The Cumulative Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Digests of reviews appearing in January—December 1905, magazines (continued 8)

“A very thorough and illuminating work on the development of music. The biographical and explanatory notes to this volume are very valuable, supplying, with the text, a consecutive narrative of the history of music.”

+ + + R. of Rs. 32: 511. O. ‘05. 110w.

* Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes. Modern symposium. **$1. McClure.

“This purports to be an account of a meeting of philosophers representing all the various political and social systems of the world. The Conservative, the Radical, the Socialist, the Anarchist, the Scientist, the Poet, and many more, each pleads his own cause. The closing speaker, noted simply as a man of letters, distinctly represents Mr. Dickinson’s theories of life, and attempts to sum up all the virtues of all the other systems.”—Dial.

* “The charm of his style adds a pleasing force to his arguments.”

+ Dial. 39:314. N. 16, ‘05. 160w.

* + Pub. Opin. 39: 636. N. 11, ‘05. 130w.

Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes. Religion: a criticism and a forecast. **50c. McClure.

An attempt to discover a religious ideal that can be accepted by the logically constituted mind of modern man, which involves a keen, reverential analysis of the virtues and failings of established religions.

“Not merely is the writer a man of genius; not merely is he master of a style which seems to sweep the whole gamut of human emotion, and to make language rise and fall like the notes of a violin; but he has written a book which should make many think. Its importance lies in its object.”

+ + + Ath. 1905, 2: 110. Jl. 22. 230w.

“Mr. Dickinson is especially happy in stating certain general attitudes of mind in order to give us a clear glimpse of where we or others stand in so important a subject as religion.”

+ + Pub. Opin. 39: 220. Ag. 12, ‘05. 480w.

* “These articles were frank and definite discussions of the relation of religion to knowledge. Mr. Dickinson has a clear and suggestive style.”

+ + R. of Rs. 31: 766. Je. ‘05. 180w.

Dickson, Harris. Ravanels. (†)$1.50. Lippincott.

The setting of this story is the South just after the reconstruction period, and its hero haunted by the memory of his father’s murder in those troublous times, feels called upon to avenge it. But his revenge is not sweet, for he is overwhelmed with the horror of his deed, and is only saved from insanity by the soothing influence of the girl he loves.

“Is even better than his first novel.”

+ + Critic. 47: 93. Jl. ‘05. 150w.

“The novel has both strength and character, besides a romantic plot of much dramatic interest.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ + Dial. 39: 208. O. 1, ‘05. 100w.

“While Mr. Dickson possesses a peculiarly charming literary style and a gift for portraying genial human qualities, he has blundered in the symmetry of his story.”

+ — Ind. 58 :1423. Je. 22, ‘05. 150w.

“The tragedy of the story is admirably mellowed with its pathos. The characters are skillfully drawn and a genuine depth of interest is aroused which never flags until the books ends, amid all its sorrows, with happiness and cheer.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 246. Ap. 15, ‘05. 480w.

“A dramatic and skilfully written romance of the South, exceptional for the conspicuous absence of all reference to the issues usually raised in novels of this section.”

+ Outlook. 79: 1015. Ap. 22, ‘05. 30w.

+ Pub. Opin. 38: 713. My. 6, ‘05. 150w.

“Is an interesting story, well told, which holds the reader’s attention to the end.”

+ Reader. 6: 242. Ag. ‘05. 350w.

“The book contains one of the best trial scenes in recent fiction.”

+ R. of Rs. 31: 760. Je. ‘05. 60w.

Dilke, Lady Amelia Frances Strong. Book of the spiritual life, with a memoir of the author by the Rt. Rev. Sir Charles W. Dilke. *$3. Dutton.

The larger part of this volume is taken up with the memoirs of Lady Dilke by her second husband. “It shows her as a girl, as an art student, as the wife of Mark Pattison, and the correspondent of many eminent persons, as an art critic, and as the cultured and kind friend of young people and of all movements for the amelioration of human life. ‘The book of the spiritual life’ ... is a series of Lady Dilke’s mature reflections on the problems of existence and our duty as sojourners here.”—Lond. Times.

“Not even her work, however, remarkable as it was, and in so many spheres of art and thought, will erect in the future such a monument to Lady Dilke as that raised to her by her husband in the brief memoir which precedes ‘The book of the spiritual life.’”

+ + + Acad. 68: 774. Jl. 29, ‘05. 2300w.

“Sir Charles Dilke, in writing the memoir, has accomplished his difficult task with tact and dignity.”

+ + Ath. 1905, 1: 679. Je. 3. 3150w.

* + Critic. 47: 435. N. ‘05. 680w.

“The little memoir ... is a model of what such work should be—informing, sympathetic, and restrained. ‘The book of the spiritual life’ ... gives evidence of wide reading and a sympathetic outlook.”

+ + Lond. Times. 4: 179. Je. 9, ‘05. 730w.

+ + — Nation. 81 :305. O. 12, ‘05. 970w.

“The memoir dwells (naturally) much upon spiritual and literary aspects, and will be found dull by readers who are not already immensely interested in the woman which it commemorates.”

+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 467. Jl. 17, ‘05. 530w.

“To come into appreciative touch with such a life as hers is to receive an inspiration.”

+ Outlook. 80: 835. Jl. 29, ‘05. 240w.

+ + Sat. R. 99: 843. Je. 24, ‘05. 1450w.

Dill, Samuel. Roman society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius. *$4. Macmillan.

“Prof. Samuel Dill, in his new volume ... deals principally with the inner moral life of the time, and gives very little space to its external history and the machinery of government. He treats at some length of the relation of the senate 99to the emperor in the first century, and the organization of the municipal towns. He also gives a complete survey of the literature and inscriptions of the period.” (N. Y. Times). Each page is supplied with explanatory and reference notes.

“He has mastered with praiseworthy assiduity every authority on his subject, old and new. Yet, though this material is ample, the author makes no attempt to co-ordinate it in such a way as to give the reader a picture of the age as a whole, and of the great psychological laws which governed its development.”

+ + — Acad. 68: 47. Ja. 14, ‘05. 540w.

+ + Am. Hist. R. 11: 125. O. ‘05. 1520w.

“In view of the great importance of this book, and the certainty that it will be regarded as the best work on this period in English, we have taken some trouble to collect matter which will help towards its improvement.”

+ + — Ath. 1905, 1: 362. Mr. 25. 1600w.

“Taking the volume as a whole, Professor Dill’s Roman society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius must, it seems to me, occupy a place in the first rank of the histories of social life. That place is secured for it by the sanity of its judgments on social phenomena, by the vigour of its not-faultless literary style, and by its very great learning.” Henry Jones.

+ + + Hibbert J. 4: 200. O. ‘05. 2800w.

“Nowhere else can so full and true an account be found of the conditions of Roman society at this time as in this admirable book.”

+ + + Ind. 59: 870. O. 12, ‘05. 1070w.

“And, aside from its inherent importance, its thoughts are so lucidly and attractively expressed that no intelligent reader, whether a Latinist or not, can fail to find it pleasant reading.”

+ + — Nation. 80: 356. My. 4, ‘05. 2890w.

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 64. Ja. 28, ‘05. 370w.

“There is an almost incredible richness and fulness of detail, and yet it is so presented that an intelligible and well-proportioned picture is the result.”

+ + + N. Y. Times. 10: 601. S. 16, ‘05. 1320w.

“Professor Dill has laid under lasting obligation those readers who seek to understand the inner life and moral condition as well as the political and external affairs of a given period. While Professor Dill’s prescribed limitation seems to forestall criticism, the question can hardly be repressed whether his picture of society in pagan Rome is quite complete without mention of the great regenerative force which was gathering strength within its bosom and advancing through bitter conflict to victory.”

+ + — Outlook. 79: 499. F. 25, ‘05. 880w.

“This is preëminently a book for scholars.”

+ + R of Rs. 31: 509. Ap. ‘05. 40w.

“His style is rather that of an essayist than of an historian, and he lacks that precision, that careful explicitness, and, above all, that direct citation of authorities which in a learned work are indispensable, while in the selection and use of his materials he often disappoints our hopes. Mr. Dill has learning, industry, and, as numerous passages show, a brilliant pen. If his separate chapters had been published as single essays, they would most of them, we think, have been justly considered excellent. They are rich in what is interesting and delightful.”

+ — Spec. 94: 291. F. 25, ‘05. 2040w.

“The author’s literary skill has enabled him even to make the dry bones of the inscriptions part and parcel of the literature of the period, with which he is indisputably more familiar than any other Englishman living. A work that deserves to rank with Lecky’s ‘History of European morals.’”

+ + + Westminster Review. 168: 231. F. ‘05. 210w.

Dionne, Narcisse Eutrope. Samuel de Champlain. $5. Morang & co.

“For material, M. Dionne has gone chiefly to Champlain’s own writings and to the reports of missionaries. Designed as a contribution to a popular series [“Makers of Canada”] we do not meet in this book with any long discussion of disputed or technical points; but M. Dionne takes time to consider large issues such as the expediency of Champlain’s attack upon the Iroquois, and is not prevented from breaking a lance at intervals with Faillon. For us the most interesting portion of the narrative is concerned with the taking of Quebec by the English in 1629.”—Nation.

“We do not think that Mr. Dionne praises him too highly in a volume in which the only serious fault we detect is a certain lack of sequence.”

+ + Lond. Times. 4: 314. S. 29, ‘05. 560w.

“These and all cognate topics are dealt with by M. Dionne with both sympathy and information.”

+ + Nation. 81: 145. Ag. 17, ‘05. 490w.

* Spec. 95: 822. N. 18, ‘05. 200w.

Ditchfield, Peter Hampson. Picturesque English cottages. **$2. Winston.

To “Old cottages and domestic architecture in southwest Surrey,” and “The old cottages, farm houses and other stone buildings of the Cotswold district” “must now be added Mr. Ditchfield’s ‘Picturesque English cottages,’ less technical than the others, equally well illustrated, and covering the field more broadly.... The text, covering as it does such subjects as methods of construction, influence of material, the evolution of the cottage, foreign influence upon it, the cottage garden and its flowers, is entertaining, and by no means too technical for the uninstructed reader.” (Nation.)

“Were it not for its binding, the book would be wholly without blemish. So tasteless, so utterly inappropriate a cover.”

+ + Nation. 81: 267. S. 28, ‘05. 910w.

N. Y. Times. 10: 636. S. 30, ‘05. 240w.

Dix, Beulah Marie. Fair maid of Graystones. †$1.50. Macmillan.

Graystones is a great country house in Suffolkshire, and the action takes place in the time of Cromwell after the surrender of the Cavalier stronghold of Colchester to the Parliamentary forces. The story opens upon a group of Cavalier prisoners. “The hero, Jack Hetherington, prisoner, is fighting a big Roundhead for kicking a dying Cavalier.... All through the brilliantly told tale, Jack fights his way against great odds. He weds the Fair Maid, a neglected orphan, dependent of a great family, and the two young things go out penniless to seek a home.” (Outlook.)

