The Project Gutenberg eBook of Cumulative Book Review Digest, V. 1, 1905

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SETS OF MAGAZINES FOR SALE.

We have purchased two large stocks of miscellaneous magazines which we are classifying and collecting into sets, especially for years 1900 to date. We shall not be able to print a list of these for several weeks but shall be glad to quote prices for any sets, volumes or odd numbers.

The Need.

The Readers’ Guide To Periodical Literature, 1900-1904, and the current numbers open up a rich field to the investigator, but disappointment often results owing to the library’s not having the articles and if the articles are in the files, they are usually bound and do not circulate and the student can not use the material as advantageously as though it were in single article form.

How We Propose to Meet the Need.

We have already purchased large quantities of magazines and we propose to arrange articles cut from all magazines we index and many others in strict accordance with the subject classification of the Readers’ Guide. We shall be able to fill orders for certain articles or all articles on a subject. When requested, we shall be able to include much that is not indexed. Every article will be neatly stitched in a cover.

The Cost.

For the first article in each order the charge will be ten cents and for each additional article five cents. Articles may be retained two weeks not including time in transit.

Ready January 1st, 1906.

Incidentally.

We shall collect many duplicate magazines and we propose to make up sets of magazines, especially for the five years covered by the Readers’ Guide To Periodical Literature, 1900-1904. We hope to be able to supply odd numbers, volumes, or sets and shall be glad to receive lists of wants and also lists of duplicates which libraries may wish to dispose of.

Lists of duplicates for sale should be accompanied by lists of wants since we can pay more in exchange than in cash.

Announcements

The University of Chicago Press announces the addition to its list of publications of two new journals, to be devoted to the interests of the Ancient Classics; viz. Classical Philology, published for the University of Chicago, and the Classical Journal, published for the newly formed Classical Association of the Middle West and South. The former will contain scientific articles and critical reviews; the latter, articles and reviews of a more general nature, with special reference to the needs of teachers.

As usual, The Outlook’s illustrated Magazine Number for December is also its Annual Book Number, and this is in fact the seventeenth year of the appearance of such a yearly survey of the books of the season. In addition to a large number of pages devoted to a classified review of recent literature in its more important departments, there are special features dealing with notable literary personalities, and an article dealing with the American publisher and including a dozen or more portraits of the heads of the most famous American publishing houses. Half a dozen or more authors of note have been chosen as the subjects of personal articles, accompanied in each case with a portrait.

“Russia under the Great Shadow,” by Luigi Villari, is not only one of the most readable of the recent books on the realm of the Czar, but decidedly valuable. In Mr. Villari’s handsome and generously illustrated volume the reader will find a most interesting and temperate account of existing conditions in Russia, based on the author’s recent journey throughout the empire. It is comprehensive, impartial, well-reasoned and trustworthy, and will undoubtedly attract wide attention.

In the December issue of the “Political Science Quarterly” (Ginn & Company) Professor George H. Haynes of Worcester, Mass., discusses the tendency toward popular control of senatorial elections, and the methods taken in the various commonwealths for limiting the choice of the legislature in the selection of United States senators. Professor Frank Haigh Dixon of Dartmouth College describes recent attempts on the part of the states to regulate railways; and Mr. Royal Meeker analyzes the arguments advanced by supporters of the pending shipping subsidy bill. Other leading articles in the December Quarterly are “The Municipal Code of Indiana,” by Professor Fairlie of the University of Michigan; “Communistic Societies in the United States,” by Professor Bushe of Clark College; “Berlin’s Tax Problem,” by Professor Brooks of Swarthmore College; and “Private Property in Maritime War” by Giulio Marchetti Ferrante, Secretary of the Italian Legation at Berne, Switzerland.

List of Publications from which Digests of Reviews are Made

OTHER ABBREVIATIONS:

Abbreviations of Publishers’ Names will be found in the Publishers’ Directory at the end of The Cumulative Book Index.

An Asterisk (*) before the price indicates those books sold at a limited discount and commonly known as net books. Books subject to the rules of the American Publishers’ Association are marked by a double asterisk (**) when the bookseller is required to maintain the list price; by a dagger (†) when the maximum discount is fixed at 20 and 10 per cent, as is allowable in the case of fiction.

The plus and minus signs preceding the names of the magazines indicate the degree of favor or disfavor of the entire review.

In the reference to a magazine, the first number refers to the volume, the next to the page and the letters to the date.

In cumulated numbers, the new entries for that number are indicated by an asterisk (*).

The publications, named above, undoubtedly represent the leading reviews of the English-speaking world. Few libraries are able to subscribe for all and the smaller libraries are supplied with comparatively few of the periodicals from which the digests are to be culled. For this reason the digest will be of greater value to the small libraries, since it places at their disposal, in most convenient form, a vast amount of valuable information about books, which would not otherwise be available.

We shall endeavor to make the descriptive notes so comprehensive, and the digests so full and accurate, that librarians who do not have access to the reviews themselves, will be able to arrive at substantially correct appreciations of the value of the books reviewed.

This is particularly true in regard to the English periodicals, which are practically out of the reach of the ordinary library; we shall endeavor to make the digest of these reviews so complete that there will be little occasion to refer to the original publications.

“The content-matter consists for the most part of simple ballads, lyrics and poems for special occasions. In the present edition the author has brought together all his verse that he cares to preserve from previous editions and to these poems he has added a number of new compositions.”—Arena.

“The charm of his work lies rather in the pleasing lines that appeal rather to those who love the simple and quiet lays. Many of them are delightfully-told legends and ballads that will linger in the memory.”

Dating this discussion from the failure of the De Lesseps company, Gen. Abbot who is consulting engineer of the new Panama company, makes a technical study of the whole problem. He includes a “summary comparison of the routes of the old and new companies, a description of the physical conditions existing on the isthmus, the Chagres river problem, the disposal of rainfall in the basin of the stream, and the last chapter explains the plans proposed for the canal by the French company and by the former Isthmian canal commission, and the construction of a sea-level canal.” (N. Y. Times). Everything relating to the best possible canal construction is covered, and to aid in clearness, there are added a number of tables, maps, diagrams, &c.

“It would be difficult to find anywhere one better qualified to discuss the Panama problems than General Abbot.”

“Gen. Abbot has made a valuable contribution to the technical literature of the Panama canal.”

An attractive, new popular priced edition which retains the original “Rollo” illustrations and includes Rollo learning to talk; Rollo learning to read; Rollo at work; Rollo at play; Rollo at school; Rollo’s vacation; Rollo’s experiments; Rollo’s museum; Rollo’s travels; Rollo’s correspondence; Rollo’s philosophy—Water; Air; Fire; Sky.

This new book of essays is based on two courses of lectures given by Dr. Abbott before the Yale and Pacific Theological seminaries. It answers the question, Why do people go to church?

“It is a liberal view of the ministry and of the church, arising from a profound faith in Christianity, not merely as a form of teaching but as a power derived from a Person.”

“The book is pervaded by that newer and higher conception of religion that is becoming more and more prevalent, viz.: that religion is not ecclesiastical or dogmatic, but a living power in the heart of every individual.”

The William Levi Bull lectures for 1905. “The first lecture endeavors to define the industrial problem: the other three propose as the political solution, regulation; as the economic solution, reorganization; and as the ethical solution, regeneration.” (Outlook.)

A widely discussed sermon preached before the Harvard students, in which Dr. Abbott gives his definition of God. He aims to show the honest, sincere and rational man who is confused by the difference of opinion between a certain school of theologians and a certain school of scientists, that a belief in the Fatherhood of God is consistent with an acceptance of a thoroly modern scientific conception of the universe. The binding is uniform with the “What is worth while series.”

“The combined simplicity and the power of this address are great. It is interpretative to a rare degree. One breathes ‘an ampler ether, a diviner air’ while reading it.”

This history of the relation of church and state is written to aid the student of their present relations. The period preceding the conquest is first treated and the chapters which follow cover the Norman period, the troubles with the papacy from Henry II to Richard II, the beginning of constitutional church government, the growth of abuses, the beginning of reform, the subjection of the church to the state and later temporarily to the papacy, the Elizabethan settlement, the Puritans, Latitudinarian troubles, and the growth of Erastian ideas. In a final chapter entitled, The next step, Dr. Abraham makes suggestions for the future.

* “On the whole we cannot commend this book; it ministers to prejudice rather than to tolerance, and its author cannot be said to be inspired by the spirit of true historical investigation.”

* “There is a little fault to be found with Dr. Abraham’s narrative of the past. The point at which we should part company with Dr. Abraham is to be found in his proposals for the future.”

A preface states that this book is but a fragment of a complete work which the author has in mind, and is issued to meet the present need of an English text-book in railway economics. It deals with railways and railway business from an economic point of view and considers railway capital, expenditure, income, charges and rates, closing with a chapter upon the interference of parliament. Altho English experience furnishes the illustrations the discussion is applicable to all railways however owned or managed.

“The ordinary reader, if he will take the trouble really to master the figures here tabulated and the close reasoning to which they lead, will find the admirable little book now at his disposal make him quite sufficiently conversant with the subject.”

There is a fascination about Madam Adam’s intense, vivacious interpretation of the meanings of things that is not easily resisted. Her literary career, outlined here from the time of her unfortunate marriage to the founding of her salon, is linked with the life of France during the stormy days of the second empire, and reflects the temper of French society, thought and politics of the day. She rambles on delightfully about the personal qualities of George Sand, Daniel Stern, Edmond About, Gustave Flaubert, Madam Viardot, Jules Simon, and hosts of other notables, revealing ever and anon her own radical notions and violent tendencies. There are a number of full-page pictures of men and women of the times.

“Altogether this is a most delightful, inspiring and informative book, worth all the recent volumes of memoirs put together; the translation is quite excellent; in fact, it does not read like a translation at all.” Frank Schloesser.

“Chief defect (or excellence) is its haphazard garrulity. Reminiscences give the book its value, apart from our interest in the very communicative lady who writes it.”

The author, who saw the beginning of the custom of wintering Texan cattle in the Northwest, the measure which brought the extermination of the bison and the confinement of the Indians to their reservations, and who had some experience with railway companies and their methods of caring for cattle, and their prices with contractors, and with the Congressional lobbyist has woven all these things into his story.

“The book needs a glossary if it is to be thoroughly understood by English readers.”

“Not the least effective part of the book consists of the dialogue. The success of this book is the more notable from the entire absence of anything resembling a love story.” Herbert W. Horwill.

“He tells of the dangers of the great drive, from stampedes, from alkali water, from drought, from flood and from men, in a straightforward and convincing way.”

“It is an out-door book, with no pretense to style or philosophy—a plain story that takes you into the herd and its daily happenings. The book is admirable of its kind.”

“A genuine American story. There is no fiction in ‘The outlet,’ but a true, well-defined and entertainingly written narrative.”

“It is a fine picture of life on the plains, the relations of the men towards each other, episodes of treachery and sharp practices, and the fights against these evils.”

“‘The outlet’ is first and foremost, a capital story; after that, it is a genuine contribution to the history of a typical American industry.”

John Henry Smith tells his own story in diary form and also the story of other members of the golf club and their play, among them the heroine’s millionaire father, who becomes a golf enthusiast and partner with Smith in a Wall street operation, and farmer Bishop’s remarkable hired man who wins an heiress. There are various adventures, in one an automobile gets the better of a mad bull and in another it outraces a tornado.

“The story, told in Mr. John Henry Smith’s delightful and hearty style, is particularly suitable for summer reading.”

An outgrowth of the writer’s “Handbook of American authors,” published in 1884. This fifth edition contains over eight thousand five hundred names of recognized contributors to American literature, nearly three thousand more names than the first edition and over one thousand more than the fourth. The work is intended for critics, editors, and publishers, who have to do with contemporary literature, as well as for students of American literature and librarians.

“The editor of this volume properly says in the preface that the writings of no one of the leaders of the American revolution form a more complete expression of the causes and justification of that movement than do the writings of Samuel Adams. Such a collection has long been needed.... The present volume covers the period from 1765 to 1769, inclusive.... Nearly all the papers are of a distinctly public character.... Brought together from many places, from the manuscript collections of the Earl of Dartmouth, the collections in the Lenox library, the Massachusetts state papers, the Life by Wells, the Prior documents and other printed sources.”—Am. Hist. R.

“Everything included here is so desirable for an understanding of the Revolutionary movement that the reviewer has not the courage to advise the omission of papers the authenticity of which is in doubt, but he does express the desire that succeeding volumes will make plain 3the basis of inclusion and that work of such importance as this should not be subjected to so serious a criticism.”

Adams, Thomas Sewall, and Sumner, Helen L. Labor problems: a text book; ed. by Prof. R. T. Ely. *$1.60. Macmillan.

The following extract from the preface of this work shows the author’s purpose: “The principal aim of this book is to furnish a convenient collection of facts that will facilitate the study and the teaching of the American labor problem.... Where it was necessary we have sacrificed both interest and general social philosophy in order to present concrete facts. We believe that the gravest differences of opinion about the labor problem and the most dangerous misapprehensions are caused by the failure to view the problem broadly, to consider its many phases and ramifications. The labor problem is greater than the problem of industrial peace. Impelled by this conviction, we have preferred to cover a broad field imperfectly rather than a narrow field in detail.”

“It is written in a broad and sympathetic way, with every effort to state the facts fairly and clearly.”

“It is professionally designed for undergraduates and teachers, but the general public may find in it also a range of subject-matter and a felicity of treatment which should make it popular.”

* “Is comprehensive in scope and thoro in treatment, and will be found indispensable to all students of industrial questions.”

“This last chapter ... is probably the one which is most open to the charge of providing students with ready-made opinions, though a similar charge may also be made in connection with Dr. Adams’s treatment of trade-unionism. It is, however, impossible to expect a treatise like this to be exhaustive, and nothing but praise can be given for the painstaking accuracy and wide research of the authors.”

“Text-book on labor problems, whose existence is its own justification. The discussion is sane and necessarily inconclusive.”

Adamson, Rev. Robert M. Christian doctrine of the Lord’s supper. *$1.50. Scribner.

“This volume is historical, not dogmatic. It is written in a historical but not an indifferent spirit; it traces the history of the Lord’s supper, as a symbol of faith, in all the various changes through which it has passed—Primitive, Roman, Greek, Lutheran, Zwinglian, Anglican, Puritan, Quaker.”—Outlook.

“In general the author’s historical treatment appears to be always fair and generally adequate. Without agreeing with all that the author says ... we recall no monograph on the subject so generally satisfactory.”

Uniform with “The story of the churches” series, this presentation of the Episcopalians is offered by a fair-minded student of the denomination’s history, in which are set forth the best elements of the religious life and character of the denomination.

“Is written with more than average literary power. The essential facts relative to the origin and growth of the body are to be found in this volume in an interesting narrative.”

Addison, Joseph. Selections from the writings of; ed. by Barrett Wendell and Chester Noyes Greenough. *80c. Ginn.

Representative selections from Addison’s most characteristic works in prose and verse for use in the schools, for advanced students, or for the general reader. The text is that of Tickell’s edition of 1721 except for the correction of misprints. An introduction, full notes, and a bibliography are provided.

* Addison, Mrs. Julia de Wolf. Art of the National gallery: a critical survey of the schools and painters as represented in the British collection. **$2. Page.

“A plan of the gallery, showing the location of the different schools, follows the index. The pictures are discussed in the text as they are hung,—that is according to schools in their historic order ... the limitation in space and particularly in number of illustrations precludes this manual’s being a complete history of any school. It is rather a guide to the treasures of the gallery, almost every picture being at least briefly mentioned.” (Dial.) The author’s method is descriptive rather than technically critical. The volume contains nearly fifty illustrations in duo-gravure.

* “A book that will be particularly welcome to those who are contemplating a visit to London’s art treasures, but one that has also plenty to offer the general reader.”

* Adler, Cyrus, and Szold, Henrietta. American Jewish year-book (1905-1906). *75c. Jewish pub.

“This is the seventh annual issue of this work, and its regular appearance is henceforth assured. The special feature of the present issue is a sort of ‘who’s who’ compilation of biographical sketches of Jewish communal workers in the United States. The review of the past year, by Mr. Max L. Margolis, is a record of melancholy interest.”—Dial.

The author has made a study of his coreligionists in many countries, at first visiting them professionally as an agent of the Holy Land relief fund, later to investigate their conditions for personal reasons. He went to Egypt in 1888, and later to Persia, the Holy Land, Russia and Argentina, where he studied the Hirsch colonies. He gives a full account of his people as he found them.

“The author has made extensive travels and tells his story well, though omitting many details which would give greater value to his account.”

“The work of a trained observer, and rich in curious interest for both Jews and Gentiles.”

“He has the journalist’s instinct, and knows how to describe what he has seen.”

Dr. Adler says: “In the region of mental activity, which is called the spiritual life, vagueness is apt to prevail, the outlines of thought are apt to be blurred, the feelings aroused are apt to be indistinct and transitory. The word ‘spiritual’ becomes a synonym of muddy thought and misty emotionalism.” So its purpose is first to show the twentieth century need for the development of the spiritual sense, and to define clearly with illustrations drawn from Savonarola, Washington, John Howard and others the meaning of “spiritual.” (N. Y. Times.)

“We commend the volume as one of very practical and very genuine spiritual value.”

Two lectures delivered before the Society for ethical culture of New York city. They set forth Dr. Adler’s views upon the obligations of marriage and his strong opposition to divorce.

“The subjects have been carefully considered, and are treated judicially and temperately.”

A preface states that in response to a growing demand for a book setting forth the results of Prof. Adler’s work along ethical and religious lines, some of his lectures and papers have been gathered into this volume. They deal with such subjects as: First steps toward religion; Changes in the conception of God; Teachings of Jesus in the modern world; Standards of conduct, based on the religion of duty; The ethical attitude towards others; Pleasure; Suffering, and The essential differences between ethical societies and the churches.

“An occasional good thing appears amid the long stretches of very ordinary paragraphs, and the general trend of the whole is toward noble and unselfish modes of thinking and living.”

“Dr. Adler speaks in clear voice and gives satisfactory answers in clear and concise language, that pulsates with the fire of a soul in earnest.”

Adventures of King James the Second of England, by the author of “A life of Sir Kenelm Digby,” “Rochester,” etc. *$4.80. Longmans.

An informal history which takes for granted the reader’s knowledge of the political events of the time, and presents in a wealth of anecdotes a characterization of the unfortunate James. His early military career on the continent under Condé and Turenne, his service to the English navy, his genuine religious convictions, are set forth, and he is shown to have been “a straightforward English gentleman, a courageous soldier, a skilful admiral, and an excellent man of business.” This may go far toward mitigating the world’s judgment of him, based on his three years of disastrous kingship. There are several beautiful portraits.

“While it keeps James’s best side uppermost, and while it exhibits frankly Roman Catholic sympathies, the facts, except here and there where Restoration politics come in, are presented accurately and fairly. A book which, if not strikingly interesting, is nevertheless useful for bringing out features of James’s character which are not in general adequately recognized.”

“We laid the book down with the conviction established that it is one of the most fascinating and withal instructive, historical works that have appeared for the past few years. For, notwithstanding its somewhat flippant title, it is a piece of serious work, though not precisely history. The narrative runs on, from first to last, in a brisk and lucid flow, upon the surface of which bubbles up from time to time a flash of the humor and good-natured sarcasm that we should expect from the pen that has given us the ‘Life of a prig.’ A fine introduction by Dom Gasquet adds another charm to the book.”

“The work is slightly tinged with a Catholic bias, but is on the whole very fair in its statement of events and impartial, if sometimes original, in its judgment of men.”

“A pleasantly written life of King James, intended for the general reader and possessing no historical value.” C. H. F.

“While less convincing than Dr. Airy’s life of Charles II. this volume has the merits which are represented by a fulness of information and incisive writing.”

Miss Elizabeth Luther Cary furnishes a pleasing introduction to this new holiday edition of Æsop’s fables for which J. M. Condé has made many drawings, both in color and black and white.

* “On the whole we find the spirit of the artist too burlesque, especially for an edition in which the moral is carefully preserved and printed in boldface type.”

Aflalo, Moussa. Truth about Morocco; an indictment of the British foreign office; with introd by R. B. Cunninghame Graham. *$1.50. Lane.

This book “is in the main, an attack upon Lord Lansdowne’s policy in respect to Morocco and England’s commercial interests there, and devotes itself to showing how great the loss will be when France has assumed control, and how thoroughly everything done to raise British prestige through a long series of years has been overturned by a scratch of the pen.”—Dial.

“The book presents a thorough statement of the attitude of Morocco toward the outer world, by one in possession of the facts.” Wallace Rice.

“The dominant note of Canon Ainger’s posthumous book is sadness.... As we lay the book down we feel that in the eyes of the author the times are religiously out of joint. For while he cannot be said to dogmatise, he deplores deeply the ever-increasing disregard for dogma and what he calls ‘the decay of worship.’”—Spec.

“There is much which is beautiful in these sermons, both from a literary and a religious point of view, much which must add warmth to the affectionate memory cherished by so many of this scholar and man of God.”

The author, who has lived in South America for fourteen years and has had wide experience on the continent as a journalist, gives an account of the South American republics and their troubled history. He shows us the men who have made the politics of these states for the last fifty years and the general movements and tendencies which have been felt in the entire continent. Aside from his own observations he has drawn upon Spanish and Portuguese chroniclers for earlier history. There are interesting illustrations.

“Thirty-four pages of historical introduction, in which the uninformed reader will be dismayed at the array of names and dates and misled by the generalizations. In fact the chief value of the book is that it can be used as a trustworthy contemporary history. It has the defects that the account of an eye-witness must have, even when he has been able to get the perspective of a few years and to hear the other side. But it has the advantage of being written by a writer trained to see clearly. The most welcome feature of the book is the comprehensive treatment of important events. Yet scarcely less valuable are the comments on existing conditions. Rarely does one find a book at once so useful to the specialist and so interesting to the tyro.” Hiram Bingham.

“The author tells his story clearly and with spirit, and adds some well condensed information about the present state of these countries.” E. M. Ll.

“There is nothing extant on this subject either so comprehensive or so reliable.”

“A useful and comprehensive volume. This is the first comprehensive history in English of the last half-century of the South American states—since they attained independence from Spanish control.”

“A most readable, impartial, clear-sighted appreciation of political leaders and their motives.”

This new volume in the “Little women” series, is quite as attractive as its predecessors and contains eight full-page illustrations by Harriet Roosevelt Richards which show us Jack and Jill just as Miss Alcott must have wished us to see them.

Uniform with the other volumes of this new and elaborate edition of Miss Alcott’s famous stories, the “Little women” series, “Under the lilacs” contains eight full-page pictures by Alice Barber Stephens, which make Sancho and his friends seem, if possible, more real than ever before.

* Alden, Isabella Macdonald (Mrs. George R.) (Pansy, pseud.). David Ransom’s watch. †$1.50. Lothrop.

“When Ben Ransom, David’s younger brother, left the old farm, he took $700 ... and he took his father’s old silver watch as well. David could ill spare the money. He had to wait another year before he could get married. And he was particularly sorry to part with the watch.... Ben’s life thereafter was full of ups and downs. His restlessness and fickleness were his ruin.... David and the old watch both figured conspicuously in his later misadventures.... Two threads of self-sacrifice run through the tale to meet at last, making ideal happiness for the group, from which all the unpleasant folk have been eliminated by chances which the unregenerate reader will call blessed.”—N. Y. Times.

* “Is a well-told, pleasing story of commonplace, likable people, with plenty of wholesome sentiment flavored with the humor of the soil. It is a good book for old and young alike.”

“This new book of Jimmy’s adventures ... deals with the travels of James and his friend Mike ... from West Thompsonville, somewhere in New York state, to Paris, by way of the fields and country roads, the railroad, the canal, a steamboat, and finally a freighter from Montreal to Havre. Jimmy is in search of his father and mother, whose address, he knows, is ‘Grand Hotel, Europe.’”—N. Y. Times.

“Jimmy Brown’s fortunes and the manner of telling, while quite frothy, are excellent vacation reading.”

A trustworthy guide to Wagner’s trilogy for the student and music lover. Part I. touches upon Wagner, the man and composer, and the circumstances leading to the composition; also gives a resume of the legendary sources from which material was drawn; Part II. is an authoritative essay upon Wagner’s musico-dramatic system; Part III. presents a careful analysis of the three dramas of the trilogy.

A drama in four acts, written for Nance O’Neil, whose photograph appears as the frontispiece. Mr. Aldrich builds the drama from his poem, “Judith,” in which the heroine, a strong, just, refined woman, is impelled by her religion and patriotism to a deed of unwonted daring. He introduces here and there new portions which “show no decline of the power to evoke pictorial images and touch deep sources of feeling by which the early work of Mr. Aldrich was distinguished.” (N. Y. Times).

“In its compact dramatic action, set forth in verse of a firm yet delicate beauty, it has the perennial significance that attaches to sincere and masterly workmanship.” Ferris Greenslet.

“As a play, ‘Judith of Bethulia’ fails to hold the interest, and as a poem it fails to reach inspired heights. But it is well worth reading in a quiet hour, because of its simplicity, its chasteness and its serenity.” Clayton Hamilton.

6“A book that is dignified and impressive throughout, a book not unworthy of the trained artistic hand which brings it to us as a gift.”

“Mr. Aldrich’s mastery of poetic atmosphere is so easy, his metrical gift so constant, that he accomplishes a feat difficult for most writers of modern poetic drama, and weaves his melody and color around speeches of mere theatric necessity, and even around broken lines of swift dialogue.”

“We are the richer for a truly poetic drama, not quite so felicitous in imagery and expression as the earlier version and without the swift dramatic movement of inevitable events that marks the perfectly successful play upon the theatrical side, but dignified and imaginative and with the author’s unfailing insight into the passionate emotions of human nature.”

Alexander, Lucia. Libro d’oro of those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life; tr. from the Italian by Mrs. Francis Alexander. *$2. Little.

A collection of a hundred and twenty-four miracle stories and sacred legends written by fathers of the church and published in Italy during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The four divisions are: I. Selections from the lives of the holy fathers together with the spiritual field; II. Selections from the lives of the saints and Beati of Tuscany; III. Selections from the wonders of God in His saints, Bologna, 1593; IV. Flowers of sanctity, Venice, 1726.

Alexander, Thomas, and Thomson, A. W. Graphic statics; a graduated series of problems and practical examples, with numerous diagrams, all drawn to scale. *50c. Macmillan.

“The authors first give a set of sixteen graduated problems on coplanar forces, solved by means of force and link polygons.... Then follows a set of seventeen examples showing application to roof trusses, girders, wall, and masonry arches.... The book is intended more particularly as an introduction to the author’s Elementary applied mechanics.”—Nature.

“The treatment is somewhat fragmentary and arbitrary, but, if supplemented by the teacher, the course would prepare a student for a systematic study of graphic statics.”

A book adapted “to the needs of the average business or professional man.... It is a simple, straightforward exposition of the principles on which all sound insurance is conducted, including a fair and impartial statement of those facts in the history and present management of the great American companies which every prospective policy-holder should know.”—R. of Rs.

“The book is certainly informing. It is not altogether solemn either. It has its humors, both intentional and unintentional.”

“A careful and informative treatise on the general subject of life insurance.”

Algue, Jose. Cyclones of the Far East. 2d (rev.) ed. Bureau of public printing, Manila, P. I.

This pamphlet issued from the Manila Central observatory, “is printed in both English and Spanish, and contains data for the month of July upon atmospheric pressure, rainfall, relative humidity, winds, magnetic disturbances, earthquakes (including microseismic movements), and crop-service reports from four districts and about twenty-five towns.” (Nation.)

Suggestions of value for all who are interested in tracing their family history. As stated in the preface, the book aims to cover every phase of the subject, the sources of information, the methods of research, the compiling, the printing, and the publishing of a genealogy.

“It is a volume of practical suggestions, pleasantly worded, and embodies the results of much experience in the work.”

“One finds little that is new or striking in these rather cleverly written pages.”

Allbutt, Thomas Clifford. Historical relations of medicine and surgery to the end of the 16th century: an address delivered at the St. Louis congress, 1904. *$1. Macmillan.

A plea for the “unity of medicine,” especially in England where medicine and surgery “have been so radically separated as to be regarded as two professions.”

“The lectures are, of course, largely technical in their treatment ... but the general purport is clear enough.”

A new and less expensive edition of a work which appeared ten years ago. It is hoped that its reappearance will revive and increase interest in book-plate collecting, which fashion has waned perceptibly. The book contains the bibliography of Eben Newell Hewins, and the rare and interesting book-plate, with few omissions, that appeared in the first edition.

“A work of permanent value for guidance and reference, and freely illustrated with examples.”

“The book is simply a reprint, with all the imperfections of the first edition reproduced.”

The Kentucky rose-garden which furnishes the setting for this June-time idyl is a fit place for the day dreams of a lonely man who had “gone softly” all his days. One day he welcomes to his garden his “Lady of Roses,” the daughter of the only woman he had ever loved. Here under the jacqueminots he guards with a fatherly eye the love-making of this fair Marcia and his neighbor Louis. The very summer sunshine and rose garden perfume pervade the story thruout.

* “It is a tender, graceful little love-story, quaintly told by a third person.”

* “A sentimental romance which depends for much of its effect upon annoying and artificial phrases.”

An account of this interesting period of American history written from original sources. The events which are scattered over a period of forty years (1778-1818) are brought together and tell the story of how the United States, in the first years of her national existence, rebelled at paying the tribute which all Europe paid to the Mohammedan states of north Africa. The story of the success of our little navy, the wars with Tripoli and Algiers, the deeds of Preble and Decatur, and the adventures of our seamen with the famous pirates is all the more romantic because it is true.

“A good example of a book that is scientific and at the same time popular. It is popular by reason of the dramatic quality of the information that it contains. Its interest lies in the intrinsic interest of its facts. The narrative is plain, simple and straightforward.” Charles Oscar Paullin.

“Dr. Allen has made his work thorough and authoritative, but betrays a needless distrust of his own descriptive powers, leaving the more dramatic events to be described almost entirely in the words of eye-witnesses.”

“Dr. Allen’s story is really as engrossing as a romance. It is safe to say that, for the history of the movement as a whole, Dr. Allen is not likely to have a successor.”

“It is also a historical treatise of no small value, colligating clearly and compactly the results of much original as well as secondary research, and embodying a survey of astonishingly wide range. The work is well written and well balanced throughout.”

Alston, Leonard. Modern constitutions in outline: an introductory study in political science. *90c. Longmans.

“Mr. Alston, who is Deputy professor of history in Elphinstone college at Bombay, has written a brief but lucid sketch of the constitutions of the chief political communities of the modern world. His little book was planned to meet the needs of university students; but it will have a wider field.... [It] consists of three opening chapters dealing respectively with Federalism, and the Two-chamber system, Party government, and the Demarcation of powers; and of a second part in which a special and more detailed account is given of the constitutions of the chief powers of the world.”—Spec.

“Mr. Alston has done a useful piece of work, which, in its brevity and clearness, is a model of the expository functions of a professor.”

In this political novel the hero, who is a presidential candidate, is accompanied by his niece on a speech-making tour through the West. A newspaper correspondent, also in attendance, loves the girl, and is largely responsible for the triumph of the candidate. The path of love is not smooth, however, for the girl is the betrothed of a distinguished politician, whose enmity her uncle has no wish to incur.

“‘The candidate’ is by no means an unreadable book, but it is not in Mr. Altsheler’s previous best style, nor is it up to his usual level of interest. The various elements of plot somehow lack the cohesion necessary to weld them into a convincing whole.”

“From a literary point of view there is little to be said of the book, which merits attention chiefly through giving publicity to campaign methods from apparently authentic ‘inside’ information.”

“There are certain crudities of plot and language, but one readily pardons them because it is a good story and does not turn out in the last chapter to be a brief for political reform.”

“That story is told with an almost prodigal display of intelligence and power.”

Altsheler, Joseph A. Guthrie of the Times: a story of success. $1.50. Doubleday.

“Mr. Joseph A. Altsheler has deserted the field of warfare for that of present-day journalism and politics, and has given us in his ‘Guthrie of the Times,’ an interesting and straightforward story of modern life—‘a story of success,’ he calls it, and the description is true in more senses than one. The scene of the novel is a state unnamed, but easily identifiable as Kentucky; the hero is a newspaper writer of resource and high ideals; the heroine is a young woman who has to become re-Americanized after a life spent mainly abroad. How the hero defeats the attempt to impeach a public officer in the interests of a corrupt financial enterprise, how the heroine witnessing, admires, and how in the end he wins both her love and an unexpected nomination for congress, are the chief matters which enlist our interest.”—Dial.

“One cannot criticize this type of story, however. It is to be enjoyed or laid aside, according to taste and temperament. It is very American.”

“Admirable story of southern life. The fresh sane optimism of the book is very appealing.”

Ames, Joseph Sweetman. Text-book of general physics, for high schools and colleges. *$3.50. Am. bk.

“The general plan of treatment appears to be a general popular enunciation of the matter of a section, followed by the more detailed discussion of the experiments, apparatus, etc., and ending with a historical review and bibliography. This excellent plan has, however, at times fallen into the natural mistake of making the popular introduction so full as to result in an unnecessary and rather confusing repetition of matter, often leaving the reader uncertain as to whether he has read all on a given topic or not.”—Educ. R.

“In spite of the shortcomings in many of the details, the book contains very much valuable matter and will prove a desirable addition to the library of every physicist.” William Hallock.

“The combination of simplicity with accuracy of statement is the essential feature of a practicable book for use with beginners in college, and it may justly be said of Professor Ames’ volume that it possesses this combination of qualities to an unusual degree.” E. L. N.

“A distinct defect in this otherwise excellent book is the complete absence of illustrative problems.” W. Le Conte Stevens.

8Ames, Oakes. Orchidaceae: illustrations and studies of the family orchidaceae, issuing from the Ames botanical laboratory, North Easton, Mass. **$3. Houghton.

“This fascicle includes descriptions and plates of five new and fourteen old species, a descriptive list of orchids collected in the Philippine islands by the United States government botanists, a description and figure of a hitherto unrecorded orchid in the United States, and a paper entitled ‘Contributions toward a monograph of the American species of spiranthes.’”—Science.

“The volume is a valuable and interesting contribution to the knowledge of a part of one of the most attractive orders of flowering plants.”

“Taken all in all this work is one which must be very highly commended.” Charles E. Bessey.

Ames, V. B. Matrimonial primer; with a pictorial matrimonial mathematics and decorations by Gordon Ross. *75c. Paul Elder.

Humorous, epigrammatic bits of advice for husband and wife are found in this little volume. Its friendly shafts frequently strike home, and one may both laugh and profit by them.

* “The wit sometimes falls to commonplaceness but never to anything more objectionable.”

Amsden, Dora. Impressions of Ukiyo-ye, the school of Japanese colour-print artists. **$1.50. Elder.

“This study treats of the whole school of Japanese color-print artists, and is appropriately illustrated with half-tone reproductions of famous paintings. The whole is printed on Japanese paper, and an appendix shows facsimiles of the most famous signatures of color-print artists, presented in this volume for the benefit of collectors.”—R. of Rs.

“The frequent occurrence of such misstatements as these mar what would otherwise be a very acceptable essay, readable, and giving in compact form much information useful to those who are becoming interested in Ukiyo-ye prints.”

This “centenary edition ... is a small quarto in boards, printed on a sort of buff paper, with the added distinction of illustrations by M. H. Squire, four colored plates and some pen-drawings.”—Nation.

“How to select, train and ride a saddle horse is clearly and practically explained by Mr. Edward L. Anderson by means of print and photography, and in the latter half of the same volume Mr. Price Collier not only tells how to drive single, double and four, but also gives a large amount of practical information on the care of horses in sickness and in health, shoeing, harnessing, feeding and stabling.”—Ind.

Anderson, Frank Maloy. Constitutions and other select documents, illustrative of the history of France, 1789-1901. *$2. Wilson, H. W.

Professor Anderson says: “The practice of studying documents in connection with the history courses given in American universities, colleges and high schools, has now become so general, and the results attained so satisfactory, that the method no longer requires any defense.” This document-book has been the outgrowth of personal need with classes in the University of Minnesota, when work has been hampered by the lack of a convenient collection of documents; also the suggestion of compiling such a work was stimulated by the fact that French documents are more attractive than any others, and that the period of the French Revolution “deserves a volume in English presenting as large a portion as possible of the important documents.” The book is well printed and strongly bound.

“The work of the teacher of modern French history will be rendered easier and more effective by the publication of Professor Anderson’s volume. Professor Anderson’s selection has been made with special reference to the requirements of practical work.” Henry E. Bourne.

Andrews, Rev. Samuel James. Man and the Incarnation; or, Man’s place in the universe as determined by his relations to the Incarnate Son. **$1.50. Putnam.

The author’s discussion of the creation of man, his fall, and his redemption through the Incarnate Son of God, is based upon “Premises and presupposition belonging to another age,” says the Independent, “an age which even saintly character and pathetic pleading cannot call back from its tomb.” The outlook for inharmonious man according to the author is nothing short of the “great tribulation” which marks the end of the world.

Angell, James Rowland. Psychology: an introductory study of the structure and function of human consciousness. *$1.50. Holt.

Professor Angell sets forth first of all in an elementary way the generally accepted facts and principles bearing upon the functional and genetic rather than the structural phases of psychology. “In the second place, since the real field of psychology is consciousness, the purpose of the author is to show how consciousness in cognitive, affective and volitional aspects originates and develops.... The third division takes up the elementary features of volition, and follows this general introduction with a treatment of the relation of volition to interest, effort and desire, character and the will, and finally the self.” (Pub. Opin.)

“The book under consideration is one which fills a very genuine and widely felt need in the psychological world. Its great merit can be stated in a word. It is a treatise sufficiently elementary to be used as a textbook for an introductory class, which succeeds in co-ordinating the outcome of the analysis of the content of consciousness with the functional interpretation of those contents which alone can give them rational organization and meaning. 9The influence of Dewey is most evident in the general standpoint, and that of James in many of the details of treatment. In comparison with James’s classic textbook, it has, however, two advantages—in its completeness and in its systematic unity. The affective processes, which James nowhere mentions, here receive due treatment, and many minor omissions in the older textbook are filled in. The unity of all conscious processes is made a central idea in the treatment of each one.” Helen Bradford Thompson.

“The book is essentially a text-book, and has been arranged so as to be flexible to emphasis laid on various desired portions.”

“One of the very best of elementary textbooks of the subject.” R. S. Woodworth.

“Numerous works on psychology have appeared in recent years, but this, in our opinion, is not only the latest but also the most satisfactory of them all. Every sentence in this volume shows the careful investigator, who has not only got results, but has also made himself so familiar with these results that apparently without effort he expresses them in words that are simple and in sentences that are clear. Technical readers will not object to this, and untechnical readers will especially appreciate it.”

“It is essentially a text-book, and is abundantly supplied with cross-references.”

“We feel the gratitude and satisfaction which are due to a thoroughly capable thinker who gives us a solid, careful and, so far as is desirable in a text for students, original book. There is no need to note in detail the many excellent features in content and form or the few cases of questionable facts and methods of presentation.” Edward L. Thorndike.

“Supposedly ‘Japan, the eastern wonderland,’ was written by a Japanese for the amusement and instruction of his friends in England where he had received the finishing touches of his education.” (N. Y. Times). The narrator, Kotaro, and his sister Hana furnish representative Japanese types, in the portrayal of whose lives from infancy up, the reader gains a clear idea of conditions, customs and methods of Japanese education. “The past of Japan and much of its history is dwelt upon in this volume. Wonderful have been the changes made during the second half of the last century. There has been the regeneration of Japan, feudalism has been abolished, the samurai have had their privileges curtailed.... There are no tortures for petty crimes. All religions are tolerated. The school children learn their lessons from Japanese translations of foreign text books. Native literature is not neglected, but it is no longer used as a guide.” (N. Y. Times).

Angus, Joseph. Cyclopedic handbook to the Bible: an introduction to the study of the Scriptures. *$2. Revell.

“Originally published in 1853, this has been an eminently useful book. In its present revised form much has been dropped from it, and much added from the gains acquired by a half-century of increasing knowledge, while the original plan, with some rearrangement, remains the same. Its two divisions, treating the Bible first as a book and next as a series of books taken separately, go into manifold details.”—Outlook.

“With some concessions to modern criticism, the general view maintained is strongly conservative. For practical uses the old book seems likely to remain for long a favorite.”

This book is “occupied chiefly with natural history and ethnology ... and ... may be regarded as a series of sociological studies of isolated and rather primitive though civilized communities. As such it has exceptional interest and value, especially since the communities selected for study are of ancient establishment, and have not, in recent years, been the subject of any analogous description.”—Nation.

“The book is an admirable specimen of careful and intelligent observations.”

A new and revised edition of a useful book of reference. It contains sketches of the plots of 123 famous operas, with critical and biographical notes, dates of production, etc. There are indexes of titles and names, and 26 portraits of composers. The contributor of the preface, James Huneker, says: “‘The standard opera glass’ is much in miniature. It may be put in your pocket and read at home or abroad. The author does not burden you with superfluous comment and he tells his story neatly, rapidly and without undue emphasis. He reverences the classics, admires Wagner, and is liberal to the younger men. What more can one ask?”

“‘Elements of mechanical drawing’ takes the pupil in hand before he has seen a single instrument, and in 152 pages teaches him to make full-sized sectional drawings of a complete commutator from a rough working sketch jotted down free hand. The author is professor of drawing in Tufts college and dean of the department of engineering; his textbook, first issued ten years ago as a strictly elemental work, is now revised and changed for use in evening drawing schools and technical colleges.”—N. Y. Times.

Antrim, Mrs. Minna Thomas (Titian, pseud.). Knocks—witty, wise and—. *75c. Jacobs.

Cynical observations and “dark glass” digs based upon men and women’s foibles and weaknesses.

Apperson, G. L. Bygone London life: pictures from a vanished past. *$1.50. Pott.

“An industrious collection of odds and ends illustrative of the life of London in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.... The restaurants and coffeehouses, and their frequenters, the swells and beaus and macaronies, are depicted by aid of the memoirs, letters, and society verse of that day. The effect is much like that of a visit to one of the quaint old museums described in chapter IV.”—Am. Hist. R.

“The especial value of Apperson’s treatment is the literary point of view.” Katharine Coman.

An enlarged edition of the “Fusser’s book” which gives advice to fussers or flirts in epigrammatic phrases. “Angle for a lady’s hobby, and when you’ve hooked it play her. If the lady in turn angles for yours, don’t jump at the bait.”

In an introductory discussion, Aristotle’s relation to his “Politics” is clearly defined as that of the utilitarian philosopher, and student of human nature, with due emphasis on ethical values as he “treats of the state as one of the chief means thru which the individual obtains to happiness.” “The object of the ‘Politics’ is both practical and speculative; to explain the nature of the ideal city in which the end of happiness may be fully realized; to suggest some methods of making existent states more useful to the individual citizen than they were in Aristotle’s time, or had been in the past.”

“The reprint, which is in a small and convenient volume, will be found especially useful by students of political science who are not students of Greek.”

Armstrong, Sir Walter. Gainsborough and his place in English art. $3.50. Scribner.

A biography which furnishes in nine short chapters a well-ordered analysis of the work of perhaps the greatest painter technically. “Best of all parts of the book for public guidance is the introduction, in which much of the best modern thought on esthetics is presented in a concise and clear form. There is discussion of the idea that ‘art is the use for subjective expression of a power which displays itself objectively in what we call beauty,’ and we are reminded that ‘mere correctness of imitation holds no higher place in a picture than grammar does in a poem.’ ... An interesting chapter on the precursors of Gainsborough traces some characteristics of British art back through the seventeenth century to miniaturists of a time even before Holbein.... The landscapes and portraits are, properly, treated together, for Gainsborough’s art was always that of the impressionist who paints hotly under the stimulus of any vision fitted to appeal, whether in the shape of a lovely scene in nature or a beautiful woman.” (Ind.)

As director of the National gallery of Ireland, the author knows well how to interpret and value the ideals and success of a school of painting. The artists represented in the Peel collection “give to him an opportunity of writing a monograph on Dutch painting which, we are glad to note, includes several Flemings directly affected by Holland.” (Outlook). He uses for illustration the works of Metsu, Terborch, Vermeer, Hooghe, Jan Steen, Ostade, Willem and Adrien van de Velde, Wouwerman, Hobbema, Ruisdael, Cuijp, Koninck, and Hals. The book is interesting in itself, and of value to those who wish a better understanding of Dutch art.

“A particularly important contribution to the better understanding of Dutch art.”

* Armstrong, Sir Walter. Sir Joshua Reynolds, first president of the Royal academy. *$3.50. Scribner.

“A popular reprint of a monumental work on the English portrait painter, first published five years ago, by the greatest living authority on the subject.... Particularly is Sir Walter Armstrong to be congratulated for his fine sense of selection, by which he has drawn what is truthful and distinctive from the early biographies; also for his critical estimates, which have stood the most searching and eager tests of five years of criticism.”—N. Y. Times.

* “Presents in conclusion to a thorough and interesting biography a sympathetic picture of an unsympathetic man, a guarded estimate of a deliberate artist.”

* “The public is to be congratulated on having so authoritative a work thus brought within reasonable reach while maintaining a high standard of manufacture.”

The author of “Elizabeth and her German garden” has written of an experience in the life of her grand ducal highness, the Princess Priscilla. “Aided and accompanied by the good old ducal librarian, Priscilla, feeling her ‘soul starved’ in the dull little court, runs away and lives for two miserable weeks the life of a nobody-in-particular. Just what happened, what mischief she did, and how it all ended, the author tells with her own arch humor.... She pricks pretty effectually the cult and cant of ‘simple life,’ its natural collapse being ‘a by-product of the vivacious tale.’” (N. Y. Times.)

* “We may as well confess at once that Elizabeth has enchanted us again. Either she throws her spell over you, and then you follow with delight wherever she leads: or your temperament resists her spell, and then you take umbrage at her airs, and, in the present volume, at her ragged plot and occasional heaviness of phrase.”

* “This volume is highly characteristic of its writer. We get the usual epigrammatic humor, not without cynicism, the usual liveliness of narration and dialogue, and, it must be confessed, the usual absurdities and exaggerations. The characters, though overdrawn, are full of interest.”

* “Is well worth reading, not only for the genuine enjoyment it will give, but for its sensible and logical ‘conclusion of the whole matter.’”

* “The story, although slight and farcical, is very amusing and good reading for a leisure hour.”

“The author devotes his first and longest chapter to a description of Japanese institutions as they existed about 500 A. D. Then follow two chapters, one on the events leading up to the reform, the other, a particularly good one, on the political doctrine of the Chinese by which the reformers were so strongly influenced. Next comes a long chapter on the new institutions introduced under Kotoku and his successor; and lastly a short chapter sketches the subsequent development.”—Nation.

“Next to Mr. Chamberlain’s translation of the ‘Kojiki’ with its invaluable introduction and notes, this volume by Dr. Asakawa is first in importance of works in English upon the 11period of which it treats.” George William Knox.

“It seems hardly too much to say that he has here laid the foundation stone for the critical study of early Japanese institutions. The author’s style is clear for the most part. The author is to be congratulated on having successfully accomplished a difficult piece of pioneer work.”

Dr. Asakawa “has made a most illuminating and complete statement of the needs and aspirations of the Japanese people, which led them to take up arms against Russia.” (R. of Rs.) “He accepts tacitly the economic interpretation of history upon which Karl Marx and his followers insist, proving that the vast increase in the population of Japan requires an outlet on the Asiatic mainland, and setting forth the right and interests recently acquired by Japan in both Manchuria and Korea.... The book contains portraits of the statesmen who figure in its pages and may be taken as a valuable contribution to contemporary history from the end of the war with China through the diplomatic correspondence immediately following the outbreak of hostilities.” (Dial). The author is lecturer on the civilization and history of East Asia at Dartmouth college.

“No subject of a neutral power could have written a more impartial account of the long diplomatic engagement which preceded the outbreak of hostilities in the far East. The special and quite unusual virtue of this book is the elimination of moral standards and patriotic sentiment from the discussion of a present-day conflict.” Ferdinand Schwill.

“His whole statement is cool, temperate, and wonderfully free from heat or special pleading.”

“A clear and logical presentation of the cause of his native land, with an endeavor to make an unprejudiced statement of the side of its adversaries also. In the latter effort he is as successful as anyone could reasonably expect, his desire to quote from Russian authorities wherever they have spoken amounting to solicitude. Of the broad causes leading up to hostilities, Dr. Asakawa tells us little not already known. But in details and the marshalling of facts he is far fuller than anyone preceding him.” Wallace Rice.

“It is a statement ... remarkable for both its brevity and its restraint. The book is so dispassionately written that the nationality of the author if not disclosed would hardly have been guessed. It is one of the strong points of Dr. Asakawa’s argument that he does not take very high moral ground. His statement of causes leading to the war is rather political than moral.”

* “His book should be indispensable to all who study the outbreak of one of the greatest wars, in effect as well as extent, of which history tells us.”

“A real and permanent contribution to historical and political science, as well as an interesting and timely book. The map leaves much to be desired.” Amos S. Hershey.

Asbury, Francis. Heart of Asbury’s journal; ed. by Ezra Squier Tipple. *$1.50. Eaton.

“The memory of this main pioneer and organizer of American Methodism is now honored by substantial extracts, covering the forty-five years of his ministry in this country, in a revised and corrected text.... The author wrote by fits and starts, under all the difficulties of a laborious and constant itinerary, and the compiler has not improved his unpretentious jottings beyond recognition, but one may find items of antique or curious interest.”—Nation.

“Its chief interest is in connection with a history of early Methodism, with side-lights on manners and customs.”

“It is a fascinating ecclesiastical romance which all Christian folk will enjoy.”

“The best and almost the only record of the infancy of his church on this continent.”

Ascham, Roger. English works of Roger Ascham: ed. by William Aldis Wright. $1.50. Macmillan.

Included in the “Cambridge English classics,” this volume contains “Toxophilus,” “Report of the affaires and state of Germany,” and “The scholemaster,” all of which appear in the original spelling. “The scholemaster” has long been “one of the original documents” in educational literature, but the most popular portion of the volume is “Toxophilus,” a treatise on archery.

“Mr. Wright’s task has been to ensure the purity of the text. The curious and readable part of this collection is in the teaching of bow shooting; the immortal part lies in the chapters on education.”

“The name on the title-page is sufficient guarantee of the care with which the text has been reproduced and of the editorial work done on the volume.”

Ashe, Sydney Whitmore, and Keiley, J. D. Electric railways theoretically and practically treated. **$2.50. Van Nostrand.

The plan of this text-book is “to cover first a few essential principles of motor and car operation, including the testing of equipments. Next the component parts of the car equipment are treated in detail.” (Engin. N.) There are six folding plates and 172 text illustrations.

“A general criticism which may be made on all parts of the work is that every subject is treated too briefly, in fact, one might almost say hurriedly. The material is excellent, and it is well arranged for general reading and for reference. It is undoubtedly more complete than any other concise treatment of the subject.” Henry H. Norris.

Ashley, Percy. Modern tariff history: Germany, United States, France. *$3. Dutton.

The tariff histories of Germany, France, and the United States are offered in brief form “for the purpose of showing how these countries have met the problems of free trade and protection. It is the work of a politician and an economist, who felt the necessity of coming to a clear and unprejudiced understanding of the great problem.” (N. Y. Times). The tariff history of Germany is outlined from the formation of the Zollverein to the present time. The lesson which the author draws from his investigation of the experience of Germany is summarized as follows: “Changes in tariff policy 12have been only one, and commonly not the most important, among the many causes of her economic progress.” “Of the French tariff legislation,” says Mr. Ashley, “it can be said with some confidence that, whatever it may have done to maintain agriculture—and even there it is arguable that it has encouraged the continuance of old fashioned methods—it has wrought little good and in various ways much harm to industry and commerce.” The tariff legislation in the United States is traced from its beginning, and in conclusion he argues that while America has in the past benefited by a protective policy, the time has come when the abandonment promises greater results.

“Mr. Ashley’s style is remarkable for a certain freshness and vitality which makes his book easy reading in spite of the abstruseness of the subject. Taking it altogether the book is well worth while.” J. E. Conner.

“Derived almost wholly from secondary sources intelligently selected, they afford in short compass a good sketch of the history of the tariff during the past century in the three countries. It suffices to say that Mr. Ashley employs the historical method judiciously and effectively, with an evident knowledge of its limitations. Instructive as is this comparative tariff history in many other respects, it is peculiarly excellent as affording an insight into what is called neo-mercantilism, and its correlative—which might perhaps be called neo-libertarianism.”

“He has given an interesting history of the tariff in three great countries, but we cannot see how the results of his studies are going to enlighten his countrymen very much.”

Ashley, William James. Progress of the German working classes in the last quarter of a century. *60c. Longmans.

A good economic monograph written in a spirit of moderation and of especial value to those who are interested in the fiscal controversy.

“In a small compass he has collected most of the facts bearing on the question, and he has handled his statistics with the skill and the fairness which are to be expected from him.”

“A series of addresses suggestive of the value of classical studies to education, published in the hope of interesting the general reader in a few matters connected with the study of Greek and Latin, and, if possible, to call attention to the value of the ancient language and literature to education.”—Bookm.

“Professor Ashmore’s plea for the classics in modern training is well considered and presented, but, naturally, does not contribute anything very novel to the discussion.”

At the sign of the fox, by the author of The garden of a commuter’s wife. †$1.50. Macmillan.

At the Sign of the fox a girl who has been an art student tries to retrieve her father’s shattered fortunes by serving tea to travelers passing in carriage or motor car. Two men enter into the story, an artist who had painted the heroine’s portrait unknown to her, and a silent sad man with a haunting past, a dog and a gun. There are other characters and other dogs, and much that is chatty and domestic.

“The author has a strong love of nature, and her sketches of outdoor life have atmosphere and charm.”

“The book is one of those that leave a pleasant taste behind them.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

“In short, a very feminine sentimental book, but not nearly so good reading as, say, the same author’s ‘Woman errant.’”

“But, apart from plot, there is much to admire and enjoy in this spirited and cleverly written book—notably its honest thrusts at social pretentiousness and humbug.”

“It is all very sweet and wholesome, though we find parts of it a heavy tax on credulity.”

“The story is eminently readable, although it has not, perhaps, quite the subtle charm which distinguished the first book by this author.”

Ten stories which deal with both the natural and the supernatural. Besides the title story they include: ‘The striding place,’ ‘The dead and the countess,’ ‘The greatest good of the greatest number,’ ‘A monarch of a small survey,’ ‘The tragedy of a snob,’ ‘Crowned with one crest,’ ‘Death and the woman,’ ‘A prologue (to an unwritten play),’ ‘Talbot of Ursula.’

“The stories are not bad, considered as magazine stories. They show, most of them, something of Mrs. Atherton’s characteristic qualities—a certain rough power of presentation and an insight into character, especially feminine character. But there is no unifying thought running through all this miscellany. In some we are taken to that mysterious borderland, the ‘great pale world.’ But Mrs. Atherton’s art is not delicate enough for such a theme; neither, to speak plainly, is her mastery over the English language sufficient.”

“All are characterized by the sort of passionate virility, the picturesque materialism, with which Mrs. Atherton’s previous books have made us familiar. Its faults are want of balance, judgment and restraint.”

“The dominant note of the book is—uncanny. The stories, needless to say, are told by one who can tell them well, but they are the result of introspection rather than of observation.”

“The method is careless, there is no delicacy of touch, and the dialogue in almost all the stories is preposterous.”

“[The first is] a charming tale, having that touch of the occult always so fascinating—a faraway suggestion of Poe’s ‘Lady Ligeia.’ The other nine stories vary in everything save in the artistic manner of their handling.... Like Mr. Howells, Mrs. Atherton gives such imaginings the perfect touch by leaving everything vague and unexplained, and by placing them in a setting of real people and things 13thrown upon her canvas with her own surpassing skill.”

“If anyone can tell what they are all about or why they were written it is Mr. James, and professional ethics will probably seal his lips.”

Atherton, Gertrude Franklin (Frank Lin, pseud.). Travelling thirds. †$1.25. Harper.

Mr. Moulton, the reader for a publishing house, with his wife and two daughters, who have become accustomed to a literary atmosphere, and his niece, Catalina, a madcap California girl, decide to tour the continent. The story concerns the romances which they meet with and the grand passion which comes to Catalina, who finally quarrels with her relatives and is left the sole interest of the closing pages of the book. The story derives its name from the fact that the party traveled third class thru Spain.

* “The story as a story is of no importance. As an invitation to travel in Spain it is persuasive and alluring.”

* “Can scarcely be considered with its writer’s more serious work.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.

The compiler has gathered together from many sources, verses relating exclusively to athletic sports. There are no restrictions as to authorship, and the volume includes translations from Homer, Pindar and Virgil, verses by Byron, Swinburne, Emerson, Stevenson, Kipling, Whitman and many others, and several anonymous selections.

After a preliminary discussion of the problems confronting the Christian world, the author shows that ultimate spiritual triumph will result only from proper “growth of the seed.” Chapters follow outlining the course of child development spiritually, including Christ’s doctrine of the child and the kingdom, The child as the subject of religious education, The church and the home, The child in the home and The Sunday school as a field of training.

Atkinson, Edward. Facts and figures: the basis of economic science. **$1.50. Houghton.

“In a volume published under the title ‘Facts and figures,’ Mr. Edward Atkinson has collected several essays on the protective tariff and the cost of war and warfare.”—R. of Rs.

“It may also be doubted whether the science of economics will be greatly advanced by papers which the author admits were sent to press without such complete revision and condensation as would have been suitable.” Arthur B. Woodford.

“The material for this book was gathered by the author when he was at the head of public education in the Philippine islands. Its information is of the encyclopaedic sort, conveyed clearly and pleasantly. About a quarter of the book is given to a brief summary of the geography and history of the islands. The rest of the book is devoted to an account of the people and the conditions under which they live. The author’s views of the character of the people and of the proper mode of government for them are in harmony with the present administration. The book is illustrated with half-tone reproductions of photographs.”—Outlook.

“It is a sort of popular presentation of the subject that the ordinary reader will find intelligible.”

* “Professor Willis and Doctor Atkinson complement each other’s work. Profit may be drawn from both books. More specifically, however, we are compelled to admit that Dr. Atkinson is too complaisant as to present administrative tendencies.”

* “Of recent publications on the Philippines, one of the most useful from the point of view of the general reader is the work by Fred W. Atkinson.”

In expanding his elementary botany of 1898 into a college text, Prof. Atkinson leaves many chapters on the physiological part practically untouched, while others are thoroughly revised especially on the subjects of nutrition and digestion. One subject elaborated for the purpose of bringing it abreast of the times is morphology of fertilization in the gymnosperms and angiosperms. Chapters on the classification of algæ and fungi, and on ecology have also been changed and added to. The treatment falls into five parts, Physiology, Morphology and life history of representative plants, Plant members in relation to environment, Vegetation in relation to environment, and Representative families of angiosperms.

“Professor Atkinson has covered the whole general field in a way that indicates an unusually wide familiarity with the various divisions of the subject.” J. M. C.

“It is certainly an excellent text-book for a general introductory course in college.”

The author aims to give the mere elements or grammar of the great subject of English architecture. There are chapters on Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance art, on churches, monasteries, and houses; each subject is treated historically. A conclusion deals with the French influence. There are 200 tiny illustrations.

“Succinct outline to the vast subject of English architecture, on its structural and what may be called its actual aspects.”

A new edition of this study of the book of Daniel which shows the sidereal year to be God’s own standard of time and thereby “vindicates the statements of Daniel and fixes on them the seal of truth.” The text of the book of Daniel is given, interspersed with comments in red.

A new edition of the poet laureate’s sketches and poetical essays first published ten years ago. “This is an illustrated edition, the pictures being reproductions in colour of work by Mr. George S. Elgood, R. I. These are sixteen in number, and are for the most part what we may call ‘flower landscapes.’ ... But whatever their character, the pictures are most attractive.” (Spec.)

* “The color designs of George S. Elgood, R. I., are quite out of the common—exquisite, indeed; and in the end the purchaser may prefer them to the touch-and-go discursiveness of the text.”

* “This edition is illustrated in color with drawings that are as delightful as the text.”

“Italy and things Italian—a fertile theme—are the principal topics discussed; and well does the diarist know his Rome and Florence.... Changing one word of the poet’s warning to orators, we may say, ‘The gift of diary-writing, like the gift of writing mellifluous poetry, is a sorry and dangerous one unless inspired, sustained and restrained by ‘Reason in her most exalted moods.’’”—Dial.

“Dexterously spinning out sentence after sentence and paragraph after paragraph with a facile grace of composition, a deft interweaving of literary allusion and quotation, a ready succession of pleasing ideas, that cannot but excite our admiration. The diarist’s manner is winsome, and it seems ungracious to damn his book with faint praises; but not even the most gifted of us, not even a poet laureate, can always attain perfection.”

“Instead of the German legend which pictures the character of Mark as a mild, noble, benign old man,” Mrs. Austin uses the text of Mallory which views King Mark as a “base, crafty, false-hearted scheming coward,” and “tells how, wearied in the struggle against Mark’s unremitting treachery Sir Tristam after the vile betrayal and battle behind the chapel on the rocks, in which he came so near to losing his life, bore Queen Isoult into her Launcelot’s country, and there lived with her in the castle of Joyous Garde.”

“A tale of love and spring in Old California,” and of Isidro, whose proud determined father had vowed his son to the church while still in his cradle. The boy on his way to begin his novitiate with the fathers of St. Francis, meets a shepherd lad who proves to be “the one woman in the world.” He suffers hardships thru a series of adventures into which a delightful old priest, a fugitive, and a halfbreed of wild passion and heroic spirit enter.

“The story is well imagined and told with a delightful swing in a style that is vigorous, though at times too mannered.”

“Mary Austin has achieved that admirable success, which is none too common, of telling a romantic tale with such vivid realism, a tale of bygone years with such graphic assurance of detail, as to make even the most melodramatic of her episodes seem quite within the range of credibility.” F. T. Cooper.

* “Is a masterpiece in the particulars of literary style, and time-old spirit.”

“That language has a character of its own and a fitness to the honorable service of the romance of old California. Mary Austin has the gift of the witchcraft of romance.”

“Not a great piece of fiction, but carefully written, and presenting interesting types of character well-drawn, and a charming background of landscape.”

“A novel that will have a permanent place, not as a masterpiece, but as a well-wrought story of another ‘phase of American existence that, within the touch of present time, has passed away.’”

“Aside from the considerable charm of the story, the account given of the relation existing between the missions and their converts, and of the breaking up of these religious settlements, is well worth while.”

“The story is pleasantly told with a wealth of local colour, and will please lovers of romantic adventure.”

A collection of drawings and skits, jibes and jests taken from “Life.” The artists contributing are Gibson, Kemble, Cushing, Bayard Jones, C. F. Taylor, and others. It is a novelty and sure to please the motor car devotees.

“The level of these caricatures is uncommonly high in respect of invention and artistic technique.”

Avery, Elroy McKendree. History of the United States and its people. In 12 vol. Vol. 1., $6.25. Burrows.

Mr. Avery aims to cover the entire ground of American history from the earliest records to the present time. It is intended as a popular history, but there is supplied an abundance of bibliographical data which all students and those who wish to pursue historical investigations will find particularly useful. The maps, also, are more satisfactory than those which commonly appear in American works of this character. The style is easy, flowing, sometimes conversational. Graphic anecdotes or storiettes enliven the serious matter. Among the features demanding special praise the technical make-up must not be forgotten. The size is convenient, the paper excellent, the type clear and large, and there is a broad margin with notes.

“Both in statement and conclusion, furthermore, the text is generally in accord with the best literature of the subjects treated. Some obscurities, errors, and other defects have escaped detection.” William R. Shepherd.

“While the style has a certain pleasing smoothness, the reluctance of the author to interrupt this compels him to fail, at crucial points, to state explicitly what he is talking about, and the result for the reader is perplexity. Our verdict regarding Dr. Avery’s bibliography must also be that it might be improved.” Edward S. Corwin.

“We incline to the belief that on the whole no treatment of the period of discovery has been more satisfactorily prepared. If the succeeding volumes equal in excellence the present book, this history will be the best complete 15history of our country yet written.” Amy C. Rich.

“In a general way Dr. Avery is fully abreast of modern scholarship. Of really serious errors in the book there are none. The great weakness of the book lies in the absence of page references. Dr. Avery’s style of writing is smooth and flowing. It is altogether too flowery either for a permanent classic or for a serious piece of historical work.” Anna Heloise Abel.

“The advance sheets have been submitted to special students on the subjects treated. But they could not, without rewriting his book, correct his point of view. Rarely takes the trouble to come to a conclusion of his own. On the whole the book is well and attractively written and is accurate as to fact.”

* “While accuracy of detail has been secured thru several revisions by specialists, the emphasis is bad and the literary style is often stilted.”

“Dr. Avery’s text stands well the test of critical examination. The narrative ... is systematically compressed, but it is well proportioned, and gives evidence throughout of careful use of authorities and of intelligent and restrained judgment. From a literary point of view, the history is eminently readable, though the style shows a tendency to ornateness.”

“Reasonably full, critical, and even iconoclastic in many respects. To judge then, from vol. I. this history bids fair to become popular in the best sense of the term. It is certainly not dry—parts of it reading like a stirring romance. Now and then he goes perhaps a trifle too far in his impartiality.”

“He is, then, accurate. He is also the possessor of a very agreeable style.”

“To those of us who, with Stevenson, pray for the quiet mind, ‘The Upton letters’ by ‘T. B.’ are a help in that direction. Simple and natural, sane and human, these reflective utterances on literary, moral, and educational themes, and on the commonplaces of daily life, have the charm that belongs to the genuine expression of a good mind and heart. They are the letters of a master in an English public school to a friend (’Herbert’) sojourning in Madeira for his health; and they run through the year 1904, being brought to a close by the friend’s death.”—Dial.

“The comments on certain aspects of modern life are always very readable, sometimes valuable; but the book is notable mainly for its poetical outlook and unfailing facility of expression.”

* “The book is delightful enough to stand on its own merits.” H. W. Boynton.

“It is an intimate narrative, but the intimacy is of a highly self-respecting sort, and the picture of the writer which the book leaves upon the reader’s mind is very winning.”

“The little volume will create no sensation (heaven forbid!), but it will greatly content a choice few among the readers of books.”

* “The letters are truly literature, and every page gives evidence of broad and careful scholarship, wide reading and a soul concerned with high and serious things. As a whole the volume is intensely satisfactory and is one that may be read and read again by those who care to think and know how to think.”

“‘The Upton letters’ makes excellent quiet reading for those to whom such a mind as the author’s is attractive.”

“These letters depend solely upon their intrinsic merit. This is unquestionably high. Without literary affectation, the style is that of a literary man.”

“Barring a slight stiffness and an occasional assumption of weariness and ennui, the letters are as good as anything of the kind that have appeared since Huxley’s were given to the world.”

This book is the outgrowth of a series of university extension lectures delivered at Providence, R. I., and New Haven, Conn. It is a comparison of the accounts of the life of St. Paul, as found in the acts and the epistles, and Professor Bacon’s object is to point out the differences in these two sources in order that the records may later be harmonized.

“Although intended for popular reading, is less a life of the great apostle than a critical inquiry into the disputes and controversies connected with his life.”

* “Is the clearest and ablest presentation of this subject yet made by an American.”

“A misnomer. It should rather be called A study in St. Paul, for Dr. Bacon is a critic rather than a historian. Certainly his mind is analytical rather than dramatic. For the student who desires to get the latest information which a fearless and reverent scholarship has to give respecting our sources of information concerning Paul and his Epistles, we know of no book better than this volume of Dr. Bacon, but it is distinctly the work of a student, and requires for its appreciation a student’s thoughtfulness.”

“Although this is in the province of criticism, Professor Bacon’s treatment is of a popular nature. His book is, indeed, a union of constructive biography and scientific criticism.”

“Dr. Bacon observes carefully and writes well; but he seems to us to be constantly getting a little more out of the text than is warranted; while the amount and complication of the alterations made in the history by ‘Luke’ (as he is called, in inverted commas) form a very serious objection to his theory.”

“His book will make the student think, and so far will be of service; but he is not a safe guide.”

A record of the experiences, hopes, and longings which lie all the way from the depths to the heights of a genius’ career. Short, terse sentences that sum up a heart full of joy or anguish, characterized all thru by Bohemian irresponsibility, 16are no more brief than were the moods of this interesting Hungarian. With all his musical power, he is human enough to say: “I adore my father; but who could keep faith with his father when such a woman smiles.... It is Marie Alexeievna. There is no superior allegiance.”

“A decidedly clever and piquant tour de force. In very few books is the note struck at the beginning successfully kept up to the end, as here. Of its not ambitious order, the book is admirable.”

Bacon, Edgar Mayhew. Narragansett bay; its historic and romantic associations and picturesque setting. **$3.50. Putnam.

This sumptuous volume is “illustrated by the author’s sketches and a few photographs, and is well indexed. As the title implies, it is a collection of superficial descriptions and colonial legends woven into readable form.” (Nation.)

“Is a worthy successor to the author’s attractive work in a similar style on the Hudson river.”

“The book is chiefly deficient in failing to show the powerful influence of the bay on the social and economic development of the state. The volume contains many egregious lapses from fact.”

“The plainest narrative of a balloon trip told strictly from the airman’s point of view, in perfect equanimity, never mounting into any purple clouds, never soaring above any reader’s head, but sticking to the terra firma of plain fact, makes a far stronger impression upon the imagination than in any other style it ever could.” (Nation.) Such a narrative is Miss Bacon’s.

“Is a little triumph, due to a bright fresh mind drawing from the headwaters of information ideas that sparkle with genuine interest in the subject, which is allowed to run on in its own natural babble.”

“Her story is well told, and, as technicalities are avoided, is interesting as well.”

Books and pamphlets have appeared in great numbers furnishing technical details, measurements, etc., of the “revelations of pick and spade” about this historic site. “But the average English or American traveler has very much needed a smaller work, of equal accuracy but more popular and practicable, as a guide among these new-old stones and pillars and pavements. Such a book is now to be had in Mr. Baddeley’s ‘Recent discoveries.’ The author has been in close touch with all the work as it went on, and fortunately has seen fit to give us many incidents of the eventful days, and illustrations showing the scenes of transition.” (Dial).

“He is wanting in style and scholarship; almost every page is disfigured by odd mistakes in English or inaccuracies of reference.”

“The expression is so poor that one rarely reads so small a book with such great difficulty.”

Baedeker, Karl. London and its environs: a handbook for travellers. *$1.80. Scribner.

“The fourteenth edition, fortified with four maps and twenty-four plans, its list of the principal streets, public buildings, etc. The total bulk has been but slightly increased. It is almost a pity that these successive editions could not graphically record the chief changes in the general aspect of the metropolis, which of late have been as imposing as they are extensive.”—Nation.

“A new edition (the fourth) of this well-known handbook, brought up to date with such revision regarding hotels, routes, and places of interest to travelers as has been made necessary by the changes of the last four or five years.”—Outlook.

A lucid exposition of the basal principles of pedagogy with illustrative matter showing the limits and methods of the application. “Its fundamental theses are, that the function of the educative process is to secure the transmission to each generation of the experience of the race, and that its end in view is to secure the development of socially efficient individuals—an end inclusive, as here defined, of livelihood, knowledge, culture, harmonious development, and morality.” (Outlook.)

“His exposition of the responsibilities and duties of parents and teachers can be accepted with little or no reservation, but some of his illustrative statements and subsidiary generalizations are open to question.”

“All in all, it must be considered one of the best contributions of its kind to the literature of educational theory and should find an extensive use as a text-book in normal schools and colleges for covering the ground of general method.” Guy Montrose Whipple.

“While Dr. Bagley is mainly concerned to teach the principles of pedagogy he has not failed in adequately illustrating the limits and methods of their rational application.”

“In spite of these and some other less important mistakes and misplacements of emphasis, the book is a fresh, stimulating and generally correct organization of the principles of education.” Wilbur S. Jackman.

* Bagot, Richard. Italian lakes; painted by Ella Du Cane, described by Richard Bagot. *$6. Macmillan.

“In the pages of this beautiful book there have been gathered enough pictures of the Italian lakes ... to make those who read ... realize at least somewhat of the wonderful beauty of the lakes of Italy, even when they have not seen them.” (Ind.) “The lakes of Como, Lugano, Lecco, Maggiore, Orta, Isco, and others of northern Italy are described and painted.”—N. Y. Times.

* “The illustrator ... has given us a series of pictures which, though quite pretty, do not help the reader to realise the general character of the North Italian lakes. The material with which Mr. Bagot had to deal was far too extensive for the space at his disposal; and on the whole he has made a wise selection.”

“Mr. Richard Bagot has written a stirring melodrama of love and intrigue. He has laid on his colours with a trowel. He gives us the lovely maiden wooed by the handsome lover whose suit is forbidden by the stern stepmother. He tells of wicked priests, cynical and scheming villains, faithful servants, secret hiding-places and sliding panels—all the stock-in-trade of regulation melodrama.... The scene of the book is laid in Rome and the ‘local colouring’ is admirable.”—Sat. R.

“It is a pleasure to read so well-conceived and well executed a tale as this. This is a book that will certainly bear reading twice.”

“Frankly, the story makes rather better reading than an epitome of it would warrant one to expect.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

* “A conscientious, elaborate and able narrative. Within certain limits, ‘The passport’ may be honestly commended.”

“The characters in ‘The passport’ stand out very well in the Italian ‘atmosphere’ which Mr. Bagot has the secret of portraying.”

“Is unusual in the strength of its plot and the artistic and continuous development of the story. Here, as in former books, Mr. Bagot occasionally offends the taste of his readers quite unnecessarily.”

“But he writes well and picturesquely and his characterization, although totally devoid of subtlety, abounds in cleverness.”

A prose Mother Goose which contains some of the old rhymes as Debby, “a real little girl with gingham aprons and stubby shoes and sunbonnets,” hears them in her wanderings among the Gooselanders. She meets the same old people of Gooseland: Dame Trot; Wee Willie Winkie; Jack Horner; Bo Peep; Simple Simon; and all the rest, but they are modernized and made almost too commonplace for imaginative children. There are twenty-two illustrations by Peter Newell.

* “The text rings so true in spirit that one cannot tell which way first to look, at the printed pages or at the woodcuts. All in all the combination forms a most happy volume for children.”

* “Altogether a very excellent Peter Newell book with a good story to picture.”

“The outlook to nature is, of course, the outlook to optimism, for nature is our governing condition and is beyond the power of man to modify or to correct.... The outlook to nature is the outlook to what is real and hearty and spontaneous.” The author applies the foregoing text to the four essays: The realm of the commonplace, Country and city, The school of the future, and Evolution: the quest of truth.

“They exhort to public-spirited endeavor in the cause of rural education and they tend to foster a wholesome love of the soil and to replace the restlessness and discouragement of the country-bred boy and girl with a reasonable contentment and an impulse to improve existing opportunities.”

“Some of the passages are delightful. Nor is it a one-sided view of life that is presented.”

* “If there is nothing altogether new in the book, there is nothing that is not sensible, and very little that is not also inspiring.”

“His exhortations ... are hearty, spontaneous, and optimistic, and full of the love of nature which he wants all the world to share.”

“The autobiography, as Professor Bain left it, ended with an account of the events of the year 1890; a supplementary chapter, relating to the last thirteen years of his life, has been added by his literary executor, Prof. W. L. Davidson. The chief feature of interest in this volume is its clear and candid account of the stages in the writer’s mental growth, under the circumstances of the time.” (Int. J. Ethics). His early religious life was one of unrest and doubt, but coming under the influence of Comte’s teachings, he soon rejected all theology, and found himself a thorogoing empiricist. His greatest originality lies in the realm of analytic psychology, and his works on this subject are among the classics. In logic, he was a close follower of Mill, also his two volumes show some important advances on the Mill method. In ethics, too, he is consistently empirical and utilitarian, believing that “General happiness or welfare is a sufficient statement of the final end.”

“Will undoubtedly be a disappointment to the reader who is looking for literary charm or for any strong infusion of human interest. It is a dry, concise chronicle, in which first place is given to facts about the writer’s own scientific activity and published work—professedly a record of his intellectual history first of all.”

“Curious lights are also thrown on the past history of university education in Scotland. Specially attractive is the account given in the first two chapters of the way in which the difficulties of the author’s early education were overcome, and of the manner in which his native intellectual tendencies began to show themselves.” S. H. Mellone.

“The autobiography is much too long. What is really valuable in it is overlaid by a multitude of details which can interest but few.”

“A digit of the moon,” “A heifer of the dawn,” “The descent of the sun,” and “In the great God’s hair” are four stories found in this volume, translated and adapted from the Hindoo by one who professes to have received the manuscript from a Brahman. “They possess a somewhat greater refinement, according to Western notions, than one often finds in tales of Oriental life and love as told by Orientals.” (Outlook.)

“The fascination of the stories lies in their almost hypnotic slowness of movement, their lavish use of color, and the delicate mixture of wit and sentiment that animate them.”

“The native atmosphere has been rather cleverly caught, and the author has adopted several Hindu tricks of story-telling. Many persons will deem his stories charming. At any rate, they are touchingly sentimental and written in extra-florid English.”

“Are characteristically Eastern in delicacy, tenderness, vividness, gorgeousness of imagination, and floridity of language.”

An account of “the rise of socialism in Russia in its early days, coming down to the end of the reign of Peter the Great. So far as we know, the book takes new ground in that it is less a history of war and political convulsions than of the underlying conditions—social, racial, and moral as well as political—which give shape and form to the Muscovite civilization. Dramatic episodes and incidents have large place in the narrative.... There are several portraits and maps.”—Outlook.

“Mr. Nisbet Bain is too faithful a chronicler. He tells his story in such detail that we miss the broad features and lack some perspective of Russia’s relationship to the rest of Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.”

“But is perhaps unfair to carp at these minor inaccuracies (as they seem to us), and it is a more congenial task to praise this interesting book for the many pictures of old Russian life with which it abounds.”

“It is seldom that a book combines in so high a degree the charm of imaginative writing with the graver interest of history.”

“‘The first Romanovs’ is a work which covers less ground than is traversed in the Scandinavian volume, and is marked not only by a greater fulness of detail, but by greater concentration of purpose. The present volume is in many respects the best he has given us.”

“It is a conscientious, well-balanced history of that remarkable century. The whole story is well and interestingly told in fluent and often pictorial English.” Wolf von Schierbrand.

“The work is essentially readable. Such a book as this is valuable as affording insight into what was really a formative period of European history.”

“Upon the reader’s acceptance or rejection of Peter’s role as a mighty regenerator will necessarily depend the value and interest of Mr. Bain’s work. At the same time we fail to find that he brings any really new light to bear upon the subject.”

Bain, Robert Nisbet. Scandinavia: a political history of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. $2. Macmillan.

The period from 1513 to 1900 is treated in this volume which deals with the rise, decline, and fall of Denmark, Norway and Sweden as powers.

“In his conclusions he frequently differs from earlier writers, but, though his generalizations are often dangerously bold, his statements, as a rule, are well supported.” Laurence M. Larson.

“We have found Mr. Bain’s narrative clear and very readable. It is throughout a scholarly production.”

“Mr. Bain’s narrative, however, is usually vivid and sometimes even eloquent. Inaccuracy rather than obscurity is the fault of the book. As is natural when the scope of the work is so wide, many of the author’s views are open to question.” W. F. R.

“His epitome of Scandinavian annals is clear and well arranged giving about equal prominence to Denmark and Sweden.”

“Mistakes are rare, and those that may be found are too insignificant for exposure. And he tells a good story. This failure of Mr. Bain to enter into the spirit of the time is glaringly apparent in his treatment of Christian II. of Denmark. On the whole his judgments of present-day men and measures are correct and well balanced.” Edwin Bjorkman.

“Keen insight into causation is manifest; social as well as political movements are studied, not a little light being thrown on hitherto neglected phases of Scandinavian history; and the facts presented have been carefully verified. The style, without being impressive, is fluent and agreeable.”

“Mr. Bain’s story is, by force of circumstances, highly compressed, but he has succeeded in making it both clear and attractive.”

This story is all about Pedro and Petronilla, twins of Béarne, who at the start could not understand why when Aunt Catalina said that they had some blue blood in their veins should see only red blood start from a knife wound. They themselves thus remind the reader that they are very much flesh-and-blood little mortals. Their experiences at the court of Francis the First, and their travels and adventures are full of interest for the young reader. The illustrations are the clever work of Fanny Y. Cory.

“A pleasant way for any boy or girl to get acquainted with the sixteenth century is to read ‘The queen’s page.’”

This little volume is offered by Mr. Baker as a needed supplement to the ordinary oratorical work done in colleges. It is designed for school use, and sets forth its purpose in an introduction addressed to teachers. The book consists of famous historical letters, both private and open, editorials, inaugural addresses, speeches of eulogy, commemoration, dedication, welcome and farewell, and after-dinner speeches. There are an appendix and explanatory notes.

“The selections presented as models give a value to the volume that the general reader, as well as instructors and students, will appreciate for their historical or personal as well as literary worth.”

Baker, Henry B. Relation of preventable disease to taxation. Michigan State board of health.

“We have here a valuable analytical study of local expenditures in Michigan during 1903 on account of indigent sufferers from dangerous communicable diseases: also computations of the money values of the lives apparently saved in 1903 through the lowered death rate from smallpox, typhoid fever, scarlet fever and 19consumption since the organization of the State board of health.”—Engin. N.

A pretty story of a little orphan, Mary Daingerfield, who is separated from her sister and brothers and adopted by the rich and kind-hearted Pinners. Thru her sweet unselfishness she succeeds in bringing home to them their son, Dave, and also in reuniting her orphaned family—Kit, Buz, the baby, and their faithful old black Aunty.

A second revised and enlarged edition of this valuable little volume which was first published in 1895.

Baker, Rev. P. Short instructions; or, Meditations on the Gospels for each day in Lent; ed. by Rev. W: T. Conklin. 75c. Christian press.

“These instructions were first published in 1834 ... [and] are based on the holy Gospels for every day in Lent. The Gospel for the day is given; then follows a short instruction on the same, concluding with a prayer.”—Cath. World.

Baker, William Henry. Cement-worker’s handbook. 50c. W. H. Baker, Wadsworth, O.

More than 50 most important subjects on cement and its uses in construction are covered in this volume, which is compiled to meet the requirements of the common workman.

“The description of the proper way to make cement walks is the best that we have seen in print.”

Baldwin, Charles Sears, ed. American short stories. See Wampum library of American literature, v. I.

Taking the English Bible as a model of style, the author has written a practical little book which tells “plain people” how to prepare essays, how to tell stories, and how to describe.

“The author has succeeded in making his directions practical and untechnical enough really to help the people for whom they are designed.”

“A sprightly story of the experiences of an English girl of fourteen, who spent two years at a convent school in the north of France, on the Belgian frontier.... The heroine’s interests were varied by the neighborhood of a French uncle with a haunted château.... There are illustrations and a good deal of minor detail of the life of a French country house.”—Nation.

* “The tale has incident enough to make it good reading for any girl under eighteen.”

This is the sixth volume in the “American state series” whose object is to describe “comprehensively the manner in which the Governmental agencies of the American state are organized and administered.” The subject matter falls under two heads: Part 1. The nature and scope of the judicial power in the United States, and Part 2. The organization and practical working of American courts.

“His work maintains the high standard set by the other published volumes of the ‘American state series.’” Robert Livingston Schuyler.

“Is characterized by thoroughness, accuracy, and readableness. Laymen and jurists alike will find this book interesting and helpful.”

Balmforth, Ramsden. Bible from the standpoint of higher criticism. 2v. ea. *$1.25. Dutton.

Two volumes devoted respectively to the Old and New Testament, which discuss in popular and non-technical form the results of the higher criticism. “The true basis of religious union is shown to be where Jesus put it, not in the speculative doctrines which divide men, but in the moral effect which unites them.” (Outlook.) Illustrations are drawn from the various classes of literature and periods of history.

“Some of the principal facts brought to light in recent study are presented fearlessly and with no little skill.”

“Mr. Balmforth’s discussions are bold, almost blunt, but they are reverent and well considered, and they will do good service in promoting familiarity with the achievements of Biblical scholarship in its most important field.”

“A lucid and popularly written account of the results of modern critical study.”

A new volume in the “Trail-makers library” which narrates the experiences and adventures of the first white man to cross the continent. “His journey begun in Florida in 1528 ended on the Pacific in 1536. The translator and editor have had a valuable idea in extracting from the original confused and garrulous narrative what was essential and important.” (Outlook.)

“The work is edited by no less an authority than Ad. F. Bandelier, the foremost in this line, and the translation is by his wife, whose quick intelligence and absolute familiarity with the Spanish language has enabled her to fathom many intricacies of the vague and confused record.” F. S. Dellenbaugh.

“In his well-known humorous style Mr. Bangs has portrayed Mrs. Raffles, the widow of the famous cracksman, and her never-to-be-consoled admirer ‘Bunny.’ The yarns ... contain material for detective stories that quite surpass the plots invented for the original thief by Mr. Hornung.”—Critic.

* “A parody of Mr. Hornung’s stories of Raffles, the amateur cracksman, very badly done.”

Bangs, John Kendrick. Worsted man: a musical play for amateurs. †50c. Harper.

Eight lonely women at a summer hotel in New Hampshire attempt to get even with Fate for not sending a single youth their way. They construct a worsted man from an afghan, stuffing it with cotton. A certain famous spring-water brings this man of wool to life, and he becomes an unmanageable flirt.

Phoebe Rowan is widowed shortly after the ceremony which joins her in a loveless marriage with the village minister. It becomes a duty to her to call to her “wren’s nest” the destitute parents of her husband,—a father who is a cripple and a drunkard, and a step-mother “austere, ignorant, narrow-minded, with a faculty for ruling all around her with an iron will.” The story follows a thorny path with a triumphant turn out into the open.

“It is not given to her, as it is to Mr. Howells, to write an interesting story about nothing. The various characters to which Mrs. Banks introduces us are not convincing.”

“The score of characters who move through Mrs. Banks’s pages are quaint, charming, whimsical, by turns, but never exaggerated or burlesqued. The central thread of the story, which binds the whole together with a strength surprising in a plot of such fragile delicacy, is imbued with a simple pathos that at times evokes an almost painful sympathy.” F. T. Cooper.

“The author has a riotous sentimentality, no sense of humor, and an over-worked knack of detaching scenic bric-a-brac from the landscape.”

“The book is somewhat cumbered with description, and several of its characters have toppled over into caricatures, but it will be read with interest both because of a plot out of the ordinary and of the freshness and spontaneity of its treatment.”

“There are bits here which are gently provocative of a smile, and always the sentiment is sweet and gracious, but the total effect is rather faint.”

“Appears as a frank imitator of Miss Mary Wilkins, and the imitation is not very successful.”

Barbour, Ralph Henry (Richard Stillman Powers, pseud.). Orchard princess. †$2. Lippincott.

How Miles Fallon, bachelor, becomes a ready target for Cupid’s dart when April sunshine and the scent of apple blossoms lure him on to the orchard princess is lightly sketched in this love tale with a pastoral setting. The man is a novelist, and the girl is an artist, yet these two idealists are very human in the “little nothingnesses” that pave the way for their romance.

* “The heroine is a real girl, which cannot always be said of romantic heroines.”

Viewing China and the Chinese “with the eyes of a man of affairs,” and avoiding “exaggerated optimism”, the author has treated of Chinese traits, customs and character, of their religions, education, government, history and economic and social life. The book is concise and interesting, and contains over a dozen illustrations and a good index.

“The book has no air of hasty generalization; the chapters, though brief, are full of information, set forth in the clearest possible manner.”

“The characteristic and chief value of the book is its freedom from bias. The little volume is singularly free from inaccuracies.”

“The translation, or rather adaptation, is one that takes away all stiffness and puts the reader at his ease. With index and illustrations, this makes one of the books on China most pleasant for reference and reading.”

“He has come as near to an understanding of the Chinese character as is possible for an occidental.”

Thirteen short stories for girls as well as boys. The “Blockaders” is a tale of a Confederate blockade runner which is captured by the Federals and turned into a United States gunboat. Then there are stories of flying machines, cannibal kings, and adventures in Africa, where savages pursue the finders of certain diamonds. There is a story of an ice boat, where two boys carry a bag of money fifty miles to save a bank, and of harrowing experiences in an apparently inaccessible village of the cliff dwellers. There are many others equally varied.

“The stories are well written; the plots are worth writing about; the boys who figure in them are real flesh and blood boys; and the style is crisp, direct, and natural.”

“They are of all sorts—adventurous, amusing, and pathetic—and all good.”

21Barr, Martin W. Mental defectives; their history, treatment, and training. *$4. Blakiston.

An interesting and practical treatment of the subject by one who has had long and successful experience in the training of the mentally deficient. The modern methods of sifting and classifying these children, are given in detail, and the work suitable for each class is described. It is an interesting book for everyone, but is intended primarily for teachers and parents. There are 152 illustrations.

“In his interesting study, Dr. Barr has spoken to an audience of teachers and parents, rather than to scientists.” Albert Warren Ferris.

“It is by all odds the most thorough and well written treatise upon the subject with which we are familiar, not excepting those of Ireland, Doun, or Seguin; besides it is modern.”

John Steele, the hero of this story, runs the entire gamut of financial adventure. He starts as station master in the “lone shanty” known as Hitchen’s Siding where his bravery in side-tracking a freight train without the dispatcher’s orders, thus averting a collision, was the beginning of a series of promotions. He becomes the owner of a railroad, dabbles in wheat, loses a fortune, wins it again with the woman he loves thru a coup de force.

Conversational reminiscences of the sculptor-artist jotted down by one who was his friend and neighbor. Many interesting details are given, which reveal his character and his attitude toward his own work and the work of other artists.

“An extremely readable story of her long and intimate friendship with Watts.”

“At times it must be admitted she rather overloads her pages with minor details. The book is written pleasantly, interestingly, tho without any great distinction of style—but it is only fair to add that there is no pretension to style.”

* “Mrs. Barrington combines in an unusual degree the literary and artistic gift.”

“We cannot help thinking that the author would have done better to hand over her notes to the biographer who, under the general direction of Mrs. Watts and with access to the painter’s private papers, is at work upon a complete biography.”

“Mrs. Barrington’s book, with all its enthusiastic fervor and intimate outpourings, adds practically little to what has already been published.”

“Mrs. Barrington’s is not a biography, but a personal work, which incidentally reveals a good deal of the writer’s personality.” Charles de Kay.

The author “here sets forth, in a simple and practical manner, the basic principles of illustration in pen and ink and pencil.” After describing fully the materials necessary, he outlines the steps of procedure. The first lesson is on a block letter alphabet. Next are rules for drawing the human head and features, the hands, feet, and the human figure. “How to measure an object by the eye” is followed by an explanation of how to draw from life, studies in expression, animal drawing, perspective, landscape drawing, spatter work, water studies, comics, cartoons, wash lampblack drawing, drawing on silver prints, distemper drawings, lettering, foliage study, and the reproduction of drawings. The last part of the book is devoted to the well-known American illustrators and cartoonists.

Omitting everything that does not bear directly upon the subject of practical rose growing, this manual teaches the American amateur all that is necessary for him to know “in order that he may intelligently make a rose garden, select his varieties and grow a harvest of bloom.” A number of half-tone illustrations accompany the text. The book belongs to the “Garden library.”

“The book is freely and attractively illustrated, most of the inscriptions being amply descriptive of the purpose of the pictures.” Edith Granger.

“To those who desire roses and know nothing about them this little volume will be an especial boon, so precise and unveiled by the drapery of unnecessary words are the instructions.” Mabel Osgood Wright.

Under such chapter headings as, The city of silence, A battle in a storm, Cost of taking Port Arthur, and A contemporary epic, are told the horrid things, pitiless and true, which the author saw in the East on the field and in the trenches where the little brown men fought so bravely.

“Barry knows how to tell a story in words and sentences that seem part of the war itself.” William Elliot Griffis.

“This book is that of an eye-witness profoundly and sympathetically impressed, still young enough to have every impression deep and clear, and old enough to set it down justly and vividly.” Wallace Rice.

“Not strictly a well-written book, this is nevertheless full of the vitality of the field, and the impression that it gives of a record made on the spot is heightened by the numerous illustrations from the author’s own camera.”

“The book is on the whole more to be commended for its material than the manner in which the material is used.”

“He gives a series of vivid pictures of Japanese methods of warfare, of life in the besieging trenches, of the characteristics of the Japanese soldier and his commanding officers.”

Beginning with a chapter which discusses the widely known scholar and writer as “The Breton peasant,” Mr. Barry traces the career of Renan, describing his youthful struggles to understand the Catholic faith, his giving up the priesthood, his lectures as a teacher of Hebrew, the influence of his sister, his travels and his work upon his “Life of Jesus,” and his other books.

“Is in many respects an excellent and most instructive biography, but he is somewhat too prone to argue with Renan’s opinions without trying to ‘place’ him amid the powerful influences of the nineteenth century.”

“It chiefly consists of translation or paraphrase of books within reach of every one, and the moment Dr. Barry essays to be original he falls into blunders.”

“This work is finely wrought as a piece of literature, is judicious, brave, and reverent.”

“He has written a superficial book on a subject worthy of more intelligent treatment.”

“The thesis is cleverly maintained, and the book, in spite of its obvious dogmatic purpose, is interesting throughout.”

“Falls several points short of being satisfactory as an exposition of the reality behind the man who was an atheist, ‘devoutly and with a sort of unction.’”

“It says much for the wealth and variety of Dr. Barry’s resources, both as a scholar and as a literary artist, that he has achieved this task with eminent success.”

This volume is made up of home letters written by the director of the American school of Oriental research, and it contains no dry archaeological detail, but is an account of the experiences of the author and his party, and a description of the localities visited, including Athens, Corinth, the churches of Asia, the Holy land, Alexandria, Italy, and the Alps. There are 145 illustrations in half-tone, from views taken during the trip.

“Its fine and numerous illustrations give it special value as a pictorial companion book to the Bible.”

To form a connecting link between the mathematical branches as taught in the secondary schools and the practical work of surveying is the author’s chief purpose in presenting this text. It is subdivided into the following chapters: (1) Instruments, their adjustments and uses; (2) Chain surveying; (3) Compass surveying; (4) Computation of areas; (5) Transit surveying; (6) Leveling; and (7) Tables. The last 111 pages are devoted to several useful and practical tables: a table of squares, cubes, square roots, and cube roots; of chords; stadia tables; six-place logarithms of numbers and of trigonometric functions; the natural functions to five places; and an auxiliary table for small angles. The author enters a plea against the insertion of six-place tables in texts on plane surveying as wasteful of time and labor.

“He has quite well met the needs of one class. The class whose interests seem to have been consulted, in the main, is that of the strong high-school, or early college, student of mathematics who feels he would like to know for what all these years of barren formalism are supposed to prepare one, at any rate. From a mathematical student’s point of view the book is a clear, simple, and educative treatment of the fundamental problems of surveying.” G. W. Myers.

“This little volume tells simply and clearly how to locate and build a country house to insure the most healthful conditions, how to provide a pure water supply, and how to dispose of the waste in an economical and sanitary manner.”—Outlook.

“The suggestions that he offers to the prospective builder of a country house are eminently practical, based on a scientific study of rural conditions.”

“A French romance of the time of Louis XIII. The scene is partly placed in a retired garden belonging to the King and entered by a ‘little green door.’ The book is not of the swashbuckling type, although there is an occasional clash of swords.”—Outlook.

* “The attempt is for quiet charm rather than for strenuous dramatic effect.”

“The early pages tell of the author’s own proceedings as a collector and his growth as a connoisseur.... There are 254 separate glasses illustrated, all arranged upon the black backgrounds of sixty-seven half-tone plates.... There are many historical curiosities among these pieces, and of course Jacobitism in abundance.” (Nation.) 1586 is the date of the earliest glass shown.

“A book at once pleasing and packed with information, personal and yet of broadest application.”

“The author is very enthusiastic, and has much knowledge of his subject, and his guidebook will be a welcome help to the large body of students of an attractive subject. We rarely find Mr. Bate at fault.”

“As far as it goes, however, the book is a careful account, rather by way of classification than of historical or technical discussion, of English table glass up to 1800.”

The story of a young Harvard man whose uncle refused to supply him with funds for a trip to Europe. As the girl he loves is already there, nothing can stop him, so he takes his chum with him, steals his uncle’s yacht, cruises from Maine to the Mediterranean, wins the girl and comes home to be forgiven. There are many amusing and stirring adventures, such as a race with an English yacht, smuggling art treasures out of Italy, and a storm at sea.

“Lively narrative and clearcut description, written for the most part in excellent English. A thoroughly wholesome and readable book.”

“The story is cleverly told, remarkably so for the author’s first attempt, and is entertaining in spite of the superabundance of slang.”

“The author’s style is buoyant, and he rides blithely over choppy seas that have brought to grief many an older writer.”

“Dr. Batten seeks to realise the actual conditions under which the Jewish prophets lived and worked. He inquires how they gained a subsistence, what they did for their countrymen, what was thought and expected of them, and whether they wrote down their utterances in advance.... These and other questions are discussed with an open-mindedness and sobriety which are not always in evidence on either side of the ‘Higher criticism controversy.’”—Spec.

“An excellent handbook for the use of intelligent Bible students. The method of presentation is clear and simple, and the underlying principles are scholarly and safe.”

“The book is popular yet critical, neglecting neither the problems of scholars nor the practical applications of the history.”

Battine, Cecil. Crisis of the confederacy: a history of Gettysburg and the Wilderness. $5. Longmans.

“This volume is substantially a history of the American civil war, though special attention is given to the Gettysburg campaign (June 27th-July 14th, 1863), and to Grant’s operations in the Wilderness in May and June, 1864.... The story of years of serious fighting is compressed into something less than four hundred pages. Then comes a chapter in which the lessons of the war are drawn in a very instructive way.” (Spec.) There are six maps in the book, and a colored frontispiece showing the battle flags of the confederacy.

“Captain Battine has done faithful and able work in his book, and it must remain a permanent contribution to the history of the crisis of the Confederacy.” J. P. S.

“If he has nothing very new to say on the subject, he has the gift of writing a clear narrative. Would be improved by a better index and by more references to authorities.”

“Excellently lucid narrative. Our readers can hardly find a more satisfactory narrative, with so much matter in so moderate a space.”

Battle of Maldon, and short poems from the Saxon chronicle, ed. by Walter John Sedgefield. 40c. Heath.

A volume in section I. of the “Belles-lettres” series. The text of The battle of Maldon has been collated with Hearne’s transcript of the lost Cotton MS. and the variants noted. Notes, bibliography and glossary are provided.

Bauer, G. Marine engines and boilers; their design and construction: a handbook for the use of students, engineers and naval constructors, based on the work, “Berechnung und konstruktion der schiffsmachinen und kessel.” *$9. Henley.

“The work as a whole is divided into eight parts.... Part 1. deals with the main engine.... Part 2. deals with pumps.... Part 3 takes up shafting, resistance of ships and propulsion.... Part 4. treats of piping and connections.... Part 5. deals with steam boilers.... Part 6. is occupied with measuring instruments.... Part 7. deals with various details.... Part 8. comprises a large collection of tables and tabular matter.... Illustrative material has also been most generously furnished.”—Engin. N.

“This work constitutes an addition of the highest value to the available literature on the subject.” W. F. Durand.

“The book has been excellently and competently translated. The general arrangement of the book is convenient.”

Printed in large type, which will attract child readers, and profusely illustrated in color by Frederick Richardson, this story of the magic cloak which gave to each of its wearers the fulfilment of one wish will delight all who read about the fairy-folk, the witch queen, Bud, the little boy who became king of Noland, his charming sister, the invading Roly-rogues, Aunt Rivette, who wished for wings and got them, and all the rest.

* “Is more of real fairy-tale than the ‘Wizard’ but just as delightful.”

“The ‘Angels,’ or messengers, are: Cimabue, Leonardo da Vinci, Michael Angelo, Titian, Raphael, Correggio and Claude. The author opens his book where his earlier volume, ‘Likeness of Christ Rex Regum,’ closed.... Each chapter has prefixed to it a portrait of the artist discussed, with a facsimile of his signature. The other illustrations (all are, by the way, in half-tone) are reproductions of some of the works of the masters.”—N. Y. Times.

* “It is also a pity that he clings to convention and regards Cimabue as ‘the first painter of the renaissance,’ when that honor rightly belongs to Giotto.”

Opening with a bushman’s hut and ending with a heaven sent rain which delivers the parched country from the great drought, this love story of Australia tells of the hardships which the gently-bred English gallantly encounter in that new country, where the wind wails drearily thru the long spines of the she-oaks.

Ten stories of life in Alaska and the West, including besides the title story, The test, North of forty-three, The scourge, The shyness of Shorty, The thaw at Silsco’s and others.

“There is no faint-hearted mincing of words in them, the pictures they present are sometimes repulsive, but always virile.”

“Strenuous tales of the wild West and the frozen North, ranging from the grimly tragic to the grimly humorous.”

The group of women whose biographies are sketched here includes Catherine Maria Sedgwick, Mary Lovell Ware, Lydia Maria Child, Dorothea Lynde Dix, Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Louisa May Alcott.

* “In writing about them, therefore, the author assumes a frankly New England point of view, judges men, women, and things by New England standards, and takes all his saints seriously.”

“In ‘Endymion’ ... the hand of the author has dealt with matters with which he was more than familiar, the political complications and developments of the thirties and forties of the last century. It is in reality an autobiography, and the figures which move through the varied scenes of the story are thinly disguised personages of high rank and great importance.”—Pub. Opin.

“Despite its priggish tone and frequent sneers, the book has a human quality which is likely to give it a life that even the great fame of its author could not have assured it had those qualities been wanting.”

Beale, Joseph Henry, jr. Law of foreign corporations and taxation of corporations both foreign and domestic. sh. *$6. W: J. Nagel, 6 Ashburton place, Boston.

“In this country alone of great modern commonwealths, every state jurisdiction is a ‘foreign’ jurisdiction in every other state; and every corporation chartered by one state is a foreign corporation in every other.... It is made more complicated still by the concurrent existence of still a third (federal) jurisdiction.... The subject of taxation is naturally involved.... The author has devoted considerable space to the statutory provisions of states and territories, as well as of Great Britain and Canada.”—Nation.

“There is, we believe, no other which covers the field explored by Mr. Beale, to the exclusion of other topics, and this fact alone would make the work professionally important.”

“When the eye and hand can be trained, the mind informed, and the child at the same time entertained, a needed work is indeed being accomplished; and in ‘Handicraft and recreation for girls,’ the parents will find a valuable aid in accomplishing this triple task. The first half of the volume ... is devoted to the handicrafts. Here the most explicit directions are given for spinning, weaving, ... as well as for making complete miniature copies of a Japanese village, a Russian village, an Indian village and an old colonial kitchen.... Besides these there are numerous suggestions for the very tiny folk.... The second half ... contains many delightful suggestions for Easter and Hallowe’en games as well as for simple amusements for very small children.”—Arena.

“All the directions in the book are so detailed and simple, and the illustrations are so copious that the work is far more valuable than many similar volumes. One would search far to find a book of this kind so varied in its interests and so clear and explicit in its practical directions.” Amy C. Rich.

Beardsley, Aubrey. Last letters of Aubrey Beardsley: with an introductory note by the Rev. John Gray. *$1.50. Longmans.

“A series of notes and letters written by Aubrey Beardsley during the last three years of his life.”—N. Y. Times.

“In a sketchy way, these indicate something of the writer’s mind and tastes.”

“Altogether the book seems to throw some light on the artistic temperament in general, as well as upon the character and ways of thought of the young artist. For all that, it is quite impossible to see how the inclusion of many of the utterly trivial notes of thanks or regret adds to the light the book affords, and the trouble is that such idle conclusions are apt to make the reader scoff at the rest, much of which is not matter for scoffing.”

“These letters are interesting as throwing side-lights upon that remarkably sensitive, artistic soul.”

A series of episodes in the life of an Australian stockman who, after many and varied misfortunes, finds happiness thru a lovely girl whom he has rescued from an alligator. The setting is Queensland, and there is much local color.

“His new manner, because of its inequality, is inferior to the old: here and there he climbs almost to the heights; a moment later he has fallen into the mud of the ridiculous.”

“If his people are stereotyped, the incidents of Mr. Becke’s tale are numerous, and mostly picturesque.”

“But for the local colour, in fact, the novel would be entirely commonplace.”

“Mr. Becke, like Mr. Kipling, Mr. Lafcadio Hearn, Mr. Norman Duncan, and some few other 25fortunate ones in this generation, discovered a new corner of the earth with which he had a special talent for making the rest of mankind acquainted.... His element is, without doubt, the throwing of just such flashlights upon the far Paumotos, the Carolines, Fiji, and other fascinating dots in the Pacific solitudes as fill the pages of the volume which is called ‘Under tropic skies.’”—N. Y. Times.

“Has returned to the writing of those delightful sketches of life in the remote islands of the South Pacific that first brought him into favorable notice. But one cannot read through to the end of this volume without coming to the conclusion that Mr. Becke still writes very good stories, that his store of incidents is simply enormous, and that he knows the South Sea Islands—natives, traders, and all their ways, past and present. He makes us know them too.”

These two bird-lovers, the writer and his wife, spent a winter camping in the Mexican interior and here they found not only birds, but mammals, insects, flowers, and scenery worth observing. This record of the things they saw includes ornithological information, new material upon the food-habits of the Mexican species, and also incidents of travel and camp life and glimpses of the natives whom they met while “roughing it.”

* “His observations and his pictures will be of great value to the scientist as well as a pleasure to the untrained reader.” May Estelle Cook.

“He has aimed at an interesting running narrative and commentary, rather than an exhaustive study. He may justly be proud of the information gathered on the habits of birds.”

The substance of this theological text-book is that of the lectures delivered by the author 1902-03 on the L. P. Stone foundation in the Princeton theological seminary. It presents a scholarly study of the prophets of the Old Testament and their messages relating to the coming of the Messiah. The author has searched for the truth unhampered by considerations of the orthodoxy of the results; but he feels that the truth as he found it while it contains some new elements is “simply the old orthodoxy, to some extent transposed into the forms of modern thought.”

“Among recent books adverse to the modern critical view of the Old Testament, Dr. Beecher’s work has the rare and distinctive merit of commanding the respect of the critics whom he opposes.”

* Beeson, Rebecca Katharine, comp. Child’s calendar beautiful. $1. Burt-Terry-Wilson co., La Fayette, Ind.

A collection of poems and prose selections to be memorized by children. The selections are arranged to cover the eight years of the grammar school course and each of these years is divided into months beginning with the first school month, September. This arrangement makes the book ideal for a teacher’s use. The selections are not only appropriate to the time of year but they include the thoughts of our best English writers upon subjects which appeal to the child’s patriotism, love of nature, human sympathy, and ideals.

Beldam, George W., and Fry, Charles B. Great batsmen: their methods at a glance. *$6.50. Macmillan.

A series of six hundred instantaneous photographs illustrating the stages by which the best cricket batsmen make their most characteristic strokes.

“It is the most scientific work and the most practical work on batting that has yet appeared, a combination of example and precept which could not be bettered.”

* “An intensely interesting book, and it will be found invaluable by all who are concerned with the higher philosophy of cricket.”

“The cricketers of the future, when the present giants of the game are but memories, may find in Mr. Beldam’s marvellous photographs and Mr. Fry’s concise and lucid descriptions much fascination.”

* “The book is full of a great variety of most interesting and instructive points.” C. G. K.

Beldam, George W., and Vaile, P. A. Great lawn-tennis players. *$4. Macmillan.

A book of action photographs illustrating the positions taken by players for particular strokes, with comments by Mr. Vaile, who calls attention to their good or bad points. There is a chapter on “advanced tactics of the single game,” by Mr. E. G. Meers, and one upon “The half-volley,” by Mr. C. A. Caridia.

“Mr. Vaile can play lawn-tennis and can talk about it, but he certainly cannot write. However, Mr. Beldam’s photographs make an excellent album.”

“Valuable contribution to the literature of lawn tennis. The lawn tennis reader will find, therefore, much to think over in these pages, and particular attention is drawn to the first chapter, in which the racket, per se, and the methods of holding it are discussed.”

A beautiful Italian woman plays upon the weakness of a young American whom she meets in a sleeping car in the Rockies, “where the mountains cover their sins.” They spend one day at Banff together, a day in which the young man learns much, and, having eaten of this tree of good and evil, he returns to the East where, at the written command of the woman he has left, he confesses all to his innocent young fiancee, and receives her forgiveness and, incidentally, an Italian estate.

A dozen short stories of Scottish child life. Wee Macgreegor himself reappears in this volume, and there are others as wee and canny as he.

“They are very good stories of their kind—informed by the appropriate sentiment and not too much obscured by dialect—humorous also in the sad Scottish fashion of humor.”

“The undercurrent of tenderness serves to bring out in higher relief the sometimes unconscious humor of the sketches.”

“It would be difficult to find a volume more refreshing than ‘Mr. Pennycook’s boy.’”

“In this volume the heroine of ... ‘Abroad with the Jimmies’ appears in the role of a young matron seeking to establish a home in New York city. The efforts of herself and her husband to secure ... peace and quiet amid the vicissitudes of flat-life in the great metropolis prove so futile that at last they conceive the idea of withdrawing to a beautiful little town on the Hudson, where they find a delightful old-fashioned house which they transform into an ideal country home.”—Arena.

“The book is written in a bright, breezy style and abounds in humorous situations. It is just the volume for an idle summer afternoon.” Amy C. Rich.

A volume in the “Newnes’ art library.” The book contains a tinted half-tone frontispiece and fifty-seven plates in black and white illustrating Burne-Jones’ work. There is an introductory essay by Malcolm Bell, who describes the pictures and tells of the artist’s struggles for public recognition.

“In his undoubtedly triumphant accomplishment of the difficult task of writing with freshness on a subject he has already treated exhaustively, the author ... assumes, perhaps, rather too much knowledge on the part of his readers. But for this small drawback, ... the brief account of the prolific artist must satisfy his most ardent admirers.”

“As the text is the work of Mr. Malcolm Bell, however, it bears the marks of the same authority and illumination which we find in his other and larger volumes. The execution of the illustrations is of rather unequal merit, but they are well chosen and are deeply interesting.”

Bell, Nancy R. E. Meugens (Mrs Arthur Bell) (D’Anvers, pseud.). Paolo Veronese. $1.25. Warne.

An addition to the “Newnes’ art library.” The volume contains a sketch of Paolo Caliari, called Veronese, and his works, a list of his paintings and their present locations, and sixty-four illustrations in half-tone, reproduced from photographs.

“Here the introduction by Mrs. Bell is clear and direct. The half-tones do not average as well as in other volumes.”

“Is typical of that writer’s clear insight into the salient characteristics of the painter.”

“This text is much above the average of these publications, and gives some real idea of the range and force of Paolo’s genius, though Mrs. Bell seems entirely to have missed the humor of the artist’s defence of himself before the Inquisition, and to sympathize altogether with the inquisitors.”

“Interesting text. We could wish that the many illustrations in the present volume were more adequate in quality.”

Bell, Nancy R. E. Meugens (Mrs. Arthur Bell) (N. D’Anvers, pseud.) Tintoretto, bds. $1.25. Warne.

About sixty illustrations well reproduced, with an introductory essay on the painter and his work.

“In the introductory essay Mrs. Arthur Bell, from her extensive knowledge of Italian painting, throws much light on the surroundings of the painter, giving, by her interesting way of writing, a chapter which adds greatly to the value of the book.”

The days of Butler and his memorial “Hudibras” are suggested thruout Mr. Belloc’s brilliant satire with its exaggerated gravity. It satirizes the speculative methods developed by the modern imperialistic movement in England. “No small part of the humor of his satire lies in its travesty of many contemporary biographies, in which the values of small incidents is greatly exaggerated, uninteresting details of family are furnished, and insignificant pedigrees traced back as if they led to royal sources.” (Outlook).

“No piece of social and political satire was ever more elaborately worked out in each incident, reference and detail, even to the titles of the amusing pencil sketches.”

“A brilliantly written satire. An Englishman would appreciate the satire much more than an American, because of more intimate knowledge of the conditions with which it deals; but the story is sufficiently distinct in its satirical outlines to make the purpose of the author clear to an American reader and to give the story, for an American, interest.”

Oliver the northman, and his foster brother, Roland, are the heroes of this dramatic story, which is filled with stirring scenes and wartime adventures. The Danes, joining with the Franks in their cry of “Christ and the king,” repulse the Saracens; and Oliver, by his chivalrous daring, wins King Karl’s daughter, in spite of the beautiful and wicked Fastrada, who, by means of spells and poisons, succeeds in making herself a queen. It is a story true to those rough times in all details, and is an old time romance rather than an historical novel.

“The author has taken pains over his work, and should content readers who enjoy that kind of fare. The delineation of character is conventional. A defect ... is the tendency to force the heroic note too insistently.”

“All this portentous historical material, blended with much intrigue and passion, together with some of the gentler elements of romance, is skilfully brought into a tale of much action and dramatic vigor, couched in language that makes a fair pretense of archaism (of the conventional type, naturally), and brought to a satisfactory issue.” Wm. Morton Payne.

“This story is somewhat high-flown and super-romantic in style, but its intensity is not without dramatic force.”

Benson, Allan L. Socialism made plain. Social Democratic publishing company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

“A simple explanation of the principles of socialism as advocated by American socialists—a work suited for the busy man on the farm, in 27the shop, the factory and the store, who has little time to give to abstract treatises.... This work contains fifteen chapters” in which “the various phases of socialism are so elucidated as to be easily grasped by the individual.”—Arena.

“The treatment of the subject is so admirable that we take pleasure in recommending it to our readers.” Amy C. Rich.

Benson, Arthur Christopher (Christopher Carr, pseud.). Life of Edward FitzGerald. **75c. Macmillan.

A volume recently added to the “English men of letters” series. The life of the man known to the world mainly thru his “Omar Khayyám” is a “fair subject of public discussion, not only because he was a poet of special charm and fineness, but also because he was a peculiarly interesting specimen of human nature.” (Outlook.)

“Mr. Benson has perhaps made of the brief biography required by the scheme of this series all that could be made of it.”

“Mr. A. C. Benson was a capital choice for the writing of this book. Not only is he sympathetic with FitzGerald, but he is a delightful writer.” Jeanette L. Gilder.

“This new life of FitzGerald ... meets no crying need. The literary strictures, however just, seem not exactly called for in ‘Old Fitz’s’ case; and all else is a twice-told tale.”

“The biographical sketch and general characterization are excellent, the specific criticisms of FitzGerald’s writings sound and fair.”

“If he is not quite a satisfying biographer, he is certainly a satisfying editor, and often a very clever commentator upon FitzGerald’s literary achievements.”

“Mr. Benson’s book will be found to contain all that any reader needs to know about FitzGerald, and it is an excellent cheap substitute for those who cannot afford Mr. Wright’s massive illustrated volumes.”

“His treatment on the whole, scarcely touches us with quite that personal and affectionate feeling for FitzGerald that doubtless most of us have involuntarily formed.”

“A literary portrait simple and direct in its method of treatment, but full of expression and character.”

“Mr. Benson sets forth very clearly and succinctly the noteworthy facts in a career that was decidedly lacking in the spectacular, whatever may be said of its deeper notes.”

“We do not of course deny to Mr. Benson’s work such merits as may always be found in his biographical efforts—care in the weighing of facts, an educated taste, and a practised hand in the manipulation of phrases.”

“He has marshalled the facts which are already known with considerable skill; he has criticised FitzGerald’s few works with sound judgment and surprising moderation.”

Benson, Arthur Christopher (Christopher Carr, pseud.). Peace and other poems. *$1.50. Lane.

“Mr. Benson’s verse resembles Matthew Arnold’s not only in its culture, but in its gentle brooding over the dark and mysterious facts of life, and in the strong resolution which confronts the mischances of human experience.... Most of the poems in this volume [about forty in number] record Mr. Benson’s own reflections upon nature and life.”—Forum.

“The longer poems as a rule are the most successful, elegy and not epigram being Mr. Benson’s forte.”

“Tender, sincere, and refined, Mr. Benson’s verse appeals to our highest spiritual nature, and delivers its message with persuasive grace.” Wm. M. Payne.

“Mr. Benson’s verse resembles Matthew Arnold’s: there is in it a warmth of sympathy redeeming it from austerity and even imparting to it a tone of friendliness and geniality.” Herbert W. Horwill.

“Mr. Benson maintains a deliberately chosen level of good verse. He is always correct, always perfectly plain.”

“Mr. Benson has given us a slight but pleasing study of life in a small cathedral town. The brother and sister of a poor nobleman settle there, and introduce a novel element into the placid life of the place which gives many opportunities for comedy. The son of a canon, an artist, and therefore a rebel against the tyranny of the close, falls in love with the sister, and the progress of their romance is the main interest of the book.”—Spec.

“All this has the makings of a capital light comedy, which no one could have done better than Mr. Benson. But for some obscure reason he has seen fit to introduce episodes entirely out of all harmony that ruin his effect. They give the impression of heartlessness and, what is worse, are bad art.”

“As an example, not of Mr. Benson’s power, but of his wit, cleverness, and knowledge of human nature, ‘An act in a backwater’ is a delightful bit of work.”

“It has some pleasant bits of human nature and one or two lovable characters, but, considered as a novel, it is wretchedly constructed.”

A love story dealing with the occult. “It is in fact the old story of the struggle between the powers of light and darkness, the black magic and the white for the possession of a girl’s soul—a Faust legend in effect, or its parallel expressed in terms of ancient and modern occultism.” (Acad.)

“The climax, itself, however, the struggle of Ida’s friends and household with the demoniac, has a vivid force, and, if the tale is to stand by its power to conjure up horror, Mr. Benson must be credited with a considerable success in a difficult ‘genre.’ His detail is effective, his society sketches are admirable.”

“The story is carefully conceived and well written, and with excellent restraint. Mr. Benson 28wanted to ‘make our flesh creep,’ and he has not.”

“That he has failed ludicrously, pathetically, merely marks his limitations by proclaiming his total innocence of the one quality that would make success possible. The machinery of the story is clumsy, its progress slow, and its conclusion an absurd evasion of whatever problem might conceivably be raised. Whether from carelessness or sheer ignorance, the book is a storehouse of weak, awkward, slovenly writing.” Edward Clark Marsh.

“The reason why Mr. Benson has not succeeded better is that he lets us too much behind the scenes.”

“In the would-be serious parts the author carries no conviction, and in lighter passages he is far below his own best level.”

“The quiet, intense conviction of Mr. Benson’s pages cannot fail entirely of a certain impressiveness.”

“His quick, vivacious talent is not well adapted for a tale of intangible mystery, which wants an atmosphere beyond Mr. Benson’s powers. The second part of the story would be convincing and powerful were the reader properly impressed by the first.”

“Mr. Benson, after making an effort at religious impartiality, abandons the attempt, and frankly turns his novel into a Roman Catholic historical pamphlet.... [He] takes for his subject the religious persecutions of the Roman Catholics in the reign of Elizabeth.... The greater part of the novel is occupied by theological discussions.... Mr. Benson has a gift of word-painting which enables him to give vividly lifelike pictures of the court of Elizabeth, and particularly of the queen herself.”—Spec.

“Is an unusually fine piece of work. In fact we regard it as one of the most excellent Catholic stories that we possess in English, and by far the best that has appeared for a long time.”

“On the whole, the book is well worth reading, though spoilt, if judged from the standpoint of a work of fiction, by the intrusion of too much theology.”

Benton, Josiah H. Notable libel case: the criminal prosecution of Theodore Lyman, jr., by Daniel Webster, in the Supreme judicial court of Massachusetts, November term, 1828. **$3.50. Goodspeed.

“The trial here described was on an indictment alleging that Lyman had charged Webster with having conspired with other leading Federalists in 1807-‘08 to break up the union on account of the Embargo acts, and to re-annex the New England states to the mother country.” (Dial). The case was submitted to the grand jury in the supreme judicial court, and an indictment returned. It was then tried with the result that the jury disagreed, and when the solicitor-general proclaimed that every resource had been exhausted, the case was dropped. The trial, based as it was upon political rather than personal motives, did not disturb the relation of friendship between the two men.

“The history of the episode is well worked out by Mr. Benton, and the letters and other documentary materials are so skillfully employed in the text that the story almost tells itself from the records.”

Berenson, Bernard. Lorenzo Lotto: an essay on constructive art criticism. *$2.50. Macmillan.

A reprint of a book which was first published ten years ago. It catalogs and describes Lotto’s paintings and attempts to present the man, Lotto, altho there is little material available for his re-construction. There are a large number of full-page reproductions of Lotto’s works.

Bernheimer, Charles Seligman, ed. Russian Jew in the United States: studies of social conditions in New York, Philadelphia and Chicago, with a description of rural settlements. **$2. Winston.

A series of papers contributed by well-known Jewish writers who “present the rise and development of the Russian Jews who have come to the United States during the past twenty-odd years, to show the qualities they brought with them, to present the facts as to their adjustment to the conditions here, and to look a little into the future.”

“The manner of presentation of the papers is not uniformly happy, and for the whole we wish for a specific statement of dates. In spite of this, however, Dr. Bernheimer has undoubtedly done a service in bringing out this book. Considering its structure, he is to be congratulated on having it so free of injudicious statements and as complete as it is in the important matter on this serious subject of the assimilation of so alien a people.” Walter E. Kruesi.

* “Naturally, the authors speak from the inside, and as each deals with conditions which have come within his own observation and experience, there is a variety of intimate information not easily obtainable by alien investigators.”

The life of a group of Russian Jews is here pictured in a fashion simple to the point of crudeness. The two daughters of the orthodox cantor, Isroel Lambert, follow their own hearts and become outcasts from both the faith and the home of their father. Later, contrite in heart and chastened in spirit, they are reunited with him in America. Thruout the book strict observance of Jewish rites seems to bring a happiness denied to those who merely love.

“Mr. Berry’s book ... presupposes a knowledge of thermodynamics, also of the working and behavior of the various kinds of heat engines, ... it ... is divided into twelve chapters. The first chapter treats of reversible processes and cycles, and in the following eleven chapters the T Phi diagram is applied to the following processes and engines: perfect gases, saturated steam, superheated vapors, the flow of fluids, hot-air engines, the liquefaction of gases, compressors and refrigeration, the actual steam-engine cycle as recorded by the indicator.”—Engin. N.

29“The book is very clearly written. The author has covered quite an extensive field, and on the whole he has done it very well.” Storm Bull.

A Denver murderer who daintily strangles a trio of women and in each case leaves behind thirteen carnations as a clue is sought thruout this detective story. The adventures of a “cub reporter” who becomes involved in the search, the clearing of an innocent man by a skilful lawyer who holds a mob at bay to protect his client, and the influence of Elise, the wicked and beautiful woman of the French quarter, are vividly drawn.

“The gloom is not lightened by any gleam of humor, but the style has the force which comes from a lurid intensity of feeling.”

Bertouch, Beatrice, Baroness de. Life of Father Ignatius, O. S. B. *$3. Dutton.

The life of this “devout but pugnacious Anglican monk” is interwoven with questions of church doctrine and church union so as to represent an episode in church history. His biographer reveals him as “a son of thunder,” “magnificently human,” and with an “oceanic personality.”

“The story of his life is a curious episode in the history of the modern church, an interesting study for the psychologist, and an instructive commentary on the worth of a formal sort of church union that is too much thought of.”

“A book which, so far as it is a narrative of facts and an exposition of opinions, has an unquestionable interest. It, too, answers in its way the question about the Anglican ideal. The author has a copious vocabulary of slang, but cannot write English.”

“The gravitating point in this great historical period lay principally in London.... As London was England to so large an extent, we are naturally curious to learn all that we can about the city at that interesting period. The late Sir Walter Besant’s quarto volume on ‘London in the time of the Tudors’ goes far towards gratifying our curiosity. It is in the same sumptuous form as the same author’s ‘London in the eighteenth century’.... The illustrations are for the most part reproductions of contemporary prints; chief among them is a panorama of the city, extending over three double pages of the book, originally drawn by Anthony Van den Wyngaerde, in 1543, well illustrating the map folded into the cover, embracing 12 pages, and being a reduced reproduction of Ralph Agas’s map of about 1560.”—Dial.

“Work is rightly called a survey. It is not a history; it is not a story. It is especially happy in its accounts of how people lived and dressed, what they ate and drank, what customs they pursued at their weddings and at the burial of their dead,—from the king and queen down to ‘prentice. The author has drawn largely upon contemporary authors.” Arthur Howard Noll.

Best, Kenelm Digby. Rosa mystica: the fifteen mysteries of the most holy rosary, and other joys, sorrows and glories of Mary. *$6. Herder.

A book written in honor of the Immaculate conception jubilee. It is illustrated with 46 full-page illustrations, copies of the rosary frescoes of Giovanni di San Giovanni and other artists.

“It contains nothing fresh, original, or thoughtful that we have discovered. Its occasional references to history are grotesquely false: its theology is often repulsively extravagant; and its general method and spirit make it impossible for intelligent people to read it with either profit or patience.”

Five lectures on the period between Nehemiah and the New Testament. “Into his attractive narrative of political events Mr. Bevan weaves a sketch of the development of Jewish thought, including therein notices of the Book of Daniel and of all the great Apocryphal works of the time except the Wisdom of Solomon.... One of the most noteworthy works of the period is Ben-Sira or Ecclesiasticus.... Mr. Bevan’s account of the book is full and interesting. He properly devotes much space to the invasion of Jewish society by Hellenism, including the attempt of Antiochus Epiphanes to Hellenize his realm.... Other important points forcibly brought out are: the character of Judas Maccabæus, the results of the Hasmonean rule, the conflicts between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the policy and character of Herod. The volume is provided with an index and tables of the Hasmoneans and the Seleucids.”—Am. Hist. R.

“Mr. Bevan’s picture of the period, while popular in style, is thorough and accurate in matter.” C. H. Toy.

“The style is clear and sympathetic, and occasionally even brilliant. The topics dealt with by Mr. Bevan are so successfully worked out that we should have liked to see the book enlarged so as to embrace other pertinent points as well.”

“It is not a comprehensive work; but a scholar who knows a period of history deeply and scientifically, can put a great deal of information into a small book. And beyond doubt, Mr. Bevan’s acquaintance with his subject is thorough and methodical. We only regret that he did not add a little bibliographical detail to his interesting pages.”

“The author has certainly succeeded in his purpose of giving ‘in a few strokes the general outline and colour’ of the period.” G. B. G.

“The young Indiana senator writes of young men from the point of view of a young man who has found success coming his way. These papers are collected from the periodical in which they first appeared.... Learn your limitations, and start out in the direction for which you are fitted, is his first suggestion. Also keep working, and working hard, and don’t worry. Read, and mingle with people, and cultivate nature. Take vacations. Courage, nerve, faith in one’s self are necessary. Mr. Beveridge has given a great deal of good advice that ... will stimulate and help to strengthen.”—N. Y. Times.

* “His book covers a great deal of ground, and covers it well; it contains sayings to think over, sayings to remember, sayings to follow; it is a book decidedly worth having.”

“In a very clear and orderly manner, within a brief compass, this volume sets forth the events leading up to the calling of the assembly, its character, deliberations, and findings.”—Bib. World.

“The calling, the personnel, and proceedings of the assembly are concisely related.”

“Of the many histories of the assembly this seems to us best suited to the needs of the general reader.”

This work prepared by the distinguished Brahman of Calcutta, who was recently elected vice-president of the Peace congress, is intended to interpret the Hindu belief as to the origin and meaning of life and the evolution of the universe. It purports to be “the history of the universe from its birth to its dissolution. Baba Bharati has aimed to impress his readers with the substance of Hindu thought on religion and philosophy, in purely Eastern dress. The volume is really a clear history of the origin, nature, and evolution of the universe as the Oriental mind perceives it; it is a clear statement of the doctrine of Karma; an exposition of the caste system; a beautiful story of the Oriental Christ, and perhaps the clearest statement ever published of the Hindu cosmogony.” (R. of Rs.)

“Style is direct, simple, and clear, and his thinking high and sane. It is an extraordinary book,—the fascinating exposition of an exalted philosophy.”

Bible. Book of Ecclesiastes: a new metrical translation, with an introduction and explanatory notes by Paul Haupt. 50c. Hopkins.

“A rhythmical rendering and rearrangement of the contents of Ecclesiastes, involving many transpositions of verses and many excisions of glosses. The notes are numerous and suggestive. The book belongs to the ‘Polychrome’ series.”—Bib. World.

“‘The twentieth century Testament’ is a translation into modern English made from the original Greek by a company of about twenty scholars representing the various sections of the Christian church.” (N. Y. Times). In spite of the radical efforts of religious and literary formalists the world over to oppose modernizing the form of the Scriptures, “the demand of the people for a Gospel in their own tongue is too strong to be checked.” (Ind.)

“There can be no question that this work is equaled by few, if any, in its earnestness, scholarship, and success. It deserves to be studied and publicly read, not in the place of, but along side of, the American standard revision.” C. W. V.

“The most popular [modernized translations], and in our opinion deservedly so, is the Twentieth century New Testament. It is not an old version patched up so as to last a little longer, but a new rendering expressed in words and style such as might be used if it were written for us of to-day, as, indeed, we believe it was. The translators write idiomatically, not pedantically.”

“There need, we suppose, be no real fear that this book will make any progress in displacing that of which it is in effect a part burlesque, or that it will be otherwise valued than as a literary curiosity.”

Bicknell, Edward. Territorial acquisitions of the United States, 1787-1904: an historical review. 3d ed. rev. and enl. **50c. Small.

“A clear and concise statement of the superficial facts concerning our accessions of territory.”—Am. Hist. R.

“It contains a few errors. The style is too colloquial, but as a whole the book is better than many more pretentious ones.”

* Bigelow, Poultney. History of the German struggle for liberty. v. 4. **$2.25. Harper.

With the appearance of this fourth volume of its series the “History of the German struggle for liberty” stands complete from the battle of Jena in 1806, to the rebirth of national spirit in 1848. This latest volume contains a spirited account of the stirring events in Germany during 1844-1848, culminating in the declaration of Frederick William IV. and the meeting of the German national assembly at Frankfort. It brings out the similarity in the character of the Vienna, Berlin, and Munich revolutions, and discusses the growth of the influence of the laboring classes, and of socialistic doctrines.

* “Is refreshingly unconventional, spasmodically clever, and interesting throughout. Taken as a whole, this latest piece of work of Poultney Bigelow’s is most stimulating, breezy, entertaining, and yet instructive as well.” Wolf Von Schierbrand.

* “Comprises a succession of vivid pictures of persons and events rather than a sober, detailed, and connected history.”

* “A return to the orderly arrangement of the earlier volumes of the history would afford a deserved relief to those who have been forced to flounder about in the disorder, back tracks, and false leads of Mr. Bigelow’s fourth volume.”

The four lectures brought together here are “Education under the empire,” two on “Religion under the empire,” and “Moral and social conditions of the empire.” The object is the directing of attention “to the extreme importance of studying the relation between the Empire and the Church even in those days which preceded the recognition of Christianity by Constantine, and further, of ascertaining as clearly as possible the conditions, intellectual, moral and material of the people who filled the rank of the church.”

31“Written with an ease of style which at times almost disguises the author’s profound knowledge and with a charm that rarely falls to the lot of scholarly writers.”

“Dr. Bigg is, of course, master of his subject, and able to handle it with lightness of touch, breadth of sympathy, and gentle humour.” Alice Gardner.

Bilse, Oswald Fritz (Fritz von der Kryburg, pseud.). Dear fatherland. $1.50. Lane.

“The story of a young lieutenant in the German army, from the time he entered the service to his downfall, the result of a debt brought upon him by the false standard of living prescribed by army life. The novel is a pen picture of the evil social and moral effects of army life existing in Germany.”—Bookm.

“Besides being an interesting story of the realistic school, the work has a two-fold value. It presents a striking picture of present-day garrison-life in Germany and illustrates how degrading and subversive of all that is worthiest in man is such an existence.”

“The chief interest and the strongest conviction are found less in the story than in the talk.”

“Its revelations are sordid and sickening to the last degree, and there is no obvious excuse for its English publication, except as that of giving an awful warning to the English-speaking nations to guard their own war machines from ever sinking into such abysmal depths of immorality and inefficiency as are here charged against the soldiery of Germany. The book seems to be written by a man of devoted and intelligent patriotism, who has risked what he prized most in order to remedy the evils which he deplores. To say that the narrative is of any value as an example of the novelist’s art would be a decided stretching of the truth.”

Bingham, Joel Foote, tr. See Manzoni, Allessandro. Sacred hymns and Napoleonic ode.

This volume in the “English men of letters” series, contains a biography of the man who is remembered as “a colleague and friend of Milton, a wit, a diplomat, a traveler, and a member of Parliament from the Stuart Restoration until his death in 1678.... But ... ‘a more elusive non-recorded character,’ laments Mr. Birrell, ‘is hardly to be found.’ Consequently, it is not surprising to find the biographer dwelling mainly on his subject’s writings, quoting from them freely, and relating much of the history of the day necessary to explain them and assist in forming some idea of the writer’s personality.” (Outlook.)

* “On the whole, it may be said that ‘Andrew Marvell’ holds its own successfully against any other volume in the new series of Messrs. Macmillan’s ‘English men of letters.’”

* “We have not space here to enter into his treatment of Marvell; it is admirable; we should end by quoting too much from Mr. Birrell himself, as a delightful performer in the intimate style.” H. W. Boynton.

* “But the book is not a good one for it falls between two stools. If it was to deal only with the permanent part of Marvell’s charming poetry it is nearly two hundred pages too long; if it was really to explain the politics of his day (which heaven forbid!) it is not long enough. And we resent some of the conversational ease of Mr. Birrell’s manner.”

* “Whatever may be thought of the truth of this style of biographical writing, it must be admitted that Mr. Birrell is master of its art, and that when provided with a favorable opportunity he is at least invariably entertaining.” Wm. A. Bradley.

* “A study which is not so much a biography as a contribution to the history of English politics and literature. As such it deserves a cordial greeting, for it is scholarly and sound.”

* “A pleasant ramble with an intelligent and illuminating guide through a time of great interest.”

Bismarck-Schonhausen, Otto Eduard Leopold von. Bismarck’s speeches and letters; by Herman Schoenfeld. *$1.50. Appleton.

A worthy addition to historical literature. The introduction is a biography and a philosophic interpretation of the character of Bismarck, and is supplemented by a chronology and a bibliography. The book is indispensable to the study of contemporary history as affected by Germany, but especially to the study of the unification of Germany itself, an accomplishment due, in most part, to Bismarck’s genius. Much has been learned about Bismarck’s personality thru the various biographies by Lowe, Headlam, Stearns, and Jacks by M. Adler, by Herr Busch, thru Mr. Ford’s edition of “The correspondence of William and Bismarck.” and thru Bismarck’s own “Reflections and reminiscences,” above all thru his “Love letters,” but no one serves to sum up Bismarck’s life work as does Schoenfeld’s.

This working manual for students is divided into seven parts: Nature and import of sociology; Social evolution; Socialization and social control; Social ideals; Social pathology, dealing with practical subjects such as charity, poverty, crime, social degeneration; Methods of investigation; and History of sociology, in which are brought out the ideas found in the works of Spencer, Gumplowicz, Schaeffle, Lilienfeld, Mackenzie, Tarde, Le Bon, Letourneau, De Greef, Giddings, Small, Ward, Ross, Ely, Mill, Malthus, Warner, Henderson and others.

* “The chief merit of the book from the theoretical side is that it gives an intelligent statement of the view-points of all the leading sociological writers. The chief merit from the practical side is that it touches upon a variety of vital and interesting problems in such a way as to tempt the student to go forward and specialize. The style of the book is easy, and free from any ambitious flights or phrasing, but clear and agreeable.” Jerome Dowd.

* “It is comprehensive in scope, is written in simple and direct diction, and the arrangement of its parts is sequential and orderly.”

This tale of the deeds of the outlaw Doones sheltered in the depths of the Bagworthy Forest appears in new dress almost every year. Here the reader has it in handy volume form, bound in limp leather, with clear type and thin paper.

The purpose of these 55 volumes is to set forth as briefly as possible from original sources the whole history of the Philippine islands and their people, that all who are interested in their future may be able to form their own opinions with a full understanding of the conditions that exist to-day and that have existed since the discovery of the islands. To this end the volumes are mainly devoted to exact translations from rare original manuscripts, Spanish, French, Italian, Latin, etc., illustrated with facsimiles of manuscripts, portraits, maps, and views. There is an analytical index, and notes and an historical introduction have been provided by Edward Gaylord Bourne, and special contributions by well known scholars and bibliographers. The whole covers the history of the islands from their discovery to the present time, including explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history, and records of the Catholic missions as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the end of the nineteenth century.

“The work of the editors has ... shown steady improvement. The translating staff is, ... as nearly as one may judge without having the original texts for comparison, doing more effective work than at the beginning.” James A. Le Roy.

“It is an indispensable addition to every large library and collection of American or Spanish history.”

“Much of this matter is by no means light reading, but it is all a valuable contribution to the early history of the islands.”

Essays towards the understanding of the methods and working of eternal love. A late addition to the “Freedom of faith” series.

The Rappite community of celibates first in Pennsylvania and later in Indiana furnishes the setting for this story. It portrays the struggle between the Rappite conscience which repudiates all sentiment relating to ties of flesh, and the natural cravings of the human heart. First in the love of a parent for her child, later in this son’s love for a fair girl, is shown the triumph of governable sanity over religious fanaticism.

* “There are a number of flaws easily apparent in Miss Blake’s scheme of the Harmonists. The author has made the mistake of padding too heavily in spots.”

Miss Blanchard’s new “Pioneer series” story follows the fortunes of a young man and his two sisters who emigrate from Kentucky to Texas shortly before the Mexican war breaks out. There is excellent use made of the opportunities to portray border life, in which the Mexican peasant, the rancher, and the Texas ranger all have part.

A story of school life fifty years ago, when a grandmother of to-day left a happy southern home to endure the hardships of the old-fashioned boarding-school where the methods were cruel, the teachers unjust, and many of the little girls, the products of this system, were spiteful.

In this gift-book, artistic and attractive in both print and binding, are to be found some fifty verses very slight and very sentimental.

* “It strikes no lofty note, but it is singularly graceful in rhythm and dainty in conceit, and makes no pretension to be more.”

* “Has written some pleasing verse under the title of ‘A chorus of leaves.’”

This new edition of Mathilde Blind’s “George Eliot” “has been greatly enhanced in value by the introduction of able and carefully prepared chapters by Frank Waldo, and G. A. Tarkington, in which we have a charming description of the friends and home-life of George Eliot, and a critical estimate of her place in literature, together with an exhaustive bibliography.” (Arena).

“The excellent life of George Eliot, by Mathilde Blind, will remain a standard biography. It is a volume that we take pleasure in recommending to our readers as a book which should find a place in all well-ordered libraries and a work that every young person should read as a part of his general culture.”

“The very full bibliography, filling some thirty pages, is to be particularly noted and commended.”

A collection of papers communicated to the academy of sciences; with additional notes and instructions for the construction of phosphorescent screens.

“This essay ... is concerned with the origin and meaning, judged by comparative mythology, of Cerberus.”—Acad.

Blundell, Mary E. (Sweetman) (Mrs. Francis Blundell; M. E. Francis, pseud.). Dorset dear: idylls of country life. $1.50. Longmans.

“The seventeen tales reprinted here from various periodicals ... embrace a variety of 33incidents and emotions, grave and gay, no one trenching upon the borders of another; and the characters are distinct types of Dorset-folk.... ‘Witch Ann’ gives a pretty and touching account of the way a harmless old woman came to be considered a witch.... ‘The spur of the moment,’ and ‘The worm that turned,’ present amusing pictures of unromantic rustic wooings. ‘A woodland idyll’ and ‘Postman Chris’ are charming love-stories.”—Acad.

“There is something in it better than cleverness and skill: the truth, charm, and goodness of it leave a grateful memory of pleasant hours in delightful company.”

“They are fascinating from their unpretending simplicity, their pure goodness, and their warm, human interests.”

“The movement of the tale is slight, but not without its dramatic incidents and occasional tragedies.”

“It is a book into which one may dip with pleasure, but the stories are for the most part so slight that it is unwise to handle the whole string of beads at once.”

“Seldom has it been the present writer’s fate to read so delightful a collection of country idylls as Mrs. Francis Blundell’s new volume of short stories, ‘Dorset dear.’ ... The characters in the little sketches are vividly drawn.”

“It is rather startling to pick up a volume with this title and open immediately to a poem on ‘Funston of Kansas.’ It appears, however, that the book’s title is that of the first poem, and that the volume includes many fugitive verses on all sorts of topics, which have been welcome to the columns of many newspapers and magazines.”—Outlook.

“This is a little work of real value in which an able German scholar gives a succinct, graphic and general outline of the evolution of man. It contains in the briefest possible compass a summary of the demonstrations brought out by the revolutionary school of physical scientists.”—Arena.

* “The subject matter is presented in lucid style, easy of comprehension, and the book is valuable as a short exposition of a subject about which no well-informed man of the present day can afford to be ignorant.”

By far the greater portion of Mr. Bolton’s book is devoted to an account of the domestic, social and financial affairs of the Harris and Ingram families. The process of accumulating millions, descriptive journeys thru Europe, matrimonial schemes, a strike which involves the use of dynamite and firebrands furnish subjects for the first 395 pages. The remaining forty pages are occupied with the “Experiment,” a Utopian scheme for establishing mills on the co-operative plan to demonstrate that capital and labor can unite on a common basis. The reader is introduced to a “Utopian mill in a Utopian village where there were no politicians, no saloons, no graft, no crime, nothing but that which was serene and restful and frightfully educational and instructive ... in that land of Somewhere to which there are no railroad guides.” (N. Y. Times).

Bolton, Henry Carrington. The follies of science at the court of Rudolph II., 1576-1612. *$2. Pharmaceutical review pub. co., Milwaukee.

A book which “occupies itself with a medley of charlatans and charlatanism in the sixteenth century and with the most splendid patron of such matters, Rudolph II., King of Bohemia and Hungary, and Emperor of Germany.” (N. Y. Times). This ruler, a contemporary of Queen Elizabeth, neglecting his royal duties, drew around him a strange company of men, more or less learned in the occult sciences. These various personages, couched in the oriental luxury of the court, work amazing tricks of alchemy, discover formulas for wonderful elixirs, and claim a recipe for the philosopher’s stone. Incidentally, there is given much information concerning the manners of the time, the people, and their mental characteristics.

“Rather extraordinary volume. Altogether the book contains a deal of queer information about queer people and things of a time (in some ways) more credulous than ours. Readers with a taste for the out-of-the-way, for historical junk, in short, will find much to entertain them.”

* Bolton, Sarah Knowles (Mrs. Charles E. Bolton). Famous American authors. $2. Crowell.

These essays were first published in 1887, and they are now re-issued “in a handsomely bound volume with two dozen illustrations portraying in fine half-tone reproductions the persons and the homes of six representatives of the old New England school, ... Emerson, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Whittier, Lowell, and Holmes.” (Dial.)

* “Aside from its literary interest, it ought to be popular as a holiday gift-book.”

* “She manages to tell the familiar facts in a genial, lively way, interlarding them with anecdotes or personal impressions, and making her main theme in every case the essential quality of the author discussed.”

* Bombaugh, Charles Carroll. Facts and fancies for the curious from the harvest-fields of literature. **$3 Lippincott.

“Forty-five years ago Dr. Bombaugh published the first edition of his famous book, ‘Gleanings for the curious.’ ... An entertaining collection of curious things in letters. His book lasted for nearly fifty years; it would have lasted longer had not its plates been destroyed by fire. Instead of merely resetting the book, Dr. Bombaugh has made a second volume along the same lines only with more recent matter.... The new volume contains the results of the most recent discoveries in many branches of literature ... and presents various jokes that have a very recent ring.”—N. Y. Times.

* “The total amount of curious information is so vastly greater than the amount compressible within a single volume that a book of this type is more useful for random reading than for reference purposes.”

A story of the early days of California and Nevada when fortunes were made and unmade daily among the mines. There are many characters typical of those mixed times, but the real hero is the old colonel, who for the sake of his love for the woman who jilted him twenty years before, devotes himself to her two daughters, and allows their weak father to unscrupulously rob him. He finds happiness in serving the girl who resembles her mother, and seeing her safely thru a heart crisis.

“Though her treatment is perhaps too conventional to please the realist the story is thoroughly unhackneyed, while the human interest is strong throughout.”

* Bonner, Robert John. Evidence in Athenian courts. *75c. Univ. of Chicago press.

“Mr. R. J. Bonner, ‘formerly of the Ontario bar,’ deals with the subject from the point of view of a man trained in English law. The material is classified accordingly under such heads as Irrelevant, Hearsay, Written, Oral, Real, and Expert evidence, Evidence of slaves, Competency of witnesses, Challenges, Oaths, etc. In a number of cases the view presented in Meier-Schömann’s ‘Der Attische process’ is disputed.”—Am. Hist. R.

* “The work is carefully done, and will be found interesting and suggestive by teachers who have not had the advantage of a legal training.” A. G. L.

* “Mr. Bonner seems to have exhausted his sources, both original and secondary. He has shown acuteness in his deductions. The only real doubt as to his conclusions arises from the fear that he was overzealous in his search for a body of law on evidence in Athens.” Clarke B. Whittier.

The author’s purpose thruout this volume is to offer “suggestions as to the means by which the scientific condition of mind can be induced” in children. Five chapters deal respectively with the scientific mind, the unconscious mind, hygienic sequence in development, mathematical imagination, and ethical and logical preparation.

“Her book may be warmly recommended to parents anxious to adopt sane methods of educating their children and to teachers responsible for the training of the lowest classes of schools.”

“This book ... is a compilation of various formulas and tables having to do with steam piping, together with such individual practice or designs as have been adopted by several large English corporations or manufacturers.... The author does not attempt to give any but English practice, and the book would not necessarily meet the exact demands of American engineers.”—Engin. N.

“For the American engineer the perusal of the book, considering that the title seems to promise well, leaves a keen sense of disappointment, and a feeling that little of value has been added to our scanty knowledge of steam piping.” Charles K. Stearns.

“‘Romano lavo-lil’ contains not only Borrow’s remarks on the history of Romany, and his vocabulary of the language, occupying fifty-odd pages, but a batch of Gypsy proverbs, in Romany and English, some scraps of the scriptures rendered into Gypsy, the “Book of wisdom of the Egyptians,” a list of favored Gypsy names of countries and towns, and many quaint odds and ends of folk-lore.” (N. Y. Times.)

“It is in fact, a book in which the admirer of Isopel Berners may find much to entertain him for an hour or so.”

Bosanquet, Rev. Bernard Hugh, and Wenham, Reginald A. Outlines of the synoptic record. *$1.70. Longmans.

This volume “sets forth present opinion as to the synoptic question, and gives an outline of the life of Jesus and a summary of his teaching according to the first three gospels.”—Ind.

* “The object of the writers of the book was to prepare a narrative based strictly on the three gospels which would embody the results of recent investigations in England unobtrusively and impartially, and their efforts have been successful.”

“A reticence is observable in dealing with miraculous narratives which contrasts with the freedom exercised in the non-miraculous. With this limitation, the book, while not professing to be a life of Jesus, is a good critical outline of his career as exhibited in the first three Gospels.”

Bosworth, Edward Increase. Studies in the life of Jesus Christ. 90c; pa. 60c. Y. M. C. A.

“In two parts: the first based on the synoptic Gospels, following Mark with supplementary references to the other two Gospels; the second based on the fourth Gospel, well planned, neglectful neither of the historical growth of Judaism nor of the literary character of the different Gospels.”—Outlook.

“Mr. Boulton’s work is the fullest in biographical interest of any of those which have appeared since Leslie and Taylor in 1865. To the students of technical processes of Reynolds’ art the book makes but slight appeal.... Reynolds entered very fully into the social and intellectual life of his time, and the wealth of anecdote of contemporary diarists and letter-writers has been aptly laid under contribution.... The illustrations ... are well selected and excellently reproduced.”—Ath.

* “Mr. Boulton has written a most useful handbook, entirely trustworthy and keen on the elaboration of what others have suggested. Of a wealth of material he has also made splendid and always proportionate use.”

* “In saying that the present volume is less interesting than Sir Walter’s we do not say that it is less valuable. More people probably will agree with Mr. Boulton’s critical estimate of the great president of the Royal academy than with Sir Walter Armstrong’s estimate. Sir 35Walter’s book is only the more interesting of the two because it is less conventional and more original.”

“The scenes of this novel are laid in France. It concerns Gabrielle, a woman divorced from her husband, whose remarriage to another man is one of highest ideals. Owing to religious fervor, however, Gabrielle becomes estranged from her second husband. The other thread in the story deals with the love affair of the heroine’s son, who has been as thoroughly educated and cared for by his mother’s second husband as by an own father.”—Bookm.

“M. Bourget has constructed a diagram to illustrate his view of the sacredness of marriage, and has called it a novel.”

“M. Bourget sketches his characters and states their opinions with great fairness.”

“Distinctly the strongest piece of fiction which M. Bourget has written. Whether the reader agrees with its extreme position or not, he cannot fail to be impressed by its sincerity of conviction, its powerful analysis, and its admirable style. It is a piece of fiction of very unusual strength and dignity.”

“There is a certain finesse about the plot that is commendable with the mental reservation that only a Frenchman will commend it. There is not enough beef and iron in Paul Bourget’s psychology to commend him to the average American.”

“Paul Bourget’s latest work is ostensibly a novel, but to English readers it will appear as a purely pathological presentation of the relation between the Roman church and its adherents in the matter of divorce. It is really the story of an intense mental and moral struggle between religion and love.”

Bourne, Robert William (John Wright, pseud.). Home mechanic: a manual for industrial schools and amateurs. *$2.50. Dutton.

An English book, the usefulness of which in the United States is qualified by the necessity of making allowances for the difference in prices, measures, and shop practice. It teaches the use of tools and the construction of machines. There are many diagrams and cuts.

“Carefully designed to teach the use of tools and the construction of machines.”

Boutmy, Emile. English people: a study of their political psychology from the French by E. English; with an introd. by J: E: Courtenay Bodley. *$2.50. Putnam.

“This work is divided into five distinct parts: (1) the national type, (2) the human environment, (3) the Englishman—moral and social, (4) the Englishman as a politician, (5) the individual and the state. At the very outset the author sounds the keynote of his book in pointing out the disdain of the English people for abstractions and their love of fact.... While primarily a psychological analysis of the English people, at the same time the author gives a considerable insight into French character.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

“While there is too much of generalization, which detracts greatly from the scientific value, the book is full of interest, and possesses an easy flowing style which will commend it to the majority of readers.”

“It is piquant, varied, plausible in spots, interesting all over,—and fatally unconvincing. The solution is too neat to be true. The English dress which the work bears is fair on the whole, but the translator’s unsure foothold in the region of idiom occasionally reminds one of its Gallic origin.” Winthrop More Daniels.

A little book well adapted to serve as a basis for the study at home of this branch of calculus which is often not fully covered in the engineering courses of the technical colleges.

A tragedy in poem-drama form. A gaunt mother and an aged father are left alone in the castle of Nyarva by Luxander, their only son, who, followed by Nyassa, “a vague faint flower on a waving stem” who loves him, goes out into the darkness accursed of God at the call of the “blind marsh and restless surge,” led by a spirit within him “stronger than life, or Christ, or love.”

“A story of the South during the Civil war, thoroughly provincial. The plot turns upon the cowardice of the twin brother of the heroine. The latter takes her brother’s place in the Confederate army, leading his deserted men to victory. This is the one blot upon Southern chivalry in the tale, while the author evidently holds that both civilians and soldiers north of Mason and Dixon’s line were knaves and coarse mercenaries.”—Outlook.

“The plot is conventional, the love affair ordinary, and the whole story commonplace. Its atoning feature is its easy wording.”

... “The amateurish plot construction, the lack of connection between parts, the absence of a well-defined story motive.”

A young athlete and football player is made heir to half a million dollars by his uncle on condition that he seek out and thrash a man who had once beaten this uncle in fair fight for a lady. The nephew finds his man and also finds him to be the father of a pretty daughter, but the fight takes place nevertheless with amusing complications.

“The author has an excellent idea for a farce comedy. He has unfortunately lacked some skill in execution.”

36Braddon, Mary Elizabeth (Mrs. John Maxwell). Rose of life. †$1.50. Brentano’s.

“Miss Braddon must be congratulated on having described a real human being in her new novel. Daniel Lester, the poet, to whom the reader is introduced in the very first line, is a remarkable creation, and a creation which would only have been possible in the present day.... Indeed, readers of the book will almost be persuaded that they are familiar with his personal appearance, so intimately will they seem acquainted with the huge man whose delicate tact, colossal selfishness, unfailing amiability, and atrocious greed make him such an amusing companion.... The book, beyond the figure of the poet, is a little commonplace, and the beautiful but unscrupulous Lady Beauminster is entirely conventional and melodramatic. But the novel as a whole is a not uninteresting background to its principal figure, and is worth reading solely for the one admirable piece of character-drawing which it contains.”—Spec.

“The merit of the story lies in the first part, and particularly in the artistic perfection of the character of Daniel Lester.”

The author says: “The teaching of the book may be condensed as follows: There is in every man light sufficient to disclose all the truth that is needed for the purpose of life: that light is from God who dwells in humanity as He is immanent in the universe; therefore the source of authority is to be formed within the soul and not in external authority of church, or creed or book: that light being divine must be continuous; it will never fail; it will lead to all truth and show things to come; and it may be implicitly trusted.”

* “The analytical critic will pass it by because it is neither analytical nor polemical, but the devout soul will find spiritual nutriment in it, and for the devout soul it has been written.”

Poems for book lovers grouped under the headings: A pageant of life; The villa of Hadrian; Song of the sirens to Ulysses; A verse of Isaiah; Leopardi; Sonnets; Songs and lyrics; Prologue and lyrics from a mad world; Translations.

“Besides these, and other sonnets, Mr. Bradford’s volume gives us some charming lyrics, a deeply-sympathetic poem placed upon the lips of Leopardi, and two successful translations from that world-wearied singer.” Wm. M. Payne.

“‘A pageant of life’ ... is the intelligent verse of a scholarly man of fine sensibilities, who has meditated the literary history of the world long and minutely.”

“Although he occasionally sinks into ... banality ... his muse is on the whole sturdy and self-respecting.”

“An artist manqué” accompanied by “the graceless son of an American millionaire,” makes a tour thru Europe, and records his experiences in a manner to call forth the following statement from the Dial: “‘Glorified Baedeker or Hare’ would do fairly well as a characterization of these pages, which are the result of a sympathetic intimacy with the scenes described.”

“Is an amateurish production, without much to tell in the way of a story, but having some very pretty pages descriptive of Rome, where the action is laid. The author exhibits no power of characterization worth mentioning, and therein is the essential failure of his novel. This defect is hardly to be offset by style and observation, which qualities are in fair measure his.” W. M. Payne.

“It is a very good story, told with sufficient humor to make it almost a comedy.”

“Besides the lectures on the tragedies themselves, Prof. Bradley, of the University of Oxford, writes on ‘The substance of Shakespearean tragedy,’ ‘Construction in Shakespeare’s tragedies,’ and ‘Shakespeare’s tragic period.’ His purpose in presenting these four tragedies is, as he states, ‘to increase our understanding and enjoyment of these works as dramas; to learn to apprehend the action and some of the personages of each with a somewhat greater truth and intensity, so that they may assume in our imagination a shape little less unlike the shape they wore in the imagination of their creator.’ “To the single task of interpretation he accordingly devoted himself, examining each of the tragedies individually, after a preliminary inquiry into such questions germane to all four as Shakespeare’s conception of tragedy and the form in which he expressed that conception.”” (Outlook).

“Every question, every controversy, theory, view, or supposition which arises, he subjects to the same test. It is another merit of the book that every question is submitted to common-sense argumentation. The arrangement of the book is admirable.” R. Y. Tyrrell.

“In our opinion a book like that which is before us is not much less essential for the complete comprehension of Shakespeare’s tragedies than an atlas is for the fruitful study of geography.” R. Y. Tyrrell.

“But there can be no doubt as to the gratitude which every student who has been puzzled by these familiar problems must feel to Professor Bradley for the help afforded by his careful and sympathetic volume.” R. W. Chambers.

* “It is the best piece of Shakespearean criticism published for some time.”

“The book is worthy of its theme; and it will carry the reader deeper into the mind of Shakespeare—deeper, I believe, than of any other commentator.” Henry Jones.

“A great mass of erudition, thoroughly digested, reasoned, and ordered, is brought to bear not merely on the four tragedies professedly dealt with, but incidentally on the other plays as well; the ideas are expressed in a style always admirably clear and often of a finely restrained eloquence.”

“An intellectual treat. The originality, the analytical ability, the poetic perception.... 37Into all phases of his task he throws himself with enthusiasm. If he is not always convincing, he is always helpful, the sum total of his efforts being to produce a work which is really a welcome and distinctly useful addition to the already voluminous literature on the subject.”

“From the beginning to the end the level is sustained, exact criticism never sinks, and at times there is in the interpretation an imagination and a poetry which make the book in the truest sense a work of creation. His explanations are so lucid, so compelling that, novel though many of them are, we are almost invariably convinced. We have no hesitation in putting Professor Bradley’s book far above any modern Shakespearean criticism that we know, worthy to rank very near the immortal work of Lamb and Coleridge.”

The avowed object of this book is “to give educated readers unversed in philology some notions of the excellencies and defects of modern English as an instrument of expression.” The author discusses first the grammar, second the vocabulary, of our language. The history of the decay of inflection and the development of the new machinery which took its place is given, and the principles of composition, derivation and root creation are discussed at length. The closing chapter deals with the contribution of individual writers.

“English-speaking people, especially Americans, whose interest in their own language has always been conspicuous, will ask nothing better than to study its history under Dr. Bradley’s guidance.”

A volume in the “English men of letters series.” While he deals particularly with Bryant as the “poet and man of letters, Mr. Bradley touches upon his qualities as a man of affairs and his participation in the politics of the time; and as the beloved citizen and foremost figure at the civic celebrations of New York city.” (N. Y. Times.)

“Is what seems a perfectly reasonable estimate of Bryant as a poet.” H. W. Boynton.

“The story of Bryant’s life is told plainly and succinctly, accompanied by very sensible comment on his writings and a not illiberal estimate of his position in literature.” Edward Fuller.

“While his story lacks something of the ‘detailed verisimilitude of his predecessors,’ it does present a view of Bryant the poet that is, perhaps, a little more integral and impressive. No one has yet written at length of Bryant with a firmer hold on the American origins of his poetry or a wider perspective of general literature.”

“Little that is valuable or striking is added to the sum total of estimates of Bryant’s place in American literature. From the biographical side the book deserves great praise.”

Brady, Cyrus Townsend. Conquest of the Southwest: the story of a great spoliation. **$1.50. Appleton.

“A story of the struggle for independence in Texas, also, of the Mexican war, beginning with the Treaty of 1819 and concluding with the Compromise of 1850. The volume, which is well illustrated with drawings and maps, is an addition to ‘The expansion of the republic series.’”—Bookm.

“The author has made a careful study of the vast literature bearing upon the subject.”

“It is written simply and effectively, and with less elaboration of detail than previous works from the same hand.”

“The book is written in an easy, pleasant, and decidedly popular style. It is, indeed, a popular account of the Mexican war and events leading up to it, rather than what the author insists on calling it—a monograph.”

“... An outline narrative in which shall be presented, lucidly, impartially, and in proper proportion, the salient aspects, episodes, and personalities. Such a presentation may fairly be said to be embodied in Dr. Brady’s book.”

“The material for this book has been secured from various documents, and from officers and men who were in the engagements. It is divided into two parts: Protecting the Frontier, and the War with the Sioux. An account of Custer’s defeat is given in the appendix. It is an addition to the ‘American fights and fighters’ series.” (Bookm.) “Mr. Brady seems a bit hampered as a story teller in many of the chapters by the wealth of facts he has to deal with and cling to, but is at his best in the description of the battle of the Wichita, where Custer led his troops against the Cheyennes under the leadership of Black Kettle.” (N. Y. Times).

“The book, like its three predecessors, is fairly authentic history, and every endeavor has been made to set down the facts without fear or favor.”

“Francis Burnham, an American midshipman, finds himself in the power of the villainous Marquis du Tremigon, and is forced to assume a disguise and enter the apartments of the beautiful Comtesse de Villars to steal a token for the Marquis—a slipper worn by her, if possible, ... and because he refuses to do the Marquis’s bidding there are dark days in prison and other dangers in store for him. But the slipper is a talisman of good fortune, and ... the Comtesse is made happy for life, and so is Burnham. The book is in a pretty binding of blue and gold, the illustrations are gracefully designed by Charlotte Weber Ditzler.”—N. Y. Times.

* “The story of their love affairs is a pretty trifle, well adapted to its ornate setting.”

Brady, Cyrus Townsend. Three daughters of the Confederacy. †$1.50. Dillingham.

The history and romance of three Southern girls with the Civil war setting which Mr. Brady is past master of. The adventures of the first take place on the Atlantic coast during the blockade at the beginning of the war, while 38the Mississippi river furnishes the background for the experiences of the second who marries a Yankee non-combatant and straightway rues it. The third is a girl of such great daring that she faces the enemy with her lover on the battlefield during “Stonewall Jackson’s greatest day.”

“A story of Nelson and Bonaparte in the troubled times of France’s struggle to free herself from monarchy. The long, detailed accounts of sea fights and naval maneuvers will doubtless interest some readers, but the popular taste will find more gratification in the love story of the bold young Irish sea captain and the unhappy French countess whom he rescues from many perils and finally wins for his wife.”—Outlook.

“A brightly contrived romance of an interesting period, which suffers somewhat from the intrusion of the two gigantic historical figures.”

“The story itself is not of great significance. Mr. Brady has a sure touch in his pictures of battles, whatever one may think of his romantic passages. Nelson, too, is impressively presented. If it does nothing else, the book may at least inspire some of its readers with the desire to study in sober history the progress of the events which are here so rapidly but glowingly sketched.”

Brain, Belle Marvel. All about Japan; stories of the sunrise land told for little folks. **$1. Revell.

“Miss Brain is already favorably known as a writer of ‘missionary’ stories for children, and in her present volume she manages to incorporate, in a style peculiarly adapted to the juvenile mind, a great variety of interesting facts concerning the history, life, customs and manners of the Japanese, as well as brief biographies of some of the most successful of those who have given themselves to the task of spreading the gospel of Christ throughout the islands.”—Lit. D.

“In it we have not only a capital book for little folks but a welcome volume for their elders.”

The experiences of an attractive western girl as “Youngest teacher” in a fashionable New York finishing school for girls are most entertainingly narrated here. Belinda’s initiation into the mysteries of responsibility took place the night of her arrival when she was delegated to chaperone twelve strange maidens to the theatre, whom at the close she utterly forgot when Jack Wendell dropped into the midst of her homesick gloom. The chapters all furnish disconnected bits taken from life in a fashionable school, with now and then the least suggestion of romance.

“Is written with the same lightness and sprightly humor that characterized the author’s previous stories.”

* “There are a number of other stories, all equally bright and entertaining, and a private love affair or two for the pretty Belinda herself.”

It might be fancied that this family doctor is some kin to Dr. McLaren’s much beloved old Scotch doctor. At least there are characteristics, sacrifices and experiences in common. One chapter of the six, “Views,” showing the superstitious beliefs of a quack concocter of unheard-of remedies, is exceedingly clever.

“The poems of that rising young negro poet, William Stanley Braithwaite have been collected under the general title ‘Lyrics of life and love.’”—R. of Rs.

“A poet of the race in which both the gloom of life and its wildest joys meet with prompt response. Neither his metres nor his moods are classic in suggestion, and his wayward rhythms have the attractiveness of undisciplined grace, but his melody is unmistakable and his images are haunting.”

Branch, Anna Hempstead. Shoes that danced and other poems. **$1.10. Houghton.

“In the present volume ... there are sinewy dramatic sketches, meditative monologues, child verses, lyric odes, and fragments of dramatic narrative, all marked by fluent, unconventional music, and strong, unconventional phrase. Yet the mood of wonder that underlies all of it is singularly integral.”—Nation.

“Poetry that is at once full, sometimes a little too full, of temperament, and in the truest sense of the word, ‘significant’, both in its own quality, and in its relation to some of the deeper moods of the hour.” Ferris Greenslet.

“Miss Branch’s work exhibits a mind saturated with English poetry—particularly its naive older forms—and prettily echoes a variety of manners. It is touched with mysticism, and has considerable imaginative reach. Many of the pieces are marred by obscurity and an obvious straining for effect.” Wm. M. Payne.

“For all the intellectual energy and sincerity of Miss Branch’s work, and its frank preoccupation with the more passionate issues of life, it never ceases to be finely feminine in a certain lurking wistfulness and tenderness in little things.”

“Miss Branch is extremely fortunate in her descriptions of life in studios and courts, and strikes a deeply poetic note in her unpretentious drama of the time of Watteau which she calls ‘The shoes that danced.’”

Brandenburg, Broughton. Imported Americans: the story of the experiences of a disguised American and his wife studying the immigration question. **$1.60. Stokes.

“The author, a newspaper correspondent, with his wife, lived for a time in the Italian quarter of New York. Thence they go in the steerage to Italy, and make a study of the districts from which emigration is most pronounced.... Then with a group of Sicilians, Mr. and Mrs. Brandenburg return in the guise of immigrants, observing the snares laid for the credulous incomer whose great fear is that he may be kept out of America, suffering the ill treatment meted out to steerage passengers on board ship, and learning the laws of this country are constantly 39evaded.... The revelations made of the debasement of our naturalization papers furnish food for thought.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)

“The most interesting and important study yet made of present-day immigration into the United States.”

“A most interesting narrative of, really, the epitomized experiences of thousands of Italian wayfarers.”

“The most earnest efforts to provide proper laws for the exclusion of undesirable aliens, with an efficient system for securing the enforcement of such laws, has resulted in little more than an evasion of them by the least desirable emigrants. Mr. Brandenburg traces the causes of this failure by an investigation as thorough and complete as it perhaps is possible to make.”

“Is of special interest for the reason that it offers a radical remedy for existing immigration evils.”

The period known as the romantic movement in English poetry at the beginning of the nineteenth century is treated in this volume. “Mr. Brandes seems to approach literature not wholly from the side of art.... He is concerned rather with the moral and spiritual progress of the world ... he ... takes poet after poet, and, with a skilful handling of biographical material and an ardent critical appreciation makes a rapid and interesting sketch of the motives and performances of the particular writer.” (Acad.)

“As one reads one becomes aware that the volume is rather a sympathetic interpretation of certain great figures, from Mr. Brandes’ point of view, than a piece of masterly generalisation. It is a mine of apposite biographical illustration, of delicate appreciation and of felicitous criticism of a high order.”

“Dr. Brandes is marvelously well read, illuminating in analysis, comprehensive and balanced in his historic outlook. Always searching for the leading idea, he is guilty at times of reading into an author what he is determined to find.”

“There is no attempt in Mr. Brandes’ case to suppress the personal equation, or to conceal the bias.”

“It is as candid as the ‘tendenz’ will allow, very well informed, highly entertaining, frequently striking, and even useful.”

“As a proof of Prof. Brandes’s specific judgments of poets and of poems which are chosen for individual mention, they do not always commend themselves as agreeing with the opinion which English critics have given authority.” H. W. Boynton.

“The chapters on Byron are the best part of Dr. Brandes’s book; they will be read with pleasure by Byron’s countrymen.”

Brastow, Lewis Orsmond. Representative modern preachers. **$1.50. Macmillan.

“Nine notable men are considered ... five broad churchmen, Schleiermacher, Robertson, Beecher, Bushnell, and Brooks; two high churchmen, Newman and Mozley; two low churchmen, Guthrie and Spurgeon. The book is the result of repeated studies of these men with classes of students of the Yale Divinity school.”—Atlan.

“The estimates of these various masters are made with deep sympathy and substantial justice.”

This volume declares itself to be merely an invitation to visit Madrid and see the works of the great Spanish painter, but it also serves as an inspiration for the journey. There are many illustrations.

“He does succeed in giving a clear idea of the nature of Velazquez’s genius, of what he was, and what he was not, together with all that is necessary of biographical information regarding an entirely uneventful life. Mme Bussy is as accurate as readable.”

* Breasted, James Henry. History of Egypt from the earliest times to the Persian conquest. **$5. Scribner.

This volume, designed for the general reader as well as the scholar, traces the history of Egypt from earliest times thru the days of the Old kingdom, the Middle kingdom, and the New empire, down to the Persian conquest. There are many new translations from original documents in the book and two hundred illustrations and maps. “Nowhere can we find a clearer account of the general history of Egypt, as known to us by the latest studies and excavations carried on by the numerous societies and individuals at work in the Nile valley.” (Ind.)

* “A history that may fairly claim to be, for the immense period which it covers, more close to facts than any of its predecessors.”

The first of these three lectures, “The United States a Christian nation,” shows that our Republic should be so called because it has been so declared by the Supreme court of the United States, by many of the highest state courts, by colonial charters, by nearly all of the state constitutions, by state legislatures, and by popular sentiment and practice: the second, “Our duty as citizens,” discusses the compatibility between Christianity and patriotism, and the reasons why Christianity is entitled to the tribute of respect: the third, “The promise and the possibilities of the future,” is an eloquent appeal to young men to temper their devotion to country with fidelity to the teachings of the Gospel.

“We do not think, however, that these addresses represent the eminent jurist at his best.”

“The three chapters of this volume are three lectures delivered at Haverford college. We are glad that they now command a wider audience.”

40Brewster, H. Pomeroy. Saints and festivals of the Christian church. **$2. Stokes.

“This single volume of hagiology is conveniently arranged in calendar form, giving for each day in the year some details of the life and legends of the saints whose festivals are celebrated according to the Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches. A great deal of curious information, difficult to find elsewhere, is here given on sacred art and the symbols, ceremonies, superstitions, stones and colors associated with saints and their days.”—Ind.

“Mr. Brewster is not a Catholic, but he endeavors to tell the story of the saints in a devout spirit, and he succeeds.”

“Is an unusually terse and at the same time comprehensive church year-book. The greatest merits of the work are its entire freedom from denominational bias, and the wide knowledge which it shows of profane and ecclesiastical history and canon law.”

Brewster, William Tenney, ed. See Representative essays on the theory of style.

Perhaps no man in America is better fitted to write authoritatively on the subject of college routine than Dean Briggs of Harvard and Radcliffe. There are included in the volume with the title essay, A school and college address, Harvard and the individual, Address to the school children of Concord, Commencement address at Wellesley college, Discipline in school and college, The mistakes of college life, and Mater fortissima.

“Admiration of the author’s style should not blind the reader to his essentially one-sided presentation of an intricate subject.” Henry D. Sheldon.

“The essays and addresses that compose his little volume are therefore more than they seem: they state his creed; they are the guiding laws of one of the most powerful influences brought to bear, within our generation, on college students in the United States.” G. R. Carpenter.

“One that all who have to do in any way with college or school administration may profitably read.”

A volume in the Belles-lettres series. The text of the gospel of St. John, based upon the original manuscripts, also an exhaustive introduction, full notes, and a glossary.

This little volume belongs to section I, English literature from its beginning to 1100, of the Belles-letters series. It contains the text of the gospel of St. Matthew in West-Saxon, as found in the copy of the version preserved in Ms. CXL of the library of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge; the rubrics have been carried into the text from Ms. A. The variant readings of all other surviving copies of the version are subjoined to the text.

Bromley, George Tisdale. Long ago and later on; or, Recollections of eighty years. *$1.50. Robertson.

The autobiography of a happy-go-lucky soul, who began work at the age of ten in his father’s ropewalk. His callings were many and varied, he worked on whalers, steam boats, and railroads, dabbled in politics and ran a hotel. Born in Connecticut, he made his home on the Pacific coast, and spent two years in China as consul to Tien-Tsin. The story of his long and eventful career is full of interesting detail and anecdote.

“Jane Eyre” proves a better companion than ever in the handy form of the “Thin paper classics” series.

A delightful discussion of ten plays of Shakespeare in which is reflected a wealth of suggestion from extended research and sound judgment. The author’s side light revelations of Shakespeare himself are suggestively framed in the following: “Deeply as Shakespeare felt the woe, wickedness and weakness of humanity, he was still their master.... This power to stand outside as well as inside of human sorrow belonged to Shakespeare, because at the deepest root of him, was, I repeat, delight of life; even rapture—the word is not too strong—with the playfulness of its spring and the fulness of its summer.”

* “Will be sure of a welcome when he comes forward with these acute, thoughtful, sympathetic studies in the plays of Shakespeare.”

* Brookfield, Charles, and Brookfield, Frances. Mrs. Brookfield and her circle. 2v. **$7. Scribner.

Mrs. Brookfield, the charming, witty and beautiful niece of Hallam, the historian, and her well known husband, William Henry Brookfield, fashionable preacher and ready writer, were the center of an exclusive intellectual circle and numbered among their friends Thackeray, Carlyle, FitzGerald, Tennyson, Mrs. Proctor, Lady Ashburton and many other interesting people. In this account of them which has been prepared by their son Charles and his wife, extracts from letters and diaries aid in furnishing much chatty information and many anecdotes concerning the social and literary London of their time.

* “This is one of the most delightful books of memoirs which we have seen for many years.”

* “As illustrative of a great and vigorous age which has passed away, these letters possess no inconsiderable value.”

* “We close the volumes, feeling that it is well to have been admitted, even for a few hours, to the bright and joyous company of a merry-hearted husband and wife and their brilliant circle of high-souled friends.” Percy F. Bicknell.

* “The letters and anecdotes which Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brookfield have here collected are so rich and abundant that the most copious extracts must give an inadequate idea of what they contain.”

41* “Whether it be grave or gay, the book is always interesting, and we are peculiarly grateful to it, for it has added to our literary acquaintance one of the best men who ever published a book, and a lady whose charm of manner and quick sensibility are evident in every letter she wrote, in every line of her diary.”

Bohemia with much of its usual abandon is pictured here, but there is reared in its surroundings a clever, philosophical girl who after eighteen years of loyal devotion to her worldly actress mother none the less finds it natural to fit into the cultured corner of her father’s world. Her romance forms the undercurrent of the story—a romance of the intense subjective order which thru its misunderstandings tries and purifies.

“It’s rather a dim, inconclusive sort of story, the heroine being particularly dim.”

“The author ... keeps a quiet control over her material, and produces a decidedly interesting and valuable study of character development.”

“The lack of a villain, the complex psychology and rarefied philosophy carry no great appeal to the multitude, but the reflections will attract the thoughtful, and the musical interpretations charm the initiated.”

Brooks, Geraldine. Dames and daughters of the French court. **$1.50. Crowell.

These women, who for brilliancy, courage, charm, and occasionally intrigue, cannot be surpassed have been much written about as salonists, and literary successes, but the personal side of their lives has been omitted. These sketches aim to supply the inner view, and trace the motives and formative influences from their source. In the group are Madame de Sevigné, Mademoiselle de Lespinasse, Madame Roland, Madame de Staël, Madame de Rémussat, Madame Le Brun, Madame de Lafayette, Madame Geoffrin, Madame Recamier, and Madame Valmore.

“About these women ... much has already been written, and better written than in the present volume.”

“Readable sketches of Mesdames de Staël, de Lafayette, Récamier, Le Brun, and other notable French women. Charmingly written.”

“A group of selections from the writings of Phillips Brooks, chosen and arranged with reference to their use for Lenten readings, the whole collection having as its keynote Christ as the life and light of the world.”—Outlook.

It is of a Cambridge garden that the author writes which “for twenty years was the property of one who had in the Harvard botanical garden ‘a friend at court,’ and was able thus to obtain choice shrubs and herbaceous plants. The author describes the rose, foxglove, iris, Canterbury bells, violets, hollyhock, and other plants in this garden.” (N. Y. Times). “The general theme is plant and plant-life. It contains good suggestions in regard to the cultivation of flowers.” (Bookm.)

“The style is somewhat diffuse and parenthetical, except where direct advice is given, in which case it is clear enough.” Edith Granger.

“Writes in a semi-practical, semi-meditative manner in regard to the comforts and enjoyments of a small country home.”

“Instructive and entertaining. The healthy love of nature which outdoor life awakens in most of us has pervaded it and has transferred itself to the reader.”

* Brooks, William Keith. Oyster, The; a popular summary of a scientific study. *$1. Hopkins.

“Fourteen years ago Prof. Brooks made a rational appeal to Marylanders on the subject of oyster culture, in the hope of reviving a decaying and contentious industry. His tract ... failed, as he sorrowfully admits in his preface to a second and revised edition, to penetrate the ignorant conservatism of a State ruled hitherto by Gorman. However, in returning to the fray, he adds a chapter on the peril of the oyster as a vehicle of collection for cholera and typhoid germs, and perhaps this aspect will do something to help the economic reform.”—Nation.

* “It is written in an interesting manner. An index would increase the value of the book many times; it deserves to have one.”

Some of the most effective addresses of the well-known revivalist are found in this volume. They have been delivered here and in England, and concern the work and workers of the church to-day, its doctrine and its hope.

“They are plain, pungent, and spiritually quickening, though blended with archaic matter that is intellectually offensive to the educated.”

The waif is a young minx of eighteen who, learned in the ways of the French demi-monde, is brought to England on her mother’s death and saddled upon the relatives of her father, a lax lord. She creates havoc in the straight-laced families which shelter her, but the end of all her schemes being to win a permanent home or to make a creditable match, she finally marries a peer, the widower of her first hostess.

* “Her new novel shows the old daring and spirit in the dialogue, though not quite the old raciness and spontaneity that kept everything and everybody alive.”

* “Miss Broughton herself is more puzzled to know what to make of her and what to do with her than all the people in the book put together.”

* “While not up to her best work, it is still Rhoda Broughton—and that is a guarantee of interest and of quality unusual and piquant.”

* “A good many of the details introduced to complete the picture are frankly repellant. It is rather melancholy to see Miss Broughton’s fine talent wasted on the conscientious delineation of ineffectual or uncomely types of goodness and decadence.”

42Brouner, Walter Brooks, and Fung Yuet Mow. Chinese made easy; with an introd. by Herbert A. Giles. *$6. Macmillan.

“This is a handsomely got-up book, with a red cloth cover and a gilt dragon impressed on it. The title-page is on the right hand and the pages of the book follow from right to left as in a Chinese book.... What ‘Chinese made easy’ teaches is one of the dialects spoken in the Canton province.... To be pronounced useful the book should have for title ‘Cantonese made easy,’ and the spelling should be made to correspond with that adopted in all other works on the subject, local deviations and solecisms being changed into their proper equivalents in standard Cantonese.”—Nation.

“Only those who are to work among the Cantonese natives, including many of the Chinese residents in the United States, may find it of some use.” F. Hirth.

“A collection of original, modern fairy stories, with the starfish as the theme—five stories, five little poems, and five pictures, like the points of the starfish.”—Critic.

* “A collection of wonder stories told in a simple and familiar way, but with a touch of poetry, a little play of imagination, and a refinement of feeling which separate them from most works of the same kind.”

“Here, in a little story of country life and country character, we have at least five personalities clearly and entertainingly sketched, with a story of love, disappointment, and sacrifice, at times poignant in its depth of feeling, but nevertheless always treated with an underlying sense of humor.... Almost all of the characters are quaint and in a gentle way queer.” (Outlook.) The heroine is an orphan, who, after a varied experience is trying to train herself as a nurse.

* “The end rallies to a justification of the beginning, and stamps the whole as a little human document of fine quality.”

* “The present story is not quite as ambitious to fill the place of a fully rounded-out novel as some of its predecessors, but it is perhaps none the less acceptable for that reason.”

The daughter of a New England mother and an Italian poet who deserted his wife for an actress who could interpret his dramas, meets her irresponsible half sister, the child of her father and this actress, at a woman’s college, and after graduation takes charge of her and witnesses her tragic end. Disillusioned, disgusted with both men and women, she is brought back to a normal attitude thru the influence of a nice young doctor.

“It is a study in feminine psychology carried out with uncommon insight, and deserves to be read with attentive interest.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

“The book is unconventional in its interest, and above the average of contemporary fiction.”

“It is due to Miss Brown to say that she has been most conspicuously successful where her task has been hardest; namely, where the homely and the tragic confront one another. Where weakness chiefly lies is in the limp into commonplace situation which all her ability has not averted.”

“The author has developed an idea, not novel in itself, in a striking and unusual way.”

A study of the new forces now developing in China. The work “has for its object the description of those features which he thinks are to effect changes in China, and this will be due to Western trade, Western politics, and Western religion. D. C. Boulger’s words are: ‘the grip of the outer world has tightened around China. It will either strangle her or galvanize her into fresh life.’” (N. Y. Times). “Dr. Brown deals with many timely points in this book. Among them are the stupendous proportions of the economic revolution in China; the growth of the newspaper, of which there were none a decade ago and nearly a hundred to-day; Japan’s plan to arouse, organize and lead China; a question as to the responsibility of the missionaries for the trouble in China; the rapid development of American trade with China; an up-to-date statement of the Chinese railway system, and many other salient points.” (Bookm.)

“In rapid and highly interesting style, and in compact form, he arrays the evidences that make for the preservation, on a nobler plane, of the best ideas and the nobler outlook of the oldest of empires.”

“A popular account of the excavations in the Roman Forum from 1898 to 1904 in handy form.... The book is intended not only to present information concerning the excavations, but also an account of the light they have thrown upon the religion and history of the Romans and through these upon the character of the people.... Well-known facts contained in the many previous publications about the Forum have been omitted; but the monuments that were not recently excavated have been noticed in their place, in order to make the little volume a complete handbook.”—N. Y. Times.

“Summarises in a clear, methodical and scholarly way all the latest discoveries.”

“A fresh and independent treatment of Hogarth’s life and art.” As his life was spent at his work save for his runaway marriage, his French visit and arrest at Calais, and some sharp political controversy, the book deals chiefly with his paintings, their value, influence and humor. There are many illustrations.

“Mr. Brown gives a fairly satisfactory and correct summary of the leading incidents in the painter’s life but he has little that is original or enlightening to say concerning his art.”

“Professor Baldwin Brown has written a very good book on Hogarth, and one which, in spite of its moderate size and price, will give the general reader a juster understanding of the true nature of Hogarth’s art than he is likely to get elsewhere.”

“The volume is much better than the average of the series to which it belongs.”

Mr. Brown’s new volume has characteristics in common with his “Life on the lagoons,” viz., full sympathy with the people, love for their customs, their legends and their life. “The short papers vary as widely in subject as in treatment. Here one finds a careful account of the Campanile of San Marco and the loggetta of Sansovino, followed by a diagrammed description of the columns of the Piazzetta, which an architect might prize.... His trips to the mainland, including a voyage to Istria, furnish several papers on out-of-the-way places, which one is glad to see through his eyes.” (Nation.)

* “His book is compact enough to be taken abroad as a companion to the ordinary guidebooks, and may be heartily commended to the tourist as well as the general reader.”

“Has made a charming book out of a number of facts about Venice, soberly told.”

“Some of his papers are slight, and in others there are repetitions; but, taken as a whole, this volume is a worthy successor to ‘Life on the lagoons.’”

“If the publishers had provided an index, or even a table of contents, its value, already considerable, would have been enhanced greatly.”

“‘A romance of the Icarian settlement on the Mississippi river’: a small body of French colonists with communistic views who had been brought to America by Pére Cabet; the story opens in 1856, when most of them were thoroughly tired of him.... But the schisms of the commune pale in interest beside the affairs of the American abolitionists who come into the story.... In one chapter Robert Channing is carrying runaway slaves to safety; in the next Pére Cabet is preaching his flock into rebellion. The petty affairs of the Icarians and the quarrel that shall shake the states run side by side. Their separate currents meet in the loves of Robert and Diane.”—Acad.

“The value of the story depends on its description of the commune, and to English readers on its sympathy with the intimate, tremendous issues forced on American men and women by the abolition of slavery. The novel is worth reading for the sake of its pictures of people so near us in point of time, so immeasurably removed from us in sentiment and surroundings. They have charm.”

“Diane is thoroughly lovable; other characters are vividly drawn and full of genuine pathos. The book is well written.”

“There is, altogether, a great deal to read in ‘Diane,’ and although it suffers a little from faults of construction, it is on the whole a very good story.”

Browne, George Waldo. St. Lawrence river: historical, legendary, picturesque. **$3.50. Putnam.

The great river is described from the ocean to the lake, and the men who were connected with it are brought in in chronological order, Cartier, Champlain, Frontenac, LaSalle, Wolfe, Montcalm, and the early voyageurs. There is an account of Indian wars, and a fine blending of past scenes and present scenery. There are one-hundred full page illustrations.

“The text appears not to be inadequate, ... but no one can think the style good or graceful.”

“Within its limits the book is satisfactory, and a good map adds to its value.”

“The author of the book before us has told the story of the St. Lawrence and of early Canada in a most interesting manner.”

“Mr. Browne manifests no great originality or literary power, but he weaves together history and geography, legend and description with sufficient skill to make it all readable to one who has any interest in the subject.”

“It is a choice company of readers who will hail its appearance with cordial greetings.”

“Of course in a book of 365 pages there are some good things; the index, for example, so far as it goes, is one of them.”

Opening with a discussion of the Homeric poems this volume contains commentaries on the Homeric bards; historical outlines of the Homeric controversy, chapters on Homeric life, the Homeric people, and “The epic art of Homer.” There are twenty-two illustrations in half-tone, an “approximate” chronology, and an index.

“It is an honest, candid, careful, and within its limits, it is a lucidly arranged book.” Andrew Lang.

“The book would have gained greatly had the author waited a few years to digest his material. We also complain that there is no bibliography.”

“An eminently modern, although probably not final, word on the study of Homer.”

“Treated with conspicuous judgment and moderation the complex topic of the Homeric literature.”

44Browne, John Hutton Balfour. South Africa: a glance at current conditions and politics. $2.50. Longmans.

A description of a voyage from England to Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Pretoria with a rather superficial treatment of present social and political questions.

“A two-hundred-page volume of impressions, views, opinions, deductions, and half-baked facts which can only be characterized as superficial and misleading when they are not absolutely inaccurate. Has committed to paper a vast amount of untrustworthy information.”

“His book is very loosely put together. Mr. Balfour-Browne often fails either in observation or in accurate description.”

Browne, Mary. Diary of a girl in France in 1821; with introd. by Euphemia Stewart Browne. *$2.50. Dutton.

The self-illustrated diary of a little fourteen year old English girl, who spent the summer of 1821 in France. She regards her fine scorn for all things French as loyalty to everything that is English. At times her comments run close to humor though no one tells her that they do, and she could not discover the fact herself.

“This is a perfectly irresistible book, a pure delight to all lovers of children and quaintness.”

* “Incidentally the book is an interesting picture of French life almost a century ago as seen through juvenile British eyes.”

“Since Marjorie Fleming wrote the ill-spelled pages of her delightful journal, no child’s diary has been published more fascinating, because none have been more unconscious or sincere, than ‘The diary of a girl in France in 1821.’”

Brownell, Leverett White. Photography for the sportsman naturalist. **$2. Macmillan.

A book describing hunting with a camera in all its details, and illustrated with pictures made from life. There is much practical information concerning camera plates, the best methods to use in taking pictures, and the best processes to employ after they are taken.

“In the present work Mr. Brownell has gone into the subject thoroughly. The book may be called a first-rate guide to hunting with the camera.”

“The book is by no means dry reading, the technical details being enlivened with numerous and appropriate anecdotes. Mr. Brownell has, in fact, succeeded in producing a treatise on practical field photography which it will be very hard to beat.” R. L.

This new and enlarged edition contains a chapter on “Rodin and the institute” and the identical text of the illustrated edition of 1901.

These sonnets which have had so large a share in immortalizing one of the “most exquisite love-histories of which the world has knowledge,” once more make their appearance with a few of the love poems of Robert Browning, and this time in the dainty workmanship of the “Thumb nail series.” A frontispiece of Mrs. Browning, and an introduction by Richard Watson Gilder add to the value of the volume.

Browning, Oscar. Napoleon: the first phase: some chapters on the boyhood and the youth of Bonaparte, 1769-1793. *$3.50. Lane.

Napoleon’s boyhood in Corsica, his education at Brienne and Paris, his relations with Paoli, and his career down to Toulon are given in detail. Appendices contain three selections from Napoleon’s writings and some original documents from the British museum concerning the siege of Toulon. The illustrations are largely taken from old paintings and drawings.

“Comparison is inevitable, and recent Napoleonic literature has established so high a standard in this branch of history that Mr. Oscar Browning suffers by being inopportune.”

“In regard to historical accuracy as distinct from literary presentment, the volume is, on the whole meritorious.”

“Altogether this is an important contribution to the study of Napoleon’s early career, clearing away the accretions of legend and presenting the known facts with satisfactory fulness.” Henry B. Bourne.

“The author tells his story in a business like way, with no superfluous adornments save in the matter of panegyric, and that he leaves on the reader’s mind a distinct impression of the young Bonaparte as a brave, eager, lovable, and virtuous youth. Whether the picture is altogether true to life will perhaps be doubted by those who weigh carefully the evidence, even as here presented in the narrative and in Appendix I.”

“Carelessness, to use no more unpleasant word, is the predominant note of the book.”

“There is in it practically nothing new, nothing that has not been told earlier and told better.”

“If Mr. Browning had refrained from pushing his hero-worship to such extravagant lengths, he might have written a book of greater weight, but in spite of these slips he has given us a treatise of deep interest which will not detract from the reputation he has already attained in this field of historical inquiry.”

“Presenting his results in a readable and lively style which marked his ‘Age of the Condottieri’ and his notable little biography of ‘Swedish Charles.’”

45Browning, Robert. Select poems; ed. with introd. and notes, biographical and critical, by Andrew Jackson George. $1.50. Little.

The poems selected here range from “Pauline” to “Asolando”, and are so chosen as to reveal the principles which formed the mind and fashioned the art of Browning.

* “Browning has everything to gain and nothing to lose from such intelligent editorship as that shown in this volume.”

This is a volume in section 3, “the English drama from its beginning to the present day,” in the Belles-lettres series. The texts are those of the latest editions, and there is a scholarly introduction and brief biography, bibliography, and glossary.

“If Browning is to be considered as a dramatist, and by an editor who is willing to accept him as a dramatist, perhaps the present edition is all that we have the right to expect.” Brander Matthews.

Browning’s poem made attractive for children by numerous ingenious colored illustrations, the work of Van Dyck.

The little conscript is a Jew pledged to the synagogue whose life is devoted against his will to the service of the czar. A truthful picture of Russia of to-day is presented, including military and peasant life. There is sidelight information on the methods of force and fraud employed in organizing and maintaining the army.

“Throughout his book, Mr. Brudno’s style is deliberately simple at times to the verge of crudeness. It would have been improved by a certain amount of relentless pruning.”

“He is a Russian who has much English yet to learn. Is not a novel, though it may contain some ugly chapters of Russian history.”

“The end is black and depressing but the value of the book as a great human document and as a strong indictment of the political and military methods of a great nation remains with the reader.”

“Is a much more appealing piece of literature than ‘The white terror and the red,’ but not, we suspect, so trustworthy an account of actual conditions.”

“This book is on ‘How to teach.’ Its emphasis all through is where the emphasis needs to be laid, upon the trained teacher. The first part of the book is a simple, clear series of lessons on pedagogy; then follow chapters on the Teacher, the Courses of study, the Educational principles of Jesus; and finally several wise chapters on the scope of religious education. The illustrative materials, the captions, and the arrangement are excellent, and the book is made admirable as a text-book for normal classes by suggestive questions at the close of each chapter.”—Bib. World.

“It is no exaggeration to say that the book by Dr. Brumbaugh is just now the one most needed in the Sunday-school world.” Wm. Byron Forbush.

Bryan, Michael. Dictionary of painters and engravers. 5v. subs. *$30; hf. mor. *$50. Macmillan.

The present volume (S-Z) is the fifth and last of the 1904-5 edition of this valuable reference work, and contains over a hundred full-page illustrations. This is the fourth edition of the work which has appeared since 1816 when it was first published, and it includes 1200 new biographies.

“The dictionary is now as complete as it can be made, and the work has been done with the greatest care.”

“A work which should be absolutely indispensable to every one interested in art or artists.”

* “Another great and invaluable work of historical narrative and critical comment, ranking in its field with Grove in the field of music.”

“Thoroughness of research and fulness of detail are the most salient characteristics of the text of a work that will be an inexhaustible mine of wealth to all future students of art history.”

“The conclusion must be that the great new ‘Dictionary’ is not well and strongly edited; that no proportionate scale has been maintained. In spite of all that, it is still the most useful dictionary of painters we have, and also a relatively good dictionary of engravers.”

“We may be pardoned, therefore, in the face of the fulsome praise already uttered, if we make two items of adverse criticism—one is in regard to judgment and the other concerns facts. The biographical sketches attached to the names actually included in the volumes are meagre, careless, and inaccurate.”

This volume includes six of the sixteen essays by Mr. Bryce, published in 1901 under the title, “Studies in history and jurisprudence.” The essays are as follows: Flexible and rigid constitutions: The action of centripetal and centrifugal forces on political constitutions; Primitive Iceland; The constitution of the United States as seen in the past; Two South African constitutions; The constitution of the commonwealth of Australia.

“Not only has Mr. Bryce rewritten the work with a view to a clearer presentation of the theories it elaborates, but he has met and admirably overcome the criticisms to which it was formerly exposed—the seeming neglect of certain striking personalities and events, the inadequate 46treatment of the Byzantine empire, and the expression of views rendered untenable by the political developments of the past quarter of a century.... The more important changes ... of his work may be briefly summarized. In chapter V. Mr. Bryce, discussing the reluctance of Charles the Great to assume the imperial title, incorporates the theories of Dahn and Hodgkin; in chapter VII, he enters into a broader explanation of the theories that went to sustain the empire through the middle ages; chapter XIII., on ‘The fall of the Hohenstaufen,’ he considerably enlarges by the inclusion of a fuller account of the momentous struggle between Louis IV. and Pope John XXII.; in chapter XIV. he develops the early electoral system under the Germanic constitution; in chapter XV. the theories regarding the source of civil authority, a vexed question subsequent to the struggle of the investitures, are discussed more largely; chapter XVI., ‘The city of Rome in the middle ages,’ contains new studies of Arnold of Brescia and Cola di Rienzo. Chapter XVII. is entirely new, embodying an account of the Eastern empire and affording a comprehensive idea of the impress made on history by the people and rulers of New Rome; finally, in Chapter XVIII., the attempts to reform the Germanic constitution are disclosed in greater detail. To this it should be added that the text is more fully annotated, that greatly needed maps are supplied, and that, in addition to the chronological list of popes and emperors found in previous editions, there is a compact and helpful table of salient events connected with the empire.”—Outlook.

“The two new chapters exhibit Mr. Bryce’s capacity for brilliant historical generalisation at its best.” H. A. L. F.

“The identity of the book is by no means lost in the revision, for the changes have not been such as to alter the general mode of treatment, nor to increase the size of the work beyond the limits of a single volume.”

“But not since the edition of 1873 has it shown such changes as are now apparent—changes which, while not materially affecting the main argument, are nevertheless of a character and extent that make the present edition completely supersede its predecessors. He has met and has admirably overcome the criticisms to which it was formerly exposed. The revision he has found it necessary to make in his exposition of the rise, decline, and fall of the ancient empire is of an elucidatory rather than a corrective nature.”

“Now more than ever before deserves high rank as a text-book. It is still centered upon a single idea and institution, empire and popedom in the middle ages. On this subject it is the standard English authority.”

“This latest edition has taken into account fully the results of modern historical research. A concluding chapter, sketching the constitution of the new German empire and the forces which have given it strength and cohesion, has been appended. A chronological table and three maps have also been added, and the book has been revised throughout. Typographically it is very satisfactory.”

The siege of the Assyrians under Holofernes against the Jews of Bethulia is the field of this romance. Judith, its heroine, goes forth into the camp of the enemy at the risk of her life and honor, in the hope of saving her people. The dangers she encountered, the brutality of Holofernes, the intrigues of Nin-Gul, the dancing girl, whom she has supplanted in the affections of Holofernes and her love for the Ammonite captain, who devotes himself to her interests, form the theme of the story.

“Appears to possess no unusual or particular qualities to distinguish it from the vast number of other equally interesting and entertaining narratives of the same period. For quick and easy reading, however, with plenty of spirit and no little action it can be highly commended.”

A collection of poems which contain a mellow philosophy and treat of the hereafter, and the deep contentment attending true Christian living.

There is a strong plea in Mr. Buckmaster’s preface for the study of historical architecture in our elementary schools. “Though this historian of architecture does no more than merely to outline the various styles and briefly to trace their development, he does this in such untechnical, though not over-picturesque language, that those who read his text to the end will wish to learn more about architecture and in greater detail.” (Outlook.)

* “As a popular elementary text-book on the history of architecture this little book is certainly welcome. It is brightly and clearly written.”

* “It would probably have been better had the author dealt with one period of architecture, and have done that thoroughly, rather than have taken up so large a field. It has resulted in an essay which is ‘scrappy.’”

“To the average reader Mr. Buckmaster’s text is particularly useful; first, because he has appended thereto a glossary of architectural terms, and secondly, because he has illustrated that glossary.”

Buell, Augustus C. History of Andrew Jackson, pioneer, patriot, soldier, politician, president. 2v. **$4. Scribner.

A comprehensive biography based upon public and private documents, and personal recollections of eminent men and women. The long life of the man of many-sided character and varied activities is given in full with the history of his time in the background.

