The Cumulative Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Digests of reviews appearing in January—December 1905, magazines (continued 17)
Reading edition
+ + Ath. 1905, 2:571. O. 28. 2300w.
“And now we have found all the fault we care to find with this charming guide. To say that it ranks a long way after ‘The inland voyage’ is only to say that Stevenson is dead. We welcome in it a like sense of intimacy—it wears the face of a friend—it talks.”
+ + — Lond. Times. 4: 292. S. 15, ‘05. 1150w.
* “Mr. Lucas makes no pretension to connoisseurship, but his untechnical remarks on pictures are nearly always interesting, and, to one reader at least, prove the most attractive part of his writing.”
+ Nation. 81: 449. N. 30, ‘05. 150w.
“The fact is Mr. Lucas comes near being in his book exactly what one would like a well-informed and companionable fellow-traveler to be if one were seeing Holland with one’s own eyes.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 725. O. 28, ‘05. 920w.
“In short the book is notable among books of travel and description for its readable qualities and discriminating and individual taste.”
+ + + Outlook. 81: 580. N. 4, ‘05. 120w.
* “A book of more than ordinary merit—a book with genuinely original qualities.”
+ + Pub. Opin. 39: 826. D. 23, ‘05. 150w.
* + R. of Rs. 32: 755. D. ‘05. 60w.
“As we might have expected from his record, he neither bores nor dogmatises but his book is full of information and not a little wise reflection.”
+ + — Sat. R. 100: 346. S. 9, ‘05. 370w.
“It is as a critic of character and manners and a chronicler of art that Mr. Lucas interprets his function as a guide.”
+ + Spec. 95: 468. S. 30, ‘05. 1330w.
Luccock, Rev. Naphtali. Royalty of Jesus and other sermons. *50c. Meth. bk.
Beauty of thought and simplicity of language mark these sermons which apply the teachings of Christ to the conditions of to-day under the titles: The royalty of Jesus; The fullness of Christ; The power of a surrendered life; The face of Jesus Christ; The brook in the way; The gospel for an opulent civilization; The cry of the disinherited; The song of Moses and of the Lamb.
Lucian (Lucianus Samosatensis). Work of Lucian of Samosata; trans, by H. W. Fowler, and F. G. Fowler. 4v. *$4. Oxford.
Four handy volumes in which the translators have happily rendered idiom by idiom and “literary allusions, quotations, and technicalities of law, philosophy, or art are neatly turned to apt analogues. They sound every note in Lucian’s compass, from the mock-heroic serio-satiric eloquence of the Nigrinus, the angry contempt of the False prophet and the Death of Peregrine ... to the solemn trifling of the Fly ... and the demonstration by Socratic induction in the ‘Parasite’ that dining out is better than dining.” (Dial.) The fourth volume contains a list of notes which explain all allusions to classical biography and mythology.
* “The renderings of Messrs. Fowler have all the ease and ‘élan’ of a work originally written in English.” R. Y. Tyrrell.
+ + Acad. 68: 846. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1680w.
“Their translation is decidedly good; they have ventured on some daring modernisms, but these we can tolerate if only lightness is secured.”
+ + Ath. 1905, 2: 294. S. 2. 2420w.
“The translation is admirably executed in the freer manner of Jowett’s ‘Plato.’” Paul Shorey.
+ + Dial. 39: 233. O. 16, ‘05. 1850w.
“The editors ... deserve high praise for the clearness and vigour of their translations.”
+ + Lond. Times. 4: 265. Ag. 25, ‘05. 1520w.
“This Fowler translation is a work of high art, for which its authors are to be thanked.”
+ + + N. Y. Times. 10: 717. O. 21, ‘05. 610w.
“The translators have with admirable fidelity, vigour, and vivacity reproduced the writings of one whom such a critic as Erasmus reckoned not only among the most entertaining, but also the most instructive, of ancient authors.”
+ + + Spec. 95: 713. N. 4, ‘05. 1870w.
Lucke, Charles Edward. Gas-engine design. **$3. Van Nostrand.
“The book is divided into three parts: 1, Power and efficiency, with rules for deciding on the necessary piston displacement; 2, Stresses on the various parts of the engine and also with the various cylinder arrangements as affecting the turning effort and balance; 3, The necessary dimensions of the various parts to resist the stresses with both empirical and theoretical formulæ for the computation.”—Engin. N.
“It is a very notable addition to the literature on the gas engine.” Storm Bull.
+ + — Engin. N. 53: 526. My. 18, ‘05. 1170w.
Lützow, Francis, count. Lectures on the historians of Bohemia. Oxford.
The Ilchester lectures for the year 1904 “have their origin in a wish to do something for the Bohemian cause by illustrating before a foreign audience the wealth of Czechish traditions.... While Count Lützow alludes briefly to his contemporaries, the chief of his attention is devoted to the chronicles of the Middle ages and the era of the Reformation. Here the conditions fixed by a popular course of lectures compel him to be brief in his notice of all save the now famous authorities like Cosmas, Benes of Weitmil, Lawrence of Brezof, Sixt of Ottersdorf, and Paul Skála.... He gives us simply and tersely the results of the most recent research on technical points in conjunction with Palacky’s views on the larger issues.” (Nation.)
“The count, who is a master of our language, goes through the list of Bohemian historians, estimating their merits and furnishing characteristic extracts. These are translated into very clear and succinct English. Excellent book.”
+ + + Ath. 1905, 1: 710. Je. 10. 1860w.
“To many of our readers we can best convey an impression regarding the style and quality of his work by stating that it resembles a compressed Wattenbach with an element of current political interest added.”
+ + + Nation. 81: 85. Jl. 27, ‘05. 1300w.
Lyall, Sir Alfred Comyn. Lord Dufferin, the life of the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava. *$7.50. Scribner.
The life of a man to whom fate gave great opportunities, and who was big enough to handle and hold them. He was a central figure in many of the political events of the last half of the nineteenth century, he served as Governor-general of Canada, Viceroy of India, Ambassador to St. Petersburg, to Constantinople, Rome and France. This biography is compiled from his journal, his letters, and the recollections of his friends.
“But the real value of the book lies in the information it supplies in regard to the great movements in foreign and colonial politics that 223have been going on during the last thirty years.”
+ + Acad. 68: 144. F. 18, ‘05. 1580w.
+ + Ath. 1905, 1: 201. F. 18. 1560w.
“Making every deduction for the imperfections inseparable from even the best biographies, one reaches the conclusions that here a really great subject has been treated both adequately and effectively.” Lawrence J. Burpee.
+ + Dial. 39: 58. Ag. 1, ‘05. 1520w.
Ind. 58: 1358. Je. 15, ‘05. 1040w.
* “His book is frank yet discreet, and marked in all its parts by delicacy of perception.”
+ + + Nation. 81: 342. O. 26, ‘05. 3370w.
Reviewed by Joseph O’Connor.
N. Y. Times. 10: 193. Ap. 1, ‘05. 3250w.
“What is to be regarded as the official biography. It is official also in its discreetness—a discreetness at times carried to extremes, dimming perception—and in the highly eulogistic tone maintained throughout. It may safely be said that Sir Alfred, while presenting a work obviously open to criticism, has also presented one of direct value to the historical student, and of interest to the general reader.”
+ + — Outlook. 79: 760. Mr. 25, ‘05. 280w.
“Sir Alfred Lyall seems to us to have chosen the best way in which to tell the story of Lord Dufferin’s life.”
+ + Spec. 94: 253. F. 18, ‘05. 930w.
Lydston, G. Frank. Diseases of society. **$3. Lippincott.
“A study of social conditions in this country. The police criminal, the anarchist, and the large number of moral and physical law-breakers are here discussed. The author also deals with such questions as the oppression of wealth, the rights and wrongs of organized capital and labour, the negro question, and the offences of society at large. The book is well illustrated.”—Bookm.
“The style, although brilliant at times, is open to much criticism. It is verbose, often disconnected and rambling. In spite of many blemishes the book is of great value. With the general thesis of the book and a large percentage of the conclusions, the reviewer is in hearty sympathy and heartily commends it to students of social problems.” C. Kelsey.
+ + — Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 350. Mr. ‘05. 1040w.
“His examination of the question of crime seems exhaustive, his inferences inevitable.” Albert Warren Ferris.
+ + Bookm. 21: 528. Jl. ‘05. 660w.
“While here and there is much that is interesting, although at times crudely presented, the author like many others who write upon the subject errs in trying to prove too much from insufficient premises and newspaper gossip, and this is especially true when he treats of craniometry and physiognomy.” Allan McLane Hamilton.
+ — Critic. 47: 183. Ag. ‘05. 1140w.
“It has not the air of a serious book of science, and indeed contains here and there a misplaced facetiousness.”
+ — Ind. 59: 213. Jl. 27, ‘05. 360w.
“As monographs the parts are incomplete, and the whole is neither sufficiently unified for the ordinary reader, nor clearly cut for the student. Nor is the style attractive.”
— + Nation. 81: 63. Jl. 20, ‘05. 680w.
Pub. Opin. 38: 57. Ja. 12, ‘05. 600w.
“This is really a study of the vice and crime problem from a medical standpoint.”
+ + R. of Rs. 31: 255. F. ‘05. 170w.
Lyle, Eugene P. Missourian. †$1.50. Doubleday.
Mr. Lyle finds material for his first story within the tottering Empire of Maximilian. The hero is one of Jo. Shelby’s band who, refusing to surrender after the fall of the Confederacy, offered their services to Maximilian in Mexico. Din Driscoll, Missourian, Confederate officer, the “storm center” in every fight, and the exquisite, capricious Jacquelin d’Aumerle, secret emissary of Napoleon on business of state, figure almost grotesquely in a series of thrilling adventures which result from defending each other from intrigue and death. In the end this airy coquette of two imperial courts chooses to find her happiness within the confines of a shut-away Missouri farm.
* “The fact is Mr. Lyle has been absorbed by his material, instead of absorbing it.”
+ — Ath. 1905, 2: 718. N. 25. 200w.
“Here, for instance, is an example of literary over-seasoning, which, far from being exceptional, is fairly characteristic of the book’s style.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ — Bookm. 22: 135. O. ‘05. 550w.
“We should be grateful to Mr. Lyle for having given in this novel a new and adequate setting for the American hero of love and war.”
+ + Ind. 59: 930. O. 19, ‘05. 860w.
“Yet, dramatic, picturesque, brilliant in attack and technique as the book undoubtedly is, the interest in it is largely spectacular.”
+ Lit. D. 31: 586. O. 21, ‘05. 510w.
“It is crude enough in certain details, but its reading leaves no doubt as to the fact that Mr. Lyle possesses extraordinary vision and power to communicate what his imagination sees.” L. L.
+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 496. Jl. 29, ‘05. 880w.
* “Admirably fresh and lively tale.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 823. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.
“The history is accurate, but unimportant; the romance is of vast importance and fairly accurate.”
