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Dale, Thomas F. Fox. $1.75. Longmans.
A recent volume in the “Fur, feather and fin series,” whose general aim is to treat the fowl, fish or beast under consideration from the standpoint of its natural history, its capture and its food value. “The present volume gives not only its natural but its psychological history adequately for the first time, and in a way that should attract all those interested in the question of the extent of animal intelligence.” (N. Y. Times.) The following headings suggest the extent of the treatment: The natural history of the fox, The education of the fox, The mind of the fox, How to preserve foxes, Home and haunts of the fox, The hunted fox, The fox as a captive, The fox as an outlaw, The fox in fable, Cousin Jack, The fox and his fur, and Hunting the fox.
“Had Mr. Dale kept within his proper limits, we should have had nothing but commendation to bestow upon his work.”
– + Nature. 74: 79. My. 24, ’06. 200w.
“Openly stating his sympathetic appreciation of the animal, the author proceeds with his study, combining faithful observation that carries conviction with it and all the compelling interest of a romance.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 405. Je. 23, ’06. 540w.
“It is in short a capital monograph, and will be read with interest we are sure not only by those who delight in the sport of fox-hunting, but also by every lover of natural history.”
+ Sat. R. 102: 118. Jl. 28, ’06. 580w.
“Though this book on ‘The fox’ does not quite come up to the standard of certain of its predecessors, every one who cares about fox-hunting should read it. It would have been better had the natural history of the fox been entrusted to a zoölogist.”
+ – Spec. 97: 18. Jl. 7, ’06. 600w.
Dale, Thomas F. Polo, past and present. *$3.75. Scribner.
“The selection of this book dealing with the polo of the remote past might it seems to us well have been omitted. Has written on the whole an excellent book, and we can thoroughly recommend it to all interested in perhaps the most fascinating game that was ever invented.”
+ + – Sat. R. 101: 402. Mr. 31, ’06. 470w.
Dana, John Cotton. [Notes on bookbinding for libraries.] 75c. Library bureau, Chicago.
“The problem with which this book deals is purely a library problem. It makes no pretence of contributing anything to the art or craft of book making; its aim is to give to librarians such an elementary knowledge of this craft that they may intelligently decide on the methods and materials that are best adapted to their needs. The point of view is purely the economic one—how shall the library bind its books so as to secure the largest possible service at the least cost.”—Nation.
Reviewed by Henry E. Bliss.
+ + + Library J. 31: C130. Ag. ’06. 1530w. + + – Library J. 31: 738. O. ’06. 950w.
“Library commissions are recommending it, and it is likely to become the standard text book on library binding in summer schools, apprentice classes, and in the more elementary of the regular library schools.”
+ + Nation. 83: 224. S. 13, ’06. 320w.
Dana, John Cotton, and Kent, Henry W. Literature of libraries in the 17th and 18th centuries. 6v. *$12. McClurg.
Two volumes of this series of six have made their appearance. One of them is “The duties and qualifications of a librarian: a discourse pronounced in the general assembly of the Sorbonne, December 23, 1870, by Jean-Baptiste Cotton des Houssayes, to which have been prefaced an introduction and bibliographical note.” The other introduction is “The reformed librarie-keeper. or two copies of letters concerning the place and office of librarie-keeper” by John Dury. with a biographical sketch of this Presbyterian divine of the sixteenth century.
“A collection that should be studied by all library workers, and that might well be read by any student of educational and intellectual history.”
+ + Nation. 83: 228. S. 13, ’06. 780w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) Putnam’s. 1: 252. N. ’06. 100w.
Daniel, James Walter. Maid of the foothills; or, Missing links in the story of reconstruction. $1.50. Neale.
It has been the aim of the author to depict the spirit of the times truthfully, and to give proper place to the importance of the Red-shirt movement which severed the shackles of a bound populace. The story treats of the grim humor of the oppressed citizens, the heroism of Southern women in that period of severest trial and oppression, and shows the infamous deeds and evil spirit of Southern men who joined the hosts of carpet-baggers and helped them to bleed the prostrate state.
Darrow, Clarence S. [Eye for an eye.] †$1.50. Fox.
Jim Jackson who tells the tale of his crime the night before the expiation of his guilt, is one of those unfortunate “submerged tenth” victims of negative circumstances. Not with the spirit of resentment but of discouragement over never having had a chance in life, Jim tells his story with a mildness that “is a more severe arraignment of social conditions than the fiercest tirades could be.” (Bookm.)
“If to create an illusion, to attain the effect aimed at, completely and entirely, is literary art, then Mr. Darrow’s work is literary art of the highest, in spite of an apparent neglect of all the canons of literary art.” Grace Isabel Colbron.
+ – Bookm. 22: 629. F. ’06. 420w.
Dauncey, Mrs. Campbell. [Englishwoman in the Philippines.] *$3.50. Dutton.
“This is a series of letters written by an Englishwoman during a stay of nine months in the Philippine islands, and they are full of those definite details of living which satisfy the curiosity and give precision, without any special attempt at style, the innumerable phases of a life so foreign as to be interesting in all its commonplaces: they describe the climate and scenery, the costumes of the natives, their houses, their occupations, amusements, politics, religion. And they abound in criticisms of the American administration, indeed of everything American.”—Outlook.
“If [the great American people] read Mrs. Campbell Dauncey’s penetrating but not unkindly criticisms in the proper spirit, her book for them will be of real service. To the British reader it will appeal as a notable contribution to Pacific literature, worthy, at a reasonable interval, to be placed on the same shelf with Stevenson’s ‘South sea studies.’”
+ + Acad. 71: 396. O. 20, ’06. 1210w.
“Barring several ludicrous blunders thus almost wilfully made, the letters stick with great faithfulness to conditions as personally observed, and have the touch which comes from direct observation.” H. Parker Willis.
+ – Dial. 41: 279. N. 1, ’06. 1030w.
“Quite commonplace in all ways and practically valueless as bearing upon the Philippines. Scarcely a single general comment upon the Philippines or Philippine conditions is correct.”
– – Ind. 61: 996. O. 25, ’06. 1360w.
“With every page a challenge, one may be glad to read the volume, regretting for the lively and confident author’s sake, that a competent editor had not revised some of its phrases.”
– + Nation. 83: 267. S. 27, ’06. 600w.
“It is told much better and more interestingly than we have seen it told before.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 517. Ag. 25, ’06. 1030w. Outlook. 84: 90. S. 8, ’06. 320w.
“It is distinctly above the average of such books.”
+ Sat. R. 102: sup. 5. O. 13, ’06. 760w.
Davenport, Frederick Morgan. Primitive traits in religious revivals: a study in mental and social evolution. **$1.50. Macmillan.
“One may regret that not many first-hand observations of revivals in process are made by the author, that his material is almost exclusively historic; still his work of interpretation is vital throughout,—there are no dead pages.” H. H. Horne.
+ + – J. Philos. 3: 48. Ja. 18, ’06. 600w.
“The book is admirable in many ways. It is perhaps marked by facility rather than by great power and depth. The book should prove helpful to readers of quite contrasted training and sympathies.” G. M. Stratton.
+ + Psychol. Bull. 3: 239. Jl. 15, ’06. 840w.
Davey, Richard Patrick Boyle. Pageant of London; with 40 il. in color by John Fulleylove. 2v. *$5. Pott.
A series of word-pictures with pictorial accompaniment of the principal events that have transpired in London. It is called a “Pageant,” “meaning not only coronations, royal marriages, funerals, and other pompous shows and spectacles, but as signifying the unrolling, as in a sort of procession, of the story of the British capital from the day when Julius Caesar appeared on the bank of the Thames, to that which witnessed the funeral of Queen Victoria.” (Ath.)
“Mr. Davey is not always accurate, and his style is not always pure, but his book is as good a compendium of the history of London as we know.”
+ + – Acad. 70: 542. Je. 9, ’06. 1680w.
“In a work intended for the general reader rather than for the serious student it may perhaps seem ungracious to dwell on imperfections which a very little care could remove. It is a pleasanter task to dwell on the merits of a book which is replete with information, presented with a considerable amount of literary skill.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 756. Je. 23. 1520w.
“Thoroughly up-to-date, embodying the results of the most recent archæological researches, the new publication is indeed a most noteworthy one, full of curious information on all manner of side issues and giving token on every page of deep erudition.”
+ + Int. Studio. 29: 182. Ag. ’06. 280w.
“The coloured pictures by Mr. Fulleylove are a serious mistake. Such a book could not have been too copiously adorned with old engravings. Properly selected, such a pictorial accompaniment would more than have doubled its value.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 233. Je. 29, ’06. 230w.
“It is not always decreed that a man shall live to execute the work which his years have accumulated, but in this case the decree seems to have existed and seems to have been fulfilled. The world of history and literature is as much to be congratulated as the author.”
+ + + N. Y. Times. 11: 879. D. 15, ’06. 480w.
“Americans ... should find this book very entertaining and enlightening, and good reading before a trip to England—or even after one, as a pleasant reminder.”
+ Putnam’s. 1: 378. D. ’06. 220w.
Davies, D. Ffrangçon-. Singing of the future; with an introd. by Edward Elgar. *$2.50. Lane.
“A book which prompts thought.”
+ Ath. 1905, 2: 905. D. 30. 580w.
“Is a direct and serious appeal to the English-speaking singer.”
+ Dial. 40: 131. F. 16, ’06. 280w.
Davis, Henry William Charles. England under the Normans and the Angevins. *$3. Putnam.
Volume 2 of Professor C. W. C. Oman’s “History of England” to be complete in six volumes and to include the period “from the beginning” to 1815. “Mr. Davis seeks to focus his volume at a given point by dwelling on the inventive and experimental features of his era as contrasted with the spirit of consolidation which marked the age of the three Edwards.” (Nation.)
“An attractive book, at once well-planned, well-written, and scholarly. The narrative is crisp and clear and the characterizations pointed, and Mr. Davis treats his theme broadly.” Charles H. Haskins.
+ + Am. Hist. R. 11: 882. Jl. 06. 1190w.
“To the author’s mastery of his sources as well as the literature on his subject is added the gift of writing in a bright and interesting fashion; while the excellent table of contents and the marginal headings will be found useful pilots by the teacher and the student.”
+ + – Ath. 1905, 2: 825. D. 16. 1440w.
“As a popular history it is likely to take high rank.”
+ + Dial. 41: 41. Jl. 16, ’06. 330w.
“Thoroly as it has been covered by many historians before him, he adds touches of freshness and vigor to an old narrative.”
+ + Ind. 61: 333. Ag. 9, ’06. 410w. + + – Lit. D. 32: 453. Mr. 24, ’06. 280w.
“Mr. Davis is an excellent writer, and keeps at all points in touch with first hand authorities.”
+ + Nation. 82: 262. Mr. 29, ’06. 480w. N. Y. Times. 11: 28. Ja. 13, ’06. 350w.
“Mr. Davis is scarcely at his best with regard to Norman England and its great constitutional document, Doomsday Book.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 377. Je. 9, ’06. 570w.
“Mr. Davis’s sympathies are manifestly with the native element, and perhaps as a result of this he scarcely does justice to some of the notable foreigners who were responsible at once for the spoliation and regeneration of England. His work further suffers from carelessness in identifying persons and places, and from eccentricities in the spelling of proper names.”
+ + – Outlook. 83: 140. My. 19, ’06. 360w.
“The characters described are made alive, and the institutions real. We do not know a more suggestive or interesting guide to this important period.”
+ + Sat. R. 101: 463. Ap. 14, ’06. 1080w.
Davis, John Patterson. Corporations: a study of the origin and development of the great business combinations and their relation to the authority of the state. 2v. **$4.50. Putnam.
“Altogether, we must regard this book as materials collected with a view to the production of a definite theory, rather than any coherent statement of such a theory.”
+ – Nation. 82: 436. My. 24, ’06. 310w.
“It is also highly suggestive, penetratingly analytical, and rich in information useful to the economist, jurist, and legislator; and if it is impossible wholly to agree with Dr. Davis’s findings as to facts or to deem his influences always sound, it is equally impossible to deny the value of his work as an aid to the more intelligent consideration of its important subject.”
+ + – Outlook. 82: 566. Mr. 10, ’06. 1440w.
Reviewed by Henry R. Seager.
+ Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 553. S. ’06. 860w. + + Sat. R. 101: 465. Ap. 14, ’06. 1150w.
“The work as it stands, is of very high merit, and covers a vast range of ground. It is a work that every library which wishes to be well equipped in the side-lights of history must possess, for, apart from the independent research and clear thought that distinguish it, it comprises the views and research of most modern thinkers on the difficult and often obscure subjects with which Dr. Davis deals.”
