The Cumulative Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Digests of reviews appearing in January—December 1905, magazines (continued 26)
Reading edition
+ Lit. D. 31: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 450w.
“It is interesting and well developed. Its pages are full of evidences of the author’s keen and kindly study of men and things and of her aptitude for the lively narration of the results of her observations.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 590. S. 9, ‘05. 860w.
“Fine in spirit and thoroughly readable also as a story of character and incident. It is not a novel of purpose in the sense that argument is substituted for entertainment.”
+ + Outlook. 81: 135. S. 16, ‘05. 200w.
* “Miss French seems to us to have done as good work in this truly American novel as in her many admirable short stories.”
+ Outlook. 81: 110. N. 25, ‘05. 150w.
That reminds me: a collection of tales worth telling. **75c. Jacobs.
A collection of jests, anecdotes, and repartee culled from the “Tales worth telling” column of the Philadelphia public ledger.
Thatcher, Oliver Joseph, and McNeal, Edgar H. Source book for mediaeval history: selected documents: illustrating the history of Europe in the middle ages. *$1.85. Scribner.
“The documents include ... the charter of the Ministerials of the Archbishop of Cologne, 1154, ... the charter granted by the bishop of Hamburg to the colonists, ‘the Hollanders,’ in 1106; the privilege of Frederick I, ... for the Jews of the Worms, in 1157; the charter given to the Jews of Speyer by the bishop of that city, 1084; a few market charters issued at the time of the freedom of the cities of Germany, several documents illustrating the rebellion of these cities against the lords who governed them, and their acquisition of municipal rights, &c. There are also the important charter of Magdeburg, and some documents concerning the origin of the Rhine league and the early history of the Hanseatic league. An explanatory note, and the names of authorities consulted, precede each document. Following is the charter given to the Jews by the bishop of Speyer.”—N. Y. Times.
N. Y. Times. 10: 221. Ap. 8, ‘05. 430w. (Survey of contents.)
Thaw, Alexander Blair. Inaugural ode. *50c. Brentano’s.
“[This] ode written for the inaugural of President Roosevelt ... breathes the same spirit of desire that the American republic should fulfill its destiny as that destiny has been conceived by the best and finest of its citizens.”—N. Y. Times.
+ Nation. 80: 294. Ap. 13, ‘05. 30w.
“It is agreeable to find in a poem for such an occasion an abstract idea conveyed with dignity and free from silly optimism.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 264. Ap. 22, ‘05. 190w.
Thayer, William Roscoe. Short history of Venice. **$1.50. Macmillan.
In this one volume the history of Venice is given from the origin of the city in 452 to its fall in 1797. It sets forth the growth of the republic, the greatness of the Venetians and compares Venice and her contemporaries.
“The first chapters of this history leave much to be desired but the final portion of the book is, on the whole, just, admirable and inspiring.”
+ + — Am. Hist. R. 11: 132. O. ‘05. 1930w.
“It is readable and interesting.”
+ + Ind. 58: 1071. My. 11, ‘05. 290w.
“Mr. Thayer’s outline of Venetian history is a vivid sketch of a considerable historical and literary merit. Mr. Thayer is, however, a little too one-sided in his undisguised hostility to the Church.”
+ + — Lond. Times. 4: 192. Je. 16, ‘05. 420w.
“We must relegate small cavils to the background, and speak with warm recognition of the skill, discernment, and idealism which mark this book.”
+ + — Nation. 81: 221. S. 14, ‘05. 2220w.
“We are acquainted with no other writing in the English language, which is a better introduction to a prolonged, serious study of the subject.” Walter Littlefield.
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 588. S. 9, ‘05. 640w.
“It is open to criticism in almost every essential respect.”
— Outlook. 80: 247. My. 27, ‘05. 250w.
“A model ‘Short history of Venice’ has been written by Mr. William Roscoe Thayer.”
+ + + R. of Rs. 31: 765. Je. ‘05. 110w.
“This is a book of considerable value, telling the story of Venice succinctly and lucidly.”
+ + — Spec. 95: 126. Jl. 22, ‘05. 160w.
Thiers, (Marie Joseph) Louis Adolphe. Moscow expedition; ed. by Hereford B. George. *$1.25. Oxford.
This is a reprint of an extract of Thiers’s “Histoire du consulat et de l’empire,” which was published between 1845-1862. It follows Thiers’s text in the French but is supplemented by explanatory notes in English, and a personal and geographical index.
“On the whole, however, this volume deserves a cordial welcome. It is the first time that a competent authority has produced a careful and critical commentary on this portion of Thiers’s work.”
+ + Ath. 1905, 1: 82. Ja. 14, 370w.
+ + Nation. 80: 112. F. 9, ‘05. 140w.
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 100. Ja. 18, ‘05. 670w.
346* Thirlmere, Rowland. Letters from Catalonia. 2v. *$6. Brentano’s.
“In addition to attractive descriptions of Ribas, Alcoy, Jativa, and many other places visited by English travellers, the book contains a large amount of information on Spanish politics and most other aspects of Spanish life.”—Ath.
* “The tone and temper of the book are excellent.”
+ Ath. 1905, 1: 560. My. 6. 630w.
* “Though they make no special appeal to travellers, can be read with pleasure by any one who has a taste for light reading of a miscellaneous nature.”
+ Lond. Times. 4: 167. My. 26, ‘05. 680w.
* “But the whole book undoubtedly has character and reality, a record of such sensations, impressions and ideas as lead to essential truth.”
+ Nation. 81: 424. N. 23, ‘05. 310w.
* “He is a good observer and a good narrator.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 110w.
* “Mr. Thirlmere pays more attention to life than locality, but he never forgets his backgrounds. His thumb-nail portraits, his meditative and fanciful humor, his apt quotation, and his continual cheerfulness leave a very pleasant sensation in the mind.”
+ + Spec. 94: 921. Je. 24. 210w.
Thomas, David Yancey. History of military government in newly acquired territory of the United States. *$2. Macmillan.
“Prof. Thomas discusses, not only the legal status of the new territory and the legal basis for military government, but also presents an account of the actual management of new acquisitions from the time of occupation until the organization of territorial or state governments. Dr. Thomas contents himself with a statement of the facts connected with our military occupation of Porto Rico and the Philippines, and attempts to give no verdict as to the character and accomplishments of the military governments.”—R. of Rs.
“There is failure also to give the general constitutional and legal basis of military government. The manner in which the foot-notes are handled is open to serious criticism. The existence of a monograph of this kind is of doubtful utility, if references are not plentiful and exact. Frequently the details of military government are overlooked or cast aside. The best part of the author’s work is that relating to Florida, New Mexico, and California. These acquisitions have been remarkably well treated and in general the judgment passed upon events is very fair and to the point. Turning to California, we reach the most satisfactory portion of the book. Mr. Thomas has given a comprehensive outline of the government of territory acquired by the United States before the Civil war. His work in that field will undoubtedly stand the test of time, and it is questionable if other writers can add much to the results obtained.” A. H. Carpenter.
+ + — Am. Hist. R. 10: 678. Ap. ‘05. 1200w.
“The fullest and most valuable part of the book is that dealing with the four great acquisitions of Louisiana, Florida, New Mexico, and California. The treatment of military rule in other annexed territories ... is much briefer and on the whole less satisfactory. There is probably nowhere in print a better summary of military government in the Philippines and Porto Rico than that given us by Dr. Thomas. The work throughout is based on the best of documentary materials, and these are referred to in the foot-notes with a fair degree of frequency. The index to the work is rather inadequate.” Frederic Austin Ogg.
+ + — Dial. 38: 145. Mr. 1, ‘05. 800w.
Thomas, Edith Matilda. Cassia and other verse. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
The initial poem has a tragic love theme from Zola’s “Rome.” There are poems dealing with the soul struggles met with in life to-day, and over two score sonnets.
* “Her level is a high one, and she seldom falls below it. On the whole, it is higher than that of any other woman who has written poetry in America.”
+ + Critic. 47: 584. D. ‘05. 130w.
“Too reflective a singer for the higher sort of lyrical utterance, but there are touches of distinction upon nearly everything she writes. Plainness of speech and subtlety of thought mark her work, and make it very precious to lovers of the graver kind of verse.”
+ Dial. 38: 201. Mr. 16, ‘05. 450w.
Nation. 80: 294. Ap. 13, ‘05. 60w.
“Cassia is a most charming poem, but without the splendor, pomp, and grim reality of the ancient city in which the fable had its birth. Miss Thomas is most felicitous on her own ground, spending her abundant and chastened fancy upon the moods that arise from modern and personal associations.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 50. Ja. 28. ‘05. 320w.
Thomas, Edward. Wales: painted by Robert Fowler; described by E. Thomas. *$6. Macmillan.
A picturesque treatment of Wales with brush and pencil, by Mr. Fowler, with descriptions and quaint tales by Mr. Thomas.
* “Between the illustrations and the letterpress there is absolutely no connexion.”
+ — Ath. 1905, 2: 729. N. 25. 270w.
“The illustrations are excellent; some of great beauty and admirably reproduced in color. Mr. Thomas is flippant and tiresome; in at least one place he is decidedly irreverent.”
+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 480. Jl. 22, ‘05. 410w.
“The color-pictures show a fine, strong sense of distance and perspective, and the artist is also to be praised for his restraint in his color-schemes. The literary part of the work is somewhat rambling and inchoate, and the note of jocosity is at times forced.”
+ — Outlook. 80: 696. Jl. 15, ‘05. 80w.
“The illustrations have some merit. The author’s egoism and style are irritating.”
+ — Sat. R. 100: sup. 6. O. 14, ‘05. 120w.
+ + Spec. 95: 355. S. 9, ‘05. 1450w.
Thomas, Frederick Moy, comp. and ed. See Robinson, John R. Fifty years of Fleet street.
Thomas, Theodore. Theodore Thomas: a musical autobiography; ed. by George P. Upton. 2v. *$6. McClurg.
This work was well under way at the time of Mr. Thomas’ death January 4, 1905. Volume I., entitled “Life work,” tells in the great orchestral leader’s own words of his life, his back-sets, his determined struggles “to make good music popular,” and his final success. Mr. Upton, his friend for thirty years, adds a chapter upon “Last days of Theodore Thomas,” and there is further reminiscence and appreciation. Volume II., “Concert programmes” has an introduction by Mr. Thomas and contains selected programmes covering fifty years, beginning with the Mason chamber concerts and ending with the concerts of the Chicago orchestra. Both volumes are illustrated with portraits and views.
“To students of musical history in particular, as well as all music lovers and musicians, this record of the life and work of Theodore Thomas is of great and permanent value.” Lewis M. Isaacs.
+ + + Bookm. 21: 650. Ag. ‘05. 860w.
“The interest of this book naturally centres in the hundred pages or so of the autobiography. These chapters constitute a very matter-of-fact statement, bare of all ornament, and devoid of the slightest literary pretense, yet highly important by virtue of their subject-matter.” William Morton Payne.
