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Vachell, Horace Annesley.[6] Drama in sunshine. *$1. Fenno.
A new edition of a dramatic story of love and hate whose scenes are enacted in southern California.
447Vachell, Horace Annesley.[11] Paladin as beheld by a woman of temperament. †$1.50. Dodd.
9–24959.
“Mr. Vachell describes his subject as ‘beheld by a woman of temperament,’ and she it is who makes the story interesting, for romance gains little by the reflection of so commonplace a type as that of the paladin—a young man brought up to believe himself a great deal more than the stupid good fellow he really is. When an opportunity of playing the hero occurs, he makes a tolerable success of it, but owing to a fatal habit of marking time, fails in his legitimate love-suit. Later he succeeds to the peerage, and is married by a lady of the Jollity theatre. The marriage turns out a failure, and the wife, becoming seriously ill, is taken to a nursing home, where she is tended by the woman of temperament, who, after battling alone in various callings, has found work as a nurse. A foil to the paladin is provided in the doctor in attendance on the case, and thus a dramatic situation is created, of which good use is made.”—Ath.
“While the story on the whole has the reader’s approval, it fails to win his sympathy.”
+ − A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 135. D. ’09.
“The study of the paladin is admirable, and two pairs of women and men are vividly contrasted.”
+ Ath. 1909, 2: 422. O. 9. 190w.
“Altogether the book is an entertaining novel as well as a clever study of character.” M. K. Ford.
+ Bookm. 30: 394. D. ’09. 520w.
“The impression survives that it is not only the Harry Ryes who are arraigned, but the whole sex, especially such of them as play untimely golf on honeymoons.”
+ − Nation. 89: 573. D. 9, ’09. 300w.
“The story is distinctly clever, and Mr. Vachell has drawn the character with unmistakable lines. Mr. Vachell’s humor is keen and his satire is clever. The story is well worth reading.”
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 607. O. 16, ’09. 380w.
“If George Meredith had never written ‘The egoist’ Mr. Vachell in ‘The paladin’ would have produced a notable work. As it is, his book suffers inevitably by comparison, not only because he has chosen the theme of Meredith’s masterpiece, but because he has adopted—not always very happily—some of his mannerisms and tricks of style. It is not possible to say of many pages of the book ‘These might have been written by George Meredith.’ But it is impossible to avoid detecting the resemblance in many turns of phrases and ideas.”
− + Sat. R. 108: sup. 7. O. 16, ’09. 700w.
“Once, however, the reader has made up his mind to accept Mr. Vachell’s point of view, he will not be able to help admiring the cleverness with which it is presented. The story is well and vigorously written, though the character of Napier, the modern doctor, is perhaps a little conventional.”
+ − Spec. 103: 651. O. 23, ’09. 60w.
Vaile, Mrs. Charlotte M.[11] Orcutt girls; or, One term at the academy; new ed. †$1.50. Wilde.
A new and attractive edition of a popular story for girls, relating the experiences of Bertha and Sue Orcutt thru one term at an old-fashioned New England academy.
Vaile, Mrs. Charlotte M.[11] Sue Orcutt; new ed. †$1.50. Wilde.
The story of Sue, begun in “The Orcutt girls,” is in this second book brought to a happy ending.
Vance, Louis Joseph. Bronze bell. †$1.50. Dodd.
9–7439.
A young American off for a duck hunt on Long Island becomes the hero in a strangely assorted series of happenings. A babu who mistakes him for a rajah puts into his hands a bronze box of wonderful Indian craftsmanship. This hero, “the ant-heap of crowded Indian life, the Anglo-Indian secret service, native trickery, the mysterious East—adventure, danger, treachery, mystery, love, bravery, all the old material, which are the only ones we know, are used with satisfying success.” (Ind.)
“Has no literary merit, but possesses the same qualities that made the author’s ‘Brass bowl’ and ‘Black bag’ popular.”
+ − A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 189. Je. ’09.
“It is not great art, it does not pretend to be, but it is a rattling good story.”
+ Ind. 66: 762. Ap. 8, ’09. 180w.