+ Pub. Opin. 39: 220. Ag. 12, ‘05. 130w.
Lyman, Olin Linus. Oliver Hazard Perry and the war on the Lakes. $1.25. Amsterdam.
The brief career of Commodore Perry (1785-1819), midshipman, lieutenant, commander of Lake Erie, and the American squadron in the Mediterranean is given in this volume which is “a eulogy rather than a biography.” (N. Y. Times.)
“As an elementary history the book is good. It should make rather a good ‘reader.’ Mr. Lyman has padded his book tremendously, and has indulged in ‘fine writing’ of the worst sort. The author is very chary of dates.”
+ — — N. Y. Times. 10: 275. Ap. 29, ‘05. 370w.
Lynch, Frederick. Is life worth living? **30c. Crowell.
A new volume in the “What is worth while series.” A message of comfort showing that life in God’s world is truly worth living, that there is but one answer to the question for those who believe in the life eternal.
Lytton, Lord Bulwer-. Last days of Pompeii. $1.25. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Thin paper classics,” this pocket volume is printed on opaque “Bible” paper in large clear type, is bound in limp leather, and contains a frontispiece of the author.
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Maartens, Maarten (J. M. W. van der Poorten-Schwartz). My poor relations. †$1.50. Appleton.
Fourteen unpleasant stories of life in a little Dutch village, where the people are degraded and low in mind and morals. In “The mother” Mary Quint vainly struggles to help her son conquer his inherited love of drink. “Jan Hunkum’s money,” “Fair lover,” “The summer Christmas,” “The notary’s love story,” “The banquet,” and the rest, are all horridly true, and are told in a vivid style that makes them almost too real.
224“The book is as oppressive as a nightmare.”
— Critic. 47: 189. Ag. ‘05. 90w.
“Most of the fourteen stories herein told are pathetic almost to tragedy.”
+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 213. Ap. 8, ‘05. 340w.
“All the stories, while not calculated to make one laugh, will undoubtedly keep one’s interest alive.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w.
“It would be hard to name a book in which the characters are so uniformly disagreeable as in this collection of short stories.”
+ — Outlook. 79: 858. Ap. 1, ‘05. 170w.
“One may go so far as to compare them to De Maupassant’s though hardly to that master’s best.”
+ + R. of Rs. 31: 764. Je. ‘05. 120w.
Mabie, Hamilton Wright. Fairy tales every child should know. **90c. Doubleday.
Twenty four “once upon a time” fairy tales collected from various countries to amuse and stimulate the imagination of the child of today. They include such familiar stories as, Hans and Gretel, Ali Baba, The golden goose, One eye, two eyes, three eyes, Blue beard, Red riding hood, The ugly duckling, Tom Thumb, Jack the giant killer, Jack and the bean stalk, and Puss in boots.
Dial. 39: 20. Jl. 1, ‘05. 60w.
+ + — Nation. 81: 12. Jl. 6, ‘05. 160w.
+ + — N. Y. Times. 10: 371. Je. 10, ‘05. 260w.
“In one respect the book appears to us defective, in that it does not state by whom the particular version of each of these child classics was written.”
+ + — Outlook. 80: 443. Je. 17, ‘05. 260w.
* + — R. of Rs. 32: 768. D. ‘05. 80w.
* Mabie, Hamilton Wright, ed. Myths every child should know: a selection of the classic myths of all times for young people. **90c. Doubleday.
“This volume is uniform with ‘Fairy tales every child should know.’ It collects for children’s reading and for school use sixteen myth-stories which belong to the world’s literature and appeal to the young imagination. Hawthorne’s ‘Wonder-book’ and ‘Tanglewood tales’ furnish half the material.... Charles Kingsley’s ‘Greek heroes,’ Mr. Brown’s ‘In the days of the giants,’ Mr. A. J. Church’s ‘Stories from Homer,’ Mr. Mabie’s ‘Norse stories,’ and Miss Emerson’s ‘Indian myths’ are the other sources. Mr. Mabie furnishes an introduction.”—Outlook.
* + — Lond. Times. 4: 432. D. 8, ‘05. 40w.
* “We could wish that Mr. Mabie had put his interesting preface before a more consecutive and less heterogeneous collection.”
* + — Nation. 81: 490. D. 14, ‘05. 230w.
* + Outlook. 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 120w.
* “They are rather stiffly told and frequently the style is too difficult and elaborate to be easily understood by children.”
— + Sat. R. 100: sup. 10. D. 9, ‘05. 110w.
McAlilly, Alice. Hilda Lane’s adoptions. $1.50. Meth. bk.
Hilda Lane, kept from the man she loves for twenty years by a war time misunderstanding, adopts a sturdy waif named Robert, and a negro girl, Liberty, and educates them. Liberty grows up to offer her life to white fever sufferers, and Robert, on the eve of a successful career and engaged to marry a lovely southern girl, discovers that there is negro blood in his veins and nobly consecrates his life to the uplifting of the black race. The book is chiefly occupied with the negro question.
McAlilly, Alice. Larkins wedding. $1. Moffat.
“An apotheosis of good nature and neighborly kindness. A worthy washerwoman related grammatically to Mrs. Partington arranges the wedding of her daughter. The respect both have won in their town inspires the interested villagers of higher social position to make the pathetic efforts of Mrs. Larkins turn out a happy success. A change in bridegrooms adds to the general jollity, and the two Larkins, mother and daughter, disappear in a haze of prosperity and sentiment.”—Outlook.
+ N. Y. Times. 10:650. O. 7, ‘05. 340w.
“The story is told with many touches of humor.”
+ Outlook. 81: 383. O. 14, ‘05. 80w.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st baron. Essays; ed. by Lady Trevelyan. $6. Putnam.
These six compact little volumes contain nothing but the text of the essays and preface as edited by Lady Trevelyan, the author’s sister. There are several illustrations in each volume—mainly engravings and portraits.
“Edition is as satisfactory for the purposes of the reader of Macaulay as a modest man can desire, handy enough to permit you on occasion to put a volume in your coat pocket and take it with you upon a journey, yet entirely fit for the library shelves. For it sacrifices to compactness not size of type (and the eyes of the reader) but an easily dispensable surplus of margin.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10:92. F. 11, ‘05. 250w.
“Admirably planned for thoroughly comfortable reading, and to take up small space in a library. For a good edition which meets all the requirements of the average reader, and of a size which makes it possible to carry the volumes about when one travels, we do not recall a better edition than this.”
+ + Outlook. 79: 348. F. 4, ‘05. 120w.
Macbean, L., and Brown, John. Marjorie Fleming. **$1.40. Putnam.
The famous account of “Pet Marjorie” by Dr. John Brown is here reprinted, with much later information and her journals and letters hitherto unpublished. There are fourteen illustrations, including pictures of the little girl taken alone and with Scott.
* “We commend this book, sure that it will become a precious possession.”
+ + Acad. 68: 1098. O. 21, ‘05. 1000w.
“Should be welcomed by all admirers of Dr. Brown’s earlier story of her.”
+ + Critic. 46: 283. Mr. ‘05. 50w.
+ Dial. 38:52. Ja. 16, ‘05. 120w.
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 3. Ja. 7, ‘05. 390w.
McCall, Sidney. Breath of the gods. †$1.50. Little.
Little Yuki, a samurai’s daughter, the last of her honorable race, has been educated in Washington and returns to Japan with the American minister to Tokio, his wife and daughter. Her story is the story of the heart of Japan, the nobility, the love of country, the cruelty; and when she tramples on her own love and the love of the young Frenchman, Pierre, and marries Prince Haganè at the command of her father and the call of her country, she typifies the cheerful sacrifice of the individual to the system, which is, perhaps, the keynote of Japan. The time is that of the present war with Russia, the tragedy is horrid and occidental.
“‘The breath of the gods’ is one of the most artistic novels of the year. We doubt if any American writer has given us a truer or more intimate insight into the life and the spiritual and intellectual concepts of the Japanese than has the author of the ‘Breath of the gods.’”
+ + Arena. 34: 331. S. ‘05. 1190w.
“The genre painting, although too crowded with details, is good; but the end is disappointing.”
+ — Ath. 1905, 2: 575. O. 28. 310w.
225“In her work one sees an unbounded admiration of traits not fully comprehended, rather than a keen and sympathetic understanding of the Japanese ideals and their visible exponents.”
+ — Ind. 59: 814. O. 5, ‘05. 150w.
“Putting aside the truth or improbability of the story, the book is interesting in all parts and thrilling in some.”
+ — Nation. 81: 147. Ag. 17, ‘05. 670w.
“‘The breath of the gods’ is worthy of the author of ‘Truth Dexter.’”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 364. Je. 3, ‘05. 530w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.
“As a story the book is written in a somewhat hectic and turbulent fashion, and its early promise is hardly fulfilled by the melodrama of its conclusion.”
+ — Outlook. 80: 390. Je. 10. ‘05. 50w.
Pub. Opin. 39: 160. Jl. 29, ‘05. 110w.
+ Reader. 6: 358. Ag. ‘05. 210w.
McCarthy, Justin. History of our own times. v. 4 and 5. ea. *$1.40. Harper.
“These two volumes conclude the ‘History of our own times,’ begun by Mr. McCarthy some twenty-five years ago. The five volumes taken together cover the entire reign of Queen Victoria.... This work ... is rather a series of essays than a continuous history. All of the important events of the period come in for consideration. The greatest of these for the empire at large was the Boer war.... The interest and value of these volumes rests upon the fact that they are the work of a man who knows intimately what he is writing about.”—N. Y. Times.
“Looking at the work as a whole, we can only describe it as glib, fluent, popular—not by any means as a thoughtful and far-reaching study of men and the events of our time, and of the tendencies of those great movements which they have generated.”
+ Acad. 68: 1118. O. 28, ‘05. 1940w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
+ Ath. 1905, 2: 541. O. 21. 110w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
* “But Mr. McCarthy is always readable, and the entertaining quality of his work will undoubtedly be of value in bringing to the negligent reader some familiarity, at least, with the main features of later English politics.” E. D. Adams.
+ Dial. 39: 435. D. 16, ‘05. 1390w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
“It does not read like the work of a man behind the scenes, or tell us anything that we have not already read in the newspapers. Mr. McCarthy writes without any sense of proportion, and freely scamps the essential in order to make room for padding. All that can truthfully be said is that Mr. Justin McCarthy has the trick of being mildly readable even when he is platitudinous and obvious.”
+ — Lond. Times. 4: 371. N. 3, ‘05. 900w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
“He tells the story in a simple, intelligible way. He is never dry, tedious, discursive, labored, or involved. It is not adverse criticism to say that he has not written a weighty history.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 743. N. 4, ‘05. 1050w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
“He is always interesting, and though sometimes gossipy and sometimes affected by personal prepossessions, he writes with singular fairness of temper. His history is journalistic rather than scientific.”
