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Cabell, James Branch. [Line of love.] †$2. Harper.
“An interesting contribution to romantic literature, not beyond popular understanding and enjoyment.”
+ Critic. 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 50w.
“Altogether Mr. Cabell’s book is unusual in style, poise, and dramatic fervor.”
+ Pub. Opin. 40: 91. Ja. 20, ’06. 100w.
Cable, George Washington. [Old Creole days]; with 8 full-page il. and head and tail pieces in photogravure by Albert Herter. $2.50. Scribner.
In reprinting “Old Creole days” eight full-page drawings and fourteen smaller ones add new charm to the contents.
“The mechanical features are all of a high grade of excellence, and the volume has an air of dignity and beauty that well fits the charm of the contents.”
+ + Dial. 41: 398. D. 1, ’06. 90w. + Ind. 61: 1401. D. 13, ’06. 40w. + Lit. D. 33: 767. N. 24, ’06. 60w. + Outlook. 84: 706. N. 24, ’06. 50w. + Putnam’s. 1: 384. D. ’06. 140w.
Cabot, Mrs. Ella Lyman. Everyday ethics. $1.25. Holt.
Both teacher and general reader will find in this volume the rudiments of right choosing and well doing. The moral aspects of the soul’s activities—memory, imagination courage, feeling and the sense of honor are discussed in detail with the special aim of serving the teacher’s needs.
“It is a book that every child might read with profit if it were not forced upon him in the form of ‘lessons.’”
+ Dial. 41: 400. D. 1, ’06. 40w.
Cadogan, Edward. Makers of modern history: three types: Louis Napoleon, Cavour, Bismarck. **$2.25. Pott.
+ Critic. 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 80w.
Caffin, Charles Henry. How to study pictures. **$2. Century.
“Regarded as a frank imitation, however, the book is well enough of its kind.”
– + Sat. R. 102: sup. 7. O. 13, ’06. 1100w.
“Mr. Caffin helps people to look at pictures with their eyes, a not too common thing with writers on art, who mostly see pictures with their minds, which is quite a different matter.”
+ Spec. 97: 938. D. 8, ’06. 170w.
Caird, Edward. Evolution of theology in the Greek philosophers. *$4.25. Macmillan.
Reviewed by George Burman Foster.
+ + Am. J. Theol. 10: 762. O. ’06. 970w.
Caird, Mrs. Mona. [Romantic cities of Provence]; il. by Joseph Pennell and Edward Synge. *$3.75. Scribner.
“This is a book bred of a sojourn in Provence and attesting an awakened eye and sympathy. It aims to catch the spirit of the place, the indefinable quality lost in a hurried railway passage, and succeeds best, perhaps, in imparting the reflex effects produced upon the traveller. The book is illustrated from over two dozen pen sketches by Joseph Pennell and about twice the number by Edward M. Synge, who draws with a similar preoccupation with the effect of sunlight, but with a more downright stroke, a generally wider interspace in shading and a greater use of outline.”—Int. Studio.
“Mrs. Mona Caird brings a romancer’s love of sentiment and an artist’s powers of description to her ‘Romantic cities of Provence,’ with the happiest of results.” Wallace Rice.
+ + Dial. 41: 391. D. 1, ’06. 260w. + Int. Studio. 30: sup. 56. D. ’06. 140w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 770. N. 24, ’06. 610w.
“Certainly no one of the season’s volumes is better worth owning than is this.”
+ + Outlook. 84: 703. N. 24, ’06. 130w.
Calderon de la Barca, Pedro. Eight dramas of Calderon; freely tr. by E. Fitzgerald. $1.50. Macmillan.
The eight dramas included here are as follows: The painter of his own dishonor, Keep your own secret, Gil Perez the Galician, Three judgments at a blow. The mayor of Zalamea, Beware of smooth water, The mighty magician and Such stuff as dreams are made of.
“His versions appeal neither to the scholar nor to the general reader: the one is irritated by constant omissions, amplifications, and liberties of every kind, while the other is disappointed at finding that the Spanish atmosphere has vanished.”
– + Ath. 1906, 2: 112. Jl. 28. 200w.
“It will save searching in a general collection, and can be comfortably held in the hand.”
+ Nation. 83: 11. Jl. 5, ’06. 70w.
“The Eversley imprint, owing to its cheapness and excellent typography, will appeal to many lovers of the Spanish poet.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 495. Ag. 11, ’06. 260w.
Calvert, Albert Frederick. Moorish remains in Spain. **$15. Lane.
“Taken altogether, Mr. Calvert’s book is most disappointing, and we think that the Alhambra plates should be withdrawn.” A. J. Butler.
– Acad. 70: 471. My. 19, ’06. 1870w.
“The coloured plates reproduce admirably the delicate devices characteristic of Moorish workmanship at its best. Mr. Calvert habitually confounds legend with fact, and fails to distinguish between the random assertions of a tourist and the statements of a scholar.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 543. My. 5. 330w.
“His book, so complete in other respects, is without an index, a fact that detracts very greatly from its value to the student.”
+ + – Int. Studio. 29: 88. Jl. ’06. 420w.
“With regard to the Moorish ‘architecture and decoration’ in these three cities, the main theme of the book, Mr. Calvert is himself rather prone to superlatives and gush; and, moreover, does not clearly see that architecture is something altogether different from decoration.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 243. Jl. 6, ’06. 870w.
“The book seems worthy of its subject, and we would gladly give a more effective description of its many beauties.”
+ + Spec. 96: 545. Ap. 7. ’06. 120w.
Cambridge modern history; planned by Lord Acton; ed. by A. W. Ward, G. W. Prothero, and Stanley Leathes. 12v. ea. **$4. Macmillan.
“There are unhappily gaps filled with second-rate productions, which detract considerably from the value of the whole.”
+ + – Acad. 70: 447. My. 12, ’06. 1890w. (Review of v. 9.)
“As a book of reference this one has a certain value, though it is neither a monument of British scholarship nor of Continental, there being neither continuity nor unity in the product of a well-meant effort to weld the two. There is little charm of style anywhere, no quality of mysterious evolution in the subject which compels attention, no magisterial character in the book to command the highest respect. As to the bibliography, no arrangement could have been invented more forbidding to the searcher after authors, titles, or subjects.”
+ – Am. Hist. R. 12: 135. O. ’06. 2270w. (Review of v. 9.)
Reviewed by W. E. Lingelbach.
+ + + Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 342. S. ’06. 1370w. (Review of v. 9.)
“It contains a great deal of good work by capable writers and if it does not reach Acton’s ideal, it does not fall far below that of M. Ernest Lavisse.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 1: 691. Je. 9. 1990w. (Review of v. 9.)
“The weakest part of the scheme is its treatment of great men.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 2: 725. D. 8. 1950w. (Review of v. 4.)
“In the assignments of topics to their European associates, the editors of this important series have been especially happy. The division of the subject-matter into topics has been accomplished satisfactorily.” Henry E. Bourne.
+ + + Dial. 41: 203. O. 1, ’06. 1580w. (Review of v. 9.)
“One is naturally tempted to compare the two volumes with the corresponding ones of their predecessor, the ‘Histoire generale.’ They are full of well-attested facts. But from the point of view of attractiveness of style and matter the English books fall behind the French. Its writers have not the French knack of dovetailing a striking incident or quotation into a perforce heavy narrative. All of them possess learning and industry; but taken as a whole their product is but dull reading, though there are exceptions.” W. E. Rhodes.
+ + – Eng. Hist. R. 21: 160. Ja. ’06. 1740w. (Review of v. 3 and 8.)
“It is in relation to international affairs, and especially to war, that the co-operative method breaks down worst. In a volume of such dimensions, with a scheme which drags most things away from chronological order, the lack of a thoroughly good index is especially unfortunate.” Hereford B. George.
+ – Eng. Hist. R. 21: 807. O. ’06. 1300w. (Review of v. 9.)
“The volume is ample for clear views of Napoleon the man, the soldier, the statesman, and for his effect on the world in government, religion, society and art.”
+ + + Ind. 61: 1115. N. 8, ’06. 900w. (Review of v. 9.)
“It is hard to see who will read the book, for the expert can get little from the disconnected monographs, while the layman is confused by the overlapping divisions, where there is no charm of style and no evolution which holds the attention.”
+ + – Ind. 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 70w. (Review of v. 9.)
“The volume before us is inferior to none of its predecessors. Some of the chapters are of conspicuous merit, and throughout a very respectable standard is maintained, while, as the editors observe, ‘the dominance of an overwhelming personality gives the events narrated cohesion and unity.’”
+ + Lond. Times. 5: 176. My. 18, ’06. 2710w. (Review of v. 9.)
“That part which deals with the literature printed and manuscript, including pamphlets and news letters, relating to the Thirty years’ war is likely to be of great service to students.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 5: 397. N. 30. ’06. 2160w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The general level of quality is well-sustained. It is perhaps not so high as in the first two volumes—‘Renaissance’ and ‘Reformation’—but it strikes us as rather higher than in the last preceding volume, that on the French revolution.”
+ + Nation. 83: 225. S. 13, ’06. 2990w. (Review of v. 9.) N. Y. Times. 11: 300. My. 5, ’06. 320w. (Review of v. 9.)
“It must be acknowledged that the volume on Napoleon is not so uniformly excellent as the volumes on earlier epochs—the renaissance, the reformation, and the wars of religion.” Christian Gauss.
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 417. Je. 30, ’06. 4220w. (Review of v. 9.) Outlook. 83: 286. Je. 2, ’06. 520w. (Review of v. 9.)
Reviewed by J. H. Robinson.
+ + Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 702. D. ’06. 840w. (Review of v. 9.) R. of Rs. 33: 764. Je. ’06. 170w. (Review of v. 9.)
“There is not only a lack of general cohesion in the fragments but most of them are far from complete in themselves.”
+ – Sat. R. 101: 589. My. 12, ’06. 1740w. (Review of v. 9.) + + – Spec. 97: 166. Ag. 4, ’06. 2000w. (Review of v. 9.) + + World To-Day. 11: 763. Jl. ’06. 260w. (Review of v. 9.)
Campbell, Douglas Houghton. Structure and development of mosses and ferns. *$4.50. Macmillan.
A recently re-written and enlarged edition of Professor Campbell’s work.
“That the book is fairly brought up to date goes without saying, though one may differ from the author as to the relative values among some of the newer researches, and may wish that some of the old figures had been replaced by new and better ones. Proof-reading throughout the volume has been very bad. The index is really absurd. Spite of defects ... we welcome the new edition and commend it to every botanist as a necessary reference work, even though he have the first.” C. R. D. and C. J. C.
+ + – Bot. Gaz. 40: 461. D. ’05. 1070w. + + Ind. 59: 1482. D. 21, ’05. 160w.
“Professor Campbell is an ardent investigator, to whom cryptogamic botany is much indebted for substantial advance in certain directions, and he is, moreover, a clear expositor.”
+ + Nation. 81: 532. D. 28, ’05. 450w.
“This edition without question must prove to be as helpful and suggestive as the one it supplants, and will be used by all students who wish to obtain a clear notion of the structure and relationship of higher plants.” Charles E. Bessey.
+ + Science, n.s. 22: 631. N. 17, ’05. 580w.
Campbell, Frances. Dearlove, the history of her summer’s make-believe. †$1.50. Dutton.
“Dearlove is a little maiden of eleven years, portrayed in a charming frontispiece. She holds sway over a family consisting of her grandfather, the Earl of Amherst; her uncle and aunt, Lord and Lady Inverona, and her young widowed mother Lady Margaret Gordon. The ‘Summer’s make-believe’ takes place on the Isle of Guernsey, where the family is spending a happy holiday. The ‘make-believe’ is an invention of Dearlove (otherwise Philomena,) who decrees that for the summer all the grownups shall become her age—except ‘Ganpa,’ who may be twenty-five—shall be called by their Christian names, and shall disport themselves like eleven-year-olds. How they do this, whom they meet, and what comes of it all makes a fanciful book.”—N. Y. Times.
“She tells her tale with a complete understanding of children and their ways; and heart as well as skill goes to make it the charming book it is.”
+ Acad. 70: 405. Ap. 28, ’06. 270w.
“The author can do better than this, but her gifts appear to us to lie in the direction rather of pure fantasy than fiction.”
– Ath. 1906, 1: 513. Ap. 28. 170w.
“Will make grown-ups young again, if any book can.”
+ Ind. 61: 1413. D. 13, ’06. 20w.
“The book is written in a style so limpid and pleasant, and tells about such true-hearted sweet people, besides having that indefinable thing we call ‘atmosphere,’ that, albeit with some grumbling, we fare on to the end.”
+ – – N. Y. Times. 11: 544. S. 1, ’06. 380w. Outlook. 84: 140. S. 15, ’06. 120w.
“Readers who like a series of charming sketches with a delicate thread of plot connecting them are cordially recommended to send for ‘Dearlove.’”
+ Spec. 97: 270. Ag. 25, ’06. 120w.
Campbell, Frances. Measure of life. **$1.50. Dutton.
“In her dedication Mrs. Campbell alludes to these tales and dreams as her ‘spiritual adventures,’ and that is perhaps the clearest description that can be given of them. Dreams, legends, and visions have each a golden thread of spiritual meaning woven into them. All the author’s eloquence is upon the side of right and goodness; her pages are full of counsels of perfection, of the wisdom of endurance, of the salutary effect of patience under pain, suffering and loss, of the value of self-sacrifice and tribulation in the discipline of life. Throughout she glorifies those bracing qualities which ordinary human nature is least inclined to go out of its way to cultivate. Some of the tales are charming in their tenderness and gaiety.... Others, of dreams and second sight, are curious and interesting.”—Acad.
“Ideas flow easily and find expression in a wealth of imagery that transforms familiar truths into something new and strange.”
+ Acad. 70: 261. Mr. 17, ’06. 260w.
“While her symbolical personages, such as the ‘master of illusion,’ are charming, her contemporary characters, whether English ladies or Irish peasants, do not entirely carry conviction. This criticism does not, however, hold good with regard to the still-life of the picture, which testifies to an intimate and sympathetic acquaintance with Irish landscape, and to a notable gift of description.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 1: 229. F. 24. 160w. N. Y. Times. 11: 441. Jl. 7, ’06. 280w.
Campbell, Scott, pseud. (Frederick William Davis). Below the dead line. †$1.50. Dillingham.
When Inspector Byrnes commanded New York police he issued an order demanding the instant arrest of every crook found by day or night in that part of the city lying south of Fulton street. This order soon earned for the district the title “Below the dead line.” This story records the operations of clever criminals who tried to evade the order.
Campbell, Wilfred. Collected poems. **$1.50. Revell.
A collection of Mr. Campbell’s poems that have appeared in American and English periodicals. They are prefaced by an introduction by the author in which he says “After all, the real root of all poetry, from Shakespeare to the latest singer, is the human heart.... It is man the hoper, man the dreamer, the eternal child of delight and despair, whose ideals and desires are ever a lifetime ahead of his greatest accomplishments, who is the hero of nature and the darling of the ages. Because of this true poetry will always be to him a language.”
Critic. 49: 91. Jl. ’06. 260w.
“A poet whose inspiration is both strong and sustained.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 40: 128. F. 16, ’06. 500w.
“Is marked neither by exquisite craft nor by great imaginative power.”
+ – Ind. 61: 699. S. 20, ’06. 200w.
“His ‘Collected poems’ would have gained in poetic value by a more rigorous standard of selection, and by the drastic pruning of some of the pieces selected.”
+ – Nation. 82: 326. Ap. 19, ’06. 460w.
“They have a pleasant ease and a very true and sensitive feeling for nature.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 277. Ap. 28, ’06. 170w.
“Some of his patriotic verses are as good as anything we have seen of the kind.”
+ + Spec. 96: 756. My. 12, ’06. 250w.
Canning, Albert Stratford George. History in Scott’s novels. **$3.15. Wessels.
“Mr. Canning takes up fifteen novels in chronological sequence, from ‘The talisman’ to ‘Red-gauntlet.’ and runs through such portions of the plot as bring authentic personages into view.” (Nation.) “In each he explains the allusions, expands the references to historical facts, and in general connects romance with actuality.” (Outlook.)
“Is not without, some merit.”
+ – Nation. 82: 512. Je. 21, ’06. 520w. + Outlook. 83: 140. My. 19, ’06. 130w.
Capart, Jean. Primitive art in Egypt; tr. by A. S. Griffith. *$5. Lippincott.
“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.”
+ + – Ath. 1905, 1: 557. My. 6. 170w.
“It appeals, with its wealth of illustration and its sober judgment, to all who concern themselves in any wise with the civilization of primitive man. A word of praise should be said for the admirable work of the translator of the book, Miss Griffith ... her version reads like a bit of original English.” L. H. Gray.
+ + + Bookm. 22: 359. D. ’05. 310w. + Nation. 82: 104. F. 1, ’06. 380w.
Capen, Oliver Bronson. Country homes of famous Americans. **$5. Doubleday.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 18. Ja. 13, ’06. 190w.
Capes, Bernard. Bembo: a tale of Italy. $1.50. Dutton.
“The tale opens in 1476, with the introduction of the heroine and a cavalier and their attendants going toward Milan. Later on in this chapter comes Bernard Bembo, who ‘mouths parables as it were prick-songs, and is esteemed among all as a saint.’ He is very young in appearance and ‘pretty.’ And he is a ‘child propagandist interpreting and embodying in himself the spirit of love.’ The story is not based on fact, Mr. Capes points out in preface, but ‘the fundamental fact of nature.’”—N. Y. Times.
“In the novel Mr. Bernard Capes is quite at his best.”
+ + Acad. 69: 784. Jl. 29, ’05. 330w.
“Not even Mr. Hewlett has so successfully reproduced the mediæval atmosphere. The whole characterization is of a piece with the swing and virility of the style. It is a fine work, and reaches the high-water mark of living romance.”
+ + Ath. 1905, 2: 234. Ag. 19. 580w.
“Mr. Capes has produced in this moving and opulent work something that comes near to being a masterpiece.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + Dial. 41: 114. S. 1, ’06. 390w.
“The story is well told.”
+ Ind. 61: 1060. N. 1, ’06. 340w. + Lond. Times. 4: 233. Jl. 21, ’05. 290w. – N. Y. Times. 11: 371. Je. 9, ’06. 250w. + Outlook. 83: 526. Je. 30, ’06. 80w.
“Extravagance and violent over-emphasis are the greatest faults of his style, which is always strained to top-pitch, and glaringly over-coloured.”
– Sat. R. 100: 562. O. 28, ’05. 420w.
“His euphuism sometimes gets out of hand and mars the poetry of his tale, and sometimes he lingers so long on an emotion that the reader is a little repelled. But for the work as a whole we have nothing but praise.”
+ + – Spec. 95: 228. Ag. 12, ’05. 800w.
Carducci, Giosue. Poems of Italy: selections from the odes of Giosue Carducci; tr. with an introd. by M. W. Arms. **$1. Grafton press.
A half dozen pieces selected from “Odi barbare,” translated, introduced and annotated by M. W. Arms.
Dial. 40: 359. Je. 1, ’06. 60w. N. Y. Times. 11: 277. Ap. 28, ’06. 440w.
Carey, Rosa Nouchette. No friend like a sister. †$1.50. Lippincott.
Sister Gresham, the strong, capable, contented woman, who establishes a model nurses’ home and finds her life’s happiness in it is a friend to the other characters in the book, in times of stress or trouble. They all lean upon her; her favorite sister Eleanor, who is made happy by the chance confession of the man who dares not aspire to her, her brother Lyall who goes as a missionary to Africa, and his child-like wife who refuses to go with him and later wakes to a realization of her love and duty. There are other characters also, some of whom stand alone, and there is another love affair in which the daughter of an old country family throws aside conventional barriers to marry the man of her choice.
“Her popularity is no doubt deservedly due in great part to the extreme wholesomeness of her tone, which makes her stories eminently suitable for the young girl, and also a love of detail which appeals to a certain order of mind in old and young alike.”
+ Ath. 1906, 2: 439. O. 13. 220w.
“It is her complacency, and the apparent conviction that she is conveying the truest and best in life to her twenty-five thousand readers that make Miss Carey’s books irritating.”
– Sat. R. 102: sup. 8. O. 13, ’06. 140w.
Carey, Wymond. “No. 101.” †$1.50. Putnam.
“No. 101” is a spy of the time of Louis XV, who betrays the secrets of the French ruler to the British. The identity of this spy is a mystery, and anyone so unfortunate as to discover the secret perishes within twenty-four hours. An English captain, a French nobleman, Louis XV, and Mme. de Pompadour figure prominently in the story.
“Few of the figures have the indefinable quality of vitality, but perusal brings the not altogether unsatisfactory sensation of having assisted at a well-staged historical drama while still enjoying the comforts of the domestic hearth.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 226. F. 24. 110w.
“He has allowed himself considerable liberties with the facts of history. But in view of the capital tale he has produced, the reviewer can not but readily forgive him.”
+ Lit. D. 32: 454. Mr. 24, ’06. 550w.
“Taken by and large it is a good deal better (merely as an excuse for passing superfluous time away) than most of its kind.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 69. F. 3, ’06. 540w.
“The story is entertaining.”
+ Outlook. 82: 375. F. 17, ’06. 80w. + Pub. Opin. 40: 153. F. 3, ’06. 30w.
“The book is well above the average, but lovers of Dumas need feel no anxiety.”
+ Sat. R. 101: 306. Mr. 10, ’06. 290w. + Spec. 96: 226. F. 10, ’06. 560w.
Carl, Katherine A. With the empress dowager. **$2. Century.
“If she has been led away by gratitude and kindly feeling, it is difficult to find fault with her. And we may add that the skill and insight needed for literary portraiture are not often combined with the painter’s craft.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 196. F. 17. 810w.
“Reveals one of the most important steps in the transformation now going on in that giant empire.” John W. Foster.