“Against Mr. Buell’s style of expression one cannot bring the charge of dullness. He has written with alertness and clearness. He has given us a personal biography in which an abundance of incident and many amusing anecdotes are introduced. Mr. Buell’s facile narrative is full of errors great and small. There are in the book serious omissions of facts.” John Spencer Bassett.

“Mr. Buell gives the fullest and most elaborate description [of the battle of New Orleans] which we have seen.”

“From such tokens—as from laxities of style sufficient to rouse a suspicion that every statement will not bear scrutiny—the reader finds his confidence in the historical value of the book impaired. To the author’s credit it must also be said that he has performed with marked success the difficult task of giving a fairly intelligible account of the two great battles of Jackson’s life,—the battle of New Orleans, and 47the fight against the United States bank. This is manifestly one of the works to which future students of the man and period must have recourse.” M. A. De Wolfe Howe.

“The work is written in a spirit that may well be characterized as judicial, although in places the author leans far too heavily on Parton. We are inclined to class the work, at this writing, as the best biography of Jackson that has appeared.”

“As a mass of biographical material, pleasantly and honestly presented, these volumes have a real value, especially to the student who can remove the chaff.”

“There are occasions also, it is to be feared, where Mr. Buell suffers his personal Anglo-phobism to interfere with his facts.”

“It is not a balanced work in execution. It exhibits a singular incapacity to weigh testimony and to judge the contemporaries. It would be a fruitless task to follow Mr. Buell in his many errors of statement, for no chapter is free from them.”

“A study-built book.... The subjects of Mr. Bullen’s collection of short stories are animals that cause the reader to have a vivid conception of the life of the inhabitants of the deep. There are many different specimens of these denizens considered, whales and sharks and seals and sea lions, or sea elephants, as Mr. Bullen calls them, and the birds of the sea as well as the fishes. We find that there is a story about every one of the more important birds.... And the narratives are not all fictional.”—Baltimore Sun.

“When the narrative is not fiction it is full of information conveyed in a delightful manner. The author writes easily and accurately, and his work, whether taken as a collection of interesting stories of fish and of bird life or as contribution to popular natural history, is deserving of praise.”

“Is certainly as charming in style and graphic in description. All sorts of representatives of the reptilian and finny tribes are introduced and made as familiar as men we know.”

“This volume is a detailed account of the architectural features of a number of English cathedral churches, prefaced by a sketch of the general characteristics of cathedrals and of the development of cathedral building in England and Wales. It is, of course, copiously illustrated from photographs of the exteriors and interiors of the edifices treated, and the author takes up each cathedral historically.... The book is intended for students (or at any rate connoisseurs) of cathedral architecture.”—N. Y. Times.

* “The book has all the marks of close observation and a real knowledge of what is and what is not good art and good archaeology.”

Just the text and Gertrude Hammond’s eight pictures, “good in themselves, and excellent examples of modern processes of color printing” make up this new edition of “The Pilgrim’s progress.”

“We are inclined to doubt whether Mr. White, in his otherwise admirable monograph, need have given a fifth of his space to what is really an abridgement of the famous narrative.”

Burdett, Sir Henry. Hospital and charities annual, 1905; being the year book of philanthropy and the hospital annual. *$2. Scribner.

An account of the hospitals and charities of the United Kingdom, India, the British colonies and the United States. The work of various branches, such as free dispensaries and military hospitals is described, and hospital administration, officials, details of staff, the number of patients and the income of each institution are given. A copious index renders the book convenient for reference.

Burgoyne, Frank J., ed. History of Queen Elizabeth, Amy Robsart, and the Earl of Leicester: being a reprint of “Leycester’s commonwealth,” 1641. *$2.50. Longmans.

This work, of unknown authorship, was first printed 1584, it was translated into French and Latin, was proscribed by the queen in England and burned whenever found, by the officers of the law. It depicted Leicester as an “inhuman monster” and charged him with many crimes among them the murder of Amy Robsart. The queen officially denied the charges and Leicester’s nephew, Sir Philip Sidney, wrote an indignant answer to them.

Burkitt, F. Crawford. Early eastern Christianity: St. Margaret’s lectures, 1904, on the Syriac speaking church. *$2. Dutton.

“It is far Eastern Christianity with which these lectures are concerned, not that of the Greek and other Eastern churches within the ancient Roman world. Its chief seat was Edessa, in the Euphrates valley, the ancient ‘Ur of the Chaldees, the fatherland of Abraham.’ ... Into this unfamiliar field these lectures conduct the reader, through an interesting account of the Bible, the theology, and the internal life of a long extinct but once flourishing and distinctively characterized church.”—Outlook.

“It is, then, especially in this fertility of ideas and suggestion that the value of Mr. Burkitt’s book lies.”

“The task is difficult, and despite the careful study made by Prof. Burkitt the result leaves 48much to be desired. The data is uncertain and mixed up with legend and fable. Lectures have their value, if only to make comparisons between the beliefs of to-day and those of the past.”

An exciting story of a man who, when young, stole some money for a woman’s sake and on the death of his neglected wife turned against her. She in anger betrayed him to the police. He serves his term in prison, and twenty years later builds the black motor car, commits burglaries and murders, captures and tortures a man who turns out to be his own son, and seeks out the woman who had ruined his life to kill her, but is foiled in his revenge, for she is already dead. The whole thing culminates one night in a race for life, he in his black car, the whole country aroused and armed and waiting for him. The criminal maniac escapes them all, however, but meets his death in a quicksand.

“Mr. Burland does not waste words in his story. He has a good yarn to tell, and does not stand on art to do it.”

Burnaby, Andrew. Travels through the middle settlements of North America; ed. by Rufus Rockwell Wilson. **$2. Wessels.

“Another volume of the ‘Source books of American history,’ and a notable one; first published in 1775, reprinted the next year, soon translated into French and German, and reissued in enlarged form in 1798, from which this new reprint is made. It is hardly necessary to say that a book with such a history, and long out of print, richly deserves to be rescued from the obscurity into which it had fallen in the lapse of more than a century.”—Critic.

“Of critical notes there are none, which seems unfortunate. The form of the book is, however, very attractive, and the narrative was well worth reprinting even without editorial annotations.” F. H. H.

Burne-Jones, Georgiana. Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones. 2v. **$6. Macmillan.

While the attitude of the real man towards his thoroly idealized art fills the pages of Lady Burne-Jones’s “Memorials,” “it is not the painter to whom we are introduced so much as the man, and a very straightforward, single-minded and lovable character we find him.” (N. Y. Times). “The author has very wisely avoided any artistic appreciation of her husband’s work as a painter, but has taken great pains to collect all the facts relating to his family, its origin, his education and early tendencies, his friendships and ideas, often quoting his own words from letters to friends.” (Nation).

“The whole book is filled with the poet’s personality, and little anecdotes of his sayings and doings. G. B.-J. has worthily carried out her task, and the world is the richer for the story of a great artist and a lovable and much-loved man.”

“She presents him in a wise Boswellian way, mainly by the record of his daily speech and acts. The result is a very clear impression of a personality of great, of surprising power and charm.” H. W. Boynton.

“It is a wonderful revelation of an intensely interesting and lovable personality. A striking feature of these volumes is the never-failing humour of Burne-Jones’s letters and of the many comic sketches that enliven the text. Lady Burne-Jones has given us a biography that is at once a life record of deep human interest and an invaluable contribution to the history of English painting in the Victorian era.”

“It is a true and an appreciative record of the man and his life-work.” Jeanette L. Gilder.

“It is only fair to Lady Burne-Jones to say at once that she has avoided every pitfall that lay along her path, and has made the most of every pleasure that the excursion afforded.” Edith Kellogg Dunton.

“She reveals in this book a skill in construction and a charm of style that would do credit to a writer of established reputation.” Herbert W. Horwill.

“She would have shown a finer devotion to his memory had she reduced the bulk of these two volumes to one. Having made our own abridgement, we have little but praise for Mrs. Burne-Jones’s work. To our mind the best part of the narrative is that which contains the experiences of Burne-Jones at Oxford and during the first years in London, while the Oxford influence was still upon him. Mrs. Burne-Jones has a happy knack, all the more artful for its extreme simplicity, of hitting off the great men of the day as they come into her circle.”

“No more deeply interesting biography has appeared of late years than this tribute to the memory of Sir Edward Burne-Jones from the pen of his widow. Its one drawback is the fact that the illustrations are not in the least representative of Sir Edward Burne-Jones.”

“Lady Burne-Jones seems especially endowed with the qualities needed for the task; she writes with convincing sincerity and a sense of humor, and has the gift of literary style. Her readers cannot fail to get a vivid impression of Burne-Jones’s fascinating personality.”

“Lady Burne-Jones writes from a standpoint of knowledge and sympathy impossible to anyone else, and we can but admire the skill with which she has arranged the material. The narrative is full, but never confused, and the characters of the men and women who pass through the pages are drawn with rare ease and distinctness.”

Burnett, Frances Hodgson (Mrs. Stephen Townesend). In the closed room. †$1.50. McClure.

The father and mother of Judith, a strange visionary child of the tenements, are called to be caretakers of the big empty house with the closed room where a little girl has died. Judith mysteriously passes thru the locked door and plays with the child who is dead and her toys until this strange spiritual bond is tightened and little Judith is drawn into the land of spirits.

“She is artistically vague and not dogmatic. The story is accomplished with a fleeting, caressing touch; it has a considerable charm and is very suggestive.”

The story of Sara Crewe and what happened at Miss Minchen’s school, which charmed its young readers years ago, appears once more in holiday garb with a dozen beautiful colored plates by Ethel Franklin Betts. The book has grown and the present volume includes all the new matter which was put into the successful play called the “Little princess,” and also much matter newer still which was inserted when the play came to be transformed once more into a story.

A new edition of the famous diary, with preface and notes by Austin Dobson, photogravure portraits and other illustrations. It extends from the issue of “Evelina” to the author’s death (1778-1840).

“The value of this edition is greatly increased by the complete general index in the last volume, each volume having its own index as well. On the mechanical side the edition leaves nothing to be desired, while on the editorial side Mr. Austin Dobson has brought thorough knowledge and ... sympathetic appreciation.”

“Madame D’Arblay’s diary is her masterpiece, and it is no exaggeration to say that it is as good as a novel, for it is composed in all respects like a work of fiction. The diary from beginning to end is written in Miss Burney’s characteristic style; it is not marred in a single page by Johnsonese, and we believe that it will be read even when ‘Evelina’ itself has become a curiosity.”

* Burr, William Hubert, and Falk, Myron Samuel. Design and construction of metallic bridges. $5. Wiley.

This book is based upon the ninth edition of Prof. Burr’s standard work, “The stresses in bridge and roof trusses, arched ribs and suspension bridges.” “The book consists of ten chapters, the first of which is A historical sketch of bridge building.... Chapter II. is devoted to the general types of trusses, loads and specifications, and contains the most recent practice in railroad and highway bridges.... Chapter III. treats of moments and shears, and of the design of plate girders.... Chapter IV. and V. treat of all kinds of trusses with parallel and horizontal chords and with chords not parallel.... To the chapter on swing bridges has been added the treatment of these bridges by the method of deflections, with examples in each case.... The book concludes with chapters on wind stresses and details of construction.”—Engin. N.

* “It may be stated that the book reflects well the advance in the design of metallic bridges, and is a worthy successor to the old standard which it replaces.” Leon S. Moisseiff.

Burrage, Champlin. Church covenant idea: its origin and its development. **$1. Am. Bapt.

“Mr. Burrage has reproduced a great many covenants of the early Baptist and Congregational churches. They are, like the early Christian oaths, pledges of loyalty to standards of right living to a remarkable degree. The beginnings of the covenant idea are found among the German Anabaptists of the reformation period. Mr. Burrage is very modest in the claim he makes for any Anabaptist roots of the Scotch covenants. These, culminating in the Solemn league and covenant of 1643, were quite apart from the main course of the development of the covenant idea. They were all covenants to maintain a fixed order of belief and worship. In conclusion, it is confessed that ‘the covenant idea has ceased almost entirely to have for us the great significance it had for the early New England colonists.’”—Nation.

Burrage, Henry Sweetser. History of the Baptists in Maine. $2. Marks ptg. house, Portland, Me.

This history “covers the period from about 1675 to the present time. It treats freely the educational and temperance activities of the denomination, its connection with the anti-slavery agitation, its missionary labors, and the growth of its church organizations.”—Am. J. of Theol.

“Leaves little to be desired by persons interested in the Baptist history of the state of Maine.”

A book which pleads for the old-time leisurely courtesy and a home education for girls. “The volume is made up of essays, several of which appeared in a London magazine, to girls on friendship, cleanliness, duty to parents, letter writing, cooking, etc. In her ‘Foreword,’ the author speaks of the modern girl. She does not believe in sending a girl away from home for her education. The mother is the best teacher. ‘It is better,’ she writes, ‘to keep a girl at home, if all she learns is spelling and simple arithmetic.’” (N. Y. Times). While it appeals strongly to English girls, it is no less a book with a mission for the American girl.

“The ethical purpose of the book and its pleadings for sweeter manners are sufficiently plain, and are handled so wittily, with such lurking fun and brimming humor, that their assimilation is an easy and pleasant process. In its pages it never outsports discretion. As a 50gospel of goodness it is eminently reasonable, and its style has the charm of unconsciousness.”

“It is a series of monitory chapters upon all sorts of social and moral observances delivered in slangy English.”

“My life has gone on, my love of nature has continued, my habit of observation has been kept up, and the combined result is another collection of papers dealing with the old, inexhaustible, open-air themes.” So says Mr. Burroughs. The “far” scenes described are those in “green Alaska” and Jamaica. The “near” pictures are of the wild life around his home on the Hudson river. Nearly half of the book is devoted to an account of his Alaskan trip in 1899 as a member of the Harriman expedition. The only heretofore unpublished essay of the group is that in which he tells how he lost February and found August in Jamaica. Mr. Burroughs’s northern soul however, takes little pleasure in nature in her tropical aspect. He “cannot make love to her there.” She “has little winsomeness or tenderness. She is barbaric; she is painty and stiff; she has no sentiment; she does not touch the heart.”

* “He records impressions however slight and incidents however trivial, but it is all done with that charming double gift of his for seeing everything as if for the first and only time, and of making others see it in the same way.” F. M. Colby.

“The records of far journeys in this new book may not add greatly to his reputation, but they serve the gracious purpose of showing us an old friend in new surroundings.”

In these essays Mr. Burroughs, who has ranged himself upon the side of those who protest against animal stories which humanize animal life, not only sets forth his own views, in which he declares that animals share our emotional but not our intellectual nature, but also defends himself from recent attacks upon his theories and gives counter arguments.

* “This book succeeds in presenting what may be judged as a rational view of Nature’s methods.”

* “One reads the little volume with extreme pleasure, drawing from its pages an uplifting sense of air and light.”

* “The whole discussion is pervaded by Mr. Burroughs’ well-known charm of style and clearness of statement.”

Burton, Charles Pierce. Boys of Bob’s hill; adventures of Tom Chapin and the “band” as told by the “secretary.” †$1.25. Holt.

The summer vacation of eight healthy-minded boy bandits who live at home and are petted and disciplined by turns, like most everyday boys, but when they climb Bob’s hill and enter their cave they are outlaws. They do many plucky things, and incidentally they start a forest fire, almost wreck a train, call out the fire department on the Fourth of July, and try to smoke real tobacco. The reader, whether he be boy or a grown-up, will follow their adventures with interest and will agree with the band that the hermit’s gold rightfully belongs to Tom.

Burton, E. D. Short introduction to the Gospels. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.

An introduction to Biblical literature which may become a distinct treasure to the student. Dr. Burton’s work is concise, and reveals a careful examination of the four gospels. There is added a chapter on the synoptic problem. “The chapter of ‘the gospel according to Matthew’ closing with a table of contents which exhibits excellently its general plan, will be welcome to all students of that difficult New Testament book.... The notes appended to the chapter on Luke’s gospel merit particular attention. Note II is on ‘The enrolment in the governorship of Quirinius.’ ... Dr. Burton’s view of the Johannine problem will command attention.” (Bib. World).

“Has a definite aim, and without superfluous words goes straight to its mark. It uses chiefly internal evidence, and asks each gospel to disclose its own secret. To expound the synoptic problem in less than twenty small pages of English is to do the impossible. No other book that the reviewer knows of does it so well as this.” Wm. Arnold Stevens.

Burton, E. D. Studies in the Gospel according to Mark. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.

“The lessons have already borne the test of actual use by experienced teachers, and all the material appears to be admirably arranged. The appended dictionary, filling twelve pages, is an important feature.” Wm. Arnold Stevens.

Bury, John B. Life of St. Patrick and his place in history. *$3.25. Macmillan.

“The book opens with a chapter on the diffusion of Christianity beyond the Roman empire, followed by the story of the life of St. Patrick. The appendices contain the descriptions of the writings of St. Patrick and other documents from which the author drew the material for his biography; notes on the different chapters, and an excursus.”—N. Y. Times.

“Speaking generally, what chiefly impresses us in narrative and appendices alike is the constant presence of a wide and just sense of historical perspective which should not in the least dwarf the particular interest of the book.”

“A life of St. Patrick in which careful and minute research has not quenched a bold and vivid imagination. The index ... is wholly insufficient and not prepared with a fraction of the care required.”

“Although, as we have seen, the Professor is absolutely beyond suspicion of any religious bias in favor of his hero, he gives us a picture of Patrick which may be called sympathetic.” James J. Fox.

“Perhaps some readers regret that Professor Bury has found it necessary to reject so much picturesque material, but students of the middle ages are likely to agree that in writing this biography the author has done a real service to the cause of Irish history.”

“The appendix ... is in many respects better reading than the body of the book. For the 51main portion is a little confusing from the way in which it gives all the legends and no clear criticism of them.”

“A work whose technical merit is commensurate with its intrinsic interest. The main part of the work spreads before the general reader the sifted results of historical criticism.”

If in the intense modernism of the present century we sometimes vaingloriously forget the debt we owe to the ancients, such scholars as Mr. Butcher do a real service in commanding a mindful attitude. While given at Harvard, the author addresses himself not only to scholars but to a mixed audience. “The first lecture compared in a singularly able and effective fashion the Greek spirit with the Jewish spirit, the Greek influence and the one other comparable with it.... Then he passes in the next lecture to a comparison of the Hellenes and the Phoenicians. These represent the pure commercial spirit. The next lecture deals specifically and enlighteningly with the quality of the Greek passion for knowledge. Still further lectures deal with ‘Greek art and inspiration,’ and with ‘Greek literary criticism.’” (N. Y. Times).

“These lectures are not only full of thought, they are also written, it is superfluous to say, in admirable English.”

* “The style throughout is admirable. It would be difficult to say too much in praise of this most scholarly book.”

“Mr. Butcher’s own style is admirably suited to such essays as these. No one can read them without recognizing how desirable it is that a synthetic mind like his should handle these larger questions of classical scholarship.”

“The title of Greek to retain its ancient place in education of the broader kind is convincingly supported by Mr. Butcher in this volume. The book needs no recommendation to Hellenists. It may be cordially commended to the attention of the more open-minded and liberal of those who consider Greek a cumberer of the modern stage.”

“So illuminating an interpretation of the Greek spirit. Knows his subject, and he deals with it in the freshest way and in the most human spirit.”

“It is their naturalness, their contagious freshness and vivacity, rather than their learning, which strike the reader first.”

Buxton, E. M. Wilmot. Ancient world: outlines of ancient history for the middle form schools. *$1. Dutton.

A “wonderful story” of the civilization of bygone days. The “author writes about the first ages of man, the history of Egypt, ancient Babylonia, the Medes and Persians, Phoenicia, the land of the merchant carriers, the Hebrews, the story of Carthage, the Hindu people, China, the story of Alexander, and of Parthia, and gives some glimpses of the ancient Romans and Greeks.... For those who wish for a bird’seye view of the great landmarks of the history of the ancient world, the author has provided a full summary, with approximate dates, embracing the period from 4400 B.C. to the Christian era.” (N. Y. Times.)

“Gives a striking picture of the mind, manners, customs, myths and legends of the different ancient nations and describes the influence exercised by these nations on one another.”

“A visionary, a poet, a humorist, a priest.... His love of fighting was perhaps the only quality in which he differed from the gentlest of the saints. There are still some who believe that modern science is a tool the devil has put into the hands of sinners, but Hawker’s certainty of that is only equalled by his belief in witchcraft, charms, pixies, mermaids, evil eyes, the immediate answer of prayers, the damnableness of dissent, and much else allied to these. But he made his parish of Morwenstow. He rescued and tended the shipwrecked, he consoled the wicked, he spent his income on charity.... He was a very wild, naughty boy, and, as a youth, full of practical jokes and uncomfortable animal spirits.”—Acad.

“The Reverend R. S. Hawker has left behind him no literary remains which point to the possession of any extraordinary genius, and yet a baffling and beautiful soul leads us to examine every record and study every poem for a key. In ‘The life and letters of R. S. Hawker’ just published we turn page after page and only manage to catch the flying skirts of the vicar. Of Hawker’s own poems, his fragment of the ‘San Graal’ is worthy to be compared with Tennyson’s treatment of the subject, and his ballads earned the praise of Sir Walter Scott.”

“Mr. Byles has performed his task—by no means an easy one—with skill and good taste.”

“Its contents are a product of unusual skill and discretion.” H. W. Boynton.

“Must be regarded as one of the best biographies of recent years.” H. W. Boynton.

“Mr. Byles has given us an excellent presentment of a most interesting and picturesque figure of the last century.”

“His ‘Life and letters,’ by his son-in-law, C. E. Byles, leaves nothing to be desired.”

“His book therefore, demands acceptance as the real biography of the Vicar of Morwenstow.”

“This book, written by Hawker’s son-in-law with such fairness and discretion as may well eradicate even the memory of an unhappy effort by another hand.”

Byron, George Gordon. Complete poetical works; ed. by Paul Elmer More. $3. Houghton.

For this Cambridge edition of Lord Byron’s poems, the editor has chosen the text of 1832-33 in preference to that of 1831 because of its more satisfactory use of capitals, italics and punctuation marks. It is unexpurgated and contains the recently resurrected poems of Byron.

“A thoughtful and scholarly estimate of Byron’s genius and character introduces the volume.”

52Byron, George Gordon. Confessions of Lord Byron; sel. and arr. by W. A. Lewis Bettany. *$2.50. Scribner.

In discussing this compilation the London Times says: “There is nothing new in it; but it gives a convenient synoptic view of the poet in his various relations with his times and his contemporaries. Thus seen, Byron strikes one chiefly as that distinctively English product—the brilliant amateur who can beat the professionals at their own business, likes to do so, but absolutely refuses to take the business seriously.”

“The whole tone of his writing is more that of the literary ‘gobemouche’ than of the man of letters. The reader gains no very clear idea of Lord Byron as a letter-writer, and may be well advised to skip the introduction and proceed to the letters themselves. Mr. Bettany’s volume is only a piece of book-making pure and simple, and has very little claim to be dignified by the title of a scientific analysis of correspondence.”

* “These excerpts give a rather more favorable impression of him as a man and a man of letters than he desired to give his contemporary public.” H. W. Boynton.

“These editorial lapses are not, however, very numerous; and the compilation is on the whole satisfactory and instructive.”

* “Mr. Bettany’s selections are, however, judicious, and, in spite of frequent detachment from illuminating context, do the writer no injustice.”

“The selections are full of interesting matter for those who wish to approach Byron’s personality in this way.”

“Mr. Bettany has made an excellent arrangement of the matter with which he deals.”

Among the sixty poems found in this group are “When we two parted,” “She walks in beauty,” “Maid of Athens,” “Stanzas written on the road between Florence and Pisa,” “She walks in beauty like the night,” and “There be none of beauty’s daughters.” “This volume is one of a series of little works entitled ‘The lover’s library’ which constitutes a veritable treasure-house of poetry sentiment.” (Arena).

“Love poems of Byron is a dainty little volume, bound in flexible violet cloth, stamped in gold, with gilt edge, and of vest-pocket size, contains more than sixty poems and selections from Byron’s verse devoted to love.”

“The tales have been culled from French ‘romans’ and dull English chronicles, and the mediaeval atmosphere has been preserved by the quaintly, though never obscurely, archaic style of narration. Ten pictures and cover vignette by Mr. Pyle, richly colored and ... perfectly in keeping with the literary atmosphere, together with conventional floral borders in color, make a singularly attractive giftbook.”—Dial.

* “They are written in the richly colored, tapestry-like style. Unfortunately in the present volume the tapestry gives the impression of being machine-made and a little threadbare.”

* “A collection, told in exquisite poetical way, of some of the most picturesque but less-known love-stories of history.”

* Cadogan, Edward. Makers of modern history: three types: Louis Napoleon, Cavour, Bismarck. **$2.25. Pott.

“The struggle between conservative principles and revolutionary forces constitutes the framework of the history of the nineteenth century. With this great movement are closely associated the names of Louis Napoleon, Cavour, and Bismarck, the subjects of the three essays included in this volume.... It is on the epoch making, the history making, actions of these men that emphasis is here laid.”—N. Y. Times.

* “The volume contains no new materials, but it summarises the careers of the three Machiavellian personages in question clearly and sensibly.” W. M.

* “In general, however, these essays may safely be recommended to the unprofessional reader, who will be dull indeed if he does not discover in them the absorbing interest of the three dissimilar men whom they describe.”

* “The faults of the book are greatly those of immaturity, and the writer may possibly in time produce historical work of permanent value.”

* “The author’s statements and interpretations of facts are clear, vigorous, original, and sufficiently tinctured with philosophy, and he never slides into what Mommsen called the ‘dressing-gown’ style of narrative.”

Mr. Caffin unfolds the gradual progress of art from its liberation from the shackles of Byzantine traditions down to the impressionist school of Monet. A comparative method of study is employed, contrasting the motives and methods of two artists in each of the twenty-eight chapters, sometimes of the same school, often of different schools. And the author maintains that the first necessity for the proper seeing of a picture is to try and see it thru the eyes of the artist who painted it, that it is an understanding of the individuality of the artist’s experience and feeling that enables one to be an intelligent judge of merit.

* “While possessing a simplicity of method which conveys to the average reader a general insight into pictorial methods and motives, the author’s work is characterized by elegance of style, grace of feeling, and elevation of thought; it will do as much good in the direct service of art as any treatise published in recent years.”

* “Mr. Caffin’s book was needed and will be found to contain much information not easily obtainable elsewhere.”

* “Except for this driving ideas in double harness, the material and judgments are not unfamiliar; but the task is done thoroughly and many things are happily put.”

“What Mr. Caffin has to say is always worth reading, for he puts each painter’s character forcibly before one, and manages to be entertaining as well as instructive.” Charles de Kay.

* “It is the one most completely adapted to the needs of the person entirely ignorant of art, its history and its development.”

Caffyn, Mrs. Kathleen Mannington (Iota, pseud.). Patricia, a mother. †$1.50. Appleton.

Patricia, whose husband, a hypocrite and a humbug, leaves both his son and his estate to the guardianship of his mother, goes to live with her mother-in-law and sees her son slowly estranged from her because she will not speak and blacken the character of her dead husband to the mother who reveres his memory. There is much of gossipy country society and in the end an old family servant sets things right and Patricia comes to her own.

“A most moving story, full of feeling and insight into human character. Certainly it is a story that ‘counts.’”

“The cleverness of the novel lies not so much in its plot as in the graphic characterization. It is a piece of work of which the author has reason to be proud.”

“There is considerable strength in this novel. There is some lack of artistic proportion in the general working out of the story.”

A story of inner Russia by a member of the Revolutionary party who was forced to flee from Russia to avoid Siberia. The plot concerns the tragic events of a quarter of a century ago, when czar Alexander II. was assassinated by the Nihilists and an antisemitic outbreak followed, but it is the Russia of to-day that we see, drawn from a practical knowledge of the subject. The hero of the book is a Russian prince who steps out of his class to uphold the cause of the people, marries a Hebrew woman and finally suffers imprisonment.

“The intelligent reader will find in it much sound workmanship and no little insight into the psychology of the Russian intellectuals.”

“But the style has a curious impenetrability about it, which reminds one of a bad translation.”

“In ‘The white terror and the red’ we have something far more interesting than a narrative of sensational episodes, or a gallery of interesting types, more valuable than a vivid picture of melodramatic history in the making. We have a work of art of the highest class. As a guide to the full understanding of Russian political and social life it is probably the most valuable ever written in the English language.” Edwin Lefevre.

“It is a sound, firm piece of work; and it shows an easy familiarity with the subject and with the method. As an addition to its historical importance, a sweet, fully realized piece of fiction.” Hutchins Hapgood.

“This book gives one a more realistic and vivid impression of the Terrorist movement than any we have read. It has no definite plot or literary coherency, but consists of a series of sketches written in an unexaggerated and impassioned style.”

“To those who seek an education on underground’ Russia Mr. Cahan’s latest novel can be recommended.”

“A well-constructed, forceful, and ably sustained piece of work. Has given us a picture of Russian conditions which we may accept as essentially correct. Of no small merit from the purely literary standpoint.”

“It would be more exact to characterize this book as a study of Russian social conditions than as a work of fiction, although there is a story as a whole.”

“The book is written in an admirable style,—keen, quiet, full of reserve power. The book is a valuable contribution to present-day literature, considered either as fact or fiction. It tells with judgment, with conviction, with emotion, the sad story of a sad people.”

“A book that impresses one with its power, competence, and fairness. It is a profoundly interesting sociological document that the public may thank Mr. Cahan.”

This latest of Hall Caine’s novels has all the strength and the heart sadness found in his other works. Iceland is the home of the tragic story and its characters are the simple folk of the Northland: the factor and his daughters, Thora and Helga; the old governor and his sons, Magnus and Oscar. Magnus resigns Thora, his promised wife, to Oscar, his more fascinating brother, bearing the odium of the broken betrothal that they may be happy. Helga, however, breaks in upon this dearly bought joy, and wins Oscar’s love. The sad death of Thora and the wanderings of the exiled Oscar are strong and dramatic, and his final return home as the renowned Icelandic composer has not the joy of that first prodigal’s home coming, but holds the full sorrow of the years.

“The story shows a confused sense of moral values, and fairly reeks with cheap sentimentality. Its style is common and its situations theatrical. Altogether it is a poorer performance than was to be expected even from the author of ‘The Christian’ and ‘The eternal city.’” W. M. Payne.

“Though the plot is horribly tragic, there are no melodramatic climaxes to detract from the dignity of the style in which it is written. There are exquisite touches of pathos in the descriptions, and in the delineation of character the author shows a keen knowledge of the various phases of human nature. It is intensely emotional, and certainly the strongest book that Hall Caine has ever written.”

“Here, as in all his books, Mr. Caine has the power of wringing his readers’ vitals, yet not the power of convincing them that he is working out a tragedy rather than a melodrama.”

Caird, Edward. Evolution of theology in the Greek philosophers. *$4.25. Macmillan.

This second course of Gifford lectures is closely allied to the first, delivered ten years earlier at the university of St. Andrew’s, which treated of the evolution of religion. This course treats of the evolution of theology in its first great period. There are lectures upon the relation of reason to religious faith; the three stages in the evolution of theology; the precursors of Plato, the two distinctive tendencies of Plato; Aristotle; post-Aristotelian philosophies; Stoicism; Neo-Platonism; Philo; and Plotinus.

“The theology of the earlier Greek philosophers seems inadequately treated. There is at 54times a tendency to interpretation which seems formal and doctrinaire. The book is entirely free from pedantry. Nevertheless statements occasionally occur which stand much in need of a reference to authorities. It may be questioned whether the author’s horror of mysticism does not lead him into misunderstanding and exaggeration. The advantages of a point of view steadily maintained throughout a discussion ... gives lucidity to the exposition and is a constant challenge to investigation of its adequacy.” H. N. Gardiner.

Cajori, Florian. Introduction to the modern theory of equations. *$1.75. Macmillan.

“The present work falls into two nearly equal parts. The first 103 pages treat the following topics: Elementary properties and transformation of equations; location and approximation of the roots of numerical equations; solutions of cubic, biquadratic, binomial and reciprocal equations; the linear and Tschirnhausian transformations. The remaining 120 pages are devoted to substitution groups and Galois’s theory of the solution of algebraic equations.”—Science.

“The work has much that may be praised; in particular, its very moderate size, its choice of topics, copious references for further study, and a large number of illustrative examples and problems. Lack of explicitness is manifest.” James Pierpont.

Caldecott, Alfred, and Mackintosh, H. R., eds. Selections from the literature of theism. *$2.50. Scribner.

Professor Caldecott has edited selections from Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, the Cambridge Platonists, Berkeley, Cousin, Comte, and Janet. While the sections under Professor Caldecott’s care include Kant, Schleiermacher, Mansel, and Latze. There are full notes and references.

“The plan of this book, therefore, is excellent, and the careful notes and introductions show that it has been well carried out.”

“The editing of these selections fell into excellent hands. The misgivings of the editors as to the wisdom of the selections made are quite needless, for nothing better could have been desired. The notes and biographical notices are very fine—fresh, scholarly, interesting. Though I have deemed it necessary to say some things of more or less critical character, yet, taking the work as a whole, it is a welcome and highly useful addition to theological literature.” James Lindsay.

Caldecott, Rev. W. Shaw. Tabernacle—its history and structure; with a preface by Rev. A. H. Sayce. *$1.75 Union press.

A study of the Old Testament itself has furnished the material for this unconventional, original, and withal, scholarly work on the history and architecture of the tabernacle. The book is divided into four parts: The history of the tabernacle. The triple cubit of Babylonia, The triple cubit of Babylonia as used in the construction of the tabernacle. The triple cubit in Babylonia and in Palestine. The index is complete and the illustrations are good.

This volume is based upon the handbook of plant dissection, by J. C. Arthur, Chas. R. Barnes, and John M. Coulter, which Prof. Caldwell has revised, rewritten and extended in order to bring it down to date. There is a preliminary chapter for both teacher and students upon the use and equipment of the laboratory. Eight lessons are devoted to the cyanophyceæ and chlorophyceæ, five to the fungi and lichens, five to the bryophyta, three to the pteridophyta and five to the spermatophyta.

“The types selected illustrate very well the probable steps in the evolution of plants, and the discussions are exceedingly clear and suggestive.” R. B. Wylie.

“A preliminary chapter on the use and equipment of the laboratory contains some very practical suggestions for the teacher and student. The comparison of the morphological characters that appear in the concise annotations attached to each exercise materially enhances the value of the book.” Carlton C. Curtis.

“It is an excellent guide for study of plant structures in a college course.”

A story of the southland, with a heroine of the old-fashioned type, of rare beauty and unyielding pride, and a hero who, when he is not trusted without explanation, seeks to hide his wounded heart at the ends of the earth. By the aid of an opal which foretells disaster, and a railroad wreck, all is happily ended “when the jasmine blooms.”

Calkins, Ernest Elmo, and Holden, Ralph. Modern advertising. **$1.50. Appleton.

“‘According to various estimates the amount of money spent to-day in America for advertising ranges from six hundred to one thousand million dollars a year.’ This statement gives some measure of the important part which the art of advertising has come to play in the methods of business in the twentieth century. This volume gives an interesting account of the methods of modern advertising, and attempts to formulate some of the principles which underlie successful publicity.” (Outlook.) The volume belongs to Appleton’s “Business series.”

“Is overloaded with a special plea for the general advertising agent. Yet the authors have their subject practically and thoroughly in hand, and supply an illustrated manual that will be of value particularly to the business man who is planning a campaign of publicity.”

“Though the authors have not succeeded in supplying a concise and altogether satisfactory definition of their subject, they have certainly produced a very readable book.”

“The book is written primarily for the general reader, and as such it will be found to be a most interesting exposition of the subject of advertising and sales-management.”

“This little tractate was written by a British Wesleyan missionary for his people in India. It is an excellent description of a catholic Christianity that in general is not particularly distinctive of Methodism from other evangelical ‘isms’ as known among us.”—Outlook.

“Interior freedom rests upon the principle of non-resistance to all things painful to our natural love of self,” sums the trend of Miss Call’s arguments. Many of the chapters contain comfort, and good advice, and are the result of sure insight: among them are ‘Self-consciousness,’ ‘Human sympathy,’ ‘Dependence and independence,’ ‘Self-control,’ ‘About Christmas,’ and ‘To mothers.’

“Contains sound logic—and some sophistries; much good sense—and just a little nonsense. Although we have entered a demurrer in regard to certain parts of the book, be it understood that we criticise only the universal application which the author makes of her fundamental principle of non-resistance. The excellent little volume should be widely and thoughtfully read; it is written in a style at once succinct and limpid, and it holds much truth upon which it is safe to build.”

“‘The freedom of life’ is directed not so much against the bondage of doing wrong as against the bondage of doing right in the wrong way.”

“It is a pity that a book always excellent in intention and usually in performance should be marred by such absurdities.”

The man of the world as Miss Call characterizes him is one who must know evil in order to renounce it, must be capable of understanding all phases of life, must recognize the beauty and power of the things of this world as servants to our highest law, must be in the process of gaining freedom from the world’s evils, must be a citizen of the world sustained by the mind and heart of God.

Eight scholarly sermons by this venerable Unitarian minister which set forth the doctrine of evolution and “fill that idea full of God.” The sermons are entitled: God, Religion and evolution, One Lord and His name One, Jesus and the evolution of the kingdom of God, Experimental theology and experimental religion, Fate and freedom, God minus man and God in man, and Immortality.

“Dr. Calthrop is a theist, and more thoroughgoing than very many theists. He is also a Christian theist, and distinct as such from many who share with him the name of Unitarian.”

This story of Cervantes’ romantic life and adventures was written for the tercentenary of the publication of the first part of “Don Quixote.” The illustrations of the first edition of that book are reproduced, and there is a bibliography, a list of proverbs traceable to Cervantes, and a table giving the editions of “Don Quixote” as brought out in various countries.

“Mr. Calvert is evidently unacquainted with the recent literature of his subject.”

“The first brief and satisfactory monograph to be written in English. This narrative is compact and well considered.” H. W. Boynton.

“With some simulation of scholarship, however, this ‘Life’ lacks its essence.”

“It contains a good short account of Cervantes’s adventurous and romantic life, about the only one of convenient size and real fullness known to us.”

A brief record of the Arabian conquest and occupation of the peninsula with a particular account of the Mohammedan architecture and decoration in the cities of Cordova, Seville, and Toledo, illustrated with eighty-four colored plates and over four hundred black and white illustrations and diagrams. A series of two hundred designs to illustrate the composition and development of various schemes of Arabian ornament, will be found of especial interest to students of Moorish art.

Cambridge modern history; planned by Lord Acton; ed. by A. W. Ward, G. W. Prothero, and Stanley Leathes. 12v. ea. **$4. Macmillan.

A comprehensive history of modern times which will be complete in twelve volumes. Two volumes will be published each year, appearing in two series beginning respectively with vol. I and vol. VII. Volumes I, II, III, VII, and VIII have already appeared. The series will consist of—vol. I, The renaissance; vol. II, The reformation; vol. III, Wars of religion; vol. IV, The thirty years war; vol. V, Bourbons and Stuarts; vol. VI, The eighteenth century; vol. VII, The United States; vol. VIII, The French revolution; vol. IX, Napoleon; vol. X, Restoration and reaction; vol. XI, The growth of nationalities; vol. XII, The latest age.

(Vol. II). “The present volume is quite up to the standard of the first: it has the same virtues and the same defects. In only two of the chapters, the first and the last, are those results of clarification which come from the highest kind of specialization really clear.” J. H. Robinson.

(Vol. VIII). “Whatever doubts remain concerning the construction of the book, it should be welcome for the wealth of information it supplies and for the impartial review of fiercely-debated questions which it affords. As a rule it exhibits the tested results of sound scholarship.” A. L. P. Denis.

“The length of some of the chapters and paragraphs is somewhat disproportionate to the importance of the matters of which they treat. And there are some rather startling omissions. There are moreover a considerable number of misprints and minor errors. Despite all these minor defects, however, there can be no doubt that the third volume of this great work is in every way worthy of the high standard set by the earlier ones.” Roger Bigelow Merriman.

(Vol. VIII). “No single-volume history of the French revolution in the English language, and possibly none in the French, contains so much and such well-organized information as that embodied within the compass of this book. In breadth and accuracy of treatment, in the opinion of the reviewer, it is superior to any that has yet appeared in the series.” James Westfall Thompson.

56“Presents too much accidental selection and grouping. The paramount excellence of some of the chapters is so evident that the weakness of the others is made especially evident.” Wm. E. Lingelbach.

“The index of the present volume is, we are glad to see, a great improvement on its predecessors.”

“With one exception, beyond painstaking fidelity and unflagging industry which gathers in every scrap of fact that can be crammed into the work, there is nothing remarkable in the treatment of the subjects. And the devotion to detail seems to have been carried too far.”

“There is a certain lack of homogeneity, produced partly by divergencies both in opinion and in style, and partly by repetitions due to the treatment of a single subject in its different phases. A graver objection is the absence, both from this volume and from that devoted to ‘The reformation,’ of a sufficient statement of the Roman Catholic side. The work would be indispensable to students for its bibliographies alone.”

* “A fine, scholarly catalog of events, with little sense for literary form or emphasis. It is learned and fair, but cold and unsympathetic; useful as an encyclopedia, and having little dramatic interest.”

“It is generally accurate; it is critical; it is clearly written; it is dispassionate. The attitude of pure science is worthily maintained.”

This new work upon systematic ichthyology, “in line with modern concepts respecting the vertebrates or chordates, includes not only the lower types of the vertebrates of the old naturalists, but also the hemichordata and urochordata or tunicates. The old class of fishes ... is replaced by the three classes for more than a generation past adopted in America, that is, the ‘cephalochordata’ (leptocardians), the ‘cyclostomata’ (marsipobranchs) and the ‘pisces’ (teleostomes or fishes proper).” (Science.)

“As a whole the work is good; it ranks higher than any of its forerunners on the same lines of comprehensiveness and in the general quality of its contents. The third section ... is most open to attack; in places it bristles with vexatious little errors, indicating lack of acquaintance with the subject, and shaking one’s faith in portions better treated.”

“Surveyed as a whole, both authors and editors alike are to be congratulated on having produced a work of sterling merit. The psychologist and the student of evolution will find in these chapters of Mr. Boulenger a perfect mine of information.”

“We shall be grateful, also for the new light which the co-authors of the ‘Cambridge natural history,’ and especially Dr. Boulenger, have thrown and will continue to throw on mooted questions of morphology and classification.” Theo. Gill.

Campbell, Gerald, comp. See Fitz Gerald, Edward and Pamela. Letters and portraits of.

Campbell, Reginald John. Sermons addressed to individuals. **$1.25. Armstrong.

As the author states in his preface, these eighteen sermons “are not literature, they are extempore speech.” Each one was suggested by some life story or called out by some confession, or some cry for pastoral aid, and to the text of each sermon is prefixed a short account of the particular case which it was designed to meet. Mr. Campbell is an evangelist, and minister of the City Temple of London.

“But these occasional sermons are not sermons for an occasion merely. Their appeal is a very wide one.”

An account of the Lhasa mission from the standpoint of the correspondent of the Daily Mail. He relates the predetermining causes, the diplomatic and historical matters bearing upon the expedition, and a detailed account of the actual journey and of the encounters with the Tibetans. A vivid description of Lhasa, of the monasteries, and of the people follows.

“A series of clear-cut sketches depicting the every-day life of the people ... form the most striking feature of that portion of Mr. Candler’s book given over to Lhasa.” H. Addington Bruce.

“There is in his pages a breezy personal element, which lends the charm of reality to all he sees and does. His descriptions are brief, and his summing up of the results of the mission clear and forcible.”

“A book of remarkable interest. The manner of writing is as admirable as the matter. Other books on the expedition may be written fuller of detailed information, but none can be more thoroughly imbued with its romance. One of Mr. Candler’s most notable gifts is a power of vivid, sympathetic delineation of scenery.”

Canfield, Dorothea Frances. Corneille and Racine in England: a study of the English translations of the two Corneilles and Racine with special reference to their presentation on the English stage. **$1.50. Macmillan.

“A valuable feature of this book is the presentation of well-chosen excerpts from the various translations, illustrative of the author’s critical comments. These selections are accompanied by the original text.... Pleasantly suggestive sketches are given of the writers who figured as translators from the time of Charles I to the earlier years of the nineteenth century. Among a crowd of obscure hacks may be noted the names of Katharine Philips (the ‘Matchless Orinda’), Waller, Cotton, Otway, 57Steele, Young (of the ‘Night thoughts’), and Colley Cibber.”—N. Y. Times.

“A quiet, high-bred humor and a marked felicity of phrase brighten many of these pages.”

Canfield, William Walker. Legends of the Iroquois: told by the Cornplanter. **$1.50. Wessels.

The legends and bits of folk-lore here reproduced were told by the Seneca chief, the Cornplanter, to a pioneer of western New York, whose note-book with the valuable jottings came into the possession of Mr. Canfield. Enough of the wild poetry, religious undertone, and imagination was transmitted to enable the author to catch the spirit of the tales, which he has preserved with full understanding and sympathy.

“A valuable and entertaining edition to the literature of our aboriginal folk-lore.”

“Present what is from several points of view the most fascinating side of Indian character, the poetic and imaginative side. It has a distinct value to the student of ethnology, or anyone who is interested in the study of Indian life and character, it will also appeal with equal force to the reader who seeks only entertainment; for we venture to say that anyone who dips into this book of legends will find them as fascinating as a book of verses or a metrical romance.” L. J. Burpee.

Canning, Albert Stratford George. Literary influence in British history. *$2.25. Wessels.

In a prefatory note the author states that “In this republished and revised volume I endeavor to trace the influence of literature in British history, with the hope that the book may be of use to readers not familiar with larger works on the subject.” Then follows a review of representative English literature in every period of England’s history from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Scott and Froude. There is much not only of historical and literary but also of biographical interest.

Capart, Jean. Primitive art in Egypt; tr. * by A. S. Griffith. *$5. Lippincott.

“This exhaustive volume dealing with the early decorative work of the Egyptians on implements and buildings, deals with its subject more from an archaeological than from an artistic standpoint.” (Critic.) The work is largely based upon the discoveries of Prof. Flinders Petrie, and is richly illustrated.

* “M. Capart’s own part in the book appears to have been mostly confined to the selection of the matters to be reproduced, and this task has been discharged with both skill and judgment. The translation by Miss Griffith is adequate to its purpose.”

* “For the student of the problem of the origin of art the author has probably made a valuable contribution, with his clear text, and plentiful illustrations. For the casual reader, however, the often insisted upon details are liable to become wearisome.”

Capen, Edward Warren. Historical development of the poor law of Connecticut. *$3.50. Macmillan.

Volume XXII. of the “Columbia university studies.” An historical study of the treatment of the poor in Connecticut from the earliest colonial period to the present day, in which the town system of relief is considered as opposed to the state and county systems. There is an excellent bibliography, and there are indexes covering not only the subjects treated but the decisions and statutes cited.

“The history is interestingly set forth, each statement of fact is verified by references.”

“In his present monograph Dr. Capen has provided us not only with a most exhaustive exposition of the development of the law from early colonial days, but also with a useful commentary on its workings, pointing out clearly its advantages and defects.”

* Capen, Oliver Bronson. Country homes of famous Americans. **$5. Doubleday.

“The profusion of pictures large and small with which the book is embellished ... throws a welcome light upon the surroundings of many of our celebrated men, representing, as Mr. T. W. Higginson says in his introduction, ‘not merely the tastes and habits of the man’s household, but the private background of his public life.’ Not all the houses chosen are of equal interest, nor are their owners of equal celebrity.... In all, the homes of eighteen men are chosen, including those of Lee at Arlington, of Jefferson at Monticello, Lowell’s Elmwood, Longfellow’s Craigie house, and Madison’s Montpelier.”—Nation.

* “There has, of late, been much journeying (on paper) to the homes of great men, but none of these journeys has ended in such a fortunate meeting of text and pictures as have those of Mr. Capen.”

“This is the third of a series of romances founded on the themes of grand operas.... The illustrations, in black and white, are by Sarcadi Pogany, and fancifully, yet not without plenty of vigor and action, depict the dramatic incidents of the legend, which is repeated in description and dialogue and dramatic succession in the form of the modern historical romance.”—N. Y. Times.

* “Mr. Capes tells his story well and strongly, his descriptions are vivid and significant, and all the drama of the story clearly brought out. But because you are writing of distant days, need your style be such ‘genuine antique’ stuff as this?”

* “This is monstrous fine writing; so fine that for the life of us we cannot tell whether it is meant to be in blank verse or not. Much of it is; some of it is not; and the mixture is merely annoying. There are, too, the inevitable lapses of one who sets out to play a part without conviction.”

In rich Irish brogue the wife of Alderman Casey tells of her experiences in trying to keep up with the social aspirations of her pretty daughter, Mary Ann, who in the end forsakes tennis clubs, Browning clubs, summer hotels and euchre parties for Tom Donovan, the pride of the police force.

58* Carey, Rosa Nouchette. Household of Peter: a novel. (†)$1.50. Lippincott.

“A story of life in a small English country town. Peter is a young doctor, and his household consists of himself, his three sisters, and a faithful serving-woman. There is the usual complement of nobility and gentry.”—Outlook.

* “Peter’s household is a wholesome, affectionate set of folks; but at times they are tiresome, and their conversations are too long drawn out.”

Miss Carl, thru the influence of Mrs. Conger, wife of the United States minister, was called to Pekin in the summer of 1903 to paint a portrait of the empress dowager. She remained eleven months, and painted four portraits one of which was exhibited at the St. Louis exposition, and during all this time she lived at the Chinese court, and came in daily contact with the empress dowager and the court ladies. She gives a simple, straightforward account of her unique experiences, telling with frank enthusiasm all about her life and the life of those around her in the summer and the winter palaces, until her readers also come under the spell of the empress dowager’s fascinating personality and come to see the Chinese social customs and religious rites in all their picturesque dignity.

* “There is much entertaining tittle-tattle in the volume about Chinese court life, but Her Majesty is lost in the distant perspective.” H. E. Coblentz.

“Unfortunately Miss Carl is not an observer or a writer; she was very greatly affected by the divinity that hedges royalty; and her book of more than 300 pages is much such a record as a school girl with an easy pen might send to an admiring club of friends.”

“It is believed that the present volume contains the first accurate and satisfactory information concerning the personal appearance and characteristics of an interesting imperial personage.”

A story concerned mainly with the machinations of an Italian artist whose madness and villainy actuate him to follow the Giotto method of stabbing his model to produce a realistic picture. There are some weird effects, exciting discoveries, and thru it all runs the romance of a matter-of-fact Englishman and his beautiful cousin.

“A well conceived and constructed story, which contains some crisp dialogue and characterization.”

“Those whose blood is yet uncurdled and whose detective sense has never been baffled by literary mystery might try this.”

Carlyle, R. W., and Carlyle, A. J. History of mediaeval political theory in the West. 3v. v. I. **$3.50. Putnam.

“The object of the joint authors of the present work is to carry in several volumes the history of political theory down to the early seventeenth century.... It is to be strictly a ‘history of theory, not of institutions.’ ... Part I or the introduction of the work devotes two chapters to the political theory of Cicero and Seneca.... Part II is devoted to the political theory of the Roman lawyers.... Part III has for its subject the political theory of the New Testament and the Fathers.... Part IV, the political theory of the ninth century.... Each chapter and each part is followed by a very useful summary, and at the foot of each page are given very lengthy extracts from the sources.”—Am. Hist. R.

“The author of the present volume has brought to his work a thorough knowledge of the early church writers ... and has succeeded in expressing himself in such admirable and lucid English, free from all philosophical abstractions and obscurities, that at no time does his exposition fail to instruct and to interest the reader. This clearness is largely due to the admirable arrangement of the subject-matter and to the method of treatment. No claim could be made that the author has discovered any new theories or new theorists, but he has certainly put many matters in a new light. Throughout his work he seldom shows any familiarity with the researches of modern scholars in the field of political theory, and with but few exceptions he never refers to any secondary authorities. This is a glaring and inexcusable fault in an otherwise highly meritorious work.” James Sullivan.

Three volumes uniform with “Bohn’s historical library,” edited by John Holland Rose. The text and foot notes of the author are reproduced verbatim, and there are in addition notes by the editor which supplement the text with more modern information. There is an introduction, and there are appendices and numerous illustrations.

Carlyle, Thomas. Oliver Cromwell; with a selection from his letters and speeches. *60c. McClurg.

“An abridged and newly edited volume of Carlyle’s Cromwell.” It is uniform with “Standard biographies.”

Carman, Albert Richardson. Ethics of imperialism; an enquiry whether Christian ethics and imperialism are antagonistic. **$1. Turner, H. B.

“This is a defense of imperialism by a very radical method of discrediting altruism as an ethical ideal and extolling egoism, personal and national, as the best of all possible principles. This, of course, leads to extreme libertarian views of social policy.”—Ind.

This sumptuous edition has been compiled from Mr. Carman’s various published works, and includes a number of poems which have seen print in magazines but have never before appeared in book form.

* “His work is done so much in the open, his qualities are so frankly and immediately affirmed in it, he is so free from subtleties and intricacies of meaning, that the province of the 59reviewer properly ends with pointing the way to his books as a source of many kinds of intellectual and emotional pleasure—all wholesome, rich, and strong.” Elisabeth Luther Carey.

* “He has a true gift of song, an artist’s joy in beautiful words, and that passion for the moods of Nature which of itself transmutes verse into poetry. His defect is to fall occasionally into facile jingles, and now and then into inapposite conceits.”

A volume of essays which contains besides the title essay, The purpose of poetry; How to judge poetry; The poet in the commonwealth; The poet in modern life; The defence of poetry; Distaste for poetry; Longfellow; Emerson; Mr. Riley’s poetry; Mr. Swinburne’s poetry; The rewards of poetry; Cheerful pessimism; Masters of the world; The poetry of to-morrow; The permanence of poetry.

* “That Mr. Carman is a master of a stimulating style in verse and prose alike is evidenced by this sane, hopeful, yet discriminating study of varied phases of art and life.”

* “Its value is permanent by reason of the broadly comprehensive treatment which he has given to the subject of poetry in its larger aspects. I am not sure but he is at his best as a critic.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

Mr. Carnegie has woven into his biography of the inventor of the steam-engine, out of which he made his fortune, his own philosophy of success, drawing upon his personal experience to point the morals found in his hero’s life.

“The wonderful career of James Watt is here ably retold by a most appreciative countryman with a wealth of comment bearing on or suggested by Watt’s life or inventions, which is scarcely less interesting than the narrative itself.”

“It is in the expression of the author’s views of life and the world that the work’s value mainly lies, for as a biography, it adds naught to the store of available information. Extremely interesting and helpful.”

“Its lively, not to say jerky, style would hardly be a sufficient inducement to read this book. The preface names two highly competent engineers as having revised the technical passages, but here and there a sentence may be found to which they can hardly have lent their deliberate approval.”

“Mr. Carnegie has written a really helpful book, and one which is especially helpful to the young man entering into life’s battles.”

“There is a good deal of useful information in the book, but the best feature of it is the romantic cast that the author has given to an intrinsically dry subject.”

“Mr. Carnegie’s book is of the kind to put in the hands of a promising boy. It will stimulate him to work, but not at the expense of the simple moralities and pleasures of a well-regulated life.”

* Carpenter, Joseph Estlin. James Martineau: theologian and teacher. *$2.50. Am. Unitar.

A book written “at the invitation of the British and Foreign Unitarian association, to describe the life and work of Dr. Martineau in briefer compass than was possible to his first biographers.... Professor Carpenter has had the advantage of the use of certain additional letters which have become available since the publication of the Life and has utilized other papers and correspondence hitherto unused.... The result is an exceedingly valuable ‘study,’ in which the incidents of the life and the characteristics of the man and the thinker are made to throw light upon one another in a way which is possible only to one who, having mastered every detail of his subject, is able to select the essential and significant elements in every case.”—Hibbert J.

* “It is difficult to imagine any class of readers who will easily set down this biography when once they have opened it. The stress of interest will indeed vary, but the admirable lucidity of Mr. Carpenter’s arrangement will render the process of skipping easy and comparatively safe.” Philip H. Wicksteed.

* “The book is written in a style which, while it gives the impression of perfect accuracy, is yet so clear and graceful that the reader is never either puzzled or wearied.” James Seth.

* “It is an original study, based to some extent on new materials, and everywhere showing care and ripe reflection.”

* “Appearing in Dr. Martineau’s centenary year, it is a timely and permanent memorial of a spiritual leader unsurpassed in the English speaking world.”

* “This admirable work is a worthy memorial of a great man. His development is traced with such skill that Mr. Carpenter makes us realize the continual interplay of the outer and inner life. We see in these pages the organic growth, not only of a great intellect but of a great moral force.”

Carpenter, Rt. Rev. William Boyd, bp. of Ripon. Witness to the influence of Christ; being the William Belden Noble lectures for 1904. **$1.10. Houghton.

Six lectures entitled—Two aspects of Christ’s influence; Christ the perfect type of consciousness; Christ the teacher of principles; Christ the law of the soul; Christ verified in experience; Christ as authority.

“The thought is worthy and is set forth with exceptional literary skill, with recurring pregnant expressions of much suggestiveness.”

“A happy combination of poetic feeling and logical clearness characterizes the entire argument.”

“A story of the prairies, written from the memories of over half a century lived in Illinois. The author has endeavored to present his views of the position and influence of Illinois among the states, to give an estimate of events, and of those Illinoisans who were conspicuous actors in them, from 1850, the year in which the Fugitive-slave law was enacted, to the opening of the Civil war.”—Bookm.

“The story is not sufficiently interesting to have any advantage over the ordinary historical form.”

Carroll, John S. Exiles of eternity: an exposition of Dante’s Inferno. *$3. Gorham.

“‘Exiles of eternity’ is an exposition canto by canto, in a simple, popular, yet thoroughly literary style, reaching the aim of bringing before the reader, who may or not be acquainted with the Italian language, the general scope of Dante’s ethical teaching as studied from a broad Anglican point of view, not uncolored by an intense poetical appreciation. This exposition is preceded by a brief sketch of the poet.” (N. Y. Times). The book makes no attempt at special research from original sources, hence there are reproduced several errors of earlier commentators. The author states, however, that his purpose is rather to present his subject in its “broad outlines” than to go into those “mere niceties, ingenuities and intricacies of interpretation” which too often lead Dante scholars astray.

“Characterized by broad general reading among English and American commentators rather than by special research. An English reader who wishes to make the acquaintance of the ‘Inferno’ through a broad and pleasant way with Dante’s ethical rules of action brought strictly up to date, cannot do better than to read Mr. Carroll’s book.”

A volume of genuine poetic value, posthumously published, is the gift of Guy Wetmore Carryl to the literature of our time. “In the long poem which lends its title to the present collection, we have a true love poem marked by exquisite feeling and rare felicitous grace of execution. We may but say retrospectively, using Mr. Stedman’s so fitly characterizing words,—‘Still in the strength of youth, he seemed quite equal to either experiences or work, and likely to take his fill of both.’” (Critic).

“Its varied but everywhere irrefragable proofs of poetship. There is abundant evidence in ‘The garden of years’ that Guy Carryl had received the muse’s accolade; and we might add, that, in his own range of inspiration and execution, this young Lycidas ‘hath not left his peer.’” E. M. T.

“It is a volume of manly sentiment embodied in facile and vigorous measures.”

Carson, Thomas G. Man’s responsibility; or, How and why the Almighty introduced evil upon the earth. **$1. Putnam.

“All of Mr. Carson’s argument is to the effect that phrenology is an exact and useful science, and that it should be used in the government of the world and the reclamation of mankind.”—N. Y. Times.

A volume prepared by native Siamese in connection with the commission to the St. Louis exposition. “The materials used by the author are largely furnished by high officials in different departments of government service.” (N. Y. Times). The view of Siam includes a sketch of King Chulalongkorn, and his son, the Prince Maha Vajiravudh, a description of Siam itself,—“the Land of the White Elephant,” a summary of its resources, and a glimpse of the capital city, Bangkok, where modern invention has given crowning touches to the city’s mechanism. The chapter on agriculture is perhaps the best in the book. There are many illustrations, chiefly, however, of temples and public buildings.

“It contains everything that a stranger needs to know of a fascinating country. The book has no literary endeavor manifest in its pages, being rather a complete handbook of the kingdom, with numerous illustrations of persons and places,—an encyclopedia in little.” Wallace Rice.

Carter, Thomas. Shakespeare and the Holy Scriptures, with the version he used. *$3. Dutton.

“Following the plays of Shakespeare in the probable order of their composition, Dr. Carter exhibits the extent to which Biblical ideas and phraseology appear in them. Citations from Shakespeare are from the text of the First folio, published in 1623; citations from the Bible are from the Genevan version (edition of 1598), the popular version of that time, and from the Genevan New Testament of 1557. ‘No writer,’ says Dr. Carter, ‘has assimilated the thoughts and reproduced the words of the Holy Scripture more copiously.’”—Outlook.

“In consequence of this fatal want of judgment, the book may be pronounced to be practically valueless.”

“Dr. Carter proves a parallelism between Shakespeare and the Bible abundantly sufficient for his purpose, and need not have overloaded his book with much that is conjectural and doubtful.”

“Dr. Carter’s book, in fact, though it displays a minute familiarity with the text of the Bible and puts before the student the full materials for judging for himself, is an absurd overstatement.”

* “Enough has been said to show that this large book, notwithstanding the labour spent upon it, is entirely useless for its main purpose; while for the further purpose of estimating Shakespeare’s knowledge of the Bible it is almost as useless, since nine-tenths of the parallels suggested are not parallels at all.”

Cartwright, Julia (Mrs. Henry Ady). Life and art of Botticelli. *$4. Dutton.

This is an expansion of a study published a year or so ago, and is copiously illustrated with reproductions from the famous works of the painter. “This clear narrative restates the results of modern research and gives a trustworthy account of the Florentine painter’s career. What he owed to Savonarola and Dante is set forth in straightforward fashion, and his works are surveyed in chronological order, one by one.” (Atlan.)

“Her work forms ... a homogeneous whole, that is, however, somewhat marred here and there by certain strange mannerisms.”

“A notable contribution to the descriptive literature of art. The author is evidently steeped in artist-lore, and in this handsome volume has presented a treatise of an art school as well as a biography of Botticelli.”

In treating the value-and-distribution problem, “Professor Carver has earned high praise in that he has, with perfect clearness, defined precisely his point of view, systematically presented his doctrinal position, and carried it out with consistent argument.” The relation between values and distributive shares is traced out by Professor Carver as follows: “The value of the agent is determined by the value of the product. But what determines the value of the product? The relative want. And what determines the relative want? The relative supply. And what determines the relative supply? The cost of production. And what determines the cost of production? The value of the agents employed. And what determines the value of the agents? The value of the product; etc., etc.” The foregoing questions are discussed and answered. The law of diminishing returns is made the central feature of the theory of distribution. The author “pronounces strongly in favor of preserving the distinction between land and capital both for static and dynamic purposes; he sees, indeed, as bearing upon the relations of land and capital to cost, no significance in the distinction between static and dynamic.” Quotations from J. Pol. Econ.

“The reader has only to study a few pages before the earnestness with which the subjects are expounded infects him. The exposition is clear, and occasionally graphic representations are given to make it impossible for the student to escape comprehension.”

“The work under consideration is admirable as a theoretical discussion in that it is centralized about the shares in distribution, preceded by what the author considers necessary by way of introduction, namely ‘value,’ ‘diminishing returns,’ and ‘forms of wealth and income.’ The concrete is everywhere uppermost throughout the book. The style is characterized by a certain vivacity which greatly enlivens the discussion and claims the attention of the reader whether he agrees or disagrees with the conclusions.” J. E. Conner.

“The book is in the main a clear and careful restatement of the prevalent ideas on the theory of distribution as now accepted. The book is moderate in tone and in conclusions.” H. Parker Willis.

“The power and significance of the work. Too much can hardly be said in commendation of the book for its clarity and simplicity of style, its skill and effectiveness of statement, and its logical and attractive arrangement of material. It seems worth while to express forthwith the conviction that Professor Carver’s theoretical position is untenable, for the reason that he attempts to make of value and distribution two distinct problems.” H. J. Davenport.

“An attractive volume illustrated with a new portrait of Mr. James and an etching of his home at Rye in England; and supplemented by a bibliography zealously compiled by Mr. Frederick A. King.... Miss Carey ... reviews all his work from the beginning; traces his development step by step, and treats in separate chapters of the power of his imagination and the value of his philosophy.”—N. Y. Times.

* “If there is weakness anywhere in this interesting and luminous study it is in the chapter on ‘Philosophy.’ One wishes that more expansion of Mr. James’s moral and psychologic messages had been included.” Annie Russell Marble.

* “A remarkably interesting and well-rounded piece of contemporary criticism.”

This romance of art student life in Paris easily draws into one circle a circus rider, the daughter of a Chicago millionaire, the Duke of Morgana, the various critics, models, artists and poets of greater or lesser degree. The setting is Bohemian rather than artistic, and the characters are often coarse. The career of Phil Longwell, a young American painter, is followed through years of struggle from the time when he first falls in love with Hella, the pretty circus-girl friend of his boyhood, to the time when he wins honors, success and the admiration of the young American heiress. His paintings of the Fata Morgana, its strange legend and the simple faith of the people of Morgana, form striking contrast to the cynicism of Parisian life. The book is illustrated by the author.

“Unquestionably the plot is thin and the construction faulty. Is a typical artist’s book, full of life and colour.”

“Charming as is Monsieur Castaigne’s narrative, the chief interest will probably centre in the illustrations. In it the layman ... will find a rich store of interest and entertainment.”

“No less striking in plot than in title, it rests the reader wearied of stereotyped and hackneyed situations.”

* Castle, Mrs. Agnes (Sweetman), and Castle, Edgerton. Heart of Lady Anne. †$1.50. Stokes.

In the time of powder, masks and patches, Squire Day married the spoiled beauty, Lady Anne, and the story of her heart is the story of how she chafed at life on her young husband’s estate, how she went up to London as guest of Lady Kilcroney, who was Kitty Bellairs, and how she encountered the scheming, cruel world of fashion which taught her that her husband, who knew how to reveal himself as an heroic figure at the critical moment in each of her sad experiences, and who even aroused her jealousy toward the last, was the real master of the situation and of her heart.

* “A tale in Dresden china, so dainty and clever as fully to satisfy the taste for Dresden, but arousing no very strong feeling.”

* “No authors know better how to use romance than Mr. and Mrs. Castle, and none can give the air of this artificial century with so excellent a grace.”

* “Has, in a less degree, the sparkle and liveliness of the authors’ former work.”

“The story opens in India, where the reader has a glimpse of official English life. The tragedy of widowhood descends upon a girl wife, who lives to realize the meaning of her sorrow.”—Outlook.

“This is, perhaps, the finest book that Mr. and Mrs. Egerton Castle have as yet produced—daring, original, moving. The plot is developed with that reticence which is the soul of art; the tension is relieved by delightful touches of humor, charming descriptions of scenery, clever character-drawing.”

“At one stroke a delicate psychological study is metamorphosed into a Wilkie Collins melodrama.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

“As a piece of story-telling, it is almost good. Only, unfortunately, the heroine does not in the least belong to this era of the world.”

“The charm is essentially one of style, for the plot is not remarkable, and the situations verge upon the melodramatic.” W. M. Payne.

“In this second and more critical reading the careful workmanship of the writers is everywhere apparent.” Herbert W. Horwill.

“A tale which, had it but broken off 100 pages from the end, might have ranked with the few things which bear reading more than once.”

“In their latest book they have lost none of their brilliancy of description.”

“A story that is touched by a rosy glamor and strengthened by apt characterization.”

“The story, in fact, for all its wildness, claims attention as a serious study in character, while the events are sensational enough to attract the unpsychological.”

“The author first describes the necessary drawing instruments, and explains their use. He then sets out in detail, with proportional dimensions, various forms of common fastenings, such as rivets, bolts, keys, etc. Then come some chapters containing examples of mill work, followed by others dealing with steam-engine details. The final chapter gives a short account of the physical properties of materials used in construction. Sets of useful exercises occur at intervals, and a few calculations of strengths are given.... The drawings which abound throughout the work represent good practice, are fully dimensioned, very clearly printed, and will be appreciated, by teachers and students alike.”—Nature.

* “While not free from minor defects, the book can be cordially recommended for use in drawing classes, and to young engineers who are seeking after knowledge on which to base subsequent work in machine design.”

Casual essays of The Sun; editorial articles on many subjects, clothed with the philosophy of the light side of things. $1.50. Priv. ptd.

Extracts from the editorial pages of the New York Sun, which “touch lightly upon many subjects—upon the passing of the negro minstrel and the banjo, upon mince pie, ... famous men and institutions ... upon college yells, hairpins, Solomon, and the impropriety of addressing the president of the United States as ‘Excellency.’ There is some delectable and curious matter about poets old and new.... You may find also essays on English and reformed manners of spelling it, ... essays upon women of all ages, upon sweethearts and loves, essays upon mothers-in-law, and even essays upon the cup that cheers.” (N. Y. Times.)

“One likes to save it for the choice hours, when one is really alone.” Edward Fuller.

“There is no evidence that the writer is restrained by any limitations of conscience, consistency or charity from putting down anything interesting or amusing that comes into his head.”

Printed in dark green ink with green marginal decorations and a touch of red in the headings, this attractive little volume pleases the eye, while the catch words culled from St. Paul, Cicero, Maeterlinck, Carlyle, Tennyson, Shakespeare, Helen Keller, Ruskin, Goethe, Longfellow, and a host of other writers of all ages, are wisely chosen to bring help and comfort. There is a quotation for each day of the year.

Seven short stories of artist life, emotional psychological, and pathetic, under the titles: Flavia and her artists, The sculptor’s funeral, The garden lodge, A death in the desert, The marriage of Phædra, A Wagner matinee, and Paul’s case.

“Is a collection of freak stories that are either lurid, hysterical or unwholesome, and that remind one of nothing so much as the colored supplement to the Sunday papers. The ‘purple patches’ of learning in the book, like the thrills, seem sewed on here and there, with one eye closed to get the effect.” Bessie du Bois.

* “There is real promise in these half-dozen stories. Miss Cather has sincerity and no small degree of insight.”

“Taken as a whole, the book indicates more than usual talent for close delineation.”

“In this collection of seven stories the author has shown a great deal of deep feeling and real ability, but many of the stories are too ambitious, and seem to be more the work of promise than of fulfillment.”

“They are singularly vivid, strong, true, original, and they have withal a richness of quality one might almost say of timbre, like a contralto voice.”

Selections from the letters of Catherine for long counted among Italian classics. “Mystics are not good letter writers, for mystics are bound to be without humor, and Catherine’s are all religious letters, full of obscure and jarring medieval imagery. But they are human documents. She only learned to write by miracle three years before her death, and until then she employed young aristocrats as secretaries. Her correspondence was wonderfully varied. ‘She wrote to prisoners and outcasts; to great nobles and plain business men; to physicians, lawyers, soldiers of fortune; to kings and queens, and cardinals and popes; to recluses ... 63and to men and women of the world.’” (Lond. Times.)

“Excellent, too, are the small forewords to the various letters, giving vivid glimpses of the young saint’s various correspondents, and incidentally of the composite society of that time.”

“For once we are in the pleasant position of finding nothing to blame; and this because the editor has not only done what was needful, but also (a rarer thing in editors) refrained from doing what was unneedful.”

“Miss Scudder’s translation is finely made; and, in the passages we have compared with the original, is perfectly faithful. A more readable version could hardly have been attempted.”

“Miss Scudder has done her task admirably both as translator and as editor.”

“The perfervid language of religious ecstacy in which they are couched does not fit the English tongue.”

Cator, Dorothy. Everyday life among the head-hunters, and other experiences from East to West. $1.75. Longmans.

“We needn’t pretend here to follow Mrs. Cator in her wanderings, but she spent two years in Borneo and lived among the gruesome ‘head-hunters’ while her husband dealt with lawbreakers among them. She visited China and Japan, (before the last war) and has spent several years upon the worst parts of the African west coast, living there much of the time in mud huts among the natives and seeing them as they are.” (N. Y. Times.) Her narrative is of exceptional interest. Many photographs illustrate the volume.

“Mrs. Cator writes simply and straightforwardly, just, we should imagine, as she talks: and her book is not only chatty and amusing, but contains some very fresh and clear-sighted comments on government, civilization, foreign missions, etc.”

* “Her narrative has sufficient charm and vivacity to justify its publication.”

“Writes with a mixture of girlish simplicity and womanly shrewdness which is nothing short of charming.”

Cattell, Henry Ware. Post-mortem pathology: a manual of post-mortem examinations and the interpretations to be drawn therefrom. *$3. Lippincott.

A second revised and enlarged edition of this “practical treatise for students and practitioners,” copiously illustrated. “Several improvements over the first edition have been introduced, including the chapter on the bones and joints, and nearly thirty new illustrations. Important changes have also been made in various chapters during the revision.” (Science.)

“There are but few things connected with autopsies that will not be found mentioned in the volume.” Lewellys F. Barker.

“A large and handsome quarto, printed on light, English made paper, in large, clear type, and bound in green boards with buckram back, the Wolsey arms being stamped in gold on the cover. The edition is believed to be from the most authoritative text and contains the full-page photogravures, reproduced in sepia and red chalk tints, of Wolsey, Henry VIII., Thomas Cromwell, Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Mary Tudor, and Charles Brandon, and others mentioned in the book, reproduced from paintings by Holbein and others.”—N. Y. Times.

* “The volume is of interest not only as an unusually early biographical attempt, but as well because of its dramatic presentation of this great chapter in English history.”

* “It is certainly a work of great interest for the historical student, and is now presented in a most beautiful and appropriate setting.”

“‘The Vale of Tempe,’ by Madison Cawein is a volume which, along with some crudities and weakness, has both the old glamour of poesy and an individual tang, so to say, that is uncommon in contemporary verse. Mr. Cawein draws his inspiration in equal draughts from the Kentucky landscape and from the world of pagan poetry, and in at least two of the aptitudes of the poet he stands pretty much by himself. His turn for vivid imaginative phrase is of the first order.... His command of the technique of tone-color is also exceptional.”—Nation.

* “Mr. Cawein is a ‘true poet,’ both in his art and in his inspiration.”

Chadwick, H. Munroe. Studies on Anglo-Saxon institutions. *$2.50. Macmillan.

Mr. Chadwick says that his book “makes no claim to offer a comprehensive survey of the problems of ancient English sociology,” that his object has been “to call attention to those branches of the subject which seemed not to have been sufficiently regarded by previous writers. For example, in sketching the history of the kingdoms I have given special attention to the evidence relating to Kent, Sussex, Essex, and the Hwicce. On the other hand Mercian and Northumbrian history has been treated of more briefly, because I had little or nothing to add to what had already been said.” Following a discussion of the monetary system, he describes the coins, their values, terms for money, etc. He also discusses the social system, the administrative system, and the origin of the nobility.

“Too many of his conclusions are based on very little or very questionable evidence; some are probabilities merely. Mr. Chadwick’s work is a remarkably suggestive study: new interpretations are proposed and the possibilities of certain neglected materials are clearly indicated.” Laurence M. Larson.

“For the Heptarchic period in particular Mr. Chadwick’s results are of real value.”

“He has handled some of the most perplexing problems of ancient English sociology with painstaking industry.”

“He investigates the subject with the most 64scrupulous care, accurately weighing the evidence of various documents, and maintaining an entirely scientific attitude. His book is a valuable contribution to the study of historical origins.”

The best verses in this volume deal with the common weal and woe of humanity, and the “deep things of God.” The poet also sings of the lighter phases of human existence, “his thoughtful love of nature finds charming expression in many fugitive pieces” (Outlook). In others, especially in “Timeo Danaos,” a high and nobly exigent patriotism shines forth.

“A pleasing addition to our store of occasional and memorial verse.” Wm. M. Payne.

“It is some compensation for the over-polemical character of Mr. Chadwick’s verses that their serious thoughtfulness leaves an impression of sobriety and dignity.” Herbert W. Horwill.

“His poetic product was of a ripeness which shows, if not genius, at any rate talent of the first order.”

“As they stand, however, they represent the fine warm masculine intellect of which they, with many other virtues and felicities, are the fruit.”

“His poems are not without their singing quality, but this is never merely the lilt of the care-free warbler. The mystery and wonder and tragedy and spiritual meaning of life are ever with him.”

“The author ... is known in England for his success as a Wesleyan missioner.... A vein of mysticism runs through his thought, but his speech is pointed and vigorous. He is a skillful Biblical expositor, and his discourse on ‘The extra mile’ is one of the best in the multitude of those on Jesus’ doctrine of non-resistance. The theology underlying all is a blend of old and new, largely old, but on the bed-rock of the new, the identity of the human and the divine. This gives to the collection its title.”—Outlook.

* Chamberlain, Charles Joseph. Methods in plant histology. *$2.25. Univ. of Chicago press.

A two-part work which has grown out of a course in histological technique conducted by the author at the University of Chicago. The first part deals with the principles of fixing and staining, and the various other processes of microtechnique; the second, with the application of these principles to specific cases.

Chamberlain, Esther, and Chamberlain, Lucia. Mrs. Essington. †$1.50. Century.

The scene of the little drama enacted in this story is a hospitable California country house, and the actors are mainly the daughter of the hostess, young, strong, athletic, and a charming widow, who side by side run an altogether modest race for the affections of the one ineligible young man of the party, a poor composer.

“‘Mrs. Essington’ is a book which commands the reader’s interest—nay, more, his admiration.”

“It is a story filled with dramatic possibilities, and of these the authors ... have taken ample advantage.”

“This is a clever book in several ways, with plenty of atmosphere and nothing out of drawing, but this study of loss and renunciation carries it beyond cleverness into quite another class.”

Chamberlain, Georgia Louise. Introduction to the Bible for teachers of children: a manual for use in the Sunday schools or in the home. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.

“A most admirable elementary course in Biblical introduction, designed to give children of the fourth grade, or about ten years of age, familiar acquaintance with the various books of the Bible and their varied character, and the ability to use the Bible intelligently.”—Ind.

“The most prominent—and evidently the most purposeful—omission is that of any reference to the inspiration of the Bible.”

“The lessons are well arranged, the suggestions to teachers are clear and stimulating, and the entire work shows diligence and thoroughness in preparation.”

A rather gushy poet with soft white fingers brings up his eight lovely daughters to roam the fields in pink pajamas, talk Greek, and keep near to nature. When the mortgage on his home is to be foreclosed the agent falls in love with the oldest daughter, the owner with the second one, and they all leave nature for the city. The remaining daughters also have romances.

“Originally a fantastical bit of extravaganza printed as a short story, this has been expanded into a book, and thereby much of its cleverness and freshness lost.”

* “Skipping boldly, now, from Japanese ancestor-worship to contemporary satire, we hail Robert Chambers prince of the last half-year’s production.”

“The city of New York, loyal at heart, and sorely besieged by the English, within and without, is the scene of this romance.... A brave youth is selected by his Excellency, Mr. Washington, acts as a spy in the city, and finally escapes the peril of his position, to be rewarded as a courageous soldier in open battle. The heroine, a belle in the gay Tory circles, bewitches the hero, after much banter and playing at love-making. Emerging from a tangle of cross-purposes, she proves herself a noble woman, brave enough to sacrifice all for her lover and his country.”—Outlook.

“This is emphatically the best work yet done by that very promising author. But for one fatal blot it might almost be counted a masterpiece, as in writing, vigour, interest and the other attributes of a good novel it far excels any former attempt of the writer. But he has had the perversity to make his hero a spy.”

“A stirring romance, full of action and of the savor of the period and scenes described.”

* “The new work is as good as ‘Cardigan.’ He gives us historical truth, wholesome excitement, and no small measure of literary art all at once; 65and for so much of good it would be churlish not to give thanks.” Wm. M. Payne.

“Incidents, after all, never make up for people; and the end of the war, which ends the book, comes as a very considerable relief. The tale is an anti-climax only because the author struggles too frantically to urge the pace and exhausts our energies prematurely.”

“In spite of unreality and preposterous over-coloring, he gives the impression of reality. It is good reading for a quiet evening.”

* Chamblin, Jean. Lady Bobs, her brother and I: a romance of the Azores. †$1.25. Putnam.

“A pleasant little romance told in letters to her friend by the girl most involved. Incidentally some graphic descriptions of the Azores and their inhabitants are introduced among the junketings of a group of American and English visitors to the islands.”—Outlook.

* “Besides this pleasing little romance, however, the story has its charm in witty descriptions and quaint turns of phrases.”

* “Kate is a witty letter-writer and is capable of flashing out bits of spontaneous humor.”

Champlin, John Denison, and Lucas, Frederic Augustus. Young folks’ cyclopaedia of natural history. $2.50. Holt.

Taking its place with the Champlin cyclopaedias of “Literature and art,” “Common things,” “Persons and places,” and “Games and sports,” this work “includes in a single compact volume, at a moderate price, an outline of the entire animal kingdom, from the largest mammal down to the tiniest insect that has to be studied under a magnifying glass.”

“The book will be most useful to children, who will find it too interesting to be considered mere study.”

“The text in general shows little systematic grasp in the arrangement of facts, either in the articles as a whole or in any article in particular. The text throughout bears testimony to painstaking compilation rather than to ready knowledge.”

“The articles are clearly written and the subjects are treated in good proportion as to relative importance.”

Mrs. Champney gives the result of last summer’s wanderings among the abbeys of France. She weaves into her descriptions the history and romance that cling to these fast decaying relics of the life and culture of the mediaeval times. The illustrations are many and excellent, including photogravures from historical paintings, and architectural half-tones.

* “The author is neither archaeologist nor sociologist, but a woman who has placed her descriptions and told her stories with unusual charm of manner.”

“The book, then, will hold its own as a collection of attractive and instructive pictures, while the text is found to be just such a collection of fantastical, pathetic, and half-humorous stories as tradition associates with the monasteries of France.”

“She tells fourteen stories.... All are picturesque and are told with ingenuity and with a certain fidelity to the atmosphere and spirit of the times to which they relate.”

* “The combination of Mrs. Champney’s art with history and romance is beyond measure taking; the book is irresistible.”

* “Mrs. Champney writes pleasantly and has a good subject—though sometimes she is tiresome, especially in her treatment of legends in the picturesque style.”

“In this treatment of school management, the subject is defined, not as the control and the instruction of individual pupils, but as the organization, maintenance, administration, direction, and supervision of schools, and the planning of schoolhouses. The book is designed for all persons interested in the control of schools and school systems.”

“Mr. Chancellor’s style throughout the volume is direct and practical. His composition is inelegant, if not occasionally ungrammatical.”

“As a guide to the novice, the work will undoubtedly prove useful. As a study in social control, it is a masterpiece. Anyone interested in knowing the schools as part of the social machinery of the country will find the work profitable.”

“All persons engaged in the practical work of administrating and managing schools will be glad to get hold of this volume, and will be grateful to its author for the vast wealth of concrete instances which he has adduced to illustrate the attitudes and conduct of those with whom school officers have to deal in their work of directing public schools.” Samuel T. Dutton.

“It impresses us as being crammed full of suggestive material that will prove of great value for classroom use in departments of education and in normal schools.”

“The greatest weakness is in the method of treatment. This is strikingly unscientific. The second great weakness in this work is the narrow point of view. A third characteristic weakness is seen in the trivialities with which the book is loaded.” Junius L. Meriam.

Chancellor, William Estabrook, and Hewes, Fletcher Willis. United States: a history of three centuries, 1607-1904; population, politics, war, industry, civilization. 10 pts. pt. 1. **$3.50. Putnam.

The purpose of the joint authors in offering a new work on American history is “to present in a comprehensive and carefully proportioned narrative an account of the beginnings of the national existence and of the successive stages in the evolution of our distinctive national qualities and institutions.” Colonization, 1607-1697, forms the subject matter of this first part, which is divided into four sections: “Population 66and politics,” “War,” “Industry,” and “Civilization.” “The second section presents the record of war and of conquest, chiefly in their military phases,” while the fourth section is devoted to “religion and morality, literature and art, education and social life.”

“In none of the four divisions [of Vol. I] is anything like a serious study of institutions attempted. The unique separateness of treatment is so faithfully observed that the historical trains on this four-track road of American development rarely graze one another in passing. They appear to run quite free from any essential interconnection. The Bibliography is a hodgepodge. The titles of the ‘authorities’ are frequently misquoted, none of the references cite pages, and the notes are numbered consecutively. As the work progresses the number of notes steadily decreases, but the grade of intelligence displayed in their selection remains the same. The index ranges itself alongside of the notes and references. As for literary composition, whatever be the claims of the publishers, the book abounds in cheap comments, efforts at fine writing and big words. Of the making of positive errors, misstatements, and slipshod phrases there is no end. Wrong dates, misspellings, and misuse of proper names and places are so common as to call for no special remark.” William R. Shepherd.

“It would hardly be correct to say that it makes no contribution to historical literature; in parts three and four, ‘Industry’ and ‘Civilization,’ a good many interesting facts have been brought together, but it would be difficult to say who will profit by them.” David Y. Thomas.

“The ‘Perspectives’ at the close of certain chapters are more valuable than the chapters themselves, being completer chronologies. Dark sayings, easy verdicts, drippings of philosophy and misquotations in the style of ‘popular lecturers’ are characteristic of the book.”

Chancellor, William Estabrook, and Hewes, Fletcher Willis. United States; a history of three centuries. 10 pts. pt. 2, Colonial union, 1698-1774. **$3.50. Putnam.

Part 2 is divided into five sections which cover the western movement of the people and their political history, wars, industries and agriculture, religions and social conditions, and contemporaneous European history.

“The volume is on the whole an interesting result of much labour, written with considerable vigour and insight, and summing up better than any other work yet produced the various phases and aspects of that surprising development—the birth of a new race.”

“It is to be regretted that a work so attractively got up should thus far exhibit so slight intrinsic merit of either substance or form.”

“In short, the style of Messrs. Chancellor and Hewes grows monotonous and fatiguing. They occasionally get hopelessly entangled in the meshes of inaccuracy and irrelevancy. Historical errors are extremely common.”

Chandler, Mrs. Izora Cecilia, and Montgomery, Mary W. Told in the gardens of Araby. *75c. Meth. bk.

Nine stories translated from the Turkish. The emerald roc; The story of the beautiful girl who had her wish; The story of the beautiful one who did not have her desire; Story of the crying pomegranate and the laughing bear; Story of the bird of affliction; Story of the water-carrier; Story of the coffee-maker’s apprentice; The crystal kiosk and the diamond ship. A prelude gives a description of the manners and customs of the people with whom the stories deal.

A little book of folk-lore from the Pacific coast, in which the coyote, the wisest and most efficient of the four-footed creatures, occupies the chief place. The setting of the book gives a glimpse of child life in colonial California.

Channing, Edward. History of the United States. 8v. v. I, Planting of a nation in the New world. **$2.50. Macmillan.

Volume I., of a history of the United States which is designed to trace as one unbroken development the founding of the thirteen colonies by immigrants, mainly from England, the achievement of independence from English control, the Union under the Constitution, the growth of the United States, territorially and socially, and the final welding of the American people into a great nation. The present volume carries the account down to 1660. At the end of each chapter have been placed for advanced students in history technical discussions and bibliographical matter.

“In scholarship the work easily leads any other attempt of the kind. The style is clear, pleasing and admirably simple. If it lacks the literary flavor of some of the more popular histories, there is the compensating charm of deep knowledge and plain-spoken truth. The only adequate estimate of this work is to state frankly that it stands in the forefront of scholarly efforts to tell the history of this country.” C. H. Van Tyne.

“Professor Osgood’s ‘American colonies in the seventeenth century’ is far more detailed on the institutional side, and upon some points gives what seems to the reviewer a better interpretation of the documents. On the other hand, President Tyler’s ‘The English in America’ is richer in detail of narrative, but is by comparison much less accurate in parts,—in the treatment, for example of the Dutch colonies.” St. George L. Sioussat.

“The scholarship easily surpasses that in any other undertaking of the kind, and the clear, pleasing and simple style makes the book eminently readable.”

* “As a study of the growth of the nation, from the political, institutional, industrial and social point of view, it stands without a rival.”

“We do not know of a better brief discussion of the discovery of America, nor any so good of the intimate relation between the English-Spanish commercial rivalry of the sixteenth century and the English colonizing enterprises of the seventeenth.”

67“It is thoughtful and well written, and deserves the attention which should be accorded to the work of any scholarly man whose writing is the result of careful study and mature reflection.” Robert Livingston Schuyler.

“It is in this constant striving to grasp the spirit of the times and to assist to a better understanding of movements and events as they appeared to those participating in them that the special significance of Professor Channing’s work lies.”

“Professor Channing’s treatment of the colonies and their social institutions, is interesting throughout, but is especially strong in those chapters which deal with New England.”

“A collection of sketches, the aim of which is to point out the men who have in the most marked degree influenced the development and to enable students to understand more thoroughly the history of song.”—Bookm.

“Miss Chapin’s work is both statistical and narrative, and her well-written story of the origin of song will be read with interest.” Ingram A. Pyle.

* Chapin, Anna Alice. True story of Humpty Dumpty, how he was rescued by three mortal children in Make Believe Land. **$1.40. Dodd.

This brand new story of Humpty Dumpty is illustrated with “many delightful full-page colored pictures and black and white sketches ... by Ethel Franklin Betts. It is long, in prose, a history of the experiences of Meg, Bab, and Dick. The three are not the best children that ever were, they complain about always having eggs for tea—that is where Humpty comes in—and through this they have many novel experiences.” (N. Y. Times.)

* “Marks an advance in matter and manner over her last year’s ‘Babes in toyland.’”

Chapin, Henry Dwight. The theory and practice of infant feeding. *$2.25. Wood.

“The second edition of Dr. Chapin’s book on infant feeding contains what appears to the layman to be an extremely clear and sensible exposition of the conditions which have to be met in providing a proper diet for very young children.”—N. Y. Times.

“The book is plentifully provided with scientific data, tables, and facts, but it is neither technical nor dull. On the contrary, it makes rather good reading for anybody with an appetite for curious and useful knowledge.”

Dr. Chapin’s prominence in the medical world argues much for the authoritativeness of this little volume which in plain terms sets forth some of the “vital questions” of society and the individual. Among them are Inequality, The unfit, Poverty, Health, Education, Success, Happiness, Religion and Death.

“Altogether, one must account the book exceedingly readable, earnest and useful.”

“Dr. Chapin’s book is a valuable help to the thoughtful living which is the proper basis both of the simple and the strenuous life.”

This study of the vital and permanent elements in the Christian religion takes the stand that an effort to reconcile science and religion would be “like an attempt to harmonize the fact of sunrise with the joy of walking and working in the light.” “The inevitable conclusion of his study is the conviction of the truth and value of Christ’s own doctrine of the spirit as the imminent and resident force in the universe, the ground of phenomena, physical and spiritual.” (Pub. Opin.)

“In the first place, its style is excellent, possessing the easy dignity of true culture, and the simple directness of a finished instrument of English expression; in the second place, the book shows wide reading in the modern literature of religious experience and criticism. Mr. Chapman’s philosophy is not solid enough, and his history is totally inadequate.”

“While it appeals at the same time to the religious people and to the men of science, is written with the assumption that there is no quarrel between the two. Mr. Chapman develops his theme in an interesting way through citations from the writings of famous men.”

A volume in section III. of the “Belles-lettres” series, the English drama. In it “an attempt is made for the first time” to edit these plays “in a manner suitable to the requirements of modern scholarship.” The texts are from the quartos of 1641, 1646, and 1657 collated with those of 1607, and 1608, with variants noted. A biography of Chapman, an introduction, full notes, bibliography and glossary are provided.

Charlton, John. Speeches and addresses: political, literary, and religious. $2. Morang & co.

“John Charlton, member of the Canadian house of commons from 1872 to 1904 ... has collected some of his speeches and addresses on various subjects. Those which will be of special interest here are those on the National transcontinental railway; the Brown draft reciprocity treaty of 1878, which failed to be ratified by the United States senate; Self-protection, reciprocity and British preference. There is also an able parliamentary speech on ‘Irredeemable currency,’ and in the platform addresses there are two of interest as giving a Canadian’s view of Washington and Lincoln.”—Ind.

“Mr. Charlton is qualified to speak with authority on all matters pertaining to the political and economic life of the country he has served so well.”

Chase, Arthur Wesley. Elementary course in mechanical drawing for manual training and technical schools; with chapters on machine sketching and the blueprinting process. 2 pts. Pt. 1. $1.50. H. Speakman, Congress and Honore sts., Chicago.

“As its title implies, this work presents in the usual style an introduction to the elements of mechanical drawing. The problems have 68been arranged so as to omit all finished sheets; the student is given the layout of a drawing only; in this way any direct copying of finished work is prevented. Specifications are fully given in every case so the student receives a drill similar to the experienced in practical work.”—Engin. N.

Chaucer, Geoffrey. Facsimile reproduction of the first folio of Chaucer, 1532; with an introduction by Prof. Skeat. *$50. Oxford.

“The folio of 1532, compiled by William Thynne, clerk of the kitchen to Henry VIII, a man of means and an ardent admirer of Chaucer, was the first collection which claimed on its title-page to be the works of Geoffrey Chaucer; and this it is which is here reproduced. As the First folio, it possesses great bibliographical interest.”—Nation.

“Dr. Walter Skeat has added largely to the literary value of the book by his biographical introduction.”

Mr. Cheney “has now brought together in a single volume of ‘Poems’ all of his work that he wishes to preserve.... It is a limited achievement, no doubt, for few of the pieces extend beyond a single page, and many of them are but the briefest bits of song.... His lyrics are of acceptance, coupled only with the gentlest and most apologetical sort of questioning ... but they ... should endear the author to us, at least in our less strenuous moods.”—Dial.

* “The selected collection of his ‘Poems’ is remarkable for its variety and readability.”

Cheney, Warren. Way of the North: a romance of the days of Baranof. $1.50. Doubleday.

A young Russian doctor, deported to Sitka, tells the story of life in this Alaskan town while the country was still under Russian rule. He falls in love with a girl who goes to Alaska to fulfil a childhood betrothal, and in relating the events which lead up to his happiness, he gives vivid descriptions of the lives of the settlers and of the civil and military personages prominent in that wild country.

“Handling his material simply and unaffectedly, as befits the bold and sturdy pioneer spirit, but not without a certain monotony of style.”

“The reader’s interest is awakened at the outset and fairly well sustained. The characters are sharply drawn and the style is simple and entertaining. As a whole, however, the book is not of unusual interest.”

“Book that can be enjoyed for its style alone. ‘The way of the North’ is, beyond doubt, the best written American book of the season.”

Chesebrough, Robert A. Christmas guests and other poems. $1.50. Little, J. J.

The author has dedicated these eighteen poems to his granddaughter, but they are verses which appeal to his age rather than to hers, the ghosts of the past flit thru them, regrets, happy memories, thoughts of death and the hereafter, while they all breathe forth the mellow philosophy which comes with years.

Chesnut, Mary Boykin. Diary from Dixie: being her diary from November 1861 to 1865; ed. by Isabella D. Martin and Myrta Lockett Avary. **$2.50. Appleton.

The author was the wife of James Chesnut, jr., United States senator 1859-1861, and afterwards aide to Jefferson Davis, and a brigadier general in the confederate army. The diary gives a clear picture of the social life during the war, and of the events which took place in Charlestown, Montgomery and Richmond.

“It is for the picture of social life in the South under the stress of an unsuccessful struggle that this lively and fascinating book will be chiefly read.”

“Her diary could not have been more entertainingly written if she had intended it for publication.”

“Full of vivid pictures of the social life of the time and of the varied experiences of the war.”

“The style is crisp and bright, and the tone frank and good tempered. It is on the subject of negroes and slavery that Mrs. Chesnut’s diary will prove most valuable to historians, but the general reader will be chiefly interested in the accounts of the home life of the beleaguered people.” Walter L. Fleming.

“This diary has decided historical value. Further, it is an intimate record of an intelligent looker-on in Richmond during a greater portion of the war. There are some discrepancies.” William E. Dodd.

“The two editors of the book are to be congratulated on having discovered and having thrown into such readable form this biographical material.”

The story of an ex-Confederate officer who when the war is ended, seeks his fortune in New York, and twenty years after returns to the South to enjoy life and incidentally to put into practice some of his Northern business training. “It is frankly up to the times, with the clash of race and the convict camp, and the decayed old gentry.” (Ind.)

“The style is easy, apparently practised, and the story does not lack for abundant incident.”

“It must be acknowledged that the author does not spare the faults of the negro any more than he spares those of the white man—and in both cases many of his pictures are true.”

“Taken all in all, the book is not as successful as one could wish, and certainly is distinctly inferior to the author’s earlier work.”

No one is eligible to this club unless he has invented a brand new occupation by which he earns a living. The members include a man who offers himself to dinner hosts as a butt for repartee, another who guarantees to provide any commonplace soul as well as the more gifted, with a suitable romance. The founder of the 69club earns his livelihood by seeking out new members and has all sorts of unique experiences.

“It is neither here nor there; neither veritable romantic extravaganza, true detective literature, nor consistent satire upon either of those forms of fiction.” H. W. Boynton.

* “Clever and amusing as the stories are, the book is not altogether happy.”

“Mr. Chesterton is undeniably clever. These stories are whimsical and ingenious rather than humorous. The stories are uneven in merit.”

“With the exception of the first episode the execution is hardly up to the level of the conception. The book, in fine, gives one the impression rather of a series of brilliant improvisations than of a finished work of art.”

Mr. Chesterton “has described nearly every strong man of our day,” and in these essays “he is calling out from the housetops to happier uncontemplative men, to come out and be sad, like himself, in thinking of supreme happiness.... He praises an abstract Chestertonian man of whom he is hopelessly and continually in pursuit. That everything he recommends is right, we indeed believe; but he cries in the wilderness, and with no human voice, no trace of suffering or experience at all, but only an anchorite’s imagining.” (Acad.)

* “‘Heretics’ goes farther than any of its forerunners toward convincing us that the humorist really has something worth saying and worth understanding. The trouble with his method is that while it is infallible for getting the attention, it is not well calculated to keep it.” H. W. Boynton.

“With all his daring, he succeeds in keeping to windward of sheer silliness and mere sensationalism.” H. W. Boynton.

* “Between the covers of ‘Heretics’ there is not a little excellent critical doctrine. Yet the writer ought to trust his readers to understand him without preliminary shouts to attract their attention.” Edward Fuller.

“One page amuses by its originality of conception and expression, the next provokes by its insecurity of argument, the third charms by its suggestiveness. It is a book to be relished, not as a whole, but in snatches. With all its half-playful cynicism, it seems to be in the main sincere.” Edith J. R. Isaacs.

“The general comment on Mr. Chesterton is that he is extremely ingenious, but so inordinately whimsical that it would be absurd to take him seriously. The true account of him is that he is not ingenious at all, but exceptionally straight forward and matter-of-fact.” Herbert W. Horwill.

“Mr. Chesterton is quite as trenchant and exuberant as he was, and we are, after all, not much older than we were; yet we join in the fun with perceptibly less eagerness now. The truth is that Mr. Chesterton has done in this book what he always did ostensibly, and always avoided really; he has given himself away.”

* “His ideas are sounder than many a casual reader will be willing to admit. They are sound in spite of Mr. Chesterton’s perversity.”

“For in the things that really matter Mr. Chesterton is on the side of the angels. He is orthodox. He handles his heretics sometimes like Bishop Bonner, with firmness and jocosity; sometimes like Socrates, turning their pet phrases inside out, and showing their hollowness; but all are handled paradoxically.”

Cheyne, Thomas Kelly. Bible problems and the new material for their solution. *$1.50. Putnam.

A lecture which “is in part a presentation of the new facts which require better attention, and in part a plea for bolder Biblical criticism, as justified by these facts, and as necessary to the now imperative work of theological restatement.” (Outlook). Among the strongly insisted upon “new facts” are the study of the New Testament in the light of mythology, and due regard for Winckler’s discovery in Assyrian inscriptions of North Arabian names that suggest numerous corrections in our present text of the Old Testament. On the other hand, Professor Cheyne states that his views “tend to increased conservatism in the rendering of the text of the Jewish Old Testament.”

In making clear the fundamental facts of English history, Professor Cheyney emphasizes full descriptions of early institutions and conditions, the study of really great movements and influential men, and the necessity of adhering to the thread of one’s country’s history. Each chapter is followed by a list of works and portions of works suggested for general reading.

“It has many good points, one of which is that Professor Cheyney has very definite ideas of what a school-book should include.”

“The book is well planned throughout. From printers’ and other errors the work is remarkably free.” Norman MacLaren Trenholme.

“Apparently this one is better in the earlier than in the later portions. The book ... must be regarded as a compendium, rather than as an original inquiry, and, as such, it will be found useful.”

Christian, Eugene, and Christian, Mrs. Eugene. Uncooked foods and how to use them. $1. Health culture.

The authors contend that “the application of heat in the cooking of food destroys some of the important food elements that were vital and organic by rendering them inorganic, including those that are needed in the building up of the system and the maintenance of bodily and mental health.” Recipes for the preparation of uncooked food, healthful combinations and menus for the benefit of those who wish to try the experiment, follow the arguments.

Illustrated from photographs of well known paintings, and with marginal decorations of conventionalized Christmas greens, this collection of carols, many of which are reprinted from old broad-sides, begins with In excelsis gloria, and includes Welcome yule, sung in the time of Henry VI; several Elizabethan carols; Herrick’s Ode on the birth of our Saviour; The three kings, in the version of Henry VII’s time; Joy to the world, a popular favorite in Devon and Cornwall; and many popular carols whose time and authorship are unknown. The explanatory note given at the head of each carol, telling all that is known of its history adds much to the interest of the collection as its value is historical rather than poetical.

Christy, Robert, comp. Proverbs, maxims, and phrases of all ages; classified subjectively and arranged alphabetically. **$3.50. Putnam.

In this new edition, the first since 1887, the two original volumes have been compressed into one, the work is apparently otherwise unchanged.

“The collection needs careful revision, and is worth it even as it stands; it contains the material for a good treasury of proverbial sayings.”

A novel municipal experiment is recorded in the history of the origin, construction and financial organization of this railroad. As early as 1836 the need of a railway between Cincinnati and the South was felt so strongly that at a mass meeting held in Cincinnati one million dollars was subscribed for the enterprise. Before anything definite could be accomplished, the Civil war came and checked all such projects. After many delays, authority was secured from the legislature of Ohio as well as from those of Kentucky and Tennessee, and in 1873 the actual work of construction began, necessary funds being lent by the trustees from their own pockets. In July, 1877, the first division of the road was opened for business. Millions of dollars were raised by the sale of bonds, and the road is at present in the possession of the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific railway co. as lessee, while the Cincinnati Southern holds the legal title for the city of Cincinnati. The lease expires in 1906.

Cipperly, John Albert. Labor laws and decisions of the state of New York. pa. *$1. Banks & co.

This compilation includes statutes as well as cases. “Besides its value for purposes of reference, it shows almost at a glance what has been done in this state for ‘Labor,’ and how far we have advanced (or fallen away) from a state of society in which the laborer shifts for himself. On paper our laws are very paternal.” (Nation.)

A pathetic story of a Quaker maid, living the quiet life of the Friends and all but betrothed to a serious minded young neighbor. A dashing southerner and his frivolous sister come into the peaceful community, the sister to prove to the stern young Quaker that he has his frailties, and her brother to win the heart of the little Quaker maid. There is a description of a visit to their southern plantation, and then comes the war—and heart break and disaster. An Anglican minister and his devoted wife add humor to the story.

“Taken as a whole, the book is weak and commonplace. Max Adeler should by all means go back to his old humorous methods.”

“The character drawing is excellent. There are some highly dramatic passages and the story is replete with incidents and adventures. Perhaps its greatest value lies in its worth as a careful, interesting and faithful psychological study.”

“One of the best novels of the season. This book is remarkable because it is not viciously witty, altho it comes from the pen of a professional wit.”

“About the book as a whole there is a kind of sweet, old-fashioned fragrance which inclines one, no doubt for sentimental reasons, to look back on it kindly.”

“The usual intermingling of joy and sorrow, love and life, appears in the quiet story, simply told.”

“It cannot be said that the story as a whole is evenly strong, or that it realizes all the climaxes that its plot affords. It is never dramatic, and it is often amateurish.”

“The book leaves a tranquilly sad impression on the reader’s mind, the workmanship is highly finished and the plot is well thought out.”

“The familiar principle that the proper design of punishment is reformatory, not vindictive, is here applied in a new line of argument to the problem of retribution. Mr. Clarke works out a Biblical doctrine that aims to avoid the objections made severally to the theories of endless retribution, annihilation, and universalism. Substantially, it is a purgatorial scheme. In this the Biblical antithesis to ‘salvation’ is not ‘damnation’ but ‘judgment,’ corrective as well as punitive.”—Outlook.

* Clarke, William Newton. Use of the Scriptures in theology; the Nathaniel William Taylor lectures delivered at Yale university in 1905. **$1. Scribner.

The fundamental premise of this volume is “that a rationally sound theology depends on the soundness of the method of using the Bible as a source of theology. Dr. Clarke shows that the traditional method is unsound, and what mischief has been done by it. He then discusses the problem created by the search for a sound method, what this method is, and what its results, both negative and positive.”—Outlook.

* “Dr. Clarke has written a book which every minister should buy or beg or borrow.”

* “Though this is a small book, it may be reckoned equal to the best productions of its author.”

This volume contains half a dozen short stories all of which bear upon the general subject of youthful journalistic experiences, which Clemens has been pleased to call, Editorial wild oats. The sketches are entitled: My first literary venture; Journalism in Tennessee; Nicodemus Dodge—printer; Mr. Bloke’s item; How I edited an agricultural paper; and The killing of Julius Caesar “localized.”

* “Mark Twain’s fund of humor seems inexhaustible, so here again it remains at its old-time high level.”

“A compendium of miscellaneous information about all the women artists that the author could discover between the seventh century B.C. and the twentieth, A.D. Among the thousand names included, the late nineteenth century is the most fully represented. As the greater part of the material about contemporary painters was furnished by themselves, we may assume that it is correct.... Being alphabetically arranged, the book is a convenient manual from which to extract information about artists who have not yet got into the encyclopedias. A number of full-page illustrations add interest to the text, and a fifty-page introduction gives a general idea of what women have accomplished in art.”—Dial.

“Professor Clement ... here attempts a survey of the moral forces which are now in full energy in Japan.” (Nation.) The book gives a “bird’s-eye view of the work of Christianity in Japan. It is not intended to cover the work in great detail; it is rather planned to be a general outline with reference to books, pamphlets, and magazines, where more complete information can be obtained on each special topic.” (Pub. Opin.)

“With index, tables and other equipment for a book to be studied, this has also a decided literary charm.” William Elliot Griffis.

* “Orderly arrangement, historical development, engagingly shown, philosophical insight, and a brisk luminous style make this a model handbook, pleasing and valuable.”

“In literary proportion and breadth of view and in keenness of insight, this book is a model. It is all the more likely to be permanent in its influence because of its cool, judicial temper.”

“Mr. Clement’s book is a comprehensive discussion of the development of Christianity in Japan.”

The introduction states: “The book endeavors to portray Japan in all its features as a modern world power: It cannot be expected to cover in great detail all the ground outlined, because it is not intended to be an exhaustive encyclopedia of ‘things Japanese.’ It is expected to satisfy the specialist, not by furnishing all materials, but referring for particulars to works where abundant materials may be found. It is expected to satisfy the average reader, by giving a kind of bird’s-eye view of modern Japan. It is planned to be a compendium of condensed information, with careful references to the best sources of more complete knowledge.”

A prettily illustrated book showing the flowers popular each month of the Japanese year. Descriptive bits, snatches of folk-lore, and poems with a chapter on Japanese gardens make the whole a charming book. The flowers for the months, beginning with January and ending with December, are the pine, plum, peach, cherry, wistaria, iris, morning-glory, lotus, “seven grasses,” maple, chrysanthemum, and camellia.

“This work ... is intended ... as a handbook for investigators and for advanced students of ecology, and not as a text book on the subject.... The book is presented in four chapters ... the first of which deals with the scope, historical development, present status and important applications of ecology.... The second chapter is concerned with the habitat and methods of its investigation.... The third chapter has to do with the plant, the stimuli which it receives, the nature of its response, its adjustment and adaptation especially to water and light as stimuli.... The fourth chapter ... has for its general subject the formation or vegetation unit consisting essentially of plants in a habitat.”—Science.

“Altogether, Clements’s ‘Research methods in ecology’ is a notable contribution to the literature of ecology.” Conway MacMillan.

“Timely and valuable is this critique of the American currency and banking system.... Holding that the time has come when changes in the National bank act are imperative, in the direction both of securing more effective governmental control and of insuring greater currency ‘elasticity,’ Dr. Cleveland contends that whatever financial reforms be undertaken, they should be in the way of adapting, not revolutionizing, the existing system.”—Outlook.

“There is no disputing the fact that it is a contribution, and indeed a very worthy one, even if it does not contain the final word on the subject. As to the ground covered, however, those who are interested in such problems cannot do better than to consult this volume; indeed, they cannot afford not to do it.” J. E. Conner.

“The instructed reader will find not a few things in the book that will arouse his wonder.”

“The work of an acute observer and careful reasoner, of one who has gone deeply and intelligently into every phase of his subject.”

If in times of weighty new matters, there are any who have a moment for a backward glance, they would do well to review with Mr. Cleveland some of the problems of his administration which “illustrate the design, the tradition, and the power of our government.” The chapters are four: “Independence of the executive,” “The government in the Chicago strike of 1894,” “The bond issue,” and “The Venezuelan boundary controversy.”

The treatise is an attempt to analyse and understand the law which governs the use of colors, so that we may know how to produce harmony and not strike a jarring note. The author makes practical suggestions for the use of colors in house furnishings. There are many illustrations.

“The author of this interesting little treatise has brought the subject within the understanding of any one.”

“The rustle and patter of leaves, the trilling of birds, the whisper of rain make April music in Miss Clifford’s poetry; for all that these sounds have been caught and tamed in rhyme and measure, it is still the natural elementary melodies of the earth, not the artificial music of man, that her songs suggest. Lyric succeeds lyric and mood follows mood like sun and shade in the forest on a day in spring.”—Lond. Times.

“But it is difficult to quote enough to convey the faint charm of these poems, a charm which is diffused rather than distilled. As a maker of haunting refrains Miss Clifford is often felicitous.”

“The charm of Miss Clifford’s poetry lies in the woodland simplicity. She is at her best when she pays no heed to the works of man.”

“Miss Clifford’s new volume is less interesting than her first. The dramatic poems are the best; few of the other pieces are more than merely pretty and tuneful.”

Clouston, J. Storer. Lunatic at large. $1. Buckles. also pub. by Brentano’s.

A young doctor without a practice receives a tempting offer of £500 and expenses to travel with a wealthy youth mentally unbalanced. Fearing to trust himself to the caprice of a lunatic, a friend of his represents the patient, while the “sane lunatic” is drugged and left in a private asylum. The amazing doings of this clever and worldly wise young man constitute the book. His methods of escape, his escapades in London, his periodical change of name, scene, and history are skilfully and amusingly handled.

“Is not at all probable, and not very edifying, but it is certainly well written and entertaining.”

A well-illustrated manual of the families of non-flowering plants, other than the ferns, found in North America north of Mexico.

“The book is a valuable addition to our literature of less-known American plants.”

“There can hardly be a more convenient guide for the beginner who, having busied himself somewhat with ferns, wishes to glance at their relatives. The text is interesting and the drawings are clear.”

A volume of eighty sonnets and poems including personal tributes to Mr. Stedman, Mr. Yeats, Madame Bernhardt, and Helen Keller, Beethoven, Picquart, Whistler, E. N. Westcott, Stevenson, Millet, and Joan of Arc, and verses to England, Paris, and Buffalo, and to the “War for the liberation of Cuba.”

“Of the excellence of Mrs. Coates’s sentiments there can be no doubt; her nature is warmly responsive to whatever is worthy in life and beautiful in art. But her expression does not often exhibit spontaneity or achieve distinction.”

“The best of the poems ... are those which deal with persons. These are always sympathetic to the essential quality of the man.”

“The distinguishing marks of Mrs. Coates’ verse are simplicity and an unashamed gravity.”

A clear, level-headed exposition of the problems facing every business man from the least to the greatest, and suggestions regarding how to meet and handle them. Such subjects are treated as choosing a profession, system, credit, collections, office management, relations to employes, advertising, use of trading stamps, etc.

* “A little volume of practical suggestions, written from personal experiences.”

In view of the steady increase in military and naval expenditure by the British government, the Cobden club has issued this volume which deals with the subject in the spirit of Cobden and carries his narrative and arguments down to the present date. Part 1, is a condensed restatement of Cobden’s arguments in “The three panics” (1863), part 2, Retrenchment, deals with the economic reaction between 1863 and 1884, part 3, The growth of militarism, gives an account of the relapse into extravagance, part 4, is a plea for disarmament.

“The book under consideration is much more than a mere recall to right feeling: it is no less than an appeal to common sense.”

“The tremendous industrial progress of the past few decades is recorded in this volume in brief descriptions of many inventions and discoveries and new applications of old discoveries.” (Outlook). “Among the numerous subjects discussed are electricity, including the progress made by Marconi, great canals and tunnels, bridges, tools of destruction, great farms and farming machinery, the iron horse 73and the railways, foods, engineering enterprises, newspapers and periodicals, instruments of science, cotton, wool, and texture manufactures, etc.” (Bookm.) There are over four hundred illustrations.

“In a straightforward, practicable manner, makes clear the recent steps in the field of mechanics and invention.”

“Such books as this are especially useful in school and public libraries. Not as interestingly written as might be, but full of information.”

“The work is therefore encyclopædic in scope, and, as it is the production of a single mind, is neither profound in treatment nor remarkable for accuracy. Carelessness in composition and revision makes many of the sentences, to say the least, ambiguous. As a scientific treatise, the book is worthless. As a popular survey of modern progress, were it more carefully written and more generously indexed, it would be useful.”

“Mr. Cochrane’s subject is large, and he has pretty well covered it. His book is as full of meat as an egg; and good meat it seems to be, too.”

“The volume is obviously intended for popular consumption, having no orderly or logical arrangement of subjects, and the treatment being absolutely untechnical.”

Professor Coe finds the essence of religious education “on the part of the teacher self-revelation and self impartation; on the part of the pupil, self-expression and self-realization.” In other words, all religious education is the “genuine mingling of a developed life in the interests and occupations of an undeveloped life.” (Bib. World). The best field for religious training is in the home, where the most free and natural relations exist. It is by revealing a sincere and self-sacrificing attitude toward life that a religious influence can be exerted.

“It is in the breadth, courage and sanity of his survey of the social situation that the chief merit of his work is found.”

“This is a great book—the greatest on its subject since Bushnell’s ‘Christian nurture’ in 1847. It takes religious education off its apex of formal dogmatic instruction, and sets it down on the broad, stable base of sharing the concrete experiences of life. It gives us a point of view; and in the light of that point of view goes forth to challenge all unreality and insincerity. This book should be in the hands of every Christian.” William DeWitt Hyde.

“The treatment of the problem in hand is thoroughly in accord with good psychological and pedagogical practice. The whole work, a worthy complement to Professor Coe’s previous publication on ‘The religion of a mature mind,’ is vitalizing and illuminating in its character and effect.”

A humorous account of the trials and tribulations of a newly married couple. “Two babes in the woods in this wilderness of flats make a pathetic attempt to have a real home, which comes to grief through a succession of disasters in the shape of incompetent or dishonest or impossible cooks. The mistress of the tiny ‘flat’ knows many things, but not how to cook; her experiences are enough to have turned her pretty hair gray, and one wonders if there is for her and women like her any other solution than the ‘apartment hotel,’ which is the only one the book offers.” (Ind.)

“Seldom has it been our pleasure to read a more delightful satire on one phase of our present-day urban life. Has treated the servant-girl question in an inimitable manner. Though exaggerated at times as is the wont of the humorist, it is from first to last broadly true, and on the whole the story will prove as excellent a cure for the blues as the first reading of Mark Twain’s ‘Innocents Abroad.’”

“There is a fund of humour and entertainment in ‘Wanted a cook’ which makes it delightful reading.”

“Perhaps the most feeling, altho somewhat farcical, presentment of the vexed problem is the latest by Alan Dale.”

A compilation of prose and verse on Jewish subjects, most of which concern Bible characters.

A volume of dogmatic essays. “Some of his best chapters have to do with ‘The business of writing,’ and ‘Literary compulsion.’ ‘The literary temperament’ is treated in a way that makes the reader squirm in his chair. ‘The temptation of authors’ contains a warning to successful and prolific writers. ‘The danger of spreading oneself thin is that the time surely comes when it is done unconsciously. A man thinks it his thought flowing on like that, when it is only his ink.’ The fitness of Mr. Colby’s title, ‘Imaginary obligations,’ is somewhat imaginary.... But a book must have a title, and for a collection of loosely related essays one will serve about as well as another.” (Dial).

“The range of topics is wide, the comments are pointed, and the style is, on the whole, decidedly racy. No reader can fail to enjoy the wit and the satire even when they are directed against some pet hobby of his. The fun is harmless and it may be found to be accompanied by wisdom.”

“Mr. Colby possesses a good measure of shrewd sense, a wholesome hatred of humbug and a keen eye to detect it, a practised pen, and a knack of terse, incisive, and often striking expression. But with these qualities go their defects: aiming to be brilliant and sententious, he occasionally exaggerates and makes phrases.”

This book grew out of a series of addresses given before young people. It deals with some aspects of service but chiefly with certain qualifications of the useful life; viz. sympathy, courage, perseverance and aspiration. These are symbolized by four faces, the face of a man, a lion, an ox, an eagle, the emblem of the four evangelists.

This volume of the Belles-lettres series contains select poems of Coleridge arranged in chronological order, with introduction and notes by the editor.

Collier’s self-indexing annual for 1905: a contemporaneous encyclopedia and pictorial history of men and events of the past year as recorded and described by the world’s foremost specialists in every department of human progress. $5. Collier.

Here the time saver finds in ready-to-use form the “political history of the world and of important current events in the fields of labor, industry, science, invention, the arts, sport, education, religion, and sociology.” “The material has been collated from ‘Collier’s Weekly,’ is preceded by a sketch review of the year 1904, which is to be highly praised as a model of condensed statement, and is arranged in alphabetical order, with many illustrations.” (Outlook).

Collins, F. Howard. Author and printer: a guide for authors, editors, printers, correctors of the press, compositors and typists. *$2.25. Oxford.

“The want of uniformity in spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and use of italic type causes continual trouble to all who are responsible for the editorial supervision of scientific literature in any form.... Mr. Collins has prepared his book to help in this end.... The volume contains more than twenty thousand separate entries of words arranged alphabetically. Included among these are abbreviations, disputed spellings, foreign words and phrases, divisions of words, and various rules and explanations which should prove of service to authors and editors.”—Nature.

“In conclusion we can pronounce this compilation useful, if almost without rhyme or reason and certainly not highly authoritative.”

* Collyer, Robert. Augustus Conant, Illinois pioneer and preacher. *60c. Am. Unitar.

This second volume in “True American types” series contains the charmingly simple record of the plucky career of a typical New Englander who was born in Vermont in 1811, went west in the early days as an Illinois pioneer and later became a minister with the staunch support of his young wife. After triumphing over circumstances he met his death in the Civil war as chaplain in the Union army. The author’s account is supplemented by quotations from the quaintly brief entries in his various journals, and the whole forms a significant story of the life of man who wrested happiness and success from a barren environment.

Captain Buckingham enlivens a winter afternoon by recounting his adventures in South America and elsewhere. Leaving the town of Greenough and the girl he had “agreed” to marry, he traversed the belted seas for thirty years, drifting back at last to his old harbor to gaze on the tombstone of his sweetheart, and assist in her daughter’s elopement. His story includes humorous yarns of hotel keeping in a ship carried inland by a tidal wave, of a hidden treasure over which a squatter had calmly built his cabin, and of a whale which put forth to sea with a hen roosting on a harpoon embedded in its side.

“His work is never commonplace, but never before has he been so light-hearted, so effervescent of spirit as here.”

“Some of his turns of thought are provocative of the heartiest laughter, and he never permits his auditors an instant of boredom.”

“It is a toy, very ingenious and puzzling, we must admit, but not a genuine specimen of literary handicraft.”

“Captain Tom’s description of his eccentric mates is occasionally exaggerated to the point of caricature, and his style is inconsistent, wavering between the style of the plain mariner and that of a clever, versatile, even brilliant writer.”

“A certain knack of conversation and characterization, a certain largeness of view where the differing morals and madnesses of men are concerned, which gives them not only interest, but a sort of oneness.”

“Its humor is both spontaneous and demure, and its comedy pointed and subtle.”

“This is of the grotesque, distorted type of humorous story. His observations on human nature are often shrewd and amusing.”

“Mr. Colton’s sailor men are flesh and blood, though their adventures are the wildest flights of fancy.”

The author “recounts at the outset her visit to Naples and Rome, interspersing her narrative of travel with historical discussion.... From Rome she takes us to Vienna, Budapest, Munich, Wartburg and Weimar, thence to Paris. A visit to England and Windsor castle concludes the trip. The pictures are excellent throughout.”—Boston Evening Transcript.

“Miss Colton has nothing new to tell, in this narrative of a brief European trip; but she tells her story simply and well.”

Colyar, Arthur St. Clair. Life and times of Andrew Jackson; soldier—statesman—president. 2v. $6. Marshall & B.

Mr. Colyar is a lawyer and an enthusiastic admirer of Jackson. His object in writing these books is to give a sympathetic account of the great Tennesseean, and he has produced a democratic biography which is at times historically biased.

Coman, Katharine. Industrial history of the United States for high schools and colleges. *$1.25. Macmillan.

In this volume Prof. Coman aims “to bring the essential elements of the economic history of this country within the grasp of the average reader, and she has also adapted it for high 75school and college students.... There are many illustrations in half-tone in the book, as well as a number of maps and diagrams, and, besides the authorities given in the margin, the book is supplied with a list of books and their authors for the general reader.” (N. Y. Times.)

* “It supplements in a highly interesting way the ordinary narrative text-book, and will prove a valuable adjunct in the teaching of the subject.”

“While the author has not always satisfactorily exhibited the economic forces underlying the great movements and events in the history of the United States, she has, on the whole, performed a difficult task well. It is by no means easy to marshal the facts in an interesting way and at the same time bring out their significance; but this the author has succeeded in doing to a praiseworthy degree.”

* “The book as a whole is a model of clear statement and systematized information.”

“‘The companion to Greek studies’ differs in scope from other books of the same class; for, besides a survey of Greek life, thought, and art in their different branches, it includes a chapter on the physical conditions of Greece, another containing chronological tables of politics, literature, and art, and a chapter on certain branches of criticism and interpretation. While each article has been intrusted to a writer who has made a special study of the subject, it has been the aim of the work to give the substance of our knowledge in a concise form.... It is hoped that the full table of contents and the indexes of proper names and Greek words will increase the value of the book for purposes of reference. Bibliographies have generally been appended to each article to help those who seek further information. Plans, views, and reproductions of ancient works of art have been carefully chosen and inserted in those articles in which illustration seems most necessary.” Preface.

“The lack of references is a serious drawback. As a companion to the reading of Greek authors, a handbook for reference about Greek things, the book is convenient, well arranged and, in all essentials, trustworthy.”

“It is not a book, but a compressed encyclopedia, a vast collection of facts crammed into the smallest possible compass. Almost the whole book is interesting, in spite of its compression.”

“Few volumes have a stronger claim to their places in the library of the classical scholar.”

“What Dr. Smith’s ‘Dictionary of antiquities’ was for students half a century ago this is for those of to-day. In concise form it exhibits the larger and more accurate knowledge gained by recent research, and also treats of subjects not heretofore presented in works of this kind. As a book of reference it is all that could be desired. Its illustrations are both numerous and fine. In this work British scholars have again scored most creditably. In their index of scholars and modern writers Americans are scarcer than the facts require.”

“If the object of the compilers was to give the maximum of information in the minimum of space, they have certainly succeeded in the attempt.”

Compatriots’ club lectures. Compatriots’ club lectures: first series. *$2.75. Macmillan.

The Compatriots’ club, a non-partizan body, was constituted in March, 1904, with the object of advancing the ideal of a united British empire. The present volume contains eight lectures. The principles of constructive economics as applied to the maintenance of empire, by J. L. Garvin; Tariff reform and national defense, by H. W. Wilson; Imperial preference and the cost of food, by Sir Vincent Caillard; The evolution of the empire, by Hon. St. John A. Cockburn, K. C. M. C.; The proper distribution of the population of the empire, by H. A. Gwynne; Political economy and the tariff problem, by Prof. W. J. Ashley; Colonial preference in the past, by John W. Hills, and Tariff reform and political morality, by the Rev. Dr. William Cunningham.

“No better text-book could be accepted both by friends and opponents as a starting place for discussion.”

“These lectures we believe will have a wide-reaching educative effect in preparing opinion for the part which the state will take in the future in many matters from which the individualist theory has excluded it.”

“It is the work of a group of well-known men, who obviously believe what they write, and who in many respects have advanced beyond the crude fallacies and cheap-Jack promises which have disfigured Mr. Chamberlain’s presentment of his own case. It is worth while to see why such men are protectionists, and where the flaw in their reasoning lies.”

Condit, Edgar Mantelbert. Two years in three continents: experiences, impressions and observation of two Americans abroad. **$2. Revell.

The author and his wife, starting from Ireland, visited all the capitals of Europe, and then Russia and the Orient. The account of their journey is both humorous and interesting, and they give many valuable and homely details not found in the ordinary book of travels.

“The book is replete with humor, and is all the better because it is so thoroughly American in quality. Mr. Condit’s descriptive powers are excellent. In this the good spirits of the writer always predominates and it is easy reading.”

Condivi, Ascanio. Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti, tr. by Herbert P. Horne. *$7.50. Updike.

“Condivi wrote a great biography, tho no longer than a Plutarch. It puts Michael Angelo before us a genius yet a man. It is rich in choice anecdote, it describes the rivalries and reverses, the successes and triumphs incident to one of power and resource and ambition, and over all its style and treatment give the time as Castiglione describes it. The work itself and Addington Symond’s praise should have before this prompted a popular English edition. Mr. Horne’s translation is close and con amore, but the book is published in a very limited edition.”—Ind.

“Altogether, the volume is one in which the bibliophile no less than the art student will rejoice.”

76“The format is less notable than the biography of the translation. Mr. Horne designed the type which is here first used. It is chaste and clearly cut, yet the page is not clear.”

“Condivi’s narrative is always delightful, it is so unaffected and sincere. The present translation is pleasant to read, having plenty of character.”

Conley, John Wesley. Bible in modern light: a course of lectures before the Bible department of the Woman’s club, Omaha. **75c. Griffith & R.

In this series of lectures the author “treats the character and composition of the Bible, manuscripts, translations, light from the monuments; and deals with such problems as the relation of the Bible to science, art, ethics, woman, education, progress.” (Am. J. of Theol.)

“A series of simple, clear and popular lectures.” Charles Richmond Henderson.

“In a class where a competent leader could fill gaps and expand outlines, the book might serve as a suggestive textbook.” Henry M. Bowden.

Eight stories of the Gloucester fishermen entitled: The sail-carriers; The wicked “Celestine”; The truth of the Oliver Cromwell; Strategy and seamanship; Dory-mates; The saving of the bark Fuller; On Georges shoals; and Patsie Oddie’s black night.

* “Well sustains the reputation won for him by his previous stories in the same field.”

Connolly, James B. On Tybee knoll: a story of the Georgia coast. †$1.25. Barnes.

“This is a short, simple but interesting story of rivalry between some contractors on river and harbor work at Savannah, Ga. The young hero and his older partner have various exciting experiences in executing a contract that involved cutting and rafting some poles for dipper dredges. The rafts were stolen, rescued, cut adrift and finally rescued again. Incidentally there are races, fights and rescues on the water.”—Engin. N.

“One forgives the extravagance of the story for the sake of the exhilarating sea breeze that seems to blow through all the pages.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

Connor, Ralph, pseud. (Charles William Gordon.) Prospector. $1.50. Revell.

The story of the life of a young minister who goes from the university of Toronto to his work of self-sacrifice in the wilds. He is affectionately called the Prospector because he untiringly seeks out lonely ranches and brings their owners into touch with their distant neighbors. There are vivid pictures of Canadian frontier life and character, and there is, of course, a love interest.

“From cover to cover physical strength is glorified; but it is the physical strength of teachers and preachers, of earnest, deadly earnest, muscular Christians. Literary merit has nothing to do with the author’s success. His English is fairly sound, and that is as much as may be said for the writing.”

“The splendors of home missionaries’ sacrifice have never been more vividly portrayed.”

Late writers have often turned to the “new lands” of South America for picturesque settings for their stories. Mr. Conrad has laid the scene of his new novel in a republic on the western coast. “In this country an English family has long been settled and has had for its stake the government concession of a silver mine, handed down from father to son, and entailing much disagreeable ‘squeezing’ from successive presidents and dictators. The descendant to whom it has fallen when the present narrative opens is the first one to make it a really valuable property, and in the development he becomes the greatest power in the state, enlisting foreign capital, building railroads, and carrying governments on his pay roll. A final desperate effort on the part of greedy politicians to get control of the goose that lays his golden egg is the main feature of the plot ... but the psychological interest predominates over the adventurous or romantic interest which justifies the author in naming this novel after one of its characters ... one upon whom Mr. Conrad has concentrated his analytical powers.” (Dial).

“A novel ought not to be a snap-shot, it should be a firmly and richly woven fabric. Such is ‘Nostromo.’ Flexible and vivid style.” O. H. Dunbar.

“Readers will find in the book ample reward for their pains in perusing it, will often reach the point of exasperation at its lengthy analyses, its interminable dragging-out of incident, and its frequent harking back to antecedent conditions. The work is a very strong one, and we can think of no other writer, unless it be Mr. Cunningham-Grahame, who could have done anything like as well with the same material.” W. M. Payne.

“As a study of South American revolution the book is a monument of realism. There is ever present a psychological question, a moral issue that is as modern as Ibsen.”

“The love element is slight and in its development irregular, and the adventurous element is not absorbing. The stream of the story is always slender. It glimmers and shimmers most poetically—what there is of it—but even at its broadest and strongest it gives no hint of bearing the reader along with it, and again and again it sinks wholly out of sight amid the silver sands of picturesque description.”

Conrad, Stephen, pseud. (Stephen Conrad Stuntz). Mrs. Jim and Mrs. Jimmie. †$1.50. Page.

A recital of the experiences of Mrs. Jim at quilting parties, picnics, sociables, weddings, commencements, and fires, interspersed by comments of Mrs. Jimmie. There is much real village life, much satire, and not a little homely philosophy.

* “This story sustains the same relation to love that an old-fashioned ‘experience meeting’ sustains to religion.”

Conway, Moncure Daniel. Autobiography, memories and experiences. 2v. **$6. Houghton.

A frank autobiography of a long life. Mr. Conway says of himself: “A pilgrimage from pro-slavery to anti-slavery enthusiasm, from Methodism to Freethought, implies a career of contradictions.” Born in Virginia of a slave-holding family, 1832, he prepared for the Methodist ministry; but at twenty-one, alienated from his family and old beliefs, he turned to the Unitarian ministry and took an active part in the anti-slavery movement in the early fifties. In 1863 he went to England to lecture in behalf of the North, and remained in London, where he formed lasting friendships with the “good and great” of his time. His account of his experiences and his pictures of the people whom he knew are of exceptional interest.

“Two very entertaining volumes that will prove of marked interest to the general reader, and may be of considerable service to the historical student. Commendation for their general readableness and attractiveness.”

* “On the whole Mr. Conway’s volume is the most important book of its kind that has been published during the present year.” R. W. Kemp.

“Two large volumes, and I do not think there is a dry page in either one of them.” Jeannette L. Gilder.

“He has, therefore, won the gratitude due for a compilation that makes easy and attractive reading. But it is emphatically the work of a clever journalist and genial clubman, not of a trustworthy historian. It will not be safe to use the material here collected unless it is otherwise confirmed. Mr. Conway is surprisingly careless even in matters closely connected with his own career.” Herbert W. Horwill.

“In a vivid and picturesque manner ... Mr. Moncure D. Conway tells the story of a strenuous life.” Walter Lewin.

“A man who has lived in such times and amid such associations must from the nature of the case have an interesting story to tell. Fortunately, Mr. Conway is too good a literary craftsman to let the story suffer in the telling.”

“We may say without hesitation that it is an instructive, as it is a transparently sincere, record of human experience. The first volume is meant for American more than for English readers.”

“The range of the selection is unlimited, since it includes Cicero, Pliny, Tragan, Mme. de Sevigné, and Voltaire.... The other eighty-eight letters ... are English or American, beginning with Addison and ending with ‘Ellen G. Starr.’”—N. Y. Times.

“The collection is an admirable one, representative of every form of the epistolary art, and made particularly attractive to the general reader by its freedom from editorial encumbrances.”

“As an avowed supplement to Scoones, such of their work as he has not anticipated would have a distinct value.”

A book designed for students and tourists, as well as general lovers of fine book workmanship. Six sections of Switzerland are covered—Western Switzerland, Eastern Switzerland, the Upper Rhine, the Middle Rhine, the great Rhine gorge, and the Lower Rhine, and in addition to the descriptive matter, there are numerous half-tone illustrations. He opens with a rapid survey of the history of the Swiss confederation, followed by descriptions of the Lake of Geneva, Lausanne, Vevey, and Montreux, coming next to the Castle of Chillon.

“He has here attempted to do for Switzerland what he has already done for America, England, and France, by emphasizing with personal impressions those points of human interest which usually receive mere perfunctory notice in the guide books.”

“The first volume deals with Provence under the Greeks and Romans. Mr. Cook writes entertainingly of the traces of Marius in Provence. He follows his march, camp by camp, through the country until he met the Teutons and the Ambrons on the bank of the Lar.... Volume II of the account of Provence is no less discursive than the first, and no less interesting in the same discursive way. It covers the period from about the time of Charlemagne, say, 900 A. D., to the death of the good King Réné in 1480, with excursions back to Greek, Roman, and Teutonic days and forward to modern times.”—N. Y. Times.

* “We heartily congratulate him on the interest of his book, but are not satisfied with it, for we feel certain that he can and will do better. The book seems to us wanting in plan, and from absence of design to be somewhat confused for the general reader.”

“Mr. Cook has not achieved a history of Provence. But he offers us a guide, indefatigable, vigorous, vivacious, eager to discourse on every subject, and primed with valuable information.”

* “There is room for many books about a region so replete with interest, and it can do nobody any harm to read this one; but, while it will not spare the traveller abroad the need of his guide-books, it has not the light and graceful touch and the gift of vivid presentation that will satisfy the reader who stays at home—the ultimate test.”

“A work containing much of interest and importance, and little that is trivial in itself, yet all so badly arranged that the reader has to pick and choose to find what he wants.”

* “Mr. Cook knows his Provence well, but he does not know how to tell about it. Nevertheless the volumes are worth buying and worth reading, for their contents cannot be obtained elsewhere.”

The principal figure in this labor-problem story is Mark Strong who from the ordinary miner’s lot rises to the ownership of a mine. Although once a member of the United mine workers, and still a believer in unions, he will not be bound by the inflexible rules of labor organizations, and employs non-union help. The struggle that ensues gives an opportunity for an exposition of arguments on both sides of the question.

* “The seriousness of the book is relieved by an element of humor which is perhaps better than nothing, although it is a humor of a rather cheap sort.” Wm. M. Payne.

Ten short plays, each in a single scene, which satirize the follies of the foibles of to-day.

A glimpse into the new nursery, where smart children who make epigrams dwell. Their prayers, lessons, play, social life, punishments and health are discussed.

“It is rich in insight, sanity, a wise and sympathetic understanding of his delightful circle of juvenile acquaintance. The whole book is blessedly free from any touch of the patronizing.”

“The volume as a whole is a clever and unusual combination of anecdote, fiction, biography, and serious discussion.”

“We do not take Mr. Cooper seriously; and the whole performance has an air of artificiality which produces irritation at every page.”

In the thin paper and flexible cover of the “Thin paper classics” this favorite Indian story becomes a handy pocket companion.

Cooper, Walter G. Fate of the middle classes. *$1.25. Consolidated retail booksellers.

“The only way to make sure of the general good is to guard the interests of every class with jealous care. This end is best attained when each class realizes that self-protection is the best protection, self-help the best help, and self-respect the surest guaranty of the respect of others.” This forms a part of the watchword of the volume.

“Despite these criticisms, we think this volume a real contribution to the thought of the day, because characterized by three qualities not too often found in combination in treatises on our industrial problems, namely, a careful study of existing conditions, a sane and non-partisan judgment respecting them, and something of prophetic vision regarding the tendency of industrial progress and the direction in which it should be guided.”

* “He has no very definite plan of organization, but he has at least sounded a note of warning.”

Cooper, William Colby. Immortality: the principal philosophic arguments for and against it. $1. W: Colby Cooper, Cleves, O.

“A serious and very able discussion, from the purely philosophical viewpoint, of the logical arguments for and against the theory of the persistence of life after the crisis of death.” (Arena.) The author is a physician.

“The method of presentation, however, is less open to criticism than the typography.”

“The argument seems conclusive for the survival of life and consciousness, but less conclusive for the survival of the individuality.”

Corelli, Marie (Minnie Mackay). Free opinions, freely expressed on certain phases of modern social life and conduct. **$1.20. Dodd.

The essays collected in this volume attack newspapers, Americans, and certain unfortunate tendencies which the author discovers in modern English society.

“The style of the essays ... is perhaps even more fervidly enthusiastic than that of the author’s fiction.”

“The disputatious, not to say censorious, tone of these essays moves the reviewer to remind the writer that people are seldom to be argued or scolded into wisdom. Have the merit of brevity and at times of sprightliness.”

“Violence, prejudice, a painfully narrow view of life, and a lack of proportion ... shockingly mar her present book.”

* Cornes, James. Modern housing: houses in town and country, illustrated by examples of municipal and other schemes of block dwellings, tenement houses, model cottages and villages. *$3. Scribner.

Mr. Cornes, who as a member of the Leek town council has made a study of the question of housing the working classes, and has conducted some interesting experiments in Leek itself, now writes of these experiments, makes suggestions which will lessen the cost of house construction and “furnishes some suggestive contrasts between the opportunities for building in town and country by the inclusion of some admirably executed plans and pictures of the cottages now on view at the Cheap Cottages exhibition at Letchworth.” (Spec.)

Coryat, Thomas. Coryat’s crudities hastily gobbled up in five moneths’ travells in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia commonly called the Grisons country, Helvetia alias Switzerland, some parts of High Germany and the Netherlands; newly digested in the hungry aire of Odcombe in the county of Somerset, and now dispersed to the nourishment of the travelling members of this kingdome; reprinted from the edition of 1611. 2v. *$6.50. Macmillan.

Altho the humor of the three-score panegyrics which gave the book unusual vogue in its first appearance has somewhat faded with time, there remains much to interest and amuse in this quaint account of travels afoot, of dangers, and of butterflies, of manners and of customs.

“His latest edition is luxuriously produced, and in every way worthy of him, given the publishers’ rule of not altering or pointing out his mistakes.”

79“Coryat’s style, whatever its defects, has often the true Elizabethan richness.”

“The quaintness of the original has been preserved, and it would be difficult, indeed, to imagine anything exceeding this work in precisely that quality.”

“Those who go through these hundred pages of the ‘Crudities’ do penance indeed.”

Couch, Arthur Thomas Quiller- (“Q,” pseud.). Mayor of Troy. †$1.50. Scribner.

“A quaint tale of the Cornish coast. The setting is historical, being that of the threatened Napoleonic invasion.... The mayor of Troy, who is also major of the volunteer artillery ... is ... snatched by ruthless fate from the scenes of his glory, seized by a press-gang ... and carried off to become an ornament of the British navy. The ship which bears him is blown up.... He is rescued by the enemy, and languishes ten years in a remote military prison. Meanwhile ... he is given up for dead, his wealth is distributed according to the terms of his will, and Troy does him all sorts of posthumous honors. When he returns—but we will not reveal what happens, remarking only that it is the unexpected.”—Dial.

* “The book presents us with one humorous situation after another, crowned by an invention so extraordinary that the author may fairly be said to have surpassed his own best previous efforts.” Wm. M. Payne.

* “Taken all in all, we should say that Mr. Quiller-Couch has never done much better work than in his ‘Mayor of Troy,’ and that is to praise it highly.”

Couch, Arthur Thomas Quiller-. Shakespeare’s Christmas and other stories. †$1.50. Longmans.

“A collection of ripe and forcible stories, of which the least successful is the one which gives its name to the book.” (Lond. Times.) They “range in date from the sixteenth to the beginning of the nineteenth century, and range in characters from Shakespeare and Wellington to the fishwives of Saltash and the highwaymen of Tregarrick.” (Ind.)

“We note the usual flavour of distinction in the writing, the scholarly attention to details, the little touches of observation which show how thoroughly the writer has identified himself with the beings of his invention.”

“His abundant knowledge of archeology and local color is effectively used without being made unduly conspicuous.”

“In most of these stories he does himself justice, and that is high praise.”

“Is as good a collection of stories as its title promises, and as this vivacious, ingenious, and voluminous writer always can be depended upon to furnish at wonderfully short intervals of time.”

“The material and setting of each story are striking and original, the manner of narration attractive and ingenious, yet the general effect is disappointing and unsatisfactory.”

Couch, Arthur Thomas Quiller- (“Q.” pseud.). Shining ferry. †$1.50. Scribner.

John Rosewarne, a stern, proud old man, looking back upon a reckless youth, his son, who follows the Bible after reading into it his own desires, the gentle Peter Benny and his eleven children, a blind boy, and many others enter into this story of a sleepy little sea port town.

“In the last third or so of the book the interest, to our mind, suddenly filters away. The fault is one of structure. The interest of the novel dribbles out along several lines, none of which assumes a principal position and concentrates attention. And such is the reason why we are disappointed with what is in large measure a well-written book, with plenty of character and written in excellent English.”

“In this book he seems, for the first time, to have achieved a novel really complete in character, incident, and construction.”

“Admirable studies of character. Its charm resides in the touches of gentle sentiment, of quaint humor, and tender feeling with which it is enriched in every chapter. It is a wholesome and human book, to be read with keen delight from beginning to end.” Wm. M. Payne.

“There is a savor in it—a distinction not only of style, but of thought and temper—which will enable it to outlive much fiction that is more strongly wrought.” Herbert W. Horwill.

“These figures are all well drawn—not over-drawn—neither too diabolical nor too angelic.”

“Quiller-Couch has a deft hand at character sketching, and in this latest story of his, one finds many character sketches and little story. Mr. Quiller-Couch has a goodly humor which saves his story from a certain melancholy gloominess which it might otherwise possess too abundantly.”

“There is not a forced or a strained note anywhere. The sense of proportion is everywhere evident in the book, so that when one closes it one is in possession of a little corner of the tapestry of life where not a stitch has been dropped.”

Coudert, Frederick René. Addresses, historical—political—sociological. **$2.50. Putnam.

The twenty-one addresses of this eminent international lawyer, which his editor has selected for this volume include: International arbitration; The Anglo-American arbitration treaty; The rights of ships; Christopher Columbus; Louis Kossuth; Andrew Jackson; Charles O’Conor, Montesquieu; Chief Justice Waite; France, Morals and manners; Reply to Dumas’s advocacy of divorce; Lying as a fine art; The bar of New York from 1792 to 1892; Young men in politics; and Columbia college.

* “In selecting from among his subject’s addresses those for use in this book ‘P. F.’ has been wholly successful, and has made a volume of much interest.”

* “They are valuable as specimens of a style worth studying by nascent writers and speakers.”

“The aim of the new Sunday-school manual is, as stated in its preface, ‘to bring the new education to bear on the old sacred and unchangeable truths, and to lead the children not only to know, but to love and practice them.’ ... The book suggests such new features as blackboard work, historical tablets, the use of the sandboard, pictures, poems, and the like.... The course mapped out is divided into eight grades, each including instruction in prayers, catechism, Bible history—both Old and New Testament—and Catholic devotions and practices.”—Cath. World.

“The scholarship and originality which mark the first chapter prevail throughout the work.”

From the first poem of this group the volume takes its name. The trial of Dreyfus furnishes the theme of one poem; two others are interpretations of Parsifal and Meistersinger; still others are commemorative in nature. There are also some interesting Spanish folk rhymes.

“Mr. Francis Coutts stands out head and shoulders from the generality of our modern minor poets in that in addition to its technical excellence his verse strikes a strong individual note.”

“Mr. Coutts’ muse would to us be austere were he not somewhat too vague, too nebulous, for austerity. A mastership of whatever form of verse he essays, a lofty purpose, withal a rooted fealty to poetic sorrow, must be conceded to Mr. Coutts.”

“This attitude of intellectual challenge is characteristic of the entire volume, and it is such touches of ‘sæva indignatio’ that give the author’s work its most distinctive quality.” Wm. M. Payne.

“It is impossible to read Mr. Coutts without admiration. But he lacks, through nearly all this volume, the human sweetness that is the preservative of poetry.”

“Mr. Coutts is always thoughtful and always sensitive to the imaginative import of his ideas.”

“He has extreme simplicity and chastity of style, what Stevenson has called ‘the piety of speech,’ a perfect taste, and an instinct for rendering in delicate poetry, evasive moods and fancies. There is also a gravity and austerity. The slightly forced reflectiveness seems to us to be a blemish in much of his work.”

Cowan, Rev. Henry. John Knox, the hero of the Scottish reformation, 1505-1572. **$1.35. Putnam.

In this seventh volume in the “Heroes of the reformation” series, the writer has aimed to “describe those portions of the career of Knox which are most likely to be of general interest: to place his life-work in its historical setting.” This he has done, giving a clear picture of the reformer and his times. References to original authorities are given in foot-notes and there is a complete index.

“While less piquant than Lang’s, is perhaps the better book for the student. With a quick penetration into the particular subject or episode in hand, a strong grasp of the situation, and with clear and rapid movement of style, he makes a good story as well as a trustworthy one.”

“The author is an advocate, but he is fair, dignified, and moderate in his advocacy of Knox’s side of these questions and of the general course of his conduct as a Puritan leader.” Charles H. Cooper.

“Dr. Cowan’s way of looking at Knox is, of course, not Mr. Lang’s way. Naturally Dr. Cowan’s biography is less interesting.”

“Dr. Cowan’s work is that of a professor unable to apprehend the spirit of a religion outside his sphere of thought.”

Cowen, Thomas. The Russo-Japanese war: from the outbreak of hostilities to the battle of Liao Yang. *$4.20. Longmans.

“A trained observer, for many years a war correspondent, describing for newspapers the Boer war, the Japanese-Chinese war, phases of the Spanish-American war, both in Cuba and the Philippines, the Boxer in China, and the siege of Peking, Mr. Cowen treats of the war in the East with exceptional facilities for getting at the facts.” (N. Y. Times). He analyses the reasons for Japanese success, he sums up the cause for Russia’s failures in the statement that “Indecision in emergency has been a characteristic weakness of Russia.” He follows the steps taken by Japan in her preparation for war, showing the methods adopted for meeting the peculiar difficulties to be overcome in opposing the host of Russia’s forces. “Remarkably effective as word pictures are his descriptions of the naval operations in the early days before Port Arthur.... And with it all there is a constant succession of pictures of army and navy life that is positively fascinating in the simple old-fashioned manner in which it is told with no attempt at ‘fine writing.’” (N. Y. Times).

“With the simplicity of a tactical primer the reasons for success and the causes of failure are alike made plain.”

“He writes with a graphic touch and an intimacy with affairs Japanese that give a value to his volume which it otherwise would not possess.”

* Cowley, Abraham. Poems: Miscellanies, The mistress, Pindarique odes, Davideis; verses written on several occasions. *$1.50. Macmillan.

“A very convenient single-volume edition printed in large type, the text edited by Mr. A. R. Waller from the first collected edition of Cowley’s works, published in 1688, the year after his death. This volume presents the variations noted in a collation of the 1668 text with the folio of 1656, the volume of 1663, and the edition of ‘The mistress,’ which appeared in 1647. Errors which have been discovered in the poems are indicated by brackets and are explained in the notes.”—Outlook.

“This volume makes no pretensions to be a history of art. It is, as Mr. Cox explains, a series of appreciations of individual masters, and, incidentally, gives a view of the course of painting since the sixteenth century. The artists principally discussed are Michelangelo, Dürer, Rubens, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, William Blake, F. M. Brown, Burne-Jones, Meissonier, Baudry, Puvis de Chavannes, Whistler, Sargent, Saint-Gaudens, Veronese, Perugino, and the Venetian artists, the Pre-Raphaelites, 81some of the lesser painters of the nineteenth century, and the sculptors of the early Italian renaissance.”—N. Y. Times.

“Kenyon Cox is a master of essays in art criticism, and this collection ... shows him at his best.”

“If his style lacks that brilliancy which marks the man of great genius ... we have in their stead the sound technical knowledge of the artist, coupled with a keen sense of discrimination.” Albert E. Gallatin.

* “In its new dress, therefore, and with its score of excellent half-tones, the book should find a wider public than ever.”

“Taken altogether, perhaps the most notable and significant book of art criticism pure and simple, not only of the year, but of several years.”

* “For incisive analysis and illuminative appreciation Mr. Cox’s little book of essays, ‘Old masters and new,’ is the most significant and the most valuable work in art criticism pure and simple issued in many a long day.”

“Where Mr. Cox speaks as an artist (and he nearly always does), it is not easy to take issue with him, for he knows remarkably well what he is talking about. Now and then one may disagree with him about other matters.”

“Short as they are, these ‘Essays in criticism,’ expressed in an excellent style, may be warmly recommended to lovers of art.” Charles de Kay.

* “The author knows his subject, and expresses his thoughts in simple and concise language, so as to make himself intelligible to those of limited observation and experience.”

“There is in all the essays a most unusual clarity of style and probity of judgment.”

* “Mr. Cox’s essays are vivid, delightful, and spirited discussions of great events in art, and they have a vivacity and surety of judgment which can not but delight the more matured art student.”

* “Is a practical book of art criticism. It ought to be helpful to novices in art appreciation.”

Craddock, Charles Egbert, pseud. (Mary Noailles Murfree). Storm center. †$1.50. Macmillan.

A Civil war story whose scene is laid in the mountains of Tennessee. “The Federal officers who court Southern women in Charles Egbert Craddock’s new story ... are more credible types, and it is the first time in its history that the Civil war has been reduced to a neighborhood affair, but the story of their wooings is the best this author has written in years.” (Ind.)

“This sincere feeling for style, though occasionally it is overdone, is certainly the best thing about a story which barely misses being exceedingly dull. Suffers from a general vagueness and faulty construction.”

“The outline of the story has scarcely a single point of novelty, and yet the narrative does maintain its interest.”

“The machinery of the story seems to creak at times. But there are elements of power in the novel; ‘it goes.’”

“It hardly has the force and depth of the author’s earlier books. Its plot is a little conventional, but there are novel and entertaining incidents.”

Crafts, Wilbur Fisk. Successful men of today, and what they say of success. $1. Funk.

A new edition, revised, enlarged, and made thoroughly up-to-date, of this popular description of the road to success, based on facts and opinions gathered by letters and personal interviews from five hundred prominent men who tell of their experience along this royal highway, and give helpful hints for those who would follow.

Craigie, Pearl Mary Teresa (Richards) (John Oliver Hobbes, pseud.). Flute of Pan. †$1.50. Appleton.

The author has converted her play, which was produced in England with small success, into a novel, which, while entertaining, retains the weakness of the stage comedy. The plot hinges on a slight misunderstanding between a young English earl who has gone to Venice to paint and lead the simple life, and the Princess of Siguria who comes to ask him to be her prince consort; other aristocratic characters enter into and complicate the story.

“From the beginning of the book to the end we have not met with a stroke of genuine drollery, or of the humour that is composed of mingled laughter and sympathy.”

“It is indeed, impossible to criticise ‘The flute of Pan’ away from the footlights. Its plot is thin, and it may be styled a comedy of intrigue. But it is very readable and bright and pleasant.”

“The story is without background; it is a collection of sketches and notes, giving the impression that the writer has never quite made up her mind as to what she is aiming at.”

* “In the present story we miss the clever epigrams and the brilliant dialogue which characterized much of her previous work, and there is nothing to take their place.”

“It is as a psychologist that she would make her appeal. But psychology is not her strong point. Her methods are those of the dilettante.”

All friends of John Halifax will be pleased to see it as one of the attractive “Thin paper classics” series.

Cram, Ralph Adams. Impressions of Japanese architecture and the allied arts. **$2. Baker.

Ten papers which show the development of Japanese art and help the Western mind to a better understanding of it makes up “this series of impressions of the esthetic voicing of Japanese civilization.” Beginning with The genius of Japanese art, the author covers the early and later architecture of Japan; Temples and shrines; Temple gardens; and Domestic interiors. There are also chapters upon The minor arts; A color print of Yeizan; A note on Japanese 82sculpture; and the Future of Japanese art. The volume is illustrated with some original plans and many unusual pictures.

* “It is rare that in a discussion of this sort one finds such brilliant diction, fervent imagery, and such a reverent attitude as Mr. Cram manifests. Judged from the standpoint of its purpose the book is beyond criticism. Mr. Cram’s book is one of the most important of the year.”

“The ruins described and illustrated are Glastonbury, Whitby, Lindisfarne, Beaulieu, Netley, Tintern, Gisburgh, Bolton, Jedburgh, Kelso, Rievauix, Byland, Melrose. Dryburgh, Kirkstall, Malmsbury, York, and Fountains. In the concluding chapter Mr. Cram ... estimates the position of the abbeys in English social and economic life and the effect of their suppression upon the moral and religious condition of the people. The book is fully illustrated and has a full index of names and places.”—N. Y. Times.

* “The subject is pursued rather with an interest in the significance of the religious houses in English life and their fortunes in their relations with the State than from an exclusively artistic standpoint.”

The horrid cruelty of Tiberius and his time is graphically set forth. The story is of Psyche, a beautiful Greek dancing girl, and her lover Gyges, a charioteer in the Roman circus, and the troubles which came upon them through their knowledge of a fatal secret connected with the ambitions of Sejanus, commander of the Praetorian guards, to make himself emperor. The story is the result of a careful study of the times, and consequently is unpleasant and full of horrors.

“Mr. Cramp’s story is the result of considerable study and painstaking care, but it lacks ... that strong imaginative quality that makes its characters convincing.”

“Written with conscientious care, but rarely touched by the charm of imagination.”

A former edition of this book was published in 1866. The author was surgeon at Fortress Monroe during the time of Mr. Davis’ imprisonment, and the volume gives a full account of the “details and incidents of his captivity, particulars concerning his health and habits, together with many conversations on topics of great public interest.” Copies of the official reports sent by the author to the commanding officer, concerning the prisoner’s physical and mental condition are given in full.

“Margaret Donne is an English girl, daughter of an Oxford don and his American wife—a girl the description of whose parentage implies a career of unusual interest. When the book opens her parents are dead and she is in Paris with a close friend of her mother cultivating her voice. Three men figure as her admirers, one of them mysterious and probably royal. Margaret becomes an opera singer and meets with success.”—N. Y. Times.

* “Abounds in action and shows its author at his best—and his best is very good.”

* “Mr. Crawford is a born story-teller, but a good deal of the writing in this volume is very commonplace and lacking in distinction of any kind; but the book is worth reading for the sake of the picture of the old artist.”

Crawford, Francis Marion. Salve Venetia: gleanings from history. 2v. **$5. Macmillan.

“Brushing aside the didactic history formed by a rapid succession of events and the chronological sequence of great and little names, Mr. Crawford extracts from tradition and monument a narrative which reveals the life of the islanders, the causes of their rise and glory and of their dismal decay, far better than a formal history even when accompanied with skillful and enlightening commentary. Concerning the stories revealed by the monuments, Mr. Crawford’s text is set off with a series of illustrations by Joseph Pennell—splendidly true in their grasp of art and history and delightful as pictorial records of a dying race and its dead culture.”—N. Y. Times.

Crawford, Francis Marion. Southern Italy and Sicily and the rulers of the South; with 100 original drawings by Henry Brokman. *$2.50. Macmillan.

“No one should by any chance visit Sicily or southern Italy without first having read Mr. Crawford’s book. This new edition puts into one volume, not at all bulky or inconvenient, what was formerly presented in two. The illustrations are capital and are well printed.”—Outlook.

* “Countless touches show that Mr. Crawford thoroughly understands his ground and his people, with a psychological insight that renders especially interesting his theories and deductions.”

* “Indeed, it is hard to see wherein, within the limits, the work could have been better done. Mr. Crawford’s work is an unexcelled resumé for the historical scholar, the student of history, or for just the lover of good literature.”

“Mr. Crawford’s technique becomes, if anything, more refined with each new work that he puts forth, but his substance grows thinner than ever. A forced mechanical invention marks the plot of ‘Whosoever shall offend,’ and the characters are but slightly modified variations of the types that he has been fashioning for the past score of years. The new novel is concerned with a polished villain, who murders his wife and seeks to murder his stepson, all with the sordid object of gaining their fortune for himself, and in the end is trapped and punished according to his deserts. It is all very cleverly managed, but the interest is of the mildest.”—Dial.

83“It is a well-written, highly interesting melodrama.... The characters are all good types, the plot is strong, and the Italian atmosphere tempers the sensational occurrences to the colder northern imagination.”

“In this last novel Crawford is at his best. He writes with the charm and the originality of a man at the full tide of his powers.”

“The story is ingenious, the sketches of scenery and peasantry admirable, the comments by the way philosophic and thoughtful; the English, of course, of the best-regulated. The reader for the most part, however, remains outside.”

“Notwithstanding its horrors, and partly on account of them, ‘Whosoever shall offend’ is simply an agreeable and diverting story, the work of an accomplished writer, who always turns out his creations in graceful form and who has established the right to be called the ‘Norris’ of American fiction.”

“His theme, as in not a few of his earlier books, is a particularly grewsome and mysterious crime. He appears to tell the story not for the sake of its sensational elements, however, but for the sake of character and social analysis. Contains a fascinating story, a puzzling mystery and its solution, elements in a book which, if well handled, as here, have never yet been known to fail of their effect.”

Crehore, Albert Gushing. Synchronous and other multiple telegraphs: some methods of obtaining independent telegraph circuits on a single wire both with and without synchronism. *$2. McGraw pub.

“The multiple telegraph systems other than synchronous systems discussed in the book are modifications of the Edison Phonoplex, the Varley and other somewhat similar systems; sometimes termed superimposed systems.... The first part of the book is taken up with a description and discussion of instances of the type of telegraph systems just mentioned. The second and third parts of the book relate to methods of obtaining synchronism at distant points; and to synchronous telegraphs, respectively.”—Engin. N.

Creighton, Louise (Mrs. Mandell Creighton). The life and letters of Mandell Creighton. *$9. Longmans.

The “Life and letters” of Bishop Creighton, the English Phillips Brooks, given to the public by Mrs. Creighton, portray a broadminded, steadfast man, a man who was “intensely loyal to the church and its mission.” “It is a long time since there was published any memoir or volume of letters which shows the Church of England on its best and most lovable side than do these memoirs of Creighton. But their interest is by no means confined to the Church of England. They contain many social studies of England in the second half of the old century; and in particular the chapters which deal with Creighton’s life at Emberton will long be remembered as a classic study of mining, fishing and farm life in the villages on the bleak northeast coast of England.” (Ind.)

“In the hands of Mrs. Creighton the English language is not as apt and flexible an instrument as in those of Lady Burne-Jones, but she shows an equal skill in the selection and arrangement of her material, and perhaps a somewhat greater readiness to admit the weaknesses and limitations of her subject.” Herbert W. Horwill.

“His widow and biographer, ... has not, although a lady of distinguished literary ability, succeeded in presenting an entirely coherent and harmonious portrait. Mrs. Creighton’s biography is a model of sound literary judgment particularly in its accurate proportion. She has also displayed tact.”

“The author’s object is not merely to tell amusing anecdotes about his own and others’ experiences as commercial travellers ... but to give some practical hints and suggestions to young men just beginning to ‘go on the road’; yet the book is, after all, chiefly a collection of anecdotes.”—Outlook.

* “Some of these are amusing; others are rather tedious. Perhaps it may most aptly be compared with such a book as ‘Letters from a self-made merchant to his son,’ but it lacks the originality and shrewd homely humor which made that book so deservedly popular.”

“Raith Ellison, the son of a grim, blind, old Scotchman, lets his eyes rest on Ivie Rysland, the daughter of Sergeant Grif Rysland of his majesty’s dragoons, quartered in Scotland for the express purpose of suppressing the conventicles. For this he is cast off by his father and enlists in Rysland’s troop. In the course of time he comes to be one of the jailers of his majesty’s prison on the Bass, where his own father and brother are confined. Later on, by an unexpected turn of events, he assists at a jail delivery by which his father and brother gain their freedom again. Of course it ends happily.”—Pub. Opin.

* “Is a thrilling drama-novel of the joyous old type of Dumas and Hope—and Crockett.”

* “This romance is full of charm and vigor. The story shows the author at his best.”

“The story is on the old theme of the apprentice’s love for his master’s daughter—in this case a shepherd boy and a very capricious and spirited girl, who treads the narrow path between fun and ill-breeding with rather uncertain steps. The boy becomes a land-agent, helps to rescue the girl from the insults of a drunken brother, and marries her after some pretty love-making on the hills by moonlight. The tale is told by Miss Anne’s faithful companion.”—Spec.

“There is about the whole book a good humour and good health. It is a pity that Mr. Crockett will not realize that vulgarity is in itself bad art, and in no way contributes to the realism of a narrative.”

The heroine of Mr. Crockett’s story is the Scottish May Margaret of the famous house of Douglas. The tale reveals how this high-spirited, quick witted maiden presides in turn over the destinies of three wooers. “It is all a fearful matrimonial tangle, but history and not Mr Crockett, is responsible for that, and 84canonical laws find a way for the legalizing of it—as is with much sly humor set forth in the text.” (N. Y. Times.)

“Is in Mr. Crockett’s best vein. It may be doubted whether the author has made the most of this Æschylean drama; but he has emphasized the actors, and his additions to history tend to fix the picture in our memory.”

“While not a masterpiece, the tale is strong in its appeal to the two elemental human passions, war and love, viewed through the magic mirror of imagination and set in the enchanted land of Long Ago.”

“This is not, perhaps, one of his best, but it goes with the gait of the ‘true romance’ ... and is good to read.”

“Liberties are taken with history, and there are a hundred flagrant anachronisms of style and matter; but the real blemish is that the whole atmosphere is sham antique, and aggressively false.”

Crockett, Samuel Rutherford. Raiderland: all about Grey Galloway, its stories, traditions, characters, humors. **$2. Dodd.

“A sort of literary guide-book to that part of Galloway which is the locale of the bulk of his fiction. The result is a pleasant medley of facts and fiction, of descriptive touches and old legends, of character sketches and those intuitions which a land gray with history is certain to arouse.” (Pub. Opin.) Of his purpose, the author says: “It is my desire not so much to write a new book about Galloway as to focus and concentrate what I have already written for the use of Galloway lovers and Galloway travelers.”

“A collection of more or less doubtful history but of excellent literary material. The drawings of Mr. Joseph Pennell are, as always, delightful.” Wallace Rice.

“To a native of Galloway, or to a person steeped in Mr. Crockett’s books as some are steeped in Stevenson or Scott or Thackeray, the whole may well be delightful. To the ordinary Philistinic reader much of it will appear superfluous—though even he must catch at times the infection of Mr. Crockett’s enthusiasm and feel the charm of this bit and that of panegyric, of reminiscence or local color.”

This new story for boys of all ages tells how that very charming little fellow, Sir Toady Lion, became Sir Toady Crusoe, and of the many remarkable adventures which he and Saucy and Dick and some others had on Isle Crusoe on the Scottish coast, how he befriended a poacher in his father’s covers, how he played the part of local assistant to Providence in behalf of his big brother, Hugh John, and Cissy Carter, by threatening Cissy’s father with two large pistols, and how he did many other strange things in a way very unlike any one else and very like Toady. There are many illustrations by Gordon Browne.

* “He is an amusing, if improbable little chap, but other children will certainly learn from him neither good English nor good manners.”

* “Is superior to the ordinary story for children, in its style, humour, characterisation and atmosphere. And yet Mr. Crockett’s tale is not altogether satisfactory, there is too large a mixture of grown-up sentiment in it.”

Croiset, (Marie Joseph) Alfred, and Croiset, Maurice. Abridged history of Greek literature; authorized tr. by G. F. Heffelbower. **$2.50. Macmillan.

“This manual is a compression of the great history of Greek literature, which the authors of this work have published in five volumes, appearing 1887-1899. In accord with this conception of Greek literature as a whole we find their admirable development of each period.... It is the peculiar excellence of this work that it gives no partial and incomplete view of Greek literature, but carries the account of it not only through the Hellenistic period, but through the Christian writers of the first three centuries as well.... Their closing chapters on the Hellenic revival and the last days of Hellenic literature are most illuminating and valuable.”—Educ. R.

“The subject is developed with the beautiful French lucidity which makes readable an account of the dullest epoch, and the brilliant phrasing which is a Frenchman’s birthright cannot be altogether lost, even in translation. The translation by Professor Heffelbower exhibits some curious phenomena.” Grace Harriet Macurdy.

“Mr. Heffelbower’s translation is fluent enough, but full of infelicities when reproducing MM. Croiset’s rendering of gems of Greek literature.”

“The translation preserves the spirit, while giving us the idiomatic English so necessary for the young student.”

“In spite of these lapses—which, after all, are few in number considering the extent of the work—the book as a whole may be commended to students of Greek literature, who are unable to use the original, as a measurably satisfactory presentation in English of a work of unquestioned excellence.” John C. Rolfe.

Mr. Crosby, the poet reformer and Tolstoyan, shows thru his verses, pictures, messages and meditations, the tyranny which the world’s systems exercise over its powerless victims. His remedy for the times so out of joint lies in making “men pull together” as only “love, cooperation, equal service, true honor and honesty” can accomplish.

“The present volume, though inferior to ‘Plain talk in Psalm and parable’, contains much that is thought-stimulating and helpful. The more we read Mr. Crosby’s writings, the more profoundly are we convinced that he is above all else a moralist and a teacher, and that prose is the field of literature in which he is most effective.”

“But in spite of unpoetic poetry and illogical logic to be found in abundance on the strident little pages of this outcry against our social organization, there are also the results of observation definitely outlined.”

Mr. Crosby, the disciple of Tolstoy, has taken the facts relating to the life of Garrison as related in “The story of his life by his children” and explains thru them the anomaly that the cause of abolition fathered by a non-resistant was at last decided by the greatest war of history.

As Mr. Crosland has numbered the “Egregious Englishman,” and the “Unspeakable Scot” among the scalps of his satire, so now does he display just such designing intentions towards the “Wild Irishman.” His attacks are merciless, and “such chapters as those on ‘Pigs,’ ‘Potatoes,’ ‘Dirt,’ ‘Whiskey,’ and ‘Blarney’ are not exactly calculated to make the native of Erin enthusiastic in the writer’s praise.” (Dial.)

“As an exercise in literary pyrotechnics the work is out of the ordinary—but we cannot help a disappointment in that Mr. Crosland has not devoted an unusual brilliancy to better uses than mere display.”

The seventh edition of Professor Cross’ work which first appeared in 1900. Not only has use proven its principles authoritative, but judgments which the author offered five years ago have stood the test of change and advancement.

Crowley, Jeremiah. The parochial school: a curse to the church, a menace to the nation. $1. Published by the author, Chicago.

In a chapter dedicating his work to the “Emancipate Catholic laity of tomorrow” the author makes an appeal to the laity. “‘The parochial school’ lays bare clerical immorality in the United States in a way to rival the story of the church in Latin countries or in Germany before Luther’s day. Sad as is this picture, it is, however, far less painful, than to read how thoroughly good men combine to hide, gloss over, or condone clerical crimes.... Father Crowley devotes much space to the dangers of the parochial school. They are an incubus on the church and a serious menace to her.... The surest way in the world to kill off Catholicism is to give over education to priests and nuns. Witness France.” (Ind.)

“He does not attack the Catholic church, but arraigns its priests and prelates who have become corrupted.”

A popular edition of this romance of Detroit in the time of the Ottawa chief, Pontiac. An account of the thrilling events connected with the pitiless siege of Detroit, through which runs the love story of the young Scotchman, Sterling, and Angelique Cuillerier, a brave daughter of the frontier.

Crowley, Mary Catherine. Love thrives in war: a romance of the frontier in 1812; with front, by Clyde O. De Land. 75c. Little.

A new popular edition of a lively romance in which Perry, Tippecanoe, and Tecumseh figure. The heroine, a Scotch girl, who has a trio of suitors, promises to marry the man she loathes in order to save the life of her lover. The author has made a thoro study of the scenes and times which she depicts.

“To her biographies of Mantegna and the Robbias our author now presents one of Verrocchio, perhaps the least known and appreciated of fifteenth century masters.” (Outlook). The biographer has aimed to show “upon what dubious evidence the attribution to Verrocchio of such work as the Tornabuoni relief and other inferior sculpture and painting is based, to trace his steady development from the immature work of the Baptism to the full burst of his powers in the statue of the Colleoni, and to arrive at a truer estimate of his artistic capabilities by the rejection of all inferior work, the attribution of which is merely hypothetical, taking as the standard of judgment only such works as are proved beyond possibility of doubt to be authentic.” The book is fully illustrated.

“It is in her purely aesthetic judgments that we find Miss Cruttwell least satisfactory. Taken as a whole, Miss Cruttwell’s study is the most accurate, impartial, and complete that has yet been made on the subject; but it leaves room for some writer touched more deeply by the imaginative aspect of Verrocchio’s work to give him his exact place in the temple of fame.”

“It is a thorough-going essay, notable for its clarification of the master’s works. Her book has gusto; it is written with equal knowledge and enthusiasm. It is one of the best of those monographs to which I have referred as based on system and industry rather than on an original impulse.” Royal Cortissoz.

“The author has grasped the value of giving attention to the study of the artist’s works at the expense of vague surmises as to his biography.”

“A scholarly and appreciative monograph of great importance.” George Breed Zug.

“Her book is altogether the best on Verrocchio that we have, in English at least.”

“Generally speaking, Maud Cruttwell’s work is sober and well informed. One may regret the vagueness of her general views. Few comprehensive works of recent years are as useful.”

“She leaves us with an impression not to be gained by other readings of the exaltation of the Verrocchio ideal. The biographer and critic renders an equally important service in discriminating between Verrocchio’s own work and those far feebler achievements of his followers sometimes attributed to him.”

A group of about fifty negro dialect poems, some of which sing, others dream, and many talk sound common sense.

“Here are many songs, poems and lullabies phrased in the homely terms and picturing the life and character of the Southern negro more accurately than labored essays. And more than this, these simple folk-lore songs, ditties and lullabies are composed with due regard to the laws of versification.”

* “Showing very little of the philosophical temper that makes Mr. Dunbar’s work unique, and being considerably less perfect in dialect, they have to their credit a decided imaginative quality, much picturesqueness of diction, and a charming spontaneity of conception and treatment.”

* “The volume as a whole, with its humor, its pathos, its jumbled ratiocinations, gives a fairly complete portrait of the southern negro.”

“The tragedy of ‘The brooding wild’ consists in the enmity sown between two brothers, trappers of a straightforward primitive type, by a woman whom they believe to be a mysterious white squaw, queen of an Indian tribe. She is really a very ordinary half-breed conspiring with a rascally trader to rob the brothers.... The climax, in which a lunatic filled with the lust of slaughter breaks away into the wilderness, unfortunately passes the border-line of the grotesque.”—Sat. R.

“The human interest is subsidiary to the landscape. We wish the author had trusted for his effects to the realities of his mighty background, for his conspirators are made of pasteboard while his wolves and dogs and bears are of flesh and blood.”

“Unfortunately his ambition has outsailed his power of execution, and from unskilful treatment the story loses the interest promised at the outset.”

Cunningham, William. Growth of English industry and commerce during the early and middle ages. v. I. 4th ed. *$4. Macmillan.

“In this new edition of the first volume ... substantial additions are found, together with corrections on various points of detail and increased precision of statement.... As it now stands, this volume, which traces the course of industrial progress through early and mediæval England, more nearly than ever before fulfills its author’s purpose of indicating clearly the interconnection between the economic and political facts of the periods reviewed, and of making plain not only the events but the ideas of the time.”—Outlook.

“The work should command serious interest. The very fact that it is honored by a foreword over the name of President Roosevelt, and that the introductory notes ... were written by Senator William P. Frye and Speaker J. G. Cannon, at once arouses interest. By copious extracts from government documents, party platforms and newspaper files, the author shows first the republican party owes its origin neither to enthusiasts nor to a single movement. The party has been consistent through its career, and to-day stands for the three great policies for which it stood at its birth, ‘liberty, honor, and progress.’”—Ann. Am. Acad.

“But in spite of the fact that the author is neither exact nor entirely conservative in all his statements, the work as a whole must command lasting respect.”

“The period of the Civil war is handled skilfully and with less partisanship than might have been expected. It will be easily seen that Mr. Curtis’s work will be accepted only by loyal party men, and yet it is of great value to the historical student; in fact, it is a very elaborate historical argument.”

“It would be ridiculous to call this kind of stuff ‘history’, since it entirely lacks the historical spirit or sense of proportion, still Mr. Curtis has compiled a useful record.”

“Another descriptive informational volume, so many of which have already come from the pen of the same author. Mr. Curtis tells of things he has seen, and garnishes his narrative with a great deal of historical and descriptive information which makes very interesting reading. There are a number of excellent illustrations in this volume.”—R. of Rs.

* “To add anything new to these old familiars would be impossible; but Mr. Curtis’s view-point is at times refreshing.” H. E. Coblentz.

* “There is in the present book the same easy, confident, and confidential style of sketching and statisticizing (if the word may pass) that makes not unpleasant reading in Mr. Curtis’s previous volume.”

* “Its reading will amply repay any one interested in either the ancient or the modern development of the countries treated.”

A vast deal of information has been brought together here, and the author’s method “is to combine with a mass of observations and deductions of his own—the observations taken hastily upon his travels and the deductions—not too carefully checked—statistics, fragments of history, geography, ethnology, guide book information, and what not gathered together from all available sources.” (N. Y. Times.) “The author is happier in his delineation of modern life, and the casual reader will enjoy the descriptions of town and country, plague and famine, peasant and priest.” (Nation.)

* “It is a strange medley of wit and wisdom with error and ignorance, of fun and burlesque with serious study, the good qualities, however, predominating.”

* “A very helpful book for those who wish data upon which to base a reasonable judgment of the actual state of affairs in that country.” H. E. Coblentz.

“With much that is statistically accurate, the book unfortunately abounds in printer’s and author’s errors.”

“It would, no doubt, be hard to find in another single volume such a variety of information about India and Indian affairs, but the assemblage with all its facts and figures, lacks that authority which is necessary to give full value to a work of this kind.”

“A feature of particular value to Americans is the exposition of the activities of their countrymen in the religious, educational, economic and social life of India.”

Father Cuthbert’s “desire has been to give expression to the Catholic mind touching some of the most urgent questions of the hour in regard to social life and conduct.” His essays include: The church and personal liberty, The Christian state, The education of women, Marriage, The value of work, The priest and social reform, The responsibility of wealth, The idea of responsibility, Religious aspects of social work, The working man’s apostolate, and St. Francis and you.

Gardening in India from October to June furnishes the theme of this “memory with illustrations.” There is a goodly amount of incidental knowledge worked in, such as descriptions of prevalent Indian customs and bits of gossip concerning Hindu every-day life.

“In spite of these faults and such others as an awkward style of writing and the lack of a glossary of Indian words, the book contains a good deal that is of interest in regard to life and nature in India.”

“As garden-books go, this one is sufficiently entertaining, and the descriptions are as good as the photographs.”

“But good as much of the book is, it is a little spoiled by an excess of carelessness in style and a too pointed assertion of individual mannerisms.”

Cutler, James Elbert. Lynch law: an investigation into the history of lynching in the U. S. **$1.50. Longmans.

Beginning with the origin of the term Prof. Cutler traces the development of the lynch law from 1830 down to date. He discusses the present situation, suggests remedies, and gives charts and statistics.

“The volume will repay careful study, even if exception is occasionally taken to some of the author’s conclusions. The volume represents a great amount of research work and the author is to be congratulated upon the manner in which the material is presented.” Carl Kelsey.

“The book is sane, temperate in tone, moderate in statement, and judicial in conclusions. It is the only really valuable treatise on the subject, and is not likely to be superseded.” Walter L. Fleming.

“Dr. Cutler has done much to solve the problem by his laborious, careful, and candid study of the question, which has already made him the leading authority upon a dangerous social disease.”

“In his final chapters on the justification of lynching and the remedies for it, Mr. Cutler shows a spirit remarkable for its fairness and an appreciation of the force of circumstances and the historical facts of the situation.”

* “Mr. Cutler’s book should be valuable for its summary of facts, and for the solemn warning that thoughtful Americans may read between the lines.”

“Tales of plain, everyday, middle-class people—people who are not overburdened with the world’s goods, but who are educated, cultured and refined—in short, the people we meet daily about us. The eight stories which make up this volume are very pleasant reading, indeed.”—N. Y. Times.

“This collection does not fulfill all the expectations excited by its unique predecessor, ‘The little stories of married life.’”

“Stories of the book are all simple in their theme, but they gain much by Mrs. Cutting’s sympathetic handling of them.”

“Some of these ‘little stories of courtship’ are excellent in their way, indicating shrewd observation and a kindly sympathy. But they are of very uneven merit.”

“They are gracefully spun, and, without being intense, they have the human touch. They portray life in its usual phases, yet they are not without variety, and they are very genuine in feeling.”

Cyclopedia of applied electricity; a practical guide for electricians, mechanics, engineers, students, telegraph and telephone operators, and all others interested in electricity. Prepared by a corps of experts, electrical engineers and designers. 5v. $30. Am. school of correspondence.

The text is divided in five parts and contains over 2,000 illustrations. Part I. treats of current measurements, part II. of dynamos, part III. of lightning, part IV. of alternating currents and power transmission, and part V. of telephony.

“We give, therefore, without comment on our part, the opinion passed by the publishers themselves: ‘The practical value of the work as a whole can hardly be questioned.’”

“A practical guide and encyclopedia of electrical knowledge that should be of great value to the everyday worker with electricity in all of its applications.”

Cynewulf. Dream of the rood: an old English poem attributed to Cynewulf; ed. by Albert S. Cook. *90c. Oxford.

With the reproduction of this poem from the Vercelli book, the editor offers complete sidelight information including an introduction which discusses the manuscript, translations, authorship—sometimes attributed to Caedmon—and literary characteristics of the poem. There are full notes, an appendix and a glossary.

“The notes proper are full and interesting, and the glossary unusually helpful.”

An authoritative polo handbook. “Mr Dale has succeeded in accomplishing what no previous writer on polo has ever done, that is to present a concise, even graphic, view of the present status of polo throughout the world. The chapters on polo in England, America, India, Australia, and New Zealand, while technical, as the rules of each country are presented in full with illustrative comment, are of peculiar interest 88at the present time owing to a growing sentiment for an international code of rules.” (N. Y. Times.)

“Mr. Dale has the happy faculty of writing entertainingly for the general reader as well as for the scientific student. His book combines both elements.”

“A short chapter on the elements of polo is as instructive as it can be; and the later portions of the work, which deal with training ponies, stable management, and polo-pony breeding, contain much excellent matter.”

A Boston girl’s account of a year spent as a student of music in Munich. The German life in the little pension, the trials and joys of her fellow students, her professors, and the operas and symphonies she enjoyed, are described in a series of chatty letters to her chum. She meets several real celebrities in the world of music, and weaves into her story a pretty little German love idyl.

“There is not a ponderous page, yet she has attempted to enliven her narrative by weaving into it a boarding-house love story. It would have been wiser to study her German and read her proofs carefully.”

“Delightfully readable are the letters. The book will be primarily interesting to another girl who has been or is thinking of studying abroad, but it is written in a chatty, gossipy manner which makes easy reading.”

“A series of bright and entertaining letters. They have a flavor of genuineness quite apart from their mention of real notabilities and places.”

“A translation into English prose intended primarily for readers who are not acquainted with Italian. Mr. Tozer has endeavored to give Dante’s meaning as fully and clearly as possible without adhering too literally to the words; and at the same time to present the poem in a fairly readable form.”—Bookm.

“In rendering the poem itself Mr. Tozer’s prose contrasts lamentably with the noble, beautiful, living English and the unerring good taste of Professor Norton.” Abbott Foster.

“The translator has coped successfully with the difficult task of rendering Dante in English prose suitable for the student. From an artistic standpoint, much is necessarily lacking in the way of music and connotation of style.”

“The most obvious quality of Mr. Tozer’s translation is its readableness; its inferiority to Mr. Norton’s lies in a less profound Dante scholarship, and in a certain looseness of style which springs from a tendency to paraphrase, and now from the use of inappropriate words.”

Dante Alighieri. Inferno: a translation and commentary, by Marvin R. Vincent. **$1.50. Scribner.

“While owning up to the ‘disenchantment’ of any translation,” the author, who is professor of sacred literature in the Union theological seminary, offers his own as a help to ‘make the study of Dante what it should be—a part of the curriculum of every theological institution.’ The translation “is fortified with about 125 pages of notes which comprise a commentary on words and phrases and ideas gathered and sifted from H. F. Tozer’s convenient book of explanation, and from similar publications. The author has also scattered some things of his own with lavish hand—principally in the departments of religions and ethical interpretation, altho there are some of historical fact.” (N. Y. Times).

“The student is led without useless ornamentation directly to the poet’s conception; and that is what most students want.”

“It is far from being a successful translation, for the figurative meanings have almost entirely disappeared with the rhythmical. It is just as far from being a successful poem, for all that Dr. Vincent gives us has already been more concisely expressed in plain prose. These notes are of uniform excellence, and are, as the author intimates, the result of class-room debates. On the chance that there are certain intellects which will more rapidly grasp a blank verse ‘Inferno’ rather than one in genuine poetry like Cary’s or in rhetorical prose like Norton’s, Dr. Vincent’s book may not be deemed entirely superfluous. For such intellects his notes can hardly fail to be otherwise than enlightening and stimulating.”

“Dr. Vincent announces that he has made a literal translation based on the Oxford text of Dr. Moore.”

Dargan, Edwin Charles. History of preaching from the apostolic fathers to the great reformers. **$1.75. Armstrong.

“This, the first of three volumes, carries the subject to the close of the Reformation period. The two that are to follow will treat of modern European preaching and the history of preaching in the United States. Thus a field at present but partially worked will be fully covered. The present volume treats successively of the patristic preaching, its decline after the fourth century, mediæval preaching from the eleventh to the fourteenth century, and the subsequent renaissance.”—Outlook.

“Dr. Dargan gives us a careful view of the historic settings and abundant biographical detail.”

“The author appears to have done very little original research, but he writes a readable style, and has made use of good sources of information.”

“We know of no other work of this character in which the combination of pleasing diction and abundant information is more satisfactory. Our author has depended largely upon Protestant authorities on matters connected with the Catholic church. The erudition of the author, his pleasing style and his spirit of equity give to the book a large value.”

* “The book is a treasury of learning of a certain kind, but the learning is scarcely helpful. As a bibliography, indeed, the volume may be useful.”

Dasent, Sir George Webbe. Heroes of Iceland; adapted from the translation of Dasent by Allen French. $1.50. Little.

89A tale adapted from Dasent’s translation of “The story of burnt Njal,” the great Icelandic saga, with a preface, introduction and notes by Mr. French. It pictures Iceland in the tenth century, the old pagan life, the dawn of Christianity, and the struggle of mighty heroes.

* “In his comprehensive introduction as well as his notes, the author gives a thoro setting.”

The third edition of an 1859 English classic. “The book contains besides the ‘Tales,’ the introduction of the original edition, which considers broadly the origin and diffusion of folk tales in general, and of the Norse popular tales in particular.... A new part of the book is a memoir of the author by his son, Arthur Irwin Dasent, who gives an account of his father’s career from the time of his birth, on the island of St. Vincent, in 1817, to his death in England, in 1896. It is the story of an extraordinarily full and busy life, and a typically English record, at the same time, of recognition and merited reward.” (Nation).

“These, because of their manner and matter, are as fresh as on the day when they were first given in English garb. Scarcely a writer of recent time has been the possessor of such an English vocabulary or the master of such an English style. Dasent’s ‘Tales’ are in this way not only a singularly remarkable instance of felicitous translation from a foreign language into our own, but are at the same time a well of English, pure and undefiled, and a model of what English prose happily may be.”

A number devoted to Daumier and Gavarni, the two great French cartoonists of the last century. There are two dozen reproductions of their work in color and photogravures, and a hundred illustrations in black and white. Critical and biographical notes on Daumier are translated from an essay of M. Henri Frantz, and there is an essay upon Gavarni by M. Octave Uzanne.

“Will be greatly prized by collectors of the works of the great satirical cartoonists and illustrators. It will prove a valuable addition to the art-collector’s library.” Amy C. Rich.

“The essays are after all mere introductions to the plates. Incidentally the cartoons furnish a fascinating interpretation of Parisian life and manners. The special numbers of ‘The studio’ are always interesting, but this one is unusually unique and suggestive.”

Davenport, Frederick Morgan. Primitive traits in religious revivals: a study in mental and social evolution. **$1.50. Macmillan.

“This is a purely sociological interpretation of revivals, having no evangelistic bias or motive. In his development of this theme the author has introduced accounts of various revivals of this country and Great Britain.”—R. of Rs.

“His collection of materials in this field is highly interesting, and a valuable supplement to Stoll’s ‘Suggestion and Hypnotismus in der Völker-psychologie.’” W. I. Thomas.

* “It is a valuable contribution to our knowledge. Every minister should read it carefully and take its lessons to heart. The social student will find it helpful in explaining phenomena which have not received the attention they deserve.”

“The treatment of his subject is logical and fairly clear, though with a number of repetitions.” Rolvix Harlan.

“The latter chapters of the book are somewhat disappointing. Instead of calm, scientific analyses or a logical drawing of conclusions, Prof. Davenport indulges in an exposition of his own theories and ideas.”

“The book is a valuable and highly interesting contribution to the many recent discussions of the place and value of the emotions in moral and religious development.”

Principal Salmond has compiled this treatise in Old Testament theology from the manuscripts left by Dr. Davidson. Under the doctrine of God, of man, of sin, of redemption, and of the last things, is given his theological interpretation of the Old Testament.

“It is a pleasure to note throughout both volumes the keenness of observation, the gift of interpretative insight, and the incisive style which are conspicuous in all the writings of the lamented biblicist. It treats the Old Testament as not only a literary, but a moral unit. This is really the essence of the inadequacy and untimeliness of the book. The fact is that these lectures must be repudiated by biblical science in as far as they fail to indicate Israel’s progress in religious thought and make the Old Testament literature an illustration either of the New Testament teaching of our modern creeds. They must also be disowned by the ‘higher criticism,’ of which Mr. Davidson was more or less an exponent, because they fail to apply an ethical test to religious belief.” James Frederick McCurdy.

“There are many fine discussions of particular problems, and many brilliant individual passages that one would like to quote; but there is no history of the religion of Israel. Will be useful to the preacher who wishes to gather up the teachings of the Old Testament on any given point; but it will be of little value to the student who is trained in modern historical methods.”

“Containing incisive, profitable, and helpful discussions of some of the fundamental doctrines of the Old Testament.” Ira M. Price.

“Following the New Testament account of the apostle, and setting aside the critical questions it raises, the author finds evidence of its truth in its consistent realism as a portrait from life.”—Outlook.

“The psychological problem involved in the story of Peter’s denial of his Master is better handled, and more justly to Peter, than by most expositors.”

“Mr. Davidson has drawn from his seven earlier volumes with a shrewd critical sense.... Unusual mastery of narrative construction in verse, his energy of conception and readiness in the fundamental mind-work of poetry, are all shown here at their best in the ‘Ballads,’ which make the bulk of the book.”—Nation.

“He handles the metre with masterly skill, filling it with imaginative life and power. The chief virtue of his ballads is the virile energy of the shaping strength that we feel working in them.”

“Mr. John Davidson’s poetic view of the world is as tragical as Ernest Dowson’s; but there is a grim irony of intellectual strength in his work that marks him of a different race of men.” Ferris Greenslet.

Davidson, Rt. Rev. Randall Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury. Christian opportunity. **$1.50. Macmillan.

The sermons, addresses and speeches delivered by the Archbishop of Canterbury during his recent visit to America make a volume not only temporarily significant but monumental. “The most interesting contents of the volume, of course, are the sermons in Trinity church in Boston, and the address at Faneuil hall. None however, surpasses in excellence of material or stamps Dr. Davidson as a broader scholar than his cordial address to the evangelical ministers at Boston university. ‘We in England,’ he said, ‘have learned in these latter days to recognize better than ever before how splendid an element in the growth of English life and character is due to our Puritan forefathers, and you in New England have come to see that even among those whom your great-great-grandfathers thought were very black, there is something worth having and holding and thus we join hands in behalf of the common cause—the setting forward of our Master’s kingdom in the old world and in the new.’” (Pub. Opin.)

“The title is happy, for the burden of them all is the greatness of the opportunity here in this new continent. Their level judgment, catholic spirit, and fraternal feeling ...”

“The record of a unique experiment among the Russian Jews of New York city. As the result of a challenge at the close of a lecture, Professor Davidson organized a class composed almost exclusively of wage-earners from the tenement houses. With them he successfully studied the history of civilization, modern literature, and the history of philosophy.... The volume which is edited by Mr. Charles M. Blakewell, contains a brief biography and characterization of Professor Davidson by the editor.”—Dial.

“With the interpreting touch of the editor, the inspiring letters of Davidson, and the final words from the pupils, we have a book of very real and personal force.” Lucy Wright.

Davies, D. Ffrangçon-. Singing of the future; with an introd. by Edward Elgar. *$2.50. Lane.

“In the old warfare between technique and intelligence as regards musical interpretation, Mr. Ffrangçon-Davies declares himself, as we might expect, on the side of intelligence. With him the meaning is everything, and he contends that if the singer thinks the words he is singing, all the rest will follow of itself.... Far from despising vocal technique, the author lays great stress on a sound method, and explains what the basis of that method should be.”—Lond. Times.

“It is a pity that by the copious use of footnotes and parentheses the author should have weakened his case, for by these and other means he qualifies almost everything he says till the reader is at a loss to keep the main drift of his argument in view.”

This latest addition to the “Great masters in painting and sculpture series” is devoted to that Dutch artist of the early 17th century, Franz Hals. All that is actually known or surmised concerning his life is given and there are 35 half-tone reproductions of the author’s best known paintings. There is also a chronological list of his most important pictures, and a catalog of his works arranged according to the galleries in which they are hung.

“Mr. Davies’s work is a fine example of what a sympathetic, imaginative, and withal a learned man may produce from very slender accepted data.”

Davies, Rev. John Llewelyn, ed. Workingmen’s college, 1854-1904. *$1.25. Macmillan.

Records of its history and its work by members of the college. For half a century the workingmen’s college has played an important part in the sociological evolution of England, and its history and development are of general interest. The editor has written a chapter on F. D. Maurice, who was the real founder of the college. Mr. G. W. Trevelyan writes a chapter on “The college and other universities.” Mr. J. P. Elmslie describes “Art teaching in early days,” Mr. C. B. Lucas tells of “The college clubs.” There are many other chapters illustrating the development of this great work from a simple night school to a model institution of its kind.

“The value of the book is enhanced by some excellent portraits; but it lacks an index.”

A comparison of the laws of Hammurabi and Moses which is designed to help all Bible students. To this end the text of the Hammurabi code is given in small pica type, selected parallels from the Old Testament in long primer, and remarks and comments in brevier.

In this novel of Washington life Elizabeth Brandon marries Darrell and finds out too late that she loves his friend and cousin Hugh Pelham. Upon Darrell’s death his estate goes to Pelham, who is in Africa, and his lawyers press 91Elizabeth sorely. This destroys her faith in Pelham and she all but falls into the clutches of an unscrupulous senator, who wishes to divorce his wife and marry her, when Pelham returns. The senator’s daughter also plays an important part in the story.

“The story is slight, the characters shadowy, and the style, except for a strange abundance of ‘non-sequiturs,’ exceedingly commonplace.”

“Not only does he reveal the actions of his characters, but also the train of thoughts that lead up to those actions. Nevertheless ‘Mrs. Darrell’ is a book full of interest.”

“The book as regards plot and constructive power and development cannot be praised highly, but the love story is in some ways unusually interesting.”

* Davis, John Patterson. Corporations: a study of the origin and development of the great business combinations and their relation to the authority of the state. 2v. **$4.50. Putnam.

“This treatise is of great helpfulness to the student of what is now familiarly known as the ‘corporation problem.’ ... The subject is here attacked chiefly from the historical standpoint, from the earliest manifestations of corporate activity in the ecclesiastical organizations of the primitive Christian church to the colonial companies, forerunners of the development companies of to-day. There are, however, chapters dealing with contemporary phenomena at a length sufficient to make the writer’s views concerning the structure, operation, and future of the modern corporation clear.”—Lit. D.

* “Without fully concurring with him, we find his views highly suggestive and stimulating, and ... ‘a particularly welcome addition to economic literature.’”

The hero of Miss Davis’ first published book is a young New York capitalist who buys a street railway and a lighting plant in an Alabama town. Titanic and aggressive, young Falls underrates the momentum of sectional prejudice even where it carries with it the sanity of a whole town. Mob violence, strikes, and a lynching form the dramatic phase of the story whose other side portrays the loyalty and courage of Joan Adair. This southern girl, tho reared to the fanatic prejudice of her townsmen, could, one is led to believe, champion right and justice impersonally, even tho the process had not been terribly confused with her love for the much misunderstood and ostracized hero.

* “The supreme merit of the book lies, however, in the subtle delineation of Southern life with its love, its fear, its pride, its idealism, and its prejudice.”

* “The serious questions of the Northerner are vigorously stated, and some characters and scenes very forcibly presented. The construction is bad, and there is a lot of tiresome talk.”

“The principal value of the story is in its depicting of the life of the half-asleep, half-awake southern town with its new-formed ambitions obscured by the rubbish of old traditions.”

“A comedy in one act, founded on a story by the late James Harvey Smith. By means of strategy, the daughter of a wealthy man succeeds in holding three thieves in her home until the arrival of the police, whom she had summoned by telephone when she first heard the burglars trying to file their way into the house.”—Bookm.

“This playlet is admirably suited for parlor and amateur theatricals, where it will furnish both to actors and audiences unalloyed delight.”

“This is a lively and amusing play. It is not badly suited for amateur rendering.”

“This copiously illustrated volume ... gives a popular account of the results which have been arrived at by modern seismology.... Rather than grouping seismic phenomena, as we should expect to find them in a text-book, the author has given a concise history of eight disturbances, each of which has a special interest.... A subject attractive to the general reader which is referred to in several chapters as an account of signs which have given warning of a coming earthquake.”—Nature.

“Mr. Davidson’s book is well worth reading, whilst the manner in which its contents have been arranged should obtain for it a circulation amongst those who seek for general information.”

“The land league revolution of the Irish people, their struggles to regain possession of the lands confiscated under Cromwellian settlement,—which was virtually continued during two hundred and fifty years,—is set forth in this book.... Parnell is, of course, Mr. Davitt’s hero; and the personal portraiture he gives is both interesting and valuable.”—Critic.

“He writes from a partisan viewpoint and, as might have been expected, makes no attempt to conceal his partisanship. Despite this fact he has done good service to contemporary history by the care he has bestowed on the documentary part of his exhaustive work.” E. P.

“Mr. Dawson writes as an actuary of long experience, addressing himself primarily to those holding or contemplating the purchase of life insurance. The comparative merits and defects of the various systems of insurance and forms of policy, the methods whereby rates are or should be fixed, the ‘schemes’ adopted by companies to increase their business—in short, almost every topic connected with the subject is discussed with a mingling of criticism, advice, and warning.”—Outlook.

* “Practical suggestive, and soundly informative, this book should find a wide audience.”

Dawson, Samuel E. Saint Lawrence, its basin and border-lands. *$1.35. Stokes.

“In orderly fashion and in often luminous phrase Dr. Dawson sets forth the story of the discovery, exploration, and occupation of the northeastern part of the North American continent. The text is accompanied by some good illustrations and by some especially good maps.”—Outlook.

“This learned Canadian not only enjoys a wide personal knowledge of the region he deals with but is likewise possessed of the critical faculty, 92which has enabled him to deal satisfactorily with a subject involving a good many disputed points.”

“His present volume is a critical and scholarly study of the most fruitful era of early North American exploration.” Cyrus C. Adams.

“This volume should appeal to the student of history and to the lover of romance.”

“It is a rare treat to read Dr. Dawson’s scholarly and delightful volume.”

“Descriptive rather than analytical,” this work presents “an excellent summary of the events leading up to the independence of the South American republics. The first volume, dealing with Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Brazil, was written during the period when he [Mr. Dawson] was secretary of the United States legation to Brazil. During the interval between the appearance of the first and second volumes the author was appointed minister to Santo Domingo. This second volume deals with Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

“His exposition of contemporary history is disappointing. There are too many names and dates and too few explanatory remarks. There is a tendency to dwell on the period of the conquest and to leave untouched the difficult business of untangling the innumerable revolutions of the past eighty years. Even as a collection of historical primers its value is seriously impaired by evidences of hasty or inaccurate compilation. To attempt to read the volume through is sufficiently confusing, but the publishers have not improved matters. The illustrations do not illustrate. Moreover, the maps are inadequate and out of date.” Hiram Bingham.

