.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 460. Ag. 22, ’08. 930w.
R. of Rs. 38: 509. O. ’08. 90w.
“It is the work of a keen observer who is able to express his thoughts in picturesque English.”
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Sat. R. 105: 794. Je. 20, ’08. 280w.
* Trowbridge, John. Story of a wireless telegraph boy. †$1.25. Houghton.
8–26832.
The exciting story of a Russian boy who fled from Russia with his father and physics teacher when it is discovered that they are promoting revolutionary plots by means of wireless telegraphy.
Reviewed by K. L. M.
Bookm. 28: 386. D. ’08. 40w.
Trowbridge, William R. H. Mirabeau, the demi-god, being the true and romantic story of his life and adventures. *$3.75. Scribner.
7–41576.
A eulogistic sketch of Mirabeau in which the author calls Mirabeau a “demi-god,” a “hero” and states that he prefers “to see in him only his noble and what he believed to be his fundamental self.” “The greatness of Mirabeau is displayed during the last period of his life, and not in his love affairs and low intrigues. To justify his title, Mr. Trowbridge should have passed lightly over Mirabeau’s early years and filled his canvas with the dramatic scenes of the national assembly in which Mirabeau showed himself truly great. In giving but seventy pages to this important period, he had little opportunity to justify his title.” (Am. Hist. R.)
“The book is not, then, a serious biography, nor is it a good historical novel.”
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 902. Jl. ’08. 650w.
“Will satisfy the class of readers whose higher education is being taken care of by the writers of Sunday supplements.”
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Nation. 87: 140. Ag. 13, ’08. 300w.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 387. Jl. 11, ’08. 1150w.
“Is an attempt to strike a happy mean between a novel and a biography, and is not altogether successful.”
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Sat. R. 105: 601. My. 9, ’08. 270w.
“The exaggeration and disorder of Mirabeau’s nature seem in many respects to have infected his latest biographer.”
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Spec. 100: 379. Mr. 7, ’08. 450w.
Trowbridge, William R. H. Seven splendid sinners. **$4.50. Brentano’s.
The lives of the Duchess of Chateauroux, Duchess of Kendal, Catherine II of Russia, Duchess of Kingston, Countess de Lamotte, Duchess de Polignac, and Lola Montez.
“A handsome volume against which much might be written without diminishing the large number of readers that such a book is certain to attract.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 472. O. 17. 850w.
“The sketches in no wise fall behind the initial promise.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
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N. Y. Times. 13: 595. O. 24, ’08. 570w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 748. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
362Trubetzkoi, Amelie (R.) C. Golden rose. †$1.25. Harper.
8–15326.
The struggle of a woman to possess the golden rose in place of the ordinary painted apple of Eden. A woman is portrayed who having had an unhappy marriage none the less believes in love, but love idealized and purified of its material association, too exalted to permit of a fulfilment in marriage. To her wooer she offers her golden rose which he fondles for a time ecstatically. When he would exchange it for the painted apple she refuses and so sacrifices her material happiness for a principle’s sake.
“Miss Rives commands a lush and poetic diction. The book is keyed a good third above concert pitch.” E: C. Marsh.
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Bookm. 27: 413. Je. ’08. 900w.
“The wickedness of such books as the ‘Golden rose’ is that they appeal to an element of insincerity in women readers, especially young women readers. The one really vigorous and fine thing in this story is her description of a summer storm in Virginia. The rest of it should never have been written.”
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Ind. 65: 153. Jl. 16, ’08. 780w.
“On the whole, the abnormal, however loftily treated, is unsatisfactory.”
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Nation. 86: 493. My. 28, ’08. 300w.
“There are all tastes in the world, and love is such a universal sentiment that the book appeals even to those who cannot take the author’s point of view.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 329. Je. 13, ’08. 450w.
“A charmingly told emotional story.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 761. Je. ’08. 40w.
“The little book is well written and attractive, and the pictures of southern life charmingly drawn.”
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Spec. 101: 64. Jl. 11, ’08. 130w.
Trubetzkoi, Prince Michael. Out of chaos: a personal story of the revolution in Russia; tr. by Edith Livermore. $2. Longmans.
8–17556.
From an investigation into the deplorable condition of the Russian peasantry who pay most of the taxes—nobility, officials and clergy being exempt—the author became identified with the revolutionary movement. His narrative of the unendurable conditions in Russia, the suffering caused by them and their great injustice to human activity is the straightforward account of a man who is yielding up wealth and position for the salvation of the masses thru whom, he maintains, oppression must eventually cease.
“The extreme simplicity of a boyish narrative is disconcerting to the reader of the earlier pages of this book, but if he has the courage to go on he will be rewarded for his pains.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 549. N. 2. 200w.
“It will do no one any harm to read this book, and it is possible that even we, here in America, can learn very much from it—more than we are likely to learn from anything we are ourselves writing in the cause of humanity.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 57. F. 1, ’08. 680w.
“This is a vivid picture of the difficulties which a young Russian, who is not content with accepting things as they are in Russia, is sure to encounter.”