+ + Spec. 97: sup. 468. O. 6, ’06. 820w.
“As a whole, the work, while it shows careful thought and much reflection, lacks proportion, and is too plainly bent to a preconceived theory.” Simeon E. Baldwin.
– + Yale. R. 15: 88. My. ’06: 740w.
Davis, Morgan Lewis. The gas offis, by the offis boy. $1. Broadway pub.
Dedicated “To everybody wot uses gas,” these observations of the gas company’s office boy will prove amusing reading for the gas burning public who will learn how the chronic kicker appears when viewed from inside, and of the many amusing devices to which human nature resorts to dodge or reduce the gas bill. It may even fulfill the pacific mission of rousing down-trodden customers to sympathize with an equally down-trodden head-bookkeeper.
Davis, Norah. Northerner. †$1.50. Century.
“If she lavishes ornamental words, she is never common.” Mary Moss.
+ Atlan. 47: 49. Ja. ’06. 200w.
“It is an unusually strong book, with an unusually strong man for its central character.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + Dial. 40: 16. Ja. 1, ’06. 230w.
Dawson, Miles Menander. Business of life insurance. **$1.50. Barnes.
“Any person intending to take out a policy who fails to read this or some similar work is certainly very short-sighted.”
+ Bookm. 22: 533. Ja. ’06. 160w. + + Dial. 41: 117. S. 1, ’06. 350w.
“This book will be found good reading by all who are interested in life insurance.”
+ Ind. 60: 47. Ja. 4, ’06. 530w.
“In short, precisely because the book is more than a text, it is for textbook purposes better than a text.” H. J. Davenport.
+ J. Pol. Econ. 14: 127. F. ’06. 140w. – R. of Rs. 33: 123. Ja. ’06. 180w.
Dawson, William Harbutt. German workman: a study in national efficiency. *$1.50. Scribner.
“In this volume William Harbutt Dawson gives an account of what the state is doing for the working classes in Germany. The book is a history, not an argument; a book of information not of philosophy. The reader will rise from the perusal of it impressed by the fact that the least democratic state in western Europe is also, at least in one sense of the term, the most socialistic state.... The book contains twenty-two chapters, each chapter devoted to a specific department of state provision of one sort or another for workingmen.”—Outlook.
Ind. 61: 752. S. 27, ’06. 210w.
“A volume which, if not attractively written, is probably the most convenient guide for English readers who would venture into the mazes of German ‘Sozialpolitik.’”
+ – Nation. 83: 397. N. 8, ’06. 890w. Outlook. 84: 141. S. 15, ’06. 180w. – + Sat. R. 102: 648. N. 24, ’06. 270w.
“A valuable addition to our information.”
+ + Spec. 97: 300. S. 1, ’06. 230w.
Dawson, William James. Makers of English prose; new and rev. ed. *$1.50. Revell.
The author “traverses in one volume practically the whole realm of English verse from Burns to the men of our day and that of English prose from Johnson to Ruskin and Newman. The books deserve popularity in America for their helpfulness, sanity, and learning.”—Lit. D.
“The author refrains from wild theories or strange deductions, and is exempt from bias towards any especial domain of letters.”
+ + Critic. 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 70w.
“The discussion is trenchant, the style pithy, and the judgment pronounced is usually temperate and sound. An occasional statement may strike us as a rhetorical exaggeration, but in the main the criticism is intelligent and compact.”
+ + – Dial. 40: 51. Ja. 16, ’06. 80w.
“Mr. Dawson is admirable—in his application of common sense to criticism, and in his moral prepossessions of literature.”
+ + Ind. 60: 285. F. 1, ’06. 520w. + Lit. D. 33: 394. S. 22, ’06. 60w.
“Mr. Dawson has insight, sympathy, and knowledge, but with these qualities combines others that are more rare in an essayist; he has practical aims, and his style has both clearness and distinction.”
+ + Lit. D. 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 90w.
“We know of no book that gives a juster, sounder, or, on the whole, a more interesting view of the group of writers selected by Mr. Dawson, and of the times in which they lived and labored.” Edward Cary.
+ + Outlook. 11: 577. S. 22, ’06. 990w.
“A volume of literary criticism of unusual importance.”
+ + R. of Rs. 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 170w.
“Mr. Dawson’s breadth of view is remarkable and his memory extraordinarily retentive. His point of view is always eminently sane, sympathetic and impartial. His style, moreover, is delightfully clear, forceful, and smooth.”
+ + R. of Rs. 34: 640. N. ’06. 200w.
“He is clearly familiar with the great body of first-class English fiction, and can write with force and common sense. But we doubt the necessity or demand for books of this character.”
+ + – Sat. R. 101: 146. F. 3, ’06. 160w.
“He says many true things, and says them well; he says some few things which do not seem to us true, but he always commends them by the manifest conviction from which they proceed.”
+ + – Spec. 96: sup. 125. Ja. 27, ’06. 270w.
Dawson, William James. [Quest of the simple life.] $1.50. Dutton.
In form Mr. Dawson’s book “is autobiographical, narrating the happy escape of a London clerk, after twenty years’ drudgery in the city, to the free air and manifold delights of a horticultural, piscatorial and literary life in the lake district.” (Dial.)
“It is to be hoped that the seductive volume may not fall into the hands of any London-weary clerk who shall mistake its plausible fictions for the gospel truth. A student of social problems, he has things to say about the evils of city life and the advantage of country life that are worth saying and worth reading.”
+ – Dial. 41: 284. N. 1, ’06. 350w.
“Animated by sanity, sympathy and knowledge, linked to a felicitous and forceful style.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 973. O. ’06. 120w.
“Dr. Dawson’s account of his quest for a simpler and more satisfactory life has in it nothing extreme, nothing so austere as to make the ordinary man draw back and doubt its wisdom.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 824. D. 1, ’06. 700w.
“These essays have distinction and grace of manner, and they also contain not a little of philosophical value as relates to the social civilization and social movement of our day.”
+ Outlook. 84: 385. O. 13, ’06. 170w.
Day, Holman Francis. [Squire Phin.] †$1.50. Barnes.
“Yet another story of Maine is ‘Squire Phin.’ His office was over Asa Brickett’s village store, and there and thereunder goes forward the chorus in this rustic melodrama. The protagonists, meanwhile, are variously occupied in practicing law, making love, adjusting quarrels, and preventing scandals, while over all is cast the limelight of burlesque by the return to his native town of the showman ... with chariots, parrot and elephant he shrieks and plunges and crashes through the story till, tired of his unchartered freedom, he sinks into the repose of wedlock.”—Nation.
“The dialect of this book touches deeper depths than even the usual New England coast story. The incidents bear the same enlarged relation as the dialect to the average village chronicle.”
+ Nation. 81: 488. D. 14, ’05. 270w.
“Rarely have we met a more amusing group of village sages.”
+ Outlook. 81: 530. O. 28. ’05. 120w.
Deakin, Dorothea. “Georgie.” †$1.50. Century.
Broad shouldered, blond, boyish, frankly engaging, and wholly sincere in each passing fancy, Georgie succeeds in becoming engaged to any number of nice girls, sometimes in quick succession and sometimes all at once. The story of his loves is amusing and it is interesting to see how one can be such a trifler and still remain a gentleman at heart. As for Violet, pretty as paint, Druscilla, plain Anne, the goddess girl, Phillida, Dolly and the little Puritan, their cause needs no sympathy.
“But though belonging to the bubbles of bookmaking, the story is of an ingratiating kind, and serves to wreathe an hour in half-protesting smiles.”
+ – Nation. 83: 485. D. 6, ’06. 210w.
“Making no pretensions that are not fulfilled, they disarm criticism and succeed in their mission of being diverting.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 777. N. 24, ’06. 250w.
“Such a book might easily be made silly, but in fact this is thoroughly amusing.”
+ Outlook. 84: 677. N. 17, ’06. 60w.
Dealey, James Quayle, and Ward, Lester Frank. Text book of sociology. *$1.30. Macmillan.
“Sociology is in its infancy, but such a book as this will avail much to interpret it to students.”
+ Ath. 1905, 2: 334. S. 9. 430w.
“The treatment throughout the book is altogether constructive and non-controversial. The style is very clear and attractive, considering the character of the work.” R. F. Hoxie.
+ + Philos. R. 15: 670. N. ’06. 260w.
“Only those who have had considerable training in the biological sciences, history, economics, and psychology will be able to get much good from the book. To the student so prepared, however, who will read also widely both from Ward’s larger works and from other works mentioned in the text, this little book will prove of great value.” Henry W. Thurston.
+ + – School R. 14: 542. S. ’06. 760w.
“The book is very clever and very readable, but we cannot help thinking a trifle paradoxical.”
+ – Spec. 96: sup. 644. Ap. 28, ’06. 400w.
Decharme, Paul. Euripides and the spirit of his dramas; tr. by James Loeb. **$3. Macmillan.
An introduction shows the need of an “able” attempt to reveal the true Euripides. The author believes that both as a man and a poet he has been underrated from Aristophanes down. Part 1 of Professor Decharme’s discussion shows what were Euripides’ emancipatory views upon religious traditions, philosophy, society and politics. Part 2 is a critical study of Euripides’ dramatic art.
“The analytical index of a dozen pages is a commendable feature.”
+ Critic. 48: 478. My. ’06. 190w.
Reviewed by F. B. R. Hellems.
+ + Dial. 40: 389. Je. 16, ’06. 1520w. + + Ind. 60: 1224. My. 24, ’06. 410w.
“Excellent version.”
+ + Lond. Times. 5: 279. Ag. 10, ’06. 820w.
“Mr. Loeb has escaped the danger of over-literalness, and has lost nothing of the lucidity of Decharme’s French. It should be in the hands of all students of the drama.”
+ + Nation. 82: 371. My. 3, ’06. 510w.
“We know, however, of no analysis of the character and work of Euripides that is, all things considered, as thorough, impartial, and convincing as that made by Paul Decharme.” George S. Hellman.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11:189. Mr. 31, ’06. 1560w. + Outlook. 82: 809. Ap. 7, ’06. 290w.
“In breadth of view, close analysis, and well-thought-out presentation, Professor Decharme’s work is very able, and Mr. Loeb seems to have done justice to his self-imposed task.”
+ + Pub. Opin. 40: 509. Ap. 21, ’06. 170w. R. of Rs. 33: 511. Ap. ’06. 50w.
Deeping, (George) Warwick. [Bess of the woods.] †$1.50. Harper.
Bess, the courageous heroine of this stirring tale, has been brought up as one of a rough band of English smugglers who quarrel over her among themselves, but when one of them tries to win her by brute force, there comes to her aid young Richard Jaffray, owner of a near-by estate, who rescues her and is wounded in her defence. How Bess is freed from Dan, and how Richard escapes from the toils of the passé Miss Jilian, and how they both come to their own, forms the substance of this story of brave deeds and social banter, of ball-room, of forest and of sea.
“A vigorous, full-blooded romance of the eighteenth century, in which the tone and temper of the age are most successfully realized.”
+ Ath. 1906, 2: 98. Jl. 28. 190w.
“Might have been written by any one of a dozen other novelists—and written rather better.”
– Bookm. 23: 641. Ag. ’06. 470w.
“The characters are vividly drawn; the plot ‘marches’; the color is laid on freely and not without sureness.”
+ Critic. 49: 285. S. ’06. 110w.
“Extremely interesting well-written and artistically framed romance, which has not had many equals in the action of recent years.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + Dial. 41: 240. O. 16, ’06. 360w.
“Marked by—clear style and a simplicity of diction. It is an engaging story, full of entertainment for those who ask no more of a novelist than that he should entertain.”
+ Lond. Times. 5: 234. Je. 29, ’06. 360w. N. Y. Times. 11: 454. Jl. 14, ’06. 400w.
Deland, Ellen Douglas. Little son of sunshine, a story for boys and girls. †$1.25. Harper.
Sunny little Christopher, an orphan with only one leg and a pair of crutches upon which to begin his walk thru life, limps straights into the hearts of a kindly farmer and his childless wife who have taken the little waif into their home for a summer’s outing. At the end of his holiday, which is made merry by his escapades with Betty who with her aunt has come to board at the farm, he finds that two homes are open to him and later discovers that General Keith, the rich, lonely old man whose stern nature has melted before the sunshine of Christopher’s nature, is really his own grandfather.
“All told with much literary skill, and the storyteller’s knack of weaving incidents together to give them the flavor of reality.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 822. D. 1, ’06. 100w.
“A pretty, well-managed story of a dear child.”
+ Outlook. 84: 678. N. 17, ’06. 130w.