“The author has shown great skill in the presentation of the economic situation in compressing the history of eleven republics into two small volumes. In the presentation of the political situation the author has been careful to keep himself free from partisanship or bias. This work when read in connection with Stanford’s ‘Geographical compendium of South America,’ will furnish a clear-cut picture of the present situation in the South American republics.”

* “Excellent, useful, and most readable book. Mr. Dawson, however, largely owes the remarkable completeness of this work to his familiar acquaintance with the Spanish literature on the subject, and his great personal opportunities for compiling the history of the nineteenth century in South America.”

A book of addresses on evangelical topics by a man well known as a successful international revivalist. He resigned the pastorate of the Highburg quadrant church in England to enter a more evangelistic field, and his sermons defend liberal theology and set forth the value of his work.

“Among the various essays, addresses and sermons in the book the one which gives the whole its title is the best and most adequate, with the additional advantage of being written in clear, forceful, convincing English such as is seldom found in current literature.”

Dr. Dawson begins with Daniel Defoe and discusses the writers of novels of sentiment from Richardson to Fielding, and to Jane Austen, then he takes up the works of Sir Walter Scott, Thackeray, Dickens, the Bronte sisters, George Eliot, Charles Reade, Charles Kingsley, George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, and others, closing the book with chapters on “Religion in fiction” and a “Concluding survey.”

“He is a patient and systematic reader; his powers of analysis are considerable, his sympathies are broad, and he has, what is an extremely valuable gift, the historic sense.” E. C.

* “The book is well worth reading, as a comprehensive survey of a development, and as painstaking a work of criticism as has come to us for many a day.”

A folklore tale of the Menehunes, the tiny dwarfs of Hawaii, illustrated by Spencer Wright.

Mr. Day says this handbook is offered in response to many letters from boys and young men “asking for hints on all manner of subjects relating to the care, handling, buying and equipping of small yachts.” Being a practical sailor and yachtsman himself, he knows the necessity of the sort of information he compiles, in fact declares that had he owned such a book in the beginning, it would have saved him time, money, hard work and anxiety.

Dealey, James Quayle, and Ward, Lester Frank. Text book of sociology. *$1.30. Macmillan.

A text book founded upon the sociological writings of Dr. Ward, and especially upon his work, “Pure sociology.” This epitome is stamped with the same characteristics that are emphasized thruout Dr. Ward’s study, viz., the mastery of the impersonal tone over the human. “He carries from his work in physical science a certain abstractness of statement which is partly inseparable from all generalization, but which has the effect of holding the interpretation farther aloof from actual life than is desirable or necessary.” (Am. J. Soc.)

“Comes nearer than any predecessor to satisfying reasonable demands for an elementary textbook in general sociology.” Albion W. Small.

“It is therefore a wide field that is traversed here under the lead of a stimulating if not always convincing teacher.”

Decennial publications of the University of Chicago. 1st series, 10v. *$40. Univ. of Chicago press.

93Ten imposing quarto volumes, well bound in red cloth, compose the first series of the Chicago university decennial publications and contain two volumes of reports and eight volumes of investigations, the latter consisting of a collection of articles representing the work of research of the several departments of the university, organized during the decennium. Vol. I and II contain President Harper’s report for the first ten years of the life of Chicago university; vol. III contains, part I, Systematic theology, Church history, Practical theology; part II, Philosophy, Education; vol. IV is devoted to Political economy, Political science, History, and Sociology; vol. V includes the Semitic languages and literature, Biblical and patristic Greek; vol. VI deals with the Greek language and literature, the Latin language and literature, Sanskrit and Indo-European comparative philology, classical archæology; vol. VII turns to the province of Romance languages and literatures, the Germanic languages and literatures and to English; vol. VIII invades the field of Astronomy and Astrophysics; vol. IX treats the subjects of Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, and Geology; and vol. X deals with Zoology, Anatomy, Physiology, Neurology, Botany, Pathology, and Bacteriology.

“The whole series is a remarkable presentation of the intellectual activity which has prevailed at this youthful university during the brief period of its existence.”

Deecke, W. Italy: a popular account of the country, its people, and its institutions (including Malta and Sardinia); tr. by H. A. Nesbitt. $5. Macmillan.

A book which gives a German professor’s account of Italy. “Beginning with the boundaries of the country and the ancient attempts at geographical description, it proceeds to treat of the orography and general features of the surface, goes on to the geology and the climate, giving incidentally an account of the volcanic phenomena and touching briefly on the animals and plants. The various elements of the population are then described, with a short sketch of the history, and a fuller account of products, trade and manufactures, political institutions, finance, internal communications, and education, the church, language, and science, and a topographical description of various parts of the peninsula and the adjoining isles.” (Nation.)

“It is popular in the very best sense of the word. In the first place, it is comprehensive. In the second place, it is compact. The work is simply a marvel of condensation. In the third place, the book is exceedingly readable. The only adverse criticism we have is that the statistics are not quite up to the present, and the reader will want constantly to refer to later tables. But in other respects we do not know of another book on Italy at once so comprehensive, so accurate, and so interesting.”

“That the book is dull is therefore not surprising; but that it is also full of errors is both surprising and inexcusable.”

“It is really nothing more than a compilation of the facts that may be found in condensed form in a half dozen well selected books.”

“When we turn to subjects wherein the element of time does not enter so immediately we find reason for little save praise.”

“An elaborate account of Italy, worked out with true German thoroughness. It covers pretty nearly every aspect in which the land and its inhabitants can be regarded. Taking the book as a whole, it is a careful and intelligent piece of work, clearly and simply written, and generally accurate. We have noted a certain number of errors in fact, but none of great importance, though there are some errors in nomenclature, and some mistakes in the accounts given of particular places. A book which amounts to an encyclopaedic description of Italy from so many points of view. The topographical part is really something between a gazetteer and a guidebook, fit to be used for reference rather than to be read continuously.”

“Gabriel Strong is the son of a tea merchant ... is a dreamer, an idler.... Partly to please himself, partly to please his father, partly to save trouble, he makes love to and marries a fine sleek tiger-cat of a woman, and as soon as it is too late repents.” He finds that he loves the daughter of a miser, but swears to love this Joan only in spirit. “Meanwhile the sleek, handsome wife gets bored, goes off elsewhere, and the gossips of the village get busy with the greenwood meanderings of Gabriel and Joan. Hence the name of ‘The slanderers.’ ... They are the parson’s wife, the doctor’s wife, the members of the church guilds, and like fine charitable organizations. And these women are allowed no virtues at all to temper the malignity of their tongues and their feminine proneness to think evil of other people.” (N. Y. Times).

“Mr. Deeping is somewhat crass and crude in his methods with these slanderers. You get the idea that Mr. Deeping imagines religion is a mere cloak for hypocrisy, or a grindstone for sharp knives to slay the reputations of indiscreet idealists. Really the trouble with Mr. Deeping is the lack of enough humor to adjust his burning ethical sentiments, his opulent fleshly imaginings, to each other and to the meridian of average sanity. The story is dragged violently by the hair of its head into an ending which satisfies—if it does nothing else—the average reader’s supposed demand for a happy outcome, but it is distinctly disappointing in spite of patches of purple language.”

“Mr. Deeping’s tapestry has not acquired that soft glory which makes its best beauty. And as for the modern design, it is quite atrocious.”

“Walter is in a way a Dutch ‘Sentimental Tommy,’ and the growth of his vivid imagination and literary aspiration among rather sordid surroundings and stolid people is told with minuteness and perhaps a little over-elaborated humor. ‘Multatuli’ is not exactly a Dutch Dickens, but he has some Dickensy qualities.”—Outlook.

“His story is immensely detailed and told in a bygone style of confidentialness, but a style highly animated and frequently witty. The translator, though a Ph. D., affronts style and even grammar at moments.”

“In fact, you may see in Dekker now touches of Fielding, now of Heine, (he has been called the Holland Heine), now the contemporary iconoclast. Bernard Shaw, whose hatred of ‘respectability’ he shares. Adherents of the new school of novelists, Ibsenites, &c., who are not already familiar with Dekker’s work will not regret a perusal of Mr. Evans’s rendering, nor will the more catholic seekers after real life in fiction—real, yet divorced from sentiment.”

“The realm of the wholesome commonplace” is chosen for this story. There is Peter’s widowed mother, Lady Mary, whose gentleness is contrasted with the tyrannical selfishness of her son; there is the brilliant Sarah who adores the mother, and to spare her the suffering inflicted by the caddish son, sets to work to wind the youth about her finger. How she succeeds forms one side of a story whose other phase deals with a middle-aged romance involving Lady Mary and two men—“one strong, serene, patient, understanding, the other with a passion so lofty as to sacrifice itself upon its own altar.”

“It is a delightful story, told with a certain distinction and much charm. The whole thing is in harmony.”

“This book is a good illustration of the fact that normal characters can be made interesting.”

“An excellent entertainment in which sentiment and humour are most agreeably blended.”

The author, a young Sardinian, has written a sad story of Italian peasant life. The hero is condemned to twenty-seven years imprisonment for the murder of his uncle. During his confinement, before the confession of the real murderer frees him and establishes his innocence, his baby dies and his pretty young wife, who lacks both money and character, secures a divorce, under the new law which liberates the wife of a convict, and marries a wealthy lover whom she had once rejected. The story is a pitiful one, and when at last the two are reunited they are saddened, disillusioned, and their young happiness is gone forever.

“In style she is as simple and unaffected as Verga himself. She effaces herself almost wholly, she makes you see the primitive life of her little island almost as vividly as though you were there in person.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

“As a picture of peasant characteristics and modes of thought it is perfect.”

“As a thing of beauty and a joy forever, the book is a failure; as a manifesto against divorce, it might be adopted by all good Catholics.”

“It is a human story, and the fact that it apparently has lost something in the translation does not alter the fact that it is still well worth reading.”

“The translator has apparently preserved the color and flavor of the original; her chief fault is a too slavish following.”

Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel. Breaking the wilderness: the story of the conquest of the far West. **$3.50. Putnam.

It is the aim of this book to “present a review in chronological order of the important events which contributed to breaking the wilderness that so long lay untamed west of the Mississippi, mentioning with as much detail as possible in a single popular volume the principal persons and happenings in proper sequence, but paying special attention to the trapper and trader element, which, more than any other, dispelled the mysteries of the vast region.”

“Barring the deficiencies which mar its critical value, Mr. Dellenbaugh has produced a fairly satisfactory work.” Isaac Joslin Cox.

“The greatest interest of the book will probably be found to lie in the innumerable and fully authenticated tales of trappers and traders with which its pages abound.”

“In most, if not all, respects Mr. Dellenbaugh’s book is admirable. The text is a rare combination of history, observation and story telling, and it is beautifully illustrated. The ‘breaking of the wilderness,’ the once savage region west of the Mississippi, by explorer, fighter, trapper and settler is pictured to us as by a vitascope.”

“The chief value of Mr. Dellenbaugh’s work is the presentation of the chronological review of Western exploration in unbroken sequence.”

“His style is too abrupt, and the separate phases of the history have the appearance of being thrown together.”

* Denk, Victor Martin Otto (Otto von Schaching, pseud.). Violin maker; trans, by Sara Trainer Smith. 45c. Benziger.

The story of the gentle, pious Matthias Klotz, son of a poor tailor of Mittenwald, of how he herded his father’s goats and how Jacob Strainer found him, discovered his ambition to become a violin maker, and took him away to his own school at Absam. From him Matthias went to other masters in Italy, and after years of faithful work returned to his father and his old home and founded his own celebrated school in Mittenwald.

“An ambitious work dealing with the Neapolitan composer.... Without blind adoration of his hero, he has brought himself into thorough sympathy with Scarlatti’s personality, and has studied all his circumstances and his relations to Italian art.”—Acad.

“Appreciation of Mr. Dent’s adventurous excursion into a new path is called for by the attempt as such, and the result of his labours is a handsome volume which should find a place in every music-lover’s library. Accuracy, not elegance of style, has been aimed at, yet there are occasional sentences where Mr. Dent has endeavoured to impart interest to the manner as well as the matter.”

* “A work of high importance, which must be accepted as the standard authority on the life and writings of the Verdi of his time.” W. J. Henderson.

“An exhaustive study at first hand from original documents and scores.” Richard Aldrich.

An exciting detective story in which Dr. Stone and the Pacific coast manager of a great life insurance company discover that several policy holders have been skilfully murdered. Their investigations bring them thrilling adventures in the Chinese quarter, Dr. Stone narrowly escapes cremation; but they relentlessly follow the strange evidence of strange drugs until they discover the criminal, a wealthy and respected 95old man, who devises unusual methods of murder for the mere joy of achievement without detection, letting the life insurance money go to an accomplice. There is also a love interest.

“To those who crave in the reading the temporary excitement that attends the perusal of a story filled with murders and murder plots, the detection of crimes in spite of highly scientific methods employed to divert suspicion, and the tragic self-death of the murderer when he discovers that his deeds are known, this book may possess interest.”

De Selincourt, Beryl D. Home of the first Franciscans in Umbria, the borders of Tuscany and the Northern Marches. *$1.50. Dutton.

“The author describes Assisi, the district of Lake Thrasymene, Monte Casale, and Vallingegno, two Umbrian solitudes, the valley of Rieti, the Marches and La Verna. She has also written an introduction in which she touches on the influence of the personality and temperament of St. Francis, of the places to which he retreated. The thirteen half-tone illustrations are reproductions of photographs taken by Mildred Bicknell.”—N. Y. Times.

“Discriminating and sympathetic introduction. Mrs. de Selincourt’s style, in any liberal spirit of criticism, is of a high average.”

“A successful attempt to show to what a degree the character and teachings of St. Francis of Assisi were shaped and illustrated by his surroundings.”

“Shows much diligence and contains some interesting and out-of-the-way information.”

“The book is full of beauty and pathos, but it leaves us with but a vague idea of what St. Francis really thought.”

A new and cheaper edition of “this well-written and convincing account of penal methods and conditions in Siberia by one who has known them to his cost ... the new edition contains ... a preface, in which the translator seeks to estimate the influence of recent events in giving impetus to the reform movement in Russia” and “an appendix, ... a reply by Count von Bülow to a Reichstag interpellation concerning the Königsberg trial of last July, when certain German subjects were prosecuted for smuggling revolutionary literature into Russia.” (Outlook.)

Dr. Devine’s experience as general secretary of the New York charity organization society has put him in vital touch with the practical aspects of a great cause. His convincing treatment is arranged under four heads: Part I “is a strong, clear, logical presentation of the essential ‘principles of relief.’ The fundamental and most fruitful idea of this discussion is that there is a normal standard of living which can be known and approximately measured, and that all relief work is to be judged by its success in aiding social debtors to find their place in a normal and well-balanced life.... In Part II is printed a most interesting and instructive collection of typical relief problems.... Part III is a sketch of certain aspects of relief. Part IV gives the story of relief methods at times of disaster.” (Am. J. Soc.)

“While a certain amount of repetition of thoughts already published was inevitable in a systematic treatise, every chapter and paragraph has its justification. Looking back over the literature of charity produced during the last twenty years in America, we are bound to place this volume in the very front rank, with few companions in the specific field; and we must regard it as indispensable to the serious student of the general subject.” Charles Richmond Henderson.

“In it are brought to consciousness, perhaps for the first time fully, the underlying principles on which the charity organization society movement is based. Moreover it undertakes to give a comprehensive statement of the elementary principles upon which all relief giving, whether public or private, should rest; and it correlates these principles with the general facts of economics and sociology in such a way as to leave no doubt in the mind of the reader that the author has mastered his subject. The point of view of the book is constructive throughout; and it is safe to say that for many years to come it will be, both for the practical worker and for the scientific student, the authoritative work upon the ‘principles of relief.’ I cannot help feeling, after careful reading, that the book shows too much the bias of the author’s personal field of labor. Its point of view is too exclusively that of the charity organization society worker.” Charles A. Ellwood.

“No one who is interested either historically or practically in the subject of charity can afford to neglect this volume.” Winthrop More Daniels.

“The book will help us to give a quantitative value to our vague notions about the standard of living and the minimum wage; and no writer has applied this definite standard to the methods of poor relief more thoroughly. Especially valuable to a student is the analysis of typical relief problems, which enables one to arrive at principles of relief much as a study of court decisions takes one to the heart of legal principles. The work will be recognized as one of the chief contributions on this vital subject.” Charles Richmond Henderson.

“The book as a whole will be a standard to all charity workers and professional philanthropists, but while not exactly over technical it is too heavy for the average reader, and will probably not interest him to any great extent.”

“While Mr. Devine’s statement of principles is not very lucid, his practical suggestions are instructive.”

“The first [volume] stirs the sympathies and supplies the motives for Christian charity; the second broadens the horizon and shows the problem in its world aspects; the third gives the practical and, so far as we can judge, wise counsel in dealing with the problem as it presents itself in American cities.”

“Aside from these few passages [pp. 12, 13, 462], which appear somewhat visionary, the book is eminently sane and practical.” David I. Green.

This report is the result of two months’ careful investigation in Luzon. It gives interesting notes of travel and fully covers the social, political and religious field. It tells what American missionaries are doing and shows that many of the Americans in the Philippines are of a type as greatly in need of missionaries as the Filipinos themselves.

“Dr. Devins’s book is non-discriminating and simple-minded in a high degree.” H. Parker Willis.

“Has included in his volume much useful information and much matter interesting and entertaining for one reason and another.”

Dexter, Edwin Grant. History of education in the United States. **$2. Macmillan.

The work comprises in less than seven hundred pages of text “a survey of education in this country from the landing of the Cavaliers and of the Puritans to the opening of the twentieth century, including in it an historical survey and an analysis of contemporary conditions of education in every state in the Union, of every stage of education from kindergarten to popular lecture courses for adults, and of every phase of educational activity from an account of early schoolbooks to newspapers and periodicals of the various periods, the publication of learned societies and the work of libraries.... The general organization of the work is into three parts: the growth of the people’s schools, higher and special education, and educational extension.” (Educ. R.)

“This book is very attractive in its make-up, but it will prove disappointing to those who hold that the history of education should be history. The declared purpose of the author is to present a mass of fact rather than discussions of historical trend. But instances are far too numerous in which the fact is not even fact.” Elmer Ellsworth Brown.

“To compress so much in one volume is a task of no small magnitude, and to say that Professor Dexter has done this with excellent judgment and discrimination is only to give due praise. It is no detraction from the character of the text to say that the most valuable feature of the work is the elaborate bibliography at the end of each chapter and the marginal references which are to be found on every page.”

“The best work of its class yet published. So far as it goes, it is most thoroughly and skilfully done.”

“The handling of statistics is skilfully done. There is no unity, whole episodes in the history of education are absent, as are also the majority of the important personalities. A more accurate title would have been ‘A historical encyclopedia of American education.’” Henry Davidson Sheldon.

“The merits of this book are those of comprehensiveness, organization, accurate analysis and classification, and excellent selection of the material to be included in a single volume dealing with so extended a subject; its demerits are an unfortunate lack of accuracy in many details, not all of them unimportant, and a tendency ... to accept stereotyped generalizations without adducing facts to support them, and the omission of any attempt to interpretation. No other single work, of even more than one volume, has ever attempted so much, so that there is little basis for comparison, and little room for criticism, so helpful is the general result. It is easily first of treatises upon the subject.” Paul Monroe.

“A work of truly encyclopedic comprehensiveness, but nevertheless readable.”

Dexter, Edwin Grant. Weather influences; an empirical study of the mental and physiological effects of definite meteorological conditions. **$2. Macmillan.

A monograph based upon a series of investigations of the committees of New York and Denver, and the effects of the weather changes of their divergent climates, upon their inhabitants. A comparison of the school, criminal, hospital, mortuary, and other records with the meteorological charts of the weather bureau gives the principal data for statistics as to the effect of wind and weather upon disease, drunkenness, insanity, crime, suicide, natural depravity of school children, errors of bank officials, etc.

Dexter, Henry Martyn, and Dexter, Morton. England and Holland of the Pilgrims. **$3.50. Houghton.

“The history of the Mayflower ‘Pilgrims’ is an important part of the history of the Protestant reformation in England.... Their most eminent historian was the late Dr. Dexter. The present volume, left unfinished at his death, completes their history by a full account of the environment and experience in which the reforming movement slowly struggled and groped towards the decisive venture, by which the door was opened at Plymouth rock to its great success.... Dr. Dexter’s draft of history, rewritten and edited by his son after further researches in England and Holland, now stands in a completeness to which it is likely that little can be added.”—Outlook.

* “It is a book made by bookmen. Sometimes, as we read, our vision is obstructed; we cannot see the forest on account of the trees. The grand human story seems lost in a mass of antiquarian detail.” Wm. Elliot Griffis.

“A loving hand and diligent investigation of the original sources of information to the minutest details are apparent throughout the work.”

Professor Dicey “lays bare to the general reader the dominating influences, intellectual and moral, which characterize the general body of law-making or operating to change it.” (Ath.) “His careful soundings and observations lead him to mark on his chart of the nineteenth century three main currents—the first, the period of old Toryism or legislative quiescence extending from 1800-1830; ... the second is designated as the period of Benthamism or individualism; ... the third is described as the period of ‘collectivism,’—the growth of opinion ‘which favors the intervention of the State even at some sacrifice of individual freedom.’” (Lond. Times.)

“Mr. Dicey adds a familiarity with English literature and a simplicity of style in dealing with the most intricate topics and summarising the most extensive developments that will save his work from being relegated to the shelves of law libraries alone.” Robert C. Brooks.

97“A masterly exposition of the forces which have promoted the course of our modern legislation and a penetrating analysis of the counter-currents and cross-currents of opinion which have delayed or diverted it.” R.

“His chapter on judicial legislation—a most difficult subject—is a model.”

“We get a history of public opinion from a special point of view, and if it is far from being a history of opinion in its wider aspects during the nineteenth century, it deals with sufficient breadth and in sufficient detail with opinion as it affects the practical interests dealt with by legislation. Much of the best reading in Professor Dicey’s book consists of personal sketches.”

“Granted the difficulty of the subject, it may be fairly said that there is no other living scholar who could have handled it in a style so masterly and yet so attractive. Like all Professor Dicey’s books, it is easy to read, and the simplicity and orderliness of the narrative disguise the labour and thought involved in its preparation. There is no novel dogma propounded, but an accepted doctrine is brilliantly worked out in detail. For anyone who wishes a guide to that difficult thing, the intellectual life of a nation, we can imagine no more lucid and stimulating handbook.”

“If we would understand Japanese art we must accept the conventions,” says the author. The sympathetic attitude which grows out of a careful survey of the forces of Japanese development is necessary for connoisseur and beginner alike. Painting, color printing, sculpture and carving, metal work, keramics, lacquer, and landscape gardening and the arrangement of flowers are covered in the treatment.

“It is by far the best short introduction to the subject of which it treats that has yet appeared.”

* “He talks entertainingly and correctly, and yet rather as a student and reader in Europe, than as an observer in Japan itself.”

The earl of Somerville, weary of purposeless social life, decides upon suicide one night during a violent storm. When he awakens he looks upon a London from which every vestige of clothes and furniture had been swept away thus removing all outward signs of social distinction. “Yet even when we recognize that the book is in a way an allegory, and a satire upon the shams of modern life, nothing can alter the fact that here is a story which, chapter after chapter, pictures the fashionable life of London, the crowds in the street, the dinners and receptions and public functions, all thronged with men and women in the garb of Adam and Eve before the fall.” (Bookm.)

“The volume may have a certain incisive irony, but it is sadly deficient in good taste.”

“An elaborate and tiresome extravaganza, in which the author handles the idea of an unclothed society with cumbrous and offensive satire. There is enough ability in the book to suggest that the writer might do something better.”

The illustrations of George Alfred Williams add much to this very attractive edition of the two Dickens’ stories which have come to be perennially a part of the holiday season.

* “On the whole it is an excellent book to put into the hands of young people who are nevertheless old enough to appreciate the qualities both of literary and artistic workmanship.”

Dickens’ “popular and picturesque” and thoroly authentic aid to the understanding of the terrible days of the French Revolution has ever taken its place beside the histories. This reprint is uniform with the “Thin paper classics.”

* Dickens, Charles. Tales from Dickens, ed. by Hallie Erminie Rives. †$1.50. Bobbs.

A short cut to the best selections from the best of Dickens’ works has been provided here for the uninitiated Dickens reader as well as the Dickens lover who desires to refresh his memory. On an average of four or five tales have been taken from each story, and many characteristic drawings reproduced.

* Dickerson, Mary Angela. Wonderful wishes of Jacky and Jean. †$1. Wessels.

The story of two children who had a fairy sparrow that made wishes realities for them. But the sport had trials too which mingle with the wonders of the tale.

An elementary text-book for use in the upper grammar grades and lower high school classes. The life histories of eighteen moths and nine butterflies are given in parts 1 and 2. Part 3 is devoted to Relationship—practical suggestions. There is also a chapter on how to collect, keep, and study moths, butterflies and caterpillars. The book contains a glossary, an index and over 200 photographs made from life, by the author.

“It will be found a very useful book for the nature study library in schools and for private ownership by pupils of the upper grammar and high school grades.”

“A great deal of useful general information is given in the book, and it seems on the whole to be careful and accurate.”

“None more suitable from thoroughness of treatment, photographic illustration, and moderate price to do its work in the schools for which it was intended.” Mabel Osgood Wright.

“The work is untechnical, and well adapted to cultivate the intelligent minds of young persons in America.”

98Dickinson, Edward. Study of the history of music; with an annotated guide to music literature. **$2.50. Scribner.

An aid to the understanding of musical history and criticism prepared by the professor of the history of music at Oberlin. “This volume is intended to clear the way by indicating the problems, the method and the materials” necessary for the study; further, “the narrative and critical portions give a terse and comprehensive summary of music history, show what are the important subjects involved and their connections and relations. The bibliographical sections lead the student to the best critical commentaries in the English language on every phase and detail of the subject.”

“His book is certainly almost unique in its clearness of statement and general usefulness; it is a marvel of condensed information.”

“There is nothing else in English that is comparable in completeness and suggestiveness for students of musical history.” Richard Aldrich.

“We know of no short history of music which is its equal. This volume is about equally valuable for reading, for study, and for reference.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.

“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.

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.

“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.”

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

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.

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.”

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

“... 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.”

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

“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.”

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 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.”

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.

“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.

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.

“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.

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.”

* “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.”

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.”

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.

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.

“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.”

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.

“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.

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

“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.”

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

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.

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.

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

“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.

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.”

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

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.

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.

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.

“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.”

“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.”

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

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).

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.

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.”

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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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.

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.”

“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.”

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

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.

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

“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.

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

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.”

* “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.”

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.

“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.”

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

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

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

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.”

* “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.”

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

* “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.”

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.

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.”

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.

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

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

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

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.”

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.”

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.

“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.

“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.”

“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.

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

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.

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,

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

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.”

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.”

* “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.

“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.”

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.”

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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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.”

“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.”

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

“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.

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

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.

“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.”

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

“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.

“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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.”

“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.”

* “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.”

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

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

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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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.”

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

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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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.”

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.”

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.”

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.

* “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.

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.”

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

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

“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.”

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.

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

“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.”

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.

“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.

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

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.

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

“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.”

“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.

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.”

* “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.”

“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.

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

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

“‘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.”

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

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

“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.”

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.”

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.

“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.

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

“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.”

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

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.

“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.

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

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

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.”

* “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.”

“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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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.”

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.

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.

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.

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

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

* “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.”

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.

“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.’”

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.”

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.

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

“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 ‘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.”

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

* “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.”

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.

* “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.”

“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.”

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.”

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

Jörn Uhl was the youngest son of a drunken brute. His mother died neglected, his brothers followed his father’s mode of living and Jörn worked the great farm while the others caroused. His career is followed in detail as his character unfolds and he dully plods toward the light, until at last he comes to be a man of mark.

“Really is a fine novel and deserves to be taken seriously. The present translation is good, but fails, we think, to reach the highest excellence.”

“It is a rich, homely book, seemingly artless in its simple sincerity, intensely human in its appeal, touched with poetic feeling that can glorify the humblest material, and genuine in the best sense of the word.” Wm. M. Payne.

“The translation shows remarkable poetic insight and is faithful rather than literal.”

“Freely offered advice to the reader of Jorn Uhl is to skip the story and read the reflections and sermons.”

“Unusual story. For many chapters the reader is absorbed in quiet but intensely vivid pictures full of real poetry and throbbing with convincing truth.”

“Is powerful rather than original, deliberately thoughtful and carefully wrought rather than striking; ... it is the culmination, not the creation, of a genre.”

126“There are tedious passages. There is a want of proportion; there are abrupt transitions from tragedy to a somewhat childlike jollity. But it is for all its artlessness, an attractive story.”

“While Mr. Delmer’s translation is in the main workmanlike and straightforward, his method of occasionally representing the Low German dialect by using Scotch forms is most disconcerting.”

“Dr. Herbert Friedenwald has written an interpretation and analysis of ‘The Declaration of independence.’ As preliminary to his chapters on adopting and signing of the declaration its purpose and philosophy, Dr. Friedenwald points out the close interrelation between the development of the authority and jurisdiction of the Continental congress and the evolution of the sentiment for independence. He shows that as the authority and jurisdiction of congress were extended it adopted various means to further the desire for independence; that the highest point of power was reached by the congress on July 4, 1776, and that it was never again so powerful as on the day it declared independence of England.”—R. of Rs.

“The independence campaign has never been so carefully studied as in this valuable monograph. The book as a whole represents an amount of study that gives great credit to the author’s conscientious scholarship.” C. H. Van Tyne.

“This is the most scholarly study of the Independence campaign that has been made. The book is a credit to the author’s conscientious scholarship. Written in a rather heavy style.”

* “A careful and deep study of the evolution of the spirit that produced that famous document.”

“It is the first attempt to give the general reading public an adequate treatment of the period concerned, and within its compass it does what has been pressingly needed. Here we have knowledge kept within bounds, original authorities sifted and their pith extracted.”

Friedlander, M., tr. See Maimonides, Moses. The guide for the perplexed.

From servitude to service: the history and * work of Southern institutions for the education of the negro. *$1.10. Am. Unitar.

A book for students of Southern educational institutions and their problems. There is an outline of the history and work of six of the leading Southern institutions engaged in negro education: Howard university, Berea college, Tuskegee institute, Hampton institute, Atlanta university, and Fisk university.

* Frost, Arthur Burdett. Book of drawings; with introd. by Joel Chandler Harris, and verse by Wallace Irwin. $3. Collier-Fox.

“A new edition of the happy combination of the humor of these men already firm in the hearts of their public.”—Critic.

Frost, Thomas Gold. Incorporation and organization of corporations created under the “Business corporation acts” of all the states and territories of the United States. *$3.50. Little.

“A treatise describing and comparing the incorporation laws of the various states and territories of the Union. Every step in obtaining a charter, incorporating, issuing stock, and going into bankruptcy is fully described for every class of corporation and with reference to the statutes of every commonwealth. The legislative, judicial, and executive powers of the various branches of the federal and state governments over corporations are given clearly and succinctly, and 185 pages are devoted to a synopsis-digest of the incorporation acts of the several states and territories.”—N. Y. Times.

“It teaches the whole important art of incorporation in a very satisfactory way, and without an excess of citations.”

“This digest is remarkable for its careful condensation of the very wordy acts into a form available for quick and reliable reference. Nothing essential is omitted, and nothing unnecessary is included. As a book for the reference of the lawyer and the information of the prospective incorporator, we do not know of any work comparable to this.”

Fuchs, Carl Johannes. Trade policy of Great Britain and her colonies since 1860, tr. by Constance H. M. Archibald. *$2.50. Macmillan.

“An admirable translation by Miss Constance Archibald of the well-known work of Prof. Fuchs on the fiscal question.... The drawback to the book is that the original was published in 1893, and that the figures are out of date.”—Ath.

“With the exception of a few blemishes, the book is one which it was right to translate. The work of translation and editing has been admirably performed.”

“It is a drawback that the book is not brought up to date; Dr. Fuchs has changed his mind at least as to one point since he wrote.”

“We unreservedly welcome this translation of a Freiburg professor’s work.”

“A half-dozen sketches of as many different types of winsome young womanhood—Blythe, enthusiastic and lovable; Madge, the artistic; Olivia, the young philanthropist; Polly, capable and devoted sister; Di, the dear peacemaker; but best of all, Nannie, who floured her face and did Lady Macbeth in a nightgown to an admiring audience of one—Miss Becky Crawlin, seamstress, whom she afterward took to a real theatre, with many amusing results.”—Outlook.

“The book is adapted for young girls’ reading and has a wholesome and stimulating tone. It should be popular.”

An accurate picture of the life of the time, with the wars and conquests of Alexander as a background. The story follows the adventures of Clearthus, a rich young Athenian, in his search for his betrothed, Artemesia, who had been taken from him on the eve of their wedding, thru the influence of a relative who covets the young Greek’s fortune. A Theban and a Spartan accompany him and they become involved in Alexander’s campaigns.

“The characters are conventional, the plot is laboured, and an air of unreality hangs about the whole.”

“To readers with a predilection for historical fiction this romance of Alexander’s wars of conquest will more especially commend itself. Others may find it over long and rather too heavily freighted with descriptive detail.”

Fullerton, Edith Loring. How to make a vegetable garden: a practical and suggestive manual for the home garden. **$2. Doubleday.

“The illustrations!—truly, they illustrate—everything from seedlings and tools to the aspect of the garden in winter.” (Dial.) “Besides being a good picture book, it contains practical and detailed directions for making the best use of a small garden from the preparation of the soil to the cooking of the vegetables.”—Ind.

“The writer has managed to avoid everything dull and prosy, without omitting anything essential.” Edith Granger.

Furness, Horace Howard, ed. See Shakespeare, Wm. New variorum edition of Love’s labour’s lost.

The lives of eight famous women are dealt with in this volume: Mrs. Fitzherbert; Lady Hamilton; Mrs. Montagu; Lady Blessington; Mrs. Lennox; Mrs. Grote; Mrs. Norton; and Lady Eastlake. Excellent portraits add much to the interest of this collection of biographies.

“We must be grateful, however, for Mr. Fyvie’s addition to our materials, although we still await the wizard who shall transform them into flesh and blood.”

* “As a whole, Mr. Fyvie’s sketches are agreeably and discreetly written, but they contain little evidence of original research.”

“The biographies are told con amore, the women placed before us with firm strokes and careful shading; and the result is wholly pleasing.”

* “In all, Mr. Fyvie, who is indefatigable in research and clever in arranging his ‘finds,’ makes the best of his theme.”

A collection of five essays which originally appeared in the International studio, the Lamp, the Critic, the Weekly critical review of Paris, and the Literary collector. The title essay deals with Whistler’s “Gentle art of making enemies,” “Aubrey Beardsley: man of letters,” contains a review of his last writings as found in “Under the hill, and other essays in prose and verse,” (John Lane). “Notes on three hitherto unpublished drawings by Beardsley,” describes three unfinished sketches here reproduced, a border design for Mallory’s “Le morte d’Arthur.” The closing papers are “Whistler’s realism” and “Whistler’s memorial exhibition,” in Boston, February and March, 1904.

“The volume has little interest but for those already much interested in Whistler and his work.”

“The title of this little volume is somewhat misleading, and its price out of proportion to its value.”

“This exquisite volume will be a valuable keepsake to those who admire Whistler. It is remarkable, first, because of its superb print, secondly, because of some remarkable facsimiles, and, thirdly, because of a criticism which may well be a vade mecum to those who would better understand Whistler—to those who have thought him an impressionist, for instance.”

Gallizier, Nathan. Castel del Monte; a romance of the fall of the Hohenstaufen dynasty in Italy. †$1.50. Page.

A novel with a most involved and exciting plot which concerns a wicked duke and ex-monk, his lovely kinswoman, Lady Helena, and the beautiful Francesca whom he has taken from a nunnery. There are witches and sorcerers, plots and counterplots, murders and battles. A young nobleman, who loves Lady Helena, is again and again entangled by the wicked duke and dies in her arms at the tragic close of the story.

* Ganz, Henry F. W. Practical hints on painting, composition, landscape, and etching. *$1. Lippincott.

This volume “supplies the advice and suggestion, hung on the frame work of graded lessons in drawing and painting, that are ordinarily to be had only in class.... In twelve preliminary lessons the author sets the beginner various tasks in drawing and in painting, with representative illustrations.”—Int. Studio.

* “While perhaps a trifle categorical to the reader, this book should prove a convenient walking stick to many who start along the road of painting alone.”

This book is translated from the German and edited by Herman Rosenthal. The author, a German journalist of Vienna, sent his work originally to the Austrian newspapers in the form of letters. It gives in detail his visit to Russia, the land of riddles, early in 1904, and his conversations with men of all classes of social and official life. He treats of the war; the political situation; the universities, which are “only political camps awaiting the call to arms, and nothing more”; the Jewish question, which there seems no hope of solving, and the unsteady financial standing of Russia, whose foreign credit is a mere bubble. There is a chapter on Ryepin, the great Russian painter, the sale of whose paintings is forbidden abroad, and an account of a visit to Tolstoy. The book as a whole gives a vivid and unpleasing picture of corruption and riddles to which there is at present no answer.

“After reading the introduction, one is apt to get the impression that Mr. Ganz went to Russia with a mind receptive, to say the least, to ‘horrors,’ and that quite naturally he was horrified. The volume has the defects usually inherent to a collection of letters written for popular consumption—prolixity. The writer assumes that his readers are ignorant of everything east of the Vistula.”

“Toward solving the ‘riddles,’ the author’s guesses imply only average insight or acumen, but the book is readable, and the style is pleasing.”

“There is little in the book that adds to the recent knowledge poured forth so profusely concerning that unhappy land. The translation, by Mr. Herman Rosenthal, is into excellent English.” Wallace Rice.

“In its present English dress the book contains, however, much additional matter, and some of it valuable. He states throughout the truth boldly, as he sees it, and in most cases gives his authority, or authorities, for his facts and conclusions.” Wolf von Schierbrand.

“Mr. Rosenthal’s translation is excellently well done. The style is smooth and interesting.”

The author is a New York lawyer and has chosen his home town as the setting for his novel. The plot hinges upon a marriage in which both a man and a woman promise to ask no questions relative to their respective pasts. The compact is kept, but the husband’s jealousy is aroused, and finally it develops that “Mrs. Harrold” in her youth had eloped with a member of a circus troupe. Her father, following them to the man’s home in Austria, kills her husband, whose own father suffers imprisonment for the crime, the real murderer being shielded by his daughter. There are many complications but the book ends with the complete vindication of the silent wife.

“Had it been half as long, ‘The silence of Mrs. Harrold’ might have been twice as good.”

“I am firmly inclined to believe that the new novel of intricate plot which Mr. Gardenhire has given us in ‘The silence of Mrs. Harold’ will be warmly welcomed and meet with as wide an appreciation as its merit deserves. Mr. Gardenhire possesses remarkable constructive ability. He knows how to tell a story. The author has handled this question with a dignity and justice and fine feeling that will make the book appeal strongly to women.” James MacArthur.

“He knows much that is behind the scenes to the general, and yet his novel lacks atmosphere. One looks on at a carefully constructed Coney Islandish reproduction of New York; one does not feel the throb of ‘the mighty heart’ of the living city. The chief defect of the book is the one most surely fatal to fiction—it is tedious. The author is fluent, ingenious, inventive; but the long and stilted conversations ‘get on to our nerves.’ Now and again we applaud, but before the last page is reached we are exceedingly weary. In short, the novel is not the work of an artist, and so fails to take the reader with it.”

“It has rarely been our fate to read more prolix, tiresome, and unnatural dialogue than that in this book, while in substance and plot the story is valueless.”

“The discovery of relationships, the linking together of scattered and seemingly unrelated facts, the many ramifications, show constructive skill of a high order. As a study—thorough, logical and strong—of some complex, sophisticated aspects of New York life the book will rank high.”

A book about a child, but one whose contemplative phase belongs to grown-ups. The story traces the workings of a silent, lonely, albeit resourceful girl’s heart from childhood thru her High School days. “We follow Margery to Margaret, and know we are always with a real girl, independent, faulty, sensitive, and generous, imperious among her fellows, yet a favorite and a born leader.” (Outlook.)

“Mrs. Gardiner’s story represents a phase in the psychology of childhood to the study of which such writers as Kenneth Grahame, George Madden Martin, and Marion Hill have contributed.”

“The book is well written, with much sympathy for the little joys and sorrows that loom so large in childhood, and for the intense loves, ambitions, disappointments, triumphs of the older schoolgirl.”

“The strength of this little story lies in the frequent responses it calls up in the mind of the reader, if that reader knows girls.”

This volume “presents an attempt to set forth the underlying conventions of Greek art, and the changes which ... they gradually underwent. The mental fashions of the Greek mind in building and sculpture and in painting, are presented with a discussion of the relation between epic, lyric and dramatic poetry to painting and vase decoration. An informing chapter is devoted to the subject of dress and drapery.... Such sculptural problems as the decoration of pediments are carefully analyzed. Interesting light is thrown upon the formation of sculptural types and the Greek tendency to impressionalism.... Illustrations in outline and half tone are sufficiently plentiful to point in every case the discussion and argument.”—Int. Studio.

“Dr. Gardner’s book, though brief, covers a wide range, and is rich in illustration; but we could wish that the beauty of the originals had been better rendered, even at a sacrifice of number.”

“In all his treatment is suggestive, not exhaustive. Information he supplies, but his aim is rather to teach how to understand. The English style leaves something to be desired.”

“A valuable volume whose only fault is that it fails as an attempt to provide an elementary study of the subject, and presupposes considerable classical training on the part of the reader.”

“Dr. Gardner’s book is one which should be helpful and attractive to all who are familiar with its general subject, and who go to it for illumination and suggestion, with the proper equipment of familiarity with forms not to be had in a mere perusal or study of books.”

* “A handbook that will probably be found very useful by teachers in schools.”

“Simplicity is one of the most marked characteristics of the style of the whole book. The principle underlying the treatment is sound.”

“It offers an intelligent and practically unerring method for the judgment of the art of Hellas.”

A brief biography compiled mainly from original sources and intended by the author as a dispassionate study. It is a history of the career of Douglas rather than an intimate life story. A detailed account of his work presents him as lawyer, judge, and politician, but while what the man has done is faithfully given there is little of the man himself. The author announces in his preface that he has “not attempted to pronounce judgment on Douglas and his contemporaries but to submit the evidence,” this and this only has he done. The volume has no index.

This is a boy’s book of adventure. A New York merchant sends out an expedition to an uncharted island where a great lump of radium supposedly worth fifty-five million dollars, is guarded by priests in asbestos robes, who worship it and offer up passing strangers in sacrifice to the “black fire.” There are stirring scenes in which two thousand savages are mowed down by the ship’s guns, and barbaric games and combats, which celebrate the coming of an office boy, George the Fat, as king of the savage kingdom. A comic Irishman relieves the tense situations.

A western girl, beautiful and endowed with uncanny psychic powers, struggles between love and hypnotism; the first, represented by a young chemist and biologist, the second, by a clergyman. The story passes thru death and excitement to a happy ending.

“Pleasing and interesting as is the romance considered merely as a novel, its supreme excellence lies in its detailed presentation of certain psychical phenomena.”

“It is very delicate and exacting material that Mr. Garland has chosen for his latest novel, and very crudely has he handled it.”

“With all his exposition, Mr. Garland does not make clear his own view of spiritualism, and, by closing the story where he does, he evades the most difficult of the problems which he raises.” Herbert W. Horwill.

“The scientific portions of the book are the finest and the most absorbing.”

“Regarded as fiction simply ‘The tyranny of the dark’ is too much encumbered with laborious arguments and citations. Has told his story well.”

“Four characters outlined with vigor. A book of more than ordinary power to hold the reader.”

“The story is an interesting one; in places it grips you. But, compared to some of Mr. Garland’s earlier writings, it must be said regretfully that the book is a disappointing piece of work.”

“It is based on a theme of absorbing interest and it is exceedingly well written.”

“That the story ... lacks genuine literary attractiveness or convincingness on its supernatural side, it would be absurd to deny.”

Garnett, Richard. William Shakespeare, pedagogue and poacher: a drama. $1.25. Lane.

This play, written apparently for study and not dramatic presentation, deals with Shakespeare’s traditional roles of school teacher and poacher. It is necessarily unsatisfactory to Shakespeare lovers and students, who find that his character as here portrayed falls short of the man as shown to us in his works, and the words which Mr. Garnett puts into his mouth, while perhaps Shakespearean, are obviously not Shakespeare.

“Among the most ingenious and successful experiments upon this baffling theme [attempt to portray Shakespeare as he lived and moved among his fellows] must surely be reckoned the little two-act drama of Dr. Garnett.”

“While Dr. Garnett’s play is equally open to the charge of being a subject dressed in poetry, rather than poetry incarnate in a fit subject, it is a remarkably readable and pleasant little book.”

“Dr. Garnett’s respect for the great Elizabethan is not to be doubted, but his drama lends to it no emphasis. It contains agreeable lines, but it is not interesting in development, nor is there any reality in the general effect. Moreover, the figure of Shakespeare is trivial and his speech frequently is elaborate and dull. In no respect is he realized with the distinction and art demanded by a subject so far from the ordinary.”

“It is all work at a high level, and the way in which the characters are made to speak in lines which are echoes of the later Shakespeare is extremely skilful. There is a humour, too, in many of the scenes, and much accomplished verse. But it is rather a chapter of Mr. Sidney Lee’s Life turned into dialogue than a substantive drama.”

The hundredth anniversary of the birth of William Lloyd Garrison occurs in December, and to commemorate it there appears a small volume of characteristic sentiments from his writings dedicated “to all who hate cruelty, oppression, and war, and believe in the equal rights and perfectibility of mankind.”

Gaspe, Philippe Aubert de. Cameron of Lochiel; tr. by Charles G. D. Roberts. †$1.50. Page.

What Gaspé did in his Canadian narrative of the early sixties was “to gather up,” says Mr. Roberts, “and preserve in lasting form the songs and legends, the characteristic customs, the phases of thought and feeling, the very local and personal aroma of the rapidly changing civilization.” The story turns to the days of the last struggle of the English and the French, and tells the life history of two young men, a Scot and a Frenchman, both of whom were educated at the Jesuits’ college in Quebec, and later fought against each other on the plains of Abraham.

Gasquet, Rt. Rev. Francis A. Henry the third and the church. *$4. Macmillan.

“A careful study of the relations between England and Rome, from the submission of John to the Papal see on Ascension day, 1213, to the close of his son’s reign. It is written with no desire to defend the Papacy from the charges which were made even by the faithful at the time, and it may fairly claim to represent an unbiased survey of the evidence. The author’s principle has been to let the original documents speak for themselves.” Lond. Times.

“A trustworthy contribution to the story of this long reign on the very points upon which most historians are either silent or provokingly brief.”

“It is somewhat dull and colorless. His conclusions, as it seems to us, are sound, if not novel. His book will be indispensable to the student of the reign of Henry III.”

* “The high literary merit and abundant learning of this investigation into the relationship between Rome and England in the thirteenth century are all that we might expect.”

Gass, Patrick. Gass’s journal of the Lewis and Clark expedition, ed. by Jas. K. Hosmer. *$3.50. McClurg.

Dr. Hosmer, who contributed to the centennial interest in the Lewis and Clark expedition thru his “Story of the Louisiana purchase,” has added further to the commemoration in the present work. The original jottings of Patrick Gass being no longer extant, nothing of them could be included in Thwaites’ recent “Original journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition,” but the chronicles trimmed and shaped by David McKeehan, under the supervision of Gass, are of so great importance that the re-issue after sixty years is well warranted. A full introduction leads up to the records, and a time-saving analytical key follows the text. The volume is uniform in style with other volumes of McClurg’s “Americana,” with reproductions of the original illustrations.

“Dr. Hosmer has confined his editorial work to supplying an introduction. The volume contains no new contribution, nor does it make the journal of Gass much more valuable as a source. The introduction, in an easy though sometimes rather personal style, always with a view to the picturesque, is a convenient summary of the results of recent research.”

As one of “The story of the churches” series, this volume takes up the origin, development, and history of the denomination called The disciples of Christ, beginning with the withdrawal of Thomas Campbell from the Seceder Presbyterian church in Western Pennsylvania 1809, thru the time of union with the Baptists, the later separation of the Reformers from the Baptists, the union of the Reformers as Disciples of Christ, their growth and organization down to the present time. There are chapters upon Evangelism, journalism, education and church growth, and Recent tendencies and problems; there is also a bibliography and an index.

A group of stories for little people including the story of the gold beads which were lost and found on the dog’s neck, the story of the candy heart, which was devoured “lick by lick” by two little girls, and various anecdotes of dogs, birds, horses and fish, “which are absolutely true,” says the author.

Gautier, Theophile. Russia, by Theophile Gautier, and by other distinguished French travelers and writers of note; tr. from the French, with an additional chapter upon the struggle for supremacy in the Far East, by Florence MacIntyre Tyson. 2v. **$5. Winston.

The entire first volume and one-fourth of the second, treating of the empire of the czars from the beginning to the most recent times, are by Gautier, while separate papers by other well known French writers complete the work. These include: The mir, by Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu; The press and censorship, by Gustave Lejeal; The Russian army and navy, by Désiré Lacroix; Religion and sects, by Gustave Lejeal; Literature, by L. Lejar; Russian art, by Marius Vachon; Siberia, by Jules Legras; and others. Fifty photogravures illustrate the volumes.

* “As literature, and as a mine of information, these volumes call for special notice.”

* “There is much interesting information and picturesque writing in these volumes.”

* “The translation ... is mechanical, but on the whole fairly satisfactory.”

A thoroly modern compendium, being, as the sub-title states, illustrations and suggestions as to the proper forms in present usage of social, club, diplomatic, military, and business letters, with information on heraldic devices, monograms, and engraved addresses.

“An excellent compendium, covering everything that pertains to the subject.”

131Gaye, R. K. Platonic conception of immortality and its connection with the theory of ideas. *$1.50. Macmillan.

“Mr. Gaye’s object in this book is to investigate the connection between the theory of ideas and the theory of the immortality of the soul as held by Plato, and in this way to make clear the nature of Plato’s conception of immortality and to determine in what sense he believed in the continued existence of the individual soul: this subject has involved the consideration of the Platonic conception of the soul and of the relation of soul and body.”—Int. J. Ethics.

“Yet, whatever we may think of his assumptions, Mr. Gaye’s essay shows decided ability, and is written in a good, clear style.”

“The main criticism of the book, however, is that though it makes its points clearly and is for that reason of considerable value for all students of Plato, it has failed to establish satisfactorily that the interpretation of Plato which it adopts is the only possible interpretation or that Plato was really influenced by the difficulties and arguments by which Mr. Gaye assumes him to have been influenced.” A. R. Ainsworth.

“It is lucidly written and scholarly, but not remarkable for novelty and originality.”

“Deals in a clear and diligent manner with points in Plato’s doctrine of immortality, and reflects ... with somewhat over-exclusiveness the views of the great gods of Trinity.”

Gayley, Charles Mills, and Young, Clement C. Principles and progress of English poetry. $1.10. Macmillan.

“Profs. Charles Mills Gayley and Clement C. Young, in their volume on ‘The principles and progress of English poetry, with representative masterpieces and notes,’ have attempted to show through extracts and by a scientific study of rhythm, melody and movement as well as by historical analysis, how English poetry has developed, and how it has been touched by external and internal influences since the days of Chaucer down to those of Tennyson. Each chapter has a separate introduction descriptive of the school to which the poems included in it are supposed to belong.”—N. Y. Times.

“Merits the attention both of the studious reader of poetry, and of the mechanician in verse—particularly of the youthful apprentice in the art of poesy.”

“With Professor Gayley’s artistic theory we cannot always agree. It has the great advantage of putting a large amount of poetic phenomena into shape for the student’s use.”

“There is a preface ... devoted to the principles of poetry—a valuable book in itself.”

A reissue, without revisions, of a suggestive guide to the study of the landmarks of Old Edinburgh.

“A map is needed—a map or plan, such as Baedeker prints in his guide books. That, and either no photographs or better ones, would make Mr. Geddie’s a well-nigh perfect hand book to Auld Reekie.”

A book of both discovery and adventure. The author, at Professor Flinders Petrie’s request, was given an appointment on the staff of the expedition which was sent out to Mesapotamia by the University of Pennsylvania in 1895 to continue the excavation of the ruins of Nippur. He writes of “unsettled, poverty-stricken and neglected Mesapotamia, and well-ordered, flourishing Egypt,” and gives detailed accounts of the work of investigation carried on at Behnesch, Nippur and Babylon.

“So far as we know, there is no other book which paints so vividly the camp of the excavator, or sketches the scenery and life of the Nile and Euphrates valleys, as the one before us.” George L. Robinson.

“Mr. Geere writes in a pleasant, lucid style, which rises almost into eloquence when he describes the evening at Mohammerah when the charms of the East first stole upon him.”

Geffroy, Gustave. National gallery (London); with an introd. by Sir Walter Armstrong. ¼ vel. *$10. Warne.

“The author has treated his subject by subdivision into schools corresponding to the arrangement of the pictures on the walls (an arrangement quite unsurpassed in excellence in any public gallery). The English, Italian, Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, and French schools are all covered both in the charmingly written text, and the profuse illustrations.”—Int. Studio.

* “One of the most elaborate, as well as one of the most authoritative, art books of the season. His style is often brilliant, and always clear and definite.”

“M. Gustave Geffroy’s essays are one and all marked by the keen insight into peculiarities of the style that distinguish him; and they have about them a freshness and originality that is, alas, daily becoming more rare.”

“The work is a magnificent one—one which makes us feel grateful to author and publisher.”

* “Great pains have been taken with the mechanical perfection of the reproductions, and the work ranks well.”

* “Unfortunately, many of the photogravures are but mediocre, and most of the process cuts are wretched, so that what should have been a feast of art is little more than an aid to memory.”

Geikie, Sir Archibald. Landscape in history, and other essays. *$2.75. Macmillan.

“Ten essays and addresses.... Half of them deal with scenery in its geological relations and in its influence on human progress.... They are entitled ‘Landscape in history,’ ‘Landscape and the imagination,’ ‘Landscape and literature,’ ‘The origin of the scenery of the British islands,’ and ‘The centenary of Hutton’s Theory of the earth.’ The others discuss the problem of the age of the earth, ‘Geological time’; two are biographical, ‘The life and letters of Charles Darwin’ and ‘Hugh Miller: his work and influence’; one deals with the place of science in modern education, and the book closes 132with a paper on the Roman campagna.”—N. Y. Times.

“Sir Archibald Geikie in those thoughtful essays has done something toward elucidating the dependence of man’s intellectual achievement on his physical environment.”

“These essays are very charming, written with great clearness and distinction.”

* “The essays are popular, rather than technical; and there is very little in them beyond the reach of the average educated man.”

“Charming style in which this volume of varied essays is written. Altogether this volume is stimulating and enlightening, a distinct contribution to the literature of science.”

“It is the interweaving of history, mythology, and imagination with the dry light of scientific fact that constitutes the particular fascination of this book.”

“This is a very entertaining and useful field of research, in which we could desire no better guide than Sir Archibald Geikie.”

Geikie, James. Structural and field geology for students of pure and applied science. *$4. Van Nostrand.

Addressed primarily to beginners in field geology, this handbook is intended also for students preparing to be mining or civil engineers, architects, agriculturists, or public health officers, to whom some knowledge of structural geology is important. It covers the course gone over in the summer course of geology in the University of Edinburgh, a course instituted to give students a further knowledge of practical geology than could be presented in the winter courses. There are numerous illustrations and full-page plates.

“Written with the knowledge and authority of a professor of wide experience, the work is likely to be of much use far beyond the range of University classes. Perhaps the most valuable part of Prof. Geikie’s work is that devoted to geological surveying.”

* “The work is excellent in plan, in presentation. It will be very helpful, not only to beginners, but to those who have been well trained in the science of geology.” N. S. Shaler.

“A very useful handbook, admirable in the freshness and terseness of its descriptions, and the clearness and abundance of its illustrations.”

* “A full and well-considered hand-book for use in the sober work of geological surveying or economic investigation, in a country like Scotland, where there are no active volcanoes, earthquakes or glaciers.” B. K. Emerson.

A book of blanks for those who wish to record their family history in systematic form. The spaces for names, notes, dates, and index are indicated, and when filled out will constitute a neat and handy volume for genealogical reference.

A philosophical rather than a critical study. “The author, together with most modern students of the book, rightly discards the word ‘Ecclesiastes,’ the Greek translation of ‘Koheleth,’ in the first place because it is almost certainly an incorrect translation, and, in the second place, as the author appropriately observes, because it ‘entitles what is of all Scripture books the least ecclesiastical.’” (Bib. World.) “He dwells but slightly on the historical background, and then introduces us to the theory that Koheleth was a reaction against the immortality doctrine, recently adopted from the Greeks and pushed into prominence by the Pharisees. The preacher contends against living for a vague futurity, and insists upon living this present life to its utmost.” (Cath. World).

“Genung’s thesis is admirably set forth and strongly buttressed by references to modern literature. But the impression remains that he has rather read into Koheleth a view which one would like to discover there, than revealed the actual nature of the book itself.”

“To a full two hundred pages of discussion the author has added a new translation and a running commentary. Both are excellent, but the latter especially ripples along in clear, crisp sentences that show how much a deft literary touch may do even for a commentary. In fact, the book as a whole exhibits in language and treatment the author’s nice literary taste. In the opinion of the present writer, Professor Genung is not at his best when he discusses, or rather makes fun of, Siegfried’s analysis of Koheleth. Satire is not convincing. The reviewer also feels impelled to enter a non liquet against Professor Genung’s contention that Koheleth represents a reaction against contemporary views of immortality. The solid merit of the serious and painstaking work that has gone into the book will win for it an honored place on many shelves.” William Frederic Badé.

“Mr. Genung would have done far better to have examined the book without a philosophical theory as to its nature, but with a critical openness of mind for straightforward evidence. Still, in the introductory portion of the volume, and in the exegetical notes accompanying the translation, there are useful suggestions.”

“His discussion reveals a well-balanced sense of the literary and spiritual values that are to be found in Koheleth.” Ira M. Price.

Gerard, Dorothea (Mme. Longard de Longarde). Sawdust: a Polish romance of the Carpathian timberlands. $1. Winston.

Self made, a lover of work for work’s sake, Josef Mayer, has at last achieved success and erected a saw-mill in the Polish Carpathians, having beggared Count Rutkowski and secured his timber lands in a shrewd business deal. Then comes a pretty romance between the count’s daughter and Meyer’s son, which is opposed more strenuously by the peasant than by the nobleman, but which ends satisfactorily in the loss of the Meyer fortune. Royalty, the village folk and the disaffected Jews figure in the story.

“There is also a certain delicacy in the treatment of the love scenes and fidelity to truth in the descriptions of natural scenery that give 133the story a charm not present in most present-day novels.”

“There is, moreover, much skill displayed in the delineation of character and situations alike, and the writer is thoroughly familiar with her material.” Wm. M. Payne.

“A charming combination of capital and labor, with an absorbing love-plot, is ‘Sawdust’.”

Another book for the very young in which little mother Heart, papa Goodheart, and the little Hearties all appear, also the Jolly-jumpers and the Valentines, who were “a very elegant family because their grandfather was a saint, so Mrs. Fancy Valentine always wore white lace.” Quaint drawings illustrate the volume.

* “Another one of those delightful children’s books which the grown-ups like as much as the little people.”

A short biography of the American patriot whom Longfellow’s poem saved from historical oblivion. His midnight ride is told in his own words, and he appears as a patriotic engraver and dentist as well as public messenger, soldier, and juror. Both Revere and the historical events in which he played a part lose in romance but gain much in reality by this accurate account. Original documents are quoted and Revere’s copper-plate engravings are fully described.

“The book shows scholarly work, and is of value historically apart from its narrative of Paul Revere.”

* “The real value of the book lies in the light which it throws on local Revolutionary history, and especially on the alliance with France and the adoption of the Constitution.”

“Mr. W. J. Ghent, author of ‘Our benevolent feudalism,’ has written ‘Mass and class: a survey of social divisions.’ In his present work, Mr. Ghent seeks to analyze the social mass into its component classes; to describe these classes, not as they may be imagined in some projected benevolent feudalism, but as they are to be found here and now in the industrial life of the nation; and to indicate the current of social progress which, in spite of the blindness of the workers, the rapacity of the masters, and the subservience of the retainers, makes ever for an ultimate of social justice.”—R. of Rs.

“The one criticism offered concerns a fundamental point—Mr. Ghent’s failure to grasp the full meaning of the doctrine of economic interpretation on which he professes to base his whole discussion.” Wesley C. Mitchell.

* “Probably most psychologists would attach more importance to the part played by ideals than the author does, but in tracing back our present conditions of war between labor and capital to a play of motives that were the direct result of the rapid economic development of our country, he is fundamentally correct. The book is to be criticised in this respect as being too schematic, as not going sufficiently into detail to be at all satisfactory to one’s historical sense.” Amy E. Tanner.

“With prologue, epilogue, and interludes between the great king, sick unto death, and his faithful chronicler beguiling the painful hours, this Oriental romance details the ordeals—a horrid half-dozen, including burial alive, exposure to wild beasts, and the poison cup—to which Navayan Lal was put for daring to love the Princess Devala. Great bravery and a canny knowledge of hypnotism and other mysteries occult carry him through in safety.”—Outlook.

“Its lucid English style and its fascinating plot. For all these trifling cavils, ‘The verdict of the gods’ must rank as a novel of unusual interest.” Louis H. Gray.

“Here are more ‘Arabian nights,’ murmurous, beguiling, enchanting in their beauty and strangeness.”

Gibbons, Alfred St. Hill. Africa from south to north through Marotseland. **$7.50. Lane.

The account of a thoro exploration of Marotseland, made in 1898 by an experienced African traveler. The objects of the expedition were to fix a British boundary line; to determine the Congo-Zambesi watershed; to discover the real source of the Zambesi; and to make such surveys and general investigations as should determine the best place for the Rhodesian railway company to push its line across the river. The account is interesting and valuable, the more so because the Cape to Cairo railway, soon to be completed, will make it possible for the tourist to cover this same ground. Native life and conditions, present government and economic possibilities are treated in detail.

“Is written in a charming style, simple, direct and convincing. Quite apart from its interest and special worth to the Englishman, is its value on account of the new and interesting geographical information it contains. Is one of the most important works of travel of recent years.”

“There are at least half a dozen reasons why it should be welcome and why it will take a permanent place among the standard books on African exploration. The best authority in print today concerning the country. There is much detail in the book. Still it is all very readable.”

Gibbons, Hughes Oliphant. History of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. Winston.

“Pine Street church in Philadelphia, the third Presbyterian church founded in that city, is the only one dating from colonial times still on its original site. In the churchyard some three thousand lie interred, including many Revolutionary officers and soldiers. It has been served by a succession of remarkably able ministers.... 134Originally in a fashionable center, now in a slum neighborhood ... it remains there, consecrated by its history and pledged by its endowment to a perpetuity of service in its changed environment. This handsome and finely illustrated volume is a worthy memorial of seven generations to many more to come.”—Outlook.

Short studies of life and literature, which have appeared in various weekly newspapers. There is a brief treatment of a great many subjects, including the French revolution, and the Transvaal war.

“The book aspires to be a sort of elementary substitute for liberal education—a university extension course on things one should know.”

“We think that occasionally, in his desire to point a moral, Mr. Gibbs exaggerates. The writer does not go to the heart of his subject.”

* Gibson, Charles. Among French inns: the story of a pilgrimage to characteristic spots of rural France. **$1.60. Page.

“Most daintily attired, all gray and silvery and splendidly pictured, comes ‘Among French inns’ ... with ... an automobile, an indulgent American papa, a managing American mamma, a double love match, and an enviable collection of French, English, and Italian types. Moreover, there is real information about the inns, their table d’hotes, their relative expensiveness and inexpensiveness, and a plenty of historical data.”—N. Y. Times.

* “He defaces almost every page of his book by his badly chosen vocabulary, or his disregard for the rules of English syntax.”

* “This new book may well deserve that quaintly descriptive old word ‘fetching.’”

The present collection, which it is announced, contains Mr. Gibson’s last work in black and white, “is uniform in size, shape, and binding with the nine volumes which have preceded it. It is entitled ‘Our neighbors,’ a phrase generally interpreted to mean all sorts and conditions of men and women. The Gibson Girl is charmingly portrayed, as well as the Gibson Man, the Gibson Dowager, and the Gibson Old Gentleman. There are also the street types ... and cartoons.” (Dial.)

* “Perhaps Mr. Gibson has done his best in black-and-white; at least he will have to do something very good indeed to surpass the general level of ‘Our neighbors.’”

* “Whatever else may be said of Gibson and his work, certain it is that he makes you see what he sets out to show you, and he does it pleasantly and with a deal of humor.”

* “He leaves us quite at his best, and his humor has never been keener or his technical ability more astonishing than in the present collection.”

Mr. Gibson had only begun to record his observations on orchids of the Northwestern United States at the time of his death. Mrs. Jelliffe has supplemented his portfolio of sketches and scattering notes with her own results of study, and has produced an orchid handbook of particular value to the amateur botanist, which practically includes all the sixty species of our native orchids, giving keys, descriptions, illustrations and notes.

“This is a book which supplies a want long felt by the amateur botanist, and we give it a cordial welcome.”

“A volume, unassuming though it is, of substantial value and interest.” Edith Granger.

Gide, Charles. Principles of political economy; second American ed.; tr. by C. Wm. A. Veditz. $2. Heath.

The eight editions through which the original French “Principes d’economie politique” has gone, mark a succession of changes in certain sections of the book, but leave the fundamental purpose the same,—that of giving to the reader “a plain statement of the accepted principles of economics, a summary of the unsettled problems of the science, and a clear, brief, and impartial outline of the various solutions that have been proposed. The author is almost as felicitous in presenting a subject that in the hands of most scholars is extremely dull as was Henry George. This work has been brought down to the latest date and evidently no pains have been spared, within certain limits, to present the subject in a broad, up-to-date and comprehensive manner. A third excellence is found in its concrete presentation of the subject.” (Arena).

“Perhaps much of the popularity of the book is due to its catholicity. The arrangement of the material is open to criticism as unnatural and liable to interrupt and confuse the thought. This is not true as regards the general plan of the book, but only as regards topics under the chief heads. Professor Veditz must be given credit and congratulation for the vitality and the up-to-dateness of this book.” Walter E. Kruesi.

“It is written in a charmingly lucid manner. By the author’s method of presentation the interest in the subject and its intelligibility have gained rather than lost by the concise and direct treatment. The division and arrangement of the work are also admirable and with the fairly good index enable the reader to find anything he desires with little loss of time. This work, though far less open to criticism than many conventional political economies, falls, in our judgment, far short of meeting the demands of an up-to-date political economy that claims to present impartially the various present-day theories of government. The claim of the publishers, that the book is impartial, is not borne out by the facts.”

In this sequel to her “Autobiography of a tom-boy,” Miss Gilder tells of her heroine’s varied career as a bread-winner. At sixteen she was employed as a copyist by a historian, later she worked in the Philadelphia mint, then became in turn a tinter of photographs, an auditor’s clerk, a proofreader, and, finally, a successful newspaper woman. She gives her impressions of New York thirty years ago; and many distinguished literary men, singers and actors of that day enter into her story.

“She has interpreted the whole situation with 135that shrewd, honest, impersonal intelligence which is founded upon humor and common sense rather than upon the usual sentimental pose of such a writer to her theme.”

“Miss Gilder writes in a breezy and unconventional style, suitable to the pace at which her tomboy lived and changed professions. Nothing could be more American than the atmosphere and point of view of this book.”

A little volume of verses containing elegiac poems, poems suggested by music, songs of experience, impromptus, etc. The book closes with The white tsar’s people, reprinted, with additional stanzas suggested by recent events.

“Into almost all of his verse the poet has woven high, fine thoughts that will appeal to the artistic, the intellectual or the conscience sides of life. This is one of the few volumes of verse that we can heartily recommend to our readers.”

* “Mr. Gilder’s limpidity and chastity of style are a constant delight, and the turn of his fancy is pleasing.”

Gilfillan, Joseph Alexander. Ojibway; a novel of Indian life of the period of the early advance of civilization in the great Northwest. $1.50. Neale.

The Ojibway in relation to his own kindred and tribe is pictured in this narrative so humane that were it not for his wilderness surroundings, his crude equipments, his superstitious fear, one might count him the owner of some developed instincts. But the recital of the horrible and bloodthirsty relations with the Sioux tribe reveals such abject savagery that the reader fairly recoils from it. The book is made up of these two phases, with many incidental allusions to traits and customs.

“To call the book a novel was a misnomer. It is rather a series of moving pictures in which we see real people doing real things. In spite of careless proofreading, conspicuous faults of diction and unfortunate lack of experienced editing, the story is told with ... simplicity and vividness.”

* Gillette, Halbert Powers. Handbook of cost data for contractors and engineers: a reference book giving methods of construction and actual costs of materials and labor on numerous engineering works. *$4. Clark, M. C.

“The reviewer believes this to be the first handbook on the cost of engineering work that has been published.... The book is divided into fourteen sections, under heads that facilitate quick reference ... preparing estimates, cost keeping, and its corollary, the organization of forces ... earth and rock excavation ... cost of roads, pavements and walks ... stone masonry ... the cost of concrete construction of all kinds ... the cost of water-works, sewers, vitrified conduits and tile drains ... structures in which timber dominates ... steam and electric railways ... the erection and painting of steel bridges ... the cost of railway and topographic surveys ... and the cost of many miscellaneous structures.... The book is illustrated with cuts wherever they add to the text.”—Engin. N.

* “The subject is presented in an attractive manner. Although much information is given, yet the users of the book will desire more. Its usefulness will only be limited by its sale.”

“A study of the more important phases of music to-day, grouped about appreciative chapters on Richard Strauss, Edward McDowell, Grieg, Wagner, Verdi, Edward Elgar, and Charles Martin Loeffler, with vigorous essays on ‘Parsifal and its significance’ and ‘Women and modern music.’ Mr. Gilman has been the musical critic of Harper’s Weekly since 1901.”—R. of Rs.

“Mr. Gilman writes with penetration and a more than common sympathy, and has a distinctive and charming mode of expression. His work is unusual in appealing both to the technical and the lay reader, and its judgments and illuminations will be valued by students.”

“The author is endowed with grace of style, and he knows how to bring into relief the interesting features of unattractive subjects.” Ingram A. Pyle.

“It is not often possible to follow him in all his ways; for they are sometimes oversubtle and elusive. He has not yet the weight of reason and the authority of judgment that will no doubt come to one who reflects and thinks seriously as he does.” Richard Aldrich.

This book will be gladly received by the student of social movements, as there is increasing demand for new works upon the “labor question,” due to the rapid growth of knowledge thru investigation, and the steady change in facts and phases of the question itself. “The book takes an Anglo-Saxon point of view, since it draws almost as much upon English as upon American experience, besides making considerable reference to Australian and New Zealand developments. It undertakes a good deal more than a discussion of the special machinery designed to further industrial peace, giving a brief but concise statement of the chief facts incidental to the history and present position of trade unionism. [Then the author shows the necessity for the efficient organization of both employers and employed, discusses the “sliding scale,” raises the question of the legal constitution and liability of trade unions.] ... The ensuing chapters deal at some length with the aims and methods of unions, their conduct of strikes and boycotts, and the place borne by the public in relation to their actions. The remainder of the book is given to a general account of trade boards of conciliation, state boards of arbitration, and the methods of legal regulation in force in New Zealand.” (Int. J. Ethics).

“The treatment is characterized by insight, sobriety, and accurate learning.” C. R. Henderson.

“If a general criticism might be ventured on the whole book, it would be that too much ground has been covered and that in consequence too little intensity of treatment is shown. On the other hand, the author exhibits an admirable breadth of view and impartiality which must appeal to all readers.” James T. Young.

“The chief value of the book will be the statement, dispassionate, and in clear form, of the main facts of the case and of the principles in accordance with which industrial organization would appear to be moving. Mr. Gilman has traveled over so much ground that he has at times become a little sketchy in his treatment. Description rather than economic analysis is the strong point of the book. In a subject 136so far reaching, however, it is perhaps unfair to expect more than a broad presentation of the material which will enable others to formulate particular problems and to attempt independent judgments. This Mr. Gilman has done in a manner so interesting as to command the gratitude of all interested in current labor problems.” C. J. Hamilton.

“Upon the whole, however, the book is of value. In spite of its inaccuracies and occasional unfairness, it contains much information presented in a readable way, with many references to secondary and some to primary sources. It must also be said that he has generalized too broadly on insufficient evidence, and has been influenced too much by his prepossession for state regulation to give an unbiased interpretation of the strivings of the leaders of employers and of employes towards satisfactory methods of industrial peace.”

“He writes with skill and precision. The data on which his conclusions are based are abundant and have been carefully sifted.” Frederick Stanley Root.

A topographical description of one of the villages of the Cotswolds, which dates from the time of Shakespeare, and is the home of some of the distinguished folk of to-day. The little volume is illustrated by Mr. Edmund New.

“The present volume should appeal to the lover of England by its clear description of topography and by its apt references to history. In some pages it also reflects the peculiar atmosphere and poetic charm of a typical English village.”

“It was a short journey the writer took, from Naples to Reggio, miserably punctuated by an illness in the most depressing inn on the route. The author, deeply moved by such traces of ancient life as he could find, refreshed his mind by study and memoirs of the great men of classic time who dwelt in or wrote of Calabrian hills and streams.”—Outlook.

“His narrative is the expression of a highly cultivated intelligence, but it does not enchant; and its lighter touches are particularly unsuccessful.”

“Full of the marked personal touch. A veil of slight melancholy hangs over the whole picture, which in a way adds to its charm.”

As the posthumous historical novel of one who was essentially a modern realist, this unfinished work has called forth much comment and speculation upon the author’s change of style. It is a romance of Rome in the sixth century, and deals with the historical persons and events of the time of Justinian and Belisarius. Mr. Frederic Harrison, who writes the introduction, considers it the author’s most important work, showing, “his poetical gift for local color, his subtle insight into spiritual mysticism, and ... his really fine scholarship and classical learning.”

“Throughout the style is stilted, the conversations absurd, the action tiresomely slow, and the story destitute of a single throb of real humanity.”

“Besides being cold and formal, ‘Veranilda’ is a rather incoherent tale.”

“A more complete or less welcome metamorphosis in style, subject matter, purpose—everything for which the name of George Gissing has always stood in the minds of those who counted him among the strongest of the latter day novelists—than is to be found in his posthumous historical novel, ‘Veranilda,’ it would be as hard to imagine. What is published is in no sense a fragment or preliminary sketch, but is finished and polished in Mr. Gissing’s best manner.”

“In manner the narrative is dignified and careful. The human and story interests are strong and well maintained. The book is easily one of the best of modern attempts at classical romance.”

In this story of self sacrifice in every-day life Will Warburton, when his extensive sugar business fails because of the extravagances of his incompetent partner, supports his mother and sister by secretly becoming a shopkeeper. When his friends at last discover that he has degenerated into a mere grocer, a girl whom he thought he loved, an artist whom he had befriended, and others turn against him, but he finds, when they are gone, that his true friends and his true love still remain.

“‘Will Warburton’ is a monument of ‘art for art’s sake.’ Its arrangement is not quite flawless; we would not quarrel with some of the sequences of chapters: but on the whole, it is a thing of noble shape.”

“A gain in power, in grasp, and in sympathy. But apart from this important development there is no change observable in the style.”

“Where he fails, it is for lack of the supreme touch of art, not of the high and ardent intention.”

“It is characteristic Gissing, but not good Gissing. His familiar effects are reproduced in a fainter form than of old, and there are no new effects indicating how, with further experiences of life, his talents would have developed.”

“Each character, however lightly touched, is true, true to a hair, stepping forth from the page a rounded, breathing figure. It is excellent in workmanship and large of vision.”

“Certainly it leaves one with a warmer personal feeling toward the author than did some of his earlier and abler books.”

“Although not by any means the best of his books, shows no failure in power.”

Five lessons derived from Jason’s quest of the Golden fleece are the contents of this work added to the “Modern messages” series. They are The ruling element, The golden quality, The messenger of fate, The active hand, and Ethics of activity.

“The subjects of these lectures, which were delivered before the students of the Drew theological seminary, are as follows: The Sermon 137on the Mount as a basis of social reconstruction, labor wars, the programme of socialism, and lights and shadows of municipal reform. Dr. Gladden’s attitude on most of these topics has been made known in earlier works. It has been his endeavor ... to bring Christianity and socialism into ‘more intelligible and more friendly relations.’”—R. of Rs.

Twenty sermons by the present moderator of the national council of Congregational churches. “They are concerned with the difficulties and needs of the religious life of the individual, rather than with the social problems to which Dr. Gladden hitherto has been more inclined.” (Ind.)

“Those who are fortunate enough to read ‘Where does the sky begin?’ will be convinced that he is a preacher of marked spirituality.”

“He treats large and serious themes in a large and serious way, with a simple, direct and grave diction.”

“They are good sermons from the points of view of easy style and sincere moral enthusiasm; but very saddening sermons from their feeble content of doctrine.”

“The twenty sermons here published are earnest, original and thoughtful, with forceful religious appeal and in excellent literary style.”

Twenty-six chapters “of virile iconoclasm ... of challenge to all the schools, with unfailing good humor to temper its plain speaking.” “A message to the inner life of man. In keen words the book endeavors to lay bare the heart and mind of the world. Satire, irony, and derision in all their forms are used to expose human nature to its own gaze.” (Bookm.)

Glasfurd, A. I. R. Rifle and romance in the Indian jungle: being the record of thirteen years of Indian jungle life. *$5. Lane.

The author has aimed “to present an old, though still engrossing subject in what is perhaps a novel manner: to carry the reader into more direct contact with the surroundings of the Indian sportsman and naturalist, and, while avoiding as much as possible the recital of personal experience with its stereotyped accompaniments, to lead him into the jungle, with all its fascinating variety of scene and season, hill and plain, where in spirit he may make acquaintance or renew an intimacy with its shy denizens and their habits.” The illustrations are taken from photographs or from sketches by the author.

“Has succeeded in preparing a most cunning and admirable blend of fact, romance, weird mystery and sound advice. Search where one will through this entertaining book, one happens always upon sound literature, fine descriptions, good natural history and lively adventure.”

“As sound and readable a book of its class as we have seen for many a day. The book generally, though occasionally a little slack in its phrasing, may be commended to young sportsmen as a guide, and to old as recalling pleasant reminiscences.”

“That out of such materials Capt. Glasfurd has succeeded in composing so excellent a book is greatly to his credit.”

“He is an observer and a naturalist, as well as a sportsman, and he imports at times into his narrative an air of mystery and of romance which adds greatly to the charm of his work.”

“It falls naturally into four parts. The first is a chapter on the age and the man, and in it we are shown how Virgil, himself the child of a darker period, had a vision of a brighter day to come, and taught his countrymen to look forward hopefully to the age which was opening before them. The next consists of three chapters of literary studies: the first treats of the literary influences to which Virgil was subject, the second of his contemporaries, and the third about the growth of the myths about Aeneas. The third portion of the book deals, in three chapters, with the land and the nation, the three topics being Italy, Rome, and Augustus. The last part of the book is on Virgil’s interpretation of life, and here we have chapters on Dido, Aeneas, Hades, and Olympus, and a final summary.”—Nation.

“In the long list of writings on Virgil and his poetry, Mr. Glover’s new book deserves a high place. The chapter about Dido is perhaps the best in the book, and certainly it is one of the most interesting and sensible essays on that famous episode of the Aeneid which we have ever read. The chapter on Aeneas is unconvincing, and almost a failure. Neither do we care much for the last chapter. But as a whole the book ought to be of great assistance to all who wish to get a true conception of the powers and the weaknesses of the greatest of the Roman poets.”

The autobiography of a distracting and unconventional red-haired girl. She is the granddaughter of an earl, but her grand parents “forgot to marry,” and she is brought up by a rich old lady who leaves her to the bachelor heir as a part of his estate. Then come the vicissitudes. There are many characters, a handsome guardsman, a Scotch family, a lovely selfish married woman, and many others. The story is cleverly told and ends happily.

“It has the whipped-cream consistency of its predecessors. It is mildly amusing.” William Morton Payne.

“This Evangeline, though not without the serene egotism of lovely youth, is mighty good company. The men are not half bad, and the book is full of cleverness.”

“The intention of the book seems to be to present a ‘naughty’ heroine. Evangeline is ‘not nice’.”

138Gocher, W. H. Wadsworth; or, The charter oak. $2. W: H: Gocher, Hartford, Conn.

“It purports to give all that is ascertainable relating to the hiding of the colonial charter, in 1687, in the famous oak tree at Hartford,—an incident of which Captain Joseph Wadsworth, according to doubtful tradition, was the hero. Wadsworth himself, is made to tell the story of the charter and its hiding, in language that is undisguisedly hodiernal, and with many interpolations of matter remotely or not at all connected with the main theme. The chapters on the Royal oak, on Cromwell, and on the regicides, are of this irrelevant nature. The wording, and still more the spelling, of Joseph Wadsworth’s will, which is printed in full, are so strikingly in contrast with the modernity of his supposed narrative, that not the faintest touch of illusion can cling to the latter. Mr. Gocher’s work is lavishly illustrated from old prints, old portraits, and modern photographs, and is provided with numerous footnotes bearing evidence of painstaking research.”—Dial.

“A mingling of fiction and somewhat delusive fact gives the text ... a doubtful historic value.”

“Mr. Gocher has shown commendable antiquarian zeal in prosecuting his researches; yet his readers will probably wish he had not chosen to weave fact and fiction into the same web in a book that professes to be history rather than a novel.”

“A book showing long and careful historical research, this volume will add much to the lore of the Connecticut colony, for the author treats of the story of the regicides, of the New Haven and other colonies, and includes interesting memoirs of Roger Ludlow, John Hooker, John Winthrop, and others who worked so effectively for the establishment of the first pure democracy in the New World.”

Goddard, Pliny Earle. Morphology of the Hupa language. $3.50. Univ. of Cal. press.

Volume III. of the “American archæology and ethnology” series issued by the University of California. An extended examination of the Hupa language in which the various words and forms have been studied, analyzed and assembled into classes “that an adequate conception of the language as a whole might be obtained.”

Goff, Clarissa (Mrs. Robert Goff). Florence and some Tuscan cities. *$6. Macmillan.

“‘The purpose of Colonel and Mrs. Goff in this handsome volume is to describe the most characteristic monuments of Tuscany and to introduce into the account, legends and stories which are not always within reach of the traveler.... On a basis of historical narrative ... Mrs. Goff has given her readers a vivid picture of a city with a passion for politics, a passion for war, and a passion for art. Large attention is given to the churches of Florence.... The volume is richly illustrated in colors by Colonel Goff and issued with a decorative cover.”—Outlook.

“To this charming series of pictures Mrs. Goff has provided an agreeable and easily-written commentary. Too easily written, we fear, to be quite exact in all its information. Mrs. Goff is at her best when she leaves the town for the country, and when she turns from history to describing the life of the Tuscan people of to-day, their festivals, quaint observances and ancient superstitions. The last chapter of the book is devoted entirely to such subjects, and it is one of the most enjoyable.”

“Mrs. Goff is an excellent guide round Florence, and supplies just the right sort of gossipy commentary for a book of this sort.”

“Altogether the book is a charming one, likely to be of real value to the traveller, as well as a pleasing memento of some of the fairest scenes in Italy.”

“Mrs. Goff’s text is the pleasantest reading. Her touch is light, her knowledge wide, her style entirely natural, her sympathy and insight vivid and kindly. Slips in the book are more numerous than they should be.”

“The letterpress is written by Mrs. Goff, and contains much disconnected information. It is not quite safe to assume that it is all accurate.”

The different kinds of lace are arranged alphabetically, with particulars as to their characteristics, their various subdivisions, and the manner in which they are made. The illustrations are especially clear and useful for purposes of lace study. The book contains much valuable information on machine-made laces, with diagrams and explanations of the lace and embroidery machines now in use. It tells also of the nets made for the foundations of certain kinds of lace. The opening article treats of the origin and history of lace.

“The book is well adapted for its purpose, the enlightenment of ‘the busy man of affairs,’ but it is evident our author is hampered by having to express his meaning in English, and sometimes fails to convey what he intends.”

“The author gives a clear general statement in regard to the cultivable species, hybrids, and varieties, and illustrates the handy treatise by exquisite pictures of a few of the best kinds and their most artistic setting.”—Nation.

“It is written for those who delight in flowers and who love their gardens rather than for the connoisseur.”

“The introductory chapter on the geography and history of the lily is particularly interesting, as well as the treatise upon diseases and insect pests—that closes the book.” Mabel Osgood Wright.

“The great value of the book, however, is that it enables one without much trouble to get a conspectus of the whole lily-group. A much too ambitious title.”

Gomperz, Theodor. Greek thinkers: a history of ancient philosophy. v. 2 and 3. ea. *$4. Scribner.

Volume I covered the period of Greek philosophy previous to Socrates, volumes II. and III. contain a discussion of Socrates, his life, his followers, and the great philosophical movement which he fathered; also an account of Plato and his philosophy. 13 chapters are given wholly to a critical analysis of the course and structure of Plato’s works.

“It will admirably serve the purpose of the general reader who is interested in philosophy as an element in the history of human culture. And for the technical student who has mastered some of the more rigorous treatises, it will be useful in completing and vivifying his 139picture of the great thinkers of Greece.” Walter G. Everett.

“It may be said with confidence that Prof. Gomperz has succeeded admirably in accomplishing his design of composing ‘a comprehensive picture’ of the development of Greek thought, in which the historical setting of the narrative, the background of the picture, is ‘not unduly contracted.’ It is written in a vigorous, lively style.”

“It offers not merely a cold technical enumeration of the tenets of the Greek philosophers, but a broad and rational discussion of the permanent significance of each great thought as it presents itself in historical sequence.” Paul Shorey.

“Mr. Berry, like Mr. Magnus, has managed to give his translation the air of real English, and his version is on the whole a great improvement on the curiously abrupt and disjointed style of the original German. It is his moderation, his avoidance of extreme views, that makes Professor Gomperz so satisfactory a critic. The proof-reading of the English translation is far from perfect.”

“The arguments are concisely stated. A rich subject, it is richly treated by this veteran scholar.”

“In his last two volumes Professor Gomperz proves himself to be a thinker and a writer of distinction.”

The following recipe shows the character of the group: Hygienic bread, Mix together the flour of love, made from the whole kernel (giving the all-inclusive flavor and quality); the leaven of spirit; the salt of common sense; the water of life appreciated. Let this rise in the encouraging atmosphere of patience. Knead and mold in the silence. Butter with cheerfulness, and serve to the entire family.

* “The book is better than its outward appearance suggests, and is not one to be thrown aside after a single reading.”

* “The idea is cleverly carried out, and the directions for breakfast food, game pie, deviled tongue, and so on, are often witty as well as admonitory.”

“Capital short stories of Canadian military and social life in the Northwest, with Indian customs and superstitions as the background.”—Outlook.

“In her treatment, as well as in her situations, Miss Goodloe is rather too markedly Kiplingesque.”

“The tales have originality and force, with the added element of quiet humor.”

Goodnow, Frank Johnson. City government in the United States. *$1.25. Century.

Professor Goodnow of Columbia university contributes this volume to “The American state series.” He is known for his authoritative works on “Municipal home rule,” and “Municipal problems.” “In the present work, the author confines himself almost exclusively to a study of American conditions, and at the same time broadens the scope of the inquiry so as to embrace the entire field of city government, so far as that is regarded from the viewpoint of organization and structure.” (R. of Rs.)

“Professor Goodnow’s book will be found eminently readable and useful as a text.” James T. Young.

* Goodnow, Frank Johnson. Principles of administrative law of the United States. *$3. Putnam.

“In his ‘Comparative administrative law,’ published twelve years ago, Professor Goodnow gave an analysis of the administrative system, national and local, of the United States, England, France, and Germany. The rapid growth of the public interest in our system was thought by Professor Goodnow a sufficient justification for a new book giving a fuller account of American conditions, with special emphasis upon the legal side.”—Dial.

* “The volume is a notable contribution to the literature of public law, and will prove of great use, not only to students, but also to officials in the actual work of administration. But to the writer there appears to be a few omissions of importance, some of which would probably indicate a defect in our constitutional law.” David Y. Thomas.

* “By his masterly grasp of the subject and his power of lucid exposition Prof. Goodnow has rendered great service to students and administrative officers. He has also made a distinct contribution to political science.”

A young physician, the hero of Mrs. Goodwin’s story, has been rescued from death by a young man for whom he conceives a strong dislike. The situation becomes complicated by the fact that both men love the same girl, and Dr. Dilke is called upon by the father of the girl to endorse the character of a dishonest rival. “How to adjust the heroic savior of one’s life with the counterclaim of truth and of loyalty to a woman beloved is the problem Mrs. Goodwin’s hero has to solve.” (N. Y. Times.).

“One can hardly help feeling that in ‘Claims and counterclaims’ Mrs. Maud Wilder Goodwin has not done justice to a motif and scheme which were very good. Mrs. Goodwin botches her climaxes by improbability or cumbrous narration.”

“Its unique plot, its life-like characters, its brilliant execution in both dialogue and movement, are all crowned by a novel’s raison d’etre—its absorbing interest.”

“He that overcometh ... I will give him the morning star.” The blood of a French mother flowing warm in the veins of her Dunker son sends him out in the world at the age of forty to seek his fortune, his whole being crying out against the repressed life of silent labor on the farm with which his older brother and sister are content. He wins his fortune as a boomer, 140he loses it in a single night, and in the end comes home again self conquered and content with his Dunker life and his Dunker sweetheart.

“A truly original story of Dunkard character. His pictures have all the vividness of reality.”

“A new and moderate-priced edition of one of the very best of Southern books of reminiscences, written by a famous Southern soldier.”—Outlook.

A collection of forty-six sketches from life. “Such titles as True wife or married mistress, Curing your partner’s faults, Observing conventionalities, A good word for the ‘bad boy,’ Ability of parents to see a joke, Humanizing the beast, Nerve strain, indicate the extent of the field, and it is well dotted with pithy anecdotes and amusing stories. The whole is pervaded by strong and pure moral feeling.” (Pub. Opin.)

“A book of good advice to husbands and wives, easy to read, not so easy to follow, but worth reading and worthy to be followed.”

“Wide experience and keen observation of real life yield material which is treated with plain common sense, good wit, and no lack of humor.”

This fourth volume of the “Literary lives series,” contains a sketch of the poet’s life by one who knew him well in his later years. There is an account of his childhood, his life in London, and his later years, with a description of his personality, his work, and an estimate of his place in the world of letters.

“His volume is not without its limitations. But it is, on the whole, able, at times brilliant. Among Mr. Gosse’s faults dulness has no place. His book shows discriminating taste.”

“Mr. Gosse’s biography is highly interesting; explaining much that is mysterious in Patmore’s poetry through the strange personality of the poet, the biographer adds something of distinct value to the critical estimate. But his conclusions are at least open to debate.”

“Though he says too little about Patmore’s prose essays, which have singular merits of style, his attractive little volume, with its excellent illustrations, can be recommended to all to whom the more exhaustive Life by Mr. Champneys is not accessible.”

“A well-balanced and interesting biography. There is a careful, sympathetic, but entirely clear-sighted estimate of Patmore’s poetic gifts and of the value of his work.”

“Having the helpfulness neither of hostility nor of enthusiasm, and being needlessly apologetic both for Patmore’s domesticity and his mysticism.”

Sketches of French writers nearly all of whom are still living or only lately dead. They are given “in profile” not “from the front” or “from a direct and complete point of view,” and are chiefly “snap-shots, as it were, at authors in the course of their progress.”

“Biography and criticism are deftly blended into an intermediate something and the last thing that the reader need apprehend is to be bored.” Richard Garnett.

* “Mr. Gosse owed it to his readers to rewrite and revise more diligently. But his book is an agreeable and profitable one.” Edward Fuller.

“It is far from being an indispensable book, but it is decidedly a useful one.”

“A successful book, very agreeable to read, and more likely than any we have lately seen on the subject to attract that difficult creature, the general reader. If not infallible the book is full of interest. Any one who cares at all for French literature, and does not mind a little intellectual irritation, will read it both with pleasure and advantage.”

This volume in the “English men of letters” series, a monograph on Sir Thomas Browne, “bears every sign of care and of minute and skillful investigation. Browne himself is set before us with fullness of detail, his work is analysed with scholarly patience.... Browne was that rare favorite of the gods, a happy man of genius. His serene and serious mind was ever preoccupied with high, impersonal, ‘un-mating things.’ His daily life was that of a fond husband and father; a perfect friend; an alert citizen; a busy and successful doctor. But ... no man of letters ever tasted more deeply the lonely and exquisite gratifications known to the vividly inquiring, experimentalizing mind.” (Lond. Times.)

* “Mr. Gosse has made a careful study of the materials at his disposal and in a comparatively short space embodies all that is known of the famous writer and physician. The faults of the book lie on the surface and may be briefly dismissed.”

* “To put it crudely, what we miss in Mr. Gosse’s estimate of Browne is a feeling of pleasure. This is a very skilful biography; very intelligent criticism; but it is not the fine, the suggestive, the liberal, and illuminating criticism which we expected from a writer of Mr. Edmund Gosse’s accomplishments.”

Gould, George Milbry. Biographic clinics. v. 3. Essays concerning the influence of visual function pathologic and physiologic upon the health of patients. *$1. Blakiston.

These essays fully cover the ground indicated by the subject, and in them numerous common ailments are unhesitatingly traced to defective eyesight, and much good advice is given for school children and men engaged in literary or clerical work, all of which is borne out by illustrations from life. The technical terms used in the table of contents need not alarm the casual reader, who will find the text clear and easily understood.

Memoirs written by the Honorable F. Leveson-Gower in his 86th year. As he never kept a diary, he chats merrily from memory of well-known people and things he has met with in the course of his long life.

“Good humor, good sense, good birth and breeding, an entire absence of airs and pretensions, these are among the qualities that commend him to the reader.”

“The volume is worth the attention of those who delight in the pleasant gossip of a genial and generous-hearted man of vast experience and wide information.”

“His book is like him, and it will therefore attract and give pleasure to a large number of readers.”

“The book is characterized by good sense and wit and an agreeable conversational style.”

Grafton, Rt. Rev. Charles Chapman. Christian and Catholic. *$1.50. Longmans.

“The aim of the good bishop ... is ‘not controversial’ but to help souls who are in honest doubt to come into closer union with Christ ... The mass of Christians ... he designates as ‘the sects’ in distinction from ‘the church’ ... To secede from the Anglican church to the Roman is pronounced to be ‘the most terrible sin we believe a Christian man can commit.’”—Outlook.

“This ‘Mother of czars’ was the princess Dorothea of Würtemberg who married the Czarevitch Paul, son of Catherine II.... The czar’s two sons were Alexander I. and Nicholas I.... Mrs. Grant’s book consists largely of details of a tour made by the Grand Duke Paul and his wife during the years 1780-81. The most enjoyable time was spent in France.”—Spec.

“Neither as a study of personality nor as an historical monograph can this volume be praised with much heartiness.”

“With merits as an entertainment this book is marred as an authoritative portrayal of local colour by certain inaccuracies.”

The orchid is a society belle in a set where money counts for everything. She marries a wealthy man whom she does not love, then comes to care for a poor man, secures a divorce and the custody of her child, which she later relinquishes to the father in return for two million dollars, and is thereby established once more upon a secure social foundation.

“Clever as it is in its scenes, its dialogues, its enjoyable diversity of types, the real merit of the little volume lies not so much in what it actually gives as in what it suggests. ‘The orchid’ is an interesting example of a psychological problem, worked out along lines almost purely realistic.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

“The novel is as empty of psychological content as a headline. In this novel his style seems to be even more hard and colorless than formerly, his phrasing even more stereotyped and inaccurate.” O. H. D.

“Judge Grant’s characters are like chessmen: they are well defined and they move in a straightforward and logical manner. This simile does not imply that his characters are wooden, or that the situation lacks complexity.”

“Told ... in this accomplished writer’s crispest and most interesting style.”

“It is a story which not only makes one think, but holds the interest as well.”

“A more thoroughgoing study of feminine selfishness and lawlessness is not to be found in American fiction.”

“Judge Grant’s sure touch and craftmanship are here, but ‘The orchid’ is hardly a worthy successor to ‘The undercurrent.’”

“His theme is the very modern problem of the divorce evil, and he shows us how the undercurrent of emotion eventually triumphs over reason, and sweeps away the intellectual objections which stand in the path of a woman’s happiness. The situation is subtly handled, and one of the oldest of stories thereby acquires new distinction. It is the familiar story of marriage without much thought, the husband’s rapid development into a vulgar brute, and his final desertion of wife and children. Then the right man appears upon the scene, and the deserted wife is torn by the conflict between desire and duty. The plea of duty is voiced by the representatives of church and society, and their argument convinces her intellect, yet it takes only a slight mishap to the man whom she loves to bring about her surrender.”—Dial.

“The opposing claims of church and state to the regulation of marriage have never been more interestingly presented than in the debate between the rector and the lawyer in this book.”

“As a carefully considered, well-rounded, unimpassioned treatment, this book deserves attentive reading and deep pondering. The legal clearness with which Judge Grant has analyzed the question, and the thoroughness and skill with which he has embodied all its aspects in the individual characters and the action of the story, make ‘The undercurrent’ a constructive master-piece. Its interest is timely, therefore, rather than literary, and its value practical and ethical, not artistic. Neither of these facts, nevertheless, derogates from its literary importance. A notable literary expression of conviction among the books of its day.”

“Deals with two insistent problems of American society—the problem of enormous wealth and the problem of divorce. Judge Grant treats both with calmness and sanity. The characters and the story by means of which Judge Grant illustrates his views are thoroughly attractive 142from the point of view of literature. ‘The undercurrent’ is first of all a novel, and an excellent one, and only secondarily a book of purpose.”

“A sane and two-sided view of this problem. The author is master of many of the secret traits of woman’s nature, he rises with dramatic force to a crisis, and his method is always wholesome. But one must regret his excessive use of monologue, as though he could not let his characters interpret themselves.” J. R. Ormond.

Granville, W. A. Elements of differential and integral calculus. $2.50. Ginn.

To meet the need of a modern text-book on calculus which is at once rigorous and elementary, is the rather difficult task of the author. “On the one hand it is necessary to avoid the worthless and even vicious forms of reasoning which mar so many elementary treatises and which are simply intolerable to one educated according to modern standards of rigor. On the other hand, the author must not introduce subtleties of reasoning and logical refinements beyond the needs and comprehension of those who are to use the book. The volume under review is an attempt to solve this problem.” (Science).

“Its first quality is clearness; its second, judicious accentuation. The ground notions are admirably handled, and throughout, the nature and limitations of important theorems are conscientiously indicated.” C. J. Keyser.

“This is a book the main object of which seems to be to enable the student to acquire a knowledge of the subject with little or no assistance from a teacher; and, after a very careful study of it, we are enabled to say that the work is admirably constructed for the purpose.” George M. Minchin.

“In perusing Dr. Granville’s book one feels throughout that the author has in mind the requirements of modern rigor. We believe the present volume is eminently a safe book to put in the hands of the beginner. He will get no false notions which afterwards will have to be eradicated, with much difficulty; he will, on the other hand, acquire a considerable acquaintance with the principles of the calculus and a good working knowledge of its methods. The relatively few blemishes in this work, the reviewer is glad to state, will be removed in the next edition.” James Pierpont.

“As well in its scope as in its spirit, the work is distinctly more than its author modestly styles it ‘essentially a drill book.’” Cassius J. Keyser.

Gratacap, Lewis Pope. World as intention: a contribution to teleology, *$1.25. Eaton.

“Under this title the author exhibits the movement which the world shows towards a purposed end. His aim is to help perplexed thinkers out of a state of mind which can neither get on without religion, nor get on with much that is claimed in the name of religion.”—Outlook.

“Mr. Gratacap is certainly an independent and vigorous thinker; though his reading has evidently been more thorough in scientific lines than in philosophical. For lack of proportionate equipment in the latter his contribution to the problems of modern thought is hardly equal to the need.”

This “complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904,” is compiled with the sanction of the president and council of the Royal academy. The artists’ names are arranged alphabetically and their works are listed under their names. Volume I. now issued, covers Abbayne to Carrington.

Lodowick Carliell was a courtier dramatist of the reigns of Charles I and II. The name of Carliell is a conspicuous one in English literature, having as a later representative Thomas Carlyle. The present work includes a sketch of Carliell’s life, a discussion of his plays, and “The deserving favorite.”

The spiriting away of an amethyst box in which was hidden a tiny vial containing a drop of deadly poison is followed by a sudden death. This furnishes the plot for one of Mrs. Green’s characteristic mystery stories into which is woven a double romance. The volume is uniform with the “Pocket book” series.

* “This American writer ... builds better puzzles and controls her surprises more skilfully than any living sensation writer we can call to mind.”

The first of these stories, “The house in the mist,” is the tale of vengeance which a wealthy testator wreaks upon his debauched heirs. According to the will they assemble, are apportioned their shares, and then trapped to their death. The harrowing succession of events is relieved only by the escape of the one worthy heir. The other story, “The ruby and the caldron,” shows the steps taken along the wrong scent in recovering a lost ruby.

Green, Anna Katharine (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs). Millionaire baby. $1.50. Bobbs.

The spiriting away of a baby, the heiress to three fortunes, furnishes a plot for a unique detective story. The detective himself, in the race with others for the fifty thousand dollar reward, narrates the steps that lead up to the mystery-solving stroke,—this latter involving a surprise even for the wily disciple of Sherlock Holmes. The book is illustrated by Arthur I. Keller.

“She is, we think, the best American author of detective tales of the present, and in ‘The millionaire baby’ we have one of her very best books. It is clever in conception and treatment, it holds the interest.”

“Granted its fundamental improbability, the plot is skilfully constructed, and the interest of the story is successfully maintained.”

“As a detective story, ‘The millionaire baby,’ is as clever as anything Anna Katharine Green has written. You will not lay it aside until you know the whole story.”

“As a detective story it is ingenious; as fiction in any other sense it is worthless.”

“A good story of compelling and sustained interest. Is quite the equal of any of the long line of stories which she has created.”

The marriage between Marcus Drummond and Lady Marcia Defresne was for the one the fulfillment of a ten-years’ dream—dating back to a moment when a bronzed traveler boy of sixteen rescued a child from her fall over a precipice—for the other, a release for herself and family from pecuniary predicaments. The man loves his wife, and the course of events which awakens her love for him is strongly associated with a mystery. The story has a strong dramatic interest.

Greene, Frances N., and Kirk, Dolly Williams. With spurs of gold. †$1.50. Little.

The boy and girl whose galaxy of heroes for special worship includes many knights of chivalry will find some absorbing details given here. The work is authentic, based on histories, chronicles and legends, and sets forth such characters as Roland and Oliver, Richard Coeur-de-Lion, the Chevalier Bayard, and Sir Philip Sidney.

“A number of famous poems accompany the excellent prose in which these tales are set.”

Greenidge, Abel Henry Jones. History of Rome during the later republic and early principate. 6 vols. v. I, *$3.50. Dutton.

“The first volume of the six volumes in which Dr. Greenidge plans to compress his history covers some twenty-nine years, from the time of Tiberius Gracchus to the consulship of Marius, B. C. 133 to 104.... In that short period occurred the two agrarian movements, led by Tiberius Gracchus, and, ten years later, by Caius Gracchus, and the Jugurthine war.”—N. Y. Times.

“It will appeal strongly to the general reader ... but it is addressed also to the scholar, as based on the original sources and presenting the results in accordance with the most advanced ideals of history writing.” Joseph H. Drake.

“Both the specialist, who looks for laborious research and painstaking erudition, and the ordinary reader, who sets the main value on perspicuity and brilliancy of narrative, will alike be gratified.” W. A. Goligher.

“The present volume sustains his reputation for accuracy and penetration, while proving him to possess gifts of a different order. It discloses a large grasp of facts and a weighty style.”

“It may be said at once that Dr. Greenidge revivifies Rome, which had been reduced to the deadness of classicality. He creates the Eternal city in the sixth century of its existence, and with exactness and grace shows us its life, its politics, the causes of its troubles, how it met them, and what the final issue was.”

* Greenslet, Ferris. James Russell Lowell, his life and work. **$1.50. Houghton.

“A concise view of the life of Lowell, which the author frankly admits to be mainly based on printed sources, chief among which has naturally been the collection of his letters edited by Charles Eliot Norton; but the work was nevertheless worth doing and is very well done.... The book is illustrated with portraits, local views, etc.”—Critic.

* “The author has made judicious use of his abundant and rich material, his personal additions to which have been considerable and valuable.”

* “A little difference of emphasis here and there may suggest itself as possible; but in substance the narrative is exactly what it should be. He writes from a firm critical theory, and knows how to back his own opinions. Yet his speech lacks something of firmness and consistency.” H. W. Boynton.

* “Conspicuously free from provincialism of standards and of feeling, conspicuously competent, dispassionate, and, therefore, authoritative.” Hamilton W. Mabie.

* “Beyond any other biography recently written among us, this book gives, by its execution, the impression of a distinct addition to the literary resources of our younger authors.” Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

Gregg, David; Goodrich, William W., and Carney, Sidney Howard, jr. Makers of the American republic: a series of patriotic lectures. $2. Treat.

Sixteen historical lectures on the early colonists; The Virginians, Pilgrims, Puritans, Hollanders, Scotch, Huguenots, Quakers, and the old-time doctors, lawyers, and ministers. Columbus, Washington, our patriotic dead, and the black forefathers are also treated.

“Characterized for the most part by a degree of intellectual hospitality and breadth of thought rarely found in similar discussions by trinitarian clergymen.”

Gregory, J. C. Short introduction to the theory of electrolytic dissociation, *50c. Longmans.

“This is a useful little book for those students who, after taking a course of systematic chemistry, wish to know something of the behaviour of electrolytic solutions.” (Nature.) Its four chapters are entitled The condition of dissolved substances; Ions and precipitation; Hydrogen and hydroxyl ions; Electrolytic and general considerations.

“The language and mode of presentation are simple, and although one might take exception to many points of detail, the book, on the whole, should prove a trustworthy guide.”

Grenfell, Bernard Pyne; Drexel, Lucy Wharton; and Hunt, Arthur Surridge, eds. New sayings of Jesus, and fragments of a lost gospel, from Oxyrhynchus, Part IV. *40c. Oxford.

“The present volume contains for the most part papyri found in the second excavations at 144Oxyrhynchus in 1903. It will not be as amusing to the general reader as certain of the previous volumes, since it includes but few of the non-legal and non-literary, but excessively human, documents that gave in them such a sparkle of life to the pages of a very dead subject.... The volume contains a goodly number of interesting legal documents, which increase our knowledge of details of Egyptian administration and Graeco-Egyptian law. The number of personal letters is, as we have indicated, very few.”—Nation.

Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason. Harvest of the sea: a tale of both sides of the Atlantic. **$1. Revell.

Dr. Grenfell, who for twenty years has worked among the deep sea fishermen on both sides of the Atlantic, gives a picture of these men, their lives, and the revolution, social and religious, wrought by the coming of the mission ship among the fishing fleets.

“Dr. Grenfell’s narrative of the North Sea fishers especially—considered quite without reference to its value as a record of evangelization—is stirring, full of the life and tragedy of the sea. The account of the Labrador men is briefer and less picturesque.”

A text-book for nurses, and a guide for the family which gives the ordinary details of nursing which the doctor wishes carried out in everyday maladies, tells what to do in cases of emergency, gives directions for caring for infants and children, and for preserving the health.

“A practical and sensible book which may be commended to use in families and by all who have to do with illness.”

Griffiths, Arthur George Frederick. Fifty years of public service. *$5. Cassell.

Born in India and entering the English army at the time of the Crimean war, as a mere youth, the author saw military service in Crimea, Nova Scotia, Montreal, Gibraltar, and Abyssinia, and civil service in charge of prisons at Gibraltar, Chatham, and Milbank. This account of his career suggests that the material for his novels and detective stories was taken from life.

“The author’s style has the unstudied fluency of one who is used to writing with the din of the printing-press in his ears and the boy at his side waiting for copy. The book is a worthy addition to the major’s long list of works, grave and gay.”

“You would say Major Griffiths had enjoyed his ‘Fifty years of service’ in the living at least as much as you enjoy it in reading.”

Professor Griggs points out the aim and scope of his work in the following: “a study, as exhaustive as I could make it, of the whole problem of moral culture: its purpose in relation to our society, and all the means through which that purpose can be attained. My aim has been sanity and not novelty, ... to see ‘steadily and whole’ both human life and the process of moral culture that leads to it and make possible the happiest and most helpful living.”

“This volume should be carefully read by every parent and teacher in the land. It is a work at once eminently practical and yet nobly idealistic. He has considered his subject deeply and treats it as only a man of rare insight, a true philosopher and a practical teacher could present a theme.”

“He writes with beauty and almost invariably with marked clearness; he develops very instructively and applies to the work of ethical formation the leading results of modern educational investigation.”

“This book by Mr. Griggs is one of the significant indications of the trend of education in the present time, while in itself it is a decided contribution to the philosophy and method of education. Unlike much of current educational discussion, the parent is not here made subservient to the teacher or entirely ignored.” Leslie Willis Sprague.

“The present volume seems to have reached the root of the difficulty which confronts modern educators, for it points out wherein they err by casting aside the old systems and giving entire precedent to new and untried methods. The book is written in a masterly style.”

“The book addresses itself especially to the teacher, but will be found interesting and helpful to all who are concerned in any way with the rearing of children.”

The monograph of the great painter not only tells a graphic story of the artist’s life, but describes the picturesque conditions under which he worked, the emperors, dukes and bishops who gave him commissions, forming a romantic background. The book gives the results of the most recent investigations of the authorship of disputed masterpieces, is copiously illustrated with fifty odd half-tones, has a fine bibliography, and a complete index.

“Is not so specialized a piece of work as is the standard biography by Crowe and Cavalcaselle. It is tersely and vividly written, precisely the book for the general reader.” Royal Cortissoz.

“It is quite up-to-date in its attributions. The side on which their usefulness does not seem to increase or greatly enlighten is that of a new word concerning the technical performances of great colourists, draughtsmen and virile painters. But this lapse Gronau has in common with others who write of artists and their work. Such books as these become, in a sense, a kind of superior guidebook to galleries, palaces and churches, but they are not quite what a student or a connoisseur would desire when wishing to be enlightened on the methods, ways, and practices of a master painter. Present book is excellent of its kind.” Frank Fowler.

“Dr. Gronau’s volume, marked by cautious accuracy and disinterested love of truth, is a model for works of its class. It is a thing of high art in itself, and is certainly the best life of Titian that has appeared.” George Breed Zug.

Grout, Abel Joel. Mosses with hand-lens and microscope. 26. ed. $1.75 A. J. Grout, 306 Lenox Road, Brooklyn, N. Y.

This second edition “which follows the same general plan as the first edition, is expanded to include 169 of the ‘more common and more easily recognized mosses of the northeastern United States,’ as well as fifty-four of the hepaticæ of the same region.... The text contains 145something like 118 figures and 39 full-page plates.”—Science.

“In the matter of typography and illustrations, the work is so much of an improvement over its predecessor that it deserves special commendation.”

Grove, Sir George, ed. Dictionary of music and musicians; new and thoroughly rev. ed.; ed. by J. A. Fuller Maitland. **$5. Macmillan.

In undertaking the revision of Sir George Grove’s dictionary which appeared twenty-five years ago, the editor aims mainly to bring the work down to date. Mr. Maitland, “a man of erudition, good taste and sound judgment, has critical acumen, and while he is inclined to a thoroughly safe conservatism, such critical remarks as have been admitted are for the most part such as are likely to give the reader a general idea of the special characteristics of the musicians dealt with.” (Ind.)

* “If the succeeding volumes contain as many valuable additions and amplifications as the first, the work will suffice for many years to come, and will remain for all time a monument to the learning, patience, and judgment of the editor.” W. J. Henderson.

“At last we have an English musical dictionary not only worthy to be compared with the French and German dictionaries, but surpassing them all in the lateness of its information and in its comprehensive scope. Some of the portraits are unworthy of the general high standard.” George P. Upton.

* “Ably and judiciously edited, and it promises to be an indispensable compendium for those who are genuinely interested in music or in music-makers.”

“The editing has on the whole been admirably done, and ... Mr. Fuller Maitland has amply proved, not only his great ability in dealing with a difficult task, but the foresight of those responsible for his selections.”

“Unquestionably the most valuable work of the kind in English, and at present superior to any other in any language, considering its encyclopaedic character and the substantial quality of its most important articles.”

This volume is in two parts, the first, a sketch of Hurrell Froude and his life, consisting mainly of letters and journals, the second, a collection of comments upon him and his connection with the Oxford movement. Outside of those interested in English religious movements, Hurrell Froude, brother of the historian, and John Henry Newman’s most intimate friend, is perhaps little known, and this book gives in detail the man’s influence upon his associates and the religious movements of his time, as well as his personality and character.

“The author’s style is not always unintelligible and precious, and by dint of a great deal of quotation we are brought fairly near to that strange inspirer of Newman.”

“It is a work of unusually distinguished merit. In the first place, Miss Guiney allows Hurrell Froude to tell his own story. And a second feature of this book which calls for praise is that in the pages which the biographer has written herself, the style is splendid.”

“As a whole the book lacks literary unity, but it is initiative and gives an intimate glimpse into a circle of singularly real and fervent men. Valuable it is as being illustrative of a phase of the nineteenth century.”

“She has brought to her task abundant sympathy and much careful preparation. If her judgment is at fault, she has furnished us the means of correcting it in no halting fashion. Her collection of comments is no mere device for confirming her own views.”

“Miss Guiney’s book, which she does not call a biography, though in effect it is one, is a sympathetic account of his life, his character, and his work.”

“The editing has been done sympathetically, and, in spite of the opportunity offered for the exercise of a rich and rather over-refined literary style, with restraint.”

A fourth edition, revised and enlarged. “It contains a new preface and numerous changes in the text, which have been turned into notes and placed at the end of the chapters to which they belong.” (N. Y. Times.)

The author, an American missionary who has lived long in Eastern Asia, discusses the significance of the Russo-Japanese war, which he considers a turning point in the world’s history. He holds that there is no cause to fear the yellow peril, that Japan is western in spirit and civilization, but that the white peril menaces the Orient to-day.

“While in no way profound, it is rich in novel and suggestive points of view. It contains one of the best statements of the real causes of the war with Russia yet published, and gives an interpretation of the Japanese attitude toward the conflict that is agreeably clear, concise, and illuminating.”

“A concise, clear and comprehensive presentation of the national and international interests involved in present movements and tendencies, viewed as growing from the past.”

The first group of Dr. Gunsaulus’ sermons to be published. They emphasize his right to be classed with such men as Beecher, Brooks and Spurgeon. “But to feel their power one must surrender for the time to the speaker’s wand and not dissolve the spell by a critical mood.” (Outlook.)

The author, who is already known as a novelist and a critic of English-Irish literature, is also an Irishman and consequently found an unusually happy subject in Thomas Moore. The romantic rise of Moore from the Dublin grocery store to London’s rank and fashion is detailed. 146The critical estimate of his work is fully given, and his part in the last century’s remarkable advance in poetical technique is enlarged upon.

“His life is excellently set forth in this volume, the author having evidently put before him as the object of his task the painting of a faithful portrait. Mr. Gwynn has added considerably to his already very considerable repute by this capital little book, in which he does justice to his subject and to himself.” W. Teignmouth Shore.

“Mr. Gwynn had accomplished no easy task with tact and literary skill, if not with accuracy.”

“Mr. Gwynn’s book is compact with information and well-balanced criticism.”

“Considered as a portrayal of Moore’s character, this book of Mr. Gwynn’s is adequate and satisfactory. It is not, however, eminently successful in evoking for the imagination the world in which the poet lived. As a literary estimate, while it neither observes its subject from a new angle, nor throws new light upon it, it is upon the whole a thoroughly competent and workmanlike performance—an orderly, trustworthy, and comprehensive statement of the established critical opinions regarding Moore’s poetry and prose. Mr. Gwynn has shown himself a safe, if neither a brilliant nor remarkably painstaking critic.” Horatio S. Krans.

“Mr. Gwynn’s estimate of Moore is the most noteworthy thing in the volume.”

“We feel that Mr. Gwynn is making quite a nice and workmanlike book to fill a supposed cap in a respectable series; we admire his visible yet sober efforts to impart a tinge of enthusiasm.”

“Mr. Gwynne, who has done his work with much skill and sympathy, has never allowed his judgment to be influenced.”

A book which gives a vivid picture of Spanish peasant life. The story concerns the only son of the Marquis de Bazan who is kidnapped by his father’s enemy, a “bandolero,” and brought up on an Andalusian farm. The boy falls in love with his playmate, the bandit’s daughter, and altho her father violently opposes their marriage, he at last not only gives his consent but sacrifices his life for the son of his enemy. Altho the plot is melodramatic, the scenes of country life are homely and humorous.

“The romance is thoroughly interesting, and has a considerable degree of literary charm.” Wm. M. Payne.

“A good melodramatic novel. The author must know his Spain far better than most men.”

“As has been said by some one, Mr. Gwynne knows the Spanish peasant as well as Miss Wilkins knows the New England farmer. It is this part of this book, as it was with his former story, which attracts us in Mr. Gwynne’s work. The plot of the story ... seems to us on the melodramatic order and less worthy of praise.”

“A logical, well-atmosphered story whose interest is steadily sustained and whose denouement is satisfactory.”

“Mr. Gwynne has painted for us the large sun-lit landscape of the Andalusian plains and the slow comedy of village life with a certainty of touch and a depth of colour which are entirely admirable. But apart from merits of atmosphere and scenery, he has a very stirring story to tell and much excellent character-drawing. Mr. Gwynne, though he deals with the favourite constituents of melodrama, is always a serious novelist, and his characters are as carefully studied as his plot. Mr. Gwynne has found a field in which he need fear no rival, and we welcome a book so full of freshness and vitality.”

Haeckel, Ernest Heinrich Philipp August. Evolution of man: a popular scientific study; tr. by Joseph McCabe. *$10. Putnam.

The present translation has been made from “the fifth (enlarged) edition of the German work. The abstruse and puzzling phenomena of embryology occupy the whole first volume.... The second volume is devoted to the vexed problem of our ancestry—beginning with the lowest forms of life and working upwards thru ‘Our worm-like ancestors,’ ‘Our fish-like ancestors,’ ‘Our five-toed ancestors,’ and ‘Our ape-like ancestors.’ But besides these we have some luminous chapters on the evolution of the nervous system, sense organs, vascular system, and so on. A summary on the ‘results of anthropogeny’ closes the book.” (Acad.)

* “As always, he is prodigious of learning, fertile alike in illuminating suggestion and extraordinary new words; and as always, totally at sea as to what may reasonably be said in a popular book.” E. T. Brewster.

“The broad fact of development and the main details of the process are undeniably given by Prof. Haeckel with a wealth of illustration and a positiveness of statement which aids both understanding and memory, even if it somewhat obscures the complexity of the problem and the insecurity of the conclusions to which one is lead.” Joseph Jacobs.

“It is unfortunate that more care has not been taken with the translation and proof-reading, in the latter especially with regard to proper names. On the whole, however, the translation is readable and set forth in idiomatic English.” J. P. McM.

This volume is supplementary to the author’s “Riddle of the universe,” and is an answer to the thousands of letters and the many published attacks the first work called forth. It contains a quantity of biological information and is probably too technical to be popular. “His whole method of argument is based on the continuity of life, the unity of nature, and his metaphysics grows out of his biology. The book is divided into four parts, in which he treats respectively of the knowledge, the nature, the functions and the history of life. Altho he is now in his seventy-second year he has not lost the skill in classification and terminology which has given him his special reputation, and 147he uses effectively the tabular form and parallel columns to elucidate his theories and to contrast them with those of his opponents.” (Ind.)

“The chapters on ‘Forms of life,’ ‘Monera,’ and ‘Nutrition’ are written by a master in these fields and tend to compensate for the enormous mass of paralogisms and unproved assertions that constitute perhaps the greater part of the remaining chapters.” C. W. Saleeby.

“Yet the book must be respected for its learning, and is absorbing even when not convincing.”

“The book is translated into good English, but there are various slips or misprints in names and technical terms.” T. D. A. Cockerell.

“It [the translation] is on the whole clear and vigorous, but it betrays inexpertness. The translator has not the vaguest idea of what he is translating. Defective proofreading.... This book expresses the sincere convictions of a veteran who has done much for biology.”

“Notwithstanding this obscurity in parts, the whole book is fairly clear as to its tendency.” Joseph Jacobs.

“After one wades through this terrible terminology of the scientific philosopher he is gratified, however, to find that he has been led always to a clear conclusion. Such is the nature of the question that much depends on the original bias of the reader.”

“On the whole we find it disappointing. In the present book we got a mass of biological information, often of the most obscure kind, set forth with all the ability of an acknowledged master in this branch of science: but in conjunction with this we get a considerable quantity of loose thinking of a kind which passes for philosophical often presented in a very superficial manner.”

“Written, according to the author, to supply the lack, in this country, of information on the subject of suction gas producers, and more briefly of their first cost, cost of running and possible utility and development.”—Engin. N.

Hafiz, Mohammed Shems-ed-Din. Odes from the Divan of. Freely rendered from literal translations by Richard Le Gallienne. *$1.50. Page.

“Hafiz has the epicureanism of Omar Khayyam without his philosophy. He sings of nothing but wine and love.... Mr. Le Gallienne has not merely translated, he has transmuted the odes into true English poetry, and any one but an antiquarian will prefer to read them in this form rather than in the literal versions.”—Ind.

“In short, while Mr. Le Gallienne has not found much more to tell us in this than in his last Persian study, he has not shown any greater poetical merit; but, on the contrary, by his more ambitious metrical scheme and greater dependence upon himself, he has been led into worse technical blunders.”

“The only fault we have to find with Mr. Le Gallienne is that he is inclined to make his task easy by diluting his poetry until it flows freely. With more pains he might have kept more of the terseness and spirit of the original.”

“His work is frankly not a translation by a scholar, but a poet’s version of another poet. Jarring notes like these are the more discordant when one thinks of the beauty of so much of his version, and remembers the undoubted ability of Mr. Le Gallienne.”

“Many of these odes have the lyrical quality, and that while they may not be in all points acceptable to Oriental scholars, they give to the reader sufficiently well the effect of Persian imagery and the essence of the poet’s feeling.”

Stories of hunting and fishing abound in this tale of a man who leaves home and friends for the care free life of the Canadian Indians. Silver Bells, an Indian girl, is the heroine.

“Col. Haggard has gone back to Fenimore Cooper for his model in this story. The story may amuse boys, perhaps.”

In this sequel to “She.” the book which thrilled and fascinated twenty years ago, “Holly and Leo search full sixteen years for Ayesha and find her at last, the priestess of a strange religion, half Isis-worship, half fire-worship, on a lonely mountain in no man’s land at the back of beyond, there are hair-breadth escapes from avalanches and from mad Khans who hunt people to death with bloodhounds, mysterious doings in great temples and on the roof of the world, fierce battles, in which nature fights for Ayesha against her old foe Amenartas.... And Leo Vincey having won, after many an ordeal, his bride, dies on the eve of bliss and Ayesha herself, now half goddess, half weak and wilful woman, passes away from the earth forever.” (Lond. Times.)

“Not all the wishes that we could form of submitting our imagination to that of the author result in a moment of illusion.”

“‘Ayesha’ fails to exercise the fascination of ‘She’; and the reason must, perhaps, be sought, not in Mr. Haggard, but in ourselves. ‘Ayesha’ deserves indeed a vogue only second to that of her previous incarnation.”

“Has our taste changed and our discrimination grown keener through the intervening years, or has the pen of Mr. Haggard lost its magic?” Frederic Taber Cooper.

“If the reader will lay aside doubt and scepticism for the old ready belief, he cannot fail to feel again the old pleasure, the old interests, and the old thrills.”

“‘Ayesha’ is not ‘She,’ and the lovers of ‘She’ are a little stiffer in the mental joints.”

“No doubt, allowing for the disillusionment of years, this sequel is as well-wrought as its original. Probably it is even superior geographically, ethnologically, theologically, and pyro-technically.”

148“The novel shows fine imagination, but it is surely an artistic mistake to throw doubt on the reincarnation story which readers of ‘She’ were bound to accept.”

“As in all Mr. Haggard’s stories, there are some admirable adventures, and the tale is told with much skill.”

There are two gardens described in this book, one on the eastern shore of Suffolk, where the author, by planting a certain beach-grass, has successfully checked the inroads of the sea, and the other at Ditchingham, where he has three acres under cultivation. He has six glass houses and two ponds in which he grows aquatic plants. With the assistance of two gardeners he raises fruit, vegetables and flowers, making a specialty of orchids. There are 25 illustrations from photographs.

“In the volume under notice he details his joys and sorrows as a gardener in a manner which is well nigh certain to prove very acceptable to the vast army of garden lovers.”

Haggard, (Henry) Rider. Poor and the land; being a report of the Salvation army colonies in the United States and at Hadleigh, England; with a scheme of national land settlement, and an introduction by H. Rider Haggard. 75c. Longmans.

By permission of the British government, Mr. Haggard’s report to parliament of the results of his investigation of the Salvation army colonies is re-printed in book form. It contains full descriptions of these colonies with reports of conversations with the colonists, letters, etc., and is illustrated from photographs.

“Any one who believes in state-aided emigration as a cure for some of our graver social evils will be grateful to Mr. Haggard for his thorough investigation of the question and his thoughtful proposals towards a solution.”

“The biography of the ‘fascinating’ princess—the only Italian queen who ever shared the English throne—as it appears in her own letters and the dispatches and letters of her contemporaries.... The volume is illustrated with photogravures.”—N. Y. Times.

“But it is heaped together rather than written, and the author has no gift of historical portraiture. Here and there interesting facts emerge; there is, alas, no life in the whole.”

* “Is a sympathetic survey of Mary’s life. The interest is both historic and sentimental.”

“The one source of regret is that Mr. Haile, manifestly tireless in research and an adept in converting the results of research into narrative has not preserved a judicial attitude.”

* Haines, Henry Stevens. Restrictive railway legislation. **$1.25. Macmillan.

This volume is made up of twelve lectures given by the author in April and May, 1905, at the Boston university school of law, “the purpose being to present the manner in which legislation and judicial decisions have affected the operations of railway corporations in their relations to the public.”

* “Perhaps the most interesting portion of Col. Haines’s book, and a unique and valuable record to the student, is the historical matter which it contains.”

* “The author discusses in an academic spirit, and without heat, questions which are the subject of very heated discussion by the press and by public men. The volume will be valuable to all students of this subject whether they deal with it from the point of view of the publicist or of the railroad manager.”

* “Conservative discussions of the whole question, conducted in a judicial temper.”

Haines, Jennie Day, comp. Sovereign woman versus mere man: a medley of quotation. **$1. Elder.

In these well chosen quotations from writers of both sexes and many ages the compiler has compared and contrasted man and woman in various phases and stages of their being. The left hand page applies to sovereign woman, the one facing it to mere man, and they are presented as heroines and heroes, spinsters and bachelors, wives and husbands, and as related to love, matrimony, fads, fame, ways, work, religion and many other things. The marginal decorations and general get up make the volume an attractive gift-book.

* “The quotations, which are of very miscellaneous authorship, possess more than a superficial aptness, and there is a refreshing absence of that attempt at epigrammatic smartness which spoils most books of this type.”

The adventures of a sailor aboard the slave-ship, Gentle Hand, on her last cruise in the year 1815, form the subject of this new romance of the sea.

“In spite of its exaggerations, it is probable that one does not get from this story a very erroneous idea of slave ships, as they were in 1815.”

“Language somewhat surprising for the rough character he makes himself out to be.”

Haldane, J. W. C. Life as an engineer; its lights, shades and prospects. *$2. Spon.

“This volume would make an excellent present for a lad with a taste for mechanics, or for a young man thinking of an engineer’s occupation.... The reader learns something not only of the marvels of machinery ... but 149of the likelihood of earning a living in this particular line.... The author has given an autobiographical form to his book, relating his experiences at various great centres of industry, as at Glasgow and at Birkenhead.”—Spec.

A new edition of a story “written in the darkest period of the Civil war to show what love of country is.” A young army officer, court-martialed for treason charges, curses the United States and wishes that he may never hear its name again. As punishment his wish is granted, and for fifty years he is “a man without a country.” He is carried on one long cruise after another by government vessels and barred from hearing or seeing a word from home.

Rostand, Hauptmann, Sudermann, Pinero, Shaw, Phillips, Maeterlinck: being an informal discussion of their significant work. This book is exactly what it declares itself to be in the fore-going sub-title, but in its informal discussion is matter of much interest, for the dramatists and their dramas are discussed from the viewpoint of both literature and the stage. They and their works are chatted about and compared in a fireside fashion that makes the reader feel as tho he had entertained a pleasing and instructive guest, one who can vividly revive memories of “Cyrano de Bergerac,” “L’Aiglon,” “Die versunkene glocke,” “Magda,” “Sweet lavender,” “The second Mrs. Tanqueray,” “Candida,” “Paolo and Francesca,” and “Ulysses.”

“These papers are what is called readable: chatty, urbane, a little ostentatiously inconsequent, perhaps, and familiar not always in the best sense.” H. W. Boynton.

“Strangely immature judgments and ... oddly egotistic digressions from which the author forgets to return. He has an amazing capacity for misunderstanding the things he writes about.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.

“An amiable and quite unacademic vagueness is ... the chief characteristic. His English style leaves much to be improved.”

“His little book, modest in style and also in spirit, is a fresh and entertaining piece of writing.”

Hale, Harris Grafton. Who then is this? a study of the personality of Jesus. *$1.25. Pilgrim press.

“The personality of Jesus is exhibited as in a normally human development, attaining thru communion with God a transcendence beyond all measure of comparison. The work avoids technical theology, but its Christological view is clearly of the Ritschlian type. Mr. Hale is a Congregational minister.”—Outlook.

“This is, on the whole, a strong book. The method of the work is inductive, and its style is clear and vigorous.”

The foreword states that “this story of the Gloucester fisheries is a conscientious study of the local life and color as it actually exists.” It follows the fortunes of a young viking who comes to America and casts his lot among the fishermen of Cape Ann, and is told in the broken English of the sons of Norway. It describes a hard life and does not close upon a happy ending, but lets the hero win success and happiness, and then ends grimly.

Hall, Charles Cuthbert. Christian belief interpreted by Christian experience. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.

These lectures were delivered in India, Ceylon and Japan on the Barrows foundation, 1902-1903, and are now submitted to Western readers in book form that they may see “the manner and style of the work done in India for Indians.” Written in that spirit of broad sympathy which is essential if the Christian would successfully approach the non-Christian mind, they appeal to all creeds, to all ages, to all seekers after God.

“The foremost merit of President Hall’s ‘Barrows lectures’ is their supreme tact, their gracious Christian courtesy.”

“The tone of the book is ironic and characterized by the true Christian spirit of a broad catholicity.”

Hall, Edward. Henry VIII.; with an introd. by C: Whibley. 2v. *$12. Grafton press.

This text is reprinted from the folio edition of 1550. In its quaint English it gives an account of the social rather than the political phases of the reign of the “high and prudent prince, King Henry the Eighth, the indubitate flower, and very heire” of Lancaster and York. It gives a brilliant and interesting picture of the early 16th century, it narrates faithfully, but lets many great heads go to the block without comment. It was safer so in those times.

“This present book disarms critics, so far as concerns Hall’s gift of seeing things, and of using a dignified old English which now and then ... rises to something like splendour.”

Four chapters graphically sketching history and biography are “Leonidas,” “Themistocles,” in which this hero is set in the midst of the events that led up to the victories of Marathon and Salamis, “Phidias and the Parthenon,” and “Socrates.” The illustrations include eight full-page plates and a number of drawings suggestive of types, customs and dress.

Hall, R. N., and Neal, W. G. Great Zimbabwe, Mashonaland, Rhodesia. *$6. Dutton.

“This is a detailed account of two years’ (1902-1904) examination work on behalf of the government of Rhodesia.... Mr. Hall writes briefly on the area of the ruins, burial places of the old colonists, absence of inscriptions, two periods of gold manufacture, the Elliptical temple, the Acropolis ruins.... Chapters are given to the Acropolis, the people, their customs, manners, religions and habits, the ruins, ancient architecture, relics and finds, the Elliptical temple, etc.... The volume is profusely illustrated from drawings and photographs.”—N. Y. Times.

“However fascinating these researches into hoary antiquity may be, the great value of Mr. Hall’s work consists in its ample and careful description of the ruins as they are, and in 150the plans and photographs which illustrate it.”

“In the main his account is intended for the archæologist rather than for the general reader.”

Halsey, R. T. H. Boston port bill as pictured by a contemporary London cartoonist. Grolier club.

“Through the associations of the remarkable series of cartoons described and beautifully reproduced the author is led to tell directly or incidentally almost everything that is known about the Port bill ... [He] traces, through little-known letters, newspaper accounts, and pamphlets, public and private opinion about the Port bill both in England and America.... Five of the mezzotint cartoons ... were the work of one man, Philip Dawe, a pupil of Hogarth.... Other humorous mezzotints ... were put forth by anonymous cartoonists, and the subject is further fitly illustrated by portraits from contemporary prints and pictures of statues and famous historical buildings.”—Outlook.

Altho Euclid still holds its place as the one authoritative text book on geometry, modern criticism tends to make pure reason the only court of appeal, and doubts the reliability of the intuition of our senses. This “Rational geometry” upholds this view, using points, lines and planes as the names of things, the physical conception of which is not necessary. “The object is to deduce the conclusions which follow from certain assumed relations between these things, so that if the relations hold, the conclusions follow, whatever these things may be. Space is the totality of these things; its properties are solely logical, and varied in character according to the assumed fundamental relations. These assumed relations which develop space concepts that are apparently in accord with vision constitute the modern foundations of Euclidean space.” (Science). At a hasty glance the book does not appear to differ from ordinary text-books, diagrams are given, but not as essential to the argument. Altho the method of development is new, all the school propositions of both plane and solid geometry are eventually developed.

“The aim of modern rational geometry is to pass from premise to conclusion solely by the force of reason. Mr. Halstead is the first to write an elementary text-book, which adopts a modern view, and in this respect his ‘Rational geometry’ is epoch-making. It seems as if the present text-book ought not to be above the heads of the average elementary students, and that it should serve to develop logical power as well as practical geometrical ideas.” Arthur S. Hathaway.

Hamilton, Sylla W. Forsaking all others: a story of Sherman’s march through Georgia. $1.50. Neale.

A Union soldier, by persistent kindness to a fiery daughter of the South wins her, and makes her see that though her home lies devastated in the wake of Sherman’s army, and her childhood’s lover lies dead upon the battle field, a great right has grown out of these many wrongs. The book gives a vivid picture of Georgia’s sufferings during the war, and of the brutality of Sherman’s men.

Wholesome fun pervades this story of Pinkey, the boy, his pranks, his love affairs, and his troubles. The reader’s sympathy is wholly with him in his contests with an over-zealous teacher, in his celebration of April fool’s day, and July fourth, and in his encounters with old Hostetters, for Pinkey is always quick-witted, and never malicious.

“Is a little different from most boys’ books. He is never monotonous, however.”

A story of Tennessee, which treats of the race question. Viry, whose mother is three parts white and whose father is a Southern gentleman, feels the call of the white race but is doomed to be relegated to the black. Loathing any affiliation with them, she is one of them, and the slight arguments used by her dead father’s wife, who forgives her husband and nobly tries to do her duty by his alien child, neither help her nor solve the problem. There are other characters and an account of the development of the phosphate region.

“It is the first compassionate, intelligent interpretation ever written by any white person, North or South, of that pathetic class of men and women who suffer the loneliness and humiliation of a peculiar condition. The sympathetic attitude of the book merits all praise, and it is a story full of incident and interest.”

“The author has written with sincerity and with a high purpose; and, although there are things regrettable in her book, and she has fallen short of her aim, she has done some admirable work, and has achieved a striking story, quite out of the ordinary.”

“It is admirably constructed and well carried out save for a somewhat forced and over-pathetic conclusion.”

“‘The master-word’ is a book that stands far above the average of contemporary fiction.”

“This little book ... will ... serve a useful purpose in giving an elementary acquaintance with the subject of radio-activity, so far as that is accessible to those with little scientific knowledge.... Probably one of the most valuable chapters in the book is that on the medical aspects of radium.”—Nature.

“The language is simple and clear and should be comprehensible to any one with the ordinary knowledge of chemistry and physics.”

“The explanations given of the experimental properties of radium are, so far as we have observed, clear and accurate.” R. J. S.

“As a preparation for the further study of the new element, or for those who wish merely to keep well abreast of the world to-day, his little volume has an important place.”

“Dr. Hampson has a fine sense of value and proportion, both in subject matter and style.”

151Hanauer, J. E. Tales told in Palestine; ed. by H. G. Mitchell, *$1.25. Jennings.

A collection of folk-lore stories of ancient and modern Palestine, gathered by a long-time resident of that land, and a contributor to the publication of the Palestine exploration fund. The folk-tales fall into five groups: “Anecdotes more or less historical,” “Legends of saints and heroes,” “Stories of modern miracles,” “Tales embodying popular superstitions,” and “Specimens of oriental wit and wisdom.” There are a few helpful notes and numerous illustrations.

“As entertaining as any book of travel could be. Its combinations of shrewdness and superstition, naiveté and astuteness, its worldly wit and wisdom so other-worldly than our own, furnish an agreeable and wholesome mental recreation for a leisure hour.”

Hanchett, Henry Granger. Art of the musician: a guide to the intelligent appreciation of music, **$1.50 Macmillan.

The purpose of this book is “to supply the demand of those mature lovers of music who wish to understand the aims and purposes of a composer, some of the methods of his work, and to get some ground for fairly judging his attainments and results. It aims to supply such information as should make concert-going more satisfactory, listening to music more intelligent, and that may assist in elevating the standards of church, theatrical and popular music.”

“Undoubtedly there is need of books of this kind, but it is to be feared that this one will not accomplish its excellent object, because of the author’s diffuseness and lack of lucidity.”

“A unique and useful book, and one which goes far to demonstrate his theory that music can be thoroughly and usefully taught without teaching the art of performance.”

“In short, it is a treatise on how to listen to music that he gives us, and it is a very good one.”

“And while Mr. Hanchett may not have got to the bottom of all that he discusses, much of what he says is useful and much will be illuminating to the intelligent student who follows him through his discourse and scrutinizes the examples he gives.” Richard Aldrich.

“Useful, however, as this book is sure to be, it is not free from certain evident defects.”

Hancock, Harrie Irving, and Higashi, Katsukuma. Complete Kano jiu-jitsu, *$4.50. Putnam.

The Kano system of jiu-jitsu, the official jiu-jitsu of the Japanese government is dealt with in this volume. It also contains chapters on the serious and fatal blows and on kuatsu, the Japanese science of the restoration of life.

“Beyond doubt, it is the most comprehensive work on the subject in England.” Adachi Kinnosuké.

“The volume is the most helpful and comprehensive treatise on jiu-jitsu that has yet been published.”

“So far as we have examined, every trick is sufficiently pictured and explained.”

Hancock, Harrie Irving. Physical culture life: a guide for all who seek the simple laws of abounding health, **$1.25. Putnam.

The purpose of this book is “to represent in a clear and succinct way, the real aims and methods of the physical culture movement that is marching onward in England and the United States.” The reader is urged to follow “the plain and easily learned laws of physical culture.” and is told how to exercise the individual muscles of his body, and how much depends upon water and fresh air. The volume is well illustrated.

Hand, James Edward, ed. Ideals of science and faith: essays by various authors. **$1.60. Longmans.

A series of ten essays, each from a different hand, and divided into two groups. The first six are included under the general title, “Approaches through science and education,” and deal “with the possible contemporary relations between science and religion (relations of an ironical nature) from the standpoint of the lay expert.” (Science). They are as follows: Physics, Sir O. Lodge; Biology, J. A. Thompson; Psychology, J. H. Muirhead; Sociology, V. V. Branford; Ethics, B. Russell; General and technical education, P. Geddes. The second group, entitled “Approaches through faith,” presents the clerical standpoint in its various phases as follows: The Presbyterian approach, J. Kelman; A Church of England approach, R. Payne; The church as seen from the outside, P. N. Waggett; The Church of Rome, W. Ward.

“Is conceived after an admirable plan. The minority of essays, which are good, are so thoroughly good, that they lift the work up to a high rank as a sadly-needed eirenicon.”

“A rather prosy introduction. The essays are of various degrees of merit.” T. D. A. Cockerell.

“The plan of the work is novel, even daring, and conjures up piquant expectancy. No doubt the work is tentative, not conclusive. The collection remains notable and has everything to recommend it to reflective men, no matter on which side of the fence their main pre-suppositions happen to lie.” R. M. Wenley.

* Handel, George Frederick. Songs and airs; ed. by Ebenezer Prout. pa. $1.50; cl. $2.50. Ditson.

The two volumes of Handel’s songs, one for high voice, the other for low, are recent additions to “The musicians library.” The songs in each are prefaced by a sketch of Handel’s life and a brief note on his different compositions.

152* Hanotaux, Gabriel. Contemporary France, tr. from the French. 4v. ea. *$3.75. Putnam.

This “record of the inner diplomacy of the great powers of Europe during the last thirty years” is issued in four volumes, each complete in itself. The political figures of each period are brilliantly described. Volume I. France in 1870-1873, treats of the Franco-Prussian war and the close of the second empire; Volume II., France in 1874-1878, gives the history of the Broglie cabinets together with the attempt to restore the monarchy. Volume III., covers 1879-1889 and Volume IV., 1890-Dec. 31, 1900.

* “The part of the volume which deals with art and letters strikes us as poor.”

* “The most interesting chapters are perhaps those which attempt to survey the soul of France, as it expressed itself in literature and the arts in the years succeeding the war.”

* “The second volume of M. Hanotaux’s monumental work emphasizes the good qualities of its predecessor. First of all, the narration bears the marks of intimate experience. The volume is thus a distinct and notable contribution to history.”

Another story of northern Georgia of which Pole Baker, who has already appeared as a humorous character in “Abner Daniel,” is the central figure. He is here made not only humorous but forceful and even dramatic and he tells many good yarns and plays an important part in the love affair of an unsteady young merchant and a girl named Cynthia.

* “A somewhat crude if spirited story. There is no part of the narrative that impresses one either with its reality or its charm. As a novel, it cannot be considered a success.”

* “The translations given of the sadness and splendor of married love, the whimsical veracity of the whole conception, shows this to be the author’s best work in fiction so far.”

* “If they are occasionally innocently coarse they are yet very truly and forcibly moral in intention.”

Harbottle, Thomas Benfield. Dictionary of battles from the earliest date to the present time. *$2. Dutton.

This book is a companion volume to “Dictionary of historical allusions.” The author, who has compiled several excellent dictionaries of quotations, died while this work was going to press, so the proof-reading and indexing was done by Colonel P. H. Dalbiac, who had collaborated with him in earlier works. The book is brought close to date—there are five entries under the heading Russo-Japanese war.

“The more modern battles are more efficiently dealt with than the ancient, and we look in vain for any mention of the wars of the ancient Egyptians, Assyrians, and Israelites. With this exception the book is adequate.”

“It is a handy compendium, but must be used with caution. Too many details are given to insure freedom from error.”

“A little more pains on his part, however, would have improved his book exceedingly. The location of the various battlefields is invariably omitted.”

“We have fairly tested the Dictionary of battles and have not found it wanting.”

The author “for over three years was chaplain to His Majesty’s forces at Hong Kong.... His volume is a very medley of things Chinese,—Chinese cities with their local peculiarities; Chinese food, medicine, clothes, houses and gardens, servants and laborers; customs of marriage, burial, and mourning; Chinese boys, women, and girls, their manners, education, punishments; religions, superstitions, spirits, monks and priests, foreign missionaries, New Year devotions and rites, government,—and much more.”—Dial.

* “For one who contemplates a hurried journey through the lands of the ‘Son of Heaven,’ Mr. Hardy’s book will be a most acceptable eye-opener to Chinese characteristics.” H. E. Coblentz.

* “To write so readable a book on China, in a vein both sympathetic and critical, is in itself no mean feat.”

* “The author’s style is extremely readable and vivacious. His book contains a great deal of real information.”

* “If the author is not always judicial in his conclusions nor strictly accurate in his statements, he is very readable and gives a fair all-round view of the Chinaman that is slowly being transformed by the very agencies he is here shown to despise.”

“As the author remarks in his preface, Dante’s great poem is ‘a marvellous record of travel,’ and the book follows his journeys from first to last, recording, as the poet does, all the varied incidents of his wayfaring, his observations of man and beast and bird, the vicissitudes of climate and weather, and whatever else, however trifling, could enter into the itinerary.”—Critic.

* “In this book ‘he’ has many times miswritten, mismetred, and misinterpreted his author. Sometimes it appears that he is merely careless or genuinely ignorant; at others that he is wilful. Indeed the inception of the book seems due to wilfulness.”

* “How much this record must illustrate the poem one would hardly imagine before reading the book.”

* “Tourists intending to visit the places he describes cannot do better than secure his book. As an authority on Dante—that is another matter.” Walter Littlefield.

* “It has a delicate biographical flavor, is not without critical value, and may be commended alike to students of the master and to those who have yet to penetrate the depths with him, and with him ascend the heights.”

* “If the author’s first idea is not new, he has carried it out entirely on his own lines, and in an attractive manner.”

153* Harland, Marion, pseud. (Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune), and Van de Water, Virginia. Everyday etiquette. **$1. Bobbs.

A practical manual of social usages which sets forth the “Gospel of Conventionality” for the especial benefit of those who thru changed fortune find themselves in a new social environment. There are chapters upon such subjects as; invitations, calls, letter-writing, weddings, the debutante, the chaperon, gifts, mourning, the table, etiquette at home and in public, the church, and mistress and maid. The book does not cover a brilliant social season, but it is a helpful volume for the home and concerns itself with daily conduct and modest entertainment.

Harnack, (Carl Gustav) Adolf. Expansion of Christianity in the first three centuries; tr. and ed. by James Moffatt. 2v. *$3. Putnam.

“Dr. Moffatt ... is a competent translator of Prof. Harnack’s notable work. Since its publication in Germany in 1902 the book has commanded attention; and as it is the first exhaustive history of the Christian mission, it is well that it should be in the hands of those English readers whose ignorance of German does not interfere with their interest in the beginnings of Christianity and the advance of the early church.... One of the most valuable parts of Prof. Harnack’s book is that which deals with the extension of Christianity down to 325 A. D.”—Ath.

* “It is the best account that we have yet had of the way in which Christianity spread over the civilized world. Where the book is disappointing is in its attempted explanation of the remarkable way in which Christianity spread, and in its inadequate treatment of external influences.”

“It hardly requires to be said of any work by Prof. Harnack that it is marked by richness of historical detail; and it may be confidently asserted that this one will maintain his high reputation as an ecclesiastical historian.”

* “It is an indispensable work of reference as to Christian activities in that period.”

“It has many of the characteristic defects of the author, but it has also, in a very marked degree, his particular merits; it is vigorous, original, full of life, and, above all, draws its material straight from the original sources.”

“Much of this is now ‘common form,’ after the researches of Schürer, not to speak of the now antiquated work of Dollinger, but Harnack puts his points with less pedantry than the former, and with better equipped scholarship than the latter. Yet much will be new even to the expert student.”

“The subject of course is interesting; the treatment is not, except to those who dig deeply into theology.”

“The strange woman who is the central personage of this queer story has three distinct personalities.... [She] is Lady Torbeth, the cultivated, self-centered, high-minded wife of a British peer.... She is also a Miss Errington, neurotic and erotic, and a Miss Leighton, sentimental and innocent.... The problem is to expel the two superfluous personalities from the brain of Lady Torbeth. This is accomplished by ... the employment of radio-activity, electricity, hypnotism, and mumbo-jumbo jargon.”—N. Y. Times.

“The story is almost plausible. It is deeply interesting, even thrilling.” Albert Warren Ferris.

“Mr. Harper weaves a strange and fascinating web of incidents, somewhat bewildering in its shifting, glimmering improbability, but none the less suggestive and taking.”

Harper, William Rainey. Critical and exegetical commentary on Amos and Hosea. **$3. Scribner.

“Dr. Harper is in thorough sympathy with the modern analytical method of the study of the Bible. He correctly says that the reconstruction of the text is the first duty of a commentator in the study of such writers as Amos and Hosea.... He also recognizes the profound moral and spiritual significance of the Old Testament history.”—Outlook.

“It is painstaking, accurate and thorough in scholarship, fair and sound in judgment, full and impartial in the statement of contrary opinion, and mindful of its text. In general, President Harper represents the view of the modern critical scholarship. His views on many particular passages will be questioned.”

* “President Harper’s ‘Amos and Hosea’ fully sustains the reputation of American Old Testament scholarship, and are the best and fullest exposition of those most important prophets.”

“But taken as a whole his book combines thorough technical scholarship with large measure of ethical and spiritual insight, and we think his ‘Commentary on Amos and Hosea’ will take its place among the best in this very excellent series.”

* “Professor W. R. Harper’s commentary on these two prophets is the fullest that has appeared in English. Our chief complaint is that it is too full; the original scripture lies almost buried under the mass of authorities and opinions.”

Harper, William Rainey. Priestly element in the Old Testament: an aid to historical study for use in advanced Bible classes. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.

A revised and enlarged edition of Dr. Harper’s work in which there are new chapters upon the Literature of worship, legal, historical, hymnal, and on the Permanent value of the priestly element.

“It is a valuable aid to the historical study of the worship, ritual and laws of the Old Testament and is especially full in its references to authorities.”

“As a standard type of excellence among manuals for Biblical study this volume, available for various methods of teaching, is unsurpassed.”

154Harper, William Rainey. Prophetic element in the Old Testament, $1. Univ. of Chicago press.

These studies are intended primarily for students in colleges or theological seminaries, but the author has endeavored to make them suitable also for advanced classes in Sunday schools. Part 1, covers The general scope of the prophetic element in the Old Testament; Part 2, The history of prophecy through Hosea. The studies are concise and scientific in treatment. Appendices include A table of important dates, A chronological table of the religious life of Israel, The prophetic vocabulary, and An analysis of the Hexateuch.

“It is a complete guide to this period of prophetic work. Its method is inductive and constructive.”

“This is the needed complement to Dr. Harper’s work on ‘The priestly element.’”

Harper, William Rainey. Religion and the higher life: talks to students. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.

Religion as presented by President Harper in these talks to students is an attractive but very serious thing, to be gotten and kept only by the bravest struggle. He summons his hearers to meet the peculiar and tremendous responsibilities which rest upon them as college men, and tells them with an almost fatherly sympathy and undertone of pleading how religion will help them in a most practical way to meet the sufferings and temptations which await them. Noteworthy are the chapter on Our intellectual difficulties, in which he shows that doubts are not inconsistent with the Christian life, but are in fact inevitable, and the chapter entitled Bible study and religious life, in which he argues that the supreme spiritual value of the Bible is independent of the literary and historical criticism to which it is properly subjected.

“The sympathy with young life is unmistakable. The altruistic spirit breathes through every address. The treatment of religious difficulties is robust and sensible.”

“His moral counsels, admonitions, and warnings are simple and straightforward, his tone is natural, his language without pretence.”

Harper, William Rainey. Trend in higher education. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.

Dr. Harper presents a series of observations which have been made along the way towards the yet unreached goal of a formulated philosophy of the trend in higher education. He shows that the conspicuous elements which characterize the movement—among them college self-government, freedom from ecclesiastical control, and right of free utterance—all point towards the “growing democratization of higher educational work.” Some of the chapters are, “The university and democracy,” “Some present tendencies of popular education,” “The university and religious education,” “Waste in higher education,” “Dependence of the West upon the East,” “The business side of the university,” “Are school teachers underpaid?” “Why are there fewer students for the ministry?” “University training for a business career,” “Coeducation,” etc.

“The articles, with the exception of some brief occasional addresses, are vital and frank almost to the point of bluntness. The treatment is fair, and no attempt is made to criticize a particular institution by insinuation. Dr. Harper takes a vigorous and business-like attitude, modern but not radical.” Henry Davidson Sheldon.

“He makes no attempt to deal with the subject in a systematic way; the papers are somewhat desultory and disconnected.”

“On the whole the book is that of a man of learning of no very pronounced views, who may be called an educational opportunist.”

“The value of the book and the chief interest of it consists in the total effect of the assembled material.”

“What gives most vital value to the volume is its discussion of what the university and the church have to do with the problems of democracy and religion, as well as with those of education. Such criticisms from such a source cannot be waived aside; they may be thought too sweeping; exceptions exist; but Dr. Harper’s ‘record of observations here and there’ is a needed reveille.”

On his journey across the continent from Boston to San Francisco, a young Harvard man wins the girl he loves and learns thru her to understand the spirit of the West. With the girl he wins her “Uncle Jack” the capitalist whose support for one of his father’s business ventures he has come so far to seek. There is a detailed account of the trip over the Santa Fé and a description of the Grand canyon.

“The note of personality in the author’s pictures of things Western is the best feature of the story, which for the rest, lacks something of high-bred delicacy in its portrayal of young love and is of the slightest texture.”

Harris, Charles. Pro fide: a defence of natural and revealed religion. *$3. Dutton.

“The author, an accomplished theologian of the Anglican church, has written for intelligent laymen, as well as for the clergy and students preparing for the ministry. He is well versed in the literature of his subject, whether hostile or friendly to his purpose of vindicating the rationality of Christian theology. His standpoint is indicated by his belief that the sayings of Jesus to his disciples ‘undoubtedly confer a supernatural authority of some kind’ upon the Church.”—Outlook.

“While his work in a number of points fails of meeting the full demand of a strictly scientific apologetic, its spirit is admirable. Its full repertory of the evidences and arguments advanced by parties in the great debate presents materials for independent judgment as well as for views for which he contends.”

“Mr. Harris’ text-book on Christian apologetics like Mr. Pullan’s on early Church history, will be extremely useful to those who are already on his side and are in need of a short, clear, able statement of their case; but we doubt whether it would convince an opponent.”

A poor fishing-village in Cornwall forms the setting of this novel, and the narrow views of the simple, superstitious fisher-folk are strongly contrasted with the broad-minded outlook of Uncle Zack, who is a progressive power, and a wholly charming character. The romance of the story is furnished by Robert Pendean the son of a successful Wall street speculator. Robert, while at Harvard develops a taste for Utopian social ideals and his father gives him five million dollars and sends him to Europe in the hope that he will acquire a taste for “high finance.” He drifts into Cornwall, falls in love 155with Mary Vaughan, and these two, to the joy of Uncle Zack, develop a co-operative enterprise among the fishermen and build a model fishing village near the dilapidated old town.

“A thoughtful and well-written novel, a romance in which the common life of a poor fishing village is invested with rare charm, while with a few exceptions the ethical ideals evinced are wholesome. It is to us a matter of much surprise to find a writer who while not evincing the bravery of thought or grasp of fundamental principles that mark the writings of advanced economists and practical idealists among modern social philosophers, is nevertheless far in advance of many conventional religious, ethical and social teachers, striving to justify the gaining of wealth through speculation in Wall street.”

Harris, Joel Chandler (Uncle Remus, pseud.). Told by Uncle Remus, †$2. McClure.

The inimitable Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox are just as entertaining as ever in this new series of escapades in spite of the fact that Uncle Remus says “I done got so ol’ dat my min’ flutters like a bird in de bush.” The book is characteristically illustrated by A. B. Frost, Frank Verbeck and J. M. Condé.

* “Permeated by the same sly humor that has given Uncle Remus his unique position among lovers of good stories.”

* “Joel Chandler Harris’s new Remus stories are as full of the humor and charm of negro lore as ever.”

* “It is the same old Uncle Remus, and the same old marvelous tales of animal lore, full of gentle humor and kindly negro wisdom.”

The youngest and most beautiful of the princesses of the moon asks as a boon of her moon-queen mother that she and her brother, the sun prince Dorian, may spend their honeymoon upon the earth. They and their retinue pass down a silver ladder made for them by the moon sprites, and visit all parts of the earth and the caves of the ocean. They are told about the little dwellers of the marsh, and the rainbow sisters, and hear stories of the jewelled beach, the lost ocean, the princess Sunset and many others. The book is full of fanciful conceits and is charmingly illustrated in color by Lucy Fitch Perkins.

“Fundamentally out of sympathy with the work which is Chatham’s chief glory—the creation of the British empire” (Spec.), Mr. Harrison follows Pitt’s career “through the long years in opposition, through the days of savage attacks upon Walpole, upon ‘the brilliant Carteret, the vacillating Pulteney, the tricky Newcastle,’ the king’s ‘Hanoverian policy,’ the rivalries in the Commons with Henry Fox and Murray, who was later Lord Mansfield; the tenure of the Pay office and the marvel of Pitt’s perfect honesty, the support of the Pelham ministry (and certain inconsistencies thereto appertaining), till at last, in 1756, ‘the terrible cornet of horse,’ the bugbear of governments, became ‘First minister,’ though under the nominal leadership of the Duke of Devonshire.” (N. Y. Times.)

“A life of William Pitt, the elder, without sympathy and without conviction.”

“Mr. Harrison brings much freshness of treatment to bear upon Chatham’s career, particularly during its earlier periods. A singularly dignified portrait of a figure of lonely majesty.”

“With all its brevity, Mr. Harrison’s study of the elder Pitt is as would be expected, of the most finished character.” H. W. Boynton.

“Mr. Frederic Harrison’s monograph, however, is for the present the best study there is of Chatham.”

“No one who has dealt of late with the career of the Great Commoner has shown a deeper admiration of his nobler and more positive qualities.”

“Mr. Harrison begins dryly enough, but in the end he has managed to convey to his reader something—a vital something—of his own feeling for the bigness, the nobility, the splendor of the man and his ideas.”

“Mr. Harrison has painted Pitt in language which, without bringing the great commoner from the pedestal whereon posterity has placed him, enables us to measure him in due proportion both as man and as statesman.” H. Addington Bruce.

“Mr. Harrison has pierced the veil of mystery that shrouded the great Chatham and shown him as he must have been.”

“Mr. Harrison had a magnificent opportunity, but English readers when they wish a short satisfactory account of Chatham in their own tongue must still rely on Macaulay’s two superb essays supplemented by Mr. Walford Green’s recent admirable and sober biography.”

“Mr. Harrison has produced an interesting and spirited book, but it is disfigured by this fatal lack of sympathy and in consequence by a tone of petty and irrelevant criticism.”

Hart, Albert Bushnell, ed. American nation: a history from original sources by associated scholars. v. 1-5. *$9; v. 6-10. *$9. Harper.

This series, of which the present volumes form the first section, is to contain twenty-six volumes with one volume of index and one of maps. Section one is in five volumes. Vol. I., The European background of American history, by E. P. Cheney: vol. II., Basis of American history, by Livingston Farrand; vol. III., Spain in America, by E. G. Bourne; vol. IV., England in America, by Lyon G. Tyler; vol. V., Colonial self-government, by Charles M. Andrews; vol. VI., Provincial America, by Evarts B. Green: vol. VII., France in America, by Reuben G. Thwaites. With frontispieces and maps.

“Not without shortcomings ... (the faults of omission), this work is charmingly simple, direct, and comprehensive. The work must therefore prove a boon to schools and to the general public, which have too long been at the mercy of the hobby-rider and the sensation-monger. It is conservative and refreshingly healthy in tone throughout.” W. H. Holmes.

“In many respects no better introduction to American history could be desired. It seems, 156moreover accurate in a degree very unusual in general statements covering so wide a field. It is on the side of omissions that the book can be most seriously criticized.” Victor Coffin.

“Dr. Tyler is particularly happy in tracing beginnings. The great fault of the book is Dr. Tyler’s bias against the Puritan and for the cavalier. On the whole Dr. Tyler’s treatment leaves an impression of slightness. Dr. Andrews keeps to the historical point of view ... and his vision is sane and comprehensive. Dr. Andrews has accomplished a great task worthily. It means something not merely to scholarship but even to the comity of nations that at last we have a popular history of our colonial era, untainted by provincialism. Dr. Andrews is always clear and most always forceful; but I venture to call attention to a few errors and weaknesses.” Willis Mason West.

* “Judging by the first series, the history will be, when complete, a monumental work fitted to stand comparison with similar productions of the English and German students.” Carl Kelsey.

“A series of well-written monographs of undoubted value. Professor Cheney [in vol I] presents such a basis for the study of beginnings of American history that the general reader is under large debt for the information thus put in readable and compact form. Within the scope of his treatment [vol II], however, he has given us a satisfactory piece of work. [Vol. III.] Like the rest of the works, rather written down to what the author considers the standard of public intelligence. Nevertheless it views its subject with a breadth and force that make the treatment commendable. [Vol. V.] Accurate and interesting. The style of the monographs is in general rather dry, and yet it is readable and interesting to those who use the volumes for study.”

“The author of this volume [vol. I] has had a difficult task, and has done it admirably. The story is told delightfully and with care; but the necessity for compression causes occasionally a lack of clearness. The author [of vol. II] himself informs us that his task has been one of condensation, and the results are especially evident in the first third of the volume, which is somewhat below the general average of interest. The chief service of this portion of the book will be its suggestiveness and the references in Professor Farrand’s excellent bibliography. The many striking summaries of events and characterizations of individuals which one finds throughout the book [in vol III]. [In vol. IV] President Tyler has given us a scrupulously fair and a very interesting work. The author gives us no detailed study of institutional growth, but a general narrative. Here one inevitably compares President Tyler’s work with that of the late Mr. Fiske, with results not at all to the disadvantage of President Tyler. [Vol. V]. This is very certainly the best general account of this period that has yet appeared. One feels that the author not only has intimate acquaintance with the old sources, but also has been fortunate enough to reach considerable new material. Professor Andrews is especially to be congratulated upon the catholic view of colonial history that he presents to us. As successful as his descriptions of institutions is the author’s delineation of personality. We must not omit commendation of the bibliographical matter appended to each volume. Volumes like that of Professor Bourne will take their place as standard works. For the general reader, ... the work will prove a mine of information interestingly told, well arranged, and attractively published.” St. George L. Sioussat.

* “The editor of the coöperative history of which these volumes form a part deserves congratulation upon the success with which the process of ‘linking,’ which here is so very necessary, has been carried out.” St. George Sioussat.

* “However, from the standpoint of critical scholarship, the authors leave American history very much as they found it. The cooperative plan has precluded a consistent and systematic treatment of the development of British colonial policy and American commercial interests, and the economic analysis is not keen or original.”

* “Tho the series cannot escape some of the limitations of the monographic method, yet it has already taken the place which it will hold for many years of the most important reference history of our country.”

“Never fail to be direct and lucid. The value of the series as a whole can hardly be overestimated.”

“Taking the five volumes as a whole, the general verdict must be one of cordial approval. All the writers have succeeded in attaining brevity and compactness without falling into an elementary style, while the volumes of Professor Bourne and Professor Andrews must be given high rank as substantive contributions in their respective fields. The literary form, though in no case striking, is meritorious and of fairly even quality.”

* “As a condensed account of a peculiarly difficult period, written in the light of modern historical scholarship, the volume is a commendable piece of work, and a worthy addition to the series in which it appears.”

“He has made a careful and discriminating use of his material, and apart from a useful text has given us a valuable critical essay on the authorities.” Robert Livingston Schuyler.

“Prof. Thwaites, while hardly possessed of a fascinating style, is always readable. His work is brief, clear, and always to the point.” R. L. S.

“Prof. Howard’s work compares favorably with the best volumes of the ‘American nation’ series that have yet appeared.” R. L. S.

* “Prof. Van Tyne has succeeded in turning out a fresh, original, and, considering the limitations of space imposed, an adequate history of the Revolution.” R. L. S.

“A survey at once broad and specific, and of high value to the student desirous of obtaining the latest word of modern research. It is as a helpful work of reference rather than as a ‘popular’ history, in the usual acceptation of the term, ... it will deservedly win a place on the library shelves.”

“Like Professor Van Tyne—and, for that matter, like almost all the writers who have as yet contributed to the series—[Mr. McLaughlin] shows a firm grasp of detail and perspective, and his exposition is such as to leave all that is salient impressed on the scholar’s mind.”

157* “The scheme of the history is on the whole good, though we are bound to say that some of the writing is uninspired, and not in the same rank of literary production as much of the work by American writers in the volume of the ‘Cambridge modern history’ dealing with the United States.”

Hart, Albert Bushnell. Essentials in American history (from the discovery to the present day). *$1.50. Am. bk.

This is one of a series of text books which includes a volume each on ancient, medieval, modern, and English history. “The volumes are intended for use in secondary schools, and contain lists of references and topical questions, but apart from this pedagogic machinery they have little in common with the ordinary schoolbook. The authors have addressed themselves avowedly only to those things which have been vital and significant to the development of the civilizations treated respectively in the several works.” (Outlook.)

“The somewhat original grouping of topics in the Colonial period is the book’s most distinguishing feature. Upon the whole this work of Professor Hart deserves commendation and should meet with a cordial welcome among a wide circle of teachers.” Frank Greene Bates.

“While the historic narrative is necessarily compact and free from all attempts at rhetorical writing or dramatic presentation, the books are essentially selective in that they purposely omit confusing details.”

All the reverence with which one likes to approach the Holy Land is shattered by the genially sarcastic observations which the author makes upon all his observant eyes saw in the Levant. His Levant includes Stamboul, Smyrna, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Cairo, Luxor, Thebes, Alexandria and other places naturally included in this itinerary, and his log book is a record of cheerful disillusionment, but the pictures he draws are amusing enough to compensate for the shock his revelations bring. The volume is illustrated with photographs, many of which were taken by the author.

“For the present reprint, these old favorites have been literally, as the title-page has it, ‘pictured’ by Mr. Arthur I. Keller.... The illustrations, a few more in number than the stanzas, are in color or in tint, some from wash-drawings and others from pen-and-ink sketches. They catch both the humor and the sentiment of the verses, and the artist has not forgotten that the life of Poverty Flat is now a full generation behind us.”—Dial.

* “‘Her letter’ is certainly one of the artistic triumphs of the season’s output.”

A study, with twenty reproductions, of the famous gallery presented to the British nation by Sir Henry Tate. There is a general summary of modern English art; the treatment is by epochs represented in the gallery.

“The brief essays ... are well written and instructive ... and the illustrations are thoroughly representative.”

“A general summary of modern English art written in a popular manner, and as such may prove a useful book, for there is discrimination in the criticism.”

The author “aims to help the uninitiated in art matters.... Miss Harwood arranges her artists alphabetically, giving us some account of their lives and their most important works, and telling where these are to be found, with small illustrations, good only for assistance in remembering the compositions. She includes the principal artists represented in the Belle Arti, the Uffizi, and the Pitti, along with frescoes in the churches.”—Nation.

* “The book is good to read, full of interesting historical detail, and ample in quotations from writers ancient and modern in prose and verse.”

* “The pleasure it has given the writer to set down her impressions may do something toward removing the suggestion that the book lacks a good reason for existence.” Chas. de Kay.

* “A book distinctly better than the customary ‘center-table’ variety, the text is better than the pictures, but that is not saying that the text is either original or adequate enough.”

Harwood, W. S. New creations in plant life: an authoritative account of the life and work of Luther Burbank. **$1.75. Macmillan.

“Following the brief account of Mr. Burbank’s career down to the present time. Mr. Harwood has a chapter on his methods of work in general. He then passes on to a discussion of the individual creations of the breeder, describing the trees created by him, the amaryllis and the poppy, the potato and pomato, lilies, plums, and prunes, the ‘Shasta’ daisy, cacti, breeding plants for perfumes, etc. There are also chapters on breeding and grafting and the commercial aspect of the work; a description of a day with Mr. Burbank, and his personality. The volume is profusely illustrated from photographs.”—N. Y. Times.

* “Given reasonably clear English and logical presentation, the actual information in this book could be condensed into a magazine article.” C. R. B.

“Here and there the style is a little difficult to follow. We can recommend this volume as a readable and truthful description of a remarkable career.”

* “Contains the most complete and comprehensive account of Mr. Burbank’s great achievements, his methods of work, and his personality. His book is eminently readable.”

Impressions of Japan, Korea and China, being the author’s recollections of a tour of those countries made some three years ago. His memory is fortified by facts and opinions collected at the time in his note books and the whole is cast in narrative form. While the industrial and political aspects receive first attention, 158the historical and social phases are fully and fairly presented and the book will undoubtedly fulfill its object of further stimulating public interest in the great Far Eastern problem. There are three maps and eighty-eight illustrations from photographs.

* “Mr. Hatch’s impressions are not mere chance gatherings and ill-digested glimpses; they are acute and weighty observations upon the things that appeal to a business man interested in politics. The volume is well indexed, well illustrated, and written in a clear and forcible style.” H. E. Coblentz.

* “The illustrations seem about as valuable as the text, for little of purely original matter of any great importance enters into the book, which is rather too rich in quotations.”

* “The book is an interesting one to read in connection with Lord Curzon’s and Mr. Norman’s much larger and exhaustive volumes on the same subjects.”

Hatch, F. H., and Corstorphine, George Stewart. Geology of South Africa. *$7. Macmillan.

“The book is divided into five parts. Part I deals with the pre-Karroo rocks.... The Karroo rocks are adequately dealt with in part II.... The coastal system, including the Uitenhage and Umtavuna Cretaceous rocks, profusely illustrated with typical fossils, occupies part III.... Part IV briefly discusses the igneous rocks of doubtful position.... Part V discusses the correlation of the South African strata.”—Nature.

“The volume might be more truthfully entitled ‘A geognostic account of British South Africa.’ Thus regarded the work is good and should prove of much practical value.”

“The authors have certainly succeeded in their self-imposed task ‘to correlate and systematise the valuable results of both official and private work.’” W. G.

Hatch, Louis Clinton. Administration of the American revolutionary army. **$1.50. Longmans.

A monograph, “Harvard historical series X,” which first treats of the evolution of the Continental army and discusses the relation between Congress and the commander-in-chief. There are also chapters on “Appointment and promotion” of officers, setting forth the states’ jealousies; “Foreign officers;” “Pay and half-pay,” the real contrasted with the apparent pay of the soldiers; “Supplying the army,” its mismanagement and the suffering at Valley Forge; “Newburg addresses;” and “Mutiny of 1786, and disbandment of the army.”

“A valuable chapter on the subject of the ‘Appointment and promotion’ of officers, showing the jealousy of the members of Congress for the rights of their states. The chapter on ‘Foreign officers’ is the least valuable in the volume, adding little to the account in Tower’s ‘Lafayette’ and that in Wharton’s ‘Diplomatic correspondence.’ The following chapter, on ‘Pay and half-pay,’ is, on the other hand, a real contribution. ‘Supplying the army,’ the mismanagement in the feeding and clothing of the army, and the consequent suffering at Valley Forge is, on the whole, the most accurate account we have, and is stated with moderation and without sentimentality. The ‘Newburg addresses’ in the following chapter are, however, treated in a fuller and more conclusive manner. The book is well organized and well written. It is a source study of high merit. There is a valuable bibliography and a good index.” C. H. Van Tyne.

* Hatzfeldt, Paul. Hatzfeldt letters: letters of Count Paul Hatzfeldt to his wife; written from the headquarters of the King of Prussia, 1870-71; tr. from the French by J. L. Bashford. *$4. Dutton.

“The Countess ... says in her introduction that the letters ‘throw so much light on the great events of 1870-1’ as well as on the character of the writer, that she thinks they will be ‘interesting to many people who only know hitherto of Count Hatzfeldt’s public services.’ ... Candor, however, compels one to deny the accuracy of the first statement.... Count Paul was not behind the scenes in those great events ... his letters ... were merely family letters.... As to throwing light on the diplomat’s character, they may do that; but merely that he loved his family, wanted to be with them.... The letters were written almost daily—sometimes more than one a day—from Aug. 2, 1870, to March 6, 1871, those from and after Oct. 7, being dated from Versailles.”—N. Y. Times.

* “While, however, a little more care in editing might have avoided some blemishes, we welcome the volume as throwing light on many historical characters and events. The index is unfortunately poor, though fairly accurate as far as it goes. There are a few errors in the text.”

* “In fact, so far as the public is concerned, the translation is far better than the letters themselves.”

The object of this volume is “to assist those who visit, or have visited, Agra to an intelligent understanding of one of the greatest epochs of Indian art.” The author, who is the principal of the government school of art at Calcutta, gives a brief historical introduction followed by a detailed treatment of the buildings and tombs at and about Agra. There are 14 illustrations in half-tone from photographs, four plans, an index and footnotes.

“The book appears to be at least as good as most books of its kind and better than many.”

A story not of the stage, but of an actress: a character study of Ora Pinsent, a creature of whim and folly, and ever behind the failure she makes of living and the cloud her attractive, clinging, and uncertain personality casts over those who cross her path, is the glory of her triumph behind the footlights. There is slight reference to her public career, but its success seems measured by the detailed failure of her private life.

“We cannot regard ‘A servant of the public’ as other than a failure. It is sufficiently interesting to wile away an hour or two, but not so interesting as to fulfil the promise to which the early career of its author gave rise.”

“Marks an improvement in some ways on ‘Double harness.’ The canvas is less crowded, and the attempt to unravel cross-purposes 159and conflicting motives is less strenuous yet more successful.”

“One of the few heroines of this season’s fiction that will not easily be forgotten.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

* “The ostensibly piquant history of Miss Ora Pinsent is, after all, dull reading.”

* “The story is written in a vein of grave comedy, pleasing but not stirring in effect. Its half-dozen chief characters are delicately defined, while its diction is an acceptable compound of natural dialogue, engaging description, and agreeable social philosophy.” Wm. M. Payne.

* “Altho the plot is a little tenuous, yet Mr. Hope treats it with much solidity.”

“There is a sound as well as subtle philosophy to be read between the lines of this unusual book.”

“As a clever study of a character often met with in real life, but not so often attempted in fiction, this story offers unusual attractions.”

* “As an analysis of a temperament and an artistic presentment of individual problems the novel is wrought out with skill and ability.”

“Mr. Hope’s fine comedy manner has no better example than ‘A servant of the public.’ Lacking the dramatic vitality of ‘Double harness,’ this story is almost as interesting, for it deals, keenly, good-humoredly, with that fascinating subject, the dramatic instincts of a woman.”

“The finish of the story illustrated an art of which Anthony Hope is attaining real control. He gives by a very delicate succession of blunting touches, an admirable imitation of the dulling effect of time.”

“Subject to the limitations of his theme, in the choice of which we are ready to admit that opportunity as well as temperament may have been a governing factor, we have little but praise for the skill, the tact, and the subtlety with which Mr. Anthony Hope has handled it.”

Hawks, Wells. Red wagon stories; or, Tales told under the tent. 50c; pa. 25c. Ottenheimer.

In “these realistic sketches, reminiscent of traveling circus days, ... the men who make the great show go, the bill poster, the press agent, the boss canvasman, the bandmaster, and the ticket seller, give us, in their rough and ready manner, a cheery view of their good-humored personalities in the breezy stories they relate when seated around the ring bark between performances.... In all there are eleven stories.”—N. Y. Times.

“A graceful lyric gift, a vein of pretty fancy, and a habitual mood of ideality are very little inconvenienced by disturbing mental processes.”

“In Miss Hawthorne’s work a certain respect for the purity of the poetic impulse is invariably felt. She neither trifles nor bungles with her art, but approaches it sincerely and with intelligence. Her verse, therefore, even when it is of the slightest, has a delicate, veracious property that charms.”

A volume of the “Thin paper classics,” with an introduction by Katharine Lee Bates, and a frontispiece showing the Grand Salon, in the Capitoline Museum.

The author “begins with a bibliography, and follows this with a glossary.... He then proceeds to deal separately with various periods of style. The first chapter is given to the French renaissance, the second to the English, the Jacobean and Queen Anne styles, and the styles of the successive Louises, with that of the empire. Finally we have an account of the famous English makers. Each chapter has an appendix of recent sale-prices.”—Spec.

An elaborately decorated volume of blank pages in which a young girl may keep a record of her social life, her “coming-out” party, dinners, teas, balls, card parties, and out of door sports, there is even space for samples of her favorite gowns and newspaper notices; the final page is headed by a wee winged figure with veil, and orange wreath.

“This is really a new edition of Brand and Ellis’s ‘Popular antiquities of Great Britain,’ but it is now for the first time alphabetically arranged—an immense improvement—and has also been enlarged and improved. The title, as given above, sufficiently indicates the classes of topics treated.”—Outlook.

“The author has collected a good deal of folklore, which it is useful to possess in alphabetical order, but many of the entries would have been improved by revision.”

“Mr. Hazlitt has added some material to the old book, but neither in quantity nor in quality is it worth while. Most of it is newspaper clippings culled at random, and both in arrangement and in subject shows no sense of proportion or definite plan.”

“The work is a rarely quaint storehouse of legend, allusion, antiquarian information, and bygone usages.”

160Healy, Patrick Joseph. Valerian persecution: a study of the relations between church and state in the third century, A. D. **$1.50. Houghton.

An historical monograph, which is not a sectarian work, but which sets forth in the light of recent investigation, the true history of this period in which the early Christians suffered much at the hands of the Roman state.

* “The character of Dr. Healy’s work may be briefly indicated by saying that, while it satisfies the exacting standards to which the modern writer of history must conform, it will not fail to fascinate the intelligent reader who takes up a book of history, not for severe study, but partly for instruction, partly for entertainment. Clear alike by its methodic arrangement and its simple style, lively and vivid without falling into the rhetorical, the narrative flows smoothly on, and, though abounding in detail, never becomes tedious or monotonous.”

* “Painstaking as he has been in piecing together his material, he does not always seem to have understood the sphere to which the statements he copied down applied. This will not prevent his book’s being useful to a large circle of readers to whom the sources from which he draws are not accessible.”

Hearn, Lafcadio. Exotics and retrospectives. Shadowings. A. Japanese miscellany. In ghostly Japan, ea. $1.25. Little.

The general title, “Stories and sketches of Japan,” includes in popular form four volumes of the short papers written during the last few years of the author’s life. The volume entitled “A Japanese miscellany,” “would have fitted,” says the N. Y. Times, “the whole series excellently well for it is altogether Japanese.... Bits of antiquarian and ethnological investigation; little papers of research in all kinds of interesting matters relating to the people whom the author loved so well; Japanese stories retold from curious old Japanese books, with Mr. Hearn’s own version of traits and occurrences that have come under his observation; a few of the exquisitely artistic and suggestive tales, impressions, descriptions, which no one but a Hearn could write—these fill the four volumes with such a wealth of entertaining as well as valuable material that, in reading them, one constantly marvels how any one man found time or patience to gather and assimilate it all into one such orderly shape.”

“He does not so much attempt to define, as to convey by means of his charmingly expressed and equally charmingly conceived ideas, some notion of the other half of the world, and the ideals as well as the daily life of the East.”

“Together they offer an extraordinary variety of apercus of Japanese character and customs and beliefs, subtly apprehended, and expressed in a style infused with sympathy, phantasy, and color.”

“It is here that we gain some idea of the painstaking study, for infinite capacity for details, the special sympathy and appreciation that formed the solid basis of that wonderful power of vivid portrayal and poetic fancy that have made all of Mr. Hearn’s work unique and delightful. Certainly no one can afford to miss the insight into the very spirit of Japan, which is to be gained from these books. He, more than any other English writer, was fitted to be their prophet, and he nobly began his task, even if he did not have opportunity to complete it.”

The author, an American journalist, son of a Greek mother and an Irish father, took a Japanese name and a Japanese wife and lived the life of a native teacher, in order to interpret sympathetically the Japanese mind and its products to the Western world. Altho frankly devoted to the country, he surpasses her enemies in admiringly laying bare the realities. “One cannot quote, one must read this work. It shows the Japanese under his armor, modern science. The Japanese, outwardly, are ruled by treaties, diplomacy, governments, codes, imperial diet, armies, and battleships—all modern and external. Inwardly they—that is, forty-nine millions of them—are governed by ghosts. The graveyard is the true dictator. It is ever their ‘illustrious ancestors’ who achieve victories.” (Critic).

“Probably three greater errors were never compressed into a single sentence than this from p. 27: ‘The real religion of Japan, the religion still professed in one form or another by the entire nation, is that cult which has been the foundation of all civilized religion and of all civilized society—ancestor-worship.’ The close and frequent points of influence which religion exercised upon politics and morality in Japan can nowhere else be so well studied as here.” E. Buckley.

“Is a classic in science, a wonder of interpretation. It is the product of long years of thought, of keenest perception, of marvellous comprehension. Hearn outdoes the missionaries in dogmatism, exceeds even the hostile propagandist in telling the naked truth. His book is a re-reading of all Japanese history, a sociological appraisement of the value of Japanese civilization, and a warning against intolerant propaganda of any sort whatever.” W. E. Griffis.

“Both the prose and the poetry of Japanese life are infused into Mr. Hearn’s charming pages. Nobody, so far as we know, has given a better description of the fascination which Japanese life has at first for such as enter into its true spirit, and of its gradual disappearance. The swan-song of a very striking writer.”

In this volume of letters and poems, Hearn tells of his life in the South, gives his views on the negro question, and his impressions of Memphis, New Orleans, and New York. The verses are both light and serious, and there are translations from negro and Creole love songs.

“This small posthumous volume ... presents half a dozen ... graceful trifles, all but two Japanese in theme, preceded by a short biographical and appreciative notice ... by Mr. Ferris Greenslet. ‘With the exception of a body of familiar letters now in process of collection,’ says this editor, ‘the present volume contains all of Hearn’s writing that he left uncollected in the magazines or in manuscripts of a sufficient ripeness for publication.’”—Dial.

* “The last work of Lafcadio Hearn lacks nothing of that delicacy of expression, of that beauty and depth of thought which caused his earlier books to be sought after and cherished by the ‘many who are yet the few.’”

“The exquisite art of Hearn’s pen stamps the little book as a notable one.”

“The chief object of the book is to present a historical account of the art which shall be suggestive and stimulating to further study and appreciation rather than to attempt an exhaustive catalog or an authoritative guide for the specialist.”—Ind.

“Mr. Heath has done his work with exceptional thoroughness and skill. The closing pages are given up to ‘Foreign portrait miniaturists’ and we read of Italy, Germany, and France, but not a word of America or the United States.” Charles Henry Hart.

“Mr. Heath has taken up the consideration of his subject with enthusiastic zeal as well as with discrimination.”

Heath, William. Heath’s memoirs of the American war: ed. by Rufus Rockwell Wilson, **$2.50. Wessels.

“This is the third and decidedly the most important of the ‘Source books of American history’ thus far issued under the direction of Rufus Rockwell Wilson. General Heath’s memoirs, which were originally published in 1798, and, so far as we are aware, have hitherto been reprinted only in a limited edition, are of direct value to the student of the war of the Revolution, constituting a first-hand account of many of the operations connected therewith, and assisting to an appreciation of the men and conditions of the period. The author served as a major-general in the American army throughout the long conflict, his military activity dating from the battle of Concord, where he took part in the harrying of the retreating British.”—Outlook.

“The editor’s introduction, notes, and appendixes are excellent in their way.”

“The book is of value also for its accounts of the disposition of Burgoyne after his surrender, of Arnold’s treason, and of the surrender of Cornwallis.”

“His diary is, as stated, gossipy, redolent of army life and its trifling incidents. Well worth rescuing from the dusty obscurity of library shelves.”

“In its present form it should command a wide audience, its value to the modern student being increased by the intelligent annotations of its present editor.”

“In this new dress ... these memoirs form a valuable addition to our source books of American history.”

The pen-name John Heigh has aroused genuine curiosity among the lovers of a “morsel of mystery.” “The corrupt league between business and politics is the leading note, but the strength and grace of the story lie in the narrative of the life and portrayal of the character of Kriemhild West, of the friendship of Eliot and Cards, of the bluff, hearty and honest personality of John Heigh.” (Ind.)

“The style is epigrammatic without being laboured, the dramatic situations are handled with artistic restraint, and a vein of quiet humor runs all through the book.”

“Written in an exasperating style. There is very little story about the book but instead a great deal of shrewd comment and incisive characterization.” Wm. M. Payne.

“An exceptionally bright and striking story. He has the art of telling a story, of putting each incident, rightly proportioned, in its proper place, of making his characters speak for themselves and justify their existence.”

“It is not often that a lesson of serious import is conveyed in fiction with such delicacy of style, charm of humour, and literary effectiveness as here.”

“Bricks of humor, satire, pathos, a couple of tragedy keystones, and all these joined with the mortar of realism into a magnificent edifice, built upon the rocks of cleverness.”

Professor Heilprin, of the Yale scientific school, and author of “Mont Pelée and the tragedy of Martinique,” was in Martinique at the time of the great eruption in the summer of 1902 and has visited the islands twice since that time, ascending Pelee many times. This volume is an illustrated study of the great West Indian volcano, and the strange tower of lava which rose so mysteriously from the crater’s mouth, and crumbled away in constantly falling fragments. He also gives the after-history of the tower and explanations of the phenomena.

“An important contribution to our knowledge of the ways of volcanoes. The book is written with more care than preceding volumes from the same hand.”

“It is in the wide and sympathetic interest stirred by the tragic fate of St. Pierre that Professor Heilprin’s volume finds its justification. Author is a man of versatile scientific attainment, a general naturalist and geographer rather than a geologist or volcanologist, and with the journalist’s eye for the effective (albeit not always essential or accurate) details. A tendency to introduce irrelevant matter. In giving the results of Prof. Moissan’s analysis of fumerole gases from St. Pierre, the author curiously omits nitrogen which formed 55 per cent of the whole.”

“The illustrations, indeed, can hardly be matched, so effective is their representation of the volcanic phenomena.”

“The greater part of the book is reprinted from the ‘Empire review.’ ... Two articles run through the women and men of Balzac, and another deals with Balzac’s idea of the English and his admiration for various English authors. In ‘Balzac and Dickens’ essential differences between the French realist and the ‘respectable English author’ are well indicated.... In ‘Literary references in Balzac’ ... the influence of Sterne and Richardson is rightly pointed out.”—Ath.

* “He gossips freely and with abundance of humour (which seems occasionally introduced for the purpose of mollifying the general reader) concerning the characters in Balzac’s immense world, and sets down the main conclusions about the novelist which most expert readers have reached.”

* “It contains entertaining information about the novelist and his novels, presented in a clear, 162direct, offhand manner, which agreeably does not exact too much patience from the reader.”

Henderson, Charles Hanford. Children of good fortune: an essay in morals. **$1.30. Houghton.

The philosophy that preaches salvation thru good fortune is set forth under the headings: The problem; Human conduct; Right and wrong; Efficiency; Worth; The moral person; Individual morality; The cardinal virtues; The doctrine of automatic goodness; Social welfare; The morality of the four institutions; Occupations; Immediacy; The moral outlook.

* “The work is written in a charming style, and possesses keen penetration and moral insight.” W. C. Keirstead.

“Mr. Henderson’s books, moreover, are not written from strange heights which none but the moral philosopher can scale. They are clear and simple, showing a rare firsthand knowledge of the larger life. They combine to an unusual extent the attitudes of the observer and the experimentalist; they are at once dispassionate and enthusiastic.” Edith J. R. Isaacs.

“At all events the book is good reading, fit to stimulate thought and apt even to produce effects upon conduct itself.”

“Dr. Henderson’s book is stimulating, and represents an interesting attempt to provide a working basis for moral conduct.”

Henderson, Charles Richmond, and others. Modern methods of charity. **$3.50. Macmillan.

An account of the public and private systems of relief in the principal countries of Europe, the British empire, and the United States; also a special treatment of Jewish charities. It is a book for active workers in any field of philanthropy, as well as for students.

* “It is not philosophy, it is not theory; but it is a foundation upon which theory and philosophy may be erected. It is the product of the hardest and most tedious delving, searching, translating, comparing and verifying.” Ernest P. Bicknell.

“The book is almost encyclopaedic in character, and hence more likely to be referred to on special topics than to be read through as a treatise. The volume has too many details which are not digested and which are not of valuable significance, and altogether too many statements which do not convey clear and helpful ideas; while some information that should be found in it is unhappily lacking.... The misleading generalizations which the editor has allowed to appear at frequent intervals throughout the volume.” B.

“We regret to say, the editor seems to have a very inadequate conception of the comparative method of study and of scientific methods in general.”

“It is a scientific study in what we may call the methodology of public relief for public poverty.”

Henderson, George Francis Robert. Science of war; ed. by Neil Malcolm. *$4. Longmans.

The author of “Stonewall Jackson” called the Herbert Spencer of military tactics was a master of the theory and practice of the art of war. This collection of essays and lectures which separately have been regarded as authoritative along their respective lines of thought, treat such subjects as “War,” “Strategy,” “The tactical employment of cavalry,” “Tactics of the three arms combined,” “Training of the infantry for the attack,” “Military criticism and modern tactics,” etc. The fourteen essays are preceded by a memoir by Col. Henderson’s staunch admirer and patron, Lord Roberts.

“Henderson is at his best in driving home with quiet persistence, and with the help of countless apt examples, the lessons of pure military warfare.”

“In the present volume there are many contradictions. So, too as regards style itself.”

“Reading them we get the real measure of the man; we realize the extraordinary compass of his knowledge, the wise way in which he looked on professional things, his power to put before his hearers or his readers matter for deep thought, and repaying any amount of thought bestowed on them.”

“It is rare for the reviewer to open the pages of a book in which there is so little to criticise, so much to admire.”

“Those in the volume before us are minor only in the matter of quantity, not at all in that of quality.”

Henderson, Henry F. Religious controversies of Scotland. *$1.75. imp. Scribner.

“The story of the dozen storms that differences of opinion have generated in the Scottish church during the last two centuries.... Some of the chapters in this volume relate to recent contentions about the higher criticism; others to conflicts equally serious in their time, but now forgotten.”—Outlook.

“Generally. Mr. Henderson has treated a very difficult subject in a satisfactory way.”

Henderson, Howard. Ethics and etiquette of the pulpit, pew, parish, press and platform. $1. H. A. Schroetter, Covington, Ky.

A second revised edition of this manual of manners for ministers and members, which may prove helpful to those who have had no home training and who know nothing of common social usages.

Henderson, John. West Indies; painted by A. L. Forrest; described by John Henderson. *$6. Macmillan.

The text deals almost wholly with Jamaica and its people, chiefly its negroes. Much information upon the flora, the commerce, and various matters of interest to the tourist are given. The illustrations are done in color.

“Mr. Forrest has done better in this volume than he did in its predecessor, ‘Morocco.’ Mr. Henderson’s text falls considerably short of the artistic level of its illustrations.”

“Their joint work is a very attractive book. Its illustrations are charming. Mr. Henderson’s descriptive chapters are not to be taken too 163seriously; they are light, bright, and rapid, not to say slap-dash here and there, and they display, as is only to be expected, not a few of the defects of those attractive qualities.”

“The book is very interesting, and within the limits which we think we have found, is valuable as a study of some of the phases of subtropical America.”

“The pictures of negro types are full of character and individuality. The reproductions are unusually good. The text of the book consists of the observations of a traveler, chatty and genial, but not penetrating to any great depth.”

This useful book of tables is divided into two parts: Part I. Preliminary earthwork tables, giving cubic yards per 100 feet for level sections, to which is added a graphical method of estimating quantities from a profile. Part II. Earthwork tables, giving the volume in cubic yards of prismoids 100 feet long by the average end area method.

* “The reviewer knows of no other similar table that equals it for range.” Halbert P. Gillette.

“A new volume of poems.... Pictures, music, dreams, and reminiscences of the classic world are the flowers that grow in Mr. Henderson’s garden, and from these he makes a most acceptable bouquet of the pretty old-time ‘mixed’ variety.”—N. Y. Times.

“There are poems in blank verse, sonnets, songs, and in all the meter is good, in some excellent. There is thought in all the poems, and it is poetic thought.” Eltweed Pomeroy.

“A certain compliance with the rules of prosody, a flavor of the sentiment of poetry, an inspiration toward the best, characterize these verses.”

“To interest yourself in others, to go with the tide of the great city and observe closely every possible condition, is Mr. Henry’s recipe for happiness. Add to this an especial care for one person in particular—like Nancy—and the picture is complete. The faith that kept firm hold of the youth who began his New York life possessed of one clean collar and a poem must be the kind that moves mountains. Particularly good are the descriptions of the office where Nancy worked and the Baxter street lodgings where she and her poet lived.”—Outlook.

The purpose of this book is to show how, in our modern social system, ignorance of the laws themselves and of the crime done in breaking them often leads to tragedy. A German engraver, who loses his savings thru the speculations of his banker, sets innocently to work to support his family by engraving bank notes for himself, the result is Sing Sing. One daughter, simple and unlearned, comes to grief, while her sophisticated and selfish sister marries well. The book treats of both the upper and the lower classes, and of the many problems of modern life. The setting is New York.

“The book is animated by a fine seriousness, a single-minded sincerity, which pertain to the best and highest in American art and thought. It exhibits a certain crudeness, a certain toughness of fiber, which may militate against its right appreciation by the fastidious.”

* “Is an encouraging example of that best sort of realism. The style is simple, at times almost to the point of baldness. It will inevitably provoke discussion; it will arouse some antagonism; but it cannot fail to make people think.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

“There is no kind of excuse for the excessively plain speaking in which this book indulges. It impresses one as the work of a reporter rather than that of a constructive novelist.” Wm. M. Payne.

“The book has, perhaps, no merely literary merit, it is crude in plot and exhibits much bad taste in incident, but it has a certain sincerity in strength, and a vividness, too, in places.”

The author, who has lived many years among the people of the South American republics, draws upon his fund of experience in this breezy story which recounts the adventures of an energetic American in the land of popular revolutions. “The characters range from the native brown-skinned maiden to the daughter of an American banker, and from a peon to an absconding president. The game proceeds much like a rattling good comic opera—and the characters have many opportunities to spin yarns of the kind that have already made famous the name of ‘O. Henry.’” (Pub. note.).

“A book of very unusual interest and cleverness. The general popularity will necessarily be limited by the fact that it is essentially a man’s book. A number of the chapters might be taken bodily from the book and held up as admirable examples of short-story telling.” Stanhope Searles.

“The inimitably breezy style of story telling is retained in the main episodes. Has weakened the structure of the whole. The characters, so delightful in the original stories become less real, less convincing on their new stage.”

“Pure burlesque, but lively, ingenious, and slangily humorous, South American intrigue, Yankee resource, the colossal impudence of the American fakir, and the romance of unusual love complications, are all worked together into a semi-connected story, parts of which have been already used as magazine tales.”

Herbert, George. English works, newly arranged and annotated and considered in relation to his life, by G. Herbert Palmer. 3v. *$6. Houghton.

“Herbert, though a minor poet, is established in English literature as are few minor poets of the seventeenth century. His poems have been constantly reprinted for general readers.... The form of this edition is altogether admirable. The print is clear and restful to the eye, the margins are wide ... and the volumes comfortable to hold. The notes to the poems are printed opposite to the poems, so that one has the poem on the right-hand page, the corresponding notes on the left-hand. The illustrations are interesting and apt. The portrait of Herbert published here, for the first 164time as the frontispiece to volume I., is a notable addition to literary portraiture.”—Nation.

* “Of the more specific work of the editor one may say that it is at once scholarly and literary, minute in its exegesis yet mindful always that a poet and not a ‘corpus vile’ is under discussion.”

“The annotations are very thorough. The study of the matter and style is exhaustive.”

“It will ever hold its place, as one of the triumphs of American scholarship in editing English classics, alongside such works as those of Furness and Child. These latter are bigger and on bigger subjects, but they are not better done.” Cameron Mann.

* “Every help to the reader’s eye and mind for the appreciation of Herbert will be found in these volumes, so great is the labor of love which Professor Palmer, with his own fine intelligence and training, has wrought for the most lovable and the most human of our religious poets.”

Under this profound title appear the witty old-time pulpit and pew papers written from a layman’s point of view, which were first published anonymously during the early years of their author’s ministry, 1860-1861. They include quaintly humorous disquisitions upon: A ‘lay’ view of sleeping in church; Some people who always come late; Praising God by proxy; Pews; A country tea party; Over-much discourse; Unsocial worship; Parsonic acid, and other kindred subjects.

“The biographical element is sufficient, but is subordinate to the exposition of the poet’s work in the order of its production. The true biography of Browning can be written in no other way.... A clear perception of this fact, and a definite though not a rigid application of this fact to his material, give Professor Herford’s study a true biographic as well as an interpretative quality.”—Outlook.

“Prof. Herford’s study of Browning is in many respects complementary to that of Mr. Chesterton’s published last year. The style is, for the most part sober and balanced though there are occasional flashes of rather loose rhetoric, and the author has an odd habit of falling at intervals into comments which are banal or tasteless.”

“In scale it stands midway between Mr. Chesterton’s and Prof. Dowden’s; in quality it is to be compared rather with the latter.” H. W. Boynton.

“There could hardly be a better brief estimate of Browning’s genius than Professor Herford has given us.” Edward Fuller.

“The commentator knows his Browning well, has availed himself of the best and latest authorities, and manifests a considerable degree of sympathetic appreciation; but he is hampered in his presentation by a clumsiness of expression. Numerous misquotations from the poems ... do not strengthen our confidence in Professor Herford or his book.”

“The necessity to be poetic, to live up to his matter, has been too much for him.”

“This is likely to stand as one of the best of the numerous short critical lives of its provocative poet.”

“His treatment of Browning the poet and man shows considerable insight and unusual sanity.”

“He has a gift of selection and juxtaposed selection which remarkably increases the pleasure of reading this sort of criticism. But the scheme of the book runs parallel with how many others.”