+ Atlan. 97: 544. Ap. ’06. 440w.
“Beside being fascinating in itself, reveals very much of historical and antiquarian interest to those who have read widely and critically in the court life of the vassal kingdoms around the Middle country.” W. E. Griffis.
+ Critic. 48: 371. Ap. ’06. 270w.
“She is not to be blamed for writing of the empress as she found her. But she must not expect her readers to accept her estimate at face value.”
+ – Lit. D. 32: 253. F. 17, ’06. 560w.
“Cannot boast of any special literary attractions. The book is worthy of what it has not, an index.”
+ + – Nation. 82: 125. F. 8, ’06. 910w. + Pub. Opin. 40: 123. Ja. 27, ’06. 410w.
“It is interesting in a way and up to a certain point. But all that one cares to read might have been put into a smaller compass.”
+ – Spec. 96: 228. F. 10, ’06. 320w.
Carleton, Will. Poems for young Americans. $1.25. Harper.
The verses of Will Carleton that are peculiarly adapted to younger readers have been grouped under three headings as follows: Poems for young Americans, Poems of festivals and anniversaries, and Humorous verse.
“They have the trick of rime, but somewhere there is the false ring of patriotism, that comes whenever one tries hard to write patriotically.”
– + Ind. 61: 1409. D. 13, ’06. 60w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 692. O. 20, ’06. 100w.
Carlile, Rev. Wilson, and Carlile, Victor. Continental outcast: land colonies and poor law relief; with a preface by Rt. Rev. E. S. Talbot. *60c. Wessels.
An account of a visit to some of the labor colonies of Belgium, Holland, Germany and Denmark by two men engaged in the work of the Church army of England, and actually interested in the improvement of the English poor law. “How the unemployed of every sort, able-bodied or infirm, honest or criminal, men in search of work or vagrants and beggars, are treated in Continental Europe is the subject of this instructive volume.” (Outlook.)
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 458. Jl. 21, ’06. 1500w. + Outlook. 83: 526. Je. 30, ’06. 220w.
Carling, George. Richard Elliott, financier. $1.50. Page.
Trained in an unscrupulous school of finance, the hero of Mr. Carling’s tale shows how material success can be attained by very corrupt practices. An eavesdropping stenographer rises to the position of trust magnate and the rounds by which he did ascend materially are scathingly marked off. It is a sort of “crack o’ doom” warning to “high finance” aspirants.
“The book is not pleasant reading, but may be a faithful picture. The story part of it is closely, carefully, and skillfully woven. Its satire is perhaps rather too patent to be as biting as satire ought to be.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 674. O. 13. ’06. 470w.
Carling, John R. Viking’s skull. 75c. Little.
A popular edition of “The viking’s skull.” Mr. Carling has written a peculiarly interesting and thrilling story which involves the mystery centering about a crime, and the meaning of a runic inscription on an old Norse altar ring. The hero promises his mother before her death to find the criminal in whose stead his father is serving a life sentence. The father’s escape from prison and disappearance add to the mystery to be solved.
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 195. Mr. 31, ’06. 320w.
Carlyle, Thomas. [French revolution.] 2v. $2.50. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Thin paper two volume sets.” The books are pocket size, with flexible leather binding, and are printed in large clear type on Bible paper. The frontispieces are respectively portraits of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
Carman, (William) Bliss. Pipes of Pan. *$2. Page.
Five recent collections of Mr. Bliss Carman’s poetry make up this substantial volume. They are as follows: From the book of myths, From the green book of the bards, Songs of the sea children, Songs from a northern garden, and From the book of valentines.
Lit. D. 33: 767. N. 24, ’06. 70w.
“There is scarcely a piece in the present volume that is devoid of melodious cadences and poetic imagery, yet the effect of the whole is of sunrise on a foggy morning at sea. Mr. Carman’s later work lacks poetic intensity, and the reader of it takes little away with him.”
+ – Nation. 83: 145. Ag. 16, ’06. 180w.
“It is the chief fault of this fluent and often charming verse that it, too, is singularly soulless.”
+ – Putnam’s. 1: 225. N. ’06. 380w.
Carman, (William) Bliss. Poetry of life. **$1.50. Page.
+ Pub. Opin. 40: 91. Ja. 20, ’06. 160w.
Carmichael, Montgomery. In Tuscany: Tuscan towns, Tuscan types and the Tuscan tongue. **$2. Dutton.
“The author has lived long in the Tuscan cities and has learned to admire the Tuscan character. His book is a series of expositions of that character in various manifestations. First, there are some chapters about the temperament of the people in general; then descriptions of types, such as the priest, the cook and the coachman; then accounts of less-known localities—Portoferraio, Mont La Verna, Orbetello—and of the national sport and the national lottery.”—Ind.
+ Ind. 61: 755. S. 27, ’06. 100w.
“No English reader, who thinks of visiting Tuscany or taking up residence there, should fail to read his book.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 443. Jl. 7, ’06. 560w. + Putnam’s. 1: 378. D. ’06. 110w.
Carmichael, Montgomery, ed. Life of John William Walshe as written by his son Philip Regidius Walshe. *$1.50. Dutton.
“John Walshe, says his son, was a splendid scholar and a devoted servant of God. Of his scholarship he has left as a monument many volumes of material relating chiefly to St. Francis of Assisi; of his devotion to God, impressive evidence is given in this narrative of his quest to know God, a quest that began in England in his earliest youth and found its consummation in distant Italy, whither he had fled from his merchant father’s counting-room, and where he entered upon a life of study, love and religion that was to lead him to the purest and most profound mysticism. The phrase a nineteenth-century mystic sounds strange indeed, but such was John Walshe, and a mystic whose influence, as diffused by his son’s filial zeal, must touch with uplifting power all who read the story of his painful pilgrimage.”—Outlook.
“A most unusual, fine, eloquent, sincere, even inspired piece of writing.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 537. S. 1, ’06. 1410w.
“It is not a great biography, indeed, it has sundry obvious defects from a purely literary standpoint. But whatever of blemish it may seem to us to hold is lost from sight in contemplation of the saintly figure it reveals.”
+ – Outlook. 83: 1005. Ag. 25, ’06. 220w. R. of Rs. 34: 382. S. ’06. 50w.
Carpenter, Edmund Janes. Long ago in Greece: a book of golden hours with the old story tellers. $1.50. Little.
The atmosphere and literary excellence of the old Greek tales are preserved in these twenty and more simplified stories. Among them are Homer’s “Battle of the frogs and mice,” a portion of Aristophanes’ “Birds,” the wooing of Pelops, the tale of Hero and Leander, Ovid’s version of Narcissus and his shadow, Hesiod’s account of Pandora’s curiosity, and Pindar’s sketch of Thetis and many others.
Ind. 61: 1407. D. 13, ’06. 60w.
“It has the particular merit that it follows the originals very closely and preserves something of the atmosphere as well as the subject matter of the famous old stories that it presents.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 70w.
“They are retold simply and in every way made attractive to the youthful reader.”
+ Outlook. 84: 430. O. 20, ’06. 60w.
Carpenter, Edward. Days with Walt Whitman. $1.50. Macmillan.
“Mr. Carpenter, an English gentleman, made the poet’s acquaintance in the sixties through his writings; but met him only in 1877. Seven years later they met again. The notes made by the disciple were written out carefully, and have been published in an English magazine, but now only in book form.... The book has a chapter on Whitman as a prophet, one on the poetic form of ‘Leaves of grass,’ and another, and by no means the least interesting, on Whitman and Emerson. The new volume should please the ever-widening circle of lovers of the ‘Good gray poet.’”—N. Y. Times.
+ Acad. 70: 547. Je. 9, ’06. 700w.
Reviewed by M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
+ Atlan. 98: 898. D. ’06. 530w.
“What one misses most in the book is any evidence that the author saw and felt Whitman as a poet.”
– Critic. 49: 205. S. ’06. 410w.
“But while Traubel’s face to face likeness of Whitman in all his moods is more interesting, Carpenter’s book contains a more definite literary appreciation of the man and his genius.”
+ + Ind. 61: 153. Jl. 19, ’06. 650w.
“Mr. Carpenter’s attitude and language are those of an entirely sane person; he writes entertainingly and interestingly, without gush. Yet that his opinion of Whitman was that of a pupil toward a chosen master appears on every page.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 397. Je. 16, ’06. 220w.
“Pleasantly written, reminiscent book, in the entertaining style of Mr. Carpenter’s other books.”
+ R. of Rs. 34: 125. Jl. ’06. 60w.
“It is a pity so much of this book should be mere tittle-tattle.”
+ – Sat. R. 102: sup. 5. O. 13, ’06. 1130w.
Carpenter, Edward Childs. Captain Courtesy, a story of Old California. *$1.50. Jacobs.
The struggle between Mexico and the United States in old California is intertwined with the story of Captain Courtesy whose Spanish mother and American father were killed by the Mexicans and who for six years waged a warfare of his own upon his enemies by becoming an outlaw whose name spelled terror, a daring road agent with a great price upon his head. After a series of bold adventures he wins an American wife and American citizenship.
“This is evidently a first book, and it shows many of the faults of the ’prentice hand. He merely skims over the surface of things, as if he were in haste to tell his slight little story with the fewest words possible.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 764. N. 17, ’06. 190w.
Carpenter, Joseph Estlin. James Martineau; theologian and teacher. *$2.50. Am. Unitar.
“The work is really a model of what a work of this kind should be.”
+ + + Dial. 40: 22. Ja. 1, ’06. 380w.
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.
“The author demands scientific examination of the religious facts, and shows himself well informed in the latest literature on the psychology of the religious experience.” Thomas C. Hall.
+ + Am. J. Theol. 10: 567. Jl. ’06. 1270w.
“Its chief excellence is its suggestiveness; its chief defect, its lack of orderly treatment of the subjects undertaken.” Henry Thomas Colestock.
+ + – Bib. World. 27: 397. My. ’06. 290w.
Carr, Clark Ezra. Lincoln at Gettysburg. **$1. McClurg.
Written primarily as an address and delivered before the State historical society of Illinois, Mr. Carr’s effort may be considered an appreciation well worth the time of any student and reader. He sketches the transition from the disappointment of the assembled Gettysburg multitude, over Lincoln’s speech to the dawning realization that it was a masterpiece of oratory, and a “crowning triumph of literary achievement.”
Reviewed by Edwin Erle Sparks.
+ Dial. 41: 320. N. 16, ’06. 370w. + Ind. 61: 883. O. 11, ’06. 70w.
Carrington, FitzRoy. Pilgrim’s staff: poems divine and moral, selected and arranged by FitzRoy Carrington. **75c. Duffield.
The aim of the compiler has been to choose from the verse of three and a half centuries a “handful of poems, beautiful in thoughts and spiritual import, which should reflect, as well as might be, in a space so limited, all moods for self abasement of utter unworthiness, to the courage born of a firm faith in the divinity of man, which can face, unafraid, the Great Unknown.”
+ Dial. 41: 287. N. 1, ’06. 40w. Nation. 83: 508. D. 13, ’06. 30w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 80w.
“Though there are lacking some poems that one might expect in even so small a collection as this, those that are included have been discriminatingly selected.”
+ Outlook. 84: 893. D. 8, ’06. 80w.
Carroll, Phidellia Patton. Soul-winning: a problem and its solution; with an introd. by C: H. Fowler. *50c. Meth. bk.
A seven part discussion of the problem of soul-winning treats The importance of soul-winning, Personal effort in soul-winning, A successful method, Steps leading to Christ, Children won by personal effort, A revival not absolutely essential to soul-winning, and Preparation for soul-winning.
“To all who follow Dr. Carroll in his apparent contention that winsomeness consists in words fitly spoken, this book will be of great and interesting and in some respects a difficult sub-permanent value.” Edward Braislin.
+ Am. J. Theol. 10: 575. Jl. ’06. 520w.
Carter, E. Fremlett. Motive power and gearing for electrical machinery: a treatise on the theory and practice of the mechanical equipment of power stations for electricity supply and for electric power and traction. *$5. Van Nostrand.
“The first edition of this book was issued in 1896.... The book is essentially a compilation of principles, theory and results of experiments of the mechanical engineering features of electrical power plants, with some illustrated descriptions of existing plants.... [It includes] many subjects which are usually treated in separate books. It is neither a textbook nor a work of reference but practically an encyclopaedic compilation, from various sources, of descriptions and data on mechanical engineering which are supposed to be of interest to the electrical engineer.”—Engin. N.
“The engineering student will find each of the subjects of this book treated in far better shape in numerous standard works, and the general reader who is not a student will find the book in many cases too difficult of comprehension for him.” William Kent.
– Engin. N. 55: 671. Je. 14, ’06. 1770w.
Carter, Jesse Benedict. [Religion of Numa, and other essays on the religion of ancient Rome.] *$1. Macmillan.
In order to facilitate presentation, Mr. Carter divides Roman history into five epochs, those of the legendary kings and the semi-historical kings, the first half of the republic, the last half of the republic, the beginning of the empire, and the renaissance of religion under Augustus. It “is less a handbook than a sketch of the change by which the original agricultural and secluded mythology of Rome and its gods who had their proper home within the Pomerium, developed into the prevailing mythology of the classical period.” (Ind.)
“Gives, perhaps, as clear a general view as the reading public either desires or deserves. The work is entirely destitute of reference to authorities.” Andrew Lang.
+ – Acad. 70: 134. F. 10, ’06. 1330w.
“Mr. Carter gives no authorities and not too many details; hence his book will not supply the needs of real students of the subject. Nevertheless, the book will serve well as an introduction to the subject, being clearly and forcibly written.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 2: 12. Jl. 7. 350w.
“This is a very valuable short study of an interesting and in some respects a difficult subject.”
+ + Critic. 48: 470. My. ’06. 180w.
“This little volume is full of suggestion and value.”
+ Ind. 60: 743. Mr. 29, ’06. 240w.
“The society may be congratulated on a carefully prepared and valuable volume.”
+ Nation. 83: 127. Ag. 9, ’06. 590w.
“Involves some interesting excursions in the bypaths of classical learning.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 196. Mr. 31, ’06. 240w. R. of Rs. 33: 508. Ap. ’06. 40w.
“A readable sketch ... based on the recent critical work which has pieced together many isolated indications and filled numerous gaps by illuminating conjecture.”
+ Sat. R. 102: 271. S. 1, ’06. 680w.
Carter, Thomas. Shakespeare and the Holy Scriptures, with the version he used. *$3. Dutton.
“The good intentions and industry of the author of this volume are, of course, worthy of all respect, but we cannot avoid the feeling that they have been wasted on a tedious piece of work.”
– Ath. 1905, 2: 847. D. 16. 190w.
Cartrie, Count de. Memoirs of the Count de Cartrie; with introd. by F: Masson, and appendices and notes by Pierre Amédée Pichot. *$5. Lane.
A record of the extraordinary events in the life of a French royalist during the war in La Vendée, and of his flight to Southampton, where he followed the humble occupation of gardener.
“A work which reflects credit on all concerned.”
+ Ath. 1906, 2: 399. O. 6. 2150w.
“As a tale of adventure, the work cannot fail to attract. It also has value as a side-light thrown on a memorable epoch in French history.”
+ Dial. 41: 285. N. 1, ’06. 260w. + Lond. Times. 5: 366. N. 2. ’06. 1580w.
“The interest of these memoirs is very great, great everywhere and they have considerable historic value.”
+ + Nation. 83: 373. N. 1, ’06. 1180w.
“Its limitations in interest are its best guarantee of genuineness: and in genuineness as a human document typically illustrative of personal fortunes during the French revolution its chief interest lies.” G: S. Hellman.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 630. O. 6, ’06. 1760w. – N. Y. Times. 11: 811. D. 1. ’06. 280w.
“This story of suffering and hairbreadth escape shows the nature of the struggle in a way that historians as well as students will welcome.”
+ Sat. R. 102: 522. O. 27, ’06. 140w.
Cartwright, Julia (Mrs. Henry Ady). Raphael. *75c. Dutton.
This little manual on the life and art of Raphael is the fourteenth volume in “The popular library of art.” The author tells about the “birth of Raphael and his life and studies at Perugia, Florence and Rome. She describes his Madonnas, the Vatican Stanze, his portraits of contemporaries, his work as architect and decorator, and his cartoons, the last of which, she says, ‘mark the final stage of Raphael’s artistic development.’” (N. Y. Times.)
“Mrs. Ady seems to have been helped by the rigid limitations of space to give us her very best. The essential acts of Raphael’s life and art could not have been stated more concisely. Nor has the necessary compression of the material made for dullness.”
+ + Ath. 1905, 2: 690. N. 18. 410w.
“Within its limited compass, a singularly complete account of the character and development of Raphael’s work. She is of course thoroughly familiar with modern critical opinion, and as far as it goes her work is exact and scholarly.”
+ + Dial. 40: 160. Mr. 1, ’06. 110w.
“The volume is a worthy successor to its forerunners.”
+ Nation. 82: 118. F. 8, ’06. 90w. N. Y. Times. 11: 162. Mr. 17, ’06. 250w.
Carus, Paul. Friedrich Schiller. **75c. Open ct.
In Mr. Carus’ memorial volume fittingly contributed at the time of the Schiller centenary, a biographical sketch is followed by two essays on Schiller as a philosophical poet and on Schiller’s poetry. There are illustrative selections from the poet’s works given in both German and English.
“A concise but scholarly sketch of Schiller’s life and an appreciation of his poetry.”
+ Critic. 48: 379. Ap. ’06. 30w.
“It is a book of popular character, and very interesting in its presentation of the subject.”
+ Dial. 40: 24. Ja. 1, ’06. 60w. + Outlook. 82: 46. Ja. 6, ’06. 70w.
Carver, Thomas Nixon, comp. Sociology and social progress: a handbook for students of sociology. *$2.75. Ginn.
A book designed to be used as the basis for class-room discussions or to furnish collateral reading to a course of lectures. The author has gone out-side of systematic treatises on sociology for observations upon the phenomena of society, upon the laws of social growth and decay, and upon the problems of social improvement, and has presented them in form for the student and the general reader as well. The discussion is in three parts: part 1, The nature, scope and method of sociology; part 2. Sociology as a study of social progress—the direction of social progress; part 3. The factors of social progress.
“The general purpose is admirable, and Professor Carver’s book will be welcomed by sociologists as a distinct enlargement of library facilities.” G: E. Vincent.
+ + Am. J. Soc. 12: 122. Ag. ’06. 900w.
“The compiler has produced a volume which will be of very great service to those of his readers who wish to get a general conception of the ideas of the best thinkers and students of society, but who have not the time to read the works in extenso, nor the wisdom to choose well.”
+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 174. Jl. ’06. 310w.
“The volume does not, accordingly, show us much of its compiler’s personal opinions, and can hardly, we think, be of great usefulness to the general reader.”
+ Nation. 83: 77. Jl. 26, ’06. 350w.
“The book is a timely one and should both promote and assist the teaching of sociology.”
+ + Yale R. 15: 339. N. ’06. 200w.
Cary, Elisabeth Luther. Novels of Henry James: a study. **$1.25. Putnam.
“Miss Cary is not quite an ideal interpreter.”
+ – Acad. 71: 103. Ag. 4, ’06. 1280w.
“Elisabeth Luther Cary would appear to have done, in her study of Henry James, pretty much all for him that it is possible for an ardent disciple to do at this time.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + Critic. 48: 458. My. ’06. 480w. Ind. 60: 44. Ja. 4, ’06. 120w. R. of Rs. 33: 121. Ja. ’06. 100w.
Cary, Elisabeth Luther, and Jones, Annie Maria. Books and my food. **$1. Moffat.
Mental and physical aliment in the form of quotations and recipes for every day in the year.
“We hope that the culinary taste of the authors is in keeping with the literary.”
+ Critic. 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 50w.
“On the whole, the object has been attained; but now and again an exception must be taken to the compiler’s accuracy.”
+ – Ind. 61: 155. Jl. 19, ’06. 200w.
“The quotations will be a godsend to the harassed makers of menus for public occasions.”
+ Nation. 83: 54. Jl. 19, ’06. 60w.
Castle, Mrs. Agnes (Sweetman), and Castle, Edgerton. Heart of Lady Anne. †$1.50. Stokes.
+ Critic. 48: 474. My. ’06. 100w. + N. Y. Times. 10: 922. D. 30, ’05. 370w.
“It is very dainty, amusing and inconsequential.”
+ Pub. Opin. 39: 859. D. 30, ’05. 190w
“The texture is of the lightest, but skilfully woven.”
+ Sat. R. 100: 786. D. 16, ’05. 190w.
“The book is gracefully written and is easy reading, but it will strike many readers as being as artificial as the age which it is intended to represent.”
+ – Spec. 95: 1130. D. 30, ’05. 70w.
Castle, Mrs. Agnes (Sweetman), and Castle, Egerton. [If youth but knew.] †$1.50. Macmillan.
The time and rule of Jerome Bonaparte furnish the “occasion and material of this romance.... The period chosen by the authors is just anterior to the fall of Jerome, and the critical part of the narrative passes in Cassel at the King’s court. The atmosphere clothes this story as a garment from the very outset, when we make the acquaintance of the young Anglo-Austrian count and his chance companion, the wayfaring fiddler, Geiger-Hans. It begins to be romantic, it continues in the true vein of romance, and ends sweetly upon a proper romantic note, to the accompaniment of Geiger-Hans’s fiddle.” (Ath.)
“From the opening pages of the present story the stage and its machinery are always in sight. But once accept the book as a glorified libretto of a romantic opera, clever, dainty, delicately treated, and all runs smoothly and delightfully to the end.”
+ – Acad. 70: 358. Ap. 14, ’06. 420w. + Ath. 1906, 1: 474. Ap. 21. 400w. + Critic. 48: 571. Je. ’06. 60w.