* “The plot, which hinges on a case of mistaken identity, is ingenious, if scarcely probable, and the interest fresh and well sustained.”

+ Ath. 1905, 2: 794. D. 9. 160w.

* “The story reads agreeably, and adds another leaf to its author’s wreath of laurel.”

+ Nation. 81: 488. D. 14, ‘05. 260w.

* “There is not much history to trouble about ... but there is good style here, and lively characterization in Miss Dix’s now known manner.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 839. D. 2, ‘05. 210w.

“While there is nothing extraordinary about the plot, it has no tinge of the commonplace, and it is handled with so high an appreciation of artistic values and human interest that one wishes there were more writers like Miss Dix.”

+ + Outlook. 81: 381. O. 14, ‘05. 160w.

Dixon, Amzi Clarence. Lights and shadows of American life. William H. Smith, 25 Stanhope St., Boston.

Christian talks which will find favor in many Christian homes because they combine orthodox thought, humorous expression, and broad common sense. Such subjects as: Our homes; Our money makers; Our boys and girls; Our amusements; Our Sabbath; Our politics; Our churches; and Our destiny, are discussed.

100Dixon, Thomas, jr. Clansman. †$1.50. Doubleday.

“The clansman” is the second book of Mr. Dixon’s trio of historical novels. The first, “The leopard’s spots,” as the author states in his preface, “was the statement in historical outline of the condition of the negro from the enfranchisement to the disfranchisement.” “The clansman” is the sequel, and “develops the true story of the Ku Klux Klan which overturned the revolution régime.” The great issues of the reconstruction period create a giant force which the dignity and strength of Lincoln grapple with for a brief period, and which the evil genius of “The great commoner,” Austin Stoneman, Thaddeus Stevens in thin disguise, dominates thruout the story. Congress’ policy of revenge towards the new South, the impeachment of Johnson, the radical faction’s determination to bestow civic rights upon negroes, the resulting reign of terror in the South under the sway of negroes and carpetbaggers, and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan provide stirring scenes thru which runs a double love story.

+ + Acad. 68: 336. Mr. 25, ‘05. 180w.

“The clansman may be summed up as a very poor novel, a very ridiculous novel, not a novel at all, yet a novel with a great deal to it; a novel that very properly is going to interest many thousands of readers, of all degrees of taste and education, a book which will be discussed from all points of view, voted superlatively good and superlatively bad, but which will be read.” F. Dredd.

— — + Bookm. 20: 559. F. ‘05. 920w.

“One reads not far in the present volume until he is convinced that Mr. Dixon is not to be waved aside as a mere argumentative pamphleteer, but that he has in him literary possibilities of a high order. The advance from the crudities of ‘The leopard’s spots’ is marked, and is seen in every feature.” W. H. Johnson.

+ + Critic. 46: 277. Mr. ‘05. 780w.

“Book shows from beginning to end the effort of an unscrupulous partisan to become an artist. The story appears to have been got out of the Congressional Record and pieced together with two or three charming love affairs.”

— — + Ind. 58: 325. F. 9, ‘05. 1050w.

“A thrilling romance. It is by no means equally certain that the book paints in any too vivid colors the chaos of blind passion that in the North followed Lincoln’s assassination or the reign of terror that resulted in the South.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 34. Ja. 21, ‘05. 1020w.

“Deliberately uses such talent as he has to arouse the worst passions in his readers. There is less vulgarity in the story than might be expected, but restraint has not yet done its full work. The best men, both North and South, will turn from this repellant portrayal of our country and our countrymen.”

— — + Outlook. 79: 348. F. 4, ‘05. 230w.

“The dramatic intensity, the color, the incisiveness of Mr. Dixon’s style. It is in the expression of personal opinion, and the characterization of individuals that the strong partisan bias of the book is most plain. Three-fourths of the book are given up to the epoch-making events and radical legislation, that prepared the way for the Ku Klux Klan. ‘The clansman’ consists of a bitter arraignment of Thaddeus Stevens, some vivid portrayals of great scenes, some impassioned pleading, and a modicum of fiction. As a novel it may reinforce, but it will not displace the more artistic presentment of the reconstruction period that another Southerner has given us in ‘Red rock.’”

+ + — Reader. 5: 379. F. ‘05. 500w.

+ + R. of Rs. 31: 508. Ap. ‘05. 160w.

“Mr. Dixon ... is so impressed with the tremendous interest of his country’s history that he has lost his sense of perspective.”

— Sat. R. 99: 636. My. 13, ‘05. 250w.

Dixon, Thomas, jr. Life worth living. **$1.20. Doubleday.

This group of essays and papers sets forth the beauties of nature and the joys of country life. The opening chapter, Dreams and disillusions shows the “horrors of city life”; there are other chapters upon such subjects as—The music of the seasons, The fellowship of dogs, Some sins of nature, The shouts of children, In the haunts of wild fowl, and What is life?

Reviewed by G. W. Adams.

+ — Bookm. 22: 70. S. ‘05. 620w.

— Ind. 58: 1422. Je. 22, ‘05. 150w.

“It is not often we are given such an insight into a public man’s private life.”

+ Pub. Opin. 38: 974. Je. 24, ‘05. 220w.

R. of Rs. 32: 127. Jl. ‘05. 160w.

Dods, Rev. Marcus. Bible, its origin and nature. **$1. Scribner.

“This is the first volume published on the foundation which Lieutenant-Governor Bross, of Illinois, provided in 1879, with a view to the defense of ‘the religion of the Bible ... as commonly received in the Presbyterian and other evangelical churches.’” (Outlook.) It contains the lectures given at Lake Forest college in May, 1904.

* “The book is a polemic, but a gracious polemic.”

+ + Am. J. Theol. 9: 741. O. ‘05. 670w.

“His work will be of service in disarming prejudice and allaying fears as to the critical study of the Bible.”

+ + Ind. 59: 214. Jl. 27, ‘05. 200w.

“What is peculiar to himself is the clarity of exposition, the brightness of sympathy, the sound sanity and sincerity of his treatment of a subject which more than anything lends itself to exaggeration and lip service.”

+ + N. Y. Times 10: 364. Je. 3, ‘05. 750w.

“He states his argument with great ability, and meets objectors with ingenuity and skill.”

+ + Outlook. 79: 758. Mr. 25, ‘05. 90w.

Dole, Nathan Haskell. comp. Latin poets: an anthology. $2. Crowell.

A companion volume to the author’s “Greek poets.” There have been included Latin poets from Plautus and Terence to Juvenal and Lucian. A sketch of each poet’s life followed by representative selections from his works, bringing together material for a complete survey of Roman literature.

* “As far as the originals are concerned, the selections are excellently made, but the versions are very uneven, and had to be.”

+ — Nation. 81: 408. N. 16, ‘05. 400w.

* + N. Y. Times. 10: 863. D. 2, ‘05. 380w.

“It is, however, a charming collection in which few will miss any favorites.”

+ Outlook. 81: 577. N. 4, ‘05. 140w.

Dolly Winter: the letters of a friend which Joseph Harold is permitted to publish. †$1.25. Pott.

Letters from the hero to his friends give the romance of a man of the world who, while temporarily following the simple life in a secluded village, becomes interested in Dolly, whose mother as a result of ill doing, is insane.

“The letters are written in a graceful style and unfold a romantic story with much keenness of wit and other elements of the now almost lost art of letter writing.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w.

“An innocuous tale upon well-worn lines.”

+ — Outlook. 79: 908. Ap. 8, ‘05. 16w.

101Donne, William Bodham. William Bodham Donne and his friends; ed. by Catharine B. Johnson. *$3. Dutton.

“A volume of letters to and from ‘William Bodham Donne and his friends,’ ed. by Donne’s granddaughter, Catherine B. Johnson.... The letters selected attempt to give a connected idea of W. B. Donne’s life and to illustrate his character.... [He] numbered among his ‘friends’ the best-known literary personages of his day.... There are 16 illustrations, including portraits of William Bodham Donne, Fanny Kemble, FitzGerald, John Mitchell Kemble, Trench, Bernard Barton, Blakesley, and others.”—N. Y. Times.

“Considering the difficulty of the task before her, Mrs. Johnson has succeeded remarkably well.”

+ + Acad. 68: 233. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1120w.

+ + Ath. 1905, 1: 431. Ap. 8. 770w.

“Most of the letters in this book were written by Donne, but a great many were written to him, and it is hard to say which are the more interesting.” Jeanette L. Gilder.

+ + Critic. 47: 159. Ag. ‘05. 1580w.

“The workmanship of both editor and printer is good.” Percy F. Bicknell.

+ + Dial. 39: 10. Jl. 1, ‘05. 2380w.

* “Miss Johnson has done her part admirably in editing the letters.”

+ + Ind. 59: 989. O. 26, ‘05. 260w.

“It is altogether a model of what such a record should be.”

+ + Nation. 81: 206. S. 7, ‘05. 720w.

N. Y. Times. 10: 281. Ap. 29, ‘05. 170w.

“They are the letters of a true literary man, letters that are worth the permanent form in which they are now embodied.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 602. S. 16, ‘05. 570w.

“These letters of Donne and his friends ... form a worthy memorial of him.”

+ + Outlook. 80: 593. Jl. 1, ‘05. 170w.

Donnell, Annie Hamilton. Rebecca Mary; with eight illustrations in color by Mary Shippen Green. †$1.50. Harper.

Rebecca Mary, a little New England girl, figures thru these sketches. She lives with a prim severe aunt with whom she possesses in common certain family traits. “Being a Plummer meant a great deal. It meant that by no chance must one ever display any of the emotions that one experiences. Neither must one ever show one’s affection; one must have courage to do what is right, no matter how unpleasant; one must be conscientious to a fault, and above all one must do one’s duty if it kills one.” (N. Y. Times.)

“On the whole, Rebecca Mary is worth knowing.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 650. O. 7, ‘05. 270w.

* “There is no doubt that Rebecca will find her niche in the affections of readers beside that occupied by the immortal Emmy Lou.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 822. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.

* “A charming study of child life.”

+ Outlook. 81: 711. N. 25, ‘05. 30w.

Dopp, Katharine Elizabeth. Place of industries in elementary education. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.

In this third edition a chapter upon “Ways of procuring a material equipment” and “Ways of using it so as to enhance the value of colonial history” is added in order to make the book serviceable as a teacher’s manual. The chapters are entitled—Significance of industrial epochs, Origins of attitudes that underlie industry, and Practical applications. The illustrations are from photographs.

“The most suggestive single work that can be placed in the hands of teachers.” W. I. Thomas.

+ + Am. J. Soc. 11: 272. S. ‘05. 120w.

+ + Dial. 39: 170. S. 16, ‘05. 180w.

“It is a great satisfaction to meet with a book that moves along an unbeaten path to new points of view on current problems. Such a book is this.”

+ + Outlook. 80: 446. Je. 17, ‘05. 270w.

