The Cumulative Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Digests of reviews appearing in January—December 1905, magazines (continued 9)

Eggleston, George Gary. Our first century. **$1.20. Barnes.

“The design of this book ... is ... to present in a connected and picturesque narrative those facts of American history during the seventeenth century which were characteristic as to life and manners and customs. The book has the story element in a marked degree. It is liberally illustrated.”—Outlook.

+ + Dial. 39: 91. Ag. 16, ‘05. 390w.

* + + Ind. 59: 1390. D. 14, ‘05. 40w.

“After reading this lively little narrative one can without hesitation commend it to those who find the ordinary one-volume histories dry and meagre, and who have not the time or inclination to consult the larger works.” Robert Livingston Schuyler.

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 480. Jl. 22, ‘05. 280w.

+ + Outlook. 80: 446. Je. 17, ‘05. 60w.

* + Pub. Opin. 39: 797. D. 16, ‘05. 90w.

+ + R. of Rs. 32: 123. Jl. ‘05. 140w.

112Eggleston, George Gary. Rebel’s recollections. *$1. Putnam.

A fourth edition of a book first published in 1874, with an additional article upon “The old regime in the Old Dominion.” It contains much that is interesting, and gives a good idea of the Confederate soldier, and the Confederate commissary, also civil administration.

+ Ind. 58: 1312. Je. 8, ‘05. 100w.

“The book contains in a very readable form a deal of information about the Confederacy, which Mr. Eggleston had first hand. Mr. Eggleston overemphasizes certain features, but there is a certain advantage in that, for they are just the features which other writers have been apt to ignore.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 275. Ap. 29, ‘05. 390w.

“The book still outranks in interest almost all other reminiscences of the Civil war.”

+ + Outlook. 79: 1061. Ap. 29, ‘05. 60w.

Eldridge, George Dyre. Milibank case. †$1.50. Holt.

A detective story whose scene is laid in Maine near the Canadian border. The plot centers about the murder of a young lawyer, supposedly without enemies, and involves prominent state politicians. The tangle undertaken by two detectives contains at its close a surprise for detective and reader alike.

“The story is fluently told, and is not ungenial as murders go.”

+ — Nation. 81: 123. Ag. 10, ‘05. 200w.

“Is only a fair example of the art.”

+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 432. Jl. 1, ‘05. 260w.

Eliot, Sir Charles Norton Edgecumbe. East African protectorate. $5. Longmans.

“Up to the time of his recent resignation, the author had been commissioner for the British government in the protectorate. He describes the country, its peoples, gives its history, and discusses its prospects as a field for European colonization; he also describes the present system of administration in the protectorate, and writes about the Uganda railway, trade, slavery, missions, a trip down the Nile, animals, etc. The volume is illustrated, and contains several maps.”—N. Y. Times.

“The book gives a great deal of minute and not always interesting geographic information, but it was written by neither a geographer nor an economist, and often produces a sense of vagueness by omitting factors essential to an understanding of the country in its relation to human welfare. Other parts of the book are interesting, and the sociologist might find some useful information in the accounts of the native races.”

+ — Ann. Am. Acad. 26: 589. S. ‘05. 170w.

“Sir Charles Eliot has here provided a much more compact and, within its limits, comprehensive handbook on the subject than was previously available.”

+ + Ath. 1905, 1: 363. Mr. 25. 1260w.

“... Throughout makes the book a most readable one, even to those who have no intention of being lured to it by the glowing pictures he paints.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 278. Ap. 29, ‘05. 1790w.

“Nothing could exceed the interest, the deep research and the knowledge shown in the present work.”

+ + + Sat. R. 99: 808. Je. 17, ‘05. 1600w.

“One of the best of recent travel books on a subject which is growing daily in interest and importance. The book is an encyclopedia of information, but the reader is never bewildered among the details, and the main problems of the future are lucidly and undogmatically discussed. The style is simple and colloquial, but it is never slipshod.”

+ + + Spec. 94: 552. Ap. 15, ‘05. 2030w.

Eliot, Charles William. Happy life. 75c. Crowell.

A new edition of this forceful, kindly book by the President of Harvard university. Under the headings: The moral purpose of the universe; Lower and higher pleasures; Family love; Pleasure in bodily exertion; The pleasure of reading; Mutual service and co-operation; The selection of beliefs; and The conflict with evil, he shows how to “cultivate the physical mental, and moral faculties through which the natural joys are won.”

* “The material is abundantly worth preserving in its new form.”

+ Critic. 47: 572. D. ‘05. 30w.

* “The points are concrete and practical, and the style is very simple, with a ring of nobility and sincerity about it that is worth more than many epigrams.”

+ Dial. 39: 386. D. 1, ‘05. 150w.

* + Outlook. 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 20w.

* + Pub. Opin. 37: 732. D. 2, ‘05. 80w.

Eliot, George. Adam Bede. $1.25. Crowell.

This volume of “Adam Bede” is uniform with the “Thin paper classics.” It takes up little space on the library shelf, and its flexible cover and thin paper make it specially desirable for a pocket edition.

Eliot, George. Romola. $1.25. Crowell.

“Romola” in this edition is uniform with the “Thin paper classics.”

Eliot, John. Logick primer. *$6. Burrows.

“A reprint of John Eliot’s ‘Logic primer’ of 1672. The ‘Primer’ is an interlinear translation of the Indian text and the reprint is made from a photographic reproduction of the entire book (40 leaves) made in 1889 at the expense of the late James C. Pilling.”—Am. Hist. R.

Am. Hist. R. 10: 716. Ap. ‘05. 50w.

Elkin, William Baird. Hume: the relation of the Treatise of human nature, bk. I, to the Inquiry concerning human understanding. *$1.50. Macmillan.

“As a stepping-stone in philosophy from the old to the new, Hume still furnishes staple material to the student. Dr. Elkin here undertakes to make clear the exact ground held by him in his principal philosophical works, the ‘Treatise on human nature’ and the ‘Inquiry concerning the principles of morals.’”—Outlook.

+ + — Nation. 81: 53. Jl. 20, ‘05. 410w.

Outlook. 79: 1059. Ap. 29, ‘05. 120w.

“Taken all together, the book is a scholarly, clear-headed, thorough piece of work, straightforward in expression and substantially convincing in the large.” A. K. Rogers.

+ + + Philos. R. 14: 615. S. ‘05. 1260w.

Elliott, Mrs. Maude Howe (Mrs. John Elliott.) Two in Italy. *$2. Little.

Italian studies and sketches, so chatty in form as to be largely in dialog, which give glimpses of Italian life and character under the chapter headings: Anacrap; The inn of Paradise; Buona Fortuna; The Castello; Savonarola Finnerty; In old Poland; and, The hermit of Pietro Anzieri. There are six full page illustrations from drawings by John Elliott.

* “Mrs. Elliott knows Italy better than most Americans, and she knows how to write.”

+ Critic. 47: 580. D. ‘05. 40w.

* “Readers of ‘Roma beata’ will enjoy this second volume, which, though of slightly different type, is equally permeated by Mrs. Elliott’s individual and entertaining point of view.”

+ Dial. 39: 386. D. 1, ‘05. 140w.

* + N. Y. Times. 10: 832. D. 2, ‘05. 130w.

* + Pub. Opin. 39: 826. D. 23, ‘05. 100w.

113Ellis, Edward Sylvester. Deerfoot in the forest. †$1. Winston.

This is the first of a new series of Indian stories which continues the adventures of the author’s famous character Deerfoot, the Shewanoe. The time and incidents depicted are those of the Lewis and Clark expeditions. The plot of “Deerfoot in the forest” centers about the rescue of two boys by Deerfoot, and the thrilling adventures attending their return to safe territory.

“All Mr. Ellis’ tales, like those of Castlemon, Oliver Optic and other writers of this class, are replete with interest, action and excitement, and the present volume ... is fully up to the standard set by Mr. Ellis in his popular series of tales that have preceded the present books.”

+ Arena. 34: 557. N. ‘05. 570w.

* Ellis, Edward Sylvester. Deerfoot in the mountains. †$1. Winston.

This third and last volume of the “New Deerfoot series,” takes the Indian guide and his two boy companions in a whirl of adventure from the Pacific ocean to their home in Ohio. The recapture of Deerfoot’s wonderful stallion, Whirlwind, a single handed encounter with five ferocious braves, and a hair breadth escape in a raging mountain torrent, are among the incidents which will recommend this story to all boy readers.

* Ellis, Edward Sylvester. Deerfoot on the prairies †$1. Winston.

In this second volume of the “New Deerfoot series,” the popular Indian hunter accompanied by his two boy friends and his Blackfoot guide makes the dangerous journey from the Ohio to the mouth of the Columbia river successfully, altho the hostile Indians, wild horses, grizzly bears, and other dangers of one hundred years ago beset their path and create many strange adventures for them.

Elton, Charles Isaac. William Shakespeare, his family and friends; ed. by A. H. Thompson. *$4. Dutton.

A series of papers, disconnected and sometimes unfinished, which would doubtless have been expanded into an exhaustive work had the author lived, have been collected by and published by Mr. Thompson, with a memoir written of the author by Mr. Andrew Lang. There are chapters on Shakespeare’s early life, on Stratford and London in Shakespeare’s time; on his family and descendants; on the history of Blackfriars’ theatre, and many other subjects of both interest and value. There is a complete and accurate index, which renders this work, with its wealth of facts, of great value to the student.

“Indeed, so much material is furnished, and the learned antiquary ranges so very far afield, that the drift of his argument is not seldom obscured. The book abounds in the best kind of biographical material. It is a work of the very greatest value to the student of Shakespeare.” Charles H. A. Wager.

+ + — Dial. 38: 194. Mr. 16, ‘05. 1600w.

“This work is a large and scholarly one, with perhaps more of detail about the great poet’s life and surroundings than would be essential to such an idea of the man himself as is given by Mr. Mabie in his picture. Mr. Elton’s volume, however, will be welcomed by scholars.”

+ R. of Rs. 30: 758. D. ‘04. 80w.

Ely, Helena Rutherford. Another hardy garden book. $1.75. Macmillan.

A book which is not intended to be a treatise upon any of the subjects referred to, or to take the place of other books upon gardening. It is, the author states in the preface, “a brief statement of simple methods of conducting gardening operations, particularly in the small home garden,” and it contains the result of the author’s own experiences in raising vegetables, fruits and flowers. There are chapters on the vegetable garden, fruits, trees—deciduous and evergreen, perennials and other flowers, a garden of lilies and iris, autumn work in the flower garden, and the flower garden in spring. There are many half-tone illustrations from photographs of flowers, trees and gardens, taken at various seasons of the year.

“The new book is wider in its scope than its predecessor.”

+ Country Calendar. 1: 9g. My. ‘05. 100w.

+ + Critic. 46: 565. Je. ‘05. 120w.

“Her books are far from being sentimental, but are infused with a very vigorous personality, and with occasional touches of humor that prove she is not taking herself too seriously.” Edith Granger.