“It is a story throbbing with life, instinct with poetic feeling, and bearing the stamp of a creative power that is closely akin to genius.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + Dial. 40: 364. Je. 1, ’06. 180w. + Ind. 60: 1488. Je. 21, ’06. 120w.
“This is one of the prettiest of the stories of Agnes and Egerton Castle.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 270. Ap. 28, ’06. 630w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ North American. 182: 927. Je. ’06. 110w. + Outlook. 83: 91. My. 12, ’06. 200w. + Sat. R. 101: 592. My. 12, ’06. 200w.
Castleman, Virginia Carter. Roger of Fairfield. $1.25. Neale.
With picturesque and historic Virginia for a setting, reflecting the spirit of ante-bellum days, Miss Castleman follows the fortunes of Roger of Fairfield thru college and the theological seminary to his ordination and marriage.
Cather, Willa Sibert. [Troll garden.] †$1.25. McClure.
“For cultivation and distinction of style, Miss Cather may even rank with Mrs. Edith Wharton, but she is far more sympathetic, far deeper. Although her stories are short and unpretentious, they seem to me quite the most important in recent American fiction.” Mary Moss.
+ + Atlan. 97: 48. Ja. ’06. 380w.
[Catherine of Siena, St.], tr. by Vida D. Scudder. *$2.50. Dutton.
+ Am. Hist. R. 11: 462. Ja. ’06. 60w.
Cator, Dorothy. Everyday life among the head-hunters, and other experiences from East to West. $1.75. Longmans.
“Without making any pretense to being scientific this plain and unvarnished but eminently readable, narrative ... contains a large amount of interesting information with regard to the customs and modes of life of both Dyaks and the less well known Muruts.” R. D.
+ + Nature. 73: 203. D. 28, ’05. 570w. + Spec. 96: sup. 648. Ap. 28, ’06. 380w.
Cattell, J. McKeen, ed. American men of science: a biographical directory. *$5. Science press, N. Y.
A “who’s who” for the men who work in the field of pure science.
Ind. 60: 809. Ap. 5, ’06. 70w. + + Nation. 82: 260. Mr. 29, ’06. 220w. + + N. Y. Times. 11: 153. Mr. 10, ’06. 270w.
Cavaness, Alpheus Asbury Brenton. Rubaiyat of hope. *$1. Meth. bk.
Omar’s red rose, wine-dyed, gives place to the lily which waves with a palm, symbol of victory. The author of this poem sounds a triumphant note of hope mastering despair, man mastering destiny. He teaches that “nothing can unhinge us but ourselves.”
Cawein, Madison Julius. Nature-notes and impressions, in prose and verse. **$1.50. Dutton.
Brief sketches in prose and verse taken from the author’s note book. “A memorandum of moods, of accents in nature, caught at the moment, to be elaborated later into a picture.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The whole output tends to give the impression that the successes themselves are not spontaneous but the mere chance triumphs of a highly self-conscious and wholly artificial method.”
+ – Nation. 83: 288. O. 4, ’06. 370w.
“One of the qualities, indeed which in poetry serves to give him distinction, a remarkably affluent and picturesque imagery, in prose has a tendency to become a defect, rendering the style too poetic and imaginative and the periods over-sustained. This is, indeed the chief limitation to the volume, but a limitation redeemed by the delicate picturing to be found on every page.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 616. O. 6, ’06. 1160w.
“The work of Mr. Cawein is not distinctly lyric, although the verse has rhymthic charm.”
+ – Outlook. 84: 337. O. 6, ’06. 220w.
Cawein, Madison Julius. Vale of Tempe. *$1.50. Dutton.
“The most surprising thing about Mr. Cawein’s work is the even excellence which characterizes so great a quantity of matter.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 40: 126. F. 16, ’06. 270w.
Cervantes, Saavedra Miguel de. Don Quixote; tr. with introd. by John Quimby. 2v. $2.50. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Thin paper two volume set” this “Don Quixote” is of interest alike to students and library collectors. There is an informing introduction, the first part of which presents the merits and demerits of the edition offered to English readers thru the past two centuries and a half, and the second part of which sketches Cervantes’ life.
Chadwick, John White. Later poems. *$1.25. Houghton.
+ Reader. 7: 229. Ja. ’06. 160w.
Chadwick, Samuel. Humanity and God. **$1.50. Revell.
“The one weakness in the otherwise masterful work is in the lowering of the standard of human perfection in order to permit to consciousness the sense of its attainment.” Edward Braislin.
+ + – Am. J. Theol. 10: 571. Jl. ’06. 340w.
Chamberlain, Charles Joseph. Methods in plant histology. *$2.25. Univ. of Chicago press.
“The book will be very useful to teachers of secondary schools, as well as to independent workers, for it gives in usable and concise form the latest and most approved methods of modern micro-technique.” W. J. G. Land.
+ + School R. 14: 310. Ap. ’06. 260w.
Chamberlain, Leander Trowbridge. True doctrine of prayer: with foreword by the Rev. W: R. Huntington. **$1. Baker.
Dr. Chamberlain has presented the doctrine of prayer in a logical succession of paragraphs “each one of which presents truth which no one who desires to think deeply about prayer can afford to lose out of sight.... It is not merely as a healthful exercise for the soul that he would have us think of prayer, but as a potency, a dynamic, an efficient cause.... He is willing to explain, to interpret, to justify, but never to minimize.”
+ Outlook. 82: 523. Mr. 3, ’06. 230w.
Chamberlin, Thomas Chrowder, and Salisbury, Rollin D. Geology. 3v. v. 1, Processes and their results; v. 2, and 3, Earth history, ea. *$4. Holt.
The first volume of the work appeared in 1904 and is now in its second edition. “In that volume was given a statement of the planetismal hypothesis of earth origin. In these new volumes the hypothesis is developed and applied, and its application requires a new reading of dynamical geology, with a consequent new interpretation of geologic history.... A notable feature of the work is the attention paid to past climates and the use made of them in interpretation.... The treatment of Pleistocene and the human or present periods is unusually full and satisfactory.... The book closes with a very interesting and suggestive discussion of man as a geologic agent, and as influenced by his geologic environment.”—Dial.
“Whether we accept or reject their views, there is no gainsaying the fact that Profs. Chamberlin and Salisbury have produced a very suggestive work, which is likely to exert a marked influence on the teaching of geology in all English-speaking countries.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 2: 191. Ag. 18. 1410w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“It is not sufficiently complete to be an entirely satisfactory book of reference. For the general reader the book has a charm and freshness not common to scientific texts, but it contains so much new and not yet accepted doctrine that such a reader will need to take careful note of the qualifying phrases. It is to working geologists that the book will make the strongest appeal.” H. Foster Bain.
+ + – Dial. 40: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 1420w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“For the graduate student and as a reference work for the teacher and general reader the work is, however, indispensable.”
+ + Ind. 61: 393. Ag. 16, ’06. 1050w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.) Ind. 61: 1172. N. 15, ’06. 60w. (Review of v. 1–3.) + Nation. 82: 476. Je. 7, ’06. 1240w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“The arrangement of the book is in most respects well adapted to the requirements of students, and the presentation of the subject matter is always clear.” A. H.
+ + Nature. 74: 557. O. 4, ’06. 2210w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“The principal adverse criticisms that can be made, relate to the minor details of editing—not to the subject-matter or the method of treatment. In the presence of so much that is large, and helpful, and inspiring such criticisms seem like mere quibbling. Not a subject is touched upon in the entire work that does not have the breath of a new life breathed into it.” J. C. Branner.
+ + – Science, n.s. 24: 462. O. 12, ’06. 2540w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
“The authors give an admirable account of the various stages through which the earth has passed since it became solid, and their beautifully illustrated volumes form one of the most complete and trustworthy geological treatises which have yet been published.”
+ + Spec. 97: sup. 654. N. 3, ’06. 370w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
Chambers, Robert William. [Fighting chance.] **$1.50. Appleton.
Silvia Landis, a spoiled society girl, and Stephen Siward, who has inherited a weakness for drink, meet at a railway station “and continue the game there begun at a house party where assorted time killers are assembled.... Silvia angles for a new millionaire and plays with Stephen even while she lands him.... The story passes from the house party to the city, where Silvia pursues her social pastimes and retains her golden fiancé and Stephen ... fights the demon rum alone with more or less unsuccess. You have in the meantime club scenes, bridge scenes, scenes of domestic, infelicity, scenes of sordid life, glimpses of the half-world, a panorama of high finance.... In the end ... Mr. Chambers, to achieve his happy ending appropriates a motor car ... and lets it blow up with the marplot.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Mr. Chambers is so clever, has so keen a sense of character, that after enjoying his book, you ungratefully regard him with violent irritation. He has no right not to do even better! His abundant and interesting material is not thoroughly digested.” Mary Moss.
+ + – Bookm. 24: 157. O. ’06. 870w.
“Such books as this play with the glittering surface of life but have nothing to do with its deeper realities.” Wm. M. Payne.
– Dial. 41: 243. O. 16, ’06. 270w.
“A real rival to Mrs. Wharton’s ‘House of Mirth.’”
+ Ind. 61: 642. S. 13, ’06. 70w.
“The interpretation which Mrs. Wharton attempted of New York society in ‘The house of mirth,’ Robert Chambers has really accomplished in his new novel.”
+ Ind. 61: 877. O. 11, ’06. 1080w. Ind. 61: 1158. N. 15, ’06. 100w.
“Realistic in the extreme and to the extent of introducing slang and even profanity, it still has fine touches of sentiment and reveals an intimate knowledge of a species of human existence which, in a sense is as new and as modern as the motor and skyscraper.”
+ + – Lit. D. 33: 357. S. 15, ’06. 370w. Lit. D. 33: 593. O. 27, ’06. 500w. + + Lit. D. 33: 857. D. 8, ’06. 90w.
“With all its palpable defects upon it, this novel was framed for popularity. It is emphatically not for the literary epicure.”
+ – Nation. 83: 246. S. 20, ’06. 140w.
“Mr. Robert W. Chambers has taken the material of Mrs. Wharton’s ‘House of mirth’ and made it over. Like Mrs. Wharton, Mr. Chambers shows you the brightest and best touched with the poison; unlike Mrs. Wharton, he refuses to permit, much less to organize, a conspiracy of bitter circumstances which shall assist the poison in its cruel work and bring everything to a bitter end.” H. I. Brock.
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 548. S. 8, ’06. 1160w.
“A particularly good story.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 797. D. 1, ’06. 210w.
“While the novel may be at heart no more pessimistic, socially speaking, than Mrs. Wharton’s ‘The House of mirth,’ it lacks the delicate perception and fine literary shading of that searching analysis.”
+ Outlook. 84: 141. S. 15, ’06. 240w.
“If Mr. Chambers had only taken the time to reconstruct the volume, prune it of superfluous conversations, and infuse into it a little more of the heroism his title suggests, he would have had a novel of real significance.”
– + World To-Day. 11: 1221. N. ’06. 160w.
Chambers, Robert William. Iole. †$1.25. Appleton.
“This is the prettiest and gayest bit of satire that we have seen in print for many a day; daintily good-humored, but none the less piercing and effective.”
+ Acad. 71: 286. S. 22, ’06. 150w.
“The fun really ends with Iole’s marriage, at which point a wise reader, grateful for a smile, will move on to other pastures.” Mary Moss.
+ – Atlan. 97: 50. Ja. ’06. 100w.
Chambers, Robert William. Mountain-land; with 8 full page il. in col. by Frank Richardson. **$1.50. Appleton.
Two little children have an instructive day’s journey to the mountain-land during which they converse with the mountains centuries old and learn the lesson of its disregard for time and change, and talk with the ice-fly, the snow jay, a band of owls, a squirrel, a lynx and giant silkworm moths. Each one of the creatures furnishes instruction regarding its identity, habitat and general characteristics.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 752. N. 17, ’06. 60w.
Chambers, Robert William. Reckoning. †$1.50. Appleton.
“Mr. Chambers’s richly dressed puppets move briskly through their many trials to a happy end, and the author, as I before said, is a competent story teller.” Mary Moss.
+ Atlan. 97: 50. Ja. ’06. 150w.
“It leaves you with a sense of puzzled doubt just where erudition ceases and the dime novel begins.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – Bookm. 22: 374. D. ’05. 380w.
Chambers, Robert William. Tracer of lost persons. †$1.50. Appleton.
Certain interesting cases taken up by Mr. Keen, head of the firm of Keen & co., Tracers of lost persons, form the substance of these amusing stories, but they are not on the old detective story order, for they are all cases in which the lost person is a lost love or a lost ideal and they all end in happy marriages as the dinner given to Mr. Keen at the close of the volume by five radiant young couples testifies.
“Somewhat puerile and wholly absurd is the main idea of this amorous tale, but some of the incidents are amusing, and the dialogue is brisk.”
+ – Critic. 49: 284. S. ’06. 50w.
“A new and improved form of the detective story.”
+ Ind. 61: 223. Jl. 26, ’06. 60w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.
“Capital reading for a leisure hour or two.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 422. Je. 30, ’06. 140w.
Chamblin, Jean. Lady Bobs, her brother and I: a romance of the Azores. †$1.25. Putnam.
“The trick of pitching an unpretentious story in just the right key is rare enough to entitle Jean Chamblin’s placid little idyl of the Azores, ‘Lady Bobs, her brother and I’, to a word or two of cordial commendation.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ Bookm. 22: 494. Ja. ’06. 190w.
“She has a facile and humorous pen and her letters are literature.”
+ Critic. 48: 190. F. ’06. 160w.
“It is a pity that Miss Chamblin has felt it necessary to resort to meaningless slang and cheap humor in order to enliven her heroine’s letters.”
+ – Dial. 40: 20. Ja. 1, ’06. 150w.
“A large amount of interesting description and information regarding these unique islands is cleverly woven into the story.”
+ Ind. 60: 343. F. 8, ’06. 120w.
Champlain, Samuel de. [Voyages and explorations of Samuel de Champlain] (1604–1616) narrated by himself; tr. by Annie Nettleton Bourne, together with the voyage of 1603, reprinted from Purchas his pilgrimes; ed. with introd. and notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne. 2v. ea. **$1. Barnes.
“These volumes are a welcome addition to the ‘Trail makers’ series. They comprise the first English translation of Champlain’s ‘Voyages and explorations’ that has ever been made accessible to the general public. Thirty years ago translations were made for the Prince society, but they were published in an edition ‘strictly limited and now to be found only in the richer public and private collections of Americana.’ Professor and Mrs. Bourne have therefore rendered a distinct service to students of our early history. An extremely adequate and interesting introduction of twenty-eight pages has been contributed by Professor Bourne.”—Lit. D.
+ + Lit. D. 33: 513. O. 13, ’06. 190w. + + N. Y. Times. 11: 779. N. 24, ’06. 250w.
“An edition that represents in brief the sum of present-day knowledge.”
+ + Outlook. 84: 534. O. 27, ’06. 210w.
“A work of considerable interest to the historical student.”
+ + R. of Rs. 34: 756. D. ’06. 50w.
Champlin, John Denison. Young folks’ cyclopedia of common things. $2.50. Holt.
This third edition revised and enlarged meets the demands of rapid advance during the past decade in everything pertaining to science and industrial arts.
Champlin, John Denison. Young folks’ cyclopaedia of persons and places. $2.50. Holt.
More than five hundred new articles appear in this fifth edition, including names of persons and places prominent in latter-day happenings.
+ + Lit. D. 33: 393. S. 22, ’06. 70w.
“Will be welcomed by all boys and girls of alert, inquiring mind.”
+ + Nation. 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 100w. + + N. Y. Times. 11: 724. N. 3, ’06. 140w. Outlook. 84: 285. S. 29, ’06. 20w. + + R. of Rs. 34: 512. O. ’06. 70w.
Champney, Elizabeth Williams. Romance of the French abbeys. **$3. Putnam.
+ Spec. 96: sup. 649. Ap. 28, ’06. 170w.
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.
“It is unfortunate that so faulty a work should be launched upon the public by the reputation of a great publishing house and by strangely favorable notices from several literary periodicals of high standing.” W. M. West.
– – Am. Hist. R. 11: 441. Ja. ’06. 120w. (Review of v. 2.)
“His material is slight and it is further obscured by a flood of ‘literary’ allusions and historical philosophy-and-water in an inflated style which becomes a weariness to the reader’s patience.” Theodore Clarke Smith.
+ + – Atlan. 98: 707. N. ’06. 230w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
Channing, Edward. History of the United States. 8v. v. 1, Planting of a nation in the New World. **$2.50. Macmillan.
“Not only an admirable specimen of historical scholarship, but also a successful effort to present the results of scholarship in an attractive form.” Edward Gaylord Bourne.
+ + – Am. Hist. R. 11: 390. Ja. ’06. 1750w.
“[His] sense of balanced judgment is reinforced by the shrewd, occasionally ironical or humorous style which reflects the personality of the author.” Theodore Clarke Smith.
+ + Atlan. 98: 706. N. ’06. 150w.
“He still shows the mastery, the cool, skeptical scholarship, with the occasional gleam of wit and the constant clearness of expression which marked his first volume.”
+ + Ind. 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 70w. (Review of v. 2.)
Reviewed by Henry Russell Spencer.
+ + – Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 346. Je. ’06. 1220w.
Chapin, Henry Dwight. Vital questions. **$1. Crowell.
“The volume is a good one to put in the hands of one whose interest in matters social needs quickening.”
+ Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 234. Ja. ’06. 90w.
Charles, Frances Asa. Pardner of Blossom range. †$1.50. Little.
A tale of Arizona in which cowboys and Indians figure. Holly, the granddaughter of the owner of Blossom ranch conceives a dislike for an army captain who is alleged to be responsible for the death of a private whose horse Pardner comes into her possession. That this same officer should become a favorite in her train of suitors suggests an interesting situation which is satisfactorily worked out.
“The story is pretty, and the author has evidently made a resolute effort to soften the asperities of her early manner.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 711. O. 27, ’06. 130w.
Charlton, John. Speeches and addresses: political, literary, and religious. $2. Morang & co.
+ Dial. 40: 53. Ja. 16, ’06. 170w.
Chaucer, Geoffrey. Canterbury tales, prologue and selections: rewritten in simple language by Calvin Dill Wilson, and decorated by Ralph Fletcher Seymour. *$1. McClurg.
In retelling old tales for young readers, Mr. Wilson aims to preserve in his prose rendering the literary no less than the poetic and artistic qualities of the original. This Chaucer is a charming volume which is uniform with Mr. Wilson’s retold “Faery queen.”
+ Nation. 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 50w.
Cheney, John Vance. Poems. **$1.50. Houghton.
+ Critic. 48: 96. Ja. ’06. 110w. + Reader. 7: 228. Ja. ’06. 200w.
Cheney, Warren. Challenge. †$1.50. Bobbs.
The dramatic incidents of Mr. Cheney’s tale serve to show in turn stout-hearted, superstitious and treacherous phases of character as exhibited among a group of Russians in the Alaskan bay of Ltua. The rebellious gurgling of the “draw”—a dangerous whirlpool at a certain turn of the tide—gets into the very action of the story, and as it sinks every mortal caught in its swirl except the brave-hearted Ivan and his Mortyra, typifies the evil of the tale. There is also a case of mental assassination worked out which introduces a metaphysical problem.
“There are some very strong situations and finely-drawn scenes in the work, which on the whole is far above the ordinary present-day story of this character.”
+ Arena. 36: 572. N. ’06. 220w. + Critic. 48: 572. Je. ’06. 50w.
“It is a novel with a new idea, if there is such a thing in the world, and a new field, which is worth while in itself.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 274. Ap. 28, ’06. 410w.
“Warren Cheney ... knows his Alaska and the Russians there thoroughly. There is in this story a restrained dramatic intensity very grateful to the artistic sense.”
+ Outlook. 82: 762. Mr. 31, ’06. 110w.
“There is decided value in the tale’s study of motive and character, together with a singularly full acquaintance with the local color and of a little-known historical episode.”
+ Outlook. 82: 856. Ap. 14, ’06. 40w.
Chesnutt, Charles Waddell. [Colonel’s dream.] †$1.50. Doubleday.
“The narrative not unfrequently drags, and the character-drawing is sometimes wanting in clearness.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 43. Ja. 13. 180w.
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith. Charles Dickens. **$1.50. Dodd.
“This new book is builded on the false idea that just at this time Dickens needs a champion among his own people.” (N. Y. Times.) “Mr. Dickens and Mr. Chesterton move ... arm in arm through these pages like a pair of boon companions, and the ordinary reader may be trusted not to notice that Mr. Dickens’ arm is somewhat hard held.” (Sat. R.) “Dickens is a typical English figure, and it is on this side that Mr. Chesterton’s study is illuminating. It abounds in side-lights thrown by a somewhat mystical optimism and uproarious spirits on the Gargantuan feast of good humour provided by the master.” (Ath.)
“The style in which the book is written reminds us too closely of the smart political leader.”
+ – Acad. 71: 221. S. 8, ’06. 1620w.
“The real misfortune of the book is that the author seems unable to check his propensity for wild paradox, and cherishes a growing habit of exaggeration, which leads to false emphasis and essentially obscures the issue.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 2: 294. S. 15. 2230w.
“Mr. Chesterton’s book is one which no one who loves Dickens or who admires brilliant writing can afford to ignore.” Arthur Bartlett Maurice.
+ + – Bookm. 24: 267. N. ’06. 2650w.
“As a life of Dickens it does not profess to have value. At the same time, it is entertaining, suggestive, brilliant in spots, the very last book one would go to sleep over. As a self-portrayal of Mr. Chesterton, rather than a picture of his greater countryman, it has decided merits.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ Dial. 41: 272. N. 1, ’06. 1940w. + – Lond. Times. 5: 296. Ag. 31, ’06. 1140w.
“As biography Mr. Chesterton’s book is quite superfluous, and, we may add, quite inadequate. As criticism it will hugely delight folks who find enjoyment in literary fireworks.”