Deland, Mrs. Margaret Wade (Campbell). [Awakening of Helena Richie.] †$1.50. Harper.
Helena Richie’s soul awakening seems so natural and possible amid the Old Chester people and Old Chester surroundings, with Dr. Lavendar at his best, as philanthropist, philosopher and mentor. This woman has violated the structural facts of the moral law. She is led by little David, a homeless child whom she takes, to discover the great religion of duty. As the light comes, her old standards seem the poor tottering things they really are and she struggles for permanent defences. When her life becomes known and Dr. Lavendar regards her unfit to keep David, her submission to the law of retributive justice which operates for a time then gives way, and her determination to make the remainder of her life “clear and sound” but give evidence to the genuineness of her awakened sincerity.
“The book has many of the merits and faults that are frequently met in novels written by women.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 2: 153. Ag. 11. 280w.
“In this last story we feel that Mrs. Deland has, as never before, proved herself the creator, and not merely the finely-equipped and enjoyable story-teller.” Edith Baker Brown.
+ + Bookm. 24: 57. S. ’06. 1150w.
“It is a story that has seldom been told as appealingly and with such conscience-searching effect as in ... Mrs. Deland’s latest and best novel.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + Dial. 41: 115. S. 1, ’06. 520w. + + Ind. 61: 336. Ag. 9, ’06. 1140w. + + – Ind. 61: 1160. N. 15, ’06. 60w.
“Strikes a deeper and truer chord of human passion, and indeed of tragedy, than most of the novels of the day that deal with a similar theme.”
+ + Lit. D. 33: 283. S. 1, ’06. 540w. Lit. D. 33: 594. O. 27, ’06. 550w.
“The story is beyond question a contribution to real literature. We are inclined to believe it must be coupled with Mr. Wister’s ‘Lady Baltimore’ as the finest fiction produced in this country this year.”
+ + + Lit. D. 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 90w.
“It is a good thing to have a ‘text’ for your novel, if your judgment is so well able to bear it as is Mrs. Deland’s; if it warms you to so much sympathy and understanding as are revealed in this wise, deep, and tender story.”
+ + Lond. Times. 5: 271. Ag. 3, ’06. 440w.
“Mrs. Deland’s latest novel opens and proceeds with a firm tread which has not always characterized her larger books. At the same time the accustomed fine inlay work that marks all her dealings with Old Chester and its inhabitants is here peerlessly present.”
+ + Nation. 83: 83. Jl. 26, ’06. 380w.
“Flawless in literary form, penetrated through and through with ‘an inward spiritual grace,’ surely it must come to its own—a permanent place among the books that abide.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.
+ + + N. Y. Times. 11: 445. Jl. 14, ’06. 990w.
“Mrs. Margaret Deland’s latest and most successful novel.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 796. D. 1, ’06. 230w. + Outlook. 83: 1005. Ag. 25, ’06. 270w.
“Highly sophisticated cosmopolitan novels are so numerous that the success of this deeply human tale, told in the universal language of the writers who are born and not made, is a thing in which even the judicious may rejoice without loss of dignity.”
+ + Outlook. 84: 708. N. 24, ’06. 320w. + – Putnam’s. 1: 109. O. ’06. 350w. + Spec. 97: 543. O. 13, ’06. 420w.
De La Pasture, Elizabeth (Bonham) (Mrs. Henry De La Pasture). Man from America. †$1.50. Dutton.
A story by the author of “Peter’s mother.” “The pretty granddaughters—one is a butterfly beauty but as sweet and good as good can be, the other an earnest thinker, but no prig—grow up and fall in love and get married to the right people, and learn in time that bon-papa is not really poor, but that he (and they) are very rich; and the little troubles they have passed through, the little white clouds that have sailed across on the summer wind, only make the sunshine of their sunny lives more golden.” (Acad.)
+ Acad. 69: 1201. N. 18, ’05. 240w. + – Ath. 1905, 2: 758. D. 2. 200w. + Critic. 49: 190. Ag. ’06. 90w.
“That the work is fresh, human and altogether delightful, must be the verdict of every reader.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 41: 241. O. 16, ’06. 140w.
“Crude as it is in execution, told with a frank disregard for the niceties of narrative art, it comes very close to being great.”
+ – Lit. D. 33: 124. Jl. 28, ’06. 400w.
“We ... find in the author’s portraits of one or two not a little of the genius of Jane Austen.”
+ Lond. Times. 4: 409. N. 24, ’05. 230w.
“Comedy of the most light and charming kind, with sentiment enough of a natural and healthy kind and wit enough to add savor to the sentiment.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 254. Ap. 21, ’06. 470w. N. Y. Times. 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 200w.
“A very genial and entertaining romance.”
+ Spec. 95: 1040. D. 16, ’05. 270w.
De La Pasture, Elizabeth (Bonham) (Mrs. Henry De La Pasture). Toy tragedy: a story of children. †$1.50. Dutton.
The tragedy is a toy tragedy merely because it deals with children, and the things which make up their weal and woe, and it is a story of, rather than for, children because the tale of the four orphaned little folks and how they learned too early the harder side of human nature and how to cope with it, is really a story for thoughtful grown ups. The death of little Elsie, and the sweet chastened spirit of Jean cast a shadow over the story which the success of the two boys does not dispel.
“The story is well written.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 772. N. 24, ’06. 80w.
“It is an attractive children’s story, although the situations are just the least bit improbable, and there is a touch of false sentiment in the relations between the good little sister and the pretty spoiled one.”
Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel. [Breaking the wilderness]: the story of the conquest of the far West. **$3.50. Putnam.
“A very readable book, which has the great attraction of a thoroughly humane and reasonable point of view; nor is the drift of the main argument less interesting to follow because some conclusions differ from those of several who have gone before in the same track of adventure.”
+ + Acad. 69: 1353. D. 30, ’05. 1170w.
De Mille, James. [Cord and creese.] †$1. Harper.
This new edition of an old story enables a new generation to revel in its dramatic scenes of love and mystery, in its graphic descriptions of the search for a stolen treasure, and to follow the many tangled threads of its plot to a happy ending. The cord of the title is one of curious Eastern manufacture, the creese is a Malay dagger, and the two form the principal clues in the search for the villain of this stirring tale.
“So far as style goes it is much superior to the novel of adventure of commerce, as put on the market to-day.”
+ – Critic. 49: 285. S. ’06. 120w.
“A story better worth reading than most of the more recent examples of its class.”
+ Dial. 41: 44. Jl. 16, ’06. 60w.
“Folks who like good measure, however, will find ‘Cord and creese’ a satisfying book, the work of a story-teller who knew his business as it was practiced in his day, and who knew the world.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 409. Je. 23, ’06. 280w. Outlook. 83: 765. Jl. 28, ’06. 20w.
De Morgan, William Frend. Joseph Vance: an ill-written autobiography. †$1.50. Holt.
The autobiography of a middle-class Englishman of fifty years ago which unites the characteristics of the novel with the interest of a human document. The author turns analyst, and includes father, mother, friends and self in a sketch that runs close to the heart. He follows his boyhood days, and youth amid poverty, his Oxford days which developed an inordinate love for chess as well as mechanical inventive ability, and colors the latter happenings with his love for a woman whom he does not marry. The life-story reflects much of middle-class English thought and customs of fifty years ago.
“We wish that Mr. de Morgan had been content with a manner of construction as simple and direct as the actual writing of his book.”
+ – Acad. 71: 112. Ag. 4, ’06. 270w.
“Is fresh, original, and unusually clever.”
+ + Ath. 1906. 2: 97. Jl. 28. 250w.
“In my personal opinion this ‘ill-written autobiography’ is wise, witty, gentle and of unflagging interest, but then, I have been frightfully prejudiced in its favour—by reading it.” Mary Moss.
+ + Bookm. 24: 277. N. ’06. 1480w.
“It is not a book that the reviewer can boom, much as he would like to; nor can he give a more definite idea of it than to say that, if the reader likes both ‘David Copperfield’ and ‘Peter Ibbetson,’ he can find the two books in this one.”
+ + Ind. 61: 1161. N. 15, ’06. 100w.
“It is ill-written only in the sense of not being composed according to the present trim, abrupt fashion of novel-reading. We hardly know how to suggest the mellowness of this story, and therein lies its charm. We doubt if any reader who has a sense for true humour will find it tedious.”
+ Nation. 83: 287. O. 4, ’06. 650w.
“A work as admirable in detail as in mass effect, a book worth reading and rereading and keeping in your house.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 620. O. 6, ’06. 980w.
“This is a novel of the first order—one that aligns itself with the best English fiction.”
+ + Outlook. 84: 582. N. 3, ’06. 240w.
“Amuses by its willful divagations from the straight of narrative, quietly pleases by its wholesome sentiment, and leaves one with an impression of thorough enjoyment.”
+ + Outlook. 84: 711. N. 24, ’06. 330w.
“The style is strong and expressive, but very often clumsy and over-elaborate and would-be humorous. The strength and interest of the book lies in the fresh original observation of lower-middle-class life; in its shrewd characterisation and life-like dialogue and incidents.”
+ – Sat. R. 102: 117. Jl. 28, ’06. 330w.
“Were it not that he challenges comparison with the classics, we might almost call it a great novel.”
+ + Spec. 97: 172. Ag. 4, ’06. 1230w.
Denby, Charles, colonel. China and her people. **$2.40. Page.
Uniform with the “Travel lover’s library,” this new work is in two handy-sized volumes. “The first volume is filled with reminiscences of the author’s stay in China and his personal impressions of the land and the people, and with accounts of court life at Pekin and social life and customs elsewhere in the kingdom. The second volume is concerned with Chinese politics and industrial and commercial problems and conditions.” (Dial.)
“The material is arranged in an interesting fashion. The books are readable and, more important, reliable.”
+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 416. Mr. ’06. 310w.
“It must be accepted as the most authoritative of late contributions to the literature on Chinese affairs, and is especially valuable in its observations on political topics.” John W. Foster.
+ + Atlan. 97: 543. Ap. ’06. 130w.
“In general, the topics dealt with in both volumes are of the sort that would naturally interest a man of affairs, and Colonel Denby’s method of treating them will appeal particularly to masculine readers.”
+ Dial. 39: 445. D. 16, ’05. 220w.
“Particularly is it of service to American statesmen and business men.”
+ + Lit. D. 32: 623. Ap. 21, ’06. 540w.
“A few ... inaccuracies ... are but minor blemishes in a very delightful and informing book.”
+ + – Nation. 82: 330. Ap. 19, ’06. 670w. + N. Y. Times. 10: 808. N. 25, ’05. 130w.
“Colonel Denby made good use of the unusual opportunities for observation which he enjoyed, and for absorption of the Oriental spirit and way of looking at things.”
+ Outlook. 81: 1038. D. 23, ’05. 250w. + Pub. Opin. 40: 284. Mr. 3, ’06. 130w.
“Especially interesting and important are the late minister’s own words on the Boxer rebellion and the missionary question.”
+ R. of Rs. 33: 113. Ja. ’06. 150w.
Dennis, James Shepard. Christian missions and social progress. v. 3. **$2.50. Revell.
The third and last volume of an encyclopedic work on missions. “This entire volume is concerned with the contribution of missions to social progress and every phase of the subject is accorded full and careful treatment, with abundant illustrations from missionary activities under all churches, and in all countries.” (Nation.)
“The work is valuable for reference.”
+ + Nation. 83: 260. S. 27, ’06. 230w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The range is cyclopædic the details multitudinous and interesting throughout. Altogether, this is a unique work, without which no reference library can be considered complete.”
+ + + Outlook. 84: 140. S. 15, ’06. 310w. (Review of v. 3.)
“In the twelve years in which Dr. Dennis has been engaged upon this great task, he has accumulated a vast store of interesting facts, most of which had never before been classified or grouped in systematic order.”
+ + R. of Rs. 34: 382. S. ’06. 110w. (Review of v. 3.) Spec. 97: 498. O. 6, ’06. 220w. (Review of v. 3.)
De Quincey, Thomas. [Autobiography and confessions of Thomas De Quincey]; with photogravure front. por. and biographical and critical introd. by Tighe Hopkins. *$1.25. Scribner.
Uniform with the “Caxton thin paper classics.” The volume is prefaced by the editor’s introduction.
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 749. N. 17, ’06. 1300w. + Outlook. 84: 530. N. 27, ’06. 10w.
Devine, Edward Thomas. Efficiency and relief: a programme of social work. **75c. Macmillan.
“The inaugural address of Mr. Edward T. Devine on the occasion of his taking the Schiff Professorship of social economy at Columbia University.... His subject is ‘Efficiency and relief,’ and he discusses modern methods of increasing the industrial efficiency of the individual and at the same time of providing adequate relief for those who are of deficient wage-earning capacity.”—Ind.