+ Dial. 38: 381. Je. 1, ‘05. 370w.

“The charm of the book rests in the reader’s companionship with an intelligent, agreeable woman, who loves her garden.”

+ Ind. 58: 1254. Je. 1, ‘05. 150w.

“The author of this work places before us her quiet statements in an unobtrusive and instructive manner, and, here and there, gives touches to her sketch which makes the book more than usually readable.”

+ + Nation. 80: 338. Ap. 27, ‘05. 620w.

N. Y. Times. 10: 137. Mr. 4, ‘05. 160w.

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w.

“It seems a quite practical book for the amateur gardener.”

+ Outlook. 79: 704. Mr. 18, ‘05. 50w.

Pub. Opin. 38: 867. Je. 3, ‘05. 90w.

Ely, Richard T., ed. See Adams. T. S. and Sumner, Helen L. Labor problems.

Ely, Richard Theodore. Labor movement in America. *$1.25. Macmillan.

A new and enlarged edition of a standard authority first issued nearly twenty years ago.

* “At present we have no book that could be a satisfactory substitute for Professor Ely’s volume.” A. W. S.

+ + Am. J. Soc. 11: 431. N. ‘05. 50w.

Ann. Am. Acad. 26: 589. S. ‘05. 50w.

Dial. 39: 20. Jl. 1, ‘05. 30w.

N. Y. Times. 10: 386. Je. 17, ‘05. 520w.

Outlook. 80: 542. Je. 24, ‘05. 50w.

Yale R. 14: 230. Ag. ‘05. 120w.

Emch, Arnold. Introduction to projective geometry and its applications: an analytic and synthetic treatment. $2.50. Wiley.

“The first chapter derives the usual theorems of projective ranges and pencils, perspective and involution by means of the anharmonic ratio.... The second chapter deals with collineation.” There is “a chapter on the theory of conics.... The next chapter discusses the conics which pass through four fixed points; ... the cubic curve, defined by a pencil of conics and a projective pencil of lines, is treated at some length.... The fifth chapter, of over forty pages, is devoted to applications to mechanics.”—Engin. N.

“A knowledge of trigonometry and plane analytical geometry is all that is required to understand the book, which is clearly and carefully written.” Virgil Snyder.

Engin. N. 53: 183. F. 16, ‘05. 370w.

“The author is a very clever draughtsman, and his skill as a writer is equally pronounced.”

+ + + Nature. 72: 77. My. 25, ‘05. 210w.

“The exposition of the interesting connection between collineations and the surprisingly beautiful doctrine of linkages deserves special mention, as do also the clearness, directness and swiftness of style in which the book is written.” Cassius J. Keyser.

+ + + Science. n.s. 22: 114. Jl. 26, ‘05. 290w.

114Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Works. 12 vol. ea. $1.75. Houghton.

Edward Waldo Emerson has carefully edited this twelve volume centenary edition of his father’s works, culling some valuable new material from the author’s note books, “his savings-bank,” he called them. The three volumes recently added to complete the twelve are, “Lectures and biographical sketches,” “Miscellanies,” and “Natural history of intellect and other papers.” “The last of them is provided with an elaborate general index to the entire edition. No less than five papers in this closing volume are now printed for the first time. The editing of these volumes, done by the pious hands of Mr. Edward Waldo Emerson, offers a shining example of what such editorial work should be, and makes the present form of the writings far more desirable than any of the earlier ones.” (Dial).

“The present edition, in its Notes by Dr. Emerson, contains the first complete commentary on the author’s writings.”

+ + + Critic. 46: 283. Mr. ‘05. 220w.

Dial. 38: 22. Ja. 1, ‘05. 120w.

“Is manifestly the definitive edition, since it is the most comprehensive and perfect in matter and form.”

+ + + Ind. 58: 40. Ja. 5, ‘05. 780w.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Emerson calendar; ed. by Huntington Smith. **50c. Crowell.

Suggestions for each day of the year taken from Emerson’s works. By giving cullings which show clear perception of life and its obligations, the editor hopes to render an aid along the line of simpler living.

* + Dial. 39: 387. D. 1, ‘05. 100w.

English essays, selected and edited by Walter Cochrane Bronson. *$1.25. Holt.

The chief purpose of this book is to cultivate a liking for good English prose in the college student who is taking introductory work in literature. The material chosen is therefore interesting in thought and style and the selections are complete in themselves even when entire chapters or essays are not given. Essays by Bacon, Milton, Swift, Addison, Johnson, Goldsmith, Lamb, De Quincey, Carlyle, Macaulay, Ruskin, Newman, Stevenson and others are included, and the volume is fully annotated for class use.

+ N. Y. Times 10: 730. O. 28, ‘05. 100w.

* + Outlook. 81: 681. N. 18, ‘05. 60w.

Erasmus, Desiderius (surnamed Roterdamus). Epistles of Erasmus, arranged in order of time: English translations from the early correspondence, with a commentary confirming the chronological arrangement and supplying further biographical matter, by Francis Morgan Nichols. 2v. ea. *$6. Longmans.

“The first volume published in 1901, contained a selection of the letters of Erasmus up to the date of his receipt in Rome of the news of the death of King Henry VII of England (April 21, 1509).... The second volume carries the extant correspondence of Erasmus to the year 1517, when he took up his residence at Louvain. Many of the later letters are not those of Erasmus himself but were written by his correspondents.”—N. Y. Times.

“On the whole this volume fairly maintains the interest roused by the first and must be regarded as a highly important contribution to the whole subject of the new learning.” E. E.

+ + Am. Hist. R. 10: 686. Ap. ‘05. 240w. (Survey of contents of vol. II.)

“These minor writings of the great humanist are chiefly valuable for the light which they shed upon his intensely interesting career. They are strongly marked with the well-known Erasmian characteristics, an easy elegance, a classical spirit, a strong tendency to flattery, a decided turn for quiet irony, and an impulse to break out once in a while into sarcastic flings at religious orders and the Roman Curia.”

+ + Cath. World. 80: 684. P. ‘05. 290w.

“The same qualities of careful rendering and intelligent conjecture mark the work of this as of the first volume, and the same little formalities and tricks of usage occur here as there. It offers an indispensable starting-point for every future study of the great humanist.”

+ + Nation. 80: 39. Ja. 12, ‘05. 570w. (Review of Vol. II.)

“The appendices contain many hitherto inaccessible documents of value to the student of the Reformation epoch.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 40. Ja. 21, ‘05. 160w.

Erskine, Mrs. Steuart. London as an art city. *$1. Scribner.

In her little monograph Mrs. Erskine “shows why London is a field for her artistic study on account of its wonderful architecture and wonderful art collections; a literary center with a past as the home of such writers as Dickens, Thackeray ... Goldsmith ... and others, and the home of present workers in art—George Frampton, T. Brock, A. Gilbert, and other sculptors; while among the painters are Sir Edward Poynter, Luke Fildes, John S. Sargent, and a number of others. The volume is fully illustrated with half-tone pictures of buildings, reproductions of well-known paintings, &c.” (N. Y. Times).

Int. Studio. 24: sup. 76. Ja. ‘05. 90w.

Nation. 80: 33. Ja. 12, ‘05. 310w.

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 14. Ja. 7, ‘05. 340w.

Esty, William. Alternating current machinery. $6. American school of correspondence at Armour institute of technology, Chicago.

“The author of the present volume declares that it has been prepared with the special object of giving the beginner, and the so-called practical electrician, a working knowledge of alternating current apparatus, so that he may know how to install and operate it intelligently.... The book is divided into nine different headings, and treats of the alternator, commercial types of alternators, synchronous motor, switchboard and station appliances, special switchboard apparatus, and lightning arresters.”—Engin. N.

Reviewed by David B. Rushmore.

+ + Engin. N. 53: 637. Je. 15, ‘05. 590w.

Evans, Henry Ridgely. Napoleon myth. bds. *75c. Open ct.

The Napoleonic myths in both literature and art the author measures according to historical fact. The book also contains an introduction by Dr. Paul Carus and a reprint of “The grand erratum” by Jean Baptiste Peres. “The whole is a summary of the results of ‘higher criticism’ as applied to the Napoleon of the popular imagination.” (R. of Rs.)

* “The author does little or nothing to emphasize the difference between fact and legend, or point out the means of distinguishing between the two spheres.”

+ — Ath. 1905, 1: 526. Ap. 29, 200w.

N. Y. Times. 10: 160. Mr. 11, ‘05. 360w.

R. of Rs. 31: 512. Ap. ‘05. 60w.

Everett, William. Italian poets since Dante. $1.50. Scribner.

The author has converted his lectures, delivered in the famous Lowell course in Boston, into book form with slight revision. His aim is “to show that Italy from the ‘trecento’ down to the end of the eighteenth century gave forth a literature which is great without the 115contributions of Dante, but which is often neglected and thought of lightly owing to the transcendent genius of that one man. Petrarca, Pulci, Boiardo, Berni, Ariosto, Vittoria Colonna, Michelangelo, Tasso, Marino, and the dramatists Goldoni and Alfieri are among the writers concerning whom Dr. Everett discourses with fine academic appreciation and a charming disregard of modern criticism.” (N. Y. Times).

“His attitude towards his subjects is sympathetic, his appreciation is sincere, his criticisms are just and moderate. It is therefore all the more regrettable that he should have allowed his work to stand disfigured by so many slip-shod, loosely constructed and even absolutely ungrammatical sentences.”

+ + + Acad. 68: 646. Je. 17, ‘05. 300w.

+ + — Am. J. of Theol. 9: 379. Ap. ‘05. 260w.

“Dr. Everett’s survey, indeed, embraces only about a dozen names, and treats those for the most part rather sketchily.”

+ — Ath. 1905, 1: 719. Je. 10. 660w.

+ + Critic. 46: 380. Ap. ‘05. 60w.

“The work is luminous and vivid in style, and a delight to the instinct of every lover of literature. Eloquent panegyric upon Milton, and many another purple patch revealed in these pages. From the point of view of the scholar, little exception is to be taken to this work. To say that the book is readable is to do it much less than justice.”

+ + Dial. 38: 49. Ja. 16, ‘05. 700w.

“A carelessness in the use of language which is often slovenly and sometimes ungrammatical. The most vexatious quality of the book, however, is due to Dr. Everett’s scorn of all methods and opinions save his own. We admit that his views are sometimes refreshingly independent. But his egoism, which is piquant when it wanders away from his subject, is disastrous when he attempts a serious comparison of the Italian poets. Dr. Everett’s short biographies of the poets are generally interesting and clever. His criticisms are erratic, but the copious extracts from Italian poetry with which he illustrates them are very valuable to the general reader.”

+ — — Ind. 58: 210. Ja. 26, ‘05. 450w.

“His textual illustrations show him to be not only a translator in the finest sense, but also a poet of broad and subtle imagination and of a most delicate harmonic sensibility. The torch of classical effulgence dropped from the hand of Ticknor, of Longfellow, and of Lowell, he has caught up and illuminates anew what once passed for history. On one point, however, we think the doctor might have made a concession to the moderns as a gentle hint for his own permanency. He might have furnished an index. He is also cruel to kill off the poet Carducci, who at this writing is very much alive.”

