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Daffan, Katie. Woman in history. *$2. Neale.
9–2.
Twenty-nine women famous for rulership, for qualities of heroism or for beauty constitute this galaxy: Cleopatra; Vashti; Queen Esther; Queen of Sheba; Aspasia; Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi; Mary, the mother of Jesus; Hypatia; Heloise; Eleanor of Aquitaine; Matilda of Flanders; Beatrice Portinari; Joan of Arc; Elizabeth of England; Mary Stuart; Nelle Gwynne; Madame de Maintenon; Madame Pompadour and Madame du Barry; Marie Antoinette; Madame Roland; Charlotte Corday; Madame de Stael; Madame Recamier; Empress Josephine; Maria Theresa; Catherine II; Queen Victoria and Eugenie.
Daggett, Mabel Potter.[12] In Lockerbie street: a little appreciation of James Whitcomb Riley. *50c. Dodge, B. W.
9–28407.
A charming appreciation of Mr. Riley as he lives, laughs and sorrows with Lockerbie street. “In Lockerbie street he is one of the folks,” he visits the corner grocery, entertains troops of children, gives generously of his pennies and likewise of his genial, sympathetic personality. Why Mr. Riley has never married, the writer admits, is his own secret; why he stays away from church is summed up in the following: “I don’t go to church only when I have to. I can’t bear the awe and gloom. I don’t like worship that way. It ought to be cheerful and joyful.... It just sort o’ clabbers my mind to go to church.”
Daggett, Stuart. Railroad reorganization. (Harvard economic studies, v. 4.) **$2. Houghton.
8–15469.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
“On the whole, the work appears to me to be excellent. It is one of the few books which have appeared on railways during the past ten years that is worth the serious study of a serious student.” H: C. Adams.
+ − Am. Hist. R. 14: 838. Jl. ’09. 620w.
“Is the most important addition made in 1908 to the book literature upon railroad transportation. The volume has several distinctive merits: It deals with a relatively neglected phase of railroad history and management; it approaches the subject by the scientific highway of induction and careful analysis; and lastly the work has not been done hastily, but is the result of years of study.” E. R. Johnson.
+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 33: 470. Mr. ’09. 600w.
“So far as the work is expository little can be said except in praise. But so far as the work is critical one gathers the impression that the author’s thought has not been quite mature.” H. S. Smalley.
+ − Econ. Bull. 1: 341. D. ’08. 750w.
Dahlke, Paul. Buddhist essays; tr. from the German by Bhikkhu Silacara. *$3. Macmillan.
9–15096.
“Dahlke’s ‘Essays’ are a fair presentation of the religion of his Master; for the most part they give a presentation of the texts themselves, taken from the Middle collection of the second book of the Pali canon. They deal with Buddha’s life and with the teaching in regard to life, sorrow, Nirvana, God, morality, asceticism, etc. To these the author adds his own exegesis and conclusions.”—Nation.
“As each essay is complete in itself and independent of the rest, the plan of the volume involves a certain amount of reiteration and restatement, but the result is undoubtedly a great gain in clearness and precision.”
+ Ath. 1909, 1: 406. Ap. 3. 750w.
“So far as we have compared the translation with the original, the English version is idiomatic and satisfactory. If only as an antidote to the pernicious ‘mischmasch’ so often offered to the general public as Buddhism this volume would be heartily welcome. Nevertheless, it is not without grave defects; and if space permitted it would be worth while enlarging on these, for they are the defects of the school to which Dahlke belongs.”
+ − Nation. 88: 173. F. 18, ’09. 950w.
“This is in two points of view a valuable book—first as a full and reliable exposition of an exclusively Oriental system of thought by an appreciative European convert, but chiefly as furnishing a fresh incentive to rid Christianity of accretions which give a starting-point for such religious nihilism.”
+ − Outlook. 90: 595. N. 14, ’08. 260w.
Dalhousie, Fox Maule. Panmure papers: being a selection from the correspondence of Fox Maule, Second Baron Panmure, afterwards eleventh earl of Dalhousie, K. T., G. C. B.; ed. by Sir G: Douglas and Sir G: Dalhousie Ramsay. 2v. *$6. Clode, E. J.
9–3530.
“Letters written and received by Lord Panmure while he was at the head of the British war department and a member of Lord Palmerston’s Cabinet, have been the means of disseminating considerable interesting information. The period covered by the correspondence is that during which the British and their allies were fighting against Russia in Crimea. Among those who contributed to the correspondence were Palmerston, Lord Raglan, the Duke of Cambridge, Gen. Sir James Simpson, Gen. Sir William Codrington, Queen Victoria herself, and her devoted husband, the Prince Consort.”—N. Y. Times.
“What is new is the detailed statement of the practice of the rulers of the nation as to the best mode in which to regulate the fortunes of a most difficult undertaking.”
+ Ath. 1908, 2: 533. O. 31. 4300w.
“The military student will gain from a study of the letters knowledge that heretofore has not been available of the operations of the British forces in one of the world’s greatest wars. Another very important feature of the correspondence is the light it throws upon the Queen as she followed the course of events in the Crimean peninsula with deeply concerned and intelligent interest.”
+ N. Y. Times. 13: 770. D. 12, ’08. 920w.
“A most valuable and interesting book; but the editors would have done better if they had reduced its dimensions by omitting about half of the letters, many of which are purely formal.”
+ − Sat. R. 106: 761. D. 19, ’08. 390w.
“No student of history can afford to neglect these two stout volumes, which are excellently edited. The despatches tell their own story, and little more than the editing was required.”
+ Spec. 101: 674. O. 31, ’08. 1800w.
106Dalliba, Gerda. Earth poem and other poems; with an introd. by Edwin Markham. **$2. Putnam.
8–25379.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
“It is an amorphous composition, in which nuggets of poetic diction may be found imbedded. We must call the book the work of a nature at present utterly unregulated, from both the intellectual and the artistic points of view.” W: M. Payne.
− + Dial. 46: 51. Ja. 16, ’09. 320w.
“If vagueness of thought, obscureness of language, veiled meanings which are but the echoes of meanings, constitute a poet, then Gerda Dalliba is a poet. The author evidently has youth; she certainly has the courage of invention; what is also important, she has a good ear for rhythm.”
− + Ind. 67: 880. O. 14, ’09. 370w.
“With such a subject, the wonder is, not that the poem is so long, but that it is so good—by fits and starts.”
+ − Nation. 88: 41. Ja. 14, ’09. 150w.
Dallimore, W. Holly, yew and box; with notes on other evergreens; the descriptions of the varieties of the common holly are based on the monograph by T: Moore. **$2.50. Lane.
9–616.
“The volume deals with these three elements of the garden, rather than with the garden itself. The illustrations of English holly trees are exceedingly effective, and indicate the high value of the plants in the construction of picturesque combinations.... The volume contains much besides a mere botanical review of the holly. The patient box, which has borne so much mutilation from formal gardeners, and the sombre yew also, find here congenial treatment, but they and a few other evergreen trees are kept a little out of proportion by the greater space deservedly assigned to the hollies.”—Nation.
“The value of this book centres chiefly on the reproduction of a unique series of illustrations of holly leaves published by the late Thomas Moore in ‘The gardeners’ chronicle’ in the years 1874–6.”
+ Ath. 1909, 1: 411. Ap. 3. 330w.
“Lovers of trees and of the folk-lore of trees will find in this work much of deep interest.”
+ Nation. 87: 470. N. 12, ’08. 200w.
“Full of practical, present day information on the different varieties with helpful suggestions as to their planting and proper care.”
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 31. Ja. 16, ’09. 730w.
Daly, Thomas Augustine.[6] Carmina. **$1. Lane.
9–9231.
Some eighty pieces reprinted from the Catholic standard and times. “Mr. Daly is poet laureate of the peanut peddler. He can also handle Irish dialect and plain English, but other people can do that, while in Italo-American he has no rival. But it is no mere display of ‘dialectics.’ The ballads have point, pathos and human nature.” (Ind.)
“The sympathy of Mr. Daly’s Italian lyrics even—and they are the best of his book—is not often wistful enough to be real. The occasional exceptions, like ‘Leetla Joe’ and ‘The mourner,’ make one wish there were more of them; and the dedicatory sonnet, ‘To a tenant,’ would honour a richer offering.” Brian Hooker.
+ − Bookm. 29: 368. Je. ’09. 200w.
“It contains all the elements of his popularity, which are easily described. He is always sane, he is eminently human and genial, and takes a joyful attitude towards life. The brighter and happier qualities of the Celtic character are revealed in his song. He writes without obscurity and on themes of popular interest. He has something definite to say in each separate piece and knows how to build up a poem. Over all his work, according to his subject, presides a graceful fancy or a true feeling, or a humor that is always natural and agreeable.”
+ Cath. World. 89: 399. Je. ’09. 650w.
“They are the sort of thing that you cut out of a newspaper and carry around in your pocket to read to appreciative friends until the clipping is worn out, and then you copy it, unless you know it by heart.”
+ Ind. 66: 1084. My. 20, ’09. 230w.
“Because of the dialect, or in spite of it, and because of a pretty gift of rhyme and line and a wholesome sentiment, because also of something of romance, of tragedy in the exile’s lot, something oddly appealing in the aspiration of the transplanted Italian especially to be a good American—these little bits of occasional verse have made friends.”
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 256. Ap. 24, ’09. 200w.
Dana, John Cotton.[12] Modern American library economy; as illustrated by the Newark, N. J. Free public library. Pt. 1, *25c; Pt. 5, *75c. Elm tree press; for sale by the H. W. Wilson co.
8–36693.
Pt. 1. The lending department.
This pamphlet includes the first section of Pt. 1 devoted to the subject, “The work of the registration desk,” by Sara C. Van de Carr. It discusses minutely the methods and routine of registration, giving diagrams and alphabetical list of special furniture and equipment required for registration work.
Pt. 5. The school department.
A pamphlet containing the second section of pt. 5, in which there is discussed the “Course for Normal school pupils on the use of a library,” by Marjory L. Gilson. It gives in outline a course of twelve lessons, with suggestions for practice work and working materials.
A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 8. Ja. ’09. (Review of pt. 1, sec. 1.)
“Will be helpful to other libraries carrying on or wishing to take up similar courses.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 161. Je. ’09. ✠ (Review of pt. 5, sec. 2.)
“Better redundancy than defect, however, in a work of this kind.”’
+ − Dial. 46: 406. Je. 16, ’09. 160w. (Review of pt. 5, sec. 2.)
Daniels, John. Outline of economics. *40c. Ginn.
8–30043.
“A very concise synopsis of the entire field of economic science.”—Educ. R.
“Its greatest use will undoubtedly be found as a guide to lecture work by the college instructor.”