“Persons of mature years will sit up to read Mr. Vance’s story and prove how the heart of man never grows old.”
+ Nation. 88: 607. Je. 17, ’09. 200w.
N. Y. Times. 14: 201. Ap. 3, ’09. 200w.
N. Y. Times. 14: 380. Je. 12, ’09. 220w.
“The book is at least picturesque and exciting, though the adventures are sometimes a little confused.”
+ − Spec. 103: 101. Jl. 17, ’09. 100w.
Vance, Wilson J.[10] Big John Baldwin. †$1.50. Holt.
9–24322.
In the quaint English of the seventeenth century big John Baldwin sets down from time to time in this journal all that befell him as a youth busied with his dogs and his sports, and, later, his experiences at the court of Charles I, and still later at that of the Lord Protector. As an officer in Cromwell’s army he saw active service and won glory; as a man he won his lady; and in later life, removing to the new colony of Virginia, he won much from that new land. It is a tale of a noble gentleman told in a style which quaintly blends piety and humor.
“A lengthy, leisurely, naïve chronicle that reproduces successfully the life of the period and furnishes a tale of considerable interest.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 135. D. ’09. ✠
“Mr. Vance has copied the conventional pattern of Roundhead style with fair success, and invested his book with something of the garb of its period.” W: M. Payne.
+ Dial. 47: 387. N. 16, ’09. 230w.
“In spite of lavish portions of Presbyterian preaching and of mutual admiration among kings and commons, the book gives an interesting picture of the time in old world and new, with more of the domestic than the military.”
+ Nation. 89: 628. D. 23, ’09. 400w.
“It is a novel considerably apart from the ordinary, and Mr. Vance deserves praise for his faithful presentation of the literary style of Cromwell’s time and following.”
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 636. O. 23, ’09. 210w.
Van Dyke, Henry, ed.[11] Poetry of nature. **$2.50. Doubleday.
“The sixty ‘Nature poems’ which Dr. Van Dyke has put together in this volume include, as might be expected, various old favourites. Wordsworth’s ‘Daffodils,’ Browning’s ‘Oh, to be in England,’ Herrick’s ‘Get up, get up, for shame!’ Shelley’s ‘Ode to the skylark,’ and Lord Tennyson’s ‘Tears, idle tears,’ are among them. On the other hand, we have some pieces that will be less familiar to most readers. Dr. Van Dyke has drawn upon poets of his own country for some of the material. ‘The titmouse,’ by R. W. Emerson; ‘To a water-fowl,’ by W. C. Bryant; and ‘The marshes of Glynn,’ by Sidney Lanier, are among them.”—Spec.
N. Y. Times. 14: 684. O. 30, ’09. 80w.
Sat. R. 108: 542. O. 30, ’09. 40w.
“The selection is excellent, and there are some good photographic illustrations.”
+ Spec. 103: 566. O. 9, ’09. 130w.
448Van Dyke, Henry.[12] White bees and other poems. **$1.25. Scribner.
9–28299.
Dr. Van Dyke “knows his birds and flowers thoroughly, but the secret of his poetic and graphic celebration of them lies in his love for them. They do not flutter in his hand, but are content to make their shyness and wild music his; so it has happened that he has written a little group of lyrics of convincing fidelity to nature and to art. He is afraid neither of deep conviction nor of deep emotion, and he has given his verse that quality which in a somewhat skeptical age, with its overemphasis of the purely intellectual element in art, is so often missed.”—Outlook.
“The group ‘In praise of poets’ has especial interest.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 128. D. ’09.
“A little group of songs which are likely to hover above the horizon of our workaday American world for many decades.”
+ Outlook. 93: 651. N. 27, ’09. 130w.
Van Dyke, John Charles.[9] New New York; a commentary on the place and the people. *$4. Macmillan.
9–24461.
New York as an expression of the new civilization; New York with its life, its vitality, its tremendous energy kept forever in action by commerce; New York of high bridges, colossal sky-scrapers, huge factories and enormous waterways; New York as an educational, art and trade center is the author’s theme. The illustrations in colors and black and white lend reality to the larger aspect of present day New York with which the author has chosen to deal.