+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 38. Ja. 21, ‘05. 430w.

“Mr. Everett’s sketches of their lives and works seem adequate and the translations, some of which are original, are vigorous. The author would have improved his work if he had pruned the rhetoric, more suitable for lectures than essays.”

+ + — Sat. R. 99: 746. Je. 3, ‘05. 310w.

“He is generally just. We do not much like the fun that he makes of the romances. It is somewhat cheap.”

+ — Spec. 94: 718. My. 13, ‘05. 240w.

* Eytinge, Rose. Memories of Rose Eytinge. **80c; **$1.20. Stokes.

Into her own autobiography Rose Eytinge has introduced a wealth of sidelight information on the American drama of the past fifty years. She was an associate and personal friend of Edwin Booth, J. W. and Lester Wallack, E. L. Davenport and Augustin Daly, and her observations are all from the vantage point of first hand knowledge.

F

Fairless, Michael, pseud. Grey Brethren, and other fragments in prose and verse. $1.25. Dutton.

Four fairy tales, five papers and five poems make up this posthumous volume. “‘The grey brethren,’ which gives its title to the volume, is a tenderly and reticently touched reminiscence of two maidenly ladies.... A German Christmas eve is a descriptive sketch of characteristic domestic charm. A Christmas idyll is an imaginative fantasy full of fine feeling and thoughtful religion.... Luvly Miss ... is the simple record of a poor child, dying from an accident, and her devout worship of an altogether ridiculous doll.” (Acad.)

“Though slender and unambitious, they are written in a refined style. The poems, as a whole, are the least successful work in the volume.”

+ Acad. 62: 520. My. 13, ‘05. 600w.

“This little volume will be welcome to all lovers of ‘The road mender.’ It has, not, indeed, the finished perfection of that book, but some of the stories and poems display the same fine artistic sense, and the same sacramental reverence for natural glory, the same deep tenderness and sympathy.”

+ Ath. 1905, 1: 560. My. 6. 300w.

“Is marked by an exquisite simplicity of diction and a delicacy of spiritual insight that are far out of the common.”

+ + Dial. 39: 71. Ag. 1, ‘05. 110w.

Fairlie, John Archibald. National administration of the United States of America. **$2.50. Macmillan.

Written chiefly from official records such as the Constitution of the United States, statutes of Congress, administrative reports and judicial decisions, this volume gives an account of the administrative system, treating the legislative and judicial branches only in their direct relations to the executive administration. There are chapters on the powers of the president, the senate, congress, the cabinet, and the various departments and bureaus. A complete bibliography is provided.

+ + Am. Hist. R. 10: 948. Jl. ‘05. 30w.

“Dr. Fairlie’s treatise on this subject is marked by all the scholarly treatment, painstaking accuracy and thoroughness which characterized his work on municipal administration.”

+ + + Ann. Am. Acad. 26: 589. S. ‘05. 160w.

“The book is written in a readable style. For the most part it is easily understood.” David Y. Thomas.

+ + Dial. 39: 12. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1380w.

“A book that is at the same time full, readable and authoritative.”

+ + + Ind. 59: 332. Ag. 10, ‘05. 330w.

“The author has done his work carefully, and his book may be accepted as a generally trustworthy guide.”

+ + — Nation. 80: 466. Je. 8, ‘05. 1040w.

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 374. Je. 10, ‘05. 570w.

“In style the work is direct and incisive, in treatment accurate and objective, in presentation logical.”

+ + + Outlook. 80: 194. My. 20, ‘05. 240w.

“Is perhaps the first comprehensive work on this subject that has ever been published.”

+ + + R. of Rs. 32: 126. Jl. ‘05. 110w.

* Fairweather, Rev. William. Pre-exilic prophets. *35c. Lippincott.

In this volume in the “Temple series of Bible handbooks” “Mr. Fairweather treats of the prophets from Amos down to Jeremiah—Amos, Hosea, Isaiah, Micah, Zephaniah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Jeremiah. The general character of 116the eighth century before Christ is discussed in the opening chapter, which is followed by a consideration of the value of written prophecy in relation to the Israelitish history of the period, the significance of prophecy for Divine revelation, ‘The older and the new prophecy,’ ‘The golden age of Hebrew prophecy,’ ‘The religious ideal of the prophets,’ ‘The century before the exile.’”—N. Y. Times.

* N. Y. Times. 10: 568. Ag. 26, ‘05. 140w.

* “In the brevity prescribed for it could not be easily improved upon.”

+ + Outlook. 80: 345. Je. 3, ‘05. 40w.

Falkiner, C. Litton. Illustrations of Irish history and topography. $7. Longmans.

The period covered by this book is mainly that of the 17th century. The author treats of the history and development of Dublin, and “follows the history of the counties of Ireland giving their origin, constitution, and gradual elimination. What to us is of the greater interest are the accounts of the Irish people by contemporaneous authors. Fynes Moryson describes Ireland as he saw it at the close of the reign of Elizabeth.... The convivial habits of the Elizabethan Irish are dwelt on.... Luke Vernon’s “Discourse of Ireland” it is believed was written about 1619.... The last two chapters give the impressions of Sir William Brereton and a rather dandy Frenchman, M. Jorevin de Rocheford. The latter giving this account of his impression of Ireland, 1666.” (N. Y. Times).

“The notes to these papers are numerous and characterized by scholarly care. In general Mr. Falkiner must be credited with a volume which will be permanently serviceable to students of Irish history.” Edward Porritt.

+ + Am. Hist. R. 10: 920. Jl. ‘05. 520w.

+ + Dial. 38: 273. Ap. 16, ‘05. 390w.

“For the rest Mr. Falkiner writes with such exceeding care that he has left little for a critic to find fault with. Here and there, we think, he might with advantage have developed his subject more fully.” R. Dunlop.

+ + — Eng. Hist. R. 20: 796. O. ‘05. 1750w.

“Mr. Falkiner has been successful in his choice of descriptions determined by their rarity, representative character, and difficulty of procurement by the ordinary reader.”

+ Nation. 80: 254. Mr. 30, ‘05. 1230w. (Survey of contents.)

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 115. F. 25, ‘05. 1480w.

Famous battles of the nineteenth century, 1875-1900, ed. by Chas. Welsh. **$1. Wessels.

This fourth and last volume of “Famous battles of the nineteenth century,” contains an account of the famous battles fought from 1875 to 1900. It includes descriptions of The storming of Kars by Major Arthur Griffiths, The Boer war of 1881, by Archibald Forbes; The bombardment of Alexandria, by Max Pemberton; Port Arthur, 1894; The battle of Manila; and With Roosevelt on San Juan hill, by A. Hilliard Atteridge and other descriptions by these and other authors.

* “The book is designed for boys, who will undoubtedly find it quite to their taste.”

+ Critic. 47: 581. D. ‘05. 40w.

* “It is not possible to name the collection one of absorbing interest or to praise always either the fairness or the dramatic quality of the battle-pieces, but the book has considerable interest and some value.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 785. N. 18, ‘05. 810w.

Fandel, Peter. Judgment of Paris. $1. Badger, R. G.

The story of the judgment of Paris cast in dramatic form. The awarding of the apple, the chariot race which brings Paris to the notice of his father, Priam, the indignation of princes and people, and the flight of Paris are dealt with in four short acts.

Fanshawe, Anne Harrison (Lady Richard Fanshawe). Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe, wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, bt., embassador from Charles II to the courts of Portugal and Madrid, written by herself; containing extracts from the correspondence of Sir Richard Fanshawe; ed. with introd. by Beatrice Marshall, and a note on the illustrations by Allan Fea. *$1.50. Lane.

“The memoirs were first published in 1830, and were well worth a place in ‘The crown library’ series.... Both Sir Richard and his wife were representative of the highest type of Royalist—cultured, refined and humane. Sir Richard, who died in 1666, devoted his leisure years under the Commonwealth to literary labours of love.... The memoirs yield much information as to the events and social practices of a most interesting period in history.”—Ath.

“Attractive memoirs, which we have read with very great pleasure in the delightful form in which they now appear.”

+ + Acad. 68: 730. Jl. 15, ‘05. 990w.

“Certainly the memoirs have a charm which is by no means dependent on the time of which they treat.”

+ + Ath. 1905, 2: 142. Jl. 29. 320w.

* “Holds a high place in the biographical literature of the Stuart era.”

+ + Nation. 81: 447. N. 30, ‘05. 470w.

“Her memoirs are bright and full of good stories of the doings of two and a half centuries ago.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 745. N. 4, ‘05. 760w.

“The editing might have been done with greater skill and energy than Miss Marshall has brought to her task.”

+ — Spec. 95: 189. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1380w.

Farmer, James Eugene. Versailles and the court under Louis XIV. *$3.50. Century.

A beautiful book profusely illustrated. The sketch is a four-fold one including The palace, The park, The king and The court, each of which divisions presents the subject inductively and so prepares the way for the next. Beginning with the plans for the palace and the laying out of the grounds the author leads up to the finished work. With this for a back-ground, the king is presented and viewed from the standpoint of his daily life, methods of work, personal appearance and character, and the intricacies of court etiquette. Then the stage throngs with the gay and the wicked courtiers who were as perfect in manners as corrupt in morals.

* “Our author has given us a volume of real value as an admirable pen-picture of the court.”

+ Arena. 34: 659. D. ‘05. 600w.

* “An interesting subject is interestingly handled.”

+ Critic. 47: 580. D. ‘05. 130w.

* + + Int. Studio. 27: sup. 34. D. ‘05. 180w.

* “He does, indeed, depend upon the memoir writers very largely, but he uses them with intelligence, and makes his book a study in the physiology of court life.”

+ Nation. 81: 426. N. 23, ‘05. 420w.

* “Mr. Farmer has joined his threads skillfully; there is no suggestion of patchwork about his book, which is entertaining to its last page.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 811. N. 25, ‘05. 770w.

* “The reader feels that he has been in excellent company when he lays the volume down with a regret that it is not longer, or one of a series.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 210w.

* Outlook. 81: 706. N. 25, ‘05. 100w.

Farmer, John S., and Henley, William Ernest. Dictionary of slang and colloquial English. *$2.50. Dutton.

This is an abridgment of the seven-volume 117work by the same authors entitled “Slang and its analogues.” It contains slang expressions and their analogues in English and American usage. A list of more than fifty books to which reference and acknowledgment is made in this volume, is given. The first of these is dated 1440.

* + Nation. 81:75. Jl. 27, ‘05. 110w.

N. Y. Times. 10:276. Ap. 29, ‘05. 220w.

“For ordinary use the present book is ample.”

+ + Outlook. 79:1013. Ap. 22, ‘05. 130w.

Farquhar, Edward. Poems. $1.50. Badger, R: G.