+ Ann. Am. Acad. 33: 453. Mr. ’09. 110w.
“As a guide, the book will help the student get his ideas in order and keep them so.”
+ Educ. R. 37: 99. Ja. ’09. 70w.
“He writes lucidly, as he desired to do, and in those cases where a terse statement is adequate his formulation is often excellent. Interesting but hardly important.”
+ − J. Pol. Econ. 17: 104. F. ’09. 200w.
Pol. Sci. Q. 24: 558. S. ’09. 130w.
“To those who attended this course the book will doubtless be of value; it is hard, however, to see how it can serve the other purposes (five in number) which the author indicates for it.”
− + Yale R. 18: 106. My. ’09. 140w.
Darwin, Charles Robert.[12] Foundations of the origin of species: two essays written in 1842 and 1844; ed. by Francis Darwin. *$2.50. Putnam.
“These two abstracts, one of 1842 and the other of 1844, ... are edited and an introduction is furnished by Francis Darwin. The 1842 essay ... is simply a worker’s outline notes, preliminary to a careful setting forth of the subject.... 107It is interesting chiefly for two reasons: one, because the outline is Darwin’s—we see how the master worked; the other, because it, in connection with the 1844 essay, shows how his ideas changed and developed in the twenty years from 1839 when he read Malthus to 1859 when the ‘Origin’ appeared. The 1844 essay is much easier and more satisfactory reading than the earlier outline. It is a far more carefully prepared statement of the subject, which was originally written as a sort of ‘insurance policy’ on Darwin’s ideas as to the origin of species.”—Dial.
+ Ath. 1909, 2: 333. S. 18. 450w.
“The volume forms an interesting addition to existing Darwiniana.”
+ Dial. 47: 389. N. 16, ’09. 350w.
“Almost nothing in his biography brings us into such intimate appreciation of Darwin’s methods of work as this stray outline or “Foundation,” cast aside and never intended for publication.”
+ Nation. 89: 413. O. 28, ’09. 470w.
+ Sat. R. 108: 24. Jl. 3, ’09. 200w.
Darwin, Sir George Howard.[9] Scientific papers. v. 2, Tidal friction and cosmogony. *$4.50. Putnam.
Nine papers whose underlying thesis is that, whatever the actual constitution of the earth may be, it must be more or less plastic. “The following papers are included in the volume:—(1) On the bodily tides of viscous and semi-elastic spheroids, and on the ocean tides upon a yielding nucleus, (2) Note on Thomson’s theory of the tides of an elastic sphere, (3) On the precession of a viscous spheroid, and on the remote history of the earth, (4) Problems connected with the tides of a viscous spheroid, (5) The determination of the secular effects of tidal friction by a graphical method, (6) On the secular changes in the elements of the orbit of a satellite revolving about a tidally distorted planet, (7) On the analytical expressions which give the history of a fluid planet of small viscosity, attended by a single satellite, (8) On the tidal friction of a planet attended by several satellites, and on the evolution of the solar system, (9) On the stresses caused in the interior of the earth by the weight of continents and mountains.” (Nature.)
“Each of the papers in the volume before us contains a summary which the general reader will find perfectly intelligible, and which will give him the opportunity of watching the growth of a vigorous theory and of admiring the combination of poetic imagination and untiring industry which marks its author.”
+ Ath. 1909, 2: 186. Ag. 14. 400w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Workers in mathematical physics will be grateful to the author for his careful revision.” A. E. H. L.
+ Nature. 80: 421. Je. 10, ’09. 1550w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Some features of the author’s work and methods appear to the present reviewer to be of high value in the study of applied mathematics. The collection will thus be something more than a reprint.” E: W. Brown.
+ Science, n.s. 30: 212. Ag. 13, ’09. 2200w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
Daulton, Mrs. Agnes McClelland.[11] From Sioux to Susan. †$1.50. Century.
9–26139.
Girls of boarding school age and younger will delight in this story of Sue, the minister’s daughter, the merry, unselfish tomboy who was the main help of her mother in their big happy-go-lucky family but whose slang was a constant distress to both parents. The story tells of her life at home and at school, her troubles and escapades and her gradual development from the “Sioux” whose madcap ways so shocked her elders to Susan lovable and womanly. Her friends, teachers, and small brothers and sisters fill out the tale.
Davenport, Herbert Joseph. Exercises in value theory, based upon “Value and distribution.” pa. *25c. Univ. of Chicago press.
“A companion volume to Professor Davenport’s ‘Value and distribution,’ reviewed elsewhere. It is intended for the use of the teacher in the classroom, and consists of specific questions on the various chapters of the larger book. The booklet is printed in such a manner as to make easy the interpolation of other sheets, and for the purpose of annotation by the teachers.”—Yale R.
J. Pol. Econ. 16: 712. D. ’08. 80w.
“It should serve a very useful purpose for all who make use in the classroom of the larger work, or for advanced students, to whom it should be valuable in testing mastery of what has been read.”
+ Yale R. 17: 460. F. ’09. 100w.
Davenport, Homer Calvin.[11] My quest of the Arab horse. *$2. Dodge, B. W.
9–27600.
The record of a search for pure blooded Arab horses whose pedigree could be traced back to the Anezeh tribe of Bedouins. The purpose was a serious one, for the author hoped that by a judicious use of the pure Arabian blood, a breed of horse might be re-established as useful to mankind as was the Morgan horse when it was at its greatest. The story includes much of the romance of the desert and of the journey to it.
“Has the double merit of being a capital, cheerful, observant and graphic narrative of travel in Turkey and Arabia, spiced with humor, and a tribute to the noble beast he went to seek whose eloquence will appeal to every lover of horses.”
+ Ind. 67: 1146. N. 18, ’09. 130w.
“The volume is in itself an interesting story of adventure, quite apart from its relation to horses. Horsemen, however, will read the book with peculiar interest.”
+ Lit. D. 39: 1072. D. 11, ’09. 200w.
Davidson, John.[8] Fleet street, and other poems. *$1. Kennerley.
9–15396.
The last work of a morbid poet who ended his own life. “It contains no new note, it includes most of the different kinds of verse for which John Davidson was rightly famous. In ‘Fleet street,’ and ‘Snow flakes,’ and ‘Cain’ there is that strange mixture of science, imagination, and rebellion (not to say blasphemy) which we have in the Testaments and Mammon dramas. In ‘The crystal palace,’ ‘Rail and road,’ and others we have that genial satiric description of which Davidson is a master. Some of the songs once more display that birdlike note he had at his best; and we have more of the Eclogues which established his reputation with many.” (Ath.)
“We do not think the volume as a whole will add to the writer’s fame; but it will in no wise diminish it. There is nothing common or poor from cover to cover, and a reader who knew nothing of Davidson’s previous work might form from this small collection a not inadequate notion of his quality.”
+ − Ath. 1909, 2: 36. Jl. 10. 1250w.
“Bitterness is the underlying note of his verse, and mordant irony its characteristic method of expression. Himself out of tune of life, he hears only discords and is powerless to effect their resolution.” W: M. Payne.
− Dial. 47: 96. Ag. 16, ’09. 500w.
“In spite of much good, though curious, verse, without which we should be the poorer by a thing unique, the appeal of his poetry draws very much upon the humanity of its author.”
+ − Nation. 89: 256. S. 16, ’09. 870w.
108“These poems should be read with certain prejudices in leash. So read it will appear that though the faults are great the merits are greater.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 14: 427. Jl. 10, ’09. 700w.
“To those who neglected his development since his first three volumes until the last one the notable points are the increase of minute observation; the intent, strained attention to microscopic detail; the unrelieved self-consciousness, the mind turning trebly upon itself and over-intent to every step of its operations. The handling of words is remarkable and the descriptions are exact to the point of eloquence; it is truth hounded and tracked until it shrieks its name.”
+ No. Am. 190: 705. N. ’09. 300w.
“Almost sounds like a burlesque of Whitman. Do you wonder that it was not popular?”
− Putnam’s. 7: 247. N. ’09. 870w.
“In ‘Cain,’ John Davidson is at his best and worst. It is fine rhetoric occasionally touched with a real emotion that brings it almost to the level of good poetry.”
+ − Sat. R. 108: 321. S. 11, ’09. 260w.
Davidson, John, and Gray, Alexander.[8] Scottish staple at Veere: a study in the economic history of Scotland. *$4.50. Longmans.
9–14959.
A work that falls readily into two main divisions: “the former, corresponding to Part 1 and comprising the first 112 pages of the volume, gives an admirable summary of the development of Scottish trade up to the close of the sixteenth century; the second, corresponding to Parts 2 and 3, and forming the bulk of the work, describes in detail the history, organization, and development of the Scottish staple in the Netherlands.” (Nation.)
“The brief bibliography would be better for some well-placed critical comments. The presentation of the subject is clear and logical and the method is scholarly.” W: E. Lingelbach.
+ − Am. Hist. R. 15: 122. O. ’09. 750w.
“Does honor to the industry and intelligence of the late Professor John Davidson and of Mr. Alexander Gray, who has completed the work from Professor Davidson’s notes.” H. M. Stephens.
+ Ann. Am. Acad. 34: 617. N. ’09. 500w.
“The work is comprehensively planned, Mr. Gray having succeeded in preserving uniformity of style. It is, however, too often overburdened with unimportant, though not irrelevant, detail; and, having no table of contents and only an imperfect index, is a mine of information not easily tapped.”
+ − Ath. 1909, 1: 526. My. 1. 620w.
“A most careful, thorough, and scholarly study of an important subject in Scotch economic history.”
+ J. Pol. Econ. 17: 546. O. ’09. 130w.
“This is an able and scholarly book on an important phase of an extremely thorny subject.”
+ Nation. 89: 78. Jl. 22, ’09. 1050w.
Davidson, K. L. Gardens past and present. *$1.50. Scribner.
Agr9–1576.
“A chatty account of the history and art of gardening in England. The author goes back into the very beginnings of British history and with a graceful pen follows the development of English gardens down to more recent years and then discourses entertainingly and instructively about various kinds of gardens—bulb, herb, rose, water, and others. She gives, evidently out of long experience, much advice about the making of these pleasant places, basing it upon general principles and now and then describing details. But all this is plentifully diluted with interesting information, historical and other, with literary allusions and with bits of description such as nature lovers delight in.”—N. Y. Times.
“Though of slight practical value in this country the graceful style and often entertaining text will attract garden-lovers.”
+ − A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 70. N. ’09.
“Mrs. Davidson’s book on gardens is more satisfactory than more pretentious treatises; but its value would have been enhanced had it been better produced. The matter of the book is excellent. The author has studied her subject, and is full of garden lore, which she can use so as to interest. She has also good taste.”
+ − Ath. 1909, 1: 230. F. 20. 380w.
