A (continued 2)

“This narrative is marked by the authors’ usual ingenuity and spirit; but the plot is rather too obviously accommodated to the exhibition or contrasts between antagonistic individualities.”

+ − Ath. 1909, 2: 261. S. 4. 150w.

“The first part of this book, the scene of which passes in New England, is excellently written and most interesting to the reader. When, however, the mother and the daughter-in-law quarrel and the daughter-in-law deserts her home, the novel distinctly degenerates.”

+ − Spec. 103: 466. S. 25, ’09. 150w.

Association of American law schools.^[5] Select essays in Anglo-American legal history. 3v. v. 2. per set, *$12. Little.

7–26401.

v. 2. Contains twenty-five essays on the history of particular topics: Pt. 1 is devoted to the sources of legal history; pt. 2 “contains essays by Inderwick, Spence, Holdsworth and Mears on the history of the courts—common law, equity, ecclesiastical and admiralty, their organization and jurisdiction. Part 3, the largest of the four, traces the history of procedure, and the ten essays range from the late Professor Thayer’s ‘Older modes of trial’ and Sir Frederick Pollock’s ‘King’s peace in the middle ages’ to Professor Hepburn’s ‘Historical development of code pleading in America and England.’... In part 4 are six essays on equity.” (Am. Hist. R.)

“We do not mind the overlapping in subject-matter and the conflict of views when the subject-matter is the origin of equity and the conflict of views is between Mr. Justice Holmes and Professor James Barr Ames.” H. D. Hazeltine.

+ Am. Hist. R. 14: 561. Ap. ’09. 1000w. (Review of v. 2.)

“Though primarily intended for lawyers, is at the same time brimful of matter valuable for historians. Only in a very few cases do the editors seem to have fallen below the high standard of excellence which they have adopted.” F.

+ − Eng. Hist. R. 24: 822. O. ’09. 300w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

“This is one of the series of three volumes which the scholarly lawyer cannot well do without.”

+ N. Y. Times. 13: 666. N. 14, ’08. 200w. (Review of v. 2.)

Atkinson, Eleanor. Lincoln’s love story. **50c. Doubleday.

9–3343.

“The average person knows only that Ann Rutledge was Lincoln’s sweetheart whom he lost by death. Of the character of Ann herself, the circumstances of Lincoln’s associations with her, the qualities which set her apart from the rustic maids of New Salem and drew Lincoln’s regard, and of the inner heart of the tragedy which separated them by death—the majority are ignorant. It is this which Mrs. Atkinson tells, correlating all this tradition, supplementing it with direct testimony from surviving friends of Lincoln, and projecting it against the background where it was enacted.”—N. Y. Times.

“Tradition and the testimony of Lincoln’s friends have been skillfully utilized in this delicate story.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 90. Mr. ’09. ✠

“An exquisite little narrative of the tragic romance that mellowed, softened and deepened Lincoln’s life.”

+ Arena. 41: 392. Mr. ’09. 70w.

Ind. 66: 328. F. 11, ’09. 40w.

“While this story cannot take its place as literature with ‘He knew Lincoln’ or ‘The perfect tribute,’ it is, nevertheless, delicately and reverently told.” J. B. Rittenhouse.

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 82. F. 13, ’09. 470w.

16Atkinson, William Walker. Mind-power: or, The law of dynamic mentation. $2. Progress co.

9–3058.

“Mr. Atkinson premises that ‘there exists in nature a dynamic mental principle—a mind-power—pervading all space—immanent in all things—manifesting in an infinite variety of forms, degrees, and phases.’ He identifies this force, or principle—his terminology is rather loose—with ether, or concedes that it may dwell in ether. It is a thing in itself and the way to use it is to say: ‘I am dynamic,’ with all possible emphasis, which ranges this force on your side and makes you irresistible in love, business, and all the affairs of life.”—N. Y. Times.

“Can have no possible value to a student of scientific psychical research, but it may prove attractive to others. The book seems to be a sort of vade mecum for this class of spiritists, hypnotists, clairvoyants, and mediums, and if the reading of it is confined to them no harm will be done.”

− + N. Y. Times. 14: 150. Mr. 13, ’09. 420w.