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 598. S. 29, ’06. 2260w.
“With so good a book as Dr. Ward’s little critical biography in the field, the present volume seems a work of supererogation.”
– Outlook. 84: 715. N. 24, ’06. 200w.
“One cannot regard Mr. Chesterton as the ideal critic of Charles Dickens though he makes a very effective apologist.”
+ – Sat. R. 102: 368. S. 22, ’06. 1510w.
“The book, taken as a whole, is as warm and understanding a tribute as any hand has laid on the great writer’s grave. We find ourselves also largely in accordance with him when he blames and demurs.”
+ + – Spec. 97: 364. S. 15, ’06. 2500w.
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith. [Club of queer trades.] †$1.25. Harper.
“They have not a free inventive stroke. They are whimsical and studied.”
+ – Reader. 6: 727. N. ’05. 160w.
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith. [Heretics.] *$1.50. Lane.
“As a critic, not only of heretics but of various aspects and relations of life discussed in this volume, when he has finished off the heretics, Mr. Chesterton shows a definite advance in clearness and force.”
+ Nation. 82: 208. Mr. 8, ’06. 1500w.
Cheyne, Thomas Kelly. Bible problems and the new material for their solution. *$1.50. Putnam.
“The book is stimulating and thought-provoking, even though its theories are now and then insufficiently supported by facts.” Ira Maurice Price and John M. P. Smith.
+ – Am. J. Theol. 10: 324. Ap. ’06. 250w.
Cholmondeley, Mary. [Prisoners.] †$1.50. Dodd.
“This novel is essentially a tragedy, with an Italian setting for the initial crime, that brings about the punishment of an innocent man through a woman’s revolting cowardice. The action of the novel centres about the redemption of the small-souled woman who emerges as a fairly honourable character.”—Canadian M.
“In no modern novel has the female mind been analyzed with a more delicate sense.”
+ + Acad. 71: 244. S. 15, ’06. 1640w.
“A powerful though somewhat painful book. Her one failure is Carstairs.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 2: 329. S. 22. 550w.
“Faults it has in abundance—big, obtrusive, exasperating faults. It is a book well worth reading.” Edward Clark Marsh.
+ – Bookm. 24: 274. N. ’06. 950w.
“Is as vivid in literary force as ‘Red pottage,’ and is more wholesome in tone. It is the work of an artist, not a vivisectionist.”
+ + – Canadian M. 24: 86. N. ’06. 410w.
“The author makes herself the peer for a page or two with the writers of the best literature in the ... tribute to a certain class of dull, enduring Englishmen.”
+ – Ind. 61: 1288. N. 29, ’06. 660w.
“The story is not without dramatic chapters. In spite of literary defects it often holds the interest of the reader effectively.”
+ – Lit. D. 33: 685. N. 10, ’06. 160w.
“Some of the deeper things in human nature are cleverly touched and their fountain sources stirred.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 857. D. 8, ’06. 70w.
“We find wisdom, indeed, rather in the stuff of the story than in those often brilliant incidental comments on which no small part of her fame reposes. We suggest that in this book, wise and witty as her ‘chorus’ often is, she has a little abused that privilege by trying ostentatiously to live up to it.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 5: 314. S. 14, ’06. 600w.
“If the story, as said, mounts steadily, the reader, at least, is breathless much of the way under the suspense and under the cleverness. The ethical aspects are broad and deep.”
+ + – Nation. 83: 332. O. 18, ’06. 520w.
“In more ways than one, we are continually reminded of George Eliot; not that there is the faintest trace of imitation, but that Miss Cholmondeley has an equal insight into character and motive, a like power of analysis, a similar gift for pregnant sentences of humor and of wisdom.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 697. O. 27, ’06. 1280w. N. Y. Times. 11: 796. D. 1, ’06. 250w.
“This is not so well-rounded and satisfying a story as was ‘Red pottage.’”
+ – Outlook. 84: 533. O. 21, ’06. 130w.
“Is technically faulty in construction in that the critical point of the plot is reached in the early chapters, but the tenseness of the situation continues.”
+ – Outlook. 84: 712. N. 24, ’06. 120w.
“Brilliant but unequal novel.”
+ – Spec. 97: 441. S. 29, ’06. 1720w.
Christian, Eugene, and Christian, Mrs. Eugene (Mollie Griswold Christian). Uncooked foods and how to use them. $1. Health-Culture.
A new revised and enlarged edition of a treatise on how to get the highest form of animal energy from food. Food problems and the function of foods are discussed, and the use of uncooked foods is advocated from a stand-point of health, simplicity, and economy. Recipes for the preparation of uncooked foods with detailed menus of healthful combinations are given. The little book will prove valuable to those who feel that conventional modern cooking is not giving them the proper returns in health and strength.
Church: her communion and her service. 25c. General council pub. house.
Pastors of the Lutheran church, members, and those who desire to know the teachings of the Lutheran church will find in this booklet concise answers to questions concerning the church, her history and her doctrines.
Churchill, Winston. [Coniston.] †$1.50. Macmillan.
Love and politics are deftly blended in this life story of Jethro Bass, the New England politician of a generation ago, the crude man of the tannery who made himself a power in the state. His first victory, won by questionable methods, cost him the first Cynthy, but after a life in which his politics outweighed his love, great as that love was, he at last retires from the political field in a voluntary sacrifice of his power to the second Cynthia’s happiness. The book is full of strong characters; Bob, Cynthia’s lover, Bob’s father, old Ephraim, Ezra Graves. All Coniston seems to live upon its pages, with its local interests, its plots and counter plots; but the warm heart and the shrewd unscrupulous mind of Jethro, and the noble spirited girl who loved him while she despised his methods are the truly great things of the book.
“The novel, when tried on the touchstone of nature, does not stand the test. A genuine humour twinkles over the book, making it very pleasant indeed to read.”
+ – Acad. 71: 53. Jl. 21, ’06. 1680w.
“It is not too much to say that it places him at the head of contemporary American novelists.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 2: 97. Jl. 28. 450w.
“It is of better quality than the average fiction of to-day.”
+ Cath. World. 84: 115. O. ’06. 170w. + + – Critic. 49: 208. S. ’06. 410w. + + Critic. 49: 284. S. ’06. 390w.
“A sober estimate will give the book due recognition for its idealism, its close observation, and its genuine human interest, while not ignoring its coherent structure, its superficial characterization, its long-windedness, its affected pose, and its slovenly diction.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + – Dial. 41: 116. S. 1, ’06. 430w.
“Mr. Churchill’s latest novel is his best novel.”
+ + Ind. 61: 96. Jl. 12, ’06. 860w. + + Ind. 61: 1160. N. 15, ’06. 30w.
“The story is open, nevertheless, to the same objections which have been brought against its predecessors—lack of concentration, and the diffusion of events over too large an area.”
+ + – Lit. D. 33: 284. S. 1, ’06. 460w. Lit. D. 33: 593. O. 27, ’06. 300w. Lit. D. 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 80w.
“He transcribes rather than creates, and his effects are got by plodding equably ahead with his narrative rather than by any flash of inspiration.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 249. Jl. 13, ’06. 650w.
“‘Coniston’ would have been a good novel if it had begun in the middle.”
+ – Nation. 83: 38. Jl. 12, ’06. 540w.
“‘Coniston’ can hardly fail to give its readers food for thought. Well will it be for our government if these readers are many, and if they straightway proceed to run according to the reading.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 406. Je. 23, ’06. 1140w.
“‘Coniston’ is so great an advance on ‘The crisis’ and ‘The crossing’ in construction, condensation, and artistic feeling that it cannot fail to appeal to a new group of readers, while its human duality will hold those who have already accepted Mr. Churchill as a born storyteller.”
+ + Outlook 83: 100. Je. 30, ’06. 240w. + + Outlook. 84: 707. N. 24, ’06. 130w.
“But Mr. Churchill does not merely preach a sermon on civic righteousness. ‘Coniston’ is a love story, and a capital one, of perhaps a deeper motive than any of the earlier romances from Mr. Churchill’s pen.”
+ + R. of Rs. 34: 256. Ag. ’06. 450w. + + Sat. R. 102: 305. S. 8, ’06. 220w. + + – Spec. 97: 300. S. 1, ’06. 1030w.
Churchill, Winston. Title-mart. **75c. Macmillan.
In this little three-act comedy Mr. Churchill satirizes the American custom of bartering off comely heiresses in the title-market. The scene is laid in a millionaire’s New England “camp,” the principal actors are a practical father, an ambitious stepmother, an athletic daughter devoted to jiu-jitsu, and an English lord who for the amusement of the moment trades his title for the plain Reginald Burking, M. P. of the friend accompanying him. The situations growing out of the exchange of identity are humorously farcical.
“The whole, though a trifle extravagant, is written with remarkable spirit and humour.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 743. Je. 16. 150w.
“It is smartly written and reads well. The contrast of the rustic mind with metropolitan swiftness is humorously set forth.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 164. Mr. 17, ’06. 100w. + Outlook. 82: 718. Mr. 24, ’06. 50w.
“The play is extremely light, however, and depends for its substance upon a confusion in identities.”
+ – Pub. Opin. 40: 443. Ap. 7, ’06. 200w.
Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer. [Lord Randolph Churchill.] 2v. **$9. Macmillan.
The fact that Mr. Winston Churchill is not of the party in the interests of which his father ran his brief political career insures for this work non-partisan treatment. It deals with Lord Churchill’s public rather than his private life, and is in the main a record of ten brief years of an effective career. During this period Lord Churchill became leader of the House of Commons and chief exponent of the so-called Tory democracy, attempted the reform of the Conservative party from within and in the end broke with all his former leaders and colleagues. “The atmosphere is from start to finish severely political.” (Acad.)
“Mr. Morley himself did not show more candour in writing the life of Mr. Gladstone than Mr. Winston Churchill has shown in dealing with the career of his father.”
+ + Acad. 70: 5. Ja. 6, ’06. 1220w.
“It will have to be carefully studied by all who would be well versed in the political history of England, especially party history, from the Reform act of 1867 to the end of the Unionist administration of 1886–1892.” Edward Porritt.
+ + Am. Hist. R. 11: 675. Ap. ’06. 790w.
“In the work before us there are many fine passages, and we find it almost as a whole both vivid and dignified in narration, and here and there even noble.”
+ + Ath. 1906, 1: 7. Ja. 6. 4340w.
“Mr. Winston Churchill makes the reader feel the tragedy of his father’s life,—a tragedy equally dramatic whether, as he contends, it was due to a conscientious struggle for principles that could not be carried out, or whether, like the tragedies of romance, it was the fatal result of defects of character.” A. Lawrence Lowell.
+ + + Atlan. 98: 248. Ag. ’06. 3910w.
“A biography of marked interest, of rare quality and of intrinsic historical value.” George Louis Beer.
+ + Critic. 49: 83. Jl. ’06. 2420w. + – Current Literature. 40: 381. Ap. ’06. 1310w.
“It has, then, both biographical importance and historical value, for it gives us a clearer insight into the workings of Tory machinery than any other volume.” E. D. Adams.
+ + Dial. 40: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 2930w.
“Its place is alongside John Morley’s ‘Life of Gladstone.’”
+ + Ind. 60: 626. Mr. 15, ’06. 1260w. + + Ind. 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 30w.
“If executed with tact and a certain deference to family susceptibilities, may safely be pronounced an impressive political biography and an invaluable contribution to the history of the conservative party and of British politics generally.”
+ + Lit. D. 32: 491. Mr. 31, ’06. 1210w.
“A life so well worth writing has been admirably written.”
+ + Lond. Times. 5: 1. Ja. 5, ’06. 3580w. + + – Nation. 82: 492. Je. 14, ’06. 2110w.
“His book has a general value in so far as it treats of the politics of Great Britain during a brief period active in partisan struggles if not notable for great achievements; for it gives us an inside view of the strange way in which a nation is governed.” Joseph O’Connor.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 125. Mr. 3. ’06. 3870w.
“Considering everything Mr. Churchill is to be felicitated on the zeal, tact, and ability with which he has executed his task.” H. Addington Bruce.
+ + – Outlook. 83: 905. Ag. 18, ’06. 1790w.
“His manifest care and wish—and he succeeds in both—are to present his father as he lived, fought, worked among his fellows.”
+ + Pub. Opin. 40: 283. Mr. 3, ’06. 800w. R. of Rs. 33: 380. Mr. ’06. 280w.
“The style of the narrative is easy and clear, occasionally graceful and pathetic. There is a due sense of perspective.”
+ + Sat. R. 101: 18. Ja. 6, ’06. 3080w.
“The book has its faults,—faults of arrangement, of prolixity and repetition, of occasional irrelevance; and the writer has been tempted unconsciously to turn the narrative of certain incidents in his father’s life into a kind of apology for certain incidents in his own. Mr. Churchill tells the story of his father’s private life with singular tact and good taste, and he has striven to make the tale of his public life an adequate history of an epoch in English politics.”
+ + – Spec. 96: 19. Ja. 6, ’06. 2170w.
Clare, W. H. Rattle of his chains. $1.25 Eastern pub. co.
Here is portrayed on the one hand the bondage of a young man serving false gods bound so that with every move the chains rattle; on the other, the freedom of industry—“with greed, avarice and covetousness wanting, and with the golden rule as a living precept.”
Clarke, Rev. Richard F. Lourdes: its inhabitants, its pilgrims, and its miracles. *$1. Benziger.
The miracle phase of the Lourdes pilgrimage is uppermost in this account which is given with “rigorous exactitude.”
Clarke, William Newton. Use of the Scriptures in theology; the Nathaniel William Taylor lectures delivered at Yale university in 1905. **$1. Scribner.
“We believe the author’s positions and arguments are in the main sound and irrefutable.” Milton S. Terry.
+ + Am. J. Theol. 10: 363. Ap. ’06. 1300w.
“Mention should be made of the sweet spirit, religious insight, and frank and honest courage which appear conspicuously upon every page of the book.” G. B. S.
+ + Bib. World. 27: 474. Je. ’06. 1220w.
Clayden, Arthur William. [Cloud studies.] **$3.50. Dutton.
Not alone to the meteorologist and to the artist who finds extraordinary examples of art in the “general negligence of cloud forms,” but to the general reader also does this work appeal. “It is important to notice that the author accepts the types of the international cloud atlas and arranges his various forms as subforms of these types.” The illustrations include many reproductions of typical cloud-forms, and forms showing the transformation of one cloud-form into another.
+ + Ath. 1906, 1: 364. Mr. 24. 440w.
“Not only the nature-lover and the artist, but the meteorologist as well, will find much of value and interest in this book.”
+ Dial. 41: 169. S. 16, ’06. 190w.
“While of great value to specialists, is hardly less interesting to the general reader, and will be immensely helpful in continued and more accurate study of this fascinating subject.”
+ + Nation. 82: 328. Ap. 19, ’06. 900w.
“Mr. Claydon’s work will be a standard one for all students of clouds.” H. Hildebrand Hildebrandsson.
+ + – Nature. 73: 416. Mr. 1, ’06. 690w.
“While its text should appeal to the scientific man, and its photographic illustrations to the artist, the style is not attractive, and in spite of the theoretical interest of the subject, will hardly induce the wider public to read it in large numbers.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 14. Ja. 13, ’06. 640w. + Sat. R. 101: 456. Ap. 14, ’06. 1750w.
“This volume is essentially practical, and anyone who has read it with attention will find a new interest added for the future to his daily study of the sky.”
+ + Spec. 97: 23. Jl. 7, ’06. 460w.
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.). [Editorial wild oats.] †$1. Harper.
+ Spec. 96: 952. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.). [Eve’s diary.] $1. Harper.
“Translated from the original,” these experiences of Eve in the garden of Eden and afterwards form a fitting companion piece to “Extracts from Adam’s diary.” Thruout she is Eve, the first woman, naive, frankly curious and frankly loving, a world of women feel the kin-call when she speaks and her Adam, as she draws him, is without question the eternal masculine. There is a fund of wit and humor in this gentle satire on man and nature and there is something more, an undernote which culminates in this closing tribute to the first mother: At Eve’s grave. Adam: “Wheresoever she was there was Eden.”
“The book is hardly to us a favorable specimen of the author’s humour.”
– + Ath. 1906, 2: 185. Ag. 18. 80w. + Critic. 49: 288. S. ’06. 90w.
“The only fault to find with these books is that there is so little of them.”
+ + Ind. 61: 397. Ag. 16, ’06. 230w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.
“The book bears internal evidence that it owes much to the skill of the translator.”
+ + Outlook. 83: 910. Ag. 18, ’06. 100w. + Spec. 97: 393. S. 22, ’06. 1310w.
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.). Men and things. $1.25. Harper.
An illustrated volume of humor, comprising well chosen selections from thirty-six modern humorists including Ade, Aldrich, Bangs, Burdette, Field, Harris, Harte, Holmes, Howells, Nye, Warner and others perhaps less well known but no less amusing. Mark Twain, as compiler, opens the book with this apology, “Those selections in this book which are from my own works were made by my two assistant compilers, not by me. This is why there are not more.”
+ Critic. 49: 96. Jl. ’06. 90w. Dial. 40: 268. Ap. 16, ’06. 60w.
“It would seem that each author is represented by his inferior work only.”
+ – Ind. 60: 1046. My. 3, ’06. 170w.
“The new book is full of good matter, in prose and verse.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 116. F. 24, ’06. 250w. + Outlook. 82: 570. Mr. 10, ’06. 100w.
“It is trite and unnecessary but only fair to say that the best things in the book are his own.”
+ Pub. Opin. 40: 346. Mr. 17, ’06. 150w.
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.), ed. Primrose way. Mark Twain’s library of humor. †$1.50. Harper.
The third volume in Mark Twain’s “Library of humor” continues for funloving readers the humorous offerings of “Men and things,” and “Women and things.” Besides the editor’s own contributions are stories by George Ade, John Kendrick Bangs, Samuel Cox, Sewell Ford, William Dean Howells, John G. Saxe, Melville D. Landon, Hugh Pendexter and many others.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 372. Je. 9, ’06. 200w. + – Outlook. 83: 529. Je. 30, ’06. 160w. + Putnam’s. 1: 128. O. ’06. 40w.
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.). [$30,000 bequest and other stories.] $1.75. Harper.
Forty or more of Mark Twain’s funniest stories have been gathered into this volume. Some have appeared before in book form while other more recent ones have seen print only in magazines. The volume includes: A dog’s tale, The Californian’s tale, A telephone conversation, Italian with grammar, The danger of lying in bed, Eve’s diary, Extracts from Adam’s diary, and A double-barreled detective story. The frontispiece is a photograph of the author on his 70th birthday, and there are other illustrations.
Dial. 41: 287. N. 1, ’06. 30w. Nation. 83: 304. O. 11, ’06. 120w. N. Y. Times. 11: 670. O. 13, ’06. 230w. Outlook. 84: 533. O. 27, ’06. 60w.
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.). Women and things. †$1.50. Harper.
The second volume in Mark Twain’s “Library of humor.” There are some of Mark Twain’s own stories including the inimitable funny “Esquimau maiden’s romance.” There are stories by George Ade, John Kendrick Bangs, Josh Billings, Josiah Allen’s Wife, Widow Bedott, Bret Harte and others. The stories humorously show the graces, the foibles, the fancies and weaknesses of women.
Dial. 40: 334. My. 16, ’06. 50w. + Outlook. 83: 43. My. 3, ’06. 50w. + Putnam’s. 1: 128. O. ’06. 40w. + World To-Day. 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 70w.
Clement, Ernest Wilson. Christianity in modern Japan. **$1. Am. Bapt.
“Clear, compact, and well arranged.”
+ Am. J. Theol. 10: 190. Ja. ’06. 290w.
Clement, Ernest Wilson. Handbook of modern Japan. **$1.40. McClurg.
Dial. 40: 24. Ja. 1, ’06. 50w.
Clements, Frederick E. Research methods in ecology. $3. Univ. pub., Neb.
“One can scarcely praise this work too much; it is what is needed to prevent ecology from falling into a swift and merited disfavor.”
+ + + Bot. Gaz. 40: 381. N. ’05. 790w.
Clerke, Agnes Mary. System of the stars. *$6.50. Macmillan.
The results of the past fifteen years of sidereal research have been embodied in Miss Clerke’s revision. Extensive modifications of the old text have been made, and new chapters inserted.
“It has the remarkable feature of combining extraordinary profusion of precise information with an elegance of literary style quite unusual in scientific authors.”
+ + Acad. 70: 556. Je. 9, ’06. 760w.
“All astronomers and those interested in astronomy will heartily welcome the new edition of Miss Clerke’s ‘System of the stars’.”
+ + Ath. 1905, 2: 727. N. 25. 110w.
“Students of astronomy will find the latest results of sidereal research admirably stated in the new edition.”
+ + + Lit. D. 31: 1000. D. 30, ’05. 60w. + + – Nation. 83: 78. Jl. 26, ’06. 420w.
“The work is so good that every student of astronomical physics must be familiar with it, and every astronomical library must include it.” R. A. Gregory.
+ + + Nature. 73: 505. Mr. 29, ’06. 3840w. + + N. Y. Times. 10: 780. N. 18, ’05. 270w.
“Is one of the noteworthy additions to scientific literature.”
+ + R. of Rs. 33: 255. F. ’06. 100w.
“We find, as we expected to find, a well-arranged, lucid and remarkably accurate account of an immense number of observations and a sympathetic though judicious and cautious analysis of the various inferences that have been drawn from them.”
+ + + Sat. R. 101: 54. Ja. 13, ’06. 1100w.
“Miss Clerke. with her usual power of accurate and lucid exposition, has given us a most fascinating account of all that astronomers have thus far discovered about these immensely distant stars.”
+ + Spec. 96: 714. My. 5, ’06. 1350w.