“Admirable volume.” S. A. Shafer.
+ Dial. 46: 367. Je. 1, ’09. 180w.
“The illustrations on the paper required for half-tones are really good, and the text is above mediocrity.”
+ Nation. 88: 203. F. 25, ’09. 340w.
“Especially charming as to text.”
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 95. F. 20, ’09. 220w.
Davies, Gerald Stanley.[9] Ghirlandaio. (Classics of art ser.) *$4. Scribner.
9–18604.
The first volume in English devoted wholly to this member of the minor Florentine artists who together prepared the way for Botticelli, Perugino, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Andrea del Sarto and Michael Angelo.
“As the only work on Ghirlandaio in English, this volume will be useful in large libraries though in itself an indifferent production.”
+ − A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 10. S. ’09.
“This useful work is carried out in conscientious fashion and with excellent taste.”
+ Ath. 1909, 2: 244. Ag. 28. 120w.
“Avoiding the too common fault of overlaudation, Mr. Davies traces the gradual development of the master’s distinctive style, dispelling by the way several long-accepted errors.”
+ Int. Studio. 36: 338. F. ’09. 300w.
“We can recommend little in this slipshod monograph except the clear type and the good cuts.”
− Nation. 89: 148. Ag. 12, ’09. 400w.
Davies, Henry Rodolph.[6] Yün-nan, the link between India and the Yangtze. *$5. Putnam.
9–18957.
“While Major H. R. Davies, of the British Army, made his trips thru Yün-nan for a purpose that is suggested in his subtitle, the advocacy, namely, of thru communication between British India and China, he yet furnishes a work of wider interest, in that a great part of the territory he traversed had been previously untrodden, even by missionaries, while much of the remainder had not previously been described. His book is elaborately provided with appendixes dealing with the various tribes of western China, the climate, products, and prospects of the country, etc.”—Ind.
“Major Davies has added to his clear and carefully written narrative a set of brief chapters and tabular statements dealing with the commercial, industrial, and ethnical aspects of the Yün-nan province.”
+ Ath. 1909, 1: 639. My. 29. 1350w.
“A work primarily for the geographer, in so far as it is not a commercial survey for a railroad, but containing many pages of interest to the general reader, even tho perilous adventure be lacking.”
+ Ind. 66: 1138. My. 27, ’09. 140w.
“Theories about railway construction apart, Major Davies’ book is a most valuable gazetteer of the province, a work which all interested in South-western China should get.”
+ − Sat. R. 107: 754. Je. 12, ’09. 1600w.
“The interest of Major Davies’s book for most readers will lie in his very acute and lively observations of men and things.”
+ Spec. 102: 670. Ap. 24, ’09. 350w.
109Davies, Randall, and Hunt, Cecil, comps. Stories of the English artists from Vandyck to Turner. $3. Duffield.
9–8431.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
“A good collection for popular use; contains artists of whom the average library would need no individual biography.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 101. Ap. ’09.
“A book made up in this way can never rank as an authority.”
− Ath. 1909, 1: 382. Mr. 27. 570w.
+ Ind. 66: 588. Mr. 18, ’09. 90w.
+ Int. Studio. 36; 252. Ja. ’09. 100w.
Daviess, Maria Thompson.[9] Miss Selina Lue and the soap-box babies. †$1. Bobbs.
9–26670.
Miss Selina Lue is a glorified Mrs. Wiggs—glorified to the extent that her philosophy, practical and livable in the extreme, is spiritualized by her unconscious adaptation of the principles of very modern thought, no longer called new thought. She runs a grocery store and incidentally takes care of the neighborhood babies, keeps a sort of day nursery, so to speak; helps along a charming romance; and achieves as a crowning stroke the reconciliation between a lumber king and his son who would paint pictures while the father roared and scolded and disowned him, hoping thereby to compel him to repent and enter a partnership.
“A sweetly sentimental and very diverting little story.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 89. N. ’09. ✠
“The book makes a pleasant and amusing little character sketch, while the loving kindness that radiates from the person of Miss Selina Lue ought to be sufficient to warm and cheer the most disgruntled and pessimistic reader.”
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 624. O. 23, ’09. 200w.
Davis, Charles Belmont.[5] Lodger overhead and others. †$1.50. Scribner.
9–10027.
These ten stories are like the earlier stories of the author’s elder brother, Richard Harding Davis, and some of the same characters appear. One meets a Van Bibber under another name; pathetic, hardworking vaudeville artists; a butler whose invalid child needs medical attention quite beyond the family resources; and various typical New York characters.
A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 186. Je. ’09.
“There is good work in the ten stories.”
+ Ind. 67: 551. S. 2, ’09. 110w.
“After injecting quite a dose of abstract speculation into his first story, our author seems to have had enough. At any rate, he settles down to dispensing narrative of a mildly moralistic, mildly sentimental flavor without particular character or distinction.”
+ − Nation. 89: 101. Jl. 29, ’09. 230w.
“Although this deft handling sometimes runs a little too far into idealism and the picture is often a little too dimly impressionistic, the stories are altogether delightful.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 14: 304. My. 15, ’09. 240w.
“Occasionally the proprieties get a jolt, but serious disaster is always diverted.”
+ − R. of Rs. 39: 761. Je. ’09. 70w.
Davis, John.[10] Travels of four years and a half in the United States of America, 1798–1802; ed. by A. J. Morrison. **$2.50. Holt.
A reprint of a book of travel published in 1803 and dedicated to Thomas Jefferson. The author, John Davis, “was a vagrant from his youth, and is an interesting figure quite apart from the significance of his activities as international author and observer of young America.” His travels extended thru the “southern states of North America” and he was prevailed upon to turn publisher when he observed how poor were the contemporary accounts of travel.
N. Y. Times. 14: 717. N. 20, ’09. 170w.
“Mr. Morrison’s preface and notes of comparison where other travelers’ accounts agree or disagree with Davis’s enhance the interest for the ordinary reader, and for the historian are invaluable, for they hint at wide vistas of fascinating inquiry.”
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 789. D. 11, ’09. 730w.
Davis, Mrs. Mary Evelyn. Moons of Balbanca. †$1. Houghton.
8–23106.
Mainly children under fourteen figure in this story of the French quarter of New Orleans. Their chief amusement is that of acting out Robin Hood tales, Indian stories, etc., of planning holiday festivities after the southern fashion, and of devising emblems for the months of the year. They skirt with child curiosity upon the edge of a romance which concerns two grown-ups of the story.
“Will not attract many children because of the ‘patois’ and superstitions, but will be enjoyed by a few, especially if read to them.”
+ − A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 190. Je. ’09.
“A skilful blending of social custom and clever adventure.” M. J. Moses.
+ Ind. 65: 1477. D. 17, ’08. 40w.
“Is as nice a children’s story as any boy or girl could wish to read.”
+ N. Y. Times. 13: 580. O. 17, ’08. 220w.
Davis, Michael Marks.[10] Psychological interpretations of society. (Columbia university studies in history, economics and public law. v. 33, no. 2.) *$2.50. Longmans.
9–11542.
“Some two years ago the author privately printed as his Ph. D. thesis about one-third of the present volume, i.e., the second section whose title is ‘Social function.’ This is an illuminating study of the theories of Gabriel Tarde. To this have been added section one, ‘The social mind,’ and the last section, ‘Applications.’ The volume is essentially a survey of the theories of various writers.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 71. N. ’09.
“Dr. Davis has covered a wide range of reading and presents his matter in interesting form.”
+ Ann. Am. Acad. 34: 426. S. ’09. 100w.
“Students of social theory will welcome the evidence he musters as well as the historical facts.” Carl Kelsey.
+ Survey. 22: 539. Jl. 10, ’09. 600w.
Davis, Norah. Wallace Rhodes: a novel. †$1.50. Harper.
9–9508.
A story whose scene is laid in the cotton delta of Louisiana, and which deals with old southern families—American not French or Creole. The principal characters sketched are Wallace Rhodes, a widower, his son, and Veronica Bowdre, the last of the line of beautiful and alluring Bowdre women. The son intends to marry Veronica who has been careless of the code of her set and has committed social indiscretions. The father sends the son away, and, turning to the young woman with the hope of urging her to relinquish her claim upon the son, falls in love with her himself, marries her, and then plans a course of restitution for his seeming double-dealing.
“No technical merits could make such a plot convincing, or awaken much sympathy for any of the persons concerned.” W: M. Payne.
− Dial. 46: 372. Je. 1, ’09. 250w.
“The actual story, entertainingly carried along is made on a foundation quite too artificial to give the book a firm hold on acceptance.”
− + Nation. 89: 77. Jl. 22, ’09. 350w.
110“Is unusual in both theme and quality. There are some readers doubtless to whom the former will be repellent, and there are others to whom the latter will not appeal.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 14: 240. Ap. 17, ’09. 230w.
“The struggle between parental and filial love and passion is the powerful undercurrent upon which float and sparkle the bubbles of provincial humor, gossip, and social effort. The book is well written, and will be found entertaining.”
+ Outlook. 92: 20*. My. 1, ’09. 230w.
Davis, Richard Harding.[6] White mice. †$1.50. Scribner.
9–13544.
The lion of the tale is General Don Miguel Rojas who has served Venezuela as minister of foreign affairs and who at the moment of the story’s beginning is deep in a dungeon cell underneath the fortress in the harbor of Porto Cabello. The “White mice” are two Americans who set about to nibble the net that had enmeshed the wronged official. Drawn into the story that grows up about this situation are the family of the imprisoned man, all of whom except one daughter distrust the intentions of the liberators, a jealous American consul, a prison doctor, an engineer, and servants. Elements found in Dumas and Anthony Hope mingle in the strategy and the quick action required for successful execution of plans.
“Light, lively tale of average interest.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 186. Je. ’09. ✠
“Mr. Davis in his new book shows himself again a novelist of gift who has set himself no high task.”
+ Atlan. 104: 680. N. ’09. 180w.
“The book shows Mr. Davis dextrous in the handling of his tools, but the old spirit of other years—the dash, the fire, and above all the buoyant enthusiasm that marked even the most preposterous pages of ‘Soldiers of fortune’—seems irrevocably gone.” A. B. Maurice.
+ − Bookm. 29: 541. Jl. ’09. 1300w.
“The tale is breezy, ‘smart,’ topical, and enlivened by slangy humor. It may be read at a gallop, and put aside without a pang.” W: M. Payne.
+ Dial. 47: 48. Jl. 16, ’09. 120w.
“A very interesting tale.”
+ Ind. 67: 423. Ag. 19, ’09. 100w.
Nation. 89: 77. Jl. 22, ’09. 380w.
“In short, it is a very good sample of its kind, and as summer fiction will serve the purpose admirably.”
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 372. Je. 12, ’09. 200w.