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 87. N. ’09. ✠
“The illustrations are clever but insubstantial. They fail to give us any feeling of the tremendous force and vitality of the city which is the keynote of the book.” Algernon Tassin.
+ − Bookm. 30: 355. D. ’09. 489w.
“But if occasionally ‘The new New York’ strikes the level of mere information, as a whole it moves on a much higher plane, forming a significant, if over-weighted, impression of our New World metropolis, with its unique conception of municipal beauty, realized and to be realized in years to come—for the New York is still very much in the making.” E. K. Dunton.
+ − Dial. 47: 453. D. 1, ’09. 520w.
“To the interpretation and to the appreciation of New York he has brought knowledge and understanding, insight and sympathy.” Brander Matthews.
+ Forum. 42: 474. N. ’09. 1000w.
“An extremely interesting and entertaining book. Mr. Pennell’s pictures, regrettably, are not on a par with the text. They are disappointing.”
+ − Ind. 67: 821. O. 7, ’09. 900w.
“This book of Professor Van Dyke’s is intensely modern, intensely of to-day.”
+ Lit. D. 39: 640. O. 16, ’09. 600w.
“Mr. Pennell’s pictures leave no doubt upon the skeptic’s mind that New York is picturesque, in spite of its rectangularity. Not the least merit of them is that they invite the reader to seek out the places the illustrator has shown, and thus discover with his own eyes what formerly may have escaped him.”
+ Lit. D. 39: 1084. D. 11, ’09. 240w.
“Taking the book as a whole, sensible text with its innumerable spirited suggestions and stimulating criticisms, and the illustrations, charming portraits of familiar places, it would be difficult to find anything more appropriate to its subject or more successful in the carrying out of the thing attempted.”
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 627. O. 23, ’09. 1050w.
“Mr. Pennell’s etchings have done for the New York of to-day what Mr. Whistler’s etchings did for the London of twenty years ago. Ought to be a text-book for the study of Americans who want to discover the New York of to-day.”
+ Outlook. 93: 291. O. 9, ’09. 650w.
“Professor Van Dyke’s text is that of a man who thoroughly knows and loves his subject. As for the Pennell illustrations, they are beyond praise as an accurate interpretation of the life and architecture of the city.”
+ R. of Rs. 40: 511. O. ’09. 100w.
“The book as a whole will be stimulating to all who are working in any way at the problems of the city and especially of the city of New York.”
+ Survey. 23: 377. D. 18, ’09. 170w.
Van Dyne, Frederick.[7] Our foreign service: the “A B C” of American diplomacy. $2.50. Lawyers’ co-op.
9–3311.
A survey of the diplomatic and consular service by the American consul at Kingston, Jamaica. An appendix is added containing important regulations, governing examinations, appointments and promotions, forms and present members of the service.
A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 183. Je. ’09.
“In comparison with the space devoted to the text of the book the prominence given to technical and changing subjects is disproportionate.”
+ − Ann. Am. Acad. 34: 613. N. ’09. 170w.
+ J. Pol. Econ. 17: 652. N. ’09. 100w.
“The work appears to have been executed in a thorough and painstaking manner.”
+ Nation. 89: 99. Jl. 29, ’09. 60w.
“It is intended for the use of those preparing for our foreign service as well as to be informing and useful to the general reader.”
+ R. of Rs. 39: 510. Ap. ’09. 60w.
Van Rensselaer, Mariana (Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer).[6] History of the city of New York in the seventeenth century. *$5. Macmillan.
9–14587.
Two volumes of some five hundred pages each of which trace the history of the settlement planted by the Dutch on the island of Manhattan during a period of eighty years, from the earliest days until the accession of William and Mary to the throne of England. It is the author’s intention to continue the history in two later volumes thru the colonial and revolutionary periods.
“The author has been unable to avoid one very serious source of error; this arises from the method she has adopted in prosecuting her investigations. Mrs. Van Rensselaer is evidently quite fitted to have taken up her theme ‘de novo’ from the original documents. Relying instead upon her predecessors of various degrees of merit, she has been frequently led to incorporate in her work their inaccuracies. Of more importance are many positively wrong statements which the author has culled from careless authorities.” J. H. Innes.