+ + R. of Rs. 32: 126. Jl. ‘05. 90w.

Dorman, Marcus R. P. History of the British empire in the 19th century, v. 2. The campaigns of Wellington and the policy of Castlereagh (1806-1825). *$4. Lippincott.

“A consecutive account of British foreign and domestic policy.... Mr. Dorman pays little attention to affairs in France and central Europe. His point of view is always British and his desire is to elucidate the part played by British statesmen and soldiers in continental affairs.... He introduces a considerable body of new information drawn from the correspondence of British representatives in other countries. He throws light on the Welcheren expedition, on the part played by General Chitroff in betraying information to the British government, on the negotiations between Alexander and Napoleon in 1811, and on the position of Prussia in February, 1812.... The second portion of the history, dealing with the period from 1815 to 1825, is chiefly concerned with the policy of Castlereagh.”—Am. Hist. R.

“The attitude assumed throughout is that of a fair-minded and impartial narrator.” Charles M. Andrews.

+ + — Am. Hist. R. 10: 664. Ap. ‘05. 1560w.

Dorsey, George Amos. Mythology of the Wichita. $1.50. Carnegie inst.

A volume “collected under the auspices of the Carnegie institution by the Curator of anthropology of the Field Columbian museum of Chicago.... In this collection are sixty myths. The author has written an introductory chapter of twenty-four pages, telling of the history and social life of the Wichita, a group of the Caddoan stock who have stood high among the Indians as regards home life and morality.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 339. Mr. ‘05. 120w.

Nature. 71: 417. Mr. 2, ‘05. 230w.

Dorsey, George Amos, ed. Traditions of the Skidi Pawnee. *$6. Pub. for the American folklore society by Houghton.

“As a faithful narrator, Mr. Dorsey translates the indecorous into Latin. The stories he divides into several groups, the ‘Cosmogonous,’ the ‘Boy heroes,’ ‘Medicin,’ ‘Animal tales’; then comes ‘People marry animals or become animals.’ Then there are many stories which are placed under the general heading of ‘Miscellaneous.’ ... The Pawnee delighted in boy heroes.... Indian maidens figure as heroines. A fairly ideal one is ‘the girl who married a star.’ ... The coyote figures in many of the traditions.... The Pawnees have also their medicine bundles. Some of these bundles are believed to have the power of inducing rain to fall.”—N. Y. Times.

Reviewed by Frederick Starr.

+ + — Dial. 39: 166. S. 16, ‘05. 1570w.

“The book is a very important contribution to American folk lore.”

+ + + Nation. 80: 10. Ja. 5, ‘05. 230w.

+ + Nature. 71: 417. Mr. 2, ‘05. 160w.

“The notes at the conclusion of this volume add very much to one’s comprehension of the folk-lore of the Pawnees.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 52. Ja. 28, ‘05. 540w.

102Doub, William Coligny. History of the United States. *$1. Macmillan.

To show that civics forms an integral part of the history of a nation, Professor Doub combines the two subjects in one text, doing away with the necessity of separate books.

Am. Hist. R. 11: 217. O. ‘05. 30w.

“In the hands of a well-equipped educator this volume will render a separate study of civics unnecessary.”

+ + Ind. 59: 267. Ag. 3, ‘05. 70w.

“The author is successful, it appears to us, in his desire to make government so completely an integral part of the history of a nation that the people will rightly see and understand this relationship.”

+ + Outlook. 80: 692. Jl. 15, ‘05. 70w.

* Double-knot and other stories. †$1.25. Benziger.

Mary T. Waggaman, Anna T. Sadlier, Magdalen Rock, Mary E. Mannix, Mary G. Bonesteel, Eugene Uhlrich, Maurice Francis Egan, and seven other Roman Catholic writers have written the thirty stories which make up this volume. Nearly all of them are sweet, simple little love stories, but some are merry ones, like the story of the pretty stenographer, who, thru a misdirected letter, succeeded in marrying a millionaire, and some are sad, like the story of the two lovers who, parted for a life time, met at last as inmates of the Home which the Little Sisters of the Poor provide for the needy and aged.

Dougall, Lily. Summit House mystery. $1.50. Funk.

The events recorded here transpire in the shut-away section of the mountains of northern Georgia, where two women seek seclusion. “The story concerns a mysterious crime, and a strong-willed, long-suffering religious woman is the central figure. It recalls, in the solution of the mystery, and in one powerfully dramatic passage, Miss Braddon’s famous ‘Henry Dunbar.’ It also recalls (as vividly) superficial facts of the Borden murder mystery at Fall River about sixteen years ago.” (N. Y. Times).

“One class of fiction lovers will read it for the ‘mystery,’ while another will care more for its delicate, and subtle observations of nature and character, and the admirable English the author commands.”

+ Critic. 46: 477. My. ‘05. 220w.

“Miss Dougall’s frequently too fluent descriptive facility is freely exercised. There is beauty, however, in her descriptive phrases, and she can place a scene before the reader’s eyes with just the effect she aims at. The plot is ingenious and sufficiently original, and is remarkably well worked out. Miss Dougall is one of the cleverest of contemporary story tellers. Better still are the studies of character. The novel has value, too, as an impartial comparison by an outsider of Northern and Southern traits of character. It is a readable book, and it deserves success.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 102. F. 18, ‘05. 280w.

“The plot is ingenious and original and remarkably well worked out.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 391. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w.

“The plot of this novel is managed with much skill, holding one’s interest without disclosing the solution of the puzzle until the very end. It is a cleverly told tale, with many original points.”

+ + Outlook. 79: 504. F. 25, ‘05. 80w.

“This book was published in England under the title ‘The earthly purgatory,’ and the title was well chosen. For the lover of adventure the book is to be commended.”

+ — Pub. Opin. 38: 429. Mr. 18, ‘05. 190w.

* Douglas, Amanda Minnie. Little girl in old San Francisco. †$1.50. Dodd.

“The little girl first reached San Francisco in its earliest days. When the book closes, San Francisco is the great metropolis of the West. Giving the life story of the ‘little girl’ from her childhood past her wedding-day, the author also pictures the changes and growth of the city.”—Outlook.

* + N. Y. Times. 10: 780. N. 18, ‘05. 80w.

* “The book has not only human interest but some historical value.”

+ Outlook. 81: 383. O. 14, ‘05. 60w.

Douglas, James. Old France in the new world. $2.50. Burrows.

This detailed description of Quebec in the seventeenth century forms a study of the French occupation of Canada, their explorations into the wilderness, and their struggle with England for supremacy. The volume is fully illustrated with reproductions of old pictures, maps, diagrams and portraits.

* “An important addition to the historical literature of Northern America.”

+ Critic. 47: 580. D. ‘05. 80w.

“In fact, though Dr. Douglas has trod in paths that had been pretty well blazed out and explored before him, he has achieved a work of value.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 673. O. 14, ‘05. 630w.

“Dr. Douglas’s book may find fit place alongside Sir Gilbert Parker’s ‘In old Quebec,’ Sir John Bourinot’s ‘The story of Canada,’ and the dozen volumes of Parkman’s histories.”

+ + Outlook. 81: 528. O. 28, ‘05. 50w.

Douglas, James. Theodore Watts-Dunton: poet, novelist, critic. *$3.50. Lane.

Mr. Douglas has exhibited Mr. Watts-Dunton to the world mainly as a novelist and poet. This view does not accord with Mr. Joseph Jacobs’ notion, for instance, which maintains that Mr. Watts-Dunton’s highest place is one among the critics. “The work comprises: (1) Reminiscences and anecdotes concerning Watt-Dunton’s distinguished friends and associates; (2) Watts-Dunton’s last words about Rossetti, and the campaign of slander in connection with his relations with his wife; (3) Unpublished poems by Watts-Dunton; (4) Letters from George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, and other distinguished men; (5) An account of the life at the Pines, and the relations between Swinburne and Watts-Dunton; (6) Extracts from Watts-Dunton’s articles in the London Athenæum.” (Int. Studio). The illustrations include Welsh and English landscapes, works of art by Rosetti and others, and both outside and inside views of the Pines, the joint home of Watts-Dunton and Swinburne.

“The volume is precisely what it claims to be—a biographical and critical study, and the subject has been extremely fortunate in his biographer; for Mr. James Douglas is not only a fascinating and discriminating critic, but is in such perfect rapport with Watts-Dunton and his dearest literary companions that the rare sympathy of deep friendship lights up a story that even without warmth would have been fair and fascinating, and gives to it a peculiar charm.”

+ + + Arena. 33: 336. Mr. ‘05. 990w.

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.

Atlan. 95: 426. Mr. ‘05. 510w.

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.

Atlan. 95: 837. Je. ‘05. 1030w.

“The author is an enthusiastic admirer of his subject, not a calm and critical biographer.” Jeannette L. Gilder.

+ — Critic. 46: 451 My. ‘05. 900w.

“The object of Mr. Douglas in this work is to give a general view of the man and his writings. As far as the man is concerned, the work is by no means a formal biography, but rather a series of dissolving views of a strong personality. His [Douglas’] own commentary is rambling and possibly overwrought, but will be found serviceable as a sort of connective tissue 103whereby the reprinted passages are held together.” W. M. Payne.

+ + Dial. 38: 78. F. 1, ‘05. 2880w.

+ Ind. 59: 157. Jl. 20, ‘05. 300w.

* + — Ind. 59: 1163. N. 16, ‘05. 70w.

“There is no doubt whatever that Mr. Watts-Dunton’s reminiscences, collected and arranged by one so eminently able as Mr. James Douglas, form a very important addition to contemporary records of the leading lights of the nineteenth century in the literature and art of America and England.”

+ Int. Studio. 24: sup. 100. F. ‘05. 280w. (Detailed statement of contents.)

“Mr. Douglas’s vicarious autobiography of the mind of Theodore Watts-Dunton is in plan and execution pretty much everything that a study of a living man of letters ought not to be. The chief value of the book is as an anthology of Mr. Watts-Dunton’s scattered and too little known work in criticism, in fiction, and in verse.”

+ — Nation. 80: 176. Mr. 2, ‘05. 1710w.

“Mr. Douglas in this book has chosen to represent Mr. Watts-Dunton as critic by very few, and those for the most part badly selected, specimens. This book does less than justice to the great position of Mr. Watts-Dunton in contemporary English letters. He lays stress upon the wrong thing, praises his hero for his lesser qualities, reproduces too little of his criticism, and too much of his poetry. Whoever wants to know Mr. Watts-Dunton in his capacity as poet and novelist will find his merits more than sufficiently exemplified and insisted upon in Mr. Douglas’s book.” Joseph Jacobs.

+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 4. Ja. 7, ‘05. 2890w.

R. of Rs. 31: 381. Mr. ‘05. 60w.

Dowden, Edward. Montaigne. **$1.50. Lippincott.

The initial volume in the “French men of letters series.” With a clever distribution of detail which Montaigne bequeathed to the world about himself, Professor Dowden “seeks to interpret the author not merely by the facts of his life but also by what he reveals of himself in his writings. And ... Montaigne lays himself bare for the inspection of the reader.” (Dial.)