“A breezy, alert story of love, adventure, and revolution.”
+ R. of Rs. 39: 763. Je. ’09. 60w.
Davis, William Stearns.[10] Outline history of the Roman empire. (44 B. C. to 378 A. D.) *65c. Macmillan.
9–23012.
A brief outline narrative which aims to lead the student into mediæval history by showing him the progress and fall of the Roman empire from which feudal Europe issued.
“The work is brief, clear, and readable. The method, however, does not escape the defects incidental to summarizing historical judgments in brief space. The last chapter, especially, on ‘Christianity and the empire,’ is open to criticism.”
+ − Cath. World. 90: 396. D. ’09. 120w.
“The volume is notable for the skill with which a long and moving story has been presented clearly and with precision in such brief space, and for the care with which, in a few words here and there, the author brings out the fact that the happiness and pursuits of the people of the empire were little affected by imperial crimes and tragedies.”
+ Lit. D. 39: 536. O. 2, ’09. 140w.
Dawson, Rev. Edwin Collas. Heroines of missionary adventure. (Heroes ser.) *$1.50. Lippincott.
9–593.
Brief biographies of a group of missionary workers whose courage, faith, endurance, resourcefulness and devotion to service entitle them to be classed among the greater heroines of dangerous adventure. Among them are Mme. Coillard, Irene Petrie, Mary Louisa Whately, Mrs. Alexander Duff, Isabella Bird Bishop, Fanny Butler, Mary Reed and Hansina Hinz.
N. Y. Times. 13: 800. D. 26, ’08. 160w.
“This volume will be found most useful for preparing programmes, as its records are true, and many instances recorded are thrilling.”
+ Outlook. 90: 977. D. 26, ’08. 170w.
+ Sat. R. 106: sup. 14. D. 12, ’08. 30w.
“Our readers should explore for themselves the treasures which we have left untouched.”
+ Spec. 101: sup. 807. N. 21, ’08. 950w.
Dawson, George E.[11] Child and his religion. *75c. Univ. of Chicago press.
9–28188.
Four addresses prepared at different times which have not the unity of a single work yet which have a common aim: viz., that of bringing the so-called natural processes of life and education into harmony with religious processes. The contents are: Interest as a measure of values; The natural religion of children; Children’s interest in the Bible; The problem of religious education; Index.
“Mr. Dawson loves and understands children and we gladly give him credit for the fresh, candid, and earnest way in which he handles a very difficult problem.”
+ Lit. D. 39: 776. N. 6, ’09. 200w.
Dawson, William Harbutt. Evolution of modern Germany. *$4. Scribner.
9–4082.
“At first sight the reader will wonder whether the book is likely to be in any sense parallel to Mr. Bodley’s book on France. He will soon discover that it is not so. Mr. Dawson gives few pictures of German life, dwells little on German politics, and hardly at all on German history. His book is primarily economic, yet by no means exclusively so. It is an elaborate and interesting study of Germany as a trading nation, and it deals by the way with the education and social environment which are the setting of the great trading spirit.”—Ath.
“Scholarly and technical; not a book for the average reader.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 161. Je. ’09.
“Mr. Dawson has succeeded in putting in readable form a mass of information which will prove valuable to every student of industrial advance and international affairs.” C. L. Jones.
+ Ann. Am. Acad. 34: 434. S. ’09. 430w.
“A very solid book by one who knows Germany thoroughly, in literature, in statistics, in actual life. The author has wide knowledge, and his opinions, though they are open in many points to attack, do not obtrude themselves. He supplies a reasoned collection of facts, not a partisan presentation of conclusions.”
+ Ath. 1909, 1: 36. Ja. 9. 1100w.
“His book is a valuable granary of fact for every student who would understand political and economic Germany.” W. H. Carruth.
+ Dial. 46: 224. Ap. 1, ’09. 1100w.
“The legislator, the merchant, or the teacher, who is not trained [in the use of statistics] and for whom figures have no fascination, cannot find a more satisfactory and stimulating explanation of the increasing severity of German competition in industry and commerce.”
+ Nation. 88: 536. My. 27, ’09. 550w.
“As may be presumed, the whole spirit of Mr. Dawson’s book is conciliatory. Not clearly discerning the inevitable alternative, he encourages 111foreign industrial nations to compete with Germany and rival her on her own ground.” Walter Littlefield.
+ − N. Y. Times. 14: 87. F. 13, ’09. 1000w.
“A thorough, comprehensive, and authoritative study.”
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 227. Ap. 10, ’09. 10w.
“The most interesting part of the book, so it seems to us, lies, first, in the author’s views as to German industrial competition, and, second, as to the policy of nationalization and municipalization.”
+ Outlook. 91: 246. Ja. 30, ’09. 440w.
“Set forth in a judicial, scholarly way.”
+ R. of Rs. 39: 251. F. ’09. 220w.
Dawson, William James.[11] Masterman and son. **$1.20. Revell.
9–27031.
A story made up of the usual elements—life, love, business, adventure—thru which runs an unusual relation between a father and son. The son, a young man of honesty of purpose, is pitted against an unprincipled father who treats the former’s fine ideals of right and justice as so many bubbles to be burst by brutally lucid expositions of what business meant from his unscrupulous view point.
“As a story the book has not much interest, but it is full of much wise comment upon the modern ways of the world, the values of life, the forces that go into the building of character, and the various attitudes toward life of thinking men.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 14: 728. N. 20, ’09. 230w.
Dawson, William James. Soldier of the future. †$1.50. Revell.
8–24464.
A novel built up about the shortcomings of the church as it exists to-day and the second coming of Christ.
“Considered as a story, the book is a neat little doe-eyed failure, but it abounds in startling visions and situations relating to life and eternity that are likely to leave a lasting impression.”
− + Ind. 66: 148. Ja. 21, ’09. 300w.
“So far as the story is concerned, the author does not make it clear what he is at, though there is evident sincerity and conviction on his part. He is confused both in his psychology and in his philosophy.”
− N. Y. Times. 13: 568. O. 10, ’08. 210w.
Dawson, William James, and Dawson, Coningsby W:, eds.[12] Great English essayists; with introductory essays and notes. (Readers’ lib.) *$1. Harper.
9–28295.
A volume whose aim is to answer in the field of the essay a growing taste for chosen examples of literature which have attained classical value. Following an introductory chapter on The genesis of the essay are six general divisions as follows under which are grouped representative English essays; The classic essay; The letter essay; The short-story essay; The biographical and critical essay; Impassioned prose; The familiar essay. Among the authors whose essays have been drawn upon are: Bacon, Robert Burton, Sir Thomas Brown, Milton, Samuel Johnson, Cowley, Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt.
Ind. 67: 1137. N. 18, ’09. 50w.
“Will be found interesting and valuable, not only as an object for close study as well as occasional reading, but also from the fact that it brings together a lot of the literary material which heretofore has been found in more or less remote places.”
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 761. D. 4, ’09. 250w.
Dawson, William James, and Dawson, Coningsby W:, eds. Great English letter writers; with introductory essays and notes. (Reader’s lib.) 2v. ea. *$1. Harper.
The first two volumes in a new series to be known as the “Reader’s library.” The introductory essays furnish a general historic survey of the art of letter-writing, and a critical estimate of the writers and of their relation to the literature of their age, while the selections themselves have been arranged with a view to the illustration of the growth of the art of letter-writing.
A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 71. N. ’09.
“The greatest merit of the collection is its admirable catholicity.”
+ Ath. 1909, 1: 288. Mr. 6. 600w.
“This anthology of English letters, well chosen and well classified, makes good reading. [The index] is almost as laughable as it is slovenly.”
+ − Ind. 66: 265. F. 4, ’09. 110w.
“The letters are well selected and presented to greatest advantage.”
+ Ind. 67: 881. O. 14, ’09. 230w.
“Both essays are rich with genial thought and human sympathy, both show wide and thorough knowledge of literature and its makers, and both are charming in manner. The work of selection has been admirably done and with preliminary essays and the footnotes will enable the readers of a busy age to gain a fairly complete and succinct view of the development of the art of letter writing and of the characteristics and personalities of its greatest English exponents.”
+ N. Y. Times. 13: 577. O. 17, ’08. 450w.
Day, Clarence Munro.[6] Accounting practice. **$6. Appleton.
8–27505.
“As suggested by the title, Mr. Day’s contribution is designed to serve the purpose of a field book of accounting as distinguished from a treatise on accounting theory. Part 1 is descriptive of the methods of making an audit, adjusting the books, preparing the accountant’s report, and planning a general system of accounting records. Part 2 deals with planning and installing cash accounts. Part 3 is composed of drafts of typical accounting forms and documents. Part 4 describes and illustrates reporting forms. While the first few pages contain elementary commonplaces, the contents generally reflect the experience of a practitioner.”—Engin. N.
“The full text, exhibits and statements of an accountant’s report setting out in detail the methods of presenting the results of an audit are excellent.”
+ Ann. Am. Acad. 33: 715. My. ’09. 300w.
“Its place in an accountant’s library is more largely for the use of the clerk or junior than for the senior and principal. The technique is well worked out and the suggestions will be most helpful to those who have not already developed a method or technique through which reliable auditing and critical results may be obtained.” F. A. C.
+ Econ. Bull. 2: 47. Ap. ’09. 210w.
“It fills a place in accounting literature not before occupied.” F: A. Cleveland.
+ Engin. N. 61: sup. 6. Ja. 14, ’09. 220w.
Day, Lewis Foreman.[9] Nature and ornament; being a new treatise founded on the author’s “Nature in ornament,” which is now incorporated in it. 2v. v. 1. *$2. Scribner.
9–35782.
“This is the first of the two volumes written to replace an earlier work, ‘Nature in ornament,’ which the author explains, he has felt to be deficient in the treatment of the ornamental aspect of nature. The present volume 112is mainly concerned with illustrating the decorative character of natural growth; the second will seek the evidences of natural form in conventional ornament.” (Ath.) “The motto of this book is ‘Ornament for its own sake’ and throughout the lesson he preaches is the submission of natural form to ornament, not the subordination of ornament to nature.” (Int. Studio.)
A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 10. S. ’09.
“It is written with all Mr. Day’s usual facility and knowledge.”
+ Ath. 1909, 2: 132. Jl. 31. 220w.
“Mr. Lewis Day goes to the very root of the matter.”
+ Int. Studio. 37: 254. My. ’09. 220w.
Int. Studio. 39: sup. 24. N. ’09. 50w.
Dealey, James Quayle.[8] Development of the state; its governmental organization and its activities. *$1.50. Silver.
9–10159.
Deals with the essential principles of the state and its organization. It traces political development from its beginnings in the hordetribe to its modern attainment in the United States, England, Continental Europe and New Zealand.