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Spec. 99: 1100. D. 28, ’07. 340w.
* Trubetzkoi, Pierre. Passer-by. †$1.50. Doubleday.
A story which portrays the complications resulting from a business man’s unintentional neglect of his wife and the advantage taken of her loneliness by two foreigners who make love to her.
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Ath. 1908, 2: 604. N. 14. 160w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 617. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
“It is done with remarkable skill and knowledge of human nature and unusual artistic insight.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 770. D. 12, ’08. 240w.
Tschudi, Clara. Ludwig the second, king of Bavaria; tr. from the Norwegian by Ethel Harriet Hearn. *$2.50. Dutton.
8–18336.
The life story of a half-witted ruler. “He was the pupil and supporter of Döllinger, the patron and intimate of Richard Wagner; and his wonderful palaces, his queer habits, his associations with ‘Lohengrin,’ his tragic and in a way mysterious end, all help to surround him with an unusual, if unedifying atmosphere.” (Nation.) “The real value of such a volume as this is found not so much in the narration of certain romantic episodes in Louis’s life as in the incidental light thrown upon the development of the Bavarians themselves.” (Outlook.)
“One or two slight slips we have noticed in the text. Miss Hearn’s translation is far from satisfactory.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 153. F. 8. 1400w.
“The sole interest of the book for normal persons will be in the chapters dealing with Ludwig’s service to Wagner.”
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Ind. 65: 267. Jl. 30, ’08. 240w.
“It will serve its purpose for the general public.”
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Nation. 86: 465. My. 21, ’08. 200w.
“It is well and readably compiled, but, as usual, has suffered in the translation.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 230w.
“A rather gossipy biography.”
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Outlook. 89: 125. My. 16, ’08. 200w.
“Full of interesting personal anecdotes.”
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R. of Rs. 38: 255. Ag. ’08. 30w.
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Sat. R. 105: 601. My. 9, ’08. 250w.
“The narrative is compact, and as complete as is necessary, and if it is not very penetrating, it is interesting because Ludwig’s history is interesting.”
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Spec. 100: 188. F. 1, ’08. 2000w.
Turley, Charles. Playmate. il. †$1.50. Dutton.
A wholesome spontaneous book which “relates how the ‘playmate,’ a grown-up of thirty-four years, and his half-dozen godchildren, whose ages range, we take it, from eight to eleven, form a club, among themselves for the better enjoyment of life, and thereafter hold various meetings, discussions, and excursions.” (Ath.)
“Intended to be a very amusing book, but is only rather so.”
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Acad. 73: 271. D. 21, ’07. 50w.
“The whole thing is charmingly done, for Mr. Turley has a thorough understanding of the juvenile point of view, and presents it with an unobtrusive art that is altogether admirable.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 726. D. 7. 250w.
“Is written with a gentle sense of humor and an appreciation of the vivacities and whimsicalities of childhood.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 222. Ap. 11, ’08. 120w.
Sat. R. 104: sup. 5. D. 7, ’07. 100w.
“There is the same kindly humor, the same intimate appreciation of the boyish standpoint, the same easy, unaffected style [that one finds in ‘Maitland Major’].”
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Turneaure, Frederick Eugene, and Maurer, Edward Rose. Principles of reinforced concrete construction. $3. Wiley.
7–36223.
Principles of mechanics underlying the design of reinforced concrete and the result of available tests of these principles are presented 363here. “About three-quarters of the book is devoted to development of methods of design and the remainder to very condensed descriptions of recent American constructions in reinforced concrete.” (Engin. N.)
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 85. Mr. ’08.
“Apart from such points of minor detail as have been mentioned above, it is difficult to see how, in the present state of the art, a better and safer exposition could have been made, and the task was not a small one nor the dangers few. The book will be found indispensable by all workers in reinforced-concrete design. The authors have performed a distinct service to the profession, and are to be congratulated upon their success.” L. J. Johnson.
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Engin. N. 58: 651. D. 12, ’07. 910w.
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Nature. 77: sup. 6. Mr. 5, ’08. 750w.
* Turneaure, Frederick Eugene, and Russell, Harry Luman. Public water-supplies: requirements, resources, and the construction of works; with a chapter on pumping machinery by D. W. Mead. 2d. ed., rev. and enl. $5. Wiley.
8–25128.
A thoroly revised and enlarged edition, treating the subject as follows: Pt. 1 contains seven chapters on the quantity and quality of water required for public supplies, the sources of supply, evaporation and percolation, the examination and quality of water, and the relations between communicable diseases and water supplies. Pt. 2 is on the construction of water works.
A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 298. D. ’08.
“The book is a most excellent elementary summary of the fundamentals underlying the subject, and is altogether up to the high standard established by the author in the longer work on ‘Public water supplies’ written by him in collaboration with H. L. Russell.”
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Engin. D. 3: 418. Ap. ’08. 230w.
“The lapse of seven years, during which no competing work has appeared, and the revision which has now been made, establish the book more firmly than ever in its position among American texts on water-supply.”
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Engin. N. 60: 541. N. 12, ’08. 670w.