+ — Outlook. 81: 681. N. 18, ‘05. 190w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
* “It is very interesting and of considerable use to students of recent events.”
+ Pub. Opin. 39: 764. D. 9, ‘05. 160w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
* “We are sorry that we cannot say that it is even a good book of reference, for Mr. McCarthy is not methodical enough, nor detailed enough, nor accurate enough to make himself an authority on facts. The English is slovenly.”
— Sat. R. 100: 726. D. 2, ‘05. 240w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
* + — Spec. 95: 871. N. 25, ‘05. 300w.
McCarthy, Justin. Irishman’s story, **$2.50. Macmillan.
An autobiography giving the author’s experiences in newspaper work, his visits to America, and his parliamentary career (1879-1902), covering the Parnell period with its sudden close and the breaking up of the Nationalist party.
“Historical students who may turn to either of these volumes will be compelled continuously to keep in mind the nationality and political environment of the writers; for with both Davitt and McCarthy every Irishman on the popular side is a patriot, an orator, or a statesman.”
+ — Am. Hist. R. 10: 454. Ja. ‘05. 170w.
“A record sufficiently varied and full of incident to have a sure claim on public interest. It would rank with such a narrative as Mr. Riis’s rather than with literary autobiographies, or with intellectual documents like Spencer’s account.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + Atlan. 95: 427. Mr. ‘05. 270w.
“A delightful melange of reminiscence, description, autobiography and anecdote, and will be read with genuine enjoyment.”
+ + Boston Evening Transcript. F. 8, ‘05. 820w.
“From first to last these autobiographical chapters have a charm.”
+ + + Ind. 58: 1310. Je. 8. 670w.
McCarthy, Justin Huntly. Dryad. †$1.50, Harper.
“The hero is the son and heir of Duke Baldwin of Athens, who ruled near the close of the thirteenth century. The heroine, Argathona, is a dryad, who remained in the Eleusinian wood after the gods departed. There are numerous adventures—joustings, conspiracies, battles, enchantments—related with cheerful disregard of everything except the interest of the reader.”—Pub. Opin.
“He has not succeeded in creating the right atmosphere. Mr. McCarthy has found a beautiful theme and in spite of his cleverness has handled it so roughly that he has deprived it of its external charm and has not developed the possibilities of its inherent beauty”
— Acad. 68: 366. Ap. 1, ‘05. 570w.
“Mr. McCarthy must be congratulated on having so deftly handled the supernatural that one hardly feels the impossibility of Argathona.”
+ + Ath. 1905, 1: 395. Ap. 1, ‘05. 310w.
“Decidedly the best that Mr. McCarthy has done.”
+ + Critic. 47: 285. S. ‘05. 90w.
+ — Ind. 58: 958. Ap. 27, ‘05. 240w.
* + — Ind. 59: 1153. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.
“A very readable tale after its own unreal fashion.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 539. Ag. 19, ‘05. 50w.
+ — Outlook. 79: 960. Ap. 15, ‘05. 50w.
“Selecting a somewhat vague historical period, he devises an impossible plot, worked out by impossible characters. A rather pleasing piece of make-believe.”
+ — Pub. Opin. 38: 633. Ap. 22, ‘05. 90w.
“It may be said indeed that he has woven in this story a tapestry whose grace of design and exquisite harmony of color all lovers of this kind of story will approve. There is something Tennysonian in the silken softness of his style and in his imagery.”
+ + Reader. 6: 120. Je. ‘05. 210w.
“The story is told with Mr. McCarthy’s usual verve and lightness.”
+ + R. of Rs. 31: 762. Je. ‘05. 70w.
“Mr. McCarthy contrives to get a real touch of poetry into his descriptions of the forest.”
+ Spec. 94: 681. My. 6, ‘05. 140w.
226McCarthy, Justin Huntly. Lady of Loyalty house. †$1.50. Harper.
“A story of Cromwell’s time, with the brilliant Lady Brilliana Harby as the storm centre. Dangers without end beset the lady and her admirers true and false, the whole ending happily when the clang of wedding bells replaces the clash of swords.”—Critic.
Critic. 46: 93. Ja. ‘05. 40w.
“A pretty tale and a merry one. This is mostly a skipping, happy-go-lucky story, a seventeenth century scherzo.”
+ Reader. 5: 787. My. ‘05. 330w.
“Is a brisk and breezy romance. There is little or no attempt at historical accuracy or minute coloring, a fact that is quite refreshing. Mr. McCarthy is content to tell a swift and fascinating story, in which effort he succeeds thoroughly.”
+ + R. of Rs. 31: 119. Ja. ‘05. 110w.
McCaul, Ethel. Under the care of the Japanese war office. $1.50. Cassell.
An English woman’s account of her recent visit to Manchuria to inspect the work of the Japanese Red cross society. Their efficient system is given in detail and there are many incidents and descriptions typical of the land and the people.
“Gives many interesting glimpses of the kindly side of war.”
+ Acad. 68: 16. Ja. 7, ‘05. 300w.
“Miss McCaul is an honest, straightforward writer, and her book is a tonic.”
+ Critic. 47: 191. Ag. ‘05. 170w.
“The practical advantages to be derived from a study of the volume under review cannot be questioned.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 163. Mr. 18, ‘05. 1230w.
“Her letters here collected have in them much of interest, but are overloaded with too detailed narrative of personal experiences.”
+ — Outlook. 79: 453. F. 18, ‘05. 140w.
“Unpretentious, but able and interesting little book. It contains much that is valuable to a student of military medicine.”
+ Spec. 94: 54. Ja. 14, ‘05. 100w.
McClain, Emlin. Constitutional law in the United States. *$2. Longmans.
“This text book on American constitutional law is published in the “American citizen” series, edited by Prof. Hart.... The classical bibliography and references at the beginning of each chapter together furnish opportunity for a more extended study of the subjects dealt with in the text.... The volume is divided into eight parts ... first ... the System of government.... Part II. explains how the government is organized. Parts III., IV., and V. deal with the nature and scope ... of the legislative, the executive, and the judicial branches of the government; Part VI. concerns itself with the relations of the states to each other and to the federal government. The last two parts are on the relations of the individual to the government and on civil rights.”—N. Y. Times.
“It is an able, fresh, vigorous treatment of the subject, handled with assurance and with considerable novelty in method.”
+ + + Am. Hist. R. 10: 948. Jl. ‘05. 90w.
“Covering in a cursory way so vast a field, the book is necessarily in many respects unsatisfactory. It has, however, the decided merit of containing a selected general bibliography, topical bibliographical references for each chapter, an analytical table of contents, and a fairly satisfactory index.”
+ + — Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 591. My. ‘05. 220w.
“The volume is very well adapted either for private reading or for classes of civics or history in our schools.”
+ + Cath. World. 81: 543. Jl. ‘05. 120w.
“The clear arrangement and concise style, the subordination of detail, and the avoidance of a mere mechanical order in the presentation of topics save it from stereotyped formality or dull abstruseness. On the whole, we should expect to see McClain supplant Cooley to a considerable extent in the schools and colleges.”
+ + + N. Y. Times. 10: 449. Jl. 8, ‘05. 750w.
+ + Pub. Opin. 39: 318. S. 2, ‘05. 130w.
McClellan, Elizabeth. Historic dress in America, 1607-1800; with an introd. chapter on dress in the Spanish and French settlements in Florida and Louisiana; il. in color, pen and ink, and half-tone by Sophie Steel, **$10; hf. lev. or mor. **$20. Jacobs.
“The work begins with the time of the earliest Spanish occupation of the continent, and concludes with the opening of the nineteenth century. Within this period the dress of men and women, nobles, commoners, and soldiers, is minutely described, the illustrations being from contemporary prints, old portraits and similar authentic sources.”—Reader.
“The text is accompanied by excellent illustrations. Its attempt at completeness and the care used in arrangement suggest that its greatest value is as a book of reference. Therefore it is a matter of regret that references for the large number of quotations are not more frequent.”
+ + — Am. Hist. R. 10: 715. Ap. ‘05. 130w.
+ + Ath. 1905, 1: 649. My. 27. 610w.
“This exhaustive and well illustrated volume on the American dress of the past should hold a position among the most authoritative works on the subject.”
+ Critic. 46: 565. Je. ‘05. 110w.
* “A valuable book of reference.”
+ Int. Studio. 27: sup. 34. D. ‘05. 70w.
“Nothing approaching the completeness of the present work has yet been offered.”
+ + + Reader. 5: 626. Ap. ‘05. 120w.
+ Spec. 94: 682. My. 6, ‘05. 270w.
McClure, Alexander Kelly. Our presidents and how we make them. $2. Harper.
The present revised edition brings this book of reference down to date. An account of the Roosevelt-Parker campaign is given with a narrative of its various conventions.
“As a whole this is a convenient and reasonably accurate handbook of American national politics, and only here and there does the author make a statement that seems questionable.” H. T. P.
+ + — Bookm. 22: 84. S. ‘05. 860w.
“All these summaries, if not very critical in tone, are readable and to the point.”
+ + Nation. 81: 142. Ag. 17, ‘05. 80w.
“It is not only a valuable record, but also interesting history.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 357. Je. 3, ‘05. 670w.
“The style remains involved and awkward and the diction careless.”
+ + — Outlook. 80: 394. Je. 10, ‘05. 110w.
McCook, Rev. Henry Christopher. Senator: a threnody. **$1.25. Jacobs.
This poem is a tribute to Marcus Hanna, written by a life-long friend. It is divided into five parts: A prologue of a life; Village scenes; Transformed villagers; A plea for immortality; and The life beyond.
“All conducted with a skill evidencing considerable homiletic experience.”
+ Nation. 80: 294. Ap. 13, ‘05. 90w.
McCrackan, William Denison. Fair land Tyrol. **$1.60. Page.
An enthusiastic description of “happy Tyrol,” in which are mingled beauty of landscape, and quaint peasant charm: the toymakers and innkeepers of to-day: the patriots and minnesingers of yesterday. The traveller is shown 227where to find interesting sights and scenes and is given a knowledge of the part that he may understand the Tyrolese of the present. The illustrations are reproduced from photographs.
“The book is readable and interesting.”
+ Acad. 68: 791. Jl. 29, ‘05. 160w.
+ + — Ath. 1905, 2: 173. Ag. 5. 1270w.
“A pleasant account of one of the most delightful of European districts.”
+ Critic. 47: 191. Ag. ‘05. 110w.
“Readable for itself, and giving an excellent notion of the country, the book is also usable side by side with a guide book, as an intelligent and interesting description of the principal places in the country.”
+ + + Nation. 80: 528. Je. 29, ‘05. 660w.
“As a whole his book is disappointing, childishly enthusiastic, and not at all convincing as either guide book or account of travel in the Tyrol. It is full, however, and one will not go astray in following Mr. McCracken as a guide.”
— + + N. Y. Times. 10: 294. My. 6, ‘05. 780w.