+ Am. J. Soc. 11: 707. Mr. ’06. 110w.
“Large and fine as is the outlook of this lecture, it lacks something of complete analysis of the aim of charity. The treatment is, indeed, broader than the definition; the spirit of the author is wider than the programme he outlines; and the lectures which will follow will pass beyond the territory which can be accurately named ‘economics.’” C. R. Henderson.
+ – Am. J. Soc. 12: 423. N. ’06. 180w.
“Those who are interested in these great problems of social advance will find this address most helpful and stimulating.”
+ Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 417. Mr. ’06. 170w.
Reviewed by Winthrop More Daniels.
+ Atlan. 97: 842. Je. ’06. 310w.
“The necessity of the scientific study of these problems in the analysis of conditions and the formulation of principles of action are clearly and forcefully stated.”
+ Bookm. 23: 219. Ap. ’06. 110w.
“The little book is packed with ideas and is larger than it looks.” Chas. Richmond Henderson.
+ Dial. 40: 298. My. 1, ’06. 150w. Ind. 60: 402. F. 15, ’06. 70w. J. Pol. Econ. 14: 333. My. ’06. 300w.
“We commend Mr. Devine’s little volume to all who would intelligently co-operate in the work of social betterment.”
+ Lit. D. 32: 624. Ap. 21, ’06. 180w.
“We venture to predict that all who get to read it at all will be interested readers.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 114. F. 24, ’06. 1070w.
Devins, John Bancroft. Observer in the Philippines. $2. Am. tract.
“The random and indiscriminating observations of a visitor in missionary interests.”
– + Ind. 59: 540. D. 28, ’05. 60w.
Dewsnup, Ernest Ritson, ed. Railway organization and working. $2. Univ. of Chicago press.
“To those acquainted with the literature of railway transportation it will not need emphasizing that the book really occupies a unique place. The numerous aspects of the railway service which it treats, the plain and untechnical way in which every subject is handled, the fact that more than a score of railway experts of the highest reputation, have collaborated in its production, all combine to make the volume indispensable to the ambitious young ‘railroader.’... It is also to be hoped that the book ... will have a stimulating effect upon the teaching of railway economics in our universities.”
“Should appeal to serious students of railway economics.”
+ Outlook. 84: 681. N. 17, ’06. 240w.
Dexter, Henry Martyn, and Dexter, Morton. England and Holland of the Pilgrims. **$3.50. Houghton.
“The book is strongest on the side of opinion, theology, and controversial literature.” William Elliot Griffis.
+ Am. Hist. R. 11: 654. Ap. ’06. 860w.
“A very minute and learned study of the early founders of Congregationalism.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 2: 126. Ag. 4. 280w.
“This work is absolutely unique in thoroness and accuracy.”
+ + + Ind. 60: 455. F. 22, ’06. 270w.
“Lightness of touch this volume does not possess in an eminent degree, but it contains a large amount of information which has been digested with affectionate and conscientious care.”
+ + Nation. 82: 372. My. 3, ’06. 810w.
“This is by all odds the most complete record of Pilgrim origins yet published in this country.”
+ + + R. of Rs. 33: 115. Ja. ’06. 150w.
Dicey, A. V. Law and opinion in England. *$3. Macmillan.
“Clear thought, wide scholarship, and lucid writing make the defence as strong as the facts will warrant, and the facts are so conclusive that few flaws can be found in the proof.”
+ + Ind. 59: 1348. D. 7, ’05. 440w.
Reviewed by C. J. Hamilton.
+ + Int. J. Ethics. 16: 257. Ja. ’06. 860w.
“While carefully delimiting the field to be covered, presents a wealth and variety of fact, suggestion, and speculation on governmental concerns.” George R. Bishop.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 16. Ja. 13, ’06. 1180w. Quarterly R. 204: 229. Ja. ’06. 2380w.
Dick, Stewart. Arts and crafts of old Japan. **$1.20. McClurg.
“After the score of books on Japanese art and art industry, and by men who on the ground have studied the art of Nippon, this book seems shallow and of slight value.”
+ – Critic. 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 140w.
“The book seems also the best familiar study we have seen of the visible tangible work of art which we get from Japan, as distinguished from the subtle influences which lie back of it.”
+ + Nation. 82: 165. F. 22, ’06. 320w. + R. of Rs. 33: 123. Ja. ’06. 40w.
Dickens, Charles. Mr. Pickwick’s Christmas. $2. Baker.
The account of the Pickwickians’ Christmas at the Manor farm, of the adventures there and tale of the goblin who stole a sexton, and of the famous sports on the ice, are here recorded as in the famous Pickwick chronicle. George Alfred Williams has written an introduction and has illustrated the volume.
+ Dial. 41: 397. D. 1, ’06. 200w. + Ind. 61: 1402. D. 13, ’06. 60w. + Lit. D. 33: 857. D. 8, ’06. 80w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 812. D. 1, ’06. 170w. + Outlook. 84: 336. O. 6, ’06. 110w. + Putnam’s. 1: 384. D. ’06. 150w.
Dickens, Charles. Tale of two cities; ed. with introd. and notes by James Weber Linn. 50c. Ginn.
A student’s edition well annotated. The editor’s aim has been principally to show the general relation of this novel to Dickens’ other works, and to point out the devices of Dickens’ art in the construction of the plot.
Dickens, Charles. [Tales from Dickens], ed. by Hallie Erminie Rives. †$1.50. Bobbs.
“If the mature reader would enjoy Dickens he must read Dickens; but to children or youthful persons not acquainted with the marvelous stories of England’s greatest novelist this book will appeal.”
+ Arena. 35: 222. F. ’06. 140w.
“Miss Rives’s book must have a good influence; her summaries of the famous novels are lucid, tasteful, and sympathetic; she gives much in little.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 6. Ja. 6, ’06. 340w.
“Not only is the book well suited to the peculiarities of the child mind, but it is also of no negligible value as a book of reference.”
+ Pub. Opin. 40: 316. Mr. 10, ’06. 110w.
Dickerson, Mary Cynthia. Frog book. **$4. Doubleday.
“An enthusiastic recital of close and critical observation.... The introductory chapter deals with the distinction between batrachians and fishes and reptiles, development and metamorphoses, classification, phylogeny, hibernation, poison, voice, color, change, behavior, and distribution of the ‘batrachia salientia,’ or frogs and toads.... The remainder of the book is given up to a detailed account of about sixty frogs, tree-toads and toads, of this continent.”—Dial.
“The scope of the work is not too great for the space allotted; the treatment is scientific, thoroughly modern and up-to-date, reflecting current university standards. The selection of material and the completeness and comprehensiveness of the treatment are commendable.”
+ + + Dial. 41: 209. O. 1, ’06. 520w.
“The need of a popular frog book is now well met for Miss Dickerson has given just the information wanted by the general nature student and in a form which will surely win popular interest for these interesting vertebrated animals.”
+ + Ind. 61: 1052. N. 1, ’06. 710w.
“Notwithstanding some examples of the prevailing nature-study gush or cant the style is generally simple and direct. Unmixed commendation cannot be accorded either the author or the publishers.”
+ – Nation. 83: 248. S. 20, ’06. 810w.
“She gives the fruit of much study and personal investigation with a light, though none the less sure, literary touch.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 530. S. 1, ’06. 980w.
Dickinson, Emily Monroe. Patriot’s mistake; being personal recollections of the Parnell family, by a daughter of the house. *$3. Lane.
“The history of the great patriot Charles Parnell is too well known to need any comment here; but many others of the family, though not always through fault or sin of their own, met with misfortune and premature death. The entire story is peculiarly sad, but the fearful ‘mistake’ of Charles, with the shame and disgrace that followed hard upon it, overshadows all the other painful chapters in the record.”—Critic.
“Extraordinary indiscretion.”
– Acad. 69: 1329. D. 23, ’05. 550w.
“A narrative of most pathetic interest.”
+ Critic. 49: 92. Jl. ’06. 290w.
“The radical fault of it lies in the fact that it was ever published.”
– – Lond. Times. 4: 463. D. 29, ’05. 210w.
“We think that a little more reserve would not have been amiss; but there is romance about some of her pages that is real Irish.”
– + Sat. R. 101: 493. Ap. 21, ’06. 160w.
Dickinson, Edward. Study of the history of music; with an annotated guide to music literature. **$2.50. Scribner.
“It will be a vade mecum for all musicians, students, and music lovers.” W. J. Henderson.
+ + + Atlan. 96: 854. D. ’05. 100w.
“It offers a straightforward and scholarly treatment of the subject.”
+ + Dial. 40: 23. Ja. 1, ’06. 370w.
“In its field there is probably no book in any language that can compare with this one in completeness, suggestiveness, clearness and general usefulness for the student of musical history.”
+ + + Ind. 60: 401. F. 15, ’06. 320w.
Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes. [Greek view of life.] 3d ed. (new issue). **$1. McClure.
“It is an investigation and explanation of the attitude of the Greeks toward life, nature and humanity, based upon a study of the Greek classics.” (N. Y. Times.) “The book has five chapters.—1. The Greek view of religion, 2. The Greek view of the state, 3. The Greek view of the individual, 4. The Greek view of art, 5. Conclusion. Each chapter has its divisions carefully planned and succintly treated, and concludes with a useful summary.” (Dial.)
“A well-balanced and well-written book from the hands of a competent author.” F. B. R. Hellens.
+ + Dial. 40: 196. Mr. 16, ’06. 1470w. + + Outlook. 84: 717. N. 24, ’06. 890w. R. of Rs. 33: 256. F. ’06, 40w.
Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes. [Modern symposium.] **$1. McClure.
“It is impossible, without more quotation, to do justice to the security and ease, the lightness and penetration combined, of Mr. Dickinson. The book is as charming as it is suggestive. In its author we have one of the few living Englishmen who can really write prose.”
+ + Ath. 1906, 1: 292. Mr. 10. 2260w.
“A suggestive little volume, well worth reading.”
+ Critic. 48: 90. Ja. ’06. 20w.
“The book has a genuinely literary character and is entertaining in the best sense. The dramatic setting increases the interest; but there is a lack of spontaneity in the arranging of the speakers which mars the artistic effect; the chairman is too much in evidence.” David Phillips.
+ – Int. J. Ethics. 17: 140. O. ’06. 220w. + Outlook. 84: 718. N. 24, ’06. 250w. R. of Rs. 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 60w.
“We have to thank Mr. Dickinson for several pleasing epigrams, and the brilliant comparison of America and Europe, put into the mouth of Ellis the journalist, makes by itself the slender book worth reading.”
+ Sat. R. 101: 461. Ap. 14, ’06. 1280w.
“He does his best for all, and he shows remarkable versatility in doing it.”
+ Spec. 95: 1041. D. 16, ’05. 440w.
“It is, of course, the work of a critic, and its use is to interpret men of different opinions to each other. The defect of it is that while it throws much light upon opinions, it throws none on the problems.”
+ – Spec. 96: 832. My. 26, ’06. 1880w.
Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes. Religion: a criticism and a forecast. **50c. McClure.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
+ Atlan. 97: 416. Mr. ’06. 170w.
Dickson, Harris. Gabrielle, transgressor. †$1.50. Lippincott.
The scene of this romance, by the author of “The Ravanels,” is laid in the colonies. Gabrielle, daughter of a sturdy Frenchman, is married at the age of five and left to grow up in a convent. When she has reached a woman’s years, but while still a child in mind, she is taken forth to meet her husband. Before he arrives, however, an exiled prince of Turkey comes into the life of this impulsive young woman and, by his mystic suggestions of the Orient, takes her heart captive. The love story is especially ardent and has an unexpected ending.
“The author’s treatment of the theme makes the yarn rather less absurd than might have been expected.”
– + Nation. 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 160w.
“It is an ‘Arabian nights’ tale without the simple faith of the narrator which conquers the incredulity of the reader. Hence the interest it excites is languid, and it is not easy to follow it to its finish.”
– + N. Y. Times. 11: 868. D. 15, ’06. 400w.
Dignan, Frank W. Idle actor in Aeschylus. *50c. Univ. of Chicago press.
In his monograph Mr. Dignan shows that the fault of Aeschylus’s technique, if it really exists, is due to material limitations and to the restraints of tradition.
Dilke, Lady Amelia Frances Strong. Book of the spiritual life, with a memoir of the author by the Rt. Rev. Sir Charles W. Dilke. *$3. Dutton.
“Should be read by everyone interested in the literature of art.” Royal Cortissoz.
– Atlan. 97: 278. F. ’06. 70w.