“In the first or historical part he has, from the point of view of the adult reader, succeeded almost too well in making it elementary.” C. H. McIlwain.
+ − Am. Hist. R. 15: 169. O. ’09. 580w.
“A good elementary treatment for the general reader.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 10. S. ’09.
“A very comprehensive and useful little volume, interesting and unprejudiced.”
+ Ind. 67: 304. Ag. 5, ’09. 50w.
“Of special interest is his discussion of the electorate as constituting, in a sense a fourth department of government. Many of the footnotes and chapter references are cast in an unfamiliar form, and some of them are slovenly.”
+ − Nation. 89: 209. S. 2, ’09. 150w.
“Professor Dealey, by an excellent analysis of material culled from writers in various fields, has given a broad survey and composite picture.” T: R. Powell.
+ Pol. Sci. Q. 24: 526. S. ’09. 320w.
“Throughout the book there is a noteworthy tendency to tell how the various departments of government actually do their work, rather than to confine the attention to paper constitutions.”
+ R. of Rs. 40: 126. Jl. ’09. 110w.
“One could wish that Professor Dealey had eschewed the outworn classification of economic periods of development and not left the impression that every state must needs pass through these historic epochs, if it develops at all. In spite of a somewhat Latinized diction, Professor Dealey has written a readable and suggestive text-book. He has had constantly in mind not only the whence but the whither of organized society; and the reader is bound to lay down the book with a clearer realization of the responsibilities of citizenship in the modern state.”
+ − Yale R. 18: 222. Ag. ’09. 250w.
Deans, Richard Storry.[7] Trials of five queens. *$3.50. Brentano’s.
From the standpoint of the modern lawyer the author discusses in this volume the fates of the five queens, Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Mary queen of Scots, Marie Antoinette, and Caroline of Brunswick. “To a politician of the sixteenth century,” says Mr. Deans, “a false accusation, whereby an opponent was caused to be legally condemned to death, was no more a subject of shame than a lying placard is to a party manager of the twentieth century. In those days the game of politics was played with headsmen’s axes, assassins’ daggers, and poison, concocted accusations and forged documents, where now it is played with party cries, misleading statements, untruthful posters, and lying leaflets. In short, the difference was between a murderer and a liar.”
“We have nothing but praise for the main conception and general execution of Mr. Storry Deans’ work. On some subjects which he incidentally treats, such as the French life of Mary Stuart, he is unsatisfactory, and in matters of detail he is from time to time inaccurate.”
+ − Sat. R. 107: 788. Je. 19, ’09. 1250w.
“It is no mere piece of book-making, but a scholarly and picturesque study. Mr. Deans writes with a lawyer’s knowledge and considerable historic imagination. He puts very clearly before the reader the points at issue, and enables him to consider the verdict in the light of modern practice. The author seems to us to overrate the merits of Brougham’s speech, in which there was more bombast than eloquence. Denman’s was by far the finer performance.”
+ − Spec. 102: 578. Ap. 10, ’09. 320w.
Spec. 103: 837. N. 20, ’09. 500w.
Dearle, Norman Burrell.[9] Problems of unemployment in the London building trades; with an introduction by L. L. Price. *3s. 6d. Dent, London.
9–18552.
“The building trade is obviously one in which there cannot be complete continuity of employment, and Mr. Dearle has very appropriately chosen this trade as the field of an inquiry into the problem of unemployment. He lays the facts before us in great detail and with much clearness, and discusses the remedies suggested. He appreciates the need of greater fluidity and adaptability of labour, and takes the view that for the organising of the labour market in London ‘it will be necessary to reduce non-unionism to that feeble minority, chiefly of inferior men, that it is in some other parts of the country.’”—Spec.
“A valuable supplement to Mr. Beveridge’s more general treatment of the problem.” A. B. Wolfe.
+ J. Pol. Econ. 17: 476. Jl. ’09. 100w.
“Mr. Dearle’s monograph, though we do not entirely agree with it, is most informing, and should be studied by every one interested in the problem of the unemployed.”
+ − Spec. 102: 243. Ag. 14, ’09. 170w.
Dearmer, Percy.[11] Body and soul. *$1.50. Dutton.
9–17979.
“In the first place the author writes from the religious point of view.... Secondly, he believes that the healing influence of soul over body does not rule out the use of physical means of healing.... Thirdly, all healing is in the deepest sense ‘natural.’... Fourthly, he rejects the confusing distinction between ‘functional’ and ‘organic’ disease.... There is discussed at considerable length the relation between soul and body through the nervous system. Then follows discussion as to the possibilities of health being produced through the influence of mind, and of the ‘undermind,’ a term substituted for the unconscious. The author then treats of the New Testament miracles of healing, and gives a sketch of the general relation between healing and religious belief.”—N. Y. Times.
“In regard both to style and contents this study of the relation between body and soul merits distinct attention.” E: S. Drown.
+ − N. Y. Times. 14: 537. S. 11, ’09. 540w.
Outlook. 93: 644. N. 20, ’09. 60w.
“There is much that is interesting, and indeed admirable, in Mr. Dearmer’s book, but his ideals are not ours.”
− + Spec. 103: sup. 490. O. 2, ’09. 260w.
113De Bary, Richard. Land of promise; an account of the material and spiritual unity of America. *$1.50. Longmans.
9–7059.
“Mr. De Bary casts sweeping glances at our valleys and plains, wonders at our newspapers, patronizes our schools and colleges, sniffs the faint aroma of our religions, admires our restless and masterful energy, apologizes for our political failings, and adores our women: in short, does all the things that a well-bred and ready-to-wear tourist is expected to do, and dresses it all up in catchy phrases and sententious generalizations that sparkle like the tinsel armor of the stage warrior.”—Nation.
“His generalizations are much sounder than those usually found in books of this type.”
+ Educ. R. 38: 201. S. ’09. 130w.
“Of all the recent writers who have committed to print their ‘impressions’ of the United States, none, certainly, has outdone Mr. De Bary in high-sounding rhetoric, or rushed with more breathless enthusiasm at the task, weakly imagined by some timid souls to be a rather serious one, of determining our exact place in the social, philosophical, and æsthetic universe.”
− Nation. 88: 304. Mr. 25, ’09. 280w.
“It is evident he studied the American people and their institutions with rare intelligence and alertness, and his book, based upon that study, is both generously appreciative and kindly critical. Mr. De Bary’s serious, practical, and sympathetic view of America runs all through his book, but it is only one of the admirable features of the volume.”
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 17. Ja. 9, ’09. 1350w.
DeBekker, Leander Jan. Stokes’ encyclopedia of music and musicians. **$3. Stokes.
8–33829.
“Covers practically the entire field of music; definition of musical terms in several languages, brief but comprehensive articles on theoretical matters, accounts of the musical instruments, biographies of musicians, composers, performers, singers, conductors, writers, lists of the works of the more important composers, and data concerning symphony orchestras, opera houses, academies, and other musical institutions. Some of this information is difficult of access elsewhere.”—N. Y. Times.
“While there is little more than half as much material as in Riemann’s ‘Encyclopaedic dictionary of music,’ this work has the advantage of being thoroughly up to date and costing only half as much.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 38. F. ’09. ✠
“Apart from [small] details, the Stokes ‘encyclopedia’ calls for the highest praise; as a modern supplement to other musical dictionaries it is indispensable in every public or private library.”
+ + − Nation. 87: 585. D. 10, ’08. 520w.
“This is a remarkable work of completeness and industry in compilation, conveying the maximum amount of information in the minimum of space.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 13: 690. N. 21, ’08. 360w.
“No work of this kind can be without errors; and for the sake of the next edition the following may be noted. In spite, however, of these shortcomings, ‘Stokes’s encyclopedia’ is certainly a volume which ‘no musician’s library should be without.’” D. G. Mason.
+ − Putnam’s. 6: 112. Ap. ’09. 240w.
DeBunsen, Victoria.[12] Soul of a Turk. *$3.50. Lane.
The outcome of five journeys in Turkey, both European and Asiatic. The author “has a thesis to prove—that a countless number of religious beliefs and practices all over the world are to be traced back to a common origin—and, hardly ever letting this thesis slip from her grasp, she has imparted a unity to this collection of highly varied sketches.” (Spec.)
“Mrs. de Bunsen, we think, is a little overconfident in her intuitions and did not always, we think, see so far into the Turk’s soul as she imagined; yet she saw a good deal further than most male observers, and it is clear that her power of sympathy drew the people’s hearts to her, and led them to reveal themselves as they would not have done to a mere tourist, sheltered behind a bristling Cook’s dragoman and a stolid English husband.”
+ − Ath. 1909, 2: 583. N. 13. 1550w.
“It is told in a way that is intensely interesting.” C: R. Gillette.
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 767. D. 4, ’09. 160w.
“Mrs. de Bunsen has the honour of adding something to the researches of Dr. Frazer. We thoroughly commend this book to every one who enjoys following the travels of a plucky, entertaining, and exceptionally intelligent woman.”
+ Spec. 103: 646. O. 23, ’09. 2000w.
Deeping, Warwick. Mad Barbara. †$1.50. Harper.
9–3879.
An exciting tale set in the reign of Charles II. The young heroine—a feminine type of Hamlet—discovers her father’s murderer to be her mother’s lover, one Lord Gore. She accuses him of the deed, attempts to kill him, is adjudged insane and confined in a lonely castle tower, exposed to cold and poor food until rescued by her lover. Something of the strife between Catholics and Protestants of the time of Charles II enters into the plot of the story.
“The whole is rather a disappointment after the author’s earlier work.”
− Ath. 1908, 2: 569. N. 7. 100w.
“This is evidently the material for an exciting tale, and the author has used it to excellent effect.” W: M. Payne.
+ Dial. 47: 182. S. 16, ’09. 250w.
“The story is well worked out, although perhaps a little unnecessarily prolonged toward the end, as if the author were loath to leave his characters.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 14: 119. F. 27, ’09. 310w.
Deeping, Warwick.[11] Red saint. $1.50. Cassell.
A story of the struggle between the barons and King Henry. “The heroine is a saint that all men reverence—one who works miracles; but the land is overrun with Gascon hirelings. You shall see her head bowed in shame, look upon her pelted of the mob, an outcast with none to do her charity but the other outcasts that follow the camp.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The pictures of the time are vivid and conscientiously reproduced; and the action is full of vigour. The plot is simple, but exceedingly well devised: and the style is good and clean and strong.”
+ Ath. 1909, 1: 696. Je. 12. 130w.
“There is vividness of incident, picturesque, impressionistic narrative, and the forest background is sketched with deep sense of its beauty. The style, graphic, admirable often, in its power of significant omissions, becomes at times a bit studied and overconscious. This story of a saint makes far deeper appeal to sense than to soul.”