+ + Outlook. 79: 1059. Ap. 29, ‘05. 70w.
“There is no distinction about the style, which is sometimes slipshod.”
+ — Sat. R. 100: 284. Ag. 26, ‘05. 170w.
+ Spec. 95: 126. Jl. 22, ‘05. 90w.
McCracken, Elizabeth. Women of America. **$1.50. Macmillan.
As a result of several years of observation of the American woman as she is found in the large towns and small all over the United States, Miss McCracken gives her to us in all her phases, the professional woman and the club woman; her ideals and her achievements.
“This misleading book.... Harmfully sentimental spirit in which the fourteen articles ... are written. No information is offered to the seeker after fact; and for the theorist there is no basis of discussion. The book is simply a rambling series of unilluminating anecdotes, strongly personal without being strongly vital in tone.” O. H. D.
— — Critic. 46: 281. Mr. ‘05. 600w.
“The book is often unjust in its criticism, fulsome in its praise, illogical in its attempts at argument. It could not be called a serious contribution to sociological literature, partly because it is a vitascope of photographs from a car window instead of the careful canvasses of a Millet, who has known his subjects long, and loved them well.”
+ — Ind. 58: 439. F. 23, ‘05. 460w.
“The book has far too wide a title.”
+ — Nation. 80: 338. Ap. 27, ‘05. 640w.
“Thus, the book is not made up of official statistics, but is the fruit of personal meetings with women and visits to the scenes of their occupations.”
+ R. of Rs. 31: 128. Ja. ‘05. 140w.
“The art of making what has appealed to herself appeal to her reader has been mastered by Miss McCracken.”
+ Spec. 94: 616. Ap. 29, ‘05. 970w.
McCutcheon, George Barr (Richard Greaves, pseud.). Nedra. †$1.50. Dodd.
The elopement of a young couple from Chicago who start for the Philippines via New York and London, travelling as brother and sister, forms the basis of this story which is turned into an amusing extravaganza by a ship wreck in mid-ocean which leaves the hero stranded upon the island of Nedra with a new heroine, a girl whom he has rescued by mistake.
“He has given us the kind of story Americans like, incredible, daring, delightful and a little absurd.”
+ Ind. 59: 1154. N. 16, ‘05. 80w.
* “Like most of Mr. McCutcheon’s novels, ‘Nedra’ is not a matter for critical appreciation. One may say it is ‘apart’ from it rather than ‘beneath it.’”
+ Lit. D. 31: 885. D. 9, ‘05. 420w.
“It belongs to the novels of recreation pure and simple, and well fulfills its purpose of robbing the reader of the sense of time.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 636. S. 30, ‘05. 240w.
“The story is lively, entertaining, and very improbable.”
+ — Outlook. 81: 578. N. 4, ‘05. 50w.
McCutcheon, George Barr (Richard Greaves, pseud.). Purple parasol; with il. by Harrison Fisher, and decorations by C: B. Falls. †$1.25. Dodd.
The owner of a purple parasol, a gray dress and a sailor hat is shadowed by a young lawyer who hopes to pile up evidence for a divorce case against the erring wife of an old husband. The story becomes a romance when the owner of the parasol turns out to be a young and beautiful girl.
+ Bookm. 21: 652. Ag. ‘05. 110w.
“Has the merit of lightness and brevity.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 278. Ap. 29, ‘05. 130w.
“A slight and rather foolish story.”
+ — Outlook. 80: 142. My. 13, ‘05. 40w.
+ Pub. Opin. 39: 61. Jl. 8, ‘05. 70w.
R. of Rs. 31: 759. Je. ‘05. 70w.
McCutcheon, John Tinney. Mysterious stranger and other cartoons. *$1.50. McClure.
Over one hundred and fifty cartoons which have appeared during the past year or so in the Chicago Tribune are gathered into this volume. The author expresses the hope that his drawings “may have a permanent interest because of the great historical importance of the period they encompass” but aside from political matters much space is given to genial take-offs of President Roosevelt as bear-hunter and glad-hander, and satires of child life.
* “As a comic history of our own times they are not without value.”
+ Critic. 47: 572. D. ‘05. 40w.
* “The cartoons are well worth embodying in a form less transient than the pages of a daily newspaper.”
+ Dial. 39: 383. D. 1, ‘05. 250w.
* + + Ind. 59: 1379. D. 14, ‘05. 60w.
“Preserves too much that is trivial and vulgar (not in the most odious sense), and would have been the better for a severe screening. On the whole we find the collection rather dreary.”
+ — Nation. 81: 382. N. 9, 05. 190w.
MacDonnell, John de Courcy. King Leopold II., his rule in Belgium and the Congo. *$6. Cassell.
The main object of this book “is to tell once more the story of the origin and progress and methods of government of the Congo Free State, and to refute the charge that Leopold has not fulfilled the pledges made under the Berlin act.” (Nation).
“The writer’s arguments, however, are not convincing, and we wish we could attribute their unreality to ignorance of the subject in hand.”
— — Ath. 1905, 1: 584. My. 13. 2800w.
Nation. 81: 62. Jl. 20, ‘05. 590w.
“The weakness of the book is its redundancy and its tendency to exalt into great virtues the king’s most commonplace actions. Its attenuated special pleading minimises but does not destroy whatever usefulness as a record it may possess.”
+ — Sat. R. 99: 814. Je. 17, ‘05. 130w.
* Spec. 95: sup. 795. N. 18, ‘05. 290w.
McDougall, W. Physiological psychology. *40c. Macmillan.
This “tiny little volume ... presents a clear account ... of the elements of scientific psychology, and is thoroughly up to date.”—Acad.
228“Small and unambitious though it be, this book is worth more than the little space it would fill in the library of the student of mind.”
+ + Acad. 68: 416. Ap. 15, ‘05. 370w.
* McFadyen, John Edgar. Introduction to the Old Testament. $1.75. Armstrong.
“Mr. McFadyen sums up accurately and concisely the established results in regard to each book of the Old Testament, avoiding positive assertion where the facts do not warrant it. The inexpert reader will get from this book in a small compass a clear idea of the results of criticism and also of the common-sense method by which they have been arrived at.”—Acad.
* “Mr. McFadyen writes in a most interesting style: and successfully brings out both the human interest and the religious value of the several books.”
+ + Acad. 68: 1222. N. 25, ‘05. 150w.
* + + Outlook. 81: 889. D. 9, ‘05. 160w.
MacFarland, Charles Stedman. Jesus and the prophets; an historical, exegetical, and interpretative discussion of the use of the Old Testament prophecy by Jesus and his attitude towards it. **$1.50. Putnam.
“Holding Jesus to be more than a prophet, Dr. MacFarland sees that he was called to the work of a prophet, to meet a spiritual exigency, as the ancient prophets in their time had done.... As Jesus’ disciples misunderstood the prophets, so they misunderstood and still misunderstand his use of them.” (Outlook.) The author is a Congregational minister.
“No one should hereafter use Dr. Briggs’s or any of the older works on Messianic prophecy as authorities without parallel reference to this newer treatise.”
+ + Ind. 59: 151. Jl. 20, ‘05. 230w.
* “A careful and scholarly examination of the relation of Jesus to Old Testament prophecy.”
+ + Ind. 59: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 50w.
“Dr. MacFarland’s work is of unusual importance for the setting right and clarifying of erroneous and confused notions, an excellent specimen of the application of critical method for the realization of religious values.”
+ + Outlook. 80: 344. Je. 3, ‘05. 370w.
Macfarlane, Isabella. Royal knight: a tale of Nuremburg. †$1.25. Dillingham.
A story of 15th century Nuremburg, and of twin sisters of a poor and widowed mother, one betrothed to a wool-merchant’s son, the other, loved by a young German officer whose father is chief magistrate. Because the girl holds her honor above her love, the magistrate’s son attempts to force her consent by accusing her mother of witchcraft. Imprisonment and torture follow, but thru the loyalty of the daughters and the advent of their champion, who is no other than Emperor Maximilian, all ends happily.
N. Y. Times. 10:304. My. 6, ‘05. 290w.
Macfarlane, Walter. Laboratory notes on practical metallurgy: being a graduated series of exercises. *80c. Longmans.
“This little book is apparently intended as a first course for beginners in practical work in a metallurgical laboratory.... It consists of a series of practical exercises, all well within the grasp of the average boy, graduated and well arranged with a view of developing the habit of observation.... The student is introduced to furnace work.... The preparation of the ordinary common alloys follows.... Later, the more complex subject of the principles on which the process for the extraction of copper, lead, gold, and silver from their ores depend is dealt with. The book concludes with a few elementary exercises in assaying gold and silver ores, and the analysis of coal and coke.”—Nature.
+ Engin. N. 53: 639. Je. 15, ‘05. 170w.
“The book contains much useful information for junior students, and can be recommended for their use.”
+ + — Nature. 71: 413. Mr. 2, ‘05. 220w.
MacGowan, Alice, and Cooke, Grace MacGowan. Return: a story of the sea islands in 1739. †$1.50. Page.
In a stirring romance the authors reproduce people and scenes of colonial South Carolina and Georgia. In it Diana Chaters, the belle of Charleston, and a young Virginian of the historic family of Marshall figure prominently. This heroine, “the heartless coquette, is publicly jilted as the result of a brutal wager. How she takes her shame, and how she builds it into her life, is told by the authors with skill and upon somewhat new lines.” (Outlook.)
“‘Return’ is a capital love-story, one of the very best romantic novels of the year.”
+ + Arena. 34: 447. O. ‘05. 600w.
* “For the most part the story develops naturally, the characters have actual personality, and the savour of romance is well maintained.”
+ — Ath. 1905, 2: 607. N. 4. 220w.
“The book is written in an excellent literary style.”
+ Ind. 59: 98. Jl. 13, ‘05. 240w.
“A capital tale of love and adventure.”
+ Lond. Times. 4: 329. O. 6, ‘05. 420w.
“A book of fresh, wholesome romance.”
+ Nation. 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 410w.
“A love-story with plenty of color and movement. It is all very well done, vivid, dramatic; but the story is too overcrowded with characters; there are too many side issues. Not a little excision as well as condensation would have greatly improved a vigorous story.”
+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 195. Ap. 1, ‘05. 180w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 140w.
“A story with original strength and some novel situations. The characters are admirably individualized, the action is lively, and the whole picture excellently drawn.”
+ Outlook. 79: 858. Ap. 1. ‘05. 90w.
“‘Return’ is a well told tale, and interesting from the first line.”
+ + Pub. Opin. 39: 26. Jl. 1, ‘05. 170w.
“It is difficult to conceive of a story in which the element of picturesqueness enters more effectively.”
+ Reader. 6: 240. Ag. ‘05. 220w.
MacGrath, Harold. Enchantment. †75c. Bobbs.