Dill, Samuel. [Roman society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius.] *$2.50. Macmillan.
“The work is a magnificent piece of historical synthesis. It is drawn from many sources, and presents a comprehensive view of the intellectual, social, moral and religious conditions of an important epoch. Whether the author’s opinions will receive universal acceptance may be doubted.” Patrick J. Healy, D. D.
+ + – Cath. World. 83: 433. Jl. ’06. 5310w.
Dillon, Mary. In Old Bellaire. †$1.50. Century.
A quaint old Pennsylvania town with its cavalry school and dashing young officers at the east end and its students and intellectual mentors at the west end furnishes the scene of his story of the early sixties. The heroine is a prim little Puritan maiden whom it takes four years to convince that Quaker teaching and Northern prejudices can be made compatible with her love for a handsome, fastidious, daring, Southern-bred lover.
+ Critic. 48: 474. My. ’06. 60w.
Reviewed by Mrs. L. H. Harris.
+ Ind. 60: 1219. My. 24, ’06. 140w.
“Treats of the war time with the admirable poise and impartial spirit we have learned to expect.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 72. F. 3, ’06. 1250w. N. Y. Times. 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 160w. + Outlook. 82: 476. F. 24, ’06. 110w.
“To our ears the conversations have an unreal, stilted sound.”
+ – Pub. Opin. 40: 187. F. 10, ’06. 260w.
Dillon, Mrs. Mary C. The leader. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“The story is concerned mainly with the career of a statesman, in whom it is the author’s evident intention to picture William J. Bryan, who has made himself the leader and the idol of the masses of his party. A large part of the narrative is taken up with events connected with the last Democratic national convention. There are some spirited descriptions of convention scenes, and a very good picture is presented of the convention as a whole.”—N. Y. Times.
“All in all, ‘The leader’ is a great political work—a matchless campaign document. It were superfluous to dwell on the evidence that its author is as unskilled in the use of the English language as most makers of political documents; that the construction of her novel, considered merely as a novel, is as shaky as that of many a party platform.” Edward Clark Marsh.
– + Bookm. 24: 158. O. ’06. 1030w.
“One feature of the book, however, is distinctly offensive; that is the affectation of British phrasing for the common details of American life.”
– Ind. 61: 939. O. 18, ’06. 390w. – Lit. D. 33: 344. S. 22, ’06. 170w.
“The veil of fiction cast over these incidents is of the thinnest; the writer’s art gives them no fresh meaning.”
– Nation. 83: 246. S. 20, ’06. 210w.
“Mrs. Dillon’s sole equipment for the writing of fiction is a knack for descriptive narrative. The plot of her story could hardly be more flimsy or more hackneyed.”
– – + N. Y. Times. 11: 579. S. 22, ’06. 500w.
“A very good story in a conventional way, although the politics are rather bookish, and the social background is not specially true to any American locality.”
+ – Outlook. 84: 429. O. 20, ’06. 80w.
Discrepant world: being an essay in fiction by the author of “Through spectacles of feeling.” $2. Longmans.
“The scene is a Scottish village; there is a real story; there are several real characters from a lord to a pussy-cat that purred ‘three threads and a thrum;’ there are incidents as startling as a murder, and there are many deaths.... The author puts his folks into promising dilemmas, then ... has recourse to nature’s method—always ready. Fortunately the story is told with nature’s own simplicity, and the resultant for the reader is a vast cheerfulness in woe.”—Nation.
+ Nation. 83: 83. Jl. 26, ’06. 360w. N. Y. Times. 11: 458. Jl. 21, ’06. 410w.
“This book is really good.”
+ Sat. R. 102: 85. Jl. 21, ’06. 220w.
Dix, Beulah Marie. Fair maid of Graystones. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“The book is alive; now and again it may border on the melodramatic, but it is all wholesomely good and healthily sentimental. The presentation shows power, skill, and sympathy, and we congratulate the author.”
+ Cath. World. 82: 563. Ja. ’06. 420w.
“Miss Beulah Dix is an accomplished artificer of historical romance.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 40: 155. Mr. 1, ’06. 210w.
“Is really interesting.”
+ Ind. 59: 1345. D. 7, ’05. 130w.
Dix, Morgan, ed. History of Trinity church in the city of New York; compiled in large part from original documents, by order of the corporation. 4v. **$5. Putnam.
The last volume of the four devoted to the history of Trinity church brings the account of the earliest Episcopal church in the city of New York down to the accession of the author who is the present rector.
“An interest ... far wider than the limits of the parish, albeit the largest and most influential parish in the land.”
+ + Dial. 40: 198. Mr. 16, ’06. 600w. (Review of v. 3.)
“When the time shall come for the history of this period to be written, let us hope that the historian will go back over the contents of this fourth volume, and, using the material therein collated, will place it in its true historic perspective and in its proper relation to the times now present.”
+ – Dial. 41: 119. S. 1, ’06. 480w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The work now finished is rather the collection of material for history than history itself.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 181. Mr. 24, ’06. 420w. (Review of v. 4.)
“A variety of incidents that attracted much public interest in their time occur in this record.”
+ + Outlook. 82: 809. Ap. 7, ’06. 140w. (Review of v. 4.)
Dixon, Richard Watson. Last poems of Richard Watson Dixon. Selected and ed. by Robert Bridges. *$1.40. Oxford.
“There are less than two-score pages in this final sheaf of song, and more than half of them are occupied by ‘Too much friendship,’ a miniature epic having for its hero an Athenian whose fortunes (or misfortunes) suggest those of both King Candaules and Job.” (Dial.) “Though this little volume holds the last gleanings of a poetic field, the ears of corn are firm and sound.” (Acad.)
“The first-piece, a tale of Roman friendship, is indeed unsuccessful, but the more intimate poems have a directness which at once arrests attention.”
+ – Acad. 70: 329. Ap. 7, ’06. 180w.
“His lyrical faculty which was considerable, shows here somewhat laboriously, and yet it is from the purely lyrical pieces that the book derives such value as it may possess.”
– + Ath. 1906, 1: 195. F. 17, 530w.
“A poet of sincerity and thoughtfulness.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 40: 328. My. 16, ’06. 790w. + – Lond. Times. 4: 464. D. 29, ’05. 500w.
Dixon, Thomas, jr. Life worth living. **$1.20. Doubleday.
Critic. 48: 95. Ja. ’06. 80w.
Doat, Taxile Maximin. Grand feu ceramics; tr. by S: E. Robineau. *$7.50. Keramic Studio pub. co., Syracuse, N. Y.
The series of articles by the well-known French authority on pottery which appeared in the “Keramic studio” during 1903. Part 1 is a view of the position of porcelain at the beginning of the twentieth century: Part 2 covers the ground of the technical instruction in the making of the Grand feu porcelain and grès.
“Comprehensive handbook.”
+ Int. Studio. 27: sup. 33. D. ’05. 160w. + + Nation. 82: 17. Ja. 4, ’06. 1360w. + N. Y. Times. 10: 927. D. 30, ’05. 280w
Dodd, Lee Wilson. Modern alchemist, and other poems. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
The author says:
“I would not have you think me all I seem
In these illuding mimicries of dream.”
Further
“My art, you see, is just to take a hint
Expand and make it permanent in print.”
Observations of men and things, and retrospect in history’s and fancy’s realm have furnished most of the hints of his poems.
“There is stuff in these poems—deep thought and deep feeling. And conjoined with them is a delicacy of touch that shows the artist keeping the upper hand of his emotions.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + Dial. 41: 205. O. 1, ’06. 580w.
“There is brain work behind Mr. Dodd’s verse, and poetic information. There is at present a certain overemphasis in Mr. Dodd’s phrasing which blunts his fineness.”
+ – Nation. 83: 145. Ag. 16, ’06. 250w.
“It is a pleasure to take up ‘A modern alchemist.’ It gives no hint that a great poem has arisen; but there is an agreeable certainty that the author has something to say and has not disdained to learn the art of saying it.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 774. N. 24, ’06. 430w.
Dodge, David Low. [War inconsistent with the religion of Jesus Christ]; with an introd. by Edwin D. Mead. 75c. Ginn.
This volume contains both of Mr. Dodge’s famous old pamphlets, with an introduction which tells the story of his remarkable life and reviews his pioneering work in the peace cause in the early part of the century.
Dodge, Henry Irving. Other Mr. Barclay; drawings by Nella Fontaine Binckley. †$1.50. Consolidated retail booksellers.
A tale of Wall street. “The plot concerns a certain Mr. Barclay, who was a bear, and went short to such an extent that he was ruined. After that he retired to a country town called Cosburg, and filled the place with frenzy. For he got the inhabitants interested in a pool, and later admitted them all as partners with himself in a joint stock grocery concern.” (N. Y. Times.) “The devastation wrought in a sleepy village by one stock gambler who fans the spirit of greed is forcibly depicted.” (Outlook.)
Ind. 60: 1487. Je. 21, ’06. 100w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 265. Ap. 21, ’06. 340w.
“The author knows his subject and handles it with directness and spirit.”
+ Outlook. 82: 858. Ap. 14, ’06. 60w.
“With the narrative goes much shrewd country humor and more than a passing insight into the rustic temperament.”
+ Pub. Opin. 40: 346. Mr. 17, ’06. 300w.
Dodge, Henry Nehemiah. Mystery of the West. $1.25. Badger, R: G.
A book of stirring verse dedicated to “sea lords strong of soul” who boldly discovered new lands, to “the heroic dead” who bled for freedom, and to the faithful who guard the state from wrong.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
Dial. 41: 268. O. 1, ’06. 180w. + – N. Y. Times. 11: 523. Ag. 25, ’06. 640w.
Dole, Charles Fletcher. Hope of immortality; our reasons for it. *75c. Crowell.
The Ingersoll lecture for 1906. Mr. Dole maintains that the hope of immortality arises out of a unity of thought, feeling and conduct, and he gives cumulative facts in which human life consists and which point to the hope of future life.
“The perusal of this little volume leaves one questioning whether any better argument will ever be addressed to doubters of the future life.”
+ Outlook. 84: 793. N. 24, ’06. 180w.
Dole, Charles Fletcher. Spirit of democracy. **$1.25. Crowell.
A timely work dealing fairly and hopefully with the leading problems of present-day democracy and showing what real democratic government is.
“Though the book is full of suggestive and helpful thoughts and on the whole is a valuable contribution to social progress, it is far inferior, we think, to Mr. Henry George’s latest work ‘The menace of privilege,’ in which democracy is treated in a far more fundamental and able manner.”
+ – Arena. 36: 680. D. ’06. 580w.
“We need an accurate, clear and thoroughgoing description of actual social conditions, and a sound, practical, restrained indication of ways in which we may better ourselves. To the satisfaction of the first of these needs, Mr. Dole has made a worthy and suggestive contribution, but we cannot think that his treatment of the second has permanent significance.”
+ + – Nation. 83: 355. O. 25, ’06. 880w.
“Its style is clear; its principles are simple and put with great simplicity. It embodies many wise suggestions. But it lacks intellectual coherence. On the whole, the book must be described as an expression of the author’s social and political ideals, many of which are admirable, rather than as an interpretation of historical facts or a study of fundamental social principles.”
+ – Outlook. 84: 383. O. 13, ’06. 450w. R. of Rs. 34: 759. D. ’06. 130w.
Dole, Nathan Haskell, comp. Latin poets: an anthology. $2. Crowell.
“The selections from the various English translators have been most judiciously made.”
+ Critic. 49: 285. S. ’06. 110w. + R. of Rs. 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 80w.
Donaldson, James. Westminster confession of faith and Thirty-nine articles of the Church of England: the legal, moral, and religious aspects of subscription to them. *$1.20. Longmans.
“By the decision of the House of Lords the vast properties of the Free church of Scotland pass over to the “Wee Frees,” a little company of belated ministers who in 1900 refused to acquiesce in the union of the Free church and the United Presbyterian. The ground of the verdict of the last court of appeal is that the Free church has departed from the literal and rigid terms of the Confession of faith, thereby forfeiting its belongings of whatever sort to the insignificant minority who still accent the Confession in its original bare, bald literalness. This, with its manifold implications is the theme to which the principal of St. Andrews addresses himself.”—Am. J. Theol.
“Principal Donaldson’s volume ought to awaken serious inquiry in the minds of all Christians who are fettered by creed subscriptions, for it all goes to show how unwise it is, and how dishonest and how morally ruinous, to cling to an outworn creed and outwardly to maintain religious tenets which the subscriber knows are no longer tenable.” Eri B. Hulbert.
+ Am. J. Theol. 10: 355. Ap. ’06. 560w. + – Lond. Times. 4: 223. Jl. 14, ’05. 960w.