+ + + Dial. 38: 227. Ap. 1, ‘05. 2990w.
347“A final record of ‘Works introduced into this country’ by Mr. Thomas is a disappointment and lacks the expected value because of its many inaccuracies and misstatements.”
+ + — Ind. 59: 329. Ag. 10, ‘05. 770w.
* “Is a fascinating record of a noble life. It is accompanied by 1,200 of the great conductor’s programs, a collection of the highest value for its indication of the development of musical taste and appreciation in America.”
+ + + Ind. 59: 1161. N. 16, ‘05. 40w.
+ + + Nation. 80: 359. My. 4, ‘05. 1320w.
“His own writing is a highly characteristic expression of the man, and the book as a whole makes interesting and important contributions to American musical history, and to the knowledge of the part played in it by Theodore Thomas.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 273. Ap. 29, ‘05. 1940w.
+ + + Reader. 6: 476. S. ‘05. 550w.
Thomas, W. H. Griffith. Apostle Peter: outline studies in his life, character and writings. **$1.25. Revell.
This is a suggestive handbook, which will be of value to anyone who is preparing sermons or lectures on this subject.
“It is well arranged and full.”
+ + Ind. 58: 1014. My. 4, ‘05. 50w.
“His book is of a higher type than many manuals of Bible readings, and abounds in materials for expository addresses.”
+ + Outlook. 79: 447. F. 18, ‘05. 60w.
Thompson, A. Hamilton, ed. See Elton, Isaac. W. Shakespeare, his family and friends.
Thompson, Arthur Ripley. Shipwrecked in Greenland. †$1.50. Little.
A party of four boys and three men, one of whom is a sea captain and another black Caesar the cook, while camping near St. John’s, Newfoundland, find a steamer abandoned and adrift and set out to rescue her passengers and crew. They pass thru many thrilling adventures on the coast of Greenland and Labrador in which icebergs, sunken rocks, an arctic hurricane, shipwreck, fire and other perilous things have a part. They see life as it is lived in the Eskimos’ villages, but in the end the faithful Caesar succeeds in bringing Phil Schuyler safely home to his mother.
* “A capital book for boys and boys’ sisters.”
+ Nation. 81: 407. N. 16, ‘05. 90w.
“An exciting story of life in the arctic regions based upon fact.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 722. O. 28, ‘05. 100w.
Thompson, Garrett W. Threads. †$1.50. Winston.
A tragic tale of an unhappy marriage in which a wife sees only neglect of her interests in her husband’s devotion to his career. Her morbid imagination fraught with jealousy and hatred works her ruin. There is retribution in the visitation of her weakness upon her child. It is a negative lesson of psychological import.
Thompson, Vance. Diplomatic mysteries. **$1.50. Lippincott.
“Particular mysteries of which the veil is supposed to be rent away in this case include that of the madness of Ludwig of Bavaria.... Another story purports to relate what really happened when the powers took a hand in Crete and gave that island autonomy.... Yet other stories pretend to tell what really happened during that delightful comedy wherein the crown prince of Germany gave his grandmother Victoria’s ring to Miss Gladys Deacon; yet others are of how President Faure of France came to his end, and how the present great war between Japan and Russia ... was ‘made in England.’”—N. Y. Times.
“Mr. Thompson’s style may never be free from affectation and unnecessary embellishment, but at least he has done far better work than this.”
— Critic. 47: 287. S. ‘05. 90w.
“The book is rather fascinating reading, in spite of the circumstance that the real truth is probably as different from Mr. Thompson’s version as Mr. Thompson’s version is from official history.”
+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 374. Je. 10, ‘05. 390w.
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w.
“The chief thing that they lack, however, is verisimilitude.”
+ — Outlook. 80: 642. Jl. 8, ‘05. 30w.
“The stories themselves are engaging and well told.”
+ Pub. Opin. 39: 158. Jl. 29, ‘05. 160w.
+ R. of Rs. 32: 123. Jl. ‘05. 100w.
Thonger, Charles. Book of garden design. (Handbooks of practical gardening, v. 25.) *$1. Lane.
“The author describes somewhat at length the different schools of garden designs.... Advocates first a general spirit of simplicity, avoiding both complexity and eccentricity. Then proceeds with suggestions for selecting or adapting a site, and for laying out drives and paths.... The kitchen-garden and orchard come within this scheme.... The last four chapters are devoted to perennials, aquatic plants, trees, shrubs, and hardy climbers, and include some suggestive lists for practical gardeners.”—Dial.
“Altogether, the little book is quite likely to be useful to those who take their gardening in earnest.” Edith Granger.
+ + Dial. 39: 110. S. 1, ‘05. 340w.
“The happier few who have the delightful task before them of making a garden—delightful, but not without trouble—will meet here with everything that they want.”
+ + + Spec. 95: 230. Ag. 12, ‘05. 80w.
Thorndike, Edward L. Elements of psychology. *$1.50. A. G. Seiler, N. Y.
Prof. James says that this book “is a laboratory manual of the most energetic and continuous kind.” Further, “I defy any teacher or student to go through this book as it is written, and not to carry away an absolutely firsthand acquaintance with the workings of the human mind, and with the realities as distinguished from the pedantries and artificialities of psychology.” Intense concreteness is the watchword thruout the discussion, which falls into three parts; Descriptive psychology, The psychological basis of mental life: physiological psychology, and Dynamic psychology.
“Brings as its distinctive contribution the emphasis upon the practical reaction which the student is induced to make to the principles set before him. The excellence and completeness of the chapters on the nervous system deserve special commendation.”
+ + + Dial. 39: 19. Jl. 1, ‘05. 230w.
“This book differs from other brief psychologies in being pre-eminently teachable. The book is distinguished from its rivals by its comprehensiveness and balance.”
+ + Ind. 59: 695. S. 21, ‘05. 180w.
Thorndike, Edward Lee. Introduction to the theory of mental and social measurements. *$1.50. Science press.
“Professor Thorndike has prepared this book primarily as an aid in doing statistical work of the sort required in laboratories of experimental psychology.... It begins simply, and by affording abundant material for the student to practice what the text preaches gradually develops in his capacity to master the more difficult later chapters. The writer makes a point of keeping within the comprehension of young students.... The topics to which most attention is given are the choice of units of 348measurement; the measurement of individuals, of groups, of differences, of changes, and of relationships; and the reliability of measurements and sources of error. Strong emphasis is laid upon tables of frequency.... The last chapter contains references for further study, and the appendix a multiplication table up to 100x100, a table of square roots up to 1,000, and a collection of miscellaneous problems for additional practice.”—Am. J. Soc.
“In its special field the book is worthy of a man who is a teacher as well as a psychologist.” Wesley C. Mitchell.
+ + Am. J. Soc. 10: 697. Mr. ‘05. 600w.
“An extremely practical and well-planned volume.”
+ + Dial. 38: 52. Ja. 16, ‘05. 130w.
“The author has written in an attractive style ... and has made this one of the best products of his active pen.” Edward Franklin Buchner.
+ + Educ. R. 30: 210. S. ‘05. 650w.
Thorpe, Francis Newton. Divining rod: a story of the oil regions. †$1.50. Little.
A romance which deals with the early days when oil was discovered in Pennsylvania. It follows the fortunes of a farmer in whom the divining rod which points out his first well awakens a thirst for the wealth to be gained by developing his own land. His daughter is the center of the love motive, but the strength of the story lies in the oil, the crowding out of the small producers by the large, the uncovering of unscrupulous methods, the mad desire for more land, more wells at any price.
* Outlook. 81: 939. D. 16, ‘05. 30w.
Thorpe, Francis Newton. Short constitutional history of the United States. *$1.75. Little.
A brief “history of the state and federal constitutions, their origins, principles, evolution, and the interpretation of them by the courts.... As an appendix, the constitution of the United States, with citation of cases, is printed. There is a special index to the constitution, giving article, section, and page, as well as a general index to the work at large.... After a rapid survey of the early colonial unions and congresses, and of the Articles of confederation and their defects, there is a short chapter on the making of the constitution, followed by an analysis of The Federalist to show what were and are the fundamental principles of the constitution.”—N. Y. Times.
“The style is not attractive, though not often very bad; the arrangement is unsatisfactory, and the general method of presentation is not telling; the author’s conception of his subject, as in his early volumes on constitutional history, is limited. These faults might be passed over without too serious consideration if the book were accurate in details, and if, with all its apparent weight and sturdiness, it were done with care and circumspection.”
— — Am. Hist. R. 10: 923. Jl. ‘05. 360w.
“The book is to be especially commended for its well assorted information upon recent constitutions in the various states.” Jesse Macy.
+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 355. Mr. ‘05. 300w.
“There is a lack of digestion and a want of perspective. This failure to give proper emphasis makes the book sure to fail as a text-book—a use for which the author designed it—except in the hands of a very experienced teacher.”
— + Ind. 59: 392. Ag. 17, ‘05. 400w.
* “Exhibits an immense amount of learning on that subject, ill arranged and almost devoid of historical sequence.”
+ — Ind. 59: 1156. N. 16, ‘05. 20w.
“For so small a volume its scope is remarkable; and, notwithstanding the heaviness of his theme, and an occasional involved sentence which detains the reader, the author presents his matter in a manner to hold the interest of even the layman in politics.”
+ + — Lit. D. 21: 93. Jl. 15, ‘05. 600w.
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 172. Mr. 18, ‘05. 810w. (Outline of scope.)
Thruston, Lucy Meacham. Girl of Virginia. 75c. Little.
A popular edition of this story of the lovable, light-spirited daughter of a professor of the University of Virginia, and a picture of college life from the towns-people’s point of view.
* Thurso, John Wolf. Modern turbine practice and water-power plants. *$4. Van Nostrand.
The author who has designed turbines both in America and in Europe and who has had charge of the hydraulic work in important constructions in Canada, says: “The object of this book is to give such information in regard to modern turbines and their installation as is necessary to the hydraulic engineer in designing a water-power plant, and no attempt has been made to treat of the design of turbines.”
Thurston, E. Temple. Apple of Eden. †$1.50. Dodd.
“The celibacy of the Roman Catholic priest; the fact that vows do not make a priest free from temptation; the struggle in a high-minded priest’s nature between right and passion; the serious meaning of duty and renunciation—all these things are clearly set forth. The author has intimate knowledge of the priesthood and has no intention of disrespect to the cloth. Father Tom, the elder of the two priests described, is a capital character—humorous, shrewd, and practical”—Outlook.
+ Acad. 68: 105. F. 4, ‘05. 520w.
“It is one of the strongest pieces of psychological fiction that has appeared in English in many a long month.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ Bookm. 21: 268. My. ‘05. 340w.
“In his zeal the author has introduced too many mechanical instances for the proving of his cherished point, permitted himself too many passages of didacticism and argument,—so that his novel, strictly speaking, is spoiled.”
