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Yale university. Sheffield scientific school.^[8] Morals in modern business: addresses delivered in the Page lectures series, 1908, before the senior class of the Sheffield scientific school, Yale university. *$1.25. Yale university press.

9–12090.

Six addresses delivered at Yale on the following subjects: The morals of trade in the making; Production; Competition; Credit and banking; Public service; Corporate and other trusts. “The aim of the book is to inquire candidly into the conduct of modern business on what may be termed the moral side. In it, many of the questions of right and wrong, which have arisen as a result of the great changes in the commercial world, are considered and answered by men of experience.” (Nation.)

Nation. 88: 333. Ap. 1, ’09. 100w.

N. Y. Times. 14: 369. Je. 12, ’09. 160w.

“The whole book is excellent.”

+ Spec. 102: sup. 1006. Je. 26, ’09. 330w.

Yates, Katherine Merritte.^[10] “Chet.” †$1.25. McClurg.

9–24326.

Portrays the frank comradeship between a girl and boy of thirteen developed according to Christian science principles.

“A story with the right spirit, however much the spirit is overemphasized.”

+ − Lit. D. 39: 1027. D. 4, ’09. 30w.

“It is thoroughly bright and entertaining.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 597. O. 9, ’09. 70w.

Yexley, Lionel.^[7] Inner life of the navy. *10s. 6d. Pitman & sons, London.

“Though the book is in form an autobiography, its real substance is a description of naval routine, discipline, and custom, with special reference to recent and existing abuses, and the steps which have been taken for their removal. There is no need here to follow the author into detail; it will be enough to say that he understands clearly that even the most crying abuses are to be ascribed more frequently to routine and custom than original sin.”—Ath.

“There was undoubtedly room for such a book as this. Apart from his literary ability, which is considerable, Mr. Yexley is manifestly the right man to undertake the task. He is an unsparing but never a bitter critic of abuses; and the trouble which he has taken to reach the root of the matter enables him in most cases to indicate a line along which reform might well proceed.”

+ Ath. 1909, 1: 750. Je. 26. 1000w.

“We cannot always think his arguments reasonable or his unwavering confidence in the rightness of them justified, but a voice from the lower deck is most welcome, and, indeed, necessary.”

+ − Spec. 102: 263. F. 13, ’09. 1200w.

Yorke, Curtis, pseud. (S. Richmond Lee). Other Sara. †$1.50. Estes.

An elderly woman who keeps a “queerio” shop in London inherits ten thousand a year with the proviso that she must live with her next of kin until she marries or dies. Her experiences in living up to the standards of her relations open the way for unstinted humor.

“A jolly sort of book, kindly in spirit, a bit improbable in its premise, but all the more entertaining for that. The book is noteworthy for its clever character drawing.”

+ N. Y. Times. 13: 766. D. 12, ’08. 230w.

“It is quite a pleasant, cheerful book.”

+ − Sat. R. 106: 800. D. 26, ’08. 70w.

Young, F. E. Mills.^[6] Chip. †$1.50. Lane.

“The scene is a farm in South Africa, near the borders of Swaziland, where a jilted Englishman rules his grumbling native labourers with a rod of iron, and nurses a bitter feeling against women. The theme of the story is the effect on his character of an exhibition of the feminine temperament through the medium of a young woman, disguised as a man, who becomes his partner. The secret, though soon guessed, is not told to the reader till late in the story; and considerable power is shown in the narration of the ugly incidents which follow the woman-hater’s discovery of her sex.”—Ath.

“A tale of unusual romantic interest.”

+ Ath. 1909, 1: 436. Ap. 10. 140w.

“The author exhibits some technical skill in dressing up old ideas and has produced a novel which serves very well the purpose for which it was doubtless intended—that of entertaining the reader without unduly exercising his mental faculties.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 354. Je. 5, ’09. 250w.

“The story is well written and full of fine description and has enough human nature to make it go.”

+ No. Am. 190: 268. Ag. ’09. 100w.

Sat. R. 107: 822. Je. 26, ’09. 180w.

Young, Laurence Ditto.^[6] Climbing Doom. †$1.50. Dillingham.

9–8995.

The experiences of a German scientist and party of Americans in South America who are lured by a wonderful emerald to seek others of its kind which they are informed repose in a treasure crypt in a mountain place called Cloud City. To reach the place they must risk the terrors of the Pass of the Climbing Doom infested by a poisonous Andean ant whose sting is death. The adventures which befall the strangely assorted company lend zest to the tale.