“This is a deeply interesting book dealing with subjects which are smouldering to-day and may be burning to-morrow. We would offer to the writer of so thought-provoking a book not polemics but thanks.”
+ + Spec. 95: 866. N. 25, ’05. 1840w.
Doney, Carl G. Throne-room of the soul: a study in the culture of the spiritual. $1. Meth. bk.
The synopsis of thirty sermons on the culture of the soul.
Donnell, Annie Hamilton. [Rebecca Mary]; with eight illustrations in color by Mary Shippen Green. †$1.50. Harper.
“As a whole the story is an admirable example of that American school of fiction which esteems simplicity in art as its highest achievement.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 388. Mr. 31. 170w.
“And she deserves to live in our hearts along with Mrs. Rice’s ‘Lovey Mary.’”
+ Ind. 59: 1347. D. 7, ’05. 120w.
Donnell, Annie Hamilton. [Very small person]; il. by Elizabeth Shippen Green. †$1.25. Harper.
The stories here are about children but their lesson is entirely for grown ups who have in their trust the developing child. The little comedies as well as the heart tragedies of children grow pathetic when there is no one near with whom to share them. It is to such a lonely group of children that the author turns in her sketches. It is a book for every mother.
Nation. 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 30w.
“They are written, for the most part, with a delicate art, with a keen sympathy for the needs of the childish heart, and a humorous appreciation of the workings of the childish mind. The central theme of most of the stories, however, lacks freshness both in idea and method of treatment.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 744. N. 10, ’06. 260w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 180w.
“The effect is decidedly morbid.”
– Outlook. 84: 796. N. 24, ’06. 80w.
Dorsey, George Amos. Cheyenne. 2v. ea. 50c. Field Columbian museum.
An extensive monograph on the ceremonial organization of the Cheyenne which appears in the anthropological series of publications of the Field Columbian museum.
“A most interesting and valuable account of some of the social organizations of the Cheyenne Indians.”
+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 418. Mr. ’06. 90w. Dial. 39: 212. O. 1, ’05. 70w. + + Nature. 73: 300. Ja. 25, ’06. 880w.
Doub, William Coligny. History of the United States. *$1. Macmillan.
“The author has carried the grouping system to the extreme. Among the commendable features are the following: the space given to the life of the people; comparatively few pages given to accounts of the wars; and the large number of well-executed maps.” J. A. James.
+ – Am. Hist. R. 11: 446. Ja. ’06. 520w.
Dougherty, John Hampden. Electoral system of the United States; its history together with a study of the perils that have attended its operations; an analysis of the several efforts by legislation to avert these perils, and a proposed remedy by amendment of the constitution. **$1.50. Putnam.
Mr. Dougherty’s book “deals with the counting of votes for president and vice-president of the United States. Mr. Dougherty tells the story of debates over the question and of the settlement of the dispute between the Senate and House of representatives in 1877; he reviews the judgments of the Electoral commission in Florida, Louisiana, Oregon, and South Carolina, and criticises the law of 1877. There are also discussions of the dangers of the electoral system and the ‘evils’ of the general election ticket system. The book closes with a remedy and explanation of it.”—N. Y. Times.
“While we cannot but think that Mr. Dougherty’s work would have profited by condensation, particularly in its summaries of the opinions of members of Congress, its historical merits are both sound and considerable. So far as he has gone, his work is not likely to need doing over again.” Wm. MacDonald.
+ + – Am. Hist. R. 12: 154. O. ’06. 750w.
“Invaluable as a historical treatise.”
+ + Dial. 41: 70. Ag. 1, ’06. 400w.
“The one adverse criticism that can be passed upon the book is that the author’s rigid ideals of historical exposition have led him to employ such wealth of detail that only the trained scholar will be able to keep a clear notion of what is essential in the work.”
+ + – Ind. 60: 1435. Je. 14, ’06. 310w. Ind. 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 30w.
“It is a searching review and criticism of the electoral system now in vogue, and altho it undoubtedly fails to take sufficient account of the obstacles in the way of radical reform proposed, it is a critique of no small value in reference to a subject which has hitherto received too little attention considering its importance to the Republic.”
+ – Lit. D. 33: 124. Jl. 28, ’06. 100w. + Nation. 83: 85. Jl. 26, ’06. 790w.
“Mr. Dougherty has done an excellent piece of work in pointing out the evils of the present system.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 288. My. 5, ’06. 770w.
“All will not agree with his proposed remedies for the defects in the existing method of choosing the National chief executive, but none can fail to find suggestive value in the successive chapters.”
+ – Outlook. 83: 90. My. 12, ’06. 310w.
Douglas, James. Old France in the new world. $2.50. Burrows.
“The book as it stands is well worthy of careful consideration.”
+ + Am. Hist. R. 11: 904. Jl. ’06. 780w.
“Despite all that has been written on Quebec, Dr. Douglas manages to give us a fresh, unhackneyed and characteristic volume.”
+ + + Nation. 82: 228. Mr. 15, ’06. 740w.
Dowd, Alice M. Our common wild flowers of springtime and autumn. $1.25. Badger, R. G.
While this volume will undoubtedly hold the interest of all young nature lovers it is intended primarily for school use and to this end is divided into four parts for use in four successive school years, and excludes those plants which blossom only during vacation days. The plants chosen are common to the northeastern part of the United States, and their classification follows the sequence of families adopted by the most recent botanical works.
“There is nothing of a scientific value to be derived from the use of such a text. But judged by the existing standards of nature study as it actually exists in our schools, the book has much to commend it.”
+ – Bookm. 24: 73. S. ’06. 230w.
“We do not feel quite so sure that the writer is a safe guide in matters of teleology, or the doctrine of final causes.”
+ – Nation. 83: 77. Jl. 26, ’06. 220w.
“Its author has contrived by careful condensation to pack much literary and artistic reference and allusion into its small space.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 473. Jl. 28, ’06. 100w.
Dowden, Edward. Montaigne. **$1.50. Lippincott.
“Professor Dowden’s volume is by no means contemptible, but it is unfortunate, like most of this serial piecework, in doing again what has been better done already.”
+ – Ind. 60: 809. Ap. 5, ’06. 260w.
Downey, Edmund. [Charles Lever: his life and his letters.] 2v. *$5. Scribner.
The author of “Harry Lorrequer,” and “Charles O’Malley” contributes somewhat to his own biography, thru letters and autobiographical prefaces to early stories which primarily show him to be a “typical good fellow,” with an amount of spring in his temperament and the power of enjoying life. The social and literary man, with a warm interest in politics, was a “good husband and father; he was honest (though his sincerity was sometimes under suspicion from the rapidity of his conclusions); he was kind; but he always got through more than he earned, and the result is a record of perpetual struggle to meet the claims upon him.... His extravagance led to a growing discontent, which reached unreasonable proportions. He was incapable alike of correcting his proof-sheets and his indulgences and grew embittered, unable to keep friends with himself, as the ‘good fellow’ is expected to do.” (Ath.)
“One would think it were an impossible feat to write a dull life of such an author, and yet, we fear, it has very nearly been accomplished by Mr. Edmund Downey.”
+ – Acad. 70: 325. Ap. 7, ’06. 1770w.
“It consists of materials for such a biography, but needs ... rigorous selection. There is a fair index, but the proof-reading has not been well done.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 540. My. 5. 2200w.
“On the whole the brilliant passages in these letters are much fewer than would have been expected.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + – Bookm. 23: 625. Ag. ’06. 1350w.
“He wisely decided to base the work almost entirely upon the letters and other autobiographical material at his disposal, and the result is very satisfactory, though it might perhaps have been more so if the matter had been condensed into half the space.”
+ + – Critic. 49: 189. Ag. ’06. 290w.
“Not even its careful workmanship gives it the flavor of an ideal biography. Mr. Downey’s index ... leaves much to be desired.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ – Dial. 40: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 2090w.
“Mr. Downey’s biography is a great improvement on the previous one by Dr. Fitzpatrick. He is much more careful than his predecessor about his facts, and he has had the advantage of using new documents.”
+ + Lond. Times. 5: 147. Ap. 27, ’06. 1780w.
“These two volumes will probably be read when his novels are never taken from the shelf.”
+ + Nation. 83: 228. S. 13, ’06. 910w.
“These letters reveal the man. Nothing, in fact, could give posterity a better idea of the Irish novelist.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 353. Je. 2, ’06. 1950w.
“Mr. Downey’s volumes, however, are avowedly rather a supplement and corrective than a substitute [for Mr. Fitzpatrick’s Life.]”
+ Sat. R. 101: 757. Je. 16, ’06. 1260w.
“He kept his fun for his books. We cannot blame him; but his biography suffers.”
+ – Spec. 96: 759. My. 12, ’06. 410w.
Downs, Sarah Elizabeth (Forbush) (Mrs. George Sheldon). Step by step. †$1.50. Dillingham.
An unusually wholesome, possible story for young people. It sketches the upward career of an orphan lad who early learns how to operate in his life a demonstrable principle of success.
Dowson, Ernest. [Poems], with a memoir by Arthur Symons. *$1.50. Lane.
Reviewed by P. H. Frye.
Bookm. 23: 95. Mr. ’06. 280w.
Doyle, (Arthur) Conan. [Green flag.] *50c. Fenno.
A new popular edition of stories of war and sport which include besides the title story: Captain Sharkey, which recounts certain adventures in the career of a notorious pirate; The crime of the brigadier, in which the criminal himself tells of his strange fox hunt; The Croxley master; The “Slapping Sal”; The lord of Châteaunoir; The striped chest; A shadow before; The king of the foxes; The three correspondents; The new catacomb; The début of Bimbashi Joyce; and A foreign romance.
+ Pub. Opin. 40: 347. Mr. 17, ’06. 110w.
Doyle, (Arthur) Conan. [Sir Nigel]; il. by the Kinneys. †$1.50. McClure.
“Paladin deeds crowd one on another in this story. The plot is highly colored, and concerns principally three deeds which Nigel swears to perform before he will return from Brittany to claim the Lady Mary Buttesthorn. Forced marches and the taking of robbers’ castles, and joustings for love of fighting, and real battles for the king, all befall on the way. How young Nigel captured ‘The Red Ferret’ and took the castle of La Brohiniere, and finally at the battle of Poitiers took prisoner King John II. of France, thus accomplishing his vows, and how he was knighted by the ‘Black Prince’ and sent home to get married is clearly and graphically told in this book.”—N. Y. Times.
+ + Acad. 71: 590. D. 8, ’06. 160w.
“He has taken pains with his authorities, and the result is an unqualified success.”
+ Ath. 1906, 2: 687. D. 1. 360w.
“As a narrative pure and simple, Sir Nigel deserves unstinted praise.” Beverly Stark.
+ + Bookm. 24: 279. N. ’06. 610w. + + Ind. 61: 1498. D. 20, ’06. 140w.
“Excellent as the story is in general, it is not flawless—what story is? The author is not immune from the besetting sin of the Celtic temperament—exaggeration.”
+ + – Lit. D. 33: 555. O. 20, ’06. 270w.
“Nor does Sir Arthur ever quite fall between the two stools of explanation and action. It is only that the constant jumping from one to the other is not always deftly executed. But that is our only criticism. The spirit of the fourteenth century is well interpreted.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 386. D. 16, ’06. 480w.
“As a picture of the times, the book is successful, though the story does not seem so gripping as ‘The white company.’”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 631. O. 6, ’06. 320w.
“The novel is not only a spirited story, but a very carefully drawn picture of the age of chivalry, bringing out both the heroism and the brutality of that period and interpreting its spirit in its activities, ideals, dress, and social organization.”
+ + Outlook. 84: 710. N. 24, ’06. 170w.
“He can give you, in short, everything in the time and of the time but the time itself. That eludes him.”
+ – Sat. R. 102: 713. D. 8, ’06. 470w. + Spec. 97: 938. D. 8, ’06. 180w.
Dozier, Orion Theophilus. Poems. $1.25. Neale.
The third edition of Mr. Dozier’s poems including “A galaxy of southern heroes” and other poems of former publications.
Dresser, Horatio Willis. Health and the inner life: an analytical and historical study of spiritual healing theories; with an account of the life and teachings of P. P. Quimby. **$1.35. Putnam.
“Mr. Dresser’s book is primarily devoted to rehabilitating the memory of Mr. P. P. Quimby whom the author declares to have been the founder of the new movement in this country.”—Pub. Opin.
“Mr. Dresser’s last book has the great virtue of presenting abstract truths concretely, in good literary style.”
+ Critic. 48: 479. My. ’06. 100w. Pub. Opin. 40: 315. Mr. 10, ’06. 160w.
