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Cabell, James Branch.^[11] Chivalry. **$2. Harper.

9–27967.

Ten stories in holiday make-up retold from the work of a dependent of the Duke of Burgundy in 1470. They “treat of divers queens and of their love-business.” They are the stories of the Sestina, of the Tenson, of the Rat-Trap, of the Choices, of the Housewife, of the Satraps, of the Heritage, of the Scabbard, of the Navarrese and of the Fox-Brush.

Outlook. 93: 787. D. 4, ’09. 110w.

Cabell, James Branch. Cords of vanity. † $1.50. Doubleday.

9–4297.

Should the young hero of these chapters of wooings and small flirtations open his palm for a professional reading, doubtless where the line of constancy ought to appear there would be sundry “fickle” lines in evidence. For he is the bee that sips the honey from many a flower, and his flitting process is the book’s only diversion.

“Viewed as a whole, the book is a notable performance.”

+ Ath. 1909, 2: 357. S. 25. 160w.

“One is reminded of the time-honored characterization of this class of fiction as worse than immoral—dull.”

− Nation. 88: 582. Je. 10, ’09. 200w.

“When it comes to near half a score love affairs, with only one man for the entire lot, the atmosphere grows sirupy, and not all Mr. Cabell’s skill with the English language, which is considerable, is sufficient to save the reader from a keen longing for fresh air and lemons.”

− N. Y. Times. 14: 175. Mr. 27, ’09. 170w.

Cable, George Washington. Kincaid’s battery. †$1.50. Scribner.

8–32648.

A story of New Orleans during the first part of the civil war. In the background is the din of warfare while the center of the stage is held by two women combatants. One of them, a Creole, loves fiercely and jealously the young captain whom she tries to separate from the other woman.

A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 24. Ja. ’09. ✠

“We cannot describe it as a successful work of fictive art. A certain amount of misunderstanding and playing at cross-purposes is quite proper as a means of holding the reader’s interest in suspense, but the device is absurdly overworked in the present instance.” W: M. Payne.

− + Dial. 46: 87. F. 1, ’09. 260w.

“All told, it is a story where the red fuse of war burns into the drawing-room of a pretty society. And the author misses neither the lightness nor the tragedy of such a situation.”

+ Ind. 66: 700. Ap. 1, ’09. 320w.

“Perhaps the tale pleases us chiefly because it takes us back to the old scene and the old figures. The theatrical inventions might be dispensed with.”

+ − Nation. 88: 19. Ja. 7, ’09. 580w.

“He trails every elusive emotion to its last hiding place, and with exquisitely fine art, even if the reader does find it a bit tedious sometimes and not quite worth while, makes his chief characters depict themselves and one another through pages upon pages of conversation and unimportant action.”

+ − N. Y. Times. 13: 740. D. 5, ’08. 500w.

“Frankly, we find it rather hard reading. It seems to us that the author does not tell his story in a simple, direct way, but adopts a style that is, not exactly enigmatic, but, if we may use the phrase, ‘round-the-cornerish.’ The result is that the interest halts or retrogrades just when it should move forward with firm, quick step.”

− Outlook. 91: 107. Ja. 16, ’09. 240w.

Cable, George Washington.^[12] “Posson Jone’” and Père Raphaël; with a new word setting forth how and why the two tales are one. †$1.50. Scribner.

9–28036.

A reprint, in holiday dress of two favorite Creole stories. For the second, Mr. Cable kept blowing thru his bubble pipe, refusing a new dip into the source of his first well rounded sphere of lights and colors, knowing that there was another bubble up the pipe which he could develop to the full proportions of the first. And here we have the two which Mr. Cable’s genius has lent permanency to—the drafts of criticism cannot blow them out, neither have they the disposition to.

+ Dial. 47: 464. D. 1, ’09. 130w.

“‘Père Raphaël’ is more melodramatic, conventional, and even machine-like in plot and development than this author’s stories are wont to be.”

+ − N. Y. Times. 14: 689. N. 6, ’09. 120w.

64Cabot, Oliver.^[6] Man without a shadow. †$1.50. Appleton.

9–11688.

A young man after a lapse of memory wakens to consciousness one day in a sanitarium but by some queer freak his memory was left behind. There is an indefinable fear that compels him to believe that he has been evilly dealt with. He escapes and the incidents of the story have to do with his efforts to win back his memory by the aid of instinct and faces seen in dreams, and they involve the tricking of enemies who had been responsible for the young man’s condition, the interest of a French scientist, and the devotion of a young New York girl. The scene shifts from New Jersey to Paris.

“Ingenious tale.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 25. S. ’09.

“This story may be regarded as a faint reflection of ‘Somehow good,’ and, although it offers not a tithe of the art or the psychology of Mr. De Morgan’s novel, may yet be recognized as an entertaining production.” W: M. Payne.

+ Dial. 47: 48. Jl. 16, ’09. 180w.

“Its plot has been well invented and worked out, and the incidents contrived in a perfectly natural way. The story lays no claim to literary quality, it makes no literary pretensions, but it holds the attention easily and agreeably until the end.”

+ − Ind. 67: 40. Jl. 1, ’09. 80w.

“Merely as a story of plot and incident ‘The man without a shadow’ is remarkably clever, skillful and entertaining. Mr. Cabot is to be congratulated upon the fertility of invention and the mastery of construction which it shows.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 270. My. 1, ’09. 530w.

Caffin, Charles Henry.^[12] Story of Dutch painting. **$1.20. Century.

The story of Dutch art from the beginning of the seventeenth century which date marks a new era. It is with the newness of their art that the author is concerned, but he studies it in “its relation to the material and mental environment of the nation itself, of whose newness it was so immediate a product and so manifest an expression.” Mr. Caffin tells how the artists of the seventeenth century developed a new school of painting, what they accomplished in portraiture, in landscape, and in the representation of the indoor and outdoor life of the people; why they chose these subjects and why they treated them as they did.

“This book will hardly serve the turn of those who love painting as such. Those, however, who wish merely information about artists and their times, and discursive meditation about pictures, will find it both edifying and entertaining.”

+ − Nation. 89: 522. N. 25, ’09. 620w.

“A complete handbook of Dutch art.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14; 659. O. 23, ’09. 30w.

Caffin, Charles Henry, and Caffin, Caroline A. Appreciation of the drama. **$1.50. Baker.

8–31502.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

“An interesting contribution to stage literature, but not of first importance.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 6. Ja. ’09.

“The salient points in the general history of the drama are lucidly presented with practical succinctness.”

+ Dial. 46: 25. Ja. 1, ’09. 260w.

“He does not in any way show a deep knowledge of the theater or a wide knowledge of the theatrical situation.”

− Ind. 66: 1141. Je. 27, ’09. 180w.

Cain, Georges.^[5] Walks in Paris; tr. by Alfred Allinson. *$2. Macmillan.

W9–151.

The author as guide avoids the megaphone man’s method of stringing together commonplaces and does the honors properly and pleasantly, of the old quarters of Paris, to Parisians who complain of knowing nothing of the history of the great city. He dabbles not at all in hackneyed legend but supplements the history of buildings with brief narratives of events, heroic or calamitous, that have happened beneath their shadow. It is Paris from a French point of view. Numerous illustrations accompany the text.

“Excellent descriptions of notable landmarks written by a Parisian having ample knowledge and love for his city.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 156. Je. ’09.

“All M. Cain writes about Paris is worthy of introduction to English readers.”

+ Ath. 1909, 1: 583. My. 15. 200w.

“M. Cain’s conspicuous merit is his ability to keep off the paths beaten by the guide-books; and wherever he conducts his readers he reveals new interests in unlikely places.”

+ Dial. 46: 373. Je. 1, ’09. 350w.

“A veritable treasure-house of information about the Paris that has disappeared, or is doomed to disappear, on both banks of the Seine—the old Paris of history and of the historical novel.”

+ Ind. 66: 1241. Je. 3, ’09. 130w.

“The translator was obviously interested in his translation and tries to supplement in his notes the information of the text.”

+ Nation. 88: 628. Je. 24, ’09. 240w.

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 403. Je. 26, ’09. 400w.

“He knows not only all of Paris in brick and stone, he has known all of Paris living; he is the son of the house, he is your delightful host, he is full of family anecdotes. He has the incomparable faculty of making you feel, for the nonce, as if you too were of the family.”

+ No. Am. 190: 561. O. ’09. 320w.

“This book, we should say, almost reaches the ideal of the art of writing about the old buildings and historical associations of a city such as Paris or London.”

+ Sat. R. 107: 728. Je. 5, ’09. 320w.

Caine, Hall. My story. **$2. Appleton.

9–6264.

“A brief but graphic sketch of the surroundings of his childhood, and the friendships formed among literary men in his early manhood.” (Outlook.) He shows “familiar knowledge of the methods, phraseology, and varied ‘tricks of the trade’ of modern journalism.... This familiarity has been expressed in racy comments on American newspapers and their interviewers; it has also impressed the general style of many pages of his book.... The chief interest is found in the nucleus of the story—the revelations of Rossetti and his small, but choice coterie of friends as they were known by Mr. Caine during the last few years of Rossetti’s life.” (Dial.)

“A story of considerable interest.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 100. Ap. ’09.

Reviewed by A. B. Maurice.

+ Bookm. 29: 305. My. ’09. 1750w.

“In spite of its blemishes of style, and its incompleteness of structure, ‘My story’ is interesting and illuminating as a series of impressions of Rossetti and his friends, Watts-Dunton, Madox Brown, Philip Marston, Shields, and others, and as a revelation of Mr. Caine’s own personality and convictions.” A. R. Marble.

+ − Dial. 46: 223. Ap. 1, ’09. 1400w.

Reviewed by A. B. Maurice.

+ Forum. 41: 398. Ap. ’09. 950w.

“This autobiography is interesting because it does actually reveal the character of the writer.”

+ − Lit. D. 38: 473. Mr. 20, ’09. 730w.

“Mr. Caine gives ... an altogether undue number of letters from these great men in praise of his own works of fiction. Perhaps the most striking minor portrait is that of Henry Irving playing a rôle in life as on the stage.”

+ − Nation. 88: 256. Mr. 11, ’09. 650w.

65“Caine fails in trying to picture Rossetti as an attractive personage, arousing only pity, and not sympathy. The chapter written around his visits to America has a distinct aroma of patronage. Mr. Caine concludes with some observations on the literary life, its joys and its emoluments. Some of these are pertinent and others are impertinent.”

− N. Y. Times. 14: 192. Ap. 3, ’09. 530w.

“To those who are fond of literary gossip, Mr. Hall Caine’s ‘Story’ must, in despite of defects, appeal. Is nowise an important book, but it is a readable and amusing book of very light literary gossip.”

+ − No. Am. 189: 781. My. ’09. 600w.

“Altogether, while the book is in no way important, it is entertaining and well worth reading.”

+ Outlook. 91: 773. Ap. 3, ’09. 380w.