A group of Mr. MacGrath’s short stories which abound in daringly novel situations. The five are “A night’s enchantment.” the adventure of the lady in the closed carriage, “The blind madonna,” the adventure of the golden louis, “No Cinderella,” the adventure of the satin slipper, “Two candidates,” the adventure in love and politics, and “The enchanted hat,” the adventure of my lady’s letter.
“Without being in any way remarkable ... will provide amusement and entertainment.”
+ Dial. 38: 394. Je. 1, ‘05. 80w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 380. Je. 10, ‘05. 110w.
“Is a collection of five of Mr. MacGrath’s stories—good ones too.”
+ Pub. Opin. 39: 61. Jl. 8, ‘05. 70w.
* MacGrath, Harold. Hearts and masks. †$1.50. Bobbs.
The sprightly record of a night’s adventure in which the principal participants bent upon attending a masked ball thru a fluke are mistaken for clever thieves. The plot which thickens about the innocent imposters for a time, and which is later cleared up, furnishes an exciting hour for the most sated fiction appetite.
229* “Constructed with an art that holds the reader’s interest from the first page to the last.”
+ Dial. 36: 445. D. 16, ‘05. 180w.
* “It is a book to be read in a half hour, but it contains adventure enough to last a lifetime.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 885. D. 9, ‘05. 300w.
MacGrath, Harold. Princess elopes. †75c. Bobbs.
The chief figures in this story of rapid action are the madcap Princess of Barscheit, her grumpy uncle intent upon a suitable marriage for her, and a young American medical student. The American consul tells the story of a series of adventures capped by the princess’s escape from marrying the redfaced Prince of Doppelkinn. That she finds the young American with her on this journey is certainly not distressing to her, and that he turns out to be the long lost heir of Doppelkinn and a much worthier suitor than the father are facts which atone for her matrimonial hardships.
+ Dial. 38: 394. Je. 1, ‘05. 100w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 309. My. 13, ‘05. 510w.
“This tale ... will be found altogether diverting, if not convincingly real.”
+ Outlook. 80: 142. My. 13, ‘05. 80w.
Pub. Opin. 39: 61. Jl. 8, ‘05. 40w.
Mach, Edmund Robert Otto von. Handbook of Greek and Roman sculpture, to accompany a collection of reproductions of Greek and Roman sculpture. *$1.50. Bureau of University travel.
“Dr. von Mach’s book is not a ‘handbook’ in the ordinary sense of the word, but a descriptive catalogue of five hundred plates and forty-five text illustrations representing works of Greek and Roman sculpture.... The description and discussion of each work is preceded by a note giving the material, place, and date of discovery when known, museum or other collection in which the work is now preserved, and some bibliographical information.”—Nation.
“The author shows in this book the excellencies of his former work. He states his conclusions boldly and independently.”
+ + — Ind. 58: 1365. Je. 15, ‘05. 530w.
“Certainly Dr. von Mach’s style leaves much to be desired. While we cannot recommend Dr. von Mach as a perfectly wise guide to such as wish to know Greek art, we are glad to express our belief that the university prints, accompanied by this handbook, will be of great service to the student.”
+ — Nation. 80: 417. My. 25, ‘05. 1220w.
McIvor, Allan, pseud. Overlord. $1.50. W. Ritchie.
This story of the peons of Canada is a frankly unhistorical tale of the freeing of Canada from England in a great war in which the “Habitans” and serfs under the leadership of the overlord defeat “Pitchener,” the English general. The overlord, aside from his feudal ownership along the upper St. Lawrence, owns several United States railroads, consequently the president, tho ostensibly neutral, aids him, and in return receives Canada as a gift from his grateful hands when England is finally defeated.
“A history which is frankly fictitious. The most surprising thing in the book is the bitterness toward England and the English.”
+ — Ind. 58: 44. Ja. 5, ‘05. 370w.
“In this curiously heaped up and involved lot of fiction are a vast number of tags and ends of stories and undigested ideas, the winnowing of which would be hopeless here. It’s a very long, queer book.”
+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 84. F. 11, ‘05. 470w. (Outline of plot).
Mackaye, Harold Steele. Winged helmet. †$1.50. Page.
France in the sixteenth century when Charles of Bourbon was rebelling against Francis I. is the setting. The story is one of fighting and adventure, of a nobleman who ill-uses his lady, and of my lady’s maid who saves her mistress from Saracen slavery by luring a villain into quicksand, and does other daring things. In the end the lord and lady are reconciled and the maid reaps as her reward the title of Lady of Ravelle.
“An improbable tale, convincing as we read.”
+ — Ind. 59: 158. Jl. 20, ‘05. 100w.
“A light romance—rather under average weight in fact. Nor in spite of the wings on the helmet and the out-of-the-common incidents mentioned, does it make up in spirit what it lacks in baser qualities. It cannot carry even its own feathery self as a gallant should.”
— N. Y. Times. 10: 149. Mr. 11, ‘05. 370w.
“A spirited romance of the Weymanesque school. Characters and scenes are well imagined and the story ingeniously contrived; but the flow is unpleasantly interrupted by repeated transitions from the usual narrative form to diary extracts and the like.”
+ — Outlook. 79: 762. Mr. 25, ‘05. 50w.
Pub. Opin. 38: 943. Je. 17, ‘05. 100w.
Mackaye, Percy Wallace. Fenris, the wolf: a tragedy. **$1.25. Macmillan.
“Fenris the wolf, son of Odin, troubles the serenity of Heaven with his barkings of defiance, and with his wolfish desires for Freyja, the betrothed of his brother Baldur. In the prologue, Odin ordains that Fenris, Baldur, Freyja and himself shall leave their heavenly estate and become four mortals. The action of the play consists in the conversion of Fenris to charity and human love.... The action passes before rune-stones in the northern forest at daybreak or twilight, in prison chambers and by deep forest pools.”—Nation.
+ Critic. 47: 288. S. ‘05. 100w.
“There is much beauty in Mr. Mackaye’s work, beauty of poetry and thought; he is strong, tender and imaginative, and the more we study his play, the more we wish either that it were not a play at all or that we might see it acted.”
+ — Lond. Times. 4: 283. S. 8, ‘05. 340w.
“As a whole the play fails a little of tragic impressiveness precisely because of a certain forcing of the note. It is, nevertheless, a poetic venture, of a sincerity and magnitude for which there can be nothing but admiration.”
+ Nation. 81: 18. Jl. 6, ‘05. 460w.
McKean, Thomas. Vortex. †$1.50. Lippincott.
The serenity of two lives—Anna of the Titian red hair, and her artist husband Paul—is jeopardized by a scheming Jesuit who plots to get possession of the wife’s fortune for the Church. He uses as a foil Elena, an actress, who serves as a model for Paul’s masterpiece Spring. In the swirl of complications Father Lamian’s real relations to Elena come to light, showing a misspent youth and a deeply designing nature.
N. Y. Times. 10: 631. S. 23, ‘05. 270w.
“The story is weak and poorly written, annoyingly commonplace in expression, and quite unnecessary.”
— — Outlook. 81: 283. S. 30, ‘05. 30w.
McKechnie, William Sharp. Magna carta: a commentary on the great charter of King John. *$4.50. Macmillan.
“Each chapter of ‘Magna carta’ is given in its original Latin, with an English version by Dr. McKechnie following it in smaller type, 230after which comes the commentary. The book includes a select bibliography and a list of the authorities consulted by the author, a general index, and an index to statutes. In appendices are documents relative to or illustrative of King John’s Magna carta.”—N. Y. Times.
“One feels compelled to state that although for want of something better this work will undoubtedly be consulted, nevertheless taken as a whole it cannot be regarded as of more than mediocre value.” Henry Lewis Cannon.
+ + — Am. Hist. R. 11: 137. O. ‘05. 920w.
“A scholarly and authoritative work based on the results of the latest critical research, devoid of rhetorical flourish and meeting the requirements of the lawyer and the historian. The book is well planned. We are grateful to our author for clearing up the problems of Magna Carta in so scholarly and definitive a fashion.”
+ + + Ind. 59: 635. S. 14, ‘05. 830w.
* “Very readable book.”
+ Ind. 59: 1157. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.
“He has given us what will long remain as the standard work on Magna Carta, a book remarkable alike for its solid learning, its fertility in suggestion, and its characteristic note of moderation and sweet reasonableness.”
+ + + Lond. Times. 4: 152. My. 12, ‘05. 1810w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 281. Ap. 29, ‘05. 270w.
“The first exhaustive commentator on ‘Magna carta’ since the days of Richard Thompson.”
+ + Outlook. 80: 193. My. 20, ‘05. 280w.
“We should be disposed to dismiss his book as nothing more than a text-book of unusual thoroughness were it not for one saving merit. Mr. McKechnie is not afraid of discussing an abstract and complicated question.”
+ + Sat. R. 100: 250. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1170w.
“His conclusions, like his style, are not always inspired, or beyond criticism or revision.”
+ + — Spec. 94: 642. Ap. 29, ‘05. 2120w.
McKibben, Julia Baldwin. Miriam. $1.25. Meth. bk.
Miriam, whose birth is hid in mystery, is brought up as a slave in an old-fashioned southern household. She is freed by her master, and educated in the north where no none knows of the taint in her blood. After bravely renouncing love and happiness, confessing to her lover and friends the truth, she learns that by birth she is an honored daughter in the home where she was once a slave.
* “A story of the old South of no literary value, and as foreign to fact as many others that have been written on similar lines.”
— Outlook. 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 50w.
Mackie, Pauline Bradford. Girl and the kaiser. †$1.50. Bobbs.
The presence of the kaiser upon the pages of this simple little love story lends a certain dignity and makes the plot possible, but has no real historical significance. Wilhelmina, who has been brought up in America, comes to Germany to visit her uncle, the Admiral von Uhland, and his pleasure loving French wife. Here she meets two young naval officers, and upon the occasion of the kaiser’s visit to her uncle she learns of the strict paternalism practiced in the German army and navy, and that a rich wife is essential to a poor officer. This is where the denouement comes in. In the end the kaiser, who has taken a fancy to her, in his favorite role of destiny, points out to her the sensible road where she finds both wealth and love.
“Is a charmingly bright and unconventional story. Though by no means a great story, is one of the most clever little romances of the season.”
+ + Arena. 33: 339. Mr. ‘05. 250w.
McKinley, Albert Edward. Suffrage franchise in the thirteen English colonies in America. $2.50. Ginn.
The purpose of the author has been “to present the dynamic or developmental aspect of the subject, rather than the analytic; he has not been content with a mere summary of the suffrage qualifications in the several colonies, but has endeavored to trace the growth of the colonial ideals and practices respecting the elective franchise.”
“Mr. McKinley’s volume is full of interest. Taken in connection with Mr. Bishop’s ‘History of elections in the colonies,’ the whole ground seems thoroughly covered.” F. W. S.
+ + + Am. J. Soc. 11: 134. Jl. ‘05. 230w.