+ − Am. Hist. R. 15: 155. O. ’09. 2100w.
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 52. O. ’09.
“If the volumes to follow fulfil expectations thus created we shall have indeed a ‘magnum opus.’” F. I. Herriott.
+ Ann. Am. Acad. 34: 626. N. ’09. 400w.
“One can hardly point to a longer felt want in historical literature than that which this volume and its successor supply. It has none of the portraiture for which one looks, and which she is evidently qualified to produce.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ − Bookm. 30: 57. S. ’09. 1450w.
“The work, so far as it goes in these two volumes, is one of those authoritative achievements of an enthusiastic yet well-poised specialist, which must be accepted as it stands, and left for scrutiny of details to sub-specialists.” A. Schade van Westrum.
+ − Forum. 42: 187. Ag. ’09. 3200w.
449“The impression left by the work upon the reviewer, is one of sound historical balance, of well-seen proportions and well-drawn conclusions.”
+ Ind. 67: 143. Jl. 15, ’09. 970w.
+ Lit. D. 39: 789. N. 6, ’09. 420w.
“Her pages are never dull. On the contrary, they are frequently brilliant.”
+ Lit. D. 39: 1084. D. 11, ’09. 160w.
“We feel compelled to say that the weakness of Mrs. Van Rensselaer’s work is its super-abundant detail. Detailed as it is, however, the book is a notable piece of work, honorable alike to its author and to the city whose story it authoritatively sets forth.”
+ − Nation. 89: 120. Ag. 5, ’09. 2000w.
“Now comes Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer, delving into greater minutiae of historical detail than Fiske ever essayed to do with New York.”
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 545. S. 18, ’09. 1800w.
“A well-compacted, beautifully rounded narrative, attractive and impressive to all intelligent readers.” Elizabeth Wallace.
+ Outlook. 92: 40. S. 4, ’09. 1350w.
“Mrs. Van Rensselaer’s illuminating work should go far to counteract such misconceptions as have been perpetuated from Irving’s day to this.”
+ R. of Rs. 40: 124. Jl. ’09. 200w.
+ − Spec. 103: 314. Ag. 28, ’09. 350w.
Van Vorst, Marie.[11] In ambush. †$1.50. Lippincott.
9–28121.
A handsome, broad-shouldered young robber, murderer and outlaw in general is the hero of this tale whose main purpose seems to be one of proving that even so desperate a character, once under the right reformatory influence may be regenerated. “The beautiful young Kentuckian, Helena Desprey, crossed his erratic path on her ‘finishing’ tour, and lo! that Denver bank received back the sum (plus interest) stolen from it fifteen years before; the states of Colorado and California, which Flanders had upset a good deal, got two million dollars between them for local charities, and Tom Moody’s Irish relatives came into a little fortune. He was a splendid fellow, despite the warrants out against him, and twice saved Moody’s life, besides rallying the Lancers in that charge at Omdurman; and the more Helena learned about his past the more she forgave him.” (Sat. R.)
“There are some good descriptive paragraphs scattered through the pages, which will please those who like personally conducted novels, while the various entanglements of the plot are sufficiently exciting.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 14: 771. D. 4, ’09. 280w.
“The book is capital melodrama, ingeniously devised, as we have seen, to win the vote of that large section of novel-readers every unit in which believes herself to be the Right Woman for somebody or other.”
− Sat. R. 108: 416. O. 2, ’09. 250w.
Varney, George Reuben.[7] Out of the depths. **$1.25. Am. Bapt.
9–16444.
A story which deals with the experiences of a young minister who becomes the pastor of a large church in a city of the Northwest. The author includes Christian science in the long list of “evils” which his pastor militant meets and downs.
N. Y. Times. 14: 380. Je. 12, ’09. 120w.
N. Y. Times. 14: 501. Ag. 21, ’09. 500w.
Vaughan, Herbert Millingchamp. Medici popes (Leo X and Clement VII). **$4. Putnam.