+ R. of Rs. 39: 763. Je. ’09. 160w.

Caine, Hall.^[9] White prophet. †$1.50. Appleton.

9–23731.

A novel of Egyptian life and English life in Egypt in which the author “attempts to re-create the course of the events of the last quarter of a century as they ought to have happened.” (Sat. R.) It portrays social and official life in government and military circles of Egyptian cities and follows the unconvincing course of the “White prophet” half Christian, half Mohammedan as leader of the new Nationalist movement.

“Of the plot, founded as it is on misconception of the state of Egypt, and defective understanding of its men and problems, without one spark of humour, we will only say that it is wildly melodramatic.”

− Ath. 1909, 2: 232. Ag. 28. 870w.

“Fortunately we now know the worst that Mr. Hall Caine can do. No living being, not even himself, can surpass the enormity which he calls ‘The white prophet.’” A. Schade van Westrum.

− − Bookm. 30: 150. O. ’09. 1330w.

“Compound of preposterous politics and sickly sentiment.” W: M. Payne.

− Dial. 47: 238. O. 1, ’09. 450w.

“This book has no message from the spirit, but is just another subject the author has selected over which to have hysterics.”

− Ind. 67: 1093. N. 11, ’09. 380w.

“The eastern atmosphere with which the entire story is infused is quite as pleasing as the more familiar British setting usually associated with Hall Caine’s work. In the main the dramatic unfolding of the plot holds the reader’s attention.”

+ Lit. D. 39: 535. O. 2, ’09. 400w.

“Mr. Caine has a habit of dwelling interminably upon his facts without really illuminating them.”

− Nation. 89: 255. S. 16, ’09. 600w.

“‘The white prophet’ is Mr. Caine at his worst and at his best. It is good melodrama: it is also full of platitude, prolix, and overlarded with sentimentality. The book would gain in intensity and power were a goodly number of 600 pages judiciously blue penciled. Mr. Caine ‘preaches’ too much, but the bones of the story are good melodrama—and melodrama is always popular.”

− + N. Y. Times. 14: 522. S. 4, ’09. 500w.

“As a novel this is a typical Hall Caine book, and in its own way the appearance of a Hall Caine book is a literary event. In this story the action and movement are at first rapid and strong, but by the middle one begins to weary of the artificial excitement and to long for a little plain common-sense realism.”

+ − Outlook. 93: 52. S. 11, ’09. 530w.

“On more than one of the more than 600 pages of this novel the reader finds blood-stirring dramatic narrative strength, but from even the most casual perusal it is quite evident that if the tale had been half as long it might have been twice as strong.”

+ − R. of Rs. 40: 635. N. ’09. 140w.

“‘The white prophet’ is vulgar and unpretentious; it never gets within a hundred leagues of literature; even in its badness it is undistinguished.”

− Sat. R. 108: 228. Ag. 21, ’09. 1350w.

“When leniency has done its utmost, the book must be described as a bad work of art as well as a most mischievous and odious travesty of our policy in Egypt.”

− Spec. 103: 244. Ag. 14, ’09. 1100w.

Cairns, William B., ed.^[9] Selections from early American writers, 1607–1800. *$1.25. Macmillan.

9–14597.

Selections from early American writers from 1607 to 1800. “Theology is the base of most of these selections, although such matters as Indian rights, poems on various sentimental subjects, translations of the Psalms, the examination and condemnation of witches, love letters and historical and descriptive sketches lend variety and prove more agreeable reading than the dissertations upon infant damnation or descriptions of the traits of the grim Deity these people had fashioned for their terror and worship.” (N. Y. Times.)

+ Dial. 47: 52. Jl. 16, ’09. 30w.

+ Ind. 67: 298. Ag. 5, ’09. 40w.

“The volume ought to serve a good purpose in many ways.”

+ Lit. D. 39: 535. O. 2, ’09. 110w.

“Mr. Cairns has done a good work for students of American literature. He has also given us a book full of human interest, quaint knowledge, and real experience, where in a small compass it is easy to get a broad idea of a phase of our national life none the less important because it has utterly passed away.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 475. Ag. 7, ’09. 1200w.

Calisch, Edward N.^[6] Jew in English literature, as author and as subject. *$2. Bell bk.

9–15983.

A work the scope of whose subject and the method of whose treatment “have been determined with the view to bring out the purpose of the work, viz., to show, on the one hand, what has been the attitude of the British nation, as expressed by its writers, toward the Jew at various periods of their common history, what influence the Jews have thus unconsciously had upon its literature; and on the other hand, what influence they have unconsciously exercised by their own contributions to this literature.” It covers English literature from the tenth century to date.

“The little book will attract attention to one of the curiosities of English literature, and, indeed, might be regarded as a supplementary chapter to Isaac Disraeli’s book of that name, though scarcely with its charm.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 479. Ag. 7, ’09. 430w.

+ R. of Rs. 40: 639. N. ’09. 40w.

Call, Annie Payson.^[11] Nerves and common sense. **$1.25. Little.

9–35851.

The author who has delivered numerous helpful messages to nervously tired people has gathered into this volume twenty-five papers that have been published separately, very many of them in the “Ladies’ home journal.” The titles are suggestive, some of them being: Habit and nervous strain: How women can keep from being nervous; “You have no idea how I am rushed”; “Why does Mrs. Smith get on my nerves”; The trying member of the family; Irritable husbands; How to be ill and get well; Is physical culture good for girls? Working restfully; Telephones and telephoning; “Why fuss so much 66about what I eat”; About faces; About vices; and About frights.

“More restricted in its appeal but also more practical and suggestive in the field covered than any of the numerous recent books.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 70. N. ’09.

“A collection of pleasant suggestive essays.”

+ R. of Rs. 40: 639. N. ’09. 20w.

Callender, Guy Stevens, ed.^[11] Selections from the economic history of the United States, 1765–1860, with introductory essays. (Selections and documents in economics.) *$2.75. Ginn.

9–26314.

A book of collateral reading for undergraduate classes in American economic history, or for general courses in American history that give attention to economics. At the beginning of each chapter is a preliminary essay that prepares the way for the account of economic affairs that follows.

Calthrop, Dion Clayton.^[9] Everybody’s secret. †$1.50. Dillingham.

9–20662.

Toby Quarrenden, an over-trustful young man, is a firm believer in the idea that there is more good in man than evil. Tenderly pictured is his Platonic friendship for an actress, Christine Macaire, and his sorrow over the discovery that the woman whom he had married and his best friend Mr. Welby have concealed from him an illicit relation of early years. The deception of these two, which had reached everybody’s ears before its revelation to him, somewhat shakes his faith in mankind. After the death of his wife, thru the influence and love of Christine, his simple trust in humanity is restored.

“The unskilful employment of incidences in the manufacture of difficulties casts a serious blot on this novel, which, however, is written in a sparkling style, and studded with poetic ideas.”

+ − Ath. 1909, 2: 9. Jl. 3. 120w.

Atlan. 104: 686. N. ’09. 260w.

“The story is very interesting and not of the sensational sort. It compares favorably with the author’s former success, ‘The dance of love.’”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 548. S. 18, ’09. 380w.

“His book is quite devoid of offence, and is evidence once again of the intense importance of manner in treating of certain matters.”

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

Calvert, Albert Frederick.^[8] Madrid: an historical description and handbook of the Spanish capital. *$1.50. Lane.

9–35585.

A general, popular account “containing a chapter of general impressions, a brief history of the city, descriptions of the court, society, art, literature, and the drama, churches, and public buildings, including the Escorial, La Granja, and Alcalá; an excellent guide to that marvellous collection of arms and armor, so little of which, curiously enough, is of Spanish workmanship; and last but not least two chapters on the bull-fight.”—Nation.

A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 157. Je. ’09.

“Though the style of the text is popular and at times diffuse, the prospective tourist to Madrid will find the book of great value.”

+ − Ann. Am. Acad. 34: 177. Jl. ’09. 200w.

“One could not ask for a better supplement to the more practical details of the guide-book. The work is accurate, sympathetically just, complete without being tiresome, and profusely illustrated.”

+ Nation. 88: 468. My. 6, ’09. 370w.

“A corner of the curtain has just been rather ungently raised, but the revelation reveals only one phase of Spanish life—the religious and social.”

+ − N. Y. Times. 14: 463. Jl. 31, ’09. 80w.

“Possibly the chapter on ‘Literature and the drama’ is the most inadequate.”

+ − Spec. 103: 99. Jl. 17, ’09. 80w.

Calvert, Albert Frederick.^[8] Royal palaces of Spain: a historical and descriptive account of the seven principal palaces of the Spanish kings. *$1.50. Lane.

9–12927.

Describes El Alcazar, the Escorial, El Pardo, Aranjuez, La Granja, Royal palace (Madrid), and Miramar.

A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 157. Je. ’09.

“The text and 165 small but excellent illustrations fulfil the promise of the preface.”

+ Nation. 89: 105. Jl. 29, ’09. 500w.

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 463. Jl. 31, ’09. 70w.

Calvert, Albert Frederick. Southern Spain; painted by Trevor Haddon. *$6. Macmillan.

9–5230.

This book, the embodiment of the author’s personal impressions and observations, is intended for guide-book use; in it are brought together “as much of history, art, and topography as the traveler is likely to assimilate.”

“A sumptuous and well-informed handbook.”

+ Dial. 45: 460. D. 16, ’08. 230w.

“One of the most fascinating gift books of its kind.”

+ Nation. 87: 577. D. 10, ’08. 50w.

+ N. Y. Times. 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 160w.

“Mr. Trevor Haddon’s book of coloured sketches may be taken on the whole as giving a good general idea of the various scenes depicted. Mr. Calvert’s descriptions are pleasantly written and give a very fair historical account of the places visited. His errors are at any rate harmless.”

+ − Sat. R. 106: 764. D. 19, ’08. 180w.

“We are told that he has ‘introduced a little gossip into the descriptive matter.’ It is perhaps this ‘gossip’ that gives the book its curiously second-hand character, though this is a merit as well as a defect, for the authors copied by Mr. Calvert are often men of sound taste and knowledge.”

+ − Spec. 102: 268. F. 13, ’09. 550w.

Calvert, Albert Frederick. Valladolid, Oviedo, Segovia, Zamora, Avila and Zaragoza; an historical and descriptive account. (Spanish ser.) *$1.50. Lane.

8–26390.

The text mainly historical is followed by some four hundred full-page illustrations.

“The text contains sundry, random assertions, some unauthentic anecdotes, and not a few serious errors. The photographs are more valuable than the letterpress.”

− + Ath. 1908, 2: 538. O. 31. 250w.

Dial. 45: 300. N. 1, ’08. 60w.

Nation. 87: 577. D. 10, ’08. 80w.

Spec. 101: 171. Ag. 1, ’08. 60w.

Calvert, Albert Frederick, and Gallichan, Catherine Gasquoine.^[8] El Greco: an account of his life and works. *$1.50. Lane.