Cleveland, Frederick Albert. Bank and the treasury. *$1.80. Longmans.
Reviewed by Frank L. McVey.
Dial. 41: 166. S. 16, ’06. 6120w. – Ind. 60: 399. F. 15, ’06. 110w.
“In character it is a plea, not an investigation; an exposition and defense of ‘a point of view.’ The author also makes some excellent proposals concerning the form of bank reports.” David Kinley.
+ + – Yale R. 14: 421. F. ’06. 530w.
Cleveland, (Stephen) Grover. [Fishing and shooting sketches]: il. by H: S. Watson. *$1.25. Outing pub.
Mr. Grover Cleveland is manifestly as authoritative on the subject of fishing as was Isaak Walton of old. Much of the former’s philosophy is simmered down to creed form for the sportsman. And his book, copyrighted now for the fifth time, has become a guide book for the fisherman and hunter who are only better instructed for the woodsy out-of-door tang to all of Mr. Cleveland’s law unto their “honorable order.”
Climenson, Mrs. Emily J. Elizabeth Montagu, the Queen of the Blue-stockings: her correspondence from 1720–1761. 2v. **$8. Dutton.
The story of the early life of Mrs. Montagu, written by her great-great-niece. “The material in the two volumes was gleaned from some sixty-eight cases, in each of which were from 100 to 150 letters, written by Mrs. Montagu or received by her. There are letters to and from the most learned and celebrated personages in England and France and other countries. Among the names mentioned are the Duchess of Portland, Laurence Sterne, Dr. Johnson, Sir Robert Walpole, Mrs. Friend, Elizabeth Carter, the translator of Epictetus; Gilbert West, Nathaniel Hooke, Mrs. Pococke, David Hume, Lyttleton, Lord Bath, Dr. Young, and a number of others.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Mrs. Climenson has succeeded in identifying, with one or two exceptions, the numerous folk whose names occur in her text; in other respects her notes are defective and capricious.”
+ – Acad. 70: 495. My. 26. ’06. 2180w.
“Though containing a variety of readable matter, we think it might with advantage have been shortened by the excision of much domestic detail which is not of general interest.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 1: 537. My. 5. 2490w.
Reviewed by J. H. Lobban.
Blackwood’s M. 180: 452. O. ’06. 4480w. + Critic. 49: 188. Ag. ’06. 280w. + – Dial. 41: 19. Jl. 1, ’06. 270w.
“Mrs. Climenson has proved herself a loving editor of her kinswoman’s letters. She has verified with enormous labor the dates of letters, many of which were previously uncertain.” Basil Williams.
+ + Eng. Hist. R. 21: 594. Jl. ’06. 410w.
“She was a formalist rather than a wit, and in her letters she tries so hard to be amusing that one would really prefer her natural dulness.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 140. Ap. 20, ’06. 820w.
[Mrs. Climenson has] “so more than edited it that the two handsome and liberally illustrated volumes ... might be styled a memoir.”
+ Nation. 82: 427. My. 24, ’06. 400w. + N. Y. Times. 10: 820. D. 2, ’05. 220w.
“The two volumes before us are edited with some care and not a little profusion.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 351. Je. 2, ’06. 1600w.
“Her correspondence is interesting, for it gives an insight into the customs of the day, fashions, amusements, travel, etc.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 160w.
“We have many reliable and entertaining contemporary records of the crowded eighteenth century, but this must be regarded as exceptionally attractive.” Elizabeth Lore North.
+ + Outlook. 83: 524. Je. 30, ’06. 1580w
“Mrs. Climenson is defective in ... literary tact and sense of perspective.”
+ – Sat. R. 101: 727. Je. 9, ’06. 1670w.
Clute, Willard Nelson. Fern allies. **$2. Stokes.
“The field notes, which show an intimate acquaintance with the life histories of the various forms, will interest the botanist as well as the layman.”
+ + Bot. Gaz. 40: 464. D. ’05. 130w. Critic. 48: 95. Ja. ’06. 60w.
“One could hardly ask a better guide than Mr. Clute’s handsome volume.”
+ + Ind. 59: 1482. D. 21, ’05. 80w.
“A few years ago the Clutes gave us the best, most comprehensive book that we have concerning our ferns in their haunts, and now they have accomplished a yet more difficult task, that of writing and adequately illustrating a guide to the more obscure kin of the fern tribe.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 168. Mr. 17, ’06. 470w.
Coates, Thomas F. G. Prophet of the poor: the life story of General Booth. *$1.50. Dutton.
“In its special mission of reclaiming and preventing the waste of humanity, the Salvation army has put life and force into the desiccated idea of the ‘Church militant.’ Of this idea, as well as of the poor, General Booth has been for over half a century the prophet, and also the prophet of a human brotherhood, the Christian ideal of which is more largely realized in his army than in any other branch of the church. The life-story of this great leader, and of his like-minded and noble wife and comrade, the ‘mother’ of the army, is an illustrious chapter in the yet unfinished Acts of the apostles.”—Outlook.
“One would turn to it in vain to find broad grasp of the relation of the Army to other religious or social efforts of the time, or even vivid portrayal of the personality of its subject. It fails also in arrangement of its material, has no index, and is not in any way satisfactory as a biography of General Booth.”
– Ind. 60: 1163. My. 17, ’06. 140w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 654. O. 6, ’06. 1700w. Outlook. 83: 244. My. 26, ’06. 190w.
“A very entertaining and graphic biography.”
+ R. of Rs. 33: 380. Mr. ’06. 250w.
Cody, Sherwin. Success in letter-writing, business and social. **75c. McClurg.
The methods of the old-fashioned polite letter-writing have been studiously avoided in this up to date volume which “actually tells how to deal with human nature by mail.” Under the head of business letter writing not only routine business letters, but circular letters, advertising letters and letters which “sell goods” are treated. Under social letter writing are included the various forms of social correspondence, invitations, regrets, letters of friendship and liberal advice upon love letters.
Colcock, Annie T. Her American daughter. $1.50. Neale.
A group of American writers and artists come together in Madrid at the opening of the Spanish-American war, and during these agitated days they work out among themselves the very pretty little love story of Miss Ray, an art student from South Carolina and Russell, a New York writer who has had the misfortune to offend her by publishing an article which ridicules the South. A bull-fight, a carnival, a wicked señor who has made a wager that Miss Ray will dine with him at midnight unchaperoned, and good Donna Dolores who calls Miss Ray her American daughter, lend to the story a truly Spanish atmosphere.
Colegrove, William. Hartford; an epic poem. $1.25. Badger, R. G.
An epic poem modeled upon the Æneid, which presents the early history of Hartford, Connecticut and sings of arms and the colony’s founders.
Collier, The Hon. John. Art of portrait painting. *$3.50. Cassell.
In this practical treatise for the student and professional painter, the subject is treated from a threefold point of view: The historical, The aims and methods of the great masters, and The practice of portrait painting. The illustrations include forty or more portraits painstakingly reproduced from some of the world’s best work.
“No man of our day could write of his subjects more agreeably, sanely, or with more intimate knowledge, nor produce a volume so likely to gain the attention of the general public.”
+ + Acad. 70: 525. Je. 2, ’06. 500w.
“Much personal suggestion is also admitted by the pleasantly colloquial manner of the book, and the attitude throughout is marked by common sense, definite opinions and an open-minded inclination for progress and novelty coupled with a sufficient conservatism.”
+ – Int. Studio. 30: sup. 54. D. ’06. 330w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 379. Je. 9, ’06. 640w.
Collins, Archie Frederick. Wireless telegraphy: its history, theory and practice. *$3. McGraw.
A general explanation of the theory of etheric waves furnishes a foundation for an explanation of the nature of waves in general, of light waves of electrical vibrations, and apparatus for producing them. “He discusses electric discharges, the action of ultra violet rays, direct and alternating current effects.... He explains the workings of a variety of oscillating current generators and then passes to electric wave detectors—the best known to the public being the Marconi ‘coherer.’” (N. Y. Times.)
Engin. N. 56: 417. O. 18, ’06. 100w.
“Aims to be—and seems to succeed in being—a practical treatise on wireless telegraphy so written so as to be of use both to the expert in scientific matters and to the tyro who has everything to learn.”
+ N. Y. Times. 10: 733. O. 28, ’05. 330w.
“In the opinion of the reviewer the illustrations ... constitute the most useful part of this book. In the hands of one whose familiarity of the subject enables him to interpret the many obscure passages and to distinguish the inaccurate statements from those that are correct, Mr. Collins’s book may in some cases be found useful.” Ernest Merritt.
– – + Phys. R. 22: 63. Ja. ’06. 500w.
“He covers the whole field briefly but satisfactorily. In addition to being practically the first book in this field, Mr. Collins’s is well prepared and authoritative.”
+ + Pub. Opin. 40: 60. Ja. 13, ’06. 170w.
Collins, John Churton. Studies in poetry and criticism. $2.50. Macmillan.
Seven essays which regard poetry from the standpoint of the moralist,—the moralist who thinks that “In the wretched degradation into which belles lettres have fallen we seem to be losing all sense of the importance once attached to them, when critics were scholars and poets something more than aesthetes.” The essays are The poetry and poets of America, The collected work of Lord Byron, The collected poems of Mr. William Watson, The poetry of Gerald Massey, Miltonic myths and their authors, Longinus and Greek criticism, and the True functions of poetry.
“In this book Mr. Churton Collins writes as a pessimist.”
– Acad. 69: 1305. D. 16, ’05. 1850w.
“As a critic, Prof. Collins has a cultivated taste, but his instinct is unsure.”
+ – Ath. 1905, 2: 857. D. 23. 1720w.
“Impeccable in scholarship. Mr. Collins has not in this volume avoided one or two minor slips of style, probably due to careless proofreading.”
+ – Nation. 82: 472. Je. 7, ’06. 1590w.
“A genuine by-product of scholarship, true essays, containing not any sound doctrine, but the human touch which alone is able to convey the results of scholarship to those who stand outside the bars of that snug pasture.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 98. F. 17, ’06. 5700w.
“A fine book because its author has high ideals and has lived with and learned to love the master-minds of literature.”
+ + Sat. R. 101: 494. Ap. 21, ’06. 1100w.
“The truth is that Professor Collins’s doctrine turns out, if it is followed to its logical conclusion, to be a fatally narrow one.”
+ – Spec. 97: 93. Jl. 21, ’06. 1870w.
Colson, Elizabeth, and Chittenden, Anna Gansevoort, comps. Children’s letters: a collection of letters written to children by famous men and women. $1. Hinds.
As different in tone and individuality are these letters as the characteristics and moods of the long list of contributors. Among the letter-writers selected are Holmes, Whittier, Lincoln, Phillips Brooks, Martin Luther, Sidney Smith, Longfellow, Stevenson, Scott, Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Hans Christian Andersen and many others.
N. Y. Times. 11: 6. Ja. 6, ’06. 230w.
“The compilers ... have performed their tasks of selection and explanation with good judgment and sympathy.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 41. Ja. 20, ’06. 2030w.
“Altogether a delightful little volume, and one well worth making.”
+ Outlook. 82: 140. Ja. 20, ’06. 120w. + Pub. Opin. 40: 445. Ap. 7, ’06. 80w.
Colton, Arthur Willis. [Belted seas.] †$1.50. Holt.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
Atlan. 97: 46. Ja. ’06. 200w.
Colton, Arthur Willis. [Cruise of the Violetta.] †$1.50. Holt.
An Ohio woman, left with a vast fortune, equips a yacht and sails to the land of “parrots and monkeys and bananas and foreign missions.” The story is a humorous characterization of a practical woman’s missionary work, shared by the unique Dr. Alswater, who was “not a ‘globe trotter’ but rather a floater,—in the manner resembling sea-weed, that drifts from place to place, but wherever it drifts or clings, is tranquil and accommodating.” The fortunes of a young electrician, sent to a South American town to establish an electric light plant, form one thread of the tale.
“Mr. Colton’s new novel is conceived in an unconventional, not to say freakish, style. Banter and sarcasm prevail from the beginning to the end. Humor is not lacking, but it is seldom wholesome or spontaneous.”
– + Lit. D. 33: 767. N. 24, ’06. 200w.
“He approaches the ticklish realm of burlesque with too great cocksureness.”
– Nation. 83: 396. N. 8, ’06. 250w.
“It is lively and clever, and fit company for hours that might otherwise be dull.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 797. D. 1, ’06. 190w.
“In this book he is not at his best.”
– Outlook. 84: 677. N. 17, ’06. 40w.
Colvin, Sir Auckland. Making of modern Egypt. *$4. Dutton.
“It is the imperturbability of Lord Cromer which dominates Sir. Auckland Colvin’s history,” (Acad.)—the man who is chiefly responsible for the growth of modern Egypt. “The scheme of the book is a simple one. Whereas Lord Milner gave us a series of brilliant essays on different aspects of the Egyptian problem, Sir Auckland aims at presenting a consecutive narrative of successive incidents so that the reader may know, in any given year, the exact progress made by Egypt up to that date in all branches of the public service. It is an attempt to show history in the making, and, though lacking the style and charm of “England in Egypt,” it will prove of more value to the student than Lord Milner’s volume.” (Lond. Times.)
“Well written, lucid and temperate, it sets before us the events of the last five and twenty years without favour. As we read Sir Auckland Colvin’s book, we understand the reason of the supremacy which England most unselfishly still holds in Egypt and her colonies, and we can imagine no better handbook of practical statesmanship than ... ‘Making of modern Egypt.’”
+ + Acad. 70: 279. Mr. 24, ’06. 1150w.
“Sir Auckland Colvin knows all there is to be known on ‘The making of modern Egypt.’ The fact that he can hardly be said to possess the art of constructing a book does not detract from the worth of this volume, though it renders it heavy for the general reader.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 1: 296. Mr. 10. 610w.
“It differs from Lord Milner’s ‘England in Egypt’ in being more of a consecutive narrative of incidents, but at the same time lacks the brilliancy of style that characterizes Lord Milner’s essays.”
+ + – Dial. 41: 120. S. 1, ’06. 260w.
“Despite a few errors and a few redundancies this book is the most useful record available, if we exclude Lord Cromer’s official reports, of Egypt’s progress from 1882 to the present day.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 5: 90. Mr. 16, ’06. 1300w.
“The book, despite the many romantic phases of the subject, is not exciting reading, but it supplies the safest guide to those who may wish to study one of the most interesting and far-reaching series of events which have occurred in our own time.”
+ Nation. 83: 62. Jl. 19, ’06. 1320w. + Outlook. 83: 768. Jl. 28, ’06. 390w.
“Cannot fail to be a valuable and interesting work.”
+ R. of Rs. 33: 764. Je. ’06. 60w.
“Every chapter is enlivened with wit and picturesqueness of phrase, and he has a happy gift of classical reminiscence.”
+ + Spec. 96: 946. Je. 16, ’06. 1340w.
Coman, Katherine. Industrial history of the United States for high schools and colleges. *$1.25. Macmillan.
“In view of the scattered and partial character of the material available, it is not perhaps surprising that Miss Coman’s book gives the impression of a collection of facts having to do with the economic history of the United States, rather than of a clear presentation of the main features of that history and the influences by which they have been determined. It must be said, moreover, that even in her statements of facts the author has not exercised as much care as might fairly be expected.” Henry B. Gardner.
– + Am. Hist. R. 11: 948. Jl. ’06. 650w.
“On all moot questions in our economic history, whether resulting from political differences or purely academic in character, she has shown an eminent degree of fairness.” Robert C. Brooks.
+ + + Bookm. 22: 530. Ja. ’06. 550w.
“One of the good qualities of the book is its directness and clearness of statement.” Henry E. Bourne.
+ + – Educ. R. 31: 102. Ja. ’06. 1150w.
“This is an instructive and a much needed work.”
+ + Ind. 60: 516. Mr. 1, ’06. 440w.
“It is written in a clear, concise style and contains a large amount of descriptive material within brief compass. Its main defect is that it fails to leave upon the mind of the reader a clear impression of the development of the principal industries of the country.” Robert Morris.
+ + – J. Pol. Econ. 14: 62. Ja. ’06. 140w.
“The lines of conception ... are broad, and bold, but not fully matched by firmness in execution.” Carl Russell Fish.
+ – School R. 14: 462. Je. ’06. 530w.
“As a first attempt it is entitled to considerable measure of commendation. The great defect of the book is that those ‘essential elements’ of our economic history are not only not brought out clearly so that the reader may be sure to grasp them, but they are apparently not comprehended by the author herself.” G. S. C.
+ – Yale. R. 15: 324. N. ’06. 1150w.
Commons, John Rogers, ed. Trade unionism and labor problems. *$2.50. Ginn.
The second volume of the “Selections and documents in economics” being brought out by Professor W. Z. Ripley of Harvard university. There are twenty-seven essays, mostly reprints from current scientific magazines on a variety of aspects of the social and economic situation, which aim to furnish collateral reading for college classes.
“Is invaluable to the student; it places in accessible form a mass of most important material, and heartily commends itself to the reader.” G. B. Mangold.
+ + – Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 182. Jl. ’06. 580w.
“There is scarcely a question of the day that does not have interesting light shed on it by one or more persons peculiarly fitted to discuss it. The book is an excellent disseminator of wholesome good sense and moderation.” W. E. C. W.
+ + Bibliotheca Sacra. 63: 196. Ja. ’06. 320w.
“It will furnish the raw material for a course in descriptive economics, and as such is a serviceable volume.”
+ Bookm. 22: 536. Ja. ’06. 130w.
“Despite the variety of material in the book, a fair amount of unity is preserved through Mr. Commons’s introduction, which adequately relates the chapters.”
+ Dial. 41: 40. Jl. 16, ’06. 190w.
“To any student of labor problems the book is indispensable.”
+ + Ind. 60: 1046. My. 3, ’06. 150w.
“With most of the material included economists are generally familiar, but the assembling of the material in one volume provides an excellent text-book for classes making a study of labor problems.” John Cummings.
+ + J. Pol. Econ. 14: 455. Jl. ’06. 320w.
“The selections will supplement admirably the lectures and ordinary reference-books which have constituted hitherto the principal pabulum that teachers could set before their students.”
+ Nation. 81: 504. D. 21, ’05. 250w.
“The volume is full of valuable information, but it is rather material for the student than history, philosophy, or sociology for the general reader.”
+ Outlook. 82: 275. F. 3, ’06. 210w.
“In no other one book is such a mass of vital facts brought together.”
+ + Pub. Opin. 39: 763. D. 9, ’05. 210w. + R. of Rs. 33: 124. Ja. ’06. 210w.
Companion to Greek studies; ed. by Leonard Whibley. *$6. Macmillan.
“The only weakness is in a detail of arrangement i. e. the neglect of side references and the consequent lack of coherence. There is much unevenness in the bibliographies.” James C. Egbert.
+ + – Bookm. 23: 454. Je. ’06. 610w.
Comstock, Harriet T. Meg and the others. 75c. Crowell.
Two little girls of to-day, sitting in the firelight just before bed-time hear the stories of Meg, and Mary, and the Boy, which their grandmother calls out of the long ago for them. And when they have heard all about them, their games, their troubles, and their adventures, when they have learned to love them, and are loath to let them go, they find that Mary is a nice old lady who is coming to live with them, and that Meg and the Boy are really their own dear grandmother and grandfather.
Comstock, Mrs. Harriet Theresa. Queen’s hostage. †$1.50. Little.
A story built up about plot, treachery, and treason which constantly threatened Queen Elizabeth’s peace of mind. The hero is a young lord of the house of Rathven who incognito redresses the wrongs of a treacherous father and earns the long questioned right to be counted among the queen’s loyal subjects.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 723. N. 3, ’06. 170w.
Comstock, Seth Cook. Marcelle the mad. †$1.50. Appleton.
“With the romantic Ardennes forest for setting, and for the motif the incident of a medieval feud between the Duke of Burgundy and the citizens of the town of Dinant, Dr. Comstock has written a stirring tale of adventure to which he gives the name of ‘Marcelle the mad’ ... after the female Robin Hood who plays the leading role.”—Lit. D.
“A trifle melodramatic and stilted in the earlier chapters, it develops into a really powerful piece of work. If the story boasts little originality either of plot or incident, it is told with a skill and vigor that lift it well above the level of its kind, and few are likely to leave it dissatisfied.”
+ – Lit. D. 32: 734. My. 12, ’06. 210w.
“As a romance—a mere romance—of the time-killing variety, Mr. Comstock’s story will do very well indeed.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 206. Ap. 7, ’06. 320w.
“A stirring tale of love and adventure.”
+ Outlook. 82: 763. Mr. 31, ’06. 100w.
Conant, Charles Arthur. Principles of money and banking. 2v. *$4. Harper.
Mr. Conant’s work carries “the reader from the beginnings of exchange when cattle and fragments of metal passed by tale of weight down through the origin of coinage and the birth thereof of modern banking to the complete mechanism of money and credit as they exist to-day.” “It is not written for the purpose of demolishing the ‘quantity theory,’ extirpating the bimetallist, or advocating an ‘asset currency,’ but is devoted to irenic exposition rather than polemical discussions.” (Nation.)
“The work is not only a forceful exposition of so-called principles which have guided commercial people and leading nations in thinking about monetary problems, but it is unique in that the work of the author is in the nature of a collation of the thought and expression of nearly every writer of note on the several topics treated.” Frederick A. Cleveland.
+ + – Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 424. Mr. ’06. 2170w.
“The proper man to write on the subject is the man who is constantly practicing the operations he describes. Mr. Conant fulfills these conditions.”
+ + Ath. 1906. 2: 401. O. 6. 1890w.
“To his task Mr. Conant brings some very unusual qualifications.” Winthrop More Daniels.
+ + – Atlan. 97: 851. Je. ’06. 640w.
“A breadth of view and a freedom from partisan bias not frequently found in monetary treatises.” R. C. B.