8–37694.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
“For any serious estimate of papal statesmanship we look in vain. He gives on the whole a very fair judgment of Leo, and does not much extenuate his faults of levity and dissimulation.”
+ − Ath. 1909, 1: 225. F. 20. 130w.
“The biography is, in fact, an excellent piece of characterisation, pleasantly written from well-known sources, and without any affectation of research. When writing directly upon Leo, Mr. Vaughan is accurate, and he evidently has the advantage of familiar knowledge of both Rome and Florence. In the more general history mistakes are too numerous.” P.
+ − Eng. Hist. R. 24: 404. Ap. ’09. 500w.
“This is, above all else, an amiable book. It is written as nearly without partisan bias as one could ever expect in a work treating of a subject that involved religious considerations of any sort.”
+ Nation. 88: 386. Ap. 15, ’09. 750w.
Vaughan, Owen (Owen Rhoscomyl). Vronina. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–22545.
A story of Wales which reflects the “strength and mysticism of the Welsh hills and moors.” “The author has marked his people by subtle characteristic touches—the traces of superstition in their minds, the influence upon them of the sea, and the grandeur of the scenery, their impatience of pretense, their almost fanatical sense of loyalty, their freedom from futile, bustling activities. It is an intensive study of a place with its traditions, its native types of people, its standards of living, and its habits of thought, and the conflict which is unfolded in the drama is the natural outcome of these local and racial characteristics.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The novel suffers from starting out at too high an emotional pitch, and the style is very rhetorical. Mr. Rhoscomyl has, however, written with great sincerity about people who are impossibly good, bad, beautiful, strong and primitive.”
+ − Nation. 87: 605. D. 17, ’08. 200w.
“There are points in the tale which are disappointing, but, on the whole, it is an admirable story, written with style and force; the author’s conception is sure, his hold on the narrative is close and strong, and the sympathy of the reader is immediate.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 13: 613. O. 24, ’08. 370w.
Vay de Vaya and Luskod, Count. Inner life of the United States. *$4. Dutton.
9–35102.
A book of impressions of America gained by a Hungarian ecclesiastic who accompanied a band of emigrants.
“The Monsignor’s observations on religious conditions are disappointingly superficial. If his appreciations are not quite correct—and this is the case in many instances—the errors arise from hasty generalizations, in which special conditions in some places, or among some classes, are taken as typical. In many instances, too, he has not thoroughly digested his information.”
− + Cath. World. 88: 688. F. ’09. 760w.
“One of the fairest and friendliest books on the American people that has been written in German. So far as it goes it is suggestive and entertaining. His style is clear and agreeable.”
+ Nation. 87: 215. S. 3, ’08. 460w.
“Possibly it is designed for circulation among immigrant circles in the United States. It is a regret to say that its usefulness will hardly extend beyond those circles. The book is not bad enough to condemn nor good enough to praise. On the contrary it is well worthy of a success of esteem among countrymen of the author.”
− + N. Y. Times. 13: 690. N. 21, ’08. 370w.
“A readable account of American life for persons who know little about it. The book is a broad survey: although it always has the impress of a cultivated and good-tempered observer, it is necessarily superficial.”
+ − Spec. 102: 184. Ja. 30, ’09. 340w.
450Vedder, Henry Clay. Church history handbooks. 4v. ea. *40c. Am. Bapt.
9–6577.
v. 1. Early period.
The first of a series of handbooks designed for study classes and training schools, rapid consultation in the busy pastor’s study, and for collateral work among Bible students. This little volume discusses the following subjects: The apostolic age, The anti-Nicene church. The union of church and state, The age of dogma, The rise of the papacy, The growth of papal pretensions, The popes supreme in Europe, and The great schism and the reforming councils.
v. 4. Baptist history.
In one hundred and twenty-four pages it gives the essential facts of Baptist history, and the principles underlying the church belief.
Veitch, Henry Newton. Sheffield plate; its history, manufacture, and art. *$8. Macmillan.
9–35441.