+ − Atlan. 104: 685. N. ’09. 300w.
“Taken in cold blood, the result is, of course, more or less preposterous.”
− Nation. 89: 573. D. 9, ’09. 380w.
“The thing is evil; but the author does it effectively. He masks the evil, too, so far as he may with stained glass attitudes by the way and a particularly virtuous ending.”
− + N. Y. Times. 14: 610. O. 16, ’09. 270w.
114De Garmo, Charles. Principles of secondary education: a textbook. *$1. Macmillan.
7–6800.
v. 2. Processes of instruction.
“The present volume deals with the acquisition of facts, and their meaning, the educational status of the high school student, the inductive and the deductive approach to knowledge, and processes of application. Insight and efficiency are the supreme results to be secured by our methods of instruction—insight leading to culture, and efficiency to mental discipline. The aim of the book is to render so clear the principles on which the acquisition of knowledge is based that the teacher will instinctively employ the methods that lead to insight and efficiency.”—Nation.
“Doubtless will do much toward making high school teaching rational and scientific.”
+ Ind. 65: 318. Ag. 6, ’08. 200w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The book loses in value because it approaches its subject almost wholly from the side of the concept; it presents clearly, completely, and attractively the logical basis of the teaching process wherever that process becomes in any degree scientific; but the living institution with which the book is supposedly concerned, the American high school (now so much the storm-center of educational conflict) is not constantly and concretely present in its pages, and its mission remains, therefore, partly unfulfilled.” H: W. Holmes.
+ − J. Philos. 6: 130. Mr. 4, ’09. 2300w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is not true nor does the author assume that the principles which he urges are not valid in all educational philosophy. His application of these ideas to the work of the high school is, however, new.”
+ Nation. 87: 575. D. 10, ’08. 200w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Two rather polar faults appear to the present reviewer to occur to some extent in his works. As a philosopher and former Herbartian, he has a tendency even in a practical work to lean toward abstractions and schemata; while, possibly as a result of habits long fixed by the classroom, his efforts to touch student life and interest tend toward the diffuse and irrelevant. On the whole, the book is well proportioned and gets at the problems of secondary instruction more specifically than any treatise yet published.” F. P. Graves.
+ − Psychol. Bull. 6: 114. Mr. 15, ’09. 560w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Taken as a whole this volume, while contributing less to the student than did its predecessor, yet brings together within small compass material that teachers need acquaintance with, and it will help to bring us more fully to consciousness as to the needs of training for secondary school teachers.” F. A. Manny.
+ School R. 16: 691. D. ’08. 1000w. (Review of v. 2.)
Deinhardt, Kurt, and Schlomann, Alfred, eds. Illustrated technical dictionary in six languages; English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian. v. 1, *$2; v. 2, *$7; v. 3, *$4; v. 4, *$3. McGraw.
Four volumes as follows: v. 1, Machine details and tools; v. 2, Electrical engineering, compiled by Charles Kinzbrunner; v. 3, Steam boilers, steam engines, and steam turbines; v. 4, Gas engines.
“It seems necessary in using these dictionaries to best advantage first to acquire a general familiarity with the scheme of arrangement. After this is done they should be of no little service to engineers working in these languages.”
+ Engin. N. 61: sup. 36. Mr. 18, ’09. 330w. (Review of v. 2–4.)
“Cannot fail to prove of enormous value in international relations. Is undoubtedly the most accurate technical dictionary that has yet been published.”
+ Nature. 78: 412. S. 3, ’08. 220w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The scheme of this dictionary and its execution are both excellent.”
+ Phys. R. 28: 231. Mr. ’09. 60w. (Review of v. 2.)
Dejeans, Elizabeth.[5] Winning chance. †$1.50. Lippincott.
9–12617.
A refined, winsome American girl facing the problem of supporting herself, a blind mother and a crippled brother, is bribed, out of consideration of their restoration to health, to sell her honor to her employer. The story deals with her rebellion, agony and final rescue from the life she loathes. Her real honesty of heart disarms Nemesic determination and one feels that her final happiness is just.
“As a study of social conditions her story has no value whatever; as a story it is conventional.”
+ − Ind. 67: 40. Jl. 1, ’09. 70w.
N. Y. Times. 14: 372. Je. 12, ’09. 110w.
“In spite of some faults of construction, the book as a whole is so far above the average of our usual immature fiction as to suggest that Miss Dejeans is a writer whose future will be worth watching.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 14: 404. Je. 26, ’09. 300w.
“It holds interest by its melodramatic plot and very obvious appeal to those in search of sensation.” B. L. Israels.
− + Survey. 22: 622. Ag. 7, ’09. 160w.
Deland, Ellen Douglas. Miss Betty of New York. †$1.25. Harper.
8–31164.
A story for young readers full of innocent pranks and adventures.
Reviewed by K. L. M.
Bookm. 28: 500. Ja. ’09. 50w.
“Is in many ways on the right level for boy and girl readers. What is more than wearisome is the boy and girl nonsense that creeps in, how sparingly soever. A story generally wholesome, barring unreproved heedlessness and eavesdropping and a certain absence of spanking.”
+ − Nation. 88: 255. Mr. 11, ’09. 300w.
“A charming little story.”
+ N. Y. Times. 13: 757. D. 5, ’08. 50w.
“Though old the subject matter is absorbing.”
+ R. of Rs. 38: 768. D. ’08. 40w.
Deland, Lorin Fuller.[11] Imagination in business. **50c. Harper.
9–28100.
A revised and enlarged treatment of one of the many cardinal qualities that determine an individual’s capacity as a producer. The author discusses mainly the place of imagination in relation to merchandising, distinguishes carefully between imagination and sagacity and imagination and invention, and offers a number of concrete examples of the remedial and constructive work that can be accomplished by use of imagination in any business.
Deland, Margaret Wade (Campbell).[12] Where the laborers are few. †$1.50. Harper.
9–27265.
Set among Dr. Lavendar’s people this slight story tells how a preacher-acrobat, during a period of physical healing, drops into the life of the Misses Jay; how the combination of the profane and the religious startled them out of their narrow monotony; and how the youth, eager for education and training, is advised by the good Dr. Lavendar to continue his work in the taverns and on the streets—a work “which most of God’s ministers are not capable of doing.”
Dial. 47: 464. D. 1, ’09. 130w.
115De La Pasture, Mrs. Elizabeth Bonham. Catherine’s child. **$1.20. Dutton.
8–23929.
““Catherine of Calais” was one of Mrs. De La Pasture’s most charming and delicate studies of girlhood, and this story of the heroine’s early middle age is chiefly interesting for the manner in which the relationship of mother and daughter—in this case a difficult one—is treated.” (Ath.) “The daughter sulks till the mother lets her go to town with her cousin; when there she is kidnapped by a plot which would stretch even the kindly credulity of the stage; she is discovered in a garret near the Crystal palace at the point of death by the V. C. hero and nursed back by her mother to a consciousness of his affection.” (Sat. R.)
“Not equal to the author’s best work.”
+ − A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 54. F. ’09.
“There are many characters in the book, and they are all human and individual; but the skill with which they are handled is of infinitely greater importance than the plot.”
+ − Ath. 1908, 2: 503. O. 24. 230w.
“There is a delightful and touching fragment of a child’s diary, which, like Lady Sarah’s tirades, reassures one that, however this novelist’s humor may lapse in the conduct of her love-affairs, it undoubtedly exists.”
+ Nation. 88: 308. Mr. 25, ’09. 400w.
“She has entangled in a melodramatic plot a set of characters, some of them excellently conceived and a few pretty well carried out, the total effect, however, being such as to discourage the average cheerful reader.”
− + N. Y. Times. 14: 76. F. 6, ’09. 360w.
“The book is composed of an intolerable deal of gossip.”
− Sat. R. 106: 674. N. 28, ’08. 220w.
DeLeon, Thomas Cooper.[6] Belles, beaux and brains of the 60’s. **$3. Dillingham.
9–14950.
Chatty, informing chapters reproducing faces and facts of ante-bellum Virginia with generous comment, statement and deductions. There are nearly five hundred reproduced daguerreotypes and photographs. The author’s picture of the southern woman corrects the notion that “the Southern girl, from pinafore to orange blossoms, was educated for a bride, but not for a wife.”
“The book will interest especially those older readers of Southern antecedents who are fond of recalling good old times ‘before the war.’”
+ Dial. 47: 75. Ag. 1, ’09. 150w.
Lit. D. 39: 441. S. 18, ’09. 70w.
“As a succession of flash-light views of the social life of Richmond during the war, the book is not without value, and its reproductions of contemporary pictures are interesting; but a work which is neither history, nor biography, nor genealogy, nor reminiscence, but an undiscriminating mixture of all four, is hard to classify.”
+ − Nation. 89: 139. Ag. 12, ’09. 200w.
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 407. Je. 26, ’09. 130w.
Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel. Canyon voyage: the narrative of the second Powell expedition down the Green-Colorado river from Wyoming, and the explorations on land, in the years 1871 and 1872. **$3.50. Putnam.
8–30303.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
“The volume is an absorbing record of dangerous travel in unknown country and of wonderful beauties of natural scenery.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 4: 287. D. ’08.
“Mr. Dellenbaugh has not the advantage of a graphic style, nor is he an artist in writing. His narrative is plain, and often heavy; but it is necessarily interesting on account of its subject.”
+ − Ath. 1909, 1: 614. My. 22. 440w.
“A substantial and extremely interesting volume on the subject. No one could well be more at home in his subject than Mr. Dellenbaugh.”
+ Dial. 45: 460. D. 16, ’08. 280w.
+ Ind. 66: 921. Ap. 29, ’09. 550w.
“The book is interesting as a record of brave personal daring; and as a piece of scientific registry, powerful description by pen and illustration, and genuine story-telling it is equally effective.”
+ Lit. D. 37: 900. D. 12, ’08. 200w.
“It was decidedly worth writing, this detailed record; a more absorbing, and at times, stirring, story of adventure has not seen the light in a long time, and the author’s unadorned, yet vivid, style enables the reader to share all the emotions of the explorers.”
+ Nation. 88: 515. My. 20, ’09. 700w.
“In these later years, when amateur travel in the west is frequent, a detailed record of this kind will be of value to seekers after adventure.” W. M. D.
+ Science, n.s. 30: 218. Ag. 13, ’09. 300w.
Deming, Horace Edward. Government of American cities. **$1.50. Putnam.
9–8012.
A book on the theory and practice of municipal government which is “chiefly valuable for its historical survey of the development of intelligent municipal rule in modern Europe and its significant comparison of the workings of intelligent foreign systems and our own frequently clumsy local government machinery.” (N. Y. Times.) “The author traces, through many a modern instance, the profound change which is swiftly coming over popular conceptions of city government. He shows, how, since 1880, the line between politics and administration has been drawn more sharply. He devotes still more attention to the strengthening of the conviction that municipalities must be freed from state control and extraneous politics.” (Nation.)