“He has told the old tale clearly and simply, as far as possible in Montaigne’s own words, and we know no handbook better fitted to enlighten those readers who have not the time or industry to read the essays themselves.”

+ + + Acad. 68: 975. S. 23, ‘05. 1470w.

* “In the admirable biography ... Montaigne’s life and work are considered with sympathetic discretion.” Edward Fuller.

+ + Critic. 47: 566. D. ‘05. 790w.

“It is no cut-and-dried biography, but an illuminated record of the mind and soul of the man whom Sainte-Beuve called ‘the wisest Frenchman that ever lived.’”

+ + Dial. 39: 168. S. 16, ‘05. 790w.

“For the book itself is evidently no quickly commissioned and machine-made production. It is the result rather of affectionate assiduity, or serious collection of materials, and collation of authorities.”

+ + Lond. Times. 4: 293. S. 15, ‘05. 1760w.

“What makes this volume specially pleasing is that, in the spirit of ‘entente cordiale,’ it shows the desire to appreciate, with the graceful help of a winning style, the essentially French writer, who nevertheless finds a literary home in all countries.”

+ + Nation. 81: 383. N. 9, ‘05. 300w.

“Prof. Dowden’s ‘Montaigne’ has the quality we always look for in the work of that capable critic. This writer is not a virtuoso among biographers; but what he lacks in brilliancy is more than made up for in sober force.” H. W. Boynton.

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 665. O. 14, ‘05. 2280w.

* “And it is the distinctive characteristic of Mr. Dowden’s work that in it Montaigne lives for us again. This effect, moreover, is produced with a deftness which defies analysis. The treatment is essentially impressionistic but it is none the less convincing.”

+ + Outlook. 81: 715. N. 25, ‘05. 280w.

“A critical and sympathetic account which every genuine lover of Montaigne will prize.”

+ + Pub. Opin. 39: 542. O. 21, ‘05. 390w.

R. of Rs. 32: 511. O. ‘05. 40w.

“He makes Montaigne as interesting as a man’s biography can be made whose real life is contained in his books. Our feeling about the book is rather that it is too much biographic; and that more space should have been given to the study of Montaigne’s influence on French and on English literature.”

+ + — Sat. R. 100: 501. O. 14, ‘05. 1640w.

* “Professor Dowden’s work is entirely worthy of its attractive setting. We do not think he has ever made a literary sketch so satisfactory.”

+ + + Spec. 95: sup. 908. D. 2, ‘05. 500w.

Dowson, Ernest. Collected poems. *$1.50. Lane.

This volume contains all of the poetical works of Ernest Dowson, including “Verses,” published in 1896; “The Pierrot of the minute,” in 1897; and a posthumous collection entitled “Decorations.” Mr. Arthur Symons has written an appreciative memoir to the book.

“[He] wrote in verse with sad sincerity, and in exquisite lingering rhythms and a diction poignant in its reserved perfection.” Ferris Greenslet.

+ + Atlan. 96: 416. S. ‘05. 700w.

“The delicate talent of Ernest Dowson is appraised with intelligence, and the subtle sympathy which it so peculiarly needs, in the introductory essay by Mr. Arthur Symons which accompanies the final edition of Dowson’s ‘Poems.’” Wm. M. Payne.

+ Dial. 39: 272. N. 1, ‘05. 270w.

“We quote a poem which will illustrate both his musical grave way and the destructive and unpoetical philosophy that he had acquired.”

+ Lond. Times. 4: 177. Je. 9, ‘05. 910w.

“A volume of decadent poetry, so called, of exceptionally fine quality.”

+ + Nation. 81: 302. O. 12, ‘05. 440w.

“The poems before us justify the praise Mr. Symons bestows upon them. They vibrate with feeling, and are stamped with reality, as having been lived before they were phrased.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 678. O. 14, ‘05. 660w.

“We may well believe that a few of these poems at least will live and be treasured, never indeed by the many, but by those who are sensitive to music and choice expression, and to sentiment that is genuine, however fatally stamped with too much sadness, born of disease.”

+ + — Sat. R. 99: 808. Je. 17, ‘05. 1430w.

Doyle, (Arthur) Conan. Return of Sherlock Holmes. $1.50. McClure.

Thirteen short stories which chronicle the last adventures of the famous detective, who now retires from the public gaze to end his days on his Sussex bee-farm. There is the story of the mystery of the second stain, the adventure of the priory school, the adventure of the six Napoleons and others of equal mystery.

“Mr. Holmes is so interesting that he might easily be more so. Moreover, he is not so accurate as of yore.”

+ + — Ath. 1905, 1: 397. Ap. 1. 530w.

“The novelist has not shown anything like as much ingenuity in the construction of fresh problems as the detective shows in solving them.” Herbert W. Horwill.

+ + — Forum. 37: 106. Jl. ‘05. 1340w.

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w.

“Speaking generally, this volume does not average as high as its predecessors; but this is only because its best are not quite equal to the best he has told before.”

+ + Outlook. 79: 708. Mr. 18, ‘05. 360w.

104“The stolen examination paper, the missing foot-ball player, and the professional blackmailer, for all his miserable death, seem rather small game for the redoubtable Holmes after the stirring scenes of his earlier days.”

+ Pub. Opin. 38: 346. Mr. 4, ‘05. 380w.

“The new stories are not so fresh as the old, not so ingenious, nor do they offer that full measure of breathless suspense without which the fiction of crime is only weariness and vexation.”

+ — R. of Rs. 31: 762. Je. ‘05. 170w.

Doyle, Edward. Haunted temple and other poems. $1. Edward Doyle, 247 W. 125th st., N. Y.

“The haunted temple” by the blind poet of Harlem is a criticism of life. The temple is builded of “the lifeless dross of the heart and the spirit,” the law of construction is “antipodal—not one, with that of the ascending stars and the sun.” Introspection and poetic fervor mark this work and the accompanying poems.

+ Critic. 47: 383. O. ‘05. 50w.

“A daring and somewhat unregulated imagination is the chief characteristic.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ — Dial. 39: 68. Ag. 1, ‘05. 190w.

“Many of his verses are deeply religious in tone and are healthily, almost buoyantly trustful, with an entire absence of morbidness.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 585. S. 9, ‘05. 270w.

Drayton, Michael. Poems. $1.25. Scribner.

“The latest edition to the ‘Newnes’ pocket classics.’ ... Instead of attempting to show every side of Drayton’s work in so narrow a compass, the editor has wisely selected only the best side, and has accordingly presented a very full collection of his shorter pieces.”—Outlook.

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 296. My. 6, ‘05. 80w.

+ Outlook. 79: 1015, Ap. 22, ‘05. 90w.

Driscoll, Clara. Girl of La Gloria; il. by Hugh W. Ditzler. †$1.50. Putnam.

This love story of Texas, which pictures the rough but romantic life on the plains, is the story of a young New Yorker who falls in love with a girl who is the last of an old Mexican family whose estates have gradually been taken from them by the Americans.

“Miss Driscoll can tell a tale with freshness and an engaging individuality. She has not quite got the knack either of omitting unessential details, or of saving essential ones from being a trifle tedious.”

+ — Acad. 68: 495. My. 6. ‘05. 310w.

“The author’s diction is commonplace, and her grammar none too sound.”

— — Ath. 1905, 1: 556. My. 6. 120w.

“The story is really too good, as stories go, to be treated altogether flippantly.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ — Bookm. 21: 601. Ag. ‘05. 170w.

“It is a very little story and very simple.”

+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 160. Mr. 11, ‘05. 270w.

“And nothing in particular to recommend or condemn it.”

+ — Outlook. 79: 705. Mr. 18, ‘05. 20w.

+ — Reader. 6: 120. Je. ‘05. 90w.

Drummond, William Henry. Voyageur, and other poems. **$1.25. Putnam.

The new French-Canadian poems which make up this volume sing sadly and gayly, by turns, of the hunter, and the pioneer, of home and of country, of youth and of “The last portage” when “De moon an’ de star above is gone, yet somet’ing tell me I mus’ go on.”

“It is only when the author forsakes his patois, and writes in the English tongue, that he lays himself open to serious fault-finding.”

+ — Ath. 1905, 2: 300. S. 2. 390w.

“Heartily can we commend every page of Dr. Drummond’s latest volume.”

+ + Critic. 47: 287. S. ‘05. 190w.

“The patois is not beautiful in itself, and to many readers it may seem a little barbarous; but it is Mr. Drummond’s true material, for the dialect songs have a merit which is absent in the few pieces written in ordinary English.”

+ Spec. 95: 391. S. 16, ‘05. 500w.

Dubois, Dr. Paul. Psychic treatment of nervous disorders; tr. from the French by Smith Ely Jelliffe, and William A. White. *$3. Funk.

The author both a psychologist and physician gives in this volume of nearly 450 pages the experience and principles of psychic treatment of nervous disorders based upon twenty years of successful specialization and practice in this branch of medical skill. “The strong optimistic tenor of the book, its simple untechnical language, and the directness with which its philosophy is applied to life, make it capable of becoming a vital fact not merely to physicians but to every one who has pondered on the relations between the psychic and the physical.”

“The charm of Dr. Dubois’s style is preserved in spite of the difficulties and occasional errors of translation. The entire absence of pedantry, the constant good nature and wit, a marked dramatic and rhetorical instinct and honest zeal make his book one of the most readable in medical or psychological literature.”

+ + + Lit. D. 31: 497. O. 7, ‘05. 940w.

Duckworth, W. L. H. Morphology and anthropology: a handbook for students. *$4.50. Macmillan.

“Mr. Duckworth defines the subject-matter of his book as an inquiry into (1) man’s zoölogical position: (2) the nature of his ancestry.... In the classification adopted by Mr. Duckworth, man retains the position assigned to him by Huxley.... Nor has the evidence which has accumulated in the last thirty-three years permitted Mr. Duckworth to make a more definite statement as to the ancestral chain ... of man than was made by Darwin in his first edition of the ‘Descent of man’ in 1871.”—Nature.

“Within the limits at his disposal he has been able to marshal his facts and inferences in a methodical and convincing manner.”

+ + + Ath. 1905, 1: 533. Ap. 29. 740w.

“It would not be just to close this review without acknowledging the number of original facts and fresh opinions that mark the pages of this work. The opening chapters are perhaps too condensed. The chapters on the cerebral organization are specially well done, and contain the best exposition yet published of our knowledge of that part of the Primate organization.” A. K.

+ + + Nature. 71: 433. Mr. 9, ‘05. 1690w.

“Duckworth’s observations strike us in the main very favorably, as both candid and judicious. A very good and useful handbook.” T. D.

+ + Science, n.s. 22: 398. S. 29, ‘05. 680w.

“Is an invaluable piece of exact work, somewhat beyond the needs of the general reader, but admirably adapted to those of the student.”

+ + + Spec. 94: 787, My. 27, ‘05. 180w.