“We are not wholly in agreement with his estimate of the poet. Our chief difference is in regard to Browning’s literary form. The criticism generally, we greatly admire.”

* Herrick, Christine Terhune, ed. Lewis Carroll birthday book. 75c. Wessels.

* “As a birthday book, it is hardly a success, and the selections do more credit to the compiler’s familiarity with her author than to her sense of appropriateness.”

* “Mrs. Christine Terhune Herrick has made the selections for the volume and nobody could have done it with more sympathy and understanding.”

Herrick, Francis Hobart. Home life of wild birds: a new method of the study and photography of birds. **$2. Putnam.

The “new method” consists in carrying away the nest with its eggs or young birds and also its immediate surroundings and setting it up before a green tent where it may be watched and photographed at leisure. 150 photographs of thirty species of our common birds attest the value of this method. The author also gives the results of his close observation of the nests.

“The volume is a valuable contribution to the scientific knowledge of bird habits.”

The story is of a young architect who has grown up in the belief that he is heir to his uncle’s millions. When the fortune is left to charity, he takes up the common lot of toil unwillingly and is weakly led away from his young ideals by the desire for money. When his personal and professional honor are compromised, he is held to his expiation by his young wife whose unflinching faith in him forces him to be the man she thinks he is. It is a vivid representation of business life in Chicago, and the philosophy of the book is summed up in the closing sentence—“Fortunately there are few things that do make any great difference to real men and women,—and one of the least is the casual judgment of their fellow-men.”

“‘The common lot’ is worthy of wide circulation. It cannot fail to do good.” Amy C. Rich.

165“There is a good deal of character drawing in the book that is at once delicate and strong, and the story of how Francis Hart did not inherit the millions he hoped for, took up the common lot of toil, and what came of it, is among the best in recent fiction.”

A country boy, tired of his lot runs away to Chicago to make his fortune. His autobiography follows with an unusually strong personal note even for a self-told tale of the career which starts with service as a grocery wagon driver and reaches the ranks of the Chicago capitalist. The way is made by “turning Texas steers into dressed beef and Iowa hogs into leaf lard and sausage,” which would seem honorable enough did not analysis of his methods of operation reveal a dulled sense of moral obligation to people at large, the city, and any competing organization.

“No more absolute unswerving merger of the author in the character of his hero, of his self-effacement in the interest of good art, could ever be conceived of.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

“Professor Herrick does not appear to have a powerful imagination, and his literalness, and even his unusual power of penetration, do not in themselves suffice to carry a story otherwise deficient.”

“The story seems to be rooted in bitter cynicism and to embody the very philosophy of despair.” Wm. M. Payne.

“Is not in so happy a vein. The author sees things too big, and he has not enough confidence in the virtue of the American people, which will outlast transient vices.”

“Mr. Herrick’s book is a book among many and it comes nearer reflecting a certain kind of recognizable, contemporaneous American spirit than anybody has yet done.”

“The story is worked out with extraordinary virility, realism, and truth. Deserves reading, not only because of its subject and its moral force, but because of the thorough, faithful, and even artistic way in which the material is handled.”

* “It is penetrated by genuine intensity of spirit, and shows the hand of a high-minded and accomplished workman.”

* “But one thing Prof. Herrick has achieved in spite of himself; he has somehow put,—no, hammered,—together a rough image of the American self-made man.”

“In Flanery Court, where Cecilia (otherwise Angelina Sweeney) lives, poverty rules.... Miss Hess ... has told a pathetically pretty story of the life of a poor little red-haired saint—her struggles against the hardships of life, her drunken mother, her little brother Puddin’.... There is Jim Bellway, who taught the make-believe saint, quite unconsciously, how to become a real one; and there is Mr. Daniels, who Cecilia, quite unconsciously, brought back to the straight and narrow path—and so on; and though the story wades through tears, it nevertheless ends in a burst of sunshine.”—N. Y. Times.

“Touches portraying the generosity, loyalty, and cheerfully borne privations of the poor are the best feature of this story of New York tenement life.”

Having arrived at the old age of three years, this hoary rat sits down to write his memoirs, recounting his many adventures in English mills and cornfields. He discourses on his wives and gives his conclusions upon boys, men, ferrets, and women. He also gives an exhaustive treatment of traps. There is much delineation of rat-character, and the experiences of a traveled friend who had lived in the sewers of London and Paris are given. The book is illustrated with colored pictures.

“It is a very English story of a very English rat intended primarily for English children and supposed to be told by the rat himself.”

The five hundred numbered sets of this edition de luxe are sold by subscription only. The volumes are appearing one a month in the following order: The forest lovers; Richard Yea-and-Nay; Little novels of Italy; New Canterbury tales; The queen’s quair; The fool errant; The road in Tuscany in two volumes; Earthwork out of Tuscany; Pan and the young shepherd and songs and meditations in one volume; Fond adventures.

Hewlett, Maurice Henry. Fond adventures: tales of the youth of the world. †$1.50. Harper.

Four short stories of mediaeval romance, The heart’s key, Brazenhead the Great, Buondelmonte’s saga, and The love chase.

“Knowing well the possibilities of Mr. Hewlett’s fine ability, we lay down this latest volume with great disappointment.”

“One feels that in these few crowded, tumultuous pages there is more of the real essence of Florentine life than in the whole length and breadth of George Eliot’s ‘Romola.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.

“Taken as a whole, the impression remains that the book is made up of work done early in Mr. Hewlett’s literary career, and denied publication until now.”

“Not one of these stories is lacking in intrinsic interest, yet one’s dominant impression in closing the book is not of any of the characters or events, but of the cleverness of Mr. Hewlett.” Herbert W. Horwill.

“But it is ‘The love chase,’ the last story of the series, in which Mr. Hewlett probably surpasses anything he has ever written.”

“A volume of stories, splendid stories, full of action and passion, with an undercurrent of 166laughter, all carried off with great spirit and style. They are told in wonderful words, so apt and abundant.”

“These four stories of Mr. Hewlett’s are as rich in imagery and as glowing in color as any that he has ever written.”

“These stories are remarkable rather for atmospheric quality than for construction or force of characterization.”

“The tales are medieval; rich in quality, decorative in effect and fascinating always.”

“The quaint and pleasing title of Mr. Hewlett’s new book serves as a preface for tales more deserving of the first adjective than the last, except in so far as artistic work is, in a sense, always deserving of the term ‘pleasing.’”

The “fool” of Mr. Hewlett’s new story is an English youth with a very ardent temperament who goes abroad to complete his studies. He is guilty of many hot-headed indiscretions, chief among which is his boyish passion for the wife of his stern tutor. A pilgrimage of expiation follows his declaration of love for her. Much of the interest of the tale centers in the phases of Italian life of high and low degree which he encounters. “He has in his journeyings a quick-witted companion, who rescues him alike from rash promptings of his ‘daemon’ and from foes from without.” (N. Y. Times.)

“Mr. Maurice Hewlett, it may be said at once, has achieved a notable success in the latest of his books.”

“‘The fool errant’ will not make so wide an appeal to the general public as several earlier volumes of Mr. Hewlett’s. It lacks the tumultuous passion of ‘Richard yea-and-nay’, the epic bigness of the ‘Queen’s quair.’”

“The novel shows, on the whole, an advance over its predecessors. Has proved, by the charm and animation of his tale, that imagination and a sense of style need not, under favourable circumstances, seriously interfere with the writing of a good novel.” Edith Wharton.

“It is possible, though the statement is not to be made dogmatically, that Mr. Maurice Hewlett, in all his succession of legitimately showy triumphs, has done nothing better than this history of a ‘fool.’” Olivia Howard Dunbar.

“We feel that he is simply saturated with the life of the time and the color of the environment and that he has reproduced these things with marvelous fidelity. This is the chief title of the book to praise, and a high title it is.” Wm. M. Payne.

“A story of intense interest and a literary achievement of a very high order.”

“As a faithfully wrought and vigorous piece of fiction-writing the book is unusual.”

“This brilliant study in the picaresque seems to us one of the most successful of Mr. Hewlett’s works.”

Mr. Hewlett’s own words are perhaps best descriptive of the freshness of his view of life and art in Tuscany. He calls it “a companion of travel and leisurely, sententious commentary of the country,” and he strikes its key-note in his opening remarks. “His plan for the book has the freshness which marks its rendering of details. ‘Let the history, fine arts, monuments and institutions of a country be as fine as you please, its best product will always be the people of it, who themselves produced those other pleasant spectacles. I have always preferred a road to a church, always a man to a masterpiece, a singer to his song; and I have never opened a book when I could read what I wanted on the hillside or by the river bank.’” (Reader). He consistently subordinates art galleries to peasants, but gives legends, history, and piquant references to the art and literature of the country, with a lavish hand.

“Is one of those rare books having charm, and one which gives no less insight into Mr. Hewlett than into the hearts of all the dead and living Tuscans of whom he writes. Mr. Hewlett’s one fault, regarded as a cicerone, is that he gives us life in superabundance; he gives it to us often at the cost of other things which we are loth to sacrifice. Now guidebooks the very best of them, while they make excellent servants, are bad masters, Mr. Hewlett’s not excepted. Flippant he is, at times, perverse, even arrogant: but he understands the Tuscans, and he loves them. Whoever goes to Florence without ‘The road in Tuscany’ goes but half equipped.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

“One of those genial, leisurely, charming books, with a touch of infinite knowledge, that we find in the combination of the artist and traveler. It reveals the real Italy, with its color and fragrance, which is known only to those who get away from the towns and cities. Typographically, the work is elegant, and the pictures really illustrate.”

“His artistic suggestiveness never fails; his ideas and conclusions especially with regard to such unfamiliar places as Volterra, Cortona, Arezzo, and many more, seem almost invariably right.”

This “account of the sports of central Italy from the age of Dante to the XXth century” dwells upon a phase of Italian history almost unknown to literature. The Italian idea of sports was closely allied to the Greek idea of games, and they often grew out of rivalry in neighboring communities or celebrated some historic or civic event. Mr. Heywood shows their importance in the life of the mediæval Italian city, and pictures Lorenzo de’Medici, Sodoma, the painter, and Caesar Borgia racing their horses at Sienese pali.

“The style throughout is clear and simple,—in general not of marked quality, but occasionally showing such vigor and even beauty that one is tempted to wish for more such 167pages even at the sacrifice of some of the by-paths of erudition.” Ellen Giles.

“Mr. Heywood has undertaken his study of these sports in the spirit of a true historian, and his researches have revealed a new side of Italy to English readers. But our author is more than a student of archives. He has bursts of eloquence in his style. He has interwoven a vast amount of local history, especially Sienese, since no Anglican, save perhaps Mr. Langton Douglas, knows his Siena better. Mr. Heywood tastes what he describes. He has gone to sources not merely in his facts, but in his inspiration. He has not compiled a book, but has written one for which all lovers of Italy can only be grateful.”

“Without a real love of Italy, and an unusually deep understanding of Italian character, this book could not have been written.”

“Logic, so far as merely formal, is proverbially dry. In its application to living interests it becomes a succulent source of intellectual pleasure. Professor Hibben has aimed to invest it with this attractiveness, especially in his illustrations of inductive knowledge.”—Outlook.

“These are not only modern, but fresh in a degree as welcome to the student as it is unusual, and they are drawn from a wide range of science.”

“It is comprehensive and accurate in statement, systematic and free from trifling and irrelevant subtleties. On the other hand, the discussions of the early chapters seem to me somewhat too difficult and technical to afford the beginner the guidance he needs.” J. E. C.

Hibbert, Walter. Life and energy; an attempt at a new definition of life; with applications to morals and religion. $1. Longmans.

“The thesis of these four addresses—originally delivered at the Polytechnic institute, London—is that life is not matter, is not energy, but an unceasing nonfactorial directive control of energy and its transformations.”—Nature.

“Mr. Hibbert puts most of his points clearly, and much of what he says has considerable force. But it is doubtful if the range of ideas within which the book moves is adequate to the problem. The main position is not unassailable, and the deductions from it in regard to morals and religion are occasionally fanciful.”

“Neither the method of treatment nor the style of the book seems to us particularly happy.”

* Hichens, Robert Smythe. Black spaniel and other stories. (†)$1.50. Stokes.

The story of the black spaniel is an uncanny tale of a man who lost a dog-friend at the hands of a vivisectionist, of a doctor who met his death thru the bite of another spaniel on which he was cruelly experimenting, and of the awful revenge which the dog lover took upon this dead doctor reincarnated in a third black spaniel. The creepy atmosphere is well sustained thruout. The volume also contains eleven shorter stories, most of which have the Arabian desert for a background, and all of which are most original in theme.

* “Mr. Hichens, thorough decadent as he is, can make his decadence big; and it is wrong of him to make it as petty as this.”

* “‘The black spaniel’ occupies only the first third of the book, but nothing that follows has the least power to blur the effect of the spaniel’s whine. The following eight stories ... are slight things, episodes rather artfully and artistically told. They will be read with pleasure and forgotten without difficulty, while ‘The black spaniel’ will be read with terror and forgotten never!”

* “The title-story is of the gruesome kind most tediously spun out, the second ‘The mission of Mr. Eustace Greyne’ is funny and satirical and the best in the book.”

* “Few modern story tellers are more expert in their art, and this book would be well worth reading for the workmanship alone, had it not also something of the charm of unfamiliar and unhackneyed material.”

A woman, longing for peace, and a renegade monk seeking refuge from himself and filled with remorse at his desertion of his high calling, meet and seek rest and happiness in the “Garden of Allah,” the African desert. The story is one of passion, struggle, and renunciation, the woman finally leading the monk, who has become her husband, back to his monastery.

“In brilliancy falls short of ‘The woman with the fan,’ on the other hand, the intensity with which he reproduces an atmosphere of beauty creates an almost physical sense of well-being. In addition to a very genuine gift of imagination, he has learned how to tell his story.”

“The book, from the point of view of writing, is decidedly heavy. The immorality of the book is, to our minds ... gross. Is not a worthy nor an artistic creation; it is a reeking monstrosity.”

“In this striking novel Mr. Hickens immeasurably surpasses all his previous work.... Is a wonderfully handled tragedy, advancing with masterly logic from premise to conclusion.... Very rarely in an English book is there to be found such an exhibition of descriptive skill.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.

“In all the three essentials of invention, style and thought, this performance is highly commendable, and entitles Mr. Hichens to more serious consideration than ever before.” W: M. Payne.

“The critics have seemed to agree that in this novel Mr. Robert Hichens has done something big, strong and lasting.”

“A singular but powerful story, in many respects the best work of this author. An absence of the morbidity that is too common with him. There are, however, a plain speaking ... that sometimes, it will seem to many readers, overstep the limits of taste. In manner the romance is in an intense style, sometimes a little exalté, but never, or rarely, falling into mere high-flown ‘fine writing,’ although single passages, taken out of their connection might give that impression. Brilliant with color and bathed in African atmosphere.”

“It is useless to attempt to describe Mr. Hichens’s word-pictures of the beauties of the deserts and the emotional paroxysms of Domini 168and Boris. They must be read to be appreciated.”

* “Beauty and power,—these are nobly conspicuous in Mr. Hichens’ tale, so loftily free from the small or paltry, so fervently reciting a grievous fault, a great love, a grand renunciation.”

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, ed. Hawthorne centenary celebration at the Wayside, Concord, Massachusetts, July 4-7, 1904. **$1.25. Houghton.

The addresses and letters delivered and read at the centenary celebration, including a speech by Charles T. Copeland. Papers by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Charles Francis Adams, Mrs. Maud Howe Elliot, Julian Hawthorne, and Moncure D. Conway, and contributions from John S. Keyes, Frank Preston Stearns, F. B. Sanborn, Mrs. Rose Hawthorne Lothrop, Dr. Richard Garnett, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Miss Beatrix Hawthorne, John D. Long, Henry Cabot Lodge, Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford, Robert S. Rantoul, Judge Robert Grant, Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, Dr. Edward Everett Hale, John Hay, and Mrs. James T. Fields.

“The book is a worthy memorial of an important event in our literary annals.”

“Very enjoyable chapters of reminiscence, observation and reflection, that have of late been enlivening the pages of the ‘Atlantic.’ Two chapters have been added ... as also many portraits and facsimile copies of letters.” (Dial.) The volume contains: The sunny side of the transcendental period; The child and his dreams; English and American cousins; American audiences; The aristocracy of the dollar; “Intensely human”; Letters of mark; Books unread; Butterflies in poetry; Wordsworthshire; The close of the Victorian epoch; Una Hawthorne; History in easy lessons; The cowardice of culture.

* “These ripe and scholarly chapters—ripe with the varied experience of eighty years and more, and scholarly with the scholarship of a lover not only of books, but of men—have an interest and value far exceeding anything that another pen might contrive to say about them.” Percy F. Bicknell.

* “We congratulate the author on carrying to his eighty-second year an intellect the eye of which is not dimmed, nor its natural vigor abated.”

* “He has seen much and thought much and done much, and he has the way of making all that he writes seem interesting. Yet it must be confessed that a good deal of his reminiscence and anecdote is here spread out pretty thin.”

* “A very interesting if somewhat random collection of experiences, recollections, and opinions of Col. Higginson.”

* “It should not be inferred, however, that the work is obviously didactic, for the very contrary is the case, so pleasantly have the lessons read been interwoven with anecdote and reminiscence. And from the autobiographical standpoint, or rather from the standpoint of unconscious autobiography, its value is high.”

* “There is great scope to a work which stretches all the way from child-dreaming to problems of philosophy and higher mathematics.”

* “Col. Higginson has written several volumes of reminiscences and autobiography, none of which is more entertaining than his last book.”

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, and MacDonald, William. History of the United States from 986 to 1905. $2. Harper.

This “turns out to be Colonel Higginson’s ‘History of the United States of America,’ with some revisions of the original text, and continued from Jackson’s administration down to the present date. It has a new set of illustrations and maps.”—Dial.

“The whole constitutes a readable and attractive one-volume history, which ought to supply the demand—if there be one—for a short and comprehensive narrative.”

“On the whole the work is one of the most valuable single volumes covering the entire period of American history that we have.”

“Six new chapters have been added, bringing the story down to the present. Externally these chapters conform to the earlier ones, but the treatment is less partial and they reflect present scholarship much better.”

Hill, David Jayne. History of diplomacy in the international development of Europe, v. I. **$5. Longmans.

An exhaustive study of the history of diplomacy complete in six volumes. Volume I is entitled The struggle for universal empire, and the following volumes include The establishment of territorial sovereignty, The diplomacy of the age of absolutism, The revolutionary era, The constitutional movement, and Commercial imperialism.

“It is refreshing to find one of our public men willing to devote his energies to scholarly occupations, and able to produce a work of such high excellence as, judging from the first installment, Mr. Hill’s ‘History of European diplomacy’ promises to be.”

“What Mr. Hill has written is accurate and readable enough for the most part, but it will not compare with the books by Bryce and Fisher, to say nothing of the erudite works of French and German scholars.”

“In his first volume, coming down to the year 1250, he merely restates, and not with the hand of a practised mediaevalist, a great deal that was in no need of such a repetition.”

“It was carefully thought out in the first instance, and then executed in the most satisfactory manner.” William E. Dodd.

“The results of investigation are handled with a narrative skill that invests the driest facts with the interest of freshness; the tone throughout is scrupulously impartial, and the requirements 169of perspective are unfailingly observed.”

“A murder mystery treated from a new angle—that occupied by the foreman of the jury. After this foreman (a scholarly, retiring man) has been sworn in, he comes into possession of special knowledge of the case, tries to resign, but is forced to continue, and plays a far more important part in the drama than might be expected.”—Outlook.

“Sensational the book certainly is; yet there is undeniably some good realism in it.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

“This book is above the average of its class, and will provide an hour of entertainment for the most jaded of readers.” Wm. M. Payne.

“There is a marked absence of the gruesome in this cheerful little novel of murder and courtship. Furthermore, the solution of the mystery is not without originality.”

“In plot and management the story is quite unusual and really exciting. The love story is by no means so good.”

“Little more than a fairly good amateur detective story with a dash of sentiment.”

A book which offers for the first time to the English reader information about Pisanello heretofore acquired only from the Italian, French or German. The sketch of this “greatest of medallists and one of the most fascinating of Italian artists ... gives us, what we really want, the fullest and clearest account of Pisanello’s career that is available from the extant material, and a detailed characterization of his works.” (Lond. Times.)

* “In treating of his work in painting Mr. Hill’s scholarly monograph shows an admirable admixture of enthusiasm and restraint. Of his work as medalist ... Mr. Hill’s erudition almost forbids discussion.”

* “Mr. Hill has written a scholarly essay, which, on the whole, reveals very thorough research along what is almost a bypath of art.”

In 1894, when Patti sang at Atlanta, Georgia, the author, inspired by her voice, wrote a few verses on the back of his program, telling how—

They were afterward published in a souvenir booklet. This volume contains these verses, revised, and illustrated from photographs and paintings from life by V. A. Richardson.

A proud Irish girl who traces her family back to Adam, comes, at the suggestion of her friend, the duchess, who knows of her poverty, to take charge of the household of John Corbett, a wealthy English widower who has made his money in trade, and here she learns that there are gentlemen who are not gently born. There are many love stories involved and there is a touch of socialism and a description of Irish peasantry and an epidemic of fever among them.

“The Irish portions of the book especially abound in traits of shrewd observation and humour which show how different a picture the author, if only she chose, might have given us.”

An Irish story, with the simple modern setting of a country estate, but which has the old-time theme of the fairy tale; for the young lord sees and loves Julia, the ugly duckling of the family of one of his tenants, and makes her Lady O’Kavanagh. The crude selfishness of Julia’s sisters is contrasted with the selfishness found in finer clay among the gentry, and there are some great characters whose loving service is in stronger contrast still.

“Under the cunning hand of Mrs. Hinkson the story develops so easily and plausibly that these seeming improbabilities never tax the credulity of the reader. All the characters, too, are drawn with strong individuality.”

“Her story is a pretty little romance, the charming Irish flavor of which is more than a matter of nomenclature and appropriate description.”

“This is a most delightful little story. The love-story is prettily given, but the real charm of the book lies in its portraiture and its Irish atmosphere.”

Hiroi, Isami. Statically-indeterminate stresses in frames commonly used for bridges. **$2. Van Nostrand.

This work is the outgrowth of a series of lectures given by the author to his students in Civil Engineering in the Tokyo Imperial university. It aims to save time and labor by furnishing solutions of those problems most commonly met with in the practice of a bridge engineer, and contains chapters upon: Trussed beams; Viaduct bents; Continuous girders; Arches with two hinges; Arches without hinges; Suspension bridges; and, Secondary stresses due to rigidity of joints.

* “This book forms an important contribution to the literature of bridge engineering. It is the first attempt to present in the English language in a single volume the principal cases of statically indeterminate stresses occurring in the practice of the bridge engineer, the solution of which is based exclusively on the method of least work. The book deserves a place in the library of every bridge engineer.” Henry S. Jacobi.

Mr. Hirst first treats of Adam Smith, the man, the absent-minded, but keenly observant, Scotchman, and then takes up Adam Smith, the philosopher, and examines his lectures, his “Theory of moral sentiments,” and his “Wealth of nations.”

“Indeed it is a distinct service of this little book, which will doubtless be more generally read than any other life of Smith, that no reader can leave it with the false impression of Smith as a closet philosopher interested only in questions of ethical or economic theory.”

“Excellent monograph. A lucid and attractively-written exposition of Smith’s economic theories.”

“More complete and satisfactory than Roe’s exhaustive ‘Life,’ on account of new and important material discovered more recently.”

“The task the author set for himself he has accomplished with thoroughness and even with interest: for there is about this biography no suggestion of dullness.”

“He adds little that is new either of information or criticism. Still the volume should find a welcome. It is well written, graceful and entertaining, and with an intelligent appreciation of Adam Smith’s traits of character as well as of the traits of style, method, scope and insight that have made the ‘Wealth of Nations’ a masterpiece of the science and of English literature. The most attractive portions of the book are those that turn about Adam Smith’s intimate life and his contact with men and affairs.”

“Mr. Hirst’s monograph, although not deficient in originality, is necessarily largely a digest of these the best of its predecessors. Patient culling of fugitive sources of information is also apparent, however, and as a conscientious and luminous account of the famous Scotchman it should be welcomed by all desirous of obtaining an intelligent idea of the factors shaping his view of life and the world.”

“A comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages.” These twenty-five volumes are composed of long and short extracts taken from the most eminent authors and most authentic sources for each country and period. They form not only a world history but also an anthology of historians.

“In general it seems to me that the series appears at its best in the volumes on the ancient Orient, Greece, the Roman empire, and perhaps Russia. Taken all in all, the series has the unevenness of quality of every historical library.” Edward G. Bourne.

“By a curious fatality the portions of an historian’s work upon which he was least fitted to write are chosen as bits of mosaic suited for those particular parts of the history. One part of the work of the editor he has done with remarkable skill and that is the fitting of the parts so closely and skilfully that the reader rarely feels that there is any break. Also he has very fairly judged the amount of space properly assigned to each country and age. Taken as a whole, it is a magnificent undertaking and serves a great and useful purpose.”

* “Tho the choice of materials shows a greater sense for literary than historical merit, yet, for popular use, that is more essential.”

This little volume declares itself to be “a terrible thing in the form of a literary torpedo which is launched for hilarious purposes only” and is “inaccurate in every particular.” It is a collection of jocose epigrams cast in dictionary form, and if taken in small doses may prove amusing.

“It is full of the sort of stuff indolent, good-humored folks like to retail on the piazzas of country hotels. It is all harmless.”

Hobart, George Vere (Hugh McHugh; Dinkelspiel, pseuds.). You can search me. †75c. Dillingham.

John Henry here figures thru a series of theatrical ventures in company with his side partner, Bunch Jefferson. “One Signor Petrikinski, prestidigitator, is the star of the venture, and his clever handling of not only John Henry and Bunch, but of Uncle Peter Grant and Mr. William Grey, is amazing reading.” (N. Y. Times.)

“Written in the picturesque and highly descriptive style of the rest of this series.”

“A pessimistic view of modern English society by a ‘Little Englander,’ a disciple of Cobden, a strenuous believer in Jeremy Bentham and in the Manchester school, who regards all departure from individualism, whether in industry or politics, as a reaction towards despotism, and who yet draws back from the conclusions toward which his own reasoning leads him, and endeavors skilfully, but in our judgment not successfully, to reconcile the individualistic theories of our own time.”—Outlook.

“While well written, the book is full of expressions, which lead one to believe it the work of a disappointed politician, rather than that of a fair critic.” Ward W. Pierson.

* “No summary, however, can do justice to the wealth of thought that this little book contains, to the freshness and power with which familiar themes are handled, and to the width of outlook which every page reveals.” G. P. Gooch.

“All the first part of the book, giving an account of the Reaction and its causes, is excellent. We do not remember to have seen anywhere, in so small a compass, a better analysis of the extraordinary changes in sentiment and opinion produced in the last thirty years. As to the great body of Liberal doctrine, the author is on firm ground.”

“To one who believes, as we do, that the present conditions in England and America, both industrial and political, are those of a higher stage of intellectual and moral progress than those of the first half of the nineteenth century, the volume is chiefly valuable as an exposition of perils which attend this progress, and of which society needs to be warned, and against which it needs to guard itself.”

171“He writes moderately, and does not mar his argument by any of those personalities which are too freely indulged in by writers of his way of thinking. His book is, indeed, in its way, scientific.”

“This is a book which furnishes abundant material both for the active politician and the student.”

The search for a black box in which lay a marriage contract between Charles Stuart and a Welsh girl, Lucy Walters, whose son, if the contract were found, would be heir to the English throne, provides the series of adventures which make up this story. The time is that of the restoration, the scenes are of court and country. The dashing young hero fails to find the paper, but finds instead beautiful Constance Leslie with a price upon her head and marries her.

Hodgson, John Evan, and Eaton, Frederick A. Royal academy and its members, 1768-1830. *$5. Scribner.

A somewhat pompous history of the Royal academy from the time of its founding by King George III. in 1768. Its growth, management and prestige are given and the volume is fully illustrated.

“It is not a glorious record, this of Messrs. Hodgson and Eaton, but as though to atone for its meagre episodes it is composed in a proud and vaunting style.”

“Of the work as a whole it may be said that it has a full measure of that serenity in face of criticism which is eminently characteristic of official histories.”

“Although rich in historical material, illustrations, and appendices, and containing valuable biographical sketches, fails to give that view of art development which the reader would naturally be led to expect.”

“It tells us very little that is not to be found elsewhere, arranges it badly, and carries the story no further than 1830.”

Hoffmann, Franz. Little dauphin; tr. from the German by George P. Upton, *60c. McClurg.

The pathetic figure of Louis Charles, second son of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette, figures thruout this story according to the ordinarily accepted theory that he was confined in the Temple and after the execution of the King and Queen was at the mercy of the cruel keeper. The volume belongs to “Life stories for young people.”

Hoffmann, Julius. Amateur gardener’s rose book, tr. from the German by John Weathers, *$2.50. Longmans.

The book is written not so much for professional gardeners and nurserymen, as for garden lovers who devote special attention to the cultivation of the rose; the object being to enlarge their knowledge on the subject, and to reproduce a book that will serve as a practical and concise adviser.

“The point that makes this volume a necessity to the amateur beginning his collection of roses is the twenty beautifully colored plates.” Mabel Osgood Wright.

“Does not approach in usefulness Mr. Foster-Melliar’s ‘Book of the rose,’ and far less in delightful reading Dean Hole’s ‘Book about roses.’ However, the book is probably worth adding to a rosarian’s shelf.”

In this biography of her father, the author gives a complete and intimate account of his life and work in the London slums. A famous Eton foot-ball player, he often made his influence felt by sheer physical force, and this was perhaps the secret of his remarkable success. He founded the Ragged school, and the famous Polytechnic, and his life is a story of the most practical kind of philanthropic work. There is an introduction by the Duke of Argyll.

“The book is needlessly long, and is disfigured by numerous exclamation points.”

The author’s knowledge of the geographical conditions of India is reliable as he was at one time superintendent of the survey of India. After giving an historical sketch of the country, “he proceeds to a study of the geography of the frontiers bordering Baluchistan and Afghanistan; he describes Kashmir, the Himalayas, and the Peninsula, then Assam, Burma, and Ceylon. He tells us about the people, the political geography, the agriculture, revenues, railways, minerals, and climate and he puts India before us as we will not find it elsewhere. The work is amply indexed, and is provided with a wealth of maps and diagrams.” (Outlook).

“The book and its maps are creditable to all concerned, and will unquestionably prove of great value to seekers for information about the region of British India and its dependencies.”

“The results of all former investigations are well digested and epitomized.”

“With few exceptions his work will rank high with the other volumes of the series.”

“Altogether, as a representative volume on India for the library, this book is about the best to be had.”

“This excellent and useful book supplies a real want, and gives to the reader a broad geographical description of the real continent of India.”

“Avoiding ‘statistics and details,’ the author has here compressed into one volume an immense amount of geographical and ethnological information regarding the peninsula itself and the frontier, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Assam, and Burma. The most valuable part of ‘India’ is, of course, the geographical description, where the author is on his own ground. The literary-historical side is mortar to the bricks of the altar.”

“He has produced a topographical description of the Indian empire which, in spite of minor 172errors.... is not only interesting to read, but accurate and well proportioned on the whole.”

“His volume has the ring of authority on every page. It is equally valuable for steady reading or as a work of reference.”

Holdsworth, Annie E. (Mrs. Eugene J. Lee-Hamilton). New Paolo and Francesca. †$1.50. Lane.

A modern variation of the old story. The heroine has promised her dying father that she will wed the elder of her twin cousins, who will inherit her father’s title and estates. She fulfils her pledge in spite of the fact that she loves the younger brother, and the result is tragedy. The story is further complicated by the discovery that her lover is the true heir, and her husband in reality is the younger brother, the two having been changed in infancy.

“Nothing but praise, however, is to be said for the art of the author. In description, in delineation of character and in that subtle and compelling power by which the imagination of the reader is held enthralled, the work is noteworthy. It is to be regretted that a story so charming in its style, so fascinating in its atmosphere and so powerful in the handling of the theme should be so depressing in its influence on the mind.” A. C. Rich.

“It is well told, and the author has enough coloring matter in her vocabulary to paint the national history of a whole continent.”

A young English artist sailing eastward to paint the wonders of Japan, meets a beautiful English girl on the steamer and admires her apparently merely in an artistic way. Arriving at Nagasaki he falls in with two former fellow-students at Paris, one a Japanese, the other a Scot who has taken a Japanese wife. Thru these he becomes involved in many social complications and finally marries Mio-Lan, a lovely Japanese maid. Later he begins to long for the English girl he had met on the steamer and the story becomes a tragedy for Mio-Lan.

“The merit of the story lies not in the sentiment and flower women, but in the characters of the modern Japanese, Mr. Yumoto, and the Scottish expatriate.”

“The Slocum lectures of 1904, delivered at the University of Michigan ... revised by the author in the light of the discussion that followed the publication of Mr. Edwin Markham’s poem, ‘The man with the hoe,’ which, in the opinion of Mr. Holland, consisted chiefly of a series of socialistic fallacies set to stormful music.’”—R. of Rs.

“There are eleven lectures, all pretty vigorous writing and not bad reading.”

The inveterate traveller, Samantha, accompanied by Josiah Allen and a sick grandson, for whose health the trip is undertaken, starts on a journey around the world with a party which includes a Dorothy, who enlivens the trip by marrying in spite of her chaperone. Samantha’s characteristic descriptions and comments include much of interest on Hawaii, the Philippines, India, Egypt, the Holy Land, and many European states, while she frequently attempts to set right whatever she thinks may be wrong, even instructing the Empress Si Ann on her duty.

Samantha, as unique and widely known as any book character ever created, is at her best in these “episodin’” bits of wit, pathos, and clear visioned common sense. In the story, Josiah Allen discovers that his farm had come into the possession of the Allen family the year of the Louisiana purchase, that his ancestors had paid fifteen dollars for it, the same sum, he said, “with the orts left off,” that was given for Louisiana. The Allens celebrate this discovery by taking a trip to the Exposition. A group of interesting companions serve only to enhance the characteristic observations of Samantha, which are better than ever.

“Feminine frailty and masculine arrogance and the sexual inequalities of social customs and the laws continue to furnish material for her satire and weakly witty garrulity.”

A study of the language, myths, traditions, enigmas, proverbs, and customs of this fast vanishing East African race by the chief secretary of the East African Protectorate, assisted by native authorities.

“Mr. Hollis’s is the fullest study yet made. It is impossible to do justice in the course of an ordinary notice to this exceedingly interesting book, which is, moreover, absolutely free from padding of the ordinary kind.”

“In describing the mythology, folklore, and customs of the Masai he has hit upon a method as scientific as it is original.”

“For the first time the civilized world has been presented with an authoritative work on the Masai language, customs, and folklore, by Mr. A. C. Hollis. It is the authoritative study of the Masai people; and it is satisfactory to record that the author confines himself mainly to facts and not to theories.” H. H. Johnston.

“Mr. Hollis’ grammatical treatise is a study in itself. The book is worthy of the greatest attention.”

The usual crime, shrouded in the usual mystery, the rapid succession of events, the story action that palls not for a moment are all here. But the book surpasses others of its kind in the clever comparison of two distinctive types of detectives. There is Claude Bruce, barrister, “subtle, analytic, introspective,” and there is his foil, the Scotland yard inspector, a part of the machine, “direct, pertinacious, self-confident ... a slave to system,” one whose method, as the barrister comments, “works admirably for the detection of common place crimes, but as soon as the region of higher romance is entered, it is as much out of place as a steam roller in a lady’s boudoir.”

The romance of a young girl who becomes a waitress at a summer house party on an estate once owned by her grandfather. She is known as waitress no. 1, and her ladylike mien, even in white cap and apron, charms the rich young master of the house who loves her even before he discovers that the estate is really hers. The volume also contains a story called Connie’s secret, which hinges upon a sham marriage by which the girl believes herself to be legally bound to the man who has deserted her.

A delightful Christmas edition of Holmes’ humorous poems, “The one-hoss shay,” “How the old horse won the bet,” and “The broomstick train,” illustrated by Mr. Howard Pyle in colors and black and white.

Renie, a pretty Catholic girl, kept in the country with no knowledge of life or of her own parentage, serves the cruel Mrs. Sherwood well until her death and then flies forth into the world to enjoy her freedom. She encounters many tragic things, but her courage enables her to straighten out a serious tangle and save the man she loves from a murderer’s death.

The author, who has for many years taken an active part in all movements toward the bettering of the conditions of the working classes gives interesting details concerning the progress of the English nation during the last few decades and reminiscences of Harriet Martineau, Mazzini, Kossuth, John Stuart Mill, Lord Shaftesbury, Garibaldi, and Gladstone. There are many illustrations.

“In this later book the gold is beaten rather thin; and, in fact, the reminiscences—which are none of them to be described as wildly exciting—are eked out with extracts from newspapers.”

“As a contribution to the history of the political and social progress of the nation these ‘Bygones’ are of great value.”

“Frank egotism is evidenced on every page. Mr. Holyoake has a strong sense of humor, but his manner of writing is such that it is not always easy to discover when he is jesting and when he is in earnest.” Edith J. R. Isaacs.

“He states many facts, he corrects many fallacies, that should claim the consideration of historians of British politics during the nineteenth century. Seldom have we read a book breathing a more tender, tolerant, and judicial spirit.”

“A further characteristic of the author’s opinions and reminiscences is a whole-souled optimism which, pervading his book, manifests itself perhaps most impressively in the final chapter.”

“We are not sure that all the ‘Bygones’ which Mr. Holyoake recalls are ‘worth remembering.’”

A tale of English schoolboy adventure whose hero is Jack Coverdale, broad shouldered enough to bear the burden of his own scrapes and those of less honorable companions. “There is an attempt at kidnapping, with exciting cricket games and boys’ pranks, all of which must be read to be appreciated. There is another good story, ‘A row in the sixth,’ at the end of the book, which is a big one.” (N. Y. Times.)

* “Mr. Home has the happy knack of rousing an expectancy which he never disappoints.”

* “Mr. Home does his best, not wholly without success, to make it seem possible, and constructs a good story out of it, as school stories go.”

The old town and castle of Pickering in Yorkshire, and the country of Pickering vale are dealt with here from pre-glacial times down to the beginnings of 1905. “It is really surprising to find how much may be learned relating to ethnology, archæology, and ancient customs from this curious piece of local antiquarian study.” (Outlook.)

* “The quality and number of the illustrations greatly enhance the value of the book. We have only noticed one misprint.”

“The book furnishes a pleasing type of local history to which other essays in that field will do well to conform.”

“The book commends itself to special readers more than to the general traveler.”

“Makes altogether a charming book for lovers of things old, picturesque and curious.”

The author has profusely illustrated this volume with colored plates and pen-and-ink sketches. “Mr. Home says his book is not a guide, but simply ‘an attempt to convey by pictures and description a clear impression of the Normandy which awaits the visitor.’ But it will serve as a guide if need be, for the author, with that curious naiveté of the Englishman, names inns and hotels without fear of being accused of advertising; and as he says, ‘any one using the book as a guide would find in his path some of the richest architecture and scenery that the province possesses.’” (N. Y. Times.)

* “Is chiefly of interest for its beautiful colored plates, which give clearer impressions of Normandy’s varied and wonderful scenery ... than any words, however perfectly chosen, could hope to do. Mr. Home is sufficiently an artist to write, as well as paint, like one. He wins the reader’s approbation by his first sentence.”

* “A very successful attempt has been made to convey, by means of pictures and description, a clear impression of the Normandy which awaits the visitor.”

* “The book will certainly give us a better notion of Normandy than Mr. Menpes’s much more 174multitudinous blots can convey to us of Brittany or any other place.”

* “A charming book on Normandy. The book is one to read and keep, and to take with one on his trip to the old duchy it describes.”

* “Its text is illuminative, graphic, and sympathetic. Mr. Home has produced a work on Normandy to appeal to every one who has ever visited that interesting region.”

* “Mr. Home knows something of architecture and describes with feeling and taste.”

A fourth edition of a book about the out-of-the-way places of Italy, by one who has left the beaten and over-described paths to hunt for old books and lost Madonnas, and study the life, habits, and temperament of the village and country folk.

“A fresh, informing, and thoroughly charming book in one of the oldest fields in the world.”

These seventy songs include the folk-music student’s favorites. They have been gathered from the Lowlands and the Highlands, from the remote mountainous regions and from the western isles. The volume is uniform with the “Musicians library.”

* “Those who care only for popular tunes with any serviceable accompaniment will find this selection acceptable; whereas the epicure who likes his folk-music pure and unadulterated will be likely to object to many passages in which the arranger has exercised her faculty of harmonizing with too little regard for the racial essence of the tunes.”

Hoppenstedt, J. Problems in manoeuvre tactics; with solutions for officers of all arms, tr. by J. H. V. Crowe, *$1.60. Macmillan.

In this volume the original German organizations have been adapted to those of the British army in order to assist its officers in studying for examinations, and furthering their knowledge of the art of war. Four maps have been provided.

Hornaday, William Temple. American natural history; a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. **$3.50. Scribner.

“The author has had many years’ experience as a field naturalist in America and the far East, and as director of the New York zoölogical park, gives much information in an interesting style, illustrating his text with maps, charts, and drawings. “The object of this book is to make nature available to laymen; it is also particularly addressed to teachers and parents.” It is intended to be plain, practical and direct, as well as systematic and scientific.... The field covered includes all the principal types of vertebrates found in North America.” (Science.)

“We find here much practical and economic zoölogy, invaluable matter on the extinction of American species, and the setting right of many ancient and silly myths. Clear exposition is exhibited in many sections of the book. The drawings, while of uneven merit, are full of life and action and have good teaching value. The author aims to amuse as well as to instruct.” W. K. Gregory.

“This book aims at being a popular contribution to the art of Christian defence.” The author believes that a policy of vigorous attack is necessary to oppose the work of many who maintain that for the twentieth century a new religion is needed.

A well-illustrated text which considers the principles and practice in the different branches of turning. A feature of the book is the important section devoted to modern turret practice; boring is another subject treated fully; a chapter on tool holders illustrates a large number of representative types; screw-cutting is treated at length; and the last chapter contains a good deal of information relating to the high-speed steels and their work.

A comprehensive work whose object is “to give an account of such tools as are commonly used by engineers and woodworkers, written chiefly from the standpoint of the men who have used them, and who desire to understand the principles which underlie the forms in which those tools are found. Practical instruction for their employment, as suggested by the writer’s own experience, have been added.”

“Although there is necessarily a good deal of the descriptive catalogue in a work of this kind, yet this one is so well put together, its brief descriptions are so clear, and above all the endless varieties of tools enumerated are brought to one’s notice in so logical an order, their classification is so essentially scientific, that it may be regarded as in a sense a finished monograph of one phase of evolution.”

* “The author has written a clear and comprehensive description of various groups of tools.”

Stingaree, a one-time London clubman, now a robber in Australia, “sticks up” (Australian for hold up) mail coaches and banks in a manner both theatrical and gentlemanly. On one occasion he operates among a company of amateurs, forcing them to give a concert, and makes use of the occasion to introduce a girl with a beautiful voice to a prominent composer. He is afterward released from jail just in time to don evening clothes and hear this girl as a prima donna.

“Of no importance from the literary standpoint, the present volume yet contains ten very readable and ingeniously worked out stories.”

“The stories are all fluent, ingenious, and diverting, and will be found readable enough.”

“On the whole, his adventures being as hazardous and exciting as those of his predecessor he should be equally well beloved.”

175“The tales ... are dashing, daring, entertaining, and show considerable inventiveness without disclosing any special literary power.”

“Mr. Hornung who has much aptitude for sensational fiction has exhibited little ingenuity or originality in these tales.”

The third series of the adventures of Raffles goes back to the earliest days of the cracksman and Bunny, his foil. One of the nine tales portrays the disloyalty of the thief in losing for Bunny his sweetheart, another, and quite the most ingenious of the group, is that of a little “job” at Lord Thornaby’s town house where Raffles diverted from himself the suspicions of the “Criminologists’ club.” All thru Raffles is still the same terrible expert burglar.

* “Unfortunately the reader’s taste has been whetted for better things, and he looks in vain for the quick turns and the conquering of difficult situations of the earlier yarns.”

* “The newer stories, while they seem somehow to lack the snap and go of the earlier ones, are nevertheless not very different in quality, and if you are not tired of the old Raffles they may be trusted to furnish entertainment for an idle hour.”

* “Those unacquainted with the cracksman will find admirably written stories retailing the exploits of a gentleman burglar of the most marvelous skill and finesse, and an unusually winning personality.”

* “His mind works with all its old rapidity and originality, but he is less convincing and beguiling.”

* “It is not so mischievous as its predecessors, because it is not nearly so well done.”

Dr. Hort, a noted scholar and Christian gentleman, writes with simplicity for the country folk with whom he had to deal as the parson of a Hertfordshire village. The sermons “are generally founded on some incident of the day’s service, some sentences in a psalm, or more often some petition in a collect.” (Lond. Times.)

* “We must confess that the sermons strike us as being highly conscientious but a trifle dull. Yet here and there, genius shows itself in the easy power of expressing a great deal in a few words.”

Ta Castra, an island of the Cyclades, in the Ægean sea, is the scene of a series of adventures in which a young American, buying up Greek argols for his uncle’s firm, and his interpreter, a sturdy Scotchman, figure conspicuously. The American straightway becomes involved in breaking up an alliance between a beautiful Greek bond-girl and her belligerent betrothed, Spiro. Thru treasure, hidden in a monastery, he proves the girl to be a duchess, and outwitting the monks and Spiro alike, escapes with Polyxene and her bags of gold.

“Those who love a story for the story’s sake will be sure to enjoy Mr. Horton’s latest romance.” Amy C. Rich.

“The recovery of the wealth against the cunning machinations of the monks supplies a number of exciting and tragic events to sustain interest in a story which otherwise is rather lightly worked out.”

Hosking, Arthur Nicholas, comp. and ed. Artist’s year book. $3. Art league pub. assn., Chicago.

A handy reference book wherein may be found interesting data pertaining to artists, and their studio, home and summer addresses for 1905-1906. Recognized merit has been made the standard of selection for this list.

Heart’s Desire is a little settlement hidden away in a corner of the West “where men have gone to live at peace—without law and without women.” “The inhabitants dozed in the sunshine, smoked, drank, gambled a little, toiled fitfully, fought occasionally, and dreamed a good deal. Then the railroad came and the dreams were gone. Along with the railroad came Constance and the old vexations that troubled Eden and have troubled every assemblage of men ever since.” (Pub. Opin.) It is a picture of rough Western life with clever character delineation.

* “In vigor and spontaneousness it seems to us Mr. Hough’s best work in fiction.”

“These volumes aim to give to the general reader a comprehensive knowledge of the history of electricity, the principles and laws that govern its action, and its practical applications in every-day life.” (Outlook.) There are eight hundred illustrations which present electricity as applied to modern industry and as used in laboratories, and in the home.

“Without trace of romance and yet in an eminently attractive style, the author has made comparatively clear the vagaries of electricity.”

“The style is clear and pleasant. Abstruse technicalities are carefully avoided, and no part of the book will be difficult of comprehension for the average well-informed man who has made no specialty of electrical subjects.”

“He succeeds well in popularizing technical subjects. The present work is voluminous, but never wearisome.”

“In the three volume work ... Prof. George E. Howard deals chiefly with the matrimonial institutions of the English race, prefacing his treatment of the subject with an analysis of the literature and the theories of primitive matrimonial institutions. Professor Howard’s treatise covers practically every phase of the subject that calls for treatment, and gives elaborate biographical data relating, not only to the institution of marriage itself, but to almost every conceivable phase of the sex problem that has been treated in our literature.”—R. of Rs.

“To students of sociology this work is one of importance.” Simeon E. Baldwin.

“Professor Howard’s volumes are admirable studies and a much needed supplement to the famous works of Starcke and Westermarck.”

“For even the general public Professor Howard’s volumes cannot fail to be both interesting and instructive, for they deal attractively with the most human of all institutions, and contain a mass of facts nowhere else obtainable.”

“An immense bibliographical index at the end of the third volume completes the usefulness of the work as a book of reference, and it is as a book of reference that it will be chiefly used and valued.”

“A novel interpretation of municipal affairs.... Mr. Howe ascribes most of the ills to which the American city is heir to economic and industrial, rather than to political or ethical causes.... Mr. Howe’s remedy for the present evil conditions consists in offering opportunity to labor, in taxing monopoly, and in the abolition of privilege.”—R. of Rs.

* “Mr. Howe’s main arguments in favor of municipal ownership are strong, and much of his abstract reasoning in favor of the single tax is well put, although less convincing to most people; but the author is too sweeping in his advocacy of the adoption of these measures and in his claims for resulting benefits.”

* “Dr. Howe, in a spirited and striking description of the American city, interprets its myriad phases from the economic standpoint.”

* “Is a good deal of a theorist, but, happily also, he is very much of a student. Mr. Howe’s book, we fear, will not advance that result as much as it might have done had it been more soberly written.” E. C.

* “His book is a frank discussion of municipal problems as they are actually encountered in the more typical of our American cities. The prevailing note is one of optimism.”

The volume is made up of Mr. Howells’ characteristic talks about London weather, London streets, London noises, churches, parks, buses, slums, children, and bobbies—often with humorous comparison with the corresponding phenomena in New York. He tells, too, about society out of doors in Rotten Row and Piccadilly. Some of the matter has already appeared in some of the magazines. The book is provided with sixteen full-page illustrations and is bound to match the author’s “Literary friends and acquaintances.”

* “These films do not amount to so comprehensive or extensive a survey as Emerson achieved. But they are very fascinating, and are written with the clarity and richness of style which constitute Mr. Howells one of our foremost writers of English to-day.”

* “Its ‘films’ are far more interesting and significant than some that Mr. Howells has shown; they are indeed in his happiest analytic vein.”

* “The book is in no whit inferior to those masterly studies in Italian life.”

* “A series of delicate and charming impressions of London in many of its aspects, social, civic, and meteorological.”

* “Easily takes its place among the few most noteworthy books of the season.”

* “He is still master of the gentle irony, the subtle, mischievous suggestion, the humorous backward glance, that have fascinated his readers for years.”

“It was nothing short of inspiration which made Miss Lillias Bellard decide to visit her aunt and uncle, the Crombies, in order to consider quietly the question of marrying a certain eager young Englishman. Mr. and Mrs. Crombie had ... taken a cottage in the New Hampshire hills. Miss Bellard’s intention was to watch the domestic conditions of the Crombie household before rushing recklessly into matrimony. But coincident with her visit came that of the Mevisons, a couple trembling upon the verge of separation. Thus Miss Bellard was treated to a variety of domestic relations which produced varying effects upon her.”—N. Y. Times.

“Charming and idyllic comedy which at once tickles and instructs. Mr. Howells has written no more delightful story for years.”

* “The book is undeniably a delicate and diverting piece of satire and full of those illuminating sidelights upon human foibles and frailties that make Mr. Howells inimitable.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

* “The charm of Mr. Howells’s style is the only inducement offered the ‘gentle reader’ in this book.” Charlotte Harwood.

“Has a charm altogether out of proportion to its pretensions.” Wm. M. Payne.

“The whole thing is dainty and amusing, and the irony so suavely expended that some readers may fail to detect it, and hence be a little puzzled as to the degree of the author’s facetiousness.”

“It is as if Mr. Howells’s vision were being contracted instead of enlarged as the years go on. He stops short now at the surface; and delicately and gracefully as he plays about on it, we regret his arrested development.”

“Is a light comedy with enough social satire to remind us that Mr. Howells is not just fooling for our summer holiday.”

177“Mr. Howells has not lost any of his cunning in portraying the delightfully illogical phases of the feminine mental processes. Altogether it is a decidedly entertaining book.”

“Has all the lightness, the charming comedy touch, of his earlier work, and yet is not lacking in serious purpose. The studies of temperament are both skillful and convincing. It is quite certain that Mr. Howells has written nothing in a happier style; the vein of humor which runs through the book is as fresh as in his earlier work, and parallel with it runs a vein of quiet, kindly irony equally effective.”

“Beyond a doubt the story is amusing, but to Mr. Howells’ real devotees it must be rather hard sledding.”

* “Though but a slight love tale, embodies a maturity of conception, a surety of view, a subtle phraseology, an exquisite use of irony, and, withal, a sedate, appeasing dignity.”

“The book is mainly a study—and a very clever and shrewd study—of one type of American girl. But all the subordinate characters are carefully drawn.”

The story is the tragic one of the weakness of a good mother who lacks the courage to tell her son of the iniquities of his dead father. He grows up in the belief that his father is a noble and heroic character, and when the truth is revealed to him, through the courtship of his mother by the country doctor, he suffers greatly in the loss of his ideal. An opium eater and his loyal daughter enter into the story. The setting is a small New England manufacturing town.

“Is in many respects the best bit of work Mr. Howells has done of late years. One is inclined to read it slowly, lingering in enjoyment of the charming style, and appreciating to the full the perfect picture of New England life in the minute details that Mr. Howells so loves to dwell on. It is a pity, however, that in his love of realistic detail, Mr. Howells should be led into writing passages which, to say the least, mar the artistic effect of his work. He has set such a dainty dish before us that we cannot bear even one drop of grease to spoil the taste.” C. Harwood.

“The one objection which the average reader has been known to make against the work of Mr. William Dean Howells,—namely, that that distinguished novelist is too fond of the insignificant,—cannot be brought against ‘The son of Royal Langbrith.’ That the working out of this theme is masterly it is superfluous to add.”

“What lends peculiar charm to Mr. Howells’s best work is the fact that it could only have been written by an American. It is in the delicacy and tact with which it is hand sovereign merit of the story resides.”

Hubbard, Arthur John, and Hubbard, George. Neolithic dew-ponds and cattle-ways. *$1.25. Longmans.

“The author endeavors to solve the question of the water-supply of the Neolithic dwellers in hill-encampments on the downs in the south of England. There were apparently no wells, and they had to depend on the ‘unfed’ artificial dew-pond.... Closely connected with the dew-ponds are the cattle-ways down which primitive man drove his herds from the entrenched settlement to water.... There are numerous and very clear photographs.”—Nation.

“Altogether the book is one to be read with interest and profit by everyone at all interested in the evidences relating to our ancestors of the stone age.”

“Contains much suggestive and interesting matter, and is very good reading, but not wholly convincing.”

“The whole study is well worth reading even by those who have no immediate interest in antiquarian topography.”

“The construction of dew-ponds by the early inhabitants of Britain has often been glibly asserted, but few, if any, have furnished such clear and circumstantial evidence as the authors of this short treatise.”

Hubbard, Gardiner Greene. Collection of engravings. See United States, Library of Congress.

A companion volume to Mr. Huckel’s “Parsifal” which appeared in similar form two years ago. “It is a version for the general reader. It is not a libretto for the music. It gives a cumulative impression, the composite effect of words, scenery, action, and it is hoped, the spirit of the musical interpretation ... the spirit of the original text in a free version rather than in a strictly literal one.”

* “The poem is preceded by an admirable introductory chapter relating to the work, the whole forming a little volume which will be highly prized by lovers of this noble music-drama.”

“It gives the reader a much better impression of the drama than the ordinary literally translated libretto can furnish.”

Huckel, Oliver. Melody of God’s love; a new unfolding of the twenty-third psalm, *75c. Crowell.

An interpretation of the twenty-third psalm which divides it into three melodies: In green pastures, a song of the sweet and pleasant experiences of life; Through the valley of the shadow, a song of the harder and deeper and more sorrowful experiences of life; and, In the house of the Lord forever, a song of the exultant and triumphant and heavenly experiences of life here and hereafter.

“A series of meditative essays in poetic vein, but without great distinction of style.”

Huffcut, Ernest Wilson. Elements of business law; with illustrative examples and problems. *$1. Ginn.

This volume is intended as a text-book for students in commercial courses in high schools and colleges and it sets forth the fundamental principles of business law, giving simple concrete examples which show them in their actual application to business transactions. Problems taken from decided cases are given at the end of each chapter. The book is based upon the common law and a glossary of legal terms is provided.

Hughes, Hugh Price. Life of Hugh Price Hughes, by his daughter. 3d ed. *$3. Armstrong.

“Mr. Price Hughes broke in early life with the traditional conservatism of the Methodist body, and allied himself with the Liberation society.... The greater part of the volume is taken up with the spiritual activities with which” 178he “occupied his strenuous life. These were very various in kind. Not the least interesting among them is the part which he took in the reunion conferences at Grindelwald.”—Spec.

“She tries to set down all her father ever did or said, with little order of time and not too much of logic; yet large abstractions obscure practical details.”

“This story of his life will be read in all branches of the Church. It deserves to be. It needs to be.”

“We must frankly say that there is a certain magniloquence of diction and general exuberance about Miss Hughes’s description of her father’s life and work which we could wish away; but these do not hinder us from recognizing a really striking personality. There are, indeed, more serious faults in Miss Hughes’s book than those of diction and manner. It would not have cost much trouble to ascertain the facts.”

The tale of a young Polish pianist’s battle for recognition in New York. There is the artist and dreamer’s “deathless enthusiasm” which dominates Ladislav Moniusko and Rose Hargrave, a wealthy New York girl, whose father had set her apart for an English duke.

* “The book is of value, not only because of its musical quality, but because it enlarges information and intensifies sympathy for what may truly be called the land of genius.”

* “The contrast between the Polish and American natures is excellently indicated.”

A volume in the “Thin paper classics” series, translated from the French by Isabel F. Hapgood.

A translation from the French by Isabel F. Hapgood, uniform with the other attractive volumes of the “Thin paper classics” series.

Volume XV closes the series of monographs on the history of America as portrayed in the evolution of its highways of war, commerce, and social expansion, in the “Historic highways of America” series. Besides the first essay, which gives the title to this volume, Mr. Hulbert’s symposium includes “Government co-operation in object-lesson road work,” by Martin Dodge; Maurice O. Eldridge’s “Good roads for farmers,” Prof. Logan Waller Page’s “The selection of materials for macadam roads,” and E. G. Harrison’s “Stone roads in New Jersey.” There will be a final volume devoted to an index.

“The later volumes of the series present both the merits and defects of the earlier ones. They are entertaining and often suggestive, but always incomplete. The material is ill arranged, and a surprising amount of it is reprinted from other books.”

A jade fan causes a deal of trouble in Mr. Hume’s new story. It is at the bottom of a plot which involves the good name of a Chinese official, the fortunes of a worthy young Englishman, the satisfaction of a Chinese god, Kwang-Ho, and the happiness of a young English girl. Never has the author presented so motley an array of men and women from which to select the real criminal.

“His ‘heathen’ are of the conventional and traditional sort, but the dialogue is spicy, the plot intricate, and the personages are set in lively contrast to each other.”

“Clever as the plot is, there are several woefully weak links, though a rapid reader is pretty sure to overlook these while engrossed in the really thrilling story. Contrary to his usual custom, Fergus Hume has given us better character drawing than plot in this tale of a fan.”

“The author appears frequently quite as much in the dark in trying to fix on one of his puppets the crime involved as is the patient and mystified reader. There is here no real flesh and blood.”

The secret passage contains all the strange things which are the natural accompaniments of secret passages. An eccentric old lady is found stabbed to death in her room and there is no clue to the murderer. A clever young detective takes up the case and a number of people become involved in it; several love stories past and present serve to make matters more complicated, and in the end it is discovered that the murdered old lady was really somebody else in disguise, and that the only person not suspected of the crime is the guilty one.

Hume, Martin Andrew S. Spanish influence of English literature. $2. Lippincott.

Ten public lectures re-written fill this portly volume. Its aim is “to provide for English readers a comparative study of Spanish literature in special relation to its points of contact with the literature of our own country.”

“Major Hume does not succeed in persuading us that he has attained to any clear conception of what is meant by literary influence.”

“But these faults of arrangement, selection, and taste are minor defects in comparison with the want of knowledge and the inaccuracy which the book shows. Instances of reckless assertion are numerous in every chapter.”

“The book, moreover, seems to be pervaded by an exaggerated sense of the importance of its thesis.”

“A cursory reading of this volume will reveal that it commits two unpardonable sins: first, that on points of scanty information, it jumps at brilliant conclusions without an effort to gather adequate facts; and second, that in matters of minute and detailed learning it generally takes its knowledge bodily from a source nowhere mentioned.”

179“These phenomena of European literary history, Mr. Hume presents clearly and intelligently enough, but without that attention to detailed evidence which would have made his principal chapters somewhat more convincing.”

“We are obliged to him for a most interesting book, which brings together facts unknown to ninety-nine in every hundred of the great reading crowd.”

“Though we cannot praise unreservedly either Mr. Hume’s style or his arrangement, yet both are greatly superior to Mr. Underhill’s; and it is just in those chapters in which he comes into competition with Mr. Underhill that Mr. Hume is at his best.”

Major Hume portrays King Henry as “a weak, vain and boastful creature, the plaything of his passions, and the tool of those great minds about him who worked solely to further their own religious and political aims.” Catherine of Aragon claims the longest consideration, in which the “pathetic and noble” picture is offset by the less agreeable light thrown on her period of widowhood. The author “gives a pitiless picture of Anne Boleyn—of her utter lack of generosity, her meanness of spirit, her frivolity, and her vanity.” Katherine Howard furnishes the best subject of study from a “psychological and romantic point of view,” while Katherine Lady Latimer is presented as “amiable, tactful and clever and evidently ‘managed’ her fickle husband with great intelligence.” (Acad.)

* “Major Hume in this, his latest book, and certainly one of the most deeply interesting he has written, is just sufficiently partial to make us feel that he is human.”

* “Altogether the book is one which supplies the reader with plenty of ideas and impressions, though there are times when one gets lost in the mazes of the game Mr. Hume is exposing, and wonders if the game is all really there.”

Humieres, Robert d’ vicomte. Through isle and empire; tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. **$1.40. Doubleday.

“The psychology of the Englishman is a curious subject for a French writer, but it is one very entertainingly treated by Vicomte d’Humières. He divides his book into four parts, following his quarry out of England into Egypt, India, and through Deccan, but always in amiable pursuit; witness Mr. Kipling’s indorsement in a prefatory letter.”—Outlook.

“He uses as sharp a wit as Max O’Rell in describing British customs, manners, sports and institutions; but his criticism is much more just and much less bitter.”

“Readers may differ in opinion of the author’s estimate of British character, but all will agree as to the charming quality of the recorded impressions and sketches of travel.”

“His description of English manners is not without humour and incisiveness, and his view of India, native and British alike, is marked by sympathy and insight.”

A plain statement of the wrongs which the Indians have suffered at the hands of the government of the United States, backed by extracts from official records. There is little rhetoric but there are many facts. The crowding out process as it affected various tribes and reservations is given in detail and the final chapters: Dividing the spoils, and Uncle Sam, trustee, make the most ardent patriot stop and ponder. There are sixteen full page illustrations from photographs of Indian chiefs.

* “By taking only those instances wherein the Government or its representatives have been conspicuously unfair in dealing with the Indian, Mr. Humphrey succeeds in making out a pretty strong case against the white man. He has used his material well and has made the most of it.”

“We ascribe to this author the best intentions, but we do not think his book will render any real service to the Indian cause. All that he says may be true, but he does not tell all the truth.”

Humphreys, Alexander Crombie. Lecture notes on some of the business features of engineering practice. $1. Dept. of business engineering, Stevens institute of technology, Hoboken, N. J.

“This book is, we believe, the first of its kind—namely, a book of lectures on business methods for students of engineering.” (Engin. N.). It contains lectures upon Notes on contracts, Estimates and specifications, three lectures on Accounting, three on Accounting as applied to repairs and depreciation, Systems of classification—taxes, Analysis of a balance sheet and Analysis of data.

“So well does he handle the subject that interest is awakened from the start, and it not allowed to lag.”

Studies of modern continental dramatists. A review of Henrik Ibsen’s work is followed by impressions and criticisms of the dramas of August Strindberg, Henry Becque, Gerhart Hauptmann, Paul Hervieu, “The quintessence” of Shaw, Maxim Gorky’s “Nachtasyl,” Hermann Sudermann, Princess Mathilde’s play, Duse and D’Annunzio, Villiers del Isle Adam, and Maurice Maeterlinck.

“If Mr. Huneker would abandon his strain after originality and epigram, and would be content to be natural and reposeful, his chances of enduring success would be better.”

“What one misses in his work is the repose, the finish, the, it may be, studied avoidance of mere epigram, mere cleverness, which gives so stable a charm to such criticism as that of Mr. Symons.” H. W. Boynton.

“Mr. Huneker’s brilliant book holds substantial refreshment and work of more than transient value. Is saturated with his subject, yet has preserved an invaluable sensitiveness to impressions.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.

“Mr. Huneker’s manner of writing is pointed and almost brilliant, but the journalistic origin of his essays is too apparent.”

“His style is not exactly engaging, and we hold some of his admirations to be misplaced; but, when all is said, ‘Iconoclasts’ is a capital book, lively, informing, suggestive.”

“Mr. Huneker’s style is brilliant, audacious, often paradoxical, and full of sweeping generalizations. He knows his subject thoroughly.”

Hunt, Agnes. Provincial committees of safety of the American revolution. $1. Western reserve university, Cleveland, O.

“The present work comprises five chapters. In the first three the committees or councils of safety in the New England, the middle, and the southern colonies respectively are dealt with; the fourth presents a general view of the character and work of these bodies; while the fifth and last seeks their origin in preceding English and colonial experience. The investigation rests almost wholly upon the sources; and the result is thoroughly enlightening for many important questions connected with the struggle for independence.” (Am. Hist. R.) “Every special student of the American revolution will find this work very useful for its collection of facts, its table of the powers of the committees in the several states, and its convenient bibliography of works relating to the subject.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)

“The cat’s story of the women folk with whom she lived, and whose sentimental attitude toward herself she inwardly despised while she endured it for the sake of the loaves and fishes. Of course it is a story for girls.... It deals with a cat and her family of kittens and with Auntie May, who is still young, and a love affair of Auntie’s.... Miss Hunt ... arranges it so that the young man who loves Auntie May shall hate cats—hate them so that the very presence of one in the room makes him frantic. And Auntie May, when it come to the test, prefers her man to her cats.”—N. Y. Times.

* Hunt, Rev. William, and Poole, Reginald Lane. Political history of England. 12v. ea. *$2.60. Longmans.

This twelve volume work on English political history is announced under the following authorship: Volume I. 1066, Thomas Hodgkin; II. 1066-1216, Professor George B. Adams; III. 1216-1377, T. F. Tout; IV. 1377-1485, C. Oman; V. 1485-1547, H. A. L. Fisher; VI. 1547-1603, A. F. Pollard; VII. 1603-1660, F. C. Montague; VIII. 1660-1702, R. Lodge; IX. 1702-1760, I. S. Leadam; X. 1760-1801, Rev. W. Hunt; XI. 1801-1837, Hon. G. C. Broderick and J. K. Fotherham; XII. 1837-1901, Sidney J. Low.

* “The professed student will revel in this book, in its accurate scholarship, in its clearness of style and arrangement, in its maps and indexes, and, above all, in the invaluable appendix which Dr. Hunt’s unique knowledge of the original authorities of the period has enabled him to draw up.”

* “There is not much that is new or startling either in Mr. Hunt’s narrative or in his opinions; it is on his sober and wholesome common sense that the reputation of this book will depend, and this is not the least important recommendation of such a series as the present.”

* “A very useful book, in which the sense of proportion, the volume of information, and the continuity of narrative are good.”

The author has been actively engaged for ten years in university-settlement work in New York, Chicago, and London, and his book aims to awaken the unthinking and unseeing to a realization of the grim and terrible conditions existing among our poor. He describes evils, points out remedies, and sets forth the pitiful struggles of the underpaid and underfed wage-earners. The book is divided into seven chapters: Poverty, The pauper, The vagrant, The sick, The child, The immigrant, and Conclusions.

“In his volume, entitled ‘Poverty,’ Robert Hunter has rendered for the United States the same service that Frederick Engels rendered to England sixty years ago by the publication of his volume on ‘The condition of the working class.’ No student of philanthropy, or of sociology, can afford to ignore this book. But when all deductions on the ground of inclusiveness have been made, the arsenal of facts here brought to the attention of the critic must command the respect of the candid.” Florence Kelley.

“The conscience literature of social progress receives an important contribution in ‘Poverty.’ This work, within certain limits, is strong, fine and deserving of great praise. Mr. Hunter’s remedial measures are for the most part sane, reasonable, just and necessary, and they will appeal to tens of thousands who would be frightened if one proposed more fundamental measures. Books like this are of immense value at the present period in our conflict against the sordid materialism that is ranging itself with reaction and subtly, when not aggressively, opposing the ideal of democracy and social progress.”

“There is a certain literary quality to Mr. Hunter’s book which will insure it a wide vogue. Mr. Hunter’s book is not one that commands our confidence.” Winthrop More Daniels.

“While it will meet with objections and while there is room for differing with many statements of the author, the work is a distinct contribution to the literature of sociology.”

“The author shows a wide and intimate knowledge of his subject, and he has recorded his observations and conclusions in a scholarly, frank, and sympathetic spirit. When he speaks of the cure of the difficulty, his position is necessarily less strong and less satisfactory.” Constant Huntington.

“Mr. Hunter has head as well as heart, and his book both convinces and inspires. The best chapter is that on ‘The child.’ The poorest chapter is that on ‘Immigrants.’ ‘Poverty’ is fairly well written and will undoubtedly be a standard book on the subject for the next few years.”

181* “Impressions are quite elaborately reinforced throughout by statistics and authorities, and, to this extent, they are calculated to mislead the unwary.” Mary E. Richmond.

“The author has faced a grave problem resolutely. He has stated it in clear terms. He has gathered together the best and most intelligent thought upon the subject. Mr. Hunter’s book is a landmark in the American literature upon the subject.” S. G. Lindholm.

“Such a book as this stands in deplorable contrast with Mr. Rowntree’s study of poverty in York.”

“The book as a whole, has one aim—namely, to show the grievous need of certain social measures calculated to prevent the ruin and degradation of those working people who are on the verge of poverty. Mr. Hunter’s book on ‘Poverty’ is the most impressive and important book of the year. Every page is crowded with vital matter. There is no high coloring; only a plain, quiet statement of the frightful facts. The book should attract national attention. It should have a million readers.” E. Markham.

“His volume is sympathetic rather than scientific—the work of one who is first a philanthropist, and second a student. It is human—intensely so. It has the defects of its qualities. Looking at the problem of poverty from the view point of the poor, it is somewhat too somber in its interpretation of existing conditions.”

“The most telling facts that he presents are facts drawn, not from official reports, but from actual experience and observation. As a record of such data his book is an extremely valuable contribution to sociology.”

“It is to be regretted that Mr. Hunter did not make a more judicious and careful use of his statistical material. There is much else that is of interest and value in the books.” J. E. Cutler.

* Hurll, Estelle May. Bible beautiful: a history of Biblical art. **$2. Page.

“The book aims to trace the development of Bible illustration from the crude pictures of the catacombs to the splendid art of the mediaeval mosaics, cathedral façades, stained glass windows, and mural frescoes, and finally to the modern work, mostly English, of the last two centuries. Three special indices are provided; one of artists, for the art student; one of places, for the tourist; and one of Bible subjects for Bible students.” The volume is uniform with the “Art lover’s series” and about fifty half-tones of various types of sacred art. (Dial.)

* “An interesting and comprehensive, though distinctly popular, study of Biblical art.”

Husband, T. F., and Husband, M. F. A. Punctuation: its principles and practice. **75c. Dutton.

The first part of this book is historical and, beginning with the earliest inscriptions which had no separation of words or punctuation, it traces the development of punctuation and shows why it is needed. How it should be used is the subject of the second part which gives a full discussion of the uses of each stop.

“Messrs. Husband appear to be too sensitive to the look of stops, to the suggestion of a skeleton, and their own sparing use of them is the one fault in a good book.”

“A practical little volume, which is also strong on the theoretical side, and may be commended as a guide to a neglected subject.”

“The book does good service in showing the growth of our system of punctuation, and most of the authors’ positions are well taken and carefully reasoned out.”

Hugo Badsworth, master of Cranston Hounds has an old-maid sister and a niece, both of the same name, Lavinia. Upon his death, a will, made in jest, is discovered stipulating that unless Miss Lavinia Badsworth follows the hounds upon certain occasions his money is to go to a reprobate nephew. The niece fulfills the terms of this will for her aunt and all is well.

“The ‘Country life’ volumes on Big game shooting under the competent editorship of Mr. Horace Hutchinson, contain an exhaustive account of all the larger game animals of the world, from the Scottish red-deer to the African elephant. The first volume deals with Europe and America.”—Spec.

* “The style is graceful, easy, and animated, and the interest never flags, because the author is unaffectedly interested in the subject.”

The two moods which war for the ascendancy in young Hood are one which compels allegiance to the gypsy wife whom he had married after the Romany rite, and another which bids him desert the gypsy and marry a high minded Philadelphian. His philosophy which claims the divine right of the Greek “daemon” to guide him is a cloak for his selfishness. Intense enthusiasm and reactionary suffering show him to be absolutely without poise.

“This is an extremely interesting, yet deceptive story, in which the cleverness of the telling often dazzles and obscures the true significance of incidents and motives.”

“It is with exemplary and judicial dispassionateness that Mr. Hutchinson analyzes and depicts his man with two moods. But apart from this non-committal tone of the narrative, the novel deserves nothing but praise.”

* “The book is written with a simple distinction, and is filled with suggestive and quotable passages. An unusual character study.”

* “Is hardly a successful novel, though it has merit as a succession of scenes.”

“The beginning of the book, with the pictures of life in the gipsy van, though not worked out in detail, furnishes pleasant reading; but Hood’s philosophic utterances are not impressive.”

A poor English rector who is atoning for the passionate past by faithful service to his flock at the expense of himself, his invalid wife, and his neglected children, meets a beautiful southern woman who awakens in him his buried youth, and he takes up his pen and writes an anonymous book of his young days and of his downfall. The book sells, but he is obliged to denounce it from the pulpit because of his bishop’s crusade against it. Unhappy complications follow and other characters bring into the story all the elements of tragedy.

* “There are excellent bits of portraiture in this story,—bits which make one regret that the book as a whole should be stamped as frankly and crudely melodramatic.”

* “This novel is uneven, with some good touches, but, as whole, painfully harrowing, cheaply melodramatic, and decidedly unwholesome in its treatment of love. In an obvious attempt to achieve strength, the author has only compassed a cheap and florid rankness.”

“She mars, too, by faults of taste, which belong to the current school of fashionable fiction, a story which in its elements is true and strongly human and developed with no little skill and cleverness.”

“There is doubt, however, as to her soundness in dealing with moral questions and the wholesomeness of her manner of making her characters play about the edges of social sin. Those who found it difficult for this reason to like ‘Pam,’ with all its cleverness, will feel the same objection here.”

The story of Pamela Yeoland whose mother, Lord Yeoland’s daughter, outrages her family by eloping with a popular tenor who deserted his wife and family for her. They live happily, however, in Bohemia, among disreputable and brilliant associates. Little Pam, at the age of ten, is taken from these surroundings by an apparently respectable grandfather, and her observations of her new and conventional life lead her to the conclusion that marriage is both undesirable and unhappy. This belief colors her own love affairs. The book closes when she is still young and her future is undetermined.

“A novel of considerable psychological insight. The book, though written with a light touch, deals subtly with some deep questions.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

“The novel is artistic to the last degree, and absorbing as a play by Shaw.” Carolyn Shipman.

“Is quite as interesting from its logical working out of a problem in social ethics as it is for its strong character sketching and literary style.”

“It is interesting, even sinfully interesting. To the thoughtful reader ‘Pam’ holds both an immoral and a moral.”

“The figure of the quaint little girl and her talk are decidedly pleasing and out of the ordinary. We care much less for her when she is a young woman.”

“It is the most daring story that has appeared in many months. It is an interesting book of artistic purpose, and therefore a book to be read by the liberal-minded.”

“‘Pam’ belongs in the main to the category of the ‘emancipation novel.’ To describe it as dangerous or immoral in tendency would be unfair and unjust, for, while it is emphatically not suitable for the consumption of the young person, no grown man or woman could take harm from its perusal. Yet the lesson ... of the story of Pamela Yeoland is so sound and obvious that, beyond the reserves already made, we are not disposed to insist on the freedom with which it is handled.”

Mr. Hutton “tells of the cities of Umbria, Perugia, Assisi, Spoleto, Orvieto, Urbino, and others less known; of the art of Umbria, with its great names, Perugino, Pintoricchio, and of Umbria Mystica, the Umbria of Assisi, St. Francis and Brother Elias, of Sta. Clara and Joachim di Flore.... His book is illustrated in color after drawings by Mr. A. Pisa, and a number of photographs of pictures to illustrate the section on Umbrian art.”—Acad.

“There is so much solid backbone of historical and artistic knowledge to support his raptures that they are not merely rapturous.”

“He has ruined his natural power of description by a disastrous attempt to combine the styles of Ruskin, Swinburne, d’Annunzio and Mr. Berenson.”

“His book is destined to prove an invaluable companion for the tourist he so heartily scorns. We shall probably wait many a long day for a better book on Umbrian painters and Umbrian saints.”

“The book has much that is useful and valuable as a contribution toward the understanding of the Italian life and spirit in their manifold manifestations, much that is suggestive much that is concrete and firmly to be taken hold of.”

“The text is well written, readable, trustworthy, clearly put, and often has atmosphere, but, despite not a few clever touches, it seems to us in the main unoriginal.”

Hutton, Laurence. Talks in a library with Laurence Hutton. Recorded by Isabel Moore. **$2.50. Putnam.

Informal chats in which Hutton tells of his life, his friends, and his fads. The volume is full of interesting anecdotes for he numbered among his friends the greatest actors, artists and men of letters in England and America, and he had a collector’s mania for death masks, play-bills, inscribed books and portraits.

“One of the most interesting books of its class that has been written in a long time is ‘Talks in a library with Laurence Hutton.’” Jeannette L. Gilder.

“On the whole, for its wealth of literary, dramatic, and miscellaneous reminiscences the book is one of the best of its kind. The editor deserves a warm word of praise for her part in the work.”

“Are likely, no doubt, to be found entertaining by those who care for the more gossipy, intimate sort of confidences about public characters.”

“It is a miscellaneous collection of literary and personal gossip, a good deal of which is new and most of it decidedly interesting.”

“As the last word, and the very characteristic word, of a cultivated, genial observer with 183a genius for friendship, it will give much pleasure.”

“This is a very informal book, and gains by its unpretentious intimacy of style.”

“The book is rich in stories, and if he sometimes points a moral we suspect he can often adorn a tale.”

“An eminently readable book. He is always interesting, always natural, always kindly.”

Hyde, William DeWitt. From Epicurus to Christ: a study in the principles of personality. **$1.50. Macmillan.

“A lucid exposition of the fundamental principles of the Epicurean, Stoic, Platonic, Aristotelean, and Christian philosophies.... The book is made up of extracts from the founders of each system, together with quotations from modern writers on the subject, as well as scholarly comments on both by President Hyde.”—R. of Rs.

“An extremely interesting presentation of old principles in a new setting, together with keen suggestions of their modern exponents, tend to convince the reader that Mr. Hyde himself is far from lacking in certain principles of personality.”

“Here discourses on ethics and philosophy in a familiar and breezy sort of way.”

“The book is hortatory and not historical. The only serious criticism to be made on the book is the order of the chapters.”

“The book fulfills its purpose admirably. The author has a firm grasp on the fundamental principles of the systems which he discusses and, in addition, a remarkable insight into the practical merits of the different theories. He writes forcibly and with an abundance of illustration. For general reading the book is interesting, suggestive, and helpful.” H. W. Wright.

“Professor Hyde has produced a very readable book on Greek and Christian ethics; it is clear and popular.”

“Is one of those extremely clever and almost painfully ‘up-to-date’ metaphysico-theological books which America produces in such abundance.”

Hyslop, James Hervey. Ethics of Greek philosophers, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. $2. Higgins.

An essay first given as a lecture before the Brooklyn ethical association (1896-7). It treats of the teachings and influence of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle and is illustrated with their portraits. Copious editorial notes by Mr. Higgins and extracts from the works of the philosophers show their close relation to modern thought. The volume concludes with a brief life of Socrates.

“It would be difficult to find a better brief presentation of the matter.” Gerald B. Smith.

“The conspicuous absence of historic insight, of breadth and impartiality of view, of even an approach to scholarly discrimination, forms strange qualifications for the editing of a volume bearing the ambitious title, ‘The evolution of ethics.’”

“An attempt to popularize and condense the evidence buried in the Society for psychical research’s voluminous reports on Mrs. Piper’s trances, for one of the bulkiest and most detailed of which Dr. Hyslop was himself responsible.”—Nation.

“Is the most important critical book relating to psychical research that has appeared during the present year.”

“It belongs therefore with a group of books, numerable on the fingers of one hand, which, treating of matters occult, articulate with a body of fact and doctrine in aspect at least scientific.” E. T. Brewster.

“To those who cherish as something precious the reputation of science and the worth and ideals of the votaries thereof, equally with those who draw from religious faith a sensitiveness and a healthy-mindedness that make for intellectual refinement and stability, the volume is nothing less than offensive.”

“He has added to his extracts some sensible comments and a careful comparison of the telepathic and the spiritistic explanation, the latter of which he prefers.”

“Altogether, Prof. Hyslop’s book is the broadest and most understandable work in accord with an intelligent ambition for what this new science can and will do that we have read up to date.” Pendennis.

Ihlseng, Magnus C., and Wilson. Eugene Benjamin. Manual of mining. *$5. Wiley.

“Based on the course of lectures delivered at the school of mines of Colorado, Prof. Ihlseng’s book, which is regarded in America as the best text-book on the subject, has been enlarged under the joint authorship of Mr. Wilson to include coal mining.... The book is divided into two parts, mining engineering and practical mining. The former deals with prospecting, preparatory work, methods of mining, power generation, hoisting machinery, electric generation and water power ... underground haulage systems, ... pumping, mine gases, ventilation, ... and accidents in mines. The second part deals with shafts, ... tunnels and gangways, drilling and boring machines for explorations, miner’s tools, channelers, drills and coal-cutters, and blasting.”—Nature.

“The book has no American competitor, and it is superior to any other book in the English language covering the same broad field.”

“The book contains much useful information, but the lack of method in the arrangement cannot fail to militate against its use as a textbook.”

The best of the stories of Indian life and legend contributed to St. Nicholas by well-known travelers and writers have been collected here for “out of hours” reading for young children. The book is the first of a series of historical stories, now in preparation, which in order will include “Colonial stories,” “Revolutionary 184stories,” “Civil war stories,” and “Our national holidays.”

“Mr. Inge’s sermons are chiefly doctrinal.... The subject most frequently recurring is the dependence of faith upon knowledge, the author opposing the Ritschlian view that faith is independent and master in her own sphere.”—Ind.

“They disappoint the reader by an absence of intellectual virility and ‘grip,’ and a certain passionate enthusiasm which sweeps the interest of the reader into its current.” F. E. Dewhurst.

“These sermons are thoughtful, scholarly, finely spiritual. I should not think of calling them great or powerful. But they are good—at times quite suggestive, though in places tolerably commonplace. The author is not merely preacher and rhetorician but, one is pleased to find, a capable spiritual thinker. The style is always clear and good.” James Lindsay.

Fifty years ago some plucky resourceful young people were cut off from their elders, as they all travelled westward to found a new home, by a landslide which held them fast upon a bit of table land, an island in a sea of air. The story tells of their adventures with Indians and wild animals and their final escape. There is also much information upon archaeology, geology, and the use of drugs.

“‘England under the Tudors’ ... is the fourth (the second in order of publication) of Professor Oman’s ‘History of England’ in six volumes, and is, therefore, a companion volume to Mr. Trevelyan’s ‘England under the Stuarts.’ ... Mr. Innes ... has produced a competent book on this troubled epoch.”—Lond. Times.

* “Mr. Innes has carefully interpreted each reign in the light of these views and they give to his narrative a consistency and unity which will make his book especially valuable to the younger student and to the general reader, to whom it is more particularly intended to appeal.”

* “Mr. Innes’s work has not the brilliance of Mr. Trevelyan’s installment, but it is thoroughly adequate for its purpose, and shows even greater signs of sound judgment. If it is not so readable, it is perhaps more trustworthy. It is this sane judgment which characterizes Mr. Innes’s treatment of difficult and disputed questions, and makes his book so valuable an introduction to the study of the whole period. If the other volumes of the series are executed as well as the two already at hand, the reading public will at last have an adequate history of England.” Joseph Jacobs.

International catalogue of scientific literature: First annual issue. N-Zoology. pt. 1, Author catalog: pt. 2, Subject catalog, ea. *$8.40. imp. Blakiston.

“The work is planned to include the zoölogical literature for the year 1901, altho one is compelled to analyze the preface in order to determine the period covered since no record of its extent appears on title page of either part.... Part I. contains the general explanations, with the scheme of classification and an index thereto in English; and this matter is repeated in French, German and Italian. Following these, the author catalog fills 260 pages and lists 5,918 titles. Part II., which is about three times as voluminous, contains at the close a list of journals with abbreviated titles and the topographical classification. More than 1100 pages are filled with the subject references proper. The addition to each phylum of a list of names of new genera and species will commend itself to all as a most desirable feature.”—Science.

“With respect to promptness, completeness and accuracy the results are distinctly inferior to those already achieved for zoölogy by several bibliographic agencies.” Henry B. Ward.

Ireland, Alleyne. Far Eastern tropics: studies in the administration of tropical dependencies. **$2. Houghton.

The author spent many months in the Far East in the service of the University of Chicago, and the present volume contains carefully collected data and studies of the governments and commercial conditions of the tropical dependencies of Great Britain, Holland, France, and the United States, also a new map of southeastern Asia prepared by Mr. Ireland, himself, and an appendix containing statistics.

“We should like to recommend it as a very able study in comparative colonization in the tropics.”

* “It is for the most part clearly written in an interesting style, it gives just the facts which an American might wish to know, and its conclusions are given with an impartiality, honesty and forcefulness which must carry the greatest weight in the minds of the unprejudiced.” James T. Young.

“Mr. Ireland has wit and vision, and in his style are clearness and force. He has made a difficult subject interesting.” Wm. Elliot Griffis.

“There is every evidence of careful and painstaking study; and the book has the unusual merit of being on the whole, definite and precise in its statements.” H. Parker Willis.

“It stands out from a copious literature as a valuable contribution to the study of comparative colonization.”

“Mr. Ireland is an effective writer, clear, vigorous, and direct, putting his points in a broad way. Mr. Ireland strikes us as being rather too sweeping in his views, and rather too confidently positive in his expression of them.”

“Altogether, it is the most satisfactory work on tropical dependencies that has yet been published, and is indispensable both because of its first-hand information and its acute suggestions.” Stanhope Sams.

185“It is safe to say that nowhere else can be found so many facts, or facts so clearly stated, about the particular places and problems concerned as are gathered in this book.”

Irving, Edward. How to know the starry heavens: an invitation to the study of suns and worlds. **$2. Stokes.

“An introduction to the study of astronomy, written, not as a text-book, but with the intention of arousing the reader’s interest in this great subject, and stimulating him to the study of text-books.”—Outlook.

“On the whole, the book may be characterized as a fresh, up-to-date, and stimulating series of short essays on the worlds that people space.”

“The diction, moreover, is simple and direct. In all respects it is a book admirably adapted for the average reader.”

Five tiny volumes each measuring about two inches by an inch and a half include selections from “Tales of a traveller,” “Christmas sketches,” “The Alhambra,” “The sketch book,” and “Bracebridge hall” respectively. The books are perfect little models in thin paper, clear type and limp leather binding.

Mr. Arthur Rackman has made fifty paintings to illustrate this new edition of Rip Van Winkle, and they are all reproduced in full color. “Each of them is a marvel of his Dureresque detail, his grotesque elaborateness, and of the strange bizarre life which beats on every inch of his paper.... Half of the charm of the book lies in the quaintness and originality of the pictures of Rip’s life among ordinary mortals before and after his long sleep in the mountains—in the humour of the old burghers, the beautiful delicately-figured landscapes, the village scenes with their happy mixture of grace and humour.... The winning and tender beauty of his women and children would alone make this book an artistic treasure.” (Lond. Times.)

“Among the Christmas books which will pour from the press during the next three months it will be hard to rival this delightful volume.”

“The humor and the poetry of Irving are all in the pictures, without a hint of the theatrical quality.”

* “It is difficult to understand for whose pleasure this latest edition of ‘Rip Van Winkle’ is designed. It cannot be taken seriously as an ‘art book,’ the drawings are not sufficiently good, while at the same time it is too sumptuous a production to put into the hands of an ordinary child.”

The topics are strictly American and up to date, and the verses in their own satirical way point a few morals. Niagara be damned, Frenzied finance, To the pure all food is pure, To an Indian skull, and Fall styles in faces, are fair samples.

In this volume the development of art in this country is traced from its beginning and the conditions which influence it, the social aspects of art, and the personality of the artists are discussed. Much space is given to the lives of some of the earlier painters, the rise and development of the National academy of design is described, also early institutions now dead and forgotten. There are twelve full-page photogravures and 100 text illustrations.

* “The book is interesting to read now, and should prove of great value in the future.”

* “The truth is that Mr. Isham has written a book about New York painters with passive sympathy for tradition and convention and with some reference to the development of art in the whole country.”

Tucker Dan and his chum, Mickey, indulge in a series of pranks and practical jokes thru-out these pages. Good old Uncle Binny is the usual victim altho the village doctor and a rival for the affections of the pretty Martin twins also suffer.

“The style is simple, with here and there little bits of homely humor and philosophy, though the latter is well-nigh lost and soon forgotten.”

A Central American princess, the last of the line of Montezuma, leads what would have been a farce comedy revolution had not the brave lads who believed in her and her dream, died fighting for her. A young American millionaire, his yacht, and a college professor who chances to be his guest are all stolen by this daring young woman, whose personal charm wins these prisoners to champion her forlorn cause. The story is pathetically humorous, but it is also most unreal.

186* Jackson, E. L. St. Helena, the historic island from its discovery to the present time. *$3. Whittaker.

“We naturally expect that Napoleon’s sojourn at St. Helena would be made much of; instead, we have an orderly description of the island and a chronological account of the events which have happened there.” (Outlook.) “The photographic illustrations have a curious worth. Some of these were taken shortly after the Boer war, and show the Boers yet interned in the island.” (Nation.)

* “For a book of reference, in spite of its lack of an index, it has its utility.”

* “This volume is strangely matter-of-fact, but on that very account has a certain restful charm.”

These love sonnets “are exactly one hundred in number, and their recipient has reason to be proud of the imagery and emotion which she evokes in the soul of her poet. It is the Shakespearean model that Mr. Jackson follows, both as to form and to diction.”—Dial.

* “They are refined in form, rich in feeling, and swarm with suggestions that appeal to the bookish mind.”

Twenty short chapters for mothers upon the management and training of their daughters.

“The style of the essay is simple and straightforward, and the matter itself bears favorable comparison with any other book of its kind.”

Jackson, Mrs. Gabrielle Emilie Snow. Tommy Postoffice: the true story of a cat. *75c. McClurg.

The adventures of Tommy Postoffice were many and all cat-lovers will read with interest how Tommy came to the Hartford postoffice in a mail sack, how he aided Cupid, what he did at the cat and poultry show, and what an important place he filled in the postoffice where all the gray-coated men were his fast friends and defenders.

* “It is brightly told, and will interest children, and their elders who like cats.”

* Jackson, Mrs. Gabrielle Emilie Snow. Wee Winkles and Wideawake, †$1.25. Harper.

“One of the nicest stories possible about a nice little girl and her brother, whose real names are not Winkles and Wideawake at all. They are six and eight years at the time of the story, which tells about the nice times they have together playing house, playing that papa is a whale in the water and taking a swim on his back; having birthday parties, and doing other interesting things. Mary Theresa Hart has made the pictures.”—N. Y. Times.

* “To the little folks of six to nine, the stories being plainly told, will appeal more directly.”

A new edition of this picturesque story of American life, with an introduction by Susan Coolidge and illustrations by Henry Sandham.

Todhunter Payson, who as a child philosophizes over his homely face thus:—“I was born that way.... You know nothing makes the way you’re born. It just happens an’ then you have to stay that way all your life,” and Luke Lyttle “gentleman to his small finger tips” are chums in boyhood, rivals in love, friends all the way. The development of the sturdy Tod from a homeless waif into a man who sways his world is not overdrawn but is true to the principles of a self-made career.

“The book is well worth reading. The people are natural and consistent, the story is well told and interesting.”

“The story concerns two young men of London, who have been engaged in a duel with a German, arising from a quarrel caused by their mutual love for a young American heiress. The plot turns on the efforts which the Englishmen and the hero of the tale, a chance passerby, who has been induced to be a second, make to flee from the consequences of a supposedly serious wound sustained by the German. The disordered state of affairs existing during the recovery of the wounded man furnish amusement to the story.”—Bookm.

“It is a rollicking farce. He has style, observation and a pretty gift of dialogue, so that his characters talk with a naturalness which immensely heightens for the moment the plausibility of his widely impossible plot. Mr. Jackson appears to have entrusted the reading of his proofs to unskilled hands.”

“It is a pity that Mr. Jackson, whose style is otherwise good and virile, should help to mar the English language by certain small mannerisms.”

“This very lively and entertaining book. The thing has a sort of tang of ‘The new Arabian nights’ of Mr. Stevenson, a prankish irresponsible air, combined with a style decidedly precious and deliberate.”

Jacob, Violet (Mrs. Arthur Jacob). Golden heart and other fairy stories, **$1.25. Doubleday.

All who love good old-fashioned fairy tales will enjoy these eight new stories, and will be eager to know how, in Golden heart, the ugly prince rescued a bewitched princess from a rock in the sea; how Grimaçon, the dwarf, helped the Princess Moonflower, and how Ella wished for the peacock’s tail and got it. Other stories are: The sorcerer’s sons and the two princesses of Japan; The dovecote; The pelican; The cherry trees; and, Jack Frost—a story for very little children. The volume is illustrated with drawings by May Sandheim.

187* “The tales by no means conform to the modern insipid and bloodless standard for juvenile fairy stories and ought to make a direct and lively appeal to the eager imagination of any healthy child.”

Mrs. Arthur Jacob, who made a sudden reputation in her former novel, “The sheep stealers,” now writes a story of country life in Scotland. The interloper is a young man who returns to his mother’s old home from a sojourn in Spain with the man who has always passed as his father,—all unconscious of the blot on his birth, the suspicions of the neighbors, and the presence of his real father in the vicinity. The situation is well handled and the social tragedy skilfully averted. There are many well-drawn characters in the book, the loyal heroine, the grand dame, the villainous family lawyer and many interesting villagers.

“When you lay down ‘The interloper’ you feel that you know intimately a half-dozen interesting people whom you did not know before. Mrs. Jacob is rich in the supreme gift of the novelist—character depiction. A melodramatic ending, trite in conception, and ill-fitting. Mrs. Jacob did not set out to tell an emotional story. She set out to reflect life in a small, old-fashioned Scotch town and its environs, and she has succeeded in masterly fashion. She has given us a delightful comedy of manners written in a style remarkable for power, simplicity and grasp. Out of the ruck of cheap fiction this book rises to real, permanent value. It is not only worth reading, it is worth a place on the book-shelf.”

Jacobi, Charles Thomas. Printing: a practical treatise on the art of typography as applied more particularly to the printing of books, *$2.50. Macmillan.

“A third revised and enlarged edition.... The completeness of the book will be apparent from a brief list of its chapters, which number thirty-five. They are in seven divisions, and deal with typefounding, composition (thirteen chapters), proofreading, hand-press work (six chapters), illustrated and color work, motive power, machine printing (six chapters), and warehouse work (four chapters).”—N. Y. Times.

This new collection contains “half a score of the tales this author has taught laughter-loving English readers to expect from his pen. This brand is well-known and well-liked.” (Ath.) They include amusing stories of sailormen, longshoremen, and the people of a little English village.

* “The stories are not all as good as the earlier ones, the humor often growing out of situations that are forced, and the characters lack their old delightful naïveté.”

* “The book is merely a collection of magazine stories, and their cumulative effect is a little disappointing.”

* “Mr. Jacobs is an artist with a literary conscience as well as a most engaging humourist, and, to borrow the familiar saying, though his genre is not great, he is great in his genre.”

Jacobus, Melancthon Williams, ed. Roman Catholic and Protestant Bibles compared; the Gould prize essays. 50c. Bible teachers’ training school, N. Y.

“In 1903 Miss Helen Gould offered three prizes for popular, brief essays on ‘The origin and history of the Bible approved by the Roman Catholic church’ and ‘of the American revised version.’ Two hundred and sixty-five essays were presented. The prizes were won by Rev. William Whitely, L.L.M., LL.D., Rev. Gerald Hamilton Beard, B.D., Ph.D., and Charles B. Dalton, Esq. These three essays are published in this volume. Of course, they cover much the same ground. The limits of space imposed were such that the authors could give only a somewhat bare and crowded statement of facts.”—Am. J. Theol.

“The first two essays are very full, accurate, and well proportioned. The third leaves something to be desired in accuracy, especially regarding the exactness of the present biblical text (p. 140). The chief value of the third essay lies in certain quotations from contemporary Catholic sources.” Irving F. Wood.

“These three constitute what must now be regarded as the standard work on a theme of controversy that greatly needed enlightenment.”

The fifth volume of the series edited by Professor Guy Carleton Lee, treats of the colonization of New England and was written by Professor James of Western Maryland university. The chronological table begins with the sailing of the Mayflower and is brought down to the passage of the Stamp act. There is a careful examination of the motives of the Puritans in coming to New England, and the founding of the settlements of Connecticut and Rhode Island is given in detail. The closing chapter is devoted to the causes which led to the Revolution. There are many excellent illustrations.

“The work is of the most comprehensive character. The treatment of an extended topic is carefully and philosophically worked out.”

* James, George Wharton. In and out of the old missions of California: an historical and pictorial account of the Franciscan missions. *$3. Little.

This interesting volume covers a broad field successfully. It begins with the founding of the California missions, then gives a chapter upon Junipero Serra and his coadjutors, followed by a discussion of the Indians at the coming of the padres and at the present time. An especially noteworthy chapter deals with the secularization of the missions, and in twenty-one chapters is given an account of as many individual missions, followed by a chapter upon nine mission chapels or Aristencias. Perhaps the most distinctive feature of the volume is its treatment of mission architecture and interior decoration. A careful survey of the mural decorations of the missions is followed by a pictorial account of the furniture, pulpits, doors, and other woodwork, crosses, candlesticks, and other silver and brass ware, and of the various figures of the saints found at the missions. The illustrations are reproduced from photographs made expressly for this book.

“This reprint of some of Mr. James’ essays descriptive of England is happily illustrated by the drawings of Mr. Joseph Pennell. The essays include London; Browning in Westminster abbey; Chester; Lichfield and Warwick; North Devon; Wells and Salisbury; An English Easter; London at midsummer; Two excursions; In Warwickshire; Abbeys and castles; English vignettes; An English New Year; An English watering-place; Winchelsea, Rye and ‘Denis Duval;’ Old Suffolk.”

* “These interpretations of English life carry the reader with them by their quality of tonic freshness, which takes the place of the bewildering curiosity about everything and nothing characteristic of the late novels.”

* “But these lapses though apparent are rare—more apparent, indeed, on account of their rarity—and it is impossible to resist the engaging enthusiasm, the fine freshness of mind which he brings to bear on the variety of topics and places about which he chatters in the fugitive papers bound up in this volume.”

“Four principals and two particularly diverting subordinates make up the role of characters” in this story whose action centers about the marriage of an American girl to an impoverished foreigner. “The four are Adam Verver, widower, and his daughter, Maggie, Americans,—the husband of Maggie, an Italian prince, and Charlotte Stant, a young woman of exquisite intelligence, and paramount charm, American by birth, cosmopolitan by nature.” The elements of tragedy are fostered thru the prince’s yielding to his former love for Charlotte Stant, the princess’ friend, and now Adam Verver’s wife. The strength of the story is embodied in the princess’ determination to win back the love of her husband, “which she vows must be as complete and perfect as the original crystal of the broken bowl, that picturesque property of the story that takes so unique a part in the development of the plot.” (Reader).

“The intellectuality overpowers the sensuous and objective traits proper to a novel, until one has the impression of reading an abstruse treatise of psychology rather than a tale. Despite exasperations of detail, the novel in the main is masterly. The three leading women are differentiated with the nicest skill: each is living and persuasive. But it fairly ranks as a master-work—if a master-work flawed by some of his obscurest later mannerisms.”

“The book is clear to those who think Mr. James worth a little trouble. The method, in spite of its inwardness, is detached, cold, and, if the word is possible, a little cruel. But its mental agility, its likeliness, its atmosphere, are perfect.”

“Another two volumes of abstruseness, another long discussion of a situation that only scandal mongers are supposed to discuss; again the same old heavy respectability where nothing is bad because it is not named; again the heroic sweetness of two characters, that is always his saving grace, that makes us read him.”

“In the end you have your reward—a story, a situation, which, as you think about it, pierces the obscurities and strikes you in the eyes, like the low red autumn sun pushing out of a mass of black clouds.”

“A book of mixed ugly and charming aspects. Never has the art of description been brought nearer to that of painting.”

“A book so pregnant with fundamental brainwork, so rich in suggestiveness, and so accomplished in execution. The book is clearer, and, for that very reason, more vital, than the works of what one may call his middle period.”

* James, Henry. Question of our speech: The lesson of Balzac; two lectures, **$1. Houghton.

“In the first essay, delivered as a commencement address at Bryn Mawr, Mr. James has well emphasized the overlooked needs in America of ‘a virtual consensus of educated people to impart to our speech a coherent culture.’ ... The second essay in the volume, ‘The lesson of Balzac,’ is a notable piece of literary criticism in its concentrated vigor, its elucidation of the novelist’s art, and its nicety of phrase. Recognizing in Balzac the master-artist of modern fiction.”—Dial.

* “These essays will raise a divergence of opinion, as does all of Mr. James’s literary work; but however widely readers may differ from his point of view, all will recognize the stimulating intellectual quality.”

Eight old fashioned ghost stories with all the gruesome and hair-raising qualities which a story of their kind could possess. The eight are Canon Alberic’s scrap-book, Lost hearts, The mezzotint, The ash tree, Number 13, Count Magnus, “Oh, whistle, and I’ll come to you, my lad,” and The treasure of Abbot Thomas.

“Mr. James manages at times to give you a pretty well-defined creepy feeling—but his ghost stories are not quite the real thing in spite of the pains he takes to pile up detail in the setting and leave the horror itself as undefined, shapeless, and elusive as may be.”

“There can be no question about the literary merit of these eight stories, and of the ingenuity which Dr. James has shown in their construction.”

Jamison, Cecilia Viets (Mrs. Samuel Jamison). Penhallow family; a story. †$1.50. Wilde.

A little wanderer, back from India to her father’s old home, is dropped into an uncle’s family where three self-centered, noisy youngsters ruled by a hard task-mistress, “Aunt Gordon,” make life miserable for the new-comer. Her brave helpfulness in bringing happiness out of the confused and warring forces of the household frames a lesson for every young reader to profit by.

Jane, L. Cecil. Coming of Parliament, 1350-1660. (Story of the nations, no. 73.) **$1.35. Putnam.

“The general scheme of this volume is indicated by its title. It deals more especially with the development of the Constitution within the three centuries with which it is concerned, and it is an attempt to trace the steps by which Parliament attained to a permanently important share in the government of England. While stress is laid upon this theme, other sides of the national life have not been ignored.” (N. Y. Times.) There are many illustrations, a map of England, and a chronology.

“What Mr. Jane has really written is an English history of a period. But, while its 189accuracy it notable, it has other merits which are astonishing. The events of the period, particularly towards the close, were many and complex and stirring; yet, although this book is almost as compact as an encyclopaedia, it is so fluent and fascinating that one reads it with the delight which is given by great romance. Mr. Jane, it is true, is not without predilections. His imagination is attracted by the navy. In all other respects, though invariably he arrests attention, he is coldly judicial. Besides being exceptionally well-informed, our historian brought to his task a fresh, independent and penetrating intellect.” W. Earl Hodgson.

“As a book professedly concerned with ‘the coming of parliament’ and the place of parliament in national life, it cannot be said to have any particular merit or value, or to render of less service any of the accepted histories of English constitutional development.” Edward Porritt.

“We have failed to find in the latest issue of this well-known series any general connexion with the subject of parliamentary government or the least pretension to originality of thought or vigour of delineation; whilst research is wanting.”

“It is obvious from the text that Mr. Jane has broken no new ground in the research for the Parliamentary side of his book.”

“Mr. Jane’s book is interesting reading, even if he sometimes tangles the thread of his story of Parliament.”

“Adds little or nothing to the history of Parliament which cannot be found in any of the accepted works on the English constitution. There is nothing, moreover, that is attractive about Mr. Jane’s literary style.”

“Mr. Jane’s book is not always ‘easy reading,’ but is reliable, a quality which will conceal many literary sins.”

“The volume will have its uses, but we should have preferred something more to the purpose.”

Janssen, Johannes. History of the German people at the close of the middle ages; tr. from the Germ, by A. M. Christie. v. 7-8. *$6.25. Herder.

“These two volumes cover the period between the years 1550-1580.... Within those thirty years fell such events as: The religious conference at Worms in 1557, the Diet of Augsburg in 1559, the Grumbach-Gotha conspiracy for a Lutheran empire, the effects in Germany of the religious wars in France and the Netherlands, the war against the Turks, the establishment and progress of the Jesuits in Germany, and the concluding sessions and general effect of the Council of Trent. These great events and many others of similar moment are treated with Janssen’s well-known fulness of detail, abundance of scholarship, and sturdy Catholic spirit.”—Cath. World.

The author who, thru a common interest in Thoreau, came to know Stevenson well in his early Edinburgh days, gives a critical discussion of his life and works, with some new facts and some newly published letters.

“It contains a good deal of valuable matter presented in the most scrappy and disjointed way; as well as some matter which is not valuable at all.” H. W. Boynton.

“The criticism on Stevenson’s various styles in his varied work is often acute and just. Altogether the book in parts has a strong interest for the Stevenson enthusiast, but will hardly attract the general reading public.”

“This is a very informing book, a contribution of distinct value to our knowledge of R. L. Stevenson.”

Javal, Emile. On becoming blind: advice for the use of persons losing their sight; tr. by Carroll E. Edson. **$1.25. Macmillan.

Dr. Javal, who lost his sight at the age of 62, writes to the families of those who are blind or in danger of becoming so. He gives advice as to their treatment, suggestions on amusement, and there are chapters upon memory, marriage, the psychology of the blind and the sixth sense.

“The book is a pleasure to read even on the part of those whose interest is not immediately claimed by the subject.”

“Mr. Jeans ... in the first seven chapters, follows fairly closely on conventional lines, and deduces the Boltzmann-Maxwell law of distribution, the minimum theorem, the law of partition of energy, and the isothermal equations according to the Boyle-Mariotte and van der Waals’s laws. In chapter VIII the author throws over the principle of conservation of energy and assumes that his gas is a dissipative system in which loss of energy occurs by radiation.... In chapters IX and X, Mr. Jeans considers application of the theory of a non-conservative gas, particularly in connection with rates of dissipation of energy and ratios of specific heats. We thus have a definite attempt to break away from traditional methods and boldly introduce the notion of dissipation into the kinetic theory.... In the remaining chapters Mr. Jeans deals with ‘free path phenomena’ such as diffusion, conduction of heat, viscosity, and the escape of gases from planetary atmospheres. In this work he is more on the ordinary lines.”—Nature.

“Misprints and minor errors are delightfully few. The book is a piece of conscientious work by one who has already made valuable contributions to this subject. It belongs rather with the classical work of Burbury and of Boltzmann than with any of the attempts at a simple or more popular presentation.” W. P. Boynton.

“An attempt ... to present a modern view of imperial evolution, ... the result of three years’ travel and study among the self-governing states of the empire ... which should be studied by all who wish to understand the trend of colonial aspirations, whether they agree with them or not.”—Acad.

“His observations on America, though justly calling attention to many undoubted and serious 190faults indicate on the whole an exaggerated and distorted view of our public life.” Willard E. Hotchkiss.

“Mr. Jebb’s book has no small originality. His book contains not a few inconsistencies. Almost every page of it is instructive.”

“Everything he says is stated with a confidence that dreams not of the possibility of contradiction. This makes the book attractive.” Charles W. Thompson.

“It is essentially a work that will be welcomed, not derided in Canada and Australasia. And that is to say no small thing of its merits, and of the success with which its author has achieved his object.”

A new edition of a book for boys written many years ago and founded upon Mr. Jefferies’ own boy-hood idealized. Mr. E. V. Lucas states in his introduction that it is “a long and eloquent, and, I think, successful argument in favor of the wisdom of leaving boys to themselves, and allowing independence and self-reliance to oust for the time being school books and tutors.”

“Full of his intimate knowledge of nature, and full also of sympathy with and knowledge of the interests and characteristics of boys.”

Under the text “Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, a conviction of things not seen” (Heb. xi. 1), Dr. Jefferson discusses the relation which faith bears to life. The booklet is attractively bound in white, with gold lettering and a holly design in green and belongs to the “What is worth while series.”

Originally given as a series of lectures before the Bangor theological seminary, these talks are “clear, luminous, pithy, cogent, full of practical suggestions” for ministers, students and the general public. The following chapters show the minister’s present position in general affairs; The dimension of the work, The three men involved (the physical man, the mental man, the spiritual man). The growing of sermons, Form and manner, The place of dogma in preaching.

“There are many books on the Christian ministry, and few are smaller than this and few more valuable.”

“The general tone and spirit of these lectures is uplifting, clarifying, and stimulating to high endeavor.”

This is the first adequate English treatment of pharmacognosy, and will be welcomed by the special student. “The work falls into three divisions, animal drugs, vegetable drugs without organic structure, and vegetable drugs with organic structure. The first division is appropriately small, and the last constitutes the major portion of the work. A goodly treatise on each drug is found, embracing references to its origin; discussions of its gross structure, microscopic structure and features recognizable in its powder; and mention of constituent substances present.... Excellent original illustrations accompany a large number of the descriptions.” (Science.)

“The discussions are in the main botanically correct and the style is fairly clear. Imperfections aside, however, it is well within the truth to say that this volume is the nearest approach which has yet appeared towards filling the need of the day in this country.” Charles H. Shaw.

A biography of Myles Standish, the Pilgrim’s captain, which tells the story of the people of the Mayflower and of their captain’s service to them as leader, lawgiver, trader, and physician. The account is accurate to the sacrifice of many romantic traditions.

“It is intended, perhaps, more for youthful than for mature readers, although we imagine it will interest these as well. Is practically a history of the Plymouth settlement.”

“Mr. Jenks’s account gives an impression of accuracy and care, but it lacks picturesqueness and any romantic quality.”

Uniform with “The lives of great writers” series this volume contains a popular description of the conditions in England during the reigns of Elizabeth, James, and Charles, of Puritan and Cavalier, and of the life of the blind poet himself and his relation to these surroundings. There is a frontispiece portrait of Milton, a bibliography and a chronological table.

“The author is luminous rather than critical, gives a touch of imagination to the accuracy of facts, and inspires with fresh human interest a national movement commonly thought of as only bitter and austere.”

* “It will be found extremely helpful to an understanding of the Puritan period in English history.”

Jenks, Tudor. In the days of Shakespeare; with introd. by Hamilton W. Mabie. **$1. Barnes.

“One of the series of ‘Lives of great writers.’ ... This little volume consists of a personal picture of the Stratford boy, and the London actor and man of affairs. There is also a helpful explanation of some of the principal plays, with suggestive comments.”—R. of Rs.

“For the purpose for which it is intended—that is, as a literary substitute for the textual and verbal approach to the subject which has hitherto prevailed—it is to be commended.”

“The book is readable and will likely give the ordinary reader a much better idea of what the playwriting business was in Elizabeth’s reign, what the work Shakespeare actually did was, than many much more pretentious volumes can do.”

These letters are addressed to Violet, who is gently told how to be sweet and happy in chapters upon The art of happiness, The need for controlling the tongue, The ethics of dress, On country house visiting, The choice of literature, Are elopements justifiable? Concerning wit, The advisability of friendships with men, and other subjects of interest to the young girl who longs to be a social success.

“On the whole, however, the lady gives wholesome enough advice—albeit most of it has been given to other debutantes many times before.”

“While Lady Jephson’s form is throughout aphoristic, she lacks the gift of saying the inwardly true thing in memorable words, and that is the particular gift one looks for in a book of this sort.”

“Lady Noggs, properly called Lady Felicia Grandison, is the small niece and ward of a prime minister, whose peace of mind is continually disturbed by pranks and escapades of the most extraordinary nature.... A background romance between the governess and the secretary is engaging and real by way of contrast.”—Outlook.

“The object of these few remarks is to cordially commend Felicia, within her suitable literary bounds, as a pleasant holiday companion.”

From these pages “one may glean not merely knowledge of the political and commercial life of the country, but a better understanding of the Oriental mind. The physical features, the resources, the people of China; the state, provincial, district, town, and family organization, the anomalies between legal theory and business customs, the native banking system, the weights, measures, and currency employed, the Empire’s transportation facilities” (Outlook) are all fully treated.

“Mr. Jernigan is not an inspiring writer. But there is a great deal that is valuable in his book, and his statements are accurate and apposite.”

“A volume which will be indispensable to every student of the civilization of the Far East.”

“The thing essential in compiling a book of this kind is sympathetic perception, and Mr. Jernigan has evidently cultivated this faculty, during his residence in China, with no little success.”

“Here in one handy book is choice and exact information, carefully sifted, tested, and arranged concisely and in an orderly manner. There is a good index to this noteworthy book.”

“The subjects ... find exhaustive discussion, and ... are treated carefully and intelligently.”

* “An unpretentious book, containing a large amount of well-selected and well arranged information.”

The author, ex-consul general of the United States at Shanghai, prefaces his book with the statement that he has sought to find “some of the elementary principles which base and influence business and social China and to present them without unnecessary detail.” His papers give a clear and accurate treatment of China’s administrative system, land tenure, sources of revenue, law courts, finances, social regulations, commercial trend, educational and consular systems, and foreign relations.

“There is a want of cohesion about this work; it seems more a collection of papers than a treatise. The work will be found useful when any important event takes place in China in connection either with its foreign or with its internal policy, as a sort of reference-book.”

“A novel in which are presented the vital questions confronting the South growing out of the Reconstruction, and in which the author defines the true relations now existing between the races in the South.” Specifically, it presents the political, social, and economic history of a southern city during this period. There are many characters of all classes but interest centers about two brothers who become social and political leaders.

“The book, if it is not a novel to carry the reader along—it is not that—is an exceedingly valuable, truthful, and interesting study. There is certainly no other picture of the period which approaches it in these vital points.”

“It is a good picture of conditions—and perhaps, after all, its solution of the problems confronting the South is the only practical one.”

Jessel, Frederick. comp. Bibliography of works in English on playing cards and gaming. *$4.40. Longmans.

“Gaming in this sense includes dominoes, conjuring, card-tricks and so forth. Mr. Jessel has described the title of every work he has found, however slight, on cards or gaming; and he has included all books which contain allusions of sufficient importance to be recorded, even works of fiction which depend on gaming for their plots or contain scenes which illustrate the mode of playing some particular game. Periodicals have not been forgotten.... The bibliography is in alphabetical order of the names of authors, but the index at the end enables subjects to be searched for without difficulty.”—Acad.

* “We can recommend it not only to libraries, but also to clubs for card-room reference, and to all who wish for a ready means of finding out what has been written in our language about cards and gaming.”

Jevons, William Stanley. Principles of economics: a fragment of a treatise on the industrial mechanism of society and other papers. *$3.25. Macmillan.

“The fragment in a mere outline, but it comes from a master hand and is doubly welcome at a time when the need for restatement of definitions is particularly evident.”—Acad.

“The volume is one that we cordially welcome, and it is bound to meet with the high appreciation of a discriminating public.”

“Probably much that is already printed would 192have been greatly revised before it appeared, and yet, imperfect as it is, the careful student of economics will lose a great deal if he does not master this volume.”

“The book may be said to be well justified, even though it be equally clear that the form and title and bulk of it fall somewhere between the questionable and the indefensible.” H. J. Davenport.

“A word of gratitude is due to the editor, who has spared no pains to elucidate what the author left unfinished and obscure.”

“It cannot be said that the fragments now published offer anything of great value. Mr. Higgs has performed his editorial labors in an admirable manner.”

* Jewett, John Howard (Hannah Warner, pseud.). Con the wizard, †50c. Stokes.

This little volume in the Christmas stocking series, tells how the wizard-bird, Con, changed Teddy Mann and the pets of Mistress May into the form of the man or beast they envied most, and how they were glad, after a time, to be changed back and become themselves again. There are eight illustrations in color by Edward R. Little, and numerous illustrations in black and white by Oliver Herford.

Everything which in any way concerns the ancient or modern life of the Jewish people and which has either historical or literary value can be found in this “Descriptive record of the history, religion, literature and customs of the Jewish people from the earliest time to the present day.” Prepared by more than four hundred scholars and specialists under the direction of Cyrus Adler, I. K. Funk, F. H. Vizeletly and others. There are twelve massive volumes and two thousand illustrations.

“In spite of some minor defects, should prove a valuable work of reference to all interested in Jewish history.”

“The enterprise has now gone far enough to leave no doubt that the high standard of excellence set up by the editors will be reached.”

“The standard cannot be said to be rising. Still, if only for its wealth of biography, especially English and American, the book is indispensable for reference.”

“As a work of world-wide comprehensiveness this is one to enrich any library.”

* “This great work, the joint product of Jewish and Christian writers, fully sustains its early promise as it nears its completion.”

“Nearly all subjects mentioned [in volume IX] are treated at great length, in good spirit, with thorough scholarship.”

* “It can be affirmed without hesitation that, taken as a whole, the work is a contribution to general knowledge which, for the future, will be nothing less than indispensable.”

Job, Herbert Keightley. Wild wings: adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of America on land and sea. **$3. Houghton.

A simple story of the author’s conflicts and conquests as he hunted with his camera “the wild hardy birds of the sea, whose strong wings make them masters of the elements.” His search took him from the Magdalen islands to the Florida keys and he gives pictures of pelicans, kittiwakes and gannets, of laughing gulls, cormorants and auks, of plovers brooding their young, and of the great horned owl mothering her owlet. There are 160 of these photographs.

“No such collection of ‘portraits’ can be found anywhere else.” May Estelle Cook.

“His book should appeal to a large circle of readers, especially the ornithologist, the sportsman, and the nature-lover, as well as the omnipresent camera fiend.”

* “Despite its somewhat pedantic title, this book is much above the average of works of the same general nature.”

“‘Wild wings’ should not only appeal to nature and bird lovers, but there is much in its pages to interest sportsmen as well.”

“Without doubt this book is a contribution to the world’s sanity, while at the same time its science is duly respected.” Mabel Osgood Wright.

“‘John Van Buren, politician,’ is a young up-state lawyer, who comes to New York, joins Tammany hall, wins the favor of Boss ‘Coulter,’ and is sent to the state legislature, where he is speedily made acquainted with the darker aspects of legislative life. The story of his adventure in politics and of his 193lovemaking ... is told in a volume that is a curious combination of novel and guide to the sights of New York.”—Outlook.

“The book has no style, and but slight interest considered as a story. Its implied ethics, moreover, are of a highly dubious character.” Wm. M. Payne.

“Were it not for its intimate portrayal of the methods whereby Tammany achieves political success, it would be of little value or interest.”

“The picture of the sessions of the general assembly at Albany is graphic and possibly true to the life, although the coloring is probably too strong and the lines too heavy.”

“The book does not preach anything, clean politics or foul; it simply reflects conditions as a keen observer would find them.”

“Experiences more or less tragical to babies and children, but pleasantly told in Mr. Johnson’s verses and humorously depicted in Miss Cory’s sketches. Fathers and mothers will be amused by them, and the juvenile victims—some of them at least—will enjoy the pictures.”—Critic.

* “One of the really delightful books about children of the present season.”

A truly charming book of little boy verses, which little girls and grown-ups will enjoy also Goin’ barefoot, Bein’ sick; Gettin’ well; Cookin’ things; Makin’ things; Gettin’ washed; and two score others set forth little boy philosophy in little boy language, and following these are some verses to or about little boys, among them an exquisite tribute to Frank R. Stockton. The volume is bound in plaid gingham, with decorative title and end leaves by Mrs. John Carpenter.

* “The naïveté of small-boy egotisms, generosities, rivalries, has never been, and, it would seem to us, could never be, better done than in Mr. Johnson’s clever and sympathetic verses.”

* “This volume is sure to win for its author a wider appreciation of his really unique work.”

“The introductory poems strike a note of tenderness and reverence of unusual purity and beauty.”

* Johnson, Clifton, ed. Oak-tree fairy book; il. by Willard Bonte. $1.75. Little.

Here are the old favorites reproduced in wholesome form with the savagery, harrowing details and abnormal pathos eliminated, and with the charm retained.

A story of the French revolution in which the personal struggles of the actors are silhouetted against the greater struggle of the nation in the background. Barabant, a young enthusiast, allies himself with the Girondins and falls with them, to be saved from the guillotine only by the sacrifice of Nicole, a flower-girl, whom he has made his wife in prison, and who gives up her life for his. The course of the story runs subjectively close to the people; their whims, their morbid curiosity, their unrestrained impulse and anger, and their hatred for the aristocrats distort their vision thru the bloody days of the terror which is followed in grewsome detail.

“Mr. Johnson has devised a fresh and unhackneyed story, with a heroine quite apart from the usual types.”

“Owen Johnson has written a good story, with several unusual points about it that entitle it to notice.” Priscilla Leonard.

“A fresh and interesting view of a subject that would seem to have been exhausted of all novelty. One can but admire the cleverness with which he has made reality and fiction supplement and sustain each other while keeping the reader’s attention wholly engrossed by the very simple and pathetic love story of Nicole and Barabant. A vivid and vigorous handling of a subject that has been used to the point of threadbareness.”

“A rather unusually spirited tale. Mr. Johnson has created two or three flesh-and-blood characters, has put them into trying crises, and has made them work out their own moral salvation or ruin as they respond or fail to respond to the test. The book has life and energy.”

“The sure touch of the confident master is lacking. There is over-emphasis, a too great insistence on the individual when the mass should have been brought into the foreground. Viewed as a whole the book is an effective piece of word painting.”

“Mr. Johnson’s story has merits of its own unborrowed from Dickens or any one else. One of them is a saving sanity of expression.”

“Well and swiftly told, and probably of breathless interest to the unsophisticated mind.”

This book covers the early discoveries, the Lewis and Clark explorations, settlement, government, Indian wars, and progress. In concise form it gives a full account of that interesting region. It is illustrated with numerous halftones.

The author has made his narrative suitable in every respect to young readers. He tells of the discoveries and adventures of such men as Cartier, Jean Ribaut, Rene de Laudonnière, Champlain, Nicollet, Joliet, La Salle, and Father Hennepin, in an interesting fashion, basing his story, upon standard authorities; he has provided notes upon Indian tribal connections and customs, and introductory chapters which deal 194with the origin and distribution of the Indian race and give a view of Indian society.

* “Mr. Johnson’s descriptions of the great French explorers are calculated to serve the purposes he had in view and to stimulate curiosity.”

This romantic story of a young Frenchman, who, lost and alone in the new world, is befriended by an Indian girl who leads him back to his people and in whom he awakens such intellect and religious fervor, that he comes to love her and takes her back to France and makes her his wife, is based upon the attempts of the French Huguenots to settle America in the sixteenth century. The historical element, however, is subordinated to the forest love story.

A homey story, an autobiography in scattered diary form, in which a husband and father tells of his late love, his happy marriage, his honeymoon in Europe, and the birth of his two little girls who grow up, are educated, and finally marry, leaving him to look back over a long life which they and their mother rounded out into a perfect idyl, and a prayer.

“This old man’s little ‘idyl’ has a peculiarly reminiscent, speculative flavor which now and then recalls Ik Marvel and George William Curtis and others of that school of amiable and dearly beloved dreamers.”

“The story is not an intellectual one. It is not an intense one. Tenderness and sanity, good will and unaffected English make the progress of the recital agreeable and almost imperceptible. Mr. Johnson is to be congratulated upon the sincerity and simplicity of this unpretentious little volume.”

Johnston, Charles, and Spencer, Carita. Ireland’s story; a short history of Ireland for schools, reading circles, and general readers. **$1.40; school ed. *$1.10. Houghton.

Beginning with the legendary past, this volume follows the history of Ireland down to modern times. In the discussions the authors touch upon the Irish church, home rule, land purchase, the Irish in America, on the continent, and in the British empire. The Irish literary revival is fully treated and there is a closing section on the derivation of Irish names. The book is illustrated with views, portraits and maps.

“Written in a quiet, almost gentle style, the narrative moves calmly forward and is easily followed. The treatment is sufficiently fair and charitable to satisfy any reader in whom the virtue of tolerance is properly developed.” Laurence M. Larson.

“The writers of the present work have managed to condense a vast amount of information into their sketch of some 400 pages.”

“The first five chapters ... absolutely worthless for any purpose whatever. The rest of the volume, however, appears to be of some value.”

“A well-arranged outline history of Ireland. The authors, while frankly revealing both their political and their religious sympathies, write with moderation and fair-mindedness.”

Johnston, Rev. John Octavius. Life and letters of Henry Parry Liddon, canon of St. Paul’s cathedral and sometime Ireland professor of exegesis in the University of Oxford. $5. Longmans.

A detailed and sympathetic account of the life and character of the late Dean Liddon, strict ritualist and devoted Puseyite who was almost constantly involved in controversy. It is a faithful record of unfaltering devotion to duty and his steady advancement to well-earned success; his friendly relations with Gladstone and Salisbury and his refusal to accept a bishopric from either; his success as a pulpit orator; his famous sermons; his pleasing personality, high scholarship and untiring energy.

Jones, Amanda Theodosia. Rubáiyát of Solomon, and other poems. $1.25. Alden bros.

One-third of this new volume of poems “is given up to versification, in the familiar rubáiyát form, of certain of the sayings of Solomon and Koheleth.... It is elsewhere in Miss Jones’s volume that we must look for her most meritorious verse. We find it, for example, in the group of ‘Kansas bird songs,’ in the lyrics of childhood, the tender personal tributes, and the pieces that touch on contemporary history.” (Dial.)

“It can truly be said that she has looked upon the sun and has been undismayed; for, at intervals ... the clear voice of this fearless and fiery-hearted Deborah has been heard and heeded by those who may be reckoned as the jealous custodians of the gates of song.” Edith M. Thomas.

“There is in the book always a first-hand view of nature,—often a touch of mysticism. Some of the experiments are not fortunate, but now and again there is a narrative poem, or a lyric that clings to the memory.”

“After a long silence, Miss Jones has put forth a new volume of poems, which may perhaps secure for her work something of the appreciation which has long been its due.” Wm. M. Payne.

* “The variety of achievement in this modest volume is in pleasing contrast to that offered in most collections of its size.”

* Jones, E. Griffith-. Economics of Jesus; or, Work and wages in the kingdom of God. *35c. Meth. bk.

A study of the money parables,—“a series of problems arising out of the deep-seated and manifold inequalities of life.” The little volume belongs to the “Freedom of faith” series.

Jones, Henry Arthur. Manoeuvres of Jane: an original comedy in four acts. **75c. Macmillan.

“Mr. Nangle, a wealthy widower, places his wilful daughter in charge of Mrs. Beechinor, retired matron of a young ladies’ boarding-school, in the hope that she will transfer her 195affections from a man who is in moderate circumstances to Lord Bapchild, a nephew of Mrs. Beechinor’s, Jane arranges matters to suit herself and marries the man whom she loves.”—Bookm.

“The situations are the work of an undoubted expert, and the dialog is skilfully written. Now that Oscar Wilde is dead, Mr. Jones has only one equal in England, the Ibsenized Pinero.”

“It reads well, although the literary form emphasizes the fact that it is really more of a farce than a comedy.”

This four-act play was given in New York in the years 1901-1902. It concerns a woman with a past and a skilful lawyer who forces the truth from Mrs. Dane.

“These are discourses by a prominent Congregational pastor in England.... The spiritual and ethical element predominates, the form is plain and lucid, the aim is practical.”—Outlook.

“Appropriate as an Easter gift, and dedicated as such by the [author] to his Browning classes, is this elegantly printed pamphlet, illustrated by Albrecht Dürer’s picture of ‘Melancholia.’ ... A few paragraphs of Mr. Jones’s lecture on Paracelsus accompany Browning’s text as introduction and commentary.”—Outlook.

Jones, Paul. Commercial power of Congress. $5. priv. ptd. C. S. Nathan, N. Y.

The object of this book “is to trace the history and show the present authoritative interpretation of that pregnant declaration of the constitution of the United States: ‘Congress shall have power ... to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes.’” (N. Y. Times.) Present interest centers about the application of this provision to trusts and railway rates.

“It bears evidence of a lot of painstaking work, is written in a style excellent for its purpose, and offers very few of those slips of the pen or the proofreader that are apt to invade in force the pages of the amateur.”

“While the title at once suggests the famous work of the late Henry Drummond, and the book is in a way an attempt to deal with the same problems as those discussed in his Natural law in the spiritual world,’ Professor Jones is concerned rather with the psychological aspects of the subject than with the biological. In his view, there is a greater stress to-day in the psychological than in the so-called natural sciences.”—R. of Rs.

“Professor Jones very tersely sums up the present-day meaning of personality and social relationship. His discussion of the modern religious problem is from a somewhat novel point of view.”

Thirty-eight letters originally dictated by Mayor Jones, Golden Rule Jones, to his stenographer and delivered to his women with their wages. Each letter begins, Dear Friends, and closes, Very faithfully yours, and in each the master and man meet on common ground as brothers. Equality, coöperation, harmony, fellowship, patriotism and even picnics and vacations are advocated in these letters, and many other subjects of general interest are discussed.

“This latest addition to the irresistible ‘Caxton’ series is the representative work of Jonson as a dramatist and as a poet.... The frontispieces and the title-pages in this series ... are often as in the case of this volume, admirable pieces of typographical and illustrative work.”—Outlook.

Jonson, Ben. Devil is an ass; ed. with introduction, notes and glossary by William Savage Johnson. $2. Holt.

Jonson, Ben. Poetaster; a thesis presented to the faculty of the graduate school of Yale univ. in candidacy for the degree of Dr. of philosophy; ed. by Herbert S. Mallory. $2.50; pa. $2. Holt.

This 27th volume in the “Yale studies of English” series, contains the text of the play, a long critical introduction, notes, glossary, bibliography, and index.

Jonson, Ben. Staple of news: a thesis presented to the faculty of the Graduate school of Yale univ. in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of philosophy; ed. by Dr. De Winter. $2.50; pa. $2. Holt.

This twenty-eighth volume in the “Yale studies of English” series contains the critical text of Jonson’s play, with elaborate notes, a glossary, and an introduction.

“The least satisfactory part of the work is that devoted to bibliography, which contains, as usual, a number of inaccuracies.”

“A sort of a ‘musical Baedeker.’ ... It has been the author’s aim to make his book equally useful and helpful to concert-goers, for whom it forms a permanent analytical programme, to pianists, and to those amateurs of music who can now, owing to the pianola, pursue for the first time a systematic and co-ordinated study of Chopin’s works.... A brief account is given of each composition.... The volume opens with a brief sketch of Chopin’s life, which is followed by short preliminary chapters on various aspects of his work.”—Dial.

“An exceptionally valuable book, which every devotee of pianoforte music should have at hand for daily reference.”

“It is likely to be a useful compilation for hurried reference.” Richard Aldrich.

Dr. Jordan’s work is encyclopedic in its scope, and “treats of the fish from all the varied points of view of the different branches of ichthyology. In general, all the traits of the fish are discussed, those which the fish shares with other animals most briefly, those which relate to the evolution of the group, and the divergence of its various classes and orders most fully. The extinct forms are restored to their place in the series and discussed along with those still extant.” (Dial.)

“The most comprehensive treatise on American ichthyology.” Charles Atwood Kofoid.

“There is no thorough classification or system. The table of contents of the chapters make matters only worse. A single page with an outline of the arrangement would be a boon.” H. C.

A man who was about to elope with a woman who is to desert for him her husband and child is shocked on the eve of their departure by the suicide of the husband with one of his wife’s guilty letters in his hand. He will not marry her now, but gives her a liberal allowance, and years later when he has come to love her daughter, his old letters to her mother keep them forever apart.

* “The characters are well drawn and the plot worked out logically ... and the story is written with a sureness of touch and a briskness that keeps the interest unflagging throughout.”

“A bright, entertaining society novel, not without a moral for light, frivolous, and selfish people of both sexes.”

Jubilee gems of the Visitation order. Sisters of the visitation of Holy Mary. *$1. Christian press.

“The present publication aims successfully at giving, in clear and simple language, an authentic account of the foundation of the order, and a picture of the ideals which have obtained in the community and borne fruit in the saintly lives of its members.... It will help to fill the lamentable lack of books suitable for Catholic school premiums.”—Cath. World.

Judd, Sylvester. History of Hadley, including the early history of Hatfield, South Hadley, Amherst and Granby, Mass. *$6. H. R. Huntting & co., Springfield, Mass.

This work was originally published in 1863. It is now reprinted with an introduction by Geo. Sheldon and family genealogies by Lucius M. Boltwood.

“Introduction is, by the way, decidedly more interesting than Mr. Judd’s ‘History.’”

“His compilation is replete with authentic information as to manners and customs, and is highly browsable.”

“The new edition will find a wider field than the first met, and should create and fill a demand for itself.”

This volume is section I of the “Belles-lettres” series contains the text of Judith, passages from the Vulgate Judith, an introduction, bibliography, and glossary.

* Judson, Frederick Newton. Law of interstate commerce and its federal regulation. *$5. Flood, T. H.

“The volume is divided into two parts, the first part, comprising about one-fourth of the book, deals briefly with the power of the federal government over interstate commerce and with the statutes that have been enacted in the exercise of that power. Part two discusses in more detail the interstate commerce act of 1887, the anti-trust law of 1890, the safety appliance legislation of 1893 and 1896, and various other minor acts of legislation regarding interstate commerce. The latter part of the book is devoted to the presentation of information regarding ‘procedure before the Interstate commerce commission.’” (Ann. Am. Acad.)

* “The volume is systematically arranged, it is well proportioned and carefully written. It is both a good treatise and a valuable book of reference. Neither the lawyer nor the economist interested in transportation can afford to neglect part two of Mr. Judson’s book.” Emory R. Johnson.

* “Mr. Judson has a good power of statement, and his volume is a valuable addition to the literature of the subject.”

A volume in section I of the “Belles-lettres” series, English literature from its beginning to the year 1100. The original text of the Exeter manuscript is given, all deviations being indicated in the variants. An introduction discusses the text, the author, and the legend, and complete notes, bibliography, and glossary are provided.

“The notes have been most carefully edited, the type is clear, and the notes and glossary are adequate.”

Jungman, Beatrice. Norway: text by Beatrice Jungman; with 75 il. in col. by Nico Jungman. *$6. Macmillan.

“Mrs. Jungman does not concern herself ... with the past history of Norway, except with a few of its legends; nor does she allude to the present unsettled state of its politics. But the fact of Norwegian unrest ... makes ... an interesting background to her brilliant series of passing impressions.... Mr. Jungman is a charming artist, ... and he has done nothing more attractive than these portraits of Norwegian girls and children.... His sketches of Norwegian landscape are also most characteristic.”—Spec.

“She is always readable,—partly, no doubt, because she is so absolutely unpretentious; and the book is a welcome addition to an interesting and valuable series.”

“The limited scope of his work suffers considerably by comparison with the comprehensive title of the book.”

“The ‘text’ is friendly gossip about a trip in Norway, quite natural, with no straining after effect. The colour of the pictures is gay; it is too vivid for our liking.”

“Mrs. Jungman’s ‘text’ is quite as interesting, in its way as her husband’s pictures.”

Kasson, John A. Evolution of the constitution of the United States of America and history of the Monroe doctrine. **$1.50. Houghton.

An edition in a form convenient for the general reader of a work published in memorial volumes, at a high price, in 1887 for the Constitutional centennial commission. “Mr. Kasson gives a clear but condensed recital of the conditions preliminary to the original ‘Confederacy:’ a statement of the infirmities and ineffectiveness of the Articles of confederation; the recognition of the failure of those articles by the patriots of the revolution; the successive steps by which they sought the consent of the states to a general convention to provide a substitute government; and finally the manner in which they accomplished the organization of a nation.” (R. of Rs.)

“This ought to be a good handbook for beginners, but is not a lawbook, and does not cover the field occupied by such a book as Cooley’s well-known treatise.”

Kaye, Percy Lewis. English colonial administration under Lord Clarendon, 1660-1667. 50c. Hopkins.

In his monograph, Dr. Kaye presents colonial administration under the following heads: The official colonial system, The Royal charters of Connecticut and Rhode Island, The founding of Carolina and the conquest of New Netherland, The Royal commissioners in New England and Results.

Keats, John. Poems; ed. with an introd. and notes by E. de Selincourt. $2.25. Dodd.

“Mr. de Selincourt has wisely left the significant irregularities of orthography as Keats left them; and he has grouped the poems in a logical and significant order, relegating to an appendix certain nonsense rhymes and doggerel ditties that have stood hitherto side by side with ‘La Belle sans merci’ and the ‘Ode to Malta.’ The text stands midway of an introduction and a body of notes that preserve an even-handed balance between ideal and textual criticism.”—Nation.

* “The prefatory study is the result of much original and painstaking research and the notes leave no clue to the sources of the poet’s ideas untouched.”

“In the mean time we commend most heartily to the public his introduction and notes to this edition.”

* “It is safe to say that no one who has this new edition will feel the need of any other: to that extent at least it is definitive.”

“Is likely to stand as the best edition of the poet for the critical student of poetry as a fine art.”

“His industry is commonly attended with judgment. And so his effort ... has yet been a real success. It is complete if he has succeeded in producing the ‘definitive’ edition of Keats. And it seems that it has really done that.”

“The notes are so full as to class this volume with texts for the expert rather than for the ordinary reader.”

The truth about modern surgery told by a master surgeon is of value both to the members of the medical profession and the general reader. Dr. Keen treats the historical and antiquarian aspects of practical anatomy, covers the ground of modern surgery, shows the position of the medical college to-day, its mission and needs, and closes with an address on “The surgical reminiscences of the Civil war.”

“The subjects are discussed in excellent English, and with exactness, though without the technical language.”

“These papers are of interest chiefly to physicians and surgeons; but some of them are of value to readers outside of the medical profession.”

Pathos and humor are skilfully blended in this story of a small Canadian town where English, Irish, High and Lowland Scotch are found. Duncan McDonald, called the polite to distinguish him from all the other McDonalds, is the hero of the tale which concerns the discord which a young and modern minister engenders in an old kirk, where he wins a youthful following in spite of the elders’ aversion to all new things.

“It is a fresh, clean story, likely to interest young people in spite of the prayerful tension in the atmosphere of the tale.”

“This volume aims to provide a general, systematic account of the principal insect families as they exist in America, written with the greatest regard for scientific accuracy and thoroughness, but in such a way as to interest the average intelligent reader. A chapter on ‘Insects and disease,’ giving an account of the researches which have determined beyond any question the part played by mosquitoes in the spread of malaria and yellow fever, is of special timeliness just now.”—Outlook.

“We have in this simple volume a whole library of insect lore, brought into convenient compass, abundantly illustrated and clearly printed.”

“Readable and profusely illustrated, it gives a great amount of information about the insects of this country, in such a manner that it is available to any intelligent person. With all its merits, Prof. Kellogg’s book is a little too much of a compilation to be ideally satisfactory.” T. D. A. Cockerell.

“It seems that nothing needed to make this a complete guide to the study of our American insects has been omitted. The style of the book is in general popular and adapted to the average intelligent reader.”

“Not only is an excellent reference book, but ... 198contains much interesting reading for any nature-lover.”

“The minor defects noted detract little from its real value, and Professor Kellogg’s volume will be welcomed as one of the best general text-books on the subject covered.” C. L. Marlatt

“Miss Kellor’s previous studies of convict women and correctional institutions gave her an admirable preparation for the investigation of employment bureaus.” (Am. J. Soc.) Her researches have been carried on in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago, with the result that her material is first hand. She discusses the employment agencies, their treatment of the unemployed, and their influence upon homes and business. The last chapter is devoted to state and municipal laws.

“No previous study has accumulated such a wealth of information on this vital problem. The author has very properly aimed to give a clear and adequate statement of the entire situation and has dealt out advice sparingly. Yet she has probably suggested about all the measures for betterment which give any promise of immediate usefulness.” C. R. Henderson.

“The work is well done. This volume should command the attention of housekeepers and employers generally, as well as students, for it indicates that the reign of graft is not confined to political positions, and the corrupting influences of many agencies are clearly set forth.”

“It is an admirable piece of work. The work thorough and well-planned; and the facts stated in an impartial and interesting manner; simple and entertaining as well as scientifically valuable.” Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

“An interesting study of employment agencies. The value of Miss Kellor’s book lies largely in the undoubted authenticity of the information on which it is based. The book should be read by all who are interested in reforming the abuses of employment agencies in American cities.”

Miss Kelly’s narrative had to do with a “polyglot brood of future Americans,” children of the New York east side Jewish colony. She “shows us these little citizens at work and play in a New York school. Their parents are pedlars, seamstresses, and costermongers.... They are timid, ignorant, unwashed. But the children they send shrewdly and faithfully to school ... are enchanting. Of course they are naughty. Miss Kelly is at once too honest and too artistic to write stories about little saints.... But they are clever, affectionate, and teachable.... They speak an odd dialect that we take to be a graft of the Yiddish on American; and at school their ways are most humorous and entertaining.” (Acad.)

“Miss Myra Kelly’s ‘Little citizens’ are as strange to us as the countries of their birth, and their charm is partly the charm of novelty. She has presented them with originality and freshness and with a convincing sympathy.”

“For real insight into the child mind with its misconceptions and limitations, so hard for an adult to understand, these stories are only equalled by those of ‘Emmy Lou.’”

“They pile up material for the future, and are in the present prodigiously amusing.”

“In the representation of their terrible manners, their extraordinary dialect and their oriental warmth of heart, the author shows keen observation, delightful humor, and no mean order of creative talent. Miss Kelly’s book is amusing, and it is unconsciously, unintentionally, and therefore delightfully, instructive. The dialect is picturesquely and easily handled.”

“The volume may be highly recommended as containing sketches of an original and attractive kind.”

“A well-illustrated guide for students and collectors to the history of art embroidery in England from the middle ages down to the eighteenth century, with descriptions of the important examples of this work that have been preserved.”—Outlook.

“He writes, moreover, from a liberal and genuinely artistic standpoint, and is not carried away by a love of mere curiosity.”

“It is seldom that a book on a special subject is so interesting and readable throughout.”

Kennedy, John Pendleton, ed. Journals of the house of burgesses of Virginia, 1773-1776. *$10. Putnam.

The publication of these documents by the Library board of Richmond will be welcomed by all students of this most interesting period in Virginia’s history. The editor has provided a valuable introduction containing numerous extracts from contemporary newspapers and unpublished “Broadsides.” The letters and minutes of the Colonial Committee of Correspondence are appended to the Journal of each year.

“The editor, John Pendleton Kennedy, State Librarian, has performed his task with judgment, and the result is highly creditable to the state.”

In their rambles thru the Connecticut hills, two friends, a novelist and a painter, meet a refined and well educated country girl, with whom they both fall in love. A great-hearted millionaire enters the story, and there are many amusing complications.

Some thirty essays, and critical reviews reprinted from various magazines, and about twenty poems, serious, sentimental and satiric, which were written between 1881 and the author’s death in 1903.

“In treating a writer who pays such attention to the small points of style, and who incidentally sneers at ‘the shallower sort of American scholars,’ an American reviewer feels justified in pointing out minute defects.”

“Among the essays, the best, we think, are those which deal with the technique of literature. Of the poems, we should place first the sonnet to the memory of Lord Beaconsfield, where the form leaves very little to be desired.”

Kent, Charles Foster, ed. Israel’s historical and biographical narratives, from the establishment of the Hebrew kingdom to the end of the Maccabean struggle. **$2.75. Scribner.

“Professor Kent has undertaken the bold task of rearranging the writings of the Old Testament in their logical and chronological order. The aim is not merely to arrange the books, but to break them up into their component parts, and to indicate the sources from which they were originally drawn, presenting in a practical and intelligible form, the results of modern critical research. ‘The student’s Old Testament’ is to be divided into six volumes:—(1) ‘Narratives of the beginning of Hebrew history’; (2) ‘Historical and biographical narratives’; (3) ‘Prophetic sermons, epistles, and apocalypses’; (4) ‘Laws and traditional precedents,’ (5) ‘Songs, psalms, and prayers;’ (6) ‘Proverbs and didactic poems.’ The work is intended for general readers, not for specialists only.”—Lond. Times.

“Results of very various degrees of certainty are embodied in his volume. But his work will be invaluable to the student who uses it with discrimination.”

Kent, Charles Foster. Narratives of the beginnings of Hebrew history, from the creation to the establishment of the Hebrew kingdom. **$2.75. Scribner.

Impelled by the demands for a constructive presentation of the facts regarding the literature of the Old Testament, Professor Kent has undertaken a series of six volumes presenting successively the narrative of the beginnings of Hebrew history, historical and biographical narratives, prophetic sermons, epistles and apocalypses, laws and traditional precedents, songs, psalms, prayers, proverbs, and didactic poems; thus covering the entire Old Testament. This first volume, “The student’s Old Testament,” is a modern and scholarly translation, with a systematic, logical classification of the early narratives found in the books from Genesis to Ruth. Various versions of the ancient stories are presented side by side, so that they can be read like the gospels of the New Testament, in their original form.

“Its information is full and eminently trustworthy. In the notes the editor is careful not to be over-dogmatic.”

“Its scholarly character, its conservative and constructive spirit, its admirable rendering of the text, its ample helps for proper interpretation, and its large promise of good things to come in the subsequent volumes, assures the reader that a most serviceable work has been added to the apparatus for biblical study.” H. L. W.

“Professor Ker, of University college, London, presents, under special title of ‘The dark ages,’ the first volume of a series of ‘Periods of European literature,’ to be edited by Professor Saintsbury.... He begins with an attempt to define this much-abused term.... Chronologically he limits his period by the decline of Roman culture on the one hand and the year 1100 on the other.... In the second chapter, ‘The elements,’ we are given a general survey of the whole period.... The main body of the volume is then divided into two parts, treating respectively the ‘Latin authors,’ and ‘The Teutonic languages’; and a short final chapter on the literature of Ireland and Wales completes what is at best but a hasty survey of a vast field.”—Am. Hist. R.

“There are enough learned references here to challenge the literary expert at every turn. Indeed, we can hardly see how any one can understand this book to whom the things it deals with are not already perfectly familiar. To such a one it offers a somewhat confused résumé of matters he should know already. For the young student it is far too abstruse, and for the general reader it lacks the unity and concentration which alone can command his attention. Mr. Ker’s bane is fine writing; he has a certain sense of humor that now and then is useful, but it leads him into long ways around where directness and compactness are prime necessities.” E. E.

“By wise selection of his materials, lucid exposition, and occasional happy characterization, he maintains the interest even of those who are prepared to find the Dark ages pretty dull and unprofitable. Of actual error we think the work will be found to contain very little.”

Kerr, Robert Pollok. Blue flag: or, The Covenanters who contended for Christ’s crown and covenant. 75c. Presbyterian com.

The origin and history of the Covenanters is accurately and stirringly presented in this little book which is intended for class study in Sunday schools and young people’s societies. To this end a series of questions is given at the close of the volume.

Much of the material used for compiling this Beethoven handbook has been drawn from letters, reports of conversations, and diaries heretofore unavailable. The author has classified his cullings under appropriate chapter headings, and they serve to enlighten Beethoven lovers upon the great composer’s spiritual, philosophical and human observations.

From material gleaned here and there, the author has pieced together “an autobiography of Mozart written without conscious purpose, and for that reason peculiarly winning, illuminating and convincing. The outward things in Mozart’s life are all but ignored in it, but there is a frank and full disclosure of the great musician’s artistic, intellectual and moral character, made in his own words.”

This story “begins and ends in an Ohio town, and is essentially a picture of life in that community; but the adventures of certain of its characters take us at times to the far West with the forty-niners—to Salt Lake City in the early days of Brigham Young, to the closing scenes of the Civil war, and to the prairies of Kansas. The story is one of three generations, not only of the Landrays, but of the other families with whose fortunes theirs are associated.”—Dial.

* “A novel whose interest, although complicated, is remarkably well sustained. Its faults of incoherency do not prevent it from being a fairly readable production.” Wm. M. Payne.

* “This story is unsatisfactory. There is good work in it; but the general scheme is weak. Characterization is one of Mr. Kester’s strongest qualities.”

Ketcham, Heber D. Certainty of the kingdom and other sermons. The Methodist pulpit. Second series, *50c. Meth. bk.

In the hope that the ways of God may be made more plain to his readers, the author offers these eight sermons entitled, The certainty of the kingdom, Our sonship, The will, the pivot of destiny. The unveiled vision, Paul, the preacher, and Life’s procession of the seasons.

Key, A. Cooper-. Primer of explosives, for the use of local inspectors and dealers. *35c. Macmillan.

“The author gives a short description of the manufacture of the chief explosives, but its great value will be found in the sections devoted to special risks with each class, the methods of storing and packing, and a particularly useful chapter on the general construction and management of a store, the destruction of explosives, etc. It is certain that a careful study of the book by local inspectors will lead to a better understanding of the whole question of explosives.... For those traders and users who have the handling of these goods after they have left the manufactory the book should be equally valuable.”—Nature.

“This little book should prove to be of great value to those for whose benefit it has been mainly written.” J. S. S. B.

Khan,—(Hadji), and Sparroy, Wilfrid. With the pilgrims to Mecca, *$3.50. Lane.

An account of Mr. Khan’s journey to Mecca in 1902 as a special correspondent of the Morning Post. The author is a Mohammedan and speaks Arabic fluently. He tells of the various rites and ceremonies which must be performed by the pilgrims, and of their strange religious feasts and festivals. There are also chapters upon bazaars and social life in the holy city, the whole being enlivened by the original humor of the author’s guide. There is a closing chapter upon the slave market by Mr. Sparroy.

“A book which gives perhaps the most vivid and picturesque account of the great pilgrimage which has ever been written in English, compared with which the well known narratives of Burckhardt and Burton are dry, jejune and colourless. For vigour of style and picturesque treatment of Hadji Khan may be compared with the famous traveller, Palgrave, with the latter’s tendency to embroider the narrative at the expense of accuracy.”

“No portion of the book lacks interest for the curiously inclined, and it is admirably and graphically written.” Wallace Rice.

“It is unfortunate that little reliance can be put on our author’s accuracy. With the pictures of society and trade in Mecca it is different; these are most lively in color and give every appearance of truth.”

“For an insight into the mind of the Oriental, and more particularly of the followers of the prophet, with the ceremonies of his faith, we know of nothing equal to the work under notice.”

“Every detail of the ‘pilgrim’s progress’ from his arrival at Jeddah is minutely set forth, and that with a force and local colour that increases one’s interest.”

Kielland, Alexander L. Professor Lovedahl; tr. from the Norwegian, by Rebecca Blair Flandrau. *$1.25. Turner, H. B.

“A romance from the Northland. The love of money and power lead to the downfall of a society man and to the gradual ruin of a whole community. The author aims to put corruption and cant in their proper places.”—Bookm.

“A story pre-eminently Scandinavian in its matter, inspiration, and outcome. Nobody in it is happy; few people in it are good. It is all horribly futile and Scandinavian.”

A popular edition of this autobiography of a child of the Bowery, a newsboy, a “beer slinger” in a notorious dive, a pugilist, one who could not read or write until he was thirty, who now at thirty-eight earns his living by his pen, and upholds the cause of right. It is the story of how this development of the real man in him came about thru the influence of his Mamie Rose, the little school teacher who died on the eve of their marriage, and also, tho perhaps he would not admit it, thru the influence of his pal, the bull pup Bill.

“‘My Mamie Rose’ is a true love story, a human document and a photograph of slum life as it is to-day. Its effect will be to demolish theories of environment and to inspire the settlement worker with greater hope.”

Kinealy, John Henry. Centrifugal fans: a theoretical and practical treatise on fans for moving air in large quantities at comparatively low pressures. *$5. Spon.

“This compact little treatise is devoted mainly to the theory of centrifugal fans. There is included in it, however, a brief outline showing the evolution of the present usual commercial type of centrifugal fan and some practical information concerning the less common types, such as the cone type, running without a casing, and disk or propeller fans. The work is primarily devoted, however, to the ordinary commercial fan for use in heating and ventilating work or for mechanical draught.”—Engin. N.

201“It is difficult to see how this work can be of material value to the practicing engineer.” D. W. Taylor.

This is not one of General King’s garrison stories, altho it is of course a story of the army. Its hero, Ronald Fane, who wins the medal of honor and the girl he loves, is first an instructor at West Point, and after active service against the Apaches becomes instructor in military tactics at a western university. There are many complications and the plot is skilfully tangled and skilfully straightened out again.

A sub-title declares that this novel is, “an episode in the canteen crusade,” and it does set forth the army sentiment against the well meaning outsiders who defeated the ends of temperance by abolishing the canteen; but the book is largely concerned with a garrison scandal caused by a beautiful Spanish girl with two husbands and many lovers. There are several unsavory episodes and the book draws, perhaps, a less pleasing picture of army life than any of General King’s army stories.

King, Henry Churchill. Personal and ideal elements in education. **$1.50. Macmillan.

“President King writes for the scholar a conservative interpretation of the results gained by men like Coe, Starbuck, and Leuba in their researches concerning psychology of conversion and allied themes.... The chapters were first delivered as papers before religious conventions.... The volume contains President King’s inaugural address, another plea for the retention of the old-time college course.”—Dial.

* “His plea for less of the mechanical and more of the personal in education is worth the attention of teachers and of all interested in the methods which are at this moment forming the future citizen.”

King, Henry Churchill. Rational living: some practical inferences from modern psychology, **$1.25. Macmillan.

“President King ... has brought together the ‘four great emphases’ of psychological study in popular form, and pointed out their direct practical bearing on the conduct of life. For the satisfaction of those who have not at hand the works of the masters in psychology, he quotes these freely, so that the reader may judge of the adequacy of the grounds on which are based the practical counsels which they suggest for rational living in respect to growth, character, happiness, and influence. In conclusion it is shown that ‘just these ideal conditions to which psychology leads us Christ declares to be actual.’”—Outlook.

“The peculiar merit of President King’s work is that he has presented the fundamental facts of psychology, together with the practical counsels which they impose for a life in rational accord with our nature, more comprehensively and completely than any preceding writer.”

The sweat shop, the college settlement, and the college itself, each points its own moral in this story of Marion, the niece of a millionaire, who turns from a life of luxury to work among the poor. Her self sacrifice, however, is not rewarded by personal happiness for, in the renunciation of Roger, her betrothed, she suffers equally with him as he works out his expiation for the betrayal of a daughter of the sweat-shop, who was employed in his great department store.

Kingsley, Mrs. Florence (Morse). Resurrection of Miss Cynthia. †$1.50. Dodd.

Miss Cynthia, a spinster of thirty-three, who has lived a narrow, cramped little life is told by her doctor that, owing to an affection of the lungs, she has only one more year to live. Instead of repining she decides to make her last days happy ones so she throws off all the traditions of her house, discards black for bright colors, and goes out to enjoy light and sunshine. As a result she finds both health and an old lover.

Kinzbrunner, Charles. Testing the continuous current machine in laboratories and test-rooms: a practical work for students and engineers. $2. Wiley.

“This work is a laboratory manual giving detailed instruction for carrying out numerous experiments upon direct current machines. The author has had constantly in mind the necessity of planning the exercises with a view to their practical application and has endeavored to make the book useful to engineers as well as to students.”—Engin. N.

“It is a pleasure to commend Mr. Kinzbrunner’s manual to American readers and to state that it deserves to be classed with the somewhat similar works of Nichols, Swenson, and Frankenfield, and other well-known writers of electrical laboratory manuals.” Henry H. Norris.

“In a green and gold cover, with an old-fashioned ship on it riding high before the wind, reappears this famous volume of verse by the unofficial laureate of Great Britain. The pages are adorned with decorative borders in green.”—Critic.

“Faithful Norsk-English dialect, Western slang, cleverness in rhyme and structure, and odd incongruity of familiar stories put in a queer form—all help to make the poems amusing in a new fashion.”—Outlook.

“Novelty and freshness, and no little ingenuity as a parodist, salute us in this volume of dialect verse.”

“The story of the social and financial aspirations of a well-meaning and very able young chauffeur, who never killed anyone unless he had to in order to make a certain run, and who would handle a machine as few chauffeurs can.... The story, told by Charles himself and frequently spelled phonetically, abounds in descriptions of a highly diverting nature.”—N. Y. Times.

“For those who enjoy humor of a broad up-to-date kind this will be just the kind of story they will like.”

A volume in the “Pilgrimage” series. A brief biography of the novelist which, in following his life, gives with the places, persons and incidents mentioned the part each played in his stories. There are fifty full-page illustrations in half-tone, including pictures of Dickens himself and of the places connected with him.

“In ‘The Dickens country’ we have a work worthy of the subject and of the writer. Wherever he [Dickens pilgrim] may list to go, he should carry this book with him—a sure and faithful guide, and a pleasant travelling-companion.”

“The work has been done so faithfully and so fully that it need never be attempted again.”

“He had thoroughly mastered the subject, and wrote out of a well-filled mind.”

Some observations on life and manners in New England a hundred years ago, suggested by reading the earlier numbers of Mr. Robert B. Thomas’s “Farmer’s Almanack”; together with extracts, curious, instructive, and entertaining, as well as a variety of miscellaneous matter.

“There are, indeed, not a few purple patches sewed into this crazy-quilt, but they are hid from our eyes unless we find clues in the capacious index.”

Kindly impressions of the United States, its institutions and its people by one whose object was to see and describe the things of our land which might serve as profitable examples to his “poor beloved France.” The Abbe visited New York, Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Peoria, St. Louis and the World’s fair, Pittsburg, Baltimore, Washington and Philadelphia, and also saw something of Canada. His volume is dedicated to President Roosevelt and is an author’s translation of his successful French work.

“The good literary style of the English version, made by the Abbé himself, and the highly entertaining character of the narrative, will no doubt make it a favorite in this country also.” Percy F. Bicknell.

“The wit and brilliancy that shine upon every page, and illuminate the acute judgments made by Abbé Klein, give a unique charm to the record, and will attract many readers.”

The letters of Sir Thomas Lawrence, Mrs. Siddons, and Maria and Sally Siddons help to tell the story of the love affairs of the artist and the two daughters of the great actress. Both girls died early of consumption and Lawrence died a bachelor, but lived to break other hearts. The book is illustrated with lithographs and facsimiles taken from drawings and portraits done by Lawrence.

“Its peculiar value consists in the light it casts upon an age when people cultivated and enjoyed their emotions more than they did wisdom or intelligence.”

“Any book from the pen of Dr. William Knight, the Wordsworth scholar and St. Andrews professor, is sure to be richly worth the reading.... After noting, in his preface, the indisputable benefit to be derived from communion, whether personal or thru books, with ‘characters that are strong, original, exalted and benign, that are many sided, fertile-minded and ideal,’ he says a word condemnatory of that distorted presentation of a man’s life which is not seldom found in the so-called critical biography.” (Dial). “Professor Knight ... adds to fuller and more formal accounts of his literary contemporaries odds and ends of which he has had personal knowledge.” (N. Y. Times). Among the most interestingly discussed are Carlyle, Browning, Frederick D. Maurice, and Matthew Arnold. A second volume is promised.

“Is a treat. Without conscious idealization, therefore, or any embroidery or amplification of plain facts and spoken words, Professor Knight has produced some chapters of fragmentary biography that are as fascinating as they are convincing, their very charm indeed largely lying in their evident truthfulness and their admirable restraint.” Percy F. Bicknell.

“‘Retrospects’ is, on the whole too much involved in the academic and professionally literary point of view to inspire such interest as a more human account of the same people must needs call forth.”

* Knipe, Emilie Benson, il. Girls and boys: with new stories and verses by Alice Calhoun Haines. †$1.50. Stokes.

Pictures and verses of present day American children at home and at play. There are eight full-page illustrations in colors.

A volume containing ninety poems, grouped into five sections and singing of human love, divine love, love triumphant over guilt, and love of country.

“In Mr. Knowles’ poems we find the imaginative genius of the true poet, the grace of the accomplished versifier and the prophet’s high and noble appeal to the reason and sense of right in man, all in so eminent a degree that his work holds for us a special charm.”

203“Mr. Knowles’s volume contains some very good verses. But there are also some very bad ones.”

“The illustrations are all very well reproduced, and beneath each one a full description, with sizes, etc., is given, a most useful feature, making reference and identification easy.”

“Mr. Knowles, while not disdaining the graces of rhythm and rime, and while taking the most sweet and serious things of life as subject matter, yet contrives to give a strain of real music that comes refreshingly, and to voice the themes that carry swift appeal to the heart.”

“As one reads on through the book and rereads, the rhetorical virtuosity becomes more obvious and the poetry less.”

“He gives us flashing poetic thoughts, but he cannot show them in such beauty as to move the soul. He is at his best in expression when, abandoning the labored incentive of the magazine demand, he tells simply some little story with feeling in it.”

“The pastor of a large Presbyterian church in Canada gives here in semi-romantic form the story of his parish. Most of his characters speak Scotch dialect.” (Outlook.) A love story of which the clergyman’s daughter, Margaret, is the heroine, runs thru the book.

* “He has given us the best study of mingled pathos and humor that we have read for several years.”

“The book is not without passages rich in humor and pathos, but it is too didactic, and in some particulars lacks the restraint which many readers would naturally expect of a clerical pen.”

“The interest and value of the book lie in its revelation of Scottish traits, in its author’s appreciation of a noble bedrock of granite character underlying the soil infertile of the flowers of speech.”

A guide to the collector and student in attributing specimens to the correct maker and factory and period. The author is himself a connoisseur and famous collector, and “tells us the alphabet from which pottery and the different makes of porcelain are constructed. Then, by the aid of a few historical facts, he creates a Dutch atmosphere. When we are sufficiently acclimatised he traces the development of the industry from the time when the potter-baker accepted the assistance of the seller of clay and went into partnership with the potter-turner, till he finally collaborated with the potter-painter, and the porcelain factory came into existence.” (Acad.) The volume belongs to the “Newnes library series.”

“His knowledge of the literature and history of the Dutch art is put at the disposal of his readers in a simple and engaging way, aided by beautiful colored plates of many museum pieces.”

“After an introductory chapter on ‘The point of view,’ notable for its liberal-minded common sense, Dr. Knox reviews briefly, but clearly and interestingly, the history of Japan from the traditionary period down to the present time. Chapters VI and VII are taken up with Buddhism and Confucianism; Chapter VIII ... gives an account of the efforts made in the eighteenth century to spread Confucianism by popular preaching and quotes at length from one of the curious Confucian sermons. So important in Dr. Knox’s mind is the influence of the samurai and his philosophy upon the Japanese of to-day that he devotes three chapters to this subject. The quotations from the autobiography of Arai Hakuseki in Chapter X are as informing as anything that has lately come to us about feudal Japan.”—Ind.

“In this readable volume Dr. Knox has succeeded in compressing into small space a great deal of interesting matter about Japan.”

Little chats about the home side of John Drew, William Gillette, Richard Mansfield, E. H. Sothern, and Francis Wilson with closing chapters on the Lamb’s club and the Players. There are many illustrations taken from photographs of the actors at home.

* “These sketches are deservedly popular, for they combine dignity with interest, in a field where such a combination is rarely achieved.”

Word pictures and photographs of Maude Adams, Ethel Barrymore, Julia Marlowe, Annie Russell, and Mrs. Fiske, when off stage, also chapters upon, The actress’s home behind the scenes; The actress’s Christmas; and Some actresses in summer.

In an easy conversational manner the real romance in the lives of Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, and Wagner is set forth. Several of the stories are based upon untranslated material, and many popular errors are corrected. The volume is illustrated from photographs, and includes portraits of the composers themselves and of Constance, wife of Mozart; Countess Therese von Brunswick, the “immortal beloved” of Beethoven; Mendelssohn’s wife and sister; Clara Schumann; and a reproduction of the famous pastel of Countess Potocka.

* “The accounts are entertaining, and the reader is grateful for their complete avoidance of sentimental rhapsodizing.”

* “Mr. Kobbe’s book is curiously entertaining. It is not a rehash of old and stale matter in a new binding, but is the result of personal investigation and study.”

“A profusely illustrated pictorial souvenir of the most famous living opera singers, with their biographies.... This handsome work is interesting as giving intimate glimpses of opera folk.... The artists considered in this attractive 204book are Nordica, Calvé, Eames, Melba, Sembrich, Ternina, and Schumann-Heink, and Caruso and Jean and Edouard De Reszke. There is also a chapter on ‘Opera-singers off duty.’”—R. of Rs.

“Besides being full of anecdotes, the compilation is of great value as giving biographic sketches of the singers taken down from their own lips, sometimes with the aid of stenography.”

“The correspondence and journals of Wagner and Mathilde Wesendonck, which have lately appeared, are the basis of this volume, which gives the whole story of that fascinating period of Wagner’s life. The author obtained from a friend of Mme. Wesendonck some personal impressions of her, and some photographs that are reproduced herein.”—Critic.

* “To the student of Wagner’s music these letters afford some interesting commentary from the composer.”

* Kolle, Frederick Strange. Fifty and one tales of modern fairyland, †$1.50. Grafton press.

“The tales are really new, and entertaining as well. They teach good lessons without obtruding the moral aim, and many of them are based on modern scientific discoveries and processes. Even the balloon and the automobile—a ‘conscientious’ one, not the ordinary unprincipled sort—figure in the stories. The illustrations by Flora Sheffield are in keeping.”—Critic.

* “And one finds them exactly what one might expect sterilized fairy tales to be—made of quite tasteless and sawdusty particles.”

This volume in the “Newnes art library” contains a brief life of Filippino Lippi and sixty-four full-page reproductions of his works.

* “Is a more serious performance than most of the contributors to this series have offered us.”

A description of life in the curious celibate community of Ephrata, where German mystics, refugees to Pennsylvania from the persecutions which followed the Hundred years war, endured the hardships of the pioneer. There is also a love story interwoven with danger and suffering and the rigid life of the brotherhood.

“As a representation of the manners and feelings of the time and the strange community the story has its own value. It is written with simplicity and grace.”

“Rather violently injected a love story. Every contribution to American history which recognizes the proportionate importance of the different ingredients which have gone to the composition of our national stock and so helps to a broader and fuller understanding of our national development deserves recognition and encouragement.”

A very complete account of Russian literature from its beginning in mythology and folklore to the present day, with much personal information about its great figures and copious extracts from its masterpieces.

“The work of Prince Kropotkin is very comprehensive in view of its scope. The English of Prince Kropotkin’s book is fairly good, although occasionally stiff and unidiomatic.”

“The greater part of the book, devoted wholly to the nineteenth-century writings, treated from the author’s novel point of view and full of the charm of his attractive personality, make this volume, in spite of some glaring misprints, a very desirable addition to Russian literary history.” Henry James Forman.

“Prince Kropotkin has given us a work of absorbing interest, colored, no doubt, by his own political philosophy, but discriminating and profound in its judgment of aesthetic values. Of the English language, as his readers well know, he is an absolute master.”

“But he has done us an especial service by making accessible information concerning the younger Russian writers whom we want to know something about.”

“Prince Kropotkin’s book is admirable, and, so far, at any rate, as the later Russian literature is concerned, should supercede all other works of the kind in our language.”

“In our opinion the most satisfactory treatise which has yet appeared in English on the literature of Russia.”

La Colonie, Jean Martin de. Chronicles of an old campaigner, M. De La Colonie, 1692-1717; from the French of Walter C. Horsley. *$4. Dutton.

“These memoirs of the war of the Spanish succession have been unknown to English readers, and in this adequate translation have real historic value. Curious sidelights on military customs and methods of war two hundred years ago are included. The ‘old campaigner’ had a bluff, rugged, and not uninteresting personality. There are portraits and other illustrations.”—Outlook.

“The book is preëminently for military men, being devoted to the details of battles and sieges, of marches and counter-marches. Other readers will find it tiresomely prolix. Both translator and printer appear to have done their work well. Portraits, plans of battles and a copious index are duly provided.”

“It cannot be said that the book is a substantial addition to historical knowledge, but it is pleasant reading and is beautifully illustrated with portraits and plans.” I. S. Leadam.

“This book contains little information regarding politics or society, but certainly deserves to be known by all who care to study warfare as an art.”

205“The translation of the memoirs by Mr. Horsley has its special merit, as it gives an excellent idea of the methods of warfare at the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. The translation is remarkably well done, and the notes at the foot of the pages of great value.”

* La Fontaine, Rachel Adelaide. Days and hours of Raphael, with a key to the hours. **$1. Grafton press.

“A little manual of art study, substantially bound, copiously illustrated, and intended for the tyro in matters aesthetic. The full page plates in half-tone, including, besides the seven ‘Days’ and the twelve ‘Hours,’ two portraits of Raphael, are of excellent quality. The accompanying notes of explanation are very elementary, presupposing little knowledge of art or mythology on the part of the reader.”—Dial.

* “It is a pity, seeing her effort for simplicity, that the author does not couch her ideas in less obscure and tortuously constructed sentences.”

* “The explanations of the illustrations the book contains are comprehensive and interesting. The book will have a place in any collection of Raphaeliana.”

Lahontan, Armand Louis de Delondarce, baron de. New voyages to North America; reprinted from the English ed. of 1703, with a facsimile of original title pages, and 24 maps and il., and the addition of introd., notes, and analytical index, by Reuben Gold Thwaites; (with bibliography by Victor Hugo Paltists). 2v. *$7.50. McClurg.

Two books of adventurous travel in the heart of North America. The author came to New France at the age of seventeen in 1683 with a detachment of French marines, and he writes of experiences which cover many years, giving “an account of the customs, commerce, religion and strange opinions of the savages,” with geographical information and personal comment. “There is also a dialogue between the author and a general of the savages,” and “an account of the author’s retreat to Portugal and Denmark and his remarks on their courts.” His book was very popular when first published but the truth of the whole was later doubted because of one chapter, which gave in detail an apparently fictitious story of the discovery of the River Long.

“These volumes display enthusiasm as well as erudition, and render accessible a great quantity of curious information. The labour that has been bestowed both on the letters themselves and on the bibliography is worthy of the highest praise.”

“The foot-notes are admirably done, and a long introduction describes entertainingly the character of the writer and his narrative. Mr. Paltsits in this, as in preceding volumes of the series, contributes a scholarly and satisfying bibliography.”

“Dr. Thwaites’s editorial notes are similar in quality to those which have accompanied his ‘Jesuit relations’ and other works of Western travel. The Introduction, however, contains one or two slips.”

* Laking, Guy Francis. Furniture of Windsor castle, by Guy Francis Laking, Keeper of the king’s armory; published by command of His Majesty King Edward VII. *35c. Dutton.

* “A sumptuous book, appearing as an imperial quarto, bound in half leather, with the British royal monogram in color on one side. The collection at Windsor castle is well-known for its fine specimens of Louis XIV., XV., and XVI. periods, as well as the best examples of the most famous craftsmen of the past two centuries—Jacob Chippendale, Riesener, André Bouille, Gaspar Teune, and many others. The introduction to the book treats of the starting of the collection and its growth, from the beginning of the seventeenth century down to the present day.... The illustrations, presenting pictures of the finest specimens in the collection, are in photogravure.”—N. Y. Times.

* “It is evidently the work of one who has a good knowledge of technical history and an eye that can discriminate between original work and restorations.”

“Here certainly is the largest, richest edition of the ‘Letters’ which has been published, clearly superior to some in size, to others in the quality and scope of the notes, and to all as a book that is easy and pleasant to read. In short, Mr. Lucas seems to come near to an inaccessible perfection, as well as to have produced the best edition of the ‘Letters’.”

“Mr. Lucas’s copious and most interesting notes are the fruit of years of loving study and research. To him Lamb is indeed ‘Saint Charles’; yet his chief editorial merit lies, perhaps, in giving us Saint Charles un-canonized.” William Archer.

“The editor has used extraordinary pains to make clear the innumerable allusions to persons and things well known to correspondents, but unknown to us.”

“A small quarto, liberal and very clear in print, and adorned for each play by a full-page colored design from the pencil of Norman M. Price. These designs are, in point of merit and attractiveness in perfect keeping with the rest of the elegant volume, and will impress and educate the taste of any child who reads the classic by himself.... The portraits of the authors after those in the National portrait gallery face the bordered title-page.”—Nation.

* “We recall no edition of Charles and Mary Lamb’s ‘Tales from Shakespeare’ comparable at all points with that just issued by Jack in London.”

This essay which discusses the drama in its various phases is developed under the divisions Criticism is not analysis; The aesthetic essential in drama; The play of the people; Sympathy as a dramatic force; The dramatic power of terror; Humor in drama; Reflective thought in drama; and Scenery and music in drama as an aid to the creation of atmosphere. The essay may prove suggestive to dramatic critics, and it will certainly help the average reader to form his own opinions and to challenge the “misstatement and false argument” so often found in newspaper criticism.

Lamb, Osborn Rennie, and Dixon, H. Claiborn. Iberian: Anglo-Greek play. $1.50. Ames & Rollinson press.

Following the ancient dramas in unities of time, place and theme, “The Iberian” combines in a one-act play “the beauties of the ancient Greek drama with those of the modern romantic play, so as to adapt the same to the stage and scenario of to-day.” Athens is the scene of the play, 435 B. C., the time.

Lamprecht, Karl Gotthard. What is history? Five lectures on the modern science of history; tr. from the Germ. by E. A. Andrews, **$1.25. Macmillan.

One of these lectures was first given at the Congress of arts and sciences in St. Louis, and the other four at the sesquicentennial of Columbia university. The subjects treated are Historical development and present character of the science of history; The general course of German history from a psychological point of view; The translation to the psychic character of the German present; Universal mechanism of psychic periods of transition; Psychology of the periods of culture in general; and Problems of universal history.

“‘What is history?’ is throughout suggestive and provocative, though the work of translation has not been skilfully performed; indeed, the English version is in one or two passages unintelligible.”

“The translation inevitably suffers from such conditions. In spite of them it gives us a rendering which is clear, readable, and reliable for sense, and which is a useful contribution toward an English terminology of the subject. Many inexcusable inaccuracies in detail occur, however.” Asa Currier Tilton.

“Unfortunately the book abounds in abstruse terminology borrowed from psychology and kindred sciences.”

“Throughout, indeed, the translation scarcely helps to clear up the obscurities of the original.” A. G.

“Professor Lamprecht has a clumsy method of presentation ... and he adds to the difficulty by much elusiveness of demonstration and by an awkward terminology. Professor Lamprecht’s method may be good psychology, it certainly is not history.”

“There is a meaning, we doubt not, in his words, but it is very hard to get at.”

“Their appeal is to the student of the science of society rather than to the historian proper.”

A collection of short stories which “deal with the men who herd and shear the sheep in South New Zealand and save them from storm and snow at the cost of hardships scarce endurable. At times, too, the native plays a part.” (R. of Rs.)

“Mr. Lancaster reaches a high level of excellence in ‘The story of Wi.’”

Lancaster, R. V. Creed of Christ: a study of the Gospels. 60c. Presbyterian com.

The author states in his preface, “I have caught a glimpse of Jesus from what, to me, is a fresh viewpoint,” and this he voices in his book, which is divided into two sections: The introduction, and The creed. Under the latter head he discusses, The scriptures; God; Satan; Sin; Redeemed men; The kingdom; The second coming; The final glory, and Kindred subjects.

“His volume is careful, painstaking, conscientious, but without insight or imagination, and so without literary quality.”

“Mr. Landon gives in ‘The opening of Tibet,’ an account of Lhasa, the history of Tibet, the folk-lore and manners of the Tibetans, and the present relations with the rest of the world, with which he became acquainted as the representative of the London Times with the mission sent by the British government to Lhasa. The book is profusely illustrated with reproductions of photographs and sketches and maps.” (N. Y. Times). An introduction is provided by Col. Younghusband, who headed the mission to the Forbidden land.

“The book is ponderous in size, wide in its scope and interesting reading. Including the numerous appendices, the range of information extends from the frogs and fishes of the country to the folklore, art, religion and amazing priest-craft of the people.”

“Regrettable that some errors of fact and date should have crept into the earlier and historical pages of the work.”

“Fine descriptive writing, indeed, is characteristic of Mr. Landon’s work throughout.”

“Is a virile and picturesque narrative of great general interest. All in all, it is a welcome addition to the annals of travel and exploration.” H. Addington Bruce.

“Mr. Landon has the genius of the true reporter for weaving a large amount of detail in an interesting ‘story,’ but he gives no map or index.”

“The work is conceived on broader lines, historically and philosophically, than the rival volume of Mr. Candler.”

“A characteristically British presentation of a most interesting and somewhat delicate subject. The vast amount of information which 207Mr. Landon has collected ... This is not a solemn book altogether.”

“The Tibetan expedition was fortunate to have with it a writer so competent to do justice to its romance, so sympathetic towards Tibetan life, so eagerly inquisitive and retentive of impressions, and above all, the possessor of a style so dexterous and graceful.”

“In his book, Mr. Landor tells about a second journey to Tibet. He describes the natives, their costumes, and religion, and the country through which he passes, besides recounting adventures on the way. He has provided numerous colored and black-and-white pictures, being reproductions of sketches made on the spot. These illustrations are portraits of the native men, women, and children, scenery, churches, animals, &c. In the opening chapter the author writes of his preparations for this visit.”—N. Y. Times.

“This odd, unsatisfactory and fascinating essay. The present writer can only say that for his part, he believes his author to be sincere and correct, and one of the pluckiest, truest-hearted and most enterprising men in the world to boot.... One of the cleverest, too, for the drawings in colour and black and white display a very acute artistic sense and an exquisite perception of the beauty and grandeur of mountain scenery.”

“It is difficult to take Mr. Landor seriously, and we find it impossible to follow his tour geographically.”

“The illustrations with which Mr. Landor has liberally besprinkled the story of his achievements are even more astonishing than the text.” H. Addington Bruce.

“Apart from some apparent faults, the book is decidedly agreeable and even exciting reading, and presents in many ways an intimate picture of the life of the Tibetans and their innumerable curious customs. The colored pictures are striking and effective.”

“He traveled only on the outskirts of the country, and he makes some obvious mistakes; but he writes with an assumption of the highest expert knowledge. This swashbuckling air does not reassure the reader; but when it comes to climbing snow mountains our imagination falters far behind him.”

Seventeen essays are collected in this volume. Adventures among books, Recollections of Robert Louis Stevenson, Rab’s friend, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mr. Morris’s poems, Mrs. Radcliff’s novels, A Scottish romanticist of 1830, The confessions of St. Augustine, Smollet, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The paradise of poets, Paris and Helen, Enchanted cigarettes, Stories and story telling, The supernatural in fiction, An old Scottish psychical researcher, The boy.

“It holds the sound criticism which proceeds from good taste and wide knowledge, though it is so lightly presented as to seem mere butterfly work.”

“But one forgives Mr. Lang his little affectations for the sake of his delightful humor, his literary touch, and his real bookishness.” Jeannette L. Gilder.

“Those who have a taste for books about books will hunt long before they will find one more tickling to the palate than Mr. Lang’s ‘Adventures among books.’” Percy F. Bicknell.

“They are very high class work of the moment rather than work of a permanent quality.”

“Mr. Lang’s account of his own ‘adventures among books’ is full of teaching and attractiveness. So indeed are all the papers that make up this volume.”

Lang, Andrew. History of Scotland from the Roman occupation. V. 3, *$3.50. Dodd.

The period covered in the third volume of Mr. Lang’s history begins with the accession of Charles I., and continues to the end of Argyll’s rising, 1625-1688. “With always interesting details, he carefully considers successively the Protestant disruption, the riot in St. Giles’s church and its consequences, the bishops’ war, the Scotch invasion of England, the relations of the commonwealth to Scotland, finally the restoration.... It is true that the period was one of theological, political, and physical conflict, measured by the battles of Aberdeen, Auldearn, Alford, Kilsyth, Carbinsdale, Dunbar.... But out of the general swaying, struggling mass of men rise certain commanding figures who receive characteristic treatment from Mr. Lang—Hamilton, Montrose, Charles the First, Sharp, Argyll, Cromwell.” (Outlook).

“If the present volume maintains the standard of excellence set by its predecessors it does not escape the shortcomings that characterized them. The proportion is occasionally obscured and the connection of events lost sight of, by the inclusion of details which although interesting are unrelated. The disposition of the material and the general structure of the volume are, on the other hand, excellent; and some of the characterizations—notably those of the two Argylls, Montrose and Archbishop Sharp—are altogether vital and admirable.” Gaillard Thomas Lapsley.

“The impression received from this work is that the author is not attempting to write a formal history of Scotland, but is rather using the materials he has collected and studied to test the accuracy of earlier works by well-known authors. The result is that while those who are intimately familiar with the details of Scottish history will find Mr. Lang intensely interesting as a critic and as a shrewd investigator, uncovering new sources of information, the ordinary reader must frequently be puzzled to understand the connection and relation of events. But in respect to exact statement of doubtful events at least, Mr. Lang’s work is a fine example of modern scholarship, being based on a careful analysis of the documents and other sources available for the study of Scottish history.”

“He is, as usual, at his best in appreciations of character, and, as usual, he sees important points which have generally been ignored. His work suffers somewhat from its great accuracy in points of detail. Mr. Lang has gone to the original sources, and ... he has thrown fresh light on many obscure topics, and he has brought a sane and enlightened judgment to bear on the numerous controverted issues in his story.”

“He takes little or no thought about style, but simply jots down the facts in a succession of short sentences. The modern passion for scrutinizing all the sources and presenting their results in the most plain and summary fashion has seized and carried away this accomplished man of letters. The chief blemish of the book is the spirit in which it is written. We might have expected Mr. Lang, in dealing 208with men and events that lie two centuries and a half behind him, to show that calmness and detachment which befit the philosophic historian. The best parts of his book, and certainly the most readable, are those which describe the campaigns of that brilliant leader [Montrose].”

“It is less frequently relieved by what Stevenson termed its author’s ‘incommunicable humour.’ There is, further, in this volume a good deal more than we have noticed before of Mr. Lang’s ‘perversity.’”

In his account of the life of John Knox, Mr. Lang has endeavored to get behind enveloping traditions and reveal the real man. He criticises Knox’s history carefully and disagrees with it. He gives much Scottish history and an interesting account of Knox’s struggle with Mary Stuart and his onslaught upon Mary of Guise in which is much gentle irony.

“Even in exposing the enormities of John Knox he keeps his literary temper, and instead of breaking the reformer’s head with a bludgeon, gently pricks him with the pin-point of his scorn.”

“The book is exceedingly lively in tone and style, but is, we think, rather spoilt throughout by the apparent desire to make points.”

“But because the work is as true and impartial as it is, it is the best life of Knox we have.”

“Mr. Lang writes as a man of letters, without much respect for popular traditions or what the elders consider orthodoxy. He goes not only to the sources, but back of tradition, even to the intensely human John Knox. Lang makes Knox not less great, but more human.”

“From the beginning to the end of his book, Mr. Lang employs all the resources of his literary art, irony, denunciation, special pleading, to discredit the great Reformer.” Charles H. Cooper.

“But what separates Mr. Lang from his colleagues in this literature is a marked lack of sympathy with the public life of his subject. That he writes a charming book is a matter of course.”

“Mr. Lang has studied his subject as few of the more solemn of his biographers have, and exhibits in his entertaining book a very human, powerful, and not unlikable Knox.”

“It would command universal admiration (out of Scotland general assent) if it were not for a satirical style, which hardly befits history.”

“This edition has fifty illustrations reproduced from drawings or etchings by J. H. Lorimer, Alfred Dawson, Toussaint, Brunet-Debaines, Ernest Stamp, Lancelot Speed, T. H. Crawford, R. K. Thomas, and Joseph Pennell, and there are one or two rather charming drawings to which no artist’s name is given. The book itself is too well known to need discussion now.”—Acad.

“‘All the stories were done by Mrs. Lang out of the old romances,’ says the editor, who proffers excellent advice as to what should be read, being the sworn foe of the youthful prig. Mr. H. J. Ford has provided alluring illustrations, some of which are full of bright color. The stories come largely from the North, which produces, perhaps, the best romances in the world; but we have also ‘The tale of the Cid,’ ‘Don Quixote’s homecoming,’ ‘Cupid and Psyche,’ ‘Guy of Warwick,’ and others.”—Ath.

* “It is full of the kind of entertainment always provided by its compiler.”

* “No better reading for the young will be found among this year’s Christmas books.”

* “The stories are all told by Mrs. Lang and are in a graceful easy style, except for a trick of generalization in a would-be humorous fashion, and occasional unpleasant affectations.”

* “A fine book for a holiday gift either for a youngster, or an old person with a young heart.”

* “Mrs. Lang has written the stories out of the old romances and has done it admirably.”

“A peep at the strange and wonderful history of extinct animals” thru which the author hopes to awaken in young people an interest in its further study. The volume embodies a corrected shorthand report of a course of lectures adapted to a juvenile audience given by the author during the Christmas holidays, 1903-4 at the Royal institution, London. The lantern slides used in the lectures have been converted into process blocks to illustrate the volume, there are over two hundred illustrations and drawings, many of which are from photographs of specimens in the Natural history museum.

* “It may safely be said that since the days of that ‘most delightful collector and explorer of the earth’s crust, Dr. Gideon Mantell,’ there has been published no book on this subject combining so successfully the virtues of accuracy and attractiveness.”

“We give the book a hearty welcome, feeling sure that its perusal will draw many young recruits to the army of naturalists and many readers to its pages.”

“It is well adapted to arouse the interest of adult as well as youthful minds in a fascinating branch of study.”

“Appealing chiefly to young people ... the author adopts an easy, somewhat conversational style, as free as possible from unnecessary technicalities. But simple and elementary though the book is, it is by no means confined to matter already well known even to scientific readers.”

Larned, Josephus Nelson. Seventy centuries of the life of mankind. 2v. $4.50. C. A. Nichols Co., Springfield, Mass.

“These volumes are evidently intended for the general reader who wishes an intelligent grasp of the broad outlines of general history.... 209The biographical prefaces to each period are unique and useful, the index is good, the illustrations are chosen with discrimination.”—Ind.

“The arrangement of the work is not striking and the impressions conveyed are not clear cut. He has made remarkably discriminating use of excellent and recent materials available in English.”

* “Makes the serious error of a chronological arrangement regardless of the logical sequence of events, and he divides time into periods measured by the lives of great men—a method destructive of real historical unity.”

“Unlike most abridgments, it is extremely readable, and is well calculated to stimulate the beginner to further inquiry. When all is said, however, the excellencies of the work outweigh its defects.”

Larson, Laurence Marcellus. King’s household in England before the Norman conquest. 50c. Univ. of Wis.

A monograph submitted for the degree of doctor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin. First comes a discussion of the relations of the king and his nobles, the eorls, gesiths, and thegns; then the various officers of the royal household, the king’s reeve, seneschal, butler, chamberlain, staller, and house-carls are considered and the development of their offices is traced.

“Exhibits much more originality and power of research than the average doctoral thesis, it also displays a linguistic equipment and a lucid style. He has carefully exploited charters, laws, chronicles, sagas, lives of saints, and poetic monuments in quest of evidence bearing on his subject; and the result is a substantial contribution to our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon institutions.” C: Gross.

“Is an admirable study of a subject beset with great difficulties. Dr. Larson deserves warm praise for the skill which he has shown.”

Latham, Charles. Gardens of Italy: a series of over 300 illustrations from photographs of the most famous examples of Italian gardens, with descriptive text by E. March Phillipps. 2v. $18. Scribner.

“A pair of very sumptuous folio volumes containing the collected series of photographs of Italian gardens by Mr. Charles Latham.... These fine photographs have more than an artistic charm; one dwells on them all with delicious memories.” (Lond. Times.) “As a photographer of architecture, and especially of gardens, Latham stands among the ablest.... Some descriptive text by E. March Phillipps accompanies the pictures. It is of a gossiping, semi-historical sort.” (Nation.)

* “He who has never seen them will find the present treatment at once comprehensive and suggestive.”

“The value of such a splendid collection of photographs as Mr. Latham’s is so evident, and the expense of securing them so great, that it is much to be regretted, that they should not be accompanied by plans.”

“Miss Phillipps brings to her descriptive text those elements of knowledge which are most conducive toward a pleasant and worthy realization of her work.”

* “The text leaves somewhat to be desired; there is in it much too little of the noble art of landscape gardening.”

This volume “tells the story of the men who discovered and explored the great Northwest. First among the explorers of the land west of the Mississippi the author places Pierre Radisson, claiming precedence for him over Marquette, Joliet, and La Salle.... The discovery of an account of Radisson’s voyages, written by himself, the authenticity of which has been generally admitted by scholars, has induced the author to popularize the story of his life in the West and rescue his name from oblivion.” (Cath. World.) There are many illustrations, an historical appendix and an index.

“But whatever we may decide as to Miss Laut’s theory as to the Mississippi and Lake Superior discoveries, two facts remain: first, Radisson and Groseillers were pathfinders—in the real sense—to Hudson Bay; and, secondly, the author has made a readable translation of much of Radisson’s narrative.”

“Her work is not merely authentic, and founded, as history must always be founded, on the original documents, but it is vivified by the touch of an artist.” Lawrence J. Burpee.

“Asks us to readjust our notions of the early history of the western United States. Miss Laut is doing a work which deserves well of historians in following up to their sources the stories and traditions of the Western history of our country and retelling the stories in her characteristically clear style.”

Lawson, Publius Virgilius. Bravest of the brave. Captain Charles de Langlade. $1.50. Log cabin inn, Menasha, Wis.

Altho the hero of this sketch fought upon the other side in the French and Indian war and the Revolutionary war, he compels the interest of Americans as a great French-Canadian pioneer. The account of some of the “ninety-nine battles, skirmishes and border affrays” in which he took part is stirring.

“From materials in the possession of the Wisconsin historical society, and from other sources, Mr. Lawson has constructed a most interesting sketch of this ardent pioneer and fighter.”

Lawson, Publius Virgilius. Prince or creole: the mystery of Louis Seventeenth. $1.50. G. Banta pub. co.

An attempt to prove that the late Rev. Eleazer Williams, who devoted his life to missionary work among the Indians, was really the boy king, son of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, and that instead of dying in the Temple prison, Paris, he was sent to America where he grew up as the son of a half-breed.

“He has not marshaled his evidences; his brief is a hodge podge; his statements, made with much éclat, are unsubstantiated by references. He has not even the grace of style to make his book interesting.”

“If he does not succeed in winning his readers to his way of thinking, Mr. Lawson may at least take to himself the credit of having recounted, in an entertaining way, a narrative of high interest altogether apart from that naturally attached to historical mysteries.”

210Leach, Albert Ernest. Food inspection and analysis, for the use of public analysis, health officers, sanitary chemists, and food economists. $7.50. Wiley.

“The foregoing title very well describes this book written by one of America’s analysts of longest experience in this field of chemistry.... Food inspection, its principles and the precautions necessary in its conduct are ably, though briefly discussed.... The mass of information gathered in American laboratories together with the more recent developments in European food inspection, ... the author has ably systematized and condensed.... Nearly two hundred carefully compiled tables of composition are given, and upward of fifty tables showing the physical characters, chemical constants, etc., of food constituents, are introduced.... The worker in the field of food chemistry will find of great value the list of bibliographic references with which each chapter closes.”—Science.

“Few American contributions of importance seem to have escaped his notice. No important class of foods has failed to receive careful consideration. As a guide to special analytical methods the work is no less valuable. In literary style, the book is clear and concise. There are a few striking omissions. All considered, however, this book is the best manual on its special subject in the English language, possibly in any language.” William Frear.

* Learned, Arthur G. Eve’s daughters: epigrams about women from world-wide sources. Compiled by a mere man and portrayed by A. G. Learned. $1.75. Estes.

“These epigrams, made by men concerning women and compiled by ‘a mere man,’ include wise and witty sayings from the works of such men as Goethe, Hugo, Cervantes, Tolstoy, Emerson, Shakespeare, Euripides, Thackeray, Ruskin, Byron, Bourget, Maupassant, and many others ... about the widow, the coquette, the flirt, the debutante, the prude, the summer girl, and the best and highest type of womanhood as well. The work is designed as a gift-book, and is beautifully illustrated by Mr. A. G. Learned with delicate marginal line drawings, and more elaborate full-page designs.”—N. Y. Times.

* “The epigrams contained herein are famous; the numerous illustrations are not.”

* “The volume belongs to the large class of pretty and amusing gift-books which are intended not for systematic reading, but for pleasant companionship in an idle hour.”

An attractive little volume which contains about forty poems on such subjects as life, love, nature, and thought.

“All may be said to be ‘sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,’ rather than to evince any novel or original thought on the author’s part. Yet the verse itself is at least of average merit.”

“These two examples show Mr. Ledoux to have refined sensibilities and something of the poetic vision; and they are fairly representative of a body of work that is finished in execution and uniformly pleasing.” Wm. M. Payne.

The second volume in the “Music of the masters” series. Mr. Lee’s exposition at no time loses sight of the object of the series which is helpfulness to the “plain man,” and in so doing he analyses, summarizes and holds up to broad day the vitalizing facts of Tchaikovsky’s musical genius. The symphonies, chamber music, orchestral works, piano-forte music and songs are discussed in turn with illustrations of the principal themes.

“His criticism is searching and candid as well as sympathetic, and his descriptions are picturesque.” Richard Aldrich.

“The first chapter in this book is devoted to general information about manuscripts and translations, and closes with commendation of the American revision. A chapter on personal Bible study follows. The rest of the book is taken up with illustrations of different methods of Bible study—by books, by historic periods, by characters and incidents—and a concluding chapter on expository preaching.”—Bib. World.

“The style is simple and clear, although the range of subjects required too much condensation. The critical standpoint is quite conservative. The historical sketches are compiled from ordinary sources.” Charles Richmond Henderson.

“The author allows Gen. Lee’s letters, written to his most intimate ones, to form the body of the book. As these letters were written without any idea of their being made public, this book turns the light on the man as he really was.” (Ind.) “The hero of the Confederacy, seen through the eyes of his youngest son, stands forth a living personage, a kindly husband and father no less than an ideal commander, not unduly elated by victory, nor unduly cast down by defeat.” Some of the chapters are devoted to “Services in the United States army,” “The confederate general,” “The army of northern Virginia,” “Fronting the army of the Potomac,” “The surrender,” “A private citizen,” “President of Washington college,” “The idol of the South,” “Lee’s opinion of the late war,” “An ideal father,” and “The reconstruction period.”

“Such comments as Captain Lee has added are delightfully told and in perfect good taste. The style is simple, but betrays a practiced hand.” John R. Ficklen.

* “A charming work, which should be read by every Northern man who finds himself intolerant of southern heroes.”

“The story is gentle and soothing, and it will not disappoint those who may wish to forget the horrors of war and the screech-owls of peace.”

“One cannot read this book without being convinced of the man’s disinterested motives 211and nobility of character, nor can we wonder that he developed qualities of leadership.”

“If we must look elsewhere for a proper appreciation of the soldier, we cannot read these Recollections without gaining a clearer knowledge of the dignity and kindliness which distinguished the private citizen.”

Lee, Sidney Lazarus. Great Englishmen of the sixteenth century. **$1.75. Scribner.

The contents of this volume are based on a series of eight lectures delivered at Lowell Institute, Boston, in the spring of 1903. After an opening chapter on the Renaissance in England, “he has vivified the personalities of these half-dozen men,—More, Sidney, Raleigh, Spenser, Bacon and Shakespeare,—and has made them show forth almost the entire activity of the age.” (Dial).

“It contains no original discoveries, no profound generalizations, no subtleties of criticism. But it gives the results of sound scholarship and sound common sense in a dry but pleasant way. Perhaps the best essays in the book are those on More and Bacon.”

“With commendable fairness and conscientious criticism Mr. Lee has handled the virtues and the weaknesses of his subjects. This volume of essays is a valuable addition to literature on the subject.”

“The versatility of the intellect and the imagination of their age was never better shown than in this charming account of these five men.”

“The book is no mere rehashing of the commonplace. Mr. Lee endeavors to place these men before us in the light of their personal environment as well as in the greater light of their relation to their time.” J. W. Tupper.

“Delightfully written biographies ... prefaced by the best sketch of the intellectual spirit peculiar to the sixteenth century which we remember anywhere to have read.”

“One great merit of the book is the catholic sympathy it displays with minds of very different types.... The admirable marshalling of the facts.”

Lee, Vernon, pseud. (Violet Paget). Enchanted woods, and other essays on the genius of places. *$1.50. Lane.

A “rag-bag of impressions” the author calls her “pilgrimage through the open and hidden ways where, without any noisy calling, the Genius loci meets her. In Italy ... at every time of year; at Pisa, Ravenna, Venice; among Tuscan churches in summer ... in the last fir-woods of the Apennines ... she sees what Keats might have seen.” (Spec.)

“There is also in the book, besides its charm, a sympathetic insight into the past, born of wide and intimate knowledge, a sanity, a clearness of vision and perspective, all of which make the author a delightful companion.”

“The habitual grace of Vernon Lee’s style is present in these pages, and her unfailing vivacity makes her the most delightful of couriers and engaging of companions.”