+ — Critic. 47: 286. S. ‘05. 150w.
“It is a story of considerable power, but its frankness exceeds the bounds of what is artistically permissible.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ — Dial. 39: 114. S. 1, ‘05. 110w.
“It is an interesting book and a clever pen picture.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 261. Ap. 22, ‘05. 690w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 150w.
“A book of undoubted intellectual force, and one well written in point of style and manner.”
+ + Outlook. 79: 1058. Ap. 29, ‘05. 120w.
“He has treated his subject in a bold, firm, unhesitating fashion that lifts it above pruriency and the mire. The literary workmanship is of first quality.”
+ + Reader. 6: 240. Ag. ‘05. 280w.
Thurston, Katherine Cecil. Gambler. †$1.50. Harper.
“The ‘gambler’ is an Irish girl whose father lives fast, gambles frightfully, and dies from an accident in a horse-race. Married to a noble-hearted but tiresome old archaeologist, Clodagh is introduced to some fashionable people in Venice; takes her first plunge into bridge whist and roulette; is solemnly warned by a young man called by his enemies ‘Sir Galahad’ ... withdraws for a time from the giddy whirl; but after her husband’s death plunges into fashionable gambling, compromises herself, though with no evil intentions with a scheming old roué, and is saved from ruin and restored to her eminently respectable lover.”—Outlook.
* “If in no other way, Mrs. Thurston shows plainly that she belongs to the lesser ranks of novelists by the fact that she has not the courage 349to work out the theme of her newest story to a consistent end.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
+ — Critic. 47: 510. D. ‘05. 300w.
* “The interest of this book is rather theatrical than real, and we could imagine it turned into a highly effective play.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ — Dial. 39: 310. N. 16, ‘05. 200w.
“The defects of Mrs. Thurston’s literary style and the crudity of her methods are more obvious here than in ‘The masquerader.’”
+ — Ind. 59: 876. O. 12, ‘05. 140w.
“Is not inferior in interest to her most widely known novel, while it greatly surpasses its predecessor in the vitality of its characters, the cohesion of its plot, the fidelity of both to possibility and its literary art.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 650. O. 7, ‘05. 380w.
* + N. Y. Times. 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 140w.
“The moral lesson is obvious, perhaps too obvious. As a story the book will not compare well in force and originality with ‘The masqueraders.’”
+ — Outlook. 81: 333. O. 7, ‘05. 200w.
* “While it is not likely to run through as many editions as ‘The masquerader,’ it has a higher ambition than that absorbing modern fairy tale in that it tries to present a serious study of character as well as a series of more or less dramatic incidents.”
+ Outlook. 81: 708. N. 25, ‘05. 100w.
* R. of Rs. 32: 759. D. ‘05. 110w.
Thurston, Katherine Cecil. Masquerader. $1.50. Harper.
The chance meeting in a London fog, of a wealthy member of parliament, who is an opium eater, and a young writer in reduced circumstances, reveals the fact to each that he has a double. This strange revelation is seized upon by the former as a means of providing himself with a political substitute when the craving for the drug is upon him. They change places temporarily with the result that the masquerader wins political distinction and the affections of his double’s alienated wife, who fancies that she has fallen in love with her husband. In the end the drug does its work and the masquerader is made to see that his duty lies in quietly continuing the deception.
“The development of Loder’s character is so well shown and the interest of the story is so great that it is only when the book is finished that we realize the impossibility of the whole thing, an impossibility which militates very strongly against the artistic excellence of the novel.” Mary K. Ford.
+ — Current Literature. 38: 321. Ap. ‘05. 1340w.
“The story is so ingeniously told and cleverly constructed that its very boldness is in a measure justified.” W. M. Payne.
+ + — Dial. 38: 18. Ja. 1, ‘05. 380w.
“The author performs the feat of fitting an impossible plot into the realities of daily life, and doing it in a way that deceives the reader and holds his interest—while he reads. There is a sense of strain about the whole thing—the style, as well as the plot, is artificial.”
+ — Ind. 58: 155. Ja. 19, ‘05. 320w.
“The quality of the particular adventure is delicate and perilous and the book’s evasion of pitfalls is not less admirable than its more positive qualities. The critical sense of the reader is stilled by the hypnotic and engrossing nature of the narrative. One is delightfully deluded and beguiled.”
+ Reader. 5: 259. Ja. ‘05. 290w.
“The ethical problem involved in the secret change of place is solved in a new and eminently sane manner. The gradual disintegration of Chilcote’s character is a strong piece of work, as is likewise the description of Loder’s inner growth.”
+ + R. of Rs. 31: 119. Ja. ‘05. 120w.
Thwaites, Reuben Gold, ed. Early western travels, 1748-1846: a series of annotated reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the aborigines and social and economic conditions in the middle and far West, during the period of early American settlement. 31v. ea. *$4. Clark, A. H.
Thirty-one volumes containing accurate reprints of rare manuscripts. They have been carefully chosen from the mass of material descriptive of travels in the North American interior which this century of continental expansion (1748-1846) provided, and no manuscript has been included unless it possessed permanent historical value. The result is a series which the casual reader will find interesting, and the historian, teacher and scholar, will find invaluable, as it makes available sources of information without which the development of the West, its history and its people cannot be fully understood. The editor has provided numerous footnotes and an introduction to each volume which contains a biographical sketch of the author, an evaluation of the book reprinted and bibliographical data concerning it. The closing volume is devoted to a complete and exhaustive analytical index to the entire series.
Am. Hist. R. 10: 694. Ap. ‘05. 610w. (Statement of contents of vols. VII-XII.)
Am. Hist. R. 10: 696. Ap. ‘05. 120w. (Review of vols. XI. and XII.)
* “Like their predecessors are amply and intelligently edited.”
+ + + Am. Hist. R. 10: 955. Jl. ‘05. 110w. (Review of v. 13-15.)
Am. Hist. R. 11: 227. O. ‘05. 60w. (Review of v. 16-18.)
Critic. 46: 95. Ja. ‘05. 80w. (Review of vol. VI.)
“The works included naturally vary in literary merit and attractiveness, but many of them will compare favorably with the better class of modern books of travel, while some, like John Bradbury’s ‘Travels in the interior of America, 1809-11,’ to which vol. V. is devoted, are as fascinating as the best fiction.”
+ + Critic. 46: 286. Mr. ‘05. 240w. (Reviews vols. I.-V.)
“Much of the material is as entertaining as it is quaint, and will be thoroughly enjoyed by the ordinary reader no less than the specialist.”
+ + + Critic. 47: 383. O. ‘05. 240w. (Review of v. 18.)
“Thus far the whole series of ‘Early western travels’ is worthy of hearty commendation.”
+ + + Ind. 58: 611. Mr. 16, ‘05. 830w. (Review of vols. IV-VIII.)
+ + + Ind. 59: 691. S. 21, ‘05. 840w. (Review of v. 9-17.)
Nation. 80: 152. F. 23, ‘05. 140w. (Review of v. 10.)
Nation. 80: 209. Mr. 16, ‘05. 320w. (Review of vols. XI. and XII.)
+ + Nation. 81: 198. S. 7, ‘05. 130w. (Review of v. 18.)
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 34. Ja. 21, ‘05. 660w. (Review of v. 10.)
N. Y. Times. 10: 132. Mr. 4, ‘05. 590w. (Condensed narrative of Vol. XI.)
N. Y. Times. 10: 148. Mr. 11, ‘05. 500w. (Review of Vol. XII.)
N. Y. Times. 10: 240. Ap. 8, ‘05. 660w. (Review of vol. XIII.)
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 503. Jl. 29, ‘05. 470w. (Review of v. 14 and 15.)
“He [Mr. Thwaites] leaves out dates.”
+ + — N. Y. Times. 10: 532. Ag. 12, ‘05. 400w. (Review of v. 16 and 17.)
“The present editor has done little for it except provide an introduction and make clear a few points. He corrects a month date in a note, 350but seems unable to insert year dates at all.”
+ + — N. Y. Times. 10: 586. S. 9, ‘05. 810w. (Review of v. 18.)
+ + + Outlook. 80: 1073. Ag. 26, ‘05. 450w. (Review of v. 11.)
“His story is not often thrilling in its manner of telling, but it has some value as a record of early observation of Indian customs and of the primitive life of white pioneers.”
+ + Outlook. 81: 628. N. 11, ‘05. 170w. (Review of v. 13.)
Pub. Opin. 38: 870. Je. 3, ‘05. 310w. (Review of v. 10 and 11.)
Thwing, Eugene. Man from Red Keg. †$1.50. Dodd.
This tale of the Red Keg lumber region sets well into the foreground the villainy of a country editor whose vicious attacks and blackmailing schemes all but wreck the happiness of a town. The “man from the Red Keg” is one of the many whose reputations have been hammered and slashed by the odious editor of “Chips,” but who determinedly resolves to reform his enemy. He works out his metaphysical problem patiently disregarding the call of his fellow townsmen to deal with the offender summarily, bides his time, and wins his reward.
* “It has all the charm and excitement of an absorbing novel, and the instructive value of a biography.”
+ + Lit. D. 31: 798. N. 25, ‘05. 260w.
* “The story is not quite as good as its predecessors.”
+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 746. N. 4, ‘05. 140w.
* + — R. of Rs. 32: 758. D. ‘05. 90w.
Tiffany, Mrs. Nina (Moore), and Tiffany, Francis. Harm Jan Huidekoper. *$2.50. Clarke.
An account of the life of this remarkable Dutch settler, who in 1796 at the age of twenty, landed in New York to seek his fortune and became a pioneer of progress, a philanthropist, and one of the founders of American Unitarianism. There is a full index and genealogy.
“A valuable piece of material for folk-history. Put together from family papers and by several hands, it must be acknowledged that the style of the narrative as a whole has suffered seriously from a literary point of view.”
+ + — Critic. 47: 189. Ag. ‘05. 270w.
“Parts of it have a somewhat archaic air. The appendix on the Holland land company should have some historical value.”
+ Nation. 80: 153. F. 23, ‘05. 380w.
“A volume nominally biographical but ... picturing a vanished state of American society.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 203. Ap. 1, ‘05. 260w.
“The book is full of instructive and charming reminiscences of those early days.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 317. My. 13. ‘05. 580w.
Tigert, John James. Christianity of Christ and his apostles. 80c. Pub. house of M. E. ch. So.
A book provided as a shelter in the present storm of theological criticism.
Tilghman, Emily (Ursula Tannenforst, pseud.). Thistles of Mount Cedar: a story of school-life for girls. †$1.25. Winston.
Life at Mount Cedar seminary is vividly given in this story of its teachers and its students, their pranks, plays, merriment and misfortunes. Interest centres about the group of girls who call themselves “the thistles,” and especially about the wild little Hungarian, Verena.
* — N. Y. Times. 10: 860. D. 2, ‘05. 70w.