“A good statement of the more progressive theories and ideals, and useful in creating a public sentiment, but not so scholarly or valuable as Goodnow and Fairlie or Rowe.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 135. My. ’09.
“The book offends even more in repeating its own ideas than in borrowing those of others. But in spite of these most obvious defects, the desirability of a wider acceptation of the principles set forth and elaborated bids us welcome Mr. Deming’s coöperation in the task of educating citizens for the more efficient administration of the public business.”
+ − Dial. 46: 331. My. 16, ’09. 280w.
“If one were disposed to criticise so splendid a piece of logical reasoning as this, it would be on the ground that the author mars the orderly procedure of his argument by a too frequent reiteration, and by a too rigid exclusion of illustration and of that sort of comparative comment which one finds so helpful in Munro’s book.” C. R. Woodruff.
+ − Econ. Bull. 2: 267. S. ’09. 670w.
“The book should appeal to a broad and various range of readers. It deals with the very fundamentals of municipal government and is presented in a manner which cannot fail to command the respect and admiration of the deepest and most accomplished student of municipal government, while at the same time arousing and holding the interest of those who have before given only a general consideration to the subject or are approaching it for the first time.”
+ Engin. N. 61: sup. 60. My. 13, ’09. 1150w.
Ind. 66: 1400. Je. 24, ’09. 250w.
116“One can find fault only with Mr. Deming’s attempt to turn his book into a proof that cities can prosper solely through democracy—a rather vague term at best.”
+ − Nation. 88: 366. Ap. 8, ’09. 530w.
“The whole book is an able argument in favor of local self-government, somewhat academic, perhaps, here and there, but sincere and useful.”
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 181. Mr. 27, ’09. 1200w.
“All who are interested in American city government can hardly fail to approve the concrete suggestions which Mr. Deming makes and which, it may be said, are advocated in the main also by Dr. Rowe.” F. J. Goodnow.
+ Pol. Sci. Q. 24: 313. Je. ’09. 640w.
+ R. of Rs. 40: 254. Ag. ’09. 230w.
De Morgan, William Frend.[12] It never can happen again. †$1.75. Holt.
9–28954.
Mr. De Morgan’s readers know better than to hurry thru one of his novels. Leisure is demanded for acquaintance with his many and varied characters; who, the author wishes fully understood, do not express his views—political, religious, or otherwise—but “just what the character he was dreaming of seemed to say to him.” There are two distinct groups of men and women in this new story. Lizarann—near of kin to Alice-for-Short—is from the slums; she and her father who is a blind beggar, her drunken uncle, and other “submerged-tenth” friends and associates compose one group; in the other, we find a novelist, his drab-colored wife, and a brilliant young woman who plays upon the writer’s affections. From the first interview with this young woman, which offers the stimulant of a “soul-brush,” to an elopement is a long way and involves a “Deceased wife’s sister’s” argument that furnishes the peg upon which hangs the whole tale. The two groups cross paths but once, at the climax of the drama. But the reader will have to peruse these 688 pages for himself. Brevity permits of no attempt at justice to a De Morgan novel.
“These seven hundred pages of ingenious invention are stamped with the truly creative mark as far as character is concerned, replete with the humor that lights up the depths of life, and rich with the fruits of a ripened intelligence brought to bear upon a wide range of human concerns.” W: M. Payne.
+ Dial. 47: 384. N. 16, ’09. 1100w.
“In ‘It never can happen again’ he is embarrassed by two distinct themes, or groups of characters, and hardly succeeds in getting them to work together plausibly, though there is one supreme point of contact.” H. W. Boynton.
+ − Nation. 89: 532. D. 2, ’09. 3000w.
“Whether it is a better book or a less good book than the others the present reviewer finds himself unable to say. It is closer knit as a story. It is a story—there’s no denying that—a story with a plot as well defined as if it were a French farce.”
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 779. D. 11, ’09. 1300w.
“We must record our impression that Mr. De Morgan has put together too many and too diverse things for one novel to hold in unison comfortably, and that, while humor, character creation, and human sympathy are all here, the total of enjoyment to be had is less than in ‘Joseph Vance’ or ‘Somehow good.’”
+ − Outlook. 93: 829. D. 11, ’09. 440w.
Denison, George Taylor.[5] Struggle for imperial unity. *$2.25. Macmillan.
9–21021.
“An account of the work the author and other Canadians associated with him have done to prevent dissolution of the political ties that bind Canada to Great Britain and to promote British imperialism.”—N. Y. Times.
“From no point of view is Colonel Denison’s book one that can be helpful to neighborly relations between Canada and the United States; but it is one that will not find many more appreciative readers in Canada than it will in this country, for Canadians have long declined to take Colonel Denison as seriously as he takes himself.” E. P.
− Am. Hist. R. 15: 192. O. ’09. 470w.
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 71. N. ’09.
“The personal animosities which appear throughout the work mar a story otherwise well told.”
− + Ann. Am. Acad. 34: 179. Jl. ’09. 170w.
“It is an unneighborly book both as regards Colonel Denison’s fellow-Canadians and also as regards the United States.”
− Ind. 67: 827. O. 7, ’09. 700w.
“Some passages offend the American reader.”
+ − Nation. 89: 52. Jl. 15, ’09. 200w.
“The story of his campaigns he tells in his book in a very entertaining fashion, and undoubtedly his story will find many appreciative readers in the three countries with which it deals—that is to say, Canada, England, and America.”
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 279. My. 1, ’09. 540w.
R. of Rs. 40: 125. Jl. ’09. 40w.
+ Sat. R. 107: 536. Ap. 24, ’09. 300w.
“We cannot always approve his methods and manner; some of his immediate objects seem to us to be undesirable; but we frankly recognize his zeal and his patriotism, and are glad to have from him this description of his work.”
+ − Spec. 102: 702. My. 1, ’09. 1250w.
Denney, James.[6] Jesus and the gospel: Christianity justified in the mind of Christ. **$2. Armstrong.
9–4567.
“Dr. Denney seeks to answer two questions: ‘Is the prevalent conception of Christianity sustained by the New Testament?’ and, ‘Can the Christian religion, as the New Testament exhibits it, justify itself by appeal to Jesus?’ By an elaborate and reasonably critical inquiry, Dr. Denney satisfies himself that both questions must be answered in the affirmative.”—Bib. World.
“The real difficulty here in accepting the author’s conclusions seems to be in supposing that we can have the sort of attitude demanded without the presence of a certain philosophical position which is fundamentally determinative for any further intellectual exposition of one’s thought of Jesus’ person.” S. J. Case.
+ − Am. J. Theol. 12: 462. Jl. ’09. 350w.
Bib. World. 33: 357. My. ’09. 50w.
“His argument is well put, in clear and popular style, without ceasing to be scholarly in character.” E. S. D.
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 491. Ag. 14, ’09. 270w.
“Taken as a whole, the book is exceedingly interesting, though in argument Dr. Denney is apt to offend his readers by so openly marshalling his evidence in favour of a preconceived dogmatic conviction. It is the more regrettable as he frequently accuses his adversaries of a like error.”
+ − Spec. 102: 743. My. 8, ’09. 320w.
Depéret, Charles Jean J.[9] Transformations of the animal world; being the authorised translation of “Les transformations du monde animal.” (International scientific ser., v. 94.) *$1.75. Appleton. W9–130.
“Broadly speaking, the aim of the present book may be said to be to show, on the basis of the paleontological data now in hand, the phyletic history of the larger groups of animals existing to-day. Doing this furnishes the occasion for discussing the probable methods through which the observed transformation of animals may be held to have occurred, and also for outlining briefly the history of opinion on these points.”—Dial.
“Somewhat one-sided, but useful for its fresh presentation from a new viewpoint.”
+ − A. L. A. Bkl. 6: 11. S. ’09.
117“A book which marshals the data of paleontology and shows their bearing on the problems of evolution is particularly timely in the year when all over the world men are doing honor to the memory of Darwin. Occasionally the translator slips up on a technical detail, but in general the style is accurate and pleasing.”
+ − Dial. 47: 76. Ag. 1, ’09. 230w.
“Undoubtedly a general work of this kind is a need of the times, but we fail to see that this volume is an adequate rendering of the factors that accompany evolution. The book suffers from an entire lack of references and illustrations, and in its English dress it contains many serious mistakes.”
− Nature. 80: 452. Je. 17, ’09. 650w.
De Selincourt, Basil.[7] William Blake. *$2. Scribner. W9–185.
Less a biography than a fair minded work of criticism. Taking for granted the biographical facts presented by Arthur Symons, the author expands such subjects as Blake’s simplicity, force, mysticism, application of symbolism, theories of art, and artistic development.
“Its author has produced on a very hackneyed subject a book full of original suggestion that, with its numerous reproductions of typical drawings, forms a notable contribution to the literature on Blake.”
+ Int. Studio. 39: 170. D. ’09. 130w.
“On the whole, we regard these general chapters as the soundest criticism yet published of Blake, and as a desirable corrective to the indiscreet panegyrics of Swinburne, Symons, Yeats, Ellis, and the others who have, to a greater or less degree, lost their common-sense in vaporous enthusiasm. Our main criticism of Mr. de Selincourt is that, having analyzed the imagination so ably and having shown how the grotesque failures of Blake are connected with his systematically false theory of its office, he steps half way and does not apply his analysis to the whole art of Blake.”
+ − Nation. 89: 355. O. 14, ’09. 1250w.
“It seems likely that his contribution to the appraisal of this extraordinary man will be useful as a check upon the buoyant chorus that is exalting him in recent years.”
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 417. Jl. 3, ’09. 1100w.
“We now have an estimate of Blake’s life and work more thoroughgoing and balanced than any yet published.” E. F. Baldwin.
+ Outlook. 93: 598. N. 13, ’09. 400w.
“Blake’s great gifts are now much too well recognized to need flattery, and we welcome Mr. De Selincourt’s just criticism as a wholesome corrective. He does not hesitate to call nonsense and absurdity by their right names, yet gives praise and admiration generously, where praise and admiration are due.”
+ Sat. R. 107: 785. Je. 19, ’09. 880w.
De Sélincourt, Hugh.[12] Way things happen. †$1.50. Lane. W9–315.
The story of Miss Paul, a “gentle lady who has become a specialist in joy despite loneliness and poverty,” (Nation.) one day “met a Stranger in Gray, who made her very happy—until the catastrophe came. She kept her bravery and courage, and after a while her love of life came back and she made others happy, because she was ‘an apostle of joy.’ It is very pleasant to be reminded that things do happen this way, sometimes.” (N. Y. Times.)