Driscoll, Clara. In the shadow of the Alamo. †$1.50. Putnam.
“Local color rather than plot is the most conspicuous element in these half-dozen sketches of the San Antonio valley. The spirit of the grim old Alamo pervades all of them and in one of them, Miss Driscoll tells once more the tale of soul-stirring bravery forever associated with its walls.”—Critic.
“Pathos and passion are both to be found in the stories, but it is the atmosphere which is most delightful.”
+ Critic. 49: 286. S. ’06. 80w.
“They stray from probability and lack skill in the telling.”
– N. Y. Times. 11: 375. Je. 9, ’06. 130w.
“A lack of literary finish and artistic proportion makes the reading somewhat tedious.”
– Outlook. 83: 481. Je. 23, ’06. 70w. R. of Rs. 34: 382. S. ’06. 60w.
Dubois, Rev. Leo. L. St. Francis of Assisi, social reformer. *$1. Benziger.
A purely sociological study of St. Francis in which “an effort is made to describe the steps by which he became a reformer, the work accomplished by him, the processes of his mind and the traits of his character as far as these affected his reform work, the racial ideas and principles on which his reform work was grounded.”
“In many ways it does not compare favorably with the well-known biography of Sabatier, to which the author gives high praise.”
+ – Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 175. Jl. ’06. 60w. + + Cath. World. 83: 258. Ap. ’06. 430w.
Dubois, Paul. Influence of the mind on the body; tr. from the 5th Fr. ed. by L. B. Gallatin. **50c. Funk.
The education of the reason to control physical health is the watch word of Dr. Dubois’ little volume. In his discussion of the reciprocal influence which the spirit and body, the moral and the physical, exert upon each other, he believes that religion can be efficacious only when it creates a living philosophy in him who practices it, that such a philosophy has power to order harmony.
Dubois, Dr. Paul. Psychic treatment of nervous disorders; tr. from the French by Smith Ely Jelliffe, and William A. White. *$3. Funk.
“He does not make any exaggerated claims.”
+ Ind. 60: 574. Mr. 8, ’06. 230w.
Du Bose, William Porcher. Gospel in the gospels. **$1.50. Longmans.
“‘The gospel in the gospels’ is their revelation of God in humanity and of humanity in God. Christianity is described ‘in its largest sense to be the fulfillment of God in the world through the fulfillment of the world in God.’ In these three stages are marked—(1) the gospel of the earthly life of Jesus, the common humanity; (2) the gospel of the resurrection, expressive of the new power communicated by Jesus as the conqueror and destroyer of sin and death; (3) the gospel of the incarnation, presenting the works wrought by Jesus as no mere act of an exceptional humanity, but a work of God, fulfilling and completing himself in humanity. These three stages constitute the main divisions of the work.”—Outlook.
“The former publications of Professor W. P. Du Bose ... have raised high expectations, which are justified in this his latest work.”
+ Outlook. 82: 569. Mr. 10, ’06. 410w.
“The strong point of Mr. Du Bose’s book is, to the mind of the present writer, that it offers a logical position to metaphysically-minded persons who are already emotionally and spiritually convinced.”
+ Spec. 97: 204. Ag. 11, ’06. 1420w.
Du Cane, Col. Herbert, tr. War in South Africa. **$4. Dutton.
An authorized translation of the German official account of the war in South Africa. Following a four part narrative of the war’s events is a “Tactical retrospect” of the conflict “in which are considered the skill of the Boers in the employment of their weapons, the defects of their methods of fighting, ‘innocuous’ bombardments, misapplied manoeuvres, the ‘essence’ of war, the difficulties confronting the offensive, the essential need for mental development.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Colonel DuCane’s translation of the German history has its place marked in the library of all soldiers who study their profession in a serious manner.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 5: 19. Ja. 19, ’06. 1750w. (Review of v. 2.)
“While the book is written primarily for military purposes, it serves admirably as a history of the war for more general reading.”
+ Nation. 83: 82. Jl. 26, ’06. 1090w. N. Y. Times. 11: 108. F. 7, ’06. 250w.
“A book of considerable value to students of military matters, whether for tactical or historical purposes.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 484. Ag. 4, ’06. 880w.
“The text is clear, sober, and balanced throughout.”
+ Outlook. 83: 818. Ag. 4, ’06. 60w.
“Admirable translation.”
+ + Spec. 96: 461. Mr. 24, ’06. 2140w. (Review of v. 2.)
Duclaux, Mary (Mary Darmesteter) (Agnes Mary Frances Robinson). Fields of France: little essays in descriptive sociology. $6. Lippincott.
“Those who have wandered much in France will enjoy this book, and those who have not may by it conceive a desire to do so.”
+ Critic. 48: 382. Ap. ’06. 260w. + Spec. 96: sup. 1016. Je. 30, ’06. 140w.
Dudden, F. Holmes. Gregory the Great: his place in history and thought. 2v. *$10. Longmans.
A biography which portrays “distinctly the Gregory of his own time.” (Lond. Times.) The sketch follows a three-fold division: (1) a detailed history of the life of Pope Gregory the Great; (2) a systematic exposition of Gregory’s theological opinions; (3) an account of the political, social and religious characterization of the Gregorian age. “Mr. Dudden has fairly faced his difficult task, and his industry has been equal to his courage. The book rests upon a thorough analysis of the original sources to which, by the way, an admirable index serves as guide, whether one use the narrative or not. On the other hand, modern authorities, unfortunately, have been almost entirely ignored.” (Lond. Times.)
“His book is a solid piece of genuine historical work which bears witness to conscientious and laborious research. So thorough is his method that he scarcely leaves room for a future writer to add anything to what will be henceforth the standard work on the subject.”
+ + + Acad. 70: 137. F. 10, ’06. 950w.
“It rests everywhere sanely and safely on a personal study of the sources, guided and corrected by a wide knowledge of the researches of modern scholars.” George L. Burr.
+ + Am. Hist. R. 11: 635. Ap. ’06. 1100w.
“Mr. Dudden must be congratulated upon the ample and well-devised scheme of his work. He cannot be congratulated upon his omission of all reference to the work of other scholars. In the more general field of thought and theology of the age Mr. Dudden fails, if at all, in completeness. He does not take a wide enough sweep. Gregory’s mental peculiarities are treated too much as isolated phenomena. It seems ungracious to dwell so much upon what is absent from so laborious, honest and interesting a book. Had Mr. Dudden allowed himself more time and more liberty of judgment it would have been fully successful.” E. H. Watson.
+ – Eng. Hist. R. 21: 760. O. ’06. 1560w.
“Adequate knowledge of the things Gregory said and did, and the sound sense to estimate their value; also an intimate acquaintance with the men and policies of the pope’s period, and sane historical judgment to test them, are conspicuous characteristics of Mr. Dudden’s work: and if the biographer has given us many pages—more than are necessary to satisfy our bare necessities—we may well forget to grumble, and may say our grace with thankfulness.” John Herkless.
+ + – Hibbert J. 4: 924. Jl. ’06. 2350w.
“The style is clear and without affectation.”
+ + Lond. Times. 5: 29. Ja. 26, ’06. 1920w.
“Mr. Dudden has succeeded in bringing out in clear relief the truly constructive aspects of his work, and in leaving on the reader’s mind an adequate impression of one of the greatest of Christian prelates.”
+ + – Nation. 82: 497. Je. 14, ’06. 1040w. N. Y. Times. 10: 753. N. 4, ’05. 240w.
“For so thorough and informing a piece of historical labor it is wonderfully entertaining.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 655. O. 6, ’06. 2330w.
“An abler apologist than Mr. Dudden it would be impossible to find; because his defense is indirect and implicit, it is all the more convincing.”
+ + Sat. R. 100: 846. D. 30, ’05. 1670w.
“By reason of its literary merit, its vitalising power over the past, its successful relation of ancient springs of action to living and universal movements, and its strictly scientific use of difficult and often obscure material, will remain the standard work on the spiritual significance of the sixth century in the West.”
+ + Spec. 96: 753. My. 12, ’06. 2110w.
Dudeney, Mrs. Henry E. Battle of the weak: or, Gossips Green; il. by Paul Hardy. †$1.50. Dillingham.
A story of love of nearly a hundred years ago is set in a scene furnished by a little town of southern England near the sea. “Quaker Jay was always a Southerner, passionate and voluble, delighting in colour, music, and sunshine. Lucy Vernon, in love with love and with Quaker, and as much a child of the summer and sunshine as he, was married by arrangement to a husband whose gods were decency, self-restraint, and domestic order.” (Lond. Times.) From this romantic chaos unanticipated order finally emerges.
“Lovers of ‘Susan’ will turn eagerly to ‘Gossips Green’, and they will not be disappointed.”
+ Acad. 71: 286. S. 22, ’06. 180w.
“Its author, in true modern fashion, is concerned less with the theme of the story ... than with the manner of telling it; and this manner, is in the main, admirable—sympathetic, humorous, artistic, yet conveying withal a slight suggestion of insincerity.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 2: 362. S. 29. 230w.
“There are many poignant pages in Mrs. Dudeney’s new book, and for their sake she may be pardoned the palpable effort she had to make at last to secure a happy ending.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – Bookm. 24: 389. D. ’06. 280w. + – Lond. Times. 5: 322. S. 21, ’06. 370w. + – N. Y. Times. 11: 833. D. 1, ’06. 490w. – Outlook. 84: 529. O. 27, ’06. 100w.
“The story ... is not always pleasant reading, and it is extremely difficult to believe in the reality of Quaker Jay, the foundling.”
– Spec. 97: 579. O. 20, ’06. 180w.
Dudley, John William Ward, 1st earl of. Letters to “Ivy” from the first Earl of Dudley; ed. with introd. and notes, by S. H. Romilly. *$5. Longmans.
“All who are interested in the politics of the period between Pitt’s death in 1806 and the great Reform bill of 1832 will be delighted with these letters of Lord Dudley to Mrs. Dugald Stewart.” (Sat. R.) “Speaking broadly, one-third of the papers may be called unimportant, since they are but hasty notes illustrating merely the writer’s filial affection for Mrs. Stewart. The other two-thirds consist of moderately long epistles—epistles, at any rate, which are long enough to disclose the nature of Ward’s tastes and mind.... The correspondence here published runs parallel during the greater part of its course with the ‘Creevy papers,’ and covers some of the ground traversed by the first volume of Grenville.” (Nation.)
“The book is efficiently edited ... the one objection that we have to make against it is its title.”
+ + Acad. 69: 1071. O. 14, ’05. 1150w.
“Mr. Romilly’s chapter-prefaces are, in general, excellent, but his notes are too exclusively political.”
+ + – Ath. 1905, 2: 573. O. 28. 2090w. + Ind. 61: 100. Jl. 12, ’06. 520w.
“In these letters he is seen at his best. They are a rich feast for all who enjoy the lighter phases of politics, literature, society and travel.”
+ + Lond. Times. 4: 440. D. 15, ’05. 2850w.
“The interest attaching to these letters is much greater than that belonging to the average volume of eighteenth-century correspondence, and, quite apart from their service in recalling the memory of an extraordinary man, they bring us much nearer to Dudley himself than do any of his other writings.”
+ + Nation. 82: 101. F. 1, ’06. 1650w. N. Y. Times. 10: 641. S. 30, ’05. 280w.
“As a lively contemporary view of the men and events of that critical period they possess something of the attraction which belongs to those of Horace Walpole himself for a period slightly earlier.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 25. Ja. 13, ’06. 1070w.
“Next to their keenness and geniality, their predominant note is extreme sanity. Written in an easy and affectionate style, and full of shrewd judgments on politics and society. We cannot praise too highly the editorial work of Mr. S. H. Romilly.”
+ + Sat. R. 100: 593. N. 4, ’05. 1650w.
“Not only are they excellent in themselves, but they reveal a strange and curiously attractive figure, somewhat of a mystery to his generation, and almost forgotten nowadays save by diligent students of memoirs.”
+ + Spec. 95: 611. O. 21, ’05. 1750w.
Dudley, M. E. Tangled threads: a tale of Mormonism. 50c. Badger, R: G.
An anti-mormon poem which in nine cantos of rhymed couplets tells the direful story of the handsome Mormon Rolland, of the wives he married, and of his death which finally set them free.
Duignan, W. H. Worcestershire place names. *$2.40. Oxford.
Am. Hist. R. 11: 466. Ja. ’06. 30w.
Duke, Basil W. [Morgan’s cavalry.] $2. Neale.
Gen. Duke “who has fought under John Morgan gives some accounts of various raids in which he took part. His point of view is that of a Kentucky man who went South; and what is of most interest in the volume is the description of the straits to which the Kentucky secession regiments were driven in the last period of the war, especially after the secession of Lee and Johnston.” (Nation.)