“This is made up of just what the guide book leaves out, the personal equation, the temperamental interpretation.”

“What gives the book a permanent value is her thorough knowledge of the literature, the art, and the architecture of these countries in whose remote corners she has from time to time made her home.”

“They are not very deep, many of them are quite superficial, but they are charming, and if not full of thought themselves, may easily cause thought in those who read them.”

“The many little essays are very like ‘Vernon Lee’s’ other work, which is always pretty and delicate, and shows a capacity for arriving at the genius of places.”

“Her remarks contain much more than empty fancy and personal enjoyment; she sees, but she also thinks, and so the book is worth reading for its wisdom as well as its beauty.”

“They have historic value, no doubt, for manners and customs, for dress, etc. In some the humor of the drawing suffices; in many the legend is necessary for the smile.”

“It is pleasant to have in this book so full and satisfactory a collection of John Leech’s pictures.”

The story of a young chemist who outwitted both the president of New York’s largest bank and the richest man in the world by depositing assay office checks to the amount of several millions a week until the great financiers believed that he manufactured his gold in his laboratory is cleverly told. Wall street and the reader are excited until the young man has made his fortune and explained his methods.

“Mr. Lefevre’s delightful sense of humor would sufficiently commend his book, were it not also remarkable for its technical adroitness and its excellent character touches.”

“Mr. Edwin Lefevre has constructed an interesting story with a most ingeniously worked out dénouement. It is a dénouement in the very simplicity of which lies its strength.”

“That story, however, has more than its element of uniqueness to recommend it. The studies in the characters of great financiers, Gentile and Jew, are of unusual vividness and verisimilitude.”

These are not stories, nor essays, nor a part of prosaic today; they are verily painted shadows, as clear, as fanciful, and as elusive. There is much charming verse and much poetic prose, and many truthful things which strike home to a troubled soul. “The youth of lady Contantia,” “The shadow of a rose,” “What of love? What of fame?”—they were real only so long as they ran before us, shining shapes of promise. They were real only so long as they were shadows. “Old silver,” with its exquisite song, “The woman of dreams,” “Household gods,” “Dear dead woman,” “The two ghosts”; they and the others form a book which will be dear to all who love what is good and beautiful in literature.

212“Devotees of the realistic school in literature will never enjoy Mr. Le Gallienne’s work, but for those who value a story more for its fine literary quality than for its fidelity to the real conditions of life, his beauty of phrasing and delicacy of imagination hold a charm which never grows old.” Amy C. Rich.

“... In ‘Painted shadows,’ where pretty phrasing usurps the place of beautiful thought, where the mental amiability of the author’s attitude is unsupported by any vigor or nobility of utterance.”

“Le Gallienne’s style, when at its best, is one of the finest things in contemporary literature. It is distinctly at its best in ‘Painted shadows.’ Should add materially to Mr. Le Gallienne’s reputation.”

“He touches life with a delicate brush. His plots are not strong, or very purposeful; but they have the true aroma of my lady’s boudoir. He does not hesitate to use the impossible fancies of mediaeval romance to bring his stories to a desired consummation.” J. R. Ormond.

Daintily bound, with marginal drawings the floral designs of which, in pale green ink, wander across its pages, this small volume contains the old stories of King Florus and the fair Jehane; Amis and Amile; The tale of King Coustans the emperor; Blonde of Oxford and Jehan of Dammartin; Aucassin and Nicolete; and The history of over sea, all retold in the author’s own delicate fashion with little digressions and comments.

* “Mr. Le Gallienne’s style is graceful, piquant, and spirited, without being archaic; and he tells as much of the stories as most readers will care to hear.”

* “He is near enough to his readers in lack of deep learning and near enough to his subjects in romantic feeling to give his work an undoubted interpretative value.”

Legg, Leopold George Wickham, ed. Select documents illustrative of the history of the French revolution and the constituent assembly. 2v. *$4. Oxford.

The editor’s aim is “to tell the story of the Revolution ‘almost in the words of the Frenchmen of the time.’ For this purpose he has made his selections chiefly from ... such journals as the political part of the Mercure de France, edited by Mallet du Pan, Mirabeau’s Courrier de Provence, and Brissot’s Patriote français.... Occasionally the texts of laws vital to the comprehension of the period are inserted in the body of the work, while others fill about one hundred pages of the appendix.” (Dial.)

“Along with numerous capital features there are some grave defects. The finding apparatus is not what it should be. The dogmatic manner and the partisan spirit which mark these comments are particularly out of place in a work which will probably find its chief use among university students.” Frank Maloy Anderson.

“Mr. Legg’s selections are made with excellent judgment, and are all interesting.”

“Two volumes of extracts that are well worth the editorial care he has lavished upon them.”

“Mr. Legg’s book is admirably edited, it supplies not only a charming refreshment but a valuable and even an indispensable assistance to the serious student of the French revolution.”

“The ford in question connects the lands of an old-fashioned peer with those of a new soap-boiler, and its use gives cause for a feud between the houses. On this basis it is clear that a love affair between the millionaire’s son and the peer’s daughter is, as the doctors say, indicated. But the peer’s middle-aged cousin and heir, Paul Gleddayne, unwittingly introduces complication. He had loved the soap-boiler’s wife, and Mr. Legge very frankly tells us that Ralph Harrold, the jeune premier, might have been Paul Gleddayne’s son, though he happens not to be. Paul at any rate is very fond of him for his dead mother’s sake, and is distressed to find himself in the young man’s way alike in politics and love.”—Sat. R.

“The cynical indifference with which he depicts the lax morality of his men and women detracts much from an otherwise admirable piece of work.”

“It displays close observation and an unusual knowledge of life, and tells its story in excellent style, terse and graceful. The characters are drawn with vigor, and altogether the book is quite out of the ordinary in both its plot and its workmanship. While it is interesting, however, it fails to compel interest.”

“There is a pervasive air of marital infidelity about the book which should make it popular. Mr. Legge labours his points unnecessarily, and might with advantage refrain from working up to very obvious epigrams.”

“His novel is only incidentally melodramatic, and primarily appeals to the reader as a study in character, not as a sensational romance. A book which is characterized more by charm than by strength.”

A sufferer from rheumatism gives his experience with physicians of various schools in their attempts to cure him. “Blisters and red-hot cautery” is followed by disquisitions upon Turkish and electric baths, patent medicines, liver cures, hot-water treatment, and osteopathy. The humor is so genial it will not offend even those who are ridiculed.

“Here we have a satire, a humorous, but none the less biting satire, upon the medical science of today and those who apply its principles.”

This volume of the “Twentieth century juveniles” tells of the doings of the Hazeltine children who lived behind the big front door, of Ikey Ford, and other boys and girls, of their aunts, uncles, and neighbors, their plays and their clubs. The children are good children who openly repent of their pranks, and the gentle strain of moralizing which runs thru the book fits it for Sunday school use.

A third revised and enlarged edition of a book which represents Mr. Leonard’s “lectures on 213shop practice and machine design, given to the students in the Michigan agricultural college. The text is concise, comprehensive, and clear.... The description of the machines and tools is good and covers the principal details without useless words. The names of the machine parts, tools and fixtures are those used in general shop practice.”—Engin. N.

* “The book as a whole is undoubtedly the best one on machine shop practice that has yet appeared.” William W. Bird.

A story uniform with Roger Patrick’s “Frontiersman.” “The tale is told by the hero, an Irish boy of sixteen, who joins the French foreign legion and is sent to Algeria. He describes the life of the ‘legionary’ among Chinese, Berbers, and other semi-savage tribes; and recounts several adventures.” (N. Y. Times).

“The chief characters are drawn boldly and effectively, and the scenes are described with a certain raciness which makes the story worth reading.”

“It is not easy to dismiss the idea that a vast deal of fancy is intermingled with the fact, so extraordinary are the adventures accredited to the narrator. Book leaves an unpleasant taste. But with all its cynicism and unquestionable offenses against the canons of good taste, it is not without value as a protest against the evils of militarism and war, a forcefully worded indictment reciting the evils attendant upon armed strife.”

A young Englishman, the hero of this story, becomes involved in a series of strange happenings which occur in Italy, England, Scotland, Finland, and Russia, and include ghastly murders, robberies and plots. The maneuvers of a mysterious yacht owned by a band of international criminals, the dark deeds of the strangler, governor of Finland, and the sufferings of the beautiful young heroine whose enemies have rendered her deaf and dumb because she knows their guilty secret, form but a part of the thrilling and complicated plot.

* “It is a story that sets out to harrow your feelings and keep them harrowed till the end, which is as happy as possible.”

“Mr. Le Roy’s aim has been rather to set forth the social constituents of the population than to describe in minute detail the customs and manners of the people. He regards all Filipinos ... as the crude recipients of the blessings or curses of the American system. In this light he studies their religion, their tribal life, their family organization, and their social status. On questions which are still undetermined and uncertain he refrains from pronouncing judgment.”—Pub. Opin.

* “Mr. Le Roy’s writing is always fair-minded and non-partisan in attitude. Is both instructive and readable.”

* “Everything considered, it is one of the best studies of the essential character of the Filipinos which has yet appeared.”

Le Strange, Guy. Lands of the Eastern Caliphate, Mesopotamia, Persia and Central Asia, from the Moslem conquest to the time of Timur. *$4. Macmillan.

“Mr. Le Strange’s book is nominally a geography, but it is more than that—it is a fairly close description of Western Central Asia during the time of its greatest prosperity, with especial reference, of course to the geography of the country.”—N. Y. Times.

“We cannot express our gratitude to him better than by hoping that he will resume his laborious task and publish another volume as well indexed and as admirably provided with maps as that which he has already given us.”

“Of course such a book cannot be very readable, but its value for the students of mediaeval Hither Asia cannot be exaggerated, and even for the student of civilization in the broad it will be full of suggestion.”

“The book is extremely suggestive and provocative of thought; it tells such tales as it has to tell in an interesting way, and throws a strong side light on the civilization of the Arab ‘misbelievers’ at the time when Christian Europe was groveling in outer darkness.”

“Mr. Le Strange has earned the gratitude of students for the valuable work which he has done in the field, comparatively unexplored, of Arabian geography.”

Lethaby, William Richard. Mediaeval art from the peace of the church to the eve of the Renaissance, 312-1250. *$2. imp. Scribner.

“The book is divided into twelve chapters, of which the first deals with the age of Constantine.... Four chapters following this treat of the Romanesque and Byzantine.... Then comes chapter VI., which deals with the peculiar characteristics of the later Middle ages.... This chapter introduces the treatment of Gothic art, which fills the second half of the volume. The discussion of it stops with the fourteenth century. There are 66 full-page, half-tone prints and 125 text cuts.”—Nation.

“But while Mr. Lethaby has assimilated the important results of foreign research, he is thoroughly independent in his judgments.”

“The treatment is so cursory that the reader often finds little more than a list of monuments. Mr. Lethaby’s book as a whole shows no new grasp of the subject, no general principle or underlying philosophy whereby to coördinate many artistic movements.” George Breed Zug.

“In Mr. Lethaby’s book we have an admirable summary of the two chief styles of medieval art—the eastward culmination, or Byzantine school, and the western, or Gothic.”

“Two apparent characteristics of Mr. Lethaby are a laudable willingness to take pains, and a marked readiness to adopt positive opinions—to reach final conclusions and avow them.”

“It has one rather serious defect in the lack of clear bibliographical definitions of at least of all the more important books and sources referred to.”

“In this book, besides the lucid descriptions of the technical parts of the Gothic architect’s work, there are passages of rare insight into the spirit of mediaeval builders.”

214Levasseur, Pierre Emile. Elements of political economy; tr. by Theodore Marburg. *$1.75. Macmillan.

Following practically the four-fold division of this subject, viz., production, distribution, exchange and consumption, M. Levasseur’s work is “characterized by clearness and originality of presentation, forcefulness of treatment, and conservatism of viewpoint.” (Outlook.) The work is inadequate on the subjects of the great industrial and economic questions of the day, monopolistic production, unionism and strikes, etc. There are no indexes and no lists of references.

“It is short, succinct, interesting. It may well be used to supplement other books. The translators’ work is well done.”

“Lack of logical treatment renders M. Levasseur’s book almost incomprehensible to the beginner, for whom it is evidently intended.”

“On the whole the work is disappointing. It is decidedly inferior to several good textbooks which already exist in English.”

“The merits of the original are somewhat dimmed in the present version, wherein the phraseology is at times so awkward as to leave the author’s meaning seriously in doubt.”

“This work is regarded as valuable chiefly for its sound and well-balanced statements of economic truths, and for its clear discrimination in dealing with new theories.”

An account of the history, tradition and arts of Vienna, according to the sub-title. “The volume ... is both more and less than its subtitle implies. There is a good deal of ‘history’ (141 pages out of the 416), an indefinite amount of ‘tradition,’ and a very little (ten pages) about ‘art, including sculpture and painting under Franz Josef’; but there is, in addition, something about literature, the theatre, dancing, court festivities, society, education, and the life of the common people. And, of course, the guide-book element is all there—description of streets, squares, buildings, monuments, churches, palaces, &c. The whole is enlivened by more than 150 well-selected, and for the most part, very clever illustrations from sketches in charcoal, pencil, and pen and ink.” (Nation).

“An admirable literary and artistic memorial of one of the most interesting of European capitals.”

“Unfortunately the numerous illustrations by Erwin Puchinger are scarcely equal to the text they supplement; they lack character and atmosphere, and are devoid of the feeling for their subject which is so distinctive a charm of the work of Miss Levetus.”

“Has consulted good, though not many, sources, and is not sensational in the treatment of her topics. At its best utterly devoid of literary grace, it contains many sentences of almost incredible crudity, and some which make one wonder how they could have escaped the eye of the most careless proof-reader.”

Cattle days, and Dodge City, the crown of the Texas cattle region, furnish the time and place for this breezy story. Bat Masterson, who is a real person, is the hero, and as sheriff has many adventures and shows much courage, finally winning the love of a Boston girl by killing seven Indians before her eyes.

“Mr. Lewis’s keen wit and almost hypertrophied sense of the ridiculous makes the volume intensely interesting to those who have any well developed humor of their own.”

“Except for Mr. Lewis’s ‘manner,’ they are much like other Western tales.”

“These stories have less fun and more gore than Mr. Lewis’s well-known ‘Wolfville days.’”

“Interesting adventures they are—full of roughness and readiness and gun play.”

“The story is packed with adventure, and there is so steady a flow of quiet, often grim humor in it that the reader forgets that for once he is not getting his customary scenes of sentiment.”

Libbey, William, and Hoskins, Franklin E. Jordan valley and Petra. **$6. Putnam.

Two volumes containing more than 150 halftones of photographs, record the interesting and instructive features of a journey from Baerut to Jerusalem, covering forty-one days. The first volume gives minute descriptions of the make-up of a caravan, methods of dealing with the natives, the itinerary of the journey, statements as to the history of the places visited, etc. The second volume is devoted to a description of Petra, where for five days the party camped in the heart of the city.

“Apart from this unimportant drawback of mixing pulpit and physical geography, however, the book is excellent, and gives a good description of the present condition of the country through which the Israelites passed before they entered the Promised land.”

“Apart from its scientific and antiquarian interest, their narrative is enlivened with incident, adventure, and humor.”

The author takes Ben Blair, of worse than unknown parentage, starts him along that well trodden road in fiction—Western ranch life, then makes of him a real hero, true to his ideals, a supporter of law and order, a staunch friend, a dauntless lover, and he places this Dakota plowman in triumphant contrast to a New York clubman. While the situations are not new in type, they are certainly new in treatment and strongly handled, and one regrets that the book did not appear sooner, before the constant march of Western writers had won its ground away.

“A collection of nine essays.... Some of the subjects treated are: ‘What was Shakespeare’s religion?’; ‘A French Shakespeare (Balzac)’; ‘A nineteenth century Savonarola (Lamennais)’; ‘Cardinal Wiseman’s life and work’; and ‘Concerning ghost stories.’”—Cath. World.

“The ground covered is extensive, and the skill and versatility displayed are of the unusual order that we expect from Mr. Lilly. But whatever the topic, or whatever the attitude toward it, Mr. Lilly’s work is always interesting and instructive reading.”

215Lincoln, Joseph Crosby (Joe Lincoln, pseud.). Partners of the tide. †$1.50. Barnes.

A Cape Cod story in which “a small boy is adopted on the death of his parents by two maiden kinswomen, goes to school, and falls under the influence of the captain of a vessel in the coasting trade. After some years on board his ship ... they become the joint owners of a wrecking schooner. The interest of the story is pretty well divided between the young fellow’s love for a neighbor and schoolmate and his business success.” (Dial.)

“It is in the sketches of New England character threaded upon the narrative that its chief attractiveness lies.”

“The book is rural drama of the sort that appeals to the rather old and the rather young.”

“It is all written in the best sort of sea talk, and is altogether about as good an example of a sea yarn as often gets into print.”

Professor Bouton, as a teacher of argumentation has felt the lack of available material illustrative of the thrust-and-parry of actual debate and has prepared these selections to supply the deficiency, choosing them because of their value both as masterpieces of the art of debate and as historical documents. Of the seven Lincoln-Douglas debates in the senatorial campaign of 1858 in Illinois, those at Freeport, Galesburgh and Alton are printed here entire, prefaced by Lincoln’s speech of June 16 at Springfield, with which he opened the campaign, and supplemented by the famous Cooper institute address of Feb. 15, 1860. The volume is well annotated for class use.

Lindsay, Charles Harcourt. (Charles Harcourt, pseud.). Good form for men. **$1. Winston.

The prescribed code is made the authority for this “guide to conduct and dress on all occasions,” yet the suggestions are flexible enough to include frequent conditions that are outside the scope of established rules. The book is convenient in form and concise in treatment.

“This is probably the most valuable book of the character that has appeared in America.”

“It is written in good faith, if not in good form, and contains hints that should be helpful.”

“The somewhat celebrated Committee of fifty for the investigation of the liquor problem was organized in 1893, and has since that time through its sub-committees published no less than five volumes embodying the results of its labors. Of these volumes two of considerable size considered the physiological aspects, one was occupied with legislative aspects, one with economic aspects, and one with ‘substitutes for the saloon.’”—N. Y. Times.

* “For the general reader this little book is the most important treatise upon the subject. It should receive wide attention.”

* “It is unfortunate that this final volume does not make any reference to the experience of the last five years, nor to the sharp criticism made upon the work of the committee.”

* “Constitutes, as might be expected from the character of the investigating parties, about as sane a statement of the real conditions of the liquor problem as can be obtained within small compass. The value of the book seems to be chiefly in the papers contributed by Dr. Billings and President Eliot.”

Seven stories of wild animals and the tragedy which follows their trail in their quest of food. The title story tells of the plucky run of a mother fox foraging for her little ones; The robber baron is the story of a feudal hawk; The ghost-coon tells of a coon which was white but not a ghost; The spoiler of the folds, follows the hunt of a gray-wolf; The fight on the tree-bridge is waged between an old raccoon and a little coon-dog; The guardian of the flock is the tragic tale of a sheep dog turned traitor; and The King of the Northern slope depicts the last fight of a great wild cat. The volume is illustrated by Charles L. Bull.

* “The stories have marked individuality, though the subjects of them ... have been treated very often before. Each tale moves rapidly and firmly, with perfect adherence to the facts of animal life, and without sentimentality.” May Estelle Cook.

“A volume of that excellent geographical series, ‘The regions of the world.’ ... The book is no mere compilation, but written out of a full experience. Most of the chapters are occupied with China historically and geographically.... The description of the Yangtse valley is especially good and complete, for on this Mr. Little writes with unique knowledge. There are also interesting chapters on Mongolia and Turkestan, and a very good and full account of Tibet and the various approaches to that land.”—Spec.

“The style of the book is everywhere lucid, its thought is everywhere original and stimulating, and even dry geographical details are vivified by their connexion with human history.”

“It is the kind of book of which there has been genuine need for some time.”

“Is a capital illustration of what may be accomplished by judicious condensation. Every sentence counts, and the ultimate result is not a confusing jumble of facts and figures—as it might easily have been—but a clear-cut picture, the details of which are unmistakable.”

“We congratulate Mr. Little on having given us a most readable volume, full of information, and yet with that local colouring which is an essential for a book to command the attention of the general reading public.”

“It is an admirable summary of the geography and peoples of the Far East, interesting to read, valuable for reference, and with an abundance of excellent maps that will well repay study.” Cyrus C. Adams.

216“If not technically a geographical expert, Mr. Little possesses quite enough scientific knowledge to enable him to deal intelligently with the problems at issue; while his personal knowledge of the region and people enables him to infuse into his descriptions the special interest at which the ‘Regions of the World’ series aims.”

“Is a most comprehensive and scholarly work, written by one who has a lifelong knowledge of the Far East, and is, in addition, an accomplished geographer.”

“The editor of ‘American book-prices current,’ ... not satisfied with that meritorious labor, has undertaken to combine selectively his own series with the English of corresponding title, and with earlier sources antedating both. Of the four quarto volumes to result we have the first—A to Dick, ‘Auction prices of books.’ ... This is one of those enterprises concerning which the bare statement as just made is all-sufficient for the connoisseur.”—Nation.

* “Mr. Livingston has evidently not spared himself trouble to make this section complete.”

“More and more, as it nears completion, does Mr. Livingston’s work commend itself to those who have to do with books.”

Lloyd, Nelson (McAllister). Mrs. Radigan: her biography, with that of Miss Pearl Veal and the memoirs of J. Madison, †$1. Scribner.

A satire upon New York social climbers in which Mrs. Radigan climbs, her beautiful sister Pearl climbs with her, and young Jones, the real estate agent, is pulled up hanging to their skirts. The titled Englishman, the complacent bishop and the cotillion leader appear in the story, which overflows with good humor.

“The book is sprightly and clever without being over-clever, and it is written by one who knows his ground.”

“The story, being satire, but satire of a kindly nature, is very bright reading.”

“A rather clever satire, varying from the obvious to some delightfully subtle thrusts at modern American society.”

A London bachelor, contentedly engaged upon a “History of renaissance morals” whose life is filled by his valet, his cat and Judith, his clever neighbor, comes upon a beautiful oriental child strayed from a Syrian harem and takes her to his home. This girl wakens his slumbering passions, she elopes with a daredevil fellow, but in the end, chastened and developed, returns to Ordeyne.

“His style is delightful, pointed, witty and finished. But for all his admirable craftsmanship there is something wanted, and that an essential—vitality.”

“The chief distinguishing quality of the story, however, is found in the literary and artistic merit rather than in its ethical worth. Clearly it is a tale written to amuse. The author possesses a peculiarly brilliant and finished style.”

“The story is intensely interesting from first to last, besides being rich in the sort of literary and scholarly allusiveness that appeals most strongly to the cultivated mind.” William Morton Payne.

“It is entirely original in conception, and the plot is carried out with great skill. The conversations are particularly clever.”

“The changes of scene are frequent, the note of passion is dominant, and the conclusion, if not unexpected, is gratifying.”

Uniform with the “Library of standard biographies,” this volume contains in handy compact form the text of the edition of 1820. It has been annotated, and an index added for the use of students and readers.

The Lockhart life of Scott has appeared in an abridged form, newly edited with notes for the student’s use. It is uniform with the “Library of standard biographies.”

A drama dedicated to Jesus of Nazareth. It presents Cain as an heroic defender of free thought, to whom is revealed:

He kills his brother that he may not live to pollute humanity by spiritual bondage, and for the sake of the light he carries, willingly becomes “an outcast from the laws of men.”

217“The diction of the poem is almost as severe as its outline, and is sustained throughout at a lofty pitch.” Wm. Morton Payne.

“Is a veritable volcano of poetry, pouring out real fire, mingled with smoke and ashes. What Mr. Lodge lacks is the saving sense of humor. He has undoubted force and passion. The whole play gives the impression of reversed dynamics.”

“His mastery of poetic structure is still imperfect. Yet, when all due abatement has been made, ‘Cain’ is a book of interesting promise. There is here, moreover, in both substance and form, much to reward attention.”

“Mr. Lodge’s drama is a personal and passionate reading of the story of Cain and Abel, in which Cain is presented as a Biblical Prometheus daring the wrath of heaven to bring light to the souls of men. He is the archetype of the modern free-thinker, while Abel is the cowardly formalist.”

A story of the prize ring showing two types of fighters,—one a fine specimen of manhood, the other fashioned after the brute order. There is an idyllic romance too, which of course concerns the higher minded boxer and a very human young maiden who grows jealous of her rival “the game.” The author has drawn the savage side with deft realism, both from the participant’s and the spectator’s viewpoint.

“Mr. London has in this book made a very decided advance in the matter of style.”

“This book is simply a good and spirited little report, rather too loud for quiet tastes. There is nothing elemental here; this is sheer street-bred sensuality, if it is anything.”

“He has produced at least one story which of its kind seems to the present writer very nearly flawless—‘The game.’”

“It is of the most banal and ordinary stamp, utterly lacking in the dramatic power with which its author has been credited hitherto.”

“Mr. London seems for the first time unaccountably out of his element and outside of the verities.”

“Mr. London’s stories are never lacking in power, dramatic quality, and picturesqueness, but his love for the strenuous and the tragic has led him to end his story in a way that is fairly brutal.”

“The description of the fight itself which forms the greater portion of the book is skilfully done. But it is only good journalism.”

“A ferryboat sinks in the San Francisco harbor, the passengers perish, but Humphrey Van Weyden, critic, æsthete, typical specimen of hyper-civilization, is picked up by the ‘Ghost,’ and compelled by the captain of that ‘hellship’ to become cook’s scullion. Van Weyden is a creature of overdeveloped brain-power, physically a plaything in the hands of Wolf Larsen, the ship’s captain, and thus arises a struggle between the primitive brutalities of the natural man and this last product of the twentieth century.... The plot has further and rather more conventional ramifications, but it is primarily the fight between the beast in man and the man who has worked out the beast that holds our attention, and, secondarily, the overshadowing personality of Wolf Larsen.”—R. of Rs.

“We do not wish to deny the cleverness of much in ‘The sea-wolf,’ but we must protest against this picture of rampant inhumanity and brutality.”

“This romance is one of the strongest and most original stories by an American novelist that has appeared in recent years. The story though powerful and quite out of the ordinary lines of romance, is not a novel that we can heartily recommend to the general reader.” Amy C. Rich.

“Thus the story becomes essentially an account of the development of character under extraordinary conditions, and its aspect as a narrative of adventure is obscured by its aspect as a psychological study. It is not a pleasant tale to read—it is too strongly seasoned to be that,—but it acquires a certain fascination in the course of its telling, and fairly grips the attention in its culminating passages.” W. M. Payne.

“Altho thousands read in ‘The sea-wolf’ nothing but an exciting tale, yet the ethical theorem is developed by argument and illustration with a symmetry and completeness rare even in a serious treatise.”

“This latest book is the high-water mark of the author’s power. Virile, forceful, dashing though he has been from the first entry into literature, he can do nothing more memorable than this story of a hellship, manned by brute beasts, under a sea-wolf. It is in the cruelty, the peace, the awfulness, the beauty of the sea, that Mr. London has outdone himself as well as others. The book is not food for babes, but for lovers of the sea. He must own strong nerves who would ship with Wolf Larsen, but the Iliad of the ocean is opened before him.”

“In depicting that fatal struggle between him and Van Weyden, Mr. London remains entirely impartial. The book is neither a glorification of the ‘overman’ nor of his opposite. We are told of the two, and of their fight for life, with swift directness, with sincerity and strength.”

“The broad bays about San Francisco, and the rivers that run into them, are sources of revenue of fishermen of several diverse nationalities—Chinese, Italians, and Greeks. The life of the fish patrol, whose duty it is to enforce the fishing laws, furnishes plenty of opportunities for adventures, exciting and often dangerous. The stories in this volume describe some of these adventures simply but dramatically.”—Outlook.

“It is ostensibly a book for boys, but it is good reading for others as well.”

* “Have the freshness and vigor of the sea and not a little of its heroism.”

* “The stories have a fresh realism and a curt vigor which show first-hand work.”

The book is made up of six socialistic studies entitled: “The class struggle,” “The tramp,” “The scab,” “The question of the maximum,” “A review,” “Wanted: a new law of development.” and “How I became a socialist.” It is Mr. London’s purpose, he declares in his preface, to “enlighten, to some slight degree,” the minds of a few capitalists.

218“It is an interesting thought-provoking volume, to be read and pondered, but truths and half truths are so interwoven that it is scarcely a safe guide.”

“It is marred somewhat by repetition and lacks the coherence and cogency of a logical whole. With all these defects, however, the ‘War of the classes’ is no whit inferior in the vigour of its style and the sweep and rapid movement of its thought to any of Jack London’s work.” Robert C. Brooks.

“Some of Mr. London’s best and most lasting work is to be found in these pages. It is regrettable, however, that certain discrepancies in the text have not been more carefully edited.”

* “Develops the socialist attitude on modern social antagonisms in his characteristically forcible and striking style.”

“The essays are full of half-truths, and half-truths that need statement. We advise the student of modern industrial problems to read this book; but to be slow about accepting either its picture of conditions or its proposals for remedies.”

This volume “is mainly taken from pt. 1. of the author’s ‘Plane trigonometry,’ and is designed as an easier text-book.”—Nature.

“Altogether an admirable piece of work, and we can pay it no higher compliment than to say it is well on the level of those other text-books for which Professor Loney is so well known.”

“The subject is treated in the usual way, and there is nothing to call for special mention.”

“Eight stories, or rather novelettes.... In the first of these, which gives its title to the book, we are told the story of a day labourer and his wife, from the day of their marriage to their death.... ‘The siren’ ... describes a courtship carried on by two bold swimmers, who, at last, swim out too far from land, and are drowned.” (Ath.) The remaining stories are: The loaded gun; Liebereich; “Jupiter Tonans;” “Sis;” Thor’s emerald; and Guile.

* “Too much sentimentality, not enough humor, and an unfortunate lack of compression. Mr. Long’s ingenuity and facile expression prevent them from being wholly bad.”

* “These stories do not lack imagination, but at times the gayety seems forced, and the conversations are jerkily vivacious.”

* “He has a sense of atmosphere, his point of view is individual, and he is not without that kindly humour which laughs while it sympathises. But he is terribly sentimental.”

A reincarnation of this Japanese romance, in which wide margins, Japanese flowers and fancies which wander across the text, and various full page illustrations, some of which are in color, lend to the interesting story of Sakura-San and the “excellent barbarians” from England and America who play at cross purposes thruout its pages a new and subtle charm.

* “The author has contrasted Oriental and Occidental traits in his well-known style.”

* Long, John Luther. Seffy; a little comedy of country manners. †$1.50. Bobbs.

Old Baumgarten, a Pennsylvania-German and Maryland farmer, has set his heart upon marrying his great slow going son, Seffy, to a red-headed, tempestuous girl, named Sally, who owns the lands lying between his farm and the railroad. He almost brings this about, but Seffy’s reticence allows another lover to come between him and his sweetheart. Sally marries out of spite and comes to bitterly repent of it, while old Baumgarten curses his son, knocks him down and sends him out into the world where he learns to fight for things and to get them. In the end he comes back to claim all that he lost in his youth.

“Mr. Long takes the reader with him ... to the barren shores of Labrador and Newfoundland. Wolves, we meet, that guide lost children home, and then disappear into the wilderness; a wild goose that caresses his mate goodbye at the approach of the hunter, before going out to fight for his home and young; and Pequam, of the weasel family, that tempts an Indian to abandon his trail, by killing a deer and leaving it across the track. These animals and many more—whales, polar bears and salmon—are all introduced to us in the midst of their wild, unfrequented haunts. All are endowed with almost human intelligence and reason, after the manner of interpreting their actions which Mr. Long has made so popular.”—Ind.

* “There is a charm about Mr. Long’s book that few writers for children attain.”

* “His stories have a charm and an excellence of their own.” May Estelle Cook.

“We are willing to let the disputed question of instinct or intelligence go, however, and on the strength of the splendid descriptions of nature and the always evident love of the wild, accord this volume a high place among ‘books of the trail.’”

“Mr. Long assures us of the accuracy of his data, and maintains the reasonableness of his inferences.”

* “Aside from the controversial side as to whether these eight stories are to be classified as natural history or fiction, these tales of the Northern trails are dull and lifeless.” Mabel Osgood Wright.

219Loomis, Charles Battell. Minerva’s manoeuvres: the cheerful facts of a return to nature. †$1.50. Barnes.

A novel which “recounts the experiences of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Vernon and their city-reared colored cook, Minerva, during a summer sojourn in the country.... A fine silk thread of a plot runs through the book, stringing together the many humorous situations.”—Pub. Opin.

* “The unexpected endings of the many humorous situations will keep the reader in a gale of mirth, and when he lays the book down after the last chapter, he will feel that he has found a new friend in Minerva.”

* “Is more in the nature of a vaudeville show than anything else, and it is not possible to describe all of the attractions which Mr. Loomis offers. They are surely worth a reading.”

“It is not an uproarious story; its humor is quiet; it possesses the subtle turn which is symptomatic of its author.”

Lord, Eliot; Trenor, John J. D.; and Barrows, Samuel June. Italian in America. $1.50. Buck.

“The pretty evident purpose of this volume is to reverse the prevailing American prejudice against the Italian as an immigrant and material for United States citizenship.... [It] uses ... the argument ... of statistics, and its authors ... attempt to show first of all that the Italian settler is economically a good thing for the country.... Secondly, they produce evidence that in the particulars of disease and crime he does not supply more than his quota ... and, thirdly, they argue from data which they present that he ... adapts himself very completely ... to American ways of doing and thinking.”—N. Y. Times.

“The book as a whole is general in its treatment, somewhat objectionable because of frequent quotations, and partakes too much of the loose character of magazine articles. The spirit of the book is much to be commended.” Emily Fogg Meade.

“There is room for believing that ‘The Italian in America’ will be a potent instrument in molding a saner public opinion.”

“But the labors of others are here presented in logical sequence and in a sympathetic spirit, resulting in an interesting and readable book. The book is not free from dubious assertions.”

“It will strike many perhaps that Messrs. Lord, Trenor, and Barrows have omitted some essential facts, but both the facts presented and the inferences drawn are interesting in substance—even when the manner of presentation is dry. Taken all together the cumulative evidence for the Italian collected by the authors is impressive.”

A compact practical guide-book which covers southern Spain, Morocco, Algiers, the chief cities of northern Africa, Greece, Asia Minor, Palestine, and Egypt. Much historical and general information is given, a bibliography precedes each chapter, and there are many maps and pictures.

“This compact work ‘fills a long felt want.’ The proof reading has not been done by a classical expert.”

“The text is in some portions accurate and business-like, but in others it reveals amateurishness, and some inaccuracies and misprints.”

“The excellence of its method and treatment of the many countries bordering on the great interior sea of Europe are unquestionable.”

“‘The Mediterranean traveler’ will find here in one volume what elsewhere must be picked out of several.”

Loring, Andrew. Rhymer’s lexicon; with an introd. by George Saintsbury. *$2.50. Dutton.

“The lexicon is divided into three parts—Finals, Penults, and Antepenults. The words have been grouped according to the accented vowel sound and placed in columns in the alphabetical sequence of the letters which follow this sound.... Each part of the lexicon has fourteen vowel divisions, adopted for reference purposes; and the divisions are enumerated in a table of contents, which also includes key words illustrating the vowel sounds.”—N. Y. Times.

“In size and arrangement it is admirable; it might have been larger still without being any better.”

“The arrangement is novel, at first sight a little intricate, but truly scientific.”

Loring, J. Alden. Art of preserving animal tracks, $1. J. A. Loring, Owega, Tioga co., N. Y.

“Mr. Loring describes in this pamphlet a very ingenious and apparently effective method of making molds, and from the mold, casts of the tracks of mammals and birds, large and small.... The operation itself is clearly and minutely described, and seemingly could be easily managed by any intelligent boy.”—Outlook.

* Lothrop, Harriet Mulford Stone (Margaret Sidney, pseud.) Ben Pepper. †$1.50. Lothrop.

This is the tenth volume in the popular “Little Pepper” series. “The hero is Ben, Mother Pepper’s first-born, her ‘steady-as-a-rock’ boy. Christmas shopping in which the Little Peppers take a lively hand, Christmas philanthropies, the usual quota of accidents and pranks, and, finally, Ben’s decision as to whether he will go to college or enter a business office, ‘beginning at the very bottom,’ are the features of the story.”—Outlook.

A simple narrative concerning the birds and mammals which the author has come to know in the course of various vacations spent in studying and photographing them. The pictures illustrate the facts and some of the series represent the work of years. The object of the book is to arouse, especially in young people, a living interest in the animals about them. There are chapters on the woodchuck, skunk, muskrat, fox, mouse, squirrel, blue bird, robin, bobolink, crow, owl, hawk and others.

Lovett, W. J. Complete class book of naval architecture; practical, laying off, theoretical, with numerous il. and nearly 200 full, worked-out answers to recent education department examination questions. *$2.50. Longmans.

“This work is intended primarily for British students attending technical classes.” It “covers the whole field of naval architecture, theoretical and practical.”—Engin. N.

“In this country its field as a text-book will necessarily be limited, and as a reference book its treatment of the various subjects, except elementary ship calculations, is inadequate.” D. W. Taylor.

The author, tho a Frenchwoman by birth, has lived in this country twenty-five years. She says: “This is not a book for restaurants, hotels, or people who can afford a chef. Most Americans have formed their ideas of French cooking from hotels, restaurants, or formal dinners, and have never known the home cooking, which is more simple and more wholesome. It is also less complicated.... The recipes which I shall give are used in well-to-do families and constitute what is called in French the ‘bonne cuisine bourgeoise.’” She starts with the very arrangement of the kitchen and instructs in those little tricks by which the French are able to obtain distinction and flavor in their cookery.

“Mrs. Low’s formulas are in the main so excellent that it would be invidious to discriminate. Her success is unequivocal and decisive.”

“A well-informed, well-written, and interesting description of the government of Great Britain, beginning with a definition of the British constitution, so difficult of characterization, but explained by Mr. Low in a thoroughly rational and comprehensive way.... Mr. Low gives a very interesting account of the place and function of the prime minister, of the cabinet, of the privy council, of both houses of parliament, and of every other form and function of government in Great Britain.” (Outlook). “The main view of Mr. Low is that of Lord Salisbury and Mr. Balfour, that the power of the house of commons is declining and must continue to decline, while that of the cabinet, and especially of the inner cabinet, is increasing.” (Ath.)

“Is a most able and valuable production, marked, too, by unusual excellence of style. If we name points on which we have doubts as to whether Mr. Low is right, it is with the profound feeling that he has given great attention to a subject in which he evidently takes much interest, and the facts of which, so far as they are generally available, he has mastered.”

“There can be little but praise for the author’s literary style. It is easy, strong and clear, and with a light touch and aptness of allusion that never detract from the weighty theme.” John William Russell.

“There are many clever and some acute observations in the book; but, in our judgment, the view given of the English constitution is superficial, and in some cases erroneous.”

“Very admirable book. The plan of the work is so excellently conceived and executed that only one or two objections are suggested by a first reading. One is to the title. The other objection is to an occasional drop into triviality and the college graduate habit of quoting mere hackneyed phrases and tags from other languages. There are occasional slips in the printing and in the statements. The particular excellence of this work has already been indicated as being an interpretation of the English constitution as it operates to-day. The value of this book is very greatly increased for American readers by the frequent comparisons instituted between the English and American political systems.”

“Probably no book has yet appeared which, in so untechnical and comprehensive a way, places before the reader the elaborate, highly complex, and thoroughly democratic governmental system.”

* Lowell, Mrs. Carrie Thompson, comp. Art lovers’ treasury; famous pictures described in poems; forty-eight reproductions of famous pictures accompanied by poems of noted writers, with text by Carrie Thompson Lowell. **$1.20. Estes.

“Forty-eight pictures are reproduced in half-tone, and the editor writes a running comment, treating a group of paintings and sculpture under some general heading, such as ‘Mythology in poetry and sculpture,’ ‘Legends of the saints,’ or ‘Pictures translated into verse.’” (Dial.) “An attempt has been made to assemble famous pictures and pieces of sculpture, and to bring into association with these certain poems that have been inspired by the various works of art that are pictured, or which have been written descriptive of them.... Many of the best artists are represented, as well as poets such as Dante, Keats, Browning, Longfellow, Whittier, Markham, and some others.” (Ind.)

* “An excellent companion volume to Miss Singleton’s ‘Great portraits’ is this compilation of Mrs. Lowell.”

* “Pictures and poetry are thoroughly representative, and the arrangement, though necessarily loose holds the reader’s interest.”

* Lowery, Woodbury. Spanish settlements within the present limits of the United States: Florida. 1562-1574. **$2.50. Putnam.

“This, the second of Mr. Lowery’s monographs on the history of Spanish colonization within the present limits of the United States, deals with the Florida settlements of the period 1562-1574, and like its predecessors, is based on a careful study of original sources.... An interesting feature is—comprehensive exposition of the tribal organization, characteristics and customs of the Florida Indians. The work contains several maps, more than thirty bibliographical 221and critical appendices, and a good index.”—Outlook.

* “A treatise not only of prime interest but of solid value, as embodying a broader and more than usually judicial statement of the vexed themes involved.”

* “So cautious is he, and so frequent are his references to and citations from authorities, that from the narrative standpoint his book is at times arid and tedious. But it is unquestionably of distinct value to the historical student.”

Lowrie, Rev. Walter. Gaudium crucis: a meditation for Good Friday upon the seven words from the cross. *90c. Longmans.

Meditations upon mercy, judgment, love, joy and sacrifice, confirmation, accomplishment and duty, and filial trust. The book is designed for those who are unable to attend the Good Friday services, and to assist the clergy in preparing their sermons.

* Loyson, Mme. Emilie Jane (Butterfield) Meriman (Mme. Hyacinthe Loyson). To Jerusalem through the lands of Islam, among Jews, Christians, and Moslems. $2.50. Open ct.

“‘A tour of Christian exploration.’ Pere Hyacinthe and his wife (who is an American) travelled from Algeria to Jerusalem, by way of Arabia and Egypt, and the travels are described in a lively and vigorous style.... The idea of the book is not the travel, so much as the relativity of religions of the peoples studied ... and Madame Hyacinthe Loyson’s point is the universal brotherhood of ... the religions of Allah and Jehovah and the Christian religion. In the co-operation of the three—and in the honouring by modern Christianity of some of the grander and simpler elements of the other two faiths, she sees the regeneration of the world.”—Acad.

* “There is a breadth of view in the book, enthusiasm and some little of that spirit which sees good in ‘every country but its own.’ It will not please theologians, but it may stimulate the thoughts of the ordinary religiously-minded man or woman.”

* “Everywhere in the book there is the intense spiritual earnestness of a good woman holding conferences with the leading representatives of Islam.” H. E. Coblentz.

Sermons preached in the First Methodist Episcopal church, Montclair, N. J. They include: The religion for to-day; Work for to-day; The commanded strength; Joy for the morning; The mighty appeal of usefulness; Re-enlisted strength; and The complete life.

Some 200 verses which Stevenson, Browning, Shakespeare, Goldsmith, Lewis Carroll, Riley, Longfellow, Scott, Rossetti, and many others have written for little folks are gathered into this delightful volume, with old ballads, rhymes and songs of Christmas.

“Altogether, the little volume is one of the most desirable of such collections (in small space) now to be got at. There seems to be something in it for all good juvenile tastes.”

Mr. Lucas “has tried as far as possible to keep the story of the life to the words of the original performers and their contemporaries.... At a wave of his hand witness after witness gets up to testify in his own words and tell the reader what he knew of Lamb during the period in question.... We are able to see the actual environment of Lamb between 1815 and 1825, surrounded ... by the normal frequenters of these ‘noctes’ such as George Dyer, Fenwick, Robert Fell, Martin Burney, G. Burnett, Randal Norris, George Dawe, Ayrton, Phillips, Alsager, and Barren Field. The portraits of most of these intimates of the Mitrecourt and Inner Temple-lane are limned with a delicate and artistic curiosity. Lamb is depicted in this circle as he lived.... For all the very happiest things that have ever been said about Lamb the enthusiast will find a happy-hunting-ground in these two volumes.”—Lond. Times.

* “Only once, so far as we have noticed, is he betrayed into something like over-confidence in his minute research.”

* “Of the man Charles Lamb—the ‘human mortal,’ as distinguished from the thinker and writer—Mr. Lucas’s pages reflect a true and lively image. He is less successful in reproducing the intellectual features of his subject; while his portraits of certain of Lamb’s contemporaries—notably that of Coleridge—are not far removed from travesty.”

* “Is likely to prove of more importance than the recent edition of ‘The works and letters of Charles and Mary Lamb,’ of which he was the editor. It will not supersede the ‘Life and final memorials’ of Talfourd, but it contains, mainly in the form of letter and anecdote, much of supplementary value, and some matter which is absolutely fresh.” H. W. Boynton.

* “Taking Mr. Lucas’s biography as a whole there is a wealth of entertainment in its pages which it would be difficult to overestimate. The part that we are least sanguine of recommending is the appendix, which seems to us a heavy incubus upon a book which ought to carry not an ounce of superfluous material.”

* “Mr. Lucas has drawn upon a large fund of fresh material, and has so generously told the story of both lives in the language of his subjects that this biography is really an autobiography.” Hamilton W. Mabie.

* “Above all other things Mr. Lucas’s work is one which abounds in the essential characteristic of biographical work—sympathy. The vast compilation of tiny details of personality and character are not thrown together haphazard but are arranged chronologically, and indexed in a masterly manner.”

* “The first really complete and adequate Life of that singularly delightful writer and admirable man.”

“The combination of Mr. Lucas as narrator with Mr. Herbert Marshall as illustrator has given us a charming volume.... It was a happy idea to intersperse photographs of some of the more famous Dutch pictures. Mr. Lucas is an admirable guide and visitors to Holland 222could not have a more agreeable commentator on their travels past or future.... He not only abounds in wise and quaint comments himself, but is the cause of our remembering the wisdom of others.”—Sat. R.

“‘A wanderer in Holland’ is, of course, no substitute for Murray or Baedeker, rather is it their essential complement.”

“If the success of a book of travels is to be measured by the travel-fever it excites in the veins of its readers, this volume should have a warm welcome.”

“And now we have found all the fault we care to find with this charming guide. To say that it ranks a long way after ‘The inland voyage’ is only to say that Stevenson is dead. We welcome in it a like sense of intimacy—it wears the face of a friend—it talks.”

* “Mr. Lucas makes no pretension to connoisseurship, but his untechnical remarks on pictures are nearly always interesting, and, to one reader at least, prove the most attractive part of his writing.”

“The fact is Mr. Lucas comes near being in his book exactly what one would like a well-informed and companionable fellow-traveler to be if one were seeing Holland with one’s own eyes.”

“In short the book is notable among books of travel and description for its readable qualities and discriminating and individual taste.”

* “A book of more than ordinary merit—a book with genuinely original qualities.”

“As we might have expected from his record, he neither bores nor dogmatises but his book is full of information and not a little wise reflection.”

“It is as a critic of character and manners and a chronicler of art that Mr. Lucas interprets his function as a guide.”

Beauty of thought and simplicity of language mark these sermons which apply the teachings of Christ to the conditions of to-day under the titles: The royalty of Jesus; The fullness of Christ; The power of a surrendered life; The face of Jesus Christ; The brook in the way; The gospel for an opulent civilization; The cry of the disinherited; The song of Moses and of the Lamb.

Lucian (Lucianus Samosatensis). Work of Lucian of Samosata; trans, by H. W. Fowler, and F. G. Fowler. 4v. *$4. Oxford.

Four handy volumes in which the translators have happily rendered idiom by idiom and “literary allusions, quotations, and technicalities of law, philosophy, or art are neatly turned to apt analogues. They sound every note in Lucian’s compass, from the mock-heroic serio-satiric eloquence of the Nigrinus, the angry contempt of the False prophet and the Death of Peregrine ... to the solemn trifling of the Fly ... and the demonstration by Socratic induction in the ‘Parasite’ that dining out is better than dining.” (Dial.) The fourth volume contains a list of notes which explain all allusions to classical biography and mythology.

* “The renderings of Messrs. Fowler have all the ease and ‘élan’ of a work originally written in English.” R. Y. Tyrrell.

“Their translation is decidedly good; they have ventured on some daring modernisms, but these we can tolerate if only lightness is secured.”

“The translation is admirably executed in the freer manner of Jowett’s ‘Plato.’” Paul Shorey.

“The editors ... deserve high praise for the clearness and vigour of their translations.”

“This Fowler translation is a work of high art, for which its authors are to be thanked.”

“The translators have with admirable fidelity, vigour, and vivacity reproduced the writings of one whom such a critic as Erasmus reckoned not only among the most entertaining, but also the most instructive, of ancient authors.”

“The book is divided into three parts: 1, Power and efficiency, with rules for deciding on the necessary piston displacement; 2, Stresses on the various parts of the engine and also with the various cylinder arrangements as affecting the turning effort and balance; 3, The necessary dimensions of the various parts to resist the stresses with both empirical and theoretical formulæ for the computation.”—Engin. N.

“It is a very notable addition to the literature on the gas engine.” Storm Bull.

The Ilchester lectures for the year 1904 “have their origin in a wish to do something for the Bohemian cause by illustrating before a foreign audience the wealth of Czechish traditions.... While Count Lützow alludes briefly to his contemporaries, the chief of his attention is devoted to the chronicles of the Middle ages and the era of the Reformation. Here the conditions fixed by a popular course of lectures compel him to be brief in his notice of all save the now famous authorities like Cosmas, Benes of Weitmil, Lawrence of Brezof, Sixt of Ottersdorf, and Paul Skála.... He gives us simply and tersely the results of the most recent research on technical points in conjunction with Palacky’s views on the larger issues.” (Nation.)

“The count, who is a master of our language, goes through the list of Bohemian historians, estimating their merits and furnishing characteristic extracts. These are translated into very clear and succinct English. Excellent book.”

“To many of our readers we can best convey an impression regarding the style and quality of his work by stating that it resembles a compressed Wattenbach with an element of current political interest added.”

Lyall, Sir Alfred Comyn. Lord Dufferin, the life of the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava. *$7.50. Scribner.

The life of a man to whom fate gave great opportunities, and who was big enough to handle and hold them. He was a central figure in many of the political events of the last half of the nineteenth century, he served as Governor-general of Canada, Viceroy of India, Ambassador to St. Petersburg, to Constantinople, Rome and France. This biography is compiled from his journal, his letters, and the recollections of his friends.

“But the real value of the book lies in the information it supplies in regard to the great movements in foreign and colonial politics that 223have been going on during the last thirty years.”

“Making every deduction for the imperfections inseparable from even the best biographies, one reaches the conclusions that here a really great subject has been treated both adequately and effectively.” Lawrence J. Burpee.

* “His book is frank yet discreet, and marked in all its parts by delicacy of perception.”

“What is to be regarded as the official biography. It is official also in its discreetness—a discreetness at times carried to extremes, dimming perception—and in the highly eulogistic tone maintained throughout. It may safely be said that Sir Alfred, while presenting a work obviously open to criticism, has also presented one of direct value to the historical student, and of interest to the general reader.”

“Sir Alfred Lyall seems to us to have chosen the best way in which to tell the story of Lord Dufferin’s life.”

“A study of social conditions in this country. The police criminal, the anarchist, and the large number of moral and physical law-breakers are here discussed. The author also deals with such questions as the oppression of wealth, the rights and wrongs of organized capital and labour, the negro question, and the offences of society at large. The book is well illustrated.”—Bookm.

“The style, although brilliant at times, is open to much criticism. It is verbose, often disconnected and rambling. In spite of many blemishes the book is of great value. With the general thesis of the book and a large percentage of the conclusions, the reviewer is in hearty sympathy and heartily commends it to students of social problems.” C. Kelsey.

“His examination of the question of crime seems exhaustive, his inferences inevitable.” Albert Warren Ferris.

“While here and there is much that is interesting, although at times crudely presented, the author like many others who write upon the subject errs in trying to prove too much from insufficient premises and newspaper gossip, and this is especially true when he treats of craniometry and physiognomy.” Allan McLane Hamilton.

“It has not the air of a serious book of science, and indeed contains here and there a misplaced facetiousness.”

“As monographs the parts are incomplete, and the whole is neither sufficiently unified for the ordinary reader, nor clearly cut for the student. Nor is the style attractive.”

“This is really a study of the vice and crime problem from a medical standpoint.”

Mr. Lyle finds material for his first story within the tottering Empire of Maximilian. The hero is one of Jo. Shelby’s band who, refusing to surrender after the fall of the Confederacy, offered their services to Maximilian in Mexico. Din Driscoll, Missourian, Confederate officer, the “storm center” in every fight, and the exquisite, capricious Jacquelin d’Aumerle, secret emissary of Napoleon on business of state, figure almost grotesquely in a series of thrilling adventures which result from defending each other from intrigue and death. In the end this airy coquette of two imperial courts chooses to find her happiness within the confines of a shut-away Missouri farm.

* “The fact is Mr. Lyle has been absorbed by his material, instead of absorbing it.”

“Here, for instance, is an example of literary over-seasoning, which, far from being exceptional, is fairly characteristic of the book’s style.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

“We should be grateful to Mr. Lyle for having given in this novel a new and adequate setting for the American hero of love and war.”

“Yet, dramatic, picturesque, brilliant in attack and technique as the book undoubtedly is, the interest in it is largely spectacular.”

“It is crude enough in certain details, but its reading leaves no doubt as to the fact that Mr. Lyle possesses extraordinary vision and power to communicate what his imagination sees.” L. L.

“The history is accurate, but unimportant; the romance is of vast importance and fairly accurate.”

Lyman, Olin Linus. Oliver Hazard Perry and the war on the Lakes. $1.25. Amsterdam.

The brief career of Commodore Perry (1785-1819), midshipman, lieutenant, commander of Lake Erie, and the American squadron in the Mediterranean is given in this volume which is “a eulogy rather than a biography.” (N. Y. Times.)

“As an elementary history the book is good. It should make rather a good ‘reader.’ Mr. Lyman has padded his book tremendously, and has indulged in ‘fine writing’ of the worst sort. The author is very chary of dates.”

A new volume in the “What is worth while series.” A message of comfort showing that life in God’s world is truly worth living, that there is but one answer to the question for those who believe in the life eternal.

Uniform with the “Thin paper classics,” this pocket volume is printed on opaque “Bible” paper in large clear type, is bound in limp leather, and contains a frontispiece of the author.

Maartens, Maarten (J. M. W. van der Poorten-Schwartz). My poor relations. †$1.50. Appleton.

Fourteen unpleasant stories of life in a little Dutch village, where the people are degraded and low in mind and morals. In “The mother” Mary Quint vainly struggles to help her son conquer his inherited love of drink. “Jan Hunkum’s money,” “Fair lover,” “The summer Christmas,” “The notary’s love story,” “The banquet,” and the rest, are all horridly true, and are told in a vivid style that makes them almost too real.

“All the stories, while not calculated to make one laugh, will undoubtedly keep one’s interest alive.”

“It would be hard to name a book in which the characters are so uniformly disagreeable as in this collection of short stories.”

“One may go so far as to compare them to De Maupassant’s though hardly to that master’s best.”

Twenty four “once upon a time” fairy tales collected from various countries to amuse and stimulate the imagination of the child of today. They include such familiar stories as, Hans and Gretel, Ali Baba, The golden goose, One eye, two eyes, three eyes, Blue beard, Red riding hood, The ugly duckling, Tom Thumb, Jack the giant killer, Jack and the bean stalk, and Puss in boots.

“In one respect the book appears to us defective, in that it does not state by whom the particular version of each of these child classics was written.”

“This volume is uniform with ‘Fairy tales every child should know.’ It collects for children’s reading and for school use sixteen myth-stories which belong to the world’s literature and appeal to the young imagination. Hawthorne’s ‘Wonder-book’ and ‘Tanglewood tales’ furnish half the material.... Charles Kingsley’s ‘Greek heroes,’ Mr. Brown’s ‘In the days of the giants,’ Mr. A. J. Church’s ‘Stories from Homer,’ Mr. Mabie’s ‘Norse stories,’ and Miss Emerson’s ‘Indian myths’ are the other sources. Mr. Mabie furnishes an introduction.”—Outlook.

* “We could wish that Mr. Mabie had put his interesting preface before a more consecutive and less heterogeneous collection.”

* “They are rather stiffly told and frequently the style is too difficult and elaborate to be easily understood by children.”

Hilda Lane, kept from the man she loves for twenty years by a war time misunderstanding, adopts a sturdy waif named Robert, and a negro girl, Liberty, and educates them. Liberty grows up to offer her life to white fever sufferers, and Robert, on the eve of a successful career and engaged to marry a lovely southern girl, discovers that there is negro blood in his veins and nobly consecrates his life to the uplifting of the black race. The book is chiefly occupied with the negro question.

“An apotheosis of good nature and neighborly kindness. A worthy washerwoman related grammatically to Mrs. Partington arranges the wedding of her daughter. The respect both have won in their town inspires the interested villagers of higher social position to make the pathetic efforts of Mrs. Larkins turn out a happy success. A change in bridegrooms adds to the general jollity, and the two Larkins, mother and daughter, disappear in a haze of prosperity and sentiment.”—Outlook.

Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st baron. Essays; ed. by Lady Trevelyan. $6. Putnam.

These six compact little volumes contain nothing but the text of the essays and preface as edited by Lady Trevelyan, the author’s sister. There are several illustrations in each volume—mainly engravings and portraits.

“Edition is as satisfactory for the purposes of the reader of Macaulay as a modest man can desire, handy enough to permit you on occasion to put a volume in your coat pocket and take it with you upon a journey, yet entirely fit for the library shelves. For it sacrifices to compactness not size of type (and the eyes of the reader) but an easily dispensable surplus of margin.”

“Admirably planned for thoroughly comfortable reading, and to take up small space in a library. For a good edition which meets all the requirements of the average reader, and of a size which makes it possible to carry the volumes about when one travels, we do not recall a better edition than this.”

The famous account of “Pet Marjorie” by Dr. John Brown is here reprinted, with much later information and her journals and letters hitherto unpublished. There are fourteen illustrations, including pictures of the little girl taken alone and with Scott.

Little Yuki, a samurai’s daughter, the last of her honorable race, has been educated in Washington and returns to Japan with the American minister to Tokio, his wife and daughter. Her story is the story of the heart of Japan, the nobility, the love of country, the cruelty; and when she tramples on her own love and the love of the young Frenchman, Pierre, and marries Prince Haganè at the command of her father and the call of her country, she typifies the cheerful sacrifice of the individual to the system, which is, perhaps, the keynote of Japan. The time is that of the present war with Russia, the tragedy is horrid and occidental.

“‘The breath of the gods’ is one of the most artistic novels of the year. We doubt if any American writer has given us a truer or more intimate insight into the life and the spiritual and intellectual concepts of the Japanese than has the author of the ‘Breath of the gods.’”

“The genre painting, although too crowded with details, is good; but the end is disappointing.”

225“In her work one sees an unbounded admiration of traits not fully comprehended, rather than a keen and sympathetic understanding of the Japanese ideals and their visible exponents.”

“Putting aside the truth or improbability of the story, the book is interesting in all parts and thrilling in some.”

“‘The breath of the gods’ is worthy of the author of ‘Truth Dexter.’”

“As a story the book is written in a somewhat hectic and turbulent fashion, and its early promise is hardly fulfilled by the melodrama of its conclusion.”

“These two volumes conclude the ‘History of our own times,’ begun by Mr. McCarthy some twenty-five years ago. The five volumes taken together cover the entire reign of Queen Victoria.... This work ... is rather a series of essays than a continuous history. All of the important events of the period come in for consideration. The greatest of these for the empire at large was the Boer war.... The interest and value of these volumes rests upon the fact that they are the work of a man who knows intimately what he is writing about.”—N. Y. Times.

“Looking at the work as a whole, we can only describe it as glib, fluent, popular—not by any means as a thoughtful and far-reaching study of men and the events of our time, and of the tendencies of those great movements which they have generated.”

* “But Mr. McCarthy is always readable, and the entertaining quality of his work will undoubtedly be of value in bringing to the negligent reader some familiarity, at least, with the main features of later English politics.” E. D. Adams.

“It does not read like the work of a man behind the scenes, or tell us anything that we have not already read in the newspapers. Mr. McCarthy writes without any sense of proportion, and freely scamps the essential in order to make room for padding. All that can truthfully be said is that Mr. Justin McCarthy has the trick of being mildly readable even when he is platitudinous and obvious.”

“He tells the story in a simple, intelligible way. He is never dry, tedious, discursive, labored, or involved. It is not adverse criticism to say that he has not written a weighty history.”

“He is always interesting, and though sometimes gossipy and sometimes affected by personal prepossessions, he writes with singular fairness of temper. His history is journalistic rather than scientific.”

* “It is very interesting and of considerable use to students of recent events.”

* “We are sorry that we cannot say that it is even a good book of reference, for Mr. McCarthy is not methodical enough, nor detailed enough, nor accurate enough to make himself an authority on facts. The English is slovenly.”

An autobiography giving the author’s experiences in newspaper work, his visits to America, and his parliamentary career (1879-1902), covering the Parnell period with its sudden close and the breaking up of the Nationalist party.

“Historical students who may turn to either of these volumes will be compelled continuously to keep in mind the nationality and political environment of the writers; for with both Davitt and McCarthy every Irishman on the popular side is a patriot, an orator, or a statesman.”

“A record sufficiently varied and full of incident to have a sure claim on public interest. It would rank with such a narrative as Mr. Riis’s rather than with literary autobiographies, or with intellectual documents like Spencer’s account.” H. W. Boynton.

“A delightful melange of reminiscence, description, autobiography and anecdote, and will be read with genuine enjoyment.”

“The hero is the son and heir of Duke Baldwin of Athens, who ruled near the close of the thirteenth century. The heroine, Argathona, is a dryad, who remained in the Eleusinian wood after the gods departed. There are numerous adventures—joustings, conspiracies, battles, enchantments—related with cheerful disregard of everything except the interest of the reader.”—Pub. Opin.

“He has not succeeded in creating the right atmosphere. Mr. McCarthy has found a beautiful theme and in spite of his cleverness has handled it so roughly that he has deprived it of its external charm and has not developed the possibilities of its inherent beauty”

“Mr. McCarthy must be congratulated on having so deftly handled the supernatural that one hardly feels the impossibility of Argathona.”

“Selecting a somewhat vague historical period, he devises an impossible plot, worked out by impossible characters. A rather pleasing piece of make-believe.”

“It may be said indeed that he has woven in this story a tapestry whose grace of design and exquisite harmony of color all lovers of this kind of story will approve. There is something Tennysonian in the silken softness of his style and in his imagery.”

“Mr. McCarthy contrives to get a real touch of poetry into his descriptions of the forest.”

“A story of Cromwell’s time, with the brilliant Lady Brilliana Harby as the storm centre. Dangers without end beset the lady and her admirers true and false, the whole ending happily when the clang of wedding bells replaces the clash of swords.”—Critic.

“A pretty tale and a merry one. This is mostly a skipping, happy-go-lucky story, a seventeenth century scherzo.”

“Is a brisk and breezy romance. There is little or no attempt at historical accuracy or minute coloring, a fact that is quite refreshing. Mr. McCarthy is content to tell a swift and fascinating story, in which effort he succeeds thoroughly.”

An English woman’s account of her recent visit to Manchuria to inspect the work of the Japanese Red cross society. Their efficient system is given in detail and there are many incidents and descriptions typical of the land and the people.

“Miss McCaul is an honest, straightforward writer, and her book is a tonic.”

“The practical advantages to be derived from a study of the volume under review cannot be questioned.”

“Her letters here collected have in them much of interest, but are overloaded with too detailed narrative of personal experiences.”

“Unpretentious, but able and interesting little book. It contains much that is valuable to a student of military medicine.”

“This text book on American constitutional law is published in the “American citizen” series, edited by Prof. Hart.... The classical bibliography and references at the beginning of each chapter together furnish opportunity for a more extended study of the subjects dealt with in the text.... The volume is divided into eight parts ... first ... the System of government.... Part II. explains how the government is organized. Parts III., IV., and V. deal with the nature and scope ... of the legislative, the executive, and the judicial branches of the government; Part VI. concerns itself with the relations of the states to each other and to the federal government. The last two parts are on the relations of the individual to the government and on civil rights.”—N. Y. Times.

“It is an able, fresh, vigorous treatment of the subject, handled with assurance and with considerable novelty in method.”

“Covering in a cursory way so vast a field, the book is necessarily in many respects unsatisfactory. It has, however, the decided merit of containing a selected general bibliography, topical bibliographical references for each chapter, an analytical table of contents, and a fairly satisfactory index.”

“The volume is very well adapted either for private reading or for classes of civics or history in our schools.”

“The clear arrangement and concise style, the subordination of detail, and the avoidance of a mere mechanical order in the presentation of topics save it from stereotyped formality or dull abstruseness. On the whole, we should expect to see McClain supplant Cooley to a considerable extent in the schools and colleges.”

McClellan, Elizabeth. Historic dress in America, 1607-1800; with an introd. chapter on dress in the Spanish and French settlements in Florida and Louisiana; il. in color, pen and ink, and half-tone by Sophie Steel, **$10; hf. lev. or mor. **$20. Jacobs.

“The work begins with the time of the earliest Spanish occupation of the continent, and concludes with the opening of the nineteenth century. Within this period the dress of men and women, nobles, commoners, and soldiers, is minutely described, the illustrations being from contemporary prints, old portraits and similar authentic sources.”—Reader.

“The text is accompanied by excellent illustrations. Its attempt at completeness and the care used in arrangement suggest that its greatest value is as a book of reference. Therefore it is a matter of regret that references for the large number of quotations are not more frequent.”

“This exhaustive and well illustrated volume on the American dress of the past should hold a position among the most authoritative works on the subject.”

“Nothing approaching the completeness of the present work has yet been offered.”

The present revised edition brings this book of reference down to date. An account of the Roosevelt-Parker campaign is given with a narrative of its various conventions.

“As a whole this is a convenient and reasonably accurate handbook of American national politics, and only here and there does the author make a statement that seems questionable.” H. T. P.

“All these summaries, if not very critical in tone, are readable and to the point.”

This poem is a tribute to Marcus Hanna, written by a life-long friend. It is divided into five parts: A prologue of a life; Village scenes; Transformed villagers; A plea for immortality; and The life beyond.

An enthusiastic description of “happy Tyrol,” in which are mingled beauty of landscape, and quaint peasant charm: the toymakers and innkeepers of to-day: the patriots and minnesingers of yesterday. The traveller is shown 227where to find interesting sights and scenes and is given a knowledge of the part that he may understand the Tyrolese of the present. The illustrations are reproduced from photographs.

“Readable for itself, and giving an excellent notion of the country, the book is also usable side by side with a guide book, as an intelligent and interesting description of the principal places in the country.”

“As a whole his book is disappointing, childishly enthusiastic, and not at all convincing as either guide book or account of travel in the Tyrol. It is full, however, and one will not go astray in following Mr. McCracken as a guide.”

As a result of several years of observation of the American woman as she is found in the large towns and small all over the United States, Miss McCracken gives her to us in all her phases, the professional woman and the club woman; her ideals and her achievements.

“This misleading book.... Harmfully sentimental spirit in which the fourteen articles ... are written. No information is offered to the seeker after fact; and for the theorist there is no basis of discussion. The book is simply a rambling series of unilluminating anecdotes, strongly personal without being strongly vital in tone.” O. H. D.

“The book is often unjust in its criticism, fulsome in its praise, illogical in its attempts at argument. It could not be called a serious contribution to sociological literature, partly because it is a vitascope of photographs from a car window instead of the careful canvasses of a Millet, who has known his subjects long, and loved them well.”

“Thus, the book is not made up of official statistics, but is the fruit of personal meetings with women and visits to the scenes of their occupations.”

“The art of making what has appealed to herself appeal to her reader has been mastered by Miss McCracken.”

The elopement of a young couple from Chicago who start for the Philippines via New York and London, travelling as brother and sister, forms the basis of this story which is turned into an amusing extravaganza by a ship wreck in mid-ocean which leaves the hero stranded upon the island of Nedra with a new heroine, a girl whom he has rescued by mistake.

“He has given us the kind of story Americans like, incredible, daring, delightful and a little absurd.”

* “Like most of Mr. McCutcheon’s novels, ‘Nedra’ is not a matter for critical appreciation. One may say it is ‘apart’ from it rather than ‘beneath it.’”

“It belongs to the novels of recreation pure and simple, and well fulfills its purpose of robbing the reader of the sense of time.”

McCutcheon, George Barr (Richard Greaves, pseud.). Purple parasol; with il. by Harrison Fisher, and decorations by C: B. Falls. †$1.25. Dodd.

The owner of a purple parasol, a gray dress and a sailor hat is shadowed by a young lawyer who hopes to pile up evidence for a divorce case against the erring wife of an old husband. The story becomes a romance when the owner of the parasol turns out to be a young and beautiful girl.

McCutcheon, John Tinney. Mysterious stranger and other cartoons. *$1.50. McClure.

Over one hundred and fifty cartoons which have appeared during the past year or so in the Chicago Tribune are gathered into this volume. The author expresses the hope that his drawings “may have a permanent interest because of the great historical importance of the period they encompass” but aside from political matters much space is given to genial take-offs of President Roosevelt as bear-hunter and glad-hander, and satires of child life.

* “The cartoons are well worth embodying in a form less transient than the pages of a daily newspaper.”

“Preserves too much that is trivial and vulgar (not in the most odious sense), and would have been the better for a severe screening. On the whole we find the collection rather dreary.”

MacDonnell, John de Courcy. King Leopold II., his rule in Belgium and the Congo. *$6. Cassell.

The main object of this book “is to tell once more the story of the origin and progress and methods of government of the Congo Free State, and to refute the charge that Leopold has not fulfilled the pledges made under the Berlin act.” (Nation).

“The writer’s arguments, however, are not convincing, and we wish we could attribute their unreality to ignorance of the subject in hand.”

“The weakness of the book is its redundancy and its tendency to exalt into great virtues the king’s most commonplace actions. Its attenuated special pleading minimises but does not destroy whatever usefulness as a record it may possess.”

This “tiny little volume ... presents a clear account ... of the elements of scientific psychology, and is thoroughly up to date.”—Acad.

228“Small and unambitious though it be, this book is worth more than the little space it would fill in the library of the student of mind.”

“Mr. McFadyen sums up accurately and concisely the established results in regard to each book of the Old Testament, avoiding positive assertion where the facts do not warrant it. The inexpert reader will get from this book in a small compass a clear idea of the results of criticism and also of the common-sense method by which they have been arrived at.”—Acad.

* “Mr. McFadyen writes in a most interesting style: and successfully brings out both the human interest and the religious value of the several books.”

MacFarland, Charles Stedman. Jesus and the prophets; an historical, exegetical, and interpretative discussion of the use of the Old Testament prophecy by Jesus and his attitude towards it. **$1.50. Putnam.

“Holding Jesus to be more than a prophet, Dr. MacFarland sees that he was called to the work of a prophet, to meet a spiritual exigency, as the ancient prophets in their time had done.... As Jesus’ disciples misunderstood the prophets, so they misunderstood and still misunderstand his use of them.” (Outlook.) The author is a Congregational minister.

“No one should hereafter use Dr. Briggs’s or any of the older works on Messianic prophecy as authorities without parallel reference to this newer treatise.”

* “A careful and scholarly examination of the relation of Jesus to Old Testament prophecy.”

“Dr. MacFarland’s work is of unusual importance for the setting right and clarifying of erroneous and confused notions, an excellent specimen of the application of critical method for the realization of religious values.”

Macfarlane, Isabella. Royal knight: a tale of Nuremburg. †$1.25. Dillingham.

A story of 15th century Nuremburg, and of twin sisters of a poor and widowed mother, one betrothed to a wool-merchant’s son, the other, loved by a young German officer whose father is chief magistrate. Because the girl holds her honor above her love, the magistrate’s son attempts to force her consent by accusing her mother of witchcraft. Imprisonment and torture follow, but thru the loyalty of the daughters and the advent of their champion, who is no other than Emperor Maximilian, all ends happily.

Macfarlane, Walter. Laboratory notes on practical metallurgy: being a graduated series of exercises. *80c. Longmans.

“This little book is apparently intended as a first course for beginners in practical work in a metallurgical laboratory.... It consists of a series of practical exercises, all well within the grasp of the average boy, graduated and well arranged with a view of developing the habit of observation.... The student is introduced to furnace work.... The preparation of the ordinary common alloys follows.... Later, the more complex subject of the principles on which the process for the extraction of copper, lead, gold, and silver from their ores depend is dealt with. The book concludes with a few elementary exercises in assaying gold and silver ores, and the analysis of coal and coke.”—Nature.

“The book contains much useful information for junior students, and can be recommended for their use.”

MacGowan, Alice, and Cooke, Grace MacGowan. Return: a story of the sea islands in 1739. †$1.50. Page.

In a stirring romance the authors reproduce people and scenes of colonial South Carolina and Georgia. In it Diana Chaters, the belle of Charleston, and a young Virginian of the historic family of Marshall figure prominently. This heroine, “the heartless coquette, is publicly jilted as the result of a brutal wager. How she takes her shame, and how she builds it into her life, is told by the authors with skill and upon somewhat new lines.” (Outlook.)

“‘Return’ is a capital love-story, one of the very best romantic novels of the year.”

* “For the most part the story develops naturally, the characters have actual personality, and the savour of romance is well maintained.”

“A love-story with plenty of color and movement. It is all very well done, vivid, dramatic; but the story is too overcrowded with characters; there are too many side issues. Not a little excision as well as condensation would have greatly improved a vigorous story.”

“A story with original strength and some novel situations. The characters are admirably individualized, the action is lively, and the whole picture excellently drawn.”

“It is difficult to conceive of a story in which the element of picturesqueness enters more effectively.”

A group of Mr. MacGrath’s short stories which abound in daringly novel situations. The five are “A night’s enchantment.” the adventure of the lady in the closed carriage, “The blind madonna,” the adventure of the golden louis, “No Cinderella,” the adventure of the satin slipper, “Two candidates,” the adventure in love and politics, and “The enchanted hat,” the adventure of my lady’s letter.

“Without being in any way remarkable ... will provide amusement and entertainment.”

The sprightly record of a night’s adventure in which the principal participants bent upon attending a masked ball thru a fluke are mistaken for clever thieves. The plot which thickens about the innocent imposters for a time, and which is later cleared up, furnishes an exciting hour for the most sated fiction appetite.

229* “Constructed with an art that holds the reader’s interest from the first page to the last.”

* “It is a book to be read in a half hour, but it contains adventure enough to last a lifetime.”

The chief figures in this story of rapid action are the madcap Princess of Barscheit, her grumpy uncle intent upon a suitable marriage for her, and a young American medical student. The American consul tells the story of a series of adventures capped by the princess’s escape from marrying the redfaced Prince of Doppelkinn. That she finds the young American with her on this journey is certainly not distressing to her, and that he turns out to be the long lost heir of Doppelkinn and a much worthier suitor than the father are facts which atone for her matrimonial hardships.

“This tale ... will be found altogether diverting, if not convincingly real.”

Mach, Edmund Robert Otto von. Handbook of Greek and Roman sculpture, to accompany a collection of reproductions of Greek and Roman sculpture. *$1.50. Bureau of University travel.

“Dr. von Mach’s book is not a ‘handbook’ in the ordinary sense of the word, but a descriptive catalogue of five hundred plates and forty-five text illustrations representing works of Greek and Roman sculpture.... The description and discussion of each work is preceded by a note giving the material, place, and date of discovery when known, museum or other collection in which the work is now preserved, and some bibliographical information.”—Nation.

“The author shows in this book the excellencies of his former work. He states his conclusions boldly and independently.”

“Certainly Dr. von Mach’s style leaves much to be desired. While we cannot recommend Dr. von Mach as a perfectly wise guide to such as wish to know Greek art, we are glad to express our belief that the university prints, accompanied by this handbook, will be of great service to the student.”

This story of the peons of Canada is a frankly unhistorical tale of the freeing of Canada from England in a great war in which the “Habitans” and serfs under the leadership of the overlord defeat “Pitchener,” the English general. The overlord, aside from his feudal ownership along the upper St. Lawrence, owns several United States railroads, consequently the president, tho ostensibly neutral, aids him, and in return receives Canada as a gift from his grateful hands when England is finally defeated.

“A history which is frankly fictitious. The most surprising thing in the book is the bitterness toward England and the English.”

“In this curiously heaped up and involved lot of fiction are a vast number of tags and ends of stories and undigested ideas, the winnowing of which would be hopeless here. It’s a very long, queer book.”

France in the sixteenth century when Charles of Bourbon was rebelling against Francis I. is the setting. The story is one of fighting and adventure, of a nobleman who ill-uses his lady, and of my lady’s maid who saves her mistress from Saracen slavery by luring a villain into quicksand, and does other daring things. In the end the lord and lady are reconciled and the maid reaps as her reward the title of Lady of Ravelle.

“A light romance—rather under average weight in fact. Nor in spite of the wings on the helmet and the out-of-the-common incidents mentioned, does it make up in spirit what it lacks in baser qualities. It cannot carry even its own feathery self as a gallant should.”

“A spirited romance of the Weymanesque school. Characters and scenes are well imagined and the story ingeniously contrived; but the flow is unpleasantly interrupted by repeated transitions from the usual narrative form to diary extracts and the like.”

“Fenris the wolf, son of Odin, troubles the serenity of Heaven with his barkings of defiance, and with his wolfish desires for Freyja, the betrothed of his brother Baldur. In the prologue, Odin ordains that Fenris, Baldur, Freyja and himself shall leave their heavenly estate and become four mortals. The action of the play consists in the conversion of Fenris to charity and human love.... The action passes before rune-stones in the northern forest at daybreak or twilight, in prison chambers and by deep forest pools.”—Nation.

“There is much beauty in Mr. Mackaye’s work, beauty of poetry and thought; he is strong, tender and imaginative, and the more we study his play, the more we wish either that it were not a play at all or that we might see it acted.”

“As a whole the play fails a little of tragic impressiveness precisely because of a certain forcing of the note. It is, nevertheless, a poetic venture, of a sincerity and magnitude for which there can be nothing but admiration.”

The serenity of two lives—Anna of the Titian red hair, and her artist husband Paul—is jeopardized by a scheming Jesuit who plots to get possession of the wife’s fortune for the Church. He uses as a foil Elena, an actress, who serves as a model for Paul’s masterpiece Spring. In the swirl of complications Father Lamian’s real relations to Elena come to light, showing a misspent youth and a deeply designing nature.

“The story is weak and poorly written, annoyingly commonplace in expression, and quite unnecessary.”

McKechnie, William Sharp. Magna carta: a commentary on the great charter of King John. *$4.50. Macmillan.

“Each chapter of ‘Magna carta’ is given in its original Latin, with an English version by Dr. McKechnie following it in smaller type, 230after which comes the commentary. The book includes a select bibliography and a list of the authorities consulted by the author, a general index, and an index to statutes. In appendices are documents relative to or illustrative of King John’s Magna carta.”—N. Y. Times.

“One feels compelled to state that although for want of something better this work will undoubtedly be consulted, nevertheless taken as a whole it cannot be regarded as of more than mediocre value.” Henry Lewis Cannon.

“A scholarly and authoritative work based on the results of the latest critical research, devoid of rhetorical flourish and meeting the requirements of the lawyer and the historian. The book is well planned. We are grateful to our author for clearing up the problems of Magna Carta in so scholarly and definitive a fashion.”

“He has given us what will long remain as the standard work on Magna Carta, a book remarkable alike for its solid learning, its fertility in suggestion, and its characteristic note of moderation and sweet reasonableness.”

“The first exhaustive commentator on ‘Magna carta’ since the days of Richard Thompson.”

“We should be disposed to dismiss his book as nothing more than a text-book of unusual thoroughness were it not for one saving merit. Mr. McKechnie is not afraid of discussing an abstract and complicated question.”

“His conclusions, like his style, are not always inspired, or beyond criticism or revision.”

Miriam, whose birth is hid in mystery, is brought up as a slave in an old-fashioned southern household. She is freed by her master, and educated in the north where no none knows of the taint in her blood. After bravely renouncing love and happiness, confessing to her lover and friends the truth, she learns that by birth she is an honored daughter in the home where she was once a slave.

* “A story of the old South of no literary value, and as foreign to fact as many others that have been written on similar lines.”

The presence of the kaiser upon the pages of this simple little love story lends a certain dignity and makes the plot possible, but has no real historical significance. Wilhelmina, who has been brought up in America, comes to Germany to visit her uncle, the Admiral von Uhland, and his pleasure loving French wife. Here she meets two young naval officers, and upon the occasion of the kaiser’s visit to her uncle she learns of the strict paternalism practiced in the German army and navy, and that a rich wife is essential to a poor officer. This is where the denouement comes in. In the end the kaiser, who has taken a fancy to her, in his favorite role of destiny, points out to her the sensible road where she finds both wealth and love.

“Is a charmingly bright and unconventional story. Though by no means a great story, is one of the most clever little romances of the season.”

McKinley, Albert Edward. Suffrage franchise in the thirteen English colonies in America. $2.50. Ginn.

The purpose of the author has been “to present the dynamic or developmental aspect of the subject, rather than the analytic; he has not been content with a mere summary of the suffrage qualifications in the several colonies, but has endeavored to trace the growth of the colonial ideals and practices respecting the elective franchise.”

“Mr. McKinley’s volume is full of interest. Taken in connection with Mr. Bishop’s ‘History of elections in the colonies,’ the whole ground seems thoroughly covered.” F. W. S.

“In general there is shown the most conservative scholarship. The immense amount of material consulted, the care in the verification of its vast number of mere facts, and the patience shown in the organization of the mass of data, calls forth the highest praise for the author’s scholarship.” John L. Conger.

McKinley, Charles E. Educational evangelism: the religious discipline for youth. *$1.25. Pilgrim press.

Clergymen, and all who are interested in the religious training of boys and girls from 16 to 20 will find much of value in this essay, which discusses the religious needs of youth and gives suggestions as to how the church may meet them.

“It is one of the most sensible and thoughtful presentations of what the spiritual discipline of youth should be, both through the pulpit and in the school, that has recently appeared. He shows himself an original thinker, a man of insight, and a true lover of youth.”

“Though a small book, this is full of judicious thought well worthy of thoughtful consideration.”

“The essay was written in 1896, when Mr. McKinley was governor of Ohio, and while the information he had gained as chairman of the ways and means committee was still fresh in mind. Naturally the legislative and political aspects of the tariff are the ones to which most attention is given. The author recognizes his difficulty of dealing with the subject in a non-partisan way, but states, ‘It has been my honest endeavor to do justice to all directly participating in the events narrated. It has been my aim to present as completely as possible a review of proposed tariff legislation since the close of the Civil war to the present time, as well as a sketch of the measures actually enacted, to the end that the student may observe the trend and purpose of the leading political parties in respect to this economic question.’”—Ann. Am. Acad.

“The essay was intended for general readers and its merits fully justify its being put into book form.”

The author, who is editor of the Minneapolis Journal, accompanied a special sub-committee of the Senate committee on territories to Alaska in the summer of 1903 and in a series of articles for his paper discussed the resources and possibilities of the country. These articles now appear in book form revised, and including statistical information on commercial and industrial operations down to 1904.

231“His book is conservatively written, is interesting and seems to be believable.”

“It is the most complete and also the most trustworthy book of its class that has appeared up to the present time.”

“The book should serve for a long time ... in the capacity of an authoritative reference work.” Wallace Rice.

“A clear picture of Alaska—its history, population, occupations, resources, and problems.”

“Few of his statements can be designated as erroneous, and these are mostly of slight importance.”

“An exceedingly interesting book of travel, which ... justifies the claims of the publishers that it has practically the accuracy and trustworthiness of a public document.”

“Not only an entertaining record of travel, but a compact statement of the conditions, resources, and needs of the territory. Unquestionably the ground is not fully covered, but the amount of information derivable from the work is such that for all general purposes the treatment is adequate.”

“The present treatise is the best that has so far appeared. It is broadly comprehensive.”

The author, whose boyhood was spent in Harper’s Ferry, where he witnessed the famous raid of John Brown, has woven his recollections of that time into a story in which a Virginia boy discovers a wounded mulatto, one of Brown’s men, the day after the raid, and attempts to conceal the outlaw from the authorities. The resulting adventures comprise the story, in which a Virginia squire, a doctor, a young lawyer and others figure.

“A story that moves swiftly and directly and contains a good deal of pleasant humor and excellent character-drawing.”

Taking Jonathan Edwards, John Winthrop, Margaret Fuller, Walt Whitman and John Wesley as the subjects of his essays, the author has written a series of sketches which give a better picture of the individual types than of Puritanism.

“He mingles with his sharp and sometimes acrid treatment of Puritanism a good deal of sound and discriminating comment on its more attractive side, but on both sides of his view of Puritanism he leaves an impression that he has not very thoroughly worked the matter out.”

“These essays are bright, readable, entertaining, but they are also sometimes smart and a trifle flippant in style, and, in their dealing with philosophical thought, superficial. His view, no less than his style, is journalistic.”

“His book has many attractions; one of them is the pertinence with which he makes reflections, called forth in the first instance by the past, apply to the present. And he has a way of discerning the real greatness of the men whom he describes.”

Macquoid, Mrs. Katharine Sarah Gadsden. Pictures in Umbria. *$1.50. Scribner.

“This is a volume of purely ‘impressions de voyage’ by an intelligent observing woman inspired by the history and landscape of Umbria.... The author has a distinct liking for showing the life of the people by describing their physical characteristics and relating their conversation, and by throwing these things in contrast with the characteristics of the ancient race.”—N. Y. Times.

“The text is so trite and prosaic that it gives the impression of being written merely for the sake of furnishing a setting for the fifty original illustrations.”

* “Written in a bright and picturesque style, and full of interesting anecdotes.”

“When all has been said, the illustrations are by far the most interesting features of the book. It is worth publishing for them alone.”

“The book will form an entertaining companion for the fireside tourist, for it is intimately written in unadorned, direct narrative style.” Walter Littlefield.

Macquoid, Percy. History of English furniture. 20 pts. v. I, pts. 1-3. per pt. *$2.50. Putnam.

“The history has been divided into four parts: ‘The age of oak,’ comprising furniture from 1500 to 1660; ‘The age of walnut,’ from 1660 to 1720, showing the varied influences of the Restoration and Dutch designers; ‘The age of mahogany,’ lasting from 1720 to 1770, in which the introduction from France of fresh ideas in design clearly marked another change, and ‘The composite age,’ from 1770 to 1820, inspired by an affectation of all things classical, combined with an unbalanced taste.... There are nearly 1000 illustrations in the entire work, and sixty of these are in the exact colors of the originals.”—N. Y. Times.

“This book will be valuable, not only to lovers of old furniture, but to art students interested in wood-carving.”

* “It is unnecessary to add anything to what we have already said concerning the importance and elegance of this work, which is absolutely unsurpassed in its field.”

232* McSpadden, Joseph Walker. Stories from Wagner. (Children’s favorite classics.) 60c; (Astor lib.) 60c; (Waldorf lib.) 75c; (Handy volume classics.) limp lea. 75c; pocket ed. 35c. Crowell.

“The stories considered in this little volume are; Four from the ‘Ring’ dramas, also ‘Parsifal, the pure,’ ‘Lohengrin, the swan knight,’ ‘Tannhauser, the knight of song,’ ‘The master singers,’ ‘Rienzi, the last of the tribunes,’ ‘The flying Dutchman,’ and ‘Tristan and Isolde.’”—R. of Rs.

* “For the non-musical as legend and fairytale, for the young music lover who has still in anticipation the Wagner music drama, it is a capital little book.”

“The story is based upon a wager made by three men that in five years after marriage they will feel the same devotion to their wives that they felt before marriage. Two, a wealthy young Englishman and an American clergyman, were for the affirmative, one, a clever young cynic, for the negative. When the bets were called, the clergyman was prepared to pay the full amount like a man of honor, the young Englishman to compromise with a third, but the cynic refused to take the money, because he, too, lost, since he still loved his wife.”—N. Y. Times.

* “The story is told in a rather impressionistic style, which frequently leaves something to be desired.”

Party organization is described in its relation to presidential, congressional, and senatorial leadership. Professor Macy traces party development pathologically rather than historically from its real beginning in Jefferson’s administration, as a township or county organization, up through state, congressional, and national committees. The development of the committees is given, Tammany, and the differing party management in various states are fully treated.

“Students of political and constitutional history will find it of great service ... because it treats the problems wisely and brings home to the reader forcibly the significance of party organization as a fact.”

“Prof. Macy deals with his subjects sympathetically. The mode of presentation is concrete.” F. I. Herriott.

“This study in political pathology will be a welcome addition to the books available to the student of political science. There seems to be nothing omitted from this little hand-book that any student of party methods or management could possibly wish to know.”

“Survey is very broad. As a rule, Professor Macy is direct and explicit but he is not always consistent, and we note occasional slips liable to lead to misconstruction of his position. Whatever there is of error, however, is not sufficient to vitiate the value of his work.”

Madison, James. Writings; ed. by Gaillard Hunt. v. 5, 1787-1790. subs. *$5. Putnam.

“Mr. Hunt’s third and fourth volumes, consisting chiefly of Madison’s notes of debates in the Federal convention, brought us down to the date of its adjournment in September, 1787. The present volume carries us but two years and a half farther.... Of a hundred and eight letters printed by Mr. Hunt there are only a dozen that have not been printed before.... Six came from the Madison papers, two from the collections of the New York library, two from the Virginia historical society, one from a North Carolina source, and one, a letter of some interest written to Philip Mazzei, was once the property of Guizot and is now in a private collection in Berlin.... Madison’s speeches in the Virginia convention occupy nearly a fourth of the volume. His speeches in the first two sessions of the First congress, running to nearly as great extent, are also given.”—Am. Hist. R.

“Mr. Hunt’s annotations are apposite and intelligent.” J. Franklin Jameson.

“It is a disagreeable task to criticise a volume which shows so much care and intelligent arrangement, but there is evidence of some hasty proofreading, or perhaps of slovenly copying. The notes are full and judicious.”

* Maeterlinck, Maurice. Old-fashioned flowers, and other out-of-door studies. **$1.20. Dodd.

“Half a dozen studies of flowers in colors by Mr. Charles B. Falls, and attractive type, paper, and binding lend to the small volume an air of distinction which matches the unusual quality of M. Maeterlinck’s style. Flowers, like animals, have distinct personalities for M. Maeterlinck, but his frequent personifications are aesthetically justified by the real feeling that they express.”—Dial.

* “Characterized by the singular beauty of Maeterlinck’s style, the tinge of mysticism, and the interpretation of thought by sentiment which have given all his books subtle individuality.”

A story founded upon the secret chronicles of two states lying in the midst of the Hungarian forest. The time is after the close of the Thirty years’ war, when some two hundred of these independent states existed in Germany. The princess of one state is about to be betrothed, against her will, to the heir of the other, when the heir disappears. Disguised as a young lieutenant, he comes to her father’s court and wins her love. After nearly losing his life and his throne in a series of daring adventures, he elopes with the princess and comes to his own. A crafty chancellor, a soldier of fortune, and an unscrupulous villain add to the plot.

“To label this novel as old-fashioned, is to pay a compliment, not cast a slur. It is to say that the author has taken pains and time, that his creation is shapely, and dignified.”

233Magnus, Hugo. Superstition in medicine; tr. from the German by Julius L. Salinger. **$1. Funk.

A history of the erroneous ideas and fanciful beliefs that have prevailed in the world with regard to sickness and its cure from the days of ancient Rome to the present time.

Mahaffy, John Pentland. Progress of Hellenism in Alexander’s empire. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.

In a series of lectures, which represent the compendium of a long and brilliant development of human nature, the author addresses not only the general reader who wishes to know something of the expansion of Greek ideas toward the East, but the specialist who needs general views of the whole into a corner of which his particular field fits. He treats Xenophon as the precursor of Hellenism, and brings the influences down to the part they perform in modern Christianity.

“There is little in the book (beyond novelty of presentation) which cannot be found elsewhere. It is less excusable that it treats too exclusively of problems of the author’s own raising, too little of those current at the present time.” W. S. Ferguson.

“Such occasional indistinctness does not, however, detract appreciably from the general luminousness of the picture, from the inspiriting nerve and freshness which we learnt long ago to associate with Dr. Mahaffy’s utterances and which show no signs of failing.” E. B.

“Dr. Mahaffy has made a mistake in attempting to deal in so small a compass with so vast a question as the spread of Hellenism.”

“They are readable and discursive, but they would not convey a very clear impression of the period which they profess to describe to any save finished scholars.”

The authoritative and widely directed study of Captain Mahan on the influence of sea power upon history has resulted in a series of most important volumes. In turning his attention to this phase of the War of 1812, he has brought to light some entirely new material from government and private documents, has treated with special clearness the subject of the imprisonment of American seamen, and has given emphasis to the records of American privateers. The author traces the train of causes of the war from 1651, in order to make clear Great Britain’s course. The work is strongly bound and illustrated.

“No one who reads his latest work will hesitate to say that it is in all respects worthy to rank on the same level as its predecessors. The vein is as rich as ever, and it is worked with no abatement of skill and no diminution of profitable output. He is occasionally prolix, and the construction of his sentences is sometimes clumsy and involved.”

* “His discussion of the conditions which caused the war is the best we know of anywhere.”

* “But whatever its defects, ‘Sea power in its relations to the war of 1812’ must be rated, like its distinguished predecessors, a substantial contribution to the history of naval warfare and a suggestive exposition of the force of the doctrine of ‘preparedness.’”

Mahler, Arthur. Paintings of the Louvre; Italian and Spanish, in collaboration with Carlos Blacker and W: A. Slater. **$2. Doubleday.

“A handbook of the Italian and Spanish sections of the celebrated art gallery, and includes also a history of the art of Italy from the early workers in the Byzantine manner to the Renaissance, while the part devoted to the Spanish schools is given up mainly to Velasquez and Murillo. The illustrations show examples of the work of these artists as well as of Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael and others.”—N. Y. Times.

“The illustrations are numerous, but too much reduced and too indistinctly printed to do more than remind one how inadequately they represent the originals.”

* “The criticism is of the old school, Vasari’s pleasing tales being repeated with an apparent obliviousness of the incredulity into which they have fallen through the researches of such moderns as Berensen, Fry, and others.”

“The book, as embodying the latest results of research, is to be relied on. The criticism is unoriginal and often extremely commonplace. It is well arranged, the English is smooth.”

“The only charge to be brought against his text is the overstudious avoidance of anything like emphasis. The final chapter on Spanish paintings shares the merits of the others—clearness, simplicity, intelligence.” L. L.

* “The historical, biographical, and technical constituents of this commentary are quite readable.”

This volume in the “Living masters of music” series “is only some sixty pages in length and is divided into five sections dealing with Joachim’s career, violin playing, teaching, influence, compositions, each of which is necessarily summarized in the briefest manner.... Having quickly disposed of the facts of his career, there is space found for interesting personal reflections upon the playing and influence of Joachim. His character, moral and artistic, which is one, is well summed up.”—Acad.

“The time is when Edward IV. reigned in England, and Louis XI. sat upon the French throne. Then Charles of Burgundy, styled Charles the bad, was feared as the richest and most powerful prince in the country, and it was Mary, his beautiful and gentle daughter, who was the pawn that the wicked prince would have gladly sacrificed for his own ambitious aims.... It is a story bristling with intrigue and adventure, with meetings after dark, and love and scorn and villainy and fine ladies traveling unattended, and mystery galore, and always through it all runs the theme of love—the love of a brave man for a beautiful girl.”—N. Y. Times.

* “Charles Major once more shines through brilliant incapacity when he attempts ‘Yolande.’”

“This is an interesting description of Yezd, ‘in the very center of Central Persia,’ where the author was for some time engaged in missionary work, and enjoyed unusual opportunities of mixing with all sorts and conditions of people. The experience of such a stay as he says apologetically, is not a traveler’s experience, but what of that?... the sympathetic picture of Yezd scenery, life, and manners which he has drawn with minute and vivid accuracy is as memorable as it is rare.”—Ath.

“The real value of ‘Five years in a Persian town’ lies in the sympathetic study of native character and modes of thought. In this respect Mr. Malcolm will not easily be surpassed, combining, as he does, keen insight and a curious subtlety of imagination with an incisive style relieved by delightful touches of dry humor.”

“A keen, but quiet and unobtrusive, sense of the humorous aspects of things runs thru the author’s pictures of Yezdi life and enhances the attractiveness of the volume.”

“The book fulfils its purpose excellently, and makes a fair guess at some Persian characteristics.”

“Mr. Malcolm has given us a very interesting, amusing and instructive account of Persian life.”

* Mallock, William Hurrell. Reconstruction of religious belief. **$1.75. Harper.

“Mr. Mallock attempts to aid ‘the thoughtful man of to-day,’ either ‘in justifying his old belief by supplying it with new foundations, or in building up some new belief which may possibly take its place.’ Mr. Mallock demonstrates that, when science has said its last word, it inevitably leaves us in some region outside itself in which ‘an intellectual solution of the contradiction between scientific and religious principles must be found.’”—R. of Rs.

* “Science can never find a complete explanation of phenomena. The attempt to show that it can, and to dispense with philosophy, is the cardinal error of Mr. Mallock’s book; it finally leads him to pure scepticism, from which he jumps into blind credulity. Much of the book is of considerable value. The whole of the third part, in which the case for scientific agnosticism is criticised, is admirable, particularly the demonstration that chance has no real existence.”

* “It is a good book to be read at a single sitting, like a good novel. To say that it is interesting, well written, and appropriate to the times, is to offer it the merest justice; but to describe it as a complete success is perhaps going too far. Perhaps it would be more successful if it were less complete.” T. D. A. Cockerell.

* “The soundest part of Mr. Mallock will be found in the considerations which he develops in his earlier chapters rather than in the more pretentious ‘solution’ which he proclaims in his concluding book.”

* “Mr. Mallock offers nothing really new in his argument, but it derives a novel coloring from its relations to recent scientific views, and piquancy from his wit and humor. The book is brightly written and the thought is throughout interesting. The proof-reading leaves something to be desired.”

* “He is doing good service not only to the cause of religious apology, but to society, and above all, to truth, which has suffered long and much from the timidity of science to push its conclusions to logical issue.”

“A narrative of the experiences of a family of British emigrants to the United States in cotton mill, iron foundry, coal mine, and other fields of labor.” The author, whose work as a newspaper man has brought him in contact with the phases of life treated in this story, tells of the abuses at the immigrant office, and scores the protectionists, the settlement workers, the Pittsburg militia, and the Pennsylvania railroad. The many hardships suffered by all of their class are vividly detailed as the history of the Clarke family progresses.

“The ferocity of the painted picture is such that nobody is likely to take it as a literal transcription of conditions—but nobody who knows the city or human nature will doubt the existence of a substantial basis for some of the author’s fury. To be sure he is a partisan, and as is the way of partisans, his eye is single and fixed. Well-informed and well-balanced people may read it with profit. It might be less good for incipient anarchists.”

“As a novel the work calls for no consideration, but it is deserving of attention as an obviously sincere attempt to present the grievances and sufferings of the poor in a manner that will quicken sympathy to action. Unfortunately, ... the writer, through ignoring the reverse side of the shield and through undoubted exaggeration, tends to repel rather than attract the thoughtful reader, and to inflame rather than broaden the thoughtless.”

An argument for sex-emancipation, for doing away with marriage, the family, the home as they exist to-day. The author calls the dramas which illustrate his point Bound, and Free, he makes the chief characters in each declare that they can love many men, or women, as the case may be, at the same time and in the same way, but can love but one supremely, their soulmate. Most conventional people will consider this book immoral.

A pathetic story of the eviction of the Cupa Indians from their home in California on the Warner ranch, told in connection with the experiences of a family of campers who spent six weeks of the last summer the Indians remained on their ancestral lands at the Hot Springs on the old reservation, and learned to know the people and to sympathize with them, and to understand their life and the part the missions played in it.

Manzoni, Alessandro. Sacred hymns [Gl’ inni sacri] and the Napoleonic ode [Il cinque maggio] of Alexander Manzoni; tr. by Joel Foote Bingham. *$3. Oxford.

The translator has aimed “to give the exact sense of the author.” The Italian texts are also given in the appendix and there is a portrait of Manzoni, a biographical preface, as well as historical introductions and critical notes.

“Dr. Bingham’s translations are painstaking, and, if one knows the original, one can recognize 235that he has given an equivalent for many of Manzoni’s thoughts; but the metrical charm and the poetry have evaporated. Whoever desires a complete outfit of notes and critical opinions on Manzoni’s hymns and ode will find them in this book.”

* Mar, Alice, il. Japanese child life, with new stories and verses by Alice Calhoun Haines. †$1.50. Stokes.

The strange faces, quaint costumes, odd games, amusements and occupations of the little Japanese children are prettily set forth in picture and verse. There are eight full-page illustrations in color.

Uniform with the “What is worth while series,” this little volume pleads for not “the gentle reader,” but “the sane reader,” suggests some authors and books, and asks the reader in his own further choosing to follow nature’s moods and seasons, to read books fitting to the time, and in harmony with the outer world.

“The story is placed in a town known as Morvaix, ruled badly, viciously, by one Duke de Rochelle. Reports of the misrule reach the ears of the Duke de Bourbon, the suzerain lord, and he sends his son Gerard secretly to investigate the charges. This Gerard does, and a remarkable chain of circumstances so adjusts matters that the young man falls in love, and is loved in return by the very girl that de Rochelle means to make his own. Here is fire and tinder in plenty.”—Pub. Opin.

The founder and editor of “Success” has prepared a volume which will undoubtedly prove valuable to all those who need practical aid in selecting a life-work. In part one, he discusses the considerations which are related to the choice of a life-calling, such as parental influence, environment, health, money making, and the temperamental and mental qualities which different lines of work demand. Part second. Suggestions as to possible careers, contains sound advice and helpful suggestions by men and women whose choice has brought them success in their various callings. Twenty-eight different trades and professions are treated in as many chapters. The book is illustrated with the photographs of some of those who have chosen wisely.

“The cheerful philosophy that Dr. Marden has preached in previous books he insists upon in this which consists of a series of talks especially intended for young men. Examples of the world’s heroes are cited, the world’s leaders of thought are liberally quoted, anecdotes are given; and thus, by precept, illustration, and in symposium of opinions, Dr. Marden reinforces his own teachings in regard to perseverance, ‘self-honor,’ courage, self control, money, success, ‘Moral daring,’ and kindred subjects.”—Outlook.

* “He preaches self-control, determination, rectitude, industry, thoroughness, courage—and who would gainsay him?”

This fortieth volume in the “Heroes of the nations” series, “gives first a survey of the conditions of Arabia and Arab life at the time when Mohammed first appeared.... The biography of the prophet consists largely in following the military, political, and religious campaigns with which he spread the religion of Islam, and which Mr. Margoliouth traces in detail.... His genius, according to this biographer, was equal to the emergencies, but not too great for them.” (N. Y. Times.)

“Apart from the dragoon-like treatment of the question of the prophet’s sincerity and of all phases of his religious development, and despite defects of verbosity and discursiveness, the book is of no uncertain value.”

In this second edition the author has enlarged the work for the purpose of including some examples of new developments connected with hydraulic pressing and lifting machinery, and introducing illustrations of typical valves and machines. The text has also been fully revised.

This is more than a character study, it is also a soul study of a girl of twenty-nine whose young days have been spent quietly on a Cumberland farm. Hopelessly out of touch with the simple folk around her, she turns to poetry as an emotional outlet and has written a number of magazine poems and is publishing a book of verses when the story opens. The young artist, Leonard Morris, wakes all the slumbering fires of her nature, she is gloriously happy and her poems sing of it; when she finds that he fails to understand her, her publisher is the first to detect it in the new note of her work. It is a single hearted story of loyalty to love and to work. There are some good minor characters, her commonplace and ungenial family are drawn with pathetic humor.

“Her life-story is a tapestry of severe design and sombre hue.” W. M. Payne.

“It is not an exceptionally original theme, but it is not that it easily lends itself to dramatic situations, strong character contrasts, and the expression of vivid emotions—all valuable adjuncts in novel making—and the author of Genevra has used every one of them to good advantage, besides giving ample evidence of his being the possessor of the same subtle force and style that rendered his previous book notable.”

A mystery surrounds the house of Merrilees. Its master dies suddenly, his body disappears and with it his fortune which he had converted into jewels. The mistress of Merrilees had died abroad some years before, and it was given out that their infant son died with her. A young cousin takes possession of both the estates and the mystery and discovers the real heir in the person of his best friend. There is also a love interest.

236“Mr. Marshall has conceived a sufficiently ingenious plot for his novel of mystery; but he does not succeed in gripping the attention and holding it from the start to the gasp of satisfied excitement at the finish.”

“This is an excellent story of a mystery so well and so artistically concealed that the final disclosure gives rise to a feeling of pleasure, not only at the nature of the surprise, but also at its inevitableness.”

“Mr. Marshall is quite entertaining, his imagination is lively, and possibly he may regard the novel as a huge joke.”

A romance of the days of Raleigh and the virgin queen. A little girl is washed ashore in Devon on the land of a recluse alchemist named Vidal. A neighboring esquire takes charge of the child and brings her up with his own sons. The romance of this waif who turns out to be Vidal’s sister, and one of these sons is woven about Raleigh’s love affair with Mrs. Throgmorton, their secret marriage, and the anger of the queen.

* Marsland, Frank. Occupations in life; a fund of practical information and business advice for boys and young men. $1.50. C. E. Fitchett, 57 Warren st. N. Y.

The author who is a mercantile reporter with the Bradstreet company, draws easily upon his fund of professional experience in offering business counsel to young men. The advice emphasizes an early selection of life work, a careful use of spare hours for promoting interests along special lines of work, and a better understanding of conditions in the business world and the world of occupations.

“A collection of short stories of New York life, having a peculiar quality of their own. Quite modern in effect, they have a background of good breeding distinctly American. The conversations among different members of the families represented are clever, and exhibit a complete and happy knowledge of the world.”—Outlook.

“In this latest book we find Mr. Martin in rather lighter vein than is his wont, but as always, excellent company.”

“Few writers of fiction can be reproached with too light a touch, but we should say that Mr. Martin is one of them.”

“The entire collection of stories is delightfully light, breezy, and easy and attractive reading.”

“Both the author’s style and his characters may be fitly described as alluring.”

Martin, Mrs. Elizabeth Gilbert. Homer Martin; a reminiscence. *$1.50. W: Macbeth, N. Y.

This beautiful memorial gives us but a slight glimpse into the life of the author’s artist husband, whose landscapes, into which he has put his best self, she feels are better able to interpret him than she. It is illustrated by half tone reproductions of Martin’s better known paintings.

“In the distinction of its perfect English, its reserve where there might have been enthusiasm, and its sincerity where there was room for flattery, it is a very model for biographers.”

“This little sketch was well worth doing. While very modestly done, Martin’s claims to greatness are fully presented.”

Sabina, a pretty Amish maid with wistful eyes, is haunted by a face of strange ugliness which appears from time to time as a warning of impending disaster to herself or family. A young artist comes to her home as a summer boarder, and Sabina falls in love with him. Everything points towards tragedy, but the face and her infatuation for the artist are alike banished by a fever, and she returns to her people and her Amish lover. The real charm of the story lies in the Pennsylvania-German dialect and the local color.

“Although the characters of Sabina and Tillie are similar, although there is practically the same atmosphere and environment, the second book does not equal the first.”

Martin, Hiram, ed. See Smet, Father Pierre-Jean de. Life, letters and travels of.

“If I must choose between dusting unread books and reading undusted ones, may the wise fates help me always to choose the latter. I hate dusty, grimy books and shall make a desperate effort both to read and dust.” So says this bride, and she is as good as her word to establish in her home making and her heart-keeping an admirable poise.

“Selections from the writings of James Martineau. The book is edited by the Rev. Alfred Lazenby, who contributes a sympathetic introduction—an essay on ‘the master who first opened mine eyes to the spiritual realities of life and taught me to see the divine within the human.’”—Dial.

Marvin, Frederic Rowland. Companionship of books, and other papers. **$1.50. Putnam.

The author has collected in this volume many papers upon as many subjects all of which show the touch of one who has lived a scholar’s life. The title essay calls the reader’s attention to the author’s chosen friends in the world of books, then follows an essay on autograph treasures, and one called Modern builders of air-castles, which treats of the Brook farm experiment. Papers upon matters historical, literary, and religious, follow. The varied subjects and the brevity of their treatment make the book 237one which may be profitably picked up in odd leisure moments.

* “It is a frightful hodge podge of subjects, but one may find a number of things of more or less curious interest in the heterogeneous mass.”

A notable addition to the “Connoisseur’s library.” The author traces his subject to every land in every period. He discusses the achievement of the earliest dynasties of Assyria and Egypt, shows the high place of the Byzantine work, devotes a chapter to Japanese and Chinese ivory sculpture, treats some of the technical phases of carving, and concludes with a chapter on the nineteenth century and present day products of the art. There are numerous beautiful illustrations in photogravure and half tone.

“The first compendious account in any language of the progress of ivory carving thru-out the world’s history. A high standard of excellence is set in this book; it cannot fail to take rank at once as the authoritative work upon the subject of which it treats.” Frederick W. Goodkin.

“If he could have trusted our capacity and interest a little further he would have given us both less and more, and his book might perhaps have gained something in coherence, completeness, and proportion.”

“While our praise, therefore, cannot be very hearty, this still remains the largest book of the sort, with the most complete display of pictures.”

“In all his chapters, however, along with much technical information, Mr. Maskell enlightens the reader with keen and original observations on the significance of the various epochs.”

“One of the excellent features of this learned book is the manner in which the information has been presented. Clearness of thought and arrangement is to be found throughout.”

An exciting story of London life in which the truants are a young married couple living with the rich and domineering father of the husband. To escape this tyranny the young man leaves his wife and sets forth to carve a new fortune for her and for himself. He at last joins the Foreign legion in Africa and wins distinction, but is called home by the news that his foolish young wife has fallen into the clutches of an adventurer. The real interest lies in the character of Pamela Mardale and her lover who protect and assist the truants and thereby find their own happiness.

“There is a good deal of variety about this romance, but it is not a very organic piece of work. The best part of it is that devoted to the Foreign legion, of which the author seems to have made a special study. It is fairly new ground for the average reader.” W. M. Payne.

“‘The truants’ is a departure from two established canons of art: that the heroine must be interesting, and the motif adequate. The author’s style has distinction, color and restraint; his product is fiction to be read, not fiction manufactured to be sold.”

Mason, Arthur James. Historic martyrs of the primitive church. *$3.20. Longmans.

The author “has aimed to present nothing which may not be relied upon as historically true.... He has endeavored, he writes, to present the stories of the acts of the martyrs during the first three centuries of Christianity in a plain and straightforward manner, with only such explanations and illustrations as the ordinary reader may require; he has omitted lengthy discussions, unnecessary dates, questions of genuineness, etc.”—N. Y. Times.

“The narratives are set forth in graphic form, and Dr. Mason has accomplished a most interesting task.”

“Mr. Mason writes of them with tender sympathy, devout veneration, and scholarly competence.”

“Has brought together in a sifted and trustworthy form the chief records of the passion of the primitive martyrs.”

Dr. Mason, who sent out his “From Grieg to Brahms” two years ago, has now rendered the musical world another distinct service. “It has been said of Dr. Daniel Gregory Mason that he often ‘expresses what one has felt, but never quite formulated.’” The book “opens with a chapter on ‘The periods of musical history,’ touches on ‘Palestrina and the music of mysticism’ and ‘The principles of pure music,’ followed by biographical and critical studies of Hadyn, Mozart, and Beethoven.” (Dial.)

“Displays that firm grasp of the subject which makes it interesting as well as valuable reading for the student. There is a chord of sincerity in all that Dr. Mason writes; and while he is never pedantic, his work shows remarkable insight into the origin and development of musical works.” Ingram A. Pyle.

“The book itself is altogether a better book—a more creditable piece of writing than its predecessor.”

“The author has a happy gift of turning a phrase so that it is easily remembered, and a still more valuable gift of a right judgment, which makes his phrases helpful and not misleading.”

“It is doubtful if this book of Mr. Mason’s will prove as valuable or find as wide acceptance as his earlier one. Mr. Mason ... gives much that is valuable in the contemporary discussion of music.” Richard Aldrich.

“One of the few writers of to-day who can see the philosophy of musical development in its relation to the general progress of the world, and can, moreover, write about this in an entertaining way. The touch is that of one who not only knows but feels his theme in its greatness.”

“A collection of more or less humorous sketches furnished to periodicals, and especially to ‘Life,’ in recent times, and well supplied with short stories, fables, epigrams, squibs, jokes, and humorous verse, with a Gibson girl cover and many other pictures.”—Outlook.

* “All the ‘follies’ are clever, and there is plenty of variety in both subject and manner of treatment.”

* “Like all other books of its kind, this volume suffers from what might be called unstable humorous equilibrium, but it contains many really funny things.”

* Masterman, Charles Frederick Gurney. In peril of change: essays written in time of tranquility. *$1.50. Huebsch.

“Mr. Masterman ... attempts to describe the tendencies of English civilization, to estimate the nature of its dominant ideals, and to point out recent changes which have occurred in these, the nature of the foundation upon which they rest, and the likelihood of catastrophes in the future. That he is also filled with a passionate sense of the injustice of the system which both creates and evangelizes the slums, and with a hatred for the idols of the marketplace, is evident on every page and lends pathos to much of his writing.”—Ath.

* “A good deal of it is mere journalism. With the modern journalist’s eye for effect and instinct for phrasing, Mr. Masterman has also a good deal of his love of sweeping statements. It is just this lack of balance, this emotionalism, which we think injures the writer’s style. His rhetoric is too monotonous, and his pathos too recurrent, to be effective. In our opinion, then, the book is clever, interesting, and useful, but hardly great. At the same time we welcome its appearance.”

* “He has studied the life of the poor closely, and has pleaded their cause with passionate conviction. He has moreover all the gifts of a very persuasive writer, and his style, always easy and attractive, rises sometimes to heights of a real eloquence. Mr. Masterman’s defects are the defects of his qualities.”

* “Nobility of temper; catholicity of personal; literary, and religious, though hardly of political appreciation; and frequently a striking felicity of phrase are among the notes of Mr. Masterman’s essays.”

Matarazzo, Francisco. Chronicles of the city of Perugia, 1492-1503, tr. by Edward S. Morgan. *$1.25. Dutton.

“Matarazzo tells the story of Perugia under the rule of the Baglioni, that clan of full-limbed men and lovely women, whose delicate complexions and golden locks filled and dazzled him with such a sense of their more than human beauty that he almost forgot their crimes in his fervid, well-nigh amorous, worship of their splendor and their strength. Such is the chronicle which Mr. Morgan has ventured to do into English; and it is hardly too much to say that the English is as good as the Italian.”—Nation.

* “Mr. Morgan’s translation, as a piece of English, is most admirably done; the archaic flavor he has imparted to the story has a distinct charm. There is one complaint to be lodged against him, however: we think he should have put his readers in a position where they would be better able to judge of Matarazzo’s veracity.”

“A fascinating picture of the moral, social and religious conditions of society in a typical Italian city during the Renaissance.”

“We have never seen a translation which has more completely caught the spirit of the original.”

“In these chronicles, Matarazzo ... displays a clear, picturesque style. He is sometimes garrulous, it is true, but seldom prolix.”

“We cannot imagine a goddaughter who would not turn a grateful ear to the tactful ‘Counsels of a worldly godmother,’ by Mrs. Mather. The witty and diplomatic woman of the world, who here attempts to direct a debutante to the right path to genuine social success, is not in any undesirable sense of the word ‘worldly.’ She stands for the best that Society with a large S is capable of producing, and she points to the way of attaining that best and of escaping the pitfalls of sham, snobbery, notoriety, and ostentation. While her counsels are addressed primarily to those who are striving to get on in society, they can be followed with advantage by all aspirants to sweet and gracious womanhood.”—Pub. Opin.

“While she never appeals to a particularly high motive or sets up a lofty ideal, the common sense and the sparkle of her curtain lectures may attract notice when more serious writing would fail.”

Mathew, Frank. Ireland; painted by Francis Walker; described by Frank Mathew. *$6. Macmillan.

Subjective views of the country taken by an artist in colors and another in words. The book “is no more than a quiet introduction to Ireland” without statistics and without wrangling. “We find a sympathy with the poor, a love of wild nature, an appreciation of modest perfections, an absence of all ill-temper or rancour which are rare and refreshing in a book about Ireland.” (Ath.)

“On the whole the geography is accurate, and the painter’s sketches are in their outline so also. We cannot lay down this interesting book without the feeling that it is in many senses over-coloured.”

“Ireland is a sadder, grayer country than Mr. Mathew has described or Mr. Walker painted.”

“He is not always accurate. But he knows his history, and he makes it interesting to others.”

A story of politics and society in New York, which concerns an estranged couple. Billy Duane, the mayor, turns his Madison avenue house into political headquarters in his wife’s absence. Mrs. Billy objects to rough politicians and cigar stumps, but is fond of roulette at any cost and is discovered at the game when a dress-making establishment is raided by the police. The affairs of the Duanes and numerous friends of their type form the plot, which 239works out happily, ending with a reconciliation.

“With the flashes of inspiration characteristic of this writer. The book is written on a more pretentious scale than its author’s ability in character-drawing seems to warrant.”

“A style that is a composite of ‘The duchess’ and certain more modern and strenuous American writers.”

“It lacks neither rapid movement nor interesting central theme, but is written in an irritating staccato style ... which makes it hard to read.”

An American girl in France, direct heir to her aunts’ immense estate, learns that it has been the life long intention of these relatives to bequeath their millions to “The Nineteenth Louis” when he should return to France and to his rights. She contrives with the aid of an ambitious mother and a scheming lover to have the latter impersonate the long absent Louis and win the fortune. Finally, her honor asserts itself, she discloses the intrigue, and starts out to battle with life alone.

* “This is a romantic little tale of devotion to the Bourbon cause, light, readable and effective rather than well written.”

“An original situation which the author has devised and cleverly made much of.”

Mathews, Shailer. Messianic hope in the New Testament. *$2.50. Univ. of Chicago press.

“The messianic hope of the Pharisees is formulated as a criterion for historical interpretation. With its aid a study is made of the messianic ideas of Jesus, the New Testament doctrine of judgment and justification through faith; the messiahship of Jesus as the basis of the apostolic theodicy; the messianic age and its forerunner the gift of the spirit; the resurrection of the body; the coming of the kingdom; the ‘consummation.’ As a conclusion there is shown the distinction between the essential and the formal elements of historical Christianity made possible by such an investigation.”—Pub.’s note.

* “A very able treatment of this theme, conservative in spirit, yet thoro in research.”

A practical treatise setting forth the principles of gas engines and producer design, the selection and installation of an engine, conditions of perfect operation, producer gas engines and their possibilities, the care of gas engines and producer gas plants, with a chapter on volatile hydrocarbon and oil engines.

“The original is very clearly written and the translator has succeeded in preserving this clearness.” Storm Bull.

Matthews, (James) Brander, ed. American familiar verse. See Wampum library of American literature. v. 3.

Eleven brief papers, by-products of the author’s work upon his four anthologies. There are essays upon “Unwritten books.” “Seed corn for stories,” “American epigrams,” “Carols of cookery,” “Recipes in rhyme,” “The uncollected poems of H. C. Bunner,” and “The strangest feat in modern magic.”

The interestingly sketched career of a young Wellesley graduate who returns to her Missouri home and determines to study law. This fair Portia is admitted to the bar, conducts many a successful case, becomes an advocate of equal rights, but withal loses not for a moment her girlish winsomeness nor womanly courage. Eventually she becomes wholly reconciled to the part that Cupid plays in staying the progress of her profession.

In this account of the sculptor and his work, the sculptor speaks for himself and his admiring biographer speaks for him; between them we are given a view of the methods of Rodin, and his valuable views upon the education of other sculptors.

“Though M. Mauclair is rather the advocate than the critic, his book, if only for the many quotations from the master’s conversations, is of genuine interest.”

“A precise though rather over-eulogistic statement of Rodin’s personality and work, and a study of the artist’s psychology and its application to his personal ideas upon the technical principles of sculpture and his methods of work.”

“M. Camille Mauclair does not leave us with the feeling that we know the man Rodin.” Charles de Kay.

Mr. Maude, who made the arrangements with the Canadian government which led to the migration of the Doukhobors to Canada, and who thru his keen sympathy with the work of Tolstoi was early drawn into a close study of this peculiar people, is especially fitted to write such a work. It contains a history of the Doukhobors, and traces their connection in the past with the Lollards, Anabaptists, Quakers and other sects. It also gives a vivid account of their migration to Canada, and of the famous “pilgrimage” in 1902, which was finally checked by the Canadian government. The author finds in the waywardness of so strange a sect, in their lack of appreciation of the favor granted by the Canadians, a proof that Tolstoi, sincere and earnest and far-seeing as he is, is yet not infallible in point of judgment. Incidental to his account of “The Christian commune of universal brotherhood” Mr. Maude also takes a stand for individual ownership of property. The book, he says, is a public apology for his having 240helped, however unwillingly, to mislead the Canadian government as to the nature and religion of the people he has settled among them.

“To Mr. Elkinton’s book that of Mr. Maude may justly be looked upon as a pendant.”

“The disconnectedness and lack of sequence in his chapters ... and the large amount of irrelevant matter make the book something of a conundrum to the reader until he reaches the final chapter.”

“At last we have a work from which the student of sociological experiments and systems, as well as the ordinary laymen, can obtain a fair, clear, and sufficiently complete conception of the truly ‘peculiar’ Russian sectarians about whom so much that is prejudiced or erroneous has been written.”

“Although not very well put together, is an extremely interesting study of ‘a peculiar people.’”

“His book is not so good as it should be from a deficiency in the need of perspective; or perhaps a readiness to use up old material.”

“In the approaching season of the American exodus to Europe, this gay record of pleasant travel, written by an intelligent man to his brother, will prove a welcome addition to the books set aside to read on the steamship. From England, Russia, Egypt, and here and there between, the writer gathered impressions.”—Outlook.

“He is gifted with an extraordinary vocabulary, keen perceptions, and a vast treasury of real American humor, sometimes a trifle exasperating, but never by any chance dull.”

“The author shows close sympathy with the point of view of the beginner, and appreciation of the fact that at certain points the conventional treatment of fundamental principles fails to meet the need of the ordinary student. As features of Maurer’s book may be mentioned the emphasis everywhere given to the vector nature of the qualities dealt with, the parallel treatment of graphical and analytical methods in statics, the admirable chapter on work and energy, and the satisfactory treatment of the subject of units.”—Science.

“As a sound and practical text-book for the use of students of engineering Professor Maurer’s book possesses high merit. The exposition is nearly always concise. The soundness of the logic is rarely open to question.” L. M. Hoskins.

Maxwell, Donald. Log of the Griffin: the story of a cruise from the Alps to the Thames. **$2.50. Lane.

The adventures on land and sea of a strange craft built in the Alps, and carried by wagon to Lake Zurich. She sailed the Rhine, and the East Scheldt, and arrived at the mouth of the Thames on board a steamer. The log is illustrated by a hundred or more sketches of the unique cruise.

“Without being in any way a serious work, the narrative commends itself as well-told, veracious, original; while in its artistic aspect the book is beautiful.” Wallace Rice.

“The account of the evolution of the queer craft and of its adventures cannot fail to amuse, if it does not instruct.”

The method and observation of “physical” manifestations are given chiefly, such as “table-turning,” “rapping,” and “levitation.” There is a preface by Charles Richet, and also an introduction by Sir Oliver Lodge. An additional chapter gives a complex case by Professor Richet, and an account of some recently observed phenomena by the translator.

“One leaves Dr. Maxwell’s book with a perfect conviction of his honesty, some hesitation about his logic, and entire certainty that his records will have no weight with sceptics; but then he does not seem to expect to produce any effect on them.” Andrew Lang.

“It should be said that, in spite of its size, Dr. Maxwell’s book is eminently readable, although the translator has admitted a good many disfiguring gallicisms.”

“Modern in its research. It has a well-balanced scientific skill.” Pendennis.

“Interesting as is his book, it cannot well be deemed a weighty addition to the literature on this fascinating but elusive subject.”

“The effect produced on the mind is mainly cumulative, but by reason of the manifest sincerity of the author and his competency and experience as an observer, its importance as a contribution towards the study of this neglected Cinderella among sciences is unquestionably very high.”

“A sensational novel, in which the hero, a minister of the church, for the sake of his conviction, gives up his parish and preaches on the street and in the slums of London. A large fortune comes to him, all of which he gives to the poor. He is unrewarded for his sacrifices. The heroine, a beautiful woman, is an adventuress”.—Bookm.

“The book is carefully written, both in matter of style and development of the plot. The idea of the story is original, and the book as a whole is unusually vigorous and impressive.”

“The reader gets the impression that he is listening to a man talking to himself.”

“As a study in modern phases this story must be considered something more than remarkable. The phases themselves are more than remarkable, the motive almost fantastic in spite of the realistic modern London setting. The yeast of fate brews and works in the whole, and makes of these elements a climax so melodramatic as to seem almost inspired. But it is melodrama pathologically inevitable. One may read the books and ponder on the meaning of faith, science, and common sense, or one may think chiefly of the story—one of humanity probed pretty deep—one somewhat daringly 241planned, but one which shows strength and a seeing eye.”

“The story is told entirely from the point of view of the heroine.... The hero of the book is a cheerfully profligate earl (the villain being gloomily profligate), who is awakened to the seriousness of life when the heroine repels his advances, and he succeeds to a dukedom.... At the end of five hundred and fifty closely printed pages the duke repents of his sin and marries the heroine, who is discovered to possess ‘the golden current, the divine fire,’ which can apparently only be derived from ancestors whose names are in the peerage.”—Spec.

“Mr. Maxwell has other admirable qualities, notably a keen instinct for character, a sense of humour, and many craftsmanlike devices for rendering that humour effective.”

“The first half of the story is better than the last, for in the last we approach very close to sentimental melodrama. It rings feminine.”

“In general, Mr. Maxwell seems to miss the finer point of characterization. For all that, there are passages in his book, even in the fairy tale part of it, which stir the feelings. He has humour; he is master of his words, and he can retain his reader’s attention through a very long and unevenly handled story.”

“Another story almost as extraordinary and possibly even more intense in its holding power [than ‘The ragged messenger.’]” H. I. Brock.

“It is the product, not of a philosopher, but of a clever reporter, an emotional wordy piece of work owing its success to cheap sentiment, a fine journalistic style, highly coloured and verbose, effective characterisation, and detailed and no doubt accurate accounts of life.”

Maybrick, Florence Elizabeth (Chandler). Mrs. Maybrick’s own story. **$1.20. Funk.

The author tells the story of her life from the time of her arrest for the murder of her husband, through the course of her trial, and the fifteen years imprisonment which terminated December, 1903. The recital is womanly and pathetic without a trace of bitterness. A legal digest of the case is appended.

“Such a tale cannot help being morbid, but in the main it rings true. To those who have an interest in prison life it will not fail to be of value, yet for the ordinary reader it would be a book worth while avoiding.”

“There is no bitterness in the book, but it is a strong indictment of British justice, and points out the crying need for a British court of appeals in criminal cases.”

Meeker, Royal. History of shipping subsidies. *$1. Published for the American economic association by the Macmillan co.

Part one deals with shipping subsidies historically under the sub-divisions: Great Britain; France; Germany; Italy; Austro-Hungary; Japan; Other countries; and United States. Part two concerns the Theory of subsidies and is divided into: Theoretical arguments; Popular arguments for subsidy; Political arguments for subsidy; and Ethical considerations. There is also a bibliography and an index.

A life of a distinguished statesman of the middle period by one who has made a thoro study of his career. The biography contains accounts of the many historical events with which the great Missourian was connected, such as the admission of his state into the Union, and the election of Andrew Jackson to the presidency. His service as United States senator, his love of the Union, and his personal influence upon the Democrats of his state are dwelt upon.

“Meigs appeals to the student by a more judicial and critical attitude. There is hardly an overstatement or a serious error to be found.” W. H. Mace.

“This must be reckoned the most complete and authoritative biography of Benton.”

“The author has consulted most of the available authorities on Benton, and has gathered much material from hitherto unknown sources. The work is the best life of Benton yet produced.”

“It is a highly praiseworthy study of the great Missourian, sincere, thorough and judicial.”

“Lacking in dramatic arrangement and wanting in painstaking accuracy of statement.”

“Mr. Meigs’s narrative is diffuse but vivacious, and abounds in anecdote and illustration. It gives an unusually clear and comprehensive survey of a signally useful and pure-minded man.”

“There was distinctly room for a one-volume biography of Senator Benton. [Mr. Roosevelt’s biography in the American statesmen series] gives a picture of Benton superior to any which can be found in Mr. Meigs’s book. The greatest praise that we can award the latter is to say that it is the result of painstaking and laborious investigation and it will be of considerable value to students of history. The material, unfortunately, is put together with very little literary skill, and the style is certainly not such as to attract the general reading public. It is highly regrettable that Mr. Meigs cannot make us take the interest in the character of his picturesque subject which he tells he himself feels.”

“More ambitious in scope than successful in accomplishment. Altogether, we have read the work with distinct feelings of disappointment, the disappointment being heightened by the reflection that the author has undoubtedly grasped Benton’s historical importance, and that had he but bestowed on the execution of his task the care evident in gathering of materials, he would have given us a biography well worth while.”

Meili, Frederick. International civil and commercial law as founded upon theory, legislation and practice, tr. by A. R. Kuhn. **$3. Macmillan.

“The author was a delegate from Switzerland to the Hague international conferences, and this very thorough discussion was at least in part suggested by those conferences. The book of course deals with international private law as distinguished from international public law, 242and is in the main concerned with the continental views of this branch of jurisprudence.” (Outlook). “Mr. Kuhn has not only translated the work, but has supplemented it with additions from American and English law. Very useful lists, annotations, and bibliographies complete the work.” (R. of Rs.)

“It is a convenient, if not very skilfully planned survey of the whole field. The information which it furnishes as to bibliography is not the least recommendation of the book. But the omissions are far from few.”

“Its exactness of method and thoroughness of research evidently make it a work of lasting value to the jurist accustomed to deal with large legal topics in a scientific manner.”

“Professor Meili has written a very useful book for students of comparative politics, as well as for lawyers.”

Mellor, J. W. Crystallization of iron and steel: an introduction to the study of metallography. *$1.60. Longmans.

“It is certainly a convenience to possess such a book.... In six short and lucid chapters—originally lectures delivered in 1904 to the engineering students of the Staffordshire county technical classes of the Newcastle high school—we are taken from a well-put statement of what is known respecting the solidification and cooling of alloys in general to the consideration of the phenomena recognized in iron and steel in particular, and, lastly, to practical directions for the due preparations of specimens for microscopic examination.”—Ath.

“It must be regarded as an ‘ad interim’ report only. Looking at Dr. Mellor’s little volume in this light, we have nothing but praise to award it.”

* “This second chapter is the only unsatisfactory one of the book. Confining himself to limited space, the writer has sacrificed conciseness to mere brevity. The two predominant features of the book as a whole are the great concentration of information into a small space, and the interesting manner in which it is presented, which latter never fails to attract. This clouding of the main issue by the introduction of data not absolutely necessary is one of the principal weaknesses of the book. When all has been said, this book is the best popular introduction to the study of metallography that we have.”

“The presentation is without bias, and each theory and method is described and examined as clearly and fairly as the author’s evident lack of practical acquaintance with the subject as a whole will permit.” A. McWilliam.

A volume in the “Pilgrimage series.” “Mr. Melville treats of those localities which are of primary interest to those who are acquainted with the life and writings of the great novelist. He deals with Thackeray’s London homes and the features and associations of their neighborhood; his homes in Paris, and other places on the European continent, and in America. Special attention is paid to those places that form a background of the scenes of Thackeray’s novels. Biographical information is also supplied connected with the novelist’s residences from his arrival in England from India at the age of six until his death in 1863. The volume contains fifty full-page illustrations mostly from original photographs by C. W. Barnes Ward.” (N. Y. Times.)

“The author has not tackled his task in the right spirit or performed it in the right way; all that he has given us is a rather disconnected short life of Thackeray. There are many distinct mistakes. A large portion of the book has not anything to do with its supposed subject. It is a poor production.”

“He has written an interesting book, which will please the reader the more, the better he knows the author.”

“The latest of the ‘Menpes books’ is devoted to ‘Brittany.’ Mr. Mortimer Menpes has made a specialty of traveling with a water-color box and a literary daughter, and the results of these travels appear each year in time for the holiday trade.” (Nation.) There are some seventy-five illustrations, and they show different parts of Northern France—peasants, scenes in the markets, street scenes, etc.

“Her best descriptions, her brightest sketches, are spoilt for the reader by unnecessary blots of sloppiness.”

“Text and illustrations have a common facility and a common lack of seriousness which is welcome, or the reverse, according to one’s point of view.”

Meredith, Katharine Mary Cheever (Johanna Staats). Wing of love. †$1. McClure.

“A charming child in this book, and a nice young journalist chap, her staunch friend from the day she and her mother find their way to the top floor of the New York lodging house where he and two other bachelors have their abode. This friendship is quite disinterested, the mother receiving only courteous attentions from him, his heart being in another’s keeping—facts concerning which subsequently develop very prettily to connect them with his romance.”—Outlook.

“The chief fault in its development lies in the fact that, instead of making it a short story, she has padded her little tale until it has lost much of its charm.”

A comedy in three acts made from Mrs. Gaskell’s well-known story of the same name. The full charm of the story is retained in the dramatization.

“A not unskillful dramatization for amateur theatricals of Mrs. Gaskell’s ever fresh and delightful tale.”

Merriman, Charles Eustace. Self-made man’s wife: her letters to her son: being the woman’s view of certain famous correspondence. †$1.50. Putnam.

“In her letters the mother advises her son on the treatment of his wife, on the retention of his ideals, on the writing of books and on the reading of them, on quarreling and making up, on the fallacy and folly of aphorisms, adages, and other epigrammatic usages, on economy in households, and a number of other living topics, and aptly illustrates her points by instances taken from her own domestic experiences or observations of the experiences of her neighbors.”—N. Y. Times.

“If they are not as entertaining as those of her husband it is only perhaps because the reader has already consumed two volumes of his epistolary lore and is perhaps a trifle satiated.”

“The number of old jokes and the weary waste of platitudes in this book are positively depressing.”

“The letters have a masculine ring. They exhibit a terse expression, a worldly acumen, a sense of humor, and an anecdotal wealth, that strongly resemble the style of the self-made man.”

A tenth edition, re-written and enlarged, of this text-book which “deals with the elastic and, to a limited extent, with the plastic properties of materials of construction and the application of the laws of strength of materials to the simple machine parts and structures. The treatment is essentially theoretical.”—Nature.

* “The present book is in some respects an excellent treatise. The first point which strikes a reader is the great looseness of terminology. The author has an aggravating way of describing a thing at first very crudely and inaccurately, but without any reservations, giving a revised statement much later on and a further revision later still, and this in the case of quite simple matters.”

Merriman, Mansfield, and Jacoby, Henry Sylvester. Text-book on roof and bridges, pt. 1, Stresses in simple trusses. $2.50. Wiley.

“Those ... who are familiar with the first edition of this book, published in 1888, will hardly recognize the present volume as being a revision of the same book.... We now have the dead load stresses, the live load stresses and the stresses due to wind and other causes treated in separate chapters for the common forms of simple trusses. The fifth chapter takes up the consideration of long-span bridges.... Chapter VI. discusses portal bracing, sway and lateral bracing and plate girder design. Chapter VII. treats of deflections.... The final chapter takes up cranes, bents, towers, viaducts, and other miscellaneous structures. A notable feature of the new edition is the extensive use of illustrations, including half-tone views of notable truss bridges, folding plates and numerous text drawings.”—Engin. N.

Two intertwined love stories provide the romantic interest in this story of the South and the negro. The conditions in the South after the Civil war are vividly presented, the good old negro type is well drawn, but the real story is that of the negro uprising, when black fiends, driven to desperation by the recital of their wrongs in their secret meetings, attack and are repulsed. There are strong dramatic scenes and characters which, tho unpleasing, are strikingly portrayed.

“To make an achievement in railroad building dramatic and exciting and to hold the reader’s interest in suspense from beginning to end is a feat in fiction writing which few men would attempt.... The young engineer who with bulldog determination and ever-ready invention puts his engineering feat through on time, in the face of cunning enemies, natural obstacles, and stupid and criminal employees, is a type, but he is also a rousing good fellow.”—Outlook.

* “There is no lack of well contrived incident, and on the whole the book is true to life.”

* “The tale is clear-cut, terse and thrilling. Altogether the book is an industrial romance bristling with human interest.”

* “More important than the adventures and incidents of the feat that is finally accomplished, is the evidence Mr. Merwin gives of his own growth in character delineation. Each man is different from every other, and all are real, whether good or bad.”

Metcalf, Maynard Mayo. Outline of the theory of organic evolution. *$2.50. Macmillan.

A series of lectures given by Professor Metcalf before the Woman’s college of Baltimore, expanded and put in book form. It is not a technical biological book, but it is an introductory survey of the biological theory of evolution and is intended for the general reader. It gives well established facts in their general outlines, and deals with some of the most striking phenomena of anatomy.

“It is a treatise so clear, simple and fascinating withal, that the subject can not only be readily grasped by the most slow-thinking reader, but few who peruse the opening pages will be content to lay it aside. This book is precisely the work that general readers need. It is a volume that should be read by every young man and woman in America.” Amy C. Rich.

“Presents in a clear and simple style the fundamental principles of organic evolution in a form very well adapted to the needs of the general reader and to those who wish an outline of the theory of Darwinism. Perhaps the most striking feature of the book is the wealth of clear and very well selected illustrations.”

“Two features of the book are especially praiseworthy: first, the clearness and distinctness with which essentials are presented; second, the wealth of illustration. It is safe to say that no previous popular treatise on evolution has been so completely and so well illustrated as this. The chief criticism to be made regarding the book as a whole is its failure to give any adequate account of the important results of many of the recent investigations in the field of evolution.”

“The volume under consideration will find its own place, because it is far better than the least technical books on evolution previously published. It will form an excellent introduction to the classical books on evolution. The author has very successfully attempted to write in a non-technical and popular style. No other book in the same field is so lavishly illustrated. Without hesitation the reviewer recommends the book to those who want information about the theory in its non-technical bearings.”

“This is one of the best popular accounts of the theory of evolution that have come under our notice. An excellent feature of the book is its wealth of pictorial illustration. A few points call for criticism.”

* Metchnikoff, Elie. Immunity in infective diseases; tr. from the French by Francis G. Binnie. *$5.25. Macmillan.

Metchnikoff’s theory “is familiar enough now to the reading public with its protective forces in the body; leucocytes ready to mass together 244to repulse the assault of germ organisms as well as their toxic products; but the work is not primarily on macrophages and microphages, but on the great question of immunity from infection. This extends through immunity of protozoans, metazoans (multicellular plants), and finally of animals—immunity either natural or acquired. The ramifications of the work extend over a vast area of experimentation and citation of contemporaneous work, but the immunity always is attributed, in one way or another, to the protective activity of the leucocytes. This makes the work a very agreeably unified one, and clearly drawn colored illustrations of the leucocytic activity do much to enhance the value of the treatise.”—Pub. Opin.

* “The present book, however, justifies itself adequately from a purely practical point of view.”

* “While the work is primarily for scientific use, there is no reason why an intelligent layman should not acquire from its reading a very clear and comprehensive idea of immunity in its varied forms.”

Meyer, Rev. F: Brotherton. Epistle to the Philippians; a devotional commentary. *$1. Union press.

The author has not attempted mere criticism, but has “endeavored honestly to ascertain the meaning of the epistle, and to beat out but pure and unalloyed gold.” Each chapter covers a few verses, the commentary is full and clear and the verses covered are noted in the margin of each page.

* Meyer, Hugo Richard. Government regulation of railway rates; a study of the experience of the United States, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Russia, and Australia. **$1.50. Macmillan.

“Professor Meyer, in his preface, declares that he ‘has become firmly convinced of the unwisdom of government regulation of railways or their rates’; and he has hurried into print with this book lest Congress ‘may be led to enact ill-considered laws granting dangerously enlarged powers to the Interstate commerce commission.’ Part I. of the book describes Prof. Meyer’s studies of the state-owned and operated railways in Europe and Australia.... In part II. Prof. Meyer takes up conditions in the United States.”—Engin. N.

* “Apart from the matter of personal opinion on this subject, however, Professor Meyer’s book contains much valuable material, which is summarized in a way which cannot fail to interest all students of the railroad question, whatever may be their views as to the expediency of federal legislation.”

* Meyrick, Rev. Frederick. Memories of life at Oxford and experiences in Italy, Greece, Turkey, Germany, Spain, and elsewhere. *$3.50. Dutton.

“The most noticeable feature of this book is in the sidelights it throws on the ‘Tractarian movement’ at Oxford, in 1833-41, as well as on the ‘Old Catholic reform movement’ on the continent, and incidentally on this history of the Church of England during the last fifty years or so.... Aside from this, the book contains a considerable fraction of entertaining matter connected with university social life at Oxford.”—Critic.

* “We recommend a revision of the index: for several names and incidents demanding mention the reviewer has been compelled to hunt laboriously through the pages of the book.”

* “We cannot rate his book very high, even in the class to which it belongs, for it is neither very interesting nor very good-natured.”

* “The real value of the book lies not so much in the impressions, the appreciations or depreciations, which are given of Newman and Pusey, of Keble and Gladstone, and other well-known and great figures, as in the incidental vignettes of persons of less note whose portraits are more seldom drawn.”

This collection of short nature studies by Professor Miall of the University of Leeds covers a multitude of subjects and gives a wealth of useful and interesting information upon fresh air, the dog, the cat, birds, bookworms, flies, trees, and whatever chances to attract his attention at the moment. The book seems to open our eyes to an interested observation of the things around us.

“It is packed with scientific facts, with clear and practical suggestions for class room and study club, and with eye-opening and thought-stimulating questions. No arrangement or lack of arrangement can destroy the value of the good sense and clarity with which these and all the other subjects are treated.” May Estelle Cook.

“There is no attempt to be consecutive, and he writes concerning whatever for the moment strikes his attention. The object in view is to teach teachers rather than pupils.”

The second edition of J. A. Symonds’ translation of Buonarroti’s sonnets, with the Italian in alternating pages. The notes following the text explain the circumstances, as far as known, in which the sonnets were written, and make note of the various manuscript versions over which Buonarroti worked.

“Such as they are, [the translations] are ingenious word renderings, which, while not entirely devoid of fine lines, for the most part lack color and lightness of rhythm.”

Michael, Oscar Stewart. Sunday-school in the development of the American church. *$1.50. Young ch.

“The ‘American church’ of the title is the church of which the author is a minister—the Protestant Episcopal.... The book will be of interest to persons engaged in Sunday-school outside as well as within the Episcopal church. It brings especially emphatic testimony to the value of Sunday-schools as propagators of churches.”—Outlook.

“He gives an adequate and interesting account of the Sunday-school work of a great church which has always espoused warmly the cause of Christian nurture.” William Byron Forbush.

245Michaelis Karin (Katharina Marie Bech Brondum). Andrea, the tribulations of a child; tr. by John Nilsen Laurvik. $1. McClure.

The famous Danish author has written the story of a young girl whose father and mother are unhappily estranged. The little heroine devotes her life to bringing them together and her tribulations and soul struggles as revealed in her diary finally accomplish this end, when her parents read the pitiful little book together after her untimely death.

“The book has been rendered into ungrammatical American. This story, though quite short, contains proof that Karin Michaelis is an artist.”

Six high-spirited, clever, mischievous youngsters, whose very names—among them Split, Sissy, Bep and Fom—suggest the hostile brevity that often characterizes the sisterly relations, riot in the foreground of this family stage, while a father deep in too-much-for-me perplexity, and an irresponsible aunt figure in the rear. Tho there are slights, digs and taunts, deep down in the heart of each is an untrained affection for the other, and staunch loyalty. It is a lively story for young readers, many of whom will discover a fellow feeling for some Madigan. Mr. Orson Lowell’s illustrations are happily in keeping with the author’s portrayal.

* Mifflin, Lloyd. Collected sonnets of Lloyd Mifflin; revised by the author. *$2.60. Oxford.

Over 200 selections of verse are included in this volume which contains, in addition to work which has previously appeared in the author’s various books of poetry, several new sonnets which appear for the first time in this collection.

* “A little of Mr. Lodge’s sincerity of passion would have helped Mr. Mifflin’s book. Yet no recent collection of verse has been more instinct with poetic love of beauty or has shown more ability at communicating it in verse.”

* “In spite of inevitable lapses from the simplicity and strength of the best examples there is a remarkable uniformity of excellence in both the technical achievement and the dignity and interest of the phases of feeling expressed.”

* “Written on any conceivable subject, they rarely rise above the platitudinous, and at their best are sonorous without being in any way impressive.”

A group of about fifty poems whose themes include life, love and nature. “None of the shorter pieces in Mr. Mifflin’s volume is very notable. All have the grace that comes from the sparing, delicate use of words, many are picturesque and pleasing in conception; but there is a certain softness of tone in them that is not wholly a pleasant softness.” (Nation.)

“There is much delicate art in these songs, and they are freighted with a rich burden of thought.” Wm. M. Payne.

“Mr. Mifflin’s poetry is distinguished by its admirable technical qualities.”

“On occasions he is out in his scansion and in his grammar. But this is to show Mr. Mifflin at his worst. His best, though never quite free from the intrusion of the second-best word, shows a power of sympathetic description, usually sad, that leaves its mood behind it.”

“If there is a lack of pith and fibre in Mr. Mifflin’s lyrics that makes against the permanence of the impression left by them, his narrative poetry ... is, after all, admirable.”

“‘The fleeing nymph, and other poems,’ by Lloyd Mifflin, have the light and graceful touch characteristic of their author.”

An honest young politician with high ideals accepts the support of a corrupt political ring in his race for the presidency in order that he may learn their methods and thus combat them. Three women come into his life, the foolish daughter of the “boss”, an adventuress, and a real woman who arouses the “ultimate passion” which survives when his political campaign fails.

“If you want a good example of the book which overreaches itself by deliberate exaggeration, you will find it in ‘The ultimate passion.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.

“Mr. Mighels has the meagrest equipment as a novelist, and his performance as a whole is so crude that it is scarcely worth while to consider its details.”

“Has style (of a sort), an interesting framework, and characterizations of no mean order of merit. This is a very vigorous book, inspired by genuine passion, and making a skilful progress to its logical conclusion.” Wm. M. Payne.

“Mr. Mighels’s work seems to us faulty in conception as well as execution, and to serve no particular purpose.”

“The introductory chapters are written chiefly for those who have the care of boys.... These are followed by chapters on ‘Physical and external helps’ toward self-control, mental helps; and the book closes with some general remarks, the ‘opinion of a mother,’ a letter to a boy, ‘A defense of Latin—rightly taught,’ and ‘A theory about excessive blood pressure.’ The volume has illustrations and diagrams.”—N. Y. Times.

“There are valuable ideas and suggestions in this book on the training of boys, but the author attempts to cover so much ground, and does it in so haphazard a way, that it is almost impossible to separate the wheat from the chaff.”

In establishing the reasons for difficulty in understanding Queen Mary’s character, the author says: “Any natural determination toward tolerance which Mary’s character may have originally possessed was warped and distorted by her early education; and her disposition, once gentle and confiding, may have been changed by her experience of the faithlessness of mankind into that form of stolid distrust which suspects the truest friend and questions the least interested motives.” His biography is based on this view of things. “Mr. Millar believes and most readers will believe, that the errors committed by Mary Stuart were more of the heart than of the head.” (Outlook.)

“Mr. Millar’s book is a careful presentation of facts, with a due regard for the bearing of the political questions of the time. It is, in truth, a well-written piece of history. He is not her partisan through thick and thin.”

This volume in the “What is worth while series,” sets forth the beauty of kindness, “the small coin of love.” It is a plea for the unselfish service, for simple kindness in daily life and in little things.

In this new volume in the “Chiswick series,” Dr. Miller shows that if the heart be given to Christ, if the inner life be made beautiful, this beauty will show in the deeds of our outer life and the world for us will be re-created.

Another of Dr. Miller’s devotional books. Its object is to help people in learning how to live more beautifully, more victoriously, more usefully. It contains twenty chapters upon, The mystery of suffering, The joy of the cross, Friendship with Christ, Courage to live nobly, Under the All-seeing Eye, and other similar subjects.

* Miller, Olive Thorne, pseud. (Mrs. Harriet Mann Miller). Kristy’s surprise party. †$1.25. Houghton.

“On her birthday Kristy’s uncles and aunts, and some adult friends besides, call in a body, and each in turn relates a story, which Kristy enjoys very much, and which other little girls may enjoy also.” (Outlook.) “In one is a stirring picture of a girl in the Chicago fire, another describes a western blizzard and a young girl’s rescue of a schoolmate. A good Indian story and sundry others of domestic adventure.” (Nation.) The volume is well illustrated by Ethel N. Farnsworth.

Miller, Peyton Farrell. Group of great lawyers of Columbia county, New York. Priv. ptd. De Vinne press.

Mr. Miller, a lawyer of Hudson, has filled a volume with “interesting reminiscences and gossipy personal sketches of such men as Martin Van Buren, Samuel J. Tilden, Robert Livingston, Chancellor Robert R. Livingston, Edward Livingston, and others. It also contains a brief account of the Anti-rent war.” (Am. Hist. R.)

“An entertaining series of personal sketches. Members of the bar of New York state will find Mr. Miller’s pages crowded with interesting reminiscences of the great lawyers of the past.”

“The volume is the work of a literary scholar of analytic type who has turned his lenses upon certain disputed points in the lives of the lovers and has brought forward various proofs to attest his own theories.” (Dial.) “A series of prose studies supplemented by some translations and some original verse interpretative of the life and genius of Petrarch. The prose consists of small but rather discursive chapters touching various points in connection with Laura, her identity, her birthplace, her character, and incidents in her relations with Petrarch.” (Outlook.)

“To one acquainted with ... ‘My secret’ ... Mr. Mills’s book is a sad disappointment. We suspect that the critical discussions were only designed to introduce the drama.”

“Has quite unconsciously given false values to internal evidence. He found in Petrarch’s verse what he wished to find there, and where twist, quibble, and distortion fail him he sets down his theory as a self-evident truth. Candor forces us to praise Mr. Mills’ ingeniousness rather than his scholarship. We can freely applaud his poetry, however, which gives a far stronger illusion of reality than do Landor’s Conversations between the same persons.”

Mills, Edmund Mead. Only a profession and other sermons. (Methodist pulpit. 2d ser.) *50c. Meth. bk.

Eight sermons including, besides the title sermon, How to know, The all-conquering Christ, The nation’s memorial, As he thinketh in his heart, What makes a nation great? Unconscious deterioration, and A withered hand.

“A highly idealized story of New York life when the eighteenth century was young. Caroline of Courtlandt street, the daughter of an actress, yearns for her mother’s profession and by way of proving her right to enter it plays a pretty little comedy in which her father’s aristocratic and snobbish relatives take unconscious but highly important parts. The stage fails to gain her in the end, but in the meanwhile she has furnished us with a diverting little drama.”—Pub. Opin.

* “An elaborately decorated romance, both as to the narrative and setting. The style is flowery.”

In interpreting the Russian present by the Russian past, the author produces the results of long years of study. Professor Milyoukov is a representative of the branch of the liberal party known as the “Intellectuals,” and his work for freedom has already brought him calumny, imprisonment and exile. The aim of 247his discussion is to reveal the internal crisis in Russia as an outgrowth of the historical circumstances under which Russian civilization has developed. The author has explained the permanent and lasting elements in the political, social and religious life of a great world-power.

“Our pleasure at the thought and learning displayed in the lectures of which this volume is composed is marred by the extraordinary fancies of its author on the transliteration of names.”

“With ample knowledge, training, and evident fairness, he is the best available guide to a knowledge of present conditions in Russia from the historical point of view.” Charles H. Cooper.

“A strong book—one that will not appeal to the general reader, but will reach rather the serious and thoughtful.”

“A masterly portrayal of the factors which have determined the present constitution of the Russian state, as well as the elements of leaven and fermentation at present working in that state.”

* “A very valuable addition to the literature on the subject of Russian conditions.”

Minor, Benjamin Blake. Southern literary messenger, 1834 to 1864 by Benjamin Blake Minor, editor and proprietor from 1843 to 1847. *$2. Neale.

“A history of a magazine which for so many years held the chief place in the periodical literature of the South and an honorable one in that of the country, written by the gentleman who was its editor and proprietor from 1843 to 1847, and who now at the good old age of eighty-six, is perhaps the only survivor of those who were personally connected with its fortunes. It will have a special interest for cultivated people in the South, and incidentally for all students of American literary history.”—Critic.

“In spite of obvious faults (and partly because of them) Dr. Minor’s book has both permanent value and contemporary interest.”

Mitchell, Charles Bayard. Noblest quest, and other sermons preached in the First Methodist Episcopal church, Cleveland, O. *50c. Meth. bk.

Eight stirring sermons including, besides the title sermon, The Supreme Master, A shameless Jew, The dignity of labor, Remember thy Creator, A deserted grave, Life’s Jerusalem, and The impartial God.

The tragic story of a young northern wife who goes with her husband to St. Ann, Missouri, where he is agent for a large estate. He becomes involved in a law suit, and is the prey of the prejudices and misconceptions so common to the reconstruction period. After his murder, Constance lives only to avenge herself upon his slayer, and the story becomes a strong psychological study of the charming woman’s selfish cruelty. It is a masterly book, unusual, and real, both in theme and characters.

“A novel of dignity and importance out of material that if treated less intelligently would be simply sensational.” C. A. Pratt.

“It is a great triumph, thus out of commonplace materials, and by the use of strictly legitimate methods, to produce a work of such singular power, and Dr. Mitchell deserves the warmest congratulations upon his success.” Wm. Morton Payne.

“The second section of the book is, in fact, open to this dilemma. If Constance is in her right mind, the story of her revenge is inexplicable and impossible. If she is not, her madness removes it out of the range of subjects capable of being made to appeal to the imagination of the reader by means of the art of the novelist.” Herbert W. Horwill.

“It is a tale wherein the psychological element, however, does overcloud the romantic interest.”

“The motif ... is an extremely unpleasant one, and in hands less skilled than those of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell the story would be too painful. The story is a study of character of a very unusual kind, full of insight, experience and skill.”

“Impressive as the book is, one wonders inevitably whether Constance was, after all, worth this expenditure of literary power on the part of Dr. Mitchell.”

Mitchell, Silas Weir. Youth of Washington: told in the form of an autobiography. †$1.50. Century.

To think the thoughts of Washington as he thought them, to express them as he might have expressed them, in a word, to command a view of men and things as this general and statesman of Mount Vernon looked upon them, has been a unique task, to say nothing of the daring implied. But Dr. Mitchell has only reversed the great process of dramatization. Instead of fitting an actor to the mold of some great writer’s conception, as the stage continually does, he starts with the man and suits his thoughts and speech to the individual. Years of study, fresh enthusiasm, and keen insight into human nature have been brought to bear on his unusual task.

“Dr. Weir Mitchell has added another to the melancholy examples of Washingtonion dullness. It is sedate, detailed, conscientious and very dull.”

“May be judged as history or as fiction, according to the taste of the reader, and possesses high merit in either aspect. It would be possible to criticize some of Dr. Mitchell’s statements, and the conception of Washington’s mother is too harsh and even contradictory in detail to be either true or pleasing.” Worthington Chauncey Ford.

“Only a Weir Mitchell or his equal could have accomplished successfully the daring feat of personating George Washington. But in this book the great George has proven a worthy son of himself, and it is hard to realize that the quaint, formal phraseology is not indeed his own. His criticisms of his family and himself are frank and delightful.”

The autobiography of Scamp, a dog of the streets, who finds a good home and a loving mistress and is trained into a first-class retriever. He is caught in a trap while hunting, comes 248into the hands of poachers and counterfeiters, sojourns in the London streets and the dog pound, and eventually finds his way back to his former mistress to end his days in luxury.

“The book on the dog deals too much with one particular dog and his fortunes, and might almost pass as an entirely fictional tale.”

“Attractive for the children for whom it was written. Scamp was just a dog. The author has not attempted to endow him with human or supernatural attributes.”

“Cleverly written story. It is a story that will delight boys and girls, touching older hearts as well.”

Not only Jane Austen herself but the society that she drew so skillfully is pictured in this volume. Miss Mitton considers Jane Austen “more wonderful as a product of her times than considered as an isolated figure.” She has therefore aimed “to sketch the men and women to whom she was accustomed, the habits and manners of her class, and the England with which she was familiar.”

* “In short, it is a richly human book, for which we owe all the praise (except what is due to the reproductions from Reynolds, Morland, Hoppner, Bunbury, Romney, and others), and little of the blame, to the author.”

* “A prose and pedestrian piece of book-making, which nevertheless has something of the interest that attaches to an interesting subject.”

“Miss Mitton begins with a chapter ‘In general,’ and proceeds to tell the stories of the Norman Dukes and the ‘mighty William.’ Then we have a full description of Rouen, and chapters on Caen, Falaise, Bayeux and the smaller towns, and then a chapter of the greatest interest on the famous tapestry, Mont St. Michel, The Cotentin, Dieppe and the coast, and a journey up the Seine from Honfleur to Vernon.”—Acad.

“Miss G. E. Mitton, an expert in London lore, furnishes the text, while the pictures are reproductions of paintings by Herbert Marshall.... There are seventy-five in all capitally reproduced in colors.”—N. Y. Times.

“As illustrations to a book, to be looked at closely and not over long, Mr. Marshall’s pictures are excellent, because they come from a fine artist, and yet present a variety of moods and likings which are entirely suited to such books as these. She has aimed high and done some interesting and some pleasing work, and made a readable book.”

“Both artist and author have succeeded in producing what is a real addition to the literature of London.”

“Of the many recent books about London the best to look at is that called ‘The scenery of London.’ Miss Mitton discourses agreeably as is her wont.”

“The framework upon which Dr. Monroe has built his well-written work is clear and hardly to be improved upon. Each chapter is headed in the table of contents with a phrase expressing the psychological tendency of the time or movement which it represents, and these are divided and subdivided in an unusually able manner. Facts are made additionally easy of location by the index by Miss Scott. Dr. Monroe’s ‘Text-book’ is hardly what its name implies, but rather a foundation work for those who desire to ‘work up’ from it, as the references indicate.”—Pub. Opin.

* “It is diligent in research, copious in information, clear in analysis, philosophic in trend, and sound in deduction; and, although there are passages in it that are somewhat hard reading, occasional grammatical lapses, and a needless and sometimes wearisome repetition of certain scientific terms ... it is distinguished throughout for purity, precision, and force of diction. The treatment of its theme is the most exhaustive yet essayed by an American author.” Charles Elliott Fitch.

* “The work is broad in range, and provides an immense accumulation of data.”

Monroe, Paul. Thomas Platter and the educational renaissance of the 16th century. **$1.20. Appleton.

This sketch which gives the life of an educator just at the turning point in educational history between the mediæval and the modern, is important because “The autobiography furnishes such concrete information in regard to two phases of the education of the sixteenth century: first, the life of the wandering scholar; and, second, the spread of the humanistic ideas until they dominate the educational activities of the times.”

“Is a valuable volume which throws a great deal of light on a critical and seldom dealt with period of the history of education.”

Miss Kate is a small chestnut mare, I am Miss Dorothy, and the poet is David Selwyn, successful and thirty-two, whom his doctor has given but twelve months more of life. He determines to spend that twelve months bravely, and rents a house in the Alleghanies so that he may “write, write, write until the finale,” unhampered by his old New York surroundings. Here he meets Dorothy and enjoys his last summer until he finds that his growing love for her makes the thought of death more bitter; then he runs away. But of course the author does not let him die, and the reader feels thruout the pretty, cheery little story that all is to be well with him.

* “The plot is slight, but the nature sketches, the character study, and a very piquant way of putting things, give the book a decided charm.”

This textbook, the latest of the “Montgomery series,” has been prepared to meet the demand for a short continuous narrative history of our 249country, suited to the wants of elementary pupils.

“Compared with other textbooks of its kind, it has merit. The language is simple, and there are many illustrations and maps. This is only another example of a book constructed on the college plan, with shorter paragraphs and more simple language.” H. O. Gillett.

For this latest edition the work has been thoroly revised and many facts have been rewritten, including questions of political and constitutional history, the opening of the West and its influence on the division of the nation. References have been made more complete, and some new maps added.

“It has all the teaching apparatus of the best type of the modern high-school book, and may be cordially recommended.”

* “In attractiveness of presentation and clearness of diction it compares favorably with such manuals as McMaster’s and Channing’s.”

Moody, William Vaughan, and Lovett, Robert Morrs. First view of English literature. *$1. Scribner.

“This adaptation of the author’s more advanced ‘History of English literature,’ based on the suggestions of many high school and academy teachers, is a class-room manual of practical value. Features that especially commend the volume are the historical introductions to each epoch, dwelling on political and social conditions, important for their effect on literature, and the full review outlines given in the form of simple and illuminating questions.”—Outlook.

“The book is lucid and concise, noticeably so in its discussion of the Renaissance and of Romanticism.”

* More, Charles Herbert. Character of renaissance architecture. **$3. Macmillan.

“Prof. Moore has reduced the mere descriptions of buildings to a minimum, having provided many illustrations—twelve photogravure plates and 139 drawings and photographs—to make the discussions clear. He writes in his introduction about the character of the fine arts of the renaissance, the mixed influences actuating the artist of the time—the painter’s habits of design, etc. This followed by chapters on the dome of Florence, St. Peter’s dome, Renaissance architecture in the erection of churches and palaces in Rome and Florence and the North of Italy, carving, and architecture of the renaissance in France and England.”—N. Y. Times.

* “He is a man of profound and strongly held convictions, and hardly allows a page or a half-dozen pages to pass from under his hand without a reassertion of the most important of them.”

* “In the ‘Character of renaissance architecture’ we have the same creative and scholarly qualities of artist and investigator which characterized ‘Development and character of Gothic architecture.’ But where the latter was synthetical the former is analytical almost to the verge of iconoclasm.”

* “This volume is admirably adapted to be a text-book for advanced classes in our universities and a reference book for readers generally. We are glad to note that the index to the volume is specially copious and exhaustive.”

Another novel of which Lord Byron is the hero. It concerns his early love for his cousin, Mary Chaworth and, altho many chapters are devoted to his affair with Lady Caroline Lamb, the book gives him a semblance of constancy by making him return to his first love and their tragic parting the climax, and end of the book. Madame de Stäel, Sheridan, Moore, and other well known people of Byron’s time enter into the story.

* “Mr. Moore has increased our dislike to positive hatred; all the worst qualities of this pernicious breed of book are accentuated in his present novel.”

“As a novel the book has vigor and interest; as a presentation of Byron the poet it is a failure.”

“Mr. Moore has written an interesting story, but it has nothing to do with the hero and heroine, Lord Byron and Mary Ann Chaworth.”

* “Byron’s character is sketched sans prudishness by an author whose every book guarantees a few hours’ lively entertainment.”

* “We do not blame Mr. Moore for his failure, but for the impudence of his attempt.”

The notable pictures of children of various countries and times after paintings of great masters are accompanied by little sketches intended to interest the child reader in the portrait. The book is an art book of real value to little people.

The author “tells us in ‘The lace book’ in a concise form, all that is interesting in the history of the evolution and production of lace in the countries which have given the world the finest examples of this delicate fabric. This handsome volume is illustrated with engravings from famous pictures of distinguished personages, showing how lace was employed in costume at different times; well-chosen, full-size examples are also given of the various kinds of lace; and an index endows the collector and connoisseur with a book of reference.”—Nation.

* “A more engaging example of the combination of the useful with the agreeable could not easily be found than is provided by this volume.”

An original study rather than a conventional biography. The artist’s paintings, drawings, metal engravings, and wood cuts, are critically considered, the philosophy of his art is discussed, and the details of his life are given. The book is illustrated with half-tones and four copper-plates.

“A very stimulating essay, with sufficient fact, date, and specific criticism attached, as is helpful to that study, but no more. As an illustrated record of Dürer’s work, the book is a welcome supplement to the little volume by Lina Eckenstein, ... though it will not replace that as an admirable and business-like summary of the artist’s life and work. It must be admitted, first and foremost, that the volume is concerned with Mr. T. Sturge Moore’s outlook on life and the arts; the author has not lost himself in his subject.”

“The style is vigorous and picturesque, and, on the whole dignified. There seems, further, a lack of cohesion between the various parts of the book.”

“His book is worthy of its place in the series by reason of his sympathetic interpretation of Dürer’s work.”

“Its writing and point of view make it a model of what an art book, written for lay readers, should be.”

“A singularly illusive book. While all the words in it are intelligible, the exact thing that was intended to be expressed somehow escapes one.”

“What Prof. Thausing, Allihn, Zahn, and Scott never suspected we find brought forth with the pride of discovery and illuminated in the language of a poet by Dürer’s latest and youngest biographer. In the history of biographical writing, of art criticism, and connoisseurship, ‘Albert Dürer,’ by T. Sturge Moore, is an epoch-making work. Its form and execution present a new model for study and imitation. He lays bare the mind, the soul of the artist, and shows the inevitableness of what Dürer achieved.”

“Mr. Moore is always interesting, and perhaps never more interesting than when he is least convincing. His work is certainly a stimulating addition to the series in which it finds place.”

Moorehead, William Gallogly. Outline studies in the New Testament, Philippians to Hebrews. **$1.20. Revell.

“These studies will be deemed scholarly and sound by such Christians as are unreconciled to the scientific and critical doctrines now dominant, and disposed to stand by the verbal inerrancy of the Scriptures.”—Outlook.

Merodach, the Assyrian, is the hero of this story of Tyre in the days when David was outlawed. Miriam, a slave in the household of the richest merchant of Tyre, who is engaged in the tin trade, is the heroine. The action is involved, there are many characters and there is much cruelty.

The author, an ex-professor of Sanskrit, received his call to the work of literary criticism during the course of two years in which he lived a life of solitary meditation. In Series one, of his essays the hermit of Shelburne devotes himself to the problems of the soul, he treats of Hawthorne, Emerson, Carlyle, Symons, Tolstoy and others, and discusses the religious and literary movements of to-day. Series two contains papers on English sonnets, Lafcadio Hearn, Hazlitt, Lamb, Kipling and FitzGerald. Crabbe, Meredith, Hawthorne, Delphi and Greek literature, and Nemesis. The third series treats of Cowper’s correspondence, Whittier the poet, Sainte-Beuve, Scotch novels and Scotch history, Swinburne, Christina Rossetti, Brownings’ popularity, Byron’s Don Juan, Laurence Sterne and Mr. Whitehouse.

* “Mr. More is a critic of many merits, and his ‘Shelburne essays’ reveal a penetrating and cultivated intellect. But it is obvious that he is less comfortable in the æsthetic environment of the sixteenth century than in that of the eighteenth.” Edward Fuller.

“Is a collection of literary, psychological, and ethical studies, of unusual seriousness and power. Our essayist may be thought at times to take himself and his hermit experience, and his ‘long course of wayward reading,’ a little too seriously. He has certainly read widely and wisely, and his essays are unquestionably full of meat.”

“Both in his fine classical scholarship and in his carefully wrought sentences, Mr. More calls to mind the lamented Walter Pater, although the Oxford scholar’s reading and literary sympathies, wide as they were, strike one as less comprehensive than Mr. More’s.”

“The second series of Mr. Paul Elmer More’s ‘Shelburne essays’ is likely to win the favor of book lovers in no less degree than its predecessor. Mr. More’s freedom from provincialism is manifest even in his style.” Herbert W. Horwill.

“If Mr. More is able to realize his ideal of the high calling of the critic he will eventually be able to exert an influence on American literature like that of Brunetiere on French.”

* “The Lafcadio Hearn and the Sainte-Beuve [essays] are, perhaps, the most remarkable for the depth and penetration of their analysis.”

“He is sound and sane, and he can penetrate sympathetically to inner realities of the works and the men he is studying. He is independent and he thinks for himself.”

251“Mr. More has the instincts of the scholar and the tastes of the man of culture; but his feet are on the ground. And he has a generous endowment of that common sense which is the conservator of art, as genius is its inspiration.”

“Whatever his subject, the stamp of leisurely scholarship, of well-backed, first-hand knowledge, of that indescribable something called ‘style’ attests the writer’s kinship with the best of the old-school essayists.”

Morgan, Lewis Henry. League of the Ho-de-no-sau-nee, or Iroquois; ed. by Herbert M. Lloyd. **$5. Dodd.

This new edition contains not only an accurate re-print of the edition of 1851, but also copious editorial notes, and introduction, personal reminiscences of Morgan by Charles T. Porter, a brief biography of Morgan with a bibliography of his writings, a sketch of the lives of Ely S. Parker and Charles T. Porter, an excellent index, and many illustrations.

“One-volume reprint of the two-volume original lacks nothing desirable in the way of critical apparatus.”

“Still remains the best and most authoritative work on the subject. For his editorial notes Mr. Lloyd has drawn upon every source of information, and they reveal his wide and discriminating reading of literature on the Iroquois. Not only a work of prime importance to all students of Indian life and character, but a book that one reads with genuine enjoyment for its own sake.” L. J. Burpee.

Morris, William O’Connor. Wellington, soldier and statesman, and the revival of the military power of England. **$1.35; hf. lea. **$1.60. Putnam.

“This is the most recent volume of the “Heroes of the nations” series.... The book is in no sense a biography of Wellington, but almost entirely a military history. The Peninsular war forms, as it were, the kernel.... But Wellington’s early career is not neglected. The promise of his youth ... is well indicated in the first chapter, and in the second, the seven years spent in India are ... treated.... The ninth chapter deals with the campaign of 1815.... The remainder of the book, on the duke’s political life, is not so detailed.... There are 16 portraits of the principal personages, and 16 maps and plans.”—Nation.

“This is a hopelessly mediocre book. The book has not even ... a correct, agreeable, and lucid style. It cannot be recommended even for the instruction of the general public and school-boys.” R. M. Johnston.

“This seems to us the first really satisfactory account of his career and his influence on the military power of England that has been given in compact and popular form.”

“Mr. Davis remarks in the concluding sentence that ‘the judge’s conclusions, although they have been challenged by some high authorities, deserve the attention due to acute independent study of the original sources of information’; a statement which will probably be indorsed by most readers of the book.”

“But on the whole, those who like a résumé of a period will find in this book more than a good example of its kind.”

The pursuit of a lost diamond, which is stolen from the Rajah of Goona and sent to England in a magnum of Tokay wine; an American buys the wine, and not suspecting its value, sells it. Adventures thrilling and blood-curdling follow thick and fast until at last the breathless author and reader give up the chase.

“Arthur Morrison is entitled to rank among the better writers of mystery or detective-stories of the present time. ‘The green diamond’ is, we think, the best of Mr. Morrison’s mystery-stories. It is one of the best mystery tales of the present year.” Amy C. Rich.

The trials and blessings of old age are discussed helpfully here for people of advancing years. The same optimism of the book commends it to the healthy minded no less than to the mortal who looks out drearily upon old age.

A facsimile reprint of “The only true Mother Goose” as published in Boston in 1833, including the odd-looking woodcuts. Dr. Hale has furnished an introduction to the book “which setting aside the Goose fable, is really a valuable collection of political squibs and old songs, any where from a century and a half to three centuries old.” (N. Y. Times.)

“This book places in the suburbs of Trenton, New Jersey, the headquarters of an extraordinary religious cult, something after the Theosophical order. Three hundred pages are devoted to describing its mummeries and the emotions and experiences of a young woman from Ida Grove, Iowa, its chosen high priestess, or ‘Mother-Light’.”—Outlook.

A book dealing with America before the outbreak of the Civil war, and during the campaign of John Brown and his sons. “The book is full of graphically told adventures; but though these are exciting reading, the picture of slavery is even more interesting. The slaves depicted are under good masters, yet in spite of this the author shows conclusively how the characters of both owners and slaves were corroded by an institution which involved the absolute dependence of one human being on the caprice of another.” (Spec.)

“Mr. Mott’s romance is a moderately deft piece of workmanship on familiar, melodramatic lines.”

“It is a thrilling story, however, and well enough told for those readers living too far North to detect the author’s egregious errors in representing negro character and negro dialect.”

Mott, Lawrence. Jules of the great heart, “free” trapper and outlaw in the Hudson bay region in the early days. †$1.50. Century.

Jules Verbaux, a gaunt French-Canadian 252trapper, outlawed by the Hudson Bay company, which has put a price upon his head, lives the life of the hunted, cleverly avoiding capture. He flits like a shadow over the frozen north and thru the fury of its storms, trapping where he can, but wherever he rears his lone hut some relentless enemy reduces it to ashes. A prey to brute passions in a cruel world with all hands against him, the great heart of the man still beats warm beneath the “petite” cap of his “enfant” who is dead, which he carries constantly with him, the sole reminder of the wife whom he believes has deserted him. Again and again it prompts him to noble action while his whole being calls for vengeance. In the end he is given a bleak sort of happiness—but it suffices, and his great heart sighs, “Je suis content.”

* “The book offers interesting reading for boys, and even older readers may enjoy the vivid descriptions of the hard life of the trapper.”

* “It is not too much to say that this book is splendid: it might not be too much to say that it is great.”

* “It is a strong story, happily free from much of the brutality and dreariness that have marked so many stories of the frozen north.”

* “They are strong stories of strong men who lived full-blooded lives and died in whatever way ‘le bon Dieu willed.’”

Moule, Rt. Rev. Handley C. G. Second epistle to Timothy: short devotional studies on the dying letter of St. Paul. *$1. Union press.

The bishop of Durham “has taken up this heart-moving Epistle with the single intention of expounding it after the manner of a Bible reading, not for literary criticism or enquiry but in quest of divine messages for heart and life.” As the verses are treated in the commentary, they are noted in the margin of each page. A poem upon “The martyrdom of St. Paul,” written in 1876, is appended.

Moyer, James Ambrose. Descriptive geometry for students of engineering. $2. Wiley.

This is the second edition of this book. “It is far more than a slight revision.... The text has been more than doubled, and the number of diagrams increased from 33 to 77.... The text is placed on the left-hand pages, and the diagrams, instead of being massed at the end of the volume, as in the former edition, are placed on the right hand pages, the space not thus used being available for notes by the student.” (Engin. N.)

“As a whole, the book is well adapted to the needs of engineering colleges, and in a number of important features is the most satisfactory one now available.” Henry S. Jacoby.

“We believe that the interests of both theory and practice would be better served if the instruction offered by Mr. Moyer were combined with such a course as that afforded by Professor Emch’s book.” Cassius J. Keyser.

Muirhead, Rev. Lewis A. Eschatology of Jesus; or, The kingdom come and coming: a brief study of our Lord’s apocalyptic language in the synoptic Gospels. $1.75. Armstrong.

“The volume is composed of lectures given on the Bruce foundation, and is subject to the limitations of its origin. The first lecture considers the pre-suppositions of the study; the second, the relation of the Jewish apocalypses to Jesus; the third, the actual teaching of Jesus concerning the consummation of the Kingdom; and the fourth, inclusively, the Son of man.”—Am. J. of Theol.

“The treatment, as a whole, however, can hardly be called more than sketchy. Taken altogether, the book, though stimulating, suffers from the fault which besets all exegetical studies dominated by pre-suppositions. Mr. Muirhead has said some very sensible things, but his volume presumes an attitude of mind ... that one may go the length of literary criticism and yet refrain from dogmatic or historical changes.” Shailer Mathews.

“Mr. Muirhead submits this view to careful investigation, in excellent spirit, cautious yet receptive, and his work is one of the most valuable of recent contributions to the understanding of the synoptic gospels.”

“The author of this handy volume is favorably known by his scholarly and fruitful work on ‘The eschatology of Jesus.’ To meet the needs of junior students he has here expanded and simplified a former edition of this manual, which some older students may value as an inexpensive and convenient substitute for Schürer’s voluminous work on ‘The Jewish people in the time of Christ.’”—Outlook.

This sixth volume in the series of “Phyllis’ field friends” opens with the statement that one who goes a-fishing with Phyllis may expect to catch strange things, and that under the general title of fishes the reader may chance upon an eel, a turtle, or a frog. Then follows a mixture of fact and fiction which will delight the young, altho the combination of scientific truth and fairy story is rather daring.

This note book for jokes is a clever little conceit, cleverly carried out. It is in pocket size with pages left blank for the instant jotting down of the illusive joke. An illustrated thumb index makes reference to the different divisions easy, while the head pieces, which are real heads, the tail-pieces, which are real feet, and the general make up, are jocose enough to fit whatever may be recorded.

The same cynicisms applied to a new calendar. The book is made as attractive as its predecessor, with marginal drawings done in red ink.

* “This 1906 edition is better as a whole than any of its predecessors. The cream of the old ‘twister’ proverbs has been retained, and the new ones are equal to the best of the old.”

Dr. Munk “describes not only the Grand cañon of the Colorado, with which we are all more or less familiar from former accounts, but also such little-known phenomena as the Meteorite 253mountain and the oddities of desert vegetation.... There are also interesting chapters on the structures of the cliff dwellers, and entertaining accounts of the habits and customs of the snake dancers, the modern Moquis. The book is profusely illustrated from photographs.”—R. of Rs.

Munro, Dana Carleton, and Sellery, George Clarke, eds. and trs. Medieval civilization: selected studies from European authors. *$1.25. Century.

“The compilers of this volume designed it as an aid to instructors and students in mediaeval history. The book includes samples of many authorities bearing on the points on which the student of mediaeval history will be likely to need special illumination.”—N. Y. Times.

“The volume is especially adapted to institutions where the libraries are limited in scope.”

“Each student may use it as an auxiliary. The volume will be practically serviceable for the purpose for which it is intended. Even readers with fairly correct general conceptions of the period will find much that is new to them.”

* Munro, Hugh Andrew Johnstone. Criticism and elucidations of Catullus; also Ætna revised, amended and explained. *$4. Stechert.

A reprint of a volume which “first appeared in 1878, and has for some time been a rare book, not easily procured. Mr. J. D. Duff contributes a prefatory note to the effect that three short papers, printed by Munro in ‘The journal of philology’ after the publication of his book, have been added, a few misprints have been corrected, and a few fresh notes by Munro himself included. Reference has also been made occasionally to discussion of points since Munro’s day. But the book, as at present printed, is only two pages longer than in the old form. This masterpiece of Munro, with all its liveliness of style, knowledge of Latin, and feeling of poetry, ought to be known to every classical scholar.”—Ath.

* “Our best thanks are due to those who have made it available for the present generation.”

“A translation of Professor Munsterberg’s ‘Die Amerikäner,’ recently published in Germany. It aims to be a general explanation of the American people—their history, their customs and their political and social life. He discusses the methods used by the Americans in meeting such vital problems as the silver question, trusts, the negro question, divorce, huge fortunes, displays of wealth, etc.”—Bookm.

“The work, in spite of its undoubted merits, lacks the keen incisiveness that distinguished the ‘American traits.’ At times the style is rather diffuse, and in place of brilliant generalizations one gets somewhat barren generalities.”

“We regard the work as one of the most subtly dangerous books, if one is not on the alert to detect its fallacies, that has appeared in years. Apparently liberal, it is in fact ultra-reactionary in so far as its attitude toward true democracy is concerned. The author’s desire to make the Americans appear to the best advantage to the aristocratic and cultured of monarchial Germany leads him at times to indulge in the same sophistical special-pleadings that mark his treatment of democracy and the genius of free government which we have dwelt upon in our editorial.” Amy C. Rich.

“Excellently translated. His work deserves to find an honourable place in all libraries as a supplement to the more solid volumes of Mr. Bryce.”

“By plan, selections of topics, and perspective of presentation, the work seems measurably suited to its objective purpose. The self-assertive American cannot refrain from expressing with regret but with conviction, his inability to endorse the judicial pronouncements or the philosophic standpoint of ‘The Americans.’ It is possible that we lack the gift to see ourselves as others see us; but we cannot candidly laud the lifelikeness of the portrait when we are introduced into its presence.” Joseph Jastrow.

“The translation is ... written in a fluent style and betraying little of the awkwardness which attaches to so many translations and at once betrays them as such, a cursory examination of passages taken at random reveals not a few infidelities, inaccuracies and inaptitudes.”

“The tone of the work is essentially optimistic. Of the two [’American traits’ and ‘Americans’] the latter is by far the most pretentious. It is comparable rather with such a work as Emile Boutmy’s ‘The English people.’ To defect of method must be added blemishes of misstatement and even errors of prejudice. There can be no doubt that it renders a distinct service to the readers of both countries. Seldom have we seen such a complete record of American achievement, individual and national, as is embodied in the pages dealing with the concrete facts of our development.”

“One of the most thoughtful, valuable dissections of American national character by a foreigner is ‘The Americans.’”

“The book is a typical specimen of the best German method. The whole book is an admirable defence of what is best in American life, but at the same time there is a wholesome suggestion of that other side.”

“Two friends are sitting at the hearth after a funeral, and one gives the other his thoughts on immortality, as recorded here in an imagined monologue. There is an Oversoul, whose will-attitudes are the norms of the good, the beautiful, and the true. These are eternal. These will-attitudes we may make ours, yet they become ours ‘only in so far as our consciousness, is the over-individual consciousness, the Oversoul.’”—Outlook.

“His interpretation of life in terms of will is done with extraordinary skill and perspicuity, considering the small space allotted to the problem in his paper. But his application of the theory of will-values to individual immortality appears to us unsatisfactory and weak.”

“It is a spiritual structure built upon the sands of speculation.” Edward Fuller.

“It is written in a charming manner, and is really a description of the author’s philosophy. The fault I find with Professor Munsterberg’s philosophy is really this: that it pretends to get rid of time and space in considering personality, and yet does not do so, and cannot, in the nature of things.” T. D. A. Cockerell.

Murray, A. H. Hallam; Nevinson, H. W.; and Carmichael, Montgomery. Sketches on the old road through France to Florence. *$5. Dutton.

Mr. Murray has pictured his journey thru Normandy, central and southern France, and Italy in a series of sketches which the equally artistic descriptive work of Mr. Nevinson on France, and Mr. Carmichael on Italy rounds into a volume pleasing and instructive to both the mind and the eye.

“The illustrations by A. H. Hallam-Murray are full of the romance and charm of the places he has pictured.”

The relation of personal hygiene to health and longevity, all along the way from the commonplace in looks to genuine attractiveness is set forth clearly and professionally in this very fully illustrated handbook.

Volume III in the “Columbia university studies in English series.” A book which sets forth the classical influence in Tennyson’s writings by showing the kinship between many of his passages and those of the old Greek and Latin authors. There are many explanatory and reference notes, including the texts of the passages quoted both in English and the original.

“This attractive little volume, it should be understood, is something very much better than the mere digging out of such verses of Tennyson as show resemblance to lines in Greek or Latin literature. The erudition of the compiler is accompanied everywhere by an exact and critical scholarship. Here and there he corrects errors of Tennysonian editors and biographers—once a misquotation from memory by Tennyson himself. For this and other reasons this book cannot safely be missed by any student of Tennyson’s work in general, whether or not he happens to be especially interested in its particular subject.” Herbert W. Horwill.

“The author is often prone to seek for origins in specific things which for centuries have been generalities in thought and language. Prof. Mustard writes without prejudice and with a wholesome perception of the idiosyncracies of the poet’s mind, of his knowledge, and his imagination.”

Although but a brief monograph, this addition to the “Langham series,” gives a fair and concise study of Millet’s work. The volume is pleasing in size, shape, and illustrations.

“If the account somewhat lacks the picturesque phraseology which we find in Mrs. Ady’s biography, it has a greater note of authority.”

Myers, A. Wallis, ed. Sportsman’s year book for 1905. *$1.25. imp. Scribner.

“There are chapters by different writers on the horse racing during the year, cricket, football, rugby, motor racing, motor boating, polo, lawn tennis, croquet, hockey, lacrosse, amateur athletics, rowing, coursing, cycle racing, and yacht racing. These are followed by biographies of well-known English sportsmen and sportswomen. The illustrations, in black-and-white, include photographic reproductions of portraits of English champions, boats, horses, dogs, etc.”—N. Y. Times.

Myers, Albert Cook, ed. Hannah Logan’s courtship: a true narrative; the wooing of the daughter of James Logan, colonial governor of Pennsylvania, and divers other matters, as related in the diary of her lover, John Smith, esq., 1746-1752. $2.50; ¾ lev. $4. Ferris.

In the diary of John Smith of Philadelphia, Quaker and business man, is recorded the story of his quiet life and of his courtship of Hannah Logan, whom he married in 1748. The book is illustrated by facsimiles, autographs, silhouettes, and portraits, which aid the diary in giving an interesting view of colonial Philadelphia.

“The extreme frankness and naïveté of the diary, which was intended for no eyes but those of Smith himself, add to the pleasantness of the book, for which we are grateful to Mr. Myers.”

“A volume exceedingly attractive to students of our colonial history, and not unattractive to the general reader.”

“The diary is not only a charming and perfectly un-self-conscious record of a courtship of those days; it is worth much as a picture of the manners and daily life of the Quakers of ‘the Province’.”

“As the medium of presenting an excellent picture of colonial home life the book also has value.”

Myers, Frederick William Henry. Fragments of prose and poetry. *$2.50. Longmans.

A volume edited by the wife of this high minded scholar, poet and leader in the work of “Psychical research” three years after his death. There is an autobiographical sketch which sets forth his struggle with doubt and faith, followed by tributes to Ruskin, Gladstone, Watts, Stevenson and other friends who passed before him into the unknown. The last section of the volume contains sixty of his poems. The whole is well illustrated.

“But here is less an argument than a ‘document,’ the inner life of a poet and thinker. His poems which fill nearly half the book, ... are so good they should be better; but his congenital sin, perhaps, of rhetoric— ... too often gets the best of them.”

* Myrick, Herbert. Cache la Poudre: the romance of a tenderfoot in the days of Custer. $1.50. Judd.

On the slender thread of the story of a young New Yorker who in unmerited disgrace disappears from his home, reappears as a western tenderfoot, serves under Custer, and wins reputation and a bride, are strung pictures of the crude life and thrilling scenes found in northern Colorado, Wyoming and Montana in the early seventies. The book altho both novel and historical, 254is not a typical historical novel. The numerous illustrations from paintings by Charles Schreyvogel, Edward W. Deming, and Henry Fangel, with many photographs not only supplement the author’s descriptions but overshadow the text. The fact that they represent real people about whom the appendix provides further facts, gives the book an added value. There are portraits of Custer, Sitting Bull, Rain-in-the-face and other characters, and pictures of various scenes from cow-boy life.

A resumé given temperately and concisely from the Norwegian point of view of the events leading up to the present crisis. These events cover about a hundred years; the real strife beginning when in 1895 a change in the Swedish constitution practically took the administration of foreign affairs out of the hand of the king and placed them under the power of parliament.

“A sound little book on the Norwegian side of the dispute, by the Norwegian who is most competent to write upon it.”

* “Thus the book is one to be read before attacking Otté’s larger and more exhaustive work.”

“Nansen’s book, admirable in restraint, will certainly do nothing to embitter feeling in either country.”

Nares, Robert. Glossary of words, phrases, names, and allusions in the works of English authors, particularly Shakespeare and his contemporaries; ed. by J. O. Halliwell and Thomas Wright. *$3. Dutton.

This work was originally published in 1822, and the present edition follows the original text, but includes many new words, phrases, and expressions which have been found since the publication of the first edition or were overlooked by the author.

This story of California is the story of Elijah Berl, a dreamer and fanatic, who undertook the great work of making a barren wilderness “blossom as the rose,” and, blinded by the light of his glowing vision, sought base methods to attain his noble end. His partner who applies the “moral straight-edge,” the girl who helps, and the weak wife who hinders are strongly drawn. The company’s affairs, the orange industry, the building of the irrigation dam, and the feverish land boom just before its collapse give the typical atmosphere of the early West.

“Mr. Nason has drawn the character of Elijah with excellent precision and clearness.”

“The author evidently knows conditions in California, and is wide awake in his study of human character.”

National documents: state papers so arranged as to illustrate the growth of our country from 1606 to the present day. *72c; lea. *92c; pa. *42c. Bell, H. W.

“A valuable little volume containing important state papers, from the charter of Virginia, given in 1606 to the Panama ship canal treaty of 1904.”—Arena.

“In his ‘critical essay’ on the contents of the Virginal book in the Fitzwilliam museum at Cambridge, ... [the author] gives a careful study of nearly 300 pieces of the Tudor period which are almost entirely unknown.” (N. Y. Times.) These pieces of Elizabethan music include 130 dances, 17 organ pieces, 46 arrangements of forty different songs, and certain madrigals, and fantasias, etc.

“But the volume as a whole is interesting and instructive; moreover, it is the first book on the subject, and therefore welcome. It contains many musical illustrations, and there is a capital index.”

“It is a valuable work of reference, for it embodies all that can be required by one who is desirous of gaining a clear idea of the music of this interesting period.”

“It certainly is a stimulating and graphic method of studying musical history that he has embodied in the book.” Richard Aldrich.

Thirty-seven poems upon such themes as Alvah and Azubah, The adoration of the Magi, Wine of laurel, and Lex mundi. There is also a series of sonnets called A woman’s ring.

“Much of Mr. Neidig’s verse, for all its originality and unquestionably poetic diction, makes too hard reading to fulfill the proper function of poetry.” Wm. M. Payne.

“A thin little book done in brown tones and with a flexible cover.... It is printed in old art style and bound in Rhinos boards.... Taking history alphabetically, the book goes from Alexander to Zenobia, and includes such prominent people as Lucullus, Raleigh, William Tell, and James Watt.... The illustrations show without overmuch seriousness the eminent individuals whose life stories are told.”—N. Y. Times.

255* “Twenty-six historical personages ... are portrayed with accuracy, completeness, and much cleverness.”

The apparent object of these letters is to ridicule Roosevelt, his friends, and his official and unofficial acts. Altho names are transposed and facts perverted, there is no real attempt to disguise the identity of the executive who entertains Booker at dinner for the sake of the negro vote, and assembles the navy at Clam bay for the edification of a few visiting friends.

“Now and then the malice has a spice of wit, but generally speaking the letters of a self-made president are rather heavy.”

“The reviews and criticisms of which this book is composed deal with a varied company of literary personalities. The net is spread very wide. Great and small—Mr. Belloc and Browning, Goethe and Aubrey Beardsley, Æschylus and Mr. Yeats, Dolling and De Wet, Carlyle, Heine, and Mr. Le Gallienne, and many others—are gathered in. And in dealing with them all Mr. Nevinson either has his point of view, or manages to reflect, brightly enough, the general tendency of educated opinion.”—Ath.

“Mr. Nevinson has a charming and lucid style that cannot but give interest to his restrained thoughts.”

“He writes in a brisk, self-confident, effective way, with no lack of plausible generalizations (not based on painfully exhaustive collection of particulars) and a ready supply of apt illustrations. As short essays in criticism of the lighter sort, these chapters, despite a slight tendency to the dogmatic in their tone are excellent reading.”

“We have read them all with interest—seldom, indeed, have met with a book of the kind which we were so unwilling to lay down—and many with much pleasure.”

“Americans rarely see Evesham and the beautiful, broad vale in which it lies, although they are near it when they make, as all good Americans do, their Shakespeare pilgrimage. This little book, one of the ‘Temple topographies,’ is, with its line drawings and pleasant narrative, an introduction and an incentive to visit a charming countryside.”—Outlook.

“In this volume thorough justice is done to the buildings of a charming little Worcestershire town.”

Newberry, Percy Edward, and Garstang, John. Short history of ancient Egypt. **$1.20. Estes.

A small volume which gives a comprehensive sketch of the Egyptian monarchy from its founding to its disintegration, three thousand years later. The story is told in the light of the many important discoveries which have been made within the last decade. It is a book that will arouse the student’s interest in the subject and lead to the study of larger works.

“There is a painful lack of proper proportion. The presentation in the little book of the new results from the archaic age deserves consideration as a serious contribution. The American edition has some serious misprints.”

“They have written with exactness and clearness, and their product should offer the reader an attractive synopsis of the latest discoveries.”

“The most noticeable fault of the pieces is found in the frequent omission of articles and other small words necessary to the construction.” Wm. M. Payne.

“In ‘Words for music,’ ... a mild and rather wordy mysticism sometimes bears poetic fruit in verse of a pleasing, gossamer-like tenuity.”

Mr. Newman’s fearless attitude toward music and composers results in an iconoclastic treatment of some of the old masters and a proportionately exalted consideration of others of more modern schools. In the latter class is Strauss to whom “Mr. Newman attributes ... pretty nearly everything except the creation of the world.... The essay on programme music is unquestionably the most lucid, original, and convincing discussion of that question ever printed.” (Nation.)

“Our author is a clever and thoughtful writer, and even those who differ from him will respect his frankly expressed opinions.”

* “His scholarship is good and his point of view established favorably for perspective. He writes frankly of old and new masters, and his comments are stimulating to the mind of the reader.” W. J. Henderson.

“Mr. Newman takes his work with vast seriousness and digs very deep. The subjects warrant such treatment, but as a result the reader must look for matter rather than manner.”

“Mr. Newman also ventures to fly in the face of public opinion with a few pages of very depreciative remarks on Gounod’s ‘Faust.’ Here he is decidedly in error. In the other essays of this volume we find our author much more sane and satisfactory, and less self-contradictory.”

The average lover of music will find Wagner made comprehensible in Mr. Newman’s monograph; “not the whole Wagner,” but the “essential Wagner” as a musician and a dramatist is the author’s province. Following a chapter on Wagner’s development, each of his operas is studied in turn, and the really essential motives are given. A chronological table and bibliography are included.

“It is stimulating and refreshing to come upon so strong and original and drastic a piece of criticism as he has delivered in this little book.” Richard Aldrich.

“Mr. Newman always has something to say that is worth saying, and he says it without indirection, uninfluenced by partisanship.” Richard Aldrich.

256Newman, Eugene William. (Savoyard, pseud.). Essays on men, things, and events, historical, personal, political. $2. Neale.

The sub-title includes the following list of men, who with associated events, “historical, personal, political,” are considered in this volume: Roscoe Conklin, Thaddeus Stevens, Matthew H. Carpenter, Andrew Johnson, John J. Ingalls, Seargent S. Prentiss, Oliver P. Morton, Lucius Q. C. Lamar, Samuel J. Tilden. The family of Field, Marcus A. Hanna, Thomas B. Reed, Benjamin H. Hill, George F. Hoar, Frank Wolford, Stephen A. Douglass and Thomas C. Platt.

“The form on the other hand is very old-fashioned, with much embroidery of classical and Biblical allusion and a generous supply of adjectives of heroic size. Altogether people interested in men and politics, whatever their individual bias, can hardly fail to derive entertainment from Mr. Newman’s essays.”

Nibelungenlied; tr. into rhymed English verse in the meter of the original by G. H. Needler. *$1.75. Holt.

The first metrical translation of this great epic into the English language will appeal to students and readers alike. The historical background of the work has been supplied in a full two-part introduction: the first of which treats of the Nibelungen saga, its history, development and forms; and the second, of the Nibelungenlied, and the various editions thru which it has passed.

“Mr. Needler does not show a very keen sense of rhythm nor a great command of language. His translation lacks case, and indulges in uncomfortable inversions.”

“The book is an interesting work of reference, the value of which is enhanced by a scholarly introduction.”

“What distinguishes this translation of the great German epic from all previous attempts is, in the first place, the faithful and happy reproduction of its metrical form. Professor Needler has added a succinct but adequate introduction ... altogether the best summary of the whole subject to be found in English.”

“The author of this book says that his apology for presenting it is that none of the preceding translations reproduces the metrical form of the original. His book certainly justifies itself, and stands in no need of any apology. The scholarly introduction deserves unqualified praise, and is, indeed, quite a model of what such a work ought to be. At first sight the versification is not attractive, but the liking for it will be found to grow with increasing familiarity.”

Nicholl, Edith M. (Mrs. Bowyer). Human touch: a tale of the great Southwest. †$1.50. Lothrop.

This strenuous story tells of cattle feuds, train robberies, and kidnappers, and of David Kingdon unhappily married to a woman who leaves him and spends her life in travel. While she is on the continent David meets Sylvia and “the human touch” draws them together. The wife is reported lost at sea, Sylvia and David marry and live happily on the great cattle ranch until the first wife reappears. Heartbreaking scenes follow, the wife is selfish, but Sylvia and David are brave and at last are reunited thru the medium of the divorce court.

“In fact, it is a story of unusual excitement, and will hold the reader enthralled just so far as his taste may run in this kind of shotgun literature.”

A volume which “emphasizes particularly the connection of the corn laws with British social legislation in general, and warns against the danger of appealing to historical precedents without taking into account all the circumstances of the case.... He makes it clear that, though the corn laws did not produce constant high prices, the fluctuations in price which they did produce were an evil both to the farmer and to the consumer.”—Nation.

“This volume, though avowedly prepared to meet the present discontents, is entirely free from partisanship.”

“The book is a useful treatment, in popular form, of a subject always of historical interest, and now closely connected with a topic of the day.”

The story of a young man whose grandfather has willed him the house of a thousand candles, which includes an Indiana estate, upon the condition that he live in the house a year, otherwise the estate goes to Marian. There is a villain, and there are secret passages, and other mysterious things, there is shooting and slugging, until the reader is prepared for anything, and cheerfully accepts the fact that Olivia, whom the heir loves, is really Marian, and is quite prepared at the end to greet the grandfather, who, it appears, is not dead after all.

* “The story is told with spirit and the people in it are alive—in one case, even though dead.”