+ + Bookm. 23: 216. Ap. ’06. 510w.
“A careful reading increases the admiration for the skill with which the well-selected quotations have been woven into the book. What was once scattered and almost unattainable in small libraries has been brought together in an attractive, new and forceful way, which leaves the professor of economics deeply indebted to the author.” Frank L. McVey.
+ + Dial. 41: 165. S. 16, ’06. 450w.
“In spite of its theoretical weakness, the work has much to recommend it to serious students of monetary science. It furnishes one of the best available accounts of recent developments in money and banking.”
+ – Ind. 60: 398. F. 15, ’06. 450w.
“He has not always discriminated between what was novel to him and what would be new to a well-informed reader. His pages are encumbered with superfluous quotations upon unimportant topics. His historical chapters are sometimes painfully inadequate, and his treatment of theoretical subjects not always satisfactory.”
+ – Nation. 82: 118. F. 8, ’06. 210w.
“It would be difficult to name a treatise which blends facts and theory so well, applying each to the other in a manner so illuminating.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 913. D. 23, ’05. 580w.
“As a writer he possesses an agreeable style and the ability so to present the most arid scheme that it becomes interesting even to a reader having a minimum of economic knowledge.”
+ + Outlook. 82: 614. Mr. 17, ’06. 1550w.
“While Mr. Conant’s work possesses the virtue of great comprehensiveness, it is the opinion of the reviewer that, to be of greatest use to the general reader and the university student alike, a book on money and banking should above all exhibit that unity and precision of theory which is the greatest lack in Mr. Conant’s work.” A. C. Whitaker.
+ – Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 332. Je. ’06. 1720w.
“Mr. Conant’s treatment of disputed questions in monetary theory, in the opinion of the present reviewer, leaves much to be desired. Mr. Conant is none too happy in his handling of technical economic phrases.” A. Piatt Andrew.
+ – Yale R. 15: 321. N. ’06. 1190w.
Congo, The: a report of the commission of enquiry appointed by the Congo Free State government. *$1. Putnam.
“The main topics taken up in the commissions’s report are the land régime, taxation, military service, trade concessions, depopulation, and the administration of justice. In respect to all of these matters, numerous evils are pointed out: the arrogance of the government in appropriating alleged vacant lands, the oppressiveness of the labor tax, the terrorism and cruelty resulting from quasi-military expeditions, the exploitation of the natives by agents of greedy commercial companies, and the lax jurisdiction of the territorial courts.”—Dial.
+ Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 175. Jl. ’06. 100w. Dial. 41: 210. O. 1, ’06. 450w. Ind. 60: 874. Ap. 12, ’06. 120w. Pub. Opin. 40: 378. Mr. 24, ’06. 340w.
Connolly, James Bennet. [Deep sea’s toll.] †$1.50. Scribner.
“It is a healthy, stimulating book, with the tang of salt air in every page.”
+ + Ath. 1906, 1: 449. Ap. 14. 190w.
“Though applauded by all true sailors, is a trifle too special for a general reader.” Mary Moss.
+ – Atlan. 97: 47. Ja. ’06. 40w. + Critic. 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 30w. Ind. 60: 456. F. 22, ’06. 240w.
“Is written with full knowledge and sympathy, and in the slow, involved talk of the men we get much of the flavour of the spoken word.”
+ Spec. 97: 98. Jl. 21, ’06. 110w.
Connor, Ralph, pseud. (Charles William Gordon). [The Doctor, a tale of the Rockies.] †$1.50. Revell.
A character of rare strength and beauty is developed in this story of Barney, who as a lad was obliged to renounce his hope of a college education in favor of a clever younger brother. He stayed at the mill, worked, played his violin, and longed to be a doctor. Then, after many things had come to pass which tried his soul, and purged it of all dross, he became a preacher-doctor in the Rockies where strong men and rough loved him for his unselfish ministrations to their bodies and their souls and honored him as a power for good. In the end when he laid down his life for his friend he brought his career to its final triumph of success in failure.
+ Acad. 71: 590. D. 8, ’06. 180w.
“It is hard to see why the average adult should not find the story at once commonplace and passably long-winded.”
– Nation. 83: 464. N. 29, ’06. 160w.
“The best thing Ralph Connor has done since ‘The sky pilot,’ and perhaps the best thing he has ever done. Is a good book, both in the religious and literary senses of the word.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 835. D. 1, ’06. 440w.
Conover, James Potter. Memories of a great schoolmaster. **$1.50. Houghton.
The life of Dr. Henry A. Coit, for fifty years headmaster of St. Paul’s school at Concord, N. H., has inspired this volume. It is a confession of Dr. Coit’s religious and educational faith expressed in terms of high standards and ideals in everything.
+ Critic. 48: 570. Je. ’06. 160w.
“To the alumnus of St. Paul’s the book will be a valuable memorial of its chief personality; and to others it will be an interesting disclosure of a noteworthy influence.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 321. My. 19, ’06. 1080w.
“It is an inspiring book for all who, whether teachers or parents, have the perilous charge of either boys or girls in the budding time of adolescence.”
+ Outlook. 82: 1005. Ap. 28, ’06. 190w.
“His book has the double charm of personal knowledge and of love for his subject.”
+ Pub. Opin. 40: 511. Ap. 21, ’06. 60w. + R. of Rs. 33: 764. Je. 2, ’06. 70w.
Conrad, Joseph (Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski). [Mirror of the sea.] †$1.50. Harper.
One who has long known and loved her, and who has always understood, writes here of the sea and her moods, of her anger when the winds lash her, of the fear of her, the charm of her, of the men in the good ships that sail her and sometimes go down in her, of their ways, their rugged courage, and the various phases of the lives they lead. There are bits of sentiment, scraps of romance, flashes of humor, many real dramatic scenes and much hard fact, and thru it all the sound of the sea.
“But the book is more than a series of fine pictures; it is a sensitive appreciation of the whole art of seamanship, an imaginative reading of the varying moods of the sea.”
+ + Acad. 71: 393. O. 20, ’06. 980w.
“There is nothing here which the discriminating reader can afford to miss.”
+ + Ath. 1906, 2: 513. O. 27. 430w.
“His latest work will compare well with the best work he has done.”
+ + Lit. D. 33: 685. N. 10, ’06. 220w.
“For ‘The mirror of the sea’ we would make bold to predict a very long life. We seem to see it being discovered and re-discovered as the years roll on.”
+ + Lond. Times. 5: 344. O. 12, ’06. 1390w. + Nation. 83: 374. N. 1, ’06. 670w.
“He knows the souls of the sea and of ships, as he knows the souls of men, but that would be worth but little to us, did he not possess a still more wonderful faculty of interpretation and expression—a faculty that was never better shown than in these sketches.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 734. N. 10, ’06. 820w.
“To a practical knowledge of seamanship, of lading cargoes, ruling crews, managing and navigating vessels, Joseph Conrad adds the vision of a poet and exercises the witchcraft of a master of style.”
+ + Outlook. 84: 678. N. 17, ’06. 180w.
“To those who belong to the totem of its writer it will be always a kind of gospel. It contains the whole soul of a man who has known the deeps of sea mysteries, who has sought them as a lover, with joy, and reverence, and fear.”
+ + Spec. 97: 888. D. 1, ’06. 850w.
Conrad, Joseph (Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski). [Nostromo: a tale of the seaboard.] $1.50. Harper.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
+ + Atlan. 97: 45. Ja. ’06. 570w.
Conversations with Christ: a biographical study. $1.50. Macmillan.
The author of these “Conversations” which, he says, have “too much personality to be mythical” “has taken between twenty and thirty passages from the gospels in which questions put, or petitions made, to the Master, and His answers, are recorded. In all of these we have portraits of Christ, wonderfully various, but with an unmistakable likeness, and also with an unmistakable reality.” (Spec.)
+ + Lond. Times. 5: 118. Mr. 30, ’06. 530w.
“As a study it has the merit of freshness and insight; it is the product of a cultured and vigorous mind, intellectually and spiritually strong.”
+ Outlook. 81: 1038. D. 23, ’05. 110w.
“A really noble piece of writing.”
+ + – Sat. R. 101: 372. Mr. 24, ’06. 260w. + Spec. 96: 501. Mr. 31, ’06. 480w.
Conway, Sir Martin. No man’s land; a history of Spitsbergen from its discovery in 1596 to the beginning of the scientific exploration of the country. *$3. Putnam.
It is the history of the whaling industry engaged in by rival nations along the coasts of this group of islands that occupies the greater part of Sir Martin Conway’s volume. In addition are accounts of Russian exploring enterprises and scientific expeditions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
“His task has been accomplished in a characteristically complete fashion, and has evidently involved a good deal of research in rare books of old voyages, both English and Dutch.”
+ + Ath. 1906, 1: 635. My. 26. 880w.
“No one has a better claim than Sir Martin Conway to have undertaken this history, and few could have written it so well. The book is a most valuable achievement, a most important contribution to geographical literature.”
+ + Lond. Times. 5: 209. Je. 8, ’06. 2190w.
“The great value of this work is that it brings within convenient compass a great body of information scattered through forgotten books and manuscripts which throw light on some obscure points and give a connected history and a most complete account in English of the great whale industry.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 734. N. 10, ’06. 370w.
“Sir Martin Conway arouses the interests of his readers in the curious history of a land which, though never permanently inhabited, has played the part of an apple of discord between the great powers of former days.”
+ + Sat. R. 102: 239. Ag. 25, ’06. 1160w.
“A compendious bibliography and some good illustrations add to the value of his excellent book.”
+ + Spec. 97: sup. 764. N. 17, ’06. 330w.
Cook, E. Wake. Betterment, individual, social and industrial; or, Highest efficiency. **$1.20. Stokes.
The preface says: “The object of this work is to give in convenient form the latest discoveries which promote individual, industrial, and collective efficiency.” Conservation of energy in all its forms would result in the “Simple life,” weary though the expression be, and the author suggests it as the goal that insures immunity from disease, and a great increase in mental and physical energy.
Cook, Theodore Andrea. Old Provence. 2v. **$4. Scribner.
“Old Provence is the land of romance, and of the tale of its beauty and interest Mr. Cook is the most delightful of narrators.”
+ Acad. 70: 34. Ja. 13, ’06. 1060w.
“The work needs a clearer plan, more adequate special knowledge, better judgment and critical discrimination, many more references (there are but very few), more personal reserve, a better index and a real map. It is pleasant, semi-learned magazine writing.”
– + Am. Hist. R. 11: 874. Jl. ’06. 570w.
“More than a guide-book and less, it is one of those aids to travel which, like Mr. Crawford’s ‘Rulers of the South,’ should lie by the side of Baedeker in even the smallest steamer trunk.” Josiah Renick Smith.
+ + – Dial. 40: 39. Ja. 16, ’06. 1610w.
“The effect is excellent and exquisite, the information fixed and true.”
+ Ind. 60: 287. F. 1, ’06. 440w.
“We commend these attractive volumes to every one who cares for truth and romance blended in European history.”
+ Spec. 96: 463. Mr. 24, ’06. 1730w.
Cooke, Edmund Vance. Chronicles of the little tot. $1.50. Dodge.
Under five head verses grave and gay are here grouped for little people: The cradlers. The creepers, The cruises, The climbers, and In remembrance.
“Should make both universal and tender appeal,—not alone to those who are the little tot’s vassals and slaves, but to the wider circle of child-lovers, as well.”
+ Critic. 48: 474. My. ’06. 210w. + N. Y. Times. 10: 818. D. 2, ’05. 310w.
Cooke, Grace MacGowan. Their first formal call; il. by Peter Newell. †$1. Harper.
How two ambitious boys just out of knickerbockers and duly posted in “Hints and helps to young men in business and social relations,” fared in making their first formal call upon the Misses Claiborne. Not daring to make their mission known they sat at the feet of Grandfather Claiborne and Aunt Missouri the entire Sabbath afternoon and when night came were sent to bed, much to the humbling of their youthful pride.
“Mrs. Cooke has made the whole affair wonderfully ludicrous and real and Peter Newell has furnished fourteen full-page pictures as funny as the text.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 190w.
Cooke, Jane Grosvenor. Ancient miracle. †$1.50. Barnes.
“Life in the Grand plateaux of northern Canada is described pleasantly in this peaceful but not unpleasing tale of love and labor. Mrs. Cooke has imprisoned the atmosphere of this cold yet beautiful country and draws well the good and pleasant folk who live there. The Francoeur family, the faithful curé Xavier, and his numerous progeny are all pictured graphically, while the love stories of the two girls furnish sufficient interest to keep the reader’s attention.”—Critic.
“It is chiefly for the characterization that the book will be found enjoyable.”
+ + – Critic. 49: 285. S. ’06. 90w.
“A romance of the Canadian forests, alive with the fascination and witchery of those vast regions.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 100w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 435. Jl. 7, ’06. 200w.
“So good superficially that it is a little difficult to express its limitation. There is a lack of human warmth and sympathy.”
+ + – Outlook. 83: 861. Ag. 11, ’06. 110w.
Cooper, Edward Herbert. Twentieth century child. $1.50. Lane.
Reviewed by E. L. Pomeroy.
+ Arena. 35: 106. Ja. ’06. 230w.
Cooper, Walter G. Fate of the middle classes. *$1.25. Consolidated retail booksellers.
+ – Ind. 60: 342. F. 8, ’06. 180w.
Copperthwaite, William C. Tunnel shields and the use of compressed air in subaqueous works. *$9. Van Nostrand.
“Mr. Copperthwaite’s task has been to compile and condense ... scattered information into one place. He has done his work excellently.... Mr. Copperthwaite divides his book into eleven chapters. Of these the last chapter on ‘Cost of the shield,’ and the first three chapters on ‘Early history, 1818–1880,’ ‘Use of compressed air in engineering works’ and ‘Cast-iron lining for tunnels,’ respectively, are general in character; the remaining seven chapters are collections of descriptions of specific shield tunnel works classified under three heads; Shields in London clay, Shields in water bearing strata and Shields in masonry tunnels.”—Engin. N.
“The book is undoubtedly destined to be the standard English work on this peculiarly difficult branch of engineering practice.”
+ + Ath. 1906, 2: 218. Ag. 25. 1520w.
“The volume is in all respects worthy of prominent position in the tunnel engineer’s library.”
+ + Engin. N. 55: 676. Je. 14, ’06. 1520w.
“A very valuable and comprehensive history of a system of tunnelling.”
+ + + Nature. 74: 348. Ag. 9, ’06. 1180w.
Corelli, Marie (Minnie Mackay). [Treasure of heaven: a romance of riches.] †$1.50. Dodd.
The treasure of Heaven which becomes the quest in Miss Corelli’s story is love, and she would demonstrate the fact that riches menace its possession. David Helmsley, an aged multi-millionaire, becomes a tramp in pursuit of definite happiness, he gives and takes in his wanderings and learns both are spontaneous. Finally he is nursed back from death by one who teaches him the great love lesson which, without any matrimonial thought, blesses his closing days.
“The novel is exceedingly modern in flavor and probably will be found satisfactory by those readers who were in expectation of iconoclastic touches such as recently have distinguished Miss Corelli’s utterances.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 393. S. 22, ’06. 260w. Lit. D. 33: 593. O. 27, ’06. 450w.
“Miss Corelli’s latest story is by no means lacking in power. Lacking in distinction, it of course is; but it has more dignity of substance and less indignity of style than anything of hers we have hitherto seen.”
– – + Nation. 83: 227. S. 13, ’06. 500w.
“As a literary production does not measure up to its ethical intention.”
– – + N. Y. Times. 11: 549. S. 8, ’06. 640w. Putnam’s. 1: 319. D. ’06. 80w.
Cornell, Hughes. Kenelm’s Desire. †$1.50. Little.
Desire, a musician by instinct, by training, and by heredity, spends a summer in British Columbia among the Indians, canoeing, sailing, mountain-climbing and fishing. Here she discovers in a young Alaska Indian, adopted and educated by white people, a soul fired by ambition and pride, one that reflects the sad poetry of vanishing traditions. The love idyll is interwoven with flagrant race prejudice, political scenes, and true-to-life sketches of Indian character.
– Ind. 60: 1488. Je. 21, ’06. 150w. N. Y. Times. 11: 199. Mr. 31, ’06. 270w. N. Y. Times. 11: 238. Ap. 14, ’06. 220w.
“Hughes Cornell has a novel situation in this story and manages it well.”
+ Outlook. 83: 92. My. 12, ’06. 170w.
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.
+ Ath. 1905, 2: 239. Ag. 19. 320w.
Coryat, Thomas. Coryat’s crudities. 2v. *$6.50. Macmillan.
“The recently republished crudities of Thomas Coryat give, perhaps, a clearer notion of Shakespeare’s period than does Shakespeare himself.” Herbert Vaughn Abbott.
+ + Atlan. 97: 694. My. ’06. 3850w.
Cotes, Sara Jeannette (Duncan) (Mrs. Everard Cotes). Set in authority. †$1.50. Doubleday.
A story “about India and the possibility of carrying our beloved doctrines of liberalism into practice in that strange land.... In with the politics is wound a story of men and women, of love and loss and hopes and fears, which displays a number of very cleverly drawn characters, whose thoughts and feelings are of deep interest. The soldier, by strange bonds that remain concealed until the very end, is united by close ties to the Viceroy himself—and the discovery adds pathos to the wretched muddle which everybody made of things.” (Ath.)
“It is not a comforting or exhilarating story, but it is a clever, mature, and thoughtful piece of work that will increase Mrs. Cotes’s already high reputation.”
+ Acad. 70: 529. Je. 2. ’06. 330w.
“Mrs. Cotes has given us of her best in this story of Indian life.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 791. Je. 30. 90w.
“Every character in the book is alive and every character has its proper measure of interest.”
+ Lond. Times. 5: 192. My. 25, ’06. 470w.
“People who like atmosphere, much clever talk, details of life and character, will enjoy her book. Those who prefer much story and less atmosphere will pronounce it tedious.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 744. N. 10, ’06. 340w.
“It is quotable to a large degree, and cannot be read without constant responsive smiles and a desire to share the witty characterizations with any near-by neighbor.”
+ Outlook. 84: 430. O. 20, ’06. 190w.
“Society in the capital of a small Indian province is clearly sketched, but the ineffective love-story of the chief characters is unconvincing.”
+ – Sat. R. 101: 826. Je. 30, ’06. 250w.
“Her present book, though from a literary standpoint not quite in her happiest vein, is, however well worth reading.”
+ Spec. 96: 989. Je. 23, ’06. 310w.
Couch, Arthur Thomas Quiller- (“Q,” pseud.). From a Cornish window. *$1.50. Dutton.
This reflective and discursive “volume is somewhat arbitrarily divided into twelve chapters named after twelve months. Cornish matters, so far as treated at all, are more particularly discussed in ‘August’ and ‘December’; the other chapters handle at random, literature and life and politics and education. The writer’s unenthusiastic estimate of ‘our modern bards of empire,’ whom he finds lacking in high seriousness and any recognition of the human soul, is to be noted with approval. In the sober month of November he indulges in reflections on this human soul’s ultimate destiny.”—Dial.
+ + Ath. 1906, 2: 71. Jl. 21. 410w.
“Despite occasional dull pages in these random outpourings, our popular story-teller ‘Q’ is worth reading in his more serious moods.”
+ Dial. 41: 118. S. 1, ’06. 360w.
“There are pages of fooling that we could wish omitted; there is a certain flippancy, a lightness of word that wrongs the serious thought, that makes us say, ‘Not worthy of “Q”!’ We speak of this at once, that we may get our objections out of the way and have done with them. Who—where so much is good—can help a little sigh after perfection?”
+ + – Lond. Times. 5: 264. Jl. 27, ’06. 1380w.
“There is much variety in this miscellany, or series of miscellanies, arranged by the calendar; but nothing therein is labored or affected. It is excellent talk, as flexible, suggestive, and responsive to suggestion, as good talk should be.”
+ Nation. 83: 230. S. 13, ’06. 880w.
“A very charming miscellany.” H. I. Brock.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 531. S. 1, ’06. 1300w. + + Outlook. 84: 91. S. 8, ’06. 280w.
“All lovers of good literature will find it a treasury which they will not readily exhaust.”
+ Spec. 97: 64. Jl. 14, ’06. 300w.
Couch, Arthur Thomas Quiller- (“Q,” pseud.). Mayor of Troy. †$1.50. Scribner.
+ Acad. 70: 333. Ap. 7, ’06. 720w. + Ath. 1906, 1: 603. My. 19. 540w.
“A broadly humorous tale.” Mary Moss.
+ Atlan. 97: 53. Ja. ’06. 50w. + Critic. 48: 476. My. ’06. 80w.
“So long as we are ready to take the actors as characters in farce, the fun is fast and furious, and the writer carries us along with him so that we do not stop to think of possibilities.”
+ Lond. Times. 5: 84. Mr. 9., ’06. 420w. + Sat. R. 101: 466. Ap. 14, ’06. 150w. + – Spec. 96: 425. Mr. 17, ’06. 510w.
Couch, Arthur Thomas Quiller- (“Q”, pseud.). Shakespeare’s Christmas and other stories. †$1.50. Longmans.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
+ Atlan. 97: 53. Ja. ’06. 80w.
“Are capital illustrations of his narrative skill.”
+ Lit. D. 32: 172. F. 3, ’06. 90w.
Couch, Arthur Thomas Quiller- (“Q,” pseud.). Sir John Constantine: memoirs of his adventures at home and abroad, and particularly in the island of Corsica, beginning with the year 1756; written by his son, Prosper Paleologus, otherwise Constantine; ed. by Q. †$1.50. Scribner.