9–17456.

Contains an introduction giving an account of the development of Spanish painting during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, followed by a sketch of the famous Creton’s life from his birth to the time of his coming to Spain.

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 8. S. ’09.

“This book is a conscientious but wholly uninspired compilation, negligible as criticism, but 67useful as a collection of facts not readily accessible in English.”

+ − Nation. 89: 388. O. 21, ’09. 130w.

+ − N. Y. Times. 14: 463. Jl. 31, ’09. 440w.

“The Spanish and Italian quotations in this volume are often somewhat inaccurate, and we have some amazing Greek on p. 25. There is, moreover, a strangely persistent confusion in the proper names.”

+ − Spec. 103: 99. Jl. 17, ’09. 300w.

Camac, Charles Nicoll Bancker, comp.^[9] Epoch-making contributions to medicine, surgery, and the allied sciences; being reprints of those communications which first conveyed epoch-making observations to the scientific world, together with biographical sketches of the observers. *$4. Saunders.

9–5259.

A series of “articles each of which communicated such observations as first placed the subject upon a sound scientific basis.” The contributions include those of Lord Lister on antiseptic surgery; Harvey’s circulation of the blood; Leopold Auenbrugger’s Percussion of the chest; R. T. H. Laënnec’s Use of the stethoscope; Edward Jenner’s Vaccination against small-pox; Morton, Wells, and Warren’s Anesthesia; Oliver Wendell Holmes’ Puerperal fever.

“The idea of the compilation is a good one and the work will interest laymen as well as professionals.”

+ Lit. D. 38: 851. My. 15, ’09. 100w.

“The book is handsomely and, barring a few slight typographical errors in the bibliography, excellently printed, and should keenly interest those medical students—‘raræ aves’—who can be induced to read anything outside the required textbooks.”

+ − Nation. 89: 167. Ag. 19, ’09. 160w.

Cambridge history of English literature; ed. by A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller. 14v. ea. *$2.50. Putnam.

7–40854.

v. 3. Renascence and reformation.

“The present volume begins with the English humanists, Linacre and Grocyn, in the closing years of the fifteenth century, and ends with Hooker’s ‘Ecclesiastical polity,’ the first books of which appeared in 1594. It does not include, however, the plays which fall within the limits of these dates, since the whole subject of the English drama, from its beginnings, down to the closing of the theatres in 1642, is reserved for continuous treatment in the fourth and fifth volumes.”—Nation.

A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 133. My. ’09. (Review of v. 3.)

“The bibliographies are in general good but are unequal in merit: in some cases the best editions are not noted, and the dates of first editions are not mentioned. The index of names is laudably complete.”

+ − Ath. 1909, 2: 6. Jl. 3. 1300w. (Review of v. 3.)

“These articles fail in what should be their first purpose, the orientation of the student. Our philological scholarship has never been particularly felicitous in expression; but the effect of it, when massed in such bulk as this, is unexpectedly depressing.”

− + Ind. 66: 865. Ap. 22, ’09. 950w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)

+ Lit. D. 38: 904. My. 22, ’09. 450w. (Review of v. 3.)

“The third volume of this work shows an even greater improvement on the second than the second showed on the first. This volume, like the previous ones, contains a full and excellent bibliography. We note some lacunæ in the section devoted to Spenser.”

+ + − Nation. 88: 338. Ap. 1, ’09. 700w. (Review of v. 3.)

“The absence of any dominating names renders this volume even more useful for the student of English literature, since it is the second and third rate little masters about whom it is difficult to get full and accurate information such as is afforded in the present volume. Apart from a few defects, the present volume seems to be fully up to the very high standard of the two preceding.” Joseph Jacobs.

+ − N. Y. Times. 14: 114. F. 27, ’09. 650w. (Review of v. 3.)

R. of Rs. 39: 508. Ap. ’09. 70w. (Review of v. 3.)

“This rich composite history of English literature is a real service to English scholarship.”

+ Sat. R. 107: 562. My. 1, ’09. 1550w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)

Cambridge modern history; planned by the late Lord Acton; ed. by Adolphus W: Ward, G: Walter Prothero and Stanley Leathes. 12v. ea. **$4. Macmillan.

4–21616.

v. 11. The growth of nationalism.

“Considers that highly important period in human history from 1845 to 1871. It treats of the great revolutionary period, which was continent wide 1845–48, and of the political and social changes throughout Europe which culminated in the Franco-Prussian war of forty years ago.”—R. of Rs.

“Perhaps in no other volume of this series has the need of a unifying hand been so much felt as in this. There is a dead level of more than respectable scholarship—an immense accumulation of facts—yet hardly more distinction than you meet in a dictionary.”

+ − Am. Hist. R. 14: 822. Jl. ’09. 1200w. (Review of v. 11.)

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 74. Mr. ’09. (Review of v. 11.)

“Where the book fails to satisfy is in its lack of general views of international diplomacy, and secondly, in its manifest inequalities of treatment.”

+ − Ath. 1909, 1: 367. Mr. 27. 1450w. (Review of v. 11.)

“Probably, the most valuable part of the volume is the series of bibliographies.” W: Miller.

+ − Eng. Hist. R. 24: 390. Ap. ’09. 860w. (Review of v. 11.)

“The volume, like all others in the series, is indispensable to every student of modern history.”

+ Ind. 67: 200. Jl. 22, ’09. 300w. (Review of v. 11.)

“The present volume is perhaps the most interesting of all that have appeared, at least to those who wish to understand the Europe of their own generation in the light of the years that most closely preceded it.”

+ Lit. D. 38: 763. My. 1, ’09. 620w. (Review of v. 11.)

“All the work is carefully and intelligently done; all conforms to the modern conception of scientific history.”

+ Nation. 88: 441. Ap. 29, ’09. 2100w. (Review of v. 11.)

“The chapter on Rome and the Vatican council by Mr. G. A. Fawkes only increases the regret that Lord Acton did not live to write upon a subject, which, in English-speaking lands, he had made so decisively his own. Able as Mr. Fawkes’s treatment is, it is too detailed and has no firm general standpoint.” Joseph Jacobs.

+ + − N. Y. Times. 14: 97. F. 20, ’09. 1300w. (Review of v. 11.)

“There is probably no other volume in this monumental work so packed with information of interest and value to the modern reader.”

+ + Outlook. 91: 819. Ap. 10, ’09. 350w. (Review of v. 11.)

R. of Rs. 39: 381. Mr. ’09. 140w. (Review of v. 11.)

68“Of course no book dealing with this period can be without interest, and, bald as the style of narration generally is, there will be found a great deal of ‘miscellaneous feeding’ for the inquiring mind. But to call such a book a ‘history’ is almost a misuse of terms.”

+ − Sat. R. 107: 467. Ap. 10, ’09. 1100w. (Review of v. 11.)

“In a work so full of interest it is impossible to comment on all that is valuable.”

+ Spec. 102: 614. Ap. 17, ’09. 960w. (Review of v. 11.)

Cambridge natural history; ed. by S. F. Harmer and A. E. Shipley.^[12] 10v. v. 4. *$4.25. Macmillan.

5–12127.

v. 4. Although the fourth in numerical order, this volume is the tenth and last of this important work begun sixteen years ago. It includes Crustacea, by Geoffrey Smith and the late W. F. R. Weldon; Tardigrada and Pentastomida, also Introduction to Arachnida, and Xiphosura, by Arthur E. Shipley; Arachnida embolobranchiata (scorpions, spiders, mites, etc.), by Cecil Warburton; Eurypterida and Trilobita by Henry Woods.

“It is a pleasure to congratulate all concerned on the completion of an undertaking which is a credit to a generous publisher, two excellent editors, and many competent zoologists.”

+ − Ath. 1909, 2: 301. S. 11. 720w. (Review of v. 4.)

“A comprehensive work, one that exhibits so many excellencies and has been of such great service as a reference work to zoologists. We can say of this volume that what is given is given fairly well, the errors are mostly of omission.” T: H. Montgomery, jr.

+ − Science, n.s. 30: 682. N. 12, ’09. 1350w (Review of v. 4.)

Cameron, Agnes Deans.^[12] New North; being some account of a woman’s journey through Canada to the Arctic. **$3. Appleton.

9–29788.

The record of the travels of two women down the Mackenzie river from Athabasca Landing in Alberta, Canada, to the Arctic ocean, and back by way of the Peace river. It is a narrative of dangerous passages on the river, meetings with the Esquimaux, the discovery of new sites; and abounds in descriptions of people, of northland scenes, interspersed here and there with anecdote. On its economic side the author discusses the agricultural possibilities, timber resources, etc. Many illustrations from photographs form a pictorial accompaniment to the text.

“She has much that is interesting to say about arctic animals and arctic food, and she writes enthusiastically of the many friends she made along the way.”

+ Lit. D. 39: 1072. D. 11, ’09. 110w.

Cameron, Margaret.^[10] Involuntary chaperon. †$1.50. Harper.

9–26953.

This chaperon is one of those fascinating young widows so dear to fiction, and the series of sprightly letters she writes to her chum forms the story. But her situation is unusual as she is chaperoning, against her will, a young girl who is being sent by her parents on a trip to South America to escape an incipient love affair. A bachelor uncle accompanies them, and they discover many amusing people and interesting scenes in the course of their journey, all of which is told in detail to the friend at home who is also the recipient of heart to heart confidences which develop into a double love story. The illustrations are South American views.

“They are such letters as anybody would be delighted to receive from a traveling feminine friend.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 691. N. 6, ’09. 230w.

Camp, Walter Chauncey.^[11] Jack Hall at Yale: a football story. †$1.50. Appleton.

9–26146.

The group of boys who were introduced in “The substitute,” reappear in the present story. After a Christmas house party, they participate in college life and athletics open to freshmen, and, in their Sophomore year, two win places on the football team; the victory over Harvard being largely due to Jack’s punting and clear thinking. Jack Hall, one of the boys in “The substitute” soon acquires the Yale spirit and carries it into contests on the wrestling mat and on the football field in which he brings honor to Yale. The intercollegiate games of his Sophomore year, during which he develops skill as a kicker, give the interest to the book.

Campbell, F. W. Groves. Apollonius of Tyana: a study of his life and times; with an introd. by Ernest Oldmeadow. *$1. Kennerley.

“As Blount’s translation is only an obsolete fragment, and as Berwick’s almost inaccessible version contains a superabundance of misrenderings and lacks all the flavour of the original” this rendering of the life of the rhetorician and sophist of Lemnos fills a gap in English libraries. Mr. Oldmeadow says: “Dr. Campbell has sought to recover Apollonius of Tyana from the dust of controversy and to picture him as he existed in the minds of his more reverent and spiritually minded believers.... He has rounded off his short study by contrasting some of the practices and doctrines of this Cappadocian ... with some words and works of that Galilean who has conquered the world.”

+ − Ath. 1909, 1: 701. Je. 12. 620w.

