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* Ybarra, Thomas R. Davy Jones’s yarns and other salted songs. **$1.25. Holt.
The “yarns,” five in number, relate in rhyme how Davy Jones met an Icecreamberg; how a Swiss Admiral helped him out of trouble in Russia; how he and the Swiss Admiral chased the Mince Pirates; how he and Professor Bim went to Cuba to kill the revolution bug; and how he met with a typhoon. The “Salted songs” are in the same hilarious vein. The illustrations are as spirited as they are funny.
“A fantastic quality in their humor that is as unusual as it is delightful.”
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Dial. 45: 415. D. 1, ’08. 120w.
“The drawings rescue the verses from the commonplace.” W. G. Bowdoin.
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Ind. 65: 1467. D. 17, ’08. 30w.
Yeats, William Butler, and Gregory, Isabelle A. Unicorn from the stars, and other plays. *$1.50. Macmillan.
8–16447.
Containing The unicorn from the stars, by Lady Gregory and W. B. Yeats; Cathleen ni Houlihan, by W. B. Yeats; The hour-glass, by W. B. Yeats.
“The plays impress us as having little dramatic character: we should say that they conveyed their idea chiefly by symbol rather than by action. We like to read and enjoy them, rather than criticize them.”
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Dial. 45: 255. O. 16, ’08. 360w.
“It would be easy to exaggerate the importance of them as plays, impossible to deny their significance as first fruits of a veritable national drama.”
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Nation. 86: 540. Je. 11, ’08. 620w.
N. Y. Times. 13: 217. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
Yerkes, Robert Mearns. Dancing mouse: a study in animal behavior. (Animal behavior ser., v. 1.) *$1.25. Macmillan.
7–34599.
“The book is a thoroughly scientific study of behavior in one of the higher animals,—a work of really fundamental interest to all students of comparative psychology.... The first five chapters are devoted more particularly to the special peculiarities of the dancing mouse; to its origin and history; to its extraordinary ‘dance’ movements; to methods of breeding and care; to the controversy that has long existed regarding the structure of the ear and the sense of hearing. With the sixth chapter, on the sense of hearing, begins the account of the author’s own investigations.”—Psychol. Bull.
“This study is the nearest approach yet made by any student of behavior to giving a complete and systematic account of the varieties and complexities of the actions of a mammalian race.” J: B. Watson.
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J. Philos. 5: 184. Mr. 26, ’08. 2000w.
“Apart from its value as a contribution to science, the book is an extremely readable one, and is, moreover, admirably bound and printed.” W. B.
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Nature. 77: 533. Ap. 9, ’08. 400w.
“The distinguishing feature of the work lies in the ingenious and extremely valuable methods of experimental investigation worked out by Yerkes; this makes the book really indispensable to every investigator in this field.” H. S. Jennings.
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Psychol. Bull. 5: 92. Mr. 15, ’08. 900w.
“To people who have not followed the recent developments in this field of science the book is a revelation.”
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R. of Rs. 37: 112. Ja. ’08. 80w.
“Aside from its general usefulness as a reference book for the research student, the book forms a valuable guide to the technique of experimentation upon animals.” J: B. Watson.
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Science, n.s. 28: 151. Jl. 31, ’08. 1950w.
York, Francis L. Counterpoint simplified. (Music students lib.) $1.25. Ditson.
8–1124.
A resetting of old well-known principles of strict counterpoint in as convenient and as concise a form as possible.
“A textbook that merits high commendation. Its statements are clear and orderly, and its examples valuable.”
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A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 243. O. ’08.
* Young, Alexander Bell Filson. When the tide turns. †$1.50. Estes.
“The hero is a young artist with genius for expression by means of the line. His eyesight and his feelings are both a bit morbid at the start, but the controversies that his work arouses set his feet more firmly upon the road to fame.... There comes to him the great love, and its object is the wife of his best friend. The author has no doubts whatever about the right solution of the problem, and neither, after an hour’s reasoning about it has the artist.”—N. Y. Times.
“Mr. Filson Young shows his youth in many ways throughout this book. It ‘reads young,’ and there is youth to account for and excuse certain errors in treatment. He writes admirably, and by far the pleasantest parts of his book are the descriptions of nature, which are frequent.”
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Ath. 1908, 2: 715. D. 5. 140w.
“Without detriment to his narrative the author might have been more discreet in his accounts of the young man’s experiments with the tree of knowledge.”
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N. Y. Times. 13: 789. D. 19, ’08. 340w.
“The book falls into pieces which owe nothing to each other, written in different styles, different veins, and of different people.”
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Sat. R. 106: 674. N. 28, ’08. 400w.
Younghusband, George John. Story of the Guides. *$2.25. Macmillan.
8–27167.
A narrative of some of the adventures of the corps of guides organized in India in 1846 to furnish aid to troops in the field and to collect information. “It is full of interest from the first chapter, in which a brief sketch of the raising of the corps by ‘Joe’ Lumsden is given—through the description of distinguished service which began then, and has since been continuous—to the final chapter, in which ‘the home of the guides’ at Mardá is described.” (Ath.)
“Deserves a cordial welcome for several reasons, but primarily because of its intrinsic merits, which are many. There is little to find fault with in the book, but that little should not have been there.”
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Ath. 1908, 1: 727. Je. 13. 780w.
“From this ‘story’ one gains a new and higher appreciation of the Indian’s character, not 402only as regards his bravery, but more especially his absolute devotion to duty.”
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Nation. 87: 98. Jl. 30, ’08. 740w.
“It is the rough material out of which history is made.”
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Spec. 101: 232. Ag. 15, ’08. 1300w.