This tale of adventure “has movement, suspense, the thrill of danger and the delight of high-minded devotion and idealized love. The time is in the seventeenth century, when Corsica was in arms against Genoa’s occupation and oppression, and the people were rallying to Paoli. Among the aspirants for the crown is a young English lad whose somewhat quixotic but chivalrous father, Sir John Constantine, of Cornwall, has procured from Theodore, a dissolute ex-king confined in an English debtor’s prison, a written renunciation in favor of the boy, together with the possession of the famous iron crown. With a few friends Sir John and his son land in Corsica and encounter adventure aplenty.”—Outlook.
+ Acad. 71: 440. N. 3, ’06. 550w.
“As adventure there has been no better story for a long time; and there is many a laugh in it too.”
+ + Ath. 1906, 2: 687. D. 1, 310w.
“A novel of adventure of many merits is ‘Sir John Constantine,’ about whose ultimate relation to the literature of its period there need be but little doubt.” A. Schade van Westrum.
+ + Bookm. 14: 379. D. ’06. 630w.
“How does he produce a literature that is not literal of life, but higher—a sublimated form of memories that come to the reader like the fragrance of centuries, sweet and familiar, too elusive to hold, too dear to lose?”
+ + Ind. 61: 935. O. 18, ’06. 730w.
“His genius consists in having the right words with which to interpret a high romance of a time long past.”
+ + Ind. 61: 1161. N. 15, ’06. 30w.
“Mr. Quiller-Couch is no weaver of ornate verbal fabrics; but he is at once too ardent and too steeped in great literature to be ever mean or cold, and there are times when the mere beauty of his style, as style, moves us to enthusiasm.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 5: 369. N. 2, ’06. 420w.
“As a tale of romantic adventure we have had hardly anything since Stevenson’s time so good as Mr. Quiller-Couch’s new story. The story as a whole, indeed, is so excellent of its kind that one wishes that the author had recast some parts of the book and subjected it to a severer test of his judgment as to construction, probability, and humor.”
+ + – Outlook. 84: 287. S. 29, ’06. 280w.
“Sometimes the changeling in ‘Q’ gets the better of the romancer, and the farce, delightful in itself, strikes a jarring note in such an environment. Apart from this blemish, we have nothing but praise for a story which is not only ‘Q’s’ finest achievement, but one which must stand very near the work of the greatest of the romantics.”
+ + – Spec. 97: 790. N. 17, ’06. 370w.
“For ingenuity of plot and unconventionality of adventure the book is in a class by itself. His work never descends to vulgarity or claptrap excitement. For he is an artist.”
+ + World To-Day. 11: 1221. N. ’06. 120w.
Coudert, Frederick René. Addresses, historical—political—sociological. **$2.50. Putnam.
+ Cath. World. 82: 829. Mr. ’06. 400w. + Critic. 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 60w.
“Mr. Coudert was a man of broad and deep culture, thoroughly acquainted with the literature of France, Spain, and Germany, and possessing a lucid, graceful, and effective English style.”
+ Dial. 40: 50. Ja. 16, ’06. 270w.
Cowan, Rev. Henry. John Knox, the hero of the Scottish reformation, 1505–1572. **$1.35. Putnam.
“The index in Cowan is admirable; that in Macmillan is almost worthless. The work by Cowan is the more scholarly, the more unbiased, and the more valuable.” Eri. B. Hulbert.
+ + Am. J. Theol. 10: 353. Ap. ’06. 480w.
“Dr. Cowan’s work is less a piece of detraction or of eulogy than a plain narrative of events, with occasional comment upon the main issues which claimed Knox’s effort.”
+ Nation. 82: 288. Ap. 6, ’06. 210w.
Cox, Isaac Joslin, ed. Journeys of La Salle and his companions. 2v. **$2. Barnes.
The latest issue of the “Trail makers” series. The work includes translations from the memoirs of Tonty, Membré, Hennepin, Douay, Le Clercq, Joutel, and Jean Cavelier, besides minor sketches and an introduction.
“An admirable supplement to the formal story of American history and exploration, giving us cheap reprints of the personal narratives of the early discoverers and travellers, most of which are long out of print and comparatively inaccessible in the libraries.”
+ + Critic. 48: 382. Ap. 06. 90w. Dial. 40: 203. Mr. 16, ’06. 50w. + Nation. 83: 142. Ag. 16, ’06. 220w. + + N. Y. Times. 11: 68. F. 3, ’06. 660w.
“Some of these narratives have been difficult of access, and certainly they all abound in stirring adventure and incident.”
+ + Outlook. 82: 93. Ja. 13, ’06. 220w.
Cox, Kenyon. Old masters and new: essays in art criticism. **$1.50. Fox.
“Amounting to a general view of the course of art since the sixteenth century.”
+ Reader. 7: 563. Ap. ’06. 350w.
Craigie, Mrs. Pearl Mary Teresa Richards (John Oliver Hobbes, pseud.). Dream and the business. †$1.50. Appleton.
Mrs. Craigie’s posthumous novel. “There are six main figures in the book,—Firmalden, the Nonconformist minister, and his sister; the Roman Catholic Lord Marlesford and his wife; Lessard, the musician, and Miss Nannie Cloots, the actress. Among these six the game of love is played with immense confusion.” (Spec.) “The story is one of dreams and of disillusions; it fits its title better than it does the text from which the title is taken. To the meaning of the latter, as made obvious by the context, it seems scarcely to adhere.” (N. Y. Times.)
“We close it with the feeling that here is a fine novel marred by the old lack of sympathetic interest in human nature.”
+ – Acad. 71: 197. S. 1, ’06. 1950w. + – Ath. 1906, 2: 266. S. 8. 450w.
“Under her customary lightness of manner the tone is full of grave sincerity, but this does not mean that the story is a tract—far from it!—or that it is dull. On the contrary, her workmanship has never been more careful or her good sayings more abundant.” Mary Moss.
+ Bookm. 24: 382. D. ’06. 890w.
“The author’s skill in describing the play of light and shadow on the surface of character, her French firmness and lightness of touch, the abundance of epigram and delicately elegant phrase, and the keenness of her observation, in which mingles a slight dash of kindly cynicism, make up a fine story.”
+ Cath. World. 84: 406. D. ’06. 480w. + + Ind. 61: 1347. D. 6, ’06. 550w.
“The characterization, acute enough up to a point, constantly breaks down through the writer’s becoming more interested in the conversation than in the people. She lays herself open to the reproach of talking through her characters instead of letting them talk.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 297. Ag. 31, ’06. 1310w.
“It may well enough stand as her monument, for it suggests everything characteristic in her substance and manner.”
+ + – Nation. 83: 352. O. 25, ’06. 930w.
“Although, as we think, its characters do not measure up to their creator’s conception of them, and although we are sometimes dragged rather than swept along with the narrative, the ability of the novel is of so high an order that we agree with Mr. Choate in his belief that it ‘will be another laurel’ in its writer’s ‘well-won crown.’”
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 684. O. 20, ’06. 1320w.
“Its chief charm, alike from the development of a double plot, which is so delicately conceived and carried out with so much artistic finish as to obscure the end before the end comes, lies in the vitality of its characters and their consistently preserved personalities.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 801. D. 1, ’06. 170w.
“The book is in many ways the best that Mrs. Craigie has written. It is riper, maturer, firmer. It exhibits a more vivid grasp of things. Much of the pain which strove in her earlier books to hide itself under a mask of flippancy is mercifully gone.”
+ + – Sat. R. 102: 301. S. 8, ’06. 1150w.
“Will not, we think, add to the reputation of Mrs. Craigie; but it will not detract from it. It is a fair example of her strength and her weakness.”
+ + – Spec. 97: 369 S. 15, ’06. 770w.
Craigie, Pearl Mary Teresa (Richards) (John Oliver Hobbes, pseud.). Flute of Pan. †$1.50. Appleton.
“It should be safe to predict success for the comedy.”
+ Critic. 48: 286. Mr. ’06. 240w.
“The whole story is told in the vein of comedy, and is but a trifling performance.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 40: 18. Ja. 1, ’06. 250w.
“It is moderately amusing. The reader with a small purse might hesitate, however, before putting out his $1.50. for it.”
+ Lit. D. 32: 172. F. 3, ’06. 500w.
Cram, Ralph Adams. Impressions of Japanese architecture and the allied arts. **$2. Baker.
“To our mind the most important chapter in it is that dealing with Japanese sculpture. We do not remember any work in which its subject is so well and instructively handled.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 557. My. 5. 800w.
“The general reader as well as students of this subject will find Mr. Cram’s book interesting and instructive.”
+ Critic. 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 20w. + + Critic. 49: 90. Jl. ’06. 220w.
“The essays that make up this volume are thoughtful and discriminating.” Frederick W. Gookin.
+ + – Dial. 40: 192. Mr. 16, ’06. 870w.
“It is the work of a man who finds perfected Japanese designs as nearly supreme as any decorative art in the world can be. A book of extreme subtlety of thought, which is increased by the strongly religious turn that all Mr. Cram’s reasoning is apt to take.”
+ – Nation. 82: 164. F. 22, ’06. 800w.
“A keen analysis, interestingly written, of the beauties of Japanese architecture.”
+ R. of Rs. 33: 123. Ja. ’06. 70w.
Cram, Ralph Adams. Ruined abbeys of Great Britain. **$2.50. Pott.
N. Y. Times. 10: 927. D. 30, ’05. 150w.
“For the book generally we have nothing but praise. It is a pity, however, that Mr. Cram did not use more moderation of language in his introduction.”
+ + – Spec. 97: 792. N. 17, ’06. 220w.
Crane, Aaron Martin. Right and wrong thinking and their results. **$1.40. Lothrop.
The undreamed-of possibilities which man may achieve thru his own mental control.
“Mr. Crane’s argument is both skilful and convincing.”
+ Pub. Opin. 40: 315. Mr. 10, ’06. 270w.
“A forceful monograph.”
+ R. of Rs. 33: 509. Ap. ’06. 50w.
Crapsey, Algernon Sidney. Religion and politics. **$1.25. Whittaker.
A series of thirteen sermons, delivered before the author’s own congregation which discuss “society as politically and ecclesiastically organized, from the point of view of the religion of Christ as conceived by the author.” (Outlook.)
“All this, however, is incidental. The book is an excellent popular treatment of the subject of the relation between church and state, going most originally into the profoundest questions as to the nature of each, and giving a most excellent historical resume of their relations.” Ralph Albertson.
+ + Arena. 36: 109. Jl. ’06. 2450w.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
Atlan. 97: 415. Mr. ’06. 280w.
“On matters of politics and industry, as well as history, and on the spirit of American institutions, and on the church as the incarnation of that spirit ... on all such themes this will be found a simple yet stimulating book, brave and persuasive, conferring dignity upon the writer, transferring worth unto the reader, a book of dear ideas that may be cheaply had (by us) but never cheaply practiced.”
+ + Ind. 60: 514. Mr. 1, ’06. 480w.
“It cannot, however, be regarded as a contribution of original value to the subject. In spite of its plea for science, it seems to be the product of the writer’s inner consciousness rather than his investigations.”
– + Outlook. 81: 430. O. 21, ’05. 220w.
Crawford, Francis Marion. [Fair Margaret a portrait.] †$1.50. Macmillan.
“It is always interesting, and told with the author’s deep knowledge of human nature, and his unvarying charm.”
+ Acad. 69: 1201. N. 18, ’05. 310w.
“The story, if it does not rank with this popular author’s best work, is none the less very readable.”
+ Ath. 1905, 2: 758. D. 2. 170w.
“If there were nothing else in this book than the portrait of the big-hearted, Junoesque, voluble French woman ... it would still be one of the books that Mr. Crawford might justly be very proud of.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + Bookm. 22: 373. D. ’05. 450w.
“The present addition to the Crawford library does not promise to dispute the position of the ‘Saracinesca’ series, though, like all of Mr. Crawford’s work, it belongs to the first-class of current fiction.”
+ + Cath. World. 82: 837. Mr. ’06. 390w.
“The dialog has more than Mr. Crawford’s customary vivacity.”
+ + Ind. 60: 111. Ja. 11, ’06. 330w.
“Is extremely interesting, and there is some good character drawing in it.”
+ Lit. D. 32: 172. F. 3, ’06. 650w.
“There is a certain skill in the construction, but the mechanism is always visible, and there is no character which really lives. The interest in the book lies rather in the shrewd comments and reflections with which the dialogue is interspersed.”
+ Lond. Times. 4: 396. N. 17, ’05. 330w.
“The story is told, too, in his own charmingly leisurely fashion, with many stops by the way to comment or analyze, and we confess to a distinct desire for its sequel.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 230. Ap. 7, ’06. 420w.
“It is, by all odds, the best thing he has done within the last ten years.”
+ + + Pub. Opin. 40: 26. Ja. 6, ’06. 210w. + Spec. 96: 28. Ja. 6, ’06. 390w.
Crawford, Francis Marion. [Lady of Rome.] †$1.50. Macmillan.
“It has for background the social life of Rome which he depicts so well, and deals chiefly with the character—or rather conscience—of Maria Montalto, which is sustained through many years and various crises by religious conviction, causing her to expiate her sin at some length, in fact from cover to cover. Expiations and religious scruples at such length might easily become irritating, but here the author has shown his skill by making Maria’s struggles not only far from wearisome but so far interesting that the reader is pleased to leave her in the last pages still a sensible woman, who believes in the reward of virtue.”—Acad.
“The story is told well and smoothly, though without the deeply studied and vividly rendered psychology for which the characters give plenty of opportunity, so that they lack in some measure the vitality which such studies demand.”
+ – Acad. 71: 398. O. 20, ’06. 220w.
“Maria ... fails to be as convincing as some of the slighter characters who are depicted with more of Mr. Crawford’s usual vitality.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 2: 577. N. 10. 190w.
“It belongs distinctly in the first rank of Mr. Crawford’s novels ... even if it does not attain the standard set by the Saracinesca trilogy.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + Bookm. 24: 388. D. ’06. 780w. + – Lond. Times. 5: 360. O. 26, ’06. 420w. + Nation. 83: 417. N. 15, ’06. 260w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 861. D. 8, ’06. 620w.
“Mr. Crawford’s usual freshness of invention seems to have deserted him in this story; but he is so skillful and thoroughly trained a novelist that he never fails to interest his readers. This story, however, cannot be ranked with his very successful ventures in fiction.”
+ – Outlook. 84: 712. N. 24, ’06. 200w.
“Bears signs of forced activity and of hasty construction.”
+ – Sat. R. 102: 522. O. 27, ’06. 170w. + – Spec. 97: 685. N. 3, ’06. 150w.
Crawford, Francis Marion. Salve Venetia: gleanings from history. 2v. **$5. Macmillan.
+ + Acad. 70: 525. Je. 2, ’06. 730w. + + – Ath. 1906, 1: 223. F. 24. 1090w.
“We have the raw material of history, slowly amassed or laboriously epitomized by others, treated mainly from the artist’s point of view, end dexterously, though never dishonestly, manipulated, so as to produce the best scenic effect.”
+ Atlan. 97: 556. Ap. ’06. 820w.
“It is very readable, and, needless to say, abounds in picturesqueness.”
+ Critic. 48: 380. Ap. ’06. 110w. + Ind. 59: 1543. D. 28, ’05. 300w.
“These two volumes need no pictures to make them attractive to their readers.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 5: 72. Mr. 2, ’06. 1400w.
“These volumes ... are neither history nor romance, but a blend of both. If we judge them as history, their value is small; as romance they are entertaining.”
+ – Nation. 82: 249. Mr. 22, ’06. 920w.
“The volumes are filled with data, description, episode, and anecdote drawn from noted monographs and arranged, retold, and commented on with that fine historical insight, that superb grasp of materialistic and spiritual significance, that poetic charm of narrative which have made this author’s ‘Ave Roma immortalis’ and ‘Rulers of the South’ valuable contributions to history and pleasant books to read.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 112. F. 24, ’06. 1950w. + Outlook. 83: 860. Ag. 11, ’06. 700w. + R. of Rs. 33: 121. Ja. ’06. 90w.
“Is not the equal of its predecessor: it is less profound, less picturesque, less well written; it should have been more fascinating, it is less so. We can commend the book from beginning to end as a faithful and fascinating picture of the story of Venice.”
+ + – Sat. R. 101: 177. F. 10, ’06. 870w. + + Spec. 96: 872. Je. 2, ’06. 1230w.
Crawford, Francis Marion. Southern Italy and Sicily and the rulers of the South; with 100 original drawings by Henry Brokman. *$2.50. Macmillan.
“It is well written and lively, but is the work of a novelist rather than an historian, with many positive mistakes, not to speak of omissions and oversights.”
+ – Ath. 1905, 2: 863. D. 23. 140w.
“It is an entirely charming and fascinating chapter of history written by one who, while full of the noblest spirit of romance, is yet soberly devoted to fact, who while recognizing and employing the canons of practical exposition does not shrink from the use of that poetical language which alone can illumine the stirring epics of the history of South Italy.”
+ Sat. R. 101: 84. Ja. 20, ’06. 250w.
Creed of Christ. *$1.25. Lane.
“The work contains seven chapters which are devoted to a consideration of ‘The sayings of Christ,’ ‘Phariseeism,’ ‘God the Lawgiver,’ ‘God the Father,’ ‘The kingdom of God,’ ‘Apparent failure,’ and ‘Final triumph.’ We have never known a work in which the line has been drawn so clearly and strikingly between the letter that killeth and the spirit that maketh alive as in this book.”
“That he is a man of broad mental vision, of rich imagination and of deep spiritual intuition is clearly revealed in the work, which seems to us to be pregnant with the seeds of a spiritual renaissance. We could heartily wish that this volume could be placed in the hands of every truth-loving and sincerely religious man and woman in the land.”
+ + Arena. 35: 100. Ja. ’06. 640w.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
Atlan. 97: 417. Mr. ’06. 320w.
“The author has made an interesting book; but he has made it by confounding Hebraism with Pharisaism; by forgetting that Jesus Christ was a Jew—the reformer, not the repudiator, of the religion of his people; its spiritual interpreter, and so its defender, not its enemy.”
+ – Outlook. 81: 569. N. 4, ’05. 1950w.
“Is written with more than ordinary vigor and knowledge of the facts of everyday living.”
+ R. of Rs. 33: 126. Ja. ’06. 40w.
“A really remarkable and original book.”
+ + Spec. 94: 751. My. 20, ’05. 330w.
Cripps, Arthur Shearly. Magic casements. $1.25. Dutton.
“The casements so Arthur Shearly Cripps tells us, look outward upon a ‘beautiful and restless England,’ look inward upon ‘her many-coloured faith.’ The magic we can aver is the tinge of imagination, the glamour of romance which he has succeeded in throwing over the little happenings of which we catch fleeting glimpses through those casements.” (N. Y. Times.) “A man escapes by the hanging of a dead bear instead of him: an old woman who goes to pray for her son loses her offering, and sees a true miracle, to the horror and instant conversion of a wicked priest, who was about to show her a false one for somebody else’s money; a a gold coin looks up in the face of a person who likes gold coins too much. These things are attractive and there is a touch of power in ‘The orb of terror,’ and ‘Dead in April’; of beauty in ‘The black-faced lamb,’ and in the end of ‘Crimson for snow-white.’” (Lond. Times.)
“Mr. Cripps has made a pretty success out of indifferent material.”
+ – Acad. 69: 1264. D. 2, ’06. 320w. + Lond. Times. 4: 359. O. 27, ’06. 280w.
“The coloring in these bits of writing is of too opalescent a sort to win great popularity.”
– – + N. Y. Times. 11: 441. Jl. 7, ’06. 220w.
Crocker, Francis Bacon, and Wheeler, Schuyler Skaats. Management of electrical machinery. *$1. Van Nostrand.
A thoroly revised and enlarged edition of the practical management of dynamos and motors.
Crockett, Samuel Rutherford. Cherry ribband: a novel. †$1.50. Barnes.
“It differs from his usual types in a touch of something deeper and more spiritual.”
+ Ath. 1905, 2: 641. N. 11. 160w.
“The book deserves well of the reader, albeit it is little more than a replica of earlier ones.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 40: 153. Mr. 1, ’06. 120w. + – Ind. 59: 1349. D. 7, ’05. 400w.
“Mr. Crockett does not seem to have advanced in his art, but ‘The cherry ribband’ will satisfy his public.”
+ – Sat. R. 101: 145. F. 3, ’06. 130w.
Crockett, Samuel Rutherford. Fishers of men. †$1.50. Appleton.
The missionary of Mr. Crockett’s Edinburgh slum district is a man who in a “beautifully human, devoted, and non-pietistical way, is shown among the burglars and toughs of Edinburgh’s Cowgate. The hero of the story is a lad who has the advantages of a high-class finishing school in artistic burglary, but insists on turning out straight and square; and some of the most interesting scenes are in a boys’ reformatory.” (Outlook.)
“Mr. Crockett’s latest book is full of his good qualities.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 509. Ap. 28. 320w. + – Critic. 48: 474. My. ’06. 80w.
“Abundance of exciting incident (sometimes close to melodrama), a well-sustained plot, shrewd characterization, and genial humor all combine to make this book one of the most entertaining that Mr. Crockett has ever written.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + Dial. 40: 264. Ap. 16, ’06. 190w. + – N. Y. Times. 11: 142. Mr. 10, ’06. 240w.
“Altogether a badly constructed, but decidedly readable book.”
+ – Outlook. 82: 618. Mr. 17, ’06. 170w.
Crook, Rev. Isaac. Earnest expectation. *50c. Meth. bk.
Eight sermons “suggested by many of the rarest hearers as well as the finest preachers in Methodism.”
Crooke, William. Things Indian: interesting and entertaining information in regard to India by a former member of the Bengal civil service. *$3. Scribner.
A volume belonging to the series including “Things Chinese,” and “Things Japanese.” “It might well be called a ‘Cyclopedia of India,’ for it is divided alphabetically into subjects varying from agriculture at the beginning, through barasaul guns, caste, juggernaut, opium, tree worship, to writing. It covers a great deal of ground, and contains a vast deal of seemingly intimate knowledge of India.” (N. Y. Times.)