* Duclaux, Mary (Mary Darmesteter) (Agnes Mary Frances Robinson). Fields of France: little essays in descriptive sociology. $6. Lippincott.

Madame Duclaux’s interesting description of France and the French is now reissued as “a beautiful quarto with twenty reproductions of water-color sketches by W. B. Macdougall, chiefly in illustration of French dwellings from farm-houses to chateaux.... The seven divisions of the book carry one from Normandy to Provence with apparently equal sympathy and shrewd observation.” (Nation.)

105* “One of the most gorgeous of holiday books, and one that deserves to be read from cover to cover, not only because of its subject but for its literary style as well.”

+ Critic. 47: 580. D. ‘05. 30w.

* “Altogether this is a delightful book.”

+ Nation. 81: 446. N. 30, ‘05. 310w.

* “Altogether she has made an instructive and attractive book.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 877. D. 9, ‘05. 420w.

* “The artist’s work is often amateurish and the arrangement of the pictures awkward.”

+ — Sat. R. 100: 692. N. 25, ‘05. 180w.

Dudley, Albertus True. In the line. †$1.25. Lee.

The third volume in the “Phillips Exeter” series tells the story of a sturdy Boston boy who having worked up to the position of guard on the football team is forbidden by his father to play in one of the crucial games of the season. Opportunity is thus given for arguments on both sides of the much-discussed football question.

“Except in so far as it lends encouragement to football ... the book is bent to encourage all sorts of good things—honesty, democracy, morality, courage, a harmless gayety.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 572. S. 2, ‘05. 230w.

Duff, Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant. Notes from a diary, 1896-1901. 2v. *$4. Dutton.

These volumes close the notes from a diary which contains the record of half-a century ending as the reign of Edward VII. begins. Sir Mountstuart has avoided the chief interests of his life, politics and administration but has preserved “some interesting and amusing things that would otherwise have soon disappeared,” anecdotes, bits of verse, stories of travels, of dinners, and of visits among the most brilliant men of his time.

“Very entertaining volumes. They paint the manners of the time more graphically than any novelist has been able to do.”

+ + Acad. 68: 356. Ap. 1, ‘05. 1090w.

“They are a treasure-house of entertainment. There is a good deal of pleasant classical lore; there are riddles, too, and jokes galore, so that the ordinary man as well as the scholar should be pleased.”

+ + Ath. 1905, 1: 456. Ap. 15. 1610w.

* “A mirror of the times indeed and it is with sincere regret that I read Sir Mountstuart’s ultimatum that these volumes are his last.” Jeannette L. Gilder.

+ + Critic. 46: 508. Je. ‘05. 950w.

“Though by no means dull reading are a little cloying if taken in course and at a sitting.”

+ Dial. 38: 419. Je. 16, ‘05. 450w.

+ + Nation. 80: 508. Je. 22, ‘05. 1080w.

“They are bed-candle reading. As such they will divert, interest, and offer diverse suggestion to different people.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 316. My. 13, ‘05. 1350w.

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.

“Not an unkind word enters these pages. The author is amiable both by nature and grace. He is an accomplished raconteur.”

+ + Outlook. 80: 542. Je. 24, ‘05. 1020w.

+ + R. of Rs. 32: 124. Jl. ‘05. 130w.

“He has made such a contribution to the gaiety of the world as seldom comes from a single pen.”

+ + Spec. 94: 641. Ap. 29, ‘05. 1960w.

Duignan, W. H. Worcestershire place names. *$2.40. Oxford.

A glossary which brings the history and place names of Worcestershire down to date and “has more than a merely local interest; for the English place names, which nearly all have their root in Anglo-Saxon, occur again and again throughout the whole country, and in them England’s early history is latent.” (Nation.)

+ + Ath. 1905, 2: 236. Ag. 19. 250w.

“It is not surpassed in excellence by any other work of its class with which I am acquainted.” Henry Bradley.

+ + + Eng. Hist. R. 20: 603. Jl. ‘05. 590w.

Nation. 80: 501. Je. 22, ‘05. 200w.

Dumas, Alexandre. Three musketeers. $1.25. Crowell.

This novel running almost to the six hundred page limit, depicting the court life of France during the closing years of Louis XII’s reign and the opening years of the Grand Monarch is in this edition fashioned after the “Thin paper classics” model. It offers a complete revised translation with introduction and cast of characters by J. Walker McSpadden.

Dumas, Alexandre. Twenty years after. $1.25. Crowell.

An edition of Dumas’ novel which is uniform with the “Thin paper classics.”

Dunbar, Agnes B. C. Dictionary of saintly women. 2v. ea. *$4. Macmillan.

In volume one “the author has collected the facts and legends concerning thousands of Catholic saints, canonized or beatified maids and matrons, from ancient Britain to the Japan of the seventeenth century, their austerities and charities, their martyrdoms and miracles.” (Outlook.) Volume two draws its material mainly from the “Acta sanctorum,” and “the author’s survey extends over the whole church before the parting of the East from the West, the Western church as a whole to the Reformation, and afterward the Roman church. Besides being of value as a pious work, the dictionary will also be useful as a work of reference.” (N. Y. Times.)

“It is written with ardent sympathy and with a highly respectable erudition.”

+ + Cath. World. 81: 843. S. ‘05. 160w. (Review of v. 1.)

“Every statement is accredited to a certain writer.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 261. Ap. 22, ‘05. 280w. (Review of v. 1.)

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 726. O. 28, ‘05. 110w. (Review of v. 2.)

* “But Miss Dunbar has worked out the problem in each case, and made a remarkably complete book—the only one of the kind in English we think.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 899. D. 16, ‘05. 480w. (Review of v. 2.)

+ Outlook. 79: 960. Ap. 15, ‘05. 90w. (Review of v. 1.)

+ + Outlook. 81: 574. N. 4, ‘05. 60w. (Review of v. 2.)

Dunbar, Charles Franklin. Economic essays. **$2.50. Macmillan.

“The volume now before us brings together fifteen essays which had been published in various journals, chiefly in the Quarterly journal of economics, and adds thereto five others which have never before seen the light. With the former, the task of the editor was comparatively simple; the latter, by the pious care of a disciple, have been brought ‘as nearly as possible into the form which the author would have wished’ to give them. The introduction by Professor Taussig, carefully avoiding mere eulogy, is the fit tribute of a student to a revered master. While the book cannot repair, except in slightest measure, the loss which economic science suffered in Professor Dunbar’s death, it is a worthy memorial to one who contributed so much, as teacher, editor, and investigator, to the progress of economic study in the United States.”—Nation.

“Especially helpful are the chapters on the panic of 1857 and the description of the state banking systems in the middle of the century. Serve as admirable examples of interesting 106and intelligible generalizations based upon trade and banking statistics.” D. R. D.

+ + + Am. Hist. R. 11: 203. O. ‘05. 300w.

“Some of those essays are models of careful research. The easy literary style in which they are written should make the volume one of unusual interest to the general public as well as of value to the student.”

+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 339. Mr. ‘05. 250w.

“He separates fact from fancy, and presents the results of scientific inquiry, largely in the field of banking and currency, in an eminently judicious and scholarly manner.” Arthur B. Woodford.

+ + Dial. 39: 112. S. 1, ‘05. 320w.

+ + Ind. 59: 395. Ag. 17, ‘05. 160w.

“While it does not do full justice to his attainments, the present volume gives sufficient evidence of Professor Dunbar’s firm hold upon his science in its broadest relations, his skill in handling questions of the day, and his special aptitude for patient and fruitful historical research. All [the five now printed for the first time] display the nice workmanship of the author, and must be reckoned with by him who would write the definitive history of our banking system.”

+ + + Nation. 80: 159. F. 23, ‘05. 830w.

R. of Rs. 31: 510. Ap. ‘05. 80w.

* “It is hardly too much to say that an hundred pages may be selected from Professor Dunbar’s writings which are as well worth preservation and careful study as a similar number of pages in the works of any of the great masters of the science since Adam Smith. Certainly there is no American economist whose writings deserve a higher rank.” G. S. C.

+ + + Yale. R. 14: 328. N. ‘05. 1000w.

* Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Howdy, honey, howdy. **$1.50. Dodd.

“In this collection of verse the ... many-gifted lyrist of his race strikes again almost exclusively those chords of pathos and humor, in purely dialect verse, which have won for the author a quite unique position among America’s ‘minor poets’ of to-day. The publishers have rendered the volume very attractive by adding to the racy metrical text characteristic photographs and tasteful decorations; the former by Leigh Richmond Miner; the latter by Will Jenkins.”—Critic.

* + Critic. 47: 583. D. ‘05. 80w.

* “Mr. Dunbar’s part in the volume needs no description, save to say that it is in his characteristic vein and well up to his usual standard in quality.”

+ Dial. 39: 386. D. 1, ‘05. 130w.

* + Nation. 81: 381. N. 9, ‘05. 60w.

* + N. Y. Times. 10: 746. N. 4, ‘05. 290w.

Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Lyrics of sunshine and shadow. **$1. Dodd.

About eighty poems are grouped here which range from the grave to the gay. The author keeps well to his special field of folk lore. A number of the poems are in negro dialect, “portraying the pranks and plottings of a rollicking pickaninny world.”

“His present volume is in no wise disappointing: as in its predecessors we find in ‘Lyrics of sunshine and shadow’ a rich sympathy with the homely characteristic themes treated and a happy deftness in the management of rhyme and rhythm.”

+ + Critic. 47: 383. O. ‘05. 100w.

“Mr. Dunbar’s poetic inspiration is slender but sincere. He is at his best in simple ballad measures, writing of the common joys of health and out-of-doors.”

+ Nation. 81: 17. Jl. 6, ‘05. 190w.

Duncan, Edmondstoune. Schubert. $1.25. Dutton.

Modern methods of compilation are employed, modern demands for the conditioning forces of a career are met, and the modern accompaniment of illustrative matter is supplied in this complete life of Schubert recently added to the “Master musicians series.” The biography of Schubert, Schubert the man, and Schubert the musician constitute the three divisions for treatment.

* “His little book is for the most part dull, flat and prosy, overloaded with trivial details, in the midst of which the real essentials are lost sight of.”

— — Ind. 59: 990. O. 26, ‘05. 250w.

“The chief fault of Mr. Duncan’s book is a curious habit of repeating biographic details or criticisms in different sections of it. Some of his best and most important things are printed in footnote type in the bibliography.”

+ + — Nation. 81: 170. Ag. 24, ‘05. 700w.

“An agreeable and generally trustworthy biography.” Richard Aldrich.

+ + — N. Y. Times. 10: 604. S. 16, ‘05. 730w.

“It brings out facts not before known, though it is far from being an ideal biography.”

+ + — Outlook. 80: 695. Jl. 15, ‘05. 330w.

* “His own observations are marked not only by the warm personal affection which Schubert invariably inspires in his admirers, but by excellent taste and sound critical judgment.”