“A Pateresque appreciation of the first-century sage and mystic revealed to us in the third-century biographical romance of Philostratus. Judged as such it must be pronounced successful in spite of a few exuberances of rhetoric.”

+ − Nation. 88: 560. Je. 3, ’09. 150w.

“Dr. Campbell’s story of this strange and fascinating life is well worth reading. Its style is rather florid, and the writer is sometimes led by his enthusiasm into extravagances of expression and sentiment; but the enthusiasm itself is refreshing and interesting. Mr. Oldmeadow’s introduction is careful and concise, and his hope that the book may be of value to general readers rather than especially to scholars is amply justified.”

+ − N. Y. Times. 14: 206. Ap. 10, ’09. 650w.

+ Spec. 102: 102. Ja. 16, ’09. 100w.

Campbell, Reginald John. Thursday mornings at the City Temple. *$1.50. Macmillan.

9–35041.

A group of sermons preached before his Thursday morning audiences in which Mr. Campbell continues to expound the New theology interpretation of the teachings of Jesus.

A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 7. Ja. ’09.

“The book is modern, both in method and doctrine, and is superior to the author’s ‘New theology sermons’ since they are less distinctly theological.”

+ Ind. 66: 152. Ja. 21, ’09. 90w.

“The world doubtless has need of iconoclasts, but one does not ordinarily go to church to hear things smash, not even on a Thursday morning in a city temple.”

− Nation. 88: 39. Ja. 14, ’09. 190w.

“The occasional note of extravagance, which is Mr. Campbell’s chief defect as a preacher, is the defect of his quality, which is a constant though not always well-balanced enthusiasm for humanity and for the realization in all men of the divine ideal.”

+ − Outlook. 90: 593. N. 14, ’08. 310w.

69Camphor, Alexander Priestley.^[6] Missionary story sketches, folk-lore from Africa; with an introd. by Rev. M. C. B. Mason. *$1.50. West Meth. bk.

9–15872.

Story sketches, folk-lore and incidents that reveal something of the African as he appears by nature in his native habitat, and shows what influence the missionary is exerting upon him in his moral and spiritual awakening.

Canby, Henry Seidel.^[12] Short story in English. *$1.60. Holt.

9–24292.

A historical and critical study of the short story as a distinct type of literature. It touches upon the early English, medieval and Elizabethan periods of the short story and presents fully the origin and development of the modern short story. Separate chapters discuss some of the latter-day successful short story writers.

“Let it be said at the outset that Professor Canby has performed with much tact and adroitness a pretty difficult task. Professor Canby’s historical sympathy and imagination are at times distinctly defective.”

+ − Nation. 89: 513. N. 25, ’09. 630w.

“It is written by a man who knows his subject, has read widely, and has reached conclusions. As a study in evolution it is disappointing.”

+ − Sat. R. 108: 448. O. 9, ’09. 230w.

Canfield, William Walker.^[9] Along the way. $1.50. Fenno.

9–24449.

A political story which is based upon conditions as they must exist should public utilities be controlled by the government. The plot deals with the attempt made by a grafting government official to thwart an honest, influential capitalist in his efforts to reestablish private control.

“The literary critic can find little to say for ‘Along the way.’ It is crude, obvious, halftract, half-melodrama; its persons have little reality, its didacticism is a nuisance. Yet the book is written with good purpose, and will no doubt find its own respectful audience.”

− + Nation. 89: 433. N. 4, ’09. 440w.

N. Y. Times. 14: 594. O. 9, ’09. 450w.

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.

N. Y. Times. 14: 633. O. 23, ’09. 80w.

Cannan, Gilbert.^[11] Peter Homunculus: a novel. †$1.50. Duffield.

9–12880.

“Mr. Cannan’s hero is introduced to us as a small boy applying for work at a bookshop in Shaftesbury avenue. His employer at the bookshop, X. Cooper—an old man who dies early in the story, but whose influence haunts its pages—is a unique and remarkable creation, for whose sake alone the book is worth reading. The other characters do not suggest much reality. The upward career of the hero—a vainglorious, affected youth who never becomes a gentleman—is described with much elaboration and detail.”—Ath.

“The book is an interesting effort, of which the first part is successful, but the conclusion feeble.”

+ − Ath. 1909, 1: 612. My. 22. 140w.

“His adventures and development are of more than curious interest.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 652. O. 23, ’09. 50w.

“Mr. Cannan has generally a sure touch, and, while his beautiful actress is very hard to comprehend, he has filled his story with odd people who arrest the reader’s attention.”

+ Sat. R. 108: 173. Ag. 7, ’09. 210w.

“The old formula of the ‘good idea badly worked out’ may be applied here with some explanatory reservation. If he will take our advice, which is sincerely offered, because, in our opinion, he is a brand well worth plucking from the burning, he will not be so desperately afraid, as he betrays himself to be here, of relaxing the tautness of his epigrams, and of being now and again simple, comfortable, and placid.”

− + Spec. 103: 101. Jl. 17, ’09. 750w.

Canning, George.^[5] George Canning and his friends. 2v. *$9. Dutton.

9–14585.

“A contribution to the definitive life of Canning which has yet to be written. They illustrate, but they present no finished portrait. The letters published by him tell us little that is new, for example, about the birth and brief existence of ‘The Anti-Jacobin,’ though they give a curious sequel, namely, Canning’s peremptory suppression of a proposal to publish an edition of the poetry with plates by Gillray. No fresh light, again, is thrown upon those very important events, the bombardment of Copenhagen and capture of the Danish fleet in 1807; and thus the story of Canning’s first foreign secretaryship remains incomplete in an essential particular.”—Ath.

“The general reader will find much to interest him in these fascinating pages, while the historical student will rise from them with the feeling that, though many points remain to be elucidated, he has yet gained a much more complete idea than was hitherto possible of a brilliant, but vulnerable statesman. As for Capt. Bagot’s editing, it is most ably done, though he might have curbed a tendency to repeat himself in the foot-notes.”

+ − Ath. 1909, 1: 310. Mr. 13. 1300w.

“The running comment of this correspondence, most of it undress, and some of it highly confidential, is as amusing to the general reader as it is instructive to the historical reader.”

+ Nation. 88: 561. Je. 3, ’09. 1600w.

“Bagot has collected a vast deal of correspondence written by the statesman and his intimates, and has linked it together in an interesting and pleasing sequence.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 548. S. 18, ’09. 930w.

“Captain Josceline Bagot has edited these letters ... with a tact and knowledge of politics and society which place him amongst best biographers of the day.”

+ Sat. R. 107: 338. Mr. 13, ’09. 2000w.

“The present compilation ... will certainly prove indispensable to every future biographer. The selection and arrangement of this large mass of material leave very little to be desired; the reader is relieved to find in Captain Bagot an editor who is at once informal and informed,—a combination of qualities rare enough in these days of hasty and ponderous book-making.”

+ Spec. 102: 499. Mr. 27, ’09. 1800w.

Carey, Rosa Nouchette.^[10] Key of the unknown. †$1.50. Lippincott.

9–25183.

Altho the scenes described are those of modern English life, there is an old-fashioned flavor about this story, and it gives an impression of a much earlier time. Motor cars and other present day innovations seem quite out of place. The love affair of Craig Barstow, heir to a title, and Joan Leigh, beautiful and attractive, but poor, seems about to end disastrously because, according to the dictates of his family, he must marry money. Thru the opportune appearance of a will in the last chapter their marriage is made possible.

“Shows about the same quality as her previous books.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 674. O. 30, ’09. 220w.

+ Sat. R. 108: 572. N. 6, ’09. 160w.

“Miss Carey’s stories are restful, wholesome, constructed with sufficient skill, and not without touches of humor and pathos.”

+ Spec. 103: 610. O. 16, ’09. 320w.

70Carey, Rosa Nouchette. Sunny side of the hill. †$1.50. Lippincott.

8–26685.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

“Though far remote from real life, the atmosphere of the book is soothing and sympathetic, and there is some clever characterization.”

+ − Ath. 1908, 2: 469. O. 17. 90w.

“A welcome is due to a story which is mild, modest, interestingly eventful, and well-written.”

+ Nation. 88: 144. F. 11, ’09. 200w.

“A pretty little English love story of quite the approved pattern.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 103. F. 20, ’09. 110w.

Carleton, Will. Drifted in. **$1.50. Moffat.

8–11414.

“The rhymed narrative of a journey on a railroad train, with episodic songs developing thoughts by the way.”—Dial.

+ Dial. 45: 468. D. 16, ’08. 140w.

Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.

+ Ind. 65: 1466. D. 17, ’08. 60w.

N. Y. Times. 13: 801. D. 26, ’08. 60w.

Carlton, Frank Tracy. Education and industrial evolution. (Citizen’s lib.) *$1.25. Macmillan.

8–28067.

“Part 1 discusses ‘The modern educational problem’ and Part 2 ‘Actual or proposed additions to the educational system.’ The author points out the fact that education to-day is greatly in need of ‘democratising’ in order that it may become ‘an integral and vital part of the experience of every future efficient member of the community.’ The book is permeated with the new social spirit that is abroad in the land to-day.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

“A thoroughgoing study of the problem of education in the industrial state of civilization. One misses in the book the legal justification of class education, and the correlation of industrial education to the development of the higher culture interests. For purposes of ready reference this book is commendable and up to date.” H. P. J. Selinger.

+ − Am. J. Soc. 14: 414. N. ’08. 330w.

“A helpful, up-to-date contribution to the literature of the ‘new education.’”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 7. Ja. ’09.

“The style is easy and forceful, the treatment broad minded, and constructive. Altogether, the book is of value to students of modern problems either in the field of education or of sociology.”

+ Ann. Am. Acad. 33: 191. Ja. ’09. 120w.

“It will serve to concentrate attention upon the problems which are perhaps the most vital of all those connected with the schools to-day.”

+ Nation. 87: 575. D. 10, ’08. 230w.

N. Y. Times. 13: 627. O. 24, ’08. 30w.

“One may differ from the author in some of his interpretations of needs and tendencies but there is no question that the book is a real contribution to the situation.” F. A. Manny.

+ − School R. 17: 726. D. ’09. 650w.

Carlyle, Thomas. ^[12] Carlyle [selections]; ed. by A. W. Evans. (Masters of literature.) *$1.10. Macmillan.

In keeping with the aim of the “Masters of literature” series this volume contains the finest passages from Carlyle’s writings, connected by editorial comment and prefaced by an introduction that includes a sketch of his life and critical estimates of his spirit of criticism, political and social teaching, style and influence.

Carlyle, Thomas. ^[10] Frederick the Great: abr. by Edgar Sanderson. **$1.50. McClurg.

The main thread of the narrative as it runs thru the larger work is unbroken still in this abridged work. The aim has been that of cutting out the extraneous matter and bringing the work within reasonable length.

“Mr. Sanderson’s manageable volume will be found useful.”

+ Spec. 102: 271. F. 13, ’09. 70w.