Under three divisions, History, Man and nature, and Devotion, are included poems as varied in length and verse as in subject. They range from long poems such as “King Herod,” and “Christianity in the apostles,” which are cast in poem-drama form, to little verses such as “Microcosm,” and “Clouds and dawn.”

“In his volume of collected poems Mr. Farquhar takes a deeper plunge into the psychological mysteries of youthful hearts, and now and then succeeds in striking a truly poetic note.”

+ — N. Y. Times. 10:585. S. 9, ‘05. 90w.

Fenn, Frederick, and Wyllie, B. Old English furniture. *$2.50. Scribner.

Mr. Fenn has written the chapters on oak furniture, the walnut period, and the introduction of the making of furniture, while those upon chairs, sofas, painted furniture, and inlaid mahogany and satinwood, are by B. Wyllie. There are ninety-four illustrations of articles either owned by the authors or in collections to which they have access. The volume belongs to the “Newnes library of applied arts.”

“Is ... trustworthy, but it leaves us with a somewhat unpleasant feeling of having been ‘taken in hand.’” Edith A. Browne.

+ — Acad. 68:79. Ja. 28, ‘05. 320w.

“The accompanying text is full of valuable information and pregnant hints to the inexperienced amateur.”

+ Int. Studio. 25:82. Mr. ‘05. 120w.

“What we like especially about the text is its reserve, and quiet tone, and plain statement of the impossibility of fixing dates very closely.”

+ + Nation. 80:319. Ap. 20, ‘05. 790w.

“Its style is intimate rather than didactic, impressionistic rather than scientific.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10:179. Mr. 25, ‘05. 260w.

+ — Sat. R. 99:846. Je. 24, ‘05. 660w.

Fernández Guardia, Ricardo. Cuentos ticos. $2. Burrows bros. co.

These ten short stories of Costa Rica, have been translated into English by Gray Casement. The author, who is a writer of reputation among Central Americans has strikingly set forth the social, political and religious ideas of Costa Rica in these brief narratives, which combine both pathos and humor. There is a good introduction by the translator; there are also many illustrations of street and country scenes.

“Although here and there reminiscent of Castillian story tellers, the tales and the style in which they are related make one wish to know more of Señor Ricardo and his works.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10:3. Ja. 7, ‘05. 400w.

Ferree, Barr. American estates and gardens. $10. Munn.

The title of this book misleads one, as the author writes of the country houses, or rather palaces, of our American millionaires. These houses are monuments, not of the taste and personality of the owners, but of the skill and training of the architects and decorators, and there is much grandeur and little domesticity. What is lacking in “Estates,” however, the author amply makes up to us in “Gardens,” and gives most delightful illustrations, many of which are drawn from the well-known Falkner and Bellefontaine farms.

“Whether we regard his book as a record of contemporary and domestic architecture of a certain sort, or as a contribution to sociology, it will be of scarcely less interest a hundred years hence than it is to-day.”

+ + Nation. 80: 160. F. 23. ‘05. 470w.

Fetter, Frank Albert. Principles of economics; with applications to practical problems. *$2. Century.

A book which will be particularly valuable to students and teachers, as it represents the course of instruction which Dr. Fetter has given in his classes. “The theory is illuminated by constant references to practical life, and to such sides of life as college students are likely to come into contact with, and it is also used to shed light on the larger problems of our current social life.” (J. Pol. Econ.)

“In the wealth of material treated, in the judicious employment of all methods of economic study, in the sanity and lucidity of discussion, the book has hardly an equal. Moreover, it is the most readable book on economics that the reviewer has had the good fortune to peruse.” A. S. Johnson.

+ + — Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 144. Ja. ‘05. 1840w.

“Professor Fetter’s book may challenge comparison, on the ground of its intrinsic excellence, with any systematic treatise on economics that has appeared since the days of John Stuart Mill.” Winthrop More Daniels.

+ + Atlan. 95: 563. Ap. ‘05. 850w.

“Tho having acquaintance with the new, his philosophy is essentially of the old and reveals but few modifications due to an understanding of modern thought and modern conditions.”

+ — Ind. 59: 333. Ag. 10. ‘05. 240w.

“Among the numerous text-books of economics which have appeared in England and America in the last year or two, Professor Fetter’s book is likely to take high rank. For those who share his views on fundamental economic doctrines, his work may well serve as a first-class text-book. The present writer, while admiring the structure of Dr. Fetter’s course, and appreciating the fact that students following such a course are likely to have a keen interest in economics developed, finds himself in the position of a critic compelled to assail the very foundations of Dr. Fetter’s economic system.” A. W. Flux.

— + J. Pol. Econ. 13: 109. D. ‘04. 2020w.

* “As an economic synthesis bottomed on the accepted modern theory of value and extended to all phases of economic analysis, it stands unsurpassed.”

+ + + Nation. 81 :367. N. 2, ‘05. 1000w.

Fiebeger, Gustave Joseph. Civil engineering. *$5. Wiley.

A book intended to give military cadets who have to master many sciences and languages as well as military science and tactics an elementary knowledge of civil engineering.

Reviewed by H. N. Ogden.

+ + — Science, n.s. 22: 397. S. 29, ‘05. 690w.

Field, Edward Salisbury. (Childe Harold, pseud.). Child’s book of abridged wisdom. **75c. Elder.

A little book of rhymed advice amply illustrated with humorously grotesque drawings. The binding is artistic and the wisdom will amuse the parent rather than edify the child. It is upon this order,

“At dinner use your fork and spoon;

It may prolong your life,

My grandfather once cut himself

While eating with his knife.”

* “A series of irresistibly comic verses containing good advice for the young.”

+ + Dial. 39: 385. D. 1, ‘05. 150w.

* “The decorations are clever, and so is the verse it contains.”

+ Ind. 59: 1384. D. 14, ‘05. 25w.

118Fielding, Henry. Selected essays, ed. by Gordon Hall Gerould. *60c. Ginn.

A book designed to introduce Fielding as an essay writer to both college students and general readers. It contains selected essays from his novels, and some of the best work from the “Miscellanies” of 1743 and the periodicals. The text is in most cases based on the first and second editions. A biographical sketch, an introduction, full notes, and an index are provided.

“To the present volume there is prefixed an introduction ... by which we can see that the praise is lavish rather than discriminating.”

+ — Acad. 68: 870. Ag. 26, ‘05. 1230w.

Finerty, John Frederick. Ireland: the people’s history of Ireland. *$2.50. Dodd.

The first history of the Irish people “pro-Irish rather than pro-English in spirit and view” since McGee’s “History of Ireland,” three-quarters of a century ago. Mr. Finerty, the president of the United Irish league of America, aims to throw “more light in a simple and comprehensive manner on the history of that beautiful island, the blood of whose exiled children flows in the veins of not less than twenty millions of the American people.” The history, two volumes, is a very rapid survey of Ireland from the earliest period down to the career and ascendency of the fearless avenger of Irish liberty, Parnell.

* “Writes from that patriotic point of view, but with no obvious bias that would prevent him from being fair and trustworthy in regard to opposing views.”

+ + Critic. 47: 190. Ag. ‘05. 80w.

* “It will not do to say that his style is everywhere excellent. If Mr. Finerty had studied the history of his native land in the light of European events, the policies of England would have become intelligible to him, and the ‘People’s history of Ireland’ would have been a far more trustworthy work.” Laurence M. Larson.

— — + Dial. 38: 412. Je. 16, ‘05. 1230w.

N. Y. Times. 10: 162. Mr. 18, ‘05. 630w.

“The work before us, despite its prefatory promise of breadth and fair-mindedness, is itself a striking example of the way in which Irish history should not be written. In so far as the ‘political misfortunes’ of Ireland are concerned, bias prevails—the bias of a narrative constructed along pronounced pro-Catholic lines by an uncompromising sympathizer with the Irish cause. Strictly speaking, moreover, the work is not a history, but merely a chronicle in which the familiar superlatives, epithets, and errors of overstatement and understatement are painfully in evidence. There is also room for criticism from the standpoint of proportion.”

— — Outlook. 79: 705. Mr. 18, ‘05. 340w.

Firth, Charles Harding. Plea for the historical teaching of history: an inaugural lecture delivered on November 9, 1904. *35c. Oxford.

In this lecture Prof. Firth finds fault with the present school of history. He also declares history to be neither a science nor an art, “but it partakes of the nature of both. A twofold task lies before the historian. One-half of his business is the discovery of the truth, and the other half its representation.”

“A very plain-spoken expression of opinion, and, as it is always well to have ideals set before us, likely to be useful.”

+ Spec. 94: 23. Ja. 7, ‘05. 370w.

Firth, John Benjamin. Constantine, the first Christian emperor. **$1.35; **$1.60. Putnam.

“There is ample room for a brief biography of the Emperor Constantine along the lines on which Mr. Firth has constructed his present book. Going directly to contemporary sources, and examining them with an eye keen to the detection of bias, Mr. Firth gives in small compass a careful exposition not only of the career and personality of the first imperial champion of Christianity, but of the period to which he belonged and of the nature and extent of the influence exerted by him on his generation and on posterity. In other words, an analysis is made of the elements essential to a correct evaluation of the validity of Constantine’s claim to greatness.”—Outlook.

“We may, however, fairly criticize the author for having taken no account of some recent investigations which ought not to be ignored.”

— + + Ath. 1905, 1: 649. My. 27. 1470w.

“Of this period and of its central figure the author has written sensibly and satisfyingly.”

+ + Dial. 38: 324. My. 1, ‘05. 570w.

“Mr. Firth makes a slip at the beginning of the book in speaking of the conquerors of Valerion as the Parthians.”

+ + — Lond. Times. 4: 170. My. 26, ‘05. 710w.

“Though written as a volume for a popular series, this book should not escape the attention of scholars, since it is based on a first-hand study of the authorities, and is the fruit of independent reflection.”

+ + Nation. 81: 128. Ag. 10, ‘05. 1250w.

“It is on the whole, a well balanced piece of work. The book opens with an absurdly bad genealogical table, and continues to practically a dateless limit.”

+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 125. F. 25, ‘05. 780w.

“Indeed we cannot but feel that, if only through an excess of impartiality, he paints the shadows at times all too deeply. And, for a similar reason, we gain the impression that here and there the pagan receives more and the Christian less than his due. We could wish, too, less disquisition regarding the untrustworthiness of the annalists of the period, less detailed picking of flaws—a habit so pronounced as to become tedious. These blemishes, however, are not vital defects. The work is well arranged, well written, and, with the exceptions noted, well balanced.”

+ — Outlook. 79: 501. F. 25, ‘05. 290w.

* “We have little but praise of the writer’s treatment of the ecclesiastical and theological side.”

+ + Sat. R. 100: 528. O. 21, ‘05. 810w.

“Mr. Firth’s account of him is an excellent performance.”

+ + Spec. 95: 360. S. 9, ‘05. 460w.

“Is an interesting biography and an excellent study of an important phase in the earlier history of Europe.”

+ + + Yale R. 14: 230. Ag. ‘05. 90w.