+ + Spec. 95: 763. N. 11, ‘05. 310w.

Duncan, Frances. Mary’s garden and how it grew. †$1.25. Century.

Mary is typically the child enthusiast, while her instructor, the kind Herr Trummel, “gardener, horticulturist, retired florist, and above all, Switzer,” teaches her the simple forms of practical, scientific gardening. Aside from the tale of good comradeship existing between the gray haired gardener and the little “Liebchen,” the book is a practical handbook of instruction for all garden makers. It covers the possibilities for the different months, showing what may be accomplished in winter as well as in the favorable summer time. The illustrations by Lee Woodward Zeigler are suggestively good.

“Miss Duncan’s little book, with its helpful illustrations, will do the best sort of missionary work. Her knowledge of her subject is intimate and her teaching technically sound; her graceful English....”

+ + Critic. 46: 287. Mr. ‘05. 160w.

Duncan, Norman. Dr. Grenfell’s parish, the deep sea fishermen. **$1. Revell.

In this book the author’s “freight is fact ... and the language is vigorous. What he calls Dr. Grenfell’s parish is the long, rocky coast of Labrador and of Newfoundland ... where Dr. Grenfell has labored, and is laboring, sailing the icy seas in fog and storm and tending the bodies (and minding somewhat also the souls) of the scattered dwellers in a vast, drear, country, which is less desolate since he came into it. Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell is an Englishman, and he is commissioned by the ‘Royal national mission to deep sea fishermen.’ ... Mr. Duncan’s account is chiefly concerned, not with the doctor, but with his monster parish and the inhabitants of it.”—N. Y. Times.

“It is a better and more interesting piece of work than either of its predecessors from the same pen.”

+ + Ath. 1905, 1: 591. My. 13. 450w.

“By his literary gift Mr. Duncan opens the eyes of the least imaginative to the significance of the work he describes.”

+ Critic. 46: 471. My. ‘05. 280w.

N. Y. Times. 10: 182. Mr. 25, ‘05. 670w. (Condensed narrative of book).

+ Outlook. 79: 705. Mr. 18, ‘05. 170w.

Pub. Opin. 38: 508. Ap. 1, ‘05. 130w.

“This is indeed a different, and a better tale from any figment of the imagination. It reaches the heart with the force of verity.”

+ + Reader. 6: 117. Je. ‘05. 460w.

Spec. 94: 598. Ap. 22, ‘05. 500w.

107Duncan, Norman. Dr. Luke of the Labrador. †$1.50. Revell.

Mr. Duncan “has added a new province to the realm of literature. The gray ice-bound fields of Labrador, those stern, grim seas, that virile, simple folk, and its life of tragic monotony,—these things are now possessions to the imagination, possessions of enduring value.” (R. of Rs.) “Doctor Luke is a philanthropist, who, putting aside an early career of dissipation, devotes his life to relieving distress on the bleak coasts of Labrador.” (Ind.)

Reviewed by G. W. A.

+ + Bookm. 21: 543. Jl. ‘05. 500w.

“With his keen faculty for seizing the essentials and dismissing the superfluous, Mr. Duncan has brought us face to face not only with the rigors and romance of life on the Labrador coast, but with its humor as well—and a varying humor it is, now droll and again grim, but always an accurate depiction. A romance full of interest and charm.”

+ + + Ind. 58: 210. Ja. 26, ‘05. 280w.

“There is a group of figures of excellent variety and of the best sort of originality, self-stamped as made up of discovery and sympathetic interpretation. The story is perfectly fitted into the strange, wild surroundings.”

+ + Nation. 80: 97. F. 2, ‘05. 540w.

“As an organic, thoroughly-developed novel, it is a failure.”

+ — Reader. 5: 789. My. ‘05. 210w.

“A novel of unusually high merit. But Mr. Duncan has not only a new field to exploit, he has style. The swift yet long and undulating sentences move with a distinctive rhythm that is as fresh as it is new. They tell a strong, beautiful love story. Altogether, ‘Dr. Luke of the Labrador’ is one of the season’s two or three best books.”

+ + + R. of Rs. 31: 118. Ja. ‘05. 170w.

Duncan, Norman. Mother. †$1.25. Revell.

Mr. Duncan “lets heaven into the attic shekinah of a vaudeville actress, where she kept her child. Her love for him was the holy effulgence that covered her pitiful, painted life, and sanctified her. It is a fine argument for the way to heaven in women, dramatically expressed and quaintly proved, even if we leave out the philosophy of the ‘dog-face’ man, which to appreciate one must read.”—Ind.

* “The treatment is at once realistic and idealistic, and the two elements do not at all times blend quite harmoniously.”

+ — Critic. 47: 577. D. ‘05. 170w.

“Norman Duncan’s new story, ‘The mother,’ gives the impression that he wrote it with his light turned a trifle too high and with his keynote of pathos taken an octave above where the reader’s sympathies reach comfortably.”

+ — Ind. 59: 986. O. 26, ‘05. 130w.

* “Altogether, in delicate balance of humor and pathos, in quick clutch upon the heartstrings, in revealing vividness of imagination, the art and spirit of ‘The mother,’ put it in the noble class of ‘Rab and his friends.’”

+ + Lit. D. 31: 753. N. 18, ‘05. 540w.

* Outlook. 81: 683. N. 18, ‘05. 60w.

* + — Outlook. 81: 711. N. 25, ‘05. 50w.

“Mr. Duncan has consistently progressed in his art, but in no instance more than in ‘The mother.’”

+ Pub. Opin. 39: 574. O. 28, ‘05. 200w.

Duncan, Robert Kennedy. New knowledge: a popular account of the new physics and the new chemistry in their relation to the new theory of matter. **$2. Barnes.

“A popular account of the new theory of matter and the relations of the new physics and new chemistry to other sciences.... The discovery of Becquerel and the Curies and its consequences form mainly the subject matter of the book. The author treats of current conceptions, the periodic law, gaseous ions, natural radio-activity, the resolution of the atom, inorganic evolution, and the new knowledge and old problems. There are numerous illustrations.”—N. Y. Times.

“Although some little fault might be found with the arrangement of the book, Prof. Duncan has succeeded in his main object. When allowance is made for the faults here enumerated, the book remains the best of its kind that we have read.”

+ + — Ath. 1905, 1: 787. Je. 24. 1450w.

+ + — Critic. 47: 287. S. ‘05. 100w.

“It is not too much to say that no intelligent person can afford to permit this book to go unread. We have failed to find in the book any important inaccuracy, despite the fact that the field covered is so large and the subject-matter so difficult.”

+ + + Educ. R. 30: 310. O. ‘05. 740w.

“The style out-flammarions Flammarion in its vividness and its occasional verse quotations. So also is its all-embracing scope an expression of the author’s literary enthusiasm rather than of his scientific earnestness.”

+ + — Engin. N. 53: 641. Je. 15, ‘05. 490w.

+ + + Ind. 58: 1015. My. 4, ‘05. 360w.

“This work is the first attempt which I have seen to bring into suitable compass, in an intelligible manner, the various problems which are occupying the attention of many physicists and chemists. There are few errors, and these are unimportant. Whether the author might not have omitted much fine writing is a question of taste.” W. R.

+ + — Nature. 72: 241. Jl. 13, ‘05. 1310w.

N. Y. Times. 10: 121. F. 25, ‘05. 300w.

“His descriptions and explanations are clear even to a layman.”

+ + + N. Y. Times. 10: 514. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1060w.

“The author has the rare faculty of infusing life into scientific discussion.”

+ + Outlook. 80: 194. My. 20, ‘05. 210w.

* “Its author shows himself to be a man of wide reading, thorough scholarship, broad horizon and unmistakable literary talent. I do not find in it one single incorrect statement of fact.” R. A. Millikan.

+ + + Science, n.s. 22: 787. D. 15, ‘05. 520w.

“His book shows an admirable power of exposition, and the only fault that one can find with it is that its proofs have not been read with sufficient care, so that a certain number of slips have crept into its pages.”

+ + — Spec. 95: 154. Jl. 29, ‘05. 820w.

* Dunham, Edith. Jogging round the world. †$1.50. Stokes.

A book with an educational value for children. It is designed to give an idea of interesting characteristics of many parts of the world; it shows riders and drivers, with curious steeds or vehicles in strange lands and at home. Their story is further told by the pictures which give glimpses of the life and manners of remote people.

* + Nation. 81: 503. D. 21, ‘05. 30w.

Duniway, Mrs. Abigail Scott. From the West to the West: across the plains to Oregon. †$1.50. McClurg.

This account of a trip by wagon from Illinois to Oregon is too homely to be romantic. The details or daily hardships are given, and there are many characters each with its own story. The squaw-man, the Indian, the run-away slave, and the Mormon all appear in the course of the long journey. Death by the wayside, cholera, a stampede of cattle, and other happenings accentuate the reality of the story and of the long list of characters playing a part in it.

“The book affords an interesting though somewhat idealized picture of the early days, but makes no pretensions to historical or geographical accuracy.”

+ Dial. 39: 45. Jl. 16, ‘05. 150w.

108“The book is one which possesses no value as a novel, though it may inspire interest as a curiosity, not of literature, to be sure, but of story writing.”

— N. Y. Times. 10: 547. Ag. 19, ‘05. 370w.

Dunkerley, S. Mechanism. *$3. Longmans.

This new text book “opens with an introductory chapter in which the usual definitions occur relating to machines, kinematic chains, lower and higher pairs ... this is followed by a chapter ... on simple machines and machine tools. Chapters 3 and 4 deal chiefly with mechanisms of the quadric crank and double slider crank chain forms ... the pantograph finds an important place here.... The next two chapters deal with velocity and acceleration diagrams.... The remainder of the book deals with gear wheels, non-circular wheels and cams.... There is also a section devoted to gear-cutting machinery.... The illustrations are mainly line drawings.... A series of numerical examples at the end of the book will be of much value to students.”—Nature.

“A valuable text-book on mechanism.” E. G. C.

+ + Nature. 72: 4. My. 4, ‘05. 610w.

Dunn, Henry Treffry. Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his circle. **$1. Pott.

The author was at one time a pupil of Rossetti’s and an inmate of the house on Cheyne walk, and he gives reminiscences of the painter-poet and his circle, which are interesting, reliable, and full of anecdote.

“The editor has made too much of his function; the copiousness of his annotation is out of keeping with the sketchy character of the text, and his introduction is turbid and grandiloquent. Mr. Dunn’s reminiscences are rendered engaging by a certain simplicity and suavity. He gives a clear human outline to that figure of Rossetti of which the commentators have seemed disposed to make a kind of bogy.”—H. W. Boynton.

+ + — Atlan. 95: 422. Mr. ‘05. 760w.

“Simplicity of style. A graphic contribution to Rossettiana.”

+ Critic. 46: 283. Mr. ‘05. 60w.

Dunn, Jacob Piatt, jr. Indiana: a redemption from slavery. $1.25. Houghton.