“Great progress has been made of late in the purification of water, and the book is well up to date in this important branch, imperfectly covered in most general books on water supply. It will be difficult to mention any detail of water works design not covered in this admirable book, which has its value materially enhanced by a short bibliography appended to each chapter.”
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Engin. Rec. 58: 594. N. 21, ’08. 340w.
Tuttle, Hudson. Arcana of nature, or, The history and laws of creation; with an introd. by Emmet Densmore. *$1.50. Stillman pub.
8–31129.
A reprint of a book that was written about fifty years ago by a farmer boy of seventeen, together with an introduction giving an account of the phenomena of its authorship, and the “superior condition” of Andrew Jackson Davis, Emanuel Swedenborg, and other psychics. The interest attached to Hudson Tuttle’s work lies mainly in the psychic influence that was brought to bear upon his writing it, a matter worthy the consideration of students of psychical research.
N. Y. Times. 13: 660. N. 7, ’08. 160w.
Tweedie, Ethel B. Hyde Park; its history and romance. **$4. Pott.
8–34713.
A book of memories which are associated with Hyde park’s history for four centuries, during which time the fashionable resort of today has evolved from a royal hunting ground. The narrative covers the uses made of this park, the associations with social and political life of England, the duels fought there, and the hangings at Tyburn. The volume is illustrated from old engravings.
“Mrs. Tweedie has brought together a good many interesting facts relating to London’s chief park, and has produced a volume of easy and agreeable reading; but it is rather a collection of scraps than a consecutive history.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 118. Ag. 1. 640w.
“While it cannot be regarded as anything but a compilation, it is the work of a compiler who had the good grace to saturate herself in the atmosphere of her subject before jotting down a line, with the result that the book, even to its most colourless parts, bears the unmistakable marks of zest and freshness.” Firmin Dredd.
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Bookm. 28: 272. N. ’08. 1500w.
“Its merit is that it is written in an easy and attractive style, and that it contains reproductions of a lot of old prints that are very interesting.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 538. O. 3, ’08. 200w.
“Mrs. Alec Tweedie has given us a pleasant book, full of anecdote and description.”
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Spec. 100: 711. My. 2, ’08. 340w.
Tyler, John Mason. Man in the light of evolution. **$1.25. Appleton.
8–29749.
From a biologist’s point of view, yet intended for lay readers, this study is concerned with the light that evolution throws upon the problems of man’s moral, religious, social and family progress. The chapters are as follows: Evolution and Darwinism; Stages of human evolution; Family and society; The logic of evolution; The survival of the fittest; Evolution and faith; Racial experience; Conformity to environment; and Social environment. Bibliography and index.
N. Y. Times. 13: 628. O. 24, ’08. 20w.
“An important and excellent book, this, and in a line not often taken by a professor of biology.”
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Outlook. 90: 594. N. 14, ’08. 160w.
“Professor Tyler is to be thanked for presenting thus a wholesome picture of the progress of the ages from a somewhat new standpoint.” H. W. Conn.
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Science, n.s. 28: 844. D. 11, ’08. 600w.
Tyler, Lyon Gardiner. Williamsburg, the old colonial capital. $2.50. Lyon G. Tyler, Richmond, Va.
7–38428.
A complete history of the town from its first settlement, full information concerning “public buildings, political and social conditions, and much interesting data in reference to the prominent families of Virginia.” (N. Y. Times.)
“President Tyler has given us the best and fullest account of ‘ancient’ Williamsburg and its fine old college that we are likely to have in years to come.” W: E. Dodd.
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Am. Hist. R. 13: 650. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“Bears the stamp of careful research, and is evidently the work of a scholar as well as of an enthusiastic Virginian.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 100. F. 22, ’08. 180w.
R. of Rs. 37: 115. Ja. ’08. 170w.
“Dr. Tyler has collected a quantity of facts about the place and its people. And quite worth collecting they were, though, of course, the interest is mainly local.”
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Spec. 100: 305. F. 22, ’08. 250w.
364Tyndale, Walter. Below the cataracts. il. *$3.50. Lippincott.
8–5821.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
“Is written in good English and published in good print with numerous and prettily coloured illustrations. Remember this is a guide-book—a very luxurious one to those going to Egypt, and a well illustrated one to those who don’t or can’t go there.”
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Acad. 73: 296. D. 28, ’07. 630w.
“Mr. Tyndale has done well himself to write the letterpress required as a setting for these Egyptian pictures; for he has thus secured a harmony rare in this sort of publication, in which the artists’s work and the author’s often cry against each other. This pleasant narrative, taken in conjunction with the pictures, gives a life-like impression of Egypt which works more pretentious have utterly failed to convey. We note some errors.”
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Ath. 1907, 2: 774. D. 14. 420w.
“The work of an artist possessing not only technical ability, but a facile pen. To visitors of the Metropolitan museum in New York his text will have a special interest.”
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Nation. 86: 224. Mr. 5, ’08. 520w.
“He writes simply and naturally, giving for the most part an account of his own experiences, and what he writes is consequently pleasant to read.”