Carlyle, Thomas.^[5] Love letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh. 2v. **$8. Lane.

9–10960.

Letters written by the Carlyles during the period from 1821 to 1826. Their emotion “never rises into an all-absorbing and terrific force, shattering conventions, annihilating the ambiguous and the secondary, and seizing upon the secret springs of language with mysterious art. The emotion of the Carlyles expressed itself in a very different manner,—through the medium of moral exhortations, and metaphysical disquisitions, and immense argumentations, and a somewhat formal and pompous style.” (Spec.)

A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 157. Je. ’09.

“We wish that Mr. Alexander Carlyle had not found it necessary to rake up the ashes which reticence had allowed to grow cold.”

+ − Ath. 1909, 1: 553. My. 8. 1500w.

“If the last word has not now been said on the relations of Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle to each other the fault is not Mr. Alexander Carlyle’s.” P. F. Bicknell.

+ Dial. 46: 290. My. 1, ’09. 2000w.

“The world’s thanks are due to the editor of these two volumes for his courage and wisdom in printing all the letters, for his pains taken to insure complete accuracy, for the excellent notes, which are always clear and helpful, for the adequate illustrations, and for the extremely valuable appendices. No one can fully understand his position in the history of literature without reading these volumes.” W: L. Phelps.

+ Forum. 41: 594. Je. ’09. 1150w.

“It was time for these letters to be published in full.”

+ Lit. D. 39: 349. S. 4, ’09. 730w.

“So far as mere interest goes, these two thick volumes will be a disappointment to readers who know the writers from Froude and from their other letters.”

+ − Nation. 88: 416. Ap. 22, ’09. 2400w.

“The courtship of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welch, as it is set forth in this long correspondence. is as interesting as a novel.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 285. My. 8, ’09. 1650w.

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 371. Je. 12, ’09. 180w.

Reviewed by Lyman Abbott.

+ Outlook. 92: 366. Je. 12, ’09. 3100w.

“The best reading the wretched Carlyle controversy has yet supplied.”

+ Sat. R. 107: 402. Mr. 27, ’09. 1800w.

“The real interest of the correspondence is not literary, but psychological.”

+ − Spec. 102: 577. Ap. 10, ’09. 1350w.

Carnegie, Andrew. Problems of to-day: wealth—labor—socialism. **$1.40. Doubleday.

8–32653.

A summary of Mr. Carnegie’s book may be found in the following: “First, the millionaire must be left alone during his life time, for his accumulation of wealth means an enterprise and a mobilisation of capital which do infinitely more good than harm. Secondly, as the millionaire’s enterprise dies with him, his wealth may fairly be taxed out of all recognition at his death. Thirdly, the land must be split up into small properties. Fourthly, the system of profit-sharing businesses must become universal. Fifthly, the family is the only training-ground for the good citizen, and socialism must nowhere be more furiously resisted than when it tampers with this holy of holies.” (Spec.)

A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 7. Ja. ’09.

71“To the conservatives this book will seem radical. To the radicals it will seem conservative.”

+ Ann. Am. Acad. 33: 451. Mr. ’09. 500w.

“It will amply pay perusal.”

+ Ind. 66: 325. F. 11, ’09. 480w.

“His fondness for gross optimistic assertion precludes anything like true discussion. Mr. Carnegie’s habit of cutting discussion short by oracular utterance gives to his style a peculiar quality, that can only be described as pudgy.”

− Nation. 87: 628. D. 24, ’08. 320w.

“Mr. Carnegie’s argument as to the undesirableness of wealth really is just about as misleading as his representation that the American workingman bears no portion of the burden of the protective tariff. A book that should be rated as valuable and important. In placing this estimate on Mr. Carnegie’s book, we especially have in mind his views touching socialism. They are well considered and well expressed.”

+ − N. Y. Times. 13: 797. D. 26, ’08. 1250w.

Outlook. 91: 65. Ja. 9, ’09. 250w.

Pol. Sci. Q. 24: 563. S. ’09. 120w.

“Mr. Carnegie’s book is really a sentimental romance. His Vicar of Wakefield simplicity is not credible.”

− Sat. R. 106: 676. N. 28, ’08. 630w.

“Mr. Carnegie’s doctrines are so clearly and simply stated that the reader will have no difficulty in measuring other men’s opinions by them, or deciding what he can or cannot accept himself. We could summarize the book in five sentences. It would be easy to state certain doubts in as few sentences.”

+ − Spec. 101: 839. N. 21, ’08. 1500w.

Carotti, Giulio.^[9] History of art. 4v. v. 2. *$1.50. Dutton.

8–36413.

v. 2. Early Christian and neo-Oriental art, European art north of the Alps. “Excluding Italy, after the thirteenth century, it includes what is usually called early Christian, Byzantine, Saracenic, Romanesque, and Gothic art.... The bibliography is full, though not exhaustive, the lists of typical monuments, in smaller type, very useful. The scope of the work may be inferred from the space given to Gothic art—something more than one hundred pages, as against about fifteen in Reinach’s standard manual, ‘Apollo.’” (Nation.)

“Convenient texts for reference or study, fairly accurate, systematically arranged, fully illustrated.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 9. S. ’09. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

+ Ind. 67: 94. Jl. 8, ’09. 130w. (Review of v. 2.)

“A great amount of information, generally accurate and up to date, has been packed within a small compass. The text has not had proper editorial supervision and needs a minute overhauling. It is fair to add that these defects are usually rather of taste than of substance.”

+ − Nation. 89: 148. Ag. 12, ’09. 280w. (Review of v. 2.)

“The value of his book does not depend on its fullness so much as on the stimulus afforded to more extensive researches.” E. F. Baldwin.

+ Outlook. 93: 598. N. 13, ’09. 140w. (Review of v. 2.)

Carpenter, Edmund J.^[12] Roger Williams: a study of the life, times and character of a political pioneer. (Grafton historical ser.). **$2. Grafton press.

A study of Roger Williams not in the light of the doctrinal considerations of his day but in the scientific, human-brotherhood spirit. He is viewed as a man among men; the times are considered “from a political and personal, rather than from a strictly religious point of view; his characteristics are studied impartially without the bias of adverse or favorable criticism of the centuries since he lived.”

“Mr. Carpenter has dug deeply and his researches have been rewarded.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 772. D. 4, ’03. 400w.

Carpenter, George Rice. Walt Whitman. (English men of letters.) *75c. Macmillan.

9–8067.

A study of Whitman’s life under the following heads: Boyhood (1819–1841); Journalist (1841–1850); Workman and poet (1850–1860); Comradeship (1861–1873); Old age (1873–1892). The author places Whitman in the class of men who represent a new attitude, who bring a message to their brothers, a truth mainly expressed in their lives and only incidentally thru their writings. “These are the great accepters and unifiers of life; their teachings and examples pass beyond the confines of literature or politics; they show new and noble ways of living. Of this type, in his own degree, Whitman seems to me to have been.”

“The best of the brief works, but not to be chosen before Bliss Perry’s life when a single volume must suffice.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 133. My. ’09.

“Mr. Carpenter has given us a genuine biography, a thoroughly readable and vivacious life of one of the most picturesque in the group of our American writers, and one whose significance in the history of American literature is more and more clearly recognized with the passing years.” W. E. Simonds.

+ Dial. 46: 404. Je. 16, ’09. 650w.

“The whole book is broad and brilliant, clear, and calmly wise. In this biography the seer has found a seer, and is granted the great boon of being understood. It is a book to be not only read but pondered—a monument not merely to Walt Whitman, but to George Rice Carpenter as well.” Clayton Hamilton.

+ Forum. 42: 80. Jl. ’09. 2600w.

“The clearest, plainest, and least vexatious account of Walt Whitman in print.”

+ Ind. 67: 603. S. 9, ’09. 300w.

“This is an excellent and notably precise life of Whitman.”

+ Lit. D. 39: 349. S. 4, ’09. 220w.

“We cannot but believe that Professor Carpenter’s rejection of literary sources (despite his protests, Whitman was in some respects always a bookish man) for a vague theory of ‘impassioned speech’ based on a rather fine-spun psychology of language, is due in part to the necessity imposed on the later biographer of being different. As a whole, Professor Carpenter’s work is well-proportioned and pleasantly written.”

+ − Nation. 88: 364. Ap. 8, ’09. 900w.

“The book is particularly welcome because it is such a good book to read.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 244. Ap. 17, ’09. 1000w.

“Is distinctly the best of those accounts of the poets which may be classed as appreciations rather than as critical estimates.”

+ Outlook. 92: 420. Je. 19, ’09. 300w.

“It is refreshing to read the sober, sedate, and impartial appraisal.”

+ R. of Rs. 39: 763. Je. ’09. 70w.

Carpenter, Rolla Clinton, and Diederichs, Herman.^[5] Internal combustion engines, their theory, construction and operation. *$5. Van Nostrand.

8–22568.

“Professors Carpenter and Diederichs have done a good service in extracting what is most valuable from German literature and incorporating it in their book.... There are four principal divisions to the book. The first five chapters are occupied with definitions and theoretical considerations; the next five with fuels and the phenomena of combustion; then follow four chapters on gas-engine construction and 72operation; finally there are four chapters on power estimation, testing, results of tests and costs.”—Engin. N.

“Very complete and satisfactory treatment.”

+ Engin. D. 5: 416. Ap. ’09. 330w.

“The line drawings are sometimes fair, but the reproductions of photographs are uniformly poor. Altogether this book may be highly recommended to students and engineers. It covers its chosen field more thoroughly and more capably than any other book in the English language, and it appears to be remarkably free from inaccuracies. The only respect in which it is seriously lacking is in its failure to handle satisfactorily the subject of gas-engine construction.” L. S. Marks.

+ − Engin. N. 60: sup. 533. N. 12, ’08. 1350w.

“Anyone wishing to obtain a good general idea of present-day practice in America will find this book a valuable work.” E. G. Coker.

+ Nature. 80: 124. Ap. 1, ’09. 220w.

Carr, Clark Ezra.^[5] Railway mail service: its origin and development. **50c. McClurg. 9–5707.

A brief history of the railway mail service from the time of its conception and inauguration to the present high state of efficiency.

A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 58. O. ’09.

“Clark E. Carr impressively sets forth the improvement that has taken place in the handling of mail in this country in the last half century.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 321. My. 22, ’09. 550w.

Carr, Clark Ezra.^[11] Stephen A. Douglas: his life, public services, speeches and patriotism. **$2. McClurg.

9–28566.

A sketch and an appreciation of the great Illinois senator that aims to perpetuate a proper conception of his statesmanship and character. It is a searching and analytic review of Douglas’s career linked close with the stirring events in which he took part.

“The little volume, while far from being a thorough life of Douglas or a comprehensive estimate of his services, is a valuable and interesting contribution and will aid in placing in a truer light the man whose unfortunate lot it was to act as a foil for Lincoln and to be on the losing side in the final casting of the dice of chance.”