Firth, John Benjamin. Highways and byways in Derbyshire. $2. Macmillan.

“Mr. Firth remarks that his book is of ‘narration rather than description.’ He tells the reader where he may profitably go, and what he may expect to see ... [and] takes occasion to mention the literary and historical associations of the places which he visits.”—Spec.

“Mr. Firth’s ‘Derbyshire’ is to the full as thorough and as companionable as any of its predecessors.”

+ Acad. 68: 609. Je. 10, ‘05. 1040w.

“Mr. Firth, has, beyond doubt, produced some five hundred pages of attractive and interesting reading.”

+ + — Ath. 1905, 1: 551. My. 6, 2160w.

“Above all, there is a style that stamps the book as more than a guide, yet takes nothing away from its usefulness.”

+ + Ind. 59: 1111. N. 9, ‘05. 210w.

* “Mr. Firth has a talent for description.”

+ Nation. 81: 407. N. 16, ‘05. 1220w.

“There are a few other references to people and scenes of especial interest to the scientific world, but the book will not be valued by these so much as for its bright narrative of literary and historical centers of Derbyshire, and its fine illustrations.”

+ Nature. 72: 100. Je. 1, ‘05. 320w.

119“The drawings ... are singularly charming—are, in fact, when all is said, the best part of a very good book.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 356. Je. 3, ‘05. 710w.

“The book is rich in literary associations and personal anecdotes, and is decidedly readable.”

+ Outlook. 80: 192. My. 20, ‘05. 60w.

“If a little slapdash at times and opinionated, Mr. Firth writes with real spirit.”

+ — Sat. R. 99: 748. Je. 3, ‘05. 270w.

“Full of interesting matter.”

+ Spec. 94: 718. My. 13, ‘05. 270w.

Fischer, George Alexander. Beethoven: a character study; with Wagner’s Indebtedness to Beethoven. **$1.40. Dodd.

In this study of the great composer’s life and character is given not only the influences under which he developed but the effect which his work had upon the music of to-day and upon the work of Wagner.

“Is perhaps the most rational, convincing, shrewd, and sympathetic estimate yet made.”

+ + + Dial. 39: 70. Ag. 1, ‘05. 350w.

“His method is straightforward enough, but his style is an exasperating journalese, without distinction of any kind. It is not of any special value or significance.”

+ — Ind. 59: 695. S. 21, ‘05. 200w.

“It is a character study rather than a biography and criticism. The chapter on humor is one of the best in the book.”

+ Nation. 80: 380. My. 11, ‘05. 190w.

“It is presented in a straightforward style, though without much distinction; and what the author has added in the way of critical estimate is unimportant. Nor has he thrown any new light upon the character and artistic nature of Beethoven.” Richard Aldrich.

— + N. Y. Times. 10: 308. My. 13, ‘05. 290w.

“A simple, straightforward, and readable biography. An excellent and useful book for the young amateur of music.”

+ + Outlook. 79: 906. Ap. 8, ‘05. 50w.

Fisguill, Richard, pseud. (Richard H. Wilson). Venus of Cadiz. †$1.50. Holt.

An American novel with a decided French twang. The scene is laid in Kentucky with an unsophisticated country girl for a heroine and a mushroom grower for her Adonis. Impossible situations follow one another in rollicking succession which involve cases of mistaken identity, mishaps, and weird meetings of moonshiners in caves. It is rightly called an extravaganza.

“The plot is nought, and the manner everything. A racy and rollicking book it is, warranted to dispel the most chronic case of blues.” Wm. M. Payne.

+ Dial. 39: 116. S. 1, ‘05. 160w.

“It is a rollicking and impossible tale, in which the author gets rather beyond his depth, while the reader is just sufficiently amused to flounder after him in astonishment.”

— Nation. 81: 123. Ag. 10, ‘05. 80w.

“Mr. Fisguill’s story is one which might well have remained in manuscript.”

— Pub. Opin. 29: 221. Ag. 12, ‘05. 60w.

Fish, Carl Russell. Civil service and the patronage. *$2. Longmans.

“This volume deals with a subject which primarily concerns the citizens of the United States ... the history of the ‘Spoils system.’”—Spec.

“The most valuable part of the book is the second section, dealing with the genesis of the spoils system. This is a genuine contribution to the history of the subject.” L. M. S.

+ + Am. Hist. R. 11: 172. O. ‘05. 1260w.

“This book is distinctly a history of the patronage, and as such deserves recognition as a valuable contribution in this particular field.” Ward W. Pierson.

+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 26: 606. S. ‘05. 380w.

+ + Dial. 39: 169. S. 16, ‘05. 420w.

“His book is brief but thorough.”

+ + Pub. Opin. 39: 318. S. 2, ‘05. 130w.

Spec. 94: 559. Ap. 15, ‘05. 170w.

* Fisher, Ruth B. On the borders of Pigmy land, **$1.25. Revell.

“A record of missionary experiences in Central Africa, with interesting descriptions of the country and its people.”—Outlook.

* + Outlook. 81: 942. D. 16, ‘05. 15w.

* “Very interesting is the story she tells in this volume—tells with an admirable combination of the humorous and the serious.”

+ + Spec. 95: 294. Ag. 26, ‘05. 450w.

Fitch, William Edwards. Some neglected history of North Carolina, including the battle of Alamance, the first battle of the American revolution. $2. Neale.

“North Carolina’s claim to be the first battleground of the Revolution is zealously advocated in this monograph, which is, briefly, a study of the ‘viper’ episode of 1765.... In it also is incorporated some interesting documentary matter in the way of legislative acts, Regulator’s ‘Advertisements,’ and contemporary letters and addresses.”—Outlook.

“The work is flimsy, incoherent, prejudiced.”

+ — Am. Hist. R. 10: 951. Jl. ‘05. 270w.

N. Y. Times. 10: 179. Mr. 25, ‘05. 960w. (Abstract of contents.)

+ — Outlook. 79: 709. Mr. 18, ‘05. 260w.

* FitzGerald, Edward. Euphranor: a dialogue on youth. *75c. Lane.

This fifteenth volume of the “New pocket library” contains Euphranor “very fitly presented after the text of the first edition of 1851. Mr. Frederick Chapman, who supplies a preface, dwells upon the value of the little work ... not only as a classic specimen of English prose, but as reflective of Cambridge and its contemporary life, and the author as a part of them.” (Nation.)

* “To possess ‘Euphranor’ in the present convenient form will give pleasure to many lovers of the famous letters and the more famous quatrains.” H. W. Boynton.

+ Atlan. 96: 850. D. ‘05. 390w.

* + Nation. 81: 339. O. 26, ‘05. 90w.

* “A pleasing preface. There are some sixty Greek words and more than twenty mistakes.”

+ — Spec. 95: 397. S. 16, ‘05. 160w.

Fitzgerald, Edward and Pamela. Edward and Pamela Fitzgerald; being an account of their lives; compiled by Gerald Campbell. $3.50. Longmans.

“A volume compiled by Gerald Campbell [their great grandchild] from the letters of those who knew them, in which is told the ‘life story’ of the Irish rebel leader and his wife. Unlike other memoirs of Lord FitzGerald, this is not founded on Thomas Moore’s ‘Life and death of Lord Edward FitzGerald,’ which appeared in 1831. The letters cover in all a period of sixty years—from 1770 to 1831. The object of the first part of the volume is to give a picture of the home life of Lord Edward’s family, and incidentally portraits of the writer of the epistles. No attempt has been made to give a connected account of the story of his life. The letters have been left to show how he was regarded by those who knew and loved him best.”—N. Y. Times.

“On the whole the work of the editor has been well done.” G. H. O.

+ + Eng. Hist. R. 20: 613. Jl. ‘05. 590w.

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 10. Ja. 7, ‘05. 400w. (Outlines contents).

120Fitzgerald, Percy. Lady Jean, the romance of the great Douglas cause. *$3.60. Wessels.

A revival of the famous Douglas case, the story of Lady Jean Douglas, who at the age of 50 married a broken down gambler in order to provide heirs for her brother’s estates. The author takes the side of the Hamiltons and contends that Lady Jane’s twin boys were hers not by birth but by purchase.

“Mr. Fitzgerald has, in fact, given us a somewhat repellant chapter of gossip, narrated in a style so slipshod as to suggest doubts as to its accuracy in other points.”

— Acad. 68: 147. F. 18, ‘05. 650w.

+ — Ath. 1905, 1: 779. Je. 24. 490w.

* Fitzgerald, Sybil. In the track of the Moors. *$6. Dutton.

“These essays contain no personal reminiscences; they are interpretative rather than descriptive, and they often run far afield into legend, history, politics, race characteristics and development, the inter-play of one race upon another, and other problems remote from the point of view of the guide-book.... It is as a luxurious and leisurely commentary upon travels past or to come, as a collection of delightful essays and beautiful pictures, that ‘In the track of the Moors’ should be judged and enjoyed. The book is the result of collaboration by Sybil and Augustine Fitzgerald, the former furnishing the essays and the latter the pictures. There are sixty-three full-page illustrations excellently printed in color.”—Dial.

* “If the author displays here no great erudition, she certainly shows a real and sympathetic acquaintance with the lands in question, considerable powers of observation, and a pretty taste in the literature of travel.”

+ Ath. 1905, 2: 729. N. 25, ‘05. 130w.

* “The essayist is equipped for her task by a thorough knowledge of the subject, a gift for analysis, and the ability to put the results of analysis into trenchant and finished form.”

+ + Dial. 39: 382. D. 1, ‘05. 480w.

* “The feature of ‘In the track of the Moors’ lies essentially in its illustrations.”

+ Ind. 59: 1381. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.

* “The pictures, much the more satisfactory element, are often charming, although also at times very trivial in subject.”

+ Nation. 81: 463. D. 7, ‘05. 240w.

* N. Y. Times. 10: 765. N. 11, ‘05. 310w.

* + Outlook. 81: 705. N. 25, ‘05. 60w.

Fitzmaurice, Edmond George Petty. Life of Granville. 2v. $10. Longmans.

The materials used for Lord Fitzmaurice’s biography are mainly extracts from Lord Granville’s diaries and correspondence, from letters from his mother, from Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and from a large group of his political colleagues. “The most striking letters which it contains are those which explain the relations of Queen Victoria to her ministers in respect of the conduct of foreign affairs.... The pleasantest portion of the first volume consists of the diary jottings of Lord Granville contained in his letters to the Governor-General of India.... The most important matter treated in the second volume is Home rule, and here again we find new facts which are material.... There are many interesting passages scattered throughout the portions of the book which deal with modern politics.”

“Impartiality is a virtue of which he never loses sight, and though his book does not give us a clear portrait of Lord Granville, it holds within its covers a mass of facts and documents, with which the historian of the nineteenth century will never be able to dispense.”

+ + Acad. 68: 1121. O. 28, ‘05. 1650w.

“Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice’s book is both interesting and important.”

+ + Ath. 1905, 2: 497. O. 14. 2800w.