“It is most refreshing to stumble over a book that can be safely handled by our children, or our sisters, without fear of antagonizing their morals or giving them a false idea of life in general.”
+ Pub. Opin. 39: 252. Ag. 19, ‘05. 120w.
Tilley, Arthur Augustus. Literature of the French renaissance. *$4.50. Macmillan.
“Mr. Tilley takes as his special field of inquiry the period lying between the date of Francis I.’s accession (1515) and the beginning of Malherbe’s movement (1606) to bring back to rule and order the French language and literature, disorganized, as he believed, by the rioters of the preceding century.... He shows a remarkable familiarity, not only with the important, but practically with all documents, literary or historical, accessible to the contemporary student.” (N. Y. Times). There are chapters on Rabelais, Ronsard, and Montaigne.
“Mr. Tilley’s contribution to the history of the movement is one which merits a high place among its fellows. Bibliographies are becoming fairly common in works of reference, but few of them approach those in this book either in accuracy or wide range of subject. The index is hardly so full as might be desirable.”
+ + — Ath. 1905, 1: 647. My. 27. 2270w.
“The critical attitude of our author is judicious and eminently safe.”
+ + Nation. 80: 215. Mr. 16, ‘05. 1420w.
“Thorough and scholarly work. Mr. Tilley’s style, which is singularly arid for one who treats literature, is at its worst in his treatment of Regnier. It is a pleasure, therefore, to turn from it to his conclusion, in which he ably sums up the results of his investigation. It is wholly admirable. In thoroughness and accuracy its supersedes all previous work in this department, and it is invaluable to students of this epoch in France. In evaluating influences, he very often makes much of little.” Christian Gauss.
+ + — N. Y. Times. 10: 17. Ja. 14, ‘05. 3100w.
Tindolph, Helen Woljeska. Woman’s confessional. 75c. Life pub.
Epigrammatic extracts from the diary of a woman who was born of a distinguished family in Vienna, came to America and “lived and loved and erred.”
* “All of the epigrams are worth reading, even if one does not always agree. The strong personality is pervasive and attractive.”
+ Critic. 47: 575. D. ‘05. 70w.
“The smartness of the woman’s sayings is indisputable.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 441. Jl. 1, ‘05. 920w.
R. of Rs. 32: 255. Ag. ‘05. 50w.
Tipple, Ezra Squier, ed. See Asbury, Francis. Heart of Asbury’s journal.
Tobin, Agnes. Flying lesson. **$2. Elder.
“This is a second series of translations from Petrarch—containing ten sonnets, two canzoni, a ballata, and a double sestina.... If they do not succeed in achieving the impossible, that is, in a perfect reproduction of the Petrarchian spirit, they have, at any rate, much of the rare atmosphere which pervades ‘The house of life’ and Rossetti’s translations from the Italian.”—Ath.
“These translations are of great poetical merit.”
+ + Ath. 1905, 2: 108. Jl. 22. 190w.
“They are all vitiated in the same fashion. Some good lines occur, and we would not deny Miss Tobin the poetic gift; but she should not wrestle with Petrarch except in secret.”
— Nation. 81: 103. Ag. 3, ‘05. 730w.
* “Nothing since Christina Rossetti has risen so high in the pure beauty of the sonnet form as these renderings of Petrarch’s impassioned lament.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 863. D. 2, ‘05. 210w.
351Todd, Mary Ives. American Abelard and Heloise. $1.50. Grafton.
A young clergyman of orthodox faith, adored by the women of his congregation and respected by the men, falls in love with the daughter of a member of his church, who puts his wife from him because she could not believe in the fall of man. This daughter is like her mother and in his love for her, the young clergyman resigns his charge and starts forth to build up a new religion founded upon the equality of the sexes. The book closes with the sacrifice of love until this creed shall have become a reality.
“After carefully reading the 337 pages of arguments and rather dreary love story, one is inclined to ask of the author, ‘What’s the use?’”
— N. Y. Times. 10: 311. My. 13, ‘05. 260w.
“Mushy contents.”
— Reader. 6: 362. Ag. ‘05. 120w.
Tolstoi, Lyof Nikolaievich. Anna Karénina. $1.50. Crowell.
This volume is one of the handsome but popular priced “Luxembourg” series, and contains Anna Karénina as translated by Nathan Haskell Dole.
Tomlinson, Everett Titsworth. Soldier of the wilderness. †$1.50. Wilde.
Mr. Tomlinson’s third story in his “Colonial series” is based on history centering about the French and Indian war,—the fall of Fort Frontenac and the disaster under Abercrombie at Ticonderoga. The adventures introduce Abercrombie, Howe, Putnam and Montcalm, a young hero Peter van de Bogert, besides hunters, rangers and men prominent in those times.
Tomson, Arthur. Jean-François Millet and the Barbizon school. $2.25. Macmillan.
A new and cheaper edition of a book which describes the life of Millet and his relation to the other painters at Barbizon. It also deals with “the life and work of Jules Dupre, Narcisse-Virgilia Diaz, and Theodore Rousseau, and in a chapter on ‘The influence of the romantic school’ are briefly considered Paul Huet, Charles Jacque, Jules Bréton, Monticelli, Bastien-LePage, Adolphe Hervier, Harpignies, and two or three others. The illustrations number fifty-three, and include examples of some of the best known pictures of the artists studied.”—N. Y. Times.
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 735. O. 28, ‘05. 310w.
+ Outlook. 81: 280. S. 30, ‘05. 190w.
* + Outlook. 81: 704. N. 25, ‘05. 150w.
Tooker, Lewis Frank. Under rocking skies. †$1.50. Century.
The captain of a sailing vessel takes his wife and daughter and a young minister on a voyage from the Long island coast to the West Indies. Thomas Medbury, a youth from their home village, who has always loved the girl, seizes the opportunity to ship as mate and in the course of the stormy voyage the captain’s daughter, in the light of great danger, comes to know her own heart.
* “Poet, sailor man, and born storyteller are written large on every page of ‘Under rocking skies,’ and the result is a picture of the sea and life aboard an old-fashioned sailing vessel that charms by its simplicity and absorbs by its vividness and reality.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 803. N. 25, ‘05. 510w.
“Told with not a little spontaneity and incident.”
* + Outlook. 81: 336. O. 7, ‘05. 60w.
* “The author develops a very pretty romance and refreshes us with much charming sea-lore.”
+ Pub. Opin. 39: 763. D. ‘05. 70w.
Tooley, Sarah A. Life of Florence Nightingale. *$1.75. Macmillan.
A biography written to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the famous mission to Crimea. The story of that two years’ service which made Miss Nightingale’s name a household word throughout the British empire is fully given, and the dignity which her noble and efficient labors give to the hitherto stigmatized profession of nursing is well described. There is a full account of her life from her birth in Florence, 1820, of her childish ministrations to dolls and animals, her labors in field and hospital, her work for the soldier after her return from the front, her friendships, her literary career, and her life at the present day. There are twenty-two illustrations.
Reviewed by Jeanette L. Gilder.
+ + Critic. 46: 452. My. ‘05. 750w.
+ + Critic. 47: 95. Jl. ‘05. 220w.
+ Nation. 80: 460. Je. 8, ‘05. 600w.
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 86. F. 11, ‘05. 1750w. (Condensed narrative of book.)
“The story is here told with enthusiasm and vivacity.”
+ + Outlook. 79: 450. F. 18, ‘05. 70w.
+ R. of Rs. 31: 382. Mr. ‘05. 170w.
“The story has been well told by Miss Tooley.”
+ + Spec. 94: 121. Ja. 28, ‘05. 350w.
Townsend, Edward Waterman. Reuben Larkmead. †$1.25. Dillingham.
An unsophisticated young millionaire whose fortune was founded upon western beet sugar, comes east to New York and ingenuously relates his experiences. Ridiculed in society, fleeced in his business transactions, the prey of an army of grafters, he ends by marrying the widowed mother of the girl he failed to win.
“The supine insipidity of the hero destroys whatever interest might have been aroused in him at the beginning of the book. A thin plot of sentimentality runs through this recital of Reuben’s adventures.”
— N. Y. Times. 10: 217. Ap. 8, ‘05. 490w.
“A crude social satire.”
+ — Outlook. 79: 909. Ap. 8, ‘05. 30w.
Townsend, Fitzhugh. Short course in alternating-current testing. *75c. Van Nostrand.
“Eight sets of experiments are outlined, in each case preceded by a concise discussion of the operating characteristics of the machine in question. They deal with: (1) Properties of circuits; (2) the alternating current generator; (3) the voltage wave of a generator or of a circuit; (4) the transformer (operation, losses and efficiency); (5) the induction motor (operation and efficiency); (6) the synchronous motor (operation and phase characteristic); (7) the rotary converter (operation when driven from either end); and (8) operation of alternators in parallel.”—Engin. N.
Engin. N. 53: 182. F. 16, ‘05. 110w.
Tozer, H. F., tr. See Dante Alighieri. Divina commedia.
Tozier, Josephine. Travelers’ handbook: a manual for Transatlantic tourists. **$1. Funk.
“A little book to be put in the handbag of all who are making their ‘first trip.’ Money values, how to buy tickets, send luggage, to tip the foreign hordes that have to be tipped, to avoid being overcharged by cabmen and hotel clerks ... all these things are intelligently explained, and many little hints given that will grease the wheels of a European trip most acceptably.”—Critic.
+ + Critic. 47: 96. Jl. ‘05. 100w.
“Is one of the most intelligent of its kind. We have detected no error worth noticing in the writer’s advice to travellers.”
+ + Nation. 81: 12. Jl. 6, ‘05. 320w.
352“Her book supplements the ordinary guide books admirably.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 495. Jl. 29, ‘05. 480w.
+ + Outlook. 80: 696. Jl. 15, ‘05. 80w.
+ + R. of Rs. 32: 254. Ag. ‘05. 80w.
Tracy, Louis. Great mogul. $1.50. Clode, E. J.
The exciting incidents of Mr. Tracy’s new story attend the adventures of two young Englishmen whom fortune has turned loose in the Indian realm of Akbar the Great. Roger Sainton, the giant who is called the man-elephant, and Walter Mobray, quick of wit are a unique pair as they encounter first the favor of Akbar, then the hatred of his son, and finally as they enter the fight for the rescue of the beautiful princess Nur Mahal.
“It will not bear close critical inspection of course—but it will reward reading.”
+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 310. My. 13, ‘05. 620w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 140w.
Trade unionism and labor problems, ed. by John R. Commons. *$2.50. Ginn.
This volume like Ripley’s “Trusts, pools, and corporations,” is “planned for use specifically as a text-book.... It denotes a deliberate attempt at the application to the teaching of economics of the case system, so long successful in our law books. With this end in view each chapter is intended to illustrate a single, definite, typical phase of the general subject. The primary motive is to further the interests of sound economic teaching with special reference to the study of concrete problems of great public and private interest.” The chapters are selected mainly from economic journals and cover a wide field successfully, while the introduction, index, and cross references render all the material easy of access to the casual reader as well as to the student.