“A revised edition of ‘Indiana’ in the ‘American commonwealth series.’ The author has increased its value in the revision by adding a chapter of about fifty pages on the history of the state since its admission to the Union. Otherwise, the changes made are slight.”—Am. Hist. R.

Am. Hist. R. 10: 724. Ap. ‘05. 60w.

Dial. 38: 277. Ap. 16, ‘05. 50w.

+ Nation. 81: 64. Jl. 20, ‘05. 270w.

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 358. Je. 3, ‘05. 710w.

Dunn, Martha Baker. Cicero in Maine, and other essays. **$1.25. Houghton.

Nine delightful essays republished from the “Atlantic,” including, besides the title essay: A plea for the shiftless reader; The meditations of an ex-school committee woman; Piazza philosophy; The Browning tonic; The book and the place; Concerning temperance and judgment to come; Book dusting time; and Education.

“Mrs. Dunn’s style is delightful.”

+ Dial. 39: 242. O. 16, ‘05. 500w.

“Thorough comprehension of the value of a sound, sensible, and cultivated upbringing for young people, added to clear-sighted judgment of present conditions and the mellowing glow of good reading spread over all, make an enviable equipment for a writer. All these are evident.”

+ + Outlook. 81: 428. O. 21, ‘05. 310w.

“Whether dispensing a mild dose of ‘Piazza philosophy’ or a strong potion of ‘Browning tonic,’ Mrs. Dunn may be counted on to cheer and not inebriate.”

+ Pub. Opin. 39: 636. N. 11, ‘05. 150w.

* Dunning, William Archibald. History of political theories from Luther to Montesquieu. **$2.50. Macmillan.

This volume “carries forward to the middle of the eighteenth century the work begun in the former volume, which was confined to ancient and mediaeval history.... Beginning with the reformation, Professor Dunning traces the history of anti-monarchic doctrines of the sixteenth century, the work of the Catholic controversialists and jurists, the law of nations as developed by Hugo Grotius, English political philosophy before and during the Puritan revolution, Continental theory during the age of Louis XIV., and finally, the epoch-making work of Montesquieu himself.”—R. of Rs.

* “The book is a piece of sound and conscientious work, and bears abundant testimony to the wideness of the Professor’s reading.”

+ + Acad. 68: 1134. O. 28, ‘05. 100w.

* + N. Y. Times. 10: 758. N. 11, ‘05. 550w.

* “The author is not obscure and is judicial.”

+ + Outlook. 81: 886. D. 9, ‘05. 610w.

* R. of Rs. 32: 510. O. ‘05. 110w.

Durham, M. Edith. Burden of the Balkans. $4. Longmans.

The author was sent to the Balkans by sympathetic English people to distribute relief to the starving inhabitants. She gives an interesting account of the discomforts she endured in the performance of her numerous duties, and the things which she saw among the peasants and in the hospitals. There is much of politics, and she pictures vividly the “lava bed of raw primeval passion ... into which no power dared thrust its fingers for fear of having them burned off.”

“It is easily and pleasantly written, and will give the reader who knows not the Near East a clearer insight into an irritating and unsolved problem than other more weighty and pretentious works.”

+ + Acad. 68: 338. Mr. 25, ‘05. 610w.

“A parting tribute must be paid to Miss Durham’s nervous and idiomatic English, characteristically that of an educated and refined woman, unspoiled by grammars.” Wallace Rice.

+ + Dial. 38: 384. Je. 1, ‘05. 560w.

“Gives a positive picture of conditions there.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 245. Ap. 15, ‘05. 1370w.

“Her enthusiasm adds to the charm and does not detract from the value of these descriptions by an intelligent eyewitness of little known conditions in obscure places.”

+ Reader. 6: 241. Jl. ‘05. 310w.

Dwight, Henry Otis, ed. Blue book of missions for 1905. **$1. Funk.

A book containing detailed facts and statistics regarding all missions and missionary societies, both Protestant and Roman Catholic thruout the world. Its information is indexed in handy compendium form for clergymen, missionaries and students.

Outlook. 79: 906. Ap. 8, ‘05. 110w.

Dwight, Henry Otis; Tupper, Henry Allen R.; and Bliss, Edwin Munsell, eds. Encyclopedia of missions; descriptive, historical, biographical, statistical. **$6. Funk.

In this second and revised edition there is less than two-thirds the amount of matter given in the first edition of thirteen years ago. It contains “data relating to some 5000 cities and towns and villages which are of present importance to the missionary enterprise.” There is also a number of special articles of unusual 109value, prepared by experts. Another excellent feature is the bibliography that follows special articles upon countries, mission boards, religion and races, as well as some other subjects. (Ind.)

“We commend the general appearance of the work, its clear typography and evidence of careful editing. There is much in this new and admirable encyclopedia to commend. The absence of an index is inexcusable.”

+ + — Ind. 58: 614. Mr. 16, ‘05. 770w.

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 574. S. 2, ‘05. 680w.

Dyer, Henry. Dai Nippon: a study in national evolution. *$3.50. Scribner.

The latest book on Japan by Dr. Henry Dyer, “a hard-headed, thick-skinned Scotchman,” belongs to the literature of knowledge, and will interest especially those who like unembroidered facts and plenty of statistics and tables, and who hate anything like “fine writing,” eloquence or “gush.” The author who established the College of engineering in Japan, has since his return to Great Britain kept in touch with the makers of modern Japan, and “out of the intellectual kinship thus engendered has grown the present work, designed to afford the foreign reader an adequate idea of the spiritual, moral, mental, and material Japan of to-day.” (Outlook). The book does not aim to be a history of Japan, but is rather a study of the influences which have made the country “a member of the community of nations.” The subjects discussed at length are education, the army and navy, means of communication, industrial development, art industries, commerce, food supply, colonization, constitutional government, administration, finance, international relations, foreign politics, social results, the future, and recent events.

“Excellent as the present volume is—among the most lucid and fruitful that have appeared in recent years upon Japan—it is, of necessity, uncritical—accepts the Japanese estimate of themselves and the estimates of their perfervid admirers almost without examination.”

+ + — Ath. 1905. 1: 8. Ja. 7. 1430w.

“States all that he sees and knows in terms of plainest common sense. In one point Dr. Dyer has excelled all other writers on Japan. He shows clearly and forcibly, as well as copiously, what the great army of Yatoi, hired assistants and salaried organizers and advisers, in the days of their youth and strength thirty years ago, did for the Japanese in raising their ideals and pointing the way to future success.”

+ + — Dial. 38: 92. F. 1, ‘05. 540w.

* “He marshals many facts frequently overlooked by writers on twentieth century Japan, but essential to a proper appreciation of the problems—social, religious, economic, and political—now confronting the country.”

+ + Lit. D. 31: 625. O. 28, ‘05. 270w.

“Untrustworthy in theories, perhaps no other single volume gives so wide and correct a view of the main facts in the several phases of Japanese national life.”

+ — Nation. 80: 337. Ap. 27, ‘05. 2710w.

“A treatise of so comprehensive and illuminating a character as to warrant its inclusion in the front rank of works aiming to present in compact form an authoritative account of the evolution and present stage of development of the Island empire. It is in the author’s discussion of Japanese problems that the highest value of his work lies. Mr. Dyer gives a far better idea than do the majority of writers of the part played by foreigners in the growth of Japan. It is heavy with repetitions not only of idea but of phrase; its diction is at times strangely awkward and at times imbued with the flavor of the ‘blue book’; while inexactitudes of statement are occasionally to be detected.”

+ + + Outlook. 79: 497. F. 25, ‘05. 1720w.

Dyer, Louis. Machiavelli and the modern state. *$1. Ginn.

“The volume is made up of three chapters, originally delivered as lectures in England in 1899, under the titles ‘The prince and Cæsar Borgia,’ ‘Machiavelli’s use of history,’ ‘Machiavelli’s idea of morals.’ The author was formerly an assistant professor at Harvard.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

“What we have is a series of remarks, some of them on Machiavelli and none on the modern state.... The ‘brilliant allusiveness’ of the style, the great number of irrelevancies, and the florid overtranslations....” Edward S. Corwin.

+ — Am. Hist. R. 10: 685. Ap. ‘05. 240w.

“A valuable little volume.”

Am. J. of Theol. 9: 381. Ap. ‘05. 310w.

Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 129. Ja. ‘05. 40w.

“Mr. Dyer, however, without any of Mr. Morley’s charm or Macaulay’s zest, does contrive to say a good deal that is valuable in the course of these most interesting lectures.”

+ Ath. 1905, 1: 462. Ap. 15, 510w.

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Earle, Maria Theresa (Mrs. Charles W. Earle). Garden colour; with fifty full-page il. by Margaret Waterfield. *$6. Dutton.

“An English collaborated production ... fifty-one colored plates ... which are from water colors by Miss Margaret Waterfield. Miss Waterfield herself writes the garden notes for the various months, giving advice in regard to cultivation only incidentally, but chiefly in regard to artistic arrangement—those methods of planting whereby each plant or shrub shows its own beauties to best advantage, while at the same time enhancing those of its neighbors.... It is the principles rather than the actual facts that the various writers wish in this case to enforce. Miss Waterfield’s collaborators include Mrs. C. W. Earle, Miss Rose Kingsley, and other well-known English garden lovers and writers.”—Dial.

Country Calendar. 1: 109L. Je. ‘05. 90w.

“One who has considered the subject only casually will certainly get some inspiring suggestions from both pictures and text.” Edith Granger.

+ + Dial. 38: 380. Je. 1, ‘05. 480w.

+ + Ind. 58: 1257. Je. 1, ‘05. 130w.

“The contributed text is not so uniformly good as the plates.”

+ + — Nation. 80: 445. Je. 1, ‘05. 420w.

“This book is notable both from the standpoint of nature lover and bibliophile.” Mabel Osgood Wright.

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 369. Je. 10, ‘05. 480w.

Eastman, Charles A. Red hunters and the animal people. **$1.25. Harper.

“In the red man’s philosophy, as interpreted by the author, himself a full blooded Sioux, the beasts of the fields and the birds of the air are the brothers of their human fellow creatures. The four-footed and feathered tribes also, in the same philosophy, regard the red man as a brother. They are the animal people, and these stories are stories of them as such—stories which differ not as widely as might be wished from the white man’s animal tales now so numerous.”—N. Y. Times.

“One of the most original and delightful books about animal life that have appeared for a long time, full of interest and information not to be found in text-books. The book is simply and pleasantly written, with no affectation or mannerism.”

+ + Acad. 68: 105. F. 4, ‘05. 210w.

110“With no literary art whatever at his command, he has mistakenly chosen to cast his material in the form of short stories, and has failed with them.”

— Critic. 46: 478. My. ‘05. 120w.

“Is likely at first to be a little disappointing, it is so plain, so lacking in art or artifice. After Mr. Long and Mr. Thompson-Seton, it is like bread-and-butter after dessert. But it nearly, if not quite, justifies the simile, for if the reader sustains his interest long enough his taste will approve the rather homely fare.”