“Lord Edmond has put together a vast amount of interesting and entertaining information about many people besides Lord Granville. Lord Granville’s own personal charm was perhaps too evanescent a quality to be reproduced on paper.”

+ + Lond. Times. 4: 338. O. 13, ‘05. 3880w.

“Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice has done a very good piece of work in his life of Lord Granville.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 746. N. 4, ‘05. 1270w.

+ + Sat. R. 100: 558. O. 28, ‘05. 2320w.

“Even Mr. John Morley has not drawn so full a picture of the unfortunate Cabinet of 1880 as Lord Edmond has been able to supply, and it is certain that no future writer will be able to address himself to this period unless he has thoroughly studied Lord Edmond’s volumes.”

+ + + Spec. 95: 609. O. 21, ‘05. 1760w.

Flandrau, Rebecca Blair, tr. See Kielland, Alexander. Professor Lovdahl.

Fletcher, A. E. Thomas Gainsborough. *$1.25. Scribner.

A volume in the “Makers of British art” series. “If, in the present volume, we are not taught much as to Gainsborough’s technique we gain a good picture of Gainsborough’s age and its degradation in taste; of Gainsborough’s family; of the famous Bath period (the turning point in the painter’s career of Gainsborough’s landscape work) and its relation to Constable’s; of the London life, the king’s favor, the Academy, and, finally, the noble passing. Of the great triumvirate of English portrait painters—Reynolds, Gainsborough, and Romney—working at the same time, Gainsborough was not only the most brilliant artist in, but also the founder of the English landscape school.” (Outlook).

“Excellent thought and carefully gauged appreciation is conveyed in a too dramatic, one might almost say, journalistic, tone.”

+ + — Int. Studio. 25: sup. 16. Mr. ‘05, 190w.

“Mr. Fletcher has nothing new or important to tell us of Gainsborough’s art, but he has succeeded, in spite of the handicap of a wordy and inefficient style, in writing a fairly entertaining biography.”

+ — Nation. 80: 194. Mr. 9, ‘05. 140w.

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 92. F. 11, ‘05. 550w.

“Mr. Fletcher’s is the latest of the rapidly increasing number of Gainsborough biographies. His is a good biography, but not a remarkable book of criticism. For that one will seek Sir Walter Armstrong’s book; not that entire satisfaction is to be had from it either.”

+ — Outlook. 79: 96. Ja. 7, ‘05. 150w.

Fletcher, Banister, and Fletcher, Banister Flight. History of architecture. *$6. imp. Scribner.

A fifth edition, revised and enlarged. The volume is intended for students, craftsmen, and the general reader. It contains over 2000 illustrations including photographs of buildings, exteriors and interiors, maps, plans, and diagrams, and includes a bibliography, a glossary, and a full index.

“The present edition is certainly an improvement on the former ones in clarity and fulness of information.”

+ + Ath. 1905, 1: 440. Ap. 8. 300w.

“Is a veritable encyclopedia of its subject, and presents in compact form an immense amount of information.”

+ + Dial. 38: 277. Ap. 16, ‘05. 70w.

“The peculiar excellence and convenience of this work....”

+ + Nation. 80: 229. Mr. 23, ‘05. 100w.

N. Y. Times. 10: 169. Mr. 18, ‘05. 290w.

121Fletcher, Charles Robert Leslie. Introductory history of England, from the earliest times to the close of the middle ages. *$2. Dutton.

“Mr. Fletcher’s book is ‘introductory’ in a double sense. Besides being intended for boys, it stops at the beginning of the Tudor period. In style, it is explanatory, and the author is enabled, by excising a large number of subjects, to treat those that remain with tolerable fulness of detail.”—Nation.

“He gives a fresh and really interesting connected narrative of England’s emergence from barbarism and the beginnings of her national and institutional life. There are surely very many older readers who will find the book more fascinating than most novels.”

+ Ind. 58:671. Mr. 23, ‘05. 490w.

“Mr. Fletcher’s avowed object is to avoid intolerable dulness, even when discoursing of the Norman conquest; and without further delay we may as well state that he has succeeded. The dry-as-dust critic might pick holes in some of his statements. But Mr. Fletcher has a grasp of essentials, and some lapses may well be condoned in the case of one whose light touch really does lend interest to the mediaeval history of England.”

+ + — Nation. 80:235. Mr. 23, ‘05. 560w.

“The book he has now given us is eminently characteristic, full of his own energetic, practical activity, his love of health, fresh air, and good exercise. Mr. Fletcher’s story is, in the main, highly intelligible and adequately consecutive. He has certainly given us here a sketch of living men by a living man. Peculiarly interesting is the picture attempted of an imaginary village in pre-Norman, Norman, and post-Norman times. A word must also be said in praise of the capital little chapter of geological history.”

+ + Nature. 71:385. F. 23, ‘05. 470w.

Fletcher, Margaret. Light for new times: a book for Catholic girls. 60c. Benziger.

Four essays which aim to help Catholic girls to enter upon the life which succeeds school days with some practical warning as to what the realities of life will be. They are entitled, Without the way there is no going; Liberty; Responsibility; and Professional life.

* “Miss Fletcher really meets a serious want. Her work is of a high order; her aim is in the right direction.”

+ Cath. World. 82:262. N. ‘05. 540w.

Flint, Austin. Handbook of physiology. *$5. Macmillan.

The author states that this book is the outgrowth of “a desire to present to students a work that may serve to connect pure physiology with the physiology especially useful to physicians.... I have endeavored to adapt it to the curricula of medical schools where the subject is taught in the English language.... The subject has been treated from a medical standpoint, not unduly neglecting, it is hoped, pure physiology and biology.”

“We cannot leave it without a word of recognition for the extraordinarily lucid style which this veteran professor ... has achieved. It might well be the envy if not the despair of professional writers.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10:649. O. 7, ‘05. 680w.

Flint, George Elliot. Power and health through progressive exercise. *$1.50. Baker.

In a plea for heavy work in the gymnasium, the author lays aside light weight systems, and outlines a course in heroic strength-development. He maintains that “it is not much work requiring many slight efforts, but much less work requiring great efforts that make the best quality of brain and brawn.”

+ Dial. 38: 422. Je. 16, ‘05. 300w.

* Flood, William H. Grattan. Story of the harp. *$1.25. Scribner.

The history of the harp is given in this volume, from its earliest form in Egypt, Assyria, Babylonia, and Persia, also its use in the Jewish temples and Christian churches, its appearance in Ireland, with a full description of Irish harps and harpists, and a discussion of the increasing use of the harp in the orchestra. There are appendices upon the Æolian harp, and Epochs in the history of harp-making. The volume is illustrated.

* + Nation. 81: 467. D. 7, ‘05. 190w.

* “A more definite plan, a more skillful presentation, a more detailed and critical discussion and description would have made a book more valuable to the student and not less agreeable to the general reader.” Richard Aldrich.

+ — N. Y. Times. 10: 604. S. 16, ‘05. 360w.

Flower, Elliott. Best policy. †$1.50. Bobbs.

Dave Murray, special insurance agent, is the central figure about whom center the incidents which fill these twelve stories. All phases of the life insurance plea are presented, including comedy, tragedy, speculation, failure, error, sacrifice and grievance.

“Considered as fiction the book is one of the brightest and best volumes of short stories of the season.”

+ + Arena. 34: 551. N. ‘05. 180w.

* “The insurance companies of the country should pay Mr. Flower a royalty on this book.”

+ Lit. D. 31: 966. D. 23, ‘05. 360w.

“This is a timely book, unique and interesting.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 771. N. 11, ‘05. 200w.

“It would make an excellent guide for young insurance agents in the art of soliciting business.”

+ Outlook. 81: 524. O. 28, ‘05. 40w.

“The fact that his stories are good ones, or would be if it were not for the trail of the serpent of bitter knowledge that lies over them, only adds to the seriousness of his offense.”

+ — Pub. Opin. 39: 601. N. 4, ‘05. 180w.

Flower, Elliott. Slaves of success. †$1.50. Page.

These eight short stories form a study in state politics. The grafter, the boss, the spoilsman, the reformer, the honest country member of the legislature, all are true to their parts and serve to bring out the various phases of American business and political methods as viewed from the inside.

“The eight chapters of ‘Slaves of success’ are rather as many narratives than stories.” Churchill Williams.

+ — Bookm. 22: 173. O. ‘05. 1030w.

“Is rather a series of sketches than a novel, and the chapters have very unequal merit.”

+ — Ind. 59: 452. Ag. 24, ‘05. 70w.

“One of the many merits of his book is that it is not one of unalloyed pessimism. ‘Slaves of success’ is not only of absorbing interest, but, if as widely read as it deserves, cannot fail of being a power for good.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 326. My. 20, ‘05. 480w.

+ Outlook. 79: 1016. Ap. 22, ‘05. 40w.

+ Pub. Opin. 38: 676. Ap. 29, ‘05. 320w.

Flux, A. W. Economic principles: an introductory study. *$2. Dutton.

Prof. Flux has written an introductory text book and has rendered it unsatisfactory for advanced work by giving no references, save in a general way. His object is to avoid introducing controversies which would interest only students more advanced than those for whom 122he wrote, and to give himself more freedom of expression than would be possible if he gave credit for each point of doctrine to those who first defined it. The work is, on the whole, of the classical point of view, as found in Marshall, but whatever the economic prejudices of the reader, he will find the work accurate and thoro, as well as modern.

* + — Ind. 59: 931. O. 19, ‘05. 230w.

“It is not too much to say that the book is pretty nearly everything else than a textbook could be fairly expected to be; but it is not that. It is accurate, thoughtful, forceful, thorough, critical, logical, learned, temperate, clear; but it is difficult, abstract, and over-condensed; even for the practised economist it is hard reading. This is not to imply that it is not surpassingly well worth while, a positive contribution to the literature and thought of the science—it is all of this; but that only very advanced classes will find the book possible of handing; and for these it covers too wide a field, and can be of great service only for reference purposes or for collateral reading. On the whole, a work of great merit and significance. So much the more could better treatment from the publisher, especially in point of binding, have fairly been expected.” H. J. Davenport.

+ + — J. Pol. Econ. 13: 114. D. ‘04. 660w.

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 53. Ja. 28, ‘05. 370w. (Outlines scope of book).

“It is in some important respects one of the most satisfactory systematic treatises on economics to appear within recent years.”

+ + — Outlook. 80: 92. My. 6, ‘05. 330w.

Forbes, J. T. Socrates. $1.25. Scribner.

The latest in the “World’s epoch makers” series. The political conditions of Socrates’ time, the civic ideal, and the religion of the Greeks are discussed in the introduction. With the environment of the philosopher’s activity established, the author shows how he developed his great system which looks upon the individual as the moral unit.

“Mr. Forbes has done a real service to the educated public by issuing a bright, sound estimate, biographical and critical, of the charm and limitations attaching to the Greek primal path.” James Moffatt.

+ + Hibbert J. 4: 227. O. ‘05. 760w.