Train, Arthur. McAllister and his double. †$1.50. Scribner.
“McAllister’s ‘double’ is a scamp of a valet who gets his master, a blasé clubman, into all sorts of scrapes, and extricates him cleverly at just the right moment.” (Outlook.) Their experiences are here told in eleven independent stories. The volume contains a dozen illustrations.
* “The McAllister stories are entertaining from start to finish, but the other stories in the book, with the possible exception of ‘Extradition’ show a decided falling off.”
+ — Ind. 59: 1232. N. 23, ‘05. 150w.
“The stories are certainly lively and readable in a high degree, and the book is sure to meet with popular success.”
+ Outlook. 81: 334. O. 7, ‘05. 70w.
* “Is immensely entertaining in an irresponsible sort of way.”
+ Outlook. 81: 711. N. 25, ‘05. 60w.
Tremain, Henry Edwin. Last hours of Sheridan’s cavalry. *$1.50. Bonnell.
“A reprint of war memoranda by a late brevet brigadier-general, major, aide-de-camp in the United States volunteers, originally published in sundry journals, and now reprinted in response to frequent requests, with an additional chapter compiled from official records and an appendix containing further interesting matter. The illustrations are a portrait of Sheridan, a map of the Appomattox campaign, and a picture of the holding up of Lee’s supply train.”—Critic.
Am. Hist. R. 10: 719. Ap. ‘05. 70w.
Critic. 46: 95. Ja. ‘05. 70w.
“A sprightly and vivid account of the operations which brought that war to a close. An unusually valuable compilation of contemporary notes. Sheridan’s work in weaving the final toils around the fated Confederacy is here graphically narrated.”
+ + Dial. 38: 20. Ja. 1, ‘05. 330w.
“Valuable as a historical record, the volume has also the merit of a personal story charmingly and unaffectedly told that will make it of interest not only to the participants in the campaign, but to those thousands of others who like to read the stories of battles fought and victories won. So complete, so personal, and so interesting.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 150. Mr. 11, ‘05. 340w.
Trench, Rt. Rev. Richard Chenevix. English, past and present. *75c. Dutton.
“This is a new edition of Archbishop Trench’s well-known book published many years ago. Emendations and corrections are supplied by Dr. A. Smythe Palmer, though surprisingly few of these have been found necessary.”—Outlook.
“The editor has very seldom laid himself open to criticism, and has performed a task which cannot have been light with care, tact, and skill.”
+ + + Ath. 1905, 1: 622. My. 20. 430w.
“Dr. Palmer ... has done his work carefully without insulting his author’s memory.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 627. S. 23, ‘05. 310w.
Outlook. 81: 381. O. 14, ‘05. 90w.
Trent, William P. Brief history of American literature. *$1.40. Appleton.
A thorogoing text book containing a condensed account of the development of American literature, rather than a series of essays on leading American authors. The study is presented with marginal topics, and has at the end of each chapter a bibliography which has been based upon the equipments of the average school library, and which also contains helps for further study.
“A manual both sound and stimulating.” Charles Sears Baldwin.
+ + Educ. R. 29: 317. Mr. ‘05. 920w.
“It is marked by some errors of perspective and emphasis, by a certain indiscriminateness and at the same time a curious timidity of judgment, and also by a peculiar dryness; but it shows also a rather unusual first-hand knowledge of the facts and an equally unusual orderliness and lucidity in disposing of them.”
— + Ind. 59: 261. Ag. 3, ‘05. 70w.
“The author has restricted himself to the limitations of immature pupils, and has tactfully written on the level of their comprehension.”
+ + — Outlook. 80: 688. Jl. 15, ‘05. 170w.
Trent, William Peterfield. Greatness in literature, and other papers. **$1.20. Crowell.
Eight papers which are designed especially for “those interested in the problems that confront the critic and the teacher of literature,” but which will not fail to claim a larger audience by reason of their timeliness, and their sane, wholesome, and thoroly delightful treatment. The first paper takes up the question of, Greatness in literature; the second gives, A word for the smaller authors and for popular judgment; then follow, The aims and methods of literary study; Criticism and faith; Literature and science; Teaching literature; Some remarks on modern book-burning; and The love of poetry.
* “Though Professor Trent is a very clear and fluent writer, there is a certain lack of savor, of closeness of grain, in his style.”
+ + — Nation. 81: 451. N. 30, ‘05. 650w.
Trent, William Peterfield. Southern writers. **$1.10. Macmillan.
Altho the Intention Has Been That of Furnishing Supplementary Reading for Students, Professor Trent Has Prepared an Instructive Book for General Use. the Literature of Representative Writers Of the South Has Been Divided Into Three Periods: 1607-1789, the Literature of the Colonies and the Revolution, Including Records Taken From 353diaries of colonial gentlemen; 1790-1865, the literature of the Old South, including speeches by distinguished southern statesmen; and 1866-1905, the literature of the New South, reflecting the spirit of the literary renaissance.
“Is altogether an admirable piece of editorial workmanship.”
+ + Dial. 39: 121. S. 1, ‘05. 860w.
Reviewed by Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + Forum. 37: 249. O. ‘05. 400w.
“On the whole a praiseworthy effort, and in the main a successful effort, to redeem the South from the charge of actual literary sterility.”
+ Ind. 59: 332. Ag. 10, ‘05. 420w.
“The book is open to the criticism that it tends to foster the provincial illusion that the larger the number of names the greater the repute of the locality. For reference it is valuable, and appears to be well done.”
+ + — Nation. 81: 142. Ag. 17, ‘05. 240w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 364. Je. 3, ‘05. 370w.
“May be confidently recommended to all students of American literature, North or South.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 376. Je. 10, ‘05. 440w.
“This volume has a distinct educational quality for the average Northern reader. He will find it in many things of permanent value and much that will delight and inspirit him.”
+ + Outlook. 80: 695. Jl. 15, ‘05. 110w.
+ + R. of Rs. 32: 256. Ag. ‘05. 120w.
Trent, W. P., and Henneman, J. B., jt. eds. See Thackeray, W: M. Works.
Trevathen, Charles E. American thoroughbred. **$2. Macmillan.
“This is the latest volume in the ‘American sportsman’s library.’ ... The author has supplied the book with pictures of some of the best known racers and other ‘thoroughbred’ horses. He opens it with a chapter entitled ‘Whence the American thoroughbred?’”—N. Y. Times.
* + + Ath. 1905, 2: 682. N. 18. 670w.
Ind. 58: 1253. Je. 1, ‘05. 260w.
“An important contribution to our knowledge of the ancestry of the American race horse.”
+ + Nature. 72: 395. Ag. 24, ‘05. 330w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 201. Ap. 1, ‘05. 240w.
“Interesting and useful, though ... marred by typographical errors in the names of both horses and owners that ought not to mar such volumes.” Charles Tracy Bronson.
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 292. My. 6, ‘05. 1320w.
Trevelyan, George Macaulay. England under the Stuarts. *$3. Putnam.
This fifth volume of a series of six, covering the history of England from earliest times down to 1875, is the first to be issued. It is written by the grand-nephew of Lord Macaulay, whose influence is noticeable thruout the work. The first two chapters give an account of England at the time of the accession of James I. “He develops at the outset the thesis on which his entire monograph rests—that the significance of the Stuart epoch lies in the fact that whereas the continental people of Europe attained nationality only through military despotism, the English people under the Stuarts solved the same problem unconsciously through a free constitution, manifesting and vindicating itself in the face of monarchial despotism.... His personal portraits are marked by fairness and breadth of view, this being notably the case with the pictures of the first James, the second Charles, Cecil, Laud, Strafford, and Pym. The first Charles and Cromwell are limned less distinctly, being thrust, as it were, into the background of the tremendous upheavals of their day.” (Outlook). “The general purpose of the book is to bring the social and religious aspects into connection with the political.” (Bookm.)
“He has given us not so much a history, in the ordinary sense of the word, as a sustained, and luminous commentary upon history, high-toned and impartial; and the general excellence of its purely literary qualities is, so to speak, picked out by not infrequent passages of real and picturesque eloquence. It is a fine example of selection and condensation.”
+ + + Ath. 1905, 1: 135. F. 4. 2780w.
+ + + Ath. 1905, 1: 330. Mr. 18. 2580w.
“Mr. Trevelyan’s volume is a piece of special pleading throughout.” Edward Puller.
— Bookm. 21: 525. Jl. ‘05. 800w.
“By blending fact and analysis, creates a picture impressive in its outline and suggestive in its language and ideas.” E. D. Adams.
+ + + Dial. 39: 38. Jl. 16, ‘05. 1860w.
“His style is decidedly rhetorical, quick with sincerity and atmosphere and of a noteworthy picturesqueness. His scholarship is undoubted, wide and careful reading being coupled with a discriminative use of authorities.”
+ + + Ind. 59: 454. Ag. 24, ‘05. 610w.
* “Is one of the best pieces of historical writing that has appeared in recent years.”
+ + Ind. 59: 1157. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.
“This book brings sound scholarship, sensitiveness of temperament, and breadth of outlook to bear upon an historical theme of perennial importance.”
+ + Nation. 81: 366. N. 2, ‘05. 1480w.
“The book ... is evidently an attempt to combine what may be called the Green and the Traill methods. The early part of his volume might be termed an abstract of Gardiner, while the latter is merely a summary of Macaulay with improvements. This strict restriction to the political history in the latter part of the book is especially unfortunate. Altogether, Mr. Trevelyan’s treatment of Cromwell is scarcely illuminating, either on the military or the religious side. Allowing for his plan, is carried out with a skill and ability worthy of his family tradition, but the plan, I must still contend, is a faulty one.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ + — N. Y. Times. 10: 102. F. 18, ‘05. 1840w.
“Succeeds in interpreting the period ... in terms at once attractive and convincing. His style is that of the picturesque school, his treatment that of the philosophic, a combination calculated to produce excellent results. This must be accounted a work of high merit, embodying the results of the latest research and developed along sound lines.”
+ + — Outlook. 79: 399. F. 11, ‘05. 330w.
Trevelyan, Sir George Otto. American revolution. 3v. ea. *$2. Longmans.
A new edition in three volumes of a work which originally appeared in two parts. It is issued now with a new preface, a portrait of the author, and some revision and rearrangement. “The special features of this history are the fullness with which it brings out English sentiment before and during the Revolutionary period, and the clearness with which it presents the Revolutionary struggle as a part of the great fight for Liberalism in England.” (Outlook.)
“It is certain that, as far as the revision goes, the author has left uncorrected several mistakes of which he had been duly apprised, in all three volumes.”
+ + — Nation. 80: 230. Mr. 23, ‘05. 350w.
“[The revisions] have been performed in a truly careful and judicious manner. “As our recent notice called attention to some uncorrected errors, it is only fair to say that many others in part I. have been expelled.””