“In general there is shown the most conservative scholarship. The immense amount of material consulted, the care in the verification of its vast number of mere facts, and the patience shown in the organization of the mass of data, calls forth the highest praise for the author’s scholarship.” John L. Conger.
+ + + Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 608. My. ‘05. 530w.
McKinley, Charles E. Educational evangelism: the religious discipline for youth. *$1.25. Pilgrim press.
Clergymen, and all who are interested in the religious training of boys and girls from 16 to 20 will find much of value in this essay, which discusses the religious needs of youth and gives suggestions as to how the church may meet them.
“It is one of the most sensible and thoughtful presentations of what the spiritual discipline of youth should be, both through the pulpit and in the school, that has recently appeared. He shows himself an original thinker, a man of insight, and a true lover of youth.”
+ + Ind. 58: 1012. My. 4, ‘05. 110w.
“Though a small book, this is full of judicious thought well worthy of thoughtful consideration.”
+ + Outlook. 79: 759. Mr. 25, ‘05. 150w.
McKinley, William. Tariff. $1.75. Putnam.
“The essay was written in 1896, when Mr. McKinley was governor of Ohio, and while the information he had gained as chairman of the ways and means committee was still fresh in mind. Naturally the legislative and political aspects of the tariff are the ones to which most attention is given. The author recognizes his difficulty of dealing with the subject in a non-partisan way, but states, ‘It has been my honest endeavor to do justice to all directly participating in the events narrated. It has been my aim to present as completely as possible a review of proposed tariff legislation since the close of the Civil war to the present time, as well as a sketch of the measures actually enacted, to the end that the student may observe the trend and purpose of the leading political parties in respect to this economic question.’”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“The essay was intended for general readers and its merits fully justify its being put into book form.”
+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 133. Ja. ‘05. 240w.
McLain, John Scudder. Alaska and the Klondike. **$2. McClure.
The author, who is editor of the Minneapolis Journal, accompanied a special sub-committee of the Senate committee on territories to Alaska in the summer of 1903 and in a series of articles for his paper discussed the resources and possibilities of the country. These articles now appear in book form revised, and including statistical information on commercial and industrial operations down to 1904.
231“His book is conservatively written, is interesting and seems to be believable.”
+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 26: 592. S. ‘05. 420w.
“It is the most complete and also the most trustworthy book of its class that has appeared up to the present time.”
+ + + Critic. 47: 191. Ag. ‘05. 70w.
“The book should serve for a long time ... in the capacity of an authoritative reference work.” Wallace Rice.
+ + Dial. 38: 385. Je. 1, ‘05. 230w.
“A clear picture of Alaska—its history, population, occupations, resources, and problems.”
+ + Lit. D. 31: 428. S. 23, ‘05. 660w.
“Few of his statements can be designated as erroneous, and these are mostly of slight importance.”
+ + — Nation. 81: 19. Jl. 6, ‘05. 890w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 172. Mr. 18, ‘05. 280w.
“An exceedingly interesting book of travel, which ... justifies the claims of the publishers that it has practically the accuracy and trustworthiness of a public document.”
+ + + N. Y. Times. 10: 294. My. 6, ‘05. 1810w.
“Not only an entertaining record of travel, but a compact statement of the conditions, resources, and needs of the territory. Unquestionably the ground is not fully covered, but the amount of information derivable from the work is such that for all general purposes the treatment is adequate.”
+ + Outlook. 80: 92. My. 6, ‘05. 210w.
“The present treatise is the best that has so far appeared. It is broadly comprehensive.”
+ + + Pub. Opin. 39: 60. Jl. 8, ‘05. 220w.
+ Reader. 6: 595. O. ‘05. 260w.
+ + R. of Rs. 32: 125. Jl. ‘05. 90w.
McMahon, Anna Benneson, ed. See Shelley, Percy Bysshe.
McManus, Thomas J. Luke. Boy and the outlaw. $1.50. Grafton press.
The author, whose boyhood was spent in Harper’s Ferry, where he witnessed the famous raid of John Brown, has woven his recollections of that time into a story in which a Virginia boy discovers a wounded mulatto, one of Brown’s men, the day after the raid, and attempts to conceal the outlaw from the authorities. The resulting adventures comprise the story, in which a Virginia squire, a doctor, a young lawyer and others figure.
“A story that moves swiftly and directly and contains a good deal of pleasant humor and excellent character-drawing.”
+ R. of Rs. 31: 117. Ja. ‘05. 70w.
Macphail, Andrew. Essays in Puritanism. **$1.50. Houghton.
Taking Jonathan Edwards, John Winthrop, Margaret Fuller, Walt Whitman and John Wesley as the subjects of his essays, the author has written a series of sketches which give a better picture of the individual types than of Puritanism.
“An uncommonly readable and instructive book.”
+ + Dial. 39: 43. Jl. 16, ‘05. 440w.
+ — Ind. 59: 818. O. 5, ‘05. 150w.
“He mingles with his sharp and sometimes acrid treatment of Puritanism a good deal of sound and discriminating comment on its more attractive side, but on both sides of his view of Puritanism he leaves an impression that he has not very thoroughly worked the matter out.”
+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 280. Ap. 29. ‘05. 650w.
“These essays are bright, readable, entertaining, but they are also sometimes smart and a trifle flippant in style, and, in their dealing with philosophical thought, superficial. His view, no less than his style, is journalistic.”
+ — Outlook. 79: 1013. Ap. 22, ‘05. 310w.
“His book has many attractions; one of them is the pertinence with which he makes reflections, called forth in the first instance by the past, apply to the present. And he has a way of discerning the real greatness of the men whom he describes.”
+ Spec. 94: 294. F. 25, ‘05. 230w.
Macquoid, Mrs. Katharine Sarah Gadsden. Pictures in Umbria. *$1.50. Scribner.
“This is a volume of purely ‘impressions de voyage’ by an intelligent observing woman inspired by the history and landscape of Umbria.... The author has a distinct liking for showing the life of the people by describing their physical characteristics and relating their conversation, and by throwing these things in contrast with the characteristics of the ancient race.”—N. Y. Times.
+ + Acad. 68: 823. Ag. 12, ‘05. 530w.
* “This one is neither too historic nor too artistic to suit many tastes.”
+ Critic. 47: 479. N. ‘05. 60w.
“The text is so trite and prosaic that it gives the impression of being written merely for the sake of furnishing a setting for the fifty original illustrations.”
+ — Dial. 39: 117. S. 1, ‘05. 160w.
* “Written in a bright and picturesque style, and full of interesting anecdotes.”
+ Int. Studio. 27: 183. D. ‘05. 110w.
“When all has been said, the illustrations are by far the most interesting features of the book. It is worth publishing for them alone.”
+ Nation. 81: 129. Ag. 10, ‘05. 380w.
“The book will form an entertaining companion for the fireside tourist, for it is intimately written in unadorned, direct narrative style.” Walter Littlefield.
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 588. S. 9, ‘05. 130w.
Macquoid, Percy. History of English furniture. 20 pts. v. I, pts. 1-3. per pt. *$2.50. Putnam.
“The history has been divided into four parts: ‘The age of oak,’ comprising furniture from 1500 to 1660; ‘The age of walnut,’ from 1660 to 1720, showing the varied influences of the Restoration and Dutch designers; ‘The age of mahogany,’ lasting from 1720 to 1770, in which the introduction from France of fresh ideas in design clearly marked another change, and ‘The composite age,’ from 1770 to 1820, inspired by an affectation of all things classical, combined with an unbalanced taste.... There are nearly 1000 illustrations in the entire work, and sixty of these are in the exact colors of the originals.”—N. Y. Times.
+ + — Ath. 1905. 1: 631. My. 20. 730w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This book will be valuable, not only to lovers of old furniture, but to art students interested in wood-carving.”
+ + Ind. 59: 155. Jl. 20, ‘05. 560w. (Reviews v. 1., pt. 1.)
+ + Int. Studio. 25: 273. My. ‘05. 230w. (Reviews vol. I., pts. 1-2.)
+ Nation. 80: 132. F. 16, ‘05. 240w. (Reviews vol. I., pt. 1.)
N. Y. Times. 10: 251. Ap. 15, ‘05. 350w. (Reviews vol. I, pts. 1-3.)
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 541. Ag. 19, ‘05. 490w. (Review of v. 1. pts. 4 and 5; v. 2, pt. 6.)
* “It is unnecessary to add anything to what we have already said concerning the importance and elegance of this work, which is absolutely unsurpassed in its field.”
+ + + N. Y. Times. 10: 796. N. 25, ‘05. 150w. (Review of v. 2, pts. 6 and 7.)
+ + + N. Y. Times. 10: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 110w. (Review of v. 2.)
232* McSpadden, Joseph Walker. Stories from Wagner. (Children’s favorite classics.) 60c; (Astor lib.) 60c; (Waldorf lib.) 75c; (Handy volume classics.) limp lea. 75c; pocket ed. 35c. Crowell.
“The stories considered in this little volume are; Four from the ‘Ring’ dramas, also ‘Parsifal, the pure,’ ‘Lohengrin, the swan knight,’ ‘Tannhauser, the knight of song,’ ‘The master singers,’ ‘Rienzi, the last of the tribunes,’ ‘The flying Dutchman,’ and ‘Tristan and Isolde.’”—R. of Rs.
* “For the non-musical as legend and fairytale, for the young music lover who has still in anticipation the Wagner music drama, it is a capital little book.”
+ Nation. 81: 407. N. 16, ‘05. 150w.
R. of Rs. 32: 751. D. ‘05. 60w.
* McVickar, Henry Whitney. Reptiles. †$1.50. Appleton.
“The story is based upon a wager made by three men that in five years after marriage they will feel the same devotion to their wives that they felt before marriage. Two, a wealthy young Englishman and an American clergyman, were for the affirmative, one, a clever young cynic, for the negative. When the bets were called, the clergyman was prepared to pay the full amount like a man of honor, the young Englishman to compromise with a third, but the cynic refused to take the money, because he, too, lost, since he still loved his wife.”—N. Y. Times.
* “The story is told in a rather impressionistic style, which frequently leaves something to be desired.”
— N. Y. Times. 10: 794. N. 25, ‘05. 150w.
* “A thoroughly disagreeable novel.”
— Outlook. 81: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 40w.
Macy, Jesse. Party organization and machinery. *$1.25. Century.
Party organization is described in its relation to presidential, congressional, and senatorial leadership. Professor Macy traces party development pathologically rather than historically from its real beginning in Jefferson’s administration, as a township or county organization, up through state, congressional, and national committees. The development of the committees is given, Tammany, and the differing party management in various states are fully treated.
“Students of political and constitutional history will find it of great service ... because it treats the problems wisely and brings home to the reader forcibly the significance of party organization as a fact.”
+ + Am. Hist. R. 10: 948. Jl. ‘05. 110w.
“Prof. Macy deals with his subjects sympathetically. The mode of presentation is concrete.” F. I. Herriott.