“While his work is conscientious and sufficiently thorough, it is not always interesting, nor do the discussions leave a clean and clear impression.”

+ + — Nation. 81: 247. S. 21, ‘05. 630w.

N. Y. Times. 10: 444. Jl. 1, ‘05. 260w.

“It is an exacting as well as a fascinating subject, and its demands for a comprehensive view and critical insight are well met in the present volume.”

+ + Outlook. 80: 839. Jl. 29, ‘05. 160w.

* Ford, Paul Leicester. His version of it. †$1.50. Dodd.

“The pretty little fiction of the horses’ interest in the love affairs of Miss Fairley—who was ‘a beauty, but not what her mother was at her age’—and the noble Major, while the odious Mr. Lewis played the despicable role of villain, is told with great vivacity by the prime movers, the horses.... The book is attractively illustrated by Mr. Henry Hutt, and should be a pretty addition to any Ford collection.”—N. Y. Times.

* “Charming story.”

+ Critic. 47: 582. D. ‘05. 40w.

* + Dial. 39: 387. D. 1, ‘05. 110w.

* “One of the cleverest of this author’s short stories.”

+ + Ind. 59: 1378. D. 14, ‘05. 30w.

* + N. Y. Times. 10: 822. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.

* Outlook. 81: 526. O. 28, ‘05. 20w.

Forman, Justus Miles. Island of enchantment. †$1.75. Harper.

A romance of Italy in the fourteenth century. The hero is a young captain sent by the Doge of Venice to rescue the island of Arbe from the forces of the Ban of Bosnia. “The story is full of passionate doings and conflicts of love and honor.” (N. Y. Times.)

“Told with gentle and straightforward English that must surely charm. The very simplicity and directness of the plot and prose give the volume its chief character.”

+ Critic. 47: 477. N. ‘05. 60w.

* “Mr. Forman knows how to mingle love, war and intrigue in a way to compel his reader’s interest, and he has never succeeded better than in this novelette.”

+ + Dial. 39: 385. D. 1, ‘05. 90w.

* + Ind. 59: 1377. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.

* + N. Y. Times. 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.

+ Outlook. 81: 382. O. 14. ‘05. 50w.

Forman, Justus Miles. Tommy Carteret. †$1.50. Doubleday.

“The story, which has its beginning in a New York ballroom, goes far. It takes Tommy from his first lovemaking, and assigns him to the nobler role of volunteer scapegoat for the amatory sins of a handsome and heedless father. It exiles the young man ... to ... the back country. It exposes him to weird temptations, comes within an ace of marrying him to a dark-eyed, black-haired hill beauty, threatens him with tar and feathers, puts a bullet into his head, and when hospitals and the doctors....”—N. Y. Times.

“‘Tommy Carteret’ is poor stuff. It is a réchauffé.”

— — Acad. 68: 984. S. 23, ‘05. 280w.

“This story is fundamentally unsound, superficially clever, and for the most part entertaining.”

+ — Ath. 1905, 2: 298. S. 2. 280w.

“The story is one of unusual cleverness, and full of surprises to the end.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ + Bookm. 21: 517. Jl. ‘05. 520w.

“‘Tommy Carteret’ is quite readable, even entertaining, though it is the kind of book some superior persons sneer at and consign to the limbo of nothingness.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 166. Mr. 18, ‘05. 390w.

N. Y. Times. 10: 393. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w.

“The book is full of sentimental absurdities and affectation, and in the end degenerates into a most unpleasant pseudo-pathological study.”

— Outlook. 79: 761. Mr. 25, ‘05. 90w.

“A book that unites so much power and charm, so much insight and kindliness and truth.”

+ + R. of Rs. 31: 758. Je. ‘05. 260w.

“In spite of its faults, therefore, it is impossible to condemn the novel entirely, though it is difficult to read it without feelings of sorrow that so vigorous a pen should be employed in so vulgar a manner.”

— + Spec. 95: 532. O. 7, ‘05. 180w.

Forman, Samuel Eagle. Advanced civics: the spirit, the form, and the function of the American government. *$1.25. Century.

Dr. Forman says, “I have constantly kept in mind the truth that instruction in Civics should have for its aim the indoctrination of the learner in sound notions of political morality.... In Part I. the underlying principles of our government are presented. The essentials are placed first in order.... In Part II. is an account of the governmental machine. In Part III. the every-day work of government is considered and the practical problems connected with the work are discussed.”

123“A thoughtful, compact, direct, and comprehensive account of the machinery, operation, and problems of the governmental system.”

+ + Outlook. 81: 628. N. 11, ‘05. 110w.

Fortier, S. Progress report of co-operative irrigation investigations in California.

“One of the most interesting lines of work here described is an investigation of pumping water for irrigation, by Prof. J. N. Le Conte, of the University of California, and others. Thus far descriptions of 750 pumping plants have been secured. Both field and laboratory tests of pumping plants have been made. These are here summarized briefly, but will be reported on more fully at a later date. Studies of evaporation and methods of applying water to land are also described in the pamphlet.”—Engin. N.

Engin. N. 53: 185. F. 16, ‘05. 100w.

Foster, John Watson. Arbitration and the Hague court. **$1. Houghton.

“A brief review of events dealing with arbitration up to the convention of The Hague peace conference. It gives the circumstances under which that conference was called, the reasons why The Hague was appropriate for such an assemblage, and the eminent men employed and spirit of the conference.”—Bookm.

“The exposition is clear, the conclusions logical.”

+ + + Critic. 46: 383. Ap. ‘05. 100w.

+ + Dial. 38: 275. Ap. 16, ‘05. 190w.

“This is a valuable hand book. His book, however, has the peculiar value of being historical and impersonal.”

+ + Ind. 58: 269. F. 2, ‘05. 350w.

“His publication, important in more than one respect, is, so far as we know, the first to give, in a small compass and an interesting way, the present status of arbitration and its practice under the Hague convention.”

+ + + Nation. 80: 19. Ja. 5, ‘05. 1390w.

R. of Rs. 31: 247. F. ‘05. 80w.

Fox, Frances Margaret. Rainbow bridge. †$1.25. Wilde.

From the “little pilgrims’ home” Marian Lee traverses her rainbow bridge to the ideal home of her dreams where love and privileges abound.

* “Another interesting, natural story.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 911. D. 23, ‘05. 40w.

Fox, John, jr. Following the sun-flag: a vain pursuit through Manchuria. **$1.25. Scribner.

One of our war correspondents who never reached the front gives his impressions of Japan and her people. The account of his experiences in Tokio and in Manchuria, which he traversed in the trail of the Japanese army, is amusing and interesting.

“A book very pleasing in its literary finish. Mr. Fox is very guarded, and is as self-controlled as a Japanese in his intimations.” William Elliot Griffis.

+ Critic. 47: 265. S. ‘05. 170w.

“He has made the work interesting by the sketchy, breezy manner in which it is written, although it is imbued with ... race prejudice against men of darker skin.” Wallace Rice.

+ — Dial. 38: 416. Je. 16, ‘05. 550w.

+ Nation. 81: 42. Jl. 13, ‘05. 540w.

N. Y. Times. 10: 265. Ap. 22, ‘05. 280w.

“Mr. Fox has made some very pretty copy out of his four months’ stay in Tokio.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 300. My. 6, ‘05. 600w.

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

— + Outlook. 80: 245. My. 27, ‘05. 130w.

“There are some bits of very fine description in this volume.”

+ R. of Rs. 32: 125. Jl. ‘05. 140w.

“The book is written in an amusing high-coloured style, and as a record of nothing at all is, in its way, an achievement.”

— Spec. 95:51. Ag. 8, ‘05. 130w.

Fox, Middleton. Child of the shore; a romance of Cornwall. (†)$1.50. Lane.

Eery incantations on the Cornish shore bring to a farmer’s wife one of the “merry-maids” of the sea as her longed-for child. The girl’s strange beauty and her sympathy with the sea’s moods cause the villagers to regard her with suspicion, and when she is gone they believe the story that she and her sea-sisters have avenged her life’s tragedy by pulling down to the depths of the sea her aristocratic betrayer. Smugglers, wreckers and fisher-folk enter into the story.

“Mr. Fox’s novel is atmospheric, with the result that in spite of occasional passages of some beauty in the actual writing, and an attractive way of introducing his story ... it is tedious.”

— Acad. 68:785. Jl. 29, ‘05. 320w.

“The book, however, is pleasingly written.”

+ — Ath. 1905, 1:651. My. 27. 210w.

* “It is, perhaps, unfortunate, that material of such unusual possibilities should have been squandered in a ‘first book,’ for as yet the writer’s equipment is lacking in dramatic force.”

+ — Critic. 47:477. N. ‘05. 80w.

“Mr. Fox tells his story well, in a way to touch both the heart and the imagination, but in addition to the story there is the interest of the vivid picture of a quaint, old village and a mode of life long past.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10:584. S. 2, ‘05. 550w.

Francis of Assisi, St. (Giovanni Francisco Bernadone Assisi). Words of St. Francis; sel. and tr. by Anne MacDonell. *60c. Dutton.

“Friends of St. Francis have left records of what in other men might be called ‘Table talk.’ Others of his sayings have come down to us at one further remove, from friends of the Saint’s friends. Some of these things Miss MacDonell has put together in this volume, trying, as she tells us, ‘to reflect his spirit, his temperament, and his attitude to life rather than his doctrine.’”—Spec.

“An admirable little book.”

+ Spec. 94:23. Ja. 7, ‘05. 160w.

Francis, M. E., pseud. See Blundell, Mary. E. (Sweetman).

Frankau, Julia (Frank Danby, pseud.). Eighteenth century artists and engravers. 2v. *$1.50. Macmillan.

“In the regal portfolio of forty engravings, which forms part of her work, [Mrs. Frankau] gives most of her plates to William Ward, who reproduced paintings like Hoppner’s famous Miranda in noble fashion, when he was not designing and stippling dainty circular or oval portraits of feminine types. But in the octavo which contains her text, she fills much of her space with a biographical sketch of James Ward, who valued his gifts as a painter.... The thirty photogravures from his works, which she scatters through her text, are important to the student.”—Atlan.

Reviewed by Royal Cortissoz.

+ + Atlan. 95:274. F. ‘05. 530w.

Franklin, Benjamin. Selections from the writings of Benjamin Franklin; ed. by U. Waldo Cutler. 35c. Crowell.

One of the thirteen new titles lately added to the “Handy volume classics.” There is an introduction, which sketches the life of Franklin, and notes by the editor.

“The selections in the book are well chosen.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10:730. O. 28, ‘05. 120w.

124Franklin, Benjamin. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; printed from the full and authentic text, ed. by William MacDonald. *$1.25. Dutton.

The editor has made this book a complete biography by providing a biographical preface and an account of Franklin’s later life and his relation to the history of his time.

Am. Hist. R. 10: 947. Jl. ‘05. 30w.

+ + Dial. 38: 423. Je. 16, ‘05. 50w.