+ + Nation. 80: 396. My. 18, ‘05. 260w.
+ + Outlook. 79: 855. Ap. 1, ‘05. 110w.
Trevelyan, Lady, ed. See Macaulay, Lord. Works.
Trevelyan, R. C. Birth of Parsifal. *$1.20. Longmans.
“This may be described as a lyrical-dramatic fragment ... the theme of which is drawn 354from those Graal romances which furnished Wagner’s great music-drama.... The writer’s task is to make us feel the dread and impressiveness of a curse denounced by ... the Graal and its vague ... priestly knighthood; and to move us by the sorrows and interior struggles of the dim figures affected by that curse.”—Acad.
“Mr. Trevelyan has poetic feeling and a measure of accomplishment. But his resources are not equal to the ambitious demands of poetic passion and imagination which he makes upon them.”
— + Acad. 68: 171. F. 25, ‘05. 440w.
“Of more than ordinary merit. It is to Mr. Trevelyan’s credit that there are no purple patches.”
+ + Ath. 1905, 1: 620. My. 20. 850w.
“Mr. Trevelyan has used, to his own loss, the dramatic form for a poem that is never dramatic. The poem as a whole will disappoint those who know Mr. Trevelyan’s earlier work.”
— Lond. Times. 4: 145. My. 5, ‘05. 410w.
* “If it does not rise to any great heights, at least is free from the faults of much of the blank verse put forth at the present time.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 798. N. 25. ‘05. 120w.
Treves, Sir Frederick. Other side of the lantern: an account of a commonplace tour around the world. $5. Cassell.
The other side of the lantern, as seen by the king’s physician, is not bright. His story is tinged by the sadness of the scenes he saw by sick beds and in hospitals, but what he saw, he saw clearly and describes with color, charm and reality. He tells of Gibraltar, Crete, Port Said, India, Burma, China and Japan, and gives a few words to America, which he visited on his way home.
“Written throughout with an animation obviously unforced.” J. B. G.
+ + Critic. 47: 91. Jl. ‘05. 460w.
“The point of view is that of a cultivated man of the world who is able to set his impressions down in excellent English, and the result is thoroughly readable.” Wallace Rice.
+ + Dial. 38: 382. Je. 1, 05. 840w.
“The book is both trivial and ordinary, pictures and all. Those who like the commonplace may enjoy this book.”
— — + Nation. 80: 459. Je. 8, ‘05. 280w.
“A book written in terse and epigrammatic style, as full of cleverness as anything written by Kipling, and intensely interesting. But there is nothing deeper in the book than first impressions. It is the best book of travel that has been written for years.” T. H. H.
+ + + Nature. 71: 553. Ap. 13, ‘05. 1470w.
“He has at times a very pretty knack of description.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 277. Ap. 29, ‘05. 990w.
“... So vivid are the pictures which the traveller draws for us, so penetrating his criticism of life and manners. It is the chapters on Japan that we find the most interesting part of a highly interesting book. We have to thank Sir Frederick Treves for a quite admirable volume of travel.”
+ + Spec. 94: 442. Mr. 25. ‘05. 1970w.
Trident and the net: a novel, by the author of The martyrdom of an empress. *$1.50. Harper.
“The book is simply the life-story of a Breton nobleman, of violent passions and astounding inability to avoid the paths of obvious folly. It begins by depicting his unregulated childhood in Brittany, describes his later career as a deserter from the French navy, a wanderer over many seas and lands, and a victim of a vulgar ‘liaison,’ and ends in a squalid lodging-house in New York, where he lies desperately ill of pneumonia.”—Dial.
“We close it with a sense of exasperation at the recklessness of its composition and its wasteful use of what might have been the material of an admirable work.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ — Dial. 39: 207. O. 1, ‘05. 380w.
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 643. S. 30, ‘05. 590w.
Outlook. 81: 283. S. 30, ‘05. 110w.
Trollope, Anthony. Autobiography. $1.25. Dodd.
“A new edition of a very interesting book by one of the most industrious and in many ways one of the most successful novelists of the past generation, printed and bound in a style uniform with the excellent edition of Trollope’s novels issued by the same publishers.”—Outlook.
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 682. O. 14, ‘05. 450w.
Outlook. 81: 523. O. 28, ‘05. 50w.
Trollope, Henry M. Life of Molière. Dutton.
Mr. Trollope “has collected his information from unimpeachable sources, he has translated this material into English, combining with it lengthy criticisms upon the plays; and the result is a very bulky volume.... As the book possesses a moderately good index, it forms a useful compendium, a summary of the information at present existing concerning Molière and his immediate entourage.”—Acad.
* “It is not a biography to which a reader will turn again and again for the mere pleasure of reading it; it is almost impossible to read it for long because of its weight, the dull, uninteresting appearance of the page, and more fatal objection still, the heavy, horizontal style in which it is written. The volume would have gained vastly had it been ruthlessly cut down to half its present size.”
+ — Acad. 68: 1193. N. 18, ‘05. 630w.
* “It is with honest regret that a reviewer is forced to record his opinion that this biography of Mr. Trollope’s is not worthy of its theme, and that the biographer has been unable to rise to the height of his subject. So far as the mere compilation of the facts is concerned, it is possible to praise the book, although not without many reservations in matters of detail. But he has not succeeded in casting any new light on the facts, and he has failed totally to evoke the noble figure of Molière himself and to make us realize the real achievements of the greatest of comic dramatists.” Brander Matthews.
+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 816. D. 2, ‘05. 2310w.
Troubetzkoy, Amelie (Rives) Chanler, princess. Selene. **$1.20. Harper.
A dramatic poem in blank verse which gives a version of the story of Endymion and the moon goddess.
“There seems, to us, in the choice of theme and in its treatment, a true revival of essential poesy, opulent, free, unclouded by psychological problem or symbol-compelling obscurity.” Edith M. Thomas.
+ + Critic. 46: 561. Je. ‘05. 850w.
“Through the major part of the long piece the princess has written admirable blank verse.”
+ Nation. 81: 18. Jl. 6, ‘05. 480w.
“There is no demand upon intense sympathies, the story is well and swiftly told, and the poetry fulfills at least two-thirds of Milton’s requirement.”
+ + — N. Y. Times. 10: 510. Ag. 5, ‘05. 390w.
“The story is told with the real poet’s rapture in rhythm and in delicately tinted phrase. Its cadences are true and songful, its imagery fresh in conception and vista-opening.”
+ + Reader. 6: 474. S. ‘05. 200w.
Trow, Charles Edward. Old shipmasters of Salem, **$2.50. Putnam.
“A plain story, well told, of the old merchant-captains who used to sail square-rigged vessels out of the Massachusetts port to the East Indies, a hundred years or so ago; and of later voyages, 355down to the decline and extinction of that once-flourishing industry.... The text is freely illustrated. The portraits of some of these marine worthies are of more than passing interest. That of Capt. Joseph Peabody (1757-1844), for instance.... There are several pictures of ships.”—Nation.
“Seems to know little of its connexion with English or American history.”
+ — Ath. 1905, 1: 750. Je. 17. 240w.
“A book containing much curious and interesting matter ... served up with a generous pictorial accompaniment.”
+ Dial. 38: 241. Ap. 1, ‘05. 190w.
“As a whole this rambling volume has little to attract and nothing to hold the general reader.”
— Ind. 58: 1251. Je. 1, ‘05. 110w.
“The field of narration is not extensive, and the subject is treated with all the fulness it deserves. The writer commands an excellent style.”
+ + Nation. 80: 191. Mr. 9, ‘05. 160w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 114. F. 25, ‘05. 1560w. (Abstract of contents.)
“The author seems to have made a faithful study of the documentary materials, and the result is a book of no little historical and biographical value.”
+ + R. of Rs. 31: 372. Mr. ‘05. 70w.
+ Spec. 94: 790. My. 27, ‘05. 250w.
Trumbull, Charles Gallaudet. Pilgrimage to Jerusalem; Pilgrim’s ed. $2.50. S. S. Times co.
An account is here given of the “cruise of the delegates to the World’s Sunday-school convention held in Jerusalem and of the travels of the members of the party elsewhere.” (Outlook.)
+ Ind. 58: 1423. Je. 22, ‘05. 100w.
“Long and over-detailed.”
— + Outlook. 79: 504. F. 25, ‘05. 70w.
Tschudi, Clara. Maria Sophia, queen of Naples; tr. from the Norwegian by Ethel Harriet Hearn. $2.50. Dutton.
Miss Tschudi now adds a new name to her galaxy of queens. In the present biography, the author misses the fine perspective possible in the case of her “Marie Antoinette,” and “Queen Elizabeth.” Yet she has given a dramatic and sympathetic account with sufficient accuracy to make it acceptable of the woman whom Daudet immortalized after a distinctive fashion in his “Kings in exile.” While on the one hand it seems an indignity to one living to have a panorama of the details of private life thrust before her, the book is of atoning interest as a study of the events leading to the downfall of the Italian Bourbons.
— + Acad. 68: 732. Jl. 15, ‘05. 1300w.
“Is rather too slight in substance to make a book of.”
— + Nation. 81: 183. Ag. 31, ‘05. 160w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 437. Jl. 1, ‘05. 280w.
“The book is entertaining and has less of cloying sweetness than most women’s books of its brand.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 495. Jl. 29, ‘05. 560w.
“Told about it in not too picturesque phrase, and in sometimes slovenly style—but this may be due to the translator rather than to the author.”
+ — Outlook. 80: 884. Ag. 5, ‘05. 140w.
Tuckwell, Rev. William. Reminiscences of a radical parson. $2. Cassell.
“All unconsciously the Radical parson reveals to us in this book a very charming and thoroughly human personality. A college don, a schoolmaster, and then, in later years, the incumbent of a college living, Mr. Tuckwell first attracted public attention by his unconventional methods of working his parish.... He was getting on in years before he delivered his first political speech, though ... he had delivered nearly a thousand orations before he decided to retire.... There are many political reminiscences of Gladstone, and indeed of many other famous men.”—Acad.
“Mr. Tuckwell’s latest volume is full of entertainment.”
+ + — Acad. 68: 360. Ap. 1, ‘05. 830w.
+ + — Ath. 1905, 1: 455. Ap. 15. 1780w.
“The combination of scholarly polish, graceful wit, and hard common sense in the author of this veracious and on the whole convincing narrative, is very pleasing.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + Dial. 39: 80. Ag. 16, ‘05. 2040w.
“Mr. Tuckwell writes with a vigor and a directness, and a positive candor, and an intensity of conviction that make interesting reading.”
+ + — N. Y. Times. 10: 403. Je. 17, ‘05. 1140w.
“With himself the preacher is exceedingly well contented.”
— Sat. R. 99: 705. My. 27, ‘05. 1140w.
* + — Spec. 95: 688. N. 4, ‘05. 790w.
Tuker, M. A. R., and Malleson, Hope. Rome: painted by Alberta Pisa. *$6. Macmillan.