+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 606. My. ‘05. 650w.
Reviewed by Winthrop More Daniels.
Atlan. 95: 552. Ap. ‘05. 300w.
“This study in political pathology will be a welcome addition to the books available to the student of political science. There seems to be nothing omitted from this little hand-book that any student of party methods or management could possibly wish to know.”
+ + + N. Y. Times. 10: 86. F. 11, ‘05. 660w.
“Survey is very broad. As a rule, Professor Macy is direct and explicit but he is not always consistent, and we note occasional slips liable to lead to misconstruction of his position. Whatever there is of error, however, is not sufficient to vitiate the value of his work.”
+ — Outlook. 78: 1043. D. 24, ‘04. 290w.
+ + R. of Rs. 30: 761. D. ‘04. 230w.
Madison, James. Writings; ed. by Gaillard Hunt. v. 5, 1787-1790. subs. *$5. Putnam.
“Mr. Hunt’s third and fourth volumes, consisting chiefly of Madison’s notes of debates in the Federal convention, brought us down to the date of its adjournment in September, 1787. The present volume carries us but two years and a half farther.... Of a hundred and eight letters printed by Mr. Hunt there are only a dozen that have not been printed before.... Six came from the Madison papers, two from the collections of the New York library, two from the Virginia historical society, one from a North Carolina source, and one, a letter of some interest written to Philip Mazzei, was once the property of Guizot and is now in a private collection in Berlin.... Madison’s speeches in the Virginia convention occupy nearly a fourth of the volume. His speeches in the first two sessions of the First congress, running to nearly as great extent, are also given.”—Am. Hist. R.
“Mr. Hunt’s annotations are apposite and intelligent.” J. Franklin Jameson.
+ + Am. Hist. R. 10: 691. Ap. ‘05. 330w.
“It is a disagreeable task to criticise a volume which shows so much care and intelligent arrangement, but there is evidence of some hasty proofreading, or perhaps of slovenly copying. The notes are full and judicious.”
+ + — Nation. 80: 271. Ap. 6. ‘05. 560w.
* Maeterlinck, Maurice. Old-fashioned flowers, and other out-of-door studies. **$1.20. Dodd.
“Half a dozen studies of flowers in colors by Mr. Charles B. Falls, and attractive type, paper, and binding lend to the small volume an air of distinction which matches the unusual quality of M. Maeterlinck’s style. Flowers, like animals, have distinct personalities for M. Maeterlinck, but his frequent personifications are aesthetically justified by the real feeling that they express.”—Dial.
* “A delightful ‘little volume of nature sketches.’”
+ Dial. 39: 448. D. 16, ‘05. 100w.
* “A little volume of his most subtle and characteristic essays.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.
* “Characterized by the singular beauty of Maeterlinck’s style, the tinge of mysticism, and the interpretation of thought by sentiment which have given all his books subtle individuality.”
+ Outlook. 81: 442. D. 16, ‘05. 40w.
Magnay, Sir William, 2d baronet. Prince of lovers. †$1.50. Little.
A story founded upon the secret chronicles of two states lying in the midst of the Hungarian forest. The time is after the close of the Thirty years’ war, when some two hundred of these independent states existed in Germany. The princess of one state is about to be betrothed, against her will, to the heir of the other, when the heir disappears. Disguised as a young lieutenant, he comes to her father’s court and wins her love. After nearly losing his life and his throne in a series of daring adventures, he elopes with the princess and comes to his own. A crafty chancellor, a soldier of fortune, and an unscrupulous villain add to the plot.
“His story is commonplace, and the telling always undistinguished.”
— Acad. 68: 736. Jl. 15, ‘05. 260w.
+ Ath. 1905, 1: 746. Je. 17. 110w.
“Is full of exciting incident and of well-marked characters.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 300. My. 6, ‘05. 330w.
“The romance is not a bad specimen of its type.”
+ Outlook. 79: 961. Ap. 15, ‘05. 90w.
+ + Pub. Opin. 38: 714. My. 6, ‘05. 250w.
“To label this novel as old-fashioned, is to pay a compliment, not cast a slur. It is to say that the author has taken pains and time, that his creation is shapely, and dignified.”
+ Reader. 6: 119. Je. ‘05. 390w.
233Magnus, Hugo. Superstition in medicine; tr. from the German by Julius L. Salinger. **$1. Funk.
A history of the erroneous ideas and fanciful beliefs that have prevailed in the world with regard to sickness and its cure from the days of ancient Rome to the present time.
Mahaffy, John Pentland. Progress of Hellenism in Alexander’s empire. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.
In a series of lectures, which represent the compendium of a long and brilliant development of human nature, the author addresses not only the general reader who wishes to know something of the expansion of Greek ideas toward the East, but the specialist who needs general views of the whole into a corner of which his particular field fits. He treats Xenophon as the precursor of Hellenism, and brings the influences down to the part they perform in modern Christianity.
“There is little in the book (beyond novelty of presentation) which cannot be found elsewhere. It is less excusable that it treats too exclusively of problems of the author’s own raising, too little of those current at the present time.” W. S. Ferguson.
+ — Am. Hist. R. 11: 189. O. ‘05. 310w.
+ + Dial. 38: 420. Je. 16, ‘05. 480w.
“Such occasional indistinctness does not, however, detract appreciably from the general luminousness of the picture, from the inspiriting nerve and freshness which we learnt long ago to associate with Dr. Mahaffy’s utterances and which show no signs of failing.” E. B.
+ + — Eng. Hist. R. 20: 822. O. ‘05. 320w.
+ + Lond. Times. 4: 159. My. 19, ‘05. 560w.
“Dr. Mahaffy has made a mistake in attempting to deal in so small a compass with so vast a question as the spread of Hellenism.”
+ + — Sat. R. 100: 344. S. 9, ‘05. 1420w.
“They are readable and discursive, but they would not convey a very clear impression of the period which they profess to describe to any save finished scholars.”
+ — Spec. 95: 353. S. 9, ‘05. 1400w.
Mahan, Alfred Thayer. Sea power in its relations to the war of 1812. 2v. **$7. Little.
The authoritative and widely directed study of Captain Mahan on the influence of sea power upon history has resulted in a series of most important volumes. In turning his attention to this phase of the War of 1812, he has brought to light some entirely new material from government and private documents, has treated with special clearness the subject of the imprisonment of American seamen, and has given emphasis to the records of American privateers. The author traces the train of causes of the war from 1651, in order to make clear Great Britain’s course. The work is strongly bound and illustrated.
“No one who reads his latest work will hesitate to say that it is in all respects worthy to rank on the same level as its predecessors. The vein is as rich as ever, and it is worked with no abatement of skill and no diminution of profitable output. He is occasionally prolix, and the construction of his sentences is sometimes clumsy and involved.”
+ + — Lond. Times. 4: 366. N. 3, ‘05. 2760w.
* “His discussion of the conditions which caused the war is the best we know of anywhere.”
+ + + N. Y. Times. 10: 777. N. 18, ‘05. 1160w.
* “But whatever its defects, ‘Sea power in its relations to the war of 1812’ must be rated, like its distinguished predecessors, a substantial contribution to the history of naval warfare and a suggestive exposition of the force of the doctrine of ‘preparedness.’”
+ + — Outlook. 81: 831. D. 2, ‘05. 940w.
Mahler, Arthur. Paintings of the Louvre; Italian and Spanish, in collaboration with Carlos Blacker and W: A. Slater. **$2. Doubleday.
“A handbook of the Italian and Spanish sections of the celebrated art gallery, and includes also a history of the art of Italy from the early workers in the Byzantine manner to the Renaissance, while the part devoted to the Spanish schools is given up mainly to Velasquez and Murillo. The illustrations show examples of the work of these artists as well as of Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael and others.”—N. Y. Times.
“The illustrations are numerous, but too much reduced and too indistinctly printed to do more than remind one how inadequately they represent the originals.”
— Acad. 68: 1111. O. 21, ‘05. 340w.
+ — Critic. 47: 475. N. ‘05. 70w.
* “The criticism is of the old school, Vasari’s pleasing tales being repeated with an apparent obliviousness of the incredulity into which they have fallen through the researches of such moderns as Berensen, Fry, and others.”
+ — Dial. 39: 391. D. 1, ‘05. 80w.
“The book, as embodying the latest results of research, is to be relied on. The criticism is unoriginal and often extremely commonplace. It is well arranged, the English is smooth.”
+ + — Nation. 81: 278. O. 5, ‘05. 190w.
“The only charge to be brought against his text is the overstudious avoidance of anything like emphasis. The final chapter on Spanish paintings shares the merits of the others—clearness, simplicity, intelligence.” L. L.
+ + — N. Y. Times. 10: 637. S. 30, ‘05. 1030w.
R. of Rs. 32: 511. O. ‘05. 60w.
* “The historical, biographical, and technical constituents of this commentary are quite readable.”
+ Spec. 95: sup. 795. N. 18, ‘05. 490w.
* Maitland, John Alexander Fuller. Joseph Joachim. *$1. Lane.
This volume in the “Living masters of music” series “is only some sixty pages in length and is divided into five sections dealing with Joachim’s career, violin playing, teaching, influence, compositions, each of which is necessarily summarized in the briefest manner.... Having quickly disposed of the facts of his career, there is space found for interesting personal reflections upon the playing and influence of Joachim. His character, moral and artistic, which is one, is well summed up.”—Acad.
* “Is a good specimen of condensed biography.”
+ Critic. 47: 476. N. ‘05. 110w.
* + Nation. 81: 304. O. 12, ‘05. 450w.
Maitland, J. A. Fuller, ed. See Grove, George.
Major, Charles. Yolanda, maid of Burgundy. * †$1.50. Macmillan.
“The time is when Edward IV. reigned in England, and Louis XI. sat upon the French throne. Then Charles of Burgundy, styled Charles the bad, was feared as the richest and most powerful prince in the country, and it was Mary, his beautiful and gentle daughter, who was the pawn that the wicked prince would have gladly sacrificed for his own ambitious aims.... It is a story bristling with intrigue and adventure, with meetings after dark, and love and scorn and villainy and fine ladies traveling unattended, and mystery galore, and always through it all runs the theme of love—the love of a brave man for a beautiful girl.”—N. Y. Times.
* + N. Y. Times. 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 220w.
* “A readable story, though not a high literary achievement.”
+ Outlook. 81: 711. N. 25, ‘05. 110w.
234* “Is a very good story of its kind.”
+ Pub. Opin. 39: 796. D. 16, ‘05. 210w.
* “Charles Major once more shines through brilliant incapacity when he attempts ‘Yolande.’”
— R. of Rs. 32: 761. D. ‘05. 70w.
Malcolm, Napier. Five years in a Persian town. *$3. Dutton.