“As a series of unusual and exciting adventures the book is diverting, if the reader does not demand the finer arts of the novelist along with a daring and fertile fancy.”

+ − N. Y. Times. 14: 246. Ap. 17, ’09. 180w.

Younghusband, Sir Francis Edward.^[12] Kashmir. (Color books.) *$6. Macmillan.

“Sir Francis Younghusband, who is responsible for the descriptive part of the book, has special qualifications for his task. He is at present the resident or representative of the government of India at the Court of the Maharajah of Kashmir and Jammu, has seen much, and travelled greatly in and about the Himalaya.... His remarks about travel, Srinagar and its neighbourhood, sport, and the people, are worth consideration by intending visitors. But apart from these there is information about the history of Kashmir, its administration, products, manufactures, and developments, of high interest.”—Ath.

“Is very pleasing, and conveys, chiefly by means of the pictures, a faithful representation of characteristic scenes in one of the most beautiful places in the world.”

+ Ath. 1909, 2: 490. O. 23. 380w.

484“Sir Francis’s writing is much more than a gloss for the pictures, and fully describes the entire region.”

+ Dial. 47: 462. D. 1, ’09. 180w.

“Of the few Europeans who have explored the country none can speak with such authority as the author of this vividly interesting account. Sir Francis has found an able collaborator in Major Molyneux, whose pictures of Kashmir scenery, and especially of its mountain scenery, display remarkable gifts.”

+ Int. Studio. 39: 169. D. ’09. 300w.

“The specialist will find here the gist of Stein’s work and of the still more recent geological treatises of Burrard and Hayden, not mentioned only but discussed. Sir Francis Younghusband is himself no mean authority on the subjects he treats, though, curiously enough, for any save the most superficial reader the volume is logically to be read backwards.”

+ − Nation. 89: 601. D. 16, ’09. 500w.

“Whether describing the nature ... or whether describing the people of Kashmir, under Greek, Buddhist, Mohammedan, or British influences, the author seems equally interesting and impressive.”

+ Outlook. 93: 789. D. 4, ’09. 230w.

“Very charming book.”

+ Spec. 103: 1004. D. 11, ’09. 210w.

Yoxall, James Henry.^[6] Wander years; being some account of journeys into life, letters and art. *$2. Dutton.

9–27767.

A collection of essays “written ‘adagio non troppo lento’ ... on cathedrals, on politics, on rare china, on the wanderlust, and on Mr. and Mrs. John Bull, all written in a whimsically discursive fashion, with such an enthusiasm for bygone days that the proper accompaniments for their reading would be a Toby jug and a church warden. The volume will appeal to those who still find leisure to linger over a book for which the author selects this motto: ‘Signore walk aside with me; I have studied eight or nine wise words to speak to you.’”—N. Y. Times.

“He has knowledge of the subjects he treats—a rare phenomenon; he can reproduce with sympathetic touch the atmosphere of the scenes which he describes, notably when he goes to France; he has that artistic perception which is more often found in French writing than in English—he often admires the right thing, and knows why he ought to admire it. Yet side by side with admirable passages—such as some of his descriptions of Savoy—we find page after page of journalism of a style which sometimes descends to vulgarity and bad taste. Mr. Yoxall’s weakness is to try to imitate certain great authors whose style can be parodied, but not copied.”

+ − Ath. 1909, 1: 613. My. 22. 700w.

“The essays which centre about France contain Mr. Yoxall’s best work. The chief defects of Mr. Yoxall’s style are not found in his vocabulary.”

+ − Nation. 89: 123. Ag. 5, ’09. 420w.

“A most spontaneous, ingenious, and delightful book. It has the flavor of Thackeray’s stories of travel or of the ‘Sentimental journey’; and sometimes one finds in it the spirit, if not the letter, of the ‘Travels with a donkey.’ But, after all, one concedes to the book a whimsical originality which is as fresh as it is enjoyable.”

+ N. Y. Times. 14: 357. Je. 5, ’09. 800w.

“Possibly Mr. Yoxall is a little too allusive, a little too careless of connexion, and requires too much from the attention and the knowledge of his reader, though, indeed, it is scarcely a fault in an author when he demands a considerable amount of information before he can be properly understood. Anyhow, this is a delightful book,—to be taken, we may say, in sips rather than in draughts.”

+ − Spec. 102: 620. Ap. 17, ’09. 300w.