Seventy fine pieces of color-work by Alberta Pisa serve to illustrate the twelve chapters upon Rome, her buildings, catacombs, people, religion and the Roman question before 1870 and since that year.
“It is good to meet with an artist who will see Rome for himself and paint her as he sees her, even though there be some little discrepancy between text and illustrations. Even so, this book is one of the best in all this fine series.”
+ + — Acad. 68: 633. Je. 17, ‘05. 770w.
* “Altogether, it is a book to be read, for breadth of view and depth of sympathy. There is but little complaint to make on the score of inaccuracies.”
+ + Ath. 1905, 2: 730. N. 25. 620w.
“The text is almost as fascinating as the illustrations.”
+ + + Ind. 59: 331. Ag. 10, ‘05. 420w.
+ + Nation. 81: 40. Jl. 13, ‘05. 740w.
* N. Y. Times. 10: 336. My. 2, ‘05. 290w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 336. My. 20, ‘05. 290w.
“The illustrations are offered as the chief reason for the book’s existence; and they are certainly fascinating. But the text is no less valuable, and is its own excuse for being.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 373. Je. 10, ‘05. 1730w.
“In the main they have the readable quality, and offer a good many acceptable views of the customs, traditions, and daily life of the people of Rome.”
+ + Outlook. 80: 345. Je. 3, ‘05. 270w.
Turbayne, A. A. Alphabets and numerals designed and drawn by A. A. Turbayne. *$2. Van Nostrand.
Twenty-seven full-page plates which give “severe readable types” of letters and numbers. They have been designed “for the designer or craftsman to copy, alter, and arrange in their handicraft after their own fancy,” and they are based upon old Roman, Gothic, and Italic forms.
“One of the best books for practical purposes that we have had before us for a long time.”
+ + — Ath. 1905, 1: 760. Je. 17. 310w.
“A splendid and inspiring vade mecum for the artistic ‘letterer,’ whether engaged in designing posters, advertisements, or elaborate lettered signs.”
+ + + N. Y. Times. 10: 515. Ag. 5, ‘05. 220w.
Turner, Harry Winthrop, and Hobart, Henry Metcalf. Insulation of electric machines. $4.50. Macmillan.
This book is “the result of twenty years of practical work.... Among the topics discussed are some properties of insulating materials, the insulation on ‘magnet wires’ employed in armature and field windings, mica and mica compounds, drying insulations, taping machines and 356tapes and bands, transformer insulation, impregnated cloths and fabrics, oil for insulating, &c. There are a bibliography and an index, a large number of diagrams, plans ... tables and footnotes. The book appears in the ‘Specialists’ series.”—N. Y. Times.
“It will be welcomed by the electrical engineer as a most valuable addition to his library.” Ernest Wilson.
+ + Nature. 72: 149. Je. 15, ‘05. 490w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 377. Je. 10, ‘05. 150w.
Turner, Henry Gyles. History of the colony of Victoria from its discovery to its absorption into the commonwealth of Australia. $7. Longmans.
“The history begins with an unsuccessful attempt to found a convict settlement at Fort Philip, and carries the story of Victoria down to the end of the nineteenth century.... The municipal history and the astonishing growth of Melbourne ... are particularly well told. The same may be said of the chapters dealing with the discoveries of gold and with the political and social turmoil which the discovery of gold entailed; also of those describing the methods of parceling out government lands, ... the causes of the panic and the financial disasters of 1890-1893, and ... the long-drawn-out agitation which finally led to the establishment of the Australian commonwealth. There is an admirable index.”—Am. Hist. R.
“Mr. Turner’s work is obviously that of an old settler—a labor of love on which many years have been spent. Regarded as such, his history of Victoria is well done, and far above the average of colonial histories written from this standpoint. It is written in a good clear style, and generally carries the marks of much industry and care. While few but specialists will be likely to read Mr. Turner’s two volumes from beginning to end, they contain much that is of value and usefulness to more general students, and especially to students who are interested in the various new phases of democratic government as it has been developed in Victoria.” Edward Porritt.
+ + Am. Hist. R. 10: 676. Ap. ‘05. 600w.
“Mr. Turner is more at home in dealing with politicians than with the natural features of the country, so that, while the early history can be perhaps read with more profit elsewhere, the political story from 1850 downwards is told with great trenchancy and knowledge.” H. E. E.
+ Eng. Hist. R. 20: 829. O. ‘05. 270w.
“Their sustained interest depends on the fact that he is in truth no mere chronicler of passing events, but a reflective historian. It is plainly and frankly critical.”
+ + + Lond. Times. 4: 249. Ag. 4, ‘05. 2000w.
Turner, Herbert Hall. Astronomical discovery. *$3. Longmans.
Six papers comprising the matter originally given in a series of lectures at the University of Chicago. Their object is “to illustrate by the study of a few examples, chosen almost at random, the variety in character of astronomical discoveries.” The subjects treated are: “Uranus and Eros,” “The discovery of Neptune,” “Bradley’s discoveries of the aberration of light and of the mutation of the earth’s axis,” “Accidental discoveries,” “Schwabe and the sun spot period,” and “The variation of latitude.”
“The book is readable and interesting; and also accurate and trustworthy, as much ‘readable’ popular science is not. Judged according to its scope and purpose, there is little fault to be found with the book.” C. A. Y.
+ + Astrophys. J. 21: 383. My. ‘05. 560w.
“There is ample internal evidence, not only that the lectures were carefully prepared, but also of judicious selection. The second chapter or lecture is probably the least satisfactory in the book.” W. E. P.
+ + Nature. 71: 410. Mr. 2, ‘05. 910w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 9. Ja. 7, ‘05. 340w.
“Even to a non-scientific reader, and to the amateur of astronomy the book should prove absorbing.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 126. F. 25, ‘05. 640w.
“Apart from such bearing as it may have on the philosophy of discovery Professor Turner’s book gives excellent accounts of several interesting chapters of astronomic history.”
+ Sat. R. 99: 633. My. 13, ‘05. 1030w.
“Lucid and interesting.”
+ Spec. 94: 788. My. 27, ‘05. 30w.
Tweedie, Ethel B. (Harley) (Mrs. Alec. Tweedie). Sunny Sicily. *$5. Macmillan.
An Englishwoman’s observations of Sicily, “its rustics and its ruins,” as they now are. Descriptions of real Sicilian eating-houses, market places, lotteries, the Mafia, the superstitions of the evil eye, Sicilian theatres, etc. There is also a brief Sicilian history and an account of various visits to places of interest. The volume is illustrated with photographs and a map.
“Mrs. Tweedie is certainly flippant, with a recklessly slipshod style, many inaccurate statements, and spelling that is peculiar either to her or to her printer. Is valuable as a sort of ‘chatty’ Baedeker, being not only readable, but full of practical hints for the travellers who may be attracted by it to this wonderful island.”
+ — Nation. 80: 122. F. 9, ‘05. 330w.
“Provides in a very informal and personal way both information and entertainment.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 130. Mr. 4, ‘05. 690w.
“Though by no means so erudite, the present volume, in actual information as to present conditions, is worthy of a place alongside that standard work, Mr. Paton’s ‘Picturesque Sicily.’”
+ + Outlook. 79: 197. Ja. 21, ‘05. 210w.
“She has the delightful, but uncommon, quality of an entertaining style wedded to a real knowledge of how to tell a story.”
+ R. of Rs. 31: 381. Mr. ‘05. 70w.
“A brighter and more lively book of travel we have seldom read.”
+ + Spec. 94: 618. Ap. 29, ‘05. 560w.
Twigg, Lizzie. Songs and poems. 60c. Longmans.
“Miss Twigg’s ... muse belongs frankly to Ireland. The hills, the sea, the bogs, the sunset and the dawn, she celebrates in verse that is sincere and frequently moving. She ... sings only the earthly charms of the green island. The sky and the soil breathe beatitudes for her, and she beholds the flowers and cliffs and fields through an atmosphere of golden sentiment.”—N. Y. Times.
+ Acad. 68: 678. Jl. 1, ‘05. 90w.
“It takes a well-nigh perfect ear for music to write such verse as this. We may well be glad that it is so spontaneous and unaffected, so free from bookishness and imitative endeavors.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + Dial. 30: 350 N. 1, ‘05. 290w.
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 406. Je. 17, ‘05. 500w.
Tybout, Ella Middleton. Wife of the secretary of state. †$1.50. Lippincott.
A story of cosmopolitan Washington of no particular time or administration which weaves mystery into a strange mixture of love, intrigue and credulity. The wife of the secretary of state plays with fire thru her traitorous delivery of valuable state papers into the hands of a Russian diplomat. How she manages to come thru apparently unharmed, and how the count relinquishes his villainy in a very un-Russian like manner are strangely at variance with the expected outcome that might require retributive punishment. The khedive’s opals owned by the secretary’s wife flash a sympathetic accompaniment to her heart moods all thru.
357* “It is a story replete with adventure and excitement.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 887. D. 9, ‘05. 280w.
* “The conversation is lifelike and the characters are distinctly individualized. An entertaining novel burdened by no especial problem.”
+ Outlook. 81: 838. D. 2, ‘05. 70w.
Tynan, Katharine. See Hinkson, Mrs. Katharine Tynan.
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Ular, Alexander. Russia from within. **$1.75. Holt.
After announcing in his preface that his book will come as a shock to some very sincere friends of Russia and that the facts he reveals are authentic altho they “do not make pretty reading” the author proceeds to give “a series of brilliant pictures, written manifestly from the standpoint of the revolutionist and lashing furiously the heads of the Russian state.” (Pub. Opin.)
“Though not without its faults, it has the conspicuous merits of being clearly and forcefully written and of leaving a series of definite impressions on the mind of the reader.”
+ + — Critic. 47: 409. N. ‘05. 920w.
“The book is not without value for him who can sift the facts from the fiction and the denunciation; but it is altogether untrustworthy, and cannot but mislead the untrained reader.” Charles H. Cooper.
— Dial. 39: 269. N. 1, ‘05. 350w.
“The historical portion is full of inaccuracies. Having warned our readers that Dr. Ular’s statements require confirmation, we must admit that his book is interesting and suggestive, that his knowledge is considerable, that his view of M. Witte’s regime appears to us to be very just, and that the remarkable story of the elaborate ‘oligarchic’ intrigue which eventually led to the war in the Far East certainly contains an element of truth.”
+ — Lond. Times. 4: 222. Jl. 14, ‘05. 710w.
“People who like to read strong statements couched in language which is plain to the verge of violence at times, and never courteous, will thoroughly enjoy Mr. Ular’s arraignment of everybody and everything in Russia—save, possibly, the revolutionists.”
— — Nation. 81: 363. N. 2, ‘05. 2060w.
“The rashness of language which makes the book particularly readable serves, of course, to discredit it as a serious study—but it is infinitely suggestive.”
— + N. Y. Times. 10: 635. S. 30, ‘05. 1360w.