“This is an interesting description of Yezd, ‘in the very center of Central Persia,’ where the author was for some time engaged in missionary work, and enjoyed unusual opportunities of mixing with all sorts and conditions of people. The experience of such a stay as he says apologetically, is not a traveler’s experience, but what of that?... the sympathetic picture of Yezd scenery, life, and manners which he has drawn with minute and vivid accuracy is as memorable as it is rare.”—Ath.
“The real value of ‘Five years in a Persian town’ lies in the sympathetic study of native character and modes of thought. In this respect Mr. Malcolm will not easily be surpassed, combining, as he does, keen insight and a curious subtlety of imagination with an incisive style relieved by delightful touches of dry humor.”
+ + Ath. 1905, 2: 69. Jl. 15. 1680w.
“A keen, but quiet and unobtrusive, sense of the humorous aspects of things runs thru the author’s pictures of Yezdi life and enhances the attractiveness of the volume.”
+ Ind. 59: 1112. N. 9, ‘05. 190w.
“The book fulfils its purpose excellently, and makes a fair guess at some Persian characteristics.”
+ Nation. 81: 286. O. 5, ‘05. 650w.
“Mr. Malcolm has given us a very interesting, amusing and instructive account of Persian life.”
+ + Sat. R. 100: 530. O. 21, ‘05. 320w.
* Mallock, William Hurrell. Reconstruction of religious belief. **$1.75. Harper.
“Mr. Mallock attempts to aid ‘the thoughtful man of to-day,’ either ‘in justifying his old belief by supplying it with new foundations, or in building up some new belief which may possibly take its place.’ Mr. Mallock demonstrates that, when science has said its last word, it inevitably leaves us in some region outside itself in which ‘an intellectual solution of the contradiction between scientific and religious principles must be found.’”—R. of Rs.
* “Science can never find a complete explanation of phenomena. The attempt to show that it can, and to dispense with philosophy, is the cardinal error of Mr. Mallock’s book; it finally leads him to pure scepticism, from which he jumps into blind credulity. Much of the book is of considerable value. The whole of the third part, in which the case for scientific agnosticism is criticised, is admirable, particularly the demonstration that chance has no real existence.”
+ — Acad. 68: 1171. N. 11, ‘05. 2190w.
* “It is a good book to be read at a single sitting, like a good novel. To say that it is interesting, well written, and appropriate to the times, is to offer it the merest justice; but to describe it as a complete success is perhaps going too far. Perhaps it would be more successful if it were less complete.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ + Dial. 39: 440. D. 16, ‘05. 1470w.
* “The soundest part of Mr. Mallock will be found in the considerations which he develops in his earlier chapters rather than in the more pretentious ‘solution’ which he proclaims in his concluding book.”
+ — Lond. Times. 4: 355. O. 27, ‘05. 1920w.
* “Mr. Mallock offers nothing really new in his argument, but it derives a novel coloring from its relations to recent scientific views, and piquancy from his wit and humor. The book is brightly written and the thought is throughout interesting. The proof-reading leaves something to be desired.”
+ + — Nation. 81: 451. N. 30, ‘05. 1020w.
* + R. of Rs. 32: 752. D. ‘05. 100w.
* “He is doing good service not only to the cause of religious apology, but to society, and above all, to truth, which has suffered long and much from the timidity of science to push its conclusions to logical issue.”
+ + Sat. R. 100: sup. 5. O. 14, ‘05. 1860w.
Mann, Henry. Adam Clarke. $1. Popular book co.
“A narrative of the experiences of a family of British emigrants to the United States in cotton mill, iron foundry, coal mine, and other fields of labor.” The author, whose work as a newspaper man has brought him in contact with the phases of life treated in this story, tells of the abuses at the immigrant office, and scores the protectionists, the settlement workers, the Pittsburg militia, and the Pennsylvania railroad. The many hardships suffered by all of their class are vividly detailed as the history of the Clarke family progresses.
“The ferocity of the painted picture is such that nobody is likely to take it as a literal transcription of conditions—but nobody who knows the city or human nature will doubt the existence of a substantial basis for some of the author’s fury. To be sure he is a partisan, and as is the way of partisans, his eye is single and fixed. Well-informed and well-balanced people may read it with profit. It might be less good for incipient anarchists.”
(Outline of plan).
+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 52. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1180w.
“As a novel the work calls for no consideration, but it is deserving of attention as an obviously sincere attempt to present the grievances and sufferings of the poor in a manner that will quicken sympathy to action. Unfortunately, ... the writer, through ignoring the reverse side of the shield and through undoubted exaggeration, tends to repel rather than attract the thoughtful reader, and to inflame rather than broaden the thoughtless.”
+ — Outlook. 79: 651. Mr. 11, ‘05. 90w.
Mann, Hugh. Bound and Free: two dramas. *50c. Badger, R: G.
An argument for sex-emancipation, for doing away with marriage, the family, the home as they exist to-day. The author calls the dramas which illustrate his point Bound, and Free, he makes the chief characters in each declare that they can love many men, or women, as the case may be, at the same time and in the same way, but can love but one supremely, their soulmate. Most conventional people will consider this book immoral.
* Mannix, Mary Ella. Children of Cupa. 45c. Benziger.
A pathetic story of the eviction of the Cupa Indians from their home in California on the Warner ranch, told in connection with the experiences of a family of campers who spent six weeks of the last summer the Indians remained on their ancestral lands at the Hot Springs on the old reservation, and learned to know the people and to sympathize with them, and to understand their life and the part the missions played in it.
Manzoni, Alessandro. Sacred hymns [Gl’ inni sacri] and the Napoleonic ode [Il cinque maggio] of Alexander Manzoni; tr. by Joel Foote Bingham. *$3. Oxford.
The translator has aimed “to give the exact sense of the author.” The Italian texts are also given in the appendix and there is a portrait of Manzoni, a biographical preface, as well as historical introductions and critical notes.
“Dr. Bingham’s translations are painstaking, and, if one knows the original, one can recognize 235that he has given an equivalent for many of Manzoni’s thoughts; but the metrical charm and the poetry have evaporated. Whoever desires a complete outfit of notes and critical opinions on Manzoni’s hymns and ode will find them in this book.”
+ Nation. 80: 211. Mr. 16, ‘05. 390w.
“We have nothing with this rendering.”
— Sat. R. 99: 676. My. 20, ‘05. 140w.
* Mar, Alice, il. Japanese child life, with new stories and verses by Alice Calhoun Haines. †$1.50. Stokes.
The strange faces, quaint costumes, odd games, amusements and occupations of the little Japanese children are prettily set forth in picture and verse. There are eight full-page illustrations in color.
* + N. Y. Times. 10: 894. D. 16, ‘05. 100w.
* “The stories and little poems have grace, quaintness, and charm.”
+ Outlook. 81: 1039. D. 23, ‘05. 90w.
Marble, Annie Russell. Books in their seasons. **30c. Crowell.
Uniform with the “What is worth while series,” this little volume pleads for not “the gentle reader,” but “the sane reader,” suggests some authors and books, and asks the reader in his own further choosing to follow nature’s moods and seasons, to read books fitting to the time, and in harmony with the outer world.
Marchmont, Arthur William. Courier of fortune. †$1.50. Stokes.
“The story is placed in a town known as Morvaix, ruled badly, viciously, by one Duke de Rochelle. Reports of the misrule reach the ears of the Duke de Bourbon, the suzerain lord, and he sends his son Gerard secretly to investigate the charges. This Gerard does, and a remarkable chain of circumstances so adjusts matters that the young man falls in love, and is loved in return by the very girl that de Rochelle means to make his own. Here is fire and tinder in plenty.”—Pub. Opin.
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* Marden, Orison Swett. Choosing a career. **$1. Bobbs.
The founder and editor of “Success” has prepared a volume which will undoubtedly prove valuable to all those who need practical aid in selecting a life-work. In part one, he discusses the considerations which are related to the choice of a life-calling, such as parental influence, environment, health, money making, and the temperamental and mental qualities which different lines of work demand. Part second. Suggestions as to possible careers, contains sound advice and helpful suggestions by men and women whose choice has brought them success in their various callings. Twenty-eight different trades and professions are treated in as many chapters. The book is illustrated with the photographs of some of those who have chosen wisely.
* Marden, Orison Swett. Making of a man. †$1.25. Lothrop.
“The cheerful philosophy that Dr. Marden has preached in previous books he insists upon in this which consists of a series of talks especially intended for young men. Examples of the world’s heroes are cited, the world’s leaders of thought are liberally quoted, anecdotes are given; and thus, by precept, illustration, and in symposium of opinions, Dr. Marden reinforces his own teachings in regard to perseverance, ‘self-honor,’ courage, self control, money, success, ‘Moral daring,’ and kindred subjects.”—Outlook.
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* “He preaches self-control, determination, rectitude, industry, thoroughness, courage—and who would gainsay him?”
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* “Dr. Marden’s style is full of inspiration and suggestion.”
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Margoliouth, David Samuel. Mohammed, the rise of Islam. **$1.35. Putnam.
This fortieth volume in the “Heroes of the nations” series, “gives first a survey of the conditions of Arabia and Arab life at the time when Mohammed first appeared.... The biography of the prophet consists largely in following the military, political, and religious campaigns with which he spread the religion of Islam, and which Mr. Margoliouth traces in detail.... His genius, according to this biographer, was equal to the emergencies, but not too great for them.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Apart from the dragoon-like treatment of the question of the prophet’s sincerity and of all phases of his religious development, and despite defects of verbosity and discursiveness, the book is of no uncertain value.”
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* Marks, G. Croyden. Hydraulic power engineering. *$3.50. Van Nostrand.
In this second edition the author has enlarged the work for the purpose of including some examples of new developments connected with hydraulic pressing and lifting machinery, and introducing illustrations of typical valves and machines. The text has also been fully revised.
Marriott, Charles. Genevra. $1.50. Appleton.
This is more than a character study, it is also a soul study of a girl of twenty-nine whose young days have been spent quietly on a Cumberland farm. Hopelessly out of touch with the simple folk around her, she turns to poetry as an emotional outlet and has written a number of magazine poems and is publishing a book of verses when the story opens. The young artist, Leonard Morris, wakes all the slumbering fires of her nature, she is gloriously happy and her poems sing of it; when she finds that he fails to understand her, her publisher is the first to detect it in the new note of her work. It is a single hearted story of loyalty to love and to work. There are some good minor characters, her commonplace and ungenial family are drawn with pathetic humor.
“Her life-story is a tapestry of severe design and sombre hue.” W. M. Payne.
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“It is not an exceptionally original theme, but it is not that it easily lends itself to dramatic situations, strong character contrasts, and the expression of vivid emotions—all valuable adjuncts in novel making—and the author of Genevra has used every one of them to good advantage, besides giving ample evidence of his being the possessor of the same subtle force and style that rendered his previous book notable.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 16. Ja. 7. ‘05 1070w.
Marshall, Archibald. House of Merrilees. †$1.50. Turner.