+ Dial. 47: 337. N. 1, ’09. 400w.

“An entertaining sketch of the career of that famous democratic statesman and a generous appraisement of his public services.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 783. D. 11, ’09. 550w.

+ R. of Rs. 40: 754. D. ’09. 120w.

Carr, Joseph William C. Some eminent Victorians: personal recollections in the world of art and letters. *$3.50. Scribner.

W9–193.

A book of pleasant recollections and stories of famous men of letters, actors and artists whom the author knew during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Among them are Tennyson, Browning, Irving, Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Millais, Holman Hunt and Leighton.

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 9. S. ’09.

“Is not only pleasantly and intimately reminiscent of many celebrated men of the last century, but also receives something of added weight and value from the interspersed expressions of a ripe judgment on divers questions of art, literature, and the drama.” P. F. Bicknell.

+ Dial. 46: 134. Mr. 1, ’09. 1500w.

“The pages on his life as a newspaper man in the old Bohemian days are the most entertaining in the book.”

+ Nation. 88: 167. F. 18, ’09. 330w.

“Among the many books of personal recollections that have come to our notice, none contains a more varied lot of interesting information about artistic and literary men.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 137. Mr. 6, ’09. 680w.

Carr, Kent. Rivals and chums. †$1.25. Lippincott.

A story of public school life in England, with side lights on athletics.

“English school stories are seldom anything but good reading, and this is no exception.”

+ N. Y. Times. 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 40w.

“A first-rate story. The football in the school is quite peculiar. Has the author got his notions of sport from Ouida?”

+ − Sat. R. 106: sup. 7. D. 12, ’08. 240w.

Carr, Sarah Pratt.^[10] Billy To-morrow. †$1.25. McClurg.

9–24957.

Billy is a little California boy whose spirit of procrastination earned for him the nickname of the title. In the weeks following the earthquake all his courage and manliness are called into action, and he wins for himself the new name, Billy To-day.

N. Y. Times. 14: 709. N. 13, ’09. 70w.

Carrington, Hereward. Coming science; with an introd. by James H. Hyslop. **$1.50. Small.

8–37615.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

“At last we have a rational and well-written work on psychic research by an author who knows his business and keeps his feet on solid scientific ground. This is the highest possible praise and I am glad to give it.” R. E. Bisbee.

+ Arena. 41: 510. Jl. ’09. 280w.

Lit. D. 39: 101. Jl. 17, ’09. 200w.

“We discover in Mr. Carrington’s work nothing new which is of special value, and small justification for proclaiming the birth of ‘the coming science.’”

− Nation. 88: 70. Ja. 21, ’09. 1400w.

N. Y. Times. 14: 20. Ja. 9, ’09. 400w.

“It lays too much stress on the alleged necessity for proving life after death as the main motive of psychical investigation. And it betrays a too obvious tendency to regard such proof as having been already obtained. It should be added that, regarding the book not as an appeal to the incredulous scientist but as a brief exposition of the nature, problems, and theories of psychical research, it affords a helpful introduction to the reading of more elaborate works, such as those of Myers and Podmore, dealing with the subject in detail.”

+ − Outlook. 91: 383. F. 20, ’09. 310w.

R. of Rs. 39: 572. Ap. ’09. 480w.

Carruth, William Herbert. Each in his own tongue and other poems. **$1. Putnam.

8–37720.

“Mr. Carruth, who is the head of the department of Germanic language and literature in the University of Kansas, is widely known by his short poem, ‘Each in his own tongue,’ which is the initial number in this collection.” (N. Y. Times.) “We must think of Mr. Carruth as more than a man of a single poem, for he has just given us a collection of some fourscore pieces, many of which approach in seriousness of thought and felicity of expression the one widely-known example which provides his book with its title.” (Dial.)

“A fine sense of the essential realities pervades Mr. Carruth’s verse. He is an academic poet, but one whose sensibilities the academic environment has not deadened.” W: M. Payne.

+ Dial. 46: 50. Ja. 16, ’09. 420w.

73“All of the poems are filled with the deep religious feeling and moral earnestness characteristic of the author.”

+ Ind. 66: 638. Mr. 25, ’09. 140w.

+ Nation. 89: 55. Jl. 15, ’09. 150w.

“One finds the central interest in these verses to be their intense moral earnestness and their concern with the serious questions of life.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 10. Ja. 2, ’09. 270w.

Carson, Blanche Mabury.^[6] From Cairo to the cataract. $2.50. Page.

9–10281.

“The book is in the form of original letters, and gives a very good account of many of the things that one sees and experiences on the boat journey up the Nile and back again.... As a lively narrative of the doings and sight-seeing of a wide-awake American girl, the book is a success.”—Nation.

“A readable account of a familiar trip.”

+ Ind. 66: 1138. My. 27, ’09. 380w.

+ Nation. 88: 512. My. 20, ’09. 220w.

“Her condensations will be found extremely useful to those who have not the leisure nor the inclination to make exhaustive studies of Egyptian history on their own account.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 294. My. 8, ’09. 170w.

Carson, William English.^[11] Mexico, the wonderland of the South. *$2.25. Macmillan.

9–29345.

A volume of nearly four-hundred and fifty pages which pictures and describes very nearly all that is worth seeing and knowing in Mexico. Its picturesqueness, its romance, its contrasts; its rapid development into a modern country; its cities, its haciendas, gold and silver mines, health resorts; and its human interest to the modern economist—all claim a share of the author’s attention in his fresh, accurate, inclusive pen picture of Mexico of to-day.

Ind. 67: 1146. N. 18, ’09. 140w.

“The sure touch of the man who knows his subject intimately is evident throughout. A book of real human interest.”

+ R. of Rs. 40: 759. D. ’09. 140w.

Carter, Ada.^[12] Seamless robe: a twentieth century imprint of the ideal. †$1.50. Wessels.

9–28693.

An American edition of a Christian science novel written by an English woman. It is a strong, serious argument for the faith of Christian scientists, made concrete by the psychological development and evolution of a young clergyman who rises, thru struggle, from his plane of traditional, orthodox belief to the heights of religion as a demonstrable science.

Carter, Charles Frederick. When railroads were new; with introd. note by Logan G. McPherson. **$2. Holt.

9–9511.

An attempt “to gather the floating fragments of railroad history having a human interest into a coherent narrative of the work-a-day trials and triumphs of the pioneers in the planning and building of the railroad that would be neither a dry historical treatise nor a collection of anecdotes.” The suggestive chapter headings are: The dawn of the railroad era; America’s pioneer railroad; Early days on the Erie; Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania railroad; Genesis of the Vanderbilt system; Incubator railroads; The first transcontinental railroad; Through tribulation by rail; and Romance of a great railroad. Index.

“The absence of better books on the subject gives to this a real value. Its contents are not accessible elsewhere in any single volume.” F: L. Paxson.

+ Am. Hist. R. 15: 191. O. ’09. 320w.

“A decided tendency to realism and a wealth of local color will make it attractive reading for boys.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 133. My. ’09. ✠

“A little more attention to literary finish would not have hurt the book.”

+ − Dial. 46: 406. Je. 16, ’09. 200w.

“A few slips were noticed, but they were surprisingly few. All in all, the book may be commended to those who desire to read the romance of the railroads.” E. L. Bogart.

+ − Econ. Bull. 2: 128. Je. ’09. 250w.

Engin. D. 5: 667. Je. ’09. 100w.

“Much of the intimate and popular information (and the conversations) must be taken on trust or with some shadow of doubt.”

+ − Engin. N. 62: sup. 40. O. 14, ’09. 550w.

“A vast amount of curious information, hitherto left uncollected and in peril of being lost. And, in addition to all this, the book is good desultory reading for the layman.”

+ Ind. 66: 1086. My. 20, ’09. 140w.

“It can scarcely fail to excite interest, and while many of the details are fictitious, or at the best used with considerable freedom, the main body of facts is essentially correct.” L. C. M.

+ − J. Pol. Econ. 17: 481. Jl. ’09. 260w.

“The story is told in a clear, accurate, and interesting manner in the present volume, which is enriched with many illustrations and should find a place in every popular library.”

+ Lit. D. 38: 898. My. 22, ’09. 200w.

“That he has cultivated his field assiduously is clear from the abundant harvest of new and fugitive material which he has garnered. Amid such an array of matter one expects to find occasional errors in dates and points of fact, but these could be more readily forgiven if the finality of statement so prevalent throughout the book, were supported by the evidence.”

+ − Nation. 88: 463. My. 6, ’09. 350w.

“Mr. Carter’s very entertaining book is brim full of interesting records of the early days of railroading.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 257. Ap. 24, ’09. 320w.

“This book is not a history of the development of railroad finance or railroad exploitation, but the fascinating story of the struggles, the fantastic failures and the final triumphs of the pioneer railroad builders.”

+ R. of Rs. 39: 639. My. ’09. 90w.

“It appeals to the general reader and will be to him a highly interesting narrative.”

+ Yale R. 18: 333. N. ’09. 160w.

Carus, Paul.^[12] Pleroma: an essay on the origin of Christianity. $1. Open ct.

9–29363.

The editor of “The monist” conducts a scientific investigation of the causes of Christianity with the result that he finds Christianity to be not the result of accident, but of necessity. “There are definite causes and definite effects. Its doctrines, its ceremonies, its ethics are the product of given conditions and the result could not be different.” The divisions of the treatment are: Christianity predetermined by the needs of the age; Pre-Christian gnosticism; The bloom preceding the fruitage of Christianity; How the gentile Savior changed into the Christ; The origin of Judaism and its significance for Christianity; Conclusion.

Cary, Elisabeth Luther.^[12] Artists past and present: random studies. **$2.50. Moffat.

9–25959.

Contains a dozen “random studies” of artists as follows: “Rembrandt, Jan Steen, Carlo Crivelli, Callot, Fantin-Latour and Louis Barye represent the past: Mary Cassatt, Max Klinger, Alfred Stevens, Carl Larsson and the recent exhibitions in New York of modern German paintings and of Zuloaga and Sorolla, the present.” (Ind.) “All are keen, penetrating, appreciative, and sensible.” (Dial.)

“As attractive in appearance as it is stimulating in content.”

+ Dial. 47: 465. D. 1, ’09. 210w.

74“The note is mostly that of the fugitive magazine article, which is often of considerable immediate helpfulness in giving first aid to the benighted, but generally of little permanent significance.”

+ − Ind. 67: 1142. N. 18, ’09. 120w.

“There is little critical literature in English dealing with certain of these artists, and the group has been chosen in an unusual and interesting way.”

+ Lit. D. 39: 1072. D. 11, ’09. 120w.

“To each of the studies, although they differ so widely in their appeal to both intellect and temperament, she brings the critical qualities of personal detachment, penetrating vision, breadth of view, and a keenly intellectual but at the same time warmly human appreciation of intention, content, and method.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 706. N. 13, ’09. 300w.