— — Pub. Opin. 39: 447. S. 30, ‘05. 270w.
R. of Rs. 32: 510. O. ‘05. 150w.
“It is certain Mr. Ular’s readers—if he has any—will not take him sufficiently seriously to experience any shocks but those of contempt.”
— — Sat. R. 100: 121. Jl. 22, ‘04. 420w.
“Much of his work is of value, but we confess that his account of the characters of the Emperor and his Court does not convince us. It is so full of a lurid sensationalism that it fails of its purpose.”
+ — Spec. 95: 152. Jl. 29, ‘05. 340w.
Underhill, Evelyn. Gray world. $1.50. Century.
An imaginative story which dwells experimentally upon the transition from life to death, and upon reincarnation. A little slum-child dies in a hospital, carrying a vague consciousness of his earthly existence to the Gray world of spirits. The awful terrors of the new realm crowd in around him until his soul cries for release. So he goes back to the world as the son of a London tradesman—bewildered, as once more a new consciousness dawns, in the process of unifying his former existence, his world of spirits, and the present life. The book follows the development of this being thru the struggle to conquer the Gray world and its depression. The book is unusual, with language and scheme wholly in keeping with the vague, and the unreal which envelop it.
“Her book, then, is not only readable, but gives rise to that intelligent form of gratitude which has been defined as a lively sense of favors to come.”
+ Atlan. 95: 698. My. ‘05. 240w.
“A book of unusual imaginative quality, but too morbid to win a general popularity. The volume is a very curious and unique psychological study, along the borderline of madness.”
+ Bookm. 21: 183. Ap. ‘05. 660w.
“It is intensely serious, no doubt, but it is also animated and even enlivened by touches of a highly effective humor.” W. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 38: 124. F. 16, ‘05. 1220w.
Reviewed by H. I. Brock.
+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 150. Mr. 11, ‘05. 540w.
“A weird and fantastic story. The best thing in the book is the pathos of the description of the unrestful ghosts.”
+ R. of Rs. 31: 120. Ja. ‘05. 60w.
“The earthly side of the book is as original as the spiritual, though far less attractive.”
+ — Spec. 94: 519. Ap. 8, ‘05. 390w.
Underwood, Earl. Representing John Marshall & co. †$1. Dillingham.
A genial, slangy, and withal good-hearted drummer “spills” his inmost thoughts into the white pages of this book. He jauntily tells of many happenings so peculiar that as the news of each of them reaches Mame, his queen, she promptly breaks off her engagement. Each chapter chronicles a spicy adventure, a break, a reconciliation, but in the end Mame seems thoroughly convinced that her drummer is a hero.
“It is amusing in its way if taken in small doses.”
+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 602. S. 16, ‘05. 230w.
United States. Library of Congress. Catalog of the Gardiner Greene Hubbard collection of engravings; presented to the Library of Congress by Mrs. Gardiner Greene Hubbard. Lib. of Congress.
“The plan of the compilation was very generous, and included the catalogue proper of engravers, and index of engravers under a chronological scheme, by centuries, an index of artists, a portrait index, and a list of authorities.... The collection was presented to the nation in 1898 by Mrs. Hubbard, and in default of a national art gallery the Library of Congress was the most fitting place of deposit.... The editor of the volume is Arthur Jeffrey Parsons, who is in charge of the collection.”—Nation.
“The catalogue is clearly arranged and carefully written.”
+ + — Acad. 68: 718. Jl. 8, ‘05. 300w.
“No similar catalogue exists of an American collection of engravings; it will, therefore, prove a convenient book of reference for collectors.”
+ + Nation. 80: 353. My. 4, ‘05. 360w.
United States. Library of Congress. Some papers laid before the Continental Congress, 1775. 15c. Supt. of doc.
The papers here published are: The declaration on taking arms, July 6, 1775; Franklin’s Articles of Confederation, July 21, 1775; Reports on the Trade of America, July 21, October 2, and October 13, 1775; Report on Lord North’s motion, and reports on the committees on Recess and Unfinished business.
“The value of the pamphlet lies principally in the care which has been taken to show the evolution of the final document in each case from the first draft through the intermediate forms.”
+ + + Nation. 80: 374. My. 11, ‘05. 140w.
358Upson, Arthur. City, and other poems. *$1. Macmillan.
In this new edition of “The city,” a poem-drama in which Abgar, King of Edessa, in the sixteenth year of the reign of Tiberius is cured of his infirmity thru a message from the great Healer crucified at Jerusalem, the author has made a few changes which, while they add to the poetic effect of his work, do not detract from the dramatic strength. The volume also includes Octaves in an Oxford garden, written under the spell of the things of which he sings, and some two-score sonnets, upon such widely different topics as Sultan’s bread, Mona Lisa, The Rezzonico palace and our own Wheat elevators and The statue of liberty.
* “Has something of the cool charm that springs from the imitation of Greek models together with appeal that inheres in a Christian theme. It never, however, attains any considerable tragic power.”
+ Nation. 81: 508. D. 21, ‘05. 40w.
Upward, Allen. International spy: secret history of the Russo-Japanese war. †$1.50. Dillingham.
The latest doings of that marvelous man, Monsieur H. V., are chronicled in this volume, in which he himself tells of his adventures when sent to Russia by England in the hope of averting war. He carried a peace message from the Czar to the Mikado, was adopted into the Japanese royal family, returned to Russia and after barely escaping death at the hands of various enemies he succeeded in stealing a torpedo boat from the Kaiser for which he was forgiven when his mission became known. The beautiful and desperate Princess Y— has an important role in this intimate story of courts and rulers.
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 707. O. 21, ‘05. 320w.
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Vachell, Horace Annesley. Brothers. †$1.50. Dodd.
These two brothers are each half of a complete whole, they succeed together, each fails alone. Archibald, strong and magnetic, delivers the sermons written by his weak and stammering brother, and by their spiritual and intellectual force he wins Betty Kirtling, who discovers after she has married him, that it is his brother whom she loves.
“It is an exceedingly well-told tale.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 272. Ap. 22, ‘05. 310w.
“The book is free from annoying defects, has a well-sustained interest, and may be accounted a worthy addition to the season’s output.”
+ Reader. 6: 477. S. ‘05. 220w.
Vacher, Francis. Food inspector’s handbook. $1.50. Van Nostrand.
The fourth edition of this handbook has been brought down to date and an additional chapter on “Statutory powers” included.
“The author gives sensible advice, and his little volume should be found very useful to those for whom it is written.” C. S.
+ + Nature. 72: 243. Jl. 13, ‘05. 320w.
Valentine, Edward Abram Uffington. Hecla Sandwith. †$1.50. Bobbs.
This story of a woman of moods, the daughter of a Pennsylvania iron master, who married a young mining engineer, regretted it, left him, and later awoke to the realization that she loved him, is also the story of the mines, the iron workers, and the blast furnace.
“A leisurely and very charming picture of a Quaker settlement in Pennsylvania in 1856.”
+ Acad. 68: 785. Jl. 29, ‘05. 330w.
“It is a pleasure to notice a romance of American life so instinct with artistic, literary and scientific excellence as ‘Hecla Sandwith.’ Here speaks the poet, the historian and the psychologist.”
+ + + Arena. 34: 106. Jl. ‘05. 800w.
“The chief fault of the book is lack of concentration.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ — Bookm. 21: 517. Jl. ‘05. 380w.
“There is too much narrative here. The descriptions of nature are poetic, the minor characters are particularly well drawn, and many of the pictures linger in the memory.”
+ — Critic. 46: 479. My. ‘05. 150w.
“The story is a long one, and not firmly knit together. A book that preserves with almost photographic fidelity the manners and customs of a time fully departed.”
+ — Dial. 38: 393. Je. 1, ‘05. 140w.
“The book has the merit of careful husbandry in an unworked field, and it is well written; a novel of unusual power and interest.”
+ Ind. 58: 1482. Je. 29, ‘05. 130w.
“It is unevenly written. But, on the whole, the sense of the art of literature is so high and fine and the adhesion to this sense so accurate and faithful, that the entire result should be greeted as a reawakening among us. There are pages that any novelist, living or dead, might have been glad to claim.” James Lane Allen.
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 241. Ap. 15, ‘05. 1620w.
N. Y. Times. 10: 393. Je. 17, ‘05. 130w.
“Charming style, keen powers of analysis, and skill in snapshot portraiture as well, characterize this study.”
+ + Outlook. 80: 139. My. 13, ‘05. 30w.
+ Pub. Opin. 38: 591. Ap. 15, ‘05. 260w.
“His book is full of nature and of human nature: it rings true.”
+ + Sat. R. 100: 186. Ag. 5, ‘05. 220w.
Vance, Louis Joseph. Terence O’Rourke, gentleman adventurer. †$1.50. Wessels.
Terence O’Rourke, an Irish gentleman and soldier, in the capacity of commissioned defender—tho backed by the courage and chivalry which make an undertaking his own affair—arrays himself in a series of adventures against unscrupulous, even villainous royalty. Thru his quick wit and marked swordsmanship he rights the wrongs of good women, at last winning for himself the love of the princess for whom most of his battles are fought.
+ Ind. 59: 697. S. 21, ‘05. 170w.
“Readers of many and varied tastes will delight in the author’s fertile imagination and the ever-ready humor which produces and disposes of Terence’s trials and tribulations.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w.
“A bit of simple and entertaining romance of the old-fashioned style.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 487. Jl. 22, ‘05. 410w.
“There is plenty of action, humor, and romance.”
+ Outlook. 80: 695. Jl. 15, ‘05. 30w.
Vandam, Albert Dresden. Men and manners of the third republic. **$3. Pott.
“In part a posthumous work; a charming review of the principal events of the third republic as seen in the men and events of the times.... We have a glimpse behind the scenes, and ... we are brought into such intimate relations with the actors that we are able to form for ourselves a clear and accurate conception of the motives that caused the movement that led to the establishment of the third republic. We are introduced to Thiers and Gambetta.... But it is idle to mention by names the great Frenchmen who appear in the pages of the work; suffice it to say that none of those who were prominent in the days following the downfall of Louis Napoleon are neglected, much less omitted.”—Baltimore Sun.
359“Delightful collection of facts and thoughts.”
+ + Baltimore Sun. :8. Mr. 8, ‘05. 500w.
“Much that is here said about the iniquities of French political life may be quite true, and the book, taken in small quantities at a time, is not devoid of a certain interest. But a rigorous criticism would show that the historian must quote it, if at all, with care.”
+ — Nation. 80: 154. F. 23, ‘05. 440w.
Van de Put, A. Hispano-Moresque ware of the 15th century. *$4. Lane.
“A contribution to its history and chronology, based upon armorial specimens.” This is a small quarto containing 34 plates illustrating pieces taken from many public and private collections. There is a brief general treatise which, while stating frankly that material for a history is lacking, gives much historical information. There is a full description of some of the plates.