“The editor seeks to describe Franklin as the complete citizen—of his city, his country, and the world. The task is superficially done, and is marred by the strong prejudices of the writer.”

+ — Nation. 81: 142. Ag. 17, ‘05. 80w.

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 372. Je. 10, ‘05. 180w.

+ + Outlook. 80: 244. My. 27, ‘05. 90w.

Sat. R. 99: 849. Je. 24, ‘05. 140w.

Fraser, Edward. Famous fighters of the fleet. $1.75. Macmillan.

These “Glimpses through the cannon smoke in the days of the old navy,” set forth the gallant fights fought by the insignificant little English crafts which used to rule the sea. The past and present is strikingly contrasted in the opening chapter, and then follow accounts of the capture of the French ship Foudroyant by a little Monmouth whose namesake today makes her seem a mere toy, the famous ships that bore the name Formidable, the Zebra, whose fighting captain, Faulkner, carried, by storm, a French fort in the West Indies, and others. The requiem of the Téméraire. the subject of Turner’s picture and Ruskin’s oration, is fittingly sounded and the book closes with an account of how Lord Charles Beresford successfully took the little Condor into action during the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882.

+ — Nation. 80: 414. My. 25, ‘05. 350w.

Fraser, Mary Crawford (Mrs. Hugh Fraser). Maid of Japan. †$1.25. Holt.

The tale of a Japanese girl with the music of the sea and the glory of the cliffs in her nature. Sixteen years before, her mother had walked into the sea because the Englishman who had wed her sailed away and left her. The young girl’s simple life as shell gatherer is disturbed one day by the coming of a young Englishman who sings love songs to her over the water, clears up the mystery of her parentage, and takes her back to his England.

“She has a wonderful vocabulary, mastery of language, fine literary finish, and a keen sense of the dramatic. There is no false step or slip of the pen in her word drawing and shadings of Japanese life.” William Elliot Griffis.

+ + Critic. 47: 265. S. ‘05. 140w.

“The volume is quite unworthy of the author of the ‘Letters from Japan.’” Adachi Kinnosuké.

+ — Ind. 59: 389. Ag. 17, ‘05. 130w.

+ Nation. 81: 101. Ag. 3, ‘05. 310w.

“The plot is slight, but the story is told with surpassing grace, and possesses to a rare degree both atmosphere and temperament.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 446. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1400w.

“The moral tone is high, the literary finish good, the general effect idyllic, and the typographical presentation unique and agreeable.”

+ + Outlook. 80: 592. Jl. 1, ‘05. 80w.

“Whatever this author does is done well, and when she touches Japan she is securely at home. There is nothing sensational or thrilling in the book, but it is bathed deep in Japanese atmosphere.”

+ Pub. Opin. 39: 160. Jl. 29, ‘05. 200w.

Fraser, William Alexander. Sa’-Zada tales. †$2. Scribner.

“Stories supposed to be told by the animals in a ‘Zoo’ in India. The keeper, Sa’ (or Sahib) Zada, in the warm summer nights lets the animals out of their cages, and brings them together to tell stories.... Each of the animals in turn tells of his life in the jungle and how he came to be captured.... They indulge in repartee and sometimes in bad temper, but they are on the whole a happy family, united by their love for their keeper. The book is strikingly illustrated by Arthur Heming.”—Outlook.

* + — Critic. 47: 576. D. ‘05. 40w.

* “Will be a treasure-trove to children who love animals and who love to hear them talk.” May Estelle Cook.

+ — Dial. 39: 374. D. 1, ‘05. 200w.

* “Though not a brilliant story-teller, is interesting, and apparently knows a great deal about the creatures that he presents to us.”

+ Nation. 81: 511. D. 21, ‘05. 140w.

* “The author’s knowledge of natural history, his skill in story telling, and his humorous sympathy, enable him to thrill the lover of forest creatures and even to thrall jaded readers who may scorn all popular nature books.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 707. O. 21, ‘05. 160w.

* + Outlook. 81: 718. N. 25, ‘05. 120w.

Free, Richard. Seven years’ hard. *$1.50. Dutton.

A record of the Rev. Richard Free’s seven years of pioneer missionary work in that section of the London slums known as the Isle of Dogs, or Millwall. The author himself calls it “a city of desolation,” and he and his wife fight a long and gallant fight against rowdyism and intemperance. Tho the Thames flows through that section, “its waters have become loathsome by human selfishness and folly,” and young and old toil from dawn till dark for a mere pittance; factories fill the district, and dirt and foul odors are everywhere. The erection of the mission building, the establishment of guilds, and the problems to be met with, are well described in this volume.

“It is not a story and it is not a system of sociology, but a series of snap-shots of the life of people ground to earth by employers, debased by drink and ignorance, and indifferent to art, science, history, morals, and religion.” Charles Richmond Henderson.

+ Dial. 38: 156. Mr. 1, ‘05. 160w.

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 84. F. 11, ‘05. 1330w. (Review of contents).

“For a picture or series of pictures of an unknown people living in the midst of a Christian civilization, we have seen nothing so graphic as this book of Mr. Free’s since Jacob A. Riis’s ‘How the other half lives.’”

+ + Outlook. 79: 902. Ap. 8, ‘05. 180w.

Freeman, Edward Augustus. Western Europe in the eighth century and onward. *$3.25. Macmillan.

The late Professor Freeman left the manuscript of this work in the rough, some chapters being merely fragmentary and the editors who are first publishing the book, twelve years after the author’s death, can give it only in an unfinished form; but it is a welcome addition to a period upon which there is little historical light. The period covered opens with the rise and fall of the British Constantine and closes with Theodoric and Chlodowig. It is put before us with the great historian’s usual breadth of view, and accuracy of detail; it is learned and even heavy, but it contains many beautiful and vivid passages, and is the result of the faithful researches of one who was thoroly steeped in the subject and in the times.

“The volume is plainly meant for the specialist, who will find profit in the discussions of the patriciate and donation and in the detailed account of Pippin’s campaigns, in spite of the amount of more or less relevant comparison and allusion with which the author was in the habit of overloading his writings.”

+ + — Am. Hist. R. 10: 913. Jl. ‘05. 450w.

+ + Ath. 1905, 1: 43. Ja. 14. 540w.

125“Excellent as is Freeman’s work, even without his own revision, it is unfortunately impossible to say the same of the editing.” E. W. Brooks.

+ — Eng. Hist. R. 20: 548. Jl. ‘05. 1330w.

“This book is thoroughly readable, even if all critics may not find it thoroughly convincing from beginning to end.”

+ + Spec. 94: 222. F. 11, ‘05. 420w.

“The task of editing the MS. has been performed with scrupulous care. Its difficulty could hardly be exaggerated, for Mr. Freeman had at times only indicated the sources of the references. Our knowledge of this period is so meagre that we are grateful for the light thrown on it by the researches, unfortunately incomplete, of one who had made the subject peculiarly his own.”

+ + The Westminster Review. 163: 231. F. ‘05. 180w.

* Freeman, Mrs. Mary Eleanor (Wilkins). Debtor. †$1.50. Harper.

“The ‘Debtor’ preys upon his fellow-men because he has himself been ruined in business by a scoundrel, and has not the skill and strength to make an honest fight. His amiable, unreasoning wife, who thinks all creditors mean and vulgar persons; his worn and disillusioned sister, who knows all his faults, but fights for him to save the family; his queer little son with impish instincts and inherited traits ... and, above all, his innocent and faithful daughter, who really saves her father by the intensity and unselfishness of her love—all these are real people. So, too, are the creditors.”—Outlook.

* “As it is the novel seems to lack unity, and in spite of much subtlety and fine workmanship the effect is that of a succession of disconnected studies of character rather than of a single well-proportioned whole.”

+ — Lond. Times. 4: 396. N. 17, ‘05. 400w.

* “The first interest of the book lies in its fidelity to the small things that make up manners and customs.”

+ Nation. 81: 488. D. 14, ‘05. 490w.

* “One misses the crispness of style that marked ‘Pembroke’ and ‘Jerome’; one sometimes finds involved sentences and careless phrasing; but the reality, intensity, and force of the novel are remarkable.”

+ + — Outlook. 81: 709. N. 25. ‘05. 270w.

Freer, A. Goodrich-. Inner Jerusalem. *$3. Dutton.

In telling “what Jerusalem is like” Miss A. Goodrich Freer commands a view from the Holy City itself, with her vantage ground right under the shadow of the Russian tower. Among other noteworthy facts brought out as to life in modern Jerusalem is one which the author presents in these words: “While we sing ‘They call us to deliver their land from error’s chain,’ let us realize that here we may send out our youngest maid, with no further caution than not to get her pocket picked; we may take a cab, certain that our driver, unless he be a Christian, will not get drunk.” (R. of Rs.) There are many full-page illustrations, chiefly from photographs.

“Has contrived to answer a great many interesting questions regarding life in the Holy City, so that the reader rises from the work with a sense of having at last learned just what Jerusalem means to its widely assorted inhabitants, especially to those who comprise the European colonies there. The knowledge displayed in the book is such as could have been acquired only by long residence, and is used with discrimination and a sympathetic outlook upon the curious ramifications of temporal and spiritual power.” Wallace Rice.

+ + Dial. 38: 91. F. 1, ‘05. 310w.

* “She has withal, a very pretty wit, racy descriptive power and a clever knack of relating her subject to its graver scientific issues, with the sure result that we are both informed and entertained.”

+ + Ind. 59: 992. O. 26, ‘05. 430w.

“The style, however, is the same throughout—amusing and light, without being irreverent. The book gives a pleasant and entertaining and, in spite of its limitations, probably the best available picture of actual living conditions in Jerusalem at the present day.”

+ + Nation. 80: 340. Ap. 27, ‘05. 1380w.

+ R. of Rs. 31: 123. Ja. ‘05. 120w.

French, Anne Warner (Mrs. Charles Ellis French). Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary. †$1.50. Little.

Aunt Mary, “dreadfully deaf and fearfully arbitrary,” is also seventy years old, immensely wealthy, and unreasonably devoted to her nephew Jack. After getting him out of various scrapes, she becomes discouraged and disinherits him. The body of the book is taken up with an account of the good time which Jack and his college chums give the old lady when she comes to New York on a visit. Knocking about town, indulging in late suppers, motorcar spins and other joys prove so alluring that she forgives Jack, who promptly marries a beautiful young widow, who has played an important part in the story, and Aunt Mary goes to New York to live with them and continue to enjoy the giddy whirl offered by the metropolis.

“Considered as a bright and humorous story, this tale is incomparably superior to the author’s previous work, ‘Susan Clegg and her friend Mrs. Lathrop.’ The general moral atmosphere, especially of the earlier part of the story, leaves much to be desired.”

+ + — Arena. 35: 556. N. ‘05. 780w.

* “There is plenty of dialogue in this story, and the plot is lively enough to hold the most frivolous spirit.”

+ N. Y. Times. 10: 800. N. 25, ‘05. 250w.

* “Clever little comedy.”