Cary, Rev. Otis.^[12] History of Christianity in Japan. 2v. ea. **$2.50. Revell.

9–22916.

Tells the story of “how Catholic missions flourished in the sixteenth century, were cruelly extirpated in the seventeenth, and revived in the nineteenth, then the rise, vicissitudes, and expansion of Protestant missions since 1859.” (R. of Rs.) “Official documents, narratives of events, and relations of personal experience are skilfully woven together by the scholarly historian, now more than thirty years an actor on the scene.” (Outlook.)

“Standard work of reference.”

+ Ind. 67: 1316. D. 9, ’09. 820w.

“Throughout the 800 pages his statements are invariably unimpassioned, rational, and free from partisan spirit. At the same time it must be admitted that the book is somewhat ponderous in style and the manner it deals with the subject.” K. K. Kawakami.

+ − N. Y. Times. 14: 702. N. 13, ’09. 1400w.

“There is no other work on the subject which compares in interest or in value with this.”

+ Outlook. 93: 560. N. 6, ’09. 260w.

“The official documents and personal memoranda in these two volumes make them valuable for reference.”

+ R. of Rs. 40: 762. D. ’09. 80w.

Casson, Herbert Newton.^[11] Cyrus Hall McCormick: his life and work. **$1.50. McClurg.

9–28139.

A life of the master builder of the modern business of manufacturing farm machinery. His life, coincident with the pioneer era of replacing muscle with machinery, has been devoted to inventions that have revolutionized farm labor, and it is one of those “rare life-histories that blazon out the peculiar genius of the nation under the stress of a new experience.”

“He has diligently collected and very attractively presented much historical and statistical matter concerning the development of agricultural implements and the recent rapid increase in the world’s wheat production. The life and personality of the great inventor are adequately set forth. The author makes an occasional error of fact.”

+ − Dial. 47: 184. S. 16, ’09. 270w.

R. of Rs. 40: 755. D. ’09. 160w.

Castaigne, André.^[9] Bill-toppers. †$1.50. Bobbs.

9–21870.

A story which pictures the life of the “artistes” of the vaudeville circuit and which tells more particularly of Lily and the process by which her father P. T. Clifton, manager, endeavors to make her a star. The career has its beginning in the South seas, and runs its course in various parts of the world, from India to San Francisco, from Mexico to New York. The final height is at length reached in London where thru the efforts of her humble lover, Lily achieves the triumph which crowns her ambition—that of seeing her name at the top of the bill.

“The story is wholesome in tone and catches that decency and simple morality which, more often than the public believes, characterize these people of the vaudeville. Mr. Castaigne’s style of writing is deplorable.”

+ − N. Y. Times. 14: 563. S. 25, ’09. 450w.

“The story is quite entertaining, and, in a sense, instructive.”

+ Sat. R. 108: sup. 5. S. 25, ’09. 160w.

Castle, Mrs. Agnes Sweetman, and Castle, Egerton.^[11] Diamonds cut paste. †$1.50. Dodd.

9–24954.

“Sir Reginald Esdale returns from India, after several years’ absence from his family, with a splendid record behind him, a distinguished career ahead of him, and a mild and sentimental attachment to a pretty and clinging widow. The attachment is mild, but Sir Reginald is peculiar, and the widow is very clinging.”—N. Y. Times.

“Judged as a comedy of manners, it should be a success: but from the point of view of fiction it has many shortcomings. Mr. and Mrs. Castle never leave the impression of discounting their own work; they are invariably conscientious and careful, and take a pride in their craft. We hope to see a dramatic version of this story.”

+ − Ath. 1909, 2: 421. O. 9. 200w.

N. Y. Times. 14: 652. O. 23, ’09. 50w.

“The reader ... will just get from the book what it was meant to give—an hour or two of perfectly sinless enjoyment.”

+ − N. Y. Times. 14: 729. N. 20, ’09. 180w.

“Their latest venture may be considered to prove not only the wisdom in their selection of bygone periods but also how easily, when dressed in costume, the most moderate of talents may pass for something more considerable.”

− Sat. R. 108: sup. 5. O. 16, ’09. 820w.

Catholic church in the United States of America: an illustrative history published in honor of the golden jubilee of His Holiness, Pope Pius X. 6v. $90. Catholic editing co., 1 W. 34th st., N. Y.

9–7144.

“This initial volume of the series is devoted to the religious orders. The five succeeding volumes will deal with the secular clergy, v. 2 treating of the provinces of Baltimore and New York; v. 3 of Boston, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati; v. 4 of Chicago, St. Paul, and Oregon, and v. 5 of New Orleans, St. Louis, Dubuque, Santa Fé, and San Francisco. The sixth and concluding volume will be of general character, and will follow in broad lines the history of the Catholic church in this country. It will take up movements of the American church as a whole, and will be especially rich in statistics. Separate sections will deal with Catholic charities, education, literature, journalism, eminent men, societies, clubs, sports, and other subjects.”—N. Y. Times.

“Offered as a history, it must be judged by modern critical standards, and by these this first volume may be set down as a remarkable collection of pictures, valuable and novel in their extent, rather than a record comprehensive in detail, exact in statement, and complete in scope. In going over this list of communities several serious omissions must be noted.”

+ − Nation. 88: 200. F. 25, ’09. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)

N. Y. Times. 14: 112. F. 27, ’09. 380w. (Review of v. 1.)

75Catholic encyclopedia: an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic church; ed. by C: G. Herbermann and others. 15v. ea. $6. Appleton, Robert.

7–11606.

v. 4. Cland-Diocesan. Especially noteworthy in this fourth volume are the articles on the book of Daniel, The deluge, Constantinople, Congo Free State, Collectivism, Communism, and Cross and Crucifix in which archaeologically the Catholic attitude toward the use of images in worship is clearly stated and defended.

v. 5. Continues the scholarly excellence of the foregoing volumes. “Among the more notable contributions are those relating to evolution, excommunication, ecclesiastical art, dispensation, editions of the Bible, eschatology, extreme unction, dynamism, Ethiopia, England, and divorce.” (N. Y. Times.)

“The fourth volume fairly merits the praise of maintaining the high standard embodied in the preceding numbers.”

+ + − Cath. World. 88: 546. Ja. ’09. 930w. (Review of v. 4.)

“While microscopic criticism might find some opportunities for stricture, this volume fulfils the promise of the encyclopedia to be a work that will meet the reasonable standards of the learned without neglecting the claims of the uncritical.”

+ Cath. World. 89: 538. Jl. ’09. 900w. (Review of v. 5.)

“While splendid scholarship exists in the Catholic church, and appears to admirable advantage in the discussion of what we may call neutral matters, still as soon as it approaches the more delicate topics of modern criticism, it is either clouded by prejudice or paralyzed with fear.”

− + Ind. 66: 51. Ja. 7, ’09. 780w. (Review of v. 4.)

“What can a candid critic do but despair when important articles like ‘Esther,’ ‘Elijah,’ ‘Elisha,’ ‘Ecclesiastes,’ ‘Divination,’ and ‘Eucharist,’ are assigned to writers whose incompetence fairly takes one’s breath away?”

− Ind. 67: 657. S. 16, ’09. 730w. (Review of v. 5.)

+ Lit. D. 39: 101. Jl. 17, ’09. 1300w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)

“Contains a number of important articles, more or less popular, which exhibit in general the same spirit of fairness that characterizes the earlier volumes.”

+ + Nation. 88: 68. Ja. 21, ’09. 530w. (Review of v. 4.)

“The standard set by the earlier volumes is fully maintained in the present volume.”

+ Nation. 89: 35. Jl. 8, ’09. 330w. (Review of v. 5.)

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 399. Je. 26, ’09. 200w. (Review of v. 5.)

+ R. of Rs. 39: 383. Mr. ’09. 110w. (Review of v. 4.)

+ R. of Rs. 40: 384. S. ’09. 140w. (Review of v. 5.)

“On the whole, the bibliographies are by no means a strong point in this instalment of ‘The catholic encyclopedia.’”

+ − Sat. R. 107: 532. Ap. 24, ’09. 1000w. (Review of v. 4.)

+ Spec. 102: sup. 1005. Je. 26, ’09. 330w. (Review of v. 1–4.)

Catlin, George.^[11] Boy’s Catlin: my life among the Indians; ed. with biographical sketch by Mary Gay Humphreys. **$1.50. Scribner.

9–25173.

Contains the most interesting parts of Catlin’s book about the North American Indians, and their habits and customs, in war, peace and hunting. The writer gained his wide knowledge of Crows, Blackfeet, Assiniboines, Ojibbeways and other tribes first hand while painting among them; and he produces for the reader pictorial impressions that are very closely related to his work with the brush. Sixteen of his own drawings are used for illustration.

“From the cover design, with its dashing ‘brave,’ to the index, there are ‘real’ incidents more picturesque than, and equally as unbelievable as, incidents of fiction.”

+ Lit. D. 39: 1016. D. 4, ’09. 130w.

“It is a book which boys will welcome heartily as being stranger than fiction, however careful the fact.”

+ Nation. 89: 539. D. 2, ’09. 50w.

“It should be a welcome addition to any boy’s library.”

+ R. of Rs. 40: 768. D. ’09. 30w.

Caw, James Lewis.^[5] Scottish painting, past and present, 1620–1908. *$8. Stokes.

“Mr. Caw, the director of the Scottish national galleries, has in this volume covered the entire field from the time of Jamesone to the present day. Encyclopædic in extent, and indicative of wide and accurate knowledge and much painstaking study and research, Mr. Caw’s history is a valuable and timely contribution to the literature of art.”—Int. Studio.

“If the informed reader may not at all times be inclined to accept Mr. Caw’s conclusions, he cannot but be impressed by their general accuracy, and above all by the fearlessness with which they are stated. One cannot read the book without admiring the keen perception, accurate information, critical acumen, ripe judgment, and well reasoned conclusions of the author.”

+ − Int. Studio. 36: 332. F. ’09. 700w.

“A comprehensive and copiously illustrated volume.”

+ Int. Studio. 39: sup. 23. N. ’09. 120w.

“An inspection conveys the impression that while it deals with some works and some artists of real distinction, it is over-weighted with mediocrities.”

− + Nation. 88: 205. F. 25, ’09. 70w.

“As a history the book is excellent and worthy of its author’s position: as a book to read it is a little handicapped as all such complete accounts must be, by the necessity of covering so much ground and treating of so many minor men.” Laurence Binyon.

+ − Sat. R. 107: 490. Ap. 17, ’09. 1500w.

Cayley, George John.^[5] Bridle-roads of Spain; or, Las Alforjas. *$2. Estes.

A reprint of a book published in 1853. In the form of letters it records the author’s experiences while traveling in Spain, 1851–1852. “As he met with no exciting adventures, he drew largely on his imagination, represented himself as having killed a rogue in Seville, and eked out a volume with similar inventions, to which he confessed good-humouredly enough later. These flights of fancy seem to have irritated some of his critics, but irritation is out of place. Cayley as a traveler in Spain is not to be taken seriously. He was barely eight months in the country, knew little of the language, and was therefore not in a position to understand the national characteristics.” (Ath.)