“It deals with a vast variety of subjects pleasantly throughout, and in many cases supplying useful information: in others the treatment is inadequate.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 576. My. 11. 320w.
“As a book of reference ‘Things Indian’ will take its place beside Yule and Burnell in the revolving bookcase.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 5: 127. Ap. 6, ’06. 320w.
“A wider circle of subjects, more intimate acquaintance with Sanskrit literature, and Mr. Crooke’s unrivalled knowledge of India as it is would produce a work of very great value.”
+ – Nation. 82: 468. Je. 7. ’06. 500w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 342. My. 26, ’06. 80w.
“A valuable book for traveler, student, or reader.”
+ Outlook. 83: 288. Je. 2, ’06. 120w.
Reviewed by F. A. Steel.
– Sat. R. 102: 199. Ag. 18, ’06. 560w.
Crosby, Ernest. Garrison the non-resistant. 50c. Public pub. co.
“There are present in this work the moral uplift and inspiring elements that render a book vital. It is a little volume that should be placed in the hands of young people everywhere.”
+ + Arena. 35: 446. Ap. ’06. 240w.
“Apart from these possible flaws, however, Mr. Crosby has written a wholesome book for the times, and we hope that it will have a wide reading.”
+ + – Dial. 40: 95. F. 1, ’06. 310w.
“It is not, however, structurally organic. In the personal narrative there are several minor errors of fact.”
+ – Nation. 82: 54. Ja. 18, ’06. 200w. + Pub. Opin. 40: 249. F. 24, ’06. 220w.
Crosby, Oscar Terry. Tibet and Turkestan: a journey through old lands and a study of new conditions. **$2.50. Putnam.
The journey of exploration thru central Asia made in 1903 by Mr. Crosby in company with Capt. Ferdinand Anginieur of the French army furnishes much of the material for his “stirring tale of adventure and still more stirring record of wrongs.... [He] tears off with pitiless hand the thinly decent covering which ‘political necessity’ threw over the Lhasa affair, and exposes that affair in its naked simplicity.” The book is fully illustrated.
+ – Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 175. Jl. ’06. 310w.
“We cannot rate Mr. Crosby’s book high, although we can readily understand that it may be useful and informing to the American reader.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 419. Ap. 7. 380w.
“The narrative is particularly attractive and valuable wherein he brings out the rival relation of the Russians and the British.” John W. Foster.
+ Atlan. 97: 543. Ap. ’06. 100w.
“A book at once readable and disappointing.”
+ – Bookm. 33: 339. My. ’06. 370w.
“With its text, index, and brand-new map, it is a revelation of the new Asia of railways and telegraphs.” W. E. Griffis.
+ Critic. 48: 372. Ap. ’06. 360w.
“Mr. Crosby’s description of the countries named is familiar, and his discussion of the political aspect is independent.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ Dial. 40: 234. Ap. 1, ’06. 310w.
“There is much of interest in the narrative of his trip. Many of his views are quite novel.”
+ Ind. 60: 873. Ap. 12, ’06. 160w. + – Lit. D. 32: 216. F. 10, ’06. 110w. + – Nation. 82: 81. Ja. 25, ’06. 880w. + N. Y. Times. 10: 749. N. 4, ’05. 330w. + + Outlook. 81: 838. D. 2, ’05. 110w. + Pub. Opin. 40: 410. Mr. 31, ’06. 260w. R. of Rs. 33: 253. F. ’06. 110w.
Crosland, Thomas William Hodgson. [Wild Irishman.] **$1.25. Appleton.
“One expects of him bitter sarcasm and finds on the whole kindly appreciation.”
+ Critic. 48: 189. F. ’06. 130w.
Crothers, Samuel McChord. Endless life. **75c. Houghton.
The will of the late George T. Ingersoll provides for an annual lecture on “the immortality of man.” Mr. McChord, chosen to deliver the 1905 address, cites the case neither of the primitive man nor of the average modern man, avoiding a “jungle growth of superstition” on the one hand, and a region of indifference on the other, but of the simple man who is viewed in contrast to the man of highly specialized intelligence. The relation of ethical idealism to future life is discussed.
“The book is a healthful consideration of a universally interesting topic, presenting old and familiar matter with clearness and suggestiveness.” Henry M. Bowden.
+ + Am. J. Theol. 10: 555. Jl. ’06. 80w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
Critic. 48: 458. My. ’06. 60w. + Lit. D. 31: 957. D. 23, ’05. 970w. + + – Lond. Times. 5: 127. Ap. 6, ’06. 320w.
“His volume is an interpretation of life by a seer.”
+ Outlook. 82: 716. Mr. 24, ’06. 120w.
Crothers, Samuel McChord. Pardoner’s wallet. **$1.25. Houghton.
These ten essays by the author of “The gentle reader” offer indulgences for such sins as those of omission, of necessarily slighted work, of doing more than is expected of one, and of unreasonable virtues. He deals with the “foibles, peccadillos, fallacies and the prejudices” of mankind with a subtle but always kindly humor, and never fails to make his moral purpose responsible for the friendly arraignment. The undertone of the book sounds a note of gentle manners and broad charity.
“He shoots very straight, although he does not employ a deadly kind of ammunition.”
+ Cath. World. 82: 116. Ap. ’06. 250w
“Mr. Crothers is less whimsical, but hardly less effective, than in ‘The gentle reader.’” H. W. Boynton.
+ Critic. 48: 457. My. ’06. 650w.
“Finally, Dr. Crothers, to use the language of a brother divine, belongs to that best class of essayists who ‘clarify life by gentle illumination and lambent humor.’”
+ Dial. 40: 22. Ja. 1, ’06. 430w.
“Like its predecessor, is altogether delightful reading.”
+ Lit. D. 32: 454. Mr. 24, ’06. 160w.
“All the essays are well written.”
+ Nation. 82: 200. Mr. 8, ’06. 220w.
“In that most genial and delightful style of which he is master Doctor Crothers has written a series of essays in which the connecting thread is a kindly judgment of human peccadillos.”
+ Pub. Opin. 40: 60. Ja. 13, ’06. 400w.
Crowley, Mary Catherine. In treaty with honor. †$1.50. Little.
The historic setting of this tale is the struggle of French Canada for independence in 1837. A young volunteer of Irish birth, French education and United States citizenship and his comrade, a Polish aristocrat fight the same battles, share thrilling adventures and love the same winsome Jacquette. In the end one gives up his life for his country’s cause and the other wins the heroine.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 743. N. 10, ’06. 230w. + Outlook. 84: 678. N. 17, ’06. 100w.
Crowther, Samuel, jr., and Ruhl, A. Rowing and Track athletics. **$2. Macmillan.
A double volume in which the first subject is treated by Mr. Crowther and the second by Mr. Ruhl appears in the “American sportsman’s library.” “The treatment of rowing is largely historical, several chapters being devoted to the origin and development of collegiate rowing in the United States. The exposition of track athletics gives a convenient résumé of all the important records made in this branch of athletics during recent years.” (R. of Rs.)
+ Nature. 73: 605. Ap. 26, ’06. 490w. + + N. Y. Times. 11: 265. Ap. 21, ’06. 460w.
“In fact, the book is a history of athletics in America, so clearly and intelligently written that the layman may catch much of the professional’s enthusiasm.”
+ Pub. Opin. 40: 123. Ja. 27, ’06. 130w. + R. of Rs. 33: 511. Ap. ’06. 70w.
“The somewhat dry statistics of track athletics in America are made readable by the excellence of the style in which the events are described by Mr. A. Ruhl.”
+ + Sat. R. 101: 368. Mr. 24, ’06. 1040w.
Culbertson, Anne Virginia. Banjo talks. $1. Bobbs.
“These include a captivating variety of themes, touched with considerable originality in dialect, idiom, and orthography.”
+ Critic. 48: 288. Mr. ’06. 30w.
Cuppy, Hazlitt Alva, ed. Our own times: a continuous history of the twentieth century. *$3. J. A. Hill & co., New York.
The aim of this enterprise is to furnish each year a clear, concise compendium of the twelvemonth’s record, doing yearly what Dr. Albert Shaw does monthly in his Review of reviews. The initial volume, prepared by Bonnister Merwin touches upon the main conditioning forces of the world’s activity to-day. The book is provided with maps and also with many full-page half-tones of important personages and noteworthy events.
“That every reference library must have the series goes without saying. Dr. Cuppy should have the hearty gratitude of every literary worker.” A. W. S.
+ + + Am. J. Soc. 11: 428. N. ’05. 820w. (Review of v. 1.)
“We have tested it at a number of points and have found it adequate and just in its treatment and comprehensive in its view.”
+ + + Bookm. 23: 218. Ap. ’06. 310w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The whole not only forms an invaluable compendium of the year’s record, clear, concise, and reliable, but possesses a certain charm of style and literary grace that lend to the history the interest of a story.” Gerhardt C. Mars.
+ + + Pub. Opin. 39: 859. D. 30, ’05. 760w. (Review of v. 1.)
Curry, Charles Emerson. Electromagnetic theory of light, pt. I. *$4. Macmillan.
“Dr. Curry’s account of the electromagnetic theory of light promises to be very useful to students of mathematical physics, for whom no English book of exactly similar scope is at present available.... This first part deals with such phenomena of light as can be fully explained by the beautiful theory of Clerk Maxwell, whilst the second part is to treat of those cases in which that theory has hitherto failed to yield a satisfactory explanation.”—Sat. R.
“The author has fallen into the error, only too common, of not confining himself within any definite limits. The author’s treatment is adequate for the most part, but we are not much impressed by it; his mathematics are heavy, of the ‘sledge-hammer’ order, but they are stronger than his physics.”
+ – Ath. 1905, 2: 440. S. 30. 1700w. (Review of pt. 1.)
“The work is purely theoretical, and in some chapters has no obvious pertinency to known facts.”
– Nation. 83: 98. Ag. 2, ’06. 100w. (Review of pt. 1.) + + Nature. 73: 316. F. 1, ’06. 930w. (Review of pt. 1.)
“The mathematician will find its pages at once lucid and accurate.”
+ + Sat. R. 99: 676. My. 20, ’05. 370w. (Review of pt. 1.)
“A book unnecessarily abstract, which, while entirely modern in treatment, and sufficiently cognizant of recent theoretical discussions, is out of touch with the experimental side of the science.” C. E. M.
+ + – Science, n.s. 23: 385. Mr. 9, ’06. 390w. (Review of pt. 1.) + Spec. 95: 155. Jl. 29, ’05. 50w. (Review of pt. 1.)
Curtis, David A. [Stand pat; or, Poker stories from the Mississippi.] $1.50. Page.
The little town of Brownsville, Arkansas, furnishes the setting for Mr. Curtis’ twenty poker stories. Long Mike, Gallagher, the man with one eye only, and Stumpy figure thruout the sketches, and the characterizations are chiefly of this card quartette so mis-matched in sporting proclivities.
“It is a pleasant volume for casual reading.”
+ Critic. 49: 285. S. ’06. 80w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 379. Je. 9, ’06. 100w.
Curtis, Edward. Nature and health: a popular treatise on the hygiene of the person and the home. *$1.25. Holt.
How to claim “the priceless boon of health, happiness and the usefulness of years,” is discussed according to late enlightenment on the subject of hygiene. The chapters consider breathing, eating, drinking, drugging for delectation, seeing, hearing, clothing, bathing, disposing of waste, disinfecting, exercising the body, exercising the mind, sleeping and waking, working and playing, and living and dying.
“This is a particularly excellent manual.”
+ Critic. 49: 95. Jl. ’06. 60w.
“It is full of good advice and usually in striking form.”
+ Ind. 61: 261. Ag. 2, ’06. 50w.
“For those who must read about their health, there is no better book than this, with its clarion call back to nature.”
+ Ind. 61: 815. O. 4, ’06. 670w.
“Now and again there are signs that he is a bit of a ‘faddist,’ but notwithstanding this his book may be heartily commended to the lay reader desirous of leading a sane, clean, wholesome life.”
+ – Lit. D. 32: 492. Mr. 31, ’06. 150w.
“The style of the writing is easy and unconventional, possibly at times a little too colloquial.”
+ – Nation. 82: 280. Ap. 5, ’06. 130w.
“One can dip into it here and there, and be certain always of finding something worth while told succintly, with a dry wit that like the claws of a burr makes it stick.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 228. Ap. 7, ’06. 170w.
“Delightful treatise.”
+ Pub. Opin. 40: 445. Ap. 7, ’06. 90w.
“The book as a whole is characterized by accuracy of statement, clear discussion, and practical suggestion, and it is a welcome contribution to an important subject.” J. E. Raycroft.
+ School R. 14: 616. O. ’06. 140w.
Curtis, Newton Martin. From Bull Run to Chancellorsville: the story of the Sixteenth New York infantry with personal reminiscences. **$2. Putnam.
In sketching the movements of the Sixteenth New York infantry from Bull Run to Chancellorsville there is also an amount of incidental information about northern New York organizations identified with the army of the Potomac. “The whole tendency of the narrative and of the comment which Gen. Curtis allows himself to make from time to time—with notable restraint and fairness—is to exalt the qualities of Gen. George B. McClellan as a commander of armies.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Few writers on events and conditions during the civil war have approached the subject with a better fund of historic information, and few have the vivid yet plain power of narration possessed by General Curtis.”
+ + Dial. 41: 284. N. 1, ’06. 240w.
“Not only does Gen. Curtis write entertainingly, but he has also seen in good perspective the part played by his regiment in the campaigns and battles which he describes.”
+ + Nation. 83: 284. O. 4, ’06. 130w.
“It is not often that a book which sets out to tell the story and record the services of a single military organization results in a narrative so full of really and generally interesting matter. He writes like a man and a soldier not like an army clerk.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 621. O. 6, ’06. 1620w.
“In addition to its value as material for full knowledge of military history of the Civil war, this book has also considerable interest in its personal narrative of camp and battle incidents. Here and there flashes of humor enliven the story.”
+ + Outlook. 84: 44. S. 1, ’06. 50w.
Curtis, Olin Alfred. Christian faith personally given in a system of doctrine. *$2.50. Meth. bk.
A book which claims simply to impart a vision of the Christian faith as an organic whole of doctrine. It is not dogmatic, does not attempt “to speak the final word.... The main clue to all can be found in one thing, namely, in the junction of the two ideas, personal responsibility and racial solidarity.” The introduction discusses man and the Christian religion, then follows a six part treatment of the system of doctrine.
Outlook. 82: 42. Ja. 6, ’06. 590w.
“A book which very fairly represents the present drift away from dogmatism in American theology.”
+ R. of Rs. 32: 752. D. ’05. 80w.
Curtis, William Eleroy. Egypt, Burma and British Malaysia. **$2. Revell.
“This is the latest and best literary photograph of the contemporary British protectorates here so agreeably treated.”
+ Critic. 48: 93. Ja. ’06. 150w.
“For the most part he gives us what we often need, recent and reliable information about distant lands.”
+ Ind. 60: 873. Ap. 12, ’06. 60w.
Curtis, William Eleroy. [Modern India.] **$2. Revell.
Reviewed by John W. Foster.
+ + Atlan. 97: 543. Ap. ’06. 160w.
“Its statistics are recent, and the author evidently has the reporter’s instinct highly developed and a well-trained eye for the picturesque. On the other hand, his style is diffuse, his diction ‘journalese,’ and his inaccuracy amazing.” Louis H. Gray.
+ – Bookm. 23: 339. My. ’06. 270w.
“He tells us much that most books leave out. He helps us to adjust traditional notions to present-day reality.”
+ Critic. 48: 191. F. ’06. 250w. + Ind. 60: 873. Ap. 12, ’06. 60w.
Curzon of Kedleston, George Nathaniel, 1st baron. Lord Curzon in India: being a selection from his speeches as viceroy and governor-general of India, 1898–1905. With a por., explanatory notes, and an index, and with an introd. by Sir Thomas Raleigh. *$4. Macmillan.
“Lord Curzon made more than 250 set speeches during his seven and a half years’ service as viceroy, of which some sixty are in Sir Thomas’s book. They refer to all sorts of subjects, from the Budget—seven budget speeches are given—to art, archaeology, education, the famine, irrigation, game, preservation, the plague, and temperance. Their interest to Americans is of the slightest, except as showing what manner of man Curzon is, who has reversed the usual course of events, and has served in the highest post under the British crown without having worked his way to it systematically.”—N. Y. Times.
“Lord Curzon does not possess a good literary style.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 511. Ap. 28. 930w.
“To the student, not only of history, but of sociology of the human atmosphere, so to speak, of the last decade, the book is deeply interesting and extremely suggestive.”
+ + Ind. 61: 215. Jl. 26, ’06. 250w.
“On the whole, however, it is the matter rather than the manner of the speeches that will interest the reader of this large volume.”
+ Lond. Times. 5: 139. Ap. 20, ’06. 1220w.
“His selected speeches are for those who have to reckon with him in domestic politics, and again for all libraries.”
+ Nation. 82: 427. My. 24, ’06. 90w. N. Y. Times. 11: 332. My. 19, ’06. 310w. N. Y. Times. 11: 342. My. 26, ’06. 160w.
“Indispensable to those who would understand how England has developed her vast dependency.”
+ + Outlook. 83: 672. Jl. 21, ’06. 190w. R. of Rs. 34: 123. Jl. 06. 40w.
“If there is much of self-confidence in this volume of speeches so full of rare charm, commanding eloquence and literary delights, it is the just confidence of a strong man armed and equipped at all points for the fray.”
+ + – Sat. R. 102: 206. Ag. 18, ’06. 2020w.
“Certainly no collection of speeches has been published for long so full of political wisdom and sustained at so high a level of style.”
+ + Spec. 96: 869. Je. 2, ’06. 1650w.
Cust, Lionel. Royal collection of paintings at Buckingham palace and Windsor castle; with an introd. and descriptive text. 2v. *$100. Scribner.
The benefits of King Edward’s recent movement to have the Royal art collection put in order, properly arranged, classified and cataloged are extended to the public through the medium of Mr. Cust’s magnificent two-volume work. There are one hundred and eight photogravures which illustrate masterpieces of the Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Flemish, German and English schools. The author furnishes an introduction and descriptive text which aid the illustrations in forming “a precious record of one of the finest collections of the world.”
“The public ... is certain to be grateful that the Royal commands have been so thoroughly and adequately executed by Mr. Lionel Cust.”
+ + Ath. 1905, 2: 768. D. 2. 1350w. (Review of v. 1.)
Reviewed by Royal Cortissoz.
+ Atlan. 97: 270. F. ’06. 360w. Ind. 60: 744. Mr. 29, ’06. 70w. + + Int. Studio. 27: 277. Ja. ’06. 750w.
“A work which reflects great credit on all who have been concerned in its preparation.”
+ + Int. Studio. 29: 271. S. ’06. 520w. (Review of v. 2.) + + Lond. Times. 4: 428. D. 8, ’05. 1110w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The second of Mr. Cust’s two magnificent volumes on the King’s pictures is of even greater interest than the first.”
+ + + Lond. Times. 5: 256. Jl. 20, ’06. 1400w. (Review of v. 2.) + + + N. Y. Times. 11: 465. Jl. 21, ’06. 1160w. (Review of v. 2.) (Reprinted from Lond. Times.) + + Sat. R. 102: 177. Ag. 11, ’06. 660w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Useful and handsome publication.”
+ + Sat. R. 100: 628. N. 11, ’05. 1280w. (Review of v. 1.)
“But though the work before us is open to criticism on these minor points, we have nothing but praise for the general result achieved.”
+ + – Spec. 96: 100. Ja. 20, ’06. 520w. (Review of v. 1.)
Cust, Robert H. Hobart. Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, hitherto usually styled “Sodoma;” the man and the painter. *$6. Dutton.
A “just and fair-minded picture” of the artist deals with question of name,—including the origin of nickname, “Sodoma”—date of birth and birthplace of Bazzi; gives an account of his early years and apprenticeship; and then turns to discussions of his frescoes and paintings, his visits to Rome, and his fame and fortune. The book is equipped with notes, and numerous illustrations in photogravure which have been selected to aid the student in following the artist’s development.
“Mr. Cust’s book is a welcome and valuable addition to the existing literature relating to this fascinating painter.”
+ + Acad. 70: 475. My. 19, ’06. 1390w.
“With lawyer-like acuteness he weighs the evidence on either side before he pronounces judgment.”
+ + Int. Studio. 27: 371. Je. ’06. 250w.
“Persons interested in Italian art will read the book with pleasure, in spite of a somewhat heavy style and a superabundance of notes.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 5: 94. Mr. 16, ’06. 1530w.
“A treatise which is practically exhaustive. Mr. Cust’s style throughout is clear and simple, and, in treating of artistic matters, he eschews the terminology of the modern scientific school.”
+ + Nation. 82: 392. My. 10, ’06. 630w.
“It is a fascinating volume, and will even hold the attention of the lay reader who has a keenness for the episodic drama of history and biography.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 303. My. 12, ’06. 900w.
“Even if Mr. Cust seems a little too enthusiastic about the subject of his book, his work is an interesting contribution to the literature of Renaissance art.”
+ – Spec. 96: sup. 1011. Je. 30, ’06. 200w.
Cutler, James Elbert. Lynch law: an investigation into the history of lynching in the U. S. **$1.50. Longmans.
“The book is not only henceforth the authority on the subject, it is also a good example of a rational and scientific historical method.” Albert Bushnell Hart.
+ + + Am. Hist. R. 11: 425. Ja. ’06. 1100w.
Reviewed by Alvin S. Johnson.
+ + Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 139. Mr. ’06. 750w.
“The general line of treatment is wholly satisfactory and eminently fair. The book is a contribution and is a good example of the scientific historical method.” Charles H. Ambler.
+ + – Yale R. 15: 100. My. ’06. 1380w.