“It is really a long time since there has come into this office a Civil-war book affording such unmixed satisfaction.”
+ + Lit. D. 33: 123. Jl. 28, ’06. 140w. Nation. 83: 78. Jl. 26, ’06. 70w.
“It contains, moreover, a vast deal of interesting and picturesque matter—in spite of the fact that Gen. Duke is not always cunning at narrative—and throws as much light on the actual state of affairs in the Western army, especially as to the weaknesses of that army, as any contribution to the subject that we now recall.”
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 465. Jl. 21, ’06. 740w.
“His is a well-written narrative, direct, simple, aglow with human interest, rich in anecdote, and free from animosity against those who brought his leader’s and his own efforts to naught. As a military history it is somewhat open to criticism, but corrective readings can easily be obtained, and it is undoubtedly deserving of a wide audience.”
+ – Outlook. 83: 482. Je. 23, ’06. 240w. + Putnam’s. 1: 253. N. ’06. 50w.
Dumas, Alexandre. [Count of Monte Cristo]; complete rev. tr. with biographical sketch by Adolphe Cohn. 2v. $2.50. Crowell.
Compactness and utility are foremost among the characteristics that recommend the thin paper two volume sets. This “Monte Cristo” with its two thousand pages will occupy no more than two inches of shelf space. A biographical sketch of Dumas and an introduction make the book desirable from a student’s viewpoint.
Dunbar, Agnes B. C. Dictionary of saintly women. 2v. ea. *$4. Macmillan.
“We have found the references, as far as we have been able to verify them, exact and correct. No Catholic library ought to be without this useful work.”
+ + + Cath. World. 82: 118. Ap. ’06. 130w. (Review of v. 2.)
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Howdy, honey, howdy. **$1.50. Dodd.
“Tho they are songs without notes, they have a lilt by which they sing themselves for the reader. Mr. Dunbar’s poems are much the better of the two, but some of the photographs reproduced in ‘Banjo talks’ have the greater artistic merit.”
+ Ind. 60: 284. F. 1, ’06. 250w. + R. of Rs. 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 40w.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Lyrics of sunshine and shadow. **$1. Dodd.
“Every poem in this little collection counts.”
+ Reader. 7: 453. Mr. ’06. 250w.
Duncan, Norman. [Adventures of Billy Topsail.] †$1.50. Revell.
The second edition of a book that can delight the heart of a real boy. The author says “All Newfoundland boys have adventures; but not all Newfoundland boys survive them.” Billy Topsail is among the lucky survivors of prank and adventure. He captures a huge devil fish, goes whaling, is lost on a cliff, runs away to join a sealer, and is equally ready in calm or gale, high tide or low to beat any companion’s emergency record. A wholesome book with the right spirit for boys.
“A rare style marks the book.”
+ + Nation. 83: 484. D. 6, ’06. 140w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 683. O. 20, ’06. 130w. Outlook. 84: 386. O. 13, ’06. 110w.
“‘The adventures of Billy Topsail’ ... are not in themselves of absorbing interest, and Mr. Duncan’s style is rather spasmodic and impressionistic, but they have the virtue of being out of the ordinary.”
+ – R. of Rs. 34: 767. D. ’06. 50w.
Duncan, Norman. [Mother.] †$1.25. Revell.
Outlook. 81: 683. N. 18, ’05. 60w. + Reader. 6: 719. N. ’05. 120w.
Duncan, Robert Kennedy. New knowledge: a popular account of the new physics and the new chemistry in their relation to the new theory of matter. **$2. Barnes.
“Is a book on science for the layman that will rank among the best of its kind.”
+ + Bookm. 22: 535. Ja. ’06. 170w.
Dunham, Curtis. Golden goblin; or, The Flying Dutchman, junior: a pleasant fantasy for children based on the most fascinating of all undying legends; told in prose and verse; pictures by George F. Kerr. †$1.25. Bobbs.
A fantastic tale of the experiences of two little shipwrecked Dutch children who were picked up by the phantom ship, the Flying Dutchman. Even the most imaginative child will have to exert himself to keep pace with the swift panorama of sea adventures.
N. Y. Times. 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 60w.
Duniway, Clyde Augustus. Development of the freedom of the press in Massachusetts. *$1.50. Longmans.
A monograph which won the Toppan prize of Harvard University in 1897. “After the preliminary chapter on the control of the press in England, the author transfers his investigations to Massachusetts, and traces in chronological order the events which marked the decline of authority over the press in the New World.” (Dial.)
“A valuable addition to the ‘Harvard historical studies’ series in which it is published.” Andrew McFarland Davis.
+ + Am. Hist. R. 12: 145. O. ’06. 1220w.
Reviewed by Ellis P. Oberholtzer.
+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 345. S. ’06. 700w.
“Hereafter anyone who wishes to know anything on this subject will refer to this monograph.” Theodore Clarke Smith.
+ + Atlan. 98: 704. N. ’06. 160w.
“Abundant footnotes, with references and appendices, attest the scholarly investigation, the authoritativeness, and the excellence of this study of the early press in Massachusetts.”
+ + Dial. 41: 168. S. 16, ’06. 270w.
“A real contribution to the study of the evolution of liberty in America.”
+ + Ind. 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 20w.
“The development of a free press in the United States has never before been traced so adequately or so authoritatively.”
+ + Ind. 61: 1232. N. 22, ’06. 670w.
“He comes nearer than any other writer to being the historian of the free press in the Anglo-Saxon world.”
+ + + Nation. 83: 248. S. 20, ’06. 1020w.
“Is in all respects scholarly, authoritative, and interesting.”
+ + Putnam’s. 1: 255. N. ’06. 270w.
“Mr. Duniway’s narrative is ... excellent.”
+ + Spec. 97: 24. Jl. 7, ’06. 190w.
“In Professor Duniway’s excellent monograph a subject requiring exhaustive research is developed with thoroughness, with logical and historic continuity, and flanked by a large array of authorities, personal and documentary.” C. Deming.
+ + Yale R. 15: 328. N. ’06. 630w.
Dunn, Martha Baker. Cicero in Maine, and other essays. **$1.25. Houghton.
“Rather too self-consciously light and airy in tone.”
+ – Critic. 48: 90. Ja. ’06. 70w.
Dunne, Finley Peter (Martin Dooley). Dissertations by Mr. Dooley. †$1.50. Harper.
Mr. Dooley’s observations here recorded deal with such thoroly modern topics as short marriage contracts, automobiles, the Irish question, oats as food, the Carnegie-Homer controversy, gambling, oratory and the comforts of travel. He is at his best and Hennesy as ever a willing foil.
“His present series of dissertations deserves a place with its forerunners.”
+ Nation. 83: 481. D. 6, ’06. 70w.
“He shows no diminution in wisdom or the power to express himself, and his dissertations are all up to date.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 777. N. 24, ’06. 170w.
“Shrewd and whimsically humorous as ever in many of his recent remarks on questions and sensations of the day, in others Mr. Dooley seems rather heavy-handed, and the old-time Archery road machinery creaks a little here and there.”
+ – Outlook. 84: 794. N. 24, ’06. 110w.
Dunning, Harry Westbrook. To-day on the Nile. *$2.50. Pott.
This book was “written primarily for the benefit of prospective tourists.... The Boston Transcript concisely sums it up, in saying: ‘The volume is at once a history and description of the country, and a guide-book, valuable and interesting in each of these respects.’... When the traveler starts he would be well advised to drop a copy of Dr. Dunning’s book into his steamer-trunk.”—Lit. D.
“Contains not a little substantial information, and affords a graphic view of modern Egypt.”
+ Lit. D. 32: 331. Mr. 3, ’06. 190w.
“Popular but scholarly chapters on Egyptian history and mythology.”
+ Nation. 82: 33. Ja. 18, ’06. 270w.
Dunning, William Archibald. History of political theories from Luther to Montesquieu. **$2.50. Macmillan.
“The history of political theories has exceptional interest, and the recent English literature devoted to it, already comprising a considerable number of volumes, includes no work more noteworthy than that of Professor Dunning.” Alfred H. Lloyd.
+ + + Am. Hist. R. 11: 368. Ja. ’06. 1660w.
“If I were to venture to name the distinguishing excellence of this volume, I should say that it is the fine sense of proportion that guides the author in the distribution and arrangement of his ponderous material.” I. A. Loos.
+ + + Am. J. Soc. 11: 575. Ja. ’06. 740w.
“For one who desires a general survey of the ideas of political writers of the period, the book will fill a long-felt want, but there is a decided lack of critical analysis, which, to the student of political institutions, leaves much to be desired.” Ward W. Pierson.
+ – Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 428. Mr. ’06. 860w.
“For a bird’s-eye view of the subject it could scarcely be surpassed.”
+ + Ath. 1906, 1: 297. Mr. 10. 130w. + + – Ind. 60: 339. F. 8, ’06. 830w.
“Professor Dunning’s volume covers ground which has often been before traversed, and sometimes with much greater attention to detail, and, it must be admitted, with greater learning.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 5: 258. Jl. 20, ’06. 900w.
“This second volume on the ‘History of political theory,’ like the first by the same author, is a credit to American scholarship.” Isaac Althaus Loos.
+ + Yale R. 15: 319. N. ’06. 1130w.
Dunton, Theodore Watts-. Coming of love, Rhona Boswell’s story and other poems. *$2. Lane.
The seventh and enlarged edition of Mr. Watts-Dunton’s “Coming of love” includes in addition to the poems of previous editions those that had been “lent to friends in manuscript and mislaid” among them, “Haymaking song,” and “The haunted girl.”
“The freshness of this poem is amazing, almost as amazing as its audacity and simplicity. This poem is a triumph of artistry.” J. S.
+ + Acad. 70: 225. Mr. 10, ’06. 1720w.
“It is in structure, as well as imaginative quality, one of the most original poems written during the past century.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 256. Mr. 3. 2270w.
“As interesting as the story itself, is the prefatory explanation by the author as to the growth and final evolution of ‘The coming of love’ as it now stands.” Edith M. Thomas.
+ Critic. 49: 218. S. ’06. 480w. + – Nation. 82: 326. Ap. 19, ’06. 310w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 206. Ap. 7, ’06. 1660w.
Durham, M. Edith. Burden of the Balkans. $4. Longmans.
+ Spec. 96: 227. F. 10, ’06. 60w.
Durstan, Mrs. Georgia Roberts. Candle light; il. by Katharine H. Greenland. $1.25. Saalfield.
The imaginative child and his dreams, the active child and his busy work and play are portrayed in rhyme and color for little people.
“A series of child verse with agreeable qualities.”
+ Ind. 61: 1411. D. 13, ’06. 30w. + – R. of Rs. 34: 765. D. ’06. 120w.
Dyer, G. W. Democracy in the South before the Civil war. $1. Pub. house of the M. E. ch. So.
“A strong protest against the theory usually advocated by our historians, that affairs in the South in ante-bellum times were largely controlled by an oligarchy of slave-holders, who kept down the average white man, who made labor disdained, who kept the South agricultural, while the great mass of the people were idle, illiterate, and lazy.”—Am. J. Soc.
“While its substance is of very uneven value, the style and thought are vigorous, and the book deserves attention as a product of its time.” Ulrich B. Phillips.
+ – Am. Hist. R. 11: 715. Ap. ’06. 450w.
“The syllabus suggests a most interesting line of work, which, if carried out without prejudice or passion, of which unfortunately there are traces, ought to yield results of great value to the student of American social and economic history.” J. W. Shepardson.
+ – Am. J. Soc. 11: 699. Mr. ’06. 180w.
“Some of his statements are, to say the least, open to question, and more of his conclusions. Nevertheless, its general thesis is sound.”
+ – Outlook. 83: 89. My. 12, ’06. 90w.
Dyer, Henry. Dai Nippon: a study in national evolution. *$3.50. Scribner.
“The book is interesting, modern, and very thoughtful; having the outlook of a man of scientific training, who is yet conscious of the deeper currents of individual and racial life.”
+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 338. S. ’06. 380w.
Dyer, Thomas Finninger Thiselton-. Folklore of women, as illustrated by legendary and traditionary tales, folk-rhymes, proverbial sayings, superstitions, etc. **$1.50. McClurg.
An anthology, concise and classified, of the proverbial sayings, folk-rhymes, superstitions, and traditionary lore associated with women.
“He displays as usual a great industry and a minute knowledge. But his work would be more illuminating if he had chosen fewer facts, and written of each one with more suggestion and fancy.”
+ – Sat. R. 102: 494. O. 20, ’06. 140w.