“It is a pity that so charming a whole should be marred by a somewhat affected style; Mr. de Sélincourt’s pen picks its way at times with a mincing primness the example for which could never have been set by Miss Paul’s feet.”
+ − Nation. 89: 407. O. 28, ’09. 300w.
“We are not so much burdened with books of such graceful simplicity and wholesome optimism that we can afford to miss one when it chances to come our way.”
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 593. O. 9, ’09. 400w.
Devine, Edward Thomas.[5] Misery and its causes. (American social progress ser.) *$1.25. Macmillan.
9–13279.
A sociological study based upon a twelve years’ survey of misery among the New York poor. Contents: Poverty and maladjustment; Out of health; Out of work; Out of friends; The adverse conditions in dependent families; The justice and prosperity of the future.
“The most valuable portion of the book doubtless is the report of the investigation of 5,000 dependent families of New York.” W: L. Chenery.
+ Am. J. Soc. 15: 120. Jl. ’09. 480w.
A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 161. Je. ’09.
“Many valuable additions have recently been made to the literature of the social worker, but none more valuable than this last work of Dr. Devine’s.” F. D. Watson.
+ Ann. Am. Acad. 34: 435. S. ’09. 570w.
“Whatever he sets down in this book as the result of observation, or the analysis of facts, goes to show that he is clear-headed, vigorous, practical, and zealous for justice. Written with eloquent simplicity, his book is adapted to teach and to inspire all those who care for the serious things of life.”
+ Cath. World. 89: 826. S. ’09. 500w.
“A volume for which all students of the social sciences should be grateful. The work is sane, conservative, and scholarly, yet inspiring in its optimism.” C: A. Ellwood.
+ Econ. Bull. 2: 254. S. ’09. 600w.
“Dr. Devine is the first American authority on this subject, and we confidently commend his admirable book to those who wish to be good intelligent citizens.”
+ Educ. R. 38: 203. S. ’09. 50w.
Ind. 67: 369. Ag. 12, ’09. 350w.
“Through this book Dr. Devine is likely once more to win earnest followers for the cause of a true social betterment.” J. A. F.
+ J. Pol. Econ. 17: 480. Jl. ’09. 220w.
“To one familiar with organized charity work the book may let in little fresh light; but it certainly helps clear the air. Professor Devine’s most convincing chapters analyze the disabilities of five thousand families lately assisted by the New York charity organization society; the instances are well selected, and are in themselves persuasive, but they leave open one point of attack. In a few generalities he dismisses the cost of reform; and yet this is precisely the crucial question just now.”
+ − Nation. 88: 536. My. 27, ’09. 420w.
“The charm of the author’s treatment is its hopefulness.”
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 477. Ag. 7, ’09. 700w.
+ Outlook. 93: 292. O. 9, ’09. 1000w.
R. of Rs. 40: 128. Jl. ’09. 70w.
“Those unfamiliar with the theory and technique of present philanthropic effort may well turn to the text of the lectures before us for a reliable presentation of these aspects. The expert (and how far the most studied of men are from knowing the last word on this subject!) will read the book for the inspiration it affords.”
+ Yale R. 18: 322. N. ’09. 1400w.
Devine, Edward Thomas.[12] Report on the desirability of establishing an employment bureau in the city of New York. (Russell Sage foundation.) $1.25. Charities pub. com.
9–3309.
“This report considers the advisability of establishing an employment bureau on a business basis, but by philanthropic men whose purpose it is to make such a bureau a genuinely effective agency for the remedy of unemployment.” (Ann. Am. Acad.) “The first 34 pages embody the report proper; the remainder of the volume consists of a series of appendices, containing 118the views of many of the most competent American students, on bad distribution of labor as a cause of unemployment, studies made by the Bureau of social research on some phases of the employment bureau question, and other matters of varying interest and value.” (Econ. Bull.)
“The various appendices furnish very useful material for reference purposes on the general subject of unemployment.” G: B. Mangold.
+ Ann. Am. Acad. 34: 618. N. ’09. 280w.
“While this unpretending report deals primarily with a local problem, it has much interest for the economist because of its bearing on the problem of mobility of labor, and for the social reformer because of its many suggestions regarding unemployment. In the absence of any thorough study in this field, Mr. Devine has performed a service in pointing out so many of the problems that need investigation. His usual sound judgment and power of clear statement are displayed throughout the report.” H. R. Mussey.
+ Econ. Bull. 2: 241. S. ’09. 520w.
De Voe, Walter.[11] Doors of life; or, Little studies in self-healing. *$1. Funk.
9–28549.
A health-giving book whose key note is activity. Anything that will turn the blood into new channels and arouse brain cells that have been inactive will, the author maintains, restore health, be it a new diet, a new opportunity to earn more, a new benevolence, new scenery, new friends, physical culture, new science, or a new philosophy of life. If the faculties are quickened there comes a new sense “of unlimited life and of infinite progression of wisdom.”
Dewar, Douglas. Birds of the plains. **$4. Lane.
8–31848.
About forty sketches of various birds that are natives of the plains of India. The author sets down some new observations as, for instance, the tailor-bird’s method of building a nest; he takes exception to the dogmatism of modern Darwinism, declaring that “the field naturalist cannot but see that natural selection is turning out rather a failure”; he also objects to the position of John Burroughs in regard to the thinking ability of animals.
“For though not severely scientific, the descriptions are accurate, and, at the same time, attractively written with abundant humour.”
+ Ath. 1909, 1: 202. F. 13. 900w.
“The style is excellent and there is a pervading sense of humor which is all too rare a quality with writers on natural history. On some topics, he occasionally becomes rather confused.”
+ − Nation. 87: 391. O. 22, ’08. 650w.
“Birds’ habits and incidents of their lives are related with all the freshness of the enthusiastic field naturalist.”
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 48. Ja. 23, ’09. 420w.
“We do not find Mr. Dewar’s frequent changes from lively to severe—or philosophical, as he would probably prefer to have it—wholly to our taste. There is much to commend in the book, and if the author had not been in too great a hurry to give it to the world it would doubtless have been as good as his former work.”
+ − Sat. R. 106: 800. D. 26, ’08. 300w.
Dewar, Douglas, and Finn, Frank.[10] Making of species. **$2.50. Lane.
On the side of destructive criticism the authors take exception to “Wallaceism,” “Lamarckism” and “De Vriesism,” “Constructively the authors rediscuss, as the various factors of evolution, variation and correlation, heredity, natural selection, sexual selection and isolation, but without greatly advancing the solution of the mystery how species not only survive but originate. They predict its solution rather on the lines of experiment, especially in breeding, than from the speculative interpretations so common during the past generation and the present time.” (Sat. R.)
“The actual contribution to the sum of our knowledge made by their volume is not great. Their most effective criticism is contained in the chapter dealing with the coloration of animals, where they contend that many naturalists have pushed the various theories of animal coloration and mimicry to absurd lengths.”
+ − Ath. 1909, 2: 333. S. 18. 570w.
“It has singularly few of the faults and many of the real virtues peculiar to amateur science. For the general reader its lack of proportion and self-assertive style place it far below such a book as Jordan and Kellogg’s ‘Evolution and animal life.’ As reference books, Plate’s ‘Selections-prinzip’ and Kellogg’s ‘Darwinism to-day’ remain unsurpassed. The professional biologist will receive neither ‘a rude shock’ nor ‘a fresh impetus’ from Messrs. Dewar and Finn; but he will find in their field notes and in their quotations of breeders’ gossip an occasional grain of wheat.”
+ − Nation. 89: 363. O. 14, ’09. 500w.
“It is to be regretted that Messrs. Dewar and Finn have made this aggressive incursion into the domain of biological theory. The work as a whole will not add to their reputation; with the majority of readers it will probably have the reverse effect.” R. Meldola.
− Nature. 81: 481. O. 21, ’09. 1600w.
“The authors are both Indian zoologists—ornithologists especially—and as such bring up not a few fresh observations and arguments.”
+ − Sat. R. 108: 110. Jl. 24, ’09. 650w.
Dewar, George A. B. Life and sport in Hampshire. **$3. Longmans.
A nature lover’s observations in Hampshire. The volume is “a collection of articles, gathered mainly from contemporary journalism, and so it possesses no more coherence than is possible to such collections.... Various chapters deal with the singing birds, the flight of birds, their migrations, angling, insects, and shooting.” (Ath.)
“In the matter of acute and sympathetic observation Mr. Dewar is fully equal, if not superior, to other writers on nature. This book is characteristic of his faculties and gifts.”
+ Ath. 1908, 2: 822. D. 26. 600w.
“One almost feels, after reading the book, as though he had personally experienced something of the charm and beauty of English country scenes and partaken in a certain measure of the keenness of English sport.”
+ N. Y. Times. 14: 137. Mr. 6, ’09. 480w.
Dewey, John, and Tufts, James Hayden. Ethics. *$2. Holt.
8–22532.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
“Most comprehensive of recent works on ethics. Probably no more convincing effort to construct a system of moral philosophy by a strictly scientific method has ever been carried out.” G. A. Tawney.
+ Am. J. Soc. 14: 687. Mr. ’09. 1250w.
“What gives the ‘Ethics’ of Professor Dewey and Professor Tufts a real distinction amid the multitude of ethical textbooks is the fact that it makes the study of ethics appear practical, vital, pertinent to affairs, capable of contributing to the settlement of problems that contemporary mankind is really in doubt about. This is not only a great virtue but also a curiously rare one, in this class of books.” A. O. Lovejoy.
+ − Am. J. Theol. 13: 140. Ja. ’09. 1700w.
“The best general introduction in English, representing a point of view toward which the great majority of ethical writers are converging. Its attitude is modern, yet conservative, and the treatment is interesting, vital and practical.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 5: 39. F. ’09.
Dial. 46: 146. Mr. 1, ’09. 100w.
119“This book, even apart from its content, is of interest to students of sociology and economics.” C: A. Ellwood.
+ Econ. Bull. 1: 335. D. ’08. 500w.
“Their treatment of this world-old subject has much originality and power.”
+ Educ. R. 37: 210. F. ’09. 30w.
“In conclusion, we would state our conviction that this book promises to be the foremost textbook of ethics for the next decade.” W. T. Marvin.
+ Educ. R. 37: 413. Ap. ’09. 950w.
+ Ind. 67: 310. Ag. 5, ’09. 170w.
“This relevancy to present fact and present tendencies is just the very thing we would expect from the pragmatist attitude, and it does not relieve the book after all from the charge of its comparative failure to set up a definite picture of the attitude of the moral man, in our present transitional or would-be constructive age. It would have been even more edifying and more constructive if it had been less practical and less sociological.” W. Caldwell.