“The author has spared no pains to make his work an exhaustive and comprehensive treatise on this lost craft. After tracing the historical and economic conditions which led up to a demand for metal ware which should be cheaper than solid silver and superior to the ‘treene’ and pewter vessels and table ware then in common use, he tells us how the art of Sheffield plating was discovered by Thomas Bolsover in 1742 and successfully developed by his apprentice, Joseph Hancock.” (Int. Studio.) “He divides Sheffield plate into two main periods: 1750–90, before the introduction of the silver mount; and 1790–1840, with a transitional period indicated from about 1770 to 1790.” (Ath.)
“Valuable as the first serious attempt at a comprehensive history of this branch of metal work.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 111. Ap. ’09.
“This is a useful and fairly complete account of this typically English ware. Mr. Veitch is so completely a master of his subject that it is a pity he felt compelled to prefix an introduction of ill-digested facts. No collector of Sheffield plate can afford to be without this important handbook.”
+ − Ath. 1909, 1: 140. Ja. 30. 170w.
“To the scanty literature already in existence dealing with the Sheffield plate, Mr. Veitch’s book forms an important and very valuable addition. The book is interesting to the general reader, but will be of special value to the connoisseur and collector.”
+ Int. Studio. 36:335. F. ’09. 320w.
+ − Sat. R. 107: 632. My. 15, ’09. 680w.
Vernon, K. Dorothea (Ewart) (Mrs. H. M. Vernon).[8] Italy from 1494 to 1790. (Cambridge historical ser.) *$1.75. Putnam.
9–8028.
“Comprises two unequal periods, that which ended in 1559, and that which followed; and to the latter, which is less generally known than any epoch of modern Italian history except that which began with 1870, the author has wisely devoted the larger part of her book.”—Eng. Hist. R.
“Mrs. Vernon has produced a useful book. She saw clearly what she wished to do, and she has done it clearly. In the main the book excels in perspective. It abounds in thumb-nail portraits, many of which are striking likenesses.” W: R. Thayer.
+ Am. Hist. R. 15: 125. O. ’09. 700w.
“The work is accurate, fair, abounds in excellent pen portraits, and fills a gap in historical manuals for English readers.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 129. D. ’09.
“This book is not up to the high standard of most of the other works in the series to which it belongs. Of actual errors of fact there are few, though minor inconsistencies and infelicities in nomenclature abound; but the work as a whole gives an impression of being patched together, of lack of unity, and of absence of historic background.” R. B. Merriman.
+ − Ann. Am. Acad. 34: 627. N. ’09. 400w.
“An excellent text-book on a difficult and neglected period of Italian history.”
+ Ath. 1909, 2: 234. Ag. 28. 200w.
“Considering the great mass of facts involved, the narrative shows marked skill, and the three chapters of social history are particularly interesting.” W. Mi.
+ − Eng. Hist. R. 24: 614. Jl. ’09. 260w.
“It is authoritative, scholarly, essentially political, and dry.”
+ − Ind. 67: 303. Ag. 5, ’09. 60w.
“Mrs. Vernon, we think, makes a very common mistake in attempting to write a purely narrative history in chronological order of the events of these centuries, with additional chapters on their society, literature, art and political institutions.”
− + N. Y. Times. 14: 549. S. 18, ’09. 1000w.
Verplanck, William E., and Collyer, Moses W. Sloops of the Hudson: an historical sketch of the packet and market sloops of the last century, with a record of their names; together with personal reminiscences of certain of the notable North river sailing masters. **$1.50. Putnam.
9–687.
A brief history written to preserve the memory of the inland merchantmen that were the forerunners of the establishment of the Hudson’s vast commerce. The author writes out of the fulness of his own experience covering the following subjects: The sloop as a packet vessel, The sail in competition with steam and Personal reminiscences of Captain George D. Woolsey.
“Of some value to students of transportation and of considerable local interest.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 111. Ap. ’09.
Ind. 66: 378. F. 18, ’09. 60w.
“The book contains much that is interesting to the lover of domestic history of a homely form, and also to the students of transportation problems of bygone days. There is much in it that is entertaining in the way of reminiscences, together with considerable valuable information bearing upon the tides and currents of the Hudson.”