* Nicoll, Rev. William Robertson (Claudius Clear, pseud.) Garden of nuts; mystical expositions with an essay on Christian mysticism. $1.25. Armstrong.

“A brief series of articles dealing in detail with some texts in the Old Testament. The method of Dr. Nicoll’s interpretation is to allow Scripture to be the commentary on Scripture. Without deprecating modern criticism, he claims that his exposition moves in a region which criticism does not touch: ‘The great passages in the Word of God are timeless.’”—Ath.

* “These pages should commend themselves to many who have been struck by the sterility of much of the historical handling of the Bible which is now in vogue.”

A translation of “Der weltkrieg-deutsch traume,” which is graphically based upon the supposition of war between Germany and England. “For the dreams of the German, in the view of this author, are of overthrowing the English power, and of an imperial army taking triumphant possession of London.... The story, considered as a historical romance, is of a type familiar enough.... Throughout it is taken for granted that England is the arch-enemy of civilization, that its foreign policy is a complex network of rapacity and hypocrisy, and that it is deaf to the voice of the higher idealism.” (Dial). 257“Is related in a workmanlike manner. It is a fairly good story, and is curiously interesting from the way in which it represents, upon every possible occasion, the point of view of the German anglophobe.” W. M. Payne.

Nine editions of this book have appeared in Japan. Bushido is the Japanese feudal equivalent for chivalry, and signifies “the code of moral principles which the knights were required or instructed to observe.” “It embodies the maxims of educational training brought to bear on the Samurai, or warrior class of Japan, the class that throughout the feudal age, which ended only fifty years ago, set the standard to the whole people in manners, ideals of character, and mental and moral codes of obligation.”

“Is a misleading piece of special pleading. He makes out his case by partial statement and wholesale suppression.”

“Professor Nitobe’s work is not exhaustive. It is the only work, however, on the subject given in a language of the West.” Adachi Kinnosuke.

“A delightfully written exposition of Japanese philosophic and social thought.”

“A sea story in which an English captain and a Scottish engineer contend against every ill-hap that could befall a cranky, theoretically-built steamship, owned by men who hypocritically profess to make her a co-operative enterprise embodying every new patent and labor-saving device, while they really mean to save money at the expense of the crew’s comfort and safety.”—Outlook.

“‘The edge of circumstance’ is a striking book, one to be read. Mr. Noble attracts immediate attention yet does not shout; he gives us exciting situations, yet leaves something to the imagination. Mr. Noble is too much of an artist to overload his picture.”

* “In ‘The edge of circumstance’ Mr. Noble has created a book with the qualities of a masterpiece. The portrait of the derelict alone will go down as a wonder of sincere portrayal. The poetry of the things is here plain, founded on a knowledge sharper than fancy.”

“It is a rarely good—even a great—book in some respects, and it seems destined to take high rank in the sea literature of its class.”

“The author’s method is much like that of Joseph Conrad, but we miss Conrad’s glow of imagination.”

* “A sea-story quite exceptional in vivid strength and well worth perusing.”

“It is impossible to render full justice to Mr. Edward Noble’s striking story in this column.”

Noble, Esther Gideon. Macbeth, a warning against superstition. $1. Badger, R: G.

Dwelling upon the strong negative lesson conveyed thruout the tragedy of Macbeth, viz., the warning against superstition, Macbeth himself is viewed in the light of one steeped in superstition, and the Weird sisters, whose material existence is denied, as doing no more “than ‘harp’ his fear aright.” “Shakespeare made Macbeth distinctly a man of thought, calculation, and caution. It is the abuse, the misdirection of this great power for thought which makes the tragedy,” so maintains the author of this monograph.

Noble, Rev. Franklin. (comp.) Thoughts for the occasion: fraternal and benevolent; reference manual of historical data and facts; helpful in suggesting themes and in outlining addresses for the observance of timely or special occasions of the various orders. $2. Treat.

The book is divided into four parts which cover—Social and benevolent brotherhoods, Beneficiary and fraternal orders, Religious fraternities, and various orders and societies, and includes nearly all the fraternal organizations in America.

Noldin, Hieronymus. Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, intended especially for priests and candidates for priesthood; trans. from the Germ. by Rev. W. H. Kent. *$1.25. Benziger.

“A history of the cultus and observations upon its theological and ascetical importance.”—Cath. World.

“The historical sketch is brief but valuable. We think, however, that this curious evasion of the twelfth promise question will be the sole objection which devout clients of the League will make to this book.”

* Nordau, Max. Simon (Südfeld). Dwarf’s spectacles and other fairy tales, tr. from the German by Mary J. Safford. †$1.50. Macmillan.

“The stories were told to Maxa, Mr. Nordau’s little daughter, from her fourth to her seventh birthday, and are translated for the benefit of other little ladies by Mary J. Safford. There are twenty stories in all, and they are about everything from beetles to fairies and from rosebushes to white mice. For instance ... there is a tragic account of a last year’s fly, which shows how sad it is to outlive one’s generation; there is a story of an ungrateful mouse; and a doll that was excessively haughty—in fact, there are stories about everything.... Young people—and even older ones—will read with breathless interest. The book is illustrated with a number of line drawings.”—N. Y. Times.

* “Is worthy to be read and loved by many other children for its originality, its pleasant style, and its gentle lessons with touches of deeper meaning.”

* “The grown-up reader is as pleased as the child—with everything but the pictures.”

Nordenskjöld, Nils Otto Gustav, and Andersson, Dr. Johan Gunnar. Antarctica; or, Two years amongst the ice of the South pole. *$5. Macmillan.

“It will be remembered that the Nordenskjöld expedition, in the vessel Antarctic, left Europe in the summer of 1901, and spent the following Antarctic winter in the South polar regions.... The Antarctic was caught in the ice, ‘nipped’ and sunk, and it took two relief parties to finally rescue Dr. Nordenskjöld and his followers. Notwithstanding the loss of the vessel, with many of the scientific notes, much of the geographical and other scientific results were saved.... 258This volume is Dr. Nordenskjöld’s own story (prepared in collaboration with Dr. Andersson and Captain Larsen, of the Antarctic).”—R. of Rs.

“In the rapidly increasing literature of Polar enterprise Dr. Nordenskjöld’s volume will take a high place. The translator, who has preferred to be anonymous, has performed his task with success.”

“It is mainly as a narrative that the book must be judged, for it contains little of scientific interest.” Albert White Vorse.

“Their story is told in a sufficiently attractive fashion, tho it lacks somewhat of the personal touch that ordinarily vivifies narratives of polar exploration.”

“To the general reader, the book’s main interest will lie in ... its story of romantic adventure. It is as fascinating reading as Robinson Crusoe. Antarctic scenery and natural phenomena are vividly portrayed.”

“The story is vividly told, and the quaint English of the translator rather adds to than detracts from the reader’s enjoyment and interest. The illustration of the work is excellent; the index and maps are all that could be asked.”

Norris, H. L. Rice papers; stories and sketches of life in China. †$1.50. Longmans.

In order to while away the leisure hours of a three years’ service in China, the author wrote these nine stories of the Chinese as he saw them, placid and cruel, childlike and shrewd. He has created Hong, the gate-keeper, who spins marvelous yarns to a youthful audience of two, and other characters, which might be real, but are not.

“He has turned out capital stories, witty, satirical, yet seemingly jumping with facts, even though he says the stories are not true. They are better than true; they are well-found. Nine stories ... all good, all worth reading and re-reading.”

“But Mr. Norris as a critic is perhaps too irresponsible to carry much weight. His attitude is primarily that of the amused onlooker, and his aim is plainly to entertain rather than to instruct. In this he is almost uniformly successful.”

Barham of Beltana is a prominent Australian and the love story centers about his son and daughter and the son and daughter of Mr. March, an Englishman. The book is full of complications, obstacles and surprises, into which eccentric old Lady Warden and her secret, two huge mastiffs, and a ghost enter.

“The scenes are pleasantly varied, the situations quietly effective, and the characters consistent though not vital. The story is readable because it runs smoothly from start to finish, and the interest is allowed to accumulate cleverly.”

* “There seems almost as little to say against ‘Barham of Beltana’ as in its favour.”

“Is fresh, vigorous, interesting; original in its situations, unusually clever in its dialogue. A thoroughly enjoyable book.”

“This author always writes pleasantly, and entirely in unexceptionable English, but the humor and story-interest which his early books had are here reflected only in a faint and feeble light.”

“Mr. Norris is always readable. The present novel contrives to avoid the sameness from which some of Mr. Norris’s recent books have suffered.”

Norris, William Edward. Embarrassing orphan; il. by Steeple Davis. $1. Winston.

A South American millionaire leaves his daughter to her uncle, Sir Edward Denne, with instruction that she and every one else are to be kept in ignorance of the fact that she is wealthy until she is happily engaged. His object is to save her from fortune hunters, but as it happens, this provision leads her into refusing the right man. All ends well, however, through the efforts of her uncle.

“The story is ingeniously complicated and amusing, though after all somewhat monotonous.”

“There are a few dry passages that detract somewhat from the cleverness of the balance.”

North, Sidney H. Oil fuel; its supply, composition and application. *$1.75. Lippincott.

“A concise and valuable record of the developments in the use of liquid fuel for the generation of power ... he deals with the distribution and sources of supply of petroleum ... the economic aspect of liquid fuel ... the absolute economy as a fuel ... the chemical composition of fuel oils ... conditions of combustion in oil furnaces.... Turning from consideration of the oil itself to the methods of burning it, the author gives a very useful historical summary of the early experiments down to the year 1883.... A chapter is then devoted to modern burners and methods.... [There are chapters upon] the use of oil fuel for marine and naval purposes, [and] oil fuel in locomotives.”—Nature.

“The whole work compares very favorably indeed with the far more pretentious treatise on the subject which until now has been the only book of reference.”

* North, Simon Newton Dexter. “Old Greek,” an old-time professor in an old-fashioned college; a memoir of Edward North, with selections from his lectures. **$3.50. McClure.

“‘Old Greek’ was the nickname, or, more correctly speaking, the pet name, by which Edward North, the professor of Greek [for fifty-eight years] was known to the students and alumni of Hamilton college. This volume, the primary object of which is a biography of Professor North, will certainly serve as an illuminating document to explain the genesis of the old-fashioned college in the United States, and the reasons for its growth and persistence.”—Nation.

Noussanne, Henri de. The kaiser as he is; or, The real William II.; tr. from the French by Walter Littlefield. **$1.25. Putnam.

From the point of view of one “who does not like the Germans and hardly seeks to conceal his contempt for distinctive German qualities,” we have an intimate, graphic, much biased, and at times sarcastic sketch of the German emperor, including domestic, social, political, national 259and international relations. There are chapters dealing with Germany at the accession of William II.; with the manner in which “this young man” rid himself of Bismarck; the imperial treatment of the Poles; William II. and socialism; William II. as a family man, as guest and landlord, at home and on his travels, as head of the army, as bandmaster, painter, patron, etc.

“It is sensational journalism in all its horror. In the less objectionable portions of the book there is a mixture of readable gossip, more or less well founded, with mere padding.”

“The translator has, in general, done his work acceptably, though numerous misprints and mistakes in capitalization are to be noted, and there are many minor errors of statement that might well have been corrected in the English version. The chief objection to the book is, however, the prejudice of the author.”

“Pity it is that M. de Noussanne did not use a finer satirical pen and a less spiteful, even tho he has given evidence as to the healing of the Sedan wound.”

“There is obvious malice, obvious Gallic animus, obvious indulgence of a spirit of levity and mockery, obvious hospitality to anecdotes in which the kaiser is a figure of comic opera. Mr. Littlefield, whose translation is at many points very happy and who has caught the spirit of the whole excellently, regards the more serious parts of the book with perhaps a little too much favor.”

“As a tirade, an example of skilful satire of the boulevard type, it is a masterpiece; as sober biography or character analysis, it is worth nothing.”

“M. de Noussanne shows us the man behind the monarch, but spares the relation of court tattle and backstairs scandal.”

“The city that was the birthplace of Savonarola, the home of Ariosto, and the refuge of Tasso, will never be wholly forgotten.... The author devotes about two-thirds of her book to the history of the city.... The whole account centres about the ruling family of Este.... In the last third of the book we are given a descriptive view of the city, its palaces, pictures, streets, churches, and abbeys. In forming an idea of what remains of Ferrara’s greatness, the reader is aided by a number of interesting illustrations drawn by Miss Dora Noyes.”—Dial.

“A readable book and a faithful guide to the city’s antiquities, but not a history, in the large sense, admitting us to the council of the fates.” Ferdinand Schwill.

“The work is written in easy, dignified English, the narrative is interesting, and the historian displays good taste and judgment both in her choice and her rejection of materials.”

“So comprehensive is the writer’s grasp of her subject that her little volume might well be called a microcosm of the renaissance. It is hard to do justice to Miss Noyes’s exquisite style and to the penetration which comprehends the significance of the motley manifestations of the vivid, passionate life of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.”

“The style is somewhat spiritless. At best, it will prove an authoritative guide for the student tourist who has much time to spend in Ferrara.” Walter Littlefield.

The author deals with the subject of freight rates rather than passenger fares, showing how rates are made, and how they should be made, examines the questions of classification and discrimination, considers the effect of free competition on the one hand and consolidation on the other, shows the movement of rates for the last forty years, and compares American rates with those of foreign countries.

A collection of fifty-three essays which “are simply the book-talk of a book-lover, that and nothing more.” In them E. G. O. frankly states his likes and dislikes, but allows his readers to agree or disagree with him, just as they choose.

“They have the double merit of being sincere in themselves and of being simply and naturally set down.”

“The author makes no attempt to be profound, but he succeeds in interesting even where he does not carry conviction with the statement of his opinions. He is delightfully frank, and does not hesitate to put forth various literary heresies.”

“His manifest sincerity in all his literary judgments, and his abounding enthusiasm for a wide range of good books make his chapters delightful reading.”

Oates, William C. War between the Union and the Confederacy, and its lost opportunities. *$3. Neale.

“This is chiefly of interest to military students of the Civil war as a criticism of the action of President Davis of the Confederacy, the Confederate congress, and Confederate general officers in the field, with the object of showing that under other management the South might have won.”—Outlook.

“Rambling and careless in style, frequently in error as to events, sometimes grotesque in opinions and occasionally prejudiced against individuals. In one sense is worthless and in another is of the highest importance as a revelation of men.”

“Much matter which the future historian will be glad of. The General himself speaks frankly as a partisan.”

Ober, Frederick Albion. Hernando Cortés, conqueror of Mexico. **$1. Harper.

“Despite its title. Mr. Ober’s book comes under the category of history rather than biography, for by far the greater portion is devoted to the three years’ campaigning which ended in the Spanish conquest of Mexico.... It may be commended to those desirous of obtaining a brief, readable account of the conquest and an impartial idea of the leading figure therein. An especially interesting feature is the identification by its author (who has traveled widely in Latin-American countries) of scenes and relics associated with the New World exploits of Cortés.”—Outlook.

260* “Readable it certainly is, to one who is not fastidious regarding the historical accuracy of the book he is reading.”

* “However the telling is well enough, and the facts seem sufficient for the purpose in hand. Except for that purpose the book strikes one as distinctly superfluous.”

Ober, Frederick Albion. Our West Indian neighbors. **$2.50; ¾ lev. **$5. Pott.

The author, who has visited and studied the islands in 1879-1880, who was commissioner to the world’s fair of 1891 from the West Indies, and who has furthered his knowledge of them in late years, gives an account of the islands of the Caribbean sea, “America’s Mediterranean,” their picturesque features, fascinating history, and attractions for the traveler, nature-lover, and pleasure-seeker.

“Many quaint and little known facts are recorded, but the total result is very unsatisfactory. The account is rambling and superficial.”

A full account in compact form of the development of a great man and the circumstances which favored this development. The chief battles which mark the course of the Civil war are treated rather summarily. The book deals essentially with the man, his motives, and personality, and the nation’s struggle forms an impressionistic back-ground.

“This double sectionalism and these standards of elegance are fatal to the usefulness of a book which does not pretend to a ‘vast amount of research into sources not before used,’ and which presents few new ideas. Nor is the execution faultless.” Carl Russell Fish.

“The author has produced a well-balanced, readable, compact book, that gives the important facts of Lincoln’s life. He has brought to his work historical training and a practised hand.”

“Dr. Oberholtzer writes clearly and forcibly for the most part, but with an occasional verbal arrangement that makes his meaning hard to understand. The ‘Bibliography’ of this volume is remarkable for its inadequacy. Dr. Oberholtzer’s predilection is for such memoirs as serve the more sordid and vulgarizing conception of Lincoln’s character.”

“No man, whichever his side of the fence can fail to find much pleasure and satisfaction in contemplating Mr. Lincoln in the angle of view in which Mr. Oberholtzer has chosen to look at him. The author manages as a rule to be astonishingly fair to both sides and to get, in most cases, very close to the truth. There are lapses of course. Times, too, when in his eagerness to make bold generalizations the author misses things he should have considered.”

“William O’Brien, the energetic Irish member of the British Parliament ... reveals a most interesting and complex personality in this work. Many of this vigorous fighter’s recollections concern the fierce, endless warfare over Ireland’s rights and wrongs. But he was a poet in his youth. He has strong sympathies with the Gaelic revival, he was an ardent theatregoer in his young manhood, and is still, it seems, in the intervals when the Irish contingent in the House of Commons is not active, a dreamer of brave dreams.”—N. Y. Times.

* “Mr. O’Brien writes as a rule in scholarly fashion; but there are some passages which fail conspicuously when so considered.”

* “Although written from a standpoint differing somewhat from that of Mr. McCarthy’s reminiscences, they recall the latter, not simply in subject matter, but in tone and treatment. They are pervaded by the same geniality, quiet dignity, pathos, tenderness, humor, and unfailing optimism.”

“The story has to do with the discovery of a long-lost silver mine, the ‘Vanishing Swede,’ the finding of which was preceded by many adventures, hairbreadth escapes from death by the wild beasts of the forests, and leads up to the happiness of the young brother and sister, who are the principal characters in the story, and of another couple. The mysterious character is the Leather hermit, who turns out to be the man who had discovered the silver mine.”—N. Y. Times.

“The humor of the ‘Vanishing Swede’ is of the primitive sort that springs only from youth and health; it is not humor, indeed, so much as animal spirits.”

Oertel, Philipp Friedrich Wilhelm (W. D. Von Horn, pseud.). Maria Theresa; tr. from the German by George P. Upton. *60c. McClurg.

“Masculinity of intellect, together with a strength and wisdom, a firmness yet kindliness of disposition which but few men have manifested” are gifts which enabled Maria Theresa to take her place among the famous queens of the world. How she benefited her realm by strengthening its laws and bringing about wise reforms is sketched in a manner to interest young readers. The volume belongs to “Life stories for young people.”

Thru his experience on a New York newspaper, the author learned to know and admire the men of the fire department, and in the “Smoke-eaters” he has written an epic of the city firemen, a story of danger and excitement. He follows the fortunes of a certain hook-and-ladder crew and thru the smoke and flame their actual characters reveal themselves, real and elemental. Captain Meaghan, who earns his pension by thirty-five years of gallant service, Lieutenant Gallagher, who wins a reputation and his chief’s adopted daughter, and Sergeant Pim, whose grim humor relieves many a tense moment, are as vivid as their flaming background.

“They are told with extraordinary simplicity, with no glow of rhetoric or splash of color, but they carry complete conviction.”

“At last the American fireman has had something like justice done him in our literature.”

“This is a good book for boys, altho not designed especially for young readers. It contains much healthful excitement, a mass of information, and many lessons in manliness, but no false bravado.”

“It is not too much to say that he has written the epic of the New York firemen, and not 261only are they the best sort of stories about firemen, but some of them would stand as models of all that any short stories should be—so compact, so restrained, and yet possessed of a vigor and force that keep expectation keyed to the highest tension.”

Assuming that the West has as much to unlearn about the East as the East has to learn about the West, the author frames his evolutionary study for general enlightenment. He answers the question “From what sources are drawn the intellectual and moral qualities which have enabled the present generation of statesmen, citizens, soldiers and sailors, under an able emperor, to enter suddenly, as a first class liberal power, into the company of nations?” The sketch touches the conditioning factors of Japanese development from the period of isolation during the dark Night of Asia, to the present period which the author characterizes as the “dusk of humanity.” He shows Japan in her chrysalis state when the shogunate exercised the powers of government, in her rallying state when the power of the shoguns was overthrown, and in her state of a developing national conscience which made ready the way for Commodore Perry and the western aid in the restoration. The author’s virility, enthusiasm and conscience are stamped upon every page.

“He is a poet, a philosopher and a historian, and he possesses in no small degree an intimate knowledge of Occidental history and the trend of our civilization, while his knowledge of our language enables him to write of The awakening of Japan with the skill of a master of English. For these reasons this work is a volume that no Occidental student of the Orient can afford to slight.”

“With Mr. Kakuzo’s views on the older civilization of Japan we entirely disagree. Even his chronology is wrong by a thousand years.”

“The present work is simpler and more concrete than ‘The ideals of the East;’ in its purely literary qualities it would do credit to an author writing his own tongue. Now that Lafcadio Hearn is dead, Mr. Okakura may be regarded as the foremost interpreter of his people to the western world; an interpreter not less subtle, and obviously more authoritative.” R. B.

“‘The awakening of Japan’ is marked by the same epigrammatic style and forceful utterance that characterize ‘The ideals of the East.’” Frederick W. Gookin.

“It is a story of the new Nippon after the brilliant and unscholarly fashion of Carlyle.” Adachi Kinnosuké.

“One of the best volumes, in brief compass, on Japanese historical development, and answering the question, What has enabled the Japanese people to escape the fate of the other Asiatic nations when in contact with the West? is ‘The awakening of Japan.’ He writes in English with a broad culture.”

“No more fascinating book on Japan, or one bearing more distinctly the character of a multum in parvo, has been produced than this.”

Okakura-Yoshisaburo. Japanese spirit; with an introd. by George Meredith. **$1. Pott.

“The volume consists of reproductions of lectures delivered by Mr. Okakura at the University of London. The essays take up and discuss most of the peculiarly characteristic national traits of the Japanese people.”—R. of Rs.

“They are illuminating and instructive, but lack the literary quality of the two books by the author’s brother.”

“This book is not so strong or original as ‘The awakening of Japan,’ but it seems to do more justice to the work and influence of Buddhism as the mother and nurse of Japanese civilization.” Wm. Elliot Griffis.

“His little volume has the distinctive characteristics of breadth, lucidity, and felicity of expression which gained for the ‘Ideals’ such a wide and appreciative audience in this country.”

“To philosophic capacity he adds those of criticism and of logical arrangement of his materials, all of which combined have enabled him to produce a clear, succinct and well-expressed essay on his subject.”

A volume in the “Mediaeval towns” series. The history of Venice as an independent state, covering a period of more than a thousand years, and including an account of Venetian art. The second part of the volume describes the Venice of to-day, dividing it into twenty sections and making the description a practical one for the use of travellers. There are illustrations by Nelly Erickson.

“This little work is a model of clear and concise narrative. The author knows how to make the most of his subject and tells his tale in a very attractive way.”

“Such a book is a boon to many men, who will find it concise but not perfunctory, learned but never dull.”

“He has had no easy task in compressing into the limits of even the larger volumes of this series so great a mass of material; and he has performed it with skill and success.”

“One giant is an oil trust magnate; the other a young man who opposes him. Scenes are laid in ‘Oilville,’ California, and New York, where the young man has carried a reform campaign and become district attorney. The book falls in with a popular tone of antagonism to trusts as throttling competition.”—Outlook.

* “The whole narration is pitched in the highest key of sensationalism, and the figures that take part in it have but slight resemblance to real human beings.” Wm. M. Payne.

“Some readers will consider it rabid, sensational trash; others a blow on the right side.”

262Olmsted, Frederick Law. A journey in the seaboard slave states. 2v. *$5. Putnam.

A series of letters written for the New York Times during a three months’ trip in 1852-3. These letters were revised and published in 1856, and are now issued again in a two-volume edition. They contain an account of the author’s impressions of the southern people, black and white, of their institutions, and their social, political, and industrial economy.

“They are like faithful daguerreotypes of the worst features of southern civilization. The author’s spirit was so fiercely prejudiced against the South....”

“Occasionally one finds evidence of partisan feeling, but in the main the story reads well, giving a distinct impression of a fair-minded observer anxious to see just how things are, and equally anxious to make a record of actual conditions.” Francis W. Shepardson.

Oman, Charles (William) Chadwick. Seven Roman statesmen of the later Republic. *$1.60. Longmans.

“The seven statesmen are the two Gracchi, Sulla, Crassus, the younger Cato, Pompey, and Caesar. Their lives ... completely cover the last century of Rome’s ancien régime; or, more precisely, they cover the course of the Roman revolution.... Each of Mr. Oman’s seven statesmen, with the exception of Cato, ... represented the monarchial principle, each more distinctly than his predecessor. Thus the true meaning of the whole process, ... may be brought out by concentrating attention upon the personal element.”—Am. Hist. R.

“Although the cardinal facts of the story are common property and allow of no radically new explanation, yet they are invested with new interest by Mr. Oman’s literary skill, his graphic and often colloquial style, his genial and pungent wit—as of the Oxford common-room, his thoroughly individual appreciation of each of the leading figures, and his presentation of the whole movement in modern and realistic terms.” Henry A. Sill.

These poems are selected from the works of sixty-four American poets. All living authors have been excluded and the editor does not claim that he has chosen the one hundred best poems, but one hundred from among the best. The selections are given in chronological order, beginning with Philip Freneau (1752-1832) and closing with Richard Hovey, who died in 1900. An index of authors and another of first lines gives easy access to any poem.

* “One may quarrel with some of the selections ... but it can hardly be said that they do not all deserve praise and preservation.”

An unusual story of a living opal, a woman of wondrous beauty, who feels “everything a little, but nothing much,” and who is a clever reflection of each personality with whom she comes in contact, “a thousand women in one.” Then there is the “one woman in a thousand,” strong and homely, whose “character and features are at constant warfare.” And there is the man in whom lay the possibilities which might make of him either “a leader of men or a follower of women.” This is the important material. Boston and the other characters are mere background. The real woman loves the man, but gives him the opal because she fancies it will make him happy. It is the usual story of the unlucky stone which brings misfortune to the donor and possessor; and the iridescent girl, with no more evil intent than the gem itself, wrecks the lives of all who come in intimate contact with her. In the end, when what she has done is legally undone, the finer qualities of the real woman’s character keep her from her heart’s desire.

“The argument is unusual, and it is strikingly presented. It seems, however, to be a theme too extensive for treatment so brief, and there are other evidences, slight but convincing, of lack of craftsmanship.”

“Such a flat, foolish and unconvincing creature has, therefore, no reason for existence, at least not in a novel.”

“Of unusual interest and originality. The women are admirably drawn, both of them, but the character of ‘the opal’ is a bit of portraiture quite unique.”

“Most of the story is made up of conversation, which is entertaining. The action is rapid.”

“The development of the story is skilfully managed, the conversations as a rule are very entertaining, and the whole book has the touch of a bright, keen, thoroughly trained woman, not by nature a novelist, but able to turn her hand to the writing of fiction with unusual adroitness both of judgment and skill.”

“The treatment meets the theme but half way. It ought to be a masterpiece and it is not.”

A plotting archduchess hides her orphaned niece, direct heir to the family’s millions, away in a convent, and substitutes her own daughter’s claim to the fortune. By merest chance a young author living a struggling bohemian life becomes the protector of the unfortunate girl as she emerges into the world for a brief moment. His efforts are strongly seconded by the “master mummer” a great actor, who had loved the girl’s mother. Together they foil every attempt of the arch-plotters, and bring about well-merited happiness.

“It has an ingenious plot, and a steady stream of romantic and dramatic incident; he writes well, too, without exaggeration, and with pretty touches of sentiment. In construction, management, style, and variety of incident, we can recommend ‘The master mummer’ as one of the best stories of its kind that has appeared for some time.”

“The book has the exciting and the dramatic elements that will render it popular with a large class of readers who are less critical about the form, presentation and probability of a tale than they are about its absorbing interest.”

“Not that there is anything extraordinary or remarkable or great or strong or wise or literary about it—it’s just a good story.”

Mr. Oppenheim’s former books, “A prince of sinners,” and “Anna, the adventuress,” as well as the present story, make an incognito personage the central figure. The mystery in each case is the sort to be dealt with non-professionally. The mysterious Mr. Sabin is an unscrupulous French royalist who aids the German government in a conspiracy of war against England. His part in the plot is that of securing valuable papers recording the coast defenses of England, for which services he demands Germany’s conquest of France, and the restoration of the monarchy in the person of Prince Henri and his cousin, Helene of Bourbon. The coveted papers are the guarded possession of an English admiral “partly crazed by the tragic destruction of the Victoria, but still so profoundly wise on naval matters and coast defenses that the spies of rival empires lay siege to a study in which he works at plans to save his country.” Princess Helene figures in a pretty romance which in spite of threatening intrigue keeps free from politics and diplomatic complications.

“It is one of the most clever mystery tales of recent years, abounding in highly dramatic situations, with a strong and well-sustained love interest. In the present story there are many situations and happenings that are highly improbable, and in some instances practically impossible. Barring this grave fault, however, the story is almost all that the lover of romantic fiction could desire.”

“We have the impression that the tale is, in fact, not a new one; however, it is not bad of its kind.”

“The book has more thrills and less probability to the square inch of text than can be found anywhere outside the pages of a dime novel.”

“It is all glaringly impossible, yet not without power or real fascination.”

This, the first of a two-volume treatise, deals with international law in time of peace. An introduction discussing the foundation and development of the law of nations is followed by four parts: States as subjects of the laws of nations; State territory, the open sea, and individuals as the objects of the laws of nations; Diplomatic envoys, and the like, as agents of states in their international relations; and International transactions. The work aims to be an elementary text.

“Taken all in all, Mr. Oppenheim has given us the best treatment of the Law of Peace that we have as yet had.” Leo S. Rowe.

“The merit of the volume is that it presents a fair, well-balanced summary of accepted results, and that it puts the reader in touch with the best modern literature of the subject.”

Orcutt, William Dana. Flower of destiny: an episode of the second empire; with il. by Charlotte Weber. †$1.25. McClurg.

A charmingly told story of the romance of Napoleon III. and Mlle. Eugénie de Montijo which ends with the crown of violets in the forest of Compiégne.

“Altogether makes a pretty little gift to carry with one on a summer vacation.”

“But great names of themselves do not make a story, and in ‘The flower of destiny’ we have little else to look to.”

“The Scarlet pimpernel is the leader of a little band of titled young Englishmen who make it their business—and pleasure—during the reign of terror to assist condemned or suspected emigrés to escape to England. An interesting complication arises when the young Frenchwoman married to the lazy, careless English lord finds that in putting the French agent on the trail of the scarlet pimpernel to save her brother’s life she has in reality condemned her husband to death. Of course, he doesn’t die, and of course they all, or most of all, lived happily ever after.”—Pub. Opin.

Osborn, Frank C. Osborn’s tables of moments of inertia and squares of radii gyration, to which have been added tables of the working strengths of steel columns, the working strengths of timber beams and columns, standard loads and unit stresses and constants for determining stresses in swing bridges. $3. Osborn eng. co., Cleveland, O.

“Though it does not meet all the needs of the structural designer in its specific field, it promises to be a useful desk companion and to regain much of its former prestige.”

Osborn, Hartwell, and others. Trials and triumphs: the record of the Fifty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry. *$2.50. McClurg.

“The Fifty-fifth Ohio was recruited in Huron county (of which Norwalk is the county-seat), after the reverses at Bull Run had stirred the North to greater efforts; it had its full share of the campaigns in Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia, and of the terrible work at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. This is related with clearness and graphic power by Captain Osborn; and, besides the narrative, the book is unusually complete in regimental statistics, sketches of officers and citizens, and personal notes and recollections of soldiers. Photographs, both ‘wartime’ and modern, have been reproduced in profusion.”—Dial.

“The work is in every way a real contribution to the literature of the great struggle.”

“Its record presents a good picture of the most stirring events of the war. East and West.”

“It is a book of incomparable interest to the veterans of the old command, of considerable value to historians, and not without interest also for the general reader.”

“Baby Bullet is a motor car, a fifteenth hand ‘crock’ of early French design, joyfully presented to two American ladies, a girl and a schoolmarm, who are discovered by the roadside wearily enjoying a tramp in England. The 264donor ... runs away lest his gift should be thrust back upon him. Baby is in a state of sulks, and the two Americans climb into her, and hire a carter to tow them behind a furniture van. At cross-roads they meet another car, a gigantic and glorious machine, with the power of sixty horses, unfortunately unavailable because her mécanicien has forgotten the gasolene.... The American owner of the big car borrows petrol from the American owners of the little, and tows them in exchange. The result is a week of wild romance and a thoroughly amusing book.”—Acad.

* “The light dexterous writing of the book pleases us like clever juggling.”

* “The narrative is ingeniously contrived and ought to appeal to a large public.”

* “The narrative moves at a speed suitable to the subject, and the pitch of high-spirited comedy is never lowered.”

This little pocket-book contains four short love stories, in each of which an automobile is chief matchmaker. In the “Motormaniacs,” a break down brings the right man into the story opportunely, and in “The great bubble syndicate,” “Coal oil Johnny” and “Jones,” a Fearless, a Despereaux, and a Porchar-Mufflin car play important roles.

Osgood, Herbert Levi. American colonies in the 17th century. 2v. **$5. Macmillan.

“The first [volume] is given over to the abortive experiments of Gilbert and Raleigh in founding settlements in the New world, to the first proprietary province, Virginia, and to the corporate colonies of New England; the second, to the later proprietary provinces and to a systematic survey of the colonies as a whole, at the close of the period under discussion.”—Outlook.

“In the main, however, the difficulties of the book are of a kind almost inevitable from the nature of the topic chosen, and the serious reader will find it not only instructive, but full of interest. For the student of our institutional beginnings, Professor Osgood has provided one of the few treatises which are really indispensable.” Evarts B. Greene.

“Method of presentation and clarity of statement are other commendatory traits.”

O’Shea, Michael Vincent. Education as adjustment: educational theory viewed in the light of contemporary thought. *$1.50. Longmans.

“This new work, which is centered around the idea of adjustment, is divided into three parts. In Part I. the present status of education as a science is faithfully described.... The last chapter of Part I. treats of the data for a science of education, discussing the respective values of the various classes of facts contributed by the study of biographies, autobiographies, and the survival of the fittest in education, as well as by the experimentation and research advocated by sane leaders in the child-study movement. Especially valuable is the section which explains the evolutionary point of view.... Part II. examines the meaning and aim of education.... Chapters VI., VII., and VIII. of Part II. deal respectively with the implications of adjustment as the end in education, with adjustment as affected by social organization, and with the general effect of adjustment upon teaching.... The method of obtaining adjustment is treated in Part III.... Chapters XIII. and XIV. are devoted to the doctrine of formal discipline.”—Educ. R.

“Looked at as a whole, ‘Education as adjustment’ does not reveal marked originality; but it is a luminous and vigorous presentation of the best educational thought of the present day. It is, furthermore, refreshing in that it betrays neither superficiality nor dogmatism. His work, tho written in untechnical, popular language, is, nevertheless, neither inane nor inaccurate. It is worthy of occupying a valued place among the text-books used in normal schools and college schools of education.” W. S. Sutton.

Osler, William. Aequanimitas, and other addresses to medical students, nurses, practitioners. *$2. Blakiston.

A collection of 18 addresses and essays all pertaining to medicine. The title gives the keynote to the volume, the successful nurse or doctor must be imperturbable. Dr. Osler gives a review of medical science in the nineteenth century, and his thoughts on education, investigation, ethics, religion, and the conduct of life. He gives advice to young physicians, suggestions as to their relations to both patients and nurses, and tells them that the master-word of progress is “Work.”

“Dr. Osler’s extensive sympathy, his elevation of thought, his insistence on worthy ideals, his wide reading are all strikingly exhibited in the volume before us.”

“The style of Dr. Osler is most felicitous; and those who think they care but little for the professional aspect of this volume, will be charmed by its graceful expressions, its acute suggestions, its thorough good sense.”

The frankly agnostic spirit of modern “intellectuals” dealt with in this volume is best summed up by quotations from the text itself: “Though his philosophy find nothing to support it, ... the scientific student should be ready to acknowledge the value of a belief in the hereafter as an asset in human life.... He cannot be dogmatic and deny the possibility of a future state, ... he will ask to be left, reserving his judgment, but still inquiring.... Science is organized knowledge, and knowledge is of things we see. Now the things that are seen are temporal: of the things that are unseen science knows nothing, and has at present no means of knowing anything.”

“The simple and charming style of the writer, as well as his apt quotations from the masters, makes this book a delight to read.”

“The importance of this little book is quite out of proportion to its size. He writes with evident honesty. It is a crystallized statement of much that had been in solution, as it were, heretofore; it makes us know where the majority of modern scientists stand with regard to the only matters that they themselves consider more important than science itself.”

“The argument is not of the strenuous sort; the words flow gently and naturally, as they expose the mellowed thought of a mature and reverent mind.” T. D. A. Cockerell.

“The brief pages of this lecture are of delightful literary charm and of great interest 265as indicating the trend of present thought on the subject of the future life.”

Osterhout, Winthrop John Van Leuven. Experiments with plants; with a preface by L. H. Bailey. *$1.25. Macmillan.

In this convenient handbook “Professor Osterhout of the University of California has given us hints for the experimental study of living-plants by means of the very simplest apparatus ... and suggests innumerable contrivances which are to be made off-hand in any house, and with which the plant can be severely cross-examined.... It is one of the most helpful laboratory handbooks, and it deserves wide employment in all classes of plant-laboratories.” (Nation.)

“On the whole we may commend it as one of the very best of its class, and in some respects in advance of any similar book known to us. An excellent index adds to its value.”

“The book on the whole will be most valuable for teachers of botany in high schools.”

“The text is, for the greater part, extremely clear and interesting, and needed only rather better illustrations to come into the very first rank of attractive text-books.”

“In spite of some faults, the book will be found of value to anyone compelled to give a course of physiological botany under conditions which preclude the use of ordinary laboratory fittings.”

Ottley, Rev. Robert Lawrence. Religion of Israel: a historical sketch. *$1. Macmillan.

“The main strength of Canon Ottley’s contribution to the now voluminous literature on the subject lies in his able and earnest effort to harmonize modern theory with church tradition.... The chapters ... likely to be read with some special eagerness are those on ‘The primitive religion of the Semites,’ ‘The contact of Judaism with Hellenism,’ and ‘The final stage in pre-Christian Judaism.’”—Ath.

“Those belonging to the author’s school of thought—and their number is very considerable—will, however, maintain that the good points of the book far outweigh its drawbacks. We are ourselves able to commend it as an earnest and serious contribution to a perplexing and deeply interesting problem.”

“There is no work in English which tells in such brief compass the story of Israel’s faith from Moses to the Pharisees with such painstaking loyalty to establish fact.”

* “A compact, semi-popular account of the development of Hebrew religion, as understood by a cautious and moderate critic.”

“It is well drawn and puts much into a small volume in clear as well as concise form.”

“The compiling is well done, and for a popular sketch of Old Testament theology we do not know of anything better.”

“His exposition is in fact an admirable specimen of the higher criticism, exercised with discretion by one who is neither fettered by traditional beliefs, nor bent, as some of the critical school seem to be, on breaking with them altogether. We are not always in agreement with the conclusions reached.”

Ottman, Rev. Ford C. Unfolding of the ages in the Revelation of John. **$2. Baker.

Written in an expository style, conciliatory rather than controversial, this work upon Revelation throws a new light upon the symbolism of the book. The author accepts and advocates the theory that “everything from the fourth chapter to the end of the book is still future and will follow the removal of the church from the earth at the appearing of our Lord.”

“This story narrates the adventures among the rich, vain, and reasonably well-cultivated of New York of a young writer and his nice wife, and contains vivid and veracious pictures of the dinner party, the coaching party, the theatre party, and many other ‘social functions,’ glimpses of literary, artistic, and dramatic ‘sets,’ with a study of the manners of a mannerless age, and a hint or two of its morals.”—N. Y. Times.

* “This is not a great novel, nor even a good one, but it counts because the author has caught the real levity of mannerism in that filmy world.”

* “Another book in which the comedy of contemporary American society is adroitly set forth and in a unhackneyed way.”

* “A certain skill and comprehension of the situation is evidently possessed by the anonymous author.”

This group of stories belongs to the “Historical stories” retold from St. Nicholas. Beginning with All-hallow-eve, each holiday is taken up in turn, with both its historical and present day significance emphasized.

“Mr. Outram has the remarkable record of nineteen ‘first ascents’ of peaks among the Canadian Rockies, including the highest mountain in Canada yet conquered by the mountaineer. He describes his experiences among these majestic peaks with the enthusiasm that might be expected of so experienced a mountain-climber.”—Outlook.

* “Mr. Outram certainly has had some unusual adventures amid the Selkirks and Rockies, which he described with animation and a genuine command of professional terminology.”

The relations of labor and capital form the basis of this story in which appear “The young mechanic who becomes a leader of trades-unions; the lovely daughter of the plutocrat mill-owner, who cannot marry the Italian prince and fortune-hunter because the remembrance of the mechanic haunts her; the contrasted pictures of boundless wealth and the misery of the poor strikers and their families on the brink of starvation.” (Critic.)

“There is nothing in this book that can be called original in matter or effective in manner.”

266“This underworld of labor among the iron furnaces, this moneyed aristocracy, so resentful of its origin, so tenacious of its position, are etched in with keenness and delicacy. Such books as this, with their sympathetic comprehension, absence of rancor or partisan bias, make for a better understanding and ultimate peace.”

* Oxley, James MacDonald. Family on wheels; adapted from the French by J. M. Oxley. †75c. Crowell.

Four interesting French children left orphans, with a mountebank’s wagon, an old horse, a trick dog and a remarkably clever elephant as their sole possessions, bravely continue the business of their father, and give little performances in one little provincial town after another to earn a scant living. They meet with many adventures and suffer many hardships, but in the end the happiness of all seems assured. The children are plucky little things thruout, the dog and the elephant are heroic, and the hearts of both young and old readers will go out to them all.

* “A story, tender, humorous, pathetic, carrying the charm of the French from which it is adapted, and appealing to any child or adult interested in animals.”

Page, Curtis Hidden, ed. British poets of the nineteenth century. $2. Sanborn.

Selections from Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Landor, Tennyson, the Brownings, Clough, Arnold, Rossetti, Morris, and Swinburne. There are also classified “reference lists” indicating for each poet the various editions of his works, and all biographies and important essays.

“The selections are very full and for the most part complete poems. They are designed to give the best of each poet’s work and to give some representation of each important period and class of his work. Selected such poems as would be prescribed for a college student.”

* Page, Curtis Hidden, ed. Chief American poets: selected poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, Whitman, and Lanier. *$1.75. Houghton.

“This volume, Mr. Page tells us, is in no sense an anthology ... it ‘attempts to give, for each one of the authors included, all the material needed to show his development and achievement, and to give a first knowledge of him as man and poet.’ The selection therefore, has been made very full, and includes many poems of considerable length.... The poems of each author are arranged in chronological order and dated. Brief biographical sketches present a summary of each author’s life, and there are notes and reference lists.”—Outlook.

“Mr. Page believes that there are only two possible ways to solve the negro question in the South—either the negro must be removed, or he must be elevated. Granted that the former method is out of the question, it only remains to improve him by education.... The old idea of educating the negro just as a white man is educated ... has been found to be fallacious. The kind of education that Mr. Page advocates for the negro is, in brief, just the kind that is given by such institutions as Tuskegee and Hampton.”—R. of Rs.

“A book the central interest of which is psychological rather than scientific.” W. E. Burghardt Du Bois.

“The book shows neither depth of thought nor thoroughness of research, but is chiefly notable as the portrayal of the well-known views of the less liberal leaders of the South with high authority and great literary skill.”

“We do not doubt his wish to deal candidly with his subject, but we are forced to the conclusion that he lacks the unbiased mind which would enable him to do so. His statements are too sweeping, and are not supported in all cases by the actual facts, as has, we believe, been shown.” Isabel Eaton.

“Mr. Page’s book is honest, kindly, and, barring a few extravagances, moderate.”

“A temperate discussion of the race question from a southerner’s point of view.”

“A chatty and truthful account of many of the most interesting phases of plant-life. The subject of dispersal and its advantages, of movements, and of pollination and the like, are briefly and well-treated. The account of the servants which work for the flower is admirably presented.” (Nation.) “The book is arranged according to the calendar, and the illustrations are from photographs especially made for each chapter.” (Critic.)

This account of the life and times of “The father of the American cartoon,” illustrated with hundreds of his drawings, is virtually a political history of our country during the Civil war, and for twenty years after.

“It is a story full of striking incident and human interest, skilfully unrolling the picturesque career of a genius who had within him the potentialities of an American Hogarth.” Chas. H. Levermore.

“In this life of Nast, Mr. Paine has evinced excellent judgment and wise discrimination; yet the work is characterized by that genuine sympathy that is one of the requisites of a good biography. It is a valuable work.”

“Mr. Paine’s book is an exceptionally good piece of work. He has not attempted a minute personal biography; he has given a series of striking pictures, which enable one to look over Nast’s shoulder, so to speak, and to study at 267close range some of the most stirring periods in the history of the nation and of New York city.” A. B. Maurice.

“Paine has told of his life and described his struggles in a manner worthy of the subject.”

“It covers the artist’s life in a thorough and interesting way, and is adequately illustrated.” Ingram A. Pyle.

“The author is an enthusiast, and must be followed in the light of his enthusiasm. In narrating the history of the caricaturist, he follows that of his own times, and in this way has made, for anyone who desires to understand the United States from 1860 to 1896, not only a very entertaining, but a very useful volume.”

A history of free education in the city of New York, authorized by the board of education and written by its secretary. The book celebrates the centenary of the founding of the New York free school system and the proceeds are to go to the public school teachers’ retirement fund. The history of the free school society and of the public school society which succeeded it in 1826 are given, also an account of other schools, all of which were finally merged into the existing system. The story of the establishment and success of school libraries is told in detail. There are portraits, illustrations, and an introduction by Seth Low.

The author, a newspaper correspondent of experience in Eastern campaigns, writes an account of his five months in the field. The book is dedicated to the Japanese infantry and their skill and readiness, and contrasted with the Russian war methods. The volume is illustrated by numerous photographs.

“His entire book is vividly written, and will be found as informing as it is interesting in its accounts of the actual fighting.” W. Rice.

“It is fascinating, this collection of field letters. This truthful and vivid portrayal is delightful.”

Fifteen English lakes “ranging from the lordly Windermere and Ullswater, ten and a half and nine miles long, respectively, to Loweswater and Rydalmere, which hardly exceed the larger tarns in area” are reproduced here. The seventy-five illustrations in color produce a panorama effect which is heightened by the descriptive matter of the text.

“Mr. Palmer has written with taste and with commendable reserve in distinguishing between poetic feeling and sentimentalism.”

* “One finds a good deal of pleasure of a certain kind in turning over his pages, if also some irritation.”

This article, by the foremost American authority on the game, contains a history of tennis itself and of the leading players here and abroad. It gives technical instruction, from the first rudiments to the most advanced theories, and treats of the care of courts and management of tournaments. There is a chapter on lacrosse by William H. Madden. The volume is copiously illustrated.

“This is one of the best-written and most scientific treatises on lawn-tennis that we have yet had, and forms a suitable companion to similar works by Mr. Eustace Miles, Mr. H. W. Wilberforce, and Mr. W. Baddeley.”

“A treatise which will be heartily welcomed by all lovers of this healthy game.”

“Knows the conditions of play in this country and abroad equally well. While Mr. Paret’s statement that lawn tennis may be taught nearly as well by written instruction as by personal direction may be seriously questioned, his remarks on the strategy of the game and the physical training for big matches are full of common sense and instruction that apply equally well to other forms of exercise.”

“Mr. Paret who is an authority on tennis, treats of the past, present, and future of the sport.”

“This history of religion in China has the merit of being both critical and impartial.... The story of the imported religions—Christianity in various forms, Buddhism, Mohammedanism, Judaism—is sketched in successive chapters, and lastly Shintoism ... which the Japanese are now endeavoring to introduce.... Towards missionaries, of whom Americans now constitute the majority if only Protestants are counted, Professor Parker’s attitude is both respectful and critical, but full value is assigned to their medical, charitable, and educational work.”—Outlook.

* “Prof. Parker’s book is a storehouse of learning; it is free from bigotry, and contains a fair and honest statement of what the relations of the Chinese have been and are towards foreign religions.”

* “As the fruit of scholarly research pursued in a sympathetic spirit, this history, most timely for the present interest in the now beginning renaissance of China, should command the attention of those who would understand the past which it builds upon.”

A new edition of this history of a great power which brings the account down to June, 1904 and the siege of Port Arthur. It contains a good index and a list of the princes of Russia from Rurik to Nicholas II.

* Parrish, Randall. Historic Illinois: the romance of the earlier days. **$2. McClurg.

Mr. Parrish’s hope has been to provide a readable, interesting history of Illinois, emphasizing the picturesque phases that would appeal to the reader in a popular sense. He has related the adventures of such men as La Salle, Henri 268de Tonty and George Rogers Clarke, depicted the struggles with the Indians, traced the history of old landmarks, and brought his narrative down to the coming of the railroad, concluding with a chapter on “Historic spots as they appear to-day.”

Parrish, Randall. Sword of the old frontier: a tale of Fort Chartres and Detroit. †$1.50. McClurg.

A “plain account of sundry adventures befalling Chevalier Raoul de Coubert, one time captain in the Hussars of Languedoc, during the year 1763,” in which he gallantly draws his sword for France and his English lady-love in the stirring times of Pontiac’s conspiracy. Meeting with treachery from both white men and red, he takes desperate chances, escapes from his enemies and wins honor, wealth, and love.

There have been four preceding volumes in this missionary text book series. “In this course an Introduction to the Study of Missions and Outline Studies of India, China and Japan have already been issued and studied.” This volume is an outline study of Africa. “Sir Harry Johnston furnishes an introductory sketch of the geography, races, and history of the Dark Continent, while the body of the book is devoted to an account of the rise and progress of Protestant missions in the several countries.”

“It is necessarily cursory, but it is certainly comprehensive. The good example of the book remains even when the English student has noted such occasional lapses.”

“A useful handbook, containing much information in a compact and readable form.”

“We recommend these volumes as especially valuable for the members of Christian Endeavor societies, and for pastoral use by ministers endeavoring to awaken in their churches an intelligent interest in Christian missions.”

A story centred around a mysterious log cabin in a valley among the Seven mountains. The valley is owned by a tyrant squire and farmed by sturdy Pennsylvania Dutchmen. The squire’s daughter, the first to thwart her father’s will, falls in love with the son of a new-comer to the valley, whose business enterprise threatens the squire’s undisputed sway. There is hard feeling, and there is murder, but all is made clear by the discovery of a cave under the cabin, and in the happiness of the squire’s daughter the traditional curse of “the house of the black ring” is lifted.

“It is not from the literary side an artistic book, but it at least may be described as both readable and amusing.”

An optimistic message of good will to all men, basing its cheer upon the supposition that in the great economy of the universe nothing is lost. Mr. Patterson discusses, in part 1, the “natural,” the “rational,” the “psychic,” and the “spiritual” man. In part II, he considers the Son of man “as man,” “as idealist,” “as teacher,” and “as healer,” in the last division giving the philosophy and therapy of mental healing.

“It may be said to represent his ripest thought and to epitomize in a remarkably clear and comprehensible manner the philosophy, ethics and therapy contained in his preceding books.”

Paul, Herbert Woodfield. History of modern England. 5v. ea. **$2.50. Macmillan.

This is a political history of England and its relations with the rest of the world, beginning with the last Whig government of 1846. Volumes 1 and 2 bring the story down to the death of Lord Palmerston, Oct. 18, 1865. Volume 3 deals with the eleven years following, covering important administrations of Gladstone and Disraeli, and closing on the eve of the crisis in the East, 1876.

“It is clear, vigorous, and direct. Its movement is rapid, its interest seldom lags. It is preëminently readable, and, as a natural corollary, highly entertaining. His opinions and especially his estimates of character are often improbable, not infrequently absurd. This, as has been said, will probably remain the most serious criticism of a book in most other ways excellent. Such work as that of Mr. Paul may not be judged by the standards of final and definitive statement.” Wilbur C. Abbott.

“On the whole, matters become of importance to the author when they rise above the political horizon, and too often not till then. Mr. Paul’s vigor seems unimpaired thus far ... his courage seems tempered somewhat more by discretion, and his politics diluted with somewhat more of those matters which find little place in Parliamentary debate or Times editorial.” Wilbur C. Abbott.

“Though written with the ability and impartiality of its predecessors, it is not so well proportioned.”

“There is no reason to suppose that Mr. Paul could not have done better work, had he chosen.” Edward Fuller.

“Here, much more than in the earlier volumes, he offers valuable characterizations of activities and of men not wholly concerned with the purely political field.” E. D. Adams.

“Generally speaking, he has impartiality and insight, and his survey of a group of historic facts, more especially of a social or religious movement, is often just and penetrating.”

“The third volume now at hand, exhibits the characteristics of its predecessors. The charmingly incisive, direct, easy, and epigrammatic style, the vivid informativeness, the detachment, the liberality of judgment which distinguished them are apparent. The treatment, too, remains the same, with all its virtues and its defects.”

“On the whole, it is an invaluable political history of the past sixty years.”

269“We do not know where else to find so good a narrative of domestic politics from 1865 to 1876. If it is rarely deep, it is never dull; if it is occasionally bitter, it is almost always impartial.”

Payne, William Morton, ed. American literary criticism. See Wampum library of American literature. v. 2.

Peace congress. Official report of the thirteenth universal peace congress, held at Boston, Massachusetts, U. S. A., Oct. 3 to 8, 1904; reported by W: edited by the secretary of the congress. pa. n.p. Peace congress committee (B. F. Trueblood, sec’y), Boston.

A stenographic report of the proceedings of the Universal peace congress, Oct. 3-8, 1904, including the addresses given in Boston and a brief résumé of the numerous successful and influential meetings held after its close in several cities. An account of the preceding peace congresses, not only of those held in the modern series beginning 1889, but also of the remarkable series of conferences held from 1843 to 1853 is prefixed.

The story of a family in southern Illinois which had remained true to the Union, but was southern in all its traditions. The heroine has to contend against the whole connection and their prejudices in order to marry a young Republican lawyer. Her grandfather, Major Elias, head of the family, his quiet wife, and their lazy son are lifelike, their southern ways are well pictured; and descriptions of such things as a chase with blood hounds after a negro house-breaker, a negro barn dance, and an electioneering expedition with Chicago politicians, add greatly to the interest and the atmosphere of the book.

“A careful picture of average life in a small town in southern Illinois, drawn with a loving accuracy of minor detail, and pleasantly aglow with local color, both physical and social. A skillful touch. There is a wholesome womanliness about Mr. Peake’s heroines that makes them seem very convincing. Most of the men, however, impress one as rather poor specimens of humanity.”

“The book fails of greatness because the plot is too slight and does not trouble the deep places that exist in the life of every town, however isolated; nor does it ruffle the soul of the reader.”

“The interest of the book lies not in the story, but in descriptive passages. The story, if it shows no particular art or invention, it remains true that it is about the sort of thing which would have been likely to happen in the place where the author has chosen to plant it.”

“The argument for the municipalization of the liquor traffic is here set forth as follows: The system of licensing does not stand the tests of efficiency, consequently some drastic reform is called for; high license is incomplete and politically impracticable; local veto is wrong in principle and likely to be futile in practice; municipalization is the only other method suggested.”—J. Pol. Econ.

Pease, George William. Outline of a Bible-school curriculum. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.

“Those who are interested in raising the standard of biblical instruction in this country will find ... many valuable suggestions. In this book there are outlines for reading and study courses for the kindergarten and primary grades, as well as for the junior, intermediate and senior departments.”—R. of Rs.

“The most exhaustive study of this subject that has yet appeared. Predominantly from the psychological point of view, but with careful study also of the biblical side.”

“This book will prove of great practical service to many Sunday-school teachers because it is specific, and should be suggestive to students of religious education because of its scope and detail. It is too timely not to be read now.” Richard Morse Hodge.

“Any one desirous of pursuing independent lessons with a class of any grade would find help in these outlines.”

“Its value lies rather in its application of an intelligent educational philosophy to a concrete and apparently practical scheme.”

“The book is fully in line with the principles and methods advocated by the Religious education association.”

“The minute topical references will be of great help to any serious Sunday school teacher.”

A little volume of verse which sings of old-fashioned gardens and fields, of rosemary and bitter-sweet, and of the minuet and the spinet. There is a time-long-ago atmosphere to many of the poems.

This study of Prescott gives an account of the historian’s life and personality and a criticism of his works. An opening chapter treats of “The New England historians,” then follow biographical chapters based largely upon the letters and memoranda contained in Ticknor’s “Life of Prescott,” and a discussion of Prescott’s work and its merits.

“With the exception of his introductory chapter, Professor Peck has produced, it seems to me, an excellent biographical and critical account of ... the accomplished author of ‘The conquest of Mexico.’ Here and there a careless sentence may be found as well as a trivial error or two.” W. P. Trent.

“It is of real interest for its discussion of the historical accuracy and permanent value of his works.”

“Professor Peck writes of Prescott pleasantly and in his usual popular vein.”

“His view of Prescott strictly as a writer ... is concise, clear, and judicious. The introductory chapter, on the literary history of the country, is to say the least, eccentric.”

“For the most part his narrative is plain pedestrian ‘copy’ quite lacking in the distinction which the author praises in the historian, equally lacking in ‘fire’ and the ‘intimate touch.’”

270“Now and again Dr Peck allows an excess of enthusiasm to overpower his judgment, but, as a rule, he is discriminating.”

Peck, Theodora. Hester of the Grants: a romance of Old Bennington. †$1.50. Fox.

Revolutionary times in the Green mountain state when it was a part of the so-called Hampshire Grants furnish the setting of this story whose incidents center mainly about Bennington. A real flesh and blood girl patriot, quite as daring as the usual historical novel heroine but a bit more winsome is the leading spirit, while a turn coat father, two despicable soldier lovers and one gallant one, General Stark, and Ethan and Ira Allen figure prominently.

“A panorama of the times which deserves careful reading and much commendation.”

“We are persuaded that she has it in her to write a book well worth the reading, which, despite its merits, ‘Hester of the Grants’ is not.”

“The author has opened one of the most dramatic pages in American history, and adorned it with a picture worthy of the text.”

Peckham, George Williams, and Peckham, Elizabeth Gifford. Wasps, social and solitary; with an introd. by John Burroughs. **$1.50. Houghton.

Mr. Peckham and his wife have made a close study of the lives, habits, intelligence, and individuality of wasps, and they tell about their investigations in a way that is none the less instructive because it is interesting.

“The book has good and vivid illustrations, but it would have been better if the actual size of the insects had been indicated in every case.”

“There is ‘a hidden wealth of thought and of austerity’ which makes the book a worthy contribution to science and a monument of patient and skillful research in a difficult field.” E. T. Brewster.

“While exceedingly pleasant reading, the book is in no sense ‘written down’ to its audience, nor popularized in the sense of being diluted to superficiality.”

“The book is written so untechnically that a reader who does not know a wasp from a bee can understand and enjoy it.” May Estelle Cook.

“The charm of the book is in the directness with which the story is told, and in the obvious sympathy manifested by the authors with the struggles and aims of the active little nest-makers. While the book is engagingly written, it is also scientifically accurate.”

“Important work on the manners and customs of North American wasps.” W. F. K.

“This book reminds one of Fabre’s work. It is not so well written, but its information is quite as curious and close as Fabre’s, and we should say as trustworthy.”

“There is much detail which, however valuable in itself from the scientific point of view, overwhelms the ‘general reader.’ This individual may be forgiven for wishing that the authors would sometimes give him more generalization or summaries of their observations.”

Mr. Peel establishes, elucidates, and illustrates two large propositions in this companion volume to his “Enemies of England”: first, that England built up her empire beyond the seas thru the necessity of defence, and not by accident nor by deliberate motives of expansion; second, the same European pressure from without is the chief cause of the maintenance of the empire.

“Mr. Peel is no pedant, no formalist, no Dryasdust. Intensely interested in his subject, he writes of it with animation; eager to convince, though not with the sophist’s eagerness, he is precise whether right or wrong and at all times clear.”

“The subjects with which Mr. Peel deals are of the deepest interest, and he shows wide reading on every page.”

“There is enough truth and enough originality in his interpretation of the Empire to have made his book an extraordinary one, if only he had not allowed this enthusiasm to get the better of his judgment. It brings out a phase of imperial politics too much neglected by past writers.” Frederic Austin Ogg.

“The whole book is worth reading as a sober and well-informed discussion of the great questions of world politics with which it deals.”

“A well-written work, Mr. Peel’s book is of value as developing a theory which, if acceptable only with obvious limitations, will assist to a clearer appreciation of some broad historical movements than has generally obtained.”

“The tale told is fragmentary and unconvincing, and has been better told before.”

“Mr. Peel has the sense of organic movement without which history is merely a dull chronicle of accidents; and he has also the gift of wide perspective. Our only criticism is that in his endeavour to be perfectly clear he sometimes is a little prolix, and that now and then he is carried by rhetoric into a slight overstatement. The matter is on the whole admirably arranged and attractively presented.”

Mr. Peet says: “The purpose of this book is to put within the reach of the non-technical city nature lover a handy means of identifying trees and shrubs which he meets in his park rambles.” On sixteen maps covering the park, two thousand trees and shrubs have been plotted; a table accompanying the maps gives both the common and botanical names. There is also an index to the common names, wherein the number of the page, chapter, map and location is placed for quick reference.

“We cannot too much commend the fullness and accuracy of the lists which Mr. Peet here gives us.”

“It is not only a description of the trees, but is a real guide and companion, pointing out that which it describes in a manner that is wholly comprehensible to the reader. The text is lucid and readable.”

Napoleon’s hundred days between Elba and Waterloo form the setting of this historical novel which exploits the adventures of a young Englishman and a French maid in the secret service of Napoleon. “Mr. Pemberton has borrowed the very lady who appears in Mr. Bernard Shaw’s ‘Man of destiny’—Mr. Shaw himself borrowed the lady from more or less authentic history—and provided her with adventures enough to fill the usual number of pages which, outwardly, at least, constitute a novel.” (N. Y. Times.)

“It is a stirring tale, and the characterization is skillful. Occasionally the author’s style fails him.”

“The story offers the conventional blend of fact and romantic fiction, is narrated in somewhat indistinct fashion, and proves but moderately exciting.” Wm. M. Payne.

“The story is stirring and the tale is picturesquely told; the plot is hackneyed.”

Pepys, Sir William Weller. Later Pepys; ed. with introd., by Alice C. C. Gaussen. 2v. *$7.50. Lane.

“The letters included in these two handsomely bound and finely illustrated volumes have been selected from the correspondence of Sir William Pepys between the years 1758 and 1825. Sir William Pepys was a descendant of the elder branch of the family to which Samuel Pepys belonged, and was generally well-known in the latter part of the eighteenth century as a friend, and in some cases the intimate, of distinguished literary characters of the period. His letters are therefore primarily of literary interest, very little reference being made in them to ordinary political or social conditions of the times, even the stirring events of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars receiving but scant notice.”—Am. Hist. R.

“The only direct historical interest is in the occasional references to contemporary historical writers and criticisms upon them. They frequently do present some striking incident, or some intimate characterization of figures in the field of contemporaneous literature. In this connection alone are they valuable for the student of history.” E. D. Adams.

“Sir William’s letters, though sometimes dull and prosy, often catch something of the vivacity of his correspondents, and those to his son in school and college are delightful.”

Perkin, Frederick Mollwo. Practical methods of electrochemistry. *$1.60. Longmans.

“After a general account of electrical magnitudes and units, measuring instruments, and electrolytic apparatus, the author gives practical instructions for electrochemical analysis.... The last and longest section of the book deals with preparative electrochemistry.... The references to original papers are numerous, and a convenient table of five-figure logarithms, with instructions for its use, is contained in an appendix.”—Nature.

“The practical instructions are on the whole adequate and accurate, so that the student could acquire with little assistance a sufficient acquaintance with the working methods of electrochemistry. Whilst the book is satisfactory in this the most important feature, it shows in other respects many signs of hasty composition, which greatly detract from its value.”

In his review of philosophy the author compares the chief systems of ancient and modern thought, “the object being to measure the approach of each system to the goal of philosophy which is the demonstration of the unity of all things ... to demonstrate the fact that knowledge can be unified by co-ordinating the sciences.” Pt. I. deals with the pre-evolution period of Greece, England, Scotland, Germany and France; pt. II. discusses the evolutionary philosophy of Spencer and Lewes. The keynote of the treatment is that religious devotion and intelligence must develop together.

“In the demonstration of his thesis the author enters such a labyrinth of the metaphysical and mystical that we altogether refuse his lead.”

“Mr. Perris’s volume on ‘Russia in revolution’ is a sketch of the Russian revolutionary movement from about 1870 down to the present time. It consists chiefly of a series of short biographies of the principal leaders of the Liberal movement, together with a few chapters on the Russian government, and on the financial and economic conditions of the country.... The subject, however, is an interesting one, and the personal sketches and life stories of Stepniak, Volkhovsky, Dr. Soskice, Mark Broido, Mme. Kovalsky, and numbers of other revolutionists, often recounted in their own words, are significant and thrilling.”—Lond. Times.

“Is lively and interesting, but somewhat open to the charge that he fails to name a good many of his sources and some of his equally interesting rivals. Mr. Perris takes pains and knows his subject.”

“It cannot be said that the author has anything very new to tell us, and most of his information has been obtained at second-hand. He sees Russia only from the point of view of the extremists.”

“These quotations will serve to show M. Perris’s sincere effort to be fair and impartial, but the same paragraph furnishes two other quotations which equally well illustrate his defective vision in consequence of his prejudice against nearly everything in Russia in its present form.”

“The chief value of this book, however, lies in the personal (and frequently pitiful) records and brief autobiographies of the martyrs in the cause of Russian political liberty, and also in the miscellaneous data on topics which are not contained in Russian government reports.” Wolf von Schierbrand.

“No doubt the book is put together in an easy, entertaining fashion. Although from a non-revolutionary standpoint most of its deductions are untenable, the chapters touching upon the economic and political condition of the country are not without value and interest.”

“In arrangement it is not free from defects, particularly from a tendency to retraverse the same or similar ground; but this drawback is connected with what is perhaps Mr. Perris’s most distinctive claim on the attention of his 272readers,—his extensive and intimate acquaintance with Russian revolutionists, over a long period.”

Six essays in which the author commends “combining the professional’s skill with the zest and enthusiasm of the amateur.” There are two chapters on the college professor, and one entitled “Hawthorne at North Adams.”

“There is a flavour of this conscious condescension in these essays, and it takes away from the charm which they possess in spite of it, charm both of phrase and anecdote. The ideas are not very subtle; nor have they any marked freshness; but to the main idea we heartily respond. Mr. Perry is not precise enough; he does not know that different things in life should be approached in a different spirit.”

“In spite of what we have just said, the quality of the best of the contemporary American essayists is rare; and outside Mr. Howells and Mr. Alden we know no one who possesses greater gifts of taste and style than Mr. Bliss Perry.”

* “No one wants to hear the crack of a whip in these leisurely papers, but there might be a little more mental activity without any sign of the strain.” F. M. Colby.

“To apply to him words of his own, he is one of the ‘speculative, amused, undeluded children of this world.’ Sanity, balance, kindliness, unite with insight and imagination to give his pages their peculiar charm.”

“The curious thing about Mr. Perry’s plea for The amateur spirit is that it should seem to slight so glaringly the virtue of the mean.”

“All the six essays in the volume have some reference to the working of the amateur spirit in the world.”

“The six essays in this volume are very pleasing examples of what American writers can do in this branch of literature.”

Peters, John Punnett. Early Hebrew story: its historical background. **$1.25. Putnam.

“The substance of the book was delivered as lectures on the Bond foundation at Bangor theological seminary in November, 1903.... In chap. 1, ‘Introductory: literary and archæological,’ the author gives a simple, yet clear, sketch of his conception of the literary origin of the early books of the Bible, and a general view of the history of Palestine before the Israelitish occupation.... In chap. 2, ‘The formation of Israel: The origin of the twelve tribes,’ the view that a group of Aramean tribes settled among and absorbed tribes already resident in Canaan is worked out with considerable detail. In chap. 3, ‘The patriarchs and the shrines of Israel,’ it is pointed out that the stories of the patriarchs cluster about certain shrines.... In chap. 4, ‘Survivals—legendary and mythical.’ Dr. Peters gathers together a considerable residuum of material, which remains after one has subtracted from the patriarchal stories the elements representing tribal movements and sanctuary traditions, and in which survivals of myths or legends are probably to be found. Chap. 5, ‘Cosmogony and primeval history,’ deals with Gen., chaps. 1-11, which is analyzed into its various elements.... Chap. 6, ‘The moral value of early Hebrew story,’ forms a fitting climax to the whole.”—Bib. World.

“The book is written for the ordinary reader of the Bible, is unencumbered by erudite notes, is written in a clear and attractive style, and can be strongly recommended to the untechnical reader, who desires to learn how critical study affects the early books of the Bible. The book throughout bears evidence of wide reading. The marvel is that in such a work, where evidence is often scanty and much has to be supplied from analogies often remote, one finds so little from which to dissent. The work merits high praise and deserves a wide recognition.” George A. Barton.

“We can very heartily recommend the book. It is thoroughly readable, pre-eminently scholarly and entirely trustworthy; it is replete with valuable archæological knowledge; it has all the marks of an accomplished exegete, and its conclusions are in harmony with those of many able scholars of the present day.”

* “Wealth of archaeological information lends special value to Dr. Peters’ scholarly ‘Early Hebrew story.’”

* Peters, Madison Clinton. Jews in America: a short story of their part in the building of the republic; commemorating the 250th anniversary of their settlement. $1. Winston.

The author has prepared this volume for popular use and states in his preface: “It is a book of facts rather than opinions.... The book is written with the hope that it may modify the views which the Gentile world holds with regard to the position of the Jew, and the author’s fervent prayer is that its facts may lead Christians to grant to the possession of the Jew the mental, moral, social and spiritual qualifications which history affirms.” To this end he has set forth facts culled from various sources showing the part which the Jew played in the discovery of America, in pre-revolutionary settlements, in the wars of the republic, American politics, finance, arts and sciences. There are also chapters upon The number of Jews in the United States, Characteristics of the Jews, and Anti-Semitism in America. The volume is illustrated with photographs of Jews prominent in various professions.

* Peters, Madison Clinton. Will the coming man marry? and other studies on the problem of home and marriage. $1. Winston.

Under such titles as: How to be happy though married; Why so many divorces? The ideal wife; The duties of a husband; Money and matrimony; The culture of the child; The home and the higher education of women; Woman’s rights; and Good mothers the makers of great nations, Dr. Peters emphasizes the serious side of matrimony, gives good advice to both husband and wife, and discusses education, deplores modern extravagance, and makes many suggestions, which, if followed, will help to make daily life easier and more worth while to both the married and the unmarried.

Peterson, Maude Gridley. How to know wild fruits: a guide to plants when not in flower, by means of fruit and leaf; il. by Mary Elizabeth Herbert. **$1.50. Macmillan.

“We have examined every one of the 80 woodcuts in this volume, and must pronounce them correct and helpful ... while descriptions of three hundred fruit-bearing plants are careful and scientific enough, and a key will send the botanist to the order and species, the plants are arranged for the use of the casual student by the color of their fruits.”—Ind.

* “This study opens to amateurs a new and comparatively unfamiliar field and one in which 273the writers of botanical handbooks have heretofore made few contributions.”

“As a help to the beginner and a means of stimulating observation it may be commended. It is well got up, remarkably free from misprints, appropriately illustrated, and provided with an index of vernacular names and one of the Latin designations of the plants described.”

Petrie, William Matthew Flinders. History of Egypt from the XIXth to the XXXth dynasties. (History of Egypt, v. 3.) *$2.25. Scribner.

“This is not a work on manners and customs or religion, but is purely history, very largely original and representing the author’s own researches and conclusions.... The period covered in this volume extends from the beginning of the nineteenth dynasty, about 1300 B. C., the most brilliant period in Egyptian history, to 342 B. C., when the last native king of the thirtieth dynasty lost the throne, and the rule passed over to the Persian Ochus. This period is illustrated by 161 pictures of monuments, mainly halftones, with all the known cartouches.... When we remember that the period treated covers the entire relation of Israel to Egypt, from Abraham to Jeremiah, the value of the volume to biblical students is obvious.”—Ind.

“His English is still slipshod. The lists of the monuments of every king, with provenance and abiding place, that he gives will be extremely useful to students; and for the care and pains that he has bestowed on their compilation all Egyptologists should be grateful.”

“We may not always assent to his conclusions and combinations, but the archæological facts on which they are founded are stated without omission or bias, and the conclusions themselves are often brilliant, usually ingenious and always stimulating.”

“The heroine, who ‘loves and seeks the truth for its own sake,’ is a young and charming girl. She has her own ideas of the ‘true’ faith, and tells them to those who argue with her. Adele Cultus, her parents, and her friend, join two gentlemen in a trip to the Orient. Paul Warder falls in love with the heroine. Together they visit the many interesting places, and finally come to understand each other very well.”—N. Y. Times.

“This novel ... is probably an attempt to write biography in the form of fiction. It is an introspective, retrospective, meditative, idealistic tale.”

Peyton, William Wynne. Three greatest forces in the world, and the making of Western civilization, pt. I, The incarnation. *$1.40. Macmillan.

“This trinity of forces is constituted, says the author, by the Incarnation, the Crucifixion, and the Resurrection.... In the present volume, limited to the first of the triad, he insists at length on the extension of virgin generation from the lower creation, as in bees, to the higher creation, as in the virgin birth of Christ.”—Outlook.

“While the author is a man of considerable originality and independence of thought he is too much lacking in critical judgment and too fond of large sounding generalities to make his work of value.”

Pfleiderer, Otto. Early Christian conception of Christ; its significance and value in the history of religion. *$1.25. Putnam.

“An expansion of a lecture delivered by the author before the International theological congress at Amsterdam, in September, 1903.... The book has been divided into five chapters—‘Christ as son of God,’ ‘Christ as conqueror of Satan,’ ‘Christ as a wonder-worker,’ ‘Christ as the conqueror of death and the life-giver,’ ‘Christ as the king of kings and lord of lords.’”—N. Y. Times.

“It has been Mr. Phelps’s effort in this latest addition to the ‘American commonwealths’ series to give a broad survey setting forth Louisiana and its place in the development of the United States.” (Outlook). “The fortunes of Louisiana under French and Spanish rule are described in the first half of the volume, and its history as part of the United States forms the second half of the volume.” (N. Y. Times.)

* “While the specialist may not find much that is new in this work, it has for the general reader the advantage of being based upon the sources, and is not a mere compilation.”

* “From the narrative standpoint little fault is to be found, the style being graceful and flowing and the interest unfailingly sustained.”

In this story of the fourteenth century “the hero, son of a worthy Englishman, being kidnapped into France by a ship’s captain, betakes himself to Italy, wins a knighthood through gallantry, and returns to his native England with wealth and honor just in time to prevent his sweetheart from entering a convent for lack of him. The poets are reverenced in the persons of Chaucer and Petrarch, and it is from a careful study of the writings of the former that the rather difficult and multifarious dialects of Mr. Phelps’s book are constructed.... The rudeness of the England of the period and the refinement of Italy serve as foils, each for the other, and the whole tale is in the nature of a treasure house for the student of customs.” (Dial.)

“The book shows the most careful study and great painstaking, and abounds in varied adventure.”

“It cannot be said that the mantle of the old storyteller has descended upon the modern.”

“At times the Chaucerian English in the sprightly conversations daunts even the conqueror of polyglot dialect, but the real interest of the tale carries him safely through to the satisfactory final scenes.”

* Philippi, Adolf. Florence; tr. from the German by P. G. Konody. *$1.50. Scribner.

“In commendably brief space the author gives 274us a comprehensive survey of Florentine history, the part played by all its leading citizens both in politics, literature, and art, the origin of all its important buildings, with extensive architectural notes about them and excellent illustrations of its churches, palaces, groups of sculpture, altar-pieces, frescoes, and noteworthy details.” (Nation.) There are 170 illustrations. The lives of the Florentine painters and descriptions of their principal works are also given making the volume a good supplementary guide book for the artistic traveler.

The hero of Mr. Graham’s story is as intrepid in love as in battling against Wall street magnates. Simply stated, he is a man who won’t be downed,—in the world of finance when a power rises against him he hunts for a tiger to fight the bull, and in the battle with giants, makes his escape; as for his romance, he quietly determines to marry a girl in a social world above him, carries his point, and then proceeds to win her love.

* “As usual, he has written a readable story, but its extravagance deprives it of any claim to be taken seriously.”

“If the author, as one must infer, intended that we should admire Blacklock, he is likely to be disappointed.”

A story of the tree of political plums. A young country lawyer is driven by poverty to accept an assemblyman’s salary from the hands of a “boss,” and when his conscience forces him to vote against a bad bill he is thrown out of office. He becomes a reform county prosecutor, but fails in re-election and accepts a position as lawyer for the power company which he had been actively fighting. He makes a rich but loveless marriage, becomes a United States senator, and in the end, looking back upon the seething furnace of corruption thru which he has passed, finds comfort in the love of the girl he had renounced in his days of poverty.

“It is in our judgment far and away the most important novel of recent years, because it unmasks present political conditions in a manner so graphic, so convincing and so compelling that it cannot fail to arouse the thoughtful to the deadly peril which confronts our people.”

“This novel is definitely better than its predecessors, even though its author has not even yet progressed very far in the art of portraying women.”

“This work consists of a series of brilliant essays dealing with the overshadowing questions of the hour—Plutocracy and Democracy. The first half of the volume deals with plutocracy.... Such subjects as Plutocracy at home, Youth among the money-maniacs, Caste-compellers, Pauper-making, The made-over White house, and Europe laughs, are discussed.... The second half of the volume is entitled ‘Democracy.’ In this division Mr. Phillips considers such subjects as The compeller of equality, Democracy’s dynamo, A nation of dreamers, Not generosity, but justice, The inevitable ideal, Our allies from abroad, The real American woman, and The man of to-day and to-morrow.”—Arena.

* “Therefore, we say that he who loves the republic should buy, read and circulate ‘The reign of gilt.’ The more such books are circulated, the more certainly and swiftly will come the democratic reaction for which we are all striving.”

* “It is a most vital subject, and one upon which Mr. Phillips speaks earnestly and with an iteration almost Rooseveltian.”

The delightful story of the daughter of an old Washington family, who undertakes to carry a western senator’s wife to the top of the official-social wave, and succeeds. Incidentally she is rewarded for her service by a large salary and—something more. The various types of people found in the struggle for social and political supremacy at the national capital are well and amusingly drawn.

* “It is not up to the level Mr. Phillips has maintained in his latest works.”

“Mr. Phillips’s airy tale is a fascinating one, and, perhaps, if one looks closely, he may find beneath the daintily flavored meringue some food for thought.”

* “Besides the froth there is some really admirable character drawing in the story.”

Red Saunders’ first appearance as the principal figure in a long story will delight readers who have known his sturdy traits and original humor in short story fiction. Not being able to stand up under the indignities heaped upon him by a father who “felt some scornful toward the Almighty for such a weak and frivolous institution as Heaven,” the lad when eighteen runs away to sea; and on board the Matilda bound for Panama, he meets Plain Mary Smith—plain only in name. How he enters into her romance only as the champion of the real lover, and how he fights Panamans at the close of a lively revolution with quart cans of tomatoes are phases of a humorously interesting tale.

“Adventures follow one another swiftly, and Red Saunders relates them all with wit and vigorous bad grammar.”

“In the relation of the narrative there is much of the humorous whimsicality of subject and style which has distinguished Mr. Phillips’s shorter stories. Yet there is also a regrettable thinness.”

This three act drama, is not biblical, altho it is founded on an action analogous to that of David to Uriah, the Hittite. The play opens in the army of Cromwell and proceeds during the course of the English civil war. It is the story of the love of Sir Hubert Lisle for the wife of a Puritan captain, the crime which made 275their marriage possible, and their punishment.

“It is, however, creditable accomplishment, and up to the level of Mr. Phillips’s previous work.”

“‘The sin of David’ is even cleverer than ‘Herod’ and ‘Ulysses’ in its superficial dramatic quality, its superficial poetry. But the true dramatic fire is not in it.” Ferris Greenslet.

“To one who has read all four plays of Mr. Phillips it appears unhappily evident that The sin of David is inferior in movement to Ulysses, even as this must rank below Herod, nor is it equal in pathos to Paolo and Francesca. There are passages in the play which would drag in presentation.” Louis H. Gray.

“Has the fine literary qualities we associate with the name of the author. But as an acting play it can have at best a success of esteem, for while there are some strong and moving scenes in it, the general air is of the closet rather than the stage.” J. B. G.

“A play better calculated to ‘place’ him critically than any of its predecessors. The chief impression made by it is that it is the product of a moderate poetic faculty guided by an industrious and self-poised intelligence.”

“As a play it ranks lowest in the four plays Mr. Phillips has written; this position it maintains as a poem. The work is deftly knitted together; it has beauty of form, if not many beauties of line; but it has no great situations.”

This volume is the result of a layman’s investigation of religious truth from heathen, Jewish and Christian standpoints. Under two general divisions, The history of pardon, and Evidence of pardon and the church as an organization, it makes a plea for unity, sets forth the original phases of Christianity, reviews all cases of pardon in the New Testament, and compares Jesus with other religious teachers.

* “The author sketches the history of Christianity with all the assurance of ignorance and then with equal assurance expounds his own theological views.”

A story of a family feud in Dartmoor, early in the nineteenth century. The hero is an English gentleman, and a captured American plays an important role in the exciting tale, which ends in the sacrifice of the parents and the happy union of the lovers.

Sketches of Dartmoor men and women told largely in dialect. There is grim humor and homely tragedy, there are three cornered love affairs and affairs with more corners, there are old men and young, but all are real. The stories include, The mound by the way, The crossways; Corban; A pickaxe and a spade; and Benjamin’s mess.

“Mr. Phillpotts writes always picturesquely, and often with surprising vividness.”

“Written in a light vein for the most part, yet laden also with a certain quaint and primitive philosophy.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

“He knows his people and presents them to us with truth and vigour. There are no false notes. The last touch is wanting, the spell that can send a glow of life and beauty over every page; and they remain readable stories, lively and convincing, but not very new.”

“Dartmoor sketches in sombre shades, and excellent of their kind. There is a suggestion of Hardy, too, without Mr. Hardy’s later morbidness.”

“Taken as a whole, the volume leaves a delightful impression of quaint character, soft dialect, and exuberant but not grotesque fancy.”

This is another story of Dartmoor, and the Dartmoor peasants the author knows so well. After twenty years of married life, Anthony Redvers, the father of the two grown sons, finds relief from the temperamental coldness of his wife, in an intrigue with an unknown woman. The discovery, the revenge of the wife and the beautiful devotion of the younger son fill out the plot.

“Is constructed on what is almost a Sophoclean scale. Mr. Phillpotts moves simply among primitive emotions, and moves with great natural insight. He has psychological subtlety, and he has great tenderness. He has a sense of the dramatic which materially assists him. Too much praise cannot be given to the author for his handling of this big theme. The characterization is always good, and sometimes more than good.”

“Those who care to read literature and not mere books will find what they want in this great novel.” Charlotte Harwood.

“A study that rivals ‘The scarlet letter’ in earnestness and psychological penetration.” Wm. M. Payne.

“The psychology of a weak man and a strong woman is etched with the hand of a master.”

“Mr. Phillpotts’s strongest story. A tragedy as grim and inexorable as any ever told by ancient Greek. He knows his Devon peasants, and it is with humility that we enter one or two protests against his portrayal. One may wish the theme less painful, our keen joy in the perfection of literary workmanship less marred by the continual constriction of heart to which the author compels us. It is not only its author’s masterpiece, but it is far in advance of anything he has yet written—and that is to give it higher praise than almost any other comparison with contemporary fiction could afford.”

“A book of unusual power and passion—by far the best work in fiction that Mr. Phillpotts has put forth within the past two or three years. There are at least four characters in this book that are original in conception, carefully consistent 276throughout, and subtle in their psychological development. Altogether the situation is as strange as it is compelling in its force, and it is handled with skill and vigor. In all, this is a grim but forceful romance.”

“It is a story of terrible frankness, dealing without evasion with the elemental forces of the human tragedy, but without morbid interest or curiosity, and binding the penalty to the sin.”

“His themes are simple, but they are far too heavily orchestrated. Thus his style, though marked by fine descriptive passages, threatens to become laboured and ornate, and is occasionally disfigured by recondite epithets and literary preciosities. He seems to us to err by the artificial and deliberate invention of incidents designed to enhance the tragic quality of the narrative, by a piling up of the agony which defeats its own aim, and suggests the element of gratuitousness where all should march inevitably to the crowning catastrophe.”

“Although the comic element is the last that one expects in a story of ‘mixed marriages,’ that is to say of matrimonial alliances between Catholic and Protestant, it is really very droll, thanks to the demure eccentricity of his pacific Lordship, the Bishop of Isle Madame, and the contrasted orthodoxy of his brother, a domineering layman.”—N. Y. Times.

“The little story shows ingenuity, a quaint humor, and some pretty fancies.”

Pidgin, Charles Felton. Little Burr: the Warwick of America. $1.50. Robinson-Luce.

A book which deals with the youth of Aaron Burr, and his career in the Revolutionary war. It tells of his marriage, chronicles the birth of his daughter Theodosia, and thruout contradicts all accepted ideas of his character by presenting him as a noble gentleman, true to his ideals and the victim of unmerited social and political ostracism.

“‘The ancient grudge’ is the irksome sense of obligation felt by one young man to another who has saved his life as a boy, and in the main the novel is a study of the divergent temperaments of these two men. They are students at Harvard together, live in the same town, love the same girl, and in the end the mercurial, sanguine, visionary Stewart dies heroically and dramatically, while the heroism of Keith (who as a boy has saved his friend’s life) takes the form of steady persistence and strength of mind and purpose. To some extent the story deals with labor questions, but, while it presents some phases of the problem in an interesting way, it does not go very deeply into the subject.”—Outlook.

“In thus making a ‘problem novel’ out of what had better have remained a story of private interest, Mr. Pier proves rather disappointing.” Wm. M. Payne.

“It is wholesome in tone, high in its ideals. The author has made a decided advance in his art since the publication of ‘The triumph,’ handling his material more firmly, and making a stronger human appeal.”

“Few, if any, novels of the season show more thoughtful and solid work in character-study than this book, which is, moreover distinctly well written. The weakest point is construction.”

Pigou, Arthur Cecil. Principles and methods of industrial peace. *$1.10. Macmillan.

“In this work the author considers the question of not what have arbitration and conciliation done, but rather what ought they to do, and how they ought to do it.” (R. of Rs.) “The first part of the book is historical and descriptive; the second treats of ‘The principles of industrial peace.’ The table of contents contains a summary of the book, and in appendices problems of wages and industry are treated of diametrically.” (N. Y. Times.)

“The book would have provided easier reading and commanded more attention if Mr. Pigou had been more willing to ‘take sides.’”

“His spirit appears to us throughout fair, his understanding and appreciation of the point of view of both parties to the industrial conflict remarkable, and his advice generally to be both based on sound principles and practical of application.”

“Our one criticism of the book is that the author hesitates a little between two different intentions. Some of the preliminaries would be in place in a large organon, but in a popular handbook they read like platitudes, and might well be taken for granted.”

“His general judgment is keen and vigorous, and he has remarkable powers of exposition, among which a good literary style is not the least. Thus far, at least, I have been unable to see that the economic reasoner extracts from his careful labor on curves and diagrams an iota of truth which he had not assumed or put in, at the beginning.” N. P. Gilman.

Pike, Godfrey Holden. John Wesley: the man and his mission. *$1. Union press.

Illustrated and written in a quaint old-fashioned style, this brief account of the life of John Wesley, “one of the greatest evangelists who ever carried the Gospel to the people,” seems to breathe the simple Christian spirit of the man. It is a book which is well adapted to children, altho not written for them.

This is the first book of a young New Orleans newspaper writer. The story deals with French Creoles of the old regime, and the voodouism of the negroes. The heroine invokes the charms of a sorcerer to aid her in securing the affections of the man with whom she fancies herself in love, and in the course of the complications which follow discovers that she is really in love with a clergyman who has long been her admirer.

“The testimony of those in a position to know is that Miss Pitkin has not transcended facts. Her development of this fruitful theme is, however, most unequal. The entire book, indeed, is full of affectations, not only in choice of words but in their collocation.”

“The style is precious and exotic to the extreme limit of license and beyond. Miss Pitkin’s command of unfamiliar words is marvelous; her use of familiar words more marvelous still.”

277“Miss Pitkin handles her material with much strength; but her hand lacks the sure and discriminating touch which comes from practice. Her details of plot do not always avoid confusion, and the movement is sometimes labored.” J. R. Ormond.

Plato. Myths of Plato; text and translation; with introductory and other observations by J. A. Stewart. *$4.50. Macmillan.

“It was a very happy thought to bring together the myths of Plato and examine the lesson of each. We are grateful, moreover, to Professor Stewart for giving us the Greek in every case on the page opposite to the English rendering.... The excellent account of the Cambridge Platonists, More, Cudworth, Clarke, and Smith, will be to some not the least interesting part of a work full of thought and learning.”—Acad.

“Jowett’s translation is so good that it seems churlish to say that the present rendering is even more perfect, and reads even more like an original composition in English.”

“It may be said in conclusion, that Prof. Stewart’s book—dealing, as it does, with a side of Platonism which has been too much neglected—is the finest contribution to the knowledge of Plato’s thought which has been made in this country of late years.”

“One cannot read Professor Stewart’s discussion without being moved to wonder again and again at the felicitous phrase by which he conveys impalpable emotions, by the fineness with which his perception is pitched to detect frail sympathies.”

“Though in detail interesting and exegetic, the book does not draw very much to a point, and is perhaps rather overweighted. Mr. Stewart’s translation, it must be said is not as good a representation of the original as Jowett’s.”

Mr. Platt’s biography is the outgrowth of partisan beliefs and fancies rather than a development from so-called legitimate biographical material including clews to Whitman’s inner life. The volume is the latest issue in the “Beacon biographies.”

“It is frankly the statement of a partisan; it contains little or no new material; it follows closely the phraseology of previous writers and quotes rather too liberally from them; but it is clear, compact, sensible summary of the facts of Whitman’s life, so far as they are known, and as such deserves commendation.” G. R. Carpenter.

“A believer to the fullest extent in the greatness of his work. And yet he does not spare criticism.”

Plummer, Rev. Alfred. English church history: four lectures from the death of Archbishop Parker to the death of King Charles I. *$1. Scribner.

“Dr. Plummer aims to be judicially fair in his estimate of men and measures in the momentous period in English history from 1575 to 1649, but on every page he makes it patent that he is an ardent adherent of the church by law established. Elizabeth’s character was far from worthy, but it was good of her to fight the Romanists and the Puritans, and to preserve the Anglican church intact. James I, the wise fool, reached ‘the lowest depths of unpopularity with his subjects,’ but, ‘by solid conviction, during the whole of his reign he was neither Romanist nor Puritan, but an Anglican.’ Five or six particulars are specified in which he served the Church of England a good turn. Charles I, the impersonation of ‘incurable duplicity and intrigue,’ carried despotism to its utmost limit, and through his ‘criminal wrongheadedness and perfidy’ brought about the overthrow of both episcopacy and monarchy. Dr. Plummer does not venture to enumerate the particulars in which his reign was helpful to the Anglican cause.”—Bib. World.

A popular priced edition of this now famous book which “begins with a chapter on ‘The English misunderstanding,’ and traces the whole question of politics, religion, economics, and education to the final chapter, which is on ‘Government with the consent of the governed.’” (R. of Rs.)

“Unquestionably a sane and a healthful contribution to the settlement of the ever-difficult Irish question.”

In her story for young readers Miss Plympton portrays the sweet influence of a child who comes to live with her guardians, two bachelor uncles,—a child whose “realization of the relationship between human beings, so keen as to make her oblivious to the distinction made by rank, race, education or even morals” fosters a democratic spirit among her school friends. Her sympathy and affection for a little colored girl form the larger part of the story.

* “It is a book which would do best service in being read aloud by a judicious editor, who should cull the flowers and skip the thorns.”

A feud, which began in the Irish land league troubles, is transplanted and finished in Arizona where, among Indians, outlaws, and cowboys, young Lord Balshannon finds a wife in the plucky daughter of a robber chief. The story is real and stirring and the author has lived the things of which he writes.

“The real enjoyment of the book is ... due to the breezy dialect in which the book is written, the picturesque vernacular of the ranch.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

“The style in which the cowboy tells the stirring tale is crisp, vivid, vigorous and only occasionally marred by coarseness; the offense is in expression alone—the thought is not coarse.”

“Seems to us quite the best cowboy story since Owen Wister’s ‘The Virginian.’”

The poems contained in this volume are those which children actually love and with but a few exceptions they are brief enough to be committed to memory. They have been divided into five groups each of which appeals to a different stage of childhood. The division headings: The budding moment; The little child; The day’s at the morn; Lad and lassie; On and on; and Grow old along with me, strike the key notes of their contents. Nearly all the old favorites and some new ones are to be found here. The volume is bound in soft green suede and is decorated with drawings by Blanche Ostertag.

Pollard, Albert Frederick. Thomas Cranmer and the English reformation, 1489-1556. **$1.35. Putnam.

An addition to the “Heroes of the Reformation series.” An attempt to clear up some of the mysteries surrounding Cranmer, which, the author says, are mysteries of the atmosphere he breathed, rather than of character. His great work in the compilation of the Book of common prayer, and his translations of the Collects is set over against his weakness in failing to stand by his convictions against Tudor tyranny.

“The author has a competent knowledge of what was then going on throughout Europe and is safe-guarded against the insularity or provincialism which marks the authors of the volumes in Stephens and Hunt’s ‘History of the Church of England.’ Its impartiality and lack of partisan writing is also to be commended.”

“No one could be better qualified for the task. The book can rightly claim to be the first considerable biography of Cranmer which has been written according to the canons of modern scientific historical work. It is clear, and for the most part consistent and convincing; and though it contains nothing that is startlingly new, it arranges in useful and readable form a vast amount of hitherto scattered and not always trustworthy information. Mr. Pollard’s treatment of the archbishop’s career under Henry VIII seems to us ... much less satisfactory.” R. B. Merriman.

“This book is an inspiring work, both as a fine biography of a most admirable man and as an addition to the conscience literature that is so needed to stimulate the moral energies of our age.”

“The present work reaches, we think, the high-water mark of his achievement. It will form, and rightly form the standard life of Cranmer for some time to come. Mr. Pollard in this book is certainly not without a bias.”

“Mr. Pollard offers as good a plea for him as can be offered, and offers it in a temperate spirit. His volume is almost a model of what such a biography should be.” Edward Fuller.

“The character and ability of Cranmer are skilfully portrayed, and the work may be counted as a real contribution to popular knowledge on this important period.”

“Mr. Pollard has done the Archbishop something like justice, and has done it in a way that maintains the interest of the reader to the last.”

“Mr. Pollard writes pleasantly, with a clear arrangement of his subject, and a fair sense of proportion.”

“Very able and interesting volume. We are grateful to Mr. Pollard for his fine vindication of a man who was not without elements of true greatness.”

“Mr. Henry Tempest, stockbroker, is suffering from a severe attack of the malady which gives the book its title; to cure it he takes an overdose of an Egyptian remedy, recommended by a friend with a careless turn for archaeology. The effects of this overdose are amazing and mischievous. The stockbroker is transformed from a staid and benevolent man of middle-age into a boy of pranks.... He has one frantic day of irresponsible delight, and his adventures ... carry one on from peal to peal of laughter.”—Acad.

“The book has all the freshness of a humorous idea worked out and finished in the heat of the moment.”

Pool, Bettie Freshwater. Eyrie and other southern stories. $1. Broadway pub.

Seven short stories, some of which are in the negro dialect, a dozen simple poems on various subjects and a concluding story. The monstrosity, by Gaston Pool, complete this volume.

Porter, Frank Chamberlain. Messages of the apocalyptic writers, the books of Daniel and Revelation and some uncanonical apocalypses; with historical introductions and a free rendering in paraphrase. **$1.25. Scribner.

“These mysterious writings, most of them not in our canonical Scriptures, are our chief source for later Jewish eschatology, and for the momentous matter of Messianic dogmatics.... [The author] gives a summary view of their nature and subject-matter, and analyzes, at considerable length, the books of Daniel and Revelations. In smaller space he studies the apocalypses of Enoch, Ezra and Baruch.”—Cath. World.

“A very useful and convenient manual of Jewish and Christian apocalyptic from the historical point of view.”

“An excellent manual. Professor Porter’s introduction to the study of these writings is done in a clear, systematic, and erudite manner. His tone throughout is scholarly and objective.”

* “Is perhaps, the best introduction to the study of Daniel and Revelation available.”

“In ample introductions and notes Professor Porter has given a confessedly obscure subject the lucid treatment it requires.”

Porter, Mary (Mrs. Horace Porter). Secret of a great influence. *$1. Macmillan.

In these “Notes on Bishop Westcott’s teachings, the reader ... has set before him considerations as to the bishop’s ethical and dogmatic teaching.... He then passes to the subject of ‘Bible study.’ ... The fifth section treats of Bishop Westcott’s teaching on ‘The Christian church’ and ‘The Christian creed’; 279the sixth is devoted to ‘Worship,’ public and private; ‘Foreign missions’ and a variety of other subjects are also mentioned; and finally we have a paper on Bishop Westcott’s ‘Commentaries,’ by Rev. A. Westcott.”—Spec.

Post, Emily (Mrs. Edwyn Main Post). Purple and fine linen. †$1.50. Appleton.

Fashionable New York forms the background for this story of the development of Camilla from a child into a woman. Young, thoughtless, fresh from school, she marries Anthony Stuart, who is rich and handsome, but who makes of her a plaything not a part of his life. Another man comes to cheer her lonely existence, and she awakens on the brink of marital shipwreck.

“The author’s manner of handling her subject is the excuse for the book’s existence.”

“There is some clever characterization of modern society, and several individuals stand out clearly as real people.”

This volume was written to meet the need of a short history of China, it is intended primarily for teachers, and is a brief survey of a large field. It contains three divisions, The conquest of China by the Chinese (B. C. 2852-206), The first struggle with the Tartars (B. C. 206-A. D. 589), The second struggle with the Tartars (A. D. 589-1644), and includes a chapter on The war with Japan, and Recent events in China. There are five maps.

A treatise on the soul of things, which demonstrates that the natural world is but a symbol of the real world, explains why there are but ten digits in our mathematical system, and shows the pack of playing cards, or book of 52, to be an ancient Masonic Bible, each card a symbol of universal law. It reveals new things about many Masonic symbols and Biblical expressions and declares that the United States is a Masonic nation whose duty and history are to be read in these ancient sacred symbols. There are charts and drawings.

Mrs. Potter’s first book is a study of the principles that underlie the misery resulting from two unhappy marriages. The main action sympathetically follows the awakening of Agnes Sidney from the condition of care-free girlhood to the state of restricted wifehood with Ferdinand Ballington lording the right of financial despotism over her. The author has drawn a spiritually minded woman whose great love and keen sense of duty buoy her up when the discovery of pettiness and low aims would tend to submerge her. In contrast to the tyranny of withholding is portrayed in the sub-action the tyranny of giving, in which a wealthy girl, mistress of her own fortune, marries a quiet, refined bank clerk. Here a man’s sensitive longing for independence is opposed by the dominant freeheartedness and worldliness of his wife.

“Here and there the workmanship is a bit crude; here and there the book would have gained by compression and excision, but, take it all in all, it is the most remarkable novel that has come to our desk for many a long day. It takes its rare and high place because, as we read we say again and again, not ‘This is lifelike,’ but ‘This is life.’”

* “It is conspicuously lacking in finish of style in places, and is not at all points well put together; but it is a real piece of work, full of true feeling, genuine insight, and a sincere and sound ethical judgment.”

Potter, Rt. Rev. Henry Codman. Drink problem in modern life. **30c. Crowell.

A frank exposition of the drink problem as Bishop Potter views it. He believes that the secret of mastery over the great evil of intemperance lies not in “legal enactment,” but in “the Spirit of Jesus Christ.” He says, “The world waits, we say, for better laws—or for better men to administer the laws! No, my brother, it waits for love—the vigilance of love, the service of love, the sacrifice of love.”

“... Loose texture and somewhat irrelevant quality of much contained in his pamphlet.”

A mother, regardless of the sleeping fires of youth, marries her young daughter to a millionaire plow manufacturer of Chicago. The girl, excited by the whirl of preparations, gives little thought to her fiance and when she realizes at their first tête-à-tête dinner, that this bald, red-faced man audibly eating soup, is her husband, she loathes him. A cousin, handsome and worldly, appears and intrigue, suspicion, quarrels, and other unpleasant things follow. In the end the cousin meets a death of the husband’s planning, and the ill-assorted pair, less lovable than when they first met, forgive, and come to care for each other.

“The story has the fault so frequently found when women handle sex problems; as though fearful of not being understood, it insists upon unsavoury details with unnecessary and repellant frankness. The book is irritatingly uneven.”

“Miss Potter has evidently aimed at writing a ‘strong’ novel, and has certainly succeeded in producing something very rank.”

“No one could call this story dull or badly written; but, recognizing what will inevitably be called its strength, one must regret the novelist’s use of her real power in the working out of such obnoxious phases of life—if it is life—in Chicago.”

“‘The fire of spring’ belongs to the very best in the season’s American fiction.”

* Potter, Mary Knight. Art of the Venice academy, containing a brief history of the building and its collection of paintings as well as descriptions and criticism of many of the principal pictures and their artists. **$2. Page.

In this volume the author has treated each room in the Royal gallery of fine arts in Venice separately, and in her own chosen order. The greater pictures she has given in detail while some of the lesser ones she has merely outlined, reserving as much space as possible for comments upon the artists themselves. The book is well illustrated.

* “Evidently designed as much to decorate ‘the center table’ as to illuminate the mind.”

* “The author shows care and discrimination in her criticism and suggestions.”

280* Pottinger, Sir Henry. Flood, fell and forest; a book of sport in Norway. 2v. $8.40. Longmans.

“Sir Henry’s volumes deal with many phases of sport, from elk hunting, in which he is a veteran and an adept, to the successful pursuit of trout and salmon, from sport with Norwegian red deer to pleasant days with ryper and other game birds. The author was one of the earliest sportsmen to wet a line on the famous Tana river. This was nearly fifty years ago, but the narrative of the expedition and its results is so fresh and so vigorous that it is certain to capture the reader’s attention.” (Acad.) The volumes are illustrated.

* “To our thinking, although some of the matter is by no means entirely new, these are two of the pleasantest sporting volumes that we have encountered during the last three or four years.”

* “We like the temper of the book and a good part of its contents; but think it might, with distinct advantage from a literary point of view, have been compressed into one volume of moderate length.”

Poulsson, Anne Emilie. Runaway donkey, and other rhymes for children. †$1.50. Lothrop.

Printed in large type upon heavy paper and abundantly illustrated, these rhymes, the majority of which are about animals, will appeal to all imaginative little folks.

* “Miss Poulsson’s book should be a welcome addition to every child’s library.”

The author, a fruit-farmer of New York state, deals with the problem of successful country home making under such headings as: Selecting the homestead, Growing a house, Water supply, Lawns, Orchard, Flowers, The insects, The animals, The beautiful and the useful.

“Is one of the most valuable and practical works of recent months. With the witchery of the poet’s art he leads us from page to page, until all too soon the end of the volume is reached.” Amy C. Rich.

“For practical information, Mr. Powell’s is the best book on this general theme of a home in the country that has appeared—in America at least—for many a day.”

“The charm of Mr. Powell’s book is that it urges simplicity of living and practical and successful ways of doing things, along with full enjoyment of all that is beautiful and healthful in rural life.” Priscilla Leonard.

“All lovers of rural life will appreciate it. It is full of common sense, practical advice, a commendation rarely to be bestowed on books of this class; and besides the advice it is excellently good reading. The book greatly needs a subject index, for it is good enough to be in frequent use as a reference work. It is so completely and so simply what it starts out to be—a practical account of a life in the country. ‘The country home’ should be put into every country library, and also into every school library, for from there it would reach a class of people who need just its suggestions and ideas.”

“The greater part of this book is taken up by advice as to the best varieties of fruit to plant, ranging from apples to small fruits and including some little-grown fruits and some nut-trees. The usual order is reversed here, for after this long dissertation on kinds of fruit, there follow a few chapters on culture, training, packing, and marketing.”—Dial.

“Our chief criticism on Mr. Powell’s book would be that in these last sections he gives ear to too many other advisers. He is at once conservative and progressive, and has given us a book valuable to have at hand. A serious defect, however, is the lack of an index.” Edith Granger.

“The illustrations are for the most part good and are well chosen, and the practical directions are generally judicious.”

“An account of the conditions in Kentucky leading to the assassination of William Goebel, who was declared governor of the state, and my indictment and conviction on the charge of complicity in his murder.” It is also the story of Powers’s life, and of his early days, his brief romance, his political career, and the five years of trial and imprisonment. The book is written in confinement and is, of course, a complete vindication of the author. It is illustrated with photographs.

“On the whole it is done temperately, even complacently, in spite of the tragic nature of the circumstances for the author.”

“This volume has been written for traders as well as the general reader to show them the actual position of British railways with regard to the complaints advanced from time to time on the subjects of rates and charges, and the origin, operation, and circumstances of the railways of Britain as compared with those abroad.”—N. Y. Times.

“We find it hard to believe the average railway is so immaculate as Mr. Pratt makes out. On the other hand, the book brings out clearly the strong points of English railways, their safety, and the superior accommodation they give to both passengers and goods.”

These articles appeared in the London Times in the fall of 1901 under the title of “The crisis in British industry.” They comprise a study of the industrial conditions in England. The trade-union situation in twenty of the leading British industries is fully treated, and a rather severe judgment on trade-union policy and practice is given.

“Seemingly intimate bearing upon the fiscal controversy. The book, taken as a whole, is a severe indictment of what is called the ‘new unionism’—the militant unionism. Hostility to trade-unionism is written large on every page 281from cover to cover, and the author’s very evident bias makes one question rather than accept his conclusions. The book is interesting and informational. The impression grows upon one as he reads that the investigation was not a colorless seeking after truth, but an attempt to find facts which would bear out a theory already formed, and that the trade-unionist was really judged without notice and without a hearing.” Edith Abbott.

“A booklet which will fit the pocket and help the traveller. It is full of real talk, brief, to the point, and wholly free from that exaggeration of honorifics heard on the stage and overworked by novelists and Japanophiles.... Numbers, money, postal rates, and helps to pronunciation have not been forgotten in this capital manual.”—Nation.

Letters to their friends by the various guests at a house party comprise this volume. They are very masculine and very feminine and tell the love story of Margaret Exeter, whom the men called an angel and the women considered a “bold creature,” and Arnold Gresham, a Sir Galahad.

A new edition of this book which cites numerous incidents showing the influence of the psalms in historical crises and in critical moments in the lives of prominent men and women.

“With skill, sympathy, and infinite patience he has traced the influence of this great hymnary upon successive generations, from Origin to our day.”

Prouty, Charles A. and others. President Roosevelt’s railroad policy. 50c. Ginn.

A report of a discussion before the economic club of Boston, March 9, 1905, in which President Roosevelt’s railroad policy is reviewed by four men of varying interest in the great question.

Pryor, Sara Agnes Rice (Mrs. Roger Atkinson Pryor). Reminiscences of peace and war. **$2. Macmillan.

For this new edition of her popular book the author has prepared new chapters, one of which describes the origin and first celebration of Decoration day in this country; she has also added a number of illustrations. The volume gives a pleasing picture of social life in the South, beginning with the Washington of President Pierce’s administration and ending with the conclusion of the civil war.

“All persons who have written a book not yet published or who hope to write and publish a book in the future will be interested in this.... The anonymous author defends the publishers against the charges ... brought against them by unsuccessful authors. It explains fully the way a book is selected, printed, advertised, and sold, and discusses the relations between author and publisher as they are and as they ought to be.”—Ind.

“The writing is generally clear, and, apart from some repetitions, effective. Of the ‘literary’ class the publisher has a poor opinion.”

“It may perhaps be shop-talk, but it is so well done, there is in it so much sense and sincerity that it will entertain and impress you, no matter how far remote you are from books and their makers. Frankly, the book is a brief for the publisher.” Beverly Stark.

“We commend the book to writers (to the experienced publisher it will hardly contain any novelty). There are some hints, however, which may be useful.”

Eight papers upon—Criticism and aesthetics, The nature of beauty, The æsthetic repose, The beauty of fine art, The beauty of music, The beauty of literature, The nature of dramatic emotion, and The beauty of ideas.

“Miss Puffer’s method of treatment is precise and logical without being over-technical.”

Pullan, Rev. Leighton. Church of the fathers; being an outline of the history of the church from A. D. 98 to A. D. 461. *$1.50. Macmillan.

Volume II. but the first in date of issue, of an eight volume series which will deal with the “Church universal.” This volume contains an outline of the history of the church from A. D. 98 to A. D. 461. It begins with the death of St. John’s last apostle and ends with a consideration of the work of St. Leo and St. Patrick.

“Conscientious and scholarly labor with which Mr. Pullan has brought so much valuable information into comparatively brief compass.” A. G.

“This is a well-arranged and lucidly wrought introduction to the study of the important period it covers.”

“Altogether it is a book which students, and especially those already on Mr. Pullan’s side, will find valuable for reference and information; but we doubt whether it will prove an introduction or a stimulus to further study.”

Purchas, Samuel. Hakluytus posthumous; or Purchas his pilgrimes. *$3.25. Macmillan.

“The work will be complete in twenty volumes. It is a continuation and enlargement of Hakluyt’s ‘Voyages.’ It is made up of unpublished manuscripts of voyages, left by Hakluyt after his death, which came into the hands of Samuel Purchas. The latter added to them his own accounts of the many travels and voyages of Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese explorers and English travelers, besides including numerous translations from early books of travel which were then becoming scarce.... The text of the present edition is a reprint of that of 1625, with the exception that errors in 282spelling and punctuation have been corrected and contracted forms of letters extended. Among the contents are the accounts of the early expeditions fitted out by the East India company, of the adventures of Capt. John Smith in Turkey and Virginia, the Arctic discoveries of Barents, Baffin, and Henry Hudson, and translations from Acosta, Oviedo, Las Casas, and others. All the maps and illustrations of the original edition have been included in this reprint, and there is also a facsimile of the original engraved title page.”—N. Y. Times.

“Their real claim to consideration lies in their style, their pungency, their wit, their unexpected turns of expression, their irresistible quaintness. There is an equal quality about the book regarded as a whole.”

“Too much respect cannot be given to the work of Samuel Purchas. With Hakluyt, it shows the advances made by civilization. It is one of the foundations on which modern geographical study rests.”

“It is because Purchas helps Hakluyt in making us understand all this that he is worth reprinting and rereading.”

Purves, Rev. David. Life everlasting: studies in the subject of the future. *$1.50. imp. Scribner.

“The subjects treated in this volume by a Presbyterian clergyman of Belfast, Ireland are: The life everlasting, The resurrection (of Jesus and believers), The future life, and Immortality in literature.”—Outlook.

A new and thoroughly revised edition of a book designed not for children’s amusement, but for pure instruction.

Edmund Pyle, chaplain in ordinary to George I., Archdeacon of York, and Prebend of Winchester, “represents the Church of England, so far as the clergy constitute the Church sunk in coveteousness and sloth.” (London Times.) “The letters are valuable for the display not of a specially elevated or attractive clerical character, but of the facts and feelings of that age from the point of view of a minor ecclesiastical politician.” (Nation.)

* “He makes an unusual revelation of the scheming and jobbery in church preferment.”

“Mr. Hartshorne’s labors have at least furnished a useful source-book for historians of the period, however lacking it may be in the continuous absorbing interest.”

“If there is nothing in this volume to excite admiration or enthusiasm, there are some curious facts, and one or two amusing incidents. Notes should be brief, accurate, and germane to the matter. Mr. Hartshorne’s are none of the three.”

“He writes with no waste of words, with great frankness, and with pretty full and accurate information, as to a large range of externals.”

“Whatever Pyle says is worth reading. It is only when Mr. Hartshorne intervenes that we are sorry.”

“A companion volume to Mr. Pyle’s ‘Story of King Arthur and his knights,’ illustrated as that was with wood cuts admirably suited in manner and tone to the pseudo-antique style of narrative in which the deeds of Sir Launcelot and his fellow-knights are retold.... To boys not too young and of the right imaginative cast of mind the book should have the fascination which Malory’s tales still have for a like class of elder readers.”

* “It is evident that this writer brings to his task wide knowledge and great enthusiasm; we could wish that he did not in large measure spoil the good effects of both by diffuseness, affectation of style, and prosy sermonizings.”

“Mr. Pyle succeeds unusually well in preserving the legendary and chivalrous atmosphere of his subject without dulling the interest by over-indulgence in archaic language.”

A reprint of this poetical paraphrase of the song of Solomon which combines the merits of the editions of 1625 and 1680.

A volume in the series of “French classics for English readers.” In the selections the aim of the editor has been to “keep all the essential parts of the story, and all the scenes which had most literary value and human interest; to retain all the best of the historical satire; and to include other parts which have some special interest, such as the chapters on education.”

“Dr. Page’s introduction is an interesting and scholarly study of his author.”

* Rae, John. Sociological theory of capital: being a complete reprint of the New principles of political economy, 1834; ed. with biographical sketch and notes by Charles Whitney Mixter. *$4. Macmillan.

“Rae’s book is a refutation of Smith’s system, and in the course of chapter after chapter he carefully takes the author of the ‘Wealth of nations’ to pieces. The result is that he arrives at a defense of protection as opposed to free trade and of legislative interference as opposed to the laissez-faire policy. Professor Mixter in his recrudescence of Rae has split the book in the middle, giving the first and last parts in an appendix.”—Pub. Opin.

* “He has not been content with making a mere reprint, but has carefully scrutinized and rearranged the original work so as to make it of distinct use for modern readers and valuable as a text-book in advanced courses.” I. F.

In these “chats” the history of the violin, historical and biographical sketches of Italian and German makers, and anecdotes of great players are given, followed by chapters on the manner of preserving and playing the violin and an appendix upon the life of Paganini. The illustrations present a series of types of the violin from the ninth century to the present day.

“Miss Ragster’s treatment is clear and concise, and not of such a technical nature as to burden the ordinary reader.”

“Miss Ragster’s English style is frequently vivacious, but often unfinished, and she is imperfectly informed as to the spelling of many foreign proper names and other words.”

* “While the book is not technical in any sense, it should be of considerable value to all students of the violin.”

Rambaud, Alfred Nicholas; Simkovitch, Vladimir; and others. Case of Russia: a composite view. **$1.25. Fox.

“A presentation of certain phases of Russian life and history by five writers who have a first-hand knowledge of the subjects they discuss. It comprises: an outline sketch of the successive steps in the expansion of Russia; a brief psychological study of the Russian people; an interpretation of the Russian autocratic system; an inquiry into the progress and possibilities of the Slav; and a survey of the religious situation in Russia.”—Outlook.

“The proof-reading is inadequate, and the translation is not always quite what it should be.”

“Most of the matter, however, is somewhat vitiated by having been written some time ago.”

“As with all ‘composite views,’ the effect is in some respects elusive, in others bewildering. But, on the whole, the symposium is distinctly helpful, and especially in the direction of assisting to a clearer understanding of the dominant traits and qualities of the inhabitants of the unhappy land.”

“There is a good deal of psychological interest in the essays, particularly in that of Mr. Novicow.”

Ramsay, William Mitchell. Letters to the seven churches of Asia and their place in the plan of the Apocalypse. *$3. Armstrong.

“A prophet of Christianity, and one who for many years has devoted his best efforts to the study of a solution of the problem that confronts the religious world upon the meeting of the Asiatic and the European, when the barriers of the lofty mountains and arid plains of East and West are no more, believes that the great issue is with Christianity, and he has written this book to set forth a number of convincing proofs of the world-evangelizing principles that have won and are winning triumphs for the Christian faith.”—Boston Evening Transcript.

“Ramsay’s fresh and rich book adds much to our knowledge of the Roman province of Asia in the first century A. D., and the influence of Christianity therein. The book combines the merits of scientific and popular history-writing. In three special ways this volume is valuable: (1) as a contribution to the understanding of the apostolic age; (2) as an aid to the interpretation of the New Testament Apocalypse; (3) as a practical study in comparative religion.” C W. Votaw.

“The first half of the book is worth more than the last half. The style is diffuse; repetitions are frequent; and there are long-expanded commonplaces. The book will be welcomed chiefly because it contains many items of interesting information and throws much light upon the environment of the early Asia Minor Christians.” D. A. Hayes.

“In scholarly detail, the story of the seven cities and their various symbols is related, and the usages and customs of the early Christian era are succinctly set forth.”

“His interpretation of particular passages is open to question, but his historical, geographical and archæological material on the churches addressed in these letters is very full and valuable.”

* “Some of his interpretations may be questioned, but the wealth of information and fact makes his book valuable for reference.”

“Is rather an introduction than a commentary, and it has much value as an introduction to the whole of the New Testament.”

* Ranck, George Washington. Bivouac of the dead, and its author. **$1. Grafton press.

The well-known martial elegy. The bivouac of the dead, and a lyric called The old pioneer, penned at the grave of Daniel Boone, by the same author, are included in this little volume with a story of the poems and a brief biography of Theodore O’Hara prepared with the full cooperation of his family. The whole forms a fitting tribute to the Kentucky soldier-poet.

284Ranke, Leopold von. History of the reformation in Germany; tr. by Sarah Austin; ed. by Rob. A. Johnson. $2. Dutton.

This new low-priced edition of Ranke’s great work is “a reproduction of Mrs. Austin’s translation which only included the first six of the ten books into which Ranke divided his complete work. It includes the history of the German reformation down to the year 1534.” (Acad.)

“We have only a fragmentary translation, and ‘editing’ worthy of the publisher’s office-boy.”

Ransom, Caroline Louise. Studies in ancient furniture; couches and beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans. *$4.50. Univ. of Chicago press.

“A rather laborious piece of archæological work in a small field has been well performed by Miss Ransom.... Her investigation, in so far as it is original, depends upon an examination of monumental sources; from the literary she draws little, and that out of the usual handbooks, “the volume, a fine quarto, is beautifully illustrated by many full-page plates and cuts.””—Nation.

“It is a slightly expanded college thesis, and a scholarly contribution to the archæology of furniture. No phase of the subject is overlooked. The results are presented in a manner which, though not entertaining to the general reader, will prove highly instructive to the student of archæology.”

“The plates and other illustrations in the text are many and well chosen, and the references and discussions in the notes show careful research and sound scholarship.”

“The text shows evidence of a scholarly study of them, and, what is almost better, the application of much common sense.”

“Dr. Rashdall is an efficient representative of the Broad church group in the Anglican establishment. In this volume of discourses he addresses himself especially to educated men and women. He is concerned lest religion be crowded out of life, either by revolt against narrow ecclesiasticism or by the pressure of other concerns.... To explain some Christian institutions, ideas, and practices to educated hearers, with a view to promote an interest in the Church and its ordinances at once rational and reverent, is therefore the main object of these discourses. Starting from a review of the Oxford movement as having restored the idea of the Church to its due prominence in Christian thought. Dr. Rashdall discusses in considerable detail the institutional side of Christianity.”—Outlook.

“His outlook is historical. These discourses serve at any rate for a temperate and eminently clear expression of what many educated but not professional readers will recognize as an intelligible common-sense view on points of current controversy.”

“Characterized by transparent lucidity and an unadorned simplicity of diction.”

“The breadth and thoroughness of the discussion make the volume a helpful contribution to the reconstructive work now going on in religious thought. The general aim is practical. There is a note of reality, and of an intentness on reality, running through all these discourses.”

“In literary quality, too, as well as in the matter and tone, these sermons commend themselves to the discerning and sympathetic reader.” H. N. Gardiner.

“He is able, earnest, and learned, constructive, occasionally conservative, as well as critical.”

Rateau, A. Experimental researches on the flow of steam through nozzles and orifices, to which is added a note on the flow of hot water; authorized tr. by H. Boyd Brydon. *$1.50. Van Nostrand.

“This little book on the flow of steam is an expansion of” Prof Rateau’s “report to the congress of applied mechanics in 1890.... The object of the investigation was to determine the conditions governing the discharge from large conoidal convergent nozzles and an orifice in a thin plate, both above and below the ratio p equals 0.58 P.”—Engin. N.

“His work is painstaking in the extreme. One or two obvious typographical errors are noted. It is an interesting addition to the literature on the flow of steam through nozzles.” Strickland L. Kneass.

“The translation is clear. It is, however, a defect, for English readers, that the principal formulæ are left as given by the author in foreign units.”

In this memoir of her father, a Liverpool merchant, the author gives his life, his well-known work in parliament and in various philanthropic movements.

Ray, Anna Chapin (Sidney Howard, pseud.). By the good Sainte Anne: a story of modern Quebec. †$1.50. Little.

A new edition of this story of a typical Englishman, a Canadian of English descent, and a young French-Canadian, all of whom pay court to bright, vivacious Nancy Howard, who with her father, a New York physician, drop in among the guests at the Maple Leaf. The scenes and points of interest in and about Quebec furnish a setting for the bright conversations in which the story abounds.

Africa during the Boer war furnishes the setting of Miss Ray’s story of love and combat. The hero, a stalwart Canadian, follows an impulse to enter the fray as a private and in his narrow field demonstrates broad soldierly ability which operates for its full value, not only with the girl he loves, but with his rival, the young captain of his troop.

285“In spite of its conventional plot, holds a lively interest for the reader.”

“The collaboration in this novel is very successful. A well-constructed, entertaining, bright story, permeated by the spirit that recognizes and appreciates high ideals.”

In this new book for boys and girls, Sidney Stayres and her little brother Bungay spend an eventful summer with their cousins and their friends on the St. Lawrence. There are picnics, and general good times, there are accidents and anxious hours, but these doings of the true hearted little heroine and those who loved her will prove wholesome and entertaining reading for all young folks.

Raymond, Edward Brackett. Alternating current engineering, practically treated. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.

“This book is written by a member of the staff of the testing department of the General electric company; it consists of two parts; the first part contains the general theory of electricity and magnetism and a special theory of alternating currents; the second part treats of transformers, alternating current motors and alternators.... There is a great need for such a book, a book in which a young man just starting in practical electrical engineering work after college or any other school could find a clear, concise exposition of what he needs, what is done in practice, and why it is done so and not otherwise.”—Phys. R.

“In summing up it seems that notwithstanding some defects the book can be well recommended to young electrical engineers and to those who would like to refresh their memory on the subject of alternating currents. It is to be regretted that Mr. Raymond did not write his book in coöperation with somebody more familiar with the theoretical part of the subject and particularly with the approved methods of presenting them in a simple, lucid way. Then the wide practical experience of Mr. Raymond would find its right place in the book and make it one of the most valuable additions to our engineering literature.” V. K.

The author’s object in writing this book was “to present a brief but comprehensive treatment of the problems of education as they have shaped themselves in my mind during several years of experience in teaching.... It is for the younger members of that profession that my book is primarily intended.”

“The main quality of his book we should describe as common-sense.” J. Welton.

Rea, Hope. Tuscan and Venetian artists, their thought and work. *$1.50. Dutton.

A new and enlarged edition of these essays which treat of the broader aspects of Italian art, using individual artists and their work as illustrations. In “Builders and goldsmiths,” the influence of these arts upon painting is shown thru Botticelli, while Angelico, the idealist, and Signorelli, the realist, are contrasted to show the relation between imagination and reality in art, and the fusion of the two is illustrated by Raphael and the Venetians. Giotto, Duccio, Carpaccio, and Raphael are treated under artists story tellers. There is also a chapter on Della Robbia ware. There are thirty-eight tinted half-tones.

“The author writes intelligently, if with no great originality of thought, and in a pleasing if not over-exact style.”

“It is particularly valuable as a study of the causes which lead to the transference of an emotion from the individual to the canvas or marble.”

“The book may be recommended to those whose sympathy has not yet been aroused as it should be for the art of Tuscany and Venetia. Such a little book of criticism as this is always needed, not only for the unthinking tourist or student, but sometimes also for the thinking.”

“By metaphysics Professor Read means the ‘study of the validity and adequacy of knowledge and belief’ ... the addition ‘of Nature’ is intended to rule out ideals, the matter of ethics, politics, religion, and art. Within these limits he claims that his work is conciliatory and constructive.”—Ath.

“Signs are not wanting that he approaches his subject as a man of science rather than a philosopher, that is, in a spirit of vindication rather than unbiased inquiry.”

“Professor Carveth Read’s ‘Metaphysics of nature’ is a book that must take rank at once for importance with Mr. Bradley’s ‘Appearance and reality’ and Professor Ward’s ‘Naturalism and agnosticism.’” T. Whittaker.

“One of the best parts of the volume is the general discussion of the test of truth.”

Read, Opie. American in New York, a novel of to-day. $1.25. Thompson & Thomas.

Short sketches are welded together to form this book. There is a gallant Kentucky millionaire; “there is a very lovely widow who talks to him in the tea room, and to whom he tells quaint tales of the West; there is a young man, the millionaire’s adopted son, and a young woman, the widow’s niece.... To add to the zest of it too, the Colonel—so the millionaire is called—is very fond of playing Haroun Al Rashid. There is a villain also.” (N. Y. Times.)

“Tells some humorous stories and moralizes more or less shrewdly at times. There is too much, however, of his political and social dogmatism, and the personal story involved is of the weakest.”

Redgrave, Gilbert R., and Spackman, Charles. Calcareous cements: their nature, manufacture, and uses, with some observations upon cement testing. *$4.50. Lippincott.

“In its present edition this book is noteworthy for its discussion of cement manufacture. Over one-third of the space is devoted to this subject. The next largest space is given to composition, chemical analysis and constitution. In these sections and in its historical notes on the development and early manufacture of hydraulic cements the book is superior to any other treatise of which we have knowledge.”—Engin N.

286Rée, P. J. Nuremburg and its art to the end of the 18th century; from the German by G. H. Palmer. *$1.50. Scribner.

“The librarian of the Bavarian museum at Nuremburg has written a careful survey of the art treasures in that city. He scarcely touches the history of the place ... but traces the development of German art, as illustrated by the buildings and in the museums of Nuremburg, in painstaking and elaborate fashion. His treatment of the artists and craftsmen who succeeded Dürer will be found especially valuable by English tourists who wish to learn something more of designers and artist-craftsmen.... This volume of the “Art cities” series is abundantly illustrated by one hundred and twenty-three photographs.”—Ath.

“In spite of its merits, we fear that English readers will find it hard to digest. The translation of the book looks as if it had been ‘made in Germany.’”

This is the first volume of a second series of the “Brenda” books; it is a story for girls and tells of the experiences encountered by Amy, her mother, and her girl friends among the descendants of the exiled Acadians. These experiences acquire a peculiar interest thru their romantic setting and their historical background.

“The author manages, with indifferent skill, to convey much information for the benefit of young readers—that is, if they do not rebel at Amy.”

Optimistic in tone, looking forward to a glorious and peaceful future for a United States truly united, this book, altho written by a Southerner, and, to a certain extent, a plea for the South, makes for a better understanding between North and South by giving an account of the causes which led up to the Civil war in a fair-minded manner which admits of the statement that “the brothers on each side were true patriots and morally right.” It is an interesting volume and it discusses political parties, the great men upon each side, slavery, the race question and the Ku-Klux Klan, in a spirit so generous toward the North that it will not alienate even a reader in whom strong partisan feeling still remains.

A New York newspaper man and his bride begin their honeymoon in their heirloom house which was set on a hill and known as the Jack-o’-Lantern, because its arrangement of doors and windows made hideous resemblance to a human face. The eccentric donor had added wing after wing to the main portion of the house, the reason for which becomes apparent when relations, singly and in groups, swoop down on the pair to make their annual visit—“to sponge on a dead man as they did when he was alive.” In this pandemonium Howard Carr tries to write his first book.

“The author gives us a commonplace farce, all bustle, noise and confusion, with scenes and characters that have long ago lost all novelty.”

“It is a disconcerting, but not displeasing blend of folly and shrewdness. Some readers will think the book a mere tissue of nonsense, others may take a fleeting pleasure in its very absurdity.”

* “Miss Reed has certainly provided us in this instance with an original form of entertainment, and the story should prove popular.”—Wm. M. Payne.

* “Myrtle Reed is possessed of a quick sense of humor, is a keen observer of life, and an exceptionally alert and alluring judge of human nature.”

“Miss Reed is mistress of a delicacy of thought and style which lends itself gracefully to the light and airy exaggeration of human foibles.”

“We do not find this tale altogether successful in its alternating attempts at sprightliness and sentiment. The characters neither act reasonably nor talk naturally.”

Reeves, Jesse Siddall. Napoleonic exiles in America: a study in American diplomatic history, 1815-1819. pa. 50c. Hopkins.

This pamphlet is uniform with the “Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science.” The study centers about the unfortunate colonial enterprise called Champ d’Asile on the banks of the Trinity river in Texas.

Reid, G. Archdall. Principles of heredity, with some applications. *$3.50. Dutton.

“While possessing large and varied interest for the general reader, this work is specially addressed to medical men.... What is new in the work is mainly drawn from evidence, hitherto largely unused, concerning heredity, that he has found in the study of disease, especially of the zymotic kinds, and also of narcotics. This is held to establish conclusively that parental acquirements are never transmitted to offspring and that the great mass of variation has another origin than that of the action of the environment of the germ-cells.”—Outlook.

“What he has written is evidently the result of wide reading and serious logical thinking with regard to the many intricate questions involved. At the same time his work is seldom technical, and will be nearly always readily intelligible even by those who are not familiar with the strictly biological terminology of the subject.”

“He covers too much ground, and appears to have put together matter written at different times and in pursuance of different trains of thought.”

* “We have one fault to find; in a work on the principles of heredity one would have expected a fuller discussion than is actually given of biometric and Mendelian methods of dealing with that phenomenon.” A. D. D.

“He writes with a warmth of conviction that is stimulating to thought, and with a mastery of his subject which commands attention.”

Reinach, Salomon. The story of art throughout the ages; tr. by Florence Simmonds. **$2. Scribner.

“A general outline of art from its origin to the present age. It includes art in the polished stone and bronze ages; in Egypt, Chaldea, and Persia; Aegean, Minoan, and Mycenæan art; Greek art before Phidias; Phidias and the Parthenon; Praxiteles, Scopas, and Lysippus; Greek art after Alexander the Great; the minor arts of Greece; Etruscan and Roman art; Christian art in the East and in the West; Romanesque and Gothic architecture; Romanesque and Gothic sculpture; the architecture of the renaissance and modern architecture; the renaissance of Siena and Florence; Venetian painting; Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael—the Milanese 287Umbrian and Roman schools; Michelangelo and Correggio; the renaissance in Germany; the Italian decadence and the Spanish school; art in the Netherlands in the sixteenth century; the art of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in France; and art in the nineteenth century. There are nearly six hundred illustrations in the book.”—Bookm.

“The translation is fluent and adequate as a whole, though it is occasionally clumsy.”

“The translation before us, in the main, reads well, and the book, as a whole, appears in a very acceptable form. Much may be said in praise of the work and very little against it. The reader immediately becomes fascinated by the style, the independence of thought and judgments by the illuminating touches on periods and individual artists. Taken in its ensemble, it is possibly the best short history of art, or rather the history of the filiation of art schools ever written.” Hugo P. Thieme.

“Excellent as is the treatment of ancient art, it is surpassed by the clear and scholarly exposition of art in the Christian era, so that we have no hesitation in saying that this book is an indispensable work for every library, whether large or small, throughout the land. It is a matter of sincere congratulation for the author to find so much knowledge in so small a space. The setting given to the text is of the same high order as the text itself.”

“A book both critical and fascinating. The translation, by Miss Florence Simmonds, is admirably done.”

“The book is a little masterpiece. His taste and judgment are as sure as his knowledge is exact. It is assuredly the best brief general history of art, if not the best such history of any length, that has yet appeared. It deserved a better and more faithful translation than has been given it by Florence Simmonds. One is never certain whether he is getting the opinions of M. Reinach or those of Miss Simmonds.”

“The translation is unusually careful and successful, and the reader of it loses nothing of the practical utility of the work. The distinguishing trait of M. Reinach is his combination of poise and alertness. He is not a partisan.”

“In the style there are surprising vivacity and individuality. The individual common sense, the happy and sometimes sharply incisive phrases, and the broadly critical spirit of the book are traits rare in an outline of this sort.”

“Has given us a work of exceptional educational value in his splendidly condensed ‘Story of art throughout the ages.’ It serves the double purpose of reference book and of introductory work to the art of any period. Readable narrative. All that a well-equipped special library on art should contain is given in condensed and miniature form in this one volume.”

This volume in “The citizen’s library of economics, politics, and sociology,” “is rather a statement of the various problems confronting colonial governments, and an indication of the main lines of solution that have been attempted than a complete and conclusive discussion of the principles involved. The book gives in small compass a broad survey of the most important activities of modern colonial governments, and deals with the facts of colonial administration rather than with the underlying philosophy. Such topics as education; finance; commerce; currency, banking, and credit; agriculture; the land policy; and the labor question, are tersely and instructively discussed.”—R. of Rs.

* “The temper and language of Prof. Reinsch’s introductory chapter could scarcely be improved. He has for the most part made good use of the numerous books cited in his notes.”

Remensnyder, Junius Benjamin. Atonement and modern thought; with an introd. by B: B. Warfield. $1. Lutheran pub. soc.

“Dr. Remensnyder makes a vigorous presentation of the Lutheran conception of the Atonement in its antagonism to the characteristic tendencies of modern thought. As thus conceived it was an objective transaction in which Christ as the sinner’s substitute bore the punishment due to sin. The Atonement thus viewed is presented as the central truth of Christianity.”—Outlook.

A reprint in popular form of the scholarly “Life” written by the great French Liberal “from the view-point of one who saw in him a great prophet, but a son of the Infinite only in the sense that the noblest and purest of earth can be termed the sons of God.” (Arena.)

“Is a volume that should be found in the libraries of all broad-minded people. This work will ever remain the loving and masterful labor of one of the bravest, ablest and most honest thinkers and scholars of the nineteenth century.” Amy C. Rich.

A group of entertaining essays with pure literary merit. The subjects which Miss Repplier treats are: Luxury of conversation; The gayety of life; The point of view; Marriage in fiction; Our belief in books; The beggar’s pouch; The pilgrim’s staff; A Quaker diary; French love-songs; The spinster; The tourist; The headsman; Consecrated to crime; Allegra.

“She has always a point of view; she writes in an agreeable style; and she is well informed and has taste.”

“They are not meant for the frivolous, but for those who can appreciate good literature. She has her own ideas on the subject about which she writes, and states them without hesitation or qualification.”

“The subjects of her essays vary pleasantly and they are all written in a purely literary style. Her vivacity is not nervous, but intellectual, and the thread of her thought is so interwoven with the golden warp of older writers like Johnson, Montaigne and others that for once we have the tone of time upon the fresh tapestry of modern life. Her reflections shade back into old philosophies. All are seasoned with that pleasant gossip which a good-tempered intelligent woman has acquired from a wide knowledge of and close friendship with the best writers of the last four hundred years.”

Charming personal reminiscences of the author’s 288childhood in a French-American convent school. The stories are real, they are true to human nature, true, so those who know declare, to the atmosphere of the school itself, and certainly true in that many of the little girls who lived and had adventures and murmured profound confidences inside those convent walls are prominent women to-day.

Representative essays on the theory of style, chosen and edited by William Tenney Brewster. *$1.10. Macmillan.

These essays have been selected with the object of supplementing the technical works on methods and forms. The volume includes Literature, by John Henry Newman; Style, by Thomas de Quincey; The philosophy of style, by Herbert Spencer; The principles of success in literature, by George Henry Lewis; Style in literature—its technical elements, by Robert Louis Stevenson; Style, by Walter Pater; and Our English prose, by Frederic Harrison. Professor Brewster has included an introduction, notes and questions, and an index.

“A volume likely to be of good service to academic students of literature and composition.”

“The introduction ... makes skilful use of the material which the editor has carefully selected for the body of the volume.”

Seven addresses which were first delivered before the Chicago Preachers’ meeting. They are designed to awaken a more general interest in revival work and include sermons by Bishop McDowell, Rev. E. B. Crawford, Rev. Chas. Little, Rev. John Thompson, Rev. W. E. Tilroe, and Rev. P. H. Swift.

* “They are excellent as far as they go, but the collection as a whole lacks completeness and proportion.”

Reybaud, Henrietta Etiennette Fanny (Arnaud) (Mme. Charles Reybaud). La belle paysanne; tr. from the French by Remus F. Foster. $1. Neale.

A young French student falls in love with the pastel of a beautiful woman which he finds in his uncle’s house, and he hears her story from an old lover of hers and a priest, and learns how, as a young girl, she broke her troth to the marquis and married a handsome peasant, whom she afterwards murdered. In the end he finds in his uncle’s repulsive old housekeeper the original of his fancy.

Reynolds, Cuyler, comp. Classified quotations: compiled for general reference and also as aids in making up lists of toasts and in the preparation of the after dinner speech and occasional address; with suggestions concerning the menu and other details connected with the proper ordering of a banquet; being a reissue of “The banquet book.” **$2.50. Putnam.

“The book is a collection of quotations on all sorts of subjects, intended to help persons preparing menus for dinners. It evidently fills the place for which it was intended, for this appearance is the fifth.”—N. Y. Times.

* “The collection is a good one; more general, besides than the needs of the banquet. The index is rather meagre.”

* “Mr. Reynolds has the capacity for taking infinite pains, as all his work shows, and this collection is remarkably complete.”

Reynolds, George F. Some principles of Elizabethan staging. 50c. Univ. of Chicago press.

This study is only a part of a more comprehensive one now in preparation, discussing not only Elizabethan plays but also the actual construction of the stage itself and the properties which furnished it.

Rhoades, Cornelia Harsen (Nina Rhoades). That Preston girl. †$1.50. Wilde.

A story which depicts the loneliness and suffering of a girl who is ostracized because of her father’s dishonest means of attaining wealth. She is a refined, unselfish, loyal type of girlhood, a helpful acquaintance for any young reader.

Rhodes, James Ford. History of the United States from the compromise of 1850. Vol. 5. **$2.50. Macmillan.

“Confidence has grown with each succeeding volume that the great history of the Civil war is being written.” (Ind.) This fifth volume covers the years 1864-66. “In the beginning of this volume, Mr. Rhodes gives a brief recapitulation of the salient events of the Civil war, and follows this with a detailed account of Sherman’s Georgia campaign. Grant’s Appomattox campaign, Lee’s surrender, and the assassination of Lincoln are all treated within the limits of a single chapter. A long chapter is devoted to an account of society at the North during the war, and a similar chapter to society at the South. Another chapter is assigned to the treatment of prisoners of war. The volume closes with a fair and impartial account of reconstruction.” (R. of Rs.)

“But it would be unfair to regard Dr. Rhodes’s slips in military matters as impairing the value of his work. The present volume is a perfect storehouse of valuable facts and records. If anything, it is too full of material and not sufficiently ordered.” A. R. Ropes.

“I cannot think of another historian who so constantly produces the effect of complete candor, who is so indefatigably minded to tell all that can be reckoned of consequence, and to display unreservedly the sources of his knowledge and the grounds of his opinions.” W. G. Brown.

“As a whole it comes up fully to the high standard set in the preceding volumes. In the treatment of the controversial questions of the time Mr. Rhodes shows the same spirit of impartiality and breadth of view which has won for him the admiration of students.” James Wilford Garner.

“To the specialist, the work will appeal as authoritative until more evidence is forthcoming. The author has performed a distinct service in showing that a non-partisan account of our great Civil war need not be colorless.” David Y. Thomas.

289“It is hardly possible that the theme will ever be treated with fuller detail, more skilfully wrought into a dramatic story. Concerning this, as concerning the whole work, it must be said that it will be most authoritative among those who are most familiar with the sources of information. The general reader may grow to believe fully in the author’s conclusions, but the specialist will be convinced by the unquestionable force of the testimony offered.”

* “This masterful accomplishment entitles Mr. Rhodes to the first place among American historians.”

“The writer’s method and his even narration make pleasant reading. There is the same painstaking examination of authorities, the same skilful arrangement of facts, the same balanced (sometimes hesitating) judgment, and the same desire to be eminently fair to all parties in a controversy.”

“Mr. Rhodes’s treatment of the war itself, and of the issues growing out of the war, is that of an unbiased historian, and will meet, we think, with the cordial approbation of southern as well as northern participants in that great struggle.”

“A considerable part of this volume is given to a chapter describing the conditions of society in the northern states during the war, and another chapter to society in the southern states. These are among the most important and interesting contributions to our historical literature. They are hardly entitled to be called brilliant, but they are full of good sense, of sound judgments, and of well-proportioned groupings of facts. They are likely to be read as long as any historical writings of our time. His style is not brilliant, but it is a good working style, with the fundamental merits of clearness and dignity; and his judgments are the judgments of a man of great common sense. All preceding books have at best been materials for such a history. Mr. Rhodes’s work is the best narrative of this stirring time.”

Rice, Mrs. Alice Caldwell Hegan (Mrs. Cale Young Rice). Sandy. †$1. Century.

In turning away from Mrs. Wiggs and Lovey Mary, Mrs. Rice has chosen to import the irresponsible, hot-headed, impulsive Irish boy, Sandy. All the way from stowaway on an American liner to the successful college graduate, and the hero of an ambitious romance, he runs a curious round of chance which claims him for a boot-black, newsboy, peddler, and finally drops him into the keeping of a kind-hearted old judge, who starts him along the road to fortune.

“The book possesses much of the wholesome sweetness of her two earlier volumes. There is no denying Mrs. Rice’s pleasant manner of telling a story.”

“It possesses much of the wholesome sweetness of the philosophy of the Cabbage patch.”

“An interesting study of the stuff that Americans are made of, and of a variety of cleverly drawn Kentucky types.”

“Mrs. Rice’s reputation will receive a fine impetus from this delightful little story.”

“Mrs. Rice has given too much attention to the outsiders in ‘Sandy,’ and the boy and the girl who are the chief actors suffer. The story is sketchily drawn; too sketchily, the average reader will think.”

Richards, Ellen Henrietta Swallow (Mrs. R. H. Richards). Art of right living. *50c. Whitcomb & B.

This small volume proffers much commonsense advice on the limitations of food, the need of air, exercise, amusement and work.

“The reader of Mrs. Richard’s series beginning with ‘Captain January’ will meet old acquaintances here. Mrs. Tree herself, though dead, seems more alive than anybody through her will, its effects, and the anecdotes her survivors narrate.”—Outlook.

* “Is a worthy successor to ‘Mrs. Tree’ in affording quiet amusement for an idle hour. Mrs. Richards writes brightly, humorously, and with excellent taste.”

“There are certain touches of pleasant humor here and there in the book that almost give it a reason for existence.”

“The picturing of village life, though amusing and touching at times, lacks strength and body, seems trivial and fantastic.”

This book successfully covers a field hitherto but inadequately dealt with. It is “the first authoritative presentation of the subject by a representative of the asphalt paving companies, thus making public the results of long and patient investigation by them, not heretofore accessible to the municipal engineer.... Structurally, Mr. Richardson divides an asphalt pavement into three parts or courses; the base, the intermediate course and the surface course.” (Engin. N.) He treats his subject exhaustively from the selection of materials to the proper execution of the work.

“In conclusion it not too much to say that Mr. Richardson’s book should be classed with those which appear too infrequently, but whose appearance marks epochs in the industry to which they relate. Even if the dictums of the authors are not always accepted or vindicated, they set people to thinking and mark out new paths for future progress.” S. Whinery.

“The book is likely to prove of great value to municipal authorities.” T. H. B.

A country bred girl tells of her experiences in New York city. She came friendless and unskilled with but a few dollars in her pocket, she sought honest work, and found short jobs as a box maker, a sweat-shop worker, a liner of jewel-boxes, a “shaker” in a steam laundry and at various other occupations all equally unpleasant and equally underpaid. The pictures she draws of the working girls’ home are painfully sad and realistic.

“This story of the Civil war offers drama and romance in about the usual proportions, but the former of a quality quite unusual—the siege of Vicksburg being pictured with cycloramic realism.”—Outlook.

“This is an uncommonly interesting story of the Civil war. The sentimental motive is skilfully woven into the account of the siege.”

Richey, Harry Grant. Handbook for superintendents of construction, architects, builders, and building inspectors. $4. Wiley.

“The subjects which receive particularly thorough and careful treatment are: excavating, laying out foundations, testing and analysis of stone, stone and bricklaying (which is especially well illustrated), testing of soil, piling, timber specifications, steel sheet piling, building stones, etc.... A fair amount of space is devoted to cement and concrete.”—Engin. N.

“In general, the book is meritorious and well presented, almost all of the matter being of value to building inspectors or superintendents. The book compares very well with other books of its kind.” Wm. W. Ewing.

Richman, Irving Berdine. Rhode Island; a study in separatism. **$1.10. Houghton.

A volume in the “American commonwealths” series. “There can be no doubt that the distinctive characteristic of Rhode Island as a political entity has been its separatist tendencies. Founded as a protest, it has clearly demonstrated its innate individualism in every crisis of its history.... There is reason for Mr. Richman’s assertion that even to-day the influence of the old-time thought is making itself keenly felt in the political life of the state.... Mr. Richman writes with enthusiasm [and gives] concise retrospective summaries.”—Outlook.

* “Mr. Richman has made one of the most instructive and readable contributions to the ‘American commonwealths’ series.”

* “His conclusions, on the whole, show discrimination, and his treatment is adequate, developing the social and economic as well as the political and constitutional history of the state. The most serious defect—and it is serious—is an occasional obscuration of salient facts in a mass of detail.”

An “account of Juliet’s repeated refusals of a nice, tall, broad-shouldered young man named Anthony. Anthony had been rich, but unfortunately lost all his money. Nevertheless he continued to love Juliet.... At last, goaded to desperation, he worked out a pretty little plan of arousing the lady’s jealousy, which was quite successful. With Juliet’s aid he fitted and furnished a dear little box of a house in the country, ostensibly for a lovely California girl.... After it was all ready for its new mistress Juliet permitted herself the luxury of going over it all alone one evening and crying. And there Anthony found her. But this is not the end of the story. In fact it is only the beginning, and several other romances crop up before it is finished.”—N. Y. Times.

A story of the primitive life of the Shetland islands where the sea is “the great fact of life.” The hero reaps his harvest of content after years spent in patient service to a widowed mother, whose fondness for drink he strives by eternal vigilance to hide from others. The call of the sea is forever in his ears, but in the end, when he is free to go, he finds that the desire is conquered and his real happiness lies at home in the love of a woman and a little child.

“The dialect is not particularly unintelligible, but there is a good deal of it.”

“It is worth reading for itself, and those who love the sea, especially, will like it because it is full of the atmosphere of the sea, of the simplicity and the mysticism and primitiveness of true sea-dwelling people.”

“A new field, and a new strong writer in that field. There is much quiet power in the story.”

“As to its intrinsic interest and picturesqueness there can be no doubt whatever.”

* Ridgeway, William. Origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse. *$3.75. Macmillan.

“Treats not only of all the chief breeds of British domestic horses known in historical times, but also takes a survey of all the other living equidae, as well as of the ancestors of the genus. He has made an attempt to treat historically the origin of the various colors found in English horses; at the same time indicating the influence exercised on the history of the chief nations of the ancient, mediaeval, and modern world by the possession of horses.... Besides all this he has ‘also tried to point out the lessons of supreme importance to the breeder.’ ... A supplementary chapter has been included considering ‘The development of equitation.’ There are also addenda and a full index, besides numerous illustrations.”—N. Y. Times.

* “He marshals evidence for you as a special pleader, and hammers it in as a violent partisan. But at the same time he does not carry his audience away. There are too many slips of fact, too many circular proofs, too many violations of logic. At the end you are interested, stimulated, but not won.”

* “Prof. Ridgeway on the other hand, has primarily attacked the problem from the point of view of the historian and the archaeologist, and it must be acknowledged that naturalists owe him a large debt of gratitude for bringing into prominence lines of evidence with which, from the very nature of the case, they are unfamiliar.” R. L.

* “It is also an encyclopedia of information on the history of the ‘Equidae’, collected from every source, from post-Pliocene deposits to modern sporting newspapers. Professor Ridgeway, when merely setting down information, is apt to flit among countries and ages with a dexterity which perplexes the reader.”

With the spirit of a Brutus, Frances Cary, the heroine of this story, kills her niggardly and cruel grandfather in order to free her brother, the lawful heir, from a rule of terrible bondage. The act was inevitable to her philosophy of youth. The book goes on to show that retribution will not be restrained by the mitigating circumstance of unselfishness in actuating a crime. One has his fill of deep problems.

“This story deals with the shadow of a very dark deed involving a question of casuistry in morals. The book is interesting in a dismal way. The odor of chloroform pervades it and hangs heavy on every page.”

“It fairly bristles with problems. In spite of the undercurrent of gloom the story is light and even gay in some of its passages.”

Over fifty of Mr. Riley’s happiest verses have been collected into this volume which is profusely illustrated by Will Vawter. The all-golden; A Christmas carol; The first bluebird; Mister hop-toad; A passing hail; The twins; A song of the road; and While the heart beats young, are included among other old favorites.

* “There is a good deal of commonplace work in the book, but there are also bits here and there of Mr. Riley at his best.”

* “It is a great pity that Mr. James Whitcomb Riley’s publishers should persist in vulgarizing verse so fine as his by cheap and silly illustrations.”

* “Wholesome verse, it is, and tinged with a sentiment that is genuine though often commonplace.”

Riley, Theodore Myers. A memorial biography of the Very Reverend Eugene Augustus Hoffman. $5. Priv. ptd. at the Marion press, Jamaica, Queensborough, N. Y.

A biography which covers fully the facts of a life upon which the author comments as follows: “He was never primarily a theologian, or indeed primarily anything but an admirably well-balanced man, in whom the note of our common nature was always predominant.... He wrote no great books; he ventilated no schemes of sociological or of theological improvement to the world; he offered no advice to the public for the reconstitution of human society. He simply abode in the path of achievement marked out for him by his office as a priest, and by his gifts of constitution and rule.... And so he became great, because he was faithful, humble, wise, modest.”

“It is appreciative, orderly, and so full that its 795 pages of noble type leave nothing to be desired except an index.”

A study of the culture interests of Chicago has resulted in the exposition of some of the agencies that are working for the betterment of the city, including the schools, libraries and the press, civic associations and women’s clubs, social settlements, charities, etc.

“To many who think of Chicago as a great commercial centre merely, this account of the higher life will be a revelation.”

“It is a book of much value both for reference and for the further stimulation of cultural and altruistic endeavor.”

Ringwalt, Ralph Curtis. Briefs on public questions, with selected lists of references. *$1.20. Longmans.

A book which “is sure of favor with the young debating community, but is also well calculated to enlarge the understanding and settle the convictions of journalists and legislators. Its themes are logically ordered under three heads, Politics, Economics, and Sociology.” (Nation.) Twenty-five individual topics are treated, among them Naturalization, Woman suffrage, Negro suffrage, Restriction of immigration, Reciprocity with Canada, Government ownership of railways, single tax, etc.

“Great judgment and fairness have been displayed by the author, who has been able to sink personal considerations to a marked degree in his effort to impartially present a brief outline of the principal arguments on each subject discussed.”

“The scheme and the execution are to be commended, and Mr. Ringwalt has had in mind in his bibliography the resources of ordinary public libraries.”

“Within its chosen field a valuable reference book. The work has been done with much care and thoroughness, and the book is not by any means limited in its usefulness to those preparing for debates, although its peculiar adaptability to that purpose is evident.”

A series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum—the New York county courthouse bootblack stand—and recorded by William L. Riordan. “For more than forty years he has seen the political game played in New York city.... His has been the peculiar distinction of holding four offices at one and the same time and drawing salaries for three of them.... He is the old-fashioned type of the professional politician, even in Tammany Hall, but he has a shrewd, homely sense that is not to be learned from books and that would be invaluable in a man without the moral crookedness that afflicts this man.”—Pub. Opin.

This volume is “a compilation of special articles, mainly by other well-known legal writers, on the great cases which have arisen relative to the status of corporate bodies. These cases extend over a period of thirty-five years, from the Michigan salt association ... in 1868 to the recent Northern securities company and the United States shipbuilding company.”—N. Y. Times.

“Doubtless the book will prove a valuable adjunct to the equipment of the student. But a further compilation and classification of cases would have been more reassuring to the student.”

A discussion of “baptism and church membership and the teaching of the home and Sunday school from the point of view of one who believes in gradual growth into the religious life.” (Ind.)

“The history of a hero fox of singular beauty and strength, united with rare intelligence, adaptability and foresight.... His range was the forest, rocky slopes, and backwoods farms of the Ringwaak country in eastern Canada. Here he ran the full gamut of fox-experience ... leading a joyous and adventurous life till the brightness of his renown made him a shining mark for capture. Then, taken by a trick formidable for its simplicity, he was sent to the states to make a Roman holiday for a fashionable hunt club, but escaped by almost super-vulpine sagacity and found safety in the mountains.” (Nation.) Fifty full page drawings by Charles Livingston Bull illustrate the volume.

* “Has the fascination of a real jungle story, without owing any apparent debt to Mr. Kipling.”

* “It is intensely interesting throughout; it ends happily; the natural history is sound; and the pictures are numerous and worthy.”

“Mr. Roberts appears to tell his story chiefly for its own sake, but he impresses us quite as deeply as if he had tried to enforce it by didacticism.”

“Is a rare thing among animal biographies. The interest, at least, is quite human.”

* “Certainly the story is entertaining, and wins and keeps the sympathy of the reader for the four-footed hero.”

* “Red Fox is one of the most interesting characters in all the annals of woods life.”

“The treatment is sufficiently literal to answer all that the author claims for his book, and certainly nothing is lost in charm by the insertion of what Mr. Roberts considers the animal psychology.”

Roberts, Edmund Willson. Automobile pocketbook: a compendium of the gasoline automobile. $1.50. Gas engine pub.

The object of this little book is “to place before the designer and the operator, in a brief manner, a few general notes on the design and the operation of the gasoline automobile.” “Somewhat more than one-half the book is devoted to the design of various parts, such as valve mechanisms, mufflers and axles; and detailed descriptions of the best forms now in use are given, accompanied by lettered drawings, which enable the average reader to grasp the idea at a glance.... Several chapters are devoted to the care of various parts of the automobile, how to locate troubles and how to make repairs.” (Engin. N.)

“This pocketbook fills a place in automobile literature occupied by no other book.”

Roberts, George Simon. Old Schenectady. *$4.50. Robson & Adee, Schenectady, N. Y.

A book which “carries the reader back to 1682, when the Dutch Van Curlers, the Vedders, the Tellers, and other Dutch families settled there. The author does not attempt a historical narrative, but gives a series of pictures of the quaint town in the early days: its pioneer settlers; its defenses against Indian attack; its French and Indian massacre; its Dutch heirlooms. The value of the book is much enhanced by appropriate and well-executed cuts and halftone illustrations.”—Am. Hist. R.

“Some history, more genealogy, and a modicum of biography well served by the compiler of the neatly printed volume, make an interesting story. The book bristles with anecdote, reminiscence, and tradition of the families ... whose names still count for much in the Mohawk valley.”

This book “includes an account of the development of the horse from the early times and the introduction of improved breeds; a description of kinds and grades now in use; a careful study of the different gaits and paces of the horse; and many chapters dealing with the most approved and practicable methods of training, feeding, driving, breeding, and caring for horses.”—Outlook.

“Even the man who breeds horses for the market may find helpful suggestions here. Told in an entertaining way, with an enthusiasm for the subject that adds sparkle to the story.”

“The book has unquestioned value, and contains in compact form but in clear language much that is valuable.”

The lady Penelope Brading, orphaned daughter of an English earl and an American heiress, is a young woman of ideas, and ideals. From a host of suitors, and there are many as she possesses all things save a sense of humor, she chooses eight; a poet, a captain, a successful Jew, a young nobleman, a war correspondent, a balloonist, an artist, and an American millionaire, and puts them in training, finally announcing that she has married one of them secretly. Each pretends to be the one and the reader is thoroly mystified even when a baby arrives to further complicate the situation.

293“‘Lady Penelope’ is the best book we have seen for the use of those newspapers which a few years ago offered prizes for guessing how the story would end.”

“It is all in its airy way an amazingly clever satire, touching upon an astonishing number of solemn and respectable matters in a manner of cheerful and spontaneous audacity, which disarms resentment.”

“This is an amusing and audacious comedy of cross purposes and dramatic situations.”

The two brothers of peril are a brave Indian boy and a young English cavalier seeking adventure in the New world. The scenes are laid in Newfoundland among the Beothic Indians. The author says: “I have dared to resurrect an extinct tribe for the purposes of fiction. I have drawn inspiration from the spirit of history rather than the letter. But the heart of the wilderness, and the hearts of men and women, I have pictured in this romance of olden time as I know them to-day.”

“We admire Mr. Roberts’s modesty, and commend him for his temperate description.”

“A rarely good tale of adventure in which the characters are vividly drawn and the interest is never allowed to fall below the properly breathless point.”

“A fabric pulsing with thrills, jealousy, pirates, Indian treachery and other necessities of a thoroughly good story of adventure.”

Robertson, Charles Grant, ed. Select statutes, cases and documents to illustrate English constitutional history, 1660-1832; with a supplement from 1832-1894. **$3. Putnam.

“The book is the outgrowth of the author’s own needs in teaching modern history at Oxford, where he found that ... there was a hiatus that needed to be filled by a collection of documents for the epoch that opens with the restoration of Charles II.... Among the statutes and documents included may be mentioned the Act of uniformity, the Test act, the Coronation oath, the Bill of rights, the Act of settlement, the Act for the union with Scotland, the Act for the union with Ireland, the Abolition of the slave trade. All of the most famous cases in English legal history, within the period treated, are included.”—N. Y. Times.

“Careful notes indicate when statutes have been repealed, though the system employed does not always make clear just what portions. It is spread out too thin to suit the needs of intensive work. The value of the bibliography and of many of the page references is much lessened by the failure to give the date and place of publication of the editions cited. Other examples seem to indicate that the editor’s knowledge of the general history of at least part of his period is somewhat faulty.” Arthur Lyon Cross.

“In his selection and editing of the statutes and cases that were available Mr. Robertson has certainly displayed excellent judgment and sound learning.”

“Is indispensable to the reader and student of modern English history. The volume forms altogether one of the very best collections of documents illustrative of English history.” Stanhope Sams.

Fourteen stories on various subjects, but all of men whose real home is not on land. Under such titles as—“A cow, two men, and a parson,” “The mutiny,” “The vitality of Dennis,” “Fifty fathoms down,” “The enemies,” “The rivals,” and “A hero of the cloth,” we hear of war vessels and other craft, of humorous and exciting happenings, and come to know some most enjoyable characters.

“Are in the last degree ingenious in construction and clever in the telling. They have, however, two serious faults: they are so far-fetched ... and, except for the adventures of Finnegan, they are painful to the point of being disagreeable.”

“In his characterization of the men whom he brings into these stories there is all the vigor, simplicity, and natural unforced humor that would be expected from one who has been called the ‘Kipling of the sea.’”

“Some amusing, some vividly realistic, and others impressive by virtue of the style, even when farthest from the probable.”

“There are a directness and freshness about the mere way in which Mr. Robertson sets about telling a story, that only come when one is master of his whole subject, a close observer and friend of his characters, a master of the ship, and of the words to describe both men and ships. But it is in the humorous that Mr. Robertson excels.”

A volume in section III. of the “Belles-lettres” series. The texts are printed from the English acting editions which follow the original manuscripts. A life of Robertson, an introduction, notes and a bibliography are included.

Robertson, William Graham, il. French songs of old Canada; with translations into modern English verse. *$10. Dutton.

A beautiful gift book of colored drawings which illustrate the stories found in these old songs of the French-Canadians. A separate pamphlet contains good English translations of the songs.

Altho there is not room for great detail in this brief account of the life of Sherman, many interesting conversations and anecdotes have been included which add both to its historical and biographical value. The volume is one of the “American crisis biographies” and contains chronology, bibliography, and index.

294Robins, Elizabeth (Mrs. G. R. Parkes). Dark lantern; a story with a prologue. †$1.50. Macmillan.

“London society, within the last ten years, makes the surroundings of the intrigue and passion that are here dealt with ... Katherine Dereham, the heroine, and the ogre doctor, Garth Vincent, however, concentrate most of the reader’s attention. Katherine is a beautiful girl, who falls desperately in love with a prince, who cannot marry her ... and wastes much of her youth in a harmful thralldom to a fancy. After her escape from her passion for the prince, burdened with a serious illness, she becomes the thrall of the ogre doctor, described as ‘the man with the dark-lantern face.’”—N. Y. Times.

“It is a striking, though scarcely a satisfactory book, and widely remote in every respect from the ordinary machine-made novel of commerce.”

“Besides the vigor with which the main theme is handled, the striking quality of the book is a certain kind of bigness.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

“Her characters certainly have vitality, and an extraordinary power to interest us.” Wm. M. Payne.

“Grotesque in its violation of the elementary principles of art and literature.” Herbert W. Horwill.

“‘A dark lantern’ at once sustains the writer’s reputation for competent craftsmanship.”

“It must be called, plainly, a distorted picture. But it is full of sincerity, and has much fine detail. In strength, in originality, in emotional force it is far out of the common.”

“Is not what is sometimes called a pleasant book, but it has the strength of interest.”

“In the New England sense, it is not a nice story, but the able characterization and the intense plot give it the right to be.”

“Miss Robins may see life awry,—the reader clings to the hope that she does,—but she sees it strongly and brilliantly.”

Robins, Rev. Henry Ephraim. Ethics of the Christian life; or, The science of right living. **$2. Am. Bapt.

“Part. I. deals with the nature of the ethics of the Christian life: the moral agent and the disorder of the moral nature, the remedy for moral disorder. Part. II. discusses the scope of the ethics of the Christian life: all duty rests on the holy will of God, duty to self, duty to society, duty to nature, duty to God. Part. III. considers the method of the ethics of the Christian life.”—Am. J. of Theol.

“Valuable work. The work under review is a contribution to only one tract of that larger field.” C. R. Henderson.

“Grant Dr. Robins’ premises, and you can not escape his conclusions. His is not a twentieth century ethical system.”

A book which “falls roughly into three divisions: a review of peninsular misrule in Cuba and of the efforts of the Cubans to throw off the Spanish yoke; a survey of the American occupation of the island, with especial attention to the work of reconstruction; and a statement of the conditions prevailing since the Cubans attained self-government. An eye-witness of many of the events he describes, Mr. Robertson writes with vivacity and warmth.... His point of view, however, is primarily and frankly Cuban.”—Outlook.

“The volume covers the various phases of American activity and gives valuable insight into the difficulties of the task confronting the American authorities.”

“This is a clear and unbiased account of one of the most interesting incidents in our national history.”

“While his volume is in some respects extremely useful—notably ... in assisting to a better appreciation of the Latin-American character—it can scarcely be said to fulfill its main purpose of giving a clear and unbiased account of the methods and results of American intervention.”

“Mr. Robinson sums up the whole case of the United States and Cuba with admirable impartiality.”

A consideration of the problem of civic improvement as applied to all cities, their business centres, streets, residences, tenements, parks, and parkways. This second edition is illustrated with numerous half-tones and photogravures presenting architectural arrangements for city squares, water fronts, and other places of decorative importance.

“Though flowery in style on occasion, the author handles his subject both widely and concretely.”

“The author’s analysis is exhaustive, and his treatment is as complete and authoritative as our present knowledge of the subject makes possible.”

“We are glad that a second edition, with the addition of designs, has been published of this valuable volume.”

In his garden on the coast of Norfolk, the author has studied bird life and plant life and he gives an account of an English year, the drama which the observant one may see enacted day by day, by the things of feathers and of petals.

“It forms a vade mecum of pleasant information for all the passing hours of the rolling year.”

“As a rule, the author has nothing specially new to tell, and his book may be regarded as a guide to what the observant country resident ought to see and notice, rather than as an exponent of fresh facts.” R. L.

“It is one of the great merits of the book that this appreciation of nature is never allowed to degenerate into sentimentalism.”

295“This is a delightful record of a year in the country day by day. It is written with a keen sympathy with nature and a true instinct for the beautiful.”

“President Roosevelt has praised this book of poems, finding in them ‘an undoubted touch of genius.’ To this fact no doubt is due the reprinting of a little book now eight years old.” (Critic.) “The mood is usually serious, and quite removed from the too sweet and pensive sadness of one who invokes grief as a becoming adjunct to his verse.... The numerous poems of religious feeling are the product of a wholesome faith.”—N. Y. Times.

* “We do not dispute the President’s dictum; but we suspect that he has not kept ‘au courant’ with the flood of American minor verse. Had he done so, he would think twice before applying the word ‘genius’ to Mr. Robinson, notwithstanding the author’s ‘curious simplicity and good faith.’”

* “Is a very pleasant little book. No minor poet of the day is less indebted to poetic conventionalisms than Mr. Robinson, or more securely himself.”

* “They are nearly always individual, and show little tendency to echo poets of a larger gift which too often is the hall mark of the minor poet.”

* “There is an undoubted touch of genius in the poems collected in this volume, and a curious simplicity and good faith, all of which qualities differentiate them sharply from ordinary collections of this kind.” T. Roosevelt.

“The black bear tells the story of his cubhood, his joys and his troubles, his games and adventures with his sister ‘Kahwa.’ Then comes the first terrible experience of his life, a forest fire.... But ‘Kahwa’ escapes the fire only to be taken prisoner by men.... She tries to escape, but is killed in the attempt. Then follows period of loneliness, and in process of time the first great fight and the winning of a wife. All this is told with much spirit, and illustrated by some excellent pictures. One is quite sorry to leave him sitting disconsolately behind the bars of his cage; but then we could not otherwise have had his autobiography.”—Spec.

* “Mr. Robinson’s bears live on his pages. The reader begins early to feel an active interest in their fortunes and it is maintained to the end.”

Robinson, Sir John Richard. Fifty years of Fleet street: being the life and recollections of Sir John R. Robinson; comp. and ed. by F. Moy Thomas. *$4. Macmillan.

Forty-seven years as manager of the “London daily news” earned for Mr. Robinson, in the words of Mr. John Morley, “the respect and honor of everybody who cares for the tradition of English journalism.” Failing health was doubtless responsible for the failure of his intention to write his autobiography. From the fragmentary diaries, journals, jottings, and impressions, the compiler, Mr. Thomas, has constructed his “Life and recollections.” “Most of the conspicuous persons in the world of politics, literature, art, and music during the past fifty years had been the personal friends and associates of the great journalist.” (N. Y. Times). Among them were: Queen Victoria, Gladstone, Disraeli, Cobden, Mill, Rosebery, Landseer, General Grant, Cyrus Field, “Mark Twain,” Artemus Ward, Bret Harte, Archibald Forbes, Charles Dickens, Lord Coleridge, Charles Kingsley, Arthur Sullivan, Mr. Spurgeon, Mr. Sankey, Sarah Bernhardt, Bismarck, Labouchere.

“The text is interesting and at times absorbing. A vein of good nature and social enjoyment is distinctly visible throughout it.”

“A volume of great interest and considerable value. There can be no two opinions of Mr. Thomas’s fitness for the accomplishment of the task he undertook in compiling and editing these recollections, for during a quarter of a century he was a worker with and a close friend of Sir John Robinson. The whole book, though a disappointment to those of us who expected a carefully prepared, witty, instructive volume of memoirs written by the chieftain’s own hand and with proofs corrected and revised by him, is nevertheless one that we have every reason to feel grateful to Mr. Frederick Moy Thomas for having compiled and edited.” Elizabeth Banks.

Robinson, Rowland Evans. Hunting without a gun, and other papers. $2. Forest & stream.

A posthumous volume of sketches and stories in which the blind writer tells of the joys of the lover of nature, who seeks the creatures of the woods, but does not harm them.

Seventeen short dialect stories, many of which have already appeared in various magazines, are collected under this title. “Out of bondage” is a story of the “underground” railroad, in which a Quaker family save an escaped negro from his pursuers. A little Quaker maid and her lover, and a revengeful disappointed admirer complicate the plot. “A letter from Hio,” is another idyll of country life, with a simple love motive. “The shag back panther,” a creation of an old Canuck, frightens its inventor from the berry patch. “A story of the old frontier” is an account of an Indian’s gratitude in liberating a woman who had nursed him. Altho the subjects are varied, they all concern men, animals, and country life. The treatment is mainly humorous.

“The very rusticity of his humor increases the verisimilitude of his portrait.”

“The shrewdness and pointed humor of the different characters are revealed with a keenness and delicacy of touch that show long, personal acquaintance among these people.”

“Surprisingly even in their interest and freshness. Mr. Robinson’s stories bring back old Vermont days and show us typical village and country people in all their native ruggedness, kindliness, and neighborly qualities.”

“To Englishmen of to-day,” Sir Walter Raleigh “represents the genesis of British imperialism in the modern sense. To Americans, he stands for that sixteenth-century daring and love of adventure to which the English colonies 296in the new world owed their existence. The sketch of Raleigh ... is a well written account of a career that was full of dramatic incident.”—R. of Rs.

“Sir Rennell Rodd has a sure grasp of his documents and has used them with much skill.”

“He has done his best as far as study goes, toward the solution of many mysterious actions on the part of the gallant Englishman. Sir Rennell Rodd’s record of social life during the two decades of the reign of Queen Elizabeth gives a clear insight into actual conditions.”

“A study rich in atmosphere. There are times when he assuredly assumes the role of a special pleader. The proportion is not so well maintained as we should desire. But, on the whole, he has acquitted himself well, giving us a book which is at once enjoyable and a creditable addition to a series of which it forms part.”

Rogers, A. W. Introduction to the geology of Cape Colony; with a chapter on the fossil reptiles of the Karroo formation, by R. Broom. *$3.50. Longmans.

A handbook which contains results of investigations made public as recently as 1904. There is a geological map and an introduction which connects the geological structure with the scenic features.

“It is a work which will be found of much use to the student of South African geology, since it contains in a compact form a good deal of information to be found otherwise only by reference to numerous scientific journals and official reports.”

“Is sure to remain a standard treatise. Compact and highly attractive handbook.” Grenville A. J. Cole.

This addition to the “American crises biographies” contains a detailed account of the Missouri statesman, and gives the chief political events from 1820 to the repeal of the Missouri compromise with which his public work ended.

“Rogers did not entirely shake off his editorial habit of popular statement when producing a serious historical work.” W. H. Mace.

“Mr. Rogers in this account of Thomas H. Benton has assumed more than properly belongs to the biographer.”

“In point of literary quality, a decided advance on his ‘The true Henry Clay.’ While the treatment is, as a rule, open-minded, it is marred at times by invidious and unnecessary comparisons between Benton and his notable contemporaries, and by occasional overstatement to a degree constituting a serious defect.”

“Mr. Rogers has presented an accurate and impressive picture of Thomas H. Benton.”

“The author has avoided, rather than sought after, popular effects; his own opinions are held in abeyance, and he sometimes assumes too large a knowledge on the part of his reader.”

The author’s life-long acquaintance with Clay’s “career and environment,” and his access to the private papers of the great statesman, have put him in touch with the real facts for a biography, which tells “the truth about Clay and his failures and successes.” He is set forth in the light of the true builder for his country,—the “economic development that has compelled the admiration of the world had its beginnings in the policies of internal improvements and tariff protection to which he stood, if not as father, at least as sponsor.... The key to his career, to his failures and successes alike, Mr. Rogers finds in his profoundly emotional nature. ‘While physically and mentally Clay was a strong man, temperamentally he was constituted like a woman.’” (Outlook).

“The loose rambling, repetitious style, running at times even into errors of grammar, informs us at once that we are not to look here for the minor accuracies of scholarship. Nor are all the errors minor. Read as a whole the book produces an admirable impression. This biography detracts no whit, from the value of Schurz’s account of the national activities of Henry Clay, but it will give the general reader a much better idea of the man.” Carl Russell Fish.

“The emphasis is on the personal side. The author is an admirer of Clay, yet he tells the truth about him, not glossing over his defects and frailties or attempting to cover his blunders.”

“There is an occasional slip of misstatement ... but on the whole a painstaking care is evident.”

“Mr. Rogers is fair-minded in that he does not scruple to lay bare the weaknesses as well as the strength of his hero. Nor has he any race or sectional prejudices to air. Lack of a sense of proportion, a feeble grasp of the subject as a whole, constitute, indeed, his chief faults. The man Clay he sees and comprehends. Of positive errors there are, so far as we have noticed, comparatively few.”

“Presenting a work markedly deficient in point of literary quality, gives an account of the great Kentuckian that is vivid, impartial, and philosophic, and that assists us to place him correctly among the founders of the United States of the twentieth century.”

“By all odds, the most entertaining and intimate sketch of Clay that has yet appeared.”

Rolfe, William James. Satchel guide for the vacation tourist in Europe; a compact itinerary of the British isles, Belgium and Holland, Germany and the Rhine, Switzerland, France, Austria, and Italy. *$1.50. Houghton.

In this first edition of 1905, the list of hotels has been revised, corrections have been made in routes, fares, etc., and local changes in London and Paris have been noted. Pockets in the covers contain a plan of London and a railway map of the British isles.

* Roosevelt, Theodore. Outdoor pastimes of an American hunter. **$3. Scribner.

“The first three chapters of the President’s book describe hunting trips in Colorado and Oklahoma, after bears, coyotes, cougars, and bobcats. Other chapters some of which are reprinted, with additions, from previous books, deal with other American big game, the wapiti, white-tail and mule deer, antelope, and mountain sheep; chapters are also devoted to wilderness reserves, books on big game, and the outdoor life of the President and his family at their Long Island home.” (Outlook.) The 297volume is illustrated from photographs by the president himself or by members of his family.

* “All lovers of outdoor sport, all admirers of our strenuous President will be delighted with this book.”

* “This latest volume of his own will take high rank among those for the novelty of the sports it describes as well as for the freshness and spirit of the descriptions. We may say in passing that the President is as good a field-naturalist as a sportsman.”

* “To the reader who will approach the book either with a healthy interest in outdoor life or with an idle curiosity to read what a President has written, the work should prove of interest. The book should prove a valued addition to its class.”

* “Each chapter of the book bears testimony to the vigorous, wholesome, straightforward character of its author and to the remarkable thoroughness and zest with which he undertakes the study of any subject in which he is interested.”

* “Mr. Roosevelt’s literary method in treating of outdoor subjects is well known. It is characterized by a thorough-going purpose to do something more than merely narrate the author’s personal adventures.”

* “President Roosevelt’s most sensible remarks on the proper means of preserving game in a democratic country are worthy of all attention, and not less his analysis of the true hunter’s creed, with which every sportsman must agree.”

“A work of high value to all engaged in this fascinating pursuit. It is a cyclopædia in form and arrangement, and is fully illustrated, and the present edition has been so thoroughly revised as to be practically a new book.”—Outlook.

“There is nothing more comprehensive and satisfactory obtainable on this subject.”

Rosadi, Giovanni. Trial of Jesus; tr. from the Italian by Emil Reich. *$2.50. Dodd.

This work of Rosadi’s has been widely read in Italy and Germany, and now appears in a translation by Emil Reich, who says of it—“Signor Rosadi has approached his problem—apparently a purely legal one—with a warmth of sympathy, with a breadth of philosophical view, with a purity of religious sentiment that have rendered his book not only a noteworthy contribution to the history of Jesus, but a stimulating and (we say it unhesitatingly) an edifying work in the best sense of the word.”

“Is rich in information of court procedure among Jews and Romans in the days of Pontius Pilate, but the total absence of criticism in the use of the Gospels renders it unsafe as a guide in historical study.”

“We doubt ... if the best English and American scholarship will regard Signor Rosadi’s work seriously, and we must admit that the work seems to serve no particularly good purpose.”

“The particular significance of the work is perhaps due to the two facts that it treats the famous trial as a matter of history and gives it its proper legal standing, and also that it portrays the personality of the man Christ in a way that appeals to a class of readers usually indifferent to religious books.”

“To English readers it will appear rather too full and rhetorical. We cannot praise the translation of the book. We have rarely seen a book with more misprints.”

The healing qualities of carbonic acid gas known centuries ago and used for therapeutical purposes have been re-discovered in modern science. The author has set forth the history and general usefulness of the properties to medical science.

Essays, based principally on materials found while working on the author’s “Life of Napoleon I.,” which are of interest, with a few exceptions, to Napoleonic scholars. These exceptions are found in the chapters, “Wordsworth, Schiller, Fichte, and the Idealist revolt against Napoleon,” “The religious belief of Napoleon,” and “The detention of Napoleon by Great Britain.” The remaining discussions relate to: “Pitt’s plan for the settlement of Europe,” “Egypt during the first British occupation,” “Canning and Denmark in 1807,” “A British agent at Tilsit,” “Napoleon and British commerce,” “Britain’s food supply in the Napoleonic war,” “The Whigs and the French war,” “Austria and the downfall of Napoleon,” and “The Prussian co-operation at Waterloo.”

“While they vary in their temper and treatment as widely as the subjects, yet the author’s personality gives them quite sufficient unity to secure the interest of the reader and the continuity of the subject. Incidentally they clear up several little mysteries of antiquarian interest.”

“Regarding the new essays, they serve to emphasize the value of the research work which Mr. Rose has done in the British archives, and to prove that in spite of the great number of scholarly studies of the Napoleon era, large deposits of unused material still exist.” E. D. Adams.

“Mr. Rose’s essays are marked by the same wealth of information and carefulness of statement which appeared in his book. He does not dogmatize for the sake of amusing his readers by a sharp saying, and inclines to caution whenever he ventures to put forth a generalization.”

“This book is largely made up of suppositions, as indeed might be expected, so little beyond names and dates is known about Shakespeare’s mother, wife, and daughters ... and it is only fair to say that Miss Rose has been careful to do her best with the few facts that she has to deal with.”—Spec.

Nine short stories founded upon real incidents met with in the author’s life upon the stage. Humor and pathos, episode and character, are combined to show the life of the real player folk behind the scenes. The first and longest story, “Where the ways crossed,” is the pathetic tale of Darley, a young Englishman, who found his longed-for chance to play the hero in 298a burning theatre. “The embroidered robe” is a character sketch of two would-be actors, “Her mother’s success” makes an unworldly mother the centre of a troupe of very worldly actors, “Potent memories” is all pathos, “The clown and the missionary,” all humor, “A bit of biography,” tells the story of a ten year old boy who forsook his adopted home for the stage. “Our Mantua maker,” “A marriage de covenance,” and “A glimpse of an artist,” complete the volume.

“If the reader is not more than entertained, is not touched and softened, then he, or she, is adamant.”

“All of them are human and searching and tender, full of a changeful, charmful quality that fascinates, brightened by brief triumphs, darkened by long poverty and disappointment, warmed by self-forgetful helping of others.”

“The pathos of her stories rings true and sound, and her all-embracing charity engages the fullest sympathy. These tattered waifs and strays of life, these, ‘players and vagabonds,’ have found one to plead for them whose pleading it would hardly be possible to resist.”

“A poor German carpenter under sentence of death for an anarchistic crime is supposed to write in his cell and from memory the story of that other carpenter of long ago—who was condemned as a subverter of the established order. Naturally the German carpenter’s own hard experience and his own dreams color his story of the other—naturally his memory plays him false, naturally (he is of a Catholic country) he writes in ideas and incidents from lives of the saints and the like. But it is his merging of his own bitter life into that of the Christ which makes the book real as other stories dealing with this subject are not.” (N. Y. Times.) There are six illustrations in color by Cowin Knapp Simson in the Holy Land.

* “The story is told simply and colloquially, but with reserve and dignity.”

It is claimed for Professor Ross that he interests especially sociological heresy-hunters; it is also claimed that in this new work this same following will find difficulty in singling out any censurable utterances. It treats of the scope and task of sociology, the sociological frontier of economics, social laws, “mob mind,” the social forces, the factors of social change, recent tendencies in sociology, the causes of race superiority, “The value rank of the American people,” “The properties of group units,” and “The unit of investigation in sociology.”

“This book is, on the whole, devoted to the method, rather than to the content, of knowledge. It does much in the way of clearing the cobwebs out of the sociological skies. It is, however, a general survey rather than a treatise. The present volume can hardly fail to serve, for some time to come, as one of the most effective path-breakers in sociological inquiry.” Albion W. Small.

* “No one interested in the development of social theory, or in the understanding of social phenomena can afford to leave it unread.” Carl Kelsey.

“Easy to read, brief, comprehensive, and introducing the reader to most of the conceptions of value. The book’s greatest fault is ... that of undervaluing work which is too abstract to meet the conditions of a real practical problem.”

“The book is of value to the lay reader in that it clarifies not a few of the foggy statements and definitions that have been associated with this newly developed science to its popular detraction. Professor Ross is a clear and forcible writer.”

Ross, Janet Anne (Mrs. Henry J. Ross). Old Florence and modern Tuscany. *$1.50. Dutton.

The author, who has lived among the Tuscan peasants for over thirty years, has written a series of fifteen papers, eleven of which have already appeared in various magazines. The book opens with the history of the Misericordia, the brotherhood of pity in Florence, then follow chapters upon “A domestic chaplain of the Medici,” “Two Florentine hospitals,” “A September day in the valley of the Arno,” “Popular songs of Tuscany,” “Vintaging in Tuscany,” “Oil-making in Tuscany.” “Virgil and agriculture in Tuscany,” “A stroll in Boccaccio’s country,” “The dove of the holy Saturday,” “San Gimignano della Belle Torre,” “Volterra,” “Mezzeria or land tenure in Tuscany,” and “The jubilee of the crucifix.”

“Well deserve being collected into book form on account of their historical research and of their keen observation of actual conditions of peasant life in Tuscany. The most attractive article of all in this volume is on the popular songs of Tuscany.”

“Written with a distinct and common inspiration and with undoubted joy in transcription.”

“Mr. Carmichael and Mr. Hewlett have been enlightening us as to Tuscany; now comes Mrs. Ross in a smaller volume but with almost equal information, especially as to the Tuscan peasants. While we learn more about modern Tuscany than about old Florence ... Mrs. Ross’s account is noteworthy, although for a more exhaustive treatment one will turn to the volumes by Mr. Gardner, M. Yriarte, and Mrs. Oliphant.”

Almost 200 little epigrammatic sayings, some of which are clever and some of which are not.

A girl, who has left a position in a New Jersey college and a faithful lover to seek literary honors in unfeeling New York, writes of her struggles to a girl friend. A life of grape-nuts in a hall bedroom does not discourage her and she has many experiences and flirtations which introduce various interesting characters; but in the end she marries the original John.

299“Though she really has nothing much to write about, her letters make pleasant reading.”

“‘The letters of Theodora’ do not constitute a psychological brain-twister, but a light and pleasing romance.”

“It must be confessed that Teddy has a vivacious way about her which makes her letters very pleasant reading.”

“May not appeal to a very large public. The public to which it does appeal will be select and worth having.”

Rouse, G. H. Old Testament criticism in New Testament light. *$1. Union press.

An address given before the Bengali Christian conference of Calcutta has been expanded into this volume which is addressed to the general reader. It presents “modern views” upon subjects included under the chapter headings, Our basis—Christ made no mistakes; Christ’s treatment of the Old Testament; The relation of the Levitical law to the prophetic history and teaching; The Pentateuch; The authorship of Psalm cx.; The historicity, accuracy, and authoritativeness of the Old Testament; The book of Daniel; Prophecy; and Critical methods.

“The higher critics will find in this work much to learn, and much to moderate their views, while the uncritical Christian will find much to deepen his faith and to strengthen his hold on the Old Testament as well as the New Testament.” T. H. L. Leary.

A dramatic poem in which Quetzal is sent by “the all-father, the high Tonaca,” to rule over Mexican Tollan and become a power for good. The god of darkness, “lest man should be all blessed,” took the form of Lord Tezca who basely seized the throne and “scoffing all but careless, jovial wit and witty joy,” ruled until “hostile tribes flung down the bronze-wrought gates.” Kingdom followed kingdom, while the people dumbly waited for “Quetzal’s hoped return.”

Polly and her fiancé furnish the airy dialogue of this book. There are twenty-three chapters, each a complete little chat, with its own setting and its own amusing climax; but thru them all Polly, the light-hearted, with her curls, her dimples and her chiffon ruffles, and Jack the resourceful, very human and very much in love, are true to their frivolous parts.

“If it is lacking in originality ... the conversations of the fair and frivolous Polly and her fiancé, never dull, are often unusually diverting.”

“Her froth and her frills make her very good company, indeed, for others than the agreeable young man who takes her balls and occasionally sends back a very respectable one of his own.”

“There are contained in this volume eight stories of adventure, having a slender thread of connection in that all are narratives by Doctor Leyden of strange experiences in his career as a collector for museums.” (Pub. Opin.) “They deal with strange and exotic regions such as Papua, the Orinoco, Borneo, Curacao, Sulu, the South Sea islands, Hayti, and the Malay peninsula.... Drinking, murder, abduction, fraud, brutality, cowardice—such are the contents of the book.” (Nation.)

* “Some of the most unpleasant short stories it was ever the fate of an author to invent. There is no denying that in spite of some exaggeration and tall talk, the stories are exceedingly well told, but why tell them?”

* “Joseph Conrad would have told the story differently, and doubtless better, but it is doubtful if he could have created a more convincing atmosphere of horror.”

The story of a young Irishman who, fearing that his father’s will has given his yacht to a brother, runs away with the coveted boat. He takes an artist friend with him, and later picks up an American professor’s daughter, with whom both young men fall in love, and her chaperone. After many and varied adventures, which include dueling and piracy, Brian legally acquires both the yacht and the girl.

“The style is simple but adequate, there is plenty of humor, and the book admirably fulfils its purpose.”

“An unpretending tale, entertaining for an hour or two, agreeable in its main personages, pleasantly written, abundantly varied in its kinds of interest.”

“A light, breezy tale of the sea, with less of storm and stress than is common to novels of a marine cast, but sufficiently spiced with adventure to keep the interest alive. Leaving numerous improbabilities out of mind, the book will serve well to while away a couple of hours.”

“The book will be acceptable to those who wish entertainment without mental effort.”

“An interesting reprint.... Save for an entry in the Stationers’ register under date of 1617, this work has hitherto been unknown to bibliography. Last spring a unique copy was purchased from a German bookseller for the library of Harvard university, and this is now reprinted in partial facsimile, with a brief introductory note. The poem ... a conversation between a bride and her attendant maidens concerning the respective advantages of the single and married estates ... is written in Rowlands’ habitual cleanly-turned six-line, stanza.”—Nation.

“There is nothing in the poem either to add to the poetic treasures of our literature or to furnish any new footnotes to literary history.”

300Rowntree, B. Seebohm. Betting and gambling: a national evil. *$1.60. Macmillan.

“The preliminary chapter is devoted to the Ethics of betting and gambling, and is by John A. Hobson, M. A. It is followed by The extent of gambling, by John Hawke; Stock exchange gambling, by A. J. Wilson; Gambling among women, by J. M. Hogge; Crime and gambling, by Canon Horsley; The deluded sportsman, by a bookmaker; Gambling and citizenship, by J. Ramsey MacDonald; Existing legislation, by John Hawke; and The repression of gambling, by R. Seebohm Rowntree. In the appendix are given some government bills on the subject, opinions of prominent men on betting, a note on pedestrianism, tipping, betting statistics, and a bibliography.”—N. Y. Times.

“We can at all events congratulate Mr. Seebohm Rowntree upon having produced an amusing contribution to the faddist class of literature of the day.”

* “Mr. Rowntree treats of the evil of betting in the thoro and dispassionate manner he has employed in his other studies.”

“Such a book as this has long been needed. It is the work of specialists for the abatement of a national evil.”

* Rowson, Susanna Haswell. Charlotte Temple: a tale of truth; with an historical and biographical introd. by Francis W. Halsey; reprinted from the first Am. ed., 1794. $1.25. Funk.

This “true story of events in New York city during the Revolution,” has seen over one hundred editions, and the present reprint corrects many errors which have crept into the various texts and gives an historical introduction showing that the people concerned in this account of the beautiful and ill-fated Charlotte, who eloped at fifteen with an English army officer and died broken-hearted and deserted some two years later, concerns people well known in their day. The language of the book is quaintly old-fashioned, and the unpleasant truths are plainly treated. The story was originally intended as a warning to young girls.

* “Mr. Halsey’s introduction is extremely interesting: a bit of bibliographical work of high order, adding enormously to the literary value of the volume.”

Royce, Josiah. Herbert Spencer; an estimate and review; together with a chapter of personal reminiscences by James Collier. **$1.25. Fox.

“Exactly one-half this volume is occupied by Professor Royce’s estimate of Spencer.... Having sketched the general history of evolution in bold and strong lines, he reviews the origin and significance of Spencer’s own view of evolution.... The third quarter of the volume is given to a criticism by Professor Royce of Spencer’s educational theories.... The volume is brought to a close by some personal reminiscences of Spencer by Mr. James Collier, who was for nine years his secretary, and for ten his amanuensis.”—Nation.

“[Belongs] to the supplementary order of biographical material.” H. W. Boynton.

“This little volume is one of the best ... contributions to Spenceriana which have been called forth by the publication of Spencer’s Autobiography.”

“Professor Royce has given us a rather dreary picture of the Englishman, Mr. Collier ... gives a more sympathetic account in his personal reminiscences in the latter part of the book.” H. Heath Bawden.

“One need hardly ask better help toward a just estimate of the great career so lately closed than is afforded by this little book in which historical, biographical and critical insights are happily blended.” Edward H. Griffin.

The author of this well illustrated volume in the ‘Cathedral series’ “has an unbounded love not only for Spain but for the Spanish people. He sees the cathedrals of the Castillian country with enthusiastic eyes, and he writes as he sees.” (Ind.)

* “The book, as a whole, will hardly appeal to any but the superficial reader.”

Thirty volumes containing besides the usual texts of Ruskin’s works at least two volumes of author’s notes, bibliography and indices not usually found in current editions. The volumes are strongly bound for library purposes, the type is large and clear, and the illustrations for the set include thirty photogravures, 341 half-tones, and 10 color plates, some of which are reproductions of Ruskin’s own sketches, as well as Turner’s. The books are boxed and appear in three styles of bindings.

Ruskin, John. Letters of John Ruskin to Charles Eliot Norton; ed. by C. E. Norton. **$4. Houghton.

These letters, covering a period from 1855 to 1887, are edited by Professor Norton himself. They are the intimate letters of a man to his best friend, some, indeed, have been omitted as too intimate for publication, and, beginning where “Praeterita” ended, they form a sequel to it and a valuable addition to Ruskin’s autobiography. The letters describe the changes which took place in Ruskin’s views of art, religion, and life during that period, they show him as a social reformer, and political economist, and give his opinions on American and European politics. His sketches of the people and places that he loved, his inner purposes, his work, and the doubts and perplexities that beset him, reveal the writer to us in a new and more lovable light. There are a number of illustrations.

“The graceful dignity and consummate skill of the comment which accompanies them. Not only are they a continuous record of Ruskin’s intellectual and emotional life from 1856 on, and thus almost completely supplement the unfinished ‘Praeterita,’ but they have the advantage over ‘Praeterita’ in being records contemporary to the fact, and thus not subject to contamination through subsequent changes of mood and of memory. In that of purest friendship, merely 301as the spontaneous record of his inner as well as his outer life. With just reticence and balance of judgment, Mr. Norton sums up the work of his friend. Ruskin’s comments on his contemporaries are interesting.” G. R. Carpenter.

“He [Norton] has performed a delicate task with exquisite taste.” Jeanette L. Gilder.

“Read with an eye single to the revelation of personality, there is hardly a letter here included that does not yield something of value, and the effect of the whole is to give us the conviction that we may now approach closer to the real Ruskin than has hitherto been possible even with the assistance of his ablest interpreters.”

“The letters are indeed revelatory, but, for the most part, they are revelatory of a woeful instability of purpose and of a pitiful misery of mind. Except incidentally and occasionally, they cannot be said to add dignity to the name of the man they characterize.”

“Professor Norton was one of Ruskin’s closest friends, and these letters make an excellent biography of the great Englishman.”

“Fascinating as these letters are to read, their one subject is Himself, his own troubles, his own work, his own knowledge: from beginning to end it is I.”

Russell, Charles Edward. Twin immortalities, and other poems. *$1.50; special ed. *$2.50. Hammersmark.

The little ode and several other poems contain an interpretation of music, but in Graubünden and Pigli, which are written according to the classical form of the sonata, music and poetry are most closely allied. The book is dedicated to President Loubet, the foremost democrat of these times, and in such poems as “Adam’s sons” and the “Coronation ode,” the brotherhood of man is set forth.

“That there is much in this volume to interest both the musician and the verse-wright,—perhaps, chiefly, him who stands on the borderland between the two arts, the composer of librettos.”

“He has an admirable gift of phrase, which at its best is alive to its finger tips.”

Russell, Constance, Lady. Three generations of fascinating women, and other sketches from family history. *$10.50. Longmans.

“A gallery is presented in the volume of beautiful women of the past, and of those in particular who were the leaders in the society of former times.” (N. Y. Times). There are fourteen sketches dealing with Lady Russell’s family history, including the families of Campbell, Gunning, Lenox, Gordon, and Whitworth, besides side-light information concerning contemporaries. There is the Hon. Mary Bellenden, who was “incontestably the most agreeable, the most insinuating, and the most likable woman of her time;” of the second generation, her daughter Caroline, Countess of Ailesbury, a woman of rare charms, who numbered among her friends the statesmen and men of letters of the day; of the third generation, the Hon. Mrs. Damer, who in both London and Paris was a social leader and the center of a host of literary personages.

“You might call Lady Russell’s book a story of fleeting beauties. Are not so much idealizations as realities.”

* “This is an admirable literary work now revised and reproduced in a most admirable manner.”

A volume in the “English men of letters series.” A full treatment of the life and personality of a man celebrated for his wit, but whose more solid qualities as a man of letters, a founder of the Edinburgh Review, a lecturer on moral philosophy, a writer of pamphlets, a politician, and a clergyman, deserve respect. His humor found him a ready audience, and his keen shafts were used to point his morals more effectively.

“Mr. George Russell’s biography is adequate and sympathetic. He has selected his material with discretion, and has let Sydney Smith tell his own story as far as possible. Now and again the biographer permits his own prejudices to intervene, and so strikes a jarring note. The book is a coherent, intelligible account of a great man.”

“He seems, in short, pretty thoroughly to have summed up the Sydney Smith question; no more elaborate study of him is likely to be needed.” H. W. Boynton.

“Mr. Russell’s chief merit, then, consists ... in the shrewd and kindly criticism which he bestows upon Sydney Smith’s energy, goodness, wit and occasional foibles.”

“If there is any fault to be found with Mr. Russell’s book, it is that he does not dwell long enough on the purely social side of Sidney Smith. Mr. Russell’s brief but interesting biography is well indexed, and provides such copious extracts from Sydney Smith’s writings on all possible subjects that it is not a bad substitute for his ‘Works,’ which are not easily accessible to the general reader.”

“If Mr. Morley made a mistake in selecting his subject he has shown his editorial wisdom in his choice of author. No one is better suited to treat of the great Whig wit than such a representative of the great Whig family, the Russells. Having something of a conscience, Mr. Russell does not say much about Smith’s literary qualities and capacities.” Joseph Jacobs.

“A very readable life of the great English wit by an interesting biographer. Suffers nothing by brevity; for Mr. Russell has succeeded in conveying the personality of Sydney Smith and in making his pages live in the light of that personality.”

“Sydney Smith is essentially of those writers who speak for themselves. The assistance he has received from Mr. Russell is judged to a nicety.”

“Mr. Russell’s volume makes one of the best jest books we have ever seen, for there is just enough flour of biography to keep the plums of quotation properly apart. If we may hint a fault, it is that in the matter of Smith’s churchmanship Mr. Russell seems to make the worst of what he considers a bad job.”

The author says, “My purpose is to consider, 302first, such evidences of God’s disposition towards the world, as may be found in the history of nature; and, second, as to whether, in the light of science and philosophy, we may conceive Him as other than a Person, having such attributes as are, to human understanding, inseparable from personality.”

* “Mr. Ryan seems to have read widely in philosophy, with a result that should caution all readers to read no more than they can digest.”

Sabbath-school teacher training course. 1st year: a series of thirty-nine lessons designed for use in normal classes. **25c. Presb. bd.

This volume “contains a course of study for three-quarters of a year, and a forth-coming volume will complete the scheme. At the end of the first course the Presbyterian board of publication, Philadelphia, will arrange for an examination for such as desire it, and a teacher’s diploma will be granted to such as satisfy the examiners.... Even if the book is not used with a view to a diploma, many Sunday school teachers will find it advantageous to make it the ground-plan of private study.”—Ind.

“This first year’s course is admirable in every respect. The well selected range of subjects is concise, but sufficiently comprehensive.”

The real adventures of real boys are interestingly told here for young readers. The Mississippi river furnishes the scene for camping, hunting, fishing, and kindred fun. There is the full quota of happenings, and live boys keen on the scent for them.