R. of Rs. 39: 512. Ap. ’09. 50w.

Atlay, J. B.^[5] Lord Haliburton. 8s. 6d. Smith, Elder & co., London.

Not a biography but “the bare truths of a strenuous, and intelligent, and highly conscientious official life.”

“Mr. Atlay has done his work well.”

+ Ath. 1909, 1: 128. Ja. 30. 640w.

“To Americans, this short memoir of the successful career of a British colonist, born and bred in Nova Scotia, cannot but be interesting.”

+ Nation. 88: 257. Mr. 11, ’09. 420w.

Sat. R. 107: 371. Mr. 20, ’09. 740w.

“Is assuredly a contribution to the literature of army problems which no student of these can afford to neglect. It is also an inspiring and stimulating record of the life of a great civil servant.”

+ Spec. 102: 670. Ap. 24, ’09. 530w.

Audel’s gas engine manual. $2. Audel.

8–8318.

“Begins with the earliest types of gas engines and attempts to have the reader become familiar with the various engines in use up to three or four years ago. There are descriptions of a number of engines, but there is a noticeable absence of engines from about 100 to 500 h.-p. In general, the scheme is to familiarize the reader with the various types of engines, the principles upon which they operate, their construction, operation, care and accessories which are always found in connection with gas engine work.”—Engin. Rec.

“While deficient in the matter of theoretical, or thermodynamic, information, and therefore not complete as a text-book on the subject, this volume presents in a convenient form a large amount of practical information.”

+ − Engin. N. 61: sup. 3. Ja. 14, ’09. 320w.

“The author succeeds well in covering the ground in a general manner, and though more intended for the practical man, the book is worth the attention of any one interested in the subject. It is safe to say that the book gives more value for the money than any of its kind now published.”

+ Engin. Rec. 58: 679. D. 12, ’08. 230w.

Austin, Mrs. Mary Hunter.^[11] Lost borders. $1.25. Harper.

9–28270.

Stories of a country “where the boundary of soul and sense is as faint as a trail in a sand storm.” It is of the unrestrained life of the far western plains that the author writes, of the obsessions that seize upon men’s souls, of the moral irresponsibility, engendered by the desert, that has no use for the formal side of man’s affairs.

“It is a wholesome book for city-dwellers in its largeness of understanding.”

+ Nation. 89: 512. N. 25, ’09. 170w.

N. Y. Times. 14: 650. O. 23, ’09. 50w.

“This woman has the eye to see, the heart to understand, the art of words to convey.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 719. N. 20, ’09. 600w.

Austin, Stanley Elston.^[6] History of engraving from its inception to the time of Thomas Bewick. *$1.50. Scribner.

9–4092.

A popular compendium giving in concise form the various methods of engraving. The chapters are: Its fabled or romantic origin; More claims considered; Block books; Early masters—“E. S.” and Albrecht Dürer; Hans Holbein the younger; Progress of wood-engraving in England; Some masters of the French and Italian schools; The birth of mezzotint; Early British mezzotinters; More masters of mezzotint; A great exponent of stipple; The revival of wood-engraving. Index.

A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 5. S. ’09.

“No ‘History’ can properly deal with the rise and progress of engraving ‘From its inception to the time of Bewick’ in this space.”

− Ath. 1909, 1: 623. My. 22. 230w.

“A somewhat bumptious little book. Mr. Austin has knowledge of some of the facts of his subject, although it is questionable if he possesses a clear idea of just what constitutes engraving.”

− + Nation. 88: 178. F. 18, ’09. 270w.

“The author’s enthusiasms lead him to seemingly rather overcolored statements.”

+ − N. Y. Times. 14: 309. My. 15, ’09. 450w.

Auvergne, Edmund B. d’.^[8] Lola Montez. *$4. Lane.