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 73. F. 6, ’09. 730w.
R. of Rs. 39: 509. Ap. ’09. 80w.
Vielé, Herman Knickerbocker.[11] On the lightship; introd. by T: A. Janvier. **$1.50. Duffield.
9–24696.
Ten short stories that remained unpublished at the time of the author’s death.
“Ten delicately humorous and cleverly constructed tales, as fantastic and whimsical as the author’s previous work.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 94. N. ’09.
“Sometimes of an undisguisable slightness, these tales are, collectively, stamped with the cosmopolitanism of the author no less than with his good taste.”
+ Nation. 89: 628. D. 23, ’09. 330w.
“The tales are of the half satirical, fantastic genre in which Mr. Vielé excelled.”
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 645. O. 23, ’09. 380w.
451Virgil, Publius Virgilius Maro. Aeneid; tr. into English verse by Theodore C. Williams. *$1.50. Houghton.
8–31831.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
+ Cath. World. 89: 258. My. ’09. 550w.
“Mr. Williams has over Morris the advantage of closer texture and a style more comfortable to the general ear. We had not supposed a new Virgil in English could prove so welcome.”
+ Dial. 46: 52. Ja. 16, ’09. 470w.
“Tested by a number of well-known passages, the rendering is both scholarly and of sound literary feeling.”
+ Educ. R. 37: 98. Ja. ’09. 50w.
“We have no fault to find with the care and accuracy with which Mr. Williams’ version has been executed.”
+ Lit. D. 38: 227. F. 6, ’09. 100w.
“Mr. Williams has attempted the impossible with high success. He has built the lofty rhyme of blank verse and kept it lofty. His version is essentially exact; few important meanings are lost, and few intruded. The quality is poetic throughout, and the movement is sustained. We have tested the work minutely for important points, and have read large sections at a stretch; it reads.”
+ + − Nation. 88: 201. F. 25, ’09. 750w.
“Very creditable blank verse.”
+ N. Y. Times. 13: 801. D. 26, ’08. 40w.
“The present writer knows no version which equals it either in faithfulness to the original or in literary ease. This book is a piece of literature and no ‘pony.’”
+ Outlook. 91: 24. Ja. 2, ’09. 450w.
“Of Mr. Williams’ translation it will be said, ‘This is noble, and it is Virgil.’” W: C. Collar.
+ School R. 17: 439. Je. ’09. 1200w.
Vogt, Paul L. Sugar refining industry in the United States: its development and present condition. (Pub. of the Univ. of Pa. Series in political economy and public law, no. 21.) $1.50. Pub. for the Univ. of Pa. by Winston.
8–13956.
“This is a study of the growth of combinations in the cane and beet sugar refining industry in the United States. The material in most of the chapters is cast in historical form.” (Ann. Am. Acad.) It gives revealing information upon competition, combination, tariff influences, manipulation of price, and the development of a new industry, making great inroads upon the older type of production.
“As a study of a combination, the results are disappointingly hesitating and negative. The chief themes for which the reader looks viz., the evolution of capital instruments, profits of promoting and financing, effects of the tariff, influence of the combination upon legislation, prices, and labor, are either not presented at all or else presented with no definite and forceful conclusions. There is, however, in the monograph abundance of material upon certain aspects of the subject, and the purpose, to present a study of an industry, which taken with other like studies, may provide the basis for a comprehensive policy of control of combinations, is laudable.” E: D. Jones.
+ − Ann. Am. Acad. 33: 465. Mr. ’09. 140w.
“The book makes no pretension to being a complete history but it does set forth in available form the essentials of this phase of our economic history.” F. L. McVey.
+ Econ. Bull. 1: 201. S. ’08. 600w.
“The author has been most successful in the historical part of his study, which, though not pretending to be complete and intensive, still does succeed in bringing out quite clearly some of the more fundamental causes leading to the growth of this trust. But when one comes to the part discussing capitalization, prices, and profits, one cannot but question whether some of the conclusions are justified on the basis of such evidence as is presented.” C. W. W.
+ − J. Pol. Econ. 17: 730. D. ’09. 580w.