* “Real boy books are scarce these days, and ‘Beaufort chums’ ought to be hailed as an acquisition to the juvenile library.”

Humorously sympathetic recollections of the days when “you” played ball with the North star nine, preferred illness to the awful alternative of going to school, fought “your” fights, made a chum of “your” dog, went fishing, swimming, and skating, or, amid “your” companions’ jeers, saw “your” first “girl” home from a party. Fifty real boy illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele illustrate the volume.

* “Will probably outrival most of their predecessors in popular favor, since they treat of life from a boy’s standpoint.” Sara Andrew Shafer.

* “His boys are quite as ‘real’ as Judge Shute’s and a trifle less coarse. The reflections of a man of mature years run between the lines.”

Saddle and song; a collection of verses made at Warrenton, Va., during the winter of 1904-1905. **$1.50. Lippincott.

An anthology of verses written about the horse, including selections from Browning, Byron, Bayard Taylor, Scott, Kipling, Longfellow, Kingsley, Quiller-Couch, and others. “No claim is made to have exhausted the literature of the English language upon this subject, but it is hoped that a sufficient variety, in respect to the types of horses and the tasks accomplished by them, has been offered to enable those who may read, each to find some horse to his liking or the story of some gallant effort that must command his admiration.”

A story of Ireland in which an American finds Wayward Winifred, a mysterious child who lives in an out of the way castle with a blind old woman, and takes her to America to be educated in a Catholic school. In New York the child by chance meets her father and what seemed a great mystery turns out to be a very little mystery after all and the child and the father both return to Ireland to do honor to their old Irish name and restore their old Irish estate.

* Sage, Elizabeth, and Cooley, Anna M. Occupations for little fingers: a manual for grade teachers, mothers and settlement workers. **$1. Scribner.

“This little manual illustrates and describes simple forms of handwork; including cord and raffia-work, coarse sewing, paper-cutting and folding, clay modelling, furniture and upholstery for a doll’s house, and crocheting and knitting. The writers are teachers who have worked out with their classes the things of which they write. Their models are simple and useful articles that will interest the child and give his work practical connection with the world about him.... They give with each lesson the necessary cost.”—Nation.

A delightful fairy tale of mystery and gallant chivalry. The hero, a young prince, is rewarded for kindness to the King of the Gnomes by the privilege of beholding in the pool the face of a fair princess. He seeks this much beleaguered Astrella, and wins her after many a conflict with a wicked fairy. The illustrations are the author’s own and include full page colored plates besides a number of pen and ink drawings.

* “In fact, nothing can be said against it except that it is not as good as Grimm or Spenser, while challenging comparison with both.”

The occult is here blended with the ultra frivolous, and the arts of Emoclew-Houssein Rao, a worshipper of Doorka, seem all the more miraculous because he exercises them upon a group of modern and rather vulgar society folk. He wipes the hateful letters, with which a jealous husband has branded her, from Rosamond Arbuthnot’s forehead, and he frees the deformed master of Castlewalls from his all-consuming love for the beautiful Mrs. Demaris in such a manner that neither he nor the reader can separate the hallucination from the real.

303Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin. Portraits of the 17th century, historic and literary; tr. by Katharine P. Wormeley. 2 pts. ea. **$2.50. Putnam.

Sainte-Beuve’s historical and literary portraits of the 17th century have been collected and translated by Katharine P. Wormeley, who says of her work—“In the following volumes—taken from the Causeries du Lundi, the Portraits de femme and the Portraits littéraires—some passages have been omitted; these relate chiefly to editions that have long since passed away, or to discussions on style that cannot be made clear in English. Also, where two or more essays on the same person have appeared in the different series, they are here put together, omitting repetitions.” The volumes are handsomely bound and illustrated.

“Our enjoyment ... has been greatly marred by the lamentable inefficiency of the translation. Miss Wormeley has fallen a victim to the fetish of an exaggerated literalness with the most distressing result. Her structure is frequently not English; at times it is even ungrammatical.” Horace B. Samuel.

“Although the finer shades of his style have not always been exactly rendered by Miss Wormeley, yet the translation, on the whole, is fairly good. The value of the work is impaired by the absence of a good index.”

“Diverse as are the characters treated of, each one is examined with the same charm, the same absence of exaggeration or trivial gossip.”

“It presents in sound, idiomatic English some of the best work of the man who holds rank as one of the greatest critics in all literature.”

“To those who have no French, Miss Wormeley’s volumes may be commended. She has chosen wisely, and has translated accurately, if without distinction.”

Saintsbury, George Edward Bateman. History of criticism and literary taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present day. V. 3. *$3.50. Dodd.

The author, professor of rhetoric in the university of Edinburgh, devoting this third volume to a survey of the nineteenth century, includes a study of English criticism from 1860 to 1900, and gives sixteen pages to American critics.

“A trial balance of the qualities and defects of this great work might run somewhat as follows: Professor Saintsbury is unreliable, but frequently admirable, on the authors who touch his heart—the romantics; he is almost invariably inadequate and unfair to the critics he dislikes—the doctrinaires, among them the Germans especially; and he is safe only on the critics who bore him—the small fry generally. The volume, although its matter is on the whole the most attractive of the three, is less readable than its predecessors. It is chiefly valuable because the deposit of facts, which careful straining will separate, is considerable. Bad guide as he is for the highroad, the byways of criticism become accessible through Professor Saintsbury’s labors.” F. J. Mather, jr.

“It is however, only fair to say that Professor Saintsbury never allows his political or religious beliefs, strong as these are, to interfere with his judgment. We are a little surprised, perhaps, to find the section on Lamb one of the best of the book—a good piece of writing without qualification. The poorest chapters of the book—and they are poor beyond forgiveness—are those which deal with topics that require ideas or the understanding of ideas. A book of irritating qualities. He is interesting—despite the continual faults of taste and despite the tedium of the subject, he never allows the reader’s attention to flag, and that is high praise.”

* “In spite of its author’s rather slap-dash fashion, is on the whole a valuable, even an indispensable compendium for students of that very special criticism which is concerned with books almost exclusively.”

“One must always remember, in reading him, that he writes with the strongest possible bias, and that, however useful and even indispensable to the student of literature his history is, it is rather a work of reference than as a storehouse of reliable literary judgments. The style of the volume is deplorable. His offences against taste are of various kinds; perhaps the most exasperating is his reference to great men by their Christian names.”

“With all its wealth of material and faithful investigation of original sources, it is the work of a cloudy and often incoherent mind. ‘Exhaustive’ is the word which comes to the reviewer’s mind as he surveys the range of this history. No work in this field covers the ground so completely or with such wealth of knowledge.”

“This volume contains Chamberlayne’s ‘Pharonnida,’ a ‘heroick poem’ of heroic length; Benlowes’ ‘Theophila,’ a ‘divine poem’ in many cantos; the poems of Mrs. Katherine Philips, ‘the matchless Orinda;’ and the poems of Patrick Hannay, a very obscure person of whom nothing is known, and of whose book only six copies remain. Indeed all the writers collected in this book are more or less obscure now, and you must be interested in the history of English poetry before you can be expected to read them.”—Lond. Times.

“It is well and judiciously edited as a whole, the notes being sparing and adequate, while the prefaces—both the general preface and those to single authors—if one can stomach the editor’s most unappetizing and contorted style, are excellent in substance, alike critical and informative.”

“We can and do applaud the zeal for true literary criticism and for scientific literary history, which prompted Professor Saintsbury to reprint and edit the minor Caroline poets, but we cannot and do not pretend to endorse all his conclusions as to the merits of the four included in the volume before us.”

Salisbury, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3d marquis of. Essays, v. 1, Foreign politics, v. 2, Biographical. ea. *$2. Dutton.

“If these essays were now to be reproduced as the work of a man who had done nothing else, they would not command attention.... The interest which attracts readers to them is the interest in the man otherwise so remarkable who wrote them at a time when, as Lord Robert Cecil, and as a private member of parliament at odds with his noble parent, he found it necessary to do something for his living.... That they are partisan goes without saying.... Although the essays are divided by the present editor into those of biography and those of ‘foreign politics,’ they are all really political and polemical.”—N. Y. Times.

“It is well worth while to collect them in two attractive volumes, not only for their intrinsic 304value, but for the light they throw upon the mind of the writer.” Edward Fuller.

“It is patient, scholarly, and sound, and, taken at its own modest pretensions, admirable.”

* “Regarded merely as historical studies, the contributions which Lord Salisbury made to the ‘Quarterly review’ are not important. Thanks, however, to the trenchant style and their author’s subsequent part in foreign politics, they are worth reprinting.”

“Very well worth reading on many accounts these essays are. But perhaps most of all as showing how a highly cultivated modern man and acute dialectician may still represent and embody an antiquated theory of politics.” Montgomery Schuyler.

* Salter, Emma Gurney. Franciscan legends in Italian art: pictures in Italian churches and galleries. *$1.50. Dutton.

Although this volume “consists largely of catalogues of pictures, frescoes, friezes, stained glass groups, and so forth, it is not designed chiefly as a historical study of the works of art with which it deals; its main interest is for the Franciscan student.... The representations of Francis, his followers and indeed all things Franciscan, and the influence of the Saint in early Italian art generally, are followed up and chronicled with a pertinacity and thoroughness which only the special student can appreciate.”—Acad.

* “We have found it rather dry reading from any point of view, but doubtless there are those who can profit by the information it conveys.”

* “Presents the first attempt ever made to bring together into English and in small compass the stories around the pictures of Franciscan saints.”

Salter, William. Iowa: The first free state in the Louisiana purchase. **$1.20. McClurg.

This is not the story of Iowa as a state, but an account of the incidents in American history which concern it, from 1673 to 1846, from its discovery to its admission as a state into the Union. Its varied history, under France, under Spain, in the Louisiana purchase, and the territories of Louisiana, Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin, and at last Iowa is followed. The book is illustrated with portraits and plans.

“A vast amount of information is given in this condensed and readable shape.”

“The story is told in a style that is clear, but without distinctive merit of any kind. Neither new knowledge nor original treatment of old information is in evidence.”

“His narrative lacks the flowing interest one would naturally expect, being retarded both by a peculiar inclusiveness of treatment and a somewhat halting style.”

“The perfume of Eros” was first published serially under the title, “The yellow fay.” It deals with some unlovely members of New York’s inner circle. Loftus, handsome and wealthy, picks up a tailor’s pretty little daughter and after solemnly promising to marry her establishes her in handsome apartments, takes her abroad and finally deserts her for the wife of his closest friend. The murder of Loftus on the eve of this elopement brings about a trial in which the characters who have thus far been good altho weak, perjure themselves and thereby smooth things over for the happiness of two of the weakest and wealthiest.

* “The story is interesting, especially if you regard it as a hooded satire.”

Sample, John Calvert. Properties of steel sections: a reference book for structural engineers and architects. *$3. McGraw pub.

A work related to the well-known “Osborn’s tables,” in ground covered. An essential difference is that, in the tables of properties of compound sections, Sample gives I and r, while Osborn gives I and r2.

“The book will be frequently found a convenient handbook where much designing in steel is to be done.”

“The author begins by describing the present-day anarchistic philosophy and its developments, and then goes on to tell how its propagation is carried on in Paris by speaking, by conferences, by the anarchist press, and by acts—the last including insurrectionists’ outbreaks and individual crimes.”—Outlook.

“The author has done a rare thing. He has portrayed the radicals of society as men and women moved by all human emotions and not as human caricatures.”

“There is plenty of picturesque material, and he makes the most of it. Ordinarily it would be no compliment to an author to say that his quotations are the best part of his book, but in this case it is, for they are so numerous, and well-chosen and are gathered from such diverse and often inaccessible sources as to form a valuable library of revolutionary literature.”

“It is a study of unusual thoroughness into the condition of Parisian life below the surface. The chapters are not as a rule, theoretical, but deal directly with actual life and observation, and in this way contain much that is picturesque and often even amusing.”

The setting of Miss Sanborn’s story is chiefly out-of-door Washington, where on long tramps and in a certain Madame de Chatres’ rose garden, the friendship between a charmingly naïve Southern girl and a Michigan congressman grows apace. There is somewhat of politics, there are slight peeps into social Washington, but the main story interest is restricted to the natural, spontaneous comradeship between two direct and unassuming people.

* “Things come to pass in a slow, mildly interesting, elaborate sort of way which interferes in 305nowise with the gentle reader’s nap between chapters.”

The author has given the romantic career of a man of genius, whose loves and debts occupied much of his time, but who in his passion for labor, wrote his seventy-nine novels, accomplished a colossal amount of journalism and wrote several plays. Having achieved all this, he died in debt, unappreciated, and broken in hope, and afterwards came fame.

“An account of the events of Balzac’s career accurate in matters of fact, and written in a light, agreeable manner. It is not really worthy of the occasion.”

“So far this is the best and most complete life of the great French romancer.”

“Its form is attractive, its illustrations are good, and its sympathetic tone is alluring and generally well-balanced.” Annie Russell Marble.

“Miss Sandars explicitly disclaims all critical intentions. But her attitude toward her author implies a judgment. And that judgment, it seems to us, errs, if anything, in taking Balzac rather too seriously.”

“In Miss Sandars’s work is presented, for the first time, an exhaustive account of Balzac’s life. The story is told simply, directly, with sympathy, and not infrequent humor.”

“While sympathetic and unquestionably entertaining, adds little of importance to our knowledge of the subject. It is essentially a volume of literary ‘small talk’ ... all very diverting, to be sure, but hardly constituting a biography.”

“Miss Sandars has succeeded, where many have failed, in writing a readable and intelligent Life of Honore De Balzac. She has made little attempt to estimate the value and character of his writings, and therein she is wise, for such few specimens of criticism as she does present show neither sympathy nor understanding. Miss Sandars’s sketch is not without either coherence or verisimilitude.”

“This volume is a reprint of the article ‘Jesus Christ,’ contributed to Dr. Hastings’s ‘Dictionary of the Bible.’ ... A notable feature is an improved map of the sacred sites, taken from various sources, and brought up to the latest stage of knowledge on the subject.”—Spec.

“His article on Jesus has been recognized as a careful piece of work, but it falls short where one most wants light, in the point of a clear, satisfying statement of Jesus’s own thought and belief.”

“Strongly conservative in his tendencies, but open-minded, and candidly conceding much to the fellow-critics whose conclusions he rejects.”

“Few scholars can approach the central subject of their religion with deeper learning, and with a happier combination of criticism and reverence than Dr. Sanday.”

Sanders, Henry Arthur, ed. Roman historical sources and institutions. (Humanistic series.) **$2.50. Macmillan.

“The University of Michigan devotes the initial volume of her ‘Studies’ to a collection of essays dealing with Roman historical sources and institutions.... Apart from Professor Dennison’s discussion of the singing of the ‘Sæcular’ hymn, all the papers are historical in theme.... Miss Mary G. Williams” contributes a “study of Julia Mamæa.... Dr. Duane R. Stuart investigates Dio Cassius’s use of epigraphic material.... Professor Drake ... traces the rise and decline of the principalitas in the pre-Diocletian army. Dr. G. H. Allen ... presents a valuable study of centurions as substitute commanders.... Professor Sanders ... collects all versions of the Tarpeia myth, following Krahner, and adds some allied stories,” and also gives a “discussion of the lost Epitome of Livy.”—Am. Hist. R.

“They display diligence and zeal. It is perhaps ungracious to object to their literary baldness and disjointedness; but none of the essays shows a facile pen.” Charles Upson Clark.

Mr. Sandys, author, artist, naturalist, and sportsman, has brought together here “picturesque accounts of shooting and fishing, pleasant descriptions of out-of-door experiences, practical information for the camper, fisher, and hunter.” (Outlook.)

“Mr. Sandys stands between the genuinely literary sportsman, such as Henry Van Dyke, and the mere spinner of wildly improbable yarns. There is a swagger in his style that seems unduly artificial now and then.”

“Rarely are sporting sketches found of interest to so wide an audience as this book will attract.”

Sandys, John Edwin. Harvard lectures on the revival of learning. **$1.50. Macmillan.

Lectures which discuss various aspects of the revival of learning under the titles—Petrarch and Boccaccio, The age of discoveries, The theory and practice of education, The academies of Florence, Venice, Naples, and Rome, The homes of humanism, The historian of Ciceronianism, The study of Greek.

“Dr. Sandys combines with a profound knowledge of books a light touch and an appreciation of the spirit of the place.”

“When we consider the mass of names and facts handled, the dexterity with which Dr. Sandys beguiles our attention is really extraordinary.”

“It is a sad pity that so much patient investigation should be so little clarified by a sense of proportion and historic insight.”

“To those who feel the need of some art expression, but who cannot attend an art school; to those who wish to follow the art of the craftsman; to those teachers upon whom demand is made for knowledge of the crafts—this little volume is addressed.” Instruction is 306given in design, thin wood carving, pyrography, sheet-metal work, leather work, bookbinding, simple pottery, basketry, and beadwork. The book is aided in its helpfulness to the beginner by the author’s working drawings, and reproductions of photographs.

“The treatment is terse, careful and suggestive. As a useful little manual for the teacher and as a practical guide for the amateur, this book should prove of great value.”

* Sangster, Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth (Munson). Radiant motherhood, **$1. Bobbs.

This “book for the twentieth century mother,” gives good council for the mothers of children at various stages of development. It discusses baby days, religious training, school, outdoor life and pets, manners, home reading and play-mates. There are chapters upon When children marry: The grandmother: Motherhood in fiction: Motherhood in the Bible: and Questions for the mother’s clubs. There is much that is helpful in the volume and it is written in a spirit which approaches motherhood reverently, and makes of it a thing both noble and ideal.

A five volume series. Vol. I, “Introduction, and reason in common sense,” and Vol. II, “Reason in society,” are already out. Vol. III, “Reason in religion,” Vol. IV, “Reason in art,” and Vol. V, “Reason in science,” are to follow. “Vol. I, ... ‘Reason in common sense,’ has chapters on ‘The birth of reason,’ ‘First steps and first fluctuations.’ ‘Discovery of natural objects.’ ‘On some critics of this discovery,’ ‘Nature unified and mind discerned.’ ‘Discovery of fellow-minds.’ ‘Concretions in discourse and in existence,’ ‘Relative values of things and ideas,’ ‘How thought is practical,’ ‘The measure of values in reflection,’ ‘Abstract conditions of the ideal.’ ‘Flux and constancy in human nature.’ Vol. II, ‘Reason in society,’ deals with love, the family, industry, government, and war; the ‘aristocratic ideal.’ democracy, ‘free’ society, patriotism, and ‘ideal’ society.” (N. Y. Times.)

“He can be brilliantly brief and weighty, and deliver long-drawn-out expositions with harmonious grandeur. He too brings us inspiration in a manner as delightful as it is distinguished.”

“The style is unfamiliar and singularly disconcerting to anybody who is anxious to get at the gist of Prof. Santayana’s message. Trope and epigram, flaming phrase and pervasive metaphor, so blur the outline of his meaning that impatience gives way at times to absolute exasperation.”

“For one, therefore, who is willing also to think, the work is essentially readable throughout. It is full of keen insight wedded to apt expression.” A. K. Rogers.

“It is, in fact, an eclectic philosophy, and. like other works of that sort, is likely to have more literary than scientific value. Professor Santayana’s style is highly polished, in parts too much so.”

“Ingenious, keen, and brilliant in a purely intellectual way, as all must confess Professor Santayana’s pragmatic treatment of the life of reason to be. those who are intent on a profounder moral pragmatism will, we fear, lay the volume containing it down with disappointment and regret.”

“Seldom has a materialistic philosophy been presented in finer literary garb than in this series of volumes, or with stranger contradiction of experimental facts.”

“He is always sufficiently independent without being in the least eccentric, and has much to say that is highly suggestive; but, in his praiseworthy attempt to avoid both dogmatism and polemics, on the one hand, and a too schematic and rationalistic method, on the other, he seems to the present reviewer constantly to run the risk of treating in a very general and somewhat superficial way some of the fundamental problems of philosophy.” Ernest Albee.

“The first volume seems to us to be disappointing. It seems to lack definiteness of both purpose and expression. The second volume on the other hand, seems to us to be somewhat original in substance and manner of treatment, and is certainly fruitful in suggestion as well as principle.” George S. Painter.

“He writes with a real command of language and power of imagery, and to most readers his brilliant illustrations and epigrams will be the chief attraction of his work. We should be the last to deny their charms, but at the same time the thought is apt to be a little confused by the splendour of its presentation.”

Information concerning the trees of North America (exclusive of Mexico) in a convenient form for the use of students and all those interested in trees and tree culture. The book includes a “Synopsis of families of plants,” an “Analytic key to families of plants,” a “Glossary of technical terms,” tend a complete index. There are six hundred and thirty trees described, each one accurately illustrated by the drawings of Charles E. Faxon. Professor Sargent has had thirty years’ experience in dealing with indigenous trees in the Arnold arboretum at Harvard, and the results of the knowledge thus acquired are here included, while Mr. Faxon has reproduced leaf-bud, leaf, flower, and fruit so ingenuously that each tree may be readily recognized at any season, and assigned to its proper group.

“There is no reason why this manual should not become at once extensively used by all those interested in trees.” J. M. C.

“It is hard to see how a better or a different manual could be made. No serious student of American trees can do without it.”

“It will be especially valuable to students in the West and South, where the trees are not so well covered by other manuals.”

“This task of providing a handy book of reference in fieldwork fell naturally to the author and illustrator of the ‘Silva.’ Both have done their work well.”

“It cannot fail to be of the greatest value to students of botany and forestry.”

“Is so written that with the least amount of trouble you may find to what family of species any particular tree belongs.”

“The book is one of permanent value not only to the student of forestry but to all who wish to identify the species and genus of trees in all parts of the country, so that the work really holds with regard to trees such a place as is held in another field by Gray’s ‘Botany.’”

“It is an excellent book to put in the hands of all who are interested in village and park improvement, while owners of country places will find it indeed a vade mecum.”

“The book is thoroughly satisfactory, and must at once become a standard among systematic manuals.” Charles E. Bessey.

“A genuine picture of life in New Zealand.... A story—genial, kindly, void of bitterness, and perfectly free from platitudinous unreality. The author presents a charming heroine, two brothers (one colonial born, and one a ‘new chum’ from England), a delightful old colonist of the early days, and at least five other characters who are too well and faithfully limned to be called simple sketches.”—Ath.

* “It has a rounded completeness, a full and broad humanity, which are by no means characteristic of contemporary fiction. A story full of real characterization, and at the same time alive with action, movement, and even with adventure.”

* “There is about the whole book a freshness and flavor of the wilds that give it a most welcome individuality.”

* “There is an atmosphere of freshness and truth about the book that is most satisfying, and the interest is sustained to the end.”

* “It has a thrilling story and not a few vividly written and exciting incidents. It seems to us far the best of the recent tales which have come to us dealing with Australasia.”

* “It is worth reading chiefly on account of its minor characters such as Pine the Maori, and certain passages describing the wonderful depths of the bush. The hero and heroine and their love story, and with unnecessary complications, are tedious and commonplace, and the dialogue is for the most part stilted and rhetorical.”

* “The book is to be heartily commended as an able and original piece of work.”

Saunders, (Margaret) Marshall. Princess Sukey: the story of a pigeon and her human friends. *$1.25. Meth. bk.

Altho Princess Sukey, the thorobred pigeon, flutters thru the story, the plot is chiefly concerned with the little boy who saved her life and with his grandfather, a retired judge, whose heart becomes softened to all weak things thru her and who fills his silent house with young life, letting the poor and the orphaned find a place in his heart and his home.

“It might be a tract promulgated jointly by the societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals and children.”

The poem which gives the title to this book was read at a banquet given to Ambassador Reid on the eve of his departure for England. The volume contains other verses for special occasions and selections from the best hymns and poems of Dr. Savage.

* “Despite a considerable fervor of feeling and great readiness of phrase and metre, few of the pieces ... are of a sort to engage serious poetic criticism.”

* “The hymns lack the fervor in which the great hymns are rich. Mr. Savage has kept his product in this field entirely free from the zeal without reverence that is so often an offense both to taste and piety in modern hymnology. The memorial hymns show catholicity of appreciation.”

Savage, Minot Judson. Life’s dark problems: or, Is this a good world? **$1.35. Putnam.

“In this series of ten papers ... Dr. Savage re-examines some of the questions that have beset humanity as long as humanity has put itself on record. Can we, in the face of the evil that exists in this world, believe in the goodness and wisdom of things as they are? Are suffering and evil reconcilable with an almighty, all-wise, and all-good God?”—N. Y. Times.

“The questions he asks are those that have been put by such as have thought and felt deeply since the day of Job onwards, and he writes as a man might have done at the beginning of the Christian era.”

Scaliger, Julius Caesar. Select translations from Scaliger’s Poetics, by Frederick Morgan Padelford. 75c. Holt.

This twenty-sixth volume in the “Yale studies of English” series includes “such chapters or portions of chapters as bear most vitally upon the fundamental problems of poetics.... The table of contents has been translated in full in order that the reader may gain an impression of the Poetics in its totality.”

“In this volume the stirring narrative of the pioneer settlements in the territory now embraced in the states of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho is told in detail, while the organization and political progress of the three state governments are briefly sketched. The author has wisely selected for amplification ... the processes by which the wilderness was subdued, homes multiplied, commerce extended to all parts of the world, and a great civilization developed in a portion of our continent that we once called remote and inaccessible.”—R. of Rs.

“A reading of it leaves the impression that it is the work of one who knows his field and whose conclusions may be relied upon.”

“He shows a fine grasp of the relative importance of events. The early period of its development is treated with great fullness and in style that fascinates the reader.”

308“The treatment is clear and logical, the tone impartial, and the style direct and agreeable. The book, in fine, is a useful addition to the literature of its subject.”

Scherer, James A. B. Young Japan; the story of the Japanese people, and especially of their educational development. *$1.50. Lippincott.

“Dr. Scherer tells in detail the development of Japan as a nation, with much information concerning succeeding rulers and their reigns. He discusses every influence that has gradually led the Mikado’s empire to its present position among the nations of the world, and what this position has meant or means to the native literature, arts, or sciences. Anecdotes and legends are used to illustrate certain points.... It is profusely illustrated with reproductions of photographs taken by and for the author, and drawings by Japanese artists.”—N. Y. Times.

“It is a useful pendant to his former work, ‘Japan to-day,’ and is, in effect, a sort of short philosophic history of Japan, which, however, is not treated critically.”

“He does not, however, go very far behind the looking-glass.” Wm. Elliott Griffis.

“The style of the book is clear, straightforward, and marked by ease and poise. It is the book for the hour; for the chief problems about Japan just now concern her real purpose and moral force.” Wm. Elliot Griffis.

“A large portion of the book would make an excellent school-text book.” Adachi Kinnosuke.

“When he discusses Japanese history, Dr. Scherer is at once accurate and philosophical; and his descriptions of Japanese school, street, and home life in town and country afford instruction and entertainment.”

“It is perhaps the general view of the long education of the Japanese, though but slightly touching upon the philosophy which has nourished the leaders of modern thought and action.”

“His work is based upon a pretty solid foundation, and will be found both entertaining and informing.”

* Schnabel, Carl. Handbook of metallurgy, tr. by Henry Louis. 2v. *$6.50. Macmillan.

A second English edition of this treatise on metallurgy which is a translation of the second German edition. As the preface states: “The work is divided into two volumes. The first embraces the metallurgy of copper, lead, silver, and gold.... The remaining metals are treated of in volume 2, and the most important among them being zinc, nickel and mercury.”

* “If the data were only up to date, the book would form an excellent text book for students of metallurgy.” Bradley Stoughton.

* “The merits and defects of the book remain much the same as the first edition. Prof. Louis is to be congratulated on the translation, which makes a valuable work available to British students.”

Schneider, Norman Hugh (H. S. Norrie, pseud.). Electrical instruments and testing; how to use the voltmeter, ammeter, galvanometer, potentiometer, ohmmeter, and the Wheatstone bridge. $1. Spon.

“This book is intended for practical use and also as an introduction to the larger work on electrical testing. The apparatus described is modern and universally adopted. The lists are such as occur daily in the work of the engine room, power house, or technical school.” It consists of practical explanations with numerous examples worked out and fully illustrated with diagrams and drawings.

Schneider, Norman Hugh (H. S. Norrie, pseud.). Model library, v. 1. $1. Spon.

This volume is divided into four books. The study of electricity and its laws for beginners, comprising the elements of electricity and magnetism as applied to dynamos, motors, wiring, and to all branches of electrical work. How to install electric bells, annunciators and alarms, including batteries, wires and wiring, circuits, bells, alarms, thermostats, annunciators, and the location and remedying of troubles. How to make use of them, giving full detailed instructions for the manufacture of dry cells of any shape and size. Electrical circuits and diagrams illustrated and explained, new and original drawings, comprising annunciators, alarms, bells, dynamos, batteries, etc. The whole is fully illustrated. There is also a complete general index.

Schoonmaker, Edwin Davies. Saxon’s drama of Christianity in the North. $1.50. Hammersmark.

“There are forty persons of the drama, besides fairies, gnomes, a dwarf, and a witch, classified as the ‘Saxon unit,’ the ‘Roman unit,’ the ‘Greek unit,’ and the ‘Supernatural.’ The distinctions between the classes are not sharply made, and unless the reader is thoroly informed or highly alert his mind will become more or less befogged in following the flight of the Saxons away from the Christians and the complicated relations among Oswald, Father Benedict, Sigurd, Selena, and Canzier.”—N. Y. Times.

“It is a long, confused drama in blank verse, where the ambition of the author is more praiseworthy than the result of it.”

“‘The Saxons’ has the advantage of an unhackneyed theme ... but the story is not very clearly told.”

Schultz, Hermann. Outlines of Christian apologetics for use in lectures: tr. from 2d enl. ed. by Alfred Bull Nichols. **$1.75. Macmillan.

After an introductory chapter treating of the problem of apologetics and its history, Dr. Schultz free from dogma and creeds discusses the nature of religion, postulates, and the reasonableness of the religious view of the world, philosophy of religion, religion in its historical phenomena, the nature of Christianity, the Kingdom of God, Christ, Jesus in history, &c. The volume is well annotated.

“Thoroughly scientific, and therefore failing to meet the requirements of orthodoxy, Professor Schultz’s apologetic is certainly evangelical in the best sense.”

Mr. Xaver Scharwenka has selected and edited the fifty compositions which are included in this addition to “The musician’s library,” and has also contributed an introductory study of Schumann. There is a bibliography in English, German and French.

* “While every amateur may miss this or that pet piece, the editor has succeeded remarkably in his choice of the half-hundred most precious nuggets.”

“As an interpretation this introduction is not equal to the introductions of some of the other volumes in this series.”

A text-book for teachers and students who are already acquainted with the phenomena of light as described in college books of general physics. “The first two-thirds of the volume are elementary; that is, they explain only polarization, interference, diffraction, the theory of optical instruments, and the peculiarities of the different crystalline media—phenomena that result simply from light’s consisting of transverse vibrations. The remaining third of the book contains the deeper theory of light, and is written on a novel plan, the idea being to direct students to the original memoirs without repeating their contents.” (Nation.)

“The reviewer feels that Professor Schuster, by clearness of exposition and the painstaking work spent in the preparation of such a timely and useful book, has put students and teachers of physics under no inconsiderable obligation.” E. F. N.

“Prof. Schuster has been completely successful within the limits which he has laid down for himself. We recommend the work heartily to all advanced students of physics, with only a hint of warning that the information should be supplemented from other sources.”

“A notable addition to the literature of optical theory, and one which will prove of value to every student.”

“Fills a very obvious gap. The treatment is marked throughout by the author’s well-known and admirable lucidity of style.”

Sixteen delightful stories which tell of sixteen equally delightful animal families. Young folks, when they have read them, will feel a truly friendly interest in: The one with a pocket: the opossum; The one that eats grass in the sea: the manatee; The biggest one: the whale; The one that lives in a crowd: the buffalo; and all the rest, elk, beaver, rabbit, squirrel, bear, fox, wolf, panther, seal, shrew, mole, and bat.

* “To make the stories quite perfect, it would be well that a naturalist should give them careful revision, so they may teach as well as charm the children, for whom they are written.”

* “The stories should not only prove attractive to children, but they should give them much interesting information about the children of the woods.”

The dream note in poetry, the traditional, and the patriotic are all sounded again and again thru Mr. Scollard’s new group of verse. His seven pieces are The dreamers, Lawton, On a copy of Keats’s Endymion, Elegy in autumn, The march of the ideal, The stars of morning, and The Oriskany.

“A quality of dream-music, of dream-picture, is the most characteristic trait of his muse.”

“Mr. Scollard’s work sometimes seems labored, but he has imagination and lofty idealism for fairly steadfast companions, and they prompt him to an utterance which is usually worthy of his theme.” Wm. M. Payne.

“Well endowed with a poet’s ideality, possessed of a good mastery of difficult metre, and a good command, perhaps a too good command, of poetic diction.”

Scott, Eva. King in exile: the wanderings of Charles II. from June, 1646 to July, 1654. *$3.50. Dutton.

A preface sets forth the kernel of the volume—“These years were years of hope, when Royalists still stood in arms in the three kingdoms, when the intervention of Europe was confidently expected. But they were also years of hope deferred, years that saw the growth of divisions and dissensions in the Royalist ranks, the steady decay of morals among men capable of a splendid devotion, but not proof against all the misery it involved. And to many came the bitterest pang of all in the knowledge that these years had witnessed also the dishonor of their king.”

“So exhaustive has been her work that no future investigator will need to spend his time in digging where she has digged.”

“Miss Scott has given us a second book worthy of the reputation she gained by her first and we must not leave it without a special word of praise for her description of, and constant reference to, her authorities, and for the admirable index.”

“She has not the tact to present the facts which she has mastered in an intelligible or artistic shape.”

This novel, by an author who has been active in social settlement work on the East side, concerns New York labor unions and tells the story of the struggle between “Buck Foley” and the walking delegate who defeated him.

“There is genuine power in the book, and it holds the interest of the reader until the very last.”

“The characterization of the story is gripping, and the dialogue is better than the curate’s famous egg. The style is picturesque without being purple.”

“A book written without any pretence of style, yet crudely impressive by virtue of its picturesque speech and its close acquaintance with the conditions depicted.” Wm. M. Payne.

“The tale is an interesting, and even powerful narrative. The workingmen of the story are generally true types. But the author has somewhat overdone the matter of endowing them with faulty syntax and cheap slang.”

“Characters, incidents, conversations, setting are of the latest and seem impressively real. It 310is a strong story notable even among good novels.”

“Mr. Leroy Scott has planted a literary standard in the field of American labor. Strictly speaking ‘The walking delegate’ is not a literary work, and, to judge by this example of his diction, Mr. Scott is not a stylist.” Stephen Chalmers.

“There is little doubt that ‘The walking delegate’ is one of the strongest books that the season has produced.”

“There is more genuine, living, human sociology in it than is to be found in half of the avowed studies of the relations of men in human society.”

“Both as a human document and as a work of art, ‘The walking delegate’ is a book of extraordinary worth.”

An exhaustive account of a three year Antarctic expedition which sailed in 1901 and spent two years below the Antarctic circle, making a new farthest south record. The geographical and scientific discoveries made are given in detail, the adventures met with and the new lands, mountains, and glaciers seen, are elaborately described. For the benefit of future voyagers there is a minute account of management and equipment of the “Discovery.” The books are written by the commander of the expedition and are illustrated from photographs and sketches, many of which are in color.

* “Looking on the book as a whole we cannot but think that it would have gained by compression, and by a somewhat more definite marking of the main lines.”

* “We cordially congratulate the author and the publishers on having combined to produce a book which is in every way worthy of so remarkable an expedition.”

* “The freshness and novelty of the subject matter command an immediate hearing, and the charm of the narrative, the well balanced perspective, and above all the manly record of heroic endeavor here revealed bid fair to make Captain Scott’s modest account one of the classics of polar exploration.” Charles Atwood Kofoid.

* “Lieutenant Mulock’s maps deserve special praise for their beauty, their accuracy, and their fulness of detail, while it would be impossible to speak too highly of the 260 illustrations that are not only an adornment to the book, but enable us almost as much as does the text to realize the conditions amidst which this expedition spent over two years.”

* “Capt. Scott has written a book that will have a conspicuous place among the annals of polar effort, and it is worthy of it.” Cyrus C. Adams.

* “Captain Scott has a singularly happy style, free from the stiffness of Cook and the formality of Ross, yet terse, vigorous and direct. This book comes as near perfection as we ever expect a book of travel to be.”

* “Captain Scott has done a splendid piece of work; not the least part of it is the production of the ablest and most interesting record of travel to which the present century has yet given birth.”

Scott, Samuel Parsons. History of the Moorish empire in Europe. 3v. **$10. Lippincott.

“Two volumes cover the whole period of Moorish occupation in the peninsula, while the third contains kulturgeschichtliche material of some interest and value. This is brought forward in the form of a series of essays on the arts, institutions, and influence of the Muslims, as well as on the Jews and the Moriscoes in Spain.”—Am. Hist. R.

“Mr. Scott’s three volumes are obviously the result of conscientious and comprehensive reading in some half-dozen languages, but their author lacks the historical temperament. His work, though not without a certain old-fashioned dignity of style, is too monotonous to be popular and too uncritical in its affirmations to content the trained student of history.” F. W. Williams.

“It cannot be said that on the whole the ‘History of the Moorish empire in Europe’ is either a safe or a well-balanced book.” A. C. Howland.

The world created by Scott in his Waverley novels and peopled with vitally real characters will never grow old-fashioned nor uninteresting. The Waverley novels hold the present day fiction reader no less than the student of literature who appreciates the significance of the Scott novel as the forerunner of historical romance. The present edition is made from newly set type; each story contains the author’s own introduction, besides notes, glossary and index to characters and scenes. There are excellent illustrations, many of them being reproductions of paintings by the Fine arts association of Scotland. The books are strongly bound, boxed and sold only in sets.

The issue of Ivanhoe as one of those attractive little pocket volumes, the “Thin paper classics” series will be welcomed by all lovers of Scott.

That this thin pocket volume with the limp leather binding of the “Thin paper classics” series can contain Kenilworth complete and in readable type, will be to the reader both a surprise and a satisfaction.

Uniform with the other volumes of the “Luxembourg” library, Kenilworth appears attractively bound in cloth with gold decorations, a photogravure frontispiece and seventeen full page illustrations.

Scott, William Fry. Structural designers’ handbook; giving diagrams and tables for the design of beams, girders, and columns, with calculations based on the New York city building code. $2. Eng. news.

“The purpose of this book, as set forth in the preface, is to shorten and possibly eliminate ‘much of the computation and drudgery which are necessary accompaniments of structural designing.’ ... The work provides, in a large measure, the essentials for the design of structures when not complicated by truss work or other unusual features. The time-saving is to be accomplished by the use of diagrams, which take up about one-third of the volume.” —Engin. N.

“The diagrams are well drawn, and considering the amount of information in some of them, are exceedingly clear. So far, too, as it has been possible to check them they have been found accurate and correct.” R. P. Miller.

311Scruggs, William Lindsay. The Colombian and Venezuelan republics. $1.75. Little.

The new edition of Mr. Scruggs’ work contains in addition to former editions a chapter on the Panama canal, and the text of the latest canal treaty. “The author continues his history of the ‘Panama canal projects’ beginning with the failure of the De Lesseps Panama canal company and the organization of a new company to take over the franchise of the old one, pay its debts, and complete the canal on the new plan. He writes of the negotiations of the United States with Colombia in 1903, the rejection by the Colombian senate of the Hay-Herran treaty, and the final rejection of that treaty.” (N. Y. Times). Mr. Scruggs, by virtue of his twenty-seven years of residence in Colombia and Venezuela, is able to give first hand facts, and the results of his own observation.

“In his Panama chapter there is nothing of any critical value. He writes generally with fairness, but superficially.”

“It is to be regretted that in a book of this kind, an authority in its field, and so well-printed in every other respect, there should be, as the result of careless proof-reading or writing, so many errors of the exact sort to mar its particular excellence.” Stanhope Sams.

“His book is probably the most reliable and authentic of any by an American author. The chapter on Panama which Mr. Scruggs adds to his book contains nothing that is new either in the way of history or of conclusion.”

Seaman, Louis L. From Tokio through Manchuria with the Japanese. **$1.50. Appleton.

The immediate purpose of Dr Seaman’s journey to the front with the Japanese army was that of inspecting the sanitary and medical work among them. His experiences and adventures incident to that undertaking are most interestingly narrated in the present volume. His chronicles thrill with the spirit of Banzai Nippon, the shout of patriotism in the “Land of the rising sun.” He shows the course of law and order that transforms a Japanese citizen into a patriot and warrior, and points to the masterly preparation for war, based on scientific principles, which Japan has made a national business. The book is valuable for its generous amount of general information.

“Breezy, readable in the first degree. It is spicy and, like red pepper, is calculated less to irritate than to stimulate.” W. Elliot Griffis.

“If Mr. Palmer’s book is taken as proof of Japan’s capabilities in destructive warfare, that of Dr. Seaman’s ‘From Tokio through Manchuria with the Japanese,’ is equally important as showing their constructive and conserving qualities.” Wallace Rice.

* “It is one of the most interesting and intrinsically instructive of the now numerous studies of the Russo-Japanese war.”

A group of clever parodies which array Browning, Wordsworth, Tennyson and other poets of the Victorian era in an almost grotesquely modern light. The volume is a companion to “Borrowed plumes.”

“In many ways a riper book than any of the others. The humor of it, while quieter, is more subtle, and the phrase and versification of a more finished poetic style.”

Fourteen short poems upon such subjects as, The twenty-third psalm, The power of the church, Supremacy of Christ, and Amen of Lord’s prayer.

“Other collections of verse, pleasant but not dynamic, ... comprising a dozen or more rather monotonous but sincere devotional poems.”

Seeberg, Reinhold. Text-book of the history * of doctrines; rev. 1904, by the author; trans. by C: E. Hay. 2v. $4. Lutheran pub. soc.

The first volume of Dr. Seeberg’s work treats “History of doctrines in the ancient church”; the second, “History of doctrines in the middle and modern ages.” The material from which the history is built has been drawn entirely from original sources.

“The significance of Giotto’s affinities with both the schools into which painting in Italy branched off during his lifetime is very clearly brought out by Mr. de Selincourt, who recognizes in his pictures—a great number of which are here reproduced—the richness of imagination that distinguished the Florentines with the feeling for grace of form so characteristic of the Siennese.... The useful little monograph closes with what is, perhaps, the ablest section of the book, a very acute analysis of Giotto’s influence over others.”—Acad.

“It may ... be fairly claimed that his new biographer has made the best of the meagre materials at his disposal and has also succeeded in realising to some extent the personality of the gifted master.”

“Mr. De Selincourt, we think, has approached the subject with conscientious impartiality and an open mind.”

“Here as hitherto the illustrations are frequent and sane, moderate in the critical and interesting in the biographical sections.”

“Our author succeeds in placing him for the student in the right relation to his people and his time.”

“Taken as a guide-book, it will serve its purpose perhaps as well as, if not better than, most of the volumes which have hitherto occupied themselves with an exposition of the master’s works, and as such will form even a welcome addition to the descriptive literature of its kind.”

“The connoisseurship lacks a familiarity with the latest and most approved authorities, and the criticism, where unconventional, is impressive only as an expression of untried emotions.”

“Thirty short stories by the foremost Catholic writers.” Some of them touch upon church matters from a Roman Catholic view point, in several a benign priest appears as good angel, but many are merely little love stories containing no question of faith.

“Catherine’s love affairs, of course, went beyond all ordinary bounds of ‘indiscretion.’ ... It is useful to have in English a statement on this subject which covers the ground already traversed of Waliszewski and his followers on the continent.... By far the most important of the ten or twelve suitors whose affairs with the empress come into the present volume were Gregory Orloff, the chief actor in the plot of 1762, and the Prince Patiomkin.”—Nation.

“It is unfair to criticise too rigorously a book which is written ostensibly for amusement, and is, with all its shortcomings, amusing enough.”

“This is the name applied to many species of seaweeds, especially those that are edible, by the native Hawaiians.... Professor Dr. Setchell gives the results of the investigations made by him several years ago, with a view to determining the specific identity of the different kinds of limu.”—Science.

The author assures us that “Every one of these stories, though more or less composite, is founded on the actual life of a veritable animal hero.” The first story describes four phases in the life of a slum cat whom luxury could not ween from her beloved junk-yard; Little Arnaux is a homing pigeon with a long record won by a fearless heart; Badlands Billy is the story of a wolf that won. Then follow stories of The boy and the lynx, Little warhorse, which is the history of a jack-rabbit; Snap, the bull-terrier who enters the story in a box marked “dangerous.” The Winnipeg wolf, and The legend of the white reindeer. Two hundred drawings by the author illustrate the volume.

* “The author’s power has increased as his style has become more simple and his allegiance to plain facts more indisputable.” May Estelle Cook.

“It is not necessary to say much more about Mr. Seton’s nice animals ... all bear the stamp of their creator, and all are more or less entertaining.”

A book of booty gathered in the woods, quaint myths and fables, some of which are of Indian origin, while some have been whispered to the wood lover author-artist by Mother Nature herself. He has pointed them with clever morals, and illustrated them with dainty drawings. It is a book to pick up in odd moments, for in its prose and rime one can find beauty, sympathy, humor, and clever satire; and young folks can learn something of the discontented giraffe, the unmannerly porcupine, the stubborn land-crab, and other animals with human frailties.

“Mr. Seton has great facility and a very pretty wit in these matters—especially when self-illustrated.”

“It is a series of chips from the workshop of a man who does larger things,—the brilliant joking of a thinker off duty.” May Estelle Cook.

* “Is too scrappy to enhance his reputation among children who know him by his ‘Two little savages’ and his animal biographies.”

“This little volume is filled with pretty little suggestions which children will not only like, but which it will be good for them to read.”

* “Is most unsatisfactory. It is too difficult for children, too dull for grown-ups. Not even the most startling varieties of type can arrest the attention.”

Sever, George Francis, and Townsend, Fitzhugh. Laboratory and factory tests in electrical engineering. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.

“The range of the book and its adaptability to its intended use as a manual for laboratory and factory testing may be best judged from a brief summary of the contents. The first chapter deals with resistance tests, temperature coefficient, etc. Dynamo and motor operation (direct current) is the subject of the next four chapters. Then alternating currents are taken up in ten chapters.... In the closing chapter ... electrical measurements of physical nature are taken up, such as permeability and hysteresis measurements, potentiometer, test, calibration of commercial instruments, etc. This chapter also includes some storage-battery tests and incandescent-lamp tests.”—Engin. N.

“The text is very lucidly written, although at some points too concise for ease in reading. The present testing manual will prove a good study text for those who have not ample opportunity to become acquainted in detail with electrical machines by personal experience.”

“Geographically, the plot is hatched in two places,—New Zealand and New Jersey. The main theme is the defrauding of a life insurance company by a man who claims to be his own brother, after having had himself ostensibly murdered, and having had said brother silenced by an awful threat.”—R. of Rs.

* “A tissue of preposterous absurdities, and, moreover, an exceedingly badly written book.”

* “Though overloaded with superfluous details and unnecessary complications, stands out as a ‘detective story’ belonging to the highest class,—after Poe’s.”

An idyll of childhood for both children and grown-ups. Rachel, the doctor’s little girl, who celebrates her eleventh birthday in the first chapter, is the real heroine, but her brothers and sisters and her village friends, big and little, play important roles in this drama of child days. There is Rachel’s tender conscience, which invariably awakes after the mischief is done and leads to confession and repentance of such dire deeds as stealing a doughnut and knocking the head off the china goat; there is the account of the wooing of Nora by Mike, with Rachel’s assistance; of the barely frustrated plan of the adventurous band who were about to set out for Idaho to find the cave of gold as described in “Idaho Ike; or, The boy billionaire”; and there are stories of a tea-party, a church social, a Fourth of July, and the dramatic pulling of a first tooth.

“Presents no problems and involves no tragedy, but is a delightful transcription of life in a little community in the central West before the fever and rush of recent years set in.”

A collection of essays intended to throw light upon church history of the middle ages. They are written from a Catholic view-point and contain a condensed treatment of “Catholicism in the middle ages,” “Results of the crusades,” “The Italian renaissance,” “Baths and bathing in the middle ages,” and kindred subjects.

“Even where no ecclesiastical considerations are involved, the author’s habit of facile generalization leads him into ... such eccentricities of judgment. The essays are pleasantly written and will prove agreeable reading to Catholics.” C. H. Haskins.

“They are always informing and suggestive. We suggest to Catholic higher schools and colleges, that they put these fine essays to constant use in the class-room of history.”

“A collection of exceedingly well-written historical essays, from the Catholic point of view. Dr. Shahan is well read, eloquent, and obviously sincere.”

Shakespeare, William. Hamlet, ed. by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke. **50c; limp lea. **75c. Crowell.

“Hamlet” is the latest play to appear in “First folio” edition of Shakespeare’s works. Accuracy of text, and a wealth of illuminative material are its distinguishing features. It includes a preface, introduction, literary frontispiece, notes discussing argument, sources, duration of action, date of composition, early editions, illustrations, glossary, variorum readings and selected criticisms.

Shakespeare, William. Love’s labour’s lost; ed. by Horace Howard Furness, sr. (Variorum ed.). *$4. Lippincott.

“The present text follows the first folio of 1623, and forty-six editions have been consulted in the textual notes. The editor provides an enormous list of books from which quotations have been taken first hand. The appendix, which is exhaustive in its elaboration, deals with the date of composition, source of the plot, English, German, French criticism, &c., &c.”—Westminster Review.

“The new volume shows no abatement in thoroughness, conscientious zeal, or scholarly discrimination. As before he supplies us with full apparatus for textual criticism and interpretation, a carefully condensed summary of previous scholarship in matters of date, sources, and the like, and the kernel of the contributions of all the more important aesthetic critics. In addition to all this, he writes a preface bristling with stimulating and provocative suggestions, and forming an original contribution of serious importance for the history of Elizabethan literature.” W: Allan Neilson.

“It fully maintains the high standard of its thirteen predecessors. As usual, the long preface is one of the best parts of the volume, for there we have the genial editor all to himself. The editor attacks his material with his usual vigor and vivacity.” W. J. Rolfe.

“The erudition packed away in the volume before us is incommensurable in terms of reviewing. We can only thank the editor for his untiring single-heartedness, for the lucidity with which he has disposed his huge material; above all, for the fine shrewd humor which lurks in every page.”

Uniform with the “Temple school edition,” this book is designed for student use. It contains besides the text of the drama, and introduction which gives the life of Shakespeare and an outline and history of the play, a glossary and copious notes. There are six drawings by Dora Curtis and many illustrations from contemporary prints.

Shakespeare, William. Sonnets; with introd. and notes by H. C. Beeching. *60c. Ginn.

“Primarily addressed to students. The text adopted is practically Malone’s revision of the edition princeps, the Quarto of 1609, all the variations, with the exception of differences in spelling and punctuation being noted. The sonnets have been divided into groups and carefully annotated. Dr. Beeching discusses all the most recent theories on the subject, besides criticising the work of other editors of the sonnets.”—N. Y. Times.

“We should be at a loss to point out another edition of the sonnets where text, introduction and commentary are more nicely adjusted to each other. Others may have done more in poetical illustration and psychological analysis; but none have produced a more satisfactory compendium of all that is really necessary to be known about sonnets, or afforded a more serviceable key to their numerous difficulties.”

* “Altogether the edition is so well-equipped that it is not likely to be superseded for many years. Advanced scholars will find it an excellent summary of rival views, almost entirely free from the strange temper and fantasy which are a feature of latter-day Shakespearean criticism.”

“On the bibliographical side Mr. Beeching’s book ... is inadequate. But what he has attempted, Mr. Beeching has done well.”

“The notes are clear and full, and the editor has created every explanation that is not his own to its original proposer.”

314“Canon Beeching’s introduction ... is a scholarly and able contribution to the literature of the subject.”

* Shakespeare, William. Tragedie of King Lear; ed. by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke. 75c. Crowell.

Thirteen chapters on such subjects as Earth and man, The future of power, The exhaustion of metals, The unwon lands, The problem of the Nile, The maintenance of the soil, The resources of the sea, The future of nature upon the earth, and The last of earth and man, have for their purpose the awakening of “a sense of the nobility and dignity of the relation man bears to this wonderful planet and the duty that comes therefrom.”

This little monograph “gets right at the heart of the man who loves a gun and his gunroom, the sort of book that is as conducive of reveries as it is to putting one alive to the possibilities of making of his gunroom the coziest and most comfortable sort of a den instead of a mere armory.”—N. Y. Times.

“Full of good advice for the man who loves his gun, his dog, and his tramp over moors and stubble in search of game. A companionable little book is this volume. Little in it that is technical, yet it is full of practical hints as to the care of a gun.”

* Sharp, Mary. Point and pillow lace: a short account of various kinds, ancient and modern, and how to recognize them. *$2. Dutton.

“Mrs. Sharp has chapters on Italian needle and pillow laces, French, Flemish, English, and Irish laces, made by hand and the machine. The closing chapter is a summary, and includes briefly-stated facts about laces. A glossary of technical and French, Flemish, Italian, and other foreign terms has been inserted. There are many pictures in the book showing the different styles of laces.”—N. Y. Times.

* “Is a much more comprehensive volume on the subject than was the Goldenberg publication of last year.”

“A collection of papers dealing with characteristic features of the country, real or described, of a number of widely known writers. The numerous illustrations are very helpful to the text in giving the reader a clear picture of the lands made familiar to all readers of George Meredith, Stevenson, Dickens, Scott, George Eliot, Thackeray, Brontë, Aylwin, and Carlyle. There are also, descriptions of English lakes, the Thames, and the lake of Geneva. The articles have appeared in the Pall Mall magazine during the years of 1903 and 1904.”—Bookm.

“Of the topographical literature now so much in vogue, this book is one of the best examples. It is full of interesting matter, is well written, and the authors selected for the description (mostly novelists) are those about whom every one likes to know; the illustrations, often made from special photographs, are numerous and uncommonly beautiful.”

“Most entertaining book, not by any means exclusively devoted to geographical matters, straying, on the contrary, into many by-lanes of criticism, reminiscence, and biography. The book is one most book-lovers will be glad to have and to read.”

The first novel of a young Ohio barrister and Harvard graduate. The action takes place in the author’s native state during the period preceding the Civil war, and the chief characters are a veteran general of the Mexican war, bent upon match-making, and his ward and her nephew, a red haired heroine and a bow-legged hero. There are many interesting characters, and John Brown and the underground railway figure conspicuously.

“It is cast in the form of a comedy, in which the author caricatures irascible old age, love and youth with much clever wit.”

“It lacks the awkwardness of a maiden effort, and the seams and patches of a labored attempt. It is easy, spontaneous, and all of a piece. For succeed he does, in spite of predecessors and conventions. The author has a delicate touch, as well as a sprightly manner; not all of his effects are broad. The author has a pretty turn for epigram, which he uses with becoming discretion.”

“This volume is the outcome of an expedition for which Dr. Shattuck served as director. His staff contained about twenty scientists, each a specialist in some direction; and the volume is accordingly largely made up of papers by these specialists on the geology, botany, animal and fish life, and soils of the island, together with a historical sketch and papers on the sanitary and medical conditions. The book ... is beautifully illustrated with photographs.”—Outlook.

“Its completeness and wealth of illustrations render it a more than usually striking and handsome example of American thoroughness.” R.L.

Mr. Shaw has given matrimonial orders and filled them out of the ordinary. There is an American-Irish electrician for the hero who views marriage calmly and impersonally, but determinedly pursues the woman he loves as he would the forces to be checked and chained for a new electrical machine. After marriage the atmosphere provided for the wife’s heart development is stifling and she seeks fancied 315happiness with a former lover. The machine philosophy of the wronged husband operates thus: “I can divorce you if I please ... You are free too. You have burnt your boats, are rid of fashionable society, of your position, your family, your principles ... and if you can frankly give a sigh of relief, and respect yourself for breaking loose from what is called duty, you are the very woman I want for my wife.”

“The figures might be cast-iron for anything they show of the flexibility and mutability of human life, and they are exhibited, not by one who clearly sees and thoroughly understands the springs of conduct and the objects of endeavour, but by a youth who in his revolt against old conventions has already rushed into grooves of his own.”

“The publishers of the day may be forgiven for thinking that there was no public then to appreciate or understand the ‘original morality’ of Mr. Shaw at the age of twenty-four. We have got used to the ‘original morality’ since then; we could understand a publisher’s refusing the book now as being out of date.”

“It is much inferior in interest to ‘Cashel Byron’s profession’ and considerably less repulsive than ‘The unsocial socialist’ and ‘Love among the artists.’”

“It is hardly necessary to say that this new book contains much brilliant wit, and the cunningly worded results of many acute observations of men—and especially women—‘as they really are.’”

* “It is possible that the same mysterious force which drove him through the labour of writing it may have had some purpose which will sustain others through the labour of reading it.”

Shaw, George Bernard. On going to church: an essay; from “The Savoy.” 75c. J. W. Luce.

Mr. Shaw’s arraignment of the man addicted to stimulant is accounted for in the observation “that all drugs from tea to morphia, and all the drams from lager beer to brandy dull the edge of self-criticism and make a man content with something less than the best work of which he is soberly capable.” Mr. Shaw’s theory, supported by the sermons read in enduring stone, maintains that going to church—not for the services but to commune in the sanctuary—supplies the vital want in a loftier sense than the drinking-shop, or the conventicle with its brimstone-flavored hot gospel.

Shaw, L. H. De Visme. Wild-fowl; with chapters on Shooting the duck and the goose, by W. H. Pope; Cookery by Alex. Innes Shand. $1.75. Longmans.

This volume in the “Fur, feathers and fin series” is a “manly book written from the sportsman’s standpoint ... and fathered by three authors—L. H. De Visme, who supplies the narrative as well as the biographies of ducks in general and particular. The chapters on shooting the duck and goose are by W. H. Pope, while A. I. Shand winds up the volume with twenty-odd pages upon wild fowl cookery. The illustrations by Archibald Thorburn and Charles Wymper are unusually fine; those of Thorburn, the British master of his craft, being not only full of action and feeling, but pictures in the best sense.”—N. Y. Times.

* “The whole volume is written in a direct and vivid manner that, while convincing and instructive to the sportsman ... is also excellent reading from a narrative standpoint.” Mabel Osgood Wright.

A discussion of the covenants of the spirit, as found in the scriptures with special reference to the claims of modern mysticism.

“Glenanaar” is an Irish story, partly historical, whose motif is the stigma which to the mind of the Irishman must be visited upon the kith and kin of an informer—any one who has given evidence in a state trial. The central figure of the tale is Daniel O’Connell who in British parliament as well as in Glenanaar fought for the freedom of his native country. A sprightly modern romance claims a good share of interest in which an Irish-American, an Irish widow, her two daughters and a parish priest figure prominently.

“The book is of course, written from the point of view of partisan, but we confidently believe that even readers as strongly prejudiced on the other side will be unable to resist its fascination.”

“Canon Sheehan has suffered from his wealth of imagination, and, by condensing into one story materials that should have served to set forth two, has injured the unity of his creation.”

“It is deep-rooted in its racial element, interpreting Irish character with an eye by no means blind to its faults, but always with penetration and tender sympathy. The tale is somewhat disconnected in sequence, but is sweet and wholesome, and withal, not lacking in touches of humor.” Wm. M. Payne.

“Abounding Irish humor and delightful bits of character-sketching are to be found in this novel.”

“The well-told tale is so full of humor, pathos, and romance that it cannot fail to win the interest of every reader.”

“Irish peasants—real, not stage Irishmen—are excellent company, and Canon Sheehan is a good guide.”

“The machinery of the story is, then rather cumbrous, but the shortcomings of its structure and arrangement are not likely to affect a reader who can appreciate eloquence, enthusiasm, and geniality.”

The title is derived from the balls on the Medici coat of arms, which was everywhere encountered by the authors during their wanderings. The journeys consist of trips from Florence to the Mugello, Prato, Chianti, Lucca, Pistoja, Brancoli, and Barga. There are over a hundred photogravures of people, landscapes, buildings and works of art, an index and a full list of illustrations.

“A charming portfolio of studies to be enjoyed by all.” Anna Benneson McMahan.

316“Is narrated in a chatty, discursive fashion, with a due amount of historical reminiscence and a vivid description of present conditions.”

“The excursions of the authors are of particular interest to the lovers of Tuscany, because we are taken into rather untrodden districts. The out-of-doors life of these districts is described for us in pleasant detail.”

Sheldon, Charles Monroe. Heart of the world: a story of Christian socialism. †$1.25. Revell.

“The story of an Episcopal minister, who wrote and published, anonymously, a book entitled ‘The Christian socialist’ and on the occasion of his consecration as a bishop renounces his office and the pulpit because of the consecrating bishop’s charge to him to oppose socialism and this book in particular.”—Ind.

“It abounds in thrilling situations and sensational episodes which have nothing essentially to do with the story.”

“The principles and aims of Christian socialism are here presented with dramatic effect in the form of a story.”

Lessons on household duties prepared for children ranging from ten to thirteen years of age. The book has been added to the author’s “Ethics for the young” series, and its “ethical keynote is the preservation and strengthening of family ties not only in childhood and youth, but thruout adult life.” (Educ. R.) “The motives and limits of conduct are developed by questions and dialog and enforced by aphorisms, stories, poems and illustrations.” (Ind.)

“This elasticity of treatment strikes us, by the way, as one of the most useful characters of this eminently practical work. At the same time, Mr. Sheldon’s ethics have a strong backbone.” Wilmon H. Sheldon.

“The instruction is not sectarian or markedly religious, and could be used in any school.”

“This new ‘Oxford Shelley’ gives all the poems and fragments of verse that have ever appeared in print, including a surprisingly large amount of material not to be found in any former edition. The text is the result of a fresh and evidently very thoro collation of the early editions, and the various readings are carefully recorded. All of Mr. Shelley’s historical and illustrative matter, with most of the similar matter worth preserving, is added, supplemented by the editor’s own scholarly notes and a full bibliographical list of editions.”—Critic.

* “Mr. Hutchinson has performed a laborious task both earnestly and ably, and we wish his edition the acceptance which it merits.”

“A marvel of editorship and book-making. It is likely to be the final authoritative and exhaustive work of its class.”

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. With Shelley in Italy, ed. by Anna Benneson McMahon. **$1.40. McClurg.

The editor has selected and arranged the poems and letters of Shelley which have to do with his life in Italy from 1818 to 1822. The selections are grouped under the various years included in the time covered. The volume is illustrated with over sixty full-page illustrations from photographs of the Italian scenes and works of art of which Shelley wrote and among which he lived self-exiled from England during the last four years of his life.

* “Mrs. McMahan’s own writing fills less than a score of her pages,—a fact testifying to her marked ability to speak briefly and to the point.”

* “The whole forms a delightful sort of poetic itinerary, whether for persons who are actually in Italy, or for those who travel in imagination only.”

A novel of the Prussia of Frederick William, that fantastic monarch whose giant grenadiers wore the badge of the red cravat. A tall young Englishman is seized and thrust into the royal guards through the influence of his rival for the hand of the beautiful English girl, Lady Joan Chrystal. Later the unfortunate guardsman receives the king’s orders to marry a certain peasant lass—but he doesn’t. The characters are all very human but not at all modern.

“Compared to the general average of historical fiction, this novel must be pronounced a decided success.”

“The novel owes much to its setting, and, while a story of adventure, seems made upon almost new lines from its leisurely style.”

“It aims at something good; it partly achieves that something; yet it drags. For it is overweighted with talk ... and errs by excess of quaint fancy. The author has done himself most credit in his characters. He has as obviously written the book to please himself. But he will please many others, too, for whom a bit of learned fooling along with some real human nature and some rude human humor does not spoil even if it ‘scotches’ a good story.”

“It is a fine stirring narrative, not without crudities, and there is some good character-drawing, which redeems it from superficiality. The style has spirit and charm, and Mr. Sheppard is a master of that kind of allusive writing which is best suited to the historical romance. The chief faults are diffuseness and an occasional sentimentality, which were perhaps inevitable in a first book.”

Anecdotes of fishing expeditions, bits of advice and some philosophy are found in these pleasing papers by a fisherman on British streams.

“It is a long time since we had a book about angling in which practical hints were so takingly varied with admirably penned pictures of the delightful surroundings of the art.”

“There is a pleasant and old-world flavour in his style. There is instruction in his essays too.” L. W. B.

Eleven cleverly written essays upon such subjects as, The salt lake of literature, being the salt tears shed by sympathetic readers, thruout the ages; Just a few of the reasons why love grows cold; Between the lines, meaning facial lines; The devil’s fancy-work; and The lifting of veils in literature.

* Sherman, Waldo Henry. Civics: studies in American citizenship. *90c. Macmillan.

“A book ‘for students who have at least reached high school age.’ ... The volume is divided into two parts, ‘Studies in American citizenship’ and ‘Collegeville.’ In the first, Land and government, Civil organizations, Banks, Civic and municipal institutions, Justice, etc. are treated. In the second, ‘Collegeville’ represents a township and the various problems of American citizenship are solved in an ideal fashion. The Declaration of independence and the constitution are appended.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

* “The purpose is worthy indeed, and some of the methods of presentation show that the author is concrete and understands how to instruct. But he should not have undertaken to write this book before thinking himself out clearly and fully. The sins against good English are numerous, and seriously affect the educational purpose of the book.”

Shields, Charles Woodruff. Philosophia ultima, v. 3. Scientific problems of religion and the Christian evidences of the physical and psychical science. **$3. Scribner.

“The late Professor Shields, of Princeton, obtained deserved reputation as a highly appreciated academic preacher, and as a man of literary genius.... The best part of his life was given to working out the scheme of philosophy whose prolegomena in pamphlet form appeared in 1861, and whose concluding volume is now issued. The goal of the final philosophy is justly conceived by Professor Shields as combining ‘the perfectability of science and the demonstrability of religion.’ In the present volume the scientific problems of religion and its scientific evidences are successively discussed.”—Outlook.

“He was a man of learning, in a certain obsolescent way, and the work may be used to advantage by others than psychologists, for whom it should be a document.”

“As to the scientific evidence of religion, one must say that Professor Shields’s argument so oscillates from strict to loose, and from maximum to minimum claims, as to yield rather limited satisfaction, except to a somewhat thin-spun conception of the term ‘scientific.’”

“This account of the life of Omar from the Persian standpoint, together with an explanation of his philosophy as understood by admirers in his native land, has been modestly and carefully written. The volume is well illuminated with Persian designs.”—Critic.

* “Mr. Shirazi’s English style is clear and simple, and his presentation of his points exceedingly interesting.”

* “The only real blemish on the book is the author’s anti-religious bias, which he doubtless regards as ‘smart.’ His transliteration of Persian names and book-titles shows little consistency. On the other hand, he has evidently read deeply in Persian sources for the material of his biography.”

A young New York physician is loved by a dancer whom he has cured of pneumonia, by a lovely young girl, and by a rich and cruel enchantress, whose aim in life is social recognition. The little dancer hides her secret and sensibly marries someone else, the enchantress drives the hero into brain fever by deciding to marry a leader of the coveted exclusive set, and the sweet young girl is left to claim her doubtful reward.

“Mr. Teignmouth Shore knows his subject thoroughly; his admiration is tempered by sound judgment, his praise is never exaggerated. The book ... is marked by scholarship, critical ability and good taste.”

A brief enthusiastic biography which supplements Mrs. Gaskell’s “Life” and includes many of Charlotte Brontë’s letters which had not appeared when that life was written. The depressing story of the whole Brontë family is given, and there is much minute detail about the strangely intertwined lives of the three sisters and the circumstances under which their works were produced.

* “He is able to correct Mrs. Gaskell on many points. His style, too, is of the sloppiest.”

* “Written without prejudice, and with sincere love and admiration of the famous sisters, Mr. Shorter’s book is a welcome addition to Brontë literature.”

* “But the little book cannot honestly be said to have much life or interest about it. Its most original point is the view taken by Mr. Shorter of the importance of M. Héger in the making of Charlotte Brontë.”

* “The task, on the whole, he has performed with much skill, with an entire power of making even less enthusiastic readers share with 318him something of ‘the glamour of the Brontës.’”

* “Mr. Shorter, to put it briefly, tries to compress far too much into one modest volume.”

Shorthouse, Joseph Henry. Life, letters, and literary remains of J. H: Shorthouse; ed. by his wife. 2v. *$4.25. Macmillan.

The first of these volumes contains a critical introduction by the Rev. J. Hunter Smith, a great variety of letters written by and to the author of John Inglesant, and a detailed account of his quiet life which was devoted to culture, literature, and the family chemical works at Birmingham. The second volume contains his literary remains, including three short stories and other hitherto unpublished writings.

“The book is a worthy and illuminating account of a man whose most characteristic work is not destined soon to perish.”

“On the whole the first of these volumes gives a fair sketch of the man, though the growth and origin of the books, which should be the most interesting things in the life are scamped.”

The doings of Plupy, Beany, Pent, Puzzy, Whack, Bug, Skinny, Chick, Pop, Pile, and some of the girls are here recounted. There are snowball battles, fishing excursions, parties, races, fights and adventures. The illustrations catch the spirit of the text.

“The matter is but a variation on the old topics, while the manner has no startling touch of brilliancy; but the adventures of Plupy and his friends cannot fail to make comfortable reading.”

Sichel, Edith. Catherine de’ Medici and the French reformation. *$3. Dutton.

In this faithful biography the queen regent of France is shown in her true colors and appears as an ambitious woman in whom was both good and evil, not as the monster of cruelty which history has made familiar.

“Well written, authoritative, and sincere, it is a model of biography. Above all, the author has made a patient attempt to brush aside superstitions, and to arrive at the truth. Now and again we are not able to agree with Miss Sichel.”

“A high standard of literary ability pervades the volume in spite of a few lapses.”

“Miss Sichel’s essays are interesting, and the book as a whole marks a distinct advance on the author’s ‘Household of the Lafayettes.’”

“An extremely interesting and comprehensive history of the first two-thirds of the life of Catherine de’ Medici.”

“Is a subtle analysis and vivid presentation of the personalities and ideas of the reigns of Henri II. and Francois II.”

A German professor bequeaths his work on corals and his only daughter to his favorite pupil, a young Englishman. The completing and publishing of the unfinished work prove a simple task in comparison with the undertaking to win a girl’s heart. To be sure this scholarly individual pursues one steady course instead of resorting to many devices, and it is due to a fault of method rather than purpose that the end desired is deferred so long.

“Is one of the most interesting and well-told novels of the season, and it should be one of the most popular.”

* “The tale as a whole is quite as entertaining as any of the earlier romances of the same type.”

* “Is a very readable little romance—a good companion for a railway journey or a rainy afternoon.”

* “The story is, all in all, well worth reading, although hardly likely to become one of the great literary successes of the season.”

“The many-sided activity of the late professor of moral philosophy at Cambridge is strikingly represented in this collection of essays and addresses. Sixteen in number, they take for theme subjects of an ethical, sociological, economic, educational, and purely literary interest.... An idea of the varied contents of this helpful volume may be conveyed by a few chapter titles: ‘Ecce Homo’ (a criticism of J. R. Seeley’s ’Study of the life of Jesus’), ‘The poems and prose remains of Arthur Henry Clough,’ ‘The scope and method of economic science,’ ‘The economic lessons of socialism,’ ‘The relation of ethics to sociology,’ ‘The theory of classical education.’”—Outlook.

“As an expression of the personality of Henry Sidgwick the collection has interest and value; as an embodiment of the Cambridge spirit it has enduring significance for all who care about tracing intellectual tendencies. The expression throughout is accurate; nothing is said more or less than is intended. The style is lucid, subtle, stimulating, never unpleasant, now and again humorous; never brilliant, persuasive, or charming. Stronger in criticism than construction. Entirely without magnetic quality.”

“The form of an essay or address is especially suitable to topics of this kind, which belong to the border land between the sciences rather than to the content of any one of them.” Herbert W. Horwill.

“What they give us is a series of side-lights on the development of a mind of singular openness to contemporary influences.” J. H. Muirhead.

“It includes a wide range of subjects—economics, education, and literature—and it treats them all with a solidity, a fullness of knowledge, a many-sidedness, and an occasional sparkle of dry light which keep them alive and informing 319even when their immediate interest has begun to shift or wane.”

“... These characteristics are palpably apparent—the intellectual sincerity, the openmindedness, the faculty of acute analysis, the precision of statement, the discriminating taste that were so emphatically his.”

Sidgwick, Henry. Philosophy of Kant, and other philosophical lectures and essays. *$3.25. Macmillan.

“The late Professor Sidgwick, a masterly critic, left unpublished lectures and fragments which occupy the larger portion of this volume. They discuss the philosophical teachings of thinkers so widely contrasted as Kant, Thomas Hill Green, and Herbert Spencer. The remainder of the volume consists of essays reprinted from ‘Mind’ and the ‘Journal of philology.’ Of the lectures much the greater part is devoted to a vigorous criticism of Kant, and these were finished to their lamented author’s satisfaction while the others remain less complete.”—Outlook.

Sidis, Boris, and Goodhart, Simon Phillip. Multiple personality: an experimental investigation into the nature of human individuality. **$2.50. Appleton.

In the main this work is the analysis of a reactionary second personality resulting from an accident befalling the Rev. T. C. Hanna a few years since. When he returned to consciousness, he was possessed of an entirely different self, “which may be understood only by comparing it to the birth of a person possessed immediately of matured mental and physical functions.” The phenomena of this state, the return to his primary personality, and the struggle which the physicians experienced in establishing him once more on the mental basis of his former self—there being for some time a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tendency to alternate between the two human individualities—make a study as strange as it is interesting and important to the scientific world.

“The close and accurate study of Mr. Hanna’s case throws a flood of light on personality and cognate themes, and is a most valuable contribution to the literature of psychopathy.” Albert Warren Ferris.

“The most original as well as most interesting portion of the volume is given over to a painstaking account of a remarkable loss of personality, in many respects the most complete on record.”

“Dr. Sidis finds corroboratory evidence in support of his view that multiple consciousness is the law, not the exception.”

“Truly one of the most fascinating of the fairy-tales of science, for the observing and recording of which Dr. Sidis and Dr. Goodhart deserve all credit.”

“The volume deserves, as it doubtless will find, a useful place in the psychologist’s equipment for the comprehension of the varieties and the variations of personality.” J. J.

“Whatever its positive merits may be, the extraordinary jargon in which it is written and the painful dogmatism of its authors go far to obscure those merits.”

This new volume in the “Luxembourg” series contains “Quo vadis” as translated from the Polish by Dr. S. A. Binion and A. Malevsky, and seventeen illustrations from drawings by Jan Styka.

Silberrad, Una Lucy. Wedding of the Lady of Lovell: and other matches of Tobiah’s making. $1.50. Doubleday.

Six short love stories in each of which unromantic Tobiah, the dissenter, acts as matchmaker. They are wholesome tales of crude times, and each has its own unique adventure in which there is the superstition and witchcraft found among the marsh-men; but the will of the Lord as manifested in the sturdy Tobiah, always triumphs, and the little blind god triumphs also.

“Miss Silberrad has quality; she has the power to create atmosphere. The stories in this book have all the hallmark of real ability, though their artificial nature makes them difficult to handle.”

“As regards actual writing and imaginative quality, this sheaf of short stories is above the usual, if not her usual, level.”

“A thoroughly enjoyable book. Stories more interesting or more wholesome it would be hard to find; still harder to find any of equal originality and excellence of workmanship.”

“Something of the dream-spirit of the Norse saga and folklore dwells in the stories, so full are they of atmosphere, of poetry, of true romance. Full of genuine humanity, too.”

Simpkinson, C. H. Thomas Harrison, regicide and major-general. *$1.50. Dutton.

“In this life of Thomas Harrison there is to be found the history of the leader of the Fifth-Monarchy men and one of the ablest soldiers of the seventeenth century.... Mr. Simpkinson’s book shows how noble a character this regicide had. Harrison was as brave on the scaffold as he was at Marston Moor or at Appleby Bridge, where his personal bravery saved the army.”—Acad.

“Had the story been written with a clearer style and with fewer digressions it would have been more valuable.”

“A good half of this book consists of quotations, and long quotations. His quotations are inexact; he is not discriminating in his use of authorities; his evidence occasionally fails to bear out the assertions based upon it; and his judgment is not sound.”

“Mr. Simpkinson’s ‘Life of Harrison’ is scholarly and sympathetic without being marred by the parade of extenuation.”

Simpson, George. Naval constructor: a vade mecum of ship design for students, naval architects, ship-builders and owners, marine superintendents, engineers and draughtsmen. $5. Van Nostrand.

“This handbook is a compilation of rules, formulas and tables pertaining to shipbuilding, with just sufficient descriptive matter to make the application of the rules clear.”—Engin. N.

320“The author has endeavored to arrange the book in a logical manner, but he has not succeeded in attaining his object as completely as might be desired. He also repeats somewhat. The index is not as complete as it should be, and the table of contents is simply a list of headings for which no pages are given. The book is certainly up-to-date and should receive a warm welcome from all who are interested in ship design.” Amasa Trowbridge.

“There is compactly stowed nearly, if not quite, all the material data needed by those engaged in the design, construction, equipment, and maintenance of ships.”

The obvious need of scientific study along the lines of the history and therapeutic aspect of plague in India is partially met by Prof. W. J. Simpson’s work of four hundred and fifty pages “elaborately illustrated with maps, charts, and diagrams, in which are presented the results of the latest studies of the disease made by competent specialists throughout the world. Dr. Simpson speaks appreciatively of the Clayton gas process of disinfection in India.” (R. of Rs.)

* “It abounds in points of practical importance, and should, therefore, prove a most serviceable text-book to all whose duty brings them into contact with plague either directly or indirectly.”

“It marks a distinct and important addition to what has hitherto been written about the subject. We have no doubt that it is destined to become a valuable and important aid to the student, the medical officer of health, to the epidemiologist, the sanitarian, and last, but not least, to the administrator.” E. Klein.

Savage Keith Rickman, son of a cockney book dealer, has in him the divine fire of genius which burns within him until, with the passing years, all the grosser parts of his personality are consumed. When the book opens he has written a tragedy, a classical thing, which makes friends for him among the critics even though they do not ask him home to dine because he is “not quite a gentleman.” In fact “his notion of pleasure was getting drunk and making love to Miss Poppy Grare,” of the Variety theatre. His meeting with Lucia Harden, typical of refinement and tradition, on whom he inflicts almost physical suffering when he “drops his aitches,” gives him an ideal to work toward, and he is never really untrue to it, even when he is engaged to marry Flossy, the little clerk. With a sense of honor almost too keen for the world in which he lives, he struggles on as journalist and poet until he reaches success, fame and his ideals. The book is unusual in its strength of plot and character, and it is most real when it forsakes the ideal and tells us that even the divine fire cannot shut out the coarser cravings of a man’s nature when he is young, a genius half-awake.

“Has an acceptable style, in all ways suited to the matter it embodies, a style with flexibility and humor employing a large vocabulary, cultivated and agreeable. As yet, she lacks that final touch of mastery by which a line condenses the whole result of ingenious mental processes.”

“Author has accomplished the difficult feat of taking a genius for its hero and making him seem plausible. A sound plot. Its faults are mainly those of excess. But no page bears evidence of careless work. It shows throughout unusual knowledge and an unusual degree of skill in applying it, and it ranks unmistakably among the best of recent novels.” F. M. Colby.

“One does not hesitate to pronounce this book literature. A keen understanding, an ethical interpretation, and a lyric style have combined to produce one of the noblest, most inspiring, and absorbing books we have read in years.”

“It is scarcely a spontaneous work of genius; but it is at least a brilliant piece of workmanship, of unusual range and power. The comfortably ample canvas abounds in masculine characters, and it is not too much to say that there is not a failure, not even a commonplace achievement, among them. In dealing with her small group of women the author’s penetration becomes blunter, her power weakens. Supremely interesting. Admirably constructed. A positive hardness, almost a lack of fineness, somewhat disqualify her as a ‘mouthpiece of humanity.’” Olivia Howard Dunbar.

“Drawn with a firmness of hand that excites one’s admiration. It rises, moreover, to real distinction of style, besides being of absorbing interest from cover to cover. It is the sort of book that one begins by skimming, and ends by giving the closest attention to paragraph and phrase.” W. M. Payne.

* “Aside from the literary shop talk in this novel the author has touched the heights and depths of inspiration. This is why parts of the book seem to sag so woefully.”

“The aim is high, the treatment is eminently appropriate, the interest absorbing.”

“Pervaded by ... seriousness of invention and stamped with the distinction of high-class workmanship. This story has great nobility of spirit; although somewhat too elaborate, it is a novel to be reckoned as one of the real things of the time.”

“It is to be regretted that the story, as a whole, does not reach the height achieved by the characterization. The impression one receives from the whole production is that of a tremendous and generous power; a power that includes humor, wit, analytical and philosophical power, scholarship, vivid and trenchant strength in characterization. Something that critics call ‘fusion’ ... is absent from the book, or is not there in full.”

* “Though a mediocre piece of construction, marred by diffuseness and irrelevancies, this novel should be read for its splendidly successful character studies.”

“She writes remarkably well, though with a tendency to exaggeration and exuberance, and she has the usual feminine weakness for adjectives.”

This novel without a heroine is really a romantic history of the years preceding the Civil war. The story ends with the first battle of Manassas. The southern hero attends college in Boston, and there becomes an abolitionist; on returning home his eyes are more fully opened to the horrors of slavery and he eventually joins the Union army. “Manassas” is the first of an epic trilogy, the volumes to come being “Gettysburg,” and “Appomattox.”

“It is one of the most thrillingly interesting books of its kind that we have ever read. The real drama of the book is the historical clash of the two civilizations, and individuals seem to be made use of only by way of incidental illustration. It is history written with warmth and an eye for dramatic effect, ... but it is nevertheless 321essentially history. It is a work deserving of very high praise.” W. M. Payne.

Sinclair, William A. Aftermath of slavery: a study of the condition and environment of the American negro; with an introd. by T: Wentworth Higginson. **$1.50. Small.

“This book gives the educated negro’s own view regarding the fitness of his race for full citizenship. It contains a complete record of the civil history of the American negro, showing what the race has done for the country in peace and in war, and what the negro has accomplished for his own uplifting.”—R. of Rs.

* “The style is clean and forceful. Of its kind it is the best any negro has written. It is the thesis of a special pleader making strong his case by ignoring the other side.”

“He is an able advocate if not altogether a wise one, and his book is very readable. He bases his case upon evidence which the other side refuses to admit and makes assumptions which they deny.”

“He is not intelligent in interpreting Southern conditions or southern sentiment.”

“His partiality is not envenomed, his plea is glowing, and his historical facts have more than common value.”

A critical essay upon Dürer’s work forms a preface to 48 exquisite plates printed in tints and mounted on paper to harmonize.

“In spite of the closeness with which Professor Hans Singer has studied the drawings of Albrecht Dürer, it can scarcely be claimed that he has succeeded in fully grasping the characteristics that render them unique. Moreover, in his efforts to be strictly faithful to his own convictions he commits himself to several assertions that will hardly pass unchallenged.”

“Compact for the use of students, and almost a necessity for any art library.”

This volume “contains fifty-two ‘process’ reproductions of famous portraits ... with words written about them (or inspired by them) by writers who are not all great.... The selections are well chosen and will be useful to the discriminating student. These is also a list of the abiding places of these pictures. Knackfuss, Moreau, Vauthier, Julia Cartwright, J. A. Crowe, J. B. Cavalcaselle, Humphry Ward, ... Larroumet and Lefroy are among the most authoritative critics of the fine arts quoted.”—N. Y. Times.

* “Is likely to prove of great value to persons not very well-grounded in the knowledge of art, and of use, in its way, to many others, who are.”

* “On the whole, the compilation has little to recommend it, and some of its faults are inexcusable.”

Singleton, Esther, ed. and tr. Venice as seen and described by famous writers. **$1.60. Dodd.

Fifteen chapters which include extracts from Gautier on “The gondola” and “The grand canal”; from Yriarte on “The Rialto”; from J. R. Green on “Venice and Rome”; from Ruskin on “St. Marks”; from Taine on “The tombs of the Doges”; and from Symonds on “A night in Venice.” The volume is profusely illustrated with half-tone plates.

“A skillful collecting of the best things that have been written by the best authorities.”

“A book that is charming to read anywhere, and will be useful for travellers in Venice to consult.”

“The book will be especially useful to those who have never seen and do not expect to see Venice.”

The author aims to give “‘a concise and practical presentation of the processes involved in designing a modern yacht’ ... so that the operations may be readily grasped by men without technical education.... There are chapters on displacement, the lateral plane, design, stability, ballast, the sail plan, and construction. A thirty-foot cruiser is made the basis of the calculations, and a number of tables is appended to abridge the figuring of important details. The book is illustrated with numerous outline drawings and plates.” (N. Y. Times.)

“The book will undoubtedly be serviceable to every one interested in the subject and possessed of enough technical knowledge to understand it.”

These “Stories of the childhood of poets, artists, and musicians” are founded upon fact but are colored to suit the taste of boy and girl readers, who cannot but feel a kinship for the young heroes of Beni’s keeper: Giotto; The victor: Bach; The little boy at Aberdeen: Byron; Tom Pear-tree’s portrait: Gainsborough; Georg’s champion: Handel; Six hundred plus one: Coleridge; The lion that helped: Canova; and Frederic of Warsaw: Chopin.

* “The stories are told simply, are readable, and the pictures are pleasing.”

“Mr. J. H. Slater has been writing on the subject for twenty-five years, and is regarded as one of the leading authorities in England.... The book ... might better be called a ‘Primer of book-collecting.’ Much information interspersed with illustrations, is crowded into less than two hundred pages.”—Outlook.

“For a beginner the knowledge contained in the volume may be of great assistance.”

322* “No one but a real collector could have set forth what Mr. Slater has put into his volume.”

“With these slight exceptions, which will prove almost immaterial to the beginner in book collecting, the manual may be taken as a most reliable, though somewhat dull, guide in this fascinating pursuit.”

Sloan, Anna L. Carolinians, an old-fashioned love story of stirring times in the early colony of Carolina. $1.50. Neale.

Mistress Damaris Johnson, the governor’s daughter, whose heart is as true to her lover as her father’s is to his king, in coquetry with her true feelings offends the man she cares for. He starts for England, is captured by pirates, a message from her miscarries, they become estranged on his return, and she is piqued into promising her hand to an unloved suitor, who in the end nobly releases her.

An exposition of the main development in sociological theory from Spencer to Ratzenhofer. The purpose of the work is to furnish a working syllabus for a year’s course of lectures and a three years’ program of seminar work given in Chicago university. “The main objects of this syllabus are, first, to make visible different elements that must necessarily find their place in ultimate sociological theory; and second, to serve as an index to relations between the parts and the whole of sociological science.”

“In this survey of wisely conducted life the subjective interest of disciplined and rationalized feeling comes to its full rights, and carries the authority of experience.”—Outlook.

“Altogether these studies in conduct offer a rational and agreeable program for making the most of ourselves and our brief span of life.”

“This volume, which belongs to the ‘Mediæval towns series,’ is to a considerable extent a reproduction of a book which the author published last year. Additions, however, have been made, and ‘it has been almost entirely re-written.’” (Spec.) “The scheme of the volume is sensible. The first portion, dealing with the history of Edinburgh, traces the general fortunes of the city without special regard to topography; it is briskly enough written, and suitably seasoned with classical anecdotes. The second, and in this instance more important, division presents a detailed description of the city itself, and discusses the places and objects of historic interest.” (Ath.) There are many illustrations.

“The instructions are clear and practical, the comments are generally to the point, and the illustrations are decidedly good.”

* “The book is compact, comprehensive, and portable, and conveniently arranged in walks to points of historic, literary and ecclesiastical interest in the city and its environs.”

“Has put together a charming volume, full of matter but with little in it either of the guidebook or the town history.”

“This volume packs an amazing amount of information in small compass, and serves it up, moreover, with commendable freedom from dryness and encyclopaedic method.”

“A book about Edinburgh can scarcely fail to be interesting, and as written by Mr. Smeaton, who knows his subject thoroughly and writes about it con amore, this may be ranked with any volume in the series.”

A clever fairy tale interspersed with nonsense rhymes in which a fairy princess goes out into the world with her hero prince to help him conquer his kingdom. After wars waged against castles, witches and wizards they share their realm in proverbial fairy-tale peace and prosperity.

Smet, Pierre-Jean de. Life, letters and travels of Father Pierre-Jean de Smet, S. J.; ed. by Hiram Martin Chittenden and Alfred Talbot Richardson. $15. Harper, F. P.

An account of the life and work of the missionary priest in the unopened West, recorded chiefly in his own simple words, as found in manuscript journals, and his printed works. There are copious notes and a life of De Smet by the editor.

“We strongly recommend this valuable work to all who are interested in the history of the North American West and in its aborigines. Also, and particularly, to those interested in missions.”

“The most valuable part of this book is that which deals entirely with Indian life, and the editors are to be congratulated upon their success in keeping this essential and vital part continually the most prominent. As no other man has so fully and so deeply understood the Indian, so no other has contributed so much information about his life and customs or served the cause of justice so well in uprooting the prejudice against the aborigines of this country. [The Indian] has received his meed of praise, and the final judgment upon his character.” Stanhope Sams.

This new edition of the famous work of the father of political economy follows the text of the fifth edition in all details. The editor has added elaborate notes and a comprehensive introduction.

“Will henceforth be the standard. It is hard to see how the editor’s work could be improved save by the discovery of new sources of knowledge.”

“What promises to be its definitive form for many years to come. Along with his demonstrated insight into the heart of this classic, Mr. Cannan brought other gifts of a rare order to his task,—tireless scholarship in ferreting out the ipsissima verba of the text, and withal an invigorating freshness of vision into the realities of industrial life, a doughty logic, and a dash of cynical humor.”

“Marks of extreme care as well as of full and critical knowledge are visible on every page. The editor’s notes are of great value even to students who are not greatly interested in the niceties of textual criticism. In a great measure they serve as cross-references, and serve also to keep in mind and define Adam Smith’s characteristic inconsistencies and limitations.”

A volume which “treats in logical sequence the elements of mechanism and machine design, followed by construction in detail of machinery, and an excellent chapter on ‘Riveted joints.’ It is well written and illustrated, and the effort to lead elementary conception into actual construction is consistently followed out, giving the reader, or the student, the satisfaction of learning the means and the reason for the result obtained.”—Engin. N.

* “Briefly characterized this is a college treatise, broad and elementary in its introduction, thorough in detail, elaborate in formulas, limited in references to modern devices and inaccurate in some of its practical data.”

Six short legends each representing some folk song of the tribe of Ah-wah-nee-chee or Yosemite dwellers. The charm of the text is enhanced by the artistic work of Florence Lundborg, who has conceived a barbaric pattern, an Indian design for the margin, and has contributed thirteen wash drawings reproduced in half-tone. The whole make-up of the book suggests the “eerie and the unseen in air, crag, and water.”

“The stories are told with an attractive simplicity that retains a flavor of the primitive Indian poetry.”

* Smith, Rev. David. Days of His flesh: the earthly life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. **$2.50. Armstrong.

A new life of Christ, simple in style. “It throws some light on incidents in the life of Christ from portrayal of Jewish habits of life and thought. It accompanies the words of Jesus with some interpretation, but not with exhortation. It is free from scholasticism on the one hand and from ecclesiastical pietism on the other.”—Outlook.

* “Theoretically, the spirit of the writer might be defined as that of a broad-minded and free-minded evangelical.”

* Smith, Elmer Boyd. Story of Noah’s ark; told and pictured by E. Boyd Smith. **$2. Houghton.

“The building of the ark, the assembling of the animals, and the adventures of the voyage, are all made to yield their full measure of entertainment. The dinosaurs that had to be left behind because they were too big for the door, the host of other strange beasts ... that refused to go in and were therefore ‘doomed to be lost and become fossils,’ the other host that went in and, being tossed by the waves, regretted it ... all these episodes are pictured with remarkable expressiveness and a clever but never too extravagant caricature.... The plates are artistically reproduced in color.”—Dial.

* “An amusing book with illustrations gay enough and text simple enough to attract any well-regulated child.”

* “The pictures are the feature of the book, but they would not be half so amusing without the sly and subtle humor of the brief descriptions which accompany them.”

* “Mr. Smith is too good a draughtsman to be side-splittingly comical, but he has a humorous imagination. His text is far less droll, and he should procure a literary running-mate for his next venture.”

* “A capital piece of story-telling by colored pictures—humorous but perfectly respectful to Noah and all his family.”

Parisians of all classes at play, sipping coffee in their pet cafés, pelting each other in the fete des fleurs, or enjoying the more serious joys of baccarat, fill these pages. But whether at home or jaunting by rail or motor car to Trouville, Normandy, St. Cloud or Monte Carlo, they are kept innately Parisian and carry with them their own distinctive atmosphere.

“It is never better than picturesque journalism, but, light and frothy as his writing is, it conveys a good and vivid idea of certain aspects of life in Paris, at Trouville, and other watering-places, at Nice and Monte Carlo, and so forth.”

“He shows an absence of dictatorialness, a humor, and a modesty that make his volume most entertaining reading.”

“The style of the author matches its subject. Mr. Smith is not only an enthusiastic lover of Paris but he can express this taste for the perfection of worldly joys in a voice of exquisite timbre.”

“Is as bright and entertaining as either of its predecessors, ‘The real Latin quarter’ and ‘How Paris amuses itself.’”

“Sprightly, not always very dignified, cheerfully observant of the gay and the picturesque.”

“‘Paris out of doors’ has gathered in the spirit of the French festivity, has caught much of the nature worship that infects that festivity, and in every respect is a delightful and refreshing book.”

“Mr. Smith knows perfectly well how to write good, interesting description, and what more interesting people can you find than the modern Parisian?”

“This is a very pleasant and readable book. Some of the illustrations are good, but the photographs are not invariably successes.”

“This is a collection of nine short stories.... The object of the volume seems to be to bring together some little tales of plain things in life in which Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith discovers a grain of gold ‘at the bottom of every heart-crucible choked with cinders.’ ... He does not confine his stories to any particular stage setting, but wanders, as the digger should do, wherever the gold of life is to be found.”—N. Y. Times.

“Mr. Hopkinson Smith has the right knack, although exception must be taken to his literary style.”

“The chief characteristic of these nine short stories, tales of ‘the road,’ is a realism described with a poetic touch.”

“He has set down with humor, compassion and wit the real life that we live every day on the outside of story-books and made it refreshing with faith and virtue.”

“He has the snag-less style of long literary training, yet he shuns prolixity.”

324“The stories deserve reading, and the circulation of such a volume will not bring benefit to the author alone.”

“This latest collection of short stories renews the impression which the earlier volumes from the same hand made of great clearness of sight, fresh and vital interest in all forms of life which express either beauty or character, a keen sense of humor, and admirable power of characterization.”

“The author, who writes tersely and well, shows that he has keen powers of observation, he is also endowed with a sense of humour and a capacity for sympathy, and he can in a measure touch, as it has been said, both the springs of laughter and the source of tears.”

“The problems contained in the book are not very subtle, but almost all the stories are pleasant reading.”

F. Hopkinson Smith invites his readers to join a circle in Bohemia about a log fire “that can sparkle with merriment, or glow with humor, or roar with laughter, dependent on your mood.” The “High priest of the Temple of jollity” is Sandy MacWhirter whose “wide personal experience, his many adventures by land and sea make him the most delightful of conversationalists ... talking as a painter talks, one who sees, and therefore can make you see.” He and his group of friends draw up around the fire and swap stories, impressions and terse convictions. “Mac” on studio teas is especially convincing; “Art is a religion not a Punch and Judy show. Whole thing is vulgar. Imagine Rembrandt showing his ‘Night watch’ for the first time to the rag-tag and bob-tail of Amsterdam.... Sacrilege, I tell you, this mixing up of ice-cream and paint; makes a farce of a high calling and a mountebank of the artist.”

* “MacWhirter and his friends are thoroughly individual. They all know stories well worth the telling, and they tell them extremely well.”

* “Has the charm with which Mr. Smith invests all that he writes, a charm which is one of projected personality, and must therefore miss some uncongenial readers, though these will usually be few.”

* “Mr. Smith never fails to infuse a certain invigorating good fellowship into his stories. The book as a whole does not reach the high level of Mr. Smith’s more serious fiction.”

* Smith, Frederick Edwin, and Sibley, N. W. International law as interpreted during the Russo-Japanese war. *$5. Boston bk.

“We welcome this attempt to estimate the present state of the science [of war] in the light of the new precedents created.... [The authors] have reviewed the whole history of the operations, and dealt with every point raised, from the volunteer cruisers to the use of wireless telegraphy, in a lucid and scholarly manner.... A large number of useful documents are reprinted in the appendices, and the authors have written a short but admirably clear introduction on the meaning of international law.”—Spec.

* “By far the most interesting part of the volume consists of the chapters, full of detail, and well considered, relating to neutrality; chapters so full and complete that they might with small change form parts of a treatise on international law. It is a piece of well-knit, solid work. It embodies research and care. A spirit of moderation, a sense of responsibility, is present.”

* “The work may be warmly recommended to all lawyers and students of public policy.”

Smith, Rev. George Adam. Forgiveness of sins, and other sermons, **$1.25. Armstrong.

“Sermons preached by Dr. George Adam Smith, in the pulpit of Queen’s Cross Free church, Aberdeen.... They are spiritual expositions of theology.... Biblical in substance but not textual.”—Outlook.

“His new volume of sermons offers an example of the art of expository preaching, the more persuasive in that it is not professedly expository.” A. K. P.

“His discourses are direct, practical and earnest, excellent examples of the expository preaching for which Scotch ministers are famous.”

“They constitute good models for the minister and good reading for the thoughtful and the devout layman.”

“The volume of his sermons just published may do something to dispel false notions of Professor Smith’s theological system.”

This volume is written by one who knew Gladstone, both socially and in a business way and who knew even better the men who were his associates in public life. He says that it is thru their eyes that he saw Gladstone and he gives his memory of the man and his colossal work in a concise and sympathetic manner. The little book will give a glimpse of Gladstone and his career to those who have not the leisure to read Morley’s Life, to which Prof. Smith pays handsome tribute.

This is one of the Univ. of Penn. publications and belongs to the series in political economy and public law. “The author confines himself exclusively to the presentation of facts and the description of processes.... The result is a careful, accurate and minute analysis of over sea commerce, which cannot fail to be of the greatest interest, not merely to the student of commerce, but to those who are actually engaged in the business of ocean transportation. The book is divided into three parts, viz.; Traffic, Routes and shipping and Harbors and port facilities.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)

“Dr Smith has produced one of the most satisfactory pieces of economic investigation which has appeared in recent years.” E. S. Meade.

Smith, Rev. John. Magnetism of Christ: a study of our Lord’s missionary methods. $1.75. Armstrong.

“This book is composed of the Duff lectures on evangelistic theology, which were delivered in 1903-4 by the author, who is a minister of the United Free Church of Scotland.... He 325discourses on such subjects as ‘The distinctive method of Jesus,’ ‘Christ dealing with individual inquirers,’ and ‘Prayer as bringing in the kingdom of God.’”—Spec.

“Although Dr. Smith wrote his lectures for students, his style is almost as simple as that of a Welsh evangelist.”

This is the second story in the “Old Deerfield series,” and the sequel to, “The boy captive of old Deerfield.” It tells of the experiences of little Stephen Williams, son of the minister of Deerfield, as he lived a captive and a burden bearer among the Indians. It describes his wanderings with them in northern Vermont, the cold hard winter they spent in Canada, and it finally chronicles his liberation and return to Deerfield. At the end the varied and thrilling experiences of other Deerfield captives is given as revealed by the researches of Miss C. Alice Baker.

The value of longevity is here illustrated by practical examples. The lives of Mommsen, Holmes, Geo. Bancroft, Victor Hugo, S. Weir Mitchell, Whittier, and numerous other masters of old age serve to show how much of the world’s work is done by its old people. There are some good ideas upon the value of keeping in the harness, and on the care of both mind and body.

“As a record of the victories over old age and bodily infirmity won by men and women of many sorts this book has a tonic quality both of physical and moral efficacy.”

“‘A key to the fundamental scientific interpretations of the system of nature, a definition of natural religion, and a consequent agreement between science and religion.’ What Mr. Smith has really tried to do is to show that religion and science stand on the same rock, and that the law of compensation will explain away many philosophical difficulties. There is an appendix containing critical reviews by a number of eminent scientific and religious writers, most of which commend Mr. Smith’s thesis and the way he has worked it out.”—R. of Rs.

“Mr Smith in his book endeavors to deduce human immortality, and other things, from Newton’s postulate that ‘to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.’ The result is unsatisfactory to the materialists, who do not accept his demonstration as valid, and equally so to those who like the other side of the wall, because it is the other side.” T. D. A. Cockerell.

A lover of books and of birds writes of his friends the owl, the raven, the wild duck, the magpie, the rook and others, giving his own observations of them and showing the place they hold in history, literature, poetry, and folklore.

“A well-written and attractive book, of which the only material demerit is the rather patchy and uneven effect almost inseparable from volumes made up of papers originally published at divers times and in divers manners.”

“It is pleasantly and allusively classical, for Mr. Bosworth Smith is a ripe scholar, and it is written in a style which is always accurate and often picturesque.”

“The book is one to be on permanently good terms with, for its genuine love of all feathered folk, its hatred of cruelty ... its delicate humor, and its poetical perspective.” May Estelle Cook.

“The particular claim of the book is that it has a local nexus and that the tale of the birds is not separated from the life of the place.”

“Has the happy faculty of combining his personal observations with those of his predecessors and confreres into a series of pleasing and instructive sketches.”

“Perhaps the best parts of his book are those in which he has brought together the references to his favorite birds from ancient and modern literature.”

“These essays have a certain charm of style which should appeal to nature-lovers the world over.”

“He is a real observer of the birds he delights in and he has written a very delightful account of the old Rectory and the old Manor house.”

“Very pleasant book. The charm of the book ... lies chiefly in the writer’s great love of his subject.”

Smith, Sydney Armitage-. John of Gaunt, king of Castile and Leon, duke of Aquitaine and Lancaster, earl of Derby, Lincoln and Leicester, seneschal of England. *$6. imp. Scribner.

“So far as we are aware, this is the first detailed study of the personality and career of ‘Old John of Gaunt, time-honored Lancaster.’ ... Mr. Armitage-Smith has faithfully explored all manner of sources of information bearing on the exploits and character of this favorite son of Edward III. and favorite brother of the Black Prince, this titular king of Castile and Leon and uncrowned king of England. The search yields to us a fascinating story of chivalry, pageantry, and war, a story of many personages and many scenes.”—Outlook.

“He must be congratulated on a width of research and a clearness of judgment which more practised hands might envy. He has done much to reconcile apparent inconsistencies in the career of the father of the first Lancastrian king and to unravel the tangled skein of English politics in the last quarter of the fourteenth century.” James Tait.

“He has turned out a book that is at once scholarly and eminently readable. Moreover, his work scarcely runs the risk of being superseded.”

“Told with feeling and intelligence by one who breathes the spirit of the times.”

From 600 B. C. to the Mohammadan conquest, including the invasion of Alexander the Great. A great deal of space is devoted to the invasion of Alexander, while the chapters dealing with the mediaeval kingdoms of the north, the Deccan and matters of purely local interest are brief. The closing chapter outlines the history of the South.

“Will be welcomed for its very able research into Alexander’s India campaign. McCrindle, whom we had thought to have said the last word on the subject, is corrected in so important a matter as the place where Alexander’s army crossed the Hydaspes.”

“Mr. Smith is unusually well qualified for the work he has undertaken. This knowledge, combined with a high ideal of the office of the historian, ability in the sifting and criticism of evidence, and finally the power of presenting in remarkably clear and attractive form the fruits of his investigations has led to the production of a work of exceptional merit.” George Melville Bolling.

“Nearly a third of the volume is occupied with Hellenic activity and influence in India, and there is nowhere so complete and vivid an account of the great campaign as is to be found in these pages. Even those not interested in India for itself cannot fail to be attracted by this chapter in the life of Alexander, which in some regards at least may be accepted by historians as a definite statement.”

The author is a southerner and a professor in Tulane university, but he tries to give an unbiased scientific treatment of the race problem, taking up the question of miscegenation, the danger of the “mongrelization” of the white race in the South, and social and political future of the negro.

“The argument is largely rhetorical and contributes nothing to our knowledge of what is going on. The book abounds in extreme statements. As a plea of an intelligent partisan the book has value, but otherwise is not to be compared with the recent volume of Mr. T. N. Page, who holds very similar views.”

“There is much that is new in the conception and in the detail of the present study. Whether the reader agree or disagree with Professor Smith’s conclusions, we can promise him that this is by far the most elaborate and important study of the American negro that has yet appeared, that it deals with fundamentals and not with the superficial manifestations of the conflict between black and white, and that its tone is such as to command respectful attention from the reader, whatever his prejudices. A style full of terse, vigorous phrases, at times enlivened by humor, and again and again shot through with illuminating allusions revealing the breadth of culture, the fund of reading upon which the scholar can draw at will.” Pierce Butler.

“Professor Smith of Tulane University writes as an ‘irreconcilable,’ but his arguments are strong and well buttressed, and he views the subject on several sides.”

“Mr. Smith’s book is a naked, unashamed shriek for the survival of the white race by means of the annihilation of all other races.” W. A. Burghardt DuBois.

“It is only valuable as an effort to substantiate the South’s treatment of the negro. It contains neither scientific accuracy nor literary excellence.”

“It may be Professor Smith has allowed his predispositions to color his conclusions somewhat.”

“In six passionately written chapters brimming with science and statistics, Professor Smith makes a strong presentation of the position of the South on the negro question.”

* Smythe, William Eilsworth. Constructive democracy: the economics of a square deal. **$1.50. Macmillan.

“This volume presents the evils of the present industrial system and proposes three remedies. The first is Senator Newland’s plan for dealing with the transportation problem.... The second remedy is Mr. Garfield’s plan.... The first remedy would put the railroads, the second the trusts, under the supervision of the National government. The third remedy is National irrigation for the development of our unused lands, and adequate protection of them from the land-grabber, that they may furnish an opportunity for the ‘surplus man.’”—Outlook.

* “We see no evidence that he is familiar with the economic history of the past. His book is journalistic rather than academic in its spirit. We should like to see his book read and pondered by all journalists and congressmen.”

* “His book impresses one as the work of a keen observer of modern industrial life and a thoughtful student of its problems.”

“The first part of Mr. Snell’s manual is entitled ‘The camera and the dark room’; in this the processes are explained.... Parts 2-5 are devoted to the several subjects of Ornithology, Zoölogy, Entomology, and Botany; in each the special subject—how bird, beast, insect, or plant is to be best ‘taken off’ by the camera—is dealt with. The volume is amply illustrated.”—Spec.

“His sensible remarks on the matters of which he is clearly a master himself should be of great value to students of ornithology, zoölogy, entomology, and botany.”

* “An excellent handbook for those who are interested in the finer problems of photography.”

This book supplements “Society in London,” published by the same author in 1886. It gives a present day view of “persons and things, as well as of a social state generally” both in and out of London, under such chapter headings as—The new court and some state pillars, Society at school and at play, Where wit, wealth and empire meet, Hencoops and heroes, Counter and coronet, Society’s tradesmen and their social claims.

“The volume comprises the papers and discussions at the first meeting of the (British) Sociological society, 1904.... Among the subjects discussed, ‘Eugenics,’ or what in this country is called stirpiculture, takes the leading place.”—Outlook.

“The book is welcome not merely because of the excellent papers, but also because of the light it throws upon the headway sociology is making in England.”

“The sociological society is to be congratulated on the appearance of its first volume.” W. D. Morrison.

“The one real addition to knowledge that the volume contains is by an outsider, Mr. Harold H. Mann.”

“A complete bibliography of all the bills relating to copyright which have been introduced into Congress, the resolutions and laws which have been enacted, and those reports, petitions, memorials, messages, and miscellaneous documents which have been printed, together with a complete chronological record of all action taken in Congress, in any way relating to the subject of copyright, showing how each proposal has been dealt with.” The record begins with April 15, 1789, and extends to 1904.

This diary of a country sportsman treats of English rural life in all its phases. There is social life, scenery, and a criticism of hunting customs and sporting laws. The whole is enlivened by clever anecdotes and original reflections in the things about them by the author and his wife, Belinda.

“It can be confidently recommended to all who care for records of outdoor life flavored with the philosophy of a genial observer of men and animals.”

“A delightful raconteur is the author, and his stories are short and to the point.”

* Sonneck, Oscar George Theodore. Francis Hopkinson, the first American poet-composer, and James Lyon, patriot, preacher, psalmodist: two studies in early American music. *$5. O. G: T. Sonneck, Lib. of Congress, Wash., D. C.

“A piece of research in American history based on an examination of original sources.... Hopkinson, who was born in 1731, was a man of unusual talent; a writer, a politician, an inventor, and an enthusiastic musician....* Hopkinson himself laid claim to the title of first native composer in a letter dedicating his volume of ‘Seven songs’ to Washington.... His rival for historical precedence, James Lyon, is a substantial, if less interesting figure.... It is an extremely interesting monograph for those who are concerned with the neglected past of music in this country.”—N. Y. Times.

* “It is an invaluable contribution to the history of American music, and its production reveals the achievement of a formidable task.” W. J. Henderson.

* “Though the graces of English style are not Mr. Sonneck’s, he knows how to make his history not only minutely correct, but interesting.” Richard Aldrich.

“This little book consists of three lectures on ‘Some leading features of the ethical thought of the present day,’ delivered at Cambridge (England) to a summer meeting of clergy held there in July, 1903. The chapters in the book are headed respectively: ‘Characteristics,’ ‘Ethics and evolution,’ ‘Ethics and idealism.’ In the first chapter Professor Sorley says that in ‘English ethical thought during the last century ... the controversies of the time centered almost exclusively round two questions: the question of the origin of moral ideas, and the question of the criterion of moral value.’ ... A misapplication of the biological doctrine of ‘natural selection’ is also responsible for a large measure of the present confusion of ethical thought. This brings the reader to Chapter II., in which this misapplication is dealt with at length.... Chapter III. deals with the ethics of modern idealism.”—Int. J. Ethics.

“Is avowedly addressed to those whose interest in life is practical rather than theoretical; its aim is obviously to be practically helpful to such people. It must be owned that to the present critic it seems chiefly to warn off from the realm of philosophy all students of the quality described. It is perhaps not too much to say that both in method and in implied point of view Mr. Sorley’s book is too slight and too old-fashioned to do justice either to recent philosophy or to Professor Sorley’s position in it.” May Gilliland Husband.

“The qualities of careful and exact thought, of methodical arrangement, and of clear expression are found to characterize the volume.” James Seth.

Soto, Hernando or Fernando de. Narratives of the career of Hernando de Soto in the conquest of Florida; ed. by E. G. Bourne. **$2. Barnes.

“A complete and authoritative ‘Narrative of the career of Hernando De Soto,’ as found in the original documents, chiefly based on the diary of Rodrigo Rangel, his private secretary, together with an account of the great expedition to the Southwest of the United States, translated from Oviedo’s ‘Historia general y natural de las Indias’ by Buckingham Smith. There is an historical introduction by Edward Gaylord Bourne, professor of history in Yale university. The conquest of Florida is told by a knight who was a member of the expedition. Several portraits, hitherto unpublished, of De Soto himself appear in the volume, to which is appended his life and some of his letters.”—R. of Rs.

“Prof. Bourne’s editorship is of the best, and the translation excellent reading.”

“A boon alike to the student, to the ordinary 328reader, even to the romance-loving boy.” F. S. Dellenbaugh.

“The volumes will be regarded as a valuable and convenient addition to both history and literature.”

“It would be difficult to find in any language a more direct and forceful account of heroic adventures and careless lust for new sights and strange experiences. Together with the narratives of Coronado’s expedition in the Southwest, an earlier volume of the “Trail makers’ series,” it is the best possible account of the aboriginal condition of the southern United States.”

A story of Pipetown, its boys, its schools, and its grown people. Sandy, the hero, already a leader on the playground, leaves the foot of the class and wins the prize in arithmetic and geography thru the influence of Colonel Franklin’s weak little son whom he makes his friend. Sandy also helps the store keeper to win the widow Foley, and takes an active part in the tragic scenes which follow her worthless husband’s reappearance in Pipetown.

“Here we have the annals of a typical American village told with the simplicity and the charm of a Goldsmith and the added interest of a writer whose intensity of feeling and vivid imagination have enabled him to invest simple life and homely circumstances with compelling fascination.”

“It is difficult to see how it can be of any real value. It cannot contribute to the formation of an exalted taste in literature; and a boy with a good taste already formed would not care much for it.”

This is a boy’s story and tells of the adventures of young Paul Guibeau of Quebec and others who ventured into the Indians’ country in search of the copper mines in the region of the Great lakes. They encounter Iroquois, Hurons, and Miamis, unbroken forests and unknown waters, but after the copper ridge is located, Paul, undaunted, writes to his people, as the volume closes, that he is setting forth with Louis Joliet and Father Marquette to discover “the great river called the Mitchi-sipi.”

Spalding, Rt. Rev. John Lancaster. Bishop Spalding year book: comp. by Minnie R. Cowan. **75c. McClurg.

Spalding, Rt. Rev. John Lancaster. Religion and art, and other essays, **$1. McClurg.

Besides the title-essay the volume contains, The development of educational ideas in the nineteenth century, The meaning and worth of education, The physician’s calling and education, Social questions.

“The strongest and bravest voice that speaks for righteousness to the people of this country is Bishop Spalding’s. Bishop Spalding’s writings are brave and beautiful and inspiring.”

There are in this group of interpretations six of the best known ideal conceptions of womanhood in art; Venus de Milo, Eve, Mona Lisa, Beatrice Cenci, Madonna of the chair and the Sistine Madonna.

* “Any good book that celebrates good art is worth while, so Miss Spalding’s book is welcome.”

* “The text is intended neither for artists nor students of painting, but for the ordinary observer who is interested merely in the moral significance of the picture, caring nothing for its history or technique. Such criticism leans inevitably towards the fanciful and the sentimental, but it doubtless appeals to a certain class of readers.”

* “The book is of the popular sort—full of elemental, moving impressions but marred by insufficient historical and critical reading.”

The history of the United States from 1760 to 1865 is given biographically in an account of the lives and labors of Benjamin Franklin, Samuel and John Adams, Robert Morris, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, Jefferson, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and finally Abraham Lincoln.

“On the whole, thanks to the author’s lively style, we get, in a very small compass, a better history than many a historian with a more ambitious method might have produced.”

“The process of the evolution of the nation is thus given a biographical character in a novel method of writing history.”

This is essentially a history of our constitutional evolution, and treats of the great movements in our federal life and “those centralizing or decentralizing factors which have aided or hindered the unification of the states,” of finances, internal improvements, the tariff, slavery, and the constitutional aspects of the Civil war and reconstruction, little space is given to war and war-time events.

“His judgments are acceptable; he shows discrimination in the selection of materials, a fine art in presentation, a vivacious style.” James A. Woodburn.

“The purpose is well carried out, and the work is therefore eminently a timely one.”

“One can hardly call the work a history in the truest sense; it is rather a prose epic of American nationality.”

“Hardly any former attempt to write our history has taken into account so many of the different forces that have influenced its progress. In fact, the book is a good summary of the best work done on American history. The style is clear and pleasing, except for a tendency to sententious truisms.”

“On the whole, Dr. Sparks’s interpretation of the subject commends itself to us as sound.”

“Prof. Sparks’ work is a rather agreeable reaction from the bellicosity which has been so 329much in vogue with writers of popular histories. Yet we cannot help thinking that Prof. Sparks pays too little attention to military affairs.”

“Rather a commentary on history. All readers will find the book interesting, and to many it will give a wholly new point of view for the consideration of American history. Dr. Sparks prefers to treat American history as the story of our national expansion. A suitable sub-title of his present work would be, ‘A study of national development.’”

“A volume illustrating the field of railroad competition. The various subjects treated are the Vanderbilt lines, the Pennsylvania system, the Harriman lines, the Hill lines, the fight for Pittsburg, the Gould lines, the Rock Island system, the Atchison, the big granger lines (St. Paul and Northwestern), the rebuilding of an American railroad, the first trans-continental railroad, the early day in railroading.”—Bookm.

“He writes with a familiarity with his subject that enlightens, and with a style that entertains and fascinates.” John J. Hasley.

“But, after proper allowance has been made for shortcomings attributable to Mr. Spearman’s optimism, it must be said that his book is on the whole, an admirable study of the American railroads of today.”

This volume is one of the “American crisis biographies” and accurately follows the life of the first American admiral from his birth in a frontier log cabin to his honored death and the erection of his statue in Farragut square. It is the story of years of hard work and ceaseless effort put forth in the service of his country. Maps and charts illustrate the volume.

* “May be especially commended to parents in quest of a soundly suggestive as well as really entertaining book for their boys.”

* “The well-known accuracy of Mr. Spears’ writing on historical subjects insures in the present volume a painstaking regard to the facts of history.”

* Speed, John Gilmer. Horse in America: a practical treatise on the various types common in the United States, with something of their history and varying characteristics. **$2. McClure.

This interesting treatise “gives a great deal of information about the various equine types common in the United States. Mr. Speed is merciless in exposing false pedigrees. Some of his comments on origins of famous breeds of American horses will probably be unpalatable to partisans of this or that great name in the horse world. Yet on the whole the book is reassuring to the breeder and admirer of horses.”—R. of Rs.

* “Taken all in all the book should serve its purpose, to interest and forward the breeding of good types.”

* “It points out the characteristics of the true thoroughbred with the unerring skill of the expert.”

Printed in large type upon Teddy Sunbeam’s own gold these “little fables for little housekeepers” point many homely morals. Teddy Sunbeam is wise, and he talks about Princess Lend-a-hand, gives dissertations upon microbes, tells how to sweep, and how to perform a number of other daily duties, but tells it all in such an attractive manner that little folks will be glad to listen. The book is copiously illustrated by Albertine Randall Wheelan.

* Spielmann, Marion Henry, and Layard, George Somes. Kate Greenaway. *$6.50. Putnam.

“In half a hundred colored plates and many black-and-white pictures we find beauty and delicacy pre-eminent and child-loveliness rendered with sincerity and sympathy. Such pictures measure a sweet, true soul, and the story of Kate Greenaway’s life and the gentle revelations of her letters and her friendships (the correspondence with John Ruskin most notably) bear out the inference.” (Outlook.) “It is a visit to Miss Greenaway at her home, a view of an active mind at work, a conversation with authors and artists led and directed by one whom they all acknowledged as leader.” (N. Y. Times.)

* “The authors have felt to the full the quaint charm of this art, they do justice to the ‘sweet and fragrant perfume’ that floats about the name of Kate Greenaway.”

* “The peculiar competence of the present writers lies in their eager seizure upon all possible points of interest, and their strong sense of proportion, which assigns to each item its proper space in a volume that has not a dull page or a bit of superfluous ‘padding.’” Edith Kellogg Dunton.

* “With some of Messrs. Layard and Spielmann’s opinions we are not at all in agreement.”

* “One can read with real profit other parts of the book, notably the introductory chapter, and, at the close, Mr. Spielmann’s judgment on Kate Greenaway as artist, delicately worded, enthusiastic yet nicely balanced.”

“This volume of essays, nine in all, and printed in full, is illustrated by a photograph of a medallion portrait, a bas-relief, by Lanteri, and by many architectural views and details, some of them photographic, others made up by the author from different sources or drawn from recognized authorities.”—Nation.

* “The writer of these essays has the power of making technical matters plain to the reader who has no special knowledge of architecture.”

Springer, Frank. Cleiocrinus. Museum of comparative zoology, Harvard college, Cambridge, Mass.

“A complete paper on one of the oldest of known crinoid genera—Cleiocrinus.... Various 330authors ... have had great difficulty in placing it in the system of classification.... Mr. Springer does not now establish the family Cleiocrinidæ, in so many words, but ... it is finally concluded that the genus is intermediate between the great groups of flexibilia and camerata; nearest, apparently, to the reteocrinidæ. The memoir is illustrated by a beautiful plate of drawings by K. M. Chapman and E. Ricker, showing not only aspects of cleiocrinus, but also reteocrinus and glyptocrinus for comparison.”—Science.

Squire, Charles. Mythology of the British islands: an introduction to Celtic myth, legend, poetry, and romance. *$3.50. Scribner.

Under such chapter headings as—The gods of the Gaels, Finn and the Fenians, The war with the giants, The gods of the Britons, The Gaelic Argonauts, The gods as king Arthur’s knights, and The treasures of Britain, are given the legends and traditions of the early inhabitants of the British islands, the Gaelic and the British Celts.

“Altogether, then, Mr. Squire may be congratulated on a partial success. His research does not penetrate into German authorities; he is not fully alive to the anthropological side of the argument; his archaeology is not complete. But he knows and loves his subject within the boundaries presented by these limitations, and he has the peculiar charm of carrying his readers along with him in an attitude of love for the subject.” Laurence Gomme.

“A book which brings together so great a store of knowledge on an obscure and fascinating subject in so readable a fashion is indeed a treasure, and one cannot but praise the author for his work.” Louis H. Gray.

“His treatment of this subject is thorough and conscientious, and he has realized his hope of presenting it in a lucid and agreeable form.”

“Mr. Squire has handled his refractory subject very ably, and has made the story of British mythology both lucid and interesting.”

* “This book supplies a great literary vacuum. From some of the writer’s conclusions scholars may differ.”

Staley, Edgcumbe. Raphael; with a short biographical sketch of Raphael Santi or Sanzio; with a list of principal works. $1.25. Warne.

Uniform with a series of monographs on the great masters, the “mode of presenting Raphael’s life’s work is particularly interesting, while so much is being written of his changing place in the rank of the great artists, as ascribed to him by current criticism. One has an opportunity of studying the various forms in which his genius expressed itself: Single figures of saints and angels; biblical and historical subjects; renderings of sacred and profane legends; and portraits. Then, again, there are the various mediums in which the artist worked, as on canvas, and in fresco, etc. In his mural paintings, we see how excellently his composition was fitted to the various exigencies of architectural decoration.” (Int. Studio.)

“An excellent volume of illustrations of Raphael’s work. In the clear, short, and eminently satisfactory account of Raphael’s life the author neither indulges in extravagant praise, nor accepts theories of scant foundation.”

“The scenes and events through which Mr. Blaine moved in the most stirring years of his life are now matters of history, and a clear-cut biography, such as Mr. Stanwood has written makes a capital medium through which the younger generation of American readers and students may be made familiar with the post bellum period of our politics. Mr. Stanwood gives especial attention to those episodes in Blaine’s career which were most frequently represented by his enemies as more or less discreditable ... and ... makes an able defense of Blaine against the attacks of his political opponents.”—R. of Rs.

* “Nevertheless, the biography is in some respects highly valuable, and should be welcome if only for the new material assembled in a scholarly and interesting way.”

Statesman’s year-book: statistical and historical annual of the states of the world for the year 1905; ed. by J. Scott Keltie and I. P. A. Renwick. *$3. Macmillan.

The 1905 edition of this annual is its forty-second issue and shows extensive enlargement and revision.

“One of the few reference-books which may accurately be described as indispensable.”

“The editor has improved this annual from year to year, and the issue for 1905 is the best yet.”

“‘The statesman’s year-book’ continues to grow in size, while its arrangement is developed in the direction of completeness and convenience.”

A tale of the revolt which overthrew the monarchy of Dom Pedro in Brazil. The central figure is young Harcliffe who is secretary to Dom Miguel the leader of the revolutionists. His hair-breadth escapes on his way to the home of Miguel in the interior, and the following intrigue and adventure which culminate in the overthrow of the government supply the historical setting of a romance in which the hero supposes himself to be at the mercy of a rival—one who turns out to be a spy, a woman masquerading in men’s attire.

* Stead, Alfred. Great Japan; a study of national efficiency. **$2.50. Lane.

“A compilation from Japanese sources of all manner of facts calculated to throw light on the achievements, aspirations, and problems of Japan.... Mr. Stead’s purpose, briefly, is to exhibit the efficiency attained by the Japanese in the various departments of life, and to show how this efficiency springs from the ‘earnest, thinking and eminently practical patriotism of 331the people.’ With this as a text Lord Rosebery contributes a foreword.”—Lit. D.

* “Mr. Stead’s book largely repeats his work ‘Japan by the Japanese’ published last year.”

* “To give a full summary of the volume, which displays many of the characteristics of the encyclopedia and many of the handbook, is quite beyond the limits of a review.”

* “Mr. Stead’s book is one of the most interesting recently produced on the inexhaustible subject of Japan. It does for that country much what Mr. Bryce did for the United States with his ‘American commonwealth.’”

* “His work abounds with the exaggeration to be expected from a professional panegyrist.”

* “A study, as we said, to begin with, the work has no claim to be, and even as a compilation it might have been better done. A great deal of verbiage might have been omitted, certain crudities of style might have been corrected.”

A collection of papers written by many of the high officials of the Japanese government, and native men of well-known literary ability, including Sannomiya, Ito, Inouyé, Oyami, Ariga, Saito, Shibusawa, Naruse, Nitobe, Hozumi, and many others. Among the subjects treated are the army, navy, finance, schools, religion, commerce, politics, art and literature of Japan. There is a preface by the editor and a carefully prepared index.

“It is about as useful as an almanac and not half as good as a dictionary. A desk-book of facts and figures concerning political and economic Japan. Quite unique as a gazetteer.” Wm. Elliot Griffis.

“His profound ignorance of the real significance of the work of such men as Sir Ernest Satow, Mr. William G. Aston, Prof. Basil Hall Chamberlain, and Capt. Frank Brinkley is manifest. The bad proofreading and continual misspelling of Japanese names and terms are disgraceful. In its cast and scope, the book seems intended mainly for the British reader. The facts and figures concerning the army, navy, revenue, taxation, and things outward and material are invaluable in their way. In treating of art and literature, the writers correct some errors of foreign writers, but contribute little that is fresh or revealing.”

“Brief biographical sketches of impressive personalities, in the literary, artistic, scientific, and political life of New England.... Agassiz, Lowell, Holmes, Sumner, Andrew, Cranch, Bird, and Howe are but a few of those of whom he writes.... His little volume also includes Emerson’s eulogy of Major George L. Stearns, printed in the Boston ‘Commonwealth’ April 20, 1867.... Sketches of the Harvard of forty and fifty years ago; papers read at various literary centennial celebrations, and notes of life in Rome in the late sixties.”—Outlook.

“Contains many true things that are not new and doubtless do not aim at novelty, and also some new things that are not true, however unintentional their falsity. Its chapter on George L. Stevens, the author’s father, is its only noteworthy contribution to biography.”

“Unfortunately, the book is overweighted with some critical literary generalities which are out of its modest scope and do not add to its readableness.”

“Their significance is rather that of warm tributes of respect and admiration.”

“Dr. Steindorff undertakes to give—and does give—in a manner to enlighten minds not utterly scholarly an idea of the nature of religion of the ancient Egyptians, and especially he sets out to show how that religion grew and changed and finally decayed.... Legends are related and hymns quoted, and especial attention paid to deliberate attempts of certain rulers to impose new gods upon the people.... The third lecture deals with Egyptian temples and religious ceremonies. Lecture IV. is concerned with the Egyptian magic, and Lecture V. with graves and burials and the Egyptian religion outside of Egypt.”—N. Y. Times.

“Although it is somewhat slight, no fault can be found with Prof. Steindorff’s general arrangement of his subject or with the way he has treated it.”

“This book ... contains nine chapters which ... were printed in book form some twenty years ago, but that publication for a number of years has been out of print.... Four of the essays deal with subjects connected with theology and religious belief in their bearing on human society; the others are casual or occasional papers called out by literary or historical events of the time.”—Outlook.

“They illustrate a side of the author’s character easily misunderstood. For here he states with the utmost freedom the views on religion which led thoughtless persons to call him an atheist.” Edward Fuller.

“Together these papers make a capital introduction to the lamented author commemorated.”

This life of the great moral and political English philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, is the last of Sir Leslie Stephen’s philosophical biographies. It is divided into four chapters, the first gives Hobbes’s relation to the political and intellectual movements of his time, and his personal characteristics. “The remaining three divisions of the book represent the parts of Hobbes’s philosophy: the World viewed as a material system, subject only to mechanical laws; Man, a body with organs, explicable by the same principles; the State, or body politic, voluntarily formed, and to be governed only by force, hence only by a sovereign power possessed of absolute—i.e., underived and unlimited authority.” (Ind.)

“The present work is hardly a contribution to professional philosophical criticism. But a better introductory book for the general reader could not be desired.”

332“Never have we seen better done the task of writing about philosophy; sometimes there is the air of the blunt, intelligent outsider, but the substance is masterly and it is a true and even great philosopher who is speaking. Sir Leslie Stephen finds for his readers the gratification of many sentences pointed and turned after Hobbes’ own manner, with judgments of the same shrewd sort. There is not a dull ten minutes in the book.” G. C. Rankin.

“To many readers, as to the present writer, it will seem that the fairest of critics has, after full examination, pronounced judgment, and that his judgment is likely to be final.”

A new edition of thirty-two critical essays on literary subjects including studies of Macaulay, Charlotte Brontë, Kingsley, Scott, Hawthorne, DeQuincey, Coleridge, Eliot, Crabbe, and others, and essays on the novels of Richardson, Balzac, and Disraeli, Dr. Johnson’s writings, The first Edinburgh reviewers, etc.

“Not strongly bound. Far too many slips in proof-reading. These adventures among masterpieces are ... the adventures of a humorist. They would often seem inadequate to the Dryasdust, they would often baffle the literary mind. Like all strong men, Stephen had his blind spots and his hobbies; his criticism was ... by no means unbiased.” H. W. Boynton.

Stephens, Kate. American thumb-prints; mettle of our men and women. **$1.50. Lippincott.

Eight essays entitled: Puritans of the West; The university of Hesperus; Two neighbors of St. Louis; The New England woman; A New England abode of the blessed; An up-to-date misogyny; “The gullet science”; Plagiarizing humors of Benjamin Franklin.

“Miss Stephens has wide reading, genuine erudition, humour, and pungent sarcasm all at her command, and she uses them very tellingly.”

“Instinct with the indescribable and unmistakable buoyancy and vitality of the great West, combined with something of the rich scholarship more often associated with the older East. Possessing as she does a command of excellent English, she does not need to write in polyglot.”

“A volume of essays written in so personal and characteristic a style as to make the title quite appropriate.”

“They are written in a good English style, and we have found much in them that is worth recording.”

“A small volume of fresh and courageously written essays by a cultivated Western woman who is not afraid to say what she thinks, and who does think.”

Stephens, Louise G. (Katharine, pseud.). Letters from an Oregon ranch. **$1.25. McClurg.

One of a quartet of middle-aged adventurers tells the experiences of the four in settling upon an Oregon ranch. The labors and discomforts are humorously chronicled, and the whole genial tale breathes its text,—that the novelty and excitement of new fields is rejuvenating to those whose youth is past. A dozen photographic views illustrate the volume.

“There is nothing new or original about the story, but it has the lightness and grace characterizing predecessors from Mr. Stephens’s pen, and sword-play to spare. The scene opens at an English inn; the Pretender has failed to win the British crown; his adherents are fleeing for their lives, but, as they fly, pause to make love.”—Outlook.

This volume in the “Crown theological library,” contains eleven essays by eleven prominent theologians. The titles are: The child and heredity; The child and its environment; The child’s capacity for religion; The child and sin; The conversion of children; The religious training of the child in the church of England; The religious training of children in the free churches; Baptists and the children; New church training; The religious training of children among the Jews; and The child and the Bible.

“Those who are grappling with practical problems will find in these essays written from various points of view much that is suggestive and helpful.”

* “The editor has wisely put his best first—that on ‘The child and heredity’ by Professor Jones of Glasgow; it is an acute and interesting piece of writing. Of the other essays we cannot speak so highly.”

A topographical description of London as Shakespeare saw it, compiled largely from contemporary sources, and profusely illustrated from old prints. It gives an introductory sketch of the Elizabethans, an account of the early growth of the city, and a picturesque presentation of St. Paul’s, the water front, the tower, the main highway, the strand, in fact, the London of the 16th century. The book closes with chapters upon theatres, taverns and tavern life in those boisterous days.

“The book may be emphatically recommended to teachers and students no less than to the general reader.”

* “The volume is compact, and is intended more for the library than for the satchel.”

“Deserving of high praise from two points of view—in that the study of London in Elizabeth’s day has been carefully and accurately worked out, and in that the description is eminently readable and entertaining.”

“He has succeeded so far beyond his original intention as to give an exceedingly interesting record of Elizabethan life and times.”

Stepniak, pseud. (Sergiei Mikhailovich Kravchinskii). Russian peasantry; their agrarian condition, social life and religion. *$1.25. Dutton.

“A new edition of a book originally published ten years ago by a Russian who knew the economic and social conditions in Russia at first hand, and who passionately looked forward to the changes now taking place. Owing to the death of Stepniak, the book is issued without revision.”—Outlook.

Anne Hathaway’s own story as told by herself is a manuscript which Master Jonson is supposed to have hid away in vault beneath the Mermaid. It is a pretty story, and might have been true, did we but know, for who shall say that the young wife of the gallant Will Shakespeare did not follow him to London in boy’s disguise, and take part in his plays undiscovered by all save the sharp-eyed queen? And who shall deny to them the joy of a great love? Still, charming as it is, the story is unsustained by history, and we have long been taught to believe that the suggestions for the plots of Shakespeare’s plays came to him from sources outside his own life experience.

* “On the whole the situation is handled skilfully, and the story is a charming bit of imaginative writing.”

Sterne, Laurence. Complete works; including life by Percy Fitzgerald; ed. by Wilbur L. Cross. 12v. subs. ea. $3.50. Taylor.

“The aim of the publishers is to produce a complete, exact, and definite edition. For this purpose they have obtained much of the material direct from the British museum, while reproductions of letters, and old portraits have been acquired from the descendants of Sterne’s patrons and friends in England.”—Bookm.

“In point of general criticism, perhaps, it is somewhat lacking, but in little else. It collects everything of Sterne’s. P. H. Frye.”

“Mr. Wilbur L. Cross has written an entertaining and lucid introduction that adds to the practical worth of the book.”

“Is a genuine definitive edition. The editorial work by Prof. Cross, whether of an introductory character or in the shape of notes, or in the correction of numerous errors or the exclusion of spurious material, is of a high order and speaks well for the gentleman’s scholarship no less than for his just appreciation of the duties of editor. The mechanical features of the edition are in keeping with the editorship. The York edition is the most satisfactory interpretation that we have hitherto seen of him.”

Sonnets and short poems dedicated “to cosmo-psychic energy,” and arranged under the headings: Introduction to the public; Sinners and society; Sorrow and joy; Lessons from history; Philosophical poems; and Toil and genius.

Sterrett, James Macbride. Freedom of authority: essays in apologetics. **$2. Macmillan.

“The book is ... a defence of authority in religion.... The first chapter deals with the relation between authority and freedom; the second and third are a criticism of the positions of the late Auguste Sabatier, of Dr. Harnack and of the Abbé Loisy; the fourth treats of the historical method, and is a defence of the philosophical school against the purely empirical; the remaining four chapters contain Dr. Sterrett’s own conclusions as to the nature of authority and the guidance of the individual Christian.”—Acad.

“The book, as he himself says, is a series of studies rather than a sustained thesis, and, to tell the truth, it is somewhat scrappy and inconclusive.”

“His work as a whole is able and it is written with an intensity and enthusiasm of conviction which make it eloquent.”

This book combines the charm of a fairy story with the accuracy of a natural history. Jackie and Vi, young nature lovers, are invited by Lemna the fairy queen of the pond, to visit her domain, and altho they go down to the depths of it, the water does not wet them. They make friends with the guardian of the pond, Mr. Natterjack the toad, they learn how to care for their pets, the frogs and goldfish, and they find out all about the life and habits of the pond-people, Master Dragonfly, the tadpoles, newts, spiders and all the rest. At the end of the summer they regretfully leave the pond to its long winter’s sleep.

* “The book ought to give young readers new interest in humble orders of life, and some idea of nature’s adaptation of means to end.”

* “This is an entertaining and instructive book, suitable for all children who have, if not a pond, at least a rain-water tub at command.”

A biographical edition of Stevenson which is published in handy volume form, in cloth or limp leather, with thin paper, and clear type. The literary feature of the edition is the series of introductions written by Mrs. Stevenson, each of which gives an intimate account of the circumstances under which the book was written, and throws new light on Stevenson’s life and work.

* “The text is of course complete and authoritative, and the general form of the volumes makes them much more convenient for actual reading purposes than either of the two expensive subscription editions.”

“Good taste and a sense of what is interesting have co-operated in the prefaces with which Mrs. Stevenson has furnished the several volumes. There is nothing which one can reasonably wish had been omitted.”

334“One wishes that the biographical prefaces were fuller and more like those furnished by Mrs. Ritchie to the Biographical edition of Thackeray.”

Jessie Willcox Smith has happily illustrated this new edition of these exquisite and well loved verses. In her black and white text drawings and full-page colored pictures we find the same appealing charm which makes all wanderers in Stevenson’s child’s garden feel that truly

* “Happy the child who receives this book for a gift, as a source of instruction in taste both for poetry and for art.”

“It would be difficult to imagine a piece of holiday book-making which might be more complete and perfect.”

Two stories which run along side by side; one concerning Finerty, the jovial Irishman and his family, the other the tale of the fugitive blacksmith, as told by his one-time partner, Stumpy, the tramp, in Finerty’s sand house in the railroad yards. The whole is in dialect, and the characters are both witty and interesting. The blacksmith, Bill, a fugitive from justice for the murder of a friend, Tilten, is hounded from place to place, meeting with many exciting adventures, and at last comes across the man he was accused of murdering. Here the devoted Stumpy loses sight of him but later discovers him in health and prosperity and shares his changed fortunes.

“‘Fugitive blacksmith’ is no unworthy successor to ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn.’”

“Any veteran might well be glad and proud to round off even the achievement of a lifetime with a study of human nature such as this story of Mr. Stewart’s ‘Blacksmith’ so interesting in fresh and unexpected ways, so rich in the fruits of keen and kindly observation, and the true artist’s appreciation of much that escapes the untrained eye. If it does not prove a worthily popular favorite it will be the fault of the popular taste and appreciation.”

“Let no one be deterred from reading the book by dislike of Irish dialect. The first chapter once passed, the human and humorous interest increases rapidly, and it may be added that the dialect itself—to many readers a determent—is consistently and carefully managed. The story is jolly and original.”

“The whole suffused with humor and not lacking in pathos, and wholly original.”

“Mr. Stewart may not be another Mark Twain, but he doesn’t need to be. He is good enough as he is.”

“The book is vivified by clever character sketches shrewdly illustrative of life in the grade of society described. The humor of the story is abundant and of a particularly natural sort.”

“The object of this volume is to give a general view of the present evangelistic situation, to indicate some things that have led up to this condition ... to set forth some fundamental principles which need emphasis, and to outline what are to be, in the author’s judgment, the conditions of the future.”

Stiles, Henry Reed. History of ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut, comprising the present towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington and of Glastonbury, prior to its incorporation in 1693, from date of earliest settlement until the present time. 2v. *$25. Grafton press.

“Two ponderous volumes, edited ... from the manuscript of the late Judge Sherman W. Davis. The second volume is entirely genealogical, but in the first, which is really a series of brief historical monographs, occur chapters on such interesting topics as Wethersfield’s share in the French and Indian war, Wethersfield’s share in the American revolution and maritime history.”—Am. Hist. R.

“Volume I. in the ‘Right life series.’ An introduction for the book has been written by Dr. Maxwell, superintendent of schools, New York city. The volume is intended for growing boys and girls, as well as to help teachers and parents. It does not, the author says in his preface, propose any new theory of light or advocate any new teaching which might be set aside. ‘It furnishes a harmonious and satisfactory interpretation of life.’”—N. Y. Times.

* “It is sufficiently philosophical in its nature and scientific in its method to meet the intellectual demands of its readers, and to provide a basis for character-building that will stand the strain and criticism of after-life.”

“A helpful contribution toward the strengthening of a weak point in our educational system. The outlook is comprehensive, on one hand including the fundamental problems of thought simply put, and on the other dealing with the social problems of the day.”

Stodola, Aurel. Steam turbines; with an appendix on gas turbines and the future of heat engines. *$4.50. Van Nostrand.

This is an English version of the second revised German edition. It includes a treatise on “Gas turbines, and the future of heat engines,” an elementary introduction to the theory of steam turbines for the general reader, and a series of reports of the experiments on the many-stage impulse turbines of Zölly, Rateau, Stumpf, Gelpke, and others.

335“This work is by far the best of all relating to this subject in any language. A number of misprints of the German edition have been faithfully reproduced in this translation. The usefulness of the book has been considerably reduced by the faulty translation.” Storm Bull.

Stokely, Edith Keeley, and Hurd, Marian Kent. Miss Billy. †$1.50. Lothrop.

A young philanthropist who “leaves a trail of sanitation, repairing, mending, soap, and jokes behind her.... Anything but perfect, she corrects her own faults briskly, even while she reproves the shortcomings of her neighbors, and steers safely between the priggishness of some heroines of her class and the dullness of those created to listen to the twisted English and logic of their beneficiaries.” (N. Y. Times.)

“This is an ideal story for young girls—sprightly and full of fun, it teaches, nevertheless, a wholesome lesson in the matters of neighborly love and the overcoming of false pride.”

“So pleasantly and humorously is the story told that one never for a minute imagines while reading it that the authors are ‘pointing a moral.’”

An English newspaper correspondent’s account of the campaign in the East, in which he pays handsome tribute to Russia, whose final triumph he considers as assured in spite of the “effective barbarism” of the Japanese soldiers. There are many illustrations taken in the field by the author.

“Instead of military history, we have a book of impressions, individual and general. Making allowance for its partisanship, this volume grows upon one. At first there is a sense of triviality and of irritation; later, a feeling of interest, if not of sympathy, arrives; there is nothing to arouse sympathy.”

“An interesting work. Mr. Story might have added as a sub-title: ‘As much as I was able to see of it.’”

A number of newspaper accounts of the religious awakening in Wales, brought together for the use of those who look for a similar movement in this country.

Stow, George W. Native races of South Africa. A history of the intrusion of the Hottentots and Bantu into the hunting grounds of the Bushmen, the aborigines of the country. *$6.50. Macmillan.

“The book is scarcely a treatise so much as an encyclopedia of information.... Including an excellent account of the Hottentot immigration and the first waves of the Bantu influx from the North, a sketch of the distribution of the semi-Hottentot tribes ... much information about the Hereros and the little-known races north and west of the Kalahari, as well as a history of the first wars of Moshesh, the Basuto king, and the doings of early filibusters.... But it is primarily a study of the Bushmen, and the tale of one of the cruelest wars of extermination ever waged,—a glimpse into an elder, almost prehistoric, world of naked savagery.”—Spec.

“A rather cumbrous mass of speculations, based on laborious and praiseworthy investigations.”

“For a historian who draws much of his material from native tradition, Mr. Stow is singularly free from speculation. On the social life and habits of the Bushmen, which is the most important part of his work, we know from the highest living authority, Miss Lucy Lloyd, that he is entirely to be trusted.”

“What he says of the Bushmen, then, can be accepted as probably correct, and as forming a prospectively valuable contribution to the ethnology of South Africa.”

“In the main his generalizations strike us as accurate and logical. It is as a collection of the data for theory that it is to be prized. On this ground it seems to us a very valuable book.”

This famous story is now issued as one of the flexible “Thin paper classics” series, with a photogravure frontispiece showing Uncle Tom and Eva as drawn by Charles Copeland.

“Kobo is a Japanese in good social position, who undertakes the perilous duty of a spy. Another prominent character is a young British employee in the Japanese naval service. The adventures and experiences of these and others make ... a vivid dramatic representation of individual doings and happenings in the national tragedy now being enacted in the Far East.”—Outlook.

Twelve leaves which give soul-struggles and soul-compensations and show how thru the ages “my soul and I” have strayed and met again.

Col. Streamer adds to his already imposing list of misrepresentative men the names of Robert Burns, William Waldorf Astor, Henry VIII., Alton B. Parker, Euclid, J. M. Barrie, Omar Khayyam, Andrew Carnegie, King Cophetus, Joseph F. Smith and Sherlock Holmes. The volume is humorously illustrated, and is made unique by the author’s foreword which makes bold to claim that visions of the almighty dollar have power to awaken his muse, and the publishers answer which pampers him in his whim for substantial reward.

“We are willing to swear that these verses are as good as any the author has written.”

* Street, George Edward. Mount Desert: a history; ed. by S: A. Eliot; with a memorial introd. by Wilbert L. Anderson. **$2.50. Houghton.

“Many who have visited the interesting island 336of Mount Desert, have wondered what the early history of that region might be.... The first colony in Mount Desert was established by the Jesuit priests at Somesville, in 1613, but was destroyed next year by the English. A century and a half passed before the first permanent settlers came from Massachusetts.... In recent years the island has become one of the favorite summer resorts on our Atlantic coast. The book is well illustrated with views of the island and contains also an excellent map.”—Ind.

Stringer, Arthur John Arbuthnott. Lonely O’Malley: a story of boy life. $1.50. Houghton.

“The story of a real boy, who knows all about the secrets of trap-making, and depends upon a vivid imagination for his games. Shunned at first by others of his age, when he comes a stranger to town, he wins his place as a leader by fighting the bully and conducting a wonderful pirate cruise.”—Outlook.

Strong, Mrs. Isobel (Osbourne). Girl from home: a story of Honolulu. †$1.50. McClure.

About twenty years ago, when Kalakaua was king in Hawaii, a girl went to the islands and fell in love with a man worth eleven millions. The story tells of her experiences in which many characters, American, British, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, and Hawaiian, play a part.

“The book is best defined as an entertaining volume of travel, sugar-coated with an innocuous little romance, and enlivened with a vein of mild satire.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

A tenth edition of a volume which makes it its object to show “that the next great spiritual awakening, so profoundly needed to Christianize the new civilization and to lift the nations to a higher plane,” will come when the social teachings of Jesus, so long obscured and forgotten, are “clearly recognized and faithfully preached.” The subject is treated under the headings: The supreme need of the world; The law of spiritual quickening; The kingdom of God; The social laws of Jesus; The social teachings of Jesus not accepted; and The social teachings of Jesus applied will bring social healing and spiritual quickening.

Dr. Strong’s experiment in sending out a 1904 year book and encyclopedia of economic, industrial, social and religious statistics met with such hearty endorsement that he offers a second issue for the new year. It contains more material than the 1904 volume, is more comprehensive, and has profited by solicited suggestions and criticisms.

“The second issue of the work shows a material advance over the first in usefulness. The amount of matter included is very large, and it is strictly up-to-date.”

“It is, on the whole, an excellent volume. We note, however, a number of errors, partly due to bad proofreading and partly to faulty handling of the statistical tables.”

A new popular edition of a book which is an outgrowth of the writer’s personal experience and in which he sets forth his conception of life in the hope that “this volume may fix in the minds of the young men who read it convictions as to the right course of life so deep and immovable that they may be anchored to in the stress of storm.” The table of contents includes chapters upon: The great change in the physical world, and in the world of ideas; Three great laws which never change; The law of service, The law of self-giving or sacrifice, The law of love; The three great laws applied to the social problem, and to personal problems; and The inspiration of the twentieth-century outlook.

This “Idyll of the Mississippi” is a series of connected sketches of the negro and creole delta dwellers, where “de ruling lady of dis low valley country, it is not de carnival queen; it is not de first lady at de governor’s mansion.... It is old lady Mississippi.” There is an account of a great flood where “the mother of trouble” received prayers and sacrifices from her superstitious worshippers; and the story of two old negroes who took charge of their “Marse Harold’s” little daughter until his return from the war; finding rest beneath the treacherous waters when they had secured for her a father and a happy future. Many negro songs and superstitions give the story color.

“Written with the charm, the humor, the grace, and the pathos so familiar to all who know the author’s earlier books.”

“A sort of pagan worship of the great river Mississippi is the keynote of this somewhat desultory tale of Creoles and negroes in Louisiana.”

“Mrs. Stuart’s humor, is, for once, overcast by pathos. ‘The river’s children’ is a pearl brought up by a diver, who knows the waters; one that will gain luster as receding years carry farther and farther back, the superstitions, the romance, the melodies that have gathered around the great river.”

Stuart, Ruth McEnery. Second wooing of Salina Sue and other stories, †$1.25. Harper.

Six short stories of negro life in the far South, entitled, The second wooing of Salina Sue; Minervy’s valentines, Tobe Taylor’s April foolishness; Egypt; Milady; The romance of Chinkapin castle.

“She knows well how to best bring to the surface the exquisite humor and pathos of plantation life.”

“If Mrs. Stuart strikes no fresh notes in this latest volume, she shows no sign of flagging interest in her themes, or of decline in the naturalness and interest of her style.”

337Stubbs, Rt. Rev. William, bishop of Oxford. Letters of William Stubbs, bishop of Oxford, 1825-1901; ed. by William Holden Hutton. *$4. Dutton.

A volume of letters which show the great bishop and learned historian to have been a man of genial personality and keen wit.

“It is to be hoped that, faithfully as Mr. Hutton has executed his task,—and his interspersed matter is illuminative and indispensable to the best enjoyment of the letters,—that a fuller, more formal biography of Bishop Stubbs may some day be written.” Percy F. Bicknell.

“His intercourse with leaders or his church and nation is revealed in these letters, in which his personal characteristics as a Christian pastor, an ecclesiastical statesman, a scholar, a wit, a friend, combine in the portrait of a strong, sincere, and faithful man.”

* Sturge, Ernest Adolphus. Spirit of Japan. The Yurskusha, Tokyo. For sale by author, 101 Scott St., San Francisco.

A Californian’s book of verse devoted to the spirit, legends, historical events, flowers, trees, birds and scenery of Japan.

Lord Belchamber, heir to an old name and to an old estate, is shy, sickly and good, quite out of place in his high position, in an idle and fashionable world, and wishes to renounce it for settlement work. His dissipated brother’s marriage to a vulgar variety actress recalls him to his duty, to his mother and to his name. He is caught by the first clever woman who sets her cap for him and marries her with tragic results.

“‘Belchamber,’ in short, has at once the faults and the freshness of the novelist who has told little but observed much; faults of construction and perspective ... and freshness of sensation and perception.” Edith Wharton.

“There is nothing amateurish about either style or construction.” Wm. M. Payne.

“There is a sort of old-fashioned touch about some of it, and now and then a suggestion of Thackeray.”

“Neither strength nor style is lacking in this quite remarkable analytical study.”

“It is a wonderfully well written book, so well written that the wonder grows that the author should have chosen such a malodorous subject.”

“‘Belchamber’ is a disagreeable, morbid and decidedly clever novel of aristocratic English life.”

A purely artistical standard of judgment from which to grasp the great arts of design has been defined by Mr. Sturgis in his volumes devoted to sculpture, architecture, and now to pictures. In the present field the work of producing grows complex as “in the matter of picture-making there is the transference of actual form and of appearance of form, to a flat surface.” The subject is treated historically and from the critic’s standpoint, whereas Mr. Poore’s “Pictorial composition” in this same “Popular art series” treats pictures from the artist’s point of view. There are many illustrations reproduced from rare paintings.

* “The pictures are carefully and thoroughly explained, and much unconscious like or dislike of a picture is accounted for by the clear reasoning.”

* “Is a good, helpful and instructive book by an authority whose long and careful study of the arts has equipped him with a wealth of knowledge.”

* “Mr. Sturgis’s book is much the more stimulating to one already possessing some knowledge of the subject; Mr. Caffin’s will perhaps be more useful to the beginner. Both will help in the spreading of some notion of what art is.”

To provide a popular work which at the same the student was the prevailing idea in Mr. Sturgis’s “How to judge architecture.” In the same time maintained high standards of criticism for manner, he now offers a work on sculpture, in which he treats the subject in the light of both its architectural and monumental value, dwelling upon the history, the characteristics of the principal schools, and the criticism of standard works; all of which study presents principles of analysis and criticism to be employed in understanding other sculpture. The book is valuable for the student, the traveler and the general reader.

“With the exception of the omission of some interesting technical explanations, which Mr. Sturgis better than most could have given us, the book is a very good and helpful one, and much more instructive as to the difference between good and bad works than the same author’s previous volume on ‘How to judge architecture,’ to which this is a companion.”

“The book is one that will unfailingly bring to its readers both profit and pleasure.”

Sturgis, Russell. Interdependence of the arts; Scammon lectures, The art institute of Chicago, 1904. *$1.75. McClurg.

Six lectures and 100 illustrations make up this book. Modern judged by ancient art is treated in lectures 1 and 2, first under Representation and sentiment, and second under Decorative effects. The other subjects are—The industrial arts in which form predominates, The industrial arts in which color predominates, Sculpture as used in architecture, and Painting as used in architecture.

“The writer’s views on these subjects are sound, if pedantic and not altogether new; they might have been placed in a form rather more readily understood, for one may turn many pages before he gains any idea of what the author is ‘getting at.’”

“Reads rather like the slightly revised report of extempore talks than like a formal treatise.”

338* Sturgis, Russell. Study of the artist’s way of working in various handicrafts and arts of design. 2v. **$15. Dodd.

In this “treatise on the ways in which the artist’s conceptions are formed and take visible shape,” Mr. Sturgis “gives a brief description of the technique of all the arts practised by man or savage down to the nineteenth century ... and even includes in a chapter on the ‘Ignored fine arts’ some discussion of fireworks and illumination, costume, the dance and stage-setting.” (Int. Studio.) There are one hundred and nineteen illustrations.

* “Though the work is copious, each department is despatched succinctly without overburdening detail and not without occasional expression of personal judgments and speculation.”

The author’s economic theory is that the workingman gets as large a share of the wealth he helps to produce as he actually earns. His story deals with many characters in many classes of society but chiefly with a young German doctor who loves a princess, comes to America, begins at the bottom and becomes reform governor of a western commonwealth; and with the romance of an idle leader of cotillions, and the intense daughter of a plain, blunt manufacturer of tinware.

“In the hands of a great writer it might have been a great book, because the purpose in it is that of painting the manners of men. But then the author launches into deep waters where he is not at home.”

* “There is too much social philosophy in the book to interest the general reader of fiction. Yet, on the whole, ‘Sturmsee’ abounds in lessons of healthy conservatism and conveys much social information.”

“It is not entirely without interest as a story, but it is essentially a book of discussions to which a conversational and picturesque form of exposition gives point and animation.” Wm. M. Payne.

“It is informed with learning and reflection, and its plan is studiously developed. Yet it would be a mistake to call it a novel.”

“The people in the book ... have (for Utopians) an appeal remarkably human. And not merely human, but romantic. The author never gets down from his hobby. He is always intent to teach you wisdom and demolish economic fallacies.”

“Has handled his material well or ill according as his readers expect sociology or fiction, for there is something of both and not enough of either.”

Sudermann, Hermann. St. John’s fire; tr. by Grace E. Polk. $1. H. W. Wilson co.

One of three translations of strong new foreign plays appearing in America in the last three years, the other two being Edith Wharton’s translation of Sudermann’s “Joy of Living,” and Coleman’s translation of Maeterlinck’s “Monna Vauna.” The dramatist uses an old German peasant custom of lighting bonfires and dancing round them on St. John’s eve as an allegorical background for his play. The custom dates back to heathen times, and the author in working out his plot makes the fires symbolize the outburst in the human soul, after Christian centuries, of the wild yearnings and primeval passions of the unregenerate man.

“Miss Polk’s translation is at once faithful to the spirit and letter of the original, and to the idiom of our own tongue. It is neither slavish nor careless.” Mary Gray Peck.

Suess, Eduard. Face of the earth (Das antlitz der erde); tr. by Hertha B. C. Sollas, 5v. v. I. *$8.35. (*25s.) Oxford.

Volume I. of a five volume edition. “Vol. I., which contains four maps and fifty other illustrations, is divided into two parts. Part I. deals with ‘The movements in the outer crust of the earth’—floods, cyclones, seismic areas, dislocations, volcanoes, earthquakes, etc.; Part II. is devoted to ‘The mountain ranges of the earth’—the ‘Northern foreland of the Alpine system,’ ‘The trend-lines of the Alpine system,’ ‘The basin of the Adriatic,’ ‘The Mediterranean,’ the Great desert plateau, the Indian mountains, the mountains of South America, the Antilles, North America, and the mountains separating the continents.” (N. Y. Times.)

“The English version faithfully follows the original, and supplies adequate renderings of the German technical terms.”

“No work on geology since the day of Lyell’s ‘Principles’ has exerted so profound an influence upon geological thought as has Suess’s ‘Antlitz der erde,’ and no one has mastered the broad geographical facts that are associated with the science of the earth, the world-concept, in a manner at all comparable with his presentation.”

“A volume on the art of Isaak Walton.... Among the topics discussed by the ‘fisherman’ are ‘Dashing dace,’ ‘Perches and plants,’ ‘A charge of pike,’ and ‘The club of melancholy.’”—N. Y. Times.

“The book might be summarized briefly as a modern and more erudite revival of Izaak Walton, so gentle and so humane is its attitude towards the finny tribe, so liberal and comprehensive its learning.”

“Is a book to irritate the curious rather than to please the well-informed or to instruct the ignorant. There is a great deal in this book that the learned angler (the appeal is to no other) may enjoy in spite of its overload of learning.”

Sutro, Emil. Duality of thought and language: an outline of original research. $1.50. Physio-psychic society.

“The author professes to have made the discovery that there are two voices in man, the one of the larynx and the other of the œsophagus; and that these two possess unique relation to the ‘soul’ element of speech. Tortuous and commonplace repetitions and variations of this theme make up the volume.”—Dial

“Has no claim to consideration except as an example of the confusion which may be the fruit of interest and enthusiasm unfortified by appreciation of what scientific investigation is or what it has accomplished.”

Full-page reproductions of Edward Moran’s thirteen famous paintings with a descriptive essay upon each picture, an introduction and a brief biography. Portraits of the artist and his wife, as painted by their nephew, Thomas Sidney Moran, are also given.

“Thirteen excellent half-tone reproductions of scenes connected with the history of the United States by the late well-known marine painter, Edward Moran, coupled with an interesting descriptive essay and prefaced by a careful biography of the artist.”

“One of the most important books of the late Edward Moran was the series of thirteen marine paintings descriptive of important events in American history. They constitute a collection of impressive beauty, aside from their function of illustrating some of the most striking phases of American history.”

“This series of historical pictures is thus of graphic interest to young and old. It has been a happy idea to reproduce them in a book and to accompany them with descriptive essays.”

In this collection of addresses, articles, and letters Baron Suyematsu gives to the western world “an impression of Japan both new and authoritative ... he ... has cleverly entitled the book, not ‘The land of the rising sun,’ but ‘The risen sun.’”(Outlook.)

* “‘The risen sun’ would gain in historical accuracy if a perhaps natural bias—or, should we say predisposition?—were eliminated.”

* “Altogether Baron Suyematsu’s book is a valuable contribution to history.”

* “The book is a superb piece of polemic, with a refreshingly cool and judicial temper like Franklin’s and with eloquence that reminds us of Beecher.”

* “The book is somewhat disjointed, patently showing that it is not a unified production. But its text is alike interesting and valuable.”

* “The Japanese sun is certainly risen, but when in future, distinguished authorities, such as Baron Suyematsu, relate the story of her progress they will better attain historical truth, if they give some credit where credit is so justly due.”

Swan, Helena. Girls’ Christian names their history, meaning, and association. $1.50. Dutton.

The author “has undertaken to give the origin of the baptismal names of women common in English-speaking countries, and to each name to add references as to its associations and history.” Her “method of treating a name is to give what she declares are its derivatives, then its derivation in the form of a statement; then to tell of the distinguished women who have borne it, and to give the titles of books wherein the name appears.”—N. Y. Times.

“A book of considerable interest, though of no importance. She has evidently brought more enthusiasm than judgment to her task.”

Swedenborg, Emanuel. Four doctrines with the nine questions; tr. by John Faulkner Potts. Am. Swedenborg.

The first volume in a new translation of Swedenborg’s theological writings. “The four doctrines,” first published at Amsterdam in 1763, include the following: I., The doctrine of the New Jerusalem concerning the Lord, followed by the nine questions, relating to the Lord, the Trinity, and the Holy Spirit; II., The doctrine of the New Jerusalem concerning the Holy Scripture; III., The doctrine of life for the New Jerusalem from the ten commandments; IV., The doctrine of the New Jerusalem concerning faith. The volume is supplied with full tables of contents, and an index to Biblical texts.

“A new translation by a competent scholar. In paper, typography, and binding the volume is all that a library edition should be.”

Kitty, a stenographer with an artistic temperament, is given a vacation by her employers and spends it in Hobby camp with Mrs. Rounds, whose hobby is doughnuts; Zeke, her son, the hobby boy; two college fellows who collect bugs and things; and Mr. Bailey who is writing a woodsy book. They all have adventures, especially Zeke, but the most wonderful things happen to Kitty, for she finds recognition for her drawings and wins the love of a great bear and—someone who is not a bear.

The story of a “strange voyage in a strange country,” which narrates the stirring adventures of the purloined “Dona Inez,” under her piratical crew. These unlawfully minded seamen undergo almost every experience in the gamut of marine catastrophe while one of its former officers is speeding overland to head off disagreeable contingencies with the Chilean naval department.

Swift, Jonathan. Journal to Stella, together with other writings relating to Stella and Vanessa; with the notes of Sir Walter Scott. *$1.25. Scribner.

Swift’s well-known classic is the latest issue in the “Caxton series.” “The compact size, limp lambskin binding, light paper, large clear type, and photogravure frontispiece give an excellent example of modern progress in bookmaking.” (Critic.)

A revived and rechristened work which some years ago appeared in the “Tatler.” “The situation which Mr. Swinburne presents to us is that of four cousins, brought up more or less together, two of whom are women and are married. With each is in love the brother of the other, and behind them all is the old Lady Midhurst, aunt of one pair and grandmother of the other, who plays the part of a shrewd and ill-natured Greek chorus.... The book is a study in calf-love, yet with something noble behind it; and the background is one of 340dreary country life, worldliness, and cynical old age.” (Spec.)

“A book so studded with quips and witticisms will always repay reading. There is no cleverness shown in bringing the dramatic episodes to a clear and sharp point, and the discrimination between one character and another is so slight as to be almost imperceptible.”

“The prose is among the best that the poet has achieved. It would be hard to exaggerate the concision, the polish, and the perfect prose-rhythm of these letters. The letters as a whole are pungent satire on British morality, its sensual sentiment, and its capacity for whitewashing the moral sepulchre.”

“It is pure comedy, both high-spirited and restrained, both caustic and tender.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.

“We are not going to hail Mr. Swinburne as a great novelist on the strength of this performance, but may fairly call it a clever, almost brilliant piece of work in a difficult form.” Wm. M. Payne.

“For our part, better than the story, better even than the incisive prologue, we love the dedication with its rioting periods and its kingly courtesies.”

“As a love-story, the book is entirely ineffective. The style is not peculiarly Swinburnean, but it is naturally more vigorous, more telling than is common with writers of modern fiction.”

“An agreeable kind of old-fashioned love story is involved in ‘Love’s cross-currents.’”

“While there is hardly a sentence which we cannot read with pleasure for its literary savour, its prim ironic elegance, there is not a page which we turn with the faintest thrill of curiosity.”

“As a novel, indeed, the book has many faults. There are too many characters, and their relationships are too complex, for the brief introduction to give the reader any clear grasp of the situation.”

Swinburne, Algernon Charles. Selected poems, ed. by William Morton Payne. Heath.

A volume in section VI. of the “Belles-lettres” series. The eighty poems selected are printed complete and classified under the headings: odes, poems of paganism and pantheism, selections from Songs before sunrise, lyrics, sonnets, personal poems, and metrical experiments, imitations, and parodies. An introduction, a chronological list of writings, an index of first lines and full notes are included.

“In form and method Mr. Payne’s introduction must be pronounced a model. The selection of poems could hardly be improved upon.”

“It is as good an anthology of Swinburne as we can expect during the poet’s lifetime. The notes are exactly what the reader desires and needs.”

* Swing, David. Truths leaf by leaf, with a characterization by Newell Dwight Hillis, and introd. by Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus; also a poem by Dr. Gunsaulus; ed. by Sophie Burt Kimball. $1.50. S. B. Kimball, Chicago.

“When proceedings against David Swing for heresy resulted in his quitting the Presbyterian church, thirty years ago, and forming the Central Congregational church in Chicago, it was a clear gain both for preacher and people. His sermons, attractive in their breadth of view and depth of feeling, and distinguished by their literary quality, drew congregations with an unusually large proportion of men, and were regularly printed in his weekly paper, the ‘Alliance.’ The present volume draws its contents from ‘his most mature and last unpublished writings.’ Characterizations of the beloved preacher by his like-minded successors, Drs. Hillis and Gunsaulus, supply the personal element required for an adequate memorial.”—Outlook.

* “Beauty, spirituality, the value of high ideals in life and thought, fill these inspiring pages.”

* Swingle, Calvin F. Modern locomotive engineering, with questions and answers. $3. Drake, F: J.

A plain practical treatise on the construction, care and management of modern locomotives. “The book is presented in an attractive form in flexible covers. The print is large; the illustrations, of which there are many, are clear, simple, and yet comprehensive.” (Engin. N.)

* “Mr. Swingle has combined between the covers of one book not only much that has been treated of in the many smaller books, but he has also presented considerable other valuable matter in an original and interesting manner.” Arthur M. Waitt.

Symonds, E. M. (George Paston, pseud.). * B. R. Haydon and his friends. **$3. Dutton.

“Haydon was a man much talked of in his day but little mentioned in our own. As a critic, despite his own sharply cut individuality, his egotism and vanity stood in the way of a proper perspective of men and things. As a painter he had undeniable power, and he used it with knowledge; he was a painter who thought.... The present well-printed volume ... helps more clearly to realize Haydon’s excellencies and limitations.”—Outlook.

* “As a book about art, even about the art of a singularly arid time in an arid country George Paston’s Haydon has little value or interest to-day. For its ‘collections and recollections,’ George Paston’s volume is pleasant reading.”

* “With such a subject, then, Mr. Paston could not write a dull book, and his ‘Life’ of Haydon does not contain a page that is not alive with a grim comedy or poignant with a yet grimmer tragedy.”

Taber, Harry Persons. Rubaiyat of the commuter: being quatrains concerning the affairs of every day. 25c. John Bridges, Briarcliff Manor, N. Y.

“The woes of the commuter, with the 30-second breakfast, the 8:16 train which occasionally goes at 8:32, the futile struggle with two bushels of Peter Henderson’s seeds and the neighbors’ chickens are too feelingly set forth to have been only imagined. The author explains his use of the particular form of verse that he has selected on the ground of its being an obsessive measure.”—Baltimore Sun.

A story for girls. The heroine, a brown, lanky child of fourteen, dissatisfied with her world, develops into a most attractive young woman, the joy of her father, the relief of her invalid mother, and the confidante and help of her numerous brothers and sisters. There is much wholesome fun, there is trouble, incident, and, above all, real human nature.

“‘Nut-brown Joan’ is to be commended both for its literary merit ... and also for its thoroughly wholesome atmosphere. The volume holds a very practical lesson for young girls, and the lesson is excellently presented.”

“A résumé of the child-study literature.... Such topics as these are treated: the problems of physical growth and abnormality; the feelings and ideas of sex; the mental processes; religious and moral ideas; emotions; interests; movements; imitation; language; rhythm; music; drawing and play. At the beginning of each chapter are definite suggestions for collecting data along the line of the chapter. The bibliographies at the close of each chapter are most ample.”—Psychol. Bull.

“For normal or college students who should have some groundwork in general psychology before studying child psychology, Miss Tanner’s book is inferior to that of Dr. Kirkpatrick; for general readers it will prove most serviceable.” Henry Davidson Sheldon.

“It is profuse in facts, though sparing in generalizations and conclusions, and can hardly fail to promote a more judicious study of the individual children with whom its readers may have to do.”

“Without doubt, it is the most complete, systematic and painstaking work of its kind extant. It is certainly unique in its sphere, presenting in convenient and readable form a vast amount of information regarding child life. It should meet with great favor at the hands of those for whom it was written.” Irving King.

“There are special chapters that deserve special mention, some because of their merit, such as those treating of ‘Memory,’ ‘Imagination,’ ‘Conception,’ and ‘Reasoning,’ and the chapter on the various forms of ‘Movements’; and others, especially those chapters that deal with the so-called physical nature of the child, that might, with advantage, be replaced in the text or even rewritten.” D. P. MacMillan.

Tapp, Sidney C. Story of Anglo-Saxon institutions; or, The development of constitutional government. **$1.50. Putnam.

“While Mr. Tapp’s book runs along special lines, it is intended for the general reader as well as for the specialist. The writer’s purpose has been to demonstrate from historical facts that the Anglo-Saxon race is the only race that has ever had a true conception of republican institutions, or solved correctly the problem of self-government. It is only fair to say that Mr. Tapp has accomplished his purpose in this book.”—Critic.

* Tappan, Eva March, tr. Golden goose, and other fairy tales; tr. from the Swedish. †$1. Houghton.

Six fairy tales from Scandinavian sources told in simple language. “‘The golden goose,’ which gives the name to the book, is little Rose, the beautiful daughter of a king, whose stepmother, after much cruel treatment, has turned her into a goose.... There is the story of a giant, the roof of whose house was made of sausages; of the good little girl, and the bad in ‘The red and the black box.’ ... There is the simple-minded giant who killed himself, not to be outdone by a small boy, and other stories, all with excellent pictures in black and white, full pages and text, with interesting head pieces.” (N. Y. Times.)

* “Is a good addition to the useful work she has done for children in other fields.”

“An elementary text-book for high schools, by the head of the English department in the English high school at Worcester, covering English literature from its beginnings in the earliest periods down to the novel of the nineteenth century, with numerous illustrations in the form of portraits, facsimiles of manuscripts, pictures of objects of interest, and with an excellent map in colors.”—Outlook.

An account of the origin, growth, and influence of this first and greatest of American trusts. The methods by which the corporation gained control of the petroleum output are disclosed, railroad and other interests bearing upon the trust’s development are carefully investigated. The oil regions themselves and the chief characters in this industrial drama are put vividly before us.

“‘The history of the Standard oil company’ is one of the most important contributions that has been made to the vital historical and conscience literature of our opening century. The absorbing interest of the work, the masterly marshaling of facts and the careful handling of details are only surpassed by the judicial spirit that is preëminent throughout the work.”

“It is calm and dispassionate, and calculated to do quite as much if not more good than if it were pitched in a high and noisy key. Is to the present time the most remarkable book of its kind ever written in this country.”

“The book is a genuine contribution to that 342knowledge of the real inwardness of things industrial which Americans as a people so lack.” Frank L. McVey.

“Miss Tarbell’s success, for she has achieved a very distinct success, is in having made her story in its logical simplicity and directness as fascinatingly interesting as it is disagreeable. She has preserved her position as historian and has not abandoned it even temporarily for that of the prosecuting advocate.”

“This book seems to have been written for the purpose of intensifying the popular hatred. The writer has either a vague conception of the nature of proof, or she is willing to blacken the character of Mr. John D. Rockefeller by insinuation and detraction.”

“The value ... lies largely in the fact that the author has no thesis to sustain and is willing to let her readers draw their own conclusions. It is a model of condensed, graphic statement. The dramatic aspects of the story are not lost in the telling, while the arrangement of the materials is convenient for the purposes of the student and the legislator as well as for general reading.”

“The author never gets excited, however exciting her story may become; she sets forth the facts, and to a considerable extent leaves inference and conclusions to her readers. It is, in effect, a liberal education in the fundamentals of the trust problem; it is the Blackstone of the literature that is growing up around this problem, in its entirety the most important of all in commercialized America.”

“Is an exhaustive and yet succinct presentation of the rise and development of a great American industry. Her book is in every sense a history—not an economic dissertation.”

This is the story of a young Italian of high family and low purse, who was forced into shaving his head and using the bald poll as an advertisement for a Parisian ballet. It is also the story of “the beautiful lady” who saw him sitting ignominiously in a café and was sorry for him. Later the young Italian, by reason of his shaved head, secures a position as tutor to a young millionaire, and is able to save the girl who was sorry from an unfortunate marriage and at the same time to make his dashing benefactor happy.

“A mere trifle, but a delightful trifle, which, lacking the dramatic action of ‘Monsieur Beaucaire,’ equals it in the originality of its conception, in its pathos, and surpasses it in its whimsical humour.” Firmin Dredd.

“Mr. Tarkington has made us see what might have been done; but he has failed to do it.”

“The sentiment in it is very pretty, and Mr. Booth Tarkington never writes other than gracefully.”

* “He tells it, too, with the fine artistic flavor distinguishing his ‘Monsieur Beaucaire.’”

Canaan is a small Indiana town, a hot bed of personal grudge and prejudice and this story tells of how Joe Louden, returning to Canaan to practice law after years of hard study in New York, finds that his reckless youth and his departure from his home town under a cloud have neither been forgotten nor forgiven. But championed by Ariel Taylor, the one true friend of his boyhood, who has just returned from the study of art in Paris, he succeeds after a hard and upright struggle in conquering circumstances and the prejudices of his townspeople. The love story of these two strongly individual characters is unusual and well handled.

* “It contains some admirable chapters of life in a small, gossipy, spiteful town, and the characters, all of them, including the dog, are alive and interesting, but it is clumsily put together and weakly conventional in the concluding portion.”

* “For pure humor in an author, we commend the conversations of the old window owls in the National house.”

* “There is no doubt that the book is the best that Mr. Tarkington has yet written.”

* “‘The conquest of Canaan’ has not lost the note of refinement, but it has gained in solidity and distinctness of outline, it is an original story in point of plot; it is witty, spirited, romantic, and beautifully human in its spirit.”

Six short stories of western politics, which deal with reformers and machine politicians, lobbyists, law-makers, office seekers, bosses and voters. The characters are real and vigorous types created by an author who has had practical experience in the game of politics.

“They have no special excellence of any kind, but they are very interesting and clever, and are written with a sound knowledge of the subject with which they deal.”

“The material is ugly in every case except one; but the telling in each case is good. Mr. Tarkington writes with force and feeling, and has respect for the literary virtue of restraint.”

“There is some very good workmanship in ‘In the arena.’ One lays the book aside with the conviction that the author’s estimate of the situation is a pretty true one, and that he made singularly good use of his experience in Indiana politics.” Perry Enders.

“Doubtless, unpretentious as they are, they are among Mr. Tarkington’s best work.”

“There is the ring of truth and reality in these stories. The characters are human and interesting.”

“There is no doubt that it will afford much entertainment to those who do not resent a touch of pessimism in comedy.”

“In the volume under review, Mr. Taylor has given us an exposition of the principles of metaphysics from a point of view which is in the main that of Mr. Bradley.... Mr. Taylor divides his work into four books, the first of which is devoted to a preliminary discussion of the problem, method and subdivision of metaphysics. This is followed by a discussion in Book II. of the general structure of reality.... The remaining books deal with the more special questions involved in the interpretation of nature and the interpretation of life.”—Int. J. Ethics.

“... A full recognition of the many merits of Mr. Taylor’s work, and of the value and suggestiveness 343of his treatment of various metaphysical topics. His book is certainly one which all who are interested in the present position of metaphysics ought to read.” James Gibson.

“Compact and well written book. It is the only English book in recent times treating metaphysical problems with some completeness that is arranged in such a concise and orderly fashion as to permit its being used as a text-book on this subject. It gives evidence not only of the author’s industry and earnestness, but of unusual vigor and acuteness of thought, as well as of a pleasing clearness and definiteness in mode of expression.” J. E. Creighton.

“The strength of Professor Taylor’s book lies not in his constructive ontology but in his clear and masterly analysis of general metaphysical concepts ... and in the fact that the whole treatment is both modern and systematic.” G. T. W. Patrick.

Taylor, Charles M., jr. Only a grain of sand; il. by Clare Victor Dwiggins. **$1. Winston.

Into the simple story of the life of one of the sands of the sea is deftly woven both satire and philosophy. It is an autobiography of a little grain that was carried from sea-depths to sea-shore and from there was taken to a dingy building where it passed through a fiery furnace and became a part of a graceful iridescent vase.

* Taylor, Henry Charles. Introduction to the study of agricultural economics. *$1.25. Macmillan.

“This is a discussion of economics as applied exclusively to agriculture.... It belongs to the series entitled ‘The citizen’s library of economics, politics, and sociology.’”—Outlook.

* “It discusses principles in a judicial spirit, and presents in concise form, facts that are of significance.”

* “One of the excellent and useful volumes lately contributed to the ‘Citizen’s library.’”

Taylor, Marie Hansen (Mrs. Bayard Taylor). On two continents. **$2.75. Doubleday.

Mrs. Taylor was the daughter of the noted German mathematician and astronomer Hansen, and in this book of memoirs she speaks of her girlhood in Gotha, her meeting with her husband, their marriage, their travels, and of her husband’s literary and diplomatic career. Her book is chatty and entertaining in style, and her anecdotes of the Brownings, the Stoddards, Horace Greeley, the Cary sisters, Thackeray, and other famous men and women of letters with whom she and her husband came in contact are of particular interest.

* “Though she is rather apt to devote four or five pages to an incident for which half a page would be ample, she always rambles pleasantly.”

“Mrs. Taylor writes pleasantly and she has many interesting things to say.” Jeannette L. Gilder.

“Altogether, a more agreeable book of its kind could not well be imagined.” Percy F. Bicknell.

“In this book and in no other is to be found the most attractive and sympathetic record of one of the most interesting of all Americans.” L. L.

* “By temperament and association Mrs. Taylor is peculiarly qualified to depict the inner and outer forces that co-operated in the development of her gifted husband’s genius, and his reaction upon his environment.”

* “It is of value, not, as one would at first suppose, primarily for its biographical material, but because of the exquisite simplicity of its diction and the charm of the author’s personality.”

A child-wife’s loyalty to her Jacobite husband during his years of absence, and in spite of strong family opposition, furnishes the theme for a spirited romance. Then when he does return incognito he devotes himself to the re-wooing of Lady Betty, fights duels for her, is at the mercy of her whims and fancies, and a father’s Whig prejudices, but finally thru her courage in daring to beg clemency of the king is released from the tower.

“The characterization is consistent and the relations of character are drawn ‘on scale,’ so that the effect of human display is harmonious. Considered critically, the story is not reasonable or natural any more than other romances of the exaggerated class to which it belongs.”

Taylor, Rev. S. M. Ministers of the Word and sacraments; lectures on pastoral theology, delivered in King’s college, London, Lent term, 1904. *$1.50. Longmans.

“Archdeacon Taylor prints here some lectures delivered to a class of students preparing for ordination.... His tone is that of a High churchman, but he condemns some of the most objectionable of extremist practices.”—Spec.

Taylor, Samuel Coleridge-. Twenty-four negro melodies, transcribed for the piano. $2.50. Ditson.

“There are twenty-four transcriptions of folk-melodies, both African and American, used as themes for compositions in the style of fantasias.”—R. of Rs.

“He is well grounded in technique, and he expresses himself with freedom. Although in inventiveness his range seems so far rather limited, he is spontaneous and genuine in what he writes.”

“Mr. Coleridge-Taylor has preserved the distinctive traits of these melodies, but has given them form and structure.”

This “volume contains many portraits and excellent views of scenes connected with Tchaikovsky’s life, with a striking portrait, and facsimiles of letters written by the musician. The editor has tried to preserve, in spite of the 344cutting of three volumes to one, the autobiographical character of the work, and has included the series of intimate letters which relates the romantic episode of Tchaikovsky’s life—his friendship of thirteen years for a woman with whom he never exchanged a personal greeting. An account of the composer’s visit to America ... is also included in the form of a diary, kept for the benefit of his relations.”—N. Y. Times.

* “Yet in its kind it possesses great value, not only as a contribution to the psychology of art, but as a most illuminating commentary on Tchaikovsky’s music. We may add that the translation is easy and fluent, and that the volume is well arranged and well illustrated.”

* “But the present life, containing, as it does, an enormous amount of interesting material, still fails to hold one’s attention for the simple reason that it is too long and is padded out with stuff that ought not to be in any biography. On the whole, the book was more stimulating in its original condition; but in its present form it will serve a future biographer.”

* “Must content ourselves with congratulating Mrs. Newmarch on the zeal and intelligence with which she has accomplished her task. Of the delicacy, the candour, and the affection shown by M. Modeste Tchaikovsky it is impossible to speak too highly.” C. L. G.

Tennyson, Hallam, 2d baron. Alfred, Lord Tennyson: a memoir by his son. **$4. Macmillan.

A new edition which includes in a single volume “all the material in the original issue. There are extracts from a number of unpublished letters and poems; some FitzGerald letters, others to Aubrey de Vere, Rawnsley, and other persons.... The book contains for the most part the account of Lord Tennyson’s life, gleaned either from his letters and poems or from the writings of his friends.... The impressions and general recollections of T. Watts-Dunton, F. W. H. Myers, F. T. Palgrave, the Duke of Argyll, and others, have been put in an appendix, which also contains some notes ... and a very full index besides these, the volume also has a chronology of the books and poems by the poet-laureate.” (N. Y. Times.)

Thackeray, William Makepeace. Works. Cornhill ed.; ed. with biography, bibliography, and special introd. by W. P. Trent, and J. Bell Henneman. $37.50. Crowell.

The “Cornhill” Thackeray has achieved a well merited distinction above all recent issues of the great novelist’s works in that it includes material heretofore unclaimed for the author, but conclusively identified as his during recent months of research. There are two thousand pages thruout the various volumes which have never appeared in any set before. The editorial work in charge of Prof. Trent of Columbia college, and Dr. Henneman of the University of the South, includes special introductions to every volume, notes and critical comments of exceptionally high character, a complete bibliography based on the chronology of Thackeray’s life, and a full topical index to the entire set. Aside from the better known novels, are the essays, burlesques, Christmas stories, criticisms of letters and art, quips in Punch, drawings, poems and a new collection of typical personal letters. Among the three hundred and more illustrations are a series of photogravure portraits of the author, and many of Thackeray’s own quaint and whimsical drawings. The books with their substantial bindings, heavy paper and good type, deserve a prominent place among the great book achievements of the day.

“The edition is highly satisfactory, both for completeness and inexpensiveness.”

“By far the most satisfactory edition of Thackeray we have seen in recent years.”

Uniform with the “Thin paper classics” series this volume contains the history of Henry Esmond, Esq., with an introduction by J. B. Henneman, and a portrait of Thackeray as a frontispiece.

Thackeray, William Makepeace. History of Henry Esmond: ed. by Hamilton Byron Moore. 60c. Ginn.

An annotated edition of Henry Esmond planned to meet the needs of advanced high schools and elementary college classes. The text is that of the new “Dent edition.”

Thackeray, William Makepeace. Letters to an American family; with an introd. by Lucy D. Baxter and original drawings by Thackeray, **$1.50. Century.

Thackeray the man, with his habits, opinions, prejudices, genial friendship, love for home and his own, lending an active personal charm, fascinates the reader no less than Thackeray the better known objective master of the novel. These letters, all of them heretofore unpublished, were written to various members of a New York family in whose home the novelist was a frequent visitor during his two lecture tours in America. They include mainly, letters written from his lecture points, full of bright, frank comments upon American people and their ways. There are facsimiles of portions of letters, and of Thackeray’s own characteristic drawings.

“Not a line inconsistent with his published writings is to be found. ‘The style’ is emphatically ‘of the man’ himself. The so-called cynicism that sought to mask a tender heart and too expressive face, the great fondness for children and old friends, the gentleness and the whimsical humor,—all these traits and qualities are here revealed in letters as charmingly colloquial as were ever written. The introduction by Miss Lucy W. Baxter strikes just the right note as to revelation and reserve, and enables us to realize the charm of the ‘brown house’ in Second avenue which Thackeray found so potent.”

“The charm of these letters, written in grateful affection to his friends ...”

“The half-humorous, half-tender familiarity and freedom of these communications ...”

“Vanity fair” has been compressed into one small volume of the “Thin paper classics” series, and appears in this handy form without sacrifice of clear type. It contains a frontispiece from a drawing by Frank T. Merrill.

Johnny-Ivan Winslow, the man of the hour, is the son of an Iowa plow manufacturer and a Russian princess whose altruistic dreams took shape in championing the Nihilists’ cause. Believing in the redemption of the toiler, this mother’s son throws himself and his money at the feet of struggling strikers, working in the midst of rioters with the best against the worst. The intensity of his subjective relation to his cause records only failure in the end, not because of his inability to stand at the helm, but because of the operation of a wrong principle. There is a steadfast Peggy in the tale whose magnificent faith in the triumph of Johnny over his Ivan theories is fully rewarded.

“This novel considered as fiction merits special notice. It is one of the best romances of the year. As a sociological study, it is impossible to speak in such favorable terms, for though there is much that is fine and true in its spirit, and though we believe that the author desires to be fair and just, she has signally failed at many points.”

“While the story is not lacking in strength, nor in that finer character-drawing that the writer’s previous work has associated with her name, one feels more than once that the plot has been moulded to fit a preconceived thesis.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

* “Miss French has given us a book of very genial and human sort, and brought to it a gift of shrewd and sometimes humorous observation, such as comes only after long practice in the art of fiction.” Wm. M. Payne.

“The latter half of the book is stuffed with not very enlightening discussions of labor problems, and it ends in an absurdly conventional way.”

* “Octave Thanet is at her best in depicting children. She loves them in any rank of life, and gets them on paper in all their whimsicality, their straight-to-the-mark directness, their consistent inconsistency.”

“It is interesting and well developed. Its pages are full of evidences of the author’s keen and kindly study of men and things and of her aptitude for the lively narration of the results of her observations.”

“Fine in spirit and thoroughly readable also as a story of character and incident. It is not a novel of purpose in the sense that argument is substituted for entertainment.”

* “Miss French seems to us to have done as good work in this truly American novel as in her many admirable short stories.”

A collection of jests, anecdotes, and repartee culled from the “Tales worth telling” column of the Philadelphia public ledger.

Thatcher, Oliver Joseph, and McNeal, Edgar H. Source book for mediaeval history: selected documents: illustrating the history of Europe in the middle ages. *$1.85. Scribner.

“The documents include ... the charter of the Ministerials of the Archbishop of Cologne, 1154, ... the charter granted by the bishop of Hamburg to the colonists, ‘the Hollanders,’ in 1106; the privilege of Frederick I, ... for the Jews of the Worms, in 1157; the charter given to the Jews of Speyer by the bishop of that city, 1084; a few market charters issued at the time of the freedom of the cities of Germany, several documents illustrating the rebellion of these cities against the lords who governed them, and their acquisition of municipal rights, &c. There are also the important charter of Magdeburg, and some documents concerning the origin of the Rhine league and the early history of the Hanseatic league. An explanatory note, and the names of authorities consulted, precede each document. Following is the charter given to the Jews by the bishop of Speyer.”—N. Y. Times.

“[This] ode written for the inaugural of President Roosevelt ... breathes the same spirit of desire that the American republic should fulfill its destiny as that destiny has been conceived by the best and finest of its citizens.”—N. Y. Times.

“It is agreeable to find in a poem for such an occasion an abstract idea conveyed with dignity and free from silly optimism.”

In this one volume the history of Venice is given from the origin of the city in 452 to its fall in 1797. It sets forth the growth of the republic, the greatness of the Venetians and compares Venice and her contemporaries.

“The first chapters of this history leave much to be desired but the final portion of the book is, on the whole, just, admirable and inspiring.”

“Mr. Thayer’s outline of Venetian history is a vivid sketch of a considerable historical and literary merit. Mr. Thayer is, however, a little too one-sided in his undisguised hostility to the Church.”

“We must relegate small cavils to the background, and speak with warm recognition of the skill, discernment, and idealism which mark this book.”

“We are acquainted with no other writing in the English language, which is a better introduction to a prolonged, serious study of the subject.” Walter Littlefield.

“A model ‘Short history of Venice’ has been written by Mr. William Roscoe Thayer.”

“This is a book of considerable value, telling the story of Venice succinctly and lucidly.”

Thiers, (Marie Joseph) Louis Adolphe. Moscow expedition; ed. by Hereford B. George. *$1.25. Oxford.

This is a reprint of an extract of Thiers’s “Histoire du consulat et de l’empire,” which was published between 1845-1862. It follows Thiers’s text in the French but is supplemented by explanatory notes in English, and a personal and geographical index.

“On the whole, however, this volume deserves a cordial welcome. It is the first time that a competent authority has produced a careful and critical commentary on this portion of Thiers’s work.”

“In addition to attractive descriptions of Ribas, Alcoy, Jativa, and many other places visited by English travellers, the book contains a large amount of information on Spanish politics and most other aspects of Spanish life.”—Ath.

* “Though they make no special appeal to travellers, can be read with pleasure by any one who has a taste for light reading of a miscellaneous nature.”

* “But the whole book undoubtedly has character and reality, a record of such sensations, impressions and ideas as lead to essential truth.”

* “Mr. Thirlmere pays more attention to life than locality, but he never forgets his backgrounds. His thumb-nail portraits, his meditative and fanciful humor, his apt quotation, and his continual cheerfulness leave a very pleasant sensation in the mind.”

Thomas, David Yancey. History of military government in newly acquired territory of the United States. *$2. Macmillan.

“Prof. Thomas discusses, not only the legal status of the new territory and the legal basis for military government, but also presents an account of the actual management of new acquisitions from the time of occupation until the organization of territorial or state governments. Dr. Thomas contents himself with a statement of the facts connected with our military occupation of Porto Rico and the Philippines, and attempts to give no verdict as to the character and accomplishments of the military governments.”—R. of Rs.

“There is failure also to give the general constitutional and legal basis of military government. The manner in which the foot-notes are handled is open to serious criticism. The existence of a monograph of this kind is of doubtful utility, if references are not plentiful and exact. Frequently the details of military government are overlooked or cast aside. The best part of the author’s work is that relating to Florida, New Mexico, and California. These acquisitions have been remarkably well treated and in general the judgment passed upon events is very fair and to the point. Turning to California, we reach the most satisfactory portion of the book. Mr. Thomas has given a comprehensive outline of the government of territory acquired by the United States before the Civil war. His work in that field will undoubtedly stand the test of time, and it is questionable if other writers can add much to the results obtained.” A. H. Carpenter.

“The fullest and most valuable part of the book is that dealing with the four great acquisitions of Louisiana, Florida, New Mexico, and California. The treatment of military rule in other annexed territories ... is much briefer and on the whole less satisfactory. There is probably nowhere in print a better summary of military government in the Philippines and Porto Rico than that given us by Dr. Thomas. The work throughout is based on the best of documentary materials, and these are referred to in the foot-notes with a fair degree of frequency. The index to the work is rather inadequate.” Frederic Austin Ogg.

The initial poem has a tragic love theme from Zola’s “Rome.” There are poems dealing with the soul struggles met with in life to-day, and over two score sonnets.

* “Her level is a high one, and she seldom falls below it. On the whole, it is higher than that of any other woman who has written poetry in America.”

“Too reflective a singer for the higher sort of lyrical utterance, but there are touches of distinction upon nearly everything she writes. Plainness of speech and subtlety of thought mark her work, and make it very precious to lovers of the graver kind of verse.”

“Cassia is a most charming poem, but without the splendor, pomp, and grim reality of the ancient city in which the fable had its birth. Miss Thomas is most felicitous on her own ground, spending her abundant and chastened fancy upon the moods that arise from modern and personal associations.”

Thomas, Edward. Wales: painted by Robert Fowler; described by E. Thomas. *$6. Macmillan.

A picturesque treatment of Wales with brush and pencil, by Mr. Fowler, with descriptions and quaint tales by Mr. Thomas.

* “Between the illustrations and the letterpress there is absolutely no connexion.”

“The illustrations are excellent; some of great beauty and admirably reproduced in color. Mr. Thomas is flippant and tiresome; in at least one place he is decidedly irreverent.”

“The color-pictures show a fine, strong sense of distance and perspective, and the artist is also to be praised for his restraint in his color-schemes. The literary part of the work is somewhat rambling and inchoate, and the note of jocosity is at times forced.”

“The illustrations have some merit. The author’s egoism and style are irritating.”

Thomas, Frederick Moy, comp. and ed. See Robinson, John R. Fifty years of Fleet street.

Thomas, Theodore. Theodore Thomas: a musical autobiography; ed. by George P. Upton. 2v. *$6. McClurg.

This work was well under way at the time of Mr. Thomas’ death January 4, 1905. Volume I., entitled “Life work,” tells in the great orchestral leader’s own words of his life, his back-sets, his determined struggles “to make good music popular,” and his final success. Mr. Upton, his friend for thirty years, adds a chapter upon “Last days of Theodore Thomas,” and there is further reminiscence and appreciation. Volume II., “Concert programmes” has an introduction by Mr. Thomas and contains selected programmes covering fifty years, beginning with the Mason chamber concerts and ending with the concerts of the Chicago orchestra. Both volumes are illustrated with portraits and views.

“To students of musical history in particular, as well as all music lovers and musicians, this record of the life and work of Theodore Thomas is of great and permanent value.” Lewis M. Isaacs.

“The interest of this book naturally centres in the hundred pages or so of the autobiography. These chapters constitute a very matter-of-fact statement, bare of all ornament, and devoid of the slightest literary pretense, yet highly important by virtue of their subject-matter.” William Morton Payne.

347“A final record of ‘Works introduced into this country’ by Mr. Thomas is a disappointment and lacks the expected value because of its many inaccuracies and misstatements.”

* “Is a fascinating record of a noble life. It is accompanied by 1,200 of the great conductor’s programs, a collection of the highest value for its indication of the development of musical taste and appreciation in America.”

“His own writing is a highly characteristic expression of the man, and the book as a whole makes interesting and important contributions to American musical history, and to the knowledge of the part played in it by Theodore Thomas.” Richard Aldrich.

Thomas, W. H. Griffith. Apostle Peter: outline studies in his life, character and writings. **$1.25. Revell.

This is a suggestive handbook, which will be of value to anyone who is preparing sermons or lectures on this subject.

“His book is of a higher type than many manuals of Bible readings, and abounds in materials for expository addresses.”

Thompson, A. Hamilton, ed. See Elton, Isaac. W. Shakespeare, his family and friends.

A party of four boys and three men, one of whom is a sea captain and another black Caesar the cook, while camping near St. John’s, Newfoundland, find a steamer abandoned and adrift and set out to rescue her passengers and crew. They pass thru many thrilling adventures on the coast of Greenland and Labrador in which icebergs, sunken rocks, an arctic hurricane, shipwreck, fire and other perilous things have a part. They see life as it is lived in the Eskimos’ villages, but in the end the faithful Caesar succeeds in bringing Phil Schuyler safely home to his mother.

A tragic tale of an unhappy marriage in which a wife sees only neglect of her interests in her husband’s devotion to his career. Her morbid imagination fraught with jealousy and hatred works her ruin. There is retribution in the visitation of her weakness upon her child. It is a negative lesson of psychological import.

“Particular mysteries of which the veil is supposed to be rent away in this case include that of the madness of Ludwig of Bavaria.... Another story purports to relate what really happened when the powers took a hand in Crete and gave that island autonomy.... Yet other stories pretend to tell what really happened during that delightful comedy wherein the crown prince of Germany gave his grandmother Victoria’s ring to Miss Gladys Deacon; yet others are of how President Faure of France came to his end, and how the present great war between Japan and Russia ... was ‘made in England.’”—N. Y. Times.

“Mr. Thompson’s style may never be free from affectation and unnecessary embellishment, but at least he has done far better work than this.”

“The book is rather fascinating reading, in spite of the circumstance that the real truth is probably as different from Mr. Thompson’s version as Mr. Thompson’s version is from official history.”

Thonger, Charles. Book of garden design. (Handbooks of practical gardening, v. 25.) *$1. Lane.

“The author describes somewhat at length the different schools of garden designs.... Advocates first a general spirit of simplicity, avoiding both complexity and eccentricity. Then proceeds with suggestions for selecting or adapting a site, and for laying out drives and paths.... The kitchen-garden and orchard come within this scheme.... The last four chapters are devoted to perennials, aquatic plants, trees, shrubs, and hardy climbers, and include some suggestive lists for practical gardeners.”—Dial.

“Altogether, the little book is quite likely to be useful to those who take their gardening in earnest.” Edith Granger.

“The happier few who have the delightful task before them of making a garden—delightful, but not without trouble—will meet here with everything that they want.”

Prof. James says that this book “is a laboratory manual of the most energetic and continuous kind.” Further, “I defy any teacher or student to go through this book as it is written, and not to carry away an absolutely firsthand acquaintance with the workings of the human mind, and with the realities as distinguished from the pedantries and artificialities of psychology.” Intense concreteness is the watchword thruout the discussion, which falls into three parts; Descriptive psychology, The psychological basis of mental life: physiological psychology, and Dynamic psychology.

“Brings as its distinctive contribution the emphasis upon the practical reaction which the student is induced to make to the principles set before him. The excellence and completeness of the chapters on the nervous system deserve special commendation.”

“This book differs from other brief psychologies in being pre-eminently teachable. The book is distinguished from its rivals by its comprehensiveness and balance.”

Thorndike, Edward Lee. Introduction to the theory of mental and social measurements. *$1.50. Science press.

“Professor Thorndike has prepared this book primarily as an aid in doing statistical work of the sort required in laboratories of experimental psychology.... It begins simply, and by affording abundant material for the student to practice what the text preaches gradually develops in his capacity to master the more difficult later chapters. The writer makes a point of keeping within the comprehension of young students.... The topics to which most attention is given are the choice of units of 348measurement; the measurement of individuals, of groups, of differences, of changes, and of relationships; and the reliability of measurements and sources of error. Strong emphasis is laid upon tables of frequency.... The last chapter contains references for further study, and the appendix a multiplication table up to 100x100, a table of square roots up to 1,000, and a collection of miscellaneous problems for additional practice.”—Am. J. Soc.