“Some of the misprints in the text might have been corrected.”

+ − Ath. 1909, 1: 405. Ap. 3. 280w.

“The chief blemish of the book is the introduction of imaginary adventures into the account of his travels. Still we forgive him, if only because few writers have described so well as he does the life, manners, and customs of the Spanish peasantry as they were when he saw them in 1851 and as they happily still are when once the traveler breaks away from railways and tourists’ routes.”

+ − Sat. R. 106: 764. D. 19, ’08. 350w.

76“For all its faults it is in many ways an original and entertaining work, based as much upon romantic imaginings and thoughts suggested on the road as upon actual fact.”

+ − Spec. 101: 1104. D. 26, ’08. 580w.

Cecil, Algernon.^[9] Six Oxford thinkers. *7s. 6d. Murray, John, London.

9–22567.

Holds up for critical inspection the careers of six typical Oxford men: Edward Gibbon, John Henry Newman, R. W. Church, James Anthony Froude, Walter Pater, Lord Morley of Blackburn.

“Although there is not much which is new in this volume, and in some cases the author betrays a rather inadequate acquaintance with well-known authorities, the essays contained in it are well worth reproduction. In the first place, the writing is good.”

+ − Ath. 1909, 2: 235. Ag. 28. 600w.

“Mr. Cecil has given us a book full of interest and suggestion. In many places he carries us with him and in points where we differ from him we can still appreciate his point of view.” Wilfred Wilberforce.

+ − Cath. World. 89: 758. S. ’09. 6800w.

“A remarkable book, full of that subtle criticism and fine seriousness which are marks of his distinguished family. His standpoint is conservative, and, in the most liberal sense of the word, catholic; or rather, in his philosophy of history the two stand identified.”

+ Spec. 102: 940. Je. 12, ’09. 900w.

Cesare, Raffaele de.^[10] Last days of papal Rome, 1850–1870; abridged with the assistance of the author and tr. by Helen Zimmern; with an introd. by G. M. Trevelyan. **$3.50. Houghton.

9–25989.

A history of the papal states less for the amateur than for the student of modern Italian history and for the specialist in international politics of the past century. The narrative begins with the Pope’s return to Rome from Gaeta in 1850, and continues down to the entry of the Italian troops into the city on September 20, 1870.

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 70. N. ’09.

“It is in a tone of impartiality that the whole of this splendid chapter in history is written.”

+ Lit. D. 39: 633. O. 16, ’09. 1000w.

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 692. N. 6, ’09. 210w.

Outlook. 93: 601. N. 13, ’09. 260w.

“A monograph scientifically valuable but artistically of small consequence. He has, it is true, produced a work that can only be appreciated by collating it with other works written upon the same lines; but, at the same time, he has written a book that no student of papal history can afford to neglect.”

+ − Sat. R. 108: 230. Ag. 21, ’09. 1300w.

Cesaresco, Evelyn Martinengo.^[10] Place of animals in human thought. *$3. Scribner.

A volume of absorbing interest to students of animal psychology and those interested in man’s treatment of the inferior animals. “Mixed up with a large amount of perhaps somewhat irrelevant matter relating to the history of religions, the author has collected a vast store of information relating to the estimation or otherwise in which animals have been held by the ancient nations from Egyptian, Bhuddistic, and Græco-Roman times to the middle ages; while the concluding chapter deals with modern ideas on the subject. The objects, origin, and conception of sacrifice are each treated at considerable length, while folk-lore has been largely drawn upon to illustrate the subject from all points of view.” (Nature.)

“Though it is full of curious facts, they are not sifted with care, or co-ordinated with any consistency. But withal the book is both learned and entertaining—a very creditable combination.”

+ − Ath. 1909, 2: 297. S. 11. 450w.

“The work sadly wanted revision by a well-educated proof-reader. If such blemishes occurred in many books, we could mention, we should pass them over without notice; the pity of it is that they mar the pages of such a thoroughly interesting volume as the one of which we now take leave.” R. L.

+ − Nature. 81: 276. S. 2, ’09. 600w.

“The huge mass of material which she has collected has anthropological value as well as human interest. As a source of accurate information as to the habits and capacities of animals, however, the old mythologies, and, indeed, all the so-called zoology produced more than a few score years ago, are, of course, quite useless. This obvious and unquestionable fact has escaped the attention of the Countess Martinengo Cesaresco, and if anybody ever told her of it she did not believe him. The book has the interest of very unintentional and consequently frank self-revelation. It is uninteresting, too, in another way. It rehearses dozens and dozens of the best of the old animal stories—stories that nowadays are grouped with the biographies of fairies, though they were once told with as much faith—and about as much accuracy—as the exploits of dawn-historic kings.”

+ − N. Y. Times. 14: 669. O. 30, ’09. 1050w.

“The recital of this history by so well-informed and skilful a writer as the author is makes pleasant reading.”

+ Sat. R. 108: 142. Jl. 31, ’09. 300w.

“A fascinating book. It is a book full of miscellaneous information and entertainment, the sort of book which makes the reader idly long for Macaulay’s memory in which to store all the delightful things which the author has told and shown him. Stories, quotations, comments, and pictures are all alike good. The writer of this book has with extraordinary self-control avoided every temptation to put in foolish or sentimental or improbable stories.”

+ Spec. 102: 770. My. 15, ’09. 1550w.

Chaimovitsch, Isaac. Tables for calculating sizes of steam pipes for low pressure heating. $2. Domestic engineering.

8–32657.

“Prepared for those who have not had enough experience to judge of the limitations of mere ‘rules of thumb’ in the design of steam pipes. These tables are calculated to show the loss of pressure per linear foot of pipe, in diameters of 3/4 to 24 ins., for various deliveries of steam under 1, 3, and 5 lbs. boiler pressure. The use of the tables is explained and illustrated.”—Engin. N.

Engin. D. 5: 176. F. ’09. 100w.

Engin. N. 60: sup. 695. D. 17, ’08. 80w.

“Part of the book lacks clearness.”

+ − Engin. Rec. 58: 652. D. 5, ’08. 170w.

Chamberlain, Arthur Henry. Standards in education, with some consideration of their relation to industrial training. *$1. Am. bk. co.

8–37723.

A discussion of the factors in modern elementary education including aims of education, special elements of good character, the curriculum in the elementary school, the method of its presentation, the method of training teachers, and the duties of parents toward school work.

“It is to be regretted that the book is published without an index.”

+ − Ann. Am. Acad. 34: 177. Jl. ’09. 80w.

“A useful and stimulating book. Mr. Chamberlain has combined wide reading with his unusually valuable practical experience and his book bears the mark of both. It may be used in a normal school or as material for study and discussion at teachers’ meetings and associations.”

+ Educ. R. 37: 425. Ap. ’09. 70w.

+ − Ind. 67: 310. Ag. 5, ’09. 20w.

77“Though there is nothing new in point of view or treatment it has some merits as a textbook.”

+ Nation. 88: 412. Ap. 22, ’09. 120w.

“On the whole the contents are representative of what one would say to a class rather than organized material for publication in a book.” F. A. Manny.

+ − School R. 17: 729. D. ’09. 210w.

Chamberlain, James Franklin. How we travel: a geographical reader. (Home and world ser.) *40c. Macmillan.

8–19617.

A book for young readers that “provides a simple, entertaining, and attractively illustrated account of means of travel and communication in various parts of the world. Previous volumes have dealt with man’s activities connected with securing food, clothing, and shelter.” (Nature.)

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 308. D. ’08. ✠

+ Educ. R. 37: 209. F. ’09. 30w.

“The little book should be popular in the lower classes of secondary schools.”

+ Nature. 78: 569. O. 8. ’08. 90w.

Chamberlain, John Aldrich.^[6] Principles of business law. $2.50. Anderson.

8–28323.

“This volume undertakes to state clearly and with as few technical expressions as possible those rules and accepted principles of legal procedure which a business man should know when, for instance, he makes contracts, handles commercial paper, sells or buys real estate, enters into a partnership, or sustains one of the relations of landlord or tenant. The book is carefully arranged in sections, each with its particular head, and is indexed with completeness and clearness.”—Outlook.

“A useful compendium for the commercial man.”

+ Ind. 66: 1142. My. 27, ’09. 120w.

“The prime usefulness of the volume is as a book of reference. Its value in this respect, however, is somewhat impaired because of the meager information given on very important topics.”

+ − Ind. 67: 882. O. 14, ’09. 190w.

“It will not save the ordinary business man from employing a lawyer, but it will often save him getting into such a situation that it needs a lawyer to extricate him.”

+ Outlook. 89: 627. Jl. 18, ’08. 180w.

Chamberlain, Lucia.^[5] Other side of the door. †$1.50. Bobbs.

9–14827.

A story built up about a murder which the heroine chances to be eye witness to and concerning which she furnishes the evidence that convicts the hero of the crime. He is not the real criminal and why he is loath to clear himself is revealed in a closing chapter in which the confession of a Spanish woman sets matters straight.

“It is not a very skillfully managed narrative.”

− N. Y. Times. 14: 302. My. 15, ’09. 280w.

Chamberlin, Georgia Louise, and Kern, Mary Root.^[11] Child religion in song and story: walks with Jesus in his home country. (Constructive Bible studies. Elementary ser.) *$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.

9–29793.

A second volume of songs, prayers, song texts and story to be supplemented and enforced by the manual work. The first volume, “The child in his world,” should precede this, if possible, in Sunday school work. The purpose of the lessons is to emphasize ethical truth and to give to the child a sense of the reality of Jesus and an attitude toward him.

“Here is a wide range of well-chosen, helpful material, sympathetically selected in view of a child’s religious life and arranged helpfully for the teacher.” H: F. Cope.

+ Bib. World. 33: 348. My. ’09. 1000w.

Chambers, Robert William.^[10] Danger mark. **$1.50. Appleton.

9–24255.

Idle and overrich New York society folk fill the pages of this novel. The heroine, one of the orphaned Seagrave twins, who has inherited dangerous wealth and more dangerous appetites, is thrust at her début into a world of pleasure seekers where ennui is often banished at the expense of home ties, and where physical and financial gratification are the sole ambitions. The girl has ideals and bravely fights the degenerating tendencies within her to make herself worthy of the man she loves, a man who is fighting also against social weakness. But such as they are, tempted, back-sliding, struggling, but winning in the end, they are the best of their luxurious, naughty world “whose sole intellectual relaxation is in pirouetting along the danger mark without overstepping, and in concealing it when they do.”

“Mr. Chambers is deservedly a popular writer, for never does he fail to hold the attention of his readers to the end. It is thus with his latest story, even though its first hundred pages or so are decidedly slow reading, and the interest goes in the end to minor characters rather than to the heroine, least of all to her brother.” A. S. van Westrum.