This is the biography of a talented Irish woman whose distasteful early marriage consummated by a scheming parent marked the beginning of a checkered career of the sort known to adventuresses. “Maria Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert eloped at nineteen to escape a mercenary marriage. By twenty-four she had quitted a husband and become the Spanish dancer Lola Montez. In the eighteen years of life left her she passed from end to end of Europe at the public expense, accumulating adorations ‘en route’; fairly naturalized herself in the Paris of the greater Dumas and Émile Girardin; episodically sojourned with the Abbé Liszt; became the Egeria (blamelessly, it appears) of Louis I of Bavaria; lingered in a California camp, and flashed through the mining fields of Australia; became an author, and a devout Methodist at New York; a dull and decorous lecturer in London; made an edifying end, and was buried under her maiden name in Greenwood cemetery.” (Nation.)

“Reading the story of Lola Montez is like reading a vivid page from the eighteenth century.” A. B. Maurice.

+ Bookm. 30: 146. O. ’09. 2650w.

“It is probably his rather forced flippancy, and the tiresome reiteration with which he employs Lola as a flail for Philistia that obscure the better qualities of his book. As it is we find his rather jejune Gautierisms almost insurmountable.”

− + Nation. 89: 118. Ag. 5, ’09. 530w.

“It is a kindly, sympathetic, and appreciative view of the famous adventuress that is presented.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 475. Ag. 7, ’09. 660w.

Avebury, John Lubbock. Peace and happiness. **$1.50. Macmillan.

9–2259.

At the heart of Lord Avebury’s entire presentation of the subject of happiness lies the conviction that “happiness depends upon ourselves.” His chapter headings are: The body, 17The mind, Aspiration, Contentment, Adversity, Kindness, Education, On friends and enemies, On riches, The dread of nature, The love of nature, Now, Wisdom, Religion, Theology, Peace of mind, and The peace of nations. The author’s attitude towards pain and evil is revealed in the statement, “Pain is not always, or even generally, an evil. It is often a warning and safeguard.... But we do not so readily acknowledge that the same is true of mental troubles.”

“Not original, but practical and helpful, with numerous pertinent quotations.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 71. Mr. ’09. ✠

+ Dial. 46: 142. Mr. 1, ’09. 450w.

“It is a temperate, healthy, beautiful book, one that every intelligent man or woman will be the better and the happier for having read. There are two chapters on religion and theology respectively in which one meets with a few statements from which a Catholic would dissent.”

+ − Ecclesiastical R. 40: 500. Ap. ’09. 460w.

“Lord Avebury is, in a modest and reasonable but very candid and courageous way, progressive and even radical.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 100. F. 20, ’09. 770w.

“There is a certain human kindness and philosophic depth about everything that Lord Avebury writes, and he has given us some very thought-provoking paragraphs in this volume of brief essays.”

+ R. of Rs. 39: 512. Ap. ’09. 70w.

“This volume has been pieced together out of Lord Avebury’s note-books, for the benefit of the rate-provided libraries, whose frequenters have an insatiable appetite for platitudes, and are not very familiar with the best things that have been said.”

− Sat. R. 107: 530. Ap. 24, ’09. 400w.

“Sometimes, we think, our author is somewhat too dogmatic. Sometimes, again, he is a little trite. But, on the whole, his book is full of truth, good counsel, and pertinent examples, well chosen and well expressed.”

+ − Spec. 102: 426. Mr. 13, ’09. 420w.

Avery, Elroy McKendree.^[5] History of the United States and its people from their earliest records to the present time. 15v. v. 5. ea. *$6.25. Burrows.

4–32329.

v. 5. Covers the period from the French and Indian war to the time of the declaration of independence.

+ Lit. D. 39: 959. N. 27, ’09. 420w. (Review of v. 5.)

“From the purely literary point of view, this latest volume is his best; the style has greater evenness and dignity, and less of trivial digression and straining for popular effect than in any of his earlier work.”

+ Nation. 88: 513. My. 20, ’09. 550w. (Review of v. 5.)

“This interesting period is handled by Mr. Avery in an intelligent, spirited, and entertaining fashion, due attention being paid to all of the important movements and stirring events that enlivened it.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 168. Mr. 20, ’09. 280w. (Review of v. 5.)

“In some respects, particularly in the matter of typography and illustrations, the best of the series that has thus far appeared. In all this narrative Dr. Avery has made good use of contemporary sources of information, both for text and illustrations.”

+ R. of Rs. 39: 381. Mr. ’09. 120w. (Review of v. 5.)