“In its special field the book is worthy of a man who is a teacher as well as a psychologist.” Wesley C. Mitchell.

“The author has written in an attractive style ... and has made this one of the best products of his active pen.” Edward Franklin Buchner.

Thorpe, Francis Newton. Divining rod: a story of the oil regions. †$1.50. Little.

A romance which deals with the early days when oil was discovered in Pennsylvania. It follows the fortunes of a farmer in whom the divining rod which points out his first well awakens a thirst for the wealth to be gained by developing his own land. His daughter is the center of the love motive, but the strength of the story lies in the oil, the crowding out of the small producers by the large, the uncovering of unscrupulous methods, the mad desire for more land, more wells at any price.

Thorpe, Francis Newton. Short constitutional history of the United States. *$1.75. Little.

A brief “history of the state and federal constitutions, their origins, principles, evolution, and the interpretation of them by the courts.... As an appendix, the constitution of the United States, with citation of cases, is printed. There is a special index to the constitution, giving article, section, and page, as well as a general index to the work at large.... After a rapid survey of the early colonial unions and congresses, and of the Articles of confederation and their defects, there is a short chapter on the making of the constitution, followed by an analysis of The Federalist to show what were and are the fundamental principles of the constitution.”—N. Y. Times.

“The style is not attractive, though not often very bad; the arrangement is unsatisfactory, and the general method of presentation is not telling; the author’s conception of his subject, as in his early volumes on constitutional history, is limited. These faults might be passed over without too serious consideration if the book were accurate in details, and if, with all its apparent weight and sturdiness, it were done with care and circumspection.”

“The book is to be especially commended for its well assorted information upon recent constitutions in the various states.” Jesse Macy.

“There is a lack of digestion and a want of perspective. This failure to give proper emphasis makes the book sure to fail as a text-book—a use for which the author designed it—except in the hands of a very experienced teacher.”

* “Exhibits an immense amount of learning on that subject, ill arranged and almost devoid of historical sequence.”

“For so small a volume its scope is remarkable; and, notwithstanding the heaviness of his theme, and an occasional involved sentence which detains the reader, the author presents his matter in a manner to hold the interest of even the layman in politics.”

A popular edition of this story of the lovable, light-spirited daughter of a professor of the University of Virginia, and a picture of college life from the towns-people’s point of view.

* Thurso, John Wolf. Modern turbine practice and water-power plants. *$4. Van Nostrand.

The author who has designed turbines both in America and in Europe and who has had charge of the hydraulic work in important constructions in Canada, says: “The object of this book is to give such information in regard to modern turbines and their installation as is necessary to the hydraulic engineer in designing a water-power plant, and no attempt has been made to treat of the design of turbines.”

“The celibacy of the Roman Catholic priest; the fact that vows do not make a priest free from temptation; the struggle in a high-minded priest’s nature between right and passion; the serious meaning of duty and renunciation—all these things are clearly set forth. The author has intimate knowledge of the priesthood and has no intention of disrespect to the cloth. Father Tom, the elder of the two priests described, is a capital character—humorous, shrewd, and practical”—Outlook.

“It is one of the strongest pieces of psychological fiction that has appeared in English in many a long month.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

“In his zeal the author has introduced too many mechanical instances for the proving of his cherished point, permitted himself too many passages of didacticism and argument,—so that his novel, strictly speaking, is spoiled.”

“It is a story of considerable power, but its frankness exceeds the bounds of what is artistically permissible.” Wm. M. Payne.

“A book of undoubted intellectual force, and one well written in point of style and manner.”

“He has treated his subject in a bold, firm, unhesitating fashion that lifts it above pruriency and the mire. The literary workmanship is of first quality.”

“The ‘gambler’ is an Irish girl whose father lives fast, gambles frightfully, and dies from an accident in a horse-race. Married to a noble-hearted but tiresome old archaeologist, Clodagh is introduced to some fashionable people in Venice; takes her first plunge into bridge whist and roulette; is solemnly warned by a young man called by his enemies ‘Sir Galahad’ ... withdraws for a time from the giddy whirl; but after her husband’s death plunges into fashionable gambling, compromises herself, though with no evil intentions with a scheming old roué, and is saved from ruin and restored to her eminently respectable lover.”—Outlook.

* “If in no other way, Mrs. Thurston shows plainly that she belongs to the lesser ranks of novelists by the fact that she has not the courage 349to work out the theme of her newest story to a consistent end.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.

* “The interest of this book is rather theatrical than real, and we could imagine it turned into a highly effective play.” Wm. M. Payne.

“The defects of Mrs. Thurston’s literary style and the crudity of her methods are more obvious here than in ‘The masquerader.’”

“Is not inferior in interest to her most widely known novel, while it greatly surpasses its predecessor in the vitality of its characters, the cohesion of its plot, the fidelity of both to possibility and its literary art.”

“The moral lesson is obvious, perhaps too obvious. As a story the book will not compare well in force and originality with ‘The masqueraders.’”

* “While it is not likely to run through as many editions as ‘The masquerader,’ it has a higher ambition than that absorbing modern fairy tale in that it tries to present a serious study of character as well as a series of more or less dramatic incidents.”

The chance meeting in a London fog, of a wealthy member of parliament, who is an opium eater, and a young writer in reduced circumstances, reveals the fact to each that he has a double. This strange revelation is seized upon by the former as a means of providing himself with a political substitute when the craving for the drug is upon him. They change places temporarily with the result that the masquerader wins political distinction and the affections of his double’s alienated wife, who fancies that she has fallen in love with her husband. In the end the drug does its work and the masquerader is made to see that his duty lies in quietly continuing the deception.

“The development of Loder’s character is so well shown and the interest of the story is so great that it is only when the book is finished that we realize the impossibility of the whole thing, an impossibility which militates very strongly against the artistic excellence of the novel.” Mary K. Ford.

“The story is so ingeniously told and cleverly constructed that its very boldness is in a measure justified.” W. M. Payne.

“The author performs the feat of fitting an impossible plot into the realities of daily life, and doing it in a way that deceives the reader and holds his interest—while he reads. There is a sense of strain about the whole thing—the style, as well as the plot, is artificial.”

“The quality of the particular adventure is delicate and perilous and the book’s evasion of pitfalls is not less admirable than its more positive qualities. The critical sense of the reader is stilled by the hypnotic and engrossing nature of the narrative. One is delightfully deluded and beguiled.”

“The ethical problem involved in the secret change of place is solved in a new and eminently sane manner. The gradual disintegration of Chilcote’s character is a strong piece of work, as is likewise the description of Loder’s inner growth.”

Thwaites, Reuben Gold, ed. Early western travels, 1748-1846: a series of annotated reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the aborigines and social and economic conditions in the middle and far West, during the period of early American settlement. 31v. ea. *$4. Clark, A. H.

Thirty-one volumes containing accurate reprints of rare manuscripts. They have been carefully chosen from the mass of material descriptive of travels in the North American interior which this century of continental expansion (1748-1846) provided, and no manuscript has been included unless it possessed permanent historical value. The result is a series which the casual reader will find interesting, and the historian, teacher and scholar, will find invaluable, as it makes available sources of information without which the development of the West, its history and its people cannot be fully understood. The editor has provided numerous footnotes and an introduction to each volume which contains a biographical sketch of the author, an evaluation of the book reprinted and bibliographical data concerning it. The closing volume is devoted to a complete and exhaustive analytical index to the entire series.

“The works included naturally vary in literary merit and attractiveness, but many of them will compare favorably with the better class of modern books of travel, while some, like John Bradbury’s ‘Travels in the interior of America, 1809-11,’ to which vol. V. is devoted, are as fascinating as the best fiction.”

“Much of the material is as entertaining as it is quaint, and will be thoroughly enjoyed by the ordinary reader no less than the specialist.”

“Thus far the whole series of ‘Early western travels’ is worthy of hearty commendation.”

“The present editor has done little for it except provide an introduction and make clear a few points. He corrects a month date in a note, 350but seems unable to insert year dates at all.”

“His story is not often thrilling in its manner of telling, but it has some value as a record of early observation of Indian customs and of the primitive life of white pioneers.”

This tale of the Red Keg lumber region sets well into the foreground the villainy of a country editor whose vicious attacks and blackmailing schemes all but wreck the happiness of a town. The “man from the Red Keg” is one of the many whose reputations have been hammered and slashed by the odious editor of “Chips,” but who determinedly resolves to reform his enemy. He works out his metaphysical problem patiently disregarding the call of his fellow townsmen to deal with the offender summarily, bides his time, and wins his reward.

* “It has all the charm and excitement of an absorbing novel, and the instructive value of a biography.”

Tiffany, Mrs. Nina (Moore), and Tiffany, Francis. Harm Jan Huidekoper. *$2.50. Clarke.

An account of the life of this remarkable Dutch settler, who in 1796 at the age of twenty, landed in New York to seek his fortune and became a pioneer of progress, a philanthropist, and one of the founders of American Unitarianism. There is a full index and genealogy.

“A valuable piece of material for folk-history. Put together from family papers and by several hands, it must be acknowledged that the style of the narrative as a whole has suffered seriously from a literary point of view.”

“Parts of it have a somewhat archaic air. The appendix on the Holland land company should have some historical value.”

“A volume nominally biographical but ... picturing a vanished state of American society.”

“The book is full of instructive and charming reminiscences of those early days.”

Tigert, John James. Christianity of Christ and his apostles. 80c. Pub. house of M. E. ch. So.

Tilghman, Emily (Ursula Tannenforst, pseud.). Thistles of Mount Cedar: a story of school-life for girls. †$1.25. Winston.

Life at Mount Cedar seminary is vividly given in this story of its teachers and its students, their pranks, plays, merriment and misfortunes. Interest centres about the group of girls who call themselves “the thistles,” and especially about the wild little Hungarian, Verena.

“It is most refreshing to stumble over a book that can be safely handled by our children, or our sisters, without fear of antagonizing their morals or giving them a false idea of life in general.”

Tilley, Arthur Augustus. Literature of the French renaissance. *$4.50. Macmillan.

“Mr. Tilley takes as his special field of inquiry the period lying between the date of Francis I.’s accession (1515) and the beginning of Malherbe’s movement (1606) to bring back to rule and order the French language and literature, disorganized, as he believed, by the rioters of the preceding century.... He shows a remarkable familiarity, not only with the important, but practically with all documents, literary or historical, accessible to the contemporary student.” (N. Y. Times). There are chapters on Rabelais, Ronsard, and Montaigne.

“Mr. Tilley’s contribution to the history of the movement is one which merits a high place among its fellows. Bibliographies are becoming fairly common in works of reference, but few of them approach those in this book either in accuracy or wide range of subject. The index is hardly so full as might be desirable.”

“Thorough and scholarly work. Mr. Tilley’s style, which is singularly arid for one who treats literature, is at its worst in his treatment of Regnier. It is a pleasure, therefore, to turn from it to his conclusion, in which he ably sums up the results of his investigation. It is wholly admirable. In thoroughness and accuracy its supersedes all previous work in this department, and it is invaluable to students of this epoch in France. In evaluating influences, he very often makes much of little.” Christian Gauss.

Epigrammatic extracts from the diary of a woman who was born of a distinguished family in Vienna, came to America and “lived and loved and erred.”

* “All of the epigrams are worth reading, even if one does not always agree. The strong personality is pervasive and attractive.”

Tipple, Ezra Squier, ed. See Asbury, Francis. Heart of Asbury’s journal.

“This is a second series of translations from Petrarch—containing ten sonnets, two canzoni, a ballata, and a double sestina.... If they do not succeed in achieving the impossible, that is, in a perfect reproduction of the Petrarchian spirit, they have, at any rate, much of the rare atmosphere which pervades ‘The house of life’ and Rossetti’s translations from the Italian.”—Ath.

“They are all vitiated in the same fashion. Some good lines occur, and we would not deny Miss Tobin the poetic gift; but she should not wrestle with Petrarch except in secret.”

* “Nothing since Christina Rossetti has risen so high in the pure beauty of the sonnet form as these renderings of Petrarch’s impassioned lament.”

A young clergyman of orthodox faith, adored by the women of his congregation and respected by the men, falls in love with the daughter of a member of his church, who puts his wife from him because she could not believe in the fall of man. This daughter is like her mother and in his love for her, the young clergyman resigns his charge and starts forth to build up a new religion founded upon the equality of the sexes. The book closes with the sacrifice of love until this creed shall have become a reality.

“After carefully reading the 337 pages of arguments and rather dreary love story, one is inclined to ask of the author, ‘What’s the use?’”

This volume is one of the handsome but popular priced “Luxembourg” series, and contains Anna Karénina as translated by Nathan Haskell Dole.

Mr. Tomlinson’s third story in his “Colonial series” is based on history centering about the French and Indian war,—the fall of Fort Frontenac and the disaster under Abercrombie at Ticonderoga. The adventures introduce Abercrombie, Howe, Putnam and Montcalm, a young hero Peter van de Bogert, besides hunters, rangers and men prominent in those times.

Tomson, Arthur. Jean-François Millet and the Barbizon school. $2.25. Macmillan.

A new and cheaper edition of a book which describes the life of Millet and his relation to the other painters at Barbizon. It also deals with “the life and work of Jules Dupre, Narcisse-Virgilia Diaz, and Theodore Rousseau, and in a chapter on ‘The influence of the romantic school’ are briefly considered Paul Huet, Charles Jacque, Jules Bréton, Monticelli, Bastien-LePage, Adolphe Hervier, Harpignies, and two or three others. The illustrations number fifty-three, and include examples of some of the best known pictures of the artists studied.”—N. Y. Times.

The captain of a sailing vessel takes his wife and daughter and a young minister on a voyage from the Long island coast to the West Indies. Thomas Medbury, a youth from their home village, who has always loved the girl, seizes the opportunity to ship as mate and in the course of the stormy voyage the captain’s daughter, in the light of great danger, comes to know her own heart.

* “Poet, sailor man, and born storyteller are written large on every page of ‘Under rocking skies,’ and the result is a picture of the sea and life aboard an old-fashioned sailing vessel that charms by its simplicity and absorbs by its vividness and reality.”

* “The author develops a very pretty romance and refreshes us with much charming sea-lore.”

A biography written to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the famous mission to Crimea. The story of that two years’ service which made Miss Nightingale’s name a household word throughout the British empire is fully given, and the dignity which her noble and efficient labors give to the hitherto stigmatized profession of nursing is well described. There is a full account of her life from her birth in Florence, 1820, of her childish ministrations to dolls and animals, her labors in field and hospital, her work for the soldier after her return from the front, her friendships, her literary career, and her life at the present day. There are twenty-two illustrations.

An unsophisticated young millionaire whose fortune was founded upon western beet sugar, comes east to New York and ingenuously relates his experiences. Ridiculed in society, fleeced in his business transactions, the prey of an army of grafters, he ends by marrying the widowed mother of the girl he failed to win.

“The supine insipidity of the hero destroys whatever interest might have been aroused in him at the beginning of the book. A thin plot of sentimentality runs through this recital of Reuben’s adventures.”

Townsend, Fitzhugh. Short course in alternating-current testing. *75c. Van Nostrand.

“Eight sets of experiments are outlined, in each case preceded by a concise discussion of the operating characteristics of the machine in question. They deal with: (1) Properties of circuits; (2) the alternating current generator; (3) the voltage wave of a generator or of a circuit; (4) the transformer (operation, losses and efficiency); (5) the induction motor (operation and efficiency); (6) the synchronous motor (operation and phase characteristic); (7) the rotary converter (operation when driven from either end); and (8) operation of alternators in parallel.”—Engin. N.

Tozier, Josephine. Travelers’ handbook: a manual for Transatlantic tourists. **$1. Funk.

“A little book to be put in the handbag of all who are making their ‘first trip.’ Money values, how to buy tickets, send luggage, to tip the foreign hordes that have to be tipped, to avoid being overcharged by cabmen and hotel clerks ... all these things are intelligently explained, and many little hints given that will grease the wheels of a European trip most acceptably.”—Critic.

“Is one of the most intelligent of its kind. We have detected no error worth noticing in the writer’s advice to travellers.”

The exciting incidents of Mr. Tracy’s new story attend the adventures of two young Englishmen whom fortune has turned loose in the Indian realm of Akbar the Great. Roger Sainton, the giant who is called the man-elephant, and Walter Mobray, quick of wit are a unique pair as they encounter first the favor of Akbar, then the hatred of his son, and finally as they enter the fight for the rescue of the beautiful princess Nur Mahal.

“It will not bear close critical inspection of course—but it will reward reading.”

This volume like Ripley’s “Trusts, pools, and corporations,” is “planned for use specifically as a text-book.... It denotes a deliberate attempt at the application to the teaching of economics of the case system, so long successful in our law books. With this end in view each chapter is intended to illustrate a single, definite, typical phase of the general subject. The primary motive is to further the interests of sound economic teaching with special reference to the study of concrete problems of great public and private interest.” The chapters are selected mainly from economic journals and cover a wide field successfully, while the introduction, index, and cross references render all the material easy of access to the casual reader as well as to the student.

“McAllister’s ‘double’ is a scamp of a valet who gets his master, a blasé clubman, into all sorts of scrapes, and extricates him cleverly at just the right moment.” (Outlook.) Their experiences are here told in eleven independent stories. The volume contains a dozen illustrations.

* “The McAllister stories are entertaining from start to finish, but the other stories in the book, with the possible exception of ‘Extradition’ show a decided falling off.”

“The stories are certainly lively and readable in a high degree, and the book is sure to meet with popular success.”

“A reprint of war memoranda by a late brevet brigadier-general, major, aide-de-camp in the United States volunteers, originally published in sundry journals, and now reprinted in response to frequent requests, with an additional chapter compiled from official records and an appendix containing further interesting matter. The illustrations are a portrait of Sheridan, a map of the Appomattox campaign, and a picture of the holding up of Lee’s supply train.”—Critic.

“A sprightly and vivid account of the operations which brought that war to a close. An unusually valuable compilation of contemporary notes. Sheridan’s work in weaving the final toils around the fated Confederacy is here graphically narrated.”

“Valuable as a historical record, the volume has also the merit of a personal story charmingly and unaffectedly told that will make it of interest not only to the participants in the campaign, but to those thousands of others who like to read the stories of battles fought and victories won. So complete, so personal, and so interesting.”

“This is a new edition of Archbishop Trench’s well-known book published many years ago. Emendations and corrections are supplied by Dr. A. Smythe Palmer, though surprisingly few of these have been found necessary.”—Outlook.

“The editor has very seldom laid himself open to criticism, and has performed a task which cannot have been light with care, tact, and skill.”

“Dr. Palmer ... has done his work carefully without insulting his author’s memory.”

A thorogoing text book containing a condensed account of the development of American literature, rather than a series of essays on leading American authors. The study is presented with marginal topics, and has at the end of each chapter a bibliography which has been based upon the equipments of the average school library, and which also contains helps for further study.

“It is marked by some errors of perspective and emphasis, by a certain indiscriminateness and at the same time a curious timidity of judgment, and also by a peculiar dryness; but it shows also a rather unusual first-hand knowledge of the facts and an equally unusual orderliness and lucidity in disposing of them.”

“The author has restricted himself to the limitations of immature pupils, and has tactfully written on the level of their comprehension.”

Trent, William Peterfield. Greatness in literature, and other papers. **$1.20. Crowell.

Eight papers which are designed especially for “those interested in the problems that confront the critic and the teacher of literature,” but which will not fail to claim a larger audience by reason of their timeliness, and their sane, wholesome, and thoroly delightful treatment. The first paper takes up the question of, Greatness in literature; the second gives, A word for the smaller authors and for popular judgment; then follow, The aims and methods of literary study; Criticism and faith; Literature and science; Teaching literature; Some remarks on modern book-burning; and The love of poetry.

* “Though Professor Trent is a very clear and fluent writer, there is a certain lack of savor, of closeness of grain, in his style.”

Altho the Intention Has Been That of Furnishing Supplementary Reading for Students, Professor Trent Has Prepared an Instructive Book for General Use. the Literature of Representative Writers Of the South Has Been Divided Into Three Periods: 1607-1789, the Literature of the Colonies and the Revolution, Including Records Taken From 353diaries of colonial gentlemen; 1790-1865, the literature of the Old South, including speeches by distinguished southern statesmen; and 1866-1905, the literature of the New South, reflecting the spirit of the literary renaissance.

“On the whole a praiseworthy effort, and in the main a successful effort, to redeem the South from the charge of actual literary sterility.”

“The book is open to the criticism that it tends to foster the provincial illusion that the larger the number of names the greater the repute of the locality. For reference it is valuable, and appears to be well done.”

“May be confidently recommended to all students of American literature, North or South.”

“This volume has a distinct educational quality for the average Northern reader. He will find it in many things of permanent value and much that will delight and inspirit him.”

“This is the latest volume in the ‘American sportsman’s library.’ ... The author has supplied the book with pictures of some of the best known racers and other ‘thoroughbred’ horses. He opens it with a chapter entitled ‘Whence the American thoroughbred?’”—N. Y. Times.

“An important contribution to our knowledge of the ancestry of the American race horse.”

“Interesting and useful, though ... marred by typographical errors in the names of both horses and owners that ought not to mar such volumes.” Charles Tracy Bronson.

This fifth volume of a series of six, covering the history of England from earliest times down to 1875, is the first to be issued. It is written by the grand-nephew of Lord Macaulay, whose influence is noticeable thruout the work. The first two chapters give an account of England at the time of the accession of James I. “He develops at the outset the thesis on which his entire monograph rests—that the significance of the Stuart epoch lies in the fact that whereas the continental people of Europe attained nationality only through military despotism, the English people under the Stuarts solved the same problem unconsciously through a free constitution, manifesting and vindicating itself in the face of monarchial despotism.... His personal portraits are marked by fairness and breadth of view, this being notably the case with the pictures of the first James, the second Charles, Cecil, Laud, Strafford, and Pym. The first Charles and Cromwell are limned less distinctly, being thrust, as it were, into the background of the tremendous upheavals of their day.” (Outlook). “The general purpose of the book is to bring the social and religious aspects into connection with the political.” (Bookm.)

“He has given us not so much a history, in the ordinary sense of the word, as a sustained, and luminous commentary upon history, high-toned and impartial; and the general excellence of its purely literary qualities is, so to speak, picked out by not infrequent passages of real and picturesque eloquence. It is a fine example of selection and condensation.”

“Mr. Trevelyan’s volume is a piece of special pleading throughout.” Edward Puller.

“By blending fact and analysis, creates a picture impressive in its outline and suggestive in its language and ideas.” E. D. Adams.

“His style is decidedly rhetorical, quick with sincerity and atmosphere and of a noteworthy picturesqueness. His scholarship is undoubted, wide and careful reading being coupled with a discriminative use of authorities.”

* “Is one of the best pieces of historical writing that has appeared in recent years.”

“This book brings sound scholarship, sensitiveness of temperament, and breadth of outlook to bear upon an historical theme of perennial importance.”

“The book ... is evidently an attempt to combine what may be called the Green and the Traill methods. The early part of his volume might be termed an abstract of Gardiner, while the latter is merely a summary of Macaulay with improvements. This strict restriction to the political history in the latter part of the book is especially unfortunate. Altogether, Mr. Trevelyan’s treatment of Cromwell is scarcely illuminating, either on the military or the religious side. Allowing for his plan, is carried out with a skill and ability worthy of his family tradition, but the plan, I must still contend, is a faulty one.” Joseph Jacobs.

“Succeeds in interpreting the period ... in terms at once attractive and convincing. His style is that of the picturesque school, his treatment that of the philosophic, a combination calculated to produce excellent results. This must be accounted a work of high merit, embodying the results of the latest research and developed along sound lines.”

A new edition in three volumes of a work which originally appeared in two parts. It is issued now with a new preface, a portrait of the author, and some revision and rearrangement. “The special features of this history are the fullness with which it brings out English sentiment before and during the Revolutionary period, and the clearness with which it presents the Revolutionary struggle as a part of the great fight for Liberalism in England.” (Outlook.)

“It is certain that, as far as the revision goes, the author has left uncorrected several mistakes of which he had been duly apprised, in all three volumes.”

“[The revisions] have been performed in a truly careful and judicious manner. “As our recent notice called attention to some uncorrected errors, it is only fair to say that many others in part I. have been expelled.””

“This may be described as a lyrical-dramatic fragment ... the theme of which is drawn 354from those Graal romances which furnished Wagner’s great music-drama.... The writer’s task is to make us feel the dread and impressiveness of a curse denounced by ... the Graal and its vague ... priestly knighthood; and to move us by the sorrows and interior struggles of the dim figures affected by that curse.”—Acad.

“Mr. Trevelyan has poetic feeling and a measure of accomplishment. But his resources are not equal to the ambitious demands of poetic passion and imagination which he makes upon them.”

“Of more than ordinary merit. It is to Mr. Trevelyan’s credit that there are no purple patches.”

“Mr. Trevelyan has used, to his own loss, the dramatic form for a poem that is never dramatic. The poem as a whole will disappoint those who know Mr. Trevelyan’s earlier work.”

* “If it does not rise to any great heights, at least is free from the faults of much of the blank verse put forth at the present time.”

Treves, Sir Frederick. Other side of the lantern: an account of a commonplace tour around the world. $5. Cassell.

The other side of the lantern, as seen by the king’s physician, is not bright. His story is tinged by the sadness of the scenes he saw by sick beds and in hospitals, but what he saw, he saw clearly and describes with color, charm and reality. He tells of Gibraltar, Crete, Port Said, India, Burma, China and Japan, and gives a few words to America, which he visited on his way home.

“The point of view is that of a cultivated man of the world who is able to set his impressions down in excellent English, and the result is thoroughly readable.” Wallace Rice.

“The book is both trivial and ordinary, pictures and all. Those who like the commonplace may enjoy this book.”

“A book written in terse and epigrammatic style, as full of cleverness as anything written by Kipling, and intensely interesting. But there is nothing deeper in the book than first impressions. It is the best book of travel that has been written for years.” T. H. H.

“... So vivid are the pictures which the traveller draws for us, so penetrating his criticism of life and manners. It is the chapters on Japan that we find the most interesting part of a highly interesting book. We have to thank Sir Frederick Treves for a quite admirable volume of travel.”

Trident and the net: a novel, by the author of The martyrdom of an empress. *$1.50. Harper.

“The book is simply the life-story of a Breton nobleman, of violent passions and astounding inability to avoid the paths of obvious folly. It begins by depicting his unregulated childhood in Brittany, describes his later career as a deserter from the French navy, a wanderer over many seas and lands, and a victim of a vulgar ‘liaison,’ and ends in a squalid lodging-house in New York, where he lies desperately ill of pneumonia.”—Dial.

“We close it with a sense of exasperation at the recklessness of its composition and its wasteful use of what might have been the material of an admirable work.” Wm. M. Payne.

“A new edition of a very interesting book by one of the most industrious and in many ways one of the most successful novelists of the past generation, printed and bound in a style uniform with the excellent edition of Trollope’s novels issued by the same publishers.”—Outlook.

Mr. Trollope “has collected his information from unimpeachable sources, he has translated this material into English, combining with it lengthy criticisms upon the plays; and the result is a very bulky volume.... As the book possesses a moderately good index, it forms a useful compendium, a summary of the information at present existing concerning Molière and his immediate entourage.”—Acad.

* “It is not a biography to which a reader will turn again and again for the mere pleasure of reading it; it is almost impossible to read it for long because of its weight, the dull, uninteresting appearance of the page, and more fatal objection still, the heavy, horizontal style in which it is written. The volume would have gained vastly had it been ruthlessly cut down to half its present size.”

* “It is with honest regret that a reviewer is forced to record his opinion that this biography of Mr. Trollope’s is not worthy of its theme, and that the biographer has been unable to rise to the height of his subject. So far as the mere compilation of the facts is concerned, it is possible to praise the book, although not without many reservations in matters of detail. But he has not succeeded in casting any new light on the facts, and he has failed totally to evoke the noble figure of Molière himself and to make us realize the real achievements of the greatest of comic dramatists.” Brander Matthews.

A dramatic poem in blank verse which gives a version of the story of Endymion and the moon goddess.

“There seems, to us, in the choice of theme and in its treatment, a true revival of essential poesy, opulent, free, unclouded by psychological problem or symbol-compelling obscurity.” Edith M. Thomas.

“Through the major part of the long piece the princess has written admirable blank verse.”

“There is no demand upon intense sympathies, the story is well and swiftly told, and the poetry fulfills at least two-thirds of Milton’s requirement.”

“The story is told with the real poet’s rapture in rhythm and in delicately tinted phrase. Its cadences are true and songful, its imagery fresh in conception and vista-opening.”

“A plain story, well told, of the old merchant-captains who used to sail square-rigged vessels out of the Massachusetts port to the East Indies, a hundred years or so ago; and of later voyages, 355down to the decline and extinction of that once-flourishing industry.... The text is freely illustrated. The portraits of some of these marine worthies are of more than passing interest. That of Capt. Joseph Peabody (1757-1844), for instance.... There are several pictures of ships.”—Nation.

“A book containing much curious and interesting matter ... served up with a generous pictorial accompaniment.”

“As a whole this rambling volume has little to attract and nothing to hold the general reader.”

“The field of narration is not extensive, and the subject is treated with all the fulness it deserves. The writer commands an excellent style.”

“The author seems to have made a faithful study of the documentary materials, and the result is a book of no little historical and biographical value.”

Trumbull, Charles Gallaudet. Pilgrimage to Jerusalem; Pilgrim’s ed. $2.50. S. S. Times co.

An account is here given of the “cruise of the delegates to the World’s Sunday-school convention held in Jerusalem and of the travels of the members of the party elsewhere.” (Outlook.)

Tschudi, Clara. Maria Sophia, queen of Naples; tr. from the Norwegian by Ethel Harriet Hearn. $2.50. Dutton.

Miss Tschudi now adds a new name to her galaxy of queens. In the present biography, the author misses the fine perspective possible in the case of her “Marie Antoinette,” and “Queen Elizabeth.” Yet she has given a dramatic and sympathetic account with sufficient accuracy to make it acceptable of the woman whom Daudet immortalized after a distinctive fashion in his “Kings in exile.” While on the one hand it seems an indignity to one living to have a panorama of the details of private life thrust before her, the book is of atoning interest as a study of the events leading to the downfall of the Italian Bourbons.

“The book is entertaining and has less of cloying sweetness than most women’s books of its brand.”

“Told about it in not too picturesque phrase, and in sometimes slovenly style—but this may be due to the translator rather than to the author.”

“All unconsciously the Radical parson reveals to us in this book a very charming and thoroughly human personality. A college don, a schoolmaster, and then, in later years, the incumbent of a college living, Mr. Tuckwell first attracted public attention by his unconventional methods of working his parish.... He was getting on in years before he delivered his first political speech, though ... he had delivered nearly a thousand orations before he decided to retire.... There are many political reminiscences of Gladstone, and indeed of many other famous men.”—Acad.

“The combination of scholarly polish, graceful wit, and hard common sense in the author of this veracious and on the whole convincing narrative, is very pleasing.” Percy F. Bicknell.

“Mr. Tuckwell writes with a vigor and a directness, and a positive candor, and an intensity of conviction that make interesting reading.”

Tuker, M. A. R., and Malleson, Hope. Rome: painted by Alberta Pisa. *$6. Macmillan.

Seventy fine pieces of color-work by Alberta Pisa serve to illustrate the twelve chapters upon Rome, her buildings, catacombs, people, religion and the Roman question before 1870 and since that year.

“It is good to meet with an artist who will see Rome for himself and paint her as he sees her, even though there be some little discrepancy between text and illustrations. Even so, this book is one of the best in all this fine series.”

* “Altogether, it is a book to be read, for breadth of view and depth of sympathy. There is but little complaint to make on the score of inaccuracies.”

“The illustrations are offered as the chief reason for the book’s existence; and they are certainly fascinating. But the text is no less valuable, and is its own excuse for being.”

“In the main they have the readable quality, and offer a good many acceptable views of the customs, traditions, and daily life of the people of Rome.”

Turbayne, A. A. Alphabets and numerals designed and drawn by A. A. Turbayne. *$2. Van Nostrand.

Twenty-seven full-page plates which give “severe readable types” of letters and numbers. They have been designed “for the designer or craftsman to copy, alter, and arrange in their handicraft after their own fancy,” and they are based upon old Roman, Gothic, and Italic forms.

“One of the best books for practical purposes that we have had before us for a long time.”

“A splendid and inspiring vade mecum for the artistic ‘letterer,’ whether engaged in designing posters, advertisements, or elaborate lettered signs.”

Turner, Harry Winthrop, and Hobart, Henry Metcalf. Insulation of electric machines. $4.50. Macmillan.

This book is “the result of twenty years of practical work.... Among the topics discussed are some properties of insulating materials, the insulation on ‘magnet wires’ employed in armature and field windings, mica and mica compounds, drying insulations, taping machines and 356tapes and bands, transformer insulation, impregnated cloths and fabrics, oil for insulating, &c. There are a bibliography and an index, a large number of diagrams, plans ... tables and footnotes. The book appears in the ‘Specialists’ series.”—N. Y. Times.

“It will be welcomed by the electrical engineer as a most valuable addition to his library.” Ernest Wilson.

Turner, Henry Gyles. History of the colony of Victoria from its discovery to its absorption into the commonwealth of Australia. $7. Longmans.

“The history begins with an unsuccessful attempt to found a convict settlement at Fort Philip, and carries the story of Victoria down to the end of the nineteenth century.... The municipal history and the astonishing growth of Melbourne ... are particularly well told. The same may be said of the chapters dealing with the discoveries of gold and with the political and social turmoil which the discovery of gold entailed; also of those describing the methods of parceling out government lands, ... the causes of the panic and the financial disasters of 1890-1893, and ... the long-drawn-out agitation which finally led to the establishment of the Australian commonwealth. There is an admirable index.”—Am. Hist. R.

“Mr. Turner’s work is obviously that of an old settler—a labor of love on which many years have been spent. Regarded as such, his history of Victoria is well done, and far above the average of colonial histories written from this standpoint. It is written in a good clear style, and generally carries the marks of much industry and care. While few but specialists will be likely to read Mr. Turner’s two volumes from beginning to end, they contain much that is of value and usefulness to more general students, and especially to students who are interested in the various new phases of democratic government as it has been developed in Victoria.” Edward Porritt.

“Mr. Turner is more at home in dealing with politicians than with the natural features of the country, so that, while the early history can be perhaps read with more profit elsewhere, the political story from 1850 downwards is told with great trenchancy and knowledge.” H. E. E.

“Their sustained interest depends on the fact that he is in truth no mere chronicler of passing events, but a reflective historian. It is plainly and frankly critical.”

Six papers comprising the matter originally given in a series of lectures at the University of Chicago. Their object is “to illustrate by the study of a few examples, chosen almost at random, the variety in character of astronomical discoveries.” The subjects treated are: “Uranus and Eros,” “The discovery of Neptune,” “Bradley’s discoveries of the aberration of light and of the mutation of the earth’s axis,” “Accidental discoveries,” “Schwabe and the sun spot period,” and “The variation of latitude.”

“The book is readable and interesting; and also accurate and trustworthy, as much ‘readable’ popular science is not. Judged according to its scope and purpose, there is little fault to be found with the book.” C. A. Y.

“There is ample internal evidence, not only that the lectures were carefully prepared, but also of judicious selection. The second chapter or lecture is probably the least satisfactory in the book.” W. E. P.

“Even to a non-scientific reader, and to the amateur of astronomy the book should prove absorbing.”

“Apart from such bearing as it may have on the philosophy of discovery Professor Turner’s book gives excellent accounts of several interesting chapters of astronomic history.”

Tweedie, Ethel B. (Harley) (Mrs. Alec. Tweedie). Sunny Sicily. *$5. Macmillan.

An Englishwoman’s observations of Sicily, “its rustics and its ruins,” as they now are. Descriptions of real Sicilian eating-houses, market places, lotteries, the Mafia, the superstitions of the evil eye, Sicilian theatres, etc. There is also a brief Sicilian history and an account of various visits to places of interest. The volume is illustrated with photographs and a map.

“Mrs. Tweedie is certainly flippant, with a recklessly slipshod style, many inaccurate statements, and spelling that is peculiar either to her or to her printer. Is valuable as a sort of ‘chatty’ Baedeker, being not only readable, but full of practical hints for the travellers who may be attracted by it to this wonderful island.”

“Provides in a very informal and personal way both information and entertainment.”

“Though by no means so erudite, the present volume, in actual information as to present conditions, is worthy of a place alongside that standard work, Mr. Paton’s ‘Picturesque Sicily.’”

“She has the delightful, but uncommon, quality of an entertaining style wedded to a real knowledge of how to tell a story.”

“Miss Twigg’s ... muse belongs frankly to Ireland. The hills, the sea, the bogs, the sunset and the dawn, she celebrates in verse that is sincere and frequently moving. She ... sings only the earthly charms of the green island. The sky and the soil breathe beatitudes for her, and she beholds the flowers and cliffs and fields through an atmosphere of golden sentiment.”—N. Y. Times.

“It takes a well-nigh perfect ear for music to write such verse as this. We may well be glad that it is so spontaneous and unaffected, so free from bookishness and imitative endeavors.” Wm. M. Payne.

A story of cosmopolitan Washington of no particular time or administration which weaves mystery into a strange mixture of love, intrigue and credulity. The wife of the secretary of state plays with fire thru her traitorous delivery of valuable state papers into the hands of a Russian diplomat. How she manages to come thru apparently unharmed, and how the count relinquishes his villainy in a very un-Russian like manner are strangely at variance with the expected outcome that might require retributive punishment. The khedive’s opals owned by the secretary’s wife flash a sympathetic accompaniment to her heart moods all thru.

* “The conversation is lifelike and the characters are distinctly individualized. An entertaining novel burdened by no especial problem.”

After announcing in his preface that his book will come as a shock to some very sincere friends of Russia and that the facts he reveals are authentic altho they “do not make pretty reading” the author proceeds to give “a series of brilliant pictures, written manifestly from the standpoint of the revolutionist and lashing furiously the heads of the Russian state.” (Pub. Opin.)

“Though not without its faults, it has the conspicuous merits of being clearly and forcefully written and of leaving a series of definite impressions on the mind of the reader.”

“The book is not without value for him who can sift the facts from the fiction and the denunciation; but it is altogether untrustworthy, and cannot but mislead the untrained reader.” Charles H. Cooper.

“The historical portion is full of inaccuracies. Having warned our readers that Dr. Ular’s statements require confirmation, we must admit that his book is interesting and suggestive, that his knowledge is considerable, that his view of M. Witte’s regime appears to us to be very just, and that the remarkable story of the elaborate ‘oligarchic’ intrigue which eventually led to the war in the Far East certainly contains an element of truth.”

“People who like to read strong statements couched in language which is plain to the verge of violence at times, and never courteous, will thoroughly enjoy Mr. Ular’s arraignment of everybody and everything in Russia—save, possibly, the revolutionists.”

“The rashness of language which makes the book particularly readable serves, of course, to discredit it as a serious study—but it is infinitely suggestive.”

“It is certain Mr. Ular’s readers—if he has any—will not take him sufficiently seriously to experience any shocks but those of contempt.”

“Much of his work is of value, but we confess that his account of the characters of the Emperor and his Court does not convince us. It is so full of a lurid sensationalism that it fails of its purpose.”

An imaginative story which dwells experimentally upon the transition from life to death, and upon reincarnation. A little slum-child dies in a hospital, carrying a vague consciousness of his earthly existence to the Gray world of spirits. The awful terrors of the new realm crowd in around him until his soul cries for release. So he goes back to the world as the son of a London tradesman—bewildered, as once more a new consciousness dawns, in the process of unifying his former existence, his world of spirits, and the present life. The book follows the development of this being thru the struggle to conquer the Gray world and its depression. The book is unusual, with language and scheme wholly in keeping with the vague, and the unreal which envelop it.

“Her book, then, is not only readable, but gives rise to that intelligent form of gratitude which has been defined as a lively sense of favors to come.”

“A book of unusual imaginative quality, but too morbid to win a general popularity. The volume is a very curious and unique psychological study, along the borderline of madness.”

“It is intensely serious, no doubt, but it is also animated and even enlivened by touches of a highly effective humor.” W. M. Payne.

“A weird and fantastic story. The best thing in the book is the pathos of the description of the unrestful ghosts.”

“The earthly side of the book is as original as the spiritual, though far less attractive.”

A genial, slangy, and withal good-hearted drummer “spills” his inmost thoughts into the white pages of this book. He jauntily tells of many happenings so peculiar that as the news of each of them reaches Mame, his queen, she promptly breaks off her engagement. Each chapter chronicles a spicy adventure, a break, a reconciliation, but in the end Mame seems thoroughly convinced that her drummer is a hero.

United States. Library of Congress. Catalog of the Gardiner Greene Hubbard collection of engravings; presented to the Library of Congress by Mrs. Gardiner Greene Hubbard. Lib. of Congress.

“The plan of the compilation was very generous, and included the catalogue proper of engravers, and index of engravers under a chronological scheme, by centuries, an index of artists, a portrait index, and a list of authorities.... The collection was presented to the nation in 1898 by Mrs. Hubbard, and in default of a national art gallery the Library of Congress was the most fitting place of deposit.... The editor of the volume is Arthur Jeffrey Parsons, who is in charge of the collection.”—Nation.

“No similar catalogue exists of an American collection of engravings; it will, therefore, prove a convenient book of reference for collectors.”

United States. Library of Congress. Some papers laid before the Continental Congress, 1775. 15c. Supt. of doc.

The papers here published are: The declaration on taking arms, July 6, 1775; Franklin’s Articles of Confederation, July 21, 1775; Reports on the Trade of America, July 21, October 2, and October 13, 1775; Report on Lord North’s motion, and reports on the committees on Recess and Unfinished business.

“The value of the pamphlet lies principally in the care which has been taken to show the evolution of the final document in each case from the first draft through the intermediate forms.”

In this new edition of “The city,” a poem-drama in which Abgar, King of Edessa, in the sixteenth year of the reign of Tiberius is cured of his infirmity thru a message from the great Healer crucified at Jerusalem, the author has made a few changes which, while they add to the poetic effect of his work, do not detract from the dramatic strength. The volume also includes Octaves in an Oxford garden, written under the spell of the things of which he sings, and some two-score sonnets, upon such widely different topics as Sultan’s bread, Mona Lisa, The Rezzonico palace and our own Wheat elevators and The statue of liberty.

* “Has something of the cool charm that springs from the imitation of Greek models together with appeal that inheres in a Christian theme. It never, however, attains any considerable tragic power.”

The latest doings of that marvelous man, Monsieur H. V., are chronicled in this volume, in which he himself tells of his adventures when sent to Russia by England in the hope of averting war. He carried a peace message from the Czar to the Mikado, was adopted into the Japanese royal family, returned to Russia and after barely escaping death at the hands of various enemies he succeeded in stealing a torpedo boat from the Kaiser for which he was forgiven when his mission became known. The beautiful and desperate Princess Y— has an important role in this intimate story of courts and rulers.

These two brothers are each half of a complete whole, they succeed together, each fails alone. Archibald, strong and magnetic, delivers the sermons written by his weak and stammering brother, and by their spiritual and intellectual force he wins Betty Kirtling, who discovers after she has married him, that it is his brother whom she loves.

“The book is free from annoying defects, has a well-sustained interest, and may be accounted a worthy addition to the season’s output.”

The fourth edition of this handbook has been brought down to date and an additional chapter on “Statutory powers” included.

“The author gives sensible advice, and his little volume should be found very useful to those for whom it is written.” C. S.

This story of a woman of moods, the daughter of a Pennsylvania iron master, who married a young mining engineer, regretted it, left him, and later awoke to the realization that she loved him, is also the story of the mines, the iron workers, and the blast furnace.

“A leisurely and very charming picture of a Quaker settlement in Pennsylvania in 1856.”

“It is a pleasure to notice a romance of American life so instinct with artistic, literary and scientific excellence as ‘Hecla Sandwith.’ Here speaks the poet, the historian and the psychologist.”

“The chief fault of the book is lack of concentration.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

“There is too much narrative here. The descriptions of nature are poetic, the minor characters are particularly well drawn, and many of the pictures linger in the memory.”

“The story is a long one, and not firmly knit together. A book that preserves with almost photographic fidelity the manners and customs of a time fully departed.”

“The book has the merit of careful husbandry in an unworked field, and it is well written; a novel of unusual power and interest.”

“It is unevenly written. But, on the whole, the sense of the art of literature is so high and fine and the adhesion to this sense so accurate and faithful, that the entire result should be greeted as a reawakening among us. There are pages that any novelist, living or dead, might have been glad to claim.” James Lane Allen.

“Charming style, keen powers of analysis, and skill in snapshot portraiture as well, characterize this study.”

Vance, Louis Joseph. Terence O’Rourke, gentleman adventurer. †$1.50. Wessels.

Terence O’Rourke, an Irish gentleman and soldier, in the capacity of commissioned defender—tho backed by the courage and chivalry which make an undertaking his own affair—arrays himself in a series of adventures against unscrupulous, even villainous royalty. Thru his quick wit and marked swordsmanship he rights the wrongs of good women, at last winning for himself the love of the princess for whom most of his battles are fought.

“Readers of many and varied tastes will delight in the author’s fertile imagination and the ever-ready humor which produces and disposes of Terence’s trials and tribulations.”

“In part a posthumous work; a charming review of the principal events of the third republic as seen in the men and events of the times.... We have a glimpse behind the scenes, and ... we are brought into such intimate relations with the actors that we are able to form for ourselves a clear and accurate conception of the motives that caused the movement that led to the establishment of the third republic. We are introduced to Thiers and Gambetta.... But it is idle to mention by names the great Frenchmen who appear in the pages of the work; suffice it to say that none of those who were prominent in the days following the downfall of Louis Napoleon are neglected, much less omitted.”—Baltimore Sun.

“Much that is here said about the iniquities of French political life may be quite true, and the book, taken in small quantities at a time, is not devoid of a certain interest. But a rigorous criticism would show that the historian must quote it, if at all, with care.”

“A contribution to its history and chronology, based upon armorial specimens.” This is a small quarto containing 34 plates illustrating pieces taken from many public and private collections. There is a brief general treatise which, while stating frankly that material for a history is lacking, gives much historical information. There is a full description of some of the plates.

“This is the first orderly and intelligent treatise devoted to it. Goes far to supply the obvious need of a manual.”

“A group of twelve essays and addresses, which may be generally characterized as the creed or confession of an idealist, and an application of his principles to life.”—Outlook.

“These essays bear his stamp. They are not written solely for scholars. They are easily understandable, readable, while his ‘sane idealism’ shines through them all.”

“The thirteenth edition of a well-known series of essays arranged in the form of a holiday book illustrated with most agreeable drawings by F. Walter Taylor.” (Critic.) The volume contains beside the title essay: The thrilling moment; Talkability; A wild strawberry; Lovers and landscape; A fatal success; Fishing in books; A Norwegian honeymoon; Who owns the mountains? A lazy, idle book; The open fire; A slumber song.

Van Dyke, Henry, ed. Little masterpieces of English poetry, by British and American authors; ed. by Henry van Dyke, assisted by Hardin Craig. 6v. ea. **75c; set, **$4.50. Doubleday.

“A companion to the ‘Science,’ ‘Fiction’ and ‘Humor’ series.... For the many ... such a collection as this, wisely selected, and adapted to the limits of both time and purse of the average reader, is of real and not inconsiderable value.” (Outlook.) “In the first of the six little volumes we find ballads old and new, in the second, idyls and stories in verse, and in the four remaining volumes lyrics, odes, sonnets and epigrams; descriptive and reflective verse; and elegies and hymns. Each of these major divisions is subdivided according to subjects. Living poets are excluded.” (Critic.)

* “The principle of arrangement followed in this new one is as excellent as it is novel. As a rule, admirable judgment has been shown in combining these handy volumes, the most remarkable defect being the omission of Shelley’s ‘Adonais.’”

* “Dr. van Dyke’s name is a sufficient guarantee of the excellence of the selection.”

A collection of poems which take many forms and follow many themes. The opening “Ode to music” is followed by sonnets, lyrics, and other verses treating of the open, the silent hills, and the hearth and home.

“Dr. Van Dyke’s work is that of a scholar in poetry endowed with a graceful gift of lyric speech.” Ferris Greenslet.

“They are delicate and graceful in workmanship, the expression of a refined and sensitive poetic instinct rather than the outpourings of a creative mood.”

* “In spite of his popularity even Dr. van Dyke, who attempts to supply our want of a reflective poet, leaves much to be desired in depth and significance.”

“There is much that is charming and appealing in these verses. From first to last there is evidence of an unusual gift for verbal music. If they are a little too honeyed, too academic, they are also the production of a skillful artificer in words and of a mind of high culture and high ideals.”

In this thin little volume is “eloquently expressed an optimism based, not on temperament, but on faith in character, discernment of the spiritual possibilities of life, and sound judgment of ethical values.” (Outlook.)

“The characteristic charm of Dr. van Dyke’s former works is extended to the present volume.”

Four essays for the Christmas tide. The first, “A dream story,” shows how power and knowledge are both insufficient to reclaim the world from sin, but that the secret of success lies in greater love; the second, “Christmas giving and Christmas living,” offers helpful suggestions on the spirit of giving; the third, “Christmas keeping,” shows the possible purification in the Christmas thought; and the two Christmas prayers make a plea for the home and the lonely ones.

* “Full of Dr. van Dyke’s spirit of helpfulness, and pervaded by the very human charm of his style.”

Professor van Dyke’s survey embraces “the England, Germany, and Italy of the sixteenth century. His concern is primarily with three individuals—Pietro Aretino, the Venetian satirist; Thomas Cromwell, the unscrupulous minister of the still less scrupulous Henry VIII., and the Emperor Maximilian I.—but the standpoint from which they are regarded is such as to necessitate a close examination of their times.”—Outlook.

* “His book appears to have been printed without the proofs being read, though this appearance 360may be due to the author’s own style, which is vicious.”

* “The results, not the details, of research are here exhibited, and in a setting of idea which gives color and meaning and movement.”

“A novel with a ‘poor white trash’ mill-girl heroine, and a dissipated labor agitator for hero, does not sound promising.” (Outlook.) It “is clearly meant as a tract on industrial conditions in the new South.... [It] pictures the life of the factory hands in the cotton mills—a life ... which is mainly sickness, suffering and death. There is much in the book to arouse sober thought, and certain passages are rich in description and characterization.” (Pub. Opin.)

“Apart from errors in style, and, here and there, in feeling, there is a capacity to portray life which shows real power.”

“Is not a strong story, though it shows in places, the wish, if not the power, to say something vital about love and life and death.”

“Interesting and good work, although its story is improbable and over weighted with propagandist theories and statistics.”

“In ‘Amanda of the mill’ she does not control her material; it controls her. Over-seriousness forces her into melodrama, with improbabilities that were never intended.”

“Mr. Vardon has four times won the open championship of Great Britain and once the American championship. There is no doubt, therefore, that he knows how to play golf; and this book proves that he knows how to tell others how to do it.” (Outlook.) The book is amply illustrated.

“Will be read with unusual interest as being the work of one who is not only original in his methods and fascinating in his style, but also perhaps the most finished and graceful player that has ever lived.”

“It is a very good book. He never leaves one in doubt as to his meaning, and he brings to the succour of his pen a pleasant geniality and optimism.”

“Vardon’s manner of writing is as straightforward and interesting as his manner of playing golf.”

“He has accomplished what has often been called the impossible, the writing of a helpful book in an entertaining manner by one who is an acknowledged expert of the game.” F. W. C.

“His descriptions of his style are simple, clear, and interesting, and his stories of experiences on the links in this country, England, and Scotland are rarely entertaining. His book is full of valuable hints, not only for the novice, but for the experienced golfer as well.”

“The work deals rather with the methods of modern financiering and the quest of profit rather than with the other less prominent commercial data. If we have to choose between the ten chapters of which the volume consists, we should particularly recommend the last five as appealing more generally to the unbiased reader.... The first five seem rather to lead up to the others, and to be an attempt at more technical and erudite writing. Much is new of what the author says about crises.... The ‘Theory of modern welfare,’ ... the significance for the business world at large of the advance in workingmen’s wages, ... and the theory of wasteful expenditure” are fully treated. “The excellent remarks (pp. 319, 320) about business thinking, and the equally keen observation about the absence of thrift among the modern industrial workmen and its causes (pp. 325-27) are among the most timely in the book.... The points of interest are many, and it is to be regretted that we cannot here call attention to all of them.”—J. Pol. Econ.

“The book lacks the desirable quality of terseness and the writer at times wanders from the main line of his subject. A commendable feature is the formulation of many of his statements in symbols of mathematics, which are not incorporated into the text, but in foot-notes.” John C. Duncan.

“Professor Veblen has a preternaturally vivid insight into the pathological side of business and society: and he follows remorselessly the poisoned tract which his critical scalpel has discovered. And yet, despite the fact that the author’s attitude renders the highest approval of either the scientific or the ethical standpoint impossible, the book is an uncommonly suggestive one. The penetrating glance into certain broad and seamy aspects of our industrial life prompts to a reflective testing of one’s social beliefs and ideals.” Winthrop More Daniels.

“Professor Veblen, except in his satiric moods, tends to an oracular and often to a tortuous mode of expression. By reason of its many evidences of keen and profound thought, of a high grade of scholarship and of a breadth and sureness of vision, the book is notable among recent contributions to economics; and tho its usual style is difficult, it is yet penetrated by flashes of inimitable satiric wit that is delightful.”

“Our objection to this work ... is ... the constant use of terms which to the lay mind seem unnecessarily studied and anachronistic. The excellent qualities of scholarly reasoning and scientific demonstration which characterize this book, besides the author’s wide acquaintance with the existing economic literature....” A. M. Wergeland.

“Such a theory as is here set forth may impress the readers of sensational magazines: but it is a travesty of economics and an unjust aspersion of our business morality.”

An American girl in modern Venice sets her two lovers the task of bringing to her a casket of jewels which disappeared five centuries before. One man is an Italian duke, the other an American. With the girl as the prize, the search for the jewels soon results in a series of complicated and exciting adventures, but at last by the aid of an old and intricate clock, which is itself the key, the jewels come to the girl, and the girl to the man she loves.

361“It is mysterious without being sensational, sparkling without being trashy.”

Views of early New York; with illustrative sketches; prepared for the New York chapter of the colonial order of the Acorn. priv. ptd. Colonial order of the Acorn, N. Y.

This volume “contains six copper plate engravings made by Edwin Davis French from views of New York in the early stages of its history.... ‘These views were selected with care, and graphically represent the gradual growth of the city from the little Dutch trading-post, situated at the Battery, to the more important city depicted in Rollinson’s view of 1801.’ Each view is accompanied by an explanatory sketch from a well-known authority.” (N. Y. Times.)

Vigfusson, Gudbrandur, and Powell, Frederick York, eds and trs. Origines islandicae: a collection of the more important sagas and other native writings relating to the settlement and early history of Iceland. 2v. *$14. Oxford.

These volumes are divided into five books: “Landnámabok—the book of the land-taking.... Islandingabok (Libellus islandorum) a collection of notes made in the eleventh or twelfth century ... relating to the old law and customs of the Norsemen settled in Iceland.... Tales and legends relating to the conversion and early church history of Iceland, Sagas relating to the history of Iceland during the first two centuries ... divided into four sections, which treat of the South, the West, the North, and the East quarters respectively.... Sagas relating to the exploring voyages of Icelanders.... All or nearly all of this matter has, we think, been printed before in Iceland or in Denmark, but much of it is now accessible only in books that have become scarce, and in texts far from accurate.”—Nation.

* “The present work is by no means free from some of the faults which marked its predecessor, the ‘Corpus poeticum boreale’; but fortunately the comparison of the two works will hold for the merits as well as the defects.”

* “Deeply as we must regret the loss of these two distinguished men before completing their work, the book as it stands is one of great value, and will doubtless find a place on the shelves of every university library and of every scholar of the old Northern literature. The translation is clear, direct, and simple, slightly archaic as is right.”

* “In this case the peculiar gifts of mediaeval temperament and curious linguistic knowledge of the English translator have given us a translation equally spirited and faithful on the whole, often very near the picturesque quality of the original and yet good honest idiomatic English prose.”

Villard, Henry. Memoirs of Henry Villard, journalist and financier, 1835-1900. 2v. **$5. Houghton.

Henry Villard landed in New York in 1853, a mere boy, without friends, money, or a knowledge of English. After suffering almost incredible hardships, he finally succeeded as a journalist, representing the N. Y. Tribune as war correspondent during the Civil war. His memoirs contain valuable accounts of battles, estimates of the commanders, and personal descriptions of Lincoln and others. Later he left journalism for finance, attaining eminence in this calling also.

“What separates it from other books of its class is that it is a characteristic illustration of American possibilities.” M. A. De Wolfe Howe.

A symposium on the Macedonian question, past, present, and future. Its object is to draw the attention of Englishmen to the situation in the Balkans, to show that Turkey cannot be reformed from within and that the time is ripe to bring about European control. There are chapters by English writers on the various aspects of the problem, and by French and Italian writers on the attitude and duty of their respective countries.

“To be sure, it is a piece of liberal propaganda and tells only one side of the story, but it is nevertheless a lucid explanation of a very complicated situation.”

“There is, in the book before us, considerable repetition, an occasional contradiction, and some diversity, not only as to points of view, but as to such minor matters as the spelling of geographical and proper nouns.”

“We know of no other volume exhibiting the subject so comprehensively and so clearly from the pro-Macedonian standpoint.”

“Undoubtedly the most instructive two chapters are those by Mr. Valentine Chirol and Mr. Bourchier.”

“Unless all the auguries should prove false, the war in the Far East should mark the transition of Russia from the Middle ages to the twentieth century, from the Eastern to the Western world, from barbarism to civilization,” gives the keynote of Mr. Villari’s optimism which characterizes this work, altho he brings the reader face to face with the dark facts of present conditions. One of the strongest chapters in the book is that in the industrial development of Russia whose conclusion proves that “M. de Witte’s scheme of making agricultural Russia an industrial country was a mistake both politically and economically.” (Sat. R.)

“The book is so good that we find little to say about it. The only point upon which we find Mr. Villari inclined to go wrong concerns the defects of the Eastern church.”

“If it does not claim to be a very profound study, it is, nevertheless, a very pleasant book to read, and contains much interesting, and even valuable information.”

“Mr. Villari has written an excellent account of the Czar’s empire in war-time.”

“The work itself strikes us less as that of an observant traveller than a compilation of material taken from well-known standard works.”

“Is full of shrewd observation and vivid description, and is admirably illustrated.”

362Villiers, Frederic. Port Arthur: three months with the besiegers. *$2.50. Longmans.

An English war correspondent’s story of three months with the Japanese army before Port Arthur. It is a vivid and stirring account as far as it goes, but unfortunately the author left the army two months before the actual fall of the fortress.

“Mr. Villiers’ impressions ... form a series of word-pictures which, although at times they are somewhat disjointed, make interesting reading, and this, too, despite the irritating and frequently recurring fact that unimportant and somewhat egotistical information about the writer and his field companions is unnecessarily obtruded upon the attention of the reader.”

“It is as a study of human nature exposed to exceptional conditions that it holds the interest of the reader from the first page to the last.”

“Taken only for what it claims to be—a picturesque, gossipy narrative of personal observation and experience—the book is enjoyable.”

“The narrative throughout is written with a cheerful good feeling and fairness which command respect.”

“The new issue of the English version of Mm. Vilmorin-Andrieux’ vegetable encyclopedia makes a volume of nearly 800 pages.... The book shows its mixed origin inevitably: the general notes on culture are chiefly founded on the practice of the Paris market-gardens; and these are followed by directions in smaller type intended for British conditions. There is bewildering choice of varieties of every root and herb—French, German, Italian, or American.... The botanical and historical information is rather disproportionate to the cultural directions.... Small woodcuts illustrate the book.”—Sat. R.

* “With Professor Bailey’s valuable ‘Cyclopaedia,’ and with this minor cyclopaedia supplementing that, our gardeners, professional and amateur, are well equipped.”

“The book will probably be of more value to the experienced gardener than to the beginner.”

A volume based upon lectures given at Oxford in the summer of 1904, and addressed primarily to students of general history. The author gives a full treatment of manorial origins; he states in his preface: “All periods of English history had their bearing on the life of the manor. Some germs of manorial institutions may be found in the Celtic age; the Roman occupation of the island had undoubtedly a powerful influence on its economic arrangements; the old English period is marked by the full development of the rural township; the feudal epoch finds the manor at its height; the dissolution of the manor forms one of the processes by which modern commercial intercourse was brought about.”

“His method and the mastery of the details of his subject combine to produce a notable book; but we confess to disappointment that he did not pursue to a greater extent the test of comparative polity. Broad as it is in outline, it is full to the highest degree of the most valuable details. A mass of material brought together and classified in a manner which must remain of permanent value.”

“This power of brilliant scientific intuition in individual instances, along with his vast general erudition, is what makes Vinogradoff so admirable. He is preëminently a ‘case historian.’ But the power of summation, of vividly portraying the march of change in its broad currents, he does not possess.”

“In handling a subject that promises so much Dr. Vinogradoff has displayed an accuracy rare among holders of British professorships.”

“Scholars will not find it easy to accept Dr. Vinogradoff’s conclusions in full, but all will perceive in his treatise an illuminating contribution to a difficult problem.”

“Dr. Vinogradoff in stating his case has also carefully set forth the views of those who differ from him, and the result is a book of singular value as well as of extraordinary fascination.”

The romantic rise of the House of Savoy is sketched from its subservient position under the insolent protection of the King of France to an independent state worthy of the respect of the whole of Europe. Two important personages are the center of development, Victor Amadeus II., Duke of Savoy, and Anna Maria of Orleans, granddaughter of Charles I.

“Certain peculiarities of diction betray deficient knowledge of English on the part of the author or the translator, if it has been found necessary to call in the latter.”

“If she had not attempted to prove too much, to dwell too strongly on the importance to Savoy of its connection with the Stuarts, her book would have been more convincing.”

“She has been an industrious worker, and has unearthed from the papers put at her disposition some interesting things relative to a picturesque period in Italian history. She has also, however, unearthed some things of rather doubtful permanent worth, and the printing of these at times clouds the clearness of her narrative.”

A life of Zola by his authorized translator, the son of one of his first publishers. Zola’s school days at Aix, his youth in Paris, his position with the publisher Hachette, his connection with the Dreyfus episode, and the history of his writings, particularly the long Rougon-Manquart cycle, are given in full. There is much of his contracts with publishers and theatrical managers, and the business detail incident to his work.

“Not one of the five hundred and fifty pages that make up this life is out of place.”

“In some respects Mr. Vizetelly’s ‘Zola’ is a 363satisfactory, and is likely to remain for some time a definitive work. With regard to the facts of Zola’s career there is probably no one capable of speaking with more authority than Mr. Vizetelly. The book is unnecessarily crowded with ‘shop.’”

* “Tho wanting in conclusion and proportion, is likely to be for some time an authoritative source for the facts of the novelist’s life.”

Vizetelly, Francis (Frank) Horace. Preparation of manuscripts for the printer. *75c. Funk.

A series of directions to authors as to the manner of preparing copy and correcting proofs with suggestions on submitting manuscripts for publication.

* “It contains much useful information and sound advice from a man of experience in the publishing world.”

Vries, Hugo de. Species and varieties: their origin by mutation; lectures delivered at the University of California; ed. by Daniel Trembly MacDougal. *$5. Open ct.

“The present work consists of twenty-eight lectures arranged in six groups. The first lecture is an introduction dealing with ‘Theories of evolution’ and ‘Methods of investigation.’ ... The second division of lectures (II.-IV.) deals with ‘Elementary species in nature.’ ... In lectures V.-XV., the author presents the evidence to show that ‘varieties’ are produced either by the loss of some marked peculiarity, or by latent characters becoming active, or by the acquisition of others that are already present in allied species.... Lectures XVI.-XXIV. Although the author tested many species, only one, the evening primrose, Œnothera, gave positive, mutating, results. He finds that the various mutations obtained from this species take place with a great degree of regularity. Very simple rules of general validity, he assumes, govern the whole phenomenon.... Lectures XXV.-XXVIII. There is selection of two kinds, between species and between varieties.”—Philos. R.

“‘Species and varieties,’ then, within the field of natural science, is clearly the book of the year. On the practical side it gives unity and significance to the random observations of every lover of plants. On the theoretical side, the work articulates with Mendel’s old doctrine of the unit character, the heredity atom which either is, or is not, and never splits in passing from one generation to the next.” E. T. Brewster.

“‘The greatest contribution since Darwin’ is the universal testimony.” H. C. Cowles.

“Evidently the work of de Vries may well prove to be an epoch-making contribution to the advance of knowledge.” Edward G. Spaulding.

“The great service of de Vries’s work is that, being founded on experimentation, it challenges to experimentation as the only judge of its merits. As to the literary qualities of the book, one has first to praise the general method of exposition. It is quite a model.” C. B. Davenport.

Wack, Henry Wellington. Romance of Victor Hugo and Juliette Drouet. **$1.50. Putnam.

A bundle of letters written to Hugo by Madame Drouet in 1851 and discovered by Mr. Wack on a ramble thru the island of Guernsey, forms the basis of this book. An introduction by M. François Coppée, the story of the relations of the poet and Juliette for fifty years and of the poet’s life at Hauteville house by Mr. Wack, and many illustrations complete the volume.

“The introduction by François Coppée is especially interesting not only on account of the view that it furnishes of Hugo as seen by an enthusiastic young poet, but because of its literary excellence and the charming delicacy with which he has related his experiences.”

“The literary value of this book lies in the charming introduction by François Coppée; the human interest, in the conscientious work of the author, who, however, is sometimes in danger of beating his gold leaf out too thin.”

“Mr. Wellington Wack proves such a pretty apologist that we can easily persuade ourselves that we are not reading scandal at all, but a ‘worthy literary record.’”

“Social, political, and economic aspects of the Belgian system of government in central Africa. After personal research among the documents in the administration office, to which he was given free access by the king of the Belgians, the author presents this volume as a true and complete history of the affairs of the Congo Free State. The work is profusely illustrated with characteristic sketches.”—Bookm.

“His refutation of the British charges is so violent that, considering the sources of his information, the argument is not convincing.”

“But apart from its value as a plea for the equity and wisdom of King Leopold’s administration, the book has an interest which makes a strong appeal to the general reader.”

“We heartily thank the author for the abundant documents, pictures, statistics, appendices, and index even more than for his narrative, which, while liable for discount as a statement of truth, is rich in facts.”

“As a polemic it is plain that ... Mr. Wack writes from a prejudiced, anti-British standpoint.”

“The most interesting as well as the most trustworthy feature of the book is its profuse photographic illustration.”

“Mr. Wack’s book, however, seems to be ‘the 364real thing,’ and is the most complete work on the subject that has yet appeared.” James Gustavus Whiteley.

“He makes it evident at the very outset that he did not approach his task with an altogether unbiased mind. If his monograph fails as a refutation, it is not, however without value as contributing useful information in regard to the history and resources of the Free State.”

Miss Gwendolen Bramblestone, one of the guests, at Mrs. Van Suyden’s country place for a week-end house party, becomes implicated in a mysterious jewel robbery. The story follows her efforts to establish her innocence and to recover the gems. Her Scotch lover, the “gentleman burglar,” and an ex-jockey detective add to the plot and to the character interest.

Waddell, Laurence Austine. Lhasa and its mysteries; with a record of the expedition of 1903-4. *$6. Dutton.

This detailed account of the expedition to Lhasa is written by the chief medical officer of the military escort which accompanied Sir Francis Younghusband. There is an historical introduction, and there are diagrams, plans, maps, and illustrations from photographs taken by the author.

“His book is decidedly interesting. It contains a great deal of new matter regarding the country. The author has seen a great deal, but he does not impress us as a man of a scholarly, independent, and broadly cultivated mind.”

“In the matter of authoritative backgrounds, at all events, Col. Waddell’s book on the Lhasa mission and its antecedents is the most complete which has so far appeared.”

“Inferior in literary quality to both Mr. Landon’s ‘The opening of Tibet’ and Mr. Candler’s ‘The unveiling of Lhasa,’ it deals with the subject more broadly and intimately than either.”

“We may therefore accept the statement made in ‘Lhasa and its mysteries’ as an authoritative description, so far as opportunity allowed, of the inner life of the people.”

“He writes with clearness and grace, he has an eye for the picturesque and curious, and he provides a variety of information in which every type of reader may find something to his taste. The only blemish is an occasional tendency to egotism.”

The first part of the book gives an account of a visit to Italy in 1880, just after Monsieur Waddington had resigned the premiership of France, while part 2, Italy revisited, depicts Rome twenty years later, after Monsieur Waddington’s death, and describes a new pope and a new king and queen. The letters give glimpses of society and notables, of state and social functions, of Italian skies and gardens.

“We feel we cannot have too many books like this—the expression of a cultivated, well-bred, cosmopolitan, and always kindly and good-natured mind.”

“The present volume of Madame Waddington’s letters makes a most interesting and intimate history of social life in Italy during the past quarter of a century.” Jeannette L. Gilder.

“The book as a whole, though entertaining, hardly equals its predecessor in interest.”

“They are just such letters as one would like to get if he had a friend at court, personal, chatty and unaffected.”

“The book has its defects. But, after all, what we absolutely demand in a book of this kind is that it shall be interesting; and interesting the book is, and full of the atmosphere of Italy.”

“What the later volume lacks in unity it amply makes up in variety. Madame Waddington writes familiarly, but her books are singularly free from trivialities and gossip, and one looks in vain for anything like malice or scandal.”

“Mme. Waddington’s book is among neither the best nor the worst of its class.”

“The stream of pleasant babble flows along so easily and briskly and vividly that only a veritable churl could refuse to be vastly entertained.”

“Best of All” was blessed not only with a fertile imagination but with a husband, “The Other One,” who entered delightedly into all her schemes, and together they turned an old fashioned Italian garden into a pink garden filling it with all the things that bloom pink and gazing at it thru rose colored glasses. Here they and Best of All’s sister, called “The Prevaricator,” because she wrote stories, whiled away much of a happy summer. A dozen garden photographs printed on thin paper and mounted on separate pages, also various border designs drawn by Lucy Fitch Perkins, and printed in pink and green, create a real pink garden atmosphere.

Wade, Mrs. Mary Hazelton (Blanchard). Coming of the white men: stories of how our country was discovered. †75c. Wilde.

This is the first volume in a series known as “Uncle Sam’s old-time stories.” It aims to interest young readers in the beginnings of American history, and to arouse patriotism. The present narrative covers the period from the time when the Norsemen set foot upon our soil down to the establishing of the Maryland colony.

A companion volume of “Ten little Indians.” This sketch includes the chiefs and leaders of the tribes from which the ten little Indians were drawn. The qualities of the red men and the 365different periods of American history and different sections of the country are represented while the author shows that thru such means as bravery, oratory, cunning and in a few instances kindness, these braves won power and prominence.

Wagner, Charles. Busy life; or, The conquest of energy; tr. from the French by G: Moorhead. 60c. Ogilvie.

A book of moral teaching intended to instill into the minds of the readers the desire for the real things of life, among which there is none comparable to energy, which is virtue itself, stimulating in us and in others, life, joy, and hope.

* Wagner, Charles. Justice; tr. from the French by Mary Louise Hendee. **$1. McClure.

“‘A disposition to unfairness, bad faith, and evil speaking, is abroad in every field,’ says the author in his preface, ‘and a matter over which men do not contend at daggers drawn, is hard to find.’ To counteract this evil, the little book teaches the lesson of sweet reasonableness and Christian charity.” (Dial.) The contents include: The birth of righteousness; Dominion and voluntary service; Mine and thine; Science and faith; The love of country—Humanity; The churches—The church—Religious justice; Society and the individual social justice; The religious conception of work.

* “Fluent and apparently careful translation. These new chapters contain little that is essentially new to those familiar with the volumes that have preceded.”

Wagner, Charles. My appeal to America; being my first address to an American audience. **50c. McClure.

An appeal for active goodness and the “simple life,” with an introduction by Dr. Lyman Abbott, and notes and appendices. The profits of the book are to go to a fund to furnish a site for a church of which Mr. Wagner is to be the pastor.

“In remarkably lucid English, occasionally quaint, and always naïvely serious, even when expressive of a saving sense of humor.”

Wagner, Charles. On life’s threshold: talks to young people on character and conduct; tr. by Edna St. John. **$1. McClure.

“In talking to young people ... is it necessary to ... be genuine, direct and simple. In this respect these talks are excellent, and can profitably be studied as models by many of our preachers and teachers. The ethical instruction is developed by a process of reasoning instead of being based on dogma and authority, and is not even very definitely Christian, so there ought not to be any objection to the use of the book in the public school of any locality.”—Ind.

“Pastor Wagner’s power lies in the fact that he is not ashamed to put commonplaces in plain language.”

Wagner, Richard. Selections from the music dramas of Richard Wagner; arranged for the piano by Otto Singer. $1.50. Ditson.

A late addition to the “Musician’s library.” The excerpts are not difficult for the amateur and include representative parts of eleven operas from “Rienzi” to “Parsifal.”

“The Wagner book is altogether the most satisfactory collection of excerpts from the works of that musical Titan that we have ever seen. The selection is wise and comprehensive. Mr. Aldrich’s preface is all that such a foreword should be.”

Wagner, Richard. Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck; tr. by W. Ashton Ellis. $4. Scribner.

“The world is indebted to Mathilde Wesendonck for two great achievements—she inspired the composition of ‘Tristan and Isolde,’ and she thereby forced the composer to defer the completion of the ‘Ring des Nibelungen’ until his powers were in their full maturity. This remarkable collection of letters, first published after the death of the lady, which took place in 1902, is another fruit of their relationship. What the nature or that relationship was, we do not propose to discuss.... Its only importance for us consists in its artistic results.”—Lond. Times.

“No lover of the greatest modern master of music should fail to read them.” Jeanette L. Gilder.

“If the work has been performed conscientiously,—that is, if there has been no improper discrimination in the selection from private correspondence, nothing omitted which would tend to develop the real character of the man,—the plan is unobjectionable, even admirable, as it brings the man himself very near to the reader.”

“To Mr. Ashton Ellis’s fashion of translating we cannot altogether reconcile ourselves. The translator, however, deserves the greatest praise for the careful way in which he has annotated the letters and for the interesting dissertations which he has prefixed and appended to them.”

“The peculiarities of Wagner’s style are to a considerable extent reflected in the English version.”

[Mr. Ellis] “produces English prose that is as gnarled as Wagner’s German. It is not often that the inner workings of genius have been so illumined.”

The setting of this story is in a future time when a seven year marriage contract is in vogue. This contract may be renewed at its expiration, or the parties to it may form new contracts. No one may marry more than five times, and all children are brought up and educated by the state. The plot concerns a murder and a robbery and some clever detective work, but these things seem commonplace, and it is the unique state of society that is exciting.

The third volume in “The music of the masters” series is a Beethoven handbook which gives a sketch, with suggestive motives, of his principal compositions, including choral music, vocal music, stage music, orchestral works, 366solo instrument music, chamber music, and piano-forte music. The closing chapter gives a composite view of his music as a whole, showing both his creative genius and reflected qualities.

“The author has confined himself to criticism which is often of a very striking and suggestive kind.”

“On the whole one must admit him to be a sane and safe guide and suggestive withal.”

“On the whole, Mr. Walker’s analyses and discussions are enlightened and sympathetic.”

“No one would guess this to be the work of an octogenarian.... There is no sign of diminished vigour, whether in the earlier part, which is written almost entirely from memory, or in the latter, which is largely devoted to a trenchant defence of socialism, spiritualism, and other darling fads of his old age. The book may be divided into four sections, which will doubtless appeal with varying force to different readers. First we have boyhood and adolescence—the student; then the famous expeditions to South America and the Malay archipelago—the naturalist and collector; thirdly, the scientific and literary work at home, the intercourse and correspondence with eminent contemporaries—the evolutionist; lastly, the struggle with economic problems of modern life—the socialist and reformer.”—Lond. Times.

“Dr. Wallace has been his own recording angel, and those who peruse the record cannot but pronounce it well and truly written.” W. P. Pycraft.

* “Mr. Wallace’s narrative in other words, can hardly be called a model of conciseness. Still its wonderful candour wins ample forgiveness for its prolixity.”

“He writes with the crystalline simplicity that belongs to a sincere and candid mind, that invests even trivial things with interest, and continues to charm when wit and fancy, unless they be of a very high order, seem faded or forced.”

“While we fully recognize the very extensive variety and importance in many respects of Dr. Wallace’s career we cannot but think he has followed an undesirable precedent in rivalling Spencer’s self-expansiveness. We cannot imagine any reader who will not find the greater part of it worth the reading.”

The account of an exploring expedition into the unknown wilds of Labrador in the summer of 1903. The trip was undertaken by Leonidas Hubbard, jr., who perished from hunger and exhaustion, the author and a half-breed Cree Indian as guide. The story is a pitiful one of hardship and disappointment. The party set out with inadequate provisions, and an insufficient knowledge of the country, and having caught but a glimpse of Lake Michikaman, ragged and starving they were forced to turn back; winter closed in upon them, Hubbard succumbed, and Wallace barely escaped with his life. The story is told simply and graphically, and the author while depicting its horrors admits that he still feels the lure of the wild saying: “The smoke of the camp-fire is in my blood. The fragrance of the forest is in my nostrils. Perhaps it is God’s will that I finish the work of exploration that Hubbard began.” There are a number of illustrations from photographs and three original and accurate maps.

“Seldom has a story of hardship bravely endured been told so movingly.” J. B. G.

“It is a homely and pitiful story of enterprise, disappointment, and starvation. Its manifest moral is that it does not do to start wrong if you would go exploring.”

“It is a wonderfully interesting record, told in a simple and straightforward manner.”

“It is a vivid, painful, and admirably written account of an exploring expedition into that inhospitable wilderness.”

An entirely new and much enlarged edition of a work first published in 1877. It has been revised and in great part rewritten, bringing the history of Russia and her people down to May 1905. The noblesse, and the policy of the central government receive adequate treatment, while the story of the lower classes, the traders, parish priests, peasants, burghers, cossacks, and serfs, their life, customs, local government, religion, and the great national movements which affect them, is told in detail and in the light of a full knowledge derived from long residence among them.

“The book has thus been brought up to date, without sacrificing any of its wisdom, or the political insight and the sane and temperate views which have continued for a quarter of a century to give it a leading value.”

“The most important part of the new book consists in the account of the revolutionary movement and in the general considerations contained in the last chapter. Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace writes with real information, and is, alone among the hosts of writers on Russia whose books are just now coming out, to be trusted as a man of authority.”

“As a masterly attempt to facilitate one nation’s understanding of another, ‘Russia’ stands in the same class as Mr. Bodley’s ‘France’ and Mr. Bryce’s ‘American commonwealth.’”

“A book of extreme value on a remarkably difficult subject has been rendered invaluable nay, indispensable—for those who wish clearly to understand present conditions and future possibilities in the realm of the Tsar.”

“Almost every subject is treated of in a method in keeping with its nature.”

“Is the finished product of a man who in every respect is competent to deal in a masterly manner with his subject.”

“The work is a large and exhaustive one. It is regarded by many Russians as the best work about their country ever written by a foreigner.”

“Sir Donald Wallace writes of modern parties with a serene impartiality, and a clearness and fulness which are only too rare in works on the subject. We may differ from the author’s conclusions, but we are compelled to respect them; and since he gives his data frankly and fairly, he provides the reader, if 367he be mistaken, with materials for an independent judgment.”

A favorite among young readers whose popularity demands a new edition to which Ellen Bernard Thompson has contributed six full-page illustrations.

“The heroine is the center of an admiring circle of homely Nantucket folk, one of the vivid blossoms that glow in the fresh salt breezes. Each character in the story is distinctly individualized, and humor and pathos mingle in their shrewd talk. Somewhat apart, but always sympathetic with the village people, are the members of the Torrence family, within whose bounds are found the seeds that ripen into tragedy and give a dramatic touch to the well-managed plot.”—Outlook.

“The author’s art falls below her invention. Nevertheless, ‘Sanna’ is a well-written, wholesome, breezy tale.”

“Altogether this is a novel quite above the average in construction and sustained interest.”

* Wallis, Louis. Egoism: a study in the social premises of religion, $1. Univ. of Chicago press.

The author discusses the proposition that “egoism is the only ‘force’ propelling the social machine,” which thesis he demonstrates by evidence drawn from biblical history; he further maintains that the historical criticism of the Bible must be made in the light of sociology; finally, he shows the practical bearing of this on the present social problems.

Twelve of these sixteen volumes have been published to date. They contain the letters in as complete form as possible, giving four hundred letters not included in the “Latest edition of collected letters,” and which have never before been printed. There is additional annotation and an exhaustive index. The edition is illustrated by fifty portraits in photogravure, and three facsimiles of original letters.

“It is sufficient to say that there is no indication that the editor has become weary in her work, for the foot-notes still contain ample information and represent much labor.”

“The value of Mrs. Toynbee’s work ... does not lie in fresh discoveries so much as in the patient devotion with which she has sifted and sorted the whole correspondence. The notes ... are unobtrusive, and admirable in clarity and conciseness, and, as editing goes, this collection of letters could not be bettered.”

“It is superfluous to repeat how eminently Mrs. Toynbee’s edition of Walpole overtops all others. To render it supremely enduring it needs but one addition ... a companion volume of annotations. Mrs. Toynbee’s too chary annotation is always pertinent.”

“This edition of Mrs. Paget Toynbee’s is as complete as possible, and otherwise as pleasing and attractive as an edition can be made.”

“If these letters, then, have not all the airy volatility and gay sparkle of Walpole’s earlier days, it is still astonishing how he retains his freshness and wit, and these volumes yield to none in their interest.”

Walpole, Spencer Horatio. History of twenty-five years, 1855-1881. 2v. $10. Longmans.

The author, who held official positions in the war and post-office departments from 1858 to 1899, is the only English writer who has had the advantage of being in active service in Downing street while engaged in historical research. “The better acquainted a student is with the other histories of the middle years of the nineteenth century the greater is his indebtedness to Sir Spencer Walpole for the many little asides in which he introduces new material, based not on books, official or non-official, but on his own personal experience, and on information which he acquired first hand during his long and distinguished career in the British civil service.... His history covers Europe, and to a large extent the United States, as well as the United Kingdom and the over-sea possessions of Great Britain. He cites an authority for every statement he makes; and his authorities, appended as foot-notes, show that there are few sources—British, American or European—on which he has not drawn.... The first hundred pages in the second volume are devoted to the War of the rebellion and to the attitude of England to the Federal and Confederate governments.” (Ind.)

“The style is commonplace and diffuse. At times it is wordy in the extreme. The marshaling of all this material has been excellently managed.”

“The first adequate treatment the history of ancient pottery received was in the two volumes of Dr. Samuel Birch, published in 1857.... Since Birch’s death, in 1885, so much new material has been gathered that a further revision of his work has been demanded.... The results of this revision and extension of Dr. Birch’s work are two sumptuous volumes of considerably more than five hundred pages each, well provided with indexes, and bibliographies.” (Dial). “We have ... in the two volumes seventeen chapters devoted to Greek vases and their decoration, and one chapter devoted to ‘Etruscan and South Italian pottery’; five chapters on Roman pottery, by which is meant the pottery of Italy under the Roman rule; and, finally, brief mention of earthenware found in Britain, Gaul, and Germany, but evidently of the Roman Imperial epoch.... There are sixty-nine plates and many are in color.... There are, moreover, two hundred and fifty text illustrations.”—Nation.

* “Mr. Walters has provided us with an instalment which is likely for many years to prove a most valuable work of reference for those branches of the subject which he includes in his survey. Almost every page attests the care and thoroughness with which published authorities have been consulted.”

* “The new publication is practically a complete summary of everything now known of classic ceramic art, no source of information, English or foreign, having been neglected.”

* “Other and more expensive volumes have 368surpassed it in beauty of illustrations; none in its exhaustive and logical treatment of ancient pottery and the true and complete meaning of the fragments which have come down to us.”

* “The defects in these volumes arise principally from the narrow outlook with which they are written. Upon the whole, it is perhaps surprising that the attempt to condense so vast an accumulation of material into the form of a handbook has been so nearly crowned with success; especially as it has been made at a moment when the questions of the early history of the art are yet in solution and cannot be summarised without danger.”

A romance of Kentucky which deals with the question of divorce. There is a much-abused heroine, the object of a husband’s violence when the drug habit is upon him, into whose head never entered the idea of divorce. “But Lucien Beardsley arose upon the horizon. A Virginian by birth, a cosmopolitan by education, a man of modern ideas.... Lucien found in the unhappy Dulcie a cousin many times removed, and undertook to champion her cause, to upset the ancient landmark, to establish the new custom of divorce, and to launch the grief-stricken Dulcinea upon a new and glittering sea of happiness.” (N. Y. Times.)

“Mrs. Waltz is a born writer of sensational fiction, and carries her reader triumphantly through scenes that would be intolerable from a less vigorous hand.”

Wampum library of American literature; ed. by Brander Matthews. **$1.40. Longmans.

These three volumes form the beginning of a series which when completed will illustrate the development of the various forms of American literature. Each volume treats of a single species, tracing the evolution of this definite form and presenting in chronological sequence typical examples chosen from the writings of American authors born prior to 1850. Volume I, “American short stories,” edited by Charles Sears Baldwin, contains a comprehensive introduction, and selected stories which he divides into two periods, the “tentative” and the “new form.” Under the former are selections from Irving, Austin, Hall, and Pike; under the latter, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Poe, Willis, Kirkland, O’Brien, Hart, Webster, Taylor, Bunner, and Frederic. Volume II, “American literary criticism,” edited by William Morton Payne, deals with the development of the critical spirit in American literature. The introduction shows literary insight and critical ability and ranks with the essays which follow. The essays selected are entirely upon literary themes, and include selections from Dana, Ripley, Emerson, Poe, Ossoli, Lowell, Whitman, Whipple, Stedman, Howells, Lanier, and James. Volume III, “American familiar verse,” edited by Brander Matthews, who is also editing the edition as a whole, contains a, lengthy introduction which defines Familiar verse as—“the lyric of commingled sentiment and playfulness, which is more generally and more carelessly called vers de société.” A rather catholic choice of authors follows—Freneau, J. Q. Adams, Moore, Irving, Bryant, Halleck, Drake, Whittier, Longfellow, Holmes, Saxe, Lowell, Stoddard, Stedman, Aldrich, and many others.

“Two compilations, which are fitted to serve a good purpose in advance English classes.”

“If the succeeding volumes are as capably edited as the three now published, the series will prove of great value in the historical study of our literature. From the character of these three volumes it is evident that the series when complete will place in their proper proportions the successive steps in the evolution of these distinct literary forms. The one unfortunate feature in the general plan of the library is the arbitrary restriction which prohibits a selection from any living American writers whose birth has occurred since December 31, 1850.” W. E. Simonds.

“The genre of familiar verse is so well adapted to this particular purpose, and Mr. Matthews has shown such skill in selection, that his own volume will probably bear the test of time as the standard anthology. The value of the illustrative material in the others is more doubtful.” G. R. Carpenter.

Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Mrs. Herbert D. Ward). Trixy. $1.50. Houghton.

This story, which is a dramatic argument against vivisection, has for its heroine Trixy, a performing French poodle, who, barely escaping death on the dissecting table, confronts the accused physician in court. The human interest centers about this young scientist who loses the affections of the woman he loves, and eventually his own life, by his experiments. A young lawyer, an active defender of little dogs and kittens, wins the hand of the girl who could not trust herself to the vivisectionist.

“Clever artist as she is, we are not prepared to say that she has avoided many an ignominious descent into the pathetic.”

“We do not propose to consider it as a story, but as a tract, for that is what it is chiefly in the author’s mind. In this case ... we question whether the charity which she gives to beasts does not make her forget the charity due to human beings. But Mrs. Ward goes so far as to make a superstitious use of natural scenery to enforce her warning against vivisection.”

Ward, H. Marshall. Trees: a handbook of forest botany for the woodlands and the laboratory. 6 vol. ea. *$1.50. Macmillan.

The author has prepared this series as a text-book for all who need a guide to their studies. The text is clear and simple and each volume is provided with diagnostic tables devised for use in the field. The series includes, Birds and twigs; Leaves; Flowers and inflorescences: Fruits and seeds; Seedlings; and The habit and conformation of the tree as a whole.

“The book has evidently been compiled with great care. Its value, then, to the student, forester or other, is beyond question.”

“The book is not only an excellent text-book In forest botany, but is a capital study in pedagogy as well.”

“Is, like the earlier volumes in the series, thoroughly interesting and accurate.”

“The work will be found indispensable to those students who wish to make an expert study of forest botany. At the same time it is expressed in language so clear and devoid of technicalities that the amateur who wishes to know something about our trees and shrubs 369will find this one of the most useful guides to which he can turn.”

“The interest of the book centers around two great tragedies: the fall of Thomas the archbishop, and the fall of Thomas the martyr. These are bound up with a part of a still greater tragedy: the collapse of a grand religious movement, which, with all its human imperfections and short-comings, had done a noble work for those who had needed it most, the poor, the weak, the suffering.” The text has been improved by many illustrations of churches, shrines and relics, and sketches of the “pilgrims’ way.”

“Altogether it is an interesting excursion through historical lore for the illustration of a significant feature of mediaeval English life that Chaucer has kept in permanent remembrance.”

The author gives his reader the privilege of skipping the letterpress and looking at his seven hundred illustrations. This picture book of Soudanese snap-shots is accompanied by chapters “which give interesting if not exactly novel, accounts of events and sundry episodes in the story of the African continent during the last fifty centuries, combined with details of explorations and military expeditions to remote spots during the last fifty years.” (Sat. R.)

“It is pieced together in so haphazard a manner and with such contempt for all sense of proportion that it can hardly be viewed as a serious guide to anybody. Mr. Ward makes many needless mistakes.”

Ward, Mary Augusta Arnold (Mrs. Thomas Humphry Ward). Marriage of William Ashe. †$1.50. Harper.

A novel presenting the political and social order existing in London a hundred years ago. William Ashe, a rising young statesman of English solidity and force, falls in love with Lady Kitty, beautiful, eighteen, just released from a French convent, and neglected by a mother of doubtful reputation. He marries her and she leads him gayly from one scandal to another, ridiculing his influential friends, making enemies of the prime minister, Lord Parham and his wife, and capping all by writing a bitterly real satire upon the social set in which her marriage has placed her. A fragile, captivating creature of varying moods, with an hereditary moral madness in her blood, she holds our interest, excites our pity, and dominates the book. But there are other characters; William’s mother, the strong aristocratic Englishwoman, Mary Lyster, cold, narrow, and selfishly hard, and Geoffrey Cliffe—a villain with a dash of genius, whose power over Kitty began with her desire to penetrate the secret history of a man whose poems filled her with a thrilling sense of feeling and passion beyond her ken.

“It is one of the best that Mrs. Humphry Ward has written, the chief fault of it being the wearisome middle. The work is not organically built up, and though the interest revives towards the end we still feel that the book is imperfect. One can well understand that it would have been twice as good if Mrs. Humphry Ward possessed the saving gift of humour, but she takes many things in life and particularly her own sex much too seriously.”

“It is not in any real sense a remarkable book. There is little or nothing in it that has not been given before both by the writer herself and by others. The hand of the experienced literary artist is visible—too visible in fact.”

“Considered not as a problem, but simply as a study in incompatibility, ‘The marriage of William Ashe’ is a piece of subtle and delicate workmanship.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

“The interest of the work is sustained, rising to an effective dramatic climax, and subsiding into the pathos of a closing scene of deathbed repentance and forgiveness.” William Morton Payne.

“The first and most obvious complaint is against the strange and confusing method with which Mrs. Ward uses the motive of her story.” Herbert W. Horwill.

“It must be admitted that ‘The marriage of William Ashe,’ which is her latest, is likewise her strongest book. As usual in Mrs. Ward’s stories, as the end approaches, the interest proportionally deepens. The outcome is unpredictable. Never was the advantage of Mrs. Ward’s method of composition more fully demonstrated than in ‘The marriage of William Ashe.’ The crisis is balanced with absolute nicety: the weight of a hair will turn the scales. The minor characters of Mrs. Ward’s story are drawn with subtlety and power. All in all, ‘The marriage of William Ashe’ is to be regarded as an achievement of consummate art.” C. H. Gaines.

“It is in the adequate presentation and interpretation of Lady Kitty that the author has achieved probably her greatest success as a literary artist.”

* “Is the most notable book of the year, and will perhaps be the only one to survive.”

“Like a rich personality ‘The marriage of William Ashe’ yields itself more and more, as one knows it better. It reveals new depth and beauty with each reading; one appreciates how superbly the author has triumphed over unusual difficulties of situation and of character; and with what noble conclusions she has charged a story which might easily have sunk into a moral morass. Its place is with the books that do not die. Its author stands among the few living writers of fiction to whom the Immortals have passed the torch.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.

“One of those solid, thorough, able and workmanlike novels in which Mrs. Ward has dealt with some of the most serious matters of experience and has proved her right to claim a first position among the novelists of the day. The story needs condensation in the closing chapters, and suffers from lack of humor.”

“The book expresses, doubtless, the flower of her talent. It is full of sweet flavors. It has literary beauty of a high order. ‘The marriage of William Ashe’ is not a great story or a vigorous one. It is an absorbing one.”

“Is one of the few stories of which a measure, at least, of endurance may be predicted.”

370“The book, in short, has the drawbacks not only of a roman à clef, but of a composite photograph. The most attractive and brilliant of all of Mrs. Humphry Ward’s novels. The fine literary quality of her work remains, the reader is once more charmed by the restrained eloquence of her descriptions, and impressed by the penetrating analysis of characters so essentially complex as those of Lady Kitty and Geoffrey Cliffe. But along with these familiar excellencies one notes a marked improvement in technique, a livelier movement in the handling of incident and dialogue,—in short, a greater ease, skill, and charm in presentation.”

A memoir, based on his unpublished diaries and correspondence of Aubrey de Vere by his literary executor. The story of a long and rather uneventful life is told largely by the Irish poet himself, revealing his own mind and temperament, and giving graphic descriptions of contemporary great men, Gladstone, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Newman, Browning. His gradual change of religious belief which brought him from the English church to Rome, his work during the famine of 1846-7, and the service done for Ireland by his voice and pen, are given in detail.

“The editor has based his work on diaries and letters, and has spread a feast for the lover of literature where no crude surfeit reigns.”

“Sufficient to give a true picture of the man himself. Yet not the least of the reader’s reward comes from his more intimate knowledge of a pure and unselfish life, lived largely in the service of his fellows; a poet who here reveals himself most fully as the patriot and friend.” Clark S. Northrup.

“Quite sustains his reputation as a master in the difficult and delicate art of the biographer.”

A thrilling story of mystery and intrigue which turns on the theft of curios and paintings from a valuable collection. The owner himself is in the conspiracy to defraud an insurance company.

The Luxembourg library offers in single volume edition, handsomely bound and fully illustrated, some notable work of fiction that ranks among the world’s masterpieces. “Aurelian” is one of the four late additions to this series.

Warner, Charles Dudley. Complete writings; * ed. by Thomas R. Lounsbury. 15v. ea. $2. Am. pub. co., Hartford, Conn.

The complete works of Charles Dudley Warner, with a biographical sketch appear in this handsome “Backlog” edition. “The volumes are of the right size, simply bound, the paper and the typography expressing the high quality of the work which this set of books preserves in permanent form.” (Outlook.)

* “Everything has been done by the publishers of this edition to give Mr. Warner’s work the dignity and refinement of form which it deserves. Professor Lounsbury contributes to the series a biography which is characteristically clear, vivacious, and illuminating.”

The author strips himself entirely of race prejudice and almost whimsically creates from myth, from history, from literature and present day tendencies a composite Israel stamped with characteristics of imagination and fact. “The reader does not at once find out what the ‘spectre’ is. At first it seems to be a spectral fear that the Jew is to crowd out all competitors in the struggle for existence.... Later it comes out that the really troublesome ‘spectre’ in the writer’s mind is the domain of religious speculation.” (Outlook.)

“The merit of the book is that it sincerely attempts to put into a single volume a literary view of a very difficult subject.”

“A sort of hotch-potch of anecdote and quotation, legend and fact, held together by a strain of comment, now ironical, now impassioned, which is not likely to convince, but is generally diverting.”

“The book is cleverly written, and makes many good hits at shining marks of folly; but that it is, as announced, ‘an extraordinary’ book, except in wrongheadedness, does not appear.”

“Yet with all it is a strangely suggestive book, reassuring to any man who feels that America is becoming the New Jerusalem, full of careful study and hasty deduction, full of leads which the author does not work to a conclusion, full of surprises and odds and ends of valuable information—and full of contempt.”

Warner, Horace Everett. Ethics of force. 50c. Pub. for the International Union by Ginn.

This little volume contains, in revised form, a series of five papers read before the Ethical Club of Washington, D. C., just prior to and after the Spanish war. The titles of the papers are The ethics of heroism, The ethics of patriotism, Can war be defended on the authority of Christ? Can war be defended on grounds of reason? and Some objections.

“This is the sort of a thoughtful volume on the subject that should be placed on the reading-lists of our public schools.”

Warwick, Charles Franklin. Mirabeau and the French revolution. **$2.50. Lippincott.

“This is the well-written story of the most extraordinary character of the most extraordinary scene in the drama of modern history, the storm-center of that scene till his death.”—Outlook.

“It has all the failings and the qualities of the writing of the enthusiastic amateur.”

“It is neither a satisfactory biography of Mirabeau, nor a clear, sound and well connected synthesis of the early Revolution.” Fred Morrow Fling.

“We learn nothing new about Mirabeau or the French revolution; the style is sometimes absurd.”

“Has neither scholarship nor style to recommend it. The style of the book is melodramatic.”

“It would be a mistake, however to dismiss it as of slight worth. It has some very positive merits. The task of exploring the voluminous literature treating of the French revolution is no light one, and Mr. Warwick must be credited with having considerably facilitated the exploration in respect to the period he reviews.”

“Apart from a certain number of verdicts upon individual characters, his text contains little that is distinctive. On the other hand it is of much higher quality than most of the illustrations which accompany it. The book is undeniably amateurish.”

“There is no great distinction in his style, little compelling fire in his accounts of people and events; not much subtlety in his judgments. He is sometimes prolix and sometimes repeats himself. Clarity and intelligibility are the merits of the book; and they are valuable qualities.”

“Mr. Warwick has made effective use of the best authorities in his account both of the tragic scene and of the masterful actor.”

“It has the distinctive merit of being at once a biography and a history,—a graphic narrative of events not less than a just, adequate and exceptionally suggestive estimate of a great historical figure.”

“An incisive study of the part played by Mirabeau in the French revolution.”

“Mr. Warwick’s book on Mirabeau is passable enough. But it contains absolutely nothing new in fact so far as we have observed, and it is certainly not distinguished for form or point of view or imagination.”

These seventeen short stories are as varied in tone as in subject. One is a dramatic scene in the rooms of a danseuse, another is a story of Madagascar, a third treats of Mormonism, and a fourth concerns a most unfaithful wife.

A volume prepared by the officers and former students of the normal and industrial institute at Tuskegee, Ala., under the editorial direction of Booker T. Washington, who writes an introduction. The problem of negro education is treated from the inside by the intelligent negro. Seventeen autobiographical sketches are furnished by Tuskegee graduates who are now following various occupations.

“It is an unanswerable argument against the critics of the Tuskegee movement in particular and of the education of the negro in general.”

“If the stories are marked by a complacency pardonable under the circumstances, and if they fail to prove quite all their authors think they do prove for negro progress, yet they are not uninstructive.”

This volume in the “Thumb nail” series “is uniform with the early copies of this series which is a small vest-pocket edition richly bound in embossed leather. This volume contains W. E. H. Lecky’s famous essay on ‘The character of Washington’ taken from his ‘History of England in the eighteenth century,’ ‘Washington’s farewell address to the people of the United States,’ his ‘Address to the officers in 1783,’ his ‘Circular letter addressed to the governors of all the states on disbanding the army,’ his ‘Farewell orders to the armies of the United States,’ and his ‘Inaugural address to both houses of congress.’”—Arena.

A volume which contains the diary kept by Washington in September, 1784, during his journey into the Ohio basin in the interest of a commercial union between the Great lakes and the Potomac river. Mr. Hulbert’s commentary shows Washington to be an active, wide-awake practical man of affairs which is a little-known and less-appreciated phase of his character.

* “It is a valuable addition to the literature dealing with Washington, the man and the statesman.”

* “An interesting and valuable book, somewhat too strongly colored by certain prejudices which affected the editor from the beginning of his task.”

“Mr. Hulbert’s notes, therefore, are as interesting to read as the diary.”

“This is a valuable portrait of Washington in an aspect comparatively disregarded hitherto, a portrait drawn by himself.”

“The scene of action ... is almost entirely on the shore and in the harbor, though the strenuous life of the open sea is always in the background exerting its powerful influence on the actors and the drama. The author is attempting to show the evil ways into which many of the fishing communities have fallen, and their need of moral and spiritual help.”—Outlook.

* “The thread of the story is not very distinct. The humor of the book is good, however, though here and there a little underdone, in seasoning and overdone in cooking.”

* “As a tract the book makes a strong appeal; as a story it limps a little and lacks freshness of conception and treatment; as a portrayal of character it is delightfully quaint and humorous.”

Waters, N. McGee. Young man’s religion and his father’s faith. **90c. Crowell.

Eight practical talks which endeavor to reconcile the old thought and the new. On the ground that altho our conception of the Bible has changed and broadened the book itself is the same, the author declares that the young man who believes in the theory of evolution and questions the infallibility of the Bible differs 372from the faith of his fathers only in nonessentials and that altho our creeds may be new they seek to define the ways of the same loving God.

* Waters, Thomas Franklin. Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay colony; with seven appendices. *$5. Ipswich historical soc., Ipswich, Mass.

The author states in his preface: “I have tried to tell accurately but in readable fashion the story of the builders of our town; their homes and home life, their employments, their Sabbath keeping, their love of learning, their administration of town affairs, their stern delusions, their heroism in war, and in resistance to tyranny.” Ipswich was a typical New England town founded in 1623, and this detailed history has been prepared largely from original town documents, facsimiles of several of which are given.

* “Takes its place in the front rank of its class, and can hardly be praised too highly for diligent research, candor, taste, style, and construction.”

A series of helpful suggestions which prove that every man’s possible happiness is the direct outgrowth of the appreciation and development of his hidden worthiness. The volume is uniform with the “Freedom of faith” series.

Watson, Edward Willard. Old lamps and new, and other verses; also, By Gaza’s gate, a cantata, $1. Fisher.

Under the divisions, Old lamps and new, and A forgotten idyl, the author gives us dainty verses, nearly all of which sing of love; some of the gladness of it, some of its pathos. By Gaza’s gate—a cantata, closes the volume. It is sung by Samson, Delilah, and a chorus; the words are based on the text of the Polychrome Bible.

A young English doctor tells the story of his experiences on the yacht of a German prince. The prince, accompanied by his sister, is eloping with a French actress; they all bear assumed names, but the crew discover the truth, realize that there is great treasure stored in the hold, and mutiny, bloodshed and murder follow. The whole account is exciting, but hardly cheerful, save for the love story of the doctor and the princess.

“The thing is done with such an air of assurance, the characters are so carefully developed and sustained, that we accept it all, in a spirit of meek credulity, and even after a period of sober second thought admit that it is one of the best sustained stories of rattling adventure that has appeared in many a month.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

“This is a very stirring story, and is almost as good as Robert Louis Stevenson could have made it.” William Morton Payne.

“Has skilfully combined all the ingredients that go to make what boys pronounce a ‘rattling good story.’”

“For literary qualities it is vastly inferior to Mr. Watson’s ‘Galloping Dick,’ but as a lively story of action it is exciting even if improbable.”

“It is ridiculous, impossible, and altogether unallied to anything that any of us is acquainted with in this severely practical world; probably it is for that reason that it is so absorbedly interesting for a quiet evening.”

“A fascinating story of the time when George IV. was Prince of Wales. The leading man character is another Beau Brummel, quite well drawn; the freshness, beauty, and grace of the heroine are deftly impressed upon the reader.” (Outlook.) “Sir Piers had no scruples in asking Barbara Garraway, the Hampshire squire’s daughter, to be his mistress; when he found that he had misread her character, he had no scruples in carrying his efforts to make her his wife to the point of abducting her to his country seat.” (Lond. Times.)

* “The Beau is the book, and our interest in the book ceases when the Beau begins to prance like any sensational hero.”

* “The book thus falls somewhere between the mere romance and the novel of character. The period is well realized; the story is interesting and exciting; but this painful sounding of a shallow type delays its movements, and forbids the happy surrender of judgment which is the condition of enjoying a romance.”

* “Mr. Marriott Watson has put his best work into ‘Twisted eglantine,’ and has scored a distinct triumph in Sir Piers Blakiston—an achievement, we should imagine, of no small difficulty.”

Bethany, a village in middle Georgia, is the scene of a novel which describes southern life during the period immediately preceding and during the earlier years of the Civil war. The author is a well-known writer of both biography and history and his present work is almost an autobiography, for he tells of the old South as he knew it in his boyhood. The greater part of the book is taken up with the comparison of Toombs and Stephens, their characters and the issues for which they stood. The slavery question is discussed freely, but while showing a burning loyalty to the South, there is no bitterness toward the North.

“A novel of a rambling sort, although the element of truth is much larger than the element of invention. The fire-eating southerner has not often been exhibited, in either history or fiction, more truthfully and vividly than in the present work. We fear that Mr. Watson is still sadly in need of reconstruction.” W. M. Payne.

“Is scarcely a novel at all. It is history localized and presented from the deliberately provincial point of view. Is probably more nearly veracious than any picture of southern life ever given by a southern author. It is a brilliant interpretation, based upon impressions received with the vividness of adoring youth, and written out with the restraint and judgment of a mature mind. Mr. Watson’s literary style is not always good, is often too insolently local in phrasing, but it is always graphic and honest.”

In this new edition of his works, the author “has made several alterations, even in his greater poems, changes which tend undoubtedly to perfect the original. The two volumes before us are not large, though they contain a 373good many poems not to be found in the ‘Collected works.’” (Spec.) The poems are critical, philosophical, and political.

* “This is such an edition of a poet’s work as one usually waits for till the author has ceased to be, or at least to write.”

“We would make but one censorious comment. The political verses should have been kept out.”

In this little volume uniform with the “Freedom of faith” series, the author discusses the nature, purpose, conditions, difficulties, and gain of prayer.

* Way, Thomas R. and Dennis, G. R. Art of James McNeill Whistler: an appreciation. $2. Macmillan.

A third and cheaper edition of a book which “contains chapters on Whistler’s various styles and subjects, with many illustrations, some of them in color, and a single chapter on the artist as a writer. It is not a life of Whistler; it is an appreciation merely.”—N. Y. Times.

* “The new edition is an excellent compact little book, not differing except in outward details from its predecessors.”

A young Wall street broker, Carey Grey, wakes up one morning to find himself in Paris with a new name, new friends, and his black hair and beard bleached yellow. It develops that he has come under the power of an old phrenologist and chemist who is passing him off as the crown prince of the small kingdom of Budaria, whose king is dying. Grey has come to himself because the old scientist’s power is weakened by a fatal illness, but he keeps up the delusion in order to trap the other conspirators. The complications are many; Grey learns that he has been forced to embezzle from his own New York firm while under this strange influence and his friends believe him dead and dishonored; it is only after many adventures that he vindicates his honor, and re-wins his American fiancée.

“Its treatment lacks distinction, but the tale has one or two features of originality. It is not a bad specimen of its class: lively, entertaining and tolerably ingenious.”

“Here we have still another modification of the Zenda story and one which shows ingenuity.”

“The colors in which this comedy are dressed are over strong, but the comedy itself is fairly consistent and interesting.”

The wheat princess, an American girl whose father has cornered the wheat market, is living with her aunt and her uncle, who is a philanthropist, in an old villa on the outskirts of Rome. The wheat famine tells heavily upon the Italian peasants; the newspapers blazon her father’s name, the peasants rise in hot indignation, with cries of “Wheat! wheat!” and her uncle, who has given so much for them, is besieged in his luxurious villa. In the end the Americans, their altruistic plans laid low, return to America, but the troublous times among the poor of Italy have brought to the big hearted wheat princess the love of her uncle’s friend, the man who has shared his unselfish dreams.

A volume of the Belles-lettres series. The play-wright’s two masterpieces, “The white devil,” and “The duchess of Malfy,” in critical text with the original spelling. An introduction and critical notes are included among the editorial helps.

Weingartner, (Paul) Felix. Symphony since Beethoven; tr. by Maude Barrows Dutton. $1. Ditson.

This book about modern symphonies, by the conductor of the Berlin royal symphony concerts, and of the Kaim orchestra, is in its second German edition. “He holds that no other symphonies comparable to those of Beethoven in lofty grandeur, deep significance and perfection of beauty, have ever been composed.... He has small praise for the successors of the god of his idolatry in the symphony: a kindly word for Schubert, Mendelssohn, Bruckner; condemnation for Schumann and Brahms; mere cursory mention of Tschaikoffsky, Dvorak, Rubinstein, Borodin, Raff, Goldmark, Saint-Saens, César Franck and Sinding ... Favoring criticism on Berlioz and Liszt for their symphonic poems.... Discussion of Richard Strauss, whose earlier tone-poems the author says he admires, but whose later, and greater works he cannot appreciate.” (Ind.)

“An interesting and stimulating essay, albeit so short as to be fragmentary in parts. The translation of this essay into English was worth while, but one regrets that it was not more skilfully done.”

“This book aims to bring together as much information as possible from ancient and modern literature, from the reports of archæologists, and from the study of specimens in museums and elsewhere, in regard to all that relates to color as used by the Greek painters of old. The book is amply illustrated.”—Outlook.

“Miss Weir possesses a delightful enthusiasm for the Greek painters’ art, supported by knowledge of ancient and modern archæological writings as well as familiarity with art works.”

“A decidedly interesting if somewhat formal story of the least generally comprehended of the arts of Greece.”

“A curiously offhand and chatty book upon one of the most difficult subjects known to the archæologist.”

“It is a most important addition to the popular literature of the subject. Its scheme is as 374original as it is entertaining.”

“Miss Irene Weir has ... rendered art students an incalculable service in giving them the advantage of the new light which modern discoveries have thrown upon the lost art of Greek painting.”

“Although we have to recognize how little we know, we are able to find an account of that little in the present volume.”

Weiss, Bernard. Religion of the New Testament; tr. from the Germ. by G: H. Schodde. *$2. Funk.

The object of the book is “to give a ‘brief but clear’ answer to the question, what is the religion of the New Testament?... The book is divided into three parts. In part I, Dr. Weiss describes the suppositions or conditions of the redemption described in the New Testament. In part II, he discusses the redemption in Christ proper. Here the subjects discussed are the redemptive acts of God. In the third part he treats of the realization of redemption in the individual and in the congregation, in the present and in the world to come.”—N. Y. Times.

“With all his splendid exegetical and critical qualities, Professor Weiss does not write in the spirit of the historian. But this is the only serious general criticism one feels compelled to pass upon what is, in fact, a remarkably able work.” S. M.

“As an exegete Dr. Weiss excels. Men of all schools will find something to learn from it.”

“His treatment of the subject is thoroughly objective, and strongly conservative. A somewhat less close adherence to the style of the original would have made many sentences of this translation easier reading for the unlearned, for whom the author intended it.”

A plea that Christ’s wish that “His followers might be kept from schism, and that His church might be maintained in perfect unity,” may be realized in the unification of denominations. To this end the author advocates union Bible schools and pastorates, and under such chapter headings as, Working together; The search for truth; Churches and men; Church union and patriotism, he finally arrives at, The united church of Christ.

Four energetic Dorrances left to the care of their Grandmother Dorrance once wealthy, now skilfully supporting a large family on a small annuity, bemoan their boarding house existence which seems an unbearable hardship after the free life in their Fifty-eighth street home. A part of the Grandfather’s legacy was the Dorrance domain, a rambling summer hotel, which was not easily disposed of and which these daring children propose opening and running for a season. The success of their scheme and the enjoyment which the novel experiment afforded them are told in Miss Wells’ usual sprightly and humorous manner.

The friends of “Patty at home” will find her quite as delightful to know amid the conditions of New York life, where “she resides in an apartment overlooking Central park, attends a fashionable school, makes new friends, and keeps her old ones.” (Outlook.)

“Beginning with the ancients (Aristophanes, Horace, and Juvenal) ... the selections work down to such very modern exemplars of the species as Mr. Owen Seaman and Mr. Gelett Burgess. Sprinkled through the list of authors we note such out-of-the-way names as those of Ruteboeuf, Abraham à Sancta Clara, Villon, and Béranger. The collection is, however, mainly one of English verse, from the Elizabethans on.”—Dial.

* “The selections, from innumerable authors, have been made with skill; but certain of the pieces from very minor modern authors might have been spared in favor of some omitted bits from Lowell and Holmes, both of whom are rather inadequately represented.”

* “It is ungracious to find fault where there is so much of good. We are glad to get the anthology as it stands.”

* “Contains most of the representative and well-known bits of this sort of literature.”

Wells, Carolyn, and Taber, Harry Persons. Matrimonial bureau. †$1.50. Houghton.

The story of a girl who, weary of “waiting for the prince,” sees her maid happily married thru the agency of a matrimonial bureau, and decides to start one of her own. She invites a cousin, who invites a friend, who invites another friend, and they all stay all summer. Everybody falls in love at cross purposes, a beautiful stranger arrives to confuse confusion, and it is all very complicated and amusing, but is untangled in the end.

“The efforts of a New England spinster to be a machine god are amusing and some of the conversations hang together well.”

“We have never read a more improbable tale, and not often one that so completely failed to amuse.”

“The small volume is packed with jokes of the kind visible without a glass.”

“Here and there are some love scenes very human, very delicately wrought. Briefly, ‘The matrimonial bureau’ is like the ‘Summer girl,’ passing fair, fair but passing.”

“A book of the slightest sort, hardly comedy, more accurately described perhaps as a summer farce.”

“As a literary soufflé, light, well-flavored and well-browned, this little story will be a tasty addition to the midsummer feast of reading.”

“An uneducated, awkward, and uncultivated clerk in a London draper’s establishment suddenly 375has a large fortune left him, attempts to get into high society, is made use of and swindled right and left, but finally has the courage to break away, to marry the girl of his choice, even though she be a servant girl, and to live his own life. In the end fortune smiles on him a second time, but now in moderation, and he is left a happy, contented husband and father; and, by a twist of Mr. Wells’ whimsical fancy, is made the proprietor of a bookshop which he manages on the theory that ‘one book is about as good as another.’”—Outlook.

“The book, in fact, has a purpose, but that purpose is not allowed to interfere with its vivacity; and ‘Kipps’ is, indeed, the most amusing book and at the same time the tenderest book that Mr. Wells has ever written.”

* “He has set aside the speculations of scientific imagination, and deals with warm human life to-day. This is the work which was designed for him in the end, and we cannot doubt that he will continue to devote himself to it.”

“Deals with his subject in a strong, broad manner, intensified by his understanding of such detail of life as the minor incidents of retail trade.”

“The merit of the novel, however, is not in the story, but in the observation. He never, for a single page, fails to be amusing.”

“Is a humorous story, but it is not a trifling one, and though it deals largely with humble folk, it has to do, in a broad and forceful way, with much of the seriousness of life.”

“Kipps, indeed, carries a social question to be long pondered, and the author’s side-talks are an important contribution to the old but never-ended discussion.”

* “We have found Kipps in many ways the most human and sympathetic of Mr. Wells’s stories.”

Mr. Wells departs from the Utopia-makers of the past in that his Utopia is a world-state using a universal language. The author deals “with strictly modern and current conditions, and imagines a new state of society, whose social basis has been improved and whose social problems have been settled.” (N. Y. Times.)

“Seems to us to mark an advance even on the high level of excellence which Mr. Wells had before attained.”

* “We can discover nothing in this sample, however, that goes beyond good-natured satire of conditions which none would be so poor as to defend.” A. W. S.

“There has been no work of this importance published for the last thirty years.”

“The form he has chosen for ‘A modern Utopia’ is exceedingly unfortunate. The essay appended ... is a contribution of real value to the theory of thinking and written in a style as witty and original as that of Professor James.”

“Mr. Wells meant this work as a very serious one. Many readers of it will find its perusal trying, and will fail to realize, as proper compensation for the task of reading the same, whatever grist it offers for the mind.”

“Mr. Wells’s Utopia is far the most interesting, imaginative, and possible of all the Utopias written since the inventions and discoveries of science began to colour our conceptions of the future.”

“In the present book Mr. Wells has become still more moderate and practicable and hopeful, without in the least derogating from his ingenuity and originality.” F. C. S. S.

“It is carefully thought out and reasoned, and holds together much better than the ideal commonwealths imagined by his predecessors.”

“It is an admirable piece of literature and a book of unlimited suggestiveness. As literature and as philosophy, ‘A modern Utopia’ is Mr. Wells’ masterpiece.”

“The book, both in matter and in form, has been carefully studied and thought out. Mr. Wells’s book seems hardly likely to rank as, or to remain, a classic Utopia.”

In this volume of stories Mr. Wells “has but rarely any prophetic or scientific axe to grind. His stories deal with the marvelous under many aspects, but always in the light of his half-joyous, half-whimsical humor.” (R. of Rs.)

“None of them is equal to the best of his former tales, but there are some that are very amusing and some quite gruesome.”

“Enough have surely been mentioned to show the varied entertainment which Mr. Wells offers and to indicate our opinion that he has never offered any better.”

“‘Twelve stories and a dream’ will not lower Mr. Wells’ reputation as an imaginative writer, which his previous volumes probably did.”

Wendell, Barrett. Temper of the 17th century in English literature. **$1.50. Scribner.

“Prof. Barrett Wendell, of the English department at Harvard university, has gathered his lectures on English literature, delivered on the Clark foundation at Trinity college, Cambridge (1902-‘03), into a volume.... These are the first regular lectures concerning English literature ever given by an American at an English university. Together, they are practically a literary study of the age of Dryden. The purpose in these lectures was, he declares, to indicate the manner in which the national temper of England, as revealed in seventeenth-century literature, ‘changed from a temper ancestrally common to modern England, and to modern America, and became, before the century closed, something which later time must 376recognize as distinctly, specifically, English.”—R. of Rs.

“Prof. Wendell is always interesting, whether we agree with him or not, and the Clark lectures ... have much good matter in them, with perhaps as much that is by no means so good.”

“Smoothness of style ... Though this volume is of such high merit that it will take a place at once as one of the recognized authorities on its subject, it is not likely that all its positions will be accepted without a demur.” Herbert W. Horwill.

“The title of this book is more philosophical than the contents warrant; instead of obtaining one final impression, we remember the separate remarks—often wise, suggestive and illuminating—on separate authors.”

“Its author seems wholly destitute of any pretension to critical discernment. The diction and style, as might be expected, are on a par with the rest of the book. It is scandalous that a great university like Cambridge should tolerate such standards of information and criticism as this volume exhibits.”

Dr. Wertheimer’s monograph on the Duke of Reichstadt makes use of a vast deal of new biographical material. The study covers the political setting of the life in detail, painstakingly going over the whole piece of statecraft involved in Napoleon’s Austrian marriage, dwelling at length upon the influence which the alliance exerted upon the policy of Napoleon and of his opponents. The short uneventful life of Napoleon’s son is of less interest than the stirring history which the father tried to shape for the glory of a permanent kingdom. “It is to the fact that he was his father’s son that the fame of the Duke of Reichstadt is due ... the shadow of a great name surrounds him, and historical writers record and discuss his every act as if he had been a real king, instead of merely the If, Yes, and Perhaps of Modern European history.” (N. Y. Times.)

“As a rule, however, the narrative runs easily—perhaps more so than is the case with most translations.”

* “The translation, on the whole, is very satisfactory, though there are occasional lapses into awkwardness or obscurity. Here and there one may question the justice of Dr. Wertheimer’s remarks. But these and a few other blemishes do not detract from the value of a most careful and interesting work, which presents the first complete and authoritative account of the life of this unfortunate prince.”

“Mr. de Wertheimer’s book is a valuable contribution to historical knowledge. The author’s style, however, is somewhat confused, and his judgment is far from critical.”

“He has scraped everything together, sorted it out, sifted it, and arranged it in what must be acknowledged to be an interesting story. The matter is not important, however. The English translation of Mr. de Wertheimer’s book is good.”

* “It is as interesting as it is valuable as a contribution to a strangely neglected period of European history.”

* “Dr. Wertheimer has chosen wisely to present the details of a sad career with the fulness, the accuracy, and the impartiality of a scholar.”

West, George Stephen. Treatise on the British freshwater algae. *$3.50. Macmillan.

“Certainly there is no book upon any phase of cryptogamic botany for which there has been so much need, and for which the demand in recent years, has been so great, as one dealing comprehensively with the freshwater algæ.... A good general discussion of the methods of multiplication and reproduction in algæ, together with a reference to the question of polymorphism and a rather full exposition of the particular theories of the author regarding phylogeny, precedes the specific treatment of the six classes, Rhodophyceæ, Phaeophyceæ, Chlorophyceæ, Heterokonteæ, Bacillarieæ, and Myxophyceæ.... The book is fully illustrated and too much cannot be said for the successful effort to secure new and accurate drawings of not only the more recently described genera, but for the older forms as well.”—Science.

“The work has been thoroughly done throughout, and its value is greatly increased by an exhaustive index. The plates are sufficiently characteristic for most identifications, and the descriptions and keys are good.”

“Is particularly well qualified to write such a book. The need of a treatise upon the freshwater algæ has been referred to; that this book will come as near to filling such a need as one of its scope, written by one man, could possibly be expected, is all that is necessary to say regarding its worth.” George T. Moore.

A biographical sketch of Watts by W. K. West, with an essay on his art, and an outline of the sixty-five pictures reproduced in the book, by Romualdo Pantini.

Westcott, Rev. Frank Nash. Church and the good Samaritan; mission addresses to men. **$1. Whittaker.

A series of Lent addresses to men. They include The lawyer’s question, The Jericho road, The priest and the Samaritan, The Samaritan and the Jew, The wayside inn, The two pence.

A defence of the conception of the church which is held by the “high church” party of the Anglican communion. It regards the church as a divine institution let down from above, the dispenser of truth and salvation as against the view held by the members of that communion in common with other protestants that the church is a historic growth which has developed out of human needs and which is seeking truth and salvation. The author means by “catholicity” the former conception of the church, but the term ought to be big enough to include both views.

“Billy’s coming will be a pleasure to readers of all ages, for Billy is a delightful addition to the real small boys of fiction. His parents send him from India to Rose Cottage, England, where he is a source of continual surprises, not always agreeable to his maiden aunts. He takes a hand in the love affairs of the ‘youngest and prettiest’ Miss Primrose.”—Outlook.

“The reviewer fancies that the whole book is much more likely to interest mature, and even elderly readers, than children.”

377“A delightfully humorous story that is told with a wholly charming grace and simplicity.”

“The story is placed in the early part of the last century; the heroine, engaged to one man, elopes with another, on whose head there is a price. The couple are captured the day of their flight from the girl’s home, but the man escapes, leaving the girl in the hands of the law. The world thinks her an accomplice, and as her family repudiates her, she has to fight her battle alone.”—Pub. Opin.

“A novel that is likely to be read with delight on a wet day in a country house or on a railway journey.”

“It is as good as any of those which have preceded it from the same pen, and to say this is to pay it a high compliment.”

“Its structure is rather flabby. Looking back over the book, we feel that we ought to have been more excited over it than we were; but the truth is that Mr. Weyman is both wordy and a little uncertain.”

“In ‘Starvecrow farm’ there are the same easy flow of narrative, the lively dialogue, the dramatic sense, and the well-developed plot which characterize all that this author does.”

“As a vigorous, wholesome, and well-constructed tale it deserves to win wide acceptance.”

A simple text-book, which the author has written “in a gossipy style, using very few technical terms and explaining every seemingly difficult passage, just as though he were giving oral instruction.” (N. Y. Times.) There are photographic reproductions of windows in English churches, and many diagrams.

A society novel, cruel in its reality. Lily Bart, beautiful and twenty-nine, the orphaned child of a New York merchant, feels her whole being calling for the stamp of permanent possession upon the luxury which she has always enjoyed at the hands of her friends. Relentlessly the author enmeshes her in the toils of debt incurred at bridge; in scandal, the price of a trip upon a friend’s yacht; and, almost in a loveless marriage,—only the wealthy Rosedale himself recoils from it when society no longer smiles upon Miss Bart. She is dropped from stage to stage of society, the unhappy victim of circumstance and environment, but holding the reader’s full sympathy thru an innate nobility which is submerged but never eliminated. The end is hard—but could it all have ended otherwise?

“Mrs. Wharton has done many good things—she has never done anything better than this. Her dialogue is clever, fresh and sparkling; she has a fine discrimination—a natural, unstudied discrimination—in the use of words; and her style is graceful and fluent.”

* “It is a pitiful story, told with restraint and insight and not a little subtlety.”

* “As a piece of artistic creation, it falls short of supreme excellence.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.

“She still has a fine manner, but it is like the fine gowns of her heroines, a fashion of the times for interpreting decadent symptoms in human nature. What she says will not last, because it is simply the fashionable drawing of ephemeral types and still more ephemeral sentiments.”

* “Miss Bart is a blend of Becky Sharp and Gwendolen Harleth. She is not as compellingly human as the one, nor as inspiring as the other. Frankly, Mrs. Wharton has surpassed George Eliot in this theme. Not only is Lily Bart more congenial and better, as a human variation, than Gwendolen or Becky, but Mrs. Wharton’s style is more plastic and seductive than that of Mrs. Lewes.”

* “A dozen other novels of the year are good; but this book is really good. What Mrs. Wharton appears to lack is in a word the creative gift at its fullest. She sees with certainty and her hand is as sure as her eye. But with the richest imaginations something takes place beyond this.”

* “A feeling for fair play obliges us to protest Mrs. Wharton’s picture as a prejudiced one, yet it is not consciously unveracious. Though depressing, it is not wholly unprofitable.”

“The story is the product of the most carefully calculated, the most skilfully handled, artistic values and effects; but the workmanship is the manner, not the substance of the novel. A story of such integrity of insight and of workmanship is an achievement of high importance in American life.”

* “We have touched only the main theme, which like the whole story, is worked out in a manner to stamp the writer a genius, and give her name a place in the history of American literature.”

“Her reputation will certainly not suffer any decline by the publication of her new novel.”

Wharton, Edith Newbold (Jones). Italian backgrounds; il. by E. C. Peixotto. **$2.50. Scribner.

Mrs. Wharton says, “As with the study of Italian pictures, so it is with Italy herself. The country is divided not in partes tres, but in two; a foreground and a background. The foreground is the property of the guidebook and of its product, the mechanical sightseers; the background, that of the dawdler, the dreamer, and the serious student of Italy.” The nine chapters are—An Alpine posting inn, A midsummer week’s dream, The sanctuaries of the Pennine Alps, What the hermits saw, A Tuscan shrine, Sub umbra liliorum. March in Italy, Picturesque Milan, and Italian backgrounds: then there are twelve illustrations reproduced from Peixotto pictures.

“The book is written with genuine knowledge, with large and generous sympathy, and in excellent English.”

“Her style is extraordinarily good, but her thought is pedantic and inhuman.” G. R. Carpenter.

378“Has an air of spontaneity, as well as of competence, an irresistible grace, countless descriptive felicities, and the fervent glow of a genuine enthusiasm.”

“Through this traveller’s story runs a fine thread of scholarship, of savoir faire, of cosmopolitanism, not easily to be matched in travel-literature. The book has what we call distinction of style, as impossible to resist as to define.” Anna Benneson McMahan.

“When Mrs. Wharton leaves the countryside and speaks of pictures and sculpture, she is apt to be less satisfactory. She is almost too impartial in her appreciation.”

“Mrs. Wharton has many unusual qualifications for writing on the art of Italy in its many phases, among others a brilliant style, historic research and a catholicity of taste.”

“Like the text, they [the illustrations] press the ‘culture’ of elusive expression very near to the vanishing point.” Walter Littlefield.

“This attractive quarto shows the combination of thorough knowledge based on original research, ability to enter into and value different aspects of life and different forms of art, and a finished and suggestive style.”

“The book is full of exquisite impressions concerning matters not to be found in the guide books.”

“An intimate acquaintance with Italian art and nature, an insight into southern life, and an exquisite literary style,—all of which belong to this writer—are necessary for such a study.”

To come so absolutely under the spell of Italy’s garden-magic as is possible thru Mrs. Wharton’s word exposition and Mr. Parrish’s color interpretation, is almost as rare a privilege for the traveler who has visited those haunts as for the stay-at-home tourist. Magic which in its first supernatural impression defies analysis, often yields to laws of formation in the sober moments of consideration. Thus does Mrs. Wharton show that the seemingly spontaneous glory of Italian gardens is, after all, the result of garden-craft which the architects of the Renaissance resolved into a three-fold problem: adaptation of the garden to the architectural lines of the house it adjoins; adaptation to the requirements of the inmates of a house, in the sense of providing shady walks, sunny bowling-greens, parterres and orchards, all conveniently accessible; and, lastly, adaptation to the landscape around. There are fifty illustrations, in color and in black and white by Maxfield Parrish. Months of close observation and sympathetic study have been devoted to the large undertaking and the harmony with the subject matter which the De Vinne press has wrought into the book workmanship is exquisite.

“Mr. Parrish has performed his part of the task in a delightful and satisfactory way. The impression, the atmosphere, created by the illustrations, is not sustained in the text.”

“The text is well written and contains much information concerning the villas and gardens selected for treatment.”

“This is a notable volume, all the more so from the archæological and historical associations which it recalls.”

Wheeler, Candace Thurber (Mrs. Thomas M.). Doubledarling and the dream spinner. †$1.50. Fox.

Doubledarling is a little girl “twice as good and twice as beautiful as other children.” When she tells her father how her little discarded red shoes led her in the night to the land where the old shoes go, he promises her a dream machine which will tell her wonderful stories all night long; and on Christmas morning her dream spinner hangs on a peg by her bed ticking out story after story to her. The book tells about these dreams and also of Doubledarling’s waking hours, her friends and her pets. One regrets the commonplace realism which lets an ordinary burglar finally make away with the dream spinner. Dora Wheeler Keith has illustrated the volume.

Wheeler, Everett Pepperell. Daniel Webster, the expounder of the constitution. **$1.50. Putnam.

“This is at once a tribute to the genius of Daniel Webster and a handy manual to the decisions which, following Webster’s arguments before the United States Supreme court, have molded the constitution to make it adequate to our needs. While Mr. Wheeler’s chief concern is with the constitutional questions laid before the court, he is not unmindful of the senatorial side of Webster’s career from the constitutional standpoint, and chapters are given over to the replies of Calhoun and Hayne, involving the nature of the republic, and to the famous ‘Seventh of March’ speech, which brought such disappointment to the enemies of slavery.... Interest is heightened by the inclusion of hitherto unpublished accounts of several of the more important cases, and by an appreciative study of Webster as a lawyer.”—Outlook.

“Its manifest position as a special pleader for Mr. Webster’s memory. Is particularly desirable as giving us new light on old subjects through its first publication of many facts which aid to a clearer view of the principles of the constitution.”

A brief discussion, with a summary of conditions, laws and regulations governing the movement of population to and from the British empire, the United States, France, Germany, Belgium, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, and Scandinavia.

* “Such data is not easily accessible to the average student or legislator, and the volume will be of great service.”

“A useful work of reference. Such frantic statements as these are a serious disfigurement in a book professing claims to accuracy.”

“This hasty ‘book of the hour,’ for such it evidently is, interests in parts, particularly in its emphasis upon emigration as a matter of international concern.”

“His summaries seem excellent and correct. The observations and brief discussions with 379which he accompanies them are illuminating and to the point.”

“Mr. Whelpley’s careful study of the general problem of emigration and immigration throughout Europe, our colonies, and the United States will be found a particularly useful addition to a class of recent books that is now somewhat extensive.”

“Mr. Whelpley’s ideas are worthy of respect, and the materials which he has provided should be invaluable to the political student.”

Twenty-eight Roman Catholic stories written by fourteen Roman Catholic authors. The stories are love stories, but some are of filial love, some of maternal love, and some of the love of religion. The authors include Anna T. Sadlier; Mary T. Waggaman; Magdalen G. Rock; Mary E. Mannix; and Mary G. Bonesteel.

Essays on Rabelais, Phillippe de Comines, Philemon, Holland, Montaigne, The library of an old scholar (the poet William Drummond), Robert Burton, and Jacques Casanova.

“The appreciation is clear and just, and the author is to be congratulated on the decision and delicacy of his touch and the simplicity of his style. The average of the volume is fully up to that high standard of culture which is evident in all Mr. Whibley’s published works.” Frank Schloesser.

“There is perhaps little art in the various portraits, and there is certainly no pretence at originality; but there is sympathetic understanding, and thorough and conscientious labor.”

“‘Literary portraits’ shows marked ability and is to be classed among the books of criticism of the higher standard.”

“Mr. Whibley has finished these portraits with a skillful and graceful pen. Readers in a critical mood and readers for entertainment will both find his work attractive.”

“We miss the illuminating phrase. The fresh judgment and the historical setting is often wholly omitted. Mr. Whibley has ‘the practiced hand,’ and is apt to be content with that amount of accomplishment.”

“This seems to us the best of Mr. Whibley’s volumes of essays, the most mature in style and thought, and the most attractive in subject-matter. He has studied each of his writers with a minute care and has read deeply in contemporary literature, so that they are presented to us in the true setting of their age. His judgments have now the sanity which can only come from a full experience and a full enjoyment of a wide field of literature. His style ... has acquired a body and force which it did not always possess, and his essays are admirable, if for nothing else, for their mastery of clear, graceful, and vigorous prose. Sometimes his comment is a little over-strained.”

Whiffen, Edwin T. Samson marrying, Samson at Timnah, Samson Hybristes, Samson blinded: four dramatic poems. $1.50. Badger, R: G.

These four dramatic poems deal with four dramatic incidents in the life of Samson. The first tells of Samson’s revenge upon the Philistine youths who, at his wedding-feast, illtreat his father and win from his bride the solution to a certain riddle. The second tells of further revenge upon the Philistines and includes the setting of foxes and fire brands among their corn and vineyards. In the third drama Samson is tried before the elders of Judah, and his mother reveals to him his divinely appointed mission—to free his people. In the fourth the action centers about the effort of Delilah to discover the secret of his strength and closes with Samson blind and a captive.

Thirteen short stories of life in northwestern Canada. “Most of them deal with the days when the factors and commissioners of the Hudson bay company were the lords of the land, and ruled with an iron hand. The history of the great fur company is full of romance, and there is a peculiar fascination about life in those northern regions.” (Outlook.)

“Some of his stories are thrilling, some humorous, some tame. In narrative Mr. Whittaker has a good deal of manner—too much, and not always his own.”

“The stories are full of strength and vigor and the atmosphere of the woods.”

“No one has so pictured the life of the trappers and traders of that country since Gilbert Parker wrote of ‘Pretty Pierre’ and his people.”

A record of diplomatic service which began in 1854 when Mr. White went to St. Petersburg as attaché of the American legation, and ended when on his seventieth birthday, 1902, he resigned his duties as ambassador to Germany. The two volumes contain an account of his work as state senator, as a college professor, and finally, president of Cornell, as a commissioner to Santo Domingo, and the Paris exposition (1878), as minister to Germany and Russia, as a member of the Venezuelan boundary commission, and president of the American delegation at the peace conference of the Hague (1899). There are descriptions of the emperor of Germany and Czar Nicholas II, and their courts, and many anecdotes and crisp comments. The man, his life, his many fields of labor, and the great men and events with which he came in contact, are all set forth in detail.

“The value of the volumes seems chiefly to arise from the charmingly simple tale of personal experience told by a man of wisdom and insight, a tale told with considerable literary skill.”

“In ‘The autobiography of Andrew D. White’ we have one of the most brilliant, interesting, instructive and in many ways important works of recent decades. These examples will be sufficient to illustrate the reckless character of our author’s statements whenever the facts run counter to his prejudices and views which in later years he has imbibed from the privileged interests 380and reactionary influences that have environed him.”

“The volumes are full of interest for the general reader, but so ill arranged that those may be repelled who by better construction would have been attracted.”

“Its interest is due not to any novelty of fact, for the entire book is an open page of history, but to an instinct or habit of truthfulness that pervades its pages like an atmosphere.” Theodore T. Munger.

“I have found this a most readable book from cover to cover, the story of a strenuous life told with simple directness.” Jeanette L. Gilder.

“In arrangement the work is a model. By his skill in the selection of material, and by his admirably lucid and even style, the author has made every page intensely interesting.” Clark S. Northrup.

“To the student of the problems of higher education in America, Dr. White’s ‘Autobiography,’ full as it is of matters of general interest, should prove especially interesting and important.” Clark S. Northup.

“Altogether this is a full book, with something for everybody, putting one in touch on many sides with modern times; an adequate narrative of an exceptional career.”

“A better account of the founding of Cornell, of which he was so long the honored and successful head, has never been given, and perhaps in no other of his pages do we see so clearly the practical idealism, which, running throughout his life story like a golden thread, makes it so well worth the telling.”

“Viewed as a narrative the book is excellent, and only needs more continuity; viewed as a collection of essays, it is naturally inadequate.”

“By the side of the recent contributions of Hoar, Stillman, Newcomb, Dwight, Le Conte, Villard, and Conway, the autobiography of White will hold an honored place.”

“Nor does it possess that intimate charm which has made a literary classic of more than one ingenuous personal narrative. There is little in these two volumes which can fail to interest the serious reader in one way or another.” H. W. Boynton.

“If he is not entirely without prejudice of egotism, he displays those qualities after the manner of great men.”

“These volumes ... have a value for all his countrymen not surpassed by any American autobiography within our knowledge.” James M. Whiton.

“Mr. White is an octogenarian, with a full life behind him, but two hundred pages would have been ample space for it.”

“There is a want of continuity. Repetitions occur, and sometimes when they were unintended. He has written a book to interest all who are interested in the modern world.” Simeon E. Baldwin.

This poem is dedicated to the American delegates of the International peace conference, which met at the Hague, May 18, 1899. It sets forth the harm which war has done thruout history, and declares that the time for universal peace is here. It closes with the prayer,

The strands of this story are marvelously twisted. A villain, a fiend in human shape, has plunged his family into dishonor to gain his ends, but by the aid of a clever doctor, whose future had also been involved in the general ruin, a young novelist who applies fiction methods to the case, and a girl cousin who feigns death in order to be free to solve the mystery, the whole is ferreted out, bit by bit. It is an ingenious plot with manifold complications.

White, George. Practical course of instruction in personal magnetism, telepathy, and hypnotism. $1.25. Dutton.

A practical course of instruction setting forth the manner in which any student may acquire powers over himself, over his fellow men, and even over time and space.

White, T. Hyler. Petrol motor and motor cars: a handbook for engineers, designers, and draughtsmen. *$1.40. Longmans.

A book which the author feels is needed, because recent automobile literature has not been written for the benefit of designers. Practical rules for the design of the essential parts of motors and motor cars are given, accompanied by figures. There are tables of various kinds to facilitate calculations and to convert English units into metric measures. The illustrations are good, but are not drawn to a given scale.

“The formulas which are given seem to be of a rational nature; but to the reviewer it seems a fault that the derivation of the same are never given. The author discusses at various places the several alternatives for the many parts of a modern automobile; he gives his reason for his choice very clearly and never uses superfluous words, for which fact he deserves praise. Of course it ought not to be necessary to state that it is not always possible to agree with his conclusions. As a book for the special purpose of helping the designers of these engines it appears to the reviewer that it is the best existing book in the English language, notwithstanding the criticisms which have been made above.” Storm Bull.

This is the third volume in the Literary lives series which aims to furnish biographical and critical estimates. It treats of Bunyan’s life and characteristics. “Bunyan is not altogether the representation of Puritanism ... the qualification necessary in order to understand and properly value him is not theological learning, nor in fact any kind of learning or literary skill, but the experience of life, with its hopes and fears, bright day and black night.” “Pilgrim’s progress” is fully treated and there are lesser studies of “Grace abounding,” the “Life and death of Mr. Badman,” and “The holy war.”

“If the reader would spend the amount of time required to read this book in the careful perusal of any one of Bunyan’s great pieces, he 381would probably catch more of the spirit of the Bedford dreamer, and gain a clearer and higher conception of his genius, than these pages by Mr. White are able to furnish.”

* “The writer does with success what he has to do, and imagines very well the personality of the great John.”

“The final chapter is a very unsatisfactory treatment of ‘Bunyan and Puritanism.’”

“A very interesting study. Mr. White has so many admirable things to say of the man and the spirit of his writings that one regrets that he should have devoted so much of his space to a detailed summary of Bunyan’s principal works.”

“The book proves to be a sympathetic, even a devout, study of its interesting theme.”

“An interesting and well written biography. But it lacks background. The picture of the times is inadequate.”

“Mr. White has made us see Bunyan the man, and through him the great, sober, deadly earnest English folk, of whom he was the interpreter.”

Whitefield, George. Selected sermons; ed. with introd. and notes, by Rev. A. R. Buckland. **50c. Union press.

The text of this volume is with some slight changes that of the “Sermons on important subjects” published in 1828. The six sermons are entitled—The necessity and benefits of religious society, Regeneration, A penitent heart the best New Year’s gift, The almost Christian, Glorifying God in the fire, and Jacob’s ladder.

Lilian Whiting weaves a charm into the living drama that was set in the scenic enchantment of Florence during the period of Walter Savage Landor. She draws the Florence still vital with color, the romance, the tragedy and passionate exaltation and despair of the fifteenth century, and shows the sympathetic common interests of the English and American colony including permanently the Brownings and the Trollopes, and welcoming as visitors from time to time, George Eliot, Frances Power Cobbe, Frederick Tennyson and a number of the Brook farm men and women. The book creates the author’s usual ideal atmosphere, and is handsomely illustrated from photographs.

* “There are so many good things in Miss Whiting’s book, that the pity is all the greater that the writer has never acquired the literary virtues of restraint and selection.”

* “Uses a great mass of material with fine discretion. At times her pen seems to flag, and she repeats from mere weariness; but far oftener she shows the nice discrimination of the true critic and the grace of the trained writer.”

The realization of the Kingdom of Heaven in the hearts of men right now and here through the great power of love is the problem which Lilian Whiting meets. This joy may be achieved by the soul “so that neither death nor privation nor loss nor disappointment, not trial in any of its innumerable forms, shall dim its radiance or diminish its energy.”

In chapters entitled The delusion of death, Realizing the ideal, Friendship as a divine relation, The ethereal world, The supreme purpose of Jesus, An inward stillness. The miracle moment may dawn on any hour, Miss Whiting sets forth her convictions regarding the relation of this life to the life eternal.

“It is unusually rich in helpful thought for those who enjoy transcendental and broadly religious discussions.”

“The book is entirely characteristic of the author, and as such will recommend itself to her considerable public.”

“She weaves a fabric not overstrong, but light, and firm enough for every-day uses.”

* Whitney, Caspar. Jungle trails and jungle people; travel, adventure and observation in the Far East. **$3. Scribner.

“Recent travels in the Far East, in India, Sumatra, Malay, and Siam.... The record of a trip prompted by the lust of adventure, and by the desire to see strange lands and strange peoples, and to hunt strange animals. Mr. Whitney has caught the trick of making a little human interest enhance the vivid story of some thrilling or stirring hunting adventure.... Hunters or servants, enlighten us as to the mental and moral habits of the natives of the countries described.”—Dial.

* “Mr. Whitney has written a volume of travel and adventure that will make his name conspicuous among American hunters.” H. E. Coblentz.

* “If he had been less journalistic in style and the printer more careful, the reader’s pleasure would have been increased. Mr. Whitney has given us a pleasing account of a region little known to the white man.”

* “His descriptions of some of his guides and hunters are intensely diverting. He makes very real the life in the jungle.”

“All the sonnets and most of the songs give evidence both of temperament and of the study of the older poets, and frequently attain a richness of tone that neither could have accomplished without the other.” (Nation.) “Their mood is chiefly that of quiet wistfulness, touched by the fears and sorrows of uncertain human fate, but open also to the influences of wholesome joy and unaffected sentiment.” (N. Y. Times.)

“Every one of which is a finished bit of art. The work is of so even an excellence that it offers little room for choice.” Wm. M. Payne.

The marginal drawings and the many full page pictures in color by Charlotte Harding, with which this volume of little-folk’s verses is illustrated make it an unusually attractive giftbook.

* “Challenges comparison with Betty Sage’s ‘Rhymes of real children’ of a year ago. The verse is correspondingly humorous, perhaps a trifle more sophisticated.”

* “The verses are not without point, but are entirely lacking in that ‘turn of the phrase’ which makes the verses of Stevenson or Lewis Carroll dwell in the memory of a child.”

A new popular edition of a story which follows the fortunes of a young woman in search of her ne’er-do-well husband. He has some claim to literary attainments, starts off on a tour of fortune hunting, and becomes mentally deranged. The scenes shift from Kansas plains to Cripple Creek, thence to San Diego, and the story ends happily despite the fact that Barbara’s Enoch Arden reappears after her second marriage.

Life in the West, where the interests of the ranchman and the farmer are at war is shown thru the medium of story characters. The hero who enters the fight in the Colorado legislature, the doctor who sacrifices all for the unworthy woman who was once his wife, the rancher, choleric but honest, and the son who disgraces him, stand out clearly in the scenes of love, political strife and danger.

“Is a wonderfully vivid presentation of the largeness of Western horizons. Mr. Whitson is not so happy in his love stories as in his politics and adventure.”

A book of biographic data about living Englishmen. This edition contains over seventeen thousand biographies, each of which has been submitted for personal revision.

Sixteen lectures upon the apostle Paul, which follow his life and form a comprehensive study of him as preacher, pastor, man of prayer, and chief of sinners, from the first lecture, Paul as a student, to the last, Paul the aged. Five sermons, and an appreciation of Walter Marshall are also included in the volume.

Whyte, Rev. Alexander. Walk, conversation and character of Jesus Christ our Lord. $1.50. Revell.

Addresses offered to the multitude which are “innocent of criticism, but beautifully devout and sweet.” (Outlook.)

“Is composed of original, somewhat visionary, studies of the life of Christ.”

“Is a simple in thought, not obtrusively original, and expressive of a genuine personal religion.”

Wiborg, Frank. Commercial traveller in South America; being the experiences and impressions of an American business man on a trip through Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, the Argentine and Brazil. **$1. McClure.

“Mr. Wiborg’s business trip around the coast and across the continent of South America is ... an individual view of a business proposition, and is made readable by descriptions—a business man’s descriptions—of the beauty of the country, and enlivened by some travelling ‘anecdotes.’ A well-drawn map elucidates the whole considerably and makes a very unified piece of work.”—Pub. Opin.

“Its descriptions of the country where conditions have changed rapidly have some value because of their freshness and of the writer’s candid expression of an alert business man’s ideas.”

“Principally as a plea for more intimate business relations between the north and south continents of this hemisphere the work is of value.”

Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Smith) (Mrs. G. C. Riggs). Rose o’ the river. †$1.25. Houghton.

The simple story of Rose, a country girl, “a fragile pink rose blossoming on the river’s brink,” and Stephen Waterman, a sturdy young farmer who lives on the other side of the Saco, is prettily told in this volume. Rose’s fancy for a city man interrupts their love for a time, but in the end she returns happily to Stephen. As a background for the slight plot, Mrs. Wiggin gives us the dangerous trade of the lumberman, and the river, a thing of beauty, strength and passion.

“Mrs. Wiggin has contributed a charming picture to the ever-increasing gallery that shows us American country life.”

“With a slight plot and commonplace incident, the author, through her clever delineation of Maine manners and peculiarities, makes up an amusing story that may be read in a couple of hours.”

* “The originality and humor that belong to Mrs. Wiggin’s best work are altogether lacking. In spite of a certain rather specious charm, ‘Rose o’ the river’ must be classed with the pot-boilers.”

* “It is ‘manufactured’ from the start, and the attempt to bestow ‘color’ and stir emotion are cruelly patent, tho perfectly null.”

“Rose is a pretty girl, and her story is a pretty story with a pretty moral.”

* “‘Rose o’ the river’ is as slender a tale as ever walked into print on the merits of an author’s name.”

383“The story is written with a graceful sprightliness which is always part of Mrs. Wiggin’s stories, but beside those other two [Rebecca and Penelope] Rose simply cannot live.”

“The author, as is usual with her, keeps well on the right side of the line that divides sentiment from sentimentality.”

“Her shrewdness and humour act as antiseptics to her strong vein of sentiment. She is tender without being effusive, reticent without any taint of priggishness, entertaining without resort to extravagance of facetiousness.”

This little volume in the “Christmas stocking” series presents in a succession of colored pictures and their accompanying text an episode in the life of the denim elephant which belonged to the baby and interfered with the rest of the farmyard, the woolen rabbit, tin cat, china pig, rubber dog, cotton goose, and wooden cow, which belonged to Edith and Philip.

Wilbrandt, Adolf. New humanity; or, The Easter island; tr. by Dr. A. S Rappoport. $1.50. Lippincott.

Helmut Adler, an enthusiast and the hero of this story, is modeled after Nietzsche. He has a plan for improving the human race by taking a few chosen followers to a secluded isle where they may rear a perfect race. He loses his reason and dies, and his daughter and her lover decide that the island of perfection can exist only in their own souls.

“But we have seldom seen a worse piece of work as translation than the volume before us.”

“The story is told with a certain morbid power, but drags heavily in the telling, and is only moderately successful in the delineation of the several types of character which people its pages.” Wm. M. Payne.

“If the book is doctrinal and the doctrines heavy, it is not therefore a heavy book. On the contrary, there is so much sincerity in each point of view, combined with so much lightness of pen, that it is even absorbing reading; the way is tortuous, indeed, but not slimy.”

“The translation is sufficiently clear to carry the meaning of the German writer to the English reader. It is certainly not a work of literary art, but that does not matter.”

A masterpiece of literary expression penned by Oscar Wilde during his detention in Reading jail, and the last prose he ever wrote. Into it he has put his bitterness in his downfall, his misery in the first two months of prison discipline, and the final triumph of a chastened spirit, a conviction that “there is not a single degradation of the body which I must not try to make into a spiritualizing of the soul.”

“He has added to our literature a work which from its intrinsic value is sure to command the attention of thinking men, from its style the admiration of literary artists, from the tragedy of which it records a part the pity of human hearts.”

“The essay has ... great literary charm, and possesses unquestioned authenticity as a contribution toward the comprehension of the abnormal and in many ways inexplicable psychology of its author.”

“‘De profundis’ is one of the orchids of literature. As a self-revelation, for it is sincere even in its manifestation of his fundamental insincerity, this little book ranks with the ‘Confessions of Rousseau’ and the ‘Journal of Amiel.’ Both from its style and as a study in abnormal psychology ‘De profundis’ is one of the most noteworthy and interesting books that have appeared for a long time.”

* “Is one of the saddest, most terrible, yet most fascinating books of recent times.”

“It is one of the most sincere, of all self-revelations, and will go far towards setting Oscar Wilde’s memory right with the world for which he affected to care so little.”

“The analysis of sorrow, which occupies a considerable part of the volume, is without question, worthy of living and doubtless will live. Least of all its qualities should this book be commended for its literary style and yet for its style alone it is worthy of reading.”

Four essays which gayly and ruthlessly assail what we have thought were truths, and give us others in their place. The decay of lying, defends lying as a fine art; Pen, pencil and poison, is an artistic appreciation of that prince of poisoners, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright; The critic as artist, in dialogue form, is divided into two parts containing some remarks upon the importance of doing nothing, and upon the importance of discussing every thing. The concluding essay, The truth of masks, is styled A note on illusion.

* “Disciple-wise, the editor of the present reprint is rather zealous than judicious in his manner of introducing the text.” H. W. Boynton.

* “‘Intentions’ is an interesting book to the student of literature; it contains much that is well put; but even its virtues are vitiated by a false conception of the real meaning of life.” Edward Fuller.

Recollections of some 300 more or less well known people with whom the jester-author has come in contact. Three presidents, a king, and various great preachers, actors, politicians and soldiers contribute to the “garland of blossoms” plucked from “the gardens of humor and pathos” in the weaving of which the author modestly claims as his own merely “the string that binds them together.”

“Cannot fail to interest the many friends of the author. Mr. Wilder’s writing is on a par with his speaking.”

“The loquacity of the author, his well-known success in ‘getting around,’ his chatty tone, make a very cheerful book.”

“He tells many good stories. He nearly always lives up to his doctrine of amiability. We can recommend his book as cheerful reading.”

“The dense personal fog that surrounds this work casts diminutive shadows on the sunny 384side, and many of the anecdotes of which the book is composed savor of spice and antiquity.”

Wiley, Harley Rupert. Treatise on pharmacal jurisprudence, with a thesis on the law in general. $2.50. Hicks-Judd.

This text-book is “A pioneer in its peculiar field” and aims to give “a presentation of the principles, with a collection of the leading cases, which define the legal aspects” of the profession of pharmacy. Over 200 cases are cited and the ground defined is fully covered.

“A priestess of classic song comes with two-fold, precious offering, in this presentation of Iphegeneia, that flower of Argos ... and in the retold story of Alcestis, whom Hercules brings back from the gates of death.”—Critic.

* “A beautiful and welcome work, shone upon as by the white light of Greek art, has been contributed in this volume to the poetry of the year.” Edith M. Thomas.

* “Mrs. Drummond’s treatment of the fables has no very novel features, but she has realized its mood very vividly, and made of it a compact and moving little drama.”

“In ninety-two pages the whole system of Roman education is presented.... Dr. Wilkins divides the story of Roman education into two periods: the ‘purely national stage, when as yet there was no outside influence,’ and the effects of Greek influence from the middle of the third century, B.C. onwards on ‘the distinct departments of literary—or what we might call now secondary—education,’ and in the higher training of rhetoric and philosophy.... In four chapters, ‘Education in the ‘early republic,’ Education under Greek influence,’ ‘Elementary schools and studies,’ and ‘Higher studies—rhetoric and philosophy,’ he gives all the information that can be possibly discovered on record and the natural inferences from it.... The final chapter deals with the Endowment of education in ancient Rome.”—Acad.

* “There are few teachers who will not benefit by it; few interested in any way in education who will not read it with pleasure and profit.”

* “We know no other work to which one could go for so complete and accurate an exposition of what is known about Roman education.”

* “It contains in six chapters and a hundred pages all that is really known upon this subject, and it is the best compendium which we have seen. Its style is pleasant, and the method of treatment makes the book easy to read.”

* “The present volume offers a singularly clear, accurate, and trustworthy statement of the somewhat scanty information that is to be found in Roman writers on the subject of education.”

This volume contains an account of “the 520 conspicuous acts of bravery which have called for as many bestowals of the decoration, instituted in 1856 and made retroactive for the Crimean war. These plain tales are accompanied by a remarkably large number (392) of portraits of the recipients; by statutory and narrative appendices; by a table of awards of the cross by branches of the service; and by a personal index.” (Nation.)

“Though we must confess that some of the narratives are somewhat bald, and that the author has neglected many excellent opportunities, Mr. Wilkins’s records are interesting.”

“For more than a century there has been no moral doubt of the marriage of Maria Fitzherbert and George IV. of Great Britain. For the last seventy years it has been practically certain that the proof of that marriage was deposited in Coutts’s bank, in London ... [these papers] ... King Edward placed at the disposal of the author of this volume, and thus enabled him to prove conclusively that Mrs. Fitzherbert was the wife of George, Prince of Wales, later George IV.... Although he writes as a partisan of Mrs. Fitzherbert, he is fair-minded enough to write of the king: ... ‘His faults were many and grave, but ... there must have been some good in him or a good woman would not have loved him.”—N. Y. Times.

* “In his Life of Mrs. Fitzherbert he has reached a higher level, both as regards literary excellence and in the interest attaching to his subject.”

* “Mr. Wilkins displays his usual lucidity in narrative and firm grasp of his subject. These things [errors] do not detract materially from the merit of Mr. Wilkins’s well-written and historically important work.”

* “If Mr. Wilkins’s ideas are not remarkable, nor his style brilliant, he may be congratulated upon having accomplished the task he set himself by clearing the memory of an injured woman.”

* “Mr. Wilkins has handled his material ably, making a book at once interesting and valuable.”

* “The book is fustian from beginning to end, and is not at all below Mr. Wilkins’ form.”

* “It is easy in such a work to fall into the role of mere purveyor of scandal, but Mr. Wilkins never loses sight of his main theme, and the book is primarily a study of character. If now and then he seems to speak from a brief, on the whole he sticks soberly to facts, and his comments are generally fair and convincing. He has performed a delicate task with good taste and good sense, and has produced what is not only a volume of entertaining gossip, but a solid contribution to the history of the epoch.”

The main purpose of this book is to set forth “how the peers of England, from being an estate of the realm, grew into an independent parliamentary assembly; how and by what personal agencies the hereditary chamber became in a sense the parent of the elective; on what issues, by what degrees, it co-operated with other agencies to establish the house of commons; how then, from seeing in that chamber its natural ally, if not its political offspring, the upper house gradually discovered in the lower a rival and a foe.”

385“He has undoubtedly succeeded in his intention of writing what is most likely to find acceptance with those who read to be interested as well as informed.”

“Is a good book of gossip about the Lords, in which there are plenty of stories and few mistakes.”

“There is no partisanship in his estimates and judgments. There are some really masterly characterizations, especially among those of later times. References to authorities are few and far between, and here and there he makes statements which seem to need the support of good authorities.”

“Mr. Wilkinson writes agreeably. He also shows a considerable range of reading.”

“A book that is neither pure history nor pure gossip, and yet comes near to being both.”

“As history the value of the work is, to be sure, of rather negative character.”

“In his concluding pages Mr. Wilkinson is obviously hampered by the fact that he is dealing with events and men too near our own time, and writes too much in the style of the professional parliamentary lobbyist. But this book as a whole is a most valuable addition to the series of useful manuals to which it belongs, and is perhaps the most readable of them all.”

Wilkinson, William Cleaver. Modern masters of pulpit discourse. **$1.60. Funk.

Criticisms and appreciations of the foremost preachers of France, England and America. “As critical sketches of homiletic art they have a special value for every preacher who is, as he should be, a student of the art.” (Outlook.)

“The author evidently enjoyed writing it. But. personally, we prefer the ‘formless infelicity’ of Newman.”

“The essays are all eminently readable, and have the appearance of carefully formed judgments.”

Williams, Henry Smith, and Williams, Edward Huntington. History of science. 5v. Harper.

“The plan followed by the editor in chief and his collaborator (Dr. Edward H. Williams) is to give a brief biography of the scientific men to whose labors the world of to-day is indebted, prefacing these biographies by a brief account of the beginnings of science and connecting them by references to the circumstances amid which each investigator worked.... In his second volume Dr. Williams carries on his story through the dark ages, among the Arabians, the most famous investigators of their time, into the western world, giving the biographies and telling of the labors of astronomers, physicists, physicians, down to Franklin and Linnaeus.... In the last three volumes Dr. Williams treats of the development of the physical sciences, of the chemical and biological sciences, and of the present aspects of science.”—N. Y. Times.

“Inevitably, the murmuring shallows of science are more in evidence than its silent deeps; its thaumaturgics than its revelations. All this is somewhat trying to the student. For the student, however, there is already no lack of adequate works in this field; he should be the last to begrudge to the general reader the one book which best meets his demands.” E. T. Brewster.

“He has diligently collected an abundance of material of an encyclopedic kind. His treatment of many topics is disproportionate and cloudy. Some of the blunders are inexcusable.”

“Without many noticeable omissions or slurring of important events. The story he tells, dry as it might be under certain circumstances, is fascinating as told by Dr. Williams. The volume might almost be a history of modern British science alone; to Dr. Williams apparently, American contributions to the subject are merely incidental. Proof-reading is careless. Inconsistent in the spelling. An index of little value makes part of the last volume; the work is worthy of a good one.”

“Error is by no means absent, and some of the defects which the work betrays are surprising, but, viewing it in the large, it must be agreed that its excellencies far outweigh its faults and that it is of genuine value to both student and general reader. The style is picturesque, fluent, and clear. Altogether, the fifth volume, in striking contrast to its predecessors, must be accounted ill advised and weak.”

“A set of biographical essays entitled ‘Queens of the French stage,’ which cover the period from Louis XIV to the Revolution, beginning with Armande Béjart (Molière’s wife) and ending with the celebrated, and notorious Clairon.” (Nation.) “Mr. Williams gives both the ‘backstairs’ and the theatrical biography of his subjects.... The picture is not a pleasant one, for the book resolves itself into the story of liaisons, jealousies, infidelities, intrigues, and scandals in high life and low.... The book, a substantial volume of some three hundred and fifty quarto pages, is pleasantly illustrated with eight or ten full-page half-tone reproductions after contemporary drawings or paintings.” (Dial.)

* “Culled from many sources, these gossiping lives of six actresses make very entertaining reading.”

* “Written in a clear vigorous style, the book makes interesting, if not very stimulating reading.”

* “The volume is readable and accurate in most matters save that of French quotations, in which elementary blunders are altogether too frequent.”

* “The author’s not inconsiderable learning, tact, taste, and elegant literary style, actually do honor to the careers of the ladies whose portraits painted by famous contemporary brushes are among the art treasures of the world.”

Dr. Woodrow Wilson has written a sympathetic introduction to this volume which “in very good taste describes most of the interesting objects and places of patriotic association in that university town of Revolutionary memories.... The book is fully illustrated for the eye of the absent.” (Nation.)

“Except in one or two very minor matters, the accounts here given are accurate and sympathetic.”

The consolations of a Roman lover done into English verse. Twenty-four elegies of books I., II., III., and two short pieces of book IV., in the translation of which the author has “always been faithful to the thought and spirit of the original except in the few passages where euphemism was required.”

“Though it is in no sense a slavish rendering, it does present the substance of Tibullus with remarkable fidelity.”

Williams, William Henry. Specimens of the Elizabethan drama from Lyly to Shirley, A.D. 1580-A.D. 1642. *$1.90. Oxford.

“Nearly a hundred typical and representative scenes, complete in themselves, have been selected.... A short appreciation is prefixed to each section, notes being added.”—Dial.

“Mr. Williams does not in our judgment always do the best with the material that his plan leaves him.”

“In all substantial matters—connecting introductions, notes, and text—(so far as we have, tested it) his work as an editor seems to be well executed.”

“The specimens are generally well chosen, though it is easy to complain of some omissions.”

The popularity of “the strange adventures of a motor-car” has warranted this revised and enlarged edition, including a frontispiece by Eliot Keen, and sixteen full-page illustrations from photographs of the scenes of the story in France, Spain and Italy.

Williamson, Charles Norris, and Williamson, Mrs. Alice Muriel. My friend the chauffeur. †$1.50. McClure.

This book “relates the incidents of a motor-car trip through southern Europe of two young Englishmen (one a lord masquerading as a chauffeur), and three American women, a widow of thirty-nine masquerading as twenty-eight, her daughter of seventeen, masquerading, for her mother’s sake, as thirteen, and her niece, an heiress, masquerading as a poor relation. A prince, poor but dishonest, masquerading as a man of property and honor, hovers around as the villain of the piece.” (Outlook.)

“There is a certain charm and pleasantness in this work, which inclines one to approbation, though, truth to tell, there is but little solid merit in it.”

A traveling love story, half of which takes place in the automobile of the heroine of “The lightning conductor”; the other half is an Alpine walking tour. Lord Lane, lately jilted, finds consolation in a delightful boy, his “little pal,” whom he meets in his travels, and whom he later discovers to be an American heiress, the Mercedes for whom the Winston’s car was named. The story wanders over northern France, Switzerland, and the Italian lakes, ending at Monte Carlo.

“This story is so delightful that we are not disposed to carp over-much at the impossibility of its central situation.” William Morton Payne.

“It seems almost too slender to be gravely criticised in matters of plot, character-drawing, and the like. Its staple is sheer, wholesome fun, brisk and bubbling, but not loud or crude.” Herbert W. Horwill.

“The descriptions of the road are unusually good and the breath of the high Alps is in the book.”

“If the story taxes belief, the characters are lifelike enough to satisfy any novel reader in good standing.”

“Is, if anything, more saturated with the sunshine and fun of automobile adventure than ‘The lightning conductor.’”

“There is a pretty little romance in the book, and delightful descriptions of scenery, castles, quaint inns, and travel by donkey.”

“Dr. Williamson gives us, in a sufficiently readable and popular manner, the life of the Englishman who, in the turmoil of the eighth century, was raised by fortune and his own merits to the primacy of the church in Germany.”—Acad.

Willis, Henry Parker. Our Philippine problem: a study of American colonial policy. $1.50. Holt.

“A review of our experience as a nation in governing the Philippine islands and an appreciation of the main elements of the Philippine problem as it now presents itself.” There is a frank discussion of civil government, civil service, legal and judicial systems, constabulary, political parties, the church, American education in the islands, social conditions, and kindred subjects, all treated from the view point of an “anti-imperialist.”

* “It needs to be stated at the beginning that this book is frankly critical of our Philippine policy, and particularly of the administration thereof. Further perusal and analysis of the book will convince many readers, perhaps unwillingly, too, that the criticisms and charges it contains are not only serious and grave in the extreme, but that their authenticity seems unquestionable. In style it is unusually readable and entertaining.” J. E. Conner.

* “Is a careful ‘study of American colonial policy,’ well deserving the attention of the politician and historian. The author is thoroughly master of his subject.”

“Mr. Willis somewhat prejudices his case as an impartial critic by the expression of his own adverse opinion in the preliminary chapter, before he has presented his evidence to his readers. No modern government has ever been 387more severely impeached of high crimes and misdemeanors against the spirit of the institutions of its people, than has the government at Washington in these chapters.” John J. Halsey.

“The serious defect of the book is that it is not what it purports to be. It is really an almost unqualified accusation against the American government, not only of unfitness and failure, but of prejudice, insincerity, and sordidness.”

Willoughby, William Franklin. Territories and dependencies of the United States: their government and administration. *$1.25. Century.

The seventh volume in the “American state series.” The field covered in Dr. Willoughby’s discussion is that of the actual policy and the action taken by the United States in respect to the government and administration of the various dependent territories which have successively come under its sovereignty, and the conferring of political rights upon their inhabitants.

* Willson, Robert Newton. American boy and the social evil: from a physician’s standpoint. $1. Winston.

Four plain talks—originally delivered to students and now published by Dr. Willson “for the purpose of more widely introducing a difficult and delicate subject in a plain but thoroughly clean way.” The talks are: The nobility of boyhood: the boy’s part in life’s problem, delivered to the boys of Philadelphia during the summer of 1904, at the request of the department of public health and charities; Clean living: a problem of school and college days, a talk to the students of the University of Pennsylvania, Oct. 10, 1903; The social evil in America and The relation of the citizen to the social evil, addresses to the students of the Union Theological seminary, April, 1905.

* Wilson, Bingham Thoburn. Village of Hide and seek. $1.25. Consolidated retail booksellers.

The village of Hide and seek lies at the end of a perilous cliff journey over which Aunt Twaddles, a fat, coarse-skirted witch of the mountains, conducts two children in search of pennyroyal. In her own realm the witch is transformed into a beautiful fairy queen of the dolls, and with her brother Santa Claus furnishes rare entertainment for the visitors.

This series of talks for young people is broad in its scope and includes fifty chapters of helpful advice upon subjects which may be included under such headings as education, deportment, religion, work and spiritual development. The boy or girl who reads these discourses carefully, and heeds them cannot go far wrong in big or little things.

It has been the author’s purpose to show the possibilities within the power of a parent of supplementing the work of the teacher, to show what is distinctly the teacher’s work and what the parent’s duty and privilege. “The pedagogue studies the laws of childhood; the parent, the temperament and needs of his particular child; the school-teacher advances the children in regiment, lock-step; the parent in their natural gait, in their strugglings and self-directed sprawlings.” The book is humorously dedicated among others to parents “whose concern for their dear little ones makes them so irregularly bold that they dare consult their own reason in the education of their children, rather than wholly to rely upon old customs.”

“It is not a treatise. Its historical chapters meander and are cheerful and chatty. Of the ideals of the past it gives amusing glimpses. A book to set tongues and pens to wagging, a book to read from preface to finis with the relish of combat or agreement. Whether you deny or assent, you are bound to laugh.” Adele Marie Shaw.

“The book is witty, full of wholesome advice to parents and to teachers, and is just the kind of reading for the interested mothers in our women’s clubs.”

In eleven papers treating of such subjects as love, work, memory, suggestion, and accomplishment, is given a metaphysical and psychic study of the possibilities of man, unlimited power resident in one’s selfhood, which may be made use of thru discipline.

“Mr. Wilson’s cry is: Down with the chains! Down with limitations! And he succeeds in persuading us fully that there is no need for any of these.”

“Mr. Wilson writes of an Illinois village just before and just after the great war, of a shy boy who adored a schoolgirl with two yellow braids tied with a scarlet ribbon, of another boy who was not shy, of a marriage and a going-away to the stricken field with a sad little miniature inside a blue coat.... He writes of black Clem, who came from Virginia, and was ‘Miss Cah’line’s pus’nal property,’ in spite of the Emancipation proclamation ... of ‘Miss Caroline’ herself ... Miss Caroline’s daughter, Katharine Lansdale ... and Jim, a setter dog.”—N. Y. Times.

“It is a whimsical book that Mr. Wilson has given us this time, a book that is scarcely a novel at all, in the accepted sense, a book that drags somewhat at the start, at the same time that it is surreptitiously fastening its hold on you.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

“His new book has leisurely ease of movement and a humor that is simply captivating.” Wm. M. Payne.

“A picture of the Western town more truthful, because more affectionately touched with misty hues of the imagination, than are the raw splotches of ‘local color’ miscalled ‘novels of the West.’”

“The scheme of writing the novel in four books is a lazy one that disturbs the unities. We want the illusion of all the balls in the air at once.”

“It is a fine thing of its kind, and will please many, the pleasing of whom is worth a man’s time and trouble.”

“There is real pleasure to be derived from its perusal if too much is not expected in the way of incident and action.”

Wilson, James Grant. Thackeray in the United States, 1852-3, 1855-6. 2v. **$10. Dodd.

A two-volume account of Thackeray’s visits to the United States. His lecture course on the English humorists and the Georges are described, and various anecdotes, conversations and letters are given. There is a bibliographical list of the writings of Thackeray published in the United States, followed by Thackerayana, and the numerous mentions of him in periodicals. There are twenty-six portraits of Thackeray, many of his drawings, and several facsimiles of letters.

“Small faults are easily found, and though the book may not be as learned as possible, it is surely one that should have distinct popularity.”

“American readers will find in these two volumes nothing to complain of everything to correct an ancient notion we all had that Thackeray was cynical.”

This is not an historical romance altho the scene is laid in old Quebec. The heroine, the ward of the governor, and the hero, her childhood playmate, are both the victims of the wicked plots of the villain thru whom the hero is made to appear faithless to both his country and his love. There are many thrilling scenes, enacted by many players, but in the end each wins his true deserts.

Winkley, Jonathan Wingate. John Brown, the hero: personal reminiscences, *85c. West, J. H.

The author was a boy in Kansas in 1856, and there came in contact with the great abolitionist hero. The object of his little book is to throw some side light upon John Brown’s character, and he gives some new historical material, and recounts adventures in which he was too young to participate except as an eye witness. There is an introduction by Frank B. Sanborn. The illustrations include a representation of a bust of John Brown and two views of the Adair cabin.

“We are glad Dr. Winkley has set down his personal experiences and impressions in so interesting and vivid a manner.”

“Although the matter of the book is slender in amount, and spread thin by both author and printer, and although the glimpses we get of John Brown are few and fleeting, the publishers are still within the truth in announcing that ‘The book has the interest of a romance,’ and that ‘the young will read it as if it were especially “a story for boys,” and the old will find in it matters to revive their enthusiasm.’”

Winslow, Charles Edward Amory. Elements of applied microscopy: a text-book for beginners. $1.50. Wiley.

A presentation of the elements of microscopic study under the headings: Function and parts of the microscope. Manipulation of the microscope, The mounting and preparation of objects for the microscope, Micrometry, and the camera lucida, The microscopy of the common starches, Foods and drugs and their adulterants, The examination of textile fibers, The microscopy of paper, The microscope in medicine and sanitation, Forensic microscopy, Microchemistry, Petrography and metallography.

Mrs. Winter’s story of early Minnesota days is built up around a successful financial magnate of a typical western town, his daughter, in whose veins flows a trace of the blood of Indian chiefs,—a very modern, very feminine, very human specimen of lovable young womanhood, a young Maineite who demonstrates his fitness to be called the “hardy,” and his rival, the near approach to a contemptible villain. There are close range views of the typical Swede farmer, dips into the hardships to be endured in the small Dakota towns, and a thrilling picture of a forest fire’s devastation. The local coloring thruout is consistent and characteristic.

“Told in a spirited manner. It is a story that will appeal to the general reader in search of a pleasing and somewhat exciting love-tale.”

“The book is not incapably written. The book’s greatest fault is its utter lack of originality.”

“In short, without being remarkable in any special way, ‘The prize to the hardy’ is a good readable, human story, and cleverly written at that.”

On the surface the book is the story of a certain Powhatan Carrington, who bore arms in his ‘teens for the Confederacy, and became a Richmond lawyer and politician. On turning Republican he found himself so unpopular among his townspeople, that he removed to New York, where he and his northern wife prospered exceedingly. Underneath is an analysis of the conditions of the South since the Civil war, and a political history of Virginia from the first steps in reconstruction to the election of the governor in 1885.

“As a novel Mr. Wise’s book, while it contains some excellent material will not hold the average reader’s attention. But it only ostensibly a novel. It is rather a personal explanation, and as such will interest persons who know who Mr. Wise is.”

“Mr. Wise cannot be accounted a success as a novelist, but as a historian he is clear and forceful, and his book calls for careful consideration.”

389“As a piece of fiction the book is a negligible quantity, but as the narrative account of the movement of events and the development and importance of the predominant feelings in the South before, during, and immediately after the war it is a worthy contribution to our Civil war literature.”

“A new kind of reconstruction story, cleverly weaving together fact and fiction, and discussing the negro problem frankly and impressively.”

* Wishart, Alfred Wesley. Primary facts in religious thought. *75c. Univ. of Chicago press.

Seven essays, intended to state in a simple and practical manner the essential principles of religion, and to clear it from confusion arising from theological changes and historical criticism.

* “They are well adapted by their brevity and simplicity to the need of the average man. If they fall short in any point, it is in not recognizing the essential identity of religion and morality beneath their superficial differences.”

Wisser, John P., and Gauss, Henry C., comps. Military and naval dictionary. 50c. Hamersley.

Authentic and clearly worded definitions of all terms used in the United States army and navy, with a well-defined statement of the powers of each department of the United States government and the duties of all government officials.

“The work has been condensed into a small handbook, and constitutes a handy volume of reference, the words selected having been clearly defined in simple English. It will be of use not only to the general reader unfamiliar with the terms who wishes to learn their meaning, but also for the Navy, Army, the National guard, the Naval reserve, and others interested in military matters.”

Under such chapter headings as—The universal strife, Signs of spring, April days, May muses, June joys, An August song, Signs of autumn, and Wintry days, is given the story of the denizens of nature’s own land, the thickets and the tree tops; history of a year and what the changing seasons bring to the things that creep and fly.

* Wittigschlager, Wilhelmina. Minna, wife of the young rabbi. $1.50. Consolidated retail booksellers.

Minna, a beautiful girl of unknown parentage, born among poor Russian Jews, is forced to marry when only thirteen years old a man whom she has never seen. The morning after her marriage she runs away from her bridegroom and leads a wandering life buffeted by fate and humanity hither and yon, caring for her little son as best she may. She comes to America, but later returns to Russia as an anarchist, only to discover, upon the assassination of Alexander II., that the czar she has plotted to kill is her father. She is sent to Siberia, but is pardoned, and in the end is reunited to her husband, whom she has come to love. This is but a small part of an exciting story, which gives a remarkably vivid and most unflattering picture of the Russian Jew.

* Wolf, Edmund Jacob. Higher rock: sermons, addresses, and articles; comp. by a committee of the Board of publication. $1.50. Lutheran pub. soc.

A memorial edition of Dr. Wolf’s sermons, papers and addresses. “They are the ripe fruit of a thoughtful and scholarly mind. Laymen and ministers alike will find the book not only readable but clear and profitable.”

Wollant, Gregoire de. Land of the rising sun; tr. from the Russian by the author, with the assistance of Madame de Wollant. $1.50. Neale.

“The first portion of M. de Wollant’s study is a short description of the Japanese islands, following which there is a historical sketch of the people and an outline of the history of Christianity in Japan. Part two contains the author’s impressions of the Japan to-day, impressions which were derived from trips to northern as well as southern Japan. The descriptions of the people and of the public and domestic life are well considered, and in addition M. de Wollant appends some interesting observations on economic and financial Japan.”—Pub. Opin.

“While he evidently aims to be accurate and impartial, his observations and opinions are naturally colored by his nationality, but we nevertheless find the book very interesting.”

“Where he has occasion to refer to authorities his choice is usually the best, and his personal comments on contemporary conditions reveal an observer of such insight that it is a matter for regret that he has not often seen fit to delve a little deeper beneath the surface which he portrays so admirably.”

“An interesting and impartial book on Japan. The book is decidedly worth reading.”

“A Russian’s estimate of Japan is interesting. It is especially interesting, as in the present case, when it is given by a clever, keen-sighted Russian.”

“The narrative is lacking in literary merit and is at times incoherent, but as the book is a translation, a great many of the faults of style and composition may be due to that fact.”

“This book is an enlargement of the author’s previous work, ‘Half-hours with Muhammad.’ The first half of the book gives the story of Mohammed’s life and teaching, the early history of Islam, and a sketch of the dynasties under which Islamic civilization reached its highest development: the second half is devoted to a description of the more important tenets of the Mohammedan faith and the beliefs of the various sects into which Islam is divided.”—Spec.

“Such statements are inexcusable, all being devoid of foundation beyond popular misconception due to ignorance.”

“He has done his work of choosing and mingling in an able manner. Mr. Wollaston has made a connected story out of many diverse books and articles. The result of his work we consider valuable, as being many riches in a little space.”

“‘The sword of Islam’ may serve a purpose as a book of reference for the general reader; but it can hardly ‘awaken an interest in the history of a religion and its followers.’”

The third story in Mr. Wood’s series on the opening up of the Northwest territory. It is based on the historical records of surveys made after the Indians had been driven to the northwest. The hardy courage of these government surveyors forms the undertone of the tale, which in particular sketches the heroism of Morris Patterson, a lad who had been orphaned by the cruelty of the Indians, and who resolves to take his father’s place in the company at Massie’s Station on the Ohio river, and to support his little sister.

Stories which will carry all those who, in childhood, have known the country, thankfully back to the old school-house, the Sabbath-school, the swimming hole, the county fair, the circus and the many other things of youth which were once delightfully real and now seem delightfully funny. The illustrations by A. B. Frost add greatly to the book.

* “His style, too, is that of the tricky journalist, and not of the literary artist. That Mr. Wood is not lacking in ability, whatever may be his deficiences in taste, is shown by the sustained excellence of one chapter, ‘The firemen’s tournament.’”

“The human touch that makes the whole world kin is to be felt in these homely, humorous sketches.”

Wood, Henry. Life more abundant: scriptural truth in modern application. **$1.20. Lothrop.

“The burden of Mr. Wood’s attempt here is to free the Bible from the old, hard, literal infallibility which has at once hidden its deeper spiritual meaning from its friends and been the most telling weapon in the hands of hostile critics.”—Pub. Opin.

“Those who are familiar with the inspiring, optimistic tone always struck by Henry Wood in his various writings on new thought topics will not be disappointed in this, his latest volume.”

An importation of the Newnes set of drawings with an introductory essay by Mr. Wood. There are forty-seven illustrations, mostly reproductions of studies for “The Aenid,” “The masque of Cupid,” designs for windows, two or three characters from Tennyson, “The nativity,” and “The entombment,” “The dream,” “The car of love,” “The sirens,” children, hands, a wing, etc. The frontispiece presents a study in red chalk. There are several other pictures in tints, mounted on harmonizing paper. The others are in half-tone. The cover design is printed in three colors from a drawing by Granville Fell.

“Scholarly essay. Carefully selected and well reproduced, though in a few cases losing something of their charm through over-reduction, the drawings here collected include typical examples of a great variety.”

“An altogether satisfactory publication not only for the reason that great pains have been taken to present the drawings through various processes in a striking and intelligent manner, but also because we have these reproductions preceded by an excellent essay by T. Martin Wood, who writes with utter frankness concerning the artist’s draughtsmanship, its development and the feats it achieved.”

“This year’s addition to the ‘Modern master draughtsmen’ series ... is an ideal study, both in text and illustration, of a distinctive phase of a great artist’s work.... There is an interesting discussion of the proper critical attitude from which to approach Rossetti’s work, and the fifty drawings reproduced in the present volume are treated as illustrative material for various theses, thus receiving considerable detailed attention.... Many are printed in tint and mounted upon rough paper of a harmonizing shade. They represent all stages of work, from the rough sketch to the elaborate highly-finished drawing that was so characteristic of Rossetti’s genius.”—Dial.

* “The introductory comment ... is a discriminating and illuminating piece of criticism.”

Wood, Walter Birbeck, and Edmonds, James Edward. History of the Civil war in the United States, 1861-1865. *$3.50. Putnam.

This history of the civil war was written by two officers of the British army, from an impartial English point of view. “Mr. Spenser Wilkinson in a short introduction commends this book because he is convinced ‘that the true nature of war and its relation to national life can be learned from a study of the American Civil war as a whole.’ ... It tells why and how the war was fought, and though there is much in it which the general public may read with profit and interest, its detail and wealth of maps show that it is intended rather for the specialist.” (Sat. R.)

* “Whatever may be the cause of the want of clearness, which we have named, it deprives the book of some of that value which, given its accuracy, would otherwise have attached to it, as a text-book. We have to congratulate our authors upon their index, the compilation of which has evidently been most careful, to the great advantage of the volume.”

* “It would have been all the more welcome if they had attempted less, and omitted some of the many details with which they load their pages.”

* “The authors are scrupulously fair. They have kept a good proportion in their narrative. But they very certainly have not, as Mr. Spenser Wilkinson would have us believe, produced an authoritative military pronouncement on the subject.”

A jocular account of the voyage of the ark, which begins with the third day out and ends when the Noahs and the stowaway, John Smith, have packed up their belongings and are ready to land. The book is largely taken up with humorous family discussions of up-to-date subjects. Some lively incidents are furnished by the animals.

“It is carefully written, and those who like this kind of humor may like it very much.”

391Woodward, William Harrison. Desiderius Erasmus concerning the aim and method of education. *$1.30. Macmillan.

“This study of the life work of Erasmus as an educator is characterized by ... thoroughness, lucidity, and sympathy.... Erasmus as sketched here is not an altogether attractive personality.”—Int. J. Ethics.

“To inquirers into the origins of modern culture, and to students of the history of education generally, this book will prove invaluable.” R. E. Hughes.

Workman, William Hunter, and Workman, Fanny Bullock. Through town and jungle: fourteen thousand miles a-wheel among the temples and peoples of the Indian plain. *$5. Scribner.

A book devoted to the “temples and people of India,” giving studies of the six styles of Indian architecture, the Buddhist, Indian-Aryan, Jain, Dravidian, Chalukyan, and Mohammedan, and the innumerable variety of people and adventures encountered “from Cape Comorin to the Himalayas and beyond.” There are over two hundred illustrations.

“It would be most unfair to deny the value of the material, both textual and pictorial, here gathered together, however unsystematized, or the fact that no other recent work on India gives any such general impression of the Indian peoples and architectures.” Wallace Rice.

“The incidents and excitements, as well as the studious results, of this trip are well told.”

“The narrative does not quite justify one’s expectations. In spite of their unusual powers of endurance, these seasoned travellers found a good deal to grumble about.”

Wright, Louise Wigfall (Mrs. D. Giraud Wright). Southern girl in ‘61: the wartime memories of a Confederate senator’s daughter. **$2.75. Doubleday.

“The narrative begins in Texas, continues through the author’s child-life in Washington; and, during her school days in Boston, carries the thread of the public story rather than her own, reproducing letters showing progress of events in the South. She reached Richmond just after the battle of Manassas; her record ends with Kirby Smith’s surrender; prominent men and women are introduced in incident, anecdote, and by portrait.”—Outlook.

“The volume under review has an interest and value that the social histories have not.” Walter L. Fleming.

“These books are really worth while, if for no other purpose but to show how ridiculously fallacious are the Southern heroines made up by writers like Cyrus Townsend Brady and George Gary Eggleston.”

* “A girl sees only the surface of things, and what she does not understand she is not likely to remember, nearly half a century later. So the recollections are about what one should expect. They are pleasing, although often thin.”

“Not even a tag of poor verse ... can rob ‘A southern girl in ‘61’ of its literary quality or historical value, its pathos, and its fine humanity.” L. L.

“The book has a substantial interest that only the author could supply, and some of the correspondence introduced has the value of historical documents.”

* “‘The feminine spirit of the Confederacy,’ which has been made one of the chapter titles of this book, is cleverly interpreted by this writer, who was actually a part of the stirring scenes which she narrates.”

Wright, William Burnet. Cities of Paul: * beacons of the past rekindled for the present. **$1.10. Houghton.

A study of the cities of Tarsus, Tyana, Ancyra, Philippi, Old and New Corinth, Ephesus, Colossai, and Thessalonica, which not only shows the setting of the Apostle’s life and helps to our understanding of the Pauline epistles, but points out that the Apostle encountered the same vices, social, political, and commercial, that threaten our own municipalities today, and shows how he dealt with them.

* “With such a purpose Dr. Wright has put his ample knowledge to a highly instructive as well as entertaining use.”

Orphaned Johnny Beal becomes the little “human hand-me-down” of the Smithville sewing-circle. Each member takes charge of him for two months at a time, and with all the divided management, it is no wonder that the little fellow jumbles his various parting injunctions. His only solace is Tab, his cat which kind fate smuggles past the wrathy spots in his foster mothers’ tempers.

Wyllie, William Lionel, and Wyllie, M. A. London to the Nore; painted and described by W. L. and M. A. Wyllie. *$6. Macmillan.

This volume “deals with territory between the metropolis and the sea, and is included in the ‘Beautiful book’ series.... It is described by Mrs Wyllie and the many colored pictures and other sketches are by W. L. Wyllie, A. R. A. The party ‘does’ London to the Nore, along the Thames, and the Medway to Rochester. The book is made up of a series of traveler’s impressions with what might be called a partly historical and partly contemporaneous background.”—N. Y. Times.

“In Mr. Wyllie’s pictures in ‘London to the Nore,’ we are struck chiefly by the wholesome sentiment and the microscopic eye. Mrs. Wyllie’s text is a too frivolous accompaniment.”

* “Amongst the many delightful publications resulting from the happy collaboration of an artist and author that have recently appeared, high rank must certainly be given to ‘London to the Nore,’ with its sympathetic interpretations of typical river scenes and vivid word-pictures of their environment.”

“Father Wyman has met many doubters in his long missionary career, and this book is a summary of his most persuasive arguments with them. It will serve, we trust, as a manual for many other zealous priests.”—Cath. World.

Yechton, Barbara, pseud. (Lydia Farrington Krause). Some adventures of Jack and Jill. †$1.50. Dodd.

“A pretty story of a group of English children who lived in Santa Cruz, West Indies. Little Jill, the narrator, looks up to her brother Jack with loving admiration. The mischief they get into and the honest way they get out make delightful reading.”—Outlook.

* “Refinement and gentleness characterize this wholesome chronicle of childish thoughts and doings.”

Dramatic episodes of the war in the Far East are given here with a touch of imagination which only adds to their reality: we see things as the yellow men must see them. There are scenes of war on sea and land, scenes at the front, and at home, most of which tell of the systematic subordination and sacrifice of the individual to the system.

“There is much idealization rather than a precise report, and the result is an impression even more veritable than the others have been able to convey, notwithstanding a certain sense of the fiction that is truer than mere fact.” Wallace Rice.

“On its face a collection of detached recitals, many of them thrilling, but not incredible, this volume, when carefully read, reveals more than tales of adventure. The anonymous writer is clearly distrustful and unsympathetic, but he tries to be impartial.”

“On the whole, it is a book of blood-stirring reading—a sort of prose glory song of the wonderful little yellow man.”

“It is quite likely that this fiction is a truer picture in spirit of the Japanese than much of the fact we have been fed on.”

“It is a word panorama of its great battles and sieges by one who has studied the characters of the men of the two nations engaged in it. The style of this narrative is highly direct and intense, full of life and color.”

“The merely literary merits of his book are great. Most of the book can only be described as lurid; and yet the author writes simply, is never rhetorical, and clearly labours to be temperate and exact. The book is not impartial, sometimes it is palpably unfair, and now and then it is impossibly fantastic. But at its best it comes nearer a kind of genius than any war correspondence we remember.”

Hector grows very human to the animal lover as with a high degree of intelligence he records his dog thoughts and narrates his Northland adventures. Particularly interesting is the author’s suggestion that the devotion and loyalty which a dog renders his master must be preserved as a part of all good in the final reckoning.

* “He has written some excellent descriptions of sledge-trips and other characteristic experiences of that frozen country, but his book, as a whole, is marred by a touch of sentimentality and a tendency to point a moral.”

* “There is plenty of adventure and danger, animal jealousy and human love. The book is pleasant—fascinating indeed—and morally healthy.”

Quotations showing the laws, the ways, the means, the methods, for gaining lasting health, happiness, peace and prosperity.

Young, Jeremiah Simeon. Political and constitutional study of the Cumberland road. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.

“The introductory chapters on the early transportation difficulties and the first roads to the West are a most convenient summary of that interesting problem in our early economic history. The two following chapters on the genesis of the Cumberland road, its location, construction and administration, will be welcomed by everyone who has had to lecture on the subject. The long constitutional controversy is clearly outlined, taking up the question of eminent domain, jurisdiction, Monroe’s veto, and the final surrender of the road to the states through which the road passed.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

“The treatment is in the main historical. The style of the author is both good and bad. It is clear, but marred by numerous repetitions of lines and even paragraphs, giving us the impression that the chapters were written at widely separated times. There is, moreover, an unfortunate failure of correspondence at times between the text and citations. The book is a very readable and logical discussion of a most interesting subject. It is marred, however, by certain faults of style and inaccuracies in details.” Alonzo H. Tuttle.

“This is an admirable little monograph, a source study of a constitutional question of great historical significance. The monographic study will greatly aid the general historian in getting a sure grasp of the main questions involved.”

This narrative of travels in Manchuria, across the Gobi desert, thru the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Hunza, 1884-1894, was issued several years ago, and is now republished in cheaper form, owing to the renewed interest which recent events have awakened in both Colonel Younghusband and the entire region traversed. At the time of this expedition Manchuria was practically a closed country, Russia had not thought of occupying it, and the account is one of thoro pioneer explorations, of interesting experiences and observations on the people and the general conditions. There are half a dozen illustrations.

393“For full details of their remarkable journey, Mr. James’s book must be consulted; but the brief account of it given by Col. Younghusband is sufficiently full for ordinary purposes, and is replete with both interesting and valuable information.”

“A story portraying life among the upper classes of Russia. A pretty English girl accepts the position as a governess to two grown daughters of an eccentric Russian nobleman. The mother is very anxious to get her daughters married. Three dukes are attracted by the beauty of the governess and the fancied dowries of her pupils, but the path of love is very rugged.”—Bookm.

“Nowhere is there a glimpse of the author’s self, the book is as free from personal feeling and bias as a police report. She records what she has seen and heard, and her photographs of scenes and people bear the stamp of truth and individuality.”

“A vivacious and readable picture of Russian life, containing a good many sharply drawn characters who sound as if they had human prototypes.”

“The genuineness of the local coloring is undeniable, and the deft manipulation of both characters and incident shows unusual talent. The book has a charm. The interest is kept up throughout.” W. M. Payne.

“To an English speaking, American thinking reader much of it seems futile and much else of it dull. Similarly all of it seems to lack that sense of humor which is nothing more or less than a sense of proportion.”

A volume in “The Langham series of art monographs.” “This little book gives a rapid but comprehensive survey of the art of Rome, piloting the reader with considerable skill through the successive phases—classical, Christian, renaissance—down to the present day, and leaving him at last in a position ‘to distinguish the characteristic note in her art, and to divine the secret of its world-wide reputation.’ ... The scheme of the book is suitably assisted by a few photographs of typical buildings and pictures.”—Ath.

* “It is surprising to find the amount of information he has got into this narrow space.”

Zangwill, Israel. Celibates’ club, being the united stories of the bachelors’ club and the old maids’ club. †$1.50. Macmillan.

Genial stories of how the old maids’ and bachelors’ clubs came to be united. A dramatic critic married in order to have some one handy to make use of the second complimentary ticket, and then the theatres began to send but one ticket. An epicure married his bad cook that he might be free “to hire a good one.” Young Dickray married the daughter of his father’s ghost in a spirit of atonement; this is not as weird as it sounds. There are many other stories in the same vein.

“‘The celibates’ is not to be stolidly masticated—it is tabasco rather than oatmeal porridge, and should be used accordingly.”

“The author’s humor is not all British any more than that of George Bernard Shaw.”

“Is a collection of extravagant tales and character sketches. But the book is no better than an exhibition of the journalistic talent for writing up exhaustively from the slightest foundation of facts or fancy.”

“It is clever—only too clever, witty, lively, cynical, even sentimental. Yet, after its fashion, human also. Above all, it is Mr. Zangwill’s own.”

“Whimsicality too elaborate and often forced is made to take the place of humor, with the result that the reader is often puzzled and sometimes wearied.”

“All the stories abound in wit and humor in detail, and ... some of the verses are brilliant.”

Ziémssen, Ludwig. Johann Sebastian Bach; tr. from the German by George P. Upton. **60c. McClurg.

The life of Bach, contrary to most artists’ careers, manifests no repression of spontaneous, all-around development. “He was an affectionate father, laboring manfully and incessantly to support a large family; a good citizen ... a musician without an equal in the profundity of his knowledge and the richness of his productions; the founder of modern music, the master of the organ, a composer of the highest forms of sacred music; a plain humble man.” This view of the man fills the volume which belongs to “Life stories for young people.”

* “The story is well told, with commendable fidelity to fact, and the translation is exceedingly good.”

Zilliacus, Konni. Russian revolutionary movement: a history of the various uprisings from the beginning. *$2.50. Dutton.

“M. Zilliacus writes primarily for Finlanders, who have no à priori sympathy with Russian democracy, and require to be convinced that the cause of their nation is bound up with the larger cause of reform. He therefore gives a summary of recent history, showing the steps in the development of the autocracy, the consequent misgovernment, and the elements in the state which have now been arrayed against it.”—Spec.

“The account is of absorbing interest, and may well be read by all who desire to obtain an inside view of the underlying causes of present conditions in Russia.”

* “He claims to have misrepresented no facts, and to have verified them, so far as possible, by reference to other than revolutionary sources, a claim which appears to us to be thoroughly well-founded.”

“He frankly sympathizes with the revolutionists. But his general statements are abundantly supported by specific facts.”

“A word of praise is due the unnamed translator, whose version is smooth, flowing, and altogether readable.”

Zimmer, George Frederick. Mechanical handling of material. *$10. Van Nostrand.

This is the first book written in English devoted to the subject of mechanical loading and transportation of materials. It treats of elevators and conveyors of various kinds, of ropeways and cableways, grab buckets, dump cars, unloading by coal tips, automatic weighing machines, floor and silo warehouses for grain, cantilever cranes, etc. There are 542 illustrations.

“The scarcity of data and the apparent unreliability of some of the data given form the most disappointing feature of this volume. There are many otherwise good illustrations whose value is greatly reduced by the absence of dimensions.”

“The book will be indispensable to all engineering firms, consulting engineers, and architects who have to deal with this important question.” T. H. B.

This is a revised edition of “An elementary treatise on theoretical mechanics,” by the junior professor of mathematics in the University of Michigan, and is intended especially for students of engineering. Kinemetics, statics, and kinetics are the main divisions of the book, which states in its preface: “This work is not a treatise on applied mechanics, the application being merely used to illustrate the general principles and to give the student an idea of the uses to which mechanics can be put.”

“Is an excellent introduction to the science of analytical mechanics. His exposition is in general sound and logical.” L. M. Hoskins.

In choosing these selections the editor has endeavored to illustrate Zola’s “patriotic, sociological, and descriptive sides, expressed in the mastery of his style and literary workmanship.” The text includes L’Attaque du Moulin, Le grand Michu, Le paradis des chats, Les Halles, L’Ile du diable, and nine other selections. An English introduction, notes and bibliography fits the book for student use.

“It would have been better if Mr. Cameron had given the source from which he took each of the pieces he has chosen.”

Widow O’Callaghan’s boys have lost not a whit of their popularity during the seven years since their first appearance. The brave cheerful struggle of the mother in launching seven boys upon useful careers is as refreshing and helpful as ever. Mrs. O’Callaghan brought her boys up on the teaching that “The Lord niver puts little b’ys and big jobs together. He gives the little b’y a chance at the little jobs, and them as does the little jobs faithful gets to be able to be the men that does big jobs easy.”

* “Quite inimitable in Mrs. O’Callahan’s Irish way of putting things, which furnishes the salt to the solid nutriment of the story.”

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