+ + Dial. 38: 158. Mr. 1, ‘05. 230w.

+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 47. Ja. 21, ‘05. 430w.

“The book is entertaining as fiction, valuable because of the light it throws on Indian life, and largely interesting as one of the few contributions to our literature made by an Indian.”

+ + Reader. 6: 118. Je. ‘05. 230w.

“This is a very pleasing book.”

+ + Spec. 94: 683. My. 6, ‘05. 180w.

Eastman, Helen. New England ferns and their common allies; an easy method of determining the species. *$1.25. Houghton.

“It is a merit of this book that it includes ... the lycopodiums and equisetums, club-mosses and horse-tails. Each plant is provided with a picture, from the press ... and even the unusual varieties and hybrids are included.... The descriptions are good and brief.”—Ind.

“We wish the author had not given us so many fancy English names that have no authority. But it is a good book, and we are particularly glad for the horse-tails and club-mosses.”

+ + — Ind. 58: 268. F. 2, ‘05. 320w.

Eccles, Robert Gibson. Food preservatives, their advantages and proper use; the practical versus the theoretical side of the pure food problem; with an introd. by E. W. Duckwall. $1; pa. 50c. Van Nostrand.

A volume which sets forth the pure food problem as it is found in practice and theory. “A valuable part of the book is that devoted to showing how little evidence there is for the assumption, commonly made even by chemists, that the process of fermentation is so similar to that of digestion that whatever prevents the one must impair the other.” (Ind.)

“It contains much special pleading, but this is justified by the excessive amount of special pleading that has been done, both in and out of court, against the use of preservatives.”

+ + — Ind. 58: 960. Ap. 27, ‘05. 430w.

* Eckel, Edwin C. Cements, limes and plasters: their materials, manufacture, and properties. *$6. Wiley.

The composition and character of the raw materials, the methods of manufacture, and the properties of the various cementing materials are treated in this volume, which is designed for the use of the working engineer. Complete reference lists are given for the benefit of those who wish to make a further study of the subject treated.

* “This is an exceedingly valuable and well-nigh exhaustive work. It is by far the most valuable work on the several subjects that it treats that we have met, and in our judgment may be rightly considered a masterpiece of compilation.”

+ + + Science, n.s. 22: 522. O. 27, ‘05. 450w.

Eckenrode, Hamilton James. Political history of Virginia during the reconstruction. 50c. Hopkins.

The author “concerns himself almost altogether with the political parties of the reconstruction era. He relates the history of the

Alexandria government, ... and discusses quite fully President Johnson’s attitude toward the Southern states at the close of the Civil war.... He shows that the Republican party in Virginia was for the most part opposed to unlimited negro suffrage, until the Philadelphia convention of 1866, when ‘manhood’ suffrage became a party measure.”—R. of Rs.

“The method of the author is truly critical, the use of the sources satisfactory, ... and the conclusions arrived at are unquestionably justifiable and as accurate as the nature of the subject will permit.” William E. Dodd.

+ + + Am. Hist. R. 10: 700. Ap. ‘05. 450w.

R. of Rs. 30: 756. D. ‘04. 140w.

Eckman, George P. Young man with a program, and other sermons to young men. *50c. Meth. bk.

The purpose of these sermons is to offer practical reasons to young men for yielding themselves to the sovereignty of Jesus Christ. They treat of the young man and his capital, the young man in his house, at his work, the young man with ambition, the young man and his meditation, and his opportunities, and finally the young man and the supreme passion.

Edgington, T. B. Monroe doctrine. $3. Little.

The author, an attorney of over forty years’ practice at the bar of Memphis, Tenn., has brought to his task a long professional experience and an extended study of original sources of information. Altho new material abounds in this presentation of the Monroe doctrine,—including the treaty establishing the Hague tribunal, the Venezuelan boundary case, the settlement of the European claims against Venezuela, and the Panama canal treaty and concession, “its origin, its history, and its application to various exigencies are in this book described with no little narrative skill, with clearness, and with judicial spirit.” (Outlook).

“The book contains errors of fact as well as of judgment. The most serious imperfections are due to a lack of experience in handling sources, especially a lack of acquaintance with public documents. Notwithstanding grave defects the book is interestingly written and suggestive.” John H. Latané.

+ — Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 601. My. ‘05. 370w.

Reviewed by Winthrop More Daniels.

Atlan. 95: 553. Ap. ‘05. 360w.

“Mr. Edgington preserves a calm and historical spirit in all his comments on the interesting subjects of which he treats, and the argumentation in which he not infrequently indulges is that of a candid jurisconsult rather than that of a partisan.” James Oscar Pierce.

+ + + Dial. 38: 122. F. 16, ‘05. 1190w.

Edmunds, Albert Joseph. Buddhist and Christian gospels: being Gospel parallels from Pali texts. *$1.50. Open ct.

The third edition, complete, and edited with notes by Prof. Anesaki of the imperial University of Tokio. The editor “holds to the independence of the fundamental documents of the Buddhist and the Christian scriptures. He only raises the question whether the Gospel of Luke, ‘in certain traits extraneous to the synoptical narrative,’ is indebted to a Buddhist source. This question he submits to the reader who compares the parallel texts here presented. Much more than merely such parallels are presented; pretty nearly every book of the New Testament supplies matter for a comparison with the Buddhist scriptures, which even the amateur in such studies will find interesting. The New Testament suffers nothing in the comparison.” (Outlook.)

“As a contribution to the study of comparative religion from a Japanese scholar, this volume has a peculiar interest as well as a positive value for the student.”

+ + Outlook. 81: 331. O. 7, ‘05. 160w.

R. of Rs. 32: 512. O. ‘05. 90w.

111Edwards, Amelia Blandford. Untrodden peaks and unfrequented valleys: a midsummer ramble in the Dolomites. $2.50. Dutton.

In this third edition the text is the same as that of the first edition of 1873, but the footnotes and other explanatory matter that appeared in the second edition of the book have been included in the present volume. The district here described is in that part of the Southeastern Tyrol lying between Botzen, Brunecken, Innichen and Belluno; within this space are the limestone Dolomite mountains. There are numerous illustrations in half-tone.

“Now as twenty-five years ago, the indispensable work is Miss Edwards’ ‘Untrodden peaks.’”

+ + Nation. 80: 529. Je. 29, ‘05. 480w.

“A pleasant volume of travel and guidebook information.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 478. Jl. 22, ‘05. 340w.

“A new and welcome edition of a thoroughly readable book of travels.”

+ + Outlook. 80: 143. My. 13, ‘05. 80w.

Edwards, Matilda Barbara Betham-. Home life in France. *$2.50. McClurg.

Miss Betham-Edwards’ first hand knowledge of French family and school life has been the outgrowth of years of service as an officer of public instruction. This insight tempers her treatment with sympathy and enthusiasm. She describes every phase of life from the home-keeping which is “the glorification of simplicity,” to the city keeping which is presided over by “indefatigable workers to whom fireside joys and intellectual pleasure are especially dear, and to whom self-abnegation ... becomes a second nature.”

“It is brightly written, and full of entertaining little personal reminiscences of the kind which do more to explain France to the average English mind than pages of psychological studies appealing only to the cultivated few.”

+ + Acad. 68: 561. My. 27, ‘05. 1360w.

* “Writes with knowledge on a subject she may be said to have made her own, and what is more, she writes sympathetically.”

+ + Ath. 1905, 1: 656. My. 27. 310w.

* “The point of view is impartial, but friendly, and both knowledge of the subject and charm of style characterize the book.”

+ Critic. 47: 581. D. ‘05. 180w.

* “Miss Betham-Edwards discourses with intelligent vivacity and good humor, lightening our darkness, gently removing the prejudice born of ignorance, and steadily building up the respect that rests on knowledge.” Josiah Renick Smith.

+ + — Dial. 39: 300. N. 16, ‘05. 1180w.

“The value of a book which is in the main not less valuable than interesting is somewhat impaired by this persistent ignoring of the seamy side of life.”

+ + — Lond. Times. 4: 175. Je. 9, ‘05. 570w.

* “She has succeeded on the whole, in writing a very entertaining book full of detailed information, with statistics that here and there need slight correction.”

+ + — Nation. 81: 491. D. 14, ‘05. 1010w.

“An extremely interesting, and in many ways valuable, book.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 727. O. 28, ‘05. 1000w.

“The book is an excellent one for the intending sojourner in France, and it will, of course, interest those who have sojourned in that country.”

+ Outlook. 81: 526. O. 28, ‘05. 120w.

* “A description of French domestic life and conditions which is written with sympathy and enthusiasm.”

+ + R. of Rs. 32: 636. N. ‘05. 50w.

“Miss Betham-Edwards selects matter which on the whole may be intended more for women than for men, but the latter will not enjoy it the less on that account.”

+ Sat. R. 99: 676. My. 20, ‘05. 230w.

* “There are also here and there signs of hurry and awkwardness in the style. All this could easily be put right in another edition, which the book, if only for the valuable amount of detail it contains, certainly ought to reach.”

+ + — Spec. 95: 259. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1570w.

Edwards, William Seymour. Into the Yukon. **$1.50. Clarke, R.

In a series of papers which were originally home letters, the author tells of the travels of himself and wife thru the Canadian northwest, the gulfs and fjords of the North Pacific, the valley of the upper Yukon, the golden Klondike, and some parts of California and the Middle west. The book gives an apparently unbiased view of conditions on the Canadian Yukon in the summer of 1903. It is profusely illustrated with snap shot photographs.

“If it says nothing new, at least says it brightly and interestingly.” Wallace Rice.

+ Dial. 38: 91. F. 1, ‘05. 100w.

“Mr. Edwards seems to be a clear-sighted observer, and his narration is straightforward and unpretentious. He appears to possess the knack of gathering and summarizing popular opinion without the exaggeration or superficiality usually characteristic of hasty news-gatherers. The most interesting portion of the book is naturally that relating to the Klondike region.”

+ + Nation. 80: 141. F. 16, ‘05. 920w.

“A readable narrative.”

+ Outlook. 79: 759. Mr. 25, ‘05. 50w.

R. of Rs. 31: 255. F. ‘05. 70w.

Eggleston, George Gary. Daughter of the South. †$1.50. Lothrop.

A war’s-end romance which follows the adventurous career of the Commodore of a cotton-buying fleet. While braving great danger for the sake of great profit he encounters the heroine in distress and carries her northward on one of his boats to love and to safety.

“His art must be described as crude. Nevertheless, he tells a story of some interest, and keeps fairly in touch with reality.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ — Dial. 39: 208. O. 1, ‘05. 160w.

“‘Decent under difficulties’ should be the title of this last story.”

— Ind. 59: 987. O. 26, ‘05. 60w.

“Exactly like all the rest of his novels.”

— N. Y. Times. 10: 557. Ag. 26, ‘05. 290w.

“Altogether, while not by any means a great book, this story is agreeable reading.”

+ Outlook. 81: 44. S. 2, ‘05. 130w.