“We cannot on this occasion criticise the book in detail; but we must say a word about the rich variety of the illustrations with which it is furnished.”

Spec. 102: 587. Ap. 10, ’09. 80w. (Review of v. 5.)

Ayres, Leonard P.^[6] Laggards in our schools: a study of retardation and elimination in city school systems. $1.50. Charities pub. com.

9–16218.

The Russell Sage foundation furnished the sum of money necessary for conducting a preliminary survey that might (1) Put together useful material bearing on these topics; (2) Develop a mode of attack on the problem; (3) Analyze a sufficiently large number of cases to demonstrate the utility of the method and answer questions. The results included in this volume show that the most important causes of retardation can be removed; that regularity of attendance and faithfulness are major elements of success; that some cities are accomplishing results by exemplary measures; that relatively few children are so defective as to prevent success in school or in life.

“Presents valuable data.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 6. S. ’09.

Ann. Am. Acad. 34: 601. N. ’09. 210w.

“The book, although very clearly written, is not a merely popular discussion of the subject as the wording of the title might lead one to suspect, but gives evidence of careful research, of keen analysis of the material presented, and of much insight into statistical procedure.” W. F. Dearborn.

+ El. School T. 10: 94. O. ’09. 1100w.

“Such a book, at once readable and scholarly, scientific and popular, critical and constructive, is typical of the best in educational literature.”

+ Ind. 67: 310. Ag. 5, ’09. 200w.

“Every one interested in the welfare of our children ought to possess this book. And with all its statistics and generalizations, it is neither dry nor impersonal. For Mr. Ayres has given life to figures and character to diagrams, out of the great love of his heart for childhood.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 466. Jl. 31, ’09. 1000w.

Ayscough, John.^[5] Dromina. †$1.50. Putnam.

9–8577.

“A book of unusual interest. The scene is laid in Ireland, and shifts to Spain and South America. The people are of ancient Irish lineage, with a group of Gypsies from Spain who surround their king, and consort with the descendant of Irish kings. The central figure, though by no means the strongest character, is the Gypsy King Ludovic—disclosed as the last Dauphin, the ill-fated son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. The intricacies of the story are infinite, but the author holds the guiding clue firmly, and leads us through many winding ways, to our satisfaction.”—Outlook.

“A long, intricate story of considerable interest, fresh in its scenes, good in character delineation and full of shrewd observation and clever conversation.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 185. Je. ’09.

“One may be well content to condone the structural weaknesses of ‘Dromina’ for the sake of its individual beauties—its fresh scenes, original characters, shrewd and delicate observations, and unforced wit. Above all, one must recognize its special distinction—a power of spiritual perception which enables the author to deal convincingly with supernatural experience.”

+ − Ath. 1909, 1: 555. My. 8. 170w.

“Each separate part is well executed; it is only the whole that is unsatisfactory.”

+ − Cath. World. 89: 549. Jl. ’09. 370w.

“There are enough desperate doings in the book to stir any grande dame’s fine blood.”

+ Ind. 67: 424. Ag. 19, ’09. 100w.

“It is in essence a fine and high-minded work.”

+ − Nation. 89: 212. S. 2, ’09. 380w.

“Altogether the book is as delightful as it is surprising. One is the better for associating with its men and women, who, under their 18playfulness and fantasy, possess such high breeding, such courage, and so pure a power for serving their highest aims.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 288. My. 8, ’09. 520w.

“Each character of the many which crowd the pages is individualized and excites our interest, while the romance holds our attention to the end.”

+ Outlook. 92: 19*. My. 1, ’09. 200w.

“Variety of scene, sympathetic characters, and shrewd psychological insight combine to make ‘Dromina’ a very entertaining tale.”

+ R. of Rs. 39: 761. Je. ’09. 50w.

“It is magnificent, but it is not enough concentrated in interest to move us much.”

− Sat. R. 108: 202. Ag. 14, ’09. 150w.

“Mr. Ayscough’s writing is always interesting, but in the present book he really has given us too many kings without kingdoms among his characters. When all is said and done, there is a charm about ‘Dromina’ missed by many novels which are far more competently put together.”

+ − Spec. 102: 586. Ap. ’09. 280w.